Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1890, Page 7

oe nt THE EVENING. STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, APRIL # 19, 1890—-TWELVE PAGES. AND_DISTRICT. > Tar Eve: more than two-t » Stan is read every day by ls of the population of the city in which it is printed who are able to read Can this record be matched by that of any other nerespaper in the world? A NEW MUSEUM BUILDING. The Structure Which it is Proposed to Erect in the Smithsonian Grounds. The National Muse building has long been overcrowded. Some time ago Prof. 8. P. Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- tion, expressed the opinion that if more space Was not provided the development of the gov- ernment colicctions would be almost com- pletely arrested. ble suff for a new building has twice passed the Senate and it is thought no trouble will be found in getting it through both houses this Session. Increased space in the exhibition rooms is needed. Still more necessary, however, is room for storage for rearranging the great reserve collections, for illuminating duplicate material for distribution to college and school museums and for the use of taxidermists and preparators. Space is also required for the proper handling of the costly outfit of the museum cases and applianc of which there is always a considerab’ temporarily out of use or in proce struction, THE GROWTH OF THE MUSEUM. In a letter from the secretary of the Smith- sonian to the Senate committee on public buildings and grounds, dated June 7, 1833, a statement was made that in the five years from 1882 to 1887 the number of specimens in the collections had multiplied no less than sixteen times, and an idea was given of the extent to which the pressure for want of space was felt. The trouble has apparently been growing rapidly worse and this has been felt ina partial arrest of the growth of the collecti 3 present museum building is not large enoug even for the naturaj history collection alone, a number of which are now without any exhibi- tion space whatever. The proposed building will afford accommodations tor the ethnologi- mount of con- cal and technological material already on hand and for a large part of the natural history material as well. The collections are constantly increasing. The number of specimens now on hand is esti- mated as not far from 3,000,000. The increase during the past year was comparatively small, owing to the fact that the exhibition halls and Storage rooms were all crowded and it seemed necessary to cease in a measure the customary efforts for the increase of the museum. The question of the proposed new building is one that has received the closest attention from the authorities of the museum. They have been working for a good while over plans for a building which shall be as nearly perfect as such aone can be. As a result they have formulated their ideas of the building that is likely to satisfy all their needs. Prof. Lang- ley, in speaking of the proposed’ build- ing, describes it as follows: “It cov- ers the same area as that finished in 1881. It is intended to consist ot two stories | and a basement, except in the central portion, | one lofty hall, open from the ‘ht of which will on the level which consists of main floor to the be # fee building. Its interior arran ent from those in the a pmenis ure differ- atseum, all the changes having been planned in the’ light of the experience of nine years’ occupation of the present building. It will afford between two and three times as much available space for | exhibition and storage under the same area of roof. ‘The total capacity of this present build- ing imavailable floor s e is about 100,000 square feet: that of the new building som what exceeds 200,000. The nt building contains about 80,000 feet of tloor space avail- able for exhibition, That proposed will con- tai about 103.300, The space devoted to offices and laboratories would got be much more, but the area available for exhibition halls, storage rooms and workshops far greater. “The appropriation for the construction of the present building was $230,000. The total | Cost was £315,400. It was probabiy completed | for a sma! sum of money than any other | similar one of equal capacity in the world, and | at an expense relative to capacity which the present prices of material make it certain can- not be repeated. “The estimates of cost on the proposed | building vary greatly with regard to details of coustruction,on which I do not enter further | than to say that the whole should be abso- lately tire-proof throughout, and in view of the further great variation of the cost of building materials within the past two years I am not | Prepared tostate the sum which would be ne- | essary for its completion. It is certam. how- | ever, ihat £500,000, if not sufficient to complete it, would be all that would be required to be expended during the present year.” THE SITE. A bill appropriating a suita- | iF installation, | | Louis, 11; Louisville, 8. Today. The ball game yesterday did not amount to much. It was simply a repetition of the enor- mous victories that have gone before, thé score being 26 to 2, the Gorhams being the vic- tims again. They put up a new battery in the | hope that they might thereby stand a show in | the result, but this was a vanity. Ou the other | hand Manager Sallivan imported a man from | Baltimore to do the pitching for the home am in order to save his own men for the open- | ing today. His name is Lysten, and he is an ama- | | teur, who isemploved in the Baltimore city | Post office, He did very well indeed, his | delivery being quite swift and certain. Nich- olas held him well. He is one of the men on | whom Mr, Sullivan has his eye, and it is not | improbable that he may be ealled upon to do | some regular work in the senatorial box before the season ig over, if there is an emergency. ‘There were about three hundred peopfe at the game. The home team made 22 hits and 0; | errors, and the visitors 3 hits and 10 errors, | | ‘THE CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON opens today, the Hartford team being the | opponents. There will probably be a large crowd at the new grounds, asa number of in- vitations have been issued by Mr. Hewett for the game among some of the prominent busi- | hess men of the city. | Of the visitors but little is known here; in j fact very little is known of the relative strength of any of the nines that compose the | Atlantic Association and hence all guesses as | to the ontcome of the race are mere throws in the wind, A correspondent of Tue STAR. | writing from Hartford, says: ‘The Hartford | team enters the race badiy handicapped, having been unable to put their complete team in the | field, owing to the illness of a couple of the | men. The team as originally signed consisted | of Murray and Moore, catchers; Winkleman, O'Connell and