Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1893, Page 10

EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY ~ RECOLLECTIONS. What a blessed thing is memory How it brings u nd hid days. d would return? pleasant associations, while the un- r ssant ones are forgotten. Per. of some friend sad face. It showed marks of pain, lines of care. It seemed to be look- img inte the hereafter, the unknown future. And then you recalled how it brighter how it recovered its rosy hue, how it became a picture of happiness and joy. Do you re-| member these things? Many peo. ; and gladly tell how the calth . urned, » happiness Tecognized professional sport in this com- paren att any agit Da staid Bes pen bateprecers Saeko boas brie Thee tell how they were |ovsuization. He will in future be interested might They tel how they Were | ontyasa stockholder. John M. Ward, who weak, nerveless, perhaps in | was present as» stockholder, eaid he would like tainly unhappy. 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You recall your childhood you not, and wish they You remember the haps te your mind comes the face It was once a pale, rwn universally as the} GRATING TONIC, the stomach, liver | SPORTS IN GENERAL. | Van Cott to Be President of the ig: “Giants.” MITCHELL, THE FIGHTER, SAILS. Cincinnati Will Not’ Let McPhee Go. VAN COTT TO BE PRESIDENT. New York Chooses Ita Postmaster to Guide Ite Base Ball Club. | _ The annual meeting of the New York Base Ball Club was held at Jersey City vesterday afternoon. John B. Day, who hss been at the head of the elub ever since base ball became club. Mr. Ward's words were intended as a testimonial to Mr. Day. Mr. Brush of In- dianapolis seconded the motion, which was unanimously carried. Messrs. Day and Spalding have disagreed on many points during the past two years, and it | as thought best for the good of the game that Loth men should retire from active Manage- ment m the affairs of the club. These directors were then elected: Cornelius Van Cott, Frank B. Robinson, James E. Sullivan, Charles T. Dillingham, E.’ A. McAlpin and W. | B. Wheeler. Mir. Wheeler played base bali on the Yale nine of 1869. Of the 2,500 shares of club stock, 1,864 were represented by the following: Johu B. Day, A. H. Soden, E. B. Talcott. John +. Brush, Frank B. Robinson, C. T. Dillingham, C. Van Cott, Jobn M. Ward, J. E. Sullivan, C.'D. White and A. W. Kiddle. After the adjournment of tho stockholders the board of directors came together and elected | | these officers: President, C. Van Cott; secretary, C. D. White; treasurer, E. B. Talcott. The treasurer's bond was fixed at $10,000. There will be no executive committee this year. Messrs. Talcott and Abell of the Brooklyn club had a talk about John Ward a few ago. Mr. Abell said he would release Ward to New York, but he must hare his Ward said that he would stick to his determination not to play in Brooklyn this year, and that if | Mr. Abeli held on to him he would be forced to retire from the diamond. A Big Trotting Meeting at New York. ‘The New York Driving Club held a meeting at the Hotel Metropole, New York, Wednesday | night. Tt was decided to hold » big trotting meeting at Fleetwood Park next fall. There Will be a $2,000 stake for two-year-old trotters, te, best two in three: « $2,000 stake for ear-olds, mile heats, best three in fiv |and a $2,000 perse for four-year-olds, mile | heats, best three in five. | The trotting meeting, which will be the most important ever held in the vicinity of New York, will last from September § to 10 inclu- sive. The stake entries will close on February 15. A fund of $12,000 was subscribed at inst night's | meeting to meet any possible deficiency. | Twelve thousand five hundred dollars is of- | fered for a free-for-all stallion purse, which is | the largest amount ever offered for trotters. | Balloting at Yale Today. | ‘The question of ratifying or rejecting the ac- | tion of the athletic captains and managers of the Yale teams in regard to the rule limiting contests to undergraduates will be decided by ballot ut Yale beginning today. The academic students will ballot in boxes placed in Alnmni Hall and open for three hours during the afternoon. The law, medical and divinity students will hare veparate boxes in their respective buildings open for two bourn Charlie Mitchell Satis. Charlie Mitchell, the pugilist, sailed for New York from Liverpool yesterday on the Majestic. Mitchell will probably settle in America. He proposes to arrange a match with Jim Corbett | for the championship of the world and, it is re- ported, intends to bave a clause in the agree- ment providing that either one not coming to the seratch shall forfeit £10,000, The Reds Will Hold McPhee. Ashley Lloyd, the Reds’ treasurer, lost his temper yesterday over a story that McPhee was booked for Brooklyn and that the Cincinnati clab might as well nail up the gates. Said he: “It ‘Bid’ MePhee plays ball at all thie season it will be as a member of the Cincinnati team. The idea, however, that the life of base bmll in Cincinnati