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WASHINGTON, D. C.. . SUNDAY
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PART IV.
PAGES J-8.
MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1909.
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Call for
Free
Samples
of Our
Quality
Fabrics.
Call for
Free
Samples
of Our
Quality
Fabrics.
We are getting busier every day, but we will deliver before Thanks
giving all Suits and Overcoats measured before Tuesday evening.
Stein's Thanksgiving-Week
Tailoring Bargains.
Stein's $20 Fancy Suitings
and Black Thibet Suitings
to Order
In this great Thanksgiving
offering of Stein Suits we show
nearly one hundred fine fabrics, em
bracing our famous black velvet
finish thibets and all the niftiest
things in gray and fancy weaves.
The suits will be designed by our
Mr. E. F. Mudd (formerly of
Keen's) on style lines that appeal
to the young man?and fit satisfac
tion is absolutely guaranteed.
Stein's $25 and $30 Sack Suits and
Military Overcoats to Order,
$18.75
Finest imported cloths from Scotch and Eng
lish mills in an almost endless variety of weaves
and colorings, fabrics for suits and fabrics for
overcoats and raincoats. The suits to be designed
on newest lines and the overcoats on the military
model or conservative dress model just as desired.
In fact, the swaggerest garments you ever saw
tailored to order at less than cost of ready-made.
Mr. E. F. Mudd, formerly
of Keen's, now designer for
Stein garments.
New Full Dress and Tuxedo Suits for Hire.
M. STEIN & CO
Tailors and Importers.
808=810 F St.
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* ?For a few hundred j?
r* 5r
i? dollars you can be
| come a property owner.
? Acreage Sioniesites for
I $300 to $600
* ?payable $25 to $50 cash &
*. and $10 per month.
Xz We control two acreage tract*
it; ?one in Hyattsvilitf, with
water, sewer and ga^ avail
? able ? both convenient to
steam and e!ectric cars.
Now's the time to buy whi!e *5
prices are at rock-bottom.
vT G!a<l t" tak<- rou nut any time toii s:<jt 2
IS In our automobile to view the property. 3
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Investments
Real Kstate Loans on hrst-class
Washington real estate?notes in
denominations of $250 and $500
each; also larger loans. We collect
1 he interest, see to the payment of
taxes, etc., free of charge. No ex
pense to the lender.
Moore & Hill, Inc.,
1333 G St. N.W.
uolTtf.lt>
We can offer the best home
proposition for the money in this
city today.
A purchaser will get honest
\alne ami an almost certain in
crease in value, the lot being
40x1.v feet.
Ileiskell & vicLeran,
140^ H St.
Bit cu.il
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The Pinehurst Park Com
pany announces that on and
after December i, 1909, the
prices of the remaining lots
will be advanced 10%.
NNiKURST P&BK GDMPAiW,
10th and G Sts. N.W.
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FATE OF HISTORIC BEAGLE.
Timbers of Darwin's Ship Used in
Building Japanese Shrine.
] From th? Gorozu.
Mr. Shiga Juko. a well known local
! geographer. has recently made the dis
| covery of the final end of the old British
j Beagle, which tarried the world-famous
1 scientist, the late Charles Darwin, on his
j trio around the coasts of Africa, South
j America, the South Sea Islands and even
] as far as Asia. It was on the Beagle
1 that Darwin made his greatest discovery
j of "evolution" and formulated the data
of his great work "The Origin of Spe
cies." as well as discovered the law of
natural selection, and the discovery of
the fate of this historic vessel has no
little interest
"It was about twenty years ago, while
a student in the Agricultural College of
Sapi>oro, that I learned of the fact of
the Beagle being in japan," said Mr.
Silica. "After further investigation I
discovered that the ship had been pur
chased by the Shimadzu Clan and re
named the Kenko Maru during pre-res
| toration day?.
