Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1911, Page 1

The circulation of The Star, both daily and Sunday, is greater : —eeoS | WEATHER — | Rain tonight and Friday; warmer tonight; light to mod- by many thousands than that of any other Washington newspaper. || erate southerly winds: | ‘ == No. 18,383. — Ghe Evening Star. WASHINGTON, D.°O.,° THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1911-TWENTY PAGES. CONTAINING ON PAGE 16 CLOSING SS NEW _ YORK STOCK QUOTATIONS, ——— ne ONE CENT. PAGT WITH CANADA SENT TO CONGRESS Reciprocity Agreement Be- tween the Two Countries Announced This After- noon. LUMBER IN THE LIST TO COME HERE FREE Cotton Seed Admitted to Dominion |, Without Duty. HOUSE ROW HEATED Hitchcock Accuses Speaker, and Latter Hits Back. BALLINGER REPORT DELAY Nebraska Member Says . Mystery Surrounds Procedure. BLAME CHARGED TO A MAP Explanation Offered Is That Work Has Been Held Up at Govern- ment Printing Office. The House of Representatives at the close of a bitter wrangle of half an hour, FREE PAPER CQNDITIONED Total Amount of Duties to Be Re- mitted by United States, $4,850,- 000—By Canada, $2,560,000. ‘The terms of the new tariff reciprocity agreement between the United States and the Dominion of Canada were made pub- lie today, simultaneously at Washington and at Ottawa President Taft sent it to Congress with an extended message urging the confirmation of the proposed treaty. The State Department gave out a summary of the tariff changes pro- vided for, as follows: “The basis of the agreement is this: ‘Reciprocal lists on ‘eading food products such as wheat and other grains, datty products, fresh fruits and vegetables, fish of all kinds, eggs and poultry, cattle, sheep and other live animals. Also certain commodities now free in one country are to be made free by the other, such as cotton seed oi: by Can- ada and rough lumber by the United 6tates. Tin and terne plates, now du- tiable in both countries, are made mu- tually free. Barbed wire fencing. from duty by Canada, is also exempted by the United State: Some raw ma- terials, such as mica and gypsum, which enter into numerous industries, are to be made free by the United States. Print- ing paper is to become free on the re- moval of all resi ctions on the exporta- tion of pulp wood. “Mutually reduced identical rates on secondary food products such as fresh meats, canned meats, bacon and hams, tard and lard compounds, canned vege- tables, flour, cereal preparations aad other foodstuffs, partly manufactured. now exempted Manufactured Goods. “Mutually reduced rates on a list of manufactured commodities, which in- cludes motor vehicles, cutlery, clocks and watches, sanitary fixtures, satchels and similar leather goods, plate glass, brass band instruments, printing ink and mii cellaneous articles. Agricultural implements, such as plows, harvesters, threshing machines and drill are reduced by Canada to States rates. “A small list of articles is given special rates by each country. Canada reduces coal to 45 cents per ton, and cement to 11 cents per hundred pounds. The United States reduces ircn ore .o 10 cents per ton, lowers the rate on aluminum prod- ucts and on dressed lumber. the United Recapitulation of Changes. “Total amount of duties to be remit- ted by the United States, $4,850,000. “Total amount of duties to be remit- tea by Canada, $2,560,000. “Value of articles now dutiable, which the United States proposes to make free, $39,811,000, equal to 76.4 per cent. “Value of dutiable articles on which the United States proposes. to reduce duties, $7,521,000, equal to 14.4 per cent. “Value of articles imported into the United States, which are affected by the reciprocal agreement, $47,383,0l., equal to 91 per cent. Value of articles remaining dutiable at full rates, $4,771,000, equal to 9 per cent. “Value of articles now dutiable, which Canada proposes to make free, $21,958,- 000, equal to 16.5 per cent. Value of dut.:ble articles on which Canada propos: to reduce duties, $25,- 870,000, equal t > per cent. “Value of art ‘s imported into Can- ada which are affected by the reciprocal agreement, $47,525,000, equal to 36 per cent. “Value of articles remaining dutiable, $85,198,000, equal to 64 per cent. Print Paper Provision. The text of the print paper provision Of the agreement is as follows: “Pulp of wood mechanically ground; Pulp of wood, chemical, bl ‘hed or un- bleached; news print paper and other pa- per and paper board, manufactured from mechanical wood pulp or from chemical wood pulp, or of which such pulp is a component materia! of chief value, col- ored in the pulp, or not colored, and valued at not more than 4 cents per pound, not including