Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1890, Page 6

—_—— THE EVENING STAR: WASHING CITY AND DISTRICT @ The local circulation of Tur Evextxe Stan is not only the ‘ergest and fullest, but it is also the west, since the paper goes not alone into the hands of the people of the District of Columbia as a body, but regularly info their homes,—into the families of all classes, and imto those of the money-spending as well as the money-earning portion of the community. 4n advertisement in its columns therefore Peaches the ere of everybody worth reaching. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP. An Active Demand for Business Prop- erty Reported. OME OF THE RECENT TKANSACTIONS ALONG F STREET AND VICINITY—A NUMBER OF HAND- SOME HOUSES NOW BRING ERECTED—A FINE STORAGE WARE HOUSE To KE BUILT. Large investments have been made during the past few weeks in property along F and G streets and in that section between 9th and 15th streets. The uctivity in this class of property, which was noted in last Saturday's Stak, still Continues. Keal estate brokers have been de- voting « good deal of attention to sales of this character and a number of good ones have been made. What would have been considered @ few years ago or perhaps a few months ago as almost prehibitory prices have been obtained, and the number of buyers with plenty of cash has been surprisingly great, There has also been some speculation and options are not unknown, If the options given are closed out and the sales already negotiated are finally consummated a large amount of property will change hands, The opinion is expressed that the future develon- ment of this section will justify the present ices. In addition tothe sales made there | ave been «number of rumors current in re- gard to sales which have, on investigation, proved to be groundless, A notable instance was the reportof the sale of the property owned by the Sims heirsat the southeast corner of Lith and F streets. It was reported that this Property, which only contains 1.500 square feet, was sold for 260.000. At this rate the price per Square foot would be 40, which would be far abead of any price yet paid for F street prop- erty. Mr. Kk. O. Holtzman. whose wife is one of the owners of the property, told a Stax man that there was no truth in the reported sale, He sard that there had been an offer of £42,000 for the property. but as it was not for sale the | offer was not considered He said t the with the income from the property and there was no ueces- sity for making ® change ia the investment, ie yullder is Mr W, © Morrison, 53 and the builder is ‘MR. JORDAN'S NEWHOUSE. A house is being built for Mr. George A. Jor- dan on P street between I5th and 16th streets. The stracture will consist of three stories and | a basement, surmounted by a high slate roof, broken with dormer windows, Brown stone | will be used in the construction of the front up to the first story and brick for the rest of the front. A bay projection will extend to the third story, where it will be finished with a baicony. interior arrangement is very convenient and considerable hurd wood will be used. The house will be heated by steam. | seetraaree the first floor. The archi- A COUNTRY RESIDENCE. 4 Mr. Thos. M. Gale will shortly begin the erection of an artistic cottage on the corner of Howard avenue and Brown street, Columbia Heights, from pians prepared by T. F. Schnei- der, the architect. The house will contain ten rooms, besides a lofty attie, The staircase hall, aboat 14 feet square, will make a pleasant sit- ting room with its fire place and screen across a corner neok im which stagts the stait case. The exterior is of @ tastefitl design with very high roof. tower, gabies ahd dormers, | verandas, &c., and other features of the coun- try home. The house. will be finished in natu- ral wood, cherry, &¢., and heated by the hot water system. Mr. W. P. Lipscomb is the builder. ——__. CROOK’S CAMPAIGNS. | Capt. Bourke’s Recollections of the Great Indian Fighter. Capt. John G. Bourke. in dwelling upon the many achievements of Gen. Crook in the Indian country. said toa Stam reporter that in the | drawn battle fought June 17, 1876, in the ‘Tongue river country against 5,000 Sioux and Cheyennes, Crook's command all told did not number over 750, amd yet these same Indiane |aweek later met another command of the and nearly wiped it out. I refer,” 0 the Custer massacre. On Sep- | tember 9 Crook fought the enemy in Slim | Buttes. Dak.. and ou November 25 his cavalry pushed out under the late Gen, McKenzie, and with mounted Indian scouts destroyed root and branch the opulent Cheyenne village of the chiefs Dull Knife and Little Wolf. consist- ing of over 200 lodges that were pucked with the spoils of wur, iucluding hundreds of arti- cles that belonged to Custers command. The result of this constant hammering at the bos- | tiles was the surrender of 4.500 at Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies in Nebraska in May, 1877. “Crook was engaged against the Nez Perces in 187. Sheyennes and Bannocks in 1878 in 1879 and 1880. In 1882 Presi- In regard to the price reported to have been offered for it Mr. Holtzman said that, while it might beconsidered high now, yet he ventured the prediction that in twenty years that prop- erty, us well as other pieces on F street as eligibly located, would be worth €100 per square foot SOME ¥ STREET SALES, Perhaps the most important transaction in F street property which has so far been made is that of the purchase by Mr. C. G. Thorn of the property at the southeast corner of 12th and F streets. It has only a frontage of 19%, feet and a depth of 70 feet, but it is said that the price paid was $35,000. which is at the rate of over £25 per square foot, the bighest price vet paid for F dtreet property. Mr. Thorn four or five years ago bought tie opposite corner and paid abont =5.50 per square foot for it. He sold it a year ago for #1 Ar. Thorn has also purchased the three- story brick dwelling 1217 F street, for which be puid $40,000. ihe lot is 25x118 feet and the E= per square foot isover $13. There have en two other large sales of property on this street negotiated. but