Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1889, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, CITY AND DISTRICT. ‘SH Every one who wants to hire help or find a situation, buy or sell real astate, let or hire ‘houses or rooms, find work or workers, borrow or lend money, or offer or find bargains of any kind, should use and consult the second and third pages of Twz Star. They constitute a perfect daily history and directory of the minor needs and activities of this community, and each new advertisement therein is as well worth reading as any other department of the paper. ————— THROUGH FOREIGN GLASSES. What an Observant German Thinks of the National Capitol. To the Editor of Tax Evexixe Stax: Mctuerm Rour, Germany, March 22, 1889, The edition of your valuable paper of Febru- ary 14contained, among other articles of inter- est, one on the capitol, the pride of the nation, with woodcuts, and I take the liberty of ad- dressing to you a few lines on the subject, for publication, should you find space in your col- umns for thea. The capitol isto you Ameri- cans what that wonderful specimen of Gothic art, the cathedral of Cologne, is to us Germans, and two years ago when I visited Washington, a city as fine as any of its size in the Old World, my first steps led me to your “pride,” where I lingered for hours admiring its magnificence im general. It will, no doubt, be in time the finest profane building in existence, but I cannot agree with you if you consider it as such at present. If the new west improvements have done much to complete and put the finishing touch to that hitherto neglected front there is undoubtedly still much work to be done on the east facade before you can be fully justified in calling it a masterpiece and model of beauty. Permit m therefore, in a few words, to draw your atten- tion to a fewof the defects which are most detrimental to the artistic effect. That which mars the effect of the east facade, spoils th harmony and unity of the whole, is, first of all, that the middle tract, or old building, is still in the original sandstone, painted a bluish-white with red sandstone steps, and the pillars of the portico are smooth cut, whereas the adjoining wings are of cream-colored marble and the monolithic columns of the porticoes are richly fluted. The tympanum of the northwest por- tico has also not vet been filled with appropri- ate sculpture, and that of the central one could, most assuredly, suffer a little improvement without risk. Theu the supurb and graceful dome looses much in solidity (Gediegenheit) when we learn that it is of iron and the row of corinthian columns encircling it are of the same material. ‘ The dome proper can well be of that material, | but the rotunda and columns, and especially the latter, should most decidediy be of marble, and correspond to the wings. whereby the | effect of unity, so essential in architectural art, would be attained as far as the material goes, and the whole mass would then present itself to the eye as if hewn from a mountain of stone, THE INTERIOR OF THE ROTUNDA | needs restoration very much and freshening up | more than that of St. Paul's in London. The | plastic work, noticed by every one ascending to the lantern, dingy with the accumulation of | dust and cobwebs should make you Washing- | tonians blush a little that so fine a chamber | should be so sadly neglected. When all this | has been done the building will indeed be with- | out a rival. You Americans have money in superfluit why not appropriate a part of it for art pui You need a national gallery, a national | opera and theater above all things, and there | is no reason why they should not equal any- | thing of the kind in Europe, and be worthy of | the city, the seat of your government. If you | can spend a million for a pile of stone without the least pretentions to art. as your so-called monument is, then assuredly you have means for nobler specimens of mental work. Further, give your President « respectable house to live in; it is not necessary that it | should be a palace, im the European sense, but it could be a fine and grand mansion, worthy of the head of a great nation. Trusting you will pardon the interest a for- eigner bas taken in your city and its architect- ural development, ‘and which has led him so far as to drop yor few lines on the subject, I am, & Lez ——— THE COURTS. Egurry Court—. 