Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1890, Page 6

D_DISTRICT. > Fair deahng has motto of Tur Evextne “A dollars’ worth in return for every dollar received” is the principie upon which its business is con- @ucted. Advertisers usually get from ten to ene hundred dollars for every one invested in fits advertising columns, always Star. - WHY THE BILL IS OPPOSED. Strong Protests Against the Atkinson WRoxos OF Witic CITIZENS OF SOUTH WASHING- FON COMPLAIN VIGOROUSLY-—-THE BOARD OF FRADE SUGGESTS A WAY OF DOING JUSTICE TO ALL—THE WORKINOMEN’S PROTEST. The South Washington Protective Associa- tion and Citizens’ Association No.1 of the fame section sent today to the House District | 5) committee an additional joint protest against the Atkinson bill. They » “We thirk it would be a gre: wit the railroads to ocen iment avenues and the wrong to per- the twe most prom- large reservation at their intersection in the most valuable part of | South Wasitngton, when a personal examina- tion will prove concluxively to your minds that there is abundance of land east of 3d street west that wili furnish ample accommo- @itions for the distribution of freight at a con- venient distance from the business center and Where danger would be reduced to a minimum. We think it would be a greater wrong, after their many violations of law and illegal oe pution of streets aud reservations, togive them the right to coudemn and take for their own use property north or south of their tracks in this valuable section and allow them to in- crease the number of their tracks and thereby increase the danger to trafic, to and from the Fiver, on the b thoroughfares, ii notorious and significant fact that this road oc- cupied and blockaded these avenues for un- loading and storing its freight cars, perfectiy indifferent to all protests aud in violation of law, up to within # short time previous to the presentation of this bill for your action. We desire to cali attention to the irreparable in- jury which this legisiation will inthet upon our religious, charitable and educational in- terests. Almost ali churches which fur- nish places for worship for the people of this portion of the city, already traversed by these lines of railroad, ‘are within one — square of these roads, and between 2d and 13th streets there are eleven churches which are the most valuable church structures in this part of the city, and there are five school buildings. Fully one-third of the 30,000 peopie living in South Washington are ip one way or another interested in these institutions. Now, we submit that it is wholly Wrong and altogether uunecessary to further intlict us in this matter and we specially com- piain of that feature of the bill which excep‘s church and school property from the con- demnatory right granted the company by this bill; our church and school properties would become useiess and valueless und as such Temain upon our hands. We appeal to you in belali of our schools and churches to study well this question before you inflict upon us the wrongs in this bill, Our people will never submit. ‘The action of the Knights of Labor in this city concemning the Atkinson bill supple- ments the previous protest of the Federation of Labor and arrays every Inbor orgauization in the District and kindred organizations all over the country against the bili. Local opinion is practically unanimous in opposition to the bill in its present shape. The Board of Trade in condemning it gave voice to the overwhelming popular sentiment.” These organizations had previously filed a stroug protest and argument againet the bill. A protest sicued by nearly 200 property owners in the neighborhood of the tracks had already been submitted. A CHURCH PRoTEsts. The Sixth Presbyterian Church, which isa special sufferer from the road, today sent to the House District committee a speciai protest against the bill. The protest says, after setting forth the bill’s sinx of om ssion and commion: “Our edifice is located on the northeast corner of 6th and C streets southwest, and the public Worship on the Sabbath is continuously inter- rupted by th king up of trains on thay s of the Sabbath school day meetings e mterrupted al- ¥ during the besides endanger- ing the lives of our Sabbath school children, The tracks have been laid aimost against the menace to the live worships here. the people of South Washington in a most de- e1ded of the congregation which We join the vast majority of opposition to the Atkinson bili in its ture, and unite with them in support | Of any measure winch will remove the tracks vet, the depot from the mall an removal of ali tracks from the avenues, a mmodate tra: passing throx y. We are in favor of | ample accommodations for the railroads. which | can be easily aud cheaply obtained by purchase south of Virginia aveaue and between South Capitol and 6th streets southwest.” PROTEST OF WORKINGMEN. Similar expressions of opinion from organ- gations representing the whole city have been given. Tie Federation of Labor. repre- senting nineteen of the labor organizations of the District, passed resolutions vigorously de- nouncing the bill and indicating the purpose of the organization te bring the matter to the trades unions and assemblies of Knights of Labor in the districts of Congressmen voting | for the bill in order that the latter might ex- | plum why they “voted to give away the rights, | property. convenience and comfort of citize: ington and to disfigure the capital city of the nation.” Attention is called in the pre- amble to the fact that the bill makes no