depends upon McPhee is an ab- surdity. Fred Dunlap waa once the king of | second basemen. There was no extraordinary stir when he dropped ont of the game, was there? Every man on the team might drop out, but base ball would still live. There are always others to Whom opportunity is a God- | send. MePhee bas not notified the club that he intends to retire and we are certainly count- ing on bis services. her Brooklyn or any other club can get him.” Corbett’s Announcer ment, James J. Corbett, champion heary-weight pugilist, publicly announced last night at Mil- waukee that he would fight all comers at the conclusion of his theatrical’ engagement in October. He said he would bar neither color or nationality, and that the man that put up the most money was his game. Jimmy Larkins Eager for a Fight. Jimmy “Larkins, the 122-pound pugilist of Jersey City, says that he 1s anxious to meet any feather weight in the world, Jounny Griffin preferred. Judge Newton of the Coney Island | club has promised Larkins a purse to fight Griffin, provided Dixon refuses to make a match with the Braintree lad. Larkins was once de- feated by Grittin in ) The Washin; To the Féitor of The E Under the heading “The Washington Grove Camp Mecting Wins” there appeared in Tux Stax of the Sth instant an article which, while literally true, is enloulated, unless explained, to misiead many interested parties. The article states that the bill of complaint of F. W. Ritter, jr., against the Washington Grove Cam Meeting Association bas been dismissed wit | ests affected by the proposed changes were gen- BOsTows RAILWAY TRACKS. Substitute Elevated for Grade ‘Crossings. ‘TRE RAPID TRANSIT PROBLEM BEING CONSIDERED BY A LEGISLATIVE COMMITTER—HOW THE CITY AND SUBUBBS HAVE GROWN—STRAIGHTENING ‘THE CROOKED STREETS. An Attempt to Correspordence of The Evening Star. Bostox, February 8, 1893. Boston's chief topic of interest just now is vapid transit, It boids first place in the con- sideration of the legislature and is the talk of the day atthe clubs and the places of busi- ness, The rapid transit committee of the legis- inture have fairly opened the subject by a serien of hearings, and their evident intention to do something has stirred up the conservatives, who iad lulled themselves into indifference by regarding rapid transit as too vague and re- mote to be of auy immediate concern. The rapid transit commissioners’ report, which contained so many radical recommenda- tions that the last legislature refused to touch it and handed it down to this sestion witha pair of tongs, is now’ being candidly and carefully considered. There has been » silent campaign of education going on during the last nine months and the public has come to realize that eomething must be done. The condition of things in the congested por- tion of Boston, Iving between Causeway street on the north. Kneeland street on the south and bounded by Tremont and Court Mreets on the north, and on the south by Federal, Milk and Kilby’ streets, the markets, Blackstone and Charleston streets, is simply intolerable. Ail theso streets are narrow and the map looks like & piece of crazy patchwork, they are so inter- woven, This is the district where. the cows served the thrifty settlers as surveyors, some 250 years ago. It is the heart of commercial Boston, and its arteries and veins are swollen almost to bursting with the mounting, tide of business and traffic. POPULATION OF THE sUBURES. Boston is not alone responsible for this state of affairs, great as its own growth has been. The stili greater proportionate development of the twenty-five cities and towns within a radius oof ten miles of Boston complicates the problem. They had a population of 896.288 in 1890. while “Boston itself had 448.477. Between 1880 and 1890 Boston showed 23.6 as its percentage of in- ile ite suburbs increased at the rate of 83.6 per cet. On the same ratio of growth Boston would now have 480,000 and its suburbs 436,000—the handsome total for metropolitan Boston of 916,000. When we add to this the translent visitors we have a round million of people who are as strictly « part of Boston for pui of trade and traffic as if they were in- cluded in the city limits. If Boston were a western eity they would be inside the city boundaries and Boston would move up several pegs in the list of the big cities of the country. re is little doubt thet if Boston wore to annex “all that fined her” to the extent Chicago | has done she would have as many inhabitants, | ‘This is said in no disparagement of this young giant of the west, which will in the end be the seoond largest, if not the very largest, city in the country. = But the refusal of ‘old cities like Cambridge. | whose history began when Boston's did and | whose boundaries have stood for 200 years, to | surrender ite name and be merged in the New | England metropolis doesn't alter the fact that | all its people come to Boston to do business. RAPID TRANSIT FROM THE SURURDS. The anxiety to get into Boston easily is none the less strong, because, as the