Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1890, Page 7

RACTER. From Harper's Bazar. E HAD taken a cottage for the summer in a small village on the south Jersey coast. The place orig- inally was merely a fishing hamlet t the inhabitants being almost exclu- sively ‘longshore men and their families, but a party of summer tourists chanced one day to stumble upon it, and, finding the air sulubrious and the location inviting. they pitched their tents there for the remainder of the season. The next year three or four pretty cottages sprung up as if by magic, and it was our good fortune to secure one of them for the summer. ‘The rusticity and seclusion of the place de- lighted us. Jobn, whose pen has to earn our daily bread, was ina state of perpetual self- congratulation. To us both it was a genuine “find,” this snug harbor so quaint and primi- tive, with nothing to break the stillness but an cccasional toot from a fishing steamer. But our paradise bad one drawback—there was no church, services, when there was any one to Officiate, Leing held in the school house; and in less than a fortnight after we took posses- sion of the cottage our cook packed her trunk aud departed, declaring that the place was “too haythemsh for any respectable Person to live in.” Iu this emergency Ann Dorner was recom- mended tous. Her father, « ‘longshoreman. “honest as the day and powerful religiow: the neighbors told us—had brought up his family in @ small cabin on the outskirts of the village. and Ann bad never been 10 miles from home. She had @ clean-looking, sensible face, With somewhat introspective e her hair, which was pale brown, was brushed smoothly back from her low, straight forehead, and hung in a loose mass down her shoulders, while her gown—it was literally a gown, « sort of pre- Mother Hubbard affair—was a dark blue calico, hanging unbelted from the yoke, and neither shoe nor stocking graced her substantial feet, In every way she was so unlike the type of servant girl to which we had been accustomed THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1990-SIXTEEN PAGES. Itwas very seldom th out.” Her father and mother were dc she had few acquaintances that she c: visit; but she never med to feel the lack of companionship. If she chinced to have a few spare moments in the morning she was usually to be found seated on the wood pile, engaged either with her knitting work or in reading her Bible, choosing that prosaic spot evidently for the sake of being near te kitchen; but her favorite resort in fair weather, wien work was over for the afternoon. wa: Owl Nock, an iso- lated bowlder just outside the ¢arden fence, the garden sloping almost to the water's edge. Tt was a pleasant place to sit on a summer da: for » wide-branched bruok willow oversha owed it. and at high tide the waves rippled across the shingles at its base, while in the dis- tance could be seen the passing ships and steamers, Ann was so plain and practical that we won- dered at ber fondness for this romantic out- look, but a neighbor one day gave usa possible clew to the mystery. “A good girl, buta little queer,” he said, tapping his forehead. “Her young man went off to sea two or three years ago, an’ ‘ain't never been beard from.” “To think of Ann Dorner’s baving loved and lost!’ I said to John. “The last person in the world that one would associate with a love affair.” “It only proves,” replied John, “that the humblest lives may have their romances and— their tragedies.” Whatever the motive was that took Ann 80 often to Owl Rock, whether she went to watch for the return of her lover or merely to read d meditate. promptly, as a rule, at 5 o'clock she came back to the kitchen to prepare sup- per. But one afternoon, for the first time, she was a little late; and I was on the point of starting out to cali her when I saw her coming through the garden, attended by a broad- shouldered, sturdy-looking*young fellow, whose rolling gait atonce revealed the fact that he ‘was a sailor. It was easy to see that Ann was happy, and suddenly Imade the discovery that she was something more than pretty. In place of her sun bonnet she wore a three-cornered handker- chief tied under her chin. The wind had roughened the hair about her forehead and her cheeks seemed to have caught their color that I hesitated to engage her. But her honest, sensible face decided me. In time, uo doubt, she could be persuaded to adopt a more civil- ized toilet. But Aun, who had been brought up a Metho- dist of the Methodists of the “old school,” had the courage of her convictions, and her ideas on dress were as fixed as the iaws of the Medes and Persians. Like the Goddess of Liberty, she had but one style of costume and she wore it on all occasions; even on Sunday she refused to put on shoes and stockings. In vain we argued with her on the impropriety of going bare- fvoted to church. Ann's firmness remained unshaken. At first I thought it was downright obstinacy; but that was before I knew Ann. In time I found that her rigid views concerning dress were rooted in a religious conscientious- hess as sensitive and as narrow as that of John yard. “T've got shoes an’ stockin’s ma’am,” she said, in answer to my offer to advance the money for the purchase of these articles; “but Maybe some other folks haven't, an’ I don't think I've got a right to dress any better than the poorest person in the place can afford to, *eause if I did, ma’am—don’t you see?—they might be discouraged. an’ say they wouldn't go to mectin’ unless they could dress as good as Ann Dorner.” But having learned on carefui inquiry that there was no one in the village so poor as to be obliged to go barefooted, we at last r suaded her to puton shoes. After a time she consented, too, to gather her flowing mane into a braid, and encouraged by these conces- sions, I ventured to suggest a change in her headgear. Ann took off her calico sun bonnet and surveyed it critically. “It ain't handsome, that’s a fact,” she ad- mitted, “but if I ain't too proud to wear it, ma‘am, I don't think you'd ought to mind. It’s clean an’ whole, an’ it’s as good as any- thing ole Mis’ Corson can afford to wear.” At last, however, she promised that if I vould make her a perfectly plain black bonnet she would wear it on Sundays. Ruching was being worn for face trimming at the time, and having covered a close-fitting frame with black silk and added a few ioops of black ribbon I ventured to put here and there in the ruche a tiny knot of narrow lavender velvet. Aun looked really pleased when she tried it on, and the next morning. catching a glimpse of her as she went out of the gate wearing the new bonnet, I quite congratulated myself on my success; but a few moments later.’having occasion to go to the kitchen pantry. 