Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1930, Page 17

LORE OF SALISH INDIANS SAVED FROM OBLIVION James A. Teit Collects Prim- | itive Mythologies for Smith- sonian Institution. TALES CENTER ABOUT COYOTE, CULTURAL HERO Believed Heat and Cold Were Brothers, and That Heat Killed Cold. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Remnants of one of the most imag- inative primitive mythologies has been saved from oblivion by the Bureau of | American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. This consists of the folklore, crea- tion stories and astronomical phantasies of the Salish tribes of Indians of the Northwest, collected by James A. Teit, and just issued as an annual report | by the bureau. Much of the mythology centers about & cultural hero, Coyote, who captured the winds with snares and so made the earth habitable for human beings. He also killed the monsters which Toamed the earth. The winds, varying from season to season and bringing good and evil with them, took a notable part in the in-| terpretation of nature by the primi- tive mind, according to the report. A belief was held that hot and cold winds, Heat Killed Cold. Once when his brother was away Cold got angry at the people and sald he would kill them. He made such cold weather that everybody to freeze to death, Heat, hearing that the peo- ple were dying, hurried home to save them. He made the weather so hot that he killed his brother. Since then heat can always kill cold. Ice, frost and snow melt away and die at his coming. In the beginning, according to this mythology, it was always dark. The people chose the robin to fiy up in the sky and be the sun. But he made it so hot that everyhody -was. in- danger of burning up, so they deposed him and put a one-eyed man in his plage. Since then it never has been too hot. When the cultural hero, Coyote, fin- WASHINGTON D. 3 d THURSDAY EPTEMBER 18, 1930 MRS. ROBERT LA Who yesterday became the bride of the lette Young of 1869 Mintwood place, this city. lette's secretary. ator’s Maple Bluff farm home, near Madison, Wis. THE LATEST SENATORIAL BRIDE FOLLETTE, Ji Sepator from Wisconsin. Mrs. La Fol- was Miss Rachel Wilson Young, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ludwick C. The ceremony took place at the Sen- The bride was Senator La Fol- STRIE PUSTPONED Second Truce Averts Action in Support of Local Musicians. Assurance that there will remain | ished his work on earth the le chose him to go up in the sky ‘become the moon. He was rather unsatisfac- tory because he always divulged what he saw on earth. o e Most of the stars are ¢opsidered to have been transfofmed of the mythic period, ‘The Great Bear, for instance, is explained as follows: Once there . three brothers who. -law, & grizzly bear The youngest loved the brother- in-law, but the two elders hated him. They set out ome. day to kill him and the youngest brother followed to warn him. Al three found him at the time. Just as were al they were changed into A group of stars form said to have been In the group of women cooking, -Skunk came to destroy the cookin To keep him away the women f« & circle around the oven and In this ition were changed into stars. Another rwv of stars is called the Canoe. ive men were making the canoe and another directing the work when they were transformed. which The people, according to the believe in a race of red dwarfs live in the trees and carry their babies upside down on board carriers. People ‘whom they approach lose ‘their senses. ‘When they come out of their stupor they find themselves leaning against a tree upside down. Another race of dwarfs are the size of small boys, who dress in squirrel skins, carry small bows and arrows and live in cliffs in the mountains. The le know they exist because one was ound dead as late as 1895, “Tree Men” Mythical Group, Still another group of mythical be- ings are the “tree men,” who dress in buffalo skins, have a strong odor and have the power of transforming them- selves into trees and bushes. Thus they remain invisible to human beings, but the Indians know they exist because sometimes bushes mysteriously disap- pear or change places, they say. Giants formerly were common. - They have a strong odor, like the smell of burning horn. They dress in bear skins and live in caves in the rocks. Bomewhat akin to the giants are the “land and water mysteries” located in ‘waterfalls, lakes and mountain peaks. | A person’ who sees one of them dies | shortly afterward. Some lakes, the Indians say. have unde ind ges leading from the bottom to holes in the tops of high mountains, for the conven- fence of the “mysteries.” Hair-raising ghost stories were com- mon, A person might