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WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1913-TWENTY-TWO PAGES.
ONE CENT.
RUSH TO TESTIFY
AT LOBBY QUIZ
Labor Leaders and Former
Congressmen Would
Go on Stand.
SENATORS RESUME
INQUIRY TOMORROW
Important Disclosures Expected as
Besnlt of Mulhall
Statement.
Disclosures that promise to follow
the reopening' of the Senate's lobby In
vestigation tomorrow are expected to
t>e among the most important develop
ments of recent years in a congression
al inquiry.
Since publication of Martin M. Mul
tiall s story of how he had operated to
Influence legislation and elections in
belialf of the National Association of
Manufacturers scores of labor leaders,
present and former congressmen and
others have come forward with testi
mony. and asked that they also be
heard by the investigators.
Louis J. Seibold of New York has also
Accepted service He has been called as
a newspaper man connected with the
publication of the Mulhall statement to
give the committee what information he
can as to its preparation and as to the
letters and telegrams Mulhall has agreed
to produce.
Marshall to Testify.
Vice President Marshall. It is under
stood. will take the stand during the
Investigation of the Mulhall charges and
give testimony with reference to the
activity of former Representative Wat
son of Indiana during the political cam
paign in that state. Mr. Watson is one of
those whom Mulhall claims to have been
under the influence of the National As
sociation of Manufacturers.
Representative Sherley of Kentucky,
mentioned in the Mulhall charges as
one the manufacturers could count
upon to support certain measures, to
day secured from Senator Overman per
mission to appear before the lobby
committee tomorrow- and make a state
ment. Sherley said he would intro
duce in the House tomorrow a resolu
tion for an investigation by a special
committee and make a statement de
tailing conversations with Mulhall.
Agree to Testify.
Lewis Cass Ledyard, Paul D. Cravath
and Maxwell Evarts, New York attor
neys, and David Lamar, a Wall street
operator, have accepted telegraphic sum
monses to appear before the committee
tomorrow.
The work of lobbyists in Wall street,
wfcere names of congressmen have been
frpely used ever the telephone in con
Dction with demands upon railway and
financial officials, will be the subject or'
the hearing
Both Jchn Klrby. Jr.. and D. M. Parry
are In San Francisco and were expecting
W sail for Australia today. They wired
Chairman Overman asking to be excused
fran testifying before the Senate commit
tee now. but promised to appear on their
return In several months. They wired it
would oost them about fS.OUO each to
S" ange their plans. Chairman Overman.
wever, wired the two men directing
that they hold themselves in readiness to
Appear.
Wall Street Men to Appear.
A number of prominent Wail street
>nen will appear as witnesses tomorrow."
It has been Chairman Overman's
plan not to begin the hearing
until July 8. but after a talk with
President Wilson yesterday afternoon and
a conference with his committee asso
ciates Mr. Overman decided to renew
the activities of the committee at once.
The witnesses for tomorrow include
Paul Cravath and Lewis Cass Ledyard.
New York attorneys, and David Lamar,
a Wall street financial man. The Inves
tigation will center about the charges
made recently by Judge Robert S. Lovett
of the Union Pacific railroad that many
New York financiers and lawyers had
been approached over the telephone by
lobbyists and persons representing them
selves to be members of Congress.
I ntll this branch of the inquiry- is dis
posed of the committee probably' will not
take up the more recent disclosures of
Mr. Mulhall. which have thus far appeared
only in newspaper reproduction of his
personal statement and facsimiles of
letters he claims to have received con
taining references to the efforts to con
trol and influence members of Congress
Mulhall is under subpoena to appear
July 8.
McMichael in Custody.
I.ate yesterday J. A. McMichael. the
former chief page of the House and now
S Capitol elevator operator, was taken
Into custody by Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms
Halsey and taken before Chairman
Overman. He was released on promise
to appear when the committee meets,
but nominally he will remain in the cus
tody of the sergeant-at-arms. McMi
chael, Mulhall claims, was in the em
ploy of the manufacturers' lobby.
Senator Reed of Missouri, a democratic
fnember of the committee, went to New
York late yesterday. It was believed
here that his hurried trip was in con
nection with the securing of witnesses
or testimony bearing on the more recent
developments that have followed the lob
by probe.
Klrby, jr of Dayton. Ohio, pres
ident of the National Association of
Manufacturers, who is now |n San Fran
c.sco, was asked by telegraph last night
to appear before the committee July *
or as soon thereafter as possible The
committee also telegraphed David M
Parry of Indianapolis, a former presi
testlfy thC a"s0clation- aiJking him to
Substantiates Charges.
Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor, has
prepared a statement which appears to
substantiate charges of Mulhall that
the National Association of Manufac
turers made an attempt in 1907 to buy
Samuel Gompers with a forty-thou
sand-dollar bribe and a life job in the
custom service. According to Mulhall
this plan was made by publicity men
They c?aim. according to Gompers to
have been working for the National
Association of Ma*jfacturers through
the Century Syndicate of New York a
temporary organization. According 'to
SSSSV he?d ?f the ?>'ndlcate was
Broghten Brandenburg, a former New
York newspaper man.
According to Gompers' statement
Brandenburg met him at the Victoria
Hotel, New York. Gompers' report of
?ntervlew was as follows:
-Brandenburg said: The purpose of
?ny coming to see you is of the utmost
importance to us. I am in charge of
a certain bureau of a department or
ganized for the National Manufactur
ers Association. The purpose of it is
to expose the immorality and dishon
?sty of leaders of the labor movement
and to make It public. We have gone
(Continued on Fifth Page.)
Promises to Handle District
Appropriations With
Fairness.
The new chairman of the District of
I Columbia sub-committee of the House ap
propriations committee, Mr. Page, of
North Carolina, is an upstanding, clean
cut, look-you-stralght-in-the-eye citizen,
who. It is predicted, is likely to win friends
among those who. will do business with
him for the next few years. He is ap
proachable, genial, alert and has well de
fined ideas of the work before him and
the way he intends to handle it.
He looks to be the kind of a man one
could approach with a worthy proposi
tion. assured of receiving consideration,
but at the same time quite competent
to winnow the chaff from the wheat and
not likely to hesitate over discarding the
chaff.
Mr. Page has had ten years* expe
rience in Congress and has won his way
to the responsible assignment on the ap
propriations committee not alone by the
application to the business of the House
rule of seniority, but by hard work and
Is a Business Man.
For one thing, he is a business man
with a business man's mental process.
For twenty years he has been engaged
in the manufacture of lumber and has
handled business problems on a large
scale. He was treasurer of the Ashe
boro and Aberdeen railroad for twelve
years and understands transportion
problems. He has been a member of
his legislature and has taken part in
national as well as state politics. He
came to the House in the Fifty-eighth
Congress and has been continuously re
elected. So, Mr. Page Is a man of af
fairs. to begin with, and brings to his
present undertaking experience and ripe
Judgment.
i have no radical or sensational poli
cies in mind." said Mr. Page today. "I
; propose to treat the District with falr
| ness. As a citizen of the United States,
I take pride In our National Capital and
j would like to see It not only the most
beautiful city of our own land but of
the world.
"However. I realize that it cannot be
made so in a year nor in ten years, nor
perhaps twenty-live. It must be accom
plished by steady growth, and the citi
zens of the District can assist in reach
inf? that end by not overreaching by
not being too ambitious to do too much
all at once.
Foe of the Aiders.
"There Is one policy, however, which I
am Intent upon following, and which I
will urge upon my colleagues of the sub
committee, seeking their co-operation.'
That is, to draw the line sharply against
attempted general legislation upon the
District appropriation bill.
"I am convinced by observation that a
great deal of the friction In the past in
the consideration of District appropria
tion bills has been due to their carrying
legislation and to efforts to at
tach such legislation to them as riders.
"There Is a legislative committee
charged with jurisdiction of general leg
islation affecting the District. The rules
of the House are explicit In forbidding
incorporation of general legislation in the
appropriation bills. As long as I can have
any say, those rules will be followed.
Wishes Co-Operation.
"I will urge the new Commissioners to
uphold me in this effort and not to press
for general legislation on appropriation
bills.
"I have no suggestion to make as to
change in the statutory law governing
i the District and certainly will not at
tempt to change it in an appropriation
The subcommittee will not meet until
next December. The deficiency appro
priation items for the District are in the
hands of the subcommittee on deficien
cies. along with other general deficien
cies. and will be handled by that subcom
mittee."
GREEKS TO BEGIN WAR
AGAINST BULGARIANS
Reported Breaches of Treaty
Forces Athens Government to
Act Without Formal Notice.
BERLIN, July 1.?The Greek foreign
minister Informed the correspondent of
the Frankfort Gazette at Athens that
Greece intended to begin war against Bul
garia today without any formal declara
tion.
The foreign minister made the following
statement:
"After Bulgaria has answered all the
conciliatory steps of Greece by repeated
breaches of treaty and by crossing the
provisional boundary fixed a short time
ago, the Greek government feels forced to
give the Macedonian divisions of its army
the order to assume the offensive.
"War will in this way commence with
out a formal declaration, and the Greek
government will submit a statement In
this sense to the Bulgarian government
at Sofia today.
