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irt It iC THE WASHINGTON TOST THURSDAY tfTJNB 24 1915 KISSES 1 MINUTE LONG Detectives Say Mrs Tetnpestj Gave Tbem to Robertson IN TOILETS OF GOSSAMER AND WOVEN COLD DAINTY DANCER EXPRESSES VARIED MOODS SO MBS 0BET60ff IS STTDT Asks DiTorce From Wealthy Importer on Ground of His Alleged Intimacy With a Love Pirate Maid Testifies to His Staying All Right at Home of the Corespondent n4c WlCkEOQUEEN IN SNOW WHITE Special The WtsUnstaa Post Mew Tork June 2S Mrs Mlna Tempest fashionably gowned and Jeweled aat In the rear of Justice Delahantya art of the aupreme court today and heard herself described first as a love jHrat and later tor Attorney Max Steuer as a lovable character a good matured aoul one of the best who rent herself to the accommodation of friends and now Sets Into this difficulty Mrs Tempest is named as corespondent In a suit for divorce brought by Mr Laurlen Robertson against her millionaire husband Edward Robertson Importer of 27 Ferry street The salt went to trial before a jury todar Named in Another Case Five months ago Mrs Tempest was named as corespondent In another divorce suit In the came court She did not defend herself then as she did today It was this previous experience that led Attorney Oustav Lange Jr to call her a love pirate In outlining Mrs Robertsons case to the Jury Mr Steuer In defending the million aire admitted that Robertson knew Mrs Tempest long before he married But must a man give up all his friends when he marries asked Mr Steuer That Is what you men must decide A vivid picture provoking much laughter In the crowded courtroom was that painted by a young red haired detective James Finn who saw Robertson and Mrs Tempest sitting In a window in her apartment in the Sonoma 1730 Broadway kissing each other Tells of Their Kisses What was Mrs Tempest domgT was asked She had her arms around Mr Robertson and she was kissing him all over hi face the detective answered Did she like It A She seemed to Did he like It A Sure He was gesturing with his arms like Sousa leading his band and I could almost hear the smacks Was It one kiss A It was a big kiss How many did you observe A Her mouth was close to his for a whole minute Soul kiss A What do you mean Lasted Folly a Minute Full minute kisses A Certainly Each one was that long Finn said that Mrs Tempest was sop plied with a big limousine and that wherever It went it seemed Robertson followed In his little yellow racing car Often the tw6 cars would drive up In front of the Sonoma apartment and Robertson and Mrs Tempest would get out and go upstairs Robertson the witness declared would enter In an Ice cream suit and the following day emerge In a black suit The soul kiss Incident was referred to again Jjy Edward Farley a former policeman now a private detective Though Farley did not pay as much attention to the affectionate scene framed In the window he heard some loua smacKs ana sala that for more than SO minutes they sat kissing and Jiugglng each other Farley was certain that each kiss given by Mrs Tempest lasted fully a minute maybe more sometimes Colored Maid Testifies Mary Edwards colored maid to Mrs Tempest proved a star witness for Mrs Robertson Two weeks before Christ mas 191s she went Into Mrs Tempests employ Right afterward she saw Mr Robertson In Mrs Tempests apartment Often he stayed to dinner with Mrs Tempest His visits continued until the maid left Mrs Tempests employ In March this year Mary was positive that Robertson remained all night on many occasions because she had washed his silk shirts and pajamas Ever see Mr Robertson In bed A Tes why I often served both Mr Robertson and Mrs Tempest with breakfast In bed He usually stayed all night took a shower bath In the morning and left his pajamas hanging in the bathroom He kept his silk hat and full dress suit In the apartment and a few other things LANSING IS SECRETARY COXTUCTED FBOM riBST PAGE HJR H0MORE3QUE SJrjjg bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbV Js aCsBBBisaBBBBBK aks bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbV BBBBBBsm 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story Snow White On the program is also The Battle of Bheriffmuh The Dance of Pluck and The Oolden Idol a work entirely Indian In sentiment and one of the most attractive creations of her art She appears In a picturesque robe of