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Lieut. James A. Davis It Reported
Wounded and Private James
H. Coleman Killed.
Today's list of casualties from the
fighting front contains the names of
two Washington men.
I-icut. James A. Davis is reported
'wounded in action on September 27,
degree undetermined. His wife, Mrs.
Phoebe M. Davis, 427 Irving street,
when seen by a reporter this morning
expressed the belief that a mistake
had been made concerning her hus
band. She bases her belief on the
fact that she received a letter from
him recently in which he said he was
well and happy.
T-ieut. Davis nine years aero enlisted
in the District National Guard and
has been a member since. In 1916 he j
went to the Mexican border, and sailed
for Prance nearly a year ago.
The lieutenant has fought on every |
front in Prance, and when Mrs. Davis
last heard of bijn he told her he was
going to a:i officers' school. He was!
a sergeant then. |
When the War Department today,
was asked for his record it was an
nounced that Lieut. Davis was with
his command, Company A, 148th In-!
fantry. when wounded. Details have
not yet been received by the depart
ment. #
The sccond man. Private James H.
Coleman, died of pneumonia Septem
ber 2S in France. His next of kin was!
given as Mrs. Sarah Watson, 1019 3d
street northwest. At that residence
nothing is known of Mrs. Watson.
USES STOCKING AS BANK;
MOURNS LOSS OF $2,600
Colored Woman Reports Disappear
ance From Her Hosiery of
Package of Bills.
Mrs. Hose Nelson, colored. 79 V street,
this niomir.g reported to the police the
loss of li.GOO. She said she lost the
money from her stocking while working
in the warehouse of an express com
pany. 6'I L. street northeast, yesterday.
Rose told Detective Scrivener she sold
* piece of property in the country and
I rrl planned to purchase a home in this
c-ty. w hile ^t work handling heavy
packages ye?: -relay. she stated, she
noticed a ho5? in her stocking and
pushed the p? -kacre of bills fur enough
down, she thuuglit, to prevent its loss.
This morning she returned to her place
nf employment and conducted a search
for the cash, ut without success.
PLANS INTENSIVE WORK
ON REOPENING SCHOOLS
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Supt. Thurston Will Aim to Have i
Time Lost by Influenza ' ?
Epidemic Made T?p.
Intensive classes in all subjects in
both high and grade schools, follow
ing their reopening next Monday, are
under consideration by the superin
tendent of schools. Krnest 1^. Thurs
ton. in order to make up the time lost
by the period the schools will have
bitn closed on account of the in
fluenxa epidemic.
? The program mapped out a week
after the schools opened for intensive
work in training students in certain
classes in the high schools in sub
jects pertaining to military matters
will itself oe more intensified and the
subject period necessarily cut down
to a shorter time.
Another way in which the public
school authorities are planning to
reduce the actual time lost by the
enforced closing of the schools "is bv
cutting down the number of days for
the annual Christmas and Easter va
cations. It is likely the annual Christ
mas vacation wi.l be cut at least
two days and the spring vacation
even more materially reduced.
MR. HOOVER DENOUNCES
H. D. COOPER'S "TACTICS"
Food Administrator Hoover has sent
a telegram to R. X). Cooper, president
of the Dairymen's League of New
Tork, in which he denounces mes
sages Sir. Cooper Is alleged to have
sent throughout the country urging
congressional investigation of the
food administration's dealings with
the dairy industry.
"I wish to state plainlv that the
food administration is not intimidated
by such tactics." Mr. Hoover's tele
gram said, "and I do not believe they
are supported by the responsible
dairymen of the countrv, whose prop
er interests we have at all times en
deavored to protect."
T'ointing out that in New York the
food administration proposed a price
of 16 cents a quart for milk, the
highest ever paid there. Mr. Hoover
said Mr. Cooper's demands, which
would result in 17-cent milk, are
based "upon an attempt to profiteer
and will react upon the dairymen by
decreased consumption."
TO AID Y. M. C. A. ABROAD.
Dr. Theodore C. Merrill Is Accepted
for Service Overseas.
Theodore C. Merrill of 1835 Calvert
street northwest, a physician and
medical assistant at the Department
of Agriculture, has been accepted for
service by the overseas department of
the Toung Men's Christian Associa
tion and will leave for France about
November 5.
