Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1891, Page 11

The Standard Cocoa of the World A Substitute for Tea and Coffee, UNLIKE TRA @ COFFER— 00D FoR THE NERVES. The claims of cocoa as a useful article of diet are stead- ily winning recognition. Un- like tea and coffee, it is not only a stimulant but a nour- isher; and it has the great ad- vantage of leaving no narcotic effects. Hence it is adapted VanHloutew's Cocoa THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, ¥ FRIDAY, APRIL 3. 1891—TWELVE PAGES. GEN. ALBERT PIKE. The Loftiest Masonic Officer in the World Dead. |END OF A NOBLE CAREER. After Much Long Suffering He Has Passed to the Councii Above—Eloquent Tributes to His Memory by Those Who Knew Him In- timately. Gen. Albert Pike—he of worli-wide Masonie renown and the friend of thonsands—took his final degree lust night, departing, to join the | eternal council, at 8 o'clock. His death was | not unexpected, for since October last he has | been more or less indixposed, and althoug! his vital forces were still great it was uot be- lieved that be could survive a scrious illness “BEST&GOES FARTHEST” to general use. The strong may take it with pleasure, and the weak with impunity. aa-Vax Hovren’s Cocoa (“once tried, abvays used") loares no injurious effects on the nervous aystem. It js no wonder, there- fore, toat in all parts of the world, this toventor's Coase is eeommended by med leal men Instead of tea and coffee or other escons oF chocolates for dally ‘wee by children or adults, hale and sic<, rich and poor. “Largest sale in the world.” Ask for Vaw HOUTEN’sand talenoatlen, 46 HOUSEKEEPERS! To Determine the Purity of any Baking Powder. 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DITSON & co., LUTZ 2 sw. @t7 Penn. eve... of-vitime Netic@al Hotel Proves Blankets and Lap Lobes a5 ow prices av extensive correspondence aad prompt | Thronghout yesterday the gencral was cou- | scious, but unable to speak because of the affection in his throat. Toward evening there were unmistakable symptoms of approaching dissolution and shortly before 8 o'clock those | who were in the house—the Honse of the Tem- ple of the Supreme Council—gathered around the bedside of the dying man. He was then | unconscious and breathing stertorotsly, but suffered no pain. The hour of 8 sounded and the breathing ceased forever. ABOUT MIS DEDSIDE. Those who saw the general die were his three children, Miss Lilian Pike, Luther H. | Pike and Yvon Pike, Dr. J. C. Batchelor, act- | heightened ing grand commander; J. D. Herrington, Ed- win B. MacGrotty, Isaae P. Noves. Weston Flint, Dr. Aaron Baldwin, Fred Webber, the secretary general of the supremo council; A. T. Longley, Brother Hood and Edward C. Kenney, his colored nurse, who has been his constant attendant and faithful servant for ove: twelve years. ‘The immediate cause of the gencral’s death was a pyemic affection growing out of an ab- scess in the bronchial tubes. Since Saturday the swallowing of even liquid food was possible. Se ONE WHO KNEW HIM WELL, John F. Coyle’s Interesting Recollections of Gen. Pike's Career. Iam abont to undertake one of the saddest du- ties of my life. Death has taken from usone whose name will live in history and in literature when all of us who so loved him, and whom he so loved, will be forgotten. What I shall say of my dear old friend can add nothing to his fame, but in offering my tribute to his memory Tonly desire to speak of him as I knew him for nearly fifty years. In all that long time the recollections of him are of the most kindly, genial and interesting character. Vhen we first met it was some time in the early forties at New York amid those friends who, at that day and for subsequent years, made up the literary life of New York, and, indeed, of America. Albert Pike was the bright particular star among such George ‘Hoffman, frank Forrester”), Henry William Herbert ( Wm. T. Porter, Henry Inman, Charley Elliott, the elder ach, John Broucham and others. He was then a resident of Little Rock, Ark., and his visits to ) York served to bring to- gether these congenial spirits. BE WAS A PIONEER. Gen. Pike was a pioneer, for he had crossed the Rocky mountains as early us 1830. Born in Newburyport, Mass., where for a while he taught school, he became, through years of as- sociation, a southern man in all his feelings, tendencies and interests. His poems have ob- tained @ world-wide celebrity. As early as 1820, I think, or very soon thereafter, his “Hymns to the Gods” appeared in Blackwood, then under the editorial control of Prof Wall son (“Christopher North”), who proclaimed them the advent of a new star in f seqeome firmament. Prof. Wilson sent the most affec- tionate messages to Albert Pike by Dr. Shelton Mackenzie, and said “his massive genius marked him out to be the poet of the Titns.” Gen. Pike has made his great poetical genius snb- servient or subordinate to the graver study of the and the sciences. In law he madea very high reputation and was the colleague of such eminent jurists as Wm. R. Grimes, Randall Hunt, Judah P. Benjamin. 