Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1889, Page 11

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Sid and Water sta Tel. 42 Cnty UMce, 14156 at. aw. Tel. 428-2 Washington, D.C. Poon Revsex Goo DS We bat plete Line of WatERE Rot cLoT! 'e have a complete line of WA" i TNu of the latent atgien and Snes: quality. phe 3 are Celebrated for their Quality and Durability muapufact oN of AL ja gu | al ony, —— a THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 23. 1889-TWELVE PAGES, > POST OFFICE. Tae Building * Which the Mail for the City is Handled. Grocers are re | A Singular Combination of Crowded Rooms, Dilapidated Cellings and Dark Passages—Scenes Inside the Institu- tlonover Which Postmaster Ross Presides—Broken Plaster, Creaky Doors and General Decay. —_—_~———_— BIG dingy-hued red brick build- ing—storm beat- en and worn by “B| ®ge without; di- \ lapidated, ram- shackle, dirty, within — is the Washington city post office, Hun- dreds of thou- sands of people visit the post of- fice building yearly, and the . S y _ great majority of them wonder and keep on wonder- ing why the great and rich government of the United States does not give its principal city—the heart of the nation—a post office worthy of the name and the locality. Toevery caller is visible the miserable temporary ar- rangement which press of business made abso- lately necessary—the woodshed that had to be stuck on the ground floor front in erder that there might be 904 additional square feet of space taken into the rooms which front on Louisiana avenue and which are generally crowded to their utmost capacity with tons of mail matter and alarge number of human lives that ought to be precious. The words ‘absolvtely unfit” are stamped everywhere. The cracked and blistered wood- work appeals to every observing eye for a coat or two of paint, while door frames warped and disjointed by old age and doors that will either refuse to shut or insist on staying shut all the time mutely petition Congress for an appropri- ation to supply their shortcomings and cure their infirmities. It is a common thing for strangers to say, upon visiting the post office for the first time, ‘Well. this isn’t much of an office; our little place down at Podunk is better all around.” So far as appearances go that re- mark and others of a similar nature are cur- rent, but in reality itis far from truthful, for behind the long string of screens and parti- tions are more than three hundred employes who are the peers, in the postal business, of any force in any office on the face of the globe. The casual observer, who admires their in- dustry and whose wonderment is excited by their dexterity, knows but little, if anything, of the difticulties under which they labor, nor is he aware that the worn-out shell in which so many lives are spent is so completely the re- verse of desirable as a place of occupation, THE PUBLIC LOBBY. In the “woodshed” the public generally finds @ sufficiency of room for the transaction of ordinary business, but the poor unfortunates who have to remain in it for any period longer than afew minutes during winter time will be lucky if cold feet is the only affliction which seizes on them. Behind thescreen which shuts the crowd out of the employes’ departments the floor is of tile, laid when the building was constructed for a hotel, its original use. In the rear of the general delivery window is the | archway that once spanned the hotel office, the safe, the clerk. the matches, the tooth picks, the register and the bummer who so carefully and frequently perused the register ‘tin search of a gentleman who is expected to arrive heah this evening. sah,” but who insisted on staying away for years atatime, Everything looks old enough to be venerable. A tight of stairs—placarded as the route to the money order and registry divisions—comes to @ conclusion alongside two noisy swinging doors, which bear on the glass set in them legends indicative of the close proximity of the postmaster's office, and he who ventures to force his way in finds himself, as a Srar re- porter did a day or two ago, in’ a lobby where sits the doorkeeper, whose duty and privilege it is to direct the ignorant into the offices be- yond, there to be filled up with such informa- tion as he may desire. During the day no one pays any attention to the long strips of grimy paper which bang loosely from the ceiling and which flap dismally whenever a breath of wind penctrates their sanctum, but when the lights ure doing their best to blaze then it must be