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DEMAND FOR NEGRO
RIGNTS TO BE MADE
A. H. Grimke Claims Colored
Fighters Have Won Just
Recognition for Race.
A. H. Grimke, president of the
American Negro Academy, at the
opening of the twenty-second annual
meeting of the organization at the
12th street branch of the Y. M. C.
A. this morning, asserted that his
race would demand equality of right
and equality of opportunity with the
whites of America. Mr. Grimke said
'? the negroes had fought to help make
the world safe for democracy and now
it is the duty of the whites to make
America safe for the negro.
Mr. Grimke criticised President Wilson,
saying that the executive had
not specifically denounced lynching of
negroes. He declared that Mr. Wilson
evidently regarded America as an exclusively
white democracy and was
unwilling to recognize the colored
- man's equality before the law.
* Demands in Capital.
"I repeat," said Mr. Grimke, "we
Ire now going to demand all that is
( coming to us. We are going to dej
mand that the rules prevailing in the
Rational Capital which exclude our
\ race from hotels and eating houses be
feet aside. We are good enough to
fight, to shed our blood and to give
t?ur money and other material resources,
but we are not good enough
Jo eat in a public restaurant or sleep
in a public hotel.
' "To travel in the south it is necessary
for us to ride in the most wretched
of cars. But we pay the same
J?rice as the white man pays for his
uxurious accommodation. They treat
Vs like cattle while collecting from
us the price for carrying men and
Women. It is an outrage, and I am
glad to say that associated with us in
this campaign for justice are a number
of leading white men. We do not
pave to fight this battle alone.
? "In his letter denouncing the lynching
Mr. Wilson never had the slightest
idea cf including the negro. He
referred to the Germans and their
sympathizers. rsut tne uerman can
1 travel in a Pullman car, he can eat
' in a first-class hotel, and he can en;
joy all other luxuries for which he
is able and willing- to pay, while we
who shed our blood for democracy
itre treated w*orse than dogs. We
q^ught to at least be treated as well
a? Germans."
it
Part in. Beconstruction.
II
IJMr. Grimke said the negro would
insist upon taking his part in reconstruction,
but the first act of reconstruction
he would insist upon would
lie a just recognition of his rights
before the law.
"Reconstruction for the negro
<ibe.'-n't mean any favors, but it does
mean the end of lynching and the
cr.d of cruel discrimination." said Mr.
'irimke. "You take the departments
hip re. Negroes are kept back while
incompetent whites are promoted
dVer their heads. Then they are segregated
in the various offices. They
:ire not considered good enough to
*ork in the same office with whites,
#>d yet they are cultured and refined
Tjjep. and women."
? Kelly Miller of Howard University
Will address the academy tonight,
fj is planned to adopt resolutions and
oreate a committee to work in harmony
with the National Association
fbr the Advancement of the Colored
Race. It i3 expected that negroes
iirom every part of the country will
Sb in attendance tonight.
? The academy will hold two sessions
tonfcrrow.
Expects normal trade
when u.s. lifts control
o
T. A. DeWeese Sees No Prosperous
Business Under Federal OwnerI.
J!!; ship of Industries.
ill'
"Readjustment and reconstruction In
all lines of manufacturing and merchandizing
will go forward just as rapidly
its the government will permit," said
Truman A. DeWeese of Buffalo, who
i?' stopping at the Washington Hotel.
how soon business will get back
thto normal condition depends upon how
moil the government lifts its heavy hand
from private enterprise. And the sooner
it takes its hands off business the
easier it will be for business to pay the
-Mke 01 gou ior carrying a. razor.
" A. number of alleged bootleggers
<jfta.rged with violating the sone law
probably will be called to trial thA
afternoon. Tomorrow the jury casfis
\Ujni be called. The docket baa more
<Huin 100 sucb cases.
>?.
vttflossal income that is to be levied upon
the business of the country next year.
, "''Prosperity will come with the return
flij norm: ! competition in all lines of
\ business?and there can be no competiILqui
under government control or gov.
enameiit ownership. Competition is the
life of industry in a democracy. Now
we have helped to wipe out Prusjuanism,
we must get away from Prussianism
in America just as quickly as
possible. It is the glory of the democracy
that it develops individual initiative
in business, and that means wide
diversity of industrial enterprise, and
that means competition. And competition
means advertising, exploitation, education?all
of which means wide distribution
of products among the people,
lipd that means employment of alt the
jitjople with higher standards of living.
"Kvorything looks bright for an era of
unexampled prosperity; but before that
cj^a can be ushered in the soldiers now
l'li Kurope must be returned to their
jobs, and all business must be restored
re private enterprise unhampered by
government interference of control."
,.,'Mr. DeWeese is director of publicity
for the Shredded Wheat Company of
Niagara Falls.
ISIVEN FIFTEEN MONTHS'
ON ASSAULT CHARGES
John H. Taylor. Colored. Sentenced.
Bootleg Cases May Come Up
This Afternoon.
' In the United States branch of the
JPolice Court this morning. Judge
Hurdison presiding:, John H. Taylor,
colored, forty-eight years old, residing
at 1110 1st street southeast,
was given one year in the District
jail for an attempted assault with a
rn^or on Policeman Thomas H. Fitzgerald
of the fifth precinct.
