Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1890, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.C. SATURDAY. MAY 31, 1890—TWELVE PAGES. ] By this bloody record it appears that there have been 57 human beings killed in the Dis- trict within a little more thana dozen years by these railroads, and 127 cases of serious per- sonal injury. In connection with this large and apparently increasing slashing and siaugh- tering of the people of this District, where the Baltimore and Potomac rond appears to haye the pre-eminence, it should not be forgotten that until the passage of the Poland act of 1884 FIRST AMONG FIREMEN, Foremen Who Have Won Their Rank by Hard Service. man Wm. T. Sorrell of Engine Company No. | RAILR 0 AD U SURPATI ON 4,and the teachers and pupile of Jefferson Schoo! have great faith How Senator Morrill Reviewed the Situation in This City. in him. Mr. Sorrell was born in Spottsylvania county, Va. June 5, 1835, ‘and received his appointment as a mom- bor of tke fire depart- ——— ment of Washington on the families of those who were actually killed the organization of No. = fa 1 i be a igs _. >ANTR : > were left without remedy tor damages even for CAPTAINS OF COMPANIES. aneae cnglirestlant A READY LAND JUMPER. the grossest wrong or neglect of the railroads, (eee one A Speech in the Scnate Commenting Vigorously of the Course of the Rail- roads iu This City—Williul Trespasscs on Public Grounds. although the common law, not any statute law. furnished a remedy for pervonal’ injury when less than that of death. The railroads were scot-free, and had entire impunity if they only succceded in actually killing their passengers. In addition to the occupancy of important portions of Delaware, Virginia and Maryland avenues, there are now within the city more than sixty crossings of strocts and avenues at grade by these steam railroads rilous as sixty spring-gun traps, and all tending greatly to the depreciation of the value of real estate in the city, as well as to tho multiplication of deplorable accidents, With the changes now propose: these cross Ul be reduced to the minim and, wit! 1 safeguards, the recurrence of life-taking accidents, it is to be hoped, may cease, A reform in relation to the railroad tracks crossing streets at grade is loudly demanded, an@ especially from the hostilo occupation of long before he was made assistant foreman, and on July 16, 1874, he was made ‘foreman of the company. He may well be called the father of 0. 4, for he has been continuous service in that is appointment, During avs he was a member ny and served under . the first chief of the fire depart- ment. He las been « fireman for thirty-six years and has att e large fires that have taken place in Washington since 1854. FOREMAN KURTZ. There is really a genins in the fire depart- ment and his uame is J. D. Kurtz, foreman of Engine Company Chief Parris’ Eleven Trasted Anie-Sketches of Men Whose Lives Ave Devoted to the Service of the Public, tlie —.+—_—_ Mr. Morrill, in a specch in the Senate July 2 1888, in support of a substitute offered by for @ pending bill to define the routes of steam railroads in the District, reviewed the railroad situation in aclear and forcibie manner. Mr. Morrili’s substitute proposed to remove the Baltimore and Potomac station to the intersec- tion of Maryland and Virginia avenues and to remove certuin grade crossings by a depression of the tracks, substantially as proposed in tho in almost company the old of Perseve John Peabe RE Thengo, These are the words the foreman of every com- \ pany in the Fire department utters large doors are swung n and the horses dash madly down ery company in the fire depart- ided with a foreman and an assist- tant foreman and these have complete control of the men. In all cases the firat foreman who arrives at a » ebarge and directs opera- the street. ment is pre be its obvious and everlasting propriety. It may be evaded and postponed. but if postponed today it will haunt our legislative halls again and again hereafter to the greater ultimate loss of the railroads as well ag of the city, Whatis now asked for is a minimum never to be re- dueed, The city of Washington was not made solely for the ben of railroads, bus railroads were made for the benefit of the city, whose honor and welfare, as well as that of the people at large, should be considorately cared for and resolutely protected to the very frout line of all = rights and privileges in the national capi- That it would be an immense improvement to diminish the cirenitous leugth of these roads into and throngh the city and diminish the large number of street crossings will not be de- nied by anybody. It will also be in any permanent arrangement which may be made, that absolutely equal privileges shail be ex- tended to all railroads now asking or hereafter to ask for proper accommodntions. Means of & freer communication with tue rapidly grow- ing enterprise of our feliow-eitizens in the southern states, whose property has so marvel- ously increased, almost by bullion: half dozen years, should not be w. 12, post- poned or monopolized by any single corpora- tion, Here is a great continental gateway of commerce and travel between the north and south, and it should be open to the world with a wide and generous policy, and whoiiy liber- Burton-Pettigrew bill now pending in Congress. Mr. Merrill said that Congress to its great hart appeared to have subsidized, so to say, the most wealthy and powerful railroad corp ration of the country by permitting one of its many feeders or branches to enter the city of y ngton rampant, thero to