Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1888, Page 6

MORE MONEY WANTED. Many New Offices Recommended to be Established. SALARIES TO BE INCREASED—ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST FOUND IN THE BOOK OF ESTIMATES SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. The total amount of the estimates submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress, and their relations to the appropriations for the current fiscal year, were given in Tae Stak yesterday. Among the new items of local in- terest are the following: In the Senate—A clerk to compile a history of revenue and general appropriation bills, $2,500, ‘The salaries of the civil-service commis- sioners are increased to $5,000, and the fol- lowing additional clerks are asked for: Two of class four, one each of classes three, two and one, and an additional laborer, making an in- creased appropriation of $13,068.70. A contin- gent fund of $3,500 is also asked for. STATE DEPARTMENT. In the State department an index clerk at $1,800, and four additional messengers at $720 each are estimated for. An estimate of $1,500 is'ulso submitted to enable the Secretary of State to purchase for the library of the depart- ment books and manuscripts bearing on the revolutionary war formerly in the lib of Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, commander-in-chief of the British forces in America; also a collec- tion of books and pamphlets, chiefly in the Dutch language, printed in Holland at the time of and concerning the negotiations of John Adams with the states-general of the Netherlands. WAR DEPARTMENT. Under the War department the estimates in- clude an assistant secretary at $5,000; three assistant chiefs of division at $2,000 each; five clerks of class two in the ordnance bureau, $7,000; one draughtsman for the office of pub- lication of the rebellion records, $1,200; com- pensation of J. W. Kirkley, same office, 200: one clerk in charge of the old public records of Washington city in the office of the super- intendent of public buildings and yunds, 21,500; one electrician and telegraph lineman inthe same office. 21,000; one day watchman for Marion square, Folger square, and adjacent reservations, $660, An increase of $200 in the salary of the stenographer to the Secretary of War is submitted, bringing the salary up to 2.000. NAVY DEPARTMENT. In the bureau of navigation, one clerk class one, $1,200; one laborer, $660. Office of naval records of the rebellion, three clerks of class four, 35,400; two clerks class three, 33,200; one clerk class two, 21,400; four copyists, at $900 each, 3,600; one assistant messenger, $720; station- ery and contingent expenses, 2500. Naval almanac office, increase of pay of three assist- ants from 21,600 to $1.800 each; pay of com- yuters on piece work. $5,400. Naval observa- ory. extension aud maintenance of time serv- jee, 25,000. Burean of ordnance, increase to salary of chief clerk, $450. Bureau of construc- tion and repair, one chief draughtsman, #2.500. Bureau steam engineering, increase to pay of two draughtsmen, £450." Bureau provisions and clothing, one laborer, $660; for electric- lighting plant on cruisers and gunboats, bi Charts of China, Japan. &c., $10,000; new wharf at Crany Island, Norfolk harbor, $5,000; enlarging torpedo boathouse, $5,000: | for torpedo marine railway. $5,000; one draughtsman. per day, and one messenger, $2 per day, at Washington, D. C., navy-yard; for repairs’ in iladelphia, $3,850; sick .. Yard, quarters. Portsmouth, N. H. x dieal directors’ residence, Mare Island, $20,000; improvement plant. New York yard, £265,000; at Norfolk, Va.. $110,000; at Mare Island, £55,000; experimental purposes, 225.000: lighting naval academy with elec- tricity, 255. urchase land adjacent to naval academy} new furniture for cadets’ quarters, $10,000. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Increase to compensation of chief clerk, #500, and similar increase recommended for chief clerks in offices of First and Second Assistant Postmasters-General. First Assistant's Office—Increase to chief of salary and allowance division, $800; increase to superintendent of division of post-office sup- plies, £500: one clerk class four, three class three. four class one, four at $1,000 each, one at £900, one assistant messenger $720. two la- borers at #660 each. Second Assistant's Office — Superintendent mail equipment, $2,000: two clerks class three, two class two, two class one, one at $1,000, one at $900. one assistant messenger $720. Third Assistant's Office—Increase to chief of division of postage stamps. $250; increase to chief of finance division, $600; three clerks at $1,000 each; one assistant messenger, $720. Dead letter office: Chief clerk, $2,000. in Heuof fourth-clase clerk; five clerks at #900 cach; one laborer, 2660; two female laborers at #480 each. Money order office: Increase of salary of en- gineer, $200. Office of topographer: Increase of salary of map mounter and assistant, $200 and £140 respectively: one laborer, $660. Dis- bursing clerk: Increase of salary, $400; two la- borers at $660 each: increase of salary of plum- ber and awning maker, $100 each: two watch- men. $720 each; one laborer, $660; one char- woman, $240. