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.43MpgWR"aS B"T r 41s. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SATURDAY, MARCH 25;' 1016. help by wireless. The Sunex drifted la the Qhnnnel for houri, signaling In vain for help. I'titenxera who were wounded by fly Ink splinters were cared for ns well as possible by. a surgeon aboard the ship. When the Marie Thercaia bore down upon the Sussex late at night the 'Wounded were first transferred to the rescue ship. The Maria Theresa then nl over boats to take off the channel boat's passenger. In addition to the .boat thaMiad been blown away, several others of the Sussex's llfcboata forward 'were splllntered by the explosion, and Ih Sussex's crew feared they might link. ' Unden Own &tcam. The Sussex appeared In no danger of slnklns when passengers abandoned Iter, , Jand her crew expressed confidence that the would make port without difficulty. Another boat apporached In the dark ness, while the transfer of passengers "was being made, and offered to convoy tho iiamagod steamer Into port. The Uusse chugged along slowly, with the v escorting stoamcr only n fovv, rods astern, as the Maria Thercsnf turned Into Boulogne. j Wounded passengers were hurried to the care of 'physicians and surgeons on their arrival at Boulogne. The others hurried out for -breakfast, scattering before an nccurato list of the survivors could be obtained. It Is possible that persons first reported missing may bo found later to be among the saved. Most of the survivors left Boulogne on early trains this afternoon for Paris or cUIes In southern France. The. French authorities arc waiving some of the more rigid formalities In tU.e way of ex amination of personal effects. Patrol Vessel Saves Passengers of Sussex LONDON, March" 15. A patrol boat haa rescued the 3S0 passengers about d the channel liner Sussex, badly dam aged by an explosion, anil Is takln; them Into Boulogne, according to a dis patch from Dlcppo today. The crew Is still aboard the Sussex which was towed Into Boulogne harbor at 9:40 thli morning. Twelve Americans were on the Sus sex. John It. Hearloy, n United Press staff correspondent, who left London yesterday morning for Paris Is believed to have been aboard. Of the 380 pas sengers, 270 were women or children. Folkestone correspondents of London Gapers telegraphed that the channel oat was struck amidships by a torpedo at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon while approaching the French coast. A news agency reported this afternoon , that Elizabeth Baldwin, of Philadelphia. 1 suffered a broken leg anil other In juries, and that her father and mother were taken Into Boulogne. A United Press dispatch from Boulogne llstnil both Miss Baldwin and her father us missing. Thn body of n Belgian passenger of the Sussex was taken to Dover toiluv. Agents of the line havo no Information as to whether the Sussex was torpedoed or struck one of the mines. tho (Sermons arc repotted to have been sowing In tne channel. j The Sussex left Folkestone at 12:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The' wentlier was very clear when she was struck. If she was torpedoed, it In con sidered certain the submarine could not have mistaken the fuct that she was a passenger-carrying vessel. Tho American embassy has received no reports on tho accident, but instruc tions win ue sent to consuls in ranee i to obtain affidavits from American pas-1 Bengern 11 u appears mat tne Sussex was torpedoed. Although she was built as a British sqlp, the Sussex Is now controlled by the French state railways. She sails un ilcr tho French Hug, mid Is manned by a 1-rench crew. She Is well equipped with life-saving apparatus. No channel boat has yet been torpe doed in the English Channel. Among other Amerlcuns aboard' the Sussex were WO. Pentleld. a student at px,3rd. and Miss Alice Ituz. said to be from Colorado; Edward Huley, presi dent of the United Stntes Rubber Export Company, and Francis E. Drake, head ofino comPany's European branch. The first passengers landed at Dover said they believed several lives wero lost Forty-one Americans Believed on Steamer PORTLAND. Me.. March X.