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. THE EVENING STAR WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION. Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvanix Avenue. The Evening Star Newspaper Company, THEODORE W. NOYES, Presiden. European Office: 3 Regent St., London, England. Wew York Office: Tribune Building. Chicage Offic: First National Bank Building. The Evening Star. with the Sunday morning edition. is delivered by carriers. on their vwn ac count, within the city at 50 cents per month: without The Sunday Star at 44 cents per month. Rr mail. postage prepaid: Sunday included, one month, CO cen} Sunday excented. one moath, 30 cents. the year. $1.00. year, $1.50. Daily, Dail Che Zvening Star. No. 17,316. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1908EIGHTEEN PAGES. TWO CENTS. Weather. Fair tonight and tomorrow. ‘ SLAIN AT HIS HOME. BY UNKNOWN MAN Mystery Surrounds Murder of William Kirby. MUCH LIKE THE REID CASE | Little Comprehension of Committee | Assailant Is Believed to Have Fol- lowed Victim Home. ASSASSIN IS STILL AT LARGE No Report of Affair to Police Until Ten Hours After Blow Was Struck. William Kirby, an engineer, was fatally stabbed shortly after 12 o'clock last night while in the dining room of his home, 492 kK street southwest. He declared hi assailant was a stranger who fol- towed him into the house. Kirby was taken to Providence Hospital TRACKS \Extension to the Union Station | Discussed. TAKEN UP IN THE HOUSE Bill Shown. | COST OF UNIVERSAL TRANSFERS j |Mr. Hepburn Asks for Information. . Mr. Sims Discusses Financial | Statistics. | The Union station permanent trackage | bill slipped its mooring at the District ‘committee dock at half-past 12 today and {sailed out into the House. The water | was smooth at first, except when Repre- | sentative Hepburn of lowa, who wason hand jearly with a stack of papers and a deter- ; mined éxpression, splashed a littie wave ‘or two over Pilot Sammy Smith of Michi- | gan, who undertook to explain the eight- |eenth section of the House measure. | This took a full hour, as most of the | eighty-odd members on the floor wanted to ask questions about the various fea- TO THE PLAZA at 8 o'clock this morning, and died | tures of the bill, particularly those with there about twa hours later. The j reference to trackage and universal trans- police were not informed of the fers. It was expected that a much larger affair until after his death Patrick | 2ttencance would be on hand, as most i | | | Kirby, son of the deceased, and a colored man named Joseph Mack were arrested as suspects. “I have sent out to have my men arrest a white man,” Capt. Mulhall said this afternoon, “and when they get him I believe the murderer will be in custody.” The death of William Kirby at Provi- dence Hospital shortly before 10 o'clock this morning was the basis of another murder mystery presented to the local police department for solution. Death was the result of a cut across the right side of the throat. The wounded man had been attended by a physician and was in the hospital about two hours be- fore he died. His son, Patrick Kirby, and bis daughters, Misses May and Margaret Kirby, knew of the injury. The- police were not informed until the children learned from the hospital authorities of the death of their father. “Who killed father,” the son is re- ported to have said to Detective Weedon, “did_ng& concern me.” The daughters said they simply for- got to tell the police. It was stated that the dying man told his jughters that a big fair man cut him, but the police received information which leads them to believe that a tall colored man may have committed the deed. A tall colored man, a stranger in the vicinity of the Kirby home, 494 K street southwest, was seen following Kirby about 12 o'clock last night. Search Is being tnade for him. Inspector Boardman and several head- quarters detectives went out to work on the case. and they soon realized that the mystery surrounding the infliction of the fatal wound “might be as dense as In the case of Henry W. Reid, killed bout a month ago. Patrick Kirby, son of the deceased, and & young colored man named Joseph Mack were afrested on suspicion and taken to the fourth precinct police station. It was stated at police headquarters lats this afternoon that Kirby will be released. as it was found there is no evi- dence against him. Daughters Hear Father Fall. William Kirby was about sixty years of age, and was employed as engineer at the East Capitol street car barn. With him at 492 K street southwest, resided his two grown daughters, Misses May and Margaret Kirby. s Patrick | Kirby js employed as an engineer. An-| other son, Dr. William Kirby, resides in Portland, Me. The deceased returned home after work yesterday and ate dinner. About o'clock he went out. saying he was going to attend a meeting of the engineer's | union.: The rear door was left open for | him, members of the family not being