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BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1913 12 National Education Association Personals Deaths RECENT DEATHS PERSONAL A NEW DEPARTURE IN ART Portraits and subjects in color, produced photographically. Not colored photographs but something entirely new that has aroused the amazement of photographers and portrait painters. All the fidelity of a photograph with the freedom and lightness of a chalk drawing or the rich-toned beauty of old masters. If you are interested in art or portraiture, you are invited to call and see examples of this work.

GARO STUDIOS IN BOYLSTON CHAMBERS 739 Boylston Street Association of American Medical Colleges. A resolution to this effect was adopted at the closing session of the association here yesterday. Members of the association declared its passage marked a big step toward universal standardisation of medical school courses. There are now thirty colleges which enforce a two. years collegiate course preparatory to admittance to a medical college and five other colleges have adopted the same rule, effective Jan.

1, 1914. The resolution just adopted raises the entrance standard for all colleges In the association, after Jan. 1, 1014, to Include a year of college work In physics, chemistry, animal biology and a modern language. Special standards for clinical work also were adopted. Chicago was selected as the 1914 meeting place and the following officers were elected President, Dr.

F. P. Lyon, St. Louis; vice president, Dr. F.

G. Westbrook, Minneapolis; secretary and treasurer. Dr. Fred Z. Zaplfe, Chicago.

Accepted Brother of William C. Russell Denies Many Statements Made by Dakota Dan Farm buildings have been repaired, land cleared of rocks and bushes, good crops grown and high-bred stock kept upon the farm. This has been the means of rejuvenating agriculture in the localities where such persons have located, and has been of material aid to otner farmers In various way. It la estimated that at least a thousand farms have been put to such a purpose, while two thousand other farms have been taken up by former city residents and made permanent homes, with more or less farm operations carried on throughout the year. In addition to these la the vast number of summer homes, estimated at fire thousand, that are occupied during the summer months, adding In these not less than thirty thousand people to the summer population of the State.

W. D. HOWELLS PRESENT He Is an Attentive Listener When Alfred Noyes of England Heads from His Poems Alfred Noyes, whom Rev. William H. can Allen.

8. T. called the unofficial poet laureate of England," found among Lie audience at his readings In the Copiey-Plaz foyer this morning, William Dean Howells, whom everyone calls the dean of American letters. The latter occupied a front seat and was an Interested listener throughout the readings. Many others In the large assembly showed by the cordiality of their greeting to the young English poet that they were already familiar with him throughout his writings.

Dr. van Alien introduced Alfred Noyes with words of cordial welcome. In which he referred to him as the unofficial poet laureate of England, a fit successor to "the other Alfred whom the world venerates. He wss spoken of as the bard of chlldhooff and fairyland, and at the same time as a poet whose power Is never so strong as when he sings cf democracy and peace. "This ambassador of letters Is no stranger to us." said Dr.

van Allen, "because his ideals ar ours. He regretted the un-propitious weather, but added that the presence of the dean and prince of American letters wss better than the brightest sunshine, referring to William Dean Howells. The company saw a young man who looked more like the stroke of an Oxford crew than a poet as he Is ordinarily conceived. Mr. Noyes has a smooth face.

Is slightly bald and is evidently a slave to his eye-glasses, like all near-sighted persons. He wore a gray business suit and a bow tie. He has no affectations of manner, makes no gestures and reads in a clear, low-pitched voice tbe verses which have attracted widespread atter.Jon in the literary world. His first numbers were Tbe Rank and File and Oxford Revisited, with its "flowers about the gray quadrangle laughing as Time goes on. Then came the poem which Mr.

oXyes said was an attempt to answer the old argument that universal peace will be a corrupter of nations. The refrain of this is When have we prayed for peace? Another, expressing the same thought, called out by certain utterances of President Taft, In which the poet asks. Dare we tread where Lincoln trod?" was followed by his latest poem, The Dawn of Peace. Inspired by a phrase In a recent address In the French Chamber by M. Jaures.

Then Mr. Noyes said he would complete his programme by request numbers, and the audience very promptly accepted his sugggestion. The first number wasEarih-bound. and the next a Devonshire legend set to rhyme in which the eye-patch and turned-up sleeve of Nelson were proof to the county people that the hero of Trafalgar was Drake returned to life again. Several other poems followed, and when the readings were ended the company was invited to meet the author and Mrs.

Noyes. Receiving with them was Miss Katherine Coman of Wellesley College, chairman of the executive committee, International Institute for Girls In Spain, which this programme was arranged to benefit. EBERLE REMEMBERED BOSTON MEN Gifts to Theatrical Associates Just Received from Executor When Hubert M. Eberle. the veteran theatrical bus ness manager, died in Indianapolis It was found that his will arranged for the distribution of his personal belongings among the friends made in the course of a season going all over the country.

