Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1883, Page 2

CITY D_DISTRIOT. —— HIOUSES AND LOTS, What Real Estate "en and Builders are Doing and Saying. SALKS WITH SOME OF THE BROKERS AND DEALERS —ALL AGREE THAT THERE I8 A HEALTHY MOVE- MENT, THOUGH SOME DENY THAT THERE Is A “BOOM” —THE COLUMBIA HEIGHTS IMPROVE- MENTS—BUILDINGS IN COURSE OF CONSTRUO- TION, ac. The views of real estate men, as gathered by Star reporters, and the operations of builders, Sustain the general report of a healthy activity in the real estate market and arapid advance in the march of improvement. Though some real estate dealers and builders are opposed to What they consider an unnecessary “booming,” still they agree that the condition of affairs Is at present very satisfactory. No “ BOOM,” BUT 4 HEALTHY MOVEMENT. “I think,” remarked M. M-Rohrer,forseventeen Fears in the real estate business in this city, “that the present so-called ‘boom’ in real estate !s not purposely, but in reality, exaggerated alike by the press of the city and some of the brokers, and, perhaps, by sme elated owners, too, who have made advantazeous sales lately. There is Teally no ‘boom.’ in the sense I understand the word. A ‘boom’ implies, I imagine, purchasing Jargely and wildly cn speculation. T regard the trade in real estate at present in a healthy con- dition, and the’ prices gotten are warranted by the demand. For a long while real property in Washington was dull and Inact hence the present spurt of activity Is misunderstood and wrongly construed. The present daily transfers In real estate do not_ show other than a normal condition of things for a city so large as Wash- Ington.” “The northwest section,” he continued, “is ‘undoubtedly beautitul, and people of taste and means are attracted to it largely and at the expense of other sections of the city quite as desirable topographically. but not so highly favored in the letion and care of its ave- ues, streets and parks. And yet, with all the drawbacks that the other three-quarters of the city finds Itself handicapped. celling, buying and building is going on. I reiterate that the activity in real estate at this time is heaithy, and not near as great as its growing population and its necessities demands, as is evidenced by the daily inquiries at any real estate office In town for houses to rent.” “What is the effect of the booming?” the reporter. “The effect produced by the ‘boom principle.” fo pertinaciously urged,” he replied, Just the opposite of what i8 intended. Owners of property fancy that there isto bea great and sudden rise, and accordingly they put up prices toa point beyond legitimate values, or the: withdraw from market property which. at fair value, might be taken and improved by capi- talists. Then again this ‘boom theory’ intimi- dates some men of means, so that they decline to invest from fear of valnes shrinking anda panic ensuing. only a few days agoa ealthy business man said to 1, what does this boom in real estate ere to be another reaction and crash, with a ceneral falling of values!" sald promptly The market is healthy. ‘There is litt if any, speculation. The im- proved property changing hands is either tor use by the pur oF intended as an Invest- nent. air interest on the money by rental. The unimproved is chiefly taken to be improved. E en to be held | for a rise. . for there is much | cround in this growing city that will pay largely | for holding. Much of the low-priced ground, 1 northeast of the Capitol asked Will double in val “Ina word,” hi tlative boom fn éaily transfers s Feal property ts in prices eis no spec- estate ‘In this elty. The h The move in-' zitimate advance as the city builds up.” LID BASIS. » dealers in the the market was and what the prospects are “It looks favorable along the whole line. You know that there has been ® boom out here to the northwest) and it has extended t ier sections along the whole line, and to-day property is looking The investment of cap- is, made for a perma- Rent investment. It is not the mushroom growth we had here ten or twelve years ago, aa can be Seer by the character of work. |The larce majority of hex now are built to last and not me d.better than all, most of them id for and free of en- eambrance when a “To what, city being asked b causes, the mam one is that espital has found that bends Pay as well as real ¢: Without looking to @ future rise, impr perty pays 7 per cent Clear of taxes and repairs—that is my experi- ence. The day for erection of buildings for quick sale seems to have passed, and good, Bolid work Is the order of the day.” “Do you see ansthing to retard the move- Brent? id the veteran, y is easy and stocks do not o, Not at man, “but ti present,” said the real estate may arise Impediments. ‘There ismuch ground here which should be in the market, but the titles are not clear. I mean some which has been sold over and over again for taxes (both special and annual.) Some of this has been over and over again for twenty orthirty years, and with the penalties added some pieces are not now worth the taxes charged. There are properties In the District to whieh half a dozen parties hold title. If some of you hewspaper men would get up a project which would result in straightening out these eases you would be doing good service. The Commissioners now are powerless, but Congress sSiould give either the District Commissioners or Some special board power to straighten out these titles. As it isthe charges grow, and the roperty not bringing in acent is an elephant D ” crease the prices of real estate to such an ex- tent that sols the very wealthy can invest. We don't want that state of affairs. We want a good, healthy market, which suits the ay erage business public. Vanderbilt, or some other millionaire, pays 350.000 for & jure— does that show that the work of art is worth that money? Byno means, It makes no dif- ference to such men whether they pay $5,000 or #50,000 If they want it. A wealthy person who comes here, to whom it makes no difference whether a lot costs #5.000 or $15,000, will pay the latter price. The sale is heralded in all the pas ‘and it has a deleterious effect. No, sir. don't believe in the real estate booming, and don't care to have my sales published.” THE COLUMBIA HEIGHTS IMPROVEMENT. A. L. Barber & Co. state that the lots on Co- Tumbia Heights are being sold rapidly and at advancing figures. The work of extending 13th street, it 's expected. will be continued after July Ist until Whitney avenue ts reached. The cross streets are being opened, and Clifton street is being run east from 13th street. The work of opening and grading Roanoke street has been edmmenced, preparatory to building houses on both sides. It 1s the intention to oO} llth street, if the necessary Innd can be obtained. The squares both on i4th and 18th streets have been divided up into building lots and a large number have m sold. IL of squares 80, $1, and 32 have been sold; the latter to private individuals and the