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THE WASHINGTON TDIES, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1914 'tVT" SJ HO CITY COUNCIL OVERWATERSUPPLY Delayed Action on Report of State Board of Health Rouses Alexandria Delegate. ALEXANDRIA, Oct. 2S. Delayed action on a repoit of the State board of health on the condition of the water supplied the city by the Alexandria Water Company brought about .1 lively debate at the meeting of city council last nifiht between Councilmen Charles Bcndhelm and A.

D. Brockett. In which personalities were used and which threatened at a time to result in an oicountei. Jlr. Brockett.

who is chairman of the committee on health, presented the re Icrt of the Stale board. He explained That the committee was unable to make a complete report at this time, but said iho correspondence would show conditions at the water plant had been greatly Improved by the installation of a chlorine plant for the purification of the water. A letter from the water company stated it had made chemical analysis of the water since September and found It was pure and suitable for drinking purposes. Mr. Bendhelm, who is chairman of a.

special committee to investigate the I'atoa charged by the water company, sharply criticised the health committee for its delay in bringing in the report He said the health committee had the leport for two months while the pcopla were in danger of their lives. The report was so important, he said, it delved a special meeting of council to it, but instead it was permitted He asked for the plac- -'bility for the holding up "Who papers?" asked Mr Bcndhelm. nalrman of the health committee, Mr. Crockett, has been ab-fepnt from the last two meetings of council, and I think it is time he explained." Mr. Brockett, in an impassioned answer to Mr.

Bendhelm declared if the -aker had made the intimation on the vould answer it personally. rUon was untrue, not organized immediately ad- ournea 14. He went away on Ills And did not return until September 15. There had been tome delay in organizing his committee, and if there was any tault in making an earlier report to council it was not the fault of the health committee or Mr. Brockett.

Mr. Brockett said: "If the gentleman has anything against me personally let him express it on the outside and not rail at me in council." Mr. Bendhelm said he had nothing pergonal against Mr. Brockett, and In short time the dove of peace was again hovering in the neighborhood. Council decided to refer the entire matter back to the health committee and Mr.

Brockett declared he had no objection to the matter handled by the special committee of hich Mr. Bendhelm is chairman, in connection with Its investigation of rates. A resolution authorizing the committee on finance to borrow $50,000 to meet tho current expenses of the city was referred to the committee on finance. Mr. Burke, of that committee, said the city would have an overdraft of 510 000 within a week and that the contemplated loan would not cover any of the cost of the new high school building for which an appropriation of 140,000 has been mad.

Councilman Bendhelm offered a resolution, which was referred to the light committee, directing the discont.nu-inco by the city of the sale of gas wtoves on tho ground that It was unprofitable. The gas supplied by the city gas works was discussed, and Councilman rocket offered a resolution appropriat-ng 5250 to employ an expert to come to lexandria and go over the plant and -co what was the matter with the quails of the gas. The resolution was re-erred to tho committee on light. Through Graham Ogden. real estate igents, the Old Dominion Glass Company offered $500 for the square of round owned by the cit.

bounded by 1rt. Fairfax. Montgomery, and Royal streets. This was referred to the joint ommlttee on finance, public property, and general laws. Councilman Leadbeater informed tho council that Mayor Fisher had written letter of thanks to tho Washington firo department for the assistance given when the King warehouse was destroyed, and had received a letter stating no expense was attached to the service.

It was decided to hold a Joint session jt tho next meeting to elect a health officer. The committee on police was organised with the election of Jacob Brill as tjhalrman, and the committee on claims, Tjth the election of Councilman II. R. Burke as chairman. Funeral services lor Miss Margaret Hanratty were held this morning at St.

Mary's Catholic Church. Tho Rev 11. Cutler, rector, conducted the services. "be pallbearers were Earl Wells, Ken- eth Crump. Will'am Topping, Frank 'everlll.