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Increase pay of disbursing officer, $500; one cashier, $2,000; increase stenographer to Com- missioner. ; one assistant librarian, 1.400; increase to salary engineer, $200; to assistant fireman, $220; increase to salary superintendent folding room, $600; one foreman, 21,200; one clerk class two, two clerks at $900 each; three folders at $900 each; incre: salary of four folders from $600 each to #720 each, increase of salary of clerk from 3660 to increase salary of botanist, #500; one botanical clerk. $1,000; one assistant in division of vegetable thology $1,600; one assistant pomologist, 1.500; one artist, £1,500; increase pay of microseopist, $500; one clerk in microsco division. £660; one clerk in chemical division, $1,200; increase of compensation of assistant chemists, £4,000; increase salary of assistant | one assistant entomologist | 600; increase salary of assistant | ornithologists, 2200 and $100, respectively; one | assistant ornithologist, $1,200; increase to sal- ary of clerk. €240; one assistant superintendent imexperimental gardens and grounds, $1,400; two watchmen at $720 each; one clerk seed division, #1. assistant statistician, $2,000; increase to salary chief of forestry division, 2500; one assistant, #1.600; one assist- ant, $1,200; two clerks at $900 each; travel and other expenses in gaining g, pomological infor- mation, an increase o ;_general increase for entomological division, 5,000; investiga- tions in ornithology. an increase of '$1,800; for | — agricultural statistics an increase of @10,000; for furniture and repairs, $4,700 ad- ditional; 2500 additional for library; for report on forestry, 2.500 additional; contingent ex- $5,000 increase; agricultural experi- Mental stations, 25,000 increase. ion of accounts, $2,000. Labor—$200 additional to the disbursing clerk. Justice—Increase, $500 to the salary of the solicitor-general; increase, $1,500 to examiner | of claims; six assistant attorneys at $4,000, in lieu of $3,000 each; three at 22,500 each, and one at $2.000; increase, #300 to law clerk; in- crease, $300 to chief clerk; one clerk class four; two messengers at $720 each; increase, #200 to engi . one watchman, $720, and one laborer, , at U. 8. court-house, District of Columbia. . — requested will be applied to tions, $5,000. It is proposed first-class asphalt walks the Was ; Mount Vernon square, exe- cutive mansion ‘south side), Lincoln square, Stanton square, Folger square, Marion square, Henry Seaton parks, and to renew those in Farragut square and, Iowa circle. In the late fall, winter, and early spring these walks are mi and pedestrians seek the jus destro to lay this yéar is about 3,500 square Each autumn it becomes necessary plank walks, which must the spring. If it are laid the an- nual expense t to plank walks will be avoi For improvement, care and maintenance of various reservations, $20,000. The funds re- quired under this head are for the purchase of materials for and the care of, the improved parks, and for the improvement of as many as [meee of the 227 unimproved reservat Each year from three to five are added to the list of improved reservations, and if the funds now requested become available eight or ten can be added during the fiscal year ending June 20, 1890. As reservations are thus im- Sighlly incsedeed; fr the ‘anpsovetserts rat slig’ ine) for ements m For the improvement care and MAINTENANCE OF SMITHSONIAN GROUNDS, including the construction of asphalt roads and paths, $8,000. This reservation, covering an area of over fifty-eight acres, is the largest and one of the handsomest in the city, and has within its limits the Smithsonian building, the nati museum and the new army medical museum. The roads and paths, with one or two exceptions, are of vel, and become dusty in summer and muddy in winter; a first- class asphalt road pavement is now in course of construction in front of the Smithsonian build- ing. running from 7th to 12th street, a distance of about 1, feet and covering an area of about 7,500 square yards; 5,400 square yards has been laid, and it is hoped that a sufficient appropriation will be made to complete the whole road during the season of 1889. With the appropriation now requested it is proposed to lay about 1,500 square yards of roadway pavement, about 1,000 square vards of asphalt paths leading through the park to the museum, and to maintain in good condition the gravel roads and paths, gutters, lawns, trees, shrubs and drainage of this handsome park. OTHER RESERVATIONS. For improvement, care and maintenance of Henry (armory) and Seaton parks, $2,500. These reservations, extending from 7th street to the botanical gardens, cover an area of 34 acres, with road and walk surfaces of over 10,- 000 square yards. They are in an advanced state of improvement. Their