Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1893, Page 2

a, ~ THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY. sanvary, There was also another sale of some moment from the fact that the vy is located in what has been termed the new business section of the city. building 733 13th street. It has a frontage of twenty-one feet and the lot hasa depth of sixty-seven feet. The price paid was over $10 per foot. The purchaser was Mr. Worch, the | music dealer, and it is his purpose to remodel the building for the accommodation of his business, with the ultimate inténtion of erect- ing & handsome new structure on the site, A PROPOSED AVENUE IMPROVEMENT. It is possible that there will be ted on the north side of Pennsylvania avenue a fine new business building. Mr. E. F. Droop is anxious to secure better quarters than those he now oceupies on that thoroughfare between 9th and 10th street. The owner of the buildi which he occupies, in conection with Mr. John W. Boteler. has had s proposition presented involving the removal of the nt structure, which has a frontage of fifty feet and extends back to D street. On this site it is proposed to erect fine modern four-story balding. Ttie = wn whether this proposition will be accepte | but im the event that it is and the building is | erected it will be a notable departare in the | history of Penosylvanin avenue. The number of out-and-out new buildings that have been erected on that «ide of the avenue within the memory, not exactly of the oldest inhabitants, but at any rate of not very young inbabitants, could easily be enumerated on the fingers of one hand. The buildings that were erected be- fore the war have been made to serve the needs of modern business as well os they could. That this duty has not been very well performed is shown by the fact that Pennsylvania avenue no longer occupies the porition of the leading business street of REAL ESTATE GOSSIP. ‘ : the city. ‘That it willalways be one of the most The Rapidly Expanding Area of the prominent thoroughfares of the city le not Greater Washin questioned, but there is no doubt that it will not regain its prominence as a business center as long as the present policy is pursued of bi Le allowing old antiquated buildings to occupy the BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. | valuable mites. THE ROCK CREEK IMPROVEMENT. Independent of the sanitary considerations, which are without question of the greatest im- portance, the arching over of Rock creck, as is pow proposed, will hare an influence on prop- erty valuen some distance sway from, the tines of the creek. Not only will the land in the gorge of Rock creek be reclaimed for building sites, but nearly all that part of Georgetown which is now on the eastern ontekirts of that town will be made a part of the fashion- able residence section of the —north- west. Tho most desirable residence sec- tion of Georgetown is naturally the high ground in the northwest, just as is the case im thie city. ‘The locality in the vicinity of Rock eresk has been for years the ragi wally being made triba- | cage of the town. But with Rock creek prac- tary to this center of | sicalty obliterated, the ravine filled an popriation. It used to | Jand brought to grade, what is to prevent the be said that Washing- | extension of the same high-class improvements tou bad no outlying | that have advanced on the east side right up to wine | the edge of the Rock creek ravine? It is evi- A Proposed Improvement on Pennsylvania Avenue—The Effect on Land Values of Arch- ing Over Rock Creek - Hotels and Railroads im the City—Other Matters of Interest. cnet HERE IS NO FEAT- ure of the present de- velopment of this city that is more impressive than the wide extent of territory that is grad- region of country to | Gent that not only the property in the immo- draw upon, that | diate vicinity of Rock creek would be benefited country was sparsely | by this proposed improvement, but the effect of the change would be felt throughout a large area to the west. ‘MR. GOLDEN'S RESIDENCE. In @ conspicuous location overlooking the settled and contributed but little to the city the way of bux While at one time there round for scha statement than - oe Sco Me cecens |aeiel cael Sank opgactin Woe Natensl. Maccns dostint as the center ofa lnrge territory be- | Mr. Robert A. Golden has chosen tho spot to ; ; | build bis residence. With all the accompani- Sete t tes eket he 19% | mente of suburban life lot, plenty of air ‘This defect m being remedic by very rapidly of electric and other lines of If all the enterprises that are now be- ad suntight, the city’s great park in front with its interesting buildings, and yet few | Minutes’ walk of the center of the ci may indeed be said to be well ch imposing exterior with its maasive | trance is but the covering of a remarkably well- planned and closely studded interior. On en- materialize the | ems @ development of the ton that will exceed in extent (the most sang Wlvocates eee eee ton miine | tering the visitor is ushered into a spacious re- ‘itt mot mark the confines of the terri. | ception ball, which is wainscoted and trimmed sei atars te this crte. Thee heve alrenty | ith old oak. The ceiling is ribbed with heavy oak timbers and panneled, and the broad, low pintform stairway, inclosed by a delicately carved but massive screen, is treated in a simi- Jar manner. A specially designed,mantel, with large mirror and beavy black electrolier, will add to its beauty. The parlor is treated in eberry and will make a most attractive room. Mount Vernon. Arling. | It delicately tinted walls will offset the more Ito the south end of the | Sotuber effects and heavier details of the large | tn the Norfolk ant Western | hall which adjoins. At tho other side of the teens 6f hn Dele |main hall and opening into it is| Built thea two steam roads will p the dining room. This is treated in sae yaad the Obl Domieton adjacent | 2 Same generous manner. The large open che empital which at preseut has very made- | replace, the tall oak wainscoting, recessed consed to do that, but the process of expansion hax apparently taken a f rt. itis even roposet to make Alexandria a suburb of this ity, and if there was any war to get across the the existing bridges Wash- connected by an electric m Virginia. The latter Toed with ite atster place = now china cioset and warm tones of the walls give | ita charming effect. ‘The private stairway, | kitehen, pantry and store room, although adja~ cent to the dining room, are so arranged as to be entirely isolated and add to the charm and | convenience of the house. The second floor | bas four large chambers, as well as two bath and linen rooms. The upper floor has the same | number of rooms and a bath. ‘The front cham- ber on the second floor has been selected by Mrs. Golden ss her own, and adjoining it is a bath and dressing room. The baths are tiled wainscoted and fitted with porcelain and | marble fixtures. The basement is given over to a billiard room, laundry. boiler and fuel | ilities A WIDE AREA OF INFLUENCE. An electric railroad has