8. 8. Prentiss, of Mississippi and Mr. Pettigrew of South Caro- lina. His Visits to this city were to prosecute important cases before the United States Su- preme Court. Here he was the genial sun around whom revolved the stars of the social, political, literary and artistic world. Previous to the war between the states Gen. Pike had accumulated fortune and dispensed a gen- erous hospitelity with the taste and knowledge of the most refined pleasures of the table. His poems he published for private distribution only, the latest collection of them in an edition de luxe limited to his personal friends. Gen. Pike commanded a company of Arkansas troops in Mexico and was present at the battle of Buena Vista, which he described in one of his most famous poems. In the last war he com- manded at the battle of Pea Ridge. ‘THE FIRST RUMOR OF MiSs DEATH. Thirty-two years ago the rumor of the death of Albert Pike was spread throughout the coun- try and the press, with that generous apprecia- tion of worth and genius, offered its spontane- ous tribute to his merits, aud his old friend, Alexander Dimitry, then occupying position iu the Department of State, prevared for the Natwnai Intetigencer, the obituary sketch of his character, sv beautiful, so just,that I repro- dace it Gen. Pike heard it read on s former occasion and responded to it in terms solemn, affectionate and instructive. He outlived nearly all who tuok part in that testimonial to his worth offered by the most devoted friend- shij That touching tribute of Mr. Dimitry is as boliowe: THE DEATH OF ALBERT PIKR. ‘The telegraph, which is the bearer of 80 many tales of joy and woe, has never borne one of deeper sorrow than that which struck the heart of our community by the announcement which heads these basty remarks. ‘The sense of both public and private moarnfulness, which id thek semeusansiaic tay perhaps, the st eulogy which coulfl be passed on one whose life was marked by a lofty tone of senti- ment and superior endowments of mind. What, friendly band add to the tribute o regret which the oppo- nents thomselves of his peculiar views have paid tothe memory of him, too carly called away from the kindly offices and promised usefulness of life? What influence ean attach to the echo of one rcice in the concert of thousands of voices, speaking in sorrow relioved by praise? ‘And yet our thouglite will have their way and our hearts claim the Eikee of affection iu speaking of him, of whom, but yesterday, we suill thought as the living and loving friend. Albert Pike was que of those choice spirits who possess the secrets of genius, made prme- tical by accompaniments of judgment; so that they may themselves divine the destinies re- served for them, and hew their way to its ac- co ment through obstacles that might overbeat the less resolute soul or self-poived jmind. It is a better thing that the brilliant career Which his own exertions had opened— one into which he had entered with a conquer- ing step—should, according to the plaint of the olden poet, have’ beea wudueuly closed by the joslousies of fate." | Indeed, unless, we over- he tremendoas of a mind working | itself into greatness and power, one of Pike's | highest and purest claims to admiration is the record of thirty Years of w useful and honor- while life, spent, with the courage of a soldier in ne breach and the devotion of @ priest at the tar, in the application of every virthe of the | heart sud i S- cmencnen of every sy of the miad to building uy luge, round which dearest affections are | clustered, and rearing to himself a moaumoat | ‘on which, even before death had closed his be could bolciy underwrite “Renown is And yet he who proudly bore the uawe—be to «hom renown was cheerfully awarded—ia now dead, or rather be no longer lives, save in the record of his genius left to country—save in the affection and esteem friends, and even of political adversarics. general esteem for all the salient points of chasacter hehad secured by a felictons blend | ing of civic virtues with personal qualities, i my was but imperfectly known where not known in the endearments of private life. choice qualities of the heart bad bound to fully as much 23 had the ciaims of in snperiority. So long as life is ours his moral iil live with us, and could the regis fo the 4 of the country mark be false would sttii live in the bearted | high places; while his own lofty instincts told \eagle. with an upward and victorious soar, to tinguished poet. « patriotic soldier, a toilsome scholar, a gorgeous orator and a patiern friend; not only a man of high intellect, of tried