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left of the date line.
Entered at the Postofflce at Washington,
D. C , as second-class matter.
And what is equally important, the
humidity also has fallen.
Mrs. Thwing delivered an address on
the anti-opium crusade In China, which
was very far from having the effect of
putting anybody to sleep.
The Postmaster General will remain
at New London for the boat races. He
Just must have some kind of a race be
fore the big campaign opens up.
While no official action has been
taken, it is safe to say that the mem
bers of the local Stock Exchange will
not desecrate :ho Fourth of July with
overwork.
If the bogus "cher" who was solicit
ing tips on the strength of hia dlstr.bu
tlon of patronage Isn't careful next time
he may be called upon to do the Dls
Urct cooking.
If tho House would just carry that
postofflce twine investigation a lltlTe
farther, to include departmental red
tape. It would be performing a. real serv
ice for the country.
The man who came to Wabhlngton to
present the President with Jl,b)0 In cold
certificates evidently wanted to get
here in ample time for the fiftieth anni
versary celebration.
It is recalled that Tuesday's hail had
a precedent In the Btorm which halted
the proceedings of the .Senate in 1KH,
while the Wilson-Gorman bill was under
consideration And yet it was nothing to
tho storm which broke out after the
consideration of the measure had
ceased.
Members of the United German Soci
eties of the Capital are rejoicing over
the derision of Dr. Kurt E. V. Voclck
ner to withdraw his resignation as pres
ident. The special committee appointed
to see him succeeded in persuading him
to remain, and whatever differences may
have existed are all cleared away.
Not only the District, but people in
all parts of the country will hear with
regret of the death of William A,
Haley, the musician. The band he or
ganized made ills name popular, and
the world of music has suffered a great
loss. He mace many extensive tours
of the United States. His last notable
engagement in Washington was at pie
unveiling of the Kosciusko statue in
Lafayette square last year.
Another Wnshingtonlan upon whom
has been conferred a well-deserved
honor this sun mer is Dr. Walter Wy
man, surgeon general of the Public
Health and Marine Hospital Service.
Amherst College has Just bestowed upon
Dr. Wyman the degree of doctor of
laws. In recognition of his service to
mankind as the head of the Govern
ment's health bureau, a position which
he has filled with credit for many years.
Citizens of Washington did not re
spond with much enthusiasm to the call
for funds for the "safe and sane
Fourth" celebration, hut there is no rea
son for failure to accept the suggestion
of the committee that business houses
And homes be decorated with American
fiftgs on the Nation's birthday. Fire
crackers being taboo in the District,
let us display our patriotism by unfurl
ing the Stars and Stripes.
Philander C. Claxton, who has been
chosen to succeed Dr. Brown as Com
missioner of Education, should prove
exactly the man for the place unless
the Judgment of the majority of the
leading educators of the countrv Is at
fault Before selecting Mr. Claxton, Sec
retary Fisher conferred viith a score of
the most prominent men In the educa
tional world, and the general opinion
was that a better man for the place
could not have been found.
Here's a valuable Up to Washington
automobillsts. Sheriff Vlett. of Mont
gomery county, Md., where there are
many miles of smooth, hard roads, has
been provided with a motorcycle by the
State automobile commissioner, and
hereafter will be equipped to run down
and arrest drivers of cars who exceed
the speed limits or fall to display Mary
land license tags. The Montgomery
county roads are a temptation to speed
ers., hut those who would avoid trouble
In the future will watch their speed
ometers. The District has found a true friend
In Senator William Alden Smith, who
has introduced a bllj providing for the
long-needed regulation of the herdjc
line. More power to his arm. Senator
jsmith knows his herdlcs, for he Uvea on
the herdlc line, at 1100 Sixteenth street.
Here's hoping he spreads his personal
knowledge among'bla colleagues so ihotr
9VsMy, that-tfiey.-too wjjl rJ4)Fup:t
their might and -fight for relief. It's a
safe bet that If every member of Con
gress lived on the herdlc line, and nod
to use it, regulation would be forthcom
ing within twenty-four hours.
The citizens of Anacostla seem to have
made out a strong case Against the exr
press, transfer, and telegraph com
panies, against whom they have started
action before the interstate Commerce
Commission, on the ground that they
are victims of discrimination In rates for
delivery of express, baggage and tele
grams. A committee of the Anacostla
Citizens' Association has presented fig
urea to show that charges' for service
to Anacostla are greater than charges
for service to .other points In the city
further away from the. Union Station
and the central offices of the telegraph
companies.
