Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1886, Page 2

CITY AND DISTRICT. THE NEW MINISTERS. The Preachers Who Will Take Charge of M. E. Charehes Here. Under the appointments made at the Balti- amore M. E. conference, Biadensburg circuit will receive Rev. Jesse €. Starr,who comes from St. Mary’s cireuit, where he made a good rec- ord. His family consists of a wife and two children. He will probably reside at Bowie— the church there with two others and the Bla- densburg church being his appointments. He : succeeds Rev. W. McK. Hammack, formerly 0f Douglas Memorial, who goes to Mt. Carmel and Magothy. Douglas Memorial, H_ street northens| ceives Rev.Wm. Rogers as the snecessor of Rev. C. T. House, as an exchange, Mr. House going to Bennett Memorial, Baltimore, whence comes Mr. Rogers. The latter is now {n Washington, but comes with a good record. Mr. House leaves his charge ta greatly improved condition. Denbarton-avenue (West Washington) wilt have as the successor of Rev. W. I. McKenney, who goes to Jackson-square, Baltimore, Rev. Dr. W.S. Edwards, who, tor the past three years, has supplied the McKendree pulpit. Dr. Ed- ards isregarded as one of the strongest men w the conierence, and his name had been re- cently prominent in connection with the palpit of the Metropolitan and one of the vacant elderships, and appointment to Dunbarton ‘was a surprise to many who supposed that his name was cast for the eldership. - Dr. Edwards’ name will most likely be used in the next gen- eral conference as a candidate for the office of Bishop. The people of Grace church (9tb and S streets) will deablices be much pleased with Rev. W. T. L. Weeeh, the successor of Rev. Harry France, who goes to Frostburg, Mr. Weech has been some years in the ry, and having Scceptably served a number of circuits, and ast year he closed a term as the pastor of Union eharch, 20th street, where he proved one of the most usetul of pastors. Metropolitan is left to be supplied, and it is understood that Rev. Dr. Newman’ will take charge about Aprii Ist. Rev. Dr. Huntley goes Yo Madison Avenue, Baltimore. McKendree has as its pastor the predecessor of Dr. Edwards—Rev. C. Herbert Richardson— Who served there a three-years' term, and has since been at Caroline street, Baltimore. Mr. Richardson is a very energetic pastor, and the McKendree people, remembering that under his former pastorate the church was in debt, ‘thought that he was entitled to return to enjoy more of the fruits of his labors, Mount Zion, 15th and R streets, changes, its , Rev. J. F. Ockerman going to Emory, Itimore, Rev. Dr. John H. Dashiel, who has served @ number of churches here, including Dunbarton and McKendree, succeeding him. Since Dr. Dashiel left here he bas been sta- toned at Frederick and Hagerstown, Md. Dr, Dashiel is one of the most scholarly members of ‘the conference, and will doubtless attract large congregations from the rapidly improving neighborhood surrounding the church. North Capitol church, near the government inting office, receives as the successor of Kew. WK eiarke Hagey, Kev. C.T. Weede. The latter will take charge of a small chureh, but one ‘whose condition both temporally and spirita— ally bas wonderfully improved under the ministrations of Mr. Hagey.. Though afflicted 80 as to be searcély able to walk Mr. Hazey has stuck to his work and brought the little con- gregation out of its immediate financial strait and built up the membership. Twelfth Street, East Washington, b: suecessor of Rev. J. H. Ryland, Rev. Myers. The latter is weli-known in the confer- ence and to the Methodists in this section and throughout the state of Maryland, and comes here irom Grace church, at Woodbury, pear Baltimore. Rev. J.C. Hagey goes to Athens, Tenn.,as a professor in Grant Memorial University, an in- Stitution within the bounds of Holston confer- ence, as the thomas WHERE OTHER PREACHERS Go. Rev. G. W. Hobbs, formerly of Grace eburch 4m this city and late presiding elder of Cumber- land district, goes to East Baltimore station; Rev. J. R. Wheeler, formerly of this city, goes to Harford avenue, Baltimore; Rev. F. H. Hav- enner, a native of ‘this city, goes to Highland Place, Baitimore: Rev. L. T. Widerman, a nur- Ber of years azo ut Hamiine. goes to Madison square, Baltimore; Rev. B.G.W. Reed, formerly oi East Washington, to Eust Harford; Rev. 5. Shannon, formerly ot Union and Ryland, to Havre de Grace: Rev. J. N. Davis, formerly of i city, returns to Bald- win near Waterbury, Anne Arundel county, Md. This is a chureh en- flowed by Mr. ©! €. Baldwin, of New York. Rev. J. M. H. Lemon, some years ago at Gor- such, goes to Hereford; Kev. Chas. McElfresh, yome years age at East Washington, oes t6 Seaman's Beth Baltimore; Rev. Wiliam F. Speake, formerly of this city, and presiding elder of Washington distri is presiding elder of East Baltimore district; Kev. G. W. Cooper, once of McKendree, goes to Columbia Avenue, Baltimore; J. J. G. Webster, formerly of Dun barton Avenue, to Fayette Street, Baltimore; L. M. Gardner, formerly of Kyland and Mount ¥iou, goes to Franklin Street, Baltimore: Dr. A. E. Gibson, who served the Foundry some years Since, goes to Hariem Park, Baltimore; Rev. R. W. Black, who has just ‘served as presiding elder of East Baltimore district, takes a super- Bumerary relation at Union Square: Rev. Dr. ‘W.F. Ward, formerly of the Foundry, goes back to Whateoat, Baltimore; W. W. VanArs- dale, a native of this cily, goes to Savage and’ Laurel, and Rev.’ Page Milburn, another Wasaingwnian, to Summerfield cir- uit, Rev. Dr. Lanaban, who has served the Foundry, Wesley und other charges here, is continued as the presiding elder of Baltimore district; Kev. S. M. Haztsock, formerly of Ham- line, is returned to Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Rev: 8. A. Wilson, formerly of MeKendree, is a upemumerary at Madison Avenue; Rev. 3. B. tt, who leit a place under the Treasury to enter the ministry aves Hagerstown for the Northwest Mission, Bultim rc; Rev. B. Peyton Brown, who has sefved Fous iry, Wesley, and ‘as presiding elder of the Washington district, is at Wesley chapel, Baltimore; Rev. G. G. Baker, formerly ot Hamline, the secretary of the conference, is the successor of Kev. G. W. Hobbs as presiding elder of Cumberland dis teiet; Kev. Joseph France, formerly of East Wi ington, goes lo Venter Street,Cumberland. TO CLIMB TO THE Top. Strong-Limbed Visitors With Lanterns to be Admitted 3HE WINDING IRON STAIRWAY NEARLY com- PLETED—APPEOPRIATIONS NEEDED FOR CoM- PLETING THE MONUMENT—MOVEMENTS IN THE STRUCTURE CAUSED BY HEAT AND OLD. A force of workmen is still engaged in con- structing the iron stairway in the interior ot the Washington monument, and it will be completed in less thanamonth. There will then be facilities tor ascending the monument without the elevator. The public have been denied aecess to the monument for several months, because the elevator was not running regularly. Formeriz visitors could be taken up on the elevator, us it was daily used for carry- ing up workmen and material for constructing the monument. Provision was made only tor Tupning it on business, but visitors could be taken along without extraexpense. When the work ceased the elevator stopped its trips until Congress should make an appropriation for running it for the exclusive benefit of the ublic, at a daily expense of about twenty dol- — in the mean time, however, the tron stairway winding around the interior Iramework was un, and is now nearly completed. When it is finished a limited number of passes will be issued to visitors who desire to climb to the ive-hundred-ioot level, provided, however, they supply themseives WITH LANTERNS, Not a ray of light enters the monument except trough the single door at the base and the Uttle windows on the roof, so that a misstep in tbe darkness might prove disastrous. Passes Will therefore be iasued only to those who are able to light thelr own path. All the provisions made thus far by Congress have been for cou- Kructing the monument. Now that it is com- pleted, appropriations will have to ve made for making its approaches more sightly and con- enient At the same time money will be eeded for lighting it and furnishing other faclilties for Visitors, who regard it as one of the principal things tobe seen and visited at the ital. “1 eo it stated,” said a Srar reporter to Col. Casey the other day, “that the topot the mhoDuMen! moves morning and evening on account of the heat of the sun.” “I never made such a staiement,” was the reply. “That is carrying the thing a little too tar. I do say, however, that tie top of the monument moves with the seasons, that ts, in the summer it swings a little to the north and im the winter to tue south. When you cousider that the distance traveled is not more than three ‘sixteenths of us inch, however, it can scarcely be called a movement, ‘There is move: ment ih everything, for that maites, and it can be made appreciaule only when the’ Westing in- struments are of such a delicate nature ws to be able o measure it. The swinging plumb bous, now several hundred feet foug, which were used continually as the monument was in course of construction, Informed us of a movement in the structure, There was alway? movement as the weight increased, but it set led evenly. The roof of the monument is only & few inches in thickness and wili readily re- spond to either heat or cold, while the body of the shaft ts so thick that temperature has little oF no effect upon it. It is not surprising at all that the top will move sligatly by contraction or expansion, but the movement can be distiu- fuished only by the MOST DELICATE MEASUREMENTS, Itis the same way with everything around us. Take that wall over there,” pointing to the State, War and Navy department building. “You may Sud alittle crack ih winter between couple Of the stones. They have contracted. jor it again ju the suinmer and you can't find it. The stones have expanded and closed it up nicely, unless some dirt collected in the crack, and chen tue mortar or cement between Bhe stones bas been crumbied by the expansion. ‘This movement of the monument can scarcely be called sueh in the common acceptance of the term, for it doesn’t travel a distance as great as halt ihe width of your little flager nail. that meat nmdae DisesranLisuMENt Nor Fax Orr.