Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1913, Page 1

WEATHER. Rain tonight and Wednesday, with colder temperature; high south, shifting to north, winds. No. 19,172. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1913— EIGHTEEN PAGES. Che £vening Star. CLOSING STOCK About every one in Washing- ton who reads at all reads The Star. dcoranions PAGE 14 ONE CENT. LOODS SWEE P CITIES OF OHIO AND INDIANA; SCORES REPORTED DEA Rivers Rise Suddenly, and the Property Loss gypyey OF CONDITIONS Estimated to Rea ch Into Millions— Thousands Homeless. DAYTON UNDER WATER AND MANY PEOPLE ARE REPORTED DROWNED Akron Threatened With Destruction by Bursting of Big State Reservoir —All Indiana Cities Suffer From Floods. In the wake of the tornadoes of Sunday night and of Monday morning came news of disastrous floods today in river valleys from eastern Ohio to the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. A report from Columbus said 1,500 lives had been lost at Dayton, Ohio. It lacked confirmation, and was later denied.~ A later report gave the number of dead as forty are reported drowned at Delaware. . The mayor and twenty citizens In epitome the situation as reported in dispatches received up to 2:30 o'clock this afternoon is a: s follow: DELAWARE, Ohio—Town floodéd; mayor and twenty citizens reported drqwned ; people flee to high ground. LEVEE BREAKS AT DAYTON. | DAYTON, Ohio—Large part posed to have broken. t of city under water; levee sup- COLUMBUS, Ohio—Levee breaks and city has worst flood in its history. _Troops ordered out. AKRON, Ohio—Business sec! of big state reservoir. tion of city threatened by bursting YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio—Foureen thousand steel workers idle as result of flood. TWO THOUSAND HOMELESS. INDIANAPOLIS—Two tho portation suspended. Practically every stream in losses in cities and to farmers. ST. LOUIS—One drowned sudden rising of river Des Peres. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 25.—Practi- cally the entire state of Ohio was cut off from communication with the outside world early today, property damage esti- mated in the millions of dollars was done, many lives were lost and scores of towns were under water as the result of floods caused by heavy rains of the last few days. Trains in every direction were blocked by washouts. At Delaware, Ohio, Mayor B. V. Leas and twenty citizens were reported drowned in the high waters, and the pop- ulation of the village running to the- hills for protection from high water. Many Families Homeless. Dayton and Findlay are reported en- tirely under water. At Mansfield it was reported that two feet of water is run- ning in the streets and at Akron a re- port estimates the flood damage at more than $1,000,000 and 500 families are home- less. Practically the entire southern section of the state is flooded, and no reports can be secured from there. Telephone and telegraph wires are down and the telephone companies report that many of their exchanges are under water. Co- jumbus’ car service has stopped, police battle with flood conditions, warning peo- ple in danger zones. Sufferers Ask for Aid. Many sensational rescues were made. In “Cleveland and northeastern Uhio streams are at flood stage and the prop- erty damage is large. In northwestern Ohio, in the vicinity of Toledo, ali the smali streams are raging torrents, street and interurban car service has been stop- ped and many lives endangered. ‘Wooster, Orrville, Mount Vernon cad Delaware, all located on high ground, are reported entirely surrounded by wa- rion county officials appealed Gov. Cox for boats and tents. Mayor and Twenty Others Reported Lost at Delaware COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 25—B. ‘V. Leas, mayor of Delaware, a town of| 10,000 inhabitants, twenty-five miles north of here, and twenty citizens are reported’ to be drowned. The town is wald to be completely flooded, all tele- phone ang telegraph communications being cut off owing to the flooded con- dition of the Scioto river, which has left its banks. Just before the tele- phone centrals left their switchDoards they reported that all inimbitants were fleeing to the hills. An appeal for help was received by Mayor Karb of Columbus from Delaware] Efforts to get details are curtailed b to cause wire communications have bee cut off. Gov. Cox received a telegram this morn- ing, which was sent from a railroad tower near Delaware. asking for aid for Dela- ware flood sufferers. The dispatch said that state troops will probably be neces- ary, but did not give the number of cas- Dayton, Ohio, Under Water; Reports of Deaths Conflict CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 25. believed here that the Miam! river has gone over the levees and flooded the city of Dayton, Ohio. At 9 o'clock this morning a Western Union operator working with an operator in this city abruptly cut off a dispatch he was sendingend said: “Good-bye; the levee has broken.” A press dispatch from