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Gazette and what For the warmer; Maryland--Partly District moderately of cloudy Columbia north- toALEXANDRIA. VIRGINIA, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1917. PRICE CENT. INTEREST IN MEETINGS Gypsy Smith to Open Evangelistic Meetings at Manassas on Sunday Evening Next. Manassas, May 29-Manassas is looking forward with interest to the coming of Gypsy Smith, the evangelist who will begin a ries of meetings on Sunday night (June 3rd), continuing until July 1st, inclusive.
The meetings will be held in a tabernacle erected for his use on Grant Avenue. The city of Alexandria, also Charlottesville, Culpeper, and Warrenton and Harrisonburg, where Mr. Smith -has conducted meetings, give unstinted approval to the manner and method of the evangelist's work and have earnestly commended him to the churches of Virginia. It is expected that numbers of persons from nearby towns will attend the meetings. The Gypsy Smith choir has been rehearsing for the past month to be in readiness for the coming of Forest Cole, the Gypsy Smith choir leader.
The present leader is Charles R. McDonald, president of the National Bank of Manassas and Prince William county ent of schools. A SHAME TO THIS COUNTRY. Cost of Food in London 35 Per Cent Lower Than in Washington, Declares Traveler From England The Washington Times of yesterday contained the following article giving a comparison between prizes charged for food in London, England. and in the city of Washington.
ton. Do you know that right here in Washington you are paying about 35 per cent more for food than you would in London? An American arrived in ington today from London, and brought with him a menu from Sampson's Grand Divan Tavern, on the Strand, as the best argument he could find for a food dictatorship in America Compared with the menu of the Washington hotel, the average prices were mild. And England has been in the war three years, while the United States hasn't realized that it is Compares Some Prices Here's the way the tourist started to compare figures: He went into a well-known downtown hotel for luncheon today and crdered julienne soup, roast beef, a vegetable, a pudding and coffee. The waiter brought him a check for $2.05. "Why.
this is preposterous," he protested. "The same luncheon would have cost me just $1.50 in London, and London is on rations." Then he sat down and made a comparison of London and Washington prices, using menus from restaurants of the same ciass. Here are some of the results: In London julienne and soups cost 25 cents a portion; here, 30 cents. Other soups compare proportionately in the price. Wide Difference Shown In London mushrooms cost 37 cents and here 65.
Onions are si cents a portion in London and cents in Washington. Comparison of other vegetables bring practically the same results. chops cost 90 cents here 72 in London. Puddings, which and 30 cents here, are 9 cents in cost London. Jelly is 6 cents at Simpson's, here it is 20.
Fruits are 100 per cent higher than in nearly London. So are coffee and tea. Many restrictions are placed 011 in London- Men in the appetite uniform are forbidden to order! than 85 cents worth of junmore worth or dinner. A cheon or $1.35 half pint of beer is all that anyone allowed to drink with one meal. is Auction Sale.
I will offer for sale. on Saturday morning, June 2nd, at ten o'colck, at! 319 King Alexandria, a large lot of tableware, bric-a-brac, one' French bronze clock, also fancy pictures," morris chairs, secretary, clock, parlor ornaments, large lot of lace curtains and numerous other articles including a number of pieces of furniture. 128-4t. Samuel H. Lunt, Auctioneer.
STOPPAGE OF TRAFFIC Judge Garnett, of the Corporation Commission Protests Withdrawal of Steamer on Potomac River. It was recently announced that the Colonial Beach steamer St. Johns has been leased to the gov. ernment, and that excursions to that resort during the summer may be omitted. Another steamer, the Majestic, plying on the Potomac between Washington, Alexandria and river landings, has also been leased to the government and the people of large section of the state partially deprived of means transportation, to say nothing of the thousands of dollars' worth of vegetables and other freight that may spoil as a result.
Judge B. Garnett, chairman of the state corporation commission, has taken up the matter with the national council of defense and with the interstate commerce commission. Judge Garnett points out that with the great shortage of food, and the demand that commodities for feeding the people may be promptly, there is no reason why this vessel should not be restored to service. He has sent a letter to the interstate commerce commission and to the national council of defense, in which he says: "Information come to me that the steamer Majestic, which plies between Washington, D. and certain wharves on the Virginia side of the Potomac river, is to be taken off of this route day, May 29.