" On a charge of assaulting Gertrude
tieckers. colored, 28 years old, reading
in the same house with Taylor.
he was given a three-month
j?ntence. In both cases there was
po alternative of a fine.
Policeman Fitzgerald told '.he conrt
he was called to arrest Taylor for
assaulting the woman. Taj .or drew
? razor from his pocket.and threatened
to cut the policeman's throat.
...Fitzgerald fired five shots at Taylor,
who made his escape. He was
liter arrested by Fitzgerald in the
southwest section of the city.
" Percy Lindsay, colored, was fined
is. on a charge of carrying a congealed
razor and placed on probation for
itte year. He is a soldier. Cortez A.
m*-. colored, was given a straight
LONDON VOCIFEROUSLY
BESTOWS HER PLAUDITS
ON PRESIDENT WILSON
(Continued from First Page.)
of their opportunity, and to no stratum
of British humanity could the
President have made a stronger appeal.
While the formal features of
the event were well staged and managed,
the human factor presented the
most interest.
All Traffic Suspends.
The scene within the station was
unusuaL All traffic had been suspended
and the station was decorated
with flags and a crimson carpet. At
the entrance and at the platform
where the presidential train arrived
there were triumphal arches with
shrubs and flowers and surmounted
by golden eagles. The reserved inclosur^
opposite the President's car
was resplendent with showers of
bunting. In the inclosure with the
king and queen were gathered Great
Britain's leading statesmen, her great
naval and military leaders and a
Biimhap Amorinan nffipprs
King- George, with tie queen and
Princess Mary, arrived at the station
to the strains of the British national
anthem. They were in an animated
conversation with the members of the
cabinet when the President's train
pulled In sharply on time. King
George was conducted to the car occupied
by the President and they
shook hands cordially. While they
wers inspecting the guard of honor the
band played the Star Spangled Banner.
The queen and Princess Mary conversed
with Airs. Wilson.
Dover in Proud Array.
DOVER, England, December 26.?
The weather was bright and crisp
this morning and Dover wore a festal
appearance with its decorations and
its animated throngs ready to welcome
President and Mrs. Wilson.
Their arrival was signaled by the
firing of a royal salute. Barge crowds
lined the admiralty pier and its approaches
long before the President
came ashore.
The Duke of Connaught, with his
suite, accompanied by John AY. Davis,
the American ambassador; the Earl
of Reading, British ambassador to
the United States; Lord Herschell
and the mayor and the corporation of
Dover were on the pier to meet the
S'i ci torn TVio mover nsacorifpil {ID
dress of welcome to the President.
In reply to the address of welcome
President Wilson said:
"We have come through many serious
times together and therefore can regard
each other in a new light as comrades
and associates, because nothing brings
men together like a common understanding
and a common purpose.
"It is therefore with deep emotion and
peculiar gratification that I find myself
here afforded the opportunity of matching
my mind with the minds of those
who, with a like intention, are proposing
to do the best they can and that can
be done in the great settlement of the
struggle."
President Wilson then reviewed the
guard of honor from the naval garrison
of Dover.
Had Smooth Trip Across.
The steamer Brighton, on which the
President crossed the channel, had
a quick and smooth passage and arrived
at Dover just about midday.
She was met at Calais by Sir Charles
Cust, the king's equerry, and Vice Admiral
Sir Roger Keyes, who accompanied
the party to Dover. Four
French destroyers escorted the Brighton
to midchannel, where British destroyers
and a dozen airplanes took
over'the duty.
The Brighton was flying the President's
flag. Admiral Keyes' pennant
and the British naval ensign. Mrs.
Wilson, who was on deck, took the
greatest interest in the evolutions of
the British destroyers
The President, who appeared in
splendid spirits when he stepped
ashore, was immediately greeted by
the Duke of Connaught and the other
members of the welcoming party.
After reviewing the guard of honor
he passed through the covered way
to the station where the mayor and
the corporation in their scarlet robes
of office extended a formal welcome.
The address was read by Sir A. Bodkin,
the city's recorder. The President replied
briefly.
Girls Strewed Bose Petals in Path.
' As President Wilson walked to the
train a dozen girls wearing the
American colors strewed petals of
roses in his path. All this time the
airplanes had been hovering over the
pier and the station, and as the special
train bearing the President left
for the capital the airmen also headed
for London, accompanying the
train all the way.
In addition to the great crowds in
the town many people gathered along
the line of the railway and at different
stations, cheering as the train
passed.
President's Day With Troops
Is Shared With Chaumont's
Cheering, Honoring Citizens
CHAUMONT, December 25 (by the
Associated Press).?President Wilson
received a most cordial welcome today
from the people of Chaumont, a
town which has been closely associated
with the history of the American
expeditionary forces In Prance,
and is now the headquarters of the
commander-in-chief. It is the town
from which America's part in finishing
the war was directed.
The presidential train, which left
Paris at midnight, drew into the
Chaumont station at 9 o'clock this
morning. Gen. Pershing, Gen. Mirbel,
the French officer commanding the
zone: M. Fossien, prefect of the department
of Marne, and M. LevyAlphandery,
mayor of Chaumont, were
on the platform to receive the President
and Mrs. Wilson, who. after
responding to the cordial greetings,
passed through a salon hung with red
tapestries and flags to the courtyard,
where a company of the 109th
French Infantry and a company of
the 102d American Infantry were
drawn up to render honors.
