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THE EVENING STAR WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION. ‘Business Office, 11th st. and Ponasyivenia Avesso The Evening Star Newspeper Company, Ruropean Office: 8 Regent St., London, England, Mew York Office: Chicago Office: First The Se Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered’ by carriers within the city at 50 cents per mont be sent by be or telep! Main 2440. Collection is made by carrier at the end of each mouth. By mail. tage prepaid: uit. Sunday taciodey coc watt, #2 conte » Senter teindeg Soe Saturday ‘Star, i yeer. jay Star, $1.50 year, Building. Nationa) Bank Building. | { Che Evening Sta. No. 17,860. AUGUST 19; 1909.-_EIGHTEEN PAGES. TWO CENTS. Weather. — Fair tonight and Friday, with mild - temperature. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, CALLS IT A DISGRACE Wharf Committee’s Report on Washington Harbor. DEMAND FOR IMPROVEMENT Commissioners Urged to Call Upon Congress for Remedy. RECREATION PIER SUGGESTED Fish Market Denounced as Insani- tary and Termination of Lease Recommended. Disgrace to the C'ty. “The harbor front of the city of Washington should be a model for those of other cities. Instead, it may be described, under its present conditions, as a disgrace to the city.”—Report of Wharf Committee to District Com- missioners. | | Prenouncing the harbor front of the Na- tiona] Capital as a disgrace to the city, the wharf committee urges in its annual report submitted to the Comissioners to- day that Congress be asked at the next session to take material steps for be- ginning the work of making $3,000,000 worth of improvements to provide proper wharfage facilities and thus aid the de- velopment of Washington commercially. + The water-front development contem- plates the construction of an enormous recreation pier near the foot of 9th street southwest as an adjunct to the play- ground system. “One particular feature which the com- mittee has included in its plans,” says the report, “is that of a recreation pier, which, if constructed, would afford factl- ities to the mothers and children of the city of Washington for enjoying the river breezes during the hot summer days ana| ra! question {fs be @ valuable adjunct to the playground ooard movement which has become such a mat- ter of popular interest in Washington. The Commissioners are urged by the Wharf committee, which is composed of Harbormaster J. R. Sutton, W. J. Doug- las and Daniel E. Garges, to submit esti- mates to Congress for tiie next fiscal year tor appropriations for carrying out .the generai pian of improvement previously outlined in a report to Congress, which is printed as Senate documen: 519, Six- lieth Congress, first session. “The estimated cost of the work of im- provement outlined in thfs report,” says the annual statement submitied today, “we in round numbers, three million dollars, the greater portion of which was for the improvement of the frontage along the Washington channel, and the nce tor the purchase of strips of land not now owned by the United States along the Po- tomac and Anacostia rivers. “The Commissioners. in their estimates to Congress for the fiscal year 1910, sub- mitted an estimate aggregating $305,000 toward carrymg out this plan of im- but no appropriation was We believe that an estimate should again be submitted to Congress at its next -ession for money to begin the improvements, either on the basis of the completed plans contained in the said Senate document, or upon these plans curtailed so as to cut down the present estimated cost without interfering with the altimate and complete development of the river. System Is Needed. “The improvement of conditions along the Washington channel is most urgent. While the various lessees have spent con- siderable money in buildings and re- pairs, in order to improve their hold- ings and make them more available for their various businesses, these improve- ments haye not been made in any sys- tematic manner, nor in accordance with any definite plan; they would therefore be of no value in any extensive improve- ment along this frontage and would prob- F have to be torn down. ‘We believe the harbor rront of the city Washington should be a model for those of other cities. Instead, it may be ibed. under its present conditions, as grace to the city “Development w n the 1. year would seem to indicate that if proper wharfage facilides were provided much commercial traffic would be at- ‘ted to. Washington which now goes ere As it is, the demand for wharf Pp cannot be