Dayton, sent by telephone, say: “Dayton is seeing the deep muddy wa- ters of the Miami river rushing through her downtown streets. “Ppulldings usand families homeless; trans- Indiana out of banks; enormous and many homeless as result of the great hotel, a magnificent church, the great Y. M. C. A. and the Hotel yang Sgn | ag tinged and plea] y boats, principal corner, and Main streets, is three feet under water and thé courthouse is like an | MAKE MODEL CTY OF US. PTA Plan for Improvement Washington Placed Before President Wilson. of NAMED AS PRELIMINARY Committee Representing Municipal Reforms Outlines an Exhaus- tive Program. A complete plan for making Washing- ton the best city in every detail in the United States in order that other cities may copy after it was lald before Presi- dent Wilson today by John Purroy Mitchell, president of the New York board of aldermen, and Henry Bruere of the municipal research bureau of New York. Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Bruere were accompanied to the White House by Lieut. Gov. David I. Walsh of Massa- chusetts, who expressed his approval of the proposed plan. Declaring that cities .and towns throughout the United States are striv- ing for better government and better conditions generally, Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Bruere, who are among the best known municipal experts in the country, told the President that the time has come when a model city is needed on which others can base their reforms. Washington is the logical place to have this model city, they said. A survey or investigatian of present conditions in the District under the super- vision of the President was proposed. It was suggested that by means of such a survey it can be discovered in what par- ticulars the government of Washington comes up to the best standards and in what ways it falls short of these stand- ards. Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Bruere said that such a survey would cost about / $15,000. | The President listened attentively while | Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Bruere outlined | their plan in a general way. They told him the time was especially opportune for the adoption of their suggestion be- cause of the President's pronounced in- terest in efficient city government and because of fhe great demand all over the country for an example of efficient admin- istration which they can follow. ‘ President Expresses Interest. President Wilson expressed deep inter- est in the proposal, and said that he would consider it very carefully. The en- tire plan in. printed form was left with him, and he said he would give it deep study. Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Bruere denied a report that they had come to try to end vice in the District. Their plan, they told the President, did not refer specifically to vice here except in the particular that it is sought to better conditions generally. They denied that their visit had any- thing to do with the recent visit of the Iilinois vice commission. The plan presented to the President stated that “‘the achievement of efficiency in city government in the United States has been retarded because cities have island in 2 sea of mud. “The Mad and Stillwater rivers are swelling far beyond their banks and they have hurled their walls of water into the rapidly rising, always feverish, impetu- ous Miamt.” City Protected by Levees. Mad, and Wolf creek conjoin right in the heart of Dayton. As the city, particular- ly North Dayton and a north section call- ed Riverdale, lies almost on a level with the four streams, it is protected trom high water by levees twenty-five f high, which guide the streams through the city from its northern to Its southern North Dayton is generally first to suff quring igh water. It isa menufactur- and residence district. Ri residence district. poe aes If the levees of Mad river, the most dangerous of the four streams, swinging down to Dayton from the northeast, should break, the major portion of the manufacturing district and the downtown business section would be in extreme danger. However, a break in any sec- tion of the levees would result in great damage. In the southern part of the city, on fairly high ground, are the great plants ‘of the National Cash Register Company. These probably will not suffer from the i 1,500 Reported Drowned. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 25.—An un- confirmed report from Dayton says that fifteen hundred people have been drowned there as the result of the breaking of a qam, and that the water in the town is five feet deep. Adj. Gen. Wood has received infor- mation from Dayton officials that the flood had submerged a large part of the city. An appeal fs made for help. Tents and hospital supplies are being packed preparatory to being sent by special rain. An appeal for help also came from Lerue, Marion county, which is practi- cally inundated. The railroads at 10:40 a.m. canceled all trains to Dayton. They announce it was impossible to reach the city because of flood conditions. Efforts to reach Dayton also from Richmond, Ind., by automobile, interurban or train, were futile. Loss of Life Is Denied. NEW YORK, March 25.