1 found. laid carefully together, not only the knots of,lavender velvet, but every loop and bow that had decorated the outside of the bonnet. Plain as I had thought it. she had divested it of everything except the ribbons that served for strings. “It looked very nice, ma’am,” she said, when I remonstrated with her, ‘but it was ‘most too gay for a professor.” And no amount of per- suasion could mduce her tohave the trimmings put on again. Her zeal for plainness did not confine itself to her own apparel. “I rather think, ma’am, I'll have to get some- body else to do the fine ironin’,” she said tome ou Monday. “But why, Ann?” I asked, in surprise. “There are very few starched pieces.” “Yes, 'm, I know it.” said Ann, “but they're trimmed, an’ as I don’t believe in folks wearin’ trimmed things, I don’t think it would be right for me to do ‘em up for ‘em.” “But don’t you think. Ann,” I said, “that a little trimming makes a pretty finish to a gar- ment?” “Oh, it’s nice enough to look ma'am, I don't deny that, but it’s all ‘pride o’ the eye an’ lust o” the flesh,” and I don’t think professors ought to induige im such things, If everybody lived up to the Bible, ma'am, even the preach- ers wouldn't wear starched buzsoms.” she on this point, and so illogical as well. that every week she insisted ou paying & woman out of her own wages to iron John’s shirts aud collars and ail the trimmed underwear. One day when I was making a dessert she suddenly asked, “Don't you think, ma'am, it'd be nice if people could live now as they did in Bible times?” ~In what way, Ann?” I inquired. “Why, don’t you know, ma'am, in those days they lived mostiy on bread an’ fish? It was bread an’ fish that the Lord gave the multitude to eat in the wilderness, an’ bread an’ fish that He gave the disciples when He cooked break- fas’ tor ‘em on the shore. “But fish doesn't agree with every one, Ann.” Targued, “and in inland places fish is not al- waysto be had.” Well. L don’t s'pose it makes much differ- ence, ma'am, whether it’s bread an’ fish or bread an’ meat; but it seems to me that in eatin’, the same ag in dressin’, people ought to be plain.” Yet she showed no disposition to shirk work. She took geauine pride in her bread and bis- cuit and her pasion for cleanliness made it « hard matter to keep her supplied with scrub cloths. Having noticed that she seemed fond of read- ing Lone day offered her a story book. She took it eagerly, but before she had read dozen pages she came to me with a grave face. Is is a true story, ma’am?” she asked. can't say, Ano. Its very true to life, I think; but no doubt some parts of it are made up.” “Then I guess I don’t care to read it, ma’am, she said. putting it back in its place. “It ai worth while spendin’ one’s time readin’ made- up things. When I read I like to know that Um readin’ what’s true.” And shortly alter- ward I found her seated on the wood pile ab- sorbed in her Bible. She had a genuine reverence for scholarship, and took at first much interest in John’s work asa writer. But one morning, when John had been reading tome astory that he had just finwhed, Ann. who once or twice during ‘the reading had had occasion to pass through the room, asked. with a puzzled look on her face, “What does Mr. John write about, ma'am?” “Oh, sometimes one thing and sometimes snother,” I said. ‘He writes mostly stories,” Tue ones, ma'am?” Tue in some respects, Ann; but he makes them up largely out of bis own imagination.” Anu sighed like one troubled in spirit, “I don’t see, ma'am, how he can make it seem right,” she said, turning away, with disaj proval written on every feature, and from that day it was very evident that John had falen from the bigh place that he had hitherto held im the estimation of this honest soul. During the summer acousin from the eity came to Visit us. She was a dainty littie lady and her soft voice and pleasant ways soon won Ann's heart. She was just recovering from a severe illness and for several days after her arrival she wore « close-titting princesse wrap- perof some soft gray woolen goods, with no wimming except a double row of smoked pearl buttons down the frout The perfect plain- ness of the garment attracted Ann at ouce and it was good to see the admiration with which she watched the slight trim figure, But ou Sunday Helen came down wearing a white muslin. For the style of dress then in vogue uothing could have been more simple; but the deep ruffle that bordered the skirt made Ann look at her askance. “is Miss Helen professor, ma'am?” she asked that afternoon as Helen, under the shade ef abiue parasol, wok John’s arm for a stroll on the beach. “Yes,” I said; “she isa member of Dr. —'s church, and teaches iu the Sunday school. “And yet,” said Aun, slowly, “she wears from the red glow in the west. She carried her Bible in her hand, and with her shining face she looked at the moment, in her prim dark gown, like a sort of transfigured nun. When they reached the door step the young man said good-night and hurried back to the beach. “Jt's Jason, ma’am,” Ann explained, as she came into the house. ‘I hadn't seen him for ‘most three years, an’ that’s what made me late. We used to be friends,” she added, shy Nearly every afternoon for the next fortnight Jason joined her at Owl Kock. Evidently they found enough to talk about, and sometimes the young man, who at 5 o'clock always came with her up the garden path, lingered for a farewell word at the kitchen door, Ann during these days went about her work with a preoccupied air. “Did you ever think, ma’am,” she asked one morning, as she was dusting the dining room, “that you'd like to be a missionary?” I confessed to having had in my younger days a vague aspiration in that direction. “Oh, I think it would be beautiful!” said the girl. ‘Jason's been tellin’ me about an island he’s been to; they were shipwrecked there; that’s why he was gone so long, an’ the people are all heathen. I told Jason it wasa shame somebody didn’t go out there an’ teach ‘em. Do you s'pose a sailor's wite would have any chance to do that sort of work, ma'am? You know sometimes the ships stop there for water.” Before I could answer her John called to me from his sanctum, and the subject did not come up again, but guessing the trendof Ann's thoughts [ began to school myself to the thought of losing her. A day or two later, however, the girl came back from Owl Rock alone. “He's gone, ma'am,” she announced gravely. “Gouel” Leried. ‘Why, Ann, I thought you were going to marry him.” “Ann shook her head. “No, 'm; I cant. He's too worldly minded. He smokes, an’ always when he’s ashore he wants to wear—starched buzsoms.”” “But what of that, Ann, if you love him?” I said. Ann’s chin began to quiver. It was a pretty, sensitive chin. ‘That's just it, ma'am; I love him too well, she said broken! don't I'm afraid he’d be a stumblin’ block to me. ‘There was nothing more to