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NUMBER 6938. Yesterday's Circulation 42,910 - "WASHINGTON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1911.
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Straight Pension, Contribu
tory Retirement, and
Salaries Issue.
VOTING BOXES FOR
EACH DEPARTMENT
Additional Ones to Be Established
So That No One Need
Miss Chance.
Every Government employe will be
given an opportunity to vote on the
salary and retirement propositions
when The Times conducts the poll on
Thursday.
Provision has been made to have
the ballot boxes accessible to all em
ployes and there will be a sufficient
number of ballots to go around. There
will be five more ballot boxes than
there were when The Times held the
poll on the longer working day ques
tion several weeks ago.
These additional ballot boxes will
bd located at the Government Print
ing Office, the Census Bureau, the
Bijreau of Printing and Engraving, the
Bureau of Fisheries, and the Inter
Base Commerce Commission, and the
Geological Survey.
Request Chance to Vote.
Urgent requests were received by the
employes In these offices that they be
given a chance to vote without going
to -on of the other polling places. They
stated that great Interest In the salary
and retirement agitation
aroused.
The form of the ballots will be an
nounced In The Times tomorrow. In a
general way the nature of the ballot
was decided upon at a conference of
the leaders of the movements last week,
but '.several details are yet to be com
pleted. Tot propositions, generally stated, will
be ffcr straight civil pensions," "for
the contributory plan of retirement,"
end iwhether an Increase In salary first
woulcl be preferred." These are the
questions that were argued In the col
cmnaLpf The Times during the last week
and n them will be based the ballot.
Thursday has been selected as tho day
on -wiilch the poll will be held. When
the employes leave their Dlaccs of duty
at the lunch door they wjll be given bal
lots bV men stationed at the exits. They
will then have the ballots to study dur
ing trie afternoon and .will deposit them
when I they leave work at the closing
hour. I
In cVder that there shall be no con
fusionj the ballot boxes will not be put
in place until about 3 o'clock In the
afternion. Thev will be placed at the
exits, knd as the men and women pass
out. thbv will cist their ballot, the idea
being that during the afternoon they
will hive filled them out as they de
sire. Twenly-two ballot boxes will be dis
tributed over the city, and it is believed
that each employe will have no trouble
or experience any inconvenience in vot
ing. At the last poll there were seven
teen ballot boxes.
Distribution of Boxes.
The distribution
Will be as follows:
of the ballot boxes
Thiee'at the State,
BuHdini
War, and Navy
Three kit the Treasury building.
Two at the Postoffice.
One at the Commerce and Labor of
fice. Two al the Pension office.
Four at Department of the Interior
effices. J
Two a the Agricultural Department
offices. , ,
One at) the Government Printing Cit.
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One at the Census office.
One at
the
Buieau of Engraving and
Printing, i
One at the Bureau of Fisheries.
One nejir the Interstate Commerce
Commission offices and the Geological
Survey offices.
Advocates of the retirement plans will
have committees to assist In bringing
out the full voting strength of the em
ployes, a:C each side is desirious of
polling tho largest vote. Also there ti ill
b "watchers" to prevent the possi
bility of "ballot stuffing" and repeating.
Havy Vote Expected.
Employes recognize the urgency of
registering a heavy vote to make the
returns have any impression on Con
gress, and for that reason are cam
paigning lor the side they favor. They
Realize that the result ts sure to be
TatchPd with interest bv members or
Congress as reflecting the sentiment of
the employs thembelveb, for tho re
turns no doobt will feerve as a guide In
retirement logislation. proving the wants
of the workers are heeded.
I cannot urge too strongly the ne
cessity of alj supporters of the straight
pension plan getting out and hustling
In this canipaign, ' said Michael F.
O'Donoghue president of the United
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WEATHER REPORT
FORECAST. FOR THE DISTRICT.
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generally fair! much colder with a cold
wave, increasing southerly winds shift
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day. TEMPERATURE.
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geous Annual
Reception.
President Taft smiled bis New year
greeting to the world today.' -
vine reception was attended Dy &.KS
people.
It was the second time that the Presi-'
dent and Mrs. Taft officiated as host
and hostess at that time-honored func
tion, the White House New Tear recep
tion. In defiance or the weather, crowds
gathered outside the "White House hours
before the buglers of the Marine Band
trumpeted the entrance of the Chief
Magistrate and the First Lady of the
Land to commence the reception of the
glld-d diplomats, the Judiciary, and the
Government officials, all of whom were
received before the latch was lifted to
the common people.