have one or two ghosts, one of which remained near the body. The other went away to a mys- terious Jand where all ghosts lived to- gether. The one that remained on earth wandered about the places the gfl’ion had frequented in his lifetime, ut finally disappeared and nobody knew where it went. Ghosts of drowned people haunted the water for a time. Ghosts of the newly dead liked to visit their old acquaintances. If repelled they gave up their attempts and afterward ap- peared only in lonely places and near graves. In ihe beginning. according to this mythology, people did not die, but death ‘was finally brought into the world by a"aonun and since then everybody has led. same shoot o circle is . P L WAR VETERAN COMMITS SUICIDE IN HOSPITAL Said to have been suffering from an hallucination that he had been defraud- ed of $50,000 and that he was having trouble over a supposed clalm against Porto Rico, Howard A, Stevens, 36 years old, a patient at St, Elizabeth’s Hos« tal, ended his life that institution ast night by hanging himself with a bed sheet tied to a window grating In a private room. His act was discovered when L. L. ‘Waters, an attendant, went to Stevens’ room early today. A certificate of sui- cide was lssued by Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt. Stevens, & World War veteran, was first, committeG to the hospital June 8, 1929, but escaped in September and went to Columbus, Ohio, where he was committed to the Columbus State Hos- pital for the Insane. He was recommitted to St. Elizabeth's on June 12 this year, strike by projection macHine ODrators ) o, was s widow, Backenheimer, ascer- |An approprition for purchase of sup- | taining that she was inexperienced in | plies and equipmént and other contin- | worldly matters, made love to her and | gent expenses is not a specific appro- | regularly borrowed small sums of money, | priation for the erection of a building “Mving music” and stage shows in the | Capital's downtown theaters for an- other week at least were given by terday, following, & conference between | the organizations involved in the loca! theater dispute in New York. Sympathy Strike Averted. ‘The second “truce” effected between the owhers and musicians averts for the second time a projected sympathy here, and Potes e way for Jenget me- gotiations between the projection men’s union and the local theater owners, it was announced today. ‘Theater owners were expecting an agent from the national headquarters of the projectionists to confer with | them today on the projected sympathy strike, but this afternoon, A. Julian | Brylawski, president of the Theater | Owners' Association here, said no agent of the projectionists has arrived, and what conversations are being had are | with the loeal officials of the projec- tionists’ union. | The projectionists have been under orders to leave the local picture houses | when the musicians go out, although | they have no fight with the theater owners and have just signed contracts | at higher pay. Musicians Locked Out. Musiclans in independent houses not afMliated with any of the chain theaters, which comprise, for the most part, the downtown theaters, were locked out of the theaters Sunday night, but the pro- jection men are still working at these houses. Musicians had no further plans for negotiations with the theater owners, they stated today. The union here, ac- cording to John E. Birdsell, secretary of | the local union, has received ap- proximately 10,000 replies to the straw vote submitted to Washington theater- goers to determine the number of Capi- tal residents who prefer “living” music to the “canned” music in the theaters. ACCIDENT IS VERDICT IN DEATH OF CHILD| Albert Jeffries, 4, Succumbs Injuries When Run Down to| A coroner’s jury today returned a ver- dict of accidential death after investi- | gating an accident yesterday in which | Albert Jeffries, 4 years old, of 3213 | Volta place was kilied. | Police reported the boy was crossing | the street near his home when he was struck by a light truck operated by | Dewey Rinker of 1743 L street. The | truck driver said he had just passed | an automobile going in the opposite | direction when the childy stepped into | the path of the truck. Riffer was driv- | ing west on Volta place. The truck is owned by J, T. Becker, plumber, of 1020 Eighteenth street. Already bleeding from a severe cut near the eye, Adolph Jeuneman, 14| yet old, of the 200 block C street | northeast, received a posstble fracture | of the skull and Jacerations of the neck | yesterday afternoon when a machine | in which he was being taken to a hos- | pital crashed into another car at Third | and East Capitol streets. | The youth was attempting to open a | pop .bottle in the store of his father, | George A. Jeuneman, when the cap flew | off and hit him near the eye, opening a | being carried to the hospital | by his father and a friend, Mitchell Phillips, 38, when the Jeuneman auto- | mobile collided with a sedan driven by Sergt. A, G. Bargagnl of the Fire De. partment and marshal of the annual Labor day parade. Adolph was ‘hrown against the wind- | shield of his father's auto when it over- | turned and struck a parked car owned by William R, Lynch of Ballston, Va.