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MODERN HISTORIC RECORDS TO BE PRESERVED.
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@rtoocRN Historic. Records A\^sm.
On the left appear record* of Admiral
Peary and Roald Amundsen, discover
ers of the aorth and aonth pole, re
spectively.
At top, on rlsht, Is n nttnfe by Kins
Alfonso of Spain, tn which he sayat
"The best stamp of glory which is
my ambition la that of pauhg into
hlntory as having obtained the well
being of my country,n
Below is the concluding statemeat of
the rescue of the Titanic survivors by
Capt. A. H. Roatron of the Carpathla.
and, at bottom* a bar of mu?le as
composed by Or. Richard Strauas.
AIMS TO PRESERVE
CURRENTHISTORY
National Organization Formed
to Make Permanent Records
of Cotemporary Events.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
HONORARY PRESIDENT
Association to Inscribe Becords on
Parchment?Motion Pictures and
Phonograph Becords to Be Kept.
Having for its purpose the preserva
tion for future generations of the records
of cotemporary history and achievement
bv the best methods known to modern
science. a unique organization known as
the Modern History Records Association
has been organized in New York, with
former President Taft as Its honorary
president and many prominent men as
its members.
The Star has accepted an invitation to
become ao "editorial associate member"
of the association, a class of member
ship "limited to a small and carefully
selected list of representative papers of
the country, which are interested and in
tympathy with the purposes and aims of
the association," to quote the organiza
tion's announcement.
Becords Not Permanent.
The organizers of the association point
out that the larger part of the records of |
cotemporary history, life and civiliza
tion, as given In the latest books, news-'
papers, periodicals, pamphlets and re- i
|K>rts, is printed on sulphite or wood pulp
paper. In from fifty to seventy-five
years, it is said, many of these records ,
will have crumbled to dust. In a century
comparatively little of the printed record
of this great age of the world's history
will be in existence
Much of the paper now used* in record
ing wills, mortgages and other state,
county and city legal proceedings Is of
poor quality. It Is pointed out, unfitted
for a long life. Many court records are
known to be no longer available because
the paper used could not stand the con
stant handling to which It was subjected,
and can now be saved only by copying
at a great expense.
Association's Object.
To offset this situation, so far as pos
sible. by permanent records of the vital
events in history, and remedy the evil it
self so far as possible. Is claimed as the
aim of the new association. This is to be
done in various ways. Including the
printing of Important records with the
best ink and on paper with such a large
percentage of rag fiber that Its perma
nence through the ages is guaranteed.
A unique part of the work of the asso
ciation Is to be the tiling away, in two
lead-lined steel cheat*, of Interesting rec
ord* of the year liil't, including family
j -cords, messages and pictures of mera
iters. One of these chests is to be placed
?l UiO New York Public library, and the
?
other will be placed In a vault near the
Cheops pyramid, In Egypt.
To Be Opened in 2013.
On the box In Mew York will be placed
a copper plate inscription addressed to
the citizens of New York, directing them
to open the chest January 1. 2013, one
century hence. The cheats will also con
tain various documents, tablets and pho
tographs relating to the life and affairs
of the people in the year 1913. It is ex
pected to be an interesting message to
posterity.
Records of cotemporary life are to be
kept in various ways. One of these ways
is to be through talning pictures. A set
of the first dozen records has been made
by Edison for the association. Phono
graphic records are also to be obtained.
"Movie" Films, Also.
Moving pictures of historic events are
to be obtained through co-operation of
the film companies. Many of these
priceless records, such as those cover.ng
Amundsen's discovery of the south pole
the fighting in the Balkans and the in
auguration of President Wilson, are al
ready in existence.
Another method of keeping records of
the age is to be through parchment rec
ords, made with permanent Ink. by the
men and women associated with bi,;
movements. Among the nearly fifty al
ready collected are records by Peary and
Amundsen on the conquest of the poles,
an expression by ex-President Taft on
his peace policy, messages from Maurice
Maeterlinck, Lord Rayleigh, George
Bernard Shaw, Col. Theodore Roosevelt,
Luther Burbank. James Bryce, Sir Hiram
H. Maxim, the late President Madero of
Mexico, William Jennings Bryan, Andrew
Carnegie, Admiral George Dewey, S.r
Arthur Wing Pinero, Klihu Vedder, Rich
ard Strauss. Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, H.