be said. Jason had sailed that afternoon, and there the matter rested. We had expected to go back to town in the fall, but John became so infatuated with this “calm retreat” that we decided to take the house for another year, and to our supreme satisfaction Ann agreed to remain with us, Meanwhile Cousin Helen had made us another visit and Ann, thoagh she still grieved that any one so good and lovable as Miss Helen should be guilty of wearmg flounces, became again her ardent admirer. In fact, so great was Helen's influence over her that she eventually prevailed npon her to wear a white apron and a linen collar. The improvement made in her appearance by these simple adjuncts was a delight tothe eye, and though at first she wore them evidently under protest, regarding them still as ‘‘vanities of the world,” her love for Helen finally conquered all scruples, and the apron and collar came to be regarded as an indispensable partof her toilet. Jason had gone on a ten mouths’ cruise, and asthe time drew near for the ship’s return, Ann grew restless and absent-minded she went oftener to Owl Kock, and more than once he became so absorbed in watching the far-off sails as to forget when 5 o'clock came. Some- times she would wander back to the rock after tea, and sit there during the twilight. This went on for several weeks and then one morning she blushingly imformed me that Jason was home again. “But you ought not to let him keep on com- ing to see you, Aun.” 1 said, “if you are not going to marry him.” “But perhaps I can do him some good, ma’am,” said the girl, gravely. ‘He hasn't any folks of his own, you know, to help him,” Poor, deluded Ann! A week or two later, with much hesitation and embarrassment, she succeeded in telling me that she had re- newed ber promise to Jason. “And you are really going to marry him, Ann?” I exclaimed, sorry chiefly on my own ac- count. “Well, yon see, ma'am, he’s agreed to give Up smokin’ an’—an’——" “And starched bosoms,” I ventured to add, hoping to heip her out. “Well, no ‘m,” said Ann, in a wavering voice. “Maybe I've been too yieldin’, but scein’ 've taken to wearin’ starched collars it don't seem more'n fair for me to give in to his wearin’ starched buzsoms.” Consequently a few weeks later we lost our faithful Aun. ——.--eee A Designing Young Thing. Arlo Bates’ Boston Letter in the Cuicayo Tribune. Ichanced to meet in the horse car not long since a lady who is one of the active visitors for the Associated Charities, and who has con- tributed to ali the notable elecmosynary schemes of recent years. She does not always regard the rule that no visitor of the Associated Charities shall give private alms to applicants, and thus it happens that she is an especially valuable prey to those whoare clever enough to swindle her. We talked of this and of that in the inane fashion not wholly unknown in horse cars, when suddenly, in the very midst ofa sentence, her words diedon her lips, while her horrified and stony stare was fixed upon @ young woman who had at that moment come into the car aud seated herself opposite us. I naturally folowed the direction of her eyes, but I could discover nothing in the appearance of the young person to warrant such evident excitemeut on the part of my companion. ‘he new- comer was a distinctly comely girl of a type not very refined, although her paleness gave her a certain air of distinction. She was dressed with reasonable taste, and in raiment which bespoke a purse by no means empty. At sight of the lady with whom I Was talking she flushed and feli back in her seat with a siaoth- ered exclamation, as they say in story books, and then, rallying as weil as she was able, she made her way out of the car which she had just entered, “Weil,” my companion said, as soon as she recovered her breath, “I never will believe in anybody again in my life. I never heard of anything so monstrous, “What is it?” Iasked, not too soothingly. I amafraid. ‘Have you discovered one of the pumerous frauds that prey upon you?” “They are not frauds,” she returned, indig- nantly; “only that girl—why, that girl has been bedsridden for five years, Isaw her yesterday and she said she had——” “Well?” Lasked, as she stopped. “You may a8 well tell it all, It will amuse and relieve your mind.” “Well,” she returned, with mingled anger and appreciation of the fun of the situation, “she said she had been praying that she might bave one more chance to see the dear out-door world before she died.” The only thing to be said to that is that she belougs in's French novel. She not only robs you, but puns on the ess, She was prey- ing, indeed; but it was on you.’ & whet soo The English authorities are further strength- ening the defenses of Halitax by building a dry dock for torpedo boats, The dock will be 250 feet long and 60 feet wide, and will_be covered by a shed made entirely of iron. Two torpedo boa leave Engiand im afew days for A RAILRVOAD LAND GRANT, * Uncle Sam Pays for Land for a Post Office for the People of Washington. BUT PUBLIO GROUND WHICH THE COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIO BUILDINGS SOUGHT TO RECOVER FOR PUBLIC USE I8 TO BE GRANTED FOR NOTHING TO A RAILROAD, The question was frequently asked in the railroad debate of Monday im the House: “What grants does the Atkinson bill propose to make to the Pennsylvania road?” The ques- tion did not relate to grants of valuable privi- leges, such as the delegation of certain con- gressional powers of iegislation to the Com- missioners for the road's benefit or the power of condemnation, as proposed ‘by the bill. Nor did it refer to indirect grants of property. such as that which is involved in the failure of the bill to remove the road from the mall, or to cause it to improve its occupation of the mall, or to remove grade crossings, at the only time and in the only connection in which these things can possibly be accomplished. In- formation concerning direct grants of prop- erty interests was sought by the question. Free right of way over the public streets and reservations to ground to be purchased or condemned, subject to the approval of the Commissioners, is given. Side tracks in con- nection with the existing tracks have been illegally constructed, crossing. occupying and using frequently for storage purposes certain streets and reservations, the property of the United States. The illegal occupation of this property is confirmed, and the bill not only condones past lawlessness but presents the a) propriated property, without consideration, to the appropriator. ‘The streets and reserva- tions thus occupied are recited in the letter of District Attorney Hoge to the District Commis- sioners, dated June 27, 1889, which reads as follows: Under date the 26th of March, 1887, the then attorney of the United States for this District addressed a communication to the Commis- sioners of the District of Columbia—the board at that time consisting of Messrs. Webb, Wheat- ley and Ludlow—inquiring whether permits had been given by the Commissioners to the Baltimore and Potomac Railway Company for the laying of tracks across certain public reservations and. if so, requesting that copies of such permits be furnished, with # statement of the reasons which influenced the Commis- sioners to issue them. Under date the 11th of April, 1887, the Commissioners replied, trans- mitting copies of the following permits for lay- ing tracks—all of which had been issued by predecessors in office of the Commissioners above named, viz: ‘o W. H. Marlow, to construct, inter alia, “a siding into square north of 642,” date April 28, 1883. 