be petted as a dchild with legislative eugar plums and gle with an iron garrote # public park pot much promise to the city, and to ay ically swallow up other impo srvations, na wel! as large avennes and strects, which have en stained with human vlood by ny iroad homicides. Ongit we flagrations in ¢ town. H org the right flank and center of the city, where many streetsare perpetually blockaded, we ought to be forever relieved, An insuficieut remedy is proposed by the bill of the committee; but onor south of Maryland and Virginia avenues the elevation of the ground ufticient to per- mut tracks to be suuk below the surface and to be walled in and made wholiy safe, So destructive of human life have been the railroads leading into the city of Buffalo on a grade level with the streets that the governor of New York has just approved an act of the legislature by which seveu leading roads will be compelled to enter thnt city by elevated ‘i which will subject the roads toa very large expenditure of mon: 4. An extraordinarily been cree friends asserted, 75,900, beauty;” but after long years of & Narrow iron structure to which only “distance Jends cnchantment to the view,” and it rather aggravates than diminishes the danger, An untold number of engines at this point ars constantly spouting fire, panting and pirouet- ‘ing one way or the other, sixty or more trains in every twenty-four’ hours; and no breed of horses is so destitute of metal as not to snuff the battle of tire, smoke and steam when directly under the nose, or not to hoar the steam whistle when screeching in their front. &. The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company have placed a freight depot on square 386 without any authority of law, and in spite of notice of objections against the sclection of hi ve also lavaded reservations 174, 178, 241 and 309, although prohibited from ering any lot or square owned by the United States, and it appears te bo THE READIEST LAND JUMPER OF THE AGE. Batween New Jersey avenue and South Capi- tol strect, where, by the map of 1872, it would appear that one track only was authorized or contemplated, there are now not less than eight tracks, some of which cveu_ trench upon the sidewalk of reservation 17. In addition to this four tracks cross aud cover reservation 174, four other tracks cover reservation 173, and four more tracks cross and cover reservation 241. Allof these, as well as the track across New Jersey avenue to square 737, though short, have been made without the slightest uthority and in defiance of law. ‘These res tions are of the triangular shape peculiar to Wash til the arrival of the assistant chief, when he makes a verbal report of his operations i ats for inst: ions, The asvistant chief J until the arrival of the chief, waits for ord At the of the that the irst-class order ready for “When an alarm souuds the aan stands all intent listening to the strokes hum assistant foreman, o counung s soon as the gong ceased strikin; an cails out the and if his n's he calls Then go.” 1 e between the repor 8 taken by the foreman and department. Foreman Kurtz was born in M to Georgetown quite young. He served 1 apprentis pente Cartw Igo was to have ata cost, as its “a thing of delay we have is unfortunate rai there be eating the onas with numt bi st Washington ciency of its fire department, m and strict pline hi is. Chief Perris and his lieutenants, sketches of whom appear below. are to be congratulated Upon their avie conduct of the affairs entrusted to their charge. Jand grant ‘nuearned the saine m » of even-handed jus award to otuer unearned land grants where and restore it to iy tou, to whick it rightfully belongs, asa procioas and inalicneble gift from its founders? Som of the provisions of the bill reported by the Senator from Ulinois, granting extra- erdiuary adlitional privileges to the Balti- more i railroad, ut e toll od. but. ifall were to be grante: room ieft for any other rn ght months later foreman of Engine Company No. 5 he was made acting ud on September 11 of the next ed in command of No.5 Company, him « valnable man, and appointed bim FOREMAN BOSS. Foreman Charles Boss will celebrate his thirteenth anniversary with the fire depart- Ment next September, He was born in Wash- ington October 12, ISol, and ig now in his thirty-ninth year. His term of service with fire department nced September private im pany No. 4. where he served two years, In 187%, just two years from his ap- ~pointment, he was transferred to Truck Company B. where he served another two years, when be was transterred to Engine training had doue th the passenger stations placed, as pr: posed by the substitute, south of the mterse tion of Virgiaia and Marvland avenu would de nearay to some of the principal hotels of the city, and not one-third of @ mile or moc than three minutes further away from an’ ‘Tho cost of reaching the stationa fram ho would not be tucroased asingle farthing and the great Maryland und Virginia avenues, aa @ revervations, would be released © partof their present unlawiul oc- SA aived @ promotion and was made fireman of + his company, Two years later he waa trans- ferred to Engina Com- pany No. 6, but a pro- motion went with the trausfer, and when he arrived in Lix new quar- ters he was an assistant im this capacity until he was made acting par he was promoted hat is, foreman, The members of and a fine-look- Foreman Lenman has at- te ‘Transient visitors coming here by railroad, seldom oftener than once a year, or ouce ina Iifetime, si consideration, Lut not more, r: the life-long resid ‘ e welfare and prop- erty are to be