Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1893, Page 9

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By chem- ical analysis the Table Water is shown to contain a larger number of digestive and cor- Tective properties than any other table water extant, and it is by far the most refresh- ing, being absolutely pure and unadulterated, ‘you should at least sample it before con- tinuing in old methods. Tnexcelled for Fam!!y, Club and Restaurant use. e is for dealers and con- aby Drnegiate and Grocers everywher= OAL TRADE SUPPLIED BY CHAS. KRARMER, TH ST. N.W., WASHINGTON, D. ¢ Ovrealars and information sent op app! MANITOU MINERAL WAT! Manitou, Colorado. Unlike the Dutch Process No Alkalies —or— Other Chemicals e which {9 absolutely pure and soluble. H the strength of Cocoa mixed with Starch, Arrowroot oF Sugar, and is far more eco- pomical, covting less than one cent @ cup. it ts nourishing, and EASILY which, if properly= Cleaned and Dyed, willS be good as new A. F. BORNOT, 1103 G Street N. a genanecuansatatatt eenegnuecoergvouessrnaaree (NESS OR THE LIQUOR HABIT Dia cons BPS BaNSeate MAINES GOLDEN SERCIFIC. wttheut the Bariniew and will. Pos Dr. GOLDEN SPECIFIC Co. he ‘Sevens buon of particulars hea: Yete ¥.& WILLIAM & 00. cor. Pend ienets, n.®-. And a= tauely . SF idee Bota Wee, Washington, D. It} THE PROPOSED LIQUOR LAwWs. | What is Said of the Measures.Now Before } Congress. As set forth in Tae Stax there are four bills now pending in Congress intended to give the | | District an effective Inquor law. As has been | shown by interviews in Tax Stan there ere wide differences of opinion as to which meas- | ure is the best. Liquor dealers and those who | are friendly to their interests favor the Camp-| | bell or Meredith bill, claiming that their pro-| visions are more just and easier of execution | | than the McMillan bill, which provides high | license and stringent regulations. The District Commissioners and those who have spoken in the name of temperance organizations have, | asa rule, favored the McMillan bill. | The present license law, which has been found inoperative by reason of its failure to provide means for its own enforcement, fixes | | the license fee for retail dealers at $100 and re- | quires applicants for bar room licenses to ob- | tain the consent in writing of a majority of the owners of real estate and a majority of the resi- lents keeping house on the same side of the juare where 1t is desired to locate such busi- | ness and on the side of the square fronting op- posite the same. The District Commissioners | are the officers empowered to grant licenses, | and the attorney for the District prosecutes cases of violation of the law. New application for license must be made every year and be ac- | companied, ax in the case of ibe original appli- cation, with the written permission of mafor- ity of ‘the neighboring real estate owners and Texidente. The pending bills all have what are consid- | ered adequate penal clauses. ‘The Hunton bill simply provides what is lacking in the present Jaw to give it force and makes no changes in its gereral provisions. TRE M’MILLAN BILL. The McMillan bill, which fixes the annual license fee at $500 for either wholesale or re- tait dealers, has the same requirement regard- ing the consent of neighbors as the present law, except that it includes wholesale as well as | retail dealers: gives the power of granting or | revoking licenses to the Commissioners, and charges the attorney for the District’ with prosecutions arising under the law. It makes many detinite provisions and regulations con- cerning points on which the present law is in- definite, ‘ovides for pubiication of notices of applications and the hearing of persons who object, and requires applicants to give bond, with two or more sureties,in the sum of $2,000 that the applicant will comply with the law. Provision is made whereby any father, mother, wife or child of any habitual drunkard can serve notice through the chief of police on licensed liquor dealers forbidding them to furnish liquor to such habitual drunkard. The exhibi- tion of liquors in windows or'the usual ngns of bar rooms are made by the bill prima facie evi- dence of the sale of liquor. Pharmacists who | tell Liquor except upon a written preseription of » physician for medicinal purposes and phy- | sicians who shall give such a preseription for other than medicinal purposes ‘are rendered | linble to the penalties for selling liquor with- | out a license. ‘The bill makes many regulations, orbidding the licensing of a bar room in or adjacent to any building used as a theater, probibiting games of chance in bar rooms or the frequenting of or employment in such Places of immoral women. THE CAMPBELL BILL. The Campbell bill bestows the power of granting licenses upon an excise board, consist- ing of the chief of police, the assessor and the collector. ‘The original application for a bar room license must be accompanied by the writ- tenconsent of a majority of the neighboring real estate owners and resident housekeepers, as under the present law, but the licensee is not required to get this written consent to a re- newal of the license unless a majority of the owners and housekeepers unite in a petition stating that the bar room is not necessary and is objectionable. No license can be revoked except upon the conviction of the licensee of | keeping a disorderly and disreputable place | which is a nuisance to the neighborhood. Hotels | and duly incorporated clubs are exceptedsfrom | the requirement as to the consent of neighbors. | There are four grades of lquer licenses pro- | vided for, as follows: Hotel, tavern, bar room | or other retail place, $250 per annum; retail | grocers, to sell in unbroken packages or in nantities not less than a quart, not to be | drank on the premises, $250; wholesale dealers, | to sell in quantities of not less than five gallon | #100: jobbers or bottlers. to sell in quantities not less