beauty has been marred by the depot and tracks of the Balti- more and Potomac railroad. A mound has been ‘constructed around the depot, upon which it is intended to plant trees and shrubs, so that in time the depot will be hidden par- tially from view. The materials for this mound have thus far been obtained free of expense to the United States, and it is now aes to ade the mound and seed and plant it. The ‘unds requested are needed for this purpose, and for the care of roads, lawns, gutters, &c., and laying out additional paths, For improvement, care and maintenance of Judiciary square, including grounds around the new pension building, $7,000, This square contains an area of 20 acres, and includes within its limits the court-house andthe new pension hte'teng It is crowded daily with ersons having business in these buildings. (he appropriation now requested will be used, if granted, forcompleting the improvements around the pension building, including asphalt roads and paths leading thereto, and in the general care of this large reservation. For lodges for park watchmen in Stanton, Mount Vernon, Iowa, Dupont, Thomas, McPher- son and Folger reservations, at each, $3,500. The watchmen in these reservations are ex- posed to the inclemency of the weather at all seasons of the year. Rain or shine, hot or cold, night or day, year in and out, they must be at their stations, and take shelter, when neces- sary, either under a tree or in such dwelling or store as will offer its hospitality. The dictates of humanity call for this appropriation. THE NEW PENSION BUILDING. For supplying and keeping supplied the vases in the new pension building with suitable plants and shrubs, $1,000 The joint resolution of Congress approved March 29, 1886, requires that the 76 large vases on the ay corridor of the new pension building shall be fille d and kept filled with suitable plants and shrubs. THE WHITE HOUSE. For care, repair, and refurnishing the execu- tive mansion, $16,000. This old build- ing needs continual repairs and re- painting to maintain it in a neat and habitable condition. Mugh of the furniture is old and needs renewing, while new carpets are required in many of the rooms. Durmg the past eleven years the appropriations for this purpose have beenas follows: 1878, $20,000; 1879, $25,000; 1880. $25.000; 1881, 20,000; 1882, $50,000; 1883, $40,000; 1884, $28,000; 1835, $22,500; 1886, 316,000, including $4,000 for new roof; 1887. $16,000; 1538, #16,000, and 1889, $16,000. It will be observed that since = 1, 1835, the appropriations have been much le: than previous to that time. It is earnestly recommended that this appropriation be made, as it is absolutely necessary in order to main- tain in a neat and habitable condition the man- sion —— for the office and residence of the chief executive of the nation. For care and necessary repair of green- honses, $5,000. The sum appropriated for this purpose duting the past five years has been annually only $4,000, while in previous years it was $5,500. The greenhouses were constructed revious to 1885, under appropriations made yy Congress, and ueed continual repair; they require the constant su ision of three ey —_— gardeners, while the assistance sf borers from time to time is necessary. At this tinue the wood-work of the superstractsre of the main conservatory is in very bad eosdi- tion and requires immediate and extensive re- pairs, For erecting seven lamp-posts in the eilipse south of the executive mansion, from the to; of which shali be shown electric light/, $1,000, For electric lights for 365 nights fm seven lanps, at 70 cents per night eaca. $1,745.50. The grounds south of the executive mansion. now fighly improved, are without lights. Itis believed that the electric lights mentioned above will shed a soft mellow light over the entire reservation. sravel pethe in WIRES. For replacing the overhead wires between the capitol and the departments with a dupli- cate underground six-wire cable, $8,500. This subject has been discussed in the preceding pages of this report. The growth of the trees ou the sidewalks renders it absolutely neces- sary, in order to maintain telegraphic commu- nication over these wires, either to erect at once taller poles at a cost of about $1,600, or to lay an underground cable at a cost of $8,500, The —— is but a temporary expedient, asin time the overhead-wire system through cities must be abolished. The underground cable is far preferable, and favorable action upon this estimate is earnestly recommended. ‘MISCELLANEOUS. Under the heading “miscellaneous” are a few items of local interest, including 25,000 for the care of the collection of living animals at the national museum, and for the expenses in- cident to the enforcement of the act to prevent adulteration of food and drugs in the of Columbia, $10, Dox'r Fart to read what Saks and Co. will have to say in to-morrow’s Post and to-morrow evening's Star.—Adct, tee tone Why Didn’t She Say So. Time. “Oh, Mr. Bixby; wait a moment, you—” h, Tain't got time to wait. It’s time for my car now, and—” “Tahan't havo tin to go gal . 