"' J 'Vrt 'J"" l " r ?'".'t$ii 7j vy tw,vp v, J l- A . .., - wstifj . i Hie Hhtngton Cime I Cloudy and Colder Tonight. Last Edition 4 i. 31 NTJMBEB 760. Yesterday's Circulation, 46,017 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1012. Sixteen Pages. PRICE ONECEN1. T'p-"tiVr-v'f;y.-, r?fjj("r,1;v-v"')".-v - v ' CHILDREN FILL MIL OF SANTA WITIUPPEALS Hundreds Want Him to Re member Them on Christ i mas Morn. QUIT OLD PARTIES FOR PROGRESSIVE, T TUFT m TIKE LEGAL CHAIR AT t-1 OF 1 WREN SEEN IN FLAMES FORCE FOURTH TO CHOP JOB CONFERENCE HEARS nmc ws REASURY ROWS M'COMBS WAVERING OVER NAMING 0E INAUGURAL HEAD Influence of Financial Interests Now Turned Against Local Man as Fight Grows More Bitter. HIS ALMA HATER I BENEFIT AT POLI'S WILL SWELL FUND (Theater Manager Selects Tuesday Afternoon Next to Aid St. t Nicholas Girl. The St Nicholas Olrl'i work grows ad stows, as the time from now to Christmas Day draws nearer and , nearer. More people are Interesting themselTes In her plan of airing all the poor children, in Washington at leaat one day which they can remem ber the rest of their llres, and aro coming forward with their contribu tions of toys and money, and offers of assistance along other lines. It Is a One, big, and entirely vol untary work which the St. Nicholas Olrl has undertaken; one in which she is being aided entirely by volun teer workers, and which Is carried on by voluntary contributions from the kind-hearted people in Washing ton to whom she appeals from day to day through the columns of The Times. Poli Tenders Receipts. Yesterday a substantial offer of as sistance waa contained In the following Utter: New Haven, Conn.. November 8. Deaf SL Nicholas Olrl: My Washington manager. James Thatcher, 'has told me ot the won 4errul work vou are doing In Wash ington, In giving those poor llttla .children a Christmas treat, and I wrlto to -congratulate -yon upon yur work, and to sav to you that I have wired Mr. Thatcher to turn over to vou and v6ur committee my theater in Washington tor the afternoon ct Tuesday, December 16. a percentage St that afternoon's receipts for your t. Nicholas work. Assuring vou of mv Interest In the cause, I am. Very truly yours, 8. 55. POM. Everybody who Is the least bit In terested In the work the Ht. Nicholas Olrl Is doing for the little unfortunate children of the city Is earnestly urged to bear this date In mind, and to so arrange their engagements that they may attend the matinee on that after noon. Task is Colossal. The St. Nicholas Olrl has undertaken the most colossal task that has ever bsen planned In Washington: that of providing Christmas gifts for 10,000 poor children In the National Capital. Homo body said there were not that many children In Washington who were so poor that Santa Clans passed thnm by. Come Into The Times office, you Hi? d cPtlcal and see for your 51 i.t?!(Vh1e. or two.of ,no hundreds SLtI"MS2 that come lno Tho Times 1r?hhV0,n" th" &$&& aOifjAX0?1 ot more than a hun dred letters that came yesterday which howa how this movement Is having In Washington who have a 1 ttle bit of human sympathy in tlielr make-up: My dear St. Nicholas Girl: The shawl I am sending jou be longed to a dear old grandmother who has gone to heaven, will you see that It reaches that other grand mother? My good wishes for her and your own happy Christmas goes with It. No name was signed to this letter which came to the St. Nleholss (llrl alongwltha beautiful soft white shoulder shawl, which some one's loving hands had knit, and which somebody's dear grandmother had worn until she laid aside earthly garments for her heaven ly robes. The poor little note that was scrawled to the St. Nicholas Olrl sev eral days ago. begging her to "send something to grandma," is answered, .. .... ,tifa (rif, lu nt nil 1h.ii. reader of The Times, touched by th!-' earnest appeal, has sent a comfortable fl Piair Ol leil ami uuinaniu B.ipi.ers lor kid frnitmntlifti find n nlon tvnem ,ii,n ................ , -- - "-. " wrapper, wnicu win nu sem ner on Christmas morning, when the unselfish little granddaughter receives her own bag of love. One of the most touehlng appeals that has come In the St. Nicholas Girl's mall la this one, which speaks elo quently of poverty, and desires unful filled: Bear Santa: t am a little boy 6 ears old. Please bring me some toys, to play with. I can't walk because I um . paralys. I have been paralys for (Continued on Seventh Page.) WEATHER REPORT. FORECAST l'Cm THE Dlo..tiCT. Cloudy and colder tonight and Thurs day. TEMPERATURES. II. 8. BUREAU. I AKPLECK'S. sa. m 8 a. m flu m ' 0 a. m 47 10 a." m 43 10 a. in 48 11 u m 45 11 a. in (0 j noon 40 12 noon ! 