G. Wells. Sir William Ramsay and others.
A parchment of Frederick Harrison,
which has been said to contain a proph
ecy as to the fate of the British em
pire, is to be preserved, at his request,
unopened for at least a century.
Work has also been begun In securing
ran paper records from the world's great
est scientists of first-hand stories of their
discoveries and theories, from explorers
stories of their travels, from leaders of
thought the story of some philosophic
idea or economic theory, from the actors
in great events their autobiograph c rec
ord. from artists, musicians, sculptors,
architects, military leaders and littera
teurs the story in detail of their greatest
achievement of their greatest work.
Plans Own Building.
It is announced that the ultimate aim
of the association Is the securing of an
idea! building of its own, designed es
pecially for the preservation of records,
but in the meantime all records are to be
stored in the Now York Public Library.
Duplicates of the originals are to be dis
tributed to all members It Is also aimed
to obtain a picture gallery of all the
great leaders of the age.
The officers of the association are as
follows:
Honorary president?William H. Taft.
President?Herbert L Bridgman.
Vice presidents?Rear Admiral R. E.
Peary. Justice Victor J. Dowling,
Robert C. Morris. Dr. George F. Kunz,
John Barrett, Col. D. L. Brainard,
U. S. A., and Alexander Konta.
Secretary?Wi. 11am George Jordan.
Directors?Alexander Konta, Herbert L.
Bridtcman, John G. Agar, Charles R
Lamb. Joseph Rowan. E M. Cravath, Al
fred H. Saunders, George Grantham Bain
and William George Jordan.
Treasurer?E. M. Cravath.
Managing director?William George
Jordan.
incorporators?Justice Victor J. Dow
ling, Maj. Gen. F. D. Grant, t". S. A ;
Oswald Garrison Villard, Herbert L.
HriilKTnan, Dr. George F. Kunz, A. B.
Hepburn, John Barrett Melville E.
Stone, Gen Thomas H. Hubbard. Dr.
William Milligan Sloane, Robert C.
Ogden, John G. Agar, Dr. Melvll Dewey,
Alexander Konta, Dr. Talcott Williams!
George A. Plimpton, Hamilton Holt, J. N.
Lamed, William T. Evans, CoL D. JU
Brainard, U. S. A ; John De Witt Warner,
John Cotton Dana, Roger Foster, Charles
R. Lamb. Dr. Arpad G. Oerster, Joseph
Rowan. D. Smith Ely Jelliffe, Frederick
S. Lamb, W. T. Lamed, A. S. Van West
rum, Edward Hagaman Hall, Arthur Dil
lon, Joseph Edgar Chamberlin, Charles
F. Lummis, William Marion Reedy,
George S. John?, John Purroy Mltchel,
K M. Cravath, Alfred A. Cook, Louis
Mansfield Ogden, Justin McGrath, Geof
frey Konta, Alfred H. Saunders and
Henry Cbllint Walsh.
POOR COOK, SAYS BIGAMIST.
Left First Wife Because She Lacked
in Culinary Skill.
Foreign Correspondence of The Star.
LONDON, July 15. 1913.
Alfred Frank Hendy, flfty-flve, a car
penter, in pleading guilty to & charge of
bitamy in Old Bqiley court, Baid that he
left his first wife because she was a
poor cook and attended chapel, leaving
him to obtain his own meals. The sec
ond wife, according to Hendy, Is an ex
cellent cook and administers to his wants
much better than did his former spouse.
For his oversight in neglecting to ob
tain a divorce before making another
matrimonial alliance Judge Lumley
Smith sentenced Hendy to two months'
imprisonment at hard labor.
THBOWS KISSES AT POSTERS.
Englishman's Way of Saluting Pret
ty Women Gets Him in Trouble.
Foreign Correspondence of Tbe Star.
LONDON. July 10, 1913.
"My attention was attracted to him by
his throwing kisses to the women depict
ed in the posters on the billboards," said
a policeman in giving evidence at Kings
ston against William Rockey sixty-seven,
a local character, who was charged with
disorderly conduct.