loyalty and unilawed honor, but he was also something which, with the grace of effeminacies and the inv: corruptions of the time, is fast past ing away with the “representative men” of the land. “He was a character, a true American character. We are bound to him by no politi- cal thies, but we would have blurred our own judgment had we not admired his varied talents and uncommon attainments; but es- Pegially would we ave been falae to 9 life-long aith in the beautiful could we have fail to appreciate the moral dors of that character. With all the lavish gifts of nature Teveaitd inthe commanding presence, the af- fluent miud and the well-trained intellect, Pike would have enacted a part. equally as useful ‘as brilliant, in the councils of the nation, had combination of circumstances or the dis- crimination of his fellow-citizens theve ii trusted him with the tribuneship of their i tereste and their rights. Still, we apprehend that, although familiar with all the secrets of the prosperity of states and with the means of ite enlargement, there was within his large soul an inner and higher life, carefully sheltered from the pubiic gaze, of pure intellect, with its deep and solitary joys;” but especially was there an invincible scorn of the act by which petty men violate nature and steal into prominence; pues was there an in- herent loathing of the idea of bringing down the sovereignty of the mindon a line with the sovercignties of the kennel, and most especially an aversion to improve the lessons of the slimy worm, that benefits by its own worthlessness, and crawls to the him that it is the exclusive privilege of the conquer the yummit of the rock. This much we have drawn from his own manly expression of thought and we know nothing fitter than his own speak his own sense of in- dividual unbleached linen, a pair of ola confederate gray pantaloons and large Indian moccasins completing his attire, which saggested )is frontler life years ago.” No Jovelry screed bie mm except the obii - Erisw koseryaee gare {ing a triple ring of three email gold bands jena . ‘This was worn on the little of the right hand. cestiomntiadehthe SCOTTISH RITE MASONRY. ‘The Branch of the Order of Which Gen. Pike Was the Head. Some of the degrees of Scottish Rite Ma- sonry, of which Gen. Pike was the foremost representative in this country, had their ori gin, itis claimed, as earlyas the fourteenth century, yet the rite as such germinated in the latter part of the reventeenth century and took its distinctive character in the beginning of the eighteenth century. By the year 1761 the lodges, chapters, eoun- cils and consistories of the rite had increased and extended throughout the continent of Eu- rope. On ike 27th of August, 1761, Stephen Morin was commissioned inspeotor general for the new world by the Grand Consistory con- yened at Paris, When Morin arrived in America ho appointed Moses Michael Hays a deptty general with power to appoint others. Hays appointed Imac De Costa deputy for South Carolina, who after his death was succeeded by Joseph Meyers. On the 25th of October, 1763, the grand constitutions wore ratified in Berlin, Prussia, and on the ist of May, the con- stitutions of Supreme Conneil of the Thirty-third Degree were granted at Berlin. No supreme councils of the thirty-thitd degreo were established anywhere in the world until after that date, and the powers of the inspec- tors general and their deputies became vested in the supreme councils and the bodies under them. Kunge to ride,sanctioned by personal worth. It is» posthumous vindication of independence of character, justified by the consciousness of principle: the wid wartare ot ine present a oF . Who nieits the ziadiaier without a hts without arias. Why! Le a Sica ecrsdmeats ‘Upon the ievel of the baser sort.” HIS LAST LONG ILLNESS. The long and painful illness which closed his life was borne with patient, uncomplaining fortitude. He recently celebrated his eighty- first birthday, the same as that of the gtand old commoner of Engiand, Mr. Gladstone. He has borne his honors so meekly and “the golden opinions of all sorts of people,” he has worn untarnished by pride or ostentation. Simple asa child in bis affections, devoted in his ndships, he leaves behind him only affectionate remembrances and fraternal recollections of « life filled with ucts of kind- ness and devotedness, the instincts of a noble, generous, loving heart, where no unworthy ‘thought could hve. Joun F. Cove. ikea ee a Surgeon Gen, Browne's Tribute. Gen. Pike had no warmer or more devoted friend in the world than Surgeon Gen. Browne of the usvy, who has been associated with him in Masonic matters for @ good many years. ‘fo ® Sram reporter he remarked the other day: “Gen. Pike was one of the most lovable of men. He had the most endearing qualities, such as would bring him into the