He came many times to the Hollis Street Theatre with William Gillette, whom he had also accompanied to England for his London engagements, and the local bequests were received today from the executor of the estate. Charles J. Rich, the resident manager, had a quaint ring greatly prized by Mr. Eberle: Vincent T. Fetherston, treasurer, a stickpin, and Mrs.

A. N. Lowe, the matron, a silk muffler. Wallace Mun-ro, who Is at the Hollis this week as manager of the company playing The Governor's Lady. received a manicure seL Mr.

Eberle was a member of the stock company at the Boston Museum many years ago. before he became Identified with the business end of theatricals. He was a special friend of William Gillette, whom he had accompanied for several seasons, and that actor testified his appreciation by dropping everything end going to his bedside when he learned of his serious illnese May Die ef Gas Poisoning A defective gas radiator nearly caused the death of Abraham Rosenthal, In his home at 20 Rose street. South End, this morning. Other members of the household smelled gas and traced It to his room on the second floor.

The door was not fastened and Rosenthal was unconscious in the bed. He is at the City Hospital and will probably die. The' victim Is forty-eight years old and married. A gas heater In the room was found open. CLAXTON DEFENDS SCHOOLS He Points Out the Records of Achievement Gives Figures to Show the Decline of Illiteracy He Outlines Anew His Educational Ideals Urges Compulsory Attendance Laws in All States Philadelphia, Feb.

27 Outlining the wonderful achievements of the public achool system In eradicating Illiteracy from the population of this country. Philander Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education, last night addressed an audience of the department of superintendence of the National Education Association in session here. He spoke on "Attainable Ideals of the Public School System," and In reciting the work done in the last forty years told how illiteracy In the United States has been reduced from twenty per cent to seven per cent; how In the white population It has diminished from twelve to three per cent; In the Negro population from ninety-five to thirty per cent; among the foreign born from fourteen to 1214 per cent and that at present only 1.1 per cent of children of the foreign born cannot read or write. "This has been accomplished by an educational system that has been declared a failure, and Is even now greatly maligned, he declared. The idealB 1 hope this system to attain will be the complete obliteration of all Illiteracy, the passage of compulsory attendance laws in the States where they do not at present exist, and the more complete enforcement of existing laws.

"More efforts should be made to reach the children in Isolated districts and In the slums of our cities. Children in the country and in factory districts of our cities should be kept In high schools over the adolescent period. If it is necessary for the children to work let the products of their vocational or Industrial training be sold and the proceeds applied to their support during the period of their education. Do not let their labor be exploited by capitalists." Many Educators in Attendance State superintendents from thirty States, more than one hundred county superintendents from various sections of the country, eight members of the United States Bureau of Education and many other prominent educators are in attendance at the sessions which began In this city yesterday. Problems of special interest to the superintendents were discussed at these meetings.

A number of other departments of the National Education Association held meetings and received reports of committees. Sait Lake City was chosen by the executive committee as the site of the convention of the association to be held from July 5 to 10 next. "If the public schools can be divorced from the grafting politician and let alone by the religious fanatics they will do ably the work they are intended to do and prove the backbone of the future civilization of the United States, declared Oscar T. Corson of Ohio, In responding to an address of Mayor Blankenburg In this city, welcoming the delegates. Mr.

Corsons remarks were received with applause and cries of Thats right and "Too much Interference from theorists. "Wealthy and aristocratic birth. Mr. Corson said, "count more than brains, character and hard work. There Is no limit to what education will do for a child In this country.

If you want to know the truth about whether the public school is the greatest factor In American life, do not ask the aristocratic snob who never saw the Inside of the little red schoolhouse. nor the prejudiced editor, but ask the millions of successful, self-respecting Americans who obtained their education In those same free schools. Uniform School Standards F. M. McMurry of the Teachers College, Columbia University, urged a uniformity of school standards.

"The school curriculum at present contains too much subject matter, he said. What we need Is a reduction to the minimum of the amount required establishing a minimum curriculum. Our minimum should be an amount that every child can master with ease. T. B.

Flnegan. third assistant commissioner of education In New York, spoke of the need of absolute divorce of school affairs and politics. The Million-Dollar Fund Thomas W. Blcknell of Providence. R.

former president of the N. E. now director of the national movement to endow the association with a million dollars, opened his campaign today. The funds will be used to give the necessary financial backing for the investigations and expert work of the association. Half of the money Is expected to come from the teachers and educators of the country and the remainder from philanthropists.

BETTER DOCTORS ASSURED Association of American Medical Colleges -Raises Standards Chicago, Feb. 27 Hereafter at least one jear of collegiate work will be required ir admission to schools belonging to the YOUR FOREIGN TOUR WILL PROVE MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE IF YOU HAVE THE BOSTON Weekly Transcript I 1 1 1 SENT TO YOU 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 WHILE ABROAD! 1 1 1 A HOME NEWSPAPER BECOMES VASTLY MORE VALUABLE UNDER SUCH CONDITIONS $2.50 a year 1.25 6 months .75 3 months llllllllllllllll Laughlin have gone to Indiana, where they will conduct an evangelistic campaign for the next three weeks in various sections of that State. Mrs. McLaughlin will have charge of the musical part of the services. An engagement announced yesterday from New York and of social interest here because of the wide acquaintance of the families, is that of Miss Marlon De F.