in|} the habit of locking it. The daughters say they were awakened- about 15} o'clock this morning by the sound of some one falling on the floor in the dining room. Hurrying frdm their room, the Misses Kirby proceeded to the lower floor. They found their father lying on the floor with blood gushing from a wound in his throat, He made an effort to arise when he saw | his daughters. Mi May Kirby was the first to reach him. “I'm done,” the father told her in re- sponse to a query. Summon a Physician. | After the young ladies had placed their | father on a sofa in the room in which} he was found they summoned Dr. R. T. Holden, who dressed the wound. He found the patient in such condition that he advised hospital treatment, but it was | not until nearly 8 o'clock that the son und a friend named Maurice Flynn took the dying man to the h ital. As soon as Inspector Boardman learned that a murder had been committed he summoned all the detectives available, and also decided to personally participate in the investigation. Capt. Mulhall of the fourth precinct put Precinct Detective Reinhart and his uniformed men to work on the case as quickly as possible, and followed. told a Star reporter that she had not the slightest idea who had _ killed her father. members of the House ride in street cars } and not automobiles, but when the time j came for them to get down to business |and try to turn out an intelligent bill—gi' ling aid and assistance in the way of study and advice on the floor—they disappeared from the floor an into the cloakrooms and corridors and offices of the - Capitol like leaves before the wind. Most of the eighty-odd members re- maining didn't know what it was all about. They had a faint general im- pression, or seemed to-have, that the Dis- trict of Columbia committee had brought out a bill intended to do something or other to the street car companies of Washington, but a few of them didn't seem to know whether the measure was to authorize new tracks, free rides or the use of New ‘Orleans molasses Instead of electricity as motive power. And conse- quently they took up a lot of time asking a lot of questions that they could have answered to their infinite satisfaction after @ first and only reading of the trac- tion measure. Some members were not so inconsiderate, however. Among the latter class was Representative Kennedy of Ohio, who, with his feet on the desk in front of him and his hands clasped over the watch charm that dangled on his ex- pansive waistcoat. slept sweetly during ie greater part of Mr. Smith's elucida- tion. Effect of Universal Transfers. About theonly question asked during the course of Mr. Smith's explanation that had any latent intelligence ‘concealed within it was one put by Representative Hepburn. | Heferring- to the . universal transfer clause in the bill Mr. Hep- burn wanted to know how the com- mittee had come to put it in, whether the committee had secured accurate and reliable information with regard to the earnings, net and gross. of the local ttac- tion companies: whether the committee had any assurance that the new rate of | compensation for the hauling of passen- | gers which would be made by the univer- {sal transfer enactment would not be confiscatory, and whether the committee thought the universal transfer provision would be upheld by the courts. Replying to Mr. Hepburn, Mr. Smith admitted frankly that he was in the dark. He didn't know. The committee didn't know. “Tt would be all right. I am certain. with regard to the Capital Traction Com- pany,” said Mr. Smith, “but I am not so sure about the Washington Railway and Electric Company. The finances of that company are not in as good condition as the finances of the Capital Traction: 1 don't know whether the courts ‘would uphold the universal transfer as com- pensatory or not. But we never will know until we try the experiment.” Mr. Sims Discusses Figures. Representative Sims of Tennessee of the District committee next took the |foor to give his views concerning the | bill. Mr. Sims, who has always ex- pressed great interest in the firancial condition of the Washington Railway and Electric Company, devoted inost of his remarks to the universal transfer clause. He went into an elaburate re- cital of the financial condition of the companies subsidiary to the Washing- ton Railway and Electric Company and read from reports of hill these roads, ax well as from the report of the Capital Traction Company for 1907. He scouted the idea that either one of the two main companies would be forced into the hands of a receiver or even temporarily embarrassed financially by, the enact- ment of the universal transfer clause. Mr. Sims’ went into great details on all these matters, and by the time he was half through his remarks the eighty- odd members who were on land had dwindled to about forty-odd. But those who were left showed considerable in- terest in Mr. Sims’ narrative. Mr. Sims criticised the crowded condi- tions