Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1890, Page 6

6 _ THE. EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY. ciTy AND_ DISTRICT. © “Onward and upward” is the motto of Tex Evex:xo Stan. Onward in its extending influence, upward in its circulation and adver- tising business, The increase is a steady, bealthful one. A QUESTION OF SITE. Some Uncertainty About the Terms of a Railroad Bill. A point has been raised by War Department Oflicials that the bill recently introduced into the Senate by Senator Barbour and now pending before Congross recognizing the in corporation of the Washington and Cumber- land railroad and granting to it a right of way through the District does not fix the site for the station to be located within the city with any degree of certainty. This isthe railway that is to occupy the bed of the old Chesapeake and Ohio canal, the route being stipulated—as far as the city and District are coneerned-—-in the foliowing words: ‘From the point where the road of said company reaches the boundary line of the District of Columbia. along or ad- facent to the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, to and across Rock creek, and thence by such route as shail be approved by the Commis- sioners of said District to a point to be ap- proved by the said Commissioners north of the intersection of 17th street west with the Poto- mac rivor.” ‘The doabt arises from the fact that 17th street does not intersect the river. It formerly did so at the point where the sewer canal now flows into sight just south of the Van Ness property, it niay be that itis the meaning of the bill that the terminus of the road shall be onthe square now occupied by the old mansion. But, it is being argued, the Jan guage of the law being indefinite, it might be possible to construe it to mean that the station should be placed at the intersection of 17th street extended and the river, which would locate it on tne flats just a little south of the tidal reservoir outlet. THE WEDD! = BURN CASE. Answer of Postmaster General Wana- maker to the House Resolution. Postmaster General Wanamaker has trans- Mitted to the House an answer to the resolu- tion of the 16th instant calling on him for i formation concerning alleged violation of the postal laws by Alexander J. Wedderburn. The resolution recited that Wedderburn had used the mails for the transmission of his paper, the “Nationa! Farm and Fireside,” said paper hating no bona fide cireulation; that the post oflice at Grange Camp had veen - lished at his request and one of his employes appointed postmaster. and that at the request of the Agricultural Department investigation into the office had been stopped. It will be ren ered that in debate in the House it was claimed that the Postmaster Gen- iy hoiding back his reply to til after the passage of the in his letter, explains that ion Was not received at the Depart- il the 18th; that Le had left town on und that’ the third assistant post- master general, the only other person who could give ihe information, had been absent since the 9th en account of a death id Lis family. Immediately on his return, says Mr. Wanamaker, he had prepared his repie- Mr. Wanamaker reports that the de- partment had no correspondence on thin subject with the Agricuiturai Department Grange Camp, he explains, is a small place, only two families living there, with no neces- sity for a post office. The only person benefited by the office was Mr. Wedderburn, who mailed his papers .from that place, —al- though they were printed in Alexandria, ¢ office was established through the ef- is of Mr. Wedderburn April 22. 1887, he . and discontinued April 16, 188%. ‘The on appointed postmaster was not a eut ot the place and did not at- tend to the duties of the office. but permitted Wedderbura to ran the office as he pleased. He realized ali the benetits, besides being the sole patron. Eighty-one per cent of the re- ceipts of the office went to Mr. Wedderburn acd were then directed from Washington and Atexandria aud formed a total loss tothe gov- ernment. Mr. Wedderburn’s paper hasnot yet been denied admission to the mails at second-class rates, b the matter is under consideration. The qi a of the prosecution of Mr. Wed- @erburn has been referc.ad tothe Attorney General for his report. IDENTIFICATION BY THE TEETH. Questions of Dental Jurisprudence Re- vived by the Andrews Case. From the Baltimore Sun. The remarkable identitcation of tho body of Charles C. Andrews by Dr. W. Coyle, the Baltimore dentiss, alter the finding of the body insuch a condit‘on of nudity and de- composition that identit; was not possible by ordinary means, revives the question of dertal jurispradence. It was in 1333 that Richard Grady, M.D., D.D.S., made a plea before the Maryland and District of Columbia Dental As- sociation that “dental jurisprudence should have not only a name, but a local habitation.” In Baltimore, the oldest and most widely known American center of dental learning, has occurred the most striking evidences of the value of dental jurisprudence, not alone in the Andrews identification, but, as Dr. Grady showed, in the Goss-Udderzook murder case. ‘The doctor noted in his paper twenty cases of personal identity that were established by the teeth, some of which have loc «i interest here. ‘His paper says: “The Goss- -deerzook trag- edy was « double story of frauiin the earlier stage and murder in ‘the later. February 3, 472, a uewspaper stated that W. 8. Goss. Inv. at 314 North Eutaw street.had been burned to death im a cottage outside of Baltimore the pfevious night. The remains of a human body were taken from the buiiding. ‘The lower limbs were destroyed, and the features were so bnrned or charred as to be beyond recognition. From the shape of the chest, neck and h the corpse was identified to be that of W. S. Goss. so the coroner's jury rendered a verdict ta . Goss came to his death by the plosion of an oil lamp. The body was bui at Baltimore Cemetery. The widow had no} question that it was that of Ler husband, as she kuew the contour of the neck, head and breast. ‘Ten or more wituesses testified to their belief Goss had seemed to be mania for insuring his hife. He had insurance amounting to 225,000, pavable to wife. The stories of Wilham E. Udderzook, a brother-in-iaw of Goss, conve yed the impression that he knew too much and led the insurance company into an inquiry. There was nothing in the way of a direct demonstra- tion to show fr Mrs. Goss was asked