woven gold which la all a glltter as she moves SMITH QUIT ONE BRIDE Rrst Bathtub Victim Deserted Two Years Before Death TOOK HDI 3ACK LIVED WEEK Story of Beatrice Mundy Bankers Daughter Who Wed George Smith Three Days After They First Met Told in London Brides Bathtub Murder Case Left Him 10000 CONVICT GIRL SLAYER Murder of Margaret Dunn of the Perfect Figure Avenged BAN AWAY FEOM HUSBAND Young Woman or Goo4 a Philadelphia FmilyKiiled by Another With a Blow of Her Fist for Resenting Friendly Advances Nap in Natures Garb Led to Workhouse Sentence He became solicitor and counsel for the United States government before the Alaskan boundary tribunal in Lon don was counsel In the Venetuelan asphalt disputes In 1905 counsel for the United States In the Atlantic fisheries arbltraUon at The Hague In 1S0J test monial delegates In the fur seal confer ence at Washington In 1S11 and special counsel for the Department of State In various pending diplomatic questions In 1811 he became counsel for the United States In the American and British claims arbitration and from 1911 until April 1 1911 when he became counselor of the State Department to succeed John Bassett Moore he represented the United States before this commission Mr Lansing was one of the founders Of the American Society of International Law and has written a book on Constitutional faw He has associated or years with diplomatists at home and abroad and la well liked by members of the diplomatic corps here Sportsman Artist and Poet For many years Mr Lansing who is a man of considerable means has lived here with his fatherln law John Jester who was Secretary of State under President Harrison Mrs Lansing is one of the popular members of 4 be official and diplomatic set having breathed the atmosphere of diplomacy stnee childhood They have no children Aside from his success as a lawyer and diplomatist Mr Lansing Is known to his friends as a devoted and successful golfer and fisherman something of a baseball fan a skillful landscape painter as well as a draftsman and the possessor of a gift of verse known to his friends but not the general public May Select Own Counselor The appointment of Mr Lansing as Secretary creates a vacancy the office of counselor of the State Department It Is not expected that any Immediate selection will be made as Chandler Anderson counselor under the administration of Secretary Knox for several months has been specially employed to handle some of the numerous questions which the war raised Mr Anderson does not desire a permanent appointment It Is considered rery likely that President Wilson will leave to Mr Latfking the task of so nui iu vaneioi London June 21 The crown Offered Its first witnesses today In the trial of the famous brides bathtub murder case George Joseph Smith charged with drowning three of his wives In a bathtub sat upright In the dock and scowled when Herbert Mundy Uncle of his first alleged victim took the wit ness box to testify Courted Only Three Days Beatrice Mundy the witness testified inherited S10O00 by the will of her father a bank manager She was beautiful young girl Ignorant of money matters he said when she met Smith who posed as Henry Williams and married him after a three day court ship at Weymouth August 25 1910 The girls relatives objected to Smith Mundy testified but over their protests she gave him 600 in gold Smith then deserted her the witness said but two years afterward the two met accidentally at Weston Super Mare a seaside town on the Bristol Channel The deserted bride forgave him and two months later made a will leaving him the balance of her 110000 Mundy said Found Dead After Seven Days The will was signed on July 8 On the morning of July 15 the nude body of Beatrice Mundy was found In the bathtub of a rooming house Smith the witness said collected the money due him under the provisions of the wllL George Mundy brother of the dead woman testified that he received a telegram from Smith announcing his sister death He said be at once requested the coroner to conduct a postmortem HISS GEOSSITJS A BRIDE Cincinnati Girl Weds Charles Scoville of California at Garden City Special The Washington Post Garden City Tu June 21 Miss Fannie May Grosslus of Long Island and Cincinnati Ohio was married this afternoon at the house of her aunt Mrs Peters wife of Ralph Peters president of the Long Island Railroad in Garden