—No lives have been lost thus far and no buildings de- stroved in the flood at Dayton, Ohio, ac- cording to a message received at 12:55 by the American Telephone and clegraoh Company from {ts station at Weneton, eight miles north of Dayton. ‘The’ company has a test wire working from Phoneton ‘to Dayton. ¢ company’s men at Ph e ported that the flood inthe Maret river Was caused by the breaking of the Lara- mie reservoir in Shelby county, about fifty miles north of Dayton. : When this message was received the Miami river was rising about one foot an sour. ‘The water was seven feet deep in Main street, Dayton, and fourteen feet deep in man coen se YY parts’ of the surrounding Many Ohio Cities Flooded; Property Damage Enormous COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 25.—With a great roar the levee at the foot of Broad street let go shortly before 11 o'clock today, sending a deluge of water that swelled the Scloto river, covering a great area. Several small collapsed. The police at 10:40 o'clock ordered Three rivers, the Miami, Stillwater and¥tlo been, the prey to partisan politics, and have not been properly organized.” They said that efficient city government is be- ing achieved in the United States by the “elimination of partisan political control and the institution of popular rule, by the adoption of more efficient forms of or- nization and by the working out of ientific methods of municipal organiza- Outline of Proposed Plan. The brief for the plan left with the President is as follows: “Government and public business in America has heretofore been conducted with complete disregard of efficiency or in accordance with improvised or tradi- tional rules of thumb. One result of this condition is that there is wasted In the operation of American cities from 15 to 25 per cent of available funds. Another result is that there is no special ‘body of technic developed for the performance of municipal functions. Germany has been pre-eminent in municipal ad- ministration because conditions gov- erning the . operation of German cities have enabled administrators to work out and transmit a method of government. In American city govern- ment method has been a matter of op- portunism. Recent improvement in municipal methods in American cities has resulted chiefly from taking over into the municipal field practices worked out in private enterprise. But only in a very limited degree are the practices of private business applicable to municipal or other government activities. Thus, in such cities as New York and Philadel- phia, there ig beginning experimentation by efficiency engineers and others in the technic of public business. “There are now in the United States no more conspicuous social phenomena than in the rise of new standards for city gov- ernment. Throughout the United States cities are striving for and citizens are de- manding efficiency. Confronted with the problem of how to obtain It, American communities are discovering that efficient government is more than desires of citi- zens and good intentions of officials. As one indication of the spreading demand for information of efficient methods and help in applying them, requests submitted to the New York bureau of municipal re- search may be recited. Demand for Expert Service. “Over the country civic clubs, business men’s organizations, city officials and pri- vate citizens are continually asking for expert services and information of expert ways. Since January 1 citizens in Port- land, Ore.; Denver, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Springfield, Mass., and Wa- terbury, Conn., have provided funds to obtain the services of the bureau in re-y organizing the methods of their govern- ment. “There is no city in the United States Whose organization, program and meth- ods may be pointed to as a model of ad- ministration for others to copy. For many of the activities of government no model practices have anywhere been ‘orked out in the United States. There i& a demand for practical examples of method, and results are shown by the fact that in three years a score of cities have copied, in part or in its entirety, New York's recently modernized account: ing system. “In view of the spreading demand for efficient government, it is proposed that the President and Congress undertake to make the government of Washington serve as a model for every American city in scope of activity, organization and method of operation. It is as important to the people of the United States that the government help localities in work- ing out unsolved administrative problems ‘of public co-operation as it is that it ald commerce or agriculture. The conspicu- ous position of Washington will make practical demonstrations in that city of all persons in the low lands to