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Scholarships Are Awarded to Daughters of Confederacy. PRIZE OF $100 WITH ONE Chicago University and Loretta Con vent to Take Student Each. DIVISION ON HONOR CROSSES. Question Raised Whether Distribu tion Shall Continue, Although Issuance Has Ceased. ? The presentation of two scholarships, one from the University of Chicago and the other at Uoretta Convent, Ix>retta, Xy., to the United Daughters of the Con federacy by Mrs. John A. I<ee, president of the Illinois division, and a division ol opinion regarding the suspension of dis- j trlbution of crosses of honor to Confed erate veterans, were topics of interest at , this morning's session of the convention i of the organization. The Chicago University scholarship is unique. It is to be awarded to the winr fter of a prize of $100 in gold, offered by the Illinois division for the best thesis on southern history to a southern student In the university who Is a candidate for the degree of doctor of philosophy. The recipient of the scholarship re ceives not only the $100 prize money for his thesis, but repayment of the entire ex penses paid into the university for a period of from three to five years, ac cording to his term therein, amounting to $120 a year. He also has a chance at a. fellowship. Argue Over Crosses of Honor. Ambiguity in the decision of the last convention, which ordered that the issue of crosses of honor to Confederate vet erans should cease November 1 of this year, raising the question whether dis tribution shou'd continue although issu ance had cea ed. brought about a conflict of interest. The report of the custodian of crosses of honor. Mrs. IH. Ra nes. after much discussion, was accepted without the recommendations therein. A proposition to extend until January 10, 101 J. the limit of time for distribu tion of cresses was flnaily ruled out or order. The que?ti< n was postponed to come up with the repr rt of the commit tef charged with considerat on of the recommendations of the president gen eral. amcng which the subject is treated fifty-six New Chapters. Mrs. Roy Weaks McKinney. recording secretary general, reported the accession of fifty-six new chapters. These are dis tributed: Virginia, 12; Texas, 6: District of Columbia. 1; Mississippi, 7; Georgia, 5; Tennessee, 4; New York. 1; Colorado, 1; Missouri, 3; Kentucky. 2; South Carolina, 7; Florida. 1; Illinois, 1; Maryland, 1; Arkansas. 3; Alabama, 1. She has issued 4..VJ2 certificates of mem bership during the current year. The total expenses of the term have been $443.3.1. The magnitude of the work done was shown by the enumeration of the correspondence. ? The correspond ng secretary general, Mrs. Edouard Carl Schnabel, expressed gratitude for the encouraging letters and aid of officers given her. She reported 1.730 letters, postal cards and circulars sent out and 340 letters and cards re ceived. 1 There is a balance of $.",173.07 in the 1 treasury of the organization, the treas urer general, Mrs C. B. Tate, reported. With the baianoe left over from last year the receipts for 10 li have been $14, 003.60. The expenditure^ were $8,010.63. These are the largest receipts and ex penditures for any <>ne year in the his _torv of the organization. There were GO.OCO members of the or ganization four years ago, reported the registrar general. Mrs. James Britton _ <?antt, when she took hold. In that time there have been 4.">,27o new names reg- i istered. .Last year there were 1,010 names registered. Mrs. Baines Would Retire. Mrs. L. 11. Italnes. custodian of crosses of honor, announced her desire to retire from otflce. She s$.id she had been re luctant to give up the work until it was running smoothly, but considered that this point had been reached. A diamond- ! set pin of the U. D. C. was pinned on Her by Mrs. Schuyler of New York. Mrs. F. A. Walke made a brief report j as custodian of flags and pennants. She ? tilled attention to the fact that this was her last service in this capacity, as the office had been abolished by convention j legislation. Th?- report of the educational cornmit tee was made by Mrs. Mary B. Poppen- | heim, chairman. There are twenty-four j stat'-s supporting 107 scholarships avail -ttblt to sons and daughters of Confederate veterans, which are valued at $2>.022. In addition to these there are eleven gereral scholarships, valued at $2*5?;u. Two of these scholarships are in Wash ington. A scholarship In tlie Washing ton Seminary, for four years, is valued at $100. It is still vat ant. In the Bristol School, a scholarship for one year was awarded by lot to Miss Floe Alexander of Ardmore, Ok la. Miss Alexander was presented to the convention. Explains University Scholarships. Regarding the scholarship in the Uni versity of Chicago, Mrs. I.ee reoited the fact that a writer of a doctor's thesis usually spends a year or more in prepar ing it; that it presents material that must be an addition to human knowl ? dge that the prize of $10i? offered by the Illinois division was to help meet the expense of publication and distribution, a cost of $2T^?; that tho Uni versity of < 'iiicago undertakes to refund payments for education of the success ful candidate covering any terms of his studies at the university, which may amount to from $:{?