Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1892, Page 9

FOR THE SUMMER. GIRL The Fashions That Will Make Her Bewitching This Season. THE LONG SKIRT FAD. Dresses Will Not Be Curtailed, but the Pet- tleoats Will Be Bewildering—Hats and Gowns for the Heated Term—Outdoor Cos- tumes—Style in Bangs. ‘Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. New Yorx, June 3, 1892. HIS 18 THE ONE time of the whole year more interesting than all others to women in the matter of dress. The spring styles are just being put off and the sum- mer styles are just about to be put on. ‘That means a deal of anxiety to the wearer of fashionable gar- ments, no matter whether she be rich enough to buy what- ever she fancies or whether she be poor enough to have to count all the cents she spends. To the nm who has simply to go and order her hes, and to the one who has to make her own appare! June is alike the most important month ¢ depiction of sum raiment in this article, by means of drawings d text, and that which is to follow from week week. may be depended upon as the freshest illustrated news in fashions. It is one thing to give the styles as planned by foreign designers, * but which may never come into American wear at all, and quite another to set forth with pen and peneil the garments actually made up to leg for the most modish women in New York. tter method is the one here adopted, and so the representations of toilets for June, July and August are not conjectural, but absolutely trustworthy. The first two pictures are of June women in town and the other three are of women as they will be at the summer resorts, LACE AND CLOTH MANTELET. Don’t fancy the summer girl is a thing of the Past because you have not heard of her of late. She is in training, that is all, and she is going to be more fetching and taking and all-around- ing than ever. Maybe you think this new fad of long skirts with a drag behind is going to interfere with the general fitness of her for the country. Notabit of it! She is going to wear bewildering petticoats, not of silk. not she. but of scarlet, navy blue or striped colors,and then the skirts will have rows of brai and they will be a bit shorter than the dresses used to be. Meanwhile, her train will be «till longer than the average girl's: long enough to be picked up and slung over her arm, and—a new bewitchment—long enough to be drawn through her belt, thereby leaving the arms free. Her dress skirt, you see. won't be fastened down toa lining. “It will hang soft and loose over this petticoat, and it will gather into all sorts of piquant folds when it is drawn up over the arm or through the belt. No, she won't be like a tub: the summer gir! never is like a tub. no matter what she does or wears. On her nice, dear little feet she will wear sensible shoes with low heels and rubber soles. You see the long skirt relieves her of the old necessity for high- heelers, and when the skirt ix lifted—well, you are so dazzled by the petticoat! Of course there is something more eatchy about a petti- ¢oat than about a regular @ress skirt. Thus does fashion add to the possibilities of the summer girl, as have all fashions since the summer girl first evoluted. She has a new no- tion for the shirt waist. Say what you will the shirt waist was a bit inclined to bulge forth, even when the nicest pocket was worn, and the Gordon sash was not all it should have been. Now the summer girl will ‘have a broad knit striped belt—so broad it will come up to just below the breast line. The lower edge of the belt will be securely sewed tothe skirt band, all neat and shipshaps. It will go on with the skirt and fasten with it, Sometimes it will lace at the side: then the skirt opens there and laces down, too, to just ove: the hip. The shirt waist is made very clove in the back. so as to have no “bag” ovr the edge of this bodice girdle. and in the front it is drawn under the trim close-fitting girdle and is loose only above, where it looks as it should. The arms are ali free. Even the coat can be dispensed with, and the girl is trim and ready for anything, which two charms are difficult to accomplish at one and the same time. All this for the rowing, tramping, yachting girl. ‘A DREAM BY MOONLIGHT. The hammock, garden-party, piazza-by- moonlig’t girl is going tobe a dream. The new gowns are just inher line exactly. and streamers will float from her in all directions, and she will be harder to get away from than ever, for at ever turn of the wind those streamers will entwine you, and itis so bard to get un- tangled, and it is the ears old story. Everything helps the summer girl, and every e is removed from the happy summer man to make the escape he does uot want to make. STYLES IN Baxas. There is another thing that the summer girl wili do. The styles in bangs have changed so often that she finds herself with ber hair all engths. Now, even if it curls, and particularly and over it all will go the, never-to-be-given-up visor yachting cap, and’ behold that same cap, which when she first stole it from her brother seemed just the climax of fascination, now puts forth new shoots of de- liciousness, and you might as well give up at once to the summer girl. This same scarf she can wear under any other hat, and if it is very becoming she will tarn it intoa it head dress, knotting it just above the best curl in her bang and letting two cocky little ends stick up, and there she is? This best curl is being much cultivated. Iknow a clever girl who paints hers; yes, just that. She has put her hair back from her forehead and she does not want to cut it again, so down in the middle of her brow she painted a curl, and she painted it so well that in the evening or back under her hat brim and through her veil no one would suspect. She