thelr homer quickly and flee for ‘igh “The street in front of the Algonquin Hotel, stending on a corner at 3d and Ludlow streets, on which stants, beside find. All fire and police a = sisted in the’ work. The ‘residents (Continued on Second Page) especial value in influencing local gov- ernments threughout the country. The vast technical resources of the federal government should provide for the de- yelopment of administrative practice in (Continued on Tenth Page.) a Loox More LIKE A @@% MILITANT? =») HAVENNER CHIEF CLERK Head of Division in the De- partment of Commerce Given Promotion. Dr. George €. Havenner, chief of, the division of publications of the Depart: ment 6f Commerce, was today named chief clerk of the department, to take ef- fect April 1. Daniel C. Vaughn, assist- ant chief -of the publications division, succeeds Dr. Havenner as chief. Robert M, Pindell, jr. whom Dr. Havenner suc- ceeds, resigned to enter private business. Dr. Havenner was born in 1866 in Prince Georges county, Md. He studied at Har- vaya University, from which he graduated ith the degree of M.D. He entered the ‘government printing office in 1887 as a compositor and served in various capaci- tigs there until 1902, when he resigned to enter the bureau of statistics, then under the Treasury Department. Selected to Organize Division. Later he was selected to organize the division of publications of the then De- partment of Commerce and Labor and, was made its chief. He has served on various departmental committees, among them the committee on editorial work of the Keep commission, and is pow a mem- ber of the department's committee on printing, and of the economy and effi- ciency éommission. Mr. Vaughn is a native of Georgia. Like Dr. Havenner, he was a compositor in the government printing office and worked there until he came to the divi- sion of publications under Dr. Havenner at the latter's invitation. ——— AMERICANS JOIN REBELS. Soldiers of Fortune and Cowboys En- list Under Carranza, NEW ORLEANS, March 25.—A band of American soldiers of fortune and Texas cowboys has enlisted in the rebel “‘con- stitutionalist” army of former Gov. *Ve- nustlano Carranza of Coahuila, according to advices received here from Ciudad Por- firio Diaz, the Mexican border town op- posite Eagle Pass, Tex. The American force is said to include several men who have participated in previous revolution- ary movements in Mexico and Central America. “Col.” Paul Mason of New York, who participated in the Estrada revolution against Zelaya in Nicaragua three years ago, is one of the leaders in this move- ment. Several American adventurers have left New Orleans within the past few days for Mexican border towns with the intentfon of joining the Carranza rebel forces. Fort Plan Thief Sentenced. MANILA, March 25.—Gansico, the Fili- pino. wha was recently arrested on a charge of stealing military plans of the Corregidor fortifications, was found guilty today and sentenced to serve nine months in prison. It develops that two blue prints of the Corregidor defenses had already been sent to Japan through agents before Gansico's arrest. ——————E Pasengers Wade Ashore. ST. PAUL, Ind., March 25.—A west- bound Big Four passenger train was wrecked at Hog creek, three miles from here today and the combination baggage and smoking car was thrown into the creek. The passengers crawled through the ‘windows and waded ashore. The wreck was due to a washout. A few persons were injured. Wrecking trains from Indianapolis and Cincinnati are blocked by high water. —_—_—>_____ Another Outbreak in China. AMOY, China, March 25.—A new revo- | lutionary disturbance broke out today t Chao-An, in the province of Fi Kien. The government forces stz- tioned there are not sufficiently stronz to contro] the situation. [CAR FALLS INTO RIVER PASSENGERS WADE OU Wreckers on Way to Rescue of _ Pennsylvania Train Plunge “Through Bridge: ° BHLLEFONTAINE, Ohio, March 25.— ‘The engine and rear sleeping car of west- bound Pennsylvania train No. 3 plunged into Mad river at the edge of West Lib- erty early today, put the sleeping car fell at the side of the stream and the Passengers crawled through the windows and waded to shore. The other six coaches of the train remained on the ’ heavy rains had swollen the river until the bridge was swept away, just a short time before the train reached there. The train was being detoured over the Big Four railroad from Urbana to Belle- fontaine because of washouts on the Pennsylvania lines, and was proceeding cautiously. Swept Off Engine. Conductor Philip Ham of Springfeld was swept off the front of the engine into the river, but landed on a bridge downstream. Engineer James Wood and Fireman C. E. Chilton, both of Columbus, jumped after setting the brakes and were slightly injured. Washouts on each side of the ruined bridge prevented immediate aid reach- ing the train, and communication was established by shouting across the river. Telegraph wires had been torn down by the storm, and details of the wreck were unobtainable. The river is over half a mile wide at this point, and the storm now raging continues to swell the waters. Inhabitants of West Liberty tried to reach the train by boat, but the cur- rent was too swift. For nearly a quarter of a mile behind the train the river has risen over the tracks. Rescue Train Wrecked. - URBANA, Ohio., Merch 25.