Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1888, Page 2

a. SS . THE EVENING 8TAR: WASHINGTON, D.C.. SATURDA / CITY AND DISTRICT. RAL ESTATE Gost OF THE WEW BUSINESS BUILOINGS TO BR ERECTED ROWS OF PRIVEE OUSES—MRATING AN ENTIRE SQUARe Wits OnE Fine ‘This fs the period of preparation tn the srcht- Yempiated improvements These designs are not always carried out, The estimates of the bull.sers are perhaps too high, or it {# likely that the man with the woney may change his. mind and decide to make some other investment. ff all butldings The bounds of the city would also have to be extended In order to inciude the new improvements within the city limita There are however, a number of building euterprises which ‘Will go On a8 soon as Lhe weather permits. Bank of Washington will erect « a¢w Dutid- ing on the site where their baking house now manda A description of this bul ding has all been published iu ime Stan It will be & usually is, Central National Bank ts completing, tbe on ta Lo the building Sept ig work has so far advanced 2 HH 5 & af ser age 7 buuiding. Private enterprise wili be sétive as usual 1p Uullding In various, portions of the city. Plans are under contewp.stion ior the erection of « lu. ge business Duilding io the Vicinity Of the Treasury, und one or two otuer buildings Which Wit Le Uésigned for hovel purposes, are also ‘Uaiked avout There ore some houses to be erected ta the coun. Uy Wale year, or perhaps in view ery Growth of the'city the Unmediue victuity or tue Urvan limits can bardiy be termed the couniry. Abany rave there wil be several hanusome resi. ences erected in some of the suburbaa subdivi- sdoas It seems pruvabie that tue buding opera ous during tue couilng season will be quite | geste, autnouge trom prverat iavioasions i 8 uit supposed by those comperent Lo Judge lust there Will be anything Use 4 vuilsiog boom, INDEPENDENT OF POLITICS. ‘The fact that it 1s “presidential year” will no doubt have sowe effect upun the real estate mar- ‘ket, altwougu, as # prowineat dealer remarked re eonuy, Unis city Is gradually becoming todepend- eat 1 poducs and poutical cuanges, te sald Wat Lue people who cowe bere aud invest their money are induced to do so because of the at fractions offered as a place uf readence. Tue FRLming, eauly of the cicy, iis Broad strane, utitUh bres, parks and parking, aud che elegant private resideuces and costly pubic improvements are eiements, be thougnt, thar remain constaut Shrough ali the vicissitudes and changes or party | ‘Tue dealer referred to cited the present condition Of the real estate market as au evidence oi the | solid foundations upon Walch the prospesity O. tue city rests. “He Suid that during .ue pas’ year and Dall be Dad sold over two miuion duuars’ worth Of property. He did uut know uf 4 stugie cuswuier ‘Who was Got able 10 meet is Obligations and wold the property purchased. The aves that bad deen given Were wet promptly und tue interest was | paid. Tuere was 00 gue tua. was wluing or bad | ‘Offered (0 seu (OF ens, OF even for Lhe sume aIOURL What had been paid.” Whtie .be market was dul, and bad beeu so for some monchs, yer be Bald Cust Prices wad nos fallen. He tuougut Lust Lhe presemt Sondstlon of affairs War biguly (avurable, and gave Feat promise sr the future. BUILDING ROWS OF HOUSES. ‘The erection of several rows of houses has already been begua, sud other improvements of ‘this character will ao doubt be made during the Twenty houses are velng Dullt bj Mr. T. Schneider On Corcoran sireel, uv tween Mampshire avenue and 171m street. Eeven theve ouses are on oue side of tue street aud atne @a the vppouite side. They wiil ve tu: 3B prose rick frome, and tue style wilt be a4 varied as posible. ‘The tals mprovement will be over $100,000. MeLauzita and A. Davis are Of SeVen tureestory houses on 6b een Q anu K streets, irom designs Dy ray. Tuese houses wil have brown Uimmiags and press brick fronts, ha» Ue b Dosen at Lhe Durtueast corner | aad @ streets nortuwest for the erection of | ve stove aud brik residences Mr. Peer Baving tuese Louwes built iow desigas MEN. T. Mailer, arcuttect, Four of (ue houses street and tue other nouse will Dea One, Wib the entrance on 19tu wtrent. A ny tel E © Ha ‘wWwer at the corner term nates aD octagon bay window. Ali the houses Wii ve Luree stories io With sleep roofs covered witn Lerra cotta Rock-fac d brown stone forma tue Dae bd the press Drick used In the {ronts will My De reileved witb courses of terra cotta, The pedi- ents and tower tops whicu finish the houses ‘Will be cov red with terra cott Uung. The hails And Gining-rooms will be finished ip aatique oak and the parlors ta white and god, FONE PRIVATE HOUSES, Mr. T. F. Schneider, the arcuitect, is preparing plans for & h_ndsome residence for Mr. A. T. Brit ton, It will be located on 16th wireet, just south of Soott Circie, aud between the residences uf ex- Secretary Rohesoa and ex-senator Pend eton, The house will cost wbow. $40,000, Mr. Altis P. Brown is having plans maue lu Cue same Office fora house Which will be erected on P street, between 13.0 And 16% streets, and will cost abut $15,000. sir. ‘Scune.der bas also desigud a howse tor Chas B Dr Vain, chief eugine-r in the Navy, which w li be bulit Ga New H inpsbire avenue, between N and Ostrecta The cust Of Luis house Will De $15,000. Me-srs Euminert and Hetsiey are having yiacs prepare.s by Mr. Schneider for a business butidii ‘whicu they propose to put up on 12h scree, Just Bort of Peunsyifauia aveaue. It wil ue four stories In beigbt. Mr. Columbus Alexander Intends to enlarge his Duliding, 1007 F street worthwest. The improve- iment will cvasist of adding an additional and putting Ia & pew tron. A bay window ie Hho Bs orpsmental ‘Wil extend up the enure froat Dulidog. IMPROVING AN ENTIRE SQUARE. Mr. Thos W. Smith proposes to improve the square bounded by Indians avenue, 3d, and C ; Sayings, as be was fond of reading Nasby. could almost always God Nasby's books on “ Fe Fe, Hf H HE 4 i : if rt i 8 1 i ge ai 4 i F i H Hy 3 + E i a| { 8 §; a 1 i i | i | i SOME OF WASHINGTOWS GHIEV- ANCES, A Dolefal Cry from the Past. WASHINOTON'S WOFUL STOKY—ANTE-NATAL GRIEV- ANCKS—ATTEMPTS CPON ITS LIPE—MARSH TREAT MEST AND INADEQUATE SUPPORT—THE NATION'S WAKD STARVED BY ITS GUAKDUN. Na. 1. Modern cities, thouch they never yield to mere Oli age, are often said to be born, to grow to ma- turfty, and to die like persons. They are similarly afflicted with the diseases of infancy. Many 2 Promising young city succumbs to municipal colic, 10 the gripings of an unwise economy or “old fogy” stinginess, or to municipal tever, with {vs usb of apparent heaith and vigor, and its sub- sequent exhaustion when this fictitious strength has Cisappeared. It 1s the latver disease which fills mining regions with the cadavers of cities. Alter a brief and feverish existence their frames ‘moulder unburied on the mountata sides, cold, tn- Animate, startling to the solitary traveler. Man's vicissitudes of fortune are not @ uled to cities. ‘They are rich, poor, extravagant, industrious. Some are born “sucking a sliver