Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1889, Page 11

REAL ESTATE GOSSIP. The Gradual Growth of the City Be- yond Its Bounds. PAVED STREETS TAKIMG THE PLACE OF COUNTRY ROADS—IMPROVEMENTS IX PROGRESS IN ALL PARTS OF THE CITY. The extension of the city beyond the present boundary lines is going on so gradually but few realize how the old bounds are disappear- ing. When the history of the development of the city is written the operations of the present year will be given a notable place, Then for the first time the District government began the work of paving streets beyond the bounds of the city and of defining the lines and grad- ing the extension of city streets, The asphalt Pavement on i4th street has been continued beyond Boundary and now extends to the top of the hill. Some of the cross streets in the same vicinity have also been paved with asphalt. Workmen are now engaged on the extension of Massachusetts avenue through Kalorama. Brick sidewalks are being laid, curbs put in position and the grade regu- lated. Pedestrians now can extend their walk beyond the residences of Judge Hillyer and Mrs. Patton, which a short time ago marked the farthest limits of the city in that direction, and without leaving the city side walk can go nearly to the shores of Rock creek. RB street is to be extended through to the Brentwood road and already the portion through Ecking- ton to the Glenwood road bas been graded and & section paved with asphalt; 4th street east and Ist street west are also being opened up and extended way beyond the city limits. The electric railroad will be running out ith street to the new Catholic university before long. As bas been stated in Tux Stan, Capt. Symons is using the small eppropriation at bis disposal for the purpose of having the necessary surveys madé for fixing the lines of | the extension of those streets and avenues | which are most urgently needed by those mak- ing subdivisions of suburban property. It is an@icipated that provision will be made for the extension of all the streets in the near future. ‘The tendency of the improvements now being made in the vicinity of the city seems to be in anticipation of the further growth and exten- sion of the city. In Washington Heights t asphalted streets are lined with handsome re: dences, which are supplied with water, gas and sewer facilities. The same thing can be said of the suburban settlement Eckington, which lies in the northeastern section. About 14th Street extended are rows of fine residences which to all intents and purposes are city homes, with the solitary exception that they happen to be located just beyond Bound- ary. Many of these houses have stone fronts and all have the conveniences of city homes. Before another year it is probable that the name Boundary street will disappear, as the city authorities have already proposed to divide the winding street into sections and designate them by appropriate names. The completion of the bridge at the terminus of Pennsylvania avenue east spanning the Eastern branch will have the effect, it is thought, of causing the population of tke eity to overflow on the other side of the river, as has been the case at the other end of the Anacostia bridge. Then, when the proposed bridge is built across the river at the foot of South Capitol street the country be- yond will soon be thickly dotted with resi- ences. The expansion of the city is going on and in this way provision is being made for the ee of a rapidly increasing popu- on, A NOTABLE HOUSE, The large double house at the southeast cor- ner of Connecticut avenue and L street was formerly the residence of the late Benjamin Brewster when he was Attorney General. It was also occupied for fome time by ex-Gov. Shepherd, and in past years it has been the scene of many a brilliant social gathering. Recently, however, that section of Connecti- eut avenue has gradually been changing mto a business street and the old house has seemed to be & little out of place. The new owner, Mr. Frank J. Tibbets, is now having the house remodeled and it will enter upon a new existence, A part of it will be fitted up for use as a store and the rest will be used as @ private residence. Nearly the entire frout on the opposite side of the avenue is now being built up with store buildings. THE EASTERN SECTION. Mr. Charles A. McEuen, the real estate dealer, who is interested in praperty in the eastern section of the city, in conversation with a Stan reporter said that as soon as the streets east of Lincoln park were laid out and sidewalks put down house building would fol- low. He stated that there would be a demand sin that locality beesuse the ground aper than im other parts of the city, and in consequence rents would be cheaper. He said that the District kept the work house gang employed in grading the streets. East Capitol street is now graded to the river, and the same work was now being done on south B street and Kentucky avenue. It was proposed to regulate and pave the streets extending around Lincoln park, and Mr. MeEuen thought that it would be a very desirable improvement. He eaid that he had no doubt that new street car lines would be au- thorized during the coming session of Congress. Fucilities of this kind he thought were much needed and would be of the greatest assistance in advancing the development of that section of the city. It is proposed to secure authority from Con- gress to build a car line connecting the north- east and southeast section and at the same time making a direct connection with the cen- tral portions of the city. The distance between Hi