A car on the Chevy Chase line ran
away Wednesday night, and threw its
seventy-five passengers into a panic One
young lady, more terrified than the
other passengers. Jumped off and was
badly injured. It Is said the car's brake
refused to work. Why did It refuse to
work? What was the matter with 1(7
How did the company happen to be op
erating a car that could get away from
its motorroanT Was the company or
the motorman to blame for the ac
cident? Today we have no adequate
means for obtaining answers to these
questions. If we had a public service
commission the Incident would be
promptly Investigated, its cayse ascer
tained, and action taken to prevent Its
repetition. That's one of the most Im
portant reasons for the creation of a
commission in tho District of Columbia.
QUIBBLING OVER TRANSFER
OF THE JAIL.
Warden McKee, of tho District jail,
declares that tho action of Congress
in authorizing the transfer of the jail
from the Department -of Justice to
the Commissioners would not hold if
contested in court. His statement is
not surprising, especially when it is
remembered that the new arrangement
juggles him out of a job.
The transfer was authorized in the
District appropriation bill passed at tho
Last session. It combines tho Wash
ington Asylum and jail and puts tho
new institution under the Commis
sioners, who propose to operate it
through a superintendent under the
Board of Charities. Captain McKee
maintains that prisoners and jails must
be under the control of the courts, and
he makes the further point that the
District code designates the warden of
the jail as the roan who must execute
sentences of death. He says the super
intendent of the asylum and jail is
not authorized, in the act providing
for the transfer, to inflict the death
penalty.
To the layman, Captain McKee's ob
jections to the administration of the
new law look like the quibbling of a
man with a selfish motive. After read
ing the act passed by Congress it is
difficult to sec how the intent to give
the Commissioners control of the Dis
trict jail could have been plainer or
how the purpose could have been more
explicitly set forth. The Commis
sioners are first given all the "author
ity, duties, discretion, and powers"
vested in the Attorney General. Then
they are given specific, administrative
authority, in the following definite
terms:
The jail of the District of Columbia
and the Washington Asylum of said
District, on and affer the first day of
July, 1911, shall be combined as one in
stitution, known as the Washington
Asylum and Jail; and the Commis
sioners of said District are hereby au
thorized to appoint a superintendent of
said Institution, at a compensation of
$1,800 per annum, and the position of
warden of the Jail and superintendent
of the Institution now known as Wash
ington Asylum are abolished oti and
after said date; and all the duties, dis
cretion, and powers now vested -in and
exercised by the warden of the Jail of
said District and the superintendent of
the present Washington Asylum are
hereby transferred to and Isted in the
superintendent herein provided for.
The warden cites the chapter of the
District code relating to control of the
jail emphasizing the provision for in
flicting the death penalty and con
tends that the jail provisions of the
appropriation act conflict with It. Of
course they do, but they also supersede
it. The last section of the appropria
tion act takes care of that in the
following language:
That all laws and parts of laws to the
extent that they are Inconsistent with
this act are repealed.
The consolidation of the asylum and
jail under authority of the Commis
sioners is a move in the direction of
economy. Furthermore, it is a move
toward a .more progressive, more hu
mane method of dealing with adult
delinquents. If it is opposed, those
who create the opposition may have
the satisfaction of knowing they are
quibbling with technicalities to block
a genuinely good reform.
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA HONOR
ED ABROAD.
Washington's own John Philip Sousa,
who played his way into the hearts of
the people of the District when leader
of the Marine Band, and whose genius
as a bandmaster is now recognized
wherever the blare of the cornet or the
rumble of the drum is heard by man,
has been receiving unusual honors in
foreign lands. Last winter Mr. Sousa
and his band started on a tour of tho
world, and they are now- about half
way round. Copies of newspapers pub
lished in South Africa and Australia,
just received in Washington, tell the
story of his triumphs.
The Sydney Telegraph, on May 16,
treated the arrival and concert of Mr.
Sousa in a fashion which must havo
been extremely gratifying to the com
poser of "The High School Cadets,"
and in a. fashion, too, calculated to
make any Washingtonian proud df Air.
Sousa and his banif'Jhe four columns
in iue miaaie qi tone, page were un
voted to a picture 'of Ihe crowdwhfch
greecchjlr. cjousaj, and jtivno exag
geratipri" to state,' that t-looked like
an inaugural crowdMn- Washington.
Below this was a two-column portrait
of Mr. Sousa, and in the same issue was
published a column interview wlthfthe
bandmaster and a column revjew of
his concert.
