Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1887, Page 2

to —_— THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, ail s JANUARY 1, 1887—DOUBLE 5 — CITY AND DISTRICT. THE KNIGHTS TO BUILD. ‘The Hall They Prepose to Erect in This City. PROVISIONS TO RE MADE FORA LIBRARY, READING ROOM, LODGING ROOMS, RTC. ‘The Knights of Labor are making good progress In their movement towards the erection of a lodge Dallding in this city. They have Deen success‘ul ‘thus far in thetr plans for raising funds, and they expect to experience no difMculty in getting the requisite amount. Their greatest diMculty has ‘Deen to get asite suitable for the building at a Teasonabie price. ‘They want to build somewhere Detween 43 and 12th streets and Pennsylvania avenue andG. Several sites have been offered, Dut the prices asked have inveriably been too high. ‘They at one time thought of the old Lincoln hall site, but the owners hold it beyond their reach. At present there are tbree or four sites under con- ‘Sideration, and probably one of them will be welected. When the site is once secured there ‘will, they think, be no trouble about the compie- tion of the building. It will be erected on the Jolat stock company plan, each assembly taking Stock, and there will be no’debts contracted tn the work. RVERYTHING WILL BE PAID FOR AS THE WORK GOES O¥, and when the building 1s finished it will be tree of all encumbrances. It is likely that much of ‘heir material will be donated. One brickmaker has offered sixty thousand brick, and another has Promised to gt 4 MANY as any other man tn the city will give. This will probabiy resuit in their Bet having to purchase any of the brick. The first idea Was lo erect a butiding Lo cost about $30,000, Dut it is evident now thal the cost will exceed ‘Mat, as the price of the site must be high, The plan’ for the building have not as yet Deen finally decided upon, as the style depends somewhat ‘on the site chosen. ‘The drawings will be made by 9 Wasbington architect, and some of the general details are settled. ‘THE GENERAL Pai ‘The idea ts to have a general sitting and reading Yoom,a library and three rooms forstores onthe first Boor; the second floor to be devoted toa concert hall, with a floor that may be changed for dancing. ‘The lodges, tou. in, number, were to be located on Nag third ad fourth Boor. who is fuiiltar with the general architects tell him at There 1s both con pake this 2 pei nclng as changed. . Their idea is fect concert hall and have it ac well But this par: of the plo Somebody whom they rr has made them a g f Second iloors, except the ing room and Ubrary, the tliree stores om the tirst floor to be ‘thrown into one, and the hall above to be ove for “‘a purpose.” If they accept Unis offer, hey Will, of course, Dave to dispense with thé hi THERE ARE OVE SIXTY 4: 4n all about 12,000 knights, and none of them have good quarters to meet in. The third and fourth Hoors of this building will be designed to give ‘them all the room they need, and the central local- 2 of the Duilding will make it convenient to all It is designed to have the building plain and heavy in exterior styie, with considerable archi- Yectural beauty within.” The great out lay will be 1% make the interfor as near perfect as_may be. ‘The building wiil be four stories high and will cover a ground space of 80 by 120. FREE FOR ALL WORKERS. The Knights do not propose to be selfish about the Dullding. The idea of the general sittiag room on the first floor is to have a place where any ‘workman, whether a Kright or not, so he be sober, may sit and read, wien he is out of employment. Frequently workinen come to the city out of money and out of work; they are called tramps and baveto sleepin the station houses. When ey start cut iu search of work alter spending ‘The nlght in a cell, appearances are agatnst then It ts proposed to ullow these men ic go tothis ror SFMBLIES IN THE CITY ‘and Wash and dre=s so as to be presentable, and | to have them sit there and read when th are not out looking for work. Moreover, it Is propos ‘Yo have thls a place Where they would ve apt to ind work. AS TO THE LIPEARY, 1t Is not quite certain how that will be established. It is desired to make it not exclusively for th of the knights, but a public Udrar Dody at all times, nights, Sunday It might ve, } nham suggested, that the oom in this batliing would be used fof the pub- Ue library, there is now a ubtish, outside the order of the ss. The rooms Mould be freely given for that purpose, aud thereon open to every bo —— LEGISLATION ASKED FOR. Am Assistant Attorney Needed for Civil Suits of the Government in This District. RECOMMENDATIONS OF SOLICITOR MCCUE AND ‘STATEMENTS OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY WORTHINGTON. In the annual report of Solicitor of the Treasury ‘MeCue to the Attorney General he strongly re- ‘ews bis recommendation for additiona! assistance inthe trial of ctvii cases in the office U. 8. At ‘Yorney for the District of Columbia. He says the condition of the civil business in the courts of this District has heen the source of grievouscomplaint, ‘and adds: “Doubtless the fault does not He with the District Attorney. Numerous suits are pending against delinquent officers and other publle ebtors which I have been unable to bring to trt notwithstanding earnest efforts have been made, stimulated by adue appreciation of the embar- Fassment and loss occaatoned the government by ‘the long protracted delay. I have had personal explanation of a satistuctory character from the istrict attorney and I huve also hisomictal report Op the subject. I would earnestly ask spectal at- Ygntion to the statements of the wants of his Ofice. He Sboult, undoubtedly, be allowed by Law Anadditional assistant ***. ‘An extract of his wrt will exhittt the peculiar and onerous char- of the duites developing ‘upon him which forbid any efficient Labor on his part or on that of is present assistants in the prepation or tral of ‘Other than erininal cases.” ‘Mr. McCue quotes the following trom the district attorney's report: “In all the other Judietal dl tricts of the Cited States the district attorney of | the United states is called upon to enforce those | punative statutes or the United States which are applicable to the whole country. In thowe districts ‘which are carved cut of states the state's attorney rosectites the great mass of ordinary offende: here, where there ts no state government and Congress has exesisive jurisdiction, both classes of | able by the same oMcer. All the nies, burglaries, arsons, robberies, Tuurders and other common law offences which in other jurisdictions woul Dy the prosecuting o‘licer of the s of United States attorneys’ In ures from the report of the Attorne: General for 1885 are appened, showing 11,977 cases termi dated in all the United Siates courts tn that yea: of whiei, 3,786 were In this Distriet—just about One-third ‘of all the business. The number of United States cases in the District last year was 4,146 and in 1879 but r. Worthington SAYS: “This gives some evidence of the rate at which the business Of thisoftice has increased. Yet the force now allowed the District attorney here IS precisely what It was In i870. I am limited togs,000 | Yor the pay of assistants per year aud $1,200 for | Clerk bire, and this, although the fees now earned ‘dy this reach $40,000 pei ‘the amount was $43,185." “I have not failed vo note that t disposition to complain of an apparent failure to t civil States Is a g the explanations that Press vigorously the nin ‘Sults pending here, to which th ¥, notwitastandi ave heretorore been and I wish to say that for the reasons above given it 1s impossible that | ‘the civil busige-s of the i im the courts of this jurisdiction suouid receive prope Tawtll there shail be a change in the Mr. McCue says, “the sections referred to should ‘de amended so as to admit of the employment of a Competen® unsistant to take charge of the civil ines, a3 suggested, Whose compensation may De paid’ from the fees of the office, an excess of Which is now turned into the Treasury to we amount of thirty or forty thousand doliars annually. a “Extra Billy” Smith—Hiow the “Extra” ted. To the Editor of Tux Evxixe Stan. In Tux Sax of the 27th inst. there 1s a dispatch from Alexandria in reference to ex-Governor Smith $ @candidate for Riddieberger'’s seat in the Sen- ate. Itis my pleasure to be able tocorrect the ercer concerning the origin of the soubriquet of “xtra Billy” which has followed bim through Uife, and not seidom given rise to various surtnises Concerning the name. It was not his “readiness ‘Yorun at any ume for any office,” but the extra compensation granted bin by Congress for untir- Ing energy in increasing the mall factiities hout Virginia, which at that time, 127, ‘Were Very limited. Mr. Smith was the first man ‘who attempted and succeeded in havin Seats lin vag a eae sO inla from Waslington. For every extension he ‘was granted extra pro rata compensation. The Foutes increased their distances until they ex- tended throughout Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina to Milledg ville, Gal, and was termed “The Great Piedmont Post Line.” Tuts important work developed so rapidiy and with such evident benettt Yo the south it attracted universal attention. Ina Speech made in the Seuate concerning these mall routes abd the extra pro rata compensation Granted, a senator denominated the contractor ‘extra 3” hence the soubriquet. x — ‘The Latest Suciety Excrescence. ‘From the Cleveland Plain-Dealer. We are beginuing to catch a giimpse of the latest society grotesque. ‘The dude ts out of date, except on the stage. Butin his place has come another. Icall him the butterfly, and there are ‘one or two in town. The dude Was inane and pe- cullar, Dut he was also subdued. The buttertly isn't. He's loud of dress and chipper of demeanor and aims at an all round and general gorgeous. ess Of course, he’s an