Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1890, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. BY THE SUN. WRITTEN The Heliograph and the Recent Ex- periments With It. WORDS FLASHED BY How the Instrument ts Constructed and Operated—Messages Sent From 3 tain to Mountain Over a Dis tance of a Thonsand Miles, LIGHT. OR SOME TIME the pa- pers of this and other eastern cities have con- tained a number of tele- grams setting forth at some length the complete suceess of the recent trial of the heliograph, the new instrument for com- municating at a distauce by harnessing and putting to use the sun's rays. The trials wore all made at the military posts in Arizona and New Mexico and one complete concerted trial was made from the 1st to the 15th of May that brought into service some twenty-five or thirty different stations through- out the two territories. The results were more than satisfactory and every one interested at once saw that the new system was practicable and of real value, especially im @ coun- try where there may be occasional outbreaks of hostile Indians. The heliograph line cannot be cut as can a telegraph wire. In fact no line is required. All that is needed is two struments set up on prominent points of land that command a view of each other and the operators can begin communicating at once, and this can be kept up ss long as the light lasts. A message can be sent a grei distance. too, without any trouble. In the Tecent trial two stations 125 miles apart com- municated with each other freely and rapidly, and by means of a chain of stations 3s were readily sent fora distance of over a thousand miles. The value of such item in times of war or peace can readily be appreciated. and the fact that it is appreciated is clearly seen in the interest that is taken by officers in the regular army and in the national guard. AN EXPLANATION OF THE HELIOGRAPH. But just what is the heliograph and what is beliography? Sun writing, of course, but the way it is done is decidedly interesting. In conversation with a Stax reporter a day or two ago Lieut. R. E. Thompson of the signal service, the officer in charge of the division of military signaling, eaid that the idea of giving out information from the hill tops might al- most be said to be as old as the hills them- selves. “Signal fires by night and columns of smoke im the day time are used by aborigmal tribes the world over,” said Lieut. Thompson, ‘and our modern system is-derived directly from theirs, with modifications and improvements, of course. The Indians, you know, have a great fonduess for mirrors, These they use to assist them while paimting and decorating them- selves, but it was also found that they utilized them to throw reflections from one point to another and by this means to communicate with one another to a certain extent. You can see now the evolution of the heliograph. Use the methods of your enemy if you find them good and improve upon them if you can. Fight fire with fire one might almost say. “Phe heliograph is simply a mirror mounted in such a way that the person operating it can throw the reflection just where he wants it, A movable screen placed in front of the mirror enables him to break the line of light at will. and don’t you see you can have all the dots and dashes you need for your alphabet, and youcan send your message as far as the eye, alone or sided by field glasses, can see the light? Mes06200 107m Bk MORMON Maa SIGATHE AOD Sun m Pnowr A MODERN INSTRUMENT. “The heliograph is quite a modern instru- ment, having been in tse but a very few years, As we have it now it isa great improvement over the first ones and also over the ones now used by other couatries, for you must know its use bas already become quite general. For in- stance, the French instrument is more com- plicated and cumbersome. ‘The mirror is mova- le and by moving itthe operator makes his dots and dashes. By constantly moving the or it soon gets ont of adjustment and this sali sorts of troublesome delays, With. movable screen or shatter does all the You can, of course, see the advantage. “The heliograph consists of & mirror firmly clamped to a bar on top of a tripod, but m such & manner that the mirror can be turned in any direction de At the other end of this bar cular sighting rod that faces the This sighting rod has a movable disk that may be made to cover the point of the rod. At the very center of the mirror isa small unsilvered spot. This makes a sl in the center of the reflected light. T work. or lowers the sighting rod until its point covers the distant station. Then he puts back the disk in place. So long as the shadow falis upon this disk just so long will the flash be visible at the distant station. To compensate for the apparent motion of the sun the operator only has to turn the slow motion screws that govern the mirror in order tokeep the observer at the other end con- stantly m line. By workiug the screen in front of the mirror up and down the flash is made to appear and disappear, an by using the United Stites signal and telegraph code messages can be trausmitted almost as rapidly and quickly as by wire. One mirror is used when the sun is in front of the sender or in such a position that the light strikes the mirror at an angle of 120 or leas with a right line drawn from the ling to the receiving station, Ifthe dis- is Very great tothe distant station two ors should be used when this angle is over a0”. USING TWO MIRRORS, “In using two mirrors one of course is em- ployed to throw the sunlight upon the second and that sends the reflection to the distant sta- tion. The adjustment is but little more difi- cuit than witha single mirror and depends simply upon the operator keeping the shadow from the unsilvered spot on the sun mirror steadily falling ons small paper disk on the Xo ft mdons Pe stolen from ¢ W disk cceiving station.” in the the receivi time the themselves in the new method of signaling were rather made fun of end were jocularly dubbed the “looking glass and handkerchief brigade.” Notwithstaniling this the men atthe head of the army, upon It is said that f. army who interest. he rolves the duty of de and Toeaus and of getting tommothing’ Votist 19 take the place of that is antiquated and used heliograph the mirror is stationary and the’ up, wisely saw that there was much of value the system and that with skill and perseverance it could be made « decided acquisition to the resourcesof the army. Accordingly Col. Wm. J. Volkmar, assistant adjutant general of the department of Arizona. was assigned to the duty of organizing heliograph corps