"My information is that this boat has been leased to the government, and hence that she has been withdrawn from the Virginia waters route includes a number of points in Westmoreland county, and furnishes the only means of public trans. portation for five wharves in Nomini creek and two or more in Lower Machodoc. The corporation owning this steamer is known as the Potomac and Chesapeake Steamship Company, of which Charles H. St. John, Washington, D.
is vice president and general manager. "This i is the second instance since April 16 that a public service corporation owning and operating steamboats in the waters of Virginia has voluntarily leased its boats to the government. thus depriving itself of its ability to carry out its public functions. As a great part of Tidewater Virginia is dependent upon transportation by steamboats. there being no railroads constructed therein.
I cannot but view with alarm the deplorable conditions which will result if this kind of a movement is not checked." TONIGHT Special Pictures at the Richmond On Tuesday evening '(tonight) Armour Company will show at the Richmond Theatre a moving picture of the manufacture and processing of their Star Stockinet: Ham. The film shows the scien-! tific feeding of hogs; the Union Stock Yards--Chicago, (the greatest live stock center in the world) latest method of dressing hogs an up-to-date packing plant (capacity of hog killing machinery 000 per day) from the time hogs arrive at the plant until the hams are a finished product ready for the merchants' counter. The film also shows the inspec-1 tion of meats by the United States Government Inspectors The local branch of Armour has been fortunate in Company, film as it is a very in-! teresting as well as instructive piece of; work. The manager of the. Richmond Theatre, who is very much interested in Chamber of Commerce work has kindly consented to show this film in an effort to put before, the Alexandria public the modern method of processing meat products lines) (along which scientific.
are in daily use by the and economical house-wife For the first time in nine years the Protestant Episcopal Council of the Diocese of Southern Virginia met today in Danville. Bishop A. M. Randolph, of Norfolk, presided and administered Holy Communion to the delegates. The celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Diocese of Southern Virginia will be held Wednesday night Maryland spring chicken at Ram mel's cafe.
OPPOSITION TO DRAFT TO RAISE WATER RATES? Engineer: Dickerman Here From Richmond to Investigate if the Water Company Shall Do So. Consumers of water, and especially the patrons of the Alexandria Water Company, will be interested in learning that Mr. Judson C. Dickerman, engineer of the Virginia State Corporation Commission of Richmond, is in the city today for the purpose of making investigations to aid in fixing the rates for water to be charged by the Alexandria Water Company to consumers. It is said that the Water Company is now paying dividends at the rate: of twelve per cent but that notwithstanding that fact it recently made an application to the State Corporation Commission for permission to increase its.
rates to consumers from ten to thirty cents per one thousand gallons, for the first ten thousand gallons consumed, with a graduating scale for quantities, down to a minimum of 10 cents per thousand gallons. The present flat rate per year for private dwellings, stores and offices. with one connection in yard or house, without hose connection, ranges from $6 to $10; for each water closet, bathtub, wash basin, $1. It is proposed by the Water Company, it is said, to raise these rates to $12, $5 and $1.50 respectively. Mr.
Dickerman's business here today is to ascertain what should be a fair and proper rate, and he Is considering the application of the consumers to reduce the rates as well as the application of the Company to increase them. For the purposes of arriving at a proper basis for fixing the rates, Mr. Dickerman is now engaged in making an examination of the books of the Company and making a valuation of its properties. Much interest is, very naturally, being taken in the matter by the consumers and the outcome of the matter is anxiously awaited. INDICTED FOR PLOTS Eleven Arrested, 'Two for Organizing Armed in Virginia.
Eleven arrests have peen made and nine indictments returned by Federal grand juries in the anti-registration plots, according to an announcement made. at the Department of Justice, last night. Two of 'the men arrested, both of whom are in jail, were the organizers of an armed company in the mountain 'districts of Virginia which intended to equip its members with rifles and defy the authorities. The other men, all of whom rave been indicted, were prominent niembers of an organization effected In Texas several months ago for the ostensible purpose of co-operative buying. The department has received information that attempts are on.