on the 14th street line and re- ferred sarcastically to the Pennsyl- vania avenue line, whose service: he said, consisted of a “litle car iu front and 4 little less behind.” Mr. Sims said he hoped the reported consolidation of the Capital Traction Company and the Washington Railway and Electric Company would come off on schedule time in the near future, as he thought it would be a splendid thing, both for the railroads and the public. He urged the enactment of section 18 of the bill, which gives the District Commissioners authority to make regu- lations concerning schedules, number of cars and their condition, ete. “Father never had trouble with any-|° He opposed Representative Shackle- body,” she said. “and he said we bad{ford's proposed amendment providing been attacked by a stranger.” for 3-cent fares. The enactment of such Followed by a Stranger. Miss Kirby explained that she and her | sister retired last night about fhe usual hour, and were awakened by the noise made when their father fell. She said} she hurried down the steps and found her father lying near the stove. The stove- pip> had been thrown to one side, the | stove slightly turned and a rocking chair | overturned and broken “When I asked him w ter.” she stated, “he told me he was done, and shook his head, indicating, to my mind, that he believed he was dying.” Miss Kirby further explained that. her father told her he was followed through was the mat- | Mr. a Jaw, Mr. Sims said. would work a hard- sh‘p on both the local traction companies. Madden Expressés Congratulations. resentative Madden of Illinois, who start- ed the agitation for universal transfers j at the last session of Congress, congratu- lated the House District committee on the pili it had brought in. The committee, Madden said, had begun its work under difficulties. The bill was broad and comprehensive, he thought, and gave to the people of the District better condi- tation than had heretofore existed. The measure was a long stev in the right di the side alley by the stranger and the} rection. He thought the Housa should latter said to him: m going to cut] give the District committee a vote of somebody. : confidence by passing the bill in its en- | Continuing. Miss Kirby related that her | tirety. fathe- told her that when stranger | ———___—_ made a lunge at him he struck at the Fs man with his fist, but was una le to | _ Mellen to See the President. escape the thrust. NEW HAVEN, Conn., February 21.— Heard Voice of Man. | president Charles S. Mellen of the New “[ know there was a strange man in| York, New Haven and Hartford railroad | the house.’ the young lady continued,|is in Washington, and it is understood “because 1 heard his When Ihe will call upon President Roosevelt to- (Continued on Highth Page day. ° ‘At the close of Mr. Sims’ remarks Reo- | tions in the way of passenger transpor- | | i I WHAT THEN ARE GOING TO Do To ME? | THREE DISTRICT DAYS IN A ROW. Soa RANS Fars ' TAX a7 oo ZN 3 ETCHED SERVICE Gap COMING BRYAN'S WAY |Kansas and Minnesota Cleave | | to Old Love. | JOHNSON FAVORS PEERLESS | Nebraskan Orating in Illinois Capi- | tal This Afternoon. HUGE MASS MEETING TONIGHT | Sunflower Democratic Convention With Enthusiasm Indorses Accus- tomed Candidate for Presidency. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, February 21.— William J. Bryan arrived in Springfield | today from Jacksonville, where he at- tended a banquet given by the Jackson- ville Bryan Club last night. A crowd was | at the Wabash station to receive him, and | gave him an enthusiastic greeting. He held an informal ‘reception in the rotunda of the St. Nicholas Hotel. This afternoon he was scheduled to ad- dress a meeting of the democratic edi- | torial clubs of the state and another of | the officers of the Bryan clubs in the state. Tonight he will address a monster mass meeting at the state arsénal. Kansas Indorses Bryan. HUTCHINSON, Kan., February 21.— The democratic state convention met here at 10 o'clock today to select delegates to the national convention at Denver. Previous to that time the various con- gressional district legations met and selected two delegates-each to the national convention. It was conceded in advance. Former Senator Harris was non-com- mittal when asked regarding his possible candidacy for United States senator. The convention was held in the Home Opera House, which was crowded to its capacity. This is the most largely at- tended democratic convention in Kansas in_years. W. H. Ryan, chairman of the state cen- | tral committee, in calling the convention ONDER EAST RIVER JERSEY-BROOKLYN RAILWAY | ROUTE IS COMPLETED. NEW ¥ORK, February 21.