1 p. m 4d 1 v. m 4J l,. m i s p. m 49 TIDE TABLE. Todav High tide, 3:07 a. in and 3:31 p. m.i low tide. 10:13 a. m. and 10.60 p. in. Tomorrow-High tide. 3:43 a. m. and 4:10 p. m.; low tide, 10:53 a. m. and 11:19 p. in. SUN TABLE. Bun rle 709 I Sun ,et, ...1.31 Hundreds Enthusiastic Over Plans of Bull Moose Workers in Chicago Prepare Resolutions. NATIONAL COMMITTEEMEN PREPARING FOR ACTION BY JUDSON CHICAGO, Dec. 11. Its enthusiasm not half ex hausted after the all-day and long night sessions yester day, the Progressive party's national conference was re sumed this morning with a general session, while the national committee went to work in executive session, working out planB for organization, propaganda, etc. With fully 1,200 persons in attendance, the conference now is accepted by all Btripes of politicians as quite the most remarkable affair of its kind that politics ever has known. Testimony has been brought from State after State that the mass of the Republican party and a vast proportion of Democrats are in a bodyto the Progressives. That' the new party will and will make a vastly stronger fight In the Congressional elections of 1914 than it was able to do this year, is accepted on all hands. Throughout the middle and far west, especially. Re publicans arc going Into hibernation, recognising that their chance. Is at an ind. and that the coming contests are going to be between the Progressives and the Democrats. Last night's banquet was unique. Fif teen hundred men and women sat down to dinner, , and, thn ehrd the speakers, who, one' s,iter another litter ed the triumphant call to open the next battle at once. Tho Progressive party. Instead of be ing an Incident, an ephemeral move ment of a single contest, the voicing of a spasmodic protest. Is established as a fixed and permanent factor In the na tional situation. There could be no un certainty on this point. In the mind of anybody who heard the speeches of esterday, last night and today. Southerners Enthusiastic. The Southern contingent Is particu larly enthusiastic, though there was one jarring Incident that caused some, re grets. A Southern figure In the move ment who didn't get a chance to talk at the sessions yesterday, became In censed because a colored man, Hayes, from Virginia, was called upon for a speech, and made a hlghlv successful one. The disaffected white man later took off his badge and was determined to withdraw from the party, but later cooled off and thought better of It. That Colonel Roosevelt Is the certain leader of the part for the 1916 right, and that nothing short of his own positive declination can keep him from being the nominee for President, was made plain by the greetings he nun received whenever he has apiwared, as well as by the private expressions of tho members of the conference. There lias Indeed been no thought of any other course. Colonel Is Silent. Colonel Roosevelt has mode no ex pression of his own on this point, save thst which was contained In his set speech of yesterday, to the effect that the question of leadership would be determined by fhc developments of tho next year or two. In fact, lion ever, In the mind of this gathering, there Is no question of leadership at all. Tho present leadership will bt continued because nobody hus a thought of chang ing It. Nevada Only Missing. Whin senator Dixon called tho session to order he announced that every State In the Union except Nevada was repre sented. "The national committee, In truth," he said, "Is u UUln overwhelmed with the numbers who have accepted Its In vitation, and has not had time on Its own account to meet as yet." The experience exchanges were con (Continued on Fourth Psge.) SENATE COMMITTEE OPPOSES PENSIONS Retirement Pay for Presidents Not Favored by Appropria tions Board. That the Senate Committee on Ap propriations will refUKe td make any provision In the legislative, executive, and Judicial bill, similar to the one pro posed In the House committee by Con gressman llurlenon, and tinned down, giving retirement imv to former Presi dents, was learned today. The Appro priations Committee of the Senate took up the legislative bill In a preliminary way. It did not consider the question of pensioning former Piesldents. but well Informed members of the committee my they do not expect any action fav orable to that sort of thing. 