foot in several cities of the Central West to influence men from joining the army. The department has. distributed its agents in all sections with Instructions to see that registration officers do their duty on June 5 and that they are not interfered with. Attorney General Gregory issued a word of warning in a brief statement, saying: "These arrests should be accepted by the country generally as a warning against interfering with the enforcement of the provisions of the new army law." "Civilization" Wednesday and Thursday the biggest thing in the picture line ever shown in Alexandria, will be seen at the Richmond Theatre, Wednesday and Thursday, matinee and night It cost over $1,000,000 to have this great spectacle produced and is the masterpiece of ine century. In spite of the disasters shown, there runs through the picture a theme of such beauty when it is ended you feel that so -u have, indeed.
been walking on the mountain tops. It is impossible to compare "Civilization" with any other production, as it stands alone in soul-thrilling power. See the advertisem*nt on' page four. Alexandria Alexandria City and Suburbs H. A.
Stewart arrived home today from Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. J. R. Prettyman left for her home in Spencer, N.
today after a visit to friends in this city. An address will be delivered before Judge Louis C. Barley's Bible Class at Christ Church on Sunday morning next by Gypsy Smith, who will go from here to Manassas that day to open a series of evangelistic services there in the evening which are to continue until July first. Mayor Fisher has sent to the registrars in the four wards of the city Alexandria's allotment of 2,546 cards to be used in registering those eligible to serve in the army whose names will be recorded on registra. tion day, June 5th.
All arrangements for expediting the work as rapidly as possible are now completed. The Alexandria Branch of the Red Cross now has three work days. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday of each week the members meet in their work rooms over Burke! and Herbert's Bank, and the first two days are given to work on hospital supplies, hospital garments. while on the last named day the workers devote their time to surgical dressings. The garden party Saturday evening at the home of Mrs.
Mauchlin Niven, on Braddock Heights, will be for the benefit of the refreshment corps. At this time Mrs. Larz Anderson will serve coffee from her field kitchen. Miss Annie Lewis Jones, who is an attache of the Washington office of the American Red Cross is to be thanked for securing Mrs. 'Anderson's attendance with this most interesting kitchen.
The entertainment tonight at the home of Miss Kathrin Griffith Uhler, 121 north Washington street, promises to be a most delightful affair. The proceeds will be used towards the salary fund for the school nurse. The entertainments under the auspices of the Cameron Club always present an excellent program and a most enjoyable evening is assured those who attend. The school nurse does untold good among the scholars and any affair for the benefit of her salary fund should receive the hearty co.operation of the community. The program for this evening has been arranged with unusual care and some of the best musical and litertalent of Washington and Alexary andria will render selections.
All members of the Cameron Club are especially urged to attend and the public generally will be cordially welcomed. AMERICANS IN FRANCE. British War Office Puts Out Statement Inspiring Allies With Prospect of Great Aid. London, May official statement says that, counting the Americans serving in the British and French armies and the additional units ordered to France, there will shortly be 100,000 Americans in France. The statement says 3500 war airplanes will be constructed and 6000 aviators trained in the United States this year.
The official statement was issued by the British War Office, today, with the object of showing America's complete participation in the war and its ability to give immediate powerful aid. It refers to the draft bill which will give an army of men and says there are prospects of the greatest success for the loan, of which $750,000,000 already has been advanced to the entente allies. The statement declares that flotillas of destroyers are co-operating with the entente allies in the submarine zone, that one army division, a force of marines and nine regiments of engineers have been ordered to France. and that 10.000 doctors and many nurses have been ordered to England, hundreds of these having already arrived. LAUGH AT U-BOAT DEFENSE.
Germany Says Lloyd George's, Boast of Curb is Empty Words. Amsterdam, May speech of Premier Lloyd George last week in which, he said, German subma-1 rines were being combatted Charged With Promoting Outlawry in Virginia by Resisting Conscription. Mrs. Harry Fry and Mrs. James Goods left today for Charlottesville.
The funeral of Thompson Wilburn was held at Wheatley's Chapel yesterday, the Rev. Wm. J. Morton, rector of Christ Church, officiating. Hail fell for a few minutes yester.
day afternoon. The stones were as large as marbles, and caused no damage. The Willard W. C. T.
U. will hold their regular meeting tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, in Trinity M. E. Church. There were seven cases before the Police Court this morning.
They were misdemeanors, and none nf a serious nature. Mrs. Ida E. Harris, of Baltimore, is the guest of Mr. and J.uther H.