in Ari- zona and New Mexico. Classes in the new stady were formed and as all went at the work with a hearty enthusiam it was not long a trained corps of men were to step into the field and flash intelligently and quickly from peak peak. The first concerted trial took place lagi November and proved conclusively that the new system was a success. Many sugges- tions and new ideas were received from the trial, so that when on the let of last May the party of operators took the field for the second time every thing progressed even more smoothly and the success that attended their labors was such as to callforth the highest praise fro1 Gen. Greely, the chief signal officer, who was out in Arizona for the purpose of witnessing the results. COL. VOLKMAR AT FORT BAYARD. A hne of heliograph stations extended from Fort Stanton, N.M., to Fort Whipple, Ariz., a distance of more than a thousand miles by way of Bowie and Fort Huachuca, and including a number of side stations off the main line. According to the general orders a period of five days has been allowed for getting in readi- ness, but this was not all needed, and on the 5th of May the first heliogram was sent by Col. Volkmar by way of all the twenty-five stations to the terminals of the main line and branches. On the foliowing day Gen. Greely sent a helio- ram from Bowie Peak throug to Washington. ft weut by flash light a distance of 275 miles via Bowie, Grant. San Carlos. Verde and Whip- le heliograph stations to Prescott, Ariz., and anew ‘ashingtou by telegraph. As a result of the various experiments Forts Huachuca and Lookout, 19) milos apart, were connected, with but one intermediate station, Mt. Graham. Huachuca and Bald Mountain were then connected, making a line 306 miles in length, with only three intermediate sta- tions, Mt. Graham, Lookout Peak and Baker's Butte, and the results obtained here were equally successful, On May 13 Mt. Keno, un- der command of Lieut. Wittenmeyer, and Mt. Graham, under command of Lieut. Dade, as- sisted by Licut. Petersen, all acting under or- ders of Capt. Murray, were connected by flash messages that exsily spanned the intervening distance, 125 miles, and marked the highest point of success that has been reached as yet. A POETICAL MESSAGE. On May 10 Col. Volkmar sent a through test message from Fort Bayard to Whipple and Stanton to be repeated afterward to ali branch stations. It was transmitted with a creditable degree of accuracy, containing as few errors as could well be expected after so many repeti- tions. This hetlogram was as follows, a poem written for the occasion and one that has aroused considerable interest among the signal service officers as being peculiarly appropriate: ‘The world's a mighty book upon whose pazes Each man is steruly bid to place his uaiue. Recorded there, throughout euduring axes, We mark the loved and honored ones of Fame. ‘Some touch with tremblizy hand the stylus fateful, Others in tears blot out the te-ble word; And those there be, with spirits dark aud hiteful, Write small their names with the wreat coward herd. But all inspired, with fearless hand the chosen Bid idle plo. ther hands, And mountiug high, "midst tornd zoues or frozen, Enstaup their Daiues op peuks of all yreat lands. Then here. perchance, within this honored cover nk, the: Where nien bave writ i ink, ——_——.—_ COMPETING WITH JACK FROST. How Artificial Ice is Made—Enlarging the Manafactories. *N impetus has been given to the manu- facture of artificial ice all over the country by the recent advance in the price of the natural product. New plants are starting up here and there and old ones are being redoubled and trebled in capacity. Improvements in ice-making machinery have made rapid strides every year, increasing the yield, lessening the cost and cheapening the article. . It has been upward of thirty years since the principles involved came into practical and commercial use, and the near future will see the time when conditions will be changed and the dealers in natural ice will be struggling to compete with the great cold crystal blocks, the product of man’s in- genuity. In fact, the threatening attitude of the ice machine now holds a sweeping monopoly at bay and stands between a gigantic ice trust and consumers of the frozen fluid, Ice companies are watching the progress of ice-making with fear, and the company that maintains its old prices as far as possible will be wise in its day and generation, HOW ARTIFICIAL ICE 18 MADR, In order to understand the operation of ice- making by machinery it is necessary to com- prehend some of the well-established phe- nomena of heat in its reiation to gases, fluids and solids. Air, for instance, is the most com- mon of gases, and. as is well known, becomes heated when compressed. In this eompressed state its heat can be more readily removed than when in its normal degree of expansion, Then, again. when allowed to re-expand it is in condition to absorb a large amount of heat from any solid or fluid with which it is brought in contact, Hence, a simple method of freezing is produced by compressed air. Thus, say three cubic feet of air at the normal pressure of 1,500 pounds per square inch, with a tem- perature of 75 degrees Fahrenheit, when com- pressed to one cubic foot will show a tempera- ture of about 225 degrees Fabrenheit. After it has been allowed to cool sufficiently to regain its normal temperature of 75 degrees Fahrene heit it may be allowed to re-expand to the orige inal three cubic feet, when its temperature will fall to 25 degrees Fahrenheit—below freezing and if permitted to lead into a recciver con- taining water the heat of the water will be drawn to the air, and if the volume of water is not too large it will soon be frozen in consee quence. Of course a greater degree of com- pression will cause a correspondingly lower temperature in the re-expanding air and effect a larger body of water proportionately. OTHER REFRIGERATING AGENTS. There are other gases, however, which are far greater refrigerating agents than air; hence the employment of ammonia and other chemi- cals by the various processes covered by pat- ents, The basis of all operations, however, is the heating of gases by compression, as in the case of atmospheric air, and allowing it first to cooland then to re-expand. This calls for very powerful compression machinery, a cool- ing reservoir capable of sustaining a tremen- dous pressure and proper conduits for the protection of the expanded air aud very cold gas. EXPANSION OF PLANTS. The plants for manufacturing ice in Wash- ington, Haltimore, Richmond and Petersburg