Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1890, Page 11

TREES OF THE CITY. Vegetable Decorations That Make Washington Beautiful. GREEN LEAVES GALORE. Onty Seven Kin: ‘Trees Thoroughly Successful—How They Are Pinnted ASHINGTON might ap- propriately be called the City of Trees. To them it owes a large share of the beauty for which it is famed, and assuredly this beauty will be greatly enbanced when a few more years have passod by and every street and avenue has become, through the natural growth of plonts now only half developed, an arched aisle of luxuriant foli- age. Before very many wummers bave come and gone the lindens of Massacbuvetts avenue will surpass beyond comparison those which have given fame to the celebrated promenade in Berlin. For one thing, Massachusetts avenue bas four rows of lindens instead of two. This is one of the seven kinds of trees which have been found inington. When the parking commission began its work twent) Years ago it started in to try experiments wit! very many sorts of trees which did not prove so well adapted to this soil and climate. At Present it recommends for propagation and planting none others besides the linden, the silver maple, the Norway maple, the sugar maple, the elm, the North Carvlina poplar and the sycamore. The silver maple is most used, because it combines more advantages than any other tree for the street. It gives good shade, not too dense, is free from insects, grows rap- idly and is readily transplanted. Next time you pass along K street take notice for yourself, The Norway maple, of which F street northeast affords a fine display, from the Baltimore and Ohio crossing two miles to the Boundary, is an- other excellent street tree; likewise the sugar maple, which is to be seen most of in George- tow: You can find the elm in ail its beauty Jersey ayenne from the Boundary to the river. For rapid growth the North Caro- lina popiar is very desirable, though it is al- most too large forthe street. The superb syca- more is muagnitcently decorative for wide avenues; it forms « delightful vista on 1th street, LOTS OF TREES IN STOCK. Such are the trees which do most to beautify the capital. Plenty more of them sre ready as fastas they may be needed. The nursery at the alms house has now in stock 12,000 trees in condition for planting, not to mention in- numeratle healthy young ones, although requisitions are constantiy being made by out- lying suburbs for large supplies. A single re- quest that came in the other day to the park- ing comimission was for 1,700 trees, The com- mission is delighted to provide the trees, but the suburban people think that they ought to be planted for them aiso. In this potion the commission agrees with them, but it has not money enough for the purpose. It does not cost much to propagate trees; in fact almost the sole expense of the business is the hire of one man to look out for it at $1.50 aday. But the keeping in order and the planting of the {the city use up money rapidiy. For $5,000 could be most profitably spent Just now in cleaning and weeding about the roots of the trees on Washington streets. One of this city have been so unusual care has been lanting of them. For each be put in the ground a hole taken in the one that is to is dug big enough for the earth taken out of it t make three cart loads, This soil is carted away to a distance and damped. Then the hole is filled by putting into it three cart loads of loam, when the tree is planted. Now loam isa % not so easy to get Whenever a new street is laid out the commission goes and scoops off it all the surface soil, which is the mold. In like manner, when cellars ‘out to be dug for new houses, permission is asked of the contractors to take away the furface loam. Sometimes the contractors make the commission a present of it, but usually they charge for it at the rate of 10 cents a cart load, which the commission is glad to pay. The mold obtained in these ways is piled in a con- Yenient place for use when planting is to be done. All this is necessarily very costly. A gang of men, too. must constantly be kept go- fag around the city, trimming and pruning, As for insect enemies, no trouble has been had of laie with anything but the caterpillar, which is pretty bad justnow. The FIRST CROP OF CATERPILLARS that came out in May was effectually disposed of by means of Paris green and London pur- ple—the latter a by-product obtained in the Manufacture of a dye—squirted in solution upon the trees. The secoud caterpillar crop appeared three weeks ago and the trees show What havoc it has perpetrated. The parking commission could destroy these caterpillars Without very much difficulty, but to do so would cost $5,000, and it has not the money. If. as it hopes, it can obtain an allowance of €30,000 a year instead of 218,000, it will be able to perform its important work with much greater efficiency. Fortuna’ s caterpillars, although they have defaced the trees so seriously, have not done any perma- nent harm and will not, the tre a ready got their growth forthe sexson. The trees attacked will come out just as well next spring as those which have not been touched. Manure is never put around the roots of trees in Washington. If one does not flourish, epparently for lack of suiticient pabulum, more food is given it by increasing the size of its hoie and puttmg in more loam. Tree boxes have already been dispensed with toa great extent, and those which remain are being re- moved as rupidly as possible. The tree box has sevoral disadvantages. It is unsightly, it Degins to rot when it is about three years old | ani it often pulls down