Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1886, Page 2

CITY AND DISTRICT. THE WHITE NOUSE EXTENSION Objections Urged te the Senate Plan— ‘Wings on the East and West Suggested. ‘Tux STAR has received trom a gentleman oo cupying a high judicial place, and respected as ascholar, the following communication respect- ing the proposed enlargement of the Executive Mansion: ‘To the Editor of Tux EVES1xo Star: ‘As a resident and native of Washington, I have been greatiy gratified at the determina- tion evinced by Congress to make such provi- Jon for the comfort of the President as will tend to insure him, in bis leisure hours, the privacy enjoyed by the humblest housekeeper in Wash- ington. Our Presidents have too long been com- hed to live during their whole terms of office in @ house practically as public as a tavern, and the Senate has at last interposed to put an end to what might wel! be regarded as a publie in- decency. ‘But with all respect to the wisdom and taste of that august body, I venture to express the hope that some change in the proposed plan may be made by the House of Representatl ves; for, im my humbie judgment, its adoptio would fall iar short of removing the worst ev! Of the present arrangements. ‘The Senate proposes that at a short distance south of the present mansion there shall be built duplicate house, connected by corridor, and that the new editice shall be appropriated ex- elusively to the tamily of the President. ‘The first serious objection to this novel scheme is that it practically destroys forever the symmetry and individuaiity of the ancient mansion, which, after a life of more than halt a century, has become as well known, probably, &s any public building In the world.” With th proposed alteration the present beautiful south- ern front disappears forever. Aguin, the new building would completely eut off from the present (then the official resi- ence) the lovely view to the south of Uful grounds, of the river and the hills be; it, Aflington; the monument and all the other striking objects of i % now so eagerly axed at by the visitors from the southern win- Sows of the cast room and the adjacent apart- ments. Their prospect to the south from those Qpartments will thenceforth be limited to the entrancing view of a “white” wall some thirty or more feet distant, which would equally op- ose a complete barrier to the grateful southern Ereezes. The discomforts to the inmates of the new mansion would be still less endurable. Their | ‘ooms would be compietely overlooked | sitors to the official residence; for no one of the northern’ rooms vak r toilet without first ciosing the | Diinds .gainst che prying eyes on the other side of the corridor. ‘The fine view to the north from the iront rooms ot the present mansion of the beautiiul lawn, the fountain, Laiayette | square and the Avenue, gay with processions, | would be gone forever to the family in their pent-up quarters. The breezes that enter th sent northern windows would be late , and the free current of air through and | throngh the building, «o essential tothealth, | would no longer be possible. | In crowded cities landholders of limited Dliged, for want of space, to submit Duby others of walls destroy’ the prospect and cutting off the air. Bu eard of that a proprietor with the means to avoid it would Voluntarily destroy to so serious au extent the comiort and eleg | hisown Lome! Does any one believe U owner of any of the fine houses on Li Square, be wished to enlarge his hous could possivly do so in any other way, wouid {nterpose such a wall opposite his windows, cutting off the view and the air? And yet the government, with ample room elsewhere, is gravely asked in (his manner to disfigure this | beautiful mansion and destroy at once its pri- | vacy and comfort. ‘The artificial mounds in the grounds to the south Were constructed at an appropriate dis- tance from the south fronts; but the trection of | the duplicate house would brivg them much | too close to its southern entrance for beauty or | convenience, and would probably involve the | removal of the fine magnolia and other trees that have shaded the lawn so many years, Now, I respectfully submit that these Incon- yeniences and disfigurements should not be permitted if there is a ieasible and appropriate | method of avoiding them, and 1 venture to sug- | geat the following: | ‘Let there be built two wings, appropriately | connected with the main building, each of two siories in height. Let the western wing be ap- | ropriated, exclusively t9 ollices (or the Presl- Sent and his clerks and reception rooms (or | those visiting him on public business. There | Reed be no comiunication with the rest ot the huuse, except in the second story, which might | be through tire-proof doors, and’ proper safes | might be built for the preservation of the pre- lous documents now exposed in the present | combustible structure. The eastern wing would be occupied on the ipal floors by an additional reception | Foom ior state occasions, now so greatly needed | and likely to be still’ more required in the | future, as the population increases. Above Stairs Would be additional chambers for the President's family. An entrance in the north | sront of the eastern corridor would admit guests | ‘on state occasions, and disrobing rooms for ladies and gentlemen couid ve placed in the same corridor, thus leaving the family portion of the house’completely tree from intrusion. ‘The lower portion of the western corridor could still be used in part for the conservatory, or for so much of It as should prudently be annexed to s.dwelling. If were considered that, this ex- tension of the northern facade would tend to warf the present mansion it would be easy to Yaise the entablature on its top, or even to add an additional story to the main house. Any Person who wishes to comprehend the probable effect of this proposed alteration, may examine an engraving of “Ainsley House,” in Yorkshire, contained in volume 3, of “Neéal’s Views of Seats” in the Congressional library, which represents @ mansion greatiy resembling the President's house, with the addition of wings such ss, I propose. I trust these suggestions may call pablic attention to a subject so inter- esting to every resident and visitor to our beau- ‘titul city. —_.__ ‘Transfer Real Estate. Deeds and fees have been filed as follows: George Mason to Edmund Gray, pt. 4, sq. 817; $166. A. C.Clark to Lewis Bell, pt. 15, sq. 650; $220. M.C. Hooker to Chas. Rollin, sq. n of 507; $2,600. W. E. Edmonston, trustee, to Jas. A. Williamson, pt. G, sq. 158; $7,015.20. Jesse Brown to L. Nau, lot 2 lot's, T. € B’s sub Mt. Pleasant; $712.50. D. A. Windsor to Chas, Ford, pt. 5, sq. 573; @—. Chas. Ford to D. A. Windsor, pt. do. $~. " S. Polkinhorn to James W. French, sub lot 13, sq. 570; $5,000." F. H. Unsworth, et al. to Mary Ann Scheuck, n 1g 32, bik 6 T. B's sub Mt Pleasant; $1,500, Jos eph R. Edson to D. F. Forrest, pt. 2, sq. 172; $1,950, | F. F. Farrar to Charles Christiana, lot 20, res. B; $6,100. jattray Dustan to Mary 3, Hayek, pt 5, sa. 213% $1,919.61. Virginia Bulkley to R Jaifray Dustan, sub lots R and 8, sq. 133, $4,263. John T. Arms to B. H. War ner, sub. lot A, sq. 94; $5,330.77, Jessie A. Susderiand to Mary Wilkinson, sub lot 37, sq. ‘92; $4,404. Jobn H. Walter, et al. to Carrie A. Hamiilet al, lots Land 5, sq. s. of 1 $500, Lena Koeth to Sarah A. Conner, sub lot 45, sq. 207; $6,500, W. T. Bright to ‘KK. Lundy et al., sub lot 41, sq. 960; $1,300, J. A. Prescott to'T. T. Houston, pt. 5, 'sq. 118; $—. Moses e ou Kelly, surviving trustee’ to Oela Chappel, sub lots 47 to 50, sq. 191; $5,000. J. B. Slack, lots 36 and 37, bik. 29, Long Meadows; $600. F. H. Anderson to J. F. An derson, lots 452, 483 and 454, Uniontown; 3300. “B. W. Carpenter to W. Barry, sub 24, sq. W. H. Clagett to ¥. Carpenter to Nora Barry, 84. 399; $2,600. . Cox et al. to Jofin | Miller, lot 1, sq. 712; $2,083.80. H. Clagett | etal, to H. Clay Stewart, sub 9, sq. 339; $6,525. W. Warring to Lillian "Malord, sub lot 60, sq. 359, $1,600. Emma ©. Lunsford to R! A. Pbillips, one undivided sixth ot pt. 2, sq. a ie M. Bradford to Fann! 5.89. 97; saceo- aE eGill wee. H. am, sub 4 Sq. 722; $2,000. paisa a4 ‘T. Okie, lot 8, sq. 602; 7,9 and 10, 93. 603; we anil to. saueee M: ine, 7, 9 an aq. GU 077. T. M Lananan to’ W. Ht. Werk, pe 19; sq.” 79; $2,272.50. W. B. Moses to J.’MeL, Carusi, lots 180 to 139, sq. 69; $500, &e. John MeL. Carusi toS. Maddox, same property; $7,250. John C. Heald to.’ L. Saers, lot 25,8. P. Bs sub, Pleasant Piains: $4,500. R. F. Kearney to Joun G. Hester, lots 1, 6 and 8, sq. 172; 3—. John 1 ienman to P.S. Ross, &c., lot 4, sq. 610; $175. BF. Cassidy to Gilbert Cannon, sub 24, sq. $2,100. W. & Cox to George t Lae Fetra, lots 72 and 75, sq. 672; $960. Julius Langburgh to Joseph Auerbach, ‘iot 1, $y ,783; part sub 1. sq." 79% BH farner’ to C. B. Pearson, sub ‘lois 139 B. OL. ee et al. to sul 79, - Gad; 600. Mary J. K. White to David 1 Yulee, sub lot 9, sq. 112; $-. Margaret L. Gaddis to BHT. Leipoid, ‘sq. i 14,031.24. John MeMahon to August Burgdoril. part 27, sq. 163; $1,474.20; part 26, do.; $10,543, Ellen L. Platt wo Hattie Galt, sub lot 15, sq. 214; Rosa Wallach’ to Andreas’ Loeftter, T.