3 R Garland; time to take | extended twent: John Sidney Webb | em. Cummings agt. | r uled with leave to} answer. Smith agt. Ro decree dcelaring | mechanics’ lien law for Frederick agi Wa gton Bem al Endowment association; motion to vacate: orders allowing filing of eross-bill overruled. Berghen agt. Vanden Berghen; divorce a vinculo matrimoni granted. =“ Barnum; dem Cerrar Covet Bradley, Yesterdey, Wm. H. Co: assauit to kil ct guilty, with recommendation to merc defendant committed. Daniel Hart. hou breaking: verdict gu order to restore prop- erty. Wm. Morris, Joseph Lee. Wm. Johuson, WHOLESALE IRISH EVICTIONS. Father Stephens’ Telegram Describing the Unfortunate State of Things. say! McFadden and Father Stephens, The evictions are to commence on Thursday, and the situation is clearly conveyed by the following telegram which Ihave just received from Father Stephens at Falcarragh: “The war of extermination it about being re- sumed. Seventy families, comprising 350 in- dividuals, are to be thrown on the roadsid What intensifies the sad occasion immensely is that these poor people have been brought face to face with famine owing to the utter failure of the potato crop. The families to be evicted have been living on Indian meal since last Christmas. The priests of the districts have been provided seed from money supplied by private charity. Fr. McFadden, the parish priest of many of the people to be evicted, is a risoner in the Derry jail, and I must leave the istrict to attend my trial under the coercion act on Friday. We feel, therefore, that the time is specially chosen by the authorities when they believe the people would be left de- fenseless.” “A TIME Is COMI) ‘The True Scope and Funetion of the Law. From the Arkansas Traveler. Jonathan Balsh, a negro justice of the peace, was startled one morning upon finding that his commission had been revoked. He, therefore, hastened to the governor and made inquiry relative to the cause of dismissal. The gover- nor, after listening to the old fellow, said: “Balsh, law is a protection, not an imposi-~ tion.” “Dat’s whut I lowed, sah; "lowed dat, sah, when one o’ de ole Perdue boys hit me wid er iron wedge. Oh, yas, I knows all erbout dat.” “Tam glad that you understand the aim of the law.” “Thankee, sah, but ez I understan’ it so well, why wuz I knocked offen dat law bench?” “You were deposed,” said the governor, “be- cause of numerous complaints of your unwar- ranted conduct.” “Whut's I been er doin’, gubner? You's talkin’ mighty reckelsome. Goodness, I’s allus "habe myse’t.” “You have made vigorous efforts in that di- rection.” — some o’ de bad p’ints ergin me, sal il, you had old Peter Blue arrested.” Yes. sah, I done dat, an’ I had er right ter.” Vhat had he done? sah, he’s de sexun o’ my church—I's her erlong wid my law business—an’ I tole him p’intedly dat I wanted de church wep’ out one Sad’ay ebenin’, but whut did he do? He ‘glected de ‘portan’ work. He didn’ go nigh de church, an’ when de congregation went ter de place o’ worship da foun’ de flo’ kivered wid straw an’ trash dat de haugs had toted in dar, sah.” “Yes, but the law had no hold on him.” ; tit? Now look yere, gubner, you doan know de law like I d Didn’ hab no holt on Wall, I reckon it did. I reckon it tuck him by de slack skin o’ de naik an’ hauled him inter de jail, Oh, sah, when you is ez ole er men ez I is—when you has han'led de law ez long ox I has you'll know whut is meant by er “I mern,” the governor responded, “that you had no legal right to imprison him. It was a private affair.” “Yas, sah, an’ it’s er private erfair when er man steps out by hisse’f an’ lif’s er hen offen de roost. but da puts him in de jail all de same. It’s er private erfair when two men gits inter er row an’ one o’ em shoots de daylight outen de udder one, but da hauls him up all de same, Doan come t@kin’ ter me erbout private er- fairs, gubner,caze I’s been yere too long.” “You don’t understand. “The law does not take cognizance of trivial church matters.” do in my church, gubner.” “But your acts are unlawfal.” “Oh, I kain’t he’p