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sKiS i mm pSw4tL rpf i tJh WCVvfSl 5 rt TS4 H7 ra ii jl rf ywi i THJI WlSHIGTdNPOSTr MONDAY MAfc13lM wf JS vlXlfiVAv 1l I imJCi i ij T1 kv JLWt tr 4r 55lOjr i 4 WN rr EW 1 i jr fr iJS if Ir- Ji i Cic f3 cSW if i BISHOP CURES HER Woman Says Heart Is Well After Wierd Fasses TEEATED BEFORE BIG CEOWD Mrs Mary Merrill Says Pains Are Gone When Oliver Sabin Completes Mental Procedure at Rauschers Christian Science Churchman Attacks Medical Trust in Caustic Address MENTAL CURES IN MANY CASES ARE FALLACIES SAYS DOCTOR TO REORGANIZE FLEET Physical Structures Once Disintegrated Can Never Be Repaired Be clares Madison Taylor in Paper Read Before District Medical Society Healing Cults and Psychotherapy Illustrating his talk by mentally treating a woman for heart disease who later declared she had been cured Bishop Oliver Sabin of the Evangelical Christian Science Church yesterday delivered a scathing attack on what he termed the medical trust and vigorously opposed a bill recently introduced In the Senate by Mr Gallinger for the regulation of medical practice in the District He spoke before a large number of his followers at Rauschers In response to an announcement by Bishop Sabin that he would undertake to cure all ill persons who applied to him during the meeting the nail va filled with men and women many of the women beautifully gowned In his address he declared it foolish for physicians to claim that they were the only persons who can cure Illness and then offered to prove his assertion Mrs Mary Merrill who gave her address as HlS Tenth street northwest and who said she has been suffering from severe pains in her heart for several months was the only person to apply for treatment After a short prayer Bishop Sabin made several passes about her head with his hands looking at her earnestly all the timeHe continued this procedure for several minutes and then askc the woman how she felt Says Pain Disappeared Why the pain is all gone I do not understand it she replied She insisted that she felt no pain whatever and that she had been cured Bishop Sabin who is a retired lawyer urged other sick persons to come forward but none applied During another public demonstration several months ago he treated a number of persons all of whom declared later Hi at they had been cured He insisted after the treatment yesterday that it is perfectly possible to cure persons by prayer and faith In his address he declared that Senator Oallingers bill is aimed directly at all curers who are not regular physicians and that if passed by Cineress Christian Scientists and other faith healers will have to stop practicing in the District Tne hill is une which prohibits persons not holding physicians licenses from practicing healing and regulates the en tirf practice of hr aling here charged that the regular physicians of the country are banded into a trust for the purpose of stifling competition and that they are taking desperate means to put a stop to the practice of Christian Science and similar beliefs Conditions in the District in this respect already afe very bad he declared but will be much worse if Senator GalPngers bill passes He also opposed the bill now pending in Congress providing for the creation of a Federal bureau of health The national organization of this trust has subsocieties in every State he said They devise ways and means for securing themselves against all just competition They advance the argument that they are tin only ones that have a righf to alleviate suffering and that end have secured the passage of laws in most of the States giving them frhes a monopoly in the art of healing aod hxing prices for whjelntheir services shall fe compensated Condition in District In the District the medical trust has obtained a passage of laws through Congress which prohibit any person from practicing medicine who is not a member of this medical ifusi In order to obtain admission to this right of healing so fiety the applicant not only must be a cradunte of the accepted schools but he must in other ways be agreeable to the board of censors of this especial local rganualion They have in furtherance of their self assumed right established a scale of fees which none may charge loss but may charge as much more as 1 ach mdlvidual member desires Aside from the fact that this medi il trust stands squarely against the rights of the people it is also in the way to prohibit all scientific progress Apart from the fact that it is unjust and a legal wrong the financial injustice to the people of the Inited States is sufficient cause for its removal This enormous trust annually oxtbrts from the people of the Inited States in accorda nt with the best statistics in our possession of more than 30nCMinn a year When I look over the country and see the vast array of men involved in this great trust and the ulterior objects which they are attempting to accomplish I am led to exclaim in the language of our Savious Oh Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killest the prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee how often would have gathered thy children together even as a hen gath ei eth her chickens under her wings and ve would not Plain facts about psychotherapy also varieties of mental healing tiy Madison Taylor A of Philadelphia constitute an interesting paper contributed by the Medical Society of the District The paper says A well controlled mind Is aware that it can put forth an amount of fgrce and habitually does so knowing that the best preparation for the future is to act confidently clearly and conscientiously in the present take all factors into consideration and show the sufferer precisely where he stands how much benefit he may expect and how much he must learn to philosophically bear or patiently endure One can sympathize with those especially those physicians