Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1891, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. ae in AST D.C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1891-SIXTEEN P AGES, THE THE ISABELLA IDEA. It Will Blossom Forth in a Woman's Pavilion at the Exposition. A PROMISING PROJECT.| How the Associ Was Started-—-AN Pro- fowaivus aud AN Calling to Be Represented — A Place for Women's” Meetings, Where Bables Can be Checked. \ THAT MORE FASCINATING TITLE association of women select, make, than name of the good queen of of Castile! The Queen Isabella » found ite birth in the mind of Mrs. of Chicago. Wher the idea of the World's fair first took shape in the public mind and, later on, whon it resolved itself into» J of Columbus, “Why,” thought abe to hersolf, “should Columbns only be honored when the gvod Queen Isabella was the one that made iis very of the new world possible?” It was she who with alla women’s enthusiasm in what she held so dear to her heart sold her jewels and de other sacrifices that she might fit out the vessels of the expedition. The same thought occurred to other women later on, and with it the determination that in the celebration of the four hundredth anniver- sary of the discovery of America the name of Ixbelia in penegyrie and praise should be heard with that of Columbas. TRE BEGINNING. In the middle of August, 1989, the associa- Isai tion was formed in Chieago. From that on the scope of the idea to honor the name of Isabella, co-discoverer of America, has broadened until the greatest minds im the country are glad to have even so feeble s share in its work. ‘The society is vet in its infancy, and yet this broad land of is already honeycombed with its ideas, everywhere presenting fields ripe for the *. It has many practical objects in its which may be placed under two a First, to erect @ statue to Queen Isn- belia and to unveil it during the world’s fair, and secondly, to build an lenbella pavilion, i club house and assembly hall for women’s use during the fair. These are the two great schemes which are not yet worked out im settled cetaila. This much ‘is certain: The model of the proposed statue is now being made in Rome by Miss Harriet Hosmer, who was selected as the representative American woman sculptress and will be shortly received fu this country. The model will be made in wax, perfect in finish and detail. The question at issue is whether the statue will be made in marble or in brouze and whether it is to form the central point of interest in the proposed vilion or be placed permanently at some se Rected point in the city of Chicago or upon the site of the world's fair. This and similar ques- tions regarding the ereetion of the pavilion in the fair grounds, where, of course, its existence would be coequal only with the length of the exposition, or at some other desirable site, where the building might remain asa perma- nent memorial and as2 headquarters for women interested in the trades and professions for all time. ‘THE GROUND PLAX. The pavilion or club house will embody every modern comfort and convemence. The assem- biy hall will be the plac for holding conven- tions, congresses, &c.,of women. Every trade, eceupation or profession represented in the association will be given dates for the holdin; of public aseemblies. Daily conferences, wi ten minute speeches, will bring together during the fair the best women of ali line: of labor and thought where every advantageous subject can be discussed in s grand Inbelie congrees It will be above all else the social and business headquarters for its members, where all the ideas of public convenience and comfort will be exemplitied. Not the least of ite desirable features will be the nusery, where it will be possible to check your baby, go of and see the fair, return late in the day and as often as you dike to find the youngster well taken care of and a good deal less tired than you are after the dev. ‘Trained nurses and women phy- sicians will be im charge of this entirely novel scheme. as well as of un emergency hospital, were ladies who become ill or are the victims of accidents may find at once the best medical its organization and method of work. THE PLAN OF ORGANIZATION. The Isabella Association is officered by tive directors, Dr. Julia Holmes Smith, presi- | as busy and aa enthusiastic in everything re- a Allen Starr, vice president at | isting to ber chosen field as she waa years ago dent; Miss °; Mrs. Catherine V. Waite, neces Dickinson, secretary, and Mrs. Cor- F inne S. Brown, corresponding secretary. Mra. | J, Frances Hale sponding secretary. om the very first the strength of the asso- ciation wus pitted against a separate exhibition te work atthe fair. That point it and wide popular sentiment has di |. ‘There Will be no distinct reprss.a ation of the work of wowen. The next point to gain high purpose local committees of formed in Chicago, Propagan da, whic each part of the United States. For the local committee medical department issued a signed by Dr. Odelia Blinn, chairman; Dr. Koaa Stevenson, Dr. Lucy Waite, secretary; all prac- ticing physicians, to endeavor to unite gally-qualitied women physicians all over Europe as weil in great body, dent organization, t oe share the benefits and privileges of the club | have not had one member or another at some Hall Practice of law have sent out similar paper, which is signed by Ellen A. Martin, Chicago. Florence Cronise, Tiffin, Eagiesfield, Grand