"Greece declines to accept the respon
sibility for this war, which unquestion
ably will have grave consequences."
Try to Evade Responsibility.
IjONDON, July 1.?Fighting. between the
Greeks and Servians on the one side and
the Bulgarians on the other was still pro
ceeding today all along the line from Istip
to Eleuthera. according to a dispatch
from Sofia. All the governments concern
ed declare that their troops have been in
structed not to take the offensive unless
attacked, and each party is trying to
throw on the other the responsibility for
the commencement of the war between
nations which hitherto had been allies
Except in an Isolated case the Bul
garians in Salonlki offered only a feeble
resistance to the Greeks and 'the latter
sustained no losses.
Held for $5,000 Jewelry Theft.
IX>NDON, July 1.?Frederick. alias
"Frits," Thory. was arrested here today
on a charge of stealing jewelry worth
|T).00?i from Hugo Scherer, a wealthy
manufacturer of Detroit, Mich., who had
employed him as a butler. Thory was re
manded by the police magistrate to await
the arrival of extradition papers from
America.
Testify in George B. Cox Trial.
' INCINNATI. July 1.?Former em
ployes of the Cincinnati Trust Company
were among witnesses called today at the
trial of George B. fox, who, while presi
dent, is charged with misapplying *115.000
or the funds of the bank.
NEW EXCISE LAW
NOW IN EFFECT
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Colored Man, Accused of!
Drunkenness, First One
Arrested.
SALOONISTS TO OBEY
STATUTE TO LETTER
Can Women Be Served in Restau
rants ? Is Puzzling1
Question.
The first arrest under the new excise
law was made this morning, two and a
half hours after it went into effect, by
Policeman Hospital of the first precinct.
Clarence Wilson, a colored man, was
found asleep and intoxicated, the officer
charges, in a doorway on New York ave
nue near 14th street northwest, at 2::X)
o'clock this morning.
The case was pot heard in the Police
Court today. Attorney Thomas L. Jones,
who represents the accused, obtained a
continuance until Friday. Wilson depos
ited $10 at the station house last night,
and is at liberty on that collateral.
Hundreds of persons knocked on ?he
front doors of saloons this morning be
fore 7 o'clock. In seeking a drink, but
not until the stroke of 7 was any door
thrown open to them. It is reported that
the saloonkeepers to a man complied witb
the 7 o'clock opening law the first day
it became effective, and many of them.
It is stated, will not take advantage of
the provision which enables them to re
main open until 1 o'clock in the morning.
Can Women Be Served?
"Can a woman be served intoxicants
in restaurants?" was a question asked
many times today by holders of res
taurant licenses.
Roger Williams, who has served as
clerk to the excise board a number of
years, and who has studied the new
law, responded that he thought not.
"Not until the place has been de
clared by the excise board to be a res
taurant," he suggested,, quoting the
law.
Part of paragraph 14 of the statute
covering the question of sales to
female reads: "Nor shall any barroom
licensee sell, give, furnish or distribute
any intoxicating liquors to any female,
nor permit any female to enter or re
main in his barroom: Provided, That
bona fide guests of hotels, restaurants
and clubs having a license to sell in
toxicating liquors may be served with
liquors at meals in such hotels, res
taurants and clubs during the time
liquor may be sold: Provided further,
That no place shall be deemed a rej
taurant within,'the meaning of this
paragraph untw the same shall have
been declared sKch by action of the ex
cise board." . _x
It is taken by persons familiar with
the law that Intoxicants may be dis
pensed In clubs and hotels without action
on the part of the excise board, but the
law, they state, is so explicit in regard to
restaurants that sales made before the
board passes upon the restaurant licenses
are in violation of law. Police action will
be guided by Instructions given by the
corporation counsel and his assistants,
however, and it is probable that no ar
rests will be made until warrants have
been issued.
"All questions arising under the law,"
said Corporation Counsel Thomas, "will
be referred to the Police Court."
Many Bottles Taken Home.
The police think it surprising that there
were so many persons in the city this
morning who were not aware of the
change in the hour of opening. Many of
the saloonkeepers took occasion to advise
their patrons of the change that had to
be made, and,, it is stated, many bottles
of wet goods were taken home last
night by drinkers.
It is stated that saloons in the vicinity
of the several markets were affected by
the late opening more than those In other
sections. Many country people attending
the markets found it impossible to g?*t
"eye openers" during the early morning
hours, and they were surprised when
they found front doors of saloons locked.
"Is Jack sick this morning?" anxiously
inquired a thirsty citizen from a nearby
state as he stood in front of a saloon
near a market this morning before the
opening hour.