says she is going to use oil paint in the summer and then she can go in bathing and the curl will stay. Won't the other girls just hate her. though. Speaking of bathing, no more corsets this coming season under the bath suit, but instead a Jersey bodice, good and double thick from waist to breast line. Above that to the low- neck topitis thinner but firm. It tees all the wayy down. The figure is thus held firm and close and the waist can even be drawn ina little. Except for this, bath suits will be as they were, only a little more so, or rather less, to. be exact. Oh, don't fret about this season. The summer girl will be all there. FoR ovTpoons. The initiab illustration pictures a very stylish make-up for an outdoor costame in woolen ma- terial. The basques are sewed on to the waist and are made with pleats, but not gathered at the waist. They flare at the back and show the folds of the skirt. The corsage fronts cross as indicated. The corselet may be of surah or bengaline in a lighter shade. It is set off with a butterfly knot. The lace mantelet with beige cloth tabs,shown ina second drawing, is a showy but refined garment,original in make-up. The tabs and yoke are repeated at the back, the openings front and back being filled as indi- cated with long pearled fringe. The tabs are embroidered with jet and edged with pearl beads. A Valois collar and bows of ribbon on the shoulders complete this handsome garment. The third illustration presents a pretty indoor gown with a bell-shaped skirt. The Swiss belt ma: be embroidered either with black or gold braid. Its ends cross at the back. The plastron is in colored embroidery, but a very pretty effect may be attained with pleated surah. The revers start from the shoulder seam. Tilustration No. 4 pictures a charming re- ception dress in blue gray, trimmed with lace and gold bead galloon, made up in princess style and -lined with merveilleux. The side hooks under the broad flat Watteau pleat. which is attached to the dress only as far as the waist line, below which it falls freely. It is hooked at the neck and is lined with silk. The gathered lace collarette is sewed on reversed and fast- ened in front with fancy pins. The corsage front has no seam and is draped as indicated, the sleeves being draped in the same style and ornamented with a lace cascade and lace frills. ‘The gallon starts from the Watteau pleat and is fastened to the skirt. Of the group portrayed in the last picture the seated figure displays an outdoor gown in woolen check, the skirt, which hooks to the waist, being garnitured, as shown, with a ruche and two rows of lace. he corsage has but one dart and is gathered af, the waist. There is a lace bertha and lace ruche for the collar. The princess gown of fhe standing figure isa gray serge and has no seam in the middle. ‘The gores are hidden by braid or galloon. An em- broidered yoke and embroidered cuffs: serve to. OUTDOOR DRESSES. set off this stylish gown. The dress worn by the little miss has a skirt gathered on the waist and ornamented with passementerie and nar- row velvet ribbon. The waist hooks at the back and is ornamented with ribbon braces and there is a velvet belt tied as indicated. ———_+e2—____ The Profiem of the City Dog. To the Editor of The Evening Star: The hot days are here and the dog problem is being considered more actively than ever in all its complex bearings. In the first place there are, unquestionably, too many dogs in Wash- ington, I think a hundred, perhaps, where there should be one (and that one: always of pure stock). But is tlie present system of dog- catching with all its attendant violence and dis- tress to those who witness and those who suffer the loss, making the number of dogs less in the city of Washington? I tell youno. Itis draw- ing from the spigot while pourit gin at the bung, to reverse the old adage. A law passed and enforced preventing the increase of the canine population would soon settle the dog juestion. While the people are free to permit Sicér increase, ed lkitem, there ie no. hope. The dog-catching establishment helps but does not mend matters. Just here a little sentiment may be pardonable. People who do not m are too apt to thimk of dogs as dogs “with a big, big D.” This morning the fatat wagon invaded one out-of-the way corner of the to who serves us with beautiful, honest milk and cream saw both of her fine dogs (2 i it and driven away. I tell you many tears ai prayers followed the splendid mastiff ‘Lassie’ id the beautiful imported Scotch collie Watch,” for they are general favorites all along their route, where it is their daily morning duty to watch the wagon and mind the horse while their energetic mistress goes from house tohouse. She has a sick husband and little children and these devoted dumb creatures are like human friends to her, so dearly does she love them. But about the foregoing suggestion, viz.: prevention as the solution of the problem of the city dog. If the proper per- sons would take the matter up and push it for- ward toa successful issue they would confer a lasting benefit on the public. I think our dog fanciers’ associations should be able to supply suitable persons for this work. An article from ime to time by veteritary surgeons or. experi- exced dog lovers, containing directions for the care of dogs, both in health and sickness, would do much to prevent the mad-dog panics that are continually starting up. Two things cannot be too earnestly urged upon those who own ogs: First, the necessity of keeping an earthen owl of clean water where they can always get at it to ; second, the necessity of having a cool, shady and quiet kennel or corner where they can rest in hot weather. Dogs are inclined to all disorders that arise from overheated and excited brains. They