City to Charles Burton Scoville of Pasadena Cat Only the Immediate families attended the ceremony which was performed by the Kev Samuel Tyler or the Church of the Advent Cincinnati The bride who wore a gown trimmed with old point lace was attended by Miss Dorothy Peters Mr and Mrs covtlle will leave In Pasadena HER DIVORCE SUIT DISMISSED Milwaukee Ws Juhtf 28 The murder of Margaret Dunn a Philadelphia girl of good family the Girl with the perfect figure was tonight avenged by the conviction of fidna Loving who killed Margaret with A blow of her fist In a workhouse quarrel Margaret Dunns story Is that of a girl who did not know that her perfect physique and classic features might have made her a famous artists model instead of a runaway who turned domestic and that of a girl whose comedy in her first drink turned to a tragedy which had for its climax her own death Broke Up the China Margaret who left her husband In Philadelphia because he could not give her an auto and tried to earn her own living went out one night last winter to tee the bright lights She returned In the rain drenched Hanging out her clothes to dry she went to sleep in ner mistress parlor witn only nr classic contour for covering In the morning when her mistress called a policeman the girl In fright at the thought of her perfect form being seen by a policemans eyes broke 125 worth of table china seizing a tablecloth for a kimono Sent to Workhouse She was given a 20 day workhouse sentence for breaking the china The next day she was killed by the Loving woman who resented Margarets refusal of her friendly advances MRS WALWORTH DEAD Evidencing no end of enthusiasm over the success 61 their pilgrimage for the past 2J days in which they traversed several counties in southern Maryland enlisting the suoDort of hun dreds of voters In behalf of votes for women the band of sunburnt dust laden suffragists which left Baltimore Hay 21 with their prairie schooner ar rived In Washington last night about one hour behind their schedule time The caravan waa met at Good Hope road by a number of automobiles deft orated with the colors of the College EqUal Suffrage League and escorted to Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue northwest where hundreds Of Wash ington people were in waiting and a mass meeting was held Miss Lqla Trax the organiser of the expedition spoke of the enthusiasm with which the caravan was greeted in the many little villages they visited how they had addressed some 4009 voters and how 400 cttliens Of Mary land had placed their signatures to cer tificate attesting their Conversion to the cause Of vote for Women Susan Developed a Corn As a fitting background to the dem onstrate held in the shadow of Frank lin monument the yellow Covered appropriately decorated and lettered prairie schooner brought to the mind of Miss TraX the fact that the pilgrimage had met with but One drawback namely tht Susan a gray mare named after SUsah Anthony who had started on the trip With another animal of stmllaf shade and named Margaret after Margaret Brent had developed a corn which refused to yield to treatment and the task sharing In the burden of hauling the caravan was assigned to a third animal promptly given tne appellation of Susan IL Thus said Miss Trax the pilgrimage finally reached thle city The other speaker at the demonstration was Miss Mary OToole a local attorney who Is secretary of the College Equal Suffrage League The suffrage meeting conducted by the caravaners were the first ever held In the towns south of Annapolis The pilgrims received the freedom of the villages in every Instance and courthouses and town halls were freely turn ed over to theni to hold their meetings The Hundreds of names attached to certificates by voters of Maryland will be used In Influencing the legislature to submit the question of votes for worn en to the people Other Trips Already Planned The prairie schooner with its band of enthusiastic suffragists will leave this city today over the Baltimore Hum pike for Laurel Where preparations have been made for a demonstration In due time Baltimore will be reached where a plcnle will be held qthec trips statement being made that Itl tme every county In Maryland will be visited arid if necessary revisited Until the question has been settled and that In only one way when the women of Maryland have earned the right to vote as