Cannon, a daughter of Mrs. Theodore Fre-linghuysen, and John D. Prince, son of Professor Prince of Columbia University. Mrs. Frank S.

Billing of Sharon announces the engagement of her daughter. Miss Frieda Gerlach Billings, to Dr. Joseph A. Cushman of the same town. Dr.

Cushman is a graduate of Harvard, class of 1903. Mr. and Mrs. F. R.

Estabrook of this city are among the passengers who sailed for America yesterday on the steamer Oceanic, from Europe. They embarked at Cherbourg for New York. Albert J. Foster, president of the Peoples National Bank, Boston, and one of the oldest tanners In New England, left New York yesterday for New Orleans for a trip to the Southwest. Mr.

and Mrs. Howard Webster Brackett of Hopedale, Who have been for the winter at the Touralne, have gone to Palm Beach for the spring months. Colonel Warren Newcomb, U. S. and Mrs.

Newcomb, of Boston and Washington, are in New York city for several days and are staying at Hotel Wolcott. Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Harwood and Miss Gretchen Harwood of Newton have started on a trip to Panama. Mrs.

Clifford D. Sawyer entertained a few friends at bridge yesterday afternoon, at her home on Dartmouth street. DOCTORS CALL ON FRIEDMANN United States Health Officials Confer on Tuberculosis Cure New York Feb. 27 Physicians representing the Federal Government conferred today with Dr. Friederich F.

Friedmann, the Berlin specialist, who arrived here Tuesday bringing his much discussed treatment for tuberculosis. Dr. Friedmann has given the Government samples of his culture for testing. Dr. Milton Foster, representing Surgeon General Rupert Blue of the public health and marine hospital service, and Dr.

John F. Anderson, director of the Hygienic Laboratory at Washington, were those who called on the German physician. It was announced that a statement would be issued after the meeting. STEFANSSON TELLS HIS PLANS To Sail Late in Spring from Eaquimault on the Whaler Purchased by Canadian Government New York, Feh. 27 Vllhjalmur Stefans-son, discoverer of the blonde Eskimo, made public today his plans for the four-year expedition which he plans to lead to the Arctic, rest May.

During this time he hopes to wipe off the map much of the white space indicating the unexplored regions of the Far North. Stefansson and his companions eight or ten picked men of science will sail out of Esqulmault. B. near Victoria, the latter part of May or in early June, on the 247-ton steam whaler Karluck. barkentine rigged, purchased for the expedition by the Canadian Government.

The Karluck now lies in San Francisco harbor; during the next ten days she will be overhauled and sent to Esqulmault. where she will be fitted up aa a Government vessel. She will fly the British flag, as the entire cost of the expedition is to be borne by the Canadian Government, and will carry a crew of fourteen. From Esqulmault the barkentine will carry the party as far North as the ice filled seas will permit. If the weather be fine and the winds from the east, they expect in September to reach land somewhere in the Beaufort Sea.

now unexplored. There they will establish a base, sending the vessel back and remaining during the winter. But if western winds prevail and the Beaufort Sea Is filled with ice, the expedition probably will land at Herschel Island, remain there a week to establish a primary base, return to Prince Patrick Land and either there or at Herschel Island spend the winter. In the spring they will go North. They will return to civilization In September, 1916.

Dr. R. M. Anderson, who was with Stefansson on his last trip, will be second in command; the others have not been selected yet. A powerful wireless apparatus, designed to carry messages looo miles, will keep the explorers in dally touch with the world.

This apparatus will be erected at Herschel Island or the unnamed land where they may establish their base on the shores of the Beaufort Sea. For food the explorers will have pemml-can and malted milk while sledging over the Ice; while they are on land their own rifles must keep their larder filled. Caribou. seal, ptarmigan, musk oxen, foxes and other Polar animals will provide food. A million square miles of snow and Ice north of the Forth American continent and Siberia will be explored, so far as possible.

The party Is not searching for the Pole; If they find it it will be by accident, Mr. Stefansson said. What they want to do Is to open the locked lands and seas of the north. They do not contemplate going with the Ice drift as Roald Amundsen plans to do with the Fram; but they will send the Karluck back each autumn to Esqulmault and have her return-to the base each spring. Stefansson will visit the blond Eskimo again and bring them back to America In moving pictures.