exerescence. But he 1s more human and contemporaneous than Lis va- tention gant and inane predecessor, refiecting as he does | ‘the extreme end of very Voluvie and very rapid young America. He Is as olsy as a toy terrier, ‘Coste more and is as useless and chatters as muck a9 pet monkey. The creature's too volatile to stay. But asa ihing of the moment he's @ suc- cess. He's a reform on the dude, and, as reforms ‘usually are, very radical. lantities of counterfeit stiver coin are peng tedden’ on Long Isiand by farmers and others returning from New York city. THE MIND CURE IN WASHINGTO: Several Hundred Believers in the New Science of Healing. AN INTERESTING TALK WITH A LADY WHO HAS PRAC- TICED AND TAUGHT THE DOCTRINES—SCHISMS IN THE CHURCH—THE SPIRITUAI. SIDE OF THE MIND CURE—HOW PATIENTS ARE TREATED. “1 should say there were four or five hundred people in Washington who beileve more or less firmly in what is known as the mindcure, or chris- tian science,” said a lady who ts proud to make one of the number, toa Sran reporter the other evening. “We have no organization, and are not brought together in any way that would enable a Person to ascertain definitely our number, but I have reason to believe what I have stated is a safe estimate.” “But how 1s it you have no organization, a8 people who hold other forms of belief have?” was asked. SCHISMS IN THE NEW CHURCH. e “Well, an attempt was made to organize @ s0- ciety here but failed, owing to various cases, prin- cipally because there are achisms in the church already. ‘Those of us calling themselves ‘chris- tian scientists,” who are followers of Mrs. Eddy, of Boston, would’no sooner affiliate with others Who go not uecept that lady asthe prophet of the new faith than Roman Catholics would associate them- selves religiously with what are called the Inde- pendent Cutholics, or an allopathic physician con- sult with a homeopath. e disciples of Mrs. Eddy are very exclusive, and, itis said, will not even read any books on the subject of mind cure except those written or approved by her. Mrs, Eddy, you know, has established a college of chrisitan setence {n Boston. The course of twelve lessons can be gone thi hina month. Recently she has added what ts ealled a normal course, She each all that can be known on the sub- claims t ject. There is also a college of christian sclencein chi 0. tiwhat are the leading doctrines of the mind cure, or Christian science?” the reporter asked. SOME OF THE ARTICLES OF FAITH. “That, as you will understand, 1s a very difficult question to answer. Those of us who donot accept Mrs. Eddy as the prophet of our faith reserve to ourselves much liberty of belief. According to mality and mental and spiritual qualities, each builds up from the general underlying truths, on wich nearly all are agreed, a religions superstructure more or less complete and ade- quate to the individual wan‘s and aspirations. 1 speak now of the mind cure, as it 1s unfortunately named, not merely as a means of healing and re- moving bodily aches and pains,but asa rule of life. ‘To me the purely spiritual side of the mind cure 1s, much more than that which bas ta do with heai- ing. Mauy people take It up only because the} think It a sort of necromancy or slelght-of-band, by which diseases may be cured. ‘To me it 18 sometulug lighe> and nobler—higher even than religion, for religion has to do for the most part with morality and morality regulates our rela- tions with our fellow-man. | Now, the mind cure, as I regard it, 18 purely spiritual and has to do aimost wholly: with our relations to the higher power, to the divinity. RELIGIOUS USE OP OUR MENTAL POWERS. “Briefly, I should say that the mind-cure was a relicfous use of our mental powers,” the lady con- tinued. “It is the power within us that makes for righteousness—the power to heal and to save. Prof. John Fisk, of Harvard, says that the evolu- tion‘ot man henceforth must be psychical. Now, we regard the mind-cure as part of this psychical evolutlon—an evolution from sense-perception to splritial perception. We feel and believe that itherto we have trusted too much to our senses. We believe that the body and mind are one. ‘That one ts the mind. We think that the mind-cure ts a phase of the reaction against materialism. Even the churches have grown material, and in recent centuries have entirely discarded one of the most. essential features of Christ's teachings—the beal Ing of the sick. “‘The mind cure, we claim, 18 ex- actly ‘THE METHOD OF HBALING USED BY CHRIST. Oh, yes; we belleve in the immortality of the Sout, Indeed that fs the very corner-stone of our faith and practice. We accept the law. We be- lieve that we are parts of a great whole, all mov. in the iaw. ‘The more closely we conform law, the more snugly we nestle to the bosom of the Infinite, 2s tt were, the more nearly do we fulfill the "true conditions of our Sand xpprosimate the state of rest within heh ts the ultimate end. not regard disease ash: existence, I belleve?” the reporter sald. DISEASE IS IN THE MIND. “No, we think it inthe mind. We do not say it is imaginary, but believe it to be In the mind. That ts what I hold. Mrs. Eddy goes much fur- ther. She teaches that our bodies themselves and all mnateral things have no real extstence—that they are all inthe mind. She goes much further in her teachings than Btshop Berkeley himself. The best illustration of our theory of disease 1s that which compares the mental process to a magic lantern, ‘The lantern ttself 1s the mind, the light ts truth, the screen is the body and the slide containing the picture is thought. Whatever picture you put on the shade of nought ts thrown, by the tight on the sereenof the body. Change the thougut and the picture on the screen 1s chai Af tie piccure on the slide is of disease, tt will be thrown on tie screen of the body. Change thesiide toa pleture of health, and the screen of the body will receive ft as well. Evil and disease we regard fon of good and health.” give me an idea of te inethods wed tn atients according to the mind cureWekool was asked. HOW PATIENTS ARE TREATED. “That 1s another very dificult question to an- swer intelligibly, but it ts one nearly all inquirers ask—usually the first. Tam not sure I can give a satisfactory answer. We do not pray over our tients. We regard God as an unchangeable tn. We strive to lift them into a more spiritual aumosphere, to get thetr minds off themselves, and espectaily'to drive out the idea of disease. We talk as little a3 possible about symptoms. We never ask our patients how they are, but strive in every way to eradicate from the slide the picture of disease. Fear and kindred passions we believe to be the greatest factor in disease. We hold with the physicians that nature tends to heal of her own accord, and we believe that if we quiet your fears we put you in the way of recovery. Not only do I myself regard fear, anger and other violent passions as great factors in disease, but in my own pract ook for mental traits’ and trends of character @§ causes of disease. For instance, me time azo a lady came to me to be treated for pepsia. | talked with her, drew her out as best I could and endeavored to discover her habits of thought and charactertstics. I found she was stingy." J not only sought in general to drive from h the thought of dyspepsia, but talked to her ina way which { hoped would stir her to gen- ere I gave her a number of treatments. I have Wade It a rule never to set a price on my ser- vices. Ihave never sought patients, and, in fact, prefer not to treat. But when people have come Lome and requested me to endeavor to help them, Thave tried to do 90, and let them give me what ever they chose. ‘Thé lady Ihave been speal of seemed to inprove under the treatment, ani claimed that I did her much good. She gave me turee dollars, I think,” the speaker concluded, laughingly, as if she felt her treatment for stinginess ‘had not been, perhaps, quite as suc cesoful as that for dyspepsia, SPACE IGNORED. i “We ignore space,” the lady continued, “I be- eve the time will come when I can think to a friend in Boston as readily as now Ican telephone to the post office. In our treatment, however, we prefer to have our patients in the room begidé ua. All that we ask of a pallent is that he will yield himself to us—that 13, not set his mind doggedly against the idea that we can help him. Most practitioners of the mind cure require that persons taking their treatment shali discard all medicine, In the present state of the science I would not feel warranted in taking a very stck patient out of the handsof a physician. Patients who have been given up by physicians of course I would ac- cept. “Tn the cases of children who become ill we hold that the thoughts of those about them—the moral atmosphere—affects them and produces the symptoms from which they suffer. "Tuis we believe, to be the reason that children who are es. specialiy beloved, and are in consequence a source Of constant solfcitude to thelr parents, so fre. quenuy die young. The fear tuat grows’ out of this Intense yearning love forces upon the minds of the parents thoughts of disease and death, until the atinosphere necessary 1s created. As I have said, we Delieve it ty all within the law, and there are hecessary conditions of life Which hust be ob- served. We also believe that the cumulative effect of long held and inherited beliefs, however fa canuot be got rid of at once, and tat we must sti! make concesslous lo the Instinct, $0 to speak, of disease, We do not, therefore, teach that a person can violate well-established laws of hygiene. SIMPLICITY OF LIFE we believe to be part of the law. If there are kinds of food which you have long re- | garded as hurtful to you we do not advise you to eat them, because the conviction of thetr hurtfulness ‘may have such a fixed habit of mind with you that it cannot be overcome, except in the course of years. So with ple Wilo are afraid of taking cold if they sit