The crowd twisted in a persistent and
stamping lino from the "White House
doors down Pennsylvania avenue. Pos
sessors of shiny elbows jostled bloods
In fur-lined overcoats Matrons of de
termined physiognomy kept a hawklike
watch for advantageous places in the
line. There were lean, there were fat.
there were tall, and there were small in
the thousands that came to shake the
hand of President Taft and to wish him
a Happy New Year.
President's Call.
With the first stroke of the great
hall clock at 11, four buglers stepped
out from the band and sounded the
Presidential call." The President and
Mrs. Taft appeared at the top of the
broad winding stair and came down to
receive the Vice President and Mrs.
Sherman, and the members of the
Cabinet and thdr wives The party
then moved to the southern end of the
Blue Room, where the President and
Vice President and the Cabinet mem
bers formed a receiving line and the
ladies took up their places to the right
of them. Then commenced the recep
tion of the Diplomatic Corps.
This is one of the most gorgeous spec
tacles that the National Capital wit
nesses In the entire year. Bedecked and
beribboned with the orders of their
monarchs. In all the splendor of their
court costumes, the representatives of
the foreign nations filed past the Presi
dent. It was a brilliant panoply of
rolui-b of red and gold and blue, scin
tillating here and there with the shin
ing helmets of the Germans and the
silks of the Oriental ambassadors and
ministers.
The ambassadors were led by Baron
Hengelmuller von Hengervar, the Aus-tro-H'-ingarian
ambassador, who, since
the last New Year reception has suc
ceeded to the rank of dean of the
Diplomatic Corps. Following him came
the ambassadors arranged according to
their seniority those most recently ac
credited to the United States coming
last in line.
The last ambassador In line was Mar
chese Cusanl Contalonleri, the newly
appointed Italian ambassador. , Follow
ing him were the charges d'affaires of
the Brazilian and. Chilean embassies, the
representatives of these countries haV
ing died In the past year, and no suc
cessors having as yet been sent by
their governments.
Ministers in Line.
After the ambassadors came -the mln
lsters, headed by Scnor Don Joaquin
Bernado Calvo, the Costa Rican minis
ter, who has. been, for years dean of the
ministerial contingent. The last in this
line wa's H. H. Bryn, minister, from
Norway, who was presented to the
President only a few weeks ago. Each
ambassador and minister was accom
panied by his wife and the members of
Btfore the last diplomat had passed J
from sight, the new Chief Justice of the J
r.ixui ciatpi Edward TintlirlaBst Whits. !
led the associate justices of the.buprenlo
Court into the receiving room. They
were followed by other members of the
Judiciary, among them the Judges.of the
Courts of Commerce and Customs Ap-
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HERE LATE TONIGHT
Wave Is , Advancing From
the West and Will Be
Severe.
With all the West beyond the Mis
sissippi valley held in its frozen grasp,
the coldest wave of the season Is ad
vancing steadily over the entire nation,
and is due to reach Washington late to
night. Rain, followed by snow, is the local
prediction for tonight and early tomor
row. The lowest temperature is expect
ed to be Tecorded tomorrow night.
At noon today the Weather Bureau
announced that a storm area, which
had been expected to reach the Pacific
coast Tuesday, has already struck Alas
ka, and ttyat one of the worst blizzards
In years Is raging at Nome. '
Second Storm Due Friday.
This second disturbance is slated to
reach Washington aout Friday. Ac
cording to the Weather Bureau, it will
be preceded by rising temperatures and
attended by general precipitation.
The cold snap that will hit the Atlan
tic States tonight probably Mill not last
longer than two days. What kind of
weather Is traveling In tho wake of tho
disturbance now over Alaska no one can
say. (-
Florlda will not escape the winter
that la blowing out of the West, and
will get her tasjo of It tpnlght. Tho
Weather Bureau has telegraphed warn
ings to fruit growing and other inter
ests In Florida, and brush fires have
been kindled In the orange groves In
the northern part of the State. The
mercury Is expected to drop to the twen
T HE COM
ties in the Peninsular State. .
In the Mississippi Valley.
This morning the eastern extremity of
the cold wave extended along the en
tire Mississippi valley. West of there
no section of the country has escaped.