"I have got a way of throwing kisses
to pretty women. I can't help it. It is
my heart," said Rockey, who was dis
charged with a caution.
Simple Frauds for Simple Folk.
From the New York Herald.
Of wandering rascals there seems to be
a never ending supply. They assert rela
tionship to prominent men or profess to
be engaged in fool enterprises at the be
hest of newspapers, and do a hundred
tricks which net them profit or enable
them to bask in what they consider to
be reflected glory. The successful ac
complishment of this oldest of fraud*
does not seem to call for any unusual
Intelligence, and, as a matter of fact, the
operators generally are of a 22 mental
caliber. But what must be the under
standing of the gulls who buy them
drinks and lend them money and give
them adulation! Over the broad expanse
of these United States there moves ?
steady procession of shoe worn sharpers
who profess to be engaged in transconti
nental pedestrian tours for the Herald It
does not seem to occur to those upon
whom they thrust themselves that a
newspaper has other business than the
engagement of tramps. Grave mayors,
doubtless wearing spectacles and whis
kers. solemnly certify in dog-eared pat
ent medicine diaries that "J. Clarence
Hobo passed through this town on his
walking tour for the New York Herald."
Knowing these things, retailers of gold
bricks and wireless wire tappers cheer
up immensely.
Merely a Nickname.
From the Boston l'raimcript.
Mrs. Handout?You say you are called
the ?'Colonel"; in what army have you
served?
Ragged Rogers?In de army of de un
employed, mum.
ii.
LEE IS UNOPPOSEP
FOR SENATE SEAT
u .
Maryland Democratic Organi
zation Will Not Enter a
Rival in Race.
CARRINGTON IS LIKELY '
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
Former "Bull Moose" Leader Hay
Get Short Term Nomination
Without Opposition.
Specl?l Correspondence of The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md.. July 26, 1913.
The state democratic machine haa de
cided not to oppose Blair Lee for the
short term senatorBhip, and the Mont
gomery man will come through the pri
maries a winner. This condition is due
to the fact that Senator Smith did not
want to fight Lee openly. He was
willing, however, to have a candidate
oppose Lee, provided that candidate
should not be known as the "Smith
candidate." His lieutenants hustled
around and endeavored to induce sun
dry favorite sons to oppose Lee, but
without result.
Fred Talbott was the favorite of
Smith, but the second district repre
sentative woi}ld have none of it. Then
a little boomlet was started for Judge
N. Charles Burke of the court of ap
peals, but the judge nipped the boom
let with a frosty declination before the
boomlet had hardly got out into the
open. The faithful lieutenants then
grew weary of the hunt for a Barkis
and threw up the sponge. Thus Lee
was given a clear sea and smooth sail
ing into the United States Senate.
The first intimation that Lee would
be unopposed was given in The Sunday
Star last week, when the anouncement
was made that Mayor Preston had de
cided to keep out of the short-term
fight. The next development was the
open declaration of Bepresentative Lin
thlcum that he was in favor of Blair
Lee. This indicated that the Kelly
wing of the city organization had de
cided to Buport the Montgomery man
and that the other wings of the city
machine would not work against Lee.
The situation thus developed makes a
bitter pill for the Mahon-Padgett wing
of the party in Baltimore. This faction
had been held in check by Preston un
til such time as he had reached a deci
sion, und when that decision was final
ly reached it was too late for the Ma
hon-Padgett clique to climb aboard the
Lee bandwagon. Kelly had beaten
them to it, and today the West Balti
more leader is regarded as the big po
litical leader of the democratic party in
Baltimore city.
May Go to Carrington.
It is generally understood that Senator
Jackson will not enter the primaries in
the short-term light, and the impression
is gaining ground that Col. Carrington,
the former bull moose leader, will be the
republican candidate for the Senate. His
boom was given considerable impetus
this week by Judge Motter of Frederick,
who unqualifiedly indorsed the colonel.
In discussing the situation, Judge Motter
said: "I am in favor of" presenting a
united party front in the coming cam
paign, and I believe that it can be done.
The fact that so many republicans dif
fered with certain of their party leaders
last year did not make them any the
less republican in principle, and while
they have disagreed in regard to in
dividuals and minor policies, they are
still agreed as to the fundamental prin
ciples and will so vote in the coming
election.