the details have not yet been made public. It is understood that one Of these sales is of the property owned by E. A. Ridgway. which comprises the two store build- ings adjoining the Sun building on the east, Messrs. Woodward & Lothrop have made an importaut addition to their property interests iu the vicinity of their place of business, at the corner of Lith and F streets. hey have pur chased the house 617 11th street, which adjoins their store butiding, and will for the present utilize it for offices for their force of book keepers. accountants, &e. The lot is 28 by 100 feet and the price paid was $37,500. At no dis- tant day it is said this property will become a part of the present large store building which is now occupied by their business, It is prob- able that they will defer this improvement un- til the extensive additions now being made, ex- tending their building through the block to 10th street, are completed. A STORAGE WARE HOUSE, The American security and trust company have purchased ground on the west sid> of 15th street between St. Augustine's church and M street. where it is intended to erecta large storage ware house. The plans are being pre- pared by Mr. James G. Hill, architect, and pro- vide for « building six stories high, covering the entire lot. which is 64x197 feet. The con- struction will be thoroughly fireproof, no wood being used in the building. even the window frames and sashes bemg of irou, Brick and stone will be used in building the exterior walls and the design will be in keeping with the ob- ject of the building, which is to furnish a sub- stantial and secure place for the receptacle of furniture, pictures, pianos and every descrip- tion of goods that are usually stored. The in- terior will be divided mto compartments, which will be entirely distinct, and in this particular as well as in others the best buildings of this description in other cities have been imitated. At present only a portion of this immense structure will be erected. A ware bouse is to be built at the corner of 12th and C streets northwest by Mr. John A. Baker. ib will be 50x75 feet and four stories in height, and when completed it will be occnpied by Henry MeShane for his business, The architect is L. E. Dessez. THE METROPOLITAN CLUB HOUSE ADDITION. An attractive feature is being added to the interior of the Metropolitan club house in the eXteusion of the present club building, which is | now wearing completion. The first floor of the Bew purt is oue large room, with arcaded win- dows at each end, from which the sashes can be removed. During the warm weather the room | will have the appearance of a covered porch and in cold weather it will be used as a winter garden. This room will be finished in a unique and effective style. The walls will be faced with buff brick and there will be an immense fireplace extending to the ceiling of the same material The floor will be laid with mosaic tile, the color o. which will be buff in effect, The room below -+.i b+ devoted to the use of | the members foni >f billiards. The room above will be bi: ivesely finished in cherry | and will be fitt:1 s5 as . library. | AMAGNI”. ¥ RESIDENCE. ; A large part of the garden attached to the‘ Pésidence of the late George W. Riggs is now owned by Col. Henry Strong of Chicago. He j bas « frontage of 72 feet ou K street between | 16th and 17th strects aud it is his intention to | erect there a magniticent stone residence cover- | ing the entire frontage. The residence will be | ope of the largest im the city aud the details of | the design wil! make it one of the handsomest. | Pians are being prepared by W. Bruce Gray, the architect. The front will be treated in the Itslian styie. which the same architect has em- ployed with good effect in the design of the Feeidence for Mr. Martin F. Morris on Massa- chusetts avenue near 14th street. This latter house is very large. It has a frontage of 50 feetanda depth of 140. The facade is un- broken by any projection and its effectiveness is dependent upon the skillful treatment of the Spaces. A baud of stone framing im the win- | lows of the second and third stories on one} side of the house is enriched with delicate i carving. The straight cornice is a good ex- | ample of the Iteliau style with its shuple yet | effective ornamentation. t ©. B. PEARSON'S SEW HOME, | The residence of Mr. A. J. Ambler on Massa- ehusetts avenue, adjoining Ascension church, | has been purchased by Mr. Charles B. Pearson, | ements aid when the Work ss cnoulang | Atthe recent great Internationa! Exhibition He intends to make extensive alterations ani aj cceupy it as his residence. “The entire front will be taken out and a new one of modern Foon lemra The interior of the house will be modernized and steam heating intro- duced. In additioa to the $20,000 which Mr. Tearsou paid for the property he intends to expend some ten or fifteen thousand dollars dent Arthur sent him again to the Apache country to takea hand in the subjugation of the Chiricahuas, who, during his former cum- paigns in Arizona. were especially exempted from fear of his operations, The story of the deplorable condition in which he had found things there is too long to tell. Apaches who were trying to live on the reservations were robbed by the agents and the public well re- members that the Indiau commissioner, the principal inspector and the local agent were peremptorily requested to es by Secretary Carl Schurz or to be impeached. The Chiricahuas were fortified in the Sierra Madre, 300 miles beyond the Mexican border and on the line of the states of Chi- huahua and Senora, By permission Gen, Crook crossed the border and with a force of forty- six white officers and soldiers of the sixth and third cavairy and 200 Apache scouts surprised the hostiles by series of night marches. killing a number and capturing all raiding bands as fast as they came in, The result was that 512 hostiles, the whole number in the tribe, were set at work on the White mountain reservation.” AS A DIPLOMAT. “Gen. Crook's later history ‘id Col. Bourke, “must be familiar to all, Several times he has been a member of commissions to treat with Indians, the most important treaties being that with the Poncas in 1881 and the recent one with the Sioux by which. through Gen. Crook's wise counsel and personal influence. 