Fagan, pitchers; Sullivan. first | base; Matthias, second base; Forster, short p: Say, third base; Annis, left field; Henry, lcenter field, and L right field, But | neither Matthias nor Say have been able to play with the nine this spring on account of sickness and the team has been changed inj | consequence. Murray and Moore, the catch- ers, Winkleman, who was our star pitch | last year, has done very little work in the box | this season, as his services were needed in the | outfield. Both he and Fagan are left handed. At present the club is weak, but when the men | getin shape to play their strongest game they will give all of their opponents a good fight.” | From all thatcan be gathered it seems that | the Hartfords are not strong at the bat. It is | this point that is going to win many a game | for the Senators, for at least two-thirds ‘of them are far above the average with the stick. Bader, Jordan, Gleason, Whistler, Hill, Bird, O’Brien allare almost sure hitters, while Mc- | Coy and Phillips have shown that they can hit | the ball as hard as any of them at times. It is | | this that wins games, errors to the contrary notwithstanding. Every spectator likes to see hard hitting,and a man will be excused for a | muff ina minute if he will only make a hit when it is needed. YESTERDAY'S GAMES. In Baltimore yesterday the Philadelphia team trounced the Orioles by the score of 9 to 4, to the great satisfaction of the local patrons, | who immed compared this game with that of Thursday here. itimore made 7 hits and 4 errors and Philadelphia 9 hits and 4 | j errors. Sam Thompson made a home run, a | hit and asingle. Baker and Town- Vickery and Decker were the bat- teries, Other exhibition games resulted as follows: Newark, 2; At Hartford—Hamilton, Hart- AtNew If 7; New Haven, 3. At Lancaster—Richmond, Lancaster, 3, The second day of the American Association championsinp race resulted thus: At Philadel- phia—Athleties, 12; Rochester, At Colum- bus—Columbus, 4; Toledo, 3.’ At Brooklyn— | Brooklyn, 22; Syracuse, 21.’ At Louisvilie— At New York—New York (L. ten innii ford, 3. NOTES. The voice of the gong makes itself heard to- v. Hartford ought to drop two out of the three games played here. Washington's new players promise great things and will be rivals of Baltimore.—Balti- more Sun, ‘The awakening process has begun. ‘The Athletics are doing better now that the games count. This rule, however, does not always hold géod. Captain Gleason says that he has not an ache or Painyi@, his arm, which bothered him so mucl Kaw yaas. But he has evidently not quite recovered his old throwing ability. Yesterday the home team played their second errorless game of the year and won their tenth consecutive victory. No defeats have as yet | marred the record. Every time a man goes to bat for Washington ilivan, who sits on the players’ bench, The site of the proposed building is just to the southwest of the Smithsonian building at about the same distance from it on that side that the present museum is on the other, and it is thought that the three buildings will form quite a complete and harmonious group. The proposed changes in the interior arrangements of the new building will not interfere with con- formity with the other points of the present museum building in the essential features of exterior proportion, While not corresponding exactly to the old one it will resemble it gener- ally and will be in keeping with it. On the | er hand it will be more in harmony with the style of the Smithsonian building than is the present museum, and when erected will com- plete a graceful and pleasing group of build- Ings tl are devoted solely to the interests of selence. The Light of Asia to be Given by the Choral Society. The Washington Choral Society will close its Seventh season on Thursday evening, May 1, with a performance of Dudley Buck's cantata, “The Light of Asia.” During the season now @rawing toaclose the claims and merits of native composers have been forcibly presented to the attention of Washington music lovers, but there will have been no weightier reminder of the waxing strength of American musical art than this performance will afford. Mr. Buck is one of the foremost representatives of that art, and this work, * it of Asia,” perhaps the most important ‘oduction im the oratorio form—for, th styled a cantata by its composer, ap oratorio it is in all save that its subject treats un episgile in the buddhist instead of the Chrjstian religion. It is the o: work of this sorf from Yhis side of the ocean that has received distin: hed con- sideration upon the other, and by this title, if by no other, its production would rank among the most interesting of any that the Choral So- ciety has given. But it is, as Washington music lovers know, a strong and beautiful work, worthy of the elab ance that will b several years ago without the oret apart of the very texture of a work of this dimension. jow, however, the society will have the co-operation of the entire Boston Symphony Orchestra, and by the kindness of Mrs. Thurber the composer himself will be en- abled to be present and to conduct it, MR. BUCK’S ORATORIO is, of course, a setting of portions of Edwin Arnold's great poem, so arranged as to pre- serve the narrative in outline. The beautiful verse has been joined to music of lofty concep- tion and sustained interest in many worthy of its union with the poem. Thou, treating so elevated a subject the cantsta is | not marked by the severity of sty acterizes the ‘oratorio strictly so Father picturesque, indeed almost lyric in its treatment, never failing in melodious charm and yet keeping to the high level that is ap- propriate to its subject. The solo portions are humerous and important and they will be as- sumed by vocalists of acknowledged compe- tence, assuring an admirable fulfilment of this ortion of the work. They will be Miss Jennie le that char- ed. It is atton, soprano; Mr. Wm. H. Rieger, tenor, and Mr. Ericsson PF. Bushnell, bass, ali of New York. With the ssistance of the great Boston orchestra, which has been specially engaged at @ very cousiderable expense, and with the careful oversight and direction cf the com- poser himself, who is an old choral conductor, the friends of the Choral Society may be as- sured of one of the most excellent and thor- oughly enjoyable performances that it has ever giver in Washington. The socicty’s sev- enth season will close with a notable event in the history of its career. ————— Boomers Must Go. A dispatch from Chamberlain, 8.D., says: Considerable excitement was caused at Lower Brule Thursday by Capt. Vivair marching his troops into the town site of Sherman, where they were drawn up in tine. The captain in- formed the town siters that they would have to vacate or be arrested. —- soo Leonidas Jordan, captain of the Salvation Army at Lynchburg, Va., has been arrested for bratally beating his wile. rem | it out! | Today the teams will be McCoy and Riddle | and Phillips and Nicholas for Washington, and Winkleman and Murray for Hartford. | Mana ee of the Boston team thinks that Washington, Baltimore and Newark are about evenly matched, with New Haven and Worcester close behind them. He dubs the Wilmington and Jersey City clubs the weakest | in the lot. Harry Wright has his eye on Parson Hill, the | clever third baseman of ‘the home club,” He | does not like the way Mayer has covered Mul- vey’s territory at third, it is said, and he thinks that Hill is about the right size for him. Mr. | Hewett would make himself very unpopular if he should sell Hill, as he has become a favorite. ‘Today's championship games will be as fol- lows: Atlantic Association—Hartford at Washing- tou; Worcester at Wilmington: New Haven at Baltimore; Newark at Jersey Ci “Hit it on the nose, old man! Drive Nation ague—Brookiyn at Boston; Phil- adelphia at New York; Chicago at Cincinnati; | Cleveland at Pittsburg. | Players’ Lea; Chicago at Pittsburg; Phil- | adeiphia at New York; Cleveland at Buffalo; Brookiyn at Boston. ‘ a ALEXANDRIA, Reported for Tae EveNIxe Stan, Tae Fist Wane Law to pe Testep.—The monopoly of the landing of fish, which the cor- | poration wharf here has always enjoyed and which is annually leased out by the city, has never been satisfactory to all the fish dealers, | The law declares ‘that no person shall land or | cause to be landed during the season for fish- | ing for shad or herring any fresh fish within | | the limits of the corporation except at the cor- oration wharf at Pont West” under penalty, c. It further provides that the lessees of the corporation wharf ‘-are authorized to de- mand 20 cents for each hundred shad and each thousand herring landed on the wharf.” | It is, however, a custom of many years’ stand- ing not to press the penalty for landing fish elsewhere than at the fish wharf, if the | jOwner of the fish consents to pay the | Wharfage to the fish wharf lessee. Messrs, i. E. Price & Co, landed fish at another wharf Thursday and refused to pay whartage to the lessee, and the case coming before the mayor he tined Price & Co. #5, and an appeal | was taken; so that Judge Norton will be called upon to interpret the fish laws. Srreer Pavixo.—Just now there isa lull in street improvements. The failure of the alder- men to have a quorum at the Ist of April meeting has deferred until the last council meeting of the month the reports of the com- mittee on streets, which always furnish the in- itiative forthe betterment of streets. ‘Lhe paving | of Patrick street from King street north has | had all the lezal arrangements made for some time, but there is a hitch which has heretofore | prevented the work. The street is, however, on | the plans for paving during the coming season. Nores.—Patrick Breen, a well-known citi- zen and sexton of St. Mary’s Cemetery, died Thursday. He was ninety years of age.—— Louis Groves has bought for $150 from the Real Estate Company a building lot on Montgomery street. ——Rev.Dr. Stern of Wash- ington officiated at the wedding of Mixs Clara Schawrz of this city and Mr. Samuel Fischer of Washington at the synagogue here Wednesday evening. A wedding dinner was served at Odd Fellows’ Hal Mr. D. R. Stansbury of this city has been chosen grand warden of the Grand Lodge of Virginia Odd Fellows, The Six O’Cidck Club’s Debate, The next meeting of the Six O'clock Clup (planked shad) will be at Marshall Hall. Thurs- day night the question “How to manage crimi- nals” was discussed in the tea room at Willard’s, about fifty sitting down to table and the dis- cussion being carried on by Judge Buchanan (who presided in the absence of Representa- tive Cannon with Mr. Randall's remains), Gen. Morgan, commissioner of Indian affairs; Rev. Mr. Elliott, Representatives Comstock and Whiting, Mrs, Conant, Mrs, Olive Starring, B. H. Waruer, Fred Meyers, W. A. Croffut and J. L. McCreary. ‘the latter made an amusing speech, showing by statistics that crime pro- moted the welfare of society and that crimi- nals ought to be encouraged. The two ladies | ight and the conditions in the g: | occasionally that even the best rifleman suc- in July. THE “EVENING STAR” MEDAL TO BE SHOT FOR— THE SOLDIER BOYS AND THEIR UNIFORMS—a NEW EMBLEM FOR THE GUARD—FAIR ONES ATTENDING DBILLS, More interesting and of perhaps more real practical military value than any other feature in the course of instruction through which every National Guardsman has to be put is the target practice, and this matter is receiving a good deal of attention at headquarters, From the time the February shooting commenced in the gallery until now there has been a continu- ous growi because the eccentric scores made that month were much smaller than the Guards- men supposed they ought to have been. Had the totals been eccentrically large it is not im- probable that there would have been less com- plaint, but there is no room for doubt as to the quality of the ammunition which was used du- ring the month of St. Valentine; that was very bad indeed. Those who made abnormally small records in February will be pleased to hear that it is in contemplation to wipe out the entire month's record and substitute for it gallery-shooting to be done during the month of M This suggestion was mado to Gen, Ordway, and it is not improbable that it will be concurred in, February was the month when suet crack shots as Maj. Pollard and Capt. Cash succeeded in making as many as 16 or 17 points cut of a possible 50, OUTDOOR RIFLE PRACTICE. A good many of the more enthusiastic marks- men or would-be marksmen, moved by the mildness of the climate, are inquiring as to the time when the rifle practice will be conducted in the open air. Given an even quantity of lery never change. On the range this is different. There the distances are actual, not nominal, and the same thing may be said of the powder charge and the recoil. Breezes of al descriptions, from the June zephyr to the September hurri- cane, cause deviations in the course of the ball. Practically it has been settled that there will be no scheduled shooting at the range until the brigade goes intocamp. There, on the range which is being laid out in the ravine to the rear of Fort Washington, will the July shooting be done. The balance of the outdoor work will be done at the Washington Barracks in August and September. THE “EVENING STAR” MEDAL. Crack shots will be pleased to hear that all the shooting this season will not be of a merely honorary nature, It is Gen. Ordway's inten- tion, so soon as the men are properly classified, to offer prizes for which teams and individuals are tocompete. Tue Evestne Stan Company desires to stir up competition among the sharp- shooters and others this year, and to that end has offered to the Guarda gold medal to be shot for during the encampment. The offer has been accepted