have headache, they go crazy, have apoplexy, epiiepsy and other kinds of spasms, but very, very rarely hydrophobia. And to prevent all these observe the two simple ‘Tules given above, and to cure keep cold water compresses on their heads and ina darkened room or shed till again. ‘Their g-atitude will repay a thousand times for the care. Exrenizce, se La Fleche Wins the Oakes. Yesterday was the last day of the Ep- som summer meeting. The principal event of the day was the race for the Oakes stakes, which is the race of the year for fillies. Baron De Hirsch’s great filly La Fleche, who started a great favorite for the derby stakes, fit doesn't, it will be in # tousy frouze when “he wind blows. Besides, she is training now € victor in today’s event. ‘The Smew was second and Lady Hermit third. Seven horses ran. London Telegraph's Berlin -orrespondent says that the two emperors will spendthe whole of next Tuoeday together and that Baron von Marschall, the German foreign minister, and Count Schouvaloff, the ambassador at Berlin, will also be rae A FORGOTTEN HERO. A Tragedy of the Sea and Its Tale of Self-Sacrifice. THE WRECK OF THE ARCTIC. AThrilling Story of the Disaster—A Wash- ington Boy Whose Heroism Was Conspic- ———_ Suit Against the Texas Railway Commission. A special from Austin, Tex., says the Metro- poiitan Trust Co. of New York, trustee for the uous—How He Perished at His Post—A Monument Movement That Failed. Written for The Evening Star. 7 HE YEAR 1854 IS ME- morable for the number of’ wrecks which took place during its course among Atlantic steam- ers. The loss of no less @ than five large vessels & had already been chron- icled, when, on the 34 day of October, news reached New York that the Arctic, of the Collins line of Liverpool steam- ers,, had gone down under circumstances of peculiar interest and horror, She was one of the finest vessels of her time. She wasa side-wheeler, had cost $700,000 and was insured for $500,000. On Wednesday, September 27, 1854, she was on her return trip to New York, with 226 pas- sengers (exclusive of children), mostly home- ward-bound tourists; a.crew of 175, a valuable cargo and a heavy mail, and had gotten within sixty-five miles of Cape Race, the southeastern extremity of Newfoundland, when, exactly at noon, while steaming througa dense fog, she was struck by the propeller Vesta; bound from St. Peters to Granville. Although the Arctic had two men in the look- out at the time of the accident, the fog was so thick that the Vesta was not sighted until within a minute of the time of collision. The Arctic was making twelve miles an hour and the Vesta eight, and they struck head on. ‘The stern of the Vesta struck about twelve or fifteen feet abaft the stern of the Arctic. At the moment of collision the Arctic was on the crest of a large wave or swell, while the Vesta was in the corresponding trough, and the bow of the Arctic being elevated the Vesta struck her below the water line. The anchor of the Vesta was driven through the timbers of the Arctic and broken, and part of it was left stick- ing in the orifice. The Arctic was pierced in three places, two of the breaks being below the water line. The Vesta had about ten feet of her bow literally stove in and crushed off, and when Capt. Luce of the Arctic hurried on deck and saw the Vesta he thought she must imme- diately go down. He dispatched his first mate, Mr. Gomley, and a boat's crew to the Vesta to offer assist- ance and turned his own vessel in the direction the Vesta had taken and, reaching her vicinity, he steamed twice around her. He found, to his surprise, that no assistance was needed.’ ‘The Vesta, though in appearance a oe craft, was provided with a bulk- head, which, reinforced by 150 mattresses, and other effects of the crew, kept out the water sufficiently (especially after t foremast had been cut away) to keep the vessel afloat until she reached port with the 149 per- sons who still remained al her. Soon after the collision Capt. Duchesne of the Vesta dispatched a boat witha crew of ten men to the Arctic to offer assistance, but in attempting to board the Arctic their boat was capsized and all but one of its crew were lost, either by being struck by the wheel of the Arctic or by drowning. or by both. ‘Tho single survivor was saved by the crew of the Arctic, Mate Gomley of the Arctic lost his way in the fog and did not get back to his ship, but event- ually reached shore. ’ THE ARCTIC'S GRAVE SITUATION. It was not until shortly after the Arctic had resumed her homeward course that the gravity of her injuries was discovered. She was found to be taking water rapidly, and efforts were made to stup the break in her hull by — sails under her and by thrusting mattresses an om into the holes. The anchor chains were own overboard to lighten her bow, but the | an fragment of the Vesta’s anchor was wedged in the timbers so firmly that it was impossible to dislodge it or to get the sails close enough to her to keep out the water. The seriousness of the situation now became apparent to Capt. Luce. The Vesta was out of sight in the fog and con- siderable distance away, beyond hearing of the signal guns. He headed directly for Cape Race, some forty-five to sixty miles away. For halt an hour good speed was made, but the lower fires were then quenched by the rising water, although the steam and hand pumps were both at work. In another half hour the upper fires were out, and then the great ship was a help- Jess wrecl It seems strange as we look back at the occur- rences of this sad day that the outcome was so appalling. But an ill fate seemed to hang over vewsel. When Capt. Duchesne of the Vesta saw the Arctic steam twice around him he had no idea she was seriously hurt, and afterward reported that he could