printed or decorated wall paper, free. “Provided, That such paper and board, valued at 4 ceats per pound or less, and wood pulp, being the products of Can- ada, when imported therefrom, directly into the United States shall be admitted free of duty, on the condition precedent that no export duty, export license fee, or other export charge of any kind whatsoever (whether in the form of ad- ditional charge or license fee or other- wise) or any prohibition or restriction in any way of the exportation (whether by law, order, regulation, contractual relation or otherwise, directly dr in- directly) shall have been imposed upon such paper, board or wood pulp, or the wood used in the manufacture of such paper, board or wood pulp or the wood pulp used in the manuf4cture of such paper or board. Ny “Provided; also that such wood pulp, in which cons‘derable personal feeling was manifest, today adopted a resolution directing the committee on rules to in- vestigate the cause of the delay in the publication of the report of the Ballinger- Pinchot investigating committee. The committee is peremptorily directed to re- port inside of a week. Representative Hitchcock of Nebraska presented the resolution and in his short speech of explanation he plainly indicated a belief that there was something rotten in Denmark. He charged that the Bal- linger-Pinchot report had been held up for forty-nine days since {ts presentation to the House and his hardly veiled insin- uations that Speaker Cannon and the powers that be in the body were re- sponsible aroused the member from Dan- ville. He declared he had not held up the re- port and that he didn’t propose to hear insinuations of that sort made on the floor of the House. Other Members Take Part. Before termination of the row, which was lively while it lasted, Representative Ollie James, the big Kentucky member of the Ballinger-Pinchot committee, had jumped into the wrangle to back up Mr. Hitchcock's statements, and Representa- tive Mann of Illinois and Representative Cooper of Pennsylvania, chairman of the printing committee, and Representative Scott of Kansas, chairman of the commit- tee on agriculture, defended themselves and Mr. Cannon from attack. Representative Payne of New York, the republican floor leader, who had an- nounced early in the ruction that he saw no objection to an investigation of the delay, cut the controversy short by mov- ing the previous question. The Hitchcock resolution was adopted by a practically unanimous vote, some few republicans in the extreme rear of the chamber uttering feeble noes. The resumption of the Ballinger-Pinchot row in the House today came as’an ab- solute surprise and out of a clear sky. The chaplain had offered prayer and the clerk had finighed reading the _journai. Representative Dwight of New York, the republican whip, was just about to make & Point of no quarum,.the attendgnce members beine | fim. id Then up jumped Mr. Hitchcock, who, in the past, has had the facuity of springing a sensation every now and then and of stirring up the Speaker. Surrounded by Mystery. “Mr. Speaker,” he cried, “I rise to a question of privilege of the House. At the last session there was a commit- tee appointed to investigate the Bal- linger-Pinchot controversy. The re- port of that committee, I ascertain by the records, was not referred to the agricultural committee until several weeks after it was made to the Howse. A condition of mystery and doubt sur- rounds the whole performance. Even after the report was referred it did not reach the committee. “Not until yesterday could anything be found out about this report, which was made six or eight weeks ago. This in- volves the integrity of this House and should be rigorously investigated at onc Therefore, I have prepared a resolution. Mr. Hitchcock then sent to the clerk's jesk and had read a resolution which, in the preamble, denouneed the treatment of the Ballinger-Pinchct report as “improp- er” and “irregular” and called upon the committee on rules to investigate and re- port i six days. Floor Leader Payne made a point of order against the Hitchcock resolution, but the Speaker paid no attention to him and Mr. Hitchcock continued to denounce the handling of the report, declaring that, by some process that he would like to understand, the document had been sus- pended between heaven and earth, ~and that he could find out nothing concern- ing the result of the investigating com- mittee’s work at either the Speaker's rooms, the agricultural committee, the government printing office or any place else. ‘Not Opposed to Inquiry. .. “I do not object to the rules committee making this investigation,” interrupted Mr. Payne, “but this