Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1890, Page 6

fe ad ” THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1890. ciTY AND DISTRICT. @@ Fair deaimg has always been the motto of Tue Evexmsa Stan. “A dollars’ worth in return for every dollar received” is the principie upon which its business is con- one hundred dollars for every one invested in its advertising columns. THIS IS THE PLACE FOR IT. Convincing Reasons Why the World’s Fair Should be Held in Washington. THE CLAIMS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL ELO- QUENTLY PRESENTED IN THE HOUSE OF REP- RESENTATIVES BY MESSRS. M'COMAS, LEE, COLE- MAN, COMPTON AND STOCKBRIDGE. Just before 5 o'clock yesterday, after the claims of New York, Chicago and St. Louis had been presented, Mr. Wilson of West Virginia took the floor in behalf of the patriotic claim of the national capital to be selected as the site for the world’s fair wn: \position. He at once yielded to Mr. McComas to open the argument for Washington. Speeches were made by Mr. McComas, Mr. Lee. Mr. Coleman, Mr. Comp- ton and Mr. Stockbridge in advocacy of the Rational capital, and they were all” loudly ap- plauded from the crowded galleries. Mr. McComas’ Eloquent Opening. Mr. McComas said: Mr. Speaker, wherover this exposition is held Tam for it. If it be in Washington, I am for it; | or if held in Chicago, St. Louis or New York, I j favor it, After forr hundred years’ contact ith the civilization of Europe it is time that the three Americas should challenge compari- son with the governments of Europe and Asia in a great exposition to be held on these shores, whither Columbu inted the way, Historically no fitter be named than the beautiful capita! district bearing his name, the seat of government of a republic of 65,000,000 of Ax «ns, the ¢hosen meeting place of etl the republics of the three Americas actually holding a congress at the other end of Yonder avenue while we debate at this end. After all the stormy contentions of many months, above the clashing rivairy of many cities secking purely commercial leadership, above the diu of this war of words, wherein it Sppears that New York, St. Louis and Chicago discovered Ameries and the name of Columbus finds hit ence, | want to call the House back to the original proposition. approved once by all of these cities. that this great nation at its capital should celebrate this great auniver- sary. gathering about perpetual memorials to Columbus the sister states of America here, | where they can come to meet the representa- tives of Spain and of cll nations; that here, on the spot dediceted to his name, millions of living eyes may behold the triumphs of our civilization. our arts and industries, alongside of the functionaries and the habitations of this government of the people. Here alone to for- eign minds can we show both the scroll and} the interpretation. Here alone can this cele- | bration rise above the level of a hippodrome or suggest a motive beyond a mere commercial boom, Come back, then, brethren of three rival great cities. A plague on both your houses, Let us tind peace ina national cele- bration, TRE RED, WHITE AND BLUE. As after the war of the roses, that long and bloody struggle. the followers of the white rose and the red rose found peace under a king in whose veins was the blood of Lancaster and York, a king who wore the blended colors,white and red, so would [ blend aud harmonize your rivalries now. In this tight, after the belated we look again upon the white And the color of Chicago is red. Red not because of the embers of a: archy she so braveiy stamped upon, but let me say out of compliment to her able and brilliant Representative, who has so wrought for Chicago, with hair scrambled, with the smile of acherub on checks so round and rosy—let me say that Chicago's cheek. ample as the shield of Achilles, flushed with hope of success, is red. Red is the color of Chicago. St. Louis, the beautiful queen of the Mississippi valley, With all her marvelous growth of recent years, for this one last occasion only, in this race for the fair, St. Louis is the bluest of all blue distances. and St. Louis colors are blue. Here let us blend the rivalry of these three colors of these three cities, discordant, bellig- erent and sectional, in the colors of the national capital—Washington—dedicated to the red, white and blue. Let them float here at the sanctuary of our flag over a national exposition in the District of Columbia. [Applause on the floor and in the galleries.) The Speaker—The chair will inforim the gal- leries that order must be maintamed, Applause is inappropriate. PLENTY OF ROOM IN WASHINGTON, Mr. McComas, resuming, said: Nowhere else can we find space more ample. If you look at the map you behold the mall, with 300 acres, while the open lands reaching from the State department to the observatory add 220 acres more. There, too, are the ists, two years hence giving a noble park on the broad river, adding 700 acres more. Is it buildings and the plant of an exposition you seck? Already here $50,000.000 (not five or fifteen) are in- Vested in the museum, the Smithsonian, the monument, the patent office, the Cupitol and other public buildings, far exceeding what fifteen million can accomplish elsewhere. The plans for the new Smithsonian, the new agricultural | building and the geological museum are already | Prepared and can be built and used for the ex- | ition, then used forever by the government. | the new library building will then be com- pleted and is adapted for an exposition art pullers beyond any ever used at a world’s fair. he $15,000,000 provided by the biil of the committee will not. therefore, involve the loss elsewhere suffered by tearmg down the build- ings. All the main stractares would be utilized by the government. now paying £120.00 an- nual rental for private buildings in this city, TRANSPORTATION AND LODGING. ‘The transportation problem is easily solved here. The Pennsylvania road, the Baltimore } and Obio, the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Iich- mond and Danville system and Atlantic Coast | Ine can today handle 300,000 passengers daily. Within two years their capacity to handle crowds at an exposition would | be practically | Without limit, Washington today has 270,000 people. In 1892 it will exceed 300,000 population, It isa city of boarding houses. Fix the exposition here and huge flats will spring up, numberiess te mporary hotels, and ample room for all the people. Quick trains in less than forty minntes will carry 20,000 tired sightseers to Baltimore every day. My experience last summer taught me that an exposition crowds the hnge city more than the lesser one where the fair is held, was selected as a governing city by its found- ers. It was iaumted to be a capital, free from commerce and from trade, representatives—though I love Washington, and desire above all things, in this connection, to see this exposition 2 success, and a success