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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1909
Page
5
In a voice war game setting, the Army of the Blue near Bridgewater prepared to advance on Ooston defending against Red forces. Regimental commands issued marching orders as raids and cross river bridge moves occurred, with a Blue prisoner taken during a miscapture and officials coordinating with officers and staff.
Regional riflemen gather for Camp Perry events with orders, captains, and officers named. Participants include Lieut 45 Hed and Capt Ridley Reich, among others, as teams compete in divisions and prize categories at the camp.
Reports in official circles say the Wright brothers have ideas to perfect airplanes and devices to guide and stabilize flight. They discussed automatic keeping devices, possible improvements for navigation, and tests at Bore Maer, with government interest and potential bonuses if achievements validated by cross country flights.
Army transport Sumner endures heavy seas and illness aboard a voyage from Washington to the front as sailors and militiamen cope with seasickness. Capt Scott keeps the ship in formation behind McClellan after a machinery breakdown slows them. Sentry confusion with Col Simms in pajamas reveals discipline efforts and personnel changes aboard the Second Infantry unit.
Kansas, Vermont, and Ohio rejoined the fleet at Lynn Harbor Bay for gun sight adjustments ahead of a target run. The battleships, operating near the Virginia cape, reported cloudy conditions and shifting northeast to southeast winds, with weather easing after an hour. Minnesota remains docked and will depart early tomorrow.
Lieut Col Robert and associates reported the theft at Union Station yesterday. A case containing wearing apparel and a gold plated safety razor engraved with Col Svann’s initial was taken while Col Evang was at the ticket office. Police suspect a band of crack thieves active at Union Station.
A note references a little booklet titled The Road to Wellville found in every third package, a campaign urging readers to invest 16 cents in a Post graduate course. The message claims widespread distribution after surpassing 100 million units and suggests adding the brochure to general education with life facts detailed within.
District of Columbia National Guard units join a cross state exercise near New Bedford Massachusetts as 20 900 militiamen in the Red army and 8 500 Blues maneuver. Guardsmen march twelve miles to Morton homestead amid dust and tents while officers and signals test long distance operations. An accident injures a guard private as a convoy guards the wagon train during the simulated clash.
An accident aboard the Russian submarine Dragon injures seventeen Russians and Joseph Meadz of Baltimore. Investigators blame workers not engineers. Meades, in charge, turned switches that stopped the hashline motor. motors ran five more hours before Simon Lake halted them. Seven or more injured not expected to survive. Mendes detained in hospital for a fortnight.
Mra Grace Hartman of Chicago writes Senator Willam E Borah asking him to find a reliable working man who wears overalls and avoids drinking, to marry her. Borah replies with tactful approval of Idaho men and offers to aid Hartman by recommending suitable suitors and sharing state-appropriate guidance.
Rear Admiral Potter of the navy bureau declares a young man posing as his nephew defrauded hotelkeepers and guests in Dartmouth New Hampshire and several Massachusetts towns. Potter has no Portsmouth or Massachusetts relatives and urges arrests for the large pretenses. The impersonator left Portsmouth after being marked a crook and his whereabouts are unknown.
A weather report from Washington describes an area of low pressure moving into the lower basin from the upper valley. Showers reported in several central regions with warm spells and generally rising temperatures into Monday and Tuesday. The forecast calls for showers in eastern regions and cooler conditions in New England by midweek, with variable winds along the coast and moderate to unsettled weather across the Gulf and interior western areas.
The report outlines Australia's push for a naval buildup as government officials discuss proposals. It notes a British offer rejection and alternative plans to deploy a squadron for India and a large federal base in Western Australia, amid discussions with London on maritime aid and defense strategy.
Brig Gen Edwin F Townsend born 1883 in New York and West Point classmate of Hood and McPherson died after a prolonged illness at Walter Reed Hospital. He served in the artillery, reentered Civil War service as a captain, earned brevets for Shiloh, and retired as colonel of the Twelfth Infantry. Funeral at Kalorama Road home with Arlington honors. wife Jeaven and two daughters Penrose and Minnie Townsend listed.
The body of Stephen Denhinsky 11 years old from 418 South Page Street was found in bushes near Gwynne Falls by Carroll Park Baltimore morning. Parents insist their boy was murdered though no revolver found. A companion Howard Pearl reports a claim of going downtown after a band concert and possible drive from home with intent to use a revolver toward Philadelphia. Police note scorched clothing suggesting the pistol was held close to the breast.
Special to The Typahmpton Peo Asheville fA on Aug 3 The Rant begrimed note of George Tagan olcred found it way into the petyate car at George Wood vanderbilt where a mo from & person of greater pretensions than B negro freman might nove have been re ceived furthermore It brought George Bo AN on account of old aswscratic between the two Georges The owner at Biltmore the other orce owner of Part 2 the land on which the chateau staton and of Arvince WLU Gd fireman George was stoking the engine of train 14 when he observed the Vanderbil privaté car Sannoa coupled on for the van to Washington and the Incident put him to thinking that he needed £ 50s mighty badly to pay for a place he was buying and maybe Mr Vanderbilt would lend to him because had not he sold part of the Biltmore land to Mr Vanderbilt He wrote a note With a grimy pencil and Unis missive was taken back by a friendly porter to the Vanderbilt car Mo answer came at once but Tater Logan had a letter asking him if he could get a pass and come to New York George both could and did get the jan and go to New York where he told Mr Vanderbilt about that little home he was buying and how he would lose it unlean he got $5 He reminded the other George in his happy-go-lucky way that they ought to be good friends on account of the sale of the land, Mr Vanderbilt told George he would see about the ease and pad Inquiries and which resulted In Logan being told yester day that if he called at the Biltmore estate office Monday he would get 2 check for 00
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