Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1886, Page 2

et THE EVENING * y 4 P STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDA¥, DECEMBER 4, 1886-DOUBLE SHEET. alte WITH SAW AND HAYMER. Boys at the High School at the Carpen- ter’s Bench. A LESSON IN PLANES—THR CURRICULUM OF AN EM- BRYO INDUSTRIAL, COLLEGE—MARING JOINTS AND MONTISES—PRACTICE WITH TOOLS—THE INTEREST TAKEN BY THE PUPILS. Inthe High school the boys are taught to use their eyes and hands as well as thelr minds. ‘The first attempt of a boy to use a hammer or a plane fs an interesting spectacle as showing how hope- lessly an inanimate article can involve even such smart boys as those that attend the High school. When a boy first takes hold of a hammer tt ts sin- gular what tricks that apparently harmless tool | will play upon him. Instead of striking the spot | which the boy ts looking at and alms for the perverse thing takes it into its metal bead to go In adit. ferent direction, with the result asa ruleofwhack- -ing smartly some one of the fingers of the unfor- tunate novice. ‘The haiumer 1s but seldom able to take advantage of a person of experience, and in mes a very accurate and well- High schoot boss are enjov ing CITY AND_ DISTRICT THE WEST END CLUE. A Free and Easy, Without Beer, Pro- fanity, or jigs A PECULIAR INSTITUTION IN THE WEST EXD—HOW YOUNG MEN AND BOYS AEE KEPT OFF THE STREET— ‘THE CLUR ROOMS OFENED FOR THE WINTER—HOW CLUB WAS ORGANIZED. ‘Rules.—Cleanlivess, no gambling, no swear- Ing.” This is the extensive code prescribed for roment of the West End club. These fare printed om placards, posted conspicu- ously about The Walls of the elub rooms. The ‘West End club has opened its doors again for the winter season. It isan evening club, and as th evenings are short !u the summer and not favor- | lew the development of club life, the doors are closed during that mm. This elub was started a year ago, and withln a week after It life began, the m A grown So that new and more comme ers had to be obtained. ‘The quarters se or halls on thy nd Hloors of the buildin third | the f acquiring this expertence, an ad tia taierettiom of Yeuursivania’s eae bee “hour in each week. In the iittle | and K Streets. The cit Is not very exe workshop v has been fitted up in the base- fone who Will buy ten ccnts & month and observe nent of the school building. ‘They come out from Sarir recitation rooms and go down To THE WoRKSUOF, the same govern the recitation how Onee down fa rkshop,they take off thetr coatsand puton aprons sich as the real carpenter wears, and onder the direction of By to work. Mr. at Worcester, th ais hast the rules a be recety Draneh o: "The juvenile Dut ie You i hree cents ve years olth fal arrangen under cain avimission as a visit jug siciuts in both club rooms, He had better not Venture up to ‘TUR JUVENILE DEFARTSIENT or Wales he is pretty surehe can ssom ts a understands ottghiy “ple has. the boys. He b { rise of the hammer, he advances “ 4 as exhibited in Washington residences Wil no noise. ‘There le will tind about | by easy staes untll the boys are inttlated Into the | Goubs attract the atien don oF this obser¥aul (Or. ity youngsters, of ages ranging Mom twelve to WS~tovieS OF “the handsaw, the Trace and Dit | Signer white with Chose eNO Ia sixteen, romping about or gathered around the | Pines, chisels, ete.” When a Sta man visited the | with tie clty for a few years past th shop he found the boys learning how to plane the boards which they had at previous Tessons sawed in the hands of an experienced , Like the hammer and the saw, ‘of being a well-behaved t tables provided mber inoes, toss, and hulf a dozen other y: D games are In progress. are mostly the children of poor | © no pleasant fireside (0 atiract has the Ps thelr children the evening. It they did not | BAS thr fis movements and Incapable Delong to the club they would te tn the street. | net Mine E eatnisston to thse many of them would be likely 10 | into evil Ways Some of the boys playing | there any evening may be recognized at a glance | ALESSON IN PLANES ag gamins or siree: boys. There is the sharp, | very soon demonstrates to the most skeptical that Knowing look, and-unu precosity that give the plane fs not only a piece of mechanism, but ed With propensities which seem devoted 0 the annoyance and discomivure of the boys. You will see a plane thatwill gitde evidence of wits sharpened Uy life on the city | Streets. Sone are bewsbors and Dootulacks. On | on bench TRE Stak reporter found one urehin, | about twelve 1, blowing cionls of Smoke from a cigarette, and auot pe | ing out from ts sinoke stack, ay ft it were, a lon wen os | curting shaviug that Is tue Uellght of the stnal “We let them smoke If they Want to," sad a) cir), wiv uses Such shavings for curls, There 1s Reval oflicer Who Is One Of the managers of the | something fascinating about ee D * e st it, but we graceful wowlen tendrils spring Uy elud. “We make no rule against it, but we try to | £ Fee ene Panbe ea heinelcen et discourage it in some way. When T see a boy | Be Wreaths ot SMOKE tat ase smoking T make | him, ask him if he has read | The ea Rata eee eeceronr venonene: eee eee thie ate nae tee | Tato of the plane, especially if he be @ boy, and a. something aieeouroging The chiet atta of he | Hick Senor bos, admires these gracetay heralds 13 to ne boys and young men e | Hig 0 y qreets “We want to make the clubattractive to | 9 uls progress, ‘and is, deeply Interested in his work, he ts brought up with a wrenth that raas up and down his back bone ike a Jersey chill, and he fs nearly thrown head frst over the bench. ‘The plane tust chuckle over the em, and do some rile. 01 mor MaKe aby 1k. i on the ° | ese (hings are placed on the chiunneys of bran al He club | Giwommicure of the boy, and there fs no doubt that | Neos gua" fib ches aes Noe ieee Oe bran ‘an proces is | 1 Went plunging down into the ie Phe ean | the house, coal gas and a badly burning tre. | ali y Rave | The box pulls hitnself together a3 well us Be ea | the chiuicy flues Were constructed right in th able, A boy | 22d looks at the plane \eith suspicion, he bears | HTSt place “there wouid be no didiculty 2bout has to teacher comes along and tells him that he Dears | the matter, but ft seems that there Is hardly 2a | turns, and he | fo heavily on the plane, but gives not a word Of | arcnitect or bullder in the city that knows how tO | ¥ When the bovscome ne tool self.“ The boy, however, haS | construct a chimney. ‘They all wake the flues | hey are expected to there, as | opinion on this subject, but | straight up, the same size, Instead oi having tac | he resumes his work with the deter- (t Taemu To TEN Ih ahd out at WH would'not sages mplish Une great object of the club—to keep | the boys off the <tree floor IS th Here we w y future: $n The plane wong smoothly for Some time, until presently It gives the Doard. & ous turn which loosens it, frou the fastenings then, When the boy Dends itself for a tht . for the older middle hg, lasing | hort the boankiles out andthe, Sour ful op eee ae wat the pool | tor attempts to plane t ech with his havin When he ts picked out of the Ie a and is set upon his feet again, he las evidently with a swax: Tost allcoufltenee in the plahe, and his future | THE teal estate men are Kept busy aud the ‘- Operations are marked bY an unusual degree of | ecard of transactions 1s very hive, shovels : eautie Henceforth he knows that it | & £000 deal Of anoney IS belie thvesicd, r i plesaures of the Miltaself and. the plane, and | Sales, as daily recorded, are’ printed oom. "To pias pool cach player has to pa bev ill continue tanwuga’ ite | THE’ Stax, ahd duritag the past Ww Con eae tne rchntoe fC bay Cea ibd By IY thrown over, benches and | ber of lange Transactions have, beets % dade this “a requirement In Onler 10 pre CE ee acy tles of shartugrmtenever | activity. im the land in cotuabl2 ansthing like Sampling or “ticking | fe takes the plane in hand. He had the same ex- | Hoted earller “in the seas NS ore Cant ne sett ee ame He Siyel | pertence with the hammer © saw.and his | Uaues and the suburban oper. the players want tosettie up among themerves Pump of eautiousness has been largely de- | thouirh winter weather has neve »ped. ‘The avera: but the managers say they have never known ease Where stich @ thing occurred. In one corner | ‘of the room Is a movable siaze or platform, which | ‘was used last Winter In giving stereopticon’ shows and other entertainments for the members of the club. To some of these entertainments an admit tance fee Was charged to outsiders, and some money Was netted in this way to help defray the expenses of the club. ‘These expenses are de- ‘frayed in part from the monthly DUES PAID BY MEMBERS andthe receipts of the pool and billiard tables, still there was a deficit last year of about three ‘hundred dollars, Which was made up by the ladies and gentlemen Interested in the club, While It 1s in no sense a church affair, the club was conceived | Snanimate things, although he may not have form Ulated his experience tn Words. ‘THE PROGRESS OF THE CLASS. ‘The doctrine, however, 18 very fully illustrated fn the workshop, and as the visitor glances among the aproned boys hard at work he sees the ma- Ugnity of the tools and the suffering humanity at thelr merey. Mr. Wesson, the