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Resume W. R. and E. Valuation Hearings Pending Appeal for Six-Cent Fares
SYME ALLEGES
BALTIMORE TO HAVE
BIG W PARADE
Take Your Honeymoon In the Air, Our
Artist Says to Newlyweds
WHO IS THE OLDEST WORKER
FOR UNCLE SAM? No. 14
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES: MONDAY; FEBRUARY 107 1919.
OPPOSED m
SAYS GROWN PRINC
MIES OF
HI'S EXPECT
ARE SWOLLE
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By JIII-L TRICE.
Having -for Its purpose the fixing
of the valuation of tho properties of
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company at the earliest possible date,
that It may be prepared to pass in
telligently upon the claim soon to be
"Jade by that road .for increase of
fares in this city, the Public "Utilities
Commission today resumed valuation
hearings.
The last session of the body was
late In March, 19IS. at -which time the
commission completed the direct tes
timony of Harold Almert, employed
by the 'company as Its principal con
sulting' engineer.
The cross-examination of Almert
began today by Conrad Syme, counsel
for the Utilities Commission, and will
continue for some time.
Tola of Inventory.
Almert had formerly -testified as to
what It would cost to reproduce the
"Washington Railway and Electric
lines, which include the city and sub
urban and Georgetown and Tenley
town, lines, wnich make separate
reports to the commission. He had
stated that he made a complete in
ventory of the valuation of the prop
erties, aided by a. staff of about sixty
people, und that he had been paid by
the company a total of $110,000 up to
.viarcn, lais. for his services. He was
asked by Syme to furnish the total
he has received up to this date. From
these payments he paid his own staff.
Mr. Almert. in his direct examina
tion, summarized the valuations of
the properties, if reproduced as of
July 1, 1916, as being 529.656.2S3.62.
as fallows: W. R. and E., $25,053,
714.50; City and Suburban. fi3,923,-SG3.42-;
Georgetown and Tennally
town. $678,700.70.
The direct cost of reproduction of
the three roads, then arrived at by
him. was 116.966.909.89, but there
were various indirect items that went
to make up the grand total. In
cluded in these is 5702.S08.15 for com
pensation to "cOnceivers and promo
ters;" development costs of 53.S30.920,
and "property rights in easements"
of 32.560,000.
onaer a plain name, "property
rights in easements" would be the
value- .of the company's franchise in
value of what It believes to be Its
rights In . these streets.
Disallowed to Light Company.
"The Potomac Electric Light Corn
forward a similar item but this was
disallowed by the commission on the
ground that public utilities have no
franchise value to streets. The de
cision of the Commission disallowing
this item would knock off $2,500,000
at one blow from. M. Albert's valua
tion. The outstanding stock issues of the
W. R. and E., are J15.000.000 preferred
and common; City and Suburban.
$1,750,000; G. and T.. $200,000.
The bonded debt of the three roads,
upon which interest is now paid, is
$19,450,000. Total stock and bonded
debt, upon which interest and divi
dends have been paid, $34,750,000, sub
stantially $5,000,000 more than Mr.
Almert estimates the cost of reproduc
tion. Symc's cross-examination this morn
ing brought out that Almert - is
"stamped" as a. corporation engineer:
that he has had comparatively little
work as an expert- for municipalities,
but has nearly .always represented
corporations. Syme said that this
"stamp" was" "indelible." and Almert
admitted that he had not often been
xnp,loed as represcntatne of the
pc&lic
v ct. Bcmis. who has often represented I
Are you sensitive
It is impassible to hide your face
t cry time people look at you. That
disfiguring -eruption robs you of your
rightful beauty. It lowers your chance
of success in life it brings sidelong
glances where there should be smiles.
Have you tried Resinol? If you have
not, there is still an excellent chance
Cloud Riders for the Honest Hand Holders Who've Doiie
the Mendelssohn Act
By KAY KING.