"You don't suppose he's dead?" he
added. "I've been getting my morning
toddy here many years, and this is the
first time he ever failed me."
"His business may be dying," the
thirsty man was told, "but Jack's taking
a late nap. The law has been changed
and he can't open until 7 o'clock."
"Too bad," remarked the disappointed
man. "but I'll save 20 cents by the op
eration."
Curb Upon Music.
Tonight there will be less music in sa
loons than heretofore, the law specifying
that except in case of hotels, restaurants
and clubs the playing of music or the
atricals of any kind, or providing other'
amusements is not permitted. This sec
tion does not prohibit entertainments in
clubs, hotels or places that have been
declared to be restaurants.
Saloonkeepers who have had pool and
billiard tables, shuffle boards and bowling
alleys In connection with their saloon
business found it necessary to discontinue
the games today, lender the law, it is
stated, games are not permitted In the
same buildings in which liquor Is sold if
the rooms are intercommunicating.
Many pool and billiard tables were cov
ered today, and in a number of instances
the proprietors of combination places were
preparing to remove their tables. One
dealer who has a number of such tables
stated that he soon would abandon his
liquor licenses and continue to conduct
his pool and billiard room.
Promise to Obey Law.
Members of the retail liquor dealers'
organisations have discussed the law and
reached the conclusion that they shall
live up to its very letter. Many of them
not only promise to obey the law, but a
number of them said they would continue
to close their establishments at midnight.
It is suggested that the penalties pro
vided and the easy method of prosecut
ing alleged violators of the law will have
the effect of compelling holders of
licenses to refrain from violating the
numerous provisions of the act. Pay
ment of fines, It is argued, does not al-1
ways act as a deterrent, but where the
possible revocation of a license is in
volved dealers are apt to be more careful
Dealing with the question of proof
against persons who might attempt to
dispense liquor without a license, the
act says that it shall not be necessary
in order to convict any person, com
pany, association, club or corporation
his, its or tl?eir agents, officers, clerks
or servants, of manufacturing or sell
ing intoxicating liquors without li
cense, or in any section of the District
of Columbia where the manufacture
and sale is prohibited, to prove the
actual sale, delivery of, or payment for
any intoxicating liquors, but the evl
dence of having or keeping them in
hand and offering to sell or barter,
exchanging for goods or merchandise,
shall be sufficient to convict; nor shall
it be necessary in a warrant or in in
formation to specify the particular
kind of liquor manufactured, sold, of
fered for sale, kept for sale, trafficked
in, bartered or exchanged for goods or
merchandise, but it shall be sufficient
to allege in the warrant or informa
tion that the accused manufactured,
sold, offered for sale, kept for pale,
trafficked in, bartered or exchanged
?i? goods or merchandise, or kept it
eposited to sell or barter.
Foe to the Speakeasy.
The paragraph quoted in the opening by
Attorney Albert E. Shoemaker, counsel
for the Anti-Saloon League, is calculated
to make the keeping of a speakeasy a
difficult matter. Should any dealers be
forced out of business by the high li
cense. it is stated, they would have to
so car.i for their stock and fixtures as
would put them beyond suspicion.
Drinking intoxicating liquor in public
places, such as on the streets or in the
parks, is a violation of the provisions of
the new law. There was a time when
many complaints were made against the
practice of drivers and others purchasing
"growlers" of beer and consuming the
liquid on the streets, but much of that
was eliminated by the "Trowler" regula
tion of the former excise board.
Under the new law drinking and in
toxication upon the public streets are
dealt with by paragraph 22, which pro
vides that "any person who shall, in the
District of Columbia, Sn any street or
alley, in any public place, or in or upon
any street car, or In or upon any other
vehicle commonly used for the transpor
tation of passengers, or in or about any
depot, platform or waiting station, drink
any intoxicating liquor of any k'nd, or if
any person shall be drunk or Intoxicated
In any street, alley or public or private
road or in any passenger coach, street
car or any public place or building, or
at any public gathering, or if any per
son shall be drunk or intoxicated and
shall disturb the peace of any person,
he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punish
ed by a fine of not less than ?1<> nor
more than |1(X>. or by imprisonment for
not less than five days nor more than
thirty flays in the workhouse or jail of
the District of Columbia, or by both
such fine and imprisonment"
Reminder to Drinkers.
Display signs advising pataons of sa
loons to prepare for the flrjlt dry Sun
day in the existence of the city are being
prepared and will be displayed in bar
rooms between today and Saturday. Un
der no conditions can liquor be dispensed
on Sundays, The bona flde guest of a
hotel will have no more chance to get a
drink than will the man who has here
tofore qualified as such by writing his
name in a hotel register, buying a sand
wich and remaining all day to quench
his thirst.