spoon,” biessed fo situation and natural resources, Others find life a series of difficuities, sometimes overcome by the indomitable energy which turns a bog {nto ‘Cue firm found tion of dwellings, and views a vast destruction of the Poiana td ‘stroyed. But more frequeatiy early disadvantages: ‘and wisforcunes over ome tar ive city, Just 4s circumstances of birth and trali eee here ot or destroy the bigher capacities of the ‘a or pauper’s offspring. Cities also display a diversity, &4n0st huoan, in manner of i. The mining towa matures rapidly. The rumor of Seveloped by the neat of o sopica! sun simone Per- sous, Other clues increase in ‘iowiy but surely, ‘Their lives are long, and often in dving they leave to the wo id an city sprung from ‘themselves, retainiag the ancestral name. Thus It Ras Deen s1 in substance, that Rome is the eternal city. because It iy a series of nomes, gach wits a distinct existence, Death comes in af varied r there ke vm tety in the resistance. ufered. Mineral G@eposits fall, rich “finds” are mad buodred Inlies away, and & Leadville dies and goes 10 ecay wed heoareatsPa Sage ioral soko ina change in the direction of the trade, Cities, (ben, In certain aspects of their material deve.opment and decay resembie it the analogy might be carried further, and human emoulous be ascribed to personiijed ciues, Wasb- ington, fading a wngue, could give utterance to a | Wotul autovlugraphy. ANTE-NATAL GRIRVANCES, ‘This recital of grievances would dnd a beginning | iB events which Occurred previous Ww the city’s birt. While, ordinartiy, neither indtviiuals nor ‘municipal corporations can complain of ili-treat- | ment at a time when they had no existence, the | capital on the Polomac may perhaps be excused | for induiging in a feebie, preliminary wail over the didicuities which it experienced In being born at readily in View of the fact that many subsequent | evils can be traced Lo their sources in events of the amte-natal period. Tye location of the national capital was a sub- Ject of cout-ntion between North and South and between several different states of these sections ‘Tue claimants of the bonor of providing the per- ail And this privilege should be granted the more | 8 vote of 83 to 74 alarmi can hardly be rst o: Washington's grievances is rh the ‘the animosity of many aunong those wuo should have been the olty's protectors, ‘THR INDIFFERENCE OF OTHERS, NOT ACTIVELY H0s- Tal form of government for the District, one of the members of the District committee said that within two years partebf ouly nine afternoons nad been spent in legislating for the capital. The im- provement in this respect since that date has not been ‘The announcement that a short Yon us a personal favor to citizens of the District, ‘ad not as part of their Congressional duty. Those Congressmen who consider that the main pur- pose of their ierms is to arm themselves for @ reelection are of course bored or divgusted with petey and uninteresting District w@airs Discussion concerning such matters fur- nishes nothing to be In the home paj for their (wuents’ bvnefit and their own glory. ‘Even of those wno interest themselves in tne District. @ considerable proportion endeavor to uulize it as @ eid of experiment tor their political Of Other hobbies, the practical application of which they would not, in maay inatauces, dare to attempt at home, where there are yours (o make ‘heir reseotinen' Tels In cage tne ex; at prove nurttul, (But vee District 1s the &, othecary doved experimentully wi eacu dubious coun} Deture it can safely be orbs capita Sonat hardly have anticipated such 1 ve at atscour treatment, The early standard of duty set for Congress in the matver of its man: ment of the District was ot a low one. In Kepresen:ative Bacon made ely Spent in legisia | Waole United states” Tt ts Birdly necessary to for this District as for we ‘Say that Incieash pulation has @ot secured a | on panna ais Sat eer voted tw District affairs, and, in view of tue facts, manent seat of government were made unyteluing in their demands by state pride and state Jealousy, and sectional animosities added to the bitterness of the controversy. The suvject was a fruitful source of Wrangiing in the Co gress assembled under the articies of confederation. This body met tm sowe one of half a dozen different places, ac- cording as convenience suggested or necessity | compelled, and from time to ume it named a per- manent location, only to reverse 1ts decision when the subject was next dis.ussed. Tne propcsed site on the Potomac, supporied ty many Southern memvers, Was rejecced more than once, In 1783.4 location Om the Delaware was preterred to one on the Povomsc, and 1a 1744 @ commision was ap- pointed to select a sive upon tue iormer river. Ths selection was 20U made, however, and the couten- Ton Was bequeataed to the frst Congress meeting uuder tue Constitution. ‘The wrangle soon became more heated than ever betore. Tue clulins of Pull adeiphi., Germantown, Havre de Grace, Wright's Ferry, 0a (ue Susquehaona, and a location on the Potouiac were most sroagiy urged. On September 5, 17S¥, ‘he House, DY a Vote of 31 to 19, passed a revolution fixing ‘the permanent seat of govern ment on the Susquebapba, an action which aroused the bitterest teelings among the Southern members and caused Mr. Madison to affirm his pellet that if a prophet bad starud up in the Virginia conventiva and foretold the proceeding, Virginia would uot have been a party tothe Con- stead of a site on the Susquehanna, asthe Government. The Hous: coincided in the am nd- ment, and tue Capitol would peruaps be now stand- io Germantown bad not ab awendment, affecuug tue iocstion Lu NO respct,Carried Cue Dil Dack Wo LLe senate, Wuere It falied to rece:ve consideration during the rema nder of the sesaon. In the next Sear this pbace of the wrangle was ended. The persistency of Mr. Madison and other Suuthern Members ¢ fried the day. but a ‘ws neces safy WO n@cure (De Pequired votes. ihe vill fur tue a8 umpt.on of (he stae debts by the national G \- Srument, whlch Wad also originally supported by & minority, was pissed in coujunctiva with a bul to locate the capt.al ou the Povomac by a “iog-rollng” arrang-mept between Hamilton ang Jeflero. fo July,1700, the House, by a vote of $2 029, und tue Seuate, bY « Vo.e of 14 to 12, decided in of tue Yotom .c. ATter Len years of preparation for the event, du ing which perio: a sie Was wiecied by President Washington, «bo rdof commissioners coneaded ayain-t Obsiinacy and avarice In 8 me ‘Of the original proprietors of the soll, and work on severai public buildings was Degua, ion ‘5 Lue national capital caine into bee. Frou is cradle 1 was surrounded by encmivs eager for its lite, President W.sulagton Was taunted wiih sOrdid mo.ives in causing te capital to be placed Dear his estates on th ic. The burg in by wulcn the question Was settied was denounced ag irauduleat and corcupt, and eacu disappointed and incensed Claimant of the caplial prize in this legisiative lottery awaited & cuance to graufy re- venge and to tesi tue fortune O. u new drawing