Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1889, Page 7

6 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON EAST WASHINGTON AROUSED. Important Meeting of Citizens Held Last Night. @ MEMORIAL TO BE PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT HARRISON SHOWING JME INJUSTICE WITH WHICH THAT SECTION HAS ‘BEEN TREATED—A REPRE- SENTATIVE COMMISSIONER ASKED FoR. The East Washington citizens’ association held a special meeting last night at Weller & Repetti’s, 326 Pennsylvania avenue sontheast, Mr. J. W. Babson presiding. Secretary Stogk- ing read a letter from Senator Ingalls, dated February 20, acknowledging the receipt of the association's resolution protesting against the confirmation of Mr. Webb, which, he said, would receive attention from the District com- mittee when the proper time came. Mr. Sperry, chairman of the select committee, con- sisting of himself. 8. C. Clark and M. I. Weller, appointed to draft a memorial to President Harrison asking that East Washington be rep- resented on the board of Commissioners, read a report, which was adopted. The Memorial. The memorial was as follows: “Gen. Benj. Harrison, President-elect of the "nited States, “GrxenaL: The East Washington ons" association, a regularly organized body of more than fifteen years’ existence, representing the residents and tax payers of that portion of the 3 lying € f North secretary to forthwith ¥ the respect- ful and earnest request that you give it your candid consideration before deciding upon the appointment of any commissioner of the Dis- triet of Columbia | Your memorialists ask that the appointment | of one of these Commissioners be made from among the resident taxpayers of the eastern portion of Washington city. We do not pre sent the name of any candidate, because this memorial is NOT IN THE INTERRST OF ANY “We ask only that the ap tee be a worthy man whose residence and property interests are with ours, and in support of this request we respectfully snbmit the following facts and feasons: “Since the adoption of the present form of District government there ever been a Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner ap- | pointed from or resident m the eastern part of the city, and during that entire period we have | been deprived of a large part of our fair and equitable share of the benefits for which | our municipal Thus for | years we have suffer | m = fFespect to public schools. police | protection, street and alley —improve- | ments, water supply. strect lights, garbage re- | moval, and all the other advantages of muni- cipal government: and our repeated petitions and remonstrances have been without avail. ~The city has but lately entered upon a rapid growth. Its present needs therefore largely exceed its present means, We willingly bear our fair share of the deprivations ‘thus caused: but we caunot wil! sively ec nue of them in or- | der that a more wealthy and more favored por- tion of the city may have more than its due pro- portion of advantage. | A FEW FACTS PRESENTED. “Permit us to recall now « Fou are wellaware. The three Commi of the District practically exercis municipal control over more than a quarter of i 2 people who have no voice whatever ction of these ls, So far as the people are concerned, the Commissioners wield | un utterly irresponsible power, their only re- | sponsibility being to the Presider gress. in whose election the people o trict have no voice. “From this situation it inevitably results that the interests of the ts residents will | ¥ Commissioners of very highest abilities and most | unselfishly impartial disposition. Even then | the inherent weaknesses of human nature cannot be wholly avoided. ‘Where the treas- ure lies, there will the heart be also.” Com- | pelled to choice in the direction of limited ex- | penditnres. the Commissioners mus! naturally | feel more kindly disposed toward the region | where their property interests lie. the regi of their residence and their persona! aequaint- ances and friends. “Having suffered so much and so long from the effects of discrimi against us, we now appeal to the ultimate and only tribunal, the appointing power, for the only remedy which, in the very nature of things, can be really ef- fective under our present form of District gov- ernment—the appointment of one Commission- | er whose residence and interests are PERSON OR CLIQUE. | taxes are paid. suite and now ets of which sioners | direct | WITH OURS AND NOT AGAINST Ts. That this is the only remedy is the unani- mous belief of our people, and is at least par- tially demonstrated by the universal recogni- tion of the Principle involved. as shown by the fact that all cities and towns having municipal governments of the ordinary form are divided imto wards, each entitled to one or more mem- | bers of the legislative body, in order that the | first claims of each section may be duly heard and respected. There is no other safe way, even in an ordinary municipality; and the Principle applies with added force in a na- tional capital, where there are so many and so distinct strata of society. so many diverse interests, so