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NO 829 WASHINGTON D C WEDNESpAY JANUARY 13 1909 TWO CENTS

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Second Explosion in

Branch Mine

Shaft Declared Safe Before Shift

Went to Work

AN OPEN LAMP IGNITES GAS

Disaster Believed to Have Been

Caused by Foreigners Carrying

Unprotected Light Into Mine

Only Two Weeks Ago an

Killed Fifty Workmen and

Debris Had Just Been Cleared

Away for EesumBtion of Work

NEARLY 3411 ENTOMBED

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Explo-

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Hantii gtoH W Y u Jan 12 Anotherexplosion occurred today la tbe LickBranch Owl BriME ewiwd by tile Pocahoatas C asellGateJ CoHteriBS Cewpaa-jrt Switchback Norfolk and Weikern Railroad

Between sixty sbty lives were lestThe mater of kWed way be largely in-

creased a rem 2Sf to 3M mteecs were at

ascertate know mea survtvoiThis is time second explosion fat thisin time last two weeks la the Scat tftypersons were IJMud The cause of the

Is sot yet known The number ofdeed net be mown for several days

paid by the car to whichminers attach a tag oa which MB num-

bercar pat to tile hippie for imaplag time

clerk lafor K TJatfer tilts systew the

pleas tics acability of the urinenumber of wren wo

for the In-

to fc the

It was stated that the was ex-

amined eariy to4sjr before tbe BW shiftwent to work sad that it was reported tobe perfectly sale Iever soon after the work was begunthe eptostan occurred with a Met that stayfar exceed that of the December ex

twork at time and it Me set yet

The sders w

e are this

ciIulIe time tamer ueawork

wha they It tIMtr

wIleR tile expIoMa occurred

Majority AreThe K tile were

to wrk at the spinawine

swine

spite 0t hew

i aid

the beenbait

ahme

ac-

cidentarray

and siren sad wmen

givessmart

piets sad whwstd

oa daIsg

Americana orky s Iner va0ms

engaged

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The H tee officials refuse to givedefinite tel that nay have not deathFresh air Isfeetag forced Sato the shaft

Blame Open Lamp

the blame oa some of the foreigners whohave entered with an open temp It wasknows that there was a small quantityof gas in the raise last sight and it isconsidered probable that this may havesuddenly increased after the steers be-gan to work and that it was ignited by aoopen lamp

State Inopoctor PhHIipe Inspected

eral condition was good Mine inspectorsare now Investigating the exptestea Aspecie tram with physicians and mIReoSclals has been seat to the scene fromBlueSeM

Switchback the scene of the explosionis a small village ia McDowell County Inthe center of the great flat top coed fields

Railroad Estimate of DeadSpecial to ISo msKsgteQ Herald

Roanoke Va Jan llThe latestreceived at the and West-

ern Railway headQuarters here tonightfrom the LJek Branch mine disaster isthat not less than seventyfive lives havebeen lost but possibly th maaber willreach m Aa even lot miners were

from Colambus Ohto to Lick Branchover the Norfolk and Western rod

WEDS WATER CART

Oklahomans Wrapped In Legal TIeto Fight Demon Rum

Guthrie Okte Jan 12A resolution de-claring the water wagon in Oklahomato be a common carrier was introducedIn the Oklahoma house totdy by Representative Durant Democrat It passedwith a whoop and was sent to the seaate for concurrence The resolution de

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by way K the taB which woe mataged

While time ogideIs cannot now samecause for the explssion mlaers place

Minethis mtae In August and tOUlMl tile gen

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demands that the Statewide prohibitionlaw shall have the moral support of theentire citizenship of the State

STUDENT LOSES MIND

Runs Through Street Without ShoesOverwork or Hazing the Cause

Baltimore Md Jan 12 Dementedeither by overwork or hazing SanseiSerkin o Yonkers X Y a medical student at the University of Maryland rancoatless and without any shoes on hisfeet two naBes from the eastern sec-

tion of the townSorkin who had been visiting time home

of Xr and Mrs Max Sefeeibegan talking at random He was

to Me down and rest hut to a fewminutes Jumped up and finally rushed in-to the street in his stocking feet andwithout coat or hat Half an hour laterbe was found wandering by the policenear Pine street and taken to the stationhouse where the young mans relativeshastily summoned from Yonkers foundhlmthis afternoon