There may be a cerTain bunch
of heart - heavers and alimony
fiends who have honeymooned so
often they look upon It with the
attitude of a commuter, and there
may be those who have come
down the sawdust trail of divorce
to be redeemed from the throes
of matrimony, who will not be
interested in this bit of info but
I'm thinking that the honest
handholders who start down the
church aisle together and finish
faithful at the Golden Wedding
will ever look upon the honey
moon as the essence of sweet
heart days.
Mary and John who hold hands
every evening in the parlor and
have saved up almost a hundred
dollars to start buying furniture
on the easy payment plan, may
not even be able to take the old
fashioned wedding trip to Niagara
Falls where it's so nice and
noisy nobody can hear them talk
love stuff, but they haven't been
down to earth since they .first
the Utilities Commission here, will not
accept employment from corporations.
Mr, Syme then began questioning Mr.
Almert as to why he had fixed July 1,
1916, as the date for reproduction, press- j
ing to know if that time was not ab
normal in prices of labor and material.
Almert stated that while it was some
what abnormal, it was not as radically
so as Syme desired to make it, and that
anyhow he had made up his figures of
the cost on what he considered a normal
basis. That is, he had allowed for some
abnormality, desiring to be conservative.
He admitted that there had been a grad
ual rise in everything from July 1, 1914,
to July 1, 1916. an da much larger rise
from July 1, 1916. to March 1918, when
tho valuation proceedings hailed. He de
clared, however, that his basis for the
calculations was not at all upon tiie large
rises in costs but as near normal as his
judgment and experience could make it
As proof of this claim, he read the cost
price of different Items as included in
his estimate and their present cost. In
other words he discounted the abnormal
conditions of the last two years.
The trend of the cross-examination
was to show that prior to th begin
ning of the European war, when con
ditions were normal, the road could '
have been reproduced for many mil
lions of dollars less than .estim:itd
by Almert at a time when price con
ditions were not normal and wh-n
construction companies would have
made big allowances as protection
against the continual ne in prices
about your face?
of regainingthatschool-girl complexion
you .once were proud of. Rough, red.
pimply skins, skins that itch and burn,
break out in pimples that are painful
and embarrassing, as a rule quick'v
yield to the soothing medication of
this ointment.
Visit your druggist tonight and buy
iiio
met at the block party, so they
have an -idea of what a honey
moon in an airplane is like even
if they haven't been any higher
than the Sixth avenue "I" in Xew
York.
But surely every sweet young
thiHg who is making her "tour
sew" will be interested to know
that an airplane company has.
. just completed the cunningest little
cloud rider they call the Honey
moon Express which means that
it was made expressly for honey
mooners. I'm afraid the Airplane Honey
moon Express is going to be so
popular they'll' have to install a
regular run and establish traffic
rules.
It's going to be kinda dan
gerous for us ordinary human be
ings to stroll around Rock Creek
Park during June, because we
never can- tell when an old shoe
is going to puncture our ideas,
and it wouldn't surprise me to
find rice growing in among the
geraniums on the roof gardens.
Time Hies when we are with
they would have been subjected to had
they made bids for building the roads.
-Th I nkc Fijjnrr Unreasonable.
Syme believes he can discredit the
figures of Mr. Almert as excessive and
beyond reason
Ge leral Kutz, chairman of the com
mission, sought to ascertain if the es
timates were upon current prices July
1, 1016; prices previous to thit time,
or prices since. Almert admitted that
it was neither, but what he consid
ered average or normal prices, baled
upon his experience and judgment as
to costs generally.
Upon completing cross-examination
of the company's experts the commis
sion will place its own witnesses on
the stand to show their estimates oi
the cost of reproduction of the prop
erties of the railway companies under
normal conditions.
The hearings and arguments will
take at least another month, and then
the commission will render its de
cision, from which there is little
doubt that an appeal will be made
to the courts, as in the case of the
Potomac Electric Light Company.
Will Dr.l.Ic Itar of Fare.
