Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1890, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C.. SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES, ACROSS THE WATER. THE POLICE CRUISER. | ne ratese rom Furopean Center of Washington’s Municipal Navy and How It is Manned. A LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. The Joe Binckburn and Her Doughty Crew—"ien Whe Srave the Perils of the Raging Potomac toSave Lives and Keep the Ch Clear. ~iknesilaaeeioee N ACCOUNT of the limited amount of funds the Washington police navy as at ent constituted consists of only one cruiser and that is named after Joe Blackburn, the popular Senator from Kentucky. While not the fastest or best boat for its uses it has served well the purposes for which it was bought, The officers who man it have saved half a dozen to a dozen lives and a large amount of property. The boat runs at the rate of about ten milesan hour, and its Vigilant officers do not jet anything of any con- sequence escape their notice. © officers of the boat are: Capt. J. R Sutton, more famil- iarly called Commodore Sutton, Officers Boyd and Constantine, who are known as first and second mate, and James B. Mills engineer. Commodore Sutton tips the scales at con- siderably more than 200 pounds, and he is con- sequently good man on the boat in rough water. He is a native of this city, having been born here in 1847. on the Mth day of May. When old enough he attended school at the old Washington Semi- nary, on F street be- tween 9th and 10th streets northwest, and afterward learned the baker's trade with Noerr Bros., corner 11th and E streets, where he worked until 1864. In that year he went to — an as a f rernment bakeries aud remaine there until the clove of the war. In 1966 be returned to this city and was one of the few cial policen.en appointed at thst time. the 17th day of February, 1973, J. R. Sut- “Bob,” went forth ee b of the Metropolitan police force, After seven years of police duty in the principal parts of the city he was detailed as oyster inspector, and a year later as harbor master. After per- forming in a creditable manner the duties as- signed him fora year the Commissioners suc- eveded in getting a bill through Congress creating the office of harbormaster and Police- Man Sutton was appointed to fill the ottice. There was no boat at that time and the har- bormaster found it extremely difficult to prop- ly look after the interests of the District, i in 1885 the boat was purchased. icer Russell Dean is one of the most im- ant son the boat, It is due to him the small police navy bas never run ona come fastened por that e mud. He has piloted the boat on {==> many a trip up and down the river and in tortuous channels around the flats, where no one but a good pilot could manage togo. He born Charles was in county, Md., in 1859, and received a common school education at Chariotte Halil, where the principal schools of \ the county were then located. Upon leaving School he accepted a N Position on the Mary- land police boat Katie, on which he assisted in protecting the large oyster beds in the lower Potomac from the raids of the oyster pirates. After a year's service in the oyster navy of Maryland he gave up that position and served as pilot and mate on the Potomac river steambouts, making many perilous but successfal vorages from this city to the mouth of the Potomac. Having received a discharge from the United sh Commission he was appointed on the force in 1835 and was assigued to duty in South Washinzton, When the police boat was purchased Otiicer Dean was one of the first selected to do duty on it, and he has been at the helm ever since, Oficer George W. Boyd has been on the po- lice boat ever since it has been a police boat, ‘ud, like the other officers of the boat, he fully acquainted with the waters of the Dis- trict and kuows its ex- act boundary lines. He was born iu Youkers, N. Y.. in 1862 and came to this city when four years old. During his early school days he always hada desire to go to sca, and in 1877, when he had finished his studies in the pub- lie schools, his parents consented to let him go. He enlisted in the navy and spent five years among the “jack tars,” serving most of his time on the U.8.S. Vandali that was afterward lost at Apia, At the end his five years’ enlistment he went in the service of the Pennsylvania Telephone Company as endent of construction and built lines ew Jersey and Pennsylvania. He terward a telephone operator in the In- Department, which position he resigned in 1555 to accept am appointment as @ member of the police foree. He had only been on the force about two ars when Jobn Jackson, the notorious “ghost »ber,” made himself felt in the northern part of the city by robbing nearly two dozen houses and then shooting Policeman Sheehan. Ail the police force was im hot pursuit of that danger- ous criminal, but Officer Boyd got ahead of y the rest m. By a thorough investigation of Ja conduct the officer pinned no less than fifteen burgiaries on bim and as @ result Jackson was given twenty years. Oiiieer Boyd later on captured another no- torious burglar named Jim Carroll. who re- ceived a ten years’ sentence. He axsirted also ap the arrest of Jim Myers, who was given fif- tren years for rape. consideration of the good work done by the officer aud his knowledge of the water he was detailed on the police boat. Ofticer A. C. Constantine has not been on the boat as long as his brother officer, Boyd, but he has been there long enough’ to become thoroughly acquunted with the workings of the navy, and in case of an emergency he could boat into har- He was born in Westport, Exsexeounty, N.Y... March 13, 1857. was eight 3 his parents mw to Virginia. In 1869 they moved to Washington, Being twelve years old at that tim the datter a few years of study he ntas aclerk in the rdwaye store >f the rge Savage.and from there he went to learn the carpenter's trade. Finishing his trade he went into the employ of the fish commission as carpenter and worked on the boats of that branch of the gov- erument until he received an honorable naval fischarge, which made him eligible to the po- e force. Atier receiving his appointment he did duty in South Washington aud assisted in making *-Blooutield” a place where people could live in safety. About eighteen mouthe ago he etailed to duty on th good service. boat and has since done James B. Mills, the engineer, was born in Alexandria, Va., May 21, 1846, aud ‘bas most of his life sp in that city and every tug river, and siso on a| fifteen blows of the “autocrat” ure applied to on the posit am the police bout where be confidence and esteem of all iu coutact with him. One of the few women who to solemnize a of North Lei Ohio. She i the Society of Frivada | | number of large steam- | his bare back. In some cases t1 Something over