Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1922, Page 2

3 B/ 2 * MAY TAKE CARFARE | CUT INTO COURT W. M. Clayton Holds Each Line Should Have Own Rates to Meet Revenue Needs. The decision of the Public Utilities Commission reducing street car tokens to 6 2-3 cents may be taken into court by a citizen or group of citizens, William McK. Clayton de- clared today. Mr. Clayton said he was considering an appeal to the,courts on the state- ment of the Washington Railway and Electric Company that the new rate wili yield that company a return of only 8 1-3 per cent on valuation. Mr. Clayton expressed the belief that such a return is inadequate for the Washigion Railway and Electric Company. “If such a rate will not enable the company to maintain its property and { render satisfactory service, the pe ple, who depend on Washington Rai way and Electric lines for transpo tation will suffer as well as the com- pany,” Mr. Clayton continued. Different Rates Desired. Such a petition, if presented to the court. would be for the purpose of having rates fixed for each company according to their respective needs. The Commission has adhered to the - belief that the fare should be the same on both roads. Both street railway companies will redeem outstanding tokens at five for 35 cents until a late hour this even- ing. it was announced today. The main office of the Washington Railway and Electric Company, 14th and C streets, and the headquarters of the Capital Traction Company, 36th and M streets, will cash tokens until 5 o'clock. They will be redeemed at all barns of the Washingion Railway and Elec- tric_until midnight, and at Capital Traction barns until 9 o'clock. The same tokens will continue in use after 2 a.m. tomorrow morning. when the new rate of six for 40 cents becomes effective. Wage Cut Problematical. There were no definite indications today that the wages of motormen and conductors would be cut as a re- sult of the reduction in car fare. “I haven't a word to say on the sub- was the answer of President the Washington Railway and Electric Company, when asked about the wage question. The Capital Traction Company has an agreement with its men, who are unionized, under which the wage ques- tion could be reopened in March by ei- ther side giving notice. Neither the company nor the union had given such mnotice today, and the impression pre- valled that the wage agreement on that system would not be disturbed at this time. ’ Although expressing’ disappoint- ment at the recuction ordered by the commission, Mr. Ham was non-com- mittal as to whether he would seek further relief from the commission. He said he had not had sufficient time 1o decide that question. He added: Sees Loss in Revenue. “The reduction means a loss in revenue to our company of $216,000 annually, as compared with the pres- ent rate, and $540,000 annually as compared with the rate in effect a year ago. “The new rate is estimated to yleld us only 31-3 per cent return upon the value of our property as fixed by the Public Utilities Commission, using the low prices of 1914. This is certainly far below what any one could consider e reuonu;‘e return i upon capital invested In y enter- prise, and must necessarily interfers ‘with the ability of the company to &o_forward as it would like to in the upbuilding of its service and facili- ties.” PRINCESSFATIMA ESCORT INDICTED * Stephen Weinberg Charged With Impersonating Officer of United States. Stephen Weinberg, alias Stephen ‘Wyman, Ethan Allen Weinberg and Clifford G. Wyman, was, indicted to- day by the federal grand jury on a charge of impersonating an efficer of the United States. He is alleged 10 have appeared at the White House July 26 last wearing the uniform of a commander of the United States Navy. Weinberg, or Commander ‘Wyman, presented to President Hard- | ing the Princess Fatima of Afghan- istan. He is said to have represent- | ed himself as attached to the Brook- lyn navy yard. Weinberg has been sought for some time by William J. Burns, director of the bureau of investigation of the Department of Justice, where he is said to be known as the grand im- personator. It is not known wheth- er he has been located. ‘The grand jury ignored charges of assault with a dangerous weapon against Samuel Butler, Lucinda Mat- thews and Daniel Green and one of y agaifnist Richard Williams. Others indicted and the charges against them are: Clyde H. Harris, grand larceny; Al- phonso Joseph Nash assault with a dangerous weapon; Wilder Gage, rape; James A. Monroe, housebre: ing and larceny and assault to rape; Cecil Overton and Bernard Short, robbery; Thomas Collins, Joseph B. Coleman, George Willlams, August Bergen, Frank Mills, William Ran- dolph, randolph Thomas, Charles H. Simms, Lloyd B. Hudson, John B. Cady, Frederick Degges and Jesse James Johnson, non-support. COLLECTION PRESENTED. Herbert Ward Objects Given to Smithsonian Institution. Presentation of the Herbert Ward African ethnological collection, in- cluding sculptures of African sub- jects. and objects representing the arts and industries of the natives of the dark continent, to the Smith- sonian Institution by Mrs. Sarita