to ™éke an claborate description of her husband's feeth, which she said were solid, round and regu She said that during the fourteen years she Pain from his teeth and had not required the Services of a dentist. “The remaims were exhumed and examined ig the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, and Prof. F. J. 8. Gorgas wrote a report show- ing that the buried man must have liad teeth | awn frequently by a dentist, and that his | throat. She was nearly craz ad lived with him he had had no| ASSAULTED BY NED BLUNT. A Sensation at Asbury Park in Which Washington is Much Interested. DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS OF A STARTLING AFFAIR AT 4 SUMMER HOTEL—THE PARTIES INTERESTED BOTH WELL ENOWN IN THIS CITY AND HIGHLY CONNECTED—A SEASIDE SCANDAL, Asbury Park, Washington and Alexandria havo a scandal incommon, It grows out of an assault, which it is charged Edmund C. Blunt, a well-known young man of Washington, com- mitted on Mra, Reverdy D. Dangerfield of Alex- andria, Va. “The alleged assault was committed at the fashionable cottage of Mra. Engard, on Second avenue, Asbury Park. Mrs. Reverdy D. Dangerfield of Alexandria, Va., is said to bea young and handsome woman, whose husband is said to be wealthy and devoted to gentleman farming and politica. An account of tho affair in the Philadelphia Times saya: Mrs. Danger- field appeared at Asbury Tark alone three | weeks ago from some of the northern resorts and applied for board at the Eugard cottage, the hotels being crowded. She was armed with unexceptional references, and by her vivacious manners charmed the household, though she was seldom seen except at meal time and about the retiring hour. During the day sho was gon- | erally out in company with gentlemen, to whom she referred as friends of her aunts, Mrs. Fitz- hugh and Mrs. Carroll of Washington, who Were guests at the Curlew House, Last Tuesday Miss Susic Wheat of Wash- ington called on Mrs. Dangerfield. Miss Wheat had just arrived from Newport. Soon after two | gentlemen ina swell turn out drew up to the ; house anc Mre. Dangerficid and Miss Wheat Went away with them to the Monmouth Park races. They had not been gone long when Mr. | Blunt dashed up tothe house ina ‘i-cart. He } rang the belland the door was opened by Mrs. | Engard’s married daughter. She saw at @ | glance that he had been drinking. It was the | first tame he had ever called at the house, so j she asked who ke wished to se: rs. Dangertield. Is she i he asked. ‘she has gone out,” he was told. Vho did she go out with?” he wert with a young iady,” was the an- swer. “Were there any men with them?” he per- sisted, Z The lady became alarmed by the wicked eam in the man’s eyes, so she answered no. “Does she ever have mes call here or go out with her?” he asked more savagely. The now thoroughly frightened woman again answered in the negative, whereupon Blunt said: “Well, when she comes in tell ner j to wait. Iwant to see her.” and turning on his heel he mounted his cart and drove away. A FRIGHTENED WOMAN. Mrs. Dangerticld, Miss Wheat and their es- courts returned about 7 p.m. They ate supper in a hurry, as they intended to go to a concert that evening. Mrs. Engard’s daughter spoke about Blun nd advised Mrs, Danger- field to stay at home to see him, “Oh, God! is he here?” she gasped, “You had better at home aud sce him,” suggested Miss Wh ho seemed to be fa- miliar with her friend's affairs, and Mrs. Dan- gertield decided to remain at home. The gen- tleman who had been in her coupeny during the day decided also to remain awhile, but Miss Wheat and her escort went to the concert. Mrs. Dangerfield and Mrs. Engurd’s daugh- ter, with the young man, sat on the porch until about 11 o'clock, when Mrs. Dangerticld went to her room for the night. Her friend, whose name is not known, was standing on the porch bidding Mrs. Engard good night. ubout 11:10, when once more Blunt, on his T-cart, came dashing up to the door. The horse was flecked with foam end his driver appeared greatly under the influence of liquor. “Isshe in?” be demanded, hoarsely, as he rushed up the cottage Cahec “Yes, but she has retired,” said Mrs, Engard’s daughter. “Tell her I want to see her,” he shouted. “But she has retired.” “That doesn’t matter,” he yelled. ‘Tell her to come down here—clothes or no clothe: The other man, a thin, delicate fellow, but spunky, was about to resent Blunt’s coarse mode of speech, but the Indy begged him not to make a disturbance. “I will go up and tell her to come down,” she said, and a! i Mrs. Dangerfield agreed to come down e could dress, and the lady returned. Blunt was fuming up and down the parlor. she coming?” he asked. ‘Yes; sie is dressing.” “I won't wait,” he declared. “I'll go up.” But the lady barred his way and he tried to throw her to one side. BEATEN WITH A CHAIR. Mrs. Dangerfield heard the scufileand opening her door said: ‘‘Ned, I'll be right down as soon as I can dress myself.” But he succeeded in throwing the woman in front of him out of the way and rushed upstairs. After kicking in several doors the infuriated man was success- ful in finding Mrs. Dangerfield. As soon as he caught sight of her he clutched her by the throat and threw her on the bed, attired as she nly in her nightrobe. Then he raised a chair and with it beat her cruelly about the head, face and body. Not satisfied with this he dragged her by her long hair around the room and out into the hallway. He cursed her meantime like a crazy man and his oaths aroused every one in the cottage. 