the tree. ‘It a gale | bends the tree it springs back again, but if the tree box is broken by the wind it does not re- turn to its upright position and bolds the tree down. Wire net is found much better for all jes. It has been estituated that the trees hington have increased the value of real are estaze here by 20 per cent. The parking com- Mission never waits for @ street to be graded end built upon before planting it. No soone: is a new oue laid out than, as quickly as the Kine it will take ix known, trees are set out slong it. Many isthe man desirous of build- ing who has been attracted to a new street b: the promising trees upou it, and people w Pay more rent where they can have trees about thei Considering what trees have done for Wasbingion the city’s investment has been ” small. From the beginning they were Faised from seeds almost withoct expense. Of course it is in lafayette Park that one finds the most beautiful assemblage of trees in Washington: in fact, that park contains one of the fines n of trees in the world, Bie 10 the lov Fectang.e. ARBORETUM aXD POND, Few people who come to Washington think boretum of the Depart ‘ure, which is a museum of nd shrubs, arranged by families as ani- re ina zoologicel garden. Very nearly the trees of the world that will five in is climate are displayed in groups—the oaks by themselves in one group, the elms in an- her group, the wainuts in another, and so on, resent to th arden at the foot of 13th street is a pleasure indeed. Que beautirul tree to be found there, the magnolia grandiflora, the parking commis- much like to see more generally in- troduced to Washingtum gardens. It is one of the most lovely of trees that grow, aud it js 2. the most interesting things to be seen athe grovn's of this arboretum is # pond which Gardener Saup- ders started a winle ago, to show people how they could make a little oud as beautiful as any lower bed. On the — of this pond are layed ever so many lovely and extraordi- pary aquatic plants. To be; hb is the ter magnolia,” which has no roots ut all in the curtis, but simply handsome bine flower. Another floating plant oe “water ealthrops.” In ancient arranged s throwa down upon the prong always stood up. It me the horses of the my. this curious plant, which dev: and is about as big as your — —— apo: peomeet a ence the name. epecies a seed which strikingly resem! the Egyptian lotus—the plan’ fable which the lotophagi of ol: have eaten and 60 arrived at chronic intoxication which happy, but of no further use. the lotas which were eaten and day, though they do noteeem effect as that described, But fal thing about the lotus is its flower, wh the — ee in the world, now blooming in the pond spoken right of the main road as you ent of the Department of icul ought to miss seeing it, because deed and well worth going » mile look at. It might be compared toa mit of the perfections of both rose and color is @ beautiful pink, the petels those of the water lily, but much longer, an isas big as your head Such a flower for & boutonniere no dude ever had. There are lots of pink and blue water lilies in this pond also, as well as many other remarkable and exquie ite planta, — ‘WONDER TALK ABOUT REPTILES. Pluck a Bird and You Have « Reptile— Monsters of Long Ago. OU would be aston- ished to hear « chicken referred to as a rep- tile,” said Dr. Stejneger, curator of reptiles at the National Museum, to s writer for Tux Braz, “but I do assure you that the soologist finds it very difficult to tell why the common barnyard fowl should not be so designated, The same remark ap- plies to all birds, which might fairly be called reptiles with feathers, For the bird is only scientifically distinguished from the reptile by the fact that it has feathers, Pluck » chicken and you have what is to all intents and purposes areptile. Some time ina far-distant geological epoch there existed creatures which were the common ancestors of the reptiles and birds of today, Sprung from the same stock, these two branches of the animal kingdom have simply become differentiated to some slight extent, But even now there is no distinguishab! ence of anatomical structure between the bird and the reptile. All the distinction betwe the two, as I have said, lies in the fact that tl reptile has scales and the bird feathers, How- ever, feathers and scales are but modifica- tions the same thing. So you see st be very difficult for y to determine with regard to certain forms whether they are reptilian or of abird nature. A bird has recently been dis. in South America and named the which has clawa on its wings and, before it has learned to fly, climbs by means of these claws. Yet this is declared to bea bird for the sole reason that it has feathers. s Eifes i ; Hi s “fs i Pp be be re it PTERODACTYL (AFTER PROF. MARSH.) The fact of being able to fly does not consti- tute a bird, Reptiles with wings and powers of flight have existed in the world—notably the pterodactyl of ao distant antediluvian era, which was about as big as a turkey and flew very much better than that noble Christ bird. The earliest bird of which any remains have been foucd was the archaeopteryx, which many authorities are disposed to consider a reptile, and the qnestion regarding it will probably always remain in dispute, Its pro- genitors were creatures neither bird nor rep- tile, but a mixture of the two, of which the only memorials discovered are in the shape of foot prints made in the rocks when thi +4 were forming and yet soft—porbaps millions of years ago. The archaeopteryx I spoke of was thing likes lizard’s, bring forth their young ive, but that is merely