To bring them back In the flesh, he says, would be murder; they could not survive the germs of civilisation. While In the neighborhood of their stamping ground, he expects to explore the interior of Victoria Land and there expects to define the extent of what he believes to be the largest and one of the richest copper countries under the sun. In connection with his other work, the explorer expects to chart a network of magnetic stations over Victoria Land. This will be done for the Carnegie Institute at Washington. To purchase the Instruments necessary for the expedition, Btefanaon will sail for Europe next Saturday.

While In England he will address the Royal Geographical Society. PICKETS ARE OUT AGAIN Garment Workers Who Were Forced Oat on Strike Return to Work Pickets were sent out again this morning to watch some of the tailor shops against which the mens garment workers have declared a strike. About half a hundred paced up and down in email groups In front of a Waehlngton-street shop where the employees had returned to work; In this Instance the employees had been driven from their benches against their will and are not In sympathy with the strike. Four weeks of struggle between the striking garment workers In Boston and their employers has reduced the contest to a test of endurance. It has taken the usual course of such strikes.

The small concerns have given In to the union and their employees are back at work, but the large manufacturers have made no concessions, so that practically' half of the men and women who struck are still out The womens garment workers held several meetings last evening and In each Instance voted to give the International officers or the executive committees power to order a strike. Demonstration la Indiana Indianapolis, Feb. 27 A call for all members of the Womens Franchise League of Indiana to Join a demonstration Monday when the suffragists will march In a body to the Indiana State House and there demand of the Legialature the right to vote, has. been issued the president of the organisation. OXCE A GOVERXORS SECRETARY Richard J.

Callen, Civil War Veteraa, Had a Varied Career Richard J. Cullen, aged seventy-two years, died at his home In Peabody last evening, after a brief illness. He was born in Georgetown. P. E.

In 1841. and as a young man came to the United States. When the Civil War began, he enlisted in a regiment of New Hampshire volunteers and went to the front, where he served throughout the war. He afterward became private secretary, for a year, to Governor Smith of New Hampshire. Later he taught school In New York for about seven years and from that city removed to Lawrence, going In 1874 to Peabody to live.

He was employed at the Danvers bleachery for almost forty years, up to a year ago, when he retired. For ten years he was a selects man of Peabody and for three years served as chairman of the Sewer Commission. Mr. Cullen Is survived by a wife, two sons and two daughters. DAVID R.

CRAXE Boston Lawyer, Elhty-FIve Years of Age Tuesday, Lived Half a Ceatary In Somerville David F. Crane, who reached the age of elghty-flve years Tuesday, died yesterday at his home at 61 Pearl street, Somerville. Mr. Crane, who was a lawyer, was born In Wayne, on Feb. 25.

1828. He was graduated from Kents Hill Seminary in 1851 and Colby College, In Waterville. In 1855. He then taught school for a time after his graduation and later took up the study of law In the office of Hon. William Pitt Fessenden of Portland, Me.

He had practized law In Boston many years and had been a resident of Somerville for fifty years. Mr. Crane was a member of the Perkins Street Baptist Church In Somerville. He Is survived by two daughters. Miss Marion S.

Crane and Miss Harriet Crane, who live at the family home. FORMER GRAXD OPERA SIXGER Mme. Emma W. de Xleoleeco of Xew York Had Been In Recent Years a Vocal Teacher Mme. Emma Wlsjak de Nlcolesco, formerly an opera singer and a teacher of voice in the Conservatory of Musical Art.

Lenox avenue, in New York. has died of Bright's disease at St. Lukes Hospital, in that city. She was born in Germany and received a part of her musical education in the Conservatory at Prague, studying there for three years. After completing further studies in Milan, she went upon the operatic stage In the opera Jone." She sang in all the large cities of Europe, and with the tenor Xiccollni opened the opera Alda In Rome.

She had been a teacher for some time in the Conservatory of Musical Art. PLAYED WITH FAMOUS ACTORS Alexander Wilson la Earlier Days Was Known on the Stage as Colin Stewart" Alexander Wilson, known on the stage forty years ago as Colin Stewart. has died at Yarmouth, N. S. He was ninety-two years old.

In early life Mr. Wilson was associated with the Booths, Charlotte Cushman. Laura Keene and other players In the old days. He retired from the stage more than thirty years ago and returned to Nova Scotia, where he was born, to live In retirement. He never married.

A RETIRED BOSTOX BUSIXESS MAX Charles W. Sturgis. Overcome While on the Common, Falls to Recover from Hemorrhage Charles Wilkins Sturgis, a retired Boston business man. died early this morning at the Relief Hospital, from hemorrhages ot the brain. He was sixty-one years old.

was unmarried, and lived at 149 Newbury street. He belonged to tbe Tavern Club and the Union Boat Club. With a friend, Mr. Sturgis was walking across the Common about six o'clock last night, and when near West street he collapsed. He was taken to the hospital, where it was found that his condition was serious.