2. To T. J. Shyrock, ‘‘to lay a side track from the tracks of the Baltimore and Potomac rail- road into your lumber yard in south half of square 642,” date March 6, 1854, To Samuel Ross ot Barber & Ross, “to lay @ single side track from baltimore and Poto- mac railroad into square 737,” date March 12, 1885, 4. To Enoch Totgen, attorney of Baltimore and Potomac railroad, ‘to lay side tracks from the main tracks of the Baltimore and Potomac railroad mto square 695 and square west of 69 (apparently a mistake for square north- west of 695), date tune , 1885, The ietter of the Commissioners states “that all these permits are temporary in their char- acter and the tracks are to be removed upon notice from the Commissioners,” although this condition appears upon the face of but one of the permits, to wit: that to Mr. Barber of Bar- ber & Ross. The Commissioners then say that “a preliminary investigation of the question indicates clearly an absence of an authorita- tive understanding as to what are the public spaces under the control of the Commissioners and what are the reservations under the exclu- sive jurisdiction of the federal government,” and add; “These uncertainties it isof{consider- able importance to remove, and the Commis- sioners therefore suggest that the subject be considered by the law department of the fed- eral government, and a final and conclusive statement and map be prepared for the infor- mation and guidance of the Commissioners,” ‘This letter of the Commissioners having been referred by the United States attorney to the Attorney General, and having been considered by him, Iam now advised by the last-named officer that in his opinion the matter calls for no further action on the Patof the Depart. ment of Justice, and I am directed to take legal measures to cause the removal of the several tracks above referred to and all others in this city having no legal warrant for their existence, A personal inspection recently made by one of my assistants reveals the fact that the sev- eral tracks described in the four permits above referred to still in being and in use, as well as the following other tracks diverging from the main line of the Baltimore and Po- tomac railroad, to wit: 5. Siding running into square 267 on the northerly side of Maryland avenue, owned and oceupied by the Baltimore and Potomac Rail- road Company. 6, Siding running into squares 299-300 and 270 on the southerly side of Maryland avenue, squares 299 and 300 being owned by the Rich- mond and Danville Railroad Company and oc- cupied by Messrs. Johnson Bros, a8 wood and coal yards; the owner aud occupant of square 270 being unknown to me at this writing. Note. The act of Congress of August 27, 1838 (25 8. L., 451), authorizes the Richmond and Danville road to run a siding into squares 269, 300 and 299, but from a point and by a route eutirely different from those actually in use. 7. Siding into square 386 on the southerly side of Maryland avenue, occupied by the Bai- timore and Potomac railroad for the ‘purposes of @ freight depot; the title to the square standing in the name of one J.W. DuBarry, an employe of the company. 8. A siding into square 464 0n the southerly side of Virginia avenue, counecting with the ware house of Robert Portner, 9 Another siding in the same square con- necting. with the ware house of Samuel C. Palmer. 10. A third siding into the same square con- necting with the ware house of the Bergner & Engel Brewing Company, Charles Dodrick, agent in charge. ll. A siding into square 493 on the northerly side of Virginia avenue, owned and occupied by the Balumore and Potomac Railroad Com- pany for the purposes of a treight depot and roundhous 12. A siding into square 526 on the northerly side of Virginia avenue connecting with the mill and ware house of the Washington Flour and Feed Company. 13. A siding into square 641 on the northerly side of Virginia avenue connecting with the ware louse of the Auheuser Busch Brewing As- sociation, : 14. A siding into square 738 connecting with the wood and coal yard of John Miller. Of these sidings the following cross open spaces and streets named in order to reach their respective destinations (the numerals used in the foregoing table being used for con- venience of reference), viz: 1. Crosses the open space lying at the east end of square north of square 642, designated on the maps and records of the office of the United States engineer in charge of the public buildings and grounds as reservation No. 109. 2. Crosses both roadways into which South Capitol street is divided by the improved land reclaimed from the bed of the old Washington canal and also the improved space lying in the Ving Of bald streal sak designated on the maps and records of the United States engineer’ office as reservation 112. 3. Crosses the line of New Jersey avenue. 4. The tracks—two in number—into square 695 cross New Jersey avenue, Ist street and the open space bounded by New Jersey avenue, Virginia avenue, Ist street and I street, desi; nated ou the records and maps of the United States engineer's office as reservation No. 174, while those in square northwest of square 695, also two in number, cross Half street and the open space bounded by Half street, Virginia av- enue and H street, designated on the records and maps of the United States engineer's office as reservation No, 241. 6. Occupies part of the bed of 13th streetand branching crosses E vtreet at two points in order to enter squares 270 and 300 respectively. 7. Crosses the open space at the west end of square 386, designated on the maps and records oles U, 8, engineer’s office as reservation No. 11. Crosses D street and bounded by D street, Virginia street, 14. Partly crosses I street and crosses New Jersey avenue and the open space formed by the intersection of I street snd New Jersey avenue and Virginia avenue, known and desig- nated on the records and maps of the U. 8. en- gincer’s office as reservation No. 309, How many if any of these trac! from 5 to 14, bot! under express ‘sronte and » “8 jumbered inclusive, have been laid ——a from the Commis- — of the District of Columbia I am not vised, _In my opinion, based mainly mm _the deci- sion of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Edmonds agt, the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company (114 U.8.. 