't have to vant around doing —- for ‘you to-day, md Bixby. James, I sim a—”" “Oh, I know: Ae pes ae anda. ‘card at pear! lon and 8 on ; all you ite mai car and I shall be too busy Yo get anything to-Asy, forest “Well, for heaven's “Wait, James, I—+” sake it then, go: T don't sce why wanted to tell you that your collar and that your necktie had esrurcras ais cs ; & 5 i ie § i i fi eg E 5. i ef | 3 i i A i is tis proposed | th PUBLIC PEOPLE. jt walks in various reserva-| Robert Louis Stevenson, the author, was last Francisco this month and tion. at Greensboro, Saturda; was chairman of the national repul com vention that nominated Gen. it for the presidency for the second term. Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain has earned the thy of Americans b; d Tolan ne enter ph Ts oe invites very select parties at her house in Paris. On his recent tour to the Midlands Mr. Glad- stone d for three minutes at Wellington, and in thet time, it is gravely recorded, he re- ceived two ad nade a speceh, ate lunch and was ‘‘ occu) luring the remainder of his stay” in ma-ahaking. Marshal MacMahon, just entered upon his baa year, has been residing at the Chateau de la Foret. near Orleans, dividing his time between shooting and working upon his memoirs, which are not to be published until after his death. It is said that they begin: “I am accused of having served several govern- ments, It is quite true. I served them all loyally, and I may add that I regretted them |, except my own.” Dr. Nansen, who has just crossed Greenland in snow-shoes, is about twenty-seven years of age and considerably over 6 feet in height. He is a “hardy Norseman,” every inch of him. He has a magnificent breadth of chest and a well- ay Shee eae which shows to advantage in his tight-fitting blue woolen suit, _ Speaking of the recent parliamentary election at Holborn, in which Gainsford Bruce, con- servative, was victorious, Mr. G. W. Smalley, correspondent of the New York Tribune says: “Lord Compton, who is beaten, was an ideal candidate. A son of a peer, rich, married to a Baring, both himself and his wife popular, and both interested in social reforms, i ‘was per- fectly adapted for contesting Holborn, which abounds in slums andin middle-class voters who love a lord.” Howell Osborne, the New York dude who went abroad a couple of years ago with Fay Templeton, the actress, has been winning large sums of money on the French turf lately. Itis said his winnings for the t season were 360,000. He has now gone to Monte Carlo to get rid of it. The Irish clergy in Rome will give Chas. A. Dana a handsome reception when he gets ere. Geo. Law, the eccentric New York million- aire, has been distributing diamonds among his sporting chums again. He did it at the Hoffman house. New York, a few days ago. His latest former distribution took place, it will be remembered, at Saratoga in the summer. Count Taafe, the Austrian premier, is a mid- die-aged man-who was in his childhood a play- mate of the Emperor Francis Joseph, and has been for many years past his only intimate friend, the only subject in fact to whom he says “thou.” Taafe is an Irish peer who has never seen Ireland, being descended from a cadet of that ancient Irish family who migrated to Vienna in the middle of the last century, took service against the Turks, aud remained in Austria, ——____+#e—_____ You'L, Frxp interesting reading over Saks and Co.'s signature in to-morrow morning's VENING StaR,—Advt, Ferns for the Window Garden. €. L, Allen in Garden and Forest. One of the most common causes of failure in window gardening is unsuitable selection of plants. In fact, this is the principal cause, for where man can live some species of plants will thrive. After the crysaithemum is out of bloom, scarlet pelargoniums, or some other flowering plants with bright colors, are gene- rally selected for the window-garden. These cannot succeed where we cannot or will not allow clear, full sunshine. The living room rarely affords this sunshine, which is necessary to the production of vivid color. Most plants that have reveled in full light and pure air during the summer soon lose the bloom of health when brought into the living or sleeping room; they lose their strong, flesh: leaves, they become emaciated and sicken an ie. For rooms where there is but little light, where the sun makes only a formal call once a day, ferns will thrive luxuriantly, and the more beautiful species appear to thrive the best. As a Yamily the adiantums surpass all the others in graceful beauty, and of the species few can compare with the noble A..faricyense or the delicate A. gracilis. These twol have grown with perfect success in the room of an invalid, when at times there would be but little light and hardly any full sunshine during the entire winter. So well did they succeed, that in spring they would have been given a promi- nent position at a fern exhibition. In the same situation no flowering plants could be induced to grow; in fact, none