have accommodated all her passengers and crew had he found out that they needed assistance. He thought when she ted from him that she had gone straight to Kew York. As soon as Capt. Luce found that the Arctic must sink he took measures to wave his pas- sengers. Even then had good order and disci- y prevailed all could easily have been saved. ‘The Arctic floated for five and a quarter hours after the collision (although nobody knew but that she might go down at any moment.) The sea was smooth and so remained for twenty- four hours, and boats and rafts could cantly have gotten to land. : THE PANIC. But it was not to be. A sad scene of insubor- dination and selfishness now began to be en- acted, relieved, God be praised, by some flashes of noble heroism. Five boats remained after the first mate left. ew of these were taken by the engineers, sailors, a few passengers and the remaining Capt. Luce and Third Mate second mate, with two ngers, reac! shore, ite Dorian and Mr. Geo. but who ran second in that race, proved the | male passe! E - There was something #0 {in the eelf-sacrifice of one so young Holland that his story caused oped ta fs aaet Sort tore emplo} navy of Washington felt proud of hi 10 a general demand a subscri iption to erect a monument to his WHY THE MO! ‘WAS NOT ERECTED, In 1858 those having the matter in charge were still trying to keep up interest in it, and some hundreds of dollars had been collected, sued in 1858 states acts of President Pierce was to designate the Lema ye on Pennsylvania avenue between 18th and 14th streets asa suitable site for the Prt in grenily to be regretted tha inj it ly regret! it 80 deservi an enterprise should have been so unsuccessful, Washington city is full of monuments to na- tional characters, but in the whole District of Columbia there is only one monumentto a local hero, and that is the monument to Greenup, the fireman, in Glenwood cemetery. Tt should be a cause of pride to the people of the District of Columbia that one of their young men should have shown such Spartan cou: and should have died so nobly, when all the scenes he had been witnessing for five hours were enough to unnerve and frighten older men. And how sublime the thought that he knew the last gun he fired could bring no help for himself, but might bring it for others! a local t of the time said: “He died like a man at the post of death, and to save was his latest thonght.” His father, Issac Holland, was, doorkeeper of one of the houses of Congress, and doubtless there are gentlemen now in public life who re- member the genial old man, whose last days were saddened by the loss of his manly and handsome son. Rosr. H. HaRKNEss. pS ua DEATH OF GI! E. C. CARRINGTON, An Ex-District Attorney and Veteran of Twd ‘Wars Passes Away. The large circle of the friends and acqnaint- ances of Gen. Edward C. Carrington will be shocked to learn of his death, which occurred yesterday at the home of his son, Campbell Carrington, 933 K street. The immediate cause of death was heart failure. Gen. Carrington, although he had reached the age of sixty-seven, was active in his profession and on Tuesday last appeared in court as counsel ina case. He had, however, not been in good health for some time. Gen. Carrington was well known in this city, where he has resided for a num- ber of years. He was a native of Vir- ginia and when quite a young man he enlisted a company for the Mexican war and served with such distinction that upon his return the city of Richmond presented him with a sword. He rerved several years in the Virginia legislature, and a few years before the war he removed to this city. He was commis- sioned brigadier general shortly before the war, but resigned and raised the first company of District volunteers, “company A.” In addi- tion to raising the ‘company, the equipments were furnished them at his expense. " ‘The flag made and presented to that company by his wife will be wrapped about his casket. He was appointed district attorney for this District and filled that office fer a term of ten Years. The funeral will take place Sunday at Bo'clock from the First Presbyterian Church, 434 street. The Charles P. Stone Grand Army Post will select pallbearers from their numbers, ‘The Charles P. Stone post, the surviving mem- bers of company A, District volunteers, the Mexican veterans, the Covington Home Guards and Washington Light Infantry will participate in the funeral, ———— TOLD IN A DREAM, The Inventor of the Shot Tower Taught His Principle at Night. From the Boston Commonwealth. Before Watts, the discoverer of the present mode of making shot, had his notable dream, induced by over-indulgence in stimulants, the manufacture in question was a slow, laborious and consequently costly process. Great bars of lead had to be pounded into sheets of thick- ness nearly equal to the diameter of the shots desired. These sheets had then to be-cut into little cubes, placed in a revolving barrel and there rolled around until, by the constant fric- tion, the edges wore off from the little cubes and they become spheroids. Watts had often raked hia brain trying to dis- cover some better and less costly scheme, but in vain. Finally, after spending an evening with some boon companions at an ale house, he went home, went to bed and soon fell asleep. His slumbers, however, were disturbed by unwel- come dreams, in one of which he was out with “the boys,” and as they were stumbling home it began to rain shot—beautiful globules of pol- ished shining lead—in such numbers that he his companions had to seek shelter. In the morning Watts remembered his curi- ous dream and it obtruded itself on his mind all day. He began to wonder what shape molten lend would assume in falling through the air, and finally, to set his mind at