Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1888, Page 2

ii) “CITY AND DISTRICE — ————— POTOMAC FISHING. ‘Preparations Being Made tor the Open ing of the Seacou- (GuORES THAT WILL BS FIKHED THIS TRAR—EXOPAATVE FISHING TS THR CHERAPEAKR—CATCHING A STUR- GRON—DELICATE SHAD AND MERKING—LONG-LITED CATPISH—TALK WITH AN OLD FISHERMAN. As usaal, when the season for fisning 18 near at there ts considerable activity at the fshing shores along the Potomac. These shores, now- ever, are rapidly decreasing in number, aud where ‘Yen years ago there were twenty now but four or five can be found, The majority of them have Recome unprofitable and have been abandoned. ‘The rst shore on the Marytand side to be opera- ed this year is at old Fort Washington. This will be fished by the United States Fish Commission Tor setentific purposes oniy, and ouly a small net ‘Will be used. ‘The second fishery on the Same side 4% Moxiey's Point. ‘This shore will be operated oy ‘Wm. Faunce & Co., who use 200 fathoms of seine and employ abont’ 20 men. ‘Then comes the fa- mous Chapman's Polut, operated this year by Win, Gale, With 300 fathoms of seine and a force of about 25 men. ‘These are ail the important shores to be fished on the Maryland side, althougn there will_be numer ous stuall operators at ail available points on both sides. O¥ THE VIRCINTA SIDE the first shore to be fished Is Ferry Landing, a once noted fishery, operated tls year by Win. Nettzey, With 1,000 fachoms of seine and a force of arty men. ‘This fishery also ewploys two engines to Dani the wine. “un both sides of the river,” sald a well. Potomac Msneruan’ to a Stax reporter, “many shores bave been abandoned, which, In my opin- Jon, 18 Wholly due to the excessive nshing below the Potomac, on the Chesapeake Bay, both in and OS PE “What are t werning Mshing?” ask the Stax reporter. “The only one I know of,” said the fsherman, “is that youcan™ offer any shad or herring for alg after the 1st of June.” “How did the annual catch of last season com- pare with that of the previous season?” asked the orter. “Well, str," he continued, “I think there was an dnerense.”” Wi along the shore Twz Star man found another old fisherman mending his nets in an old sbed near the Long Bridge, and taking a seat on & huge ball of twine near Dy entered into conversa- tion with him. “Yes sir,” said the fsherman. “the season isclose othand, ‘Tsay its close at hand, because just as soon as the ice breaks ap inthe river, and navi- ation cotamences, we commence to stir ourselves s0d make ready for business, getting everything to any ‘order, and by the time we have everything ready for’use, why the Osh are around and the season is open. THE BUSINESS, “Flow do you lke the fh business?” queried Tas m map. Wail, Say, ard,” answered the oid fsherman, “Pee followed it sence I war able to hanl a rope, aud that Yinder \oks like I warnt dead agtn tt, i? commenced regular fishing "bout. twenty. tnree year ago,” he continued, “and have worked steady at itever sence. ts ‘a kinder interesting business, You know, especially the sturgeon fish. Ing. Of course you know how to catch sturgeon 9 a giller, don't your” Upon being informed that Tue Star man was not well up in the art, the old man continued, “I ‘spose Y' have to tell Fou all about if," so, laying aside a net that, was fast approaching’ completion under bts skilled fingers, ue contints “THE FIRST THING YOC DO isto get a big giller (that’s a gill net) with large meshes, and, t¥ing the top nm of the net im sev- eral places to large floats, or supports, You throw ivoverboard. ‘Then you folier the net ti a boat as & drits with me current until you see © quiver ike af some portion "of it. dust as soon as you sec that you eel nervous like, "cause you kuow you've got a stuggeon, and If be's any size at all hell make you haste for a time. Rowing siowly ap to the net at he point Fou saw tt quiver, you slowiy draw It up, Basi you ken see nim, and ‘then book him with & “galler” (That's a hook With 4 crook end), sald he by way of explanation. “THR FUN THEN COMMENCES. Fe lashes the water into a foam with his tall, aud when Fou draw him in, ifyou aintcareful, neil Knock you overboard. Many a time, he conuaued, J'¥e Bad to switn on account of ‘em. “But don’t you like shad aad herring fishing?” asked the reporter. “Well, Torter; thars more money in it for ns; Dut ieaving the money outer it. thar’s heaps of fun 4n that kind of fishing, too. Ail's expectation, and ‘fea we gainbie on the number we are going to eaten. Sometimes, though, a sturgeon gets int ‘the vet, and that makes it still mere Lateresting. FISHING POR SHAD. “Tow do yon fish for shad?” asked the reporter. “Why, thhr’s several ways,” answer’ the Msner- man. “One isthe trap seine, That consists ofa het fastened on stakes driven in the bottom of the pe "s and Pa ot tal rom. ‘The circu has a cupe-like opening, and the fish, striking against ‘tHe talb-like projection, move up until they find the © Which they enter, and hardly ever Pad Way Out. A boat goes ont to empty the selge at Uke standstill of every tide. ANOTHER WAY. “Then agin there's the haul-seine, which tssecured, at one end and taken out in a boat and dropped ‘the other end being secured in the boat and ashore. A force of men ora windlass worked by horse power, and sometimes steam, hat ‘The shad 1s a very delicate fish, you know— 4s the herring, for that matter—and both ‘De sbipped lmuiediately, as they spol very catetsn. “Tow about catfish?” queried the reporter. “Do ‘They aie soon:” “No, sir; they are hangers on, sure, living some- ‘times for days out of water. 1 remember one case ‘whar s mess of ‘Katies’ lived for ten days our of ‘Water, and that war down here at Bill Jones’ Pint “We had made a ty ketch of ‘em, and had ‘em piled on the shore. Wail sir, they luld thar for upward of two weeks in tne briling sun, when a schooner came ‘long and bougat the jot, as 1 thonght, for fertiizer. But, no, Them fellers were sharp *uus. They threw the top ones away, when, darn say buttona If thar warn't cat‘ish underneath Jest as live as put thar. [couldn't believe it, but thar they were, kept fresh and allve, I suppose by One bat ‘are the. for a cessful catch ben is for & succes e tte years” asked une reporter, “Pears to me," be replied, “that we'll have a ood year, although It’s most too early to teil jest. ~~ — a CONGRESSIONAL NECKWEAR. ‘The Character of Neckties Daily Worn on the Floor of the House, THE CONVENTIONAL SHORSTRING TIE—HOW PR..ONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND PECULIARITIES ARE TOLD BY ‘THE STYLE OF BOW—SOUK PARTICULARLY NHAT EN. ‘The Congressional necktie is about three-quar- ters of an inch Wide when new, and becomes like a Shoestring trom long service. It 1s of black silk, folded like the conventional lawn, and must be tied by hand. Fully two-thirds of the members of the House wear them habitually. ‘They are the Plainest and the most expressive of all ties. ‘They Rave a language of their own: A neat knot de- noting a delicacy of touch: the frayed and rusty edges indicating poverty of taste, and the droop- lug ends showing indifference and inexperience. ‘These ties gossip about ther Wearers. Some of them are tied With great care, the folds of the dow smooth and symimetrica., and’ the ends standing out in dignified rigidity. Others are pulled and stretched into a string, ted with one end longer than the other and the wrong side of ‘the Knot out, and have a general rakish and dis- reputable appearance. Some snow tbat they have been ¥ & graceful twist of the fingers, show signs of ab early morning strug- ie With 4 man utteriy unfamiliar with neckwear. BLACK THES. ‘Ninety-five out of a hundred ties in the House are black. A few are four-in-hands, some are “made,” with a straight up and down can't-bend- Jay-back look, and occasionally tlsere 19 an old- Tashioued lictie black bow gived on to a little card- cleat to slip unde corners of a turn- Gown collar. Bnt af least two-thirds of the meui- bers wear Congressional shoestring Wes, NRCKTIN PECULIARITIES OF MEMBERS. Holman wears one with the wroug side of the Kuot out and the ends drooping despondentiy out Of shape. Sotvetimes it ts twisted a little to one aide. Buchanan's portly chest displays a marvel- us amount of plaited shirt front, upon whlen fall ‘the Mmp ends of a narrow biack ‘tie that appears Yo bold bis collaron. Lyman loops his tie as he does his shor string, atid pulls it Into a hard know Mr. White's littie tack Low Is tied by a diagraia 1m exact Measurements, and Is too small to reieve the giare of his collar and sbirt front. & Diack shield that ‘Yout Wears sets clone against bis collar and He Ges in y ‘at skill, Ding- his collar-bution. He ts one of the most prec and soberiy neat 1 freon ‘nin the House. Sawyer cou. forms to the regulations, but there is a sign of lin- patience in the tightiy-drawn knot.’ Farquter, Flood and Gen. Henderson always stick to the shoestring. Mr. Martin's bow was MAD IX TUR FACTORY and securely fastened vo the cieat that holds it under bis collar. Culberson and Sayers, hla col- Jeagues, stretch their ties with a hard puil in the Iaorning, and never give them any more attentioa duriag ihe day. Hooker wears the same Com grewsional vow, tled with care. Crisp and Oats We tue koack’of making a good loop with these harrow bands Taylor, Mcklaley, Duniam, Roger", Burrows, Bynuse. a6d Buckalew ali wear Cou Wressiondl shoestring heck wear. ‘TWO OF TUE SRATEST MEX. Mr. Outhwaite has the most delicate neckwear seen in the House. His favorite color is a delicate fawn. McComas wears a black and red four-in- hand. These are two of the neatest man in the Mouse. With them funk O'Neil, of Pa.. with his {radivional red Ue; Wr. Waiter’ Pueips, with his Yurn-down collar ‘and red and black tie, and Fel. ton, with a Ue of piuk. Sowden has low of shirt frost and a white tie. Tuaothy J. Campbell wears, sparkling cluster diamond pia th Uns middie of Dis shiny bosom, and binds his collar witu a band Of lawn, Harmer has a fine solitaire diamond and @ Ue of gay colors Shively wears a white Ue, A THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SAT , SOME OF WASHINGTON’ GRIEV- ANCES. Slow Growth of the Neglected Capital. RARLY WESCKIPTIONS OF THR CITY—WASHINGTON IN BANERUPTCY—OEESE AND 1063 ON MASSACHUSETTS AVENUB—THR PLIPPANT DICKENS AND MELANCHOLY TROLLOE—DEAUTIES OF THE NEW WASHINGTON. Not Washington's two grievances—the one against its hostile, the other against its neglectful, guard- sans—operated together to its disadvantage. The Miserable state of the city for three-fourths of & century, during which Congressional disfavor or indifference checked its growth, and the efforts of Capital-movers shut out new settlers, and discouraged tts residents from improving Jands which might soon be made value~ Jess, fs attested §=by all descriptions. ‘The child of the nation, neg'ected and nearly abandoned by its constitutional protectors, with “ppearance and health uncared for, insufficiently Bourished, and in constant terror of death, did hot, wonderful to relate, develop rapidly and vig- orously. Between 1790 and 1800, the interval within Which the efforts were made to prevent the seat of Government trom leaving Philadelphia, the private houses erected at Washington were few in number, being mostly empty structures, ‘Dullt a8 a specuiaMon, or the rude huts of work- men On tue President's House and the Capttol. In 1800 the staal! population was clustered, for the most part, in two settlements, the one called Ham- burg, on Observatory Hill, the other called Car- rolisburg, on James Creek, between the arsenal and the te of the city was covered inthe main by marsbes, pastures, dense woods, and some cultivated ground, where wheat, tobacco, and Indian corn were raised, ‘The eleva- ‘tons were overgrown whith shrub-oak bushes, ‘There were only two houses on the line of Penn- sylvuila avenue between the President's House and the Capitol, For much of its lengtl this avenue was “a deep morass covered with alder bushes.” Chas. W. Janson, an Engllshman, Said Of tne place “In I8UG? “Strangers alter viewing the offices of state are ‘apt to Inquire for the elt. whiie “they are in its very center. * * * Some half-starved cat- tle browsing among the buses present a melan- holy spectacle to a stranger. Quull and other birds are constantly shot within a hundred yards of the Capitol during the sitting of the houses of Congress.” Oliver Wolcott, SecreLary of the Treas- ury, and Mrs. President Adams, compiained of the scattered condition of the houses. On the same Subject John Law, one of the most prominent of the early citizens "of Washington, sald: “A loose and disconnected population was seattered over the city, and instead of a flourishing town the stranger who Visived us saw for years a number of detached villages, having no common interests, furnishing Uttle Mntnal ‘support, hardiy sustain: Ing a market, and divided by great public reserva tous.” The “discreditabie capital thus described was the result of leaving a pian of magnictcent intentions to be carried into execution by a _popu- lauloa feeble in numbers and resources, and hamp- ered by (ue hostility of some and by the indiffer- ence and neglect of a great majority of its legisia- tors and constitutional protectors. The same con- ditions belug permitted to continue KATAINED THE CITY IN ITS PITIFUL PLIGHT asthe laughing-stock of visitors, In 1814, after the Secretary of War had sneered at the sugyes- tion that the British might molest “the sheep- walk,” and after the national representatives more than Washington's would-be defenders bad per- mitted the city to be captured, the following was M3 appearance: “Twelve or fifteen clusters of houses at a. cor ‘erable distance fro: each other, bringing to our recollections the appearance of a camp of nomad Arabs, which, however, it con- nected togetuer would make a very respectable town, Not much Inferior, perhaps, to the capital of Virginia, and here and there an insulated house; the whole of it, when seen from the ruins of our public edifices, looking more ke the place where proud Washington once stood than Where humble Washington now ites” The capital-moving project of 1814 was, as we have seen, a faflure, but {twas not without wu effect in deterring intending settlers and in impoverishing those already in possession, D. B, Wanten, in bis “Description of the District of Columba,” pub isbed tu 1516, says: The value of lots has diminished oa acconnt of the project of astern mewnbers of Congress to transfer the seat of Governinent to some otier place.” Lots were sold but siowly, even at the reduced tended its Umits of settle. Ieut With proportionate slowness. In 18%4 Mr, Crawtord, Secretary of the Treasury, being “sent to the country for his health,” removed himself far from the bustle of the eity to Clement Hil man. Sion, on the northwest corner of 14th street aud Massachusetts avenue, a location now in the heart Of one of the most Valuable sections of the city. WASHINGTON IN BANKRUPTCY. While Congress neglected Washington, its resi- dents were goaded Dy taunts at the capital of the nation into desperate efforts to perform the task intended to be performed by the Government, bat left undone. Sums beyond their resources were spent upon the improvement of the streets, In erecting ctty buildings and In the endeavor to give the capital acommercial footing by digging the Chesapeake and Obio Canal; but the effort was be- yond their unassisted strength and the reliet of Congress was sought. Senator Southard, In 185, reported that the debt of the city reached “the enormous sum Of $1,806,442.5 that It bad no means from which t could apply at that time a single dollar to the discharge of its obitgations; that owing to fts debts in connection with the Chesapeake and ObloCanal foreign bankers would in all probability become the owners of a great Proportion of the property within the capital of the Union; that the city authorities had been mis- Jed Into expenditures which did act properly belong: to them, although the views by which they were gover Were of a iberal and public-spirited char- acter, and that nothing was found In the conduct of the inbabi'ants or the authorities to exctte in Congress 4 reluctance to come Wo their rellef. Ald Was accordingly granted the bankrupt . but the recommendation, made by Senator Southard, after an exhaustive Consideration of the relations Kosar fencer ge and tts, Coc mes the prs ernment si ar portion Distrlet expouses, was disregarded, and’ tue city, ‘though rescued from foreign bankers, Was per mitted to remain a national disgrace, In 1s3e city as * ° os ned swamp.” rags age in a MASSACHUSETTS AVENCE ABANDONED TO Hoos, By the corporation laws of that period geese and hogs were prohibited from running at large “south of Massachusetts avenue, juader penalty of seizure. ‘They might traverse the land north of that ave- nue at their pleasure. Practically, one section of Washington was on the same footing as another, ‘since the domestic animals, in spite of all law, had the freedom of the entire city up to late date, But what a mortification to the street which now boasts residences upoh which fortunes have been Javished that it was once set