pro- ‘on for the safety ot human life or the con- 1ence of the public by compelling the tracks of the railroad to be above or below grade. istrict Assembly No. 66, Knights of Labor, which. combined with the Federation, re tious in the Dist indorsed the protest of the Federation against the Atkinson bill. THE SOARD OF TRADE. } The Board of Trade, containing the leading | business men of the city, at a full meeting, at | whieh nearly two hundred members were pres- | t, adopted without a dissenting voice a report | wemuing the bill in its present shape, luerchauts of the city are, ui course, especially injerested in freight facilities and with an im- provement in them. But they are not unmind- fal of the lngher claims of measures to protect | human. life, and they have regard also for the public as weil as for their own welfare. ‘The report unanimously adopted by the representa- tives of nearly ail branches of business in all coutains the requei he Baltimore und Poto- mac railroad that its present illegal side trac! unauthorized occupation of public property belegalized; thet the Commissioners be empow- ered to grant it au. side tracks, and ! hat power of conde jon be given it. Lf | ill bul are apphed | te » road as recommended some ol its desires conid by the same piece of legislation properly | be wet. If the roud should remove its tracks end station from the ‘k, aud sink and bricge | its tracks as proposed, then the power to con- | demn property to the south of its tracks snd abutting thereon and the right to run tracks into this property would wisely be given. But the Atkiason bill, as an independent propos tion, should not be considered for an instant, | ‘The’ railroads at the capital have been for so | long a time accustomed to get whatever they have asked for from Congress, aud to defeat every effort to require them to make improve- ments im their methods or occupation to in- and convenience of the is nothing remarkable to a | ntof the District in the railroad’s de- | mand of reward as weil as pardoa for past | offeuses without the suggestion of recompease | y shape to the public against whom these offenses have beer. committed. Elsewhere such » request might naturally excite profound astonishment and public indignation. ‘Che committee recommends the remodeling and strougthening of the Morrill bill in the wanner | ted, causing its provisions to apply to situmors and Potomac alone, and the corporation into this bill of a provision giving the Baltimore and Potomac power to condemn Squares abutting upon the designated tracks and south of them and east of 3d street west, | and the right to rum tracks into the property thus acquired.” : ail ers Wasmixor PorvLaR ScBoor Teacken.—The winner of the Suxpax HEeRavp’s contesi for the free tour of Europe will be gven im the Sunday eral tomorrow, with pictares and sketches and a full account of the resuit of the balloting. = peer Pome Colonial Beach Company Election. At the regular aunual meeting of the stock- holders of the Colonial Beach Improvement beon the} A Syndicate Exchanging Gold for Roumanian Siiver Coin. The director of the mint has received from the minister of the United States at Bucharest an account of the recent demonctization of fall legal tender silver coins by the Rouma- nian government in pursuance of law passed by the chamber of depaties in March last, sub- stituting the single gold standard for the double standard in that country. In pursu- ance of this law the minister of finance is re- quired to substitute within a year an equal number of gold franes for silver franca now in the national bank, and upon which legal tender paper was issued. Inder this authority the minister of finance coutracted with a syndicate for the exchange of 10,000,009 francs of silver at the rate of 100 franes of silver tor 7o francs of gold, the syndi- ve the privilege of taking on the same a given period the remaining cx of silver, The total cmount exchanzed for go'd is 47,000,000 francs of silver, of which 30,000,000 are now in the bank, Atthe a drate of exchange the silver on hand will return in gold to the bank about or a loss of 11,750,000 francs ange to the gold standard, In addition to the silver in the bank there is now; in circulation about 32,000,000 iranes in silver, which are to remain as a subsidiary silver cur- rency. AN UNLICENSED COUNTY BAR. Judge Miller Lays Down the Law in a Liquor Case. This afternoon in the Police Court Judge Miller laid down the law on one branch of the liquor question for the benefit of the author- ities and said he was doing it for the last time. License Clerk Montague was present and he got the benefit of it. Tho judge’s remarks were made in the case of Fred D. Rose, who was charged with being an unlicensed liquor dealer in the county, The law, said Judge Miller, is plain and any three-year-old child who can't understand it ought to be turned out of school, He thought the Commissioners’ could do no better thing than follow the law. The defendant in the case filed his applica- tion for a license and it was twice rejected. The second timo the rejection was made the applicant was notified to withdraw what money was due him. CALLED FOR HIS LICENSE MONEY. Mr. Rose swore that he called for the money, but that Mr. Montague told him that he would have to get a certificate from the police lieu- tenant. He called on the lieutenant, but could not get the certificate. Mr. Montague did not deny what Mr. Rose said, but stated thathe did not remember what conversation occurred between Mr. Rose and himself. THE JUDGE'S SENTENCE. Judge Miller, commenting