resolution asks the House to adopt as the truth the state- ments in the preamble from beginning to end.” ‘Nobody has denied the truth of those statements,” Representative James of Kentucky interjected. ‘Then Mr. Cannon used his gavel. “This is the first time.” he said, “that the at- tention of the chair has been drawn to this matter. There are a vast number of reports to refer, and, although the chair doesn't refer them personally, he accepts the responstbility.” ‘The Speaker then went on to say that he thought the Ballinger-Pinchot report had gone, for sake of convenience, direct te the government printing office, instead of through the agricultural committee to which it had been referred. He also thought, he said, that the report had been heid up because an extra number, in addition to those authorized by law, were desired to be printed. “The House hes missed the gentleman from Nebraska,” said the Speaker,“ he had been here and as vigilant ‘as he usually is he would undoubtedly have brought this matter to the attention of the House ere this. Now that he is back, it will undoubtedly be brought to the attention of the whole country.” Nebraska Man Missed. “That criticism of me by the chair is not justified,” retorted Mr. Hitchcock. “The chair is not criticising,” said Mr. Cannon. “The chair is merely showing how the House has missed the gentleman from Nebraska.” Some of the republicans laughed. “I am not the only seeking the facts gnd. endeavoring to un- ravel the myster# surrounding this re- port,” said Mr. Hitchcock.” “This is not so ctacure gport; The matter should investigated and an ex; tion mad to the country. oes * “The chair has no objection to - vestigation,” said Mr. Cannon, “Rut only, desires that a member of this House should not make the chair subject to a criticism that may be hi ‘on its ed one who: has been face as an accusation and pos- sibly as a fact by the ever vigilant and fair press of this country until the facts are ascertained.” paper or board, being the products of the United States, shall only be admitted free of duty into Canada from the United States when such wood pulp, paper or board, being the products of Canada, are admitted from all parts of Canada free @ duty into the United States.” Then Mr. Hitchcock ex; ness to eliminate the objectionable pre= amble, which practically accused the Speaker, or, at least, the House machin of holding up the Tallinger-Pinchot And: ings. Representative Scott of Kansas, who. (Continued on Second Page.) PUT UP 10 TAFT Charges Against Commission- ers Rudolph and Johnston. ANNOUNCEMENT IN HOUSE Representative Bennett Alleges Dis- crimination in Taxes. MATTER OF ASSESSMENTS Requests That Increase in Salary Be Held Up Pending Investigation. Formal charges against District Com- missioners Rudolph and Johnston have been filed with President Taft by Repre- sentative William S. Bennett of New York. Mr. Bennett made this announce- ment on the floor of the House this after- noon during consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill. Mr. Hennett declared that not only have the Commissioners been repeatedly guilty of violating the law by permitting a lower assessment to be letied against rich people than is levied against, poor People, and announced flatly that he had called the President's attention to one specific violation of statutory law by Messrs. Rudolph and Johnston within the last six weeks. Mr. Bennett patd high tribute to En- gineer Commissioner Judson, declaring that he did not believe in and was not @ party to the action of the civil Com- missioners with respect to asséssments, and to the alleged flagrant discrimina- tion by them in favor of the rich. Alleged Discrimination. ‘The charges created a sensation in the House. The paragraph in the District bill raising the Commissioners’ salaries from $5,000 to $6,000 was under considera- tion. Mr. Bennett degan his attack on Com-} missioners Rudolph and Johnston by ob- jecting to the increase. Then he went into detail, and wound up by declaring that rank discrimination in favor of wealthy men who came here to make their homes was being practiced. “This may be good policy on the part of the Commissioner,” said Mr. Bennett, “but it is an absolute violation of the law.” Mr. Bennett further declared that the Present tax assessor of the District was unworthy to hold the position because ‘was. appointed. by. the Commissioners to carry out their policy. Mr. Bennett demanded that no increase be allowed the Commissioners until there had been investigation, and the whole matter had been cleared up. Commissioners Johnston and Judson were in the gallery of the House when Mr. Bennett sprang his. sensational