-Forty-one American horse-tenders are believed to liavc beemiboord tho Dominion liner F.ngllshman when she was sunk orr tne British coast -while en route to this port from Avonmouth, England. Dispatches from London last, night as serted that sixty-eight persons wcie saved. The Englishman was returning to Portland to take on horsed urcftuu In the United States for tho allies. Uho sailed from Avonmouth on Wednesday, under command of Ciptaln. Morehouse. The British vice consul hora said he believed there were only about live Brit ishers, In addition to the crew, nboard the steamer. The Englishman was a 5,S!7-ton steam er, owned and registered at Liverpool. Skinner Reports Fifty Passports Are Vised The first official messages, 'relating to the reported "torpedoing of the Sus sex, received at tho State Department this afternoon said merely that Consul General Skinner nt London had vhed about fifty American passports within the last few days, but that he had no way of knowing whether these Ainerl - cans had embarked on the Sussex. Asks $10,000 Damages For Alleged Injuries The Washington Railway and Klectrlo 'Company la mado defendant In a suit for IW.OW daninges filed In the District Supremo Court today by Elizabeth Burklln. In her declaration the plulntlrt pl leges tliat while attempting to alight from an Eleventh street car ut Glrard street November 30 last, tho car started abruptly and she was dragged a dis tance of fifty feet. The suit Is to recover for alleged In juries to the left side. The petition was tiled by Attorney Hoi ace I.. B. Atkinson, C. Dudley Shrevo and Joseph N. Crowe. THE WEATHER REPORT. The forecast for the District nt rv,. lumhla-Partly cloudy and probably fchowcrs loto tonight or on Sunday; warmer tonlghti Moderate eas6 to southeast winds. Maryland-Cloudy tonight and Sun da possibly nhowcrs; warmer tonight. Moderate cast to houtheust winds. Vlrgltila-Cloudv tonight and Sunday; probably showers; wnimer tonight; colder Sunday In extreme west portion. -"Moderate winds, mostly south. ThMPHRATURIiS. (U. S. Bureau.) f ni m 8 a. m ., 10 a. m , g 11 a. in.,., M 12 noon r,n 1 P. m 63 TIDK TABLE. Ht,h tl.le 12:12 a. m. Low tide :1S a. m. and 7:16 p. m. SIN TABLK. Bun rose 5.JS Sun sets.. . .6.17 ZJlhi automobile lamps 6:47 p. m. i APPREHENSION OVER MEXICO SHOWN AT G.O.P. E Conviction That Situation Is , Critical Is Voiced by Repub lican Senators. Strong feeling that the Mexican situa tion Is critical was voiced at a confer ence of ifcpuhllcan Senators this morn ing. The conference was called to consider what ought to bo done with respect to the Mexican problem. General discus- slon resulted. The conferees did not 'reach any conclusion, but will meet again Monday, The view was freely voloed at the con ference that no partisan politics should be allowed to enter Into the discussion The feeling was general that the Pres of the Mexican uurstlon In the Senate. Idem should be upheld and that. If con ditions got worst, the Administration should We .freely, supported with surh appropriations for men and supplies lis might be needed. Alarm In Felt. Apprehension that war with Mexico fa not far ahead was expressed by some of tho Senators at the meeting. This feel ing Is not confined to Republicans. Some Democrats admit they are alarmed. But while II was the feellnc that par tisanship should be avoided. It was ulro declared hv several Senators that homo thing ought to bo done to put an ntle iiuoatc foice on the border to piotect the propel theie. and. should occas'on j i'm, to ip-enforce Pershing. Senator AlcCumber prepared a resolu tion to thl.i respect, and thoro are feveral others beating on Mexico ready for picsentation. The om by Senutor McCiimber met tvjthk support, but wa.i not finally ncted on. :lt expresses the belief thul the forces along the border ought to ho Inci eased for the protec tion of Americana. It Is-not critical of