on a letter of the Commissioners, said he hud nothing to do with the rules of the Commissioners, but when a case is tried here it must be disposed of ac- cording to law and the facts, The judge quoted the act of the legislative assembly aud said that as long as the authorities keep an open ac- count with the applicant the court cannot deal with the matter. ‘The judge finally told Mr. Montague that if an application is rejected and the applicant fails to withdraw his deposit and conducts business after that time the court will fine him, even though bis money is still in the hands of the District. In this particular case, the judge said, the rejection was in May and the applicant did not cali for his money until June. He left it there at his periland he can therefore pay a fine of $30. ‘The case was appealed. ces DISTRICE GOVERNMENT. THE NEED OF A REFORM SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. The Commissioners today, in response to a request from Senator Ingulls for their opinion as to the propriety of the proposed legislation in Senate bill 3870, to provide for the purchase of asite and erection of a building for the girls’ reform school of the District of Columbia, say that in their ebarge of the work house at the Washingtou Asylum they are constantly re- minded of the necessity for an institution where young girls can be permanently pro- vided for in a reformatory ‘where constant at- tention until majority can be afforded, instead of the ruinous treatment of successive “nincty days in the work house,” with the vilest as#o- ciations during these intermittent detentions. They say that it is stated that nine-tenihs of the drunkards of the land are made before the age of twenty-one. And so most of all crimi- nals, including both sexes. The Commissioners conclude by earnestly and hopefully recom- mending the proposed legislation. WATER WANTED AT THE LABORATORY, The Secretary of the Department of Agri- culture has written to the Commissioners re- questing that a three-inch pipe be laid from the six-inch muin on 14th street to the prem- ises at the southeast corner of 14th and B streets southwest, which has recently been leased by the department to be used as a chem- ical laboratory. Capt. Lusk of the engincer department has recommended that the request be granted. REPAIRS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING. Mr. Thomas B. Entwisle, inspector of build- ings, has recommended that $70 be expended on necessary repairs to public school buildings in the fifth division this sum Curtis, $78; Addison. © High street, $53; Corcoran, $47; miscellancou: repairs. In the seventh division tie ex- Penditur $ recommended amount to $1,906 as follows: Sumner, $441; Garnett, #116; Briggs, #76; , $216.50; Magruder, $40; Worm- ley, $258; Garrison, 238.50; Minor, €5/3; mis- cellaneous, €97. —__—___ Judgment for $4,000 Affirmed. Yesterday in the Court in General Term in the case of Rose Meade by her next friend against the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company the judgment of the Circuit Court was reduced to 24,000 and affirmed as to that amount. This was an action for 230,000 dam- ages tried in 1888 and was for injuries received by having her leg cut by a train on the Rich- mond and Danville tracks in Alexandria. The plaintiff, with others, was playing in a pile of ashes alongside the track and it was claimed that the jar caused by the train caused the pile to move. carrying her to the track, where she received the inju Mr. Edmund Burke ap- peated for the complainant and Messrs. J. Worthington and R. G. Staples for the defend- ant. The jury founda verdict for $5,000, on which the case went up to the General Term, and this judgment being reduced to $4,000 it tirmed, SNS The Golden Cross, The officers of Meridian Commandery, No. 178, U. O. G. C., were installed with open doors last evening by Deputy Grand Commander Stephen E. Gough, assisted by Deputy Past Grand Commander Charles L. Patten and Deputy Grand Herald William H. Pope. The officers are as follows: N. C., Henry H. Hough; V. C., Mrs. Mary A. Keck; W. P., David W. k; N.K. I, Pred E. Woodward: F, K. R., William T. Kent; N. T., Richard 4. Walker; W. H., Charles G.’ Simone; W. L. G., Dr. #1. Bennett; W. 0. G., Dr. W. W. Granger; P. N. imon F. Tucker. The first degree was cunterred on Jobn W. Whitaker and Robert Andrews, After the installation Sir Kuight P. E. Woodward announced the literary aud musical program: Soprano solo, Miss Izora Patterson; bass solo, Robert W. Devreaux: recitation, Pascha! Plant; octet, by the Bos- ton House Octet, Messrs. E. F. Kibby and Charles A. Davis, first tenor; William Davies and G Wright, second tenor; R. W. Devreaux and Odea Shaw, first bass; E. Lothrop and P. J. Treanor, second bass, Addresses were made by Dr. W. W.! Granger and Henry H. Hough. Visitors were present from nearly all the commanderies, including Grand Com- mander John N. Eble. Tee cream and cake closed the entertainment. The officers of Capital Commandery, No. 323, U. O. G. C., were mstalled last evening by Deputy Grand Commander Rieharg Kiugs- man, assisted by Deputy Past Graud Com- | meander Orrin B, Hallam and Deputy Grand Herald Marths J. Sate g as follows: N. C., Eli ugbee; V. N.C., Annie L, Slack; W. P., Daniel L. Gold: kK it, Mrs. Martha J, Peabody: F. K. B., Bentley P. Murray; N. T., Jerome B. Diver; W. H., J. . 