suburbanites say, they rush to get out again as soon as possi- ble. They want rapid transit in either case. But they cannot get it withont reforms so radical that the mere suggestion of them horri- fies those estimable citizens who have been reared to believe that to change Boston is to try to paint the lily. FREIGHT CARRIED ACRORS TOWN. As*matters stand today Boston has three de- pots at the extreme north of the congested dis- trict and three more at the extreme south. All transfer of paseengers, baggage or express mat- tet going north or coming south must be made | across the city and through this tangle of nar- row streets. All the freight teaming connected with the business of the city is done in the same crowded territory. The Union freight railroad, which is operated through certain streets at night, helps the delivery of freight ina measure, | but is in itself objectionable on account of its obstruction of the highways, More than this, four of these railroads, one at the south and the others at the north, enter Bos- ton over drawbridges, subject to much inevitable | delay thereby. In the north the railroads have | found themselves pinched for room on the south side of the Charles river, and have little | by little extended their territory by building out over the water on piles, until they have | narrowed the wtream to little more than the bare width of the draws. The United States | engineers have declared that all these struec- | tures impeded the flow of the tide in and out | of the Charles and “hindered the proper scour- | ing of the harbor. ° sy were once declared nuisances by the government, but that mandate has been some- what softened, so that reform may besubsti- tuted for removal. A LEGISLATIVE ORDER IGNORED, That isn’t all. The northern railroads enter | | where to facilitate the rapid and economical of merchandise, . In su of their claim to tion they Er res to show that the teamsters of ton ba: im a year, 1,941,807 baskate of ; 298,057 bas- ‘pes; 602,092 barrels of ‘apples: Hew ot peaches; 676,991 borevof oranger 1,775, 859 bunches of bananas; $9,888,952 pounds butter; $.617 carloads of potatoes; 17,036 car- loads of bay; 5,148,664 sides of leather; 682,368 bales of domestic and 195.498 eee wes, 185,000 packages of tea and 213, coffee; over 1,000,000 barreis of Teflued sugar; 28,065 carloads of lumber; 261,594 boxes of glncs; 215,000 bales of hemp, jute and flax; 402,- 927 bags and 30,544 tonsof salt, &c. ‘The teamsters are the most forcible of all for immediate and adequate relief. THE RAILWAY PROBLEM. ‘The commission's attempt to solve the rail- road difficulties at the north end are not ap- preciated by the railroads themselves, The plan of the commission provides for a union tation on the corner of Causeway and Leaverett streets, located on a slight elevation. tion will be two stories high, with the width on Causeway street of 450 feet, giving room for four tracks, The length of the station will be at lenat 1,000 feet. elevation of the tracks does away with all grade crossings in Boston and ite immediate suburbs and clears the Charles by a bridge thirty feet high without a draw if Congress will allow it. It this plan bad been taken from the “Arabian Nights” it could not be pronounced more visionary and impracticable by the rail- roads interested. They say they will do most anything if the legislature will only keep them on the ground. They object to entering Bos ton on stilts. But the railroad commissioners in their an- nual report commend the plan in most of its features, and several reputable engineers, called by the legislative committee, Lave pronounced the scheme, barring the drawless bridges, the best solution of the difficulties presented. The roads are somewhat alarmed evidently, for they surprised the committee, themselves and everybody else by expressing & willingness to build a union station on the present grade and also the present locations of the depots, us the act af 1887 long ago directed them to do. ‘They stated their case so well that the com- mittee requested them to submit a bill provid- ing a union station on the present grade and doing away with all the ‘know nothing” cross ings. ‘The representatives of the road went further, and said they hoped the bill would be manda- tory and compel them to agree to build the union station. But just here Mayor Matthews, Railroad Com- missionet Sanford, Engineer Doane and other advocates of the two-story depot and elevated tracks grew suspicious, They pointed out to the committee that if the act was mandatory and the railroads proceeded under it to expend | a large sum of monoy m building a anion eta- tion on the site of the present depote they would have strong arguments to present to sub- sequent legislatures in favor of being left un- disturbed, however strongly future exigencies and public convenience might demand a chan; The fifteen members cf the legislatare who are considering the many-sided subject of rapid transit are filling up with facts and arguments jas the days go by, but what they