5 The People became so frightened that, al- though» heavy. drenching rain was falling, they climbed out on the portico and stood there until the police, who bad been telegraphed for, arrived. It was then midnight. Mrs, Danger- field lay like one dead in the hallway and the whole avenue was in the wildest commotion. Blunt was making a rush for his wagon when Policemen Whittle aud Borden appeured upon the scene and arrested him after a struggle. He spent the rest of the night in the lock-up. LET OFF WITH A FINEL Wednesday morning neither Mrs, Danger- field nor Mrs. Engard would appear against him in court, hoping to keep the matter quiet. So Justice Wyckoff. much against his will, could only receive the charge of disorderly conduct referrea by the officers. The magistrate fined unt #15, which he paid, but he did not ap- pear to regret his actions very much. Mcuntime Mrs. Engard had requested Mrs, Dangerticld to leave her house, The latter’ eyes were black and Diue, and "Blunt's finger marks were plainly discernible around her gl oue to say nothing xbont the a her. With her trunk she was driven to the de- pot and took the first train for Jersey City, Blunt disappeared after leaving the court room and could not be found today. He has been living at Lovg Branch and running his horses at Monmouth during the latter part of until @500 was reached. When the lock-up was reached Biunt arked what the cl ‘against him was, The officer replied drunkenness and disorderly conduct, if not a more scrious “Have I gos to stay here all night?” he asked, ‘ “xen upfes you oe pale trae Ahlen, the ey MRS. DANGRRFIELD DEPARTS. There was no sleep in Mrs. Engar: a ee ee ee : . THE SCHOOL YEAR. Many Institutions From Which Wash- ington Parents Can Choose. The schoo! holidays are nearly over. From country houses, mountains and seashore the boys‘and girls will soon come trooping home to house | Prepare to return to study. Parents are con- after Blunt's visit, Mrs, Dangerfield spent the | sidering the question of schools, which in this night sobbing in Miss Wheat's room. She ap-| City is not complicated by the necessity of proached Mrs. Engard in the morning a pic-| sending their children long distances from misery. Blunt’ red marks on her throat, ft bruises on her face and lored her left eye. — will not care to have me remain here, eal “No,” replied Mrs, Engard, ‘“I’should prefer to have you go.” Thereupon the helpless woman packed her trunks and departed. Miss Wheat left at the same time. Mrs. Engard understood that they sent to the railroad station. cousin and sister, at the Curler her departure. They did n know of! and she did not tell them of it. BLUNT AT THE RACh TRACK. Edmund Biunt was at the Brighton Beach race track yesterday afternoon for the first time this m. Ho seemed on excellent terms with himself, and as he quietly and unostontations|; slipped in and out through the crowd that al- most overflowed the grand stand of the track by the sea, and nodded pleasantly to the occa- sional friend he met, his mind and conscience appeared to be perfectly easy. When asked for an interview he said. quietly and without the slightest change of expression: “You will excuse me, as I have nothing at all to say.” Blunt then walked away and joined an ac- quaintance who called to him, and a moment later he disappeared in the crowd. At Mrs. Dangerfield’s Home. A Washington dispatch to tho World says: “It was the newspapers which first communi- the meeting. Yesterday his stable was shipped to Sheepshead Bay, where the fall meeting of the Concy Island Jockey Club opens today, and he has probably gone there, too. THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON, The nows of the affair at Asbury Park will excite much interest in this city. Doth parties are well known here. Mrs. Dangertield is the wife of Reverdy Dangerfield, a well-known citizen and property holder in Alexandria. Mrs. Dangerfield during the winter months spends most of her time in this city. She is an exceedingly pretty woman and very bright and engaging in her manners. She was a Miss Carroll before her marriage. Mr. Blunt has been recently before public notice, ax he is the young man who wes shot last summer by George Mantz m Shoomaker's | saloon near the National Theater. Mr, Blunt was at one time assistant district attort His | family have long been well known in this city. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. teeth could never have been truthfully called regular aud sound. In atrial in which the es attempted to prove thatthe body not that of Goss* Dr. Kobert Arthur testitied that the plaster model of the subject's mouth showed much disease. and that much Pain had been suffered. The jury returned a | Yordict on June 26, 1873, for Mrs. Goss for the sthount of insurance with interest. On July 1 or 2the body of Goss, who had been mur- dered, was found in Chester couuty, Pa., after Udderzook had beeu with him. The descrip- lion of the body included the teeth, and Wd- derzook was convicted of murder im the first degree.” Auother case is that of Miss May Hatch, fiver as follows: “Miss Hatch of Baltimore Went to Norfolk, Va., June 16, 1888. There she took the steamer for Boston, and when on the ocean it is claimed committed suicide by drown- ing. ‘Yo pertectly establish the identity of the remains Dr. Norris of Baltimore examined the teeth, and compurison with his diagrams left 29 doubt regarding the identity of the corpse.” iu addition to these cases are cited the identi cation of C. Arthur Preller, the victim of the St. Lous trunk mystery, and that of the Prince imperial of France, was killed in Afrion, Wheelmen Home Again. Messrs. Will Gettinger and George B. Olcott hbdve returned to the city from the “bicycle moet” at Niagara Falls. They went by way of Mew York and Albany, invending to wheel from tite iatter place to Niagara Falls, but owing to adverse weather their orginal plans were The New York World giv different ac- count of the affair. Omitting the ‘sly God! is | he here?” remark the World says Mrs. Danger- field remained at home to meet Blunt. who had | left his card, saying he would call at 8 o'clock. | At 10:30 she retired. and half an hour later Blunt came. He finaily released her, when she ig up and rushed down the flight of stairs leading to the rear boty of the house. She ran to Mrs. Pratt, who fled to the rear room, and exclaimed: “Hide me from him. He will kill me.” Mrs. Pratt conducted her, in her baro fect, through the storm to the little summer house, inte which she thrust the frightened woman and locked the door, Blunt tried to follow her, but he thought she had escaped by the front stairs and down be rushed to the jower floor. He ran through one room after the other kicking o' furniture, swearing frightfully and demanding, “Where in —— is she?” He again went ups and burst in Mrs. Engard’s door. He went down stairs | bi a ~~ fin a and was met by a ice! who thr to brain him if he hove” easeaen WHAT BLUXT THOVOHT. ‘ Blunt professed great indignation at his ar- rost, “This isan outrage,” said he to Policeman Borden. “I have done nothi I reput- able resident of W: sto. 7 rr house where table women are ¥# modified. They visited ail the important laces on the way, however, and report a de- Behera time all around and good health. Excriiext athletic sports, Rockville eptember a arate a cated to the family of Reverdy Dangerfield in Alexandria the guarded intimation of the un- pleasant occurrence