0. WELUVER. on the verge of coming over be thoroughly organized, OF BY EXPLODING GAS Woman 63 Years Old Suc cumbs in Hospital to Body and Internal Injuries. Mrs. Jennie V. Illschorf. sixty-three years old. died ot 4 o'clock this morn. Ing In the, Emergency Hospital from burns received twelve hours before when her clothing caught fire from a gas stove In her home. 4H K Btreet northwest. Mrs. Blschoff was the wife of the late John W. Hlschoff, the blind organist of the FlrBt Congregational Church. When Mrs. Hlschoff went to light tho stove, there was an explosion caused by gas which had accumulated In the oven. The flames set fire to her cloth Ing and also spread to the furniture. The aged woman heroically beat out the flames In her dress and then screamed for help. Several neighbors wero at traded to the house. Mrs. Blschoff had fallen to the floor, hut she instructed those who came to her assistance to first put out the binning furniture and woodwork. Mrs. Blschoff's arms, shoulders, chest, and face were badly burned, and it Is believed she also Inhaled tho flames. Mrs. Ulschoff Is survived by a daughter, who lives In Philadelphia. WELLER IS BOOSTED FOR COMMISSIONER Citizens Urge His Appointment to President for District Board. The name of Michael I. Wcller was proposed to President Taft today for nppolntmnt as District Commission er by a delegation headed by Uvan II. Tucker. James I.. Parsons, and Albeit rVhultcls. Hlnce the President has deckled to go to Panama December 19, It Is e peotcd tliut tho appointment of Dis trict Commissioners will be allowed to go over until nfter IiIh return. The terms of Commissioner P.udolph and Commissioner Johnson dn not ex pire until nfter the first of the yeui. It Is probable that the President will in tn-I"0'. dennKe'v decided what he l7j2dBi 'j? off.er. Engineer Commls ?.?r Jud''on before he returns from ernor of the Canal Zone the wav will iope,n for, the I'realdent to appoint Colonel Judson to one of tho nun crus IcKstr positions In the District to which much lesYanslblllty will be attached. Threaten Strike. SPRINGFIELD. HI. Dec. tl.-Unless two men discharged In tho car shops of the Chicago and Alton railroad hero are reinstated by Thuisday. Sou men em Ployed In tho shoos throughout tho sys. tern threaten to strike. The general officers of the International Car Work ers' linlnn are here, and have Indorsed the stand taken by the men. , Fifty Million Tons of Dynamite Ex. ploded In construction of the Panama canal. Now at Its most Interesting and Instructive stage. Best reached bv Southern Railway through New of. & r-.tCN.sw.-JfSvt' 7& Ulh " nd WIDOW Nine Injured, Three May Die, When Big Hotel Burns. LOSS ESTIMATED AT TWO MILLION Skyscraper and Eight Business Houses Are Badly Damaged. CINCINNATI, Dec. 11. Six women are thought to have been killed and three were Injured so badly that they are expected to die In a fire extin guished today after it destroyed the Gibson House Hotel and gutted the seventeen-story Union Trust build ing and several nearby structures. Six other persons Injured are ex pected to recover. The loss Is es timated at $2,000,000. The women thought to have per ished were seen at an early hour to day at the windows of an upper story of the skyscrspper by firemen, and have not been reported rescued. Soon after they appealed for help the flro broke away from the flre mon's control and enveloped the up per ten stories of the doomed build ing, destroying every vestige of fur niture and wood In tho huge steel ribbed marble staircased structure and firemen are now searching for their bodies. The injured are: List of Injured. Henry PotUbaum, night chief of no lle, leg stialned while aiding In res cues. Arch Johnson, fireman, right arm broken. Joseph Frede, fireman, arm broken by fire hose. Mrs. Jinnlc Hendricks, building em ploc, suffering from exposure; ut hos pital; may die. John Mulloney, Uellcvue, Ky.. Janitor, suffering from smoke suffocation: taken to city hospital; ma die. Mrs Josephine Donnektr, fifty, suffer ing from exposure; taken to city hos pital; mas die. Mlse Kate Hascrelt, suffering from suffocation, will recover. Charles Degman, firemen, cut about b'Mly by full down marble stairway of skyscraper. William Becker, fireman, broken arm. The origin of the Hre, the greatest known In Cincinnati's fashionable shop ping, hotel, and hanking district, re sulted from a bonfire built by a work man