| He was extricated from the wreck and carried to Casualty Hospital for treat- | ment. The boy's father was taken to Provi- dence Hospital and given fir/i-aid treat- ment for minor cuts, while Phillips re- celved attention for similar injuries at Casualty Hospital. * Sergt, Bargagni and three companions, all , escaped uninjured, THEATER OPERATOR ASKS ANNULMENT OF HER MARRIAGE | Washington Woman Charges \ Defrauding of Property and ;lhe Matrimonial Trickery. Alleging she was defrauded of her property and tricked into matrimony, | Mrs. Jenney Backenheimer, 629 Second | clared t street, asked the District Supreme Court musiclans and theater owners late yes- | toddy to annul her marriage to Jules| Backenbeimer, 600 Columbia road. The plaintiff, through Attorney | George Gerfman, tells the court she met | | Backenhetmer In the latter part of the | lic- bulldings of public improvements— year 1920. He came to ‘her home, she says,-and asked her to insure the life of her husband.. After-learning that she alleges. Asks for Real Estate. When she refused to give him any more money, she declares, he broached the subject of marriage and, after their engagement, insisted on borrow- ing $5,000 from her. After unsuccessful attempts on her part to raise the money, he came to her & day or so before their marriage, she alleges, and suggested that in order to raise money to embark in the diamond business she must convey to him her real estate at 620 Second street, and that this must be done before their mar- riage as it could not legally be done afterward. Relying on his protestations of love and belleving that he was act- ing in good faith, she deeded the prop- erty to him, the plaintiff says. New Home Is Bought, Thereatter, she alleges, he refused to live with her and insisted that she buy another home at 406 Sheppard street She says that she did sthis and also spent $1,200 on the new house, but that he still refused to share it with her as man and wife. At his insistence, she says, the title to the new property was taken in his and her names as tenants by the entirety. She further alleges that the defendant LUNCH ROOM PLANS ATCENSUS BUILDING - REACH STANDSTILL ‘Controller General McCarl | Blocks Use of Appropriation for Building Annex. |[FACILITIES FOR EATING MAKE GRAVE PROBLEM | Ruling Declares That Building of Lunch Room Is Not ‘“Supplies” or “Equipment.” Efforts of the Census Bureau to build a lunch room for its 6,000 temporary | employies now engaged in census work | | near Sixth street and Missourl avenue were blocked today by Controller Gen- eral McCarl. | " While census officials_refused flatly to discuss the matter, it was learned | indirectly that they were deeply dis- appointed at the controller general's decision, which denies them the use of $13,500 for a lunch room of funds al- ready appropriated for the Census Bureau, The luncheon situation at noontime has been approaching serious propor- tions, causing congestion in the streets and the lack of suitable luncheon fa- cilities has been growing serious as the crowd of workers increases. Small | lunch wagons line the streets at the noon hour and all lunch rooms in the | immediate vicinity are overcrowded. Use of Finds Opposed. Secretary of Commerce Lamont put the question up to Controller Geneyal McCarl in the form of a query as to | whether the Secretary could use funds | already appropriated to put up an | dition or an extension to temporary building D at Sixth and Missouri ave- ue to be used as & Junch room. “It is proposed,” said the McCarl de- cision, “to construct the addition or | extension on the north side of the ex- isting building with connections thereto, the total cost being estimated at $13,- 1500. ° It is represented that existing | conditions at lunch time impede the | progress ‘of the work incident to the census and that proper lunch facilities are essential to a completion of the census work within the time allotted.” The item in the appropriation which Department of Commerce thought | could be used was appropriated by Con- | gress for ‘the purchase of supplies and | equipment, -including books of refer- | ence, periodicals, maps, manuscripts, punch cards and materials and other | contingent expenses.’ | McCarl, in denying the request, de- “‘manifestly the erection of a building or of an extension or addi- tion to a building cannot be regarded as ‘the purchase of supplies (or) and equipment.’ " Furthermore. McCarl declared, it had been -held uniformly that provisions of law ‘“preclude ‘the érection of any pub- including : any, extension or: addition to a public.bullding-+under ‘an appropria- | tion mot specifically therefor. Clearly or of an extension or of an addition to | a building.” | Building Is Temporary, In addition, McCarl pointed out that the old Building D is classed as “tem- porary,” is designed for use by the Gov- | ernment, and neither this building nor any addition to it could reasonably be classed as a “necessary instrumentality in the administration and execution of | the appropriation act” for the Bureau of the Census. Meantime, it is understood that off- clals of the Department of Commerce are making efforts to provide some kind of Junch 7oom. facilities through other channels. How successful they will be they do not know st this time, With the approach of Fall and Winter, how- ever, it is felt that something urgent | must be done and the situation would become practically impossible in the in- clement Winter weather with sleet and snow holding employes to a nearby area during their Junch period at noon | G.0.P. WOMEN TO MEET Absentee voting by persons residing in the’ District will be discussed at a | meeting of ‘the League of Republican | Women in"the Washington Club Octo- is a man of immoral and depraved | ber 6. character, that he has threatened her | on many occasions and injured her health by his acts. She asks the court for return of her property and dissolu- tion of her marriage on the ground of | fraud. | “Arrangements also were made yester- | day at & 'meeting of the board of direc- tor to continue this season a series of luncheons, dinners and teas held last | year. Mrs. E. A. Harriman, president, | presided. CAPITOL CELEBRATES 137th BIRTHDAY On September 18, 1703, George Washington Iaid the corner stone for the great white stone building on Court meet. Above is II‘ D. the bronze tablet which ma g . architect of the Capitol, examining of the corner ¥ inderwood Photo. | ‘With inadequate facilities available for thousands of Census Bureau employes, Controller General McCarl today de- nied the Department of Commerce request to use Governmen t funds to build a cafeteria. luncheon-secking census workers at the noon day crowd today, while below are girls eating their lunch out of doors. Scene above shows throngs of —Star Staff Photos. GOLF COURSE WORK T0 START NONDAY Crops From Anacostia Park Area. Washingtonians who have done their gardening on the public domain in the | {region northeast of the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge at Anacostia Park and | still have crops standing there were ad- vised today by F. W. Hoover, general manager of the Welfare and Recrea- tional . Association of Public Buildings and Grounds, Inc., 1o take away any- thing deemed of value immediately. The reason for this, he explained, is that a start will be made on constric- ticn of the $30,000 nine-hole golf course in Anacostia Park on Monday morning |and the ground must be cleared by | tnen. | 'The contract for completion of the golf course had been awarded to O. B. Fitts of Clarendon, Va., supervisor of | the course and greens of the Columbia | Country Club. Plowing of the erstwhile | public ‘gardens will start on Monday | morning and the greens will be seeded |this Fall. Seeding of the fairways is contingent upon the weather, but Mr Hoover and his associates in the asso- ciation hope to have the completed course turned over to their jurisdiction | by the contractor about May 1 next. The affected area is some 2,400 feet northeast of the Pennsylvania Avenue { Bridge in Anacostia Park and extends some 800 feet easterly from the Ana- costia River and embraces some 50 acres of land. | Under this program, the whole area | given over to the public gardens will [ not. be affected at this time, as only | those who took the gardens this year with the understanding that only early | crops would be pianted, fall within the | ruling of Mr. Hoovef. He said today that these people were given notice that they would have to vacate by September 1, so that now they have had more than two weeks beyond this time, The public gardens adjacent to the Benning Bridge at Anacostia Park will not be involved in the forthcoming con- struction work, as it will be some time before that area will be actively im- grnvvd as park land by the office of ARLINGTON BRIDG GRADE BIDS STUDIED Local Firm's Offer of $27,132 Ex- pected to Win Contract for Vir- ginia Slope Work. The Arlington Memorial Bridge Com- mission, of which President Hoover is the chairman, had before it today for study bids of a dozen engineering firms, seeking to obtain the contract for grad- ing the parkway to the memorial entrance to Arlington National Ceme- tery. in the program of carrying west- ward the Arlington Memorial Bridge roject on the Virginia side of the Po- mac_River. 