11,000,000 acres of land were opened for settlement, He stood high as a man of broad philanthropy, and was recognized as the best friend the In- dians ever had in this country. His entire Indian policy can be told almost in a line: ‘If you don't behave yourself I'll follow you up and whip you till | you do. but if you do behave Tl be your friend; allow no one to lie to you, to steal from you, nor to abuse you, and I'll find you the means to work for a living as white men have to do,’ “As a soldier in his military campaigns Gen. Crook has had no equal in practical experience with the Indian or insight into the aboriginal character. The army owes to him the organi- zation of military pack trains, which he had made the study of a lifetime. He carried the organization and employment of Indian scouts beyond imitation and was noted for unfailing discernment in the selection of officers. In many cases he assigned to important functions youngsters who had hardly worn out their first shoulder straps, but he seldom erred. He was singularly modest in personal demeanor, never wore a uniform when by any.excuse he could avoid it and was fond of brown or'white canvas on marches. His character can be told in few words: “He never ordered an officer or man to go anywhere where he would not go first.’ HIS RECORD IN THE WAR. “T have confined myself,” said Col. Bourke, “to Gen. Crook's Indian experiences, because of those I had an intimate personal knowledge, but he was equally renowned in contests with white troops and during the rebellion rose suc- cessively from the command of the thirty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry to the command of « brigade, of a division, of a corps and of a sepa- rate army. winning distinctions in exch posi- tion. He was several times wounded and car- ried in his body a bullet and an arrow head which could never be extracted. He was a warm personal friend of ex-President Hayes, who commanded a brigade in his division, and spoke admirimgly of Gen. Hayes’ courage in battle. He was warmly attached to Maj. Me- Kinley and Kennedy of Ohio, who were on his staff, aud was on terms of friendship with Grant, Thomas, Halleck, Canby, Sherman and Rosecrans, all of whom except the last two have succeeded him in the final surreuder. —_——_ THE PRESIDENT’S GUNNING TRIP. He Brings Down Twelve Ducks and is Having an Enjoyable Time. ‘The President had great luck yesterday and succeeded in bringing down twelve ducks. He spent nearly the entire day in the “blind,” coming from the point only long enough to get his meals. He will return to Washington to- day. Mr. Frank Thomson, vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad, and several other | Philadelphians came down and took a hand in | the sport yesterday afternoon. The President says he has enjoved himself very much, but he is annoyed by the publicity given his move- ments, Senator Sewall is the constant com- the entire party assemble in the cozy room at the house and spend the evening in conversa- tion. ——eenigliinns Did MeCalla Slash Off His Ear A letter was sent to Admiral Kimberly Thurs- day by R. F. Connolly, a mason living at 172 Orange street. Newark, saying that he would testify against Commander McCalla, Connelly says that in 1881, while the United States steamer Powhattan was in southern waters, he was a second ‘class fireman and Mc- Calla was a lieutenant. While an attempt was bemg made to puta drunken sailor below decks McCalla drew his sword and took off one of the man’s ears, American Industry Competes with the Manufacturers of the World. at Paris, an American Coach Builder, Messrs. Healey & Co., of New York, won the Grand | Prize and Diploma of Honor, in addition to panton of the President until nightfall, when | hours a SOME STRANGE PLANTS. Surprising Discoveries Made at the | National Botanical Garden. ‘ WHISKY SHOPS AND LAGER RE ER SALOONS IN THE VEGETABLE WORLD—HOW CUSTOMFRS ARE TREATED—PROSPECT OF THE PLANTS BEING USED TO DESTROY OBJECTIONABLE INSECTS. The government has been going quite ex- tensively of late into the propagation of | whisky shops and lager beer saloons, Its | laboratory employed for this purpose is the | national botanical garden here. For the iager beer saloons and whisky shops referred to are purely of a vegetable nature. They are, in | fact, nothing more or less than plants of a very | extraordinary description, which devote their attention exclusively to the manufacture and | sale of intoxicants, A Stan reporter learned that | attention is being given to an investigation of | their manner of doing business and to analyses | of the liquors they dispense, which is expected to have very important and useful resulte, opening up a line of inquiry in an altogether new direction. ‘The vegetable whisky shop is perhaps ag | | most astofishing pisnt in existence. A num- ber of members of its family ure represented in the greenhouses of the botanical garden, Each one does business on its own hook and most of them sell differing brands of liquor, that supplied to customers at one shop being unlike what is offered at another. This does not appear surprising when it 1s considered | that every vegetable whisky shop docs its own distilling. GENEROUS BARS. You would be struck at once with the curious appearance of one of these vegetable whisky shops if you saw it stauding in a big flower pot, carrying on the end of each of its lon | green leaves a pitcher-shaped receptacle, If | the plant is open tor business you can luok into the pitchers and find them to contain quite a quantity of watery-looking liquor. This is the intoxicant which is offered to customers, each one beixg permitted to help himself toas much as he likes for the stipuiated and invariable Price. Maybe you will find the pitchers all shut up. for each pitcher has « cover that shuts down whencver any rain or dew is falling to prevent the liquor trom becoming diluted, THE CUSTOMERS, Now, the custemers spoken of are insecta of all sorts—such as biue-bottle flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, red