two former to syndicates. Square 30 has been sold to A. E. Bateman, representing a number of per- sons, and square 31 to a syndicate, composed of John Sherman & Co., Duvall & Marr, J. 8. Swormstedt, J. Joy Edson, F. W. Pratt, M. J. Wine, J. A. Prescott, Joseph Edson and several others. The entire property, thus subdivided, comprises 120 acres, and A.'L. Barber & Co. state that the sales made during the present season amount to $200,000. The styie of houses that will be put up are first class, and this im- provement is one of the most extensive in sub- urban property. In the opening of the streets the Iand is donated by the owners of the ad- {eine property, and the improvement is made yy the city. MR. FRANK BALDWIN, whose shop Is on 434 street, between C and D, is now erecting a fine dwelling for Mrs. Julla Jones, on 4th street, between N street and Rhode Island avenue. This is a three-story and basement, with a handsome bay window running trom the basement all the way up, containing twelve rooms, of press brici front and moulded brick cornice; brown- stone trimmings and corbel brick work in projections; inside finish in hard woods and oll. The cost is $7,000. Mr. C. A. Schneider Is the architect. Mr. Baldwin ts the contractor who has just finished up the extension to the Columbia boat- house, an addition of 20 by 50 feet and two ,stories, with gallery inside containing two rows of lockers, one above the other, making sixty- four new lockers, The front is all in perforated ornamental work, and is much admired, being arranged with much taste and executed in good style. The cost was about $1,500. MESSRS. HOLTZCLAW BROS., carpenters and builders, as agents, have com- menced the erection of two three-story and basement dwellings on Massachusetts avenue and 17th street. One of these will be 20 and the other 16 feet front, running back 30 feet; a tower projection on the corner, octagonal in form, will run up from the basement the entire heighth, and taper to a spire. The fronts will be of pressed brick, with stone trimmings. The - side Is in hard woods, with oil finish through- out, wood mantels, a corner tower and three bay windows. The tower is to be square, with handsome ornamental cornice, and will ran above the root in hexagonal form. The bay windows will be octagonal. The cost will be $11,000. IMPROVEMENTS IN WEST WASHINGTON. Mr. John Gibbons is erecting a row of eight comfortable brick houses on Pennsylvania avenue extended, near 29th street. Mr. James H. Dyer is the builder. This 1s quite an im- provement, and fills up what has long been an gly space near the Aqueduct bridge. A FINE ROW OF HOUSES. Mr. W. Z. Partello has commenced the erec- tion of nine two-story and cellar dwellings cor- ner 6th and B streets northeast. These honses are to be 16x30 on the ground, with back build- nd 24 feet high. They are for tene- ngs, but will be comfortable and neatly made, having pressed brick fronts, flat roofs, brick cornice, heated by stoves, and’ will contain all modern improvements. ' The cost will be $30,000. RS, DEARING & JOHNSON, the well-known builders and contractors, are busy with a corps of the best workmen upon many jobs. The members of the firm say that it is seldom they compete by bidding for work, as they do not have occasion for it. They are of the opinion that the efforts to publish building booms have a bad tendency, as a clamor gener- ally follows among journeymen for an advance of wages. This influences those designing to build houses, the effect . ‘nerally being to delay operations till a more fa, orable time, when ma- terials and wages are cheaper. They admit that there is more building being done this season than ever before, with a good future prospect. THE RICHMOND FLATS. Calling upon Messrs. Langley & Gettinger, at their shop, No. 200 12th street, a Srar reporter found both these gentlemen, with a full corps of carpenters, busy at work, as was soon ascer- tained, on material which {s to enter into the internal construction of the new apartment building now In the course of erection at the corner of 17th and H streets, which has been heretofore described as the Richmond flats. The walls are now up to the third story. This build- ing is to be seven stories in helght, with a fine round tower at the cornerot 17th and H streets, 112 feet high above the basement floor, with spiral top and galvanized iron and Hummels- town brown stone trimmings all the way up. The same stone is used for the front up to the second- story windows, with all the rest of pressed and moulded brick and galvanized iron cornices. The stone is brought from New York in rough & board or otherwise the titles could be perfect- elthe prosperity of the city would be greatly eahanced. Thea.” he continued, “there is no Yelling as to how long the laboring men will Work slong as satisfactorily as at present. Bhould they continue to work through this sea- fon without making an unreasonable demand they will materially assist In the future growth ofthe city. Itisto their interest while receiy- Ang falr wages and having plenty of work not to make any unreasonabledemand. Just now con- tractors and those proposing to build seem sat- iefled, and In my experience of thirty-tive years there has never been a better feeling existing between those coucerned in building than now. Allsevm to regard the laborer worthy of his enced In 1848, buying house equare, between N streets, ut 3 cents per #, and it is now worth 50 Then Ib some on the boundary, Dear the head ot ‘eet, at a mill a foot. Some end in the northwest part of the city I see, Which I seld in 1572 at 20 cents per foot, was sold a few days ave at 31.50 per foot. Before elo: T must tell you,” said the dealer, “that 1 of the city was, under the bizh, and properties been sold at leas than lyalue. This high valu- that section inthe past, ors muke a reasonable ‘be plenty of investments of the town.” NEVER SAW SUCH AN ACTIVE SEASON. r N. Huyck said, “I never saw such @u active seasor ‘h payments, too. I am busy from < till night, I should lke to go to the races, but I can't spare the time. There is an enormous demand for houses, par- Ucuiarly large and handsome ones. There ts also a strong demand for furnished houses. Next winter will be a very big season In Wash- ington. The weal classes see that the city tsa desirable place of residence, and they come here to tuld and buy houses. They come bere from the north and purchase real estate as @ business investment instead of investing in bonds. I was in New York a few days last week, and I was all in giving information of Washington ° ate. Two ies came here last week from that city tor the sole purpose of making some land in the 6b and 7th and Mand foot, on five years’ tim ashiers, and cut here to sult. The plan of the building shows It to be 109 feet on 17th street by 130 feet on H_ street. It will contain ten apartments, with seven rooms in each apart- ment, all complete, making a distinct and sepa- rate dwelling ot each. There