Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1891, Page 12

12 BICYCLISTS ABROAD. Washington Boys’ Wanderings on the Continent. WHEELING IN SWITZERLAND. How English is Spoken—The Typical Amer- fean Abroad—At Chamounix—Grand Views and Splendid Koads—In the Valley of the Bhone—Brother Wheelmen. Written for The Evening Star. Mantioxy, Swrrzetaxn, Sept. 15, 1891. Lem CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN HOTELS sometimes make attempts‘at English for the benefit of their English-speaking pa- trons. At acertain Swiss hotel we found the following English exercise in the form of a printed notice: “The gentlemen-travellers are | full blast and “the b unvited to intrust their objects of value to the proprietor of the hotel, who only in that case can be responsible for it.” This was accom- panied by another notice, as follows: “The prices of the rooms are dearer for gentlemen- travellers who consume nothing in the house.” ‘The latter notide cautions you against simply rooming at the hotel and is as much as to say that you are expected to take at least your morning coffee, rolls and honey at the hotel if you expect to hold your room at the usual rates. The best patrons of the great hotels at the resortsare English and Americans. machi our receipts and the rest of the force joined the goat in its inspection; for you must know that when one pays duty on a bicycle in France with the desire to reclaim the amount on leaving the country a full deseription of the machine is taken, 1s name and number, weight and dimen- sions and name of maker, all this being entered of record at the place of payment of duty, anda copy being embodied in the receipt. But they could not pay us the money unless we were going to enter Switzerland from the Haute Ba survey of the ines; we P eil, we will go back to Bonneville, whence we camé this morning, and thence to Cha- mounix insiead of following the road through the adjoining department.” ‘ou will go to Chamounix by Bonneville?” “gure!” ‘ou will not pass by this road?” ssuredly not. Only pay us our money.” So they paid us our twelve, first deducting the government's commission for the trouble of keeping it for us, and heading our dusty wheels for Bonneville we departed, and in due time were ensconced in the gable of a Cha- mounix hotel in the shadow of icy Mont Blanc. AT CHAMOUSIX. Chamounix isa naughty place. It has its casino with a lively game of petit chevaux in of all nationalities el- bow each other as they crowd about the board, eagerly watching the circling of the little horses and hasten to ante for the next round. Beside the casino there is nothing in Chamounix, but the hotels, the guides ard diligence offices, shops chiefly devoted to knick knacks, includ ing alpenstocks, a cafe chantant and a variety hail where imported talent afford entertain- ment for the appreciative. In the season the village is crowded with visitors, con- tantly coming and going in carriages, the huge buses carzying twenty persons or more, and lasily but not least in importance, by bicycle. wo ‘The proprietor of the leading hotel at one of the principal Alpine tourists’ centers informed us that were it notfor his English and American there would be no conceivable object his maintaining his establishmen THE TYPICAL AMET: It is at these “English-spoken” hotels that you find the typical American, who knows not @ word of any language but his own, has money and the best in the house, and will sit all night with you drinking ‘to the United Bhates of Ameri ‘enough.” bout “a soldier of the legion lay ” who thought of his home weet Bingen on the Rhine.” He often said that if he ever went to Europe he 9 and see “sweet Bingen,” and now that hehad come to Europe he had been to Bingen and looked the town over, spent a night in fact, and it isa blank fine place. He ona side excursion during the day rhich interested him very much and he recom- mends it to you. But the difficulty is he does not remember the name of the place. Pounc- a the t of the hotel, who was the name of it pl I went ‘THE VILLAGE FOUNTAIN. ‘The manager, after «moment's thought, for there are many guests, and most of them have been absent sightsceing, tells “Oh, yes! I never can remember theee founded Dutch names. That's where you directions uotation, is is the iF ‘want to go tomorrow:” and he gi impression in the foreign mind that all Ame: cans are millionaires. Governing his expenses solely by an American standard, be lives liter- ally on the fat of the land and chuckles to think how cheaply he is getting it. r | As you go southward from Paris the plump. | round Norman horses gradually disappear and in their stead come donkeys, mules and oxen. Instead of the great round loaves of Normandy, or the staffs of life, the long. club-like loaves of Paris, the bread appears in the form of a cart wheel. lon their rocky channels beneath us. the surroundings were strikingly similar to the hills of the Black Forest: then approach- ing in grandeur the grandest of more fre- quented Alpine scenery. There was an ab- sence of that tedium that characterizes many Bwise Alpine passes—a long succession of ter- raced windings up and another series down, | and we turued from one strikingly beautiful | TOWARD GENEVA. Of the city and lake of Geneva we obtained eur first glimpse from the mountains ten miles distant. The country was spread ont before us like a large map colored m natural tints. We could trace the windings of our road as it wriggled in circuitous loops and doublings down the mountainside and away in straighter lines toward the city. The tall poplars with which it was lined looked at this Leight and mere broom straws with the bushy end Down we went, through Gex to Ferney, foltaire’s town, founded by him in 1759: then over the imaginary line into Switzerland and Geneva, where we found the Elwell-Higgins ESS FRENCH ALPINE VILLAGE STREET. tourist party of American wheelmen, Mr. Hig- in charge, who had arrived before us. the boundary line between states at home makes no perceptible difference in surroundings; but when, for instance, you from France into Switzerland. at Geneva, you are in French Switzerland, you find notices in German as well as French, many German names on the signs over stores and many ing people. German names are uncommon in France and German-speak- ing do not, asa rule, make themselves ‘accomplishments very conspicuous, AGAIN INTO FRANCE. A few hours and we passed into France again nd bebeld once more the familiar gendar- meric nationale station, with its sign of tin with national colors and so hung good counterfeit flag, the imitate the folds of a flag. Haute Savoie, being ex- impost laws of France, there it | {i if ‘account 18 easy to want most, and it was not until we had innumerable of both high official and otherwise, that we er fr FF Ht ‘A SWISS TAXDEM. Mont Bian is best seen in the early morning, ator