already started north on Rockville, and although that ite way to flourishing town is some twenty m iles away it fe already looked npoa asa part of the suburbs of this city. The building of a road up through the rich farming country in the vicinity of Burnt Mille and Sandy Springs has recently » columm and the com- dvance the circle of ty some 20 miles in that onecl to buuid an eleetric ad Testers i iatance | room. Throughout the building is avery con- thorus-kasther twenty, | Yenience and device to make the house com- and they want s more intimate | fortable and pretty. There are closets and store rooms in plenty, all well placed, and every ‘oom looks out into the sunlight. “The archi- tect is W. J. Palmer. OUR MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. ery Congress contains a number of peo- observes the Builiting Register, ‘who are either incapable of appreciating the relations €onnection with this city. inalready « road chartered to run to Great Falls and be- od, another twenty-mile point. In fact, in whatever direction from the city one chooses to £0 be Suds capital i ready to spend money to ing distant points in eloser union with the €ity. There is no factor rather series of facts, The: that pres wach a practical, graphic man- per ths growing greateoss of ike eine ahaa | of the national capital to the country at large those that have becn merely gives in outline | OF have other reasons not creditable to them for p- mane : | Opposing its interests whenever any matters le efiitten to« = relating to it arise for discussion. We do not Se een ote na mnt aes. ab S| Cased Gat ae teaprommaenh of «lagna Te Tinllt ae cho | €ipality like Washington furnishes no. oppor- agh which they are to | nity for speculation in real estate in conse- There is some talk of | quence of its growth, nor would we deny that dt, etrect exte some of the speculation is promoted in antag- am to the public interests, but we do con- 1 that the expenditure of the public moneys managed as judiciously and far more eeonom- pent Obie road to | ieally by the municipal authorities under the pal apron | present form of government here than are the expenditures of any other municipal corpora- Were, there are a great many fing roads, which will no a Beets of the sections thr seem to warrant bailing » ri the termini branch of the Build » link to that y ru tion in this country. As to the speculators on in the sw the legitimate prosperity of the city it is hardly i of hotels. worthy of our space to state that this class ae as yet. It ix pro- | Would be present wherever thecapital might be ing to baila a hotel at | ested and the same reasoning will apply as to the claim that other cities would be gia@ to pay ail the municipal expenses for the privilexe of | having the ofhces of the general government among them.” A ROW OF TEN HOUSES. Ten houses will be built by Mr. W. Bedford | on Madison street between 17th and 18th streets, Indiana lime stone will be used on the fronts up to the first story sills, press brick the rest of the way. ‘The form is diversified by alternate Joctagonal bays. The octagon bays n balconies at the third story with F nish. The other bays continue to | the mansard roofs of blue slate. The interiors, | Gnixhed in yellow pine, will have furnace beat, tiled baths and vestibules, and all modera | equipments. A BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT. The store and dwelling of John Hofman on 9th street woutheast, near Pennsylvania avenue, isto be remodeled in accordance with plans prepared by L. PF. Gracther, architect. The wd to erect @ band oat of some $35,000. roperty the be included nd comprises some Jat the priceagreed upon lente per aqnare foot, not as of any value. Ske rION @vunting the impr Mr. A. Bargdorf is organizing s syndicate | building will be three stories in height with a for the erection * building in the square bay window reaching to the second Hortheasters section of the city. That part of | story. On the first floor will be « store room, y bas built up so rapidly recently that | ining room, ball and kitchen. A parlor with ee demand for all the conveniences, and | Scores and arches, siceping apartments and fe this list i certainly a market house’ The | bath will cecupy the second floor. The rest of the house will be used for bed rooms. Heat ill be furnished by latrobes and grates. TWO GEORGETOWN moUSES. ‘Thirty-first street near U will receive an im- provement in the handsome dwellings that will ation selected is at the corner of 6th and H It is also proposed to erect ya building where secret hep neg hee at Mehash be built for Mr. F. P. Leech. The desi Doctheest Thetween ced tes me stseet | furnished by E. Woltz, architect, provides for Bouse nt a cost of 20,00. ‘The drowines ae | te three-story and cellar houses, with fronts Completed by Architect E. Woltz esil for a cir- of press brick and Hummelstown brown stone. Cular building of brick, stone and iron, one | Sguare bare with eircular corners and topped story im height and 120 feet in diameter. "The | Of with gables will extend to the mansard roofs fee fg root ia finished ‘with = eapela, | of biue slate, White pine will finish the in- - cece SS Seas ee teriors. On the first floors will be the parle fog The wealle Toe Te a ae teat i Pless- | reception halls, dining rooms and butler’s pant = yg ty ; try. The remaining floors will be devoted to building, presenti dd s both novel ant conrenient, "phe | sleeping apartments and baths. Good effects 1 pane wave, eight feet wide, add to the | #2 {ling wil beautify the baths, vestibulos aud feeilities. “The floors are laid with granolithte | D9ft} Keating will build s house on SSth. evement. A feature of the market house will | 4) heats voy! the cold-atorage department, which has a | between E and S streets from designs prepared capacity for 1.600 tone of ice.” The buliding | Bf Mallory & Tevlor, architects, It will ‘have » with a two-story stable in the rear. A square bay window, exten to the third story and ending in « balcony, ornament the front of press brick and Indiana | lime stone. roof will be a mansard of blue slate, topped of with a pediment. ‘The interior | figish on the first floor will be white pine, ile poplar will be ured to good advantage on | the other floors. ‘The house is to contain eight rooms and bath, have furnace heat, electric lia, cabinet mantels and all first-class equip- | Bouts mithas been issued. and work will begin ther permits, m the ty have more than instance, two large of Indiana suction and the © passing interost. For Pesidences o evenue were - 4) street Just son: id at The property has a fromtage of 54 feet, with an average depth of about 112 feet to perty in alley. A few years Ae as others indicates SOME NEW BUILDINGS, } Mr. Aaron Bradshaw will build « three-story | dwelling on North Carolina avenue, between , in fact, one of | Architect K. Staniey Simmons. ‘The front will the hickly populated sectious of the city, | be of Indiana lime stone up to the second joist, end while it & the center of the fashtonable and the remaining portion of « a» wae