Examination of the nowspapcrs pub-,
lished along the route taken by Sousa's
band reveals tho fact that the tour
has been s triumphal march. Every,
where knowledge of -Mr. Sousa. and his
band had evidently proceeded their ar
rival by several years, and everywhere
large crowds turned out to hear their
music. Tije, financial success of the
trip is already assured, Ijut ft will be
equally as noteworthy as a musical
event and as a recognition of Yankee
genius and enterprise.
THE ODDITY OF AUTOGRAPH
VALUES.
Of course the scale of prices prevail
ing in the auction rooms where auto
graphs are gathered in cannot be ac
cepted as a final criterion of public
esteem. At the same time one may
wonder what would havo been the
market price of one of George Wash
ington's letters if lie had written "Rob
inson Crusoe," or- if his head had been
cut oil at Fothcringay. The climate
in and around Valley Forgo was not
conducive to the writing of an "Ode
to a Nightingale,'' for example, and
he probably thought his own "Fare
well Address" rather a neat thing, even
in comparison with some of the in
spired hiccoughs of dear, madcap Bob
bfe Burns.
And yet, great as ho was, deserving
as ho was, for having saved his coun
try and attended lodge meetings regu
larly, his autographs aro not much in
demand. There was a sale at Sothe
by's recently, tho results of which wera
full of interest. The profits on the
MSS. which had been collected between
1802 and 1830 were so large as to boost
autograph collection as quite an in
viting branch of trade.
Lest the mind bo dazzled with larger
figures hereafter, let it be sadly set
down in the very beginning that the
autograph of our own George Wash
ington fetched but $355. And yet in
life his note of hand was worth many
times as much, which cannot be said of
many of those,whose post obits recent
ly passed under the hammer. There
was the unfortunato Mary, Queen of
Scots, for instance. Surely it was not
merely a matter of gallantry that .'.
specimen of her fine Italian hand went
for $5,125. And then there was the
author of that wicked "Tom Jones,"
whose autograph receipt for the copy
right brought considerably more as a
curio than it represented as a commer
cial instrument or only $50 less than
was bid for the Mary Stuart memento.
No orthodox person can afford to be
seen dallying with the seductive beauty
of Shelley, and yet a specimen of his
handwriting was knocked down at
$3,850. Will anyone pretend that he
could have led that forlorn retreat
from Pittsburg to speak in the twen
tieth century terminology for which
Washington is so justly esteemed!
The autograph of 0. Goldsmith, who
knew practically nothing of military
tactics, beyond a certain reference to
the veteran who "shouldered his crutch
and showed how fields were won," was
worth in the marta $1,400. The collec
tion as a whole, which had been bought
up less than fifty years ago for $10,000,
yielded an aggregate return of $80,000,
and yet the moral seems to be that
dead queens and litterateurs are held in
higher esteem than a dead soldier and
statesman. Perhaps the deader thoy
are the higher the esteem.
Munsey's 1lls How Big
Fortune Is Kept Intact
The Rothschilds have violated all laws
by marrying their near kindred. Until
the last generation, the Injunction of the
wise old founder of the line was scrupu
lously obeyed. When there were no
Rothschild daughters for the men to
marry, they remained single. Baron
James, for years head of the French
house, married his niece; Baron Lionel,
of England, wedded his first cousin; his
daughter Evallna became the wife of
Alphonse, who succeeded Baron James,
and so on.
When the women left the family, they
almost Invariably chose husbands who
brought either further financial prestige,
as shown by the alliance between a
daughter of Baron Gustave with Sir
Edward Sassoon, or great social and po
litical Influence, as by the marriage of
Hannah Rothschild to Lord Rosebery.
Munsey's Magazine.
Senate to Rush Work
After Independence Day
Senate leaders plan to hurry' things
along as rapidly as possible after
July 4. The Senate will be In session
tomorrow and then will adjourn over
until July S. Prom that time on early
sessions will be held, beginning at 10
o'clock, if the leaders can force them.
A good deal of talk of adjournment
early In August Is now heard.
The Republican regular leaders would
like, to force a vote on reciprocity 'and
then compel adjournment. But they
cannot do so. The Democrats are In
sistent on having a vote on the wool
schedule and the free list bill and they
will tight adjournment until those
measures are disposed of. Moreover,
they will be upheld by tho House lead
ers and It will be impossible to force
an adjournment until those measures
are voted on.
One Killed, jwo Hurt,
In Motor Car Wreck
.