SENTIMENT AS A FACTOR IN THE stLectiox oF | tight here within this national capijal, I would SITE. Some of our friends on the other side, I think the gentleman from Lilinois, said that | Tt, ducted. Advertisers usually get from ten to | sentiment should enter into the selection of | enter; range myseif onthe side of those who would say: “Have no exposition.” Sir, it was said of old, “All roads lead 10 Rome.” said in these days of commercial ‘prise and wealth-worship that “A!l roads the site for the world’s fair. I heartily respond | lead to New York.” It will be said, presently, to that ides, for it furnishes son why the fairshould be held here. The visitor who comes to this capital filled with the | northwest, lying upon the an additional rea-| when the leadin, city of Illinois shall have th of her power in the great som of the lakes, reached the sentiment of America’s history, shoald he want | that “‘all ronds iead to Chicago.” Aud it may to view the spot where the first lodgment of | be that in the bright future that awaits the Euglishmen was made upon this western con- tinent, can do so by a few hours’ ride. Should he want to see the heights and plains of York- queen city of the west, upon the bosom of the Mississippi, the time may come, when in her grandeur and magnificance, all the people sur- town, where was enacted the last great drama of | rounding her may proclaim, “all roads lead to the revolution, it is an easy stage by boat or by train. Alexander Humboldt, standing upon these steps on his visit to America and looking at the beantif”. had given to this country its greatest soldier, its greatest civilian and its grentest President, | plause.] He looked upon the land, too, that was fore- most in the organization of the freedom of the country. He looked across that j river upon the land that gave to the young republic its western domain, which ended oul with the setting of the sun, that domain wikeh is now teeming with population and whose Rep- resentatives sit upon this floor aud will vote upon this question. And, sir. if sentiment is to enter as a factor into this selection, it seems to me, as was referred tu by the distinguished gentleman from Maryland who preceded me (Mr, MeComas), that the proper place for a great national exposition is here, upon the ouly territory that bears the name of the discoverer of America, and inthe city which beurs the name of its great founder, the pater putriw’o! America, [Applause.| And, sir, as my friend has said, stv any visitor desire to visit the mecea of America— Mount Vernon—it is within Mr. Speuker, I will not tire you or this House by putting forward, in the few remarks assigned to me. any argument as to the capacity of this city to entertain its visitors, for that all adm but I will say once more that if we are to in- | vite the nations of the world to come among us and to exhibit with us, and if we are to act the part of hospitality we should take them not only to our hearts, but should bring them here to the home of this great country. Why Mr. Coleman is for Washington. Mr. Coleman next spoke, The question of the hour, he said, is where shall the world’s fair be held? and we have heard arguments well presented by the champions of the differ- ent cities, each carrying with it much to im- press us, each giving peculiar and good reasona as jfar as they went. Dut to my mind, Mr, Speaker, the place to hold the world’s exposi- | tion, where will be celebrated the four iun- dredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, is in the capital of the nation, Washington city. [Applause.| New Orleans is particularly interested in the matter, for it concerns her welfare, perhaps, more than that of any other city in the country, aud New Orleans hopes and expects that the | great ex- position will be held in 1892, This date, though seemingly ciose at hand, is not too neur to ermit the full completion of the necessary wildings and ail the important details re- quired to make successful the efforts ot this great, prosperous, pushing and progressive people w celebrate m « fi ud proper manzer the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Ameri i to commemorate that import- event by the grandest world’s exposition ever known, dreamed or heardof before in this world. THIS EXPOSITION MUST BE NATIONAL and international in its composition and its characteristics, and the only proper place to locate it is at the capital of the nation in this city. Mr. Speaker, with so many cities, candidates for the honor of holding the world’s fair, we realize the grand resources of our country, and. while the three cities named outside of Washington | posses advantages peculiar to themselves, they are all commercial and industrial rivals among themselves, but they meet no such rivalry from the national city of Washington, the domicile adquarters of our nation, the pride y citizen in this glorious country and welfare, improvement and prosperity every individual citizen of this nation has an interest. PLENTY OF TIME, Referring to the question of the shortness of time between now and the date set for holding this exposition, I bear testimony to the fact that the world’s industrial and cotton exposi- tion, held in New Orleans in 1884 and 1845, was established in what seemed to be amarvelously short time; in fact, six months previous to the opening of the exposition, tie grounds on which that wonderfui display was located was a cow pasture, and, notwithstanding, ponderous machinery and thousands of fect of steam pipes ond shafting were erected and put in mo- tion, all was done in what seemed to many to be an meredibly short time, if not a physical impossibility. “I am credibly informed that in this city of Washington, at the corner of 13th and F streets, a well-constructed brick and masonry building, seven stories above ground and two stories below ground, was completed in abont seventy ’ days. I have such a high appreciation of the won- derful capacity of the American mechanic and the American workman, that I believe that the exposition could be ready in all departments before 1892 if it was absolutely necessary and the money required was forthcoming. The lo- cation of this world’s fair aud exposition in Washington, to which foreign nations will be invited, will be not only gratifying to the peo- ple of this country, but will be considered a compliment to foreign nations, who will ap- preeiate the act in a practical way by sending their goods and wares to use for exhibition. ‘The question, shall we extend this compliment to our friends or not is with us to determine, and | earnestly hope that the choice of location will be Washington, our national capital, Mr. Compton’s Appeal. Mr. Compton followed with a strong appeal in behalf of the national capital He called attention to the origin of the proposition to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. In April, 1896, he said, the senior Senator from the state which Lin part represent submitted