0. G., Thaddeus ©. Sp ‘harles W. O'Neill. John A. Roeda application for membership. Noble Com- mander Bugbee addressed the commandery, Promising to use bis bes$ efforts for success during the eusuing term. nee More Claimants for Hawkins’ Property. ‘Two more claimants as heirs of the late D, W. Hawkins, the colored coachman, have made ‘The officers are appearance and have retained Messrs, A. Kil- Cotnpany, held at the beach on July 9, the foi- low the a Anthony Pollock, vice president; C. J. Bell, weesurer; Kk. H, Evans, secretary, and J. B. Hammond, William A. Yates, G. G. °C. Sims, E. W. Byrn, C. W. Curtis, George H. Howard and Thomas J. Brady, directors. gore and R. F. Combs to TRAINER COURTNEY AT WORK. He Will Coach the Columbia Athletic Club for the Coming Contests. A TALK WITH THE OARMMAN—HIS SUGGESTIONS AS TO ROWING—HE IS A STRICT DISCIPLINA- RIAN—A STORY ILLUSTRATING THIS TRAIT— WHAT HE SAYS OF CORNELL, A frequenter of the Columbia Athletic Club's boat house could not but help noticing a big difference in the attendance apd interest at the boat house yesterday compared with the day before, or in fact any day during the present season. The number of members at- tired in shell costumes lounging about the float and incline was more than double what it is usually. “What's the matter around here today?” “Why this looks like old times!” and similar remarks or questions were beard on all sides, ‘The cause was that CHARLES COURTNEY, the trainer and coach, was there at the boat house in his professional capacity, closely watching the crews as they shot out from the Hloat and noting the style of their rowing, and asking questions the answers to which will, of course, be of service to him in selecting crews to represent the club at tie regattas in which they will be entered if Courtney considers their chances of winning good. A TALK WITH COURTNEY. During aconversation with the big brown oarsmen, he stated to a Star reporter that they must not expect too much of him or his work with the crews, for it must be remembered that the Atlantas and Bradford and Atlanta eights have been training honestly for each others scalp for months past, consequently they are in prime condition and any crew win- ning with either of these crews against it will have to do great rowing. PRAISE FOR CORNELL, In speaking of the Cornell College crews— freshmen aud’varsity—Courtney was profuse in his praise of them—the style of rowing and their earnestness from the time they are seated in the shells until they are ordered to “let her run. Mr. Courtney was asked as to the time the Cornell crew devoted to training, and said from March until June the actual work of the ‘varsity crew averaged about four hours and twenty minutes each week, but during that time the men worked hard, for in rowing one has to work hard, it is not @ gift, nor does it come to one during a night, but by dint of practice and coaching. A STORY ABOUT COURTNEY. Asa disciplinarian Courtney is noted among rowing men, and an idea of this may be ob- tained from the following story: While train- ing «crew. and not far from ‘the time of the race, Courtney was approached by the stroke of the crew, who asked permission to attend a reception, which he was allowed to do provid- at ing he would be in his certain hour. He failed by hours. When ‘the time for practice the stroke was op hand and in readines to take his seat, but his tramer simply remarked: “Mr, —your # will be filled today by Mr. So- and-so.” When asked about this Courtney said that it was so, and that while it was adangerous move to make it had the desired effect. ‘Yes, he added, “I mean to do so in every case and will make no exceptions.” IMPORTANCE OF RIGGING, The subject of rigging was brought ‘up. Trainer Courtney is of the opinion that at least half depends upon the rigging of the boat. He cited the case of this year's Cornell crew and said that there were no two outrig- gers rigged alike. ‘Onc has to have some me- chanical ideas,” continued Courtney, ‘as weil as having knowlege of rowing to become a suc- cessful trainer. THE POTOMAC THE BEST COURSE IN THE COUNTRY. Without being interrogated as to the Poto- mac course, Courtney declared it to be one of the finest in the country, and remarked that he wished the college races were removed here instead of going away up to New London. Washington is of easy access and there are here a number of commodious boat houses, Mr. Courtney is quartered at the Morgan House, Georgetown, #o as to be near the boat house. Written for Tue EVENING STAR. . THE INDIAN AND HOT WEATHER. Why Change of Weather Does Not Re- quire a Change of Clothes. Having adopted a style of dross the Indian is not lightly led aside by climatic freaks and changes to any modifications of it. If his best | thought approves a blanket with the additional warmth and weight of U.S.LD. stamped upon it, a blanket remains his protection regardless of the protest of a July mercury. Dack trous striped “blazers” and silken girdles, even if issued by Uncle Sam, himecif arrayed in guuzy garb and in sympathetic mood, would not tempt the Indian from his traditions, Semi-occasionally you will sce a young buck in the classic drapery of his blanket, daring the innovation of a red and white striped advertising umbrella as a screen from the sun, but for this purpose the eag! feather is au fait, and any compromise there- upon is held in disrepute and derision, CLAD IN A TEXT QUILT. Atlong intervals the spirit of reform burns in the breust of Lo and manifests itself in fashion radical and startling. On the occasion of @ visit to the Siovx reserve during the heated term of a recent summer I saw in statuesque outline against a chalky cliff an In- | dian wrapped in what, upon nearer approach, woved to be a “text quilt,” while