ants and so on, There is not a bug of any sort, apparently, that has not a weakness for the liquor supplied by the vege- table whisky shop. The insect walks out on one of the long leaves until he comes to the enc of it, and finding there a quantity of de- licious drink in the pitcher he crawis in andswigs and swigs at it until he dies, as is supposed, of alcoholism. At all events he piys for his drink with his life and leaves his corpse iu the pitcher to sustain by its absorption the health- ful existence of the plant. And it is just tor this object—to entrap customers for food—that the plant prepares and places on sale its liquor. What the said liquor is composed of, chemi- cally speaking. attempts are now being made to find out by analyses. So far itis only known that it is a powerful and atable intoxicant. How much the insects enjoy it you can per- ceive by looking into the pitchers, where you will often find in each receptacle hundreds of bugs of all descriptions. Another form of vegetable whisky shop has long Perpendicular trumpet-shaped receptacles for the liquor, with the wide end of the trumpets at the top, where the bugs are expected to crawl in, And when you tear open one of these trumpets—it may be a foot or more in length-—after it has survived its usefuluess and dried up you will usually tind it filled from one end to the other with flies and ants and such things, VARIETY OF DRINKS AND PATRONS, It has recently been discovered—and herein lies the expected usefulness of the investiga- tion now going on regarding these plants—that different vegetable whisky shops, like their prototypes on the city streets, have different classes of customers. One kind of these shops as frequented almost exclusively by cockroaches, for whose reception unusually large pitchers are provided—the plant carrying them looking as if it had suspended from the ends of its strong leaves a lotof small bath tubs. An- other kind, with pitchers that resemble in up- arunce great big beans, is frequented only xs red ants: and still another kind is putron- ized by slugs and has the rims of its pitchers armed with weth to delay guesta who might wish to depart. So it would appear that these whisky shops could be propagated for usc in destroying such enemies of the household and the garden and it is proposed to find out how far such a thing may be practicable, There is no difticulty,certainly, in rearing and maintai iug the piants, which’are not tropical exoti but natives of this very region about Washing- ton and readily to be cultivated in any temper- ate climate, THE BERR SALOON, Quite as interesting in its way as the whisky shop is the vegetable lager beer saloon re- ferred to at the beginning of this article. In geveral appearance it resembles the whisky shop strongly, but its pitchers are wider at the mouths aud have no tops to them, Thus the liquor dispensed by the lager beer saloon is diluted more or less by the dews and rains, so that it ix not very intoxicating. However, the drink is intended to attract the insect custom- ers and not to poison them. Patrons, crawling into the pitchers, take a drink and. without feeling it go to their heads very much, start to walk out again. But, unfortunately. the whole inside of the pitcher is lined with strong hairy projections, all pointing downward toward the liquor and away from the brim. It was easy enough to walk downward, but when the victim attempts to go upward and out again the hairs obstruct his progress so effectually that he finally tumbles back into the drink and is mis- erably drowned. That is the way the vege- table lager beer saloon captures its customers —by drowning. ‘THE BUTCHER. Another fascinating plant now being propa- gated at the botanical garden is the “butcher,” which kills the insects and such things that it feeds upon by crushing them alive, afterward consuming them at its leisure, This is consid- ered to be of all vegetables the one exhibiting ap inteiligence most nearly approaching that which animals possess, Its appearance ix not impressive save for its peculiarity. Growing along the ground. it has for leaves little green things shaped like open clam shells, the biggest of them half an inch long, with a row of little spikes around each edge. As you observe the ant most of the clam shells will be open, waiting for food—each of them a greedy mouth ready to devour anything that may crawl in, Here comes an ant, Perhaps he will walk in to one of these pairs of yawning jaws. Yes, there he goes into the big one, attracted by the sugary excretion on the inside of the minia- | ture clam shell, which serves for a bait. The victim reaches the middle point between the jaws and comes in contact with six microscopic hairs that grow inside the clam- shell leat and serve the plant as feelers, Im- mudiately the Jaws close with a snap, the two rows of spikes folding over the shut edge of the clam shell, 80 as to give the prey no chance of escape. If the insect were much bigger und stronger than an ant he would be quickly crushed to death. It may be some efore the jaws will open again, the clam- shell leaf being occupied meanwhile in digest- | ang the food captured. _ All the leaves of the plant being cugaged continually in waiting for prey, catching itaud digexting it, it makes a! very good living indeed where bugs are plenti- | ; ful. Tithe greenhouses there are compara- | tively few insects, however, and -%o the head ‘dener feeds his butcher plant from day to | day with such delicacies as finely choppe: | scraped beefsteak and earth worms cut up, !which are devoured with relish. The butcher lant is found. — in| North Carolina, and nowhere else in | the world, Fears’ are entertained that it will pass out of existence before long, for there is very little of it existing im a wild state antl at- tempts to raise it from seed have not thus far been very successful. A curious thing about! | it is that it will have regular fits of dyspe such indigestibles as salt pork or the heads of blue-bottle tlies are fed to it. The clam-shell leaves will turn black und die after consuming that sort of food. One evidence of the intelli- ence of the plant i# afforded by the