than three gallons, #250. Druggiste are not permitted to sell intoxicating liquors except upon the written prescription of a regu- | lar physician. ‘The United States attorney for | the District is charged with prosecutions fcr vio- | lations of the act. The bill limite the umber | of licenses to be issued to 500 and is the only | bill that fixes euch a limit. i ‘THE MEREDITH BILL. ‘The Meredith’ bill provides for # fee of $50 | for wholesale licenses to dealers selling liquor | as merchandise in quantities of not less than a | pint and a fee of $150 for bar room licenses, | It provides for a renewal of licenses without | the consent of neighboring property owners | and residents, except in case a majority of these | | property owners and residents present reasons | deemed sufficient by u “ommissioners for not _ renewing it. It forbids pool playing in bar rooms oF the employment in such s room to | sell liquor of any female except the wife or} | daughter of the proprietor, and constitutes the usual signs of a bar room prima facie evidence of the sale of liquor. The attorney for the | District is named as the officer to conduct prose- eutions. COMMISSIONER DOUGLASS’ VIEWS, | In conversation with a Star reporter upon | the needs for a liquor law and relative merits of | the several bills now before Congress District | Commissioner Douglass said: ‘The Meredith | and Campbell liquor bills are not satisfactory |touen. Either af the two bills presented tws | years ago by the Commissioners would be, or | | what is called the McMillan bill, reported ‘by Senator Hansbrough. Waiving the question of the mount of the license fee, as fixed by the two first mentioned bills, |their serious fault is ‘a lack of | a number of provisions by which the law should | be enforced and the honest dealer protected | from dishonest competition. The sharp penal- | ties and means of proof of guilt found in the recent high license laws of many of the states | | are just as important to protect the honest | |dealer as they are to enforce good | | municipal government. The man who! | pays $600 (and it should not be less) | for the privilege of retailing liquors and obeys the law ought not to be exposed to the compe- | tition of another in the same business who pays nothing or habitually violates all law and de- cency. If I remember aright the good results | of a thorough high license law was especially | apparent in the history of the home town of | Senator Hansbrough, both in increase of reve- | nue and wonderful iinprovement in other re- pects. z | “What the District needs is a financial result | from liquor license somewhat in keeping with the enormous expense required chiefly in keep- ing up Police Courts, police officers, work and | poor houses, night ‘lodging houses, &c., all seat required by the inordinate use of | liquors. And, of course, the additional protection it will shrow around the weak and the young. It is @ gr@t shame that we have no law to panish drunkenness or | the illegal liquor traffic in the capital of the United States. Instead of being the exemplar for other municipalities we are the laughing | stock in this regard of other cities. Congress, we firmly believe, will relieve the District this winter from this greatest danger and most mortifying municipal weakness. | ‘MR R ROSS PERRY. Mr. R. Ross Perry said: “Iam not informed as to the details of any proposed legislation | and therefore cannot speak intelligently as to | the comparative merits of rival measures. My experience of two years asa public prosecutor satisfied me that the solution of the liquor question would also be the solution to a very great extent of the crimes question. Certainly one-balf of all the crimex committed in this District owe their origin directly to strong drink; a large proportion of the remainder owe their origin indirectly to the same cause. To remedy this evil 1 would be in favor of ,an: measure, no matter how radical, which eed to beeffective. From my knowledge of the subject | Tam of the opinion that bigh licenee, with a severe punishment —I would say both fine and imprixonment—for selling without license, Promises the beet practical result. I trust, wever, tbat the time will soon come when public opinion, enforced by social censure, will | Provide the best incentive to temperance by | visiting its severest penalties upon both the | | drunkard maker and the drunkard. Whatever measure may be adopted will, I sincerely hope, retain the mile limit. No one who recollects | the low eries lining 7th street from | Boundary to the Rock Creek Church road ean be indifferent on that point.” ——— | day @ request for an appropriation of $300,000 | to put in repair Gort Washington, just below | this city, so that there can be established four | batteries in the fort, with quarters for cient men to make this fort one of the | of Washington city, | Ine fn > a = —. ae THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSD. JANUARY ——_ 5, 1893—-TEN PAGES. THE SATURDAY HALF HOLIDAY. A Bil! to Amend the Law Agreed Upoa at a Meeting of Bankers. ‘The Saturday half-boliday bill was ferther considered at a meeting yesterday at the Metro- politan Bank of representatives of nineteen of the twenty-three banks and banking instita- tions of the city. The following amendment to the bill was reported by the committee of Jaw- yers appointed at the last meeting: An act to amend an act approved December | 22, 1892, entitied “An net making Saturday a half holiday for banking.and trust company purposes in the District of Columbia.” Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: That section 1 of the act of Congress approved December 22, 1892, entitled an act “Making Saturday a half holiday for banking and trust company. purposes in the District of Columbia,” be, and it is hereby, amended s0 aa to read as follows: Section 1. That every Saturday which, under existing laws, shall not become a legal holiday in its entirety in the District of Columbia shall therein bea legal holiday, from 12 o'clock noon, for all purposes respecting the presentation for Payment or acceptance, or the protesting or | giving notice of the dishonor of bills of ex- change, bank checks, drafts, promissory notes wnd all commercial paper whatsoever, whether made in or beyond the said District, or whether made before or after the passage of this act; and all such bills of exchange, bank, checks, Promissory notes and commercial paper which otherwise would be due and payable or Preventable for acceptance or payment, in said istrict on such half-holiday Saturday, shall therein be due and payable, or presentable for acceptance or payment, on’ the secular or busi- nena day next succeeding: Provided, however, that any acceptance or payment thereof, with interest thereon to said date, when the ‘same bears interest made on ench bulf-holiday Satur- day, before 12 o'clock noon, shall be lawful. And ail bills of exchange, bank checks, draf Promissory notes and commercial wi soever, which, but for existing law, would be due and payable or presentable for acceptance or payment, in eaid District, on any day which isafuli legal holiday, or’ on Sunday, shall, therein, be payable or presentable for uccept- ance or payment, on the secular or business day next succeeding, and all acts and parts of ects, so far as inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. A COMMITTEE APPOINTED. The amendment was adopted and a commtt- tee consisting of C. C. Glover of Riggs & Co., B.H. Warner of Washington Loan and Trust Company, J. W. Thompson of National Metro- politan, E. Kurtz Jobnson of Citizens’, F. C. Stevens of West End and Jas. M. Jobnson and W. F. Matting!: 'yers, was appointed to urge its passage by Congress. A resolution to the effect that the different banks, banking institutions and trust com- panies give notice that they would close on Saturday, January 7, 1893, and upon each and every succeeding Saturday thereafter (not a whole holiday) their respective institutions for the transaction of business after 12 o'clock noon was adopted and was signed by twelve in- stitutions. Some of the institutions represented were American Security and Trast Company, Wash ington Loan and Trust Company, National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Comp: West End, Metropolitan, Citizens’, Second, Capital, Bank of Washington and Ohio National banks, Union Savings, Riggs & C Bell & Co., Carson & MoCartney and Crane, Partis & Co. John W. Thompson presided, with Charles P. Williams secretary. NO ACTION OF THE BANKS. Next Saturday will not be observed as a balf holiday by the banking institutions of the city as the recent law gave them per nission to do, unless a change is made in the position of ona or two of them as announced tod: was circulated among these ii day and signatures were obtained from the rep- resentatives of sixteen of them to a paper agreeing to close at 12 o'clock on Saturday. All the signers attached their names on the condition that to make ‘the agreement oper- ative all the institutions must go_ in. It was found today that the Central Bank om le were unwilling to sign, and as the Ohio rk iously declared ‘that they did not that left the paper without the that are necessary for the re- quired unanimous action. TRE PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE. President John W. Thompson ‘ional Metropolitan bank and President E. Kurtz Johnson of the Citizen's National Bank, called on Senator McMillan this morn- ing and left with him a copy of the bill which the bankers of this city have decided upon as the best substitute for the bill making Sat- urday a half holiday for bankers. The pro- posed substitute will be called up at the mect- ing of the District committee tomorrow morn- ing. They also left with Seuator McMillan the following statement: “The object of the proposed amendment is to correct absolute inconsistencies and to remove ambiguities on the face of the bill approved December 22, among others the fol- lowing doubts arise: First, the title of the original act covers all banking industries in the District of Columbi but the enacting clause refers only to banks in the city of Washington. Query: does the law apply to banks in Georgetown and Anacostia? Second, the principal enacting clause refers | to all commercial papers, whether made before | or after the paseage of ihe act. The provision suggests that the act is limited to commercial | paper made after the passage of.the act. ‘Third, the same proviso appears to exempt from the operation of the principal enacting clause bills payable at sight or on demand. This appears to be without reason and creates serious confusion. Fourth, the last clause of section one reads that “nothing in this section shall affect any legislation applicable to any Saturday whenever the same under the provision of said section shall be a legal holiday,” but section one does not affect such previons legislation. Fifth. It is not clear whether a note can be | lawfully paid before 12 o'clack on a half ho! day Saturday, or if so paid, to what date inter- est shall be computed. Sixth. The clause ‘without reference to whether any of said banks or trust companies do or do not close as aforesaid’ seems to imply that banks may ignore the other law at their election so that it wonld be a legal half holiday at some banks and not at others. —— WANT TO USE A DUMMY. An Amendment Urged to the Burnt Mills Railroad Bill. This afternoon a committee composed of Mr. Guion Miller and Dre. Francis Thomas and Chas. G. Stone, representing the prop Washington, Burnt Mills and Sa: upon Railroad Company, —calied Commissioners in regard to the pro-| | arse amendment to the bill to incorporate the said company with the spe- cial view to so modify the recommendation of }-the Commissioners as to permit the use of @ dummy engine for the purposes of haul- ing heavy freight to the university station during the night time and to secure the right of hauling