between imself and the sun slowly waved a Japanese fan, The text quilt had doubtlese fallen to him from a heavily stocked eastern missionary box, Feeling all the veneration usual to the uncivilized for the magic characters inscribed upon it our Loto | brave, like the priests of old in phylacteried robes, put on an exclusive- ness of manner that indicated that between him and us there was a great gulf fixed. Meantime, as he arranged and rearranged his drapery, I glanced across the gulf and read such cheerful texts as “If ye are smitten on one cheek turn the other.” Also, “If thy brother ask of ye thy coat give him thy cloak also.” INURED TO THE HEAT. It is as much a part‘of the Indian’s creed to become inured to the heat as to the cold. It is not an infrequent spectacle to sce infants in heavy blanket shirts weighted with eik teeth tied into beaded frames or cradles and left standing against the heated frame wall of the ration house while their mothers gossip hours away within. We have seen, after the issue of beef upon the hoof, a half dozen squaws drag the steer that fell to their allotment into the open prairie and, under a scorching sun, clean, quarter and divide it when perhaps a few mes- quite trees not far distant or an overturned | Wagon would have furnished a partial protec- | tion from the intense glare and heat. { A BELLE’S TOILET, A young Pueblo girl’s toilet for a July even- | ing is the same that she would make in Decem- | ber, Her limbs from the knee to the ankle are j wound with not less than ten thicknesses of deer skin, The costly black native blanket is carefully adjusted with a brilliant woven girdle at the Waist, Ascarlet kerchief hangs back- ward from the shoulders and over all is the shawl draped from the head. Filla jar with water that gushes from a rock a full mile from her adobe home, place it upon Ler head, start her off under a fervid sun and contrive to meet her at the other end of the jine, and you will find her as placid and undisturbed as the lim- pid water within the jar upon her head. Lo's PHILOSOP!Y IN HOT WEATH®i&— ‘There is a good dea! in much of day philosophy which if adopted by uswould tuke the curled top from many a hot wave, He is never by any mistake ina hurry, He does not dissipate his reserve strength by either fretting or chafing. He avoids heating himself by an effort % keep cool, ‘There are no swear words in his vocabulary in the use of which he could generate heat, For these and other reasons not yet given out but entirely adequate the man in red reaches the other side of a hot wave with temperature and circulation normal. Kora, “eee Sues the District for $20,000 Messrs, C. M. Smith and H. E. Davis today, for John Sinclair, by his next friend, George- anua Sinclair, ent MR. WHITE HAS LEFT TOWN A Young Society Man Accused of Forgery. 4 FRAUDULENT INDORSEMENT ON A OHECK BY WHICH HE RAISED MEANS FOR MAKING A SPLURGE—HE SAID HE WOULD DROWN HIM- SELF, BUT IS BELIEVED TO HAVE FLED. B. Shepherd White is the name of a young man who has been cutting quite a dash in Washington society lately, and who is now fleeing trom justice, it is charged, for having forged the name of his employer to a check for upwards of $1,000. White has up to the time of his disappear- ance been in the employ of J. H. Corning, the iron worker, who is aiso the agent for Chester B. Albree, the fire escape manufacturer of Pittsburg. White's special duties, it is under- stood, was drumming up trade. For instance, whenever a building needed a fire escape young White would go in the in- terest of his employer and ask to be allowed to put in a bid, THE LOUISE HOME FIRE ESCAPE. Several months ago the company mentioned erected a fire escape at the Louigo Home and notified the inspector of fire escapes at the Dis- trict building to certify to its being safe and properly erccted. This was done, and armed with ‘the certificate young White called on Messrs, Hyde and Matthews, the trustees of the home. and pre- senting the certificate asked to be paid. ‘This was promptly done, the check being drawa payable to Chester B, Albree. White, it is stated, took the check, and, after forging the name of Albree, made the check payable to himself. Drawing the money he deposited it in the bank of Lewis Johnson & Co. to his per- sonal account, Since that time he has been drawing on this amount and living a fast life. THE FRAUD DISCOVERED. Some one in Washington thought he was cut- ting rather a dash on his small sulary and noti- fied Mr. Albree to look to his accounts, ‘The mouey for the fire escape at the Louise Home had long since been duc aud Mr. Albree dis- patched Mr. Curry, one of his agents, to cou € to Washington aud look into matters, ' The rest, is plan, Hk LEFT A NOTE, When the agentarrived White skipped, draw- ing #400 from the bank, all that he had left, and leaving a note to Mr. Corning telling him that when he received it ie would be at the bottom of the river at the 7th-street wharf. But instead of that jt has been discovered that White bought a ticket for Lexington, Ky. ‘The police were at once notified and an examina- tion was made of his rooms at the Langham Hotel, where he boarded. Here tie police found clothes scattered all about the room, but no trace of the missing fund, LOOKING FOR THE FUGITIVE. A number of his pictures were secured, how- ever, and they were forwarded toseveral cities, while telegrams notifying the police to look out for him were sent in all directions, White is described as a rather good looking fellow about five feet three inches tall with a dark compixion and about twenty-one years of age. Hecame to this city from Boston about five years ago. —_—_.