are being largely extended in capacity, The improvements in the Washington plant have been fully described in Tue Stan heretofore, ‘The Baltimore company will soon have sixteen new tanks in operation. These new tanks will euch make a block of ice measuring 11 by 22 by 24 inches, weighing 300 pounds. The Petersburg factory turned out 50.000 pounds daily last year. It is now putti 150,000 pounds daily on the market, and esti- mates have been made for machinery to add still another 100,000 daily. Verily it is an ill ice famine that blows BO one good. Excursion to St. Paul, Minn, The National Educational Association con- Yenes at St. Paul, Minn., July 8, and for this occasion the Baltimore aud Ohio railroad will sell excursion tickets from Washington to St. Paul and return at rate of $30.50 for the round ri) Pickets will be sold for all trains July 1, 2, 4 and 5, and valid for return un! July 17, inclusive. Parties can ha i NEW YORK NOTES. About Persons and Things ‘in the Me- tropolis in Midsummer. WHAT MB. WHITNEY IS DOING AXD WHAT HE EXPROTS—NEW YORK AND THE COLLEGES—DOG DAYS AND THE POOR PEOPLE—TENNIS IN THE PARK, Special Correspondence of the Evzwrxe Stan. New Yors, July 8. Now that Staniey is one of the world’s heroes it is timely to refer to his adven- tures in journalism. After he had found Livington (as as Herald reporter) he was ordered back by Mr. Bennett in the same per- emptory way as he had been sent to the dark continent and assigned to police reporting under the rotation system of the paper. For- tunately for himself and for the world, he ro- fused to do this work and sundered his connec- tion with the paper. Shortly afterward, by agreement with the London Zelegraph, he was again sent to Africa, and by that time he became so entrenched in fame that he was able to dictate igs own career, A similar case to his was that of Mr. Fox, who became known as “Modoc Fox” for the brill- iant work he did asa Herald reporter in the Modoe war. When that campaign was over Fox returned to New York, and, like Stanley, was assigned to the meanest drudgery of city reporting. He submitted and probably would have been doing rout work to this day had he not embraced a _ business opportunity to leave journalism altogether. Stanley’s book is having a large salo, though probably the great hit will be in the provinces, where the subscription machinery has so much greater favor than in the cities. There are pirates abroad in the land, but after the warn- ing these gentry have had in the Encyclopedia Brittanica it is doubtful if they make a very puguacious attack on this work, 18 IT BOSS WHITNEY? The publication of the truc inwardness of the Tammany control in the Philadelphia Press of this week has been one of the ruling topics of talk through the week in New York. The gist of the pplication was that the ren! boss of Tammany is ex-Secretary Whitney. The great ambition of this gentleman is a matter of uni- versal notoriety. He aspires to the highest, and while probably it would not break his heart to die witbout having presided in the White House, both he and his wife are very much disposed to tuke a lease of that propérty if the United States, as the party of the second part, are agrecable, ‘The local bosses have united in de- nying the truth of the story that Whitney gun- trols them, but their denials are too vague to be of much consequence. It is not claimed that Whitney sits in the back office of Tam- many, ll and gives orders to the ward captains; but his advice will be general followed by the bosses, large and small, during the next few years. There has never been a more brilliant deal in this city than that under which the Whitney street rail- roads acquired the right to use the cable in the streets of New York. This transaction of itself shows the enormous power which Whit- ney has obtained here. The new boss, if such he may be called, has it in his power to name the next democratic candidate, or at least he can putaspoke in the wheel of any nominee that refusesto recognize him. His personal rela- tions therefore te Hill and Cleveland are mat- ters of the deepest interest to politicians, It is understood that Whitney's love for Cleveland is not ardent; at the same time he would prob- ably prefer him to Hill as a New York candi- eate in 1692, and if this is the case the gov- eruor's outlook is not at all hopeful. NEW YORK AS COLLEGE DOWAGER. Until now New York has rather divided its patronage between Yale and Princeton, with an occassional gift to Harvard, assuming the office of London to the two rival universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which lie, one on either side, atashort remove. But now a new in- terest has been awakened in our own local Uni- versity of Columbia, ‘The election of Seth Low to the presideucy of this institution was a most fortunate idea. It has already borne prac- tieal fruit and can scarcely fail to put Colum- bia into the very front rank of American uni- yersities, So far as money goes, it is already the richest university in the United State, with the single exception of the somewhat inchoate Leland Standard, jr., University in California, But gifts are already dropping in which will largely increase its resources, The bequest of $100,000 by Lawyer Da Costa is an indica- tion of the tendency. Very possibly his ex- ample will soon become epidemic, until it will be as unbeard of for New Yorkers to die with- out remembering Columbia as it has long been for Boston merchants to depart this sceuc with- out remembering Harvard, The disposition of the gift is also an interesting indication of the change in the income of endowments. Mr. Da Costa suggested that the fund be used to endow aprofessorship. A few years ago 100,000 would have been looked upon as an absurdly high figure for such an endowment, oven in Colum- bia, where the profeavorships have long been on a $5,000 income basis, but at present rates the sum will only yield from $3,000 to $4,000, if placed in gilt-edge securities, and hence is not excessive, Here, again, we see our ap- proximation to English rates, as £20,000 is considered there the regulation foundation for a university professorship. THE METROPOLIS AT 90° IN THE SHADE. New York is assuming its dog-day look. We have the customary concerts and all the sum- mer parephernaite. from that level down to the usual summer quota of dying infants, We have already seen the death-rate jump up two hun- dred a week from the heat, and the summer corps of fifty physicians ‘have begun their rounds to alleviate the misery of the tene- ments, accompanied this season by volunteers