rest, he ascended to the top of the steeple of the Church of St. Mary at Redelitfe and dropped slowly and regularly a ladleful of molten lead into the moat below. Descending, he took from the bottom of the shallow pool several handfuls of the most perfect shot he had ever seen, Watts’ fortune was made, for from this exploit emanated the idea of the shot tower, which ever since has been the olny means employed in. the manufac- ture of the little missiles so important in war and sport. An Incident of the Wilderness. From the Union Observer. “This is the twenty-eighth anniversary of the third day's fight at the Wilderness,” said the veteran the other morning. “And were you in it “Yes,” answered the veteran; “my company lost its first man today twenty-eight years ago.” “How was he killed?” “He was shot by one of our own company,’ came the unexpected reply. “The fact is we were frightened by the movements of the enemy. He was playing ‘Dixie’ and the ‘Bon- nie Blue Flag’ so near to us that we could dis- tinetly hear him, when suddenly there was an alarm, and every man in my regiment shot off his gun. That createda terrible racket, and I REAL ESTATE GOSSIP. Building Activity Greater This Year Than Last. MILLIONS IN HOUSES. A Remarkable Record for the First Five ‘Months of 1892—The New Assessment Com- Pleted—Interest Taken by Congressional | {,? Committees in the Execution of District Laws. EARLY EIGHT MIL- lions of dollars were ex- pended by private in- dividuals in the erection of new buildings and in building improvements during the last calendar year. The exact amount ‘was $7,820,330, which is considerably more than was expended for similar purposes during j any previous year in the history of the city. Judging from the amount of building which has been done during the five months of the pres- ent calendar year, the record of last year is likely to be surpassed. The figures furnished by the building inspector show that the ratio is much greater than for the corresponding months of last year. There have been more new buildings —_ erected than last year, and what is, per- haps, of more significance, the amount of money expended has bcen greater. The pro- portion of new dwellings erected has been fully maintained and. it is likely that as a result of the year's work there will be a large increase in the residence accommodations of the city. All the data obtained for the offiee of the building inspector has reference solely to the improve ments ma@e by private individuals. It does not include the work that,is being done by the Dis- trict government or the general government in the way of erecting. new public buildings or completing those that have bean began. When this class of improvements is taken into consid- ation, it will be seen that the volume of busi- ness is very large. The following table will show the number of new buildings erected during the first five months of the present year as compared with the corresponding period of last year: 1891. 1892. 108 85, 204 366 2120473 239 418 260 (299 1,023 1,641 nildings and repairs during the first five months of this year and the corresponding period of last year are shown to be as follows: 1891. 1892. coos @281,191 $318,808 530,015, 972,135, 799,153 722,370 1,457,821 1,349,007 788,749 Ses 93,681,736 $4,389,402 A PROMISING OUTLOOK. These figures show the substantial character of the growth of this city. The influence upon valyes of this activity in building can readily be appreciated. The maintenance of this rapid rate of improvement even in a presi- ial year, when usually no grent activity is expected, is considered as especially gratifying. It is reasonable to suppose that the two years of such unprecedented growth will result in The roof is constructed on arched iron trusses fifty feet high in the center and coming ithin ten feet of the floor on the sides, with’ nothing combustible except the wooden sheathing, which is covered with tin. ‘The two main stairways at the north end of the building are each to be fourteen feet wide and will be built of brick, concrete and iron, d inclosed from the ground to the floor of the hall within solid brick walls fourteen inches thick. At the south end of the building there will be two iron stairways each ten feet wide. The total width of stairway will be forty-eight feet. In addition to this liberal allowance of stairway provision has been made not only for direct exit upon the street, but also into the enormous ground floor space of the market, which has fourteen separate exits. These pro- visions were made not from any necessity for Se" for the purpose of rapidly emptying NEW BUILDINGS. The warm weather has had a depressing effect upon building operations, and the week ending yesterday shows a falling off in permits issued for new buildings. During that period the building inspector ismed’ 52. permits, ag- gregating in cost $132,800. ‘This was divided among the several sections of the city as fol- lows: Northwest, 10 permits, 23,000; South- west, 1 permit, '$300; Northeast, 9 its, $25,800; Southeast, 6 permits, $18,000, and county, 26 permits, 865,100. Arthur Martin is building a neat three-story and cellar brick dwelling at 1730 R street north- west. N. T. Haller is the architect and Geo. E. Emmons the builder. Le Droit Park is to have a fine improvement in the shape of a row of nine three-story brick dwellings from 200% to 2017 Linden ‘street. Cyrus Mantz is the owner and John G. Cooper the architect and builder. brick and frame dwelling on Wyoming avenue, Washington Heights. The house will have a * W. H. Moses is erecting a handsome two-story } junior of the medical firm of tephenson, All frontage of thirty-four feet by a depth of sixty- four feet and have an attic and cellar. T. F. Schneider is the architect. een