Ina draught. We do not advice them to seek out draughts to att in. We teach them, however, that if they are compeiled to sit in a draught, but. will not allow the idea of taking cold to domfhate them, they will not take cold. - ‘We always insist that the ind shall reject the idea of disease, “are there many practitioners of the mind-cure 4m Washington?” the reporter inquired. PRACTITIONERS IN WASHINGTON “There are at least half a dozen ladies here who make a regular business of treating patients ac- cording to the mind cure. I myself, as I have said before, have practiced a Uttle, but rather as an amateur than ag a professional. ‘The regular Utloners, 1 believe, have all they can do to attend to their patients, "Their fees are about the same a those of regular physicians.” What is the difference between @ practitioner and a teacher?” “The practitioners are thoge who practice heal- ing according to the mind-cure method. The teachers instruct others to cuitioners.” “Do you KLOW any noted people who are | converts to the mind-cure - could, a philosophy of herself. The lady spoke with fuencrs intelligence and: sincerity. ant at times grew quite eloquent In her ex; of her faith. ee a the re ms attracted many cranks, as all new things did; pesed many peor Ie considered all believers in 10 cranks, Dut she Was not afraid of the nam LIFE IN NEW YORK, The Cummings-Hall Kaleidoscope. WHEREIN SOME STRERT GOSSIP 18 REPRATED AND A LITTLE FREE ADVERTISING I§ KIWDLY GIVEN. Special Correspondence of THE EVENING Stan. New Yor«, Dec. 31, 1886, SIDE WALK ECHORS. One hears gossip of a curiously diverse charac- acter in the course of a walk on upper Broadway. I came up on the elevated road this afternoon, got Off at 23d street. 4A SMALL “ADV.” FOR THE GOULD FAMILY. Just as I turned into Broadway I ran across @ well-known leader of the german, who stopped me and said rapidly: “Have you heard that pretty little story about George Gould?” ‘Not yet,” I said, “It occurred during the Jewish fair here,” he continued rapidly; ““a young lady, an acquaintance of mine, named Miss Samuels, thought to help the cause of charity by writting a letter to Mr. Gould asking for a small donation. In her letter she said the money would be used In swelling the fund of non-sectarian home. The following day she received a check which she thought at first was for $2.50. She is only 17 years old, and not much versed in business matters. When she showed the check to her father he saw that ft was for $250 in- Stead of $2.50, and the girlwas overjoyed. It came out a little latter, however, that sie had written Mr, Gould that his charity would be used for a non-sectarian home, whereas in reality it was to De devoted to a fund for a Jewish hospital. When the girl understood this, she felt that her mistake had Caused Mr. Gould to contribute under a mis- apprehenstiox, and she sorrowtully took the check downto the Western Union building to return it to the great millionaire. George Gould was in the gutcr offico and she exp the matter to him. He listened very attentively, took the check, dis- appeared in an inner office ahd presentiy returned With another check, for $500, which he handed to rn” “That is for the Jewish hospital,” he said quietly ; “my father 13 not here, but I know that this is the way he would act under the elroumstances; he does many things of this sort, but he never likes to have them known.” DETECTIVES AND THEIR PICKINGS. A few feet further on I met a member of the de- tective squad who tipped his hat on the back of his head and began without further preamble: “some people have rather dainty ideas of cen- tral office men in New York. I've just come from ‘4 fashionable wedding on 5th avenue, where I was sent by the Inspector to keep an eye on the wed- ding presents. An officer 1s detailed, you know, to every wedding to look out for the crooks and snéak thieves. I joined the elite, kept things in good shape, saw all the guests out of the house and then the head of the famlly came up and said: neEellow, who pays you for your extra service e “Nobody,” says I, “it 1s 2 matter of duty.” “Then he stniled on me in a benevolent way, said that I wag a very conscientious officer, an Til be blowed if he didn’t fork out a $i bill and hold it out toward me as if he was afraid it would bite. Inever had a man insult me with less than a twenty before at a swell wedding In my life, and this one dotlar man s worth a cool million, too.” Thad often wondered _how the detectives man- aged to spend five or six thousand a year on sal- aries of sixteen hundred, and was pondering over tals revelation when J met a broker who was all alive with a topic which I hear is a vastly sensa- tonal one among the more dressy and high-rolling men of Wall street. “OP LIKE A ROCKET, DOWN LIKE A STICK. “Tom Carter,” said the broker, “1s busted higher thanakite. They say he's going down toa farm on Long Island to live until the dust settles. It is about the most melancholy smash I have ever known, for if ever a man énjoyed his boodle it was Tom Carter. He spent over a hundred thousand dollars last Year and he has nothing to show for 1t but about tén thousand dollars worth of horses and traps. He ran an oyster boat on Great South Bay five vears ago, made the acquaintance of a big bear broker, came to New York, plunged in with a few hundreds and in stx months. We. was operating at the rate of a mitiionaire, ‘Then he turned tnto a howling swell, bud his box at the theater held for him every ‘night, drove tandem, Tan a yacht, invested in Tunning stock, bought clothes until he actually had ninety-six’ suits at one time, assumed the single glass and patronized tallionaires and paupers alike. I have seen a good many ups and downs In New York, but I never saw aman fly as high as he did at the first flush, He has been the most prominent figure about town for two seasons, but he wlll never be seen on the surface of the whirl again, as he owes so much money that his chances of returning to New York without being arrested during the present decade are very, very slight.” Then he grinned with the utmost enjoyment and hurried on, ‘THE ORIGINAL “RECKLESS ADVERTISER.” There are probably more notabilities to be seen on Park Row at 3 o'clock in the afternoon than on Wall street at that hour. Not long ago Tsaw a man croseing the street railway tracks near the Franklin statue with the gait of an old farmer. He wore old-fashioned broadcloth, with a low cut waistcoat, and aturndown collar witha black tle, Lis overcoat pocket was stuffed with newspapers and magazines. A heavy bundle nestled under his arm, ‘Thick arctic shoes covered his feet, for the weather was wintry, His hair and hat reminded me of the lute John A. Logan. ‘The man was well- knit, and \d set quite close to his shoulders, He liad a high forehead, with fully developed per- ceptive faculties, ‘The ‘eyes were hazel and pleas. ant in expression, the nose was clear and well cu and the face quite broad and placid. He lope along as thorgh lost in thought. ‘There was noth- ing about him that would attract special attention. A Jersyman might have taken him for some preacher in the Dutch Reformed chureh on his way ck to Aquackenuk, Me Was the man, however, who developed a gold mine by the use of printer's ink a quarter of @ century ago quicker than any man in America since that Ume. ‘That mine has never “petered out.” It 1s as good to-day as when first discovered. He was Robert Bonner. When a boy I set type in bis office. He was even then as deliberate of motion and as reflective nimind as he is to-day. Mr. Bouner’s advertising method was not acloud-burst, Which attracted ihomentary at tention. It was a steady stream of water pouring from a clear sky for an fnde!inite period, Before Six months the stream excited untvergal interest. People wanted to know where it came from, and what made it. They bought his tamily newspa to ascertain tis source, and Mr, Bonner quickly came rich. Keen men, who finttated but never equalled His quaint "advertising, also waxed Wealthy. Others who got in later, tatnted by the wi for the novelty of the advertising dis was soon gone. cond ‘Mr. "Bonner spends from four to five hours a day in hissanctum. Itis an odd little room, Every- thing seems to be in confusion. ‘The chairs are filed with piles of oid newspapers, and books and magazines are scatteréd {n every corner. En- gravings and photographs recuiling the triumphs and friendsiips of past years hang on the walls. Bones, models of Hoots horse ‘shows, and other od- dittes suggestive of a Tove of equine are in the room. ‘The editorial deak 13 a litter of letters and newspaper clippings. Horace Greeley’s old Tribune table was never in a worse condition. Nobody but Mr. Bonner himself, however, touches anything in the room, If he ‘wants any special article he fishes among the Utter ata given spot until he finds it, A good-sized safe squats at one end of the room. Itis filed with curtosities that that have a value pecultarly delightful to Mr. Bon- ner alone. For instance, it contains the gold Watch thai marked Dexter's first wonderful tne. The independent second-hand remains on the frac. tion of a second as the catch was sprung, and has never been thrown back to the hour since the horse dashed under the string. Near this watch rests a second chronometer marking the time of Pocahontas, and a third recalling the unrivaled achievement of the peerless Maud'S. How many other souvenirs of the glorious past the safe hides from public view Mr. Bonner alone can tell, ‘The wonderful suins pald to Edward Bverett, Henry Ward Beecher and Fanny ern, have re- peatedly been made pubic. ‘These were by 0 Means the only writers to whom Mr. Bonner paid large salaries, Oliver Dyer, a rapher, for years edited the correspondént’s column at $35 a Week. After a decade of this drudgery he wrote an article entitled, “fhe Wickedest’ Man in New York.” He awoké the next morning and found himself famous, Within a year