Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1891, Page 11

SUITER EXCURSIONS, How People Escape the Heat and Dust of the City. THE GOOD-NATUR bb CROWDS ‘That Yhrong the Wharves and Boats—The | and Her Best Young Man— That Furnish Ali Grades of Musie— rincipal Kesorts ow the Kiver. “= ‘THIS BOAT GO TO MOUNT VER- non?” “No, ma'am; this boat goes to—— Look ont . please: here, stop your shoving; jenty of time and lots of room on goes down in half an there rd and mostof them find to make themselves as under the eireum- 4 onto the wharf, © and with a vast deal of inching the big exeursion ¢ narrow channel until ach she must run stern on into all mana; possible steame it seems as th er nose down stream and an- { perspiring Washington hu- « breath of Potomac air and a Tenora® THE GATES. For that large share of a city’s population who ong summer vacation and are of an equally long purse the river steamers are a boon and a blessing, en- . long, hot and pleasant manner. masaally € ner that we had early ad its effect upon the river excur- he most crasping of river cap- i no fault this week and the hurried themselves out of the city e river last Sundays ‘hed that as far this season. As soon as iri puts on her frocks of lace and from sight her tailor-made does the river steamer come her winter sleep and painted 4 snd swept and cleaned more to fulfill her destiny. girl hies herself to the river ummer girl's young man puts straw hat and his immaculate flan- his broad eush end he hies himself After the aforesaid summer damsel, and neither the one nor the other cares how late it may be when the boat ties up to the dock on the return trip, for lo, these lovely moonlight nights do much adapt themselves to scenes of sentiment, and soft, sweet words come ¢: when one is on the water. And they do say, too, that the 2 girl does not object to such words And there are many worse ering sweet nothings in a the shady shores of gown #0 «¢ forth from 4 STUDY OF THE cRowD. Bat such as these are not the only ones that take: tage of this chance to get away from the city on summer days and nights. For many the crowds of people are as interesting as the river or the multitudinous attractions of the river lan for it would be hard to im- agine a more*heterogencous mass of people than one may sce on @ river steamer. a Senator Representative in . being in town for a few da: or in transit, finds here a chai want eveuing and on the adjoining he sees his buteher, his baker and all children and one or e latter breathe more sandwiches and the tes and necessaries of a generous zur! e bank clerk. the govern- ial, the school teacher, the letter car- man olf duty, the small bor, the poor man and the men all nm the twoextremes are each and every 0 here. Acurioas coincidence is that almost every has his wife and his children, from the School senior, or else he ehas some other fellow And if wo be that ne when the steamer ne before she gets back t their various ways for ‘ton excursion crowd ii hospitable people and and the people all st home. For the Washi et of good nature © this trip only” that may never t -. Every one is out for a good time, yet it is an alm viable rate that all are weil behaved &: zis as it should ool lager may Lif a man likes along and the sash is ttes abort his and mild # al liberty a all that rowdyism are ¢ is the rule, afely said that val- aspuctous Ly their SCENES ON THE WitARYES, Interesting a4 the exeursions are even to one who is merely a curious observer the scenes eround the steamer wharves are none the less interesting. For a person who har n spare hour or twosome time it is well worth while and the wharves watebing the dent upon the starting of a big exew There are four steamers that meke regular Tips down the river, or, more properly, there er Igndings ‘to which steamers run to Marshall Hall the Macalester orcoran both run and on a basy the two of them cannot run often enough to accommotate the crowds that would seck a breath of river air. Then, besides, the Samuel J. Penwz runs to River View, the Pilot Boy to Notiey Hail and the George Law to Collingwood Beach. Another and quite = po trip is to take passage on one of the ferty boats that run every half hour to Alexandria. Out in front of the steamer's wharf ass rule one will find stationed @ larger or smaller section of s brass band im s noble effort to convinee the world thet Annie Rooney is not dead yet, and that McGinty, despite his repeated inmersious, should not de flat. Then she | be forgotten. The size of the bands and the quality of their efforts vary in something the | same proportion a« the price per ticket on | their respective boats. is J oF? FoR THE Day. Ent look out. Here comes another cable train of three big open cars packed to the very end | with people and umbrellas and baskets and all | the varied paraphernaliafor an onting. People are standing and hanging on to the outer steps | and clinging to the car in some way or other until the train begins to slow up. and the con~ | ductor calls, “All out for the steamboat | wharves.” Then cames a hurried rush for the steamer gate, and the crowd lines up in front of the ticket windows whence are handed ont | the tickets in exchange for quarters and halves, | and then, grabbing up children and parcels, the excursionist hurries out to get as good a posi- ton near the end of the wharf as possible. j WAITING FOR THE BOAT. | Once there he finds his labor and his haste | have been in vain, for as likely as not his boat | has not yet returned from her last trip down | the river and he must wait as patiently as he ‘eum until she geta back for another cargb. | Every fow moments another batch of people is | dropped by the cable line, so that it is not ng at some one | long before there is scarcely stending room upon the wharf. When the boat does get back the people she may have on board are let out in such @ way as not to interfere with the peo- ple who are waiting, and then the busy ticket taker gets in his fine work with the crowd and is so oxpert that in a very few minutes he has them all on board. ¢ THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. WHEELING IN IRELAND A Washington Bicyclist’s Views of . the People Seen There, KISSING THE BLARNEY STONE A Sharp Trick on an American Girl—The Constabulary and How They Operate—The City of Cork and Its Surroundings—The Valiey of the Lee—Irish Hotels, Special Correspondence of the Evening Star, Kintanney, Inevanp, May 18, 1891. HAN IRELAND, THE LAND OF THE harp and shamrock and the potato, one could scarcely find a more fitting beginning of a view of the old world from the saddle of a bicycle. There is suflicient variety in its char- aster to serve asan excellent preparatory de- partment to the work to come. Its mountains aiford him ample opportunity to acquire pro- ficiency as a