Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1890, Page 14

14 i Ned THE EVENING Re anti TAR:. WASHINGTON, UNCLE SAWS LAWYERS Men Who Carry the Green Bag for the Government. ATTORNEYS OF HIGH RANK. “The Solicitor General—Attorneys Gen- eral for the Departments—Law Of- ficers Who Keep Vigilant Watch Over the Government's Interest. PEE "ae NCLE SA M isalways getting into men, with a vast amount of legai talent, ito take care of him when he is dragged into the courts. And he isa pugnacious Individual, so much so, indeed, that all of the spare time of these men and their taleuts is oo- cupied in prosecuting his law suits, so that, be- tween Uncle Sam’s misfortunes and his beltig- erence there has grown up a large organiza- tion in one corner of his establishment that is known as the Department of Justice. It is the function of this branch of the govern- ment to watch the law. to see that it is executed, to punish its breakers, and to reward its followers, The Attorney General is Uncle Sam’s lewyer and he has be- hind him a large force of men—it ought to be larger, he thinks—who help him in bis busi- ness. Itisthe most important of these offi- cials that Tur Star presents today. The At- torney General represents the United States in all matters involving legal questions, gives his advice and opinion on questions of law when they are required by the President or by the heads of the executive departments on questions of law arising upon the administra- tion of their departments; he exercises a gen- eral superintendence and direction over United States attorneys and marshajs and provides special counsel for the United States whenever required by any department, SOLICITOR GENERAL TAFT. His main assistant is the solicitor general, who, in the present case, is Judge William H. Taft. He has three functions—first, to act as Attorney General dur- ing the absence of that Official, as he is at pres- ent, while Mr. Miller is away on a two weeks’ northern trip; second, —e 4 to prepare and argue cases in the Supreme b ‘ourt, and, third, to repare opinions for the Peatte of prereset } . be signed by bim and 7 approved by the Attor- % ney General. There are about sixty cases to be heard by the Supreme Court thi winter to which the United States is o party, and the prepa- ration of them involves a vast amount of labor, which is divided between him and the assistant attorneys general. The Attorney General has time for the personal conduct of but two or three cases each year, the bulk of the Supreme Court work being done by Judge Taftand Mr. Maury. Judge Taft is avery young man to hold this position, that of the second highest law officer of the country. He was born September ‘15, 1857, and will therefore be thirty-three years old next Monday. Cin- cinnati was bis native city, and has been hi home ever since his birth until he came to Washington. His father was Judge Alpbonzo Taft, who was Secretary of War and Attorney General under President Grant in 1876, 1877, and later minister to Austria und to Russia under President Arthur. Young Taft was educated in the public schools of Cincin- Bati in preparation for college, and he gradu- ated at Yale in 1878. He returned at once to Cincinnati and entered the law school of the Cinemnati_ College, from which ho graduated in May, 1890. He was admitted to the bar the same month, and until January 1. 1881, was jaw reporter on the Commercial. In January he was appointed assistant prosecuting attor- ney for Hamilton county and served until February, 1882, when he was ap- pointed cullector of internal reven for the first district of Ohio. January 1, 1883, he resigaed to enter upon the practice of law with Judge H. P. Lloyd, his father’s partner, when Judge Taft was sent to Europe a3 an am. bassador. This arrangement continued until March 7, 1887; while he was practicing he was appointed assistant county solicitor and he re- signed that position to go on the bench, hav- ing been appointed by Gov. Foraker judge of the supreme court of Cincinnati to fill the Yacancy caused by the retirement of Judge Harmon. This vacancy ceased May 1, 1888, An election was held in April, 1888, to fill it and Judge Taft was chosen by the yotes of the people to serve the full term of five years. He resigned from the bench to come to Washington as solicitor general last February. Judge Taft is a large man, both physically and mentally, and his charming manners endear him to all who meet him. He does not give one the impression of Possessing an inordinate amount of courage, ut it is a well-known story in Cincinnati of how he thrashed the six-foot editor of a paper that had slandered his father, and thrashed him so thoroughly that the paper never ap- peared again. ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL MAURY. Wm. A. Maury, assistant attorney general, is & Washingtonian, by birth, culture, residence, end in taste. He was the son of the late Hon. John W. Manry, at one time mayor of the city. His early education was received under the care of a tutor, and when it was completed he en- tered Harvard, from which he graduated in 453, having in his class some of the brightest lawyers of the country, inelnding James ©. Car- ter. Joseph H. Choate, Judge Phillips of Balti- more, and many others distinguished ‘on the bench and at the bar. Immediately after his graduation he returned to Washington, was admitted to the bar in 1854 and began the practice of law, forming a part- nership with Jas. Carlisle, father of Mr. Cal- deron Carlisle. known here, In 1857 he was appointed assistant district attorney to enable Mr. Philip Barton Key, the district at- torney, to travel inthe tropics for his lealth. He accepted this trust to gratify Chief Justice ‘aney, Mr. Key's uncle, as well as to gain ex- rience. He held the post for several months, ing entirely alone in the conduct of the casea and responsible for their outcome. It was severe trial of bis Iogal ability and his “level —headedness,” Ss itmight be termed, but he stood it weil, When Mr. Key returned Mr. Maury turned over to him the entire salary of the office. For twelve years he resided im Richmond, be practiced law and returned here in 1377 a ‘entered into a partnershi Hi which continued until May, 1882, when Pre dent Arthur selected him to be assistant torney general to succeed Mr. Edwin B. Smith, who is now engaged in successful practice in New York. In 1°73 Mr. Maury was appointed professor of law in Columbian University in piace of Dr. Samuel Tyler, and he still remains ‘one of the bulwarks bebind which that admir- able institution built up a lasting reputation. He has formed many scores of Jezal minds, both