to the Senate of the United States a joint resolution looking to the holding of a celebration in honor of the discovery of America by Columbus—that ¢ bration to be held at the national capit Every resolution introduced into that body or this from that time to the present has looked tothe holding of this exposition at the na- tional capital. In addition to this, in Decem- ber, 1886, a convention assembled here in the city of Washington, representing twenty-four states of this Union. In that convention there were many of the leading men from those states, inciuding the states which today are contending for the site at which this exposition shall be heid—Illinois, Missouri, New York. Many of the most prosperous and leading com- found London overcrowded by people coming from ed Sara to Paris, while in P: was abundant, Pagis had the exposit London had the crowd. This was the tion of the visitors I met there. Thus, friends of New York, be held in Washington your city will crowded as London was. The time is short. I am sorry Columbus did not wait until 1493 be- fore making his discovery. Here in Washing- ton you could make a year of exposition, be- ginning October 12, 1892, and give the delight of this climate in autumn and the charm of its early spring to the people who gather here thea. have a splendid exhibition building, with all its | was it. Mr. gold and gilding. Here plant the corn slower Of the great west. Herclet Chicago er on the sovereign people her pearls and swine. Here let St. Louis display ber pageants, and “Freedom from ber marble trance” above this dome will bless the rival cities who met on common ground and buried local rivalries in ‘aris room | tive men ion, but | others-—ad observa- | December if the exposition | t9 he monwealths of the nation, by their representa- in that convention—governors and opted, in the city of Washington, in + 1896, a memorial and body of reso- declaring the purpose of their meeting to bring the country to the corsideration, and successful conmderation, of a proposition for the holding of a fairin Washinzton city to celebrate the landing of Coiumbus and’ the discovery of America by bim four hundred years ago. FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE THE BEST, Now, Mr. Speaker, in this case. as almost lutions t it be here, then, that New York may | always, first impressions are the best. What Speaker, that impelied the intro- duction and consideration of this resolution and others similar to it in the Senate of the United States? Whatwas the motive which operated upon the minds of representative meu of the states to which I have alluded m the convention held in December, 18367 It was to . 8 | make this essentially and par excellenc SS Mirommercial bat national city, affording | national gathering. “What do'we behold today, pol cartons —= Mr. Speaker? The object and purpose of this Mr. Lee’s Patriotic Speech, Mr. Lee said: grand celebration ina great measure and to a great extent absolutely and entirely perverted, Sir, whut isthe thing of all others that an Mr. Speaker, so much has been said in | “™€rican, proud of his country, should desire this debate that there remains but very little for me to add. But, sir, of all the to present to the consideration of an intelligent foreigner? Is itour magnificent domain? Is at marvelous and untold — accom- places mentioned for a national exhibition [| plishmenta of our people in every line think that the city of Washington, the capital | Of business? Is it our count! of this country, is nat only the proper but the only place where it should be held. it was —— sir, that the centennial celebration of Declaration of Independence should be | there is not one of tix held in Philadelphia, for it was from that time- | migh: honored hall that the great enunciation of hu-| a man rights was made and launched upon the | The world which stirred the breast of | diade: every patriot and caused hope to | stitutions—her re serine agsin, exulting on triumphant wing in | ment. Where witht hearts of many, where then reigned dark | great land would a despondency if not ubject proper, sir, that the should have been held in the city of New Or- Jeans, to show to the worid what the south bad ee to show, _neewithetan Years of sorrow and suffer! at the had made in the great mare But, sir, when you come to spe: exhibition to whi tions of the wor... despair. of willoaly It was | with the magnificent at industrial exposition | which we ding her! Are we t'préapecity, | al! that our fathers fought and bled for, national | that generations since they lived and died have ‘tthe na- | held sscrod and maintained as the best and wealth as man- ifested in our rich mines and fields? It it the scene that stretched before | come when the most cherished tho him, said it wes the grandest that he had ever | heart of every American will not be, seen. because he looked upon the land which | lead to the capital oi che nation, | | i | St. Louis.” For one. sir, I hope, in God’s name and in the name of American republicanism and American liberty, that the day may never ¢ in the All roads where our protected.” [Ap- liberties are maintained and WHERE TRE CELEBRATION SHOULD BE. Therefore it is that upon a higher plane—in the interest of that government to which we are all attached and which we hope to see maintained forever—that this idea may be dis- seminated and carried to the farthest ends of the earth by those who may come from abroad to visit our exposition. For this reason it is that I desire above all thinga to see the expo- sition held right here, where they will see what America has done, not only in the form of government which she maintains but in the institutions which she has established, and in the buildings themselves in which this govern- ment lives and does its work, Sir, we have everything here to invite the location of this exporition here. Washington will have the roper accommodations, We have everything fan that a forviyner could desire to see, and What he must see if he wants to obtain any just _couception of our institutions and form of government, Some gen- tlemen, in speaking of the expositioi which have been held abroad, spoke of the French exposition as having beeu held in Paris, the exposition in Austria at Vienna and the exposition in England at London. O7 course; why not? Are not Vienna, Paris and London the representative cities, respectively, of the population, the institutions and the forms of government existing in those countries? So it is here with our capital. Let, then, the for- eigners who come to our shores see with their own eyes and through their own mental ap- prehension let them take in and grasp the great contrast between what we as free Ameri- can citizens hold as the best form of govern- ment in contrast with that under which they have lived. If this can be done the grand idea of institutions will circulate and we shall not lave held our exposition in vain, Mr. Stockbridge Closes the Day’s