Charles A. Dana Was paying him $100 a week’ for special reports in the ‘Mr. Bonner opened hiy ey “Here, Oliver,” he sald one afternoon, “if you're worth $100 d week to men outside the er oftice, you're certainly worth that money to the men inside of it. Stick to your ‘Answers to Correspon- dents’ hereafter, and draw your $100 a week.” From that day to the present the veteran has retained his easy berth, Indeed, it is said that his salary has since then been raised to a more hand- some figure. The late William O. Bartlett for YeATs Grew asulary of $10,000 a year for writing ttle editorial articles on moral subjects, Bonner Valued them for family reading, and the circula- lation of his newspaper proved that his readers appreciated his estimate of thelr worth. Mr Bon. ner is not only a keen iterary critic, but he is an accurate judge of men. His knowledge of human nature seems intuitive. His judgment is quick and decisive. He knows whai he wants and he ays handsoinely fori. What he doesn’t want. He trimmed nis x, course tury years ago, ‘since then without jibing atack. His columns are never at the the most infnivewimal of axes. 0° aff ‘saew spe axes. ch peals he 1s adamant. ef ‘Between three and four p. m. Mr, Bonner uj his waste paper basket, pulls on’ his ove descends the stairs anid, trudges homeward. Hs walks over to the Park Place elevated station and rides to 58th street. He lives on this street Within 200 feet of 6th avenue. The bot in brown sione front, four stories without extra “Yes, there are many, Dut as sitive dboutiet would hot care torgive Neres know that the wile of a prominent Senator was Wreated last winter and greatly benefitted. A Well-known clergyman’s wite here 1s also a be- lever im the mind cure. Mrs Frances Hi Burnett was treated by Mrs. Ne in | When asked about 1t by some Washington ladies, | Mrs. Burnett answered, “I don’t know kow it was | done, but 1 was sick sind now I am well” Mrs. | Burnett has since rather repudiated the mind ‘The lady who thus outlined for the reporter leading points In the new philosephy & healing for any one ‘bat. beraek "While Rae ae | for any one ‘was founded on truths believers in as beat she | letmina cure, she had rounded out, THE PATROL WAGON. Am Institution Which Has Increased the Efficiency of the Police. TAKING FRISONERS TO THE BSTATION-BOUSE AND INJURED PERSONS TO THE HOSPITAL—PROPOSED EXTENSION OF THR SYSTEM—THE POLICEMAN'S HOURLY REPORT BY TELEPHONE, Nowadays, when policeman arrests & man on the street, Instead of taking him to the police sta- on he takes him to a signal box. In course of me ft is expected that “to box” a man will be- come a regularly recognized: verb in the slang vo- cabularty. The boxes, which are now familiar objects on the street corners in several of the po- Uce prectacts, are little octagonal sentry houses Of sheet fron, built around lamp posts and having conicaj roofs. If one watched at one of these cor- ners for any length of time he would probably see ® policeman saunter up to the box, open the door, Partly disappear inside the box for a moment, then emerge again, lock the door and saunter off. He ras making his hourly report to the station. “Per. ps the spectator might also see an officer oome struggling TOWARDS THE BOX with a man_ helplessly drunk or a fighting virago. ‘When he reaches the box he deftly opens the door, thrusts his hand inside, and then waits, holding fast to his prisoner while the inevitable crowd col- lects. “Presently there is a sound of galloping hoofs, and then a wagon drawn by a strong hores rushes up to the box. A policeman in the wagon Jumps out and hel iceman No. 1 put the pris- oner in the wagon. Pe horse. is whipped ‘up and the wagon starts om. Policeman No. 1 adjusts ls collar and cuffs and saunters away in search of other malefactors, Inside the box one will see a aes : cinct station house he would see behind the rall in one corner a telephone and also a registering tape or roll of narrow white paper pi ‘under an instrument. When the policeman pulis down a jever in his box he gives a signal at the station house, which is red and informs the officer in charge at Just what box the officer is signalling. which is kept ready for instant use with horse in harness, is despatched at once, Each hour the police officer on a beat is expected to report his pe eee SE pepe te ey the officer at the stetfon makes thing ike this “10 p. m-—Omtoer Amin reperts Pp Abeciate nese argue a police ol absolut ab a police awakes dt thetee we spade Mapp NO REPORT atacertain hour ke has to give a sat my Teason for the omission. If a disturbanee,“rob- very or other occurrence on Officer Smith’s beat requiring police attention has been reported at the station that officer fs notified when he makes his hourly, report, through the signal box. If the officer is in need of assistance hé can always get St, if he can get to a signal box or send his key to the box by a citizen Who has sense enough to use it. If an accident occurs on the street the atrol wagon at once becomes an ambulance. It as seats On the side with soft cushions, and can be used either for the transport of prisoners or for conveying to a hospital some person maimed in an accident or an affray. WHAT COMMISSIONER WHEATLEY SAYS. “The system is an admirable one,” said District Commissioner Wheatley, speaking of the poitce signal and telephone system; “it has already added a great deal to the efficiency of the force of pojice in the prectnets where itis in operation, BY ‘his system prisoners are taken to the station house quickly, and an officer who makes an arrest does not have'to leave his beat uncovered while he conducts his man to the station house. The system has been in operation for some time in the first, fourth and sixth precincts, and we are ar- Yangiug to place it In the second and ffth pre- cincts. We have asked for an appropriation for that purpose. A great advantage of the system 4s that it makes 1 possible in a short time to con. centrate the reserve force at one point, In case of any serious disorder this 1s iinportant. Then in Sections of the city where necessarily the poitce beats are very large, the citizens living neer signal boxes, to whom keys of the boxes are entrusted, beconie valuable auxillaries of the police. In case of accidents, disturbances or anything requiring a policeman, the citizen can give the signal, andina few moments the patrol wagon will come.” OPERATIONS FOR ONE YEAR. A report made of the operation of the patrol service during the last fiscal year in the fifth precinct states that 35,266 calls were made by officers reporting trom their beats, There Were 1,828 telephone messages sent and received; 331 calls by officers from signal boxes for the wagon, and 22 such calls from citi- zens. Seventy calls were made for officers by citi- zens and answered by the patrol wagon. ‘There were 123 calls for the wagon from headquarters, and 320 miscellaneous calls, The patrol wagon was used in aiding the force in a great many of its incidental duties. A re] of operations in the seventh precinct during the fifteen months ending June 30 last states that there were 58,000 iS by" offers from the boxes: 733 calls by officers the Wagon froin boxes. and 64 calls by citizens for tl One hundred and ten casualties were reported through Doxes and many incidental duties were Performed with the ald of the patrol wagon or the Superintendent Miles, of the police and fire alarm telegraph, stated to a Srax reporter that their police signal and patrol system was no longer an experiment. Its value ‘had been proved. He thought the system would soon be introduced Unroughout the whole District, covering all the police precincts. ‘Then, he said, the eMfctenoy of the system would gradually be’ increased, by in- creasing the number of signal boxes in each pre- ¢inet, and also the number of patrol wagons. At present there 1s only one patrol wagon in each recinet, and in case of two calls coming about he samé time there 1s of necessity some delay in answering one of them. THE BOSTON SYSTEM. ‘Recently in Bosion an experiment has been made with a similar system, and the official reports made there commend the operations of the system very highly. Two advantages are claimed for the system by the company that has supplied Boston, One of these 1s the absence of what are described as “the we ey sentry boxes,” and the presence ot the outside or citizens key, & turn of which calls for aid. Instead of seniry boxes the Boston system provides small boxes like flre-alarm boxes, to be attached as fire- alarm boxes are, to the ‘sides of houses. ‘The “citizens’ key,” when turned, calls, the patrol wagon, without requiring the citizef to open the box. Superintendent Miles, speaking of the different systems, said he not consider the sentry box a di vantage, nor the id movement anadvantage. As 1t 1s 4 police offcer can, bY Closing his Dox, be able to send a teleplione message to the statian-house without bawling 1t out before the public, The key movement, he sid, was some years ago applied to fire-alarm boxes and found to be undesirable, as persons having other keys sometimes inserted them into the boxes: and turned in false alarms. He did not think Ul second or two required to open the box. practi amounted to anything. ‘There was, too, he sal an objection in this city to placing rm boxes on houses and attaching the wires to houses. Com- missioner Wheatley, who has considered the advantages of the Varlous cities, sald he did not think the Boston system possessed any advantages over that in use here, although Washington was a Year in advance of Boston in adopting such a system. ——— A “Labor Struggle.” From the Christian Union, When I moved to my summer country home @ few years ago I soon noticed a little cottage on a rough hiliside overlooking brook, which I passed in going from home to the station. I observed that it I went by very early, on a morning walk, or came home iate, a man was usually at