young and old, and has, in the twelve years of his professoryip, turned out some of the men who are now leading at Washington's bar, Last June he graduated Prof. Soley, now assistant secretary of state, and Licuts. Stayton and Garst, who conducted the case of the government in the court mar- ‘ial of Capt. McCalla, His duties include the asual varicty. He appears for the government dn the Supreme Court, writes opinions for the Attorney General and attends to various other matters that are assigned to him, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL SHIELDS. For variety of scope as well as of importance the legal questions that come up before the aasistant attorney general for the Interior De- partment exceed those that come before any other office in the ex- The Interse Depart: Interior ment includes more Within the range of its suthority than any othor department, and naturally the law offices of the department has to cover a pretty wide field. All questions per- taining to public lands, railroad land trouble, and it takes a large number of sist him. 871 when the office was estab- lished there was only one clerk, but now the business has increased and the largo force of law clerks are kept busily employed. Gen. Shields was born in Nelson county, . in 1842, years later his father removed to Hannibal, Mo., and iu that state Gen. Shields has lived ever since. He attended Westminster college at Fulton, Mo., studied law with judge Wm. P. Harrison of Hannibal and graduated at the Louisville (Ky.) Law School in 1863. Ho was elected a member of the Missouri legisia- ‘Two years Iater he removed to Fo he formed a partnership with ex-Senator John B. werson. Ht was elected a member of the consti- tutional convention of Missouri in 1875 and was chairman of the board of frecholders, which formed the present charter of St. Lonis. He was chairman of the republican state com- mittee from 1876 to 1880. Swing to his 7 sonal acquaintance with Gen. Shields as well as knowledge of his ability Secretary Noble ten- dered him the position which he now holds. Gen. Shields is prominent in Missouri as a re- publican and has a high standing as a lawyer and a citizen. ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL COTTON. John Bradbury Cotton of Maine is the as- sistant attorney general charged with the de- fense of the govern- ment in the Court of Claims. He superin- tends the preparation of briefs ‘ill , motions and all the other legal machinery that goes to make complete the line Of fortifications behind which the Treasury is defended against the onslaught of the hordes ofclaimants, Whenever the processes require it be appears in the Supreme Court in these cases, He also has super- vision over all mattors rolating to the concur- rent jurisdiction given to the circuit and dis- trict courts over claims given by statute in 1887, Occasionally, when a case ix of unusual importance, he appears im court in person as the government's counsel, as in the re- cent claim of Congressman = Crain against the government to recover salary embezzied by Sil- cott.” In other cases ono of the assistant at- Defaulter | of the department He is also charged by law with the supervision of suits and ings arising out of the provisions of law governing national banking associations in which the ed States and any of its agents or ‘ties; also with the charge, release and f lands acquired in payment of debt, ex- = 1g those acquired under internal revenue wa, SOLICITOR PARTRIDOE. Mr. Frank C. Partridge is the law officer of the State Department. He is quite a young man, having been born in May, 1961, and being therefore but twenty- nine years of age, but his talents are sufficient- ly strong and well de- veloped to entitle him to the distinction of be- ing in charge of so im- portant a branch of the government service. His Official title, as devised by the laws of long ago, is that of examiner of clams, but his actual Position warrants the name of solicitor, and it is by that title that he fo generally known. As examiner of claims he “% examines all petitions from Amcrican citizens, or thoss claiming to be such, for the interven- tion of this government in their bebalf against the injustices done them by foreign nations. Men imprisoned in «foreign country without just cause. maltreated or injured in their prop- erty—such are the individuals who seek for aid from the Secretary of State, and it is upon their claims for redress that Mr. Partridge passes, In ease he should think that there is ground for international interference he so reports to the Secrotary, who, if he approves that con- clusion, notifies the minister at the court in question and directs him tu bring the same to the attention of that government—to the end that justice may be done. The demand is enforced with more or less vigor, according to the cir- cumstances and merits of the case. Usually, however, these cases are amicably settled. The examination of claims forms but a smull part of his regular work, which corresponds quite closely with that of the solicitor of the Treas- ury Department. He passes upon all sorts of legal questions that affect the work of the de- partment and his work of necessity often verges torneys attached to the department is assigned. Mr. Cotton was born in Connecticut forty-nine years aga When he was nineteen years old he moved to Massachusetts, but for the past thirt; years has resided im Lewiston, Me. He grad- uated from Bowdoin College in 1865, and im- mediately on leaving college entered the law office of Fessenden & Frye, the latter being the present Senator from Maine, in Lewiston. He was admitted to the bar in 1866 and in 1868, on the death of Mr. Fessenden, he formed a co-partnership with Mr. Frye that has con- tinned with some c! exeuntil his appoint- ment to his present office ingune. 18 Colton is a bright lawyer,” diligent, con- ntertain: ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL TYNER, The legal problems which very frequently confront post cffice officials in the discharge of their duties are respect» fully referred to the rep- resentative of the Depart- ment of Justice for the Post Oftice Department. The gentleman who hol this important Mr. James N. position ost office service gi fim a knowledge which peculiarly fits him for the 4 discharge of the dutics of the place. Few men have served for a longer period in one branch of the go ernment service thau Mr. Tyner, his career as post office inspector. He has been at the head of the department and has filled three of the most important piaces in the de partment. James N. ‘lyner was born ut Brook ville, Ind. He received an academic educa- tion, studied law and in 1857 he was secretary of the Indiana senate for four sessions. He was special agent of the Post Office Depart- ment for five years. In 1869 he was elected a member ef the House of Representatives and served for three terms continuously. Im- mediately after leaving Congress he was ap- pointed governor of Colorado. In 1875 he was Appointed to the position of second assistant postmaster and in the following year he was made Postmaster General, After leavin; lagter office, when Mr. Hayes became President, he way appointed first assistant postmaster general and served until his resignation. in 1881, He then practiced his profession in this He began the city and in March of Inst year he was appointed to the position which he now holds. ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL PARKER, The recent appropristion act mado provision for the appointment of an additional attorney general in order to g the Attorney General ‘nereasing lega, business of the govern- ment demands, and in accordance with this new law the President recently appointed Hon. Abraham X. Parker, ex- member of Congress from New York. to fill the new hold ot Monday, He will have charge of various gen- NNE eral matters, but will not appear before either of the courts, his work being more strictly that of a true assistant to the Attorney General in the examination of legal questions submitted to the department for de- cision. He hails from the town of Potsdam just now, bnt is a native of Granville, Vt.,where e was born November 1é, 1831. He has beena resident of St, Lawrence county, N.Y., for over forty years. He was educated at the St. Law- rence Academy and the Albany Law School, and, after being admitted to practice, continued hia law studies at Buffalo and Syracuse. Ever since 1857 he has been a lawyer in acti tice. In 1863 and 1864 he served in the New York assembly and in 1868, 1969, 1870 and 1871 tate senator. In 1876 he was first elector-at- ‘ge on the republican ticket aud was sent to ‘ongress for four successive terms, beginning with the Forty-seventh Congress and ending with the Fiftieth. SOLICITOR BEPBURN. Col. Wm. P. Hepburn, solicitor for the ‘Treasury Department, isan Iowan of Ohio begin- ning. He was born in = Columbiana county, in the state of presidenti: timber, November 4, 1833, and seven years later went with his par- ents to Iowa. which was then inthe wide west- ern wilderness, His pri- mary education was re- ceived in the common schools of the state and his collegiate course took the effective form as ap apprentice in a printing office. From 1858 to 1855 he pursued the study of Inw and in 1856 was olected prose- euting attorney of Marshalleounty. This was the beginning of a long office-holding career, ‘Two years later he was chosen chiot clerk of the Iowa house of bes shen rghe, where he had experiences that ad during his Inter service in a higher legis- lature. In October of the same year he received votes enough to entitle him to be- come district attorney of the eleventh judicial district, which office he was holding when the war broke out, and he entered the military ser- vice in August, 1861, as captain of a company inthe tweuty-seventh Iowa cavalry. In No- vember he became major of the second and in January, 1563, he was promoted to be lieuten- nt colonel. He served on the staff of Maj, Gon. Rosecrans in 1862-68 ns judge advocate of the army of the Mississippi, and for a time also of the army of the Cumberland. Later he was on duty as inspector of caval army and in the winter and sp second brigade ost. He took bis duties last prac- jood him in good » for the latter of 1864 com- division of return home red the more strifo and built up a manded the ca the sixteenth army corps. On from his campaigning he re-ent eful arena of | large ly elected to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth and Forty- ninth Congr. became solicitor sh. esses, He the advent of President Harrison's ministration, ‘THE SOLscrron, The solicitor of the Treasury takes cognizance worker and a courteou: ing gentleman. He has a New Engiander’s taste for books aud a busy man’s appetite for out-of-door exercise, He has recently joined the great army of amateur photographers and proposes to leurn the entire art. upon the more strictly diplomatic work of the department, le is a Vermonter and a very bright one in the bargain, He graduated from Amherst in the class of 1892 and was honored by the un- usual distinction of graduating at the head of his class in scholarship, of winning the lnghest appointment on the commencement stage ina competitive contest and of beiug elected by his fellows to the highest honors on class day, that of president of his class. In 1884 he took tho degree of LL.b. at the Columbian Law School in New York city and the following year was admitted to the bar of Vermont, standing highest in the examiuation of all the applicants. From 1855 to 1888 he was attorney and financial manager of the Vermont Marbie Company. When the President called Gov, Proctoc to his councils as Secretary of War Mr. Partridge was traveling in Europe, but upon hia return, at the request of the Secretary, with whom he had before been in zontidential relations, he tem- porarily became his ate secretary. He worked like a Trojan and did much that is now devolving upon the new assistant secre- tary. So popular did he become with the serv- ice men that when the new office was created he was urged by anumber of them for the place. The President, however, preferred to put him in the oftice vacated by tie death of Walter Blaine last winter, and it is here that he is now working with his accustomed energy and skill, He was appointed June 10 last. ne ROYALTY ARRESTED. Prince George Locked Up After a Street Fight tn Montreal. Prince George owed his British pluck Wednesday night in Montreal, which involved his getting intoa serious scrape. The whole story has been carefully kept from the public and all questions are met with official denial, After the Academy reception on Wednesday Prince George returned to his hotel, changed his dress suit and started out with ono of his lieutenants anda local nabob to do the town. While passing the corner of St. Constan and La Ganchetierre streets the trio were accosted by a number of ruffians, who asked for money. Before they had time to comply with the re- quest the prince and his friends were attacked, dust how it happened isnot known, bat ina moment the prince and his friends were en- gaged in 9 rough-and-tumbie fight with six of their assailants, The Montreal nabob was soon laid low and for a few moments things looked bad, for the