Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1892, Page 3

u belp those poor little children who without you ne -—==3 - Another empties just below the Aqueduct pondent, Pictro Poletti, in Amoy, Ching, in thoughtfulness would not bare 0 pleasant « 7 a i i ‘brist on food lesen: THE DAM AT THE RIVER. bridge. While engaged in this examination, on hich he expressed the hope that there would ristimas, [thank you for the food lesson i Qu = < - x Star: or little boy ore “ ui N WwW YE’ jeroe in cian Be this refese tedittet ially between Beall street’ and | Snnual report to Congress noted the necessity | may ben long time before all nations night - | and I will eend it to vou that! may joiz your Without good t A MILE OF SE AG B. (Se te ce com ant Ge dy oni Ge, ae Gk San ak the So hope dpetaenhtony nuié- | agree toa universal postal card, why not, Tange alp reas ee. | Santa Claus Club aud get » badge. you th of the bathers ame & barrels is deposited it may be washed at high | I noticed « number of small pipe rewei | gestion — following pertinent #ug-) beginning at least, adopt some form of a rep Tle members are |® Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year article enc © tmp - aul leit covered with the sewage matter. | flowing into the creek, in some instances open when the water goes down, as is most apt ea, THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©. °))""," fe ai of this city, prepared and sent in Sep- | 18 ia proposed tg build the walle in suc engineer rN tyle| VOLAPUK AND POSTAL REFORMS. the poor. pleate send me a tember last to the health officer of the District. | that they utilized and madea rica wee proudly wera. this This letter ia ae follows: “* | the arching scheme when i carried out, | How the Reply Postal Card Came to Be “Over three years ago I was called upon to make a careful examination of the amount uf fall in the surface of Rock creek from Lyons’ mili to the dam near the river. My report was to be made use of in court in a case then pend- ing. I found that in» distance of about 1,600 | | Adopted. | Alink in the history of the introduction of | | tie reply paid postal card is given in the following paper by Mr. Jacob Frech of this city, read at the third annual con- | | | ry nice of you to get up a club like this one and it will belp the poor I wish you all « merry Xmas and 1 New Year. Dear Evrxixo Stan: I enclose ten eta, to en- able me to join the Santa Claus clab. wish it were ten dollars, for it ina lovely 2 One of the great inettfntions of Southeast Washington i Raff's Enterpriee, 1241 we At thet tromense extebitdh- ing in the dry gnode Hine may be 7 of great) impertan every feet, from the mill to P street, the fail was 0.45 Yention of the North American Volapuk Asso- jy to take happiness into the homes and hearts of grticle is marked dows’ seas to place it withia feet, there being a slight current observable ciation, held at Worcester, Maes, in October | the children tho never know it before. the reach of every one. Heretofore the people the bend of the creek. At P street a sew last: Ang = journalist: pre Mage By Tam of that section were com) lied to make <=> és “4 . re a iJ wha Pelow nee ee eee Root | No ardent volapuk student is content until i colt Seek t Ghee ee eee secure whet they 2 . comes in from Washington, and the.creek level 480.77 feet below that at Patreet. From O street to the dam, about 4,500 feet, the fall ie 0.62 feet. Thus the total fall from P street is Lpuxans of different countries and nations o he has tested the language by writing to vole the carth, and the final adoption by the United | Write together. 1 dictate, as Memma says I Dat r don't write well, 1 shall be very prond to wear the “Star” badge: J already wear three press badges— Tis house, that necessity 10 longer Especiaily ve at this season of the " | Ged Maen the Siar Sor tos Leciee on to Fear isn well-kept furniture «tore. where the about 1.39 feet in a mile, and into this practi- States of the reply-paid portal eard appears children and God bless the poor ° ely oo a “ 4 with care and om ond 4 cally level pond sewer after sewer, both public to have grown out of this circum#tance. The Dear Evexixo Star: I wish to join your Dred ins charming way. But when to «i and private, are continually emptying. A large writer, a member of the North American this te wilted and important Georgetown sewer empties in at some point near Dumbarton avenne, I think. the Sthof May, 1889, long before the summer for several rods, i. e., they do not enter below | SEWER OUTLET NEAR 0 STREET. “Rock creek, within the city limite, is in an Yolapuk Association, received in September, 1891, a volapuk communication from his corre: soon be adopted a universal postal card cur- Re to facilitate correspondence? Investigation at the patent office developed. children and the good that | Santa Claus Club, and send yor ten cents for the poor. I think it is very kind im you to you are teaching the children in Washington Don't forget to send my badge. Th f Mtdoes will be donein the | D@Ar Santa Claus i wrote to you Inat triamas Bro. have rarved the gratitude « Rock Creek Turned Into a Frightful "be the see during the hot weather, the sun | the water level.” Doubtiess the canal company | Unsanitary ciuittion. bro ight about chiefly BY | number of slumbering devices invented ‘years jaame of the children of | DUt 1 was up tomy granma myqrandma is bY putting upon the is et in ite deadly work and from the | does all it can under the circumstances to pre- | 1 Tecelving large amounts of sewage and the | ago, soon after the introduction of the ordinary Washington. To bec: sick now and want you to go upto wseher © Blend four. the very beat Cesspool. SY rotten shores std. from the eur- | vent unsanitary conditions, the