& Bossub Mt. Pleas- wie A. Moore to Kosa sub 50, sq. 421, $4 Rosa Waliach ¥ Christopher Komitnig, lot $i, block 5, T. & B.'s sab ML Pleasant; Same to Levi rag 2, a KR ron gg to J. Hiliyer, lot’ 5, =u. 154; $20,440. Martha M. Read wo Lida B! Piatt, lots 3, 4, 5 and 6, sq. 60; $14,000. = ee I Cannot Be Your Queen. Written for Tux Evenixe Stax. | jana, | mond Ken THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL. The Building Erected on the Land Left by Joshua Pierce. CONDITION OF TRE ENTERPRISE—THE NEED FOR AN ASYLUM FOR FOUNDLINGS—WHAT THE INSTITUTION WILL DO—WORK SUSPENDED ON ACCOUNT OF LACK OF FUNDS. A movement has been in progress in this city for some years with the view of establishing a, hospital for foundlings. The ladies and gentle- men interested have done a great deal in a quiet way to call this deserving charity to the attention of those whose sympathies and aid would likely be enlisted. As was well known at the time Joshua Pierce, a citizen of the Dis- trict, who died in 1869, made a bequest of a large frontage of ground on the east side of 15th street, between R and S streets,to Wm. M. Shuster and Wm. H. Clagett, trustees, as the site for the erection of a hospital for foundlings to be built by any association, society or insti- tution that may be Incorporated by Congress for this purpose. | To carry into effect the visions of the bequest a bill was by Con- gress April 22, 1870, incorporating the hospital and creating ‘its officers and directors. ‘The latter were named as G. M. Samson, O. 0. How- ard, Z D. Gilman, William Stickney, A.C. Eichards, B. Sunderland A. N. Zevely, ‘Wright Rives, Dr. James C. Hall, David K: Cartier, William , Todd, jr., D. W. Middleton, George L. Sheriff, B. B. French, Joseph S. Stettinius, John R. "Arison, and ‘such other persons as might be duly etiosen. ‘THE OBJECT OF THE INSTITUTION, as stated in tne act of incorporation, was “the reception and support of destitute and friendless children.” It was provided “that foundiings received by this hospital shall be considered wholiy under the guardianship, care and con- tol of said institution, to be’ educated, a prenticed or otherwise disposed of, as the di- Tectors of said hospital may, in their Judgment, deem for the best interests of said children, unitii they shall attain theage of 18 years,when, said care and control shall cease.” On May 7, 1870, the following gentlemen met atthe residence of Wm. Stickney and _organ- ized the “Washington Hospital for Foundiings, in accordance with the provisions of the will of Joshua Pierce and of the act of Congress: G.W. Samson, 0. 0. Howard, Wm, Stickney, A. U. Richards and A. N. Zevely. fhe present officers of the Institution are: esident, Z. T. Sowers, M. D.; secretary, A. C, Richards; treasurer, W. F. Mattingly; board of directors, Hon. D. K. Cartier, Rev. B. Sunder- M.M. Parker, 4 Hichards, Dr. Z. T. Sowers, G. 1, Sheriff, J. P. Klingie, Thomas J. Luttrell and Thomas’ J. Fisher. THE NEED OF FUNDS. As has been stated, the managers have been endeavoring to procure the neces sary funds to carry out the objects of the bequest. The property which they now hold is valued at $50,000, and last fall, the di- rectors finding that ‘they had sccumulated funds in addition amounting to about $20,000, concluded to begin the erection of a building. ‘This building has been erected, and is now un- | der roof. It was constructed by Mr. Robert L. | or about May 25, 184 Fleming, from plans prepared by Dr. John S. Billings, U.S. A., the distinguished authority on hygiene, who is in this city, in charge of the great collection of books belonging to the Army medical museum. Dr. Billings, from his fan arity with institutions of a lar character in Europe, was well qualified for this task, and | the building erected is pronounced to’ be o} model of the Kind. It has a frontage of 65 feet | on 15th street and has two L’s, and it is so con- | structed that as the needs of the institution re- | quire it can be extended over the entire front- age. which is 130 feet. The work has been brought to @ standstill for the present, as the Management was unwilling to incur any in- | debtedness. A few additional thousand ‘dol- lars are needed to prepare the building for use, | and the ladies and gentlemen inierestered are enlisting the aid of their friends to carry on to | completion the enterprise so well begun. THE LADY MANAGERS, The following are the lady managers: Mrs. J. P. Jones, Mrs, 8. P. Brown, Mrs. Z. B. Vance, Mrs. J. J. Ingalts, Miss Seidmore, Mrs. Cullen, Mrs. J. B. Alley, Mrs. J. J. Myers, Mrs. J. K: | Stickney, Mrs. 1. M. Hutchinson, 1H, B. | Payne, Mrs. Wm. R. Morrison, Mrs. T. W. mer, Mrs. J. B. Fremont, Mrs. C. B. Frade berg, Mrs. J. C. Spooner, Mrs. J. H. Ashto Mrs. A. Graham il, }. Carlisle, S. M. Cullom, Mrs. Wickliffe Preston, L. Mitehell.’Mrs. D. R. MeKee, Mrs. ‘N. W Aldrich, Mrs. Geo. Hearst, Miss E.’B. Johnston, | Mrs. N.C. Blanchard, Mrs. Wm. F. Wallace, | Sirs. C. E. Boyle, Mrs, A. W. Grecley, Mrs, T. M! Woodrutf, Mrs. i. W. Townshend, Mrs. F, Col- ton, Miss Oberly, Mrs. Jno. Hay, Mrs. Cram- ed¥, Mrs. Sno. O. Evans, Mrs. G. A. Coolidge, Mrs. J. A. Dolph, Mrs. A. L. Barber, | Miss Haidee Williamson. The organization of the board of lady managers is Mrs, Jeannie K. Stickney. Jessie B. Fremont, vice Williamson, Drom? nancial secretary; Miss Edith Oberiy, corre- sponding secretary. Finance commiiteo—Mrs. | ‘ton, Mrs. Cullen, Mrs. Hutchinson, Mrs. Alley, Mrs. Spooner, and Mrs. J. P. Jones. Committee on by-laws—Mrs. Fremont, Mrs. Carlisle, Miss Oberly, Mrs. J. J. Myers and Mrs. Stickney. District and congressional commit- tee—Mrs. S&P. Brown, Miss FE. B. Jobuston, Miss Scidmore, and Mrs. Coolidge. WHAT ONE OF THE MANAGERS SAYS. The need of an institution of this kind here, it is claimed by those interested in the project, is apparent to any one who has given the bo aay attention to this subject. hile itis difficult to obtain accurate ststistics in regard to a matter of this nature, yet from the mea; and imperfect records which are obtainable from official sources it 1s learned that there are over 200 foundlings born annually in this cit; and allowed to live. How many are destroye how many are kept by private nurses, there is no means of Knowing. “At any rate,” said a Member of the board of management, who had substantially made the above statements to STAR reporter, “persons who are in u post- tion to know @ great many facts about the M M as follows: president; Mrs. resident; Miss Haidee | irs. D. K. MeKee, fi- birth of foundlings in this city say that there are more such births than people have any idea of. Naturally it ject that 1s not discussed very much. We are none of us perfect, and it some sin more deeply and foully ghan others we are not taught by the Great Teacher to east them asid6 and extend no aid. Neither are we performing our duty to cur fellows when we shut our eyes | and refuse to believe that such things exist. You know some people say, or rather they try to make others think, that they do not believe | that there Js crime in’ tne worid. They simpiy | deny and retuse to recognize the existence of persons so low bred as to violate the conven- Uonalities of polite society. Dickens, in one of his novels, very aptly describes this class. But ig @ fact does not extinguish it.” e simply tgke the world as we find it,” he continued, “but we want to try to make it Uttle better. What is to become of the illegiti- mate children that are born daily in our midst? It is nofault of thelrsand they have as much Fight to lite ws any one. It has been said to me when I have broached this subject, ‘It is better tolet them die. ‘They will only grow up like their mothers.” But Y cannot help but think why not like their fathers? They are equal thelr offspring. It does not follow that a jound- lng is the offspring of a dissolute or immoral woman. They are temptations of time, place and circumstances which assail virtue. We are none of us so strong moraliy that we can afford to turn with scorn from one that has fallen, Now take the ease of a respectable girl who has sinned. Her impulse in many instances 1s to Kil er child in order to protect her respect- abllity and standing in society. “In this way a large number of children—how large there is no means ot knowing—are murdered. We pro- pose simply to provide a place where sueh chil. dren may be sent and cared for, and we claim that the fact that the child is In’ existence acts as a restraint upon the future life of the parent. When the mother has killed the child she is tree, but if a way is provided tor the child's safety as well as her own, her impulse will turn her from murder tothe asylum. ‘Then the mere fact that a child bearing her ieatures is in the world has a hold upon her which nothing else can have.” PRIVATE FOUNDLING ESTABLISHMENTS, “Then,” he went on, “there are cases where the child is intrusted to the care of some nurse at the latter's home. I know a doctor here who Is attending seven or eight cuildren of this class, He goes to the home of the nurse and is paid with money furnisned by the parents or parent. Probably the father aiter a while may grow red of the constant drain upon bis re- sources, the supply ceases and the child is thrown’ upon the world. Very olten parents after marriage endeavor to repair the injury done to their children by adopting them, and Unis can be done with less fear of creating com- ment when the child Is taken from an asylum than when it is taken from the home of the nurse. You see that the entire tendency of this institution is to prevent crime and to save the litte innocents. If human nature was 0 changed that noillegitimates were brought into the world then orphan asylums would be suffi- clent, but as long as society is us It is the course of wisdom is to try to lessen the consequences of sin and not compel the commission of one crime to produce and be the necessary condition ‘of another still more terrible. ‘There 1s another teature of