PITTSBURG, Pa., June SO, In an auto
accident early today' at Kennywood
Park, one man was killed and. two fatal
ly hurt. ,
r The Injured Charles" "Irwin and" Ed
' ward, ward, iota -of .Pittsburg. - i ;
Th6"aeaaTnan"nasirbeen-iaentJJlBa.--
New-Ananias Club Forced ty Hines
(Continued from First Page.) '
established as firmly as Hines' temper
ate habits have been.
One of the funniest performances of
the day was wften Judge Hynes.subm.lt
ted to' Hines a blue-print plat of the
Union League Club- It was designed to
shqw how the parties to the famous
meeting there moved about.
!'Thls point marked G' Is about where
you met Mr. Funk, is It?"
"Yes, about there."
"What does the 'G' stand for?" asked
Senator Kern.
"O, that stands for greeting,!' sug
gested enatpr Gamble, with the superior
tone, of Sherlock Holmes. It turned out
qp was right, too. Qtber cabajjstic
symbols to the plat were explained, and
the plat put In evidence.
Plot pf Hirer,
Then a pfat of the Chicago river was
put in, to show the relation of the
Hines and Harvester propertes to the
Improvement of the stream which the
Harvester people opposed, and Lorimer
favored. Tho committee and audience
seemed pleased that the plat didn't
small like the river.
Hines was taken In hand by Attorney
Marble for the committee and put over
Ihe Jumps very fast. After the lonij.
grilling ' of the day before, Hines
looked vpry tired, and his nerves were
not so well in hand.
Mr. Marble wanted to know all about
Hines' interests in the tariff revision.
nines protested mat nis interest u get
ting Lorimer elected was not related
particularly to his interest in the lum
ber tariff. Of course, he had a realiza
tion that the election of a Republican
senator would te a gooa tnwg.
"But we regarded the situation as to
lumbe- much more secure In the Senate
than In tho House," he said. "We were
much more confident of retaining a
duty of $1.50 in the Senate than of sav
ing $1 in the House."
A rapid Are of questions was shot at
Hines tov lawyers and Senators In the
efforts t oconfuse hlrrt. Hines sat with
elbows on his chair arms, his hands
Ctxended In front of him. their finger
points touching, occasionally clasping
and unchnplng them.
Heard of Election.
Hines was asked when he first heard
Lorimer was elected.
"By telephone to the Associated Press
from the Union League Club."
"Did you meet anybody on leaving
the phono booth?"
"Yes, Herman H. Ifettler."
This opened another oldj line. Before
the Illinois legislative commltteo Het-
SIX EN KILLED
AND THIRTY HURT
WHEN ILLS PALL
Buffalo Pumping Station Is
Damaged a Million
Dollars.
BUFFALO, N. Y., June 30 Six men
vere killed and therly injured when the
new pumping station of the city water
works, at the foot of Porter avenue, col
lepsed at 9:30 o'clock this morning. All
the ambulances in tho city were called
to the scene.
The Porter avenue pumping station
was nearlng completion, but had not
been put In order for supply the city
water. Tho property loss will be over
Jl.000,000.
The ead and injured men were most
ly machinists who were at work in
stalling machinery insled the build
ing. They were burled under hun
dreds of tons of b'lck. The dead men
are in a pit fifty feet below the level
of t!. floor and it will be many hours
befor-' workmen can uncover their
bodies.
The two side walls of the pumping
station, each about 300 feet Jong, fell In,
as well as the roof. Only about fifty
feet of wall now remains. Men are now
working heroically to recover tne bodies
of the workmen who are pinned under
the great mass of debris.
Twenty-five workmen, seriously in
jured, have been taken to local hos
pitals. What's on the- Program in
Washington Today,
(The Times will be pleased to an
nounce meetings and entertainments in
this column.)
Concert by the Fifteenth Cavalry Band.
Kort My ex, 7:30 p. m.
Concert by the United States Engineer
Band, Logan Park, Anacostla, 7:30
p. m.
Lecture by Wayne O. Adams, former
enelneer on the Panama Canal. "Truth
About the Panama Canal," Metropoli
tan Theater, 621 Pennsylvania avenue
northwest, tonight.
The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: Takoma Lodge, No.
29. speoial M. M.; Almas Temple of the
Mystic Shrine, monthly session.
The following I. O. O. F. organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges Central,
No. 1. and Metropolis, No. 16. degree
and election of officers. Rebekah De
greeDorcas, No. 4. degree and elec
tion of officers.