who express disgust at the overstatements of mind curists A vast amount of rubbish is said and written upon the subject The shal SecretaryMeyer Plans Rearrangement of Battleships WASHITON BANKERS MAT TAKE PRINTS OF DWITORSJIlRS TWO BESEEE DETACHMENTS Atlantic Squadron Will Consist of 19 Snips While Pacific Patrol Includes 14 Cruisers and 1 Battleship Assignment Becomes Effective Before End of Year Complete Program Announced Sjtraijlriit IcalVMen Give TTieire lowest kind of thinking is done if think The neurotic or psychasthenic person ing It can be called which is nearly all is a mass of confused feelings incom reeling frantic desires arrogant or plete actions and reactions a compound I beatific assumption of half formed impulses wishes decisions nd indecisions fears in short unclear judgments Hence arise morbid tension and exhaustion states When attempting to pursue an idea the elements of decision are perceived vaguely frantic efforts are often made producing exhaustion Ineffectiveness alarm and despair An uncontrolled mind squanders use lessly an amount of force oftentimes sufficient to accomplish wonders if controlled and rightly directed Force must be conserved lest disorder or disease in tissue follow The will is not a fountain of force so much as a toolholder for the lathe to direct and put the power where and when it will do tire most good Forethought Exhausting He Says Grave Peril in Assumptions Yet these optimistic utterances are accepted as truth by an Immense array of estimable persons and with many good results but also with many grave perils and resultant catasthrophes The subject of healing is large and complex involving a long train of biologic processes many of which proceed safely and spontaneously toward restoration Then again many of the processes are devious obscure and tend toward kinds and degrees of cell destruction and disintegration as require the utmost expert knowledge and care to guide aright the forces of growth and repair Adverse factors supervene to con touna nature and expectation among which are defects of development in the 1 ulclIIUUollL la HClCOOalllJ maivuaLC A iat in many details To exercise forethought t3JW Tm is far more exhausting than to act se XSw fTl tX renely and efficiently as problems pre knon and defifd along with in sent themselves Many ailing persons are I dlus changes arising silently from so merely because of a shrinkage in ro af lch can be known bustness of purpose are unaware of their 1 A own capabilities They often possess acute perceptions and clear insight which properly controlled would place them above the average of efficiency If their consciousness is allowed to be come or remain inert passive then wi Admitting that the infections follow moderately uniform courses and tend to subside owing to the amazing self protectiveprotective powers in a normal organism yet they too often leave destructive effects upon organs and other tissues only to external influence turn aside the force of determined by patient vigilance of LONDON TO HEAR WISE MEN Large Number of Congresses to Convene There This Year Special Cable to the Washington Poit London May 12 This summer will be remarkable for the number of interna tional congresses and other gatherings of world wide interest in England Practically every learned society in the world will be represented at one or other of these conferences and it is safe to say that a larger and more representative body of the worlds greatest teachers in all branches of educational science will be in England than ever has been here before First comes the Congress of Americanists from May 27 to June 1 then the international Congress of Optical convention from June IS to 24 next the Congress of Universities Imperial Conference of Teachers the 250th anniversary of the Royal Society and the International Eugenics congress all In July while in August the International Congress of Entomology will be held at Oxford The Congress of Americanists Is bringing to England a very distinguished body nf men who have made of the two Americas a special study Some 57 papers are to be read dealing mainly with the aboriginal races of America their origin distribution history physical characteristics languages customs and religions the monuments and archaeology of America and the history of the discovery and occupation of the New World The Duke of Connaught Is patron of this congress and Sir Clements Mark ham will be the president TEACHERS PLAN CONVENTION Prominent Educators to Address Manual Training Association at Baltimore Baltimore May 12 The Eastern Art and Manual Training Teachers Association will begin its annual three days convention at the Belvedere Hotel here Tuesday Several hundred delegates are expected from all cities of the Eastern United States The visitors will be tendered a reception at the Maryland Institute tomorrow night when they will get a view of the Dresden exhibit This has been prepared to represent America at the fourth international congress for the promotion of art education and art in relation to industry to be held in Dresden this year During the convention addresses will be made by a number of prominent educators wholesome decisions mar reasoning induce doubts and hence bring about blundering judgments Mental tension Induces overstrain and is due to efforts to whip oneself into action The normal mind is poised flexible in both passive 2nd active states because of well balanced centers of force and outlying executive mechanism Results of Abnormal Fatigue The psychasthenic lacks confidence because of previous disappointments in determining or carrying out purposes hence fear grows blunders multiply distress or despair follows To escape psychic hypertension morbid agitation remember that volition should precede action and not be coasciously exerted during action Evil temper sullenness deceit selfishness and all the