453), th laying and maintaining of ay railroad track in the streets of the city of Washington, even sid- ings from the main line into adjacent squares, except by authority of an express act of the Congress, is unlawful. That the try Soe is of oa the mabfck. See et ot Aug test acts on the sub; z (5 Stats., 451, Ville railroad it. See act of August authorizing the Richmond and to enter squares 269, 299 and 300, andact of A it 13, 1888, (25 Stats, 439), au- thorizing the ‘Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company to lay aside track ito square 1025. If the right to lay sidings were a necessary in- cident to the right to run the railroads throuth | the city there had been uo occasion tor this legislation, Vhether the lands over which some of the tracks above described be designated as “‘pub- lic reservations” or “open spaces” seems to be immaterial in view of section 222, Revised Stat- utes United States, relating to the District of | Columbix,which provides tha: “no open spices, public reservations or other public ground iu the city of Washington or any ion of the public streets or avenues in said city shall be occupied by any private person, or for any private purpose whatever.” So far as the tracks complained of are ex- preasly authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, those officers would appear to be responsible to the law for the con- sequences of their presence both in the streets analen tuo “open spaces” or “public _reserva- tions;” while as to those, if any, which have been laid without such exprens permission, the liability of the Commissioners seems to attach to the presence of the tracks in the streets and avenues, inasmuch as the Commissioners, as successors to the board of public works, are charged with the entire control of the streets, avenues, alleys and sewers of the city (section 77, Revised Statutes United States for District of Columbia.) Entertaining these views I propose atan early day to institute such proceedings as the law may sanction for the abatementot the nuisance of these unlawful tracks. Comity dictates (espe- cially in view of the change of the personnel of the board of Commissioners since the date of the correspondence between this office and the Commissioners on the subject) that I should inform you of my views and intentions, to the end that should you be so advised you may take steps to relieve the Commissioners from the responsibility in the premises, Very respectfully, (Signed) Jxo. Brak Hoor, _ Attorney of the United States for the District of Columbia. The commissioner of public buildings and grounds had complained vigorously of the oc- cupation by the road of certain of the reser- vations enumerated in Mr. Hoge’s letter, and had endeavored to secure legal proceedings to remove the tracks and abate the nuisance. (See reports, of 1886 and 1887.) The bill pro- poses that these reservations which this ofticer sought to recover for the United States shall be given without compensation to the corpora- tion which has seized and illegally used them, The reservations involved are described by the commissioner of buildings and grounds in his report of 1887, and the exact amount of prop- erty granted in legalizing existing tracks can be ascertained from the schedule at the end of this report. Mr. Morrill, in his Senate speech, says in respect to the property of which the gratuitous grant is now proposed: The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Com- pany have placed a freight depot on square 386 without any authority of law and in spite of j notice of objections against the selection of the site. They have also invaded reservations 174, 178, 241 and 309, although prohibited from entering any lot or square owned by the United States, and it appears to be the readi- est land jumper of the age. Between New Jersey avenue and South Capitol street, 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 even trench upon the sidewalk of reservation 17. In addition to this four tracks cross and cover reservation 174, four other tracks cover reservation 178 and four more tracks cross and cover reservation 241. All of these, as well as the track across New Jersey avenue to square 737, though short, have been made without the slightest authority and in de- fiance of law. These reservations are of the triangular shape peculiar to Washington and are greatly appreciated by its citizens, but the aggressive war powers of appropriation by this steam railroad seem to be auto- cratic, and an act of Congress is looked upon apparently with contempt. he four wacks whisk go over reservation 174 also cross New Jersey avenue and Ist street southeast out any legal authority what- ever, nor is there any authority of law for the four tracks which have invaded reservation 173 to cross Half street southeast. There is still another branch of tracks over the smail reser- vation 109, which crosses F street without au- thority of law. Having only an implied rigitt to pass through the large reservation 101, of ‘23g acres, with one track, or at most with two, they have placed upon it a large group of tracks, 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, Heavy 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 13}4 streets, for which there is no authority of law. The most im- portant reservation as well as many minor ones in the south part. of the city have thus been seized by the railroad company, and instead of being improved and made a ible decoration they have been made a positive nuisance, ‘The desecration is keenly felt by citizeus in this vicinity, who observe that favors such as were cor and protected elsewhere are here de- jenied, ——_>__. WOMAN’S PHYSICAL HEALTH. Importance of Bgdily Training and Hygienic Precaution. From the British Medical Journal. Mr. Frederick Treves culls attention to a perfectly new branch of the work undertaken by the society with reference to physical edu- cation. Within the last few years an immense deal of attention had been directed to the matter of physical education. It had been pointed out that the education of the mind was well looked after while, the education of the body was practically allowed to look after itself. Parents did not realize that proper physical education must be conducted on as precise and as careful scientific lines as the ordinary education of the mind. Parents were quite content to send their children to gym- nasiums, aud when they had done this felt sat- isfied that their physical education was com- plete. They were unaware that there