"After the restoration had been effected
the old ship was handed over to the naval
authorities and for some time was used
as a training ship, floating in the pond
1 of the naval colleges at Tsukiji. At the
; time, however, r.o thought was enter
tained of permanently preserving this
| scientifically historic old ship.
j "This spring was the centennial of Dar
win's birth and honor was done to the
I memory of the famous evolutionist the
i world over. It was then that I heard that
.tie British people deeply regretted the
1 fact that all traces of the Beagle had
4 been lost, and th?o 1 determined to con
tinue the once-abandoned investigation of
the vessel's whereabouts.
"In compliance with my request Prince
Shimadzu searched through the old rec
ords and discovered the fact that the
Beagle or Kenko Maru had been built at
Liverpool and that the clan purchased
her in Nagasaki for the price of $75,Oft)
before the Meiji era, or say fifty years
aco. In the third year of Meiji (1K70)
the naval department purchased the ship
from Lord Shimadzu at Shinagawa, and
in 18.su she whs named the Fiji. In i
March, lssp. the ship was sold to Mr. I
Oaki. chief of the oaki dockyards."
Afterward it was broken to pieces at
Shinagawa. and one part of the hull was j
used as the foundation for the stones I
helnw the building of the Suitengu shrine
at. N'ingyoeho, Xihonbashi. After having |
obtained such detailed information of the
whereabouts cf the vessel Mr. Shiga
went to the shrine, and sure enough
there were the timbers, measuring feet
,~i inches in length and 1 foot 5 inches in
thickness, unquestionably the ribs of the
old warship.
Bridesmaids for Hire.
From I be ltoston Transcript.
Romance dies out in the world, it would
almost seem, with the advent of the pro
fessional bridesmaid. Whether for bettor
i or worse, however, she has arrived, and a
bureau in London offers to supply her. or a
?dozen of her. suitably attired, at an hour's
?notice, for th>* sum of 1 guinea. Runaway
couples might be expected to figure a-*'
the bureau's chief patrons, but it is said
; thaf the professional appears at formal
weddings also, and seems to fill a want
? as clearly as does the paid guest who
j goes to dinners and dances given by the
i new rich. It would be interesting to
i know whether this type of bridesmaid
j feels emotion or catches a thrill of ln
j spiration from the events in which she
| officiates. If the thought of the guinea
1 leaves in her mind no room for softer
sentiment, hers is a hopeless ca.-e indeed.
! _
AngGra Hoods for Men.
i From Men's Wear.
A new motor scarf for evening wear
' with full dress is being shown with "sue
; cess to the exclusive trade. This scarf
is made of knitted white silk, fifty-four
I inches long, with a one and a quarter
j inch black border, about two inches from
i the ends. One of the latest and most
j popular scarfs, with those of means is
made of real imported angora, with one
inch self stripes. These come in oxford
and light gray and tan shades, and are
used fcr motoring purposes, together with
an angora hood, which entirely covers!
the head, leaving only the face exposed,
j There is also a call for angora vests and
I jackets in grays, g eens and tans, shown
at the more expensive ahoys.
How the City Obtained Its
Water in Early Days.
WHAT L'ENFANT OBSERVED
Noticed Many Natural Sources of
Supply.
I
UTILIZATION OF WOODEN PIPES
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By 1820 the Demand for Greater
Facilities Had Grown So That
a Reservoir Was Constructed.
When L'Bnfant was layine out the
Federal city, under the .direction of
Washington, the water supply for the
prospective thousands who were to make
j up the population of the capital engaged
I his attention. lie noted that in the area
I included in the lines of the city there
! were many springs, which he calculated
would furnish a population of 150,000
| people; and flowing streams. Rock creek,
j Slash run. Reedy branch and the Tiber
I from beyond the city limits, with nu
' merous streams from the city springs,
were convenient to the settlements which
came into existence. Indeed, the conven
ience of water from spring, run. pump
or hydrant was the chief inducement for
settlement in many instances, some dis
| carding more beautiful and convenient
j building sites for locations on the banks
| of a stream and near the source of supply
| in spring, pump or hydrant. There are
I incidents where included in the purchase
? of a lot was the bed of a stream where
I brewery, dyehouse or slaughter house
i was established, the stream furnishing
i drainage there-for. Early in the last cen
j tury Hereford's brewery was established
( on the south side of Pennsylvania ave
| nue between !)th and 10th streets, over
j Sluice run. This run. by the way, flowed
i scarcely twenty yards soutli to Tibor
, creek, and a? far up as F street. In
it were caught perch, sunfish and catfish.