The case is of great importance to
the public, inasmuch as the commis
sion will seek, after valuations are
fixed by it. jo hiame a fare rate on
cars that will enable the company to
earn returns that will be reasonable,
probably 15 "per cent. At present, as
already shown, the company is pay
ing interest on bonds and dividends
on stocks the total valuations of
which are rjose to $.'55,000,000.
Should tho commission fix a valua
tion of $--'.000,000, for instance, tho
returns allowed from fare collec
tions would be sufficient to pay in
terest and dividends to that amount
ot bonds and stocks only, although
the company's ownership of the Po
tomac Electric Light Company, from
which gooil dividends are received,
would enable it to pay interest at
least on u large proportion of its
stocks.
John S Barbour and S. Russell
Bowen represented the W. It. and !;.
today. 1're.sIdPiit Ham, of the road.
has been absent from the eity a
week trying to recuperate from the
hard work lie has been doing for
the last few months.
Try Pineapple
Pineapple is a
flavor whic h
must be sealed
to keep. We
seal it in a vial.
We use half a
ripe pineapple
to make the
flavor for one
Jiffy-Jell des
sert. So you get
a wealth of this
delightful taste.
Jiffy-Jell comes ready sweet
ened. The bottle of flavor comes
in the package. And it costs a
trifle. One package makes Instant
dessert for six.
There are 10 flavors, but try
Pineapple and Loganberry today.
Order them now.
2 Package far 25 Cents
JIFFY-JELL-Wuieh. WUcotuia
those we love, and I'm thinking
they'll haVe to do some round
about routing .to .stall those
honeymoon planes so that they
can fly the longest way round
and not arrive at the destination
too soon. The old cross-country
run on the Bungtown local may
not have all the modern improve
ments of the gala, gaged moon
mileage, but what difference-does
it make whether the old "train
stops at every Harvey house on
the line, just so long as Cutic and
- Sweetie have a sublime time gaz
ing into each other's eyes?
But remember, a honeymoon is
a moneymoon whetner you
spend it on a train or an airplane.
The main ingredient that will
keep the Honeymoon Express
from doing a nose dive into obliv
ion will be the amount of kale
you coal into it. So figuring that
most of the trimming not men
tioned in the catalogue is arotnd
the pocket and not an tiir pocket
it might be well to carry a
map -to see that the pilot follows
a track that's got nice soft ties
for footwear!
GIRL WILL SEEK HER
TAMP HUMPHREYS. Va., Feb. 10.
All soldiers who in any way answer
the description of the one who at
tacked Miss Julia May Garrett near
her home at Seminary, eight miles
from here. last Sunday night, and
who were out of camp at that time,
will be lined up today to give Miss
Garrett a chance to pick out her as
sailant if he is there.
Miss Garrett arrived in camp Hiort
ly before noon, accompanied by her
mother, Sheriff J. Robert Allison and
Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney
Wilson M. Parr, of Fairfax count.
This move was made on ' the as
sumption that the soldier was on the
train bound for the camp and got off
when he saw the girl being put off
at a lonely spot. No one saw a sol
dier loitering around all day. al
though the tramp, who committed the
second attack, was seen by several
villagers.
STRIKE HEAD HELD
AS DRAFT DODGER
liAWKENTE. Mass., Feb. 10 Ike
Kaplan. s t-retary of the general com
mittee of the striking textilo work
ers here, was arrested today by i-ity
and State police, charged with evad
ing the drart law by failing to reg
ister. He was held for the Federal
authorities.
Kaplan, 'who is a Russian with
radical view, assumed leadership of
the strike last week.
A pitched battle between several hun
dred textile strikers and their sympa
thizers and a squad of 100 policemen
was fought at the gales of the Arl
ington Mills today.
It was tho most serious disorder
Mine tln beginning of the textile
.-iriKe :- week ae
The police used tiieir clubs freely,
flubs mid stones were used by strlk
i rs find then- sympathizer. Many of
the latter wore injured, but as fast
ji they fell, friends gathered them up
rind took them away. Two arrests.