—vIt is re- ported that a Pennsylvania wrecking train on its way to West Liberty, Ohio, to clear up the Pennsylvania passen- ger train wreck there early today went through bridge No. 91 near here. ‘The train carried a crew of thirteen. —__—____ Three Trainmen Killed. WELLINGTON, Ohio, March 25.— Train No. 82 of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad wept down on a trestle at Whipple Hill, three miles from here, this morning, killing Engineer George Dyke of Toledo and Daniel Shanklin, fireman, ae August Burrier, brakeman, of Mas- sillon. ———_—-—__. Three Trainmen Drowned. TOLEDO, Qhio, March 25.—Three ‘ratl- road men were drowned when Wheeling and Lake Erie freight train went through @ bridge near Brighton, about 5 o'clock this morning. The bodies of the men have not been recovered. Used Automobiles if you want a used car, read the Automobile Col- umn on page 15 of today’s Star. An unusual num- ber of excellent bargains are offered. Owner—Is your car list- ed this week? | | | MEXICAN WIRES CUT Only Communication to Monte- rey and Capital Is by Way of Galveston. All telegraph lines from Nugyo La- Tedo into™inteffor. Mexico have been cut and there is no communication to Monterey and Mexico City, except by way of Galveston, according to dis- patches received at the State Depart- ment today. The State Department’s information from Naco, Ariz., indicates that Col. Obregon, with the constitutional army, attacked Cananea at 7 o'clock Monday morning, using a field piece and ma- chine guns. The federals under Col. Moreno were reported to be making a strong resistance. Robert Charlot, said to be an Ameri- can mining man of New York, N. Y., is reported to have been killed while standing near a window, and Pablo Soto, said to be an American merchant of Cananea, is also reported killed. An ‘American, name not learned, is said to have been wounded in the arm. FRANK E. FRAZIER RESIGNS. Assistant Chief Clerk, P. 0. Depart- ment, Going to New York, Frank E. Frazier, assistant chief clerk of the Post Office Department, has ten- dered his resignation to Postmaster Gen- eral Burleson, to take effect immediately. Mr. Frazier will become associated with the United States Express Company as assistant manager of purchases and sup- plies, with headquarters in New York. Mr. Frazier entered the government service several years ago as a clerk in the Post Office Department, being ap- pointed from Wisconsin. After several promotions he was made a post office in- spector and was stationed in the north- west. About a year ago he was recalled to Washington to take up the duties of the position he has just resigned, and since that time has taken an active part in the installation of the parcel post sys- tem. NO “THIRD DEGREE” IN ARMY. War Department Forbids the Asking of Incriminating Questions, The War Department has forbidden|tion pending before the practice of the “third degree” in |legislature were put through. the examination of enlisted men sus- pected of military offenses. A recent circular prohibiting officers from ask- ing incriminating questions of prison- ers under examination has called forth serious objection. Officers insist the order is calculated to injure the serv- dce by depriving the examining au- thorities of opportunity to learn the truth. The department, however, adheres to the principles of relieving a man from the obligation to answer to such questions will not be made the subject of trial WILL PLAN FOR CAMPAIGN. Democratic Congressional Committee Will Meet April 9. To carry on the work of the demo- cratic national congressional committee, Representative Lloyd of Missouri will is- sue a call for a meeting, probably April 9 The committee's chief function lies in reading democratic gospel through: iRe*congressional districts in the hope ot perpetuating the democratic majority in the House of Representatives. \ WILSON T00 BUSY TO ACT LOCALLY Delays Selection of District Commissioners for Some Time. DECLINES TO RECEIVE CITIZENS’ DELEGATIONS Indorsements Must Be Sent by Mail. Executive Sees No Need of Rushing Matter. All the signs at the White House point | to President Wilson delaying for some! time, possibly some weeks, action upon the | two District Commissionerships and the naming of an excise board for the Dis- trict. Many requests for appointments to see the President have been met with the information that the President is too busily engaged upon more important mat- ters to give his time now to settling Dis- trict problems. The President, through his secretaries, has requested that all information as to candidates and facts shall be sent to the White House