Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1929, Page 13

CARFARE HEARING WILL ENTER THIRD WEEK TOMORRON @lover Park Citizens’ Bus Ex- | tension Plea to Be Taken Up. WOODLEY ROAD LINE CHANGE TO BE STUDIED| Oapital Traction's Answers to Hart- man Questions to Be Read Into Record. D. C. Educator Returns From: Europe in Rapid Time. Impressed by Struggle With Wind and Dignity of Crew. Howling headwinds whipping salt spray againsi the great ship's super- structure; raked funnels vomiting bil- Jows of grease-black smoke that hung in the sky long after the vessel had plowed on, and excited passengers clamoring for a glimpse of the posted day’s run bulletins each noon. The ship's sharp stem cutting the seas, her decks forward, quiet; her aft end pounding the very salt out of her tracks, and Britain's colors wind-hauled | Public hearings on the Capital Trac- tion Co.'s request for an increase in car fares in Washington will enter their third week tomorrow morning. When the hearing opens before the | Publie Utilities Commission, however, | several matters not directly connected | with the issue will be discussed, and | the hearings proper may not get un- der way until late in the day. | These oufside matters, all of which | have been made a part of the present case by the commission, are: Applica- | tion of citizens of Glover Park for an | extension of the Burleith bus line of the Washington Rallway & Electric Co. into their territory: requests of ] citizens on Wisconsin avenue for an | improved schedule on the Wisconsin | avenue car line of the Washington ! Rajlway & Electric Co., and the peti- | tion of residents of Woodley road for a change in the route 6f the Woodley road bus line, operated by the Wash- n Railway & Electric Co., 80 2s to take it off Woodley road between Twenty-seventh street and Connecti- cut avenue and place it on Cathedral avenue instead. Traction Case Nearly Complete. "The case of the Capital Traction Co. s nearly complete. Answers to a long series of questions propounded to w | nesses of .the company by Commis- sioner Harleigh H. Hartman, but which have not yei been answered, remain to be read into the record. This prob- ably will be completed tomorrow or Tuesday. Then will follow any cross- examination that might arise as a re- | .t of the answers. The questions in- quire in great detail into the company's | charges to capital account, many of the questions having to do with items @ small as 5. When the presentation of the Capital Traction Co.'s case is completed the Washington Railway & Electric Co. wili submit, its evidence. This will probably ! take another two weeks. This company was made a party to the proceedings by the commission, but later filed an independent petition for the same in- crease in fare on its lines as asked by the Capital Traction Co. The new rate asked is 10 cents cash, with four tokent for 30 cents. The present rates are 8 cents cash, six tokens for 40 cents. Position of Company. The position of the Capital Traction Co., as developed by the hearings thus far, is that it is entitled to a “fair” re- turn on its valuation of $26,000,000: that it is at present making 3.68 per ! cent return on this valuation; that 18 not s fair return; that if the in- ereased rates asked for are put into | effect its revenue will increase so_ as ! to make its return 4.88 per cent: that this is still not a “fair” return, but that the company will be satisfied to| earn this until such time as transporta- stralght out from the gaff that had flown them for 22 years— Quiet-mannered officers and men who | scorned demonstration; no boasts, no | claims, not even voiced hopes or an- | | | nounced efforts; just sailormen man- | ning thelr ship. | That's about the way Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent | of schools in the District, saw the S. S. Mauretania's gallant run last week | when she clipped 3 hours and 50 min- utes from her own rect for the run across the Atlantic from Europe. Mr. Kramer, who had been vacationing in Furope six weeks, was A& passenger on the swift Cunarder which docked in New York Thursday after an attempt to beat the record set by the German liner Bremen, only to fall short of that , mark by 5 hours. Describes Efforts of Crew. At his office in the Franklin Admin- | istration