dat.” “Well, can, You shall not serve longer asa justice.” “You, gwine ter stan’ by an’ see de church trod on?” “I am not going to see the law trod on.” “Ah, hah, an’ I puts you down as an inferdel an’ er inimy ter der faif. I's sperienced fur er lnung time dat de dimercrats an’ white folks is de Lawd tell you: dar’s comin’ er time —ob, dar’s comin’ er time when de Lawd gwine aiperate de shee frum de tar’s; den look out for de judgement, soe IN SHARP CONTRAST. The Model as Pictured by the Painter and the Model as Seen at Home. From the New York Sun. “Womanhood” —a background of misty gray, shadows soft and dreams, a woman floating through the shadows, with white arms raised James Brown. Frank Henderson, Fi Grown and Wal attorney agreeing there- h of defendants, personal | ces in $100 taken to Co ey when | ; assault to kill; defend- | recognizance forfeited. | Crevrr Court 1—Chief Justice Bingham | Yesterday, Citizens’ National bank, use, &c., | agt. Fenwick et al; judgment on scire facias. Cmevtr Court No. 2—Judge Montgomery. M Metro a railroad com for plaintif, $250. Fraser agt. ict and judgment on note for © Me- | agt. Smith; motion for leave to amend pleadinzs led and taken under advisement. nee cipiaia PARNELL ASKED TO INTERFERE. Egan Said to Have Called Devoy a “Traitor.”—A Heated Controversy. A dispatch from New York last night says: Ata meeting of the municipal council of the Irish National league to-night, John Devoy submitted the facts concerning his controversy with Patrick Egan, the new minister to Chili, An evening paper Wednesday last published a Washington special stating that in an interview Mr. Egan had charged Mr. Devoy with inspir- ing the attack upon the genuineness of a cable dispatch describing Mr. Egan’s services in un- masking Pigott, and had called Mr. Devoy a traitor. Mr. Devoy telegraphed Mr. Egan that unless the statement was repudiated he would hold Mr. Egan personally responsible and take steps to vindicate his character. Dis- patches were also sent to the President and sretary of State. complaining of Mr. duct and regretting the scandal that must arise out of it. ‘MR. FOAN REPLIED that he had not given any interview about Mr. Devoy to any paper, but he had no hesitation in expressing his belief that Mr. Devoy was the suthor of the untruthful attack upon him. Mr. Devoy rejoined that Mr. Egan's utter- ances, not his opinons, were in question and demaaded a public denial of or an apology for the use of the word “traitor.” Mr. Egan replied that whatever his private opinions might be, he had not used _ the objec- tionable word. If Mr. Devoy thought he could etuet anything further he could f° to law. Further correspondence was declined. Mr. Devoy responded that he had solicited no correspondence. To decline it was, there- fore. an impertinence. He had demanded a public contradiction of a foul slander. As Mr. + gan had. in a sneaking and cowardly way that characterized him, insinuated the same slander before. there was reason to believe that he was correctly reported. Mr. Egan's first letter was ® sboftling evasion; bis second was self-evident he and conveyed an insult in a form no one but high above her head, clothed only in thin, gray draperies, trailing and fading into the clouds in which she floated. Every curve of the gleam- ing white limbs, every line of the slender body, was revealed by the clinging, transparent folds which only heightened the loveliness they could not conceal, and fell away softly from the full, white throat and snowy breast. The face was uplifted and turned slightly away, in an ex- quisite pose, but something in the chaste lines of the beautiful figure revealed all the purity, sacredness, and ideality of womanhood. Men looked at the picture with earnest faces; wo- meu’s chatter hushed as they approached it, “It almost makes me ery, it is so pure and beautiful,” said a pretty, impulsive girl: - could always be good if it hung in my room.” The artist ‘stood in the angle of the railing as the people crowded up to see his work, and i ‘Is it an ideal figure?” to which : “I painted it from life, except h is idealized a little.” High up in an old tenement house with dark passages, and up tumble-down stairs, in a tiny room a woman sat