—A Lon- don dis; says: The liberal prow reflecting ‘the real opinion and purposes of the liberal ma- Jority in the bouse, predict that disestablish- ‘ens is certain to be considered in the next Hament anda bill pamed. severing the official eounection between state and church. EIGHT HOURS A DAY. 4 Rule Which Workmen Propose to En- force Here in May. KNIGHTS OF THE TROWEL, PLANE AND PAINT BRUSH UNITED IN THE MOVEMENT—HOW THEY PROPOSE TO ENFORCE IT—INTERVIEWS WITH WORKINGMEN AND WITH CONTRACTORS. Next Tuesday night a convention of delegates Tepresenting the various building trades of the city will be held for the purpose of arranging final details of the movement to enforce the eight-hour rule in this city on and after the first Monday in May. Allof the trades’ assemblies have agreed to putting the eight-hour rule in force on thatday. The details to be arranged concern the hours for beginning and quitting work and matters of that kind, Nearly all the trades are now organized as assemblies of the Knights of Labor, aud every trade assembly concerned directly in building operations, it is stated, is pledged to the enforcement of the Tule, The carpenters, bricklayers, painters, plas- terers, stonecutters, tinners, plumbers and gal- ¥anized tronworkers unite in the movement, Naturally builders, contractors, and others in- terested in building operations are awaiting with interest the outcome of the movement. Knights of Labor to whom a Stax reporter has talked have expressed themselves as deter- mined upon carrying the movement toa suc- cessful issue. They deny that the effect will be in anywise injurious upon the building inter- ests of the city; on the contrary they claim that the city will be generally benefited on account of the greater number of men to whom they contend employment will be given. Under the eight hour system master builders, however, are somewhat apprehensive, and in some in: stances builders sy they have either declined to take new work, or have met great embarrass- ment In competing for work on account of the uncertainty in calculating the cost of labor, HOW THE MOVEMENT STARTED. The National Bricklayers’ Union held at St. Louis some time ago, resolved that a legal day's work for the trade should not exceed nine hours per day; but the Federation of the Labor of the United States and Canada went one better on the number of hours, and resolved at the ses- sion of 1884 that the eight hour rule should be put into operation, commencing with the present season—these resolutions being manda- tory. At the session held in this city last fall this resolution was changed so as toleave it dis- eretionary with the state and other assemblies toact if they should deem it expedient, or, in other words to make this rule if they considered that they were strong enough and could en- force it. The first Monday in May was fixed as the time to put the rule Into operation. ‘The Federation of Labor of the District, which is made up of representatives of all trades, have, after a canvas, concluded that the trades here are in a position to carry out the rule, and, at the time named, it will be put into operation. There are yet some details to be arranged, such as the hours for going to and striking off work, anda convention will be held this month to ar- Tange these details. It is represented that the plumbers, plasterers, tinners, bricklayers, carpenters, painters, and’ both branches of the Carpenters’ Assemblies are a unit in this move- ment. The bricklayers here have determined to asic for iess hours than their National Union recommended. THE SITUATION AS STATED BY MR. BILLINGS LEY. As early as we could in the new year,” said Mr. J. F. Billingsley, of the Carpenters’ union, “we notified the bosses of our intention to work only eight hours, so that they would know how to figure in putting in estimates. We gave them early notice so that they might not be misled. | They, however, have chosen to ignore us. The building trades are a unit in this movement, and we propose to carry it through. How will we do it? Weil, if the boss builders lock us out we propose to’ work for ourselves. We have organized co-operative gangs and ropose to estimate on work and tuke it. ‘here are a number of these gangs, and some of them I think will remain in existence even if the bosses corfeede all that we ask. Wecan take the architect's drawings and work from them. All we expect to get is wages, there will be no contractor's profit to pay. ask about the material and about bonds. ‘There are material men here who state that they are willing to go upon our bonds and supply n terial, provided that the title upon the property concerned is pertect. In that case they would have a lien on the property which will make them safe. We propose to appeal to the grocers, the butchers and others, whom we have helped to build up in the city, tostand by us, and if they have work to be done, to give it'to us orto have it done under the eight hour rule. We do not want to tazonize business men of this city; when we have resorted to the hoycott it has always been with the greatest reluctance. We want busi- ness men to see that our interests ure their interests. Sometimes a business man gives out acontract and itis done by scab labor. Then when we see him he says he knew nothing aboutit, and thinks we are hard upon him. Now we cannot notify everybody person- ally. They ought to consider beforehand whether they ‘want the work done. Db: union men or not. As to the tall that this movement wili deter men trom build- ing, and have a detrimental effect on the build- ing’ interests of the city, all that need be said is that the building permits issued during the last month, as stated by the building Inspector in ‘Tae STAR, far exceed the same month of last year. Why don’t builders say that building in- ierests will be affected when the prices of ma- terials are increased? One dollar @ thousand Was added to the price of brick, and no one thoughtof saying that it would puta stop to building.” THE TINNERS AND THE EIGHT-HOUR RULE. “The tinners put the eight-hour rale in force on the 14th of December last,” said Mr. J. W. Considine, of the Tinners’ assembly. “The re- sult has been that 20 per cent more men have been employed. Practically none of our men have been out of employment during the win ter. The plasterers also have enforced the rule- during the winter. They began a week aheud of us. When we made eight hours a day's work Ne Feduced wages fifty cents a day, but we will Testore the old rate on the Ist of May. The great question now is to get. men at work by reducing the hours, so that there will be employment for all, and then wages will regu- late themselves. Last vear when bricklayers were ail employed, and there was reaily a scar- city of meu, wages advanced in that craft. It isnot true, f think, that this movement will aftect building interests, It ts well-known that tuere is more building on a rising market than ona lowering one. Tue movement will be a benefit to the whole city. We find whon men are employed consiantiy they wre able W pay thelr bills to the grocers; the grocers in turn are able to pay their bills to the larger whole- sale houses, and so on. All enjoy a scason of Prosperity.’ The moment the workiugmen are thrown out of work tue big dealers, us well as the little ones, feel it. Itbink that before the istof May we will have an amalgamation of tades—the building trades in pariicular—and the rule will be not to work with a non-union man anywhere.” A BOSS TINNER WHO FAVORS 17. Mr.T. E. Pruitt, a member of the tinners’ union, and also @ boss tinner, states that the hours of tinuers now are 71y to 4 with 4 hour at noon, and the wages $2.50, and the proposi- lon is’ to False to $3" per day. Sonte or te bosses, most of them in fact, do not object Lo the number of hours, but to the hour for stopping work, for in the summer time 4 o'clock 13 too soon to stop work. It is well known that @ tin- her ou a roof can do as much work from 4 to 6 as he can on # hot day from 12 to4. ‘The men will, however, succeed, for there seems to be | pledty of work ahead, and perhaps there js ore work in sight than there was last year. © Wuges used to be $3 per day and should have been kept at that figure. ‘There 1s one thing about the reduction of hours which some people have not regarded. ‘To keep up the work tore men will be required, and, of course, the demand will make it necessary to open ways for boys getting into the trades. The assemblies Will Mave Wo Open the way Yor boys to learn trades. “There wre hundreds of men in town now,” said Mr. Praitt, “who are unabie lo read THE Stak, as when they reach home alter six o'clock they are too fatigued. When, however, they get home at tour o'clock they'will have ety of time to read it, and they will all want t, Mark my words, the movement will be & benefit, uot only to the workingmen, but to the Bewspapers and of amusement and churches will feel the benefits.” WHAT A PAINTER SAYS. “We anticipate no trouble at all in enforcing the rule,” suid Mr. T. & Denham, of the painters’ assembly. “The bosses here have tried to make a compromise, but we will bot compromise on anything short of eight hours. We have made no demand tor an increuse of wages. What we want is time, notmoney. During the busy part of last year end the year before, inters were in sucii de- mand that we could have got almost apy Wages we asked, but we would not ask any ine crease in Wages over the rate fixed in 1883, be- ¢ause we bad then in view a reduction of nours. We expect to maintain the same rate of wages after the 3d of May. We tind that our very best men do not work more than seven months out of the year. The eight-hour rule in our or- ganization we ‘find will put 100 men more to work. Our craft has assemblies in 43 cities, all in good fiuancial standing, that will put this rule in force at the same time we do. No man will work after fouro’elock or hal four o'clock, Whichever hour is decided upon as quitting time. That will be an imperative law, w be suspended only in exceptional cage where a boss? mene ‘Which must be finished aud cannot _be ‘puto until the next day. In all ordinary housework, where no such urgency exists, however, the law mast be observed. As a rule among’ the no demand is made for an increase of wages, In New York the painters will virtuail getan increase. ‘They ulready enjoy there halt @ day holiday on Saturdays, which was given to them voluntarily by the bosses. Our assem- biy is well organized and the men are under good discipline. We have law, which is rigidl, Enforced, to fine ‘& man for’ insulting a boss, ‘Yes, we Will co-operate wit te other building t The system which exists in New York willbe put into eifect here. Then no rau will work on @ building uuless the other men in other trades in the same building bat SOME OF THE BOSSES WILLING. ‘Mr. W. H. Parker, a painter, states that the wages now are $3 for ten hours, and they ask for the same and eight hours, and expect toget 4t if the public support them. “The bosses,” said Mr. Parker, “bave been holding meetii but we do not know what thoy are doing We have heard of some who are willing to give us the hours and the pay and We know that the union will not agree to reduction. The hue and cry about the move- ment retarding building, does not to bave much foundation, for the are as good, If not better, than last season.’ WHAT 4 BOSS PAINTER SAYS, Mr. James H. Jobnson, boss painter, states that he is perfeotly willing to give the reduced hours with the maximum per diem if the movement be general. Of course the sfaller shops will have to be governed by the larger gases oe he mw Id er day eee = urs an e a course, none but first-class tends. "As tothe Prospects of work, he saw enough work ahead to employ the men here, especially if the old work, re-painting, opened ‘well. NO STRIKE, BUT ARBITRATION, “The rule will be enforced,” said Mr. Joseph Fanning, of the Stonecutters’ assembly, “There is no doubt of that. The stonecutters now are working pine hours a day, and will gain five hours a week by the rule, No, there will be 10 strike. We do not want a strike or belleve in them. injure the workingman ag well as the boss, 1 the bosses do not yield, we will ropose to submit the matter to arbitration. We cannot, of course, give in on the number of hours. If there is any concession, it will have to be in the point of It is oe opinion that what mechanics ought to strive for is a re- duction of hours that will put all mien to wor! even if they have to suffer a reduction 0 wages.” ‘Tho wages of stonecutters are fixed at $3.50 per day, and the most of them feel confl- dent that thé bosses will accede to the elght- hour rule when the time comes. A TALK WITH A PLUMBER, Mr. E.8, Miller, a plumber, stated that the present wages of plumbers are $3.50 and hours nine, but they are in the movement for eight hours. While there may be some bosses who will the hours there are some who are glad of the movement, as it will give them more time for themselves. “The fact is,” said Mr, Miller, “that at our business there is pot the amount of work done in the hours after four that there is before, for besides the fatigue of the men then, the sight of s0 many clerks ard others going home does not have a very exhilarating effect upon the workmen, Any one knows that the best work is done by men beiore they become fatigued. We do not anti- oipate any trouble in getting the hours.” ‘THE BRICKLAYERS. A member ofthe Bricklayers’ union stated to & STAR reporter last evening that the proposi- tion for eight hours, at $4 per day, which is but fifty cents per hour, will likely cause but little complaint on the part of bosses, for there has been but little complaint up to this time. “Some, however,” he said, “regard it as an en- tering wedge for some greater demand, but they have no just grounds for such supposition, and you may put it down that but little, if any, trouble is apprehended. Most of the’ people look at the matter rightly, and reedgnize the fact that this is the nineteenth century—a time for progress. Lessening the hours of labor will re. the workingmen a chance to improve. e world moves, and we must Keep pace with it, and this movement fs not only in the inter- est cS rogress, but of civilization and Chris- tanity, A BOSS BRICKLAYER’S VIEWS. Mr. James King, boss bricklayer, said: “What is the use of fighting the eisht-hour law, when it is bound to come, and we might as well get the credit of tt. Then the demand, as far as we are concerned, is not unreasonable, for the wages fixed for ten hours are $4.50 per day, aud they now propose to work elght hours for $4. The ee of the system in operation may retard wllding temporarily, but It will soon pick up. The anticipation of ‘the movement has not gifected the work of preparation for, bullding, for plenty of foundations are being dug out in every section of the city.” MR. FLEMING’S OPINION. Mr. Robert I. Fleming, the architect and builder, sald: “Iam now ‘refusing to take any new work. Icannot afford to doit, The risk is too great. The movement at the start causes an advance of twenty per cent in labor alone, and then there are the material men to bé heard from. It the movement is general all through the couptry of course all branches will be affected and the material men wil be obliged to increase the:r prices, The uncer- tainty, you see, is toogreat. I think that it is untortunate that it should have taken this form at the present time, as it will tend to check improvements. With ’ prices advancing of course people will refuse to build and the build- ing up of the city will come toastand still. Then work will decrease and the workingmen will find themselves in much worse condition than they were before. J think that it would be better If they wanted shorter hours to take off the two hours from tae ist ot November to the Istot March, and for the rest of the year, which is really the building season here, have the full time. While I am in favor of the fullest rights to the workingmen, yet I think that this extra time will prove a harm to him rather than a benefit.” WHAT MR. MORRISON SAYS. Mr. Wm. C. Morrison, the builder, said: “The agitation of this question of eight hours will, I think, result in checking building operations in this city. I am of the Te that it will increase the cost of building so that those intending to build will retuse todo so, In that event it will furnish its own remedy. Working- men must have work, and if these shorter hours deprive them of work they cannot be main- tained. The experiment cau be tried, of course, and then we can all tell with more certainty what the effect will be. Iam not taking any new work, because I have all that Ican do to finish work already on hand, but if I did osti- mate on work it would be on the basis of their Proposed increase.” ‘ME. KENDERDINE’S VIEWS, Mr. Kenderdine, of Kenderdine & Paret, sald: “As far as my observations go the prospect of the eight hour movement being inaugu- Tated has not affected the giving out of con- tracts for new buildings. There is no doubt that contracts are given out every day and builders are taking in new work. But it dues not seem to be on the basis of ten hours for eight hours work. I don’t know what {6 expected, but I imagine that there is little faith that it will be possible to carry out this move- ment. If itis carried out the contractors will lose beastly, and those intending to build will suspend further operations. I ama union man myself, but I think that this movement is opposed to the interest of the workingmen, for the reason that it will have the tendency to decrease work. Ofcourse the experiment will no doubt be made and in estimating upon new work I have taken into calculation the success of this movement. If it goes on work will stop toa large extent fn this city.” WOW Mk, LANGLEY VIEWS IT. Mr. Langley, of the firm of Langley and Gettinger, builders, said: “I think that {t will interfere with building and will resu!tin injury tothe laboring men. They now receive good wages, the scale of prices being better than in. any other city in the country. Of course in some places the actual pay per day is larger, but the time for work isso much shorter that the average of wages is higher in this city. I think that they ‘had better let well enough alone, If they insist on these hours and the same wages people will refuse to pay the ad- vance and building will stop. Then ii will be out of work entirely. ‘The contractor fias no option in the matter Ifthe cost of building in- creases; he must make his estimates higher and then leave It for the owner to decide whether to build at the advanced rates, If he refuses to make the contract, then the contractor does not get the job and ‘he has no work to give the