bacause the eggs are hatched before being laid. With snakes and many other reptiles it is simply an accident whether the young are born living or in the egg to be hatched subsequently. Toads and frogs, by the way, though commonly termed reptiles, and even classed as such in many museums, are notreptiles atall, but batrachians, In a general way it may be said that whatever has feathers is a bird, and whatever has scales isa reptile; that is about all the bao 4 or lt creatures which have an internal skeleton a: derived from the same mary origin, Th bird, the fish, the rep and that ATO stock. In the skeleton of « fish, untike as it seems to that of a human being, can be found every essential part that goes to compose the skeleton of a man. The very unborn human embryo goes through a certai stage of likeness to the shark, which is the most ancient of the fishes, exhibiting even some traces of the gill sliteof the shark. It is readily to be underatood bow this differ- entiation of species came about. Spread out your hand with the fingers wide apart for an illustration, and consider each finger as repre- senting @ branch, all of them proceeding from @ common root, DINOSAURUS (AFTER DINING). RESTORED. i at this root « creature millions of years ago, perhaps through necessities of ite environment, such as being in « wet Place, developed certain characteristics in the direction of what we now call the fish, Ac- cording to a law of nature, those characteris- tics would inevitably go-on, becoming, through generations, more accentuated. The creature could never go back on its tracks, Therefore you find that, as far back as it can be traced, —— bas Lene becoming bend 7 de- veloped, progressively, age } ifs ore gans more highly specialized, so thatthe mod- fish is « t impro’ aoe Jeet ne ita bee oame parts exists throughout. “The most remarkable reptiles of the world belong to an age long past, when the ichthy- osaurus, resem! the whale somewhat in size and appearance, though itself a the ocean's depths in search of . It re was the whale of f ancient och tho the floats around on its own hook upon the surface, bemg supported by Petras Loren im the tt besa metural snape of bulbs diled wish az. IN A LITTLE SWISS TOWN. The Outing of Two Washington Girls on the Shores of Lake Geneva. WANDERINGS ABOUT MONTREUX—SCENES IN THE MARKET PLACE—THE OXCE DREADED CASTLE OF OMILLON, WHERE CHICKENS NOW FRED IN THE ‘MOAT—4 MYSTIFYING FORRIONER. Correspondence of Tax EVENING STAR. Moxtaevx, Svissx, August 12, ERHAPS you will be interested to bear about @ little Swiss town where two ‘Washington girls are spending part of the summer. Montreux, a little honey- moon paradise nestled in among the greatenow-capped mountains of southern Swit- serland, is a great resort for invalids, who come for the grape season and enjoy the balmy air all winter. There are numerous little excur- sions from the place and the lake, Geneva—the only blue Iake in Switzerland—is always at- tractive. Steamboats ply back and forth nearly every hour, carrying gay crowds from Geneva to Onillon. There is an inclined railway which rises almost perpendicularly up the side ofa mountain, from whose summit Mount Blanc is visible, and also an electric street railway or “tram,” as they are called here, which runs for miles along the lake shore. Chillon, probably the most interesting of all the places on the lake, is only about half an hour's welk from Montreux, and a whole morning can profitably be spent in the dungeons and halls of that his- toric castle. Let us take a copy of Byron's “Prisoner of Chillon" and enter, preceded by a young girl, who will tell us in the simplest French the history of each room. The dun- geons “deepand old” come first and after pass- ing throngh two great vaulted rooms we see the pile of stones on which the criminals spent their last night and next to this the beam from which the poor wretches were hung. and down in one corner is the window through THE PILLARED DUNGEON. Passing through a smail opening we find our- selves in the dungeon where are the ‘seven pillars of Gothio mould,” and we turn and look “through the crevice and the clift of the thick wall” to see the sunbeam. which gives all the light there is in this dismal place. The stone floor is worn in a hollow around the pillar where poor Bouivard was chained for six years, and we shudder and talk in whispersin th: Bruesome place. After going through the hall of justice and the private rooms of the Duke of Savoy we cross acourtyard and are shown intoa very dark apartment where the criminals were told there were four stevs down which they must , while in reality there were only three steps d as they went tumbling down their bodi ruck against sharp knives which projected in all directions, and they at last found a resting Place in a well one hundred feet deep. ‘The castle is now a military garrison, in a fine state of preservation and ‘as we look back upon its ivy crowned battlements we breathe a sigh of relief that those days of tyranny and oppression are over and weare glad to see hens peacefully picking in the dry old moat and women with their dresses tucked up and long oles in their hands washing clothes in the je near by. IN THE MARKET PLACE. The town of Montreux is quaint and old and market days the public square presents a strange picture. Here the poople congregat and one sees for sale—hung inthe trees and spread on the ground under improvised tents —everything from hob-nailed shoes to cheeses the size of cart wheels, and the haggling that g0es on over two cents’ worth of stuff is worthy a better object. The place swarms with