crouching over @ smokin; fire, endeavoring to coax its coals into life and warmth. Her dress was old and faded and soiled, a tear on the shoulder revealing the white flesh; her shoes were ragged and down at the heel. fastened by oue or two buttons; her hands were smirched with coal dust. A frowsy boy came banging into the room, with a bun in one hand and & greasy newspaper in the other. “Here's the paper the boss sent up to your man. and is he any better, he saya.” “He is worse,” answered the woman, theticaliy, as she took w into another tiny room, where, on a ragged couch, aman with consumption was watching her with burning eyes. She turned the paper to the art notes, and, after a little search, said: “The picture has sold for #1,000, and I only bad €20 for the pose, and it was so hard and made my arms ache so I couldn't fix ’em in the night so I could go to sleep. The coal’s nearly out, and the rent isn’t paid, and your medicine one.” vhat was the pose, Annie?” ‘This. See!” Nhe raised slowly on one toe a] p the paper and ail and threw her hands above her head. The | clinging, limp, faded dress outlined curves of gracious beauty, the soiled sleeves fell back rom dimpled white arms, the hands, save where the coal smirches blackened them, were white as snow, and they were fauitless in shape, Through the rent in her dress the bare shoulder gleamed like marble, and the loosely-fastened collar slipped back from a full, beautiful throat, the gray dusk of the twilight shrouded | bh! her with dreamy shado’ was turned away. ——— ego “Kid” Literature. From Table Talk. “Fad” seems a trifling word to employ in connection with the vast subject of literature; and yet it is a recognized fact that there per- ws, and the uplifted face cur would select. Mr. Egan dared not = liely publish the report lest he be red a liar. Yo this Mr. Egan bas not replied. AN INVESTIGATION ASKED. Mr. Devoy threatens to rake up Mr. Egan's character and make things unpleasant for the administration unless a public apology is made. He introduced # resolution to the effect that whereas charges of treachery had been made Lap eye to come from prominent members of the league, and were to cause distrust and suspicion; resolved, the of the cause demand an investigation, It is therefore asked that a committee whose char- acter shall be a guarantee of impartialit a pointed by Mr. Parnell to investigate e e haps never wasa time when there was such a strong “craze” for certain kinds of reading ma id these kinds cover ample grounds. ith what has been termed, not iuaptly, “kid literature.” The best speci- men of the latter is Mrs. Burnett's charming i ” that bas taken young [ York Sun's London correspondent Evictions upon a wholesale scale are threatened on the Olphert estates in Donegal, where the tenants made such a gallant fight a few months ago. Scores of brave fellows are now in jail forthe crime of defending their homes upon that occasion, but their fate has not intimidated others, and already prepara- tions are being made which may result in blood- shed upon a scale which was averted last time only by the strenuous exertions of Father a’ now I knows it; but lemme | CORSETS ARE WORN BY MEN. Very Pretty Ones, Too, and They Cost Ten Dollars or More. HOW TO TELL WHEN A MAN HAS THEM ox— 18 MAN MORE PROUD OF HIS SHAPE THAN WOMAN?—A MAKER'S OBSERVATIONS, From the New York Sun. There is in one of the corset manufactories of New York a little blonde-haired woman who has for many years made a specialty of men’s corsets, and has established an extensive busi- ness in a western city. She had a man trained to take the measures and fit the corsets, and frequently she or her forewoman never saw the customers for whom they made corsets regu- larly, Itisavery paying business, for men rarely question the price of an article they wish to purchase, and men’s corsets are always made to order and never kept in stock. A woman the shape ofatnbanda woman the shape of a broomstick will buy the same make of corsets in different sizes, and somehow fit herself into them; butifa man wants a corset at all he wants it to fit, and the cheapest ones made to order cost $10. They do not differ materially from a woman's corset in construc- tion. being made of the