prince and the officer found six to two were big odds. ‘then the prince and lieu- tenant got back to back and, hundiing their fists with true British pugnlistic science, astonished the roughs, ‘three of these fell be- fore the scientific hitting of royalty alone, while his companion ixid two low and the sixth took to flight. Had matters ended here everything would have been lovely. But they did not. For along came two of Montreal's most stupid French “bobbies,” who, seeing six men lying on the sidewalk and two others bending over them, arrested and took them ali to the station, in spite of the protests of the ince, ‘They were all, of course, considerably Pattered and tough looking a8 a result of the fray. No protests or requests could obtain re- lease, and they locked up the royal prisoner. Finally the sergeant of police consented to telephone for Col. Hughes, the chief of police, who came to the stution house, recognized tho prince, aud immediately released him. Hum- bie apologies followed and « hack was called for the prince and his friend, who, accom- panied by an escort, were driven back to tho hotel, = ee a AN ALLEGED *LOPEMENT, A Member of Purliament Denies a Scandalous Story. No sooner has the gossip connected with tho strange ante-puptial escapade of Miss Nettie Carpenter subsided than another, and this time ® serious scandal, has given London society another opportunity to marvel at the eccentrici- ties of the American woman. This time the gossip affects Mrs. Hessenberg, a daughter of @ well-known merchant in New York named Fairchild, who is credited with having eloped with James Bigwood, member of parliament for Brontford, and who is a wealthy owner of extensive vinegar works in Bristol, Wales, Jer- sey and London. At Mr. Bigwood’s villa on the Thames it was stated that he was on the continent, as also were his wife and daughter, though they were not together. Mr. Bigwood was, however, seen at his counting room at Islington, and though he admittea that he and his wife had not been living together for some time, he laughed at the idea of his ee eloped with Mrs. Hessenberg. He said that he was an in- timate friend of both her and her busband, and that he had been with them on the conti- nent. Mrs. Hessenberg had accompanied him on the return voyage, but her husband was fully acquainted with her movements, BOSTON PEOPLE AT CARDS, They Propose Lofty Intellectual Tumb- lng at the Game of Scut. From the Boston Courier. The coming game of cards in Boston seems to be the German game of seat, which is by no means new, but which for some unaccountable reason scems to be having a revival, or rather to be in the way of being taken up, especially among the young men. As there is every prospect that during the coming winter there will be an increase of the intercst it behooves those who desire to keep up with the times in this particular to devote their leisure this sum- mer to a consideration of the intricacies of this game, It is called a game, and so is chess; although either might claim rank with the abstruse sciences, and almost rival that monster of ini- quitous unicarnable involuti the Japanese go-bang. The fundamental of the in- ventors of scat has been to complicate, and Feeseit te i E 5 iH D. C, TWO FAMOUS POETS. A Washington Woman's‘ Visit to Holmes and Whittier. ~ AROUND CLASSIC BOSTON. Memories of a Recent Trip to the Land ef the Pilgrim Fathers—The Reyal Greeting Given to the G, A. BR, Visitors at Beverly Farms, — Correspondence of Tax Evextxe Stan Bostox, Sept. 8. Among the promontories jutting out on the expanse of memory none will remain to us greener of aspect or more clearly defined in outline than those created by our visit to Bos- ton and its vicinity while “training” with the Grand Army of the Republic during its recent national encampment in that city, Especially will one accustomed to the sum- mer quiet of Washington wherein the struggle for daily bread, however earnost that struggle may be, is almost as voiceless as the fall of government manna in the form of Treasury loaves, find often presented to his thought the noise, the rush and the confusion of those Bos- ton thoroughfares in which everything excopt abicycle would fain make its way, with the devious windings of those narrow streets, which always seem to play ‘hide-and-seck” with each other, and to remain, in defiance of the progress of the age, an unsolvable problem in complex fractions, But, indeed, Boston gave us a royal welcome and opened wide its arms, numerous as those of Briareus—to say nothing of its projecting heads and headlands—in sympathetic greeting. It arrayed for our inspection its sacrod treas- ures of the past, while presenting itself in Gorgeous modern robes, and it festooned for our delectation its old gray walls, with brilliant drapery of the red, white .and blue, till they rivaled by day the rainbow and created at night through electric flashes a lower burning firmament of stars. It was a pleasure to watch through lengthening hours the battalions of veterans and sons of veterans on that gray day of August as they marched in massed or broken ranks to the music of the Union—wiile singa- larly pathetic the scene became as maimed and crippled herocs passed in review bearing their stained and tattered banners, some of which retained only afew precious threads to mark their once brilliant coloring, Jt was interesting to note the devices born from various states—the Maine soldier wear- ing his nodding pine plume Wisconsin com- pany preceded by a “badger;” one from Fl idu by its pet alligator; a M setts regi- ment gay with golden rod; and even that dread guerilla of the night time, the mosquito, repre- sented by a metallic one of huge proportions, borne by a New Jersey soldier. It was a privilege to gaze from the noble Pil- grims’ monument, appropriately crowned by the majestic statue of Faith, pointing heaven- ward, while below the hillside whereon smiles the lovely town of Plymouth were spread out tho dimpled waters of its bay—to discern in the hazy distance the shaft erected to the memory of Miles Standish and the point rounded by the Mayflower; to inspect the relics of bygone centuries in Pilgrims’ Hall, among which was the famous Damascus blade of Capt, Standish which so much i Gen. Grant, and whose inscriptions blems sow that it fell into the han Saracens at the time of the defeat of the Per- sian tyrant warrior Korozoi. when Jerusalem wrenched from bim by the Khalif Omar I, 637, the other three :nscriptions having been eugraved by the Mohammedans centuries later. TX PILGRIM HALL. In this hall were treasured many things of historic interest—the arm chairs of