Leon Baggott. and Thomas Triest. Mrs Kate Waller Barrett. prcsdcnt of h5 National Council of Women, was he principal speaker today at the convention of the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution of Virginia in session in the auditorium of the Wagar apartments). Her subject was the "World's Viewpoint of Women," and she gave instructive talk based on her ln- estimation of the condition of women In Ei rone.

Mrs Barrett has recently returned rom a five months' trip abroad, during which time she attended the sessions of 'he International Council of Wom-n in Rome, and visited the councils of omen In all the principal countries of urope. She was appointed a special preventative of the Bureau of Immigration, and her report has just been led with Commissioner Cammanetti. yesterday afternoon's session a letter was read from Mrs. William 'ummlng Story, president general of "he Daughters of the American liovolu-Mon. in which she cordially reeted he Virginia delegates and wished them success.

In another communication Story suggested that, in accordance with the expressed wish th 1 'resident, contributions for the women Hnd children who are as a result of the war iu Europe should be erit through the Red Crobs, and thus reserve the President's proclamation jf neutrality. The delegates went to M- Vernon to-ay at noon, and will be entertained at unebcon at the Ellis' cafe by Mrs. Wll-iam A. Smoot. At the afternoon session today the election of officers will take place.

An "Venln session will also be held to- jlght. when the unfinished business will bo concluded. Last night the delegates were cnter-fiined nt a reception given by Mrs. Wil-lam B. Smoot.

In the receiving line with Mrs. Smoot were Mrs. W. J. Morton, regent of Mt.

Vernon chapter, and Mrs. J. F. Maupln, state regent. Invitations have been issued by Mr.

and Mrs. George Prior Anderton for the marriage of their daughter. Alice Adelaide, to Julian Thompson Burke, Jr. The ceremony will take place November 18, it 8 o'clock, at Christ Church. Eire yesterday destroyed the residence of William W.

Holland at Woodlawn. ic-ar ML The house and its ontents, valued at $1,800, were do-uroywi. HER ENGAGEMENT BROKEN 'BsVr 'r MISS MARGARET BRITTON. Anacostia, ANACOSTIA. Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas F. Williamson, 2051 Nichols avenue, are celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the veddmg and tonight will hold a reception to their relatives and) friends. Mr. and Mrs.

Williamson were married on October 28, 1889, in the old brick Emmanuel Episcopal Church, which stood on the site of the present stone structure, by the Rev. Willlard G. Davenport, rector emeritus of this church, who will be. present at the reception tonight, toi.ow-ing the performing of another wedding ceremony tonight in the present church. years ago also will be present, they be-j ing Morsell Tolson, William E.

Jordon, Walter Fisher, and Harry Eno. Williamson was Miss JsaDel K. toison befc re her marriage, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius W.

Tolson, of this suburb. Both Mr. and Mrs. Williamson have lived in this section of the District all of their lives. Mr.

Williamson being connected with the Government Hospital for the Insane. Past officers of Electa Chapter, No. 2. Order of the Eastern Star, were in charge of the degree work at the meeting last evening. Arrangements wero made for the annual visitation of the officers of the grand chapter on November 10.

Anacoptia Council, No. 1C, Junior Order of United American Mechanics accomplished degree work last night. Applications for membership also were received. John H. Sandfard and Miss Hildxed Dennison.

both of Giesboro, D. just beyond Congress Heights, will be married tonight at 8 o'clock in the parsonage of St. Teresa's Roman Catholic Church at Thirteenth and streets, by the Rev. Father Bart, pastor of the church. Capt.

W. T. Anderson, commanding the Eleventh precinct, is on ten dnrys' leave. Lieut. C.

L. Plemmons is in charge of the station. Captain Anderson has gone to West Virginia to visit his brother and enjoy the hunting there. Cavalcade of Eleven Officers on Long Ride Headed by Lieut. Col.

A. L. Parnier-ter. United States infantry, eleven army officers left Washington this morning to begin a ninety-mile riding test The must complete tho distance in three davs. leaving this city today, to morrow, and Friday.