oftener, more seriously and permanently affected d not so much as nationni ay present chief, then foreman, appreciating hia value, appointed him assistant foreman of that company in He did so well in this capacity that he foreman in March, 1886, mane No. drilled vitlators, Whose reputation for wear- gton h position he now fills. He has attended | tended ull of the large tably the confla- ¢ of corporation and for | and are greatly appreciated by its citizens, but all the la fires and was the first fireman on | gration: t Castle, Lin- | sound Judgment and impartial the aggressive war powers of apprepriation the ground at the Tracy fire. FOREMAN MADDOX. No man in the fire department has seen more active fire service than John F. Maddox, regu- Jar foreman of No. 2 Eng: who is now confined to_ his home by sickness, Fore- man Maddox has a most creditable record. Born in Washington June 17. 1837. he entered the old volunteer department, first ronning with the Anacostia,” a seven- two-wheeled reel. The fire department in those days was not a paid institution, and ug to make. so he re- sicned and learned the trade of wheelwright with Andrew J. Joyce. not be exposed tt disparageme Like the distinguished tor from Con- necticut, 1 willingly credit the Penn failroad Company with being ma most astute and +ccompiished raiiroad men of the country, and with dealing with the public in most all other loc: t yashington, where it sti nd quarrel’ with Congress and with everybody for the ninth part of a Philadelphia it is lavish in its displa by this steam railroad seem to be autocra and an act of Congress is i ently with contempt. he four ti which go over reservation ew Jers e and Ist street southeast without a ever, nor is ther. tic, joked upon appar- 73 to cross Hait street southeast, There is still another branch of tracks over the small reser- vation 109, which crosses F strect without au- y Having only an implied right to pass through the jarge reservation 101, of J acres, With One track, Or at most with two, they have placed upon it a large group of » Which are constantly covered with trains or with loaded or empty cars. ‘Their principal freight delivery is here and on the public ave. nues and streets. He: freight is daily un loaded from daylight until dark along Virginia avenue from 6th to 7th streets and along Mary. land avenue from 9th to 134 street, for which there is no authority of law. The most im- portant reservation as well as many minor ones in thy south part of the city have thus been seized by the railroad com and instead of being improved and made a possible decoration they have been made a positive nuisance. ‘The desecration is keenly felt by citizens in this vicinity, who observe that favors such as were granted and protected elsewhere aro here de- nied. The value of property in this locali is declared, is less than it was thirty while values only two squares away quadrupled. ‘1! siderations mittee of as follow: ‘Lhe constant obstruction of these avenues at the transverse streets by shifting engines and trains practically cuts in two the business of the city, so that merchants aud business meu have almost ceased to look to the river (Poto- mac) as a means of transportation because of the inconvenience and delay experienced in transferring it after leaving the wharf.” The lawtul rights of those who have pur- chased lots and have built residences near to any of these reservations with the just expecta- tion, accordiug to the original ‘plan of the city, that they would remain forever open spaces, have been rudely invaded if not de stroyed. The vested rights, however, of these there ungrudgingly assumes the expenditure of millions of dailars. Here, on the contrary, it seoms parsimonious avd to rely upon the bounties of the government, and, after that, bing like a freebooter, as I shali atter show, whatever it can get hold of. No one appreciates more than I do the power of the gigantic Pennsylvania Railroad Con ully coniprehends the ditticulty that Congress must meet in deing anything in relation to the interests of that coupany to which it does not freely consent. It has got its foot on the nsck of the park and it has come to stay if it can, I have no personal grievance whatever inst this or any other railroad company, but Ll feel that the people of every have som interest in the matter now pending. and will hold Congress to a rigid accountability for any action that does not point to the permanent well being of the city of Washington’ and especially to however. had cicarly he was cut out for a fireman, 1 to the department, ran- ning with the Franklin Company until 1953, He was a member of Company A, Washington ht [ and served with that company, arian.and is complet the “three months’ service.” In J an a ociation was formed out of the Frank- and Mr. Maddox was made ch position he served with ‘mation of the paid fire de- 1864, when he was made ne Company No. 2, His early de him an experienced man in nd three months after his appoint- was made foreman of his company, ‘ion he filled with credit until 1863, eft the department. returning De- he was reappointed pri- in his old company. In 1582 he was pro- vted to foreman and in 1886 made assistant He did not like his new position, and in IS57 resigned and went back to bis old company Foreman Maddox came near los- in 1856 at a fire on Capitol Hill, was painfully cut on the face and hand © explosion of « quantity of gasoline. At resent be is an active member of the Veteran Volunteer Firemen’s Association and one of the ave been re are further weighty cou- ing business interests, A com- the