BETRAYED BY THE CAMERA. Photographs Reveal Unsuspected Blemishes and Traits of Character. From the Boston Evening Transcript. It is well known that the photographic camera is keener in distinguishing things than the human eye. The case is well known of the photographer who took a picture of a woman who appeared to be in good health and whose skin seemed perfectls normal to the eyes of those who met her. But in the photographic negative there were a lot of queer spots or freckles upon the face, which the photographer could not account for. They were not due to anything in the process of taking the picture, and they did not appear to be in the sitter's face, but in twenty-four hours the woman came down with smallpox, and it turned out that the camera had detected the spots in the skin, which no eye could as yet perceive. Well. the case is one in which, 0 to speak, the camera has detected a kind of moral spotting ona human face. A person whose parents on both sides had been very bad in various ways and who, under imparting new life to the real estate market. As improvements constitute the basis of genu- ine and healthy real estate activity itis not reasonable to look forward toa stronger real estate market in the near future. NOW 18 THE TIME TO COMPLAIN. ‘Taxpayers who have been discussing the prob- able action of the assessors in valuing their Property will have some facts to goon next | ha week, for this evening the assessors complete their task of assessing the values of realty lying within the city and Georgetown. On Mon- day the books showing the results of their labors will be opened to public inspection for two months, namely, the months of June and July. The assessor, Mr. Trimble, and the three assist- ant assessors, Messrs. KL. Moore, George F. Dawson and John F. Cook, will sit’as a board of equalization. When citizens have learned from an examination of the books the value placed upon their property by the assessors and come to the conclusion that the valuation is an erroneous one, they can appear before the board of equalization and state their objections. It is supposed that by the Ist of August everybody who wants to be heard will have had an opportunity. At any rate the work of the assessors will then be con- sidered complete and tlmy will then turn their tention to property in the county. ‘They ex- pect to complete the assessment of property outside of the limits of the city by the Ist of December next and that month will be devoted to hearing what property owners will have to say. It's reasonable to suppose that the new assessment as compared with the last one will show many changes, owing to the progress made during the past three years in suburban development. ASSISTING THE COMMISSIONERS. the laws of heredity, was thoroughly entitled to be bad too, was, on the contrary, very ex- emplary and thoroughly well behaved. Farther- more, this person was handsome and noble of feature and gentle and winning in facial ex- Pression, All who saw the foce were at once Prepossessed by it. But whenever this person was photographed something cruel and ‘kenal was sure to be revealed in the picture. If one d been an expert in criminal neurology, if there is any such science, he might have said when asked to give an oginion of the character of the subject from the photograph, ‘This per- son is a forger or embezzler on a large seale with a strong tendency toward counterfeiting and a perceptible leuning insthe direction of homicide.” All the vices of the person's an- cestors seemed to be revealed in the photograph. Perbaps this supernatural sensitiveness of the chemically prepared plate accounts for the fact that a photograph can almost always be depended upon to bring out the worst that there is in one. Of course, there is something vicious ig everybody's ancestry, since every- body's ancestry takes in the entire population of agreat country if you go back far enough. The vViciousness ‘that ‘there is in you is latent in your disposition, owing to favoring circum- stances and intluences, but it is not latent in the chemically prepared plate, which has no moral side to make allowances with; it spies out the traces of the stifled hankerings and perceives otherwise invincible evidences of completely sup) besetting sins, and these it candidly reports on the photographic rint, We say that the photograph is trathful, titien’t. if it rej 8 person a liar and a murderer, who is nothing of the kind, but who has in his face some ordinary unperceived lines, which are there because some of his ancestors were bad, it is a false thing. Congress, as the only law-making power of the District, at each session enacts legislation affecting the interests of the District. ‘The en- forcement of these laws is left in the, main to the District Commissioners. Recently, how- ever, the District committees of Congress, and especially the Senate committee, have been rather active in the way of giving suggestions as to the proper execution of the laws. There have been several notable instances where the! committees have followed this course, and it directions that bear directly ftpon property in- tereste here. ‘The Commissioners have’ been called upon to make more rigid regulations relative to. the ‘construction “and interior arrangement of buildings designed _ for public assemblies. ‘Their attention has been called to specific cases where in the opinion of the congressional committee such regulations have not been properly enforced, and in one in- stance the owner of the building of this char- acter has found it necessary to exhibit the plans of a building in course of erection to members of the committee with the view of gaining their approval. It would seem that the public Interests ought to be well eared for when the city