noticed. There would be much more of the ceil- ing paper ina flappy condition were it not thata number of electric light wires cross the ceiling and prevent the rest of it from unfolding itself. A few old boxes, hair or two and adirectory- laden desk com: the other features of this vestibule, and the visitor would naturally step next into the room occupied by the assistant postmaster, Capt. Henry Sherwood, were it not that bis attention would almost certainly be at- tracted by the miscellaneous collection of choice kindling and stove wood which has been given a pluce in the continuation of the long vestibule. There is no other place in which to store this aggregation of fuel, so no apologies are necessary, . A STAIRWAY. The most spacious and the best lighted room in the building is the one occupied by Capt. Sherwood. The captain needs a large room in his business. A total absence of artistic or expensive furniture is one of the first things that excites comment; everything in the line of chairs and desks is severely plain and in most instances bears evidence of a prehistoric crestion. ‘Ihe central piece is a large flat- topped double desk, one side of which is oceu- pied by the captain. The other side is not the property of any one man, but when Superin- tendent Peachy of the registry division has a real good story to tell the captain or has busi- ness to transact he drops into the ricketty chair, smiles at the assistant postmaster across the blue cloth surface and proceeds, When Mr. Peachy is not there the chair is rented to reporters. Alongside of Capt. Sherwood’s desk is the typewriter and accompanying apparatus used by Miss Laura Fenwick, “who knows,” says the captain, ‘‘as much as anybody else about the running of this office.” Miss Fenwick attends to and satisfactorily disposes of Postmaster Ross’ correspondence. Of the room itself there is but little to be said. Across the center of the ceiling is heavy, rough, unpainted timber, and this supported by three uprights equally heavy. just as rough and as much in need of paint as the crosspiece. On the walls the artistic sense of somebody is vainly endeavoring to get to the front, a picture of a Virginia summer re- sort and a photographic group of one-time em- ployes being the only attempts at decoration. lu one corner is big map of the city which ex-Postmaster Conger marked off with his own band into legislative districts when he was running as a delegate to the republican na- tional convention of 1884; today that great struggle is only a memory which an occasional glance at the map keeps fresh, Even the steam-heater coil looks gag around its base the bronze tint has faded out by reason of the frequentand copious applications thereto of the nicotine-laden ee n the habit of chewing tol o. In the northwest corner of the room is a dumb waiter—dumb in so far that it does not speak any known language, but it has a rattle to it that more than compensates, In that box are carried down stairs every stam and card sold at the city post ofioe ‘and in dl same conveyance the money—over govds We make the best ip the Seesarasiemns ered sete come eed for Like etade of good. Goud) Eni: RUBBER 000 per month—goes up. By the it cneipe gstiromys: interest to know that’ the three stamp sellers on the ground floor have to pay their own cash for whatever stamps they purchase and they must send the money up- stairs before the stamps they require are de- livered to them. This arrangement obviates poison ew et the cashier's record of stamps sold wholesale to the gentlemen who re- tail them and is a perfectly safe one, so far as the concerned, government is POSTMASTER ROSS" OFFICE. There is nothing palatial in Postmaster Ross’ room, but it is comfortable, and when Mr. Ross is there it isa very pleasant place in spite of ite lack of daylight. The apartment is triangular in shape with its base to the rear. The three windows in the base are of real glass, but they would admit only alittle less light were they of wrought iron, for the man who looks out of them sees “through a glass, darkly,” nothing but a mountain of brick a few feet away. Just beneath a four-light chandelier and near the center of the room is the postmaster’s desk. A sofa and a couple of leather-uphol- stered chairs brace the walls up while three or four chairs of assorted designs are clustered around Mr. Ross’ throne. Another desk is in the front part of the office near the eastern windows. The room is used for almost every- sing, «stationary wash stand, a mirror and a wardrobe being among its