apart, impliedly, as the boundary of the city’s goose and hoz pen. Charles Dickens, tn “American Notes,” gives us bis impressions of neglected Washington im 1842. He playfully refers to it as “the head- quarters of tobacco-tinctured saliva,” and adds: “itis sometimes called the City of Magnificent Distances; but i might, with greater propriety, be termed the City of Magnificent Intentions, for it ts only On taking a Dird’s eye view of it from the {op of the Capitol that one can at all comprehend the vast designs of its projector, an aspiring Frenchman. Spacious avenues that begin in nothing and lead nowhere, streets, mile long, that only want houses, roads, and inhabitants; public Dutldings that need but a public to be complete, And ornaments of great thoroughfares whieh only need great thoroughfares to orna- ment, are its’ Irading features. One might fancy the season" over and most ot the Louses gone out of town with their masters, To the admirers of cities it 18 a Barmecide feast a pleasant tleld for the imagination to rove In: & Taonument raised to 4 deceased project, with not even a legible inscription to record 13 departed athe. Sich as it is tt is likely to remain. = = tis very unueaithy. Few people would live tn Washington, I take it, who were not obliged to re- Side there; and the Udes of emigration aud specu- lation, those rapid and regaruless currents, are litue likely to flow at any Ume toward such dull and sluggish Water.” Tue discouraging observa. tions of tae novelist are ouly an echo of those In which Americans permitted themseives vo Indulge, ‘The capital's growth Was Watered by a perpetual shower of disparagement and prophecies uf evil. Neither plants nor cities siourish under a hot Water treatment. THE PROMISE OF BRTTER DAYS. Between 1840 and 1850 Congress showed a tend- ency to improve the condition of the District. The personal influence of Mayor W. W. Seaton, one of the editors of the National Inteltigencer, 18 said to beentitied toalarge partof the credit for this friendly disposition; and so unusual was che ap- Propriation of any considerable sum for the bene- At of the District that apprehensions were jocu- larly expressed of the bankruptcy of the United ‘States Treasury if Seatoa continued to be mayor, ‘These outlays by Congress quieted to some extent the fear that the capital would be moved, and pop- ulation inereased with unusual rapidity, since 1810, When the city's inhabitants numbered 8,208, ‘the increase had been at the tnsignificant rate of about 500 a year, or 5,000 for each 10 years. Thus ‘the population in 1820 was 13,247; 1m 1830, 18,826, and in 1840, 23,364 In 1860 at the old rate it should have been about 28,000, but under the en- couragement of Congressional favor and free from the fear ota wears a gay Ur, aad bas changed from 19 Violets on bis cout. spite against Massachusetts avenue, now thefash- tonabie residence street of the city, and the vigor of his assaults justifies the suspicion that Be was sent on some wild-goose chase, and found the mud of that street particularly’ ‘Magen chusetts avenue runs the whole ot the city, nd 1s inserted on the mape as a: about four miles in Go were, and you ‘find yourself not hee Fg of ‘the felds, but you fina felds in’ an w go ag ahs noses at It, * © Seas oe ‘ast n i summer mi only feebly to his strictures, sc lons corroborate his account ition of Washing.on at that time. Alfred Tow: in a mi article, When the reveliion began the following was the pa ince of the city: Not one street was {or any great consecutive distance: there was not a street car in the city; the without a dome and the’ new were filled with workmen. No fire department worthy of the name was to be seen, and amere constabulary comprised the which ad to cali on the United States the | ala Mholy afforded by pum been th partial use for several yeurs, Dut little else Was lighted except Pennsylvania avenue and the pubilc buildings. * * * Neariy one-half of the city Was cut off from tho rest bye ditch and called the Island, while an intervening strip of mall and park was patroled by outlaws and out casts, wath oniy a bridge here and there for outlet. ‘The riverside was & mass of earthern biums Pierced by two sireets, and scarcely attainable for Mire and obstructions, Georgetown communt. cated with tue Capitol by an omnibus line, and there was no ferry to Alexandria to be remem- dered as such, except In the senstave traditions of the oldest residents. * * * In short the city Was relatively in emoryo as much as when Moore, Weld, Janson, and Basil Hall described 1 early in the century.” WASHINGTON'S LEAP INTO PROSPERITY. But Mr. Trollope’s disgust at the Washington of the present was equalled only by his hopelessness In respect to its future; and as a prophet ne proves a complete failure. From the time when the capital was a camp and hospital, tts streets filled with soldiers and resounding with martial music, its churches saddened by the moan of wounded and dying, its development as a city has been continuous, The greater part of this magical transformation has been wrought within the last elghteen years, In place of a straggling country village, with zig-zag grades, no sewerage, untm- proved reservations, second-rate dwellings, streets of imud and mire, and wretched sidewalks, the modern Washington bas arisen a political, sclentific and literary center, with a population trebied since 1360; a city sustained, improved and adorned by an annual expenditure of more than four million dollars; with surface remodelied; with an elaborate and costly system of sewers and ‘Water mains; with about 150 miles cf improved streets, nearly one-half of Which are paved with conerete; with convenient transportation by 333 miles of street-railway; with numerous chureles and schools, as Well a8 Government, buildings, ot architectural pretensions; with broad streets staded for a distance of 280 miles by more than 60,000 trees, “destined to make W: a forest city; with attractive suburban drives; with Teservatiohs and parkings given a picturesque beauty by shrubbery and rich iollage, statuar; fountains and flowers, and with costly private dwellings, rivaliing palaces in size and splendor of Interior adorament springing ap ta rapid succession where Trollope sank in mud, ‘This wonderful change for the better, effected Dy certain wise and energetic agents of'the General Goverument Whom the District delights to honor, 1s the resmit, In part, of @ reversal of the condi ons which” hampered the city’s growth. Con- gress, no longer hostile, or indifferent concerning the pecuntary needs ‘of the District, has spent large suus not only upon pubite buildings, but also Inte Improvement of the city, at frst modicaily, since 1878 systematicaliy. ‘The people of the Disirict, encouraged by Uke general aban- donment of the idea of a removal of the seat of Government, have also made extensive outlays. But the mala pubite ex of the work of recre- ating the elty Is represented by a present debt ot more than $20,000,000, nearly all of which has deen Incurred by officials placed over the affairs of tue Distriet by Che General Government in carry- ing out those “magnificent Intentions” concerning the capital, which, by the original plan, the nation and uut the Distelet was to execute, ’ It, by any reasoning, the eltizens of Washington can be held legally or morally responsible for this debt, fC must sald, as was remarked by Senator Southard in the siuilar case of U3, that they have been “inls- Jed into expenditures wi ly belong to them.” THE STRING BROKE. The Condition of a Husband whe had een Shopping With His Wife. He hada wild, hunted look as he boarded the car. He did not wait forit to stop. He rushed from the curb, seized the brass fenders, and swang himself onto the platform and through the open door, falling in a corner with violent promptness. Histace wasfushed, hiseyes were popped, his hat was on the back of his head, and his hair stood up in front. With both hands he clasped himself about the region of the heart. There was a spasmodic convulsion under the breast of bis coat, at which heclutched. He crouched back in the corner of the car, set his teeth, and drew his fect up close under tne seat, setting bis bead down tn his coat collar. “My gracious! What is the matter?” asked Tar STAR man, recognizing a friend in distress. “ont” exclalined he man, looking up in a dazed sort of way. “Oh-er-ah—nothing—nothing at all. ‘Ah, tt ts You; how'dy!” and he smiled a feeble and Geath-ltke smile, as he cautiously took oue hand from his side and extended 1t in greeting. “Tn awfully glad—". Toe sentence was cut short by an awful convulsion in his chest, and he drew hi hand ack to clasp his heart, A” sudden paleness | tee H ips and springs. passed over his face, and MS breath came quick and short. "Tis DO farther back jthing,” he said, crouchit in the corner. “1 er-un-was about tosay, sede, lightful day,” and he smiled in a helpless, pitizul Way, Urying to suppress bls agony, while he cl bis chest- with both bands, spread out so as to cover a3 uch suriace a8 possible, “Runuing tor car, you know,” he gasped. “Hard on breath.’ “Aren't you Ill, man?” asked THE STaR man, “Oli, nO, nO, no! Never better,” Dut it could be seen that he was making an heroic effort to con- ceal some great agony. For a moment he was quite stil Suddenly there was another violent juinping under ‘hands out wider aad clutched despattingty Bret iu ous place, then another. His whole frame was convulsed. Ais chest heaved until it strained the buttons on his coat, As he clasped himself there a swelling suddenly ‘appeared in bis side, and then in his back, as be Shased Iabout with his hands He crouched back in the corner bugging bimseit, Whie swellings popped out all over hin. A big iz bunsla seemed OTE San Ue, Gy Sais grasped an to suppress it, Suddenly, w # bound, he rushed from the car, ‘Tus Stak man seized him on the street and dragyed him toward a drug store, “told!” erled the stricken man, his pro- tector disparingiy by both hands “Hold on: tts nO use.” His side was swelled out terribly ‘and quivering with convulsions. “Have you @ wife?” Le asked. “Then you can feel for me. I knew it “fut Tux Svan man ragged him into m1 a “Now, get me @ string to tle it,” pp tons ashe whbuttoned his coat. ‘something lea} from under Lue folds, struck the floor, bounded to frou the Sieif- and. settled “dows guivehin Sant row nue fm qui trembling on the show case, is It was a Lope id device, an tion of spiral springs sopping with ange wit” said, after shoy may wife,” he sata, bing had been, seized and Wed. “Iw; Low auy wife—have you a wife? Well, rn Little package no bigger than a Blacking Digger than’ your watch, carry tt home, She did not did not mention that it might said eaiseerasre I like @ wild mu: ‘She o1 Bustle, She—welletne string broke! Nearly = Hundred, BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION OF AN OLD RESIDEXT—LET- TER FROM JORN. G. WHITTIER, ‘Mrs, Cornelia Platt, of this city, recently reached the advanced age of ninety-three, and her daugh- ter, Mrs. A. J. Willard, gave an afternoon tea to celebrate the event, at Which Mr. William H, Bush. nell read an original poem written for the occa- Sion, The following letter from the venerable poet Teaching such an advance hae it é it ‘ i i H ; se e td gives promiseaf rounding It you want to drive any ya a ann se, Seon fe i RUARY 25, 1888-DOUBLE SHEET. im the adjoining subdivision of Belair Heights. ‘The streets in these two subdivisions will connect With each other, the topographical work in both having been done by Mr. Herman K. Viele. Mas- ‘Ssachusetts avenue, which passes through this new Subdivision, will be the widest street and the Same width—160 feet—as in the city, will be main. tained throughout the entire ‘extension to Rock Creek. Some 600 feet trom Boundary there will be a circle, which has been nafned Decatur, nd it will be’ abou: the same size as Thomas Circle, Ail the streets will be the same width as those in the city, namely, 90 feet, ground When ald out, lying as it of Boundary st ‘to the city. divided ane heer te a8_ practicable. comprised “within the devoted to streets in will re {2 the appearance of that in great parc covered % rh the thick ‘only glimpses can be had of the 1 Thany Of thege trees will be ‘and the old house will of course be taken down. ‘The place has undergone many changes since the opening of the preseat century, wen it became the country seat of Joel Barlow. ‘The house was occupied by Col. Bomford before the War, and was the resort of the fashionable society of the city. During tne war it Was Used as a smalipox hospital, and since then it has not been occupied “except Dy People who were taking care of the place. ‘The amount of money to pe expended in this 1m- spemment wil be about the salme a wos laid out in Belair 8 for the same purpose. cul Pract price for the work 1s Malu to be about ‘The laying out of the subdivision of tne old Lit- tle place, west of 19th street, and between Boun- dary street and Columbia road, 1s now In progress. It $8 proposed to spend thers «bout $40,000, and we contractor has procured a steam shovel and built a rallroad for the purpose of facilitating Uke Work. ‘This machinery will also be used on the Kalorama Helgats grading. ‘There has been a great deal of money speut recently in various sections of the suburbs in Work of this character, and, in addition to the places mentioned above, there will be more or less work done on the various subdivisions of Suburban property about tie ¢ ‘TRE CORCORAN HOUSR AND GROUNDS. Perhaps the most vaiuabie real estate owned by Mr. Corcoran in Washington ts the house which he occupied and the grouné jurrounding tt. Untli within the Last two or Lured, years ne owned Lue entire square bounded by iH, land 16in strevis and Connecticut avenue, with the exception of tue House irumediately adjoining his on the cast. He has Sold off the entire 16.n street Trout, ‘Lue resi dences of Messrs, Joun Hay and Henry Adams 2 cupy the northwest corner of 16th and H_ streets, aud the residence of Mr. Lucius ‘Tuckerman tbe Southwest corner of iil and I streets The round upon Witch the Hay-Adaius houses are located Was purchased about Cares years ago, and ‘he price paid Was $6 per Toot. Nearly the waole of the Lstreet front and the entire Connecticut avenue side has never been ballt up, and Lats lance ‘act of land, in the heart of the city, ts laid out In lawns and winding walks. BUILDING ON THE MONUMENT GROUNDS. W. M. Poindexter & Co,, architects, have pre- Pared the plans for the bullding wjich we Wash- ington Monument Society will erect near the Monument. It will stand on the terrace, about 40 feet south’ of that structure. The material used Ao the buildtug will be white marble, and ft will in Unis respect correspond wich the Monuseeut, ihe design of the building is Grecian, and < will v one Story high. It Will have a frontage of 43 feet and a depth of 24. There Wil be an octagonal ex. tension at the rear. ‘The building will be entirely Hreproof, and the éntrance will be through a por- Uco supported by marble monolithic couunus, The centrai room will be for the use of the public, ‘and it will be flanked on elther sid» by the archives room and the keeper's rovm. Th Une publle room there will bea bronze taviet placed in the wall, with an inscription stating that the buti ing Was erected by the Monuinent Socleiy. Tue work of construction will be begun as socn AS possivie. ‘The cost of the building will be $12,000, which will be pal from the funds coliected by’ te society in former years. 2K. PRLLRW'S NEW RESIDENCE 43 to be erected by Mr. Henry E. Peliew at the northeast corner of 17th street and Massachusetts avenue, Mr. Pellew ts an Englishthan, but has re- sided here for several years, and will now have his home here permanently. ‘The house will be built Of brick and the design of the architec si Potndexter « Co., 1s plain and stupi ‘struction Will be of the best character, ahd ‘house will be solid and substantial. ‘The entra wilt be from 17ib street, and the hous? will frontage on that street of Atty-six feet. The int rior will be finished handsomely and the ara, ment of tue rooms will be adinirably adapted ior soctal purposes, a District Militia Matters, Gen, Bigelow has issued thls drill schedule for the District National Guard, The companies of the 2st battalion wili drill at their armories on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays aud Fridays, frou. # t09; Whose of thé 2d battalion, on Mondays, Thursdays and Frideys, at uneir respective armories, from 7:30 to 10; the companies of tie 3d battalion, at their armories, on Mondays, ‘Toursdays anid Fridays, from 8 to'10; companies of the 4th battalion, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, trom 7:30 ‘to 10; of the Sti battallon, from 8 to 10; the companies of the bth battalion, at thelr armories, from 8:30 to 10, and the com: Panies of the 7th battalion, from #'to 10, ‘The folowing enlisted men have been honorably discharged fromn the National Guard: Sergt. Oscar Cissell, Privates J. F Matiern, W. Graves, Mon omnery Hunter, §. S. White, Bauer, W. 8. J. éranson, Thomas Dooley, Henry Heaiy, Alexander McKee, L. C. Milligan, J. S. Shaw, D. G. Steele, ‘Thomas