fathers have the direct and personal assist- ance of a committee of Congress in the enforce- ment of laws. Recently the Senato committee called the attention of the Commissioners to the way in which the law of 1888 regulating the subdivi- sion of land in the suburbs is being enforced. This law, as is well known, requires that the who had never been under fire—eapposed that | app! army. In we were attacked by the whole rebel the midst of my confusion I heard the voice of the colonel of my regiment shouting, “Cease firing, men! Then, finally, when the firing had cinted, E discovéred Uti ono poor fellow was dead. "He had been shot through the LT ee reg foots Ses jeans me to ly par- tHiculars of his death,” “Anu did you do it trathfulig?” “No, told them that | the Wilderness, was better #0,” the veteran. “I been shot in the battle of butI gave no particulars. It Paralleling » Western Railway. A new railrond company, to be known as the a law the road ways in existing subdivisions be widened to, conform to, the width of city streets, and the expense of condemning land needed will be borne in part by the public, THE CORCORAN HOUSE LEASED. Chicago, Evansville and Southern railroad, and | Since the death of which is to be built parallel to the Evansville and Terre Haute, has been formed, with Dr. A. M. Owne as president. President Porter of ——-—_+ 0 _____ CARING FOR FURNITURE. Some Geasonable Suggestions to Those Go- ing Out of Town. From the Boston Advertiser. In the early days of June the exodus to the seashore is most noticeable and the ten- antless houses in the city greatly in- crease in number. The work of getting away to the seashore is not an easy one. Aside from the mere task of engaging an abid- ing place for the summer outing, the labor of preparing for the summer often really over- taxes the strength of many housekeepers, es- pecially as it is too often begun some time after the campaign of spring cleaning. Others very i ‘spring cleaning” to the and if the house is thoroughly cleaned just be- fore it is left for the summer the worl done inthe autumn maybe rendered much ¢hter and ‘easier. the summer clothes have all pared, therefore, and the time is at the summer outing, the THE OLDEST a. A. R. MAN. ‘The Only Survivor of the Original Four Now a of This City, A BRIEF STORY OF THE BIRTH OF THE GREAT OR- DER—THE RESULT OF A MEETING IN A FIRELESS OFFICE ON A COLD WINTER PAY—now THE OBLIGATIONS WERE FIRST CONPERRED, (TSE OLDEST MEMBER OF THE GRAND Army of the Republic is a resident of this city. Capt. Fred I. Dean, who enjoys this dis- tinction, is not an old man. In fact, he is still young and active, but at the same time he hap- Pens to be one of the four men who started the Grand Army. Capt. Dean was a resident of Springfield, Ill, and intimately acquainted with Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson of that city, who is recognized as the founder of that order. Dr. Stephenson had given a good dealef thought to the plan of an orgunization of veterans of the war, and,as Capt. Dean states, often talked with him in regard to the matter. The details of the events of the day which gave birth to this organization are of interest and were related by Capt. Dean to a Srax re- porter the other day. Capt. Bean's account is as follows: noon in the month of February, 1865, when I met Dr. Stephenson on the street in Springfield, Il He asked me to go with him to his office in the Springer block, owned by Representative Springer, to look over with him his papers re- lating to a soldiers’ orgunization. On. arriving at the office we found Dr. James Hamilton, th & Hamilton, busily engaged a fire in the old stove with only for material; but be did not pi a fire builder, else there was a want of mate- rial—probably the latter; so we shivered in the cold all of that Febrnary afternoon. Soon afte ward Dr. Geo. T. Allen came in and the cauc was complete. “Dr. Stephenson unfolded his plans in detail and submitted his voluminous notes. which he had made from time to time. To me—as a newspaper man—fell the duty of transcribing the result of our deliberations, A suggestion was made here and there—verboseness was climinated—and, finally, after hours of hard work, the details were elaborated, and there were the rules and ritualistic work of governing the infant but now stalwart order of which the ex-Union soldier is so proud. Subsequently a committee on laws and ritual was appointed and our work was greatly changed and modi- fi WHEN THE GRAND ARMY WAS BOR’ “Now these facts are important for the reason that the child was actually born on that cold Sabbath day in the office of Stephenson, Allen & Hamilton, and there the obligations of the order were for the first time conferred upon any one. Dra. Allen and Hamilton and myself were the first to receive the obligation, by Dr. Stephenson, and he in turn received them at the hands of Dr. Allen. Thus we three ctually antedated by a few minutes in metaber- ephenson, the author hi PF. st ppointed as surgeon in charge at Benton barracks, near St. Louis, where he sub- sequently died. Dr. Jas. Hamilton died, I think, in Philadelphia, Thus, through a chain of fortuitious circumstances, I was one of the uartet who first institaied the noble order of e Grand Army of the Republic, and by the death of my three colleagues on that occasion I ygmain the sole survivor and the oldest mem- ber of the Grand Army of the Republic living in point of memberahi A SKETCH OF CAPT. DEAX, Capt. Dean is a member of Lincoln Post, No. 3, of this city and at present holds a position in the general land office. He was born in Owego, Tioga county, N.