Sanford Ward, widow of the late Her- ‘bert Ward, was announced by the in- The collection at the natural history building of the United States National Museum beginning Thursday. Mrs. Ward by the gift carried out the wish often expressed by her husband during'his lifetime. | worth more in acreage and govern- Executive Committee of Board of Encouraging Reports to Washing- KING PYTHON DISDRINS TENDER DEER MORSEL WHEN THRUST IN CAGE THE big” fegal python at the Zoo, that had his first meal fn Washington ' last Tuesday, com- Posed ‘of tender young antelope, which he devoured in fifteen min- utes, has had quite enough to eat for the present, thank you. " Satisfled with his meal of julcy Young antelope, the Dbig python gave a disdainful flirt of his tail and g haughty snort tarough his nostrils when keepers Sunday thrust into his cage a young dve: of the Barasingha or Indian swamp deer species. Not literally! of course, did he do. these things, for the python is too majestic a crea- ture to descend to the gestures by Which other animals show diad: "All he did when keepers thi the young deer into the cage was open a palr.of sleepy cyes, cast a long 1ook on the tender 1 10 front of hiwm and go back continuing the stupor charact T er- ] istic of his kind when full of food and in a good hum However, keepers say, disdain was apparent in every inch of his twenty-five- foot length. _King python will sleep for some time, Zoo attendants say, stirring from time to time to uncoil his great length, and will then cast his snake eyes around in the search for more food. D. C. FISCAL CHANGE i FOUGHT BY FOCHTI (Continued from First Page.) I 1 i the gentlemen who so constantly in- veigh against the city of Washing- ton and the Djstrict as thou:zh this was a District that belonged 1o a few profiteering shopkeepers, former saloon keepers and real estale grabbers, will cease, for that is not the way to look at the District of | Columbia. It is the center and seat of government of the whole United States. - Government Property. “I walk these streets feeling that I own as much of this town as any man that lives In it, and I hope I am as proud of it as they are. But this is the point—men are overlooking the fact that the property belonging to the United States government is ment buildings than all the private property, while the government prop- erty is as much in need of fire and Dpolice protection as any other. Hence it is up to-the government either to help pay its share or admit that it is incapable of doing so. “Just briefly in regard to this water question. In the first place this s the unique city in the world. none like it anywhere, so far as the government. of the District is con- cerned. We cannot treat this just as we would Wichita, Loulsville, Harris- burg, Boston, Philadelphia, New York or any place else. We made this District of Columbia—at least in one ought to control it, and we ought to have patience about it. So far as the water proposition is concerned, of course, we pay much more for our water at home for the reason that the water companies at home have been capitalized with private capital and built by private capital and so conducted. “The District of Columbia put in these waterworks and in return gets the water for the whole District, far as the government is concerned, for nothing, and we pay the lowest rates possibly in the United States. In our own states at home, if the utilities commissions should give the water companies more than they ought to have, might I not say that they are gullty of favoritism? The statement was made here by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Mann), Wwho cleaned up the question most beautifully, that is the best eviden in the world that the affairs of the District of Columbia—at leas! in one instance—are better conducted than they are back home, if you can get water here for $7.20 and have to pay something like $50 at home, as I do. “We should fellow the example of Boston and New York and prepare twenty years ahead. We should re- move ~every _habitation from the watershed and prepare to have thil city grow three hundred or five hun- dred thousand more in population, and we should do it now.” Renews Water Supply Plea. Again, toward the close of the sion, Mr. Focht renewed his plea for early action on the legislation to give the National Capital an adequate and safe water supply, saying: “I would like to refer to a question that has been raised here this after- noon which pertains particularly to the District of Columbia and, I might add, to all who come to the capital, and that is the question of an ad quate water supply. I cannot com- prehend what can actuate any citizen of tae District or any member of the Sen- ate or House in opposing the early consideration, and seriously, with a view of promptly making provision for a number of years ahead, as well as for immediate water consumption. “I may speak from the standpoint of hyglene, and we take it for grant- ed that every man in this civilized time has daily use for a bathtub. When we look back over the wide sweep of Eistory and find that Pliny speaks of pistons and cylinders for pumping water and also we read of Roman baths, and even down in Me: ico the first thing they were di. covered to have were conduits run- ning up to the mountains for their own water supply. Strange, is it not, that the last thing we thought of in our civilization was to have an adequate water supply in our homes? “Now, when we have this great luxury 1 cannot understand why there is-any one so far behind the times, s0 unfair to his own body, in- side and out, as to oppose an ade- quate water supply. It marks the high point of civilization and is only following the divine word of the Master to keep clean, while common prudence should warn us to be ready for conflagrations.’ 