much as the women of Illinois or any other State MARRIED IN OLD ST PATJLS Antics bf Back to Mature Cul Young Me Stirs Ohio Town Special to The WaiUixton Post Martins Ferrt Ohio June 23 Primor dial man never had anything on the new back to nature cult organised here a few months ago The cult Is composed Of some of the most prominent young men in the city For severs weeks the woods mossy dells green meadows and streams have been the rendezvous tor its members garbed only with what nature gave Ihem Judging by the antics of some while go lrlg through their regenerating process It Is doubtful If prehistoric man had Jess care of conventions than have these products of modern civilisation Owing to the boldness of the cultlsts In displaying their nakedness Indignant residents have made several complaints to the toWnshlp officials supplementing their condemnation with threats that unless something done immediately they will take the law In their own hands and mete out to tne Members of th cult summary punishment 250000 BILL FOR LOVE DEPLORES SCHOOL PAYi Teacher Gets Less Than Plumb er Dn Pierce Tells Graduates WILSON NORMAL IS PRAISED Christian Scientist Stole Her Husband Wifes Claim MRS FRAME ASKS PROOF Promise of Church Honors Which Mrs Frederick Weaverson Alleges the De fendant Made Alio Must Be Sub stantiated Says Latter Neighbors in Riverside Drive Apartment Represents High Water Mark in District Educational System Says Blair Last Day Exercises field in AH PuMic Schools Thdusands of Children Re ceive Certificates to Enter High Schools Wedding of Miss Williams and Lucas Celebrated at New York Special Tbe Wtthlrton Post BaltlmoreJuno 2 Miss Sara Bell William daughter of Mr and Mrs William AVllllams was married tonight to Gilbert Louttselle Lucas son Of George Lucas formerly of Baltimore in old St Pauls Protestant Episcopal Church The bride was attended by her sister Miss Eleanor Glttlngs Williams and Misses Nancy Brewster Mary Marshall Smith Margaret Pusey Dorse Ann Buchanan Shreve Virginia Ambler Claire Phillips Margery Hol llngsworth White Sara White and Mrs King Stone The ushers Included Robert Lowndes and Alan Smith Sd Special to The Wiiklarton Post New Tork June 23 Names dates methods and other particulars of the alienation of husbandly affections alleged by Mrs Brownie Hathbone Weaverson In her 1250000 damage suit against Mrs Caroline Frame a prominent Christian Scientists were demanded by the defendant In papers filed with Justice Goff in the supreme court today The husband whose affections are valued so highly is Frederick Weaverson In her application for a bill of particulars the defendant who Is a Mazdaznan 1st wants to know In black and wfiltc just trhen and where she was supposed to have Induced Mr Weaverson to leave his home what wiles arts and flattery she used in accomplishing the ajeged theft of affections what costly gifts she is accused of bestowing upon him what religious Instruction she javo him and where and when she is supposed to have told freinds of the plaintiff that she said plaintiff was not the right companion for her husband Promise of Church Honor The application also demands full particulars regarding the promise which led Mr Weaverson to believe that he would be elevated to an important office In the Christian Science Church if he would adopt the belief The wealthy Christian Scientist was accused of representing her influence In the church organisation as such to bring about thlB promotion It developed from the proceedings that the Weaversons formerly occupied an apartment just below that of Mrs Frame at 440 Riverside Drive Mr Weaverson Is alleged to have taken up hJa abpde In the Frame domicile after leaving his qwp home May Bring Other Charges Tbe vfatr no Intimation of Improper conduct between Mr5Veaverson and Mrs Frame in the orlgliml papers In the action which were filed more than a year ago Correspondence between the attorneys for the two women resulted in tbe proceedings In the case In court today It was said that Mrs Weaverson had announced her Intention of pressing charges of Improper relations between her husband and the defendant a threat which caused Mrs Frame to demand a bill Of particulars 80 POUND HUSBAND SUES WIFE WEIGHING 300 AFTER LIVING TOGETHER 30 YEARS PAYS T00DLES RYAN 19500 Mrs Daniel of Oklahoma Former ly of Washington Joins Husband Tulsa Okla June It The divorce suit