chil- dren, and the way the tiny little things jabber French is a continual astonishment to us, for seem 60 precocious. The postmen of this Swiss hamlet are queer objects. Their uniform consists of slate-colored trousers and a linen frock like a ‘Mother Hub- bard” cut off at the hips, while on their heads they wear a dark blue military cap trimmed with red braid. This, together with a black leather bag for the letters, which they carry under their arms, vomplotes their odd attire. THE CASTLE. Here at a hotel, which will compare favor- ably with those at home, we two Washington girls have been spending several weeks wait- ing for our friends to return from an Italian trip. We aro the only English-speaking people in the hotel, and it is great fun to comment on the Hussian, French and German uristocracy atthe table d'’hote, for we have » German baron ou one side and o Russian count and family on the other. Much to our surprise the other evening we were addressed in vory good English by a young man who looked any- thing but an American. During the conversa- tion we learned that he was a Hollandese, and that he had come to Montreux to consult an eminent physician. I, after the manner of American girls. concluded he was a princ! ia ut my enthusiasm came to a su k upon my friends suggesting that was probably a drummer of pateut medic’ He is finely educated and 'y intelligent, aud when he found that we e from Washington he asked if there was uot a White House there, saying he had seon pictures of one in his geography whene child. Surely it takes the conceit out of one to travel abroad. Seeing us write long letters home he said “the water would run down to the edge of his teeth” to re- @eive such voluminous packets. Rather an oddly expressed compliment, was it not? He then told us how it made him weep when a ehild because he was not allowed to wear th little wooden shoes such as the peasant chi to slide with! We two lonesome, homesick girls were walk- ing up one of the queer little narrow streets the other day looking into the shop windows, when, what should we see bat a picture of our own Mrs. Cleveland! It was on s cigarette ad- vertisemont and ina beer saloon window, but what did we care? There we stood and gazed im perfect rapture, much to the astonishment of the passers-b: P and when at last we tarned fo sows both felt that we had heard trom e. I have not yet told you of the kursas! where ae band discourses fine music twice every day, but enough has been said, and, in closing, I would suggest that when you come to Switzezland you ee, and rest in this quaint little Swiss village lore fins, to Chamouni and Mount whieh lie just over the mountain. MLK B (tached meen ‘Written for Tux Evanme Stan. A Misty Morning on the Potomac. A veil of haze lay o'er the river's breast, Enshrouding all within its feecy folds, Arer'rie ail my brooding being holds And lulls my softly slump’ring soul to rest. Each low'ring bluff along the shore is dressed Ip garments grim and ghostly lke gaunt ghouls, ‘The swaying trees upraise to heav'n their souls ‘Upon the steep and craggy cliffe’ capped crest. But lol the sun in gleaming Orient One Young Man’s Expertence That it fs Not so Easy to Learn. WHY A JUBJUB CAMERA WAS OFFERED FOR SALE— A ROUTIKE THAT WAS TOO DIFFICULT FOR ONE WOULD-BE AMATEUR TO MASTEA—THRER aT- ‘TEMPTS AND THRIR RESULTS. NOODLES has been centration that is re- quired for the pressing of s button, while the photographic company does whatever else is necessary for the repro- duction of the picture. The nickel-in-the-slot machines were expressly devised for the ad- vantage of such individuals, who are unable to comprehend the technicalities of buying and selling. It ia easily enough understood that persons of the superior order in American so- ty, not having dealt in anything eommer- cialiy for, perhaps, as much as three gonera- tions, may very well have become, through disuse of the faculty, incapable of caleulating dollarsand cents for purposes of trade and barter. It must be confessed that Snoodles has focused his camera somewhat recklessly upon objects which he ought to have held sacred if only because they concerned his family and his home, Happily, he will not suffer for bia in- discretion; for, if he chose to photograph his youngest born in an all-too-scanty shift, the picture will never occasion distress either to ita euthor or its subject. His portraits of his babies in the bath tub and his mother-in-law in her Mother Hubbard will never serve to excite the derision of the unsympathet And yet it was with the most sublime confi- dence that Snoodles snapped his apparatus upon the first half dozen “views” that to bim chanced to seem suitable. Without a single blash did he make these six exposures, and then took the camera around to the photogra- pher’s to have the negatives “developed. e next day, upon visiting the photographer's to look at them, he found the ne; across & room on asmall clothes lin up by clothes pins to dry, like the week's wash, “1 sorry,” said the photographer, “but six negatives didn’t come out very weil, they are.” jut there's nothing on them at ail,” ex- claimed Snoodles, holding them one after another up to the light “No, sir,” responded the artist in sun pio- tures, with exasperating calm. ‘‘It is because you did not take the ‘slide’ out before making the exposures,” Now, it happens that this “slide” in Snoodie: type of camera and in many otners is designed to interpose tween the li SERA GU RM TED TOK Sika st cul batons spring- ing the shutter no image had been produced by the light upon the film, Incther words, there was no photograph. !” exclaimed Snoodles. ‘Was there blooming sell? Never mind. I'll take six more and, with the ip managing the thing, art” your He ractice I've had ey'll be works of So he took halfadozem more pop pictures and carried them dowa to the photographer's for developing. “Are you doing the composite act?” inquired the artist of the dark room ina puzzled way, “Evidently you have taken six pictures, but they are all on one negative. “I forgot to turn the roll holder!” ejaculated Snoodi hast. ” responded the photographer iy ith an air utterly devoid sympathy, ‘You have taken the six piotw on w single film and the result isa mixture of the lot, Shail I print you a few copies?’ Snoos was too angry to repli, “Oh, gosh, blazes and demaition!” he tered as he left the studio and capered the photographer's stairway, camera “This business of beimg an art amateur is h—. Two dollars’ worth of films used up and not a icture yet. But never mind. Art is lon; id Rite is short—too short, I'm most afraid, to catch up; but I'll try again. Ha, ha; ho, ho; likewise, he. he!” Accordingly he made half a dozen more photographs with the utmost attention to in- structions, One was of his own superb St, f which he was most anxious to secure a portrait, He got a most successful snap at the noble animal, and was considering the cost of an enlarged copy of the picture with a suitable frame for the drawing room wall on bis way down town with the negatives, When he called the same afternoon to see how they had come out the cold-eyed pho- tographer handed him the six developed nega- tives without remark. Snoodles gazed upon them at firet confidently and then with an expression of despair. The pictures were there, but something was certainly the matter with them, ‘Did it ever occur to you, Mr. Snoodies,” queried the photographer, with calm delibera- tion at length, “that itis mecessary to pay some attention to the focus of your camera when you take a picture?” No, I never thought of that,” admitted Snoodies sadi, he tried to make out the portrait of his noble St. Bernard. ‘But I will try once more.” ‘So he gritted his teeth very hard and took the camera away with him up town. where the next morning he called in the assistance of a real amateur photographer in the neighbor- hood, who had actual knowledge of the art, ‘There was no mistake about it this time. The focus was duly adjusted for the distance, the slide was removed to begin with, no omission was made in the turning of the roll holder—in short, everything was done as it should be. What a thing is knowledge even of so small an affair as the pop camer: Ten pictures were taken this time, including the youngest born in the scanty shift, the st. Bernard dog, the mother-in-law in her newest ribbons, with a front view of the hove anda genre glimpse of the dining room, in which Snoodles himself appeared ina large napkin bib eating mashed potatoes with his knite, Next day Snoodles took down his camera in- closing the precious negatives to the photo- grapher. This time,” he said, witha proud and eu- perior smile, ‘I have some real pictures for [oe to develop and print. I should like to ave copies of them this afternoon, if possi- ble—just one of each, you know. I am sure they are all first-rate.” ‘The photographer bowed politely and, in an absent-minded sort of way, opened the door at neers of the camera and extracted the roll older. Bee goodness me!” he said, looking rather jan! “W-what's the matter?” asked Suoodles, ner- “There was nothing in it," replied the pho- Sonsepher. “Nothing in the roll holder. I took the roll of negative films out yesterday end forgot to put it back.” “And my pictures?” “None have been made. Without the nega- tive films in tho camera no photographs could be (oem Thave not got any Photographs atall after all this distressing experience?’ ‘T am sorry to say you have not.” “Gimme camera,” said Snoodles, “I'm through with amateur ph aphy, which is well enough for professionals, but pot for chumps. When I want any more photograph- ing done I'll hire some one to do it, Good morning. In the next day's paper was an advertise- ‘one Jabjub snimore, cheep. Bos tite ute down hi ” trond and pew the see THE WEEK IN NEW YORK. Mon and Matters Talked About in the Metropolis, ‘THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF THE BRICK STRIKE— ‘SOW REV. MR. M'CULLOUGR DID Nor PLAY THE PART OF TRE VICAR OF WAREFIELD—THRE BoR- ‘ROWER IX A TIGHT PLAcR JU8T Now. Correspondence of Taz Evarrre Stan New Yorx, August 29, The forlorn and friendless cat who nightly roams the streets and wakes the echoes and the sleepers with his yowls is no longer to be the Ishmaelite among animals, with his hand against every man and every man’s hand against him. No fonger an ontcast and a pariah, depending for his sustenance upon the fragal resources of the ash barrel, he is to be luxuriously housed and fed in charming sub- urban retreat far away from disturbing city noises and where no echo of the demoniac yell of the small boy discerning his prey can reach hisears. It seems that New York's charity is broad enough to take in all classes and condi- tions, not only of men butof animals A f philanthropic women have banded themeel together to found « home for these unfortu- nates where they will be sheltered and pro- tected, or, if hopelessly infirm, be quietly and Painlessly assisted to shuffle off this mortal coil. Articles of Leer yf sage have been drawn upand duly signed by the enthusiastic pro- we of the echeme, so the matter rests ona irm legal foundation. A farm house with six acres of ind and two barns onthe shoresof the Harlem has one of the incorpora- r