tl)e Administra tion, and would leave details of Inciois Inc the for-- to tint Government. Senator Cummins nlso has prepared a rero'utlon. anil It was discussed. The Siieiman resolution was not brought up. Tho report of more Americana, 'being killed on the harder and the general un easlnrsH reflected In telegrums fiom the frontlei arc In part responsible for the Republican conference today. htnatora at the meeting took the posi tion that there was need for moie and accurate Information. It wus detcimlnxd to send a number of telegram of Inquiry to bonier point at once, and It Is expected leplles w'U be here by Monday, when thn confer ence will resume. Senator Fall of New Mexico Is on the border now, and 1 cpecled to havo some Intel eiitliig Information when he icturn. Want Accurate Information. Probably bocuuse of the strong ef fort of the Government and of the Ad ministration leadept In Congress to put the lid qu Mexican matters. Senator Lewis today naked In the Senatn that his icsolutlon go oev a week without prejudice. FOURlUilENo (Continued from First Page.) torpedoed, time and place unknown heie. Survivors brought Into not th em Blitlsh port, thirty-three so far. Believed slty were saved and mora nro reported uh probably rescued, Icnvln? a shortai-e of eighteen. "Following Americana were on board: Peter McDonald. hor?e foreman. r. Cherry street. Boston; P. lulklcy and M. A. Burke, horseman, addresses un known here George Mi'DonaM, trim mer. S Common, Lawrence. Mass. Their mimes aio not Included ! the list of thiily-thrce so far icscucd. "HlnRlighmttn .as bound for Fortlan-1, Me. It left Avunmoiilhr 21st Inst, Transported hoi tea to t. Nnr.nlre, France, for Northwestern Trndlnir i'o:n panv. New Voik Was not on Govern ment. No further rartlcular.-" at piiMent available at nrlMol." The Stale Department had tin official teport on the rrooited torpedoinr of the channel "liner Sussex, with Amet leans aboard. Institution weie sent to Am-l-npsador Sharp ot Poll and to con. siitnr officials at Boulogne for dclnlls To Await Further Facts. Secretary lapsing said the Stat.' De partment will obtain further facts bear ing on tho toipedotng ol the RmsliKh- man befote taking nlflchl nctltn to hold Germany or Austrn to account. I Offlclrls weie not fullv satisfied that' the preliminary icport definitely estab- lished that the ringliflunan was tor- i pedoed, since the chiihiiI lei.mt'.ug was ! unablo to give the tune and plnco of j the accident. ii nu uiir iiuiiw,(iw niifti niiu u nern the vessel was nltacked. they wero not leadv tr. amumc without futther fuels ' U ho did notvKr,ow when ar.d whero that he know how the nccUcut occur- ted. If it Is nroved the vosspI was umii'mcdJ r.na torpedoed, causing the death or American clt'rcns, no official? todav would attempt to forecast what tho GovernmcnL'a uetion will ho. Germonv nml Aimlrln lmi-n i-lv, fi,n Mrongest plrdges that unarmed liner i will be exempt from submarine attack. I The nuestlons raised about thn arming ! of merchantmen would not apply In IhlB illiie HI ail. I , Al i roiir Other Cases Pending. jiii umi-i suites i eiiiiuig. no lour other submarine cases tho Tilhanlln Inrneilneil or :"".?""' lnrnedoea oi There or pending, mined, with Americans nboard; tho S'llus, sunk by torpedo or mine w th Amciicana aboard, one ot whom was Injured; the Potrla, torpedoed with Americans aboard, but which escaped ly flight, and the Persia, sunk In tho Medtterranvan w 1th loss of two Amer ican lives. All theie cases are still In the stago of Invcstlgat'on. There are three earlier cases, the l.usltan'a. Amble and Ancona yet un nettled. All nre cases aferetlng the klll Inc or Jcopani7.ing or Americans. Further steps toward settling nil Hicko case will bo held up until th6 Government mnkes a full InvpHtlrmlnn 'of the latest reported submarine out rage: Asks Habeas Corpus Writ Against Pullman Alleging that ho lx icst"alnetf without authoiltv "b . Iru.e of it pretended warrant Iscucd In rriinnnlH." Al fred C. MilMdl las hiHtltuted halnaa corpus