" re made.
E. N. HURLEY MAY" TAKE
HAND IN SEATTLE STRIKE
Edward JC. Hurley, president r,f
the United States Shipping Hoard,
who ban been in Europe for several
weeks conferring with shipping 1 eads
of the allied powers, is returnin- to
America on tho Leviathan, due at Xjw
York either late this afternoon or
early tomorrow.
It was indicated also that Hurley
might take a hand in the Sent tie
J strike situation. According to uoi.l
leaching officials of the Shipping
I Hoard, Mayor OIo Hanson, of .he
j Seattle eity, is on his way to Wash
ington to confer with Hurley.
ASAILANTATAM
(Continued from First Page.)
as we are talking now. I knew what
was in his mind perfectly. lie did not
want to fight the Germans, but want
ed to squeeze them. The creation of
the entente was the war's beginning
It was neither my father nor myself.
I knew as well as anyone else that
without war Germany would gain the
commercial supremacy of the world.
I opposed war. I knew we could not
hope to win except by a miracle. "What
has happened has more than confirmed
my views.
"Now they talk.. of shooting my
father and me. How ridiculous!
"It is absurd to think that men liv
ing in the twentieth century should
talk such nonsense. They could no
punish us more than we have been
punished already."
Peace Now o BfenMnjj.
I aske'd the former German heir If
it was not a blessing that it is now
over. His eyes flashed as he replied
"No: not as it is. The Germans are
mad; the whole world is mad.
"What Germany needs Is a strong
army. It is maddening to think they
can govern without it. Might! That
is it. That is what the entente, with
all'of their boasted ideals, are using.
That is the only thing that will se
cure the success of a league of na
tions. It is a case of the survival of
the fittest."
After a bit, the speaker went on:
"ir uermany really desires a re-;
puoitc nice the united States or
France. I will not object. I don't
care for the crown. I love my coun
try and will gladly return to work at
the foreign office or any place else
they want to put me.
"I would rather bej a private citi
zen than wear a troubled crown."
Asked how it was possible- for a
revolution in such an organization as
the German army, the ex-crown
prince replied:
'.'The trouble did not :orfginate in
the army." It "came from home while
President Wilson and Premier Lloyd
George, of England, and Premier
Clemenceau had the support of their
whole nations with more autocratic
power than the ex-Czar of Russia.
Our government became contami
nated. 'Tlolnhevlnni Did It."
"Bolshevism did it. and it would be
well for others to keep an eyp on
Belgium and France, and even Eng
land." The erstwhile crown prince said
that Germany will never be able to
pay for the war, adding:
"Russia must pay. Russia is the
only country that can pay.' I don't
mean to enslave her people, but If
the entente are sincere let them form
the league of nations and all pitch in
and develop the resources of Russia.
Thus they will pay the cost of the
war and simultaneously help Russia."
Frederick William showed Interest
in President Wilson, asking If he was
TODAY
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rifle skillfully as a requirement
for graduation."
The photograph shows two long
lines of boys and girls of the high
school age, one row kneeling, the
second standing back of it. All
have rifles leveled and evidently
know how to hold and use them.
The faces are concentrated, keen,
full of force. The young women,
especially, have a look that seems
to say "I mean it."
Since we are at war with Rus
sia, or Bolshevism, or something
Russian, in a half-hearted sort of
way, with our men shooting or be
ing shot in Russia, it would be
worth while for war officials to
study carefully these Important
photographs that the New York
Times publishes as the latest from
Russia. Such photographs tell
more truth than can be found in
many newspaper articles, written
by gentlemen far away, who glibly
describe Bolshevism, of which they
know nothing, and cheerfully fore
tell Its downfall, because their
prosperous frierids own Russian
bonds that Bolshevists may not
pay.