teacher, about from bench to bench and lends a helping hand or makes a suggestion, and the boys seem to | take great interest fu thetr work. ‘The school ts now tn {ts second, operating in a small Way and is yet something of an experiment, SUNIL 1s gaining ground rapidity not only in the favor of the scholars, but of the and organized by Rev. Mr. Barker, rector of St. | Paul's church. “That reverend gentleman can often be found at the club, and sometimes with | He are now tn the Workshop were made by the boys in the last year’s class, and are substantial and Well adupted for the purpose. A set of tools has been purchased for each bos, thus making twelve | sets of tools. the property ofthe school. “It ts the intention to extend the present seope of the i struction soas te ineinde lathe work. When a Coat off and acue in his hand playing pool. first opened club rooms ina. s hon and the rooms were soon overth Police warned him that among those who « sembled at bis rooms were some of the worst tharactersof the region. That did not deter Mr. Barker in hisefforts; he took steps to procure nid get more of larger cinb roots, so that he hay chance to learn something abo them. “Now the police of the neighborhood metalworking. While, of course, in the Uthat they cannot find any” young men one hour a week which IS given to this Instr OF eS on the strvet, | around bar | tton a thorough training cannot be given, vet the Fooms or peolrooms ater "nighttall. ‘They stis aroused Lp have joined Mr. Barker's club. tis uot Intended | je would pass De noticing. One of That the members of the club shall feel that they ra sh ee IN The School are in any Way treated as objects of charity her that he soclub dues are changed. During the winter : | | | rules and regulations. that | ment of ‘cher, Mr. Wesson, tHeY £0 | duate of the school | Wows Ht e, and beginning WIth | jeast. The | are nipilator, Watching the progress of | {ight ‘a pver the sirtace of (he board tBTOW- | than has prevailed in this city. ‘There wit be x boy, however, 18 a firma bez ) f4vorable for disposing of subiirban Hever tn the doctrine of the total’ depravity of | continue high, and there isa ma and although it is only | thought that this may school trustees and parents. ‘The benches whieh | promising one and it ts U0 Inaclulue shop can be fitted Mp the boss will asp | Seat deal of annoyance as weil as more serious | evils by the use witch fs me - | member of The House o ters which perhaps | rut one for the an- | Much ¢ build | tow ia that in thts | 1 fF moves | of the high prices asked by the owners. It ts said REAL ESTATE AFFAIRS. Some of the Tendencies of Architecture in this City. ‘THE VISIT OP THE JAPANESE COMMISSIONER OP FINT ARTS TO THIS CITY—WINTER ACKIVITY IN REAL ES ‘TATR—THE EFFECT ON CONGKESS OF NEWSPAPER STORIES—NEW HOUSES ERECTED, Mr. K. Okakura, the commissioner of fine arts of the Japanese government, {s in the city, and 1s giving his attention to the subject of house archt- teetureand interfordecoration. He finds that this climate ts very similar to that of the most popu- lous portion of his own country, and for this rea- son our style of house butkting might easily be adapted to the requirements of Japanese life, He finds a great variety of styles in this city, and tn the multitude of designs he sees much that he ad- mires both from the standpoint of effect and that of uttiity, He has been surprised, he says, in the course of his inquiries learn the cost of butld- Ings here, and he has come to the conclusion that Very effective results are obtained with a small ex. penditure of money. Having seen in an illustrated article on Washington architecture which re- cently appeared ia Mangers a number (of the houses designed by Mr. W. Bruce Gray, he natu- ‘upon that genticman to ebtiin his ald in ig ADOUL the method and cost of building in this city. Iu this way he was enabled to see the Interiors of many of the fuest houses nthe cIty, He ts especially interested in the interior arrange- puses, for while he ts of the opinion there aré many feztures of American architecture which can be introduced into Japan with good advantage, yet naturally he ‘is in- fluenced by a desire to retain the Japanese devora- is therefore studying the interior as well | exterior of house architecture and from tite | Feat Yarloty of styles and fashions now prevailing | ere he will be abie to obtain a good many ideas contrasts in the style of architecture y not so noticeable, ‘The mausard highest expression of architectural exceli lng tie years following the board of public works. and the consi ; SA Tule. of a sub- stantlal character. To this succeeded the grace- | ful shapes and odd forms of the Queen Aune style | combined with a style of construction witch was: ni pleasing. ‘The influence of the Queen } Anne architecture still exists, although its tise 1s | Hot quite so geueral. Romanesque forms are be- Ing, Used quite freely, but there ts nothing suc: jently distinctive to mark tt as anera, The style of te future has not been fully developed, but It is thought that there are tendencles which point to a heavier and more ornate style of architecture more Money, it Is thought struction, aud that fact massive style of construction, TUB HIDEOUS CHIMNEY POTS. Whatever may be sald about the types of archi- i tecture prevailing in this city, tuere can be no | doubi, but that the chimney pots and jacks adorn- ing the chimneys are perhaps the most striking feature. These hideous inventions are so uni- versal that it seems that no deseription of a new house can be complete uniess there 1s same men- | on made of the graceful shapes and forms of Lhe | ehitaney pots. The ridiculotis part of 1¢ all ts, Uhat spent in house con- | I tend towards the | come nearly 10 a radually exp ttle, int at the tire place aud Unen | something like Uke neck of a THE MARKEP STILL ACTIVE. The presence of winter weather does not s cheek the buying and selling af wal est: 45 golug on with great activity, although ably abated 2s compared with 4 few mon ied. teattency among owners’ to put fancy prices on their prop- erty Which, us a rule, has the effect of delaying sales. The large amount of land on the market, Doth im the city Inutts and outside, has the ten | dency to keep prices down for the reason that, f | investors are not saiistied with the price In. due location they can go elsewhere, and so the high riced property reinains unsold. ‘There tsa good eal of talk about F street’ property becatise that at the prices asked most Of ( the street wonld not pay more thai percent at the p © property. on | three or four scale of rentals. It 18 delay the progress In ie improvement of that Street which iy rapidly be- | coming one of the ieading business sirests fi the | city. ‘The future of @ street £5 rep asa very shi th {WE EXPERIENCE OF 4 SENATOR, ‘The representatives In Congress who are obliged to make their homes in this cicy are subjected toa Years it Will be devoted i poses. Many are buying idea. | le in the newspapers of the fact of any purchase of property Lert. Ita | the Senate finds that it | to buy 1 esldence bere, the | character of the trinsaction Ls apt i be very Will be more economtes ated, and Lis: Ht are given. ts rolling | pat their repre wealth. fee ts served at a certain sum. A big cup of coffee, | Way ability Is Drought Out Which, probably would | cent one of Senator V the conclu | and two thick er: Was the boys describe pever be developed. Mr. Paul, the principal of the | sion that it woul to buy a as having top re sold tor (Wo Celis. High seliool, 1s deeply dnterested ia Mis class, and | house than to rent one, and accordingly bought a ‘The coffee is ‘an be bought and the regards it asa very important adjunet to the In- | modest littie hows: on P street, hh street. | Dusters is «losis one, de a man ust be eit | getimetial training Whieh the school finparts. fe | He pald £8,500 for Us % was i pivyed to prepare and serve Just wine | Helieves In the training of the eye and the hand as | ash, and tor the remainder he gave a deed” of | ler it fs caletlated that the losses on the cofee | yn aid in the development and tratuing of the | trust upon the property. His surprise can be | amounted to about ‘five “dollars a month. | ental powers readily understood when he read In some of | Fucre were 37 metnbers of the club | THE CURRICULUM. the “western papers afew, days ago a spe. | ear and s expec hat | 5 ? rauuE he cial dispateh” from this’ clty, whites stared | bership will be largely Increased this | | Tm this connection it would he of interest togtve| thae ‘seuator Vest had bought an olegant | hk member ts Iosued regular card of | the following short report upon the character and | nouse, which was situated on P street, near | Shiy Will a number, May of Uhose who | scope of the school, Which was recently sent to a | Blaine’s palatial manston, ‘The location It was | Joined first and hud the first numbers list year, | member of the school board: FEL oa the Ena Ati SiEe a lusisted this year, When they got their new cards, upon having their old numbers. These | numbers indicated thetr seniority as members, ‘They had pride tn belng atuong the founders of | the instituion, ‘There {5 @ sual library filed | With coud books and other reading matter pro- Mided. The incinbers take a great interest in the Welfareof