will report not even the knowing ones yet attempt to guess. ja ALONG THE WHARVES. Ferry Service Between Here and Alexandria to Be Resumed Tomorrow: Capt. Entwisle, Pilot Owens, Purser Garnet and Mate Phillips of the Washington Steamboat | Company left this morning for Baltimore, they will take charge . of the steamer . V. Arrowsmith. She leave Baltimore tomorrow for Washington | and expects to make all landings between the two cities. The Arrowsmith hus been thor- oughly overhauled and refurnished. She is now a better craft than ever and her engineers believe that they will be able to get out of her a greater amount of speed than she has shown before. Wind and wenther permitting the ferry serv- ice between Washington and Alexandria will be resumed tomorrow. The Columbia will be the firet to start out. She has been pretty well overhauled and her engines and_ boilers looked after. ‘The ferry boat Washington is on the ways at Alexandria andergomg general répsirs and recalking. She will not resume her busi- nes« for a week or two. The suspension of navigation has been taken advantage of by all the steamboxt companies to overhaul and repair their craft, In this way the freszeout has been blessing. Under the pressure of compe- tition it was a dangerous policy to withdraw a boat from her route even for a single trip. Most of the craft were sorely in need of repair. Travel on the Potomac next season will be accompanied with less danger than heretofore. The steamers that have gone througa the repair mill Boston by a totally unnecessary crossing of each other's tracks.” As long ngo as 1887 the legislature ordered the roads to agree upon a union station at the north end and abolish all | these nuisances. The act was not sufficiently | mandatory, however, and the roads have man- aged to find excuses for evading it. Add to| all these railway difficulties the erying need for some sort of surface street transit which will deserve the name of rapid transit, and Boston does indeed need the relief which the wisest | ragged and musty one of a few months ago to a | and best legislation can give it, REMEDIES PROPOSED. To meet some of the difficulties the rapid transit commission have submitted plans for the joining of the railways at the north and south ends in union stations, for the widening | of the streets in the business part of Boston, | for the erection of elevated drawless bridges over | the Fort Poiut channel on the south, and over the Charles river on the north, and they also | make suggestions for an elevated street rail- | way. RAILROADS SATISFIED WITH PRESENT CoNDI- TIONS. | ‘The hearings of the rapid transit committee | of the legislature have been based on these recommendations of the rapid transit commis- | sion. They have found that the various inter- | erally in favor of all the reforms which did not disturb their present arrangements. They were all ‘very willing that the’ other fellow | should te the one to “pull up stakes” for the yublic good. The proposition to close Fort Point channel by « drawless bridge met with a vigorous protest from the owners of wharf privileges above the draw and from the Oid | Colony raiirond, which hax recently purchased | lange freight yards in South Boston aud haspro- | Jected & new passenger station corner of Fed- | eral xnd Kneeland streets. Both these improve- | ments contemplate entering Boston on the present grade. At the north the objection to the drawless bridges over the Charles river is equally pro- nounced. Tne coal dealers of Cambridge, coats against complainant on demurrer inter- posed by defendants. ‘This is correct—but the jobject of the bill was gained nev-| eriheless, = as an —sexamination f | ude" Vinson’s opinion will show. | The bill was brought because of the illegality | f the election—the by-laws of the Washington | Grove Association restricting every stock- holder tos single vote without regard to the number of sbares owned by said stock- holder, while the law of the state al- lows the stockholder votes im accord- ance with the number of shares held by him. The bill asked the usual relief of an_in- junctior and for the appointment of a receiver. he bill was dismissed because “the assess- ent which the complainant is required to 8) being less than the amount required to give the court jurisdiction. section 91. article 16, code of public general lawe;” and because the court thought the complainant had a rem- edy at law —quo warranto. Watertown and Brighton said if their water transportations were cut off it would increase the cost of coal at least 50 centsa ton. They urged, further, that to cart ail their coal from the Boston docks through the city would only inerease the congestion which the commission was trying to relieve. Here, too, the railroads come in with their protest, declaring egsinst elevated bridges, though of course not ubject- | ing to drawlews ones, The ablest and most effective remonstrance against drawiows bridges comex from the asso- ted boards of trade of Boston. Their ypecial committee went into the subject