—The first of the great systems of tunnels and subways by which the Pennsylvania railroad will be able to run a train from Philadelphia under the Hudson river, across Manhattan Island and under the East river to Long Island City was completed today. The two ends of one of the four tubes con- necting Manhattan Island with Long land City were brought together under [the bed of the middle of the East river off 34th street before noon today, and the steel rings composing the shell of the tube were for the first time bolted in one continuous string from shore to sho The work on this tube was begun in Au- gust, 1905, and is 4,000 feet in length. “ Two other tubes will be completed with- in a few days and the fourth will be fin- ished within three months. according to an announcement by the company. The completion of the first tunnel was cele- brated in Long Island City by a display of flags about the works of the company. Accurate Measurements. Workmen who were digging the tunnel from the Long Island City side first broke through into the end of the tunnel extend- ing from the New York side last night, but the two ends were not connected until today, : So accurate were the measurements of the engineers that the ends came together with a variation of only three-eighths of an_inch. This system of tunnels under the East river will connect the Long Island rail- road with the Pennsylvania raflroad’s terminal, now being constructed at 32d street, New York. A connecting railroad | is to be constructed in Long Island City and Brooklyn, to connect with various stations of the Long Island railroad. AUTO PLANT BURNS DAYTON COMPANY’S FACTORY DESTROYED BY FIRE. . DAYTON, Ohio, February 21.—The pfant of the Dayton Motor-Car Company, with its contents, was destroyed by fire carly today. The loss is estimated at $80,000, covered by insurance. The fire is supposed to have been due to spontaneous combustion. The flames made rapid progress and the entire de- partment fought for many hours before subduing them. ‘Ten newly finished au- tomobiles, valued at $3,000 each, were consumed. $50,000 Fire in Chicago. CHICAGO, February 21.--Fire, last night fn the four-story buildim 40-42 West Quincy street, caused a loss of $50,000 to the structure and several tenants. ‘The building was occupied by several small manufacturing firms. Pennsylvania Roundhouse Burned. HUNTINGDON, Pa., February 21.—The ned roundhouse of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in this place, was’ de- stroyed by fire late last night. ‘Two freight locomotives in it at the time were partially destroyed. The loss is placed at ——_—_—_-__—_ Fourteen Miners Lose Their Lives. NEW CASTLE-ON-TYNE, England, February 21.—Fourteen miners lost their lives by an explosion in the Glebe pit in the village of Washington last night. There were fifteen men in the mine at the time of the accident, and only one escaped. Shortly before the explosion oc- curred 500 miners ascended from the pit. a Secretary Straus in Boston. BOSTON, February 21.—Oscar Straus, Secretary of the Department of Commerce | and Labor, came to Boston from Wash- ington today to address at the American House this evening the Boston Business Men's Association. During the forenoon Secratary Straus viewed the sites for the proposed new immigration station at this port, for which $250,000 has “béen appro- | priates t | port to Congress the ICE KILLS MINERS FALLS IN SHAFT AND DEMOL- ISHES CAGE. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., February 21.— While ten miners were being lowered into the Stanton mine of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company today, a large body of ice in the shaft fell, strik- ing the hood of the cage and demolishing it. Two of the men were killed outright, one died on the way to a hospital, and three others, it is believed, will die of their injuries: The killed: Bernard Quadder, laborer. Evan Owens, driver. * Andrew. Boyer, laborer. The injured, five in all, are foreigners. Two of the men on the cage escaped injury. The cage was near the bottom of the shaft. which is 1,000 feet deep, whqp the ice fell. WITHOUT A QUESTION GALLINGER LAND VALUES RES- OLUTION PASSES. The ‘Gallinger resolution authorizing the Commissioners to ascertain and re- lowest purchase price of the lots south of Pennsylvania avenue and north of the Mall proposed for purchase by the government in the Heyburn bill was unanimously agreed to by the Senate this afternoon. There was no discussion of the measure, which was changed by unanimous consent from a joint to a Senate resolution at Senatof Gallinger’s request. HAS A GOOD FIGHTING ¢ FIGHTIN . : G CHANCE Crosby S. Noyes’ Condition Takes a i Very Hopeful Aspect. +PASADENA, ‘Cal., February 21.—The condition of Crosby S. Noyes, the vet- eran Washington newspaper man, Was today practically unchanged. Frank B. Noyes, who is with his father, stated that the patient passed a fairly good night, and that if there was any change whatever it was for’ the better. ‘ather is desperately ill,” said Mr. Noyes, “but he has a good fighting chance. Up to the present time he is holding his own, and we are very hope- ful.” —__>—__—_. - THE INDEPENDENCE LEAGUE. Hearst Organization Makes Debut Tomorrow as National Party. Special: Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, February 21.