Carver and Brewster; a cradle from the Mayflower; the “samplers” wrought Pe the fair hands of Lora Standish and others; the teapot of John Alde: and even the kitchen utensils in endless v: riety once used by the Pilgrims, It was rare tosee upon a modest shop door a sign like this, “Carver Browster Standish;” to read the goaiat inscriptions on the tombstones where the corn was planted that its tall growth might conceal from the wary savage tho true number of those who had perished by hardship, disease and famine; to experience a new and more f vid thrill of patriotism as we leaped from the very “rock” upon which our forefathers and foremothers stepped when landing upon the threshhol of a strange and untried world, and incongruous, though it might appear, to have mingled with these varyiuz scenes the dis- teractions and feasting of a Grand Army clam bako, tendered by thé goncrous citizens of Plymouth, Plymouth “Rock” is preserved with care, is surmounted by a granite canopy, nd it is re- lated that an affianced pair, wishing their fu- ture happiness to rest upon a solid foundation from the very start, wore joined in matrimony upon this historic boulder. IN MARBLEREAD, It was a pleasant thing to descend the “Crooked street” of Marblehead, even thongh haunted by the vague fear that its old houses following the samo zig-zag course might sud- denly “come tumbling after” us; to look at the old “Town House” where Elbridge Gerry, Lee, Orne and other orators of the revolution poured forth their fervid eloquence; to be told that on the site just near us the lovely Agnes Surriage was snatched while scrubbing the steps of the “Fountain Inn,” and who, at Lisbon, in 1742, by almost superhuman exer- tions released her abductor from the ruins of the earthquake, and through his gratitude for 80 merciful a deliverance, became his wife, Lady Agnes Frankland. MARBLENEAD NECK, Nor can we forget the drive across the natn- ral causeway to Marblehead Neck as wo noted the course taken in the international yacht race, when the prize was won by the trium- phant *‘Volunteer,” while our eyes beheld the whitening sails of numberloss yachts pursuing the same watery way as that pursued in the famous contest in an ambitions strife for a silver cup, albeit a shade of sorrow fell upon the heart as we recalled the tragic story of the “Skipper Ircson,” perpetuated in song by Whittier, and thought of the brave mariners returning from long cruises, laden with the gains of adventure, who have perished upon the treacherous rocks within sight of the de- sired haven, where “Storms are sudden and waters And the harbor bar is moani; It was a pleasuro to traverse the streets of Saiem under the guidance of that accomplished woman and brilliant writer, Mrs, Kate Tannatt Woods, who, in graceful prose gives to her readers the story of ‘‘The Fair Maid of Marble- ead,” or, in graphic verse details the woes of ‘Dan's Wife,” or, with tender feelin to us “The Wooing of Grandmother Grey.” ‘It was interesting to revel in the attractions of “Essex Institute” and the “Peabody Acad- emy of Science,” to catch a glimpse of the modest birthplace of Hawthorne; and even to learn by no unhappy experience that in Salem, aud with it, one may yet become thoroughly “bewitched.” Nor shall we, members of the Woman's Na- tional Press Association, ever cease to romem- ber the generous banquet given us at “Tho Willows” by tho ladies of the New England Press Association, so gracefully presided over by Mra, Sallie Joy White, by whose sido was seated our own president, Mra, M. D. Lincoln, uor th good fellowship which prevailed there. AT WHITTIER'S HOME, But a crowning joy was yet in store for some of us, and so ono bright morning Mrs. E, L. Sherwood and the writer, accompanied by a Salem friend, set Fal geloloombecke it to find the haunts of Whittier and Dr. O, W. Holmes, In our search for the former we were di- rected, on leaving the cars, to pursue our way along pleasant country roads for tho distance of nearly a mile until we should reachéhe deep, As the lady relative above informed us that Mr. Whittier's heal extremely delicate, and that he was ing from one of his di were bnt too thankful for the mere ing his hand and of ex pleasure in so doing, as we ‘ho bad gained in his nature, a. “knowledge nover schools,” while Waited on Barefoot the man who in virile manh t echoes “pomp and ae Lid of Teas: MPT “The eweetest of all music The and Etsy calmly sings: at Lucknow “And so the shadows fall And 80 the west winds play, And all the windows of my heart T open to the day!” Long ing this the porate 7 life, so a it be ere we shall mourn concern- nobleman of natare, that “The warmest of hi ‘The freest of hi And the gap in our picked aud chosen earts is andes alls ‘The long years may not fill.” Mr. Whittier’s consi accompanied us about full of garden: surmounted b; kind entertainers a y the grand oak called by Dr. O. W. Holmes “The Poot’s Pagoda.” moment in the arm chair so much Whittier, placed directly opposi and upon the rear porch, we bade adieu to our nd wended our way by many changes to Beverly Farms, AT BEVERLY FARMS, Again upon lcaving the steam ‘cara we wandered by pleasant paths to find the resi- dence of Dr. O. W. Holmes, Everywhere the prevalence of jutting rocks was noticeable and sometimes the most showy upon them in a fantastic sort of way, with even rocky columns to sustain the porches. Indeed, the rocis seemed to be nctuaily itrepressible— even genial in their habite—for one met them alongside the paths on entering the gateway. ing there like good servitors, with bared head, as if to salute the entering guest, We were received by Dr. Holmes with acor- diality extremely delightful. After the first words of salutation he said: “Ladies, you tind my study in good order today—umusually good order—for my secretary has jast arranged my And indeed the room was a pleasant picture of order and good_taste in its furnish- ings, while the few decaying embers on the hearth attested to the sensitiveness of its dis- tinguished oceapant to the penctrating chil! stan book: from rock and Dr. Holmes good-humored them a merry Dr. Holmes told us of the many visits he had Army meu of the north and south, aud said: “You almost caught me ou receiveo from shade without. is slight of stature, and aj ently not in firm health, His eyes ate dar! even to rr twinkle, Gran in and her young niece P i the beantifal grounds, comprising cighty acres of varied landscape as prises in quiet groves and blooming in verdant elevations and stretching swards, as ever the eye of a lover of nature could delight to rest upon, while directly in the rear of the mansion rose