—__ HEATING CARS BY STEAM. A Reform That is Progressing Rapidly in the East. One of the most horrible contingencies in connection with a railway accident is the possi- bility of being burned alive. Railroad annals are filled to a heart-sickening degree with stories of men, women and children who, uninjured by actual collision or derailment, have perished miseravly from flames that had their origin in tho murderous cylinder of the deadly car stove; whose lives have gone out in the suffocating amoke and devouring glare of unnecessary con- flagration. It was onongh that railway col- lisions should be productive of compound fractures, physical distortions and even death itself without there being added to these provabilities the easy chance of such a roasting that identification of the remains would be im- possible, and yet for years great railway cor- porations have ignored the thousunds of sug- gest.ons that have been made to them by prac- tical engineers and by the blackened corpses of thousands of victims of a n.ggardly policy that placed dividends before human life. Aiding and abetting in this continuous slaughter were the many so-called experts who, at the bidding of their employers, insisted that there was no | m of heating known to man or likely to} be known for some time to come that could | possibly succeed the car stove. Then came that awful White river disaster, three years ago, when public sentiment made so much noise that even the deafest companies had to hear, and yet the trade journals, with few ex- ceptions, continucd to insist that the stove was the best thing available. The Kngineering News wasan exception. It affirmed, and it stood alone in its affirmation, that it was practicable to heat cars by steam from the locomotive and predicted that it was only a question of but ittle time when that system would be adopted because it was at once safe and economical. THE PROGRESS OF THE MOVEMENT. To satisfy itself as to the soundness of its prophecy the Engineering News has collected a vast quantity of reliable information as to the heating of cars at the present time and the re- sults of the inquiry have been made public. Chapters on the heating of railway cars ma; be warm reading when the thermometer is ai- most breaking its safety valve in an endeavor to get above the roof, but this is the season of the year when the managers and engineere are looking over their siock of snow ploughs and heaters, The estimated number of Passenger cars in service in this country is 30,000 and of these not less than 7,391 have been equipped with the apparatus for continuous steam heat; nearly 25 per cent, New York leads in the reform. There isa law in that state that compels every company operating therein to fit cars with steam-heat- ing apparatus, The resuit is that out of the total of 7,391 more than half—3,806 cars—are the property of companies whose roads run in the einpire state. The New England states come next with a combined total of 1.420, | while the other roads east of Chicago have 21. On the southern roads the number of improved cars is but 35, while all the west has but 491, Palace car companies make up the balance of 418, RAILROADS IN THIS VICINITY. Tho Baltimore and Ohio company has taken hold of steam heating with a good deal of vigor and of the 870 cars it runs in its pas- wenger service 107 are equipped for steam heat, The Pennsylvania system has 1,900 cars and 120 of them have heaters in place of stoves, The Richmond and Danville has 17 cars aquipped, out of a total of 142, while the Western Maryland has but 5 steam-heated cars | Vaux. HAD HIS MONEY IN HIS LEG. Queer Hiding Place in Which a Coun- terfeiter Kept His Wealth. A Little Rock, Ark., special to the New York Heraid today says: Mac Hinkie, a one-legzed man, was examined last evening by United States Commissioner Goodrich, charged with passing counterfeit money, and bound over in the sum of $1,000. When first arrested and searched nothing was found upon Hinkle to justify the charge, although severai identified him as the person from whom’ they had ob- tained bogus coin. Hinkle wears a cork leg, and the officers made him take it off. Ina cavity 1p the leg they dis- covered a quantity of spurious paper money, together with compounds for changing the color of confederate biils to the hue of the genuine | greenback, Among the money was a one-dol- | lar greenback raised to @ tifty-dollar note and other bills raised from ten dollars. There were several ten and twenty-dollar bills on the Charlottetown Bank of Prince Ed- ward Isiand which were pronounced genuine, although the signature of the cashier of the bank was notattached. This bank failed some | time ago. ‘The bills are thought to have been | stolen after being signed by the president. | Two or more of these twenty-doliar bills were | passed on a bank here either by Hinkle or an accomplice, —_+ <0 GLAD TO GET RID OF HIM. Tho Jallor of the Duc d’Uricans Wasa Prisoner Also. From London Truth. ‘Tho Duc d’Orieaus was not more glad to leave Clairvaux than M. Arnaud, the governor, was to see him set at liberty. That functionary | is what Zola would call un bon zig. He is o| clever, scholarly man, and a thorough Bohe- | mian, prizing most intellectual freedom and | independence of the comforts and elegancies of | civilized life. Lounging in public libraries, cafes and newspaper offices were his great pleasures before he was sent to govern Clair- | There is a sab-governor there who | manages the prison so weil in his