a | thirty blows bave been administere: , with the ‘accepted | effect of sending te patient to the hospital for jtuon of engineer pony ® day. { penalty TRE RICHEST ORPHANAGE IN DUBLIN AND ITs ‘TRAGEDY—HIGH MORTALITY IX ZOLA's NOVEL— ASMUGGLER'S TRICK ON TRE RUSSIAN BORDER— BERNADOTTE AND HIS TATTOOED ARM. Correspondence of Tux EVENING Stam. Loxpox, June 25. HE RICHEST and most famous orphan- age in Ireland is that founded by the late Dean Kirwan in Dublin. Its pres- tige and its wealth are mainly due to the circumstances connected with the last sermon preached in ite behalf by the dean, who was slowly dying of consumption at the time. Upon this occasion the little fatherless and motherless boys and girls, in their uni- form, sat in rows before the pulpit in St. Pat rick’s Cathedral, while behind them were the flower of fashionable Dublin, As the young preacher moved into the pulpit is pale face, wasted form and hacking cough told the sad story of the relentless disease that had seized upou him. While giving out the text from waich he was to preacu appealingly for the poor children before him there was a moment's pause. The startled congregation saw the dean press his white handkerchief to his mouth 4s in passing pain. Ina moment the dread truth had been revealed to them. ‘The end had begun. As he dropped his hand the soft linen was stained crimson with his life blood. With a single mighty effort, born of the knowl- edge of his approxching doom, he bent over the pulpit, and. as the tears streamed down his pale cheek, white with the pallor of death, he stretched out his hands ina last gesture of benediction over the heads of the little ones, and as he wept murmured faintly the last words he ever spoke: “Oh, my poor children, my children!” ‘Then he fainted. je scene that followed was indescribable. Never did a congregation become so thoroughly aroused into charitable action, Never was there such a coilection in all the annals of charity sermons, Tie men threw their purses on the plates andthe ladies not only gave ail they had with them in money, but tore the gold bracelets from their arms, took the sparkling jewels from their ears, the costly ings from their fiagersand the chains from their necks and heaped them on the salvers and poured them into the handa of the collec- tors to place on the altar. There was nota single dry eye in the sacred edifice, Men silently wept, while women sobbed hysterically, And so it was that before he died that evening Dean Kirwan know that the orphanage he Joved was the richest in all Dublin town, which it still is, One of the European monarchs whose title to the throne has been relinquished was Gustavus IV of Sweden. After his family was dispos- sessed in favor of the Bernadottes. he told bis children that he really was an adopted son and that his so-called father, Gustavus LI], never had « natural heir. In few words, the present reigning family of Sweden is not of royal blood, for Gen. Bernadotte, or Charles the XIV of Sweden, the father of the dynusty, was a Frenchman of not too high birth, who had been foreed upon Gustavus IV by Napoleon I, who desired to place one of his creatures on the Swedish throue. ‘Thus was the royal fam- ily by direct descent dispossessed from their patrimony by weak-minded Gustavus IV, who was not, as he said in explination of his cow- ardly act, an adopted sou. but was the son and natural heir of his father, Gustavus IL A baronet, who was an attache of the German court at the time of Bernadotte’s death, — the following accountot the occurrence: When his physicians considered bleeding from the armas absolutely necessary for his recovery, Bernadotte. or Charles XIV, refused to be bled, alleging that Emperor Alexauder | had bled to death under similar circumstances as those pro- posed. The physicians urged that his com- plaint was an entirely different one from the emperor's, but it was no use and he died. Hix reason for the refusal was then apparent. His arm was tattooed with “Liberte,” “Egalite,” “Fraternite,” done in the 8 when he was an enthusiastic young republican in Paris and an avowed enemy of royalty. ‘the present king of Swed is, therefore, a descendant of Ber- nadotte and not of the old reigning famil Zola’s lat novel, ‘la Bete Humaine,” con- tains a number of crimes which, if placed in a tabulated form, would = & report of prison statistics, M. Zola has killed in the pages of this single story no less than twenty= three persons, besides badly wounding thirt, two more. making in all « grand total of fift: five bloody deeds. Then, in addition to ti! may be nt oned the tact that the author closes his story with a train of eighteen car- riages filled with happy drunken carousing soldiers, unconsciously being carried at lightue ing speed to a fearful doom. For the engineer and lireman bad fallen off the engine while in a fierce fight and were ground to under the wheels. A sequel will be necessary in order to decide whether a greater aumber of deaths be contained in the pages of “La Bete Humaine,” for Zola does not attempt to relate the ultimate fate of the loaded train, but leaves it whirling through stations and plunging madly over the track without a guid- ing hand on the throttle, ‘Traveling from Wirbailen along the German frontier to St. Petersburg is truly one of the bitterest experiences imaginable. The iand- Seupe is monotonous in the extreme, with its endless plains and stunted fir woods, its weird steppes and boulder-strewn hillocks. The car- riages, though comfortabir fitted up, are over- heated in winter aud so badly ventilated in summer that it is ike occupying the center of an old Egyptian oven to travel therein, All the carriages ure provided with handsome lamps, but these remain unlighted and a small candle ima lantern is used instead. because the reser- voir of petroleum which is meant to feed the lamp, having been cleveriy placed right above the flame which passes through the center, the lighting of the latter would end in « calamity of no small consequence to those sitting in its neighborhood. Several more or, less violent explosions took place before this defect was discovered, and many travelers were grievously injured. It takes the Russians a long time to make up their minds to any alteration of exist- ing things, in spite of what has been said to the contrary, and there is but littie chance of thie foolish lamp arrangement being remedied for e present. It is difficult to conceive how even # Russian mechanic could have contrived so inane a lightin parftus, unless he had mihilistic tendenc nd « sinster intention of blowing to pieces all first-class passengers, Some of the lobaveny eat in Southern Russia, to evade the custom house duties, are curious eaough to amuse American readers. Some time ago two large cases arrived simultaneously at two of the Kussian frontiers, and remained there