light freight, such as dairy products, to the city boundary over the electric lino, Mr. Miller explained that the company feared that electric power would not be sufficient to do the heavy freight business, and it was for that reason, and that alone, that permission was asked to run a dummy engine. Capt. Rossel asked if the company would be satisfied if the Commissioners would recom- mend the use of a dummy between the hours of midnight and 5a. m. Mr. Miller thonght the time should begin at 8 o'clock p. m. Capt. Rowell, however, did not like the amendment. He said the Commissioners were doing all in their power to get rid of the dangers of grade crossings, and if the com- ny was allowed to run a dummy engine from o'clock p.m. until Sa.m. there would always cer be some Mr. Miller explained that it was by no means certain that the comphny, would resort to steam to carry the freight, as it was his opinion t the electric power would be ample. The amendment, however, was designed to allow the use of a dummy in case it was deemed neces- sary. The Commissioners promised to give the matter their earnest consideration before finally reporting the bill to Congress. cra demure Due to Judge McComas’ Efforts. For many years after the several states had passed statutes allowing admiristrators to bring action on bebalf of the next of kin of a person who had lost his life by the carelessness or nce of individuals or jons the aif Torco in’ tho ‘District of” Columbia dd not allow a survival of action in case the injuries to the person ended fatally. This coleciem was a passed by Congress Joage “Me- Joux A. Ganven, the creditors of A. E. to L. G. Shepard for all interest as such in lands conveyed to J.W. Thompson by Martha E. Heiss by deeds of December 14, and January 27, 1887. | as are prescribed in the first section of the | proved June 23, 1874, MONEY FOR THE DISTRICT. ‘The Appropriation Bill fer the Next Fiscal { Year Completed. | CHANGES MADF FROM THE ESTIMATES SUBMITTED ‘BY THE COMMISSIONERS—& DETAILED RTATE- MENT OF THE DIFFERENT AMOUXTS ALLOWED TO EACH DEPARTMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT The committee on appropriations today com- pleted the District of Columbia appropriation bil ‘The total amount recommended to be ap- propriated for the general expenses of the Dis- trict of Columbia for the fiscal year 1894 in the bill submitted herewith is, exclusive of the water department, $4,892,061.97, of which sum the general government is required to pay €2,446,030.98, that being one-half of the whole. ‘The total amount recommended is $1,583,350 Jess than the estimates cubmitted. ‘The amount appropriated for the general ex- penses of the District of Columbia for the cur- rent fiscal year is $5,105,708.97, being €213,647 more than is recommended in the accompany- ing bill for 1894, and the whole amount recom- mended in the accompanying bill, including the water department, is €212,616.36 less than was appropriated for the current fiscal year. ‘TRE WATER DEPARTMENT. ‘The amount recommended for the water de- partment and payable from the water revenues in $265,058.94. The amount appropriated for the same purposes for the current fiscal year is €267,028.30, showing an increase of @1,030.64. It is estimated that the water reve- nues for the fiscal year 184 and available surplus will umount to 845,589.13, but it is provided in the accompanying bill, as it was in the actfor the current year, that surplus of these revenues over the appropria- tions made specifically therefrom shall be applied to the work of extending the high- service system of water distribution. This improvement, if it in estimated by the en- gineer officer in charge, will cost, when completed, about $400,000." It in believed that the surplus water revenues to be devoted to this object during the current fiscal year will amount to $100,000, and that between $50,000 14 $75,000 wills be available for application thereto daring the coming fiscal year of 1894. The total general revenues of the District of Columbia for the fiecal year 1894, it is estimated by the Commissioners, will amount to 88,21 282.82, or « eurplua of $570,251.34 after meeting the appropriations proposed by the accompany- ing bill, together with the obligations (esti- mated at $200,000) imposed upon the District by the acta of March 2, 1889, and September 27, 1890, establishing the National Zoological Park and the Rock Creek Park. This surplus will be applied under the operation of section 8 of the District of Columbia appro- pristion act for the current fiscal year to the satiefaction of the indebtedness of the District to the United States on account of the cost of the increased water supply of the city of Washington under acts approved July 15, 1882, and March 3, 1891, which indebte ness will amount to about $974,349.74 at the clote of the fiscal year 18%, LOOKING INTO THE SALARIES. With a viow to making specific provision for all officers and employes of the District whose permanent or annual employment is necessary, but who are now paid from general appropri tions, the following provision is recommended in the bill: ‘That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall, prior to the lst day of October, 1893, inquire fully as to the employment of each and every officer, inspector, clerk, foreman or other persons, except day laborers, who are or may be employed in the execution of appro- priations for street, road or sewer work, the construction and repair of buildings, Bridges or any other work, and who are paid from such appropriations, the necessity for such employ- ment, whether the compensation paid is ex- ceive in any case or cases, and in their estimates of appropriations for the government of the District of Co- tumbia for the fiscal year 1895 it sball Be their duty to submit specific estimates, in no case exceeding the compensation actually paid for the same or similar services during the fiscal Year 1892,for all such officers, overseers, in- spectors, clerks