men. ‘The whole thing is ina nutshell If the peopie who build want to pay this increased price, why the contractors can afford to go on. with the work.” ME. EDMONSTON THINKS THE WORKINGMEN WILL LOSE BY IT, Mr. Charles Edmonston said: “I think that this movement will stop building operations, As far as I am personally concerned, I have re- fused to make any estimates or to take an; contracts for new work until after May Int. if this eight-hour movement is going into effect throughout the country as well asin this Dis- trict, ‘the cost of labor will not only advance, but ‘that of nearly every commodity and ma: terial. If the brickiayer gets eight hours, so will the brick-maker. It the carpenter has an eight-hour day, so will the hands in the mills. ‘The cost ot our food, clothing and every thing will be affected. I calculate that the cost of living wiil be advanced fifty cents per day, and that Instead of being a gain to the workingmen it will be an actual loss. 1 would have been will'ng, and I know that others would have been willing to an advance of twenty-five cents per day rather than to have had this movement. That would be an increase of $1.50 per week, and with the $3 for Increased livin, expense, T calculate thal the workingmen wi lose $4.50 per week by this thing fit succeeds, {think that itis not just to themselves. “As fur us I am concerned in my busmess, of course I will have to carry out the peo ged rt I have already made, whether the cost of lebor and material is doubled. But the next contracts I make will include the advance, eo that while I may lose for the first six months, afterwards the loss will come upon the public.” Under the Present uncertaiuty it is impossible for @ re- Sponsible contractor to make contracts.” IN SYMPATHY WITH THE WORKMEN, Mr. Washington Drain, a builder, stated to a ‘Sra reporter that he is in sympathy with the workmen all the time. The competition be- tween contractors isso great that they take Jobs so cheap that they cannot make money, #0 they grind down the mechanic and force hint to work for low pay. Houses have been bull! heretofore at too low a price--this la what as brought about this state of things, and. tings iy me- are tending in the right direc chante will se chanie will set h Fight before he is done ME. D. J. MACARTY’S VIEWS, Mr. D.'J. Macarty, builder, said to a Star re- porter: “The effect of the propoued movement will be to stop thousands of dollars’ worth of work which would otherwise be douse tiris; ‘and of course @ materlal detriment to labor an he workmen tn. this elty, aed sens 10, eayoE to employ them all the year round at fair wages for reasonable hours of labor, but iis wags will have a depressing effect on work, 1 will bid only on work over which I have exclusive control, and do not. propose to be controlled in my Judgment by any que. The workingmen are injuring themselves In antagonis tal, and they Will see Ik, As for my on Work- men, I will always look to the interest of Py mechan ‘same as ‘own, and so intend now, but I must ‘make say own Com THE BUILDING INSPRCTOR’S OPINION, Mr. Entwisle, building inspector, states in expect others will. g lation & the proposed movement of mechan- " £ THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.©., SATURDAY,’ MARCH 13, 1886—-DOUBLE SHEET. have any effect as to the issuing of building permits. They are issuing as many now as ever; but he thinks this simultancons move- ment all along the. line will have tts effect the worse on building, Many men in ing line, he uni are now ‘over their Eieriete saaner i scares! : The is no d he thi that it will tend to delay a great deal or bulldtag. so faras day "he go ment, however, has had nothing to do with the hours of labor’ for contract work. Col. Casey followed the example of the navy yards in the rosecution of the work in his charge, both on the Washin; monument and on the new department building. Formerly the hours were ten for six months in the summer and eight for the winter. When tne eight-hour law was adopted in the navy yards he adoptedit for his wor! DEFYING HYDROPHOBIA. . The Experience of a Washington Doctor im Pasteur’s Laboratory. Dr. Dudley Morgan, of this city, writing from Paris to a friend here say: “I was led from my daily routine of hospital clinics tothe laboratory of Mr. Pasteur, prin- cipally by the desire to see how some of my fellow countrymen were faring under the treat- ment of the well known savant, This one visit served only to give me an idea of his treatment and to kindle a desire to become more familiarized with what then seemed mere speculation, It tsonly after many visits that onecan claim a knowledge of thesubject and the short description which follows may clear up some hitherto obscure points. Near the normal school in the “Quartier Latin,” in a building one story in height, is the laboratory of Mr. Pasteur. You enter by large iron gate, end at the far end of the yard your attention is naturally attracted by the nu- merous faces at the windows, and the air of haste which prevails among ail those within the room. Coming soon to the door which Qpened directly into the waiting room of Mr. teur, I sent in ae card and was very soon requested to enter bis private room, where he was conducting the inoculations, The waiting room, which T hed just leit, was packed to overcrowding with all kinds of humanity. Here were the rich and the r, the old and the young, the native and foreign, all waiting THEIR DAILY INOCULATION. When Tentered the private room I was at once surprised to hear several of the inmates speaking very excitedly in English, The dis- cussion seemed & be between a veterinary surgeon from a sduthern state, who told me he had been bitten by a dog ‘and “the peo- ple had hustled him off to Paris before he well knew where he was,” and an Irishman from New Jersey, who, being then in his 75th day, since he had been bitten, was much atraid. that Mr. Pasteur, for the sake of experimenting, would inoculate him with the strongest virus, Mr. Pasteur is about five feet seven or eight inches in height, with hair as yet somewhat | dark, and wearing a closely trimmed beard. In his Walk 1s distinctly observable a paralysis, from the effects of an hemiphiegic stroke some yeargago. The inoculations are carried on by. Graucher, of the “Ecole de Medecine,” under the ditect supervision of Mr. Pasteur. Each patient as he enters is questioned as to his general health, and his record as to the number of inoculations he has received is examined. The hypordemie syringe is then taken, and from one of the vials of yirus, of which there are a number containing different strengths, a syringeful is drawn up and injected under ihe skin of the patient, generally over the eegeateme To ain some idea of the preparation of this fluid, and how, trom simple experiments on the inferior animals, Mr. Pasteur was led to believe that he had discovered a prophylactic against bydrophobia, you should revert to his researches as far back as 1882, when he ob- tained in a small receptacle some of the saliva of a rabid dog. This saliva he injected Into a rabbit, and in the course of a few weeks the rabbit died. He took part of the spinal marrow ot this rabbit, dissolved At dn sterilised, bouillon. and trepanning the skull of another rabbit injected © prepared fluid beneath the dura mater or outer mem- brane of the brain. In this second rabbit all the symptoms of hydrophobia appeared with reater Virulence and in much less time than in the case of the first rabbit, the animal dying of sheer exhaustion on tte thirteenth day, With part of the spinal marrow ot the second rabbit he followed the same method with a third, fourth and so on until he obtained a virus, which had become more virulent by suc- cessive inoculations and which would kill a rabbit in seven days or drive the strongest of us BRAVING MAD WITHIN A WEEK. From the spinal cord of this last rabbit, he takes small bits of marrow and suspends them in little flasks, in which the air is kept perfectly dry by caustic potash. The atmosphere of these flask, which is dry aud kept at a constant tem- perature,has a weakening effect upon the virus, and, in proportion to the number of days, the portions of marrow are allowed to remain ex- jae in the flasks, aocordingly do they become less virulent. When Mr, Pasteur wishes to in- cculnte a patient, he makes ® small section of the marrow suspended in the different flasks, taking always the marrow which has been ex: posed to the dry air {or the longest time, which is to say twelve to fifteen days, and, mixing it with broth enough for one syringe full, gives the patient his initial inoculation. On the ap- pearance of the same patient the next day he goes through the same operation, only using a virus one day younger, and so a little stronger. At the end of ten to twelve days the patient recelves with impunity the inoculation of the strongest virus, or that which if he had received on his first ‘appearance would have With more certainty given him bydrophobla than the bite of a rabid dog. It is by this grad- ual and slow process that Mr. Pasteur accus- toms the system to receive harmlessly the hy- pordermie injections of the strongest virus or ‘the bite of the most rabid animal. The boutilon broth of which | have spoken is made in the usual way, only the great precau- tion is taken that it is perfectly sterile by sub- mitting it to a high degree of temperature for some twenty minutes and then removing the flasks which contain the bouillon and are her- metically sealed to an oven, where the temper- ature is continued, but ata much less degree. Here they are kept until decanted for the gen- eral use of dissolving the marrow, wh! isthen injected by means