recently filed by Mrs Gertrude Daniel who formerly resided at Washington against her husband Richard Daniel reputed to be Oklahomas wealthiest cltlren was dismissed when called for trial here today Mr and Mrs Daniel and children then left for the Pacific CO8t Mm Ij tnlel is the daughter of the late Samuel Fields Phillips for many years solicitor general of the United States Band Concert at Judiciary Park There will be a band conceit by the Fifth Cavalry Band tonight Thursday in Judiciary park Instead of Montrose park as was given out earlier in the i week Distinguished as Leader in Womens Movement and in Founding A Mrs Ellen Hardin Walworth 83 years old daughter of the late Cot John Hardin hero of the civil war and a former representative in Congress from Illinois and one of the founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution died early yesterday morning at Georgetown University Hospital after an illness of three weeks The body was taken last night to Saratoga Springs where in terment will take place The Daughters ofj the American Revolution in this city requested that relatives or the deceased allow the body to lie In state at Memorial Continental Hall but the request had to be refused because of previous funeral arrangements Mrs Walworth Is survived by one son Walworth and one daughter Miss Walworth both of Glencaiiyn Va where Mrs Walworth spent the last few winters4 She was born in Jacksonville IIU In 1 32 and received her early education In Jacksonville Academy She was married in U52 to Walworth of Saratoga She was graduated from tbe womens law class of the University of New Tork and later became presL dent and founder of tne Art and Science Club of Saratoga and founder and pre dent of the Post Parliament of New Tork Mrs Walworth was one of the first three women nominated and elected to a school board under the New Tork aw admitting women as trustees She was director general of the Womens NaP tional War Belief Association In 198 and was at the field hospital at Fort Monro to meet the first of the wounded brought from Santiago It was Mrs Walworth who suggested having the portrait of Mrs Benjamin Harrison painted and placed in the White House sne was the author of many widely known boons on historical subjects Including Battles of Saratoga and Parliamentary Rules and was the first editor of the American Monthly Maaa sine the official organ of the National lIy thaD ArJC Mansfield Heads Off Second Trial of Breach Of Promise Suit gpeelal to The Wstalnitea Peat Boston Mass June 22 Miss Bess Toodles Ryan a New Tork actress who sued Harry Mansfield formerly proprietor of the Ferneroft Inn tor 150008 for breach of promise has re eelved 19600 from Mr Mansfield and tjie suit which was soon to have been retried has been withdrawn Miss Ryan left for New Tork today with her share of the 11900 How much her lawyers got she would not say I have been vindicated and am now In the seventh heaven of delight she told reporters before she boarded a train for New Tork It was said tonight that Miss Ryan may establish an Inn modeled after Ferneroft on the North Shore Special to The Washington Post San Francisco Cat June 23 Albert Hatfield who weighs exactly JO pounds has brought suit in the local courts for divorce from Mary CV Hatfield six feet tall and weighing 300 pounds He declares his wife is irascible quarrelsome and lays violent hands on him at the same time denying him any pleasure not even permitting him to attend a funeral They lived together 20 years JUSS JENNIE DAVISON A BRIDE Nashville Girl Goes to New York to Wed Carl A Petsche Special to The Wtlnton Post New Tork June 23 Miss Jennie Louise Davison daughter of Mr and Mrs George Beaumont Davison of Nashville Tentt was married tonight to Carl August PelBChe of Tonkers In the Belmont Hotel The Rev John Mark Brlcson officiated The bride who wore a gown of white satin trimmed with lace that has been in the family for several generations was attended by her sisters Mrs George Retz and Mrs Carter Stark and by Miss Helen Hunt of Nashville William Petsche brother of the bridegroom was best man After their weddlns trip Mr and Mrs Petsche will live Tonkers ARMY AND NAVY CHANGES OF THE DAY ARMY ORDERS Leares or absence Ueat Cot HENBT JERVET corps of engineer one month CPt THOMAS ETAN Thirteenth cavalry ten Ur extenuon Cept TENNBT BOSS Third Infantry one month extension CoL