citizens of Washington reported THE PRESERVATION OF TRE OLD MALI, was handed down to us by the father of country, to be maintained as a national ye such as decorate all other national capitals, and a decoration of which very few of the principal American cities are now des titute. in 1871 the company was authorized by Con- gress (and it was the extreme limit of the ratl- road company's demands) to erect a passenger depot on Virginia avenue between west 6th street and west 7th street, of the same style of architecture as that of the Pennsylvania road Lancaster, with the assent of the notableand © to be distinguished board of aldermen this city, who, with “quick conception and sy delivery,” proposed, instead of this, to Congress and to give xo much of the Mali and of 6th street as might satisfy the rail- ment took into its ri foreman. ing set men. ‘Theater the comp tweenth 4th and Sth streets northwest, from: No. 7 Engine C of No. 2 Company Chief Parris appointed ‘7 foreman during his 1858, and served was oue of the first 1 a good. respects, em- FOREMAN LEwis, Company No. % He was born in Frederick foreman. coin Hall, W nt Trac The headquarters of FOREMAN O'BKIEN. transferred O'Brien acting his time with Nicholas June 4, 1586, he entered private in the company Y asset of men promoted to be assistant foreman October 12, One of the oldest members ot the fire de- City, Md., September 3, During the cente January this company are and Secret: y is on “Massachusetts avenue be- When Foreman W pany to take command othy an Washington in Feb- ruary, Acker as a stone ¢ the fire department as a © now comman ris. Foreman O'brien as there isin the fire department. He was 1888, and acting foreman April 16, 1890. partment ia Francis Lewis, foreman of Engine 1540. and appointed 4 member of the paid fire department October 3, 1864, as a supernume- rary in No. 3 Engine Hie ran on compensation, butat the end of that time was made extra man at $5 per month, But the business suited young Lewis, and by close atten’ pn to work | road company. The amazing gift was promptly | '¢sidents are not inferior to those of any rail- best-kuown men im the service. he son nee to be fire- ser hinehety pokey ~ ct the beard [ed Peuain they are entitled to some proper FOREMAN WAGNER. Tuan of his company. | iag no more legal authority to place the com- | Temedy. Every man, ‘yoman and child in that section fromoted gy Ut) pany under so heavy a load of gratitude than | Tho interest na SS eieuaneess wassom és ith district 1 ‘ai ‘ place May 1, 1875. He| Satan had to give away the kingdom of the sor oe ap cg the only limits of 2 es the 7th district knows and loves the in that ca- | world, application had now to be made to Con- | *Uthority to do whatever it chooses, and its n whose picture appears with this sketch, pacity for four years | press, ‘and the reckless action of the board was | *4dacity, it will be seen, bas been amazing —=— Foreman Frank J. Wag- | and was then made engineer. A transfer c-} at length submissively confirmed in. 1872. even for a corporation. ‘ ; ner, recently in charge | curred shortly afterward. and we next find | Youching this action the oarnest prayer of |. That I have not overstated the infractions of otk No. | Le _ = Engine Company e ve where he} many people is now made, “Good Lord, deliver beleeee re aorecana Eoraae served two years as nd One y i dP a in the same capacity with Engine Compa The general government is hers compelied | Railroad Company may be seen by reference On August 3. 1383. he re to pay the cust Value of sites for buildings con- | £9 the repeated annual reports of Col. Wilson, served promotion. being made foreman of No. | stantly required for additional accommoda- tne able ‘and faithful commissioner of public 3 Engine Company. has been fore- | tions, aud would it be auy hardship for rich | buidings and grounds, man ef Engiae Companies N 4, 6, 8nd | railroad corporations to submit to the same | 18 one instance i# understeod that the Truck A. His record is one to be proud of. In | terms to which our government itself is inex. Sone claims to have had the consent of the 186 he was elected a member of Columbia orably subjected? TRAE for ite lawle: action, the meat Duxiness, he | Fire Company, No. 1, then in the voluntecr | ft shouid not be accounted a trivial or minor | ! Fes ee er rrr tn ae coeoedy and Ar having learned the trade | department. matter that the Haltlavere and Potomac “Bail: | Sire (ere vitor ts would eye) mo) more legal of butcher while quite TOREMAN HENRY. roed Sanipany appears. i (bave long dire | vp ut wien ane oanesnt of the) nlpdteyemee young. Whenthe war} Good-natnred Samuel R. Henry, surnamed | g#7ded with entire impunity many of the eon- nilssiouéce ks wellanicalltoats. — 6 Com- came you Wagner | «tong Sam” by his associates has been in the | “itious imposed upon it by the original act of | ™!S fi = ’ i threw down the meat wpe sepa sail aah Congress. Some of these broken conditions | <.7he criminal case reported of the United ax and saw and took | fre department eleven years. He was born} have been reported by the very competent Fareed yes cider bar aera ed up the reins, for he served during the commissioner of public buildings and grounds | Kailroad Company, naloted by this grand jury ar as teamster and wagon master. When ¥ 7, | to the district attorney, with a request for | O° La the seectent a y allowing care to the war was over he came to Wash- 2430, and recently cele- | jadicial action in the premises, but little or no rea ee street and there loading and un- ington and for several years foreman brated his