this institution, and that is the pro- Yition of our charter, which, provides that euil- dren may be kept in the inst tution until they are eighteen years of age. It posed to have, in addition to the ordinary means of edu. cation, facilities forgiving industrial education, so that when our children go out into thé Nay, nay, I caunot be your Queen: ‘O takeaway that wreath of dowerst ‘Some heart more light should bear, I ween, ‘The honors of the Mayday hours. Nay, tell me not that I am fair: ‘Speak not to me of beauty new; ‘The heart so wanting hope and cheer ‘Shouid wear no wreath upon the brow. ‘Each blossom ‘round the exrcie 'twined, And ev'ry bad, would prove a thorn, And that sweet wreath would but remind ‘Of hopes, life's flowers, forever gone. ‘Then ask me wot to grace your throne, And take, O take, that wreath away; ‘The say-day of my:beurt has flown:— Teanaot be your Queen of diay. —CHARLES M. Texte, co = A it missionary in Cton writes home that what an American family throws away in year would keep « dozen Ubinese funiiies; ‘ahd what a Chinese family throws away in the same time would not ieca a mouse, AA Inventory fled at tue office of the regis * ter o8 wills, In ‘Philadelphia, shows that the os- gg, 70mm MeCullouga ts vaiued at $37, world to engage in the contest for a living the: go prepared. As a such children Rave great” natarat ablittics: ana tt they can be brought up under the proper in- fluence and sent out top! ‘where they are not known, and where no si Fi ma 1s attached to | the im, | to declare ‘rheumatiz aod diarrhea’ non-pen- A HUMOROUS COMMITTRE. the House Military Committee Disposed of a Pension Case.- ‘The House military committee, through Gen. Bragg, have submitted a rather unique report upon @ bill to remove the charge of desertion from the military record ot Edward Kincade. The report begins with the assertion that the committee, aiter careful consideration, have been able to solve the many complicated and delicate questions involved in this case to their own satisfaction, and they hope to the satisfac ton of the claimant, “When @ man’s military ts awa: says the report, “he is able to be sensitive and the noblest instincts of his nature stir _him_to demand instant reparation or correction.” _Ed- ward Kincade, it proceeds—who served in the Mexican war—“is not an exception te this rule, unless it may be that he was a little tardy in getting to the front,” ‘The committee were un- able to locate the ‘place where Kincade firs saw the light and “breathed the air that fll all true Americans with never dying patriot- ism and a corresponding thirst for federal ap- propriation. But let his birth-place be where it may, he was a resident in 1847 of that state, great in resources, gfeat in territory, great in wealth and populition, (but it nas been said in envious jealousy) greatest of ali in the love of its people for federal oftice, which they always delight to honors | ‘Thirty-niae years ago, or, to be exactly accurate, it will be 39 years on the 24th day of May next (the precise hour of the day is not stated In the record) since Edward Kincade heard reverberating through THE BUCKEYE TREE-TOPS in Ohio the sound of men marching for Mex- ico, His enthusiasm was aroused, and be Tushed to camp and enrolled his name on the scroll of fame—a militia muster-roll. He was in the vigor of early manhood, and burned tor the opportunity to strike down ‘the greasor’ and plant ‘the grid-iron, banner’ upon the ‘halls of the Montezumas,’ and, perhaps, as he Pilelded to the | softening influence of” ‘pale Cynthia’ on that eventful night he dreamed of young love's dalliance with the charms of un- veiled ‘senoritas.” But it is entirely impossi- ble to do Justice to the situation, by reason of fect record on these polits. Suffice it, however, to say that whatever of future un- rolled itself to his Vision and hopes soon became areality of direst mistortune and blight, and here again we are compelled torealize, L’ homme Propose, mais Dieu dispose!” 1S BRIEF BUT EVENTFUL SERVICE. Returning to the record the report states that Kincade enlisted in the 4th Ohio volunteers on May 24th and served until June 10th, 1847, “when he deserted from Camp Ohio and never returned to his command. The committee do not regard it as surprising thata military record So young and tender should want to be corree- ted. Not until the present year did Kincade ‘apply to have the charge of desertion removed. He Says for himseli: That immediately alter y his muster the company went into cainp on the banks of the Ohio river, at a place called Sports- man Hall, where, from rain and exposure to the weathér white in the line of his duty, he was taken sick and contracted rheumatism’ on “fhis maucertiinly Gught to have a pension,” continues the report, “and the phraseology of bis waifidavits shows that he has applied al- ready! Mark the dates; ue enlisted on May 24, 1847, and on the 25th “contracted rheumattz,” which seems to have cropped out in 1886, Un- der the propagating iniluence of the pension laws “rheumatiz and diarrhea” have been made epidemicin this country by claim agents under the pension laws. And itis suggested in , that, independent of ail otner ques- said considered in a sanitary view, pure and simple, no measure that bas ever attracted public attention us alive and cure tor epi- | demic diseases wouid be nearly so ellicieut as | sio it me *ife told his captain that he had a triend in Cincinnati to whom ie could go and stay till he got better, or unuil the company was ready to move, that the captain told uum to go there and he wouid call for him when be was ready toxo. (Bul, alas, the captain never called for him] And’he was very sick [unquestionably sick of his enlistment], and wuen able to be ed he came back to Mansiield, where he aimed sick until At and has ever since s (iis nid term But fate was not | us to strike down this soldier, but] ‘um [he exclaims] 7 atso contracted ig diseases, But we are wandering, “as » and hasten back to Kincade’s stute- content th ah me mis diarrhea from drinktng Ohio Rwer water. THE “PENSION TWiNS.” “Only think,” continues the report; “one night in camp in the latter part of May, 1847, on the banks of the Ohio, gives birth to the ‘pension twins,’ ‘rheumatiz and diarrhoea,’ what an ungrateful country, to permit this | man to refnain so many yeurs on the borders of the grave without recognizing his distinguisned service of its own motion. And more ungrate- 1ul suil, when his claim agent overcame his diflidence and induced him .o apply for a pen- sion, to interpose as a bar a little thing like a ‘desertion, when, if it had not been for the ‘pesky Oulo rivet water’ the government al- Jowed him two drink, perhaps ie might have married immense weaith in Mexico aud have eon long ere this president of our sister repub- r ie, But this is not all; this remarkable state of facts is vouched for by the usual corroborative evidence in pension cases, taking a man step by step to the grave, tottering aiong under the baleful effects of the dual disease. But there is nothing going to the charge of desertion. Your committee have taken this pains In this case that this man’s sufferings and serifices may be Known and appreciated, und this is all the relief they think the facts will warrant; theres fore they report the bill adversely, aud recom- mend it do lie upon the table. READING UP THEIR CASES. Peculiar People Who Haunt the Con- gressional Library Reading Room. A man with a crutch, a bandage over one eye and a bigswath of red flannel tied about one ot his hahds; walked into the Congressional library the other day. An habitue of tne place nudged a STAR reporter who was standing by, and called attention to the new-comer. He stowed his crutch away by the side of his chair, ad- justed the bandage over his eye and rubbed his | side while waiting. Presently the attendant | brought him an armful of books that seemed to be medical works. ‘The cripple was soon pouring over these with the deepest interest. “That's one of them,” said the reporter's com- anion. “I see,” replied the reporter. “So devoted to books that he climbs up the Capitol steps and comes here to read, notwithstanding his terribly afilicted frame.” “Well, it's not exactly that,” replied the habitus ‘Itis his affliction that brings him here, and it’s his affliction that he comes. You see he is, as 1 said, one of them. There are enough more. They come to read up their own, cases. ‘Those books before him treat of blindness, lameness and rheumatism. He is one of the best informed men on those subjects in the city. The more he knows about the ailments the Worse becomes his uflliction, and he will prob- ably add some new ones betore he gets through with that pile of books. When he started in here he had something the matter with one of his eyes und he came to read up on blindness. By careful study he spread ailments all over himself, until thefe is no point in his body that ain’tin’torture. He had been reading up his own case and has improved upon it. ‘That's about the way with ail of them. some of them are actually suifering from some trouble for which they are seeking a remedy. Others are unconsciously looking for troubles to have. Men who have some ebronic ailment, for which doctors have been unable to give them any re- Hef, go to the library and read all the works they can find that may in any way apply to their case, Some of them become experts in particular branches of medicine, They devote their whole lives to it, and never seem to think or speak of anythingélse. Some, like this man, discover that they are in possession of agreat