Rapiis, Mich., and Cath-| of ezine Waugh McCulloch of ‘The local committee of the art Saually stcong. |The names on ite elroular are: Mary W. retary). Eva Webster (treasurer), Harriet | S880! ser Sremers Rankin Cope, S. E. Garrity, Mary Searie, Minerva Philadelphia), Eliza allen finer . we it in desire: t the allied arts of peinting, sculpture, architecture, etching, decigniog pottery, engraviag, woodearving and aphy be embraced in this artist whose work has best exhibitions of this any student who has completed a thi course of serious stady in art. in eligiole te | men membership. ie wagen apne in ar bd ism, actually employed on papers pay federation fo sociation prac women _newspa; writers. The circular is signed by Eva H. Brodlique, Mery M. Krout, Eleanor house, Mereie Thirds, Annie R. Weeks L. May Wheeler and Mary L MeCraith. Besides these departments there | will be others, like that of labor and household sci ac. THR CAMPaIOs. ‘To the mind of the Queen Labella organizer the Uni.ed States is divided up into i if } | | | | | So much for the projects whieh the | nal qualities. In all the phases of work to sssuciatioa will realize. Now for the detail of | which her artistic and intellectual temperament Gardner is the foreign corre-| Starr is a devout Catholic and she has en- 4 Catholic art. ‘was to} written; other ‘ils thoroughly indoctrinate the eou wiry with the | “Pilgrhias and Sheimee,” the ‘ards sought by the association as re- | her jong stay in Europe, whither she. traveled n's part in the big fair. For this | extensively. This latter volume, which was ene ‘women actually | siched engaged in the different. profeesions were | ene id me the | marked out the work in| readers to whom the su a inj in ‘charge of the | of the excellence of its style.” 31 cireular | born in Deerfield, Mass., and from her earliest Je- | poetess has become so the} As an art but besri: the name of the parent association, in order te | abut find an hour spent with Miss Starr a ment and benediction which sends them forth ; | better equip Means (chairman), ida J. Burgess | Work of the awociation she has already done a sional districts and nothing else. A represen- tative woman is chosen in each of these dis- ‘cicts, who works up the aims of the organize- \P tion, endeavoring to bring togeth. limits of her cirenit ail 'w their trades and pro cording to with the separate de sas well as to contribute to the gencral membership. To give somo idea of the wimbers already en en started in each of the ts will number 175,000 congressional dis women as officers al sult of Dr. Waite's forethought. Member:hip fee is $1 and member n each separate de- partment $1 more. ct member- ship feer are the fund from which the Ieabella Clab House will be built. de} ‘The accumulation of ‘tmental fees go toward their separate ter Usp Fou THR sT4TCr. | Tho statue fund represents £25,000 in stock, | which is sold at s5axhnrc. ‘he statue at the | close of the fi will belong te the owners of | these 5,000 shares and be subject entirely to their disposition he association has no salaried officers, no cumbersome working machinery, end cach de- partinent working independently of every | thas a modest headgnarters in Chi | cago mear the corner of Ran streets, and over <ho window as Headquarters Queen Inzbella Association. 14921892. Headquarters, in fact, is a part of Dr. Frances Dickinson's offices, room 209, 70 State street, and at times, when it is filled with women doing the correspondence of the associ- ation, it presents some busy scenes. DR. JULIA HOLMES CTH. Dr. Julia Holmes Smith, the tall and queon!: President of the association, . combines tender, sympathetic qualities that are usi associated with those born under a southern sky with the practical training of a northern education and the go-sheud activeness which seems to be the dominant thought in a well- balanced professional woman of the west. was born in New Orleans and was just graduat- ing from school when the war broke out. She wasa belle in Washington soci during those memorable days, and little did she dream then of what her future career was Years later she developed a love for medical study. which she pureued industriously until she entered the profession. For fourteen years in Chicago sho has been « regular practitioner, working side by side with the best physicians of that city, and if success ean be measured by dollars, its stream has di- verted toward her with gratifying resulta. She is a member of nearly all the impor- ‘tant clubs and associations of women in Cbi- cago aud still finds time to be a charming host- ess in her own home as well as to mingle in so- ciety very generally. MRS. CATHERINE WAITE. Mrs. Catherine Van Valkenburg Waite, the treasurer, is the wife of ex-Judge C. B. Waite, and is one of the most remarkable women of her day. She studied law with her husband before she entered the Union College of Law, from which she graduated in 1886. She has not actively engaged in practice lately, but during the early part of her career ' establishe the Chicago Law Times, which she has edited and published ever Her real es- tate and building operations have been carried | on in such a wide seale that she has become known as one of the best financiers in Chicago. ‘This fame rests on » practical and self-evident foundation. She has conducted a regular real estate business with notable success. She builds her houses, to commence with, then rents and personally attends