prrctedlngr in the Dlstrlrt Su jnemn Comt ngulnvt Mu'.ir Putlm.ui. .Justice Gould, before whom the wrll was ivesenlfil late Inst i.lgut, haa i-et the hrm Ins for March :.l in 1 is i in., lertusented bj Attorney C W. Bell. Hidwel! was rflased on bind of W lending the Inuring. CONFERENC ICTIMS VERDUN IN FLAMES FROWl -ARTILLERY FIRE, BERLIN SAYS War Office Reports City To Be On Fire After Work of Big German Guns. llKHI.lN. March IB, The city of Verdun lias been set afire during' ar tillery lixchannea the war office re ported this afternoon. No Important changci occurred on the wentcrn front last night. Itelurn of crlap, spring, weather to Hip Vol dun front, signals, the. renewal of hcavv German Infantry nttacKH which nro. slowly squeezing; tin Fronch out df tholr strongly-fortlnud position;. German Attacks Are Not Renewed, London Says LONDON, March M. The Germans did not renew their Infantry attacks against tho French front northwest of Verdun, according to Paris dispatches this afternoon. There were no Import ant Infuntry engagements on either bank of the Meusc. The British expeditionary force cam paigning against German Hast Africa is making, further progress In Us ag gtesslvn operations, according to an of ficial statement. Gen. Jan Christian Smuts, In charge of the operations, has reported the occupation of A nnhs and the driving of the Germans from their line along the lluwu rlvor. Field Marshal Earl Kitch ener, tho secretary of state for war, haa telegraphed his congratulations to the commanding general. , A reorganization of the British forces In Kuypt following a satisfactory turn of affairs for the British there has been "effected. It was officially announc ed. The war office statement says: "The military position In Egypt being satisfactory, owing to the falluro of attempts by the Turks, on the west fiontler, a reorganization of the forces In that country has been effectedand (Sen, Sir A. Murray has assumed solo command In Kgyp. Gen. air J. O. Max well left for Kngland today. Fire Engines Run For Movie Films Apparatus Shown for Piceures Being Made to Boost Capital City. l'lre engines clanged through the streets: the sirens of motor trucks honk ed; coruera were turned almost on two wliecle In fact, downtown Washington was ttic playground for hal fa dozen pieces of tire-lighting apparatus about noon today. A llrur Dear me, no. Unly movlag pictures. , It-all came about as. part of thcplan or-thu Retail Merchants' Association to bogst Washington through a moving picture film. Pictures will be inadu or the police." the District building, Ttho purkx, and Federal offices, and such a display would not be complete without the boys who tight the flames. Therefore, for the benefit of tho mo tion plcturo en me in. a good many tr'al runs were made toda). The work started at No. '1 engine coin puny, near Twelfth and I! streets, where an exhibition of motor-dilvoi apparatus was given, as wus the case at No. IS engine com pan), neur Twelfth and D streets. No. 3 truck, at Fourteenth stre.H and Ohio avenue, was culled Into nl.iv to demonstrate the usu ot this typo uf motor vchlc'e, with Its water iower. For a dhplay of the old horse-drawn apparatus .No, 1 engine company, nt Seventeenth .nut K strcnM. was chosen. PARENTS AND CHILD AIDED BY FORUM I The Community centers In public schools were described as "tliu incatis or l.rl.Jf.liiK Iho widening gap between us and our children." by Prof. Kilwuiu J. Ward, of the I'ulted Stateu Buieau of Kdi'catlou, ul a meeting of thu aim Klilno Soc,et In Woodward & Iotniopd auditorium esterday alternoun. "The people ot the Grover Cleveland neigiitorhood who camo to that school i.iuiuIiil: and there oriranlzeil an associa tion tor onleicncM concerning tho com-1 iiion gooit, woro thu men una women, the fnthcis ami mothers, ot that com munity. They organized 111 response to obligation ot parenthood. Tney elected to meet .it a coitam time. They wen: .irlutrai'ily firohibltcd Irani doing tha: winch they desired to do in tho tnltlll iiiint ol their