It is estimated that the center et the dis
turbance is over Lake Superior. In its
progress eastward, the center will pass
considerably to the north of Washing
ton, and, for this reason, as" cold weath
er will not' be felt here as that which 3
expected to visit the North Atlantic
States.
Texas leads the Southern States in
having experienced the coldest weather
so far. In Montana the mercury reg
istered 38 degrees below aero.
Where th" disturbances have been ac
companied by snow falls the drifting;
has been severe, and has seriously ham
pered telegraphic service. Trains hajre
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" -
General Miles, General Wood, and Othe r Army' Officers in Upper Picture.
Two Views of Crowds Outside White House.
POOR GIRL TO FIGHT
TO OBTAIN ESTATE
Mamie Miller Penniless
When She Hears of
Fortune Here.
As fast as the train can bring her
here, Mamie Miller, the daughter of
Mrs. Frances Miller of this city, who
up to yesterday had considered' herself
alone In the world and penniless, but
who found that she Is the sole heir to
$20,000 worth of property left her by her
moiner, is nurrying 10 mis city irom
Frederick, Md., and is expected to ar
uve in plenty of time to allow her law
yer to draw up the necessary papers for
the cpenlng of the case before Justice
Could tomorrow mornUig.
The story of the life of Miss Miller,
or her struggles, ar.d of her opportune
discovery by the detectives and lawyers
who weie looking for her, reads like a
chapter out of the proverbial novel.
Miss Mamie Miller left home some
months ago. She went to Baltimore and
from there to Frederick, Md., where she
was visiting friends.
Ignorant of Death.
Finding that her money was giving
out she tried to find employment but
failed, and was ' forced to move to
cheaper surroundings. During all the
time that she was away she had heard
nothing- from her mother and did not
know of her death until yesterday.
In the meantime, Mrs. Miller, who
lived at 48 B street southwest, had suf
fered slightly from heart disease, but
It was not thought to be serious. On
Christmas eve. Just as she was' pre
paring a number of presents for her
friends, the fatal attack seized her.
Her attorney. George W. Drew, at;
once took charge of her effects and a
search was made for the will. Nono
was found, however, and one of the
woman's friends said that she had put
off making one until the New Year.
Accordingly, tho safe In her room was
broken open and jewels, costly plumes,
accounts In two banks, and deeds for
valuable real estate in all about $20,000
worth of property were found secreted
there. ,
Detectives on Trail.
The search was, at once begun for the
missing "daughter. Descriptions of her
were" sent broadcast throughout the
eastern part of the country and detec
tives were hired to search for her in
Maryland, for it was thought that aha
would certainly be found there.
One of the advertisements in a Fred
erick. Md., paper attracted the attention
of a Jawyer in that city, and he at once
made Inquiries for the girl described, as
he was certain that he had seen her on
the street of that city.
After searching for two days, he found
her in a little hall bedroom of a cheap
boarding house, poorly clothed and weak
from lack of food. She admitted that
she was the daughter of Mrs. Miller, but
refused to believe the lawyer's state
ment that she was the heir to a fortune.
It. was not until the arrival of lawyers
from Baltimore, with the papers in the
case, and further description of the prop
erty, that the girl believed -hergood for
tune and consented to return to Wash
ington to put in a claim for the property.
E
DIE FROM INJURIES
Aged Couple Struck by Car
Pass Away Within Twelve
Hours of Each Other.
Death has failed to separate John J.
Peabody and his wife, Mrs. Mary Pea
body, who after a married life of more
than fifty years, were run down Christ
mas E e by a Ninth street car and died
within twelve hours of each other In
Emergency Hospital.
Mr. Peabody died at 3 o'clock yester
day afternoon, while his wife passed
away at 2 o clock tms morning.
Unconscious from the time she was
brought into the hospital, the death of
Mrs. Peabody was expected momentar
ily, and the physicians never thought
that she would outlive her husband,
whose Injuries, while serious, were not
regarded as necessarily fatal.
Mr. Peabody was In a state of semi
coma most of the time. He asked
about his wife several times, but the
doctors feared to tell him that she had
been fatally Injured, lest the shock
might prove too much for him to bear.
"She was bruised and cut a little," Is
all the nurses would tell him.
With their arms filled with pack
ages Intended for Christmas presents,
Mr. and Mrs. Peabody were on their
way to their home, at 918 L street,
when they were struck by a south
bound car at Ninth and L streets. The
couple had Just alighted from a north
bound car, and had started in tho di
rection of their home when they
walked In front of a car coming- In the
opposite direction, which they had
failed to see. .