The late Peter Force was wont to recall
the catches made by him in this stream.
Wells and Pumps.
Though springs and streams afforded a
, plentiful supply for the few settlers in
: the early years and piping by hollow
j logs was laid from some springs, a num
ber of wells were sunk and pumps erect
ed in widely separated locations. Near
the sites of the Capitol and President's
house and other government buildings
pumps furnished the water. The spring
nearest to the Capitol was that near 4th
and C streets southeast, and a stream
was no nearer than the Tiber at 2d street
west. North and south of the original
Capitol building pumps were put in, but
the water was of such quality that it
was little used for drinking. The mem
bers and employes of Congress, workmen
and others, were supplied from pumps
outside the ground? and the spring above
noted.
Water for the President,
The President's house was first sup
plied by a pump near the southeast cor
ner of the building; the war and navy
offices by one midway the buildings,
and the Treasury had a pump north
of the original building near the center of
the west front of the present structure.
These pumps were superseded by sup
plies piped from springs, those at the
Capitol from Smith's spring; and the
President's house and the departments
from square U49, now Franklin Park, be
; tween 13tli, 14th. I and K strees north
west. The water from springs there was
j utilized by residents on 13th street hav
I ing a wooden pipe laid, which later was
, extended to E and 14th streets.
A spring near the corner of F and 9th
| streets, the site of which is now covered
by the old Masonic Temple, took about
1704 the name of Caffrey's spring from the
i tirst pastor of St. Patrick's Church. It
1 was a famous spring, supplying through
i wooden pipe a number of residents south
on !)th street to the Avenue. It was early
covered in with masonry by the corpora
tion. A fine spring on the north side of
C street between and 0th streets was
early appreciated the property holders
in 1802, at their own expense, piping the
I water first to Woodward's Tavern, on the
Avenue west of rtth street, and then to
4'.i street. Another spring was at the
i northeast corner of Indiana avenue and
j ;id street, and in the days of Mayor Blake,
i 1813-'17. it was furnished with steps anil
j Inclosed with masonry. In the lpwer part
| of the first ward, in the old Funkstown or
Hamburg settlement, a spring was the
source of Powder run, which supplied the
force of the glass house and other set
tlers. A gum tree spring near the west
end of Jj street led to some settlement
thereabouts. A spring near 5th and I?
streets was the source of - one of the
Tiber's tributaries, and several other
smaller streams united with it. And east
of the Capitol were some streams other
than that from the spring near 4th and C
streets, before noted.
A spring in the present Garfield Park,
east of New Jersey avenue and south of
| F street, sent a stream down 2d street
! into the Eastern branch; one run was
l started in square 878 between G, I, fith
and 7th street, flow'ng through the reser
| vation once occupied 'by the Eastern or
; Branch market, into St. Thomas' bay;
i another from north of I street down 12th
street, and one from the junction of Penn
sylvania and Georgia avenues east of
14th street, and several smaller ones.
Some Early Sources of Supply.
Before the incorporation of the city of
Washington some wells and pumps were
in use. At the corner of New Jersey ave
nue and C street southeast the improve
ments of Thomas Law and others were
enhanced by convenient water. Temple
man and others had pumps at the Round
I Tops, near Washington Circle, as did the
Six and Seven buildings on Pennsylvania
i avenue; Greenleaf had one, for what be
i came Wheat's row on 4^ street near O
! street southwest, and "Twenty Building
Hell." about South Capitol and N streets,
had pump water. There were some about
the lower end of New Jersey avenue, where
! Law had improved, and on the establish
ment of the Navy Yard improvements
were made thereabouts and pumps were
Installed.
City Expenditures for Water.