work on the hillside; during the day he was never there. One evening, as I drove up from the station, I overtook him as he was inven d briskly up the road, invited him to ride. found he was a machinist, at Work all his days in the engine houses in the city, twenty-five miles away. He thought it better to have his family in the coun- try, and bad bought this little place, which, anille trom the ri he got_ Chea) he had some. ways to Walke He “sald he was king a en __mor! and evel ‘The next year he got from rook, and had a at, and found out when he came for the job of fill- ice-house with fine foe, He made enough i by selling ice to Duy the lumber the next seasen, to build an ice-house that Would hold many hun- dred tons. He built 1t, ‘and he cut his he worked his garden, by ice just as ‘out be- é Fy H3 fara i 5 it ie fi E 388 Lirs po lady—And how is ‘Smit x Toit Soneeauuive ‘tila; but abe is no f—NO? 5 married’ a couple Bow me f tay divorces “s ARCHITECTURE IN WASHINGTON. Home-Building at the National Capital THE CONGRESSMAN EXPRESSES WIMSELF AT LENGTH ON TAR SUBJECT. (Written for Tue Evawrxe Stas.) Mm. ‘Those who follow the course of this correspon- dence between John and his architect will soon discover, if they have not already discovered, that neither of the writers kept very closely to the question nominally in debate. If a technical dis cussion of architecture or a study of the princi- ples of butiding construction had been the object, these digressions would be out of order; but the planning and building of houses that shall also be homes cannot be set forth in formal rulesand in- structions, There are many complex interests and influences to be taken into account, that can only be apprehended by the “sixth sense” pos- ‘seased by all of us in greater or less degree, which draws its inspiration from Widely remote sources, ‘and which, while it leads ultimately to clear and correct conclusions, takes useach by a different Toute to apparently defferent goals, ‘That which gives character and interest to a home must be, in some sort, an expression of the taste and character of its owner. To set forth in- animate things by animate, houses may be in size and shape as nearly alike a8 a catacomb of skulls; but there will be room, ag in the living human face, tor endless variety in their visible expression. In both cases the external seevt 0 6 sions oF eat ite revelation of inward character; other- wise it can be neither interesting ‘nor beautiful, There may be some t! concerning which “common” peo} cat not to be encor to think for themselves, But domestic architecture is not among them. Every man who wishes his house to be his own, and not his neighbor's, neither his architects’ gor his buflders’ nor yet his decorators’ and furnishers’,—and every woman foo, must think about it and think hard. Tt without saying that if he would think intelli- gently be must know aap ‘the subject, and that his knowledge must be gained by two methods, —study and ol tion, the latter being commonly the more convenient ahd agreeable, ‘This would certainly be the case in the beauti- ful and prosperous northwest quarter of the city of Washington, which John seemed to overlook in his exploration, or to have seen through a glass darkly. It was not, however, to be expected that any man, least of alla newly elected member of Congress, should admit that he was mistaken oF had been drawing broad conclusions trom limited observations. S01 was not surprised to receive from him a second epistle stoutly re-affirming his unfavorable opinion of Washington architecture. “You appear to think,” John wrote, “that I have taken anarrow view of the situation, hunt- Ing tor faults with the usual success of those who persist in looking at the wrong side of every- thing. Thats not the case, I assure you. I find good houses here, of couse, as I do in every city that has not been stagnating for the last genera- tion; but in comparison with the poor ones they are few, and they would be far between if they were evenly distributed, Moreover, there is noth- ing surprisingly good about them, certainly noth- ing astonishing in their being found here. I agree With Bismarck that no man deserves special credit for doing what he would be inexcusable for not dotng. it surely would be inexcusable if there ‘Were not many fine examples of private architec. tural work in a city that {s set on a hill and loudly challenges the attention of the rest of the civti- ized world; that 1s every year attracting more and more people who have’ plenty of money to spend for architectural and other artistic glory, and who may reasonably be supposed to have taste enough to spend it wisely. “Moreover, even among what are considered the brightest and best of the houses, it is not easy to find one that does not attempt to maintain a char- acter for grandeur, or picturesqueness, or classic severity, or Elizabethan dignity, or Queen Anne quaintness, by means of some strange architect- ural device that shows more caprice than knowl- edge, and which, to speak in the popular idiom, ‘gives itself away.’ The greater part of thesé Dulldings remind me of people who put on airs in their daily walk and conversation, and say in action if not in words, ‘Come, now, let us be witty, or clous, or interesting, oF lguined, or pious, or esthetic,’ or something else which nature never in- tended them to be, and which they never can be, except in the most superficial and clumsy fashion. It you think Tam wrong in this Judgment, come and see for yourself; we will go through the city like a pair of lightning-rod men, or book agents, and © NOLES as We gO. “One of the best things I find in Washington buildings is the brick work; and that isn’t as good as it would be if 1t were poorer. It is like another sort of people whoare so extremely proper in their manners and customs that they are positively dis- agreeable. It is like a painted ship upon a painted ocean, Or Wax works, Spies. ornaments, strictly correct in all outward form, but without a ray of ‘warmth or feeling. It would be a relief to see a corner chipped off somewhere or a little good-na- tured rou; Besides there 1s danger of hav- ing too much of a ‘thing; danger that the ‘town will be painted red betore we know it. ‘There {ga great vartety of the most excellent bufldi stones within reach, and I have already dectac that the visible walls of my house, if I buildin the city, will not be of bricka. But I'am not quite ready to talk about the house; I have a few inore remarks to offer on the subject of the site, “From the buyers’ and residents’ point of view it 1g not possible to be too savage in commenting upon narrow building lots in the city of Washing- ton; they are bad enough, inexcusable enough, anywhere; here they are simply atrocious, If any- one doubts that there have mn degenerate song’ of noble sires, let him c« vise the lots laid off in the original pea of the city, with the sizes and shapes {nto which they have been ‘distortured’ by the greed and iguorance of those whohave made the city What {t is. Very few lotsexcept those intended tor business purposes were legs than fifty feet in width; many of them were more than that; and almost without exception the corners were 30 large ‘that the cormer house would be quite detached from its neighbors, thus giving prac- Ucally three corner lots on each corner, In this sent year of grace, a fifty foot iot 1s a dream of luxury; a width of forty feet ts truly magnificent; thirty 13 exceedingly liberal; twenty-five 1s ample: twenty ts satistactory, and sixteen, or less, wil accepted by those who can get no more.’ If this sort of evolution keeps on tt is only a question of time when we shall find a race of flat sided people ped to sult their environment, Uke certain that live under the bark of trees or in the crevices of rocks. I suppose there might be some advantages insuch a body, especially for travelers; but if the same quality should be developed in Inind and morals, not even the accumulations of the ‘unearned increment’ would be a fair compensa tion for having our souls narrowed down and flattened out. “Perhaps you will think I am exaggerating. But here ts a faithful description of one of the houses which I might have hired for the winter. It is new, and stands on one of the most central streets in the highly respectable northwest quarter. The ‘first’ floor 1s about five feet above the level of the sidewalk, and under the front steps there ig akind Of coal ‘chute entrance tothe basement. It 1s practically burglar proof, being extremely narrow and crooked, and does no particular harm, or to anybody. The front door, surmounted by & go1 ‘cathedral glass window, 1s five feet wii Endopens into ‘vestibule’ and front ‘hall’ I bears about the same relation to these inner apart- ments that the sculpin’s mouth bears to the goulpin, The front parlor ts ten feet and ten inches wide in its broadest part; but ed that i in front of the fre-place, it ts only eight feet andahalf. The back parlor, which has one small window in the extreme aft larboard corner, 15 of similar jons, and there 1s a dining room thrust out into the adjacent back y: these precincts being diversifi and embellish with the usual accom) entsof back yards, ‘The kitchen, as might be expected, ts in the re- gions below, and there is a dumb waiter that Comes up with a bounce and goes down with a smash, ‘There are nearly eighty feet of stutrways, closely resembling the road that leads to glory,— straight, narrow, aimicult of ascent and ‘so shrot in gloom that one must ik by faith and not by sight. ‘There are something iike ft feet of feWays, that are not passageways ai all, for the suinple reason that it would be imnpos- sible for two full-sized people to pass in them un- Jess they adopted the tactics of the two goats, one of which lay down on the mountain path for the other to walk over him. I aim bound to admit that there are two fairly pleasant of those We examined, the claim 