Debate. Mr, Stockbridge closed the debate, He said: Mr. Speaker, {do not propose in the brief time allotted to me to address any remarks to the general proposition whether a fair should be held, That, by the statement already re- corded in this House, is well understood | Neither da I propose to dwell upon what has seemed to many an important consideration— the pecuniary one. As has been quoted here- tofore in the debate there are influences flow- ing from institutions of this character not merely of & temporary nature, but stretching through a series of years from one end of the NICE TO BE A SENATOR, Mr. Dixon of Rhode Island Thinks it is So, at All Eveuts. “Yea, I like it betterin the Senate than I did in the House,” suid Senator Dixon of Rhode Island to a Star reporter. ~Existence is more restful here, as one might say. In the House there is a continual scrimmage and the indi- vidual Representative is fairly lostin the crowd. Here it is like a small and very select club where every one knows everybody vise and all are on ® footing the friendliness of which is indepen- dent of party differences. A member of the House, asa rule, is acquainted with only a few of his colleagues, comparatively speaking.” “How about senatorial courtesy?” “There is certainly no equivalent for it in { the House. and a new Senator cannot help find- ing it surprisingly agreeable. In the treatment one receives at the hands of his fellow Senators at large this body is very like a private club, Everything is on a basis of mutual respect and consideration. Then, too, there is a dignit: about the Senate which is not unpleasant. 1 have no objection to being quoted as saying that I like to be a Senator. SONG AND DANCE IN COURT. A Colored Minstrel’s Suit for Salary— Exhibiting His Skill as a Performer. Yesterday a civil case in which Richard Minor, 8 colored banjoist and song and dance man, was the plaintiff and Messrs. Roop & Nopper the defendants, was before Justice O'Neal. This was an action for $54.75, balance due for six weeks’ services at $19 per week and traveling expenses, The plaintiff testified that he was a banjoist, song and dance man and clog dancer; that he went on the road with a troupe of de- fendants’ at the rates named and it was wrecked at Phicnixville, Pa., where he was left without money, and by playing his banjo about the | town he got money enough to return, and the balance sued for was due him. The defendants did not deny the engagement, but questioned his ability as a performer and insisted that he performed but three weeks. The plaintiff, after producing authority, claimed that it was | competent for him to show the court that he was an artist of ability. The room was then cleared and, in the presence of the justice, lawyers, constables and others, Minor gave a specimen of his work hoe di , & song and dance and a clog dance, making his own music, and soon satisfied his audience that he was a drawing card for any troupe. The justice gave judgment for the time he was in service, less credits, $20.60 and costs, ae JACKSON PLAYED WITH HIM, The Ebony Pugilist Makes a George- town Blacksmith Sick. The announcement that George Walker, a Georgetown blacksmith, would contend with Peter Jackson for four rounds with eight-ounce gloves at Kernan’s last night in the hopes of capturing the $100 prize which Parson Davies offered to any man whom Jackson could not stop in that time, drew an immense crowd, occupying every seat and every available land to the other, which will repay hun-| space, Thousands were turned away. The dred fold and more whatever the €x-| galleries were jammed with the colored brothers pense may be, Assuming that the prop- as : : rl : osition is granted that the fair shall | Of the big pugilist, who were wildly impatient be held, the whole and sole remain-| for his appearance. The time soon came, and ing question is as to its location; where it] after the Parson had announced the conditions, shall be situated to prove the greatest success and todo the greatest material good by add- ing to the glory and to farther advance the in- terests of this country. it isa fair, interna- tional in scope, you hold under the cuspices of our nation, awakening to the depths our uational pride. Not merely 1s it a question of sentiment, which, as I believe, should direct its location to the city of Washimgton, for if sentiment and that alone controlicd, I have no question that a large majority of the members of this House would be found casting their votes in favor of the city of Washington. Bnt when we hold this fair there are certain other considerations which must outweigh all matters of mere senti- ment. They are those which look to its suc- cess, present and future, for the benefit of the whole country. WASHINGTON THE HEART OF THE NATION, Here in Washington, Mr. Speaker, pulsates the heart; here throbs the life blood of the na- tion, which is felt from one end of the land to the other, The members each in their proper sphere perform their wonted functions; but here is the nation’s life-blood sct in motion, whose throbbings are felt alike from Alaska to Florida. Not merely that, sir: it has been ap- ropriately described as tne Mecca of America; ecause here it is that they are in touch, not merely with the political sentiment of the coun- try, but here they are in touch with the active, earnest sentiment of this land from all its parts. From here starts those movements, those ideas, which, spreading. soon tzke possession of the country. Located here, the fair is divested of all seniblance of sectionalism, Here those from Alabama and from Maine, trom California and from the great interior of the country meet on an equal plane, imbued with the same ambi- tion of makins the fair one worthy of the proud name of America—one which shall rival, aye, and surpass anything that the world has hith- erto seen. It has been said in this debate and urged asa reason why this city should not be con-idered that it was impossibie to accommodate the throng which would flow here during the fair. Tappreheng, sir, that as in the case of Puila- deiphia in 1876, wherever the city may be chosen there will spring up, whether it be at Washington, Chicago, New York or in St. Louis, those monuments to American industry and enterprise designed for the purpose of increas- ing the accommodations and meeting und af- fording to all who come the same courtcous, hospitable reception that has always been the reputation of the eity of Washington. WASHINGTON NEUTRAL GROUND. Another consideration, Mr. Speaker, applies with equal force. In the other cities whose claims have been bere so ably presented there throbs the unceasing tide of manufacture, of commercial stri It reaches rivalries which at times have become bitter, Washington en- ters into no such contest, She hes here upon the banks of the Potomac, content witi the po- sition which she occupies in the organism of this country, vieing not in the least, but content thatshe furnishes to