little homogeneity in any respect, | and so nearly a total lack of acquaintance as | well as intercommunication between different | portions of the city. | “Let us present a few specific facts by way | of illustration. On the Ist of July, 1887, us shown by the report of the Commissioners for the fiscal year then just ended, the northwest quarter of the city, not including Georgetown, had 712 fire and street hydrants, and the en- tire eastern portion only 3 On the same date, the streets having only gravel. macadam, eobble or wood pavements aggregated in the | northwest quarter, not including Georgetown, | 458,941 square yards, while in the eastern por. tion they aggregated 554,251 square yards. The total unimproved streets at that time in the northwest quarter, not including Georgetown, | aggregated but 355.509 square yards, while the | unimproved streets in the eastern section ag- gregated 895,746 square yards. The total ex- penditure of appropriation for street improve- | ments for the tiscal vear ended June 3Y, 1587, | in the northwest section, not including Georg: town. or North and South Capitol streets, was | $136,210.32, and in the whole eastern section was only 257,806.25. The total expenditure for improvement of streets and avenues for the | last ten years in the northwest quarter, not in- cluding Georgetown, amounted to $1,718,014.41, while for the entire eastern portion of the city @uring that period it was only #684.734.15. “But, to avoid needless multiplication of in. stances, let us only refer further to the maps herewith marked ‘appendix A,’ showing at a glance the | BELATIVE DISTRIBUTION OF STREET IMPROVE- MENTS, | d ‘appendix B.’ indicating by stars the loca- | tions of the residences of present and former Commissioners, and also to pages 14 and15 of the printed ‘report of the committee on streets, avenues and alleys.’ herewith attached, and marked ‘appendix ,' and to marked ityms in pamphlet marked ‘appendix D.” “If now it should be urged that eur com- plaints refer to the present and the past, and that they might be obviated for the future by the selection of fair and able Commissioners, dcly made aware of our needs. even though | none of them was a resident of the eastern por- | tion of i i, we must answer that we kuow | no way of judging the future but by the past; as | it hes boas for so many years. and is mon, it will continue to be unless the remedy is | me We need representation in the board of Commissioners, not merely by a just and able man, but by one whose residence among us has made him acquainted with our localities their needs, and who — have a strong and necessary prompting of personal interest to do his fair duty by oy Soke of having that per- sonal interest against us that has always been the fi | would nevertheless have backbone enough to | and several male workmen, While the majority of the girls were at their homes eating dinner the people were startled by a terrific explosion, They saw clouds of smoke ascending from the 8q' | in large quantities. A firm in Bradford, Eng- remove the inequality of improvement, and thus map et. rol ae us which have been and still are delayed because of the lack of our fair and equitable proportion of municipal advantages, Swan ‘imperatively need, and earnestly appeal to you to give us a member of the board oF Commissionass to ad- yocate our cause with a power which mere jus- tice and reason, without the backing of votes, can ever command, “Permit us to say, in conclusion, that if you desire further statements or verification we shall be glad to appear before you by com- mittee at your pleasure.” A Copy to be Transmitted to Gen. Har- rison. The association instructed the secretary to prepare a suitable copy for transmission to Gen. Harrison at the earliest opportunity. The maps referred to showed that the great bulk of street improvements lay in the north- | west, and thatall of the District Commissioners, past and present, resided north of F street and west of 13th street. | Secretary Stocking made a ringing speech, in | which he declared that they should go into this campaign with more politics than sentiment; that Mr. Harrison's first question would be: “Have you aman on whom you are united.” He advised that the association, since the memorial had been adopted, take a decided stand on the front line and name a men. They | named Mr. John FE. Herrell in the fall, but Mr. | Webb was nominated. and he, the speaker, | | honght that a new candidate should be selected, He therefore read a series of resolutions which started ont by reciting the dissatisfaction felt at Mr. Webb's nomination, and naming, as East Washington's candidate, MR, GEORGE FRANCIS DAWSON. He highly eulogized Mr. Dawson's qualities, which, he said, would eminently fit hima for the position of District Commissioner. He was not a man, added Mr. Stocking, who would wait until the eleventh hour before hanging out his ge: he was a republican through and ugh, and hada great deal of political m- “He is a man who is not so radical in continued the speaker, “as to ex- te the animosity and antipathy of persons living in