—The Inde- Pendence League, the Hearst organiza- tion, is to make its debut tomorrow ag a national political party. Delegates from all the states in which the league is or- ganized are to meet ‘in convention in Chicago and name a national committee. The committee will then dectde the ques- tion of holding a regular national con- vention to nominfte candidates for Presi- dent and Vice President. Mr. Hearst and his political field mar- shals have not indicated whether or not they intend to support the regular demo- cratic ticket in this state or name candi- dates of their own. But the fact that the work of extending the league is going on all the time and ‘that a national commit- tee 18 to be formed is causing some ner- vousness te certain democratic leaders. It is understood that Mr, Hearst wants Attorney General Jackson nominated for} governor by the regular democratic con- vention and that he may make troubie if he does not get his way. The friends of Lieut. Goy. Chanler be- lieve that he is the logical candidate for governor this year if he is not nominated for Vice President, but Mr. Hearst, it is understood will put a third ticket in the field if Chanler is nominated. SLAIN. WITH AN AX WOMAN MURDERED BY JEAL- OUS LUMBERJACK. —_—— BINGHAM, Me.. February 21.—James A. Deane broke into the home of Charles McKay at West Forks, 23 miles north of Bingham, shortly before midnight last night, mortally wounded Mrs. McKay with an ax, after chasing her to the yard of a neighboring house, and then com- mitted suicide by cutting his throat. Deane, who was thirty years old, came from Princeton, Me., two years ago, and was employed in lumbering camps. Mrs. McKay was twenty years old, and had been married three years. When Deane appeared at Mrs. McKay's house he asked if a man named Dauth- eney was there. Mrs. McKay said there was not. and then Deane picked up an ax and broke open the door. As he did so Mrs. McKay rushed past him and fled toward the house of a neighbor. Overtaking her Deane struck her in the back of the neck with the ax. She fell and Deane struck her repeatedly with the instrument on the head and neck. Suryives Her Slayer. Thinkir * that he had killed her Deane then cut his own throat with a knife, death resulting almost instantly. Mrs. McKay lived for nearly an hour afterward. It is believed that Deane’s act was prompted by jealousy. He was seen an hour before the crime, and at that time did not show any evidence of having been drinking. CLERKS’ RETIREMENT REPORT OF KEEP COMMISSION SENT TO CONGRESS. President Roosevelt today transmitted to Congress, without comment, the re- port to him by the committee on depart- }ment methods on the superannuation of civil service employes of the government. The committee now consists of Lawrence O. Murray of the Department of Com- meree and Labor and Gifford Pinchot, chief forester. The report was prepared by a subcommittee consisting of Arthur P. Davis, Charles Lyman, Bayard Wy- man, John W. Holcombe, A. Zappone, George W. Leadley and G. R. Wales, and is concurred in by Messrs. Murray and Pinchot. The report explains the pro- visions of a bill for the retirement of department ‘employes on annuities at the age of seventy. The details of the meas- ure are well known, having been widely published and generally discussed. + MEMORIAL TO PORTER. Stained Glass Window Dedicated to - Admiral at Annapolis. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., February 21.—A large stained glass memorial window to Admiral David D. Porter will be *un- veiled in the chapel of the Naval Acad- emy this afternoon, the ceremony be- ginning at 3:30 o'clock. The window has been presented by the members of the class of 1869 of the Naval Academy. Rear Admiral George P. Colvocoreses (retired), U. 8. N., will make the speech of pres- entation, and there will be replies on the part of the ‘authorities of the Naval Academy, and probably on the part o¢ the family. Capt. Theodoric Porter, son of Admiral Porter, and other members of the fam- ily are in Annapolis, and will be present at the ceremony. The program will be interspersed with selections by the Naval Academy orchestra, under Prof. Charles A. Zimmerman. ‘The exercises of the afternoon are the first to take place in the splendid new chapel, the architectural crown of the whole new Naval Academy. The win-| dow is ‘a magnificent one, and rises to a| height of about fifty feet. It is directly | back of the chancel and in front of the audience. It is proposed to make. the chapel the American naval abbey, and in | it will be placed memorials in different | forms of the men who have made_the | American nevy great. The body of John Paul Jones is to have its final resting | Place in the crypt under the center of the chapel. to order, declared that Kansas has a united democracy that had cast 150,000 votes at the last election, and said if the election were held now there would be 50,000 