to their managewent. For the most part her own architect, the plans of her houses receive very little if any aid from outside sources. She purchases all the neces- sary materials, has no use at all for a contractor, and, placing a foreman over each branch of the work, superintends the whole construction her- She has built fifty houses in this way in Chicago and has only recently completed at Hyde Park, her home, a business bloc which cost £100,000. She isan advocate for organized labor, employs none but union men and always the mechanics nearest the scene of within the | Woman's Alilence, which takes under its cog- nizance, all ceon juestions whose interests are effected by tion. Therefore it is that the members and respectiu] attention to the circulars and other literature emanating from it during each DR. FRANCES DICKINSON, Dr. Frances Dickinson comes of good Quaker stock, und those who know her best sy that she isn born organizer. She represents in a striking way the remarkable progress made by women “during the lat’ two decades in the field of specialists. She has the distinction of being the only woman oculist in Chieago, and was the firat_ woman member of the [nteruational Medical Congress which met in this city throe years ago, two mile retain woman's history of the present era. Fhteeo deserved. successct have. mos come with- out cffort. She was born in Chicago, began her medical training there and finished ft and aduated from the best schools in Berlin. he was abroad fourteen moths. She bas now u lucrative oillice practice and every one of the 100 women doctors in Chicago send their patients to her for eye treatment. Dr. Dickinson has done more than ny one else to break down the barriers which existed between the women doctors of all the different schools and has been foremost in founding a sanitary association composed of all of them. which has been the means of recon- ciling their conflicting interests and advancing in every way their individual success. In appearance Dr. Dickinson is slight and delicate looking, but her reserve force and strength is typitied in her high, broad forehead, over which her thick brown ‘bair is smoothly parted, and frames a face inticative of quiet earnestness and indisputable intelligence and industry. She wears gold bowed giasses horself and her talcnt in fitting others to the same helps is widespread in Chicago and Hyde Park. Du. LOCY WAITE. A no less interesting women is Dr. Lucy Waite, the vice president of the Chicago con- gressional district of the association a3 well as secretary of the local committee of the medi- cal department. Dr. Waite is a daughter of ex-Judge Waite and Mrs. . V. Waite of Chi- cago. She inherits all their business qualifica- tions and, as young as she is, has attained such success in her chosen profession and has such a high standard that she yet to “reach that she would excite ambition in anybody. Dr. Waite isa graduate of the Chicago University and Medical College. She spent two years after that in Vienna and Paris completing the atudy of her specialty—obstetrics and “gynecology — to which her practice is largely limited. She has a large consulting practice with the women doctors of all the medical schools, and she says. becanse she does not adhere to any of the other schools, she must belong to the allopaths, | The practice of medicine does not fill ‘ber ultimate ideal. She is now studying law and her ambition is sooner of later to enter the field of medical jurisprudence. Dr. Waite i as bright socially as she is intellectually and her scheme of life means honest, hard, practi- cal work, a hatred of shams and above all to incite laudable ambitions by healthy organiza- tions among womenkind. Dr. Waite and Dr. Dickinson live together in afiat at Hyde Pask, where each has an office with all its professional surroundings combined with a cheerful domestic life that can be casily guessed just by looking at them. ‘They eac! Keep an oltice in Chicago and the Queen Isabella Association has two workers in them who are willing to sacrifice time and money toward ite success. her operations. In every way she is alive to the public interests. Her husband, now re- ired from the practice of law, has always been foremost in MISS FLIZA ALLEN STARR. Miss Eliza Allen Starr, poet, artist, art lec- turer and novelist, isa woman of charming per- has carried her, with such brilliant results, there remains about herself an individual charm thatis irresistible. Miss Starr is now in her sixty- seventh year, end her latter years find her when sbe first timidly addressed classes of school children at the mother house of the Community of the Holy Cross at Notre Dame, ind., om historical and art themes. Miss riched Catholic literature by the produc- tion, from time to time, of some of the most widely known books of poetry, history and Her “Songs of a Lifetime” re- veal the beauties of her mind and the high ituality which bas dominated in all she has “Pilgrim Sainte” and tter written after by original etchings and drawiny on the spot, has been work, ‘not only to the t specially ay but oan becanse of its religious iss Starr was She has resided for many years in Chicago, and it is there that her fame ax an artist as well as teacher and lecturer she is known at home,and there are said to families in the best society of that ity as well as among the middle classes fami who time an art student there. Her studio is the resort of the artistic world of Chicago, bon