14 NEW MEMBERS. i ! | Trade Meets. Fourteen new members were added to the rolls of the Washington Board of Trade at a meeting of the execu- tive 'committee of that organisation yesterday in the Board rooms in The Star b‘:ldlnx. The hew members are James W. Ayers C. R. Graham, J. R. Devereux, Joseph 8. Dow, John T. Dugan, La: rence R. Smoot, Morris E. M Bart J. Long, James R. Mays, R. M. Hicks, C. J. Bergmann, F. W. Porter, Joseph S. Devereux and Robert C. Shaw. $450,000 FOR NEW HALL. ton Auditorium Committee. Team captains and workers for the proposed $500,000 new Convention Hall h:rlic reported to 't‘h. thlnf't&n ml‘::;. torlum _ organization. committee night at ew, Willard Hotel that $450,000 of the amohnt being sought has been pledged or subscribed. _Among & number of substantial sub- acriptions was $2,000 from Clark Griffith, president of the Washington Base Ball Club, who is quoted as sayi: o There is | 501 s _. _THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1922 PAWNBROKER BIL OF FOCHT RAPPED John Joy Edson Wants' One Favored by Commissioners Passed by Congress. John Joy Edson, in commenting today on the pawnbrokers' bill intro- duced by Representative Focht and discussed in the House yesterday, in & formal statement sald: . “Yesterday, in the House of Repre- sentatives, on District day, Mr. Focht introduced ana urged the so-called pawnbrokers' bill, H. R. 6309. This bill is against the recommendation made by the District Commissioner: in @ letter to Senator Ball on April 26th, 1921, in which they disapproved the Senate bill, No. 984, which is practically identical with the bill in- troduced by Mr. Focht, and again urged the enactment of 'their bill gmending the present pawnbrokers “The only ‘experiment’ about the present law was in making the rate 1 per cent, which I Mr. Focht voted for, against the advice and recom- mendation of the Commissioners and the citizens’ committee. In their let- ter the District Commissioners say. they consider a rate of 3 per cent hecessary in the District, and why Mr. Focht, after {nsisting on limiting it to 1 per cent, against the advice of the Commissioners, is now in favor of raising it to 3 per cent, also against the recommendation of the Comm! sioners, I do not understand. Thinks Foeht in Error. “Mr. Focht is also in error, I think, in declaring that the business has fallen into the hands of loan shark because all the loan shark offices were closed by the faithful execution of the existing law, which has work- ed well, except for the rate, which was favored by Mr. Focht and fixed 2gainst the recommendation of the Commissioners. The present law has been sustained by several decisions of tife Court of Appeals and twice by the Supreme Court of the United States. “The District Commissioners very - properly object to the substitution for this well tested law of a new law which provided only for loans by pawnbrokers, them a monopoly of all the small loans in the District, instead of al- and thus would give lowing loans on indorsed notes or other security, provided in the pres- ent law, and which I am eonvinced i3 for the benefit of the small bor- rower: ‘'The only way to solve this situa- tion properly, in my opinion, pass the Commissioners’ bill H. R. , fixing the rate at 2 per cent. We then would have a good working law {:r”lll kinds of loans of this charac- r. COMES UP NEXT WEEK. Pawnbrokers’ Bill Debate Not Fin- ished Yesterday in House. pawnbrokers in the District of Co- lumbia, after being debated at some length in the House yesterday, re- mains as unfinished business to come up again on the next District day in the House two weeks hence, unless the regular District day is set aside. e House late yesterday recom- The bill to legalize the business of is to Upper—Thirteenth street, mort hwest, morth from Randolph street, STREETS ACTUALLY DANGEROUS TO LIFE ‘AND LIMB BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF IME:RO_VED ROADWAYS owing the deep mire, a mixture of mitted'a bill fathered by Representa- | black einders and clay. It was at this point that Joha Carson, the four-year-old youngster, became stranded om tive Millspaugh of Missouri, which proposed to amend an act “to re- vive with amendments an act to in- corporate the medical society of the District,” approved July 7, 1838. The purpose of this amendment was to allow the District medical soclety to hold in its own name certain real estate which it now holds under form of trusteeship. PRESIDENT