to personally superin- tend the diet care of the cats. Incidentally it may be mentioned that this lady leaves for this purpose her husband, who obstinately do- clines to go with her to live among cats. Evi- ntly this gentleman has not a spark of phi- lanthropy in his composition, but his unworthy lack of sympxthy is not allowed to damp his wife's lofty self-devotion, When it comes to choosing between him and the cats she doesn’t hesitate for s moment, for which her coadju- tors cannot sufficiently applaud her. Enjoying their approval and that of her own co: ce this heroic woman will give her life to the noble work she has chosen and will consci- entiously supervise the preparation of the broad, toast, oatmeal, milk and mutton broth, which are to be provided for deserving cats, The retreat in which their declining years will be passed in dignified rotirement will be closed by a high wire fenci ‘ich will ser the double purpose of keeping the cats in and intruders out What steps will be taken to prevent civil war within the hallowed precincts the incorporators neglect to state. BUILDING WITHOUT BRICKS, There has be Noticeable decrease in the number of specificatious for new buildings since the brick handlers stopped work, and 20 intimate is the connection between one trade and another that it is predicted that this strike will undoubtedly cause a rise in the price of realestate, There are bricke enough in town, fortunately, to complete most of the big build: ings now in course of erection, but the dealers who hold this supply are doling it out with great care and econom: Applicants get ouly about a fifth of the quantity they ask for, and can — only if they are old customers, The ‘ick Handlers’ Union is drawn up in bat- tle array against the Manufacturers’ Union, and has refused to handle the product of any manufacturer until he withdraws from the union. Every boat —— products to the city will be ted up, and ‘wo walking dele- gates of the Brick Handlers’ Union bave had to walk pretty actively to see that every dock in this city and Brooklyn where bricka were arriving was visited. The various firms be- longing to the Manufacturers’ Union supply this city with 10,000,000 bri monthly until navigation is closed, and their inability to fill their contracts will bring upon them heavy loss, which will extend to the builders and the Various other trades dependent upon the: Already three or four hundred men have stopped work, and it is not easy to sec where the paralysis will end. 4 MODERY VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. It will be rumembered that when the late Mr. Primrose, Vicar of Wakefield, went to the fair to sell his horse he had the misfortune to fall in with one Mr. Ephraim Jenkinson, who managed to cheat the venerabie clergyman out of his horse at the first attempt, and to send him home penniless, not a vory difficult task with the guileless vicar. hen the Rey. Mr. McCullough, pastor of the Baptist Church in Nyack, oame to town last week on the per- fectly legitimate errand of purchasing a Hol- stein cow h A yertrroongd had no thought of com- paring himsel jer with the vicar or with a character in the Bible, but he resembied th both in one respect, he ‘fell among thieves.” But the resemblance ended there. In answer- ing an advertisement offering for sale the eacefal animal he was in search of r. McCullough innocently found him- self in o dangerous region known as “Sebastopol.” The conduct of his researches for the cow led him into a stable where the two sharpers were lying in wait for him, Their game wasaclever one, but they took the precaution of accidentally closing the big door leading to the street before beginnin; on the business, They then thought the an easy subject from whom they could extract all that he had, either by fraud or force. But the Rev. Mr. McCullough though no doubt as harmless as a dove was likewise as wise as the serpent. He had lived in o rt of the south where he had ad to study something besides theology, and on leav- ing the parsonnge that morning had taken the precaution to slip into his pocket not only his reek Testament but his revolver. This car- nal weapon he quietly produced and it gave the needed emphasis to his command to open the door, The parson did not get his Holstein cow, but he got the better of a pair of sharp rascals,and on returning to Newark in the evening could face his wife without that sink- ing of the heart which embarrassed the worthy icar, MONEY HARD TO GET AS WRLL AS TO KEEP. Money is even in this rich town just now a very expensive luxury. The squ in the money market, though it is supposed to be only temporary, makes the borrower walk the floor, Butas there are always two sides to every question, the iender's heart now leaps for joy as he reflects that insiead of a paltry S$ or4 percent he can get for « short loan about much interest as the A prominent bank official city not long ago bought at a low rate $250,000 in silver, which he stored ore in his bank. He could now clear $70,000 on the transaction, but as his merchandise will keep he holds on a little longer. expecting to make 125,000, The city bonds are readily taken up at twoand « half per cent ordinarily, but just at prosent the city is having topay five red cent for a loan and finds it bard to get at hat, It is acurious fact that New York city, like a Many private individuals, always has to borrow money to meet its summer e: penses. The summer contracts involve extra- ordinary expenditures and the tax books are not open until October, there is always for ® time « nominal deficit... LOOKING AROUND. It’s doubtful whether our