outles lock | f¢t that its mouth is closed by the outlet lock | = ch ypond ich then thinly conceals oneath arises those deadly d germs which laden every breeze that being very frequentiy used to send boats out and take them in from the river. When th canal was built, some seventy years ago, the |and dam of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, | causing large stretch of comparatively utag: nant and sewage-pollated water.” postal card, to accomplish the purpose of reply-paid postal card. Why none of thes had been adopted is not known. It is probable 4 member one tribute to the treasury of the club 10 cents,and these st con- nice doll that go to sleep O i love you so much © that will be grand od —— mes pair Mr. Sante Clase ido want you to bring me a sale everywhere < (hrictmas gift for every one should net - that they were too complicated for general use. beede~ot-s ‘or shoes 1g and stockeng and some candy MAMA ye lek nee om tg ae THE DAM AT THE MOUTH. | the city from the northwest with | amount of sewnge entering the creck was im- | Proceeds to give hia views as to the proper steps | However, this velapnk communication wae iz | fcod which will heres: | iraick. I want'you to mak ber wall mama | (reat, tbe onyatzunitin cenctionda take ° } 7 pun —. pecan dt age bea ies af a | Mediately forwarded to the Postmaster General, pended by the managing | works o bard mad her sick Tam 7 years old i fo) insinson ae of Mees. Geo @ Sewers That Deposit Their Pith in the Stream Practically No ¢ Kiver—The Rew: Trip of tuspect | can enrry i | | isease nnd death. ‘That i» the actual condi- | ch creek today from the P_ atreet | tothe river, and without the slightest | aggeration it may be said to yield a «mel that i mile long and as wide as the breezes material. At present a largo portion of our population, and a rapidly growing portion, de- pend wholly on the creek as a sewer, That such a state of affairs is, to say the least, a very serious menace to the health, not alone of tunnel along the West side of the creek from Lyon's mill to « point about theline of O street. | By this device the long bend in the creek at thie would be done away with. From the southern end of the tunnel Capt. Symons pro- posed to arch over the creek all the way down to the south line of Pennsylvania avenue. He There are few subjects which can come #0 A great trough closed at its lower end, and contaMing the filth emanating from the refuse of about one-fifth of the most populous area of a great city of nearly 300,000 people, ie what the lower section of Rock creek is. This section, as now intended to be embraced, be- with suggestion that an international post Mamp, aud also a re y-paid postal cards would be of commerce’ vantage. A reply was re- ceived that at the proper time the suggestions would be uly considered by the Post Office Department. ‘Soon afterward an actual reply- paid pot card written in volapuk was re- Post Office Depurtment, with suggestion that both domestic and foreign, That volapuk has been instrnmental in the dissemination and growth of practical thought and ideas springing up in different countries, no two speaking the «ame language, and resu! like to have the badwes of ta Roing to havea merry committee of the club ia vladdening the Christmas of little ones who other- wise would hunger and want on the day when ail should be Meibers of the club will receive badwes, only been impossthle to forward the badves, because the bership sent There are thousands of little ones who are Christm: who are going to be ® little happier because thourands Tux Evextxo Star Santa Claus Club: 1 am | alittle boy 1 thought it would be #0 nice to | give some of my pocket money to | money I get this month. | Dear Senta Claus: Tam a little girl only six gift. T love Santa | that I will have @ bappy Chr mas if T will mas dinner, so Tend you ten cents for your Christmas fund. wish you a happy trismas and don't forget me. « get a little | Po tout | boy @ boat for his Christmas I'vend you all my \iom sy pvr little gir! « Christmas | tions of the age us, because he ie #0 kind remedies of the help some poor little girl to have a nice Christ- | wy wtreet Ivanta avenue and 4 Kk used by the lover « id have UNG « present, no matter for where every th tobacco may be fc | There are not many merchants who giveaway ceived from Yosef Bernhaupt, post controller | Which it is hoped they will all wear. The club ts +0 | vears old, my nate is Florence. I goto danc- their eoods, but that i just what F. & Williams St eerie stated that this route of tunnel a stchwa of Beyrut, Syria (who bad Sees wrtlias t6 ta crxsniend thet It willbe able to reach the most desery- Ing achool my teacher says Iam to cute she will |and Cu. drugg 4 ¥ streets, propose ? fi Petter than L site A weg sept ety ¢ | the mean time on the subject), stating thateach | im of roses cmrhegrtag so agg and | give a ball at Christmas Iam to lend the grand | “doing. ‘That is, they intend selling their goods tending thy rap cigar ribet pine Vines pov oO" | cards have been in use in that country and in poring Sermons bopper sineserrng erp march as I at the smalest one there. My Papa ®t Mich ridiculously low prices thet ther may thickiv popu Only about £600,000. oe NE NOTE "A Austria tor many years. This wan the rat | sort gamrwons cine iat urenlt tal who | Given me a panty avers nigut, when be ‘somes titTually be noid tobe giotig thew away They : area only about $600,000. reply-paid postal card seen by the writer. loc Star. Balges have been sent through the reaii | Dome for myself eo I have saved thom all the | bave everything in stork which delights the Washington isn't ple A QUESTION OF TIME. ‘The form Bf this card was very simple, more | ¢¢ those who have enrolied themecives as members