in which Mrs. Reverdy Dangerfield and Mr. Edmund C. Blunt were involved at Asbury Park. The Dangerfields are in the best sense of the term one of the first families of Virgmia and Blunt be- longs to @ good family in Wash- ington, but is rather a degenerate offepriug. Reverdy Dangerfield isa gentlo- man about forty years of age, the owner of éx- tensive farming lands in the neighborhood of Alexandria. He is the grandson of Reverdy Johnson of Baltimore, his mother being a daughter of Reverdy Johnson and « very esti- matle lady. His brothor and his wife and family he lives with in as fine a mansion asexists in the old town of Alexandria, It is a typical south- ern residence, with an extensive garden in the rear, “The lady belongs to « distinguished fumily, the Nicholsons of this city, several of whom are in the United army and navy, Ed- mund C. Blunt is described in the Washington city directory asa lawyer. but he has never practiced much in the courts, He i8 a young man, probably not over thirty. His father, Mr. Harry Blunt, is an extensive and prosperous dealer in cement and building materials. It is Mra. Da field called a her aunt, | scholastic sin apd. tister, at She ? House, anes meng at the time| The preparatory school and the Columbian the occurrence of the night before ; College both open September 22; the Corcoran not more than a year ago wince young Blunt got into a wrangle in a drinking saloon on Pennsylvania avenue aud was shot by a man named Mantz. The quarrel was about a bet on a horse race. As happens in many cases of the kind in the District of Columbia nothing ever came of the shooting. Blunt recovered and the prosecution was dropped. MR. DANGERFIELD GONE TO ASBURY PARK. “When the correspondent called at the Dan- gerfield mansion in Alexandria this afternoon Mr. Reverdy Dangerfield was not at home. He had left in the morning for Asbury Park, where he hoped to meet his wife in good henith and spirits. He knew nothing about the assault which Blunt is reported to have committed. He only knew, or thought he knew, that she was passing « pleasant summer at Asbury Park as the guest of her aunt there. ‘Behind the justice of the petty magistr: court at Asbury Park there is another justice which needs no formal prosecution, and if the reports of his outragoous conduct at Asbury Park prove to be true it is obvious that Blunt might better have had any jury of twelve men in the country than meet one of the Danger- field brothers face to face, They do not make any threats, but they are men whose spirit is well known, “Ed Jones, whose name Blunt assumed at Asbury Park, is well known in Washington and belongs to a family of sporting men who are regarded as honorable in their profession. When seen here tonight he was vory ungry at the use that had been made of his name and declared he would have redress. “Mrs, Reverdy Dangerfield is the mother of half a dozen children. Tho recent occurrence at Asbury Park has started gossip here about the noticeable attention which she paid to Blunt when he was suffering from the pistol- shot wound a year ago, “Mrs. Dangerfield, before her marriage with Mr, Dangertield, lived with her aunt at Dud- dington, on Capito! Hill, which was the name of the family mansion of Daniel Carroll, the brother of Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Daniel Carroll was her great grandfather. He owned the ground on which the Capitol now stands and nearly all the ground east of the Capitol as far as the Maryland line.” —— SENT BACK TO GERMANY, * Hor Father Had Not Taken Out His Nat- uralization Papers. Gertrude Deutsch, the young German im- migrant who arrived in New York last weck on the Hamburg steamer Augusta-Victoria and was held at the barge office on a charge of insanity,will be returned to Hamburg today on the same steamer. The girl was in a railway accident in Eutope in which several cars were derailed and a number of immigrants were killed. The shock is believed to have affected her mind. The law touching such casos as this one is rathor conflicting, 1 forbids the land- ing of insane immigrants in one clause and for- bids the separation of families in another. ‘The girl's father has beon a resident of New York forsix years. A writ of habeas corpus was issued on his application and the case came up yesterday in the United States court. It transpired at the hearing that the girl's father had never taken out citizenship papers, and there was then no delay in the issuance of the order to return the girl to her home in Germany. eee. Manvetovs Luray.—A personally conducted excursion to tho caverns of Luray will leave B. and O. station 8:30 2.m. Wednesday, September 3. Round trip, including admission to the caves. $3.50. werve your seats in advance without extra cost at 619 and 1351 Pennsylvania avenue. m -——-—_ ONLY GOUOSKBERRY WINE. Much otf the Champagne That Tickles People’s Palates Isn’t Champagne at All. From the Philadelphis luquirer. “Not a little of the alleged champagne now sold in this country as the genuine French ar- ticle,” said a prominent wine importer yester- day, “is simply ripened gooseberry wine, bot- tledand labeled to represent well-known brands. It not only looks but also tastes like cham- pagne and has its sparkle and foam as well. Very few champagne drinkers in this country can tell the difference when ripened gooseberr} wine in palmed off upon them. It is un exceod- ingly palatable beverage and has the merit of being wholesome as well as inviting. “Another point in ité favor is that it can be sold at # comparatively cheap rate and still afford a good profit to the dealer. It is far preferable. to the manufactured champagnes which used to be sold here so largely and which were simply poisons in disguise.” 