or other employes, except ‘day lnborers, whose annual employment they deem necessary and whom they believe to be indispen- sable to an efficient and economical execution of the said appropriations for which they may submit estimates for the fiscal year 1895, speci- fying the number of persons to be so employed, the office in which they would be employed and the rate of compensation to each. FOR BETTER GAS. ‘The committee took an important action in the direction of better gas. Serious compiaint was made to the committee about gas in the city. ‘The matter was referred to the Commis- sioners, who recommend legislation which is ineorporated in the bill, ax follows: That for securing a better fultillment of the works,” approved June 23, 1874, two addi- tional’ laboratories shall be provided and fitted up by the Washington Gas Light Company, subject to — the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Colum- bia, and sbali be furnished with suit- able apparatus, to the satisfaction of the said Commissioners, for inspecting and testing the illuminating gas manufactured and distributed by the said Washington Gas Light Company and the gas meters used for measuring the gas supplied to consumers by the said “Washington Gas ompany. One of the said ries» shali be located in the northwestern portion of the city of Washington, and the other in the southeast- ern portion of said city, and the cost. of pro- viding and fitting up’ the said laboratories shall be paid for by the said Washington Gas Light Company. And for securing the better fuifillment ‘of the intent of the said act, laboratory shall _be Prerided and fitied up by the Georgetown Gas Light Company, subject to the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and shall be furnished with suitable apparatus, to the satisfaction of the said Commis- sioners, for inspecting and testing the illuminating gas manufactured and’ dis- tributed by the said Georgetown Gas Light Company, and the gas moters used for measuring the gas supplied to consumers by the said Georgetown Gaslight Company: Provided, That the cost of providing and fitting up the said laboratory shall be paid by the said Georgetown Gaslight Company, and the said Georgetown —Giaslight’ Company shall be — liable for such__pen- alties for dopartures from the standards of illuminating power and purity of the gas manu- factured and distributed by the said company act entitled “An act regulating gas works,” ap- Provided further, That the provisions and naltics of the act entitled ‘An act to author- ze the appointment of an inspector of plumb- ing in the District of Columbia, and for other pu approved April 23, 1992, are hereby extended to include the Practice of the business of gas fitting in the istrict of Columbia. Provided further, ‘That the Washington Gas Light Company and the Georgetown Gas Light Company shall at the beginning of each fiscal year, in proportion to their respective sales of gas for the fiscal year immediately preceding, provide in ad- vance, by depositing ith the col lector of taxes of the District of Columbia, asum sufficient to pay the salary of an inspector of guaftting, to be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, at $1,000 per annum, and also the necessary expenses of maintaining the service of inspect- ing and testing illuminat gas and gas meters, as estimated by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Provided further, That the daily inspections prescribed in section 5 of the act entitled “An act regulating gas works,” approved June 23, 1874, shall hereafter be made at any time after 12 o'clock noon and before 12 o'clock midnight, in the discretion of the inspector of gas and meters. Provided further, That the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the act entitled “An act regulating gas works,” approved June 23, 1874, shall hereafter apply to all gas meters from which the beads shall have been. removed by any (fe, compeny, in the District jumbia for the purpose of ex- amining and repairing the same, and no gas meter from which the head shall have been removed shall be again in by fu onmen inne Ds ooo a sealed, as provided for in sald act. cle gia, ‘The following specific legislation is carried in the bill: ‘That hereafter the public school buildings of the District of Columbia, shall be used for no purposes whatever other than those directly Fashion Tells What Color to Wear. “Brillant red, with black trimming, is popular,” is the latest decree from Paris. Sd athanpyi nt nahn hy «carp hens a diamond dye feats Anema ents for 1@ cents at store. ‘Rot fade or crock and brightens: intent of an nct entitled ““An act regulating gas | connected with the public school system of the And hereatter the expenditures for and man- agement of the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asr- lam shall be under the ‘and control of the Commissioners of the District of Colum- ‘That the authority for placing feeble-minded children of the District of Columbia heretofore given to the Secretary of the Interior is hereby transferred to the board of children’s guardians. In connection with the appropriation of #14,- 000 for rent, fuel. light, care and repair of armories for the militia, it is provided that in the disbursement of that appropriation part thereof may be applied to leasing premises for armory parposes at a reasonable annual rental, to be paid quarterly, fora term not exceeding three years, + THE REDUCTIONS MADE. The reductions over current appropriations in the bill are as follows: For expenses collec- | tion overdue personal taxes, #250; for expenses printing briefs and witness’ fees before Supreme Court, $400; for exponses surveys suburban | subdivisions, $1,000; for work on streets and avenues, $120,000; for suburban sewers, | €12,500; repairs and right of way public sewers, $2,500; for repairs county roads | and suburban streets, $10,000; for construction county roads and suburban’ streets, 236,500; for rent of school buildings and repair shop, £2,000, a total reduction of only $212,616.36. INCREASES AND NEW LEGISLATION. The increases and new legislation are as fol- lows: Engineers’ office, one clerk $1,400, one clerk 1,200; for advertising notices of taxes, $3,000: for grading astreeta, alleys and roads, $2,000: for main and pipe sewers, $30,660: for rinkling, sweeping and cleaning, $5,000; an inerense of forty-seven teachers’ for’ public schools and $32.050 salaries; increase for care of swpaller school buildings and training schools, $375; for furniture, new buildings, $1,200; for text books and ' enpplies, $13,000; for’ one new eight-room building and site in the third | division, northeast, €39,000; for one new eight- room building in’ eighth division, to rel Garnett building, $28,000; for repair Wallach building, 21,100; for rent of stable, Anacostia police station, 2200. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Fire department increases: One fireman for new company, $810; apparent increase on ac- count of new company authorized xt last ses- sion, @8,480; for purchase of hose, £1,000; for yurchase of lforses, $400; for forage, #600; for furniture. $200; one new hose carriage for No. 9, $900; for one Inborer for Police Court, €420. IN THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. In the bealth department the bill is very liberal. The emergency fund, which may be used for tie prevention of an epidemic or for the employment of garbage inspectors, is fixed 000 and made immediately available. Increaxe for support of convicts, £4,000; for contingent expenses Washington Asylum, $500: for plumbing in alms house, $3,000; for’ addi, tional family building at For the Emergeney Hospital The Freediman’s Hospital ‘ond Asylum is is pinced under the District Commissioners. APPROPRIATIONS IN DETAIL. ‘The bill in detail is as follows: oo kono 2400 09 6.000 00, 3.690 00 200 00 Impro} Work on sundry Grading streets Repairs to paver Plats of subdivisio: Sewers: Cleaning and -18150,090 00 4,000 00 150,000 60, 000 00 and 00 00 54) 190 560 08 : 79 OD ‘Guueing sewers and ‘ Condemnation of Automatic siphon Streets Re 49.009 00 i 49000 0 pairs, streets, avenues and alleys, Liatini, was Pubite Pumps. 000 0 Bridves 100 00) 9,000 00 26.00) 09. B08 00 2.000 0d 280 OO 330.000 00 700 00 300 00 000 00 40.00 For salaries 5 Removal of garbage.” Rent... Prevei scarlet Courts: For salaries (incindes $939 in sundry civil arith fr TSI) enses Cinciudes #800 in il act tor 1802 Transportation of Washinton Ash. alan Mfscel aneosts ox Bulidines and rot Reform school Bn,60 9 pense: G00 0 Bul dings aud. rows Forauttortof the tusaia:. tion of the deaf and dinmib. Por charities sr Reitet of the poor. Temporary Koine Municip’ Wormer Central Dispensary and ital 3 Cotninbia Hospital and Yving-in fdren's Hospital. National Homeopathic fios Froedien's. Hospital. (in et for 180) Boartof Chitin Garin ‘ashington Hospital for Foundiuce: Reform School fur iris... naumes For the militia of the District w 13,000 00 4.000 00, Die i anariiasat! wt departineat Salaries. ontinwsit eit pairs aud a expats, Interest aud stukine fund, Weber bonds. 2 45,891 88. 8.522 29 11,836 51 Real Estate Matters. Edwina P. Chamberlain has purchased of A. A. Lipscomb et al. lots 44 and 45, block 44, and jot $2, block 45, Holmead Manor, for $5,788,36. J. J. Purman has bought for $1,875 of the same sub 47, block 44, of same subdivision. P. J. Gadsden has bought for $1,602 lot 3, block 46, of same partie pert Bia ia Nelson R. Vandenburgh of Vandenburgh Brothers, contractors and builders, fell yester- day from a ecaffold in the new Methodist Epis- copal Church at Baliston, N.Y. His injuries it is thought will prove fatal. ag OTHING LIKE Bas SWIFT'S SPECIFIC is totally unlike an; other blood medicine. It cures diseases tat the aaine time supplion eocd bined se the an same sup) to ne supplies good the tutes, which are not true. No has per “Joun Gavin, Dayton, Ohio.” ‘Treatise on blood and skin diseases mailed free, SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atianta, Ga. Water ee oom , under thin head and differs materially from the oli regulation on this subject, which al- , [lowed the use of lighter pipe. other change is the use of pipe for water service. _ Heretofore on 00 | 42000 00 | PIPES AND PLUMBERS. stoners by the Board of Experts. | IMPORTANT CHANGES RECOMMENDED as TO THE | RULES TO BE FOLLOWED IN THIS CITY—TRE ‘REPAIRS TO OLD HOUSES AND. TEE PLANS FoR NEW ONES—TRE UsE OF BEAVY DRAIN PIFES— VARIOUS SANITARY PRECAUTIONS. ‘The board appointed to prepare a revision of the plumbing regulations submitted to the Commissioners today acopy of the new regu- lations as pro posed by them. ‘The board was composed of the following | | gentlemen: Samuel A. Robinson, the inspector | | of plumbing, chairman: H. F. Hayden, Thos. | Hompbreys, J. Carl Darnall, James Ragan and | Charies B. Ball, For the pa wo months this board has been | in session semi-weekly, and its report is ex- |haustive and interesting, and it is believed | eliminates ali of the objectionable and weak | points in the old regulations and proposes as complete nsystem of drainage, water supply and plumbing as is posable, All the regulations of other cities have considered and where- ever it was possible to make an improvement it has been done. There are five main divisions of the regul tions under the follow heads: General regul tions, excavations in streets, water service pipes and connections with water mains, house sewers and connections, plumbing and drainage | of buildings and gus mains,subways and under- | ground conduits. | In the general regulations there is a clause which provides that they shall govern all work done and materials used in introducing, main- taining and extending a supply of water through a pipe or pipes in any build- i lot, premises or lishment. In % or repairiag system of whereby foul, waste or surplus water gas, vapor or other Suid is discharged. ventilating