are to be four bay window projections, each fourteen feet wide, and three feet projection running to the topmost story. These start in a square form trom basement and first story, changing with corbels to an octagon form on the second and third stories, then a change with other corbels to @ circular form, which continues all the way up to a mansard roof, covered with tiling. One tron winding stairway'ls to run allthe way up, with also a Murtangh’s patent dumb walter, running all the way up, to serve each dining room. An Otis passenger elevator will occupy the well-hole space of the immense iron sta‘r- way, and will be run by steam and always read at @ moment's notice. The internal fini: throughout isin natural poplar, with hard off dress. No paint will used at all. Each bath room and water closet will be finished up in cherry wood. The dining-rooms will be fitted up with panel wainscoting and panel ceilings. Station: buffets will be made in each corner, with lead glass panels in each one, The kitchen for the first story will be in the basement. and for the aifth ry in the attic; those for the second, third, and fourth floors will be constructed on the same floors. Each apartment will have the advantage of the dumb-waiter from the base- ment. The walls are very substantially made throughout—of the best arch brick, eighteen inches thick tor basement and first story, the balance, including partition walls, &c., thirteen inches thick. The whole building will be heated by steam. The architects are Messrs. Gray & Page. The entire cost, including the ground, will be $100,000. Itis thought that the buiid- ing will be ready to occupy by October Ist, next. MESSRS. LANGLEY AND GETTINGER are Just now finishing upa row of five dwellings for Judge Hillyer,on Hillyer avenue, between 20th and 2ist and Q and R streets, of which Messrs. Gray & Page are also the architects, ‘These are to be ready to turn over to the owner by June Ist. They are three stories and base- ment with ten rooms in each; besides the fur- nace rooms and pantries each will contain dumb waiters, bath-rooms, the best closets, per- fect sewerage, water and gus fixtures of the most approved designs, brick and terra cottaset ranges and every device known to modern house building which adds to comfort dnd eon- venience. The inside fiuish throughout is of the best seasoned natural poplar wood in hard oil; fuch investments as I have spoken of.” Me. J F. Olmstead said that his time had been ® taken up with outside matters of late that he was unable to express any opinion about the Market and its prospecté. on He hoped soon to be MR. JOHN BULL orroseD To ‘ nooMING.” Mr. John Bull, when asked by 4 Stax reporter for bis opinton ahont the real estate business, replied: “I don't care to give it, sir. I don't believe Ia this fictitious booming of real estate ak It does the business an cathedral glass transoms over doors; same over front vestibule doorsand on first and second. yestibules. The materials are of exquisite On the second and third floors they are of carved oak, and inthe pariors o& ly. These contractors are also building two houses for Mr. Lawrence Sands, the real estate broker on Massachusetts avenue, near 22d street. These are 23 by 43 feet on ground, three stories and pa pion ones ja shoes, - the same style as are those of Juc jer’s, @Xcept the first stories, which are to be tntmmed - hard and cherty wood. The same architects made the plans. They also building another fine seeyane the public an Injury. The practice ds anéIam opposed to it.” It tends to in- are dwelling for Lieut. Mason, on 20th, near O Street, 30 by 55 feet on the ground. Bay win- dows run up three stories, and one onthe south side rans up the entire four stories, commenc- ing with the basement. The fronts are to be of red brick, laid in red mortar, on both 20th and Q streets. The same architects made the plans for these houses. They are also build- ing four stables for Judge Hillyer in the vicinity ot his new houses. These are two stories high with ali the latest improved de- vices for convenience and sanitary arr ments, concreted floors, grain and feed shutes for each stall, rooms for coachman, &c,, &c; cost 8,000. They are also building a similar stable for Lieut. Mason at a cost of €2,000. ‘The members of the firm say that they pay the full rates to mechanics and laborers, and drive their business, not permitting It to push them. They say the publications about the building booms result in advancing the prices of building ma- terlal. Bricks have takens jump of 50 cents for merchantable; $22 to $25 per thousand for pressed, but other kinds of material remain the fame. : —____+e-_____ OUB SCHOOL BOYS. Their Plans for the Future—Statistics Choice of Oceupation among Boys inthe City Grammar Scheoils. As the school year 18823 draws to a close Superintendent Wilson and his coadjutors are busily engaged in testing by examination the quantity and quality of the work done in the public schools since September last. An exer- cise in composition and spelling given by Mr. Wilson in the boys’ schools of the eighth grade, to be done within 80 minutes in the presence of the examiners, was so framed as not merely to show the proficiency of the pupils in those two studies, including the power of mental concen- tration necess: to the completion of their work within the time allowed, but also to draw them out and set them thinking on the import- ant question of their own future vocations. Theexercise in question consisted In copying the following questionsand giving their answers to them In writing, the space allotted for the questions and answers together being two pages ofletter paper: 1, “Have you ever thought about the occu] tion, trade or profession you would like to fol- low when you become a man?” 2. “If you were to decide now, what would be your choice?” 8. ‘State the reasons for your choice.” . “What are the qualifications essential to success in the work you have chosen?” ‘The echools In which this exercise was given were those taught by the following teachers: Mr. N. D. Cram, Mr. M. P. White, Mr. C. A. Clark, Mr. Tichgnor, Mr. S.J. Thomson, Mr. J. J. Chickering, Mr. Fairbrother and Mr. D. A. Smith. Out of 276 pupils 138 were absent from examination and 4 falied to express any decision, the remaining 259 distributing their preferences among 55 occupations, as indicated below: Architect, 14; artist, 3; army officer, 4; baker, 1; banker, 1; blacksmith, 2; bookbinder, 3; book- keeper, 4; butcher, 2; captain of merchant ves- sel, 3; carpenter, 3; cizar maker, 1; civil engineer, 27; department clerk, 2; draftsmen, 16; druggist, 10; dry goods merchant, 1; editor, 1; engineer, 5; engraver, 4; farmer, 14; frescoer, 1; grocery mer- chant, 6; hardware merchant, 1; jeweler. i; law- yer, 20; lumber merchant, 2; machinist, 7; manu- facturer, 1; mineralogist, 1; minister, 1; mer- chant, 13; naturalist, 3; naval oMoer, 6; navica- tor, 1; painter, 1; physician, 18; plumbing, &., 