7 nye Hints to Anglers. From Forest and Stream. Fiy-fishing ot night to those who are not used to it isa peculiar and rather uncanny experi- ence. The rushing water looks as black as ink, andeven when the eky is bright the shadows cast by the trees and bushes make the stream seom intensely dark. It is better to use only = fly and ashort stout leader. The | ex, and after one gets used to the isis weer charming sport, for small fish do not trouble the fly then, and the ones teke hold sharp and with aloud used tfeed entirely at night during tho het ; bas a good standing among Washing! | Pearanes, clutch on her} home. The institutions and’ schools of this city and its vicinity compare favorably with similar institutions throughout the country. “4 . afte hi d last night, | They afford superior facilities for the training sell bet wane $0’ havetae tema she | of the young. The advertising columns of Tu Sram furnish particulars in regard to those schools which will be of interest to all parents and guardians. Brief notices of some of these schools are given below. Columbian University, under the vigorous were going to Washington. Their trunks were | management of President James ©. Welling, will soon commence its work for the coming year. Tho various departments are roughly equipped than ever before. scientific school and the university law school open on October 1; the medical and dental schools of the university will be ready for students October 6. The Brookville Academy, Montgomery county, Md., prepares boys for West Point Academy and for counting house or farm lite. It is admirably conducted by J. D. Warfield, A.M. The session opens September 16. On the Ist of October the medical, pharma- ceutical and dental departments of Howard University will open ior the winter session. Persons desiring information concerning the course can apply to the secrotary, @. B. Purvis, M. D., 1118 13th street, Holy Cross Academy, 1312 Massacbusetts avenue, which is a deservedly popular educa- tional institution, will reopen Monday, Septem- ber 1, As in former years, the fundamental branches will be carefully taught, as well as the moré advanced courses in music, science and art. ‘he splendid new set of apparatus affords special advantages in the scientific course, The Episcopal schools at Haddonfield, N. J., furnishes yearly board and tuition for boys and girls for 150, There is a seminary attached to the seRool for the girls and a military acad- emy for the boys. On behalf of that well-known school, the Columbian College Preparatory, 1335 H street, it 18 announced by the principal, Prof, A. P. Montague, that the course will be extended and improved dnring the coming session, which will begin Septembér 22, “The prep. school,” as it is known, prepares for college, for the United States Military and Naval academics and for business, A thorough business training is a capital which is of more use to a young man or woman than mo: At the Columbia College of Com- vouisiann avenue, opposite the city post office, the principal, C. h. Urner, A.M., C.E., announces that there will be six thorough courses taught. Catalogues will be sent on ap- plication. No cash capital could be as valuable to a young man or a young woman just starting out in a life asa practical business education that would fit them for self-support and useful lives. Such an education as this can be had right here in the city of Washington, and when one has such a practical training he or she—as the case may be—is well able to cope with the world, The Spencers’ fame as practical educa- tor’ fs almost national. and they are goneraliy recognized as authorities on all practical peda- gogical subjects, The next year of fee Bose cerian Business College, corner 9th aud D streets, opens on Monday, September 1. The college embraces six schools—practical bu: ness and accounts, moral and social cultur school of preparatory English and elementary bookkeeping, shorthand and typewriting, Spen- cerian practical penmanship, school of me- chanical and architectural drawing and echool for civil service traini dividual and class instruction. ‘The sessions are both by day and by night. For full information andthe new illustrated announcement for 1890-1 address Henry C. Spencer, principal, or Mrs. Sara A. Spencer, vice principal. Thorough physical and mental training taken in connection with a life and government as nearly as possible like those of a home is what makes Rockland School jor Gi at Sandy Spring, Montgomery ccunty, Md., such a suc- cessful educational institute. The number of pupils taken is limited, and especial caro is taken of the health of the students, Full in- formation can be obtained by addressing the principal, Henry C. Hallowell, A.M., Sandy Spring, Md. The brothers of the Christian schools are in charge of Rock Hill Colloge near Ellicott City, Howard eounty, Md. It is situated in a most picturesque and healthful locality and is, in all respect, an excellent school. There are scien- tific, classical and commercial courses, and stu- dents are received either by the day or as boarders. For particulars address Brother Dennis, president. The preparatory school for Lehigh Univer- sity prepares directly for that university, and he only school recommended and-indorsed ana chool by the president and facult¥ of Lehi ‘Through the generosity of Lehigh’s founder, Hon. Asa Packer, free tuition is offered to all who are able to come up to the requirements for admission to the university, For mformation as to the preparatory school address the principal, W.Ulrich, Bethlehem, Pa, St. John’s College, Annapolis, Md., conducted by Thomas Fell, LL. D., Ph. D., gives especial aitention to the preparation of candidates for the Naval Academy are eight depart- ments and four courses of study. Bookkeep- ing, business practice, arithmetic, rapid writ- ing, grammar, correspondence, spelling and typewriting are taught. The pretty town of Mt. Holly, N. J., has one of the best schools in the country in ite acad- emy, where boys may prepare for business or college. The Betlitz Schoo! of Languages, with ite branches, is one of the moat remarkable edu- cational institutions in the world. In all the large cities of Europe and America a Berlitz school is to be found. Preparatiun for college is one of its special aims, The charming village of Roekville, Md., has in its academy an excellent place for boys to prepare for business or professional life. Among the best known institutions in the country isSwathmore College at Swathmore, Pa., where a full coflege course for both sexos is offered. Swathmore is in a picturesque re- gion and is a delightful school home. Ivy Hailisa boarding and day school for children situated at Capitol View Park. Music and all the English branches are taught in a most thorough manner. Miss Emma Prentiss, at Forest Glen, Md., is the principal, from whom all information can be obtsinod, Melrose Institute is at Hyatteviile, Md., six miles from Washington and thirty-four miles from Baltimore. Melrose Institute is a thor- oughly equipped boarding and day school for girls and offers every advantage in the way of situation. The school reopens September 24. Circulars can be obtained on applicution, LR, Morrell has had fifteen years’ expe- rience with th st celebrated artists in Europe and _ pos unrivaled facilities for students in drawing and painting. Mr. Morrell himself is the possessor of twe!ve medals show- ing the excellence of his work. For students, teachers, desiguors, decorators, or artists d:- siring rapid aud immediate improvement, Mr. Morrell considers that he offers rare opportun- ities if the lessons are commenced between now and September 8. All information can be obtained at 804 E strect today. 