met.” Deciaring that “insanitary conditions at the tish wharf are a menace to health de- mending immediate reme the wharf Py committee recommends radical changes. “The fish wharf ne ation becau: tons special consider- se its present insanitary condi- menace to the public health. a water frontage of about of about 118,000 1 which has been n ision in the original lease that the ee should expend at least $3,000 in im- provements. “Prior to the expiration of his original March 15, 1908, an examination of sanitary ition of this wharf was made by the health officer, who reported that the fish and oyster houses located here were not provided with proper toilet facilities or sewerage, nor with floors of such material as would promote cleanli- ness and modern sanitatoin. Status of Fish Wharf Lease. “The health officer recommended that, before granting lessee a renewal of the lk h he was entitled under certain conditions—he be required to place the wharf in sanitary condition. Notice Was served on him to do so, but he neg- lected to comply with the requirements of -to wh this notice, invelving an expenditure on his part of about $4,000, and the Commis- sioners then refused to renew his lease, entering legal proceedings to compel him to vacate the premises. The lessee ap- plied for a restraining order to prevent such action, and the matter is now pend- ing in the courts. After the institution of these legal proceedings. an endeavor was made by your committee to arrive at some agreement with the lessee so as to insure the improvement of the property but without success. As a consequenc the lessee has been holding the property since March 15. 1908, without the pay- ment of any rental therefor. “Your committee is of the opinion that the existing insanitary conditions at the fish wharf are a menace to health de- manding immediate remedy, and, as the present lessee has had ample opportunity to make the necessary improvements and has failed to do so, recommends that Congress be asked to terminate this lease, thereby saving time in the making of this much-needed improvement, which cannot now be made without a somew! tracted legal procedure. It { recommended that the Commissioners be authorized to either establish a fish mar- ket at this wharf, to be conducted as are the other markets in the city, or to enter SS («Continued on Third Page.) MAY LET CONTRACTS Municipal Architect Need Not Plan Local Buildings. DECISION OF CONTROLLER Interpreting the Words of District Appropriation: Act. RECONCILING TWO CLAUSES Question Raised by Auditor Twee- dale Regarding the Inten- tion of Congress. Although Congress provided = municl- pal architect for the District of Colum- bia, the controller of the Treasury hi decided that he need mot prepare the R for a single municipal building | provided for in the District appropria- tion act passed at the same session, but may let contracts for thelr preparation te outside architects, The plans for municipal buildings provided for in other than the District appropriation he further holds, must be prepared by the municipal architect; but there are none such. Controiler Tracewell was asked to de- cide this quéstion for the District Com- missioners.’ Municipal Architect Snowden Ashford recommended that contracts be let to outside architects for the plans for several buildings provided tor in the last District act, and the recommendation was approved by the Commissioners. The District auditor, Alonzo Tweedale, raised the question, however, whether or not the same act did not direct that the municipal architect shall prepare the plans for all municipal buildings and not ‘let the work to outside architects, and it. was upon his recommendation that the question was submitted to the controller of the Treasury Department. Controller Tracewell’s Decision. “I am in receipt, by your reference of the 13th instant, of a letter from the -}auditor for the District of Columbia,” Controller Tracewell wrote the District Commissioners today, “wherein the gen- raised whether your is authorized to let contracts to outside architects for the preparation of plans and specifications for the erection ef certain school and other mur pal) buildings in the District of Columbia, namely, for one eight-room schoo) dutld- ing to take the place of the old Potomac! School building; for annex or extension of McKinley Manual Training School; for a public convenience station at 9th and F streets northwest; for an engine house to take the place of No. 2 and for an engine house near Minnesota and Pennsylvania avenues. It is_stated, also, in