ASKS $4,500 FOR BATTERY B ARMORY Sum Is in Addition to Present Ap- propriation for National Guard. President Harding today sent to the Senate & supplemental estimate for $4,600 for the District of Colum- bia National'Guard to be used during the current flscal year. The sum sked is in -addition ‘to $7,000, the present appropriation for the cur- rent year. The letter of transmittal from the White House was aocom- panied by & letter from Gen.' Dawes, director of the‘budget, in which Gen. Dawes gave his indorsement of the sugy tion. The money is to be used to rent an armory, drfll hall and storage space for the equipment and use of tery B and to secure fedcral recogni- tion of the battery, which is part of the reorganized 110th Field Artillery, District National Guard. Battery B is fully recruited, but the War Department refused to recognize the unit or supply the equipment on account of the poor armory facilities available for the battery. DECISION LIMITS STATE - RATE-MAKING POWERS U. 8. Supreme Court Bays I. C. C. May Make Intrastate Rates Con- form to Commerce Requirements. The power of the Interstate Com- merce Commission under trans- portation act of 1930 to fix intr: state passenger rates to make the: conform to interstate commerce r quirements was upheld by the United States Bupreme Court yesterday in unanimous decision of the court, a; nounced by Chief Justice Taft. Two from New York and Wisconsin, ht to test the law, were decided. The decision declared that com. merce is a unit and does not regard state lines.. “Congress In its control of its inter- state commérce system is seeking in the transportation act to make the system adequate to the needs of the country by securing for it & reason- able compensatory raturn for all the work it does,” the Chief Justice stated in the opinion. large duties and expenditures on the interstate commerce o is recelved for the intrastats b proportios ate business. the dominant coi Con, troller of interstate commerce, may work. can imp reasonable condition on & state's u: of interstat for intrastate commerce it desms necessary or- de- sirable. This because of the supremacy of the national power in this flek CIGAR CUTTERS BANNED. ° NEW YORK, February 38.—Health Commissioner Copeland has notified District - Attorney Banton that pur- suant to a resolution of the health board, “no cigar cuttér for common usage shall be mantfactured or used 0se, any * IDANGER TO TRAFFIC bors to his rescue. George Washington's birthday, necessiting his sending out g» S. O. S. call, which brought a number of neigh- Lower—Knansas nvenue at Randoiph street, where it was necessary a week ago to assign a special police detail to keep children from being drowned. It was mecessary to dig a deep trenc z lanterns placed there, mot to indicate shoals for the marimer to aveld, plcture shows the buoys, life lines 10 let the witer off, and the But depths of ' mud which pedestrians.must steer clear of. Residents of Kansas avenue amd the police say that there was six feet of water in this area following the recent rains. the Commissioners’ estimate of $837 for grading and improving 5th street southeast from Savannah to Trenton streets, Congress Heights—one square. The Star man found a roadbed of clay and stones there. and the street was improved with detached houses on either side. ‘The only estimate allowed by the bureau of the budget'and which also 1 was fortunate enough to pass through the House of- Representatives was | one of $2,400 for grading and improv- ing Raleigh street, Congress Heights, AND PEDESTRIANS IN MUDDY STREETS (Continued from First Page.) ted supplemental appropria|from Nichols avenue westward. This street is improved on one side by houses, but the residents cannot reach it by way of Nichols avenue, and have to make a detour of three quares by way of Esther place. There is a short square just west of Nichols avenue which has not even been opened, and the part that has been opened has a roadbed of clay and stone. Virtual River of Mud. Sheridan road, running southeast { from Nichols avenue at a point at the foot of the asylum hill, is just a river of mud, and is in great need of im- provement, being the feeder and about the only means of travel for a section largely inhabited by colored people. The police of the eleventh precinct in- formed The Star man that this road was in great need of improvement. U street southeast, Anacostia, is improved right up to Fendall street by houses on.both sides of the street. It is & gravel roadway, very mudd: after heavy rains. - East of Fendali street it becomes & county rbad, and the failure to improve. it in any way apparently has retarded the de: velopifient any farther castward. Naylor .road from its junction with Alabama’ avenue and running east- ward is just yard after yard of mud It became so dangerous ‘after the recent rains_that the police reported it unsafe. It’ would furnish, if im- proved properly, a_feeder: for traffic between southern Maryland and the Pennsylvania avenue “dridge, by way of 26th street southeast. 