from among the ‘King’s Daughters.” It is a ugular fact that some of these poor poople who have never gone outside of the city limits and whom you cannot drive into comfortable positions in the country with a club, are unwilling even to allow their children to goon excursions until they have tried it once and found that they came back alive. They seem to have much the same prejudice against the comforts of the country that people do against going to Heaven. Abe stractly considered, those who have a good hope of a herentter ‘are not averse to changing their sphere, but as @ practical matter of fact they resist their translation with the most extraordinary energy, and only go after the doctors and nurses have exiausted their powers, The out- ing. season, 6o far as the poor are concerned, bids fair this ir to be extraordinary in its Topol Itis quite the philanthropic “fad.” Excursion and fresh air societies are springing up onevery side and money is pouring in to pay the bills. Possibly the suburbs will not be as happy in this matter as the kind-hearted people in the city, In more than one place near the city the people have risen in olt against the incursions of the young barbarians and the churches eee) repeperedgrsel have been told very energetically to keep their poor at home, However, Old Ocean is more hospitable and the excursions this year are very largely takin, an aquatic character. Great barges gg up and down the rivers and out into the ocean, loaded with a wrigg and squirming mass of young humanity, who, as Byron says, “Gulp theix weekly air,” and come back refreshed for their hard battle of life in our alleys and cubby holes, AsI have just said, the summer con- certs are in full blast, both in the city and down at Coney Island, but thus far they have not made much impression. Stranssseems to have rather disappointed expectation Herr Seidl has not aroused much of a cult at Brighton Beach. ‘TENNIS VERSUS THE ELEPHANT, So, after all, the hippopotamus and the monkey have conquered the sprightly and ectacular young ladies and their energetic id attentive cavaliers in the tennis courts of the park; at leust the commissioners have de- cided in favor of the brutes, and of course are consigned to the seme category in natural history by the threatened tennis players, It is indeed a crying shame that one of the fairest landscapes’ in tho is to be de- stroyed to make room for the city's menagerie, but the matter ew ad to the board of apportionment, which blocked the previous resolution to locate the Zoological Garden in the northwest corner of the park. May they be equally obdurate now. Spother less ob- jectionable action of the park commissioners was to enlarge the [tert fees of the park at an expense of $15,000. Naturally this project met with favor when the president of the board is a Hear B. Exzior. Unnoticed. A warrior bold from the Congo State, And a maiden from Zanzibar, And sailed o'er the ocean far. ‘They sailed and sailed, for the wind was fair, And gave nots thought for the clothes they'd wear, sailed and sailed and land ay Seeanteca mene oe tar And the Zanzibar rl mot the bathers gay, a Sens vie plow nee And they marveled much at ber color and pose, But none of them saw that she had no clothes. Book keeper—“Excuse me, sir, but my nephew died three days ago.” ana rarmne, Spats game)—**, 5 you aaay attend voting ‘Died, as usual, on BUGS THAT ARE MAKE-BELIEVE. How Artificial Flies Are Made and ‘Whence the Materials Come. HAT old gentleman who just left the shop is the most enthusiastic fisherman I ever saw,” said a dealer in sport- ing supplies to a Stan reporter, “and yet I am sure he has not even tried to catch a single fish in the last 20 years. But his hobby is to always have in his possession an elaborate and costly Mies ee stock of the very latest angling apparatus, just for the sake 0: fooling with it and showing it off to his friends, I suppose that he buys on an average from me ry worth a year of hooks and lines and rods and reels and, more particularly, flies, You can spend any amount of money on fish flies, you know. An ardent sportsman of means thinks poe of invest- ing $500 in a single ‘book’ of them for a trip of a fortnight or so out of town, object to such avotary of the gentle art his choicer flies cost’ him $2 or #3 a piece he is the better pleased for the luxury of their possession. Probably, however, they are no better for service than much cheaper ones would be. A fisherman of the sort I speak of is extravagantly fanciful in hie tastes. Iam acquainted with one who has sent me fully twenty long letters within the last three weeks relating exclusively to the shade of the gut at- tached to a dozen hooks that I sent hima month ago. He thought it was one shade too light in color to suit the trout in the streams he has been fishing. The price per pound paid for the fish actually captured by these en- thusiasts is something appalling, when the cost of outfit, guides, camping expenses, hire of streams and so on is takem into account. WHO INVENT FLIES. “Who invents the styles in flies—the deal- No; the fishermen, ways, Anglers are all the time making experiments with fresh com- binations of tuzz and feathers which they think may tickle the capricious fancy of the sealy prey. For, you see, what a trout or salmon will jump at on one day it will not look on the next, perhaps, Every brook demands a different fashion of bait almost, and the same fishes in various parts of the country have widely differing tastes. These tastes the fisherman ‘strives to please, as the tradesman does his customers. When an angler happens upon alure of his own designing that prov unusually successful he conveys the toa dealer, who promptly orders the manufacturer ac- cording to description or pattern, Anew fly that takes particularly well is usually given a name of its own to Poe tinguish it, such as the ‘Bishop,’ the ‘Curate,’ the ‘Iriest’—all three in sober black and white— the ‘Couchman,’ the ‘Galway Blazer,’ the ‘Silver Doctor,’ the ‘Po- liceman,’ the ‘Blue Pro- fessor’ and the ‘Black Dose.’ Artificial flies are not made to imitate real ones very closely; fish are not very earn- est students of natural history, and the proper combination of colors with the general aspect merely of a bug is the thing they want. Cer- tain tribes of small flies there are, however, that haunt the trout brooks during different summer months, and fair counterfeits of these we sell on cards by the dozen for use in July, August or September, as the labels on the cards direct.” WHERE THE MATERIALS COME FROM, “Where do the materials for fish flies come from?” “From all over the world, There is no part of the habitable earth that is not laid under contribution for materials, Not only all the birds of bright plumage, but all sorts of beas as well, supply the maker of fish flies with his working stock, The dog, the wharf rat, the monkey, the mohair sheep, the deer, the bear, the rabbit, the pig and the squirrel are a few of the animals whose coats are employed for the purpose. You see, there is nothing like real fur for the bodies of the artificial insects; each hair in the water takes a shine of its own and lends brightness to the lure, Pelts of these and other kinds of beasts are obtained by the fly manufacturer from the taxider- mists. who are able in this way to dispose of profitably defective skins and waste scraps, The feathers nearly all come trom Paris, where they are bought from the milli- ners, who procure them from everywhere, IN MAKING A TYPICAL FLY the operator, with the requisite scraps before her—women usually do this work—fret takes a bare hook and fastens a gut snell to it with wrappings of fine silk. Then around the hook at the proper point is twisted some yellow floss silk to represent the body of the insect, and this is made additionally secure with three or four microscopic bands of silver tinsel, Next, at the front of the body, is wrapped on P of rooster’s hackle, the fine hair-like feathers being lett spread out below to imitate legs. A bright wisp of tail is attached at this juncture, ‘The shoulders are now put on from the feath- ers of « woodcock and the inside wings of gray mallard, with outside wings of red after- ward. Finally, the head is added and the fly is ready for market. Fish hooks all come from Redditch, Eng., and the finest kind have been invented by Irishmen, who are great anglers. The ‘Limerick’ and ‘Shaughnessy’ hooks, which are the most famous of all, were both named after their inventors, People usually suppose that the gut of which snells for hooks are made is really from sheep's intestines, but, as a mat- ter of fuct, itis nothing more nor less than the immature silk worm of commerce, which is torn from its chrysalis and stretched out to the length of 18 inches or more. It is in Spain that gut for hooks 1s made in this way, It is very nearly as strong as catgut and has tho great advantage of being much more transparent,and therefore less easily seen by the fish in water.” ———~+e-—______ A VISUAL TELEGRAPHIC TOY, London Scientists Fooled by an Alleged Startling Invention. London Special to the New York World. ‘The English scientific world is very much exercised over an invention purporting to be a remarkable instrument solving the problem of visual telegraphy. It is the joint inven- tion of Prof. Hughes, F.R.S., and W. H, Preece, F.R.8. On the occasion of the post office jubilee reception at South Kensington Museum Wednesday night the instrument was exhibited before a number of scientists and newspaper men, all of whom are most cordial in its praises, The inventors said. they hed discovered a machine by which the sender of a message from a distant station could, with the assistance of the telephone, not only speak with the receiver at the other end of the wire but ri laegips reflection before him. And in effect this is exactly what happened last even- ing. The facts, however, are startling. Electricity has nothing to do with the matter. The picture of the telephoning was not reproduced by means of # telegraph wire; but « series of mirrors had been cunningly arranged on the principle of the old optical illusion business, which reproduces the visage of a person stand- ing behind a brick wall for instance. By means of a tiainges sender of oa night ap- pear efore receiver, and newspaper men and scientists were fooled. That suchen imposition should have been played upon the scientific world and the British public by the au- thorities of the South Kensington Museum is a disgrace to British science, and when the de- ception is discovered there will probably be a row, The inventors, knowing that Edison and other American electricians have for many years been expending all their energies and much money in the direction of solving the — of visual Setecranhy. had announced hat they had solven it. The London journals and the scientists eagerly swallowed the bait. When the truth is rev. about the inven- tion Hughes and Preece will doubtless be se- verely handled, ially as increased interest is now taken in Edison’ treatment of the sub- the machine was exhibited achess of Edinburgh, the mystery being well maintained. To show hor omen the audience was taken in all unset and most of the scientific departed declaring that the electro-; most marvelous discovery of the age. ‘was the SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGEs. THE POLICEMAN’S LOT. How the Howling Dog and the Cackling Hen Add to His Many Woes. MONG the people whom the Ko-ko of the police department has on his list are chronic complainants who want he police to regulate their neighbors’ dogs and horses and fowis, but do not want to be known in the matter themselves. Persons who remain out iate at night enjoy a ‘Yate nap in the morning if their neighbors and their neighbors’ live stock wil: Wt them, and their failure to be able to enjoy that nap gives them, as they think, reasonable grounds for complaint, UNWILLING TO BE KXOWN. Although hundreds of complaints are made itis only now and then that the “kicker” is willing to back his complaint with an affida- vit, For instance, people often complain to the police that their neighbors’ children stand on street corners or gather on the streets in crowds and annoy. ‘*But don’t say I said so,” is always their cry. Thus the policeman on the beat is kept constantly in hot water, and if he should cail upon such persons he is threatened with a “I'll fix you for thi Ifon the other hand he causes the arrost of the boys and takes them to court expecting them to convict themselves and they fail to do so Judge Miller tells Lim that he cannot do the arresting, swearing and everything else to sutisfythe grumblers and dismisses the case for want of evidence. Then thy lieutenant sees ismissed” aud ho wants an expla- nation, so that the officer finds it extremely difficult to blow hot and cold at the same time. THE EARLY MORNING WOOD CHOPPER, One source of many complaints 1s the chop- Ping of wood by the early riser, who, perhaps, has to be at his work at six or seven o'clock, and in order to have his breakfast ready in time finds it necessary to split wood as early as five o'clock, “I really can't stand it,” said a little