the case before the war, | This house will be “substantial, well-to-do citizens | order Way be found there. The property in question is the | the | ‘the third. The house will contain sfx rooms, and be trimmed in soft woods and heated by l Belt & Dyer have bad. plans made for cling their planing mill end office at 13 streeta. Among improvements f Fe ae + £8 Som ‘was spent in the county, $142,365. = west section, $68,441 in the northeast, $90,965 in the southeast and $7,640 in the southwest, Mr. Edward builder, will shortly the erection of six houses on K atreet between North Capitol and Ist streets northwest. will be finished in an attractive style, with bay windows, mansard towers, each house to have a distinctive desi mings of ‘the same material. The interiors will be finished very attractively, with cabinet mantels, £0. Messrs. J.D. Croiasant & Co. have recently made several sales in the subdivision near the American University eite. They have sold lots 77, Band 29, toK. V. McMurray of Pennsylvania: lot 12, in block, 16, to Pro Bruno Boezinger of Fort Worth, Texas; lots 26, 27 and 28, in block 17. and lot'29, in block 16, to Geo. 'H. Corey; lot 37, in block 18, to ‘Wm. T. Morris, and lot 17, in block 54, to Prof. 0. E. Mills, both of Boston. ‘The following sales have been made by Charles Yarly, real estate broker: Hoube No. to McCullouch, for $5,000; houses Nos. 1715 and 1717 N street nofthwes for John W. Hobbs, to Joseph R. Johnson, for £€25,000; lots 80 to $8, square 67, F street north- west, for Joseph R. Johnson, to Jno. W. Hobbs, for $10,119; ten lots on Madison street north- west between 17th and 18th streets, for Charles Early, to Theo. W. Bedford. for $34,000; six lots on Quincy street, West Eckington, to Alex. Millar, for $7,696; one lot on Quincy street, West Eckington, to W. J. 8. Millar, for $1,225; three lots on T street between 17th and 18th streets, for Charles Early, to L. L. Apple, for $9,900; house No. 1707 2ist street northwest, for Cyrus Mantz, to John DeWitt Arnold, for 212.000; lot on Willard street northwest be- tween 17th and 18th streets, for Hen ry E. Hin- man, for $2,200. ee BROOKLAND. Mr. C. A. Degges and family of Washington have removed to one of Mr. Caton’s houses on Frankfort street near Argyle. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Boggs are making their home with Mr. and Mra. Robbins while await- ing the finishing of their new house on Dover street, Mr. Minnich is staying with Mr. E. T. Davis on 12th street for the remainder of the winter. Miss Norris bas succeeded Mra. ©. H. White ‘as station agent at University. Frozen windmills, water pipes and pumps bave commanded Brookland’s most serious at- tention during the prevailing cold weather. Coasting hus been indulged in to the fullest ex- tent, both on the sidewalks and open hillsides, and many accidents, serious and slight, bave resulted. Work is progressing favorably upon the new hall in spite of wintry drawbacks. ‘The Queenstown Mite and Literary Society held a very pleasant meeting this week at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Fisher, The rogram incladed a piano duet by Mrs: RB. jest and Mra. C. G. Lynch, songe by Mins Eva Fisher. Mrs. Weet and Mr. Charies Perry, readings by Mr. Rowell and Mise Nellie Middic~ kauff and an instrumental solo. Among those present were Rev. and Mrs. R. R. West, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Lord, sr., Mrs. J.B. Lord, fe Mr. ire. C. G. Lynch, Mra. N. B. Ma- lone, Mrs. , Miss Lena Biret, Misa Kitty Biret, Miss Thompson, the Misses Middlekauff, Grosnlecs, Lynch, ‘Lillie Sohwter, Beatrice Rhine, Lottie Murphy, Jessie Snoots of Brook- land. Miss Anna Paxton and Mise Brennerman of Washington, and the Mesars. J. 8. Green, George Schwier, Warren, Coffin, Adams, Mc- Chesney, Kain, Malone and Snoots of Brook- land, and Mr. Duff, Mr. Clarence Brennerman and Ernest Paxton of Washington. The Brookland Whist Club at its last meet- ing enjoyed the lavish hospitality of Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Brooks in their beautiful hillside home. After many pleasant games choice re- freshments were served and then followed music and dancing, which wound up an excced- ingly pleasant evening. Amon; ing the occasion were Miss Lola Young, Miss Fan- nie Browner und Mr. Dubammel of Washing- i of Charleston, 8. C., tho a nd Mrs. Carmick, Mr. Louis Mr. and Mra. Barton, Mr. and Mrs. Woodward, Mr. and Mrs. Hetfield, Capt. and Mrs. Baumer, Mrs., Miss and Mr. Jullien, Misses Francene, Mary and Fannie Marean, Miss Burr and Mr. Albert Burr. The Brookland branch of the W. C. T. U. held quite an animated meeting at the resi- dence of Mrs. J. J. Fisher yesterday evening. A special committee, of which Mrs. Louise Tado is chairman, was appointed to arrange ® program for a public meeting in the near fu- ture, ‘The next business meeting will be at the residence of Rev. E. G. Tae. Quite an excitement was created near the station about 4 p. m. yesterday by the running away of Mrs. C. C. Murphy's horse. Mrs. Murphy was thrown out of the vehicle, but not injured, and the horse continued on’ his way home, doing very little damage. + Chicken pox and measles have joined the whooping cough in its epidemic march through the neighborhood, and it is well to keep the children closely at home. a TAKOMA PARK. At a meeting of the council, held in the chapel last evening, it was decided to allow the Takoma, Burnt Mills and Sandy Springs Elec- tric railroad the right of way through the days. relatives in Buffalo. months’ visit in Pennsylvania. Mra. Sheaver of Freeland, Md. couple of days with her daughter, White. Mrs. C. H. a Firing Scores by Cyclists. ‘The second separate company, D. C. N. G. highly gratified with the following results: First Lieut. Story, ©, B. Corp. Howell, R. D. Corp. Minnix, N. M. Private Lund, J. 3 Private Croxton. Private Anderson, Private Jenks, C. Priy EW. C} i a Private Grounseil, W.X, 32 Private Wooldridge, L. J. a7 Volley firing—Company perchntage, .8883¢. Lieat. Le Le King acted ao inapecto. peepee ta A Probably Fatal Coasting Accident. Probably a fatal coasting accident oocurred at Haarlem, on the Conduit road, about 7:30 velocity of the sled to steer clear of » passing wagon, and it strack the wheels with such force that bis skull was fractured. He was picked up insensible and the seventh precinct officers sent him to the Emergency Hospital. They will be two-- streets of Takoma, work to begin within ninety | they’ named Mrs. 8. S. Shedd returns today from a visit to | fitly describe these countries today, henco there Mra. M. C. Becker has returned from a two | ous climate. spent a | seasons, a Miss Bertie Eilenberger of Woodbury, N. J.,| them to give thia namo to a land. Every is visiting her cousin, Miss Edyth Page, on| boy in New England knows frost grapes, Maple avenue. which are not bad eating in the fall, and these (qyetiata), on of the ‘range at the | Ores from the cold regions of Scandinavia and gallery Thursday evening. This being their | One thing is certain, that if these people have first appearance at the range the members were | come to higher temperature they have made a great 26 i Beck, * Gp | deal lower than feet tnigen Ww. ‘A & 4 = probable that the richer soil and the attractions Sergt. Wiggin, S. H. 97 | of freedom have been far more potent than the Corp. McQueen, 3. 