by Gen, Ordway, and the medal will be made and placed on exhibition within a reasonable period. Ordinarily such trophies are only temporarily in the possession of the man who makes the highest score, for it is only cveds in winning a badge or cup three times, which is generally the number requisite to ownership. ‘ne Stan medal will be a moro liberal institution, for when it is won 1t will be the absolute property of the man whose skull gains it, Then, when another shooting season comes around, there will be another medal | ce and another man will win it; for it as been decreed that no man shall win more than one Star medal. Regulations governing the competition for this valuable badge will bo duly promulgated by Gen. Ordway. THE DATE OF THE ENCAMPMENT. Some of those in the Guard who have already been trying to figure out the time ana place of their annual vacation would hike to know just when the encampment will begin and end. ‘The dates have beep selected and unless some untoresgen event interferes the brigade wiil leave for Fort Washington on Monday, July 21, and willremain in camp until Monday, July 28. All the preliminary arrangements are being made to fit those dates and any devia- tion therefrom is the emptiest kind of a possi- bility, THE EMBLEM OF THE GUARD, For a long while Gen, Ordway, assisted by a number of interested parties, has been hunting around foran emblem which could be em- broidered on the headquarters’ flag and which would be at once simple and yet so distinctive in character that the wayfaring man, though a fool, should readily associate the emblem and the National Guard of the District of Columbia. This was not an easy task. The various army corps had, during the war, taken out popular patents for all the suitable geometrical devices, so the field in which the emblem-hunters toiled was decidedly bare. A large number of suggestions were made, the majority of them jocular, and it was a long time before the right one came. Pennsylvania's citizen soldiers wear on their caps the keystone, and it was something like that that Gen. Ord- way wanted, Finally a member of the general staff hinted that the dullest observer could hardly do otherwise than associate the hatchet with the name Washington, The idea struck home at once and now the general has come to the conclusion that the hatchet is the very thing. When the headquarters’ flag waves in front of the general's tent in camp there will be an old-fashioned hatchet on the silk, THE BOYS AND THEIR UNIFORM. Congratulations on the review and parade of last week have continued to pour in upon the guardsmen of all ranks and military conditions, Agreat many people regretted that the local boys had not the full dress uniforms with which | the regular troops were clad and decorated, but expressions of opinion from three or four officers of great eminence in the paid organi- zation were all to the effect that nothing can look more businesliike, more soldierly,than the fatigue uniform worn by the amateur boys in blue. The new woven cartridge belts contrib- uted materially to the generally good ap- pearance of the men, and the man- ner in which they were worn was the sub- ject of much complimentary comment by men whose compliments are of some value. One defect was somewhat marked and, as it can be easily remedied, it need never make its ap- pearance again; a number of the caps did not tit, When a man h a large, round head wears acap three sizes too small for him the spectators must be excused if they smile; and bardly less ludicrous is the figure of some slim, small-headed youth crowned with a fatigue cap that maintains its position only because its wearer has become an expert balancer, OPSTRUCTING A PARADE, Next time the National Guard has a street parade the street cars will be very much less obstructive than they were on the 11th instant. In any number of instances car drivers spoiled alignments and knocked whole regiments out of shape by a display of haste not usually notice- able when any one on the ear is hurrying to cetch a train, On 15th strect one driver did hes best torun down Capt. Aldrich and Capt. Jeffrods, and that he did not succeed was due to no failure in his endeavors, ‘The law under which the District National Guard is organized meets the emer- geney in every way and Gen. Ordway wll use it the first time he has« good chance, Any person who obsiructs, interrupts or breaks into the line of march occupied or about to be occupied by the troops will, in accordance with the provisions of the act, be arrested by the nearest militia officer and placed under military guard until the parade has come to an end; then he will be turned over to the police and will be dealt with in Police Court. “THE COMMISSARY’S POINT OF VIEW. While others were looking critically at the uniforms and bearing of the National Guard while it marched past the President at the re- weew one man gazed intently into the soldiers’ faces. That man was Brigade Commissary Sergeant E. H. Neumeyer. Speaking of the afair to Gen. Ordway the other evening, the sergeant said; “I watched our men march past untti twas mentally weary. I thought they never would come toan end. I believe I saw every mouth in the brigade and every one of them looked hungry. It appalled'me to think that all that crowd had to be fed in cone and to know that they had to be served wi each meal inside of thirty minutes. Of course “twas « fine display, but what an awe-inspiring quantity of mouth was there.” LOVELY WOMAN LOOKING oN, Ever since mighty men of war commenced to array themselves in garments peculiar to their sanguinary avocation the female heart has been drawn in that direction, and the brass buttons of today are incomprehensibly and unnaturally on with military matters is to go, ia comrney ton : with half a dozen kindred gna like-sexed spirits, to the Second ent Armory to differed widely, one being for more sympathy and the other for more law and quicker pun- ishment, mre seers Nine cases of smallpox have been found on board the bark Sarah, from Fayal, which is de- tained at quarantine in Boston's harbor. 