Seaboard FloridaHandsomest and quickest train In

ida service Solid Pullman electriclighted throughout Office ua axe

of thedares picnic

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NEW PRESIDENTi

fire fv the next

WEATHER FORECAST-

For the District of ColumbiaDelaware acid fairand holder todayfair wkhmoderate nortberr winds becomwg vari c

TELLS STORY OF GRIME

Saipea YaH a

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vym M ski of thte-

t a wttnesc to ar v lust July near2 j ta hi which aj rf it tile of-

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Sire was eatwhen the

teat week the

t secrecy ay rwroth time dx

the Simi ete s

the place wte vaad show the rburied

a sine ehexgea-

ioni her siltted to go to

body was

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I IK JXASFrozen to

Death onTex Jan K

southern part ef tile State lastand extended 209 miles into Mexico

Many thousands of acres of growingvegetables IB the Lower RIo GrandeValley territory were damaged aad aaanyfarms suffered total losses The frost isbelieved to have destroyed grovesof orange trees

Much st eriag is reported antoag thepoorer people partfceiariy the Mexicanswho are wholly unprepared for whiterweather The buzzard which has beenraging for two days in Northwest Texashas caused the death of great numbersof cattle upon the ranges

HOME ON 101 RANCH BURNS

Many Famous Men EntertainedOklahoma White House

Buss Okla Jan m ranchheadquarters known all over the Southwest as the White House becaese ofthe famous then who have been enter-tained there as guests of Miller Brothers

prairie gale The only fire fighters avail-able were Indians and cowboys employedon the ranch and the btdkHng was de-stroyed the loss being estimated at3SOGO

President McKInley President RooseWHMaat J Bryan aad many ethers

have been at the house

Deeaman as 1te

big R heavyhaRL

The theeaH tk e r Ute erneIs true era y w timeyoung aYOhneru

Great Xum1Jel r

ct RangeAustin e cold spellwl set to

The wentbelow the reeiiug pl In the extreme

nightfor

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was burned last night during a heavy

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Perkins Is ReelectedSacramento Cal Jan 11 United States

Senator George C Perkins wastoday by the State legislature

He received votes of aM the fortynineRepublicans in the senate and fiftysixof the sixty Republican assemblymen Afight was made again Perkins by theXJacotnRooeeveit but it proveda fizzle The Democrats gave their compnnsentary vot to J O of HeMfster

Burton to Be Elected TodayOhio Jan 12Theodore

Burton of Cleveland was today electedUnited States Senator Olio by theWy sitting separately Tomorrow theelection will be completed by the

in join sessionresulted in the complete Republican strength going to Burton and the Democratic strength going toformer Gov James E Whengiven the formal election tomorrow Burton will deliver aa address

Conan Doyle Scrionaly niLondon Jan 12A bulletin on

dltkw of Sir Arthur Centa Doyle todaysaid he Sassed a restless sad painfulnit The lumens author underwent anoperation oa January 10 for an Internalaffection

Davis

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fromhouse and senate of the general

The action today

con

re-elected

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as-sembly

time

Executives CourseinErowiis

tille Case Denounced

Large Audience of Spectators

and Senators Present

Ohioan In Lengths Speech Calls thePresident A Shock to Decencyand Attracts Attention of III Gel

leagues by Declaring that Contin-

gent Fund Money Was Looted fromTreasury to Pay Secret Agents

Before gaWocfes atOll with hundreds ofspectators and n aW presence of nearlyall his SonatorhU colleagues SenatorForakec delivered a sueech in the Senateyesterday eoncaram the Brownsvilleepisode whisk was devoted jseiily al-

most oattrely to time presentation of evi-

dence to show that the private detectivesemployed to pet coafeestoas from some ofthe iwsro soNIa dtocbarsed without

front the United

IStates Infantry had been gvttty of w felperjury and anbomattai of perjury

lery sat Mrs welter and her daughtersMrs Watawrhjht and Mtes Ferakarr

Mrs Depew and other vcoHfaMMt wo-

of the Scial ctrde were present In theafplaaiaae gallery woe a fish repraeentatIeR fmm the diptomatte corps