same material, only with heavier bones and stronger steels, They differ very materially in shape, however, being shorter and nearly straight up and ‘down, though the constant wearing of corsets con- duces to added fullness of chest, which com- pensates for the pretty bust curve and sore to & woman's waist. They are usually made of gray sateen or coutil, but occasionally a very fastidious customer is found who orders the daintiest of materials and decorations. One of the lady’s customers always wore satin corsets of a delicate color, flossed and laced with silk. He was very stout, and broke a great many of the silk laces, which a woman will wear almost a year without breaking. One of his latest orders is a Nile green satin corset flossed and laced with cardinal silk, and trimmed at the top and bottom with fine white lace, for which he paid 225 with no demur. Another customer was so extremely modest that he never went into the store, but his wite took his measure and ordered the corsets, fit- ting them on herself when they were finished, It requires three visits to insure a perfect-fit- ting corset—one for the measure, which is taken very carefully; one for the fitting, when only half the bones are in and the steels basted in place, and one for the final examination, when everything is finished. After one per- fectly-fitting corset has been made, however, only one fitting is required. Corsets are worn most by actors, the fit of whose garments furnish at present a large pro- | portion of their stock in trade. Then there are clerks who sit bending over desks all day and half the night to whom corsets are frequently recommended by their physicians as a help toward straightening their curved spines, men who, from some injury or physical imperfec- tions, are obliged to wear them, and a fair per- centage of dudes who rejoice ina Ll waist aud smoothly fitting coat. Anambitious cutter in one of the swell establishments, where a suit of clothes may be purchased for the price of a brown stone block, has an idea of winning an heiress for his wife at some popular summer re- sort where he spends his vacations, and accord- ingly arrays himself 1m all the elegance the es- | feblikenane affords, hooks himself into a | double-boned corset, and layssiege to the hearts | of the fair ones. Before he adopted the corset | he buckled a broad belt of heavy leather about | his body at the waist, but as he grew stout this expedient lost its efficacy. A man’s corsets are ‘28 readily detected by his fellow men as the faintest touch of rouge | on a woman's face is always discovered by her | sister woman. Gentlemen say that a man in | corsets goes upstairs like a woman, and walks | differently. and that if vou observe him closely | for a few minutes he will give a little peculiar hitch to his shoulders, as if he were endeavor- | ing to pull himself up outof the corsets. It was by watching Berry Wall mount a flight of | stairs that it was fully determined that he was | laced into a snugly-fitting corset. His wife | accompanied him, and they made the sa | motions in the ascent. Both the king dude | and his roly-poly little chum wore corsets | regularly on important occasions, It was at adame Griswald’s, on Broadway, that the pink-haired dude returned wo of baby blue j Satin corsets, trimmed with lace, after they had been fitted three times’ to have (them ‘made a half an inch smaller, and his anxious perplexity. was very amusing to the mischievous merry maiden who fitted them on. It is no secret that Osmond Tearle wore corsets, and that Kyrie Bellew wears them still. The noble Antony has them made in London in a little shop in Conduit street. They are not trimmed with pink lace or embellished with embroidery, which is the | only surprising thing about them, but they are | deliciously small and very short, not more than 6 or 8 inches up and down. In the same shop the Duke of Beaufort has the pink satin, lace-edged corsets, which he makes no secret of wearing, manufactured and embroidered with his monogram surmounted by a ducal coronet. He is an old, decrepit man, with a wrinkled yellow face and a fringe of white whiskers, and so bent over with age that the line of his corsets is plainly discerni- ble through his