3. T7194 | desire for a change in climate in inducing this STII! gg | immigration. 41 | 2# in this country is regerding the remarkable 24| warmth in western Europe and whother the ~ 14} conditions producing that warmth aro ever | ap | likely to be experienced here. It is not to be un- + ga | derstood tha (21, 1893-SIXTEEN PAGES 38 OUR CLIMATE CHANGING? ing lecture last night at the Y. M,C. A. build- ing upon the subject: “Is Our Climate Chang- ing?” The attendance was very large and the speaker held the close attention of his audience from the beginning to the close of his remarks. In commencing Prof. Hazen said: The question before us’ is much more perti- ent than it woe when chosen threo weeks ago. ‘Washington has just pessed through the most serious and protracted cold season that it has bad in twenty-two years or since accurate ob- above ; : grees above; that is to say, for fourteen con- | secutive days the maximum has been below 94 | Ordinarily in that period the maxi- mum temperature goes below freezing but about three times each year, and the greatest number is only eignt, and once only bas the maximum been below freezing for four con- ys. The average January omy tare is 83 degrees, but in this period it has been only 15 or 18 degrees below the normal. the average Washington 1s 28 degrees warmer than *k in January, but this year, in this a it bas been only 5 degrees warmer; that is to say, Bismarck been 5 degrees warmer than usual, while Washington hes been 16 colder than usual. This is a most remarkable and unheard of state of affairs and may well lead us to ask the question that is be- fore us 4 THEORY THAT WILL Not HOLD. It is evident that the usual theory that in our cold waves we get the cold air from the north- ‘west will not hold, because it has been warmer than usual there and very much warmer rela- tively to this city. This cold period has oc- curred under rather singular conditions. in that | it has been exceedingly cold to the southward, #0 that south and southwest winds have warmed this city but little. ‘This cold has not been due to marked and extensive cold waves traversing the country. It certainly is not due to any change in our climate. For reasons not clearly understood there has been a marked diminu- j tion in temperature to enormous heights in the atmosphere and this has caused a steady and extended cold period. The ‘motion of high ‘reas bas been very rapid, and in connection with this the air has ‘not been heated as much as usual. We may add to thie the testing mantle of wow and the frozen ground, which have both contributed to the great cold. A great mans facts have been collected to prove that our climate hay changed within his- toric times or say within 6,000 years. a oper place to consider changes brought about ta Le ic times or within 20,000 or 100,000 years. There havo also been about as many facts adduced to show that there has been no echange and about as many more to show that it has grown colder. f It ie snid that Arabia has gradually become @ desert, but we find that this country was called desert 3,000 years ago. Itis true that there is and always bas been a very arid region around the edges of Arabia, yet we ore told that in the high plateau region of the interior there is a teeming population supported by a well-watered soil. LITTLE CHANGE IN THE CLIMATE. The land of Palestine is, however, the best example for showing that we have the same or nearly the same climatic conditions that were existent thousands of years ago. ‘There seems to bo a good deal of misapprehension about the climate of this land,.notwithstanding that the country has been studied and talked about more than any other. A writer in Tur Evex- INO STanalittie while ago stated that no rain occurs there in January and February, whereas nearly half the twenty-four inches of the year f these two months. Many of the au- thorities give the rainfall as fifty-two to sixty inches in a year, an amount which is equaled in ery few placesin this country. It is prob- that the number of days of rain has been mistaken for the amount in inckes. The time of harvest is just the same as it was centuries ago. The time of the floods in the Jordan when “it overflows all ite branches" has not changed. ‘The date polm and the vine still grow in favored localities. It seems probable that marauding parties and general neglect of the land are the Principal causes for the present deserted con- dition of this land, and not » marked change of climate. In Egypt plants have been found in mummy cases 3,000 and 4,000 years old which are the same as those found there now. It would be very interesting to determine whether or not plants today are a4 stocky or as tall as they were centuries ago. Unfortunately the earlier actual observations of temperature and rainfall were so crude that it is impossible to obtain anything buta doubtful anawer to the que before us—that is, they do not prove any change in climate one way or the other. We have tem- perature observations going badk to 1720 and Fainfall to 1690, though somewhat broken in each case. Another class of records, ench a8 time of wine harvest and breaking up of the ice in rivers, go much farther back. For example, dates of ‘Vintages in France are recorded back to 1880. A summary of the records gives in each fifty years period the following average date: First period, September 22; 2d, Septem- ber 26; Sd, September 27; 4th, September 28; bth, September 28; 6th, September 23; 7th, Sep- tember 24; 8th, October 1; 9th, October 2, and 10th, September 27. Here ina period of. five hundred years there has been no appreciable change in the time of the harvest; all the dates hover around the latter part of September in each year. We have records of the breaking up of ice in the Duna river in Russia back to1530, The follow- ing are the average dates in perioils of fifty years: First period, March 27;2d, March 28; $d, eh 19: 4th, March 26; 5th, March 25; 6th, March 27, and 7th, March 27. ‘Here again there has been no change in three hundred and fifty Yfars im the average date of ice breaking up at or near the mouth of this river. je also have hundreds of records of very severe winters, going back to the time of Chri but, making due allowance for the spirit of ex- oggeration in a time when telegraphs and news- papers were unknown, and for the farther fact that only the most ‘eevere winters would be noted, we have no evidence that the character of the winters in Europe has changed. HOW COUNTRIES WERE NAMED. It is said that early voyagers to Iceland found so much ice and snow, with such a rigorous climate, that they gave the land the name it bears to this day. Again, some of these Ico- landers on skirting the coast reached «land which they called Greenland, from its appear- ance, and, going still farther down the coast, our own favored