There are from one hundred and
thirty to one hundred and fifty
million people in Russia. They
seem to like the idea of being free,
with no czar to talk about killing
them "to the last Moujik." If one
hundred and fifty million people
train all their high school boys
and girls to use rifles, and if their
kind of government "can change
the dull, dispirited troops of the
czar into alert, earnest concen
trated, determined men, LOOK
OUT how you go to light them.
These photographs make you
admire more than ever the wisdom
of Great Britain, seeing European
affairs clearly and making her ar
rangements wisely ahead of other
nations.
It was England that first an
nounced her intention to do no
more fighting in Russia and her
order to all her troops to come
home. It was England that first
' suggested, then insisted, that Rus
sia's revolutionary government be
invited to the Paris conference
like any other nation.
And it will be England, you may
be sine, that will be first to hae
a good, solid, well constructed
treaty with revolutionary Russia,
the minute things get a little set
tled. When it comes to knowing which
way the cat will jump, England
knows about as soon as the cat
does, and often sooner.
This and other newspapers ought
to reprint those Xew York Times
photographs from Russia and let
their leaders absorb the real news
that only real pictures of real peo
ple can give.
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EDMUND S. LAWSON,
Seventyl-nine years old ,of 1405 Girard street iorthwest, who has been,
employed by the Government for fif ty-six years. He entered the
Government service in the Bureau of Engraving and .Printing in
August, 1863, .only one month after that bureau was organized. He
was at that time paid at "piece rates" and today is being paid a
yearly salary of $2,200, as foreman of plate printing.
Mr. Lawson was born in. December, 1840. He started as a plate
printer in 1863, and has been employed in that capacity ever since.
During Cleveland's Administration he was placed, with other Govern
ment workers, on what was called' the "blanket roll." Such employes
were not entered on the Government rolls as civil service employes
and were not compelled to take the civil service examination.
able to dominate the peace confer
ence. He continued:
"I am afraid, looking on from a dis
tance and seeing how they are tight
ening the armsitice terms, those ac
tivities constitute might. They
couldn't do it if Germany was able to
defend herself."
The ex-crown prince was then
aske'd about his plans fdr the 'future;
and whether he would like to go to
the United States to live.
"I would love to go to America if
the entente do not shoot n;e." was tiie
reply. "I have many friends in Amer
ica, and I like America."
LnuRhn At Vanderbllt.
The ex-crown prince then inquired
about Cornelius Vanderbllt. When
informed he was now a general in the
American army, the former crown
prince laughed as he said:
"How funny. He knows as much
about war as I do about fish."
The German then asked about
James W. Gerard, former ambassador
to Germany.
"I read his book and thought he
was unkind, "although he said ajrac
nice things about myself and my
wife." said Frederick William.
After tea had been served tha rxile
asked me to come with him to his
bed room on the top floor c the
cottage. It was like an attic cham
ber about 15 feet by ir feet in sine.
The one window was covered with an
old blanket, and there was a slncle
antiquated bed and a few broken
chairs, two old rugs, two tables and
an oil stove.
"The ex-heir did not think much of
the stove-. He 'said' it did not keep
the room warm and often he had to
go to bed "to keep from freezing."
Then again, he added, he would have
to get up out of bed to trim the wick
to keep the stove from smoking bim
out entirely.
rail It "Terrllile.-
"It is terrible, isn't it?" aked
Frederick William with ironical
laugh. "If any one had ever told
me that I would have much luxury
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Ik
and comfort thrust upon me I would-
not nave believe it."
tne exile was much amused at
stories of his father sawing wood.
He told of his own experiences:
"I work in a blacksmith shop here
maKmg horse shoes. It Is ths only
exercise x get. '
. Then he exhibited several books
he was readlnjr and said he was
greatly Interested In Japanese devel
opments In China. He smiled as he
said:
"The United States had better be
careful. Sh'e will have trouble there
some day."
The German seemed familiar with
California's land laws and remarked:
"That Is an old sore which has
been only momentarily closed) and is
liable to reopen at any time and your
Federal Government will be power
less to check the storm."