At the outset there were thatMr Forakers coUeaeuac took little later

Tf atOi went on aad jvtdueod affidavit

aft oodarimj dtaeliven had sworn tehMiy the Senators be-

gan to up sad take satinBefore he had eonciuuad Mr Ftoakar

MIl time attautma f the entire Sanrte and it we tpHMit from what wassaid by Senators arwrd that many ofhis eaHmgues bettered he had made outaa exceedingly atroog rose earl had diecreed the reports of the sleuths em-

ployed by the admtafetrattonSenators Attracted

Jueakers remarka aliUsetdji the attention af lawyara in the

I argument to show that the fundsto pray the governments private

fur endeavoring to ran down

hud been takeR UlegUr troutpriation placed at the disposal of tbe

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dId flat the

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hire guilty 0 time Brownsville shootingan

Secretary or Wv In JMI Just the

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outbreak of the Philippine insurrectionMr Foraker contended that under a

specific law OH the subject which heread the use of this aaaey by the WarDepartment Lad been revoked automatic-ally two years after the money becameavailable He also read a statute enactedhi JSm and atm ia force that prohibited

inany government or by any off-icer of the District of Columbia andcoatendjgd that hi view of this statutethere had been a dear violation of the

Use of Secret ServiceAt out point hi his speeds Senator For

aker dlgreoacd and made attack uponthe PresWeaTiMffleg of the Secret Servicewhich made a profound taapreeefon on theSenators

He had Just read from the correspond-ence of one of thedtoebarged soldiers thestory of the efforts of a government de-tective to secure possession of one of theSenators letters

Mr President said Mr Foraker laylug aside his manuscript and speakingwith deliberation I never wrote a letter

left my mothers knee that theworld may not read or to which any person may not give the widest publicity Isay this without gratification

I nay have written letters as othermen have done in which I used languagethat ia view of subsequent developmentsmight require correction But none ofthem has been of athat required any lying dodging or

on my part

tb of private detectivesservice

law sad of public

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characternot one

employment

a misuse funds

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Senator commented upon the use ofsecret government agents to spy uponSenators and private citizens He

that every honest man ought toresent such atrocious conduct

shame upon it the SenatorHe declared that men to the public serv-ice were being hounded by detectives-at the Presidents orders which he characterized as unprecedented

When Senator Foraker invited theof the Senate te the affidavits he

was prepared to read be told his col-leagues he had the original affidavits onhis desk where any Senator may see

de-clared

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them is so ranch misrepresenta-tion Investive abroad about this mat-ter that I have taken nothing for grantedGrowing more serious the Senator de-clared A time will come when certainmen will no longer deal lightly in invective They wilt occupy a positionwhere they may be called to account likeother private citizens for unwarrantedassaults of this kind

Senators and gallery spectators leanedforward to hear better when Mr Forakerread affidavits to show that the detectivesemployed by the government had givenfalse accounts of the information furnmhed to them by former members of theTwentyfifth Infantry One affidavit wasparticularly striking It was made by GC Arnold a Georgia rherlff who waspresent when Boyd Conyers a formersoldier bad been examined by Herbert JBrowne who with William G Baldwinof Roanoke Va made contracts withthe government to run down the men responsible for the Brownsville affray

Sheriff Arnold to whose high standingSenator Clay of Georgia testified yesterday expressed himself as horrifiedover Brownes report as to Conyers al-leged disclosures and asserted that Conyers had made o confession or givenany warrant for the report submitted byBrowne

In the course of Ms remarks Mr Foraker asserted thAt fraudulent Imperson

Continued on PafiTe 4 Coluaia 8

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INVENTOR HELD FOR ESBJITRY

Charles F Acker a Millionaire Society Man Faces Charges

Ledcport N Y Jaa feChariee FAsks society of skewYork sad head of tho mammoth Acker

indicted by the grand Joey today OB acharge of perjury and three tadfetmeatafor guuardl nation of perjury

It is said the indictments were securedon complaint of Dr Carl Qoidundth endJoseph Weber of Em oatheRuhrGermany inventors and capitalists whodeist that Adter attempted to stealfrom them patents on a pro SMC to sec-t from old onus a prongs which it tesaid bus made the Germane wealthy

Representatives Confident InauguralBill Will Pass House

Prscesee of was

wILL TIS pSr DJNG

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Measure Will Be Called Up for RollCall Vote on Sext DistrIct

Day

The f tile P

acting as a committee of the

bill introduced by Ropracmtathfe Smithof XfcfaSsaa

day by Representative Smith oftrict Committee and many other memhers of Congress The bill win he shed

that many of those who opposed Itin the committee will either fall to voteand go on record or vote iu favor of itspassage