The following Knights of Pythias or
ganizations will meet tonight: ' Lodge
fiyracuslans. No. 10. business; Pyth
ian Sisters Rathbone Temple, No. 8.
degree work.
Meeting of Capitol Council, No. 2o, Jr.
O. U. A. M.. 419 Tenth street north
west, tonight.
Meeting of Camp No. 4. Patriotic Order
of America, 623 Louisiana avenue
northwest, tonight.
Meeting of Camp No. 10, Patriotic Order
of Americans, Odd Fellows' Hall,
Georgetown, tonight.
Meeting of Seneca Tribe, No. 1L L O. H.
M., 316 Pennsylvania avenue north
west, tonight.
MeeUng of Mlneola Tribe, No. 14. L O.
R. M., Masonic Hall, Anacostla, to
Meeting of Idaho Council, No. 1, Degree
of Pocahontas. Twelfth and H streets
northeast, tonight.
Amusements.
New National Aborn Comic Opera
Company in "Robin Hood," 8:15 p. m.
Belasco The Vagabonds in "The Mer
chant of Venice," 8:20 p. m.
Columbia Columbia Players in "An
American Widow," 8:15 p. m.
Cosmos Continuous vaudeville, 1 to 11
Chevy Chase Lake Dancing and mu
sic py section of Marine Band.
Glen Echo Park-rDsncing and musto
by section of Soldiers' Home Band.
Luna Park-MIdway attractions.
Arcades-Motion pictures, bowling, and
pooh
Elver View Dancing and "other amuse
ments; boat leaves ' Seventh street
wharf 10 a. m., 2 and 7 p. m.
Colonial Beach Boardwalk, bathing,
and other amusements; steamers leave
Seventh street wharf daily except
Monday, 9 a. m-; Saturday,' 2:30,p. m.
Marehall Hall Steamer; Charles iMa'cal
ester leaves Seventh street, wharf 10
Bim.-.2-.30,and 6:45 P; m. daily.- StoDs
mada at jat Vernon. .......
Steamer Bt. jonns leaves oevenin street
-wharf or -fortyTmlle trla on the Po-
' omad,Tp; nt'" - - . ' "
t r n 5 r
tier said that a few minutes after Lori
mer was elected he saw Hiuea leave
the phone' In the Union League Club.
Hines looked happy,. and said;
'1 mmlghty happy.' Do you want me
to tell you the name of jour new Sena
tor? Jt's Lorlmer.vand Idld nil-j-I per
sonally elected him."
Hines was so enthusiastic that Hettler
could barely get away from him.
ABked by Mr. Marble about this Hett
ler story Hines promptly added Hcttr
ler to tne fast-lengthening roil or me
Hines Ananias Club. That organization
is nqw estimated to be nearly as big
ana notable aa the original Ananias
Club founded by Colonel Roosevelt.
Funk said he didn't do any more
than to tell Hettler that Lorimer was
elected. He didn t claim to have been
responsible for It.
"I didn't feel that I had had much
to do -with it. I had borne a message
from Washington, but didn't even
know how much effect It had,"
Ready Explains.
Hines' Ananias Club is unlike that
of Colonel Roosevelt in one important
respect. When Hines and somebody
else disagree Hines seems always
ready to show that the other man Is
an old enemy, lying about him out
of malice.
This was his explanation of the testi
mony of Funk and that of Cook. It
proved to he his explanation of the tes
timony of Hettler. He said Hettler was
a lumber dealer, as was his father be
fore him. When tho Hines business was
young, it took important business away
from the Hettler company. There was
an especial sharp difference over a con
tract with the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company. The Hines business gradual
ly ouutrlpped that of the Hettlers. Feel
ing had been very hitter between Hines
and Herman Hottler lecause cf these
tnlngs.
Hines and Hettler had also disagreed
about terms to be prescribed for lumber
dealers by the Chicago Lumber Ex
change. Questions about all this
brough in a little anti-trust inquisition.
Hines said the exchange tried to fix
fair, buslness-Ilke terms on which to do
business. It was necessary to have prac
tically unanimous agreement on ail such
subjects as terms, discounts, etc.
Before the Illinois committee, Hettler
said that Hines boasted of having "had
a great time at Washington this win
ter I have beaten the President beaten
him on the lumber schedule. He want
ed it on the free list, and I have de
feated him, so that now the question
Of whether the duty will stay at V
or be reduced lies with a very few of
us."
L
SHOW INTEREST IN
PROPOSED TREATY
Germany and Sweden Want
Chance to Negotiate
Pact.