was no proper control over the teachers of gymnastics and calisthenics, a large number ot whom were people totally unfit for their work. The particular object of the society had, per- haps rather more reference to children and women than to men and boys. As a matter of fact, the latter class was admirably looked after. Noone could find much to criticise in the athletic pursuits of our public schools. When they came to the London shop boy they found his condition had been materially changed; he had taken to bicycling and other pursuits. When they came to schools, and especially to the girls’ schools, it must be confessed that the conditions were about as bad as they very well could be. They heard a good deal of the enormous advances of civilization during the last fifty or hundred years, and their marvelous improvement on the unfortunate savage, who had straight limbs, graceful carriage and an absence of the ordinary aches and vains, and he was not disposed to be always taking tea or to be living in an atmospliere of tonics. People did not scem to aware that by @ judiciously supervised sys- tem of education, exercises, aansiig (atest ito ti development of the body it was possible toulter its proportions, to reduce redundances and to develop deficient and feeble muscles. Motives of vanity and re- gard for the future physical development of their girls might so influence mothers who were indifferent to higher considerations to see that the physical education of girls was carried out, whether in families or in schools, under persons trained, skilled and having the requisite knowledge to make such physical training in respects useful and in no case injurious. Neither could be said of the very limited amount of physical traiuing now given to girls. It was pointed out that the National Health Society's diplomas would be granted to such teachers of gymnastics, calisthenics and physical exercises as had fulfilled the necessary curriculum and passed the required examina- tions. The society hoped by the institution’ of this diploma to encourage the development of physical education in tnis country; to render such training precise, effectual and scientific; to protect the public, on the one hand, from incompetent teachers, and, on the otier, to es- tablish the position of such instructors as were fully qualified, It was intended, however, that the work of such teachers should be de- voted and restricted to the one/legitimate ob- ject set forth in the diploma, namely, physical training,and that theyshouid not undertake the treatment of deformity or disease ‘by ‘‘move- ment cures,” “remedial exercises,” “4 e and the hke.” The diploma would certify that the candidate had passed an examination in the art and science of physical education, had fulfilled the curriculum required by the society, and was fully to act as an instructor of gymnas calisthenics and physical exercises generally. Four People Tied and Burned to Death. The skeletons of four people, two adults and two children, were found by the roadside Wed- nesday near Doubie Springs, Winston county, Ala, The bodies had been burned. The irons of ry were found in the pile of smoulderi: cceemece mame eres vehicle, and > whole burne; are Bu] to be those peddlers, PLATT VS. DEPEW-MILLER. The Campaign i Swolhes in the Empire ite. ONLY ONE JUDGE TO ELECT, YET IT Is A MO- MENTOUS FIGHT—THE LEGISLATURE FLECTED CHOOSES MR. EVARTS’ BUCCESSOR—TIE CON- GRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. Special Correspondence of Trr Frrvrva Star Acsasy, N.Y., June 13.—ihe Nov -mber e ‘on ia New York state this year is to turn most wholly on national issues, There are no State officers to be elected, an occurrence thst comes only once in six years, and the only of- fice for which the whole state will vote will be ‘an associate judge of the court of appeals, an office involving no partisan iseues, Accord- ingly, neither of the parties expect to hold » state convention this year. But the state will elect its delegation of 34 members to the House of Representatives and also an assembly of 128 members, who will take part in the election of ® United States Senator to succeed the Hon. William M. Evarts, It is a foregone conclusion that Mr. Evarts will in no event be his own successor, and as yet the can- yass for the position has not assuined definite form. The state senate, which holds over, com- prises 19 republicans and 13 democrats. The present assembly consists of republicans and 56 democrats, It requires 81 votes on joint ballot to elect a Senator. On this basis the democrats must elect 68 members of the new assembly in order to capture Mr. Evarts’ seat in the Senate, while the republicans can win with 62 assemblymen. The words “on this basis” are used advisedly, for there is some likelihood that whichever party has a majority in the assembly (65 votes) may proceed to elect Mr. Evarts’ successor, Tite feeling in this state, even among republicans, against the unseating ot democratic Congressmen at Washington this year is much stronger than is probably realized at the natioual capital, and if the opportumity for retaliation should be open to New York democrats some hot-headed leaders would ad- vise that course, This fecling has been inten- sified here by the fact that the seats of two democratic state senators, each of whom had 3,000 majority, are contested and the contests will be voted on in January, Should the demo- crats have 65 votes (a majority) in the assem- bly, and should there be any grounds whatever for contesting the seats of republican assem- blymen, a democratic United States Senator from New York would probably be a result. If they have 68 votes a democratic United States Senator is assured. THE SENATORIAL STRUGGLE. But under the present apportionment of as- sembly districts the only hope for the election of sixty-five democratic assemblymen lies in the operations of the new election laws of the state and in the strong probability that ex- Senator Thomas C. Platt will be opposed by ex- Senator Warner Miller and Chauncey M. Dy pew in his effort to secure control of the assem- bly and ele@ himself to the United States Senate or designate the man to be elected, Politcians of both parties are agreed that the new election laws will operate to the advantage of the democrats in this state, as they have elsewhere, and there is no friendly feeling en- tertained for Senator Saxton, who secured their enactment, by the republican leaders from Warner Miller and Thomas C. Piatt down through republican Congressmen and republi- can assembly cand:dates to the ward workers, ‘The new laws require a registration of voters all through the state for the first time, and this is acknowledged to be for the advantage of the democrats, » general features of the Aus- tralian system are as well understood in