other sections of the city, but who stand up for the rights of East Washington—a an who could not be bought for the price of a thousand feet of lumber, or who would not sell his soul to the attorney of a railroad cor- poration.” The association unanimously adopted the resolution, and with them the name of Mr. Dawson es its candidate for the Commissioner- ship. Upon motion of Mr. Sperry a committee of twenty-one was appointed as follows to collate and arrange facts, figures and arguments in support of the meniorial to President Harrison, which they could present to him at a moment's notice: Dr. McKim, Dr. J. Lee Adams, Dr. Roberts, Di A, Adams, Messrs, Dawson, Sperry, Weller, Stocking, Herrell, Talcott, Arnold, Edwards, Godwin, Farrow, Harbin, Lehman. MeKee, Shiclds, Plant and Bab- | The tion then adjourned. Snes Oea is Twelve Poor Girls Killed. TERRIBLE RESULTS OF THE EXPLOSION IN A SQUIB FACTORY AT PLYMOUTII, PA. ‘Twelve girls lost their lives by the terrible explosion in the squib factory near Plymouth, Pa.. yesterday. The factory employed eigh| four girls, ranging from twelve to twenty years, son. b factory, and soon a large crowd had gathered around it, and women began wring- ing their hands when it became known that a | ‘sons were in the building at the explosion. Girls, some of them bleeding, others gasping for fresh air, rushed to the windows and screamed frantically for help. , rd the building, i ce and the} psed. burying in the ruins the inmates. The braver of the men. when the smoke and flying debris had settled, rushed among the ruins, and one by one the bodies were found and taken out, charred beyond recognition, bleeding and mangled. As mothers saw and recogn ae scone tie Ya token or niece of dress by which they could tell their joved ones, the scene was pitiable. The bodies, estas they were taken ont. were removed to an undertaking establishment. where they were placed in a row. Their features were so badly mutilated that they were scarcely recog- nizable. The killed. so far a aged eighte Hettie Jones, aged fiftee E known, are: Kate Jones, Maggie Lynch, aged twenty-one: aged sixteen; Gladdis Reese, ‘y Walters, aged seventeen; aged seventeen; Mary A. ged seventeen: Ruth Powell, aged nine- sther Powell, aged twenty-two; Jane A. Thomas, aged sixteen, and Charlotte Hum- phries, aged seventeen. The body of a young girl has not been identified. Business in the town of Plymouth is ata stand-still. Several kegs of powder caused the explosion, but how they were exploded is as yet a mystery. Everyone im the building at the time of the explosion perished, with the exception of Foreman Reese. He was standing at a stove when the first explosion took place. He rushed for the door to notify the girls when the second explosion knocked him down in the basement. He managed to crawl out of this place. soe The Luscious Banana. HOW IT is EATEN IN THE YTROPICS—THE THUMB VARIETY. From the Alta California. Ordinarily in this country bananas are eaten raw, but in the tropical countries, while the natives eat them in like fashion, a more deli- cate, and, it is said, a more healthful mode of eating them is in vogue. The soft, ripe fruit, beaten to a cream, with a sufficiency of Amon- tiliado sherry. forms a very delightful appe- tizer ard is the favorite way of eating the banana in certain parts of the West Indies and on the African coast. Taken in moderation on first rising in the morning bananas are said to be preservative of health, and in this respect re in marked contrast with other tropical fruits which are detrimental, rather than other- wise, to continued good health, toxi- | cating drink is made from the banana, and on account of its astringent properties is of con- siderable medicinal value. In Africa, and probably in other places also, the banana, and the kindred tree. the plantain, are in a very large measure the soul dependence for the food suppiy of the natives. ‘The banana, when ripe. contain Water; of the twenty-six rr twenty are sugar and two glutten.or tlesh-forn ing substan It is not in itself a perfect foo: but requires the addition of some more nitro- genous material, as lean meat, The pulp of the banana, but more often of the plantain. is oftimes squeezed through a ieve and formed into loaves, whic. when ripe, | will keep a very long time. In the dried sta it has a resemblance to bread, both in taste and | composition, but the ripened pulp is succha- rine, and not farinaceous. The truit. however, of the banana is the least valuable part of the tree. The fiber, which in some countries is permitted to go to waste, is of value. Throughout Central America and the continent of Atrica it is used, with only tps os aration of drying, for sew- ing thread and fishing nets. The threads are of silky fineness, and it was thought that as an rticle of commerce it would pay to import it 74 per cent ining parts land, having got possession of some of the fiber, wove a quantity of handkerchiefs from it, that for delicacy of finish and strength were unexcelled. With a silky sheen and remarka- bly fine web, such articles would have obtained @ ready market. but it