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t The “Peke” had its annual “at home” last week at 
) the Plaza Hotel-in New York and received as much at- 
tention as the debutantes at a coming-out tea. Decora- 
‘tions suggestive of the land of the Pekingese adorned 
_ tne walls of the ballroom where the sixth annual kennel 
exhibit of the Pekingese Club of America was held. 
_ Boys from the Orient “clad in their native dress sold the 
~ programs. It was an imported dog that was crowned 
_ king of the Pekingese in this country and belonged to 
_ Mrs. Michael M. Van Beuren, president of the Amercian 
club. The little Nowata Ting Fa, owned by Mrs. Francis 
_R. Spalding of West Manchester and Boston, is one in 
7 which the North Shore is interested. This little fellow 
3 was as much of a sensation as the winner, Prince Kung, 
‘and won six straight classes in the best of competition, 
ie oening on his way upward some noted champions. He 
_ did not bow to any dog until he met Prince Kung, in the 
open class for dogs of any weight and any color. Tuing 
Fa is a dog that his owner never really knew the value of 
; “until the matinee held at Mrs. Thomas Hastings’ place, 
y “Bagatelle,” last summer, when he surprised the local 
_ breeders and, exhibitors by faking ene frst prizes sol ne 
_ patrons of the club include men and women of prominence 
in social and public life. In the group are Mrs. James 
Mopeyer, Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee, Miss Anna Sands, 
_ Miss Elsie de Wolfe, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, and others of 
yi: equal prominence. Each year has found a marked growth 
both in the number of exhibits and in the quantity and 
_ quality of prizes. In many senses the exhibit is the de 
x se exhibition of dogs of the year. 
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__. Miss Dorothy Jordan was one of the honored guests 
cat a costume dance given in New York recently. She 
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a ITH a very clear understanding that we shall be ar- 
‘ © raigned for heresy, we wish to draw attention to the 
fact that complete repeal of the Interstate Commerce Act 
and the abolition of the Interstate Commerce Commission 
_ would be a very good thing for the United States. It is 
not our thought that there should be a repeal of such 
_ legislation as may seem to be necessary for the proper 
= control of excesses or that have a deterrent effect on rail- 
road mismanagement, but we shall undertake to prove 
% - that the Interstate Commerce Commission is a burden to 
& g isiness, that its maintenance is a gross extravagance, 
that it has grown so big that it is cumbrous and that it 
resents to the vital vane business of America what 
eens does to any country that is beset by a great and 
expensive standing army. 
When the Interstate Commerce Commission was 
_ established in 1888 the cost of maintaining it was $125,000 
» ‘for a year. The cost of maintaining the commission for 
» the year 1915 was $4,150,000, which comes out of the 
_ pockets of the taxpayers. 
The appropriation for the year 1916 shows another 
jump of a half million dollars, the total being $4,765,000. 
_ The cost of the commission in the year 1914 was $2,120,- 
_ 000, and at the same rate of increase the commission en 
cost the people of the United States in the year 1918, i 
round figures, $10,000,000. 
4 Naturally, the suggestion that the Interstate Com- 
_ merce Commission be abolished will raise a hue and cry 
from the thousands of employes who now enjoy jobs in 
_ this Government Bureau. The commission has beco ne a 
_ great and powerful machine and if it is allowed to grow 
- at the present rate it will become a national menace of 
great potency. 
Forty-one thousand miles of American 
were in the hands of receivers on October 1, last. 
railroads 
In the 
appeared as a maid of the time of Louis XV. Her gown 
was of old rose moire, made with bouffant panniers of 
rose colored brocade. ‘The bodice was tightly fitted with 
a long point in front and the costume was completed by a 
sinart little tri-corne hat, coquettish and immensely be- 
coming. 
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Announcement has been made of the engagement of 
Miss Oroville Wooster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip 
Wooster of San Francisco, Cal., to Walter L. Richard cf 
New. York. Miss Wooster is a niece of Mrs. Claus 
August Spreckels and a cousin to Mrs. Spencer Eddy. 
Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge (Catherine Eddy) is a sister of 
epencer Eddy, the diplomatist. The wedding will take . 
place in the spring and Mr. Richard and his bride will 
live in New York. 
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Mrs. Algernon Sydney Sullivan presided, as usual, 
the charity ball in New York of which she has been presi- 
dent for many years. This ball has taken place each year 
since 1857, with the exception of one year during the 
Civil War. Nearly 3,000 people participated in the event. 
Mrs. Sullivan was a guest at the John Hays Hammonds 
last summer. 
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Mr. and Mrs. T. Coleman du Pont of the Marblehead 
colony attended the dance and supper at the Hotel Mc- 
Alpin given by Col. and Mrs. Benjamin B. McAlpin. 
Waiter—No tip from dat explorer, eh? He’s most 
cecidedly. economical ! 
Brother Waiter—He suttinly am! He’s longer from 
1!) to tip dan any crockerdile he evah shot! 
year 1915 only 953 miles of railroad were built in this 
country. The capital of railroads in the hands of re- 
ceivers on Oct. 1 exceeded $1,000,000,000. When the 
Interstate Commerce Commission was conceived the rail- 
road business of the United States was growing at a rapid 
speed and it continued to grow until the Interstate Com- 
merce Commission got into complete control, and then 
tne decline began. 
The original purpose of the Interstate Commerce 
‘Commission was to provide some sort of Government 
control of the country’s commerce. ‘This control has be- 
come so complete that it has stifled competition, put an 
end to individuality in railroad construction and manage- 
ment, put a tax on thrift, provided jobs for thousands of 
more or less competent Government employes and changed 
what was one of our greatest private enterprises, owned 
ly millions of individual stockholders, to an industry thit 
reflects all of the evils and all of the incapacity of public 
ownership. 
We are inclined to think that there are in Congress 
a few men big enough and brave enough and intelligent 
enough to grasp this situation and begin the long, hard, 
up-hill fight to wipe out the Interstate Commerce Com- 
mission as at present constituted. These gentlemen must 
be willing to stand up against bullying, threats, ridicule 
ignorance and the power of precedent. If, however, they 
can prove to people of the United States that a Govern- 
ment Bureau which cost $5,000,000 a year is hurting the 
people, while their greatest industry, the railroads, are 
heing forced into the hands of receivers at a greater rate 
than ever before, their work will become easier. Some 
member of Congress will make himself famous by start- 
ing an investigation of the Interstate Commerce Corr- 
mission before it is too big to be investigated —St. Louis 
Times. 