3 Jt W. Reynolds, 529 7th street, room 20, guarantees to teach any one to drawa life- sized crayon portrait in fifteen lessons, with not the slightest previous knowledge necessary. The advantages of a practical commercial education is offered by Wood’s Commercial School, 407 Capitol street, which has earned an excellent pepstation since its open- iug in 1835, It will be opened September & Annual scholarship, $25, and @10 for type- writing. ‘The fifth session of Olney Institute, George- town, opens October 1, with the Misses Dorsey at the head, ag usual. The institute is located at $122 P streét, and has a fine record. Miss Y. M. Dorsey will conduct her customary classes in calisthenigs, This school is well known and ton's most excellent institutions. The Misses Kerr's Home School for young ladies and little girls will reopen to its le: on the “24th of Se ember at 183 removed to 1127 10th street, #here she will con- tinue to develop and train the voice. Her suc- cess here has been wonderful, and she is eer- tain to have a large class, attracted by the work she has done heretofore, Rev. A. M. Jelly, D.D., president of the New Wimdsor College, announced that he will re- Oo that institution on the 17th of September. re are three establishments at New Wi sor, Md.—the college, the female college the business college —each having a full course, also sometrery thorot eh propos Sratocy sobeots some very thoroug’ ‘y schoo! The charges are reasonable. For years Mt. Vernon: Seminary has occupied the front rank among educational institutions designed for the training of young ladies and little girls, Methods of teaching represcnt- ing the most advanced thought and executed by teachers of the highest ability have given the school the deserved reputation which it now enjoys. The principal, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Somers, has found it necessary, as the numbers of pupils thronging to the school increased, to enlarge the buildings. Now the seminary buildings at the southwest corner of M and llth stres not only commodious, but fur- nished with ‘y appliance for the health and comfort of pupils, including passenger elevator, steam heating and perfect sanitation, The principal can be addressed at the schoo! after September 1. One hundred and fifty dollars a year is not much money to pay for the board and e: tion of a girl. That isthe price set by principal of a nicely located school in F ia- delphia. The principal will call on parents if request is sent to “Home School,” Star office. For thirty-eight years Emerson Institute has been a successful educational center, and on September 22it will start out on the thirtr- ninth year of its existence. To those who de- sire to posers for Harvard. Yale, Pinceton, Johns Hopkins, L&high and other colleges Emerson Institute can bardiy be anything Eat satisfactory. Candidates for the United States military and naval academies are also given the necessary instruction. For full particulars address Principal Chas, B. Young, 914 14th strect northwest, Drawing and painting of all kinds are taught at 804 strect northwest. Those* who are dubicus of their ability to learn shonid cail and sce how students make rapid and profita- ble progress, _— THE CAPITOL DOME And the Splendid City That It Over- looks. From Harper's Weekly. & When Mr. Howells let the world into the con- fidence of “Their Wedding Journey,” Washing- tom had not yet discovered its charm as a honey- moonsbrine. When their wedding journey was made the newly married found in the sylvan glades of Goat Island and along the banks of the Niagara that sequestration from the eye of the world which seems the fitting aftermath of love's young dream. The bridal chamber holds no longer the chief place in Niagara hostels. Eleusis has set up its temples at the capital. Just why Washington was on a sudden selected as Hymen’s rendezvous can only be guessed. Why the ordinary tourist should seek Washin, ton and delight in its urban beauties any one who has ever been there knows without telling. Bat Darby and Joan, in the felici of the honeymoon, cannot be supposed to have eyes for the becuties of tho streets, the art of the monuments or ears for the oratory that mal the Senate and House a place of interest for student. Yet that there is a permanent attrac. tion in the city on the Potomac for the *-honey- mooners” the constant throngs of thom attest. Satire, like science, depends upon wider knowledge, as well as later developments for the justness of its generalization. Travel may ave been the ‘fool's paradise’ e satirist stigmatized when the caustic opigram was written. It would be hard to make the bliss- ful pair pictured in the dome of the Capito! take this melancholy view of their honeymoon sojourn on the banks of the Potomac, What Niagara and Bath were in other days to the newly wed Washington is now become. It is the single capital in the world that enjoys this piquant distinction. and the fact suggests re- flection of asort agreeably stimulating to our national complacency. Other great cities have arisen by decree, but with the exception of St. Petersburg, built on the bogs of the Neva. and Alexandria, recovered from the sands of the Nile, there are none of the vast metropoli that waked the world’s wonder left to tell the tale of their purpose. Other cities have had their origin in needs of commerce, agri- culture, defense, but Washington is alone, of all the cities of earth, the creation of art. A little less than a hundred years ago the “mag nificent distances” that now fill the eye of the stranger with surprise and pleasure were cov- ered by primeval forest. Where miles of pala- tial structures now recall the stateliness of the Rome that Augustus Cesar left, the fowls of the air, serpents and wild bensts enjoyed un- troubled covert. It was not until 17¥6:that the tempest-tossed Congress of the thirteen colo- | nies saw the first evidences of the federal city that excited the mirth of the wits, the forebod- ings of the timid. The circumferetce