was found that the mode of obtaining the fire by the natives was too slow, and until some machine was invented to strip the fiber quickly the small quantity would be of practically no use. At Panama the rarest and most delicious of the ies has its home. Small and ruddy incolor, it is known vulgarly as the thumb banana, and on account of its delicate flavor is much prized even there. It does not bear transportation well, although it may often ease heretofore. Even then he will be in the minority, merely one of three, sothat he can- @ot possible obtain for use more than the most @ndeniable justice require: “An additional reason for an equitable dis- tribution of the appropriations among the va- rious sections, irrespective of taxable values, on the basis of needed improvements, consists wu the fact that the land contained in the streets and avenues was deeded to the United States by the original proprietors, free of charge, thus constructively imposing an obligation TO TREAT ALL SECTIONS ALIKE. Under these circumstances the quota (one- half) non-contributed by the United States gov- ernment, under the act of June 11, 1878, should be divided according to the necessities of the various portions of the city, and not on a scale governed by the estimated value of lot im- provements. “The wealth and influence of the city are pep seria A in = yoy re eastern portion, though far the most fa- vored by nature, has been kept behind in the march of improvement because of the anjust ‘municipal tion of which we com- plain, and it must remain behind. thus retarding the symmetrical and healthly development of the diserimi- capital, until this = uni unjust and = = to removed. Measures now , Wl, if consummated, be found in the markets of Chicago and New York. Crossing the Isthmus by the line that connects Panama with Aspinwall the natives at the villages along the route make a habit of coming to the train decked in primitive fashion, with garlands of flowers around their necks and flowers in their hair, and disposing of fruit. Here the thumb banana may be eaten in its perfection. —_——-+oe--—_ Philip D. Welsh, the well-known paragra} hist, whose bright sayings have been copied by all the persinthe country from the columns of the New York Sun, Harper's, Life, and the Epoch, where they originally et, died in New Sunday, York yesterday, ‘ge castings for the bull of The last of the the cruiser San Francisco, now being con- | structed im San Francisco, was made at the Pa- cific rolling mills Saturday afternoon, The casting will weigh about 16.000 pounds, Bell Boy will not be taken to New York. He will remain throughout the season at Macey's stable; Versailles, Ky. nae received from Amos W. | a foreign representative obtained admission to | mural adornments in the wa | flower women—forty and se 2 | of the French opera: every handsome wom Wellesley college Stetson, Pre wags a Lat er oo it~ ings, sixty-five in number, as a ‘value of which is $30,000. Actor Kyrie Beliew’s name figured in a Chi- cago court case Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Les- lie Carter filed an answer to her husband's di- vorce bill, in which she declared that she was never ty of improper conduct with hin» a, WILLIAM H. SEWARD. The Personal Life of the Man Apart from his Career as a Statesman. Sam'l J. Barrows, in the Atlantic Monthly for March. I find myself tempted most of all to dwell upon Mr. Seward’s characteristics as a man. His career as a statesman is open to the view of all who wish to turn to the annalsof the nation. His orations and speeches, together with a sketch of his life, written and edited by the late Geo. E. Baker, are before the public in the five volumes of his published works. The diplomatic records contain his state papers, but the personal life of the man is a book open only to those who had the privilege of turning its leaves, One of the things that impressed me about Mr. Seward was the interesting union of native kindness of heart with a manner which was calmly undemonstrative. Isay “calmly” rather than “coldly,” for with all his impassiveness Mr. Seward was notachilly man. There wasan banger ag genial radiation which was soon felt by those who came witl the range of his personal life. It was not a warmth which was intense. but, like a well-regulated furnace, he gave out about so much heat all the time. He was not mercurial, or fitful, or capricious, in his treatment of others. With- out doing or saying much he soon made one feel at home in his presence. There isa reserve which chiils; there is a reserve which reassures, because by its disdain of formalities and gushing conventionalism it is seen to be an at- tribute of sincerity. He was one of the most democratic of men. It made no difference whether the man who called upon him was a cabinet minister, an ambassador from a for- eign court, or a day laborer; there was no toadyism, nothing which by the remotest con- nection could be identified with the snob. In his intercourse with diplomatic representatives he formed some intimate friendships. But if the inner circle of his confidence, it was not because of the