deeply came to the legislature armed with facts and figures. There was one thing they felt | sure of. It was this: that Boston's commerce is about to take a boom, and that the narrow mile of harbor front, now none too for the needs of the city, would shortly be totally in- wate. Every rod of dock room which the South bay aud the Dack bay could afford would Judge Vinson, however, in his decision held | that the election was illegal and voidable, and if complainant had cause to fear that the “de facto” trustees would not at the next annusi election hold a election be (complainant) gut appeal to court for a mandemus, and further that the election having been illegal complainant sould proceed on the com- mon law side of the court by quo warranto to coum said “de facto trustees,” but that “bei: trustees de facto” all their proceedings are valid unul they are ousted under legal proceeding in- sututed for that purpose. ——— Business is Business. From Puck. Unusually Stout Stranger—“What do you needed. ‘The remonstrants professed not to tloaing the water vagy, oowuoe i could’ not be | wat jase it yt done without the consent of and the attit government is always against anything that looks like the curtailment of commercial facilities. WIDENING THE STREETS. The commission carved out some broad streets right through the congested district from north to south, designed espécially for ‘the use of heavy teams in tho delivery of mer- chandise from the docks and freight yards, But ‘the Master Teamsters’ Association retained Mr. P. A. Collins at a cost of §250a day and ap- before the committee with routes of charge for pulling a tooth, professor?” Dentist—"‘One dollar,” Unusually Stout Stranger—“Charge anything pextra for gas?” Teball | Dentist (sizing him up)—Yes, sir. | have to charge you @3 ‘usand feet.” but coinciding in some ticulars th that iaid out by the’ rapid it commis ‘WHAT THES TEAMSTERS WANTED. They asked in brief: 1 The opening and widening of a new street from India to Commercial street, to’ Cross or are on the ways are the John W. Thompson, Mattano, River Queen, Macalester, Samuel J! Pentz, Waketield, T. V. Arrowsmith, Florence, Ccit und George La’ ‘The steam yacht Florence is fitting out for a trip to the world’s fair. She will carry a dis- tinguished party of New Yorkers and & few Washingtonians, Who the guests will be has not been learned. Her cabin has been transformed from the saloon enameled in white and gold. Her boiler deck, engine and engine room siiow the same remarkable change. She will be handled b: Capt. Hanie, Chief Engineer James R. Gatcheil and Mate Joseph Cherry. She will sail for New York as soon as her improvements are com- pleted. ‘There was a large gathering of steamboat men at harbor police headquarters this morn- ing. The theme under discussion was, “What will be the new name of the old Jobn W. Thompson?” Chief Engineer Tennyson. said he could not betray this state secret, but he as- red the assemblage that the new name was tic, practical, catchy, short and expressive jate ‘John W. Dyer, Captain Johensen, ptain Spransy and Engineer | Conway thought the renewed stenmer should be called Presh, after a certain member of Commodore Randall's family, and Capt. Dolman and Capt. Tulle believed that Lark was the name selected. The Thompson is on the ways at Woodhall’s ship yard, Baltimore. It will be launched with impres- ceremoni a few weeks. A large party of Washingtonians and Alexandrians will go over via rail and come back aboard the Thompson. | The first sail to enter Washington harbor since the freeze arrived this morning. It was the pungy Idlewild, Capt. John Henry Rollin light, from Alexandria, to look ou! for’ fishing berth.’ If the wind changes from south to north today the following schooners will attempt to escape from the harbor: Sunny South, Capt. Jerry Gibson; Elnora Russell, Capt. Stewart Huseeli; Edward Deen, Capt. Lawrence; George B. Faunce, Capt. Faunce; Cora McKenny, Capt. Walter Wood; Mary Anne Belle, Capt. Carter, and the oyater pungies George ‘Te ero and =Mary Parker. ‘The Boy Who Carried the Notes, From the Boston Globe. Apropos of the Gen. Butler storios that are going the rounds, here is # true one: “I had an important law cgse on,” said = Wakefield gen- tleman the other day. “I kuew no one could win that casé for me but Ben Butler, He was in Washington at the time. I wentto Washing- ton, and after hard scrabbling for two days got an audience with him. He said he wouldn't | take my case for @1,900 a day. He bad more work ov bis hands than he could attend to, aud | he went about bis work right then. wiak oeneras Wenid, {was bornin thesame town ou. “He grunted, but wasn't otherwise affected that I could see. “Do you remember little Miss? And do yo remember the boy who usod to vend noter to her, and the boy who used to take them? Iam the boy who took the notes,’ ** ‘And I am the boy who sent them,” said the general. He held out his hand. ‘I take your case, after all, he said; and ‘he did, ‘and won it.” Mi bottles. so_D ceeraly OOK fer proprietors’ firm name signature —— CHESTER H. GRAVES & SONS, Boston. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES, al EEG oe. ec will | | Mwai , WEBRUARY 10, 1893—-TEN PAGES. —= - DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. REVENUES LOST TO THE DISTRICT. The decision of the Supreme Court of the District in what are known as the “Brewer” and “Pilling” cases to the effect that the Dis- trict loses its lien on all orordce taxes by failing to enforce such payment before giving a to a tax male purchaser, has ived the Dis- trict of a large amount of taxes in arrears, Many persons are believed to allow their property yo in arrears for general taxes in the confidence that under these decisions they can take advantage of the law which requires only the advertisement and sale each year of the overdue taxes for the previous year to se- cure the cancellation of the taxes for the years preceding the last sale. ‘The Commissioners have endeavored to se- cure legislation which would enabie them to re- agsess and collect all taxes invalidated by the aforesaid decisions, but have been met by the objection that the law already provides a means for such collection in section 5 of the act of March 3, 1887 (Statutes-at-Large, vol. 19, p. 897), as follows: *'* © “Ifany property two years after hay- ing been so bid off at any sale whatever in the name of said District, under this or any other law, and whether heretofore or hereafter made, is not or has not been so redeemed as aforesaid, then the Commissioners of the District or theit successors in office shall, in tho name and on bebalf of the District, apply to the Supreme Court of said District, sitting in equity, for the Purpose of enforcing the lien acquired as afore- said by said District, on the property aforesaid, and until such judicial proceedings shall be had, the property 60 wold for taxes and bid off in the name of the District, either at any sale hereto- fore or hereafter made, may be redeemed by the owner thereof by the payment of the taxes and all legal penaities and cost thereon.” In one of these canes volved. The Commissioners bave requested the attorney for the District to push these cases | to an early determination asa matter of justice to honest taxpayers and. to secure the revenues to which the District is properly entitled. THE BLOCK AND BAURMAN CLAD. Assessor Trimble has modified bis report relative to Senate bill 3740 for the relief of S. J. Block and A. P, Baurman. He says in a letter to the Commissioners that he sees no objection to the passage of the bill. Upon examination of the records of the recorder of deeds he finds the proper transfer to the parties named in the bill, and is informed that the Secretary of the Inte- rior has reported to Congress that the general government does not lay claim to the property involved. The bill, it will be recalled, was to fet ® quit-elaim deed to the property known ns Jot 1, in square 1113, from the general govern- meni BICYCLERS’ LAMPS AND" BELLS. Apropos of the discussion reiative to the change in the regulations governing the use of bells and lights on bicycles Mr. W. 8. Dodge, president of the Capital Bicycle Club, appeared before the Commissioners yesterday and urged that the Commissioners would make the use of bells and lights optional instead of compulsory. IN BEHALF OF THE STREET MUSICIANS. Mr. John D. McPherson writes to the Com- missioners today in behalf of the street musi- cians. He says he understands that the Com- missioners are considering the advisability of passing a regulation prohibiting their playing on the streets. This, he says, he trusts will not ‘be done. * Among the poor of London and New York, those who know them best (Booth and Riis), testify that the women are above all faith- ives and good mothers, And during a rea- we of some months in south Italy a few years ago be saw for himself the kindliness and steadiness of the men before he ever knew it had ever been noticed by others, He likeu to hear the hand organ in the busy streets, as it pleasantly lightens the dull roar of trafic. A TAX SALE CERTIFICATE QUESTION. Mr. Isnac L. Lyons has called the attention of the Commissioners to the fact that he is the holder of twenty-six tax sale certifi- cates issued by the District of Columbia for | sales of property in the ycars 1872, 1874, 1875 and 1876 for taxes in arrears thereon, Baid certificates have become worthless, non- collectible, or convertible into valid tax deeds by reason of the neglect of the District eathor- ities to report the sales in respect of which these certificates were issued. Mr. Lyon says he now intends to apply to the courts for relief, but before bringing suit he desires to be aswured that the District authori- ties will not plead the statute of limitations. This wait wil jucicinily nettle the question of the liability of the District for the refund of the am ount paid, ADHERE TO THE PRISENT SYSTEM. The Commissioners recently received from Mr. L. N. Cox a proposition to put she western system of sewage disposal in the