pedestrian as well as a bicycle tourist; its variable roads relieve him of some of his notions regarding the general excellence of European roads, and its variable weather prove to him, if he is in need of proof, that an extended bicycle tour is not one continuous round of pleasure, To the American mind Ireland is usually sociated with evictions and other land dit culties, and the destitution and privations of its people. Yet when" one has viewed the situa tion from a nearer standpoint than his own fire- side on the western shores of the Atlantic he finds the picture formed in his mind has been in some manner overdrawn. If to him destitu- tion means universal ruin and decay ho is dis- appointed. So wat the man who said he hed - been deceived BY atte, story about — flannel-mouthed Irishmen. One seos in the rural districts frequent evidences of alack of good taste in the location of the manure pile or other debris in what would otherwise be the front yard; he sees the gees the chickens, the goats, aye! and the pig, on terms of apparently the closest intimacy with the household, ail jostling cach other 2s they THE SUoOER orRr ON THE RIVER. It is a good-natured crowd and a jolly one, but every man has to look out for himself in ffinding seats and getting himself placed in a good position out of the warm rays of the declining sun, and right in the teeth of whatever breeze he may think he is going to meet with on the way down. The greatest freedom prevails in the matter of raiment, but even then it is a difficult job to find oat why a stout man should wear 2 silk hat, « high coliar and a long black frock coat on a pleasure excursion, when the thermometer stands at ninety degrces in the refrigerator. and then why he should be surprised at not finding it as pleasant as he Lad auticipated, or why that pretty girl in a duinty white mus- lin frock should seat herself on the end of a beer keg as she waits for the steamer to tie up. True, she offers the cigarette Mereury beside her a chance to liken her to Venus sitting down on Bacchus, but even then it’s hardly worth while. Collingwood Beach is first and all the time the Property of the colored people, and here church picnics and all other sorts of entertain- menté are held and are attended by large and enthusiastic crowds. Now that the summer heat is beginnin; play a more important part as an element in the daily life of the city, 40 much the larger are the crowds that hurry toward the river, up the river in small boats und down on the big steam- ers. The river excursion, like every other human institution, is attended by somo draw- backs and disadvantages, but just the same this opportunity to get n few hours’ recreation away from one’s usual surroundings is about as big @ blessing as a sweltering and sunstruck population could wish for. It were too much to ask for a frost or a blizzard just now. ——— GHOSTS IN WINDOWS. A Cat Ghost That was Invulnerable—Spectre Photographs on Glass. 66) CCH THAT IS GHOSTLY SEEMS TO AVL be associated with windows,” said an expert in psychic science to a writer for Tar Ssan. “When Iwasa small boy I nsed to pass on my way from school every day the corner of 17th street and New York avenue, where stands the famous old octagon house, which has been so long reputed haunted. In the stable attached there was a window, and on one of the panes was painted the counterfeit pre- sentment of a cat, rather rudely done. It was a tradition among us boys that the cat could not be hit with a stone flung by any mortal hand, and so we used to make daily efforts to | break the superstition and the glass at the same time by throwing stones at it. All the other panes of the window had been broken long before by efforts similarly directed, but the pene on which the cat was figured remained in- tact. Not a day passed that we did| not fire repeated volleys at it, though without effect. We could never smash the: pane, and finally we made up our! minds that some weird enchantment protected it. The best marksmen among my schoolmates vainly exercised their skill upon the pictured ent daring the two years that I attended the educational establishment I speak of. My own belief is that the invulnerable puss must be there yet and [ have been intending for some time past to go by there and make sure. If it is ctil in aight, Isball certainly. not be able to resist the temptation of asssiling it with a pebble, in case no one is in sight. “It seems rather curious that with most of the ghost stories told about this very octagon passin and out at ‘the common doorway: and ¢ sees much else that is not pleasing to one of delicate sensibilities. But all that is offensive | is “a subordinate feature of the coun- try, and to the artistic eye put adds to the pictnresqueness of tho ever-pleasing landscape, and where he sees one hovel surrounded with filth and mire, and where humans, animals and fowls ail seem to live indiscrimintely under one roof, he sees many other dwellings of the poorer classes which in appearance and surroundings would compare very favorably with those of the same class of people in England er our own country, and are superior to many of those of France, for instance. BLARNEY CASTLE. ‘We have mentioned the potato. Ireland has robbed us of much of the glory that there is in the potato, the Irish potato, sc-ealled, which | is nota native of the Emerald Isle, but is of American origin. Sir Walter Raleigh, he did the tobacco, brought from Virginia the first potatoes known’ to Europe, and it was on his | castle a gallant Irishman, himself a true pil- im from the stone, and whose acquaintance ey made. For some trifling reason the young Indy was descending without having kissed the stone, and encountering our gallant Irishman in a secluded stairway was asked had she kissed the stone. Receiving her negative answer our exclaimed, but without much real regret, Lam very sorry, but, as the first man you have met coming down,’ I am bound to kiss you!” “Well,”* replied or American mise with the abiding belief, “I suppose, if I must, I might as well have it right here.” And she did; and of course all this was in strict accord- ance with the laws of the stone. STREET IN MACROOM. Asa ruin Blarney castle is rather superior to Kenilworth castle, which owes its renown more to Scott's novel than to any other fact. the aid of a candle, and our volnble guide be- fore menfioned, we explored some old dnngeons and caves under the castle, and were shown the inevitable secret stairway, a narrow passage leading up between the walls. We marvel that this sccret stairway idea has not been retained in modern dwellings. Something of this kind would be very handy when one wished to get outorin without unnecessarily disturbing or iting the curiosity of hisfamily, particularly his other half. We won't say better