I'nder the city government, incorporated
May 3, 1H12, Mayor Robert Brent and
the councils had jurisdiction of the
| pumps, at least those not on private
! property, and few were so situated. The
! few then in service were not increased In
number that year, but October 28 an act
was approved directing the mayor to
contract for the repair of pumps. The
following year $W0 was appropriated for
erecting pumps and the mayor was em
powered to receive contributions there
for. In 1804 this sum had been ex
1 pended and a balance of $72 was due;
I $472 was t he appropriation and this was
exceeded by $T>1. In 1808 $600 was ap
propriated for the erection of pumps and
for conveying water in pipes, one-half
to be reimbursed by those benefited, and
$j<h? for repairs. The appropriation of
$*ii)0 for pumps and $U0t> for repairs was
for three wards, the second ward be
tween 2d and 14th streets from the boun
dary to the river being excluded, with
exception of the improvement of <"af
fray's spring. In 18lO $000 was appropri
HAHN'S
"THANKSGIVING SALE"
A BOON to Shoe Buyers.
y<^7 OMES just when it's absolutely necessary to discard low shoes?giving you a
(1 \ chance to buy highest grade Winter High Shoes?at good savings?due to for
' tuuate purchases we made from manufacturers.
Thanksgiving Day ends the sale?and additional price attractions will doubtless
draw even bigger crowds here this week than last.
Women's $5 Black Suede Boots.
No exaggeration! These $3.50 FAST BLACK
Boots we're offering- are the exact duplicates of
those other stores afe selling at $5. Very smart
looking, with short, tipped fronts and high slant
tops; hinh Cuban lieeis. Only buying them by
the hundreds of pairs and selling' closer to cost
enables us to offer tlieni at
Suede Calf and Castor
$3.50
Women's Stunning $4 and $5 Boots.
Ten faultless styles. Patent colt with black
k!d and brown, gray or black cravenette cloth
tops. Dull black or tan calfskin. Havana
brown or black Surpass kid. In button, blucher
or laced shoes?the season's most distinctive and
most favored patterns?at
S3.15
Women's Perfect Fitting $3 Boots.
They're $M Boots in all respects, and the name "IIAHN" is stamped in
each pair to guarantee complete satisfaction.
But fortunate circumstances enabled us to have
th#m made at such a low tig lire that we can af
ford to sell them at $2.3!) a pair. 20 different ex
treme as well a* conservative styles, in all the
good tan, black and patent leathers. SPECIAL
THANKSGIVING PRICE
$2.39
Women's Slippers for Weddings & Parties.
Every society woman will want several nairs
to match her different party gowns. Pink, Blue.
Red. White, Black and Patent Leather Ankle
strap Pumps, with high heels. Also Plain or
Beaded Kid and Patent Leather Strap Sandals
and Ties. Stvles for which you'd willingly pay
$3. DURING THIS THANKSGIVING SALE....
$1.95
This Week's
BIG VALUES
?at?
SMALL PRICES.
Men's and Women's
Warm Black Cloth Over
gaiters
Women's 25c
Lambs' Wool
Soles
Babies' Soft Sole Boo
tees and Moccasins
Women's Cozy, Warm House Slippers.
We carry an immense stock of them in all kinds. Better start in ]
g some away for Xmas gifts.
Regular Advertised $1.50 Kinds at 95c.
"COMFY" Low-cut Felt Bedroom Slippers, with felt
soles padded an inch thick with carded wool.
Beautiful Felt Fur-trimmed Juliets, with extremely
flexible hand-turn leather soles. In a good variety of dif
ferent colors. Any size.
THANKSGIVING SALE PRICE
95c
Child's Popular "JOCKEY BOOTS.
Extra High Cut Patent Colt Button Boots, with calf uppers and a
patent leather "COLLAR" around the top. Decorated with pretty tassels.
5 to 8, $1.75 | 8Y2 to 11, $1.95 | 1to 2, $2.50
ren.