2; postal clerk, 1; President of the United States, 1; printer, 16; real estate broker,1; revenue marine officer, 2; saddler, 1; Senator, 1; shoe merchant, 3; stenographer, 6; stock broker, 1; stock raiser, 3; stove (and tin ware) dealer, 1; surgeon, 2; teacher, 1; telegraph operator, 1; undertaker, 1; wood and’ coal dealer, 3. Taking a few of the preferred occupations in the order of preference we find law chosen by 29; civil engineering by 27, medicine by 18, the occupations of a printer and of a draftsman by 16 each, farm- ing and architecture by 14 each,mercantile busi- ness by 13, the drug business by 10, and the grocery trade by 6; while 6 would like to be of- cers of the navy and 4 to be officers of the army. That is, gut of the 259 who express a preference for some occupation 173 distribute their prefer- ences between the twelve occupations just named, leaving eighty-six, or an average of two each to the remaining 43 of the occupations included In the selections made. It is worthy of note that ina city of department clerks only two boys express a preference for the clerical yocation, and that among 259 school attendants only one expresses a preference for the vocation of ateacher. Again, there is only one who aspires to be an editor and not one who craves the emoluments, privileges and excitements ap- pertaining to the life of a reporter, althoush there are six who would like: to be stenogra- phers. It is rather pleasing to observe that while there is but ogg who Is willing to bake bread for the communify there are fourteen who would like to produce the wheat whereof to make It, and three who are willing to go west and raise cattle to supply us with beef. That seventeen city-bred boys should thus select agricultural and pastoral occupations shows that the tendency to crowd from the country to the cities, of which so much complaint is heard, is not wholly without a compensating tendency in the opposite direction. One boy is willing to devote himself to the melan- choly duty of caring for the mortal remains of his fellows, and another ig willing to make himself useful to his fellow citizens as President of the United States, not for one term only, or even for three, but throughout his life, or until he is ready to retire from business. One boy would like to be a Representative or Senator in Congress, and assigns as his reasons for this modest prefer- ence that he would not have to work hard and would be sure of getting his money. The ualifications he thinks necessary for one of these positions are ‘‘to have plenty of political influence, to have education enough to sign a receipt for your salary, and to be able to sit in your seat for four or five hours listening, or pretending to listen, to a brother member talk about some appropriation bill,” or other mea- sure. It may be remarked that the answers of the boys giving their reasons for choosing a particular vocation show, as a rule, much good sense and seriousness. Superintendent Wilson calls attention to the fact that a number of the occupations chosen, such as architect, artist, civil engineers, draftsman, engraver, frescoer, machinist and painter, are not only employments in which the mechanical drawing taught in the schools would be of great service, but are employments about which the boys might never have thought had not thelr draw- ing lessons called attention to them and made them appear feasible. He also suggests that if the elements of industrial education were made a part of the public school system, the choice of occupations among the boys would probably take a much wider range than it did in the case under consideration. si It may be observed that even a single exer- cise like the one given may have a considerable value in leading the boys to think about their choice of occupation, to compare notes with each other, and to note the fact that there are many occupations open to them of which they, perhaps, would never have thought had thelr attention not been called to the matter in some such way as that adopted in this case. Want of know! as to the various occupations ayail- able is, doubtless, one of the chief reasons why some of the common occu] overcrowded and ipations = are 80 80 poorly pald; and in view of the economic im- portance of a well-balanced distribution of qual- ified labor among the different industries, it might be well if the hint given by Superintend- ent Wilson in this exercise were acted upon systematically by introducing in the schvols regular instruction as to trades and occupa- tions, with information as to their leading cen- ters of activity, rates of wages paid in them,, necessary qualifications, &c. In girls’ schools, especially those attended by popils belonging’ to the comfortable classes, such questions as those proposed to the boys by Superintendent Wilson would be generally con- sidered out of place. Yet, as a matter of, fact, alarge proportion of the women of the country have to pursue some gainful occupation outside of their homes, and as it 1s among women that the evils arising from the overcrowding of a few industries are most severely felt, there is cer- tainly good reason for introducing in girls’ schools such instruction in regard ‘to occupa- tions as might aseist any who may need to earn a livelihood by their own exertions in choosi some ocenpation not already overcrowded an proportionally underpaid. Industrial instruc- tion for girls would, of course, refer primarily to the home dut in view of the indus- trial facts of modern society, there is no good reason for it wi that narrow groove, ————_~-+-___ A Demist Tells & Queer Story. ‘From the New York Morning Journal. “Why,” said a chimes dentist to a Journal reporter, “a beautiful young lady came to me and insisted on having her really fine teeth pulled out and false one in their place. I protested that it would be foolish, silly, but she oor | sald no, she would have thers oot aaa HI would Dot fachlonable suid she; “tuey’ are’ te not Bal are Jor and short little’ broad teeth, Ii eoarn kernes) are all the fashion now, and no one admires my mouth, and { will have them.’ So I made her the teeth, and cost her $300. bed apayes @ny one Dor out her own, were the u| ones onl; and I'made them ep with gold piebess 2 Knocked out in's base bal game” The tote ct oc paochopans he iain ive with tla. vty gir whose Just ponder on that.” ‘My teeth are }. She after I pulled | stoc! oP atee Pe —— THE POET’ MEETS HIS MATCH. War Eemtiniscences on the “Bobtail.” A COLORED PHILOSOPHER FBOM “JAWGY” TELLS HOW HE:LOST His ARM AND DISCOURSES ABOUT SHERMAN'§ MARCH To THE FINALLY DROPS INT POETRY AND PARALYZES THE SWEET SINGER ap No. 458. “Night brings ont the stars,” says the girl graduate, amd thesame pretty creature, ind- ing last Wednesday at the corner of 15th street and the avenue, might have sald, with equal force and truth, ‘‘the brass band brings out the multitude,” as she looked upon surging human- ity swaying from car-track to curbstone. The band had done its duty and the crowd was out. It was a field day for the “‘cullud” brother and sister, and the small boy led the skirmish line with his usual abandon. The national emblem proudly floated everywhere. Above the house- tops of the fabio buildings it cayly shook itself in the ight; from the window-sill of the beer saloon it welcomed with graceful motion the ete citizen and his nickel, and around the head of the color sergeant in line of march It flapped and fluttered. All classes strutted in the “pomp of war.” The “oldest inhabitant” carefully kept step to the tune of “Yankee Doo- die,” whistled by the street Arab as he sat upon 8 dry goods box thumping with his tough heels an imaginary drum. The old-time darkey and the later edition; the la-de-dah young man and the callow youth; the coy maiden and her stald mamma; vied with each other in their efforts to “bob up serenely” to the concord of sweet sounds as the Marine band led the Boys in Blue and the citizen soldiery to the grand stand in front of the White House. Thoroughly imbued with military glory, a veteran nger, after reviewing the parade, sought refuge in the four- wheeled bomb-proot known as bobtall car No. 483. Unlike the rest of his fellow-countrymen, the poet driver was not fired with the martial spirit, and glancing contemptuously toward a trim-looking soldier laddie, got this off: “In times of peace what a handsome toy The la-de-da makes as a soldier boy, In close-fitting suit, behind a brass ban He steps along proudly and thinks grand. All aboard! Get up!” He released his grip on the brake, but held fast to the muse, and as the car rolled out on the rail his severity relaxed and this rolled out on the air: “Many men though who march tn the ranks, re good as gold in the national banks, ‘They do not run in the hour of defeat Like groc’ry butter on the hot buckwheat Ride? Whoa! Change?” One of the platform passengers was a ward of the nation, who was dressed ina half and half suit. His cap was of the army regulation pattern and had evidently ‘been under fire” in some heated contest, as a good portion of the crown was scorched out. His coat, too, had “seen service,” for here and there were patches of various colors plugging a8 many holes in the fadedblue. Whether they werebullet holesormotn holes the reader’s fancy must fix. He had ona pair of plain home-spun pants, which gave an odd appearance to his outfit. He had: but one arm. Was he aniold soldier, or a one arm whitewash artist? Our rhyming disciple of Socrates sought to unravel this colored enigma, by the gentle influence of his divine art. With mnch enthusiasm he drew these martial word- pictures for consheration of the man and brother: = “Did you ever stand on picket When the night was clear and sul, With nary a sound to cheer your heart, But cry of ‘Whip po’ will.’ Did you ever as a soldier ‘With a corporal stand, Stuffing down the pork and beans ‘With ‘hard tack”in your hand? Change? Ride? Whoa!” Sambo was surprised; he stood for a moment like a victim of the toothache at the door of a dentist, not knowing whether to go in and open his mouth or turn away in silence. After some hesitation he spoke, however, as follows: “Is yer tawkin to me, boss?” The sweet singer assured him that he was. “Well, boss,” came the answer, “I ain’ no sojer, but I seed de war. 1 ain nebber seed dish yer town fo las Mundy mornin. I comd up heah fum Righman on ur skurshun trane. In de war times I yused ter lib gown in Jawgy, but now I got ur job closer to dis place. Wen de war fust broke out I was lbbin wid a man who pade fifteen hundred dollars fer me an’ my rhoomatiz on ur plantashun, down in Fulton county. Wen fote Sumter went outen de Newn- yun all de white men in dat county look like dey was crazy, gwine bout raisin cumpnys ebberywhar, but I nebber said nuffin; I jes went rite erlong raisin chickins wen de nites was dark, an I kep on doin dat fum dat da plum up to de time Mister Sherman cum fru dar, wen I gin up de bizness to him, an I clar ter grashus, dat he rase mo’ chickins an corn in dat county in wun da dan I could ur fotched urway in all de bawn days ur my life. De men whar he had wid him noed whar de things was jus de same as de ole Missus who had bin rite dar fer fifty years. My old master war a dekum in de church an fo de Lawd I seed dem yankee -sojera fotch mo’ whiskey outer his cellar dan I would er frot was in dat county let lone in de house ob ur man who used to preach temprunce to de nig- gers.” After the bard had eased down a soldier wno had captured from some Washington citizen a qusntity of the article last mentioned by the ‘eorgia major, he again touched the Jovial dar- key with this crucial test: ‘dn what big zht aid you lose your armt ‘Manassas Gup’ or Frazer's Farm?’ What struck your Hmb?—a leaden bullet? Or did cruel shell from socket pull 112” “Look ur heah, boss,” said the colored man; “I ain nebber seed you befo’, but I zwine to tell you rite heah dat dere ain nuffin in dis wurl ebber struck me wusser dan dat las vurse ur poetry yer flung at me.” The kind old poet, who is noted for his good nature, quickly interrupted him with this atone- ment: “< Colored soldiers, Nobly fought as ‘boys in blue’; And now T ask, in softer tone, ‘What wicked thing smashed up your bone?” “Dar you go agin,” sald the Georgian. ‘Yer seems to be moutly puzzilled bout dat arm dat yercan't see. Irekkun I better tole you bout dat an den let you gess wedder I were ur sojer ornot. Ilos dat arm dish yer way: Wun nite in de fall ur °64. wen Gen. Shermmun was foo]- in long de confedricks round Atlanty, sam ob dese yer blak and blue boys you tawkin "bout cum arter me an sed dey noed whar dey could find one ob dem old time fellers who so orfen got de bes ob de po’ cullud man. I tuk down my gun an I went wid’em. Dar was fo’ un us in de squad. We pass de pikets an putty soon we was in de low grounds whar he lib. De moon was shinin’ brite an twant long fo we seed him rite in frunt un us close to his house. Wen he seed us he started fer to run urway, but wun ob de boyshe outrun him an got on de udder side ob him rite across frum whar I was stannim an as he cum toards him he up ‘wid his an fired, but bless yo” soul, honey, he miss dat coon an hit dis nigger! Dat’s de Molasses Gap, whar I got shot in, aa _de farm whar I got hurt didn’t long to de Mr. Frazer whar you ax me bout. I nebber wer a sojer, a2 1 ain nebber pint ur gan at anyfring biggerdanacoon. De war histry I wer gwineito tole yer was what I seed de fedrick sojers;do roun Atlanty, but I rekkun de way I loosed a my arm dun kilt yo intrist in my war speriuncés; but "hi axed me, an I tole yer. You is ursmart- white man, but I want fer to tole you dat ebbery wun arm cufid man you see wid a blue coat on ain gittin no twenty dol- lars fum de penshungint to buy his bacon an greens wid. Dr may’s eyes deceib him heap ur times, an rité yer Timennbers @ piece ur poly Tlernt wen [vas ur boy, an I ain nebber fergot it. As yon seems tobe fon ur vurses