unofficial features, Pictures of Rufus Choate, Daniel Webster and of a post-graduate class of Georgetown univer- sity law school (of the faculty of which Mr. Ross was a member) divide the attention of visitors with a couple of ocean steamer {one and avery fine specimenof A. T. lensey’s skill as s penman. Three or four ior of Washington also have places on the walls, THE CASH ROOM. Of no small importance to the employes of the office ia the cash room—the crowded apartment where Mr. Seymour Tulloch is king. A bank counter, with two places at which to apply for money, three safes, several file-cases, a cheap truhk and a diminutive water cooler are prominent as articles of fur- niture. The ever-present scantling, which was put up to prevent the mail-bag repair shops and its female employes. who usedto be accomodated on the floor above, from falling through, is here, just as rough ‘as it can be, The monotony of its straight lines is relieved somewhat by the gracefully irregular curves of the orifices made when a good deal of the plaster dropped off the ceiling. Much more of the plaster would drop were it not for the support given it by the electric light wires and Cashier Tulloch knows this for he has artfully contrived to have the wires run right over his head, Space in the cash-room is limited and if the cashier wanted to indulge in the harm- less amusement of swinging a cat he would find it dificult to do without hitting the cat's | | i | | | head against a safe or a piece of scantling, THE REGISTRY DIVISION. Efficient to the highest standard is the force employed in the registry division, but it works in the midst of irremovable dirt, continually dropping plaster, splintered floors and an at- mosphere of decay that ought to make a life of toil therein burdensonie even to a Mark Tapley. The main registry room is bad enough, bht it is comfortable and beautiful when compared with the “opening room” of the same division, ‘This is an apartment about 20 feet square and is one of the most important in the office. Its festooned door frame is bruised and scarred from frequent contact with the innumerable pouches that have been thrown in and out through it. The furniture is extremely crude, the room is overcrowded during more than half the day, the floors are worn to such an extent that the nails which hold them together are decided impediments to graceful pedestrianism, and the whitewash on the walls was neither artistically nor sufficiently applied. The plaster, where there ix any, is cracked, but more fre- queutly it is entirely absent. The timber sup- ports are not missing. neither have they ben planed or sandpapered. Yet in this little hole is received every piece of registered mail matter handled in the office. Does any body realize how much that means? Of government registered mail alone the men in the “opening room” last year handled letters and packages which contained an aggregate of $497,671.549; nearly five hundred million of dollars—to say nothing of the immense quantity of registered matter received and sent by private individuals, ¢he value of which is not kuown. This room is without organized protection, and it can have none 8o long as it is where it is. Washington has more registry business than any other city in the country, with the exception of New York and Chicago, and the aggregate value of the matter handled is much greater than in any three other offices, THR “REVENUE Room.” Another section of the registry division is the “revenue room.” This is in the cellar and can be reached from C street. It is one of the worst offices in which the Unived States ever compelled any of its employes to work and if it was in a state prison the board of visitors would shut it up rather than have convicts work in it for ten or twelve hours a day, The ceiling is low and it is made more easily approachable by the slaughter-house floor, which has been put down in places to keep the employes’ feet off the damp concrete floor. Daylight never gets into all of this room; it occasionally fringes the portion nearest C street, but that is its limit, so the electric fluid has been called upon to con- tribute something like a sufficiency of illumi- nation. From this dungeon all the revenue stamps are shipped by three men. If there was @ larger force more men would be made sick. Whenever the river climbs & lit- tle above high-water mark or a sewer backs up the occupants of the “revenue room” are made aware of it. The last overflow left its silhouette on the wall—it was more than two feet deep. In the rear of