these other cities the moving, prompting spirit, the life blood b: which these industries are enabled to suceee Each city has presented its claims— sented them with all the strength which able orators could command. But not one word has been said, because no word can be said, in oi ragement of the nation’s capital, a capital which in a few short years has grown to be one of the most beau- titul cities upon the face of the globe. Where else will you tind such broad avenues, such pleasant parks, interspersed with beauti- ful homes, private residences, and with the mag- niticent and stately public buildings? It is ia these lie her great attraction to the visitor, whether he be American or foreign. ‘They form already a suficient center of interest to attract here hundreds aud thousands anoually, Add to them, as now proposed, the worid’s fair of 1892 and when that isdone you have added but another attraction to this great city. Add to them the world’s fair and then, when it sball have ended, you will have here remaining the monuments of the industry of America and American citizens, mouuments worthy the uame, which will tend to still further embel- lish a’ city in which il the citizens of every one of our forty-two states take a juss and honest pride, NATURAL ADVANTAGES OF WASHINGTON. It is needless, Mr. Speaker, after what has already been said, to dilate upon the natural advantages of Washington. It is needless to enter, in the brief time allotted to this debate, into the details of her facilities for transporta- tion. It is only necessary to say that these are abundant and will be. But one thing ueeds to be borne in mind, imbued as we all aro with = patriotism, I believe that we should feel, or that we shall feel, in case of casting ® vote for Washington, down our hearts that we have cast a yote to raise success of the artisans in our manufactories? Is | Still higher the fame of this nation, and I be- it our splendid achievements in the way of in- vention—in the military art and otherwise? Sir, spotic government as under a republic. m of republican America is her free 1m- ublican form of govern- 1 the broad jimits of your foreigner be so imp! it structure of govermnent ts power where its representatives reside? WHAT 8 TO BE CELEBRATED, to be told, sir, that we are to and all ese cousiderations that | Will g) € din; t not be as striking and as marvelous under | Palaces, monuments in themecites rightest and most precious jewel in the | ™ most priceless heritage of the American citizen? lieve that in 1392, when the dome of this Capi- tol is gilded with tha rays of the setting sun, it ce across stately buil 'e, even to our nation, to our enterprise, industry and ability holding this great world’s fair, Relief for the Destitute Families. Ustrep States Sxxare, Wasurxoton, D.C., Feb. 20, 1890, poses as here within the citade] of | To the Editor of Tue Evento Star: The names of the eight colored persons lynched by a Sorth Carolina mob at Barnwell t | ou December 23, 1889, were Peter Bell, Harri- son Johnson, Judge Jones, Ralph Hugh Furse, Robert Phenix, Ripley Johnson and Mitchell Adams. Their families are in a the two men came together. acted as referce, while Fiel¢ light-weight, and Mr. Pranic Be MeMillan looked atter Walker, while Fitzpat- rick did the honors for Juckson. The fight lasted just forty seconds, during which time Jackson landed a stinger on the Georgetown boy’s cheek, which sent him to grass, and pushed his lett with tremendous force into his real basket. Walker got sick. His stomach got disarranged and he declared that he had enongh. The crowd yelled. The Varson then stepped forward and announced that Jack Ash- ton would wind up with Jackson. Quite a setentific set-to was the resnit. Tonight Guy the gipsy will go up against the big black. Jack Asiton the English ott ss time. n, Great Country; Glorious Climate. Ex-Representative “Mel” Ford, who repre- sented the Grand Rapids (Michigan) district in the Fiftieth Congress, is in the city, “This is my first visit to the capital since I left Congress,” said he to a Srar reporter, “and the appearance of things generally seems to beunchanged. Yes;I missed the circus in the House, but there has been compensation. My practice is growing rapidly and I have my hands full most of the time. Couldn't have been here now had I not had to go to Florida in the interest of a client of mine who is unex- peectedly rich through the phosphate dis- coveries in that state. “What a climate they have down there! Ladics walking around in white summer dresses and men carrying palm-leaf faus, Ten degrees below zero in Michigan when I left; two days later seventy-five degrees above. Great coun- try, this, “I'd like to find the man who started that story about my getting $100,000 for some phos- phate lands in Florida owned by a poor widow chent of mine, That land ‘fetched exactly #3,000, By this time, I suppose, the story has reached Michigan and when I get home next weck T'll have'a great deal of explaining to do about that alleged balance of %97,000. Hang- ing is too good for an irresponsible tellow who will raise a poor widow's hopes with such a falsehood.” Contest for Possession of an Infant. Yesterday afternoon Judge Montgomery heard the habeas corpus case directed to Chas, C, Kimball requiring the production of Edgar Eckerson, the fourteen-months-old child of Rufus J. Eckerson, who filed the petition, Mr. Kimball is represented by Messrs, Birney & Birney and the petitioner by Mr. A. 8. Worth- ington, The return states that the mother of the boy, Mr. Kimball’s dunghter. is dead; that the father requested the grandparents to take the charge and care of the infaut, and that the: might have it with them as long as they wished, The child is now cutting its tecth and in no condition to be carried a long distance. It is further stated that the father is unmarried, and that the care of the infant wouid be en- trusted to servants and strangers; that the re- spondent is in comfortable circumstances and willing to provide for it, and says that under the agreement when taken the child should re- main with him. A large amount of testimony was taken on the part of tue grandparents and the hearing was adjourned, A Proposed Pythian Hall. At last night’s session of the meeting of the Grand lodge, Knights of Pythias, the building committee reported in favor of erecting a hall for the order. The report was unanimously adopted and it is probable that plans will pe completed as soon as possible and the erection of the building proceeded with at once. The buiiding committee consists of Messrs. N. Bunch, R. Goodhart, Wm. 1. Bailey, Geo. W. Heisiey and Wm. A. Maher. The following officers were elected: Past grand chancellor, Wm. Brakhager; grand chancellor, E. C. Gill: grand vice chancellor, W. I. Mockbee; gran prelate, Henry Genny; grand master of ex- chequer, W. H. Mohter; grand keeper of records and seal, A. F, Medford; grand master-at-arms, Jas, HW. Doney. Another session