votes added to this. He referred to what he termed the “robber tariff,” and this remark elicited much applause. Mr. Ryan introduced Grant Harrington as temporary chairmi Mr. Harring‘on, in his speech, said: “You can’t win by sitting around with pos faces and say- ing ‘We can't win.’ hy, if we had thought we could have won at the last election we would have elected Col. Har- ris governor by 20,000 majority.” Demonstration for Bryan. At the mention of the name of former Senetor Harris, whose friends are boom- ing him for re-election to the Senate, there was much applause. But the great- est demonstration came when Mr. Har- rington mentioned the name of William J. Bryan. We want to broaden out,” he sald. < a man comes up to vote, if he is for Bryan, it makes no gifference what his grandfather was, or what his former political affiliations have been; let’s wel- come him.” ° A demonstration lasting several minutes ensued, during which the name of the Nebraskan was cheered to the echo, This was renewed a few minutes later when resolutions binding the convention to in- struct its delegates to the national con- vention to vote for the nomination of Mr. Bryan for President were read. The resolutions were introduced by Judge W. H. Dillard of Fort Scott, and were adopt- eu unanimously with a whoop. The Bryan Resolutions. They are as follows: “Resolved by the democrats of the state of Kansas, in state convention as- sembled, That the delegates, both dele- gates-at-large and delegates from the several congressional districts, to be elected by this-convention to the demo- cratic national convention to be held in the city of Denver, Col., on July 7, 1908, be, and they hereby are, and each of said delegates hereby is instructed to vote for the nomination of the Hon. William J. Bryan for President of the United States. “Be it further resolved, That each and every person nominated as a delegate-at- large, and each and every person nomi- nated to this convention as district dele- gate by the several congressional district eaucuses, before his ratification and elec- tion by this convention as such delegate. be required to pledge himself to vote in said national convention for the nomina- tion of said William J. Bryan for Presi- dent of the United States. “Be it further resolved, that the dele- INL CONDITIONS MENACE TO CITY Scathing Criticism by Depart- ment of Justice Agent. CROWDED AND INSANITARY |Conditions Termed “Intolerable to Civic Consciousness. RECOMMENDATIONS ARE MADE Prison Should Be Used as Place of Detention Only—Need of Re- formatory and Out- door Work. “Present conditions are waste- ful of public moneys and are a menace to the good order of the Capital city. They are an insult to its moral tone.” This is one of the conclusions reached by Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, special agent for the Department of Justice, after many visits to the District jail for the purpose of making suggestions to the United States Attorney General. She found the building overcrowded and with insanitary cells, lack of proper ventilation and a state of affairs “intolerable to the civic consciousness of today.” In her report to the Attorney General, Mrs. Foster says: “Since my last report I have made fre- quent and long visits to the jail. I have personally inspected many tiers of cells in both cell wings. I have been from the furnace rooms and laundries in the basement to the hospital at the top of the main building. My investigations have been sufficiently thorough to qualify me to report on the conditions as I found them. “The main entrance to the jail, which is the only door of entrance and exit for visitors, leads to a reception room, which is 40 feet wide and.17 feet deep. At the back of each end of this room are the administration offices of the warden and subofficials. From the center of the room and oposite the main entrance ts a door opening on a hall from which stairs lead below to the basement, and above to a floor of ‘isolation’ and other cells, and still farther up to the hospital, of which I will write later. “From the hall--out of which these stairways lead—is a door leading into the great rotunda of the jail, from which to the north and the south extend the great wings which each contain the four tiers of cells in which are crowded the prison- ers, there being on January 10 510 men in the 310 cells. In the Rotunda. “From the east end of the rotunda ex- tends a small wing in which, on the lower floor, are the kitchen and storerooms, and above is the woman's department. In this woman's department is a block “of cells in three tiers, opening on either side on wide corridors, in which are high windows. The rotunda, which is the heart, the core of the building, is a noble room about 80 by & feet, crowned by a skylight. In this room the male prison- ers are received and searched. and from it they are taken to the bathrooms at the rear of the cell tiers before bet put into cells. Lawyers