the dungeon is the elevator cage and every little while there pile of plaster on the floor, coming from the ceiling. An art gallery of clippings from illus- trated papers brightens one spot on the white- washed wall, but their levity is more than over- balanced by the stern rules governing the office and which are hung alongside the pic- tures, THE MAIL BAG ROOM, On the west side of the revenue room is the mail bag depository, and in adjoining rooms are stored thousands of bags—old, damp and with an insufferably musty odor emanating from them. The extreme eastern subdivision of the cellar on OC street is used as @ special department in which to distribute the mail for the Senate and House of Representatives. The cases are rick- ety and floors continually moist. the next cell are the quarters of the mes- senger boys who deliver those hurried letters which bear a ten-cent ial delivery stamp. The yo ters have not even chairs on which to sit wi they are waiting for their turns, an overturned newspaper: ving box and a pine board Lom, Bhp nearest approach to anything like lux furniture. A rough fence—farm. like in ia bopeok_-separeise the clerk incharge from the boys, All the wood work, and there is lots of it, is dry as tinder and would be con- sumed in a» few minutes if a fire ever got RATS AND MOISTURE. ‘There is a good deal of unused space in the long vault which extends beneath the sidewalk on Louisiana avenue, and the fact thet it is unoccupied by employes may possibly be ac- count and va- ried assortment of rate and th ual con drip- ping of moisture from the street, Heaps of Fefuse are rotting away on the slimy floors. A little to the rear of the vault is the subterra- nean chamber in which the apologies for toilet rooms eee ete. ot ioe one ee convince Congress ongress would only crawl down there . look at it) that anew building isan absolute necessity, Words that would fitly express the condition of affairs in that region are not of the kind that look well in ore The postmaster has done all that is co le to improve this place, but the best is THE MONEY ORDER OFFICE. Persons who have business with the money order office are safe enough if they remain somewhere near the counter that cuts diagon- ally across the small room. There is but little danger of their being hit by falling plaster. ‘The plaster over that region “dun fell” some time ago. A dark-brown map of New York state hangs high upon the wall, and around the room are scattered numerous interesting state- ments as to what money orders cost. Wire gratings prevent indignant citizens from reach- ing inside the counter to wreak their vengeance upon the clerk who refuses to make any re- duction in the price of money orders when two or three are purchased. All the available space has been utilized, but it is not half enough to accommodate the rush of business when forty-nine people, male and female, and all in a burry, want money orders and postal notes. Then the crowd gradually resolves itself into two long and sinuous lines of impa- tience, stretching their length out into the cor- ridors and wrecking their hopes of eternity with semi-smothered profanity. A PLACE TO WASH. The dormitory is a feature of the establish- ment that the general public knows nothing about, It is located at the end of the corridor which passes the doors of the money order office and even when, the sun 1s shining is a dark and gloomy as the crypt in the Capitol. A single electric light was fecbly endeavoring to compete with the darkness when THe Star reporter looked in the sleeping apartment | where tired-out employes of the railway mail service breathe the only available atmosphere several times over in the course of each period of repose. The cracked walls look as though they might at any time fall over upon the nine iron bedsteads which almost fill the room, There were no flies visible upon the cots or the walls when the reporter was there, but it is tradition among the railway mail service men that an energetic entomologist could secure a number of elephantine specimens of a wingless insect that has the reputation of getting there “just the same.” THE MAILING DIVISION, Lacking in space and modern facilities is the mailing division, where Superintendent Horace Springer is supreme. At times there is posi- tively not enough room for the mail which has to be handled, even when the heavy sacks are piled up 8 or 10 feet _high—almost to the bare decomposing laths which are plainly visible in a number of places in the alleged ceiling. The furniture is antique and