The exterior of the station and the
courtyard had been decorated for the
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the French and American colors. Alter
passing the guard of honor in review
the President took his place in a motor
car and the party proceeded to the
city halL Dense crowds massed behind
the lines of guards in khaki; the
streets were brilliantly decorated and
hung with banners bearing inscriptions
of welcome.
As the party passed through, the
people of Chaumont joined in a continuous
acclamation of the President.
At the Hotel de Ville the mayor,
in a speech of welcome, announced
to the President that the town of
Chaumont, in order to commemorate
forever this historic day, had decided
to seal into the wall of the hall of
fetes a marble slab bearing in
golden letters the date of the President's
visit. He added that the people
were planning to erect monuments
to the Americans and British.
The mayor presented to Mrs. Wilson
a box filled with gloves.
President's Besponse.
In response to the mayor's address
President Wilson said:
"I feel thet I have been peculiarly
iiunv/itu Au mac gojAciuua aovcpnon you
have given me, and it is the mort
delightful because it so obviously
comes from the heart. And I cannot
but believe that it is an instinctive
response to the feeling that is in my
own breast, because I think that even
you, who feel contact with our
soldiers, cannot but realize the depth
and sincerity of the feeling of the
United States for France.
"It is an ancient friendship, bnt it
has been renewed and has taken on
a new youth. It is a friendship which
is not only tentative, but one baaed
upon a communion of principle.
"You have spoken very generously
and beautifully of the relations which
have sprung up between yourselves
and our soldiers. That Is because
they came not only to associate
themselves with you as the champion
of liberty, but they came with
personal affections in their hearts for
the people of Franoe, and it must
have been that which you realised.
They did not come as strangers in
their thoughts. They brought With
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them something that made them feel
at home the moment they were at
Havre or at Brest in France.
"So I am very mach moved by being
thus drawn as they have been
into your midst and into your con-,
ferences, and wish to thank you very
warmly for them and the people of
the United States. I, like them, shall
carry away with me the most delightful
recollections, and in my heart
shall always say, as I now say, *Vive
la France.'"
Visits first Army Men.
Immediately after the reception at
the Hotel de Ville President Wilson,
with Gen. Pershing and party, motored
to Humes, where the President
reviewed a detachment of the 1st
Army of the American expeditionary
forces. Addressing the troops. Gen.
Pershing said:
"Mr. President and Fellow Soldiers:
We are gathered here today to do
honor to the commander of our
armies and navies. For the first time
an American President will review
an American Army on foreign soil?
the soil of a sister republic, beside
whose gallant troops we have fought
to restore peace to the world.
"Speaking for you and your comrades.
I am proud to declare to the
President that no army has ever
more loyally or more effectively
served its country, and none has
ever fought in a nobler cause.
"You, Mr. President, by your confidence
and by your support, have
made the success of our Army, and
to you, as our commander-in-chief,
may I now present the nation's victorious
Army."
(The President's response in full is
printed in another column.)
Be views Hen at Lang-res.
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wnauuL iunuci ueiay.
The demand of Col. Roosevelt that
the men in the expeditionary force
be given an opportunity to return to
their homes and their life-work as
soon as possible is the dem&njl of
many members of the House also.
Representative Green of Iowa has introduced
a bill providing for an
"army of occupation" limited to about
400.000 men in addition to the 100,000
regulars now abroad, fixing the size
of the army of occupation at about
500,000. Under this plan about 1,500,000
could be released and come home.
To Employ Volunteers.
It is proposed that the army of occupation
be made up of volunteers,
and it is believed it will be easy to
find that number of men on the other
side, or in the camps here, willing to
enlist in such an army for the next
year, or however long it is necessary
to maintain an army in Europe.
Chairman Dent of the military affairs
committee on Tuesday introduced
a bill repealing that part of
the draft law which would prevent
the enlistment and re-enlistment of
men in the Regular Army. This is a
step toward the establishment of the
military organization on a peace
basis.
In the Senate today Senator Townsend
of Michigan had Col. Roosevelt's
article relating to the demobilisation
of the soldiers abroad tnsertad in th*
Congressional Record. He Aid that
the, article coincided with Bs own
sentlmentstn the m^ttsn ^
| In his address to tne American
troops yesterday President Wilson
said he had found no difference in
principles or of fundamental purpose.
He expects to return to Paris
to continue the work of the peace
conference with what may be differences
of opinion cleared away or on
the way to accommodation.
President "Choked Up" at Review.
Yesterday's review was a picture
worthy of a great painter. The sight
of 10,000 American veterans carrying
the United States flag on the soil of
a sister republic, a comrade in arms
in a great cause, was just a little too
much to permit the President to suppress
his emotion. He frankly admitted
being "all choked up."
Mr. Wilson's visit to soldiers' billets
in nearby towns will long be remembered.
At one place he climbed
a ladder to the loft of a stable to
talk with soldiers quartered there.
Everywhere the boys and girls of
the little villages brought native
flowers or gifts to him. One spry
little miss actually hopped into his
car and planted a kiss on his cheek
before the President knew what was
going on.