remodeling the Gibson Hotel. This blaze caught the rear of the Gibson House, which was occupied by sixty guests. Many thrilling rescues were executed. Search In Suins. Searchers today are groping through the ruins of the skyscraper and eight business buildings destroveil. firemen and police are seeking the missing uiouKii no Domes nave neon recovered up to noon The tear-stained faces of nrotheis rnd fear-stricken relatives urge tho searchers to their best efforts. Police I.leut. Thomas Hall was the hero of tho lire. With full knowledge that he wus risking his life In a pos sible collapse of the building he ran an elevator live times up through fourteen stories of the fnlon Trust Building, each time descending with a cage full of hysterical scrub women. Only four of them were hurt and those slightly. Telephone Operator Arouses Neighborhood In Danger of Fire HHAUON, Pa.. Dec. II. Miss Clara Johnson, u telephone operator, arnUBed the neighborhood and volunteers lit tempted to check a lire which destroyed the general store of W. II. Blgler n Hendersomllle, Mercer county, during the night. The loss was 10.ouo Mrs. John Wright nnd her daughter, who oc cupied apartments In the building, ' cupeil through a second story window In their night clothes. Ninety Rescued. PKORtA. III.. Dec. ll.-Nlnety patients v. ere carried to safety by sisters when tire broke out In Ht. Francis' Hospital todav. It wus believed that all wera saved. ASKS FOR GUNS TO PROTECT CITY General Bixby Urges Fortifica tion of Cape ,. Henry. Fortification of Cane Ilenrv nlih n Initial appropriation of 150 000 was asked today by Gen. W. II. Blxby, chief nf onainpnra ivhn nnnau...... ft.-..-- subcommittee of the House Approprta- ..iin ,-ui.himiiu. wMitii m now prepar ing the fortifications bill. ' It Is Intended that the capo shall he fftrtltlArl nlfh puna iirhlu ...... : .w...,u ...... ... I.,,,,,, nuum over look tho mouth of Chesapeake bay and urr a. . i.;v.in n n,uiliai ttllUCK Upon the flttnal-itl IllwKv amrA n -.. . . iic. hi .jiau, anncu n. (.uitaj ut ID Ore llibn f7f.nn.iYi fne tits. fnptlMn..il.H- . - the United States and lti poweialona. Dr. T. F. S. Marshall Resigns as Superintendent of Supplies. O. H. BRIQGS TO BE HIS SUCCESSOR Former Postofflce Department Official Now Acting in Place. Following In the wake of the resig nations of A. Piatt Andrew, Assist ant Secretary of the Treasury; Lee McClung, Treasurer of tho United States; Gideon C. Bants, Assistant Treasurer; Dr. T. F. 8. Marshall, superintendent of supplies of the Treasury, administrative head of the general supply committee, and rep resentative of Secretary MacVcagh on the committee, will leave the Government employ December 15. He la the fourth subordinate officer to leave the Treasury admittedly be cause of lack of sympathy with the administration of Secretary Mac Veagh. Now On Leave. Or. Marshall Is now on leac. Though oKrtally his resignation waa voluntary, and he bears the record of a good and efficient ofnetr. the path of the General Rupply Committee has not been a lied of roses, ard It Is known that Secre tary of the Treasury MacVcagh ns not entirely satisfied. It was because of a lack of s mpathy that Dr. Marshall resigned. It Is under stood. His future plans are not knouu, though It Is said he Intends to go Into private business. O. JI. Brlggs. .foftner purchasing agent of l.'xj Poatofflci- Department., has lnen made acting superintendent of supplies, and Is administrative hend of the sup ply committee and representative of the Secretary. When D. Marshall's of lice becomes technically vncaut. he will. It Is understood, be appointed superin tendent of supplies. In the appointment of Mr. Brlggs, Secretary MacVeajh sought n man who uould keep In closer touch with him nnd he uould be In full smpath with his administration and his Ideas, on the committee. Not To Be Chanted. There will be no reorganization nf the committee. It Is u body composed ot representatives from each of tho Gov ernment departments, and adtlscB fS Secretary of the Treasury as to con tracts for supplies fo rthe entire Gov ernment service. It Is the committer's business to standardize all supplies, and It has made rapll stildes In this dlrec tfon, saving the Government a good bit of money. When It began business tho Ooernment used ono hundred different kinds ot pen points. Now there are half a dosen or so varieties. Complaints against the commttteo have been rather frequent by depart ments and bureaus that desired a par ticular kind of nrtkle, and that had been used to making its onn purchases. The Public Printer charged that oil pur chased by the commttteo damaged the machinery nt the big print shop. The committee. However, has kept steadily at work, and has standardized one ar ticle after another. In the meantime complaints shower down by disgruntled contractors and the departments. Congress has taken up the matter nnd Is now thrashing out these cumplalnts and considering new legislation. TRY "TURKEY TROT" FOR CHARITY'S SAKE Philadelphia Society Disregards Code in Benefit for Hospital. PHIUADKM'HIA. Dec. ll.