soon after sunrise, and in the evening as dusk comes on in the valley, while the sun still shines brightly on the summit. Then the mountain stands out most grandly, its outline sharply defined against the sky and its clothing of snow and ice illuminated to dazzling bril- Hiancy. Less than 1,200 persons have braved the certain amount of peril attending the ven- ture and tested their physical endurance by making the ascent to the summit. Two days are usually required, but the ascent and return have been accomplished within twenty- four hours by afew. The guides vie with each other in the number of ascents, and should members of the party give out or be unwilling to make the second stage, all the guides wit the party go to the summit notwithstanding, for the sake of the record and the prestige de- rived therefrom. Several of tho guides have made more than sixty ascents, and are accord- ingly the leading citizens in’ the native popu- lation of the village. IN THE EVENINGS. As evening draws on the strings of mules, like the cows, come home, bearing on their backs the tired, aching forms of amateur mountain climbers, who have been scaling the mountain sides and skirting dizzy precipices by mule power. Then the more ambitious climbers who, disdaining the aid of mules, set out in the chili air of morning with fresh, new alpenstocks, great hob-nailed shoes, neatly brashed, volum- inous knee breeches, and other things more or lese essential to mountain climbing, straggle in, sweaty and dusty, hungry, but cheerful. They all assemble nt’ the evening table d’hote, and the poor waiters and waitresses listen to the oft-repeated tales of crossing the Mer de Giace, the ascent or descent over the Mauvais pass aud other feats counted common. THE MER DE GLACE isa part of a large glacier and has derived its name from the form of the surface, which is re- garded as resembling waves. It is perhaps half a mile wide at the point of crossing, and with Four shoes covered by short socks, prepared for the purpose and furnished by the hotel, you tread your way, under. the direction of 4 guide, amid the y wning holes and crevices of the glacier, deep and narrowing as they de- scend, and many filled with icy water. There is a practice in vogue among the hangers-on about the neighboring hotel above of doing what is denominated as the “chop act,” namely, | as a party is about to cross the Mer one of these fellows sieps forward with an ice nx and makes a great ado cutting unnecessary steps and niches in the ice for a short distance. Ihe oc- casion for all this becomes apparent when ho Pauses, and as the party one by one files by signifies that he expects a reward for bis services. SEMINARY GIRLS ON THE ROAD. Up the valley of the Arve, then up winding ascents and down again, and the white cross of Switzerland in its crimson field floated above us Again we ascend and as we glide along a level stretch of the narrow roadway the most entrancing spectacle of all was unveiled to us as round a bend camea drove—we purposely avoid the word “bevy” —of seminary young ladies, two by two, alpenstocks in hand and wearing broad~ brimmed ‘sun bats. Instantly there was a scrambling off machines and a training of kodaks, whercat the angels in sun shades paused in confusion. Suddenly the ranks opened and the stern preceptress stepped to the front, and serutinizing through her spectacles the now in their turn confused photographers, with severe accents asked us collectively what’ we wanted. We plucked up our courage and replied that we were about to honor ourselves by taking the young ladies’ picture, which explanation was satisfactory, and the nmages of fair forms were soon indelibly stamped upon the gelatine films of the battery. THE WELCOME SIGHT OF AN AMERICAN FLAG. Once more we go down a succession of short terraced windings, frequently dismounting to make room for a squatty, diminutive carriage, the only sort suitable for the character of road, and drawn by a single horse. Several of the Elwell-Higgins party carried attached to some part of their machines the American colors, and as we passed one of the carriages slowly creeping upward @ little girl, who, with her parents, was interestedly observing the proces- ion of "wheels moving downward, exclaimed: ‘Oh, mamma! there's the American fin and Clapped her hands together with joy. ‘The child's Joy was buta manifestation of the feel ing which pervades every American when he finds afar from home the starsand stripes. He may not have really known or felt what the flag meant to him. He ra not have thought of if as anything more than s pretty com- bination of colors adopted by Congress many ears ago, just when he doesn’t remember. But jet him go abroad, where a foreign tongue is continually sounding in his ears and the habite and customs aud surroundings are new and | strange, and the sight of his country’s flag thrills him as nothing else can. It seems to | bring distant home and friends nearer, and if he has never before beer convinced he is now that his native land and ite banner are the grandest on the face of the earth. At a point on the Rhine between Cologne and Coblenz an American flag has been for several yoars during the season displayed from # building within sight of passing boats. One has only to ‘spontaneous waving of bandker- IN THE VALLEY OF THE REOxE. We were now in the valley of the Rhone, which we were to follow to its source, and we bade good-bye to our jolly companions, in whose company we had traveled from Cha- mounix. Near Vernayez, where we entered the valley, the river Trient bursts through, nar- row overhanging walls - most met four hundred fest above the water's sunges furiously flown. over’ the, resba toes 01 Lagoa depth of forty feet in ‘that the reclamation of our oney meant at leart an extra twenty-f over mountains to a customs station Mmite of the department. The san before and we LEE ot grinned in i ar te f ti fees i E i | 5 H f itt i i i $ if g g cords held eaptive by the as if the; forinrs | had been pack threads It takes @ long time t listened patiently as with asad mixture of French and German we told him, in response to his in- quiries, where we had been and our plans for the near future, at the conclusion of which he ‘again shook hands, drew himself together into the position of a soldier, saluted and was gone. The Enghsh bicyclist seldom takes any notice of the stranger wheelman, the Frencnmnan is a little better, tips his cap and says bon jour, and the Swiss bicyclist, as we have seen, has even more interest. Onur soldier friend, by the way. was ‘some young business man for the time being on the tour of military duty re- quired of him. for Switzerland bas no regular standing army, strictly speaking. each person by law made subject to military ser required to undergo a course of trai art of war and the duty of a sol weeks at fixed intervals. EERE OR Te