Dr. Merrill h?ts been of assistance to
the local health authorities during the
influenza epidemic as a doctor at call.
He is a graduate of Brown University
ar.d a well known writer on technical
and medical subjects. He has been In
active practice twelve years. 9ix of
which have been spent tn the service
of the Department of Agriculture. Dr.
Merrill has In addition to his official
work conducted Red Cross talks and
been a Red Cross examiner on first
aid lectures.
HAT WEAR GARB OF ORDER.
Cap* Stipulated for Catholic Army
Nwses on Duty, However.
Army' nurses, members of Catholic
orders, whose tows require the wear
ing of a. distinctive garb, have been
authorised by the "War Department
to wear the garb of their order while
traveling on land In the United States
without troops, and while traveling
en transports.
It Is prescribed, however, that when
that garb Is worn, they also shall
wear a device of the Army Nursing
Corps which will clearly Identify
them as members of that corps.
Whan actually on duty they are re
paired to wear a distinctive eap ?r?
' scribed by the surgeon general.
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Man and Woman Go to Hospital
for Treatment; Other
Mishaps.
Viola Jackson. 1S20 10th street, re
ceived a fracture of the right leg and
Ernest Fairfax, 2037 9th street, was
| injured about the head, right arm and
j shoulder when a speeding automobile
^ bearing a party of colored men and
! women broke down last night on Bun
J ker Hill road near ISth street north
east. The two were taken to Freed
I men's Hospital.
Bicycle Policeman J. C. Maloney of
the ninth precinct investigated the
affair and reported that the damaged
automobile had been reported stolen
from 14th and F streets only a short
time before the accident. Samuel
Morris, si., Westminster street, one
of the party, told the policeman he
did not know anything about the car
having been stolen. He had hired it
he said from an unidentified man* at
friil,ianf L s,reeta to take several
aKHinst h,m;JOyridin= WaS Pref"?d
W. A. Williams, owner of the car re
sides at -608 Cathedi-a! avenue He
wh!A V1Sitor at the Willard Hotel
;hee"h,l?r wa? taken. It is stated
the car was running at a high rate of
speed when the breaking of a rear
^vheel caused it to swerve.
Lu W. De Cast. secretary of the T. II.
in 3 f!'tl5r 'njured last night
ohnc ' collision at Massa
chusetts avenue and ISth street. His
automobile and the automobile of CV
TI ' . XeW Cut r?ad- COl
left sidln?etC'?,Vtd s,1'^ht cuts to the
go to'a hospitalhead' bUt WOU,d not
While getting off a street car at
Chesapeake street and Wisconsin ave
4701 w,'lay ?,*ht JIr?- Hattie Labof.
4 ? 01 Wisconsin avenue, was knocked
down by an automobile operated bv
Clarpnce Bruce, 2601 11th street anil
injured about the leg's and body* She
was assisted home by friends S
PLEA FOR THE AGENCIES
ENGAGED IN WAR WORK
Dr. Mott Shows Activities Cannot
Be Dropped Until Long After j
Hostilities Cease.
Supplementary to a recent statement
declaring that even if peace were de
clared tomorrow the need of the seven
organizations joined in the united war
work campaign for funds to carry on
their welfare work among the soldiers
and sailors would not be lessened the
following is issued by Dr. John R
Mott. director general of the campaign:
"Even though the war *ere to end
within a few months, or a few weeks,
we should stand in great need of a
fund of more than $170,300,000, owing
to the fact that this work, unlike that
of many other agencies, will have to
be maintained during the entire period
of demobilization.
"While in Europe I was told by mili
tary authorities that it will require a
period of fifteen months from the time
the conflict ceases to transport the
Canadian army home. Without doubt
it will require not less than twelve
home l? s our American Army
"During the long period of waiting
(they will have virtually all their time
| on their hands. They will not have thl
excitement and incitement to stimulate
, r PtK'tS and the intensive Tctiti
ties of the war period to absorb their
attention and utilize their time. Their
IS? W"' be "Series, -d
stan^rd^and6r^l^xdiscipline.* ^The
period of demobilization should be
made one of growth in knowledge and
'working efficiency and of strengthen
In5 and life purpofes.