there is grime every- where where the utensils of the ever-active laborer cannot reach. The force labors bravely on in spite of the myriad disadvantages aud it does marvelously speedy and accurate work, all things being considered, ee En ) is | A DooR, The door which a Stan artist has sketched swings on its hinges more frequently than any other door in the building. Between its sec- tions all the city mail passes from Superinten- dent Springer’s division into the realms of Su- perintendent James E. Bell, who has charge of the city delivery. Mr. Bell's division hasmuch in it that an appropriation only can improve, and there are some things that are beyond the ower even of money. loney cannot give Mr, Bell's employes daylight to work by. for the outer corridor—the wood shed—shuts © the greater portion of it off. Artificial light is, therefore, used all the time. The tile flooring which is in Mr. Bell's office has given the em- ployes chronic cold feet, and is responsible for a good deal of discomfort in winter time, TRE UPPER FLOORS. Those who have in them the spirit of ad- venture, who have longings to explore the mys- terious, can be gratified if the consent of Post- master Ross or Capt. Sherwgpd can only be se- cured. From the third story up to the roof the st office building ia untenauted and in # di- Fepidated state. In nearly every room some- thing has given way and in one place the floor has sunk in the center fully three inches,” Skirting boards and other portions of the wood work have been removed long ago, while rust has consumed the door hinges and fireplaces, Since the pension office was removed from there the majority of the rooms have been un- occupied, the only exceptions being those which were teed as mail bag repair shops. Now the winds whistle and shriek and groan through the broken windows and keyless key- holes, and the rate, which Superintendent Peachy says are as big as cows, hold high car- nival among the ragged remains of old mail sacks and quantities of other worthless ma- terial, Is it any wonder that Postmaster Ross wants a new building for his force? —_—_. A Light Sentence. At Racine, Wisconsin, A, H. Case, a phre- nologist of Akron, Ohio, was found guilty Thursday of debauching little fourteen-year- old Leona Gordon last September and sen- tenced to two years’ imprisonment in the peni- tentiary at hard labor. Case confessed that the girl was his illegitimate child by a woman named Gordon. When taken to jail he at- tacked the sheriff, but was overpowered. Case isa graduate of Yale college. He is highly connected and carries letters of recommenda- it public men, tion from many Phangenpne Papas Ayo haga hia ve or later, . hair begins Hal's Hair Ronower and prevent baldness and THE NORFOLK SOUTHERN. Recetver Appointed Owing to Opposition to Proposed Reorganization. An order was entered yesterday in the cir- cuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia appointing Watson B. Dick- inson of New York, receiver of the Norfolk Southern railway company, running from Nor- folk to Edenton, N.C. This action was had at the instance of about 90 per cent of the bond- holders under the first mortgage of said oom- pany, who had endeavored to reorganize the road, improve its works and enlarge the area of its operations but were opposed by some 10 per cent of the bondholders, who claimed that the revenues of the road should be appointed tothe payment of interest of its bond rather than for betterments and improvements, The road has been doing a good business, owes no debts in Virginia or North Carolina on account of ite running expenses, and there is no com- plaint by the movers in the present proceed- ings against the management of the road in the past. On the contrary, it is to continue the licy hitherto pursued by the company that @ great body of bondholders and stockhold- ers have determined to place the road in the hands of the court rather than incur the hazard of some adverse movement, coe THE COSTA RICA REVOLUTION. Soto Forced to Retire From Office and Carlos Duran Made President. At 5:30 on the afternoon of the 7th there was # sudden commotion in the streets of San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, People began to run hither and thither wildly, women fell to shrieking and sobbing, shop keepers and their clerks hastily shut and barred the doors and windows. A revolt was taking place. The Esquivelistas, it was soon seen, were in the minority, The Rodriguistas were massed with their arms on the hill,above the railroad station, and in the