of the city as it now spreads ott nnder thegteat dome is greatly contracted from the imposing di- mensions origimally Itid ont by the engineer L’Enfaut. Where the superb Patent Office now stretches in marble majesty the poetic French- man, inspired by recent events in Paris, had marked the site for anational tabernacle, where national events were tobe religiously commem- orated, whore national obsequies were to be celebrated, and the dead honored by the coun- try were to be buried and their monuments be perpetuated—a sort of Pantheon to the glorics of the republic. Two columns of majestic pro- portions were to rise at specitied distances from the Capitol, the one representing in bronze and granite the memorabilia of the seven years’ war from Lexington to Yorktown, the other such prodigies by sea as in ten years had made our littie navy a rival of Britain's, The streets running eastward from the Capito! were to be continuous arcades, like the sequestered al- coves of Bologna and Venice. Between the Capitol and the President's residence were to be Elysian ficlds and palatial dwellings for the foreign ambassadors and the public buildings, But even at that early day “rings” and “jobs” found their account. The indignant French- man, beset on all sides by venal legislators and ‘self-seeking jobbers, torew up his com- mission in disdain, and the city as it stands was perfected by Aadrew Ellicott. In_ 1792 five hundred dollars in gold were offered, without restriction as to cailimg. to the citizen who should send in the acceptod design for the President's house. Five hundred dollars and a lotin the new city, or a gold medal. were offered for the best design for the Capitol. ‘To a generation that has become familiar with the sums annually voted for post offices und custom houses in Plumyille aud Pumpkintown our forefathers will seem thrifty indeed, em- barking upon city building with a grant of $19,200 from the states of Virginia and Mary- land. This was supplomented by a uational lottery, for which 50,000 tickets were sold. Sixtecn thousand seven hundred end thirty were to draw prizes, the capital one being a hotel which was to coxt 250,000. The price of a ticket was $7, and the prizés ranged from 310 to $25,000. Nor need tho student of cur- rent moralsand mann ee by the laxity of our times,’ wholly despond, when he reflects that the lottery was made use of a hundred voars ago not only in the building of our national Capitol, Churehes, schools, colleges, eveu Har- itself, were indebted to the wheel for to secure their usefulness! In 1796 the Prosident’s houso and the Capitol were the only evidences of a city where the traveler now sees squares and monuments, edifices and gardens that ecli Paris and Viennain beauty and taste. When the lottery failed and the sums voted by Virginia and’ Maryland gave out, Washington was loss of a city than the humblest suburb of Jersey City or Brooklyu. Three hundred thousand doi were asked by the commissioners to go on with the work, and tho country was distracted by such profligate out- Iny, ‘Tho press of the time thundered against such wasteful extravagance. In 1800 the tal was asore trial to men accustomed to homely comforts of New England and New York. There was but one good tavern in the town, The members of Congress were herded to- ther iu afew mean tenements like soldiers ina Gorek: Land was rated at nty-five cents a juare fovt, ‘the speculators for a rise! dents were mostly negroes, or shift- leas Besca rete be thrown out of regular indus- wit virions of sudden cit Though ‘the whole city “was covered with GUST 30, --.1890—SIXTEEN PAGES. HE CENTURY Number Ready on Saturday. Celebrating the goth an: California as a State with September ia came into the Union,” with others ; ancédotes of Charles Mathews and W »— how Jefferson made Jefferson's ee Bob Acres; concuding cl ton Times calls“the magazine st: description of a famous costum miversary of the admission of n illustrated art How Cali- rats ‘iltiam his ters of “ The Anglomaniacs, of the summer, ll in New York,” of which it is said: “None of the episodes seemed to bave gained such wide of the Crusader in full coat of mail, who, returning home in containing a delightful renown as that wut Gvigte Sone cern Tas 1st by bs hansen upon the parental doorstep, a to ond want of a latch-k Finging, attended by two “Qur New Naval Guns,” by Love Stor » he remained for an hour, the milkman, and a Commander Goodricl “In the Marble [ills,” etc., ete., ete. On every news-stand, price 35 cents.— The Century Co., New York, wood Mrs, Adams, the wife of the first Presi- dent who took up his residence in Wash- | ington, could secure none for the grates of the White House, The house required thirty servants to keep it in order, and all the food had to be brought from Baltimore, Georgetown or Alexandrin. Gouverneur Mor. ris, writing to the Princess de la Tour et Taxia, in December, 1800, says, sportively: “We want nothing here but houses, cellars, kitchens, well-informed men, amiable women, and other trifles ef this kind to make our city | periect, for we can walk hore as in the fields | and woods, and considering the hard frost the air of the city is very pure. If, then, you are desirous of coming to live in Washington, I | hasten to assure you that freestone is very | abundant here; that excellent bricks can be | burned; that there is no lack of sites for mag- | nificent hotels; that contemplated canals can | bring a vast commerce to the place. In short, | that it isthe very best city in the world for future residence Nothing was further from the writer's | thought than a verification of this ironical pro- phecy inthe space of a not abnormally long hfetime, For a quarter of a century the capi tal, so grandiose on paper, was the mock forcign ministera and tourists. The gossip of | other days givesus an amusing glimpse of the | shift our early statesmen and their families were put to in carrying out the modest func. tions thought requisite even for Jeffersonian | simplicity. In 1812 the city, sh: y | invited the torch of the British, When the re- | building began, experience was of value to the | new founders, and while all of the old ambition for Greek beauty and modern spaciousness was | not wholly rejected. the city arose more com: | pact and habitable than before. Down, how- | | ever, to 1861 Washington was far from lovely or ‘inviting. The magnificent avenues that now | rival the boulevards of Paris and Vienna were | wastes of red clay, with