by ‘Strangiing the succesful competitor, ‘The first grievance, then, of Washington, the ety vontrolied exciusively by Congress, tue ward Of the nation, @ Luat (rou Its (endevest years ts nerves wave Been Unstrung, its growth retarded, and Its consutution ruined by a weu- founded terror, due to THE ATTEMPTS UPON ITs LIFE and the threa's of sudden and violent destruction made trom time to time by {ts guardian, Like the hero of “Grea: Expectations,” the capital was brought up “by vend,” and its guardian was for- ever “on the rampage.” From the day in 1800 when the archives of Government were brought from Philadelphia fa “seven large boxes and four or Ove smuller ones,” and an army of Afty-tour office-noiders sWelled Une popula ton of the city, there have been periodical attempts to remove the eee? of Goyernment, and such removal would have Meant, of course, the death of Washington An Ensdshman named Weld, who visited the future money which have been expended, there are nuin- Terai nai ae ce who sre still wry adverse to the removal rn) seat of Governiuent thither, and are doing all ia thelr power to check the progress of the Dulld- | ings in the city, and to prevent the Congress from meeting there at th nied ume.” Tho.e "who had thus. opposed the “removal to Washingtoa were the same who now: ofed (0 effect a second of their poucy, sougn. to dition which Would serv situilon, Tue Senate inserved Germantow: ia) | the very sug estion that the Capliai’s legwsiature } Suould give “ne-ualf ite thoughis to the capital's | doveresis seems ruict.ous, An uufl.uess for the performancee of the duties | assigneu it has often beeu urged 43 part either of ‘THE ACOCUATION OR CONFESSION OF CONGRESSIONAL | * INDIFFERENCE | tn respect to Washington. in 1803 Representative Randolph r marked inthe coucse of debate that Congress Was incompetent to legislate for the Dis Uriel, addiog “Is was well known toat the indo- lence of ouber members (than the District com- mittee) or their indifference, inseparable from tue situaiion in which they were placed, would pre- | Yeut Congr ss tromlegislating with @ full under. | Standing of the objects before them.” Congress for a long Lime pot only accepted the idea of its incapacity vo govera the people of the District, but | appareotiy forgot that it had any responsibiliuies | Whatever in re pect to tne capital city, The excuse of unfitness for failure to furnish the gen- eral legisiation necessars for the welfare of the residents of the Disirict does not have even a tendency to relieve Congress from the blame which attaches to {te neglect 0 carry out | the original” plan and impited agreement Wo Dunia up a magaificient capital on the Potomac. It couid, at least, bave appropriated the mon‘y | requ red to meet its ‘Obulgatione, even if, in urutn, 1b wound Itself fac myeient wo pass proper laws, But even whea most liverai in tue ‘OUTIEM “DL | of the people's wouey, it had not w cent 10 expend In rendering tue peopie’s city atiractive. ‘The | Diaze of giory, which the mere presence of our | wational |.LOFs Casts upon thelr place of meet- log Was Wuought, peraapa, by members of Con- gre to hide ali defects In tae aj 08 of tne | capital, and to amount to a sail.tuction in full of their coustitu:toual Uns toward the Dis. trict. For years the iegtalata tied | the caplial encrusted to 1s Keeping Ww be an object Of derision and ¢ satempt to freiguer and | Givsrm More than that, It couteibuced by: Ten FIRE LADDIES OF OLD. low the First Fire Companies Were Organized at the Capital. ‘THR COMING CELESRATION OF THE YaTELAN YOLCH- TEER FIREMEN'S ASBUCLATION—RUNNING TO PIRES ‘IN THE RARLY YEARS OF THR CENTURY—DNTRAEST ‘REVIVED AFTER THE WAR OP 1612. there will be a parade of the Veteran Volunteer on 191774 ‘The uniform adopted is similar to that worn by the veterans throughout the country—drab coat, New York hat, red shirt, black belt, &,, but it is quite likely that a few of the old-fashioned painted plug hats will be hunted up Seite femeca raeen e ace the ‘time when citizens turmed’ out 00. Bres with leather buckets and passed water from pump to e to be forced trou & few sections Of hose onthe dre, At night the veverans will ‘a ball, give When some of the old boys and girls will show their children and grandchildren the res they danced in the ol In the tion the compante the Union, Franklin, panies represeated are Ui ‘The association met at 8, George’s Hull Last eve nins, Mr, J. J. Peabody presiding and Mr. L. H. Fisher secretary. Some time was spent in the dis- (tribuuon of the uniforms, An invitation was fe- Seived from a committee of Friendshy Oo, of Alexi inviting the association to visit that cityon the 224 “after some ‘che Invitation was accepted. It was foporved by Mr. Smith that the 3d artillery band ‘Deen en- Mr. Newmyer reported that, with Mr. Scott, he had brought up the suction eugine of the FriGad- evgine wp company Alexandria; that it was now a icpermott’ and ‘wil be ‘Mwted up for the An offer was received from the steamboat com- Pany to take tne uniformed members of tue sasoci- auton to Al xandria and return ree of charge. Marshal Hines and Messra Dovbin and Ragan Were appointed a committee and re; tue lowing route: Meet at hall 10 o'clock; down 11a Street Lo Penosylvania avenue, to McDermott's, where they will receive the engine, then to 1s street, countermarching up Pennsylvania avenue \o 1536 street, to Vermont av aus, 0 K, 10th, F od 7h streets to the boat, and on the return up ‘7th street, Pennsylvania avenue and 111 street 10 the hall. This route was adopted, ‘HISTORY OF OLD OKGANIZATIONS. It was for years subject of dispute whether the Union, Franklin, Columbia or Anacostia ‘should be regarded as the first organized. This question was the cause of considerable bad feel- ing, und various efforts were made vw settle it for au time. In 1857” convention was held, and @ ecommitiee, afier taking evideoce, documentary and otherwise, decided that the Columbia wus entit.ed to No. 1, a8 it had always borne that name. This was, however, disputed by the Union and Anacostla, 10r a record w.«8 found of @ Uaion Fire Company’in existence before tue war of 1812, Iv appears in the acs of the old corporauon tat in August, 1802, 4 general fire law was enacted maklug IU ovligatory on cluzens to keep fire buck- U8 aL Lucir residences, atieud fires, &c. Shor afterward at least .our companies wer organt Un Ausust 11, 1864, It 18 stated & meeting Of cit zens cuuvel at tne West Market to ued Unemselves into fire company. Mr. Juseph Stretch Was electea chairman of the meéting aud Tuowas H, Gillis Secretary. A commiUc® of Luree On rules lor Lue government Of the fre company Was chosen, V, Joseph Strevch, Joun Wovdside and Thomas H. Gials “Phe cl.izens Of Uh - second fire ward met ut the call of Cupt. James Hoban, On the 2OtM Of August, at Rugdes’ tovel, Juwes Davissen in the cualr, and Joun Hewett secre. tary. SIMMLir actiuu Was taken at this meedug. So far no meetings had been called by the direc- WPS 0 Gue Lund .ud Lourth fire Wards, ‘Tue 8th of Sepicmber, 1404, a meedng of the | Union Fire Company (3-coud’ ward) Way ueld at K odes’ tavern, Richard Forrest in the chair. Udlvers were @.