absence that, until the Duc d’Urleans became a prisouer, the governor was often able to run to Paris, But | after thatevont he was himself virtually a prisoner. The duc’s letters and those he re- ceived had to be Ordors were sent down | from Paris to make things as pleasant 2s might | be without scandalous disregard of the rules. What the governor was constantly fearing was the due falling il from indigestion. ‘The hii sides round Clairvaux are rich in those ali- mentary snails that fatten on the vines, As the cuptive was novor tired of eating them and they are hard to digest, M. Arnaud was in coustant fear of being charged with trying to! poison the illustrious prisoner, and “so, to | counteract the effects of « tou richly furnished table, he was always urging him to take exer- cise. ‘The duc’s relatives did their best not to let him derive moral benetit from his ordeal, He was pampered by them to an inconceivable degree. Hampers were constantly arriving with alimentary luxuries, He had an impatient temper and on his uame day got into # tau- trum on coming out of his bed room and see- ing his big sitting room filled with flowers, “Tant de fleurs, et si peu de liberte!” he said, and kicked the bouquets about. Everything that could be done was done to keep hii on a bed of roses, At the ontset he rather enjoyed the pedestal on which, he conceived, being in prison set him. But’ he ended, as well he might. by getting sick of confinement and turned pale, as, on the hundredth day of his captivity, the governor reminded him that he had only unde: eizhth part of the time to which he L LURE, A Bride of One Night Now in Lancas- ter Jail A Lancaster, Pa., special says: Hugh McGee- han of this city and Nora Breidenbach, for- merly of Reading, appeared before Alderman Halbach last night with a marriage license and asked to be made man and wife. The alderman performed the ceremony, and the bridal couple then proposed to take their wedding trip ina buggy driving around town. After spending some time in this way the groom got out to‘seea men.” A moment later a young friend of the bride came along and she invited himin the buggy to take a ride, They drove away, and the enraged groom promptly went before Alderman Barr and made complaint against his wife for larceny, The runaway couple were arrested at an early hour this morning, and the bride ofanight spent the morning hours in the station house and is now in the county jail awaiting a hearing. Nora now says she is done with Hugh. and Hugh declsres emphatically that marriage is not a success. ocean CEES He Advertised for a Husband. Franklin Coon was arrested in Binghamton, N.Y., yesterday on complaint of Detective Black, who charges him with using the mails to defraud. He had been working the matri- monial racket, advertising in western papers, over the name of “Annie Coon,” for a husband. He claimed to be a lady of means, but as cor- respondence with his dupes developed he took | opportunity to borrow money of them, He has a confederate in New York. who is not identified yet. He wasarraigned before United States Commissioner Jenkins and hold in $500 ail. cacne ieee London’s New Chief of Police. Mr. Edward Bradford, chief commissioner of | police, is displaying an smazing degree of energy in the administration of his depart-| ment, Yesterday he personally made the! rounds of the various districts and sharply | lectured the men at each station, and in each | cuse he gave them to understand that their suc-_ cess in obtaining any concession depended wholly upon the excellence of their conduct, and he also plainly expressed his opinion that | thus far in his official experience he had not | been able to discover that they were deserving of the benefits they seek, In the course of his tour he dismissed fifteen men for insubordina- tion and neglect of duty. and thoroughly or- | ganized the force at the Bow street station. | ‘The old men are seattered all over the city and | the new force is made up of detachments from | a dozen or more districts, | — cee Representatives W. C. P. Breckinridge and | Wilson will address the democratic con- | vention of the tenth Virginia district at Am-/| herst, Va., August 1. | LEUVILLE LOSES THE GAME. He Gets a License to Marry Mrs. Leslie, but Fails to Secure the Jride. A London special today says: In regard to the rumor about the Leuville-Leslie marriage it is certain that on Thursday evening the Mar- quis de Leuville applied for a special marriage license at ths Victoria-street registry office, in which street he had lived for yeare. He said that the case was urgeut, and he ar- ranged that the marriage should take place at the registry office in the vestry hall of St. George's, Hanover Square, at 9 o'clock on Saturday morning, as the bride and bride- groom, he said, were leaving for the United States, The license was cancelled today and the m: e ed fora few The William Olivier, Marquis de Leuville, forty- ree years of age, for several years resident at ictoria street. Levvitur. ‘Tho lady is described as “Frank Leslie, widow, resident of the Grosvenor Hotel.” Mra. Leslie had, in fact, been living at the Burling- ton Hotel and was there last Thursday. Her new residence is within three hundred yards of the marquis’ lodgings. while the Burlington is more than a mile away. The greatest secrecy and mystery have been maintained, 38 QUESTION, Canadian Excitement Regarding the Difficulty is Abating. An Ottawa dispatch in the New York Times today says: The Dominion government re- ceived official advices yesterday afternoon from Victoria, B. C., that