Anacostia woman who made such a complaint against her neighbor,“ imply outrageous, and is enough to shock the nerves of any one.” Then she inquired if there was any law on the subject and was referred to the police regula- tions. The policeman, turning to page 20 of the regulations, read: eee person shall make any needless noise, “Needless,” repeated the policeman as he ex- pounded the law, ‘I think it is necessary to chop wood, and especially in this section, for I had to chop wood this morning myself.” Then the woman thought that slie had to have wood for her fire, reckon you are right” she said, ‘but please say I said anything about my neighbors.” THE DOGS AND THE ROOSTERS, Baricing dogs, crowing roosters and cackling hens are also prohibited by the police regula- tions from disturbing their owner's neighbors, and it is against such annoyances that so many Persons complain, One citizen thinks it high time that his neighbor's spring chickens were killed because of the annoyance they cause, but the neighbor thinks that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones, While the neighbor has chickens the one who complains has « dog and cat, The cat has killed a number of the little chickens, and fowls that were spared are old pets now to expand their lungs. When the hens begin to cackle and the cocks begin to crow the neighbor's dog begins to how}, and still the concert only disturbs the comfort of the man who owns the dog. A great many persons, 0 a police official told San reporter, enter compiaint against their neighbors whose roosters crow and whose hens cackle before daybreak, but they are not will- ing to prosecute the people themselves. “They “ the question: “What are the police paid for?” “To attend to their honest and legitimate duties,” is what they are usually told. If Maj. Moore was to hear of a policeman prosecuting such a case there would, no doubt, be an investigation aud probably a vacancy on the force. ‘The regulations say “any fowl which by crowing, cackling or in any other manner shail disturb the comfort or quiet of any person.” If an ofticer is stealing a quiet nap somewhere eurly in the morning and he happens to be disturbed by a crowing rooster, he certainly is not going to complain. A GEORGETOWN CASE. AGeorgetown policeman recollects one of the residents, whose name appears on many pages of the complaint book, who protested of his neighbor's spring chickens. That was some time before the police regulations went into effect, The owner of the chickens had something like a hundred young fowls and be- tween the yards was a picket fence. The young chickens used to go through the fence and scratch in the grass, Complaint after com- pisint was made, but there was no redress to e obtained. The ons whoowned them only chopped off ahead now and then, but it was not fast enough for the persons who claimed that they were annoyed? Finally the police were requested to arrest the little chickens and turn them over to the poundmaster, but they declined. So the un- fortunate man’s nerves were unsettled until the chickens grew too large to get through the picket fence. Now the police believe that his influence used on the Commissioners was the means of securing the present clause in the police regulations, AROUND THE PUMP. When the late Lieut. Greer was in command of the second precinct he was constantly an- noyed by complaints from a man in front of whose house stood a pump. The cool well water naturally attracted many persons, and evenings the small children in the neighbor- hood would gather there and amuse themselves where they could see people coming and going all the time. The man who occupied the house nt in complaints two or three times a week and at last commenced visiting the station ouse. He finally asked the lieutenant, “Whathm I going to do?” “I don’t know,” responded the lieutenant, throwing up his hands in despair. “I gucss the poor little children will have to stop being brought into the world.” don’ —— Another British Investment. From the Chicago Tribune. There is a young son of an English lord at the Richelieu who would have no trouble in driving the Germans from Africa, could solve the Irish problem, and would not be over half an hour in adjusting the American fisheries troufles, At least that is what he claims, “What is America?” he asked last evening. “Nothing!” He always answers his own questions. “The United States will all be owned bya chain of English syndicates,” he went on. “The British own your breweries, flour mills, manufacturing establishments, railr busi- ness blocks and nearly everything else. Ina short while they will own your government.” eee eee § Porte, the English,” re- marked Col. W. ‘hompson, “They will own the commerce of the world before jozg.” “You are right exclaimed the future lord, who was delighted to find one friend in the lit- tle audience. “Do you know,” continued Col. Thom: “that an English syndicate has just conclu: adeal with the government of Peru by which 10,000 young te are to be shipped to London? ‘These dogs of Peru are small hairless beasts, and are valuable, although it took Englishmen toseea big profit in such a venture. The first shipment will be started in a few weeks and the entire 10,000 will be in London before autumn.” tas nes syndicates are so busy,” inter- rupted the young foreigner, “that one can't keep track of all their doings, I hadn't heard of that dog seheme. Pray, what is it for?’ So that Peruvian bark will be winter,” The value of salads due to the potash salts, which, ca present in vegetables are ited in the process of ii of the he ent as being salads: Lettuce, corn barbe de capucin, curled ives, dandelion several forms H i = Hl Hy F | i £ i i i i i oll E Hi ; Hf FE A HH £ i E i i E ii i ’ E é ef £ Fs y fl | | | i ____ AUCTION SALES AUCTION SALES. POTUME Days. T. CLAIR PECHNER, AUCTIONEER, 611 PENN- LIFFE, . Anetioneern, Somme Sits, bdr Betropeltan” Hotel ekg AECLADEE, DARED OD. £20 on. om, oDay lane veers Unre Pledires, Gold aud 811 Geuuine Dismouda, Works of Art. +) FUTURE DAYs. HHOMAS DOWLING, Anctoneer. — ‘Comurisit EW SIX-ROOM TWO-S1OKY BRICK RESIDENCE | PARLOR, CHAMBER LIBRARY, DINING ROOM Seite BREET POUTHWEST, AT AL ONO Hina FURR ECRE, ON. To which we tmvite gepers! attention. On TUESDAY ARTERNOON, coy EIGHT. 