"The unopposed nomination of Col.
Carrington as our candidate for the
United States Senate against Blair Lee
will, I believe, do a great deal to bring
about party unity. Col. Carrington has
done a vast amount of work and made
many sacrifices to bring about the pres
ent harmonious condition of affairs, and
he is entitled to great credit for What
he has done. He is a man of ability and
high character and would worthily rep
resent Maryland in the upper house of
Congress. I do not know that he wishes
to be a candidate, but If he should con
sent to accept the nomination I am con
fident that he could get it without any
serious opposition, and his candidacy
would give strength to our party in this
critical period.
"This is the time for all republicans,
no matter what real or imaginary griev
ances they may have had," continued
Judge Motter, "to forget the past and
work loyally together for the future of
their party and the welfare of their
country and state. I feel certain that a
very large proportion of republicans of
the western section of the state will
welcome the candidacy of Col. Carring
ton and do all in their power to secure
his election next November. He Is
young, full of enthusiasm and vigor, and
will make a memorable and, I believe, a
successful campaign. Anything that I
may be able to do to secure his nomina
tion and election will be done with
hearty good will and pleasure."
Outlines His Position.
CoL Carrington has not made any
formal announcement of his candidacy,
but it Is expected at an early date.
Asked about his intentions, CoL Car
rington said today: "My position in
regard to the United States senator
ship is that I am for the best man and
the one that will make a real light
against Blair Lee. I hope that the
field will be canvassed thoroughly by
the rank and file and the leaders of
the party throughout the state with
the aim of suggesting the^ strongest
man.
"Whoever the candidate thus decided
upon may be, he will get from me
the same earnest and enthusiastic sup
port that I gave to Phillips Lee Golds
borough in 1911 and to Theodore
Roosevelt in 1912. If the choice of
my party?and I would run under no
other conditions?I would expect the
same sort of support that I gave. The
indorsement of Julge Motter is most
gratifying to me because he is one of
the real leaders of our party and was
one of the most influential factors In
Maryland in the Interest of the nomi
nation of CoL Roosevelt last year."
HAKES ENGINES SPEEDIER.
Marine Invention of Englishman
Nets the Snm of $15,000.
Foreign Correspondence of The star.
LONDON, July 20, 1018.
For an Invention, which is said to im
prove marine engines so that a mater" al
Increase in speed is obtained, William
Jeffreys, an attendant at the Southend
on-Sea public library, has received $15.
000.
Mr. Jeffreys, who is fifty-seven years of
age. is a Londoner by birth. In his youth
he worked at a nautical nstrument mak
ers. He has lived in Canada, and went
to Southend nearly twenty years ago as
a bathing machine attendant. The ven
ture was not a success and he went to
work at the library.
The device which has just brought him
so much profit has occupied his spare
time for the last fiv*year*
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HOLDS TO LEGACY
Resists Effort of Woman to
Dispossess Him of the Late
M. Cazarilh's Bequest.
IGNORES PITIFUL PLEA
OF TESTATOR'S SISTER
Parisian Boulevard Is Startled by
Appearance of One of Fashion's
Latest Exaggerations.
Foreign Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS, July 15. 1913.
Paxia after Bastille day Is a city de
serted by the ladles of the beaumonde
who have migrated to Trouville. Deau
ville and all the other fashionable staside
resorts along our coast. There remain
only the tourists and the workers, who
are not inclined to gossip, because they
know nothing- to gossip about.
When one talks, and. of course, every
body talks, they are restricted to subjects
of the past, and possibly nothing is more
eagerly discussed than the case against
King Alfonso of Spain, to whom M. Al
bert de Cazarilh, former mayor of L,u
chon, left his whole fortune and estates.
The sister of M. Albert Sapene de Caz
arilh, "le veuve Sacaze," contested the
will because she thought that as a widow
with Beveral children she had a better
claim on the money than Alfonso# who is
a rich man and who receives a very hand
some salary, considering the work he
d?With childlike simplicity she told the
king this in a letter and asked him to sur
render the inheritance to her, but Al
fonso though ordinarily the most chival
rous of men, turned a deaf ear to her en
treaties Well, he has a good many chil
dren himself and we shall probably very
2 be hearing that he expects another
baby, so he should not be judged too
hMmey" Sacaze, however, felt much dis
ftTrnointed and promptly filed a suit
against the king, asserting that her
?'*.hor who died in a madhouse, was
insane wherT he made his Past will and
tesfament in 190*. a year before he was
sent to the asylum.