8) a These little Gt loveliness themselves part and they say they have a real jolly time in drill hall watching the companies and talions evolute. It is not barges for < many as a hundred young ladies, all properly ec to watch the drill for a evening. COLUMBIAN’S ALUMNI. The Championship Ball Season Begins | Looking Forward to the Encampment | The Annual Dinner of the Graduates of the University. A GATHERING OF BOTH SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE INSTITUTION—SPEECHES FULL OF HOPE AND ENCOURAGEMENT—THE PROGRESSIVE MOVE- MENT OF THE UNIVERSITY. The annual banquet of the alumni of Colum- bian University took place last night at Worm- ley’s and was in every way a memorable occa- sion in the history of the association. It was by long odds the largest banquet in point of numbers that the association has ever held, and was probably the largest that the alumni of any college have ever had in this city. One long table ran the length of the largest dining room in the hotel, at which were seated more than a hundred of the loyal sons of Columbia, while a large side table was needed to accom- modate the overflow. It was an enthusiastic gathering. The new era of success on which the university has entered was well exempli- fied by the interest that all who were B agin ome, showed in the recital of all the onward steps that the old institution of learning is taking. If itis true, as one of the speakers said, that the success of a college is proved, if not actu- ally brought about, by the interest her alumni take in her progress, then the future of Colum- bian University is an assured one, It was a representative gathering as well. Successful men in almost every line of life were present to voice their praises of their alma mater. Doctors, lawyers and ministers were all there, but they were not inthe majority. There were old and young, but they were ali one in feeling last night, An event out of the ordinary run in alumni dinners and an innovation with this association was the presence of ladies at the table. Not the wives and sisters of the alumni, but the alumn@ themselves—daughters of the university, who had earned the right to join with the others in celebrating the occasion, but who claimed the right for the first time last night. They were not many, but they were stilla strong element, and the welcome they received made it certain they have come to stay. THE DINING HALL was handsomely decorated for the otcasion with great palms that gave the room @ very pleasing effect. The table was decked with large .baskets of La France and American peace roses and wreaths of smilax that re- lieved the long stretch of white and gave a picturesque effect to the scene. The menu consisted of Little Neck clams, green turtle soup, chicken croquettes and new peas, terra- pin, spring lamb and new asparagus, Roman punch, red head duck with lettuce and tomuto salad; ice cream, strawberries, assorted cakes, Roquefort and Brie, coffee and cigars, Rev. Mr. Grammer of Baltimore asked the blessing at the Bapanis of the banquet. DR. PHENTISS WELCOMED. Dr. D. W. Prentiss, president of the alumni, presided and acted as toast master. When the bill-of-fare had been disposed of he began the speech-making in a few timely remarks of welcome that seemed just to fit the occasion, He congratulated the association on the large number present, and concluded by saying: “At such a time as this all the unpleasant fea- tures of one’s college life, if there were any, are forgotten and naught but pleasant memo- ries remai' All of us have at heart the interests of our well-loved institution. Since the revival of our alumni association the college has been steadily growing until now there are fully 600 students enrolled. ‘The suc- cess of our college can be measured by the in- terest of her alumni, Three things you can do to make your alma mater a success, Send your children there for education; speak well of her at all times, and let each alumnus and alumna do what you can to send at least one student to some one department each yeai Again I bid you all welcome, and to the ladie: whom we welcome to our midst for the first | time, we bid a doubly hearty welcome.” PRESIDENT WELLING'S SPEECH. “The University,” was the toast responded to by President Welling. his remarks he said: “I give you thanks at the same time that I heartily congratulate you. I thank you for the interest and love you havo for your alms mater. I congratulate you be- cause I believe that during the past year we have been more successful than ever before in the history of the college. All the various departments are working together for the good of the university. It has. been said that we do not yet need great universities. Col- leges, perhaps, and good schools certainly we do need, but not the university. They say we do not build chimneys without houses. eae, but houses without chimneys are not m more satisfactory Haden: What we do want in the future of Columbia, having laid the broad foundations of learning, is to go on with your assistance and good will and build higher and stronger upon the foundations that have been but recently laid down.” Dr, Prentiss then introduced Mrs. Clara Bliss Hinds, M.D., the first lady graduate from any of the departments, to respond to the toast “A DAUGHTER OF THE UNIVERSITY.” Our lady graduates; “mind is of no sex.” She made a clever and interesting address on the position that woman has always held in the larger institutions of learning and the posi- tion she should and would hold in the future. Bi Dr. Cuthbert read an original poem writ- ten for the ocedsion, entitled “A song of Columbian University.” THE OTHER TOASTS, The other toasts and speakers were as follows: The academic department, Hon. W. L. Wilson, LL.D.; the medical department, Dr. H. L. E. Johnson, ‘Whose skill was almost av great as his honesty; had it stretched so far would have made nature immortal, and death should have played for lack of work;” the law department, Mr. Henry Wise Garnett, ‘Reason is the life of law; law the perfection of reason;” the scien- tific department, Prof. T. C. Mendenhall, “Books must follow sciences and not sciences books;” the dental department, Dr, H. C. ‘Thompson. MR. WARNER'S REMARKS, With the remark that the committee had wisely reserved the best for the last Dr. Pren- tiss called on Mr. B. H. Warner to respond to the toast “Education as a Factor in Business,” Mr. Warner began by saying that he took his appointment as a compliment to the 9,769 reai estate men who are striving to develop the greatness of the city, He then went on to give an interesting talk on the subject of educated business methods aud made a claim for the business men who, he said, are the et bray of lawyers and doctors. Jn his opinion a business man was lucky who was able to anything for ‘his heirs to enjoy after the learned _ traternities, His remarks were frequently interrupted by applause, “Business men,” said he, “should take the greatest interest in scientific pursuits. Inspire a young man to develop at once scientific and business qualifications and you will give him a foundation on which he cannot but build a successful career. As a business man I know that there are lots of business men who do not belong to the professions. Therefore, I say to the ministers. who pray for us and the physi- cians and lawyers who prey upon us educate us up to your level. But do not think that this city should not be a city of business, for on business Tacod mainly depend the pros- perity of a community, Let us work hand in hand and .make this city a center of commerce and education, For the latter every- one must admit that Washington is eminently adapted, Where