Foreign diplomats In Washington,
acting under advices from their govern
ments, are making many inquiries at
the State Department regarding the ar
bitration proposals of President Taft, It
was learned today.
Besides France and Great Britain, who
were the first to receive copies of the
proposed broad treaty for the arbitra
tion of International disputes, Germany
and Sweden have since requested that
they be given opportunity to negotiate
such a treaty with the United States.
Other nations have expressed keen in
terest of the treaty, though State De
partment officials are withholding the
names of these countries until their ac
tion becomes formal and official.
The treaty with Great Britain is prac
tically agreed upon, with the exception
of some minor details, which will not
in any way affect the essentials of the
plan. The State Department is advised
that France is about ready to submit a
favorable reply to the proposals.
Secretary Knox, It Is learned, believes
that few cases will ever get to arbitra
tion under the proposed treaties be
cause of the intermediary body which
has been provided. It Is his belief that
the international commission of investi
gation provided for in the treaty will
eventually prove a most effective medi
um for the settlement of disputes.
Nations, party to the treaty, he be
lieves, will be glad to accept the reports
of this commission, which will Invest!
gate all disputed questions, rather than
resort to the final means of arbitration.
President Hopes to Send
Treaty to Senate During
Present Extra Session
President Taft now believes that he
can carry out his original purpose of
submitting the arbitration treaty to
the extra session of Congress. If the
negotiations proceed during the next
thirty days as they have during the
past. It will he possible to lay before
the Senate the first arbitration treaty
in all history, for ratification.
The treaty will be complete within a
comparatively short time. Only two or
three points of minor difference remain
to he settled, and it Is possible that
these may be smoothed out within the
next couple of weeks.
Ambassador Bryce has the power to
sign the treaty here on the part of his
government, so that there will be no de
lay in passing copies between the two
countries. '
Money Goes Back
. To the Treasury
At midnight when the fiscal year of
19M-1911 end Jli7S3,000 appropriated for
the us"e of the Appalachian Forest Re
serve Commission will revert to the
United States Treasury, as the commis
sion spent, only J217.000 for forest lands.
However, with the beginning of the
next fiscal year tomorrow another
2,000,000 will become available, to be
expended before July 1, 1912. Therefore,
the commission will bo able to proceed
with the purchase of other forest lands
in trie Appalachian ranges. The Geo
logical Survey Is now at work investi
gating forest tracts in both tha north
and south Appalachian, as well as lands
in the White mountains. e
The" lands, the purchase of which was
authorized by Secretary of War Stlmson.
yesterday, for the commission, comprise
31,000 acres of virgin forest in northern
Georgia. This area is at the head
waters of tne' Tennessee, and Its con
servation Is expected to prove beneficial
to navigation on the Tennessee
Seven dollars an acre was paid for
this tract. The commission announces
that it does not nropose to be, made a
'Federal grab bagp'and -that-iti-will not
pay exorbitant or speculative prices xqr
foreaMaads - . .I -. ;
OiATS
ER
"Did; yqu ray anything Hlto that?"
demanded Attorney' Marble.
"Absolutely not.,r
"Ddn't say you had beaten the Pres
dent?" ",YU say no such conversaton took;
place between you and Hetter?"
Nfit Unfortunate.
Agan Hnes Issued the degree of the
Order of -Ananias, to Mr. Hettler.'
uon'i you think you've been unfor
tunate In your choice of gentlemen with
whom to talk?" snapped Mn Marble.
, "On the contrary? from what they
say. I do not''
Hines said he first became interested
In the tariff late in 1908, when he was
asked to come to Washington and help'
make tho fight to retain the duty.
He represented himself and the lum
ber trade in general "North, South.
East, and West." he said.
Under insulsltlon about the National
Lumber Manufacturers') Association,
Hines denied that any great sum had
been raised by Mt to carry on the tariff
tight. He pooh-poohed the idea that
such a sum as $100,000 waa raised to
do statistical work.
"Raising J100,00!? isn't an easy thing,"
he observed, remlnlscently. Then he
dropped an observation which placed
him in the llgkht of a philanthropic
patron of the higher education.
"I helped raise the endowment for
the Yale school of forestry, and it was
a big task," he declared.
An interesting light was shed when
Attorney Marble asked about the Hines
Company furnishing books, records,
etc., to the Illinois legislative commit
tee. Marble wanted to know Just what
ones were furnished.
"We furnished every thing he asked
for," said Hines. "He came to the
office, and we had a court stenog
rapher present to take down every
thing that happened while he was
there."