>? to Ths delegates at the convention were jeceived at the White House at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The ICast Room was es pecially decorated for the occasion. The I 'resident and Mrs. Taft shook hands with each of tho visitors. Reception and Luncheon. \ brilliant reception last night in the . eu Willard ballroom, given by the con division, to the general officers and dele vention host, the District of Columbia MONTENEGRINS ON AND NEAR THE FIRING Ma GES. MARTINOVICH. COMMANDING THE MONTENEGRIN FORCES, AND OTHER OFFICERS WATCHING THE BOMBARDMENT OF POTAPOFF. gates and friends of the U. D. C.; a memorial service in the afternoon, a luncheon given by Mrs. Matth?w Scott, president general of the D. A. R. In Con tinential Memorial Hall to the genera officers, which continued long enough to delay the convention proceedings an houi and a half in the afternoon, and the or ganization meeting of the morning wa the busin-ss of the day. Mrs. Mp.rion Butler, president of th District of Columbia division, headed i receiving line at last night's functio: The acting president genera!, Mrs Fran G Odenheimer; Mrs. Drury C. Ludlow o Washington, second vice president gen eral; Mrs. J. J. McAiester of Oklahoma third vige president general; Mrs. Ro> Weeks MciKnney of Kentucky, record ing secretary general; Mrs. Eduaid Car Schnabel of Louisiana, corresponding secretary general; Mrs. C. 3. Tate ol Virginia, treasurer general; Mrs. Jame Britton Gantt of Missouri, registrar gen eral; Miss Mildred Rutherford of Georgia, historian general; Mrs. L. H. Raines of Georgia, custodian of the cross of honor and Mrs Frank Anthony Walke of Vir ginia, custodian of flags and pennants, assisted her. The ballroom was decorated in Ameri can and Confederate flags and vines, number of electric designs flashed repro ductions in light of the emblem of th lost cause. Virginia Awarded Honor. Virginia was awarded the certificate of honor for the greatest accessions to mem bership during the year, a prize given by the president general, Mrs. Alexander B. White. The certificate was handed over, to be placed in the National Con federate Museum in Richmond. Virginia added 1 9"J3 names to her rolls during the period. Next in order were: Georgia with 864; Mississippi with 786; South Carolina with 443, and Tennessee with 364 new members. A flag of the Confederate navy, made by Mrs. Molly McGill Rosenburg of Texas, was presented to the United Daughters of the Confederacy as a mem orial to Admiral Semmes of the Con federate navy. Mrs. Cornelia Branch Stone of Galveston, Tex., a former presi dent general, made the presentation speech. As a part of the memorial service, the ? names of members of the United Daugh ters of the Confederacy and dis tinguished soldiers of the civil war who have died during the year, were read in the order of state divisions. Memorial resolutions were adopted in honor of the dead soldiers of the fciyil war. Gen. Wil liam Washington Gordon of Georgia, Senator Hernando De Soto Money of Mississippi, Xudge James Britton Gantt, of Missouri, and in honor of some of the distinguished Daughters who have passed away. ? Mrs. Odenheimer, the presiding officer, was presented with chrysanthemums by the Maryland division, to which she is accredited. Mrs. Wade Hampton, a daughter-in-law of the distinguished Confederate soldier. Gen. Wade Hampton, was presented to the convention. Rules for the Convention. The following rules for the convention were adopted: A delegate shall rise, address the chair, giving her name and state, and wait for recognition. No delegate shall speak a second time on the same question until all who w sh to speak on that subject have had oppor tunity to do so. She shall not in any case speak more than twice on the same question. Debate shall be limited to four minutes for each speaker, and no question shall be debated longer than, twenty-five min utes. No extension of time shall be granted except by a two-thirds vote. Reports of committees shall be limited to ten minutes, the time limit of division reports. See article V, section 1, of by laws. All main motions and resolutions Bhall be written and sent to the