Chairman Smith at first contemplatedcalling up the bM by unanimous consentof the members of the House but he doesnot believe he would be successful in thisattempt Therefore he has decided towait until the day set aside forDistrict matters

When the vote of the whole committeewas taken onday nearly an of theRepublican members had left the Capitoland nearly every Democrat present votedagainst the bill In view of this factChairman Smith believes be will have notrouble in obtaining the we of the bufidinng

hero Oce IIdktfor we lte-iay the 8Ct1eaeC tileHouse

to fJIIIIRG to time

Tills was time opinion exprersd yestertheDIe

for vote by rsll droll oa tile nextDistrict q In the House and it Is

next

Inwgmat ba4 will grantedCongress desphe

whole a rove ingural

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SCANDAL IN CUMBERLAND

Dismissal of Water SuperintendentIs Recommended by Council

Special to The TOcbfagfe BeaKCumberland Md Jan 32 city

council tonight without a dissentingvoice adopted the report of the committee appointed to investigate the sale ofthe old Johnson Ice house and declaresThat the best interests of tile city will

be served by the dismissal of Water Superintendent Sell and the water boardis requested to act accordingly

It Is further requested that the city at-torney proceed against Sell Bros Com-pany former Mayer King and Joseph LSell and collect for the material that wastaken from the old Jonason ice house

Mr Sell said tonight that he had employed an attorney and would have acomplete defense His friends intimatethat politics is behind the move againsthim

Favors Statewide ProhibitionNashville Tuna Jan 11 The

this afternoon voted in favor of Stateprohibition bill The senate at 2198oclock took up for oeaeWoraikm the billwhich provides that it shall take effectjuly 1

Children and SelfMankate Mina Jan 12 James York

a quarry worker cut the throats of fourof his children and then committed suicide by hanging himself by a smell wire

Furniture AuctionThe Mendelsohn sale of rich mahogany

furniture In shapes and styles as used byour forefathers with plate fireplace garnishments mirrors prints curios c will be sold at auction at theSloan Galleries 1W7 G St commencingthis morning at 11 oclock at 3and the same hours tomorrow and Friday See catalogue for further particulars Rooms comfortably heated anti seatsprovISed for

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Attorney General ExplainsTalk with Senator

LO LITIGATION IS BEGUN

In an Official Statement Given OutYesterday Afternoon the CabinetOfficer Tells of the Relation Between Himself and the Carlinian in Preparing Resolution

ofikfel statement yesterdayafternoon Attorney General Bonaparteexplains We pouUtoa hi the

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BONAPARTE REPLIES

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Metes referred to in Senator TBhuaaaspeech OB Monday

Speaking of the resolution which heprepared for the South CaroHuma altera eoaversfctwa with htm on time questionMr Bonaparte smote He told mo hewished information to the status ofthe lands embraced hi these Oregon grantsbecause be had heard 90 much complamt

t the conduct of the corporationsetefcntog them during repeat journeythrough States of tho Pactac Slope Hecriticised with great severity the policyor granting the public domain to suchcorporations and mentioned that oa

grant of this character be had saM tecertain of Me colleagues You marwell give thorn what they want sow youhave given them pretty ranch everythingelse

Land of ValueHe said according to my recollection

that time lands had become of great valueand many persons wished to purchasethem and added that he would have beenglad to do so himself if he could liMIthe never told me

on Me part with an arrangement j

to acquire some pi

that he intended exported evenat that time to maKe say such

purchaseAs stated by him Ilk reason for mak-

ing these inquiries was that he mightbetter discharge his public duties andI was totally ignorant until Idocuments transmitted by the President

Ids

someIa land

word of IQoC these nor

de-sired

saw the

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to Senator Hale that Senator TIllthe time of his conversation with me bedany private Interest whether actual orin expectation in connection with thesubject of our conversation I gave hima full statement of the information whichhad been collected by the department aethe result of a protracted investigationmade by Messrs Townsend and SJcBfcUras special counsel and which had continued during a considerable part of thepreceding year I told him also thatwe deemed it advisable to obtainCongressional action in the form ofa resolution empowering the AttorneyGeneral to claim a forfeiture of

and that I felt some apprehensionlest such action should be opposed bythe large interests which it would affect