? t Contention of Counsel.
Mme. Sacaze's counsel proved, at least
to his own satisfaction, that the dead
min always suffered from meealocerhaly, 1
m in nlain English, a swelled head, and
?hai |t was during a particularly violent
atfack that he made his will.
Alfonso's lawyer, on the other side, m
*?ted that no saner man than the former
mayor of Luchon was in 190S ever ex
ited and that it is absolutely no sign
of a swelled head to leave your money
to a popular king rather than to a cranky
with whom you never sympathized.
Kine Alfonso, who spends a few weeks
in Luchon every year for the sake of his
L" 7th intends to donate the money to
charitable institutions in that city, if he
ever gets it. for the case will be carried
to the highest court of the land.
nrhot surprises most here Is that Mme.
Sacaze did not take steps to stop her
Kroner from making testaments, which
nnnears to have been one of his favorite
nastimes. He once made a testament in
favor of the Count of Chambord. one of
th* la"t Bourbons, and that there was
method In his madness is proved by the
fact that when the count died he trans
ferred his sympathies to the last of the
Bourbons, the King of Spain.
If Mme. Sacaze, who is a very plain,
oimnle-mlnded woman, who never sym
pathized with her brother's "weakness
for blue blood, had been wise In the ways
of this world, she would have humored
hp. brother in everything and made him
Ho what she wanted while he thought he
was having everything his own way.
Gown Surprises Even Paree.
pedestrians on les Grands boulevards
today discovered on the corner of Rue
Richelieu a lady passing by, dressed ac
cording to la mode of tomorrow, which
you know is the latest fashion.
This "elegante'' wore a waist cut low
with the utmost liberality. It is a "decol
letee grande peau," if one may be per
mitted to say so. Her arms were bare
to above the elbow and the upper arm
was "covered" by a mere suspicion of a
sleeve in transparent embroidery.
If her bodice b^gan too late, her skirt
certainly stopped a good deal too soon,
and it was slit on the left side to above
the knee. Her light Havana-colored
stockings were very filmy and excessively
open-worked.
A breese greeted her as she turned the
corner and her body no longer had any
secrets to conceal from anybody within
twenty yards.
This passer-by who looks like a slightly
veiled goddess or priestess of love is a
real lady, a model mother and wife,
against whom not even her best friends
can find a word of scandal to telL That
is how this year's fashions are. Cos
tumes are more costly than ever and
when you are fdlly dressed you have on
next to nothing.
UFEINlff
LAGS IN SUMMER
1 ?
But Stay-at-Homes Find Sol
ace in the Tiergarten and
the Bellvue Strasse.
CAFES ARE CROWDED IN
THE COOL OF EVENINGS
Employes of War Department Are
Forced to Forego Their Annual
Vacation.
Foreign Correspondence of The Star.
BERLIN, July 15, 1913.
As usual at this time of the year, all
glory has deserted Berlin, which lies, a
gloomy conglomeration of stone
dwellings made uninhabitable by the
heat, on the cheerless moorland heath,
which surrounds it on all sides, with
the Tiergarten as the only green oasis
in .the desert.
Everybody who can possibly get away
either has gone or Is going, and one
doomed to remain on duty here adds
to his torture by spending a great part
of his leisure hours in the Potsdamer
Platz. watching the crowds of people
rusning away from the city, as it it
were strioken with the plague or in
danger of a siege.
One loves Potsdamer Plate these days.
It seems to show that if one really must
go away there are scores of trains ready
to carry him off at any time of the day,
and the prison seems less unbearable.
Perhaps this feeling is strongest in the
morning, when one sees the arm/ of
workers pouring into the city from the
Buburbs.
One may heave a sigh at the sight of
the fortunate ones who leave for pleas
ant fields, but be comforted with the
thought that Berlin, even when the kaiser
Is away, is not the worst place In the
world to spend a summer.
Throngs of Sightseers.
You may. after all, enjoy yourself in
Berlin, even during these hot and sultry
lays. Berlin works and Berlin plays.