I'll para- lyze you wid it. Dis is de wa it goes: “Nebber jedg ir man by de culler ob his coat; Nebber gage-yer drjin by de size ob yer frote. Kase ur mulé’s bitte, dat doan make him lame, He kik jis ag hard, ait he kik Jis de same.” When the rival philosopher put forth these chunks of wisdom the silent passenger slided off. a looks and true, re hinson’s Life Mr. Hute! con Montgomery To the Editor of Tax EVENING Sram: It Is not because it is customary to eulogize the life and character of wealthy men that I write this tribute to Mr. H., but because he con- tributed so generously for every benevolent pose in our community. He never forgot 4 Door, whom he times nade ing ‘wood, and vegetables. groceries, me to give Coamiog four the itafforded him as 8 quiet retreat. from city life satisfied him for the outlay. By Cosh oie ere es soon ae Also, | se zt ery Pe rary ing on cela, Borxr Mute, Mp., May 15th. = W. EM. | LETTER FROM NEW YORK. A Society Souvenir — The Rockaway Club—Gen. Grant and Mexico — “Lightning Tickers”—The World The Conchers, Eto. Special Correspondence of Tae Evaxrme Stan. ~ New York, May 18, 1883. The latest thing in Anglomania is the compilation of a volume which very much re- Sembles the annual number of the London It ts to be called The Society Souvenir, and will be in crushed strawberry Covers and very elegantly printed. It comprises Court Circular. & complete record of all the fashionable dings, balls, teas, receptions and festiviti the season—in fact, a history of the gay I! New Yors. There is little doubt that the thing will have a ready sale. Anything that tends to enhance the importance of society people in their own eyes, to make their ephemeral ex- Periences seem of moment will be readily en- couraged. The book is to be issued by the “society man” on @ morning newspaper. editorial comments will be interspersed. It will simply be a plain cast-iron record of social events filled with society names. THE ROCKAWAY CLUB. The Rockaway club’s cross county races very gratitying fo American horsemen. proved that decidedly fast and firm riding on this side of the Atlantic is quite as far advanced Nearly all of the riders were members of tne Meadow Brook or Rock- away County Hunts, and they rode the horses that they had been in the habit of natn = as it is on the other. meets during the year. The races were sorts, but mainly by gentlemen riders. best horseman of the club is probably Mr. George Work, the son of Frank Work, who is the owner of the fastest team of trotters i world. chase races, which resulted in a serious it to hisarm and shoulder. The steeple course is three miles over hurdles, stone fences, rails, turt walls, high fences and short hillocks. In one of the races young Jack Cheever, who is also one of our swell horsemen, broke a stirrup and shot over his horse’s head just as he was coming down from taking atence. Chee- ver landed on his feet and mounted his before there were eight gentlemen riders, and did very gratifying work. At a time when the wampy-pampy dudes are fashionable in York, and ny is the correct thii GEN. GRANT AND MEXICO. General Grant is steadily pushing Mexico up into public favor. Noman can invite the dis- tinguished ex-President of the United States to dinner without hearing an extended lecture on the advantages that would accrue from country’s closer relationship with the U1 States. At every public dinner he exh: most of the time in speeches on this subject. He is ably seconded by Mr. Roscoe Conkling, | who has evidently got in on Mexican stock on the ground floor. At the last dinner of Satunday Night Club, Grant and Conkling, the two most prominent members of the Mutual Admiration Soclety, quite outdid themselves. Grant made almost the longest speech of his life Then the ex-Senator got up and after a brilliant euloguim on General Grant per- about Mexico. sonally and a brief review of his services, back to the last Chicago contention, and clsed the actions of the tamous 306. “These men,” said Mr. Conkling, ‘were not merely instructed, but were bound in honor to God and man to discharge certain obligati These obligations were to vote for Grant for President of the United States. “I firmly believe,” Mr. Conkling continued, “that the results of that convention have the country back ten years. The failure of the men to nominate General Grant has lost us half a decade of progres: Mr. Conkling then said that the democrats were about to take the control of the country, ‘All of which may or and, figuratively, wept, may not be a good thing for Mexico. BETTINI'S SUICIDE. Lieutenant Granini Bettini, of the 8d Savoy cavalry, is eccentric—in fact, he must be insane. Miss Lillian Ayer, in front of whose house he shot himself, is There isno excuse for his freak. the last girl in the world to treat a lover bily. The young Italian was not an accepted lover of hers. He had only seen her four t! and then always in the presence of other poe: There is little doubt but he was struck by her personal appearance. She is a remarkably hand- some young woman, twenty-five or twenty-six years of age, of beautiful figure and cream col- ored complexion. Her manners are cordial and hospitable, and her wealth is prodigious. the amorous young Itallan fell in love with her is unquestionable; that she did not care for him is equally certain. a suicide as the means affection. He failed, but he was enterprisi ZOOLOGICAL HOSIERY. The rage of the moment among women is Zoological hose. Stockings are displayed {i shop-windows up and down Broadway. show designs of towls of all sorts of gay plum- The caprice of the fashion-makers are age. limitless. One pair, I noticed, were of gray, with long green lizards crawling up the ankles op either side; another had insects of all stich as bees, Brazilian bugs, caterpillars, The best of these stockings cost from ten to forty dollars a pair, and there isa ready sale for them. Many of them have real lace let and others are woven pair that at- @ good deal of attention had a wreath of forget-me-nots elaborately worked around the calf with a spray of vine running in and out ae” into the instep, in artistic imitations of flowers. A among the flowers. Another had rose scattered loosely over the surtace. The for highly colored stockings has reached Silk half hose is now the fashionable thing, and fancy patternsare in vogue. lal wel all sorts of scarlet, Nile green, crushed strawberry other hues are pronounced the correct thing. Men are becoming more fastidious and expen-, sive in the matter of ever before since the Only a tew years ago It was considered ti man had when he rsonal adornment have all sorts of — colored underwear, Tur! that he is miserably clad. MR. JOHN SULLIVAN. Sullivan has again proved himself a terror. Mitchell indulges in a good deal of fighting talk about his anxiety to meet Sullivan again, but it is alltalk. Any man who saw Sullivan knock Mitchell spinning over the ropes half » dozen times the other night at the Madison Young Mr. Work