Wash- ington as in Albany, and it is believed that they will greatly reduce the expenditure of money at the polls, by which many assembly districts and some Congress districts have been carried of late years. Everything now points to a bitter contest be- tween Thomas ©, Platt and his republican op- ponents, headed by Warner Miller and Chauncey AM. Depew, for the control of the next assembly. If Platt shall reaily enter the race tor United States Senator himself, as many now assume, there can be no question that the democrats will carry the assembly and elect Senator Evarts’ successor. There is substantial reason to believe that in due season Platt will announce that he himself-will not be a candidate, satisfy- ing himself with controlling the choice, and in that event State Senator J. S. Fassett will be his preference. The supposition that he cannot, under the Constitution, be chosen is an error. It is reasonably certain that Platt will have a majority in the assembly caucus and that no one. except Chauncey M. Depew, will be strong enough to oppose him or his choice in the joint republican caucus for Senator. Warner Miller is out of the question and Evarts is not men- tioned as a possibility, THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. The delegation from New York in the House of Representatives stands 19 republicans to 15 democrats (or did so stand until the recent death of Wilber, republican). The democrats will certainly tie the delegation (17 to 17) and will probably have a majority. Only one of the fifteen districts now represented by a democrat isin any danger to that party. The thirty- third district, represented by Wiley, democrat, is a republican district, and Wiley was elected in the presidential year through republican dissensions. The same dissensions still exist and have indeed been aggravated by the Presi- dent’s appointment of Maj. Low 4s customs surveyor at Suspension Bridge. In an off year it will be easier for a democrat to carry the district than in a presidential year, and if Wiley consents again to become a candidate he is reasonably certain to win. The democratic fight will be conducted in seven districts now represented by republicans. The twenty- fourth, represented by the late David Wilber, is a strongly democratic district and is sure to elect ademocrat, It is common report that $75,000 went into the district for Harrison and Wilber in 1888, and it is an easily demonstrated fact that from $20 to 40 were spent for imdi- vidual votes. The fifteenth district elected Stevers, republican, by 74 votes in 1888 and will be regained by the democrats, Bacon, the democratic nominee in 1888, had to meet the money of the sugar trust, which ro- sented his course as chairman of the committee on manufactures of the Fiftieth Congress in its trust investigations, and also had on hand trouble about small federal patron- age. The district will return a democrat this year. The twentieth district, represented by John Sanford, is notoriously the most corrupt in the state, and even larger sums are spent in it than in the twenty-fourth. For a dozen years it has been debauched by candidates with large means and political ambition. The democrats believe that the new election laws preventing corruption and intimidation of em- loyes in the manufacturing towns of the Mo- t ‘k valley will give them this district, but it is so long since the district has cast an unpur- chased vote that it is hard to estimate a resuit, If ex-State Senator John Foley will accept the democratic nomination chances would favor his election, Sanford will probably be renom- inated. The seventeenth district, represented by Kuapp, republican, is in somewhat similar con- dition. It is a republican district, but is held up to its late figures by the liberal use of money. Knapp will not be renominated, the re- publican nominee going to Ulster ‘county, probably to Jacob Lefevre. if the democrats nominate State Senator Linson be is reasonably certain of election, IN GOV. HILL’s HOME. The twenty-eighth district was cnt out asa close republican district where a good demo- erat could win, and Mr. Flood’s predecessor wasa democrat. It is the home district of Gov. Hill and also of State Senator Fassett. secre- tary of the republican national committee, and will be the scene of a hot fight. Flood will robably be dropped by Fassett. Money has een freely used by both parties in the district, and the result there this year will be a good all-round test of the new ballot laws. Of these five districts the democrats wili surely carry two, probably three, possibly four, and there is a remote chance that all five may elect demo- crats, ‘The two remaining debatable districts are the twenty-third, representea by Mr. Sher- man,and the thirty-second, represented by Mr. Farquhar, Mr. Sherman and his two assem- blymen were anti-Platt men this year, and the republican boss would not shed tears to see him defeated, but the democrats of the district are hardly in shape to take fall advantage of re- [express differences, although they believe the allot law will help them very much and may take them through. The thirty-second district is reasonably sure to elect a republican to sac- ceed Mr, Farquhar, although the McKinley tariif bill has cut heavily into the republicans of Buffalo, and may prove enough to turn the district, Mr. Farquhar has had nothing but protests against the Lill from his constituents, remaining districts will probably be un- tically. Covert (democrat) will probably be renominated, although Perry Bel- mont is said to wish to re; it his old dis- i ‘he Brooklyn demo- cratic organization will elect three democrats 1m the second, fourth and fifth district ts, pect to run ex-Postmaster J. ©. H, x against him, counting on re; over patronage to give them chance in this beevily republican district, ‘tcham, of course, will be returned from the sixteenth, and Quackenbush will probably be renomi- nated and re-elected in the hteenth, al- though there is a republican disturb- ance in the district. BELDEN WILL COME BACK. Mofiiitt. the twenty-first, will give way to John Wever, member of the republican state committee, ander the two-term rule of the dis- trict. Lansing, in the twenty-second, will be | fought by Platt, nd_ there is's possibility that ex-Congressman A. X. Parker wi his suc- cessor, Belden, of course, comes back from the twenty-fifth, and will also take a hand this Year in thwarting Piatt's attempt to control the assembly. DeLano, in the twonty-sixth, will give way to a new man under the two-term | rule, but out of the haif dozen candidates the nominee cannot now be selected; perhaps ex- | State Senator Barager. There is strong oppo- sition to the re twenty-seventh, but it will probably not be successful. The nomination, under the party rule of the district, goes