the auditor’s letter that the District appropriation bill for the current fiscal year contains provision for sixteen mu- nicipal buildings, eleven new buildings and five additions or enlargements: “That there are at present four drafts- men in the employ of' the District and at the command-of the municipal architect; that it will require the services of twen- ty-two draftsmen for’a period: of six months to make the plans for these six- teen buildings, and that such a drain would jeopardize the o:her services con- templated by section 2 of said appropria- tion act, which provides for the employ- ment of draftsmen, assistant engineers, leveiers, transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers and inspec- tors temporariiy required in connection with sewer, street or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges or any general or special engi- neering or construction work auihorized by appropriations, and to be exclusively employed to carry into effect such appro- priations when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the Dis- trict, and that all such expenditures shall be paid from and equitably charged | against the sums appropriated for said works, provided that the expenditures for said purposes shall not exceed $62,000 for the current fiscal year.” He points out that prior to the passage of the last District appropriation act enactments of Congress declared that the plans for municipal bufldings should be prepared “under the supervision of the inspector of buildings,” and that much of the work was given to outside contractors, to be passed on later by the inspector of buildings. Provisions of the Act. “The District appropriation act for the current fiscal year (5 Stat. at Large, page 692) first created the office of mu- nicipal architect for the District of Co- lumbia,” he continues, “in the following language and prescribed his duties as fol- lows: ‘Municipal architect, whose duty it shall be to prepare and supervise plans for and superintend the construction of all municipal buildings, and the repair and improvement of all buildings belonging to the District of Columbia, under the di- rection of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, $3,600; and al! laws or parts of laws placing such duties upon the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia are hereby repealed.’ “Further along in said act, page 700, we find the following clause: “That the plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this act shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect and shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and shall be con- structed in conformity therewith.” “There is apparently a conflict between these clauses as to the duties of the municipal architect. From their casual reading, it would appear that it was the duty of this officer, as prescribed in the clause creating his office, to prepare the plans and specifications for all the mu- nicipal buildings of the District. But when read more carefully, it is apparent that Congress, even in this clause, had in mind that there were some municipal buildings that he was to supervise their plans and specifications only, and not prepare them. The language is ‘whose duty it shall be to prepare and super- vise plans for.”. Where he is required by law to prepare plans and specifications for a building, it would be little less than nonsensical for Congress to com- mand him to supervise his own prepa- rations. “Bringing to our aid a few well under- stood rules of statutory construction the apparent conflict between these two clauses of the act disappear. “1. It ls presumed that all legislation ts enacted to accomplish the result sought. “2. That each and every word in a law is to be given its plain and ordinary meaning unlees it has a technical one different from the ordinary meaning. “3. That a law general in its charac- ter must give way to a law special in its nature on the same subject. “The results sought in the enactments contained in the laws providing for the erection of municipal buildings in the Dis- trict orf Columbia and about which you inquire is the erection of these buildings in a reasonable time from the date of the availability of the appro- priations therefor. _Qne of the necessary and preliminary incidents to the accom- | has been received here from Triest, saying | | \ LONESOME DAYS FOR THE STAY-AT-HOME. SUTTON HAZERS OUT President Taft Dismisses Seven West Point Cadets. LETTER OF LAW SUSTAINED Announcement Is Made at Academy Today. INVESTIGATION WAS RIGID Sutton Was Attacked at Night by Sheeted ‘cadets and Se- verely Injured. i] Ui: f Ht WEST POINT, N. Y., August 19.