street and East Capitol street and Pennsyl- Vania avenue, where the three car lines now Re netrating that section run, are said by those terested in that seetion tobe too far apart snd that a good cross line could be made to pay, with the promise ofa fine business futare, A PRETTY SUBURBAN COTTAGE, A number of new houses are being built in Eckington and all of them of tasty designs, ‘The latest addition is the residence which Mrs. Hill is having built at the corner of Seaton and Bdstreets. Messrs. Pitney & Bradford, archi- tects, have prepared the plans, which embrace ctive features of a modern cot the att e- There is a gracef tower at one corner and a number of balcomes and porches. ‘Tho interior arrangement is very convenient, a large hall being the feature of the parlor floor. The house will be heated by steam and will have all the convenience of water, gas, sewerage that houses within the limits of the city have. A NEW N-STREET MOUSE. Mr. R. Goldschmid has decided to remove the old house No. 1208 N street northwest, and to build in its place a beautiful new residence on the English basement plan and four stories in height. On the first floor will be the fuel and furnace room, laundry and kitchen. On the second foor the parlor, library, dinin; room and Sage Three chambers and ba’ room will on the third floor, and three chambers on the fourth floor, all to havea large number of wardrobes and closets of every description. A platform stairway runs from the first to the fourth floor and is lighted by windows facing the open court. The house is heated by furnace besides having open fire- places with wooden mantels in all the Principal rooms. The front is built of pressed brick with Humeltown stone trimmings. There is an oriel window of copper on third and fourth floors, ‘The style of architecture is Italian Renais- sance Mr. C. A. Didden is the architect. This will be the fifth house Mr. Goldschmid has built on this square. — South Carolina’s Race War. Mt. Pleasant, 8. C., the scene of the race war, is now garrisoned by state troops. The prisoner has been sent to the city of Charles- ton under guard, The negroes threaten to burn the town, The trouble arose from the accidental shooting by Fred Schaffer, a white boy aged seventeen years, of @ negro woman named Malsie Holmes, who had just made a purchase in The boy was cleaning a un, which went off acciden: . The woman ao her ante mortem statement deposed that the shooting wasaccidental. The race feeling is very bitter not only at Mt. Pleasant but even ne farther trouble is antici- pate, ree ——___ The Fated Excursionists. Col. Isham Young, chairman of the Knox- ville, Tenn., board of public works, died yesterday at 2 p.m. Edward F. Barker is thought to be dying, also J. E. Barry. Barry Wess pinned under the cars for more than an hour. County J Moloney is in s precari- ous condition. ‘He wil hardly recover. , His ribs thigh fractured. Havana. If in ‘will doubtless have to give in to THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY,- AUGUSP’S4, 18899—TWELVE PAGES. ' LOUKING FOR AN ARMOR’ A Wing of the Center Market May be Secured for the National Guard. THE RECORDS OF THE GUARD BEFORE THE TAR+ OET—INSPECTOR BELL MAKES A REPORT—A BIFLE RANGE FOR THE MILITIAMEN TO BE SE- CURED—COMING MATCH AMONG STAFF OFFICERS. Gen. Ordway has about completed the work of accounting for the property drawn for use in the encampment of the national guard held last month, and is now turning his attention to other matters relating tothe militia, which, though they have never been quite out of his mind, have yet been put aside ard held in abeyance on account of the more important event. For instance, he is once more thinking over the|subject of new armories, of which the guard standsso much in need. He hassufficient fands appropriated for this purpose, but he is unable to find buildings that are suitable or adaptable for the purpose, cheap in their rentals and conveniently located. At one time he thought strongly of securing the K-street market, to be floored over for the purpose, and the trustees of the building had the matter un- der serious consideration for some time. It was found, however, that the cost would be too heavy, and the plan is now finally abandoned. BUILDINGS UNDER CONSIDERATION, Among other quarters the old Globe building, on Pennsylvania avenue, now used as a print- ing office, wasinspected. The walls were found to be strong, but some of the floors would need repairing. by no means yet out of the range of possibilities, although it is not likely to be selected. Then the Cyclorama building, corner of 15th street and Ohio avenue, was pro- posed, and certain offers were made by the owners, who said they would alter it into a drill room, with every convenience for theac- commodation of an entire battalion, That scheme hgs been laid finally on the shelf, and now the general has in mind the renting of the 9th street wing of the Center market, which was floored over about a year ago. This would afford a magnificent drill room, well located and with many conveniences, Thus the question reste, while the matter of securing an armory for the cavalry and artil- lery companies has been almost lost sight of. There are several parties who are willing to build a suitable structure and rent it to the guard, but as arule their figures are too high. THE RIFLE PRACTICE. During the past week the general has re- ceived the report of Lieut. James BE. Bell, act- ing inspector general of rifle practice, upon the work of the guard in that line during the en- campment which lasted from July 22 to July 30. “He