half, for we have known many a married man who was the better half. THE VALLEY OF THE LER. As we rolled along toward Macroom, up the valley of the Lee to the westward, Inte one afternoon, the trees were teeming with song birds, all trying their voices and making a most harmonious discord. One, the robin, we are told, whistles quite distinctly the last line of ‘Twickenham Ferry.” Then’ there was Jim Crow. Sometimes he had it all to himself and we involuntarily murmured, “Why is a crow!” The answer came instanter in chorus of “caw: ‘And for no other reason,” we added. What had at n distance resembled golden rod growing in the ficlds we now fonnd to be a prickly” bush bearing clusters of yellow flowers. Furz it is called. The low stone walls along the rondside were #0 grass- grown as to inake itdificult to determine that they were not more moundsofearth. The sne- cession of low rounded hills at times bore a re- semblance to Nebraska rolling prairie and then to southern Pennsyl mountains. ‘The fields, iaid oat on tie hillsides in wquares of nearly uniform «ize, gave to the landscape the appearance of a huge undulating checkerboard, while the dark reddish brown of the piwed and the rich green tints of the meadows added variety of color to the picture. SiR WM. PENN'S BIRTHPLACE. Macroom, by the way, claims the distinction of being the birthplace of Sir William Penn,the father of our own William Penn. This shouid make Macroom especiaily interesting to the American, particularly the Philndelphian, for Without William Penn’s father William Penn would have been an impossibility, Fhia mght now have been a wilderness even nu New York anys it is, The winds blow in the mountains in a ernel, penetrating manter and chilling showers of rain and hail are frequent at this season, and, as we pumped up grades or trundled up the steeper inclines beyond Macroom southwest- ward, we thanked our lucky stars that we hud chosen heavy material for our riding suite, ‘The scene as we proceeded grew more and more wildly picturesque. the rocks crowning the surrounding elevations, peeping from their garments of yellow furz and heather, while hereani there streams of sparkling ’ water tumbled slong downward in devious wind- ings to join’ the Lee below. With a grand final climb we reached the lake Gongane Barra, the source of the Lee. estate at Youghal, twenty-eight miles east of | Cork, that they were first grown in Europe. The Indians called the tubers “patatas” or This little sheet of water,on three sides of which rise mountain peaks whose shadows it “batatas,” which, rendered into English, has come down to us as potatoes. _ itis at Queenstown, at the “customs house, that the new arrival obtains his first glimpse of the royal Irish constabulary, that body of mili- reflects, sees annually many thonsanda of pil- grims, who vome in the months from June to September to make their devotions at the rhrine within the ruins of amonastery founded in the sixth century on the site of the hermit cell of St. Finn Barr, one of Erin's numerous tury police, numbering some 12,000 men, which, | stationed about the country in squads of vari- ous sizes, “keeps the Irish down’ in those sons | of deposed kings inclined to throw off the gall- | ing voke of old England. The detail at the customs honse busies itself acanning the pas- sengers while the luggage, as baggage is known here, is being inspected, many persons being questioned and names and destinations noted, a practice which is decidedly annoying to one who has no dynamite concealed abou: his clothes and has not the slightest intention of overthrowing the government. Like the military the constabulary wear the absurd little pill-box forage cap strapped to the right side of the head, just above the ear, but their uniform is of a sober blue-black without deco- ration. They are a fine body of men, tall and of athletic appearance; their pay is very good— much better than that of the military or the ordinary police of Dublin or of England—and but for the fact that they seem to be quite gen- erally despised by the mass of their country- men their lot, contrary to that of the police- mun, as we are told by Gilbert, would be alto- gether a most ““appy one.” The constable when enlisted is sent to serve ata point distant from his home that he may not be embarrassed by any personal cousidera- tions in the performance of his duties. Though the constabulary, in addition to patrolling the | country districts, perform ordinary police duty in the Gitie: and towus, constituting, save in| practically the only police: they are not | to any attthority other than that of the | overntient as represezited in the person of the | ford Heutenant of Ireland, appointed b crown. An enthusiastic Irish ge: with whom we conversed on the sub serted that tie constabulary hay me instances, incited and encouraged | ructions” among the people have an opportunity to show th devotion to the hated “governmen’ ever this may be, the constabulary as encoun- tered in their barracks at frequent inter- vais throughout the land, holding litte inter- course with the people, bear rather the appear- ance of an pation than a police for the preservation of law and order in the ordi- nary sense. Our kodak in its black leather case seems to be an object of some doubt and ints, on a diminutive fsland im the lake. Here also is a well of reputed miraculous he ing powers. not very inviting in appear- ance, being simply a puddle of stagnant water beneath a rude shelter of stones. THE PASS OF KEIMAXFION. Returning to the main road, we soon entered the pass of Keimaneigh, which, though ona somewhat smaller scale than most of the Alpine passes, to our mind rivals many of them in grandeur. The rocky sides of the defiles rise blackly, relieved somewhat by the green of heather and occasionally specks of turz, which here and there find a foothold, and_ th until at his meridian finds little opportun hoot his rays into the continual shadow there inclosed. Bantry bay presents itself not many miles beyond the piss, anda ride along the multitudinons indentations of its shores brings us at last to Glengariffe, which to its mild and uniform climate owes the reputation it has acquired as a winter resort. Its pleasant and attractive surroundings have charms, too, for the mere pleasure secker, who, abandoning the railroad at Bantry, some eleven miles distant across the bay, journeys by the inevitable and uncomfortable’ but_ emi- nently Irish jaunting ear to the swell hotels house there should be assocthted a eat, ove which people who are so venturesome as to en- ter it sometimes stumble in going up and down the stairs, If there is reason in the myste: what can a pussy have had to do with the dole- fal tragedy which is supposed to have given rise to the present and intangible horrors that are believed