Returning to the discussion of the
world war, the former Crown Prince
said that when his memoirs are pub
lished the world will have a different
view of him. He said he Is busy now
writing the book, but it will not be
given .out for some time. He added:
"If the German government had
listened to me there would not have
been any war. Far from being the
instigator, the first I knew was when
the government sent me a telegram
to return to Berlin. I did not even
have uniforms nor kit ready and had
to buy boots.
Wan Opposed To War.
"When the war began I was op
posed to It. I told the heads of the
government that England would
surely come into it. They didn't be
lieve it. I knew. I had traveled and
spent six months in India, a country
few Germans know about. I knew
England's powers of organization. I
knew we were up against a stiff prop
osition. "I had friends In England, and I
always liked England. I didn't want
to fight England. My Idea was fu
sion of our interests to prevent war
by some arrangement putting a third
of the English Industries under Ger-
' BAtTIMORK, Feb. 10 A parada of
1 75,600 working men will take place
r.ext month as a protest against wo
coming elimination of beet as part
of their dally'dlet, according to plans
announced by Judge James F. Kleck&.(
of the people's court. Mass meeting
are to be held every Spday at Moos
Hall to further this movement.
Worklngraen are asking how the
Maryland legislature ratified the pro
hibition amendment when the voters
two years ago defeated the cause of
the Anti-Saloon League by a plurality
of more than 43,000.
Judge Klecka. Dr. Gebrge Heller,
former president of the first branch,
city council, and Charles P. Coady,
Congressman from the Third district
of Maryland, -which includea -about
half of the city of Baltimore, are
prominent irt the raoVemen. which. Is .
growing to auch- proportions that the
auditorium of the Loyal Order of the
Moose has become too smalL
Congressman Carville JX Benson,
who represents Baltimore. Carroll,
and Harford counties and a part o
Baltimore city In the national legis
lature, is expected to address next
Sunday's meeting.
CIVILIANS CLASH
WIN FOE TROOPS
BERLIN", Feb. 9. via London. Feb'.'
10. Five persons were killed and
thirty wounded in a clash -between
government troops and civilians ia
the neighborhood of "Alexanderplatz
yesterday evening.
The street had been ordered closed
while soldiers searched the house
for arms and ammunition. Street
vendors refused to move, when ordered
to do so. Then both sides were re
enforced.
The troops fired the first volley over
the heads of the civilians, but the next
volley was aimed point blank.
Numerous red soldiers and sailors
Joined the civilians, shouting, "Sown
with the bloodhounds!"
(By International Xj Service md
London Dally Eipresfc.
COLOGNE. Feb. 18. During a clash
between strikers and soldiers at Tus
selferd, Spartacides turned machine
guns point blank against a crowd, at
the railroad statics, killing several
persons. Later an attack was turned
against a cafe, and seven persons were
killed there In the .fighting.
E
TIN HIE BOSSES
Xegro railroad laborers are gettingu
higher wages than their white su
pervisors In many cities through, the;
South, Charles B. Cotterlll, represent
ing Southern shippers before the Sen-
ate Interstate Commerce Committee
said today. t,
"The Railroad Administration n&sj
been too generous in its wage in
creases." Cotterlll said. He urged re
turn of the railroads without waiting
fdr legislation.
;
:
Tnan capital and a third of Geraati
industries under English capItaL"
The ex-crown "prince straightened?
up in his char and declared: 1
"But we would have won th vrvS
in the first two months if our leaderoj
rad not blundered. After that
wanted to make peace, give up A1-?
sace and Lorraine to France, and
bargain with England for the colon-J
ies. but they would not listen to me
Well, you see what happened. Bue
even so we would have won tho wac
if the United States, had aot come
into it. That broke our offensive'
But our greatest enemy was the lie,
nnd starvation. We had to fight bota
and they defeated Germany." "
BOSPADH