-Kormall-ties wero enst to the four winds last r.lght by a host of happv oung mem hi rs of society, ho reveled In tho "turkey trot" and the "chicken Hip" under the very eyes of their parents and the most stern leaders of society, who glided In more sedate dances In an other room of tho new Uellcvue Gar dens. Charity has Dcen tno motive mat prompted countless entertainments which have proven notable social tunc lions. rri.A i.nrf.,. nt anplf.ti' deeree.1 tnnt for onro this season the tail bars which pro- hlblt the popuinr ounces mown do low ered. When and wVre was a moment ous question, and ic decision was thut the ball, dinner and entertnlnment for the Jefferson Hospital, the Willing Day Nursery and the Tranclsvale Home should be the time, and atop the Belle-vue-Btratford should be the place, Brown Indorses Abbott As Indian Commissioner Senator Brown of Nebraska called at the White House yesterday to urge the appointment of Fred H. Abbott as Indian commissioner. Mr. addoh is now act ing commissioner, having had charge of the office since the resignation of Robert Valentine. It Is believed Ab bott will be allowed to retain the nosl tlon until the 'close of the Administra tion, and that possibly the President will not send In an appointment. JORDAN AND HIS BACKERS HURRY OVER TO NEW YORK By THEODORE TILLER. Tremendous pressure brought by opposition bankers today jeopardized Eldridge E. Jordan's chances of be coming the chairman of the inaugural committee and placed William F. McCombs, chairman of the Democratic national committee, in wavering attitude. The fight over the chairmanship has grown so bitter that Mr. Jordan and several of his backers including Mr. Costello left for New York last night. The opponents of Mr. Jordan, it is learned, have enlisted against him Frank A. Vanderlip, a powerful figure in the so-called Standard Oil group of financiers, and head of the National City Bank, of New York. It is learned that when Mr. Van derbilt was in Washington S aturday, as was Mr. Mc Combs, the banker told the national chairmun, "I would PLACES BAN ON BEER INKER Samuel T. Kalbfus Gives Reasons for Opposing New Regulation. The regulation forbidding, after Janu ary 1. the sale of beer In buckets to be drunk other than ut the place where sold, wus udnpted by tho Police Hoard, It wns learned today, by a majority vote, Samuel T. Kalbfus dissenting. The reason given by Mr. Kalbfus In voting against the regulation Is that If tho "growler" trade Is objcctlonablu In Individual Instances and In certain neighborhoods It can be regulated by the board, and that no necessity exists for a aeneral prohibition. In the adop tion of the ordinance, the board, accord ing to William P. Richards, chairman ex-ofllclo, was Influenced by both' the allied liquor Interests and the Anti Saloon League. The saloon men have given It their support for the reason that there Is little profit In the bucket tiade, while it Is advocated by the Antl Huloon eLaguc on the ground that the "growler" Is a demoralising force. Sentiment among liquor men regard ing the ordinance, however. Is far from being unanimous. Proprietors of saloons and wholesale places who have a largo wholesale bucket trade, are opposed to It. of course, from n business Mand polnt and argue further that It will not result In a decrease In the consumption of beer The Excise Ifnurri h.r.lnfnr. i... . .i ellnid to prohibit the lnnket trade on the ground that It wus without au thorlty of law. The recent opinion of the District Court of Anneals reversing tho decision of the Probute Court In the Gelger case, however, holds tlm the board Is possessed of exclusive au thority under Congress In granting licenses and the general regulation of the liquor tiarTlc. NEW MURDER FARM MYSTERY PROBED Michigan Woman Has Confessed Poisoning Mrs. Singel. LAN8INO, Mich., Dec. 11,-Pollce to. du- were digging