of | last ten nights to send to you, and I will dance | Purchaser of Ch nde 9 a A correspondent writes to Tue Stan a@/| so thon any of those forms found in the patent | the cluh py ariting to The Evening Star, sending | 8° much better at the ball when I think I have The electropoise is one of the great inwen- Se ae Nem follows: office. It was also immediately sent to the | theircontributions. Ip some cares, however, it bas | bélped to give some It is also the great . The Ath hiectropotwe por to everg man, ‘woman and hil sn the this form be speedily adopted By the United | tions wo wrla tbe interne unr iriruaaecra | tome, and I cant bear to iok Gf any te |Cpany.i40s Ste Yor steer wi ate ee = . cafe : on) q R - | States. Ina few days reply was received that | taries forzot to put their post office addresses after | girl going without a present. I will be prood saw instaliments an = io FROM THE M STREET BRIDGE NORTH. Ft a a erie pod cnamees dP the department has now under consideration | their signatures. All those who write to The Star | to wear a badge. Send me one, Giang boys ee syed ~ a ~-— —— pom ‘J the advisability of insuing reply postal cards, | should be careful to state exactly where tl ta Ol My papa say be is sore sulted a! tall times by thy wall be sent ? An article tn gr and ies Descriptive mand just now ts whisky, ouree the very best br sare desired. Dear Stan: I want to Join your club And I| One of the very best is the Roxburs eye whisky Georgetown, but of Washington, isa somethin, ") a ing in the adoption in this country at the pres- ot . will enclose a dime. I ame little girl was seven | it i* the only whisky coutrolied exclusively by Washington the citizens will be | hak Bhctly "seed pine Tk eucipiola tates SSA eae one etree a Ee eee A [eat tines Of a fastoe la, ther sbelal Ata Damned | ser wil Boo the’ trey Deve helped the post | Yonce hd tact Juan, Lam ta Ge eanead quate the distiller. Another vensun for ite qrast pap. tm @ position to appreciate the feelings of the A TRIP ALONG THE CREEK. ception of ‘nll sewage now flowing into the| extends to Lyon's mill, above the P street | W0tld of great convenience to over 50,000,009 | And are members of n club that is going to do | anq got excellent on my report every month See an ne net teat & be over Chee yume ane ¢ Sabarg wien they tent A Scan reporter went over the entire route | creek and tho purifying of its foul bottom is, | bridge. 4 | of people. isevidenced by the result attained. | sll stcan to bring pleasure to poor children |“ Evex:xo Stan: Tama itis bor, and expect vefore At ie offered on the market All the ere thet were sent the other day, and the artist of Tux Stam went | snd has been for along time. one of the most | Should not the mere statement of the case in | _, With regard to the international stamp Mr. | this Christmas. to Rove.c peed tine “Kanes, one f Guat Ge | tea | Ge & ay cients auibidiner eoaien th camern gnd aketch book. It isa | UReut public needs.” At the present time, | tho simplest word seem to be euficient to put | Frech suggested, under date of October 27,| There nr old folks, too, who aro taking in-| “poor little boys” to have ‘the same. This is | that every good citizen onght to take, Tm Stam enables them to tnke it comfor: awniting the session of Congress, I venture to | urge the great necessity of disinfecting as far every citizen upon his mettle? Should it not | be enough at any time to make those 1891, as a preliminary and experimental step toward the adoption of an international post- | terest in the club. | tion 3 In additic na already mentioned in to contriba: wR TAR the | My own money, to become a member of the Santa Claus Club—Iam in a big hurry fOr my | an possible all the shores of the creek, and as to | their by pea andl little at rine ing | A€6 stamp. current between any two countries | Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company haa | badge—to show my little piaymates—seud by enuse the water ¢ as allow be fe eittiog in their oma sweet-emelling | the main proposition, that you give the weight | nat magi g@oind beg Congress 05 ae this | Whatever in the postal union, that agreement | sent two packager of coffee and two of tea, | return ma ef your oficial sunction toe, ment determined | awful evil | be entered into between the United Sintes and | Jenny C., eight dolls, and some person, whose | nent citizens, effort to obtain from the next Congress redress from this grave public peril.” There has been from time to time a good deal eaid about tome treatment of the problem | presented by the ravine of Rock creek, sepa- | Tating as it does the two cities which are now | one in name and in the other particulars | that constitute municipal life, Of course the | lan of arching over Hock creek is familiar to fhe public, and this plan has not beon aban. doned. which the open sewer ix now the fruitfal cause a large area of land would be reclaimed and ad- ditions made to valuabie building ground. But as faras the mere reclamation of the land is concerned this scheme could be still further In addition to curing the evils of ost poned. Kk creek is recognized as a m However, the present condition of ce to the | public health, and there is a growing public | sentiment that something must be done and at once. The neceseity is imperative and urgent, nd many promi- This petition is as follows: call your attention to the condition of Rock The physicians have all stated the danger the countries composing the postal union to the from this festering mass—thix night toil pit, | How much more reason for action is there | when we consider that the Asiatic cholera is likely to begin its scourge next summer? Now, that Rock ereek should be arched all agree, the only i epee left being can this be done or