In the party besides Colonel parmerter were Lieut. Cols. W. W. Harts and Edgar Jadwin, of the Engineer Corps: Henry C.

and C. C. McCulloch. of tho Medical Corps, and Adjt. Gen.

James H. MeRac and Majors H. M. Lord, of the Quartermaster Corps; W. J.

L. Lyster, Reuben B. Miller, and Raymond F. Metcalfe, of the Medical Corps, and Leroy T. Hillman, of the Ordnance Department Retail Merchants Plan Get-Together Luncheon Plans are under way for an clalor-ate luncheon to be participated in by the merchants of Washington during tho second week of November.

The committee of the Retail Merchants' Association, made up of M. A. E. Graham. Joseph Strasburger, and S.

Herzog. met late yesterday afternoon and arranged a program. The date of the luncheon will bo decided the committee hears from a distinguished speaker, who will bo invited to address the merchants The luncheon hour will be 12 o'clock, and it is contemplated to restrict the program to one hour. This will be the llrst of a series of get-together meetings of the Retail Merchants to be held during the winter. Foundry Church Has Meeting of Bishops Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church opened a.

seven-day meeting in the Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, Sixteenth and Church streets northwest, this morning. Addresses will bo delivered by Bishop W. L. McDowell. District superintendent.

Bishop W. F. Berry, and the Rev. II. Greene, pastor of Calvary Baptit Church.

tonight-Bishop Theodore S. Henderson will conduct a praise service on Thursday aml'nn WMnv ovonlnf Riwhon WII1- i Quayle will deliver an address BJ Rockville ROCKVILLE. The Democratic campaign in this county was practically brought to close esterday afternoon with a meeting in the court house, called to order bj Robert G. Hilton, chairman of tlu Democratic committee for the county. Senator Blair Lee presided and made an address.

Congressman David J. Lewis also spoke. Senator Lee dwelt on the peace policy of President Wilson and on the parcel post. Mrs. Mary M.

Snouffer, widow of George Fenton Snouffer, who died Monday night at the home of her daughter. Mrs H. B. Chiswell, in Alexandria. Va.

vas buried at noon today in Rockville Union Cemetery. William David Puckett and Miss Mildred Edith Hewitt, both of Craigsville were married yesterday by tho Rev. Samuel R. White at the homo the minister. Licenses to marry havo been issued to Jes.se Herman Burns and Miss Sarah Amelia Poole, both of Damascus, and Armstcad Hempstone Griffith and Misa Sarah Hersperger, both of Poolcsvillu district.

Funeral services for Rudolph L. Heley, son of Mrs. Mary Heley. who died Sunday in Washington, were held in St Mary's Catholic Church here yesterday, the pastor, the Rev. John T.

Coolahan, officiating. The interment was in the new Catholic Cemetery, near Rockville. For the greater part of his life, Mr. Helev lived in this county. He was forty-four yeara old and unmarried.

Walter AV. Bush, twenty-two. of Washington, and Mies Marjorle Goehns, eighteen, of New York city, wero married in Rockville last evening by the Rev. John R. Henderson, pastor of tho Presbyter an Church, at the home of the minister in the presence of several friends of the couple.

Immediately afterward, they returned to Washington. G. W. U. Provides for Biological Laboratory T.ie board of trustees of George Washington University has bought the large dwelling at 20-JTi street, adjoining the structure occupied by the department of arts and A portion of the huilding will be occupied by the biological laboratories, which at present at located at .2024 street.

The newly-pun hased building will be used principally by students taking the pro-medical court-'. Digestive Disorders Yield When the right help is sought at the right time. Indigestion is a torment. Biliousness causes suffering. Either is likely to lead to worse and weakening sickness.