It Is reported that beer clubs for Sun
day already are being organized, and
hundreds of persons probably will leave
the city to visit excursion and other re
sorts where sales are made without re
striction.
None of the saloons within the 1,000
foot limit of the War College, marine bar
racks and Washington barracks closed
their doors today. Proprietors of such
places and their counsel do not agree
with Attorney Shoemaker that the law
intended that such places should close
today, and until there Is a court de
cision to the contrary they will keep
open. It is their claim that they are to
be permitted to keep open until November
1, 1914.
DEAD WITH THEOAT CUT.
Benson Owens Declares He Is Slayer
of His Wife.
I.KO.VARDTOWN, Md., July l_with a
g?ping knife wound in her throat and
several bruises on her face, Mrs. Anne
Mattingly Owens, twenty-five years old,
was found dead by the side of a lonely
road near River Spring, about fourteen
miles from here, laat night.
Today Benson Owens, an oysterman
husband of the dead woman, surrendered
himself to the county authorities and
admitted that he had killed bis wife in
an altercation, while the couple were on
their way to River Springs, where Mrs.
Owens was to testify against Frank
Owens, her father-in-law, ?n a charge of
assault and battery laid against him by
Mrs. Owens.
Owens refused to tell why he killed his
wife, but it is believed it was because
she refused to Withdraw the chwres
against his father.
AnACK ON JUAREZ !
IS PLAN OF REBELS
'*&* *
Mexican Federals Busily Ej?^
gaged in Preparing for De
fense of City,
it ????
STRINGING BARBED WIRE
AND DIGGING TRANCHES
Horrible Conditions Reported, Fol
lowing Capture of Durango by
the Constitutionalists.
EL PASO, Tex., July 1.?Rifle pits and
trenches were being dug today by federal
soldiers at several points on the western
outsekirts of Juarez, and barbed wire
being stretched as an additional defense
! against attack by constitutionists. An
outpost of 100 federals has been stationed
two miles south of town. Scouting parties
are moving east and west of the border
town. Gen. Salazar was in charge of the
scouts
Villa's column is reported camped on
the Palomas ranch, fifty miles west, and
Ortega's cavalry was seen yesterday by
Americans opposite San Elizario, twen
ty-flve miles east of Juarez. Constitu
tionalist agants In El Paso assert that
the projected attack on Juarez will occur
by the end of this week.
Recruits for Gen. Villa.
DOUGLAS, Ariz., July 1.?Col. Juan N.
Medina, with between 300 and 400 well
equipped men, marched out of Agua
Prieta early today to assist Gen. Villa
In an attack on Juarez. Medina was
elected mayor of Jaurez under the
Madero administration, but did not serve
his full term.
Lieut. Ruiz, a federal army officer,
faced a firing squad today at Agua
Prieta. His execution followed a court
martial conviction in which state officials
assert Ruiz confessed to having been
sent by Col. Vasquez, the federal com
mander at Juarez, to join Medina's ex
pedition.
Forty Deaths by Suicide.
MEXICO CITY, July 1.?Forty woman
residents, most of them of the better
class, have committed suicide in the
city of Durango since its occupation
last week by tne rebels after a long
siege, according to a private letter re
ceived here from that city today. The
women, it says, became desperate as
the result of their treatment by the
victorious rebels. Consular advices say
that the rebels who entered Durango
conducted themselves like bandits,
burning a large part of the business
section after looting it, and joining in
the wildest excess. The report says
that foreign flags were not respected.
A few American citizens were wound
ed during the fighting and one English
man killed, according to these re
ports.
Private advices from other sources
say that a group of German women in
Durango were forced to submit to in
dignities from the rebel adherents. The
Mexican government is preparing a
column of troops tb march to the relief
of the city, but many days must pass
before its arrival there.
Defeated Federals at Guaymas.
NOG ALES, Ariz., July 1.?A scant
1,000 men straggled Into Guaymas June
25. Their tongues were swollen from
thirst, their eyes bulging with delirium,
their bodies wounded by cactus, thorns
and buUets. Leading them was Gen. Pe
dro OJeda, commander of the federal
forces in Sonora state.
Such was the result of a fortnights
fighting above Guaymas, as related in
a belated message to the Associated
Press received last night from San Jose
de Guaymas, a suburb of the gulf port
town. OJeda led all that remained of!
the army, 3,500 men, with which he
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had marched out of Guaymaa to move
against Hermosillo. the insurgent stat
capital.
The retreat proved more fatal than
the protracted battle. Scattered along
the roads between Ortiz and Guaynias
the victorious state troops overtook
stragglers from the federal ranks.