else are there so numerous advantages for a seat of learning as-here,where we have so many rich traditions of the past and so many ambitions for the futnre?” It was nearly 1 o'clock when the speeches were fin- ished, and the party broke up with a standing toast to the long Jife and continued prosperity of the Alma Mater. THE ALUMNI PRESENT. Those who were present at the banquet were Jas. H. Spalding, J. Weed Corey, John R. Col- lett, Dr. B, G. Pool, Dr. George Marx, Chas, E. Fairman, Leon D. Geneste, Geo. W. Pratt, Geo, FE. Corson, Col. M. M. Parker; H. K. Will- ard, Henry Calver, W. G. Henderson, L. M. Saunders, Dr. G. M. Acker, Dr. A. F. A. King, Dr. G. B, Harrison, A. J. Whitaker, Edward 8. Fowler, Dr. J. H. Cuthbert, Prof. 8. M. Shute, John T. Given, Hon. W. L. Wil Wm. PF Mattingly, T. A. Lambert, Dr. C. T. Caldwell, Dr. L. L Friedrich, Dr. A. E. Johnson, Dr, John W. Dunn, Dr. W. E. Handy, Dr. C. W. Franzoni, Rev. A. F. Steele, Prot. F. R. Fava, Dr. Edith Jewell, Mrs. Sherwood, H. J. Finley, Mrs, Clara Bliss Hinds, M.D., Miss Louise Con- nolly, Dr. E. T, Fristoe, Dr. Daisy Or! Dr. Wm. Lee, Rev. Geo. Rev. Dr. Grammer, Prof. LA oag Theo, W. Noyes, B. oH. Wi A. ¥, Tomy Dr, H. C. Thompson, Dr. M. oO. yr} Dred. We T. Thompson, Dr, H. L. anon ne In the course of | leave | The entrance will be in the center of the build- Stakely, Prof. A. P. Montague, Prof. W. D. Cabell, Dr. Edward Roome, Wm. B. Matthews, . George W. N. Curtis, Dr. George W. Hay, Dr. George L. Fox, Wm. P. Metealf, Will M. Offiey, 8. R. Church, F. H. Seely, George L. Wilkinson, Albert Speiden, H.S. McNair, C. Av Bran A. B. Browne, Dr. Charles H. Bowen, + G. P. Feuwick, Dr. W. F. R re . Sterling Ruffin, Dr. W. W. Ayres, a Mr. Parke, D. D. Pennebaker, Dr, W. M. Sprigg, Dr. John W. Chappell, Dr. Eugene Bettes ana R, B. Brown, ah se —— REAL ESTATE GOSSIP. Extensive Improvements in Progress in Various Portions of the City. A NINE-STORY OFFICE BUILDING OF STONE TO BE ERECTED AT NINTH AND F STREETS—A BUILDING SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF BACHELORS—OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST. It has been decided to construct the large office building which is to be erected by the Washington Loan and Trust Company at the southwest corner of 9th and F streets entirely of stone. The contracts have not yet been awarded and it is not finally determined whether white marble will be selected or some kind of brown stone. The design of the build- ing as prepared by the architect, Mr. James G. Hill, will be very effective and the new strne- ture will be a striking addition to the archi- tecture of the business portion of the city. The nine stories will be finished with a straight cor- nice anda flat roof. The feature of the two fronts will be a series of arcades extending through the third, fourth, fifth and sixth stories, Arches over the window openings and some slight carving will relieve the massive stone work, The building will have a substantial ap- pearance without being heavy. Utility, course, has been the first consideration in making the design, but architectural effect has not been neglected. ‘There will be two entrances to the building, both on a level with the street. The main entrance will be from F street toa hall, where there will be three ele- vators, The offices of the company will occupy the first floor, the ceiling of which will be 20 feet in height. The upper floors will be ar- ranged for office purposes and there will be sixteen offices on each floor. The construction will be fireproof and the interior of the build- ing will be fitted up handsomely and will be rovided with all the modern conveniences. nF street the frontage of the new building will be about 53 feet and on 9th street 113 feet. There will also be an L 30x69 feet, BACHELOR FLATS, An important addition to the apartment house facilities of the city will be made by the erection at the northwest corner of 17th and H streets of a large apartment house, It will be six stories in height and will have a front- age on H street of 56 feet and of 30 feet on lith street. The residence on the corner and also the adjoining house on H street will be torn down. The new building will be known as the Albany and will be designed especial for the use of bachelors, No married ma will be allowed to make his home there per- manently; that is, if he desires his wife to live with him. The suites will consist of a parlor, bed room, bath room and a large closet. ‘Yhe two upper stories will be arranged in still smaller suites, consisting of one large room, with a bath room attached, Mr, E. Francis Riggs, who intends to make’ th improvement, has had the plans drawn by Ap- pleton P, Clark, jr., the architect. The new building will face the Metropolitan Club House on one side and the Richmond Hotel on the other, It will be built of brick and stone, the latter being used exclusively up to the second story. The construction will be fire proof, iron beams and terra cotta being used in the floors of the hall and wire lath covered with asbestos in the partitions and in the floors. The build- ing will be heated by steam. No matches will be needed by the occupants of the apartments for lighting the gas, as it will only be neces- sary to touch an electric button at the entrance of each room to flood it with light. The stair- case will be located near the elevator shaft and will be built of iron and marble. One of the features of the front will be the two projections on each side of the main entrance, with arcaded opening between and iron balconies, A rounded projection at the corner will finish with a tower above the roof. The corner room on the first floor will be occupied as a drug store and the apartments on the floor will be adapted for doctors’ offices, The locality seems to be a favorite one for apartment houses, as there are three on H street between 17th and 18th streets. The apartment house adjoining the Metropolitan ba is devoted exclusively to quarters en. cans TWO FINE RESIDENCES, Te) ihe of means have recently determined to build permanent homes in this city. Mr. P. Adams Ames of South Higham, Mass., has se- lected a location at the northeast corner of 21st and KR streets, He intends to erect a fine re: dence there, which will occupy the entire frontage of his lot, which is some forty-five feet. Mr. A. H. Boteler of New York has under consideration plans for the erection of a resi- dence on the sonth side of Massachusetts ave- nue between 17th and 18th streets. It will have a frontage of 32 feet and, like Mr. Ames’ house, will be built of brick and stone. A PROPOSED BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT. There are several business improvements now under consideration of F street property which will probably be carried out during the Present season, Mr. M.W. Beveridge, who owns the property 1215 F street, also owns the abutting