Reynolds, J. J. Dasenbtock, G. Sanger Driver, £. R. Fitzsimmons and G. J. Hippold. ‘The Washington Light Infantry paraded last Wednesday, and the steadiness in marcuing main- tained along the whole line brought forth hearty applause from the many spectators along the line. ‘The subject ot purticipauug in. tue ‘Texas Gell 13 exciting # great deal of interest in this organiza- on. ‘The Custer Guards have changed their name, Hereafter they will be known as Sous of Veterans, Corporals Chas L. Davison and Harry F, Clark have been promoted to the rank of serzeant, and Privates D. A. Kawards, J.B, Meeds J.B’ Pitehe, J, Fulton, H. Thorne, and G. A. Cahill have been appointed corporais in’ company Bot tne: attalion, The National Guard of the District was ably represented in Alexandria last Wednesday by the Merchant Rifles, the Corcoran Cadet Corps, and Uwe Commbia Ries, ‘The Washington Continentals (Company A, 34 Dattallon), accompanied by a large number of lady friends, La very enjoyable day at Mt. Vernon last 3 Upon the application of the commander, the fol- lowing enlisted men of Company D, id vattaiion, have been discharged fromthe National Guard for nou-payinent ol dues and nov-attendauce at drills: Privates J. H. Davidson, Wim. A. Jounson, Win. A. Schultz, and B. D. Buck. ‘The fair committee of the Marion Rifies are mak- Ing the necessary arrangements for their coms + to be held at the National Rilles' armory. = hotographs of each member of the National Fencibles are being placed ina frame as ‘sn a8 obtained, which will, When completed oc- upY & conspicuous Position oa the wall of the room. John A. Logan, jr., an honorary member of C9, of the 4th battalion (Logan Camp Guard), has presented the: compantetuh. & handsome ‘gold ‘medal which 18 to be drilled tor annually, ‘The fairof the Washington Cadet Corps was opened ‘Wednesday ‘ut by Mr. Frederic! Rugiass, fe will couuinue one week. J ‘The D. C. N. G. Signal Corps is in a flourishing Deasley, from New Y although the latter. gave so much trouble Ment 18 not yet very satisis Denny, the big third-baseman of, Indianapolis, wants (6 come (6 Washtogton, Dut. that. e106 Wil ‘not consider any proposition (or his release, lers, the star of San Swiriers is Tecelving ‘flattering offers from Boston wut five $2,800 for lm, pia goes $2,400, and Chicago believes ‘that he About $2,100, ‘The Cincinnat! Enquirer that meats are about completed for Gaffaey to um} the spring games tn that city. Mike Kelly ts reported as saying that he is not a candidate for the captaincy or the management of the Boston club, and that be will decline should either position be tendered him. He favors Mor- mill for aces, Manager Ted Suilivan will divide his time be- tween Washi and Troy. He will go south with the Wastiagton. club and willbe on the Wath for a good man fora fleld captain. He says that the boys will have to play ball to beat the Southern clubs, for there aresome first-class teams in the Southern League, ‘Keefe will coach the Amberst College eam until the opening of the League season. Charley Smith's terms, as given to Director Bil- Ungs, of the Boston Club, are $2,500, Jack Retnsen has played cenvertield in fourteen different clubs uring his baseball experience. init, Auetcs, I is sald, Wil piay im Washington Kelly will do considerable work behind the bat for Boston tis season, Titcomb, the left-handed twirler, signed a con- tract with the New York club last Week, Titcomb 1s looking big aud strong and feels confident of do- Ingexectition next season, The Pittsburg Telegraph says that Shoch, of Washington, 1s Called a ligutning player by some. AC ipl. Hanon, of Detroit, 18 of the opinion tuat e ie could adopt thé double umpire system without extra expense. anager Barnes, O€ Minheapolls, offered Pitcher he Wizzard,” $2,500 tor his services Uns, Year,’ $00 of it to be advance money. shaw Wanted $1,000 advance, which Was refused, and the deai h re on that point, ‘The Pittsburzs’ new uniforms will consist of dine cap and pants, white flannel shirts, and ma- n stockings ana belt, ve White Hannel shirts aud pants and royal blue ap anit Delt, ‘The San Francisco Chronicle says the winter base ball season has bees a financial failure to the managers, the players Laving been patd all the money that was taken tn. But, then,wao expected anything else? Jack Farrell says: “Whisky has made managers look upon me as Unreliable, but good playing and | sobriety tuts season will show tun and gratitnde are not entirely dead.” President Von der Abe, of the St, Louis club, has | Just returned trom a two months trip to Europe. Hie says that the Prince of Wales Is greatly inter. ested in i, and he would not be surprised partes Ube heir to the throne orgunizing a nine perore Jon | take (wo ciubs over ther. | At alate meeting of,ihe new Kansas, City club } a letter trom retary of the Washington club Was read, contaiuing an offer to trade Don- nelly for Jim Davis. If Clarkson sign presumed Wat hi people who will stocking club a3 a prominent candidate for the League pennant. The immediate cause of all this: again with Chicago, and tt 1s will, there are a great many Js the great pitching Van Haltren has been doing this winter oa the slope, nes he pitched tow against tue St. tier down to five hits 2 first and none in uve second. ‘The Chleagos vo to Hot Springs March 1. ‘They Wil play {WO Weeks in Arkansas, and ten go to New Orl-ans, Where they nave aates with a local club, “Tue eX-cuamptons will then Work thelr way north by easy stages, playing In all of the Souci umnAry play the wear heavy navy-blue fabnel suits, which are now being inade. "The trip 1s expected to cover about seven w New York's out-licld will be selected from Gore, Tiernan, Dorgan, Foster, and Slattery, There great hustling by those men in’ the pre- ary games 1m the spring, as they Will proba- biy ail be given an opportunity to demonstrat { their prowess, If Dorzan’s arin has not improved by that time he wili probably be a supstitute, Me 1s. splendid batter, but, owlog to an affection of the suoulder, eafnot ulrow any distance. Last season Ward or Richardson invariably ram balt- Into lus territory when # quick return of the sphere was necessary, It was recently remarked by a close observer ot the game that the clubs were never #0 closely matched fn Une quailty of thelr material as at the present Utne, and predictions are numerous that (he fight for the pennant Unis year will be one of the Mardest ever known, To considering the uphill struggle of the home clup I would be well Lo regard the record of the Philadeipida Club as an example of the result of steady bard work and good management, In 1383, thelr first year in the League, the Phillies won but 17 gaines, being the end of the list. ‘The next year the record was bettered, the club winning 39 games and standing number six. In 1885 Une gaunes Won numbered 5 and the club was third in rank. In ABKG Lhe cank Was MOL so good, the club standing nuinber four, but the record Of games won Was considerably ‘bett¢r, there belog 71 to their credit, ‘Last year the upward progress was continued, and the club ended the season” with 75 won games and standing second, Many knowing ues consider the composition of tue home club this year very slinilar to that of the Philadelphia team a few sea Sons ago. Good, steady, bard Working ball tossers, dependent for tueir standing in tke League upon the character of thelr workin the near future, and not relying upon thelr previous reputation. ‘They Predict that with careful handling the Senators will make a nam» tor themselves, as there are no Jealousies or cliques existing in the ranks, ‘Yhere 13 no doubt but that the home club bas Deen material strengthened, not, indiviaually, haps, Dut collectively, There no stars, Bute guod teun-work Is expecvod. Many congratulations have been received trom various cities on our luck in securing Wil- mot, Whois called a first-class man, while Hoy has splendid record, Tt ts claimed that the best change will prove to bein the management, 1¢ ts no longer a secret that this year it is to be entrusted cbieny to Mr. Ted Sullivan, whose reputation in this .ine {s wide- spread. ‘Tul js, of course, behind the scenes, while Mr. Buiet will occupy tue playery Denon and do the Nela honors with the umpire. Sullivan will divide bis time between here and Troy, in which club he has an tuterest, but he wilt be able to keep a close Watch on the Washington men, and to ex- ercise @ coustant supervision through his lieu tenant. ‘There fs some talk of making Whitney captain of the team," When not pitching he would play in the fleid, It 18 a question whether an out-teld captain ‘Is as effective as one playing Witnin the diamond, but there 1s no doubt as to Long Jim's Tare yvod Judzment in a tight place. Jack Farrell's contract with Baltimore, tt is re. Fund, stipulates that lis rst spree wilh be fol. Towea by a reauction of $300 in salary. Ivissatd that there Will be less drunkenness among bail-players (his season than ever betore, the National League contract being Very severe on that polat. 