Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1890, Page 7

al Waldstein the exclusive right to make excava- tions at De! the very seat of Greek learn- ing and art y thausand statues are said to have stood upon this site. It is Mrs. She Gadtkeouion "Tntteeee ws govermment, ational the a ——s museum or privat viduale sufficiently to farnish Dr. Waldstein with the emall —s of funds necessary to enable him to begin the keep out the other governments concession The DISTINGUISHED WOMEN Mrs. Bakhmeteff and Her Brilliant Career Abroad. Mrs. CULLOM AND Mrs. HEARST work and 3 national collections many original specimens of the golden age of Greece from the shadow of the Acropolis and the right to furnish casts tothe museums of the world. Madame Bakhmeteff will personally urge this subject upon the attention of the proper officials, The Athenian residence of the baron and baroness is immi itely under the hill upon which the Acropolis stands, The modern city of Athens contains 120.000 inhabitants and is a de! place of residence, Bakimeteff was among the ladies corps diplomatique who were present at the nuptial ceremontes at Athens of Crowu L'rince Constantine and the beautifal Sophie of Prassia, The occasion, which took place on October 27, 1889, was an event which ‘brought to: grander show of royalty than bas been concentrated at the same time and place for many years, Mrs, Bakhmeteff says it was the most gorgeous spectacle she ever witnessed. There were present thirty royal persona, including two emperors, two king: and five crown princes and their splondia suites, THE MENU OF THE ROYAL BANQUET was held in a case of silver-edged euamel card board bearing on the front cover the colors of Greece and in the center, embossed in gold and colors, the combined escutcheons of the royal houses represented in the marriage alliance. The back cover formed a panel, inlaid with white satin, diagonally across which extended a strip of enamel board, upon which was in- scribed the name of the invited guest. ‘The menu card proper adjusted inside like the leaves of a book and was held bya satin ribbon tied in a bow at the back. As a remembrance of court gayeties at St. Petersburg Mrs, Dakhmetefi has an inter- esting collection of social souvenirs, among them the menu of a banquet to the ezarina, where 3.000 noblemen and mil naval and civil officers in full uniforms and ladies in grand toilets satdown and ate off plates of gold. The tables were set in unequaled splendor and the service was in keeping in every respect with the magnificence of the oc- casion, Baron and Baroness Bakhmeteff expect to remain in Washington for at least six months, During that time they will receive many hospi- talities. Mrs, Harrison h: tertained them informally at dinner at the executive mansion. ‘They will also be the guests of Mrs, Grant in New York and will receive other courtesies daring their sojourn in the United States, ‘MES. JOHN R. M'LEAN, the sister of Mrs, Bakhmeteff—Mrs, Emily Truxton Beale McLean—also a great belle in Washington in her maiden days, is a leader in society as the wife of John RB. The Gaycties of the Ruwsinn Court— Residence at the Greek Capital—A Sketch of Gen. Beale and His Family— Secial Hospitatities at Washington, a Written for Tue Evexixo Stan. HE quaint old-fashioned structure hich stands opposite the northwest- ern angle of Lafayette square was erected by Decatur, the hero of the Algerine war, and was the scene of his death after his fatal duel with Barron. Many of the most brilliant scenes in seventy Years of social life at the capital have been en- acted within its walls, and just now it is the center of attraction to the distinguished per- sonages who take part a3 leading characters in the gayeties of the present season, The par- ticular occasion forthe present brilliant hos- Pitalities of this interesting hous@hold is the Presence of Mrs. Mary Beale Bukhmeteff, the younger daughter of Gen. Edward F. Beale and the wife of Baron George Bakhmeteff. formerly an officer in the Russian regiment of Chevaliers Gardes and now a distinguished member of the diplomatic service of the ezar. MRS. BAKHMETEFP. Both parents of Madame Bakhmeteff are his- torically descended. Her father. born in Wash- ington on the family estate one mile north of the Capitol, is the grandson of Commodore Thomas Truxton of the frigate Constellation. captor of the French frigates Insurgente, 1709. and L’Avengance, 1800, through his beautiful daughter Emily, who was the wife of Paymas- ter Beale. Gen. Beale graduated at Annapolis in 1842. In the conquest of California he was particularly distinguished for the daring ex- ploit of leaving Gen. Kearnoy’s beleagured camp and bringing succor from San Diego. for which his brother officers presented him with a sword and Commodore Stockton sent him, in 1847, to Washington as bearer of dispatches an- nouncing the surrender of California. He was in charge of Indian affairs on the frontiers, ran “ake, i “THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY. NO MONEY, NO WORK. A Dangerous Check to Washington’s Great Improvement. THE LONG BRIDGE NUISANCE. Reclaiming the Potomac Fiats—What Has Heen Done and What Remains— The Tidal Reservoir — What Good Money Would Do. HE work on the Potomac fists is now at a standstill and the prospect of its advancement in the near future is not exactly encouraging. Col. Hains, the engineer in charge, has simply run out