practically completed betore the cholera | comes? Now, after appropriations are made it might take some six months to a year before | the work could be finished. Will you, Mr Editor, through your valuable | paper suggest the best_means to put this ques- | tion before Congress, whether by petition, mass meeting or both? In this connection let me recall to your recollection how admirably our citizens responded in the matter of a call, made | by miss meeting I remember, to establish Gar- | field Hospital. We have thousands here vital subj interested in this | ject—many Senators and Representa- | ing and ‘rushing could then be accomplished and the arching could be done later. effect that the postage stamp now issued by any country shall be wiso originally current in any of the other countries on letters addressed Thanner that it ig now current in those coun- tries on letters addressed from the cor suing the stamp. ‘This would nece: change whatever in the present stamps and would fille long-felt want in for- no ances too trifling to warrant trouble and expense of foreign postal orders. Transfers of Heal Estate. Deeds in fee have Leen filed as follows E. P. Burket to Washington Loan and Trust Company, pts. Mt, Airy and Friendship Cecilia M. Coughtin to Rose Wilson, lot 0, bik. Georgetown; Lackey. sub $ to Carrie ( M. Ashford to Grinder, sub 142, sq. 546: $—. Alice Adilmon | name was not furnish | Somebody, too, who bas a in his heart for children sen | nish thom with the necessary - | exp | there in many email as it 1s, sorrow ii our . one coat. y warm corner Stan $5 to| pay the membership fees in the club for fifty | to the country issuing the stamp, in the same | poor children whose pare: ue are unable t amount. nce tells me,” the writer says, “that | brighten some poor child on Christinas day. schools’ whose stem of | will is good, but who cannot spare the amount, Many little hearts bes | eign correspondence, viz., the means of inclos-! possession of a badge and wonder wl ng statnps for reply and for settling «mall bal- | fur- Past for the it can- not get it, but many parents know why and secret because it is 60." Below will be found «pecimens of letters from children who haye enrolled themselves in the club: Dear Mr. Editor j old my Papa is guiding my my teacher. happy Christmas, am ro delicate I can't hani two older brothers have just received their badges and they are so prett; that Ihave asked Papa to please get my little ~. | brother Henry and me one sons I amonly4 years +o that I can Thave saved a little money and send you 10c. tohelp make some little child | Dear Evenrxo Star: I wish to belong to your jelub eo mo and my Fister enc each and wish to have live at No, 1513 to have our names pul | names are Eddie Storey & Eva Storey we bo] | to that our enclosed twenty eta, will help to Please copy in Stan. Garrnens! Mp. My dear Evexixa Star: Tsaw in the paper | that you were forming a Club to give che nt mas presents to the poor children, and I would | like ‘to join the Club. Lama little girl just [nine years old, and Twill send ten cents to make a poor little boy or girl happy on Christ- mas-day. Ihave two brothers, and a baby sis- ter two years old and my oldest brother is ten yearg old my ¥ will “write for themselves, brother will write for tl please send me a badge. but my youngest baby. Will you poor children will enjoy the good things you give them and they ought to be very glad that Dear Evexrx@ Stan: I am five years old and shed in Tuk Syan our | Youngest brother is seven; they | ‘The lupe of years oi been made. as any on ie at the office im this city, 7th To be up and Franc & Se han ambitie bat with the bran 1 vural ambition, 1D atrowts, state that ratified by wearing « thetr firm in the inside. he polier 8 Th this principle time, so that the f for everything at © fall on de costomers, ” te nae for big reductions that they are what they are represented to be, and that he docs not take off of one article to put up the price of anotber, The average woman does not anprectate the advantage of axharp razor. except, when a corn is to be trimmed. Bat ber bashed I r to pl f cha badge f i does, and there can bardiy be a more aceeptable A PETITION TO THE COMMISSIONERS. tives being included—into whose houses enter | 15, Le Droit Park, $3,500. Joseph Auerbach | let you kno: He — i Pe yre “Fe “% ge for) Dear Mr. Editor: Lam a little boy five years | Christmas present thane good razor. You ran Some idea of the popular feeling can be | the emanations from this pest sep | to@, B. Rose, sub 142, #q. 619: $—. PG. | ben E scarie tana Gee kee ae of age. 1 send you ten cents and hope you will | nd a good one at Wal 477 Pennaylvania tio inti If it could be gotten between walls before bot | ¢, wr, sub 75, 69.348: 8. ©. wid ef , one of your badges, that I may enue. He has also a fineasortment of pocket panertahamal ater epee ld | weather, even should cholera appear, disinfect. | prt, te yeustar: St Thy 8a SAGs & aj. os, | TeMPROld. Ugo to the Taslor School and love | member of your Nanta Claus Club. Iknow the | and table carers ‘There are bargains in silver ware tobe found at Callisher's, the East Washington jeweler, 225 Bees eees shi we have such a good paper ax Tue Stan. Do J ‘The honorable the Commissioners of the Dis- ae ° J. A. Simmon Sq. 112, George Dear Evextxa Star: Iam an orphan just 6| please send me @ bai = T shall be very proud | Penney!vania avenue routneast. Prom bim @5 trict of Columbia: LAUREL. town; &—. glland to Eliza Balluf, «ub | yrs, old but I have a good home and kind gard- | of it. wili buy adoubie-case silver watch, #10 @ Gentlemen: The undersigned respectfully | correspordence of The Evening Stsr. 7, sq, 618; €—. Catharine Whitten to 5. B. | jin'and Lalways havea pice tiine christmas, I