H. L. Hoffman, the motorman, applied
the brakes and reversed tho current
when he saw the couple start acrbss
tho track, but it was too late to avoid
an accident. Hoffman and the conduc
tor, D. C. Keyes, were arrested by the
police of the Second precinct, and re
leased in the sum of $2,000 each to await
the outcome of tho couple's injuries.
Coroner Nevitt wilt hold an Inquest at
the District Morgue tomorrow to fix the
responsibility for the accident.
Mr. Peabody was seventy-five years
old, and at one time was chief f the
Wlshlngton Fire Department. He was
a member of the Northern Liberty
Volunteer Fire Company, having joined
the organization in 1813. He was the
first chlejt of the paid department.
Mrs. Peabody was seventy-three years
old. Arrangements for the funeral have
not been completed.
Ambassador Bryce Back
From South America
Ambassador James Bryce, of Great
Britain, has Just returned to Washing
ton, following a tour of the South Amer
ican republics. Owing to the growing
importance of the relations of this coun
try witn south America, mere is keen
interest felt among, State, Department
officials here as to the object of, Mr.
Bryce's visit. v
The ambassador was at the embassy
early this morning- preparing to set
forth for his New Year call on the
President and other officials and diplo
mats. He naa nothing to say regarding
his visit. He does not look for warbe
tween .Peru and Ecuador.
PEABODY
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SUBSTITUTE TO GET
FULL TEACHER'S PAY
Opinion of Comptroller of
Treasury Prevents Farm
ing Out Positions.
Beginning tomorrow, teachers availing-
themselves of sick leave will receive
no portion of their salaries and their
entire earnings for the days they are
off will go to the persons temporarily
filling the vacancies. For years teach
ers have received half pay for the first
thirty days' absence, the other half go
ing to the substitute, but at a meeting
of the supervisory officers held this
morning In Franklin school. Superin
tendent A. T. Stuart advised the offi
cers that pay would be discontinued
from the time the Instructor's services
end, in accordance with an opinion of
the Comptroller of the Treasury.
These supervisory instructors, who
certify to the payrolls In all the schools
in the District of Columbia, will convey
Mr. Stuart's message to the 1,600 other
teachers when the schools open to
morrow. The meeting this morning was held
for the purpose of familiarizing- the
supervisory teachers of the contents of
the Comptroller of the Treasury's opin
ion, and to explain how the Board of
Education proposed to comply with it,
pending the granting of additional pow
ers by Congress.
That drastic measures will have to be
adopted is apparent, and Mr. Stuart
said that in some cases it might be
necessary to let some classes go un
taught. "Only those who have qualified as
teachers can be appointed as tem
porary Instructors," explained the su
perintendent. "It probably will, not be
difficult to secure teachers for the
graded schools, owing to the number of
normal graduates, but filling vacancies
in the high school will be a more diffi
cult proposition. If a substitute Js. not
gettable. the classes will ko untaught."
When it was asked whether a teacher
who was employed for a half-day could
not be employed to take the place of
an absent teacher during the other
half, Mr. Stuart said there would bo no
provision for paying her for the extra
service. He said that her salary was;
fixed and she could not receive the sub
stitute's nav in addition.
1 Some of the .teachers, who were on
sick jeave curing tne month of De
cember, may be out considerable of
their own money in addition to the loss
of pay. "Several paid their substitutes
out of their own pockets, expecting- to
receive their full salary on the regular
payroll, but it has developed that de
ductions have been made on the payroll-
for all time lost by the regular
teachers.
Under the new order that substitute
teachers shall receive the entire salary
of the regular teacher for the full time
they serve, farming out of positions will
be prevented. Capt. James F. Oyster,
president of the Board, addressed the
meeting this morning, and he explained
that In his opinion it was- not right for
a teacher to receive more money than
she paid her substitute.
None Can Advance Reason
Why Young Couple Should
End Lives.
VICTIMS WILL BE
BURIED TOMORROW
Sister of Dead Girl Tells of. Inci
dents Preceding Their
Deaths.
CUMBERLAND, Md., Jan. 2. While
the men and women of this prosper
ous mountain town discuss nothing
else in their homes and upon the
street corners, and while officers has
ten here and there upon false trails,
the conviction grows that it was mur
der, and not suicide, that caused the
death of Miss M. Grace Elosser and
Charles E. Twigg upon the eve of
their wedding day.