recording sec retary. Flections shall be held by viva voce vote upon roll call of states. A majority of all votes cast shall be necessary to elect. Ten minutes will be given each morn 'ing, directly after the reading of the minutes, for all presentations, announce ments and questions. (The purpose of questions of personal privilege must be stated. The last half hour of each meeting shall be devoted to new business. If state report fails to be given when name is called, that said report be filed with the secretary and not read. These rules and regulations shall be strictly enforced. * Notes of the Convention. | + ? New Yoric city will make a bid for the next convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The invitation will be laid before the present convention by Mrs. James Henry Parker, president ol New York Chapter, and will have the support of Mrs. Alexander, first vice pres ident of the New York Chapter. There is a sentiment in the convention that. In view of the success of the present visit to the National Capital, on the border land of north and south, it would be ap How to Lower Your Cost of Living Isn't it annoying to have a friend tell you that an article, obviously of equal quality, cost 25 per cent less than your own? It isn't merely annoying; it shows one reason why the cost of living is so high. Thousands of efficient shoppers read THE STAR adver tisements constantly. They may have no immediate need in mind, but one never knows when some article for the home, person or the table may be offered by THE STAR'S adver tisers at an attractive price. Things are often high because one does not know the right place to buy at the right moment. Close and careful reading of THE STAR'S advertise ments will correct that. You can keep in close touch with buying opportunities in Washington's great merchandising centers, secure in the feeling that you are increasing your income by reducing your costs. Look at the opportunities offered you today by the advertisers in THE STAR?make a start toward a lowered cost of living. (Copyright, 1912, J. P. I1" I , =5 proprlate and wise to take the Daughters of the Confederacy into a northern state for the next assembly. There will undoubtedly develop decided opposition to acceptance of New York's r.vitation. New Orleans is a strong bid der for the next -"onvention. The "moth r of the U. D. as Mrs. M. C. Good tt is known, in a message to the con ntion has urged that the next conven er) be held in her home town, Nashville, nn? so that she may be able to attend. :is undoubtedly forecasts 'in invitation . om the Tennessee division. Florida, nich bid for the present convention, ay renew that invitation for nert year. Mrs. John Miller Horton. candidate for resident general of the D. A. R., will Mtertain at luncheon in honor of the t-neral officers of the United Daughters ?f the Confederacy tomorrow afternoon it the New Willara Hotel at 1 o'clock. Mrs. Alice A. Br.ston, assisted by Mrs. imes Pryor Tarvin, chairman of the ress committee, will entertain at tea, be ween 4 and 6 o'clock this afternoon, at >IInton place and Belmont road. In the eceivlng line will be Mrs. Lizzie George ienderson, a former president general; >Irs. James Henry Parker, pres dent of Sew York Chapter; Mrs. John Miller Hor ton of Buffalo, N. Y.. a candidate ' for president general of the D. A. R. and irominent In the U. D. C.; Mrs. Henry Sherman Boutel, wife of the American ninister to Switzerland; Mrs. Thomas Pryor Gore, wife of the senator from Oklahoma; Mrs. S. E. F. Rose, president of the Mississippi division, U. D. C.; Mrs. John A.' Lee, president of the Illi nois division, and. others. A big contribution was made to the Arlington monument fund, through Mrs. 1 S mon Baruch of New York City Chap ter, and Mrs. Livingston Schuyler of the Mary Mildred Sullivan Chapter of New York. The amount contributed was $2,512, which was raised in three weeks' time. Of this amount B. M. Baruch con tributed $500; Thomas F. Ryan, $500; Frank J. Gould, $500; Jacob H. Schiff. $500; Murray Guggenheim, $200; Daniel Reid, $100; Sol and Daniel Guggenheim, $2uo, and others, who helped to swell the total. Mr. Ryan also sent a letter expressing his appreciation of the sentiment which Inspired the erection of the monument. Mr. Gould expressed a wish that the names of the southern women should tlnd a fitting place on the shaft. The Alabama delegation, numbering thirty-one women, is one of the strongest in the convention. Mrs. Chapelle Cory is president of the division, and was instru mental in making the erection of the Confederate monument in Arlington a na tional affair. Mrs. Clifford Lanier of Montgomery, Ala , represents the Cradle of the Con federacy Chapter. She is the