unclaimed. After the regulation period had elapsed they were opened and were found to contain gloves, which were ordered to be sold by auction according to law, A dealer, on looking at them, cried out that they were’ all right hand gloves and of no possible use to any one. Consequently they went for next to noth- ing, far less, in fact, than the tax would have amounted to had the gloves been in pairs, It is needless to add that the case at the other fro: tier contained nothing but left hand gloves, and that they were, of course, bought by a con. erate. A story of alady who was in great distress, because she was detained at a frontier, on account of a formality of passport, bi lately created a great deal of amusement in Russian society circles. Young Countess N—, the lady in question, was accosted by a man who offered to drive her across the frontier for the sum of thirty roubles, to which arrange- ment she gladly consented, in order to suve twenty-four hours delay, On approaching the frontiér line or road the man exclainy Y must make it fifty roubles, Barina!” ‘0, in- deed,” laughed the grand dame, “and af you do not Grive on at once I'll inform of you.” Un- protected females seem to know how to take care Of themselves even in Russia, for the man, thoroughly cowed by the countess’ threat, drove ber across the frontier without further ado and as rapidly as possible. Her voice had an echo of the kuout in its bell-like tones as she spoke to him, and he knew too well to re- sist, ‘Talking of the knoxt, which, like capital pun- ishment, long ceased to exist as a legal in the Kussian statute book, it is re- Tarkalle to state thut there are almost more exceptions than rules in the Muscovite code of mercy, and that there is no country in Europe where’ so many pe ple are annually flogged, hanged or shot. The knout still exists, as many a poor devil could testify, in the czar's ewpire, and especially im the Caucasus, and in Siberia it not only exists, but holds sway over terrified masses of suifering humauity. Only Persons of the baser sort, such as abmen and drovinsks, are knouted, and the accidental non-observance of this rule is fraught with « great deal of danger for the impatient offender. The knout which is used at police stations is called samoderzharka or “autocrat” and consists of a number of —. on with four knots and a s0-calie le.” The prisoner ii and paratus y tied with whip eord, and then eight to and evel this is done le; suspension of the cctnct ead te i court-martial, Many is the time TRANSATLANTIC PORTRAITS. Sketches of Two Prominent Men on the Other Side. It is Sunday at London. We are in the pro- cathedral at Kensington and Cardinal Man- ning is to preach. The church is crowded to its utmost capacity. The cardinal, attended by two young priests, stands in the pulpit, clad in full canonicals. Tho thick, heavy vest- ments, embroidered from top to bottom with goldand many colors, hang about his frail body; the high jeweled miter is on his head and in his thin, withered hand he bears massive crozier. His face is that of an anchorite, an ascetic, one whose mind ts elevated above this life, and whose thoughts are fixed on the world to come, It is a strangely impressive face—a face which makes you Jook at it closely and carefully, ‘The features are small and sharp, the sunken wrinkled and furrowed, the nose is finely molded, the lips are fhin'and firmly compressed, denoting a man of resolution and courage; the complexion is colorless, almost ghastly, while under the massive brow glitter a pair of cyes deep set and keen. The voice is weak and can scarce be heard at any distance, for age, which hasfspared his mental powers, has attacked his voice and, though his throngs Of listeners observe the deepest silence and re~ spect, only those in his immediate neigabor- hood can distinguish the thoughtful words that fall from his lips, SUCH 18 CARDINAL MANNING, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Westmin- ster, the philanthropist, the social reformer, the friend of the laboring man. In July he will celebrate his eighty-second birthday, hav- ing been born in Hertfordshire in July, 1808. Son of a wealthy merchant of London, who for many years was also a member of parlia- ment, he went to Harrow and completed hi education at Balliol College, Oxford. He grad- uated with distinction at the age of twenty-two and soon after became a fellow of Merton Col- lege. e sults, it is said. of an excellent training at home. While at Oxford he took holy orders and became one of its most popular Preachers. In 1834 he was vicar of a parish in Sussex aud six years later became archdeacon of Chichester. “For twenty years he continued to be one of the foremost of the Church of England clergy. He doubted, how- ever, subordination of the church to the state in matters of faith and he was carried little by little, after much perplexity and hesitation, to the Church of Rome, which, in his estimation, had the merit of accepting final decisions in religious questions from spiritual rulers only. In_ 1851 he entered the Romish Church priest and founded a congregation in Bay water, London, which still exists. His going over to the Church of Rome naturally lost him many dear friends and subjected him to the severest criticisms, especially as there was much ill feeling abrond at the time between Roman Catholicism and the Church of England over what was- called papal aggression, Some declared that the time was near at hand when Rome once more would hold England under her power. In 1865 Dr. Manning was conse- crated archbishop of Westminster in succession to Dr. Wiseman, deceased, and in 1875 he re- ceived the cardinal’s hat, ATTITUDE TOWARD THE WORLD. A firm believer in anda powerful advocate of papal infallibility and its attendant teach- ings, Cardinal Manning's dream is the reunion ef christendom under one head, the pope at Rome. But while he looks for the re-estab- lishment of the medieval church, he neve theless is in perfect touch and sympathy with modern social and political life. He is « dem- ocrat in the true sense of the word; his writ- ings on the labor problem show that he is a social reformer of no small activity, aud his recent arduous work in connection with the London dock-yard strikes shows that he con- siders old age no impediment when good may be done or suffering relieved. The temper- ance movement has in him one of its warm- est advocates. and, in short, there are few great philanthropic movements of the day in which he does not prominently figure. Henry Labouchere, M. P. One of the foremost men in public life in Eng- tand is Mr. Henry Labouchere, M.P. Few can boast of such an eventful career as this whim- al and remarkable man. Born in the very heart of London Mr. Labouchere, after a child- hood spent at Borking, a small town in Surre: was s ent to Eton Colloge and thence