1s just, with a ‘single exception; it may, possibly, anticipate in some degree the probable attenuation of the race. to the p not téll me that reformer until I ‘Thatis, 1t 1s not guite wan” You unsuccessful REAL ESTATE WATTERS. ‘The Demand for Rented Property Not Vers Brisk. ‘THE PAYMENT OF TAXES AND THE BUILDING TRADE. THE HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS OF THE CITY AND THE CAPACITY FOR ENTERTAINING LARGE NUNBERS—MES. drawn out ted only ex. tremitiess’ 1s this €o be the end of ah eee greatness? “ff I get a lttle mixedin my quotations you will know howto make all Sertousiy, tsu't it time tor a new dispensa: the building of cfty houses? time ror more in accord with the breadth and these latter days, more igtel thy 1 in} WAXD Lamon's HOUSE. Fa ae pl moder means Mods and Lave wonse | Séme of the real estate men say that ther have on a twenty f¢ Jot; Dut & there no hope tering this sleader, endvvisg up-and-down ment “Suppose, for the sake bf argument, obliged to build for me, or Jor yourself, a a dlock on one of those ngrrow lots, how you doit? I know it is nots supposabie c: Suppose It was, how would you fmm..as: more I see of the city, and the re L vut into sympathy with the spiftt of mafia Fepubiican goverumueut {aim colng over th ican gov ang ove ground —tie Tore profound soetas the Wi ‘hose who planned the nation’s capital, more stupendous the folly of those who hg vented its perfect development. It is ent make a taan who feels a prover pride in his. tear his hair with And mortification t vile uses to which magnificent avenues, so broad and fine and salubrior ‘been by the unprincipled mac! of those who have contrived to obtain quite a number of houses on theur hands without tenants, and that they have not been able to rent houses as rapidly as they had expected. In some cases they explain that the houses were completed late in the seasoa, When peopie had about become ‘ttled for the winter, and they also say that some the houses were old ones which had been given up by the tenants in onder to move intonew houses. This latter condition of affairs ts quite common, as the majority of people preter a new house to an old one tf other things are equ Whatever may be the explanation offered, the {act remains that there ts quite a lange number of houses Vacant, and tt is thought by. some that Probably the Houses erected ts In excess of Une de mand. During the past season building operations Were carried on with great activity and a large number 0: houses were erected, especially of Uhat class known as inedium sized houses, There has always been a demand for just such houses, and ‘the rather high grade Of rents which has aan ailed in this city has been attributed in part \<‘Boss” Shepherd; great Seott: Its a thiusana | {9 thewant of sumiclent accemmmadation to meet tise ties he was not ten times the despotic mgnager | needs of a growing poptlation. It Was predicted e was accused of aoe by his bitterest mies. | that with the increase in the number of houses SUID Ore Be tanased, the architectural gen-or | rents would come down, but s0 tar its “has mot dattering rams and dynamtie; I'wish he hab hired | cpsrations next sessom wake toomen i} Operations next season will, however, have the tendency of reducing rents and this can be done Mithout interfering with a fair return upon the money invested. It is expected that property Mil pay ten and twelve per cent upon the fount of money tnvested and af this rate, the t income derived 1s larger than from any other Sass of investinent. RENTED HOUSES AND ROOMS. the Chicago cow that kicked over the lantem, that kindled the straw, that fired the bi that ell, how can I help getting excited when 1 see thesé beautiful boulevards,—the finest and cleagest in dltios pédstriansoarcaly Eaow aor enres wpe mows or. he is in the middie of the street or on the side. walk,—the far-reaching Vistas of beautiful shade trees'so charmingly diversified by the pubucparks, | ame efector ee ‘ and ciraiey and find allthis admirabl a cicrtecetion of Gungrens ts ree}- Planned and executed public work compelled to |2ed by those who have rooms and furnished serve as a back and setting for rows upon Xouses to rent, for the number of visitors and the rows of the most absurd, ridiculous and dejected- Nansient guests ts much less than when there is a looking boxes and show not | ong session. Members of Congress also irefer to the least of inteil or dignity | xe tem) juarters in hotels and boarding. in’ Goer ‘deeignt "The “priniuve “ostine End many of them Go NOL consiter At of ploneers in the wilderness have vastly more | vorth while to bring their tamilics with them. AS beauty of form and color in their external droault there are a large umber Of uruished squatted theas- | bruce than ‘these built that have vacant and house keepers 100k selves in the very front door yard, the drawing | vith melancholy eyes empty suites of Foom city ofthe nation. They aro ta much out of | pamencANSNNY Shes UDO CRS place asa bath tub in a ball room, or a toad on a tollet table. I'm sure I don’t ste what can be done about it unless somebody will an architectural colonization society, buy a salubri- ous sand bank overin Virginia, and senda few ‘thousand of these relics of barbarism off to form a city by themseives, It wouldn't cost much more than the monument, and would add a great deal more to the visibie glory of the District and to the nation itself, for the District of Columbia is the daughter of the nation, its first and only child; and as no care and attention lavisued upon her can be considered excessive, so nothing can be more disgraceful than niggardly treatment or lect. “But I am wandering trom the question, How would you build a house on a narrow city lot? furnished, as it has been found not very profitabie Wlease a furnished house to people who are Milling to pay only a mall rental ‘ihe wealthy People, according to the experience of real estate Ben who rent w ak, many ed hottses e Detter care of costly furniture and elegant Wic-a-brac than the occupants of moderately Tur- Rshed houses. Many of the agents say that hich iced furntshed houses are the most protiabie ries and pay a larger return upon the Roney invested than unfurnished houses at a medium rental or the cheap smali houses. This ‘pinion 1s contrary to the general belief, but when fis considered what large rentals are obtained for hendsomely furnished houses and that all Injury {othe furniture, etc., falls upon the tenant, it may te more readily’ undérstood how this can be so, Of ‘When you have answered that conundrum I shail | curse the receptions and parties given oY ask full instructions for my own house, which, | mch people With the usual accidents to the furn{- whatever else happens, will have windows on af | fare and carpets resulting from the serving of re- Jeast three sides. ‘Yours, —-JonN” | reshments, Cause considerable Injury wo costly ‘ymniture and ‘but the tenants are weil able to make all such injuries, and in couse- ‘To answer the direct questions in this outburst, | tenes the owner, at the end or the teas haw a and at the same time demolish the wnsound argu- | good bank account from which to draw in making ments will require another chapter. ge needed improvements ior the next season. pe: BR ©. Ganpxaz, | Four and five hundred dollars a month, and in 5 mame cases even more, is not an unusual Tent to Reetve for a well fu house in @ good local: ty, and when the house is taken for a less period thin a year the rent is even higher. THE TIME POR THE PAYMENT OF TAXES. A suggestion has been made to the District Com- missioners to change the time when the semt-an- ual payments of taxes on real estate are due to te 1st of February and 1st of Au; instead of THE FLOOD OF PRIVATE BILLS. Necessity for Believing Congress of Them ‘MB. SPRINGER URGENTLY RECOMMENDS THAT THEY BE SENT TO THE COURT OP CLAIMS FOR ADJUDICA- ‘TION. ‘The accumulation of private claims has always: Deen & source of annoyance to the House, During this Congress there have been nearly 1,800 private bills and resolutions referred to the Committee on Claims. Probably not more than a dozen have passed through Congress. The rest, just and un- Just alike, cannot be reached. Mr. Springer has made a report on the proposition to send alll these cases to the Court of Claims for adjudication. He urges the necessity of relieving Congress of all these casea, He says that the action of Congress in passing upon these claims 1s most unsatistac- tory; its concluston is, in almost every case, based on ex parte evidence furnished by the claimant, ‘There are now pending before your committee nearly 1,000 bills and petitions. It is estimated ‘that the number will reach 1,800 before the close of this Congress. Many of these claims are only for small amounts, while others involve hundreds of thousands of dollars, Nearly all of them re- quite the investigation of disputed facts, a task for which Judicial tribunals are espectally adapted, a task froin Which Congress, in the interest of jus- Uce and general legislation, should be relieved, ‘The history of past legislation shows that only a fraction over 1 per cent. of these bills, introduced for the relief of citizens tor private and domestic claims against the government, other than war Claims, ever pass Congress. It fs a practical dental of Justice to the citizens having an honest claim against the United States. Jui from the dis- position of such bills in the past, there are now more private and domestic cléims against the United States before your committee than will be disposed of In the next fifty years under the pres- entsystem. The citizen who has an honest claim against the government should not thus be trified with; {t is a mockery of justice. Maby of these claims, hé says, have been before al- mostevery Congress for a quarter of acentury ;atew Drosecuted by the great grandchildren ot che ona. prosecuted by the great-grai mn of the origi- hal claimants. of the dalmns now ending before your committee, many have been Iavoravly con- Sidered in one by one house, and in another Congress by the other house,’ without ever reaching the polnt of a final determination by recelving the concurrent action of both houses 1m any Congress; while others which have been rejected are again presented to Co! aiter Congress Wo take thelr chances ia ie Teginiae Cayo 1OtLery. ts e cost of printing and reprin amounts to enough to pay off a great portion of them. Mr. Springer shows that this cost during the past twenty-five years was and dur- ing the Forty-Highth Congress dione $8000., The claimant comes and goes and dies, he says, leaving his claim against the United States asa legacy to his children; for, if the clalmant does not belong to the favoréd felw, an ordinary lifetime 1s far too short to get a: however Just, through Con- If it 1s the or tohave the facts in each claim before passing upon the claim, in order that the citizen, in a reasonable time, may be paid that to which ie ts honestly entitied, and toinsure the rejection of claus Without merit, then Congress shuld, in the 0) of your com~ mittee, pass this bill.’ But if it is the purpose to continue these private claims from generation to generation, obstructing general legislation, then there should be no change; for the mind of man Would be ata loss to suggest any other mode of rocedure for upon private claims against he government under the practical workings of which go little can be accomplished at so great an expense asthe present system. He recommends 4 now the 1st of November and the Tst of May. Weis said in favor of this chi that the pa Rent of tue first half coming as it does about th | 1s of December, lias the effect of taking trom. ac. | tive circulation Some $700,000, thereby interfer. lag with the yearly settlements which generally are made tn ail kinds of business about that ume. Owing to the same circumstance the banks about that time begin to refuse discounts and the money | Market becomes tight. The necessity of paying exes under these conditions and with the near spproach of the holiday season is, IU 1s clalmed, Very inconventent 10 a large class of citizens, an 18 represented to the Commissioners that it would be a welcome reltef to change the dates When the taxes are due as above stated. Whether the Comuissioners Would have the power to make such a change or Whether if would be necessary to apply to Congress Is not known, |“ Commissione: Wheatley, however, to whom the ‘suggestion was promised to consider the matter and see whether amy action was demanded by the inter esis of the citizens. WASHINGTON'S HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS. The proposition to erect a large hotel in this city brings to the front the entire question of hotel accommodations. Perhaps it could not be main- tained very well that this city has not the capacity for entertaining all Ue visitors and strangers wi.0 find their way Jas had too long the repu- tation of being a city of boarding houses tor that plea to be je at this late day, and besides Ue record is, Such an arcume:; for on such occasions, for example, whea a President 1s to be ed hundreds ‘and thousands of people have been entertained, and in such a manner, too, ‘that no complaints have been heard of exvortion- sh tricks Which cities: ‘ashingion have prac occasion offered. For the greater tised when yortion of the year there hus bee here a lange Ling population, and ence there are a, lange number of boarding houses as well as hotels, Perhaps there are DUL few cities of the same pop- wation which contains 80 many and such excellent hotels as Washington. = The bulldings are not ‘PS 8) Maguificent or $0 profusely decorated as hotels in some other cities i the accommodations offered are comfortable abd sufficient for all practical pt S, ally in view of the scale of prices chargei. Inquiry has been made with some care the princi- pal hotels for the purpose of ascertaining their ca. ity for accommodating guests, and the tullow- fig are given as showing’ the number of people that can be provided for if the occasion de- mands: Ebbitt, 630; Willard's, 700; ges, 400; Arlington, 550 to 600; National, '650, and the Met yepouitan, 400. ‘Then there are the smaller hotels, such as Wormley’s, Welcker’s, Chainberlaln’s, St. Janes, The Belvedere, Tremont, Hamilton and St. ‘Mare, all of Whtch have quite & large capacity. ‘There are a number of other hotels as well as lange, Doarding houses which are really small hotels, $0 that it may be seen that the hotel accommoda- ‘ons Of the city are quite extensive. AL any rate there has never been any dificulty in accommo- gating, all the people who come here, however large the number. There 1s, however, ‘room for ‘suother bepause the city Se growing. all the ume and tne tendency to make this city the meet ing place of large organizationsismore pronounced each Year. |, MRS. WARD LAMON'S HOUSE. Mrs, Ward Lamon, the wife of the former mar- shal of the District, is having plans prepared for ‘a fine house, Which she proposes to erect on Citf- ‘street, Columbia in the spring. Mrs. iaern Smear as, ‘these bills cases courte, feet front, Which wiil not only furnish ‘space Ee ag ppetinesl orice eas {ore lange house, Dut will allow for ample grounds azund It. This house will be on the squure just elitics and (Spt ape” ‘West Of the one where the home of the late Senator BOW SENATOR KENNA AND A CIRCUS DIVIDED TIME IN | Logan is located. The latter 1s, as ts well known, ‘WEST VIRGINIA. ‘tee house formerly occupied by Mrs. Stone, who ‘From a Special to St. Louis Globe-Democrat, ‘owned the entire tract now known as the subdtvi- | ‘sion, Columbia Heights. Gen. Logan bought the pce, with nearly an acre of ground about it,from Gaz. Nelson A. Miles, a litule over a year ago.’ The proe for which the y Was gold was $20,000, ‘asl of thts amount $6,000 has been paid, and there is8.deed of trust upon the property for $14,000. It isMghly probable Ubat the friends of Mrs’ Logan ‘wil Subscribe enough money to pay off this trust, gothat she will be able to continue to occupy it as hehome. It is well known that Mrs. Logan pre- ‘A friend of John Kenna, the West Virginia Sen- ator, says that Zeb Vance is not entitled toa patent on campaign speaking atacircus Last fall, so the story goes, Vance and the circus struck a North Carolina town at thesame time. The Senator persuaded the showman that the people had turned out to hear hi showman, “I'm somethi Of a ch yself.” | few tolive in Was ton, especially as her soa is ‘The result was a division of time, by witch Veuse | Limaay located bere fa the real estate business. gotom his political remarks to the crowd in the SES eae tent and the regular program followed. | A Veteran Journalist. “When the question of remot capital from Wheeling to Charleston w: ” ‘WIF MAJOR BEN: PERLEY POORE Has NOT WRITTEN Kenna's triend, “we hada canvass. 4 eons i SENATOR ANTHONY'S LIFE, ye ee and he took the stump with | «zi, W.” in New York Tribune. place to place up the Kanawha valley, but the Ben: Perley Poore, the veteran Washing- ple didn’t t, came to New York to spend the and to attend a re-union of old friends in ‘Col. Fiier, unless ‘we can get up something new It is more than forty years since Major “ {Thats what I chink,’ said Brier gloomily, began bis career in Washington as the rep- “Kenna sat with his feet on the table anda tative of The Boston Adias, and, I veiteve, he Wheeling stoge Between bis thinking. All missed a season since, In speaking ot at once he sald: ‘Colonel, Pye gag it. T noticed to- ‘the other day, he remarked that he day by the, Paper that a ‘circus is billed for Hunt- | nd never owned a dollar's worth of any kind of ington on Saturday andis going through the stave, ‘and was no richer to-day than wuen he ‘We'll go down there And make an arringement to first newspaper ariicle, except that he travel along, with the show and deliver short | \"$'a few more books and pictures and. treasures the tent just before the perform. ° kind that cont ute to the enjoyineat ance. ‘The circus will ‘those oid mountain | Ogn appreciative owner, but are not likely greatly foxes out of thelr holes if aigyubing wil” $Frakthe cash value of his estate. Major Poor’ “Pm with you,’ said Col. #rier. ‘to have renewed his youth during the last «ne two polfticians made a better or four years, He more, pounds, bat ib than they had at frst contemplated. is a renewed luster in lus eye and a glow of ity of the thing struck the showman where color on his cheek to which they were he wag at home: (M6 fixed up a program like this: ry Four of the After grand entree cade Frier he Boston ve tw be Introduced and to talk ten minutea” The eS eae eks oe ae we perfonning war elephant Pil’ was to Poore his name now follow, and that act was to be succeeded by -the high the list of those survivors beautiful queen Of the flaming zone in her unpa- ‘the honors of that fa- feat of riding an untamed mustang bare- military ‘but I shouldn't be sur- Pena his speech, Delage Dy the clow: pot tear reugious oy ne Doeeako eine clown, This program was, fal fe, Ts an Until Major Poore told me clown’s int of Kenna was one of the tell- he did not write a life of Sen- ing points. He did 1 after this faghion: oO ‘For vwenty-three regard to Tace; olor oF previous. conditar oat committee = part about to introduce to you Mister Kéaner, the in cas a ds ube brave young orator and ‘statesman of’ your and knew him thriving State. He 18 a self- man. Ata piough- Poy he plouglied corm on these rugged Bils, bars. footed, bareheaded, and T may it ‘0 his ar are as horny as leather. ile can strik@ fre from the flint rock with his heel His and intellectual head defies the hottest aJuly Pe rae eis of His voloe is like the African Uon's. His eye 15 ART NOTES. The portrait of Professor Simon Newoomt, Painted some since by Mr. Uike, of Unis city, at the request of the Russion National Observatory at