the green knoll houses were perched my birtlday—it will be next Friday.” We spoke of his interesting papers, “Over the Tea Cups,” when he remarked with a touch in tone and mapner. “They are Upon our mention of *The his recent noted fascinat- of sadness almost fini 1 Broomstick Tr: ing poom—he told us of the train of thought which produced it, of the witches banished *-200 years or so ago” to the lower regions who, having gained through an ‘ ain Exsex in search of her old black cat, “All black; which, But every cat knew his ow; ne could hardly tell which was n old witch, And she knew hers as hers know her, Ah! didn’t they curl their tails and puri But, as of old, the witch: ing around” at their ame old tricks, the Es: es soon went “ramp- this comforting promise verified: “You may keep your old black cate to hug, But the loaded train you've got to lug.” And this is why in the whirring of the clectric train one hearg the “black cat's purr,” and in its flash one sees the wicked eye of the resur- rected “witch, Dr. Helmes talked of Whittier’s health with sympathetic interest, and as we spoke of “The he mentioned his own gr peculiar fancy of his head of the tree is below the ground intelligently seeking while its tail is above ground ward with the passing breez poet desired us to visit his favorite elm, but we were obliged to forego this pleasure for lack Poet's Pagoda, lovo for trees, that tl of time. Feeling that the physical strength of our aa- mired host had been most severely taxed b; we reluctantly withdrew many recent visits, from the attraction of his presence with a tear and iti proper in the eye and a tear in the heart, = cor WHO OWSS THE AEROLITE? An Iowa Court Decides the Question in Favor of the Landed Proprictor. The Minnesota State U: yesterday in its replevin suit to recover pos- session of the celebratad aerolite that fell on Goddard’s property, near Forest City, Iowa, The defendant has appealed to the supreme court of the state. owner of the property on which the aerolite His tevant, who occupied the land, had sold the acrolite to H. V. Winchell, as the uni- versity’s representative, and it had been deliv- ered when Goddard replevined it. The broad and interesting question of the right of the tenant and owner was, therefore, involved, and the still more interesting conundrum as to the ownership of a heavenly body that falls on mundane property. The price of the original 70 pounds of rock of which the aerolite con- recently. fell. sisted was $1,000, Ji ‘M. M. Trumbull in the Open Court. The tawdry fashion of giving a woman her husband's title has spread from Washington to Tombstone. It has changed our pride into vanity, and shriveled up courtesy while try- ing to expand it, ‘The papers are to blame for some of this, because the bribe of a chicken bone oad a glass of wine will turn “our special reporter” into a Jenkins in yellow plush livery, and with a footman’s rapture ‘he will tell us that “Mrs. Commissioner Biggs gavo a brilliant reception last evening, at which we noticed Mrs, Gen. Diggs and the charming Mrs, Alderman Figgs, accompanied by her beautiful daughter, with Mra. Representative to the bottom of the stairs. Offices, are titles now. smoke, The: boy who ran the “lft. even that was the to“Death Watch it was to sit up with a convict sentenced to be hanged, In conferring this title we touched bottom, and this justi the versity was defeated —— ne. A SNOBBISH CUSTOM. Giving Wives Their Husbands’ Titles Until It Becomes Absard. © people who pay these flatteries are snobs, aud so are the people who accept them, ‘Trades, as well as Tonce had the honor of an introduction toa lady who promenaded through “society” as Mrs, Conductor Gaines; her husband was a conductor on the railroad. A fow days ago a news; A parsing of e baldca e a ‘Elevator Operator Gibbs” first noticed the re was the stately ttle given to the More extravagant than grim and gloomy title Osborne,” telling about the thicago, said that h action will set in foward, simplicity ners and we ofa MONUMENT TO KEY, [BER 13, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES. fer joe, We privilege of our great m to the iearnea “tn ood caught the Resting a occupied b ito the knol par- and ‘oguisiness in their expression, and the few lines which time has set in his interesting face seem to carry with nts, to return Permission being granted each witch mounted her broomstick and flew to “And sex people had dreadful times,” till he “of the cloven hoof” threatened “the Godless crew” that they should have “stirring work to do,” whereupon they were fastened astride their broomsticks to an electric train, but with nourjshment, whisking sky- re. The genial Goddard is the Mra, Senator who kept up a lively conversation and so down REAL ESTATE GOSSIP. Two Large Building Enterprises to Be Begun This Fall. ‘[3EW HOUSES GOING UP IX THE RASTERN SECTION OF THE CITS—NEW METHODS OF DEVELOrING A SUBURBAN SUBDIVISION—OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST. MONG the building permits issued re- cently were two notable one’. Oue was for the erection of a large hotel Jat Eckington and the other authorized the building of a brewery in southeast Washington. Mr. Albert Carry is at the head of the latter enterprise, and it ts proposed to build on D street between 13th and 14th streots southeast a large building for brewery pur- poses. A small establishment of this character has been located thece for some years past, and under the now management this property ia to be greatly improved. Mr. Carry was formerly the owner of the Juenemann brewery, in north- east Washington, Several yoars ago he dis- posed of the entire property to a syndicate, but he has continued at the head of the con- cern as the representative of the syndicate. Under his management the property has been developed and now the buildings occupy the entire square. The hotel that ia to be erected at Eckington will be quite an elaborate affair. The new building will be located on the site of the Gales J, | Bansion, which occupies a commanding posi- tion in the suburb of Eckington. While the hotel is intended especially for the accommoda- tion of those who are obliged to spend most of the summer in the city, yet it will be kept open the year around, It will be built on a model suggested by the style of building in warm countries and its main feature will be a large court or garden in the center. The structure itself will have a frontage of over 200 feet, with a corresponding depth, and the in- terior court. with its overhanging balconies, will be considerably larger in size than an or- dinary garden plot, The style of architecture will