Ambassador and Mme. Jusserand,
who accompanied President and Mrs.
Wilson to Chaumont, left for Paris
at the same time that Mr. Wilson's
train started toward Calais.
spewreEease
fromarmyasked
Speedier demobilization of the Army,
both abroad and at home, than is being
provided by the War Department is
agitated Dy a conaioeraDie numoer u*.
members of Congress today. They are
not satisfied with the rate of demobilization
of the men in the army camps
in this country?men who are needed
in their homes and in the old jobs at
which they worked before they volunteered
or were drafted.
"If the War Department does not
speed up the demobilization," said a
member of the House military affairs
committee today, "Congress will take
the matter up and put through a measi
ure which will compel speedy demobilization.
Most of the men in the army
camps can have their old jobs as soon
as they return home, and the industries
of the country which need men
will absorb the others. There are
thousands of young men who are being
seriously inconvenienced and are
suffering losses because they cannot
return to civil life. With the war at
aij end they should be mustered out
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?President Wilson reviewed the
American troops at Langres, southeast
of Chaumont, this afternoon, in
accordance with the prearranged program.
The review took place on the
Langres plateau.
Accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, th,e
President returned here and took a
special train for the north coast.'
President Is "Choked Up"
When 10,000 Trained Yanks
March in Splendid Review
ON BOARD PRESIDENT WILSON'S
SPECIAL TRAIN, EN ROUTE TO
CALAIS, December 26 (by the Associated
Press).?President Wilson left
Chaumont for England late yesterday
afternoon feeling more strongly than
ever luc lUdgiiiucciu ya.
soldiers took in winning the war.
Yesterday's review, in which 10,000
American soldiers marched before
him, created a deep impression upon
the President quite apart from the
historic significance of reviewing
fighting men on foreign soil for the
first time.
When addressing his troops as "fellow
countrymen" he told them that he
believed he could "promise them a
happy New Year."
This was considered the keynote of
the address, and friends about Mr.
Wilson construed his words to mean
that he was beginning to see the way
more clearly toward the attainment
| of the objectives he has set for himself
at the peace conference.
Await Speech in Britain.
At least one very important address
may be expected from the President
while he is in England. It may define
his line of thought more clearly on issues
in which Great Britain is so
deeply interested. He will take opportunity
to do this in the course of
conferences he will hold with Premier
Lloyd George, A. J. Balfour, secretary
of state for foreign affairs, and Andrew
Bonar Law, chancellor of the
exchequer, but whatever public speech
he will make will be, of course, in explanation
to the English people themselves,
who, he beliefs, are In accord
with the principles upon which
the making of peace has been begun.
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the solution of the transfer problem
Twill have been removed.
The reasons given by the companies
for their objection to transferring
suburban passengers to city lines are
twofold.
First, the suburban passenger is
now receiving more than full value
for the fare he gives the company,
and, therefore,- no extension should
mnrlp fnr tVio honofit r,f s> nlass
already being served at a loss.
Second, the long suburban lines
have been built and operated with
the idea that they should act as feeders
only to the lines of the company
that is sustaining and developing
them. To open these lines as feeders
to the lines of another company
which bore no part of the expense
of development appears to the companies
as an injustice as well as a
source of financial loss.
Financial Doss Discussed.
Discussing these points, Mr. Beeler
says:
The financial loss that is involved
will be in part the result of the readjustment
of traffic following the
granting of a free intercompany
transfer. This loss will be neutralized
in so far as the traffic coming
from the suburban lines of one company
balances up against the traffic
from the suburban lines of the other
company, but the advantage will naturally
be on the side of the company
which hauls the least number of suburban
passengers.
As to the first of these arguments,
the answer that immediately comes to
mind is that passengers are now
transferring from suburban lines to
city lines, or even to other suburban
lines, of the one system, Cabin John
to Congress Heights, for instance; and
why should not the transfer be given
then for intercompany trips of the
same nature. Cabin John to Handle
Highlands, for instance? The company's
reply is that the present generous
intracompany transfer privilege
should not constitute a precedent to
be followed in establishing the regulations
governing the intercompany
transfer privileges, especially when
passengers making the above trips
are being hauled at a loss..
The Fundamental Difficulty.
It is very apparent from this brief
discussion that the real basic cause of
the difficulty is in the present method
of selling transportation, any quantity
desired being sold for a certain flat
rate to all comers, whether they wish
to ride twelve miles or twelve blocks.
The money lost on the twelve-mile
rider is assessed against the twelveblook
rider. The companies, believing
this to be wrong in principle, recognize
its present existence, but ob
gect to its extension.
It would hardly be reasonable, however.
to make the transfer passenger
riding from Cabin John to Randle Highlands
pay for his trip on a quantity
basis if the transfer passenger from
Cabin John to Congress Heights continued
to pay on a flat rate basis, neither
would it bo any more reasonable to carry
the through car passenger from Takoma
Park to the navy yard for a flat rate.
This leads to the principle of having
the street railway passenger pay for the
transportation which is actually rendered
him, commonly known as the "zone
system"; a subject outside the scope ol
this report and yet fundamental to a
thoroughly equitable solution of the
problem.
The Immediate Question.