the club. “I have never,” svid the naval | oMftcer, “heard a profane word In the club room. | ‘The few rules we have are weil preserved. Ibis. a | free and eas, open frota 7 to 10, with warmth, Light, ub abundance of company, pastimes of vari ‘ous Kinds, but no beer, no gambling, no swearing. “The Instruction begins with a hammer exercise, to teach both the object of employing the momen: tumof the hammer and the proper method of using It In special cases, followed. by the stu the hand saw, including explanation of the differ. euces In sizts and shapes of mawWs and of Saw teeth, With the reasons for these differences, ex- ercisés in the use of the saw and in cutting lum- ber at definite angles—always at right angles une less otherwise specified. Next cues the discus- ston of braces tnd bits, With drill in boring per- pendicularly to-the surluce and without tearing soe Une under Side of the wood. ‘Then follow planes My Toast. and extended practice in their use, apd the enisels Wud Tae Mesies Sion. and gouges. Having become proficient in the knowledge of the construction of these tools and Not to the queen of fashion; Incidentally of such stall ones us gouges, awls, Not to the Jewel'd bre: | ete., and proficient In their use, they dre’ given Not to the alave of faabfou: detihite problems for solution. "The diagram of Not to the royal crest. anopen tortiseand-tenon joint ts put upon the board and caeh student Is required to cut first the tenon and then the mortse, and to make first a Not to the brow that's fairest; ‘Not to the eye most bright; | driving and Uhen a sliding it. Other joints follow oat This in order, the ordinary mortlse-and-tenon, the ‘esa Saki bates tor aight: nd mortise-and-tenon, the dovetal all the jolnts that the Stu ‘ | in wood with has been to the rich, alms-giving; Not to the lips inost red; Not to the great ~ raphy, ‘The most beneficial to te pte | student ia giving him correct ideas of form and a [in educating hw to that skill of eye and hand My toast is far more cheery | Which itis our main object to impart. To every man with « | +00. Who hears the drana, weary BADLY SWINDLED MEXICANS. Bebind a hat of size:— itt my goblet foam ‘Do that eweet irl, so #3 Who takes off her hat, So polite and pat To let us see the staxe, ‘To her I lift the beaker, Brimm A Bogus Ageut of Patti Reaps a Rich Marvest and Decamps. ‘The wealthy and fasitonable people of the city been the vietims of a daring For several days there has been great | excitement there over the sale of tickets at the | National theater for the Pattl season of five nights [in January. The newspapers published adver Usements of the performances, and the crowds around the National theater fairly blocked tie | streets, and It seemed as if thecity had gone mad over the expected advent of the grvat songstress, ‘THE FRUSSIAN MINISTER CRGING AN INCREASHD MTLI- | The prices Of boxes Were $50 a night and seats $6. TARY FORCE. ‘These were three Umes the ordinary prices, but Inthe German reiehstag yesterday, during the | bad they been six times more all the seats would debate on the tirst reading of the military bill, tue | undoubtedly have been sold in a brief space. Progressists signified their willingness to vote in| ‘The ostensibie agent of Mr. Abbey, who was Support of the requirements of the bULif the gov | conducting the sale of Uckéts, was a tian giving eruinent would reduce the period of service trom | his name as Mayer and claliaing to be a brother of three to two years. This the government refused ’ M. I. Mayer. Mr. Abbey’s tried and business as toconsent to. | soclate, “Hehad with Lim letters, one of which Giueral Bronsart von, Scheltendort, Prusstan | purported to be from Abbey, which he showed to Ininister of war, advocated for the government the | Minister Manning and other people. ‘The theater Passage of the Dill. He sald: ce her pacific | ad already been engaged for the Pattl season by Polley Germany may, within a meastrable time, | Edward W. Orrin, of the firm of Orrin Brothers, favoived in war. "For the moment such a dan: | proprietors ot the American ‘circus here, who ker does not threaten, but the present epoch is | knows Mr. Mayer, of New. York, bul as Mr. Orrin Most difficult. Jt is wlost natural that we should | was overwhelmed with bustuess the ‘Her bare head gives to Wit. A. Covnren. Des; compare our War strensth with Unt ance. | opening of his own entertainment, Which 13 a With less Inhabitants than Germany, France hasa | standard attraction here, he had no time to give Righer peace effective “iorce. " Shall we | to other matters else the plot might possibly have allow ourselves to be outstripped by been detected. ‘The advance agent had letters to @ neighboring state in | some of the best Kuowa people here and no one that degree reticence tri Suspected the fraud. ‘The sale of tickets began ‘Thursday morning, people waiting at the theater door froin an early’hour to get first choice, Among them were scores of the “gilded youth” of city. Seats were bought th whole blocks, some J | persons paying $1,000 for boxes en masse, S|” In the course 07 the day the box-office had taken ie DILL 1S The meichstay must if eharacter. e berove Christmas Lf the purpeme auent Is to be attained. [Sensatio Who regarts the additional burde The people as unbearat aint btiaseit | in $18,600, and t With the stale ot affuirs on the other slide of the | amoudted to $6,300. The governor of the federal Vorges. ‘The government is lu earnest. It does | district was soleWhat suspicious, and sent.to Rot ask for more Unan It Intends to accept.” | Mayer to inquire if any one was responsible for Herr Richter sald lie could not aduat that the | the lange amount of money Deng taken from. the uation Was so thie 4. Thatas to the | public, but Mayer manayed to avoid any act that of Prince Bismarck “ihe willanee with | Liurther excite suspicion. Thursday night ‘The question betore vent to the Hotel Iturbide, b here he lodged, secompanted bY & policeman wominally appoint to guard him, but tareality to see bat he. depos | tted all the money in the hotel safe. In some In- genious way 1U 1S said that Mayer transferred over $20,000 in Dills on the National bank of London to the’ pockets of his overcoat, and deluded the po- | iteeman into believing that all had been deposited in the safe. At all events, Friday morning Mayer did not appear at the box-OMfice of the theater, Was he at the hutel. ‘The safe was opened there was only found there 34,300 in sflver dollars, ‘Now the authorities are Speculators are wee! aeute dan perpetual Hons to the bu Au exhaustive exs Raancial proposals the bil, “Uunder «: er Of W t Years’ servic Protested agains! Pian of making Use peace effective force equal to one per cent of the popula- Rev. Alexander Mackay Sanith, lately assistant Fecion of St- Theis! «aur iy “ot New York, has a el assietant bishop of U = B of the diocese of Joan Edward Green, © well-known member of fhe luinsire’ provession, died tn New York last - He Was formerly with Dupres and | | \ | the | Size of the house allows for a conventent ‘rrange- ‘vious day's private sales | Of Representative Bayne, has been built. by Mr. | | Phenix on the north side of Hs part of the the senator Was credited with having pa for this stylish house tn. expec 1d. $16,000 | fashionabie locality.” He | now to hear from his constituents who | red With his cireumstances inquiring sealthy so suddenly. ‘This expe- | Vest 1s no uncommon one. It stated at the time that ex-Senator Windom’s failure to secure a re-election to the Senite trom Minnesota a (ew years ago was largely due to the fact that political opponents “had pro- cured copies of a picture of his house tt circle, Which were scattered broadcast Uhroughout the state. Tt was represented that the | house Was a palatial residence, costing some hun- dred thousand of dollars, When ex-Secretary Robeson ran for Congress the last time In his dis | trict in New Jersey, hil constituents were shown | pletures of the south front of the new State, W and Navy Department building, whic only’ part of an if was the | the Duliding "then completed, | they were told that’ that maguiticent | tie Of granite was Mr. ‘obeson's uci | use in Washington. He had just complet ie house which he now occupies on Leth sutvet, Scott Clrele, whitch Is a very nice house, but ily a granite building of the proportions of the government structure which was present to the astonished gaze of the rural voters In ‘Air, Robeson, however, was defeated, he Fe a 10r It Mr. Blilhe rented hls house lest fashion Was from the would be made of takin such a princely style. fs satel th: and lived in fear of the his living at the caj here 13 no doubt but that ‘tier would” be a great decrease in ‘the fashion of Se ators and Representatives ving as bache- lors ta hotels and boarding houses away from the restrataing Influence of thelr {ain fly life, ff there was net a fear that poiltleal caps {tal Would be made out of any purchase of prop | erty here. In spite of this, however, a considerable nuliuber of the members "of Congiess own thelr ‘own houses in this clty. ‘THE HOUSE OF MRS, PHENIX. A fine residenc@ is being erected by Mrs. R. C. treet, east of 18th. street and adjoluing the Milton flats.” ‘The design, as prepared by Mr, W. Bruce Gray, the architect, rovides fora very effective front of