uniform he wore or the cre- dentials he brought. The simplicity of Mi Seward’s republican manners was never sacri- ficed. He understood the value of forms, and id due respect to all diplomatic traditions, vat he was not a fussy or punctilious ritualist. There was nothing cynical in his calm man- ner. This almost stoical self-control had been developed through long years of self-discip- line. is power to restrain his emotions did not involve their suppression. His native kindness of heart was snre to reveal itself. I shall not forget the quiet, undemonstrative, yet unmistakable kindness with which he first welcomed me, The relation wasto be an in- timately personal one, but it was established at once in Mr, Seward’s manner and by his few words as distinctly as if he had issued a public proclamation to that effect. “Iam glad to see you,” he said, as he took my hand. “I leave to-night for Auburn. Will you go with me, or will you take a night’s rest here, and join me} there late: The indication in these words that the Secretary of State had some thought for the personal comfort of the young man whom he had just summoned to be his sten- ographer was ‘1 pleasing introduction to his fellowship. Though fatigued by the jour- ney of the night before, the temptation to go with him was too inviting to be resisted and I joined the pear in the evening at the station. Aspecial paymaster'’s car had been placed ai Seward’s service, and among the party, in addition to his valet and negro ser- vant, were his son, Major Augustus Seward, ud Postmaster-General Randall. Hardly had we got well under way when 2 game of’ whist was proposed. Though I had the most meager knowledge of the game I could not courteously decline to make up the Mr. Seward, his sonand the Postmaster-General were expert players. My own must have been phe- nomenal, but one could not have gathered from the Secretary's manner th htest hint that it was not absolutely satisfac *. He bore this infliction of ignorance and incapacity with th same composure that he bore all other tri It was my fortune to make many such trips with him, and, as he ys traveled in a special car, these journeys were uniformly pleasant. His equanimity might have been mistaken for indifieren He was, indeed, indifferent things, and among them to the nat-like swarms of criticism that frequently uzzed in the air from the partisan press. He to argument, but he was never insensitive brushed aside petty barbs of malice as if they were so many flies. A characteristic illustra- tion of his composnre was given during the impeachment trial. From the outset he did not believe that Johnson would be convicted. The defense of the President had been com- mitted to Mr. Seward’s life-long friend, Wm. M. Evarts. Mr. Seward did not attend the long trial except two or three times, nor, to my knowledge, did he do anything to influence the decision. Ail Washington was at a white glow of excitement. The result hung on a single vote, yet noone could learn from Mr. Seward that anything unusual was happening. On the critical day of the trial, I went down to his room to learn the result of the test vote. He was lying on the sofa, with 2 copy of Rousscan in his hand, smoking and reading. I asked the latest news from the Senate. He told me im- peachment had failed by one vote. He smiled, and went on reading, as if the country had not just passed through a crisis of tremendous im- portance. ———~+e0—— Pictuesque New Orleans, A GLIMPSE OF CANAL STREET AND ITS BRILLIANT chowbs. : From the New Orleans Picayune. I never walk along that most fascinating of fashionable thoroughfar Canal street, with its thousand and one familiar faces—for even the faces of a huge city, the composite face of its floating population, grow familiar in time— that lam not reminded to regret that I can have no first experience of it ali. The jostle of people the beautiful street manners of our public, the courtesy and good humor. brilliant dressing of the women, the everlasting blare ot music, the constant processions and celebra- tions, the peddlers and loafers, the venders of hot roasted chestnuts, the amber-hued tur- baned dispenser of pink pralines and yellow siege plauks with a rosebud for lagniappe, the | of fat French of breath—the wheezing hand-organs—how delightfully it must impress one seeing and hearing it all for the first time. How I envy the sealskin-coated tourist just arrived from Duluth or Penobscot, like a polar bear panting, transported to the tropics; how Tenvy this one threading a path between the cotton bales and sugar barrels, sniffing the su- gary odors, hearing the greasy, easy negro lingo. | Everytl ains a subtle ‘sugges- tion of a sout! ed by the hne of perfume of violets, the swift smile es, ‘To such 2 one every full- throated, pink-cheeked, shaven Frenchma laughing and gesticuiating, with a red pink on his coat that shows at a distance like the red ribbon of the Li of Honor. may be Fu: n with bla es nay be a belle Creole or the | ween rose in the garden district of girls: the shimmering fabrics in the shop-windows sug- gest pineapple organdies from Ni grotexquemasques