dress coat. It is said that the Prince of Wales affects them, too, and that that is why he has abandoned horseback riding. Corsets are worn quite extensively by men in Paris, and all the handsome officers in the German army wear corsets under their uniforms, It is the stout men that take to them most kindly and who suffer most in wearing them, ) and itis hinted that twoof the handsomest “dress-coat actors” in New York resort to their use onthe stage. Watch a man who never leans back comfortably in his chair, whose coat | does not pull in lines at every button or grad- | ually work up toward his shoulders, and whose chest is unusually round and full, and if he seems at intervals to be palling himself up out of his garments by the shoulders and goes up stairs with an inflexible back, you may safely infer that he is laced into a pair of $10 stays, though he wouldn't admit it any sooner than a woman would her shoes were too tight. “Aman cares more about his shape than a woman,” said a corset-inaker, “and will resort to more stringent and uncomfortable measures to improve his figure. A stout woman will walk amile for two or three days and stop eating candy for a whole week to reduce her flesh, but a man will submit to the most wearisome pro- cesses for the same purpose and keep up his effort for as many months as his trainer recom. mends, Place a glass at the left of any public stairway, and four men to one woman vill turn to look in it, and from these | soa may be drawn the double conclusion thatmen are more vain than women, and that, were the stigma of femininity removed from’ corset-wearing and the custom adopted by fashion leaders, men | would fall in line very readily. There is no | more reason why they shouldn't suffer in them | than that women should be laced in them, sim- pe, because or look more trim and shapely. n 1838 and 1840 corsets were worn by men, and the fashion might be revived if a few leaders as courageous as the apostles of dress-suit reform would introduce the practice. a Bruin Ran the Ship. From the Toronto Globe. When the bark Golden Star left the China seas bound for San Francisco she carried an unusual passenger in the shape of a black bear weighing 460 pounds. He was confined in a | strong wooden box, which was placed on deck aft of the cavtain’s cabin. One night, as they were changing watch, the bear pried off one of the wooden bars of the cage and got out. Mr. Bruin sniffed the breeze fora moment and then began wandering about the deck. Suddenly he espied the man at the wheel, and without far- ther ceremony he crawled up to him. and, ris- ing on his haunches, struck the Jack tar a sav- age blow with his huge paw. The sailor, of course, let go of the wheel, the ship 1mmedi- ately broached to and fell off her course. the sails flapped wildly in the wind, and the binna- cle light was extiiguished in the struggle, The first officer, alarmed at the sudden lurching of the vessel, rushed on deck, Close to the wheel @ perceived a dark form. “Hello, you lubber!” bawled out the mate; “what do you mean sleeping at your post?” Then he administered a sound kick at what he mistook for the sleeping sailor, but which, to his horror, turned out to be the bear. With @ snort of he hurled himself upon the first officer, fe! rs him to the deck with a blow of his paw. By this time the captain and crew were all on deck, and fora few minutes there was a pitched battle, until the bear broke away, clambered up the shrouds, and perched him- self comfortably in the crosstrees. The rep tain took an observation and found half the crew disabled, the origiral victim being nearly dead. 