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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1916
Page
8
Representatives of motormen and conductors and two street railways met with District Commissioner Newman to set ground for dispute settlement. Agreement allows return to work pending arbitration if needed and covers pay, layoff relief, ten day trainee period, and seniority rights for run selection, with talks limited to three days.
Fragmented obituary notices report Lillie J Burroughs Catherine Finnegan and Harriet Newell Hoke among others. Entries list spouses, residences, church services at St Agnes Chapel Patrick Church Mount Hebron and Mount Auburn, with private interments and dates March 7 1916 to March 8 1918.
A. F. Engst of St Paul, Minnesota, has invented a door front tape recorder that logs the time a lock opens and notes whether the used key matches the usual one. The device aims to deter burglary and aid tracing, with a targeted appeal to Minnesota women.
March 14 deadline set for selection and April 1 award. Reinstatement of discharged workers to be addressed today. About 60 believed let go for union ties amid renewed cooperation between capital and labor. Employee committees to meet company officials at 10 and 11 am. Service on both systems resumed after ratification. Mudd and Rupp praised for nightly patrols guiding workers home during the strike.
Otto Wilson opened Commerce Club meeting at the Commerce building to discuss the National Federation of Postoffice Clerks forming a permanent union. Thomas Flaherty outlined aims and scheduled a session at Typographical Temple tomorrow night. Plans include a broad right to organize under federal civil service law as a circular defines.
Newton D Baker former mayor of Cleveland is named Secretary of War by President Wilson. The Senate confirmed him promptly, with cabinet members praising the choice though opposition opposed. A telegram from Baker criticizing the party earlier in 1916 is cited but clarified as dated during Democratic splits.
By Karl H. Von Wiegand near Verdun the German army conducts a methodical advance with heavy artillery. A lull in fighting, new gun positions, and trains moving along the Meuse front show preparation for decisive action while Fort Douaumont remains contested and Verdun’s defensive lines endure.
After two days of talks on freight congestion at Eastern terminals and car shortages in the West the Interstate Commerce Commission led informal talks with carriers shippers and receivers adjourned without a plan to relieve the bottlenecks. Officials warned carriers may seek higher demurrage storage charges and tighter unloading rules while shippers and receivers expect stiff opposition to such changes. Some urged an immediate embargo on freight to New York to ease the overload others proposed routing traffic toward South Atlantic and Gulf ports.
The United States section of the Pan American International High Commission sailed from Washington aboard the presidential yacht Mayflower to Hampton Roads. They will transfer to the cruiser Tennessee to reach Buenos Aires for a session with representatives from South and Central American republics.
Columbia Heights Citizens Association adopted a resolution protesting Congress over the Borland rider. William A Harr led the measure calling for shorter labor hours and fair pay, criticizing the rider as unfair to District residents. Copies will be sent to the Speaker, Senate president, and district committee chairs. Quickest service to Baltimore every hour with round trip fares of 1.50 on weekends and 1.75 on weekdays.
Rutland Vermont reports that local option won by 12 164 votes with 18 603 yes and 31 667 no to re enact the prohibitory amendment. Orleans county was the only dry failure while seven towns flipped to wet and the state also backed direct primary elections by 3 700.
In Maine on Monday Republicans captured mayoralties in seven of ten cities including Waterville Hilsworth Eastport Auburn Saco South Portland and Hallowell Democrats won in Rockland Bath and Lewiston.
Secretary McAdoo released a telegram from Massachusetts State Senator James I Green asking him to appoint or promote the senator’s brother John P Green at the Boston custom house. McAdoo called the request a serious offense and refused to use public office as a bargaining tool. Green admitted exchanging messages but denied linking them to his conduct as a national convention delegate.
More than a hundred members met at the Richmond Hotel to establish a permanent War State and Navy Club. Lietch, organizer and chief worker in the effort, was chosen president with Michael D Shaefer as vice president and W Arthur Storm as recording secretary. Other officers include Mrs HE M Ford as corresponding secretary A R Hodgking as treasurer and an executive committee of Moses Grudd D D Howell and W Sower butts.
A circulated petition in Linn County Missouri urges Theodore Roosevelt for President. The call praises Roosevelt as a trusted statesman and defender of American homes, claiming the nation faces a crisis and severed diplomacy with Hu-Tope.
Boston March 7 Massachusetts Democrats rally behind President Wilson for renomination while ignoring Champ Clark. Mayor Curley and ex mayor John Fitzgerald bury past feuds after Palm Beach talks, signaling harmony ahead of St Louis convention. Former Ohio Senator Burton criticizes Democratic foreign policy in Trenton remarks.
The Philharmonic Society of New York presented its final season concert at the National Theater with Josef Stransky conducting and composing in part. Mme Julia Culp sang Stransky songs and Brahms pieces with Coenraad Bos on piano, impressing especially in Der Requiem. The program opened with Bach in D major, featured Pilzer on violin, and concluded with Tschaikowsky’s fourth symphony and Dvořák scherzo capriccioso, drawing strong applause for the orchestral players.
Gist Blair of Montgomery county announced in Annapolis that he seeks the Republican nomination for Congress in the Sixth district. He met with western Maryland Republicans and plans an active district-wide campaign without personal attacks. Blair, born and raised in the Sixth district, is the son of the late Montgomery Blair, founder of the party in the region and former Postmaster General.
In New York on March 7 representatives led by Charles R. Crane plan a Washington visit with Mme Bakhmeteff to organize a broad relief drive for Russian war sufferers. Frederick H. Allen and John Moffat head the New York contingent, joined by Sir Arthur Herbert Hagbert Wright Edmund Goss and Mrs Erskine Exisere. Other notable figures include Mrs William Astor Chanler Mrs Jay Gould Mrs Fiske Warren and George von L Meyer.
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