m bella of Castile,” to in the interests of written the first book world’s fair. In have the tie service and her enth MISS MINERVA PARKER. The architect who is making the designs for the Queen Isabella pavilion is Miss Minerva Parker. This beautiful and gifted young woman isa native of Chicago, but comes of New England stock. her ancestors having settled Boston, Salem and Plymouth. Her mother was’ one of the first chil- dren born in Chicago. Miss Parker was educated in Philadelphia, studied drawing at Prang’s art school, took a two-years’ course at and graduated from the Franklin Institute and finished her studies at the School of Design. From her youth up #he has been accustomed to the practical handling of tools. vo that what | | she fearned was more than — simply theoretic. She had many obstacles to over- come in following up the course of study to fit herself through technical and architectural training for her chosen pro- fession, and though a pioncer in the feld per- seve until she wus successful. houses that she recently planned in hia is one of the best evidences of her success. Ente hae entirely confined hervelt to domestic architecture and her ambition is to excel in that pursuit. After being velected as the architect of the Isabella Pavilion she sent to Spain for drawings of the Alhambra to incorporate some of ite its suggestive fancies, in her plan. she has submitted and which hae deen selected is of the Spanish-Moresque style graceful in a 0 practical in arn seems to supply every possible yearn of the Bincteenthentary woman in regard to an immense club house that shall represent her achievement in the arts, the sciences, the pro- fessions and the walks of every-day life. MISS HARRIET HOSMER. Miss Harriet Hosmer, the famous sculptor, who will receive about #10,000 for the statue of Queen Isabeli, is a woman of remarkable energy. She bas lived of late years entirely in Rome. Bheis slightly above medinm height ea and is a charming converesationalist. sciet tarde ti tink preotten ates ee : a Blount, who bas issued invitations to ® of the visiting officers and members next Mom sedioy S15 street, whee sine ee Te different officers, ., Will be Many of the women in will be present. ee tion for its work and her coworkers keeps spurring her on to greater exertions. BRS. CORINNE 8. BROWN. Mrs. Corinne 8. Brown is the wife of the | ims general superintendent of the First National Uepartmert. Ay | Hank in Chicago, and has two fine children. been received by the} She has # rounded figure, a or other countries or | thetic and bright, sympa- Hs ry i i ii, WOMEN IN WYOMING. Senator Carey Tells of the Good Re- sults of Their Voting There, MANY OTHER GOOD SPEECHES Last Night's Meeting of the National Amer- | aie said ican Woman Suffrage Convention Was Very, Interesting—Lillie Devereanx Blake, Rev. Anna H. Shaw and Others Talk Weill, ‘The National American Woman Suffrage As- sociation held another successful meeting last evening at Atbangh’s, and notwithstanding the .| fact that it was pretty close to the end of what rust always be known as the woman's week, the audieure was a large on, dnt little speller than those earlier in the week. There were several ecpital speakers on the program, aud this added, of course. to the interest of the evening. Tt is really remarkable thenumber of extremely good papers and addresses that have been brought out by the meetiugs of the week. The gener! average bas been high and papers that were not interesting have been very rare. Prof. Lernay’s orchestra opened the meeting last evening with x fascinating waltz ae an overture, and thon the audience was inyited to sing one of the convention songs. It bore the upuropriate title, “A Song of Wyoming,” and Was sung, with w few breaks, to the tune of the Missionary Hymna. ‘The first verse ran as fol- lows- From Wyominz’s rocky valley to the wild New Hamp- ‘shire li Frown our nortniern axes of silver to the sunny south- Tis, . the clarion call of Freedois all the listening silence ri SENATOR CAREY ON WYOMING. Senator Carey of Wyoming, who was intro- duced as one of the most devoted frionds of the suffrage cause, spoke on “Wyoming, the Trne Republic” He said that he was somewhat em- barrassed in making a speech before such an audience, for he had spent much of his lite in a land whore it was not necessary to make speeches in order to induce men to do justice to women. At the present day not more than one-half of the adults of this laud who are amenable to its laws have anything to say about the making of the laws and the election of the officers. In the west life does not run in grooves, but the whole atmosphere of life is kindly toward new and advonced methods. Senator Carey then continned by giving a bic acronnt the history of woman suf- oming sinre ite aimisaion as a ter- Few laws were made in its ter- ritorial history that did not give evidence of judgment and good sense. Then the question &rose whether Congress would admit a atute that had made such an innovation on all the precedents of the country. The constitution was formed by as able a body as ever assembled in a new commonwealth. In the constitution the right to hold oftice is not abridged on ac- count of sex. All voters must be able to read the constitu tion and must not have been convicted of in- famous crime. Wyoming's application for statehood was resisted on account of the woman suffrage clause, but in the debate that followed tho decision of the supreme