closest communion with a man's heart, and this, perhaps, was the cause of his wonderful’ popularity not only among his brother Masons through- out the country, but among all others with whom he came in contact. He had, I think, ag many-sided o brain as it is possible for a man to 8, being an adept in 80 many branches of information that it was a wonder that he became proficient in any. Yet his mind never failed to grasp the reason of things, and seldom did it fall short of a com- plete mastery. He was very legal, judicial, in his temperament, havin; n a successful lawver in his earlier career. I have always thought that he would have made an excellent judge for any bench. His temper was equable and his mind was large, and in all of its attributes it had that sense of equity and justice that is so essential in the make-up of a man in a judicial position. Asastudent few men equaled him in dustry and perseverance. Few tasks that be ever ‘undertook were not completed, even though he had to work at them for years. I happen to know that he had an enormons amount of manuscript in his desks ready for publication that would have been a valuable eddition to the literature of the world. Among other things wasa translation of some very rare Hebrew documents. “Among his many offices was that of chief of the southern jurisdiction of the Royal Order of Scotland. This order is really # soc , is composed of Masons of higher degrees in all parte of the country. ‘The southern jurisdic tion comprises two-thirds of the entire countr; ‘There are about seventy members in Washing- ton.” eee ee Mr. Parker's Eulogy. Mr. M. M. Parker said: “In many respects Gen. Pike was a most remarkable man. Had he Hved at an early period of the world’s his- tory he would have been regarded as a wise man or a prophet. He wasa profound scholar, familiar with the classics, and an author and poet of enviable repute. The last quarter of a century of his life has been devoted almost en- tirely to Scottish Rite Masonry, which may be raid to be another branch of Masonry as dis- tinguished from Ancient York Capitnlar or ‘Templar Masonry. As the supreme head of the southern jurisdiction of the rite he has made a record that will not fade out of sight, and his name is familiar in every household throughout the world where Scottish Rite Ma- sonry exists. It is difficult to predict who will sueceed Gen. Pike. The college of 33ds will determine this. I might, however, suggest the name of Surg. Gen. Browne of the navy.” = His Masonic Career. A recent biographer, speaking of Albert Pike, anys: “It was at Little Rock that this ‘grand old man of masonry’ first saw Masonic light—where he was initiated, passed and raised. It was there atany rate that he first presided master in the east. Not very long after. mal ing Washington his home he retired from the bar and has since devoted his entire time The and energy to the order he loves #o well. splendid of the Scottish Rite today for the most part from his pen. W1 accepted the grand commandership commonplace sublimeted to re-| them, and how well he has ecded the intellectual, cultured members the degrees for were quite too broad’ mind and so he went to a embellish his s of the Scottish Rite can testify. Had he giv the public the full benefit of his literary Inbo1 he would today rank in the world of let with Max Muller and Thomas Carlyle. Pike has the philological and critical turn of the one, with a comprehensive know! of the oriental religion, and the bold, rugge: esque style of expression which ed the other. He ulso reminds one in many re- ts of John Raskin. He revels in an ntmos- ere of poetic spirituality and bas little use tor the conventional or commonplace in art or manners. AN INDEFATIGABLE WORKER. “In the matter of book binding and stationery he ia cortainly ay fastidious as Ruskin ever was. On the shelves of the Supreme Council's rare and ficent library are seventeen or eighteen elegantly bound quarto volumes con- taining bis translation of the Rigveda, the Zen- dayesta and other works of Aryan literature; they are not printed, but are in manuscript, every word being quill written by the trauale” tor—this venerable Masonic sage—and in ull these thousands of pages there is not a scratched word or an erasure This work has all been done since Gen. Pikecame to Washi and it Several years ago Gen. Pike caused to be abolished fu the southern jurisdiction the ab- sud, bombastic and suj oitices and the de; ‘was formerly juous titles of the ‘or example, his title vereign ot | by prudence and by our respect for the pu The first supreme council ever established under the new constitution of 1736 was that at Charleston, 8. C., whose jurisdiction extended constitutionally over the whole United States until the Northern Supreme Council was consti- tuted. Then the northern and southern juris- dictions