says: “While they (the scores made) are not very large as an average, I am satisfied that the work of fw 9 the men in’ end making them familiar wit their pieces will have beneficial and lasting results. Of the 450 men who availed themselves of the privilege of the range fully one-third had never previously fired a gun, and not more than sixty of them had ever fired a Springfield rifle, view of these facts I feel encouraged to believe that in another year the fruits of this first instruction will show a marked improvement on the score card, especially so if the inspectors of rifle practice will instruct the men in aiming drill and encourage armory practice coming winter. THINGS TO BE CONSIDERED, “In considering the small averages of the scores it is important to take into consideration the location of the target, and the improved self-registoring target which was used. Iu the hurried preparation for the encampment it was found impracticable to obtain a range entirely suitable and located so as to secure the best results, As an expediont the onc which was seleeted necessarily placed the target about 15 feet above the plain, and_ was so surrounded as to be almost continually in an uncertain light, “The target used was an improved Ullman electric annunciator, and worked in a satistac- tory manner, although it was not in favor with the few marksmen who fa.cdit. The desire of all marksmen is to make the highest possible score, and whether it is made by a ‘scratch’ or by close shooting is a matter of indifference to many of them. ‘The objection urged against this target ig that it is difficult to make a large score on it, Ashot which breaks the outer edge of the bu’s eye will not count five, as is the case with the regulation target. It requires closer shooting to make the same score; consequently when brought in competi- tion with the old-style or regulation target it will not be popular. “Notwithstanding this fact I unhesitatingly recommend its use on account of its being ab- solutely fair to every marksman. It does uot admit of a tampered score nor the s oue, as is frequently the case wher may have an interest in the success or of the contestant. The other points in its favor, so far as I observed, were safety and the ability to score rapidly. There is no danger to the marker, none being required at the target. The scores are registered on the annunciator at the — of firing. Iam satisfied that with a single target of the Laidiey or Wingate pattern it would not hi been possible to have made picion of marker jure A COLONIAL CAREER. The Man Who is Regarded as the Maker of Hong Kong. $4,000,000 and a market value of 810,000, And —- — 1,000. connection that the banks “nig Pore os elaps x ofa THE ORIENTAL PINANCIAL CENTER AND rts FO-| “I do not believe it Nothing is TURE—IMMENSE UNDERTAKINGS SUCCESSFULLY are * CARRIED THROUGH—LUCK AXD PLUCK OF ©. P. CHATER—HOW HE 18 REGARDED BY CHINESE. ‘From Tux Stan's Traveling Commissioner. . Hoye Kono, Cura, July 25. On the ist of April, 1964, e young man from Caloutta landed in HongKong. He had a clear head, a sound body and a good heart, but cir- cumstances had been less kind to him than na- ture and he had his fortune to seek. So he be- any came a clerk inthe Bank of Hindustan st « salary of sixty dollars @ month, That was a | Mill coal in quarter of a century ago, Today the Bank of Hindustan has long been forgotten, Hong Kong has been transformed and that young man has been chiefly instrumental in transforming it. The sixty dollars have «grown to millions and the unknown bank clerk has become the Hon. C. P. Chater, the most influential man in the commercial empire of Great Britain in the far east. It would be an error in prospective to speak of him as the maker of Hong Kong, but there is nobody who deserves the expression better. I asked him the other day how he managed to do it. “Bit by bit,” he replied. I cannot trace the pee therefore, but I can describe the result. IMMENSE WHARVES AND BUILDINGS. If you enter Hong Kong harbor on some of the mail steamers you bring up at one of the withrves in Kowloon, on the mainland, opposite the city of Victoria, and the steamer cargo is discharged in a day into one of a dozen magni- ficent ware houses. This wharf and godcwu company, covering 650,000 square feet of land, capable of discharging eight ocean steamers at the same time and accommodating 100,000 tons of cargo, 83.500 tons of coal and $200 tons of saltpetre, is Mr. Chater'’s creation. When you land and look around you five out of six of the é nearly| FROM THE LAND OF GLACIERS. i F g some day.” and f i t) ld E 2 fi i 33 z 3 F 5 i 5 Hi tp Hi i & i i Md ale “Is it true that the greater part of thé eapi+ tal in circulation here and the business done is in the bands of the Chinese?”