Thompson, at their home in south Fairfax street. Mrs. R. W. Herfurth, who has been at the Alexandria Hospital for the past three weeks, during which time she underwent an operation performed by Dr.
Moore, has sufficiently to be removed to her home. Arrangements have about been completed for the subscription dance at the Old Dominion Poat Club house Saturday evening, under the direction of the Ladies liary of boat club, and the affair will be one of the most important social events of the early summer season. Mr. and Mrs. E.
L. Walter, of Fort Worth, Texas, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. P.
Angelo, at their home, 102 north Washington! street. Mr. Walter is mnaager of the Woolworth Stores at Fort Worth. Mr. and Mrs.
Walter made the trip from their home by auton obile. The funeral services of Captain Wm. B. Smithers were largely attended yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. They were held from the Methodist Episcopal Church South, the Rev.
E. V. Regester, pastor of the church, officiating. The deceased had been connected with the Southern Railway for over a third of a century and was one of the most popular passenger conductors in, the service. His pallbearers were made up of conductors and the honorary pallbearers were the stewards of the church.
The Old Dominion Commandery, Knights Templars, served as an escort and the services at the grave were in charge of the Masonic order. fully, and that England could not be starved by the submarine campaign, is characterized as "only empty words," in a semi-official German reply. "Facts are lacking," says the reply "because our navy has found little trace of the new methods whereby, according to the views of the enemy, the submarine danger can be met. Hitherto all enemy experts have agreed that with the present means they are powerless against the serious dangers occasioned by submarines. A change in technical methods cannot be achieved In a fortnight.
We calmly await Lloyd prediction as to. the fuGeorge's ture." SPAIN IS AROUSED. Resolutions Adopted at Mass Meeting Urge Break With Germany. Madrid, May adopted at the great mass-meeting favor of the Entente Allies held in in Madrid Sunday were presented to! the Spanish Minister of the yesterday. The resolutions to the effect thatshould not remain "First--Spain isolated in the European conflict.
-Spain should change her policy toward France and Great Britain and their allies. "Third -Following Germany's breach of Spanish neutrality, Spain, should break diplomatic relations! with Germany and should accept all the consequences of the actionwhich she is compelled to adopt for the defense of her dignity." Fish, Clams, Oysters, Crabs, at Phone 307J. J. BRILL No. 2 King St.
Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett arrived home today from Atlanta, Ga. Among those in the officers' reserve training camp, at Fort Sheridan, is Pattison, of Peoria, son-in-law of Dr. and Mirs. W.
D. Hudson, of this city. The Allison W. C. T.
will hold their meeting in the Children's Home tomorrow afternoon at 2:30. The flower mission will be deferred and arrangements made at the meeting tomorrow to provide for it at a future date. Funeral services for Mrs. Minervia Clark, who was a former resident of this city, and died in Washington, were held at Wheatley's Chapel yesterday. Rev.
E. V. Regester, pastor of the Methodist Church South, officiated. William B. Wilson, formerly of this city, died at his home in Olean, N.
on May 14th, in the 43rd year of his age. His wife was formerly Miss Florence L. Ewing. The funeral was held at the dence of his mother, Mrs. Margaret Wilson, 312 Lorenz Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.
A final decree of divorce has been granted in 'Circuit Court on the ground of desertion to Libbie Kidwell from Linwood Kidwell. Three other suits, on the same grounds, have been entered the same court. They are: Edith Croft Botts against Henry D. Botts; Beatrice Williams against Herbert Williams, and Mary E. Williams against Francis E.
Willjams. The marriage of Miss Nellie Reynolds Robertson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fairfax Robertson, of Washington, formerly of Alexandria, to Mr. Samuel Alexander Moore, of Greenville, S.
will take place at 8 o'clock on the evening of June 9, in the apartment of the bride elect's parents at the Wyoming. The marriage will be attended only by relatives and a few intimate friends. Miss Robertson's twin sister, Miss Mary Robertson will be maid of honor, and Miss Frances Robertson, another sister, bridesmaid. Mr. Moore will have as his best man Mr.
David Wyatt Aiken Neville, of Clinton, S. and Mr. Lynn Robertson, a cousin of the bride. will be groomsman. Little Miss andria.
Katherine Leadbeater, of and Master William Robertson, of Greenville, S. will be rib. bon bearers. After a wedding journey Mr. Moore and his bride will be at home in Greenville, South Carolina.
