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A small cash payment and $46.50 per month will buy one of those beautiful homes on Nineteenth Street Between Kilbournc and Lamont Streets. Price, $5,950 See them and be convinced of their su periority over any house at same price.. Magnificent outlook over ROCK CREEK PARK. $39.25 per month Includes all interest and pays 50 per cent ?>n the purchase price of those beautiful six-room homes on Hall and Observatory Place N.W. 22 feet front. Price, Only $4,950. SALESMEN ON PREMISES. N. L. Salisbury Company Exclusive Agent, 719-21 13th St. N.W. 5* Are you ready to make your selection of one of those beautiful homes just being completed in SAUL'S ADDITION. Thev combine all the features of ele ? ? gance, convenience and attractiveness, hav ing a frontage of 30 feet?practically as wide as two homes you buy in a row. Four large, spacious rooms on the first floor; five beautiful bedrooms and two baths; large storage room. Every detail of these homes is complete. They .are well built and elegantly finished. Beautiful building lots 40 to 50 feet front. PRICES REASONABLE, and terms arranged to suit. N. L. Salisbury Company, Exclusive Agent, 789-21 13th St. N.W. A Home on Heights $3,650 Those houses will be worth $4,230 In the spring. That shows their merit. 535 and 5411 Kenyon Street N.W. f (One is a corner house.) : t 0 bold?ONLY 2 left. * ? DESCRIBED TOIL'S: f Rod presb brick fronts; 6 beautiful rooms: tile bath; pantry; large cellar; laundry tube. etc.. with up-to-date lutttine plant: lot 20x150 feet to 20-foot alley. Terms i 3 B 5 Per Month ?mall rash payment. This is easier than paying rent. ? ALSO across TUB STREET. 3 VERY LARGE ? ROOM HOl'SES. 30-FT. DEEP. ?18, 520 and 522 Kenyon Stiyet N.W. OX LOT 510 FT. DEEP. Red press brick; front porches; reception hall; large kitchen: pantry; gas logs; double back porches; tile bath; large cellar; laundry tubs; hot-water heat. Only $3,850 WORTH $5,000.? TKKMS: *?> CASH?*10 per month. OPEN SUNDAY. ki:ated and lighted. DOX'T FAIL TO OOME out. | Wi&iett & Reinecke, 1309 II 8t. N.W. Kor Sale: Sate Investment. New fireproof store building, well rented. Business Property Will yield dependable, income. 933 G ST. N.W. WEAVER BROS., 735 I5th St. W anted?~A Real Estate Salesman Wanted in established real es-' fate office, good salesman; un usual advantages offered. Ad dress Box 1flfc Star ofRce. i?:?n?!??????????:?H?8???{ Big Siviigs ia Rent In Our Upshur St. Homes. ftmall cash payment, balance like rent, will buy. The best 6-rocm and bath home in the city. You have an excep tionally good location, with the ad vantage of Soldiers' Home Park within 3 minuted of your front door. Through car service to Upsher Stmt Houses. The main street leading to beauti ful Soldiers' Home Grounds. Take any car. transfer to 9th street line direct to houses. Open for Inspection. Lighted and heated for the com forts of those who are seeking the best 6-room house in the city. PARQUETRY FLOORING. HOT-WATER HEAT. ELECTRIC AND GAjS XJGHT. Hardwood trim throughout. Solid Oak Stairway. Three extra large sleeping rooms second floor. Two windows, in each bedroom. Ample closet room. One square public schools. . Handsome tile bath. Best window shades. Lot 142 feet deep to 15-foot alley. Handsome flnlsh oak mantels. Colonial porch, special design. Back sleeping porcli on second floor. ?Sanitary plumbing. Kew Method pas range. Steel beam construction. Not Mere Houses? BUT HOMES. E. F. STODDARD, Selling Agent, Phone Columbia 1530. Always on Premises Daily Until 0 P.M. i I I It A PARK ROAD HOME worth 9S,sno. OUR PRICE, $4,375. Th*?e homes embrace every advantage jou .trek. Overlook * beautiful parking of green lawns and hedjrea; built distinc tive. having cipetiftlve Indian tapeMrv red prow brick fronu. with Hide and' rear walla of white pre** brick: baTlng ? brfc mom* and conunodtons tile bath; corw-rete i-ellar with laundry tub*; serr ant'? totlat and hot-water heat. SAMPLE HOUSE 506 PARK BOAD. Comer Warder and Park Road N.W. TERMS: Only $150 Cash. Ralanec i>u?> aa 'rent, and at on lint and t>i>eo&d truatv. 