New England Vinland, but neither of these names would must have been changes to a much more rigoi re told, however, that Green- land presents a beautiful’ appearance at some ind it is easy to see that it would not require a great deal of green to these men from the inhospitable lands farther north to induce would suffice, a thousand years ago, to give a land the name Vinland. It is also enid that im- migrants in great numbers aro flocking to our eland, and this shows a gradual refrigeration. itoba and north Minnesota for a take, for the winter temperature is a good here they have lived. Tt seems One of the most interesting considerations for ¢ this warmth is an indication of a more, bealthfal climate; on the contrary, ex- with cholora and other epidemics seome indicate just the 0 ite. Here isacountry much of which lies 800 miles farther north than much of our country, or as fur north as Labra~ Many explanations have been given to account for thoes conditions differing Agertha One of the earliest, which is held by some to this day , however, we are exceedingly ignorant. Glaisher found the diminution of temperature in his balloon about one di aE Hacerstowx, Jen. 20, 1898. For six weeks past this little city, nestling quietly up in this beantiful valley, surrounded by mountains, has been snow bound, ice bound and generally isolated. A coal famine stares it in the face, local dealers being without adequate supplies, while the Washington County Water Company has notified the city authorities of its inability te supply water for fire purposes. This deficiency does not stop here, but many families are bereft of water for simply culinary purposes, while manufactories are compelled to shut down. Wherever the supply of water reaches there is much tribulation—frozen and burst Pipes and harvest for plumbers, whose serv- ices are at a premium and can hardly be obtained at any price. For twelve years past nosuch weather as is now being experienced has struck this locality. Frozen water pipes are bursting all over the city, and the main }» four feet beneath the ground, are frozen. i. Paul's Methodist Ey 1 Church, this city, was the cen of a very pretty fushlosable wedding on Thursday, the con’ Parties Boing Ms. Harry B. Irvin and Miss Lula Me- Laugblin, both of this city. Mr. Percy Mo- Comas of Washington was best man, the bride being given away by Capt. John R, King of the custom house of Baltimore. Rev. Hartsock, pastor of St. Paul's, performed the ceremony, while Miss Rose Vost played wedding march. Both the bride and groom “have ‘numerous friends in Washington. “Uncle Sam” is looking out for recruits for thearmy. Lieut. Newton of Fort McHenry, Baltimore, bas opened a recruiting office 1a this city. Kate Watts isn colored woman residing at Indian Spring, this county. She now occu; a cell in the jal ander arrest by a United tates marshal for writing a letter containing improper language, nton Oliver, at one time a member of the Maryland legislature, is dead, at the age of seventy tl ry, at eighty-five years; John Long of Rohrersville, aged thirty-one years, the latter of consumption; David Artz, formerly of the whol grocery firm of 8. M. Bloom & Co., this city, and of one of the best known families aunty, at the age of thirty-nine years. étton for $10,000 damages was en- circuit court of this county against the Hagerstown Daily Mail for libel by Col. W. F. M. MeCarty of this city. growing out of strictures made by the Mail on a franchise granted McCarty, who represents Washington and Baltimore capitalists, for a street railway for Hagerstown. Mr. Davis Starliper of Washington is visiting friends in this county. Mrs. Julia Kriner, residing near Roadside, in the adjoining coanty of Franklin, Pa, was frozen to death an evening or twoago. "She had spent the night with a neighbor and left for her home early the next morning. Several hours afterward her body was found on the roadside frozen stuff. Our neighbors across the river at Martinsburg are greatly rejoiced over Senator Faulkner's re- election, which is joined in by many friends and admirers in this county. Mr. Henry Lambert of this county is a sound sleeper. His house at Locust Grove, this county, caught fire a night or two ago. The upper story of the building burned away and he never awoke until aroused by his neighbors, who found his bed afire from_sparke from th floor above. The house and its contents were destroyed. Mrs. Ann 8. Ebersoll resides at Keedysville, this county. She wiehes to be divorced from her husband and has instituted legal proceed- ings to that effect, In her bill she claims aban- donment. Col. W. W. Stewart is supervisor of the C. Y, railroad. His mother is dead at an advanced ge. In the clerk’s office of this county the first name on the insolvents’ record is that of Jos. I. Sterrett, entered in 1817. The laws were then that a man could be imprisoned for debt and on up to the year 1952, Since then and up to date 2,656 persons have applied for the insolvent laws—the old law of imprisonment being abol- ished evidently accounting for the increase. ,. The Baltimore and Obio Railroad Company is making extensive improvements at Harper's Ferry and in awarding damages have granted Mrs. T. A. Kerwan, $1,850; T. M. Conner, $1,500, and James Cassell, #1,500. The parties in these caves not deeming justice done them have asked for a jury at the February term of court. ‘ The large and handsome residence of Dr. Z. T. Jones, ut Shade Gap, was destroyed by fire. Loss on building. €5,000; loss on furniture, $1,000; insurance, $3,500. People who are careful in their observation of the conditions during a winter declare that the cold during the past six weeks in this re- gion was greater than that experienced in the past ton winters, being equal to that of 1883, which was a notably severe one. Mr. Samuel Tensinger, residing a short dis- tance west of this city, is suffering from abroken leg. the result of falliug upon the ice. ‘Much suffering is being experienced here fro the high price of coal and the scarcity of wood. Mr. Jacob H. Grove has sold his farm near Greencastle, containing sixty acres, to Charles Hester for $82 per acre. Lewis Gantz has sold to Mr. Zentmeyer his two-story brick residence on South Potomac street, this city, for $4,500. Samuel Seibert has sold his brick residence on the same street to 0. W. Miller for $4,000 cash. Mr. James T. Wolf of Cavetown, this county, shipped last season 1,700 baskets of grapes and mace 70 gallons of wine. A citizens’ meeting has been called here to take action, to hold a demonstration on Wash- ington’s birthds B a COLD OYSTER DREDGING. Have to Cut Through Several Feet of Ice Before the Bivalves Can Be Secured. Reports from various points along Chesa- peake bay show a remarkable condition at tho various oyster fields, due to the cold and ice. Atsome points the bay is completely frozen over, the ice forming in the channel as rapidly a6 the icebonts cut it away for the outgoing and incoming vessels. A number of the oyster islands are reported to be completely cut off, the ice being too thick for vessels to come