—By direction of President Taft seven cadets vere dismissed from the, United States Military Academy today for being involv- ed in the hazing of Rolando Sutton. Sut- ton is a brother of James N. Sutton, j of the Naval Academy, whose death was investigated at Annapolis recently. The cadets ordered to be dismissed are John H. Booker, jr., of West Point, Ga., first class; Richard W. Hocker, Kansas City, Mo., third class; Earle W. Dunmore, Utica, N. Y., third class; Chauncey C. Devore, Wheeling, W. Va., third cl Gordon Lefebre, Richmond, Va., third class; Albert E. Crane, Hawarden, lowa, third class, and Jacob S. Fortner, Dothan, Ala., third class. The dismissals’ were announced when the cadets were paraded at noon today. Charges were made several weeks ago that Sutton was assaulted while on guard duty, walking a lonely post, and beaten down by men wrapped in sheets ,and masked with pillow cases. He was found almost dazed and sent to the hospital suffering from severe in- juries. On account of the law passed by Congress to stop hazing at the Military Academy, a rigid investigation was made. The board which conducted the inquiry was composed of Lieut. Col. Sibley, Capt. Oscar J. Charles of the 17th Infantry and Capt. M. F. Smith of the 20th In- fantry. More than 125 witnesses were examined. Taft Takes Firm Stand. of municipal architect and defining its duties is general in character and appar- ently covers all municipal buildings. The second clause is special and defines his duties as to the particular municipal buildings provided for in the appropriation act for the present fiscal year. “It is not made his duty in the latter clause to prepare plans and specifications for these particular buildings, but, on the contrary, to sul ise these plans. This clause has the same legal effect as if it-were a proviso to the clause wherein he js directed to prepare all plans and ications for all municipal buildings, It also’ serves to explain why Congress used the words ‘supervise plans’ in the first clause. Outside Contracts Authorized. “I am, therefgre, of the opinion that you are authorized to contract with out- slde arehitects for the plans and specifica- tions of all municipal buildings provided for ia the District of Cdlumb‘a appropri- ation act for the pfesent fiscal year, and that it is the duty of the municipal archi- tect to prepare the plans and specifica-| tions for all other municipal buildings, ! and to superintend the construction of all municipal buildings, including the _build-| ings provided for in the current District appropriation act, under the direction of; the Engincer Commissioner. “Any temporary additional draftsmen, computers, copyists, ete., needed by the municipal architect to enable him to pre- pare plans and specifications for municipal buildings or to properly supervise plans prepared by outside architects must be furnished him under the conditions and limitations of section 2 of the District of Columbia appropiiation act for the present fiscal year above referred to in this decision.” MAKES START TO NORTH POLE WALTER WELLMAN LEAVES SPITZBERGEN IN BALLOON. | Information Received From Captain of Italian Steamer Now at Hammerfest, Norway. PARIS, August 19.—A -special dispatch that, according to a telegram rece:ved from the captain of the Italian steamer Thalia, now at Hammerfest, Norway,’ Walter Wellman left Spitzbergen August 16 in his dirigible balloon, bound for the north pole. He had a favorable wind when the start was made. For the past four years Walter Wellman of Chicago nas been devoting his time to preparations for an undertaking to reach the north pole by airship. He was at Spitzbergen in 1908 with a balloon, but postponed his departure on account of the lateness of the seeson. In 1907 a start was made in the airship America, but the vessel encountered a storm and was driven back, and the attempt for that year was abandoned. Mr. Wellman left New York May 12 of this year for Spitzbergen, where he has been engaged in completing his prepara- tions for the start he is now sald to have made three days ago. He estimates that under favorable conditions the pole can be reached from Spitzbergen in from two to five days. a Old-Time Telegraphers Meet. PITTSBURG, Pa., August 19.