rest of invalid uglinesses are the outcome of abnormalities in volitional poise in determining what tu do and what not to do Abnormal fatigue leads to hypersen sitiveness to all stimuli induces emotional anomalies alterations of sensations vitiation of impressions elementary hallucinations leads to mental irritabil ity dlstractihility incapacity to fix or maintain attention Hence follow despondencies and hypochondriacal ideas all readily Influenced by good or bad impressions Faults of Early Training Psychasthenia mental weakness in its varied forms and causation Is often due to lack of early right training development or conservation and presents a group of puzzling and baffling phenomena to the layman and many doctors not specially experienced in nervous disorders There follows a host of irrepressible impulses ideas persistent morbid questionings endless whys and wherefores apprehensions multitudinous phobias mental agitations diffused emotional disturbances cloudy memory pictures anomalies of sense perception of character and action shown in vacillations Insistent perplexities religious fears obsessions and the like weaknesses It is instinctive in the human heart to cherish a faith in high pure ennobling ideals To pursue them is most salutary and comforting to act in accord with them will double any ones power A sharp distinction can be drawn between blind religious faith and a philo sophic nonreligious faith based on science and perfected standards of belief in the limitless resources of natures God Where Science and Religion Part The religionist sees no limit to the power engendered or conceived whether organic or mystic hence may be dangerously optimistic The scientist appreciates the limitations of physical and mental power and exhibits at least commendable caution The former is diffusive the latter conservative How far hope faith and confidence in the powers of things not seeable or meas urable can lift an organism to higher planes of health has not yet been determined We do know that tuberculosis often spontaneously subsides it is claimed that cancer also may and does subside most readily when hope is highest but there is no proof of this adduced We cannot as yet measure or set a1 limit to the autoprotective forces Mind Disorders Physical Most disorders of the mind are evidences of derangements in cells tissues and secretions due to departures from functional and structural integrity That more or less serious beginnings of disease can be checked by eliciting the forces of confidence hope and faith no one can deny but those who assert that optimism alone cures all cannot adduce the proof It must be remembered always that those who are readily impressed by the glittering promises of Christian Science New Thought and other such promisers are not themselves possessed of the normal degree of poise judgment or robust personality They have never been supplied with or regularly developed In symmetrical vigor and broad mindedness Poise and judgment are characteristic of those who never need psychic rehabilitation We see this demonstrated in splendid personalities who have achieved great successes whether for good or for evil Lose in the World Struggle The over impressionable ones may be highly useful lovable members of society but they do not constitute the backbone of the world Indeed the world could get along without them a trifle better than With them They are among those who must be carried along allowed for have special adaptations made for them places provided for them to work where they can fit in Seldom are they able to make places for themselves or struggle to the top against odds A trustful expectancy absorbs Uhe foreground of consciousness An optimistic all pervading conviction especially if of a religious coloring faith can bring any opposite thought to a standstill Let a healing spring climate shrine relic person or what not acquire a big enough reputation ahd it will raise the neurotics who use It to a temporary exhilaration Even the failurs will be content to blame themselves for some lack of faith or omission of some cooperative agency rather than cast doubt on the potency of the healing force Records ofj cures are mad at the high tide of ecstatic belief the ebbing tide is not estimated or reported Much more of the gain acquired would be held if only the individual could have wise guidance and encouragement when the first flush of optimism is checked by stern realities by obtrusion of persisting uncured or uncurable states The duty of the wise physician Is to skilled experts and unless these are per mitted full opportunity for early observa tion the pathologic changes cannot be known till so late as to baffle any sort or kind of healing measures Puzzling Contributory Causes Then there are often most puzzling contributory causes constitutional diseases disorders of metabolism depressions of or overaction of the great regulative mechanisms vitiations of vital processes and essential structures and many other hurtful influences These forces for evil not seldom are encouraged or amplified by slight earlier departures from the form in original structure in impaired development in divers derangements leading to lowered nutrition and loss of functional integrity Some are relatively reparable others no more to be restored than a lost limb a crumpled lieart valve a pipe stem artery sclerosed spinal cord fibers a collapsed lung liver or such like irretrievably damaged structures Xo sane person would claim that the most serenely adjusted mind could rebuild these any more than it could re store a ruined Greek temple None the less the devotees of religious optimism are often heard to assert that even such miracles of restoration are both possible and current Methods or condition for healing are not dependent upon opinions wishes or beliefs unless fortified by an array of actual properly observed