of funds, and he is therefore compelled to re- main idle, as far as the flats are concerned, un- til Congress, in its generosity, appropriates Some more to start again with. This great work, which has done as much as, if not more than, any other public improvement toward beautifying Washington, is now about two- thirds completed, as far as the filling up of the flats and the formation of the great park that it is intended shall occupy the space which was once nothing but a reeking morass are con- cerned. But there are other portions of the work that are quite finished, and it may be said that the work, taken as a whole, is now fully four-fifths done, The channel has been dredged for nearly the entire width and depth as at first planned, although a part of it has since filled owing to the flood of last June, The tidal res- ervoir, which is one of the main feat- ures of the work, is within a small degree of completion, as a glance at the accompanying sketch will show. The portion left white indicates that part which is not yet flate, which are in i to it, He points to the freshet of 1831, which rose — the streets — — merchants ot lower part The bi is so low that in the event of any sort of a of ice there is almost certain to bea The piers are weak and would not require much of a pressure: them to them sway. This would itself be bot! a disaster anda calamity to the people who have to use this bridge in getting to and from their homes in Virginia and a piece of good fortune for th ie of Washington in removing one of greatest obstacles to the free flow of the urrent. There is now on foot a weil-kno roject to build a fine memorial bridge, icated to Gen. Grant. Plans of this structure with ite high towers and its elaborate architecture are familar to the folks of Washington. Such a bridge as this would afford ample traffic-way between the city and Virginia being an orna- ment to this region and a direct aid to the navigation of the river—what there is of it, THE ENDS TO BE OBTAINED. What has actually been aimed at in the work on the flats is well shown by the following ex- tract from Col. Hains’ annual report, He says: “The project provides for such depth of chan- nels as will accommodate the largest class of vessels that can reach Arsenal point, with such additional depth at the wharves as will enable vessels to receive full cargoes without ground- ing at low water; for filling the flats above tong bridge to a height of three feet above the flood slope of 1877 and that part of the flats be- low long bridge to the same height along the middle line, but sloping on each side of it to six fect above mean low tide at the margin, that in order to purify the water of the Washington channel, which will be cut off at the upper end from the Virginia chan- nel, a tidal reservoir or basin be established between the sewer canal and long bridge, this reservoir to be filled by water from the Virginia channel on the flood tide and discharged into the Washington channel on the ebb. dan also contemplated the removal of long bridge or its rebuilding with longer spans during the progress of the work, and the interception of all sewage now discharged into the Washing- ton channel and its conveyance to the James creek, but neither the reconstruction of the bridge nor the building of the intercepting BON JOUR, PHILIPPINE. A Visit to the Land of Tobacco, Rope and Earthquakes. —-—_ ‘The Goal of Galicons in Olden Times— ‘The Divided Town—A Cock-Fighting People—Interesting Heminiscences— Among the Natives, —.>__ From Tax Stan's Traveling Commissioner. Manta, January 10, HE passage from Hong Kong to the Philippine Islands is usually ac- counted the worst in the China seas. It is a sort of sailing sidewise through cross-currents and into the favorite haunt and very hatching place of the dreadful typhoon. Moreover, Manila is not the easiest place in the world to find Its position i» wrong on the charts, so my skipper assured me, and they would not find it unless they knew better themselves. It is, too, one of the most earthquaky places in the world, When a British scientific and surveying expedition came some years ago to the Philippines and wished, among other things, to determine the Precise latitude and longitude once for all, although they waited for a couple of weeks the islands were never steady enough to afford @ satisfactory base for the instru- ments, The earthquake season was on, and they were wobbling about the whole time! For myself, however, Manila will always be re- membered as the place where for the first time I had my pockets publicly and officially Searched. As soon as we anchored a guard of soldiers came on board and assisted the custom house officials in minutely examining every- thing in one's baggage. When this was over I was stopped at the head of the gangway by the lieutenant in command and courteously in- formed that before I could land he must be permitted to see what I bad in my pockets. When it came to my pocket-book he turned it over, separating every piece of paper init. A bystander informed me that all this was to Prevent the introduction of Mexican dollars, on which there is a high premium, and » pamphlet attacking the priests, recently pub- lished in Hong Kong. I tried to rile this offi- cer by assuring him that I had copies of the forbidden pamphlet in my boots, but, like the prig, he only “answered with a silent smile,’ MANILA’S GOLDEN DAY, MARCH 1, 