will be held this evening. a The James D. Donnelly Cases. In the case of James D. Donnelly against Douglas et al,, District Commissioners —to re- strain the cnforcement of judgments for vio- lating liquor laws and to have amounts de- osited for license credited on judgments— | Judge Cox has made an order referring the jase to the General Term to be heard in the | ARE FEES THE MAIN OBJECT? United States Court Officials in the South to be Investigated. The House judiciary committee purpose to investigate the manner in which in certain parts of the South United States deputy mar- shals make cases with the sole object, as al- leged, of securing fees from the government. There have been from time to time numerous and vigorous complaints that it was the prac- tice of deputy marshals to make arrests upon the most trivial pretexts for violations of the revenue, timber and other laws of the United States in order that the officials making the arrests might reap large pecuniary remuner- ation, The Attorney General recently re- quested the committee to make an investigation into the practice m tne United States courts in Alabama of suspending sentence in criminal cases ufter securing conviction. He laid infor- mation before the committee showing that nu- merous sentences had been suspended in the case of persons convicted of violation of the timber laws, and intimated that there were good reasons to suspect that this was part of a scheme on the purt of subordinate officers to secure fees. One man, he said, had been con- victed thirteen times and sentence had been as many times suspended. The committee instructed Chairman Taylor to report a resolution providing for an investi- gation by the committee of the charges alleged against the Alabuma court officials, Representative Henderson of North Carolina was authorized to report favorably a bill pro- viding that United States court jadges in de- livering charges to juries in criminal or civil actions shall not express any opinion upon questions of fact. THE RECORD OF CRIME. Statistics of Three Months of Police Work—Helping the Destitute. Chief Clerk Sylvester of the police depart ment hus just completed the quarterly report of the department for the three months ending December 31, The report shows arrests repre- senting 5,902 cases, There were 3,789 con- victions; 47 cases are still pending and the re- maining cases were cither dismissed, nolle Prossed or not taken into court, The report siows that nearly two-thirds of the persons ar- rested were married. There were 3,357 mar- ried males and 1 single males; 663 married females and 282 single females, Some of the principal callings given by those arrested were: Lawyers, saloon keepers, 44; clerks, 312; iaborers, 2,103; drivers, 351; bakers, 35; prostitutes, 257; servants, 371; barbers, 30; drivers, 351; carpenters. 182; reporters, 7. There does not appear on the records the ar- rest of a single person whose calling was in any manner connected with religious duties, The nativity given was as follows: United States, 5,461; Ireland, 234; Germany, 86; Eng- land, 30. ARRESTS AND CRIMES REPORTED, During the quarter there were five arrests on charges of murder, but only two of the pris- oners were held, The other charges were as follows: Aftr: 33; arson, 1: assault, 473: as- |. 37; attempted rape, 2; ank and disorderly, 337; entic- ing children to houses ot prostitution, 4; in- fanticide, 1; vagrancy, 491. Violations of law reported: Housebreaking in the night. 98 cases; do. m the day, 11; petit larceny, 439; highway robbery, 1; embezzle- ment, 9; false pretenses. 6; forgery, 3, Twenty- two cases were reported in which articles were lost or mislaid, The value of the property re- ported stolen, lost and mislaid was #17,207 and the value of the property recovered is esti- mated at $8,454. INCIDENTAL DUTIES. In addition to making arrests the officers have other duty to perform, as is shown by the report of “incidentals,” as follows: Accidents, 100; suicides, 3; animals found, 123; live in- fants found abandoned, 6; dead infants found, 13; other dead bodies’ found, 5; persous drowned, 1; dead animals reported, 702; dune gerous pavements reported, 408; dangerous buildings, —; dangerous bridges, 3; doors and windows found open, 41; trees damaged, $3; damaged fire plugs, 20; fountains, 4; persons found sick on the strect, 34; lamps damaged, 79; lodgers uccommodated, 1,626; pumps out of order, 35; building permits inspected, 184; other permits, 811; damaged sewers, 34; dam- aged water mains, 46; damaged pipes, 8; filthy sewers, 53; filthy gatters, 43. TBE SICK AND DESTITUTE. The work of the sanitary officers shows what was done to relicve the suffering and otherwise unfortunate persons who either live here or who visit the city. Three ex-soldiers were sent to Hampton and 12 were sent to friends. Thirty- three persons who came to look after pensions and 13 who were after work were sent home. Others who were furnished transportation were: 160 tramps, 3 cranks and 6 suspicious characters, Forty-nine persons were assisted on their way home anu employment was secured for 3 others. Sick and destitute persons were eent to the hospitals as follows: Freedman’s, 193; Provi- dence, 154; Washington asylum. 56; Gartield | hospital. 12; insane asylum, 42; alms house, 46. | The patrol wagons made 2,121 runs and 94,432 reports were received from patrol boxes, The patrol wagons removed 44 sick persons, 22 injured, 36 dead bodies and took 13 children to their homes, ne THE COURTS. Cracuit Count—Judge Montgomery. Yesterday—Lussiter agt. Inland und Seab: coasting company; verdict for plaintiff, 6 cents damages and price of ticket. Armes agt. Mar- tin; jury respited, Cook et al, agt. Horback et al.; motion for a new trial filed. Toner agt. Campbell; motion in arrest of judgment. Blanchard agt. Daniel et al.; judgment of non- suit, Equity Count—Judge Coz. Yesterday—Laudvoigt agt. Melovich; testi- mony ordered taker before Examiner Cruik- shauk, Lamon agt. McKee; testimony of de- fendant, MeKee, ordered taken im St. Paul, Minn. Latrobe agt. McKee; same order. McKee | agt. Cochrane; same order. Latrobe agt. McKee; | motion that testimony of McKee be taken be- fore an examiner of the court overruled. CxrauxaL Count—Judge He-gner. Yesterday—Henry Johnson, murder; jury Tespited. Joln E. Guest, grand larceny; plead ! guilty; eighteen months in the penitentiry. James'H. Lewix. housevreaking; plead guilty; three years in the penitentiary, | ! Montana’s Runaway Senators. “No, our eight runaway senators won't think it is so fuuny in a little while,” was the reply of Congressman Carter this morning to a Stan reporter's query as to the Montana situation. ‘The constitution gives less than « quorum power to enforce the attendance of members, with such penalties ana processes as may be provided, and under this authority a penalty of 2500 a day has been im d on absentees, Becker was also fined $1,000 for contempt. Several of them S wesley Eres ee