through, and some places too thin to allow safe passage by foot. . The oystermen are, of course, the chief suf- ferers, At Cape Charles they have been resort- ing to various means for getting out oysters, the fancy prices offered by their customers in northern cities stimulating them to work in the fearfal cold despite all obstacles. They cut the ice and tong the oysters out on the ice and barrel them. Then they drive their horses and carte right out on the ice and haut the oysters ore. Some of these oyster beds area mile from the mainland. A remarkable case connected with the recent freeze comes from Cobb's Island, where a gen- tleman walked from there to the mainland on ice, accompanied by a guide,a distance twelve or fifteen miles. A dispatch from Marion station, county, says the Potomacis com} frozen over. W. 8. Richardson, witha gung of twenty five men, is building an oyster on his oyster bed, quite a distance from the shore. down, seized it in its flight heavenward. t began to claw for dear life, and with ‘eect tor 4 zard soon relaxed its pte down, landing on all fours harmed. ~~ example of Rodin to be found ¥ and as in certain qualities he stands at the head of living sculptors, Mr. Yerkes is to be congrat- “ART NOTES. — ftors during the y A ctanding statue, in bronze, of the late Pres- | 10.040 paid the admission fee of 25 cents on pay ident Arthur, by Ephraim Keyser, is shortly to da.set up in New York, in some place’ yet to be in the right hand an and in its left a roll of paper. It is to stand on | pedestal some ten plat the center of a semi-cit bench, at either end of which—some forty feet tands a six- hands « globe, vata cea hare'en cuesiie light, statue is intended asa gift to the cits by a ev pertonal friends of ‘the late President, who jded the funds necessary therefor by vol- ‘Uuntary subscriptions quietly obtained. ‘ A good deal of misinformation has found its | way into print recently in regard to the pro- sought out the deserving j | posed new building for the Corcoran Gallery of and in the very urgent cases have rendered aid | Art, one of the most conspicuous errors being the statement that it will cost a round million or more. It can be truly mid that up to the present time no single conclusion on the sub- | Ject has been reached. The Trustees have be- for them, for suggestive study, several sketch plans, to which they have given more or less consideration, but it will probably be some time yet before a final decision can be made even upon preliminary points,—so many con- Sideratlons are involved and a0 many collateral uestions are to be settled. As the purpose of Qe 'tvestecs ts to provide as far as hooible for the probable future needs of the y, rather than to meet any t pressing demands for room, they will naturally proceed with great deliberation, realizing that it is much easier to correct errorson paper than to remedy mis- takes after they have reached a concrete form in such solid and expensive material as brick, stone, or iron, og There is a disposition among prophets to proclaim that Dutch art is the coming vogue, that it is to replace the fads of the repulsive Realiste, of the Impressionists, of the Luminar- ints; that it is to blot out that sinister tendency to sensationalism which taints some of the modern Frenchmen; nay, that it is to replace the Barbizon school itself. Howover that may be, it is largely conceded that the Dutch school, asa school, represents today the most earnest and sincere, the deepest and most vital prin- ciples in modern art. Imbued with the national spirit, faithfully and persistently it searches out the truths of nature and of human life in the footsteps of its old masters. Its development is from within outward. It strives not for the specious showinoss of technique, the dazzling effect of some striking ‘“coup.”” Simple and direct, it seeks always truth,—and effects. Yet theschool is already passing away. ‘The great names, Israels, Manve, Bosboom, Neubuys, the Maris brothers, are still in the prime of their glory, ‘but as they drop out the younger men who are rising up in their places turn away from the intensity of their ideals into newer and more frivolous pathe. And foreigners, forgetting that the power and charm of Dutch art is in its unconsciousness, by imitating it, making their work thus artificial and conscions, lose the su- preme quality. There are too few examples in Washington of the best Dutch painters. In fact, they are almost unknown here, and for this reason the importance of such a collection as Mr. Thomas E. Waggaman is gathering about him is not generally realized. He bad before a few good Pictures of this school, but his recent purchases Taise tl erage of excellence to something notable. Indeed, it is an unusual thing to have acquired, in a few months, half a dozen water- colors as fine as these later ones. Josef Israels at his best is perhaps the great- est water-color painter now living, and many of those who thoroughly know his works consider the “Dutch Peasant Child in a Baby Chair,” owned by Mr. Waggaman, the best water-color he has painted. Certainly there could be no more delightful rendering of all that babyhood suggests than this baby. this tiny scrap of humanity, alive in every line and touch, alone in space, reaching ont to the cat, to the world beyond. The rich harmonies of color in the background and in the room around are so subordinated that they seem only a sombre shadow, yet they are there. and they serve to ,| concentrate a glow upon the child. Probably next in rank among the new water- colors is one by Jacob Maris, a scene at Dor- drecht, similar in motive to the large oil paint- ing owned by Mr. Waggaman, and not un- worthy the author of this latter, which is one of Maris’ best works, Two superb landscapes by Mesdames Mesdag and Van den Bosse Bilders testify that women artists in Holland have achieved a power and strength as yet unapproacbed by their sisters in other lands. XNeuhuys, “Alone in the World.” is a fine rendering of a dark shadowy interior, and the old woman has character and pathos, but one feels a vague dissatinfaction. ‘omehow, it is hardly a picture; it seems more like « study,—o suggestion for a picture. It fails to group itself around the central point of interest, as the Israels, for instance, does. es Paintings intended for the world’s fair must be gathered together and forwarded before the latter part of February. The jury of selection will then begin its sittings in Chicago. An ex- hibition was opened in Philadelphia on the 16th instant, of the pictures painted by Pennsylvania and southern artists, to be sent to the great fair. This exhibition will close on the 4th of February. Are any of the artists of Washing- ton or of this section of the country to be represented? If so, the fact has not been made Public up to this time, . A new idea in hanging pictures and exhibit- ing statuary has been adopted at the Slater Museum in Boston, This is to bave the paint- ings and sculpture each arranged in carefully selected groups and divided into curtained sec- tions. This plan serves to