is a little reckless. He had a frightful fall in one of the steeple again le saw that he wasfairly off, but he could not tebe any of the jumps without his stirrup, and ambled home.again. He was ex- ceedingly chagrined, as he put a good deal of money on his horse for that race. Altogether to be languid and inert, the spectacle of half a dozen vigorous young men proving that they are tip-top horse- men, and capable of riding dangerous races for the glory of the sport, is indeed very gratifying. His suit deserves record. however, for itis not every lover who will have himself photographs in three poses as catching his lady’s indies of the olden time. ne his duty to himself and societ; ght plain half hose and white un- derwear of the utmost simplicity. Now he must stockings, brilliantly ish slippers, pajamas, dressing wraps and Jerseys, or else he will feel chell proves the Bostonian to be the| Rapid Advance ef the Vernal season. hi hitter that ever lived. Mit-} Tua qvam—roraTo PLANTING—FRUIT rros- a is - very lngog mat rl rr PECTS—CABBAGE GROWING. Bet- | his legs and stands as firm as a rock, ani Under Sullivan's blows he was knocked about | Correspondence of Tue Evento Stas. as though hit by acycione. One blow of Sulli- Farts Cnorce, Va., May 15th, 1888. van's, icularly in the first round, made the ‘The cool, frosty weather ceased suddenly. Al- and scene or beauty was a surprise. For two years, from unusual canses, your city and for a minute or two he was afraid to come | hasfurnishedaood, rather liberal priced market for potatoes. Our farmers never having had any livan gave it to him time and again. Mitchell, | lence xperi that profited them, seem to have con- who had a, whip) Helen petales = cluded that ort + wed-| blows. He is a tor and sturdy fighter, and | never be less than now, have planted all the ies of | fail of pluck, Silitean knocked about | seed that they could raise money to buy..! , but Si like a shuttleeock. DOT BOUCICAULT. reckon. For this region, broad has anit will be Ifthe scagon shal’ be ag mols a o as it wi! 7 el as moist an Dion Boucicault's sen made his debut in New | the jast was, and this, so far, promises to be, . York at the Star Theater. The Star is Wallack's you can turn up your olfactory projection on ao- old theater. After failing under the manage- | count of the potato surfeit, and the farmers wik ment of a German company, Mr. Wallack took | be sick with the pricea. it back and decided to play it as a combination | | At last the quail has broken the silence with house. He opened with Mr. Boucicault, and life of No ‘away at the public for some months, but every- | shyly whistling now. If we do not have @ more thing so far produced has been more or less aj Stringent law Gyainst bunting them they will the whole season Mr. Bouci- ay soon disappear entirely from our fields ‘Were | duce called the “‘A1 Therefore the ee! for oy — salon tage — 7 The: le expected great things when they went there | What were not Imm tely kil id Puesdey night. But rs were disap) that inted. | frosts. Some, undoubtedly, were 80 4 oy ‘The comedian and his gon appeared in same | after growing a little will arop from play. Hee astonishing eve a _ a nay 9 — orchards md favored in bd p= 4 allowed to write such a play and live; but a young are very on “ risks with the public | trees that have Tost on them, and shoud cicault has taken so man: in the course of his ‘adventurous career as a | the truit all mature it would amount poten J ’ playwright that he has become case-hardened | small fraction of acrop. The favored and reckless. In the ‘Amadan” the elder Bon- | are on grounds that are dry and so anes cicault plays a villainous money grabber, and |,have a dry atmosphere. High, open hills set his son plays an idiot boy. As a villainous | Orchards show the most fruit, but even in these money grabber the elder Boucicault is com- | orchards there can't be more, I estimate, than a ical; as a pathetic idiot the younger | quarter ofacrop. But then there comes a drop- Boucican® is disagreeable. The most re-} ping time again, when the fruit gets to be markable thing about the play is the facility | the size ofa hazel nut to that of a small hickory with which the Boucicault’s, father and | nut; besides, the insects are to have their son,come tolife after being repeatedly killed. The { with the fruit yet. The probabilities are, fact is, you could not kill them. In the first act j best, that peaches will be scarce and high- the boy was shot through the head by a land- | priced. lord, and his body was carried on the stage. He} Apples, pears, plums, cherries (there are a said a few dying words and closed his eyes. The.| few), currants and strawberries seem to have @ curtain fell. the next act he wasonand as favorable chance to be abundant, though the happy as ever. In this act he threw the elder| strawberries do not appear to me to have Boucicault over a cliff. The victim was exam- | bloomed as plentifully as they do ordinarily. ined by three other people after he was found] Many ot the most successful growers of cat- ‘on the beach, and pronounced dead. The next | bage before the butterflies came have stop} act he walked it in and went on with the | understand, growing these relishable, whol play. This time they not only killed him, but | 80me vegetables. They say they can’t afford to put him in the grave and pl an immense | grow them wholly for the forage of the butter- marble slab on the top of it, while his son and | fly progeny. They ought to have found that out the heroine went into a cavernous pit. from | some time ago, and have put boysinto the fields which there was no escape, and in which they | and caught the butterflies. L.8. a, must have been inevitably drowned by the rising ——_——_+e- —___ tide afterward. But they all came out right A Mysterious Cold Spell. again the next scene beens blooming and | From the New York Sun. e f a thi monotonous alter Swhile, sad the audience began to feel sus. | The oold spell about the 11th, 19th, and 18th icious. The fact that Boucicault could not be | of May. which was very distinctly marked this Eitie seemed ominous, and the most touch- | year, is one of the most singular of meteorolo- ing scenes juced roars of laughter. ™ “ones Prodi Peters bad the | #ical phenomena. The observations of many — furnished strong evidence that It re- wildest impossibilities, but the old man claims | ¥¢8rs have ish rd that itis quite as eat as the “Shaugraun.” | curs yearly and extends over the whole The Boy (young Boucicault) shows a great deal | northern hemisphere, and probably over the or comedy talent, and has a fair voice, which | southern hemisphere also. After the discovery he uses) Well tn singing. He did not have ® | that there are rings ofmeteors revolving around chance to make a v. leep impression, ani audience guyed the plece quite hopelessly ali | the sun, some of which intersect the orbit of the the way through. Dramatic talent seems to be | earth, it was