Building yesterday for the first time since his return to the Capi- tal, Mr. Kramer said his chief impres- sion of the flying trip back to the United States, was the dignity and lack of apparent effort on the part of the Mauretania’s crew to push her across the sea faster than a ship ever had sailed it before. No announcemenis were made when the passengers board- ed the ship at Cherbourg, France, Mr. Kramer said, but once she slipped her moorings and headed for the British Isles, it was apparent every effort was being made to set a new record. Thick | black smoke that comes from burning | fuel oil was belching almest contin- | uously from the funnels, bearing testi- | mony to the man-made inferno that | roared under the ship's 22-year-old boilers to pack every pound of steam which could be shot into the engine | cylinders, with which the ship was equipped in 1907. Engineer officers with whom Mr. Kramer talked. told | him they were burning about 900 tons | of oil & day down in those laboring | furnaces and Kramer doesn't doubt it: | the way that thick coll of smoke hung | in the sky while the Mauretanis her- | | he con WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, 'AUGUST 11, 1929—PART 1—SECTION 2..% “EQUAL RIGHTS” ADVOCATES INVADE MODEL AIRCRAFT FIELD MAURETANIA'S FAST VOYAGE IS DESCRIBED BY KRAMER STEPHEN E. KRAMER. ‘The ship sailed out into the teeth of | a real blow, Mr. Kramer sald, and the effect of the wind pressure against her high sides and housing was more than the vessel could overcome during the slightly better weather which lay ahead. It was this retardation, the Washington man believes, which was more responsible for the failure of the British ship to lower the German's time than the slight slowing up of the vessel during the operation for ap- pendicitis upon Mont D. Rogers, presi- dent of bs & Co., New York. The “slowing up” then. he says, was not even noticeable on bcard. ‘When the passengers noticed the heavy smoke that told of forced draft below, they asked the vessel's officers if an attempt was under way to set a new record. Invariably, he said they were told: “We are trying for nothing particu- larly. We just want to see what she still can do—she's 22 years old now, y'know.” And so the dally run record was posted at noon each day and the pas- sengers gathe around to see, to spetulate and to cheer. Up forward where the bulletin was, there was little evidence of the strain, but aft, over the driving shafts and beating pro- pellors, the vibration, Kramer said yesterday, was terrific. ‘The landing at New York was a sig- nal for wild laim of the ship's men by the passengers, for, although she had failed to lower the new Bremen's time of 4 days, 17 hours and 42 min- utes, she had lowered her old mark at which she had shot. In Mr. Kramer's case, the quick pas- sage meant: He boarded the Maure- tania in Cherbourg Saturday, August 3, at 4:52 pm. and on the next Thurs- dayv afternoon. he was aboard the 2:05 o'clock train for Washington. “If it hadn't been for the bad weather we nad, we'd have beat the German,” ded yesterday. self slid from un her speed. WOMAN IS HELD She Tells Police Alcohol and| Whisky Belonged to Roomer. Sergt. Letterman and his liquor squad confiscated 10 gallons of alcohol and 12 pints of whisky yesterday afternoon in the 900 block of New York avenue, ar- tion conditions improve. Traffic on the company's lines has | been dwindling steadily since Decem- ber 31, 1919, and although the rate of decrease is slowing off, President John H. Hanna of the company declined to express an opinion as to whether the bottom had been reached and tha pros- pects for the future were of an crease in street car travel. He blamed the los= principally on the growth of the popularity of privately owned aut mobiles, and sajd further that Wash- | ington haz an unusually expsnsive | eperating system, because of the u derground trolley ‘used here. This tem is used nowhere else in the country except in New York City. One-man Car Is Discussed. The one-man car made its appearance | fn the discussion late last week, Mr. Hanna saying that the chief operating | of a street car system was labor, and that one-man cars would eut, this down considerably. He did not | ask for the introduction of one-man cars fled wan( here, however, saying