We have no forest at our gates, but
we have the Tiergarten. You walk
through the Bellvue Strasse, which is
still thronged with stylish carriages and
Eiutos, pedestrians of all classes. moBtly
iightaeers from provincial towns, and
slegant ladles of the half-world. Flap
pers are rushing by their first rendez
vous, idlers in search of shade and work
ers going to their work?vice and vir
tue mingled together.
Then comes the evening with its
coolness and relief. Like giant moons
the arc lamps are hanging on their tall
poles, the electric signs form a mate of
etay colors, the crowd of carriages is
sontinually growing, all th? street oars
ir* full, and every seat In front oC ths
cafes is taken; the air resounds with
the tinkling of glasses and the merry
laughter of the young women, out to
enjoy the coolness of the qight until
the very hour of sunrise.
In the war department everything Is
feverish, orderly activity and bustle.
The passage of the new army bill has
done away with every possibility of
the usual summer vacation. Everybody
Is on duty, from the heads of tne
various departments down to ths
humblest clerks.
New Army Law Makes Work.
The provisions of the new law must
be carried out by the 1st of October,
but as the work is being hurried for
ward now everything wiil be in work
ing order at least two weeks ahead of
that time.
A new decree ha* just been issued
regulating the purchase of the thou
sands of new horses needed for the
army, and military buyers are already
on their way to all parts of Germany.
The kaiser had hoped that it would
be possible for German stud farmers
to supply all the horses wanted, but
this has been found impossible, and
large numbers of horses will be bought
in Denmark and probably also in Prus
sia, Hungary and even in France.
An unusual shipment arrived in this
city the other day hilled to the great
new aquarium in the Berlin Zoo. It was
nothing less than an enormous quan
tity .of sea water which had been
brought to Germany by the "Hapag"
steamer Senegambia, which had pump
ed it Into her ballast tanks in tlifc
midst of the Indian ocean.
The water was pumped into two
great canal boats in Hamburg, arrived
in Berlin by canal, and the ste^m en
gines of the Berlin firemen trans
ferred it through a long hose direct
into the tanks of the aquarium.
THE HOME.
Br ER. FRANK CRAtR
(Coprrlfbt, 1813. by Frank Craw.)
Of course a bachelor or a bachelor maid
can have a home, and a childless couple
can have a home.
But it is a home only in an accom
modated and borrowed sense of the word.
It is not a home in the full meaning of
the term.
To make a complete home you need
a complete set of human relations, as
per the following list prepared by nature
and Indorsed by the best traditions:
Husband and father,
Wife and mother.
Children, including babies and ado
lescents;
Sisters and brothers.
Grandfather,
Grandmother,
Guests.
And a dash of neighbors and friends.
If you lark any one of these Items ytm
miss something; the home is not perfect
If there is one of these relationship*
you have never known, your life is by
so much maimed.
It is the fashion to speak cisparaglngly
of relatives, but they are a part of the
environment of nature, and if you get
nothing but annoyance from them some
thing ails you. You might as well curse
the sun and stars as hate relatives.
There be hot loves and wayward loves,
and they have their place; but blessed Is
the man, and thrice blessed the woman,
that loves the people that ought to be
loved.
There are grandmother and grand
father, for Instance. The child that has
them not has missed one of the sweet
est elements that make memory happy.
They understand children better than
parents, for they have learned that so
many thlngrf that worry parents are not
much matter.
And plenty of brothers and sisters. A
solitary child in a house is a lame soul.
He can never get that sound view of
the world that comes to the member
of a full family.
As for babies, it's only a sort of imi
tation family where ther?? are none. The
very best ingredients of our character
come from dealing with babies.
i And I love a houseful of young folks,
courting age. The only wholesome, de
lightful and cheering disease in or out
of the medicine books is lovesickness.
When we grow past Its agonising stage*
we still ought to see it In others around
us.
Most cranks and dried-up folks and
pessimists arid disagreeable people are
victims of small families. They have
been deprived of that wholesome flow
of the humanities that comes from &
full set of relations.
I want to go back to Arthur Dixon's
and eat at the table where there ar?
thirteen children and a small army of
frandehlldrsn, and all about and evsry
irhsre?love. ^