1¢ is uoped that this inay be true, for there is nothing that knocks the organization and ‘out of ateam Uke rum. President Young: sald the otwer dav, if they can daly Keep the Wash Ingtons rom drinking they make a record, It 18 now said that Kansas City positively re- fuses to accep} Donnelly, and to release Davia ‘That player, however, declares that he docs not i want to play In Kansas City, and does want to come 10 ma, and if he can't do it he will lay. ‘Phe home club will start on tte southern trip about the middle of next weex, going Orst to New pa 9G ‘Saturday Smiles. ‘When a woman loses anything she cries, Even 45 this so when it Js her Lemper which she has lost.— Yonkers Statesman. If some philanturopist would ike wherein to operate, he might fix ft so that manufacturers Would make tacks that ‘@ channel the ‘Tne change uniform wilt | ‘in me manhood | Hie Uhiuks that 1¢ Would pay Bow 20 | begin’ to look upon the White. | A NAVAL OFFICER'S INTERESTING STORT—HOW THR ENGLISH TRRATED THE COOLIES—AN EXPECTED aT- TACK—AID REFUSED BY TUR FRENCH—PREPARA- TIONS FOR DEFENSE. Dr. D. B. Phillips, of Madison Run, Va, recently elated to a Stan reporter tne following detai!s of an incident which happened nearly thirty years ago, while he was serving as an officer on board & Raval vessel in the Asiatic waters: “The U.S. steam frigat® Mississippi, commanded by Capt. Win. C. Nicholson, entered the Shanghs! River on the 21st day of July, 1859,” he said, “and Gropped anchor at Woosung, 20 miles below the ‘Chinese walled city, Shanghal, and 15 Delow the foreign settlement of the same name. It was alarmed assauited in some hour find murdered in hte sds. te aoa Was very much 1 the arrival and an- chorage near the mouth of the river of AX ENGLISM COOLIE VRSSRL, which was crowded with its unhapps inmates, and Who, It was said, were badly treated. On the night of the 29th of July a lange number of these poor Creatures, who were being forced gown into the ‘ship's hold, where the air was so foul ad stifling Chat they could searcely breathe, forced ubelr way back to the deck and leaped overboard in their effort to escape. They were fired upon in the Water by the Eaglish, and the larger number were Killed, wounded, or’ drowned, while a few only ‘were fortunate to escape. ‘The reports of the firearms, and the agonizing cries of the dving And wounded, were distinctly heard on our suis and aiso by the Chinese in their huts on shore, Full information of ali the tragic cirewstances Was promptly conveyed to the governor and of the Chinese city of Shanghai by those who es- caped, and thetr Was confirmed by the ba- Uves ‘ou shore. It excited intense indignation aimong all classes of their countrymen, and threats Of retaliation were freely and openly uttered against all ers Without distinction as to Rationality, Somewhere about 10 o'clock on the Aight of the Sist of July a boat pulled uurriedly alor Of our ship, and twoor three citizens from the lower town clambered up the side, and excitedly informed th oMcer of the watch’ that ‘Lhe Chinese were preparing to ATTACK THEIE SETTLEMENT, “A few minutes later another party came aboard With the statement that they (the Chinese) were then on the march, and there was no time tolo¥e 1f we intended to go to thetr rellef, ‘This informa. Uion was speedily supplemented by the arrival of 4 third boat, Dringing the pews that tue people ia the upper portion of the town were fying Getore (ue euemy from the small and ives detensible | houses to the large and strong hougs of Ue mer- chants, tor safety. FRENCH ASSISTANCE ASKED. “It being then dead low water, and our vessel | being of too heavy draft to ascend the river unler | such clretmstances, some one suggested that a | | small French war steamer lying not far of micht, | if appited to, take up a detachment of our omicers | | tnd men, a% her displacement of water was so Ucut that she could at any time go up wicuour | Giificulty, and without a pilot. Capt. Nicholson, | turning to Lieut. Sproxton, tae oftic at that ims, spoke Fren 4 Was Sent (or, abd requested by a boat, board the Frenchman, exigeacy, aud ask ber commaui 1 capain to take ake known th ng OMicer to Up steani and take up a detachment from. our vessel to the relief of Shanghal, = ‘Sialing the object of my visit to Lercaptala be intormed me | That be was under Uhe exciusive control of the French ambassador, who was then absent, and had | been positively instructed by hlin, Devore’ leavine, under no circumstances to leay during Lis absence. “But, it y cnn | positively assure me, in your capacity of an officer | In the United States Navy, ot ¢ ot these statements, I will prompuy aud ci with Capt Ni i ‘omply cholson’s request, be the couse quences to myself Whatever tty imay be: but uuless You eau 30 assure tue, I dare not disobey Ube orders of my superior.” Having repeated to Lita 1 the grounds upon Which Capt. Nicholson base Lis request, tie Frencitnan shrugged his shoulder and reciarked that bis experienoe had tu | that civilians were easy alarmen, ana th: | would not ieei Justified ta acting upon o! ra | of Wat might At last Ur OUE vO be their baseless rears, BOATS TO TAR RESCTR, Returning at once and reporting the result of Iny mission Co the captain he immediately ordered Uhe ship's iauach and first and second cutters to be lowered and got ready, and we soon started up the river With Sisty armed men, a brass LOW!tze | aud as many extra carbines, pistols and cutlasses | a3 we coud conveniently’ carry, with which to avia such citizens as were unprovided with de- Iensive Weapons—ail being under the command ut | | Me. Roger N. stembie, our frst Ueutenaut. 1 food tide Having by this tine set it in, aud the | Wind, tuough light, being Tavorable, we reached our destination almost as soon &s the stean Would have carried us, but, as a matter of cours: With a much smatier number of men, As wo ved tue town the yells and discharges or tire. | ants gave every tude: commenced, jad OUF crews, putting forth all the | energy Lucy could, we laulted at tye frst whart | | We citine to, and Lastened to the dong of Augus- | tne Hivard & Co., Wiikcu, besides belay the ange=t, | Was tbe nearest of our American mercantlic | houses, Mir, Stemble, Iniorming tne that he would make this house bis Neadquariers, lett me thei and proceeded at onc» to station ils littie force as best he could, “Sir. Jona Heard, the bead of Use | Hirta, With sole of Lhe etaployes of the ouse and Writer, all welcome, Wok seats tn the open over the ‘spacious vestibule, Uarougl Whicu Uy {rout of the hong Was entered, there to await tue course of events, Frot tis elevated position Ww had an excellent view of the river, und also of the Jong strece beside tt, by Which the Chinese must of luccessity march in Order to attack the town. Unis une the uproar had 0 increased In varies), volume and intensity that the great dome of heaven seemed to vibrate and temple from the zenith to Lhe horizon. Such a mediey of sounds aud commingling ot pyrotechtles we Rad hever | heard or wituessed beiore, THE WILD YELLS AND HOARSE SHOUTS of the nen, the shrill shrieks and screams of the women, the walls of distress proceeding from heaven oniy knows what, the varking and howling of dogs, the thunders of artiliery, the reports of Small’ arms, lorpedoes and cannon-crackers, aud Ue deafening roar of the gongs ashore and siloat, With he fare of inany-colored ligats, and d and DiilMant Mgnt of Inpumerable’ sky- vis usceudlug 1foun & thousand points on land, ‘and as any more from the dense fleet of junks, fishing smacks, and satnpans on the river, and Dursting iike a great shower of meteors in tue alr; all combiued in sugzesting the idea that Pande Tuoutuin uad broken Joose tou its internal moor- Jog and Worked 1t8 way, with all its diaboucal ageacies, to the region Which we then Inhabied, Long and anxiously we gazed “up the river and Street watching for the foe, and expecting every moment to see them rushing tumultuously upon us Ludeed, Irom tme to tme we tinagined that we discernéd the Yast horde, surging in deuse masses and numbers by laud aud Water, and could detect amid the din and clamor whica Sued the air, the tramp of feet, and the reyular strokes froin Ue thousands of” oats as tuey advanced slowly and steadily toward the devoted town, Whilist thus eagerly gazing and trying to note the movements of tue enemy, and ata Une when Our nerves were strained to their utmost tension, the moon, Which had hitherto shone with great brilitancy, commenced to pale Its ght. Suppos- Ang Uhat this Was occasioned by a cloud, T looked up to see how loug it Would probably be before it ‘wouid pass away, When I perceived that one-third of Madam Lunar’s Dright ace wus obscured by the sequent of a dark copper-colored disk, and that tt ‘wouid probably soon be totally ecMpséd. — Spring. ing to tay feet With @ shoul, greatly at variance Witn our previously anxious’ siicuce, and ‘turulng to my companious, Who were ng me with looks of extreme surprise, 1 €: "Lay aside your arms, gentiement It ts @ faise and | Your town 18 in no danger. Look at the 2 he Chinese are the anxious ones, aud all this tre- Mmendous uproar and display of fre-work: ‘Was got up to scare off the great dragou, or Cuuet kiad of monster, whicit they tusk ts ati Ing the moon and Mest and most useful 0} Trends without further delay?’ iv. hearty cheers to the fair queen of the descended and gave Stemble the news. He at once called 1m Tis men, and we went quietly to ion Of the contlict having | ¥ Finding a Band of Genuine Span'sh psies in Cuba. ROMANTIC MEETING OF DISGUISED GITANOS—oIPST CHARACTERISTICS — RECOGNIZED AS A FRIEND— PLEASURES OF REDING THR CUBAN PONY—a VISIT ‘TO TRE GIPST CAMP—PICTORESQUE SCENES. copyrighted. Special Correspondeace of Tux EVEXtxe Stam Nam LOTANO, Coma, Feb, 20, 1888, A few mornings since Iwas sitting in the Window Of my quaint alcoba, which overlooks boun the old Plaza de San Fraucisoo and the broad and beauti- fal Day of Havana, enjoying the strange and inter- esting scenes beneath and beyond, when a chauce meeting of low!y folk gown there among the car- Tetéros gave wea more intense thrill of excite. ment, and a better reason for this chapter on 3 peculiar featur of Cuban life pracucally unknown: Yo Cubans themveives, than bad 1 awakened that very morning to the coguizance of civil war throughout the fair island. COUNTRYMAN AND TINKER. A dark, ithe fellow in rawaide shoes fashioned lke moccasins, leather breeches, a yellow sash and r3 Merce sieve! ‘Coarse linea shirt aud a tremen- lous sombrero, in the hj the inland guajiro of Cuban countrfiman t for a long time been lying lazily againet the massive Wall which separated the plaza and the harvor wharves. Near him were two bttle jacam OF cuban and & Gonkey nibtiing al scarce fodder Of cateireves. ‘The anitaais lad been loaded ont of si. ‘it over serons or rush Diankets With gigantic podiues Miied with fudder, fruit and what-not from the country, This had aiteady been, disposed of by vawking, and, as far ag 1 could see, | man‘and beasts were resting a littie before Ube Fe turn home. Directly I heard the tinkie of a laton- 6ro or tinker's bell, and tinmediavely a swarthy Unker came tn sight. The association of scene and sound Im me. But when tne Unker moved ‘Mraight along the plaza through the carts and crowds to the recumbent countryman, and 1 save, (oo, UAL Uhe Lacter was as attentive ‘to the near: ing Uinkling as 1 was tothe mau Whose shoulders bore the grinaer's wheel, ail Cuba Weld not a Uthe Of the interest forme that Athen felt lay in the meeting of Wiose \Wwo mea. PUGRIM BRETHREN. There was mo special demonstration in it. ‘The Unker, by all the saints, simply bade the country. Man good morving, abd the countryman, in the Bame Of the virgin, responded right cheerily. Then a uttle chatting crue whic 1 could oi bear; but before Ube Unker turned aWay for his ‘nal “Adios!” be said ina tongue as ancient as that in Which the sacred precepts of Zoroaster Were traced upon the 12,000 cow-skins of old: my pilgrim breturen ‘of another i abiding affeciion Aud thea he Gukled imseif away Larough the Thad hardly jost sight of him as be disaj under (he shadows of Ube ruiged old San cl church opposite, When 1 awoke from the rusa oi swift-Sooding meme-tes of my Idylite days ip many lands With my JoVal friends, the Gipsies; a ‘Da rash that startied the sieepy servivors: of the oid posada, I ga'ned the piaza and the side | Of the red guajir, Who bad meanwhile resuaed is cnat upon adonkey-pouch with his back against Lue wussive wharf wall, 1 HAD POUND A LIVE GITANO, A genuine Spanish Gipsy, in the guise of a Cuban Peasant, But that was not all which 1 must ac complish, He taust be made to talk. He must be made my friend. A world of weird, and w me, priveiess, information lay beliind that bron hutaan door. Had 1 the power to unlock it? 1 fear my contortions with the Spanish language were pitlabie, Lam sire my efforts at friendsuip in speech and gesture were qartung. What w his two jaca and the donkey Wortus He seemed aint tOcall Che pouice, Was his kAbor upon his S19, and ais bawking in the city profitabie? He instinctively gearched Lue fulls of iis yellow sash for Ue saiety of his greasy, depreciated Havana bankebills, “Had be a gefidra and nifias at his cabli, OF tent, Dehind the hills? With a scowl hand Came tureatingly near lals ferce macuete, On And on I stumbied aud struggled to gaiu tue fel- 1ow's hutman recognition. IT WAS DSRLESS. en I resorted to berolc tacti v aud told bim b scorn that J considered him a Zomany Gipsy Ubie. AL the sound of his secret age & remarkable change occ if 10 hibs foot, excited and alari tie gorau the do uisston, Kicking” the poules with resounding AW away irom the fodder, and, as be was to spring pou the buck’ of ane, turued to me with a bewldered Jook of feat, deprecation, doubting desire, and halt-determlued tolerauce, aS pitlably silly as had been my own starding inteme tons, with 1 chor | “Sag ALLAM'S SLAVE Jostantly advancing with extended band, 1 Sald most earnestly in Romany: *Save Allu’s MS magle talisinan brought him pony in a twinkling, a heap of hysiero aauiations For the fins time Vioiwntiy and persistent braved by &.2 had put to test im a fore 1and upon one of tus Wandering race Ube thive Words ia¥ oldea gipsy friends had sworn to we 10 tue innermost mysteries of this In aby clan Or land beneath tut had not played ime false, From Uhat ielow Was amore thai my |. He was my loving slave. Could Tg him to his Brethren in the “1ountalnst Thousand tines Yes; and all je » SLOUI be cine. tie Gipsy @ thieving dog. I know better. Do hun a kinduess; prove to iim your identincation With bi in the Teast of hutnau Ways Chat stand for tus regard; let there come into his inner heart the consciousness tat you are tolerant of his race, forgiving of his history, generous toward Uhat st, and the Whole worid vise cannot auOW Lis equal th the bizhest and best of unending, unvary- tug trust and loyal triendship, 1 set thts down in this foreign lad as a truth which sometume suall be known in all lands, EPAKATIONS POR THE VIStT, It Would be dificult vo tell which was most pleased and exuberant. It was agreed at once that We should go to is habitation, a few leagyes in- land, Wille Iguaclo—for that was my Gtpsy friend's name—azaiu woke Up the animals wick Sundry Whacks and thuupings, I hastewed to Une trom. his ecstatic, In wy 1 mou"}-changer’s for a puckettull of stuall cola for we Gipsy iias and muchachos or the band, and to tne duleéry's for stores of sweeltutals, chew and sausage for Uckling the palates aud giadden- ing the souls of the Whoie Gipsy crew; anu shorty We set out through Havaan’s crowded sireets. Ig. hacio upon one pony tayself astride (he other, aud the donkey following with many au evidence of Lilarivus insubordination. MANAGING A DONKEY. ‘The ontrol of tus beast by the Gipsy is Worth recounting. In the main little attention was paid vo his antics, But now and tuen they brougnt wor. On these occasions Ignacio was off hus Jacas {nab instant. A parting Kick sent thin shabu Seainst my own pony, whlch lie huggee to mortal Tear wat his rider metursed, Witu a squats, for ward-bent posture, for ali une World Uke ap Amerie can Indian's, the Gipsy would ran wich thorediDle swiftness to "tue donkey, and, gravbing st by ous of its tremendous ears tuiiy toree, be beast to the ground, Then drawing his mac! whose blade ts fully two feet long, Lue Mal side of Ac would descend upon tue donkty’s skinny ribs With blows so resounding that ibe ecuoes again between Ue Walls of tue narrow During the euure fagetlation tue Gipsy caiies, ecuitted 1rou, between bis clos seta a Series of | sharp, hissing “S-s-6-8!"