the coming its rex_and queen, its con pai Yet, after all, who can so lo: the town as one who knows the mosses on its o!d manses by | heart, who knows the haunts of. the working- | people, the best place for omelette soufils, the only place for Italian macearoni, the garden where the most roses are Miss Richmond Once Again. SHE SMASHES THE FURNITURE IX A MOTEL AND EMBARRASSES THE POLIC Hattie E. Richmond was arraigned in a police court in Chicago yesterday morning for the fifth time within a few weeks. Miss Rich- mond is the woman who was brought up from the house of correction on Saturday at the instance of Miss Fanny Davenport. who bought her a ticket to New York. Miss Rich. mond was at one time a member of Mies Daven- port's theatrical company. Instead of going to New York. ‘AGO Miss Richmond went toa hotel. About midnight Sunday night she raised a commotion — b; throwing the furniture out of her room, by endeavoring to force her way into another room occupied by # young man, and finally, by divesting herself of every article of apparel she had on and tearing around like a cyclone, smashing the mirror and the windows in her room with her fists, cutting her self badly, Then the police were called in, and being unable to induce her to resume her clothing, they were forced to wrap her ina blanket and carry her to the station. Yesterday morning she was again sent to the house of cor- rection, ‘The gas well owned by Theodore Mithoff, sr., at Lancaster, Ohio, was drilled seven feet fur- ther into the gas rook Saturday and more than is between doubled its capacity, The 15,000,000 and 30,000,000 cubic feet a day. One fireman was both engines were wrecked and several freight cars were demol- ished in a collision of two freight trains on the Knoxville and Ohio railroad, near Knoxville, Brooklyn, Saturday. Her counsel, David J. | 5 HILL AT AUCTION. j Teese, appiied to Judge Van Wyck in the city are ace pvickee ey oe Earury court, Brooklyn, for a vacation of the decree. et seq, Of ee land records t. the District of Col- Mrs. Jarvis in her affidavit says that on Feb- i. = ey . dead Sunday at Chicago, Itis supposed they were suffocated by News of the veto of the Des Moines river prea aig: jah gh nants it Cleveland trom slog standpoint FLIRTING OVER THE WIRES. It Leads to a Serious Love Affair and a Police Court Case. AUCTION SALES. ON. DANENHOWE Waser, Ream ‘From the Chicago Herald. 1115 F st. nw. That flirting over telephone wires sometimes | PEREMPTORY S. OF SIX VALUABLE STABLE Jeads to serious results was exemplified yester- IN SQUARE NO. ALLEY, ‘WEEN day in Justice C. J. White’s court, where May pane 4 30-8 OOr "EE; AND FIF- sone H STREETS AND ‘AND U STREETS N WE: Wanek appeared as complainantagainst George | _ on TUESDAY. FEBRUARY H. Baker, who was charged with meking | Sith: trontof the arene to 0 ee tier all threats to kill. The defendant is the son of ex- Sifare natured S05." 46, 47, 48, 49 and 50, in West Town Collector Baker, and is employed | *jateumnbered 205, neastntincathiins Ah in Kis father’s coal office at 92 Washington deponit of $100 will be reared at Lime of sale, abd = fare to comply with above terms within te days street. Miss Wanek was employed in a branch from n day r Seale \e, ie Property, resold at risk telephone office, where she frequently had oc- | *™ WASHINGTON DA NENHO’ some easion to talk with young Baker ‘‘over the | THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. f21-deds _EDUCATIONAL. 15, HESES SANDER wisurrs To aNNotNcr to Bes rex’, patrons that be has Studio to Lith st. . Office hours, 10 to 12 >. RES secteeeltens ‘chose HELDON'S DANCING ACADEMY, 1004 F ST Some ees eet eanie Ease |. Send for circular. aus-Sin M ISEMAN WASHINGTON CONSERY Cloud Building, 9th and P Piano, Voice, V wire.” Finally the couple met by appointment and a love affair and the police court case fol- lowed. Miss Wanek was very pretty in her new cloak when she stood up before the justice. THIS EVENING. W422ER B. WILLIAMS & CO.. Auctioneers, ‘Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. She wae sccompanied by numerous relatives, ac AUCTION SALE THIS Day, | all of the gentler sex. Young George Baker, | By order Tauuton ‘and other well- ver Co. ogers known makers of high class Electro and Oxy TLV EL WAR FRENCH MAKBLE CLOCKS, BEONZES, EYC., ETC. Packed aud shipped free’ for oitt-of-town par- O01 on his part, was aided and comforted by his father, “It's all his fault.” said Miss Wanek to the justice. “He promised to marry me: then he put it off, and now I don’t think he will do it at all. Tean’t stand it any longer. I just had to have him arrested.” Yhat's that got to do with the case?” “Well, he threatened to kill me, and bought arevolver to do it with. Iam afraid of my lite.” Goods chasers, HHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. POSITIVELY THE LAST WEEK THE GREAT Averion SALE FRENCH MAnBEI CLOCKS How do you know he bought a revolver?” Bi SOCK OF \T ASSORTMENT TLV b Te “His consin William told me so over the wire. ae Se OPENED CO:S. He snid George had anew revolver, and was ARSTORE Gd Rar laying for me, You see it was this