$1
19c
Grade
Slipper |
25c
Child's Warm Astrakhan Leg
gins. in red, gray, brown oe.
or blue; also black jersey. ,<30C
Warm Felt House Slippers for
women, misses and child
Child's *1.25 grade Vici Kid
Button and Laced Boots; qb?
sixe3 up to 11 at *JOC
Our great "NON-SLIP" In
fants' Boots, soft kid or patent
leather; cloth or kid tops.
$1.25 kinds
Misses' Good $1.50 Quality
Vici Kid Button or Laced Boots;
strictly GUARAN
TEED; sizes to 2
$1.19
Men's All-kid-lined Tan, Black
or Wine Color Kid
House Slippers. $1.50
grades
$1.25
=?
Cor. 7? and k. Sts.
1914-1916 Pa. Ave.
233 Pa. Ave. 5.E.
Iat.e.1, but the following year there was an
; increase to $1,500.
City Regulations.
I Under act of August 1812, regulations
as to pumps. wells, springs, hydrants and
i acqueduots were made. These provided
! that when an application was made to
; the mayor by two-thirds of the residents
i of any neighborhood for a pump, hydrant
} or conveyance of water he should direct
j the commissioner to cause the object of
the application to be executed; that the
cost be paid from the funds of the ward
and one-half the cost he assessed on the
real estate benefited and that repairs be
paid for out of the ward funds.
In 1H15 it was made unlawful to injure
any part of the works at the fountain
near Stth and F streets. Caffrey's spring,
wash clothes or commit any act tending
to injure the same. In 181H the mayor
was directed to purchase two sites in the
second ward with springs for providing
a good supply of water. This act, how
eve'*, was not executed, for in the junc
tion of K and 13th streets on public
ground an abundant supply of water was
discovered. And the population, number
ing over 13,000 in 1820 greater facilities
for getting water were demanded, larger
appropriations were made, new pumps
erected, old ones repaired, hydrants put
in and in that year reservoirs were con
structed to supply water for the ex
tinguishment of fires.
SUICIDE OF RATTLESNAKES.
Why Scorpion or Venomous Animal
Cannot Sting Itself to Death.
From the Cosmos.
The venoms of serpents, fishes, scor
pions, centipedes, spiders, bees, etc., as
well as the blood of the eel, owe their
virulence to the presence of toxins similar
to those which are secreted by bacteria.
In both cases the toxins are specific prod
ucts of the activity of living cells. They
are very poisonous, non-crystallizable col
loids of unknown chemical constitution.
The venom toxins are very sensitive to
the action of heat and li?ht, are easily
destroyed by digestive ferments and con
sequently are innocuous when swallowed.
There is a great variety of these toxins.
Snake poison alone contains half a dozen
distinct toxins, each of which exerts a
specific action on the nervous system, the
red or the white blood corpuscles, etc.
It is possible to produce in any animal
an artificial condition of immunity to the
efferts of any animal venom. This is ac
complished by the repeated injection of
the venom in doses, each of which is too
small to cause death. After a larger or j
smaller number of injections the animal
acquires the power to resist the action
of mnnv times the quantity of venom that
would suffice to cause death if it were in
jected into the veins of a non-Immunized
animal. The blood of the immunized ani
mal now contains a new substance, an
antitoxin which has the property of neu
tralizing the toxin of the venom, and
this blood ^or rather its watery part or
4
I serum> may be employed to combat the
I toxic action of the venom in a non-im
i munized animal.
The ichneumon, the hedgehop and some
other animals which devour venomous
serpents exhibit an extraordinary resist
ance to the effect of their bites. This
natural immunity is explained by the
presence of antitoxins in the blood of
these animals. Serpents are also little
affected by their own venom. In general
it is almost Impossible to kill a venom
ous animal by inoculating it with the
venom of its own species, of which it can
support very large doses with impunity.
These facts demonstrate the absurdity
of tho stories of rattlesnakes and scor
pions committing' suicide by means of
their own. venom. It is asserted that a
scorpion or rattlesnake imprisoned in a
circle of red-hot coals will sting or bite
itself to death. This is a physiological im
possibility.
INSTINCT AND REASON.
An Interesting Illustration of the
Two Traits in Monkeys.