great-grandch: dren live in Mr. Bellamy’s material millenium, but the world, even in these crude times, is constantly breaking out into acte of civilizing kindness, During the week, for instance, the factory tors have been in session to con- fer on how best to protect the health and jiness of the operatives, Silentiy and wisely ese state officers are doing much, in the name and by the power of law, to realize the coming “brotherhood.” Then I notice by the papers that the city's grapes, which are grown in the couservatories in the parks, are to be distributed among the hospitals, and the public is interested even in the slot weighing ma- chiues, as those set in the parks pay a tax to the com- WHERE A BATTLE RAGED. Fredericksburg and Notable Peiats in That Vicinity. Orndorff, Mies Minnie MeCormick, Misses Alice, Rosalind aud Bertha Moore, Messrs, Frank Fischer, David Moore, Benjamin Moore, & G. Wise and J. T. Clements, all of Washing- ton, and Mr. Frank Shedd of Boston. An old-fashioned barn ed till near midnight, when the guests repaired to the house, where & bountiful collation was served. The barn was decorated for the occasion with oe and evergreens, and the affair was ou! Very successful by all who atten: which cluded, besides those at Dr. Moore's home, many of Virginia's best people. 4 TRIP TO FREDERICKSBURG. Nine miles from this place, on the R., F. and P. railroad, is situated the eity of Predericks- burg, which today is one of the most flourish- ing towns of the south. which your correspond- ent had the pleasure of visiting last Friday. Taking 0 carriage from the Exc Hotel, the following points of interest connected with the civil war were visited: Hunter's Island, ® picturesque spot about one and a half miles from the city, w= @ which recalls to my mind another sad story connected with last year’s flood. A son of Mr. Hunter, named Edwin, a very Promising young man, was standing on the bridge at the time the waters came with such « force and fury down the Rappahannock, and when the raging waters struck the bridge both ends gave way the © time, carrying with it the young man, who saw no way of escape. He went down with the bridge, and two weeks after- ward his body was found. It was thought be had been foully dealt with (bi proved to be incorrect), from that at the time of his drowning he wore on the little finger of one of his hands an exquisite diamond ring and when his body was recovered the skin of the finger was torn off and the ring missing, and in his pockets was found a large rollof money. The island now presents a 1k JCTION SALES. os is &' N IR FECHNER AUCTIONRER 612 PEN! _ Under Metropolitan MEMS —__ Walter B. WILLIAMS & ©O., Auctioneers, UATION ASSIGNEES 841.5 OF Wi OBDITED avock co nakoe ake GoNMe Mp OF Bi SF ee EL area se aaa tae fr f ri 2, DaILt, cas! ALGEE S LAMON, Amsienen WALTER B WILLIAMS & 00. ATCLIFFE, DARR & Oo. & R 50 betteyivents ove. we ABSIGNEE'S SALF OF A W) LL-ASSORTED GROCE A! SON SIS" FLOU EAR. Boga ° TCANSAD GOOD CORFER, CANNED PAP. STARCH. SPICES, yee? powDI CLO FTC. BEING, a STUBb Ro southwest SEPTEMBEK THIRD oh, a La & con ad Je the tc atientic trade Depvate buyers ie called. ip! ferms WA. TWOMBLY, 381 4 st nw, Asaignen, RATCLIF) ® _eu28-its ae a DaKectiosesin ° RATCHEFE DARE & 00- Aveta cL ALES MILLINERY GOODS “TRIMMED AND OM SD CHIL TRIMMED MATS. INFANT “PUES choraist rusk te ae RTHWEST, URUK, MORDAR, Fiaer, LP. M.. PACH DAY PR. DALK & ©O., a ¥ KNING, SEPTEMBER! COMMENCING. AI TES O'CLOCK AT TE AnovE \ANRD SCOR LUKE CONTAINED THEREIN, CONMSTING IN VART OF ALOK Bs ALNUT, CHPKIY, Anti OTRER ©} Hf AN HAMB: KERS 1 ABLS. CHAIR: w LAND, LOUNG: 1G) AUS, Wasiist DINING CHAIRS, Kal Cos. ® CUTS, SIDEBOAKD, ATK CARPE Ts, racellel:. opportunity to MATCLIFFS, DARN RCO. Auctioveera weird and lonely appearance to what it did prior to the flood. MARY WASETN WONUMENT. Continuing my journey a half mile I came to Mary Washington's monument—the mother of the immortal George—which is situated on » rising plot of ground commanding an excellent view of the city. Fi yers of white mar! in the rough about twelve inches thick, i unfinished state, mark the res! place of this venerated woman. At base of the monument the shaft lies im- bedded in the ground about three feet, partially hidden from view. where it hes re- mained since the monument was first com- menced. This monument is the work of private individual who commenced its erection when he had plenty of means, but financial re- verses overtaking him the monument has never been completed. The people of this state are wo poor to raise funds t to enable them to finish it, and is no when the work will be completed. It to be regretted that such is the case, and I trust the da: distant when the work bh commenced will be finished to its contemplated height. Sight-scers have chipped large pieces from the base and evidences of vandalism ex- ist. The confederate cemetery, a quiet city of the dead soldiers of the south who fought in the late rebellion, was the next point visited. A granite monument fifteen feet high sur- mounted with « design representing a sheii, is the principal feature of this place. ‘ihe fol- lowing inscription is on the monument: “To the confederate dead.” where lie buried the remains of the unknown dead who fell ia battle, White posts with the werd “Unknown” forma circle around the grass plot on whicz the monument stands, ON MARIE'S HEIONTS, The highest point ‘around Fredericksburg is Marie’s Heights, where @ great battle was fought between the Union and confederate forces. A two-story brick house of gothic ar- chitecture, with front porch supported by four This marks the