The immediate question then is
should further privileges be extended
to that class of car riders who art
even now being carried at a loss thai
is made up by the fare paid by the
short haul riders? ,
If not, a system should be inaugurated
by which fares will be paid by
passengers according to distance trav.
eled.
If the present system of charging
one fare for a trip anywhere withir
the limits of the District is to be maintained,
proposals for requiring those
who would use intercompany transfers
to pay according to the service
rendered them should not be considered.
Any additional revenue required
as a result of the intercompany
transfer should be levied flatly, eithei
against all passengers or against al
transfer passengers.
It is with this latter idea in mine
tnat tne recoraineuuauuua uouuuuci
herein have been made.
Mr. Beeler Presents Figures.
Figures are presented by Mr. Beelei
in support of his conclusion that intercompany
transfers will not affect
materially the financial Interests ol
the companies. At five of the transfei
points recommended paid intercompany
transfers now are in effect, h<
points out. These intersections ar<
18th street and Columbia road, 7tt
street and Florida avenue, Wisconsir
avenue and M street, 14th street anc
Pennsylvania avenue and 15th and C
streets.
Based on the receipts of both companies
from transfer passengers al
these points in the first eight month!
of the current year, a statement ii
presented by Mr. Beeler showing that
if the paid transfers were replaced bj
free transfers, the same volume o;
business continuing, the loss in revenue
to the Capital Traction Companj
would be $4,489.16, and to the Washington
Railway and Electric Company
$8,583.27.
At the other transfer points recommended
where a long haul is involved
no data are available to show the number
of persons paying a double fare it
order to ride on the lines of both companies.
But Mr. Beeler, in bis calculations
as to loss in revenue, assumes thai
the average number of persons paying
two fares at the other points is the aami
as the average number for the five intersections
mentioned, namely, 147,072 pel
year.
Annual Losses Estimated.
i Be then continues:
"Bach company win loee Xfi Mats ot
each at these double fare passengers, a
$3,176.10 annually at each point. Al On
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seven points under consideration each
company will then lose a total of $25,737.60.
This is believed to be a high estimate,
as five of these seven points are
so located that the heavy lines of travel
would not pass in the direction of the
proposed transfer; in addition, this estimate
is assuming that the number o(
people now willing to pay a 5-cent excess
fare is the same as the number paying
a lVt or 2 cent excess."
The decrease in revenue of each company
at the twelve points under consideration
due to passengers now paying
; more than one fare for a trip will be, according
to Mr. Beeler's estimates, as
follows:
C. T. Co. W. R.A E. Co
At 5 paid transfer
points $4,489.16 $8,583.2;
At 7 other points ... *25,737.60 *25,737.6<
Totals $30,226.76 $34,320.8;
Estimated.
Possible Increase in Revenue.
As to a possible Increase in revenue
the companies will derive from a
stimulation of traffic, Mr. Beeler
states that this will be difficult to
calculate.
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that improved transportation facilities
will tend to increase street railway
traffic. The volume of this traffic
is dependent on so many factors that
an estimate is impossible. Whatever
the actual amount of the additional
net revenue received from this source
might be, it would tend to reduce the
loss of the companies due to the revenues
now received on account of
double fare passengers.
"If the use of intercompany transfers
results in a loss a? shown in the
foregoing, of approximately $30,000 to
the Capital Traction Company and
$34,000 to the Washington Railway
and Electric Company, and there be
j no increase from a stimulation ol
: traffic, the reduction in gross operating
revenue to the Capital Traction
Company (based on the year 1917)
' would be 1.0S6 per cent. Similarly
fche loss in gross operating revenue to
1 the Washington Railway and Electric
Company would amount to 1.165 per
cent. The increase in gross revenue
clue to the increase in rate of fare has
not been considered in the above.
Suggests Trial of Plan.
Mr. Beeler proposes that the transfer
arrangements outlined in his report
be given a trial during a period
. sufficient to determine -what the exact
financial results will be. If it de
velops after this trial, he states, that
an injustice is being done the companies
by the issuance of free intercompany
transfers, an arrangement
should be made by which the cora'
panies will receive adequate compensa,
tion.
Many intersections are not recommended
for transfers. These are the
intersections at 4th street and Florl!
da avenue. 4th street and New Jer.
sey avenue. New York and New Jersey
avenues, 9th and U, 7th and K
7th and G, 7th and F. 7th and B, 9tt
street and Pennsylvania avenue. New
Jersey avenue and H, Massachusetts
avenue and G, Union station plaza
Delaware avenue and C street northeast,
1st and B streets southeast, 1st
and East Capitol streets. North Capitol
street and Massachusetts avenue
Kennedy street and Georgia avenue
7th and Water streets, 4% and Watei
streets.
The principal reasons advancer
against the establishment of transfers
at these points are that thej
would afford an opportunity for making
a round trip on one fare and would
result in a duplication of service.
HOLIDAY IS NOT MARRED
BY OLD-TIME BIBULOUS
Police Report Absence of Christmas
Drunkenness in Years of
1 "Wet"-District.
| 1
Reports of police captains made
to Ma J. Raymond W. Pullman, su'
perintendent of police, form record
testimony of the unusually quiet
Christmas holiday season. There was
> an absence of reminiscent drunken|
ness which characterized the holidaj
. during the years of open saloons. The
> total number of arrests for such of
. renses yesterday and Christmas eve
. -was forty-seven.
r There were fewer street accidents
- than usual, the reports show, and
i none was fatal.