He made his home with Francis S. Sturgis. A Boston Xewapaper Writer Clement L. Pollock, a newspaperman, died suddenly last evening at his home at 124 Glenway street, Dorchester. Death was caused by a blood clot on the brain, supposed to have been due in part to an accident in which Mr.

Pollock broke hi kneecap a month ago. He was born In Kimbolton. forty-seven years ago. and entered the newspaper business In New York In 1688. when he joined th staff of the New York World.

Later he enter! the employ of the New York Evening Journal. He came to Boston In 1903 and had since been connected with the American. He Is survived by a widow and one soil. Was Two ears Past Ceatnry-Mark Miss Elisabeth Woodbridge Thompson, who died yesterday at Saratoga Springs. N.

had reached the age of 102 years. Up to a few days before her death. Miss Thompson retained all hex faculties and was very active. She was born In New London, and was a direct descendant of Gurdon Saltonstall. Colonial governor of Connecticut In 1780.

Her grandfather, Captain William Thompson, was killed in the Danbury raid of 1777. Mlaa Thompson formerly resided in Troy, N. Y. Henry Badger, a retired Boston business man, died suddenly today at lfts home at 22 Parkvale avenue, Allston. He was a native of Chelsea, where he was born on Aug.

13. 1848. He was the son of William and Sophia O. (Thompson) Badger. REIXVIGORATIXG IX XEW HAMPSHIRE From the Manchester Mirror and American The annual farm book of the State Board of Agriculture, known as "New Hampshire Farms for Summer Homes, has made Its appearance for 1918 and Is the eleventh annual number.

This publication has won a national reputation and has had great effect In ing attention to the rural sections of the State. It is Issued under a law enacted In 1889, which was the first legislation of Its kind enacted by an Eastern State. During the first years after Its enactment effort was chiefly directed to attracting the attention of immigrants, especially Swedes and Norwegians, to these numerous abandoned farms of the State, and. with some degree of success. Later the efforts were directed to residents of cities, with the hope of attracting the attention of people of financial means and securing their location among the fiiii of New Hampshire, either as permanent residents or summer sojourner.

Along this line the work has been eminently successful, thousands of such people having found In these annual publications an incentive to search for a home in New Hampshire. This has been accomplished through the I distribution of information in regard to opportunities here and statements of what has been found and done by those who have coma Hundreds of testimonials by such people have been collected in these publications and the lnforation given wide and systematic distribution. Through the correspondence conducted In the office of the board, and from other sources, lists of persons In the large cities In the eastern part of the country have been complied and those people make an appreciative audience to which the advantages of rural New Hampshire are portrayed through the text and Illustrations. It has been the means of capitalising, as It were, the climate, scenery and healthful conditions of the State, and selling It at good prices to those well able to pay. Many of those attracted to the State have engaged In farming upon an Improved and.

In some Inmin upon an extensive scale. AX UNUSUAL GOLDEN WEDDING ti Major and Mrs. John A. Fowls of Dorehester to Be Given a Reception la the Hall of Flags at the State Hoase An unusual golden wedding celebration will be that on Saturday, of Major and Mrs. John Allen Fowle, of Dorchester, as It will take the form of a reception In the Hall of Flags," at the State House, beginning at one o'clock.

Mrs. Fowle, previous to her marriage, was Elisa Barker Rumsey, of Tarrytown, N. and she had the unusual distinction of being married In the National House of Representatives in Washington. The ceremony was performed at the close of the Sunday morning service on March 1, 1863. The bride and brldgegroom were members of the choir that led the service of song there, during the Civil War, for the benefit of soldiers In Washington.

Rev. Alonzo H. Quint, chaplain of the Second Massachusetts Regiment, performed the ceremony and the benediction was given by Dr. John W. Stockton, chaplain of the National House.

This closed the Thirty-seventh Congress. In the evening of that wedding day, there was dedicated the Soldiers Free Library, erected by Mr. and Mrs. Fowle, who had raised the funds by concerts and from Northern friends. Mrs.

Fowle was In those days a famous singer. The Government land on Judiciary Square was granted to them for this purpose by a vote of the Senate and the House of Representatives, in Joint resolution, and was approved and signed by Abraham Lincoln. The library had a successful history during the war and at Its close was given to the Freedman's Bureau. It is of Interest that Mr. Carnegie, when erecting his library in Washington, wrote Mrs.

Fowle as follows: I hail you as the pioneers of the free library system of Washington. In your footsteps I simply follow, an easy matter to do, since the path through the forest has been opened. The reception on Saturday has been planned by the Department of Massachusetts, G. A. In Its desire to recognise the anniversary and Its significance to Major Fowle, as a Civil War veteran, and Mrs.

Fowle was an army nurse. LADY EDW1XA ROBERTS MARRIED Daughter of Rnsland'ii Fanom Bobs' Becomes Bride of Major lleary Lewi R. A. At All Saints Church, Ascot, England, yesterday afternoon. Lady Edwina Roberts, younger daughter of Earl Roberts, was married to Major Henry Lewln, R.

son of Commander Lewin, R. N. All the business houses of Ascot closed at noon by request of the bride. Lord Roberts gave away his daughter in marriage. Rev.