. “No, a8 a general rule foreigners own foreign ps gabe ona. Chinese own Chinese property. And most of the Chinese property is mortgaged to the Fire and Marine urance companies, Of course the celestial is much too sharp not to see the advantages of investment under the British flag. In Penang for instance, » million and a half dollars is invested by one wealthy Chinaman.” “How are the Chinese as co-workers in basi- ness and finance?” and very busi- “Very reliable, very prom) ike , desta as well as we do ness-like. They un the money value of Cg credit, Complaints are being made that the Chinese are very dilatory in taking up their contracts for piece goods and such like fromhome. But they con- sider thi ‘olo custom,’ and this can be stopped at once by an agreement among the foreign merchants. But the foreign merchants prefer to compete rather than to combine, and so the Chinaman gots his own way. In opium ‘olo oustom’is in the other direction, and the Chinese clear their opium inside of four days.” fe e E f i favorable for seeing all the wonderful grandeur and beauty through which we have passed. We have, at this point, fifty-nine degrees twelve minutes of north latitude, reached the highest altitude in the course of our voyage to Sitka, and have lain in Pyramid harbor for a whole day taking on thousands of boxes of canned salmon from the three cannery settlements in this im- eng Ngee: and will be here still another lor same cier is in full view com. 9 deck, and i broad foot, more thun two miles in width and i i 5 x bsolutely re. The, power, never marvel of with the multi of Jow teat, short weurbt. alum ot Powken Ch, 100 Wallet, N'Y aMowae® DER CO. a s if ef é Ps ge Hf TABLISHED 100 YEARS. 15 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS. y SOAP The Purest, Most Economical and best of ALL SOAPS. OP ALL DEUIGISTS, BUT BEWARE OF MCTATIONS ‘iked on the of one of ite lateral branches), looks to be not Mountains risig directly from the skore to a moun’ risi i ly from the shore height of more than 3,000 feet, are covered with great masses of snow, while patches of the same material lie shin’ in the morning sun in all the gullies and ra’ down nearly to the water's edge. Our whole course of about 1,100 miles, with the exception of the crossing of Queen Charlotte sound and Dixon entrance, About a Favorite Beverage. “What is there in this world so refresbing as glass of ice cold beer when one is hot and tired!” said the perspiring stranger at the bar, OUINA LAR CONTAINING " Openings out to the Pacific, occupying about | just after tossing down a foaming beaker of the Lop rca ae Bec fe pe BANKRUPTOTES, four on five houre, haa been inside ct aeerlea a of | amber-colored finid. “I never drank the stuff PERUVIAN BARK, IRON, AND there will be a second Hong Kong, and where | “Ate there many bankruptcies ameng the | high green-wooded islands, comprising more frigid than you serve it here; I suppose PURE CATALAN WINE. Fer the PREVENTION and CURE of aves Poses ot Blot gree he Chinese?” “Up to the present time there have been very few. Now they seem to be becoming more fre- quent. But the foreigner does not often lose by Chinese failures, as he is guaranteed by his will be the terminus of the coming railway from Canton, he is accomplishing almost sin- gle handed. The Hong Kong land investment company, only just established and already be- ginning to show its effects in the development of Hong Kong, is in every detail his own work. greatest archi singe in the world and forming ® continuous ain sea ‘or immense aalt-water river, as smooth as the lower Potomac and with depths marked on the sailing ohart as much a8 165 fathoms and others marked by a character indicating ‘no bottom found.” it must be close to freezing point—say, 33 de- grees Fahrenheit.” “It is not possible to serve beer on draught below 39 degrees,” replied the ber tender. “That is the temperature at which we have it 22 Rue Dreset, Paris. It was he who first believed in the coal wealth | ‘comprador.’ This personage either furnishes eUleett conn Fag) ee oe ie always, or not to exceed 40, and our beer is the} EB FOUGERA & 00., for the U. 8, of Tongking and advanced most of the money. | bonds or deposits money as his own guarantee. | there in mass from British Columbia to years | coldest in the city. “See,” and taking a little 80 NORTH WILLIAM OT. N. And not to make the list too long, he it is, too, who conceived, elaborated, tad his carried up to the consent of the governor and beyond that to the secretary of state for the colonies, THE GREAT PRAYA BECIAMATION SCHEME, one of the most important reclamation schemes in extent and one of the most ingenious in its financial arrangement of this century. It is a scheme that will make an enormous diff to Hong Kong, and Mr. Chater has been P. All business with the Chinese is done through him, and evon every Chinaman employed avout the place, down to the punkah-coolie, is hired by him. And from every employe and on every transaction he takes his percentage, and this is his profit and income. 80 that ractically no Chinese merchant has the entree Le a foreign merchant's office exceptsuch as are guaranteed by the comprador. If a Chinaman fails he does not often get back to his original position as with us, but generally becomes a ‘runner’ for some other firm.” “What effect would s war in which England was Me wee with a power represented in the Pacific have upon Hong Kong!” revere h fearful business.” “Are you a bit “Certainly I am, and [ thor ago to escape the interference of the English church with the missionary labors of William Duncan, who has been among them thirty years and under whose instruction they have become civilized and christianized and a thrifty, indus- trious community, earning more than » good living by fishing for the salmon canneries in that vicinity, spirit thermometer, he held it suspended for some moments ina glass newly filled, until it registered 41. My 3 = up two degrees “he THE GLORY OF MAN STRENGTH VITALITY! while standing, “You must your ki fairly packed in ice, to keep it cold as t,” remarked a Bran reporter who was standing by with » virtuous lemonade. The bar tender shook his head, “That was the old fashion,” he said, “though in most sa- loons it is still kept up. It requires the use of at ice boxes in which the kegs to be drawn rom are put, and the result is that the beer is sometimes cold and sometimes warm, but never at an