@vle4 fur the Moss me as follows: Jas, HODan, president; Audrew Way, jr., vice president; Wash. Hoya, treiurer; Jax, HM.’ Kear- hey, secretary, Clo.wortihy Stephenson, Peter Lenox, Lewis’ Malo and Heury Langiey w re elecie’. engineers; tourwen Ureuiea were elected, e1zut iudder-inen and six senunels, and Jona Hewett wus e.ecled 10 represent Lue company in the Doard of general superintendents. ‘The clUzens vi Lhe fou. tu Dre Ward convened at Steil’s taveru (Capitol blu), Tuesday, sepuember #4, 1804, and elected Joo. Cuyle, Hem. Lagie and Dauier Rapine a cOmmuter to draft raves and reg- Wuiliuns Lor Loe gOverument Of a company to Orgaued fp Ua Wank IN THE WaR OF 1812 ‘all interest in fire matters died out, The house of ‘the Columbia company, then situated at about the Same Spot where the statue of Washtagtou In front of une Capltol buliding ow stands, was buroed when ihe Briusa desroyed the Capitol. Before tue War b d beea fully euded efforts were made to revive or Feorganize Lhe companies, und it may be sald that Lhe volunteer compaies daved frou N14 OF aver, oF sher® Was scarcely say tulag In tue Way Of property on w: to bud a ueparwnent. - ‘THE COLOMBIA COMPaxY. ‘The records of the Columbia company from 1809 to 1814, when Mr. John T. Frost was secre- tary, and continuing up to 1818, were destroyed at oma Si) Make Sedee wresnnd the cigs lor condition, and Lavu joined io the lauga at Une iatter’s expense. ‘t. W. Now! el . NOYES. ‘The District Gevernment, To the Raitor of Tae Evexrna Stan: ‘The changes ia the form of the local govern- Committee of One Hundred will bardiy find many advocates. If, 1n the pr sent form, there 4a any one, feature which 18 popular, it ts the absence of le,tslative power in the Commis. sionera. The one exp-riment Of autnorizing thein 10 nuke poilce regulations revulted ia anooyances to the pubifc, und no one wishes vo repeat it. But the committee, regurdiese of Unis unfortunate ex- Berument, reodauiends che creation ot « council with pow-r to make local lawy, ordinances Fegulations on sumerous subjects, Including as- a eee eee 2 oe sances, % a Des aod local alte, wuarfes* useases, see ‘Uon of the liquor tr «1 charities, pubiic schools, &c, This is a very wide ran.e on ingiuation. some of the [4 are vi and sowe of the words Droad. What is meat by “r gu.auion of business and local traffic”? Waat are. to be the limits of their power ove Lquoreeiling? Are they to levy special asaeasinenta for street Lmprovemente? Are ‘tuey Co supersede the Board of ‘Trustees of Public ene Are tuey to control all charitable insti- ‘A permanent council, legally authorized to Secesairhy’ slack superiio’ of Congrése fet nevessai lack su + Of Congress not amenable to coustitueuta, Would s00n becowne .n intermeddling, ant irritatirg and Intolera- Die nuisance. Cicizeas Wou.d never know for Lwo dys vogether tue law on uny subject. One of ine Diessings for wuich a District res.dent should changes in the law, Tue. proposed: deapeuige at e law. nog recurring yrievance, Temignt renew tne ordet for tasm It renew ol ps On Carriages ata me when the thousands of now rusty lamps Dougut by order of the commissioners shall have beet tossed into he Fubulah ll,” Ley ua ack to the itis we have rather tan Ay to otaers we know hot ot, "A yood coditieation Of District laws Is destrabie; Dut u never-endiag, alw: nulng, tampering with laws aad urdioances would be“ der in tue e: law itis the provisiou tha: an army engineer shalt’ be pl ‘street tm ry ‘works sowert ke or 4 - Of the ‘By comuson consent this blunder bas been Lhe Cause Of serious inconvenience ever since it was made. But ths is the oue ‘selected for retention. ig inexcusable In meu ‘wuo bave slved sere for the last ten years and wit. uemed the muatakes, wrong eutimates, de ays, and rat up the of the boors wh bave vad diresuon of ou local ha ‘the burning of Mr. Frost's house. Rnough of those recorus are re.ueimbered by some of Lhe v.d cluizens Wo bear out the wssertion that th- Columbia Was fanzed Immediavely afer the War of 1812, and January 17, 1814, there was « tuorougn reor- anization (Daniel Kapine presiding at tue meet- ‘and Joan P. Ingie secretary), aud 68 memoers Were tueu @nro.led. 1 his company coniuued irom that time aa active organization 10 184, waen the Wastington City puld fre department was organ ized. The names of the presidents of tbe ¥, #0 [Ar as Luey DOW can be ascer were: james Yuung, Joba G, Mcvonaid, Laniel Kapine, Heory Tuny Koger C. Weigntmin, Charles K. Gardner, Du Green, Jamey Ads, Jaures A. ‘Katt, Win. D. Clark, Jim ¥ A Bown, Tuomas Nc- Grath, Andrew P, McKenna, Geor Joan J. Peabody. — 4 THRIVING ONGANIZATION. ‘This company, quive early ta its history, through the assistance of friends, established a fine library, which, after tue disbanding of the company, was donated to Providence Hospital. Compused, as tne Organization Was for many years, of workmen on the Cupitol extension, euipioyes of the Senate and rt sod many substantial citizens, WiLb a DUM. ber of p.omineot honorary méubers, it wags a highly eitictent and favored company: Provably during {ts organization it pald more visits to other clues than @oy olner company of Lhe District, Long years before the wur Luere were among the membership several young m:n with fine voices, Prominent among thee sir. benjamin C. Greeny; Svtonscutter irom Baluwore, Wud, on the 6h OF May, 1866, lost his ute by velay run over by the suctlou—a yraphic represeut tion of the manner Of his deatu being depicted on the monument erected to his iemo.y ut Glenwood. soon after Unis catastr poe tue company commenced ‘A SERIES OF ENTERTAINMENTS for the purpose of erecting a suitable monument to his memory. By subscription and otherwise— Mrs Eiward Pendietop, a well-known lady in the Beighburhood of the engine-house, contribatiay Uberally to this end, as sie had done for the brary und otuer puryoses—a sulivient sum was Falsed for tue object, aad the fue monument was Ordered from Mr. C. kivuss au, ab a Coss of $5,000, ‘and dedicated on May 6, 16a’ ‘THE FRANKLIN COMPANT. ‘The meeting Whica resul.ed In the formation of the Franklin company, or No. 2, Was held oa the last day of December, 1814 Jumes H. Blake pre- sided ai the meeting, with Charics Glover wecre- tary. Mesara, Pewr clowworuby Stephen. son, Roger C. Welguuman, James M. Varoum and Charies Giover were appointed a commiitee to frame rules and obtain sudscrib re toa fuud with which o purchase apparatus, &. This company, W.8 given cuarge 01 the engige purch.wed by the ‘Treasury Department, watch Was hous @ in a sumali frame building’ just south of wuere the ‘Treasury building now sands. A few years atver- ward & new hulst was ulit hear the preseut Qulick, and 1-4 first used was s primitive machine, with copper cylinders and prodiyiously long arms, but this Wore out and a new engine was orderea to be Dallt by the e-lebruted Patnck Lyons, pts, i 2 j i iE i & i fei i if 2 3 ig FE iJ fF "I i i fp j ex-chiet a lit | i fi ! i FE i A i ~ Fi FEBRUARY 18, 1888-DOUBLE SHEET. fi