to Cam- bridge. University life to him did not mean a life of study, for when he was supposed to be devoting ail'his time and brains to classics and mathematics, he was usuuily making himself comfortable at one of the‘clubs in the Strand. It is said that one day he met his father on that thoroughfare and when accosted blankly denied his identity, much to the old gentleman's astonishment. Jumping into a cab he dashed off to the railroad station and caught a train to Cumbridge and when his father came up on the next he was deep in hi books. His suspicions having been thus qui- eted, dinner at the hotel and a £5 note was the reward the relieved and delighted oid gen- tleman gave to his dutiful boy. In 1854 Mr. Labouchere was appointed attache here in our own city and, as he dryly quoted, “left his country for his couatry's good.” Diplomacy seems to have been to his taste, for during the next ten years he was in that service at Munich, Stockholm, Frankfort, St. Petersburg, Dresden and Constantinople. While Mr. Labouchere, as he himself admits, did not serve his country to any great oxtent during these years of diplomatic service, his labors confining themselves to arranging duc and giving breakfasts, nevertheless he picked up in his travels much useful knowledge of the world and the ways of men, AS A SHOWMAN. Tiring of the diplomatic service he turned his energies to the showman’s business and ran a concern in that line out on the prairies, instructing the Sioux Indians in the arts of the civilized world. But it needed only six month of a showman’s life to prove to him that he was no Barnum, go after a short stay in Mexico he returned to England and there feund him- self in possession of a handsome patrimony. Now his restless eyes looked to @ seat in parliament and accordingly in July, 1865, he entered as member for Windsor,’ but next year he was unseated. Turning his back on Westminster and polit charge of the Queen's Theater, London, as being something m suited to his fanciful and adventurous spirit. The venture was, like tne show business, a failure, and he gave it up. For'the next few years his life was a truly Bo- hemfian one. His personal merits, his wide store of anecdote and reminiscence, his humor and his genial nature readily found him the entree to all the best clubs in London and on the continent His famous letters of a ‘“Be- sieged Resident” in Paris during the Franco- Prussian war give the best and most graphic Account of life at the French capital during the siege. This literary work awoke in him the desire to become a newspaper editor, and ho bronght a weekly culled Truth into existence, after haying gained alittle journal- istic experience in the office of an editor friend. In 1881 Mr. Labouchere decided to go in for politics soberly and earnestly, and he has been an active member of parlinment ever ince, throwing all the weight of his ability in the scales with Mr. Gindstone. At present he is the bead of what is called @ radical fourth party, which takes upon itself most of the crit- icism of the government's actious and plans, AS A SPEAKER, He is an interesting and humorous speaker, rivaling in that respect Sir Wilfred Laws 2, and though his advanced opinions meet with much opposition in parliament nevertheless he is listened to by all parties with expectation and pleasure. His anuual introduction betore the commons of & resolution to abolish the house of peers—a result of his poor estimation of hereditary law makers—is ever the occasion of much mirth, for then he gives free rein to his lively sense of the ludicrous, While some shake their heads and grieve over bis life as wasted, Mr. Labouchere gravely listens aud then smilingly declares that he has enjoyed his life so far, and regrets that i¢ has not suited others—he has been amused and after all suys he, “to be amused is the first condition of man’s existence.” V.L.0, —————_9e—___ A Young Doctor’s Trick. From the San Francisco Wave. The tried physician of « family residing in Van Ness avenue, in very fine mansion, act emerging from there afew days ago a vory ornate and gracoful Esculapian, whose ap- ance is a good deal more ornamental than Tis ability is useful. 1 “Ha, doctor,” said the ornament of the foasten the family physician, “how are you gui , thank you,” was the re- he next took sponte” “Golng yout rouuts, Thee They are ae the 8's,’ Maine salmon fishermen at Penobscot bay re- the salmon catch this . prety! year as not more WOMAN AND WOMAN'S CAUSE. The District Woman Suffrage Associa- AN AUXILIARY TO THE NATIONAL assoctaTIon— SOME OF TRE THINGS IT HAS aCCOMPLISHED— ‘THE PURSUIT OF CULTURE-—JOY OVER WYOMIXG— WHAT I8 DONE AT THE MEETINGS. | RS. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON and Mrs. Lucretia Mott, the latter pow deceased, were the women who called the first convention of women ever held in the world. It convened at Seneca Falls, N. Y., forty-two years ago, In the decla- ration of rights presented at this convention by these women suffrage was not included. There were the rights of education, property, children and all that sortof thing. But once in the con- vention Mrs. Stanton offered a suffrage resolu- tion and Frederick Douglas and she spoke for it and carried it throug! though the suffrage resolution was carried| nimously through the Seneca Falls convention its announcement to the world was followed next day by an ava- lanche of ridicule from all over the country that swept more than half of the subscribers to the declaration of rights from the rolls. And the woman movement might at that time have subsided had not Susan B. Anthony, who has always been called the Napoleon of the movement, begun attending the meetinge of the suffragists at Rochester, THE EARLY WORK, The indomitable will of the young school teacher in that year of 1848 gave the supreme impulse and impetus to the suffrage cause ut the very beginning of its public presentation. And the strongest force aimed against it was ridicule, which the pioneers learned soon not to mind. They besieged their legislatures, and New York was the first state to pass a woman's Property bill. ‘The suffragiste now began jolding conventions all over the coun- try. Mrs. Stanton tells us that she wrote the speeches and Miss Anthony fired them off. ‘The woman suffrage movement grew with the progress of the anti-slavery Societies. Women who heard the pleas of Wm. Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips for equal human rights saw that the argument ap- plied to women not less than slaves, About that tine Hiram Powers’ statue of the Greek Slave was on exhibition in Boston, and the fettered hands and half-averted face of that beautiful marble was to many a moving type of the condition of womankind Lucy Stone began at this time lecturing in Boston, having filled the pulpit of her brother’s church i Oberlin, Ohio, while a student in that college town. : AFTER MANY YEAS. The years have rolled on; war has devastated the country since then and there have been times of great agitation, Through all crises the women kept their purpose clearly defined before the people and their shibboleth was un- mistakable in its meaning. At this day the pioneers profess themselves, all along the line, as satisfied with the position they have won, but they applaud the younger disciples, who must now take up ‘the affairs of the campaign in their determination to press firmly “forward, ‘These new — disciples | have developed theories of their own in consonance always with the constitution of the National Woman Suffrage Association, The women may well be proud of their per- fect organization, First there is the Inter- national Association of Women, that held a council here two years ago, It comprises all | the working societies of women in the world | whatever their purpose or field—temperance. suffrage or Jabor—and Mrs, Fawcett, wife of the blind historian and statesman of London, is the president. The National American Wo- man’s Suffrage Association, of which Mrs. Stanton is the president and Miss Anthony the ice president, is the result of the union of the two suffrage societies, the National and American, and then there is the N: sociation of Women, of which Mii president and Miss Anthony vice president, that includes the working women’s societies of America and that meets every three years. It will hold the next meeting in thls city next year, THE WASHINGTON SOCIETY. The National Woman Suffrage Association has all the suffrage societies inall the cities and towns of the country for auxiliaries and two of the officers of the national society reside in this city—Mrs. Jane H. Spofford, the treasurer, and Mrs, Eliza Ward, augitor, "The Washington society being thus closely related to the national one has given most of its energy to the parent stem. The local society hus never been regularly incorporated and is without charter, constitution or by-laws and it has no published records. Its first presi- dent was Mrs, Wm. A. Denison, who sti!! re- sides in the city, but is now something of an invalid. Mrs. Sophronia Snow held the posi- tion for some time and Dr. Edson (who was one of those in attendance on President Garfield daring his last illness) is now the acting presi- dent. Mrs. Mary 8. Lockwood, author of “The Artistic Homes of Washington,” is the treas- urer and Miss Fanny Edwards and Mrs, H. B. Sperry are the secretaries, THE MEETINGS are held on the second Thursday of each month at the Riggs House, and the annual meeting 1s held in January, There are two hundred members of the local association. The members work quietly but most effec- tively, and accomplish much good for woman- kind ina ptactical way. They have secured the appointment of matrons to take charge of the unfortunate women brought to the police stations, and they hope soon to secure them for the jail, They have not accomplished enough, by any means, but enough has been done ‘to prove ‘the worth these women are to the public service, and a great burden has rolled from the minds of many women in knowing that women who are arrested will now fall into the hands of women, who will deal gently with them. The suffragists are also pursuing the matter of prison reform, and they reach also the hospitals and insane asylums in their search for wrongs to be righted. In all these matters they work harmoniously with the members of the W.C.T.U. : INTERESTED IN G*NERAL CULTURE. They are also interested in the subject of self culture, Mrs. Lockwood has been ap pointed the chairman of a committee to ar- range a course of study. They have selected R. E. Clement's work upon “Civil Govern- ment” as a book for that purpose, » THE WYOMING vicrory, , Mrs, Edion and others feel strongly that some demonstration of joy shoutd be made by the women of the association at the admission of Wyoming as a state, which is regarded by the suffragiste as a signal victory of their prin- ciples. at expected the Dakotas to come into the Union upon the same terms, Miss Anthony, with a corps of able workers, is in this fur western field working for the advancement of woman. She realizes that there is hope of woman gaining political equality in South Dakota, and is, therefore, giving her time and energy unre- servedly to the education of the people upon that subject. Certainly she is dividing with the members of the Farmers’ Alliance and In- dustrial Union the full attention of the people of the northwest. Success in any cause in the Black Hills augurs success throughout that far west that every day has more and more of in- terest and thought devoted to its welfare. > A Little Wide of the Mark, From the Chicago Tribune. The eloquent temperance lecturer paused, wiped his perspiring brow, and said impres- sively to the man on the front seat, who had listened with the deepest interest tothe dis- course and evidently was touched by its pathos and argument: “My friend, it is never too lute to reform. There is hope for the most hopeless. The past ia beyond your reach, but C can control your future. You cannot call ck to your pocket the enormous sum it Probably has cost you to paint your nese the color it has now, but——” “All it cost me to paint my nose as you see it,” said the man in the front seat, rising up, “was $4.60, including railroad fare ‘and ‘boxt hire, I went fishing yesterday. My nose will be 8 fair asa lily in a day or two. But go on with your lecture,” he added, sitting yt again, “I am very much interested.” ——ror_—___— Victoria’s Crown, From the 8t, Louis Republic, The English crown is made up of rubies, sapphires, pearis aad emeralds, set in silver and gold bands, It woighs thirty-nine = Ig Leer fph igomshe gd it there seventeen sapphires aud eleven emeralds, ‘she had returned home she énid to her parents: “At the party a little girl fell from a chair to All the other girls laughed, but I OUTING GARB FOR THE SEASON. New Fashions for This Summe¢r in Bathing and Tennis Costumes. ASHIONS in bathing auite,” said dealer in outing goods to a Stan re- porter yesterday, ‘represent an advance this season over anything in that line hitherto known. Little more than ten Years ago no such thing was thought of as beauty in a bathing suit. People were content to go into the water in garments resembing meal sacks, the understanding being that ‘women were not to be regarded under such | circumstances with the eye of aesthetic criti- cism. As for the men, it did not matter at all how they looked It has only been within a comparatively short time that the idea of costuming for the matter of actual dress and not of mere covering has been considered, Not so long ago I myself saw & woman start for » dip in the ocean at a watering place with nothing on but a mother hubl What she would have looked