and analyzed happenings wherefrom correct inferences are drawn when trustworthy conclusions and remedial measures can ultimately be deduced frhis object progressive science is constantly engaged In pursuing always cautiously and subject to drastic ex ternal and internal criticisms Scientists never stand pat upon decisions but are ever open to severe self seardhings and revisions Admits Cure by Influences At the same time it is admitted that facts of deepest significance exist abund antly throughout history all tending to prove that many disabling and distressful conditions can be and are removed and seemingly cured by well directed influence exerted on the consciousness of the sufferers How far these admirable effects go toward structural repair is only determined by open minded researches along exact and critical lines Perhaps as psychotherapeutic knowledge grows broader and more precise we shall be gratified by the exhibition of more wonderful results Now we can only Insist upon the Irrefutable fact that they will proceed along infallible lines laid down by nature and natures God who works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform but invariably by natural laws Cannot Repair Disintegration We may venture the opinion that the triumphs of psychotherapy will justify the hopes of the most optimistic in proportion as desires for salvation are modified by accurate observation and precise records of fact I for one am disposed both to hope and to expect results from scientific psychotherapy far beyond what the uninformed deem possible But there Is no ground whatever for believing that the highest efficiency of mental or spiritual Influence can possibly restore structural disintegration when once established It is natures way in manifesting the efficacy of those powerful restorative forces to fill us frequently with surprise at her generosity even her lavishness In diverting the full power of morbid forces Natures Way the Best Natures way is achieved partly by unconscious processes of self repair and partly by providing us with Intelligence whereby to select and apply precautionary measures She does this with especial brilliancy In eliciting the forces of hope couragej and serene confidence in those Inherent beneficent powers of which we are all more or less aware These forces are unchangeable In their rulings but the good God has endowed human beings with a finite but most useful measure of wisdom whereby we can so modify the direction and degrees of these inevitable forces that they can be adapted to our besrultlmate good FIRE DESTROYS SURF HOTEL Reorganization of the battleship fleet with the building up of two powerful reserve fleets or the Atlantic and Pacific coasts will be made effective by Secretary Meyer before the end of the year The program already mapped out brings the main fleet up to twenty of the most powerful battleships in the navy besides the new superdreadnaught Wyoming which will be flagship by January 1 1913 The Atlantic reserve fleet will consist of nineteen ships of which fourteen are to be battleships or armored cruisers The Pacific fleet by the beginning of next year will represent a fighting force better able to defend the Pacific coast than any which has been there since the battleship fleet stopped on its cruise around the world There will be ready for service on the Paclfle fourteen cruisers beside the old battleship uregon the pride of the American navy during the Spanish American war The Pacific fleet will comprise the armored cruisers California South Dakota Maryland and Colorado and the reserve fleet will be made up of the ar mored cruisers Pennsylvania West Virginia Oregon and the cruisers Milwaukee Charleston St Louis New Orleans Raleigh Cleveland Chattanooga and Galveston the torpedo boats Fox and Davis the tug Fortune andthe submarines A 3 and A 5 Atlantic Reserve Fleet The Atlantic reserve fleet on January 1 1913 will be made up of the battleships Ohio flagship Maine Illinois Alabama Wisconsin Kearsarge Kentucky Iowa Indiana and Massachusetts the armored cruisers Washington Tennessee Montana and North Carolina the cruisers Brooklyn Columbia and Minneapolis and the scouts Birmingham and Chester The Atlantic battleship fleet at the beginning of next year will have the Wyoming as detached flagship with New York as its home yard Each of the four divisions wfll consist of five battleships so that four can always be ready for service while the fifth is undergoing repairs The fleet will comprise the Florida Utah Delaware North Dakota Michigan Louisiana Vermont Kansas South Carolina New Hampshire Georgia Virginia Nebraska New Jersey Rhode Island Connecticut Minnesota Missouri Idaho and Mississippi ALBLN HAMMOND DEAD Washington bankers areinterested In I a new finger print system wMch ttiey hope to oise for the identification ana protection of themselves and Ihelr de positorSv If the syStem Is adopted a sheet cjt paper xrtllbe furnished eacnae posltor on srhcn will putTils signa ture Immediately under the signature an Ink impression of the index middle and jthird Bnger8 will be made Whenever there isdoVbt as td the genuineness of a signature the person seeking to cash a check will have to prove his identity by the tips of his fingers Robert Harper president of the District National Bamk believes that such a system would be a great protection and in many respects a convenience to persons whb have to be identified For instance in some institutions said Mr Harper it would db away with the sometimes inconvenient system of having to present a depojsit book when one wishes to draw money from his account FLNA2TCIAL 3 financial 1UNDERGOyERNMENT SUPERVISION NbwtQpinudrTSUbscription EMBLE HI Jig MJ jr js li Relative of John Hays Hammond Victim of Acute Indigestion Special to The Washington Post Roanoke Va May 12 Albin Hammond a native of Frederick county Md for 30 years