District for a certain sum and turn it over to the District or to put it in on bis own account and operate it if allowed to charge a certain annual fee to the citizens, ‘The mutter was referred to the superintendent of sewers, Mr. D. E. M Comb, who today reports ai “The District of Columbia is committed to the system of crude discharge of sewage into the Potomac river, which is considered to be the best system for this, District. The merits of the various methods 6f sewage disposal, in- cluding 1and filtration, bave Leén considered and found inapplicable to the locality when compared with the approved system.” Th recommendation has been approved by the Commissioners, New York ‘Times. Anew story about Bismarck—the great Bi: marck we used to know—is something of a rarity. This, I think, has never appeared in type before. It was at Versailles, in that fate- fal February of 1871, when Paris had just capitulated and the spokesmen of victorious Germany and humbled France were baggling over the bargain of a peace. It was already apparent that finance was to play a prominent part in the settlement, and some of the ablest and strongest financiers of Berlin and Frank- furt had beon brought westward to Versailles for counsel and assistance At their head was Herr Schwabach, the leading brain in the great Bleichroder combination, but even he shrank from the responsibility’ of managing alone vast a transterral of coined wealth was contemplated, and urged that his father-in-law, Alexander Mendel, whom ho regarded as the astutest and most capable money manager in Europe, should be sent for from London. This was done. and old Mr, Mendel attended the conferences held between the parties to the negotiations. It was at one of these that Bismarck, pressed bluntly to name the minimum war indemnity which the new German empire would consent to take, blurt t these tremendous words, “Cing milliards ere was dead silence fora moment Then Jules Favre, springing to his feet, poured out » rhetorical and impassioned protest against this exaction, ‘Have you reflected,” he asked the chancel- lor, in conclusion, “what such a sum of money —five thousand millions—really means; Why, sir, if a man, miraculously preserved against our common mortality, had been born on the very first day of our Christian era, and had ever since gone on, night and day, putting franc pieces one by one on a pile, he would not evon by this time have got stich a mass together as you demand.” marck merely smiled, and Inid his big hand on the London financier’s shoulder. “That 4s very interesting about the Christian era man, but my friend, Mr. Mendel, isa Je He had been counting franc pieces 4.000 yetre before your fellow began. Bo you vee it fe all night.” ittle x of water, - ing lear an cola. For both young and old, all ‘ston sc . Insom- Li {aborts only. Heangvanrens. BAUM'S FURNITURE EXCHANGE, 814 OTH ST. N. W., ‘Will supply you with the following goods for the NAUGURATION, ‘500 UPHOLSTERED COTS at @1 each. 400 WIRE COTS at $1.35 each. 1,000 PHLLOWS at B0c. each. {1,000 PRIME GOOSK FEATHER PILLOWS ‘at @1 each. 500 QUILTS at Gc. each. 2,000 CHAIRS at 5c. each. 00 KITCHEN TABLES at 91 each. AND ALL OTHER GOoDs aT THE 8 much as $11,000 is in- | Chareh Saloons. From the New York Times, Dr. Rainsford of St George's is the first clergyman, we believe, at all events in this country, to suggest that the cure for the evils of the saloons lies in the improvement of the saloons. When he first put forward this sug- gestion it doubtless gave a shock to many worthy people, who will be equally shocked now that he han de feemageiion ino sermon delivered from his own pulpit. That kind of Podsnappery which closes its eyes to facts that are unpleasant prevails among the ing race to an extent elsewhere unknown, Temperance reformers. like re- formers of some other kinds. scout every sug- gestion for the improvement of the saloons as «tam with the cursed thing. What they desire is to abolish the saivons. It is of no Use to show them that this ie impracticable, or at least that it is impracticable by closing the salvons to puta stop to drinking, or even to effect any considerable change in the habits of the people. Whenever they have the power they pass prohibitory laws, and the presence of these laws on the statute book, although they do not in fact probibit and never have pro- hibited. they regard asan achievement in the cause of tem) In point of fact it is an achievement in the @ther direction, since the state by prohibiting a traffic at least ignores its existence and thus deprives itself of the power of regulating and improving it. tol the sermon we are discussing “Dr. Raine- ford speaks with all T respect of the motives, and with just severity of the methods, both of the emotional and of the legislative re- formers. He looks the facts in the face with « frankness that is rare among philanthropists, and, perhaps, rarer in ibe pulpit than out of it. He points out that the saloon is, in fact, the poor man’s club. The poor man ‘does not re- Sort to it primarily