were geographically defined. On May 81, 1801, the supreme council at Charleston was opened by John Mitcicll, who led Meyers and Frederick Dalcho, and the number was completed by the addition of Emanuel De la Motta, Dr. J. Auld, Dr. James Moultrie, Abraham ‘Alexander, M. C. Livy, ‘Thomas B, Bowen and J. De Liban. This su- preme council was the mother council of the world and all other supreme councils of the rite derive their authority from it, directly or indi- rectly. This rite is in amity with all symbolic grand lodges, grand chapters, councils of royal and select’ masters and grand comnianderies Fecognizing no other bodies claiming to be Masonic. ‘TRE THIRTY-THREE DEGREES. The Scotch Rite, or as it is now more usually designated, the Ancient and Accepted Bite, con- sists of thirty-three degrees, divided as follows: 1, Entered Apprentice; 2, Fellow Craft; 3, Mas- ter Mason; 4, Secret Master; 5, Perfect Mas 6, Intimate Secretary: 7. Provost and Jud 8, Intendent of the Building: 9, Elected Knights of Nine; 10, Ilustrious Elect of Fifteen; il, Sublime Knights Elected; 12, Grand Master Architect: 18, Knight of the Ninth Arch; 14, Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Mason; 15, Knight of the East; 16, Prince of Jerusal 17, Knight of the East and West; 18, Sover Prince of Rose Croix; 19, Grand Pontiff; 40, Grand Master of ‘all s chite or Prussian Knight; 22, Knight of the Ax, or Prince of Libanus; 23, Chiet of the Tabernacle; 24, Prince of the Tabernacle; 25, Knight of the Brazen Serpent; 26, Prince of Mercy, or Scotch Trinitarian; 27, Sovereign Commander of the Temple; 28, Knight of the Sun: 29, Grand Scotch Knight of St. Andrew; 30, nd Elect Knight of Kadosh; $1, Grand Enquiring Commander; 82, Sublime Prince of the Hoyal Secret. BODIES IN THE DISTRICT. The supreme council issued charter to wmbolie Lodges; 21, Noa- Osiris Lodge of Perfection in the District of | Columbia and to a grand consistory here, and they were both mentioned and recognized as Masonic bodies entitled to representation in the board of corporators of the Masonic Hall Association in the act of Congress which incor- porated it. ‘These bodies suspended work at the breaking out of the war of the rebellion, and the survivors of the members in 1870 peti: tioned the supreme council for # charter for a new lodge of perfection, to be known as Mith- ras Lodge, which charter was issued December 80, 1870, and the existing Evangelist Chapter of Rose Croix, Robert de Bruce Council of Ka- dosh aad Albert Pike Consistory were char- tered soon after. Any Master Mason of the York Rite—“the rite of the multitude’—is eligible to the Ancient ani Accepted Scottish degrees. This Statement is made because many people are under the impression that one must be a Knight Templar before he can enter the “in- effable” and chivalric course. In a few months the aspirant, if he be fairly bright, may pass up the scale through the Lodge of Pertection, the Chapter of Knights Rose Croix, the Council of Knights Kadosh and the Conaistory of Princes or Masters of the Royal Seeret—thirty-second degree; but the thirty-third and last degreo is never to be got by asking. Only those who have distinguished ‘themselves either in Ma- Sonry or in public life can receive the thirty- third. And then they are elected to this honor without their previous knowledge. ‘The grand commander can make Scottish Rite Masons “at sight” up to and including the thirty-second degree; that is, he can invest them with the degree without their having to pass through the “work” of the local bodies; ut only the supreme council can create the thirty-third. The nomination of Gen. Pike is, however, equivalent to election, for he is both hierophant und monarch. ‘The supreme coun- cils are organized on the self-perpetuating principle. All vacancies in office are tilled from among the thirty-thirds, and all vacancies in the active list of the thitty-thirds are filled by the supreme council. In other words, it is in this respect much like the cardinal’s college. ee peer aes Brothers Quarrel Over a Girl. Jobn Birdsall was probably fatally beaten by his brother Charles yesterday in Newark, N. J. Both were in love with the same girl, but John | was the successful suitor. This angered Charles to such an extent that he assaulted his brother and beat him into insensibility. Charles is under arrest. ‘The Bennington’s Successful Trial,” ‘The Bennington made a successful trial yes- terday and it is believed that she has exceeded the required amount of horse power, though it will take ten days to compile the indicatore and give the official result. Everything con- nected with the machinery of the vessel worked smoothly during the entire four hours, and it in believed that the government will have in the Benitington as tine a vessel as any of her clase in the navy. ~~ tinfaction