1890-TWELVE PAGES. and that most of the trade is in the of the foreign houses. Bina ths of absence, if fever them, with a few baskets oa ana col ning expert, thro last into the gail tobaceo la Sobaiden juantities, London takes as- 2 hile the dark brands are sent to Spain, the light ones to New York, and the strai, be ee pye India, — factory e million and a cigars are shi; every month to London. et IMMENSE BUSINESS. ‘The figures of tobacco making = At“La Flor de la Isabella,” and this is one of a score of factories in Manila, 4.000 People sre employed, their hours of ‘labor ing eight, from 7 to 12 and from 2 to5 o'clock, And from the hi *Impertles” to the uetas” and “the twisted “Cule- bras,” 4,000, in Manila style and 1,500,000 in Cuban style are made monthly. But cizaretie making caps the climax, The tobacco leaves are cutinto “hebra” or thread, which we call “long cut,” and the whole process of making is done by one machine. I saw nine of these hard at work andeach turns out 12,000in a day. It is a simple sum: 9X12,000X30X12, say 38,000,000 cigarettes a year from one factory, What a heritage of palpitation and dyspepsia! COCK FIGHTING. T have not left myself much room to speak of the cock fighting t the great cock pit of Manila at 4 sta del Pueblo” was one of the most remarkable spectacles I have ever seen. Imagine a huge circus with an arena raised to the height of the faces of those stand- ing, bebind them tier upon tier gradually are astound- neton shevilie Cbarlott Colt Mouttomrj. Sew Ueleame, Truss Liruan Vewts| pale Car Washington to Sleeper Washincton to Rirminghane Ais, ie hikeene aud. Groves Pecitc ‘railway ‘snd Pulliane, Sieeeae Washington to —_, and = Springs, SC. vie wston to Auguste vie Danville and Charlotte _ — 72 a See Chariotiny, Dan. Tennesse Sristal ‘sua at 2.30 pm and 9-50 pun. Jhio route apd Charlottesville at © -mD, and am. Strasburg me " 1) a.m. daily to Columbus and jeeping are from Pittsburg to Co- ars Harrabare to Rich- on aie, with Rik Humble and Sicepine %. eepii Car Altoo: and Cincinnaty caro Darlor Car Washinwton to re fiarrisbure to Bt At, aud Dining Western, Bxprese at. rs Wana, Sonnectins ¢ pers to: Chis AND POTOMAC RATLROAI Kane, Causudaicua, Rochester and Bese patle A, ot Sunday, 8:10am, cua aud Kochester daily; rising; above the arena, which is inclosed with fine Wire netting. the red-draped box of the farmer, the leading Chinaman of Manila, named Palanca, and a packed audience of four thou- sund people. Squatting on the earthern fioor of the rig, inside the wire netting, are the habitues, half Chinese and half Mestizos, while the officials walk about—the “‘juez de justicia,” or referee; the “‘sentenciador.” or umpire; the 3810. 5:20, 4 10, 10-09 : Leite Express of Pullen Parlor Cara, a is, excopt Sunday, r daily with Dining Care ner ee PHTA ONLY. FOK PHILAD Fast Express §:10 a.ui, week dayeand 8:10 p.m daily, Foes O05 ‘or Boston with For brooklys. Jermey any ‘direct “casador,” go-between or betting master, aud several others, ‘4 two men enter the ring, each carrying a bird whose spur is shielded for the moment in a leather scabbard. One wears his hat—he is the owner of the chailenging dredged to the desired depth. The most diffi- cult part of the whole work, in fact one of the most difficult pieces of engineering ever at- tempted, is to be found in the reservoir outlet In the most conspicuous spot in Manila stands a statue to Magellan, who discovered the Philippine Islands in his famous first circum- navigation of the globe. The came Manila’s sewer were included in the the improvement,” A SLICE FROM ANALOSTAN ISLAND, Col. Hains’ has in mind another plan McLean, proprietor of the Cincinnati Inquirer, who lives in princely style at the American capitol. Truxton Beale, her brother. has charge of his father’s vast estate of 300,000 acres in California between San Francisco and timated cost of 20 p.m. every day. N.Y. all through trains connect a with “boats of Brooklyn Aube, afford transfer to Fulton street, svoidiug Los Angeles and upon which 30,000 cattle are herded. MRS. CULLOM. Senator Shelby M. Cullom, a Kentucky-born Illinoisan, since the year after his birth has been a conspicuous figure in whig and republi- can politics and stute and national legislation since 1856. He appeared in the national House of Representatives in 1865. He brought with bim his young wife, whose social gifts had ho Eee & the S5th parallel from the Mississippi to the Pacific ocean foranational highway, and at the request of the President experimented with camels as a means of transcontinental transportation before the days of railways in those distant regions. Mrs. Bakhmeteff was born in Chester, Pa., and had the educational benefits of the best schools in the United States and Europe. She met the Russian who afterward be- came her husband at Washington while he was secretary of legation. They were married, however, at Vienna while the father of the bride was minister at thecourt of Franz Joseph, in 1876-7. been greatly admired at the capital of the prairie state, Mr. Cullom hac been 2 Fillmore elector in 1856. when he was but twenty-seven years of, age, weaker of the Dlinois house of gepresentatives in 1861. Therefore, when he married Julia Fisher, the belle of i ain 1863 he was well established in legal pursuits and political prominen Mrs. m was born in the post hamlet of Quincy, negr Chambersburg, in Franklin county, Pa., and was educated