court was sustained admitting that the right of suffrage was a state grant. Fach department of the government Tecognizes in their admission ct Wyoming the fact that every state has the right to confer the Tight of suffrage to its women. WOMAN ONLY WANTS OPPORTUNITY. Man has never risen above the level of woman, and if proper opportunities had been given her there is little doubt she would be fully his equal even in matters of government. Ours hus been a truly progressive government and the people are being educated up to main- tain a higher form of government than now. We have given the suffrage to races not con- templated as citizens when the Constitution was formed. And now the woman. suffrage question is a living issue and must be consid- ered by the people of the country. Suffrage should be granted to women for two reasons: First, becnuse it would help women, and second, because it would ennoble and better the state. ‘ican say from my own observation that the exercise of wuffrage by them has nought but a beneficial effect upon women. ‘This has Deen womnn’s century, and never has she come 80 near to perfect emancipation. 'The right to vote has not debased man and it will not debsse woman. At the conclnsion of Senator Carey's speech Miss Anthony stepped forward and’ prosented him with a magniticent basket of pink roses as @ tokeu of his “grand work in assisting in rais- ing women in Wyoming to ber true position.” Sis Balgurnie of London read an address of greeting and congratulation from various En- glish societies to the women of Wyoming for what they have accomplished for the women of the world. ‘The address wan signed by the officers of about a score of the leading societies. 0! SIXG OF WroMINa. “O! Sing of Wyoming” was the next song and it ran for awhile about as follows: 0! sing of W; ; Vand deat 09 woman? ‘Ot biest land, Wyoming, the nighty Northwest! ‘The glory ot sn grain, so rich and rare; her valle 0} the wild rose blossom ‘The glory of the mig MRS. LILLIE DEVEREAUX BLAKE. Mrs. Lillie Devereaux Blake of New York made an address on the subject, “The Right of a Citizen to Trial by a Jury of His Peers.” She began by telling of » colored man in New York, who has been tried and condemned to be “electrotyped—no. I mean electrocuted.” His lawyer appealed the case because there was no colored mar. on the. Jury, and consequently the prisoner was not tried by ajury of his peers. ‘This appeal was sustained and the prisoner still live Now if that decision is correct,” a Mrs. Blake, ‘no woman who has ever been con- victed in this country has been convicted justly becanse there have not been women on the juries.” baci might be maintained that no woman can ever be tried with fairness by a jury of men, for no matter how iutimate the two sexes may be they can never fully understand each other. ‘They tell us that women are too illogical and stupid to serve as jurors. Why my friends, ‘women could not be as stupid if they tried as a petit jury often is, Tmagine a case being tried With Justice Marshall as the presiding Judge, Charles O'Connor on one side and Rufus Choate on the other and the jury a body of men whose sole qualification being that they have not read the newspapers.” LIDE MERIWEATHER. Lide Meriweather of Tennessee, a pretty white-haired woman with a brisk, chirpy voice, spoke on the “Silent Seven.” ‘These, she said, are the legally mute, and include minors, aliens, ra, criminals, lunatics, idiote and a ae pacer iy the law- makers have some good and sufficient reason for classing women with the half dozen others she wanted to know what that reason is, and then proceeded to show that there could tat be @ satisfactory reason. com woman with each of the other clases ‘bho are aa qualified, and showed that there could be no comparison. BEV. ANNA H. SHAW. Rev. Anna H. Shaw spoke on the subject “Indians vs. Women.” She came last on the ut the audience all remained, for Program, she is one of all the speakers. Sho snid that in the of last fall they were met the status of women and Dakota. The i 2 z i campaign juestions, St Indians in Bouth F E Ha an i lf i I Hs 3 li KY fil ih Ls mind of the most popular and in! teresting | circ: the right of franchise on ‘aad bat 87 per cent in favor of as being unholy, teons and wicked, and not provoked She spoke rather sarcastically of the government y of cannon, In closing address, that the white women will be able to polve the Indian problem, and that if Alice were pinced at the head of the Indian there would be no more trouble with men. ‘THE EXECUTIVE SESSION. bureau the red President, Elizabeth Cady Stanton; vice president-at-large, Susan B. Anthony; chair- man of execative committee, Lucy Stone; corresponding secretary, Rachel Foster Avery: recording secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell; treasurer, Jane Spofford. The following chair- men_ of committecs: Congrestional commit- tee, Susan B. Anthony; platform committee, Dr. Frances Dickinson; credential committee, Jane H. Spofford; program committee, Lucy E. Anthony, and musical committee, M: Eliza- beth Johnson. All these re-clocted, the ouly change being yhat the resording secretary and the corresponding secretary exchange places. ‘There had been one or twe amendments pro- posed to the constitution of the society, but as the proposers of those amendments had failad to give the notice required by the constitution, the propositions were laid over. ‘The amendments proposed are in in the line of simplifying the constitution, and no radical chane is contemplated. — TO SAVE THE SHIPWRECKED. The Life Raft Designed by Admiral Ammen and How It Works. “In the heaviest weather when a vessel may sink,” says Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen ina letter to Tar Stan, “life rafts may be so placed as not to be caught by the rigging and furnish & means ut least of possible rescue. In Decem- ber, 1864, when troops were landed north of Fort Fisher at the first bombardment, forty boats belonging to the navy were capsized, men drowned and ummunition wetted. To meet such contingencies a few months later I de- signed and built on bourd of the Mohican what has since been known as the ‘Ammen Balsa.’ It is a catamaran, composed of two oval casks eighteen feet long yoked together and sustain- ing @ platform on and between them. ars ago Mr. Whitney, then Secretary convened a board to provide the ficient life boats. At that time I wrote an official letter to the department, sug- as Resting certain modifications of the ‘balsa likely to make it more serviceable than any con= struction known to me, but receiving no re- sponse, designed what is herein described. ~For European steamers I propose rafts made of two floats made of pyper or metal, twenty- five feet in length, bearing a platform twenty feet long by ten feet wide, having a flotation of 11,000 pounds, to the top of the flange on the canoe section and as much more in the deck or clliptical section, which is secured to the canoe section tightly by means of bolts and straps. The deck section is fitted with scuttles to put provisions within the middle body of the floats, that are divided into three compartments of eight feet in length each. ‘The canoe section has a horizontal diameter at the center of forty inches, tapering to the ends, where the diameters ure twenty inches. ‘The ' platform is built on yokes, and se- cured to the floats by means of bolts and double taps and braced within the casing by the oe i a “A life line around the easing, grommets put onit to thrust the arm through, fenders dipped in oil when the raft is launched, double paint- ers to bowse the raft close up to the launching trough,row locks,oars, boat hooks, a small mast, @ lug ‘sail and a weather cloth compose the outtit, By means of a simple leverage and the use of the oars and boat hooks it is intended to raise the launching trough on to the platform after the raft is slid down. A distinctive feature, which promises a special advantage in life ‘saving at sea, is the launching trough. This is ‘80 inches wide, 20 inches deep. and 26 feet in length for vemels whose spar decks are 16 or 18 feet above the sea. It is built on ise inside and out, well a canvas chute within it to get passengers on the raft after it 2 ro Visioned and launched. Vosscle with decks not more than 12 feet above the sea level will not require Inunching trough, as the raft can readily be got over without it. An ordinary chute fre escape will then suffice to transfer the ngers from the vessel to the raft. This would be over the Mern, where the bulwarks should be fitted to let down, as is done in the use of pivot guns. There being only one place | sh to launch, order could be maintained and pas- sengers got off the vessel in weather too rough to lower boats without accident or get passen- gers on them were they lowered. ‘The weight of the launching trough, including a metallic tank to sustain the water-borne part, is 600 pounds; of the life raft, 1,200 pounds; pro- visions, 1,300 pounds, and’ fifty-four people, estimated ‘at 5,500 pounds, leaving 3,000 pounds margin of flotation in the canoe section of the floats. Were a vessel to sink through a col- lision or other cause without giving time to launch, were the rafte so placed gs not to be fouled by the rigging when the vessel went down, they would not be liable to be swam; oreatried down by the vortos, whlch would | Ir probably be the fate of boats under the same ANNA DICKINSOD ‘8 CONDITION. Her Whole System Kun Down—Her Retreat at the Danville Asylum, A special dispatch to the Philadelphia Press from Wilkesbarre says: There is no longer any doubt as to Miss Anna E. Dickinson's insanity. ‘The Press correspondent visited the State Hos- pital for the Insane at Danville this afternoon and there saw Miss Dickinson in one of the fe- male wards and in charge of the keepers. Dr. Schultz, the head of the institution, would al- low no conversation with Miss Dickinson in her Present condition, but gladly gave all the in- formation in his power. There is no question as to her insanity. It is marked and pro- nounced. It does not appear to be a mania on 4 G. A. KR. BANQUET. In Honor of Gen. Veascy, the Commander-in- Chief. SEMBLE AT WOEMIRY'S—PaTRIoTIC TOASTS ELOQUENTLY RESPOXDED TO BY MAXY DISTIN- oursED WHO WERE PRESENT. The banquet given last night by the De- partment of the Poto- mac. G.A.R, to Gen.W. G. Veazey, commander- in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, land true, sat down to the twoimmense tables, which ran the entire GEN. W. o. vearer, length of the banquet hall at Wormiey’s Hotel, and discussed an elabo- rate menu, after which they listened to some charming vocal selections by the Nonpareil Quartet, composed uf Messrs. E. J. Whipple, W. R. Lapham, W. D. McFarland and H. 0. Simons. The banquet was to have taken place February 17, but was postponed until last night on account of the death of Gen. Sherman. A large American flag over the entrance of the banquet hall was the only decoration. After the interior decoration of the banqueters had been concluded the speech making began. Gen. 8. 