otillg.ttloii to their ciitl hi en." 1'ior. Waid outlined tin adautage ot the cnmniunlty centers, The meeting ' mm wttli a benediction by tliu Rev. i ir. John McMurray. Savs He Paid Extra Fare. ' C.,c Far $10 ((( Pliimnirac OlIUS TOl J)1U,UUU UailiaiitS Dcilarlng he p.ild an extia faio when thiuiK'lioil .t Willi tjcctlon b) n cunJuc tor on it Ballliiiore and (Jiilo iralu, idiluli Mlolilnuid has bioui.li. xul. in tttie Disiild dniiuniu Court iignliibi thu i . . ... .... r.... iin'i-.h. .i..H.... n.lnnillV for HUl'iM duniUKC Tho plaiiillft sua he was a paiisenger from Baltimore to Washington Groo unit had tendered Ills ticket to a con-J tluclor who wai, lellevcd by another i wiium ,u i,.w.u ,, uciiiiitiiuii viiuiu was leaihcd. Ho tillers that the second conductor i no iies" inut me aecouu conauctor demanded a ticket, and when threaten- I " ."'l'1 cjo-lliin. he paid a cotlll fare. N;lu, ,.,. ,, Ul0 ,,an of th0 r()t co. dm tor In nut advising ti Id Micccsuor la alleged. I The petition wan lllcd by Attorneys , Norniuu S. Bowie and John Rldout. President Ends Fight Over Kansas City Postoffice " " Pieuldent Wilson today nominated Baylcs Steele for postmaster ul Kunsas City, Mo. Tho nomination of Steele settled Iho long light over the Kansas City post mastershlp. Senator Reed of Missouri today, stated tint Steele was entirely rallrtfrtctoty to him. Originally W, N. ' uoutns was nominated ror thn ptaco, but In Iho face of objection hla naliio was withdrawn. Fall From Two-Story Window Fatal to Boy Kinest F. Fowler, the twelve-year-old hoy who fell from the second story win now of a now houso at 74S Twelfth stret HOiitheaHt last Tuesday, died In Provldnnco Hospital today. The hov Ued nt His I street south east. The police say he was plailng in the houss when he fell. He waa picked up with a fractured akull. VIOLENT SCENE IN GERMAN REICHSTAG Radical Socialist; Declaring Kaiser Will Not Win War, Withdraws, With Others. COPKNHAGKN. March K.-A violent acenP In the German Recistng pre ceded the.wltlidruv.nl df'clghlcop mem bers from tho Socialist party, Berlin advices tfoPyrled today. ' Speaklnc; In the." budget debate. Dr. llaose. Radical .Socialist, shouted that Germany w.oilld naver win the war. ''In fact, none of, the belligerents wljl win." le s,,i. .T10 80C,,ists of all countries hate, war. Wo want peace." Member, of the Reichstag crowded about Haaso and attempted to unlet ii m:. .ln. "' mld,!t ot "e tumult. Phil lip Scheldeirtann. the Socialist who re cently questioned Chancellor von Both-' '"onn-IIollweg on peace tfirme. eamd to the defense of the government. Scnelda inann declared tho Socialist- party would "e,Y.1r ,,-,("t Oeinwny in the war. hen Haaao'altomptcd. to reply, ho y.as surrounded by, deputies, who threatened to strike him. The president or tho ItoJcliMng adjourned the silling. The eighteen Socialists then wltndicw, urgunlxcd n new parly known iii tho Socialist l.ubor Community, and elected Hnasc their leador. The soml-officlol German wlrclesj last night reported thdt" "eighteen Sorla'.lsls withdrew, forming a new party under '.he leadership of Ilnaje. but did not state over what Issue the split c ruired. GIVES DEATH BLOW German Greif Torpedoes British Merchant Cruiser Alcantara as She Goes Down. LONDON. Mnreii a".. Tho Gorman raider Gielf and the British merchant cruiser Alcantara were both aunk ln an engagement In the North Sea on February '"). the admiralty unuounccd thU afternoon. 'Hie Grelf, flying the Norwegian col ors, slipped out of a Germtn port, plan ning to repeat the exploits of the .Moewc. The German ship wan sunk by gun lire from the Alcantara, funnel I y the big royal mall liner, which had been pressed Into ndmlraltv service. Before she went down she torpedoer the Al cantara, which remained afloat several mimes petore linking. Of the tcw of the Grelf, about lSr) aro tKllevcd to lmo perished. 1,'lve of .lier officers and lit men were tnjUn prisoners. Thn Alcantara lost five offlecra and sixty-nine men. The Grelf was an unprotected German cruiser, displacing 2.UM tons, 317 feet long, niiti Willi a 2.