a citizen of Roanoke died suddenly this morning of acute indiges tion aged 53 years He was proprietor of the Hammond Printing Works and president of the Mill Mountain Incline Railway He was interested in the first paper ever published in Roanoke the Roanoke Leader Mr Hammond is survived by his wife who was Miss Fannie Murray of Hagers town and two sons He was a first cousin of Representative Jame Simmons of New York who will attend the funeral and a relative of John Hays Hammond Protection Against the Crook In large institutions when it occurs that a depositor has to be identified an impression of his fingers would save him much time and trouble I have not gone thoroughly into the matter but I believe there is some merit in it and I think it ought to be looked into by bankers It seems to be a perfectly good thing at first sight It seems to be absolutely proof against the faker and crook Charles Edmunds cashier of the Farmers arid Mechanics Bank of Georgetown is Investigating the new system and If he finds merit in it it is probable that he will have it used in his bank I understand the system is being used in New York he said by some banks At first sight it seems a very good thing Sometimes we have trouble about signatures and anything which would relieve us of trouble in this respect would be good An Aid to Savings Banks Ashton Clapham president of the Commercial National Bank says the sys tem would be godJ in trucpmpajiW and in savings banks wriefpHhe deposit tors are numerous and are ndtseen in tHe bank as often as are depositors of commercial banks doinot think the ideaJiowever would take very well among 6urrfdrej rnpst Dusiness men Baia Mr uiapnam tYQU see there is hot a gf eajt rieea ifor such a system In a bank where vjeitoaje itxi ueiyoitur anu uie ueiLUsiiurSBoro 1 among me oest Known men in tne com munity It is different with savings banks There they have a large number of small depositors who may come to the bank on an average of once a week to make their deposits It is necessary to have some means of Identifying them when the cashier and other bank officers cannot keep track of them For these banks it ought to be a good thing It seems to be almost Infallible as no two persons have finger prints alike Rosenberg president of the Bank of Savings and Commerce While I have not gone Into the matter extensively I think there Is some merit to it There is some danger of a mans signature changing but the impression of his finger tips always remains the same I believe bankers should look Into the thing It seems worth it System Discovered in India I Weller president of the East Washington Savings Bank The finger print system of Identifying seems as if it would expedite matters a great deal It would no doubt protect both the bank and the depositors against fraud In our bank we always have our depositors bring their books with them when they wish to have a cfheck cashed The finger prrnt system was discovered by A Flack an employe of the British government at Singapore India about fifteen years ago It spread all over the world and was recently introduced in New York A 4 Cb OperativeBuilding Association The Equitably provides jJar regular systematic savingrand for the purchase of a homer other property with regular monthly payments It has been doing business for over 32 years and the members hve been successful Jtft saving and paying for homes Shares are 250 per month Interest per annum 0 Interest per annum paid on shares before maturity on the monthly payments maae Assets 243277930 paid on shares maturedcomputed from date of first payment 6 Office Equitable Building 915 Street CALL OR WRITE FOR INFORMATION John Joy Edson President Ellis Spear Vlca President Frank Reeslde Secretary Turpln 2d Vice President DIRECTORS Job Barnard Gilbert Grosvenor Jno Larner Fredk Coville Jno A Hamilton A LothrOD Edson Jr Geo Harries Fredk Pyle I NEW BOARD SUCCEEDS Chamber of Commerce Meets Wide Approval MANY CITIES SEEK TO JOIN HORSE SHOW TO BE GAY Organization Suggested by President Taft With Aid From Department of Commerce and Labor Gets Good Start New York Body to Permit Application for Membership Will Change Charter WOULD HEAD CITY COUNCIL Howard Smith Seeks Presidency of Alexandria Board Officer to Fill Vacancy Caused by Death of Hubert Snowden Will Be Chosen Tomorrow Night Number of Small Cottages Also Burned at Ocean Beach New Tork May 12 The new Surf Hotel at Ocean Beach on Fire Island near the Point Woods and half a dozen small cottages nearby were destroyed by fire tonight at a loss of about 40000 There were no guests in the hotel but it was to have opened for its third season on June 1 The origin of the fire Is not known CALLER IS FATALLY SHOT Knock on the Door of a Negros Residence Answered by Bullet SpeoiI to The Washington Post Roanoke Va May 12 Edward Mills a well dressed white manJof Spray is in a hospital here in dying condition as a result of a pistol shot wound fired last night by one of two negroes both of whom are in jail Mills had gone to a negro residence to see a man whom he knew He knocke on the door and was answered by the pistol shot 12000 Residence Burned Special to The Washington Post Galthersburj Md May J2 The residence of Berrfard Diamond near Gaithers biirg was burned early today Mr IJIa iond and his family escaped but were unable to Save anything The loss is about T12000 partly covered by insurance WASHINGTON POST BUREAU T03 King Street Alexandria Va The members of the Alexandria common council will be called upon tomorrow night to elect a presiding officer to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hubert Snowden who held the office for many years and considerable interest is being manifested in the matter Howard Smith of the Second ward now the vice president of the body wJll be a candidate and there may be others in the race when the time comes In the recent Democratic