The two are to be buried at the
same hour tomorrow afternoon? but
the graves will be far apart If the
man and the woman really made' a
suicide pact within a few minutes
after Twigg showed his fiancee the
wedding ring Saturday afternoon, it
would seem that the two woujd want
their graves adjoining, but such is not
to be.
Twigg's Body Taken Home.
The body of Twigg- was carried to
his home, in Keyser, W" Va twenty
threo miles away, last night. The body
of Grace Elosser awaits burial here in
Cumberland. Each family has claimed
its own.
The crime records of thla or any-
other State have seldom furnished a
tragedy so completely wrapped In
mystery. It la known that Twigg and
his soon-to-be bride were found dead
upon a sofa in the girl's home, just a
few minutes before she planned a final
shopping- trip up town.
. -JXhQctoTB today definitely decided
"thafcyanlde of potassium poisoning haft
snuffed out the lives of both within a
few seconds' time.
"Third Degree" for Family.
State's Attorney Hobb, who spent last
night at Keyser, put the Elosser family
through the "third degree" this morning,
and, although the attorney wears a mys
terious air this afternoon, it is larned
that he found out nothing that might
throw real light upon the tragedy.
The dead girl's father, whose home ad
joins his grocery store, resents the In
sinuation that the family is hiding any
thing from the authorities. Especially
Indignant, are the members of the family
over the report that there was any de
lay in summoning medical aid.
Mrs. Katie See, a married sister of
Grace Elcsser, told a dramatic story
this afternoon of the finding of the
bodies.
Intermingled Is a note of other mis
fortunes that have overtaken both the
Twigg and Elosser households. Lewis
Elosser, the father. Is an Invalid. Grace,
the dead girl, married young and unJ
fortunately three years ago. Charie3
Twigg, also dead, was a widower.
The mother and father of Twigg are
estranged. The two met for the first
time In years at the bier of their eldest
son last night.
Their hearts softened and friends are
predicting today that there will be a
reconciliation between the old couple.
Several years ago the elder Twigg left
his home in Keyser and came to Cum
berland. He brought with him a for
tune of about $17,000, but it is understood
that this fell into the possession of a
woman, of whom the elderly man was
enamored, and he has been unable to
.recover it.
Up to a short time ago Charles Twigg
is said to have been In correspondence
with a Miss Dye. of Montlcello. Ind.
He Is also said to have been, attentive
to women. In no extraordinary way.
however, in nearby West Virginia and
Maryland towns, but none of these sup
posed love affairs Is thought to have
been so serious as to effect the love ex
isting between himself and Miss Elos
ser. The love existing between the two who
died so strangely within a few hours of
their wedding day and the circumstances
surrounding the tragedy at the Elosser
home were thus described this afternoon
by Mrs. See, who stood beside the casket
In which her sister lay as she talked:
Sister's Story of Tragedy;
"There lies my sister. She is clad in
her wedding gown. Upstairs her trunk
is packed, in anticipation of her honey
moon. There wag never a happier girl
than Grace when last we saw her alive
at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon. ,
"Charlie came and showed her ihe
wedding ring. Mamma saw Charlie kiss
her as he tried the ring on Grace's
finger. Then mamma went out. After
a while mamma returned when the hour
came for Grace and Charlie to go up
town. She knocked on the door and
received no answer. Then sho came In.
She half scolded Crace when she saw
her sitting there. Just as though she
were asleep. She shook both of them.
"A moment later she rushed back
into the house; father hobbled toward
her thinking she had been burned over
the gas stove. Then my sister. May,
came and right here I want to say that
It is untrue that May was jealous of
Charley's attention to Grace. May and
my mother pulled Grace off the sofa and
lay her out on the bed. Then May re
turned to the parlor, where some one
had lain Charley upon the floor.
"May fell down beside Charley's body
in a faint. In-the adjoining room moth
er had fainted across the body of Grace.
That is all except the doctors found no
bottle-containing poison. We knew that
Grace never killed herself, and we do
not believe that Charley killed her."
There was no 'sign of a convulslvo
movement on the past of either the
man or the woman. Twigg was found
with elbow resting upon the arm of a
short divan. The head of his fiancee
lay lightly upon his left shoulder. No
mark: of pain was upon elt ei coun
tenance when the mother of the girl
walked Into the room, found daughter
and prospective son-in-law dead, and
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