2 Dangerous Condition. Alabama avenue. from Nichols avenue, Congress Heights, to its junction with Bowen roal near the head of Penngylvania avenue @outh- east is ifi & dangerous dcondition. Police have réported it as dangerous, d The Star man found by investi- ::uon that it 12 nothing but a bed of red clay, now badly cut ‘up, and dangerous £o automobile trafic that tries to nefotiate it faster than five miles an hour. The soction bordering on either side of this avenue is de- Veloping, and new streets are being mapped out and marked. New homes are going up.' The mud road cannot voided, whether the automobilist or property owner seeks the section by way of the Pennsylvania avenue bridge or the. Anacostia bridge. The police informed The Star man the road is .compeled to bear heavy trafiic, and nothing short of a good m rosdway will be abl t bear the traffic. The section lying just southeast of the Pennsylvania avenue bridge and nnesota avenue is being CITIZENS DISCUSS STREETS. Randle Highlands Association Takes Up Impassable Conditions. Bad streets occupied the attention of the Randle Highlands Citizens' A sociation at a meeting last night. The condition af the streets and al- leys was the principal topic of dis: | cussion, several members in shor | talks telling of the virtual impossibil- {ity to drive autoyiobiles through th | aileys. impaseable, it was declared by other m:embers, and censure was' given to i trash men, who were charged with lit- tering the neighborhood with refuse. 4. A. Barker was appointed by the chair as a representative of the asso- ciation to take up with the authori- ies the situation at 17th street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, where lines of the Capital Traction Company and the East Washington Heights Railway Company cross. The action was taken following reports of the dangerous crossover at this point. JAMES T. TREW, JR., DIES. Secretary of Motor Company Suc- cumbs of Double Pneumonia. James T. Trew, jr., thirty-two years old, and a resident of Washington for the past fifteen years, dled at his home, 5529 Sth street northwest, last night of double pneumonia. Mr. Trew is the son of James T. and Mary Billingsley Trew and was born at Westmoreland, Va., January Many of the streets are almost | DISCUSS ROUTES OF LEE HIGHWAY Directors of Association Hear Proponents of Two Pro- posed Plans. Proponents of the two proposed routes for the Lee hizhway between Memphis“and Chattanooga, Tann., pre- sented their claims today at the annual meeting here of the board of directors of the highway assoclation. From Washington the Lee highway runs through Alexandria, Fairfax Cour: House, Middleburg and on down through the state of Virginia Dr. Johnson of Washington, general director of the association, an. nounced at the outset of today's meet- ing_that construction work on every unfinished gap between Washington and San Diego would start this spring. The case of those favoring construc- tion of the highway between Memphis and Chattanooga by way of the Muscle Shoals projects, as opposed to_the‘all- Tennessee route by way of Nashville was presented by Representative Almon of Alabama, who, in the course of his address, declared he was confident Con- gress would accept the Ford offer for the government properties at Muscle S8hoals. —_———— TRUCK AND CAR CRASH. Accident at East Capitol and 8th Streets Barly Today. A_motor truck belonging to the Walker Hill dairy and a street car | met on a crossing at the intersection of East Capitol and 8th street short- ly before 6 o'clock this morning. The truck was overturned and several crates of milk was destroyed. Robert Wehre, twenty years old, 737 Gth street southeast, driver of .|the truck was thrown to tfe street and seriously hurt, while Charles W. Coxall, motorman, was slightly cut by broken glass. The injured men were taken to Cas- ualty Hospital. Coxall was able to return to work after receiVing treat- ment, but Wehre was detained at the s hospital. Wehre suffered from con- ussion and injuries to his shoulder, “]arms and ear. JAMES T. TREW. 11, 1891, He married Miss Gertrude Woodworth June 27, 1917, and has two children—Virgini aged four, a‘nad James T. Trew, 3d, three years old. He was a member of Acacim Lodge, No. 18, F. A. A. M, and was raised to the tanirty-second degree, Scottish Rite Consistory, in 1919. He was also a member of Almas Temple and the Board of Trade. years _he has been secretary of the Trew Motor Company here. Funeral services will be under the direction of the Masons tomorrow at 2 o'clock, and interment will be in Glenwood cemetery. e SEEK TO IDENTIFY MAN. ‘The local police have been asked to assist in securing the identification’of For the past seven | $3,000 bond. Released Until Hearings in Case LONG GIVES $3,000 BOND. of Threatening Bodily Harm. George E. Long, charged with threatening bodily harm in connection with letters whi¢h he confessed he wrote to several prominent Washing- ton women threatening death as -« penalty for failure to comply with demands for large sums of money, todey was released from custody on The bond was previously fixed at $5,000 but was later reduced. 