W. E. LaTrobe Bateman, rector of Ascot, assisted by Rev. E. Kennedy anj Rev.

F. Champneys, officiated. Captain llankey, late of the Royal Artillery was best man. At the end of the service the bride and bridegroom were driven from the church back to the house behind a team of six horses, conducted by subalterns of tile bridegroom's battery, the captain riding as outrider, and three subalterns as postilions. Generals and others high officers thronged the church, and younger officers and private soldiers turned out by hundreds to cheer their Idol.

"Bobs." Major Lewis, who Is forty-one. has seen a great deal of fighting and now commands the One Hundred and Forty-second Battery of Royal Field Artillery. The wedding presents included remembrances from King George and Queen Mary, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, and many other royal personages of England and the Continent. The bride, who is thirty-seven years old. is coheiress to her father's title.

Her elder sister, who Is forty-three years old. Is unmarried, and Mrs. Lewis's heir, should she have one. will inhert the carl-fom. When in l(v! Queen Victoria elevated the famous warrior to the rank of earl, she bore in mind the fact that his only eon.

Lieutenant Hon. Frederick Roberts, died on the battlefield at Colenso. after winning the coveted Victoria Cross by his gallant attempt to save the guns in that disastrous engagement. She accordingly Inserted special provisions in the patent that the title should go to his daughters, the elder Lady Aileen and her male heirs first, and to Lady Edwina and her male heirs next. BRIDE HAS BEEN AX ACTRESS Dr.

and Mre. Philip P. Crlmmlna (Louise I.incdon) Start for Japan and Germany on Their Wedding Journey Miss Kerby Louise Langdon, known on the stage as Louise Langdon, was married in Brockton, on Wednesday afternoon to Dr. Phillip P. Crimmlns, young physician of that city.

Rev. James L. MacQulnness of Beachmont. officiated. The bride was attended by Miss Eileen Crimmlns, a sister of the bridegroom, ss bridesmaid and Edward J.

Andrews of Brockton was best man. The bride is a granddaughter of Adolphus Osborn, a retired commission merchant of Cambridge. Dr. Crimmlns is Identified th a number of fraternal organizations. He a graduate of Tufts Medical School and Johns Hopkins Medical School of Baltimore.

Following the ceremony Dr. and Mrs Crimmlns came to Boston, where a wedding dinner was served, after wh ch they started for San Franciso. From there they will go to Japan and Germany, where Dr. Crimmlns will study. On their return they will reside In Tacoma, where Dr.

Crimmlns probably will have charge of a hospital which a wealthy relative of the bride Is soon to give that city. WILLIAM H. CRAXE HONORED University of California Invited Aetor to Tell of Change Which He Has Seen In Hie Half Centnry on the Itage William H. Crane, the actor, so well known In Boston and who has hie summer home at Cohasset, has nearly reached the fiftieth anniversary of his first appearance on the stage. He is playing at this time In San Francisco and on Tuesday was invited to read before the University of California a paper on Some Developments of the American Stage During the Past Fifty Years.

The Invitation to Mr. Crane was from the president, Benjamin Ids Wheeler, end the music and drama committee of the university. Bridge Followed by Dancing Mrs. C. H.

Washburn of Dorchester, was hostess at an auction bridge party in the library of Hotel Somerset, on Tuesday evening, when she had about a score of guests, among them Edward Lankow of the Boston Opera Company, who contributed to the general enjoyment of the evening by singing several selections for bam voice. Supper was served at about midnight and was followed by Informal dancing. Former Gov. Donglas a Dinner Host Former Governor William Douglas entertained a congenial party of about forty guests at dinner, on Tuesday evening, at the Royal Poinclana at Palm Beach, In honor of Mr. and Mrs.

William Bryan. The decorations were quantities of smllax, roses- and ferns. An electric flag of red, white and blue bulbs was an unusual feature of the decorations. Go West, on Evangelical Campaign Rev. William H.

McLaughlin of Quincy, superintendent of the National Convention of Unlversallst Churches, and Mrs. Me- A STENOGRAPHER'S PENCIL WARDS Word's bowses rencli Is midi specially for the use ef tils stenographer. 87-63 Franklin Street. J9 NEW BRANCH LIBRARY OPENS Building in North Bennet Street, Which Will Have an Open-Air Reading-Room as Novel Feature, Will Coat $86,000 What Is regarded as one of the best appointed branch libraries of the city, thal recently constructed on North Ben-net street at a cost of $86,000, was opened to the public for the first time this afternoon. The building will be open every week-day from two until nine o'clock.