he was satis- the people of Washington did not t them. | the evidence of the street ear systems will come the evidence of | the Washington Rapid Transit which operates busses on Sixteent] street and elsewhere. This company ‘was made & party to the case over its ! protest :; the commission last week, on ' ‘William McK. Clayton, coun- | sel for the Federation of Citizens' Asso- ciations. ‘Then will come evidence on behalf of | the commission, closing arguments of counsel, and the decision by the com- PRISONER IS FELLED BY POLICEMAN’S FIST €olored Man Who Grabbed Baton in Arrest Sent to Hospital and Cell. ‘After & colored man had grabbed his he was attempting to ar- resting India Florence Sanford, 39 years old, of that address, on & charge of possessing the liquor. Miss Sanford decared the whisky was the property of a roomer, and that she knew nothing of its presence in the building, although the arresting officers charged she was in the room when they appeared. Her bond was set at $500 at No. 1 precinct. 5 A trunkful of supposedly bonded | whiskies—some 20 quarts—was seized | by the squad yesterday afternoon on the second floor of & bullding of the | 800 block of Twelfth atreet. No_one was in the rooms when the officers made their visit. ‘They believe the trunk was shipped here, probably from | Canada. Other members of the party | were Officers J. E. Mostyn, George C. McCarron and Richard J. Cox. AUTO TROUBLE LEADS T0 LIQUOR CASE ARREST Boxes Containing Alleged Whisky Prevented Driver From Shift- ing Gears of Car. Delmer George Wright, 32, of 2100 block of P street was held by Judge Ralph Given for action of the grand jury, in Police Court today, although it was brought out in the testimony that he transported alleged whiskey a little less than 100 yards. Policeman R. 8. Miller and W. B. Piper of the third precinct were at- | tracted to the rear of a house in the 1500 block of R street by the sound of a racing motor. Going closer, they saw an automobile proceeding slowly out of a driveway. The driver seemed to be having trouble shifting gears. They walked up to the car and saw boxes piled high in both the front and rear. ‘The man was arrested. the search of the car revealing 268 quarts of alleged liquor. Cases were piled around the gear shift in a wl: that made it almost impossible to shift. Wright was held under.-$2,000 bond. CURED OF HICCOUGHS. MUSKOGEE, Okla., August 10 (). — It took strenuous measures, but F. R. |that they-could not afford the insur: ‘Hotel Has No Front Doors. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico (#).—The real height of hospitality expressed by the sa; that “the latch string is out.” has been reached by a 8an Juan hotel, Condado-Vanderblilt. It hi front doors. — ‘Because the sarthquakes in New Zea- fand this yvear did more damage to brick than wooden structures, it is ex- . that wooden exclu- s “will.be erected thece, | from 3 was pronounced cured here today by Edwards of Wagoner, who was suffering & two-week attack of hiccoughs, Edwards was placed on an operating a towel around his been for several minutes Edwards he “felt fine.” TAXI INSURANCE -~ INRUM SEIZURE AGAIN DISCUSSED. Utilities Commission Consid- ers Plan of Holding Opera- tors Responsible in Mishaps. Another effort to solve the problem of compulsory liability insurance for taxicabs is under consideration by the Public Utilities Commission. The object of the present move is to require any one applying for a license to operate & taxicab to make a showing that he is financially responsible before issuing the license. The issuance of the license is controlled by the District Commis- sioners, but the utilities commission is planning to secure their assistance should they decide to go through with the present scheme. The matter was brought up by Earl V. Pisher, executive secretary to the commission, who made the. recom- mendation after a conference with Corporation Counsel William W. Bride and Assistant Corporation - Counsel Robert E. Lynch. The commission. be- fore taking definite action, however, is awaiting a written- report, from Mr. Bride on its jurisdiction in the matter. Mr. Bride is known to hold that the commission has such jurisdietion., * Examination Is Plan. In the form of Mr. Fisher's recom- mendation, the commission would