like upon taking her first dip in the briny I can't imagine, because her gown blew over her head on her way from the bathing house. occasioning her some embarrassment and obliging her to retrect precipitately from view. It used to be a mystery to me in those days how women so careful of their prettiness on land should be willing to make such guys of themselves in the water, EVOLUTION OF THE BATHING RUTT. “But year by year since then the bathing costume has been achieving its evolution, until now a woman can look at least as attractive among the billows as in the drawing room, In fact, there are plenty of fair ones who huve no other object in going into the sea than that of exhibiting their physical perfections in a garb calculated to show them off to their best a Iknewa very charming girl on who was accustomed to say that she would ce tainly be a belle if it were the fashion to walk on one’s head. Of course she only made this remark jocularly to friends of her own sex, be- cause what she meant by it was that hor lack of beauty in feature was compeusated for by an attractive grace of limb. She was much given to ocean bathing in the daintest of not too voluminous toilets. Plenty of young women never think of letting the water touch them when they go in bathing, or at all events they don’t more than permit the waves to rip- ple over their toes lest the brine spoilt the Pretty fabrics of their costumes, It is quite the thing fora beile at the seaside to trig herfelf out in a distinctly ideal bathing suit, not meant at all for use, and sit down on the sand for an bour or so every day at bathing time, with a little crowd of men around her, each one eager for the privilege of holding her parasol, Even the ordinary bathing suit that she can buy at the dry goods shop this season is a thing of beauty. it is made in two parts—the waist and skirt in one piece, belted, and the trousers reaching to just below the knees, where they tighten jer- sey fashion, The trousers are slightly baggy, while the other garment is made to fit sym- metrically at the waist, At the neck it may be had low or V-shaped, Necessarily, coracts form an important part of a woman's costume nowadays. Without them bagginess is un- avoidable, because the clothing will not stay in place in the water, and the female figure @ rare one that can do without corsets at any time. Not a few women lace considerably for asea bath, and the padding, frequently so es- sential, can only be done when stays are worn. SUITS FOR MEN. “Bathing suits for men are likewise better this season than ever bofore, more particu- larly in point of material. Also, they are much cheaper. You can buy a jersey shirt now of handsome dark blue cotton goods that looks like wool, and is really « very pretty garment, for sixty cents; knee pantaloons to match cost sixty cents more. Nothing like them has been sold hitherto for any such price. Of course, men will always prefer the severe simplicity of Adam's costume for bathing purposes; but they are obliged to yield somewhat to fashion in this matter, more particularly at the New Jersey re- sorts, such as Asbury Park, where some young gentlemen were actually ‘arrested a while azo for bathing in an out-of-the way place without Proper apparel, They protested that they were out of eye-shot from the hotels. “Loud stripes for men’s bathing suits hav fone out of style in favor of plain colors, usually blue, and the hideous garments for the ocean made in one piece are no longer the ee wear, The latter, with the bars of glaring tints which usually decorated them, used to make the wearers look more like clowns than anything else. I expect that bathing clothes will go on getting prettier and prettier from season to season. “hte tailor-made beach girl is already numerous, and emulation in that branch of costuming, more particularly on the Jersey coast, where a fringe of the ecient of the United States may be said to hang over the edge of the country into the Atlantic ocean, as it were, is sure to keep up the interest in the development of salt water acsthetics.” NEW TENNIS CosTUMES, “Are there any hew styles in tennis cos- tumes?” { “Decidedly, yea, This season's fashions for tennis rig take a now departure in the matter of colors. The loud tints which have hitherto been in favor do not appear at allin the ma- terials offered by the manufacturers for the summer of 1890, On the contrary, you can see for yourself from these samples that fabrics are all in very quiet checks and such things. ‘This change has taken place because of a simi- lar alteration in the fashions abroad, in Eng- land and France both. Silk, cheviot, flannel and serge are the four correct materials. A new thing in this line is called flannel serge, and is pretty, with narroi worsted stripes and ilk woven in tp give asheen. Instead of the simply knotted dash, « sash and belt com- bined is the fad. It'holds up the trousers and is decorative, too. As for base ball costumes, there is no alteratiog in them—interest in that branch of outing spcrt has diminished wonder- fully. I don’t sell ane-half the accoutrements for base ball this season that I did last. Even the boys don’t care gs much as they did for the game.” Grand Excursi of to Milwau- kee, via B. and O. R. R. The biennial conclave of the order of Kni of Pythias will be held at Milwaukee, from July 8 to July 12, 1890, have been completed for # special train of Pullman palace cars to leave Washington, D. C., via Baltimore and Ohio railroad, connec: ing with the Chicago and Northwestern rail way, for anexcursion at the reduced rate of one-half fare for the round trip, good for re- fura passage leaving Milwaukee as late as aly 18, The train will leave Baltimore and Ohio de- pot 10 p.m, Saturday, July 5, giving passengers a daylight view of the Allegheny and Cheat mountains. From Chicago the excursionists ride along the shore of Lake Michi, Chicago and Northwestern rail! Milwaukee at 12 (noon), Mond The local committee has made ample accom- modations for all visitors. They havereceived 4 sufficient sum of money to guarantee a com- plete program of festivities covering the whole woek for the gratification of their guests, Railroad tickets, good for the round trip, Washington to Milwaukee, €19.55. Tickets good also on all regular trains of July 5 and 6. ‘Those dosiring berths in Pullman sleeping cars must secure same betore July 1, and, on the principle of first come first served, we sug- gest an early application be made, Further information and tickets can be ob- tained from H, Coggins, Washington Divisiun, N . P. Smith, Nelson, No. 2, George W. ley, Columbia, No. 3, or Baltimore and Ohio ticket offices, 619 and 1351 Pennsyivania avenue and depot, . —_--__ A Dead Soldier. He sleeps at last—a hero of his race. and the night Lies softly on his face, While the faint summer stars, like sentinels, Hover