way,” con- DAILY oat BP Moe tinued the girl. “He met me and told me he | soi araiiente oute pee goOds mn this line, being was in love. He used to come to see me every | Per order of 2 night. Then we were to be married. I said TRE HARTFORD st vi ee Ae C0. February 21, but he insisted on New Year day. = t : THOMAS DOWLING. Auctio: Jagreed, and when that day arrived he did not — ——— come. He did not come near me fora week. 1 was almost wild. Then we half arranged for another wedding. but that will not come off. I gave up my position and now, perhaps, I can't HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. get it back again.” CATALOGUE SALE OF A CHOICE AND EXQUISITE “Why de COLTECTION or ‘Well, perhaps I might. Ithink he ought to JAPANESE PORCELAINS = A he ND QUADRUPLE give me $80 for the loss of my position and my SILVER PLATE. board, Yousee 1 was home waiting for the THE PORCELAINS REPRESENT wedding quite a time. SOME OF THE FINE: ECIMENS IMPORTED, “Lam not ready for the trial,” said the de- daut, “I want a few days to Did you threaten to kill th “Why, no: never thonght of i AND Is THE vitnesses,”* FINEST MADE IN BRACING “Did you buy a revolv Ee TUREENS, BUTT ; that was just foolin’. My cousin Wil-} sInGLE AND DOUBLE liam said it for a joke, just to scar I was FANCY € EI in the oitice at the time. ‘Young man, there isn’t much of a joke about that. i will continue the case until Saturday HOT WATER A CAKE BASKETS A. to give this young lady a chance to get wit-| AND THURSDAY. FEBRUARY TWENTY-SEVEN nesses,” and TWENTY-EIGHT, at ELEVEN A.M. AND Baker, jr., furnished bonds in $300 to ap- THREE P.M. each day. pear. without reserve, B.—The collection will be on view MONDAY The sele is positive and or A Queer Kind of Divore: THE WIFE ONLY LEARNED OF THE PROCEEDINGS WHEN THEY WERE OVER. Joseph E. Jarvis got an absolute divorce from Mary Elizabeth Jarvis, of 53 Lynch street, | VALUABLE UNIMPROVE D PROPERTY ON MERT- A ruary 8a man called at her residence and handed her a paper which she has since learned | was a copy of the decree of divorce dated Oc- tober 1, 1488. When her lawyer saw the paper, | { she was astonished to learn from him its ne ture, because her hushand had been living with her almost continuously during the year. One morning in June last, she says, her husband told her that a paper would be served on her that day. but that she needn't mind it and might burn it if she liked. She obeyed her | husband's instructions and did not know that it was a notice of the suit. Her husband lived with her up to February 6, 1889, when he left her, taking her three children with him, When she sent for them he retarned a copy of the di- yorce decree. Mrs. Jarvis says she does not know the co-respondent, Budworth, mentioned inher husbands complaint, and she submits atlidavits from five other co-respondents deny- ing her husband's allegations. Judge Van Wyck the husband a week to submit counter affidavi EB °K P. M., the following aute and lying m the county of ¢ Colmubia, and known and dis- 'y (20) in block unin ns’ subdivision of Meri- d in the surveyor's rest from Sth February, in cash; balance in six ai terest, and secured by a deed of sold, or'all cash, at the option of ty bi trict uished as lot numbered «six (6) of Hall’s & Eb dian Hill. as the same fice of the District of T < e 3 "88, and expe dwelve months, with trust ¢ t All conveyancing and recording at purchaser's co: A deposit of #100 wil fel4-deds_ 400 FLAGS. DECOKAT FL. AUCTION. On THURSDAY y, FI 189, at TW ELV shall sell about 400 every description, ali Bi 126-2 nd the DOWL iN sta THOMAS: sede Say ees Some Pretty Cold Weather. * From the New York Tribune. The coll reported Sunday from the north- west was severer, by from 5 to 10 degrees, than any hitherto felt up there this winter, and. at | joneer, 936 F t. 5 ALUABLE IMPROVED TY. BEING HOUSE NUMBARED 1931 ELEVENTH STLEE! WEST. | By virtue of a deed of trust to us recorded in Liber folte et seq., one of the land records for x 0, ike District some points, it was even more intense than dur- | fhe, Dustsct v4 Columbia, and at, tue ted 4 ing the worst of last year’s memorable blizzards | of premises, IND THE EL TH DAY OF in Dakota, St. Vincent, in northern Minnesota, registered only 38 degrees below zero in Jan- uary, 1338; but yesterday the thermometer dipped to 42. This is within six degrees of the lowest temperature ever reported there by the signal service, which was in December, 1884. But at Minnedosa, which is only a short dis- tance farther north, in British America. the spirit went 52 degrees below zero yesterday. It made the same record in connection with one of the most famous cold waves in years, that of January 9, 1886. ‘One who has lived always in New York city, | where the mercury dips to zero only once three or four years, and rarely goes below. can hardly imagine the cold represented by these figures, which, by the way, are official. There are a good many unofficial reports of worse weather, but only costiy instruments are capa- ble of accurately registering such tempera- tures, and these are rarely employed by any but scientific