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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1910
Page
9
Gettysburg camp notes show 5 000 regulars guiding 1 283 militiamen through field maneuvers near Gettysburg. Recruits endure dust, heat, and fatigue while practicing outposts, with reports of imagined battles and scattered supply issues. Three horses die from forage poisoning amid the exertion and heat.
District noncommissioned officers and mounted orderlies receive map instruction as maneuvers approach. Veterans like Samuel Cunningham recall Civil War duty while families and Washington officials oversee arrangements, photography, concerts, and signals operations for the District militia at Gettysburg.
George Votoks a 15 year old who ran away from 12 D street northwest was arrested in Spartanburg 9 C last night per a telegram from Spartanburg authorities His father sent money for a ticket to Washington The police say the boy rode freight trains to reach Spartanburg
GeorgetownKy July 22 A novel method to save the wheat crop was used as farmers paid the fines of several prisoners to work harvesting. Fines reached as high as 36 dollars in some cases and all prisoners cooperated willingly to help.
Women stenographers protest a civil service claim that men are more amenable to discipline and should fill more positions. Miss D M Neilson and Stenographers Union leaders denounce discrimination, plan a protest after summer, with suffragists backing the effort. Several officials defend the practice while noting unequal examination opportunities for men and women.
Gen John C Black, president of the US civil service commission, declares in a Washington Post letter that no decree exists barring girl stenographers. He states the commission has no power to issue such a decree and does not claim women are less suitable for discipline, or more shiftable, than men.
The civil service commission explains that male applicants are scarce for the usual 900 dollar annual salary in Washington and thus extra exams were held in June and will occur on July 26 to meet department needs. Women will be admitted to the September and October exams as usual, while existing female eligibles cover many posts.
In a police court hearing the government pressed charges of attempted housebreaking against Robert Black Bartholomew Kidwell and Robert J Clancy. The proceedings featured a "gum-shoe" man a police officer and a skeleton Key. The mother of Black admitted her son carried a key and blamed bandit images in films. Judge Aukam found Black guilty only and gave a suspended sentence conditioned on the mother keeping informed. otherwise the youth faces return to court.
Gene Curtin a boy of about 12 from 510 Maine avenue southwest left home Thursday morning to see moving pictures and slept at a friend’s house. He returned home Friday afternoon tired but happy and talkative. Police had searched for him, and the friend, John Conroy aged 12 of East CY street southeast, who had been missing since Thursday, reappeared later with his playmates near the river jet. Both boys had spent time away from home with friends.
The 38th Annual Championship of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen draws growing interest with strong contingents expected from Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New York. Canadian crews are also prominent as events unfold in major eastern venues.
Entries for the thirty-eighth National Association of Amateur Oarsmen regatta open August 13 and 14 on the Potomac, with hopes of foreign entrants. Toronto Argonauts, Halifax, Winnipeg, Minnesota, St Louis, and New York crews expected, plus clubs from Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Virginia. The Washington event marks the first national regatta here since 1892, with extensive preparations and an ambitious program.
Canton Washington No 1 Patriarchs Militant T C O F will stage an exhibition drill at Marshall Hall after the 6 30 boat arrives. The group has been practicing for a prize competition at the Sovereign Grand Ledge meeting in Atlanta Ga in September. Washington canton has won many prizes including $1000 in gold in San Francisco years ago.
Disturbances cover the St Lawrence valley bringing showers to northern New England and northern New York. A new strong system in the northern Rockies causes local rains, with showers in the Rocky Mountain region and Missouri valley and on the north Pacific coast. Heavy rains in Florida western South Dakota and northwestern Ohio. Temperature rises in the middle and south Atlantic, plains, and Southwest, with cooler weather in the northern plateau. Forecast: cooler air spreads to the Plateau and Rockies by Saturday, northern plains by Sunday, with moderate winds along coasts and variable winds elsewhere. River bulletin notes muddy Potomac and Shenandoah rivers.
Police surround a vacant Northwest Ninth Street dwelling last night and arrest a man known as a skilled skeleton key operator. The suspect named John Sutton, 24, from Savannah, produced multiple keys and pawn tickets for jewelry. Officers recovered duplicate keys, old coins, two empty pocket books, and a newly minted penny.
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