fortieth | attention bas been paid to these official re- | }8ding the same, pa taper lle chereg | La a on Nailor’s stables. On his thirty-sixth SS. birthday. It was on| quests. ‘The company bas doubtless felt sure oe eon ereae te Lied pen cal birthday he was appointed a member of 2 New Year's day, 1879, | of » condoning or healing act on the vart of = erhbeg Bie GiatGae it ee ee Engine Company and promoted several years that he became a mem- | Congress, whenever it suould be needed, as it | Cbedience to the court than it bas skown to thereafter to hostler of the same company. He ber of the fire depart-| appears now to be tendered unasked by the bill | the laws of Coneree became foreman of No. 6, and when Engiue ment, first serving 2s] under consideration. The sharpest criticism, | |The proof of fete, Aagrant abuses ie so any No. 7 was organized he was trani private in ‘Truck Com-| perhaps, ever made is that of facts, I do not | Sounding as to show that the Baltimore and man of the company, which posi- pany No.1, which was | intend to indulge in any slovenliness in state- | Potomac Railroad Company bas d+, although in charge of Ni then located on Massa- | ments of facts, but shall submit a catalogue of | WILLFULLY BROKEN 1TS 80-CALLED oRARTRA Company during the sickness of its reguiar chusetts avenue be-}| charges whicb appear to me to be based on and would justify its forfeiture under the most foreman. I n Wagner is a strict dis tween 4th and 5th | ample authority. If they are true they would | summary process by the courts; but ful! power arian and his company is one of the best t Rireets northwest. | not seem to justify baste onthe part of Con- | 1 ‘i. ane ; ; 1 in the rtment. At the National gress in the bestowal of large additional rail- | Paving be rRbed sectiere Adored kepada! Yheater fir gher came near being road land bounties upon the offending party. ays si able tothe discces oe Fc Sone map burned to onthe root of the | NS —_— r 1 The speed of steam railroads within the | aid bait maw. toe the frat ta ig ceo Harris House aught afire, and bad } where he received a promotion, being made | District hus long been regulated by law. and phen, . ‘a onto ant ar Deke . t beeu for Assistant Chief Lowe, then fore- | acting hostler of that company July I, 1845. | yet the Inw is constantly, recklessly and ‘noto- il gres arene’ hectilias “ng eis iat of No. 5 Engine Company, who ordered | January 1, 1537, he received another promo- | riously violated. ‘The police sometimes stop nukes ee gg ae Me apt : ream of that company on him, he would | tion, being made tillerman, and the following | fast-going horses, but apparently they have ms wag ed aw id ehaaeel ndedad it ae Rear have lost hiv life. He also had « narrow es-| August he was made tant foreman. His | enough to do to look out for themselves whena Geen, heer Ninna tas ioo — ut sape at the tire at Tailmadge Hall, next promotion took place in August, 1885, | locomotive heaves in sight; and the district at- cratiaa! Pepe yf egeer at Ga bed pharma when he was made full foreman, which position | torney also lacks courage to seize the bridle of rs uta Laine ad tie Pgs ee ee he now holds. He commands a company of men | a locomotive. Within ten days a coroner's jury | ¥™ sine ty hs Soearieee ee lpg xt ol Although but cleven years im the fire de-| who don't know what fear means and who are | has rendered a verdict at manslaughter on ac- | Cong to the. pg opti stlaer negara see partment Mr. A. J. Sullivan is a full-fledged | disciplined in such a manner that they cousti- | count of a man killed by a Baltimore and Po. a coe ee ee ten foreman, having charge of Engine Company | tute a company hard to excel. fomac railroad train going at more than | 447) igh henaplp Stations are both. as to No. 3. His appoint- = FOREMAN SHERMAN, double the rate of speed allowod by law. Sanoe, wed pe apd dates from Jan John Sherman, foreman of Track Company ace cnn Cae at character of the depot buildings, wy Pema B, may be said to be a born fireman, His term | oT Mee ohio. ‘aul; Removal and reform should alike impartially ak at te, Secs of suctive service extends over _« period of] “unt while taina are moving to and trom | Overtake them both together. “Theres uo ree he u08 & black. © twenty-nine years, and Virginia avenue, along 6th street and said Motisathen ta other “as ek a ee — ing him ot Oy he took an active in- depot, the said railroad company shall keep = ‘vee? Fi shea ae appointment and \ terest in the fire depart- flagmen at the several stroet crossings to warn a be lamoeaedl rater’ ae directing him to report ment long. before be people of danger." peers horpeetge pilecsey at once to Foreman attained his majority. The danger bas never been absent, but that . ut that ala pe eneit oueen We Louw P. Lowe, then% Foreman Sherman, or can hardly be said of invisible en; for if | aro only interfering exactl; Se ae phertees foreman of No.5 E ee they have not been often absent how are provide thas! Oungress way intartererand ne gine Compan; He? [amie = ponte THE BECORD OF HUMAN SLAUGHTER fering, not with their rights, but served eight — in I Isle in 1845, and came and tho long list of serious injuries to persons | with palpable public wrongs—with # defiant ee de woes to this country when and property to be accounted for? The num- | 824 stubborn monopoly, which tramples Spon SSS nine years of age. ber of persons killed since November 12, 1872, | the rights of the people, who are suffering ak A cae Shecey after their ar- ou the Baltimore and Potomac railroad, as | der the formal sanction of our authority and maersediiny: Broa" rival the family moved ven to me by the District Commissioners, has | UF prolonged acquiescence. It is, therefore, to Washington, and here een 33, of which 28 were in the city and 5 in | OUFr bighest duty, as it appoars to me, to inter- comparatively @ young man Mr, Sulli- | J2b2 has lived ever, fore and to redress flagrant wrongs, where a > ‘ar he nd is happiest whea | %ce. As a boy he used Congress itself bas by no means been alto- me & ott De Sey 8 ‘ wm | to delight in ranning to were in the city, making «sad list of 80 per- | ether an innocent looker-on. engaged in saving the property of some un-| Sreg, aad as toon ae ho sone vetoing an ene ace bead en conpecaliuas aro uch patpeme all oce Rereemets pecnen. Bis wales Ses! steak: Veet | conta Se catered the otk ecbaniian unvviegs ta] nate or feet and legs, or from | Sbundantly ubleto pay for the new and | sitting hear inte trouble, for be wae ine | 161 Fanning with the famous Columbia Com- | other bodily injuries, he mambes of Persons | *¢commodations req by the public, but cee ee ee ee ae een uae S| nem. Hil team: Of necyien ai ten | Killed by the Baltimoro aud Ohio railroad has | Fequired quite as much by the F and Firsd st the fre at the Male, Wer end Bev | Gopartment dates trom January 2, 1574; when | alee bece fearfully large, being 24 since July | Which will never be obtained by an outlay by epee pte op tage mo Ne, | he was assigned as pri to Truck Company | 12, 1873, of ‘which 16 were In the city and 12 in | More moderate at any future day. + He bas never niissed s fire coe ae: Nine months after his appointment he was | the country. In addition to there were Ir WILL RISE AGaIN, Biioen G sow i eeneee dctober 1, | Promoted to tillerman and transferred to the | 59 other serious accidents, arith a list of A cman ae iO be te deen « beem born at Arlington, Va, October 1, | company he now so ably represents. Promo- and repeees We. tions eater foliowed, for young Sherman was now offered asa substitute, or by some other FOREMAN SORRELL. 4 hard worker, and on the 1st day of August, measure ofa more rigorous character here- Bverybody in South Washington knows Fore- ! 1888 Chief Parris appointed him foreman, after, I must venture to say isas fixed as will ated from the narrow dog-in-the-manger jeal- ousies of a singie corporatio Congress very reluctantly, and not without the most cogent reasons, allows a railroad to trespass upon or to cross Indian reservations; sud ifthe reasons are less urgent why such trespasses should not be permitted on reserva- tions here in the very lap of the capital, it would seem to argue that we have less love for our own people than for the Choctaws and Ara- Pahoa, It is not too much to claim for the health and adornment of the capital of the American peo- ple what appears to Lave been universally ac- led to the people of other en! In other lands railroads are iy permitted to approach the outslirts of their als, At London, Varis, Vienna and Madrid e wholly excluded from all pa sondon no railroads eut through Regent's Park, Hyde Park, St. James’ Vark or any others, THIS RAILROAD-REMANGLED PARK, now almost and soon to be whe an ill-starred severance into comparatively use- leas fragments, will soon have many acr ground and some simali but glitte sheets of water added to its western boundary by reclamation from the Potomac, as well as from the shameless cupidity of bootlesx and bottomless land jumpers. The expenditures for this noble work have been lary at they will have been made with a clipped wing. if not impravidently, if there is to be not ouly no re- elomation of the original park from the iron grasp of the great Pennsylvania railroad cor- poration, but the also great 1 danger. -The railroads can afford to treat the cityof Washington generously. They cannot fford to leave the question as to tho proper e of stations in a condition to excite unrest and perpetual discontent; nor can railroads afford to augment their capital by the diminu- ton of one of the most couspicuous resources of Washington to rank and precedonce among the foremost national capitals of the world. “eee DERELICTS AND ICEBERGS. Two Dangers That Threaten Those Who Sail the Ocean Blue, NE of the greatest dangers encoun- tered by those who sail upon the ocoan is found in the presence of wrecked or abandoned vessels float- ing abont in the waste of water ready to be bumped into by any craft that may chance tocome along and perhaps to send ail on board of her to Davy Jones’ locker. Noone can tell how many good ships are lost each year through collisions with these “dere- liets,” as they are called. Certainly the num- ber is very large. They are apt to be account- able in those not infrequent cases where @ ves- eel leaves port stout and stanch, with a good crew of able seamen aboard,and is never heard of mete. She has vanished in the midst of the ocean, though perchance no storm did so much | as threaten, and there is nothing to do but r port her as “missing.” There is a whole tragedy in the word. i ‘The dangerous point about these derelicts is that no one ever knows where to expect to find them. A floating wreck is here today and there tomorrow; it may drift this way and that over the Atlantic for thousands of miles, im- pelied by different currents, always a menace to live vessels that bear precious freight of human souls. Most frequent of derelicts is the “waterlogged” type, which is simply the case of acratt that has filled with water, though | hai © sufticiently light to keep her afloat, #0 that she simply lies submerged, with er DECK ON A LEVEL WITH THE SEA. Probably she has lost her masts, and a ship that comes across her is likely to run into her without warning. The submerged derelict is most dangerous of all. Another very perilous sort has been overturned in a storm and floats bottom up. May be 30 per cent of all derelicts are found that way. In other instances the bows are in the air and the after parts sunk, “Louis, Chie pm. daly rising to Mt ~ m. daily, with Sleep ao at St. Lowe, with a Pacing Ea- 1 ont, {Pittsburg AC RAILBOAD. aud Macare Pallg ally. for Bute 16-00 pms Koc Lester < Elmira, at 10 50q, THE EAS » E10. 