-roni ne.im. nie car ried o crew of about lfio men. Her arm ament, according to uavul lists Issued heroic the war, consisted of eight 3,1 Inch guns. v The Alcantara wn built In liU.", and was "ill feet long, with a iJT-foot beam. She hud four declcs and wan one or the fluent of the roam I mall steam paeknts linerif. 1ie was registered at Belfast. Pharmacist Dead In Capital Grounds Lawrence It. Grant, a pliarmacUt, forty-thtee jeara old, who lived ut Iho homo of his Lipther, G. M Grant, I in Twelfth street nirthweat wu i found dead In tho Citiil.il Gionmls emlv , I today. I i nu poncn ur.u i oroner .ncviu aro. I nnllrlllnllni. .... I .. .'..u , I.. .. . I . .. a . I ,r' of'r, ,,,'lwV',,"Y .T. ' ut icdT:iji in inu JllLluiie. I The Head man. uncording ft lila moincr. naa not teen home for more. Z'd'S ' ..Vi' il..ai: SINKING SEA RAIDER ployed. Jt was raid he hud been abaci. t ganliatlon ln Baltimore In 17SI. He said from work Tor several tlna. Itlmt Francis Asbury bore the same rc- J?,?u ,,.l.?,Lc.wr r1?? V,- "IT' la,l" American Methodism that (-outhwcflt, an emplo.ir of the Wax h nu- .... . . ,- ,. , w ., ,, ton Railway Ccinpanj, dl"covcred the John Wesley bore to hngllsh Methodism dead man ab'iv.t ( o'clock this moinlug. He spokeof the influenco of Bishop As The bodv lay near tho uib ut I he kiki bur and the other Itinerant prcachem. nnd Uaut Capitol Mrcet entrance to tne grounds. Iteddlck notified the police, and they vlth a physician from Casualty Iloupl - tnl. Imriled to tho spot, but foiniil Um mini had been dead foi some tlnvv homo paper In his pocket led to his brothcr, who Identified the body today, ANOTHER NEW ROW 3632to3640 11 StN.W. Biggest Bargains Ever Offered in This Section. Open, Lighted, Ll kz. ' ' ' ' NflifSVwnHLW F1-."". ?oiliJ'JWBBBnWP!Wljpi r tiH 3n one square north, or 1 4th St. car to Spring road and walk 2 squares east. Phone for our free auto service. Inspect today. 1314 FST. N.W. or 7th and H STS. N.E. METHODIST COUNCIL SYMPATHY WITH BILL Rev. James Cannon, in Speech to Conference At Alexandria, Lauds Prohibition Measure. SAYS CARL1N IS FOR IT ALBXANDRIA, March M.-Prohlbl-tlou for Iho Dlstlrct of Columbia, was discussed at this morn!ng icstlon of the Baltlmoro conference of the Metho dist Episcopal Church. South, by tha Rev, Dr. James1 Cannon, of Richmond, superintendent of the Xntl-Saloon League of VlrBlnln. He declared tho league was In entire sympathy with the amended Shcpp-trd bill, an expresses the bcJIef tho bill woul be passed, lie said ho had a conference last night with Congressman Charles C. 'ui!ln. who was heartily In favor of the bill. He rcfened to conditions which would result If Washington remained wet and Alexandria dry, and sold travel be tween thn two cities woul be mae un safe by thn passage to an fro of men under the Influence of liquor. He roferred to the Underwood refer endum bill n a snare of the whUky lutereaU cciarlng that every venal foroc. every loafer, and cvorv person who has no Interest In thn District ot Columbia, would vote to maintain tne r.iloons, while thouands or Govern ment employes who vote eUewhero would bo afraid to cast their ballot-i In Hie proposed referendum on account of fear of loosing their vote at their ''TlT'sold the new Sheppard bill was similar to the bill recently passed by tho Virginia legislature, which, he de clared, was the moat sweeping and dras tic piohlbltlon law ever written Into the statutes of any State. Revicwa Virginia Law. Dr. Cannon made a brief review of tne Virginia law, which Is contained In thirty-two pages. He cxplanlcd the section permitting each head of a household to have n "(idarf of whisky each month, and said that It was the best that could be obtained from the legislature. In the fight for the prohibition bill ln Virginia, as elsewhere, he said, the greatest oposltlon came from the "wet ncwsiuipers, who do not hesitate to con tinue their opposition to prohibition even after the State had gone dry. Dr. Cannon said the crux ot the pro hibition law In Virginia was the ap pointment of n commissioner by the Stole to seo that the law was observed and the appropriation of .IM per. an num for the expenses of his depart ment. In the naming of the Rev. J Sidney Peters, a member of the Methodist Chuich. the Stule had an official who would seo 4 hat every piovlslon of tho prohibition III II was carried out. The fight' for prohibition In Virginia hud cost tho Antl-Saloon Lencue $81.