by let- ter. The President will, it is sald, give as full consideration to corresponéence as to suggestions made personally to him. Sees No Need of Rush. The President is satisfied with the way District affairs are going for the present, it is sald, and sees no occasion to rush. District people who have been getting ex- cited over Commissionerships ané the ex- cise board will have to cool off for the time being. The lists containing the names of per- sons considered unfavorable to the church element for the positions of District and excise commissioners have been completed by the Christian Endeavor officials. How- ever, President Wilson’s orders to his sec- retaries to make no more appointments for him with delegations either for or against candidates for Distfict jobs for the present, will prevent personal pres- entation. President Holmes of the Dis- trict Christian Endeavor Union declared that as soon as the President removes the ban he will make an attempt to present the lists to the President through a com- mittee which has been named. Members of Committee. This committee includes Mr. Holmes, Ell C. Trumbower, President Andrew Wilson of the Anti-Saloon League; Mrs. Shelton, president of the Woman's Christian Tem- perance Union; Dr. Hermon 8. Pinkham, Rev. Dr. Donald C. McLeod and Rev. F. T. Benson. Another will be added, ac- cording to Mr. Holmes, who will be rep- resentative of organized labor in the Dis- trict. ‘There is some discussion among the| churchmen as to the advisability of clos- ing their slate for excise commissioner’ with the two names now on it. ‘Chese are’ A. E. Shoemaker, attorney for the Anti- Salooh League, and Lewis M. Thayer, a merchant. ‘They are now of the opinion that two members are about all they will get on the Board, and it is entirely improbable that the President would care to name their entire slate of three members to fil] the three positions on the board. It is thought that he would ratber name some one else not so closely connected with the present movement. PLANS FOR DISSOLUTION. Pacific Railways Preparing to Obey Supreme Court Order. SAN FRANCISCO, March 25.--Wliliam Sproule, president of the Southern Pa- cific railroad, who has arrived here from New York, announces that under new plans now formulating for the dissolution of the Southern Pacific and Union Paci- fic, the former will retain control of the STRICKEN OMAHA HT BY BLIZZARD DEATHLST GROWS Cold and Snow Impedes Work of Searching for Dead and Injured. FULL TALE OF HORROR MAY NOT YET BE TOLD Communication Cut Off and Extent of Disaster Yet Unknown. GOVERNOR CALLS IT “HELL” Pitiful Scenes at Hospitals and Morgue, Where Survivors Search for Missing Ones—Relicf Money Is Provided. OMAHA, Neb., March 25.04 The latest reports today increased the number of dead in Omaha a3 a result of Sunday’s tornado td 218, while 325 are reported as hav- ing suffered injuries sufficiently, serious to call for surgical treat- ment. Sixteen additional bodies were taken from the Idlewild, a pool hall frequented by colored men, this morning, making the total thus far received from that place thirty-offe. The building, after being wrecked by the tornado, caught fire from an overturned stove and burned. The condition of the bodies in- dicated that the utmost panic reigned in the building. The bod: ies were piled in groups, where the men had huddled togetier when the structure collapsed. A block from this hall was lo- cated the Diamond moving pic- ture theater, which was wrecked. Sixteen bodies already had been removed from that structure when workmen began today a further search. The owners of the theater expressed belief that no bodies remained, however. Snow Impedes Rescues. Shivering from the cold and awe-in- spired by the nature of thelr work, scores of men, women and children this morn- ing struggled in the snow to rescue the dead or injured bodies of relatives and friends who lay buried beneath the wreckage of homes and buildings. Some residents of the district deciare it their bellef that at least 100 bodies are buried in the ruins of houses and brick buildings of amusement places which are known to have been filled with Pleasure seekers on Easter Sunday. City officials, however, do not estimate the unrescued in so large a number, ad- mitting, nevertheless, that many persons yet are to be accounted for. Central Pacific. He intimated that South- ern Pacific officials would leave other de- tails of the dissolution ordered by the United States Supreme Court to the Union Pacific. Sproule further announced that the Southern Pacific would retain control of the Associated Oil Company. The oil company’s executive committee, he said, had recommended that the directors at their meeting today declare a dividend of 1% per cent, to be paid stockholders April 15. No dividend has been paid by the company for six years. ‘The Southern Pacific's gecision to keep the Central and pass the unmerged prob- lem to the Union Pacific was reached, said Mr. Sproule, at the recent conference in New York of officials of the Barriman properties. JAPAN TO TAKE PART. No Truth in Report Regarding Pan- ama-Pacific Exhibit. HONOLULU, March 25.