ond ring, 61.0 a heavy gold lace pin and = J many money but my I want Santa Claus to bri: me somethi: a " ~ | creek where it empties into the Potomac. The _ Lavner, Mp., Dee. 17,1892. |to ©. H. Park sa. 495; $—. | gardian gave me 10 cts. and I won't buy any | nice I want to join your Santa Claus Club and | Pan A ON THE CREEK. | iccapeake and Ohio Canal Company con-| The late rains have been of great benefit to|C. 8. ratt 1 ,, Rovle,. | sub | candy because I want to make some poot ebild| help make some ofber litte. girls’ aud, ber Anewd ent ot Ge ame Ge ae ea the lower part of said creek into a basin | the people of this section in filling wells and | 88, bik. 15, Le Droit Park: $4,500. | happy evcoptabia eontamina'e h It_is exactly a pleasure trip, as by damming it near its mouth fo as to raise the streams, A.A. Lipscomb to W. H. West, sub 44, sq. ‘ear EveNtNo Star: I want to be a member happy I have no Papa I have two little sisters Christmas present is something in the line of- The wheat crop is greatly improved in appearance since the drought has been and a little black kitten, My oldest sister gave fhevlars were neglected perbaps th® © . fered at Schmid’s, 712 12th «treet, where mon- # that accompany this article | surface of the water of the creek between four 207; $3,500. Mary Brown to John Farnkopf, of the Santa Claas Club. Isend ten cents. ° her 10 cents to her teacher at school for the | kere, Maltese and Ai canaries poletice of 1894 in a sand the slimy leng'k may indicate. Eversbody who has had occa- | and five feet above the surface of the water of | boven. pt. 43, J. B. 2 bd bended errr aA Please send me a badge. I hope Santa Claus! club and bas her badge. Please find inclosed and aqueciame Giied cub geld ~~ bed of Washingt 1 lies festering unde waik or drive over the P street bridge | the Potomac. The result is that Rock creek fainter Getticlics churca ba pene itz Pada ee Gekinoron rea Acree will give some of my good time to the poor | 10 cents which I took from my bank, and please cheap. Wace sent on Mrscotaghen wis cowle Suuh rptas tots tae rece ure sarin | somageat e dstan ov taere begs sivere fesiont | Chritiehs bu s caueh sions al bcecanechis tou | Envecauia Hatghiar G— B-d Ciclbect ea eas | Mn Claus: T Kittle ¢ “Tantor i Plam pudding, mince meat, nute and pop- disease over the cit Waskiugton will sewer which emption ito the creck Just north | sewage of dozen or more large sewers, instead | Christinav on » much more elaborate scale than | Kalorama Heights; §—. M. J. Colbert to Dear Mr. Santa Claus: Tam a little Country | Editor Evesixe Sram: I am a little boy 8 eno as wpch a gest of Ch om come in fora storm of abase and seorn and of the bridge. This se the beginning — of L epermnr raj ee . 2 by ite = Lapiegiberrg areal pr Bo bmeage’ es Jane Pilling to tt Baraca sak rae * oe . heer d Fans smog | ogee Isend bread ede Santa Claus All the i Mouth ab outer tate derision such as if bas never known even in it the open sewer. ‘Then there is another great | ural current and the tide, stening the ighest order e leading tal A, gub 4. 84. of yo ; and I win —but I} Clab to buy something for the poor, ugre. these eventful histe pquestion but that sower st © otrect, and on the opposite side one | sewage down into the Potomac. ot the state has been accured for ite rendition. | $- a ate & aoe . gs ub | do not know whether you let us Country Girls | P. $.—Dear Santa Claus: Pleuse go to. the —% ~ gp ey Co LJ. & yee * ~+ | the representa that empties a part of the sewage of George-| In addition to receiving the sowage from e decorations of the church will bo in charge | 104. Tong Meadows: €-. F. 1. Greg Tong | Soim—but any how I send you 10 ett. please put | store and get the biggest railroad engine that | ‘Feet. He has « five-vea ~~ oR to take & walk town Into the creek. Below are the public | many sewers the cesspool also receives large | of the ladiew of the congregation, and the great- | sarah J ee ae aat re Beno my name down—T want to help to, if you you can find. Plenee, bring tt to 921 F street — chony views s of Rock creck trom the est abundance of flowers and evergreens have ~. He + | don’ ink yor real mean. I live at | northeast, for which Iw ni Gun te the diem, whieh ches been secured by them. lots 16 to 18, 5 he aoe to | Brandy Wine. Dear Mr. Editor: Lam alittle girl 9 years old| Low prices for holiday goods prevail at tomac river, the Centenary M. E. Church will observe Christ- | to same, lots to M4, do.; ¢—. roe pular indigna’ whether gro: ded, that ail opposition in seif interest or me: swept away and step» mas this year in the usual mauner and the pro- pices of the Sunday school and the treat to the | scholars. A special choir is now being trained | gram includes the entertainment under the aus- | & et al to Blanche Carter, lot 19, #q. 557; W. H. Weed to J. A. Massie, lot 2, bik. C. 8. Garrots Le Droit Par to H. M. Walker, sub 87, blic. 1 ome Dear Santa Claus Club: I am only fifteen months old, but I send my name and ten ¢ents, so [can become a member of the club. Iknow mpre little children who are not much and I want become a member of the Sante Claus Cab aid ax Christmas is « happy tome I feel like making some little gir Py too b; sharing some of my Christmas money wi , 1200 Pennaylvania avenoe. Four of wine are offered at $1 and « fail quart of whisky for €1. Other articles are equally ao jow. der than I, and I d get 7 Standard Rota coving sree aray end sepa = by Mra. Murphy, wife ot the pastors for the |. John Pizenger to D. F. Lee, lot 79, Ana: | fue ihe'club tao, "TL TY Sh get them to aoe ae Se beets poss aasacneel ate Radner oe Fendition of the musical part of the program, | costia, | and pte, 177 and 178, B. and |" Dear Evexixa Stan: T am a little gitl five | papa and sol