Drick With rown stone trimmings. ‘The stone work 1s to be Tock faced and will give the massive, solid effect which is now the popular fashion in houses. ‘rhe octagon bay window terminates at the second story with a balcony, and at the roof Ine 1s & polited guble. A trieze of ornamental terra cotta Work just below the cornice has a good effect. ‘The Width of the house, thirty-one feet, allows for a commodious interior arrangement, the feature of which 1s wide, roomy entrance Hall containing a fireplace, and the stafrease hall, separated from It by & handsome carved screen’ of onk. ‘The two halls are finished with this wood, and the parlor, library and dining-room have hard wood fluish 0 fine design and workmanship, ‘The arrangement of the rooms in the two upper stories 13 conve- mient, OTHER NEW HOUSES. ‘Mr. John Sherman 1s building his new houses on ‘Massachusetts avenue, between 17th and 18th sts., one on the north side and the other on the south side, almost directly opposite. ‘The house on the north side, adjoining the residence of Judge Al 4s thirty-elght feet front and is a very large an fine house. ‘The first story 1s stone and the test of ‘the structure 1s brick with stone trimmings. ‘The nent of the rooms, and It ts admirably adapted to the requirements Of social life in this city. ‘The uouse on the opposite side near the new residence Sherman for lis own use, In its construction substantial upperance. “Tess gutege of autres ance. "Its. tron 1% feet affords @ very commodious Interior, with & convenient arrangement of rooms, ‘The residence tor ¥. W. Vaughn, esq. situated at the corner of 12th and P stréets northwest, which has just been completed, {3 built on Jov 18x50 feet, the architects, MeSsrs. Cooper and Fenwick, only 43 feet, leaving 7 feet for yard. ‘Tie house fronts on 1: ‘and Is three Stories high, the third story in a very swep mansard. “The bay windows on front of hoitse ter Talnates ‘with nt, 1 in irregular in design, add- ing somewhat to the aj the Be Ma yeetter a cegce Pe pla Rey ad ‘The efforts made by some newspapers to create a ‘Scandal in connection with real estate in this Dis- trict have naturally been the subject of a good deal of talk in real estate circles, The im) ent to the, interests of the District and are in- elined to favor small appropriations. ‘The city is growing So rapidly that the need of increased ap- Propriations to provide requisite Improvements, Accommodations and factiities for Uke expanding community is imperative. Extensive street im- provements are needed, bridges demanded in various directions fzom the eity; and more ampie appropriations are required for the main roads lead- ing into the country ahd which are the avenues for country produce seeking a market in Washington; broken sidewalks need repairing; there is an tm: rative requirement for a new ‘District building in place of the preseat shabby and inconvenient Tookery; the need of a new post office 1s urgent hew school bulidings area necessity, and Increased appropriations for the support of the schools in proportion to the rapid multiplication of pupils; an Increase in the police force ismost urgently needed to provide adequately for the patrolling of the immense area of territary to be policed. ‘These are some of the many requirements, but It ts feared thatthe inind of Congress has been <o tsoned bygPhe mischievous attacks upon the strict officals that very slight consideration will be given to District needs this seston, HELPING THE POOR. ‘The Experience of the Officials of the Associated Charities. NO GREAT INCREASE IN AFPLICATIONS FOR ATD ON ACCOUNT OF THE COLD SNAP—TAE FOLKS WHO ASK FOR HELP—COLORED PEOPLE WHO WANT EM- PLOYMENT, &€. ‘With a biting cold wind whistling up and down the streets and the temperature several degrees below the freezing polut, a Stax reporter set out to ascertain to What Inereased extent the charitable organizations of the city are taxed by the poor and needy by tie advent of winter. Walking into the suug headquarters of the Asso- elated Charities of the District, on @ street, near 7th strect northwest, the reporter asked: “Has Your list of applicants for rellef been sweiled by the cold weather?” “No,” replied one of the of- cers of the organization." “There does not seem to | be any inerease in the applications. In fact, we are astonished at the few new cases which have deen developed by tae extremity of the weathe Aer proportion of our requests come from people Who, In many cases, are reduced tn ng HO knowledge of how arn iwoney or the wherewithal to supply their tual needs they apply to Us by letter very geu. rally, and linmediaiely a “visitor” Is sent to the ddiress {0 flad ont the true status of the case, and Where, In lis or her opinion, want 13 actually eit, a report Is made torte person in-charge of | en better able to aries of Mie LO vorgihing that | $10 a week and after five o'clock yesterday T wandered into a Prominent cafe, and dropped into a chair near a Window to wali fora man with whom I was to Aine, A inan with Rowing witskers atan adjeln~ ing fable nodded cordially and moved up Deside me, pg How's Dixey?” he asked, shaking hands neart- I. “Great.” sald ] mechanically, pushing a toward him as I fried to think ‘of his name, ie Was quite affable. A moment later a dapper little chap who appeared to know my ‘companion ane up and His Whiskers introduced us. saw, to Intense delight that His Whiskers did mot knot ms name nor that of the thiramember of the party, We sat there for ten muinuies talking eastly, nd then there was a slamumlng of doors and cap tain of the 7ch regiment, whose name escapes ne, came stalking in with ‘three hilarious friends. They had Walked uptown, One of the friends selzed the hand of His Whiskers and sald, rapidly: “How are you, ole boy, Lem’ induce th’ capa an’ iny frien’s, "Goo fells His Whiskers shook hands with great serentty, and waiving his hand towant us, sald effusively ! “Very glad to tect vou, gentlemen; those friends of mine you undoubtedly know? ‘Thereupon there Was more hand-shaking and a strugyie to see who should have the honor of Or ring the first round begun. We sat there far any an hour. A dense mystery surrounded the names, Dut the men were so familiar to one LIFE IN NEW YorK. Sketched by Cummings & Hall. ‘THE LAST OF THE GREAT EDITORS AND HIS. STRIKIS PECULIARITIES—THE DEAD DUDE AND BIS EUC- (CESSOR—A NRW ENGLISH CRAZE—THE GREAT AMERI- CAN NUISANCE. ‘Special Correspondence of THE EVENTNG STAR. ‘New York, December 3, 1896. WITH THE DEATH OF ERASTUS BROOKS, the last of the old newspaper stars drops from the firmament. He was a prominent figure in few York journalism when Horace Greeley started the Tribune, and long before the elder Bennett was in his prime. He broke many a lance ‘with James Watson Webb, Major Mordecal Noah and Wilitam Cullen Bryant before the age of the telegraph, Henry J. Raymond was.a mere boy when Erastus was making his hanlest- newspaper fights. Brooks, even in hisold age, was as straight and as swarthy as an Indian, | Hts cheek bones | were as prominent as those of Red Cloud, and his | eyes Were small, black and snapping. He was | prim and antiquated, He wore neither beard nor | moustache, and tothe day of his death invaria- = = odin. | @tother’s eyes, and hed been formany years avout bly shaved himself, He had extraordin- | tia that they. talked lke ‘ol acquatitancen ary self-command and he rarly gave way | When the man with whom I was to dine caine In to anger. Tits editorial articles were asked care es always written in terse Anglo-Saxon, and) “Who are your frionds?” his ideas were never clothed in verb He had | n I told him that I dtd not know the name of asingle manin the party. TC is mot af all itkely that the members of that particular group will me toxether again, “If they meet in the sare That no salutations will be acquanutances made after this au kept Up. It is curious how knowing each, few York without coming toxet all the newspaper Insilucts of the Bennett, Dut they were choked by the excessive cautl ness HAC Marks a natural love of money. Organ of 3 normally developed. He worked day and night, | ui hestOred all that Learned. Noman ME | eae eer loser to Lis earnings, Certain it ts that he never | S04) te tn Was known to give a dollar to the needy and the | Sunes v quisitiveness In Erastus Brooks was. san Jf asamusing to see hum avold sisters | fectiy Well known (0 tne, whom 1 wicet at 1 Jeud his thine and his pen to charitable missions, | (35 SQun tM and year out, and yet F do not but his ket-book Was always closed. But for ne have many mutual nds We ha | side by side at glove Hhts and the like, a thousand little courtesies, are tn so me of Une sa and yet, because there | has been ne absolute and Tarmal ceremony of In- Troduction, We never come togethe rules govern the relat AMOS J. Cf his Inherent penuriousness he might have founded a hewspiper that would have equaled the Herald In weaitle and influence. After the deatit of ats: brothgr, the Zrpress lost its power and its cfreula- ton. “Tt ran on the lumpetits given tv im the days of AUS Suevess, until, Uke a top, It made its last spin, aund Wabbled over on its side. It was at thts tine that JOHN KELLY AND TAMMANY WALL ons Oe ae eee bought out atwo-lifths tnterest. The newspaper | IN THE c1 had hen barely 2,000 circulation. Its columns were miled with dead advertisements. The type was and the presses were old-fashioned and Tt had a news editor who was getting assistant who received The ews cure fromassoclations, Watch sent in “mait- fold copy” at nominal suis. ‘There were two wt ky Houghton, Maga rine & Co. el; Inn Pot ein Rs reporters, wito wrote a little local news for the | MEMOM OF WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING. By privilege of grinding uses for thelr friends. Its] Ocravres Brooks Puormixciam, Boston. Mout y Sold ian Wasits fluanclal editor, Who turned | ton, Mifflin & Co. Washington: A. S. Witheroce & hai the paying advertisements.’ ‘The news | Co. Was mixed the advertlsements snd be- SKETCHES FROM MY LIFE. By the late Admiral Wilderiugly Scatiered. A dos ight might be By, the is Agni Horace Pasha, With’a Portrait. ‘New York strung throagh che tive’ editions, “The titor tt} Apyletoug Co. Waskisigton: olert Beall Would appear tn the trst page aud the head of tt OPINIONS of ir Francie be found on the fourth page. When Sam Bowles TSS ISS Nee York Spent a night bi 1 1, Lu 1869, on Te Washington: Robert Beall, charge of Lib Sunes Bish, fr, chted to find a copy the Aspress tn it sold, “in trying to cup. ‘Thne neve he Was de-) aL, AMONG THE 1 -AGHTHOUSE! OF THE GOLDENROD. By Many fi SINsHIEDD, Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. ng, its nak theSubai vision in which the applicant resides and from there 18 forwanted to the president of the organization to receive MS approval before the suppites can be furnished. Tue colored people wlio apply to 14 In many cases, are most altslous ciire empiog 1aent of soins kind. In Uhat ease we consul the ist we Have of persons desiring help, and when we have been satisfied, upon Lue igation, person Is honest and capable, end them to an address hat kind of donations do you need most?” | asked the reporter. Money! because with tt we ai tefa supplying the nec Bur we itud fs given us: 20" oa recelve i . Very te, i with the im. demand whiten $$ made on us.” | Whom do you ud aust generous, men or eng” “Well, mon are corr generous, and ald us most hy by itt of sca he Durden ot ¢ however, falls upon the shoulders of the n who do Lie VistHug, ote, ki What part ol the eizy do you reeetve the | Inost requests for help?” ty yaired the “Frain thie soit ally from Virginia i Delaware avenue. “there are tinpos- | some in velvet | rth ton posttte: fold sotdte ling, aud soon thi seckers, Who have Teron have pe: the List “How do you deal with st rough of a claim we SWWo awe suspect tie honesty dd. visitor al once to the address given, and it | udicion Is wot 1, OF Uiere 4s” an ap- & of the ‘needy,’ We | 1," sald the officer, eeu reTused One with @ new stor we will have tongatten th our help fs direcied into the wrong channe “How about traiips?” assed Une reporter, serhey seldom bother Us. Onestn awhie a spect- alls and path Ny asks 4 ught’s lodging ‘enough to buy a ktast, but wien we jou Chat they must apply Lo « police station they quickiy vanish and “Many of them watt a few days and hoping bat US Seldom Unt who h then retur men or the genuine tran speck tc jee assist you very much?” ald the officlal, or the og: aleré for really deserving © Ley at once report to Us, and reilet 1s tur 1 | brnted an w Tastes Rvs and other Addresses. By t im@an & Co, y's to the newspap acl Sparkly aan gement new life was breathed Its coltimas became bright | and in tive months its elredlation | 1 GW). MIE. Brooks retained control of | its edioudl columiis, with the understanding that he show vot go contrary to. Mr. Kelly's Wishes nor Inierfers ih tie news departiaens, ‘The noted Nght against her's nomination for RU in 1878 was bextn in lhe news columns, Digan copper uy sy in EXPLODIN Mrs. George M. Rice, of Uxbridge, Mass, called with her husband at the Worceste tte ottice George Moss, Who represented Mi Wilsoy, and a sister of Levi, Her story completely antorial sta, wrote atictes contratiets that of Wilson that he is the sun of | eter tuat tt oo ne oun feet) Philip L. Moen. Was at home in North Oxford as of MF. ‘tilden’s success. abal | ¥ Levi was born, and: thin grow E n Philadeiphta at poe | up as am int ough childhood, He was deprecated Uie attack on | Tae son oF rents Without any doubt, ‘Tien, Dut as the proois oF Suminy’s rapact i 5 her mn 1 Fessenden, WoUEHE LO Hhe he changed font and began toh id he was | Lich bi editortally, —iong other expressions | ith hina all thro: 1 was also Was one £0 the purport that be “knew more | living ai on “never Was any deat OF Sir. Tilden's wreenbiie ope ys than he dared fession by her father, as stated by Levi. Sh Lo expose. When Hiden won at St. Louts this | keew or beee 4 rich, but he phrase returned to torment Us. He iatd tae | Rever expl She had received tits famne of the tight on the imanagiag edlior, and but only ina broth he never: a afterward sod out his enti ‘thing for keeping any secret. Bue interest th the | rv th ae 2 z Fakes ist be OUT OF Labs main paper. ‘This closed his newspaper career. must : ae MISERLY PRCCLIARITIES. mean had fi tervicw with Ase Only those Who were editorlatly assoctated with no « nphetically declared that ‘Smother, :tnd Usit Jonas WHison reabfaiher, She also said that the reports of the “ts of Wilson's birth at Oxford, printed tn the papers, are correct. She thinks that Wilson is not jn his right mind, or that he acted hapulstvely, does HOt Kuow Of auy mystery. She ty sixt years old, and is broken down tn health, S the pértect picture of her in the face, aly the nos:, forehead and expression of eves. She never saw or beard of Soen until die Yours Her husband ts a suoemakel supported mostly. by Wilson, “1 doubt concerns Ms father, aS Mre. Porter falte Mi saying it Was Jonas, Je r, Brooks ean have any conception of his saving disposition. ‘The envelopes of Istters received by Oa such Utte scraps | Reporiorial manu | scripts were returned from the composing room ad the blank sides filled with fresh reports. It Wes uo uncolninon thing to dud an editorial aru- cle written on the bacicof a private letter, "This we ReUr costing he Eepress assoc i SUM OF mone: Sey judge apres fOr agres AL ‘A repo: aud been it inail were saved and turned. | he wrote many an article, and is ed 2,000, ad sobbingly sald ‘athe judge tic Pe was hitsiather; DUCT know Sotuctuing bad Will ev | become of me? riy every day,” continued the speaker, | & cole ten hus oe apples to ts for sil obeatnny Crane | : Planets in December. portation thane, “Win Weare Satie case | eee ry rege lag fieait In tie case we schd Uheln to Santtary Otcer | W . 2 ns). : went Ne AeRWnGaLlendeco nt | as old pape | Venus closes her record as morning star on the mae nt ne, Th alnjost every Me nO det The auth fiz.t of the month, and coumences her reign as stu their transpe! tation from ettner of | Daose L, and th a5 abont to he brow vening star ou the 2d, at 11 o'clock In the eve Thirvad comnpaiies: Fone ting we ish to | thal, When a news editor remenbered that he had | CSeMIME sf 2 : complain of, ahd It by tae Wyur of Bat, | Written ot tue alleged libel from. an luted (ing. She ts Chen in supertor conjunction with the Umore ies orshipping hearly wll de poor of his | Press report. ‘The columns of the Beenmny Post | sun, passiug beyond the great luminary and reap. cli ave Hever Felused why Mei | and Conuucreia! Advertiser of agiven date were | pearing on his easiern sige (o Tuin Rer appotuted Hlortous demand, no mater trom wii, Har libel app ‘din both, As | course as: ‘alng star. Henceforth she will shine ease: week excited one pity | they had Saved (he mangserpt the Wats | after sunset In The West, Instead of before sunrise enery nt. A boy of Ssosiiad press Which Was Unus | ithe east, She will hot be visible durhus dhe appea so Thaub=siv during Une lerribie storm, for ap. le: at ae Nad great Wants Wworkd Wats aun Uiele resi had promised 0 assist Lae boy iL he there, ‘The poor boy bad be Uansporttion rem Providence 16 Bat thence her’, where he arrived with only ad MM his pock’t, We became very much Interested iu the wtair dnd ai on: a Ulin the ineans to reach New Orleans, ‘Tats 1s one case OUL OL a NUL dred parauiel ones.” “are lay applications made by the widowed and orphaned’? “ew,” sald the aflicer, “such are generally those | of Wolmba Wise neve bech deserted hus | bands and left Without a cent in Tae Worid, oF Else cases Where Lie husband aud father speuds libs Ume and tneome tn greg shops.” THE CHARITY ORGANIZATION soctery. Mrs, Sara A. Spencer, of Uie Charity Organtz soctety, speaklug toa Stak reporter sald every square fool of suffering tn this clty there Is a square yard of relief.” ‘The soclety 18 about to publish a dizectory of charles wiitch emunerate: the Tollowing Charles aud means of Metin the ety stations for the aged, 10 + sick and nezlect aunt children, ta; soldters Tor relief, 5; indiisirkei and Waytarrs, aside trom station hoitses, 1; penal’ inst 2} benevo- Tent assoclations (select od trom 1,000), 27; phyate Chins Lo the poor, 1; drugytsis to le poor, Ly sanitary « (reiter giv Maing and (eau churehe: ie 1; poles stations Total, BOR. Pro- omen and childr KNIGHTS WILL URGE AT THE SION. The New Ye YS: Ralph Beau. mont, one of the best-known. Kaights or Labor in the country, who was chairmin of the legis. tye committee of the order, beated in Washe ington during the