i ny 3 | a £ i ft ‘i if i i id z é B, ff “ i i i F H fi i 3 H | : AL i | Eg i E G QUNTRING—HOW PENSION PAYMENTS ARE MADE— DUSTINGUISEED MEN AND WELL KNOWN WIDOWS ‘WHO DRAW PEiteoxs. Nearly ven thousand persons living in foreign United States Government, They are all paid through the pension agency tn this city. Instead Of receiving the money in person as the pensioners erly certified to by the United states Consul at the place where they live. The largest number reside inCan.da. Great Britain ranks next and (hen Ger- many. The average amount each wo Ponsloners in foreicn countries fe about $160, ‘The L majority of the pensioners were 9 peivasee ia he ranks during the late war or are the widows of privates, A JAPANESE PENSIONER, ‘One of the latter class 18 a Japanese, She is the widow of an American seaman and signs the Vouchers in Japanese characters. Her signature 1s perpendicular and the clerks in the agency decipher it by beginning at the bottom and slowly climbing uy When they re cu the top of thi: chi- rographic ladder tyey are at the end of the name. | There is a German widow who copies the vouchers sent to her in German. Tue official before whom sue appears to take the necessary oath does nut read Engilsh, and so. Wires the document to be im some ianguage that he can understand. It is translated ta the pension agency in this city and the amount of the pea ton duly forwarded. ‘Tue consul-geveral at Venna, Mr. Jussen, is a preg and sois the consul ut Siockhulm, Mr. fering. The vice-cousul at Eiverfeld, Germany, Mr, Junker, ig @ pebsioner, aud Mr. Jas. W. Siler, Uhe consul at Cape Town, Is also on the rolls, Col, Chas. Le Gendre, an officer In tne lave War, now re- ‘sides at Tokio, Japan, ‘THR PENSION AGENCY . tn this city 18 an loteresting place to visit when the quarterly payments are made, A person pass- tng the square two-s.ory bullding at the corner of 4th and F streets on these occasions might imagine that a sale of seats for an opera or some ib.lo performance Was in progress, There ts the fauniliar ine of people exteudiug trom the door and stretching along the sidewaiks, There are about 3,000 pensiouers residing in this city, who are paid each quarter at this agency. | Some times as Mauy as 1, lene are p in one day. ‘There 18 @ clerk who has the vouchers alre: wo hand out Wuen the pensioner appears A little further along sits another clerk who is empowered toadm n.aer oaths. Kach pensivuer ts obliged to swear Guat they are eniitled to the pen ion aod have not been paid before. There are a great wainy Widows 0; the list, Perhaps some of these migot by induced Uoeater avain the matrimonial state, They are expected to give up thei pensions in such an event. Hence they are quired Lo go through the litle formal.ty of sub- scribing V0 an Oat as to their taurital condiion, HOW THE PENSIONS AKE PAID. ‘When the pensioner recetves nis voucher and has made oath, he passes to arfother clerk who writes out acheck. Passing then into the office of the pension agent, Sidney L. Willson, the pen- sioner uigna the check in his presence, and Mr. Willson then certifies to th: correctness of the signature by putting its initial on the check, ‘There ts novhing remaining to be done now except Go go some Where and get the check cashed, which as they aredrawn upon the United states Treas- ‘Ury iy DOL a matter Of yreat diMiculty, DISTINGUISHED PENSIONERS. Some people mig.t think that the line of pen- ‘sioners a8 they see It in rout of the agency was com ,osed of poor but worthy persons, dependent upon the bounty of a generous Government. There are no doubt many Of thit cluss, and perhape the lange percentage, But the ‘spectator cau sea Auinber of distingulshed and well-known citizens who are proud Lust they are enti led by their ser- vices 0 4 pemdon. Gea. Edward F. Beale d.aws a pension ag a volunteer of tue Mexican war. 80 d ex Gen. John C, Frvujont the patiflader,and che presidential candidate. ‘There ure three members or Congress wno teoeive thelr pensions in this city. ir. Houk, of Tennessec; Mr. Grosvenor, of ‘Onio, and Me, Laird, o: Nevraska. “Gen. Crocker, the Warden of the jail 18 @ pensioner, go ts Mr. Enoch Totten, a well-known meinber of the Wash. mbar. Mr. Worthington, recently the dis -attorney, falls to une tour umes ‘a year, and 80 does Gen. tobert C. Scuen . Stockslaer, the General Land the acting commissiover of Office; Major Powell, the cief of the Geological Survey, like Gen. Blick, te Commissioner of ind others oiding .overnment poaitions, fre amoug (he promineat naues on the pension ‘WIDOWS OF PROMINENT MEN. When It comes to widows the roll of distin. ciptents of pensions, and there are a large number who, by spectal act of Con; recelY @ pension of 20 pet mouth. In this lst there will be found the names of the widows of Kear Admiral Dahl. ‘Commodore Rear Adiniral Davis, freui. Commander Bdes. ‘Adinir.1 Goldsbur- ough, Commodore DeKrafft, Commander McCau- ley, Rear Admiral Ro .yers, Commodore Seinmes, ‘Adtatral Wilkes, Rear ral Rey woids and Brig- adier General P.umier. jation ‘widows who are thus saved trou the annoyance of waiting in the crowd in ounce bwiow. ‘The pension ageucy is one of the largest tn the couvtry, ‘There are 27,300 pensioners On the roll, ‘and the annual disbursements are about $5,000,- nsioners Livi 000. pong et oper a aed § i ti i i Bibi fF: i | ii wneness, elated happiness apd tm » Turbable good humor. These tremendous col- 1 ctuous of humans never crowd and Wart as with MINDS, LUN NEIGHBORING ISLE, Pecallar Invention: fram ait Parts of Reveiries at Havana During the Car the County. Mival Scasea. ADVOCATES OF PERPRTUAL MOTION STILL IN REIST | FALSE REPORTS OF ASSASSINATION AND BRIGAND- Andesrribabie: OR There is an elasticity and an divis- 1DLUty about Cuban throngs Which must Ue be best test and ex of = racteristic these HNCE—HOW TO ESCAPE PROM THE GRAYE—FUMPS | AGE—PH PARATIONS FOR THE CARKIVAL—GAIBRY | Chong yon eenere. Bae o0 ent om Gee AND WINDMILIS TO FURNISH THEIR OWN MOTIVE AND LICENSE—SEAUTIFUL WOMEN—@ORGBOTS COS- jably PAnios OF Lhe police. FOWER—HOW TO GET UF RARLY IN TRE MORNING “Yes, sir,” said a prominent patent attorney of this city to a STAR reporter, “patent soliciting 1s An interesting a5 weil as a lucrative Dasines® Some Ume agoI received trom aman at Grand Rapids, Mich, a Dox carefully packed with what appeared to be a doil-baby house, and which for a time puzzled me. In the course of a week I re- cetved a letter explaining the device and a supple- ‘mental part of the invention in the shape of miniature coffin. The device wxs intended and especially designed for those who were unfortu- Bate enough to be buried alive, and was what be termed a ‘grave escape.’ The miniatare house was Provided with uprights secured at {ts four corners, and the coffin, which was, as the inventor termed it, ‘only a supplemental part of the great Inven- ‘TUMES—FEASTING AND DaNcING. (Copy righted.) ‘Special Correspondence of Tua EVENING STAR Havana, Cpa, Feb. 13, 188% During the past few weeks many alarming tle- graphic reports, emanating trom Key West and ‘Tampa, regarding affairs in Cuba, have appeared fn American newspapers. As there are now in the island perhaps 2,000 American tourists, shetr fiends tn the states nate beea made extremely Miserable, a8 the foods of cabiegrams and letters of inquiry now pouring upon Cuban cities fully prove, Aside from tuis, the business thterests be- THE PRINCIPAL OCCUPATION Of the people i these carnival throngs ts seeing and being seen. Next in importance in attracting ‘ones Attention is the vociferous chattering, territe ‘ing CUbAR Dallsds are abouted and bellowed uprosriously. A singular fact about all these street CArBIVAl songs Is that one Wili never bear the De- iain of coding of any. curcle through the universal bubbane over of good feeling. A hundred Yoloes will Sle upom them and curiously fo.low them. But this is only for a moment. ‘Then here, or Chere, another and anotwer Is begun, and hese in Gime drown out tie former abrupt iy "or sone sudden oriticuun oF Right has attracted the attenuon, and ipstantiy away gO mind and merriment ia a y Gifferent di- rection. It 1% not diMeult to trace in this the ot ah Srloary’ comin, vided oa coct ot ts ees sore. a weakens 10" these peopiee ‘Thare ta, mg ‘With elongated air recepiacies secured thereto, ee any Ung. Lmpuise rules ail and having communication with tue interior ot the coffin by means of rubber tubes. His idea,” continued the attorney, “was, that after the four Up.ights had been planted in the grave already ‘dug, wntll the floor Of Lhe house came on Ajevel With the su. face 0. ground, the coffin conta:niag tie body was lowered and wie door of he hut locked y, rou Ah aperture in the Goor, Welle” continued tue attorney, “when the unfortunate tamate should discover ue was allve, he was to seize eliver of the tubes, consume at THR MASKERS IN PoRtmasION. By 3 o'clock in the afiernoon the maskers have taken possession of the eniire city. Tuese do not Appear in imposing processions Tens of thou- sands of groups or individuals, each vi expression to ome isolated wagary, Alt Licber an (ther like myriads of mystic Spitite of misrule, ‘There ts not tn it al single kewu or wity ting: ‘The same antiquated, idivtic things are done what much aif as he wis.,ed from the receptacles here- have been done in Uie streets of Madrid, Lisbon tolore described, ft the lid, which was only held and Barceiona for more than « tho years, in place by Its own weight, ind climb up @ ladder | CUva, SDL out \o the country from Key West, has | The Very ancient flavors of every mask, Nyure or Which connected the grave with the aut, and fiud- | Deen’ that smallpox was sweeping over the | SuUC, Is Its Lruest merit to these people. Their tug 8 sult of clothes previousiy placed ihere, doo | island, that mu.der and assassination were ratn. | Listory, tore, ali thus pass bore thew in them, open the door, aud go to give his | pa. tibevery city and puebio; that intolerable | barbaric we" end hid-ous wep eNs, But what mirth it all brings! These hundreds of ‘thousands, in the thought of a on-looker, are a sur; prise party. corruption liad honeycomord Uke entire adminis. Yhen I wrote and ‘told him that his device {ration of the newly-appointed governor.general, didn’t possess patentable noveity—in fact, wasn't | Sabas Marin; tuat prominent Awericans were | DUC one stupendous grin, giggle and guflaw. Up ractical—be dig and voled us | oarely eseaping trom yurious horribie dilemmas | and down (he sireeta, with the rou aire inldes aati ™ | stun tocar vee; tent Gants went capiu ing all | of an Bundred thoussnd grave ubxote, ANOTHRE GRAVE ESCAPE. . But I had anotuer case,” continued the at torney, “iu waicn & man connected the head of ‘the coffin with the air, by means of a metallic tube, and had a bell connected with the top of the (ute Which was operated Dy @ rope passing through the tuve?” “Can you recall any inventions whose practi. — ‘uniqueness are subjects of commen?” reporier. “Well, I should éay 80,” said the attorney; “for instance, there'y the ‘comoined bedstead’ and alarm clock, by whicu the dropping of a buit as the Dour hand reaches the appoluted hour lets loose # ‘et of bars holuing the mattress In place, which, troop and tramp the weird’ gaskers as tin uot with the rhywe of never-ending tune; and, of Pi though as endesniy, thrice an hundred thousand ail manner of official outrages; that, in fact, a | Yolees roar, and yell with delight. Every soul relgh of terror bad set in, and all Buve ‘was | inthe city ts Upon Ue streets, in the myriads of Lrevabling upon tbe verge ‘of « tr-mendous up- | balconies, oF upon the house copk heaval of revolution, plilage, and butchery. ‘WINE FLOWS LIKE Waren. THE SITUATION iN CURA. Every conceivable form of melody, tune, and This has all beeu wonderful news to Americans | sound clash aud crash in pleasant uproar, Under and other foreigners in Cuba, 1 have purposely | the porticos or swarming upon the balconies of delayed referring to It in Uuls correspondence tuntil | the great. structures {cing the Prado and Campo able vo write regarding it with sccuracy and com. are Sneutents at Peupie plete truthfulness I have already visited twelve | every KNOWL uatonail’ took Upon thew bewiid- of the larger cities, and fully @ score of villages; | CTIME Sceves. Ten thousand cai ineladii conversed with hundreds cf Americans and Euro- | Ue pube Victor .s are filed With tue wealth Sorts Of great and little peopie for ra “som: that Public meetings Were belng prohibited and news- apers Suppressed; that 50.dlers were employed in in Lurn, sWiugs o0 118 center pivots sud thrws | peans who have been In every inbablucd Deauty of Cuba High Officials, dinpordug lavish we FO the oor at the very moment he | Of Cuba during the win.er; gooe repeatedly ana | Aina, nOvULY provusely decd fnunous wishes to be awakened. There again is we alone 10 various plantations; Visited Ube guajiros | Se0erals Diazing ip lace and x japters in ‘SPRINKLER AWAKENRR,’ Of country folk al Ubeir sitios and cabins; tm my | Wlilte, in gorgeous tu nouts; nubile cabailéros on asthe inventor termed 1. A flower-pot ts upset | #00rauce of this carnival of crime and ‘disease Meee creek San neni ane mnie wat corners | cal crowded With (he MoS. SIKID, |) beautle on the siceper by a bolt worked by a clock. Seer Ot Maarten ORE Soweto Tul women In the Won, form-moviug Une oF get quarters of Havana; actually made an ap- “T suppose you've heard of the ‘Pioneer Plow,’ | poiutment to visitat an early the famous | 8nd fash and color tai and che said the attorney, and upon being iuformed that | Cubiaa Jesse James, Matagus; in fact have been a the chai Of cour, tue But ‘Tur Stax man bad not, he proceeded: “Weu, air, | 1n every conceivable posiion and where | $5 of tneee ond ane, 0 = => Ulls strange contrivance was frst tuought out by cognizance of any manner of danger {o ‘health or and ecintiliste ta indescribable briuliancy. an Eusterd man, and was adupied esyecialiy for could be s-cured;—and sin witing these | Tbe most tremendous, ag ‘tue Western iarmer. The beam of the plow was a ‘small cannon, and when attacked by tbe Indi all ue had to Go Was to cul the uorses loose slauguter tue Indians right avd lett, 30 PUMNt=H MILK. “Did you ever hear of that man who bad a Scheme for supplying districts with milk? You didn't? Weil, nis idea was vo build a La. ge reser. Toir and have service. pipes counected therewith, which ran into the peovie’s houses and suppl tuem with milk at tueir command. The inventor Bald ‘It Was a yrand sc. me, aud AU only neeied a sercot conurivance wo measure Lhe milk drawa to make it a complete sucvess.’ Then again Were Was the refrigerator wut, bavi Wuter-proot receptacle in tue top, Which was with w keep tue wearer's head cool.” “u40W about perpetual-inotion devices?” asked she reporter, “do you receive many?” “Nut now,” answere: \be atiorney, “but some words upon the underneath the FALSE ALARMS. But there are truly official corruption, disease, assassination, and brgandage in Cuba. ‘So there are in our own country, and there have always re given, MOs.Of Lee are et masque, nd for an Awerican fortuve is QuenLy iaVished upon one Wouan's costume. The jess Fich, the middie apd lower Classen, the very cudlies, ure provided for, All Havane is « bungie of casinus or centres. Every grade of buaan be- Jougs 10 some one Of these centron The. une usually domed from the Spanish ince trom waleh mew bers came, of Were descr: As Ceairo alan, Centro Gaulego, Centro Andaluza, Cenwo Casteliano, 6. AL tuew, 50,000 tu) rry-saakers re S0rt Lo feant, sing ANd dace Lue Wholr Ni,ut long. A bundred (housand souls Carus Upon Lhe sirere infinitestival truth in Che outrageous rej cocted at Key West about Cuba, ‘here is no more official robbery in all Cuba 1-day tuan Ube laie Mr. Wm. Tweed, of Norwich, Coun., illustrated ‘Was possible in New York city'aloue.” There is no more siail-pox in all Cuba this moment than Uhere 1s .n he one cly of Brookiyn. ‘There are no more murver,assagsination and rovbery in ali Cuba si y m1 “ight. But the of Ube year to the Yeats ago applications Tor patents On, devices ut | {N& Week Cun Uhere are in New York or Chicago | Bill day Groom, that vort wet nummer us ‘remember two 1 par. | Or Sau Francisco in any one Sunday of the year, | *¥erage anybody Is Ucular, The taventor uf the uret was a Penusyl. | TBETe has been no more robbery by bandits 1b Le THE BALL AT THE GREAT TACON THEATER Vaulan by birth, und res.ded ip a suwall Lown Dot far trom Piuisburg. 4 WONDERFUL PUMP. His device was puisp, which, when once set go- ing, would continue vo pump ad fnyinitum, Ine model was stuple in Its construction, 40 be said, but tue mechanism employed to produce the re Suit be Wislied Was woude.tul He provided the ‘Spout of the pup Wika an uversuot Wueel, bay Dy a crank wCured Unereto whicu in turn’ con- ected with numerous ouber arms, enplosing Ubi. ty-six Joints to move upon, unl it Teacued Lue sucker -od, Wich It lifted and.owered as the Wheel operated by te water trom the spout turned. “4 his wan couldn’t be convinced that his device was Worthivss, aud afer KeVerai luterviews witu the examiner 1 tue Palen. Offlce baviug An charge buat viass Of Inventions kuOWN as a COUR Veilung motion he cvme to tue conciusion, 28 Ke Said, that the Patent OMe was no guod, and ual be intended to destroy bis model, and ‘tuus deprive ue world of Lue greatest inveniion ever heard Of, Puor fe..ow, ue died last year in an Le Its entire parquette Boor is raised, by means of ‘Stationary screws, 10 tbe level of the stage, This the stage and wings, from which tue scenery Is removed, with the coufts and areas within and ‘about tbe theate re mpace for 4,000 dancers, Seven thousand 10Ps ute also if aliendanoa, Among Uewe ar” representatives of Lue ariatons Tacy, Invariably inasked, nd perhaps 2,000 Alerts can ind other foreyn tuurints without Liat much regard for decency. The Cheater is one-mase of flowers ‘Two, and oftes Uuree, orchesuras aro provided. The managewent furnishes large uw Lers of huge bouquets, Aid One Colu~sal ODE (una Cranpucha, wus. are trom time to tiie wnioowed ¥ lidden Wires, 80 that any one present may secure at will a gurgeous bouquet, Untii midaight the dancing abd reveiries are quite witlun the bounds of moderation; but from thence unui morning the orgies are indescribable, tar Cute » ripping in Wanton Indeceucy any Lulug ever Wie eased at (he old Jardin Mauilve in Paris THE DANCHS ere indulged in are La Danza, 9 universal Cubam danger of revolution and bioodsted about any tu any part of Cuba ax there is of revolution Diooushed in the coal regions of Pennsyivania, Cuba is ever suMiciently un hijo de la ela, She suouid receive uo neediess burs trom the unt. ¥e.sal press of & nation which periodicalty plays the lover's part With honeydng and ample prot sions, and Whose citizens (o~lay wave more mate- | rial Tisk 1 the Welfare of the Aauile peart than have those of tne Which Cau never entorve of Win her loyulty and respect. CARNIVAL 8KASON. Indifferent of tue dire things said about them, Cuban people are aiready filea with restless an- Uctpation and excitement over the approacving carnival season, which begins Sunday. Every manner of man ‘and woman 1nto a smile of Tadiant expectancy when it is meuuoned, —Na- Lonaily considered these carnival days have nota Sane asylum, amung ine Feou.ts of lis wasted | Utwe of tue import of our blessed Auerical | aance very similar to the German Walt; Ki Dane ota, Dic his FOOm wae Bure winter holid y season, Love, the 4 i! efforts, Wita Whew Lis room w: wi, Sauemcee TO Uie tate ean eate®. | son, derived from La Danza; and, when ‘the ongies WIND FOR “The other cas - was somewhat like the one just described, excepting, perhaps, {t was more Inter- esting, as 1t could readily be made to run for afew minues and made quite and tazentous toy. It Was a Windsoll, having suitable arms connected to the wheel anu secur-d to a bellows placed in a conventent position to operate the wheel. BY staring the Wheel the be:luws would be operated to furuish more air to the wheel; but, of course, It ‘Would stop soon on account 01 the Kri¢uion. “Bat the .unnicst patentever issued,” continue | the attorney, “was tue one to a man by the nate. Of Meyers, of Puiladeipmia, It was u tape-worm {rap, and consisted uf two yold spring” JW, hav. tog sersated tecth and operated by. Lngger. Tue Pallent Was supposed to be starved tor Lure or four days uncil' che tape-worm was very hungry, wuen the trap was inserted in ls Uhroat, Ulf Previously bated with 2 swe tmeat. ‘The wor Would make a strike for the candy and the jaws people, are in our Christmas-tide, jake little Of Christinas, for they Lue F.gors nor the seu Mt which Intensity are’ at their maddesi, La Haban-ra, the mont Passlouste of all dances known to man. the Cubans ‘say: Mace postafiar ua Sanw de Uewo!