any house, sewer or any fixture or appurtenance connected therewith In exca- vating in any public treet, evenue, highway, road, court, alley or space for the | purpose of connecting any building, lot pretuises or establishment with any service pipe. | house sewer, public water main, subway or con- duit or other underground structure. In per- | forming all classes of work usually done by plumbers and @rain layers. MEAVY DRAIN PIPES, Extra heavy cast-iron pipe to be used throughout, and from the connection with the main cewer to the terminus of the house or lot insures safety, the board says, from @ny emanations from the sewer, end is more economical. ‘This is the most important recommendation galvanized iron allowed to be used in no other city wes used here, but was found objectioa- able on account of the rust which clogged the pipe and made a consequent obstruction the free passage of water, ng great convenience to the housebolde Where lend tinnings were used un regulations there wa Tt the ald no proper system of con- struction, and the proposed’ regulations remedy ‘this defect by making it per- fectly safe, it is claimed, against damage from overflow or annoyance from offensive odors | coming through the drain pipe. This is doa by a new system of construction anda new method of valve system. FRESH AIR INLET. Heretofore great trouble has been experienced by having (he fresh air inlet too near the house. The new regulations provide a place for this 2s well as water and gas fixtures lo- cated on the street’, As an instance, where there isa parking they «bould be placed two feet from the end of parking. Where there no parking they are to be located two feet fr the curb. This arrangement will not interfere | with the free use of the sidewalk by pedestrians. Under the new regulations no person is allowed | to locate a water closet in any room, apartment | or vault which isnot in direct communication |with the external air by means of 9 | window or ait space having an area | of at least four square feet for the admission | of light and air. All water closets erected ia yards or outside of dwellings shail be placed as ar as possible to the dwelling and shall be flushed by a tank inside of the dwelling. ‘These new regulations were framed to first | prevent the location of water closets on the in- tide of hoses witnout light or air and thereby | improve the sanitary arrangement of dwellings, i econd, to prevent the freezing and waste of water. REPAIRS IN OLD HOUSES. | Another important feature of the new regu- | Intions is the section relating to repairs in old | houses, This is entirely new and the members of the board believe will remedy and do more to improve the sanitary condition of dwelling | houses than anything else. It insures an intelli- gent supervision of all the work done by plumbers {in these houses. Heretofore the office of in- | spector of plumbing had no means of finding | out or knowing what was going on, but under this new regulation plumbers are required to plumb- jLave a new permit whenever the ing in a house is to be part of this work | to be covered or hidden from view until an in- epection is made. In this connection it is the y of the inspector to y occupaut and to see that the piumbing | | is made to conform to these new regulations, | STREET EXCAVATIONS. | Exeavations in streets have been a serious The coming wo men can be healthy. She will bg, if she's wisely cared for, As sho enters woman- | hood, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip- tion builds up end. strengthens the systou and regu- lates and pro- motes the func tions. It’s a sup- a ening ering tonic, and @ quieting, strengthening nervine. It’ cor- Tecis and cures all those delicate derange- | ments and wealmesses to the sex. Tn every case for whit the “ Favorite Prescription ” is to give satisfaction. “If there's no help, | there's no pay. It does all that's claimed for | it, or the money is refunded. | _it'sa risky way to sell it—but it isn't your risk ‘The manufacturers take all the risk by sell- ing them on trict! It's an insult to your intelligence for any dealer to attempt to sub- stitute other medicines for these, by recom- mending them to be “ just os good,‘ only that he may make a larger profit. ‘AS SSRRESRRSSSEBERERRTSESESEEESS | $ Wusox & Cue | sa: Buy | Ladiest and Gents’ Extra | $3 w. ac. Famous ek eenaaliocn: is 23.50 ae — aerate and. give severity to New Regulations Submitted to the Commis-|when “new. cule were made ted oe | regulations, the Die- cold weather froze the ground and. pipes, considerable inconvenience was caused, as the fills bad to remain open until a thaw came. and the bad condition of the surface work jeft by the plombers and unauthorized persons, who cut the pavements without « per- mit, was not only a menace to healdi, but an eyesore to the conmmunity, | regard require Torty-eh } | The new regulations in this the refilling of the trench within forty hours after making the connection or repairs, | ‘and further gives the Commissioners am i authority to compel the observance of =| Heretofore there was noth- | ing positive as to the authority | for charging fees for excavations in pavements | to cover the cost of repairs: the new regulations remedy this'and make the authorit fic. Another important regulati which requires the submission of plans and epecifica tions of the proposed plumbing in new houses. | Heretofore this was not required. Under the head of honse sewers and connec- tions there is an important regulation which | provides that where the builiing is drained to- | ward the front the house sewer must be of | extra heavy cast iron pipe until it connects with the main sewer, THE LOCATION OF PIPES, and a good deal of it, comes to the clothes that are washed without Pearline. It’s spelled differently, -but it gets there just the same. With Pearl- ine, the rub, rub, rub that | say oe - the hard wear and ; © hard work is left out. tion of soil, drain, waste and vent