primary Councilman Smith was easily elected to succeed himself as a member for the new term beginning September 1 next and if successful in his candidacy for the presidency of council there Is but little doubt that he would succeed himself in the chair The president of council appoints the committees for the lower board is by virtue of his office a member of the sinking fund commission of the city and in the simultaneous absence of the mayor and president of the board of aldermen from the city he becomes the acting mayor Democrats Meet Tonight The period in which those who wish to become delegates to the Norfolk convention may file their names will expire at noon today and the city Democratic committee will meet at 730 oclock tonight at the Hotel Rammel to decide whether a primary to select delegates will be necessary Alexandria Is entitled to twelve delegates in the convention and as they must pay their own expenses ih addition to an assessment of 5 each in case it becomes necessary to have a primary it is not expected that there will be a rush for the honor Should more than twelve submit their names however the primary will be held at the regular voting places Wednesday May 15 from 3 until 7 It is not expected that the Alexandria delegation will be instructed Police to Be Inspected The semiannual inspection of the police force by the mayor and the board of police commissioners will be made in the police courtroom Wednesday afternoon and the men are busily engaged furbishing up their accouterment The board of commissioners recently decided to change the headgear of the men from helmetsto caps such as are worn by the Washington police but this change cannot become effective before the Inspection as the caps will not havebeen delivered before that time Wednesday night the police board will hold its monthly session when several matters bf importance to the department will be discussed Eagles Attend Services The members of Alva Aerie No 871 Fraternal Order of Eagles last night attended services at Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church and heard a sermon on the subject Gods Eagls Built for he Heights by the pastor th Rev eorge A Luttrell The sermons in all the churches yester day were appropriate to Mothers day Applications from the principal commercial and trade organizations of the country for membership in the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America are being received dally at the Evans building headquarters here by John Joy Edson The 700 representatives of the various organizations invited here by President Taft through Secretary Nagel and the bureau of manufactures Department of Commerce and Labor are fulfilling their pledge taken at the convention recently to make the new national chamber a success and to recommend to their organizations the adoption pf the tentative plan decided upon at the meeting enabling them to become members Already the necessary steps have been taken by the bodies In the large Amerlr can cities In order to participate the New York Chamber of Commerce purposes amending its charter Chief A Baldwin of the bureau of manufactures has received an official copy of the resolution passed at the con vention commending his bureau for the splendid work it accomplished In furthering the Presidents desire in carrying out the instructions of Secretary Nagel and in arousing the enthusiastic interest of the American commercial organizations in the formation of the great national advisory body Satisfied With Results In an interview Mr Baldwin said The bureau of manufactures is entirely satisfied with the results achieved by the conference It was undoubtedly the most broadly representative gathering of delegates from promotive commercial organizations of every kind that was ever brdbght together in this country The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America starts with the tremendous prestige given by the participation of men of importance in the commercial world from every geographical and trade subdivision of the nation The tentative by laws which were adopted followed closely the principles outlined in preliminary suggestions which had already received the approval of the bureau of manufactures They apparently assurethe broadly representative character bf the new chamber and they provide for limiting its service to national matters The chief of the bureau of manufactures added that while the new national chamber of commerce is now safely launched with every prospect of success and is independent the government the bureau will aid its service in every legitimate way FTJNEEAL OF COL SMITH Prominent Visitors Expected at Keswick Hunt Clubs Exhibition Special to The Washington Post CharlottesvHle Va May 12 The Virginia circuit of horse shows will be ushered In on Wednesday of this week with the ninth annual exhibition of the Keswick Hunt Club to be held on the grounds opposite the clubhouse at Keswick There are more entries than ever this year and the horses to be exhibited far exceed former entries In class and quality Julian Morris manager of the show has entered his horse Overall who holds the record for the broad jump The worlds champion David Gray will be seen in one of the hunt teams from the Keswick Club The Keswick neighborhood always gay wll be gayer than ever this week Nearly every house will have a house party on for the show Mr and Mrs Morris will entertain Miss Ethel Boyd Bowers of New York Miss Katherine Elklns of Washington and Miss Eleanor Searjf of Boston the polo player and tennir expert All of these ladles will ride and drive In the show Among the other ladies who will ride or drive in theyarious events are Mrs Reginald Brooki of Mirador Miss Roma Huselton of Pittsburgh Miss Hilda Holloway of New York Mrs Shields Russell of Cloverfields Mrs Julian Morris of The Oaks Mrs Wilbur Osborne of Gordonsvllle and Miss Berta Garth