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E PURCHASE LP, WASTE, Printing, Washington, B.C, Apel is will be tecelved ai this office until TWELVE Mai EPNESDAY, MAY 1, 1880, to furnish supplies to'ike Buresu of Engraving and drinting a year boriuning Taly f, “i880. of ‘the Tollewing 4 3 Che 1 phie Inks, Eng ‘Supplica, Binders’ Sap? Ph upplies, Tex ravers’ ware, Plumbers’ 81 les, &o.; Rubber Goous, Grocers’ Sundries, lisceilaneous. Awards manufacturers of, powuls Horse Feed, Ice, and made only to established or fy theurticles. | Sealed Pro ‘will also be receiv BistheSurae he nase petgk hat theataa eat ie a uly to persuus or firms having estabhieied f Dy Tecelved until by ROPORALS FOR SUPPLIES, WASHING TOWELS NG-CLOTHS: AND FOR i Ww Ero, & I oF ee the work. Sealed Proposal Ir MO ea eres PHEORYELY UNS HEROORDD PERITIONS WINE WORK 4 SPECIALTY. ais Wanstex & Nepwex, 325 N. CHARLES STREET, BALTIMORE, MD., ‘Will open at Willard’s Hotel, Private Parlors, April 9 to13, The latest Paris Novelties in Costumes for Spring and Summer wear. Directoire Garments, Visites and Jackets, Carriage and Visiting Dresses, Costumes for the Springs and Summer Resorts, Orders taken, Fits guaranteed. apl-12t STER EGGS, 3c. : CHICKS, RABBITS, &c., 5 A ; Fearn doe ger td See Lovelties, Toy's, Games, dies, Favors, Gold Paint, Scrap Pictures, P. urthday Cards, Materials tor making Pa- ver Flowers Lessous tree.) J. JAY GOULD, 4:1 Oth. orisha RATLROADS. ore, Axp Onto Rasaoan. effect 389. ineffect March 10, 1 of New J west, Vestibuled Limited ex- B & ae 2 f Sp a-me e am,, 12:10 and 4:38 p.m. Leave An- 40pm Sundays, & 00 p.m. and 8:30 : 35, 8:30 a.m. Jam, 12s a ty 5 eS itt .. for stations only: am. #4:35 and 9:3 therebure (snd ja ‘SF Se, - 6 23, 1 erulcdiate points, +900 a. 40, °5:35, 411220 p.m. intermediate stations, 17:00 p. m., . ma train leaves Washington on Sunday at 1:15 t all tations on Metropolitan Branch. 110:20 a. m., t4:30 aud 15:30 p.m . m. Simi, and or Sundays, 1:15 For Hagerstown, cit St Louis daily 6:20 Pittsburg *8:35 a m., NEW YORK & PHILADELPHIA DIVISION. $ ce For New York, Trenton, Newark and Elizabeth, N. Jp 38:00, °:30, *11:23 a. m., *2:30, *4:15 (yes: Sbuled limited) abd °10:30 pm’ Buffet Parlor Cars y trains. Sleeping Car on the 10:30 p:m., leave Philadelphia for Washington, *4:10, LTO. Me 11, AAS, soso wud “FSU xcept Sunday. *Daily. {Sunday only. Bsaccare calied for and checked irom avieis and resi- dences by Chion Transter Co, on orders left at ticket offices, 619 and Paave. W. AL'CLEML N15, CHAS. O. SCULL, Gen, ager. Gen. Pass. Ag't. mh22 HE GREAZ NSYLVANIA ROUTE WEST, AND TO THE Noi DOUBLE TRACK. SLEEL Rai Fre AK NS LEAVE WASHINGTO: LOKRER SIXTH AND B STREETS, #5 ForFittsburgand the West, Chicago Ls Fullman Vestivuled Caisat Bea 0) at, daily, to C leeping Cars from snd Harrisburg to St, Loui: 3 A. ha FROM STATION, Fo: ly, except Satur: to Cuicago, with Sleeping Car Altoona to Chi- . Western’ Express, nt 7:40 iaily, with ping Cars Washington to 1d St. Louis, connecting daily at Ha: through Sleepers tor Louisville and Me Pacitic Ex- Yess 10:00 pau. dails, “for Pittsburg and the est, with through Sleeper to Pittsburg, and Pitts: Lnre'to Chicago, BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD. Fee: w hia, uandaizua, and Rochester, daily ; for But. 0p. "a, daily, except Saturday nx Car Washington to Roches Lock Haven, and ate: except Sunday. and the East, 7:20, 9:00, 11:00, 2:40, 4:10. 10:00, and 17:20 pwr 00, 11:40 am., 2:/0, 4:10, 10:00, Limited 8 of Pullman Parlor m. daily, except Sunday, abd 3:40 p. b Dining Car. put nee 2:10 p.m. every day. For Brovilyn, ail through trains connect at Jer. City ts of Brooklyn Annes, affording ster to Fulton street, avoiding double ferriage acvuss New York City. For Philad a.m. 2 nd - Gaily, w For Boston wit On Sunday, 9:00, 11:40 a m., 2:10, 4:10, 09 £:10, 10-00 and 11:26 Limited’ Express, ail rior ¢ week days, and 3:49 pam. 11:40 a.m. week da} 8. “ d, 40, 9:50, an 46 am., 1 :03,2: G, 3:45, 4:10, 4:20, 4:40, 6:00, 7:40, 8:10, 10-00, and 11:20 P m. On Sunday, 9-00,'9:0,. ¥:5 Bigs rut ig 0, 7:40, “B28 0,6:00, 7:40, 8:10, Wo, ah ‘ols, 7:20 and 9-00 am.. 12:05 and 4:40 ily, except Sunday. buidays, 9:00 a m, ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAIL- WAX, AND ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGION KAILKOAD. 9282 aud 10:42 p.m. ‘Tickets and intormation at the office, northeast cor- ver of 13th street and Peunsylvaniaavenue, and at the station, where orders can be left for th ucgage to Gestination trum hotels 2. PU Generai Manager. JIEDMONT AIR LID Schedule in eflect February 10th, 1889. —East Tenn. Mail Daily for’ Warren! ri Knoxville, Rome, € a jeans, Pullin n Seeker Washington to'New Orleans. 