The occasion was entirely without formality. The Public Library trustees purchased the church of St. John Baptist, remodelled and enlarged it, so that It is now practically a new structure. The basement contains, besides boiler and fuel, rooms, a lunch room for employees and a store room. The first story contains an adult reading room In front with tables for forty readers, and a lecture or class room in the rear, equipped with 280 folding chairs.

In the second story there Is a childrens reading and delivery room containing tables for seventy readers and a children's reference reading room accommodating fifty readers. An Interesting and novel feature of the building is that of an open-air reading-room, to be covered with an awning and to be used during the summer. This roof attraction is directly accessible from the main stair hall. As the building is located in one of the most congested tenement districts of the city, the advantages of the roof in hot weather hare a wide appeal. The building, from cellar to roof, is of first-clasB construction.

The stairs are of Iron and marble, the stair hull floors of terrazzo, the reading-room floors of cork tiling and the finish of quartered oak. The bookcases are arranged on the walls so as to permit open access to the books. Especial attention has been given to the lighting of the reading-rooms, a matter of some difficulty upon a site closely surrounded by other buildings. All the furnishings are of oak. PEACE CONFERENCE Britain to Participate in Centenary Meeting to Be Held in New York London, Feb.

27 The British committee concerned with the celebration of the centenary of peace between the United States and the British empire and of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent has decided to send representatives to participate in a conference at New York and to arrange for Joint action between the United States, Great Britain and Canada. The Invitation sent by the American committee to the British committee was welcomed cordially, and formal acceptance Is to be sent to New York by next Saturdays mall. BOMBS THROWN AT GIRLS Strikebreakers Are Not Injured, However, in New York One Infernal Machine Explodes, but the Other Fails to Go Ofi New York, Feb. 27 A second attempt to Injure strikebreakers employed by manufacturers resisting the Garment Workers strike was made early today when an infernal machine with sputtering fuse attached was hurled through a window Into a loft building in East Fourteenth street, where twenty-flve girl strikebreakers were sleeping. Fortunately the fuse went out and the bomb did not go off.

According to a watchman the bomb was thrown by a man who drove up to the building In a black automobile. No arrests have been made. Preceding this bomb episode by about an hour a similar contrivance wrecked the entrance of a loft building on West Fifteenth street. There were nearly three hundred strikebreakers In the building, but non was Injured. CLERK MADE STOREKEEPER GUILTY Supreme Court Holds Proprietor Liable for Employees Short Weight Whether storekeeper can be found guilty In a criminal court of giving short weight In a sale made by his servant or agent without his knowledge or authority was a question that the full bench of the Supreme Court decided today, In favor of the Commonwealth In its suit against Isaac Sacks.

Judge Chase and a Jury In the Superior Court found Sacks guilty of giving short weight of fruit on Oct. 14, 1910, in a sale made by his employee, Morris Gum-ner, to Angelina Dinsmore. Exceptions were taken and today were overruled. Sacks had a fruit store near Winter street. GERALDINE FARRAR IN SOLOS Other Notable Operatic Artists Are Included in March Victor Records Though every city cannot have an opera house where favorite singers may appear, that does not prevent everyone from enjoying the leading singers of the day as their voices are perfectly recorded on Victor records.

In the March list, which may be had of the Eastern Talking Machine Company, at 177 Tremont street, some of the world-famous operatic artiste are Included with new selections, Geraldine Farrar contributes three solos. two operatic arias and a song from Chadwicks cycle, "Ha round at Rase hid. Miss Farrars impersonation of the Goose Girl in "Ktinlgs-kinder is one of "her best numbers. Miss Farrar also takes part In a duet with Caruso, the Letter Duet from Manon. Frieda Hempel, the new German coloratura soprano of the Metropolitan Opera House, gives a rendition of Dell Acquas song, Marcella Sembrlch adds another to her list of vocal waltzes, a version of "Waltz Dream.

Tltta Ruffo and Mme. Magrinl give the well-known Kigoletto duet, "Recall Not the Past. John McCormacks performance of The Dream," from Manon, la effective. He also sings the ballad, "My Dreams, and the popular Irish song, "Where the River Shannon Flows. Louise Homer sings two numbers composer by her husband.

Frances Alda sings the Murmuring Breezes," with a piano accompaniment, and Clara Butt sings a "Messiah" air, He Shall Feed. His Flock. Paderewskis contribution is a piano rendition of Chopins Malden Wish. A Cottenet number Is given as a violin solo by Frits Krelsler. The Victor Concert Orchestra plays two movements from the symphonies of Beethoven and Dvorak, and the waits Intermezzo from that operatic novelty, The Jewels of the Madonna.