of this city The show is under the management of the following executive committee Julian Morris manager and secretary Dr OBrien Murray Boocock Magru der and Dr Thurman The directors are Magruder Murray Boocock John Sawyer Houghton Dr Ingersoll John Armstrong Chal oner Edwin Fellowes Dr OBrien Dr Thurman Joslin Frank Randolph Julian Morris Bernard Home Rankin Robert Craw ford and Pugh TEN ITEMS OF PROGRESS Concerning the jp COMMERCIAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Southern Building Washington Capital January 1 1911 100000 Capital January 1 1912 200000 Subscribed Capital today bUUU Item No 3 Increased Premium Income A fire insurance company lives and grows out of its premium income There are other sources growth but they are Incidental This premium income Is the money which the policyholders pay the company for protecting their property against loss by fire The recent growth in the premium in come of the COMMERCIAL Is a matter of considerable Interest in insurance circles for the company has received premiums for the first Quarter of 1912 amounting to a 500 increase over the corresponding quarter of 1911 Watch the COMMERCIAL grow and while you are watching it INSURE IN IT DECLINE AIDS MARKET Deflation of Prices Puts Stocks on Sounder Basis STEEL OUTLOOK IS HOPEFUL 4h Funeral of Murphy Funeral services for Peter Murphy who died Friday night after a brief illness weTe held at 3 oclock yesterday afternoon in St Marsiff Catholic Churchl the Rev Cutter the pastor offi idating i Delegation From Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans Attends Special to The Washington Post Suffolk Va May 12 The funeral of Col Thomas Washington Smith who died here Thursday at the age of SO years was held this afternoon at St Pauls IJpis copal Church The services were conducted by Bishop Tucker of Lynchburg Va assisted by the rector the Rev John Coleman Interment was In Cedar Hill Cemetery just opposite the beautiful monument to the Confederate dead erected by Col Smith several years ago The funeral was strictly military In he cortege were the Suffolk company of guardsmen the Tom Smith Camp of Confederate Veterans and the Spanish War Veterans Gen Stith Boiling Col Robert Gilliam Maj Manson and Maj Beckwith a delegatioir3om th5 grand camp of United Confederate Veterans division were present as was a large delegation from the A Hill Confederate Camp of Petersburg Va Col Hudgins from Stonewall Camp of Portsmouth and Veesy from Pickett Buchanan Camp of Norfolk were here Robert Welch Buried Special to The Washington Post Annapolis Md May 12 The funeral of Robert Welch Confederate veteran and deputy clerk in the office of the clerk of the circuit court took place here this afternoon from St Annes Church the rector Dr Joseph McComas officiating The active pallbearers were Charles Claytor of Baltimore and James Owens Julfaii Spencer Harry Tongue Eugene WprthingtorT George WHigglns and Daniel Duvall of Annapolfs all Confederate veterans The members of titer Anne Arundel county bar wereMhe honorary pallbearers The Annapolis lodge of Knights of Pythias attended In a body and conducted the cere roohyai the grave STEEL ORDERS POURING IN Weeks Business in Finished Products 100000 Tons Daily Capacity of Mills Exceeded by From 25 to 50 Per Cent Railways Are Heaviest Buyers New York May 12 Consumption as well as production of finished steel products was never so great as today and orders are floating into the mills at a rate 25 per cent to 50 per cent in excess of full capacity Although the steel companies are producing pig iron at the rate of 22 500000 tons and ingots at the rate of 30 000000 tons annually they need more metal to keep pace with specifications Shipments are falling behind and new business booked cannot be shipped for two or three months after receipt of orders Prices are naturally tending upward and sales of plates were made last week at 1 a ton advance although the higher prices were not general An advance of 10 cents a box xn tin plate is expected momentarily Orders for finished steel products last week averaged 100000 toni per day the railroads being responsible for more than one half of the tonnage and additional contracts are pending for 400000 tons of rails 60000 cars and 400 locomotives The Santa Fe has ordered 3000 more cars and the Great Northern 1000 the St Louis and San Francisco has bought 22 locomotives and the Pennsylvania lines west are negotiating for 70 The Ttock Island Missouri Pacific Soo Line and the Chicago ahd Eastern Illinois ordered rails last week while the Seaboard Atlantic Coast Line Pere Marquette and the Harrlman lines are ajso In the market Steel building and bridge orders were heavy calling for over 57000 tons of structural shapes Additional building contracts are pending for 75000 tons Orders were placed for three more steamships for the American Hawaiian Steamship Company one boat for the Hammond Steamship Company a dredge for the United States goyernment and two steel car floats for the New York Central Railroad Maryland Masons to Hold Services Special to The Washington Poet Easton Md May 12 Tuesday next Easton will be the meccafor the Masonic fraternity as the grand lodge or Maryland will meetshere theplace of its birth to hold memorial services over the grave of Dr John Coats the founder of the grand lodge who is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery From LOOO to 1509 uniformed Knights Templars and other Masons are expected to be ih line with several bands the chief of which wM Je the Fifth Regiment Band of Baltimore 15000 Church Dedicated Special to The Washington Post Cumberland Md pajriz The hew tlSdOO United Brethren Church at Rockv wood was dedicated todays The church 13 of veneer brick 3TW Gl Meet The seating capacity with Sunday school room 600 Teapartmeht8may be used jolatljv Copper Also Indicates Increase in Both the Domestic