*7' and the other or
ganizations are planning not onlv to
enlarge their recreational program
during this period, but to launch^
great educational campaign. We have
been asked to select and send to
anrt150,6 a?out a thousand professors
fnrt .~?ac^er.s Amer*can colleges
and schools to help in launching edu
1 r?:k for tlle coming winter
jf v ? t>?.on hand for the period
of demobilization. We have entered
into negotiations with the English
and French universities to help us in
this vaBt educational undertaking
One may Judge of the dimensions of
the enterprise from the fact that it
will require at least *8.000,000 for text
books and books of reference for the
coming winter alone. It ought to ho
added that this *8.000.000 if not In!
eluded in the budget of $170,600,000
and therefore in itself is one further
reason why we should have a large
oversubscription."
A Saulsbury Act Injustice.
To the Editor of The SUr.
I would like to submit an Instance
of apparent inequity resulting from
the Saulsbury act: Last April I offer
ed for the use of war workers (woman
clerks) during the continuance of the
war with Germany an unfurnished
house, at the lowest rental ever re
ceived for It. the house to be avail
able at the expiration of an existing
lease. This lease expired, and the les
see. who is a war worker, refused to
surrender the premises. I learn that
he does not occupy the house himself
but sublets it. in defiance of the te^s
of the lease, furnished, at just twice
the rental he pays to me?when I get
jt * rentalat which the government
is offered the property. It seems to
me that in this instance the^SauUbur?
act promotes profiteering instead of
preventing it. R. l. HOXIE.
Iowa City, Iowa.
Given Coait Artflleiy Commands.
?Cols. James Totten and Louis G.
Brlnton, Jr? Coast Artillery Corps.
hare been relieved from thetr prea
fu1 vL"?!*.*"? order*d to Camp Hua
tis, Va, the former to assume com
maaA. of the Uth Artillery aid the
AttUlery.***niB* e?mm*nd ot the 27th
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Storied Places.
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On Jordan's stormy banks I
stand, and watch, with cheerful
eye, the hurried Turks burn up
| the land, as they go whizzing by.
i Through storied scenes they
j wildly rush their xoattails flap-|
ping wide, they're scratching fori
the underbrush, where they may]
,hope to hide. By cool Siloam's
shady rill the Turk, in deep dis
tress, is wondering how Kaiser
Bill got him in such a mess.
Could I but stand where Moses
stood, and view the landscape
o'er, I'd see the Turk vamoose
for good from Jordan's sacred
shore. The rose that blooms be
neath the hill must shortly fade
away, and so the Turk, with lust
to kill, must perish and decay.
Too long, too long he's hung
around, a blemish on this sphere;
hark, from the tombs a doleful
sound tells that his end is near.
The Turk still trots on weary
limbs, and leaves much dust be^
hind; and, as we read, forgotten
hymns, unbidden, come to mind.
The hillsides and the towns and
streams knew One, long, long
ago, who has inspired the hopes
and dreams that all good Chris
tians know. It is the soil of hal
lowed works, and it is good to
see such moral lepers as the
Turks chased out of Galilee. Oh,
may they be forever banned, for
tver and a day, from Canaan's
fair and happy land, where their
possessions lav.
WALT MASON.
DOUBLE WELCOME GIVEN
TO WASHINGTON OFFICER
He Not Only Carried Pay, But Met
Troops From National
Capital.
Beefsteak, hot biscuits, first-class
coffee and cigars figured in the menu
at an impromptu banquet given by
the colored troops of the District of
Columbia, "somewhere in France," to
Lieut. Raymond C. Goodhart, who,
when at home lives at 52 S street
northwest, this city.
In a letter to Mrs. Goodhart, thej
officer speaks enthusiastically of the
manner in which he was entertained.
He is in the Quartermaster Corps, but
was temporarily detached to perform
the office of paymaster.
"1 went to pay off the colored troops
of the District. They didn't at first
know that I was from Washington,
but when they found it out they,
cheered themselves almost hoarse and
went wild with de'ight and I just had
i to attend a banquet, where they gave
me beefsteak? hot biscuits, coffee,
cigars and other good things. It was
just like being at home," the young
officer wrote.
Lieut. Goodhart was formerly a
clerk in the employ of the Washing
ton Railway and Electric Company
and served in a simjlar capacity with
the Potomac Electric Power Company.