—The final events of the joint convention of the Old-Time Telegraphers and Historical As- sociation and United States Military Corps are being held today. On the prograni are a visit to the Carnegie Institute, lunch- eon at the Hotel Schenley and witnessing a National League ball game between Pittsburg and St. Louis. The conven-) tion will close tonight with the annual banquet at the Fort Pitt Hotel. ie Big British Battleship Refloated. SHEERNESS, England, August 19.—The/ British first-class battleship Agamemnon, which stranded yesterday on the Long- sands range while engaged in target prac- tlee, was refloated at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, with the assistance of tugs. and proceeded to Margate for an examination of her hull. > Wright Aeroplane Damaged. BRESCIA. Italy, August 19.—The BREAK AWAY IN. GALE Six Barges Adrift for Hours in Heavy Sea. BELIEVE ONE FOUNDERED U ~ bibles sanede aaa Shawmont and Her Crew of Five Men Probably Lost. TUGS FIND ONLY WRECKAGE Disaster Overtakes Fleet of Six Ves- sels in Convoy From Philadelphia to Portsmouth, N. H. ’ SAUNDERSTOWN, R, I., August 19.— The barge Shawmont, with a crew of five men, bound from Philadelphia for Portsmouth, N. H., broke away from the tug Valley Forge. off Shinnecock, L. L, early Tuesday morning, and it is feared that she went to the bottom with all hands, ~Five other barges bound for Providence, Boston and Newburyport broke away and floated helplessly for ten hours before they were picked up. One injured man was carried ashore for treatment when the Valley Forge ar- rived here today, bringing news of the disaster. The barges left Philadelphia Sunday in tow of the .tugs Valley Forge. and Mo- nocacy. When off Shinnecock they ran into the heavy northeast gale that pre- vailed” along the coast Monday night and Tuesday, The Shawmont, the first barge in the tow of the Valley Forge, broke loose Tuesday morning. Found Only Wreckage. | At almost the same instant the tow of the Monocacy broke away, and so thick} was the weather that the barges had! completely disappeared before the tugs could put about. They cruised for ten; hours before the Valley Forge picked up the barges Moline, Saucon, Wiconisco and Meshamang. Soon after the Monoc- acy picked up the Oley, There was no trace of the Shawmont except some wreckage that was floating around and the captains finally decided that she had gone to the bottom. - They accordingly proceeded and reached Saunderstown ear- ly'this morning. The barges were all badiy battered Abraham’ Hassels, a deck hand on the Saucon, was badly injured and was taken ashore gor treatment. The missing barge was commanded by Capt. Alfred Gould of Cape Cod. The Shawmont was a schooner rigged barge of 865 net tops, 93 feet in length, 35 feet beam and 17 feet depth of hold. She as built at Noank, Conn., in 1900, TUGBOAT LONG OVERDUE. Was En Route From San Francisco for Isthmian Canal Work. A tugboat which the Bayano River Company ordered from Seattle some time ago, to be used ih towing shipments of native lumber, is thought to bé. lost, ac- cording to the Isthmian Cana! Record of August 11, as the boat was then several weeks overdue. The last heard from the vessel was shortly before it left San Francisco ,té@ start south under its own steam. Inquiry at the office of the commission in Washington throws no light on the whereabouts of the vessel at this time, although it is said there that even had she arrived at the isthmus during the last week notice would not necessarily have been sent to Washington. pe BATTLESHIP IN DRY DOCK. South Carolina Preparing for the * Government Tests. PHILADELPHIA, August 19.—The batt!eship South Carolina put into the |dry dock at Philadelphia navy yard today Wright aeroplane, .in which ieut. plishment of these results is the prepara- buildings. Pay lishment “ nite Se the preps: Callerara ee the Italian army has been{of the Seal which tion of plans and specifications for. these | making its, was damaged in a storm} Lewes, |.» August The clause creating the office | yesterday, to be: prepared for the. government tests will be held off The ship was built by Cramps, and, The action of President Taft and having successfully gone through thejSecretary Dickinson in directing the builders’ trials, will now undergo a gen-| dismissal of seven cadets convicted of eral grooming preparatory , to being} «. alae turned over to naval officials! The huli| b82ins” Cadet Sutton 1s accepted by will be scraped and repainted, the the officers of the army at the War De- machinery adjusted and the whole ves-|partmént and the civil officials at. that sel put literally in “shipshape.”” department as a:clear indication of the ‘The transport Prairie left the navy yard) purpose of the adminjstration to fully yesterday for Newport, where she will| support Col. Scott, superintendent of the take on board forty officers and men| United States Military Academy, in his from eee ships arene pueress emo wil efforts to eradicate the practice of haz- aken to Norfolk, and from there sen’ na sti overland 4) Mare. Talana Celsetor distri: |e age Sees Diae om atagene Me bution to the battleships of the Pacific fleet. : a eee AGAIN AT MATTEAWAN... Harry Thaw Returned to Institu- tion by Officials. ; MATTEAWAN, N. Y., August 19.