in the best schools of Illinois, It was at Springfield that she met Mr. Cullom and in 1863 they were married, From 1865 until 1871 Representative and Mrs, Cullom were active participants in the official life of the capital, ‘y at the executive mansion during that brilliant period of the administration of Presi- dent Grant and the social regime of his dis- tinguished wif The daughters of Senator and Mrs. Cullom, who were so much admired in the social life of the maidens of the Senate, are now enjoy- ing the pleasures of their own homes. elder, Ella, is now Mrs. W. B. Ridgely of Springfield, Lil, and the younger, Catherine, is Mrs. Robert Gordon Hadley of New York. MRS. HEARST. The most artistic entertainer at the national capital is the wife of the democratic Senator from California, During the Cleveland admin- istration her drawing rooms were unrivaled, The most superb fancy dress cotillon ever en- joyed by the highest society at Washington was danced at the colonial ball given by Mrs. BARON GEORGE BAKHMETEFF was not only a brilliant soldier among the young officers of the army of the czar but isa man of remarkable intellectual attainments as wellasa shrewd diplomat. At the recep- tion at the Beale mansion in honor of the re- turn of Baron and Baroness Bakhmeteff the diplomatic corps were out in full force. The baron spoke to every member of the corps who called in his native tongue—English to Sir Julian Pauncefote, German to Count Arco Valley, French to M. Roustan, Italian to Baron Fava, Spanish to the representatives of that mission and the Spanish-speaking repfblies and even Chinese to Envoy Tsui Kwo Yin, envoy of the celestial monarch, and Japancee to Charge Saito of the imperial archi- pelago im the far east, interspersing this conversational babel of tongues with an earnest use of the richest vocalization of Mus- covite with the affable de Struve, Resen and Greger of the czar's legation. He 1s also a mas- ter of ancient and modern Greek, Mrs, Bakhmeteff isa fine type of the strength of character and good sense of the American girl and her influence is shown by her popularity at the brilliant court of St. Petersburg, her winter home, and at the court circles at Athens, where her husband is on diplomatic duty dur- ing the summer. For her deeds of womanly kindnes and charity she wears the Russian medal of the Turkish war, having cared for the wounded at Yassy in Roumat the badge of the Red Cross, besides Servian and Roumanian Hearst during the lust season of the late der oeratic regime, The lady of the house wore arich colonial robe of cream white satin fes- tooned with pink Christmas roses, the green orders and the Russian order of Palestine. QUEEN OLGA. The toilets of the beautiful Queen Olga and Mra. Bakhmeteff represent the Russian offi- cial court dress and were worn by the queen and court ladies at the marriage of the crown prince last October. The kakoshnik or ancient Russian head dress is wrought in diamonds and pearls, ‘The train of the dress is orange, embroidered in gold. The front is white satin, also em- im gold. sleeves are of the in the skirt and canzht bows of satin ribbons, ‘The oyerdress was-salmon pink brocade. The long cuffs were buttoned with diimonds, Rows of jewels adorned her negk and a pow- dered coiffure completed one of the most elab- orate toilets of the colonial days. Her father, R. W. Apperson, vorn in Virginia, went to Missouri when a boy. Her mother, Miss Whitmire, of « South Carolina family, was born and married in Missouri. Phebe Elizabeth Ap- person, the daughter of this union, was born in Franklin county, about 40 miles southwest of St. | Lonis. ‘There were no facilities for an educa- Greek and Russian pattern, attached at the | tion in that portion of Missouri in those days shoulders and pendant, partly enveloping the | except those afforded by the public schools. arm from the back and terminating iu a point | Therefore most of the education Miss Apper- with a gold tassel. | son received was from herself as her own in- Mrs. Lakhmeteff very pleasantly of the | structor. royal family of the land of Homer. The king| In 1862 Miss Apperson became the bride of of the Hellenes, George the First, who has oc- | George Hearst, then one of the largest gdld eupied the throne since 1563, she says has been miners in the New Eldorado of the far west, &® conservative and sagacious ruler. ‘She queen, | ‘They were married in Missouri and imme- Olga Constantinovna, grand duchess of Russia, | diately made their home in California, who was born in 1851 and married atSt. Peters- | In 1850 George Hearst, then in the prime of b im high state im 1867, is a woman of gre: life at thirty vears of age. went to California rness and has endeared herself to the | and started life in the gold diggings, In 1860 he Greeks by her interest in their behalf, in their | emplo: home life and their national development. | mines ed over two thousand men in his coast } nd mills. His son, William Randolph The Prince Royal Constantine, duke of Sparta, | Hearst, is sole proprietor of the San Francisco born at Athens in 1863, and his wife, Sophie, | Examiner, presented to bim in 1886 upon his princess of Prussia, daughter of the inte Em-| collegiate graduation, peror Frederiek, take a dee Mrs. Hearst formally entered the senatorial archwology of the historic circle in 1887 and since that time has figured Prospective promiuentiy in the fashionable hospitalities