of a bypordermic syringe into the tissues of tne abdomen. In the busement are several rooms where all his experimenting and preparationsof the virus are made. The first room FILLED WITH SMALL CAGES, from two and a halt to three feet square, in which are kept the animals intended for the experiments, and from which are obtained the virus for inoculating. Therabbit seems to be the favorite, for, by experimentation, it has Proven more susceptible to the poison, the symptoms manifesting themselves much soouer than in any other aulmal. ‘The adjoln- ing rooms contain his various chemical up- paratus, the lrermetically sealed flask exposed @ fixed temperature, the vials with the sus pended marrow, @ modified Papin’s digester and some instruments for trepauning and se curing the marrow. At preseny the number of patients under the care of Mr, Pasteur is hardly above thirty, and of the S00 so jar treated, ull, with exception of one, Whose delay in appouring was too much prolon; and in whom the symptoms had already appeared, have been radically pre- served irom the disease. In attaining this end, Mr. Pasteur rids the ubiverse of one of the most feartul and agonizing deaths which can betall man, and not only does he render us proof ‘against hydrophobla, but also carries relief to the ehies originator and continuer of the disease, the dog. the same method of treatment that of inocu- lating the animal with the weakest to the strongest virus he protecw him not only from all resulting danger trom the bite of rabid aui- ‘The Way Members Give Weretex of a Coming Speech—Congressional Stage Fright. The most nervous moment for a new member ‘of Congress is just before he is to make a speech. Many of the old members, even, are seized with “gtage fright.” The idea that the official reporters have ears for the whole country, gives every speaker ‘@n uncomfortably large audience. Some mem- bers are anxious at all times to get in the Record; but these men generally do not make speeches. They simply interrupt others to ask questions—eometimes very silly ones—or to make objections, thus getting their names in the Record with an appearance of great activity. When he is about to make an ambitious effort the feeling of the member may be judged by ne watching from the gallery. The moment the speech sitikes es can tell, and it is interesting to watch it spread through his sys- tem. An old member—one of the ablest in the House, who never says anything that is not to the point, and given with vigor, told a STAR reporter the other day that he was alt afraid to speak. “It isn’t that I think that tl average member Knows any more than I do, he said, “but take them altogether they knowa great deal, Too much for any one man.” BOW THEY Go ABOUT IT. Each man has his peculiar way of goingabout ft, You cart tell when Randall or Morrison are going tospeak until they are pretty well on towards their remarks, Morrison alwaya stands for a moment halfway down the second aisle on the democratic side, with hands on the desks on either side. Then he speaks with delibera- tion, always taking two or three steps toward: the Speaker when much in earnest. He is Ways soon through. Randall always speaks from behind bis own desk, and makes no prelim- inary movement. Hewitt is probably the only other who speaks entirely without warning, He goes off like powder; all in an instant. Some members loud thelr’ desks for a speech; some load themselves. Some times three or tour desks give warning of speeches. They are piled up with Congressional records, revised statutes, oficial reports, newspaper clippings, and on top of all huge rolls of manuscript. ' These are always threatening. When a 9) is too full of dry matter to find room inside the orator, and must be given “storage” on his desk, other members find it convenient to be in the ‘cloak room. KERPING UNDER COVER, Some members of experience put all this material inside their desks, and look very in- nocent, as if they were not going to say much. Then they take out alitile atatime. There is @ great diiference in the bearing of aman when he is loaded with a speech. Ets entire manner is different from the ordinary. Some men, ordinarily stiff, seem to unhook all their fas- tenings, while’ loose-jointea men get stiff. Butterworth, of Ohio, is one of those who limb- ersup toa speech, Fora few moments before he begins he seems to be engaged in unlacing himseif and limbering his joints, as an athlete who is about to make a wonderful leap. He crouches low in his desk and waits his chance, His face brightens pp the part gets out of his hair and one lock falls down on his forehead. He stretches out his arms and legs, works his shoulders to see that every joint is free, and when he gets up to speak he Is like a willow. His body responds to every expression, and he burls himself at his audience, and there is ex- Pression in every motion. PECULIARITIES OF XEMBERS, Last session there wes a man in the House who used to walk bavic and forth around the semicircle back of the members’ seats, running his hands through his hair, for fitteen or twenty minutes belore making a Speech. Some mem- bers walk two or three times past the Speaker's desk before they try to caich hiseye. Some stand up in their places, clear their throats sev- eral times, pull up their sleeves, button their cuffs, feel their tie, open and shut their desks two ‘or three times, and then walk down the aisle a little way and say “Mr. Speaker.” Some sit andrub their hends. Others do nothing in Particular, but you can tell. they are going to speak by the nervous glances they throw up at the Speaker, Some will make eyes at the Speaker for balf an hour betore trying to catch his. You can tell when some men are going to speak because they look frightened. Others you know ure going to talk—because they always do when tuey get a chance. LOCAL OPTION IN MARYLAND. The Question in Montgomery County— Mouster Petition Sent to Annapolis in Behalf of the Law—Four Thousand Signatures Against the Restoration of the Grog-shops. Montooxery Co., Mp., March 12, 1886. Correspondence of Ture EVENING STAR. ‘Thursday a local option committee, composed of leading citizens from the several election districts of Montgomery county, Md., went to Annapolis tor the purpose of presenting to the delegates from the county a mammoth coun- ter petition to that placed in the hands of the delegation by the opponents of local option. The tollowing-named gentlemen constituted ‘the committee: Hon. A. B. Davis, chairman; Dr. J.L, Lodge, Messrs, David H. Bouic, vice President State Temperance Alliance; Frank Higgins, vice president prohibition party; Ben), H. Miller, vice president Temperance League; E. B, Prettyman, Somerset U. Jones, John T. Desellum, H. J. Wagner, George Rice, Benj. D- Palmer, Alfred Ray, John W. Hodges, Wright Curtis, ‘Cansin Condict, John C. Wilson, J.C. Dowell, J. W. D. Moore, J. L. Burns and Phile- mon M, Smith. ‘The petition presented by the committee contains nearly four thousand names ot leading and respectable citizens and residents of the county, and represents a large portion of the property-owners and taxpayers, and at least one-half of all the voters in the county, In the last pre-idential election there ‘were less than 6,000 volescast in the county and the names of not leas than half o the qualified voters are upon the petition, representing fally seven-tenths of the property of the county. ‘At Annapolis the committee was recived by Representatives Laird and Crawford, of the Montgomery delegation, the other member, Hon. A. L. Graeves, being absent on a bridal tour, Hon. Philip b. Laird, in whose hands the Petition was placed by the commalttee, will pre- seut It to the honse of delegates with an appro- priate address, and the committee feel assured that in the hatids of that genticman the cause of loca! option will not suffer. The petition of the op; oneuts of local option praying for a re-submission of the question to the people has been placed in the hands of the senator from Montgomery county, aud although the number of signatures It contains has not been made public, tis sald, upon good author. ity, to contain less than thousand names, and presumably few of these are property owners. he sentiment in favor of local option has proven to be stronger than was anticipated by some of the most sanguine and ardent support- ers of the present system, and the local option petition gives evidence of the high favor in Which the law is held by an overwhelmingly large majority of the better class of citizens, One need be but partially informed to know that the present prosperous state of the county is due to the effects of local option. Only afew years ago a grog-shop might be found ai every cross-road undone or more in every hamlet, Village and town in the county. Labor was completely demoralized, and it was with dim- culty thac the farmers could procure trusty men. to assist them upon the farm, and moreso toting sober, reliable men to carry their produce to market, on account of the temptations by the way, The county jail at Rockville was also coustantly occupied, and thecourtsand lawyers were kept busy. Now anew orderof thingsexist, Beautiful homes have sprung up where once was desolation and want—the county jail is often closed for a month or more at a time, and when a poor criminal does enter its doors’ he's “awfally lonegome.” The criminal docket isa mere shadow its former self—and the lawyers, well, some of them have thought seriously of leaving the county for want of something to do, Furthermore, labor is more steady and reliable, and, a8 a consequence, is better paid, and the workingmen are beginuing to procure for them- mals, bul renders powerless the action of the virus of hydrophobla, even it brought within immediate contact with the brain. Like all great discoveries the methods of pro- gedure are extremely simple, and we can but hope that his demonstrations, which at present writing seem conclusive, will very soon be adopted by the whole World as the only ra tional means of preventing hydrophobia.”