3 On Sum 0 To we and Pullman Parlor tay. and 8.00 wy » PHI Abt 0), 4200, 4-2 10-00 and ii a, Lg Bam dalis excopt Su BS WASHINGTON S007 BLK Niarrer May da 840, 945 ae +4 or vice versa, while some lie on their sides, A vessel that hasa heavy cargo of iron or it iswrecked in midocean, as a matter of course. go down immediately, filling with water and helped under by her aiways-necessary ballast, tis the craft with the light cargo that floats after it is abandoned and becomes a de more particularly lumber-laden vessels, which will stay above water indefinitely, For m- and Ohio corporation shati be mvited to haud to the spoliation, leaving the w fragments to be frittere y, or to “survive, no longer loved, no longer whole.” A BESMIKCHED PICTURE, We are professing to revere the memory of Washington by a monument on the western portion of this ground, which lacks nothing of sublimity in its unequaled height and dimen- sious, completed at a cost of more than a million dollars; but all who may hereatter as- cend to its lofty summit aud look out upon the emen are uced to the size of pigmies, where we seem ake up the isles as a very little thing” and the earth in a balance”’—will often have their eyes riveted upon the park once as dear to Washington as the apple of his eye, and not less dear to us as the painstaking work of Jef- ferson, now proposed to be compietely be- hoaded—the head forever separated from the trunk—by an impassable and walled gulf from which the steam, smoke and soot of « rookery of engines will be continually ascending, and will wonder why an American Congress should permit so foul a blotch to besmirch the face of so grand a picture, and more wonder why the reverence paid to Washington should be so blasphemed on the ground where his memory was intended to be forever consecrated, Ought we not to have the privilege to visit the moaument directly from the Capitol with- out peril and without going a roundabout zig- zaz way to it through back streets? We spare no expenditare for the preservation of a national park on the Yellowstone, which comparatively few Americans will ever see, and yet we are almost hopelessly contending for the preservation, without auy expenditare, of apark in the national capital, which ali good Americans hope to see vefore they die. Strained as our government was for funds in its early days and as raipant as was the specu- lative demand here for city lots, the govern- ment did not part with one jot or tittle of Jefferson's dariiag park, then called the Mall, but it was held intact, as sacred as the garden of the Hesperides, in order ‘to form,” as it was declared— “A broad and uninterrupted landscape con- nection between the square on which were to be placed the executive buildings and the grounds for the future site of the Capit. We hold this ancient park in trust from the original proprietors, and cannot afford to do less than to hand over the heritage with de ential fealty to our successors whole aud unin- cumbered. We hold the park for the health and happi- ness of the greatest number of people, of those destitute of horses and carriages and unable to incur daily expense for their hire, but who, with their families, when through with the labors and fatigues of the ay, or of sedentary life, including weary brain workers, would often gladly seek one of the dearest pleasures of lite —fresh air and restored vigor—on terms which they could accept. It isa park close at hand, in the very heart of the city, with a landscape and walks to be made sweet and attractive by the foliage end fragrance of all the trees avd sbrubs which thrive in this favored latitude with a natural splendor of health and beauty Little heed appears to bave been given to former petitions or to later protests of large numbers of the most substantial citizens of Washington, and therefore the non-resident capitalists and promoters of the destruction of the park appear to expect Congress will re- spond to every fresh demand that may be made by railroad potentates. It wae not enough that the park should receive a fatal stab from one railroad corporation, but it is proposed to in- flict some punishment after death by a divis- ion and distribution of its garments among those assumed to be willing to become equal partners in the outrage. ‘The bill in charge of the Senator from West Virginia is based on the ides that not enough has been done for the benefit of the Baltimore and Potomac Com- pany. Wegranted, beyond a valuable fran- chise. the use of avenues and streets, without Cost for their tracks. We gave the company the Long Bridge tn perpetuity and have let them have the use of depot land assessed at $240,000 (but worth much more) for sixteen x subject to the payment of taxes. The Appetite of the corporation bas grown apon what it has fed, and the ability of the United States to furnish further bounties is assumed to be equal to the greed of the company The era of railroad ascendancy may net yet have passed away and if TICKET OFFICES WITHIN THE CAPITOL were to be demanded I am not sure