1 A. —Fast Mail Duiy for Warrenton, Chat sville, Statious Ches. & Ohio’ Route, Mount, Danville and Stations be: iclbung and Danville, Greensboro, Ralelita, Charlotte, Colunbia, \iken, Augusta, AUabta, Birming> ham, Montgomery, New Orleans, Texas aud Califoruia, Yuilman Sleeper New York to Atlanta: Pullman Parlor cars Atlanta to Montgomery; Pullman Sleepers Mont= gomery to New Orleans au lann Boudoir Sleepers i and Shreveport, Pull ute pointe Sunda; tac ia oute point 8. M.—Daily, except Sunday, for Manassas, Strasburg and interns te statious: 6GA1LP. M—3 8 Lxpress Daily, via Lynchburg Bristol and Chat a. Pullman Vestibule Sleepers ssuneton to Memphis aud thence to” Arkauisas Pomts. 8:30 P. M.—Western Express Daily for Manassas, Culpeper, Orange, Charlottesville, Louisville, Cincin nati. Pullman Sleepers and Solid Traius Washington 1:00 —Southern Express Daily for Lynch- burg, Danvilie, Raleigh, Asheville, Charlotte, Colum bia, Aiken, Augusta, Atlanta, johtgomery, New Or- jeans, Texas and California. Pullman Vestibule Sleeper Washington to New Orleans vis Atlanta and Mout omery. Pullman Sleeper Washington to Augusta, Sa. ithout chang: in Duly: arrive Round Hill It Xeiurning leave Kound Hill 6:05 A. ly and PM. Dally except Sunday, arriving Washington AM. and MM. ;{brough traius from the South vis Charlotte, Dan- Pileand Lynchburg arrive in Washington 7:00 A.M and 7:13 P.M. via East Tennessee, Bristol aud Lyuch- burg at 11:13 AM. and 9:40 P.M; via Chesapeake and Obio ronte ana Charlottesville at 5:40 M. aud 9:40 P.M; Strasburg Local at 10:15 A M. Tickets, «i ing car reservation and information furnished. and boreage, checked at office, 100 Penn: suivants avenue: andl st Pawenger Station, Peuneyivar ua, jth and Bets. JAS. L. PAYLO! tey General Passenger Agent, oO POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. YPOMAC TRANSPORTATION LINE, For Baltimore and River Landings. Capt, Geoghegan, leaves Stephenson's Sunday at o'clock p. am. ¥ apply STEPHENSON A BRO, 7th wt. wharf. Sue, very ‘or further information Steamer Wharf © mb6-6m, (. VERNON! MJ. VERNON! STEAMER W. W. CORCORAN ‘Tth-street wharf daily (except Sunday) for Mt. di r down as Glymout, hes Washington LL BLAKE, Captain. MM DA and T at 7 em. ae s Y JUNDAYS p. m, touching at River Landis as far as Nomini Greck, Va St. Clements Buy Heino eee heise SOHN abode are cw. RIDLEY. 3 Mauaxer. dato ‘ON BRANDIS, 1229 PENN, AVE. Tailor-made Gowns, Riding Habits, Evening and Street Costumes, etc., made at short notice. Perfect fit and work, one fitting required, able prices. Formerly with Lord & Taylor, New York, and Wim, Barr & Co., St. Louis. Buttonholes made, mb18-lin* Kusmenrs Dress Sutetns, ABSOLUTELY THE BEST AND MOST RELIABLE. Kleiner's FEATHER-WEIGHT washable.) KLEINERT’S SEAMLESS STOCKINETT. KLEINERT'S SEAMLESS PURE RUBBER AND VARIOUS OTHER DRESS SHIELDS. EVERY PAIR WARRANTED. NONE GENUBNE WITHOUT OUR TRADE MARK ONE Gai bane (KLEINERT) on ora pair. _mbl-3m__ BEWARE OF IMITATION. FRESH DYEING, SCOURING AND DRY CLEAN. ING ESTABLISHMENT, 1205 New York ave. Hint clan facie sd Gout ron of eran deve tion. elvet N'TON AND CAROLINE LERCH, formerly with A. Fischer and Maison Yriese, Paris. jaz every NION FISCHERS DRY CLEANING ESTAB- LISHMENT AND DYE WORKS, 906 Ate and Gents’ Garments veleet aw of all Kinda el Ho Pages being rij Ladies’ Evening Drewes , rive. yeure" noe ioderate.” Goods called for and delivered eaSS* AROS GAEMENTS MADE UP O8 RIPPED A. FISCHE! divine __HOUSEFURNISHINGS. Coomme By Gus A full line of GAS COOKING STOVES On band and for sale. mhS1__ WASHINGTON GASLIGHT COMPARE. BICYCLES. . gts sl For. cara? — WOOD AND COAL PORREST DODGE. COAL MERCHANT, Wholessle and Retail. Anthracite Coal of all kinds constantly on hand, GEORGE'S CREEK CUMBERLAND COAL. FINEST GRADES of SPLINT AND CANNEL COAL. Sawed and Split Wood to Order. rd and Office, 3008 Water street; Branch Office, Fea is ist ‘street (opposite Post-oflice); West Washing? ‘Telephone—Yard, 054-2; Branch office, 956-2. mh220 xX ‘TAIL PRICES FOR OOAL AND WOO! ME SET inal changed, are aagotiowss oy White Ash ore ‘per ton of 2,240 ibs. o> aa etree Cou Coxe: Woon: JOHNSON BROTHERS, ‘Wharves and Rail yards, 12th & Water sta. Southwest. 1515 7th st, nw. 1202 Fst. n.w. 3d and Kst.n w. 1740 Pa. ave. a. w. 1112 Oth st. nw. 413 10th at. n. w. 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