— Harry K.‘Thaw ate supper last night at Matteawan State Hospital for the Crimi- nal Insane. . He arrived at the institution ten minutes before 7 o'clock last even- ing, after a trip under escort from the White Plains jail, where he was forc- ed to leave after several days’ respite fol- lowing the adverse ruling of Justice Isaac N. Mills on his application for re- lease on a habeas corpus writ as a sane man. Dr. Amos T. Baker, assistant ‘superin- tendent of Matteawan, and two attend- ants brought Thaw back to the asylum from which he has fought so hard to ob- tain his release. A stage met them at the station and in it they journeyed to the institution. The trip from White Plains was with- out untoward incident. At both the White Piains and Tarrytown stations a curious crowd assembled, hoping to get a glance at the young millionaire, but the prisoner paid little attention to the demonstration. MORE INQU:RIES EXPECTED TREASURY EMPLOYES IN A STATE OF SUSPENSE. Some Fear They Will Be Asked Whether or Not They Are Married. TSastiry employes, according to rumors in circulation throughout the department, are looking for another list of interroga- tions to answer. reports, the questions will seek to know something of the personal affairs of em- ployes, at least as to the state of single or double blessedness. Assistant Secretaries Norton and Hlilles, who are largely conducting the campaign of Treasury organization for Secretary MacVeagh,-are both out of the ci and their plans are not known. It is sup- posed, however, that no further inter- rogations will be made among the em- ployes, at least, not of the sweeping kind. lt is known, however, that the reorgani- zation committee did give consideration to ascertaining the number of female clerks who are married, and whether they are being supported by their husbands, or | whether they are performing this pleasant duty for their worse halves. A Suggestion Was miuae to the commit- tee that something should be done to dis- courage the marriage of female clerks unless they wished to retire from the government service, and that where clerks were to be dropped from the rolls for economy's sake as well as for betterment of the service, t dismissals, if pos- sible should be among women clerks Whose husbands are able to support them and who are probably employed in the same or, some other department. The reports around the department to- day were to the effect thai the new ques- tion blank to be sent around would ask as to some of the details referred to. Assistant Secretary Norton has gone north to see and talk with Secretary MacVeagh and also to visit President Taft. He is to return to his desk tomor- row or next day, at which time it will be knewn whether the big official question mark is again to start on its rounds. RADIUM FOR ALL TIME. Reported Discovery of an Inex- haustijble Supply. KENNETT, 1., August 19.—Accord- ing to a story told by Dr. 8, Wilkins, who arrived yesterday, enough pitchblende has been discovered on the McCloud river, north of here, to supply the world with radium for all time. Dr. Wilkins had in his possession fine specimens of the precious stuff, and so impressed were some business men with his story that they sent an expert to visit the newly discovered ledge. 3 The ledge is twenty miles up the Mc- Cloud river from the confluence of that stream with the Pitt river, ‘This time, according to at the academy. It. was at the suggestion of the Pres!