they would not be refused with some regret, as they would be eo neighborly and 80 convenient. ‘The improvident provisions of the grant, and T hope to be pardoned for resurrecting the fact, were origmally made by justly exasperated Congressmen to punish one railroad corpora- tion fora witless refusal to make close and proper connections with another, but our bitter experience, like that of Z:sop’s frogs, has shown that we cannot afford to change King Log for King Stork, and let us admit that few human uuishments, even of railroad sinners, should bs everlasting. The past offenses of omission are more easily condoned than those of present sctual and obstinate transgression, The danger to life and limb from tracks placed on the surface of streets and crossings needs no further illustration by the railroads, certainly not by me, and the question is, shall it be indefinitely continued? f the Baitimore and Potomac railroad has repeatedly violated the conditions of its char ter, as I think has been fully shown, in what quarter is it tosummon pity when there is no purpose of vengeance, nor of injustice, but only ® purpose to confer upon the road all the pore privileges which could be claimed even y a corporation adorned with modesty and all the virtues? The steam railroads here appear to be eager and eXtensive purchasers of lots and parcels of land, evidently having great confidence in such investments and able to y for more. Then why should the city of Washington be called upon to donate land in half-million lumps for their benefit? Is therea city in the country with 200,000 inhabitants which has ever donated any part of a central Public res- ervation to @ steam railroad years after the construction of its main stem to be used as a passenger depot? The city nearly douvles its Po on at every decade, and is likely to oid 400,000 within the next dozen years, But leaving the park wholly outside of the question, I am persuaded that any competent board of eugineers, acting in the interest of the roads as well as of the public, cate tho railroad stations wonderfui panorama presented—wh: re would be a great boon to the There they nO be cramped for nor would the pul and there the el d would it the ing of the tracks w the and out of way of all stance, take the case of the schooner W. LL. White, which was wrecked off the Delaware ‘cape not long ago and drifted the whole distance across the Atlantic ocean to the Hebrides, threatening other ships all the wa} you should ask why vessels that are wate logged and cannot help floating should be abandoned at all; but you would readily find the answer to your question if you were once a passenger on acraft that had sunk to a level with the water all around and over waves were breaking, #0 as to sible to get either tood or dri conditions it is not surprising that captain and |.crew should be glad to take to the boats, AN OCEAN MYSTERY, Another remarkable instance of drifting was that of the Marie Celeste, which was found abroad in the Atlantic ocean, with every sail set, but nota soul on board. Everything about her bore the aspect of oocupancy, even to a nished in a single human being was found in her, and since the day she was towed into Genoa no explaaation of the circumstance has ever been given and it has not been discovered who owned the vessel or sailed her. The sea-novel- ist Clark Russell hasconstructed a very enter- taining story on this basis of tact. The Navy Department, so a Sran reporter Was told, is constantly receiving reports from many hundreds ot vessels of the locations of derelicts as found in various parts of the o and from these reports are made up frequ bulletins on the subject for distribution amoz the skippers, Similar reports are made and bul- letins issued regarding iceberga, which are d located on the pilot charts (published month! in order that ships may know where to look out for them. Now and then, in the case of a very dangerous derelict, a goverument steamer is sent out to blow it up with a torpedo; but such a, plan could hardly be made to work with icebergs, It will not be long, however, before the plan proposed at the recent mar- itime conference held here for dividing the ocean up among the nations into districts—each couutry to keep its own district free of dere licts—will be put into operation. ABAD YEAR FOR BERGA. As to icebergs, they have been more plenti- ful and dangerous this spring along the trans- atlantic path of steam ships for England and France than has ever been known before, This route may always be considered a hazardous one, comparatively speaking. In order to make the shortest passages possible the rteam ships take a certain percentage of chances of collision with bergs, and, if you will look on the pilot chart issued by the hydrographic bureau for any month, you will see that the path marked out for these transatlantic lines just barely passes the lower ice plotted on the same map. The pilot charts referred to show all the great sea routes as they should be followed for the coming month, in order to take the utmost advantage of winds and other conditions. All the year round you will see on them an enor- mous red splotch covering many hundreds of square miles of ocean north and east of Boston. This represents fog. and when you look at it you will perceive readily why it is that when the wind blows from the east i the modern Athens life becomes no longer worth living. The gulf stream up there, flowing northward, meets the ice and the cold Labrabor current, the result of which is 4 continua! fog-bank. 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