APPEAL FOR COLLEGE. Rev. Dr. John Lee Allison Presents Claims in a Forceful Way. Rev.
Jno. Lee Allison, D. of Alexandria, and an alumnus of King college, preached Sunday morn. ing in the First Presbyterian Church and at night in the Fifth Avenue Church, and presented in a forceful way the claims of the college as the Synodical male institution of the Synod of Appalachia. His text in the morning was Psalms 144:12.
spoke of the importance of Christian education and urged the claims of King college as a Christian institution where character is developed and young men have a thirst for righteousness and go out into the world as standard bearers. of: the truth consecrated to service. -Knoxville Journal and Tribune. The college Is observing its' semicentennial this week, and today was laid the cornerstone of a new building on the new site donated by Rev. Dr.
I. S. Anderson. Rev. Dr.
Tilden Scherer, the president, announces. $120,000 pledged for new and equipment. Postoffice Closed Tomorrow. The city postoffice will be closed all day tomorrow (Decoration Day) and there will be no deliveries made by either city or rural carriers. WE NEVER DISAPPOINT when you want printing done in a hurry.
COMMERCIAL PRESS Harry W. Wade 313 King Phone 60 Deviled Crabs, little neck clams and clam chowder at Rammel's Cafe. Roanoke, May Velon McCoy, sixty five years of and a second cousin of the famage ous McCoys of Hatfield-McCoy fame, and his partner, "General" J. W. Phipps, arrested' at St.
Paul, by the department of justice, Arthur J. Devlin, are lodged in the Roanoke city jail on a charge of "seditious conspiracy against the governament of the United States." Plans are in the possession of the department that show that McCoy and Phipps had secured three hundred mountaineer followers who signed an oath that they would defy the conscription act, and schemes were on foot to blow up the bridges, banks, kill the revenue agents and large land owners and apportion the money, land and personal belongings of their victims among themeslves. The mountaineers pledged themselves to full obedience of their superiors and stated that they would suffer their heads to be severed from their bodies before they would give in to their enemies. Mr. Devlin had been working on the case for three weeks, ever since information was received that old man McCoy was quietly going around the mountain and enlisting the mountaineers in a cause that he was championing.
The arrests were made upon orders issued by the atgeneral. The penalty for the torney crime that the two men: are charged with is in war time punishable by death. Other arrests are expected to be made any time, as the department is in possession of the names that were affixed to the oath the men signed. The oath is taken almost word for word from that used by the Quantrell geurilla band which operated in Kansas and Missouri during the Confederate war and to which Frank and Jesse James belonged. The oath signed by the three hundred mountaineers is as follows: "In the name of God, the Great Supreme, here under the black arch of heaven's evading symbol, I pledge and consecrate my body and limbs to devote my life to obedience to my superiors, that no peril shall deter from executing their orders, that I will submit to every possible means of power for the extermination of my our enemies and big free holders, and before violating a single clause or implied pledge of this obligation I will permit the separation of my head and body to be dealt out to me when due, amen." Declaration of war had already been issued in the conspiracy as follows: "Declaration of war--the country is ours and all therein.
We only have to come together and demand it. The big land owners, the speculators and 'Revenuers' shall be no more There will be no fight We have already learned that. Get ready." SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT. Pupils of Hallowell School Give Pleasing Program. The patriotic entertainment given at the Odd Fellows' Hall Friday night, by the pupils of Hallowell public school, was a decided success.
The program consisted of a welcome song by girls from the first and second grades, accompanied by the Columbian Orchestra, under the leadership of Professor Sylvester Thomas, a flag drill by little girls of the second, grade, and the Star Spangled Banner in pantomime. The patnomime was a beautiful and in. spiring number. Richard H. Brooks sang the air, the orchestra accompanying.
while thirteen girls from the grammar grades, in the glare of red lights, performed the pantomimes. Just before the patomime was rendered. H. T. White, principal of Hallowell school, gave a short history of the Star Spangled Banner, telling of the conditions which inspired Francis Scott Key to write the song which has since become i America's national air.
The affair was under the management of the teachers of Hallowell school, assisted by the teachers of Snowden school. The proceeds are for the benfit of the piano and dustrial fund of the Hallowell school..