in the Tennis Ansociation, ew York Sun today. When the Southern Lawn Tennis Association was: organized five yours ago it was agreed that @ tournament should be held in Washing- ton qvery other year. Last year the tourna- ment was heid in Baltimore arid was as ‘success- ful as anticipated. On top of that comes the announcement that the. uext tournament will be held at Wilmington, Del. ‘This has caused no end of dissatisfaction, and it is agserted to be acase of bad faith. ‘Two members of the executive commiitee, President Charles @. xy Harry W. Spofford, ‘ ted against their own mingtom Tt is claimed that there is not in Wilmington & court fit to play practice games upon, let alone championship contests, It is quite prob- able a special meeting of the association will be held, with a view of reconsidering the action in selecting Wilmington. ‘the capital has five of the nine clubs in the association and believes she shown some consideration. ———— Baron Fava May Remain Here. Tt Progress Italo-Americano of New York Prints the following dispatch: “Wasurxotox, April 2.—Contrary to common belief and to the news hitherto published it is not at all improbable that Baron Fava will in Washington until the complete settlement of the present question. Although we learn this from good authority we feel constrained blic ‘absolute to publish this news under reserve and caution.” life and building Goustivation: U.Yer was blow ap ae at mite, causing a heavy loss. these e are to the Italians in the neighborhood mhere they the people believing they are srenging oe countrymen by FREE DELIVERY EXPERIMENTS, There Has Been Increased Correspondence in Places Where the Service Has Been Tried. Reports are being received at the Post Office Department from the postmasters in the towns and villages where the free delivery service was establinhed as an experiment. Mr. Wans- maker desired to ascertain whether it would be Practicable to give to some of the small places the advantage of the free delivery service. Is order to test this matter he bas directed that the letter carrier be employed in some thirty ‘smaall places in different parte of the country. Hyattsville, Laurel and Rockville were the places selected in the immediate vicinity of this city, but the others on the list are scattered all over the country. In some places the new service was started February 1 and in others March 1, and yet sufiicient time has not elapsed to furnish ali the dats that is desired. Still, from reports alrendy received it is evident that the showing that will be made will be in favor of the continuation of the new system. INCREARED CORRESPONDENCE. Providing small towns with letter boxes and letter carricrs is not going to contribute in all cases to the credit side of the financial ac- counts of the office. Asarule the output will heve no compensation in a money sense. From some of the reports received it is found that since this new service was put into operation the re. cipts of the offices have actually increased, whieh goes to show that additional facilities in- duce the people to use the post freely. ‘RECEIPTS WILL NOT BQUAL THE EXPENDITURES. Tt may seem to be rather cingular, but the figures show that when people can drop their letters into a convenient letter box. and have their mail brought to theit®*homes that they write more letters. It ts not expected that the increased receipts wiil in many cases even equal the increased ox- POROUS PLASTERS. Attcock’s Porous Prasters are the great external remedy of the day. The quickest, safest, surest, best. Not only immeasurably superior to all other plasters, but also to lini- ments, ointments, oils and similar unctuous compounds, Beware of imitations, and do not be deceived oucemore| by misrepresentation. Ask for Allcock’s and let no solicitation or explanation induce you to accept a substitute. PIANOS AND ORGA} Correspondence of The Evening Star. ‘Unrrep States Navat ACADEMY, Axnapouis, Mp., April 2, 1892. The battalion of cadets for purposes of or- ganization and drill is made upof four com- panies commanded by regularly appointed offi- cers from among the first-class cadets. These positions are always sought after with diligence and held with pardonable pride, as wearing the stripes of gold lace om their sleeves signifies that the highest honor of cadet life is reached. In giving these appointments out the merits and work of the cadets for three years is taken into account, and rarely, indeed, is a mistake made. Fully understanding such facts as these, the officers and others at the academy were astonished somewhat when, on Tuesday at parade, an order from the superintendent was read reducing Cadet Irwin, the senior cadet captain, to the ranke,and promoting Cadet Licut. Gillmor tothe vacancy thus caused. | The circumstances which led to this action are these: Cadet Irwin while under the com- mand of another cadet of a lower rank refused to obey s reasonable command, and replied to a second urgent request in tones and lan, more fitted to the forecasile than to the ward- room. Irwin is the biggest as well as the strongest cadet in the place and his feats of strength have been for four years the pride of his class. For three years he has played center on the foot-ball team and has ever been pop- ular with officers and cadets. 