1890, dy: r EATCLIFEE, DakR & ©O., Aucts Fa ry Nery die “ogy Bick ‘Teri: | JRATCLIFYE, DAL & 00, Auctioneers jeues containing 8. rook era improve : : — : wena. Phia house war built lint year and inn per- | YARUARLE UXIMDROVED PROPERTY ON MER fect onder, being No. O11 E street southwest, beiwoen | TT) SUM STN ry aus PAF S Ber At ACCOR. w DAY AFTERNOON, JULY NT AT SIXO'CLOUK, we will offer for eule in front of ‘Terms: One-third cash, balance at six and twelve Dearing interest — wn ye ron FJ secured ye Premises et cescte eco cen at oution of purchases. All | Tit SOUTH HALF OF LOT @ IM SQUARE 143, . &c.. at purchaser's cost. #100 deposit |». 8 SPATE etiaey Pee tae a atte | monte hte ATR SS the L complied with in fifteen days from the day of sale the prope ‘ll be Tesvld at the Fisk and cost ut ‘the defaaiting purchaser. the Becky ‘Title perfect. Premises can be inspected day prior | {TPd Toute of the Eekingt ct and near ail of the Executive tose, THOMAS Bowland which makes it @ spleudid opportunity for nt Terms: One-third cash. bilance one and two with suterest st U per vett from ¢ sale, esculea Gy deed of trast or all cash, et purcteestsemiee E (THOMAS DOWLING, Aver A GENERAL COLLECTION Posi of $200 ‘Tequirel at tune of sale, Terme fo'tp complied with in ten days or resale at risk and cost oF det sae purchaser. All conveyancing and recost, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE RATOLIFFE, DARR & CO, ances AT AUCTION. ARR & OO. Auctioneers, Pig 0 Pennsyivania ave. mow, VERY VALUABLE BUILDING PES TH AND FIGHT wT hh, TO CLOSE THE APFAL On MOXDAY, JULY SEVENTH, 1890, commenc- | 9 ing at LEN O'CLOCK, af ace No. 1833-G street | TWENTY-EIGHT north: I shall sell’ general collection of House- Woe by al niture. ‘Que Set of Handsome Oak, ten pieces, Walunt, Staived aud Iron’ Bestende Cots tresses. DAS AFTERNOON, JULY FIFT! 5 LoTs 15 To v1 INCLUSIVE, LOTS 38 TO 44 INCLUSIVE, TN SQUARE 8U0. LOTS 1 TO 14 FROST G STREET Wi uiatenee” 2. FRONT SEV Min eae "ihrer Sine iss ert Lots 38 TO 44 FRONT EIGHIN STREET ogany Sof Haudsome Diving Table, seats fourteen, urraus, Washstands, Wardrobes. Jace Curtaiue, heden, Brussels _ aa cateetll EO, W. STICKNEY, Auctioncer, 086 THUSTEES' SALE OF IMPROVED PROPERTY IN HE COUNTY OF WASHINGTON By virtue of a certain deed of trust recorded in Liber No. 137%, fol Let seq. one of the lend records of ‘twe District of Columbis.and at the request of the party secured thereby, we will offer for premises, on MONDAY, THE SEV 1H ULY, 1800, at FIVE O'CLOCK P.M. the following described property in the county of Washington, Dice to wit: Lot numbered 33, in bleck numbered 5, in Fred W. Jones’ subdivision of a tractof land kuown as By Lerms of sale: All cash. A deposit of &: quired at time of sale, All conveys purchaser, Terns to be complied w h in fifteen days, or the property will be resold at the risk and cost of z re I ost 0! the defaulting pu: 3 THOS. B, WARRICK, _224,28,3F1.5 SAME: WARING. LOTS 1 AND 14 HAVING A FRONT OF 191 BY A DEPTH OF 116 FEET, BALANCE 17 623116, pe the most desirable in the tnand the attention of parties In starch, uuding sites, runuing to an & deed of trast of @5720m each he wenden alley’ ‘Terms: Subject to lot at 6 per cent ver for three years deposit of #100 of male are not complied of sale right reserved to dyS-deds : ae z AMING.__ | (> ATCLIFFE, DARK & OO, Anctionccra, 7 G. W. STICKNEY, Auctioneer, 936 Fs. R Penis) ivania ave, ‘KUSTEES' SALE OF IMPROVED PROPERTY, BF- | STOCK OF LIQUORS, WHI=KIES, SHERRY, PORT. ING HOUSE AND LOT ON MARSHALL STREET GIN, RUM, BLACKBERRY,” BA oF NEAK SHERMAN AVENUE IN THE COUNTY, pn TON ein Hone, Bee By virtue of a certain deed of trust recorded in Lit AND HAKNES: AT STORE OF G. A. No. 1236, foto S0cet ma-ohe of the land meonieer | BURCH 1904 SEVENTH STRELE t of Columbia, aud at the request of the NOKTHWEST. AT AUCTION, party secured thereby. we will offer for sale in frout | On WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY NINTH, at x. 1 SEVENTH Day | TEN © of the premises on MONDAY. OF JULY, 1890, at BIX O'C: described property in the county trict of Columbia, to as subdivided by the CK, we will sell at the above stor» the en- tire stock of Fite Liquors aud baiauce of Groceries uns ‘alled for from last sae ALSO, Iron Safe, Horse, Wagon and’ Harness, to which we invite the attention of buyers. RATCLIFVE, DARR & CO, 33-3 Auctionsers, ‘LO. W. STICKNEY, Auctioneer, K P. M., the tollowins of Washington, Dts. it: et of 3 +3 nun bered 36, ington Provident Compauy, of original lots numbered 12 and 1:5, in block numbered seven (7) in Todd and B: reoorded sub- a mn of a part of Pleasant Plains aud Mount Pleas- id recorded im the surveyor's records im liber shepherd, No. 1, folio #3. ‘Terms of sale: All c » A deposit of #50 will be required at limte of sale, "All couveyancing at cost of purchaser. ‘Lerms to be complied with in Bfteen days or the property will be resold at the risk and cost of the defaulting ——, WORMLEY A Mi! . WO re 8351.5 THOS BWARLICK. 5 Trusteos, ANSON BROS... Aictioncers. TRUSTEES’ SALE OF TWO-STORY BRICK BACK B front of the yp Sreuiees On AD DAY OF JULY, Ted HE DEC v) P.M, the BUILDING AND CELLAR HOUSE, No. 1221 M yt a 73 BUILDING AND CELL ib cer an papa seman ed By virtue of a deed of trust duly recorded in Lil No. 1093, folio et seq.. owe of the laud rec- ords for the District of Columbia, and at the request of the party secured, we will well, in front of eof sale. r the property ulting purchencr. Meal Estate 2 pany's abstract, GEO, W ds the premises, on WEDNESDAY, TH® SIXIELNTH DAX OF JULY, A.D. 1600, at HALE-PAST FIVE —— O'CLOCK P.M.. all that cer: rece or parcel of land | §#- THIF. ABOVE SALE 18 POSTPONED TO TUFS- rm situate, lying aud being in the city of W the District of Columbia, and kno Lot three (3) of heirs of Jobu Davidson's of part of square two hundred and eighty and being embraced in parts of orsin: four (4) aud five (), together with al ments, Ways, casement, rights, priviles tenances to DAY, JULY EIGHTH, 1500, at FIVE O'OLOCK P| GLO. W. STICKSE luyprove: end appur- same belonging or in anywise apper- tain Terms of pale: 3 cash, balance in one ( thrce (3) years, with interest from d: rate of six (6) per cent per aunum. p somd-ou- nually, to be secured by deed of trust on property sold, or ali Cash, at the option of the purchaser. Deposit of 500 time of sale. Conveyancing, &e, at purchaser's cost. If terms of aale are not complied with in 10 ‘days from day of sale the trustees reserve the right to Tesell ut the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser after five days’ advertisement of such resale in some Bewspaper published in Washington, D.C. ROBERT 0, HOLTZMAN, AND SOUTHWI SCHOOL By virtue of adecrce passed by the Su of the District of bis iu Luwity cause No. 2 A us Asbtou ili well wt pub.te euct in front of the premises, at HALEY O'CLUCK in the afternoon of TUESDA’ EIGHTH, 1X90, lot numbered