The right help, the hest corrective for disordered conditions of the stomach, liver, kidneys or bowels is now known to be Bccchdms and the right time to take this famous family remedy is at the first sign of coming trouble. Beccham's Pills have so immediate an effect for good, by cleansing tho system and purifying the blood, that you will know after a few doses they Are the Remedial Resort Lirt Sle of Any Medicine in the World. Sold Tcry v-kcre. In box, 10c, 25c mi I MANUtdU AN to ROMANCE SHATTERED Engagement of Miss Margaret Britton and Carroll Robertson Suddenly Broken. Washington friends of the couplo are toda ascribing "temperamental differences" as the cause of the shattering of tho romance of Miss Margaret Britton, of this city, whose engagement to Carroll Robertson, of New York, has been broken.

Members of the family of Alexander Britton. prominent Washington attorney, father of the girl, decline to discuss the matcer in any manner, declaring that the mere announcement 1st all they have to say on the matter. Miss Britton, "the Titian debutante." made her bow to Capital society last spring, and since that time has been much entertained. Mr. Robertson Is a New York clubman, who has often visited this city for the largest social events.

STYLE SHOW ADDS Garments for War Sufferers Made by Children Will Be Displayed Today. The style show and dansant for tho benefit of the American Red Cross war relief fund will ciose tonight in Rauscher's. where since Monday afternoon the last word in apparel for women and men has attracted the admiration of scores of Washington society women and mon. Tho program today Includes demonstrations of several ball room dances by Miss Edith Spoffard and Ben Crampton. The Brazilian Polka and the Canter will be executed.

Tonight Miss Efflo Baker will give an original classical dance, and some new steps for the ball room will be exhibited by Miss Spoffard and Mr. Crampton. The assembly dancing in the blue room will be featured by a special musical program. A new Red Cross exhibit also will attract today and tonight. It is a display of garments for the peasant women and children of Europe made by junior helpers of the Red Cross In tho District.

Shawls and plain underclothes for women, and tlannel garments for children, with tucks hand-sewn by unsteady little fingers, are shown as tho handicraft of Misses Nancy Lane, Elizabeth Fechtcler, Eliner Wheeler. Elea-nora Johnston. Jane Boyd, and Mary, Hellen. and Kathleen Crawford. Handsomely gowned models will continue to demonstrate how the smartest frocks of the fall and winter season are to bo worn, and the aisles of the style salon will prove pathways of loveliness if all tho creations listed today are displayed before, the close of the show tonight.

How the gowns look with their wearers sitting, walking, dancing, stair climbing, and. In fact, in practically every known action of the ordinary day, will be shown. Novelties just received from the fashionable marts of the world were received by Washington merchants this morning and will be displayed tonight for the first time in the Capital at the style show, the hours of which will be from 2 to 6 this afternoon and from 7:: to 10:30 tonight. There were no more interested visitors at the style show yesterday than Mrs. Edward B.

McTean and her party. Attracted by some raro creations in mil linery. Mrs. McLean purchased $1G0 worth of hats, for delivery after the completion of the show tonight. Mrs.

Ellis Logan, president of tho District Federation of Women's Clubs, who has been present at the style show, afternoon and evening, since its opening, had a largo party of club women present last night in her efforts to lerd the support of tho clubwomen to the benefit. A display of hand-painted china, consist! njj of several special pieces by Miss G. Breuninger, is attracting much attention at the show. New Members Elected By Commerce Chamber Five new- members were elected to the ChaniDer of Commerce at a meeting of the eomtnittee of the trade body yesterday. Thoso leeted were Larz Andeison, Dr.

A. I. Shands. Dr. W.

Carr, W. McK. Stowell, William Montgomery and John E. Smith. Discuss Farm Teaching.

BAKER, Ore. Oct. 2S. Agricultural instruction in the public schools is one of the principal subjects being discussed bv the eastern division of the Oregon State Teachers' Association, which Is holding a three-day session here. COKE FOR SALE Best and cleanest fuel in the market.