above his lonely resting place, A soldier, yet less soldier than # man— Who gave to Justice what soldier can: 10 courage arm, his patient heart, And the fire-soul that flamed when wrong began. Not Cmsar, Alexander, Antonine, No despot beg the old warrior my a as word, whose cruel hands Caught at the throat of love upon its shrine— But one who worshtped in the sweeter years ‘Fhone rights that men have gained with blood and ars: Who led hi armies like a priest of men, And fought his battles jointed spears. —Herper's. ee ry ‘vo. aeons eee eee A Hint to Stage-Struck Girls. From the Chicago Tribune, A Washington stroet merchant says: Ihads very ts Viw., Arrangements postal card this morning fr: Chicago girl om a si jen. One of these fulfilled projects was the times the follower improves on the original, for even ats mest enthusisastic admirers cannot Written for Tux Evexiva Stan. ATTRACTIVE HOMES, Art Work for Summer Days When So- clal Duties Are Not Pressing. AN IDEAL CHINA PAINTING CLAS8—RICH COLOR- ING ON ROYAL WORCESTER—CHINA FIRERS IN WASUINGTON—HINTS FUR DECORATORS ON COM- BINATION DESIGNS, COLORING, ETC. POSALS FORAGE. —SUPPLY DI War Department, Washington. D.C. July 3, 1 tition wall” be wed) at thie rt ST, ane ae he Recal ‘year ending Juue 20, 1Set- such Poreas, Straw. eae may be required to supply the pul horses iu “the ‘War Department stable Bidders REEDOM from ordinary purgu.ts and | Srwsned to versions only comes to the resident of Washington in the summer. One is then exempt from the social duties that pre- vail in the winter or the manifold occu- pations that spring and autumn bring. It is a blessed respite, some approsiative atay-at- homes believe, for to it belongs time to read, time to write and time to carry out the pet ideas which have taken form in the busier sea- establishment some weeks ago of @ china painting class, which turned out quite aa ideal affair of the kind, AN IDEAL CHINA PAINTING CLASS. Tastead of assensbling in the bare confusion of a professional studio the class metat the | Sie home of the originator of the plan. ere on the warm mornings when it required some courage and enthusiasm to go out at all one found coolness and comfort with every convenience arranged for the teacher and pupils, It must have inspired some interest in, the “doing” even in the most confirmed idler to have seen the busy eagerness with which each new step was undertaken and the directions of the skillful teacher followed. Jus: as every one had reached a justifiable de- free of weariness from a morning's labor luncheon would be announced and an hour spent in the cool dining room over the dainty lunch would revive the ardor im the work, ich would be carried on until nearly dinner time by this fresh impetus. The articles chosen for decoration and the manner of the sume were as varied as the dispositions of the several workers, They ranged in size and im- portance from a large jar rich with gold and inted with careful patience to the tiny afte iuner coffee cup and the little ben-bon dis of charming shape and delicate decoration. THE FASCINATING COLORING OF ROYAL WORCESTER was seem on various pieces, with its creamy ground and pink or purple blossoms contrast- ing with the golds and bronzes, The suspense of the several necessary firings was endured, until the final one brought out the coloring in all its beauty of harmony or coutrasts, to fill the painter's heart with pride (and surprise) at what she had accomplished. It was genuine pupil work, too. Only the fewest aud most necessary strokes of the teacher's brush were put on the work, while free-hand designs by the different ones on their own pieces were the only kind encouraged. When the breaking up of the class occurred on the teacher's leaving town it was with the feeling that an opportu- nity had passed that was a rare one for congenial companionship and inspiration for work. As trophies of the pleasant class hours were some pieces of china decorated so prettily that much more advanced workers need not have dis- claimed them for execution or effect, This is one of the ways in which the summer days may be filled with interest, Though working alone after the pleasant intercourse of a class may be less inspiring one is not apt to drop entirely a pursuit which has taken bold of her fancy (for | china painting is fascinating employment) and much may be accomplished before the usual autumn demands upon the time. ci NA’ FIRERS IN WASHINGTON, There is a great advantage in having a num- ber of reliable china firers here in the city, so no risk in packing and sending away has to be incurred. One always, too, feels a pardonable impatience to see the colors as soon as possible after the fire has made them permanent. So one as favorably situated as china art here may have @ sympathetic pity for less fortunate colaborers. As the numbers of china painters increase the dealers make more of an effort to cater to their wants in undecorated wares, and a very good assortment may be found by visiting the different establishments in town, The interest in this work was never so great here before nor the number of workers so large One is astonished to hear the china #- -rs tell of the quantities of china that come to tnem for firing, mostly from the city. Several notable dis- Pi, goo Yor Wire of 26 Rowe St be made for = thes 4 be at PORES FOR MATERIAL FOR REF Batidvugs, &., at Howard University. us duplicate will be rec tved oy the waders /PM. THURSDA, JULY TENTH, T8¥G, Ding J umber, Line, Cement, Hardsere, +208 the repairs of buiidings at Hi: the yearending June 30, 181 hed on appicsuop. The ‘Peject aur QF ali bide rose: vert, Uihee ake’ hou = 3. JOHN>ON, Treasurer. YO 10 om ‘OK CLEANING ALLEYS ‘tou and Georgetown, D.C, pmunasiouers DC. Washingte proposals u ELVE OCLUCK M. SEVENTH, 1800, for sweeping, epriukling and clean~ ine the paved alleyways ai che District of Column F cleaning “wupe! specifications: Separate bids will be received f. sileya, Blavk forms of proposals can be obtaiued at thie office upon for, together with all pecessary uf. upon a yn ah —— Lu iw reserved lo reject any ats nda or J.W. DOUGLASS, LG. HINE, A.M Kobe x missioners D.C. KOPOSALS FOR 8T\TIONERY. SECRETARY'S “ Of the Uusted Staten Wi fecal year. Biank forme of proposals, quant: A quality of each sixtied by the bidds ‘roposals tor States and be directed to the Secretar of the specinens must be deliv= ered at thi mee. A 3. aK, Secretary of the Se ue IROPOSALS FOR PUBL Su ar . meton. DC, July 1, Ls duplicate, inelosed and received at tute often anti, om BAWURbay, JUL ny tare, War y Department Bulld‘ug with fuel during the Beek rendiux June 30, 1891. as follows: 2,000 tous, ra hard, White Ash Furtiace Coal, 25 tune White ve Ll coal must be of the best 5 nn Gust or impurities aud inepected by @sworm S mapector at the cost uf niractor aud to be Welzhed upon the