be m keeping with this tropical plan and it is proposed to put about $300,000 in the construction of the building, laying out the grounds, &c. The Eckington electric road will run past the new hotel building and this rapid connection with the center of the city is one of the advantages which the projectors of the en- terprise consider will make the place a favorite resort. A stock company, at the head of which is Col. George Truesdell, has been organized to erect the hotel, WHAT SUBURBAN RESIDENTS ENJOY. Col. Truesdell,who purchased the old ton place and made the present subdivis spent a good deal of money in develop’ property. He was the aorge? of the Ecking- ton electric road, which rans past the site of the proposed hotel and through the subdivision, He was the pioneer in the new method which is gradually coming into general adoption of supplying the suburban subdivisions with sewer and water facilities and strects paved and lighted. In Washington Heights, where he owned a good deal of property, he laid at his own expense the first asphalt pavement ever put down outside of the city limits, “He secured a water supply and other facilities and when he purchased the Eckington place he made a subdivision in accordance with the plan of the city. although the law did not at that time require it, and when he opened the streets at the same time he laid sewer and water pipes. A number of the streets in Eck- ington have been paved with asphalt avd lighted by electricity, Col. Truesdell has found that the large expenditures of money re- quired to open up suburban subdivision in this style, as compared with the old method when the improvements were confined to ploughing along the lines of the proposed Streets, have been fully justified. A number ofownersof suburban land are adopting the same policy in developing their property and large sums of money are being expended for this purpose over aud beyond the amount of the purchase money. A few years ago the pur- chase money represented about the entire cost of asuburban subdivision to the owners mak- ing the subdivision, NORTH KENSINGTON. The Duvall property adjoining Knowles’ station which, was purchased several months ago by a syndicate of Washingtonians,has been subdiv ided into building lots and called North Kensington. The streets have been run north and south and eastand west, with the necessary grading and width equal to the streets of the adjoining subdivisions, The subdivision has been managed by a committee composed of W. W. Burdette, John Ridout, E. G. Davis, 5. L. Hempstone, J. F. Duhamel, N. A. Pool and 1, E. Hendrickeon. The railroad company is about to erect a station house at this point, Mr. B. H, Warner having given a lot of ground 100 feet equare from his Kensington Park sub- division for that purpose, NEW HOUSES IN THE EASTERN SECTION. While building activity seems to be quite uniform throughout the city it is especially no- ticeable in the eastern section. Last year an unusually large number of houses were built there, and the continuation of the building operations through the present season is an in- dication that the demand was not fully met. A fine class of houses being erected and streets are being built up so rapidly that two or three months “soecnaseg many marked changes, The secti etween H street north and East Capitol street, which is remembered a few years back as a stretch of dreary com- mons, iy gradually fillmg up. What is needed now, the new residents say, is a line of cars connecting East Capitol with H street and forming a line between the Metropolitan and the Columbia street railways, It 1s claimed that the population has gone ahead of tne railroads and has occupied the ground, and now the railroads will have to come out to them and provide facilities for a more direct communication with the city. It is probable that the building operations will be continued. Several syndicates are being formed for tho purpose of erecting large biocks of houses in that section, and next spring the house capacity of Capitol Mull will be greatly en- larged, A PROPOSED SUBURBAN TOWN, Mr. J. Wesley Schoef, the civil engineer, is engaged in making a subdivision of the new town which it is proposed to establish at the northern terminus of the Rock Creek railway, two miles from the District line, iu Montgom- Md. Connecticut avenue, which is graged by the railroad ‘company from Woodley Park to the District line, will be deflected at ‘the latter point ina northeast direction and willextend two miles to a point on the linc of the proposed Metropolitan Southern Branch of the Saltimore and Ohio railroad. Connecticut avenue forms a part of the new subdivision and ali the streets will be of the same width as those in the city. When tho grade of the streets has been determined pipes for sewer- age and the water supply will be put down. The system of sewerage to be adopted has not been determined upon, and Mr. Schoef is now engaged in investigating the subject with the iew of recommending’ a system that will be suited to the requirements of that locality. Mr. Schoef states that good progress is being made with the work of grading and constructing the roadbed for the new railroad, which, from ite beginning at the head of Connecticut avenue to the northern terminus, will be seven miles in length. ‘The Ist of May is the time fixed upon to begin the rauning of the electric cars. MR. CKOISSANT'S RESIDENCE. An attractive row of brown stone houses be- longing to Mr. J. D. Croissant is nearing com- pletion on North Carolina avenue, corner of ‘uth street, from plans by Edward Woltz, archi- tect, The corner house Mr. Croissant designs for his own residence. It has a frontage of 27 feet on North Carolina avenue, with a large tower on the corner surmounted by a pointed is throagh a double arch supported by Dorie is through a double arch su columns opening into a wide hall, which is fin- ished in Moorish filagree work. From this hall a vaulting arch on the left opens into the par- lor, and peey 4 in front another ilar opens into the reception room, from which the stairs ascend to the uppor stories, Back of the reception room is the the rear of which a conservatory wi From the main entrance a wide covered 2 at He iF & ‘course, ‘steamer at the reason site company LESSONS IN NATURAL HISTORY. A Washington Scicatist Who Enjoys the Companionship of Rats and Spiders. THE EFFECT OF MUSIC ox BYWAY RATS a¥D WHITE MICE — WATCHING 4 HOTEE SPIDER MAKE BER we! HOW THE PREY ts Cartverp—tar PARROT AND THE STIDER—-FACTs ABovT. TNSecTR, AVING occasion to visit the private studio of a distinguished scientist and naturalist of this city a fow dare agoe STAR representative was somewhat sur- prised to hear the low notes of « flute stealing from the apartment ho was about to enter. He found the learned naturalist per- forming to a strange avlience. co ting of & pair of rats and haifa dozen beautiful pink eyed white mice! Seeing tho surprise of ‘Ine Stan man the professor procecded to explaig the situation, “Perhaps you know,” said he, “that I profor natural history to specialties of my general Profession. Naturalists hold that most ani- mals are sagacious in proportion as they culti- vate society, I was induced to the companion- ship of these singu!ar animals on account of the historical incident of poor Latade, whe daring his thirty years’ -onfiuement in the Bastile made companions of the rats that sought his dungeon cell, and whiled away many @ tedious hour in teaching the sol!