lot, which extends to G street. He has had plans prepared for a building which will ocenpy the entire two lots and will extend through from F street to G street. The pro- posed building would be over 200 fect deep and would have a frontage on F street of 25 feet aud 20 feet on G street. An alley along the portion of the property which fronts on G street would afford the side light necessary for a structure of such unusual depth, The building would be four stories in height, and if built would probably be pied as a business place by Mr. Bevéridge, who now has a large store on Pennsylvania avenue near llth street, There is a good deal of inquiry about F street property, and several schemes are being quietly worked up to secure the control of iarge blocks of property on this strect and the adjoining streets, FOR THE BUILDERS’ EXCHANGE, The Builders’ Exchange has had plans pre- pared for the improvement of the old church building on 13th street between G and H streets. It is proposed to build an addition on the front which will bring it out to the build- ing line, ‘The new front will be five stories in height and will be built of brick and stone. ing, with room for stores on each sides There’ will be a large room on the first floor occupy- ing the rear portion of the building, whe: will be located a permanent exhibit of in- terest to the building trades. On the second floor there will be a large hall for meetings and also rooms for the exchange. The upper floors will be devoted to office es, ‘Lhere will be an elevator in the building. The plans are being prepared by Mr. Appleton P. Ciark, | jr., the architect. —_—_ WHAT MISS DAUVRAY SAYS. She Goes on the Stage Because She and John Separated. ~ In a communication in a New York paper Mrs. Helen Dauvray Ward says: “It is true that Mr. Ward and I are living apart. It is true that I am going back to the stage, but that our separation is caused by my uncontrollable desire to return to the stage is absolutely false. 1 do love my art, but I loved my husband more and the stage has nover in the past or at the present moment possessed for me charms as attractive as those of a happy home. “I go back to the stage because I am sepa- rated from my husband. I am not se ted trom my husband because I want to go back to the stuge; there is a vast difference between the two, I have never broken a promise made to my husband. I have never done anythi as & wife an honest woman would ‘disclaim. f have now made all the statements in reference to my domestic affairs that I intend to make. My professional life belongs to the public; my private life belongs to my husband and myself, HeEven Davvray Wanp.” Mr, Ward, when seen by a World reporter, refused to discuss the matter. ——— ror —____ Mrs. Burry Married. Mrs, L. M. Barry, the well-known lecturer for the Knights of Labor, was married Thurs- day to O. E. Lake of St. Louis. Mr. Lake is master workman of district assembly 45 of St. Louis and is employed as a compositor on the St. Louis ican, He became acquainted with Mrs, ey mute she wes on s lectaring West, an vi ped the knights at Atlante, bes November ber ent was announced, | stokers than for captains, THE WEEK IN NEW YORK, What People in the Metropolis are Talking About. THE CONVENTION OF THE WORKING GIRLS AS A SION OF THE TIMES—THE STEAMSHIP STOKERS AND THEIB FRIGHTFUL LIFE—HOW FERDINAND WARD LOST & JOB--LIVING IX THE SUBURBS. Correspondence of Tar Evexrve Stan. New York, April 18 This century has been of all others the cen- tury of man. Perhaps the twentieth century will belong to woman, It was the glory of the last few years of the eighteenth century that they opened to men their true powers and op- portunities. In like manner it is the preroga- tive of our time that itsees woman opening her eyes to what offers to the free exercise of her nature. Happily the new epoch is not | ushered in by such bloody scenes as those amid which modern democracy was born, but the eramay beas strongly marked in its origin | and as glorious in its develoyment. This | week, for example. has seen a most unique and | suggestive convention of working girls. Solo- | } mon to the contrary notwithstanding it was a new thing under the sun, thix gathering of a | representative body of working women. In the most fashionable auditorium in the coun- try and with a dignity and bmiliancy of bo- havior that made the surroundings seem only an appropriate frame, this congress of shop girls, type writers and clerks met day after day to listen to addresses and participate in debates affecting their business and social interests, At this rate we shall need another Emerson to write another Boston hymn, The old version you know reads: “Twill have never anol wine line e counted wreak: ishers and chop) Shall consutute astate me It now looks certainly as if the revised ver- sion would include cash girls and type writers. To speak in all seriousness the present move- ment is of incalculable importance and it must have the best effect and that immediately Rarely have the newspapers given a social | episode such large treatment. THE STOKE HOLE HORRORS, To any one who has ever made the excursion down into the stoke hole of one of the big At- lantic steamships the fate of poor Patrick Kelly is no surprise. He started to take the voyage from Liverpool as a stowaway on the new steamer Majestic, and, as is usual in such cases, when discovered was made to work his passage as astoker. When the vessel reached this end of her journey he was a maniac, so violent as to require several men to remove him from the ship. Curious passengers on the steamers who penetrate to these gruesome lower regions are usually satisfied with one ghmpse at them. The fierce fires, the half naked men streaming with perspiration, the suffocating consciousness of being so far below the level of the water, and above all the intol- | erable, scorching heat make a lurid and haunt ing picture, rather too vividly suggestive the infernal regions, When a man has to stay im that atmosphere day after day with the mercury in the thermometer at unknown | heights it would be little wonder if his brain were fairly burned up. There is an old man in | one of the asylums of New York who was a} j | } ] fireman on one of these steamers and who woke | | one morning to find himself stone blind from | the unendurable heat. 1 y He Kost Tax Tarse- FOR MANY YEARS— 444 this modern Cerberus, not a myth, bute mortal. The triple-hesled monster, with the tail of a serpent, fuarded well the entrance to the “bole” into whieh he | bad put THE PEOPLE, bat Orpheus charmed him and Hercules seized him, thereby releasing THE PEOPLE from their boadage and relieved them of their blind- ‘Ress,s0 that they now sce the wretch in ell bie hideous deformity and tara from him with joathing end dis- wust. According to the legend Orphens put bim to sleep With bis lyre, and these were the tunes be played SUITS OF CLOTHES Pox w DN BAL $5.75, 86.75 SUITS OF CLOTHES FoR COATS, 87.73, 8%. SUITS OF CLOTHES FOR MEN-— PRINCE ALBERT COATS. #1225, 815.50, #17 40, 820.50. SUITS OF CLOTHES FOR BOYS—Sines 12 to 18 years-COATS, VESTS AND LONG PANTS, 91.06, oC, £5.50, 66, 86.50, 87. SHORT PANTS SUITS. 