HENBT VEWCOUBB and Maj ALBERT aV TALDHON corps ef engineers detailed as members of examining board at Washington Barracks I CJ rice Capts JOHN 3 KINGMAN anij JOHN BODGES corps of engineer relieved during examination ef Capt DOCQLAS MACABTHUR corps engineer Mat HARRT GILCHRIST medical corps ordered to Sparta Tyis for duty as observer la connection with camp ef instruction for officer and eonoommlssioned ottcera organized militia sad medltal reserve corps officers Inactive list and joint camp of InstracUoa for flell hospital and ambulance companies Capt WILL POINT qnartermaster corps ordered to Baltimore on official boatntaa pertain Isg fa UspecUw ef SBbatstenc store Capt vDQTGLiS MAEABTHTJR corps of engineers 1U report to Cot BEKKY NEW COlfER corps of engineers president of examining board at Washington Barraeka for examination to determine his fitness for promo Hon First lient KEMXET8 HARMON ordnance department ordered to Angosta Arsenal First limt CHABLE3 UALLIDAr medical reserve corps relieved from active daty In that eorpa ftecVmd lieat HAROLD NICHOLS coast artlUerr corps reUeved from assignment to 58tfe company sad ordered to United States sad theate Jo West Point and report to snper tatendeat Patted States Military Academy for Sw NAVAL ORDERS Iient Commander FENNEB detached command Vulcan to Naval Academy Annapolis Md Iient SHIPP detached Charleston to Milwaukee Lient Junior grade SOLOMOV ENDEL detached Vermont to Ohio and to Naval Academy on completion of practice cruise Chief Conner CHARLES HIERDAHL detached Charleston to Albany Mach 3 HINES detached Potomac to home and wait order Mich GEORGE KIBGESNER detached Iroquois to Maryland Movements of Naval Vessels Sailed Denver from Manxanino forLa Pax Des Moines from Beirut for Mrrsloe Dolphin from Bridgeport Conn for Manbasaet Bay sad 2 from Newport to ea Aylwtn from Norfolk to Newport Nebraska from Boston for Newport Sooth Carolina from Philadelphia for steaming trials Jooett from Norfolk for fall speed trials Nero from Gnayma for La Faa Texas from Tonfpklnrrille for pewpotr wnsts irvsa jw xora yam ror Newport Sonta Dakota from Seattle for Bremerton i Tonopaa and from Newport for New Tork yard Saturn from Mar Island for Tl baron Arrived Leonid at survey ground off Colon Virginia at Prorlncetown Utah at Newport 2 Oxark and Fulton at New Tork yard Baltimore af Norfolk Padncah at Clen fnego Held at Boston Arethnsa at Port Arthur Tex Sooth Dakota at Bremerton Satarn at Ttberon The Colombia placed in commission at navy yard Philadelphia Pa Jon 22 Tbe Kearsarge and Kentucky ordered placed la commission at nary yard Philadelphia Th WaahlBgtoa now at Vera Crux ordered Cap HUtlsB Dr TJ Pierce pastor of All Souls Unitarian Church urged higher wages for school teachers In an ad aress yesterday afternoon to the Ormond Wilson Normal School graduates at the annual commencement ex erclsea In the assembly hail th school building Eleventh and Harvard streets northwest Dr Pierce deplored the fact that the earnings Of teachers are lower than of nlumhcnr riaiarins that their services to society are many times greater A The teachers profession Dr Pierce declared Is harder than any other The normal schools such as the Wit son school was emphasised and the speaker praised the members of the faCUlty Of that IChnnl tny ti In training the candidates for teachers certificates Henry Blair president of the board of eduoatlon who presided said that the Ormond Wllsdn Normal School represents the high water mark In the Districts educational system Teaohers who are graduated from that school Mr Blair said are capable of tc n8Lfl anr Ptibllo school in the United States He declared that the school la recognised by educators everywhere as one of the best institutions of its kind in the world normal School Graduates Charles Carlton nitlfn eelved a diploma vtrriov first man to he graduated from the school in many years The list of graduates follows OrnTeJi Acul857rNaon Aaronson son VAAlnTEllatne Barbara Ben nJVh Pret Coulee Bridges Ellen BmrnBrlg8 5SS BrI Henryette 5jmm Man Catherine Buckingham land ZOwnCator P11an Mae Cev Crook PnWnVld0iynneV Colman Lluu JiCer Anne lren Crew Evelyn Juh Whmg0 Mnaa RuthCroVkV Mvitsirlf lVnff DaTJ Marlre Emory S5 Frost Louise Allen rhUAnn1 Eabeth Wells Guilford CiJarea Carltn Guilford Dorothy Harl ntl2IaTran Lorraine Bru trirVr fVLl enger iva Mar thU Harriet Randall Kali