clients in the rotunda and in worship {s held on the ®abbath. “The cell wings extending north and south from this room each contain four tiers of cells. The stairways are of tron gratings, and are on the ends of the wings next the rotunda. They are guard- ed by small iron grating or lattice work from bottom to top. Size of Cells. “There are about 300 cells 5 by 8 feet in size and 10 feet high; each cell has tk it divine a window 2 feet wide and 2 feet 4 inches high; this window opens on a corridor 16 <eet wide, in| which are windows opening ‘on the air and the sun- gates to be elected by this convention to the national convention be hereby in- structed to cast the solid vote of Kansas in the national convention for the nom- ination of William J. Bryan for Presi- dent of the United Sta the desires or wishes of any individual delegate to the contrary notwithstanding.” ‘Following the adoption of the resolu- tions, committees were appointed and the convention took a recess until 2 o'clock. Johnson Not Eager for Dinner. ST. PAUL, February 21.—Gov. John- son yesterday sent his reply to Represent- ative F. C. Stevens at Washington in an- swer to an inquiry whether the governor would accept an invitation to a compli- mentary non-partisan dinner in his honor to be given in Washington. Gov. Johnson says he knows nothing | that would take him to Washington be- fore May 14, when he will attend the con- ference of governors called by\President Roosevelt to discuss the conservation of the natural resources of tne country. If. in the meantime, he should find it nec- essary to go to Washington he would be| pleased to accept such an invitation. ! Johnson for Bryan. The bottom has really fallen out of the | movement to nominate Gov. Johneon for | President on the democratic ticket. Gov. | Johnson recently asserted that he is still | for Bryan, and that he will not give out a statement declaring himself an aspirant for the nomination. | The Bryan forces will make a clean| sweep in the state convention, and the governor's sudden determination to stick to Bryan is attributed by old-line Bryan- ites to the fact that Johnson could not get the ingprsement of his own state. To Probe Wreck Victim’s Death. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., February 21.--Jus- | tice of the Peace Alfred Wilson. acting as coroner, this morning summoned a jury to | inquire into the circumstances surround- | ing the death,of Mrs. George Smith, wh died at Georgetown University Mospital | yesterday afternoon as a result of inju- riesereceived in the recent wreck on the} Washington and Rockville electric rail- way. The jury will view the body this fternoon and adjourn until tomorrow, when testimony will be heard. light of the outside world. “The gates to the ceils are 6 fect high and 22 inches wide. Besides the 30 8 by 5 fect cells there are clighteen or twenty cells twice as large. About one-half of these are fitted up as bathrooms; the others are used for va- rious emergency purposes. “Ing these celis are on an average 500 men, white and colored, young and old; some are detained awaiting action of the grand jury. others are under indictment awaiting trial; others are being tried, others serving sentence; there ix no g eral segregation of these differen: classes, except there are a few large old cells in the part of the jail formerly used by the women, which when not in ordi- nary use afford opportunity for partial differentiation of jail inmates. The Hospital. “The room used as a hospital is on the north side of the upper floor of the main building. It is 44 feet 6 inches long by 13 feet 8 inches wide, and over 12 faet high. There are four windows and the ventilation is good. There is a sanitary bathroom and water closet. This room is tolerably well adapted for its uses, ex- cept that it 1s too smal! for the emergen- cies of a population of 500 or 600 men. “The day I visited the hospital there were three sick men and their one nurse— all colored—in the room. “As I sald before, this room is pleasant and well ventilated; the fault is its size, and there is no possibility 0° segregation of contagious cases. One man was suffer- ing from tuberculosis. His coughing and expectoration while I was there were most distressing to hear and see. “There is no woman's hospital. The mildly sick and the well are crowded into the three tiers of cells in the woman's quarters. “If active disease develops there is a hurried thinning of some cells out and a doubling up in others so that the sick woman may be alone. Jail Overcrowded. “The building is overcrowded. Ageresa~ tions of healthy persons require the pres- ence and hygienic action of sun and air. The processes of respiration and digestion and excretion appropriate from food and water that which is constructive of bone and muscle and tissue and carry off the useless flotsam and jetsam. This sin burns up the poison germs and the winds &

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