Pulkowa, has been Tecetved by Gehetmrath strave, the Director of that institution, and ts both ade sired and prized, Dy (howe oinnocted with “i. This 4s a cfroumstance Which Washingto may well be congratulated since two of her eite ps are higaly complimented by 1, — 11 is understood that all Or nearly all the resi. dent artists wit! loan examples of their work to the Cosmos Club for Its reception next Wednesday evening,—which isto be the soolal event of next k. This ts an exevedingly happy idea. added jon, These contributions will form an tire of the affair, and they will at be brought, under favorable elrcum- he atiention of a lange and apprecia. asscublage of prominent people, — There has been extibited at Aman’s, on 9th stivet, for some Ume past, a plece of stilldife painting by Mr, Charles Armor, Which Is regarded a8 decdedly the best work of 1ts class yet done by Partist. ‘The group represents a rock bass and two mallard ducks, hanging against a rough board door, and the Néelity with which each part ts re produced ts really remarkable. Mr. Armor has in 1s studio a number of other stilL-live subjects and Several landscapes, completed and under was, hich he hopes to “dispose of at pubtic sale somé Ume this month. The portrait of Mra. d painted by Mir. Armor some time ago on on Marshal Wilsoa has been, DY the Way, presented by that gentieman and his wife to rw Cleveland, a holiday ‘souventt, ‘and; It te nderstood, gives satisfaction to tne f or the original, — Mr. W. Warren Brown, who'had a studio there several years ago, has again set up iis easel in the Corcoran Building. During his absence from Washington he has paid almost exclusive attene ton to marine subjects, fading that particular an ot fteld as Well as likely to be the most for the smaller number of ike tf a specialty. A scene on Uhe on lils Walls, recently completed, 1s vance on anything of the kind Mr, shown bi as Well has nec from a foreign cog: and as evidence that tt as a promise, 1 may be ved a tempting ‘offer for It ity, Bans Into bis y Mr. Grown has several ings, representing various. SUby a number of sttdies and sketches, {hat are well worth the attention of Vittors, WHOM, Mr, Brown Will always weloome to his studlo, — Mr ad Gi 'y has recently completed a portrait of Mrs. Cleveland, with which the friends Of Chat lady Who have seen ft are greatly pleased, It shows her standing at full length, tn size a litte above her natural proportions, tn an easy position, With the long train of her dress gracefully dis. posed at her side, ‘The skirt and bodice of the with black lace ves extending from the shoulders tothe elbow m'they are met Dy Uwe long arm of tan colored kid gloves. Save a little lace at the neck, a spark- iting gem on the velvet band encireling the throat, aud a diamond breast pin, the costume Is without, {rimming or decoration of any Kind, as the picture 4s also wholly without an elaborat dor Other accessories, the purpose of the: ist Being to concentraie the attention of spectaters Upon ‘the figure, upon which he intends tne tncerest of the panting to depend. On account of the size of the canvas it cannot well be exhibited at an acces- sible point on the avenue, bul may be seen fora Short time at the studio of Mr. Guerry, over Bell's photographic establishment. — The most Important work of art added to the Corcoran Gallery fora long time is a characteristic painting in oll, representing a Game-Keeper’s Lodge, by Prof. Knaus of Berlin, as it is indeed ‘one of Uhe best of Uat distinguished artist's pro- ductions, How he himself estee 1 will be ‘understood from the fact Unat he selected it as his tive Work in the great art display £ Berlin last autumn to ebrate the one bundredth annual exhibiuion of the Royal Acad- emy of Germany. Referring to that exhibition, principal patntings on view, the lish Magazine of Art bas Ubts Uo say of this genre Ubere ate instances of great men doing small work, with the consequence that ‘Uiese are examples of consummate art-knowledge embodied in comparatively miid vo en or these, perhaps the best 1s “Ein Forsterienn,” by Ludwig Knaus, Where a mountain game keeper has come home after his days work, and Is Just Settling hituself for the evening. A inuld-servant on her knees is lighting the wood in a stove, The | accessories of Vanous weapons and is of the chase furnish the apartment with a rich variety of textures and forms delighttully painted,—better, crhaps than any otber living man could paint ———+e»__— | Erem. Logan and Sherman in the War. SOME INTERESTING REMINISCENCES. ‘ae Stak has obtained from Gen. A. H. Mark- land the following interesting and apropos maticr from his “Notes on the War;” “Gens, Sherman and Logan were associated in my mind with the patriots and soldiers of the war of our revolution. They were intensely earn- est In the cause and absolutely fearless in the dis charge of military @uty without reference to rank or under whose orders they stood. The question with them was when they could best serve the interests of the government of the United States. Sherman was shifted from an independent com. mand in Kentucky to an inspe-torship in Mi ‘then to the command of barracks or a school of In- struction and subsequently he was or dered to Paducah as a kind of com- mission and forwarding quartermaster, to re- ceive troops from the north and sead them to the front at Fort Donelson. In all these various a» Siguments to duty his ad and soldierly qualities commended him to Uhose about him, and when he would send en ae berland river to General Grant he would generally send a letter to General Grant of encouragement, giving him such news as only the tustinet of a true soldier knows how togive, The notes were writ- ten in the hurried, quick manner now so well known to be characteristic Of General Sherman, ‘The notes, a5 a rule, Would Wind up in about unis iow, if there is anything up there you uk 1 can do to help along Just order me, Mido anything and Waive rank.” General Sherman at that Ume ranked General Grant. The notes were in presence of those officers who happened to be at headquarters when Lhey were recetved, and {1 well remember the forcible comments Rawlins, the adjutant, would make uponthem. “By the eternal, General Grant, Uhat ts the kind of man we want in this arm: General Grant knew that probably bevter Uh his adjutant did, but he was. not so demonstrative. Those litte potes from General Sherman at Paducah to General Grant at Fort Donelson fonged the link that subsequently bound General Grant and General Sherman to ove another. No man who saw Col. John A. Loganin command of his regiment before and at Fort Donelson could have doubted his patriotic partisanship tor the Union, He hoist his Mag of devotion vo the Union that tt might be seen of all men, and when his followers went into battle at Fort Donelson he was In the lead and thé enemies’ bullets found a lodgment in his body. 1 Was of those who knew of his sufferings as he iay a Wounded officer on the headquariers’s steamboat of Gen. Grant after Une surrender, and 1 know something of his patriouc Dreathings at that time, and never will] ‘the tender care he received from hits loving wife at that time, As soon as he was al he returned to the field, and throughout the war was the typeof a brave soidier and a zealous patriot. He shirked no: privations or dangers in the fleld, and when there Was a promise of a lengthened quiet at Uhe front he went to the rear only to mount the hustings and rally the people to the support of Uhe govern- ment. He fought a fair fight, and under any clr cumstances would have gracefully submitted ta, consequences. | cou. an was undoude- edly disappotuted “in” not being to the omen of the Army of the Tennessee at the Ume Gen. Howard was as- signed, Dut Ube disappointment in no wise affected, his soldterly qualities in the subordinate place of commander of the Lsth Army Corps, He was ‘willing Wo receive and obey orders from any one who gave them in the interests of Ube army. ‘That Was Ciearly shown in the case of an order given ‘him by a Dummer, A class of foragers who would, in violation of orders, get in advance of a column of We army When moving through Georgia and ‘the Carolinas were called ‘Unese bummers would encounter the rear guard of ‘Ube enemy and a brisk Nght would ensue. On one raion a force. of the enemy proved too strong for the bummers, and a bummer Was sent tn haste ‘to ne rear for reuntorcements, He met Gen. Logan riding at the head ot his column, and addressed Tobe are of plain black veive s Cum. the general in Ubis language: “slurry up; hurry up, general, We have got a fight on at the front and Want reinforcements!” ‘The general, 1u good huinor, obeyed Une order, and _ga¥e the com- tnand to double quick, reached the fleld in tume to Win the fght, when he commended Une private Soldier for the inanner in which he had given ‘command to up. Thou Gens Sheruan and Logan were, 12 Ue, men of the coolest, most devermined and ve courage, On Lhe march, at the bivousc caunp they were ofoers of quiet, stinple ana genial disposition. 1 have seen Chem Umes when war seemed to have gone tro lninds, and they Were around some happ: Uc fireside. Tue bearing of Gens Sherman Logan at ail times during the war Insp dence that created an anny of as good material as ever shouldered bat a cise libiar i | On 8 Railway Train. The Rambicr.—Taupin finds himself alone compartment with @ young and very pretty im- rises, woman. Since the train started he has mersed in his newspaper. Suddenly ‘kisses the Indy vigorously, takes his seat and again absorbed in his journal. “sir, this is outrageous,” his fair companion manages Co say in @ voice stifled by indignation. {Taupin raises his eyes from the paper, looks, at f & is peighbor with the uumost Jeans Out of the window, gianeing ‘and nally sinks into his seat, im a tone ip wo were pasing chrvagi a tunse” | poe, hearth — one sc An Honor to Bartholdi. ‘The Courrier des £tats Unis, of New York, has