- L-MiOinnd It is .estimated It rost tho trliliky 'lefil. at lenut l.60i..O9.i, Ther-i "Still remains atl initeiitennoss of the. Antl-3alooii I.eairue of JjIO.OO). nnd Dr, Cannon asked Hint te confer ence do it BtiniG In wlplm; out this deficit Tile 10 Hh anniversary of the death of Bishop Francis Anbury, one of tho foundora of Methodism In America, was obarrved at this morning's serv ices and vos the oreaslon of an In .inirlu.T sermon hv l.'ishup Mouzon on the life or the blshot. ' He used the rnimon as a means of admonition to the seven voting men who were tecelved In full membershln of the ronfeienee, James P. Wvlle. M. I. Klmoie. K. W. Aaron. I G. Coj. John M. R-jsenborger, J. Vf Liggett, and 15. Carl Maxwell. When he produced a manuscript v.hlcli gnve a number of historical leferenot th bishop told his nudlenco not to worrv about Hie manuscript ai It would not woriy hlr. very much. Against "Canned" Sermons. Tinning to the clas ho advised them not to use a manuscript In preicl'lng ai hu said. "If a sermon Is to he read I prefer to read It mvself, at home." TWe average congregation, he declared, has no tire for enthusl I ttum flint lVnnnp(1." ! Bishop Mouxon traced the growth of, Me.hodMm In this country from lis or-1 who traveled up and down the eau hi coast or the rnltea states nraklng a tiemei'ilous Impression upon America In 'Un eaily days, even greater than that I produced by tho Puritans. Munv Incidents were given of the life of Asbury. his Christian character, de- votlon to his caus, and ho.urs spent ln Heated to 9 P. M. Six and Eight Rooms and Bath, Hot-water Heat, Eectric Lights, Laundry and Servants' Toilet, Pantry; Extra Large Rooms. lots 18x142 to pavcvi alley. Price, M,45o and $4,850. To inspect, take l Ith St. car to Monroe and walk NEW SHEPPARD prayer, being discussed In an linpres' elv and pleasing manner. As a tostIt of tho Asbury centennial an cqueatilan staluo of tho bishop will probably bo erected In Washington by tho Southern Methodists. A communi cation was rend from the general co:n mlttca.ln New- York. In reference to this matter, and the conference named a commlttc6 composed of tho Rev. Dr. F. J. Prcttyman, tho Rev. Dr. D. It, Kern, nnd the Rev, Dr. II. M. Xantcr to consider the subject. Nearly 10) meinlcis of the conference nndf their wlvea left here at JI -in o'clock today fcr Baltimore where lhe Mr II I nttond the service at iho Tabcrniiclo this aftcmr.oti and tonight and hear "Billy' Sunday. Thej' will return to night. Tomorioiv will bn'a Mg dnv for'tho members of tht (.rnforeiicc with a nro gram Hint Is xcry full of Interesting cvfnt. Many of the vIMtlng paHlors will occupy puits In Washington Alex andria and vicinity. At tho Washington Street McthodUt fh'Jrch. Sciith. four ble- servicer have been scchdultd A. ti ." o'clock there Grand Prize, Panama -Pacific Exposition SAN FRANCISCO, 1915 Grand Prize, Panama - California Exposition SAN DIEGO 1915 DRINK Baker's Cocoa KIO, U. S PAT. OFF. WALTER BAKER & CO. LTD. Eitabliihed 1780 DORCHESTER, MASS. H ; jm ' ;' '. " ' ' ? , "sTrTrriM Location, 'J'u Inkticvt ijiui: j I run Kin tut Cur uiruru nH H Wm!m WBP MlgaLbiaattuiJgiaaKa. J IIJ II IlP Ij Thomas A. Jameson 61 N. Y. AVE. N. W. Phone North 4038 Phone For Our Free Auto Service. Open and Lighted Until 9 I M. Answer Calls Prompt! If you arc slow in answering your telephone bell, th party calling you may get tired waiting and hang up What is often blamed as "slow sen-ice" is often caused by the called party not answering his bell promptly. 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