spot EXiLs MATES, WALANG PAINTED CAs) ‘ ie sti AND OvD LTMESSS PILLOW ch aM. e nireet betwen 3 and 43g etreens 1 the above « Terme cash. Goole io be aucy-ze AbOMAS DOW Rear DARK & CO, Auctioneers, 920 fa ave aw, SITURE, CARPETS &c..CONTAINE! IN HOUSE No 1161 1WENIY-Fiksd Sthaee, DROKLTUWEST OAK cuammen SETS. WAL DE a Ts, WA: DROBES, LOUNORE BEDsits be KLAUS WASHSTANDRE G HAIR AND OTHER MATIRES SR PLLLOWS AND BOLSILus EXZENSIUN Tat DINING CHAIkS, CHINA AND GLASS Waite! ARPETS AND RUGS, EN REQUISET id RITCH rc} ES ke On MONDAY NING, SUPT FIRST, fe Will eli at the above m ture, Carpet thervin, to which we weit! the KaTCLi _ aus. ALTER B WILLIA ;, RABY CHAIRS; COUCHES: LISGAR! wk; MIKRORS: HALL 1 ACK AND CHALK MALCH: WALNUT BREAKFAST TABLE, ALAUT BEDSTEADS, BUK} AUS AND STANDS; MAiTHESSts, BLDDING, MEAIIN BOOK SHELF: BKUSSLLS AND De PetS AND A MI-CELLANEOUS LION OF HOUSEKEEPING AL LICLES en tion of buyers -4t WALLER B. WILLIAMS & ©O, Aucta UNCANSON BHOB., Auctioneers, ‘vth ond D ot nw. MAGNIFICENT BLOCK OF GROUND, CONTA FRG SEABLY 175,000 SQU ALE veg PRO NG ON EL AVENUE aD ABE SikEE?. Pi T SIKEET, SISTREN’ OT 8 No FIs LEENTH STREET pillars, looking very much like the Partbenon, surrounded by carriage drives and rolling lawn, occupies the central soins of the heights, from which a ificent view of the sur- rounding counties is obtained. The frame aren f bout the show evidences of the hard fighting which took place between the Union and rebel forces; the weatherboarding in many places is filled with buge holes made TRE FINEST BLOCK OF GhUUND IN TRE CITE FOR SUBDIVISION, On WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER THIRD, 1800. at FIVE O'CLOCK ‘we will walt te front of the prewines, a1 of Lock & MERIDIAN MILI OVER "400 FeET ON XD, ABOUT 400 FkrT ON 81K’ B fikeNTH STRELTS AND ON PRUB- ty is einong the best situated in the Dis- trict, and for a ayndi others coull be eubaivided: to great advantuge, ws it Lies in the mivancine section This» by minnie balls and shells. grounds eriooks the eity. A chance seidom Dresented is cover about twenty-five acres of land, w) Which shade trees of locust, poplar, cedar and ‘Jerms One-fourth cash, balance in two, fonrand five cottonwood grow in great beauty. To m: mind a more delightful rolcony Bhs ‘ane not exist in all Virginia. The homestead was Fears, Loves to bear U per veut interest, AuiUally and to be secured by dee ‘all cash, at option of purchaser. A depo: required sale. Terms to ve complied with —T vey ‘wise Tight reserved to resel at owned and occu; dari the war or. Marte; from who ‘ate d- its name. It is today the property of Mr. B. Roe, s well-to-do Dosibees man of Fre: ericksburg. This was Gen. Lee's during the late war. Driving from this your correspondent visited the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, where lie buried the remains of 15,273 Union soldiers —12,770 unknown and 4,478 grounds are kept in r. Cobveyancing, &e., a8 DUNCANBOD BKUS.,. = Auctioneers. EE SALE OF PROPER!) ON D BTMEE' EEN FIKST AND SECOND STREET ipreme Court of the pevial terir im eguicy, passed ib james P det SuiM Dat 4 sy 4 AY OF i BAGS Past erve ocLock in front al. thet certain piece ur parcel of isnd in tue Gity of Washington, D. ty knonu sha descrived rte of ORGINAL LOIS 2 AND SIN MOCARE for ts sane on ‘south eure 46 Shree | and look clean and healthy, At _ outside cemetery on the road to ‘s Heights a ‘nite monument marks the t West from the southeast corner of los and runnin. tence eatwerdiy on the north line ot 4.75 fooe (13 toot thence where Gen. BR. RB Cobb of Georgia in battle December 18, 1862. Many points in and about Fredericksburg which your cor dent has neither the time nor space to mention in this letter has been re- served for « future date. 3.7.0, —._—_ How to Count Bank Bilis. From the Chicago Tribune. “There are two kinds of bank bills,” said o man who has handled @ good many of them. “There are the national bank bills and the gov- ernment notes. The former have vignettes on each end, the latter on the left hand end only. ‘The Treasury Department made a mistake in putting the vignette on the left end of the gor- ernment note, for this reason: Take a bundie of these bills in s bank; the bank clerx in count- ing such a bundle bis left hand on the left end of the bundle and counts the right end with bis right thumband finger. T! nette is the most difficuit and for that very reason it most. In count such billsas I have been speaking about is mot seen by mop le se taemeag bone be pa dy op a note than saw the vignet Th agus Banere almost at a i 8 se i H Fells Hin E i FELERL ERE if i Hl i i ui : if a i} said D street 1. © inches); Seas + pelos to seid D street wpe bun- d {vet more or less to the rear live of eald thenoe westwar: seid rear line thirteen () 3) feet and thence southwardiy one hundred feet, ere or dees, to Dewibniug, uuproved by amali frame use. mnJeTine of ale: One-third cash. balance to two ts, payabie in one and two years from. Of Gale, notes Ting interest apd to be secured deed of trust on property wold, or all cash, at opuoD A de, osit of @100 at tinecfsaia Con- ot irehaser Terms to Ye, > eo right to Property st risk aud cost of defeultiug purchaser. ey Wisk GARNE 1, Trustee, 6 Sth strwet nw. DUNCANSON BROS, Anctionsors. | Teepe DARK & OU., Auctioneers. [MUSTEFS’ SALE OF A DESIRABLE TWO-8' AX WINDOW BICK HULSE No, ORTH STREET 1 ST. as the - pears recorded in Book of Subdivisions, BLE... page 184 thereof, and of the books of records of tne surveyor's office for the said District of Columbia, to- @ether with al] the eascme.ts, hereditaments pUrtenatices to the same Delouging oF iB