pipes, which | Practically, it washes without is considered of the utmost importance. The if old regulations practically made ne provision | YOU, and without any of the in this regard, but the following in what the new | troubles, drawbacksand losses re} ns propose: San cot, Gedo, onstosnd ema pipes shat be that you want to avoid. But located inside of buildings. Every soil and | vent pipe shall be of iron or lend with sereened, | leaded or wiped joints and shail be #0 located as to be accessible for inspection. Pipes of the | kind shall be kept above ground if practicable.” THE EXAMINATION OF PLOMRER The new regulations concerning the examin: tion and registration of plumbers do not mate- rially differ from those now in existence, except provision is made for the examination of jour- neymen plumbers. They, however, are framed to give the Commissioners full jurisdiction over you can always depend upon three things that Pearline washes with. ‘These are case, safety and profit. = A Sorrrie Banoaws by Dress plumbers and power to enforce the regulations 3 governing sam 3 ‘The Commissioners will at once enter upon a 433) - consideration of these regulations and after aj = proving same cause them to be published in full. After considerable negotiation we bate ome > The Argue Club, The fifth anniversary of the organization of the Arguo Club was celebrated by dinner at the Cochran Inst night. Toasts were respon@! to as follows: “Arguo Club,” George A. Prevost; “Debte,” Robert J. Boyd; “Politics,” W. Spen- coeded tn securing at a great sacrifice from an importer 120 pieces or about 6,000 yards of Botany Crepons ‘This ts one of the very latest styles in Dress Gouda and comprises All the desirable colors snch as nay, ear cer Armstrong Harry English; net, reseda, myrtle, gray, golden brown, ind of the cardinal, seal and black. ‘Thie qualtty and Henry Talbott; The ladies,” Vernon : Vocal musio exq Force | style of coods Dave never heen offered by . Prevost, Young and Bisph luded with di 0 fol- Us or any other house for les then Sie. OUR SURPRISE BARGAIN PRICE Oxty 296. Pex Yann we BARGAINS SS GOODS, but tuiete teen able to offer Mr. Ferdinand Schmidt, . Dr, Compton, Messrs. H Newcomb, Geo. . A. 1. Pattison, H.T. A. Prevost, Robert J. Bovd. Henry Telbott, W. W. Willoughby, Hodges, W. 8. Armatro L. si May, Harry English, Warren 8. Young, C. 1. Sturtevant and J. W. Wheatley, Mra. Schmidt, Mra. Peck, Mrs. Pattison, Miss Daven; Belle Davenport, Mra, Mc Boyd, Miss Baldivin, Miss Willoughby, folk, Mrs, Siddons, Miss Cha Dean, Mrs, Wheatley, Miss Dillon, ave given you w this season in 0 the greatest we've you way it“ They aren woods, and if we Miss a TIS Market space Ww Tue Grip Boxe on one of the cable cars | near the foot of Capitol Hill this morning. and | ~ haker: up. | C. Grace, who is employed at Lansburgis violently thrown down and rendered unconscious, When she recovered consciousness, she complained of severe pain | in her head and back. | LOMINe’ ACGuSUM AIT R.N ATH ANSON S, ATHANSONS, ¢ a a a er Unlike Unsoluble Cocoas, which are In- digestible, and Cocoas adulterated with * Starch, Van Houterts Best Best sraberae Necklaces a ATHANS! ANSON, s | RN veciat, Norict lal cas I, ! and Goes Farthest)— THE PAIR is now open with a fall Mae of the Pinewt Farniture Also te Twenty per ner an leaves no Sediment on | the bottom of } vent lower than any house tn Wasi For this week only © on Folding Bois from £10 to 850. The same Bede tng at from, 812 to O00. Give me wall and be convimesd that THE F ALK As whe place to wake your purcuanes, the cup. SMITH, THE AT PRICE CUTTER, Nos 743and 7 7th st now. commerot Mi xt, cet Towery Tories Ov Lerennsr Ar Wim & Eowoxsrowa now received cor To Tue Lanes Or Wasnrsarox ye of the best BRASS M4 let ot Attend nner tao tut Wo take pleasure in announcing to you end your | friends that AL SALE OF SAMPLES OF | FINE FOOTWEAR 4 . Wrawacre & 1205 PA. AVE. NW. For New Year se Woe nica x In every Porrens in this country than those of A. F, Swith. ‘There are jourand patrs of them, «izes mostly 3, 35 | and4—A, Band € widths. We bought these goods at | alarge discount, and are therefore able to sell them | Ww cost to manus Ing 83, 3} or 4 shoe should not fail to Y one We: attend this "s 86.00 Hand-made French Patent Calf To are praised by every one in the elty. se tell your husband, sous and nephews to call | and examine them. TERU FORKS, SPOONS. | And ueny other ueetul articles 5 ‘ TD Tar Wasrex Snoz Hovse, | 1115 F Sr N.W. Tae Price | nthe future : as iaromraxr- | M._W. Bevensor Still it is not the chief feature. Poor dentistry is in- 1215 F Asp L2G Sr. er finitely worse than none. Weeolictt your patronage | —— uaa teathastctaccl solely on the merit of our work. ‘That the prices are " low is incidental and due to superior tacititieeandtbe | AF awovs Sill which produces rapidity. In Dentistry tiwe ts | pueNcM CHEF Se ee eee Ry mane S| nas entes “away evhet eatteats the stock pot, and the Buest stock pot An ash Pliance, can do work quicker they can naturally do ft cheaper than operators with less skill and poorer equipment. That they can do it with less pain follows, ‘a8 @ matter of course. (Cleaning, Te. Silver Fillings, 75e, ; Platina, Goid Fillings, according to size. Litsio Companys Exrascr Or Beer» = Our $3.50 Comfort is Shoes are Very, Very $5- Leather Lecxins._ Popular. | | ere anne {= | Our $8and810Shoes | = | Fer Gentlemen | | i | Are the Hirhest Skilled | { lee i In the Land. Russet Binchers. fg Buy W.& C. Wusox & Cazn Ss Evening = and 920 F ST. N.W. $3 Reception $3 Stippers Baltimore Store, Dress goods of all at bottom prices Drow €-0d quality very ebea> All-wool Skirts, $1 and 61.25. Soe ees 2 os Genuine only with stensture te Vatuable 1D improve! and econeme coukery. For Soups, Sauons sud Made Dishes. VERY BEST TEETH, $8.00. COR. 7TH AND D STS. x. a15-4h.t0 ~~" A Coe Grameen ASS wt LUTZ & BRO, 497 Pean. ave., edjoining National Hotel ‘Horse Blankets and Lap Kobes at low prices, ecke