Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1892, Page 9

PROFILE O Ls: Ta _¢ BANAT va F DELAWARE —__ Re F a AVENUE AND PROPOSED VIADUCT. a 4 . AN ELEVATED TRACK. ‘The District Commissioners’ Report on the B. and O. Railroad. THEY FAYOR A UNION OUTSIDE THE cITY WITH ‘THE B AND P.—TWEY SUBMIT PLANS FOR A VIADUCT ON DELAWARE AVENUE AND TUINK ‘THE VIADUCT PLAN THE BEST IV TUE DELA- WARE AVENUE ROUTE IS CHOSEN. ‘The Commissionors today made the following Teport upon the bill to define the route of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in the District of Colnmbia and for other purposes: ‘The Commissioners have to report as fol- lows respecting Senate bill 1740, “To define the route of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in t of Columbia, and for other which was referred to them at the instance of your committee for their views thereon: Upon receipt of the bil! the Commissioners gave notice by advertise. ment in the daily newspapers that they would on the day sp ified in said notice give ‘ing to ail parties interested in the rt who might appear on that occasion. In response to this advertisement a large num- Ler of persons appeared. Tie opposition to jeacure was made principally by persons ng oF owning property in East Washington, who objected to the use of Delaware any steam railroad, and west stz involves, ‘he Bai: # al4o represented si After carefully consid. Commissioners Lave = | »wing conclusion pinion the best solution of ir a under consideration Baltimore and Ohio any to lay its tracks pai Itimore and Potomac ri n the east ride of the East ranch, thence across seid branch and throu; the city of Washington either to where tke | present Baltimore and Potomac railroad depo: is now situated or to the open space at the | intersection of Virginia and Maryland a Bues southwest. and in either case to quire the construction of m depot and require said railroad companies to provide at their own expense other than grad ome for all or nearly all the intersecting streets. | Second. To grant the Daitimore and Ohio Railroad Company an entrance into the city through Georgetown along the route recently | acquired by that company. i Toad Comp e be Third. To locate all the freight yards of the Raltimore and Ohio Railroad Company at New York and Florida avenues. Leave the ynger depot where it now and require | For the'passenger service the construction of |® viaduct, which will leave unobstructed Jevery street from G street to T strect in | Eckington. ex: rth Capitol street in ! cerned, and in the , signers wilt meet with general approval. ‘ery respectfully, ™ Somn W. Dovotass, President of the Board of Commissioners. THE VIADUCT PLAN. jadgment of the Commit-| reariongn” The District Commissioners have had draw- | hat the vinduct_shall be con uct as proposed will be nearly 9,000 It is intended that its level will be such a8 to bring the road at the station up to the present level of C strect. The accompanying map shows the route the for the tracks into the lorida avenue it is intended structed to carry city. eee we ere | asd hen a5 THE COMMISSI ONERS’ PLAN FOR THE B. OOWoOwMa DoOOoOvVdoO QUMa0o AND O. the immediate vicinity of the depot. The of this viaduct should be the same i All other company in the city of Washington to be abandoned. The Com- inissioners estimate that the cost of giving ef- fect to this latter pian will be about 21,500,000. It will leave Delaware avenue, along which the viaduct will pasa, practically unob- structed so far as its use by the public is con- * Pdewa le Roam” —_s eae, Aasdway Suciewalk ‘ CROSS SECTIO OF DELAWARE AVENUE elevated vinduct on Delaware avenue. These drawings accompany the report. ‘This struc- ture as proprosed is to be of iron. zi A profile made of Delaware avenue, of which ‘& reproduction is given herewith, shows the grades at different points. ‘The viaduct begins at the north line of Eck- ington and extends right up to the passenger station at C street north. It shows that at Florida avenue the street level is forty free feet higher than ‘the lowest point on the line, which is F street. There isin facta gradual fall all the way from the north line of Eckington to F street, and then slight rise from F to C street. |ae made illustrating the plan proposing an two tracks, and ti shall be on the strect grade below. ‘These freight tracks shall run only to the freight yards, located at the junction of Florida ave- t w York avenue. tracks for freight purposes CROSS SECTION NORTH OF FLORIDA AVENUE. and 1s to be used for the passenger service. The viaduct will be fifty Acres wide and erected in the center of Delaware ave- nue, having on each side a roadway of ‘thirty-five feet and sidewalk of twenty feet. The avenue is 160 fect wide. Cuts are given showing cross sections of the viaduct both north and south of Florida ave- nue and another cut giving some idea of the character of the proposed structure, which is to be of iro: TREES AND TRIMMERS. People Who Object to the City’s Being Shorn of Its Arboreal Beauty. PARK COMMISSIONERS TALE. | Both Sides of an Interesting Controversy—The Park Commission Charged With Mutilation —The Commissioners Say That Heroic Treat- ment is Necessary to Save Trees. | HE SHADE TREES OF WASHINGTON form one of the greatest attractions of the city, adding much to the beauty of the streets. Naturally they are zealously watched by citi- zens who are concerned in the welfare of the city. When trees are cut down there are com- plaints. Recently there has been much com-| plaint of the wrong, which the complainants as- | sert has been done the trees by injudicious trimming. It is asserted that the trees have been mutilated, robbed of their of beauty and in some cases practically destroyed. Of course t here are two sides to the question. ‘The parking commissioners say that what they have done has been necessary to preserve the treesand point out the conditions of growth in city streets, which render such treatment | ¥ claim necessary. But the two sides of the question will be found presented below. ‘The Complaint Against the Commuasion. Dr. R. U. Piper has taken