to occupy the mansion? People who have passed by the deserted house at night assert that they have seen strange and ghostly faces at the windows and lights moving from room to room, of which no human and reasonable account can be offered. “Ghosts in windows are plentiful about Wash- ington. [could instance veveral. Among the most extraordinary is that seen in the old Meade residence and well known in this neigh- borhood. It is the figure of a lady, sufficiently weil identified by those who knew her when she wus alive and lived in the mansion. Such images in window panes have been seen in} many places and their accuracy as likenesses have been established by a multitude of ob- servers. How do 1 account for them? Very simply. The; photographs. ticularly the best glass—contaius certain chem- ‘ral clements which are seusitive to light. Old suspicion and we shail not be greatly surprised if some zealous but stupid constable does not require us to submit it for inspection. THE CITY OF CORK. Cork, which has no connection with cork at all, but derives its name from the Irish cor- cagh, meaning a “marsh,” is nota bad sort of place, only in a somewhat undeveloped state. It has a few modern streeta, but its buildings low stractares Of an, old pattern plain and unattractive indeed. The suburbs to the west are more attractive, with lenty of trees, shrubbery, and hedges, and the Biste siver Ia , Stripped of the wharves and docks of the city, here appears at its best, fur- nishing good fishing, if we may judge from the crowd of amateur fishermen dangling their lines from the bridge as we pass. ‘The first objective upon leaving Cork is nat- urally Blarney castle, five miles distant. 80 thither we went, determined to render our- selves, by gluing our lips for one brief ecstatic moment to the Blarney stone, even more irre- aistible, if that were possible, with our new bi- cycles ‘and new bicycling ‘suits. For who Piople sit Jong in windows without moving. inter exceptional conditions their images ese impressed upon th vitreous medium, and hence the likenesses e speak of.” A negrm named Saunders went to Mrs. Harris’, at Gukdae, on the Pan Handle railroad, Wednesday night and called her son out. Saunders djew a pistol and said he intended to Kill Harris. Mrs, Harris ran between her son and Naundew and received the bullet intended for her son. Harris rushed at Suunders, but the negro yhot him before be had taken dozen stept Both mother and son will die. Saunders esciped. — ooo Liquidajion of a Montreal House, Great surprise was created in Montreal Desiness cirees on Thursday by the an- neuncement dat John Mcl.oan & Co., whole- liquidation. The Merchante’ Bank is rested indiseetly to the extent of $185,000 ant Sir Tonal £25,000. The abilities of English creditors are put at about $125,000. ‘The assets are estimated at $200,000, anda good showing is promised from the estate. ————_+0e_____ Preparing to Invade the Cherokee Strip, 4 dispatch fron: Arkansas City, Kan., says: It thoroughly s kisses the stone “A clever spouter He'll sure turn out, or ‘An out and outer, To be let alone! Don't hope tohinder him Or to bewilder him, Sure he's a pilgrim From the ney stone.” Atleast so Milliken told the world in song nearly a hundred years ago. Sixpence admit- ted us to the grounds surrounding the castle and we soon stood before the magnet which had so ly drawn us to itself. RISSING THE BLARNEY sTOxE, But, alas! the stone whic! rybody kisses is not the “rale Blaarney shtone,” as our voluble guide finally admitted when we declined to ac- cept his first statement as to the genuineness of the substitute. The real Blarney stone is on the opposite side of the castle, in one of the cor- erheard 5 was Americans that hinetd the stone. We could’ now better understand which cater ‘to the comforts and lighten the purse of the tourist and which, ‘at many other resorts, are the principal portion of the place. This ix field for the botanist, several tropical and sub-tropical plants growing no- where else in Europe being found among the luxuriant vegetation on the mountains, at the foot of which nestle, as it is usual to say, the village and its hotels. Bereft of his railrond, which terminates at Bantry, the conventional’ tourist, unless he be Hot unwilling to travel in the “public car,” sn open ccach-like vehicle accommodating about ten perrons, goes by jaunting car all the way to Killarney, some fifty-three miles, and for the best part of two days sits with his back to his companion on the other seat, or, if he prefers, sits side-saddle fashion and so faces the direo- tion in which ho is traveling. ‘The car, as it is more commonly called, is an idea borrowed from the pack animal ‘and his panniers, the seats ccnsiating of a pair of shelves, with sub- shelves for the feet, slung over a set of huge springs resting on a pair of small wheels. ‘THE InISH HOTELS. Unlike American hotels the Irish hotels, un- less in the cities, as at Dublin, do not require the traveler to register. You are known simply as “‘the gentleman in No, 12," and your “reckoning,” as. the bill is calied, is made out to “No. 12." ‘The “office is some obscure place in which you never pene- trate. Your place is in the “smoke room” or the “coffee room,” where there are facilities for writing, a few old newspapers—the older the better “and railway guides scattered about, Entering a hotel, tired and dusty and find- ing no one to receive you, you wonder where in thunder every one is, that is if you are fane; but never mind! there will be plonty around to see you depart. You look about for “AS YOU LIKE IT” An Incident of Its Recent Outdoor Performance, SHAKESPEARE AND SWELLS. Actors Splendidly Treated, but Not Allowed to Mix With the Gueste—Fritz Emmet and “Sweet Violets”—A Prima Donna's Panic Over @ Cross-Kyed Man, Spectal Correspondence of The Evening Star. New York, June 20, 1891. 