variety of ailments, and their researches into medicine become very extensive, though some- what desuitory. Some get cured of one com- plaint wien they fall into possession of another, tut others retaid all the old onesand conuinue to nurse and train them very carefully, while add- ing new ones constantly. But generally they are devoted to oue particular thing, and they pursue that assiduously, They are ‘one of the Peculiar classes of readers.” “see ——___ inflammation in Eggs. There isa condition of the egg, little known, which considerably impairs its sanitary value as an article of food. Soon after it became the practice to transport eggs in large quantities and to longidistances by railway trains, it was found on their arrival that adhesion had taken place between the membranes of the yelk and those of the shell, so that the yelk could not be turned out of the shell unbroken. On ex- amination by experienced pathologists this was found to be the result of true inflammation; the material of the adhesion was found w be pre- cisely the same as that of the plastic ex- udation in inflammation of the lungs or bowels, It will at first seem absurd to speak of inflain- mation in such an unformed mass as an Es; Dut this arises trom our forgetting that, struc: tureless and unorganized as it seems, the egg, even when fresh laid, is a living being and capable of disease from external causes. The cause of this inflammation is undoubtedly the shaking and friction from the motion of the cars, aud it cannot but render the Jess unhealthy, as the products of i can never be as salutary in food as those of healthy growth.—Bulletino/ the Tennessee Board of He them on account of their birth, they will make their way, and not only that, but they will make their mark in the world. It would sur- ‘ise & it man; oF foundlings that merous bequest to this government’ estab- ished the Smithsonian institute, was an ille itimate child, but such was the cuse. There public, was alsoan ‘ileyisimnsto en and the list might be extended so as w include many great and illustrious names in the world’s bis- Fation of a great many been enlisted, we expect and wien our institution is started [ am sure ————— ree ______ Effect of Mind on Nearaigia. Interview With Actor Jo Emmet. the will asa healing and conquering influence. THE ROUTINE THROUGH WHICH EVERY BILL PASSES—PRINTED AND REPRINTED HALF A DOZEN TIMES—-OLD BILLS THAT HAVE SERVED IN MANY CONGRESSES—THE DOCU- MENT ROOM, ETC, Already this session there have been over eight thousand bills introduced in the House and printed—a namber exceeding by: several hundred the whole number introduced during both terms of the last Congress. The experi- ence of @ bill in the House is varied. Some of them have come to be old veterans, and are hardened to service by long experience. They have served through many Congresses, and had varied experiences. Some of them have been there so long that they have become sallowed and shriveled with age. A bill that has never Peon in Congress beiore, and is fresh and new, has generally come in the et of a mem: ber as fresh and new and crisp as itself, or has been written by some mild, in- sinuating person outside, and introduced by request. “The ave member of Con- gress, though he delights in introducing as Many bills as possible, does not like to write them. He will frequently take ® bill that has done service in many different causes, and will chop and slash and interline it, and patoh it to- gether aes new bill. Many of ‘the private bills ave done service through many Congresses and for many porsons, merely the name in it being changed every time it was introduced. It has been suggested as a means of preventing the House being ‘flooded with so inany bills, that every bill Introduced must be in the hand writing of the man who offers it. THE CAREER OF A BILL. After a bill 1s introduced it is read by title at the clerk’s desk. It then has numerous hiefo- glyphics put in blue pencil upon its back to show where itis tobe consigned. Then it is numbered and registered in a book and printed. ‘The most active part of its existence is being printed. If it hasatull run itis printed six Umes. ‘It is printed when first introduced, when it is reported from the committee it 16 printed, when it is passed by the House—If It ever ls—it is again printed. Then the Senate prints it. When itis reporied by the Senate committve it 1s again printed, and again when it becomes a law. After that it has to be printed in the statute books. “Meanwhile it has een stowed away in the document room and on the calendar of the committee, has been dis: cussed, and probably abused and cut to pieces; has been objected to and threatened in th House, and solemly sat upon in the Senate. This ts the experience of the simplest and most unimportant bill, ‘The appropriation bilis su fer more at the hands of the printer than thi ‘They are first printed as estimates, then as_u official forms of the bill, then the bill as adopte by the committee is printed. When it passes the House it is printed, and again when it Teaches the Senate, It is next printed as it passes the Senate. When it comes out of con- ference—if it goes to conference—it is printed as an act, and alter thatit is printed in the statute WHERE THE BILLS ARE STORED. A large number of each bill is printed, and the document room becomes packed with them, mostly private bills of no importanoe. ‘The room where they are stored is just in the rear of the statuary hall, and was the cloak room on the “east side,” when that old hall was the hall of Representatives. Some of the bills are al- most old cuough to remember that time. ‘Thou- sands upon thousands of them aro piled upon the shelves that reach ciear to the vetilngs, und sometimes the floors are piled with them, ’ Fol- low them back into the deeper recesses, and they almost choke up the arched passage Way. They are constantly veing disposed of or de- stroyed, and new ones are constantly coming in. “Fully ninety per centot them never pass through Congress, and when they have failed there they serve a8 butter wrappers in the city markets. It has been estimated that it costs more to print the private bills than is involved in all those that pus: soe JOHN DUBOIS’ MILLIONS. Pennsylvania's Lumber King Gives an 85,000,000 Estate to His Nephew. ‘From the New York Sun. On Tuesday John Dubols, the lumber king of Peunsylvania, filed in Cleartield au absolute deed conveying all his property, valued at about $8,000,000, to his favorite nephew, John E. Dubois, The deed beurs date January 17, 1884, so that, although for more than two years young John Dubois has been in his uncle’s employ, taking orders from whatever superintendent he chanced to be working un- der, he has been the actual owner of the entire property. Nobody knew it but himself and his uncle, The senior Dubois, who 1s 77 years old, has been ailing lately, and decided’ to make the deed public. The only consideration in the deed is that John E. Dubois shall pay all debts and fill all contracts his uncie may make Ul the day of his death. His purpose in making the deed was to make sure that is business should goon in single and absolute ownership, just as he had con- ducted itfor the period of twenty years, after his death, and that the 800 workmen in his employ should not be distressed by the stop- page or etabarrassment of his enterprise. ‘The deed mukes no mention of any of the other heirs, of whom there are a great many, John Dubois being the only bucie.or in a farily of fourteen. It is left entirely to the conscience ot John E. Dubois whether any of them shalt ever have any share in the estate or not. ‘The young man is about twenty-tive years ola and unmarried. He was educated at Chester Mill- tary academy. ‘The Pittsburg Dispatch says that John Du- bots stood easily at the head of the lumber busi- ness of Pennsylvania, Itis doubtiul if there is any man between Maine and Michigan who owned more timber land and cut more timber than he did. Every year he cut and sawed about 36,000,000 feet of boards, enough to build the dwelling houses of a town of 10,000 people. He owned at the time of his death 33,000 acres of land in one connected body about his town of Dubois, on which there is standing about 350,000,000 feet of white pine lumber, besides many million teet of hemlock. About 8,000 acres of it is underiaia with a valu: able vein of coul, beg on the western side of the Reynoldsvilié basin. Besides nis large build- ings ih Pittsburg, John Dubois had a one- fourth interest in a tract of 70,000 acres in West Virginia, which the axe has never touched, aud large real estate interests in Havre dé Grace aud Williamsport. At Dubois, where he has lately lived, he had miil improvements worth $750,000,’ When ho went there, ten or twelve years ago, there were only three houses in the town. “It how has seven thousand popu- lation. John Dubois began life with almost no capi. tal, and was a raftsman on the Susquehanna at the age of 17. His inventive genius helped him greatly. His mills are full of his devices, Whenever he found an impediment in his puth, he Invented something to overcome it. ie recently recovered $30,000 from the Baiti- more aud Ohio Railroad company for the use of his patent for deep-water foundations, The automatic dam which bears his name is well known, He owned about fifty patents alto- gether, He owed the fine hotel and half the property in the town of Dubois, and had just completed a new opera house, tho finest in the state, outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburg. ‘He’ got the first large start in his