charges. Commissioner Johnston was seen to send for Representative Burke of Pennsylvania, and when Mr. Burke returned to the floor of the House he denounced. the charges as false. He declared he had the authority of one of the Commissioners to make this statement. Commissioner Johnston was seen by a Star reporter in the gallery immediately after Mr. Bennett made his charges. “I know nothing about this,” he said; “4t is all new to me.” The discussion of the Bennett charges was still in progress when The Star’s re- port closed. HANGS HIMSELF IN PARK. ° Pedestrian Bumps Into Body Sus- pended From Tree. NEW YORK, January 26—Mayberry Wakefield, on his way home at midnight, bumped into the body of a man who had hanged himself from a tree in Fort Wash- ington Park. Wakefield turned an angle in the park path so hurriedly that he did not notice the body until hestruck it. The man had hanged himself with heavy twine, jumping off a park bench after having tled himself to the tree. He was about forty-five years old. A message written in German was found on tne body. Translated it reads: “Do not ask who I am. After cremating my body cast my ashes to the winds. ‘Then 1am well cared for.” ‘There was no signature. Spellbound by a Dead Man. NEW YORK, January 26.--Spellbound by a dead man, Charles Loder, a laborer, was arrested at midnight beside the body of James Curray, a janitor, although since early afternoon he had been free to escape. The janitor had been horribly beaten and shot twice. According to the evidence gathered by the police, a quarrel arose between the two men over the alleged theft of a revolver, ——— Rainey After Rare Animals. NEW YORK, January 26—Paul J. Rainey, the big same hunter, who has been shooting bears along the Mississippi river this winter, is going forth to hunt again. He will leave this city February 1, bound for British East Africa, Borneo and India in search cf several rare wild animals which are desired for the Bronx zoo here. WOMAN DRAMATISTS have hidden their identities under masculine pen names oftener than the average person would guess. For instance, the clever plays by “John Rutherford” were written by two women. See &@ most entertaining nd in- article called “MEN,” by VANDERHEYDEN FYLES, Literary director of the New ‘Theater, in the next Sunday Magazine of The SUNDAY STAR ow EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY BUT ONE. JURY 1S STILL OUT Fate of Mrs. Laura Farns- worth Schenk in Balance. ar ae 30 TODAY DEBATE CASE AGAIN Woman Closely Scans Every Face as Members File in Court. WHEELING, W. Va. January 26.— Much refreshed after a night of quiet at their hotel the jurors who are pass- ing on the guilt or innocence of Mrs. Laura Farnsworth Schenk for the at- tempt to poison her husband, John O. Schenk, entered the courtroom this morning and almost immediately proceeded to the jury room, where they will again we over the case. Judge Jordan was on the bench, and one of the jurors inquired if he might ask a question -in- open court concerning some of the evidence. He was told to put it in writing, and the court would consider it. Mrs. Schenk closely scanned the faces of the jurymen as they slowly filed out of the courtroom and across the corridor to their room. She looked much better than when court closed last night, for at that time she col- lapsed and was quite ill after reaching her cell in the tower. She listened to the discussion going on around her as to the probability of the jury reach- ing an agreement, that being the sole topic, without reference as to what the verdict might be. Apparently Wheeling believes that when a jury has been out four hours it is a hung” jury, and sentiment is much in this direction in the Schenk case. If the jury is unable to agree it will be dis- charged, and the case tried again, likely in the circuit court of Ohio county. Jury Asks Court Instructions. Soon after the jury retired it announced its desire to communicate with the court, and it was called back to the box.