relieve a sculpture hall of that repulsive aspect complained of by ‘Theodore Child: “How chilling, how dead, how tiresome, is a museum of sculpture! How unsympathetic those rows of statues gaz ing fixedly into space with their big white eyes! Then, in most of our picture galleries. how gratefal it would be to have the eye screened from those vast wastes of “stale, flat, unprofit- able” canvases, and able to rest placidly on one roup ata time! Notonly this. Even in a gal- lery whore all is fine. it is well known what a disadvantage most pictures suffer from being placed with many others around. Thus a pic- ture which looks best at an exhibitian is apt to be one of glaring tones, of bold, striking feat ures, which kill the subdued barmonies, the delicacy or soft richness, of @ finer painting which may be near. “° 5 An interesting feature of the art gallery at the world’s fair will be « retrospective exhibi- tion of American art, to inciude only the works of deceased painters and those painted before 1876. Application has been made to the Corco- ran Gallery for some of its examples by earlier American artiste, and it is understood that the request will be granted. °° ‘An important statue by the great French sculptor, Rodin, “Orpheus and Eurydice,” has been tought by Mr. Yerkes of Chicago. As this is probably the only really ra tative 4 General disappointment is expressed in ar- Of | tistio circles at the want of originality and good Bi 7 HL ri it it days. The number of visitors to the night ex- hibitions year 1892 when the gallery was open -173, the | test number on any one evening being a ttle over three thousand. year | 7,687 catalogs were sold. — LAUREL. Correspondence of The Evening ‘Star Lavart, Mp., January 21, 1898. ‘The suffering poor of this community will | Teceive material assistance from the Woman's Relief Corps of Ayer's Post,G. A. K., composed of ladies of Hyatteville, Laurel and other Points along the Washington branch of the Baltimore and Obio railroad. These ladies have in this vicinity | as individuals, but finding the work too great, | “_ the Academy of Music. A musical and liter- Ary program had been prepared, and the ad- | minnion charged was # pougd of anything that No: would help the suffering. ‘Notwithstanding the A large wagon load of groceries, provis- | ions and clothing was donated and orders for fuel were received. Boxes were sold at auction to pay all expenses, ‘ol. Lang of Baltimore jed_and de- | livered an address on the objects and aims of the Woman's Relief Corps. Miss Buck of Hyattevilie rendered a piano solo, Master Norman Ellisand Miss Helen Ryan of Laurel and Miss Buck of Hyatteville reeited. Miss Nettie Collins and Mra. George E. Baldwin sang solos, and Col. Lang ¢losed with a recitation. Mr and Mra. John E. Crandie day party to their dangh Thursday evening and it was attended by quite & number of the younger Indies and gentlemen of thiscommunity. Theevening was pleasantly spent with games, music and charades, after which abundant refreshments were served. Among those present were: Mines «Hattie Crandle, Etta Zeigler, Daisy Murphy, Bessie Crandle, Edith Zeigler, Elva Milstead, Rosa Crandle, Carrie Milstead, Lena Root, Blanche Zeigler, No s Shaffer’ and Messrs, ‘Eugene Little, Verpon Murphy, Clarence McCollough, John Lilli- bridge, Harry McCollough, Jerome Stewart, Sidnev Brashears, Charles Flester. James Crandie, Fred Flester and Norman Eltis. The lecture by Miss Helen Corinne Borgen of, ton, at the Academy of Music, under | the auspices of Centenary M. E. Church was a decided success so far as the lecture and the lecturer were concerned. The coal supply here run short this week. There is plenty of hard coal for stoves, but soft coal for factories was unobtainable for several days, and the cotton mills, might robe factory and planing mill were compelled to shut down Until a fresh supply could be obtained. railroad company has succeeded in getting its cars through and now these industries are again im operation. Itimore parties are investigating the mat- ter of water power furnish ae two. Patuxent rivers with a view to acquiring the control of them for manufacturing purposes, and it is said that engineers are now engaged in estimating the power that may be obtained from these sources. Miss Lillian Butt of Washington is visiting her sister, Mre. 8. P, Keller, on Washington avenue. Miss Bessie Catrup has been visiting her friends in Baltimore. Miss Lena Brebme is receiving instruction in Paiuting at the Corcoran Art Gallery. Miss Ollie Whitworth is visiting friends in New York. Mrs. Thomas F. Nalls is visiting Mra. William Milstead, Mrs. Stellman of New York is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. RK. H. Sadler. Mrs. Stephen Gambrill is visiting friends in Baltimore. Mr. James Peters of Howard county intends to remove to Laurel and occupy his house on Post Office avenue. _Mrs. John McAfee has returned home after a Visit to friends in Washington. Miss Susie Little 1 visiting her aunt, Mra Col. Fleming. and is singing most delightfully im the choir of ‘the Presbyterian Church while re. Mrs. William Boyd of Philadelphia is visiting her mother, Mrs. Ottomar Brehme. A number of ladies and gentlemen of Laurel attended the ball at Grange Hall, Beltsville, last night. Dr. Frank Waters of Baltimore, after spend- inga week wita friends here, bas returned home, EP. B ——~-_—_ BREAD RIOTS IN AMSTERDAM. A Procession of Unemployed Workmen De- generates Into a Mob. Following the example of their brethren in Brussels, the unemployed workmen of Amster- dam decided to form into a procession to press upon the authorities and citizens the dire poverty which is afflicting the working classes. ‘Yesterday was the time fixed for the procession, and at noon hundreds began to gather from all parts of the city, After getting in order the line was started, a No estimates have been made as tothe num- ber of men who took part, but in view of what | occurred it was fortunate that the large num- ber who did march had no firearms. Asa mi ter of course, the radicals had much, if not all, to do with the procession, and when’ it started many of the men began to baw! radical songs. The procession passed ‘ number of Frincipal streets, growing noisier and more lemonstrative as it was found that the police did not interfere. Finally the mob, for into such the procession had degenerated, stopped in front of a large bakery and attem to take the place by storm. The police were on the alert, however, for anything of this sort,and a number of them were quickly on the scene and prevented the looting of the shop. The police allowed two of the men to enter the bakery to ask for bread. These men demanded food from the prictors and met witha prompt and decided refusal. They then returned to the street, and the mob marched on, yelling, shouting and ery Finally they became so disorderly that a com- any of 100 police attempted to disperse them, @ men resisted and a desperate melee oc curred, in which volleys of stones were thrown at the officers. Several of the gendarmes were juite badly injured. The