re. quest, the District Commissioners to in- struet Wade H. Coombs, superintendent of licenses, to refer all applicants for to operate - taxieabs Public Utilities Commission ex- amination as to their financial as apply to all taxicabs hné?gp:“m whether the application is for the “L” or livery tags or for “H” or common carrier tags. Plea of Independents. There has been much agitation for some sort. of regulation along these lines for several years. The last attempt of the -Public Utility Commission to rfll- late the matter, however, failed. s was in the form of an order, issued February 25, 1926, compelling all oper- ators or owners of taxicabs not having assets satisfactory to the commission either file an indemnity bond with the commission or else to take out an in- surance policy covering indemnity for accidents. If the vehicles were oper- ated by a firm, association, or e%on- tion having net clear assets of $5,000 for the first cab, $7.000 for the first two cabs, and $1,000 each for the next 43 cabs, then no insurance or bond would be_required. -y ‘This met with the hostility of the in- dependent cab operators, who claimed ance necessary.-and that there was no more reasan for compelling them to New Tests of Air in City's Busses To Be Made When Weat]:gr Is Tests of the air in busses will be con- i ducted by the Health Department as s00n as the cool weather leads to clos- ing of bus windows, Health Officer Wil- liam C. Fowler said yesterday. The | tests are to see if the air is affected by fumes from the exhaust. Dr. Fowler said that no tests of the afr had been made for several years. Cool that it has Been done' in the past under the -mfl of the Public Utilities Commi on street and that the street car com :anh tlILL LUCK DdGS TRAIL BATTLE T0 SAVE SUSAN B. ANTHONY FOUNDATION WON Virginia Corporation Commis- sion Nullifies Dissolution Order of January 8. EXTENSIVE HEARING HELD ON APRIL 4 Mrs. Peters-Parkhurst's Faction Sustained in Claiming Rivals Lacked Authority. Mrs. Virginia Peters-Parkhurst yes- terday won her fight to save the | Susan B. Anthony Foundation, when | the Virginia State Corporation Com- mission declared null and void its order | of last January 8 dissolving the foun- ! | dation. The dissolution order was ob- | | tained by Mrs. Mary Allen Adams of | | Washington, who charged that the | foundation had been in existence for | a number of years without having | made appreciable progress in its aim | to erect a memorial here to the fem- | Inist. leader. | The action yesterday followed exten- | sive litigation in which one faction of the foundation led by Mrs. Anna E. Hendley and Mrs. Parkhurst claimed that another faction, led by Mrs. Mary Allen Adams, dissolved the or- ganization without authority. Hearing April 4. ‘The case was heard April 4 and ex- tensive exhibits were filed by both sides and were examined by the com. Louis E. of mission. the commission, wrote the opinion in the case, and held that the applica- tion for dissolution upon which the commission acted was not filed with the unanimous consent of the directors as required. Meetings Declared Tnvalid. He ruled that the records of the | meetings held prior and subsequent to the factional division within the or- ganization “were very poorly kept. but | these records show clearly that at no | meeting held by the Adams faction was there present a majority of the board of trustees or directors of the corporation, and that the meetings | held by the Adams faction were invalid | and of no effect.” Consequently it was | held that the election of the Adams faction was not legal, and that the officers chosen were not bona fide of- ficers capable of giving the necessary unanimous consent to dissolution. The order notes that the rift in the | memorial organization occurred in De- ecember, 1927. The charter as a Vir-| ginia corporation was obtained Sep- tember 30, 1926. | After the commission issued the dis- | solution order January 8 Mrs. Park- | hurst’s faction petitioned the commis- sion to set it aside, claiming that the Adams faction had no authority to dis- solve the corporation. These proceed- ings, instituted March 6, 1929, was heard on Apri] 4. DECISION RESERVED IN DRY LAW ARREST Given h Decide figllity of En- trance After Officers Saw Infraction. ‘The question of whether