Taken back to his various confer
ences with Senators Penrose and Aid-
rich in the spring of 1909, about the
Illinois senatorial situation, Hines re
peated that he saw Penrose two or
three times before he saw Aldrich.
After that he called with Aldrich sev
eral times. He was in conference a
number of times with Lorimer,' too.
"tne urst time, saia nines, "he tqln
me he would not be a candidate, and
I didn't take that up again tljl the
telephone communication of about
May 1. when I urged him to run.
"I also discussed Representattlve Bou
tell's possible candidacy with Charles
G. Dawes. He thought favorably, but
thought it Impossible, because of the
attitude of the Chicago Tribune."
Atwood Flies 107 Miles With
Passenger to See
Regatta.
HEW LONDON, June 3a Harry N.
Atwood, the boy aviator, with a passen
ger, made a flight of 107 miles in order
to witness the Harvard-Yale rowing re
gatta today.
Leaving the Harvard aviation field at
Squantum, Mass., at 7:05, be crossed the
States of Massachusetts and Connecti
cut and arrived at his destination at 9:10
o'clock.
With the weather conditions ideal all
the way, he covered the 107 miles In 125
minutes, an average of a fraction over
51:56 miles an hour.
Atwood broke the American record for
a single flight across country, and es
tablished a world's mark for passenger
carrying flights across country.
One hundred thousand visitors who
Jammed into New London and were
ready to leave for the race course, for
got all about college rooting and cheer
ed themselves hoarse when Atwood
circled twice around the Groton monu
ment, directly across the Thames river
from the New Haven railroad station,
passed over the big drawbridge, and
flew over the two-mile course at a speed
which the waiting oarsmen at Red Top
and Gales Ferry envied.
The Yale and Harvard crews for the
moment turned loose all their enthu
siasm and cheered the daring aviator.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer and
party aboard the United States dispatch
boat Dolphin applauded Atwood wildly
and the great fleet of yachts on both
sides of the race course tied down their
whistles and fired salute after salute
from their cannon.
After passing the Dolphin Atwood.
picked out the west bank of the river
for a landing place. He volplaned from
a height of 1,000 feet in two magnificent
sweeps and landed lightly on the ground
In Riverside Park to the north of the
drawbridge.
Hearing of Harrison
In Boston Postponed
BOSTON, June 30. First hearing of
the non-support charge against Ar
thur W, Harrison, banker and patent
attorney, who is charged with desert
ing his wife in Washington, was con
tinued to July 12, today, by agree
ment of. counsel. Harrison is due to
be taken back' to Washington for trila
after ,the hearing here. His wife
lives at 812 Twelfth street northwest.
In Washington
Harrison left' her in January. He is
under Indictment In Washington. The
$12,000 bond in which he is held is
continued.
Two Enormous Tracts
Open to Registration
Two enormous tracta of public lands,
one within the Fort Berthold Indian
reservation, containing 150,000 acres, in
the two Dakotas, and one of 123,00a
acres In southeastern Iraho, have feeen
oDened to registration by an order ot
President Taft, transmitted to the Land
Office today..
Entries for the Dakota lands will com
mence on August 14. In North Dakota,
and on October 2, In South Dakota.
Taft Approves Bill.
The first bill the President has ap
proved since the extra session of Con
gress was that to which he placed his
signature today, providing ,for an ex
tension and widening of Colorada ave
nue northwest from Longfellow street
to Sixteenth street, also of Kennedy
street northwest. ,
Bishop O'Connor Dead.
TORONTO. Ont, June 30. Arch
bishop O'Connor, of.thaRoman Catho
lic Church, who has been ill for over
a year,, died-earljmedajr.
CROSS-COUNTRY
RECORD BROKEN
BY BOY AVIATOR
ANOTHER DENIAL OR:
HINES STOBY COPES'1
FROM WHITE HOUSE
Says President Had Noth
ing to Do With Lori
mer's Election.
Without waiting f.or Senator Aldrich
to apear before the Lorimer investi
gating committee to axpiain the con
nection. vof the President with the elec
tion of the Illinois Senator, 'the White
House has issued a statement reitera
ting the denial of the President that
he had anything to do with the selec
tion of Lorimer.
At the time Mr. Hines first went on
the stand before the Helm Committee
and intimated that Mr. Taft was re
sponsible for Lorimefs election, the
White Hpuse hastened to protest that
the intimation was unfounded. Now
that the lumber magnate comes tp
"Washington and makes the declaration
again, under oath, and before a com
mittee of Senators, the White House
insists again that the President had
nothing to do with the election of Lori
mer. White House Statement.