the report about Canadian sealing versels fitting up there —_ see THE BEHRING SEA for defensive operations in Behring sea is without foundation. The State Department was considerably ‘exercised regarding the situation there, but now all fears of injudicious proceedings by British subjects have been dispelled. Thats feeling of bitterness exists against the American exec- utive is unquestioned. It has considerably modified since the semi-official announcement that pending negotiations no seizures would take place in Behring sea. A high official in the fisheries department talked ireely to the Times’ correspondent, He did not deny that if persuasive influence had not been resorted to the Canadian sealers, ex- asperated at the long delay im securing a set- tlement, would have gone north prepared for any emergency. Early iast month the British fishermen met at Victoria to devise means for resisting capture. Many favored arming their vessels, Wiser counsels prevailed, thanks to the energetic protests of Col. Prior, M. P., an influential Pacitic coast politician, who saw in ill-advised action the most serious conse- quences, ‘Though far removed from the sealing grounds public sentiment in eastern Canada Tespecting the dispute is thoroughly aroused. The various newspapers, irrespective of party lines, are abating their complaints about Eng- land’s procrastinating policy and with one ac- cord assert that the Dominion tional dig- nity must be maintained at all bazards. Cipher messages are constantly passing be- tween the authorities at Ottawa and the colonial office, bat regarding the precise na- ture of the negotiations nothing definite can be ascertained. A SENSATION IN FORT WORTH. Mayor Pendleton’s Secret Divorce and Subsequent Marriage. A Fort Worth, Texas, dispatch to the New York 7imes today says: Mayor W. 8, Pendle- ton was married on July 5 to Addie G. Cullen, a telephone girl in the employ of the Fort Worth Telephone Exchange. When the news was made public yesterday it created ® sensa- tion, as it was “supposed Mayor Pen- dleton had a wife and interesting family. It is learned that last August Mayor Pendleton went to Chicago and got a divorce from his first wife on the ground of incompatibility of tem- per, but to all appearances the family relations were most cordial. A few days ago Mrs. Pen- dleton No, Lleft for the east with her five children, About the same time Miss Cullen left for Mississippi, and was joined by Mayor Pendieton in New Orleans ‘on July 5, where they were married by a justice of the peace. Miss Cullen being a Catholic no priest would perform the ceremony. The prominence of Mayor Pendleton, the length of time befor> the divorce was made public and the marriage to the telephone girl, combine to make the affair sensational. The love affair with the telephone girl. who is pro- nounced a second Venus, dates back abouta year ago. ee MADE HIM RICH FOR FUN. Idle Brokers Amuse Themselves With a Barefoot Newsboy. From the New York Sun, today. Things were a little slow on the stock ex- change in the afternoon yesterday and in tra cling from the stock exchange to Delmonico’s a number of the brokers, among them Dick Halstead and J. W. Bass, saw a little shaver of about nine, barefooted and ragged. The little feilow has sold newspapers in the neighborhood, but it wasn't time for the evening papers and he lookeaidie and more or less disconselate. The brokers tvok the little fellow into Delmonico’s with them, got an empty cigar box, cut a slot in it and nailed it up, and with the little fellow solicited sub- scriptions from all their friends in the place at the time. Then they took him into the ex- change with them and passed the box around there, As a result a little over #100 was chipped in. The boy stuffed the money into his Fagged pockets “and left the street for the y. He will not sell newspapers for some time to come. soe Accused of Poisoning His Mother. John Esiell of Greenville, Miss., was arrested in St. Louis Thureday night accused of poison- ing his mother. She was the widow of a war veteran anda short time ago received 2.000 bounty due her late husband. The local police sey that in order to secure this money Estell poisoned her and fled to St. Louis. The prisoner had $350 in his possession when ar- rested. He says his mother died over two mouths ago while he was away from home. in a total of 69. The Chesapeake and Ohio company runs 67 cars: 16 of them ready for steain heat, Why New York and New England should be in advance of the west is only to be understood by those familiar with railroading in the sec- tions named. Horrible disasters in_ the east compelied legislation in what used to be known among politicians as the pivotal state, in Maine, in Massachusetts and in Maryland, and although many of the companies #bjected very strenuously to being compelied to have proper regard for the lives of their patrons, they all agree now that the peopie were right. Only one road has made anything like # fight in the courts against the steam-heating law, nd that, strangely enough, is the New York, New Haven and Hartford Company—one of the richest cor- isch in the country, most of the wealth of which is derived from an enormous passenger business, Some day that road may. have ite holocaust, and then no one will envy the man- agement its financial success or anything else. ¢ great disaster has ygt to come in the west, When it does the car stove wili be retired for- ever. They don’t do things out there until they have to; then they do them in a hurry. 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