of ARCHROLOGICAL sTUpies, I Seasous asa leader. The residence Mrs. Bakhmeteff is deeply interested in the leaves boing a) with long ends an interest in the ties of their being enlarged and refitted will soon be opened with the grandest house: bf researches of Dr. Charles | tho social chronicles of the wrpinn archwological | Waldstein, an American-born citizen. professor | DeB.R.K. of are! at Cambridge, England, and di- rector of Se aes ceanoner of Lech studies at Athens, He four mou! im latter work, The} te give Dr. As Soon 48 You Discover anv falling of the hair or grayness always use Hall's Hair ton up the secretions and prevent baldness the year at Athens in Greek government is willing and gate, which work is now about done. Col. Hains considers this the gem of the whole plan and he feels justly proud of its very suc- cessful completion, It was necessaty at this ) point, which may be located by referring to the map at the upper end of the long bridge, where the shading of the fiats starts next to the shore, to put in a heavy masonry gate, which should serve asa retaining wall during some periods of the tide and as a flume at! others. Under the best of circumstances this would bea difiicult work, for the pressure of the water will be enormous and there is urgent necessity for extra strong masonry. But the engincers found that at this point—in fact, at any point in the vicinity of the flats—it was impossible to reach any sort of a hard bottom for « foundation, and so it was decided to drive piling, to the depth of fully 75 feet, whereon to rest the enormous load of stone and timbers, ‘This has been done in a way that has brought forth the praises as well as the wonder of the whole engineering fraternity, THE RECLAIMED FLATS, The flats proper are all marked out on the Potomac just as they will be when they are covered with waving trees and interlaced with winding paths. They are not ye in to their full height, however, for theré “Still re- mains about a third of the material to be put on them that was calculated would be S| quired. This is, as Col. Hains’ monthly reports 1 for the lasttwo or three months have been | stating, the situation: “Of the 12,000,000 cubic | yards of material requisite to fill the flats to the necessary height above tide water about 8,000,000 cubic yards have been deposited on them.” The map shows the coniition of the work last July and there is practically no change as far as the bird's-eye view of it goes. | Since that time all possible energy has been put upon the works at the reservoir outict, while there has been but little dredging going on, The large hydraulic dredges—tiose great suc- tion pumps that used to draw the mud out of the bottom of the river and blow it over upon the surface of the flats—have been all taken away or will be ina few days. There are one or two small “clam-shell” dredges at work in the Virginia channél, which will probably find work enouch to do uatilthere is another » propriation, if there ever is one, There is now at Col. Hains’ credit in the Treasury about $5,000, which he can eusily use in the ‘work of keeping up the embankments around the flats in order to prevent washing. If there is not another appropriation of a generous sum the government will be the loser of a good deal of money through the deterioration of the work incident to the influence of the treacherous element with which it is surrounded, THE FINANCIAL SITUATION, Col. Hains’ last annual report contains the followiug money statement relative to the work on the flats: July 1, 1883, amount available, $23,124.70; amount appropriated by act of August 11, 1838, £300,000; total, $323,124.70; July 1, 1889, amount expended during fiscal ve of liabilities outstanding July 1, 18388, $174,298.70; July 1, 1839, outstanding liabilities, $17,188.87; July 1, 1389, amount covered by existing contracts, $1,743.39; July 1.1839, bal- ance available, $52,303.74; amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project, #1.141,365; amount that can be profitabiy ex- pended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, | $600,090, He says in that table that he can profitably expend the sum of $600,000 the coming year, | but he does not expect that he is going to have thet sum tospend. He says that if he had all the money that he could use, without stint, he would have the work actually completed inside of two years, and save a margin on the appro- priations, That is to say, if he was not de- pendent upon the doling-out pian of the source of the money supply he could save at least a year of time and several thousand, if not sev-| .| eral hundred thousand dollars, | THE RETAINING WALL. | Besides the actual filling of the flats up to their required height there is still to be built & revetment wall around the whole to keep it from washing away in the spring. This wail is desizned to be built of tolerably smooth masonry, rising from the water at an angle of 45 degrees and falling back to the level ef the surface of the flats, which are to be 6 feet above low tide and abont 12 fect above the bottom of the river at its edge at this point, The wall will rest upon ahalf-round bed of masonry placed on the river bottom at the boundary line of the fill of *: the flat, and by this arrangement there will be as strong # resistance us possible to the force of tho currents besides giving @ finish to the | whole work. ‘The white parts in the map in the