3 | "While the bids are now being digested, indications are that Warren F. Brenizer ., a local firm which offered to do the work for $27,132, and was the low- est bidder, will likely be awarded the contract. Washington, Baltimore, Nor- folk, Dayton, Ohio, ané Mechanicsville, Md., firms offer to do the work. The confracting figures ran all the way up to_$57,810. The work calls for excavation of the Virginia_slope leading up to Arlington National Cemetery from the Boundary | Channel Bridge of the Arlington Memo- rial Bridge project so that the-new parkway will have an easy grade to the cemetery. Suicide May Be Buried Today. The body 'of the unidentified man who committed suicide by hanging himself in the old Coast Guard Build- ing, at Fourteenth and E streets, some- time Monday night, was to be burled in itol Hill in which the Congress and the Supreme | Potter's Pield this afternoon unless his identity is established in the meantime, attendants at the District Morgue said today, Admr. Pratt Keeps Informed of Races In Major Leagues By the Associated Press. Admiral Willlam V. Pratt, who has just become chief of naval operations, is a base ball fan, Starting his new assignment, he asked newspaper men today to keep him informed of the prog- Tess of major league games. Brooklyn is his choice to win the National League pennant, while his aide, Lieut. “Jimmy"” Campbell, favored St. Louis. For two days in a row the admiral has watched the Robins lose games to the Cards and has taken a considerable joshing from Campbell. As an undergraduate at Annlg— olis, Admiral Pratt played on the base ball team. CANPBEL RELEASE ACTON 1S DELAYE { Hearirig Saturday on Merits of District Indictment to Be Basis of Developments. ‘ ‘The effort to obtain the release of Herbert M. Campbell, Alexandria, Va., real estale man, who is under indict- | ment for the murder of Mary Baker,| was held in abeyance today and indiea ‘ tions were that further developments ' will hinge upon the result of a hearing | to be held Saturday in Alexandria, when | Federal Judge D. Lawrence Groner will | | be asked to rule on the question of | whether Campbell shall be removed to | | Washington to face trial. | Charles Henry Smith of Alexandria, chief of counsei for Campbell, said to- | day he was considering attacking' the | indictment under which the man is held as being invalid, but had not ar- rived at a decision. Wants Early Trial Smith said his principal interest was to obtain an early trial for his client.. | ““Snould Mr. Campbell be ordered re- | moved to the District, we probably |would seek an immediate arraignment in order that a plea might be entered. Then we would ask for his release |under bond. Should a trial sometime | during the month of October seem | likely, it is improbable that further | consideration would be given at this time to the indictment. “We are anxious that there be no further delay because we wish to prove once and for all that Mr. Campbell is | innocent. ~ We h: an abundant | amount of evidence and will have no difficulty whatsoever in clearing his name.” ..Cites Three Reasons. | Mr. Smith cited three reasons which | he said convinced him the indictment returned more than a month ago by a District of Columbia grand jury is worthless on its face. They are: 1. That the case was investigated by a “Summer grand jury,” or an inquisi- torial body which the defense contends had not been provided for legally. 2. That the indictment was returned | by the grand jury to Chief Justice A. | A. Wheat, instead of to Associate Justice Wiillam Hitz, both of the, Dis- trict Supreme Court. . 