- dent that the action of the War Depart- ment in this matter was made public by Col. Scott-at West through the adjutant general at Wash- ington. As a matter of fact, while the officials ‘here were informed of the ac- tion, they were cautioned against giving out any information on the subject. “When it first became known that evi- ‘dences of a revival of hazing had been foun@ in the investigation of the Sutton case at West Point and that seven cadets had been convicted of offense by an army board, t pressure was brought to bear.on the President and the Secretary of War for lenient action. While it was admitted by the friends of the accused that they should ‘be punish- ed, it was argued that their offense was but a “boyish prank” and not sufficient- ly serious to subject them to the odium of dismissal from the service at the very outset of their career. That these appeals were ineffectual is accepted as a demonstration that the President means to follow the letter of the law of Congress bearing on such cases by imposing the special penalty provided in the law for “hazing” by dismissing the offenders. The action in this case is in decidea contrast with that taken by the ing administration in cases of a similar character just about a year ago. Last Year’s Case. In July, 1908, eight, cadets of the Mili- tary Academy were suspended for hazing members of .the fourth class. They were William T. Russell and Harry G. Wever of the first class; Byron Q. Jones, George W. Chase, William W. Prude, Isaac Spaulding, William Nolle and James A. Gillespie of the third class. This action followed a mon.h’s work by an investi- gating board. Two days later it was announced by Secretary Loeb at Oyster Bay that President Roosevelt had approved the action of the West Point authorities and that the men would be permanently dismissed. Then on August 1 given out that President Roosevelt had seen Secretary Wright of the War De- partment, to whom the cadets had ap- pealed, and had decided that the of- fense of the boys had been a mild one. Secretary Wright said after the confer- ence that the President had come to the conclusion that dismissal was too se- vere. Considerable public criticism of what was considered undue leniency followed. Then August 3 President Roosevelt gave oyt an offic’al statement denying. that he had as yet come to any decision regarding the case and that all other reports had been errors. There follow- ed conferences between Presideyt Roose- velt, Secretary Wright and Col. Scott, in which it was suggested that all the ;men be suspended for a year and then reinstated. Col, Scott, however, insisted ithat for the sake of discipline more drastic punishment was needed. Ac- [cordingly August 22 it was decided to dismiss the two first-class men and sus- pend the other six without pay or al- lowance. Wright Explanation. Secretary Wright, in explaining the apparent discrepancies in statements, said the President, on first receiving the report from Col. Scott dismissal, had been inclined to uphold it, but had directed the withholding of the order of dismissal pending further investigation. In this way, he said, a wrong impression had gone forth. One of the fornis of hazing practiced was to compel “plebes” late at the first roll of drums in the morning to gather cach a hundred ants in the company streets and store them in their lockers. Another was to make the victim hold his toes against the underside of the table while he ate. “Bracing,” “knuck- ling,” “fagging.” cleaning rooms and darning socks were also enforced. In 1901 Congress passed a law forbidding all forms of hazing at the Naval or Mili- tary academies. “I am very, very sorry for those boy: said Mrs. Rosa B. Sutton, the mother of the young cadet on whose account the dismissals occurred, when informed of the President's action by a Star re- porter. “I look upon the affair as a boyish prank and don’t see why the seven cadets should have been dis- missed. For my part, I never asked that anything be done to them. Their dis- missa) will naturally have a serious ef- fect on their future careers, and it is too bad that their punishment should be so severe, “The letters I receive from my son are to the effect that he is getting along: splendidly. He does not appear to be in the least py"? Point. instead of it was! recommending | BOSTON 1S LOST AND CRUEL WAR IS ENDED That Is, Unless Umpires Change Their Minds This Afternoon. BLISS SLIPS BY BLUE ARMY Meanwhile Gen. Harries “Enemy” in Check. Holds PEW’S BRILLIANT RECOVERY Throws Large Force on Advancing Red Column, but Artillery Defeats Him. Special Dispatch to The Star. MIDDLEBORO, Mass., Au- gust 19.—The mimic war waged in southeastern Massachusetts will be declared to have ended at 1 o'clock today, unless present plans are reversed. The hard- ships brought on by the terrible weather have caused Gen. Wood and his staff of umpires to call a halt. Pneumonia is more to be feared than death by gunshot wounds, they figure, and now that Gen. Bliss and the army of invasion have fully demonstrated their ability to take Boston and are nearer the city than its defenders, the umpires see no reason for prolonging the sanguinary con- flict. So at present it is planned to call off everything with the close of today’s maneuvers. District Troops Cover . Rear. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. HEAD OF BLISS’ COLUMN, HAN- OVER, Mass., August 19.—With all the signposts pointing to Boston, the main force of Gen. Bliss’ army is marching down the main highway. It expected to rest at noon at North Pemberton, fully ten miles in advance of Gen. Pew’s broken forces. Gen. Bliss slipped out of camp from his right flank promptly at 5 o'clock, send- .ing his 3d Brigade in advance. His 2d Brigade followed immediately, leav- ing ‘his 1st Brigade, composed of the District of Columbia and Connecticut troops, to fight Pew at Bryantsville and to follow along as fast as possible under fire. What the Blue army thought was a neavy fire raged from 5 o'clock to 9 o'clock-st Bryantsville. The entire Blue army was mansed on Biss’ rear, driving into it a heavy artil- lery and infantry fire. When the maneu- ver Was called off at 1 o'clock Gen. Bliss was a short half day’s march from Bos- ton. Scouting parties working out from the left flank of Gen. Bliss’ column came upon the enemy in force west of the town of Hanover. Col. Appleton’s 7th New York Infantry, supported by the 22d and 14th, and two batteries of arttl- lery, were detached from the main col- umn and gave them battle. The move- ment _was a brilliant one on the part of the Blue army and represented a des- perate final attempt to head off the ad- vancing Red: At the first the Reds were severely punished and were forced back on their support. Four times the Blues charged, but after the blow they were steadily re- pulsed, the Red artillery having gone intc acticn in a commanding position. The heavy artillery. fires shook the win- dows at Hanover, while the pounding of artillery horses and cavalry shook the ground as if a small earthquake were in ogress. The Blue assault did not in- tertere with the main column's progress, the 3d Brigade advancing to the leading position in continuous, uninterrupte¢c march. Harries Attacks Two Brigades. Special Dispatch 10 The Star. UMPIRE’S CAMP, WITH THE SEV- ENTH REGIMENT IN THE FIELD, | NEAR MIDDLEBORO, Mass., August 19 —By a brilliant march Gen. Tasker H. Bliss this morning attacked the left flank of the Blue army. He got his men in be- hind the defending forces, and has a cleai road to Boston now. In order that h flanking movement might be accomplish successfully he feinted with the Ist Bri- gade, under Gen. Harries, and then at- tacked the Blue army's left wing at Bry antsville. Gen. Harries, with a Connecti- cut troop, attacked two full brigades o! the Blue army and there was a seriou: battle lasting over an hour and a half. The ist Battery of Artillery of New York was called into the engagement, anc the fire of its guns was trained from the hillside onto the Blue camp. Under cover of this false attack the main body of the Red army, the Ist and 2d Brigades, under Gen. Appleton, marched along the roa¢ to Boston. Gen, Pew was completely fooled, anc he had no force in front, and the cavalry of the Red Army on the left met the Blue lines, compressing toward the Re¢ army. There’ was a little skirmishine between the advance guard of the 7tk Regiment, which led the way, and the outposts of the Blue army, but there was no fighting of any importance ex- cept at Ten Brook Center, about five miles from the starting point, where @ company of Blue bicycle men were en- countered on @ cross road and were quickly wiped cut of existence. The advance guard of the 7th Regi- ment spotted the bicycle corps. id creeping up behind a stone wall, swep' them with a heavy fire. A company o! |the 7th was called into action, but or | account of their eagerness they expose¢ | themselves and the umpires ruled twenty of them out of the action. They were obliged to fall back about two miles, Lead Pumping Too Fierce. The umpires decided that the Blue arms could never have crossed under the con- centrated fire which they were oblige¢ to bear, and 100 of them were ruled ou’ of the action, and they were declare¢ theoretically dead. A little further or Capt. Enochs of the 7th captured a bi cycle sergeant and a private, who rat right into the head of the Red army or their motorcycles, At 9 o'clock the head of the column o: the Red army was at Hanover Fou Corners, only twenty ‘mjles from Boston and Gen. Pew was ely beaten. Rout of the Blues Is Complete. Special Dispatch to The Star. WHITMAN, Mass., August 19.—The Blur army was completely outflanked by th: Red in today’s Massachusetts war gam+ and shut off from Boston. The Blues