8. Burdett, past commander-in-chief of the G.A.B., was the toastmaster. Maj. Urell made the address of welcome. He said that they were present to do honor to Gen. Veazey, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was glad to see them all, especially Secretary Proctor. Assistant Sccretary Grant, Gen. Bussey and Superin- tendent ‘of Census Porter, the last of whom had been an especial friend of the Grand y. The quartet sang “The Star Spangled Ban- ner.” Gen. Burdett then introduced Secretary Proctor. His name was received with great applause. SECRETARY PROCTOR'S SPEECH. The Secretary said: “I see by the announce- ment of toasts that Senator Manderson is down on the card to respond to the toast I have been asked to talk abont, and as I understand he will shortly finish his duties at tbe Capitol and be here I will not burden you or steal his fire. Ax far as the President is concerned, however, 1 can say that in the best and truest sense of the word he is a genuine comrade of the G.A.R. I have neyer known him to forget his obligations to his comrades. [Appliuse.} I do not mean the mere perfunctory obligations, but those which come from the heart. He never over- looks his duties to his comrades (applause) and hundreds of times I have heard him sy when men —¥s he a sol- dier?” Why, only as late 4o'clock this afternoon I heard him say, when the names of several per were pre- sented to fill a certain position, “Why ’ get a good soldier for the position?” [Ap- plause.] Secretary Proctor then told, as he said, « camp-tire story of Gen. Veazey, how he met’ him many years ago, and what a close friendship had always existed between them. ‘MR. R. P. PORTER OX “OUR COUNTRY.” Superintendent of Census Porter replica to the toast, “Our country,” in the place of Hon. J.P. Dolliver of Iowa. He said that he was a good friend of the Grand Army, and never let a chance go by him of doing them a service. When the enumeration of the census was going on, he construed the law regarding the selec- tion of enumerators as liberally as possible. When he found a soldier who came up to the requirements, he did not look any further for some one else to fill it better. Returning to the toast, Superintendent Porter spoke of the great work of preparing the census. He referred es- especially to that part of the work which was to “contain the names of the soldiers and sailors who fought in the late war. It would be a great volume, » volume which the Grand Army men should cherish next to the Bible. [Applause.} He said that he had many applications for the positions of watch- men from old soldiers, and whenever be could appoint one of them, he always did so, for he knew that the practice they hac had in match: ing and guardi e country years ago wot Stivem ofl the position. [Applause The quartet sang “My Country Tis of Thee.” GEN. VEAZEY'S REMARKS. Gen. Burdett then introduced Gen. Veazey to respond to the toast, “The Grand Army of the Republic.” He spoke interestingly for half an hour. Gen. Veazey lost no time in eulogizing Sec- retary Proctor, who, he said, was more familiar to him and the people of Vermontas Col. Proc- tor, a title he had justly won in the service o} his country. He thought that Secretary Proc. tor’s com tary remarks were in the ofan obituary which he expected to deliver jortly, as the papers had chronicled the fact that he was down with pneumonia. “We can say a good deal more when you Jeaye us,” put in Secretary Proctor. “I sincerely hope so,” rejoine: . Veazey, “for I should hate to aan the bad things ‘about me before I depart.” He referred to whats difficult matter it was for the comrades of the Grand Army to secure itions in the departments of the city for ex- i soldiers, who came here in search = employment. Many obstacles were alwa: the way. He spoke of the clase of young men who were continually bling “that the did not have a chance, ways in theway. Exactly, they were always inthe way. They were in ‘the way, he said, when Early tried to take Washi ; they Tere in the way at Gettysburg—in fact, it was their business to be in the way whenever they met the enemy. Was it just to those men to Senator McConnell" recited a poem, entitied “The = with — Musket.” ~ sence poem ‘® few remarks, during which he aid that his feelings for the men who gl any particular subject, but a deep-seated dis-| . H ease of the mind, which leads her to look at everything in the wrong light. She was given le quarters in one of the wards of the female of the asylum. There are only three or four other patients in the ward of the best She was made as comfortable as ible. con- She has tinued, however, to be obstinate and resentful in demeanor. ill will bardl; ~ | i i FEE f i i i ' E E é FF e i | i i tridge, W. D. Mack, madge of Gen. Veux wit T. Verial, derson, Gol. John A. Cummerford, Capt. R. 8. Lacy,Chas. C. Boyd, John Johnson, N. D. Adams, G. B. Abrams, A. H. Van “Dusen, Adol . Capt. J. B. Carter, C. H. White, Dr. EK. Win- ship, John C. 8. Barger, Maj. L. P. Williams, H.H. Smith, Frank Brownell, Nathan Beck- ford, E. H. Holbrook, Chas. Newburg, C. H. Roberts, F. R. Williams, A. H. Forbush, J. W. Wisner, John C. Hawley. Letters of regret were rend from Secretary at di re of mu el, is is ‘ing of retary Rusk, Attorney General Miller, Post- master General Wanamaker