an officer of the law has a right to enter a per- | son’s premises without a warrant and |arrest the owner of the premises after witnessing an infraction of the prohi- bition law, came up before Judge Ralph Given in Police Court yesterda in the case of the United States Harry Booth. The judge, after hea ing the testimony of both sides, re- served decision until tomorrow. Two policemen several days ago | went. to the residence of Harry Booth, colored, 3017% Sherman avenue, with | a warrant for the arrest of a colored | ‘woman on an assault charge. Not hav- | ing a warrant to search the house they | posted themselves at the front and rear to wait for the woman to come out. The officer at the rear entrance | had just reached his post, when a men | ran out the door with eight pint bot- tles of alleged whiskey in arms. Not to miss an opportunity to an arrest, the policeman leaped over the fence and got his man, who was taken to the second precinct hat 1o right to enter the property. Judge Given gave no indication as to what his decision would be, saying that it required much consideration and that he would continue the case until to- | morrow. OF D. C. MAIL CARRIER Overcome by Heat Watching Ball Game—$350 Disappears Before Reaching Hospital. ‘Trouble piled on trouble yesterday afternoon for Millard Wh old mail carrier of 1832 street. Pirst he was overcome by heat while | participation in the tournament to be and | the eeler, 43-year- North Gapitol | types in West Boars Destroy Caterpillars. Alsace (/P).—Noting When a group of vonthful aeronautical enthusiasts lined up at the Monument Gronnds in a tournament prelim- inary vesterday, twe soung women appeared as contestants. and both aualified, too. The two fair plane builders. shown | ors and Dorls Griffin. The upper picture s all fhose in yesterdays test, i below, are Betty TWO GIRLS QUALIFY AS PLANE BUILDERS Both to Take Part in D. C. Model Aircraft League Tournament. Two 12-year-old Washington girls | vesterday decided to try their hand at | model airplane fiying and qualified for | held under tne auspices of the D. C. | k{'odel Alrcraft League nere in Septem- T, ‘The girls, Doris Griffin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Griffin, 420 Whit- tier street, and Betty Jeffers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Jeffers, 6620 Sixth street, made the necessary guls- fieation records with their Baby R. O. G. models at. preliminary trials held on the Monument grounds yexterday. Deeply interested in aviation. Doris has héen reading articles on the sub- ject. for meveral years and decided. to build a model for trial at the meet yes- | terday, Betty Vied With Brother. | Betty, like Doris. also has long been interested. in aviation, but it was prin- | cipally her determination not to be out- | done by her brother, Thomas, 14 years | old, who has qualified for the model e tournament, that led her to efforts several weeks ago, resulting in yesterday. interest in model air- .girls is , y by rhart, awarded number of points in the national model al e finals in Louisville, Ky, in Final Trials Due Saturday. Fred Long, 1117 B street southeast, and ' William Couldfield, 218 Twelfth street southeast, were the only addi- tional boys to qualify yesterday for the mode] airplane tournament to be held here in September. Other boys who qualified at trials held at several of the schools during the past week are Fos- ter Wilkinson, Major William Robb, Harry N. Peters, James Swan, Norman Currie and Thomas Jeffers. Final qualification trials for the local 80 ;) i third, , and , 4 years old, 5 points, first i fz —Star Staff Photos. Justice Hitz Resumes ‘Sylvan™ Conferences In Judiciary Square Justice William Hitz of District buile tice picks out a shady bench in Judiciary Square and with his clerk and secretary awaits law- yers having orders to sign. Here he heard the applications of the barristers and signed several orders today until the arrival of the noon hour, when he ad- journed court -until Monday morning. Monday's regular ses- sion will be in the courtroom. Brandenburg, 13 years old, 3 points, third in helicopters. Class E—First, Foster Wilkinson, § points, first in Baby R. O. G. Class F—Pirst, Lioyd Street, 8 years old. 5 points, first in hand-iaunched scientific: second. Billy Fletcher, 