widow of the southern poet, Clifford Lanier, who was a brother of Sidney Lanier. Mrs. T. Darrington Semple of New York is a delegate from the New York Chapter to the convention. Mrs. Simon Baruch is the grandmother of five children who are descendants on their maternal side of the youngest en robed southern soldier. Harry Prince, now of Houston, Tex., but formerly of Lou isiana. When only eleven years old. Im bued with the martial spirit, the boy longed to be a soldier. One day, watching a company drill, he carried the water. Each day he continued carrying water to the thirsty soldiers, so he was enrolled in that company. " When the company was ordered to the front and the roll was called Harry Prince was found missing. His arrest was ordered for desertion. When they found him he was at school, and the eleven-year-old boy was carried to head quarters. where his age and .loyalty made him the hero of the day. Mrs. Bird Grubb, wife of the former minister to Spain, and Mrs. Richmond Pearson Hobaon are among those who will assist Mrs. Benjamin Micou In re ceiving at her home, l'il2 21st street, this afternoon. The hours for the tea are from 4 to t? o'clock. In honor of the Alabama delegation, officers of the Southern Industrial Edu cational Association, assisted by Mrs Richmond Pearson Hobaon, Mrs. Micou and Mrs. Shepard, will receive at their headquarters, room 331. Southern build ing. Saturday from 4 to 0 p.m. Miss Sally Sharpe Williams and Miss Mar garet Parker will assist Mrs. Stone at the tea table. Mrs. David S. Killough of Galveston, vice president of the Texas division, U. D. C., is attending the reunion, and is stopping at the New Willard. Mrs. Jane H. Marye of Fredericksburg is now visiting her son, Lieut. Marye, near Arlington. This Interesting woman of eighty-eight years of age has many thrilling anecdotes to relate. Her home at Hamilton's Crossing, to which they had retired from Marye's Heights for safety during the civil war. proved to be in as nearly hot firing as the noted Marye's hill. During that fateful winter of *63 it was the home of Gen. and Mrs. Longstreet, as well as many others, which the elastic Virginia house can al ways be made to hold. Mrs. Marlon Butler, president of the District division of the U. D. C., enter tained at dinner, at her home at 220O R street northwest last night, Mrs. Wil liam Jennings Bryan, Mrs. Matthew T. 8cott. president general of the D. A. R-; Mrs. Marshall Williams, pres'dent Nortli Carolina division of the U. D. C.; Mrs. Cornelia Branch Stone of Texas, ex president general of the U. D. C.. and all of the national officers of the U. D. C? as follows: Mrs. Frank G. Odenheimerr of Maryland, first vice president gen eral and acting president general; Mrs. Drury C. Ludlow of this city, sec ond vice president general; Mrs. Roy Weeks McKinney of Kentucky, record ing secretary general; Mrs. Edward Carl Schnabel of Louisiana, corresponding sec retary general; Mrs. C. B. Tate of Vir ginia, treasurer general; Miss Mildred Rutherford of Georgia, historian general, and Mrs. Frank Anthony Walke of Vir ginia, custodian of flags and pennants. WILL DETERMINE RESULTS. Board of Medical Officers to Pass on Examinations of Candidates. A board of officers of the Medical Corps has been appointed to meet at the Army Medical School, 721 13th street northwest, to determine the results of the prelimi nary examinations of applicants and for the final examination of candidates for admission to the Medical Corps. The board consists of Col. Charles Rich ard, Lieut. Col. Walter D. McCaw, Majs. Powell C. Fauntleroy, Carl R. Darnall, Frederick F. Russell, Charles R. Reynolds and Paul S. H&lloran, and Capts. William T. Davis, Charles F. Craig, William A. Wickllne, William ?. Duncan, Henry J. Nicbola ana Arthur C. Christie. pmoroa ^./MrfRNAriOMAti nc.*t& Scx.vic.E \ TRENCHES OUTSIDE OP MURITIZEN STOCKED WITH AMMUNITION. No Formal Charge Is Made Against Her?Father Says She Was Nervous. TREXTOX, November 14.?Miss Gladys E. Myers, the twenty-one-year-old girl of Greensburg. Pa., who shot and killed her mother on a Pennsylvania railroad sleeping oar near Bristol, Pa., early yes terday morning while half awake and under the impression some one was try ing to get into her berth either to steal her jewelry or to do her bodily harm, was released from custody late yester day afternoon. The young woman, an extremely beau tiful girl, was led weeping, from the po lice station to an automobile in waiting and driven to St. Francis' Hospital, where the body of her mother lav. As she left the police station, heavily veiled and between two woman friends, camera men attempted to take flashlight pictures, but with little success. The young woman kept her head bowed