- As it slowly filed into its place ‘the foreman presented a number of questions in writ- ing. They had to-deal with the evidence of Florence Coleman, a negro domestic, who had been employed by the Schenk family and had testified regarding certain persons in the house on given days. As the court stenographer was ill today it was necessary to secure another ste- nographer, who immediately began going through the notes of the trial in search of the evidence wanted. Meantime the jury retired again. ‘The substitute court stenographer at 11 o'clock was still searching for the testi- mony of the negro maid. The woman testified that the day Mrs. Schenk, her husband and the “detective nurse” ‘went for a ride there were other persons in the house. Two of them, she said, were domestics, but she knew nothing’ about them. Testimony Was Unexpected. One of the women was the detective- domestic who had been placed in the Schenk house by a detective agency and who was discharged by Mrs, Schenk after thirty-six hours because she could not do the work. The Coleman woman's [testimony was a surprise to both sides and was blurted out without a question. ‘The prosecutor attempted to have her say she had been mistaken, but she re- fused to reconsider her evidence. In his address to the jury J. J. P. O'Brien said that during the absence of the others one or both of these persons might have placed poison in the water. ‘The courtroom was again ruled to its capacity, but the waiting crowds in the streets have been sensibly reduced by the rain. —-—_—_.. Fire Damages Asbury Park Hote]. ASBURY PARK, January 26—The West End Hotel, one of the largest and best. known hotels of this resort, was hy destroyed by fire today, Pare Was controlled after It hed’ caused bao estimated at $40,000 and had threatened to spread to other big hos-. telries along the ocean front. All the available fire apparatus in tho city and yo ‘was called out to fight the flames. PLEAS FOR CAPITAL Senate. Committee to Hear Canal Celebration Arguments. auth Sere. NOT IN FIELD. AS. RIVAL | roca Plans Would Not Interfere With Other Projects. Opportunity for presenting the argu- ments for the. holding of an official: cele- bration in Washington of the opening of the Panama canal will be given by. the Senate committee on industrial exposi- tions during the hearings it has arranged upon bills authorizing the holding of an exposition at either New Orleans or San Francisco. Former, Commissioner Henry B. F. Macfarland, chairman of the joint com- mittee of the. Board of Trade and Cham- ber, of Commerce on the celebration of the opening of the isthmian canal, called on Senator Jones, chairman of the Senate committee, this morning, and requested that representatives of the local commit- tee be heard. Senator Jones granted the Tequest at once, and it is probable the Washington proposition will be discussed before the committee for about ten min- utes. t Hearing Is Postponed. It had‘been’ expected that the relative claims-of the Crescent city and the Gold- en Gate.city would be heard by the Sen- ate committee this morning, but Senator Foster asked that ‘the hearings be post- Poned because he is ill. The hearings will probably be given Monday, beginning at 9:30 o'clock; and the Washington repre- sentatives will likely be heard near the close. It is proposed by the joint committee of the two Washington trade bodies that @ new section shall be included in what. ever bill the Senate committee favors, providing: “That the.President of the United States shall appoint » commission of nine mem- bers to prepare for a celebration, with appropriate ceremonies, by the United States government, in which the repre- sentatives of foreign governments shall be invited to participate, in the city of Washington at the opening of. the Pana-| ma canal; that sald commission be au- thorized to appoint an advisory commit- tee of one member from each. state and territory of the Union, ypan the nomina- tion of the governér ‘of each state and territory; that the commission shall re- port its plans to Congress at its next regular session." ‘snis ig in sine with the suggestions that were made to the House committee, anu the proposition hag -been drafted and re- cently submitted ‘to that committee as an amendment to the bill it has reported. It will be stated in behalf of the local committee that it does not present this Proposition in” opposition to any others which have beens ed nor in oppo- sition to the plan of. Senator Swanson of Virginia for a naval fete at Hampton roads, nor in opposition to Representa- tive J. Hampton Moore's plan for a me- moriai building here. In the view of the Washington committee, it is understood, the Swanson plan’ will. fit well into ‘the plans advocated dy it. The Swanson plan contemplated that representatives of for- eign governments on the fleets of the foreign governments that will assemble in Hampton roads shall come to Washington to participate in an official celebration of the opening of. the canal here. They would come, it is pointed out, for the celebration which the Washington. propo- sition contemplates. No Known Opposition. In Ike manner, it 1s contended, the com- pletion of a memorial propdsed by Rep- resentative Moore will add more interest to the fete planned here. It is also pointed out that the paragraph drafted by the ‘Washington committee will fit in either a resolution