inclose 10 cents apice for each ot cating so he coment Oe aon ae, Rapid progress is being made in the ereotion | H.'s jaddition to | Georgetown; | § same | $et8 01d, been saving in my penny bank for | them hoping it may bring many blessens to the | {riing at the agent, will chow yen with ches of the power house for the electric light com-|¥- | Lee | to Pauling Pizenger, enmne | Christmas to buy Papa & Mama a little present. | litle girl it goea to whorea name Igive to you tightness and “aghity Ge Radion odin, pany, and it te expected the ballding: will be Propet a pt pry Red wad When Aunt Kate read me your letter I ranted | as w as 10 cents for my self making in all 30 | eee en eed monet inished within ten days from this date. The | to H. A: sul y. 972; S—. Thos. | to send you 20 eta out of it elp poor | cents. [want to scatter roses along the path n 2 light will be turned on not later than January Faas _ = G wire Endl 2, sq, 798; | little boy's & girls to have a Happy Christmas, | of life I want to labor ever for. the caare of | There ix but little reason for # man to be ‘ E ao rary damps, which stream Here the Fr from nad the efeepings ai Dead cate find a inst resting place Further along are other large public vers. and where, on account of the under- brush. th concealed, the steady tend nearly to the edge of the Aeposited heaps of ‘the and stoves | ¢ mouths at ation. Perhaps the worst excuse for arge one ths t extended to the water's | | amounts of offensive m: ashes | sweeping and from 2d street to its mouth. eon its banks of privy contents, street very kind of filth carted there daily from large sections of the city. Some of and ends of «| this is burned daily on the dumps, to the great annoyance of the people from the sickering smoke. down into the creek. But much of it is washed by rains ‘The accumulation of ro large an amount of failof the sewage indicates plainly | the worst kinds of filth in that cesspool ix very | offensive to the senses and must of necessity be injurious to health, In short it has become t has been should be applied to Rock creek. ‘The basin is no longer needed for passing boats between the Potomac and the canal, as the canal company hi n outlet incline for hat purpose above Georgetown. The undersigned request of you a careful consideration of the matter and such action as In your judgment will be most effective toabate the nuisance. A row of eight brick buildings will be erected | shortly on Washington avenue near M for business purposes, The builder: to be well-known Washington business men. Two years ugo when a national bank was es- tabiished here by the leading business men of large business done. A comparison of the growth of Laurel this your has been made with that of the past ten Years, and it is claimed that the value of the improverents hay been greater in the present than in the past three years. Tomorrow will be temperance Sunday at Con- tenary M.E. Church. The pastor, Rev. R. R. Murphy, will preach the morning sermon at 11 o'clock.’ At So'clock in the afternoon the Ej worth League will hold the services, and at night there will be a general temperance meet- ing. which will be addressed by Prof. H.R. port killing tour deor,a number of ducks and large quantities of partridgesand rabbits. They meosges a doe weighing 130 pounds home with them. A number of shooting matches for turkeys are to be held in this vicinity between now and the end of the holidays, and several well- known shots from Washington expect to take part in th pleted. This residence is the finest in all 3, eq. yburn E. A. A. Dunn to jame property; $ i ‘The Virginia Democrata, The Virginia Democratic Association last evening wound up theaffairs of the Inte cam- therine positions, but that it was not deemed adv toeommit the organization to any particular apphicunt especially at this time. >_- ‘The Second Army Corps Association. ‘Throngh the energetic and untiring efforts of the rexideut survivors of the second army corps the reunion of the veterans of that noble bods of men was a noted feature of the late encamp- ment of the Grand Army of the Republic and & pronounced success, «0 much #0 as to etimu- late the wearers of the trefoil in Washington to ency of the weather was largely attended. All divisions of the corp and all arms of the ser- vice were well represented. It was unanimously resolved that the associa- tion should be named the Second Army Corps Association of the Distriet of Columbia, and ite objects should be the gathering, preservation and publication of historical material concern- ing the second corps; the perpetuation of the associations of the war for the preservation of unanimously elected for the ensuing like I want to have. Stan paper ever make ti toys now to little ones that bave none. Grandma told me she has been taking your nee the first one printed. Please send me a little badge. Garnett Park. Mp. Dear Santa Claus Club: Iam a little girl less Ido give lots of my little My happy Christmas for the poor, ‘and Igladly send ten cents out of my bank, but I have been wondering what the poor children will do after Christmas, If you wiil keep up your club all the winter I will save ten pennies overy month to help them. My little brothers both send ten cents out of their banks. IxpvstRriaL Home ScHoor, GEronorTowN. Dear Evextxe Star: My brother and I want to join your Santa Claus Club I want to make second grade. the poor people happy I would put more money in if I had it Iam eight yearsold and am in the There are lots of boys out here save any more money I will send you some more. will let me Join your club. five cents (' happy as I will be. Dear Santa Clans Cin! I be. and Dear “Evgxixa Stan: I will not be two years old until next Wednesday, but I hope you my twenty- ) will make