7 SOLD-a LEFT. COME OCT SUNDAY. Take any 9th at. iar, get off at Tark ra*d, walk l>Ux-k ond half taut. Willett & Reinecke, 1300 II ST. N.W. A Philosopher. From the Newark* New*. "My! you wanted fried potatoes, didn't you?" said the careless waitress as the customer in the restaurant finished his meal and rose to leave. "That's all right," answered the pa tient man. "I've wanted so many things aU my Ufa that I didn't get I'm used to it" \ ARLINGTON HOTEL PROPERTY. \OW OWNED BY A COMPANY THAT PROPOSES TO ERECT A DEW BUILDING. TROLLEY LINE EXTENSION WILL OPEN NEW TERRITORY Work Soon to Be Started on Section of Electric Railway Between Bladens . burg and Berwyn. (Special Pi spa i i li to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, January 6?The work I of extending the Washington, Spa Spring and Gretta electric railway, which now operates from 15th and H streets north east in Washington to the corner of Main and Sand streets in Biadensburg, over the Washington-Baltimore boule vard, to that section of Berwyn, Prince Georges county, formerly known as Charl ton Heights, means, according to those well versed in county real estate, the development next spring of a section of country lying immediately east of Hy attsville. The charter for this road was granted under a special act of the Mary land legislature in lfl06, but the work of building the line as far as Biadens burg was delayed owing to obstacles en countered in securing the authority from Congress to construct the road over that section of the Biadensburg road lying within the District of Columbia. The original incorporators, it is stated, were about to abandon the charter when S. S. Yoder, who at one time represented one of the western states in the House of Representatives, came forward and or ganized it company which purchased it. Mr. Yoder was elected president of the new concern and H. W. Sigsbee became secretary. President Yoder succeeded in securing the necessary concession from .Congress and the road was constructed as far as Biadensburg. and has been operating for several years with profit, it is stated. The charter provided for the construction KILLING OF SLAVE GIRL STARTS WAR OF TONGS Police Had Been Expecting an Outbreak in New York's Chinatown. NEW YORK, January 6.?War I etween the On Leongs and the Hip Sings, the great rival Chinese tongs, that has been brewing ever since the murder of Bow Kum, a slave girl, two years ago, broke out last night in Chinatown. A battle in which a dozen or more members of each society took part resulted in a victory for the On l^eongs, who dropped t'.ie vice president of the Hip Sings with a death shot and poured so many bul lets into the president lie can'iot re cover. There have been lively revolver bat tles in Chinatown in the last four years, but all have been between the On Leungs and members of the Four Brothers So ciety. This is the first conflict between the On Leongs and the Hip Sings since Judge Warren W. Foster presided at a peace banquet that ended, until last night's outbreak, a long-standing feud. Revenge Was Delayed. But when Bow Kum was found with her throat cut white men who knew most about Chinatown predicted that sooner lor later the on L*ongs would take blood revenge. Bow Kum was a pretty iitUe slave girl, who was stolen from a Hip Sing in San Franei?co by an On Leong and brought to New Yo. k. The trail was followed across the continent, and one night the girl met her inevitable death. Two Hip were arns^ed, but the crime could not be proved a0aui t them. Why the On Leongs did not seek re venge at once no1 white man .could fathom, for the Hip Sings were then at a low ebb. Their treasury wag empty after ?150,090 had been spent in trying to save the lives of live mem bers who were Anally convicted of i murder in Boston. The shooting took place in the st??re | of Mock Duck, formerly leader of the ! Hip Sings, at -i fell street. Cold had ! driven the celestials within doors, and I Chinatown's streets were deserted when the On Leongs* war party started I out. Inside Mock Duck's place a score of the 11 ig Sings were playing fan tan. The lookout had left the front door and failed to give warning of the ap proach of the "gun men." On Leongs Open Fire. Suddenly the door was burst open and the On Leongs rushed inU> the ? back room upon the fan tan players. Revolvers rackcd and Lung You. vice president of the Hip Sings, fell over on the table, a bullet In his brain. * Phong Pun Sin, president of the Hip Sings, who was sktirur next to Lung, tried to dodge behind t!if> table and into an adjoining room, hut die avengers or Bow Kum riddled him with bullets. He was taken to the Hudson street hospital by the police, wllen shooting brought them to the scene of the battle. There waa no chance for' Ohons's recovery. Two Chinamen were arrested, but the evidence against them is vague. Th? police were given the usual scant as sistance In trying to lind the murderers. Even the Hip Pings did not care to help out the authorities. The On Leongs, as soon as their revolvers were empty, had fled to the street and doubtless