judgment exhibits in its diet. If a piece of paper just size of a fly is introduced between a pair of little jaws they will close greedily upon ‘it, but wil} immediately open aguin, the discovery having evidently been made that the capture was not edible, | which the French Government conferred upon additional in making these improvements, The work will be doue uuder the direction of Mr. Chases Edmonston. ‘MR, TUTTLE’S RESIDENCE. A tine addition to the group of pretty resi- deuces, which now adorn Washington Height, wil be made by Mr. Le Roy Tuttle by the erec- tion of a residence for himself in Le Roy street, the house will be built mainly of stone, stour being used in combination with Ohio Stone. The south, cast and a portionof the west fronts wil: be constructed entirely of stone, brick used im the other portions of the exterior. ‘The feature of the front will be a square Jestion. which will be finished at the roof a with abattliement. The roof will be covered with Mr. Healey, the head of the firm, a Knighthood |im the Legion of Honor. ‘This grand distine- tion places this firm before the world as the very first in ite industry, and reflects great credit upon our country and its manufacturers, If wecan beat the’ manufacturers of the old world, before the judges of their own choosing, in an industry calling for the very highest skill of the artist and artisan, we can, in a few years, | with proper protection, compete in the mar- point of excellence, as did Messts. Healey & Co., but as the lowest bidder.— Chicago Tribune. Another Big Johnstown Flood. - Quite a serious flood threatens the iower por- | one of the #7 orchestra chairs is bought, they NEW YORK NOTES, The Business Pace Which Kills in the Metropolis. Daxorns waice THREATEN THE AMBITIOUS MER- CHANTS—THE TAMMANY DEVELOPMENTS—BaG- GING BIG GAME—THE BASE BALL SEASON. From Tax 8742's Special Correspondent. New York. March 21. 1890. The failure of the firm of John F. Plummer & Co., startied the business community and the city generally, and it has served asa text for many sermons, economic, political and social. One ‘lesson” is the light the failure sheds on cheap. newspaper talk about “millionaires,” ‘The pen of the ready writer would be quick to quote the Plummers among the money kings. Yet now that the curtain is lifted we see that thaf they have been struggling to make both ends meet for years, Black Care has sat be- hind the elegant Broadway front, us it does in 80 ean other cases where the casual stranger sees only splendor and opulence. ‘The rim of the house of Plummer was accel- | erated, no doubt, by indniging a “fad” for poi ities, Like many men who have prospered in business Mr. Plammer sought dutinction in public affairs, The ambition, of course. isa | legitimate one, but it is beset with perils,expeci- ally of, a8 in Mr. Plammer’s case. the axpiration exceeds the adaptation and capacity. ‘iry as he might. and spend as much money as he might, he om ~v' a secondary or rather absurd figure in politics, tur enough. the failure, coming as it has pat with the report of anvther tariff bill, has led to ‘much discussion of the relation of legislation to business. In « city where the protective system is not over-popular, we might expect to hear the catastrophe explained asa symptom of an evil condition of the revenues, | It is fact that the dry goods trade, in its widest aspect, is anxious at the situatior. The McKiniey bills are looked at askance and the mostcommon comment I have heard is that we may look for more failures it either the | undervaluations bill or the tariff bill proper | are enacted into law. It seems to be more than | the usua] annual scare; a genuine apprehen- | S10, A BUSINESS PACE THAT KILL&. i But there may be other causes outside of | politics, or the everlasting twriff tinkering, causes still deeper and that menace all business in this restless uge. One is the fierce compe- tition which has developed out of the universal race for wealth in cities. ‘This rivalry ix par- | ticularly keen in the dry goods trade and al- Most necessitates the taking of big risks it one would succeed, Long credite, close margins, dealings with unknown and doubtiul custo- mers; all these are elements of danger which the ambitious merchant nowadays must accept | as the price of buviness, Then there is the, dunger of hurry. “Why,” said a lawyer from the southwest to me yesterday, “I would never accept work from « New York legai firm with- out close and deliberate personal scrutin: They are all in too big a hurry, They haven't Yime to attend to their business. It’s slap-dash from morning till night, short office hours, everything possible delegated to clerks. snap Jadgments,-arguments rattled off to steno- @raphers and hurriedly revised, a dozen im- portant cases filling the mind at once. No, in- deed, I can't trust these brisk New York lawyers, the legal graveyards are too full of their mis- takes.” What the speaker said of the law is | equally true of the other professions and of | business, ‘The pace is hot in every line, and if | it doesn’t kill the racer is lucky, TAMMANY UNDER A CLOUD, Another bankruptcy, for it deserves that name, which has startled the city during the week is that of Tammany as « “reform” machine, It wits a novel and rather a trying role for Tammany to fill, and it reminded a! god many people of the awkwarduess of the | wolf playing the grandmother in “Little Red Riding Hood." The revelations of the past | week have tarnished sadly the spotiess new white robe that Tammany has worn. No one would be surprised now if the graud jury were to indict Mayor Grant himself for state's prison crimes, ‘ost of his associates in the sheritf’s oa which be was supposed to have run with sich honesty and ability, have already been indicted, and if Grant is spared it may be as much for political reasons as on strictly legal grounds, Of course the animus of the attack is obvious. It is the revenge of the County | Democracy, pushed to the wall by its stronger rival, But, as the democratic papers say, the county democrats have not made the facts on | which the grand jury have acted, aud unless these are explamed away it will go bard with the