up the cudgels for the trees. In a statement to Tut Stan he says: In an article headed “Attacks on the Public Parks” in the January Century devoted mainly to the Yosemite and Yellowstone Parks there are some general statements which apply as directly to the parks and as well aiso to the shade trees of this city. ‘The fight to prevent the injury and impair- mentof public parks, large and small, says the Writer, appears to be a perpetual one. There is always springing up some new persou or persons possessed with a craving, os absorbing as it is mysterious, to get into a park ef seme kind and to harm it in one way or another. If they, these parties, wish to cut down trees, they say they only desire to do so in order to improve the views, to open, vistas, &c. Opening vistas has long been the favorite device of park desolators all the way from New York exty to the Yosemite Valley, and is one of the most extreme and violent forms of park vandalwem ever invented. To begin with McPherson Park. What pos- sible reason could there be for the mutilation, 1 ongh the destruction, for that is sure to | the trees in this beautiful park? If t for the value of the many loads | wood which bave been taken from it, what was the inducement forthe unsightly work? Its said that whole trees (I was uot told how many) | Were tuxenin the night Hf this be the fact was it done with some idea that darkness was | the proper covering for such «foul deed? it} WoGui bave been far Letter if the mutilated Bees bad shared the fate of their fellows and xeen whoily taken away under the veil of ny trees under these conditions follow very nearly one course. varying somewhat in respect of time, depending aiso to sume extent upon the species of tree. Some of ihe soft wood trees, such as poplar m 1m new tops, but these tops be- | come vegetable moustrosities, having, in the of Baskin, none of the grace of | ree forme | At frst « great number of sprouts form | ‘round the mutilated stump aud grow for a time, Making « fruitless effort to unite with the nated wood. In the meantime, irom ex- posure to the elements, the etump becomes more or less decayed and the sprouis begin to L off, producing the most ragged, unsightly | Sppearance imaginable. Stili further in time tue whele of the top of the tree dies, leaving the ghastly naked arms pointing to the unpity- ing sky. Sometimes, where, as in the case of the trees alluded to as near iny own house, the top bas been cut down to two or three short stubs, it may develop some one or two shoots Which may live for some years with a black Sangrenous mass of decaying wood at the starting point of the shoot—e're long to die as my two have already done, and as the other is about todo. And here I remark that all over this city may be seen hundreds of trees, with irreguier detormed branches, with black’ gan- gFeuvus masses of decayed wood like that noticed above, and Swellings very like those | sometimes veen in cases of scrofulous bones in te buraan animal, and frequently also dead stamps whitened like a dried bone, which the, tree can in no way cover with living tissue. But certain honorable and learned gentlo- men say that the park is more beautiful now ‘haa it was when it was in a condition to afford those who pianted it Of course I can have no argument with such individuals. Sir Joshua ‘Reynolds says that some men see deformity as beauty and that there are those who are form blind ascolor blind. Again “they do ‘such things in Europe,” in Spain, perhaps, | without = ~ No this country, letus judi but oniy in two ‘They have also in Europe (torsos) used for the purpose instead of the hammer of the iconoclast. The park destroyers. it is said, have already begun to bury the statue, a foot or more of earth it is alleged having been piled abont the base. There is one thing more I wish to state in this connection on the authority of the gentle- men quoted above. It is said that in one street ix the city quite a number of years since the trees were cut as is being done now, and that they are in better form than’ they were at or near the time of their mutilation. Admitting this to be the fact, can the learned and scientific gentlemen who made the statement say that if they had been left untouched until the present moment and therefore had all theso years for additional growth they would not have been far in ad- vance of what they are at present? The object of planting trees in the public streets is, as I take it, largely for their shade and also for their beauty. Certainly had tke trees in the street alluded to not been eut there would have been much more shade from them now,in the time of shade, aud as to their beauty, when they are not covered with leaves, the branches are seen to be more or less badly deformed. But suppose that these trees at this present writing are better than they would have been had they not been cut, what right had or has any one thus to de- stroy the comfort and endanger the health of the inhabitants of the city for tome years while the new tops are forming in order that in some indefinite future the people then residing here might have better shade? How many years in the far future will it take before the blessed shade will come back to the once so beautiful How long will it take the noble dis- crowned trees on Pennsylvania avenue to form new branches so that as before in the long Weary days of summer their shadow may be felt aa a blessing? Itis admitted, I believe, that the trees in Washington have done a good deal to prevent the repetition of many like cases of serious or fatal sickness caused by or complicated with malaria, which, as I am told, were common in the early history of the city. There is, says the National Review, a monas- tery in the Campagna, without the gates of Kome, calied the Tree Fontane, where St. Paul Was executed. There the malaria is so deadly that, after long battling to retain their posses- sions of it, the old occupants had to withdraw, for the monks died in rapid succession and no constitution seemed to withstand the climate. ‘The Carthusians took it and began planting the neighborhood with