Boss and Robert, Gen. Schotiel tive Spooner and Public Printer What the Washington Club Gains bg the pendence of the American Associstion, which There are still three vacancies on the team, battery able that they will be filled for another week. Bat this much is to be said, that whereas the | managers were obliged to write before to the | YIN players to get their terms the latter are no writing to the magnatesasking for jobs. Among | _| the men who have done so during the past | \f* week is Con Daily, the catcher, whom Director | Scanlon regards as an excellent man for «uch a | team as the Nationals. overtures have also been made to Pitcher Ger- | rumor is denied by those at headquarters, who say that no player has been appronebed for over a week. nothing done as a result of the revolt that has helped the Washington team in the least, some one before the Chicago meeting that if the association would jump the national agree- ment he would be first-class men for Washington. true, but the man to whom he told it and the others whom the man told are waiting very anxiously for fruits. going to affect W Thay get one or t fair other teams hibition not read the newspapers would scarcely know | that there was a If the leagne car: building up sub tion and other itself withstands the next year, but that isa long way off. made—so fast in base ball that the average prophet is but a sorry spectacle at the best When be tries to game, for even a few months ahead. quarters nowadays, and he is making # good many friends before hand by Marel the club to abandon the earliest of the exhibi- tion games that had been erran now as though the grounds wor by that time for good playing, Scanlon, out of the fullness of his long ence, knows how bad it is to try to play half-finished grounds, especi: weather and with all sorts of teams. It will do the nine no good and it may result in some dis- S Emery, T. W. Tal- Wm. Gibson, U. omason. B. Prentice, Chas. B. Fisher, W. H. Peck, J. Lee Adatas, J. | J. M. Edgar, Capt. M T. An- | | Frank W. Paige, i, Secretary Tracy, Secretary Noble, Sec- ‘Commussioners Representa- ‘almer. tonne THE BASE BALL WAR. Association Rebellion. Local base ball matters have beon very mach & stand still this week, this being one of the rect results of the recently proclaimed ind nders all sorts @f queer actions ou the part | the league possible and nothing certain. nd a center fielder and it is not prob- The story goes that | an of last year's Baltimore nine, but this THE REVOLT AND ITS RESULTS. So faras can be observed there has been though it is said that Manager Trott wold le to get from four to #ix This mpay be ‘The fact is the jump is ington very lightly. We good men, or possibly only beyond " that—and the ing the league dari © ex- "Samo aid but of not ge play here seasoa—a person men, result to pase ball war on the boards. | out its present program of ry leagues in the aseocia- and the association k of next fall's cata- iysm, there will be results enough of the strife History an be un- made and unmade—if history r into the future of the PITCHER BAKELY one of the familiar figures around head- the season opens by his quiet manners. He ise sturdy, strong fellow, With a pair of shouklers that tell of great staying owers in the box, and has taken euch care ‘of himself and looked out for the future #0 that he is in first-rate shape for a campaign against the heavy hitters of the _EDUCATIONAL. 2 Ib WASHINGTO! [PERS avevien wo es = preyared vorincames, faust. s 25 CTS. 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London medal Water color painting. ‘school. lite dey morning. et telat S'GXOk MARIANO MAINA VOCAL SCHOOL- Sa ‘st. hw. tan mmectod ate H York Herald—Mr. M. Maiua, the Plunkett, has Maine's Me, Ne 8 good Voice and did ex elleut work, ‘Senor Phistopheies was full of daah aud good tunis fell-Li” v Nw ing Teinorays. New ork 1) MASS ANE: DKANING AXD PAINT 2 ine touch after es ete NA RAMI WELL —i DEARING, Panetina, Pas ewchit at Mis. LURES Sat ou Sotlaye, seand Peers Shore 3 experence of coutidential (rivate leesoue tn ail ‘tistraction to adults whom ENOLD WILFRIED MEYER, ORADU: ATi, oneaet Presbyterian Chunar, Xili sive t piso, Sud vance: association. He is one of the most delighted of = ton — against league, an. he is quite happy in bie undemonstrative manner over the recent events that have made the nat‘onal game unasually in- teresting before the beginning of the Bakely is twenty-seven years old, and he has been in the base ball know that what the pecple want is honest work. At any rate, him ever since he reported that ia what he sare be is g — That enough if ili carry out his promises. season. business long enongh to that is what he has had drilled into here for duty, and to do this year. GEORGE KEEFE the only other player who is to be seen at the office of the company, but as he isa Wash- gtonian he hardly counts. The rest of the men will probably begin to arrive in the course ape oe es are expected to be on 20. It may be necessary for as it looks be too soft and Director talon yin uncertain satisfaction on the part of the pu AT THE GROUNDS. With the exception of » few days’ delay on account of the rain the work on the grounds has progressed satisfictorily, and Contractor Dunn says he can catch up by putting more men onthe work when the weather is clear. ‘The fences are well under way, the tree cutters allow the car- men youever saw. 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