fortune by investing in cheap timber lands, and the secret of his large profits in recent years has beon the perfection of his machinery and the variety of his products, which enabled hin to use up all the Umber he cut and avoid waste and middle- men's profits, He manufactured houses, and shipped them ull fitted and complete, so that u hatchet and nails were all that were’ required. fo put them together at their destination, “A rough pine log brought irom the woods to” his mill, over his own line of railroad, came out at the ‘end of the works in the shape of boxes, bourds, lath, and barrel heads. Every scrap was turned to profit, There was no waste ex- cept splinters and sawdust, is works at Dubois have a capacity of 85,000 feet of lumber, 6,000 boxes, 5,000 ‘bar- rel heads and 60,000 ‘siilngles per day, besides a hemlock mill with @ capacity of 40,000 feet dally, and a large tannery and - machine sho} He hud a farm of 1,000. acres, employed 800 men and knew every one of ‘them, He had been seriously ill for several months, and re- cently had Dr. Agnew, of Philadelphia, taken up to Dubois on a special train, He stayed just thirty-five minutes. Though a man_ of warm heart and genial disposition, Mr. Dubois never merried. He never used liquor or tobaceo. ————+e, An Elephant Kills » Man, From the Pall Mall Gazette, A man named David Watkins has been killed by an elephant at Aberdare, For the past two days Bostock and Wombwell's me- nagerie has exhibited in this town. On Tues- day night, April 6, the elephant Madame Jumbo, only four inches less than the re- nowned Jumbo himself, was stabled in an en- Searches, tk, te a nt ant pivoveded to food the ‘clephant with biatuine thers, more mischievous, gave the animal a supply of stones, This so angered it that it at- tem) to wreak its vengeance ree an ng on its tor. wever, managed to escape over a wall. Tho elephant then urea upon Watkins an old man of sixty-five, who bad been an aaused spectator of the proceed. ings. He, unfortunately, was unuble to make his escape, and the elephant seized him with its trunk, dashed him violently to the ground, und then{pummelled him severely. io aries eo} a Saeidwee ang Lait tals Sarat, aos oe ribly injured, and died ostenday. Killing Birds by Violent Speech. From Our Dumb Animals, She is herselfa living Ulustration of the eMoacy of the will not only in curing bat In preventing eF fF i i I HE i Epes E Hy f i A HISTORIO THOROUGHFARE—THE BEAUTIFUL MILE-LONG VISTA—PEOPLE TO BE MET—THE CORNERS AND THEIR HABITUES, a0, Although Washington has many avenues, and beautitpl ones, too, no one who had been in the city a week would fora moment doubt what particular thoroiighfare was meant by “the avenue.” Pennsylvania avenue is by gen- eral consent “the avenue.” The panorama which the phrase will bring before the mind’s eye is of that portion of the grand avenue stretching from the Capitol to the Treasury; and a beautiful picture it is, too, when filled in with its portion of sunlight, shadow and sky. Not that this is all of the avenue. To be math- ematically accurate, it is but a small portion of it, After disappearing from sight at the Treas- ury, like a river that passes under a mountain range, the avenue reappears west of the Execu- tive mansion and runs its course to Rock creek, and then loses its identity in the streets of West Washington. Eastward it takes a new start from the edge of the Capitol ands and stretches on and on to fhe" brink of the astern branch. There was @ time when a traveler explorii all the length of Pennsylvania avenue mighi have kept on over a bridge, crossing the East- ern branch, into the green fields beyond. That was many’ years many that the oldest inhabitant knows of the bridge only from what his father has told him. When the British sol- diers sacked the city in 1814 the bridge was burned—whether by’ the Americans or by the British is a disputed question. It was thought atterwards, perhaps, that to restore the bri woald invite another foreign invasion. At any Fate, Congress has never votea an appropria- tion 'to rebuild the structure. Now certain bold citizens of East Washington, who feel confident of their strength to repel any foe that might mareh upon the city by way of the Maribor. Qugh road, are urging Congress to restore the ridge. THE AVENUE VISTA, From the west portico of the Capitol and from the south portico of the Treasury are to be obtained the views of the avenue which will make the most lasting impression. From one extends @ long vista ending with a glimpse of the classic columns of the Treasury, the ver- dure of the President's grounds and the stately and shapely pile o/ granite comprising the new department building. From the other point ot View the vista reversed is closed by the white dome of the Capitol. Along the intervening mile of asphalt pavement, if it is a bright after- oon, Wiil be seen in motion carriages, Wagons, busses, horse-cars, cabs, hand-carts and all the vehicles of a city strect, lessening in size in the deepening perspective until ‘horses appear far away at the end of the avenue like diminutive creatures from a book of fairy tales. ‘The pave- ment with its ample breadth is never so crowded that a coachman who loves to show off the fine points of his teain cannot find a clear Toad. ‘The assemblage of vehicles 1s democratic, The well-groomed team, driven by a liverled eoachman and drawing ‘a coach with a coatol- arms inscribed upon its panels, has to turn aside for u slow and jolting coal cart, upon which is perched a driver who boasts neither coatorarms nor coat of any other kind. The Senaior hastening to tae Capitol in his coupe, the dignitied justice in his carriage have to give to the hucksier’s wagon, or to sume ad- Vertising contrivance on wheels, its share of the Toad. Among ull these vehicles a hausom cab may be seen here and there prowling along near the curb, like some big bird watching for fish along thé edge of asiream. ‘The throngs on the Side-Wwalks, 100, have a democratic aspect, repre- sentingevery degree in the scale of wealth ever; level of pride and social condition. ‘The exqui- site, witu his single eyeglass, high collar and | approved stare; the mechanic’ : powdered with brick-dust and plaster, the lady of fashion In rustling sliks,the washerwoman Weighted down with ler load, the tourist, the diplomat, the member of Congress, the’ staid citizen” who Tepreseuts no extreme, all mingle together to give the splee of variety to the sccnes on the avenue. Other lands, too, make their contri- bution to the stream of humanity. Groups of Italians, black-eyed women witn colored hand- kerchiels at their throats, and brigandish look- ing men in slouch hats, Chinamen in flat hats, Wide-sieeved iunies and sandals; now and then Bittle Jap Just trom school, and, perchance, & Squad of izatuly indians, their attire sh | @ strange mixlure of savage finery an | ready-made “Store” clothes, may be among those one wiil pass in’ a stroll along the avenue. The man with a very hoarse voice who sells cough drops at five cents a puckage, the other man who vends pocket knives, and various other curbstone merchants, figure in the ever-changing picture. Atsome of the street corners, a little off trom the avenue, will appear the fruit vender with his wagon, and the vootb- powder or corn-saive man who stands in bis ge and lectures a motley gatnering. THE CORNERS. ld promenader on the north side of the at each corner. At one crossing, in y of a number of pool rooms, he is sure tosee half a dozen or more of thé sport ing fraternity, distinguished by loud plaids, close-cropped hair aud now and then a dyed moustache, At another corner, to- wards evening, he will be likely to see two or three "evangels struggling hard to secure an audience, Further west, he will come to the trysting place oi the locai democracy. One of the hotel corners is famous for its gatherings of would-be statesmen, who decide ull the great political questions of the day long before the people vote upon them, just as during the war, On the same corner, colonels and majors use til how the battles of the country ought to be Jought. The avenue also has its well. known dividing lines, which promenaders recogniz Co! ing fromthe west the promenader very: y turns on his heel at 7th street and re- 3 his steps. Some though, contin their walk, to the steps of the Capitol, while other less ambitious walkers, will turn’ about aL 9th street, ‘The street sounds seem different from those of the principal streeis of other cities, Perhaps the great width of 160 feet, the asphalt pavement, and the fact that heavy rumbling rays are tare exceptions among tie vehicles, make the difference in sounds. ‘The tinkling of the bells, the grinding of the wheels of street cars, and the whir ot fight carriage wheels, are the Sounds that come constantly off the road- way, making the undertone of the melodies of the Sureet. In one neighborhood, afternoon and evening, the air is tilled with the biaring of rival brass bands stationed in froutof the theaters that empioy this method of announcing that the cur- tain is about to rise. On “Auction” days, from 9th to 12th street, the ear of the promenader will catch the sound of the auction bells, rung with variations by colored porters, in front of the auction rooms in the vielnity of the avenue. Occasionally the strains of a band of music, moving or inarching, will be temporarily min: gled with the noises peculfar to the locallty, tor every procession tivat can conveniently do so lakes the avenue as a portion of 1ts route, and there are tew days in the year that has not its procession