¥., March 21, 1837. His parents removed west and settled at Blooming- ton, lil., and afterward at Springfield, In 1857 Capt. Dean went to St. Louis and became the first city editor of the Daily Ezpress, which paper was destroyed by the minute men in 1861. Capt. Dean in “1860 joined the state troops under the command of Gen. D. M. Frost, and on May 10, 1861, he aided in the cap- ture of Camp Jackson, St. Louis, He was active in helping to recruit the eighth Missouri regiment, but was unable to be mus- tured in owing to disease contracted during his first campaign with the state troops. From the effect of this attack he has never fully recovered. 1n 1863 he joined the Army of the Potomac as a correspondent for several eastern newspapers. He served the last year of the war in the one hundred and fifty-sixth Ilinois regiment, and when that regiment was mustered out he re« turned to his old home in Springfield. Until within the past four yearsCapt. Dean has been liv- ing in Arkansas and was the editor of the Border City at Fort Smith, Ark, He has held commis- sions as aid-de-camp to Gen. Lucius Fairchild and to Judge Rae, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army. The President and the Monetary Conference. Secretary Foster has given to the President an account of several conferences held by him in New York with financiers representing differ- ent shades of the silver question. ‘The Presi dent, in commenting on these expressions of indon, assured the Secretary that he in- tended 'to take care. that the composition of the commission shall be wach as to convince all fair-minded people that posit effort will be made So senoen in eatanetonal it upon an ratio and the open- ing of the mints of the world to the coinage of silver as freely as is now accorded to gold. BELA EE NE -y / Army Orders. Mainer 0, Disine, U. 8. army, .| With their rising dust seem to cloud my mind, For the tick of the clock on the wall behind ‘To a knell has grown, andthe hurrying feet ‘Tread down on my brain instead of the street. ‘The sun with its crimson the west has fired, But its glory is nanght—I am tired, so tired! ret my chosen work is aftoble one, And I love each fresh, Wilhelm Steinitz of New York, champion of the world, has been challenged by Michael Tehigorine to a match by cable for $1,000 0 side. The other conditions will be similar to the famous contest @ Inst year. Should Steinita accept the challenge the two games will be opened as follows: GAME I. EVANS GAMBIT. White—Tehtgorine. Risck—Steinite LEAS PK | Pore par 2KCKBS KigRs shat g 3 BB be) Slate Qt GAME Il. TWO KNIGHTS DEFENSE. —Steinitz, Black —Te 1PKs Pk 6 2RCKRS = Kt des hes ahr Keine ! to In the . BR Ween gains Ntoinite may play elther BK? or In the Blackburne-Lasker match the Berlin ‘master is leading: Lasker........ t1aai-8 Blackburne ........ oaao—@ The first game was a forty-eight-move Ray Lopez and was witnessed by a large crowd of English chess players, PROBLEM No. 122. By F. A. COOLEY. id mate in three (3) moves. ZUKERTORTS OPENING. ant played recently in Berlim Black —Berlowita, 10 Kens HK ke RAY Kixb K ‘ances (e } Brkt Aud wins, far better at this stage of the game, 2 visable and iust lead to di@eulty. te) The winning coup. The subjoinad ofa Divan tan: % Levenan ty won after the. sent i pwand of fifty move right of by Bl ‘TIONS AND SOL) Nos. Keys are B-gsand BRS. Found by 1 ¥. Kat, Dr. Selicrts, 0. Bisinta, 3M rot carey ima F, 3. Halim to), hue sending in solutions, a second ‘Taesday after publication, is rule will be strictly adhered to after this tmsue. Sy,communieatigns be addressed” tor, NOTES, Tehigorine and Tarrasch are to play amateh for the championship of continental Europe. The stakes are £5,000 a side and the contest comes off at St. Petersburg in the near future. ‘Tarrasch is generally considered to have the best chance of winning, bat the Russian will give a good account of himself. His match ex- perience ought to prepare him for the contest more effectually than the Nuremberg doctor's tournament victories will arm him. Lasker has challenged any player in America toa match of five games up, draws not count- ing, time limit 15 moves per hour, five gamese week. Now, here ix a good chance for the native stars. Lasker is willing to play for €75 0 side and much glory is to be gotten by defenting im. Mr. Pollock im the Baltimore Sanday News spends much energy in explaining Showalter’ defeat and very carefully reviews the play of the two contestants, He considers the Kentuckian’s waterloo i to be ascribed to two causes (outside of Lipschutz's splendid play). First, Showalter’s Inck of practice as compared, with the great facilities enjoved by the New Yorker for contin’ maorae play wits the best of tho native masters. ‘The fifteen-moves-an- hour system, which prevents that due delibera~ tion required in important chess contests and, allows so much trickery. Progress in the Lonilon divan handicap tour nament is rather slow, as several of the con- testants are hanging back to *ee how the others do, Loman, who is leading, is not of thet kind aud has nearly finished. Lee and Van Vliet are ‘ing good scores. fast now everybody is bowing down to Mr. Lipschutz, and since bis victory over Showalter tho New Yorker is looked upon as the coming man. But althongh every American will be glad to see an American succeed Steinitz in the world’s championship, and although Lipschutz played in good style m the match of last month, yetwe tke this — ‘tunity of pointing out W. Showalter and Tchigorine, Tarrasch or Lasker. With the last Mr. Lipschutz will have good opportunity of trying conclusions next SStober. As for Showalter, he will vet -eurprien the chess world. All the 'westerner is tice and study to make a sound foundation For his remarkable talent. Looking Years for the Man He Owed. During the war, while both were em- ployes of the Cambria iron works at Johnstown, Pa., Tom Scott loaned Jobn