80, quite natu- rally, he got the best of a short struggle which ensued between himand Cadet Ensign Pollock, who gave the order in question let Pollock, feeling that bis dignity as an “officer anda gentleman” was at stake, promptly reported irwin to the superintendent, who, following the old maxim that ‘no one is fit to command who cannot obey,” reduced him to the ranks. Both the cadets in the controversy are from Qhio, the new captain, Gillmor, being from Wis- consin. Viscount Mishirni, s nobleman of Japan, who is also a graduate of Cornell University, has been @ visitor at the academy for several days, the guest of Cadet Kngu Kuzu Nire of the first class, who is also a viscount of the Jape nese empire anda student at the academy by urtesy of our government to Japan. Cadet Nire's fathez is the lord high admira? of the Japanese navy, which is by no means as small as many are linble to presume, but a fair rival ofour own. After the completion of his course here Cadet Nire will be awarded a high rank in the Japanese navy. a GAITHERSBURG HAPPENINGS. Activity in Real Estate—The New Bank—Other Interesting Items. Correspondence of The Evening Star. Garrarnspvno, April 2, 1891. Atthe annual meeting of the Gaithersburg Mutual Building Association April 1, 1891, the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: President, P. M. Smith; secretary, 8. T. F. Sterrick: treasurer, LT. Fulks; solicitor, H. Maurice Talbott; board of directors, H. C. Miller, C.W. Crawford, Lee M. Lipscomb, J. H. Nicholls, A. F. Meem and Dr. E. H. Etchison. The association is im # prosperous condition, and made # splendid showing for the past year. ‘There is a decided upward tendency in real estate, $1,500 an acre being offered and refused hoice lots near the suburbs, Several of property were made during the past month, the most prominent being the purchase by Messrs. Fulks and Miller for 12,000 of the vacant lot, grain elevator and store near the depot. Messrs. D. G. Carlisle and H. C. Hogan are each erecting handsome and commodious business houses. Col. Sterrick has about completed his elegant villa on the heights, and is engaged in laying out walks and drives on his extensive premises. Mr. John Seay has completed dwelling and store. ‘The demand for houses greatly exceeds the supply, and there is not a vacant house in the city, though a syndicate is negotiating for a piece of ground on which they propose tocom- mence the erection of twenty-five houses, to be completed iu time for the reception of the Washington summer tourists, ‘The First National Wak Las purchased « lot opposite the Bultimore and Ohio nger depot, upon which will shortly be commenced the erection of a dsome brick and stone ilding, to be fireproof throughout and of ex- cellont architecture and finish. It will be quite an ornament to the city. ‘The bark will com- mence business not later than July and will be a great benetit to farmers, etockmen, merchants | and the community generally. | The Waverly Club will give the second enter- | tainment of its series tomorrow evening. Their | last entertainment was a success in every par- ticular. In addition to the taient of the mem- ! bers of the ciub they were assisted by several | Washington artists, including Mrs.Oldberg and Mr. Keside, Miss Marie Bailey Prof. McEneny, | Mr. Chas. O'Conner, Mr.Jos. Guilen and Master Geo. O'Conner. An'original serio-comie drama written for the occasion by tho stage thanager, Mr. Lee M. Lipscomb, convulsed the nudienece. ‘The Waverly Club’ has one of the finest Libraries in the state, comprismg more than 1,000 select volumes’ from stan: tional a ‘editorinls prepared by its founder and president, J.L. , D.D., which veeupy front rank in the elassic literature of the day, ‘and is published by threeleading journals of the country. ‘The imayor and city council bave awakened necessity of iring our endlitures, but ns long'as it contributes to the EDUCATIONAL efticiency of ostal service con- 'GTON Yenienos of the perple the cutiay ef mensy is a believed to be justified. ‘The main expense | PHYSICAL CULTURR involved in this change is ary ea letter oe. ell is h ‘id | Taught bya lady who has studied wale fhe tnoet ¢ year for a few hours’ work ench day. | eminent instructors in this Fe Maj. WPouioek, the superintendent of the free | and terme cal or sadrees 1520 Mf BY. 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