—untversal with the lower Clases Of CUDA aS 8 Sigoal OL alana, & sound of reproot, and tue most Intense tuieat of direst pos- sabUties, (ON THE ROAD. | Liknew the way we took, for I Bad traversed. it | not long before with my old friend, Don Miguel, ‘whos now, I trust, at rest beneath other than | Cuban palms. The magnificent Calzada, leading from Havana to Glues sowed brighter that ever, ‘There lay the quaint old city, luke a sani nest within ils frowning Datuements, Be} the sea, white at the shore, a Wondrous green be- | Jond, and a Ded of purpie beneath the northers horizon. Crossing Jesu dei Monte, Dut ¢ mile dix tant is Toyo where the Gitines, Managua and San- tdago de Las Vegas calzadas concenter. for. @ league we traversed El Luyano wi oRged of that uae tts famous government mttion dollars; passed the great Coralles, or siauguter-yards of Havana, where the Detrerctos or calile-grasets the encosiendéros of Wholesale butchers, the matarifes or slaughterers, i we Uist ‘we had come to the first’ genuine Cuben oe Suite AONE. lage or pueblo, Luyano, two from the city, About sunrise in the morning Heard entered my | beiore I tairiy realized we had ieft the beautiful room and said: ‘Excuse me for arousing you, doc. | Suburte of Ha¥aua behind. ‘window, and Mussiasippt Ly! Bigu and dey in # rice patch, and thecuribus oles tills were walking around her, and trasting her Model with that, of ‘ornate and war i i l rf Ht : i : F 3 Ha i i di 4] J | | i Fi é t a i fl i i i f if i pre E : i F : | E He i i : i [ : | i g » I i i f i it E i ; i ft i i i asad, did | Ali the world imay deca | ich Le holds as treasuré in senument and | i Sith the dogs acd goats at pang. Waded in the’ waters of thre (07 splashed and Siting anda nev eaent fo fl ered With brown woota sat opt oy ein dy a man at terry boy i SSeoing rar ont Pelee prance glance of Dut te ‘the picu ue Gener camp Exton was odbrous with gowerss i wan tmesotons Of birds, the sound of falling waters, ‘children. abel Chose peeulia® guice RECRIVED Ix THE Baws Ignacio, WhO proved to be the real head of the band, dismounted! and tan forward swiTus to ue Of perturbed curiosity at the unuswal apectacts of strange foreigner appearing in camp on this Oe traordinary friendly fovting. Wut on the way fem Havana I had lost a0 wceasion to tmpress hath wim My sanding ANODE the Gipsies of more Loan ome land: and & few rapid gestures and w among Which I heard my appellation aang’ i Of Gorgw chal (WOFAL NOD-gipey trend. adjaeead te Totorr and had Sturm Country Ib aMuence and home ne ‘No pen can describe the marveiows wiftness iu WhICh sped the UeWs thal “F Amore had come, maybe a thousand leagues to Nem; Ubat he had wo Oerliy singled su" thew enter, ignacta, tn the old Havaa playa, ant nae determinedly’ 2usisted from lowe of their very selves and ‘Upon Visit and Teast atwoug Chem, OIPSY Mo#PiTAL ITY. But the Gipsy haspitailty { have a thoussmt tines known—ample, generOUN UBbesItAL«g end Surpasming in that good quality of compliers wit Destowal upon the tewporary comfort of « treet Was instantly mive. The entire band s! one Blocked about me. 1 Was almost lifted bodiiy frm MS pony. Each member of ihe tawuy commun seemed to Vie In OULdoing the others tn kinehy Ling; aad on every face @ broad eet FD OF Welcowe. A sUre OF Ore exOrted me to @ tent, Where sirendy nimble Bugers were laying soft folds of tue Mosc) Wngue de vace for my couch at night. One defuy huag curtains of some t Sum before the tent opening. Anotwer it clgaretion, pipes, aud ia rant tobacen, Anciuer came «Wily with ewers of water, and © basin of bras ss a I Nelle fagons of Cataian wine. Woturn came wir combs tate (rom great strips of horu, aad wher With phiais of true bay mu scented Wilk seme fone Odor of the Gipsies Limes and tammers were piled own making, UOUI 1. yweLned tat the wh had heen levied upon for my ure, and, put to sar eried ont : 1 they all ran away laughing and ct Jad confusion, Then, as | threw mye Upon My Beery couch to pond ange and UNEXpected sliustion, Cuigat em coufension may be, 1 could ue oat heart: It fou 4 Ticker | Nightly Scenes and Inciacnisin a The= ater Lobby. TRIALS AND TRIRCLATIONS OF 4 DOORKERPRE = PERSISTENT EPPORTA TO SECCRE FuRH awe SOLID MEN WRO DRSIKK TO ERCOME DEADH WOMEN AT THE THEATER, “That man will be my bitter enemy as long as he lives, now,” said the doorkerper al the Uheaber the other night. “AMMAN Con Make mate enemyes right here na Week than ia kuow of in a year. The remark Was called out by an inckiewt whit other powtiow 4 may be witnessed any nighl at Cheater doore 8 | Very suave Individual, With a Wondertwils know tug Kleatn 10 us eve, Approacned about % ocionk and Undertook fo pass sh. The @ourkenper head ‘Out his hand tor at dividual grasped Ket or check. The sunwe Stretched band aod ted to shake it, saving as te aid ss, Stalling most ffusiveis all the ane, you won old flO?” Ten be Mowat oe again, but Only for an instant. Mecaugut © oorkh-per's eye and fonnd tn i an exprensts cold, gitvering, unssmpattiecie inquicy Chat hitn ‘pause and caused tue Warm' tt oc lis statle ty fail 1aAMy degrees and Its breadis to comttart mee eral centimeters. “lave you a cherk or pam the hard-bearied doorkeeper asked, still Ing Uae save Individuas with would Bave excited Ue euvy of the her,” if that uncanny Jack Ty tieck,” tue Iran anew conceal bis growin. dis td Ag K COMTINUILE Lis Cale toward tee on | hailowed anche Of his desire, “Yu | Know ane; Vu alk right “Yea, 1 know yout,” the oo SUD holding Mim With lus guttering ee: “owe FOU' Mot all rick.” You'll have to get a check a Pass of soue Kind tefore yo can | Gime ‘the aman’ wuaviay had | aud une tines of his face grown a wild elder-apple, With a tay ertaluiy ot bend at and burried trou the theater aa derrtic wave t {he doorkeeper con: T know bundreds of of bd 1 supposs bethought Le would dnt check his Way In, Well, we women In Low Just see IC lve t mo 8 any who try the came on Fouy* asked Tur be around, “Weil, 'm not troubled a gros teow. bused © hadu't as much experience “as 1 jadn’t BECOME CALIOUS, aS It Were vase athanpting that rort ut Bur they Ury ail sorts ot Witte quite so brash. The womeu do it = the ien: people, £00, Whom you never suspect of Belig quilts of suc Ui {heaters are looked ou about | Talroads. Most people seem to regard ita high: commendable action to cheat Them OF get Lye bet of them in any way. TRE PASSION POR DF ADMRATING. | “108 curious, too,” he contioued, “now fond | Most people are of getting dowdnead UcketS, ale | though they may cost them in the end ten times AS MUCH as regUIAr tickets Could have een bougs for at the bux-uilice, People with mure Weal | han Whey know What todo with will work lke | Deavers, stand suubbing of ali kinds, sacrifice Leir self-respect abd often spene iu Urewtiag mone iouey Cwice OVer tha tickels Would have Cont | them at the box-oMice, 1m working am agent tar cumplimemaries, They seem to preter free UL them Under obligations Ww the People and cost them a goud deal ewdes to te regular tickets Which they might have bought » the office and been entirely Independent of every body. Another Curivus thing ts Ube alnbitaon Wiich MARY SOG Yusiness wen, Who RF perio ty Willing to pay thelr Way, Rave” to be Khown ae Wen Who Can pass inand Out belwoen the act Without tue ald of a return cheek. They soow nuk IC greet privtiege to be wliowed wo go and out this way, apparently teeing that fw gees uem men of prominence, 1 Know a nui of Middiemaged ‘who you Would tinub would be above such Vanities, who wever take checks If they can heip it.” ‘WOMEN ARE HARDEST TO MAKAGE. “What sort of a crowd is hardest to handler” the Teporter inquired, to stimulate the flow of talk, Which gave some Sigus of drying up. “1 have the Worst times at matinees, When there 1s a big crowd of wowen, Tain sorry to ma} Ml, Duk there is no denying that’ women, even of Ube "best Glass, are Vastly hamer to kesp ia order than men, ‘They can’t be gOL tosubmit to regulations which are only made for thelr own vewef. and comfort. It a ‘crowd of men waiting (0 reach in line, they do 80 at once Stak man, WO, as Uotal, happened t deal wownday be when | Subject. The #1 ~ wih ber could | ner Snmeeectamases Casts me people whom be counted oul her Change Unree of four ones carey = Sia'shoor er draperies abe starts to get out the SS abe | on 1 am Woo severe, Just come a ‘(WHEN THE DOORKERFER CaTCHRs rr. “But 1 get the worst of it when they haves. cured their tickets and rush for the door. They seem LO bave lost all reserve, and ladies who would ‘Dever dream of speaking to me or tne street or anywhere cine but here. mnile on m. sweetly, ime by name, faa aks orca Ril and ato ‘abairer le the lewaa, sreniols renee! a i bli me i 5