8- liminary hearing in the case will be held in_ Police Court Thursday be- fore Judge M on. BOSTON WANTS $1 BACK. Asks Sum ‘for Submarine Chaser. SENATE COMMITTEE ADDS $3.536,164 to D. C. APPROPRIATIONS (Continued from First Page) Building and ladd, $140,000; Phillips S chase of a site for made available for the building. ‘The appropriation i8_increased from $75,000 to $90,000. department include provision seventy-five additional class 1 at qute protection. The committce added $20,000 for section of the District, police. work from $225,000 to $285,000. paving roadways under the perm system an item of $50,000 was recom- mended. Street Improvements. Street mended as follows: Northwest—For paving west side of Connecticut avenue, Ingomar street sixty feet to Chevy Chase Circle, wide, $45,000. feet wide, $37,000. feet wide, $45,000. Northeast: For paving 12th streel Michigan avenue to Upshur stree forty feet wide. $17,200. Northwest: street, 13th thirty feet w Northwes: from Woodley avenue, $10,000. street to 14th stree e, $1 0. road and roads an item of $35,000 is in creased to $50,000. 1 stroets, avenues and alley is Increased from $431.250 to $15,000 to $20,000. The Senate comi half out of the federal Treasury. Would Buy Parks. The committee authorized the pur- chase for public parks of the Klingle Road Valley Park, containing about Seventeen acres, at a cost of $186.600; the Piney nch Valley Park, cost of "$237,700. and tract, at a cost of $600,000. at of these parks. To meet the needs of the office of the building inspector, which has been emphasized since the collapse of the Senate Knickerbocker Theater, the committee has provided four add: tional assistant inspectors of buil ings at $2,000 ea of five principal a It hy clerk for tnis office at $1140. n For Library Branch. For the Southeast branch of the the Senate committee n ftem of $5000 for salaries in connection with the or. ganization of that branch. A proviso is added that no person shall be em. ployed in that work at a rate of ;‘;T; The committee also added 35,000 for {Public Library, has inserted pensation exceeding $1,500 a this building is | Tenley School, land, the erection of gmh School. land, for salaries of | building, teachers and janitors in night schools | schools, $616,180. 460 each. The Senate . 32, committee made this increase in the |Deirs and improvements to fire boat, police force in view of the growth of | $50! the city and the need for more ade- new station house in the suburban and added $5,000 to the appropriation for the purchase of motor vehicles for the Under the head of improvements and repairs the committee increased the item for assessment and Der;nll for improvements are recom- Northeast—For paving East Capital street, 15th street to 18th street, fifty Northeast—For paving Rhode Ie- land avenue, 12th to 16th streets, fifty For paving Randolph For paving 28th street to Cathedral For the grading of streets, alleys For current work of repairs of fnclud- ing resurfacing and repairs for as- phalt pavements the appropriation 500,000. For construction and repair of side- walks and curbs around public res- ervations the item is increased from tee in providing for the payment of interest and for the sinking on the funded debt, made this money payable one-half out of the revenues of the District and one- the Patterson | 1t appro- priated $300,000 toward the purchase also proviced for an additional | the office of the inspector of plumbing an additional principal as- sistant inspector is provided at $1,550. chool, building and land, $140,000; $25,000; Dunbar 0,000; Armstrons Training School, land and $150,000. Total, Metropolitan police—Salaries, $109.- anual Public The items of increase for the police | 644; additional motor vehicles, $5,000. for | new station house in suburbs, $2 privates of | Total, metropolitan police, $13 00 Fire department—Hos permanent improvements, $25, 650. ' Total, fire department, $29,150. Health department—Maintenance of disinfecting service, drainage of lots, $1,000; special services in de- tection of adulteration of drugs and foods, $100; chemistry laboratory, 350; Garfleld Hospital, repairs, $5 000; dispensary for treatment of per- sons suffering with tuberculosis, § 000; Child Welfare Society, $3.000 aid to persons of moderate means suf- fering with tuberculosis, $3,000. Total, health department, $14,55t Courts—Writs of lunacy, $1,000. Emergency fund, 00. Courts and prisons—Fees of jurors. $5.000. Charities and correction—Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital $10,000; Gallinger Municipal Hospital, $55,000; board of Children’s guar salaries, S a it 5 4 Home for the Aged and Infirm, $1.500: Municipal Lodging House and Wood 40; National Library for the ,000; Columbia Polytechnic St. Elizabeth's Hos- pital. $50,000. Total, charities and cor- rections, $256,920. Public buildings and grounds—Con- tingent expenses, $100; park police. $10,880; laying cement and o walks, $500; broken stone road cov- ering for parks, $3,000; improvement, etc., of West Potomac Park. $5.000: improvement, etc., of East Potomac Park, $5,000; maintenance of tourists’ camp in East Potomac PPark, $5000: improvement of parks for outdoor sports, $5,000; increased cost of park maintenance, $15,000; center parking in Pennsylvania avenue southeast. 