some little child, as t right #o when Iam called by God to leave my house of clay I have nothing to regret by giving this today to make some little girl happy ou Christmas day. eee. THE ASSOCIATED CHARITIES. central oftice, 707 G street northwest, Ker. W A. Bartlett in the chair, L. 8. Emery, secretary. cember 16, 1892, shows that the number of calls upon the central office were 4.617, of whom 3,654 were white and 963 colored; 1,498 were applications for alms and 1,854 were applica- tions for work; 1,235 were visitors to make re- ports of cases coming to their notice or to re- port the result of investigutions to make con- tributions, dc. ; 525 loads of wood and 623 gar- the greatest need now was for money to meet about rents, He eaid that he bad turned an twisted and economized every way to make the small amount we get go as far as possibie, but the amount contributed is wholly inadequate. ‘We take care,” he said, “‘of over 100 fainilies good deal of the time’ and help many more | nough as to the best goods fi without clothes when be can buy @ suit for €7 and a beaver overcoat for 6.50 at the London and Liverpool Clothing Co., 7th and G streets, A rapid sale is the object of Thomas D. Sin- gieton, 415 7th street, in offering the goods at rices which will Le great promoters of trade. . Those in search of furniture, draperies, lace the town there were plouty of people who were : . than six months old and with only one tooth, | Reports Made and Officers Elected at the | ! egg} ; loud in their predictions that the business of | Paign. Maj. He fee pinwoe, president of the as | hut T want to bea member of Tae Evexrxa Afnanl Meeting. Shisctek-cok oe games comm Maree ae the place was not sufficient to support it, but | sociation, explained that several applications | sran Sagta Claus Club and enclose 10c. initia- i _ eo —= tince the last report of its condition was pub: | had alrendy been made to the. associatio tion fee. ‘ The eleventh annual meeting of the Asso- | is to be reduced, as the room ts weeded. M STREET SEWER lished this week every one is surprised at the sement by candidates for governm Dear Stan: You are very good to try to | “isfed Charities was held Inst evening at the| Quality is what Mr. James Tharp, 818 F street, claims for his goods. His record im this respect, be ciaims, bas been estebliched ‘The secretary's report for the year ending De- | uring the many years be has done business in this city, and expecially are his Chrastiuas wines and his’ Berkeley whisky favorably known to the publ This is the time of the year ben the children are apt to see some wonderful things, but prise will be the more complete if some the “wonders” to be found at J. Jay Gould's, on Sh street, are secured. A specialist in cutting ladies’ and children's " hair is 5. Helier, 720 Tth street. He siso does ‘Stewart of Pennsylvania and others, and we have a big yard to play in. ments were distril to J e th, of the Pennaylva. a nuitance and should be abated. It is in tho| ” Mesers, John C. Bentley, Charles F. Brooks, |form a permanent organization. With that | “"icte Pultor of Tae beowtce Bram: I send Tound employment The scrstecy cicted tare | shampooing and cures dandruf some reason the mouth | condition that Tiber creek was a few years ago, | H. H. Miller, F. M. Hallowell, William Gilpin | end in view a meeting was called Inst night at | you ten cents and hope it may help to make | , An artistic lamp is apt to be inated oven and Lemuel Wear, jr., of the neighborhood of | Union Veteran Legion Hall, at 910 Penneyl- | edme poor little child happy at Christmas. I | casesof emergency—topay forhauling the wood, | if these days of electric light, cof tight Timedied to the great advantage of the region | Sandy Spring returned home Thursday from a| vania avenue, and notwithstanding the inclem-| hope you will end me and if I can | for groceriesand for fuel and occasionally to bel n ail tetnp hes Sot vot tngeoved come through which it flows, A similar remedy | successful hunting trip to Virginia. ‘They re- modern scieuce. When you want The ladies value the judgment of Whelan of the corset 1003, that ine. recommended is the line of “W. ©, corsets in different shades. The price is only @1.50 per = te from my Brother Eddie Robt. Reyburn, M.D., N. F. Graham, M.D.,|" Mr, Isaac Fe Bewley of Catonsville is erecting | the union, the cultivation of fraternal relations Brother age 2 years Iam pair. E. A. Balloch, M.D., W. W. Johnston, M.D., H. | for Mr. Henry Kaiser a store building and rea- | among ite members a1 cir intellectual im-| but we worked for this y A new store and a new stock is whai may be B Noble, D.D.8., C. M. Matthews, 8. C. Busey, | idence on Main street near Washington svenue | provement and social enjoyment. It is to be basa bore and Papa went to the City foundat “The Fair,” 742 and 745 7th street, M.D., Z. T. Bowers, M. a. and mp to have it completed early in Jan- | entirely non-political and an man who ren- | and while he wae gone Brothers and I pick up corner of H street. Smith. M.D., T. 8. Verdi, M.D., F. A. “9 — when it will be occupied by the ownes dered military service in the corps, was honor- | leaves for the borse to on so my Papa ter, as the ievor is k: J. F. R. Appleby, M.D., John Leetch, president William E. Gilbert and family are now | ably discharged and bearsa good character and | gives us l0cte pieco for christmas club. Bisstock of fine parlor. Qoorketown Gua Light Company; Walter | occupying their new residence on Washington | reputation 1s cligible to membership, ease buy some little children a doll and ball room furnitore,and « full beciie ory oo, c = ge npeerel ae avenue extended, which has just been com- 1¢ following officers of the association were bo make them bappy ae we wiil and ingtain