hospital plaza. They patrolled the streets, and took possession of every available — “Give us the cuartels,” was their cry. ring began at last from the presidential palace, The guns were aimed high, however, and no one was hurt, The demand for the cuartels was kept up and also the demand that President Soto turn over the presidency to Duran, the third vice president At midnight Soto concluded to do so. r. Duran immediately named Don Ricardo Jimenez as minister general, in place of Don ae Fernandez, who, of course, went out with S This is now the condition of affairs: Dr. Carlos Duran is acting president of Costa Rica and Don Ricardo Jimenez is minister of com- merce, public instruction and all the other portfolios. The leaders of the opposition party will be sent out of the country—given foreign missions. There will be no more uprisings. Rodriguez will step quietly into power, and Don Ascension Esquivel willaccept his defeat quietly and philosophically, like the progres- sive and broad-minded man that he is. There will never be a Central American union including Costa Rica. The defeat of Don Ascension Esquivel demonstrates it clearly. The new acting president, Dr. Duran, is ex- ceedingly popular and is regarded as’ a wise and unprejudiced leader. ores’ A Ballot at Bismarck for Senator. The northern Dakota legislature took one ballot for the second United States Senator yesterday afternoon, M.N. Johnson received 33; P. J. McCumber, 9; J. L. Carey, 8; N. G. Ordway, 7; W. C. Plummer, 6; Geo. H. Walsh 18; D. W. Marratta, democrat, 12, No sooner had the legislature adjourned than there was a stampede for Johnson. Up to 6 o'clock it was conceded that Johnson would be nominated. This started the opponents of Johnson on the run and the latest rumor was that they had agreed to unite on Ordway and had enough to nominate him, At last night's republican caucus the ballot was as follows: Johuson, 38; Ordway, 10; McCumber, 3; Walsh, 10; Casey, 11; Plummer, 3; Lamour, 4; Gov. Miller, 1. The joint caucus was to meet again at 10 o'clock this morning. ee Cleveland and Campbell, A Columbus, Ohio, dispatch says W. E. Bacon of Toledo, brother-in-law of ex-President Cleveland, was closeted yesterday at Hamil- ton with Governor-elect-Campbell, his object being to get the new governor and his friends tosupport for the 1892 democratic national ticket Cleveland and Campbell and to send Hon, Calvin 8. Brice, chairman of the national democratic committee, to the United States Senate as Mr. Payne's ‘successor, as a part of the scheme. Campbell's friends are said to favor this scheme, and its broaching has cre- ated consternation at the state capital among the senatorial supporters of Hon. John H. Thomas, Col. Chas. W. Baker, ex-C McMahon, Hon, G, L. Converse, Gi Powell and others, Governor Hill’s friends at Columbus are up in arms at Cleveland's inter- ference in Ohio politics, and Brice’s opponents tor the senatorial nomination swear vengeance. see The Brotherhood Strikes Back. A special committee of the brotherhood of base ball players, consisting of Ward, Ewing and Andrews, after an all day's session at the Grand hotel, in Cincinnati yesterday, issued a lengthy address in reply to the document is- sued yesterday by the National league mag- nates. The address says that the league's ap- peal to the public shows the desperate state of mind into which those men have fallen. In its statement of facts it is the weakest. and in its misstatements the strongest document that has yet been issued, Without questioning the services rendered by the old league or stopping to inquire how far its course has been prompted by selfish interests, the players believe that its days of usefulness have gone. They deny gen- erally and specifically the charges that players under the new contract can be transferred without their consent and assert that the or- ganization will do nothing that can in any way injure the national game, but on the contrary wil strain every nerve to preserve its purity and integrity. Talmage in Athens. Rey. T. De Witt Talmage and his party are in Athens. Dr. Talmage has secured a corner stone for his new church in Brooklyn from Mars Hill, where St, Paul preached to the Athenians, Dr, Talmage preached there Fri- day to many people, taking as his text Acts xvii, 22, ‘Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars Hill and said, Ye men of Athens. I perceive that in all things yo are too superstitious.” Later iu the day Mr, Talmage had an interview with Premier Tricoupis, He had an audience with Queen Olga and