From St. Nicholas.
An illustration showing the dlffer
| ence between instinct and reason In
I monkeys came under the observation
of my friend David Starr Jordan, the
famous naturalist. Dr. Jordan likes
monkeys, and until an uncomfortable
household experience with an especial
ly clever and mischievous one, a few
years ago, has always had several of
these pets about his house. At one
time he had two lively Maeacus
monkeys called Bob and Jocko. These
were nut and fruiteating monkeys, and
instinctively knew just how to crack
nuts and peel fruits. At the same time
| lie had a baby monkey. Mono, of a?i
i other kind, a kind that had the egg
eating instinct. But Mono had never
yet seen an egg.
To each of the three monkeys Dr.
Jordan gave an egg. the first that any
of them had ever seen. Baby Mono,
descended from egg-eating ancestors
j handled his egg with all the inherited
I expertness of a long-developed instinct.
I He cracked it with his upper teeth,
I making a hole in it, and sucke<d out
all its substance. Then holding the egg
shell up to the light and seeing there
was no longer anything in it. he threw
it away. All this he did mechanically,
automatically, and just as well with
the first tgg as with any other he
afterward had. And all eggs since
given him he has treated in the same
way.
The monkey Bob took his egg for
some kind of nut. He broke It with
| his teeth and tried to pull off the shell.
When the inside ran out and fell on
the ground he looked at it for a mo
ment in bewilderment, then with both
hands scooped up the yolk and tho
sand mixed with It and swallowed it.
Then lie stuffed the shell into his
mouth. This act was not instinct. It
was reason. He was not familiar by
inherited instinct with eggs. He wouil
handle one better next time, however.
Reason very often makes mistakes at
first; but when it is trained it becomes
a means far more valuable and power
ful than instinct.
The third monkey. Jocko, tried to ent
his egg in much the same way that
Bob did. but. not liking the taste, lis
threw it away.
Bothwell and Queen Mary.
From the Court Journal.
Dunrobin Castle was the scene of a dis
covery a few years ago of a document re
latins to Mary Queen nf Scots, which,
had it seen the light when poor Marjr
Stuart was about to commit the crowning
act of folly in marrying Bothwell, would
have changed the whole aftereourse of
lier life. The document was the original
dispensation granted by the Vatican to
J^ady Jane Gordon to enable her to marry
her cousin, the Darl of Bothwell. When
the latter wanted to espouse his sovereign
he declared his union with L>ady Jann
Gordon null and void on the ground of
their relationship and obtained a divorce.
The assumption is that I^ady Bothwell
was only too glud to get rid of the aris
tocratic blackguard she called husband,
for she must have had ttie dispensation,
the production of which would have
made her marriage valid and prevented
Mary's taking place. That she had tt in
proved by its being found in the <harte"
room at Dunrobin. where it had lain fo
three centuries and whither she doubtless
brought It on her second marriage In 1573
to Alexander, Karl of Sutherland, ances
tor of the dukes of Sutherland.
The Unemployed.
From the Boston Globe.
Why are there so many unemployed per
sons in various parts of the world? Busi
ness depression is, of course, accountable
for the hardships many working people
undergo at intervals. But business de
pression is not the cause of the perma
nent army of the unemployed which, In
London for instance, is never disbanded.
The royal commission which Investi
gated this and other problems expresses
the opinion that this army is recruited
from workers who, when boys, had to
leave school without learning a manual
trade and also without sufficient general
education. Such boys after leaving school
never learned a regular trade, but took
whatever jobs were at hand. Conse
quently, their occupation being intermit
tent, a livelihood precarious In youth be
came more so in mature age.
If this guess of the royal commission is
true, then it follows that by educating
everybody either for mental or manual
labor the supply of those capable of doing
skilled or regular tasks would be enor
mously increased. But increasing the
number of persons looking for a Job is not
the same thin* as increasing the number
of jobs. Therefore, it would seem that tha
suggestion of the royal commission, if car
ried out. p-ould only serve to change the
character of the army of the uneioploytt,