ahHP Kibfu Lotta Mar Karpeles Katharine Frances Lappln Margaret Magruder Orrle May Munnerlyn Mll OKden AnriLNkchol8i Maan Elizabeth gfien Anita Orlando Carlotta Ehert 3ieR SUeKt rtaSf Alda iay iSSn HUda Mare Schmidt XS1 Jboran Dar Rth Dodd stanl PfOiI1SEnw Eath Thiele Emma hiVt hnPs Fences Gilpin Tod hunter Estelle Lous Waddey Florence Catherine Wallace Alice Cordelia MarlS JVnen 10r0thea West Emily B3SEtgu Pearl cim e8A5Jlence course Anna Mar giaerlte Armstrong Last Day Exercises Held nCiO0k5Jfere away he public schools yesterday and hundreds of cares of the schoolroom behind until Mon day September 20 Th hi iw been deserted for several days but the ju vi me elementary schools at the 3ast day exercises was as large as on any oher day during the school year oohbs ana recitations were given ir most of the schools Certificates were distributed among the students who were to be passed to the next hitvA These certificates entitled thousands of ampins 10 enrou next September in the high schools of the city A feature of the closing day exercises mis year was the presentation of prizes for essays on temperance by the Womens Christian Temperahce Union A representative of the union aDoeared at the various schools where exercises were held to announce the names of the successful siuaents Make Addresses to Children Among the speakers at the graduation exercises were Henry Blair president of the board of education Commissioner Kutz Maj Raymond Pullman superin tendent or police Thomas Sidwelt Holsworth Gordon former president oj me ooara or eaucauon a Stuart Ernest Daniel and Walter Ufford Students were graduated from the fol lowing eighth grades First division Addison Conduit Road Thomas Corcoran William Wallace Curtis Anthony Hyde Industrial Home Jackson Reservoir Tenley Threlkeld Toner and Wisconsin Avenue Second division John Qulncy Adams Chevy Chase Henry Cooke William jjennison Eaton Force Grant Morgan and Welghtman Third division Brightwood Bright wood Park Hubbard Andrew Johnson James Monroe Park View Petworth Powell Ross Takoma West and Wood ourn Fourth division Abbot Cleveland Henry Polk Thomson Twining and Webster Fifth division Arthur Blake Brook lano ucKington Emery uage uaies Langdon and Seaton 8ixth division Bennlnf Blair Blow Hayes Kenllworth Ludlow Madison Pierce Taylor Webb and Wheatley Seventh division Brent Carbery vent Kdmonas Hilton Maury Pea body Towers and Wallach Eighth division A ml don Bowen Bradley Fatrbrother Greenleaf Jef rerson ana van xviess Ninth division Br an Buchanan Congress Heights Cranch Ketcham Lenox Randle Highlands Stanton John Tyler and Martin Van Buren Myrtilla Miner School Diplomas awarded by the public schools of Washington certify to the character of the graduates as well as the education said Ernest Thurston superintendent of schools In addressing the graduates of the Myrtilla Miner Normal School In the assembly hall of the school building Georgia avenue and Euclid streets northwest last night Mr Thurston said that the school officials have confidence In the graduates of the Washington normal schools and that students who complete the courses here are capable of teaching In any school In the country The 45 students graduated represent the largest class in the history of the colored normal school Diplomas were awarded to two men Henry Blair president of the board of education presided and Dr Charles Marshall the retiring member of the board presented the diplomas The musical program was furnished by a section of the United States Marine Band Following are the students graduated List of Graduates Primary grade course Ertilly Aurella Alexander Edna Naomi Barker Wtlla Venese Carter Helen Geraldine Hair ston Martha Anna Harris Ernestine Hawkins Jeretta White Hawkins Olga Golden Hutching Emma Bernlce Johnson Lieze Sylvestlne Jones Marvel Anntce Jones Rhea Eloise Jones Josephine Veronica Lawrence Cora Louise Lucas Esther McLendon Catherine Elizabeth Minor Lillian Beatrice Murdoch Nettie Celestla Norrls lone Dan dridge Odelt Esther Caroline Peyton Julia Beatrice Pride Irene Ruby Reynolds Louise Jane Russell Bessie Sclplo Ophelia Belle Scott Edna Virginia Sedgewlck Grace Naomi Tanner Esther Xv lie Tolson Gertrude Elaine Turner Annie Madeline Tyler Emma Beatrice Wallace Sametta Lillian Wallace Martha Elizabeth Watson Justine Marguerite weir Ella Wesley and Enoch George Gray Kindergarten course