IN GRANT'S LOG CABIN. ‘There Were Many Jolly Times There When the General Was Young. From the Chicago Evening Post. . “Grant's old log cabin wouln’t add anything to the beauty of the world’s fair grounds if they did bring it here. It might interest peo- ple, thoagh, as one of the curiosities—this rough cabin home of one of the country’s great- est Presidents.” Thus speaks D. C. Hornsby, an old-time St. Louisan, who lived in the early days a close neighbor to Grant, the soldier President, be- fore he éver thought of being a soldier Presi- dent; in the days, in fact, when Grant wasn careless, reckless, happy-go-lucky countryman, with none of the marks of greatness yet ap- parent. “Yes, sir; the Grant cabin was the center of S vastamountof interest when Grant was in it,"continued Mr. Hornsby, “but whether it would be so hore or not no’ one can tell. It Was a lively place when Grant first lived in it, way back in 'S1. That was the year he built it. Itnever did amount to much. It is nothing but a little one-story log house, with two rooms aud the regulation fireplace and other attach ments. Never was much to look at. But there was plenty of good fun when Grant yras the “The old place is only about nine’ miles out from 8t. Louis on the Gravois river, or rather & mere creek, which runs through the old Dent farm. The Dent farm house is located in a beautiful grassy flat on the east side of the Gravois and the cabin was over on a little hill west of the river. Grant moved into it shortly after his marringe to one of old Col. Dent's daughters at their city home in St. Louis. He lived there three or four years, work- ing around as he pleased on the farm, in the for a few BEB. and from there went straight up to Galena, I think, and went into business. But the settlers around that section who are yet alive well remember the times when Grant was among them, and he remembered them, too, to his last days as among the happiest of his life. Grant alwayshad a great love for that place. While he was President he fixed up the old Dent farm in fine condition and used to take some pride in having the stock exhibited at the St. Louis fair. just how Grant happened to go to that part of the country I never knew for certain,’ con- tinued Mr. Hornsby. “He had just been in the army out in California and left for some reason or other. One of the Dent brothers was a sutler in the army at. that time and that may have had something to do with it. Any way he sort of wandered in there and lived on the Dent farm almost as one of the family and married one of the girls ‘Then they built this log cabin and moved over to it. There wasn't much work for each one to do in thosetimes. The Dents had plenty of help and Grant and the boys used to work about wien they wanted to. I was fixed about the same way. I had just finished going to school and lived with two brothers about two miles from Grant's, along the Gravois road. None of us had so much to do that we couldn't go hunting and fishing just when we wanted to go, and Grant was always ready. Many a time have we ridden up to Grant's house at night on acoon hunt and whistled him out of bed. We'd cry and halloo until Grant would pore his head out of the window and shout, ‘Hello, boys, that you?” We'd answer back, ‘Hello, Grant; come on out here,’ and he'd slip into his clothes and be out ina jiffy. Then, after we had bagged our game, he would invariably say, ‘Come up to the house, boys. I've got something mighty, good up'there. Come up | and take a nip.’ We used to goup and get | some of his ‘mighty good,’ and then all go out on the chase together,or separate and go home. ‘Grant was mighty g: company in those | days, but no one suspected then that he would ever stand at the head of the nation. He was | a rather lazy, careless fellow, without much work to do and very fond of a ‘nip.’ But every one in those days was fond of the jug. ‘Those were social days, when it was the cus- tom for every one to driuk and keep it always handy for every guest. The Dents were an aristocratic family, who hadn't much idea of hard work, and so it was no wonder that Grant, who lived with them, didn’t do a great deal. He didn’t attract much attention outside, but he was good company to those who knew him. He didn't have much then, but he was always ready to divide square to the last, and, if I re- member, he kept that quality to the end.” —— IN PERIL N THE AIR. What an Aeronaut Thought During a Half Minute’s Fall. From the Detroit Free Press. “There is some kind of a fatality pursuing me in Detroit,” remarked: Prof. Bartholomew toa reporter of the Free Press yesterday. “First, Cole was hurt, by his own folly, how- ever, in monkeying on his parachute when he was coming down; then Hegan was killed; Mise Carmo drops within ten feet of an un- fathomable abyxs of mud ina sulphur marsh, and today Ihave metaman who witnessed the most narrow escape from death I ever had. “The incident referred to occurred two years ago at Terre Haute, Ind. Ishall never forget my experience on that day. A number of outsiders held the ropes of the balloon while it was being inflate ind one of the men amused himself by tying a big knot in his guy. 1 did not realize the danger from that knot un- til it came near being the cause of my death. My ascent was unusually high on that day, and it was the means of saving my life. straddled the bar of my parachute and launched myself off. I felt the cord which held the parachute to the balloon snap und a second later there was another “ from above. looked up, and there was that knot on the guy swung around six of the parachute cords, forming as neat a half hitch as you ever saw in your life and holding me to the m. You have noticed that there is weight attached to th 1 tes the balloon, which turns bay ide down as it is released of the weight of the acronaut. The guy which was half hitched sround the strings of my rachute was also fastened to the top of the balioon, and the latter turned up and began discharging the hot sir instantly as I jumped. The air escaped ‘as you see it every day here, gradually, and of course my shute descended very gradually at first and not inflating. *Down I kept cém- ing, the guy rope preventing the parachute from inflating, and I gave myself up as lost; I wound my legs around the ropes of the para- chute trapeze and shut my teeth. The speed commenced to be feurfully accelerated, and I was sure that I had to die, but 1 was cool and retained my senses. “Soon the balloon had emptied itself and commenced Supping its huge tailin the air with awful The balloon weighed over 200 pounds and was also pulled down by the sixty-pound sand bag. It came down past me, and as the knotted guy rope _— down the lines the parachute opened such a fierce snap that it seemed as if the ropes which supported me would give way. The spreading of hute saved my life, for the 200- loon kept on