trees, and now the whole scene is changed and the pestilence has abated. If these trees should happen to be treated like those in the McPherson’ Park how long would the malaria remain absent? A Boston physi- cian recently said to the writer that upon eut- ting down the trees on the opening of a new road in the country not far from the city some forty years ago there occurred many case malarious fever. No such disease had ever = known to exist in the neighborhood be- fore. Is it unreasonable to suppose that the de- struction of so many trees in various parte of the city might bring in the malaria, especially, perhaps, in those streets in which the trees have Leen almost entirely strij d of their leaf- bearing branches?) Pdf theirleat: THE PARKING comMrssION. The parking commission upholds most stren- uously the action in tree trimming. Mr. Wm. Smith is chairman of the commission, and be toa Star reporter sai Ve are cutting care- fully and deliberately. We have met and con- sulted on the matter, and came to the conclu- sion that immediate action was absolute necessary. Doth Mr. Saunders and Mr. Saul, my colleagues, are opposed to trimming: I am not. By and by it became plain to them that something had to be done to save a great many valuable trees, and as nothing but trimming could do that, why we commenced to trim. “People who geod admire trees without knowing anything about them do not sympa- thize with us. ‘Trees that are ordinarily the iongest lived have a comparatively brief exist. ence on the curb stone. The sugar maple, which attains to great age in the forest, will not grow on thecurb. The tulip poplar, one of the most beautiful of trees, rebels if placed on the sidewalk. On Rhode Island avenue the tulip poplars are drooping away, and it is ver; probable that within a few years they will have to be cut down entirely. Of the fifty kinds of trees we have on the streets there are several adapted to the situation, if trimmed, but if not trimmed they will not survive. Bricks and concrete and Belgian block cut off the supply of necessary nutriment. Anything grown in the Botanic Gardens in a pot must be brought into proper relations with the size of the pot or it will become unliealthy. “Had the trees been trimmed earlier there would have been less cutting. On streets here the trimming was commenced long ago nd kept up regularly we have the finest trees I street, for instance, or 3d street. I will admit that trees are not as picturesque after being severely cut at this season of the year, but the cutting has been done from necessity and not from choice. “Every influence seems to be against the suc- cessful growth of street trees; sewers, gas pipes and an ifinite variety of minor enemies are continually da the growth. ‘The conditions of the forest do not ‘obtain in the city. “Some comme! to do with that, so I may out rejudice. The-wekweedna oie we had permitted the trees we have been woul images from which some zealous | cutting to go untrimmed they would have died Sedona: qaallenan. portent hen testes toe ip five years. Ali of those that have been idea might be carried in the park and with the other : i teated are covered with, seale—proof absolute a z sare ae you before, Mr. Saunders is opposed to trim- ming. He has supervised all, or nearly all, of the work which has aroused so much comment from people who knew nothing about the gai grene, but who are thonghtlessly and inu- manely opposed to amputation.” Mr. Saunders, who is a member of the park- ing commission, stated his views briefly but emphatically in a letter to Engineer Comm sioner Rossell. Said he: “The trees that ai now being cut back are fall of scalo insects, which will certainly destroy the trees if some effort is not made to destroy the insecta. The practical method, herctofore quite effect- ual, is to reduce the branches #0 that the re- maining portions may be covered with white- wash. Some yearsago the trees on 3d street northwest, from Pennsylvania avenue to M street, were dying with this insect; these were cut an washed and are now healthy trees. “It is sometimes necessary to cut off a limb to save a life.” ——— THE HALL ROOM BOARDER, His Experienco With « Votary of the Piano and Vocal Exercises, From the New York Tribune. She was of uncertain age and thin and she could not get her piano up the boarding house stairs. So the cartman rigged up a tackle from the roof, put “Danger” cards on the side- walk and hoisted the dangling rosewood and ivory in through the window. The hall bed room boarder next door watched her arrival with mingled horror and curiosity. “I’mafraid she means business,” he remarked sententiously to the hall bed room boarder at the other end of the hall. “Some people have pianos for ornament, but nobody h’ists up a pianner with & pulley unless they mean business.” That afternoon the piano tuner arrived, and when he went away the owner started in, rav- ished the ears of the hall bed room boarder with a steady stream of melody from 4 o'clock till dinner time, and after that she hung to the keys until 11:15 And every time she trod on the loud pedal the hail bed room boarder fairly shook in his bed. The next day the musical arrival devoted her- self to vocal exercises. “She has a new system,” explained the hall bed room boarder, who had taken it in through the key-hole. “She stands off in the middle of the floor and takes . “How do you mean?” asked the old gentle- man from the second floor who had come up in his dressing gown and carpet slippers to dis- cuss the situation. “I mean she loads up with a page of music, ‘and then stands off and peppers the piano with big and little notes.” “It’s worse than cats,” added the hall bed room boarder sadly, as he turned in. ‘The next morning was Sunday, and at 8 o'clock the new boarder was at the piano. She kindly omitted scales and exercises, and worked off “Consider the Lilies.” ‘The hall bed room boarder next door dressed with feverish haste. A moment later he knocked at bis neighbor's joor. “I beg pardon for disturbing you,” he said, when she appeared, “but I have a trifling favor to ask; I notice you have been singing ‘Consider the Lites.” I want to ask if you won't sing the companion song, ‘Consider the Hall Bed Room Boarder.” It's asking a good desl, but the whole houseloid is interested in your music. “You're impertinent, sir.” she said angrily, slamming the door in the applicant's face, and again the flow of melody began. After dinner, just as the boarders were be- ginning to stroli upstairs, a pale, determined- looking woman hurried down to the landlady. “1 wish my bill immediately,” she said in excited way. “You are not going to leave on Sunday,” re- Marked the astonished mistress of the house- ig 1am. Iwill send for my piano tomorrow, if you will have the dynamite taken out.” ‘ gasped the laudiady. ‘Exactly. ‘There's # notice on my piano which says that enough dynamite has been Placed under the keys at © major to blow me a mile and three-quarters. I tiptoed around and ked up the few things I had out and now ‘m going. Youhavea miserable house and a horrid, hateful crowd of people,” and the musi- cian snapped her pocketbook’ on the change and flounced out, leaving the landlady bewil- | dered and speechiess. But far upstairs a form was leaning over the fourth-story banisters and an excited whis} came down: “ley, Wilkinson, how did it work?” —_-e-____ ‘The Last Gun, From the Clothier and Furnisher. “This, then, Miss Grassneck,” said the young man, as he started for the door, “is your final decision?” “It is, Mr. Wicklugge,” said the young girl firmly. “Then,” he replied, his voice betraying an unnatural calmness, “ more ~ onda ess, “there is but one “What is that?” she aske absent with the lobe of her shell-ike coe “It is this,” he muttered—“shall I return those black satin sus rill you have them now/P nur BY mail oF wi Wool—' was physic to the dogs’”” ‘an Pelt—“Don't remember the name; some fellow whose wife had one, likely.”"—Brooklyn Husband—“Smikeson's wife is and Pm ae over there this evening 1o cheer him ‘ife—“Why don’t bring him here?” Husband—"Well—ar—T'm not feeling very Bins Fork Wea.” MADE 9D mle "— COLLEGE WOMEN. They Prefer Studies That Men are Begin- ning to Neglect. From the London Spectator. It is curious to note that the form of educa- tion which women seem just now most anxious to obtain is almost purely literary. Ata time when men are loudly complaining that Oxford and Cambridge have almost cut themselves off from the active life of the country, and that by neglecting the practical study of law, medicine, surgery and technical production they have resolved themselves into what would be called at a continental university a gigantic ‘faculty of arts,” women are crowding to theso discredited in- stitutions and eagerly taking up the aban- doned “arts” as the Intest and most complete form of intellectual life open to them. While men are beginning to assert that they can no longer afford the luxury of a university educa- tion, that they must leave that either to the men of leisure or the future schoolmasters and teachers, women turn to it as perhaps the most practical opening left to them. Perhaps they are right. It is not impossible that in time women’s hands may have a great share in the higher secretarial and educational work of the country. But there isno form of opin- ion more fluctuating than the views of women as to their place and possibilities in life. ‘The change of from that of household usefulness at the end of the last century to elegant usefulness at the beginning of the present century has been succeeded by astrong bins toward literature and culture, It is not impossible that this may in turn be replaced by an experiment in women’ abilities in the technical instruction which is coming on as the practical balance to the literary ty of the last few years. Some of the most fasci- nating, and not the least remunerative, of the miner arts, such as wood carving, designing ‘and house decoration, are already taught with singular success omen, and the de- mand of the county councils for lady instruc- torsin household management, and even in scientific dairy work, has already outstripped the available supply. Here, then, is a fresh opening for women’s intellects when the liter- ury field becomes too crowded, which has iu its favor that it tends to place women once more in control of the comforts and conveniences as well as of the social elegance of daily life. —_——_+e2____ “SOAPY” SMITH’S CLOSE CALL. The “Louisiana Kid Went Gunning for Him With Blood in His Eye. Greede (Col.) Spectal to Denver News. There was considerable excitement in Jim- town last evening, caused byagun play in which several parties were interested and sev- eral others mixed up. A young man known i the camp as “Louisiana Kid” went into “Soapy” Smith's place, and, after losing some money on the games, made a big kick and re- ceived a blow over the head from the butt of a six-shooter for his trouble and was fired out of the place. Thinking he had been abused he laid in wait for Soapy’s outfit and as soon as couple of them showed up he opened up on them with his gun. They returned his fire and then the shooting became general. After the gun play was over it was found that Soapy's manager had both thumbs shot off, a ball through his arm and a slight wound in the body. The “Louisit Kid” received three balls, one in the head and the other two in the body. He then made good his escape and up to date nothing has been heard of him. Last seen of him he passed through Waterous and Banni- gan's saloon and took up Wason’s toil rond toward Wagon Wheel gap. Soapy’s manager was taken away from the camp on the train tod: ‘The affair is trying to be hushed up by th tin horns and the gambling fraternity of th camp. The: ‘eport current to the effec that if the affrays are not stopped all of the gamblers will be run outof thecamp. The promiscuous shooting came very near causing the death of one of the peaceful citizens of the camp. John Kepper, who is about to start a restaurant in tho camp, was sitting in a build- ing across the street anda ball came through the building and cut off both thé rear legs of the chair he was sitting on and,caused him to suddenly find himself on the floor very much to his rise discomfort report thata man was bung on the school land this evening caused nearly all the camp to rush down there, but it turned out to be merely a fake to draw the people down there by the rs, and merely an effigy of a nan. —_—_—<eo—__—. “The charge against you, Mr. Kiljordan,” said the police magistrate, ‘locking at him sternly over his spectacles, ‘is that of loud, boisterous and profane swearing on the public streets of, this city. Have you anything to "Thad just Porgeed bill for ‘Nothing, “ I want you to run fo the aroggiat’s and get me some “Would you mind gib'n me « “I gave the money, didn't I/” rei Paar cee ea wi Souresh down AMUSEMENTS. AtBavon's.