The New Symphony Orchestra of London gives a presentation of the Merry Wives of Windsor Overture; Vessellaz Italian Band, Sousas Band and Conway's Band have contributed, and there are medleys from some ef the musical comedy "Fresno Dan took the stand at th Russell hearing yesterday afternoon, and gave testimony denying many statements made by Dakota Dan," until an argument between opposing counsel halted him. Robert W. Nason, counsel for the estate, questioned the witness so minutely that at length the claimant's counsel, William R. Scharton, objected on the ground that Fresno had not been proved to be Daniel Blake Russell, and that there was little apparent advantage in his denying the statements of "Dakota Dan, until he has been so proved. Master Pevey said that denial and cross denial might go on indefinitely, and after Mr.

Nason agreed to limit his further examination, court adjourned. Earlier In the day, when John K. Berry, of counsel for the estate during the former hearing, was testifying. Mr. Scharton tried to show that Mr.

Berry and William C. Russell took a trip to Washington for the purpose of shutting off investigation of certain letters Introduced in evidence by the estate. These were the letters, alleged to have been written by the claimant to members of the Ruseau family, which, however, the claimant said were forgeries. Mr. Berry was ready to tell the story in full, ar.l when Mr Pcharton was not allowed to examine him categorically, he declined to examine him at all on this line.

He said that his object was to show that Mr. Berry went to Washington to ask Postmaster General Hitchcock to remove from the Boston distr! Inspector Jennings. who seemed to be active In helping the cause of Dakota Dan. Although Mr. Scharton has asserted recently that he should not renew env charges of alleged conspiracy against 7 arsons connected with the estate, he did intimate yesterday that the estate knew of the Ruseau family before they Inserted advertisement a Malone, N.

newspaper, reeking information about tbe claimant. Master Pevey did not allow Mr. ''barton's offer of proof In this respect and the attorney asked that kls rights be Mr. Berry testified that the first news of the Ruseaus came through a letter from Mary Ruseau. and that the pkotograpx of the claimant, used In the newspaper advertisement referred to.

had been furnish 1 by Valentine Schwlrt. the father-in-law of the claimant. The witness sail that hit connection with the case ceased on or a bo June 1. 1910. and that he left the law firm of Berry A Upton the 1st of November of that year.

He declared that the man from Fresno was accepted by William C. Russell as his brother on April 9, 19101 The hearing was adjourned till Monday and will be held, for the present at least. In the Social Law Library of the Suffolk Court House In Pemberton square. "Dakota who has been speaking at several Boston theatres. Is booked for Broadway.

JUDGE BROWN PRAISES JURY In Discharging January Panel, He Compliments District Attorney Also In discharging the January Jury, today. Judge Brown of the Superior Court thanked the Jurors for their work ar.d praised the work of the district attorneys office for the way In which they investigated matters. He said that tis jurors did not hear one-half of the cases that come before the district attorney because that department sifts the cas'i and unless it finds them worth tryii.g they never go to the Court. CHILDREN OF YESTERDAY AXD TODAY From the Dti Sloinar (Is.) Register and Letlv Things are not what they used to be," sighed George R. Kline.

"When I was a youngster children spent their evenings at home. Perhaps 11 the parents were very lenient they were allowed to romp nine o'clock, but curfew rang at that hour and laps were tundel as soon as a child could bustle up tj the attic and craw! under covr. And they needed no curfew whistle to get them In the house. Tae curfew at my home ccnsisted of a shir.g. It did n't make a noise unless us kids fallcl to be in when the clock struck the who lived the 'good old days and the good old ways are nearly frantic at the way children carry on today.

They are on the go all the time, and there is something doing continually. They go to the skating rink and come tip-toeing In -t eleven and twelve oclock. They go to the picture shows. They go to parties and they go to this place and that one. There seems to be something doing every night, and each succeeding ent Is of such vital importance li the estimation of the child that he Imagines the affair will not be a howling success If he la not presenL Why.

at tit-teen years they begin making formal calia on the girls. I b-lleve I would have, figuratively, dropped dead to call on a girl at that age or to see her home. Today the youngsters mre on the chase almost every hour of the day or night that they are not In school or working. I guess every parent in town has rebelled and tried to resist the new order of things, but I guess we older ones might as well close up like an old rusty Jackknife and admit that wre are back numbers and pas see as they say In one of those foreign lingoes." The West Franklin, correspondent of the Ellsworth American wrltsai The weather continues to continue. Robins are reported from all sections.

The hens are laying ouL The people are paying the selectmen for notifying them to destroy brown-tall moth nests by March 13; and are dreaming of planting potatoes next July on sunny hillsides. clad In overcoats and mittens." BOSTON SHOP 158 Sooner St 1 Corner Federal St. Telephone; Fort Hill 3479 Tlie Sf Laundry Pleases The Hard To Please. Do yon like your shirts and collars starched a certain way? All yon need do is write to the EAR office stating your preferences we will return your linen not only starched to suit yon, but washed and ironed to suit you Clean and sweet and smooth, unstretched and unahrunken. Telephone Main Office for wagon or leave your laundry work at the EAR Boston Shop.

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