circumstan ut they wi bankrupted.” if J AUCTION SALES. THIS AFTERNOON. ALE OF LARGE BRICK STABLE ALLEY BETWEEN O AND P STHirTS AND SIx- 8 TEENTR. AND “SEVENTEENTH “UTRE ESS NORTHWEST. On FRIDAY, TWENTY-FIRST FEBRUARY, 1890, st FIVE O'CLUCK P.M., we will seli, in frout of the remises, the Large Brick stabie rear of lot Pp oapare ‘181, having a frontage of adepth on the ‘20 feet by terms of mule; One-third cash; balance in one and two years terest at per cent per annum, pay- ee oe ea ee Be 18 Property suid, Or ail cash, at o A deposit or 81U0 juired st time of sale. Convey- apeing, &e. se purcltascr’s ‘Term to be com mm " pOYA BAKING POWDER destitute and pitiable condition. Mrs. Helen treat at the c- government, it strikes me | Or are we to be told that wea! wi jum! ndeavoring bsolute! re. that that considerstion alone would be a sutti- | extended rule and Uagniliccat tpi rent & eayton ot Latumtin relict I ven- A ts oly Pure. cient argument for the selection of Washington | eclipse the thought of free government and | ture to appeal for moderate contributions, ‘and. af &s the site. With the exeepuou of the ancient | free institutions? If so, I for one—and I be- which may be sent to Mrs. Brayton at Colum- ‘cannot su competition city of Rome, so far as my recolicction of lis | lieve that in this I speak the sentiment of the bia, or to myself, Very i midicuade of low ts! “iueas uasben tory gece, Washington ix the only city which | creat bouy of the American people amd thete W. E Ceanpise, ben GoM uh. “mhiOuewtaep. THIS EVENING. OOK DEPARTMENT, BO RICE DaRR & 0,, 05, uct Pa.ave. nw. ISTRATOR'S SALE OF Law ; UT CE FURNITURE kos OF NEBEMIRTE: MILLER, DECEASED. By virtue of un order ot ‘the erties Uapoanat Ooert wes Of the eatate of Neb-usiali 1d. & special term of said “Millie. deccesed ais pees Niet SOR Fe ey NG AT HALEPANT nd ee t MESSRS ite Al the TWENTIEWH VENINGS, ENTIELH AQ 1 AUCLION oe. ba . OE SOUTH Sibe, te Bits | sell at public auction lots 47 to 52 juclusive, frouting: ‘y HALE-PAST FO! Scam ee cB eucl a Torms vo be aa { advertisement uy The Evendig Star: purchaser. SOHN T. AkMS, to | G = PROVED | PROPERTY AND CUUNLY OF thereby to FEBRUARY, the county |e AUCTION SALES. ULAR SALE AND LFFECTS x CLaDA), FEBRUARY COMMENCIRG At TEN EMBKA‘ 1@ PARLOR SULiES, FIN ERED IN PLUSH «(SULD Tu Cov ARLES Large Mirrors, 2 Elesavt Cedar oe =e quet und Brusseis Carpeta, i. Bue condition, Wal- n Painted Chamber Furniture iv Sets and Sypatate Picces, Hair Mattronses, Dininae Room and ve Furniture, Cookitig aud Heatiig: Btover to- geluer with uauy other articles im the furuiture Black Dress Suit in perf: der, Barber's Chair, te. AT TWELV © (*CLOCK, Several Horses, Landaus, Lendauict: Coupes, Coupe- nts, Broughsina Carviages, uglen Waroim iar. hess, &c. t rpuowas DOWLING, Auctioneer, HORSE, PHAETON AND HARNESS, HORSE, DOG GANT AND HAKN SS SC RREY ESE COUPE- ROCKAWAY Ab AUCTION, OW (SATURDAY) FEBRUARY TWEN- 1. %.. in front of my Twili sell for a genticuan leaving the aLove stock, ‘eTtas cash. lt THOMAS DOWLING, Anet. DOLEY, Auctioneer. n THE ENTIRE STOCK OF DRY Gc NOWMONS, &e, CONTAINED IN 8) SEVENTH SIhEET NOQTHW, SOLD AT AUC FEBRUAKY FO! EVERY DAY POSED OF. ‘The stock consists nehes, Cashimeres, m parts follows: Silke, Veh D : ese is, Cloth am furs, Table Linens. Towels, Blankets, Comtorts, 8) is. heetines, ream, i Gloves, Corsets, Handker- Teeye Homtery will do well to attend thas sale, as the gouds must be sold without Teserve, in couscquence Of a change jn business, 118-1) FOLPY, Auctioneer, ORTGAGEE'S SALE OF VALUABLE PROP- EKTY AT FOREST GLEN STATION, ME«ko- POLITAN BLANCH BALTIMORE AND OHIO y SAtmvaD. veil ut public aucti SATURDAY. FEBRUARY AWELVE O'CLOC! it ated 200 yards from Station, improved by Fiane House of Srooms; i pair: closets, pan- aiding, “hs 38 TALBOTT, 119-3 Attorney fur Mortcaiee. y ALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioneers, OUK REGULAR SATURDAY OF HOUSE- HOLD LS FECTS OF EV! SAL ERY DESCKIPTION, NKEPS, COMPOKIs, HAND> EE MARBLE TOP CHAMBER PA Ides, THREE (BERRY PARLOK TES, ML * FOLDING BED, WALNUT FRAME PIEK MIRROR, CHINA AND GLASSWAKE. BY ORDER OF NESS: ALso HE ASSIGN! CHINA AND GLASS W ‘EE, TEN CHESTS OF ARE, EYC. ALso TWO SILVER - PLATED “HOW CASES, ITALIAN KS OF ART. ‘ORKS On SATURDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTY-SECOND, commencing at TEN O'CLOCK A.M, we shall sell within uur salesroom the above collection of turni- *. &e. partially enumercted. MS CASH. * WALTER B, WILLIAMS & CO., Aucta, ASHINGTON HOKSE AND CARRIAGE BAZAAR, PEREMPTORY SALI, OF A CAR LOAD OF HORSES AND MALLS, Will be soid at the Bazaar, \o.040 Louisiana aven: on SATURDAY MOKSING, VEBRUARY TWEN SECOND, at TEN G'ULs CK, without reserve, Twen! five Head of Hor-es aud Mares. This is a first-rate lot of driving and work Lorses and will positively be sold. f20-20° S. BENSINGEK, Auctionect FUTURE DAYS. TPHOMAS DOWLING, auctioneer, ELEGANT FURNITURE, OJL PAINTINGS AND BRIC-A-BRAC AT AUCTION, EMBLACING IN PART— ELEGANT PAKLOK FURNITURE IN BLUE SATIN, TURKISH EASY CHAIRS, ONE ELEGANT SOLID KOSEWOOD FOLDING TABLE (A RAKE ARTICL! VERY HANDSOME IMPORTED MARQUETRY TABLE, TWO ELEGANT GILT CHAIKS, SUPEKB OIL PAINTINGS, PUR- CHASED IN FLORENCE (MANY OF THEM OF BKONZES, BRIC-A-BKAC, ROSEWOOD CHAIR, UPHOL- STEKEDIN GOBELIN TAPESTRY; HANDSOME BRONZE STATUE FOR GAS, LACE WINDOW HANGINGS, VERY SUPERIOR HALL STAND, WITH LAKGE FKENCH PLATE MIKLOK AND BRONZE HOOKS; LIBRARY TABLES, ONE MAGNIFICENT SOLID ROSEWOOD CANOPY BEDSTEAD (COST #700), WALNUT M. T CHAMBEK FUKNITUKE, SUPERIOR WHITE HAIR MATTRE®: FINE FEATHER PIL- LOWS AND BOLSTERS, ION FRAME TURK- 18H CHAIR, MAHOGANY ANB OTHER CHAM- BER FUKNITUBE, FINE MOQUET AND BKUS- SELS CARPETS, TURKISH RUGS, KITCHEN KEQUISITES, ETC. On TLULSVAY MORNING, FEBRUARY TWENTY- FIFTH, 1890, at ELEVEN O'CLOCK, at residence 1602 Vermont avenue northwest, I shall sell a small and ‘choice coliection ot Household Furniture, the | Most of it huving beeu imported: by the owner. ‘The house will be opeu es wu On Inorhiug of sale. HOMAS DOW LNG, f20-dte ‘Auctioneer (PHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. IMPORTANT SALE OF NINETEEN BUL IN FQU. On MONDAY, THE THIXD DAY OF MARCH, 1890, at FOUR O'CLO: K P_M., on the premises I 8! 