His father, Briscoe Goodhart, is aa
! jutant of Lafayette Post, G. A. R.
CITY NEWS IN BBIEF.
Abiolafr divorce la asked In a salt
filed In the District Supreme Court
by "William G. Mahoney against Net
tie W. Mahoney. They were married
August 16, 1912, and have no children,
a corespondent is named.
Abraham D. But* filed a unit for
absolute divorce from Agnes B. Butz.
They were married in Baltimore, Oc
tober 18, 1899, and have three chil
dren now at school in Alexandria.
Luther Brooks, a colorrU soldier In
the limited military service, who
was arrested Saturday night and
charged with the murder of Frank
Jones, also colored, who was shot
to death at Florida avenue and 7th
street, was held for the action of
the grand jury at an inquest held
at the morgue yesterday. He was
taken to jail.
Prohibition of Public Worship.
To the Editor of The Star.
On behalf of the eleven hundred
members of Shiloh Baptist Church, of
which I have the honor to be pastor,
and on my own behalf as well. I wish
to thank you most heartily for your
splendid and masterly voicing In re
cent editorials of the views of the
church people of Washington relative
to the closing of the houses of wor
ship here.
The Christian people of this city
know that The Star can be depended
upon to champion at all times what
ever makes for the welfare of Wash
ington and to oppose everything that
Is injurious to the material, moral
and spiritual life of the nation's capi
tal. '
Of all the rights guaranteed the
American cltlxen by the Federal Con
stitution none Is more dear to him
than religions freedom, and he frowns
upon anybody and anything that in
any way interferes with his fight to
worship God when artd how he pleases.
We cone In contact with large num
bers of church people daily and we
have yet to find a single churchman
or churchwoman who does not depre
cate the action of the officers of the
state In interfering with the freedom
of religions worship. And these peo
ple also feel that the authorities are
woefully lacking in reverence to God
and wanting in a correct knowledge
of the oharacter and miastofl of the
church when they place it in the same
class with poolrooms, dance halls,
moTlng picture places and theaters.
The Christian church is not a lux
ury, but a necessity to the life and
perpetuity of any nation, and we
heartily commend The Star for its un.
tiring efforts to napresa this impor
tant fact upon the minds of govern
ment officials in this city.
J. MILTON WAJjDRON.
EMPLOYES IN D. C. GOVERNMENT
PUT $230,330 IN FOURTH LOAN
The whole-souled, patriotic support
of the employes of the District gov
ernment in the fourth liberty loan,
campaign is strongly emphasized by
a tabulated report of what they pur
chased on individual account and the
amount sold by them in canvassing.
The employes from all parts of the
service purchased a grand total of
$230,350 and sdld on account $3,238,550.
In comparison with their purchases
and sales- for the third liberty loan
the increase was large. The employes
purchased of the third Ufcerty loan
$174,750, an increase of $55,600, and
sold $91.1,350, an increase of $2,327,200.
The report made by Disbursing Of
ficer Lusby shows by departments the
purchases and sales made. The police
lead both in purchases and sales.
r-Third liberty lo*n
Amount ' Amount
Department. subscribed
Police $40,350
Fire ..." 21.000
Street cleaning 16.250
Surface 8.2;jP
Assessor 7,000
Health 5,800
Executive 5,550
Water?
Superintendent's office . "1,700
Register 4,500
laborers .
Pumping station ? 5,400
Municipal architect 2,000
Municipal repair shop 3.950
Corporation counsel ? 3,200
Playgrounds 3,150
"Sewer?
Superintendent's office 2,550
Pumping station ? 1,900
laborers
Purchasing office *. 2,250
Electrical 2,250
Collector of taxes 2,200
Inspector of buildings 1.900
Public utilities 1.900
Auditor . 1,000
Insurance 1.500
Superintendent D. C. building and garage 1.500
Disbursing 1,400
Roard of charities 1,250
Paving commission 1,050
Surveyor ? 1.05O
sold.