to Wayne county, and State Senator Saxton, anthor of the ballot law, and ex-Deputy State Secretary Wood have been spoken of as possible candidates, Raimes will be renomimated in the twenty-ninth as Platt’s most useful man at Washington in the House. Baker will try for and probably get « renomination in the thirtieth. Sawyer will re- tire in the thirty-first, and ex-Controller Wads- worth, ex-State Senator Walker and ex-Lieut, Gov. Hoskins seek the nomination, which is equivalent to election. Laidlaw, in the thirty- fourth, gives way to a new man from Chautau- to Jerome Fisher. Evorxe T. ChamMpencar. renin BEER FOK A PRIZE, A Gold Watch For Any One Who Con- sumes 600 Bottles Over the Bar. Anew method of buying a watch has just been introduced in Washington. You can get areal gold one at no other expense than the consumption of 600 bottles of beer. It must be a particniar kind of beer, which the manu- facturer is anxious to introduce. With each bottle that you drink you geta yellow ticket, and when you have accumulated 600 tickets the bar tender will give you the watch im excha: for them. You are at liberty to go on, if you like, consuming the same kind of beer, thus obtaining more watches, One can easily con- ceive the passionate interest with which the beer drinker, looking forward to the acqui- sition of a timepiece, would pursue a course of rogressive stimulation, realizing how every ottie swallowed brings him nearer the priz: The latter is hung up over the bar, with a sign attached to it saying that it cost €25 wholesale, When the time arrives for its delivery to him who has earned it another just ke it is hung up inits place, This idea is anew one aud will doubtless become popular as an advertis- It isan adaptation of the prac- Sanday echools of giv- are good, merit pious scholar to a reward. course, many customers will not have the for tnde to hoid out to the extent of 600 bott and thus the brewer will not be obliged to y for so many watches, Men will carry around their tickets with the name of the brand of beer on them and show them to their friends, > WOMEN AND CABs. As a Class They Are Not Liberal Pa- trons of the Cab Service. From the New York World. If the patronage of the New York cab com- panies were limited to the fair sex there would be very few two-wheclers about town. Women, as 4 class, are not given to promiscuous driving. When they want an airing they climb on the roof of a 5th avenue stage and go from Wash- ington Square to Central Park and back again foradime. With 25 cents they manage to get all the lung bath anybody needs, via a park herdic, and then there are the surface cars and the L roads when extremes of the city are visited. If it storms and the beauty of anew shoe or the luster of a neat frock is in danger it is time enough to call a cab or waylay a four- wheeler on a neighboring thoroughfare. Then itis that the bargaining begins and the rheu- matic driver demands # full hour's pay for any trip exceeding two miles. If the occasion is urgent, if calls are to be made or a dress maker is the object of pursuit, the woman patron hires the wagon by the hour, and before she is fairly seated takes her watch ‘opt and marks thetime. Then she goes thither of any lengtn of time, and 80 arranges her program as to reach home on the stroke of the first or second hour. Although the printed the occupant knows them by heart, she will nevertheless ask “How much?” and pay not a penny more than he is entitled to. Said anold cabman to the writer: “I have been standing in 42d street here since 1867, and never have I had an extra ten-cent piece from awoman. They are all alike and their name is close. I never drive oue that she doesn't want to go like an engineer, and if I demand extra pa time. They all want their money's worth. they agree to travel at mile rates and doubt my estimate of the while they go into a oftice for points and thi the difference amounts to. If they hire me by the hour they will hold the cab till the fail hour is up. I never knew one of them to cheat in the time and never met one who paid for a fraction over. ug store or telegraph to the stand, but a womar never pays for any- thing she doesn’t get. Unless she is with a man I don’t care much about carrying her.” HOW WOMEN SHOULD WALK. Strike Out. From the New York World. Walking parties are likely to be in great favor this summer if the plans of the Ladies’ Athletic Club of New York may be taken as an indication of feminine inclination, The mem- bers of that organization have arranged schedule of long-distance walks for every day until July 1. There is no doubt that this pastime. properly indulged in, is a saving grace to womaukind. It is the simplest form of outdoor exercise, and yet the majority of American women don't know how to take it, They can't walk. They can’t stand the fatigue, and, if the truth must be told, they don’t know how to go about doing it. Eight out of a dozen wi!l put on an elabor- ate frock with skirts that flap inconveniently at every step, a tight bodice and tightly fitting high-heeled shoes. This is well enough tor a short stroll, but if you're going to walk and enjoy it you require a different equipment, Wear a hght-weight frock that has no pull-back arrangements and see that there isno more than one skirt worn underneath. Balbriggan tights are quite the best underwear for such occasions if one does not wish to don a silk divided skirt, which is really the next easier to a pair of wings to get about in. Let the cords of your stays be loosened and wear a bodice that is quite easy and loose-sleeved. Wear shoes that are entirely comfortable and have a somewhat broad, low heel, Let your gloves be loose also, and if you carry a san- shade let it be very light in weight, and wear a hat which does uot press down upon and bind your brow until it gives you a headache. Next, mind how you walk. Square your shoulders, expand your chest and look out tor your chin, That is the pivot upon which de- pends the poise of the machine. Step out easily and firmly, letting the ball of the foot strike the ground first so that you get the ben- efit of that beneficent little spring which Dame Nature built into your instep to save the the and jar to the whole system which people wh 10 will walk on their heels inflict on their anat- omy. Don’t exhaust yourself by a fearfully long tramp one day and then lie on a sufs or in a hammock for a week to get over the fatigue. Begin with short stretches and increase the distance daily, Early morning and late after- noon are the best hours for walki When you return to the house # sponge bath, a rub with alcohol, followed by a liberal application of violet powder, a cool gown, a glass of milk and t that qua, either to one of the Sessions brothers or Orr x Au. 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