lust session of Congress, will reside In Washington during the next session and look aiterthe interests of the Kulehts, Mr Aumont believes hat the report or the -Kulght of Labor legiskathve committee had much todo causing the surprisiug result fa the congressioaal elections, PULY thousand. coptes of hts tepurt of last session's work were printed and used as tex! books to catochise members of Congress and those who were alvoe jalms Yor re-viection, ihe the ist Une,” suid Mr. Beaumont, uibers of Cougiess were called to accouni constituents, DUL It WIL not be the last. do you thik Will be the measures asked from Congress by the workingmen during the next session?” “One of them,” replied Mr. Beaumont, “will be the matter of the pubic lands. ‘There are bills already pending in a conference committee of the House and Senate forfeiting upwards of 30,000,000 acres of and granted to railroads, besides an ad- Gitional 13,000,000 acres on the House calendar, Which have keen reported favorably by the House comunittee On public lands. A vigorous effort will be made to push the Edmunds bill for the es- tablishment of a governmental telegraph system. ‘The reduction of ‘the idle surptus in the Treasut Will also be one of the prominent. measures which the legislative committee will urge, as it did last session, ‘There ts no doubt in my" ihind that our efforts on behalf of the bill of last sesston,and which resulted in the payment of $90,000,000 of the public. debt since Congress adjourned, has been the means of stimulating business, ‘the country has enjoyed more prosperity this fall than in any of the past four years. Among the labor bills that will receive our attention will bethe one extendin, the eight-hour law to the lewer-carvters an Another granting the employes of navy yards two weeks’ aunual holiday, the sameas other govern. ment employes recelve. Both bills weresmothered in the last session because they involved an appro- priation of money and interfered with the {deus of €conomy of the leaders of the majority party. 1 am to meet the general executive board of the Knights Saturday at Philadelphie to talk about otuer measures Which the committee 1s to advo. cate.” Z He said in conclusion that taere was a strong sentiment and general good fteling among the Workers of Uhe east in favor ofthe Henry George movement, —_—_—+e+_____ SuppEN DEATH OF AN AcTor.—The New York Times of yesterday says: A Week ago Wednesday Hugh Fuller, an actor playing nme Pulso of New York,” ‘was talking in the dressing room of the theater, at Albany, With Mr, Nagle, « member Of the samé company, when Nagle tell dead at his feet. Fuller was mucli affected by this. ‘Dut went on with his com} to this city Saturday night his friend, Mr. Wharton bucer, nue. He retired rather early We and. as he lay in bed, talked for some ‘time with pression seems to be that it will ha’ Soa ca der emcees, ad ‘an excuse by those in Congress wie cr Mr. Butler, who sat in an adjoining room. Soon after Butler passed through the roo occupted b: Fuller, and hoticing something’ pecullar ‘in the actor's attitude, went to the ‘and found It 1s, ‘Supposed that the cause of his death was disease, as ho had often: ‘trouble with his heart, Fuller was 94 years old and unmarried, i nt Lionti, for the shapie reason that she ts dden ih the 'sun’s datense brightness. Sh wever, travelling eastward from the stn, asthe needie to the In about six’ weeks | Se wil be fare from him to be Visible to bright observers 1u Hnset, and the beauty or Lue star oxting tremulous of light hat follow the sun’s departure Will the dliigent Watcher for the troubie re. ras As Son r Brooks,” Sid aki DUM here ww wise mny 1, Willams,” Was the fe been Gs Watehtul lat sed 16 be, I picked three type trom the hour ago. ‘They had been ground ints the aut until Cacir sides shows Mae silver. ‘They were | ruined, and by right ought to deduct the welgnt of such type from your salary. 1 dont think you deserve a rise In wages.” “Very well, Mr. Brooks,” the boy told me to leave on to give me nore a Ww Vhat do you recelve a week now?” Erastus 1n- quired, as though $a brown study.” serwo dollars and fifty ceats,” the boy responded. Erastus played With his pen'fora full minute be fore he mad cision. “Well, Wilitam,” he Sidd, final J month ‘longer, abd if ‘You ure a good boy, and keep the floor enurely tree. 1 type Fil raise your wages to $2.60 a week.” ‘The Janitor Of the Express building tn those 3. was a half-starved foreigner, who had arooza on the top oor and was pald by the month. He Swept and cieaned the offices of other occupants of ne building, who pald Erastus for is. services, he great editor thus made considerable money janitor. One day a countryman visited who urged Mr. Brooks to get him a fire department. ‘What's its business?” Was the first question, he janitor replied, quired, Mercury 1s evening ‘ar until the 34 and morn. Ang star for the rest al 7 ovclock in the morning, he is in inferior conjunc. With the sun, passing between the earth and ring ou lis Western side as morulng: Siar. Venus and Slercury, therefore, present oppo- sile phases at almost the Same time. Satura is morning ster. If Venus and Mercury, clalin precedence for Uhe_thteresting epochs that enliven thelr course, Saturn stands unrivaled on. ‘the December annals for his beautiful appearance among the stars and for his highly favorable observation, He reigns alone tn the even Venus and Mercury are hidden in the sunlight, Mars is barely perceptible and Jupiter Uiumnfnates the morning sky. Saturn when the 1ouUn commences Tises at 7 O'clock, and is visible during nearly the whole night, His course is ret rograde during the month—that 1s, he 1s appa- renUy moving westward. ‘The bright planet shines with a serene light, and can be recosnized ala glance tn the eastern Sky In the early evening, with Uhe twin stars Castor and Pollux ou the nort ‘and Procyon on the south, Jupiter 1s morning star. Observers of the east- ern sky soon after 3} o'clock tn the morning In the early part of the month will behold the advent. of the “princely planet, when be will come looming above the horizon With a brightness whieh sur- Passes that ot any other vistbie star. The tirst Inaznitude star near Jupiter Is Spl Murs is evening star, He sets hearly two hours, after the sun, bui he Mas dwindled to a mere polat and 1s ditti¢ult to tind im the western sky. He must be looked for near the brightest star in the bowl of the Inverted dipper th Sagittarius, low down in the southwest, am how Uranus ts morning star, right eyes will pe Uwe degrees south Of Gam ld. “Father alurday unless you promised Well, tell him if he will patnt the upper floor and the'back of the Express bulldiug ii get hima place in the few departient.” he terns were accepted. work and got his fireman up above Ss only #2 st ‘These Incidents are not related in an unkind | fooling toward the dead editor, He died wordh 300,000, DUE if ke had had the broadness of vision Or old James Gordon Bennett and. the pecuniary Scope of Joseph Pulltzer he might have died worth The man aid his Place, Wut It was as a ‘auftalo? Harlem bridge, where Une pty amouth. ‘the janitor bimselt | ie asteroid Vesta. A good telescope will be es | sential for the best Observation of the giant planet and its small neighbor. THE 8 $10,000,000, © only possibie | S | bertcnee of that summer. Fortunately for us, 0 | serfs who has em Hie is also fn’ the neiihborhood of | THE SERFS OF THE REPU ‘The Life of Government Clerks as De- scribed by One Who Has Been Eman- cipated. “Many peng, wielded by descriptive artists of superior ability,” writes “an ex.sert” to THe STAR, ve been devoted to meritorous etchings of the great postal machinery of the United States. ‘They have painted with winged words the gilded cages and depicted the exterior portions of the whited seputchre. Yet they have never seen the inner iffe, and hence have never presented to popu- lar gaze the serf of the republic. And the voice of the serf has newer been raised concerning himself, or the labors imposed upon him, by a govern- ment which has for him less caasideration than was shown to the slaves of an effete regime. The sert Knows that he can little grace his cause by speaking of it, Hecam only crouch and cower beneath the master’s task; thankful and prayer- {al aud wiling to Jet weil enough ato willing to exhibit the proud: fe his bruises. “He can Denetit neithe hunself by exhibiting the “Isoera his tele ings and the maceration of his manhood. Day by day he is muicted of that robustness “of inde pendence witich ts characteristic of hls fellow Men; yet bets slient, | There is arvund thin au es plonize that makes ini shudder lest the modern ‘doog discern his feelings and wrest from him tis seil-conscousness and lay barelits secret thoughts ofthe surroundings whiet make ite a hell, Yet he has shut within his heart hot c ne bitter, Durning wrongs, withered hopes, crushe ambitions, puitcnar ANNIHILATED MANIOOD, over the arched doorways of the departments at Washington, It might well be written in letters ‘of rugged tron, “Manhood quickly killed for all who enter her.” ‘This only Lo the serfs. No mat ter whether the legalized disregard for the t SULUtION, Yelept “the civil service comauissh or the eXecutive mandate of the wicker of t Spolls system, ‘shall send him thither, he who enters a government department. at Washington dies the death. This ts moretrue of the Post omice department than of the others That branch of the executive division of the government Is se Jected because your sert has recently been eman elpated from That prison. These are, to yo Strange savings. “Yon have never been perinitt fo cobsider anything connected with ‘the the gow vit Tin any But its most m0 actual public servant, « wermment employ has Wot” a eness. Ttisa wilted sepulehre. upon every individual, aud it 4s So inquisitorial and shrewd that iS depth, breadth and thickness are abyssmal, boundless Hope aud ambition are choked, and’ thelr roots extracted and killed, AW ELDERLY CLERK'S RXPERIENCR, Anelderty gentleman recently dared to tell his, experience to one whom he knew to be a trusty friend. He said: “1 am wondering now whether it ts better to be a Pauper or @ puppy. Tcame tuto this piace seven. teen years ago, With high aspinidions. 