secreted themselves in. one of the hun dreds of hiding places in the rookeries they inhabit. No Return Engagement. Generally one shooting of this sort is followed In Chinatown by a return at tack within a few days. The police were on the lookout all night for more gun play, but as far as outward ap pearances went the "shooting up" of Mock Duck's place was an incident that had been allowed to pass into history. Lieut. Dennis Hourrigan of the Ellsa of the road ,as far as Berwyn over the streets of Bladensburg and along the Ed monston road through East Hyattsville, East Riverdale and East College Park. Considerable difficulty was experienced in securing rights-of-way, but these have been granted and, with the exception of three or four cases, the rights-of-way were granted without compensation to the land owners. Grading of Road Nearly Completed. The line of the extension from Bladens burg to Berwyn, or the old town of Charlton Heights, has been graded and 5.05K) tics distributed along the line. The grading of Sand street in Bladeusburg has been deferred pending thfc construc tion of a crossing by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at the point where the tracks of the Chesapeake Beach railway cross the thoroughfare. This work is ex pected to be done within a short time, and the task of laying the trolley tracks will be undertaken without delay. The completion of this extension will open up a large area, and already two tracts of land adjoining the road have been pur chased and preparations are making to open subdivisions in time for the spring market. The Southern Maryland Land Company, composed of Washington and Maryland capitalists, recently purchased the old Lowndes tract lying immediately to the west anft adjoining the corporation of liladensburR. This tract contain* ap proximately eighty arres. and is situated on an elevation overlooking the town of Bladensburjr and the surrounding coun try. Tiu? property was purchased from the Missionary Society of the Episcopal Church, to whom it was willed by the beth street station, who knows China town, said he had been expecting an outbreak since one of his scouts in formed him a few days ago the Hip Sings had refitted their war chests since the Boston trials. "That's all they are waiting for." he said. "Now I suppose we shall have trouble until they get a bunch of Chinks arrested and have to pay out all their money to defend them. Then we shall have another peace pact and quiet until they get together more money." BENEDICT AT AGE OF 19, ! PROUD OF WIFE, AGED 49 ! Irving Nott Begins Business With Pet Fig, and Now Boasts of Owning Farm. WINSTED. Conn., January 6.?Irving Nott, aged nineteen, was as chipper and proud last night as a boy with his first pair of trousers, because he has a wife and I a farm. His bride, Mrs. Nellie Beers, a | divorcee, was forty-nine years old last j June. She is the only daughter of Nelson D. Beers, a retired Winsted builder and j contractor, who is spending the winter at his farm on Torringford street, a few | miles out of the center. The couple went to Millerfon, N. Y., Thursday, where they were married by Rev. J. H. Mitchell, pastor of the Methodist Church. Reward of Industry. Nott had been employed for two years on the farm of Charles Berry, close to the Beers place. He was industrious and the Berrys treated him as they would one of their own children. Last spring, to start the boy in the world, they gave him a young pig, which he fattened. Wed nesday lie butchered" his pet. brought it ! to a local market and got cash for it. It I was his first business transaction on hie [own hook and he started home proud. Pops the Question. ?On ids way he stopped to call on the Beers family, father and daughter. He hart known Mrs. Beers only one month, ! but lie popped the question and won. Mrs. Beers* father, It is said, suggested Itliat the knot be tied in Millerton, and early the next morning Nott expended ! part of the proceeds of the pig sale in |'two round-trip ticket. Yesterday, the bridegroom appeared at the Berry home and rot the rest' of his clothes and other belongings. "I'm married," he said on entering the house, adding, and I've got a farm of my (own, too." % DECREASE IN HAN TEACHERS. Scarcity Deplored by Dr. Dresslar of Bureau of Education. Steady decrease in the number of man teachers in the public schools of the coun try is deplored' by Dr. Fletcher B. Dresslar of the United States bureau of education, in a report on the work of the past decade along educational lines. "There is uo doubt," he ?ays, "that it is unwise to intrust so