the Capitol aud White | House rising at either end, emphasizing the | squalor of the streets, the wretchedness of the | |Structures, But it was not until the war was | nearly over that the Capitol and its wondrous | dome became the creation of beauty they now | present. The original structures in which the 8 sat were rather mean in appearance, | the sight alone giving them significance. | The ambitious patriots who printed the sub- | Joined doggerel liuex when the founding of the | | city was mooted would have found them | prophecies could they have foreseon the city of today: © Ty the United States ia Congress assembled: The peti “it ave a name, mand fame. rep peleey = or epeey f 7 nd 16 9) son of a eat un | Pray ied tbe chsistened plain Washington-epue" The New York Journal, which published | these lines on the 10th of August, 1791, were it in existence today would have no reason to | complain of the handiwork of the commis- | sioners who for yenrs suffered the slings and | arrows of public revilemont for their inefii- | ciency, jobbery and malyersation. Whether | | these much harrassod patriots builded wiser | | than they knew or not, the evidence is there | | in imperishable form that they founded a city and adorned it with edifices that compare not | unfavorably with the older and more favored | capitals of the world. Nor is it wholly with- |out significance that the Capitol itself, | | built penury «nd perfected in civil war, | is ornamented by a dome that shares | with St. Peter's, the Pantheon of the Cesare, | the handiwork of Brunelleschi and Michael Angelo, the critical admiration of the culti- vated world. The great circle has a diameter | of nearly 100 feet and » height from the rim to | | the apex inside of 55 fcet, It is 200 feet from | | the pavement of the floor to the vault of the | | ceiling. The exterior. seen for miles about | presents a peristyle of 195 feet within a frac- tion, supported by columns 27 feet in height. | The top of the dome is 230 fect above the pave- ment. The lantern above this rises 52 fect and is 17 feet in diameter. Above this again is a | bronze statue of Liberty 18 feet high. It prob- ably does not enter in the scheme of things | taken account of by the honeymoon tvurists | | that, they gaze upon this colossal dome, | & masterpiece of architecture that | equals the most admired work of the kind,from iehael Angelo to Sir Christopher Wren. soe THE PHANTOM MOUNTAIN, APeculiar Atmospheric Effect Some- times Seen on the Pacific. { From the San Francisco Examiner. Clustered about the capstan they were tell- ing about John Muir's experience on the great South Dome in Yosemite during a snow storm, | when alone there, impressed with all the vast- ness of the place he saw a giant image in the clouds like the wrath of the valley's god, veer- ing and advancing as if in menace. It was told | how Muir finally ascertained that the image was merely his own reflection on the snow | cloud—a duplicate of the world-famous specter of the Brocker. Then up spoke Mayor John R. Glascock of Oakiand and asked: “Havo any of you seen the Phantom moun- tain—the peak in the ocean?” Though there were many in that company who had seen ali sorta of things, from crawhng | vipers to pink monkeys with sea-green append- ages, none could say thet be had ever seen the Phantom mountain. So the mayor went on: | _ “I have often been ou Mouut Diablo—in fact, have camped there season after season. | have viewed the sun rise and set from a perch upon the summit time and time agam; but only ouce had I the pleasure of beholding the ghost- like peak. Oue morning, however, after [had climbed the grade in order to sec the signal service men, who were formerly stationed there, flash their heliograph signals across to an eminence the other side of Truckee and then over to Mount St. Helena, I was told to turn my eyes out to sea. You know it isa fact that on a clear day a person can see more country from the summit of Diablo than from any other eminence im the world. The great central valley spreads out on one side, ail the lesser hills, generally shrouded in a fog, are beneath you, and off to the west dimples the blue Pacific. Well this morning I could hardly beliove my eyes. Right up from the bosom of the deep rose a grext mountain—aolid, majestic and empurpled, ‘or along time I believed that it was the product of some ‘drastic lift of pent volcanic fires’—the growch of a night. But as I studied it I saw that it was the exact counterpart of the double coue of Diablo—a phantom of the sea. By the peculiar reflective and refractive condition of the atmosphere the mountain was made to appear asa wave-washed crag. As the sun rose. ail its apparent stability vanished and it dissolved into thin air. I tried for the — again and again, but the atmospheric co: tions were never favorable. Ever after- ward the ocean stretched away, uuruffled and remote.” ee Excunsiox tickets, Rockville fair, @1 round trip. . —_——_ Yesterday’s Ball Games. Yesterday's ball games resulted as follows: National League.—Chicago, 6; Philadelphia, 4 Boston, 2; Cincinnati, 1. New York, 1; Pittsburg, 0.* Brooklyn, 10; Cleveland, 6. Players’ Leaguo.—Philadelphia, 8; Buffalo, 6. New York, 11; Chicago, 5. Brooklyn, 10; Cleveland, 9% Boston, 18; Pittsburg, 0. SE SPATE ata! 4 Royal Baking P | bread wholesom ens without fermentation. Qual~ owder makes hot: e. Perfectly leav- os ities that are peculiar to it alone; W. B MOSES & Bong, CORNER 11TH AND F STREETS NORTHWEST, FURNITURE, CARPETS, UPHOLSTERY GOODS, WALL Parens, INTERIOR DECORATIONE, &8. To make space for the new goods for fall season we tre cflering many attractive bargains, ‘Tbefollowing are afow: UPHOLSTERY DEPARTMENT. £00 Curtain Poles, full length, with trimmingsall Complete, worth 50c. and T5e. ; 1Sc. each, 100 Curtain Poles, extra beavy, with trimmings completa worth 75c. to @1.50; 25e. each, 100 pairs Lace Curtains reduecd to $1. Finer Curtains reduced to less than import prices. A large assortment of purteres, less than manufec- Aurers’ prices, CARPET DEPARTMENT. Carpets of tho following sizes, made of Remnants, with border all around TAPESTRY BRUSSELS CARPETS 8 feet 3 inches by 10 feet, $10.50; reduced from els. 8 feet 3 inches by 11 fect, @11; reduced from 618. Steot 3 inches by 1¥ feet O inches, $15; reduced from @22.50. 30 feet 6 inches by 15 feet, #18; re@uced from 629. 10 tees © inches by 16 feet 6 inches, $20; reduced from @3. 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