12 years old. 4 points, second in hand- launched scientific. The point winners in the trials are given funds to purchase material for model airplanes, the amount received being governed by the number of points wvon. U.S. WORKER REGRETS HIS LIFE WAS SAVED Cmpbe!l in Serious Condition at Casualty Hospital From Ef- fects of Poison. Declaring that his only regret was that efforts to end his life were frus- trated, Willlam 8. Campbell, 44-year- old accountant at the United States Department of Agriculture, lay in a se- rious condition at Casualty Hospital last night after swallowing a quantity of poison in the bedroom of his home at 416 Eleventh street northeast. Hos- pital physicians. regard the man’'s con- dition as serious. bell said at the hospital last Camp night that he has been in ill health for | Fire the past 10 years and decided to finally . He sald he recently returned from a trip in the West, where he had gone in an effort to regain his health and despaired of ever being normal e decried the action of his E. Potter, 26-year-old street southeast, who was responsible for hav- ing saved Campbell’s life. “I simpl tired of going through sleepless. ts and being in such poor th that I was forced to lay off un coessful.” | was released on a bond of $500. MOURNING WIFE, MAN KILLS SELF D. Arthur Chambers, Beauty Shop Employe, Commits Suicide, With Gun. D. Arthur Chambers, 31, beauty shop. | employe, shot and killed himself at his | residence, 512 Sixth street, early last | night. Police were informed by Mrs. Mabel Jobe, who rented a room to Chambers, |that he has been depressed since the | but last night was in good spirits. Chambers, who iz said to have been | attentive to a young woman, Jast night | questioned his landlady regarding s [letter from her. Informed that none had been received. he wrote a letter to during her absence her sister-in-law. ! Miss Annie Jobe, who resides at 514 18ixth street, heard the sound of the shot. . Police of the sixth precinct were noti- fled and Policemen J. A. Burgess and 'T. R. Beckwith responded. Dr. John Schwarzman of Emergency Hospital re- sponded to a call and pronounced the man dead. According to Mrs. Jobe, the .32-caliber revolver with which Chambers shot himself had been secreted in a ward- robe in her room, and she informed lice that it had been taken during er absence. Chambers is said to be survived by his father, who lives in Chaney, Md. iy FIREMAN FINED $75 FOR RECKLESS DRIVING Arrested July 18 After He Had Smashed Into Another Car at Garfleld Hospital. Jennings B. Neill, 1810 K street. s | member of the District of Columbia Department, was ordered to pay a | fine of $75 or serve 25 days in jail by Judge John P. McMahon in Traffic Court yesterday, when he ??le.ded guilty to a charge of reckless driving. Neill was arrested on July 13 by Po- liceman D. A. Davis of the Traffic Bu- reau, after he had smashed into the car of John Hoes, 2500 block of Sher- man avenue, near the entrance of Gar- field Hospital. It was testified that Neill was traveling 50 miles an hour. His car was completely wrecked. No urt in the crash. ‘brought into 15, but was postponed il today for investigation and Nelll Piano, Off Key, “Tuned” by Letterman ' With Reward of Jars of Alleged Liquor Sergt. Letterman did not go into the parlor at 1722 Seaton street to tune the piano, although he feels he re- nwng the cause of a rather irritating discord. ‘The chief of the liquor , who looked over, under and behind the no before he sat down to it, detected “Just as I thought,” he “there was liquor in there—19 half- gallon jars in all.” At No. 8 precinct, Letterman had Elizabeth | death of his wife more than a year ago, | the young woman. Mrs. Jobe said she | left. home fo make a telephone call, and | hfln‘!! | | | PAGE 13 AHNGRE DLYNP PLANTO REGENE TEST OF ITZENS Federation Will Sound Out Public Opinion on Main- tenance of Memorial. BELIEVE GOVERNMENT SHOULD PROVIDE FUND Havenner Holds D. C. Residents Should Not Be Asked to Bear Expense. ‘To test public opinion in the District, the suggestion made at the Navy De- partment that the maintenance of the U. 8. 