and Foreign Demand Crop Conditions Far From DiscouragingGreater Ease in Money Siwwnby Bank of Englands Lower Rate New York May 12 The stock market last week underwent some further speculative deflation which went toward the correction of previous excess Suspicion of that excess at first aroused by signs of undue manipulative operations was confirmed by various events proving the undue assumptions of the rate of business advance on which the rise in stocks had been based The accumulation of a short interest in the course of the decline gave the market some resiliency at times but the speculators showed hesitation about an ImmediateTesumptloh of an advance The government crop report confirmed definitely the fears that a large proportion of wheat planted in the fall had been killed by the severe winter Evidence that this fact had spnt its force as a speculative factor was seen in the reaction in the wheat market itself The belief persists that it is still to early to estimate the years crop results Hope in Crop Outlook Possibilities of replanting the acreage of winter wheat plowed under are kept in mind The belated season keeps alive anxiety in this respect hoth for grains and cotton The agricultural outlook as a whole is regarded as hopeful and encouraging The same may be said of the great basic steel Industry in spite of the continuing influence of the fact that the United States Steel surplus had to be drawn on for payment of practically all the first quarters common stock dividend The April pig iron production was sustained at a rate over the March output and weekly shipments of crude steel into consumption are amounting to new records ThtB did not prevent an unexpecf edly large increase in the May 1 tonnage of unfilled orders of the steel corporation Contracting in anticipation of the advance in prices must be allowed for in that showing The invigorating effect on the industry Is shown however by reports of shortage of crude steel premiums for early deliveries advances in official quotations the heavy pay rolls which Pittsburgh banks are called on to finance and complaints of growing scarcity of labor in that district Demand for Copper Shown In the related copper industry April statistics showed less than the expected increase in stocks the domestic deliveries into consumption being increased while last weeks rise In the foreign price of copper reflected renewed demand from that quarter Reduction of the official bank rate of the Bank of England marks a growth of ease in the money markets Withdrawal by New York of credits abroad is expected to follow but requirements are awaiting these resources Renewed stringency fl feared at Berlin with the close of another quarter The weeks sale of 65000000 New York city 4 per cent bonds at an average urice of 10074 indicated only moderately favorable conditions Bankers pressing for settlement of the contracts for new subways in New York attracted attention by their statements that conditions areauickly changing in the bond market in the money markets of the world in the political situation and in the ranks of labor Stricken by Paralysis Special to The Washington Post Charlottesville Va May 12 John Hj ThomassOn for years one of the citys bet known merchants suffered a stroke of paralysis yesterday and his condition tonight IstcritlcaL His entire left side Is affected and he has losthls speecbi SeV eral years ago Mr Thomassoh became totally blind and was forced to retire from business Capital 1000050 Deposits nearly 7000000 i YOUR IDLE FUNDS WILL Yield you a steady anty substantial income if de posited in this bank INTEREST JfAID On deposits subject to check Accounts of every size invited E7 TRABLERS CHECKS and LETTERS OF CREDIT issued The Washington Loan Trust Company Cor 9th and Sts JOHN JOY EDSON Presidents 2 Statistical Review STANDARD OIL GO OP NEW JERSEY And nbsldlarles on application Close Market on All Standard Oil Stocks i PEfiBODY COHPAHY SPECIALISTS IK REAL ESTATE SECORITTES 42 BROADWAY NEW YORK A The Safest Investments Are tbqea that do not fluctuate durtnj disturbed conditions of th money or stock market First deeds of trust notes first mortgages vail secured en real estate In the District of Columbia constitute gilt edge InTestmenti They do not depend upon the flsisclal responsibility of lndlrlduaJs or corporations for their stability and are es empt from taxation as personal property We can supply such investments ln amounts from 1500 upward Send for Booklet Concerning Loan and Inrsit ments Swartzell Rheem Hensev Co 727 Fifteenth Street INVESTMENT 20 on 3150 Just completed seven houses rooms and nail and front porch IT ft wide Price only 11700 per house subject to H150f nearly years to run Will sell my equity for 31S net Each house will rent for J1560 per month Total rents per annum l8S60ff Interest and taxes per annual 754M 20 per cent on 3150 per annum 68004 Addreai Box 401 This Office ANNOUNCEMENT We wisli to announce tHitt we have acquired the entire business and good will of the Arm of John1 on Brothers to take effect ai tot rMajr 1st Maury Dove Company Int Wholesale COAX Retail Principal Office 13th Fitav Jf iWij GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION 7 We Pay You 3 on Savings Accounts 2Jjn Checking Accounts Washington and Southern Bank 1413 St Stl Tate Prefl All ANNUITY i ismetr rby The Mutual Life JanhaatJBoapiiif will roai life income which la gnarkf tiAbt orer 15CT000000 of assets iirmuWesQr iasi siiceessf ul tnslness experience otey J3Jpl ASplleaUOM aeciTeaDy iv THOMAS MORGAN 3 Feurth Floor JPront SotttnerpittUdlBjCf jV iBti and at niV 2 a yiSM i 8M5 mffmmm HIS Sim3 A ftat ssCifi 3 zr 3 rasSJ LOST FIfe eertincates of preferred stock 4 tt Washington Railway and Electric fBpany Jo iOO shares each in the 11511 1 Of Menslea and Wilson Brodle Nos 0 151 KsD Uand 455 jXetiii Mtititni Cop dU Co Ner Tork City Vjea ylUI iK.