in an effort to hide her grief. She ap peared to be in a state of almost utter collapse when she was assisted into the automobile. The girl's discharge was decided upon after a consultation between Prosecutor i CrossJey of Mercer countv and District Attorney Boyer of Bucks county. Pa., in which state the shooting occurred. Believe Her Story of Shooting-. The prosecuting officials, after hearing the testimony of William R. Cuthbert of Lynchburg, Va., who was the first to rush to the young woman's assistance after the shooting, and who was being detained as a witness, and after listening to the stories of the Pullman conductor the porter and that of Dr. H. B. Costello! who attended the dying woman, and to whom she conveyed the information that her daughter had shot her purely acci dentally, decided that Miss Myers' story of the shooting was correct. Cuthbert was permitted to continue on his journey to Sayreville, N. J. Miss Myers, after her visit to the hos pital, where she obtained her personal ef fects. which she had left there, departed for Philadedphia in company with Supt. Harper of the Pennsylvania police, a friend of her family. Her father, John Reppe Myers, proprietor of a Greensburg, Pa., hotel; her brother. J. Reppe Myers, Jr., and her fiance, T. Blair Dilard, both of Salem, Va., who are on their way to this city, will be met at Philadel phia. Prosecutor Crossley announced tonight that no coroner's inquest on the death of Mrs. Myers would be necessary. Says Daughter Was Nervous. PITTSBURGH, November 14.?"What can I say, except that I'm horrified?" said J. Rappe Myers, father of Gladys Myers. "Gladys always carried quite a lot of valuable jewels, but I never knew she went armed. I can't understand the thing at all. I don't want to talk until I've heard the story from Gladys. My daugh ter has been extremely nervous of late and intended consulting a specialist in Philadelphia." TEAMSTERS GO ON STRIKE. Three Thousand Men in Chicago to Seek Sympathetic Walkout. CHICAGO, November 14.?Possibility of a general strike of the 30 000 teamsters, chauffeurs and helpers composing the local teamsters' union 'developed today when 3,000 members of Local Union 705 went on strike because of a wage dis agreement. The men who went out declared that they would not submit their grievances to arbitration under any conditions. Also they announced that they would attempt to bring about a general sympathetic strike. The men now on strike were employed by ten teaming concerns. Marshall to Attend Jollification. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., November 14. Gov. Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana, Vice President-elect, accompanied by Sen ator B. F. Shive'.y, departed this morning for Fort Way?e, where this evening the governor will speak at a democratic jolli fication meeting. One of the features of the affair will be a "dollar" dinner Mrs Marshall accompanied the governor on the trip. i Exhibits are arriving at the Agricul tural High School at Sparks. Md., for the corn and potato congress to be held Fri day and Saturday. TO SEEK CONTINENT Discoverer of Blond Eskimos Will Return to Arctic'. NOW IS IN WASHINGTON Stefansson Tells Peculiarities of New Far North Tribe. | BLUE AND GRAY EYES FOUND People Believed to Have Some Con nection With Lost Scandinavian Settlers of Greenland. Vilhjalmur Stefansson of the American i Museum of Natural History, discoverer of: the new tribe of -blond Eskimos" in ! the arctic, announced today at the Cos mos Club, where he is a guest. that he will head an exploring expedition which will start from either Seattle or San i Francisco in May, 1913, to settle the question of whether or not there is, as many scientists believe, another con tinent in the arctic. The expedition has been voted the scientific support of the American Museum of Natural History, and it is ex pected that a number of other scientific bodies such as the National Geographic Society also will vote it their scientific support. Funds for the expedition will be furnished from priva.e sources. Mr. Stefansson expects to take with him a staff of six scientists, some of whom will be Washingtonians. There are more applicants for the positions than there are piaces to fill, and the personnel of the party has not yet been settled. Bases of Operations. The expedition will proceed from the Pacific coast up around Bering strait, and will have its main base of operations on Cape Bathhurst. Two secondary bases to work from will be established. One of these bases will be in Victoria Land, for the purpose of a close scientific study of the peculiar people discovered by Mr. Stefansson, known as the "blond Eskimos," who are believed by some stu dents to be possibly