observers. ‘Che lowest (corrected) temperature noted by Gen. Greely in the arc- | tic regions was 63 below zero, which is only 11 degrees colder than that reported yesterday from a poiut more than 30 degrees of latitude farther south. His arctic weather at Fort Conger, in fact, was exactly matched January 1, 1835, at Poplar Kiver, Mont., which partially illustrates the well-recognized fact that the greatest cold of our hemisphere is not to be | *. found at the north pole but near the respec- | tive centers of the Great American and Asiatic continents, where the extreme dryness of the air facilitates radiation of heat from the carth into space. It is a tolerably safe surmise. that nowhere in America, in ai 8, has the temperature a dozen degrees lower in Manitoba, Dakota and H. Gunnell’ . ROLL stbjec ure the sum of #500. Terins of sale: One-balt cash, and the balance in one ith interest until paid, a per wtinlit y of trust o cash at tie option of be required at time of sal p veyancing at purchaser's cost. Terms to be complied with in ten days ut risk aud cost of defaulting pny. chaser, WILLIAM MAYSE. jr, 316 gth’s! FRANK L, CALM fe26-cod&ds ‘ording and con. e FARM IN STAF- A, AL R of adecd of trust bearir wid duly recorded me of the Land Rec: ne rine a ng date st in Li- pted to wardening aud farang 8 composed both of arable und wood hind; and ituleo luwartine stone quarry. the sane f o Virwini ‘be- be paid as a deposit kt the tinve of sale, the balance of the purchase to be paid in three equal installm en months trom th rT wil r x. y Of sale. for which tee his three several, red by deed. pion of plied been more than about than it was yesterda Mintiesota. u ase with within = sos Contributors’ Epglish. From the Boston Transcript. It is difficult for the editors of maga: and newspapers to get deceutly written articles, even from college graduates, A college edu tion nowadays does not seem to make erence with a wri erty to be res! chaser, BROOKE B WILLIAMS, Trastes, 9, Kelloee Siuilding, Washitigton, D.C 1161S, Is _POSTPC HTH, 1889, a ED UNTIL teame hour I SALT or USUNELL & CAR eu! Estate Bro instances, there orably afte pbably no one who la: © AUCLION. of a deed of trust, recorded in Liber No. rds for the District ex to formal pression or for rales, An oceasio . has to nd toShakespeare along | is plenty of room for , arities of expression in this free, plastie English language It is not! grafimatical nicety and formal exactness that | the editors of magizines newspapers and them. individual pee: { i « dwelling | Vath room, by arly new brik house, contaiuine seven reo! is. mneludin, i hot and cout wate! a we and latrobe stove; cou- the renders of the publishing iionses vo much | eneteluseient user wile of nouve. desire and find such a pientifal lack of; it is thin! casi: balance in one and two 18: Purehuser to vive his notes tor the deferred ‘hts, bearing interest at rate of six per cent a ‘able sem uually, and secured by a deed of trust Upon ie nnoperty, Conveyances at cost of pur- chaser. £100 down at time of sale, WILLIAM J. MILLEN, ¢ Trestees, 456 Louisiana avenue. WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO, Auct. fo-dads afinstie ABOVE SALE TS rostroxeD, exttr, RSDAY, EN \GHT at 1 wur aud place, By order of the Trustees, 115-06: : FP HoMas DOWLING, Auctioneor. i OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS, DIs- rice QE SOLUMBIA, | Wasuixoto<, February Sth, . jotice riven — thet Phofaday’ he Isese of the Fi clearness and cleanness and consistency of ¢x- pression, with a fair adherence to the funda- mental requirements of grammar aud an absence of slipshod way Seasonable Smiles. | The Dakota picnic season ended suddenly when the enabling act passed Congress,—Chi- cago Tribune, ‘ Captain Lemon has charge of the sale of tickets for the inaugural bail. That affair could not get along without a little Lemon aid, it seems.—Pittsburg Chronicle, An examination in the public schools: Professor to pupil: ‘In which of his battles was Gustavus Adolphus killed?” Pupil, after reflection: “I think it was in his last battle.”—New York Tribune. Speeches to be Lived Down.—The Miss wns—Oh, so glad to see you. Mery! But we've such dreadful colds we can't kiss you, can uk noe hands!” a I he 5 by pt in the Georgetown Sturket-fe to bidder. Terms, cash in ‘advance. Also, p.m, On the same yon 3 the ta dear, Fair Visitor—“Oh, dear, how sad! you haven't got a cold, Mr. Brown?"—. Punch, A young divine tells a story of a groom who, after the marriage ceremony, slipped a two. dollar bill into his hand, murmuring, apolo- tically, “I'll do better next time.”—Harper’s fagazine for March, ee ABazrmwone Cavse } gered KR. FAVA, JR., & CO, Architects and Civil Easter, ™ £9-1m* 420 F st. n.w. —_— EE PRINTERS. Mee Ey DOT oe PRINTER "SET AS EAS FEATS" | wu \§ ' PAs. DESIRING TO SE: June. 18S BALCH’S CIVIL SERVICE INSTITUE. 1207 JVE 10th st.n.w. Persons’ prepared most success examinations, Elocztion tauzht and com carefully revised ; highest references. {4-31 {OF ARTS. WITH stant, ally for all or . MATHE: specialty. DQUE. 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