—There is BO operatic artist now on the mable wo drow ost fe, much that is cultured and refined Agnes Hun: wi baueh's Grand Ops House Mon, ight in “Paul "es itifal opera comique otto, the euthor of the “Chimes of iy.” Aside from her social standing, Huntington ‘scmes’ Sih lena aon comes higher merit than usually ‘come under the generality of comic costumes, magnificent scenery, catchy rausic, combined with » remarkably ‘clever comedy #5. George- The popularity of Mr. Josef Kaspar, the conductor of the orchestra, was fally manifested by the applause when be made his appearance and waved his baton to com- Ban e the attention of his force, and the control over his musicians was proved by thelr perfect obedience to his movements the “Raymond” overture, with which the pro- gram opened, there was observed aprecisionand Unity of work that was highly commendable and indicated the careful rehearsals that had been given. The Haydn symphony in G, which was one of the most ambitio: orchestra bas attempt zation to properly inter} verest or Two mov ballet music of “(Rosamund isfaction experienced im that which had gone before, and the “Blue Danube” waltz com- | pleted'the work of the orchestra, The appear- ‘ance of Miss Leonora von Stosch in her first | violin solo, Sarasate’s “Ziguener Wiesen,” was the signal ‘for an enthusiastic welcome, and when she finished the onstration was even more pronounced. The favorable impression this young woman created when she made her { first appearance in this, her native city, after |her return from Europe was confirmed and emphasized by her work last night. She proved herself a thorough artist and a brilliant future is predicted for her. Both after her Sarasate sofo and when she had finished her Wieniwoski numbe: received such prolonged applause | that she was obliged to respond to the demand |for more. Miss Leta Stakely was the other | soloist and sang the Indian Bell song from Lakme with excellent effect, getting a deserved core. Miss Lotta Mills was the accompanist avd performed that difficult task in a compe- tent manner. Kernay’s Lycevm Taeater.—Eva Ray Ham- ilton, whose name is familiar to all who recall the sensation in which she was the chief actor, has proved a highly acceptable card to the Howard Big Burlesque Company, the attrac- tion at Kernan’s Lyceum Theater next week. She was engaged by Miaco and Marin at an un- usually large salary, and has proved equal to all the requirements. She sustains the role of Chew You Haley in the burlesque on “Blue Jeans” very cleverly. She is supported by many burlesquers, vivacious vocalisteand terpsi- chorean artists. “The burlesque is replete with new songs, musio and dances, including “The Lantern Gavotte” and the “Barefoot Polka,” and is magnificently staged and intelligently interpreted. Pert, pretty and piquant Polly Holmes and jolly, fuany Harry Morrie. figure conspicuously in an original and amusing first part ,entitled, ‘’The Donkey Party.” The How- ard is noted for the excellence of its olio,which is interspersed with a new series of Matt Mor- gan’s living statues. Mae. Tavany's Coxcert.—Tomorrow (Sun- day) night there will be a grand concert at Al- baugh’s Opera House, the company being heatied by Mme. Basta Tavary, whose excellent work here with the Minnie Hauk opera troupe will be well remembered. Her voice is pure and true and she sings with cultivated taste and a perfect confidence in her powers. She will bo assisted by Miss Florence, contralto; Signors Guarini, tenor, and Wsini, baritone, and Senor Ceruelos, a pianist who has met with remarkable success wherever he has peared. The program will be carefully ranged, embracing selections from the wor ot Verdi, Baito, Gounod, Tosti and others. The prices for this concert will be of the popular order and the box office will be open from 11 m. tomorrow, when thoee who have not al- ready secured seats may do so. Acapemy or Music.—John L. Stoddard has charmed his Washington admirers all this week, who have turned out in numbers sufticient to crowd the Academy of Music every evening. On the first three evenings of next week he will complete his story of travel in Mexico. Be- ginning with a sojourn in the Mexican capital he will continue his explorations by a visit to the tropics under the shadows of the now slumbering or extinct volcanoes, Iztaccihnatl and Popocatopetl. On ‘ihursday, Friday and Saturday evenings and at the Saturday matinee Ar. Stoddard’s subject will be “Jerusalem and the Holy Land.” ‘Lhis lecture, suggested by the exceoditigly popular Passion Play lecture Jast_yeur, has proved one of the most widely attractive of amy in his repertoire. In its progress Mr. Stoddard takes occasion to say a few strong words in appreciation of the Jews, who have been for 0 many years so persecuted in various lands. The illustrations for both these lectures, it is claimed, are especially beautiful and helpful TON SypHONY ORcnEsTRA.—The next concert of theBoston Symphony Orchestra will take place at the Congregational Church on Wednesday evening. when that superb organiza- tion wili present a program that Mr. Nikisch, its conductor, believes will fully equal any ever played in this city. The orchestra will be as- sisted by Eugene D’Albert, the renowned piano virtuoso, who will play as one of hisnumbers""The Emperor Concerto,”by Beethoven. D’Albertis now acknowledged to be the greatest living ex- ponent of Beethoven, and his playing has e cited the greatest enthusiasm in Europe and in this country. Seats may now be secured at ia Coxcrrt Toxtont.