66TIVHAT THUNDER SHOWER WASN'T the first douse of cool water that we got.” The specker was one of the company which, on Tuesday afternoon, played “As You Like It" out doors at Hoboken. One downfall that he referred to wasasudden storm that scattered the spectators and ended the play in the middle of the lust act and the other is ex- plained by him as follow: “You know already that the Stevens family is one of the wealthiest inthecountry. ‘The prin- cipal son and heir inherited outright a larger fortune than any American had ever done, the enormous heritages of William H. Vanderbilt's sons having occurred Inter. It is that same young Stevens who, suffering from a deform- ing growth in his neck, had it removed by sur- geons who were to get $100,000 in case of suc- cess and nothing in case they killed him. The Stevens’ are no end of swells and they got up this afternoon performance ostensibly in aid of a charity fund, but really to aggrandize them- selves. “For a representation of ‘As You Like It on their tree-shaded grounds they readily enlisted a volunteer cast from among the most eminent in our profession; but you have read all about that as well as tho utorm that spoiled the last half of the performance, and wi out to tell you is about the luncheon which was given to us before the play. Ithad been quietly yet effectively conveyed to us that we were to luneh at the Stevens mansion, and we supposed that we were to cat and drink in company with the swell guests of the family. That was an incentive with me, I confess, fo go into the affair, and { presime it had weight with the others in the east. Say what you will, we rfolks like to mix ocensionally in high y, aud here seemed to bea fine oppor- pened nj. Well, we got the luncheon, and it was an immensely fine banquet spread ina di the Stevens vilia, but not 1 we meet at the table. We were served by the mostattentive waiters, with all manner of dainty viands and toothsome beverages, but not a hide nor hair did we see of any of the swells. We tried to be very merry over the meal, but really all our ardor was dampened by the treatment to which we were subjected. Jt was as though a lot of inferior hirelings had been fed in varefui separation from their betters, I am told that several leading dramatic critics, foresecing that some such affront might ba put tpon them, also declined to attend the i g instead to reporters from their eral newspapers. After the performance was over a line of very elegant carringes was found to be ready for us, and by these vehicles we were switched away to our homes very com- fortably, but ina manner to make the impres- sion upon us that all the arrangements had been made to keep us quite clear of any con. taminating association with the Stevens swells, We came away feeling a8 though we had obeyed summons to perform before some monarch and his court.” NO WONDER ACTORS ARE BOHEMIANS. It isn't much wouder that the average actor remainsin Bohemia and rarely ventures into places wherein he is in danger of encountering the snubs of pretentious society people. So we find him, at this hot and idle season of the year, lounging in the bibulons resorts of New York. Some queer things characterize these resorts of his. In one of those exquisite grog- rs an upper Broadway a neatly printed sign We break our slateon June at the lesk. on June Ist,” asked an old tippler, who had stopped in for a mint jalep. “Because,” replied the polite young man be- hind the bar, “the dry'season in theatricals comes m at that time, you sce.” “Ah; the festive Thespian iw liable to be a certain in his accounte after that date. Is that it?” asked the man over the green top of the julep. “Exactly.” responded the barkeeper. “The loss in trusting a man daring the winter months is very slight compared to what it would be now. In the first place all these actors are twice as thirsty as ther are in cold weather, and favor high-priced fancy drinks. Then they are likely to go off fishing ‘and get ge for ten years in the west and never show up here again. Here comes one of them now. He hasn't seen the sign yet. Watch him.” the newcomer, a small, bright-faced man, who looked as tough he’ might do cockney servants with some. skill, advanced blithely to the bar and started in on’ a snapping talk that fairly made the glusses tinkle. “How do, Jimmie,” he ssid, “rather warm out, but seasonable.. Lord, but how nice it. is in here, and you looking like a snowflake, Jimmie.’ Ah, ihe bar business is where you can do the elegant, eh, Jimmie, me boy? You have to polish yourself up to match the glasses, don't you? Has Al been in yet? No? He and Lare going to the races this afternoon. sure winner. Can't beat w three hundred. Give me pata dash of absinthe in it. teen weeks from August 26 this. morning, Jimmie. Only week stands for the first ten anda good circuit the other six. Got my price, too. That's the way. Stiffen on ‘em ind they'll think the more of you. Never mind the strawberry, Jimmie. Just float layer of claret_on top, won't you? ‘Than If Al comes in tell him to wait, will you! Here's your good health, me boy.” (Drinks.) Ab, your hand is cunninger than any\ of ‘em, Jiminie. ‘That's a great sour. Just tally it up for me, will you? Eh! What's that?” ‘The barkeeper has not spoken, but turns and points to the sign behind the bar. “Lknow," sad the actor, “but I owe you five or #ix dollars already. "You can add zhis drink.” Jimmie shook his head and nodded in the direction of the cashicr. ‘The actor sighed, hunted through his clothes, and after «long struggle fished out enough’ small change to settle for the drink, “Weil, I don't know what you're going to do for trade, Jimmie,” he said sadly, as he torsed down the money; “you simply freeze the pro- fession out of ihe ‘place. Lt'sa little hard on us, Ithink,a little hard.” ‘Andas dle actor went out he cast a long and admiring look upon, the handsome julep, feel ing perhaps that if he had goue inte ‘some other profession than the dramatic when he began to fight for his bread he ‘might now be enavled to-indulge in stich ornamental bever- ages during the hot months, and not get trusted for them. Gota Stand to win sour, Jimmie, and Signed for six- JOR EMMET'S DEATH. Among the deaths of more eminent players, Emmet seems’ to have struck deeper into the public heart. Drunkard as he was, and no- toriously faithless in his family, he still re- mained high in the rogard of the paid large youngsters to be used for that purpose. all he held pretty songs in high esteem, and I know of one case in which he paid $8,000 for a captivating ballad under these circumstances. Emmet, as everybody knaws, was responsible for the long life and remarkable popularity of “Sweet Violets,” a ballad that was once something to kick over—anything to attract the attention of the household to the. fact of our arrival. Pretty soon, though it might we been sooner, Jeames, with lis ill-titting dress suit, which has come into his ion second or third handed, » his obeisance. Or, quite ‘as much sty ress coat, or perhaj much red in her comy hear your wishes. If you what it is going the stone is held in place b; iron bars. - it Yankee ingenuity ‘all Americans are “Yankee” to our Englixh-apeak- ing cousing actons the water ‘or what are more a to which, substit all American mankind i 7; i réf in a very bad which was written for the late Barney McAuley. ‘There was an insane girl in the piece, who lived in a mine with her father and tion of principal the National W. C. T. ‘Mr. Warner. considered for their artistic value, that of Joe | ty fE ff agitated & In: andience. The lovely prima donna was d ring to every one that she could THE ACCUSING CLOCK. not goon: that’ she hed lost her self-control | A Story About a Mayor of a Room Town and