Bdlth Juanlta THE NEW MENS SHOP Street Two Doors East of Eleventh Guaranteed Shirts If unsatisfactory after wearing for any reason the purchase price promptly refunded 150 Flawless Six for 575 The Flawless made ex pressly for the Palais Royal embodies all the best features of all the best shirts Woven madras mercerized madras woven and satin stripes jac quard figures a i THE PALAIS ROYAL A LISNER STREET CITY NEWS IN BRIEF One hundred and twenty one deaths occurred in the District of Columbia during the week ended June it ac cording to the weekly bulletin Issued yesterday by the health department Of the deaths reported ti were white and 52 were colored The white deaths deaths represent an annual deathrate of 14 Othe colored a death rate of 277 The general rate was 17S per 1000 inhabitants Tbe respective rates for the corresponding period of last year were 10 2 15 and 1LS The births reported during the week were White 10 colored 41 total 147 Word was received in this city yesterday that A Sherman chief of the cotton surveys of the Department of Agriculture and brother of Sherman superintendent of weights and measures for the District who is traveling on the Pacific coast narrowly escaped Injury In the earthquake which shook the Imperial valley California Tuesday night Mr Sherman who was stopping at the Barbara Worth Hotel El Centro CaL left the hotej only about an hour before It was destroyed Mr Sherman lives In Vienna Va President Wilson Issued an executive order yesterday authorising the appointment of Mrs Mabel Walker as clerk in the classified service of the Treasury Department without regard for the clvU service rules Mrs Walker has been working In the Treasury Department as a temporary appointee and was elevated to a permanent clerkship because of her expeftness in operating a comptometer machine She received the appointment upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury The uneralof WlUIara Barron the Georgetown University student who was drowned in the Potomac Sunday when the canoe In which he was paddling capsized was held yesterday from Trinity Church Georgetown A large number of his classmates attended In a body Funeral services for Joel Cross who was drowned with Barron when the canoe capsized will be held this morning at 9 oclock from Trinity Church Edward Amende Allen a former student in the public schools of this city was graduated with high honors this week from the Alabama Polytechnic In stltute Auburn Ala Mr Allen was member of the PI Sigma Fraternity president of the Engineering Society alumni editor of the Orange and Blue Instructor In wireless telegraphy mem ber of the Phi Kappa Phi Fraternity and a major In the Second battalion of the school cadets The credit mens section of the Retail Merchants Association will hold the second of Its bimonthly luncheons today at the Raleigh This organization is made of the leading credit men of Washington Important questions will be considered at todays meeting At a recent meeting of the Brook land Athletic Club the following officers were elected President Washington vice president Wilmer Hill secretary George Childress and treasurer George Cord Plans are Hear ing completion for the lawn fete to be giTen in nrooKiana ior tne oeneni or the club This affair is most notable as It will undoubtedly be the largest held Irt Broekland for the past six years A prominent part In athletics and refreshments will be taken by the club at the Fourth of July celebration at Fort Bunker H1U The Retail Jewelers Association of the District Of Columbia Charles A Goldsmith president will hold a meeting tonight in the rooms of the Retail Merchants Association 1101 Pennsylvania avenue northwest for the election of delegates to the coming convention of the National Association of Re tall Jewelers The June meeting of the National Capital Poultry and Pigeon Association Will be held this evening at the Public Library Thomas Pollock will speak on A Profitable Leghorn Plant and George Keller will discuss The Profits From a Flock of Capons Plana for the next annual show will also be discussed A garden Party for the benefit of th Ladles Guild Of Trinity Church Ta koma parish Va held last night at the residence of Mrs Hervey Knight Plney Branch road Takoma Park XUs Jean Stockett Miss Martha Henshaw and the pupils of Miss Jessie 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