accused aud with the party machine they represent, | ‘There is an uneasy feeling that possibly out- | side of the city hall big game” may be bagged by the grand jury in the shape of the city rail- road syndicate. “It would be rather curious if | such magnates as Whitney and Lamont were in- | volved in the trouble. Rumor connects their ! names with coming disclosures relating to the | change of motive power on Broadway. This change was sanctioned by the city authorities with an ease and smoothness that amazed the! average New Yorker. But let us hope we are! not to open another chapter of “bode, | THE NATIONAL GAME THAT BLOoMs IN THE} SPRING. It seems a trifle previous, with the snow on | the ground, to talk base bail, but the season is | supposed to be close upon us and the “cranks” are eager for the fray to open. The manage-| ment of the New York league club announce a yery strong nine, including Glasscock, Denny, Hines, Weich, Tiernan, Hornung and other “giants.” Apparently the club has much the | strongest team in the league, though Boston keeps its great battery. All the preparations are made for a famous season. The bitter an- | tagonism between the two associations will be likely to bring out large crowds, and so per- laps here, as el ere, “competition will be the life of trade.” The law suits are less heard | of now that playing time approaches; probably | they will be dropped under some sort of set- tlement. The disputes will now be transferred to the newspapers, which are making elaborate plans to *‘boom” the game to the utmost, THE CYCLUS ENDS IN A HURRAH. By common consent the Wagner cyclus was a perfect success. Vogl got well just in time to fill the leading roles to universal satisfaction | while he did not obliterate the memory of Niemanntand Alvary. Lilli Kaliseh-Lehman, | of course, carried her parts with a miraculous | command of physical strength and lyric art, | Herr Seidl did his customary wonders in the | conguctor’s chair and came in for a liberal ! share of the applause. Aud now the king is dead; long live the king. In other words the | German troupe begins to swing around the cir- | cle next week, beginning in Harlem, while the Italian opera reigus in its stead at the Metro- politan, We have ieard many pwans and some | laments over the death of the said Italian opera, | but such elegiacs don’t comfort somehow with the statement that the advance receipts for the Abbey season amount to $107,000, When | the sale of single-night tickets opened a thou- | sand anxious amateurs and speculators mobbed the office and defied the baby blizzard in their | determination to get the precious seats, Every | say, and the financial triumph of the season 1s assured, Verily, “there is only one Patti.” BIG YI8SH BREAKING THROUGH THE NET, It looks very much now as if Napolean Ives atid Sheriff Flack would both get free. The former, after a aly Napoleonic compromise of five cents on a dollar, is out on bail. and Flack sits complacently on trial, sustained by the kuowledge—if popular belief is worth auy- thing—that he has “fixed things,” to his entire satisfaction. Another big fis: in the court puddle — Commander MeCalla —is fighting gamely with a hook in his mouth and the bet- ting in favor of hix winding up iy the landing net and the frying Lemos Henny R, iT. IN THE LINK OF APPOINTMENT. The List of Eligibles at the City sare ee ilice, The following list of names has been fur- mished the city post office by the civil service commision as having pessed the examination for appointment as clerks, arranged uccording to rank: Ladies—Sara D. Lathbone, Effie Mc- Lane, Mary C. Manning, Mary J. Metz, Almea J, Smoot, Ida*M. Beaton. Men--Harry J. Al- len, Wm. W. Hill, Wm. H. Webb, Edwin E. Roberts, John Breck, Harrison H. Ferrell, Wm. W. Fraction, Charles W. Metz, Clarence 0. Williams, Benjamin A. Champion, Alphouso Willinm H. Thompson Stafford, Herbert Gallatin, Henry G. Denn; tions of Johustown. The rivers have been | rising one foot an hour since 3 o'clock yester- | day afternoon, and as the snow was melting fast | all day a heavy volume of water is expected. water rove rapidly between 7 und 8 o'clock last night at the latter hour the street at the stone bridge was covered w a | depth of several feet and all travel to Cambria | hud..tq. be across. the. | traftic suspended early | account of its insecur: |. Poplar street g i Samuel W. %s i Frank C. Mullen, erage dD. ligt ED. \ooked as though I was oi | Yalidity of his own title and all DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. How a New Western Senator Got Ahead of a Sharp Real Estate Lawyer. “You never heard how I made use of a loco- ‘motive to secure a valuable piéce of property did you?” said a Senator from one of the new states toa Star reporter the other day. “Well, it's rather 8 curious sort of a story, and dates back about thirteen years, to a time when things out on the frontier were comparatively primitive. Thad invested all the money I bad in the world in a half section of land on which the city of Sioux Falls now stands, only to find sub- sequently that my title to the property was weak, owing toadeed recorded after 1 had made the purchase, the person who made the sale to me having meanwhile died. On the strength of this deed suit was brought against me to recover three-fourths of the land and it to lose it, But there was a mystery about case somehow. Icould not find ont for some time in whose behalf it was that the suit was instituted. but finally I discovered that it was aman named Jones, living four miles out of Minneapolis on afarm, Without delay I took a train tor Min- neapolis and went to see Jones, who suid that he could hot be the man I sought, for the rea- son that he had never owned any land in Dakota. Nevertheless I made up my mind | that he was the person who actually had the | uitle. althongh he was not aware of the fact. The lawyers in Sioux Palls through whose firm the suit against me had been instituted were simply attempting a swindle with a view | to getting hold of the land without notifying | the holder of the title to the property that he had any such ownership. That was all clear | enough to me when I learned thé