even temperature for twenty min- utes together. We employ # method thet is SALMON FISHING. At Tongas narrows, soon after leaving Metla- kahtla, we saw s cannery in operation, and all about our ship as she lay at anchor and as far as the eye could reach we saw the salmon jumping clear out of the water, and as 7, fell ik the sound was like the splashing of the rain ina heavy shower. Some of the passen- licly thanked in dispatches home by Sir Des Veeux for his idea and his work in th® mat- ter. The home government will probably thank him in their own way by and by. In @ word, the reclamation scheme pushes out into deep water the entire marine frontage of the city of Victoria for a distance of 250 feet over a it would imetallis THYSELF, roughly believe in | gers tried their hands at salmon ‘catch. | Comparatively scientific, the ooling beit TH screNcE length of 2 miles, thus giving an average depth | {t, I believe, moreover, bimetallism will be an ng, but not with not or line, | cR¢ by. — Nee emgenig Bandreds ‘of A Sclcotifc and Standard Poyoiae Medical Treatise om Of W foot of water along the quays. ‘The gov- | scoomplished fact at no vary distant date. | They simply stood on the stones on the| it von wilt cone weing wie fore e moment | ‘end Physical Debiitty, Impurkties of the Blood, ernment is to do the work piece by pices, com- | Even now you see the European governments|gide of a small stream up which |] will show you how i works iy iy pleting it in 1892, and the marine lot owners | are hovering around it.” the salmon were crowding to get into fresh | than it can bé explained in = EXHAUSTEDVITALITY are to pay for it.’ Out of its own lot the gov- ernment will make a profit of a million and a half of dollars, and secure besides an “And finally, if it is not indiscreet, is it true wate ad ht that after a while you are coming home with Stak sas oe ieee aed their bare hands to the size of from three to si: —— COILS OF BEER, our table; i garean ; belay such political work as may present} brought them on boar: to gar Behind the bar the newspaper man saw sim- “ UNTOLD MISERIES extra rmanent revenue of $85,000. Of | itse but salm becom thing but a rarit ly @ trough six feet k by four feet dee; ‘scares the fortutials lok Gunses will aso predt | cris going homo,” was the all reply I could | end the flounders and a bali bat srelghing ped | Sirti long by fee P filled up seemingly with a great hunk of ice cut to fit it. Beneath this ice, he was inf were the tin pipes closely coiled in spirals. Cold, of course, descend, an 80 the beer, as it came up from the kegs in the celler beneath, after flowing through the pipes under the ice for a distance of two hundred or more feet, was drawn at the tap in a condition of extreme eee Block tin was used for largely. No less than 89 acres will be added to the business part of the colony, of which 27 acres will be reserved for streets and open spaces, The remaining 27 acres will give room for 1,820 tenement houses, accommodatin, 39,000 people, which is equivalent to five years influx atthe present rate. As the overcrowd- ing of Hong Kong presents the most serious cofonial problem, th importance of this relief get. But I will venture to add that whea Mrj] 50 Chater does get home his unrivaled knowledge of the practical needs and opportunities of this part of the empire will not be long allowed to Fun to waste, pounds, caught by gers over our ship's ide, wei more hi esteemed, Next we ing, villa Gigedo Island, ay, @ beautiful broad sheet of water, e hills more. rounded and clothed in the dark green verdure of fir and cedar, re- minding one strikingly of the Scotch lakes, HOW SALMON ARE CANNED. Resulting trom Folly, Vice, Ignorance, Excesses or Orertaration. Bnerveting sud’ ‘upfitting the victim for Work, Business, the Married or Social Relation. Avoid unskilful Poses work. It contains Binding, embossed, often mail, post-paid, concealed ip plain trative Prospectus Free. if you @istinguished author, Wm. fi. Parker, M evived the COLD AWD JEWELLE! Henny Nonmax, IN THE TALL MONUMENT. A Place Where Women Sometimes Faint it be rated. Thisscheme was con- Here we witnessed the operations of a large | the material of the pipes in order that no| from the National Medical ceived by Mr. Chater, it waa elaborated by hita and Strong Mea Tremble. cannery, which, as the superintendent informed | Metallic poison should be conveyed into the EE ESSAY on NERVOUS hand and the lot owners om the other, and i¢ | WHE THR XUevaToR Ma cannes A sueziaxa | US Puts up $5,000 cans of salmon for » full “i KEGS ON TAP. “Down cellar,” explained the bar tender, “there is an automatic pump that forces com- pressed alr into the kegs, driving the beer up through the pipes ata pressure that can be regulated by a gauge behind the bar. There are three kegs en tap all the time, and as fast as one is emptied another is en ~ wing and pump appara’ erhaps aavuld ath hive G80 thes 8 ons altogether impossible to draw beer at a temperature be- low 39 de; It can be done, though not conveniently as a ee ee by smash- e Gay's work, The fish are all caught by In: in seines,and all the other work—the cleaning and bene Shed the fish, making the cans, filling them, soldering them, cooking, labeling, mak- ing the boxes from lumber brought from be- low cut of Proper size, boxing, &c.