One instance was recorded of a
1 wound being inflicted with an aii
I rifle. Henry G. Polley, six years old
1101 3d street southeast, was passing
through an alley near his home, police
reported, when an older boy shot
and slightly wounded him.
\ 7,468 INVAUDED BACK
r
) Wounded and Sick Are Sent tc
\ Army Hospitals and Con|
valescent Camps.
r
During the week ended December 2(
1 7,468 wounded and sick soldiers wer<
( landed in the United States from Um
, American expeditionary forces. Th<
' surgeon general's report today showi
' that 5.828 were laofled at New Tort
" and 1,640 at Newport News.
r The men were sent to various Armj
" hospitals for physical reconstructloi
? and convalescent camps.
Soldiers Biot in Brooklyn.
! NEW YORK, December 28.?After i
- fight which lasted nearly half at
' hour police reserves and severs.
, squads of the provost guard put at
j end to a small riot which broke oui
in Brooklyn last night, when, it ii
" said, more than a score of negro sol'
diers assaulted the proprietor of a
saloon who refused to serve then
liquor. Twenty arrests were mad<
and several shots were fired befori
i one prisoner who lumped off a truel
r in which ha was being taken to th<
? police station was recaptured.
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Berlin commander also was arrested,
and the amount of money alleged to
be due the marines was seized.
Military Commander Released.
BERLIN, Tuesday, December 24 (by
I the Associated Press).?Herr Wels,
- the military commander of Berlin,
' who was arrested Monday by revolting
sailors during the fighting in
which many sailors and republican
guards were killed and wounded, was
i released shortly before noon today.
He spent the night in the basement of
' the former royal stables. Some of
L*ie o?uiuia were 111 iavor or nis lmi
mediate execution, but cooler heads
opposed this plan. Some proposed
; that he be locked up in a small chamber
with the bodies of sailors and
other victims of Monday's fighting.
! That he escaped violence was due to
; the intercession of socialist leaders.
Fifty sailors, it is reported, still
; are concealed in the Red palace, from
i which most of them were driven Moni
day by the republican guards. Twelve
hundred sailors are holding out in
1 the royal stables. Both groups have
sent out word that the buildings will
have to be razed before they sur:
render.
Looting has been in progress in the
palace sisice yesterday and by early
this morning many private possessions
of the former emperor and
1 former empress had been carried
away or destroyed.
A report was in circulation at 2
o'clock this afternoon that the marines
were expecting heavy reinfoncements
from Kiel and Wilhelmshaven. :
German Democratic Party's Aims.
COBLENZ, Monday, December 23.
(by the Associated Press).?Appeals
for the union of all the liberal parties
which desire a republic and do not ;
wish the new Germany to fall into the
hands either of reactionaries or socialists
were made at a meeting Sunday
by the German democratic party,
which assembled in Coblenz to adopt
a platform.
The party desires a united Germany,
including German Austria; equality
before the law of citizens of all
classes, male and female; freedom of
thought and religion; a free press and
, free speech, but no arbitrary attacks
. cn the rights of the church. Families
. with many children, it is declared,
. should be protected from excessive
, taxation.
i So that the burdens may be borne,
strong industry and healthy trade
I are necessary, as well as freedom of
a?J- -C as a?_aa -
, Lraue irom me letters or war inaufi-.
tries. The abolition of war indust
tries is desired.
The party advocates the living of
. free peasants on free soil. Officials
, must be assured a livelihood in order
to insure good service. There must
be sympathetic care for the war
I wounded and for the dependents of
the fallen soldiers, which would be
' made a point of honor in the new
Germany. v
I Upon this platform, it is announced,
the German democratic party will
stand in the national assembly.
"Wurttemberg Opposes a Nobility.
MUNICH, December 25 (by the As'
sociated Press).?The new Wurttemherg
government, says a Stuttgart
dispatch, proposes to abolish all no
bility titles and powers.
INFLUENZA CASES HERE
SHOW INCREASE TODAY
\
[ Health Officer Asks Volunteers to
Assist in Determining Trans[
fers to Hospital.
With 204 new cases reported up to
> noon, influenza threatened a considerable
gain today as compared with yes[
terday. The total number of new cases
yesterday was but 168, with thirteen
J deaths recorded. This was an improvement
over Tuesday's record.
: which showed 230 cases and fourteen
; deaths.
The emergency influenza hospital,
at 612 F street northwest, which was
' opened Tuesday, had admitted six
, teen patients Luua.y. several 01 uiem
have the disease in virulent form:
Dr. E. W. Scott, executive oflicer in
charge, is having difficulty obtaining a ,
competent cook for the hospital.
Applications for admission are being
handled in the health office at the District
building under the direction of
Health Officer Fowler. The health officer
has called for volunteers to aid in the
investigation of influenza cases to deter)
mine whether they are sufficiently sej
rlous to warrant being sent to the
) hospital.
) TurTT.T.TOTT SAVED IN COFFEE.
r Government Acted Wisely in Pur>
chasing Army's Supply.