fact that one of the firm of lawyers in Sioux Falls was Jones’ | uncie, Sol made up my mind that I must ob- tain trom Jones u title, TALKING TO JONES. “I got sx-Judge Sanders of Minneapolis, an old friend of Jones’, to go with me to see | Jones, and I explained to Jones the matter in detail —the precise valu of the land, the man- ner in which I came into ion of it, the ied all sho details. Even had { so desired, it would not have done for me to dixguise anything. because any mis- | representation on my part would render my title invalid. I merely urged that, on the strength of certain cercuustances which gave me a moral right to the land, he ought to give me a title and so place me in possexsion of my own again. His own friend, the judge, urged a like argument, and Jones finully agreed to give me a title for the nominal payment of $10. ‘The papers were drawn and I went on my way rejoicing, with my full and clear title to the roperty, which was then worth 340.000. Ui luckily Jones had communicated with his uncle, the lawyer in Sioux Falls, during the interval between our two interviews, and I didn't have time to get out of Minneapolis before Jones turned up at the hotel and de- manded the deed back, This meant'that he had received word from his uncle to hold on to the land at all hazards, becatse it rightfully belonged to him Of course 1 would not give up the deed, and then ensued a most extra- ordinary contest. THE RACE TO SIOUX FALLS. “Although I had the deed, my title to the | Property was not made umsii that deed was re- | corded at Sieux Falls. Jones might make the | transaction naught by simply executing another deed and placing it on record first. ‘The only thing for me to do was to anticipate any such action on his part by getting to Sioux Falls myself as quickly as paeiibls. So I took the first train for Sioux Fails, and after I got on board kept a sharp lookout. Tne only per- son who excited any suspicion in my mind was a deformed little man whom I knew to be u lawyer, and who approached me beiore we had got very far on our 250-mile journey. Con- versation followed, during “hich I allayed his suspicion that I was wide awake and confirmed my own notion that he was an agent of the | enemy, Indeed, 1 became satisfied that he | actually hada deed in his pocket which it was | his purpose to have recorded before mine. | Several times he got off at stations uud tele- graphed ahead to Sioux Falls, us I managed to learn, for a team of fast horses and a carriage to meet hirs at the depot on his arrival. I saw that at that rate I was likely to be beaten un- less I could devise somescheme. I set my wits to work and an idea presently occurred to me. | I left the deformed man and went to have a little talk with the conductor, the, result of which did not appear until we had got within three miles of Sioux Falls. At that point the train | came toa full stop and the locomotive, from which it was detached, went on to the depot. I was on the locomotive, which the other pas- sengers all supposed had gone for water, in- | cleling the deformed lawyer, who thought that | I wasin a rear car and was chuckling already | over his anticipated victory, When I had been | landed in the city the locomotive went back for | the train and the deformed man upon reach- ing the depot jumped into a carriage and was | driven as quickly as possible to the court, house, where he threw down bis deed, saying that he wanted it recorded at once. Sut the clerk said that he was just fiuishing the record of another deed handed to bim half an hour | before for a certain half section of land. The | lawyer took a look at the record and sav that | he was beaten, though he could not imagine at | the time how it had been done. Jones’ uncle, | who engineered the attempted swindle. after- ward voted for me when I rax for the legisla- ture, because he said that I was the only man who had ever gotten away with him in a busi- | ness mutter.” i ape Foreign Notes of Interest. | Typhoid fever is raging in La Paz. Bolivia, | over three thousand cases being reported du- | ring 4 single week, { The Brazilian ironclad Timaranda has been | ‘Yaunched. President De Fonseca and other high officials and members of the diplomatic corps witnessed the launching. The two brothers, Richard and George Davies, were sentenced yesterday in London to death for the murder of their father at Crewe. ‘The English colliers are greatly elated over the successful insue of the strike. Work is being resumed at all the mines, Three American crooks have been arrested in London for attempting to steal a bag con- tuinmg £5,000 trom u bank. There is great regret in Vienna over Bis- marck’s resignation. Dr. Saumarez Smith has been elected Epis- copal primate of Australia, H The governor of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul has caused great political ex- citement at Rio and it is regarded as almost equal in importance to « ministerial crisi., In the house of lords yesterday Lord’ Salis- bury moved the adoption of the Parnell com- mission's report and spoke in defense of it, at- tacking the Parnellites. seo The tobacco trade of Richmond has in-, dorsed the scheme to secure the Jeff. Davis mansion asa confederate memorial hall, | was dispatched to gather in the wanderers and ‘be a doubly interesting occasion to the local | long and of singular | John Battersby of Albany was out riding her TON,. D.C, SATURDAY! MARCH 22, -1890-TWELVE PAGES. JUSTICE WILD AND WOOLLY. Senator Pettigrew Tells of Some Funny Experiences in Dakota Courts. “The administration of justice in Dakota when I first went out there to grow up with the country was exceedingly primitive,” said Senator Pettigrew to a Star reporter. “Judges for the territorial courts were sent out from the east—nearly all of them men whose indolence or bad character had rendered them desirable Persons to get ridof. There was one instance, Iremember, where the supreme court was con- vened with only two of the three justices on the bench, the odd one not turning up. This was disastrous, inasmuch asthe absent judge was the only one of the three who knew any law. However, one of the two justices present volunteered to look