the descendants of the Scandinavian colony which disap peared from Greenland, according to his tory, during or after the year 1412 A. D. The party to be established at this base in Victoria Land will also complete the mapping of Victoria Land, no one know ing how large this country is, although it is known to be larger than all of the British islands together. The second base will be established on the northwest corner of Banks Island, and the party from this base will devote its attention particularly to the effort to establish whether there is a continent in the Arctic. A schooner equipped with power as an auxiliary will ply between these two subsidiary bases and a main base to be established at Cape Barrow, bringing in supplies and carying back scientific col lections and news. By means of this schooner the expedition expects to keep in yearly contact with the outside world. Mr. Stefansson's Career. Mr. Stefansson, who was born in Mani toba, Canada, and is but thirty-three years of age, was brought up in North Dakota, and is a graduate of the Iowa State University. He did three years of post-graduate work in anthropology at Harvard, in preparation for a career as an explorer. He returned from the arctic early this year, with the announcement of the discovery of the ney>- tribe of ' blonde Eskimos," having made the trip on which he found these peculiar people, under the auspices of the American Museum of Nat ural History, with Dr. R. M. Anderson, zoologist of that body. Mr. Stefansson is in Washington for the purpose of lecturing Friday at the New Masonic Hall before the National Geo graphic Society on these "blonde Eski mos." He explored the region where they were found, Coronation gulf, for four ? years, afoot, having walked during that time 10.000 miles. Discussing this new tribe at the Cosmos Club today, Mr. Stefansson said: "There are three or four things which might explain why the Eskimos I found are blonde. The least objectionable of these theories is to suppose that they have some connection with the lost Scan dinavian tribe of Greenland. Europe More Interested. "In America, I find, people do not take so much interest in these things. In Europe the interest in my discovery has been much greater. For one thing, peo ple In Europe are much more familiar with the history of the Scandinavian col ony which was lost from Greenland, and the mystery and tragedy which surround GUNNERS SHELLING TURKISH TROOPS FROM Ml'RITIZEN. ed it. To Europeans this discovery came as the solution of a historical problem and as the last word in the history of a great tragedy. "But to the average American the dis covery, I think, came as the finding of a freak people?much as the discovery* or men with tails Would come. There is a difference in the point of view, you see. "When the Norsemen settled in Green land they found no Eskimos there, in the early fourteenth century Eskimos be gan to come down from the north ana to attack the western settlements. They even came from America by way of Smiths sound, where Peary went, i or two or three years there was no commu nication between the northern and the southern colonies. Then the southern settlement sent a ship to the northern to tind out why it had not heard from its compatriots. They found the farmhouse in ruins, the cattle, sheep and horses ffedi"S about?wild. Eskimos had exterminated tuis settlement, but as we know it is the habit of all primitive people to carry orr women and children in time of war, rath er than kill them, it was and is though, probable that this northern colony was not entirely destroyed and that the women and ch ldren had been carried oft We have definite knowledge of the south ern colony up to the year 1412, and some less reliable information about it in and even later. After that communica tion between Greenland and Europe was cut off because of the paralysis that tel. on Europe at the time of the black plague. Southern Colony in Ruins. "When .voyages were resumed again by the Englishman, John Davis, late in the sixteenth century, nothing remained but the ruins of the farms of both colonies. The fate of the southern colony was therefore a complete mystery, but it has always been considered probable by his torians that a portion of the people at least of this colony were not exterminate*! and that they moved across Davis strait "I found the blond people in v ietoria Land. The question naturally arose. May not these people be the descendant^, of "this lost colony? The latest maps of the Canadian government published be fore I went north in the spring of l.*?v? these maps were pub.ished in 1?**?