1 knew Vhat I was active and energetic, and believed Uuat Tonld attaly almost any eminence In gover went Ute. Tbetieved that Leouid teach Lie post. tion of Postmaster General. But, in less than & Year Teoncluded that 1f'T could only became ¢ of my division 1 would be Taw mo Than any other man here, “Hugi Nesbit was alive gad working then, and he was a splendid clerk, We were rivals, We both worked might to make good records, “We Our ambition, energy, tutelllgs SS OnLY cause? us to be marked ty hier. OUF fellow clerks were eRVIONs {fipped them, Gur superiors were ur bitter eventes; for we challenged thelt supert- ad "us, berause they teated us. The eheral Was Hot perudlted to see Us or know us, and we dared not approach lim. We Worked sohhard that we were {iu daly fe 18 sen our szed “prinelpal cera” dled. We were revel jug $1,600 per annum, and s promotion was then J avaliable tor cue of Ws to. $1,500. Which of Us Should get it? Mark the rest who was Grunken, disreputable, unworthy, re | cetved ti dation. ‘Stuce then he tas been’ ene | vious of id doialuee He makes lite a Hour 1 Eresign, as he Wishes ine to, LAnOW no otner Business Ua Cuts, amd 1 shal jit a where I an, fam treat | Phave ao rignt to be elticlent, diligent, fitatully | arab Jowell, ‘The fates are against me; 1 j mus His 1s not exceptional. The true been told. The intelligent ers have seen bur the epidermis, and have never diagnosed the case, ‘A CASE LN POINT, ‘The clerk in the appointment diviston says: “When the democratic administration came tn We were overwhelmed with letters, petitions, Yecommendations and all sorts of correspondence concerniag the 33,000 post offices. The Work had to be done. Alter working all day we were or- dered to come back ai night and work until 10 O'clock, We were driven Uke lambs to the slaugh- ter. None of us dared to go to the First Assistant or fo the Postmaster General. Our superiors would, not s; K for us. We had ta bear the brunt of tt get no credit for It. Two hundred other clerks in the Second and Third Assistants’ ofices: Would put on ineir hats and saunter gally forth. into the Sunshine at ¢ o'clock every afternoon, It hever cecnrred to the powers above us that those: » hundred men might have stayed one he nd aasisted us, thereby dividing the wa ng Us OUT eyes Drains, OUT geUe! Tecelved well ath fed Corin came Upon Us it ‘a, But then we Were scoffed at | When we spoke of rest. For twelve days the ther. | mometer registered 100 degrees in the shade con | Stantly, and we had to work under the heat of the handeiter and tue droplight until we alinost sank ta our places. ‘Talk about soldiering, Dve been | there. Td rather make a forced march of two weeks’ duration any than to repeat he ex- aber resicned, live; and, w He could not stand t | of our nv “n he Was emancipated, | strain an be Wear to the Postinaster General and told him bow: Uulags were going. It Was ail pews lo lin, apd | he tamedinteiy. fsued tin order dispensing with the night Work. He said that the oMlce-scekers, could Walt for a more convenient season. THE STAMP DIVISION. ‘Then go tothe clerk tn the stamp division. He says: “Here we have to make out orders for an average Of $100,000 worth of stamps for the post offlees of the country every day. If there is an error made of one single cent look out for your oficial head. Yet the department compels two | men to do the work which not less than Ave men | ought to be engaged upon. It is ‘hurry, hurry, hurry,” all the tine; but Lord help the villilu who qenticmn, Out he is Under orders trou unsyapae gentleman, ‘trom thette superiors” Jn, the allway mall service # 1s the same. Tho government. pays salaries toafew men. It Days more than they ought to have. But the men ‘Who do the actual work are paid. leas than $1,000 per annum. ‘The goverumentis stingy, niggard Incan. Promotion does not come by merit. goes by polltical favor now as much as under the Spoils ‘system, For example: In February, 18, a gentleman of fair clerical ability came Into the department through the civil service commission. He is gentlemanly, and has seen beiter ‘one of his fellow clerks blaine him for what was done afterwards. But they hate the system. ‘The new clerk Was promoted to $1,400 per Year In July, 3880, He happened to_ have ec onal infu: ence. ‘The men over whom he Was elevated were older, more experienced, more capable, er-necesst- fade rei, Wat they had_ no political tultuence. Do You inlagine that administration of that kind tends to vievate the quality and character of the or that It dlgnities the Laborer? me must remember all the tine that these Palnlluss “ane not the work of @ datiber ‘why tas “en rejected by the baut-ton of the profession. ‘Yhey are the simpie trutu-telling of gue of the tpated nimselt, and Is tree. to xe dared. to say before, and the fy, that they may profit by the seek any other ave than enter upon a quest tor sshinigton.” Tell What none only object in vies Stalement of facts, bread-winning, rau WAPPING A SICK KITTEN FOR A ‘YALLER’ DOG.” ‘The dude ts dead, and with him has departed from the manners of the town the era of vacuous and owlish gravity, He was a surly, sullen and inert protest. against loudness and display; but | he’s dead, and cui of fashion, and men are hurry- } the to explo the very, Ching’s he mest “abuorrd. dow the howling swell, with a dash of the oid | Ume fop, is in vogue. by day he wears, showily During December the days continue to decrease unt the 17th, They then remain of the same length until the 25th, When there fs an increase of minute, On the ist the sum rises at 6a. 54m, a.m, and sets at 4h, 26m. p.m, making the dy nm. long. On the Bist the "stn rises at 7a, a. M. abd sets 24h. 210. p. m., making the day 91. 9m tong. Thus on the last day of the monilt, Ure day 15 1:up. shorter than it Was at the embroidered ilk ahd satin Waistcoats, WhILe Over. | ee ee cee rae i eee ane tore ake galtens briliant hued scarts gaudy gloves horsey | Cisne following dass, aud then. the clothes of’ many shades, AUmight lis shirt front is figured and frilled; he sports gold Duitons on his waistcoat satin Stripes on bis trousers, and adds a dash oi color to itall by thrusting a bright erimson, yel- low or blue handkerehier into his breast. Nor hag ‘he the manners of the solemn ape of a year or more ago. He bobs along at a lively gait, and tins illarious greetings to his friends. He's cheap ‘dind onerous at times, and hence men feel for him momentary spasms of dislike; but he’s better than the dude, for after looking at the dude a man was changes, The sun turns his face northwards, his extreme point of southern declination, 23 degrees ‘27 minutes, has been reached, and the first proof of his returning steps ts given fo the three addi- tonal minutes that mark the increased length of the daylight on the inst day of the year. ‘THE WINTER SOLSTICE. ‘This joyful time-mark accounts for the new state ofevents. It receives its name, as is weil known, from two Latin words meaning the sun the 21st at 4 o'clock inthe after- a eeeainga Boon the stin euters te sign ca es = ometning new appeared, in town a short time | astronomical winter beg athe sun os graces , i sin cone tostay, It bas not met with a feria recep: | (eeytrople OF Capricorn southern progress ye lenceforth, the nigbts will grow tion, Tt makes 1t8 way slowly and erratically. | Houser the sunrise, aid sunats pone Sil no lis longer move southward, and the sun's meridan altitude will no longer decrease in the north tem perate zone, “Hencetorth storms may lower, tesnp- est and cold: val us, DUt the sun has vurn- eis face mortuary the" dominion of ice and snow 1s conquered, and every. rev 8 tenearer Coie hour when winter and sprog wit embrace each other. The winter solstice does not herald the advent of the christian year, nelther ihe cava ‘THE LURCHING ENGLISH WALK. ‘Pephaps the most proficient of tts votaries 1s a Londoner named Benson, who came here with — lot of letters recently, and has spent, all his time time since dashing wp'and down the steps of Fifth avenue residences leaving vast quantities of cards upon the citizens of New York. His manner of Walking was recognized at once as distinctly the thing in London’ this year, and club men and Angio-maniacs lay in walt along Fitth avenue to see him pass by. Of all the walks unis is the most absurd. ‘To begin, In form, the knees must never be straightened