Important a matter as the teaching of boys and girls so largely to women: but the facts are known and have been for many years, and vet the hoped-for change does not come." Thirty per cent of the public school teachers in were men; this number has now decreased to about Jl per cent. And Dr. Dresslar finds that normal school figures -foretell a still further reduction," because whereas in l!?t? the number of men taking professional courses In normal schools was 2H per cent, tho percentage has decreased to about 2L Monument for Canal Zone. Representative Bartholdt of Missouri has introduced a bill (to appropriate $30, 000 for erecting a monument overlooking the Panama canal, to commemorate the 4<X)th anniversary of the discovery of the Isthmus of Panama by Balboa, the Span 'SB^bo?blanded and crossed ths isthmus in IMA. late B. O. Lowndes, who died about fif teen years ago. The provisions of the will were that the property should be sold and the proceeds turned over to the So ciety for Foreign and Domestic Missions. The property -will be subdivided Into town lots, the streets graded ami granolithic sidewalks constructed. It is expected k will be placed o:i the market in the early spring. It is adjacent to the ex tension of the Spa Spring and Gretta railroad as contemplated. Realty Development Flans. Messrs. James C. and J. Harris Rogers, who own the old filtration plant property near East ITyattsville, contemplate erect ing a dozen houses in the spring. An other ambitious real estate venture was ? recently launched, when C. A. M. Wells, ? county treasurer; M. Hampton Magruder, j former state's attorney, and Frank M. Stephen, an attorney of the county, pur chased a portion of the old Stephen es tate located In East Riverdale, and are now subdividing the property and laying off streets. This property contains about twenty-five acres, and the Edmonston road, over which the extension of the electric road will run, forms its eastern boundary, while the town of Riverdale lies to the west. The subdivision is known as the Gretta Addition to Riverdale. Most of the lots are fifty feet front, and the main street will be known as Gretta ave nue. The property is well situated, and besides the Spa Spring and Gretta rail way will be easily accessible to the City and Suburban electric railway and to the Baltimore aftd Ohio railroad, both of which roads pass through Riverdale. With the expenditure of $10,000 in the construction of permanent roadways and the laying of granolithic sidewalks in Hy attsville during the past summer real es tate men predict a boom in real estate in Hyattsville during the coming spring. Practically the entire northwestern sec tion of Hyattsville is undeveloped, and in this locality ar^sonw of the most de sirable building sites in this section of the state. A considerable portion of -this property belongs to the estates of Messrs. Johnson and Wine, and in the settlement of the separate holdings there has been some uncertainty regarding the titles. This condition has retarded the develop ment of the property, but the situation is being clcai-ed and receptly some pur chases have been made. .The properly is i within easy reach of the public water and sewerage systems, and when the boom starts its growth ia expected to be rapid. TRAFRClUMS i IN SUPREME COURT Arguments to Be Made Next on Interstate Commerce Cases. "Interstate commerce week" will be ob served in the Supreme Court of the United States beginning Monday. Prac tically all of the questions to be argued next week are connected with railroad or steamship traffic. The first case to be considered involves whether shippers may be indicted for ac cepting rebates unless ft is shown that the railroad concerned had posted the regular rates at the railroad station at point of origin. It was held by Judge Speer of Georpia that the posting of the regular rates in the community in which the shipper lived was such an important means of information that the shipper could not be indicted unless it was al leged the rates had been posted. This ruling occurred in the indictments of Harvey C. Miller and Morris F. Miller of Philadelphia on charges of accepting con cessions for shipments over the Mer chants and Miners' Transportation Com pany, jointly with the Seaboard Air Line and with the Atlantic Coast Line. Quarter-Century Fight. Another case in the quarter-century fight of Cincinnati shippers for lower rates to Chattanooga and the south. In ISM shippers induced the interstate com merce commission to order a sharp re duction of rates over the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific road from Cin cinnati to Chattanooga. Courts held that the commission could not fix a future rate. Later, when this power was con ferred upon il, the commission ^educed first-class rates to 7-> cents, and held that while a demand for a ?iu-ccnt rate might l?e reasonable on aj <>ad direct to Cnattanooga. it would not* be so on the ? Louisville and Natrhvlllo and connecting j lines. Furthermore. ih<** commission held that to reduce the rat#* to HO cents I might make inequitable tfertain 'rates I from Memphis to Chattanooga and to I Atlanta, Birmingham, Montgomery and other southern cities. The Cincinnati shippers made an unsuccessful attempt in the Commerce Court to have the 70 cent rate declared unjust and unreason able. Obligations of Steamship Companies. Whether a loophole really exists in the immigration laws such as would allow steamship companies to shift the respon sibility for bringing in immigrants of tiie excluded classes will bo argued be fore the court. A New York court held that while the purpose of Congress seem ingly- was to make the steamship com panies pay tiie cost' of returning such immigrants as are denied entrance, there was nothing in the law to prevent the companies from circumventing the law by requiring these immigrants to put up security in foreign ports to cover the cost of returning them if rejected. Another question will be whether a special rate on coal may bo given rail roads. Still uther cases involving con flicts of jurisdiction between the inter state commerce commission and the Com merce Court will be heard. TEACHERS OF AGRICULTURE. | Specialist Believes More Attention Should Be Given to Training. While much has been accomplished In recent years in agricultural training in the various schools and colleges of the country, not enough attention has been paid to the train'ng of teachers to give instruction in agriculture, according to A. C. IMonahan, specialist in charge of agricultural education for the United The Best Buy in Washington American Security and Trust Co Amos H. Plumb, Trustees. A SAFE AND PROFITABLE REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT. To make a profitable investment the property purchased must have actual value equal to the full amount paid for it. with a suffi ciently assured prospective increase within a reasonable time to per mit you to sell at a profit. We Are Offering You Just Such an Investment In the Purchase of Lots in FOURTEENTH STREET TERRACE. The city has built right up to this property. The 14th st. car line passes directly through it; and the Georgia ave. car line bounds it on the east, thus affording the very best transportation facilities of any section in the District of Columbia. Streets have been graded'and macadamized and granolithic side walks laid; water, sewer and gas mains installed: also a wide park ing of fifteen to twenty-five feet is donated ( FREE) to every lot. A numbei of purchasers have already made handsome profits in this subdivision, and in every instance reinvested. We Do Net Ask You to Purchase Until you have made' a most rigid and searching investigation of this property and a fair comparison with any or all other suburban prop erties in the District, and thereby convince yourself that the pur chase of a lot in Fourteenth Street Terrace offers you the best real estate investment. Prices from 35c a square foot up. Terms reasonable. Automobiles to show you the property. Write, phone or call for illustrated plat and particulars. ROBERT E. HEATER, 411-12-13 Colorado Bfdg. Phones. 'Main 1064-1085. Little Shots at Human Nature By h. t. Webstw "Por?T BOTHERT^E t'MvERY euvr!" 'Me..lONfrOK?fn A MAM OUTStOEWHM ?*T5 HE cr**e& YQu*50 0oo ah HE Tb?*TlT" 'feCTOUTh'M BUSY?" i But your. Domt iv< -ME HA* Etora> AM" OTCMMARJUW. IStMOUfrMT *<OoD \l LIKE TO*fWN ?* tell HIM lb WAIT. I'M TOO BUSY TO SEE AffT OWE TODAY " HAVEKT TIMS Tb 1M.K Ttl YOU*>0?r? I'M BUSY1" States bureau of education. Prof. F. B. in the United States where a full four- I 100 per cent higher salaries than other Jenks of the bureau has just bean sent ? year coarse preparatory to teaching agri- teachers In the same grade work. At Pres to develop a normal department in the I culture can be obtained. ent, the report says, there are only 1? Oklahoma State Agricultural School. I The scarcity of teachers in tals line is students taking' the apaofal four-year nor In a report on the subject Mr. Monahan I shown by the fact that teachers of agri- mat course in preparation for eerScmteM declares that there are only nine schools J cultural subjects can command from 30 to teaching. ,