Washing- ton channel, forming two long strips rather | near to the’ flats, represent that hig of the river bed that has not been dredged to its full depth, The water here at low tide is only about two feet deep and this is one of the parts of the work for which Col, Hains needs the $600,000 for the coming year. The Virginia ebannel is in a rather bad shape owing to the freshet, and for this an extra amount of money will be needed which should not be counted up against the flata in the final cost, TN CASE OF PRESHET. ‘The question of whether or not the presence of the flats in their present condition Is in any Way amenace to the city im the event of another freshet is a mooted one, and one that Col, Hains’ opinion, of course, that the re- claimed flats have done a gest deal toward | keeping off the water from ny Borg onthe = gy ly Sere men ‘ nt Heedra e or | and architecture a cont threat to not the safety of the city itself but also to the whereby the river may be made safer, as far ae the city goes, It is to be noticed “in glancing at any map of the river (that given above is cut off too soon to show it) that the current of the stream takes a rather sudden sharp turn to the rightin sweeping down from its pent-up gorge of the upper river. It is here that there is the narrowest channel, the strongest current and the deepest water, fortunately, of any part of the Potomac in front of Washington or Georgetown, This current comes bounding around Analostan Island, striking the wharves, and goes spinning away at « merry pace until it reaches the sluggish water in front of the Vir- ginia flats opposite the upper end of the Wash- ington filling and at the southern end of Ana- lostan Island. In case of a freshet the water must 7 necessarily bank upat this point, having no free sweep around the point of land that juts out from the island toward the Washington shore and, curving to the southwest, forms an effective channel wall at the narrowest point in the river, ‘The bottom along this stretch is rock, scoured out by the sweep of the current, ranging from fifteen to thirty-five feet in depth. The line of the water's course is such tha: the wharves built on the cast bank of ,the river must neces- sarily receive the brunt of the sweep and are among the first that become submerged during afreshet. Col. Hains believes that this tongue of land is a serious obstruction to the free flow of the river, and that if it could be removed there would be much less danger to the prop- erty along the the river front in this vicinity. He has made an examunation of it and finds that it is composed of solid rock, and to remove it would be a large undertaking, costing a con- siderable sum of money. He does not care to give any sort of un estimate of the cost of suck @ project, but be firmly believes that it would bea profitable expenditure, AN ESCAPE CHANNEL. In addition to this means of relieving the river above long bridge there is always present the possibility of an additional measure to the same end—that the dredging of the half-sub- merged meadow lands that lie between the isiand and the Virginia shore. which were formerly nothing but a narrow causeway covered by the high tides. This land has gradually filled until itis a reasonably solid marsh, but it is all soft and could be cut through at a comparatively low cost. In this way there would be a chai nel for the escape of flood water in such a di- rection that it would have no bearing on the | city wharves until it had run down toa point sufiiciently far below the narrows to afford plenty of room for outlet, provided that there | 1s no such obstacle in the way as the present long bridge. —____ Over a Towel. From the Detroit Froe Press, The soul and body of the dry goods clerk waxeth weary when he sees three women headed for his counter. One is bad enough; two are worse, but three women in counsel over the merits of a bath towel are enough to make a poor worn-out clerk wish he might de- part from earth by the electricity method. “It seems like quite» good one for the money. don’t it?” says the intending purchaser, “Well, I don’t know,” says the other, hold- ing the towel up at full length and eyeing it critically. | “I got one quite as good for 37340. at Whites.” “You did?” “Yes, but it was eight or nine weeks ago, and I don’t s’pose they've any more like it.” “I may be mistaken, but I've no idea it would shrink,” says number three, taking the towel from number two and wrapping a cor- ner of it over her finger. thin.” “Well, I wouldn't mind if it did shrink a lit- tle, because—oh, look at this one! Isn't it lovely!” “Beantiful! How much is it?” “A dollar and a half,” “Mercy! I'd never pay that for a bath towel.” “Nor I.” “Those colors would fade,” “Of course they would.” “Do you know I like good plain crash as well as anything for towels,” “i don’t know, but—see these towels for er I paid 25c, for some last week not a bit tter." | “Let's see; are they full length? Yes. fasag | are or I've a notion to—but I guess won't. have so many towels now.” « hey're @ bargain if one really needed | “How do you like towels used as tidies?” | “Horrid!” | “I think go, too.” | _ “so do I—oh, let me tell you, I saw a woman | on the street one day with an apron made out of a red and white fringed towel!” “Mercy! Looked like fury didn’t it? How was it made?” “Oh. one end was simply gathered to a band | and—there, the towel was just like this one— and