8. Olympia as a historical relie should be borne by the citizens of the community to which it may eventually be assigned, will be put to a vote at a meeting of the executive council of the Pederation of Citizens’ Associations ‘Wednesday night. Whether the people of Washington would take kindly to the suggestion of Assistant Becretary of the Navy Jahncke, in the opinion of George C. Havenner, president of the federation, can only be determined after a can- vass of the situation. Although Mr. Havenner believes the cost of preserving the historic flagship of Admiral Dewey should be met from Federal funds, he said yesterday that he intended to submit the question to the executive council with a view of having individual upon it. “The council represen! citizens in the District,” he pointed out, “and in this way we can pretty well gauge public opinion as to whether the people of the District want the Olympia rrmrved here badly enough to finance it by & public subscription.” No Funds for Memorial. ‘Much as the District. Commissioners would like to see the old flagship kept in Potomac waters for future genera- tions, Commissioner Sidney F. Talia- ferro said yesterday that there are no District funds which can be diverted to that use, nor have the Commissioners authority to do so without an appro- priation from Congress. The only alternative. he said. would be to raise the money by public sub- scription and thix involved defails which he was not in a position to dis- cuss. Whether the Commissioners would go o far as to recommend an appropriation from Congress, Mr. Talif- ferro indicated. is another matter whica would have to be considered carefully by_the whole board. g The suggestion that Washingtonians hear the burden of caring for the Olym- pla as the people of Portland, Ore., are doing in the case of the old battleship Oregon, met with comment that the situation In the District is entirely different. Washington is the Capital try is interested in the preserva. tion of the Olympia as a monument to a famous battle of the Spanish- Ag:lpan h‘zsr. 1t w;a' p&hud ol.;‘tAl The Ol none e personal re- lation to the citizens the District that the that State, and in the Every Citizen Interested. \ “Whatever the fate of the Olympis is to be.” he said, ‘every patriotic citi- zen is interested In it and would like to see it preserved. The people of { Washington should not be called upon {to pay the expense any more than | they should be asked to bear the ex- | pense of caring for the Washington Monument or other monuments of & national character located here. “It would be a wonderful thing. how- | ever, if the Olympia could be shown | here on next Navy day, if possible.” While the Secretary of the Navr has not vet decided upon the disposal of the Olympia, it is understood that the preservation of the warship as a Dis- torical Telic of the American Navy will be considered before the disposal of the vessel is approved. Mr. Havenner thinks it would be 2 fine .thing for .the. patriotic spirit of the country if the old fightinz ship can be brought to Washington for Navy day, even if it is ordered scrapped before any bill is put through Congress to save it. “In 1898, when Admiral Dewey Te- S TR T et t , in Wl a ,” said Mr. Havenner. “I believe all patriotic citizens join me in wishing to see hls"nusmp preserved for historic Protest Scrapping of Ship. The suggestion that the Olympia be sent to the scrap heap has prompted scores of protests to the Navy against thus ending the career of the old man- of-war whose guns in Manila Bay more | than a quarter of a century ago roared out a brilliant chapter in American naval history. The Navy Department said vesterday | that telegrams protesting disposal of | the Olympia and urgently recommend- ing its preservation have been received at the department from practically all chapters of the Veterans of the Span- ish-American War. In Minneapolis yesterday s resolu- tion opposing the scrapping of the vessel was adopted at the final session of -the annual convention of the Fra- ‘ternmal - Order of Eagles. Col. M. J. Grayson, Savannah, Ga., national com- mander of the Spanish-American War veterans, offered the resolution. If the Olympia is preserved it will be another addition to that historic fleet Iron Constellation and Hartford. Constitution. The Comtimie — lon now is bein, - ditioned at Boston by tunfll‘nlnd said later, | roused with _Confederate torpedoes, llwum'l out, “Damn the torpedoes! '& ahead!”