up the absentee and started out for that purpose. He had reason to believe that he would find the delinquent in some saloon, and so he took # look into every gin mill that he came to. The result was that, by the time he found the object of his search, he bimecif was in a condition of utter indifference as to whether school kept or not, and forgot ail about the court and his errand. “When the court had waited vainly for an hour the United States marshal was sent to hunt up the two justices, He pursued the same tactics, visiting the saloons in turn and was in @ blissful condition of inebriation by the time came up with the convivial pair. After another hour of delay the remaining judge sent out the United States attofney to make search for the missing ones; but he, too, pursued a like course—-mind you, all this is strictly as it oc- cured -aud did not appear again. So, as a last resort. the leading lawyer of the territory the result this time was successful, At about 3 Pp.m.—the court had been convened at 10:30— the two judges, the marshal and the attorney were seen to emerge froma whisky shop and to pursue a dignified though serpeutine course, arm-in-arm, up the street toward the court | house. To get through the door of the court room they were obliged to relinquish each | other's mipport, and m trying to make their way to the bar they fell over the tables, smashed the chairs and created general cou- fusion. Gentlemen,’ said the sober judge from the | bench in aloud voice, ‘This court stands ad- journed untii 10:30 tomorrow morning.’ EVIDENCE NECESSAMY, “Soon after I took up my residence in the territory.” continued Sevator Pettigrew. ~1 | had occasion to defend « man before the chief justice in a case of alleged horse stealing. The prosecution bad absolutely uo proof to offer and the case agaist my client was so absurd that I said the defense wouid not take the trouble to offer amy evidence. “Weil,” said the chief justice.” ‘you'd better offer some d—n quick; a cuss that hasn't any evidence to offer in this court against « charge of hose stealing | © goes to jail, you bet.’ | “Not long after this same chief iustice had; occasion to try one of his own associate justices for perjury. The indictment was brought by the associate justice’s own grand jury and the | cused called in the chief justice to try the case in | his own—the associate justice's court. Defend- | ant’s attorney began proceedings by demurring to the indictment. ‘This puzzled the chief jus- | tice, who turned to the accused and asked whether in such a case a demurrer should be | sustained or not. The detendaut prowptly re- | plied that it must be sustained, whereupon the chief justice so ruled. ‘Now, what follows?’ he inquired of the accused, and was told that action necessarily dismissed the case. “Th is dismissed,’ then sai chief justice, and the associate justice w: dicated.” | “Another time, in trying a real estate case, I | took exception to several of the judge's ruiiings | and he got angry. **-You can take all the exceptions you have a mind to,’ he yelled; but I'd have you kuow that this courtis a geutleman!’ *+-[ note another exception to that proposi- tion,’ I replied, ‘and I am willing to carry it to the Supreme Court.’” AMERICAN COMPOSERS CON: The Important Musical E ington Next Week. At the Paris exposition last summer a con- cert of the works of American composers per- formed by an American orchestra at the Tro- cadero under the direction of an American conductor, Mrs, Jeannette M. Thurber, to whose energy and zeal the American concerts in Paris were due, has determined to give a repetition of them in the principal cities of the United States. She will begin in the national capital and her first concert will be given on Wednesday next in Lincoin music hall. | ‘The program is a very striking showing of the variety and cxtent of native American composi- tions. These will be performed by an orchestra of sixty-five under the direction of Mr. Frauk Van der Stucken of New York and four of tie composers whose works enter into the list will be present to conduct them. Prof. J. K. Paine of Harvard university is generaily admitted to be at the head of the young school of Ameri- an composers, His prelude to “Oedipus” was composed for the performance of the Greek tragedy in Cambridge in 1881 and has mate- rially added to his fame as a composer in the highes: welks of serious music, Dudley Buck will take rank very near the head in ability as well as seniority and his festival overture has already won @ secure place in the general con- cert repertoire in this country, His “Light of Avia” will be performed” next May by the *horal society, and lis presence here will thus | concert-goers, Mr. Van der Stacken, though better kuown asa successful orchestra! director and as a member of the faculty of the Natioual conservatory of music than as acomposer, has also won distinction in this direction, The ~Tempest” ballet shows his tendency in music to be distinctly toward the modern or pictur- esque school of musica! composition Mr, Artuur Weid will be represented by a movement from a suite called “Italia.” Arthur Bird, repre- sented by a gavotte for orchestra, is resident in Berlin, where his works are frequently and very successfully played; they are mostly in the smaller forms. Mr. A. MacDowell’s symphonic poem, “Ophelia,” will give a show- ing to the work of one of the youngest and also most promising of Americans, Th = up of the program assures a concert not over- variety. Never before has such 4 showing been made or attempted in * country and it is expected that this con- rt will give au impetus to the cause of our — musical art such as it hus not previously i soe The hill to give the Consolidated gas com- pany of Baltimore the sole right to the mauu- | facture of gas for Baltimore for fifteen years was killed in the Maryland senate. ‘Tuesday while the wife of County Treasurer team ran away and she was thrown out, sus- taining injuries from which she died four hours later, ft wy 3) | anteed free from animal fat. This soap cor tain In Practical Use The Royal Baking Powder Exceeds All Others. 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