8 4 to 14 years. 61.75, $2.50, $2.87, 3, 83.75, . $3.87, 84. Just here CERBERUS falle asleep and is made pris- r by HF HS. He awakes, finding himself ms in the visetlike «rip of the Giant, and to bie mon! sees that the real representatives of THE PEOPLE have carnea the war inte bis own dominions with a full line of MEN'S AND BOYS’ HATS AND CAPS oF ALL SHAPERS, ALL SHADPS, ALL GRADES. RETAILING THEM AT JOBRERS’ PRICI Also a Mammoth Stock of GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, whicl for variety and elegance is unequaled 10 dozen Allimen Collars, guaranterd, a6 a, ‘With silk trimmings, only 50c. a garment Everything w the line of Gentlemen's Furnishings at twenty per cent less than elsewhere. To the strategy of Orpheus aud the strength of Her- * people indebted for the betterment of ion the ow modern Cerberus row of their common ene ¥. the We claim a modest share of the honors, VICTOR F. ADLER & BROTHER, TEN PER CENT CLOTHING BOUBE, HATS ana GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, 927 AND 929 7TH ST. N.W., Corner Massachusetts Avenues, STRICTLY ONE PRICE, Open Saturday uutil 11 p.m cep our store pet all might in charge 1 Pharmacists, The only wonder is that men can be got to do it and that the panies do not have to pay larger salaries for If the gay crowd of | ae rs who start out upon every one of the fa: om- for many of them thejlazy delight of lying ina steamer chair and watching the sparkling blue water andeven give an added pang as th writhed in their berths in the sickness, A LIBERAL HEBREW CHARITY, The Hebrews in New York are a force, not only for their numbers, their great wealth and vast business enterprises, but for their wid reaching, discriminating and judicious chari- ties, to the ma: the same busi © Was no form of misfortune in which an Israelit could not jind help from his own race. Their latest benevolence is the purchase tor $104,000 of ground at the corner of East Broadway and Jefferson street, on which will be erected an immense eight-story building. to be used en- tirely for educational purposes in the training of the vast numbers ot Jewish children who swarm in the east side tenements. FERDINAND WARD LOSES A JOR, ‘The few visitors who are shown the inner workings of the great towwof criminals at Sing Sing always look with keen interest when the warden confidentially points out to them among the sights of the place Jaehne, the boodl alderman, sorti d wrapping tobace Ferdinand Ward busily at work in the printing office, assisting in the production of Christmas and business cards and other such work. He never raises his eyes from his work and seems to find in it a refuge from who knows wh gloomy memories and anticipations. Since he has been at Sing Sing his devoted wife, who visited him regularly, has died, and now his work is taken away from him by the passage of the bili prohibiting printing in prisons. There were only five or six convicts employed in the printing office of the prison, and an assignment there was generally thought a “soft snap.” printers of the state, however, thought th stigma was put upon their craf: ata they made such a strong representation at Al- bany that the legislature has interfered. THE CRIME OF LIVING IN SUBURBS. It has long been known that of the hundreds of thousands of wage-earners who work in New York comparatively very few could afford to live in the big city, which is, by its geographi- cal limitations, so contracted that ouly so many people can get in to stay and they have to pay pretty well for the privilege. It strikes one, therefore, as a rather unreasonable complaint when we hear that the board of education is finding fault because so many school teachers here are drawing salaries from the. city and living in New Jersey, Connecticut, Brooklyn. Staten Island and other outlying suburbs, It is claimed that this is unfair to the taxpayers of the city. but it might seem to the casual observer that the injured taxpayers had ouly | themselves to thank for it. Certainly it cannot be supposed that the school teachers brave summer's suns and winter's winds on the big bridge, the ferries and railroads simply tor healthful exercise, but as a rule solely because they can live cheaper inthe suburbs. The board would hardly claim that the teachers’ in- comes would justify them in boarding at the Brunswick, but if the notoriously meager sala- ries they receive couid be somewhat increased no donbt the nmjority of them would gladly take up their residence in town, THE REALISTIC IN ART. The most minutely photographic of the mod- ern realistic school of art might get some valu- able points by frequenting the enterprising wax work exhibition, The latest addition to the attractions is a remarkably graphic scone in wax entitled “Execution by Electricity” and introducing an exact copy of the appara- tus by which Kemmler, the Buffalo murderer, will be executed. By this educational exhibit all may readily familiarize themselves with the — of execution and perhaps eve: nto inger upon them with that affectionate appr ciation attributed by Dickens to Dennis, th hangman. The tableau, however, is compara- tively mild, not to say tame, toone who bas examined some other beautiful groups in the collection, There is a nihilist being tortured with the knout, a victim reclining under the uillotine and a horse being lynched, who are all pleasingly vivid, and an electric execution is flat, indeed, com- ed to the one in Morocco or some otber ‘k country, where the headless subject bas fallen forward into a small lake of blood, and the executioner with a cheerful grin ho} tt a biack head, the features distorted an’ and still dripping blood. The illusion is so skillfully heightened by carefully arranged lights and surroun that it is quite as good as seeing the execution, and one turns for relief to the adjoining group of sociable and extremely black cannibais artistically turning their roast mii as he browns over a slow fire. ‘The keepers of the Raymond street jail had a pleasant little surprise on Thursday, The ing Sunday it occurred to two prisoners n detailed to clean the stable to jonable steamers realized the horrors | ® that went on beneath them it would embitter | 4 agouies of sca | Bul ita} convict employment, and throught their agents | We lly iuvite & careful inspection of | this department vy physicians, Red Rew. Price. Prive, i Allcock’s Porons Plasters German Porous E 10 Cuticura G uticura Re Caxtimere " He Hots Malt Extract (Kisn Wil Malt Ext pe v | Warner's sate Pulls, } Warner's Kidwey and Liver Cure. 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