Hundreds Perish on the Way.
Unable to proceed on the forced
march the sandal-footed soldiers had
, dropped by the roadside. Hundreds had
>6t 11O'ngtjr and thirst. Those stftl
alive begged for assistance from the
enemy. Many of them were mute from
swollen lips and blind from the desert
sun. They begged for water with mo
tions of the hands.
Virtually all of the federal artillery,
the* troop trains and hundreds of rifles
were captured by the advancing state
troops along the line of Ojeda's re
treat.
Advices differ as to the result of the
recent fighting at Guaymas. State offi
cials insist that the majority of the
federal garrison has fled by boat down
the California gulf coast, and that the
occupation of the town by constitu
tionalists is assured.
SERIOUS FIGHT CEASES.
Servian Parliament Agrees to Arbi
tration Conference of Balkans.
USKUP, July 1.?Fighting ceased at 6
o'clock this morning between the Bul
garian and Serviai. troops in this district.
The Servian commander estimates that
100,001) Bulgarian soldiers participated in
the engagement, which was of a serious
character.
BELGRADE. Servia, July l.-The Ser
vian parliament today agreed to the ac
ceptance of arbitration between Servia
and Bulgaria offered by the Emperor of
Russia, and also to the proposed confer
ence between the Balkan premiers at St.
Petersburg.
BERLIN. July 1.?The Greek legation
here today received an official dispatch
from Athens stating that the Bulgarians
had inaugurated a general attack on the
Greek and Servian positions in Macedonia
along a front of 140 miles.
PRESIDENT GETS AWAY
FOR BRIEF REST CRUISE
Quietly Leaves City Aboard
the Mayflower, Accompanied
Only by Physician.
With no more ostentation than would
mark the exit of the humblest summer
flitter. President Wilson slipped out of
Washington today for a three-day "rest
cruise" on the yacht Mayflower. For
seventy-two hours Mr. Wilson will take
a complete vacation from official cares in
the salt breezes In lower Chesapeake bay.
His only companion is his physician, Dr.
Cary T. Grayson.
None of the formalities that generally
mark the embarking of the President was
observed. At Mr. Wilson's request no
salute was fired, no whistles blown, and
the formal welcome aboard by the offi
cers was omitted.
President's Flag' at Masthead.
Virtually the only evidence that the
President of the United States and com
mander-in-chief of the nation's sea
strength was aboard was the President's
flag at the masthead.
The President expects to return to the
White House Thursday night. He will
go to the Gettysburg reunion Friday,
where he will make a brief address, and
then proceed to Cornish, N. H., to spend
three days with his family.
Tumulty Goes to Jersey.
Secretary Tumulty also left Washing
ton today, going to Avon, N. J., on the
coast, to rent a cottage for his family
for the summer. He will return to the
city tomorrow, after making arrange
ments for Mrs. Tumulty and the children,
who have all had mumps in the last few
weeks. Mr. Tumulty will Join his family
at the end of each week, when possible.
LAST FISCAL YEAR
MOST PROSPEROUS
Revenue Collections Heaviest
for District Since Adoption
of Organic Act.
PAYING DEBTS FASTER
THAN ANY OTHER CITY
Begins New Cycle With More Than
Nine Millions in Its Coffers From
Taxes for All Purposes.
With the most prosperous twelve months
It has ever known Just closed, the Dis
trict of Columbia government today en
tered upon its thirty-sixth fiscal year
Since the adoption of the organic act In
1878.
Never in the history of the municipality
have collections of revenue been as heavy
as during the period that began July 1 a
year ago and closed at midnight last
night
Charles C. Rogers, collector of taxes,
reported this morning that the total re- j
ceipts on account of general revenues
and water and miscellaneous funds will
exceed nine millions of dollars?a record j
fully half a million dollars in excess of |
the best showing of any previous year.
General receipts alone upon which the
Commissioners base their estimates for
Improvements which annually are trans
mitted to Congress approximate $7,.'i00,000 ;
according to the collector.
Two years ago a committee consisting
of Collector Rogers, Assessor Richards
and Auditor Tweedale reported to the
District heads that the collections of the
past fiscal year probably would reach $7.
200,000, the Commissioners basing their
budget upon this estimate. Actual re
turns Indicate that the committee's esti
mate will be exceeded by S40.0U0 or
$30,000.
Floating Debt Nearly Paid.
While money has been powring into
the coflfers of the city at an unprece- I
dented rate, the local government has '
been making equally as rapid progress
In getting out of debt. In fact. Dis
trict officials claim that the government
is extinguishing its obligations faster
than any other municipality in the coun
try. j
It practically wiped out its floating in- I
debtedness during the year just closed.