of some kind. THE MARKET. Tho artist and the general student of human- ity would find much to interest him in the neighborhood of the market, especially on the days known us “market days.” At the 7th and 9th street corners two streains of humanity, and on market morning these streams, then mostly offeminine humanity, join and iow into the murkel, carrying with them hundreds of huge market'baskets, The market 1s in Itself a vast field for study on such a day. While the avenue is a democratic thorough- fare on which ail classes meet and jostle each other, there are hours when one or the other pre- dominates. In the early morning before ‘the bauker, the merchant, the lawyer and even the leisurely department ‘clerk nas sat down to his breakfast, workmen and shop girls and store clerks who yawuingly wonder why the early closing movelnent hat not also a “late opening” plank in its platform, have the pavement pretty much to themselves. At 8 o'clock, when the morning suulight 1s streaming ‘down over the Capitol, the sldewalke are well- filled with bright, bustling mon and women, stepping briskly “along. ‘Then the merchant and the depariment official appear, Afver awhile the briskness of morning wears away. ‘The Avenue is tilled with early promenaders, with tourists, with people of leisure or those Whove employment does not seem to make much demand on their time. In the afternoon again at 4 o'clock the departmentcierks thi along the sidewalk, and later in the evening the siore clerks aud shop girls one met in the morning will appear again, THE OLD AND THE NEW. To the regular promenader the mixture of old-fashioned and rather dingy buildings with modern structures causes no unpleasant emo- [tions It links the present with the past—new at Charles Dickens descrived in 1842, wit syne peters avenues that only wan and the’ Washington of wrote at the beginning of the century— ‘Squntes in oranves, a It recalls more recent times, only a few when the Senator on hia way Yo the Capitol Dad to walk over a shabby old bridge spanning the odorous waters of Tiber creek, noble only in dey sae whee remand teas to the wi ar Gaon marched through its Agugts, to the mod ade a Aisas Sea tata of thousands of visit- feats mean tes emer ees hos for historic ant "yo be aa tall of posse republic itaelt, Boones. Its future scems to be bilities as the tuture of the at onde a. James Titus, the janitor at the Centenary Col legiate Institute at Hackettstown, N, J., was arrested Wednesday night for the murder of, Matilda Smith, a domestic employed in the in- stitution. The arrest was made secretly and the prisoner and detectives started at once for a long drive of eighteen miles through the hills to the county jail at Belvidere, On the morning of April 9, on his way to Work across the lot back of the institute, and within short distance of thé bitilding,a man found lying near the fence the body of the young and handsome servant girl. Her feet lay toward the building and her clothing was decent composed, “Black Ager mutts’ were at het throat and the marks of two fist blows on ber forehead. From a rear door of the institute to the gapin the fenceand to the body was a si ht line. Twenty feet further trom where the lay was s cesspool forty feet deep and halt fuilof ‘water and covered @ stone that one man could easily have moved. An exami- nation showed that the girl had been assaulted after death, or at least after unconsciousness: It was found that on the previous evening she had gone to an entertainment at the public hall in the’ village. There, with two girl frien: she had met two drummers gamed Mannich an . ‘The party, on leav! had walked together a litle distance ‘and thea Hed separated toward the homes of the gira Up the ht street to the front of the Insti- tute Munnich and Matilda went, and reached the front gates just after the big clock in the tower struc ‘the signal at which the lights went out in all th e long rows of windows in the building, ‘They heard the click of the big lock in the front door, and Matilda said she would have to Fe8round to the back and get the Janitor to let er in there. At the corner of the building sbe parted from Munnich, and no person yet foun will admit having seen her since alive. Mun- nich returned to his home and was talked there with at about half-past ten. Harring was also back at the hotel within @ reasonable time. Both men were arrested on suspicion, but Proved a perfect alibi, The next detective the turned to tramps, Two men, it was assert must have been needed to overcome a girl with the magnificent shoulders and arms that the dead one pos. sessed. An unoccupied barn near the spot where the body lay turnished the locus 0j andi for the crime, and a fertile imagination the marks of a struggle on the earthen floor and. blood spots on the side, The coroner's jury was easily convinced, and found that the girl had been strangled by parties unknown, prob- ably In the aforesaid barn, ‘There the case dropped, and would probably have stayed so until this day but for some city newspaper men with an unreasonable bent in the direction of hard facts, The girl when last seen alive had new tight-fitting gloves on her hands, a light jacket. Se het AP with $9.38 in it, a spool of thread ‘bought dur- ng the evening, and a dozen or twenty hairpins binding’ up the long black hair. When her body was tound the hands were bare, the jacket on with, only, ono sleeve aud unstained with any of the dirt that was ground into the back of the dress under it. The purse, thread and gloves were missing, and there were no plus in the tangled mass of hair that hung to her waist. The further discovery that the marks on the barn floor were old ones and the blood stains forced the authorities to renew the search and to offer a reward of 31,000 tor the arrest of the murderer, The irresistible driftof every clue toward the institute building compelled a re- Tuctant turning of attention in that direction, James Titus, the nigit janitor, was the first person whom Matilda could have met after she left Muunich, unless she was waylaid in that short walk around the corner of the build- ing to the rear door, If he had let her in there, adoor into the turnace room from the passage and she would have entered, A light was always buruing there at nigpt, aud it was the Janitor’s headquarters, 2 The room, when it was finlly searched, had been cleaned up since the murder, and all the ashes removed, buta dark, oily spot of paint was on the floor, A stain of this same stuff was on the girl’s dress. There bad been shavings and bits of cane from the mending of chairs lying around the floor, Shavings and bits of ‘ane were form i dead giti’s hair, The gloves, which she might have ‘taken off while Waiting for the janitor to open the door; the purse, the spool Or thread, aud tue hair pins, il y had talle ue flour during the strugzie, might have be rned in the furnace. Ii two men had done the deed the assault would have been cousummated before, and not alter death, Ifone man did it, the two Blows on the forebead, would have brougut her the,unconsciousness necessary for him io succeed if his purpose, Titus’ ‘story is that at a few minutes past ten, as siuunich Says, he locked the front dor, then, went througi: the halls to see that the light were ail out; then made a cireult of the ground: around the’ building to see that no one was skulking about, and so got back to his furnace- room. He nether saw nor heard anything sus- picious in his tour. Maulda came to him, he Says, early in the evening, told him she was go- ing to be out late, and usked him it he would let herin, He wid hershe must ask permis- sion of the matron, and she replied that sooner than do that she would stay with friends out- side all night. ‘The girl was buried in a pauper’s grave, with only reporters and a few curlous people as mourners, and witout even aprayer to break the harsh’ rattie of the stones@n the box that served asa coilln, The tardy sentiment of a country town has begun to realize the recogni- tion due her admitted purity, and asubscrip- Mon fora monument over her grave is bel raised. About $100 has already been receive by Mayor Reese. Much of it comes from dis- tanteities, Bass Plenty From the American Angier. ‘The angling season has opened In real earnest on the Potomac, and the promise tor the com- ing months is most encouraging. Never in the history of bass fishing on our river have such @ number of fish, averaging so well in size, been taken during the first days of aseason- Fhe eddies below the Great Falls have been iterally teeming with brave aud hungr: Tspeauthe day at the Falls on last Wednes- day, the 21st inst., in company with Mr. C. B. Jeiferson, the son and manager of the cele- brated comedian; Mr. Joe Mack, well known in theatrical and sporuing circles; “Mr. W. H. Ray ley, manager of the National theater in this city, and Mr. 8, Einstein. During the day there were three hundred and sixty odd bass taken in the eddies, to which quota our party con- tributed fitty-three, ranging in weight from one and one-quarter pounds to three pounds ten ounces, Mr. Jefferson secured the largest num- ber and the greatest weight. He is an enthu- siastic augler, and thoroughly enjoyed bis first day on the Potomac, The tisbing began on Saturday, the 17th, at the Falls, and between that date and sundown of the 21st over one thousand bass, all ranging above one pound in weight, were brought across the island trom the eddies. Mr. oo who has Kept the Falls hotel for a number 0} years, says it excels anything in his experience, ‘and the anglers of this city and the surround: ing country are wild at the prospect. Among some of the scores recorded during the dare named are: Joe West, 130 In three days; W. H. Wetzel, 53 in two days; eee Apien, 47; Hilsey ‘and Irwin, 41 (on yan Hon, George Peter, 19. On Friday, the 23d, Dr, Smith Townshend, the president of the Anglers’ association, took up with him Senator J.C.8, Blackburn and Commissioner of Pensions They took thirty-two fine ones, averaging nearly two pounds each. ‘Agreat many bass have been taken also at the Little Falls, ten miles below, but the great fishing has been done in the turbulent eddies just at the foot of the Great Falls. This seems ‘to be the point bass seek In the early spring and it is in these secthing cauldrons that they are always first taken. Here it is they come to imbibe some of the life of the leaping, bounding waters and get their winter coat of slime removed. Their presence in such numbers always makes the wild fleld ot piled up rocks, over which the waters tear and plunge, an attractive resort for anglers during the first warm days of early spring. ‘They do not tarry long, however, and it will oply be a few rs until the Ssting will be better on all grounds both below and above. Perch fishing has been at its enith, too, dur- ing the past few days ut the head of tide water, Which fs Justa saort pull above the elty. 1 counted eighty-seven sinall craft on the river below Chain bridge yesterday, and the occu- pants of each aud all were bauling in the silvery sided white perch almost as fast as they could batt and cast. ‘Tam informed that the Maryland legislature has rey the law prohibiting the taking of bass during the month of May and has not pro- vided any spawning season in which the are to_be pro! I was strongly in favor of having the law amended so as to conform to that of the state of Virgin! for a. ‘season from May 18th todas 15th, the Potomac. have something tosay Washington, Cap aon. 5. o. A Disappointed Young Lawyer. From the Albany Joursal, April 24, An ambitious young lawyer received a pointed lesson froma countrymen recently. The latter, who was adeaer in milk, was Jured by a butcher's eart colliding with i i fia i 4 i ened right otf | PUTTING THE FALLS TO WORK. A Seheme to Use the Power of Niagara to Run Mill Wheels. A dispatch from Albany, April 24th, says: Asa barlesque upon Yankee ingenuity it used to be said in the comic papers that Uncle Sam would some day put a mill wheel under Niagara, Falls and ran all the machinery in the country. Ridiculous as this seemed, Yankee ingenuity has devised something very like it, and a bill to put the scheme into practice has recently passed both houses of the legislature. The measure was Senator McMillan’s bill incorporating the “Niagara River Hydraulic Tunnel Power and Sewer Company of Niagara Falls, New York.” ‘The incorporators are M; H. Kingsley, Gare B. Genk Thomas V. Welch, Henry vershed, Michael ‘Ryan, W. Sera ame peer eee een knows, as V. Welch is the as sembly man and present superintendent ol the state reservation at Niagara; W. Caryl Ely was Sa Be 5 ME ‘a leading lawyer in Bai- falo, and to Mr. Evershed is due the conception Of the scheme with which bis name is now asso- elated. He is an engineer in change of a division ofthe Erie canal. “The bill seys that the com- pany is formed for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating, in connection with the Niagara river, a hydraulle tunnel, or-sub- terranean sewer, for the public use ot werage and drainage and tor furnishing. hydraulic power for manufacturing purposes. in 1 O00 vat rt, withthe Figet cr inGretse £293 increase to $3,- With neers peetpeeann ¢ plan is a sim: A or: 1s to be cut through the rock Close Uy and. pare allel with the Niagara river, 160 feet deep and Funning halt a mile or more back trom the falls, The open end of this little sh.-ftor tunnel is to empty out of the rock at the falls a foot or two above the level of the water below the cascade. Whenever a company wants water power It may sink a vertical shaft from the suriace al- most down to this borizontal shait. In the bot- tom of this vertical shatt a turbine wheel is to be placed, and below this a smaller shaft, fora tall will carry the water from the wheel to the great horizontal shaft, which will then work 88 a Waste pipe lo carry off the water. In order toget the needed water todrive the wheel it will only be necessary to bulld outa short pier on the river shore to catch the edge of ‘the swiftly dowing current and divert a ite of 1 by means ot a ditch or pipe, into the verti shaft, and so past the wheel’ and through the great subterranean shaft and back into the river again below the falls. These vertical shaits are to be big enough to admit one or two of the workmen, who must place the turbine In posi- tion and atterward attend to it. It is said that a wheel as big as a man’s hat will supply 200- horse power, though this was sald carelessly by the reporter's informant, who acknowle Uncertainty as to the precise amount. ‘The plan is to sell to manufacturing corpora- tions the right to sink shaits as close together as practicable along the line of the great waste SinuL. A glorious success 18 prophesied for the company. It is said tuat cheup, steady, reliable power is so great an item in manufactures that & commitice of Connecticut mill owners de- wed that it would pay them to remove their iilis and factories to the town of Niagara. Freshets, droughts, and ice play mischiet with those interests that depend on water power througuout New Englaud, but no stich atnoy- unce, IU is said, attends the use ot Niagara water power. The Niagara never freezes, never over- flows, and uever runs dry. soe Catholics and the Knights of Labor. ARCHBISHOP LYNCH SAYS THE CHURCH DOES NOT ANTAGONIZE THE KNIGHTS. A telegram irom Toronto, April 29, says: Arehbishop Lynch, after perusing Archbishop Taschereau’s mandament on the Knights @f Labor, said that as far as Ontario was cou- cerned the church did not antagonize the Knights, The constitution of the organization Was sent to Rome to see whether it would meet with the approval of the holy see. ‘The consti- tation was returned with the Pope's condemua- lion, A second one, however, amended to meet the objections jound in the first was dis- Patched to the holy see, and is still under cou- | sideration, Meanwhile ‘the chureh iu Ontario, While waiting jor the decision ot the pope, does hotorder any Catholle who may have joined the Auichis of Labor toesign irom that order, but simply forbids any Catholic to Lecome a qaember Unul the pope tually decides for or agaist the order. APPROVED BY VICAR GENERAL CONWAY, OF CHICAGO, ° A dispatch from Chicago, April 29, says: This afternoon, referring to Uhe report that Arch- bishop Taschereau, of Montreal, had issued a mundament forbidding Catholics to become members of te Knights of Labor as being one Of tie dangerous sucteties condemned with Freemusoury by Pope Leo, the Very Reverend Father Conway, Vicar general of the diovese of peaklig for Archbishop Feehan, said: juts of Labor are not one of the societies coudemued by the chureb. ‘Chey have nothing in view thal will interfere with the weliare, civil or religious, of the individual or society. If there bus been bloodshed in any place ‘accom pany ing the existing striices it hus Tuther been caused by the starvation wages given by monopolists than the malice or ill-will ‘ol workingmen, The Knights ot Lavor, as a society, I do not believe are responsible for uhis shedding of blood. The workingman has a right w receive just compensation ior his labor; as mach so as the wealthy man bas to look for the fruit trom his tal. It is well known that capitalists would continue togive almost starvation wages to mechanics and laborers if such unions us the Knights of Labor did not compel them by peacefuland persistent demand to give uu amount necessury ior Ue Support of themselves and their tamilies, Lam wililug to publish my views on Ubis capital- Jabor question so lar as they relate to better pay for the workingman. And because the society known as Knights of Labor has but this one ob- Ject, the securing of better wages for the Wil of itg members, aud because it does not iuterfere with the religious belief of its members nor as- sume the position of a religious teacher, aud for the further reason that It has no religious cere- money in its ritual, the church has not and does ‘not forbid Catholics from jolaing it.” —— Saturday Smiles. In answer to Joe Cook's question: “Is life worth iivi we reply that it all depends on the liver. Working Overtime.—A Florida hen having laid two eggs in one day, it Js undersiood that she will be boycotted by the Kuighis ot Labor for over-production.—stobt. J. Burdeite, “It looks like wain, old fellow. I guess we'd betituw have a hansom.” “What do you wanta hansom for? It's only halfa dozen’ blocks, and you've got your um- brelia.” “Yaas,deah boy. But it’s my walking um- bwellaw. Icawn't use it faw a wain umbwel- law. [could nevaw wap it up again, don’t you know.” —Zown Topics. ‘The New York Sun says: “Four aces and a six beat four aces an five.” The editor of the Sun must play with a double-barreled pack of cards. There are only four aces employed in the game of poker which we have—read about. It There are’elght aces in the game, it must be progressive poker.-—Norristown Herald. ‘The Salvation Army of Washington has con- verted adude. He can al pronounce the letter R, and next week will venture forth for the first time without a cane.