$870,350
12,750
650
350
lOt)
11,950
1,600
3,800
4,950
1.60O
40O
Hoard of Children's Guardians 900
Inspector of plumbing 800
Weights, measures and markets 750
Record division, engineering department 550
Asphalt and cement 500
Repairs to cuts \ 450
Superintendent of licenses 400
Reformatory 4,800
Tuberculosis hospital 3,200
Washington asylum and jail ? 1,800
Workhouse ? 1,500
Industrial Home School (white)..... 1,350
Industrial Home School (colored) 250
Municipal lodging house ...... *tf*. 1.250
Home for Aged and Intirin 850
I). C. Militia 1,000
Registration boards .* 400
Juvenile Court
Police Court ?
350
350
1,800
50
r-Fourth liberty loan--,
Amount Amount
subscribed.
?54.100
14,000
12,150
17,850
**7,350
4.150
5,550
1,450
7.400
1,150
8.500,
1,850
3,850
3,800
5,300
3.700
3,350
4,550
2,250
2,200
2,350
3.000
1.950
2.300
850
2,550
1.700
1,600
750
1.200
650
2,300
400
650
900
750
450
2,950
3,300
2,650
2,700
2,450
850
250
1,150
4.000
20,450
800
450
The committee in charge of the drive
follows: R. TV. Pullman, W. P. Rich
ards, Morris Hacker, C. L. Sweeney,
R M. Brennan, M. C. Lillis, TV. J. Lat
*174,730 $811,350 $230,350 $3,238,550
imer. W. F. Franklin. F. J. Wagner,
C. TV. Camalier, C. B. Hunt, Marie
Sims. Susie Root Rhodes, Mary P. Al
len, H. G. Todd, A. G. Cole and E. H.
Grove.
TO INSURE REDEMPTION
OF ALL W. S. S. PLEDGES
District Committee Will Meet to
Plan Ways of Beaching
Buyers.
For the purpose of devising further
ways to bring about 100 per Cent re
demption war savings and thrift
stamp pledges in Washington the
District war savings committee will
hold a special meeting Thursday. Jf
all of these pledges can be redeemed
it will mean the realization of the
District's allotted quota of $7,500,000
in these war securities.
Many thousands of pledges were
turned into the committee as a result
of the house-to-house canvass last
June, as well as concurrent drives in
local theaters. While a majority of
the pledges have been strictly ob
served, others have been neglected,
?ither as a result of the liberty loan
activities, absence from the^city or
for some other reason, an ^special
means probably will be- adopted to
bring about the redemption of pledges
in those cases.
The local committee yesterday re
ceived a telegram from Gov. Seay of
the fifth federal reserve district, in
which Washington is located, asking
that plans be prepared at once, so that
the war savings campaign may pro
ceed with vigor.
LIBERTY LOAN REPORTS
DELAYED BY EPIDEMIC
Banks Short of Clerical Help and
Unable to Complete "the
Tabulations.
The Treasury Department announced
today that because of the shortage of
clerical help caused by the influenza
epidemic scores of banks have not
completed tabulations of their fourth
liberty loan subscriptions, reports on
which were due at the Treasury last
Thursday. Consequently federal re
serve banks have been forced to await
belated reports, and none of the
twelve reserve banks has submitted
to the Treasury figures on Its dis
trict's achievement.
Officials say they had hoped to be
able to announce the nation's total
loan subscription late tMis week, but
that the indications now are that this
may be postponed until next week.
THEODOBE F. SHARP DEAD.
Was for Twenty Years Expert Gun
maker at Navy Yard.
Theodore Fr?linghuysen Sharp, for
twenty years an expert gunmaker
at the Washington navy yard, died
last Monday at his home, 1524 East
Capitol street, afteri a short Illness.
Funeral services were held at his
home- Thursday, Rev. Dr. Barrrs of
Eastern Presbyterian Church officiat
ing. Interment was at Glenwood
cemetery.
Mr. Sharp was fifty-five years of
age. He was born In Salem, N. J.,
In 1863 and came to Washington
twenty-five years ago. Daring his
long service witb the navy yard he
had devised many valuable methods
for handling the intricate mechanism
of the big guns made for the Navy.
Be leaves his wife, Mrs. Katherine;
A. Sharp, and two daughters, Mra.
Jules F. Morel of Monera, Colombia, |
and Mrs. W. A. White.
AMATEUR NURSE HELPS
SAVE EPIDEMIC VICTIMS
Brings Boommate Back to Health
and Volunteers in Other
Cases.