—A concert will be given Garten in Georgetown in connection with St John’s Church. Miss Leonora von Btosch, vio- linist, whose work at the Georgetown Orchestra concert last night aroused such enthusiasm, Miss Amy Hare, pianist, and Miss Florence Griswold, harpist, will be the leading attrac- tions, while several vory well-known amateurs R - will ven certainly deserves the most liberal encourage. ment. Miss THER: Vavarax.—Next season Miss ‘Theresa Vaughan will appear in an original comedy~trama depicting life among the pe: antry of Switzerland in the dual role of a ‘yrolean guide and a maid of the Alps. She will be supported by an excellent company and in addition will present a scene on the Tyrol, with @ sextet of native warblers to accompany her in her songs and yodels. She will open her season in this city. St. Parnice’s Day.—There will be a grand concert at Masonic ‘Temple for the benefit of St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum. The best musical talent in the city, including Signor and Mune. Maina, Mrs. D. L Murphy, Mr. Costellé, Mr. L. E. Gannon and others will participate in the program, which will be one of the most com. plete that has ever been presented in this city. there will be several large choruses by the choirs of the different Catholic churches led by their different directors. The object of the concert is a worthy one, the tim selected is ap- propriate and the enterprise promises to bee success in every respect. Harnts’ ou THEATER.—“The World Against Her,” an attraction that has met with enthusiastic approval elsewhere, comes to Har- * Bijou Theater next Monday uight for » week's engagement. The play is Harvey, author of “The Wages of Sin” and “Woman Against Woman.” It is a melodrama which presents astory of deep interest with strongly drawn characters English tite. Miss Wallace Villa, the star, takes the role of Madge Cariton, a 'young wife who is wrongly suspected by her husband and separ- ated from him by divorce. Her child is stolen from her and she finds herself homeless and friendless in the slums of London. She finds the protection of a poor but warm-hearted and honest family. The story is told in five acta, the culminating eplsode being the meeting af the husband and the villain who has broken ap his home and the settling of old scores then and there by a stand-up fight. ‘The play is fall of action, the company is spoken of in terms of Praise, Miss Villa being especially commended, and the scenery is beautiful and elabo: At Nouwoop Ixstrrurz.—Archdeacon spoke last evening toa large and cultured Institute, telling of Spain and giving an that ban yd | aged iw opera titles. Pretty | of the Wm. Cooper; inventory re- turned. Estate of Perry O. stk petition for administration filed. Estate of Sarah Jane Forrest; petition for probate filed. Estate of Ross; will admitted to probate and mentary issued to Irving William- son; bond $1,000. Estate of Elizabeth A. Town- send; lettets of administration c. t. a. to R. Srl- vester; bond $6,000. te of Ella 8. Coch- ran; ion d.b. n. to George Estate of Elizabeth T 3, Detition for letters of administration filed. Estate of Bernard Fitzpatrick; will ad- mitted to probate and letters testamentary to Mary Fitzpatrick; bond $2,600. Estate of James F. Baden; answer to rule and show cause filed. Estate of Harriet Le Conte; petition for probate of will filed. Estate of George F. Shafer; do. Estate of Isabella Steer; do. Es- tate of Eliza Ann Bray; do. In re Casper Her- bert; Thos. M. Fields appointed guardian; bond $10,000. LEFT A STA! ON HIS NAME, Charges Against Arthur KR. Blood, the Wealthy Lampblack Manufacturer. Since the death of Arthur R. Blood, the wealthy young inventor of lampblack, rumors have been current about irregularities and forgery in his business. It is said he took es certificate of stock of the Crew Levick Com- pany, refiners of Philadelphia, of which firm ho was member, to the Courier Company, Buffalo, N. ¥., and had » copy lithographed exactly the same as the original. except that it was daged Warren, Pa., instead of Phila- delphia. He took it to New York, it was said, to his sellers of lampblack, Binney & Smith, and had them float it on the market $50,000 worth. He had €97,500 worth of Crew Levick Company stock as collateral at Warren with the Citizens’ National Bank foraloan. Tie bank sold the stock at auction March 4 and it only brought $6,000, people fearing it was « forgery. Blood, it is reported, gave indemnitying bonds for £80.00, signed James McDade an: A. R. Blood, to secure loans at Smethport, Pa. McDade's name on these are said to be forger- ies. McDade found it out and sent an ofticer after Blood. He was to have been arrested on the night he died. ‘The administrator of the Blood estate will ay no more Blood papef, which causes a great loss to many people who hold it. Nearly all Blood’s life insurance, which amounted to nearly $100,000, is payable to his wife, so the creditors cannot touch it. Young Blood was formerly a resident of Erie, Pa., and the son of Col. E.R. Blood. He was “studious young man, fond of his books and highly regarded. ness induced him to indoor pursuits, though he took a boy's active interest in all manly sports. He went to Cor- nell University and gained the esteem of all those who knew him there. He left the uni- versity before his course was completed in order to look after the extension of nis lamp- black interests. He soon became very wealthy, ‘as he had a valuable process. No one who was well acquainted with him can believe that he was anything but honorable in his dealings. ———-e-______ ‘Two Human Brutes. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Petty, who went to Peoria, Ill, recently from Memphis, were ar- rested Thursday on charge of cruelty to a child which they claim is their own. The child is nine years old, and the Pettys have forced her to peddle, and according to the child's story if she did not sella named amount they Practiced the most inhuman tortures on her. When assured that would be shielded from Petty and his wife the child said they frequently tied her up by the thumbs and severely beat her. Then they would burn her arms and legs with a red-hot er and rub salt into the sores. Her little body is a mass of burns, kicks and bruises from head to foot. Petty and his wife attempted to escape from the city, but were intercepted and arrested. The woman kad $300 sewed up in her dress, and they pawned diamonds valued at over tonight at the Shoreham inaid of a free kinder. | 7 £1,000 to get money to escape. It is presumed these diamonds were stolen. There is intense feeling in Peoria against the brutes, aud they were removed to the jail for safe keeping. Se ae Bishop Brooks and the Scientists, From the Boston Herald One of the strangest happenings of the past fow days was the meeting, after Sunday morn- ing service, on the very steps of Trini ty Chureb, of two old friends, @ local Presby- terian clergyman and a professor of science in one of our New England universitios. “You here?” exclaimed the clergyman in astonishment. “Who'd have thought it?” ‘And what of yoursel: was the professor's iet reply. “‘Have I no title to besurprised?” “No doubt you have,” said the clergyman, “but the neod of explanation seems at least greater iy your case than in mine. Ministers are frequent visitors to Trinity, but scien- “Ah!” interrupted the professor, “you are thinking of our old talks about religion and science. In those daysI used to think that they had littie or nothing in common. Now I know better. And why do I like to hear Bishop Brooks? It is because I find in his teaching all the fundamental truths that are dear tome. At first he seemed to mo to be one who, profoundly versed in scientific knowledg attained the power of his art as a preacher by translating that knowledge ological terms. But reflection showed the unsoundness of this view, and now I care rather to think of him as a seer who leaps b. kind of inspiration to the truths which we sc: entists find out by slow experiment and labori- oug reasoning processes, “For every scientific principle that I know Bishop Brooks gives me a religious one, and when the difference of terms is taken into ac- count the two seem identical. Thus the late pastor of Trinity is continually reminding me that the doctrines once thought religious only are aiso scientific in character, and that there isacommon groundon which both are true. What—to take only a single example—could be more beautiful than the way in which Bishop Brooks teaches the interdependence of men, and the truth that the largest life of each can ; | cofe, M. and’ T. —— ‘Maryland Conference of the United Brethrea for Treasure—Notes, Ourreapoadence of The Evening Star ‘Mon., March 11, 1892. ‘The Maryland conference of the United Brethren church in annual session at Walker- Ville, this county, is rapidly pushing through ite routine work and will probably hear the ap- Pointments and adjourn tomorrow, when the nual seasion of the Woman's Missionary So- ciety of the church will be held. Bishop EB. Kephart of Johnstown, Pa., assumed the chair at the opening of the conference Thursday morning and Conducted devotional exercises. The Rev. W. L. Martin of Myersville, this County, was re-elected secretary of the confer- ence, and a motion prevailed that the bishop appoint the standing committeo, which he did. Kev. W. L. Martin wae appointed chairman on memorials and the uamesot Revs. B. F. Cronise, J. Guinn, J. Harp, D. D. Keedy, M. A. Kira- H. Leon, F. H. Snell, E. G. Steller K. Wine were favorably passed. A motion was offered that the her. Mr. Wine, formerly of Chicago, Ohio, begranted a transfer to unite with any cenference he may see fit, and the motion carried. The report of Pre- siding Elder A. M. Evers of this district was read and passed. The report shows a gratify- ing condition of affairs among the churches of the district and decided growth. A number of new churches have been built and several church debts have been canceled. The after- Boon session yesterday and thove of today have been occupied with the hearing of reports of committees, examination of candidates and the general routine of conference work. Each evening public devotional exercises are held, which are largely attended. The ministerial and lay delegates to the conference number about fifty and they are being entertained at the homes of the hospitable people of Walker- ville. An effort has beon made recently by the peo- ple living in the vicinity of the Sugar Loaf mountain to find a treasure of €14,000 in guid sovereigns, which are alleged tobe buried some- Where in the mountains, said to have been placed there many years’ ago by a German by ‘the name of Goodmanson Barker, who worked at the old Koblenberg glass works near Adame- town, this county, long since out of existence. The money, according to the tradition, is buried in # lead box in an iron pot with » flag- rit, by the side of a chimney with a peach tree planted over it. So confident a ople of the neighborhood of the existence treasure that many of them have re- peatediy made efforts to find it, several having used magnets suspended by a cord, hoping to attract it to the spot. Several old wills have been unearthed by Mr. ©. C. Waters in the register of wills office here within the past f¢w days, while engaged in an effort to trace the records of the Crail estate. One of these old documents isthe will of Chri tian Crall, bearing date of February 14, 174, and the bequests which it contains serve as an illustration of the primitive condition of the | people of this county at that time and the hum- le Circumstances in which many of them lived. To one daughter Crall left £31 and 12 shillings: to a son, 2shillings and 6 pence. Another daugh- ter got 4 milch cow, an iron pot, a pewter ket- tle and a copper tea kettle, and ‘to yet another daughter he bequeathed 12 shillings, a cow, feather bed anda pewter plate. Another will is that of Nicholas Crall, dated 1820, which be- queaths to his wife the use of the apples in Lis orchard. The Catoctin iron furnace, situated three miles south of Mechanicstown, this