19 fret 6 inches each on the east side depth of 10v feet to an alicy, sive, trouting 19 feet 6 is of Pierce stroct by a depth ‘of Ist street by a ‘and lots 3. to 65 ineln- Ges euch on the south side of 125 feet to a wide alley. usted ‘This property is located in square 620 and bot by Land Mand Ist aud North Capitol streets north- west ‘Terms: One-fourth cash, the residue in three equal payments at one, two and three years, with votes bear- iy iuterest and secured by deeds of trust on the prop- erty sold, All conveyancing and recording at pur- chiuser's cost, A deposit of 8100 will be required Ob euch purchase at the tinue of sale, 120-dis IHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioner, EO, W. STICKNEY, Auctioneer, 936 F st. TKUSTEES' SALE OF ¥ EK1Y IN SQUAKE ¥ N TWO-STORY i UH, SITUA YC NINTH STREET, BETWEEN EAST. _By virtue of a certain deed of trast recorded in liber iv, 1385, folio 262 ct seq., one of the land records tor the District of Co:mnbia, and at the request of the party secured thereby, we wil ofter for wale in front | Of the preaises on THU HE TWENTY-SEV- £018 Dik OF FEBRUAKY, (800, AT HALF-PAST | FOUR O'CLOCK P.M, the toliowing desctibed proper- ty, situate in the city of ington, District of Co- MWinbis, to wit: Allof Lots 97, #&, Ui, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107,163, Too, 110, 110 aud 1 in Oliver Cox's recorded subdivision of lots B to F iu square S78. Terms: Property sold subject to a deed of trust to | secure $400 on each lot, with juterest at the rate of | six (6) per centum per siuum, payzble semi-auuualiy, one-half Gg) of the purchan’ in excess of uid of trust in'cash and the balavce in 6 mouths, interest at the rate of six per coutum per aunuu, se- of trust on 0 cured by & property sold, orail cash, at the option of purchaser depoat ob euch Jot will Mired at time of sale; all couveyancinyg aud recording at purchaser's cost. tetuss tobe cone, piled with in 15-duys or resale at risk and cost of de- SOME THE EVENING STAR is offered to the put lic, im good faith and with confidence, as THE BEsT LOCAL ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN THE UNITED STATES. In point of fact, it may be truthfally said that it is without an ‘aud | equal in this respect any where in the world. These averments are borne out by the figures given below, which are compiled from the sworn weekly statements printed in the paper on euch Monday in the year, and condensed from the sworn tabular statements showing the erage daily circulation of the paper during the yeur 1889, published in Tux Sram on the 18th of Januady, 1890, Briefly stuted, the pointe upon which the above claim is based are these: That— 1. The Star has three times the circn- tation vf any other paper in Washing- ten! 2 The Star's circulation in’Washing- ton is double thai of all the other daily Papers published in the city added to- | gether!! 3. fhe Mar has a larger and fuller circulation in the city where printed, im proportion to reading and purchas img population, than any other mews Paper im the world!!! 4, The Star has the largest regutar gud permanent home circulation of | any two-ceut afternoon paper in the United States !1!! In support of these claims and to show the constantly increasing circulation of the paper, Sttention is invited to the figures following: WALLY CIRCULATION IN 18S5-S6-87-88-89, ISSS. INSG ISS7, ISSA, LAND, Jan...20,486 23,388 25,470 Fes...22,029 24,321 26,209 MAX...25,349 25,594 26,009 | APK...23,572 24,727 25,575 | May..22,474 24,359 25,242 JUNE..21,933 23,902 25, | JULY..21,406 23,186 26,386 27.518 27,161 2a,200 $4,766 27,490 27,106 WII 27,453 AUG... 24,445 22,564 24.559 SEPT..21,033 22,302 24,905 Ocr,..21,497 21,701 24,807 Nov...22,049 23,651 25,697 1,053 DEC...23,000 24,657 26,466 31,653 Av'ge.22,123 23,082 25,484 27,082 30,090 Ancrease....... 1,559 1,803 1,595 3,008 Of this remarkable average aggregate of 30,090 copies circulated daily, no more than 1,102 copies are sent out of the city by mail, and 1,106 go to suburban places, by express, railway trains, etc., leaving as a net circulation am the city proper the PHENOMENAL PRO- PORTION of 92%; PER CENT, or AN AGGLE- GATE of 27,882 copies! Of this number, 21,142 were delivered daily by regular carriers at the homes of permanent sub- | seribers. ‘The remaining 6,740 copies represent the sales over the office counter, at the news stands, and by uewsboys. But of this latter number « very large pr_portion is supplied regularly to per- manent residents of the city living in lodgings, &c. (uot householders), 80 that its whole circula ton may be literally said to be in the family circle, While its aggregate circulation there fore gives Tux Sran a distinctive and enviable position in mo” rn journalism, the fullness of | its home circulation, the extent to which it is relied upon by members of the household, and particularly by the pur- chasing portion of the community, are the marked characteristics of the paper, to which no other daily journal now published cae furnish a parallel. ‘This is no idle boast on the part of the paper, It is a well established fact, demonstrated to the full satisfaction of the sagacious and enter- prising business men of Washington, who seck and know where to find THE LARGEST RETURNS FROM THE MONEY PAID OUT FOR ADVERTISING. This is proven by the growth of Tux Staz’s advertising patronage. Nothing can more surely illustrate the Jawtng purchaser afver five days’ advertusement in the Eveulug Star. 3 JOHN Tau 7} Trustees. f1l4-eod&ds . G. W. STICKNEY, Auctioneer, ¥36 F st. AKUSTEES' SALE OF VERY VALUABLE PROP- ON “THE SOUTHWEST CUKNER OF SiXTH AND ¥ STREETS NORTHEAST, IM- PE OVED BY TWELVE THRELSTOMY BRICK = preiises ou WED the city of W: Ail of end 31 of Carusi : AD. 1 ‘the fo! EO. W. STICKNEY, Auctioneer, 936 F at. VALUABLE NPRING STREET TS Tae TAUSTEE'S SALE OF VEK! KOVED UNsY OF W. INGTON, D.C. ASHING TU! & FALL B.D. BARR, ‘A111 Peuns sve, esteem im which «ny article is held by the public than a constantly increasing demand for it—day by day, week by week, month by month, and year by year,—in the face of ad- verse claims and pretentious competition, The figures following tell the story on this point: NUMBEK OF KEW ADVERIISEMANTS ©RINTED bt 2885-$0-87-88-8D, Iss6. LSS7. 3,615 a7 4,669 5,475 55399 4,522 BBS 3,170 4,517 5,313 5.038 3,093 ns 4,076 3,024 4,603 4,956 S78 4,606 3,015 1ss9. 4,556 4,529 3,694 See 6033 3.520 4,453 4.604 S589 6,589 6,107 5,795 TOTAL 41,499 45,910 54,038 54,801 65,523 But it is not alone in numbers that the great increase of advertising is shown. The larger space required for advertisemeuts during the year 1889 as compared with that occupicd in 1888 is even more striking. ‘The average daily space filled by advertinc- ments in 1888 was 25.10 columus, or 7779 columns for the year; whereas for the year 1839 the daily average was 29.75 columns, or 9223 columns in ‘the aggregate, being a total gain over the pre vious yearof 1444 columns! And this, it must be remembered, consisted exclusively of the ordinary everyday business advertising, nothing in the way of tax sales, poll lists, election returns, ete., such as occasionally swell the business of political organs, being included in its patrun- age. ‘In conclusion, it is only necessary to say that, im proportion to the extent and high character Of ite circulation, Tux Sras's advertising rates take rank with the very lowest in the country, and to add, finally, that every statement hercia made can be abundantly verified THE Cil- CULATION OF THE PAPER 15 SWORN TO; ITS PRESS AND CIRCULATION BOOMS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, AND ITS BOOKS MAY BE INSPECTED BY ANY ONE HAVIN@ 40) INTEREST Di THEE EXAMINATION