—Lars Ander- son, retiring United States ambassador at Tokio, who arrived here yesterday on the liner Manchuria, en route to incriminate | jonor of the artillery arm, and its himself, though it has modified the|commanding officer at the buttle of original circular by striking out the | Gettysburg. statement that “a: falsehood told in| &! Representative Lloyd will relinquish his duties as chairman after the meeting.| W. H. Several members of Congress are in Representatives Johnson of Kentucky, Pi vi Finley of South Carolina and Palmer Washington, declared there was no foundation to reports that Japan would not exhibit at the Panama-Pacific in- ternational exposition in 1915 at San Francisco if the anti-Japanese legisla- the California HUNT AVENUE ESTABLISHED. Compromise Reached in Naming of Roads at Gettysburg. For several years past the Grand Army of the Republic and the Loyal Legion have endeavored to have the War Department change the name of “United States avenue” on Gettysburg battlefield to “Hunt avenue” in special The original name was ven by Secretary Lamont, in 1894. Appeals to change the name to Hunt avenue have been made to each suc- ceeding Secretary of War, including the present Secretary, Mr. Garrison. In each instance the application has been denied on the general ground that there is no good reason for the sug- gested change. As a compromise, how- ever, Secretary Garrison has directed that the name of Hunt avenue be given 0 the road now under construction, from the vicinity of Gen. Mead headquarters to a point on the Balt! more pike, near the left of the Con- federate ‘line, at the battle. Discussing Navy Yard Affairs. ‘A committee trom branch No. 4, Na- tional League of Government Em- consisting of W. T. Hebbard. plow e quernse; and D. W. Roe. called retary of the Navy for the purpose of aying their respects and to talk over farious subjects pertaining to the ‘Washington navy yard. » _ ie The snowstorm, which seriously is ham- pering the work of rescue, began shortly after midnight this morning and is con: tinuing with gathering force. More than three inches of snow covers the debris in the section of the city which was struck by the cyclone. Snow Adds to Suffering. Privations of the storm sufferers being greatly increased by the heavy snowstorm which {s following so close- ly in the wake of the tornado. Women tugging at heavy beams, hoping against hope of finding living bodies of dear ones beneath the tons of wreckage; men gruffly cheering their sorrowful mates; shiveling children wrapped about with shawls and blankets were the scenes which at sunrise this morning greeted the fed- eral soldiers as they patrolled the afflicted district, alding in the rescue work and protecting the destroyed and unoccupied homes from conscienceless looters. Later city officials gathered within the lines drawn around the district by the soldiers and distributed clothing and other necessities among the suf- fers. More than $500,000 has been subserib- ed for their work, $75,000 by the city commissioners and equal amounts by citizens who attended _yesterd: meetings of the commissioners other individuals. Physicians Volunteer Services. ‘The injured at hospitals are receiving the best possible attention. Physicians of Omaha and Council Bluffs have volun- teered their services and trained nurses have willingly followed the example of the physicians. Those patients who have shown improvement today will be removed from the temporary hospitals to places which have been provided for them by the city officials. Most of them are homeless, losing thelr abodes in the same instant of receiving their injuries. Many of the patients whose conditions ‘are considered more or less critical have not been told of the complete loss which the tornado made of their property. ‘The snow, which, according to reports is falling with blizzard-like proportions from Colorado to central lowa, has seri- ously interfered with what slender thread of telegraphic communication yesterday afternoon was established from Omaha to the outer world. Practically no information has been ob- tainable this morning from the devas~ tated sections of Nebraska and lowa. Governor Fears for Other Places. ‘The fact that such intense suffering is ‘being caused here by the present storm ta spite of the heroic efforts being made by the city to provide for and protect ‘all who have been made dependent on it caused Gov. Morehead to fear that the conditions within the state are in depior- able shape. He stated that he would hasten action before the state legislature to secure sufficient funds for the immedi- ate care of storm victims. ‘Telephone and telegraph communication, though re-established in a measure yes- terday afternoon, again faces elimination by the snowstorm. Commercial telegraph companies today are deluged with mes- nd