A saving of 11,064,700 has been made
for the government in one purchase
of coffee for the Army by the subsistence
division.
Anticipating a sharp Increase in the
cost of coffee, the subsistence division
made a purchase of 117,000 bags of
green code Just before the rise in
price. Since the purchase was made
the price has advanced 7 oents per
pound.
Each bag contains ISO pounds of
coffee, making a total purchase of
16,210,000 pounds. This quantity will
supply the beop* In tha United States
and overseas until Xarob i. 1*18.
CELEBRATE TODAY
AT MUNICIPAL TREE
Exercises Postponed Christmas
Eve to Be Held at
4.30 This Afternoon.
PROGRAM BY WELFARERS
The celebration around the municipal
Christmas tree, erected on the
Capitol plaza, which was to have
taken place Christinas eve. but which
was prevented by -bad weather, will
be held at 4:10 this afternoon. Otherwise
there Is no change in the program,
in which the children of the
capital's playgrounds are to take
a prominent part. There will be
Christmas carols and other appropriate
Bongs given, both by the
youngsters and by a chorus of adults.
There will also be a tableau on the
Capitol steps by children from St Patrick's
Church, illustrative of the nativity,
and a "Spirit of Christmas"
dance by 'elves and sprites. The
United States Marine Band will furnish
all the music. The Capitol itself
will be illuminated, Supt Woods has
promised, as an impressive background
Cor 'the festivities and for the great
evergreen which, together with its effective
illumination, was provided for by
rhe Star.
Last Night's Festivities.
The Christmas festivities held last
night at 7:30 o'clock, representative
of medieval English yuletide customs,
drew a large and interested audience.
Groups of young people from
various churches and educational and
government organizations aided by a
delegation of soldiers from Washington
barracks, and including a particularly
large delegation from the
Church of the Covenant, gave scenes
illustrative of the bringing in of the
boar's head, the wassail bowl cere
monies, ana tne bringing in of the I
yule log, together with morris and 1
other ancient dances and Christmasj
carols.
The program concluded with songs
and dances in honor of the modern
soldier. The Christmas and patriotic
music was furnished By the Engineers'
Band.
Welfarera Arranged Program.
This performance, like all those
scheduled around the big illuminated
cedar tree, was arranged for by the
War Camp Community Service, in cooperation
with other welfare organizations.
Those particularly responsible
for the success of the Christmas
night events were Mrs. Marie
Moore Forrest. Miss Marjorie Day,
Mrs. George W. Knowlton, Jr., and
Mr. English of the War Camp Community
Service. The wassail punch
imbibed by the modern revellers of
necessity had sweet cider for fts
basis instead of nut-brown ale, but
was served highly spiced and steaming
hot. It was brewed by Mrs.
Knowlton in her own home.
No ceremonies or exercises are
scheduled for the tree tomorrownight.
Saturday will be Government
Recreation League night, featured by
athletic sports, games, dances, etc.
Mr. Baker Greets Children.
That the great war had been fought
primarily for their benefit was the
message given to a large delegation
Df children of men now overseas by
Secretary Baker at the Christmas
party held in their honor yesterday
afternoon in the rotunda of the
Capitol.
The great space was packed with
youngsters and their mothers, who
received--from their hosts, enlisted
men from camps in and around the
city, little stockings full ofjgifts pre
eented by the Kea uross. There were
songs by soldier quartets, instrumental
music, and a burly Santa
Claus. Secretary Baker led the procession
of children through a lane of
uniformed men to the novel Santa,
who handed out the remembrances.
The tree was cut from the Mt.
Vernon estate.
HEAVY WAR WORK FATAL
TO VERNOAI E. KEISER
Employe of Treasury Department
Held One of Host Important
Desks.
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VERNON E. KEISER.
Vernon E. Keiser of 1419 Webster
stpeet, a lifelong resident of Washington
and employe of the Treasury Department,
died Tuesday at Garfield
Hospital after a brief illness.
Funeral services will be held at 412
H street tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock. Interment will be in Glen wood
cemetery.
Mr. Keiser was in charge of appropriations
connected with the military
establishment, one of the most important
desks in the Treasury Department.
The greatly increased work of
his department since the outbreak of
war caused a general breakdown He
was a member of the Federal Employes'
Union and had served as president
of the Treasury branch.
Mr. Keiser was a graduate of the
public grade schools and Business
High School. He was thirty-three
years old.
tie is survived Dy nis wire. urace a.
Keiser, two children, Alice Elizabeth
and William Schneider Keiper; his
mother, Llnnie A. Keiser; two brothers,
William M. and Hugh V. Keiser,
and a sister, Mrs. Maude K. Brooks.
"MT.XTCANS NAME MINISTER.
Gen. Eduardo Hay Nominated for
Italian Post
MEXICO CITT, December 25.?Gen.
Eduardo Hay, former minister of war,
has been nominated by the president
as minister to Italy. Ratification of
this appointment by the senate is
expected within a few daya
Gen. Eduardo Hay was minister of
war for only a brief period in 1*14.
He was at ate time Cbrransa's chief
of staff aadPi* r?u-iL?yb|^M
stltuUonalist-liberal
MURDER MYSTERY
CONFRONTS POLICE
Negro's Battered and Partly
Cremated Body Found Near
Glenwood Cemetery.