3. That the law provides for selec- tion of grand juries by the jury com- mission, while as a matter of fact “the present’ grand jury was not chosen in this method.” HEART DISEASE FATAL Veterans’ Bureau Clerk Dies Alone at Washington Apartment. Miss Betty Lewis, 35-year-old Veter- ans' Bureau clerk, died yesterday after- noon in her apartment at the Roose- velt Hotel. She had been suffering from heart trouble for a number of years. Dr. Joseph Graham of 2750 Four- teenth street attributed the cause of death to heart trouble and a certificate to that effect was issued by Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt. Miss Lewis came to Washington four SCHOOL LOCATION PROTEST IS FILED ! Architect and Citizens Differ on Construction of School in Chevy Chase. Protests against the proposed location of the eight-room school building to be erected at Northampton street and | Broad Branch road, in Chevy Chase, has been filed with school authorities, and petition has been made for an op- portunity to press objections at the next meeting of the Board of Education by Tepresentative civic organizations of that community. As planned by Albert L. Harris, mu- nicipal architect, the new school will face directly south on Northampton itreet. The Chevy Chase civic group, which was largely responsible for ob- iaining the 1l-acre tract, contends the school should be faced on Broad Branch road and are determined to press their support for the change. In a written statement to the Board of Fducation the change was suggested for reasons that by facing the building | on Broad Branch road the school would have large grounds; opportunity for elaborate landscaping would be afford- ed; all but the north rooms would re- ceive Midwinter light; more ground would be available for play space; only one parcel s not in public ownership, whereas, on the east of the proposed site much of the required property is improved residential. This protest was signed by J. Francis Moore, chairman, New Schools Com- mittee, Citizens' 'Association of Chevy Chase; Arthur Adelman, president of the Chevy Chase Citizens' Association; William ‘A.” Jump, president, Broad Branch Section, Home and School Asso- ciation, and Pyke Johnson, president, Home and School Association of Chevy Chase, D. C. Representatives of these organizations will present further ob- Jections to the Southampton streef fronting of the proposed school at the next meeting of the Board of Education ‘whlch is now awaiting presence of a {quorum. It is possible a sufficient number of members will be in the city | by tomorrow afternoon. The building | under discussion is the initial 8-room | unit of a proposed 16-room and audi- | torfum building of the general type now being erected all over the city. 'SHEA TO FACE KELLIHER | Charges of manslaughter and driving while drunk, specified in a warrant sworn out in Alexandria against Wil- liam Shea, will be heard in the Alex- | andria Police Court tomorrow morning by Judge William 8. Snow. Shea_was arrested here following the | death September 7 of Maurice “Mickey” | Kelliher, well known base ball player, |in an automobile accident near Four- |Mile Run. He returned here voluntar- |ily and posted $1,000 bond following steps made to extradite him to this Jurisgiction. Earl Garrison of 302 Tenth street southeast is under $500 bond to appear as a witness in the case against Shea, | Who is said to have been driving the | death car. It is not known whether William McKeever, 603 Farragut street, |other occupant of the car, will appear at the hearing. Two occupants of the other car in the collislon will also be cited to appear. BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED WHEN STRUCK BY AUTO Deolared to have darted from between two parked automobiles at Fifth and E streets into the path of a machine driven by George R. Mason, 31, colored, of 2100 Seventeenth street, Carroll Wil- son, 4 years old, of 515 P street, was run down and injured at noon today. At the hospital, the condition of the boy was reported as undetermined with a possible fracture of the skull. According to witnesses, the accident ‘was unavoidable. Mason.is being held at the sixth pre- cinct, pending a test of the brakes on his car. The * child’s identity remained in doubt until his mother appeared at years ago from Grundy Center, Iowa, Where her’ parents now reside. the hospital nearly an hour after the accident. T | CHARGES TOMORROW| NEW GAS RATES WOULDBEHIHER - FORAPARTENTS Those Whose Bills Are More Than $2.10 Monthly Would Get Cut, Company Says. BILLS AND PHOTOS SHOWN AT HEARING Expert on Statistics Says Only Three Cities Have More Apart- & ments Than D. C. ‘The Washington Gas Light Co. et today's public hearing before the Pub- lic Utilities Commission on its proposed new rate schedule sought to show that the increased bills which would result would fall principally on the aparts ment dwellers, who use gas merely as & convenience and can well afford to pay the extra charge demanded ef ihem. All of these who now have bills of $2.10 per month or less will have their bills increased under the proposed schedules. Those whose_bills are higher will have them reduced. The first witness today was John L. Schick, assistant controller of the com~ pany, who brought with him elaborate exhibits showing analyses of the bills of customers