—is done by Chinamen. ‘@ saw probably 8,000 or 10,000 salmon, weighing from 8 to 15 pounds each, lying in the fish house and in boats, just caught and a waiting the processes that were to prepare them for commerce and consumption, One set of Chinamen cuts off their heads, tails and fini rips them open and removes the entrails an: throws them into tanks of water; another set BOTTLE—THE REFRESHING DRAUGHT OF AIR AT THE ENTRANCE—REMOVING TRACES OF VAN- DALISM—CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT THE CROWDS, received its final approval at an interview in Downing street last year between Mr. Chater and Lord Knutsford. THE MAKER OF HONG KONG. This “maker of Hong Kong” isa strongly- built man of about forty-five, with the whiskers ot the city magnate and that indescribable but unmistakable air of prosperity which marks out the Crasis amongst us, His kindly face and hearty laugh make a friend of you on the spot, and five minutes’ talk shows you aman of perfect lucidity of mind in all financial mat- dentially, THE txknopy MEDICAL IN! No.4 Bi inch St., Boston, Mass., orders for books oF letiers for advice sbould be as above. myé-s,tu,te ‘Whatever may be the record of the thermome- ter, however hot may be the atmosphere, how- ever still may be the air, there is always one place in Washington where a cool breeze fans the bespangled brow, and puts a quietus for the time on the “Is it-hot-enough-for-you” fiend, This place is the doorway of the Wash- ington monument, through which there is a Unsereceves: TRO Arrnacrox ' OVER 4 MILLION DISTRIBUTER LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. ‘. : ing up the ice on top of coiled pipes and | tpeorporated by the Legislature for Rducational ters and of a foresight so extraordiuary as cleans them thoroughly; another set places inkling salt amoug it. By that process I | and Charitable and its franchise, cS resemble a gift of prophecy. He will look ata | Constant draught of air, and where the temper- | thom on an incline plane ‘with sides to fe ana | sprinkling — Process I} wae: of ts nacalot Wists Constitution is 87D Koen piece of laud today and tell you within a qua | attite goes down, from £5 of 90 a few feet off Me have drawn beer that wae half ice, like cham- | S7erJhaiuuhe popular vote, . pesmi ony emery narrow trough in which are ter of adoliar ayard how much it will be worth | 75 or even 70. Timid visitors who don’t just frappé. Many persone think, however, revolving knives which cut them into pieces, | P°6°S ;| ii MAMMOTH DRAWINGS take place : five yoars hence, If any land is suddenly in-| jike the idea of going all the way up the big}and at ‘the end of the trough they sce fiat beer a Point loses ® portion of | supually ‘dune and Deomuber) “and ite GRAND creased wey ee tele an will ard for chimney in the elevator car find comfort in | *fer having been salted, put into the ca: “I don't believe that beer is injurious to the | of the other ten months of the ek ane alk Gone instance, before long by the Chinese railway tanding in the doorway a while until the car | W2ich are brought to hand by machinery. health,” broke in the perspiring stranger, |? . mie, ‘Orleans, coming there, it is generally found that Mr. | § 6 y ‘The cans are then sealed and several dozens of | ‘notwithstanding what the temperance cranks | FAMED FOR TWENTY ¥: FOR INTRORITE Chater bought it years ago, ‘What marvelous | has made a few round trips and bas demon- | them are taken up at onceintound iron 1 say about its producing gout and kidney ivs DagyTice SEP aX- Juck that man has!” is an expression you hear | strated its safety. and lifted by machinery and droppod into a | Giveave. about him daily in Hong Kong. but ‘it is the HA tank of hot water, called the tester, because Rs bebe Penh Se if any air is emitted from the-cans when the shaft nowadays, Some oing tp and down Attested as follows: “It aocms to me that is nonsense,” ssid the ys the number of same kind of luck by which a general wins a bar tendar, “There are no more healthy men battle or a seaman makes his port beyond many so many scores as are here presented within the time devoted to turget firing at Camp Ordway. THE TIME FOR PRACTICE, “The amount of time and care devoted to rifle practice in the army are strong arguments as to the utility and necessity of this branch of the service. The national guardsmen of the states are also carefully trained in the art of rifle firing, and prizes and other,incentives are of- fered as an inducement for them to become ex- marksmen. The militia of the District of jolumbia should not be behind these organiza- tions in thie matter; consequently every proper occasion should be taken advantage of to secure range practice for the officers and men. I wonld recommend in this connection the establishment of a permanent range near the camp grounds at Fort Washington. to include regulation distances from 200 to 1.000y ards, and that marksmen’s badges be provided for those who make qualifying scores during the annual encampment,” The scores submitted by the inspector with his report range from 0 to 20. the highest pos- ible being 25. There were only three men who made 20—Lieut. Bell, First Sergt. John- son, company A, first battalion, and Private Doyle, company A, fifth battalion. The com- any averages were low, that of company A, t battalion, being the highest, THE RIFLE RANGE at the arsenal has just been put in order, the old butts replaced by new ones, and every- thing placed in first-class condition. It is probable that during the fall the guardsmen will be given considerable shooting at the range, although it will be difficult for the men, perhaps. to get off from their work in the day time. The trouble lies in the fact that all such shooting should be systematic in order to be profitable, and if any men go down to the bar- racks they should be sent by companies or squads, under the charge of an inspector, and this is where the working-hour problem comes in. But Gen. Ordway hopes to be able to ar- range a plan whereby « large number of the men may avail themselves of the opportunities afforded by these targets before next spring. 