carpets are twen! vies; Wm. Ward, M.D., Armis eter, year: | badges to all your little friends than any house in this city. M.D., D. R. Hagner, M.D., J. Ford Thompson, | this part of the county. President, Chas. Lyman, fourteenth Connecti- rey write ous Your little friend on folding beds which will be M.D. N_S. Lincoln, M.D., Chas. C. Glover, E. | Mr. William Feige has commienced the erec- | cut infantry; vice a tepresenting first} Dear Stan Banta Claus: We are two little The well known furniture dealer, Wash. B. Francis Riggs, Thos. Hyde, Jas. ML. Johnston, on Main street near | division. J. F. O'Niel, one hundred and six-| girls, with-out « papa, Plorence years and Williams, 315 7th street, carries euch on J. W.H. Lovejoy, M.D... Henry H. Dodge, C. teenth Pennsylvania infantry; vice at; | Seale thave Toe tee H. A. Kisinschmidt, M.1 Loula ‘ML Ritchie, Jt is teported that the family of John Colline, pega ener divislon, A; H. Nickervon, | grand and we 100 each for come ie " . é = ALD. Henderson Suter, M.D., J. H. Yarnall, | the old man who was killed by a fallof dirt in infantry; vice president, represent: | little who has no dear grandpa to lov P STREET SEWER AND DUMP. J.D. Cathell, Wm. King, C. W. Birdsall, M.D.’ | the iron mings near here a few daye ago, are in| ing third division, Geo. A. Armes, keceha Noy “4; sult is that the filthy contents vaniots REMEDIES PROPOSED. It will be noticed that no plan of remedying this evil is recommended by the petitioners, need of help from charitable citizens. Collins ‘was an excellent soldier during the late war, and ‘was the recipient of a small pension at the time York H. A.; secretary, Chas. E. Troutman, twelfth New “Jersey ’ infantry; treasurer, Frank C. Jones, alxty-fourth Ney York infan: them. Dear Evexixa Stan: My Ellie read all the letters i EL youare ee eae Meee eee ee eenee (ee aittuere'ts | There bave, however, been a number mug: | fou TH Cethoroa fa the quant of hie dangh- euthgceses ils Toe ieee oe eon ob bo difieulty about locating that sewer, and no | Re%ted, notably the plan of arching over the| ter, Mrs. Barnes Compton, and will remain | eighth Obio infantry; W. P. cork I = cue who seen tt th tt present condition will | ck and making it a sewer in name as well a8 | here till after Christmas, on which day he ‘will | were infantry; James B. Coit, fourteenth Con- mea ores ~Ppacat thet it bee the abiliey to low yj i fact. Some who are now desirous that | celebrate his eighty-sixth birthday. Notwith-| necticut infantry. After appoin letter pales "eheog 1 pers penl to the senses of every | standing his yreat age the colonel is still vefy | mitteo on by-laws and design for a the ward T. panne Awe one within quite a wide radiua, | active, and his health 1 much better than it bas | harmonious and onthusiastic meeting adjourned faculty of Columbian tho steer. bo umpes (s “ ! been for several months past, to meet at the call of the president. from | terday afternoon in Gel ies ant @ aah 2 ae oe j Dr. and Mrs. Evans of Weshington have re- —_— ites day than a slight stream ever the dam into the be public sewers there are any Bum- all sewers, one im particular arresting the attention because of the advanced and | progressive ideas shown in its construction. | areand made of boards. It is no} ‘a type of the revolutionary sewer, if ything of the sort known in that turned home after a sant visit to their daughter, Mra. Richard L. Wallach. rs. Susan L. Wallach. widow of the late Charles 8. Wallach of Washington, died at the residence of her son, ex-Mayor Richard L. Wallach, here yesterday) morning. “Mrs. Wal- Inch was a great sufferer for several years past. Late South American Advices. A special to the New York Herald from Val- paraiso says: “News reaches here from io Janeiro that the federalists are entering the city of Rio Grande do Sul and Gov. Castilho of RioGrands do Sul is fying south. He will E : i o € ay mt F y 2 d i | will a parece? wwa'e existence, cad it wil | Fie remneine will be tales fe Weshingtcd SES | sessgic” Capt, Garaie Sod Lieut” Rabiseanan all tbe | Seed entertained by all The question that is te a. in all probability, ve abolish | Chureb. have been de@ided guilty of suborning revolt night | with him, whether in the reek dogs not imp: what becomes of the -owere matter that & co stantly pouring into Rock creek from the pamber of sewers, both grewt em small, that near to ite many sewers emptying into Still, ‘The mouth of the creek no Quite liberal contributions are being made to the fund being raised to give a suitable Christ mas gift to each of the children attending bee oahetinne me “Bverything is now quiet. radicals of Ai teat the Cordoba, Argentina, Protest against RA iy & é a se 3 I i u the nough i tiet into this body of water © exists nnd the anomaly is presented of a Popp ery eg Or eagle bene Sen weed eis ae : Bishop Spridiag Tr canuot be curried down fhe creek, fot there stream of water which drains an area of about sap waa theo ent es eremetanet | ae sesamed tha chistiansbig et ts eee Bishop Spalding fe practically no current. It therefore must forty-five square miles and runs through » during : chieftainship Argen Brit fhe way to the bottom. where the accumu lation of years of the product of the city's eewers les, © festering mass of corruption. Bome of it ie probabiy carried on for » short @Qwtance from the mouths of the sewers and Sede lodgment siong the banks The latter (OF0 consian ly ences umching Byun ba! intended valley about twenty-one miles in length, having practically no outlet, A CIEL ENGINEER'S ¥rews, ‘The present condition of Rock creek, as the result of this dam, is clearly set forth in a letter which Mr. Henry B. Looker, « well-known civil some day disposing ational party. _—S se - FOR NERVOUS PROSTRATION Peg tga