~~ showed thf islands of Banksland and vic toria I-and as 'Uninhabited.' We found that thev were inhabited by these strange people, and we estimated the-population of these two islands and of the mainland shore opposite them at about -.000, which is a very large population as Eskimos go, for they do niot gather in large numbers. Peculiar Characteristics. "Pure-blooded Eskimos should be as dark as Chinese or Japanese, and so they are in Alaska, but there in Victoria Land we found that a large proportion had light eyebrows, that among the men beards were common, being more abun dant than among any Pure-blooded Es kimos that I know anything abojt, that many of these bearded individuals had light brown beards tinged with rid. '?perhaps a dozen of those I savi hail eves distinctly lighter than the tjpical brown of the Mongolian Eskimo. They ran to light blue or blue gray. "This was among people none of whom at any time had contact with whalers, for we know what the routes of the whal ers are, and only three or four out of the thirteen tribes visited by men had e\et had the slightest contact with exp?orers. hadI had in my employ at the time 1 came to these people three Alaskan E^kl mos. When they saw the Victoria Land Eskimos they said to me: These are not pvkimos They are Fo'csl men'?mean ing by this that they were 'Forecastle Men,' as the sailors of the whaling fleets are called. Depended Upon Rifle. "I left New York in 11(08 on this trip, and got back to New York, by way of Seattle, in September. I was north ot the arctic circle four years and two months. I had no ship. We believed that where an Eskimo can live in comfort a white man can also do so, if he is willing to live as an Eskimo does. We depended absolutely on the rifle, as the Eskimos do and found that we got along all right. We had no trouble in bringing in our field notes and photographic film?, but we could not transport bulky scientific in struments. That is one problem in trans portation for a trip like that. Despite that difficulty we brought in complete ethnological collections from the blond Eskimos, and archeological co - lections from Alaska, numbering nearly 40 000 specimens, such as implementso stone and bone, and ivory and P0"?r> "One of the most important ?cientttl results of that expedition was thatwe nroved the Eskimo knows how to make oottery The ELkimo is supposed to have how to make pottery from Me Uaskan Indians, but I found this pottery a thousand miles farther east than it was supposed to be found. RIFLE EM FOR GIRLS For several years the boys of the Dis trict public higl schools have had rifle teams and held shooting tournaments and won cups. But now their sisters are de termined to win some of the honors. And to that end a meeting will be held in the Business High School this afternoon for the purpose of organizing the first school girls' rifle team of Washington, D. C. Joseph Finckel, who is in charge of the boys' rifle team of Business, and Miss Elizabeth B. Baldwin will be in charge. Officers are to be elected and a constitu tion adopted. Before Miss Baldwin could be officially recognized as one of those in charge of the girls' team she had to learn how to shoot a rifle. For several weeks she has practiced at the rifle range of Business High School, and is now said to be very pr oft cent in scoring bulls'-eyes. Five teachers applied for the place. Indoor Work First. Indoor work will be first taken up by the girls, though outdoor shooting may follow. Allan Davis, principal of the school, says he has seen numerous girls who could shoot with heavy rifles as w??ll as those of lighter caliber, and he Kpes no reason why the girls of his school clnnot do as well if they like the sport vifell enough after they have followed it for a while. . Many of the girls are very enthusiastic over the new prospect of shooting, fol lowing closely in the footsteps of the boys of Business, who have taken a great in terest la this new school activity # HENRY N. COPP, IAWYER AND AUTHOR, SUCCUMBS Once Was Supervising Princi pal of Public Schools in District. Henry Norris Copp, lawyer and author, well known In business circles and super vising principal of the public schools of the District of Columbia from 1870 to 1883, died this morning at the Garfield Hospital, after a long lllne?s caused by kidney and stomach troubles. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at .1 o'clock, in the First Con gregational Church, lOth and G streets northwest. Burial will be in Rock Creek cemetery. Mr. Copp has been in ill-health for a number of years. He retired from busi ness several years ago. Resianing in 1883 from the supervising princlpalship of the schools, Mr. Copp began the practice of law. giving special attention to business before the land office. For eighteen years he published Copp s Landowner, a semi-official organ of the general land office, and edited several works on public land and mining law. His most popular book, Copp's Letter s Guide, is in its twenty-fourth edition. Mr. Copp was a Mason, a member of the G. A. R. and a member of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia. Was Realty Promoter. vHe was among the first promoters of the development of suburban real estate along the Metropolitan branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in Mont gomery county, Md. During the civil war he served in Stroud's Independent Penn sylvania Cavalry Company, and toward the close of t >e war he served in this city at the War Department. Directly af'er the war he started a business college in this city! which he later sold to Prof, and Mrs. H. C. Spen cer. Mr. Copp was born in Troy, N. Y.. in 1843, and came of old Yankee stock. His great-grandfather, Capt. David Copp, commanded a company of minutemen during the revolution. Mr. Copp was educated at the high schools of Troy and at I'nion College, the latter ?institution conferring the honorary degree of A. M. on him in 1SC3, he hav ing been graduated lKCy. A few years later he attended the Na tional Law School in this city, receiving the L.L. B. decree in 1870. He married Miss Mary A. Hobbs of Wakefield, X. H., in 187<?. His wife survives him. SAYS GIRL CONFESSED Miss Farley Admitted Shooting When Told Sweetheart Was Accused, Police Testify. COLUMBUS. Ohio, November 14.?Po lice officers today admitted on the wit ness stand in the Farley trial that Cecelia Farley, the young stenographer who is 'charged with the murder of Alvin E. Zollinger, an advertising solicitor, did not confess to having done the shooting until she was told that Jerome Quigley, the man whom she was to marry, was accused. Attorneys for the defense claim that the ^irl made a false confession because of her love for Quigley, and because of her fear that Quigley would have to suf fer for the shooting. Believes Others Back of Crime. "I believe that the girl did the shooting, but that some other person was back of it," declared former Police Chief Charles E. Carter, who testified today for the prosecution. The girl's alleged confes sion at the time of her arrest was re lated to the jurors several times by vari ous police officials to whom she Is said to have made the confession. They declared that immediately follow ing her arrest Miss Farley had told them that Zollinger had committed suicide by shooting himself. Shot in Back of Head. The state is making much of the fact that Zollinger was shot in the back of the head. The state's attorneys declare that if the story of the defense?that Zollinger was shot while struggling with Miss Far ley for possession of the revolver?is true, it would have been difficult for the gun to be fired in such a manner as to infiict a wound in the back of the head. Jerome Quigley, who was engaged to marry Miss Farley at the time of the shooting, probably will be brought face to face with his sweetheart in the court room late today, when he takes the wit ness stand for the prosecution. The young people have not met since last May. Attorneys for the state expect to rest their case today. NO MORE BODIES FOUND IN FATAL INDIANA WRECK Investigations Into Crash Costing Fifteen Lives Are Continued. INDIANAPOLIS, November 14.?No more bodies had been found today in the wreck of early yesterday on the Cincin nati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad, which cost fifteen lives and severely In jured seventeen other persons. With two exceptions, the injured are doing well at the Deaconess Hospital in this city. Hugh Kemp of Berlin, Ky., and J. VV. Jefferson of Chicago, the negro porter on the passenger train, are in a seri- us con dition, with about equal chances of re covery. The Marion county grand jury and Cor oner Durham continued their Investiga tions, and the state railroad commission sought evidence to be used at its Investi gation to be begun November 25. Carl Gross, th ehead brakeman of the freight train, reiterated his denial of ?lame this morning. Yesterday Gross au mitted that he was to blame for leaving the switch open, thus permitting the pas senger train, running at the rate of forty miles an hour, to make up lost time, crashing into the freight train on the sid-_ ing. Cause of Statement. The head brakeman in refuting his earlier statement said that he was un der the influence of an anesthetic and suffering so much pain from his broken leg that he did not realize what he was saying. Gross is still at the hospital. The bodies of the out-of-town dead remained at the morgue today awaiting claimants or instructions for their disposal. 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