police, with swords irawn, repeatedly charged the mob, inflicting many sword cuts on the rioters. The procés; sion was finally disbanded, but even then iso- lated batches of the rioters continued fighting SENATOR CARLISLE’S RESIGNATION, Governor Brown Receives It and Notifies the Legtelatare. QGor. Brown of Kentucky received the follow. ing letter in vesterday's 12 o'clock mail: Ho foune Brows, 0: wok es Ske. Veep vecken uke aahoe ed Somer Bioste of Kentucky in the Congress of the ‘States, tg take efinct on the 4th any of joure truly, oa) Gov. Brown hurried « private senate and bouse to remain in minutes longer, amd fotlowed this up tmme- diately with a commanication to the assembl) The honee adjourned bracing the ‘the first message was received. em! before oo — YALE ALUMNI DINE. Chauncey M. Depew Taiko About the Men From New Haven. Yale alumni gathered in New York last night to cat their annual dinner, refresh Yale memo- | meeting of the corps was called by the Indies ries, celebrate Yale victories, sing Yale songs | residing bere, and a public meeting styled | Box Party” announced for Thursday night at the spenkers was and listen to Yale talkers. Foremost among Chauncey M. Depew, the President of the association, who said in part: “The year just closed once more gave to 0 the championship with the oar, the bat and the | severe cold weather the academy was crowded ball, and we enter upon 1898 with rainbows cove | to its utmost capacity, and all brought liber- | ering the Yale «ky. | ally. “The wordy battle as to the merits or de- merits of atbietics is continued and the opinion upon the question is not unanimous. Yale and other colleges are invading the business wor and destroying, by practically snccessful « ples, the theories of my friend Andrew Carnegie and other self-made Pilowophors “Yale has entered the political fi steadily struggled for the control of + ment. In this new departure of practical tices Yale first developed the mugwump the original microbe. “Yale discards the old style of democrat whose stock in trade is the traditions of the cotton bales at the battle of New Orleans and the shibboleth “I ama democrat.’ She pro- duces the intelligence which tames the Tam- many tiger, satisfies the critical mugwamp and corrals’ the Jacksonian mossback. Produces republicans who are achievements, ive of limitless possibilities.” — COUGHLIN TAKEN FROM JOLIET, Locked Up im Chicago Jail to Await a New Jailer Morris and Deputy Spears arrived st Joliet at 2:20 yesterday afternoon with the order of the supreme court for Dan Coughlin. He was taken from the hospital by an officer, where be was assisting doctors in charge of en operation, and hastily dressed and delivered to Jailer Morris at 3 o'clock. ‘oughlin was questioned by reporters in the guard hall and ouiped to speak of his case of bis future. The party arrived in Chicago last ‘evening and proceeded at once to the jail. = _ STABBED HEK OWN SON, Killed Because He Complatned of Not Getting Enough to Eat. Mrs. Martha Taggart, aged forty-nine years, of 310 North 9th street, Philadelphia, is charged with killing her oldest child, a son by ber first husband, Col. Wm. Davisof the sixty-ninth Pennsylvania volunteers, The dead boy is Thomas Davis, only seven- teen years old,and the main support of the family. The mother was arrested immediately after the act,and she made full confession, admitting the murder. For some time past Thomas’ mother bad been giving him lew and iesstoeatat bis meals, and at 630 last night when he retarned home she placed before him a cup of tea and a back- wheat cake, He inquired if that was all there was, and his mother told him that it was. Vhat’s the matter with your supper?” in- quired the boy. “Tcan't cook any more on the stove at the same time,” replied his mother. “You never can, it seems,” said the boy, fret fully. “Ineed more food than this if I am to work and bring home money.” “Don't you give me any impudence,” retorted the mother. She bad in her handat the time s kitchen knife with a blade three and a baif 3 She went to the side of the table and deliber- nicly plunged the weapon into the bof's left reast. “0b, mammie. I'm bleedin’.” he groaned, and starting up be fell into her arms, covering her hands and apron with blood. Mra. Susan Churchman, who lives on the floor beneath, heard the woise in time to help the mother " bed. ‘The husband and little brother were too frightened to act and Mrs. Churchman ran across the street for Dr. Lowe. When te doo- tor arrived he found the boy already dead and immediately summoned Policeman Lewis of the eighth district. ‘At the station house the unfortunate woman broke down and confessed the whole affair, making ber statement complete and Her story was confirmed by John Taggart, the little brother and Mrs. Churchman, The murdered boy bore an exeellent mame for sobriety aud industry and showed some fine traits of cter, and evidently belonged to a better station in life than the one in which he lived. ‘It could mot be ascertained whether Ile father was dead or whether his stepfather was legally married to bis mother, nei STUDENTS RUN A GAMBLING DEN, Startling Discovery Made in the Columbia College School of Mines. In the Columbia College School of Mines at New York there bas been established for the past two weeks a gambling den. Roulette was the popular game and as many as three and sometimes four wheels were run at one time. ‘The place was located in the corner of the basement of the school and the wheels were run in a little nook which was protected from general view by the rear partition wall of the janitors office. The wheels themselves were home-made affairs, cleverly constructed from cardboard. ‘The students who ran the wheels had a little forhours. The leaders of the mob were cap- tured. The affair caused much excitement in the city, and it is feared that further trouble will ‘occur, x. M. C. A. WORK. Beports Made to the Convention at Wil- ——————+o-—____ OUT BY THE KITCHEN DOOR. Director Nikisch and His Musicians to Certain Treatment in New York. Arthur Nikisch and bis Boston ‘A paper on “The Legitimate Scope of the | ts cost of $4,000 will be = — ar ee poet by Reh tine ein me given ot Mrs, Mr. J. E. Pugh . C. on | Theodore Havemeyer's last month and the —-, By Me Thane Miller‘ Oe" ‘second ocourred at the residence of Mr. Harry Meports committes, the | Con, No. 60 5th avenue, on Friday of last state secretary and Tak, Tee third affair was to have boon given presen on ‘Three short papers were read at the fourth had not been noon session: “The dissatisfaction seems to be ‘Work Indoors, concert af Bis. Nand, Ma. aro nated te se D. C,, and “How outof the back ment Aid the Other it to which Mr. bs Nikisob has been. age cirrus ‘The Virginia conte te In the absence ’ ‘The prime object = ‘ote et mine the future action of the association with every consider when and where wh a9 composed Boston, ‘eon Edmonds and Robt. N. ‘others, however, in to treat to select a to accord them ne accorded to ‘that the present diff Pylews of door exits for ME Glaacock this is the emphatic statement of bit