were wanted, for none are as cheerful or restful to the weary eye as the delicate adiantums. Some of the adiantums make charming basket plants; con- spicuous among them is 4. thi, whose licate fronds, when young, wear a lovely pinkish hue, gradually shading into a pale grayish-green. If a climbing plant 18 wanted for the house, the fern family will furnish this, too, in the Lygodium scaniens, and a more beautifal plant, or one more easy of management, cannot be found, While it is a favorite in the green- house, and most useful for decorative purposes, it is well adapted to house-culture, as it re- quires but little light, and is not injured by gas or furnace heat, so fatal to most plants. It is a rapid grower, and, with proper manage- ment, can be made to maa eyes its growth in summer, after which it can be introduced into any moderately cool room in the house, where it will remain an object of beauty the entire winter. There are scores of ferns besides those named that are adapted for the house during winter; in fact, most ferns do well, but none, I think, are as beautiful as the ones noticed. In using ferns for the’window one caution must be observed. Well-established plants must besecured to begin with. In their oung and growing state they require a more amid atmosphere than the house affords, dition that is not essential when the plant is fully develope: Something Useful. From Harper's Magazine. “Have you decided on your presents for the boys yet, my dear?” asked Mr. Hendricks after the lads had left the breakfast table for school. Not quite all. ButI have decided, William, that they shall all be given something useful. ‘There is no use of wasting money 6n useless toys for them to break—and, by the way, we need a new rug for the parlor and a dozen tum- blers, William.” “Ah! Well, why not get the and give the tumblers to John * — a Paste This Up Until After New Year’s. rug for George From the Pittsburg Dispatch. Don’t eat two mince pies, a plum pudding, lobster salad and ice cream and then complain that the climate don’t agree with you. THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. toe The Colored Catholic Congress. ‘From the Boston Pilot. A great share in the solution of the negro problem is destined for the Catholic church in this country. The negroes are peeaning, to realize this for themselves. Snubbed, chilled, discriminated against by the Episcopalians— the standing obstacle to “‘union” between north- southern divisions of certain great bodies of Evangelical Protestants — their » and | wounded self-respect is drawing for h the church which knows nothin; or color lines. The colored Catholic congress which will be held in Washington, January 9, 1889, will undoubtedly forward the spread of Catholicity among the negroes. 38 I f £ [ | ge ais i oat fea besa The workmen's at Chatelet has ine and ee wri Le sete immediate strike Mr. rate of Progress he will be able to get his evidence be- the commission late next year. The Commercial bank of Odessa has ordered the construction of twelve gunboats for use in behalf of Montenegro, They are to be com- pleted by next April. The Berliner Nachrichten protests against the Germans taking any ofthe Russian loan, de- claring that conversion is only a cloak to cover up the aggressive aims of Russia, Minister Phelps has been turned out of his honse in London, his landlord having leased it over hishead. The minister will ‘Sve ata hotel for the remainder of his stay in London. The queen of Belgium, while out driving at Brussels Sunday, was hissed and groaned at by socialists, The bystanders gave counter cheers for the queen. Outdoor meetings of the social- nol have been prohibited in consequence of The result of the excavations made by arch- wologiste at and near Mycenw, Greece, the ons season, have been highly satisfactory. ifty pre-historic tombs were opened, and large number of valuable relics of a pre- Homeric age discovered. Count Kinsky, son of the governor of Lower Austria, is suing for divorce on the ground that his wife deceived him as to her parentage, her family not being a noble one. Marriage witha Pebeian deprives him of the inherit- ance of his family estate. : In France andGermany a bankrupt is liable to be punished by imprisonment if it is found that his personal expenses have been excessive, if he has lost large sums of money by gambling or stock exchange operations, or if he has failed to keep correct and proper books. Sir Henry James, ex-attorney-general of England and leading counsel of the London Times in the Parnell case, had occasion as treasurer of the Society of the Middle Tem- ple to entertain Minister Phelps and the duke of Teck one evening last week. The London Star says Sir Henry's incurable snobbishness was glaringly illustrated at the dinner. “‘It was universally remarked that Sir Henry's talk and attention were entirely devoted to the duke, while Phelps sat silent and neglected during the whole dinner.” ee _—_____. The Same Man from First to Last. 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