down and broke tho six pound tell the story, but it ali happened in half a minute. Iwas within 400 feet of the ground when the balloon tore away, but my was checked and 1 landed all right. it I was a goner that day, crowd than bad red, There is no mistake about m: i nt ee, bat 1 folded say achat an as ly as nothing ha ppened and went to bed for the remamder of the wi THE CITY'S PROGRESS. Remarkable Growth of Business in Recent Years. SOME STATELY BUILDINGS. ‘ice, being | Transformation of Well-Known Localities— Wonderfal Advance of Land Values—The March of Trade—A Reminiscence of the Mexican War—Charley Hunter's Heroism. ‘Written for The Evening Star. HERE IS ANOTHER AND VERY IM- portant view of Washington besides its social charms. The increase of population, the extension of its streets, the palatial residences which grace its broad and well-kept avenues and squares have rendered commercial and financial extension a necessity. The wealth that has found ® home here brought with it the energy ard enterprise for the employment of that wealth and has added to its attractions the splendid business buildings which dignify the commercial and financial life of Washington. It exhibits, too, in an unmistakable manner, the extent and volume of the weaith expended in building up the business streets, for business is too devoid of sentiment to waste its revenues on edifices that do not yield an ample interest on the amount invested. Within the last few years stately buildings have risen on the principal business streets for business purposes which rival those in devoted to trade, commerce and finance. Th old ery that there was no business in Washiny ton has long since been silenced by the lemon: stration that such buildings have been called for by the demands of increased and increas- ing commercial enterprise. The Glover build- ing. the Atlantic building, the Interocean building, the Pacific and Baltic buildings, all are the growth of the demand for their use. ‘These buildings are not confined to one street or one localitr. I might almost say th abound. The increase of the banke in Was! ington serves to show the financial importat the city has assumed. The Bank of Washing- ton retains its old location, but is unrecognizable with its handsome marble exterior, and the Central National Bank, on the corner where formerly the St. Mare Hotel stood, and the Columbia National Bank on F street and the Second N: tional Renk on 7th street, and the Traders’ Na- tional Bank and the old Bank of the Metrop- lis, whone time-honored building was regarded, when built, as a triumph of architectural skill, the West End Bank on G street and the newly established Ohio National Bank, whose unfin- ished building displays the intention of addinj another ornament to that street, once so retire: The old banking house of Riggs & Co. retains all the sturdy and substantial character, which has for many years made it a land mark in this | },, city, as it bas been in all the years of its exis- leading power in the financial world. \d for trust and loan companies and it companies, which have rosulted from the necessary growth and importance of the city and the completion of the grand building on the corner of 9th and F streets of the “Washington Loan and Trust Company,” illustrates the confidence in the need and per- manency of this demand. It stands as an evi- dence that the old time when Washington had no commercial and financial life has passed. ‘The half million of dollars invested in the pile of granite and marble testifies to the energy and business capacity of the men who have adorned the city with such an edifice. INCREASE IN LAND VALUES. Going back to the long past the contrast could not be more glaring than in the values of the days when that lot,where now this triumph of atekitectural beauty rears its lofty walls, was purchased by the father of the late Mr. John 8. Galagher, one of the auditors of the treasury and an old resident here, ror 6 cents a foot. was in 1815. He held it for some years, and as no advance in value seemed prob- able he sold it to Mr. Gales for the same price. It offered so little assurance of increase that Mr. Gales sold it without obtaining an ad- vance. ‘The Washingten Loan and Trust Com- pany paid $25 per foot. For years this local- ity remained in an almost unimproved condi- Hion, the buildings, being ‘unimportant until the “St. Cloud Hotel” was built. These thoughts came to me the other day as I stopped to ad- mire the grand structure, which compares fa- vorably with such buildings in any city in the Union. In all these enterprises, and the city contains many of importance, the old cle- ment of Washington is replenished by the energy and wealth brought here by the many advantages offered for a residence. ‘The in- fusion of new blood is manitested. Since 1865 all these great strides which have brought Wash- ington to the front rauk as a city of commercial importance are due to such gentlemen as those whose energy and business capacity are dis played in improvements of so elegant and per- manent acharacter that they challenge those of northern and western cities where commerce and finance have reigned for years. On the same block, separated by some old- time business houses, the property of the heirs of. Wm. Q. Force’ and W. J. Fitagerald of New York, which must soon give way to the march of progress, is the Union Fire In- surance Company, which has erected a very handsome and commodious building contain ing all the advantages which are sought in those buildings designed for commercial, pro- fessional and financial business. ‘This lot and the house then on it was bought comparatively a few years ago for $7.00. ‘This company paid O40,000 for side of th x ‘On the opposite side of the street, whero there isa new. bank, the “Columbia National Bank,” occupying a marble building designed expressly for its use. This bank was estab- lished to meet a demand which the increased business of the locality needed. On the site of thatand the McCreseness buildings, running from 9th to 10th street, only a few years ago stood St. Patrick's Church and the old Seminary building, where so muny of our old citizens were educated. It subsequently was the begin- ning of Gonzaga College. FURTHER UP ¥ STREET, where the Sun building lifts its lofty walls, was the residence of Mr. Burch, and beyond a house where Mr. Clay resided. He owned the house and grounds and legend says he offered it to Mr. Elexias Simms for $1,200 and Mr. Simms declined the offer, but made another offer of $1,000, which Mr. Clay declined. Mr. Simms Kept a grocery store on the southeast corner of 13th and F streets, and the house is un- changed except by the painter. ANOTHER INDICATION OF PROGRESS. One of the indications that Washington ‘is rapidly moving to the front and contesting with other cities for all their advantages is the or- ganization of “The Down-town Club.” Only « few years ago—well, I mean few to those of ea years ago were only private the need of this club? The ¢legant and commodious quarters of this club are in the Washington Loan and Trust Com- ny’s building, in which all needed accommo- tions are provided. ON @ sTREET. Another street composed almost entirely of business buildings in marble and granite is G street between 14th and 15th streets. Here the American Security and Trust Company are finishing very handsome granite building, elaborately ornamented and of beautiful de End Bank, of which one of our oldest citizens is the presi- dent, Mr.W. R. Riley, and the marble Fleming ing. ‘The growth of the banking busincss is rapidly advai I think you will Sheed encrpreti ae we enterpri that Saeceerertangee sens ness center. AN INCIDENT OF THE MEXICAN Wan. et were soveral of no response, and night coming on he action ‘until next morning, when he begun firing again, when several horsemen wore seen galloping down to the beach bearing a white fag and soon & boat put off from the harbor with « and commanded by the render, with but thirty minutes’ time for doing it The demand was promptly obeyed. town of Alvarado wns defended by severai forts and was “a bugbear,” informant, who was one of ‘the Understanding that several vessels with muni- tions of war gone up the river Lieut. Hunter pursued them, capturing on his wa; four schooners, one laden with powder, which was burned. and two were brought back to Alvarado. Arriving at HaCa Talsaw, firing on the town, three officers and six men were sont ashore to summon the alcalde of the city to surrender. It being early in the morning that official wasawakened froma sound sleep and the demand made on sum- mons was obeyed. The town contained about 7,000 inhabitants, After this capture the Scourge returned to Alvarado and on the back Lieut. Hunter, Passed Midshipman Tem (pow admiral) and my informant, the aid to ‘unter, Maj. Lachlan H. McIntosh, boarded and captured a large boat loaded with cotton, hides and dry goods. When Lieut. Hunter was ordered to blockade the port of Alvarado, from which the navy had been twise repulsed, it was intended to make @ combined attack by lan and sea. 3 FOR DISOBEYING ORDERS. Lieut. Hunter was tried for disobedience of orders and dismissed from the squadron. On his return to New York he received an ovation. The freedom of the city was voted him, a splendid sword was presented to him by the citizens and a banquet and tions fol- lowed. When he visited his native place, . & like ovation was tendered him there. The press of the country teomed with commendations of his gallantry. On his return to Washington the Secretary of the Navy, Hon. John Y. Mason, gave him command of the a revenue cutter and sent the in purmuit of some Mexican privateers which had urned a barque and committed other depreda- tions an our shipping. The pirates, as the were regarded, were captut ya i man-of-wer and escorted to Barcelona. Om his return from that cruise, for some disobedience of orders, he was tried and suspended. This Alvarado episode was a counterpart of the conduct of Col, George Croghan, who was left with a force of 160 men at Fort Sandusky, with instructions to surrender the fort if at- tacked by a superior force. The British and Indians, several hundred strong, attacked the fort and Capt. Croghan remained and defended it, and after two or three days’ assault they re- tired, leaving a larger number of British and Indians killed than were in the fort. He was tried for disobedience of orders, but the coun- try sustained him and he was lionized and Con- grens voted him a sword and thanks. Poor Charley Hunter's life was embittored by @ ducl he fought when ipman, in whicl killed his auntagoni os man of his own age, named Miller.” The shadow of that event hung over his whole life. He died in New York somewhere abous 1856-7. Joux F. Corse. ie. ‘That lovely brook, I see it Sul dashing in the sun; And she and [ are children ‘Once more in Idlington; And Margie on the bank inere, ‘I see as she used to loo) ‘Those summer days when she played with me ‘On the borders of the brouk. ‘What wonderful ships and shallops I made for Margie then, ‘With leaves and grass for cargoes, And sticks and straws for men— what And e names we gave them— “Orlando,” “seorge-a-Green,” “i ing Pellemore,” ir Galahad,’ “The Cid” and “Sir Cauline!”’ ‘We cared not much for tramc, Yet our captains and our mates Brought often the honeys of Hybla, And Tunis figs and dates; But when love called, or honor, We sent our vessels out In ald of all who needed them, ‘With many a cheer and shout. ‘We wrote to Robinson Crusoe, ‘That we hoped, now Friday was gone, He would come straight over and see us, With all his goat skins on; And bring the poll parrot with him, ‘So when they stepped on shore, ‘We should know them both and take them home, Never to wander more. As the seasons changed, so we did— In spring we dreamed of fame, And in suinmer of autumn’s riches, And when October came ‘We stripped the yellow And sent our illzot gain In caravels to Andaluce, Across the Spanish main, That lovely brook, I know not Just where it comes from now, But in those days it wandered— As Margie could avow— Rigitt out from far Cipango, And merrily ran on ‘Till it came to the fairy flelds this side ‘The valley of Avalon. It heard in Sherwood forest Brave Robin's bugle calla, And carried off the music ‘To dash it on the wails Of the city of Manoa, And could be seen afar In clearest air from Samarcand, And near to Candahar, Sometimes I see the windings Of that brook, as ina dream, While it flows away to the sunset; And here gnd there a stream Is touched with a light so tender ‘That it seems to my loving cyes ‘The course of a beautiful human life Ending in Paradise. And plans and schemes are the v And hope is the wind that blows, d all good aims are the harbors, ‘And timne is the tide that flows; And then again all changes, ‘And I see ourselves once more— Dear Margie und a little boy Playing along the shore. —Henry Ames Blood in Youth's Companion. ———+ee—____ A NEW WRINKLE. How the Festive Mosquito Was Cleverly Caught, ‘From the Philadelphia Times. Something About Educational Institutions im Washington. Washington possesses unusual educational facilities. Its colleges, professional schools and Preparatory schools rank with the best in the Good school for the children or those in search of special instruction will find valuable infor- mation in Tus Sran’s advertising columns. Below will be found notices of various instita- tions and special teachers, whose former Patrons and record commend them. A school in the countey for chitdren, where the number of pupils is limited tossix, is practi- cally a home. {The terms are moderate and the instruction thorough. Mra. C. F. Blackbura, Stafford Court House, Va... will give information. Pupils are