for bodies In the cel lar of the "House of Mveter)," home of Mrs Mary Lucas, nttnrney, tho con fessed murderer of Mrs. Paulino Singel. Tho police assert that their Investlga ton will disclose a case rivaling the famous "muidcr furm" of Mrs. Louise Guiltless. the digging In the cellar disclosed quicklime In one coii.er, the police the ory being that this was used to destroy bodies burled thure. Mrs. Lucus today denied being linpllcuted In uny of the crimes of wlilch tho police Biispect her. with tho exception of tho Mrs Hlngel murder. She has admitted placing poi son In coffee which Bho gavo to Mrs. tilngcl to drink, but claims Justification for her act. Tho authorities today centered their investigation upon the mysterious dis appearance seven months ugn of Carl Miller, a boarder In the Lucas home. They assert Mrs. Lucas attempted to obtain possession of Miller's property alter his disappearance. Going Home For Xmii? Reduced rates via Atlantic Coast Line. Ofnce 1406 New York Ave., Thone Main IM,-Advt. like (o help ou pick an Inaugural chairman." Powerful influences liac been at work in tlic inaugural chairmanship tight, nnd Chairman McCombs Is about to go back on his original decision to make Mr. Jordan the chairman. Such disconcerting news came from Tmjw York at midnight that the friends of Mr. Jordan hae "gone to the front today," In what they term a tight against "the Standard Oil group of bankers In Washington." John V. Costello, District national committeeman, will Insist that his recommendation In favor of Mr. Jor dan shall stand. Under the Surface Facts. The under-the-surface story of the chairman fight, which la bigger than mere political or social rivalry, runs as folluws: The anti-Jordan group In Washington, men who have long played an im portant part In Inaugural ceremonies, hae reached the stage where they are Hilling to accept "almost anybody ex cept Jordan." Thomas Nelson Page, the author, has been sounded out on a hint from New lork hindquarters and Mr. Page didn't want the place. J. J. Darlington Is also understood to have been the recipient h,u ',,J,aL1Ve offer ot the chairman snip, put, he, too. looked unfavorably upon tha suggestion. V, hen the name of Mr. Jordan was first proposed, he uas rather a receptive uindlute. and did not Intend to indulge III a contest for the place. Later, after Jordan had recelcd the O. K. of Cos tello and McCombs, business and poli tical rivals concentrated their tire upon tho young banker and began to pull the wires between this city and New York. Powerful Influences at Work. The opposition to Jordan is fnstercd by powerful local Influences, which the former's friends fear have at last had nn effect upon the national chalnnan nnd which are about to cuuso him to reverse himself. An emissary from the anti-Jordan group of tlnarclers was unable to mako anv impression upon District Commit teeman Costello or upon n special rep- itnrmamo w nom nucomox sent to Washington to look over the rltuatlon. The Joidan opposition then went hlghr mi uruuKiii preisure upon McCombs himself, and it Is iellubl n ported that iinderllp has tukm n hand in tho In niuuriil chairmanship controversy. Ef- fOl (H lre lllsn bllntr tmwln In Anita Cleveland -Dodge, long-tlmo friend of I Governor Wilton, against Jordan. Hay Await Wilson. Tnless Chairman McCombs settles the spiiltcd battle one way or another to day, the entile mutter probably will hang lire until President-elect Wilson ict in ns from Bermuda early next week. ....." -halrtnan McCombs camo to Washington a few days ago he was Wiin.,0lU .fj;r,l,rct,.v" " the Capital situ anon. After he had been hem a short ni 'Jl'S "imi""el. In rather non plus.ed fashion: ni!,do?.,,J.mdor",an1 tnls exactly. The entlro light seems to be among bank- 'Now- that this wire-pulling has be gun." said a friend of Joi dun today. filf, Uatu,r.a,."y ioeH not n to bede feated. although he took a more or less cursory Interest In the matter when his SS'eiev.i11;" "Kested. It really an eleventh-hour struggle between a i.2VS.1i?.n.lier "d ol(,',r 'Wanders who m.? '.". 