she'd taken it so and gathered it in so, and—really, it didn't look so bad, after all.” er || “Well, [hardly&now. I had one very much dreadfully ties in | will probably always remain unsettled. It is like it once and the colors in it | Memes, Ta ores copie e a fan's not it it | “cl bo'd ever ave thought @: ever ve “I must go.” | 680 m L” | «Aud I—no, PU not take the towel today. : “See, it's ‘a little | golden days, It was the goal of the galleon— imagination-striving name—that made its ro- mantic voyages from Spain, deep loaded with treasure. The galleons are gone, the wars of which they were the constant prey are as for- gotten as the men who fought them, and “the most fortunately situated city in the world,” as La Perouse called it, is far off in ite lonely ocean, days distant from any of the great routes of commerce, unheeded by the world in which it was once so renowned, unvisited even by the ubiquitous globe trotter. Yet there is some- thing in the aspect of Manila suggestive of ro- mance—something more picturesque than other places show. ‘The first thing I saw was anative drifting down the river fast asleep on a heap of cocoanuts, Then the streets are dazzling with their “flowers of fire’—large trees ablaze with scarlet blossoms. THE NATIVES. The olive-skinned mestizas, half-caste de- scendants of emigrated Spaniard and native Indian, step daintily along on bare feet encased in chinelas, embroidered heelless slippers, with gay fluttering garments of jusi, a woven mix- ture of silk and pine fiber, their loose, jet- black hair reaching sometimes almost to the ground—one woman was pointed out to me whose hair was said to be 80 inches long—and their deep, dark eyes passing over you in lan- guid surprise, The native men are » com- munity which has forgotten to tuck its shirt into its trousers, Their costume consists of a pair of white trousers and @n elaborately pleated and starched shirt, with the tails left flying about, Every one is smoking a cheroot and every other one has a game cock under his arm, a constant companion and chief treasure, and sometimes chief source of income too,until the deadly spur on the heel of a stronger or pluckicr rival turns all its pride and brilliance into a shepeless heap of blood and feathers in the dust, while a thousand voices execrate its memory, THE TWO PARTS OF THE CITY. The city of Manila consists of two parts—the Spanish walled city, called the parish of Intra Muros, and the general settlement outside, The former is crowded with Spanish houses; the streets are so narrow that in many of them two carriages could not puss each other; their overhanging upper eteries make a perpetual twilight; the inuabitants go out little and the whole places leaves upon you an impression of darkness, of silence, of semi-stagnation, Qut- side the wallsare the wharves, all the ware houses and business offices, the hotels, many large residences of the wealthy half-caste popu- lation, and as the gradually merges in the country the charming river-side bungalows of the foreign residents, the club, the race course, and 80 on, till you reach the squalid but pie- turesque outlying native villages. Inside the city you cannot take a hundred steps without coming upon striking evidence of the carth- quakes, Here isa church half broken down by the convulsions of such a year; there are the grass- grown ruins of the government palace destroyed by another historic outburst; 1 think it was in the great cathedral itself that they showed me the lofty roof of the transept split and cracked in an alarming fashion, On the shore of the bay there is an extensive and well laid out boulevard or embankment called the Luneta, where all fashionable Manila walks or drives in the evening to the music of tle military band, Behind this are the forts, moss-covered antiquities of masonry, armed with rusty and harmiess pieces which might have come from the gun deck of some old galieon, MILITARY DISCIPLINE, The military authorities, however, make up in strictness of regulation what they lack in effectiveness of armament, for the foreign ten- nis club was refused permission to play upon a piece of lund within hypothetical range of these guns on the ground that it was “within the military zone,” and I myself was told, though with great courtesy, by H. E., the cap- tain general, that he must refuse me permis- sion to take any photograph in which a part of the fortifications appeared, It was, of course, only for their ancient picturesqueness that I wished to photograph them—a mop vig- orously twirled would be about as effective for defense. In one fort at another place there are two decent modern guns, nearly surrounded by brittle masonry, and of these I purchased & large and excellent photograph taken from in- side and showing every detail, Manila, how- ever, if the information is of interest to any- body, could be reduced with ease by a compe of gun boats, CONSIDERED AS A COMMUNITY, Manila is an interesting example of the social product of the Roman Catholic church when unrestrained by any outside influence. Here the church has free sway, uninterrupted by alien faith, undeterred by secular criticism, Allis in the hands o? the priests. The great mon- asteries,with their high d windows,shelter the power, the wealth, the knowledge of the communtiy, The jinicans, with their archbishop, the Augustinians, the Kecoletanoe and the Franciscans divide the people among them, their