naming New Orleans as the tion site or a resolution designating San Francisco: Chairmen -Macfarland sald this morn-| Four men had been sent to arrest Val-| x, about five| or; of the district court yesterday drew ing that he had heard no opposition to the Washington proposition from either the New Orleans or the San Francisco supporters, and he added that the reasons for holding the governmental celebration of a governmental achievement in the governmental capital where the perma-| murder, but at the trial here it developed | as Valentine: had brought about his death ‘upon | through running. There were me marks | when she has @ home, the of violence on his body. re to be seen nent governmental exhibits time wouki ‘were so self-evident that lit be taken at the hearing them. ‘ > SIR C. W. DILKE DIES Heart Trouble Fatal to Noted British Statesman. re FELT STRAIN OF ELECTION Represented Gloucester Division in Parliament Since 1892. SIR CHARLES W. DILKE. LONDON, January 26—Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke died today. The imme- diate cause of death was heart trouble, al- though he had been in an enfeebled con- dition since the recent election, the strain of the campaign having affected him se- verely. He went to the south of France to recuperate, returning to London last Saturday. Soon after reaching home he took to his bed. Sir Charles had represented the Forest of Dean division of Gloucester in parlia- ment since 1892. He was recognized as ‘one of the most brilliant minds in poli- ties, particularly in the domain of, for- eign affairs, and: but for an old divorce scandal that blighted his career probably would have held the highest offices in the gift_of his country. Educated at Cambridge. He was ‘born in 1843, was educated at Cambridge and admitted to the bar in He was under secretary of ‘state for foreign affairs in. 1880-82 and president ofthe local government board in 1882-85. Subsequently he was a member of sev- eral royal commissions and wrote exten- sively of national and international po- Utical affairs. 2 His first wife, Katherine, daughter of Capt. Arthur Gore Sheil, died In 1874, and in 1885-Sir Charles married Emilia Fran- cis, daughter of Maj. Henry Strong, and the widow of Mark Pattison, rector of Lincoin College, Oxford. It was during their engagement that the scandal re- sulting In the separation of Donald Craw- ford and: his wife occurred. Mrs. Pat- tison, who was beautiful and a talented ft loyal to Sir Charles throughout this, “fouble. She died as the result of a rupture of a blood vessel on October 24, 1904. = FLEES FROM MOB; DIES. Decides Posse Is Not Respon- sible for Planter’s Death. WEST POINT. Miss., January 26—J. W..Valentine, a wealthy planter, was the victim of’ overexertion resulting from flight from a posse and: was not Killed by Jury | 'desired change in Millions of Gallons of Water Lost at Cabin John Bridge. CITY SUPPLY IN DANGER Report of Lieut. Langfitt Urges Im- mediate Repairs. BIG CRACKS IN MASONRY Steel Tube, Surrounded by Concrete, Proposed to Save Possible Ulti- mate Destruction. Two million gallons of water a day leaking through holes in the aqueduct at Cabin John bridge and cracks and breaks in ‘the masonry which threaten that structure as well as the water sup- ply of the entire city are pointed out in a detailed account of the aqueduct’s precarious condition, made by Lieut. W. C. Langfitt, Corps of Engineers, U. 8. A:, and forwarded to the chief of engineers, U. S. A. It is estimated that $35,000 must be procured to make the bridge and conduit safe, and that $20,000 must be made available. For that reason it 1s likely the Commissioners will be asked to get this item included in the present appropriation bill. Calculations, measure- ments and descriptions, together with photographs showing the water which 1s wasting from the bridge section of the aqueduct, have been prepared by Lieut. Langfitt ‘and will be forwarded through the proper channels ‘to Congress, it 1s understood. Prompt Action Called For. “It is believed,” says the engineer's re- port to the chief of engineers, U. 8. A. “that the application of the necessary |remedy should not longer be postponed. At the time of the submission of the es- timates in the annual report from this office it was realized that permanent re- {pairs would soon be necessary, but esti- mates were not then submitted because the manner of repairing the bridge in the most economical manner had not been determined. “It is now proposed to place within the bridge a metal lning, either of a steel or iron tube eight feet six inches in diameter surrounded by concrete, or by the placing of a -iron sectional lin- ing eight feet in