—It would make eveu A plaster saint Wink! And so it would. “Oid Womlat's Sunday.” “rhe Dandy's sunday,” ‘Baruine Sunday,” and the re casa saiaply a fopeuiuoe te oct * are ‘a epetl every Fempret or domingo de caruival—save tha: on “uid ‘Woman's sunday,” 01d women atiend Ube balls iD Linge auiabers, afe suowa special Geference in all conceivable was of tock abd real courtexy. And, tu eval ofthe Beau ful seria present dem onstrate with astounding tha & woman's f00l 18 8 SiructUral Marvel Locke vnd of te day orief rejainder among Spaniards andsCubans to Inquiries regarding Coe etusce Of ad these caral- Val urgi 618 suupl): No veulmos @ reer! do not come to pray!” ——— ee the Cueer vl taat ume with us, Baila thelr politica, Siavery, carnival season is a8 dearly prized tueir quality of sentiment for to gTe.t Unclassified “masres galety and vicense which are, witu unutterable ani often pathetic longings Froin one eud of the isiaud to anotner it is that Ume of the year looked forward to by every human delng as a season of enjoyment and ex- cusable folly. 1 must be rewemvered that there are late humans WhO, as With Us, harrow and chill by the very exudatious from their clammy, dark Grearinesa. Even a Cuban sick man 18 a pleasant Object for convemplauion, Wuen contrasied with cl Saturday Smiles Would spring, catching im bygbe head, when ne | Th? Derambulating Aibericab iUiDmny into Whose could eusiy be Witadrawa, While hair is woman's crowa of glory, a smooth, “I caa't think of aby ind! heart aud face no fight ever comen, tovaat ligne — ¢ present,” sald the atvorney, 1B coneiusion; “but if you" will call arvund 1h «few days Iimay beable togive you suime more exam yles, ee BOOKS OF THE WEEK. prevuly Unted vaid bead va « man ix al Aliractive to & Woman—Cincinnat Commercral Gazette. It ts the men who write posiry whea they don't have lo Lnat the pubiic Can never forgive. —Detrow hearts, bright faces and forgivable trivi ides are Severe outward ex; bere sver ioe inward, as a “expronion from tue most icant rr Getending ‘tess untacteristica, ‘Tie facts. ano Simply stated. Others may discuss Ube ethics ‘So at is Lrue tual pa fr mg ge ~ ws go gp anne - " mane Coba, whatever ‘mat igual dolor facie of ungatiantry has been reached by & CHURCH AND STATE 1¥ THE UMD States: | borne, as caralval Gav approach, lizblou aud | Weeer nei te cpeliae Oe eed a Preotical Effects. "With ufiicial Uinenss. By | Deiguten In & Way Ubat 1s guod Lo see, if cbere be | tne prououn “she. utiand (Vt) Heraid. Pau Sonar? D.D,, LD. fean ttsturical Ansoclutio: York: G. F. Futu-m's Suns. Ro good in the universal fact. A RIVE OF BACORANALS. In Cuba there are no great Mardi Gras proces. Judge—“Madatm, what is your age?” Sue—“Your Honor, I leave unat to the mercy of the court,"—Buffato’ Commercial. ee OU e OURNEY, By WD. Hownrts, | sions and isolated espectaculos or pageants, asin | _ For the benedit of those who are getting tired of ef “Vemitiat Lif fs 4 a a ue , salbepity Samal finan darn ee New Orleans and many European c ties Instead, | “TTuly rural” as a cure for stamuering Une foliow- int es taaana cane on aagre Re he Hopi Uvughion, M.flin & Co, Wesuington: AB. Wither: bee Uo. LETTE 8, SENTENCES AND MAXIMS, CuasTuMFIELD, with a Crities Keay Be COR, SAINTE-BEUvx, de Academie Francais. {Knick erbucker Nugects” Se ies.) New ore: @ P Put- Ban's Sons, Wasuinewa: AS. Witherbee & Co. PHYSICAL CULTURE: For Home and School—8ci- ertifieand Practical. By’ Prof, D... Dow: af tie Ho.ne, Behoo. for Fhysical « aiturs 0: New York. justrations, New York: Fowl els Co, Washiugtou: A.% Witherbee & Co. HEADS AND FACES: How to Stud Them. A Manual Phrenok Ing is respectfully submitted: rronounce F.pidiy hg gells seu shells; shall she sel. sea sbelis?”— Meriden Republican. A Seventeenth Ward school teacher recently asked her class the question: “Wuat Is s puoct” ‘Tue smart boy auswerea ts a 10. Where they grow ple plant,” and Was sent to the foot of the Class — Milwaukee Wisconsin, Even the man who wants the earth doesn’t want itso suddeny as be it somevimes when uls eels slp on @ Dit Of loe,—Somervile Journal, ‘Tue Augusta Chronicie bas Invented a way for to remember What & coid-Wave flay looks in cities, and 1t8 Driliiant capital, Havana, are, during this period, slupiy, wuolly and completely yreat hives of bacct and in Gescribavly grotesque eccentriciles. The poor u.jlr0 of the interior has suved from his wcruop ptalns, dreaming Of Havana's bap singing in bis“beart oF. Wi ‘countryman: ‘He visto mi amor querido, Hora calie dela ataua— fice. ‘The Chronicie says “ihe flag bas & vinck Sey yg 3 Une precioss Cubana, lovenge in the center; Uhus ts for bronchitis.” Thousatid. New Yors: Fowler & Wede Co. Waau- ‘Que me trene conrasd.do! ‘The sentiment tn fAvor of prohivition is sald to be inci: 48. Wsborine 6 SEES rapidly Ou ve "tneveaye in) North Caraiins. “Thue W 10.8! CCEED AS A STENOGRAPHER eet Havens famous say Uwo KOverBOCN Wl Soon pass Boe pew Ei Quict Hints acd’ Gevtie aiviee | prepa nae invo innocuous Gosuetuae. cat. Pant Ponser Prose Bien, ‘of “How to Learn ‘Thal bed we entaralled!— correc meneiiines inetacen oes ria Hitberens d Pier E Welle Co, Wasb- | ang nis kind are here by the thousand to ada plo- | youu ny at You. Onis ele tar ene Oe a Turesqueness to the interesting carnival sceues. | Why {thought we bed more than a hanieel ee Eee enon CaS, LED Bik 2” gi | The guaaahéro, {he leciéra aud & | Secoid W.—*Well, the sik banner for Ube parade With Illustrations. ( Be Iutérnational Sciedtine | BUUGCd Otuer Eros compraiag oe ar | So iva. Vol LEI] New York: D. Avpleton & Us, : oteet Beall. WOMAN AND THE COMMONWEALTH: or, A PER SARTSR had” Soest at Ae ‘E00, Weshiusion: a. 5. Witherbec & Oc Semenee tt Ai and sta Wo ordinary regime these slm- See ge ees ree Mars tarough al grew of natn, the wiiaiser Well, Bobhy, what do you want to be ‘Chicago: Rand, McNally & and great of toe same Lbing hank i Rese at ay hime ot Meet on gt mega Spina Carafra: Bandage 2 tohowed Sed ia, Saka br orphan."—New Pork i peed aeepeet ~ Putnam's three puodays, —_———roo—_—_— SBS Wathinewn: A. & Wicberd oh Got Yotes to enjoyment and weveuy. First Carn Val | pegerseti"e Ware-tuching of Lincete. ‘LIFE OF THOM \8 HOPKINS GALLAL DET, Founder | Sunday, Fibete, a purely ocd Appsl- | wrun bie Bpecch at a beuguet. j-stuce Instruction i Lation, of wuowe oF. ‘themsel the = i Eero, Pe S| foo etme eemee waite | wascegeaae mpeemee cometh Les Rots, ., By Boome: . Nevin, of fe an kg Ferg eS Wesuligton Set aay, BEYOND IE SHADOW, an “The Burial of Eesydiees. oe emameriess hamme | nr cara eA Tale of Lover - By Faxnzasox | Carnival Sunday Havana ES. REIS RPS | Con nerang se NUE x 3.5 beir CLE Seg dgrk’ Be Apoiion Se Vast caren aree peat, seem e's kpow bai 1 rm ey a 5 I SWARMING WITH THE LOWER cLasema. not as be ‘Dut according vo Chair One| ‘mixed hordes "HEAT RURENG acLeRS| Sah ose oe ns ae |b ae Ses THyhovet ha Irn Crows Chioeert& Denos: “breakfast” at the crowded casinos sad, cule, iu'Pords were sxcamaia se marron cura Pe. ‘Uhere is little eume Lo be con iy eg ty pe | ST ee st et ——— ‘hue upon tBousands from erery ‘osbe, ny por. hanging trecbeete omyd rit nes bane pong hnck yom Sgn nics weeps ns x ten "h novel bet was lately detaed ia» remrant | Sat mae neoare st ‘as siealllly a6 Others committed orine.” yf. ‘& geotieman asserted heal rest pos cuven thar he could not tll water coro a metry meer ay ‘Londoa 1s a fountainiess city. Biante went trom whisky, and the pre- i i