prepared for the Corcoran Art School at the studio, 321 East Capitél strect, of Mra. J.P. McAuley ‘and Miss Fannie Lockett. Instruction is given in painting, drawing and decorative art. Instruction in drawing and in painting after the French method is given by Miss Helen A. Hartwell, 1023 10th street, where pupils can t- tain proficiency. J. D. Thompson of London, England, certifi- cated at Cambridge, Coliege of Preceptors, South Kensington School of Art and Stuttgart Conservatoire, has opened her class for girls at 1711 H street. The Acme system of phonography can be acquired in three months at the Acme Phonog- raphy and Business School, 919 and {21 stroct. It is said to bea more legible system than others and to have the further advantage of being more rapidly acquired. The evening classes at the Columbian Uni- Yersity afford an opportunity for acquiring thorough knowledge of mathematics. Algebra to calculus is the range of tne studies. A cir- cular giving full particulars can be obtained by writing to the secretary of the Columbian University. ‘This array of distinguished teach- ers insures to pupil a practical and thorough training. ‘The registrar, Mr. H. G. Hodgkins, at Columbian University will furnish cata- logues on application. members of the United States Supreme Court, an equal number from the Supreme Bench of the city, the com- missioner of patents and leading members of the legal profession constitute the facalty of the lawschool. H. G. Hodgkins is the professor of mathematics Emerson Institute, 914 14th street, has estab- lished a reputation for the education of young men and boys that can only be the result of in- telligent effort wisely directed A thorough Preparation is given for entrance to the leading universities, eolleges, scientific schools, West Point, Annapolis and for business. There is a special department for boys between eight and twelve years of age and a full course in modern languages. The principal, Mr. Chas. B. Young, is widely known as an educator. The use of the Edison phonograph is largely taking the place of the stenographer and the modern type writer finds the knowledge of the use of this instrament of great importunce. At | the office of the Columbia Phonograph Com- pany, 627 E street, information can be ob- tained in regard to the use of this instrument. ‘The practical workings can be seen fully. ‘The typewriting burean is in rooms 21 and 22, Loan and ‘Trust building, 9th and F streets, where both day and evening classes are taught. Mr. John Theophil, the organist of St. John’s Church in this city, will give lessons in piano, organ and harmony this winter to a select class of pupils at his studio, 510 13th street northwest. He has had a large experience and is thoroughly qualified to teach, as his work at St. John's may indicate. The Washington Normal Kindergarten Insti- tute for the training of teachers opened for its seventeenth session on ‘the first of the present month in the parlors of Mrs. Pollock, 1017 10th street. ‘This institution has become one of the | educational features of this city, and its reputa- tion is most excellent. The music classes of Prog J. Francis Ger- muiller are now at work once more at 611 I Street northwest. Prof. Germuiller teaches all grades of pupils, from beginners to those q well advanced in the study, but he gives espe- cial attention to the former in order to fit them for his future courses in theory and thorough bass. Mr. Paul Miersch, one of Washington's best- known musicians, has established classes again | is season, and may be seen daily at his ollice | between 11’ and i2 o'clock at 817 12th street. | He is an expert performer on the cello, but his | range of instruction includes other instruments | than that. For unique methods of teaching languages | the Gaillard school sureiy deserves special men- tion, for it is not only unique but successful, | and that is better than oddity. It is based on the same principles as Mr. Beil’s visible speech | and the Delsarte system of expression. It is asserted that a perfect accent may be acquired a) in the course of ten lessons, for which tue | charge is $6, including practice daily on the phonograph, which is the main meaus of in- | struction. ‘The lessons are given at the room: of the phonograph company, on E street, or at 1017 Connecticut avenue. French is the special | fi object, Those clever little busts in red that one secs about town in shop windows, portraits of well- known citizens, are the work of Mr. U.S. J. Dunbar, the sculptor, who hus established his studio for classes in modeling and drawing in room 162, Coreoran building. His local suc- | cés5 as a sculptor has been almest phenomenal. Miss Grabam’s dancing classes opened for the season on the 6th instant at Carroll Insti- tute, 602 Pstreet. She pays especial attention to waltzing, and her hours are from 2 until 5 | daily, adults and children coming at different | times. Prof. Arnold W. Mayer, a graduate of the Leipsig College of Music, will give lessons this Winter in piano, organ, voice-culture and theory of music at residences of pupils. He may be addressed for terms and bours and other particulars of his work at 1119 10th a t. he combination kindergarten and training schools at 1918Sunderland place, south of Du- pont Circle, are under the principalship of Ars. Louisa’ Mann, and their titles are “Mra. Mann's Kindergarten and School” and the “Elizabeth Peabody Kindergarten Normal Training School.” The former opened on the Ast instant and the la‘ter will begin its sessions on the 1st of November. The quarters of the Wimodaughsis have been moved from @ street to I street, opposite Franklin square, The classes of this instita- tion, which proved so successful and beneficial last season, are now open for —— Emma J. Woodward, the secretary, will furnich all particulars upon application. Aspirants for singing in grand opera can do no better than consult Sig. Marino Maina, whose art school for singing is located at $19 Ht | tion of Mr. Lincoin. Hiampa, whose office fs in the Herald bathding. southwest corner of 11th E streets, gives special attention to Gnd dance and gaiety dancea, Special terms for special cases are Mrs. E. 8. Steele, 1584 T street, ie an in- vuctor in vocal music. She is a pupil of Brominont foreign teachers and is well quali- vYoeal culture t 1218 Lith street, and also musical history sf and analyeis, poncahae tna GUS THIELKUNL’s CONDITION. ‘He Will be Arrested When He Leaves the Hospital. Gus Thielkul, who some days ago went out to t cemetery near the grave of his ebild and attempted suicide, as published in Tar Star at the time, is still under treatment i doctors think he will probably recover. Detective Mahon made inquiries at the hospital yesterday concerning Thielkubl's condition, as he bas a warrant against Thielkuhl charging him with false pretenses. warrant was sworn out by Dr. Adelbert