* THE AMERICAN SPHINX. Pilot Knob, North Carelina—A Wonder- fal Natural Curtosity. ‘To the Editor of Tux Evesine Sram: The interesting article copied into Tm STAR of Saturday, from a London newspaper, in re- gard tothe Sphinx—stating that it was fash- toned out of @ huge rock, as it was left on the Egyptian sands by the hand of nature—calls to mind similar formation in North Carolina, onan immeasureably greater scale. The Pilot Knob, as it is called, is situated in Surry county, in the northwestern part of the state, Just cast of the Blue Ridge; its position, prone on the Piedmont plain, like # gigantic lion; its body at right angles to the precipitous Ridge, and with bead reared aloft, as if in the act of rising. I have ridden around it, and from every Bolnt of view it bears a striking ikeness 10 Une clade eit Valea area 6 are finely Bropertioned,and at eo distar : few miles the thought haunts. that it muat bea thing of t fifteen ‘hi ‘Winston, nifies distant. Buta rdad wil espn pine ‘and around ‘it on the north reased with the belief selves und their iamilies cofaiortable homes, Still farther, the tilde of iminigration, which hitherto has been flowing into the more accessi- ble ‘but less healthy sections along the main branch of ue Baltimore and Ohio railroua, is Beginning 1 so in tle direction, and there isa constantly inereusing demand for prope Slong thevoute onthe Metropolitan brenet teil: Toads which needs only to. be encouraged to SUll further increase. In view of this state of things, there is an element in the county, many of whom, however, are honest in their opinions, which would undoall the good that local option hasdone. But the petition which has just gone before the legislature must be so apalling to the Tesubmissionists that for @ time ut least the people of Montgomery may rest assured. eet deat option Will not be disturbed. ‘siaeel dca ratetaaliadade Liat Ireland’s Cause. Written for Tax Evaxina 8TaR, No cause, howe'er abborr’d, Or tratling in the dust Tfonly it be just ‘Need fear the tyrants’ sword. ‘For such a cause must needs prevall Altho’ the gates of hell assail; ‘Its wgis is the Lord. Nor can a Delnge ’gainst it sweep 80 wildly but its Ark He'll keep In safety ‘gainst the Tempests’ rage ‘Till He the winds and waves assuage, And find for it an anchorage ‘Upon some looming Ararat! —Fnepesio J. Hara, ‘Hacunstow™, March 1, 1886, ‘The Snow World, ‘Written for Taz Evexrxe Star, * Pure and white those feathery fakes Snfold In deepest silence all the earth and sky, ‘Merged in a beauty, wonderful, replete, ‘Meet in resplendent mystery. ‘Resounding ever thro’ the cold, clear alr, ‘The Jngle of the sleigh bells from afer, Send thro’ the solemn glory of the night ‘Strange melody from star to star, Ap music from the spheres, in beauty, flows ‘Thro’ ali the mystic portals of the soul, So silver stars above the white snow world Enthralled within the senses roll. ‘« O picture world of snowy innocence, sro rngepiorneepeigs Of music Of; entrancing time rosy youth's: CRANKS AND THEIR LETTERS. Queer Folks Whe Burden the Govers- ment Mall-Bags With Their Mis- sives. LUNATICS WHO THINK THEY RUN THE Gov- ERNMENT—THE MEN WHO HAVE DISCOVERED THE SECRET OF PERPETUAL MOTION—A TIX MINE DELUSION, ETC, At the time that President Garfield was shot new species of people seemed suddenly to have sprang into existence, and under the euphonions name of “Cranks” acquired ® noto- riety that was almost as widespread as that of their head and chief—Guitean, This city seemed all atonce overran with this odd va- Flety of the human race, and finally the public mind gotin such a condition on this subject that it was not safe to make an odd remark in the hearing of a stranger without being at once set down asacrank. After six months or so of cranks and crankiam there was not so much saidon the subject, and gradually the entire matter disappeared from public attention, ex- cept the name of crank, which is still retained, and which le in e playfulness of their friendship are fond of applying toeach other. In viewof this it may sound strange to say that the cranka are @s numerous as ever, &nd that crankism manifests itself ina. Variety of forms, The government letter-bag Is where this phenomena is found in the highest and best stage of development, and it may be Of interest to those fond of statistics to know that the ratio of these letters to the rest oft the mail shows steady increase Feat after | year. Of | course, they | cun all classed under the general head of cranky letters, but it would do the writers an injustice to allow them to rest under the imputation which this word conveys. For some of these letters are without doubt from the inmates of insane asylums and are sitaply 8 collection of words and sentences without avy intelligible meaning. .One of the most voluminous correspondents of this class is a man who some years ago got the idea that he Was at the head of the Treasury department, From his room in a remote insane asylum he bas for years managed the fiscal affairsof the gov- ernmentand in the execution of his functions be finds it necessary now to sharply rap the Pres- ident over the knuckles and then sternly threaten not to allow the payment of an drafts. He also keeps in communication witl the heads of all the departments, so that if they commit the error of acting contrary to his financial policy the tault will be their’snot his. ‘Outside of this class of cranks comes another, Tanking next in point of numbers and_ persist ency. ‘This is thet numerous class of persons who believe in PERPETUAL MOTION. There is hardly a day passes but that one or more applications for a patent for a perpetual motion machine is received at the Patent office. For years and years these applications have come pouring in, and there seems to be no dis- couragement on the ‘of those who are struggling with this problem. When a man gets the idea once he generally sticks to it until e dies, and if he does not manage to inoculate some one else the idea spreads of its own ac- cord, and the ranks ot the experimenters are kept full, Atter, the perpetual motion cranks, have reached @ certain stage in their experiments they generally make a visit to the Patent office to see about getting out a patent. They are not told that their labors are in vain, but they are simply asked to furnish a working model. Of course they haven't a working model. They expect to have one soon, when they have at- tended toone little point which needs some Slight changes. In the meantime, lest somo one else comes in and getsa patent for the same, they will file a caveator a notice of the kind of invention which they propose toget a patent on. It is a sad commentary on the hopes of such inventors that the majority of the applica- tion for patents of this sort are in the lurm of caveats and never reach the next step in the Process. A very great number of people are under the impression tiat the government has offered a reward or premium. jor the invention ot a per- petual motion machine, and such requests as this are very common: “Please tell me what the premium offered for the invention of tual motion is; also, whether it is to be used as a propeller to’ drive other machinery. An answer at your earliest convenience would muen oblige.” The Patent office has prepared a circular reply to just such requests, because they had become so numerous that it was impossible to answer them all, THE TIN MINE DELUSION. The perpetual motion people have been famil- jar to the President and the heads of the de- partments for years, and they would probably feel lonesome without them, but just now a new craze, so to speak, is enlivening the mo- notony of official correspondence. This is ex- Pressed in such letters as follows: “I have been informed that the government has offered a reward of $5,000 for the discovery of atin mine In this country. I should liike to know if itis correct and what the conditions ty = Where such intormation came from, who first started it, may be put down as one of the mysteries of the human mind. While its origin isa mystery there 1s no doubt but that it has a wide cireulation, for just now the let- ters come in one after the other allmaking In- quiries sbout this tin mine premium. The per- Pevnal motion people, the tin mine people and the people with ail sorts of notioustand ideas contribute a very large portion of the contents of the government letter bag. Then, there are the requests that come from mothers, sisters and wives for lost fathers, husbands and sons, Whose disappearance so sudden and unex- pected has tiled them ‘with alarm, and, alter exhausting every other means, they at last _ap- to the government to ‘help them, The confidence and faith which some of the writers manifest in the power of the government is sometimes very touching and it is difficult to frame a reply that will be convincing. A SEARCH FOR HIDDEN TREASURE. ‘The appeals for help are not always for lost relatives, and there is rarely a reauest made 80 unique as the following: “While I was a soldier inthe Mexican war I found out near where the Mexicans had depos- ited several thousand dollars, and [ have spent the bestoi my time since then to find out its exact location. Thus tar I have not succeeded, and I had come to the conclusion that there ‘was no way toget atit. I want you to write to me whether there 1s such a thing as a mineral rod, and whether it will work to money; what the chance iii be tur wie w get one, and If you will assist me. Tam an ola mai « (OOF man, aud have not muel ey apend. 