Senator Tillmaa then offered to introduce a resolution on the subject if Iwould prepare one and I did preparesuch a resolution which was introducedby hint and subsequently adopted

this Interview I explained to himthat it would bo impracticable to comerthe corporations claiming these lands tosell any particular portion of them toany particular person although ofcourse if the government could establish-a forfeiture of right under the grant thelands might become afterwards open toentry on the same terms as any otherportion of the public domain

or coarse if it was at the time hispurpose to obtain some part of the landsin question through arrangements withMessrs Reeder A Watkins or otherwisethis forfeiture might tend to premote hisindividual interest but I bad no reasonto credit him with any such andI dealt with him throughout as askingthe information and advice I could giveonly that he might fulfill his duty as apublic officer

Taking notice of that part of the Tillman speech in which it is asked whether-or not the Attorney General has been ordered to obey the law ordering suit to beinstituted against these snipe Oregonlands Mr Bonaparte atatcs

On September 4 1S9S suit was broughtby the United States of America in theCircuit Court or the United States for the

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of Oregon against the Oregonand CamTormu Railroad Company tileSouthern Paejae Company Ute Union

tee Stephen T Gage individually sendas trustee and a large number of indi-vidual defendants The purpose of tillssuit is m subforce a forfeiture of the public tendsclaimed by the raflroads under Mr Herrhnaas control by virtue of the originalgrant to the Oregon and California RaM

Xt has been brought in accordance withtime directions of the Joint resolution towhich Senator Tfttman refers was in-

stituted as soon as practicable after Utepassage of tile said resolution and thefact of Its Institution has been pubttshedand could have been verified by any onethrough inquiry at this department formore then tour months

Mystery of Death in Drugged Wineon Stage Grows Deeper

Five Bottles Are Sent to the StateChemist of Maryland to Make

Analysis

Mary 3id Ja 22A jaejaast washeld tide afternoon Into the death ofCharles Lesley Pippin tie young under-taker who died Sunday after drinking a

by the Methodist church States Attoraey Elmer Deea at the meat de-

clared that time victim had been mur-dered that it had been meant to murderothers and that there existed in the caseone of the strangest criminal plots knows

Arsenic it is declared was found mgreat quantities in bottles used at tbeentertainment By a vote of seven tolye aa open verdict was rendered by tbeJury impanelled ia the case and time priv-ilege of holding a postmortem examina-tion of the body was arbitrarily refused

Time family of are foremost inthe exerts to prevent inquiry into thecase It leaked out today that Pippinwas about to be married within a shorttime

Time States attorney reached here earlythis morning He left tonight taking

him Ave bottles in which the dopedwas held at various times asserting

be would not press the case until thechemist bad completed an analysis

BRANDEGEE THE VICTOR 1

Senator Gets ISO to 111 for

Dine

Trust and as

to declare eII

INQUEST OVER POISON VICTIM

bottle of wine at a play

Company individually

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lepreesntatlve HillHartford Conn Jan 12 United States

Senator Frank B Brandegee was selectedby the Republican caucus of the generalassembly this afternoon to succeed him-self in tbe Senate for a full term of sixyears Mr Brandegee has been serving aterm of four years which was the unexptred period of Ute term of the late Sen-ator Orville H Platt

There were 237 votes in the caucuswhich is the number of those eligible tovote Mr Brandegee received andRepresentative Hill UL While disap-pointed of course that their man felledof Ute Mr Hills friendswere nevertheless ranch gratified that hemade so good a showing The electionby the general assembly will take placenext week

The Democratic minority wiN hold theircaucus Thursday afternoon upon the ad-journment of for the day

STEICBUNG WILL BE SPEAKER

Foreman Wins Over Sutherland forSenate Presidency

Sfwcfai t TV WaaUnstea BeaMCharleston W Vfe Jan liJ H

StrfckHag of Tyler County was electedby the Republican caucus of toe housefor speaker tonight by acclamation

J Foreman of Grant County wasnamed by the senate Republican caucusfor President of time senate on the firstballot receiving sixteen votes and

seven

Merritt T Cooke WinsSsedil te The Waahisstea Herald

Norfolk Va Jan 12 Merritt T Cookewas tonight elected president of the Eas-iness Mens Association of Norfolk overWDIard R Cook to succeed T Anderson The election was one of the

ever held in the association

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Call Upon Commissioners toEffect a Remedy