As compared with a payment of about
$1,200,000 maoe on the floating account
since July 1 last, the District, during the
present year, will have only about $.^>0,000
to pay in order to liijuidate the claim.
Thus, on this one item, a substantial
balance will be left to be used by the
Commissioners when they commence
preparation ol the next annual budget.
% Other Obligations Reduced.
Much progress was made by the Dis
trict last year in reducing the amounts
of other obligations. The first payment
on the insane hospital charge, which is
to be liquidated in seven annual install
ments, was made. This amounted to
about $102,000. In addition, about $80,<AJ0
was paid on the park debt. $R47.70<? on
the bonded debt, and. as stated, about
$1,200,000 on the floating debt.
The bonded debt, created in 187!*. when
the organic act was adopted, will not ex
pire until 1024. The original amount was
$22. lOO.OiiO. It has now been reduced to
$7,010,850.
After the present year the floating debt
will be out of the way. In two years
the park debt, amounting to about $l.r?2,
OOO, will have been ^xtlngu'.shed. It will
require six additional payments of about
$1(12,000 to satisfy the claims of the in
sane hospital, which Congress ordered
to be paid.
In short, only the bonded debt will be
left after the seventh payment has been
made on the insane hospital charge in
the fiscal year 1910.
Remarkable Growth Reflected.
The remarkable development of the Na
tional Capital during the past thirty-five
years, or since the adoption of the or
ganic act, is reflected in a comparison
of the revenue collections of last year
and 1878.
For the former fiscal period the col
lections were $1,555,386.57, while last
year, as stated, they amounted to ap
proximately $7,300,000. The latter fig
ures do not take into account about
$2,000,000 piild into the government on
account of water and special receipts.
In 1878 the District had available
for improvements, by reason of its
revenues being doubled by the federal
government under the half-and-half
plan of appropriating for the munici
pality, the amount of $3,467,665.52.
For the fiscal year which begins to
day Congress has appropriated $11,
257,054. The Commissioners' budget
for this year recommended a total ap
propriation of $12,642,737.60.
Larger Fund for Budget.
By reason of the increase in revenues
and the small amount that will have to
be paid this year on the floating debt, ,
the Commissioners, in framing the budget j
for the next fiscal twelve months, will
have at their disposal a much larger fund
for improvements than has been the case
in any previous year. Their next esti
mates may recommend an appropriation
of thirteen millions of dollars or more.
But three officials of the District were
in the service of the local government
when the organic act went into effect.
They are Dr. William Tindall, secretary
to the board of Commissioners: James T.
Petty, assistant assessor in charge of the
arrears division, and Alexander McKen
zie, also assistant assessor.
Dr. Tindall holds the same position now
that he occupied in 1878. Both Mr. Petty
and Mr. McKenzie were employed in the
auditor's office, the former as bookkee(>er
and the latter as a clerk, when the or
ganic act was adopted.
'?MOVIES'' GET 1319,000,000.
Official Connt Shows 6,380,000,000
Nickels Spent in Year.
NEW YORK. July l.-^Statlsticians
have Just completed counting all the
nickels that have been spent the past i
year to see the "movie" shows. The i
grand total, said to be the first of- j
ficial count ever prepared in this coun- !
try, is 6.380,000.000 nickels, or $319,000,
000, paid by 3.600.000.000 spectators.
It is also shown that more than $80,
000,000 is invested in the moving pic
ture industry, that more than 200,000
persons are employed and that 10,000,
000 feet of picture films are produced
weekly.
National Educators to Meet.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. July I.?The
advance guard for the National Educa
tional Association's fifty-first annual con
vention here July 5-11 has arri\ed, and
it is estimated 7,."?00 active and associate
members will attend. Atlantic (-itj. As
bury Park, N. J.; Baltimore, Atlanta, St.
Louis and St. Paul are In the aekl for
the next convention.
1
GETTYSBURG PLACE
OF PERILTO MANY
Veterans, Arriving in Excess of
Number Expected, Suffer
From Exposure.
ARMY HAS DONE WONDERS?
BOY SCOUTS GREAT AID
No Washington Veteran 111, and All
Members of Delegation Are
Faring Well.
BY EARL GODWIN.
GETTYSBI'RG. Pa.. July 1.?No one ex
cept the unsleeping army officers hero
will ever know how near the destroying
angels of death and disaster hovered to
this camp of the nation's veterans in the
early hours of the morning:, and although
the whisper of their wings die out as ths
hours go by, there are anxious moments
ahead of the trained and skillful men in
command here.