ex-Empress Victoria of Ger- many. ——+e+____ A Narrow Escape from Lynching. Robt. Bland, colored, aged twenty-one years, was placed in jail at Disputanta, Prince George's county, Va., on the charge of assault- ing Miss Susie Gee, aged fourteen years, and her ten-year-old sister Thursday afternoon. The girls are daughters of ex-State Senator Chas. Gee, now United States inspector of tim- ber at Sitka, Alaska, They were returnim; home trom the Disputanta graded school, where they are pupils. While passing alon; wood near a swamp Bland camo from behind a dense cluster of bushes and seized the oldest ‘around the waist. Her sister screamed lustily for help, at the same time saying: “Yonder comes Uncle Edmund and he will kill ou.” Bland then struck her in the face and nocked her down, bruising her in a frightful manner, but, becoming frightened, ran off into the woods, A large of mounted men found the culprit in the woods, Many wanted tolynch him on the spot, but wiser counsel prevailed. ————e2_______ Detroit Aldermen Indicted for Bribing. The Detroit, Mich., grand jury, which has been investigating charges of bribery brought against the city council, added another chap- ter to ite labors yesterday by bringing in three indictments against Alderman John Chris Ja- cobs, president of the council, for bribery, Aldermen James Tierney, Lou Burt and John Martz were also indicted upon charges of bribery, ls ee A Congressman’s Wife Kisses Zouaves. ‘From the Chicago Mail. isa cloud no bigger than a man’s hand on domestic horizon of a Kansas City Con- gressman, but if it doesn’t develop into a cy- clone and an earthquake and cloud-burst, all rolled into one, then the signs are at fault. The Congressman and his wife got ready to go 11 Adulteration is the thief of trade, and the thief who steals public con- fidence is the worst rascal in the business. Blooker’s dutch Cocoa, is cocoa, cocoa only and that continually, Compounds of starch, arrowroot or sugar are not found under our name. Mrs. S. T. Rorer, principal of the Philadel- phia Cooking School writes, It is certainly the choicest, purest, best cocoa I have ever known. Furthermore, though it costs $1 per pound it is not dear, for on account of purity and concentration it goes farther than a pound of the adulterated article. of Blooker’s cocoa makes A pound 150 cups. Sold by leading MMM ERE NN ON ® E MM tee i aed re FoR REE RS Pee NNN U EKE RR cock # 00 Pagers st ATE °o 0.0 Cc 000 H Hoo’ G08 “oo? EA Ak Tt = . PARIS EXPOSITION, 1889, 3 GRAND PRIZES. 5 GOLD MEDALS, LARGEST CHOCOLATE MANUFACTURERS IN THE WORLD. YEARLY SALE EXCEEDS 30,000,000 POUNDS. PUREST, HEALTHIEST AND BEST. ASK FOR YELLOW WRAPPER MENIER CHOCO- LATES AND TAKE NO OTHERS. 40 CENTSSA POUND, FOR SALEBBEVERYWHERE. BRANCH HOUSE, UNION SQUARE, NEW YORE. 6 FFFU U RRR NN NIITITT Y RI F fv UR RNNNK T % te Re U UR RN Nan PU UR R EE F UU R KN NNU T UU R HEED R. J. HORNER & CO, 61, 63 AND 65 WEST 23D STREET, NEW YORK, LARGEST EXHIBIT OF ARTISTIC FURNITURE IN AMERICA. TEN SHOW ROOMS FILLED WITH THE LATEST PRODUCTIONS OF THE FURNITURE AND UP- HOLSTERY ART FROM THE RECOGNIZED MANUFACTURING CENTERS OF THE WORLD. Grand Exhibition of IMPORTED NOVELTIES suitable for HOLIDAY and WEDDING PRESENTS, and for Drawing Room use and ornamentation, at specially attractive prices, Visitors to New York are cordially invited to call and examine our stock and prices. The central locs- tion of our establishment (adjoining Eden Musee) | makes it easy of access from all purts of the city. sel -Stam, wes Corner 9th and ¥ si CALL,EXAMINE UUK GOUDS A PKESCKIPL AC Our prices for prescriptions have been reduced in Proportion to uther wouds. We use ouly tie purest rugs aud chemicals from tue most rediubie iuwuu- fucturers. We cheerfully invite a carelus amspection Of Uds department by puysicians ‘abe Let Lidjae batreciein ua, dex. Pree, Pree 1 Antcock's Porons Plasters.-. bay Haas Bovinine, small size, Bovinine, larwe size, bull's Couxu syrup. Brown's Jamu. Ging Castinere Bouquet Sip Carter's Lithe Liver bli Wilbams" Little Liver Pil Cururick’s Soluble Food, we Carurick’s Soluble Food, large, Calttornis Fig > rap ii. Fellows D.ray Hypovuosi nit nese Willisius’ Com. sirup Mypopuusphitea. Hop ‘Bitters per cottle Hoatetter's B Hood's Saresparil Horetord’s Acid P Horaiord’s Acid F Hof's Mat (Tarraut’s) Melin's food. ver vowtie, *s Milk Food. Pierce's Favorite Prescription eres reative Peiiets Schenck's Fills, per box. 5.5. 