1 Will be well off if Tean get something that wii Work to this place, and am willing to divide with any one will furnish me the proper magnetism.” The writer might well be classed with the searchers for the fountain of perpetual youth, in the faith and confidence which he has mani fested in the search for hidden treasure. AN EXPEDITION TO CUBA. The Experience of a Party of Washing- ton Tonrists—An Expensive Pass- port. Correspondence of THE EVENING Sar. Hore “Pasatc,” CUBA. All roads lead to Rome, and so every tourist finds Jacksonville is the entrepot to the usually semi-troyical climate of Florida, ‘The great freeze that entailed « loss of $1,000,000 in the destruction of the orange crop has prevenied thousands in the north from visiting among the orange groves this winter. The hotels at Jack- sonville are well filled with northern guests, but the air was cold and criypand the appear- ance of the orange and all other semi-tropieal trees bare of verdure gave little evidence that we had reached the land of eternal spring ume, Lon; for a balmier atmosphere, in compan; ues We'Woodward and iter Be He Winey and C. B. Pearson, bon voyageurs, all from our ay Ss , we Retour faces southward up the Er fohus river to Palati, dining at the mag. nificent new Putnam hotel, we journeyed by rail nearly one hundred miles to a ti vast orange groves, beautiful in, the ir desoka: tion; the yellow golden fruit still clinging to leafless branches, or lying in a wealth ofuiter worthlessness beneath the trees. A visit to Silver Spring, and s tripdown the Ocklawaha, 135 miles, is worth the cost of a journey %6 Florida. Silver Spring, and te sun are as clear ‘8 purest glass, the small ct being seen at ths bottom ava depth of Ay feet, AN ENCHANTING PICTURE, Steaming through this narrow, tortuous stream, banked on either side with the giant cypress, the stately palmetto, with @ perfect tangle of smaller growth, enshrouded in bang- through which the wind si Hike ink ‘musi ol © thomaand Celene ete ee eee fe though the man at ‘said “the d tor ‘caters, our tod tarige tough treet gre mena, ony fess gant wan cone eae fiver to Sanford. From ford we. ert By Send South Florida ina Rant ly to. amps, wipes re wore 2 “ citizens of this grand magnificent spare Vems ces eae areas at we bad no malice prepense land Castillions,two f rail- Spanish consul became the endorser af Uncle ‘Sam's paper te that amount. Su; Ter Bow over our troubles we deiivered our odicais wna toe inspect our Pass the cus Sgaia sind thon we were wid ty our in, and then we were told by & Spat ard we could have the on the before we saw ‘document expense. Others made a simple application at Tampa, paying therefor $2. This was vised ee for thirty days by the Spanish consul at Baboed for: ‘aud aif such walked the streets of Havana as sately as we who bad $5 invested im passports, 4 ROTHCHILD SUFFERS FOR PRINCIPLE. Among our party was Sigmund Rothcnild. He had a from the State department, on which he had twice traveled to Cuba with- out Paying the and having it vised by the Spanist ‘consul ike Wes}. On the previous trip of the steamer the $4 was demanded ot aay at 4 West, aged refused to pay.. He gave his passport to the purser, ro- Questing him to inform the ‘Spanish consul that his passport had twice been oT gmonaed by the Cuban ofticiais. Rothchild could get no satis- faction either from the consul or the pur- ser. Arriving at Havana, two police officers out Rothehild’s "name and torbid him to land or to leave the vessel. Rothchild informed the Spanish officials that he was a ciy- zen of the United States; that he hed a passport issued by the State department at Washington, and asked by what authority he was detained as prisoner on an American Vessel sailing under its country’s flag. The officers said orders had been received from the consui at Key West not to permit him to land. A guard was placed over Rothchild, and his friends, finding the American consul out of the city, ‘went before the chief of police and then to the ‘captain gen- eral, offering to pay any penalty for his refusal to the $4, but all efforts were unavailing, and he was held a prisoner on an American vessel during its stay in Cuba, and was carried back to Key ‘West, where he went before the Hive pem consul, paid the $4, and then, after all this inconvenience, was permitted to make the with us and to land without fear or moles- tation in Havana, In spite of all these infe- licities, which no doubt will have the attention of our own government, a visit. to tis strange jand oo ad egy 8 poet 2 Se “4 you a description gf the islan is inbal i Sind industrles” ¥ O.E.P. LITERARY NOTES. Mr. John Addison Porter, of this city, bas gathered a volume of short essays on college topics by undergraduates of Yale college, and publishes them in very neat form under the title of Skeiches of Yale Life. The selections ave been taken from the columns of the student periodicals and,as may be imagined, give bright glimpses of college interiors. Some are descriptive, others are sentimental or humorous, but ail smack of the soll. The book is one that will pleasantly revive memories of college days in every alumnus, As a speciinen of the book-making’ art the volume is very at- tractive. It is published under the auspices of the Arlington Publishing Company of this eit with which Mr, Porter is identified. This com ny, which has recently established Itself in redran Building, intends to develop the lite Tary resources of the federal capital by furnish- ing a local outlet for Washington's intellectual life, General and special books are to be issued, and the publication of scientific, political and art works be made a feature ‘he new en- terprise starts under good auspices, claims solid financial backing, and seeks a promising field that has not been oecupied. Looks of the Week. A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. In Chronological Order, from the Discovery of Amer- fea in 1492. to the Year 1855, Including notices f Manufactures, as they were Introdnoed: of other ; of Railroads, Canals, Teiegraphs, and nents: of Inventions, (mportaut Empey E Cainps. New York Washington: Brentano THE STORY OF CHALDEA: From the Earlies ‘Times to the Rise of Assyria, (‘Treated agar eral Introduction to the Study of Ancient Hist By ZENAtDE 4, Racozin, Member of the “soc: Hihnolozigae,” . Series.) New York: G ing‘ou: Kovert Leall, THE MAMMALIA IN THEIR RELATION TO PRIMEVAL TIMES. By Oscar SCHMIDT, Pro- fessor in the University of Strasburg. With Fifty- one Woodeats (The International Scientific Series.) New York: D, Appleton & Co. Wash- ington: Robert Beall. THE SPORTING MAN'S COMPANION: Contain- ing Prize King, Pedestrianism, Bunning. Records, Base Ball Scores-and “Averaes, and other Inter: esting Sporting Statistics in ail Branches of Sport, Eaited by Wituaw i Hanpina. New York? Richard K. Fox. THE FIGHT FOR MISSOURI, From the Election of Lincoln to the Death of Lyon. By 'THoMas L. SSEAD, A. D.C. of the Governor, Member ofthe Confederate Congress, ec, etc. With Maps, New York: Charles scribuer'sSons. Washington: Bren- tano Brothers THE PEACE OF UTRECHT. A Historical Review of the Great Treaty of 1713-14, und of the Prin- cipal Events of the War of the Spanish Succession. Ly Jaues W. Grnarp. New York: G. P. Put- nam's Sons. Washington: Brentano Brothers, THE HISTORY OF A WEEK. A Novel By L. B, MW aLromp, author of The Baby's Grandmother “Mr. Smith,” etc Tlustrs (Leisure Hour Series, No. 186.) New York: Henry Holt & Co. ‘Washington: stobert Beall. STORY OF THE APPOINTING POWER OF BUGIEE PMESIDENT. By Lecr Mt Gatae Papers of the American Historical Association: QoPT"x6. S Sow Work: 6. P Putnam's Sous ‘Washington: Beall. LIZABLE FORTIFICATIONS AND ‘THEIR MORINTROLING INFLUENCES IN WAR. BY ENT, lute Brigadier General C. 8. 4. Boston: fioughton, MiMlin & Co. Washington: ‘Wm Ballantyne &'Son. AND DAINTY Aimee. author pe 30 Salads,” “and fast Daintie.” New York: White, stokes & allen. Washington: “Brentano ers, THE MEXICAN GUIDE, By Tuomas A. Jaxvien. AWwith Two Maps: 1—the City of Mexico: 1I—kn- Virons of the City of Mexico. New York: Charies Scribner's Sona, Washington: Brentano Brothers. THROUGH SPAIN. A Narrative of Travel and Ad- venture in the Peninsula. By 8. P.~cort. | Pro- fasely TMustrated. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company.” Wastington: Brentano Brothers. ‘THE RIVALS, and THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, By RichagD BaiNstey Sexmipas. ([Cassell's National Library, No. 6.) New York: Cassell & Co. "Washington: Breitano Brothers. BATTLE FIELDS REVISITED: Gnaxt's Cuarra- UAMPA TGS. A Horseh ack "a7 Pomc taoovea to Atimta sy Coussade C Or how 2 Raton & Anderson. YOMAN'S DEVOTION: or, Mrxep Manarace A When of the Rival Detectives, An American Rovel: Founded on Facts. By Joss W. Postaati Giieago: Rand, MeNally & Co. HAND AND KING, By Axwa KarieniseGnemx, author of "The Ceavesiworth Gace ts eke Pop ular Edition New York: G. P. Puicdim’s Sous. Westington Robert Beall E MAN OF FEELING. THT, (caswell's National Fork: Cassell & Oo Brothers. ¢ COMPLETE ANGLER. By Inaac_Wautox. ‘TH/Gasell's National Library.) New York: Cassell d& {QP Washington: Brentano Brothers. B ALIENS. ANovel By Hexry F. Kexxax, THYuihor ofTrajan ec. New Vor: D-Appleton So. Washington: Tobert Beal By Hesay Mack: rary. No. 5. ‘ashingion: UFTTEI TO DEAD, AUTHORS Be axpary | Pear a iM Wo. A Novel. By Epxa Lyawt, author of WA Twe. a Moree RY Eek Uses. ern ot| ton: iwbert Beall, ——- 00. THE RED HAT. Remarkable Ornamant in St, Patrich’s Cathedral. Visitors to the cathedral during the lenten services, says the New York Herald, will notice that there is now suspended from the keystone of the groined roof, right over the high altar, @ somewhat remarkable object. Its great height above the floor may render it somewhat difficult for those who do not possess good sight totell what it is, butif they look at it carefully they will find it to be # low crowned, broad brimmed hat of red color, with red and gold cords hanging from the inside of the crown, to each of which are attached fifteen small red and gold tassels, It is the hat which marked the elevation of the first — attained the honor to the dignity of the Homan purple, and ts the one ‘on the head of the late Cardinal MoCloskey by holiness Pious IX when the archbishop ‘cardinal by the tile of Sta. Maris supra Mivervam. The with his own hands laced this hat on the of the cardinal on Gi represe! iaiiod ‘over the mi on ey wur themaln door of the cathedral sod ‘After the death of any of the Roman cardi- hat is al up in his ‘the red ria that fet i g ‘Thursday. during the has not, however, boon as lange aa 1t was supposed it would be. — A painting by Mr. W. V. Birney, formeriy of this city, was one of three sold on the open ing night of the recent exhibition of the Brook- —There is, unfortunately, no prospect that the present duty of 30 per cent on works of art imported into this country,—a measure earn- estly wed against by those whom it was fasved to protect will be repealed BY Ue. pron ent Congress, —Mr. Waggaman was not a buyer at the great Morgan sale of paintings in New York last week, as it was supposed he would be, though he was an ted witness of its ex citing scenes cad @vening. While there, how- ever, be purchased elsewhere a cattle "piece by Troyon, which those who have seen It pro ounce very fine. —Anart exhibition which will doubtless ex cite considerabie interest is that of @ collection of paintings by the modern French “ Impres sionists,” which will be opened in New York early in April. It will consist of nearly three hundred works, They have already arrived, and will be shown at the galleries of the Amerk an Art Association, on Madison Square —It the pictures of Washington, irom his sketches, which lately appeared in one of the ilastrated London weeklies, are fair exame Ples,of the efforts of Mr. Randolph Caldicot, ‘he English artist who recently died In Florida, it can be said that the cause of illustrative art G14, not lose very greatly by his death. “They every ‘qualiiy hece Work of thetr class, MUNY Becawary to good — The Corcoran Medal, which is presented t the copyist who shows the greatest progress im drawing from casts inthe Gallery during each year, has been awarded for 1885 to Miss M, &G. Warner, of Detroit, ‘The committee of selex tion, composed of uaree promi . artists, who did not know. t of the ‘competitors, spoke tn high Work of Miss A. A.’Newton, Miss L. Miller and Miss Anna N. Moore, of this city, bat decided that, on the whole, that of Miss Warner was eutitied to the prize, and the medal has accord: ingly been forwarded to her. Miss Warner is@ niece of Chif Justice Waite, There were in alt twelve competitors foF the inedal last Yeur,—all of them ladies, — The prediction ventured in this column at the time of the dedication of the Lather statue, that its location here would probably lead to the plactng in the national capital of statues of leading representatives of other religic Dominations seems in a fair Way to bev at no distant day, At the Methodist held in Baltimore during the pre Were taken, as bas already THE Stak, for the erection he monument in honor of John We founder of Methodism. It ix, of course, too early as yet to afford any precise information on ihe subject, but it is quite safe to say that the project will'eveutually be carried out. The preilininary measures are in excclient hands. —The catalogue of the D’Huyvetter cotiection of paintings now on view at the Scott Art Gallery (Willard Hall) contains names that do not often come before those who attend a Wash- ington picture sale, and the average of the tures will also be found somewhat they are accustomed to see in « rooms. In so many canvases as are here—one hundred and eighty tn nut ber— there is necessarily a wide rauge, in merit as well as subject, and while there aré some pictures Of comparatively little value there are many others of excelient qualities, Thus, between, the two extremes, pretty much every taste can. be gratified. The sale, it will be ob-erved, be- gins next Wednesday’ morning, until which time the collection is on free exhibition. —Mr. Thomas Moran is bardly holding bis old position as an artist in public esteem, ifthe ‘sult of the saie of his pictures lately held in Xew York can be regarded as an indication. it was made for the purpose of clearing out. luis studio, fora prolonged sojourn in Lurope, and ine cluded some fifty off paintings and abouta third as many water color drawings. Among them were many of his characteristic pictures of Calor rado, Utah and Arizona scenery, and the collec. Uon ‘included aiso his large paitiling “Ponee de Leon in Florida, 1512,” which was exhibited here some years'ago. This picture brought ouly $2,000, which, it we remember correctly, is Jess than one-fourth of the price then asked for it, while the whole collection produced only about $12.500, or an average of ke ian $200 for each picture sold. For the wo [a iseapes by Mr. Moran in the Capitoi it is uuderstood thal the sum of $20,000 was paid, — “The Wood-‘atherers,” by Corot, the single painting bought by the Corcoran Gallery at the Morgan sale in New York last week, bas been received and placed in position on the east wall of the main gallery of that institution, Natur- ally it attracts much attention,—largely, of course, on account of the name and style of the artist, ‘and purtly, no doubt, from the fact that itis ihe most costly work Ofart in the collec tion, Its title is somewhat misleading, since it is likely to Greute the impression that the palnte ing belongs to the class known as Neure-p) whereas it is a very simple landscape, treated in @ broad and simple manner, with but three modest figures—one of them ‘on homeback— introdu apparently as incidental "ao cessories, and merely to give @ human interest to the canvas, It does show, in the same dezree that some of Corot’s paint= ings do, the silvery shimmering light y morning, in the representation of which he had no superior, 1! an equal, and it aiso wholly lacks the presence of water, which he sometimes re Produced so charmingly; but it Is @ noble and ignified work of art, which would honor and adorn any collection of paintiogs. Save in the two features just reterred to, itis an exainple Of Corot’s best efforts, and, size and everything considered, it ts doubtful whether the Gail would ever be able to get oncof his pletures bet. ter suited for its purposes. AB Uo its artisiic merits and intrinsic value there are likely to be widely differing opinions, — While the sale of the Morgan paintings in New York last week probably satisfied the de- mands ot very wealthy buyers, who wanted ‘only pictures of the highest price, it apparently served to whet the appetite of those of moder- ate means who could content themselves with works of a less expensive character, This was shown by the sale of the collection of Mr. Hazel Une, a Philadelphia dealer, which wok place in New York on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thure- day evenings of this Weel. Mr. Hazeltine’scata- logue was quite an ituposiag one, both ax to numbers and artists, It included’ #bsut 250 works, in oll and water colors, and contained such bames as de Neuville, Troyor. Aimar Tadema, Corot, Diaz, Vivert t Rousseau, ~ Berne-Belleco Fortuny, Sacgue, Dupre, 4 nat, Moreau, Daubign y and > many of these brought ga pric nothing touched anything like the es figures obtained at the Morgan sale. Afternoon Ride,” by Meisson $7,300, A “Trumpeter,” by brought $7,100, and sixty ou rms of the reported in tatue or : for over 1,000 exch, ranging from that fizure up *> 50, which was paid for a cattle piece bs Van Marcke. The average for the whole lot was about $913, which i must be admitted was very fair. At the Morgan sale of 240 nu: bers, which produced an azeregate of $885,30 werage Was nearly §3,700,—tbe for which any picture sel being $125, and the highest, as all the world knows, $45,500. sum is the highest price ever brought by ai painting in this country at auction, althoug! there are several owned in private galleries ior which a higher price wag paid at private sale. aed sonata “Government Clerks and the Public Schools.” Tthink Ihave you fast.—Henry V1. ‘The above-quoted heading is trom your sup- plement of the 10th, in which “J. H. 1.” says best officers, teachers and apy schools, and ‘throug! these the best possible in- ruction, and itis not at all surprising Uhmt the schools are appreciated.” Now, the writer evidently appreciates the value Of the gifts he receives in this city, but names the wrong parties as those who give. Congress from the national Treasury pever yet gave a cent to our public schools; it” has given millions of acres toall the staves and territories, but not one acre to the District of Cola. bia. It owes the citizens oi the District to-d: y about sixty million dollars for its share of the taxes ‘on ils owa property, fromm the foundation of the seat of government down to the ume when some few honest men in Congress discovered that they were making the ot the Die- trict for ail the street improvements, schoo! fire department, é&c., and at jast Ought they i ought to pay their taxes ~owner, and owning they