The following statement Is authorized:
"The fact with reference tp the Presf
dent's relation to Senator Larimer's
election is this:
"That during the tariff fight, gen
tlemen came to President Taft and' ex
pressed their interest in passing the
tariff bill, and said that it had' been
suggested from Illinois that if would
be wise for the President "to express
an opinion In fovar of the election of
Mr. Lorimer. He did not know "Mr.
Lorimer well, although he knew that
he was an Influential member of Con
gress, but he did know Senator Hopkins.
He knew very little about Illinois poli
tics, but expressed a desire that there
should be two Republican Senators
from Illinois but when asked to put
that in the form of a telegram urging
the election of Mr. Lorimer, he de
clined to do so.
"The statement by Mr. Hines that the
President was anxious for and was urg
ing the election of Mr. Lorimer Is
wholiy unfounded."
Nothing More to Say.
The President Is therefore standing
upon this official statement and will not
add anything to It or take away any
thing from It. Attention is called at
the White House today, however, to the
extract from a letter written by Mr.
Taft shortly after Larimer's election,
in which the Executive said:
"The reports, rumors, or statements
that I consciously lent any weight ot
the Administration to the election of
Lorimer are wholly untrue."
The statement and this extract from
the letter are all the expressions upon
the Hines testimony or yesterday avall
ible at the White House today. In
fact, it Is stated that the Executive
will have nothing more to say about
this matter unless perhaps Senators on
the investigating committee call to see
him and Inquire about his connection
with the election.
In that event the President may go
more fully into the matter.
Cowsill Gets Contract
For Wireless Building
Arthur Cowsill. a local builde. has
been awarded the contract for construct
ing the two-story building, wnicn win
contain the offices, operating room, and
storage space, for the three gigantic
wireless telegraph towers to he erected
on the reservation at Arlington. Va.
Mr. Cowslll's hid was JSS.SS5.
Funeral Tomorrow.
The funeral of Mrs. Caroline Appich,
widow of Jacob J. Appich. who died at
the age of sixtv-two. will be conducted
at het residence, 911 East Capitol street,
tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. In
terment will be In Rock Creek Ceme
tery. Arrange Funeral.
Arrangements have been made for the
funeral of Catherine McNamee, at her
residence, 1911 Seventeenth street north
west, tomorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock.
Requiem mass will be said at St. Paul's
Roman Catholic Church. Fifteenth and
V streets northwest, at a o'clock. Inter
ment will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
Concerts Today
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By the Fifteenth Cavalry Band, at
Fort Myer, Va., at 7:30 p. m.
GEORGE F. TYREELL. Director.
PROGRAM.
March, "United States Forever"
Tyrrell
Overture, ' Tancredl" Rossini
Bolero, "Batangas Adlos"
Brockenshlre
Waltz, "Murmuring Waters"... Hall
Excerpts from the "Singing Girl"
Herbert
Tropic dance, "La Bella Creole"
Herman
Selection, "Naughty Marietta"
Herbert
March, "Luneta" Tyrrell
By the U. S. Engineer Band, at
Logan Park, Anacostla, at 7:30 p.m.
JULIUS HAMPER, Leader.
PROGRAM.
March, "Tent City" ..English
Overture, "Poet and Peasant" I
Suppe
Habanera, "Mexican IClsses"
Roberta,
Selection, "Faust" Gounod
Intermezzo. "Peplta" , Tobam
Dance of the Serpents Bocalari
Excerpts from "Madame Sherry"
Hoschna
Medley overture. No. 8, "Bits frcm
Remlcks Hits'' ........Lampe
The Star-Bpangled Banner,"
6y tho U. S. Soldiers' Homo Band,
Bandstand, at 4 p. m.
JOHN S. M. ZIMMERMANN,
Director.
PROGRAM.
March, "Perpetuum Mobile"
Von Blon
Overture, "Yelva"..-.......;.Re!sslrer
Ballet muslo from "Sylvia".. Dellbes
L Moderato Maestoso.
- 2. Valso Lente.
3. Pizzicato.
4. Barcarolle.
5. March and Finale, -c
Selection, "Ernani" .....Verdi
Indian characteristic-, "Tomohawk
Dance" ........Hermann
Medley of popular songs, "All
Alone" -Harry Von Tilxer
Waltz suite,. "Spring and Lpve"
Vollstedt
"Tho Star-Spansled Banner."
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