felt like going into hysterics, As she stood in the wings before the curtain rose the man- ager of the theater, her maid and one or two of the actors were doing all in their power to re~ assure her. They reminded her that she was such a favorite that she wouid own the andi- ence at the start and could not help being ap- piauded into perfect confidence at once. She went prancing nervously about, trembling with emotion and uttering what sounded like prayers that she might be saved from fall are. ad several times at to rough a «mai hole in the pales get th Eoalence on theother sid Suddenly, as she had paused once for this purpose, she started back in great alarm, clutched at her heart and seemed abort to faint. Immediately she was pressed by those | Watching her to say what sho had discovered that frightened her. g “There's a cross-eyed man in the front row.’ she gasped. “I am doomed unless you get him away. Tean't go on—oh, I can't, leant. Get him out of the theater at once.” The manager tried to reason with her, but to No purpose. She was in an exceedingly un- strung Condition, and he saw that remon- strance was only making her worse. She re- iterated emphatically that she would not go on in her part if the crose-eyed man was permit~ ted to stay in the theater. so the manager Pfomised to remove the unfortunate spectator. He started forth, now considerably excited himself, not knowing how he could manage to get rid of the cross-eyed man. He stood just back of the parquet circle seats debating the question for a moment, and then, as an idea struck him, rushed to the box office. e e me the ticket of A 12 for tomorrow night,” he said hurriedly to the treasurer. ‘The latter officer opened a drawer and took therefrom a package of tickets, from which he selected the one that the manager asked for. Then the manager dashed into the theater ‘again and suromoned the head usher. “Find a man who wants a seat,” he said to the usher. “Don't ask any questions now. Get one of your friends that’s standing up.” ORTTING RID OF THR MoODOD. ‘The usher only had to turn around and tap a young man on the shoulder who was standing at hand. “Here you are, sir,” he said. “This chap wants a seat.’ “Very well,” went on the manager. “Now you aro to take him down to the front row with this coupon and show him to A 12. There is a man in A 12 now and he holds the right coupon for it. This coupon calls for that seat tomor- row night. You will hold this in your hand and ask for the other fellow's coupon. He will hand it to you and you will look at it and say itis for the seat for tomorrow night, at the same time handing back to him this coupon. ‘Then you will tell im that this man bas to- night's check for the wat, and say that if he will go tothe box oitice’ everything will be made right. Iwill be at the box oitice when he gets there. Now hurr; ‘The usher obeyed these directions as swiftly as he could. ‘The cross-eyed man undertook to dispute the newcomer's claim to the seat, but upon the clever interchange of checks being managed by the usher he wus easily convinced, and with rather ill-grace made his way out and hastened to the box office. The manager w: there to greet him, and, upon hearing luis stors, affected deep regret at the circumstances and declared he would do the next best thing to rectify the mistake, “I can't give you another seat in the front row for tonight,” said he, “but you shall have an excellent one further ‘back, and for tomor- row, if you like, I will make you a present of two as near to the stage es you want. Leouldnt do fairer than that, could IY The cross-eyed ‘man agreed that this was a reasonable compromise, aud went in to take his seat in the rear o. the parquet as contented as he could be under the circumstances. By the time the manager had hurried back into the theater the curtain was up and the prima donna, looking as confiden* and serenely happy 28 a queen, was bowing her acknowledgments toa perfect cyclone of applause which had greeted her first song. ee AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHT YEARS ‘Mrs. Leavitt's Return From Her Long Jour- ney on Behalf of Temperance. The Guion line steamship Nevada, whieh ar- rived at New York from Liverpool Wednesday, had among its cabin passengers Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt, the first of the round-the- world missionaries of the National Woman’ Christian Temperancs Union. Mrs. Leavitt has beea or an eight-year tour around the world, ani returns for a much-nee ied rest. She left yesterday for her home in Boston, where she will remain until fa’L. Mrs. Leavitt has a most remarkable history, and is, herself, a woman of wonderful vital force, culture and Christian zeal. Her tour was begun unde- the auspices of the National Union, starting from New York toward the west. At the time the Journey was begun the National Union sent Mra. Leavitt £1,000, which she immediately returned, saying she would undertake and carry out the trip on faith and the cause for which she went. This declara- tion she has made good. She has never wanted for anything from the day her journey began up to the time of her return eight years later. Since leaving Mrs. Leavitt has carried the temperance cause to the Hawaiian Islands, New Australia, Tasmania, Japan, China, Siam, Singapore, the Malay Peninsula, Barmah, Hindoostan, Ceylon, the Island of Maritius, the Inland of Madagascar, Natal, Orange Free State, Cape Colony, the Congo’ Free State, Old Calabar, Sierra Leone, Madeira, Spain, France, Holland, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Norway, Sweden, Firland, Denmark, the Ger- man empire, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Syria, Tur- key and many other smaller countries, states and principalities. She has established eighty-six new societies belonging to the Woman's Christian Temper- ance Union: twenty-four men’s temperance so- cieties and twenty-three branches of the “White Cross” Order. She has held over 1,600 meet- ings, has traveled more than 100,000 miles— much of the distance on foot—and has em- ployed 229 interpreters in forty-seven lan- guages. Personally Mra, Leavitt is a woman of much refinement. She is a “down easter” and was liberally educated in Masschuseits. Just be- fore leaving, in 1883, she was offered the posi- n & school of prominence. This offer she declined in order to prosecute her work as a missionary. Mrs. Leavitt in November will speak before U. convention at Boston. ————o+ —____ TIED UP THE SIESTA, A Saillug Party Aided in an Unexpected Way by Canadian Officials, Wednesday night H. H. Warner of Rochester with some friends was on his way to the Thou- sand Islands on the steamer Siesta, owned by The Siesta struck a shoal off Horseshoe Island, two miles from Kingston. A life boat was manned and sent to Kingston to secure