not an unnatural suggestion that ene the boy stems Pore tint en 4 the cold spell in May, and a few other similar traces of his father’s humor. was wi de} ions in tem) », mn be caused Lester Wallack and his fatter. Booth ts an-| ty? intewenitiee pe iOattginchemacpl aerated tween the earth and the sun, other eminent example, and Lytton Sothern, reer engi who fs to come over shortly and play 80 €n-| tion of the sun's heat would’ be cut off Mr. Proctor has recently made an in! gagement here, is said to be as great an actor ait ment in favor of this theory, but It seems to be as his father, the great Dundreary. PRINCE TILDEN. open to serious objections. Ifa swarm of me- I saw young Beverly Tilden at the theater the | teors dense enou; th to cut off a considerable other night, in faultless evening dress, with a | Portion of fhe sun's heat. pars —— huge solitaire glittering in his shirt and another light as well as heat; at te is no evidence on his finger. Somehow, his appearance was a that the cold speil in May is accompanied by surprise, not only to me, but to everybody else, | any diminution of sunlight. Besides there are It 18 the first time he has been out since his law | Certain hot spells which have also been sup- ve recur wit re suit began, and people expected him to wear old | Posed a Mira pecan etl “rel —- clothes and appear downcast and poverty | ‘hich accoungs tor the oold spells ought. to" ac. stricken. | But he did not. He was quite as easy | count for the hot spells also. - This the meteorie cog anh aes natured as ever, and looked tully | theory fails to do, for it will hardly be asserted as wealthy as he did two years ago. o 3 of the three sons of the late William Tilden, who | {hat there are so many meteoric «warms be- left an estate of two million dollars. The boys have run throngh it all, though the eldest is only twenty-three years of age. They have now insti- tuted a sult against the executors of the estate to ascertain if there is any more money left, and also to show cause why they gaye minors so much money, One of the youngster, while only elgh- teen years old, spent one hundred and seventy- The in the chase horse * they New that inited austs if the went criti- ions.” heid tween the earth and the sun that onlyona few days In each year, when there happen to be no meteors in the way, is the full power of the sun's radiation felt upon our globe. Still, if these spells of abnormal temperatare really recur every year, and are felt simultane eousiy all over the globe, it is difficult to see how they can be accounted for except on the hypothesis of a wwe innumerable suppers at el le is a member of the Tarf the Americans in Germany. The thing was car- ried out in the most extra it style, and cost 80 many thousand dollars that the thrifty Ger- mans have not yet stopped wondering at It. Tilden isa it young man with weak eyes, a small mustache and carly hair, which he combs up from his forehead. He was not particularly ao even when possessed of cally un- imited means; now that he has lost his money he will not be tolerated. “LIGHTNING TICKERS.” Nothing is fast enough for the men inthe Stock Exchange. I see that a new company is being formed to put in what are known as “lightning tickers.” The present indicators | Frost certainly seem to go fast enough for any out- Menial, rashi siders. Quotations reel off almost as rapidly a8 | spracne is dead.” Conkling—“Ah! so wich Wee they can be pronounced, but that is not fast | Gov. Sprague.” Menial—“It’s the horse Gov. eatexs nel the ocper = cnet were ely ve to ary hoa honor.” Conkling (ome pee | send out the quotations like a ie | — thought it was the ass.”. i fraction of a second will be lost, 1m Post.’ sun with the object of detecting any changes and particularly any periodical changes, in his — of light and heat may solve the mys That arap pp aie Satarday Smiice “Is the ceteg Lots dog always followed bye death?” asked a girl of her father. “Not always, my dear; sometimes the man that shoots at the dog misses him,” was the parent's reply.— Inductive reasoning: Mr. William Doodle— “Yes, Mies Frost, I alwaye wear givres at id ‘ioe jug. in the They night; tl make one’s hands so avft. Frost—“ah! and do you sleep with ‘your hat dark in—“0, Mr. Conkling, Gov. “What makes chickenscomeout of their shell, they must be so nice and warm and comfortable inside?” fe ied sige they're afraid of being boiled!"—. Judy, ' Herbert Spencer says Americans are so driven by business cares that they never stop to lels- urely examine anything. Guess he never saw five or six hundred busy Americans standing around for two hours watching three men rais- ing an office safeto a fourth story window.— News. the World. He will, undoubtedly, make it lively | dance, and when atked by one of the for the newspapers here, but it will be bad Flat bellee why he was not dancing, replied: policy for him to make any more mistakes such | “4¥, I don’ dawneing te positively valgah, ye know.” “But ought to dance.” ‘aula the lady; Rodd cola f substituted In thelr places. The increased speed of these tickers is obtained by some mechanical arrangement in the instrument covered by a patent. It is sald will be equal to report- ing the most exciting sales and purchases of the board with the utmost rapidity. It makes life on the street a little taster, and is therefore Pleasant to the brokers. THE WORLD ON THE COACHERS. buds rage men. than that a good for your health. It's only tte other that Dr. Thomas told pa that de the calves.” an article “Let the Who hinders them? . to bet that duri A Duluth paper begins ® most, _— hav vs All the same we have mon Ing time. —Burlington Hawk 7 ] of all sorts of affectations. Everybody in New - ofinredalty the, atatoments “Mitchell ty now | YO" aows how unfounded all hissort of thing |, .cyTacne”, Sa Jearol er. on appearing at to badly off ax Sultvan was when the pote tn | WH08e atcestore lave been American stateamen | ‘eachor she had any ane brothers, to wich folles interfered “to save. Mitchell ‘tos alae wclite they food looking?” asked the teacher. lice in save Mitchel jm “are e % . mocked out if not killed. The thing that caused “Es ma'm. . the interference of the police was when Mitchell “How do you know they are?” ; crawled up in front of the Boston cham) “Cause, mamma says deir awful dudelook- ; the middle of the thirdround and ing,” came the soft response. There are grave . blow that knocked him spinning over on the probabilities that the child may grow up to ‘ ropes so that he hung like a di Fin, Head cnprg a teacher.—Syracuse Herald. z P had some diffeulty ia getting Sullivan to let 4 Mitchell alone, but when he came to his he was the first to offer his hand to the an Sunlight Net White but Biuc. From Harper's Magazine. Binoe the time of Newton it hasbeen assumed ‘ that all the radiations of the sun were tobe found in the spectrum, and that these reunited make whitelight. There is alsoa tacit assump- | : : i ft #2 I E i : i iq Hd it f i 8B | a mi