diameter, similar to tiat in the Washington aqueduct tunnel under Rock creek. Either method would be satisfactory and would render the bridge watertight, thus preventing the disintegration of the masonry in the faces of the bridge, caused by the freez- ing of the water in the joints and in- terstices, and would check the deteriore- tion of the conduit now in progress. The plan adopted would depend upon the prices received for furnishing the mate- rials under the two methods and ‘upon ‘conventence of installa- tion with the least interruption to the water supply.” Is Weakest at Bridge. The report says that the aqueduct has one of its weakest points at Cabin John bridge, and should a break occur there serious result would follow, because of the Hmited storage supply of water. “The preservation, therefore, of Cabin John bridge is essential to the permanence of the water supply of the District, an in- terruption at this point being likely to cause a shortage or failure of the supply in. this city.” ‘When water was first admitted to the conduit from Great Falls in 186% leaks were found in the big pipe when there was seven feet of water in it. The water was drawn off and the lower half of the conduit plastered, and after that no| leaks were observed for some time, as the water flowed within the limits of the plastered section. The consumption of the city water increasing, it became necessary to raise the dam at Great Falls, and the conduit has been supply- ing more water, the flow line gradually raising. The upper portion of the con- duit, not being plastered, began to wear away by the constant rush of water. In 1905 it was noted that mortar between the bricks had been worn away an inch in some places. Experiments were started in 1905 to find a way to remedy the defects. Much of the unplastered portion of the tube was plastered with cement, but this did not affect the leakage to any n: ticeable extent, and an effort was made to cement the whole tube. The leaks in the middle of the bridge were stopped, but millions of gallons con- tinued to waste away at other sections. Cracks in the Masonry. “During inspections,” says the re- port, “long cracks in the masonry of the condult within the bridge were noted on both sides of the center of the bridge, the axis of the bridge lying almost due east and west. These cracks were kept carefully filled with cement mortar, and-it was not until the conduit through the bridge was completely plastered that those in charge of the aqueduct felt assured that most of the leakage did not come through the mortar joints of the brick crown of the conduit.” The report further says that brick rings in the conduit are broken and that the upper portion of the pipe is moving over the lower portion at the rate of one-eighth of an inch a year, and that this action woulé undoubtedly cause the collapse of the conduit if permitted ¢o continue. Year to Do the Work. The army engineers assert that while it may take a year's time to make the the Cabin Jobn bridge, the work can be prosecuted without causing any material shortage in the District water supply. That re- sult will be accomplished by filling the reservoirs and emptying the conduit for a day or two at a time and then replenishing the supply in the reser- voirs, It is only because of these fre- quent necessary interruptions that the proposed work would consume so nths’ time. mithe bridge Was constructed in 1859 by Gen. (then Capt.) M. C. Meigs of the army as port of the aqueduct to carry water from Great Falls to this city. It has been generally considered Gne of the great engineering feats of the world. BLOW AT DIVORCE INDUSTRY. Reno Judge Refuses to Accept Six Months’ Stay as Residence. RENO, Nev., January 26—In granting the defendant's motion for non-sult for the mob, according to @ verdict in the| want of jurisdiction in the divorce case cireuit court here today. entine on minor charges, ‘Sarah Catherine Ford of Morristown, + J., against Milton Ford, Judge John 8. months ago. On the way to jail Valentine sharply than ever before the lines opened fire on his captors and escaped, arth mark out what constitute a resi- Later his corpse was found in the road. Members of the posse were accused of dence. “The court refused to accept Mrs. Ford resident of Nevada on the mere fact of a six-month stay at an apart. ment house without acquiring property in Morristown. = A LEAK IN AQUEDUCT WOOD 1S DISMISSED Norfolk Engineer Appointed Head of Street Cleaning. WILL COME FEBRUARY 1 Removal Almost Complete Surprise to Local Official. CONTEMPLATED SOME TIME Commissioners Explain Action As Taken for “Good of the Service. ‘No Specific Charges. JAMES M. _ James M. Wood, superintendent