sixty-aax « Sve hundred and two n fortable Fra: at TI rf id do. W. F. QUICKSALL, Terms of saic, os _ty2-dkds Trustees, 10th aud F stiecta nw. | cin cash two yeare fro ALE OF PUBLIC HAY SCALES—OFFICE OF THE | fi;"usuns’ mally. Mouptel cap pert lumbia, Washinton WO Commissioners, District of Col chaser or pv tasers y 1, 1890 On JULY ElGt seanaeeh he on eoomen bbe giveu for the deterred va Su; TH, 1890: at the loca- | Su omts and ke nt Dy a deed of trust pow Hous rianed, the Commissioners Will offer forsale to | property mold or alt et the: ure ae teow the highest’ bidder the exclusive rixt and privisexe e cf using the several District Hay Scales trom August 4, 1890, to July 31, 1891, both inclusive, for the pur- pose of weixbing hay, straw. f and live stock at the following places and time, to wit No. 1, situated opposite the post office, Uniontown, D. C, at TEN O'CLUCK A.M.; No. % situated on Street southeast between L street and Geo at ELEVEN O'CLOCK A.M.; 8 det com Je the trustees reserve the right 0 resell at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchusec, after five days’ advertixcment J. WALTER COOKSEY,) Well Building, 4 street northwest, near Louisiana avenue, at TWELVE RMU, eu | Trustens, VORCE M. i ~ S citaated st comer of jiath stress 4021a. avemw., | an le Julaud avenue northwest, at UNE O'CLUCK > 20, Adetio! Akee P.M; No. 5, situated on Prospect street between High | RATCLIFFE, DARK &CU., Auctioneers, 3e20-dade and. jet streets, Georsetow C., at TWO ATCLIFFE, DAKK & CU., Auctioneers, O'CLOCK P.M; So.” 6, situated at intersection of 920 Peuusyivan a avenue Boundary and Ti stree PAS 1 — THREE O'CLOCK PM. rigut- | TWO-STORY BRICK STORE AND DWELLING, wood, D.C. at FIVE 0" 1es purchas- No. 441 EIGHIM SIRERT SOUTHWEST, ON ing will be required to com provisionsof | MONDAY AFLEKNOUN, JULY PULATEENTM, Uie act approved June 20. entitled an act for the AT SIX U'CLOC! hay. ‘Terms cash J. 'W. DOUGLASS, LG. . RUBERT, Commissioners, D. ¢ RATCLIFFE, DAKK & Ov., Auctioneers, RATCHEFE. DARK & 00-" Auctionsers, wi 0 Pa. ave. U.W., Washington, D.C, TRUSTEES SALE OF LEASE AND CONTENTS QF SOLAKL'S HOTEL AND RESTAURANT. No faghth strect by a depth of 00 Ls-foot B-inch alles. This od rental and presents an ex- ‘ab investment cellent opportunity t Terms: Oue-third cash, balauce in one and two years, PPerceut per aunuin, paydbie secured NNSYLVANIA AV! NOKTHWEST eed of trust « HOUSE), WASHINGTON, D-C- bg arom eccepte os irtue of a deed Of trust dated October . IBAG, tuplied with in fifteen days fro: recorded October 1586, in Liber No. 1 folio 163 et seq., oue of the land records of the Listrict of | the defaulting purclu n ¥ after hve days’ advertixe- Coluinbia, at the written request of the parties thereby | ment in some newsjuper published in Waxhiagton, D, secur sell et public auction, ‘on MONDAY, | C. All couveyabciug, &c.- at the cot of purchaser JULY BEV. TH, 0, at TEN O'CLOCK AM, on RATCLIFFE, DAKK & ©0., 1e Premises, = = the fx z ane, —— in jy3-d&ds Auctioueers, art's Hotel aud Kestanrant, No. ‘enusylvania Aen avebue porthw. Washitcton, D.C, ih the wien ae CARRIAGE pired terns ot that ap of the premises. This XCHANGE lurufshed in guod style, cousisting _ and back Bar, Ice Box, Counters no Stock of Now end Chairs, silver aud Linen Ware, W ut and other | Secoud-huud Wawons and Carrincos in the city, Ghauibor Furniture, Cookin Uteuatin Steam Meatigg | ftaiatir of Coupes Victoriaa, Lanckuway, Ba Apparatcs, toyether with all other fixtures and furni- Doctors fine Bar: Hotel und Hestaurant = Ls ¢ reputation of being one v "1 " and the bar is unexcelied eh s conta Kitohen nd Lauvary ia the cemetet the basement; the Bar, sarge Ditdux Koon ands fully ng A ‘Son furnished Billiard and Pool Koom (three Billiard aud nar ee oe busses, mal three Puol Tables) on the wround floor: a larce Ladies! tion Sale of Horses, Carriages, Harness TUESDAY, THUKSDAY AND sgrtabie 5, commencing at TEN O'CLOCK, 8. BENSINGER, Proprietor. Dining Room, the Hotel Oftice and a large number of Private Dining Kooms, Pantry, Closets, &c., all hand. somely furnished, on ‘the second floor, and for hotel pury there are about thirty furnished rooms, As a whole this place is one of the on most complete in all ATCLIFFE, DARE & CO, Auct Fespects thatcan be found aud is most desirable every | BR *tC4 EE ‘920 Penney! vauia ave. 2.9. way. ho The present lease expires July 1, 1894. The rental STORY FRAME HOUSES, Nos 2313 is only $240 per month until July 1, 1401, and VIRGINIA AVENUE NOKTHWEST, month tor balavce of the term. Satisiactor 7 Fangements can be made foralouger lease it desired, at Satisfactory arrangements can also be with fhe Brupewick Balke Collender Company for the "ul ae SoS hard and Pool Tablef complete, the sauie Hot beiuk 1t- D PART OF LOT “C." SQUARE 43, cluded in the above-mentioned trust. o 1nie avente werers ‘All the above will firet be offered as an entirety and a yt a about 90 feet, uuproved by Two lwo-story jouses, wow ucder gud rental. One-third cash; "balanee in one and two years at 6 per cent, secured by deed uf trust on prop= a. epuow of the pu if a satisfactory bid 1s not obtained will then be suld ip detail. ‘Terms: As an en! to time of sale upon app! n to the auctioneers, the trustee or the at A. SELIGSON, Trus . H21-4_Cor. 44gand Date. u.w., Wasbingion, D.C. HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. TRUSTEES’ SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED BEAL ESTATE, | KNOWN AS STORE AND PNELING No, 111 FIFTH STREET BOUTB- FAMILY SUPPLIES. _ LBA :2 LBs. BEST CHEBSK, 250.5 butte Ho mede Grape Wine, 25c. 6 bettie { bottle sweot Caan be Win, ary Wine, m Onaltien Gocbad. to Tha, UTZ BROS? CYLEBRATED PICKLES AND Ta. Lie hauce of all Kiuus cau be bad in bottles, keys or paying to their gow agente, A. DiPCL & 0 dou st BW. aml 4 ta mast oa ahr iy epouees fee seal |_ GENTLEMEN'S GOODS. _ cash, at 's option. "Deferred payimen - —— secured Promissory notes aver, Seaerer cin wera =| He D. Biss. y Truptecs reserve the Fight bo neacil at rhe cot eee IMPORTER AND TAILOR, SPRING AND SUMMER 1890. Full Stock of FOREIGN SUITINGS, BI Fisk of the defaulting purchaser. All colvenaneing ia Guu ¥, LriGHTOX,. CHARD E. Palko, 's Trustees. Otice No. 482 Louisians ave. mw. 930-abds RECBIVED AND OPEN FOR ¥ H. D. BARR, R ae — & 00., pao Ty ¢ ~ RS ‘ON NORTH SID STREET He TWEEN - ft AKD STREETS NOKTH WEST, MEDICAL, &. aT AUCTION. Pa a, virtue of a decree Supreme ‘1th day of pibkist of Cotumiie: veasedon, the ay June, E Gratry WILSON, 815.8 st-u.w. Ladies only. PE A yh EU ihier otal are Ht ffs for sales te ig Uae Phptedan to the est ——