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Degenerate posterity is the price that war will demand of all European nations, say scientists. Those killed in battle do not affect the physical fate of their country one-hundredth part so much as the men who return, neurasthenic wrecks from the rigors' of campaign, from the thunderous vibration of the big guns, and from exposure in the trenches. The real aftermath of Europe's war will be in the thousands of crippled, weak-minded children of fathers unfitted for parenthood by the effects of modern conflict. The Kaiser and King George of England, realizing the toll war would take of their citizenry, have already requested all recruits to marry before taking the field. Bv KENDRICK SCOFIELD'.

Statisticians have already begun to compute the cost of Europe's war dollars, day by day. Artillery experts arc ready with their estimates of how many human lives are wiped out with every discharge of turpin-ite bombs and 42-centimeter shells. Economists can estimate to the last decimal just what difference the devastation of the nations of Europe will make in the general scale of the world's supply and demand. Now, however, come the medical men, and the anthropologists. In their calculations the ultimate fate of the allies or of Germany, is of no moment: for they have found In tho European conflict a cataclysm more huge than the tottering of man-made dynasties, the purely vital question of massed dead upon stricken fields, or Uie prosaic questions of supply and demand with which the economist busies his statistical brain.

They see but one enemy in the field. That enemy is the lasting physical Injury to progeny, of the nations at war through seeds of disease and debilltv to be planted in the constitutions of the men fighting today on the battlefields of Europe. See Crippled Forms. So, while the rest of the scientific world is engaged in tabulating tho immediate effects of the world war upon the embattled countries, these medical men and anthropologists are looking beyond the immediate. They are peering through the swirling columns of smoke which now obscure the future of tho Old World.

They are listening intently when tho thunders of the big guns have momentarily lulled. They are thinking not of the devastating death which rides upon the lance heads in shock of conflict, but upon another devastating death more potent, more awful, more universal than ever swept over a land from its birthplace in a cannon's maw. Instead of the dead plied thick in the trenches, they see in the future a million little children, offsprings cf unfit parents, starting out poorly equipped to become the citizens of first powers. Instead of the thunders of the guns, they hear the plaintive voices of little boys and girls, as yet unborn, crying down the years that the ultimate cost of Europe's war of the centuries will not be paid in gold or goods, but in the crippled forms, the neurasthenic allment3, the weak mentalities of the children whose fathers were not killed in the conflict, but who returned to their homes to pass on to posterity the vital weaknesses saddled upon them by exposure and by the rigors of a modern campaign. One of the most interested in these nroblems is Dr.

Ales Hrdllcka, the prominent anthropologist, and curator of the National Museum. His interest is purely sclonUfic: otherwise he is "neutral." He sees not merely the thousands of dead who in his opinion will really matter the least, for, he says, they have suffered in most cases, far less than THE RELIABLE REMEDY Rapidly relievesCoWs Coughs Sore Throat and Bronchial Affections Mas Fine Action in the Blood Does Real Work in Cleaning Body of Impurities. It li to the Bkln that blood Impurities are driven by Nature. And it is in the skin that R. S.

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Around the bottle Is an Illustrated clr-rular that tells jou how to obtain special free adriee In quickly overcoming i.t i v2 SC Is nrp. 1 pared only by The Swift Specific 03 iswirt Atianim, ua. the War many of the survivors, and none of their defects will be inherited by a progeny. "The great toll that the terrible modern war is Imposing," he said, "falls upon the hundreds of thousands of human beings in fact, Uie millions who must suffer untold exposure and privation; and, in addition, the frightful shocks of modern explosives, which ruin, if they do not kill! or main or shatter or undermine in many cases, the nervous system. "Into the war there are being sent perhaps 15,000,000 of men, at least one-half of whom represent the best in the physical line that the embroiled nations have.

Out of the war, ir it is to last at the present rate of violence, even as much as nine months or a year only there will come back possibly four-fifths of survivors; but among those four-fifths how many will be wrecked In their physical and mental powers? These will be the army of the chronic Invalids, the rheumatics, neurasthenics, irrltables, and those suffering with Incurable ailments of the intestinal tract. These men will constitute alono a much greater loss vital and economical than those killed. Suicide of Nation. "But the injury does not stop there. These hundreds of thousands of partial wrecks will marry, in most instances, and their weakness in one form or another is bound to tell in their progeny.