-imprisoned rodents tricks and traits. One day when big straw bed had been changod he discovered a Piece of elder stom in the newly broazht straw. Of this picce of elder with a buckle from hissmall clothes, after days of arduow labor, he fashioned a sort of flageolet, The first notes from his simple reed startled the rate and one by one they came crowding around him as if charmed by the simple notes, and he finally taught them many little performances to the magic epell of nuric, THE PROFES8OR'S SUCCESS, “T have not yet acquired tne same affection for or with my family, as you seq around; bat I have developed some intimact between us, rat in the cage if reach for this See that mastodon Norwa stand upon its hind lege and hi morsel of meat—now the ¢ seems to beseech for its port listing of my finger toward th around each other like t whistle and they both sit the repast I just gave tne The little white mice = A quictly to luis liberty around {the room. going and as they pleased from the and running nud perfec} scious of fear. then played several low notes on his tlute,when the rates dropped their morsels and ran and climbed the wires of the cage as if in cestacies, while the little white mice gathered im a groap in the center of the room, their little pink eyes dilating in seeming delight. The music cous ing both the rats and mice returned to theie former imattention, A PET SPIDER AND HER Wea, The bay window of the professor's room was a regular partier of native and exotic flowor- ing plauts, and from one corner of its ceiling t of Valenciennes green with ‘elisson’s and others’ experiments with spiders and all the good that they have said of ach maligned insects induced me,” said the professor, *to spare this beautiful web aud to watch the habits 0: 18 builder and occupant, which I have preserved for nearly two years, The result of my observation as « pastime upon the habits of this particular epider has been highly entertaining and istractive, and some- what at varia with the description of naturalists genera This w a ¢ weaving house spider. The spec {that roams about im search of prey docs not weave nets, but lives am holes or fissures, where it may retreat from danger. The web-weaving epider hes in covert in one corner of his net aud as soon as an inrect becomes entangled he rashes upon his victim, piercing him and emittin wound a fatal poison. Of all the insects tha have ever studied the is the om sagacious, and may be taught a confidence bor- dering upon affection, airho have been tormed by natur constant warfare. Its ctly mailed, its legs end in cl to ward off an assailant. Its vision ia acute, although its eyes are covered with @ transparent horny substance to protect thom, and above its mouth it has forceps with which to kill its prey already caught in its net. But this species rely chiefly upon their net to en- trap the game, and upon which they expend their greatest jabor and ingenuity. They are of great variety ard many of them very powon- ous—the common black spider of the non-web- Weaving variet¥ more especinlly with us bere, ROW THE WED Is sPUs. “Nature has farnished the body of this little creature with a glutinous liquid, which, pro- ceeding from the annus, it spins into thread coarscr or finer, as it chooses to contract or di- late its sphincter. In order to fix its thread when it begins to weave it emits a email drop Of sts liqttid against the wall, which hardening by degrees serves to hold’ the thread very firmly, Then as it recedes the thread lengthens aud when the spider has come to the place where the other end of the thread shouid be fixed, gathering up with its claws the thread stretched tightly and fixed in the same man- ner to the wall as before. In this m sping and fixes several threads parallel to cach other, which, so to «peak, serve as the warp to the intended web. ‘lo form the woof it 5 in the same manner its thread transver fixing one end to the first t and which iv always the strong web, and the other to the wall. All these threads, being newly spun, are glutinous and therefore stick to cach other wherever they happen to touch, and in those parts of the web most exposed to be torn our natural artist strengthens them by doubling the threads sometimes six-fold. THE PARROT AND THE SPIDER, “About a year ago that ugly monkey-faced parrot sitting on that specimen case in loafing around the top of the window poked ber head accidentally through the web. The spider flew out in rage and made her scream fearfully. I bathed the part stung with « salty solution, which relieved her almost immediateiy, |long time afterward whenever any pleased Poll she would raise and fly to the shelf where bottle containing the solution. however, to have forgotten about the circum: stance, The spider went immediately to work repairing the breach in her web and in a very short time it was as goodasnew. The first victim that fell in hor net was groon-winged house fly. After it had become thoroughly en- tangled the spider immediately sallied ont and in less than a minute wove a new nm She seems now, this manner it was seized and dragged into the ol “One day I saw a yellow jacket get entangled and was about to make fearful havoc with the web, but the spider rushed out and cat thread after thread around the jacket until it effected its release and then went coolly to very wary and flow to its hiding place at the least approach, but it will now come out to meet me and even take flies from out of my hand, and seems to — my companionship very much, I intend a of the common garden spiders amoug the sbrul in m; ndow and watch, if possible, its of spinning those beautiful silken cords by py By it trapsports itself from one ‘to another, and which in the early mora- are perfectly irrides cent.” ———e-—_____ Improvised Crose-Trees, ‘From Puck.