4 SHOOTING GALLERY, He has decided to keep his eyes open for a suitable room near the center of the city that may be fitted up as a shooting gallery for the use of the officers and men. He feels confident that such « room could be found on tle upper floor of some building, about 100 feet long. It would be so arranged that all danger would be eliminated, the guns being loaded with light SS of the range. It be on top in order to afford vw spon | to os mee smoke out. Here wo men could come e evening and og it~ able time in getting accustomed to the sare gun, so that, as the general expresses it, they might be able to hits target when they face one. ‘The officers of the staff are -lot, is being anticipated with pleasure by most of the guardsmen, who are anxious to show ee ee “We do hereby iy that we supervise the arrange. heated, making bubbles in the water, those pinion an Conpene and. te potee b pecpieer ee re cans aro taken out as being imperfectly. sol- dull days it goes oceens. There is, however, a sort of cult of in the world than are found in the breweries, eons. ; It of | down to 400, but the stream of humanity is t and they all drink beer enormously while at | andve and control the Tremor heat aa hgh “‘Ohater’s luc! in Hong Kong. especially dered and are resealed. After this test the a 5 “§ same are cone: monty, J among the Chinese, Any stock that he buys | Prot constant cans, by similar machinery, are placedin other | {26 work, which requires great physical ex- | good /aith ioward all partie ¢ ‘anthers ewe they buy, into any enterprise he starts they WALEING UP. tanks of boiling water and kept Ralures attached, in tis advertisements.” re an hour. are hoisted out, placed on round tabl ll held together in the iron crates, and the top of each can is struck with a mallet having # pointed piece of iron in its head, making a small hole in the can, through which a jet of hot water spurts into the air, so that the Chinaman performing this process, which is called pricking, has to be wary of getting scalded. ‘The hole in the can made by the pricking is theu sealed, placed and kept for an hour in an oven or retort with the tem- perature at 240 degrees, and then the cans are ready for labeling, packing, shipping and eating. THE TOTEM POSTS OF FORT WRANGELL, Our next stopping piace was Fort Wrangell, where “totem posts” flourish in all their glory. Those in front of the houses of the past and pour their money; when he shakes bis head at @ projeot they will not touch it. HIS LUCK AND PLUCK, The other day he left the colony for a fort- night, during which that’ memorable storm came and turned the island upside down, with millions of dollars damages to pay. A few days afterward I met a worthy old Chinese merchant, who has lived and prospered here for a quarter of a century. He waved bis hand over the sceno of desolation and destruc- tion and said sadly, “Mr, Chater go ‘way—seo what happen!” * Luck he certainly has—I eaw him draw the first and second horses in a derby sweepstakes the other day--but I fancy he would say about it if he remembered the parody— “Prate not of chance—the name of luck Is blown the ‘ways about it; And yet I hold, without a doub' He prosyers most who has most pluck.” Few men’s luck isso much pluck as Chater's, He is ready at any moment to go heart and soul into any enterprise, no matter of what nature, that recommends itself to his judgment, Last year the captain of a new ship of a thousand tons, the Ardgay, got 200 miles out of his course while bound from Hong Kong to Singa- pore and ran at full speed in the middle of the night on a sandy beach on the coast of Annam, There she lay, high and dry, and Lioyd’s agent sold her at auction. Of course Mr. Chater bought her—he would have bought her if she had been high and dry in the moon—and then asked the dock company whether they would undertake the job of floating her and getting her classed again as Al at Lioyd’s. The dock company hesitated—it looked a risky job. There are not many who care to walk up in this weather and most of them wait for the car, which is usually filled to beyond a point of comfort. With the temperature high outside the interior of the monument is considerably cooler, while in winter it is warmer than the exterior atmosphere, this being due to the equalizing influence of the solid stone walls. But the air inside is still and dead. There is absolutely no movement oh the stairways, and one ascending them wonders where all the draught that he felt below hae disap- peared to. The center of the shaft, the elevator well’ is a veritable chimney, there being @ continual current up or down—up when the wind is from the east and down when it comes from any other direction. The least over-exertion on the be rg —- the ce into a perspiration, and he fee! ‘ateful when 4 he comes 10 the top and can poke his head out ey chiefs are about 2 feet in diameter and of awindow. This is because the air inside, | 40 or 50 feet high, and carved into the most on the edges, A. extromely moist and still, ecg ope ae eae eg) ioe frog, oe Bah er ae indescribable and jatranscri ble ghar- acters, as can be seen ¢ specimens at our igre yee nbypereg agora! National museum, There is one car ed figure ‘When thirty people get into the elevator car, | of a wolf, 6 or 8 feet long, on the top of ® former as happened several times this morning