PRESSURE TOO IS LOW

Lights Go Out Making Dangerfrom Explosions Constant

Instance Cited in Communicationfrom Takoma Park AssociationTending to Show a Deplorable asWell a an Alarming Condition ofAffairs in that Part of City Con

Echoes of the drastic exposure ofpresence of deadly carbon monoxidela the gas supply of the Washington Gaslight Company are being heard In

measure by the District

So deep has been the impression madeby the recent report of the Bureau ofChemistry on the causes of the Bremerman tragedy that public Inquiry and agi-tation refuse to abate In any degreePub c sentiment Is aroused to a highpitch and la rapidly crystaittzlng Intodetermination to bring the gas monopolyto its knees

Commissioner Macfarfand yesterdayto his colleagues that Con-

gress bo asked to enact a law whichwill require a pressure of at least onefoot at all periods of the day and nightThis was the result of a deer and

statement of grievances from t aTakoma Park Citizens Association Thecommunication front this association isabout as scathing an arraignment of thepolicy of the Washington GaslightCompany as has ever been seen in theDistrict of Columbia

Gives Graphic Evidence-A personal communication front a citi-

zen of Langdon Is graphic evidence of theeject produced upon the public mindby the Bremerman tragedy This

says I am at work in Uteevenings and the recent tragedies fromgas poison cause ate a greet deal ofworry as I fear I shall find my familythe same way as the Bremeonaas

Commissioner Macfarfaad as referredto the Corporation Counsel the interpret-ation of the word In the char-ter of the Washington Gaslight Com-

pany If the presence of carbon rooooxWepossible alaws to remedy present condition of affairs

The letters from the Takom Park Citi-

zens Association fellows Jn partTacoma Park D X January 9 Zits

The Honorable Commissioners of theDistrict of CoHubbte

The citizens of Tacoma Park arevitally interested in the recently proposedlegislation concerning the presence ofcarbon monoxide ta iyuratoaUag gasTbe committee on gas and lighting ofthe Citizens Association beg to presentae following report of complaints re-

garding the gas situation in tills suburbf Xot Enough Gas

For more than a year the people ofTakoraa Park have been troubled withan tasusfcieat amount of gas for bothcooking and illuminating purposes theQuantity being so lax that on very

occasions the gas lights ia both

minating jets have become extinguishedThis has been the case particularly be-

tween the hours of and 7 in the even-ing and T and S in the morning and tvehave been especially troubled in havingour gas go out since the month of Oc-

toberThe following is a Quotation from a

letter receivedOne evening owing to the failure to

remember that I had two jets lightedwhen the gas failed one in my furnaceroom was not turned off Fortunately Idiscovered the odor of gas and detected-it the next morning without a light Hadthe furnace been lighted there wouldcertainly have been an explosion thatwould have wrecked the house During

DEADLY MONOXIDE

URM CITIZENS

greas Urged to Make Law

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gas can be held f1 nuisance It inway Js byes under the present

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the latter part of October meout In all parts of my house repeatedlyIn the evening

Another citizen writesM The gas lights In the room and oven

have repeatedly gone out while beingused this to the great danger of

concerned for It frequently happenedthat one light or one burner would goout while another did not Had It nothad immediate attention It would haveautomatically set off an explosion

These cases are not Isolated onevbutare frequent In Takoma Park Complaintshave also been entered concerning thelarger size of bills under the regime oflow gas pressure and a serious violadon of the street light regulations

noticed viz That up to aboutS oclock in the evening the streetare so poorly lighted afford Tittleprotection This Is of course tothe low gas pressure

The Lights Went OutSow gentlemen when it Is realized

that on the very evening preceding thefire which destroyed the BHss ElectricalSchool the gas pressure was so low inTakoma Park that the gas lights areknown to nave gone out and that onmany occasions the lights did actuallybecome extinguished in the iJites schoolitself before tile fire One can easilysee that we are living in danger of havingour own homes likewise destroyed by

fireThe danger to lire however is not themost serious one to which we are

We are fully aware of the factsbrought out by the recent investigationregarding the Bremerman fatality Werealize fully that when cur utand the leakage of the gas isthere Is constant danger to health arideven to life Itself The Washington Citygas contains 99 per cent of carbon mooxide a gas whicji is so deadly thjatwhea a guinea pig is exposed to an at-ntospliere containing 1 per cent ofmonoxide for fifteen minutes it collapses

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