Lee and as heretofore mentioned he charged that Thiel- kuhl obtained from him some photographic | supplies by pretending that he was the pho- tographer to the worid fair commission and that Col. Anderson would pay for them. It is the intention of the officers to arrest Thielkuhl when he ix discharged from the hos- pital unless bail is given for him before that | time. THE ANACOS: RAILROAD. ‘Mr. Griswold Wants to Pave With Cobble ‘Stones—What He Says of the Petition. President H. A. Griswold of the Anacostia Railroad Company called at the District building yesterday to get a permit for the paving of 2d strect southwest between the tracks of the rail- road for the two squares which are paved with asphalt. He wanted permission to pave with cobble, Speaking of the petition from the residents along the line of the road in South Washington which was handed to the Com missioners Thursday, as stated in Tux Stax, he said: “The writer of the petition presented by a delegation from 2d street southwest has not Fead aright or has not read at ali of the charter of the Anacostia Railroad Co y. [thas ten mouths yet in which to complete it 2d street line. The belgian blocks retcrred toare g-anite blocks taken from the avenue and 14th stree within the past few months and have h one day's trial on 2d street. The corp Pave or asphalt surface the balance of the two squares as soon as the materalis obtainable and will operate the line on or before N L The company has paved its tra street referred to from M to Cana and no other pavement than gute waiks exist on the street except that refer to. It has also paved, eighteen feet wide, nearly two miles of other unpaved street, fur- Paved roadway to the Con- j d poor house. Dr. Bailey and the To the Editor of The Evening Star: been rephed to ere this and any intention of reflecting upon Dr. Bailey disclaimed by me. In a note to me Mr. Hardy says: “Dr. Bailey and I were cordial friends, in fact his son, Mr. Marcellus Bailey, read Plato with me in Greck. I cannot,” he sn; aword of unkindness toward, and certainly there is nothing in what was said imparting any censure of, Dr. Bailey. Quite the reverse I take it.” The mob which in 1848-49 threatened the Era office was cecasioned by the excitement growing out of the capture of the Pearl. Three white men, strangers in the District, and by name Edward Sayres, Chester English and Daniel Drayton, chartered in Philade Iphia a schooner called the Pearl, with which they proceeded, Sayres being captain, to the Poto- mac river. They loaded their craft with fire- wood fora blind and offered it for sale in George- town and Washington. They sailed away from the 7th street wharf at midnight carrying with them a number of slaves, thirty-eigut men, twenty-six women and thirteen children, se- | eretly stowed away in the vessel. The owners of | the slaves soon missed them, and the Pearl was suspected of the deportation. A number of young men of Georgetown promptly engaged the little steamer Salem, Capt. Buker, and pursued the fugitives, happily finding them in Cornfield Harbor and all asleep. This pr: ed blood- shed and made the captare easy. The schooner was taken back to Washington and ber com- pany, eighty all told, were committed to jail notified to come and identify them. Capt. | Goddard and Squire Williams conducted the legal examination, and the three abductors were held for trial at the next term of court, when they were tried and found geilty and sentenced to the penitentiary. Era was by many thought to be connected with the crime, but the city press, the alti more papers, the newspapers generally acquit ted Dr. Bailey of any complicity. The excited the most ear and among the people. the National Intelligencer of April 28, 1848. 1559 sometime a Dor. Boyd was caught conve acarryall full of negroes away from the night. Capt. Goddard, I th and he was sent to the pe y vf years. This incident caused the greatest ex- citement, and the Era office, then in the building now the Tremont Hotel, corner Indiana ave- nue and 2d street, was surrounded by a mob, and vome damage done. The mob which sur- rounded the oflice on 7th street between F and G, Lamfinformed, was on occasion of the elec: I do not recall the cause, but on that occasion I think Dr. Bailey ad: dressed this crowd and the mob dispersed, There was never a more highly esteemed gen- tleman in the city than Dr. Bailey. At that time there was but a very small number of those who coincided with the doctor in his views, but his earnest support of them and his condemnation of all uniawful means won for hima general regard. It required geuuine courage and earnest conviction at that poriod to ry for aterm were atew hete whose sincerity commended them and none more highly than Dr. Bailey and the gentlemen connected with the Era, among who was Mr. Lewis Clephane. Joun F. Core. Pree th. Suit Against the Richmond and Danville E.R. Messrs. A. 8. Worthington and T.C. Tay- lor tor Edward Gorman have filed a suit against the Richmond and Danville railroad to recover $25,000 The suit 1s as ad- ministrator of 8. E. Gorman, who was killed on August 27 last while en route from Statesville to Ashville, N. C., and in consequence of de- railment the car in which he was s passonger Was thrown from a bridge into the water Lelow street. His is the Italian method of insirue- tion, and he trains pupils for the opera, con- cert'and oratorio. Mr. Henry Xander, Washington's well-known pianist, resumed his lessons in pianoand of music on the Ist of this month, 1003 I street. His office hours are from 11 to 12'o'clock daily. Madame A.B. Hoffoldt bas formed classes for the season in vocal, piano, German, Fre and he was so njured as to cause death in a few hours. Ladies’ Relief Union Entertainment. The entertainment given Thursday evening by the Ladies’ Relief Union, auxiliary to W. 8. —_—— He Hadn't Got the Hang of It. He had evidently just arrived, and from the rear platform of a 14th street car was feasting all | Mr. Clephane's note to Tur Stan should have | hose citizens who had lost servants were | t st comment in Congress | ‘These facts are trom | stand up for the abolition of slavery and there | Statues to Their Memory te Be Erected tn This city. ‘The committee of the Grand Army of the Republic having in charge the matter of having @ marble statue made and placed in the Capitol building, this city, met Thursday in Philo deiphia. | The committee te composed of Gen. 8. & Burdett of this city, Gen. Selden Connor of Maine, Gen. R.A. Alger of Michigan, Col. R. B. Beath of Philadelphia, Col. E. 8 Gratts of Ohio, Judge Veazey of Vermont, Morace 8 Mattoon of [lin nd ex-Officer John Palmer, | the commapder-in-chief. All the members were present at the meeting with the exception of Mr. Clark and Gen. Alger. The latter, how. | ever, came in ona late train. | the statue have been ‘The fam pted t thority was granted