under any circ and the toes should be turned out as far as pos” sible without putting the heels in udvance of them, ‘yhis gives @ rather ‘parenthetical look to the legs from the front elevation, but It ts indubitably cor- rect, nevertheless Having assuined this posture, the Walker should lean his body forward from the ‘ips, draw his shoulders over in front elevate, the chin as far as possibie, and then start off with the arms hanging stnught at the side, Bend the knees outward at every step and move as rapidly as possible, Repeat as betore, and then rest elght minutes {n'a horizontal position. Altogether the walk 1s not unite that affected by varlety actors, mimicking old plantation, darites, and 1am told that if a man hums gentiy some such strain as “Citmblng Up the Goiden Stairs” while perté himselt in the minor details of the wa bs wi be vastly aided tnereby. It is 2 matter of importance ‘World at large, hence this wealth of detail. ‘THE INTRODUCTION BUSINESS. ‘am not surprised that foreigners are at times baffled and rattled by the American fashion of promiscuous introductions to everybody year, isits record ‘on the annals of Year, but IU is none the less the commencement the ‘natural year. In the olden times and in the poetic ages’ of a ruder civilization the nations of ~ the urthe vearto t e year cipated hour when, with music, dane Uve offerings the homage to they worshiped,” ‘he ‘venerable 1 ‘She pronouned in sounding platitude, Her univers! erutitude, For wien of every latitude Frou the tropics to the poles; She felt a consanguinity, Acssterly attinity, A Rind of hith-and-kinity For all these toreagu souls, 0 Caledonian Hi Er ‘brutal out ee a ‘OF Wet, atid Wiolst, and dry leider Yor Genule, Grecks and Jew! cor Piss ‘Siberiauy, = Patan lene Bcaisscosan ew, ? A Jacksonian Love Fenst, JUDGE THORMAN PREDICTS A BIG TALK AT THS COLUWAUS BANQUET. Judge Thurman, as chatrman of the committer, has sent invitations to President Cleveland and bie Cabinet apd leading democrats tyroughout the country to assembie in Columbus, Ohia, on tha ng Of The 7th of January, as guests of the Jackson club, and devote the evening 10 feasting and speechauaktng. The Kew York World corr Ghondent called upon Judge Thurman at his rele dence i Columbus and asked the Object of “It is the wsual cusiaay,” sald Une exe of tke democrats of this and other Olle cities tf commemorate January & Uke RUMIVEESAPY Of Jackson's great victory al New orieauy, By ® Danguet and speeches in response to appropriate toaste, A desnocratic banquet always lasts il past midnizt, there arse Many goad UMiwWes tO he partaken of and. many" wood things lo sas, and, mormover, the demecrats aie reat mopocteny, of the spiritual as well as the temporal iw: amma Would not fora moment thin the Sabbath with thy Saturday tals y on th Dyno as not to lutringe tite. noe attached to WHHL there be anything “notable oY ance to the political There will doubtless be 4 Uhlnes said Chat will ai iy ab home but obroad, for We have iMvited and ex peck a Lange number of the representative democrats of the country. The comm! tee on taasts wtil propose a DuIAber of Sentiments whic WHL vil for pe Sponses on topiesof Intecest to The entire country, and these respous's will Indicate L deme cratic natic to bea responses Mave quently T canrot st occasion Most promineut - Ns Barrett and Carloton, WOW THE DISTINGUISHED ACTOR AND THE PORT CB MENTED A FKUENDSH From the Boston Globe ‘There Was a pleasant episode at the Hotel Vem dome on Wednesday eveatug last. Atter the play of “Hamlet,” a little party assembled in Mr, Wile Son Barrett's apartments to partake of one of thos Late suppers that humanity Is alWays being warned against and which men go on eating and Uirty ou through protracted lives, Of the con was Will Carlton, the pastoral poet, whose writings carry with them the breath of the pratries,.uhe color of wild flowers, the rhythm of the farm and Use pase thetic philosophy of the rural home. Bastett was There, lis kindly, wholesome face touched with the Unes of weariness begotten of twoexacting drwe Matic performances, wnd beside lui Cie effervess cent, genial Dixes, shecd@ing his mutor like the pine tree Its healtiyg balta and bearjug Mis honors fice A modest contdiug schaoibas ‘Then the sturdy Rosclus, tram far Yorke Shire, Whose mitmne ts svnonymus with dramatic. art th London, and whose tame Is now rising at the Toot lke aearessing tide, told & eS of Mow he ear a mathe the nulyghity the tustatice « 1 thrown | a Handsener the author, but hig Silver thresd of wimanlly quick tustinet saw ty Tunalng through it. Me commltied it to memory, aud on the reared 1 al tine begton inv sd wi ne authorship of the poen, tow Was atl, aud Went day & Score of letters came sayiag “tlle writer of that pocu ts Will Carleton, the r lay Mr. Barrett Man” the feature of his Te. fact, eonststed OF is one dintiers where the Volirtes «af art gathered, rie feasts. Upon the sult Wings at lis rh Nolce IU was carried through iden CIty Where toll iy eased the syaupathy that knits the Brot So ican tay peorhiy Str, Bare ret, have heard of your Kind partiality, and L wish te kuow whether there AS any real merit an my fucttive Work With becoming modesty Mr, Barrett finally consented, first apolociing fora slight change made 11 the po Mect. “He gave to ‘he recitation the full measure OF Lis’ artistic Teele ing. His soul poured into Ube his volce, so respousive tO hutui upon every chord sank, like the cadence of the Aollan, into the ih OF pathos, Where eyes were bedewed. wilh ‘ars, ‘Then Cane the sunburst of bappl fund the actor, With radiant face, dropped Mo rd ro ‘The poet-author had him by the hand at once, “I Ubank you, Mr. Barrett,” he sitid, “for you have dramatized wy poem. You have interpreted tt for me; You have taught me What d did not know TU was a generous, hearty acknowledgment, For the first tine in history, perhaps, an author had thanked an actor for changing his lines, After Uns the poct, iu Whos hair Mere is atouca, Of iron, bul Whose eves are as somt and Dovish a When they first looked upon the yeilow daudeltons in the far Western meadows, stood up and re peated one of his poems of Uke troutier, the story Of a plonecr, so woven Im with mide and t philosophy ot lov © “The Cuters Saturd Perhaps be never gave such giow of tonite, su Ucht aud shade and wariath and seatiment lo recitation betv agOnS, plave MHL nerves trembiep, then owe SEC CAN SO SER NETS UPON Labs RW Shall say that this chance tmectiug be tween author and actor may not « be care Tied across the ooean another of che thiekds with Which literature and art are stiendly binding Uwe hatlons of intellects, coe Morrivon Hiames Hewitt. New York Correspondence Philadelphia Press, Congressinan Morrison, of Lliuots, has written @ letter to Thomas @. Sherman which promises to be ‘the beginning of a bitier row among the deme cratic revenue reformers. The occask leUter Was an invitation to Morrison to. dinner of the Brooklyn Revenue Ket Ly Which Morrison decllued, He watyequentiv wrote a letter to Sherman, With Whom be has contracted a close friendship, xplaining lis reasons for r= SS g olber things be de cl ‘that bis defeat was marily to the lukewarm support received at hands of Cus “A Seen ry fd a u 4 cited as a particular Injury the attack upon iin by Hewrtt at the reveuue reform comfentnce br in this city ‘efore election. Hewit's come ments upon him at that thne were a good deal more vigorous than politic. Mornson cotaplalns in his letter that no one ratsed a word in Lis de= Tense. The eflect upon his constiuents was such aslo iuls canvass and cause his defeat, Love Lies A-Blceding. SOMETHING IN THE WAY OF 4 COMEDY IC ONE OF THE From the Boston Traveller. At the United States cireuit court this morning the trial of the sult of Miss Lottie B. Suulley,of Uae bridge, agalust Frank L. Houston, of Providence, for $20,000, on account of breach of promise, was begun. Miss Smiley took the stand and described the seene in her father’s parlor when Fravk made his proposal. He told her how much he loved her and urged her 4o give him a definite answer le Was ater house and. sth sitting-room in id not give hm " ‘ied, “I will,” and they both. Lauds, ghd be sald, “Lottie, will You be my water” Sue sald, “Yes, Frank, 1! will.” He did not give any engagement rug, as’ he did hot believe In it. “He sald she Was to think of no se but hits, aud he Was to Think Of ne one but ber, and they Both Kissed. But ‘by lnitual consent they kept the cugagement secret, Thrs corresponded very tovingiy tenn. that iu, Dut fearing the discovery of the secret Miss Stulley destroved “his letters, She visited ht- nome st euce and he visited her at Uxbridge very loving In his attentions" * Saturday Smiles. isno troubie to meet a bill. But to get out of fay Of 1U is most difeult,—Puck. ‘of actors have just taken the road ‘a new play called “A Dratua of Civilization.” ‘be solecisin for Ladies to attend Uhis play high hats on.—Lowetl Quurier. ‘Miss Sadie Allen has gone through the Niagara ‘hirlpool. We had supposed this whirlpool was strictly a male-strom.—Lowell Courier. ‘The Servant Question.—A respectable colored lady’ would Ike’ situation to. do general BOWS ‘Work.—Brooklyn Times Advertisement, ‘The ition candidate never has to “st ‘em. ” Js thts the reason why we have so pro 2 in the land?—Macon