wovernment scales in the court ds. Que hundred cords Hickory Wood ; 50 cords ce Pine Wood. All wood to be of the best quality and inspected by a sworn tuspector at the cost of the contractor; the hickory wood three vered, nd wood to be delivered at the Siete, War Department Buildiug and stored it the arty or parties to whom the coptract or contracts may be aw t r pt any portion of aus bid. ful bidder or vidders will be required to furuish HX) ad @ aTiMrAN Cee Of the faite ft theeontract. TiMIM. WILLIAM: SON, Chief hnwiveer, U.S.N., Superintendent, Pec te PRykosals FOR MISCELLANEOUS TTeMe— Office of the Superintendent of the State, War and. N 4 ut 2 Washington, DC. Jaig Licate. wall be ve- 12° OCLOCK NOON, SAT= JULY TWLLITH, ISSO, for Turnishis 1, 1 ceived at this offic Ol URDAY. thee = ae the Lecal) car ending June 30, 1 we ap, Brushes, ‘S)~ ints, Oil, Ghana, Towel Crash, Cocou Mau crews, keeke. ehedules, forms of pre Ti tevemery. iiformation cos obtained tipou THOM. WILLA N, Chief Bayeuers, CSD Supt gy eR HOPOSALS FOK SUPPLIES, DEPARTMENT OF Justice, Washinxton, v.C., Jume 2, 1600.—seale Proposals or furnishing the Departuceut of Justice with the necessary supplies of the following articles, nawely, Fuel Ice, Stationery, Washing Towels, Mist for ite Use during the fiscal year e: me 380, "LSP. be received until TWEL YCLOCK M. MONDAY, JULY SEVENTH, the office of the chief clerk. ana super Vulding. The richt 4 will be furnished on a] Atlorney Gene bo rattling; tare can't ¢ wheel sade plays were made last winter by teachers of their upils’ work, and so much interest manifested y outsiders that probably auother season may see some larger efforts of the kind. SUGGESTIONS AND IDEAS. To the china painter everything is full of Suggestions and ideas, and when once the teution is interested one’s eyes become remark- ably alert in seeing with “clearer vision” any object that may be capable of giving points on the absorbing subject. In the numerous art papers and magazines there is an infinite va- riety of information and designs, very valuable in its way, but to use the designs is to make your work hke that of possibly hundreds of other readera of the same paper. If, there- fore, one is obliged to copy or trace designs, let it be from some other source, As I said, the eyes will find suggestions for graceful patterns in many things that would pass unnoticed, unless an awakened attention is drawn to them. HINTS IN A PAPER HANGER’S WINDOW. Iknow a lady who never passes a paper hauger’s window, for instance, without a run- ning glance at every piece of wall paper dis- played. This is not because of a deep-felt in- terest in wall papers as wall papers,but her eye is trained to look for suggestious and hints for both painting aud embroidery in everything she sees, and a glance will tell her if an idea is to be gained. In that case acareful second look will maybe open up a whole scheme of decoration for some object she has in mind. It would be impossible for her to pass the papers without this quick interrogatory, which is almost intuitive. Itook the wai case in point, for the conventionalize used on that are equally suitable for all decor- ative work, while the natural forms are often most graceful, PRETTY DECORATIVE BITS TO BE PICKED UP. It is the same with other things also—all ornamented book covers, or margius of leaves, or headings of chapters, are scanned in tho same way, and programs and cards of invita- tion are often Contributors to the stock of ideas which serve her instead of direct models in ber work. It is well to make a collection of all the pretty bits of decorative work, either in colors or black, which fall in one’s way—the little things that have a temporary value, but which after that is passed are usually con- signed to the waste basket. Then when one wants a border of arabesque, or a spray of flowers or leaves, one has a help at hand, and in the arrangement resulting from these hints there isa freedom from servile copying that elevates the work at once. COMBINATIONS, The working patterns that come in art Papers may be used to advantage in a similar way without absolutely copying. A large single flower may be separated from its sur- roundings, or a part of the design chosen in this way, which, differently arranged, may be most effective and original, as far as arrange- ment goes. For instance, a large flower may be taken from an elaborate pattern for « por- tiere frieze, say, in which it is shown in several different forma, These may be, by transfer paper, put on another design as single flowers powdered over the surface. If the pattern is weil drawn you have a good form, while the ar- rangement and coloring may be quite your own, Where one’s drawing is defective, but @ natural taste for combination exists, this may be done with as good results as combining Gaal Samienhd &ehner the Sacto beiug already provided, but the harmony of arrangement and color giving the artistic touch, THE RAGE FOR ROYAL WORCESTER DECORATION. There seems to be a rage for royal Worcester mztou uubiex,” Standard, @125, @ Lagat, esa, “Quadrant” Safety, “Conyeutry Kival, Lovell Safety, €B5. Ail new wheels, all cuaranteed, not second-bend or shop-worn ; a clean and complete assortment of stse drics; Cycles rented and rep mi0-3m LB. GRAVES & CO. 1329 14th st. aw, TOYCLE EXCHANGE, COK. MASK AVI ith xt.u.w.— Bicycles and Accessorias Exchanged, Rented. Kepairiug a syociulty- e1y-Lm* PALMER & 80: “Diamond,’ FR leycLes_ THE Labn price 850, Tread Datety, B50, AML light tubular » © cole bearinae t i sbalis—wo vy cast-iron or cans ite fremen OUF are all made here aud are fully warranted | “ne® CHAWFORD & CO... _et-31 1216 Let. aw, FINE BUAKL SLyONE ix iJ cr COMPE % NSTRUCIORS. KIDING, GUARANTEED, PEC PEEKATED ComBe NATION DART SAFEIIES, PSYCHUS, LEAGUAS, HIGH GRADE BOYs' AND GIKLS’ SAFET aos. apz0tojy4 SALESROOM, Cor. wth and E sta. a.¥, LADIES GOODS. Les; OW JS THE TIME £O LEA! White’ ‘tem to cut apd fit Ladies’ aaslor-made Coxtuines, Coats, &c. Prices reasonable, ‘Terme easy, School opens July 16, ends septemier 10. 1 bis as vot a chart ors machine, buts huowleda@e, a science, an art; everybody knows Mr. White's fitu ceptionally elegant, For iniormation ‘c ‘* a. call GLO, Wait! _PUONTSIE combing - FRONTS" ‘Always in order by plain od MLLE. M. J. PRANDIS, ASev Fat now. Ore, Harrison’, lnujorter of Flatrdressiug. B1Y-Bus” CCORDION (FRENCH) PLAITING, 35 C ‘d. Kuife Viaitiux, 2 cts. por yard np. SLL CAS, Manufacturer of Plating, YOS Yih st awe Piuking. de22- Tu ADIES WISHING THEIR Up iu Arst-cluss French FINE LACES DOXB vie, White aud Satin reanes, Lace Curtaius a specialty, at Yptces, Sul at MADAME VALMONT" wid eeated, Th st uw, mus -dan* PRS DYKING SCOURIXG AND DRY CLEAN- ING ESTARLIFHMENT, New York ove, Firvt-cless Ladies, aud Gents! work of every Gon. 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