living in their own homes and those lying in apartments. The general conclusion was that those whe lived in homes used enough gas to war- | rant a reduction, whether the homes are of the poorer class or not, but that the dwellers in apartments, even of the most elite description, will have their bills raised. Photographs Are Shown. ‘The exhibits were replete with photo- graphs of the homes of the consumers, statements as to the average rent per room, and expert testimony was forth- coming later as to the financial classi- fications of the persons living in apart- ments and homes. Typical gas bills of dwellers in apart- ments which rent from $100 to $300 {a month per unit were 700, 800 and 1,200 cubic feet, at $1 per 1,000 cub) feet per month, Mr. Shick said. Und the new rates these monthly bills would be increased 22 cents, 20 cents and 1% cents, respectively. On’ the other hand typical homes mg bills of $3.80, $2.90 and $4.10, whic! would merit reductions, under the new schedule, of 25 cents, 11 cents and 29 cents, respectively. Expert on Proportion. . Rufus 8. Lusk, president of a sta- tistics corporation, testified as an expert | to the effect that Washington has Br portionately more apartment dwelle than any eity in the country save only Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. ‘The percentage is larger, he said, than in those sections of New York outside of Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn. There was a general laugh at this, head« ed by Charles 1. Stengel, former Rep- resentative from the Brooklyn district, who remarked that it was the first time l’ylz )’;ld heard that Brooklyn was in New ‘ork. The section west of Fourteenth street between the Mall and Park road housed | 57 per cent of the apartment units of the entire District, Mr. Lusk said, and had the largest proportion of one-room, kitchenette and bath apartments. These are occupied either by single persons or two persons living together. The aver- age income per apartment is high, con- siderably higher than that of the heall of a family in most of the residence districts. Many Would Pay More. Mr. Henry had. not been on the | stand long yesterday before it became apparent that to many of the com- pany’s consumers the effect of the new schedule would be to raise their monthly bills. Some would get raised bills in some months and reduced bills in others. Some would get raiscd bills every month. One or more monthly bill would show an increase in ths case of 45 per cent of the present customers of the Washington Gas Light Co., he testified. Of these, about 16,000 would get a larger bill every month in the year, and 25,000 would get larger bills some months and smaller bills others. Of the last 25.000 the increases in some monthy bills would more than offset the decreases in other bills, the average net increase being 9 cents per month. Of the bills decreased, the average decrease would be 51 cents per month. Multiplying the number of losses and increases by the number of customers in the spective brackets he arrived at the cof~ clusion that the net result to the com- pany in the domestic schedule would be a loss of $250,000 in annual reve- nue. In justifying the company’s proposed monthly minimum bill of 75 cents, for which the consumer would be allowed 500 cubic feet of gas, he pointed out that the customer cost to the company of each customer was 99 cents per month. Of this 78.59 cents was made up of “general costs” and 20.45 cenf was the cost of gas. Table Shows Increases. He submitted the following table of increased bill i \ Percents age of num- increas? ber of con- sumers. Percent- age of Number tot. of con- sumers. 2.271 Average increase per month. $0.01 s 32! O er—— 2 clear during the testis mony that the change in the discount period from 15 days as at present to 10 days was put in as a trading point, and 1s not taken very seriously by the coms pany President Wood, questioned about it, sald that he would not insist on it, and that he left it to the judgment of the commission whether the provision stayed in or not. DRIVER ORDERED HELD IN BRIDGE FATALITY James Clatterbuck to Answer for Crash Into Abutment, Killing » Wenttang. = A coroner’s jury eonducting an in< quest into the death of Raymond 'é ‘Wenttang, 57 years old, of 80 Seaton place northeast, ordered James Vernon Clatterbuck, 38, of the Arst block af Pranklin street northeast. held for tha grand jury under $1,500 bond’yesterday: afternoon at the District Morgue. -4 Clatterbuck was the driver of an avtomoblle which crashed into an abuts ment on the K street August 2 Emergency Hospital when = bottle, which contained flqnor. palice say, was found in his machine a sho: time after the