to place it in the Capitol budding when it is completed. At the meeting yeatertay the committee wae organized - as chairm Bardett, when ¢ rated the movem: of this fui that Gen. Grant the mmander-in-chief, inauga resulted in. th 4 should be represented by tue in bw military will probably ‘be a more before. the statis completed. as the committee is anxious e the work as nearly as posible perfect, | not ouly in design but in the execution. It may be that the pedestal will be in place by the | time the grand encampment meets bere mex’ year The committee, of which Gen. Alger is chair | man, will hold a meeting shortly steps to have the equestrian Logan made. It is proposed to erect this statne in this city, and it fs stated that a fund'ef @63, 000 is already in band. = | Build tt of Granite, | To the Ealtor of The Evening Star | Referring to the suggestion that the new city | post office may be built of brick, I Feannot think that the supervising architect ould for @ moment entertain the ides | It seems to me that granite is the | only proper material for the outer walls | Marble is objectionable because of the glare produced by the intense sunshine in this lati | tude. Those who have occupied buildings in the vicinity of the Post and patent office bi ings | and it is equaily objectionable to people on the treots. Again, it ehows the effect of the dust nd dirt more than any other mater. Besides, granite imparts to a building an ap | pearance of soudity and richness that no other | material does, unless it be brown stone. Let | Any One go and examine the walls of the new | library building and compare them with thos: of the Post Ofice Department building, and | think there would be no hesitation in prefer Ting the granite. ‘This is to be @ government building and it should have an appearance of solidity and stability indicative of its origin. I fully agree with Tue Stan that we do not want any more such looking buildings as the pension office, al: though it is one of the best lighted and venti Javed buildings the government has, and those are two of the most important features about » Public building, especially the ventilation, and | which in most of our public buildings seems te have been overlooked until recently. The rooms of the patent office, the Post Office and the treasury seem to have been designed as gasom: eters t0 hold all the foul air generated by their numerous vecupants and material. no we at their occupan | as has notoriously been th ury building. It ix sincerely to be hoped that this matter will not be over ooked in the plans for the new post office building. cD. > ; The Biological Society. The Biological Society will resume its rega- lar sescions tomorrow night, meeting as usval | in the assembly hall of the Cormos Club. ‘The | program comprises a paper by Mr. Frederich | V. Coville on “Food Plants of the Indians of | the Death Valley Region,” one by Dr. R. W popathology,” and one $ ; ner, “Ihe Fate of the Pur Seal in American Waters,” with lantern illus trauous. = A Bicycle Thief Held. Ernest Wilson is about eighteen years old and has the stecl steed was the cause of his getting in trouble. Detective Mattingly brought him here Thureday from Alexandria, where be was ar ested, and the officer also brought with bis which the prisoner is alleged to have hired from Messrs. Palmer & Co. and George S. Atwater ad rode to Alexandria. police are holding: dd watel jwoner for ideutificution. 1 the case yesterday and held Wilson in £1,000 bail for the action of the enilags Erookland Notes. Mrs. D. K. Middiekauf has gone to visit rela- tives in Hagerstown. Mrs. Barr IF. Snoots, Miss Eda Williamson and «, Mrs. Edwards, have gone to the Frederick fair. Mins isuth Mareen és slowly recovering from her serious tluess. an adjourned meeting of the Brookland Aasoc At Citizens tion the question of board onward impetus, though the tures of property owners are slow iu com: as ponsibl vy. Wm. Wynans and family of Pishkil!- the-Hudson are visiting thelr relatives, | Messrs. Carmack and Quinn, while also attend: | ing the sessions of the ecumenical council. Word has been received trom Dr. and Mra. | H. J. Penrod of their sate arrival im Cleveland, Ubio. The new school house is under roof and promises to be able to shelter the young ideas of Drooklaud before the severe winter weather | sets in. |. Mr. Mareen has the foundation laid fora new | house, which be intends to cccapy himeelf. em Five Years for Taking a Pocket Book. In the Criminal Court yesterday John Carters, colored man, was convicted of larceny from the person. His crime was taking pocket book from Mrs. Mary Ann Bradley in the Center | Market August 29. He was sentenced to five Years in the penitentiary. —— Mra. Alien’s Pica for Divorce. Maria Allen desires freedom from the matri- monial yoke with John Allen and in her bill, filed by Mr. D. W. Glassic, gives as reasons therefore the cruel and inhuman treatment he has inflicted—beating, abusing, kicking and batwering Ler, besides threatening her life, Bhe also charges that he has committed adultery with several women and in the just three years has lived openly with some of them. She states that there are four children and asks custody of the three youngest. —— ‘Transfers of Keal Estate. Deeds in fee bave been filed as follows: his eyes upon city sights. Undoubtedly, too, cinipepegs that the human voice is the jashington, sweetest musical instrument it is ordinarily to lsc. well established that ‘volces ‘unter as to bewilder one, but merely sweet are of the contin: which brings out the Power and yo to the highest ‘Miss Alice Swain Hun- Wash- ter, at 120854 N strost northwest, is suddenly to give the most thorough instructida fa all street branches of vocal study. he seth Fimmnt elma stated and te hich Pleasant Kindergarten Primary School was is one of its well-known institutions, combin- would Hane woe See tocar ae ar this school should eall on Mrs I. M. Smith, Presty nue, where all information can be obtained. muttered: ‘The school so successfully conducted by Miss ee a Schmitt has been removed from 401 8d to 420 — 34 stroct, where Kindergarten, ‘primary’ and mote deaf classes are taught. ‘the convenience ‘all of which of the Fun to the school from ‘bag he car- Capitol Hill aaa the sootion. phot we who desire to perfect themeelves in ;#—. D. B MoCarry, trustee, to L. C. etal, in trust, pt. sub . 373; & F. Black, lot tein 1 Trinidaas Goodman to Powers S Bensingor set, Smuth et '53,and 10, 20 and 294,78: Oo i; Batchelder to W. Mayse, sul 900. . Mont w E 4, Dickey, wub St 331; i iagee te eS Eee 89. 285; $—. A EWelleres al” iu trust, lots 1 25, aq. 958; @— G. 1 Hall to 4. im ‘trust, subs A and B, =q. 385, ob 5, and pt. 21, sq. Cooke to W. T. Jones, one-tenth int. in sub lots 7 t 18 and 16 toa.-A. Heenan etal in trent sub Idk og Georgetown; ¢—. a ‘The High Rollers, The High Roller Bowling Club