Finding- of Che battered and partly
cremated body of a colored man to
the east of Lincoln road, near Trinity /
College and Glenwood cemetery. ,
about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
furnished the police an unusual murder
mystery. Coroner Nevltt and police
of the tenth precinct are certain
death resulted from a broken skull.
Six distinct wounds on the head
mark' as many fractures
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to the police, that the murder was
not committed at the place where the
body was found. It is believed that
an automobile seen on the road near
there about 2 o'clock yesterday morning
was the vehicle used to convey
the body there.
Near the body was an overcoat and
piece of blood-stained carpet about
the size of a covering for the floor of
an automobile. A can containing a
small quantity of gasoline and a piece '
of a newspaper dated December 9 also I
were found. t
Oscar Rose. 2809 4th street northeast.
who was in pursuit of a rabbit,
discovered the body in the ravine. ,
Becalls Seeing Auto.
Matthew Guy, night watchman at
Trinity College, recalled having seen
an automobile stop on the road about
2 o'clock in the morning. When it left,
he stated, it went in the direction of
Maryland.
A Chinese laundry mark on the band
of the shirt showed the number 641.
the 6 being a Chinese figure.
When Rose discovered the body he
ran and informed Frederick Rose, employed
in Glenwood cemetery. The
latter telephoned the police and Detective
Joe Grant and Sergt. McCormick
and Policeman Wheeler soon
reached the scene and started an investigation.
Maj. Pullman, superintendent
of police, and Detective Burlingame.
acting chief of detectives,
last night viewed the body at the
morgue and began work to establish
its identity.
It is thought the dead man was
about twenty-five years old. He had
Usui uiuwii on in, was aooui. nve reel,
eight inches tall and weighed about
135 pounds. One front tooth was solid
gold, and he wore gold cuff buttons.
A diamond ring worth $150 was taken
from his finger by the police. No
money was found. The dead man wore
low tan shoes that were new, the
soles indicating they had not been
worn enough to be soiled.
Fail to Identify Body.
Last night the police of the several
precincts had residents of all parts of
the city visit the morgue and view the
remains, but none of them was able to i
suggest the identity of the body, and I
only two or three persons even went so
far as to say the face appeared familiar
to them. The name of a New Yor.v
clothing firm appearing as makers of
the overcoat found near the body, the '
police stated, did not necessarily indicate
the owner was from that city. '
Detectives suggested that the man
may have been a Pullman porter or f
other traveling man, and that he was
murdered for his money, the presence
of the diamond ring on his finger not
making it positive he was not robbed.
That the body was taken to the spot
near Berry's spring where it was found
seems certain, so tar as the police are
concerned, and they believe the murder
was committed a short time before it
was deposited there.
Police of Baltimore and "Philadelnhia
have been furnished a description of
the body and asked to make an effort to
establish its identity.
JAPANESE MORS
GUESTS AT LUNCHEON
Chamber of Commerce Entertains
Delegation Representing Cities
in Home Country. f
A delegation of Japanese representing
chambers of commerce of Japanese
cities were guests of honor at a
luncheon tendered them by the Wash- '
lngton Chamber of Commerce today
at the Hotel Washington.
The luncheon was given in a private
dining room of the hotel, and
was attended by a special committee
of the local organization, of which
James T. Lloyd was chairman.
The Japanese are making a tour
of the United States to study commercial
conditions.
Tendered a Reception.
Prior to going to the hotel the visitors
were received by District Commissioner
Brownlow at the Municipal
building. They were presented by
JD1IIOI UUWU win anu nuiiu iiu; juunun,
secretary aed treasurer, respectively,
of the United States Chamber of Commerce.
R. Yamashlma, vice president of the
Tokio Chamber of Commerce, heads
the visiting party, which is to leave
Washington tonight. There were no
formal speeches at the luncheon.
Those attending the luncheon from
this city were Commissioner Brownlow,
James T. Lloyd. E. C. Graham.
Joseph Strasberger, Robert N. Harper,
J. B. Henderson, Chapin Brown.
William F. Gude, George Hess and
Thomas Grant.
PLAN DEVISED TO CUT
LIST OF LIQUOR CASES
Those Accompanied by Personal- * ?
Use Affidavits to Be Propped if
Investigation Warrants It.
Announcement was made at the office
of Uie assistant District attorney
charged with trying the more than
400 bootlegging cases in the United
States branch of the Police Court that
a piaa nau uecii ucvio^u ?? ?! ?
ably will largely reduce the number
of trial cases on this account
Before going into court with cases
in which the persons arrested for violation
of the tone law had only a few
bottles of liquor, and in which affidavits
have been made that it was
for their personal use, investigations
will be made. Those of the cases
warranting it will be dropped from
the docket.
ITALY'S LOSSES IN WAR
WERE 2,800,000
NEW YORK. December 26.?Italy's t
losses In killed, wounded, dead of disease,
missing and prisoners aggregate
2,800,000, according to CoL Ugo Pixxarello
of the Italian army, who arrived
here recently on a mission for his government.
Disease alone took a death
toll of 800.000 men in the war sooe, ha
said, while the number of killed was ?0|
?00,000 and the wounded, and
1.001.100,