ot street cleaning, was removed from office by the Commissioners today. J. W. Paxton, a civil engineer of Nor- folk, Va., was appointed in his place, and until Mr. Paxton arrives, February 1, the street cleaning department will be directed by Assistant Supt. Robert E. Doyle, who has been Mr. Wood's right- hand man for several years. Mr. Paxton, who will succeed Mr. Wood, is now an officer of the Sopthern States Engineering and Equipment Company of Norfolk. He has the warm indorsement of several Washington ‘engineers. He has done some large engineering work recently. One of his most recent achteve- ments is the constructing of three steci bridges across Albemarle sound, the trio costing $56,000. He has been engaged in railroad engineering, and has also been connected with the building of a iarge gas plant in Norféfk. He is about ferty years of age. Removal Long Contéemplated. The order removing Mr. Wood, and signed by the Commissioners, states that the action is taken for the “good of the service.” It takes effect immediately. As soon as it was out of the typewriter Dr. William Tindall, secretary to the board of Commissioners,’ hastened with copies for the street cleaning department. Mr. Wood was at lunch. Mr. Doyle, now acting superintendent in charge 0: street cleaning, was there and helped Dr.: Tindall Jook for the Keys to Mr. Wood's office. Commissioner Johnstor had told the doctor to get the keys. Not finding any, Ur. indall stayed to serve the notice on Mr. Wood when he came back to sign a lot of correspondence that waited for him. It appears today that the idea of re- moving Mr. Wood is several weeks old, but to Mr. Wood it is almost an entirs surprise. ‘The first intimation he had of the fact that he was slated for removal was the announcement in The Star of January 2%, after the Commissioners had held their annual meeting and had trans- ferred the street cleaning department to the engineer department. woop. Seeking Successor to Wood. At that time Commissioner Judson had been ‘in communication with several civil engineers trying to. get. one of them to take the place about to become vacant without the knowledge of its incumbent at that time. Mr. Paxton, the Norfolk engineer, siz- nified willingness to take the place in a telegram received at the District build- ing yesterday. Mr. Wood was given un- til 10 a.m. today to resign if he wanted to. He decided that he had nothing to resign for and did not do so. Bright and early this morning Charles ©. Lancaster called onthe Commissione: in protest against the “threatened 1 moval" of Mr. Wood. ‘He asked that at least thirty days’ grace be given him. He was told, practically, that protests would be of no avail. No Specific Reasons Given. No reasons for Mr. Wood's removal could be obtained from the Commission- ers this morning, except the general rei son in the order. It has been known, however, that Commissioner Johnston has been watching the street cleaning situa- tion with a great deal of concern ever since he came into office, and he has ex- pressed his dissatisfaction with several phases of the situation at various times. One of the most recent caues for dissutis- faction was the way in which the depart- ment struggled with the double layer of snow in the recent pair of blizzards that made the streets impassable until the fire and water department had to be called to the ald of the street cleaning department. Over Six Years in Department. James M. Woods ucceeded John T. Two- hey as superintendent of street cleaning October 30, 1908. He had been connected with the department four years. ‘At the time of his appointment Commis- est had fifty applications for the Sop before him, and although he had a other appointment in mind, it is under- stood that Mr. Wood's indorsements wera so strong that the Commissioners gave him the place. Engineer Commissioner Morrow did not vote on the proposition. ‘Mr. Wood is @ resident of the northeast section of the city, and is prominent as a Member of the Northeast Citizens’ Asso- ciation and = delegate from that body to the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. He was born in Addison, N. Y.. in 1860, attended school at Big Rapids, Mich. Fol- lowing his graduation he engaged in newspaper work until 184, when he en- tered the War Department as a clerk. He served there until 1991, when he re- entered newspaper work as editor and publisher of the Suburban Citizen until Joo2. From 1902 until 1904 he was editor of the Egst Washington Sun, a post which he resigned to become au inspector in the street cleaning department at $1,000 @ year. Trouble With Stidham. Mr. Wood came near to severing hin connection with the District government