5., small size. ‘ . kure, the largest. boti Vaseline’ Fomade, per vottle. Warner's Safe Pill Best) was 5 Wilbor's Cod Liver Oil and Linie."; fi * Phosphatic kumulsion, the best, (fresh) in pint bottles. Water of Ainmonis, Full Stre line 18 unequaled as a besutifier an indisper Tequisite to the t renders the skin wiuite, smooth and soft, aud happing. Every lady suould use it” Per an infallible external remedy for Neu- io Snd Toothache. it ever italia togive ‘Ladies’ GRATEFUL—COMFORTING. EPPS'S COCOA Isa preparation of the drug by which tts injurion while the valuable medicinal ‘Bervous disorders ita an invaluable and is remedy, recommended by the % FERRET, Agent, 472 Pearl ot, Now York, | coud satth iavard al yortes, a H, A. Sruiasos, THE WINE AND LIQUOR MERCHANT, Has taken posseesion of his MAGNIFICENT NEW STORES AND WINE VAULTS, 1200 and 1202 Penna. ave, cor. 12th st aw, Tam perfectly satisfied with the immense sales mate Since the inauguration of the 20 per cent removal sale, and have made more money than I would have done with higher prices. 1 shail, therefore, continue to Allow the same reduction hereafter. Estimates cheer- fully given to parties about to purchase supplies for the coming season. Orders by mail prompuly ah tended to. PLEASE COMPARE MY PRICES WITH THOSE OF OTHERS Original Reduced CALIFORNIA WINES. Prices Prices ver ek Claret, extra quality. undy, eu so burr 2 3 Brandy, 400 Brandy, very. very ola 500 Champagne, quarts, ¥ 60 Champagne, pints, 1040 VIRGINIA AND OF KS. Virginia Claret. 30 8080 i Canale vee 00 320 Genuine North Carolia Scupper ae Svereseeenone lsu 130 ime.) duest quality) M sete ma Be IMPOKTED WINES AND COKDIALS, Port—Good—Iable........ 400 320 Port—tivod — Covina. 200 Port—Barngund su0 Port—Old Louw. ase suerry —4 oka vo Suerry—Good—Table 0 sberry—Dbut Gurdon. 400 Sherry —Anmoutiliado. e600 Genuine Bay Kum, old... 3 | Ge ae 400 ano . ery oid 4 38 vid Medterd Kum vwacei COURIME a 280 Old Holland Gi 400 White Star Gin. BU Anchor Gin ano vid Kye Mait 320 Vid Tom ota. aso Scotch Whisky, old. 350 Scotch Whisky, 600 Scotch Whisky, Very. ve: nou Irish Whisky, old 450 Liamh Winky, ve 600 Irish Whisky, ver S00 German logge fu ALSU THE FOLLOWING DO MES1IC WHisKibs: In Demijohna or Perfection Pure Kye. Hannueville Pure Kye. > Bottuies, very low, id Keutucky Sour Mash. Cognac Brandy, Martell... CcShac Braud} Cognac, Otard bupuy Contac, Seuguette,.... 6&1 Demigohna or Botties, very low. Per Dom ‘€y 09 & Co... - f Doz. na Cheey—Shectaee, = ” : Gree Kuemmel—Berii: tus 3 o Absinthe Curacoa—lied or W Bevedictine—quor: prin Cherry Cordial Cherry Bouuce. Lampberry Siru ‘ Deltzer Water—in quart jugs. exeer? ESS2e3 Sees5 pee ett Rane RH Leubenbein Miersteiner Cxemes ~ H. A. SELIGSON, THE WINE AND LIQUOR MERCHANT, 1200 and 1202 Penna, ave. n.w, 0c] 6-w&s-tr Pasr Au. Precenests: OVEK TWO MILLIONS DISTRIBUTER, LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. Incorporated by the Lecislature for Educational and Charitable purposes, and ite franchise made ® Vart of the present State Coustitution in 1870 byan overwhelming popular vote. Its GRAND EXTRAORDINARY DRAWINGS take Mace Semi-Auuualiy Juve and December), and ite i E NUMBER DEAWINGS take place 4 wouths of the year, mis the Academy of Music, Ne do hereby certi'y that xe supervise the arrange. ments For all the monthiy and Semi-Annual Drawingeat he Lennmwuana Sate Lottery Company, aed tn peram weinge themaeives, and that the same are conducted with hunenty, vany to use this certis Matures attached, 1m vi Lifes idea We. the wndersigned Ranke and Bankers. will pay prizes drawn in The Lowisiana Stale Lotteries wl may be presented a our evunters, KE. M. WALMSLEY, Pres. Louisiana National Bank, PIERKE LANAUX, Pres, State National Baul. A. BALDWIN, Pros. New Ori: rer CAKL KON, Pres, Uuion Natoual Bau MAMMOTH DRAWING AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 188a CAPITAL PRIZE, #600,000. 100,000 Tickets at $40; Halves, #20: Quarters, #10, Eiguths, 85; Tweutiotis, $2, Fortietus, 61, LIST OF PRIZES, APPROXIMATION PRIZES. 100 Prizes of $1,000 an ‘SU0 are. 400 are. . TWO NUMBER TERMINAL: 1,998 Prizes of $200 are... pone: AGENTS WANTED. §@- For Cuvn Kates, or any further information Geaired, write to the ‘Address By ordinary otter, cont Mouey ‘Onder ines SS ere Cees Bow uch bichange, Address Registered Letters containing EW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK. New Orleans, La, ONE DOLLAR is the price of or fraction of @ Ticket I85UaD ing. Anything iu our nawe Dollar is a swindle, Ger Tar Busz ‘THE CONCORD HARNESS. LUTE & BRO. 407 Pean. ave, edjoining National Hote, ores Blankets and Lap Robes at low prions, ary