1Jeen eons-ulte'l In such matters heretofore. It is an open ee cret In financial circles that Joidun Is opposed by men Identified with 8tnn ilard Oil nnam.es In New York and In tho Capital." Indicates Bitter Feeling. The presenco In New York today of Jordan, Costello and other leprcsenU lives of tho Jordan faction Is sufllolent Indication of tho bitterness of tho chair manship row now In progress. Chairman McCombs wus expected to announce his decision yesterday. Last night word camo that he wns waver ing somowhat that he, didn't know Just what to do under the muddled state of nffulrs, nnd all factions "uot busy." One of two things may be expected today: Chairman McCombs will name either Mr. Jordan or a "dark horse." or tho wholo controversy will await tho loturn of President-elect Wilson from Uer muda. In any event tho greatest stiuggle ever wagged for control of the In augural chairmanship and locul Demo cratic politics. Is now In progiess, and Till1. "','? "oe certain prestige at tha White House. Kent Professorship at Yale Being Favorably Consider ed by the President. PRIVATE PRACTICING OF LAW NOT FAVORED Chief Executive Is Known to Op pose Idea of Opening Office in Cincinnati. President Taft has been offered and will probably accept the Kent professorship of Yale University when his term in the White House Is ended. The Kent professorship, with a salary of 15,000 a year, Is the highest In the roll of Yale honors, and the President feels that it holds the dignity commensurate with a former President. The offer of the professorship came several days ago since when the President has been considering It deeply. He has talked with his most Intimate friends over the matter and today It became known that he looks with entire favor on the offer. Question of Dignity. It has been known for some time that President Taft does not like the Idea of resuming private practice In Cin cinnati. The Inconveniences Incident to such a practice he does not think be fitting the dignity of a former Presi dent. Since his defeat nt the polls the Presi dent has received a number of offers some of which offer much larger mone tary returns than the Yale professor ship. Those who have held the "chair before, however, have been men of such calibre that the President does not think It would lower his dignity to take tho place left by them. Th last holder of the professorship waa Edward John Fhelps, one of the most noted lawyers In the country, who died In 1900. Saves Part of Salary. HI nee he has been In the White House President Taft has saved a portion ot his salary every year, and It Is esti mated that one third of It went Into Investments and banks. Ills private in come, after leaving tho White House, has been estimated at 18,000 a year ex clusive of what he might received from the professorship or any other position. The Kent professorship will cover lec tures on both International and consti tutional law. and would afford the President a wide field for Interpretation. He has remarked to friends. In view of the famous lawyers who have held the post, that he considered tho offer most flattering. MAN HIT BY TRAIN DIES OF INJURIES Inmate of Lutheran Home Found Fatally Hurt By Police man. Frank Andrews, fifty-nine years old, an inmate of the National Lutheran Home, Wlnthrop Heights. D. C, died early today in Sibley Hospital from" In juries received last evening when h was t-truck bv a Baltimore nnd Ohio train near Montello. No one witnessed the accident, but It Is thought Andrews was walking on the trucks at the time. He was found lying beside the tracks shortly after C o'clock by Policeman Wall, of the Ninth precinct. Wall hailed the driver of a passing automobile, who took the In jured man to the hospital. At the hospital It was found Andrews had received a fractured skull, broken collar bone and was also suffering from internal Injuries. It Is believed Andrews was struck bv an Incoming pastenger train. "Beware of Typhus Fever," Is Warning "Beware of typhus fevei." This was the warning sent out to tho people of the United States by tho Pub lic Health Service and which is now be lg disseminated In every city In pamphlet form. Typhus fever. It has recently heen discovered. Is Identical to Brills disease. An epidemic now exists In the slums of New York in mild form. IN CONGRESS TODAY. SUNATE. Senate met at noon. Judge Archbnld trial resumed ut 1:30. Omnibus claims bill taken up. Plans of Uemocrnts for preventing confirmations. Semite will not provide, retirement puy for former Presidents. Foreign Relations Committee will re port diplomatic appointments for confirmation. HOUSE. House met at noon. Routine bills nn Wednesday calendar were considered. Money trust Investigation resumed. Tho Now Haven Rullroad Inquiry con tinued. Admlial Standforth appeared before the naval nffulrs committee. Appropriation rommlttcu considered formication MIL