This is not looking at things through any dark glasses, but those are the actual conditions that confront the medical man and the anthropologist interested In the physical welfare of humanity. "Wars in olden times had no such effects, or at least not in any such proportions. The battles were much the exposure and shock far less, and the medical service was so imperfect that relatively few of the more serious cases recovered. The mortality in the battle may have been just as great or even heavier, but those who were left were, after a few days rest, just as sound men as they were before. "It seems surely that when the final account be made after this war of the 'human damage," that there will be no victors among the nations but only sufferers.

And a few such wars would mean the suicide, physical, intellectual, and finally, doubtless also, political and economic, of even the militarily strongest nation." Under the conclusions reached by National Furniture Co, 633-635 Street Out of the High Rent District Big Bargains Easy Terms Elegant Matched iww lyLA 111 Wip. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm the medical men and anthropologists, te joncerning "They thaj Iivo me sword seems invested with a new meaning. The scientists, in discussing the probable effect which tho European war will have upon posterity, point to- most of the nations of the world, who have sunk from military glory to lands peopled by mediocre men, as examples of the ruin war works through enfeebling the cominsr generations. They call attention to the fate of once-proud Egypt, and of Greece, and Rome, whose supremacy among nations ceased before tho fifth century. Turkey and Persia are sighted for other examples, and so on down to the supremacy of Prance before the Napoleonic wars, prior to the time of Napoleon, the Franks were a race of giants among men.

But, say the scientists, from tho effects of those wars, they are today undersized and physically imperfect. But the effects of war upon these countries arose from a different set of causes than those which tho medical men link with the European conflict of today. Then posterity was Injured by the extinction of the physically perfect men of the race. But in Europe's war, say the scientists, there need be no fear that the ranks of the male will be decimated. The list of dead, they declare, will probably not total more than a million at the very greatest, and that, considered as against the many millions of population in the embattled countries is no great number.

Menace of Warfare. But. they point out, the very methods of modern warfare itself is the greatest menace. A man in full physical health enlists and is sent to the field. Ho may ultimately And himself in one of the crews who work the great modern Held rifles of the siege guns.

The Intense vibration of the great weapon racks his constitution and frays his nerves. Very often the gunners havo to be carried from their positions in a state of total collapse. Or, perhaps, he is sent to the trenches. Day after day he remains in 'the breastworks, waiting for the word to advance. Rain pours upon him.

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NEW YORK. Oct and too proud to beg, two aged American women, sisters, have carried out In Venice a suicide pact made two years ago. according to dispatches received here today from the Italian city. The victims of the grim tragedy wero Mrs. Julia R.

McKay and Miss Jennie. Royael, daughters of a once wealthy and respected Brooklyn family. Two years ago the sisters found their slender resources dwindling Ignorant of any means of earning a livelihood and handicapped by their advanced years, they entered into tho sombre agreement which was fulfilled two days ago in their self-imposed death. In younger and more prosperous days they had learned to know and Iov Venice. They determined to take shelter there, live as long as their slim supply of money lasted, and then enter together Into the great beyond.

Supported by an unconquerable prid which forbade them to seek assistance from their many wealthy friends, the sisters carried out their agreement. They took prusslc acid. Mingled with the tale of the sisters' suicide is a weird Incident related by William A. Schact. of New York, a former close friend.

"When they went away." said Schact. "they told me of their intention to end their lives when their money was exhausted. As a parting gift they rave me a vase which had been one of their roost cherished heirlooms. "Two days ago the vase, from no conceivable cause, toppled from Its shelf and was smashed to The incident Vrought vivldlv torh'y mind the words of the two ladies when they tol.l me that they contemplated suicide, ani I had an instant premonition that they were dead. It turned out to be true-" Will JVteet Despite.War.

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