Ix>ose management on the part of sev
eral state organizations has come close
to upsetting the well laid plans of the
army men who have devised the system
here to such an extent that late today
old men, scarce able to walk about on
their canes and crutches, have not been
able to find the assigned places which
should have been given to them by their
state committees when they arrived be
fore dawn today.
Two Big Weaknesses.
The army has not fallen down, but
there are two big weaknesses in the
scheme which the. army cannot con
trol. One is the fact that too mucn
liquor is being consumed by men who
cannot stand it, and the other is that
in state camps holding from 4.UOO to
1U.0UU veterans there is almost a total
It ck of system and organization.
The liquor question has been hushed
up until now. but there is a well da
lined determination on the part of
medical officers in charge here to move
heaven and earth to close the saloons
of Gettysburg.
Whisky of a fearful brand is knock
ing out old men by the scores, and the
hospital cots have been filled for twen
ty-four hours with veterans overcome
by too much alcohol. All night long
ambulances have been running about the
camp taking vets to the dozens of re
| lief stations and hospitals which are
l scattered over the camp and through
the town.
No Washingtonian 111.
Washington's delegation is mar
velously free from the dangers which
threatened the rest of the camp. Not a
, man has been ill, and from the looks
of the delegation there is scarcely any
chance of sickness there. Practically
the whole contingent is now In camp,
the last of the Washington veterans
havigg arrived before noon.
The army took the word of the state of
Pennsylvania and prepared for vet
erans. Then they boosted the number to
??,<??. and the army hustled a little
! harder. Now they have rung in an extra
! ."i.ooo. and the bulk of thorn arrived to
i gether before dawn today.
That was where the danger lay. Men
of ninety, who had come from as far
west as the Pacific coast, found thern
selves suddenly in the midst of a rush
and a turmoil which would make Broad
wav seem like a quiet lane back in the
farm country. Some of the old fellows
actually could not walk. They had no
friends except those of their own age.
i Their state organizations were not there,
to help them. There was no one to
help them, and they would have had tr
lie down bv the road and wait had it
not been for the army and the Boy
Scouts.
Praise for Boy Scouts.
And right here Is a good place to shout
praises for the Boy Seouts. Work Is
like eating candy to them. They have
done more to make a name for American
youth In this past twenty-four hours than
any band of ?W0 boys ever did before.
"l>ook at 'em." said Maj. Normoyle.
late last night as the boys handled the
situation like trained men. ''They are
peaches. This camp would fall down
without 'em.'* .
They led the veterans to their tents.
They brought them what comforts the
camp affords. They guided them to rest
stations and hospitals. They did the
things which the state organisations of
veterans should have done, and then
legced hard for more to do.
With the 5.000 extra veterans tn camp,
the troubles began. The biggest proposi
tion was to furnish blankets. Maj. Nor
movle, as chief quartermaster, had pro
vided two blankets for each veteran of
the ?MJ00. and then a whole lot more in
reserve. Yet the blankets did not begin
to go around. Some of the men who had
been here twelve hours and were on to
the ways of the camp stole blankets from
the freshmen who had just arrived.
Today's Battle Over Blankets.
You could see veterans scrapping for
blankets in the tents and streets. A
crowd of Kansas and Maryland veterans
swooped down on the District of < olum
bla camp and came near to devastating
it of blankets. However, the Washing
ton men held their own and preserved
their pair of blanket* apiece. In the
Pennsylvania camp, where 20,000 vet
erans are placed, there was a loud cry of
no blankets, and 40.<?0 had been issued.
Sentinels Inspected each tent and brought
to light some marvelous results. One
veteran was sleeping on six blankets,
'? with three over him and nine under his
cot
it was things like this which caused
the trouble. The army men naturally
knew that the old fellows would have
to be well taken care of, but they
did not figure on having to hold them
apart to keep them from stealing one
another's urub kits, blankets and even
cots. The result was that many an old
man had no place to sleep, and today
is suffering in the hospital.
??They call each other comrades by
dav " said a sergeant of engineers w ho
had been on duty thirty-six hours
without a wink of sleep, "and then
tl ev steal each other's blankets at night."
night"
No One Dared Sleep.
It was so critical a moment that no
army officer dared to sleep. With fifty
fains coming in between ? o'clock and
daybreak today, with the general ominous
feeling of impending disaster, a score of
officers worked as if for their lives.
Some of these men had done work after
th?? San Francisco earthquake and fire,
and declared the climax of last nights
work was worse than the situation on
the coaat at that time.
They made firemen of themselves,
made pack horses of themselves, made
nurses of themselves and never lost
a grain of temper, never failed in their
courtesy and their efficiency; took
scoldings from provost old veU who
wanted imoossibls things, and even today