county, one of the oldest industries of the kind in the country, has recently gone out of blast and will be likely to remain so indefinitely, pend- ing negotiation for their sale to a syndicate of Virginia capitalists. ‘The congregation of St. James’ Lutheran Church of this city, founded several years ago and for some time presided over by the late Hev. George Diehl, D.D., held a congregational meeting last night and extended a uuanimous call to the Rev. G. C. H. Harekarl of Beaver Falls, Pa., formerly of Herkimer, N.Y. He las intimated his intention to accept. Gov. Brown of Maryland recently issued a proclamation calling upon the people of the state toaidin the efforts being made in this country to send assistance to the starving peasants of Russia. In response to this appeal the pupils of the Maryland School for the Deaf, this city. numbering about 100, have raised a handsome contribution and sent it to Mayor Latrobe of Baltimore. ‘The signs of reviving life along the Chesa- Peake and Ohio canal ate greeted with delight y all in those sections of this county through which the canal passes. It is believed that traffic on the canal will be even more ex- tensive than last year, and a scason of marked Prosperity is looked forward to. ‘The favorable report of the committee of the Honse of Representatives on the bill to repay to Frederick the sum of $200,000 wrung from itas a ransom by the confederate general,Jubal Early, in 1864, ‘has given the over-burdened taxpayer of this city reason to hope that the bill may be taken up and passed. Efforts will be made shortly by the municipal euthorities and others to assist Congressman Mckaig in bringing this about, which, if accomplished, will, as many claim, be nothing more than & tardy act of justice to a county that remained loyal to the Union and gave ite means aud ite best blood to the common cause. : There has never before been so much ac- tivity in the Frederick grain market as within the past two weeks, and enormous shipments have been made from this pont. In one day recently 12,000 bushels of wheat were brought here by farmers from the surrounding coun- try,the large four and six horse teams blocking the strects for squares while waiting to be unloaded at the ware houses. So great as the dritt of wheat and other grain toward Freder- ick as a solling and shipping point that a move- ment is on foot to buiid a grain clevator, and “company bas been organized for that’ pur- pose. Wheat has been bringing here from 96 to 98 centsand $1 per bushel, and clover seed is just now worth its weight in gold. —— NEWS FEOM KOCKVILLE. Matters of Interest in This Thriving Mary- land City. Correspondence of The Evening Star. Rocxviixe, Mp., Mareh 11, 1892. The officers of the Home Building Associa- tion of Rockville were elected a few years ago. The following is a list: President, James F. Allen; vice president, Albert J. Almoney; secre- tary, Charles W. Prettyman; attorney, H. Maurice Talbott; directors, James F. Allen, A. J. Almoney, H.C. Fields, E. M. West, J. M. Heagy, W. W. Welsh, Cooke D. Luckett. Mr. Otto Klatt of Philadelphia, Pa., bas taken charge of the United States fishway at Poto- mac, Md. Mr. Klatt represents Messrs. J. H. Hathaway & Co., the contractors. Mr. M. J. Matlack, the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph operator at Rockville, is dangerousiy ill. Prof. Hezekiah Trail of Rockville has organ- ized a singing school of twenty-seven scholars at Travilab, Md. Mr. J. M. Davis died on Tuesday last at bis home near Goshen, aged fifty-seven yeara, ‘Mr. Levi A. Tabler of the first district has been drawn asa juror for next (March) term of courtin place of Mr. L. J. Moore, excused; come only by the 0-0 n with the life of all? Of course you will find this in Her- bert Spencer, but who. would expect to find it also in Philli ke?” thena mere boy, planted four walnuts by the roadside opposite his father’s house in the Mr. 'W. Burns of the twelfth’ district place of Sir. Wm. E- Waters, are Mr. Albert Allen has entered into contract with Mr. John —_ Harris to build a band- Fr. . Harris’ farm, about two Capt. Cutler a visit with some friends Great Falls, Md on Sunday last, "The captain, ‘The Unity Club, The Unity Club held ite ninth regular meeting st the residence of Hon. R. W. Fen- wick, No. 1303 N street northwest. There was @ large attendance of members and invited eleventh civil district, near Cedar Bluff and some ten miles west of Knoxville. He died ten years ago, yet he lived to see four walnut trees grov to © measure of four fect in diameter, worth, if cat and $400 each. f He f j i il f § 1890. “Woassxerors- 1880. CAPITAL INVESTED 7 MERCANTILE INTEREST. DID YOU THINK THIS? *28,S70,038 INVESTED CAPITAL @5.527,598 2,300 NUMBEROF ESTABLISHMENTS. 670 3.477 NUMBEK OF HANDS EMPLOYED. @.168 814,638,790 WAGES PaID. (68.024 619 WE as ONE OF THESE OFFER 90c. rarzsrams canrers 55c.vanm ‘These Carpets were not in our grest saleat #259 conte, butare bargains of greater value ‘than the others, and as we only have 85 rele ‘We think it your interest to secure ome ef the ‘beet values in Carpets ever offered, ve VE LEFT G tolls ot Tapestries of our inst ad- AQ 1S "88 of 780. Body Brussels. Your op ‘Vortisement at... Portunity will soon be gone on these good. WE sold every remnant of our Se. Matting, iso the 10c, Matting, but we bave placed on sale, to Keep Our word, this till Seturdey, as Promised, 1 F ths of Matting, worth 250,, ron 150. ven ranp. Wi in —Panox Sorres— WE SHALL OFFER TO YOU 43 FOLLOWS: $125.00 xow $75.00, $130.00 xow $77.50, $125.00 sow $72.50, THESE SUITES ARE FOR YOUR INSPECTION, W.. H. Hovozrox Mro. Co. 218-1220 F STREET &. W. a Nexr Weex Siorsoann Ware YOU MAY EXPECT Lawexse Repvcrioxs Our Lace Curtain Sale is the commentef ‘those who have made it their BUSINESS TO LOOK aND COMPARE Ove $22 sep noom scrve ram BEST VALUE IN THE CITY. Ove $39.60 sev noon sorre STILL MEETS WITH THE APPROVAL OF aLl INTERESTED. THESE ARE GREAT SUITER We have Fine Goods, but Are desirous oa . ‘All classes of trade, And trust # may be your pleasure to ovaih yourself ef these special opportunities.