during | chief's tomb, which is ancient and quite notable, the visit of Tae Stan reporter, the cage is» | pictures of it ee n in most of the de- most uncomfortable place to ride in. Holes ~ scriptive books o1 ‘a, and which I hope have been bored in the roof to allow some ven- will 7 find its way into our museum. It may tilution, but it is extremely close, nevertheless, | be of interest to say what I find to be the ac- and the conductor carries a bottle of ummonia cepted fact, that these “totems,” so general with him on every trip for use at the noses of | #mong the Alaska Indians are really their fam- “faints.” He has had several of late, he said, | ily crests or escutcheons, the head of every clan and there has been no end of trouble with | baving his heraldic emblem or quartering. It them. The women who faint, in his opi is usually thé representation of some animal, they enter the car, and | Whether it be wolf, frog, raven or whale, by A HUNDRED GLASSES A DAY, There was a strike ina great beer establish- ment in St. Louis, three years ago, because the men's allowance was cut down to 100 glasses apiece day. They declared that they needed Fanore th: that quantity to sup- port their strength, laboring as they were obliged to do for much of the time in an atmosphere brtificially refrigerated with am- mouia, conducted through ipes en- crusted a foot thick with solid ice. There isa long bar in the brewery, where three bar keepers are busily employed all day long in drawing beer for the hands,who pay for it with tickets, each of which is good for glass. tickets are distributed each day by the foreman when work #o many toevery man. As for kidney diseases it has never been satisfac- torily shown that beer encouraged them; it isa notion some doctors have while others disagree. Beer acts as ulant upon the kidneys and is an admirable diuretic. If gout is caused by beer why are not Germans a gouty natio: One of the most important organs of the py. the skin, is most fi- cially acted upon by beer, which increases the iration and keeps the cuticle washed h reduced to the I am a graduate of Heidelberg university, and the subject of which we have been used often to be dis- cussed among the students when I was there. There is one good effect beer has that I have not spoken of. There is nothing that reste the brain so delightfully, after the strain of long- eee mental exertion, asa glass of it. ‘ Then the} Sf the Ranks and Bankers, wilt pay preaches ta Tae Lecistan Bins Lenore hak may be presented a our encnters. . M. WALMSLEY, Pres, Louisiana National Bank, Fibiat LANAUX, Pres. State National Bank. A BALDWIN, Pres. New Orieaus Natoval Baul, CAML KOM, Pree. Union National Bank. GRAND MONTRLY DRAWING AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANG TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1888 CAPITAL PRIZE, €300,000. 130,000 Tickets at Twenty Dollars each: 10; Quarters, €5; Tenths, #2; iwentiews, LIST OF PRIZES -— beerve,” said Tar Stan Final; said, “Yes, for $60,000." the closenesa of the atmosphere, the fear of | Which that clan is distin, known. i mueb," aide Chiater. " “Well. for 55,000." falling and the jar of the car sets them off, | The same clan or ‘totem’ oaay have its repre- = “Tl give you #50,000.” “No,” “all right, | Men also show signs of nervousness, and it | #entatives in different tribes, but they recognize ‘that 94 ase that passengers of the male en sone 5 ens who could face a pistol without flinc! —shake and uake with fear as the car gli silently u e big flume. Crying babies, too, often Ary their voices to make the trips up and down pleasant. There has been quite a quantity of this article on hand during the hot weather, BEMOVING MARKS OF VANDALISM, There is little or no vandalism going orf now, but Capt. Mount and his assistants are quite vigilant and are ready to nab the first offender, centof itis water, the remuining 6 per cent be’ simply ‘rottenness,’ derived from the fermen- ssoahstlon, be dasistay sonaas Setting, seks m aD Sherefore, beer is ‘not fit for © Christian to “Why does not the gentlemanadd that is unfit for a to eat, for the same reason?” asked the learned bar tendef, dryly. TH do it myself.” So he hired couple ot engiveers, bought tools and infinite sand bags sal chartered a ship to send them to Annam. I have seen the Ardgay in her coffer dam on that far-off beach, and I am strongly of opiaion that she will come off all right. Then Chater will pocket $50,000 on the transaction by his luck or pluck—which is it? ENTERTAINING FRIENDS, Mr. Chater is very fond of entertaining his friends; he is very fond of racing and has only given it up to become steward and judge be- cause for years he won wae! oy and his din- ing room {a's mace of cup he is fondest of all of Hong Kong. His affection for it is half- paternal and half-filial, and his pride in its ee Ry ‘cornered” one ae and put to him @ few of the ques- tions le are always asking about the col- ony. Nol can answer so well and nobody's answers would command #0 much respect from tee in who knows where Hong Kong is and wi! and never fight each other wherever they may meet and do not intermarry. Th as Mr. Duncan informed m them as the representativ: ences with — they hay Ney or correspondence. on Stikeen river, whose mouth distant, were creating an excitement Fort Wrangell did a thriving business as an outfit- ting piece t fro hundrel coe-tery pled by In- ro hun jouses occuy dians, whose men fish and make and liver il FE “What do you consider the causes,” I “of the present remarkable pone HD ao} financial prosperity of Hong Kong?” Et it Hi F