Miss Mary Arath of New Tork city,
who Is hardly eighteen years oldj is
credited by her associates in the In
terior Department with having: saved
at least one life and contributing to
the salvation of fifteen other lives
when the influenza scourge was doing
its worst in the District. She nursed
her roommate, who was severely
stricken, back to health. The young
women live at 1400 K street north
west.
Miss Agath is not a trained nurse,
but as soon as she found that her
roommate had been stricken she asked
for leave of absence and applied her
self to bringing about her recovery.
When the work of Miss Agath was
called to the attention of the visiting
physician ,he suggested that she
might be useful in other cases. She
gladly placed herself under his di
rections and worked night and day
among stricken girls.
"Although without any special
training for the work, and with no
previous experience, Miss Agath h&s
during the past two weeks nursed
in fifteen cases and made seventeen
investigations," said C. M. Ireland,
under whose direction Miss Agath
works in the Interior Department.
Flowers for All Occasions.
Gude's home-grown flowers last long
er because they're fresh cut. 1214 F.
?Advertisement.
HAS THREE SONS AND
FIVE NEPHEWS IN WAR
Mrs. T. H. Strohecker of 5610 14th
Street Northwest Is Frond
of Family Record.
Three sons and five nephews in the
f service of Uncle Sam is the family
war record of Mrs. T. H. Strohecker
of 5610 14th street northwest. The
sons are Thomas H? Charles D. and
Edward L. Strohecker.
Edward was graduated from Cen
tral High School and was prominent
there In athletics. He is nineteen
years old and is in the aviation sec
tion of the Marine Corps at Paris Is
land. He enlisted in the aviation sec
tion of the Army last Jane and for a
time was at training camps at Dallas
and Austin, In Texas. He was trans
ferred from the Army branch of avia
tion to the Marine Corps.
Charles Strohecker who Is twenty
live years old, is with Company D of
the 6Sth-Tnfantry and has been at
Camp Sheridan since last May. Since
last spring Thomas Strohecker has
been in the Signal Corps and sta
tioned at the motor plant of the Buick
plant, where he is inspecting motors
for the government. . ?>
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about your
Painting 'Needs
R. K. FERGUSON
1*11 Mk St. Fkm M. 1M-1I7
REPORTS ROBBERY BY
FIVE MEN IN AN AUTO
Woman Tells of Hold-Up and Loss
of Money and
Watch.
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Reports of two persons held up and
robbed on streets last night by armed
men were made to/the police.
Clarence Minor, 1 Logan place, told
police of the seventh precinct that hi?
wife, Beatrice Minor, was robbed of
{20 and a gold watch and chain at
i 4% and C streets southwest about 10
o'clock. She said she was robbed by
one of five colored occupants of an
automobile, and her description of the
men suggested to the ploice that they
probably were bootleggers.
Roscoe Brockenberry, colored, 1032
29th street, said he was held up on M
street' bridge over Rock creek and
robbed of J19. He gave the police the
name of the alleged robber.
SENTENCED FOE ROBBERY.
Five Years for Two Men, While
Women Get Two and Four Years.
Benjamin Johnson, James H. Rol
lins, Alberta Perry and Essie Miller,
all colored, who recently pleaded
guilty to robbing Robert Nichols of
5136 September 20 last, were sen
tenced yesterday by Justice Siddons
in Criminal Division 1. The men were
given five years each. Alberta Perry
got four years an^, Essie .Miller two
years in the penitentiary.
A full-grown elephant can carry a
load of over three tons upon its back.
CITY ITEKS.
IB Lta. White PMataea. 45ei S m?
Quaker Corn Flakes, 25c; Mission
Sardines, 14c; Fish Rofc-lBc: Tuna
Fish, 10c and 16c; Large Prune*; 17c?
3 lbs. Pure Pepper. $1.00: Gunpowder
Tea. 68c; Perfect Blend Tea, 8*c. 412
4th s. e. and all the J. T. D. Pyles Stores.
Safe DrtMlt la, |U* ? Taw
Wash. Safe Deposit. 918-916 Pa. ara.
Brass Be4s Relseqnered. Satin ?tfBrtgkt
John A. Gottsmann * Co, F. 64S1.