influcnce being in the order I have stated them, Wise in the knowledge of that which they have created, their own wealth are plunged in superstition and their princi Ri pfessed interest in life is the elaborate = igious procession for which every feast day offers a pretext, The two ner z bird, called “llamado”— other, hatless, 1s the outsider, or “dejado.” who takes up the challenge. n official calls out the sum for which the *liamado’s” owner backs it and how much is still lacking to make up the sum. A SHOWER OF DOLLARS, ‘Then comes the most extraordinary scene of all, The moment the words are out of his mouth it rains dollars in the ring. From those inside, from those who are within throwing distance we peerage from everywhere, dollars pour in, without method, without ownership, without a bargain, so far as one can judge amid the deafening clamor. When the sums on the birds are equal the betting master shouts *Casada!” “matched,” literally “mar- ried,” the farmer from his box on high yelis “Larga!”—“‘ioose them,” and the fight begins. Sometimes it lasts ten minutes, sometimes only a second, the first shock leaving one bird a mangled corpse. No use to describe tt—ev: one knows how a game cock fights and that it is the very gamest and pluckiest thing that lives, The fight over the betting master goes around handing money back reck- lessly, so it seems, to anybody who holds out a hand. I asked Senor Palanca how bet- timg could possibly be carried on like this, fie replied that each one asks for or takes the that belongs to him. But if any- body should put out his hand for another’ money? He gave me to understand that it ‘was never done and that if anybody were de- tected doing #0 he would probably have a dozen knives in his body on the spot, In the course of the afternoon I witnessed 105 cock fights. The authorities make a large reve- nue from the cock pit. For this and one other Senor Palanca pays $68,600 a year, and there are five other farmers. As [ said, it is the chief interest of the people and their frantic excite- ment tells how deep the interest is, TWO OTHER REMINISCESCES may conclude my sketch of Manila. One is that a hundred people were dying every day of cholera while I was there and several times my guide pushed me hastily back agaiast the wail as we threaded our way along the narrow streets and stuffed his cataphorated handker- chief in his mouth, muttering “Colerico!” as a couple of men passed bearing on their shoul- ders & long object wrapped in a shect and slung between two poles—the latest case going to the hospital, One of the Chinese firemen died of cholera on board the steamer three bours be- fore we sailed. The other reminiscence is that the thermometer stood at 105 degrees in the shade, as I saw, and at 160 degrees in the sun, as I was told, during my visit. Hexey Norwas. —— ie = THE FROG MAN. How a Contortiontist Trains—He Found Bleycle Riding Hard Work. * There was a man at one of the local theaters last week named Delhauer—William Delhauer, putdown on the program as “the human frog.” Mr. Delhauer was fully able to tie himself into a lovely bow knot and then adda little safety hitch to make everything secure. A Srak reporter saw the performance one evening and was much struck by what might be called the flexibility of the gentleman, If there were any bones in bis anatomy he possessed the trick of carefully concealing the fact, and 1t was the general opinion that these commonly useful portions of the body had been left in the dressing room. 4 BATRACHIAN ACROBAT. Mr. Delhauer was gotten up to representa good old marsh frog, and in every movement his imitation was excellent. The entire head was covered with a frog mask, while the toes on the costume were padded out so as to give the feet a very frozgy appearance. Mr. Del- hauer's main ‘act wasto seat himself on the sharp edge of a common tin can which was laced on a table and then, while bulancing Eimscte om the cam, to proceed to tie himself into so many intricate shapes that a Chinese god would have taken one look and died of envy. ir. Delhauer, after he had shed his frog skin in his dressing room and arrayed himself in street costume, tarned out to be @ good looking, intelligent man, and Tur Star reporter learned = him that a good contortionist is a combi- nation of being born to it and raised to it. . YEARS OF HARD WORK. “You cannot take every boy, no matter how young you begin, and make an acrobat or con- | tortionist of him,” said the metamorphosed frog. “A certain suppleness of the joints is nec- essary. Even then with the necessary require- ments it takes years of hard training and con- stant practice to rise above the mere rudi- ments, Take my case, for instance. I began ae ere twelve and for twenty years ve been wor! stanily at the business, and am still finding something new to study every day. Yes, con- daily is the main using at time. Of course it is necessary for a contortionist to himself in condition by care in his it. No, thanks, I don’t smoke They would a the last G training seems to have had a kind of stretching and foc Bid peamdlbadlngen to commence migh' in constant practice and Soe ay Saves. mre — ee ee that can around asi would be onachelr agd°souch more 20 tne Tao, could be able to training weeks.” And re- porter came sadly away. 6 35, 140 11 c00amde 3 4:00, 4:10, 3:20, 4 9:00 am. 12-05and 4:20 andes. 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