500; purification of water of tidal basin, $2,000; construction of bathing beach,, etc., for colored population, $25,000: repairs to Statue of Gen George Washington in Washington Circle, $500; care and maiptenance of Mount Vernon Park, $1,0005 operation of pumps which operate fountain in Dupont Circle, $2,500; heating offices, watchmen's lodges, etc, $1,500. Total, buildings and grounde, $52,480. Rock Creek and Potomac parkway commission, Klingle Road Valley and Piney Branch Valicy parks and Pat- terson tract, $300,000. Water department—Increased water supply (authority to contract for 1,400,000 in addition), $1,500.000; in- | stalling water meters, $10.000; total water department, $1,510,000; total increase, $3,560,664. Charities and corrections—Indus- trial Home School, $4,600. Public buildinge and grounds—Con- struction of sea wall, $20.000. Total L:ecrel!e. 24,500. Net increase, $3,53 t, t t, n- a 1. VITAL ITEMS SUPPORTED. Senator Phipps to Make Effort to Have Them Retained. Senator Phipps of Colorado, chai man of the subcommittee in charge of the District appropriation bill, who will have charge of the bill in the Senate, said today that it had been the purpose of the committee to add to the appropriation bill items which it deemed vitally essential to the District's welfare. He indicated that he would seek, in every way possible, to have these items retained the purchase of books, perlodicals|in the bill and newspapers for the library all branches, making the total $1 l!he bulldings, $3,000 is provided. For the purchase or condemnation of a piece of ground to take the place of Columbia Heights play- grounds, an item of $50,000 was in- serted. Tmereases for Sewers. For sewer: has increased pipe sewers : ! ana for suburban sewers, to_$150,000. item from $350,000 to $400.000. two euch wagons: for addition: | pumping engine, two such engines: for repairs, @ 13th streets northwest, $5.000. or storm, from $3,000 to $8,000. Repair of Hespital. ble {an item of $10,000 has been added. n item for the purchase of a sii shall be expended for a site. use immediately. For the National Library west, $5,000 has been adde For the Columbia Pol: stitute for the Blind at 1808 If stre | northwest, there has $1,500. in St $850,000 to $900,000. of sixty-one park police privates. added. population of the city the appi tion has-been Increaseu from $25.¢ $50,000. The changes made in the emoun lows: Inerease. eare of Distri lari bu 8S0r’S a $10,69 building, - $1,200: tor's office,.$1,201 $500; coréners office, $48i Commissioner's offce, $2,13 pal architect's office, $7.200; Utilities Commission, $50 ment pf insurance, $600; office, $1,000; minimum wag ¥ free 'Public Library, Total, general expenses, $42,590. Contingent and miscellaneous enses — -Miscellaneous 5,000; postage, §2,60 quantiti ment service. historic places $2,500; $500; property ya expenses, $16,200. Improvements ment and permit work, $60,00f ing roadways under permit 00; street improvements, burban $50,000; construc gplfl ot bridges, $2,600. Total, provements and repairs, $416,150. wers—Main _and p! $5,000; ‘saburban sewers, tal sewers, $30,000. Streets—Dust “prevention, and the Senate committee the item for main and receh'olnsh basins i from $120,000 to $125,000, the itern 3 from $125,000: For cleaning the streets and snow removal the committee increased the Increases made for the fire depart- ment include one additional eombina- tion chemical and hose wagon, motor driven, $8,180, thereby providing for triple combination, motor driven, at $12,5600, pru\'ldln‘il;:r provements and alterations to engine heuse No. 16, D street, between 12th a ‘The Senate committee has increase the emergency fund to be used in l‘lse! jof riot, pestilence or calamity by fire For repairs to the old Psychopathic Hospital building to make it availa- for female nurses and emploves The Senate committee has inserted d the erection thercon of a home and school for feeble-minded persons at a total cost not exceeding $300.- 000, of which not more than $40,000 Of thi: sum, $125,000 is made gvailable for for the Blind, located at 1729 H slr?!. north- achnic In- becn added For the support of indigent insane Eligabeth’s Hospital the ap- propriation has been increased from The Senate committee has pravided for eight additional privates for park police at $1,360 each, making a total For the maintenance of tourists’ camp i Fast Potomac Park 35000 has been For the construction of a bathing beach and bathhouse for the colorl:d ria- in the bill by the Senate committee are summarized In the report as fol- General expenses—Executive office, offic license bureau, $1,600; collec- sinking-fund office, Engineer munici- Public | raising the bonus or the question of ex- expenses, general ad- vertising, $2,000; purchase of small of-groceries, $200; employ- tablets to mn;: alterations and improvements, $3,500. Total contingent and miscellaneous ‘and repairs—Assess PaV- te: 350, $164,- 900; grading etreets, alleys and roads. r ets, avenues and "§s5.000, Tor cleaning and In regard to the proposal to chan, 1 