EHDEMC DtATH RATE
WOULD Bt BIG IN YEAR
District Figures Show That, Bate
Maintained, Animal 'Victims
Would Total 40,400.
If the death rate of the District of
Columbia for the week ending Octo
'ber 19 were maintained through an
entire year, the total number of
deaths would be approximately 40,400.
The total number of deaths in the
District during the waek ending Oc
tober 19 was 775. Of these 627 were
due to influenza and the remaining
24* from all other causes combined.
iThis gives a rate for the week of
approximately 101.8 per thousand of
population, the fraction being, carried
only to one decimal point. The figures
are not percentages, but the actual
number of deaths a thousand of popula
tion for the specific period of seven
days ending October 19.
Multiplying the indicated deaths a
thousand of population by 400, to ob
tain the annual death rate, gives ap
proximately 40.450.- Multiplying *he
total number of deaths for the seven
day period ending October 49 by fifty
two, the number of weeks in the year,
gives 40.300. the difference being ac
counted for by the single decimal frac
tion used for the sake of convenience
by the health department.
The report in The Star of last Satur
day in which the health department's
figures were given evidently has creat
ed considerable misapprehension in
the minds of readers of The Star, manv
of whom have questioned th< accuracy
of the figures. The Star's figures were
correct, and stated plainly that the re
port was for the week ending Octo
ber 19.
Get Shaffer's Estimate for Flowers
for the wedding. 900 14th st. (M. 2416.)
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"One Man's Loss Is Another Man's Gain"
This old saying- applies forcibly to a trans
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tionally-famed AUTOPIANO CO. of New York.
Owing to the great demand at the present time
by our government for. all ocean bottoms, the
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Six Magnificent
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Intended for Export to
These Player-Pianos are of Original De
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These Player-Pianos were CON
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They are on display here and will be
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1300 G
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They retail at $650 each.
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Popular dtBCM ttofht in few leoraa; prints,
any time. Lady and feat assistants. Normal
course for teaching or exhibitions la new
dances; Jan. War Stamp. Walts Ifcngo and
late steps. Classes will reopen later, lostrur
tlon and dancing. 8 to 11:30. Phone M. 1782.
New York Dancing
iop?m. Conservatory upm.
Latest ballroom dsncing. one-step, waltz, fox
trot, jaas, Chinese toddle, unco waits. Rea
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NOW OPEN FOB PRIVATE LE8SOV8.
506 9th n.w. Phone Fr. 2766
MISS CHAPPELEAR,
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Taught by appointment.
Phone Franklin 4189. 1312 Q st. aw.
e Anticipated
-the demands of the
people, and stocked np
with Rlsnk Books. Wp
are ready to supply you
when you say so.
E. Morrison Paper Co.,
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A Clean Record
Our record aa cleaners is aa spotless as
as the clothes we clean.
We are in business for the purpose of
satisfying YOTJ. Put our serrice to the
test.
8 Branches with phones. Call the
one in YOUR Neighborhood.
Hoffman Co., Inc.
Expert C leaser, a.tf Dnra
Mais Office 735 13th St. N. W.
Phone Main 10058
111
High-Grade
Photo
Goods
Ma iffsf opt,cal c?~
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The 8tere Tour Physician Recommends.
Room and
Invalid Supplies
?In this biff stork you wi I
lind .hist what you want
standard in quality?at a
moderate price.
rHE GIBSON CO., Inc., 917 G St.
SICK
The Reason
You get better values here is
because we bought our woolen
ahead of the present market;
because we are out of the high
rent district, and because we
do our own work in our own
shops.
See Our Suitings and
O'Coo tings, $30 Up
WIUER'S (Custom Tailors)
Cor. 8th & G Sts. N.W.
M
ESCOTEA
10c pkg.
Enough for 40 cups.
M. E. SWING CO.
8th and H N.W. Main 7?#1.
Coffees, Teas, Sugars
Save Your
EYES
Without them you'd be
helpless. Thousands of peo
ple are neglecting their eyes
and impairing their vision
yet do not realize it
Consult
Our Optometrist
Dr. Kingston will examine
your eyes and advise you a*
to their care without charge.
If glasses are required he
will .fit you properly, and the
very moderate charge may be
paid 50c weekly, if you wish.
Castelberg's
935 Penna. Aye.
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