help. About a year ago when the Siesta was mak- ing a trip down the river she and the schooner Annie Foster, owned by Kennedy & Co., col- lided off Kingston and the schooner was sunk. The Foster and her cargo were valued $7,000 by her owners and Mr. Warner was asked to pay the sum to her own- ers, which he refused to do, andsince that time the Canadian officials who have the matter in have been endeavoring to catch the Canadian waters in order that they might seize and bold her in bond for the dam- ages to the Foster. ‘When the Siesta’s crew reached Kingston ‘Wednesday night they had no djficulty in se- aid, but it came in rat He i 1 i | Heard in a Hotel Rotunda. THE ADVENTURE THAT BEFEL MR. JADRINS— ORTEF THAT OVERCAME HIS WIFE'S ANGER— WHERE—A DOMESTIC SCENE IX WHICH THE CLOCK PLAYED & CONSPICUOUS PART. ad | HAVE BEEN SOUTH AND SEEN what is called the ‘New South’ reach- ing out after better things and trying to keep her face turned to the sun light, eo to perk.” So remarked one of a group of gentlemen seated not long ago on a rainy evening in the rotunda of a hotel in the city. As the speech Jed to an interesting conversation and the evo- lution of a good story, Tue Sran writer gives it ‘a nearly as possible. The talk revolved around some of the peculiar phases of the industrial developments in that part of the south em- braced by east Tennessee, north Georgia and north Alabama, andas neariy all of the party had had some experience in this region the conversation was drawn into beguiling channels. An inspiring comment was made on the character of the social conditions and environments of some of the progressive towns and how interesting it was to watch people from all parts of this country and not a few from the old world trying to settle down to something like a social adjustment, MAYOR OF A ROOM TOWN. “Dia any of yon know Tom Jadkins?” asked one of the group, who had been @ listener, as he settled himself for good effect. “Tom Jad- kins is not exactly his name (to the newspaper man), but it will do for these fellows. Well, Tom was mayor of one of the boomingest of Alabama's boomy towns. He was an honest, hearty fellow, full of fan and sentiment, when, ‘a little ata time,” he took too much of the ‘ardent.’ A curious thing about him was when he took very much too much be had a way of finding something pathetic in thingy around him—something lngubrious, which inevitably malted in lachrymose demonstrations. On such occasions there were copious freshets from his tear wells and Jadkins would some- timnesvob in his weeping. fle wasa popular man, sunny when won him friends on every he was ® and secret withal. he was sob hand. prize organizations, his fidelit times the occasion of little domestic in ties. But these were always reconciled, for Jadkins was a loving husband to an admir- able aud amiable wife and a devoted father to several fond children. ‘The little tamily dis- turbances were usuaily watered with tear which made the wuste places of neglected affection blossom and bring forth the very flowers and fruits of better conduct in the con- tiguousfature. I remember the boom times, when, after some sences from home for about tence nings, he managed to get away again, after leaving his wife with a carefully asseverated promise that he would return at a given early hour. It was an important business confer- ence—at the club, he admitted—with some friends—on a big deal. He would surely be back home between 10 and 11 o'clock he couldn't tell precisely the min- ute; but the madame would _not His nature was genial and ad Naturally fond of comps have to wait for him after 11. Mra, Jadkins helped him on with his overcoat, called his at- tention to the time, kissed him’ good-bye and they parted.” ‘There was a pause. Then the taiker parenthetically said: “I got all this partly from Jadkins himself and the rest from Gospel sources, and it's every bit true.” WAITING FOR MR. JADKINS. “Well,” he resumed, “the hour came and went away after, but no Mr. Jadkins. | Long past midnighs the madame saz up and Waited and wondered. Finally she was overcome with drowsiness, but, noting the little alarm clock on the mantelpiece showed 3:40 o'clock, she went tobed. She had hardly dozed off before she was awakened by anoise as though a piano was being moved into the house. It proved to be Jad- kins, brought home drunk by companion hardly more responsible. Mrs. Jadkins rose, braced herself sternly and took a stand before the fireplace. The veracious dial marked fif- teen minutes to 4 o'clock. The door opened and in stumbled Jadkins. He lost his balance 2s he entered, lunged forward until he came in ‘contact with he wash- stand, which he shoved with great abstraction into a corner, and, finally, in his earnest efforts to steady himself, fell backward, as he clutched ‘at the furniture, into a solid sit- ting posture. The stand overturned just enough to deluge him with the contents of a pitcher full of water, bis wife saving him from greater disaster by catching the thing as it toppled. Without a word, thor- oughly disgusted, she helped him into a chair, and, with'what to Jadkine was © dlaplay of marvelous skill when the room was sailing around so madly, undressed him, rubbed him and put dry night raiment on him. He had already come in out of a cold December rain and the violent indoor bath about completed his drenching. *Lhere was but one dry spot for several square yards around the washstand, and that was where Jadkins hind sat. It was a small island fast yielding to inundation. All this, you may imagine, pretty nearly sobered Jadkins, but he said nothing, sitting in gloomy silence, submit- ting to the manipulations of his doting spouse. Ina little while the mademe noted him glan at the clock. By this she judged he had his wits about him enough to know what an unreliable fool he had made of himself. Then she girded herself for busi- ness, and the way she went for the wretched man, Jadkine himeelf has told me he never heard equaled in the prosecution of the most abandoned criminal. “Is this the way,’ she almost hissed between her teeth, and poiuting at the clock, ‘you keep your solemn promise to me? THE EFFECT OF THE CLOCK. “Mayor Jadkins was silent, but his gaze seemed riveted to the clock. ‘The fiery denun- ciation of Mrs. J. went on and on until it changed to tears, and she sat down in chair bitterly weeping. “Meanwhile his honor looked alternately at her and the clock. His chin dropped on his chest. His weeping wife raised her head and asked, ‘Why don't yon go to bed?” But Jad- kine eat still, trying to think. He sighed and his bosom heaved. Soon he, too, began to weep, and I tell you when he ot under. headway it was no make- lieve; it was a sighing, genuine sobbing ook watching hia. A great, com jadkine sat watching him. com- jon stole into her faithful bosom. Surely je was overwhelmed with penitence and re- morse, She straightway rose, went to him, and, kneeling at his feet, essayed to put her arms around him. With a louder sob than ever he thrast her away. ““Oh, but darling, Iforgive you. It is the lnst time; isn't it the Jast time, my own Tom? With all my heart I forgive— “Forgive nothing,’ hic and sobbed Jadkine. Shortly raising himself he said with an effort qt severity: ‘Madam, you look at that clock!’ “Well? she with some surprise. "he repeated with increasing “Meantime, the clock went on about its busi- ness, tick, tick, tick. Ite steady monotone ‘aroused new agitation in the man's emotional REAL ESTATE GOSSIP. The Influence of Summer aa Manifested § the Offices of the Brokers. BUILDING OPERATIONS IN THE CITY AND IN TRE SUBORDS—THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY TAW SCHOOL BUILDIXG—XEW RURLDINOS OF THE WEPK AND OTMER MATTERS. HE AVERAGE MAN HAS BREN THINK- ing during the past week more of how to get cool than of bow to get rich, and the nat- ural result of this change in the main object of human ambition has been a quieter time In the real estate market, The hot weather holiday has not yet begun, na that is determined by the calendar rather than the thermometer. People who know Washington do not leave for the summer before the Ist of July, and so it hap- pens that the hot woather stillness that falls alike upon the real estate agent and the in- vestor is not yet due. In the meantime, before the real estate dealer @tarts for Europe or, if the walking ix good, decides to «pend the hot months in exploring hit own country, there is a good deal being done in the way of closing up transactions and getting some new ones in condition so that they will ripen by the early fall. Some good deals are spoken of as Likely to mature before long and altogether the real estate dealers have not bad very much to complain of except the sudden boom in the mercury. Before many weeks the burden of conducting the realty ousiness of Washington will devolve upon the shoulder of their young men. While the men whose names ‘appear above the office doors are in the mountains or on the seashore their clerks will run the offices and look after euch matters as can be attended to without scrioualy impairing their strength. As they are in mont cases the future real estate dealers of the city the sammer is an important time with them, as they can leave the high stool behind tile counter and practice sitting in the chair which the really truly real estate man occupies when heisat home. Under the guiding band of these energetic young men real extate interest not allowed to suffer, and betore the end of week of their rule it’ becomes apparent, to them at least, that the presence of the “bose” is not of so much consequence as some might imagine. “BUILDING IX THE SURTRMA. The hod carriers have decided not to press their demand for nine houry’ pay for eight hours’ work and have returned to their hods, Building operations, which were suspended, have been resumed. and the threatened labor difficulty is now a thing of the past. There is a great deal of building throughout thecity.and while there ix no great rush of work, «till the building .trades are reasonably bury. The amount of building that is being done in the suburbs wili compare favorably with former years. In the various settlements along the line of the steam railroads 1 the electric Ines there are quite x number of new honses going up. With the increase in the facilities for reaching the city from the outlying country itis noticeable that improvements ate being made A SEW LAW ScHOOL RETIN. A handsome building is to be erected on 13th street between H and I streets for the use of the National University Law School. The building on E street between 10th and 1th streets, whic was erected by the university « few years ago, has been sold to the Wash: ngton Lodge of Elks. The new building, whic designed by Mr. Leon E. Dessez, tect, be an attractive stractare in the Rom: style. It will be three stories in height front will be built of selected red brick with brown stone trimmings. The frontage will be twenty-nine feet and the depth eighty feet. The builder, W. C. Morrison, has begun the ex- cavation. ‘MR. PARKER'S RESIDENCE. The residence on Vermont avenue just north of K street, which was formerly the home of the Inte Gen. Belknap and was recently pur- chased by Mr. M. M. Parker, bas undergone extensive alterations. The exterior has been changed with the exception that a some stone coping enriched with carving been built on each side of the main steps. The wood work of the front repainted and the bricks oiled. All the plumbing has been taken out and the and most approved fixtares substituted. Ar- Hi it tistic decorations and fine wail adorn the various rooms, the tone colors harmonizing: with that of the hard-wood finish. Mr. Parker and his family have taken of thie Attractive home, which bas been on checwughy prepared for their use AX OLD-TIME Roor. During the absence of Gen. Beale and his family from the city for the summer their resi- dence at the corner of H street and Jackson place is undergoing some repairs. This is one of the historic residences of the city, and it stands today Tevenpmny oe it was built, some geronty-five rears ago, by Commodore Decatur. Itis not the intention of Gen. Beale to make any radical changes in the old house, which was built in s¢ch a thorough manner that it is ap- parently as good today as when it was first erected. The slate roof was found tobe de- fective and it is to be replaced. In removing the slate the workmen discovered that the method of laying slate seventy-five yours ago differs considerably from the modern styie. Nowadays the roof timbers are covered with a sheathing of boards; then water-proof ie Inid down and the slate put on. Bat in this instance it was found that nar row strips of wood bad been nailed to the roof timbers at intervals of about three inches and upon this frame work the slate rested. It was nsual to fill in the spaces be- tween the slats in the inside of the roof with mortar. The object of this mode of construc- tion, which is said to be still practiced in England, was to save lumber, as not more than one-third as much is used as when the entire roof is sheathed. DMPROVEMENTS ON SEVENTH STREET. A fine improvement is to be made on 7th street just south of K street. The buildings 930 and 932 7th street are to be removed and the owners of the property, Wm. Hahn & Co., the shoe dealers, will erect on this site a handsome business building. The architects, B. Patrick & Co., in making the plans have kept in view Ef t ; f : F i H | 3 i H | i f 8 Ty fH E I f 4 F F | : H | i F ‘ i H i t i i E ey i 4 i Hi i i. i | | i i rt é Er i fH : i FS E i i ial HE ie cartel iil | H i E g j i I i