hange - | the method of appropriation for the 500. For repairs and improvements to | District from the 60-40 plan in vogue i | te el {in recent years, Senator Phipps point- in the bill the plan agreed to by the Senate when it put through the fiscal ‘Jones of Washington. : vt o Majority Members of Com- mittee Predict Lack of Majority members of the House i ways and means comnrittee indicated than an hour, that a soldiers’ bonus bill without any revenue provisions sald that there had been no discus- sion of postponing action. ly with consideration of administra- tive details of the proposed bill, and | been discussed. Another meeting will be held later in the day. Representative Mondell of Wyom- ing, the republican leader, held the situation to postpone action on the bonus bill for a while. After ke and h President Harding at the White House yesterday Mr. Mondell gave it might serve to “clear the skies” Hanford McNider, national com- ferred with the President on the ibonus situation today, urging imme- ed out that the committee had placed Ire!nllnna bill introduced by Senator Revenue Provision. today, after'a conference of more would be agreed upon,soon. It was The conference wis taken up large- members said the sales tax had not Confer With President. 1opinion today that it might help the Mr. Fordney had conferred as his own opinion that a little delay mander of the American Legion, con- diate enactment of the legislation. Mr. MacNider and John Thomas Taylor, legislative agent for the le- glon, 'who accompanied the com- to| mander, declared on leaving the White House that they were “per- ts | feotly satisfied” with the results of the conference. - Predicts Action Without Delay. There will be no delay in the pas- sage of the soldiers’ bonus legislation, the legion representatives declared, adding that the President was and soul with the American Legion and that he understood fully its po- aition. Mr. Taylor said they did not dis- cuss with the President any plan for ct e, the tax features which the President !lu mphasized be inciuded in any soldiers’ bonus legislation. !CELEBRATE “HOME WEEK” Chief Justice Taft Tells of Univer- sity Club’s History. Reminiscences of the University Club's history from the time of its organization in 1804 to the present time were related by Chief Justice Taft, first president of the club, at *1the “Old Home Week” celebration last night. In 1904, Mr. Taft eald, the club had only about, 300 members, while today it is oge of the largest and most prosperous, and has 1,400 names on its roll. Col. Myron M. Parker, retiring pres- ident, made a brief address, In which he expressed his gratification at the growth of the club during the last year. Judge Martin Ki t, was installed S Claude M. Bennett was chalrman of old, 400 E street - i f Washington to|in any public place in the city ot New a white man who was killed By a Seeks to Return Boat. . :.’2.‘2:’ this | flm fiwm:ehnt in our | York 3 Te.| Southern railway traln, February 8, and snow n?gvu do0. Dl8y-| the committee on arrangements. EX-REPRESENTATIVE DEAD. eve every public-minded about & halt-mile west of Alexandrix, | BOSTON, February 28 —The city of | grounds, $50,000; board for Sondem: citisen who gives the matter thought y Va. The request was sent today to|Boston spent_a dollar for a submarine | nation of ln-n“o Ay dinge, . . = CLAY CENTER. Kan., February 28. | 50 W00 BT eay.s _SECOND RANKIN TO RUN. Maj. Sullivan, chief of police, by the [chaser and fow wants to return the Total strests $100%00 - | BURNED BY TUB OF WATER. =KX KesrossntativeiW. DVicesitiof . Mont., Febru mayor of Alexandria. | e pin-stripe|Gutley said that the chaser, 060; Sught mehooln, HE0D0: imachers' | acien May Actla.”mineteen years this city, died today in a hospital at St. Louls, according to word received here. He had been operated en for throat trouble. Mr. Vincent was elect- in the 90's to rep- thy r intarmediate depo! V. as ORDERED T0 WALTER REED. ‘Warrant Officer Byron H. Mills, at Richmond, been ordered to Walter Reed Jeanette Rankin, ot member cu:xnn. he will be a candidate for the republi- can nomination for United States sen- Tk B deen 1 B hon datailed to_duty with’ the' Na- tional Guard of Wisconsin wi suit, gray plald overcoat, tan oxford shoes and greenish velour hat. In his pockets were found a small locket with the initials “D. J. R.,” about'one- half-karat purchased from the Navy Department in the ad- ministration of former Mayor Peters for conversion into a fireboat, would be returned to the government becauss f the expense involved in plans for B et 1 e buildings, $50,000; furniture, ef 240; equipment. of additional janitors grounds, $12,640; 100] te., $23,: schoo portheast, scalded about her side-and back yes- 1| terday as a result of the aceidental overturiing of a tub of hot water 1| wkile xhe was washing clothes. She was tuk:n to Casualty Hospital. e the 1; r:lzt h”:“ Kansas district in iamond ring, cheap Watch Congress. cashs: ¥ 5 General Hospital for dental trea th sta- ment. <& School, i tion at Sheboygan. £ alterations. playgrounds, $2,400; ‘Lovejoy ator at tie primiaries next August. ané about ’“,' c