—Phil Call, “Mr. Coldcash, I have come to ask for the hand of your a ‘My daughter, sir?” ‘Yes; 1 can’t live without her, “Well, sir, finish your sentence?” “Finish my sentence?” “Yes, you were about to say you could not live without her income. Let us be trank, my dear sir.” —Chicago Rambler, The Mighty Weapon.—One day a boycott strolled into the tool house and sat down for # chat. The hammer and a saw, a peggi awl and a trowel, and other honest’ tools vaniage of the entrance ot a boy looking tor something he had no business to take, to move a little furtner away. “Why do you avoid me?” asked the boycott, “Am I not a friend of labor? Am I not iis mightiest weapon? Am I not your common defender?” “Excuse us,” re- plied au old sledge, who was seven up in the civit-service lists, “but you don’t seem to be one ot us, There isa smell of Russian prison about you, a stifling taint of Germaa oppres- sion, a.steich of English repression, and a foul odor ot Hungarian pauperism, ‘a general decayed flavor of ignorance and Urutality, and @ senseless ferocity that we don't like. We know it isn’t your It; it was born of tyranny and beiplessi but it isn’t American, and it isn’t pleasant. You havea foreign air about you that makes the room close and offensive, Go out and wade around and bunt for the Ore- gon for about six months, and you'll come back. as clean as a Chinaman. ‘Go soak yourselt, boy- cot yourself, aud see how glad we'll be to wel- come you into the shop.” This fable teaches us to remember that no civilized Christian man ever yet learned to throw the boomerang with danger to his enemy or safety to himseli.—Zur- +00 —_____ Lisst Pokes Fun at Pianes. Paris Interview with Liset. “‘A sculptor once modeled a statue of me rep- resenting me seated at @ grand piano, I saw i +f MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. LECOCg'S KEW OPERA-—SALVINI TO HETrER PERMANENTLY FROM THE STAGR—1oUTS JAMES’ STARRING TOUR—MINNIE HANK GETS ‘MAD—AN UNFORTUNATE EARL OF BURLEION, — Manager Palmer, of the Madison Square theater, New York, bas been disapp. inted by ‘the minstrel troupe which was to have played a summer mt atthe house, but has secured Ki Mansfield in his new play, “Privee Kari,” to fill in, Mansfield’s ongage- ment bextos Monday night, and be will be sup- ported by ten members of the Boston Museum company. — Lecoeg’s new opera, “Pilatus,” which was recently produced at the Opera Comique in Paris, is said to be entirely lacking in those Sparkling qualities which so distinguish earlier s of the composer. an opera-bouffe, and Lecoeg seems to have got entirely out of his element tn writing tt. —Minnte Maddern, afer a successful tour through the country with her pretty play, “In Spite of All,” returns to New York next week, appearing at the New Windsor theater. —Mr. James E. Murdock, the ex-actor, is @ hearty gentleman of seventy-six, with unim- Paired faculties, living ina splendid home in vineinnati, where he receives many visitors and likes to talk over the past and present of the American stage. —“Buly” Emerson, the old-time minstrel favorite, has returned to San Francisco from the antipodes, loaded down with Australian gold. He claims to have made $60,000 in betting on le horse race, ‘A Prisoner for Life” and “Storm Beaten” ‘Will next season flud their proper level in dime museums, although the managers of the latte ought easily to be able to provide much more entertaining bills for their patrons, —At the benefit to John A. Mackay, the comedian, in New York last week, $2,700 wag realized, and the money has been put into bank, for the ‘benefit of the six-vearold son of tho comedian, Jackey, with Mrs, Mackay as its trustee. Interest ‘and principal will remain intact until the boy has attained bis majority. — Signor Saivini's manager announces that at the close of the Italian tragedian’s present sea son in America he will return to Italy an re- lire permanently from the stage, spending th Ume on his estate near Florence and olives and makin; This said y alexander Saivini will remain in this coun’ starring in “Othello,” “Romeo and Juliet, “The Gladiator, his father's roles, — Louis James has decided to begin his star- ring tour next season in Gerald Griffia's old tragedy, “Gissipas,” a favorit» with Macready. “Gissipus” bas not been given in this couniry since 1858, when James Ander son, the Engitsh actor, presented it, —Itis announced that Maggie Mitche put on another new play next season, an adap- tation from a popular novel by Fred Williams, — The new star discovered by Lewis Morrison, Celia Alsberg,aSan Francisco girl, began her first tour at Stockton this week, Her company: includes Lewis Mortison, W. E. Sheridan, Louise Davenport, Rosabel Ray and Ediih Cary, ‘Tue repertoire includes “Measure tor Measure” and “Cymbeline. — Bright little Madeleine Lucette, (Mrs. J. H. Ryley,) who is well remembered here, is an= nounced to be at work on a brand new pla; — During the Mapieson company’s recent un- fortunate season tn San Francisco, Marie Engle Jost her cue in “Mignon” one night while talke ing to some society friends during the ‘ainting scene, and failed to come on in time; whereupon will Minnie Hauk recovered, rushed off and > cared out the whole party, There are some society people in San Francisco wh hesitate to declare that “Minnie Huuk is a periect litte devil,” and not so very little, either. —Julian Keed, brother of Roland, may starin “Cheek” next seasou in the museums, — Elliott Barnes has written a comedy for Pat Rooney, in which the latter will star, — The sale of seats tor “Erminte,” which fok lows “The Gypsy Baron” at the New York Casino, has already opened. it is announced that the new opera will be pat on in an unpre cedented!y gorgeous style, —Harold Maxey, a well-connected young Texan, is to star next season in ire the idndard drama. About a year aiid a hall Mr, Maxey lett the stage to practice law. —Boucteault talks of introducing Mr, Neil Burgess’ patent revolving stage Into the race seen e Silt, —Npeaking ot Mme. Modjeska’s fine imper sonation of Mary Stwart on the closing night of ment, the cerrespond: ing her recent Chicago engi ent of the New York Mirror say: Was the more surprising as a 7 of the company Was iu a state of intox! bordering on total collapse. The Zur leigh, attempting to kneel aud falling hands and knees, ing specta “Her wi mn his Was too great a mirth-provoke for the people, aud inughter and hisses brought the curtain’down on the first act,” inlillpiadainaacsi, MR. GOULDS ESTASLISHMENT. A Correspondent Pretends to Give tq Millionaire's Living Expenses. From the New Orleans Picayune. Mr. Gould's mansion, on the northeast corner of 5th avenueand 47th street, 1s a plain-looke ing, double brown-tone house, the interior of which is literally palatial, There are half a million dollars’ worth of paintings the walls, and the furnishing and decorations are of th costliest description. The suite on the seco floor, occupied by the heads of the famil consists of bedroom, boudoir, dressing room, and bathroom, decorated chiefly in pale blue and silver, Across the hall Miss Nellie, th only daughter, has a similar suite in piuk and white. On the third floor there is astudy and large nursery for the three small boys, Ed ward, Frank and Harold, whose tutors are paid $2,000, $4,000 and $1,800 a year respectively. Geo, Gouid’s apartments are on the sate fluor, while the servant's occupy the floor above. The butler receives, $1,000; butier’s assistant, $4005 Mr. Gould’s valet,8600;head cook and assistant $1,500, and housekeeper, $1,000 a year. T jaundresses, two chum bermaids, two waiting maids, two lady's kitehen giris wre pald from B15 to 820 1 mouth, The fo in the servants’ hall is eu Urely different from that of the family table, Mrs. Gouid spends two boursa day with her younger boys, and they read only what bas been inspected by her. Since she joti Forty-second = Street Presbyterian several years ago, she has been libe ious benefactions. Mins Neilie me. Heed's lamous school, is seli in music ata cost of B20 p has an allowance of 85,000 a y robe. The Gould stable, on 44th su 4 is & handsome building of brick, with brown-stone ‘trimmings wand plate-giass wind: are kept in it during the win a landau and two coupes. consists’ of a coachinau, two to range from @45 8 month down, The expeuse eeping up the stable 3,000 Me. Gould's country seat at Irvin was considered by its original own ge Dawe son Merritt, the most elegant, tive, and Whoronghly equipped summer residence iu the country. Mr. Gould paid $200,000 for tie property in 1880, aud it” is 51,000,000, at & low estimate. The house is Gothic in style, and is 3,000 tect from Lie Hud- son river, cominanding'& maguili has twenty rooms above the base: second floor is a fine art gallery © entire depth of the house. Mangold, the s at Irvington, has been in Mr. Gould's e over twenly years, and receives a salary of $2,000. The iawn ‘about the house is nincty- live weres in extent, and the macadaiized road Jeading to the entrapee is a quarter Jong. “Phere are in the estste $19 eres, BOO or Which are Woodland, Te live stock consists of twenty horses, as inany cows, a drove ol South down sheep, "and a “lot oi blooded fowls, Eighteen wn are on the place cousiauty, and iu summer the number is nearly ah ‘The and conservatory cover a space £60 iget long and 450 teet wide, and with thelr contents are Valued at $250,006. Ata lair este inate it cosis Mr. Gould 8380 a day Ww keep up ‘his Irvington estate. The taxes on it amount 10 $250 4 month. > tren r. Gould served from 6 to 11; juncheon at 2; tea and ices at 4, and dinuer at 8. ‘Gould's allowance beture ho wtualned the cy with bis father was sir brothers have $5 @ i é Z $2 alt H E ey ati i E ‘ i