for drink, but for society, and the drinking is incidental, People who have comfortable homes of their own do not comprehend the conditions of the homes which jority of the people of large cities inbabi in which. from mere lack of pace. there can be little quiet and no privacy. and from which it is natural and inevitable that tho men should desire occasionally to escape. They go where they can meet other men of their own kind and pasé an hour or so of their scanty leisure talk. In this there iv nothing wrong. The conditions of tho saloons to which they are thus driven to resort such as to favor continual and excessive drinking. In most of them there are no seate, but the Visitors stand up ata bar and each member of the assembled group of talkers treats in turn. When the late Fanny Kemble first visited thie country khe records that she met an actor who, on being asked how he country, replied that he liked it very well “extept for the confounded custom of perpe dicular drinking.” The custom of treating is a natural sequel of the custom of “perpendicular drinking.” If seats were provided. as in many of the German resorts, the men who occupied them would buy drinks for themselves alone and consume them at their leisure. This would not suit the saloon keeper, whose interest it is to sell the maximum number of drinks, and whose existing arrangements are admirably adapted to that end, but it would very greatly promote temperance. Now, what Dr. Rainsford proposes is the e+ tablishment of model saloons, in which the profit from the sale of liquors w not the object of the owner, but in which beer and light wines shall be sold, together with simple and whole- some food. ‘Seats, of course, will be provided, and provision be made for the women as well as the men of the fumilies in the neighborhood. ‘The introduction of wives with their husbands would alone be a long step in the direction of temperance. If such saloons wage established women would naturally try to infuce their hus- bands to patronize them rather than the sa- loons of the kind already existing, and them- selves to accompany their husbands; and it would be hard for the men to devise a decent pretext for refusing such un appeal. The presence of respectable women would of itself almost put a stop to excessive drinking, and the model saloon would be not merely or mainly a drinking place, but really a workmgmen’s and workingwomen’s club. Only it must be borne in mind that as its object must be to discour- age, while the object of the existing saloon must be to encourage, excessive drinking. the model saloon cannot compete commercially with the existing saloon, It must be founded, that is to say, ona philanthropic and not ona commercial basis, and the keeper must be a nan employed by the owner and not a man domg busiuess on his own account and for bis own profit. Such a saloon as Dr. Rainsford has in mind would be a benefaction to its neighborhood, and would resemble the German family 1e-ort rather than the American bar, which is visibly superseding the family resort, even in t man quarters of the town. There is no reas why Dr. Rainsford’s clerical brethren should not join him in his efforts to procure the estab- lishment of such places, nor why rich and gen- erous laymen should not make their efforts practicable. Certainly such a movement would do more for “temperance reform” than all the prohibitiouists have succeeded in accomplish- Ing. ——_+e-—. Wanted a Change. From the Detroit Free Press. In the old days along tho Missouri river when a steamboat was sighted people took up the ery in the streets very much as they would at the breaking out of a fire. “Steamboat!” some one would yell. Then others would join in the shout, Until ten minutes later half the populace would be on the levee waiting for the boat to land. “Why were you so anxious?” a young man asked an old-timer recently. “I suppose you were looking for news from the east?” “News!” blurted the gray-haired man, who was young back in the forties. “No, we didn't goafter no news in them days. We plunged down the levee and over the rail, reckloss-like, to be the first to get a change of whisky! The St. Joe licker we had got mighty’ tiresome be- tween boats.” Joseph Durringer, known as the “Boss of Cheektowaga,” has been indicted in Buffalo by the grand jury for falsifying an election .re- turn from his town at the last election. A bench warrant was inmed. WITH YOUR HANDS TIED by some chronic “female complaint” or weakness, Bhat can you expect i ‘nothing accomplish—nothing yon gan enjoy. And no good reason for it. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription will gure You, safely and cer- tainly, oul give it For every one of these womanly troubles, this is ‘the only remedy so sure that it can be guaranteed. , bearing-down sensations, ents — if it vy tent remedy for Chorea St. ance—for Teaaia or Inability to and to avert threatened insanit ity. It all the natural functio: rh it better tovsall can bo just 28 goon fer gon MADE ESPECIALLY FOR TENDER FEET, TRY WILSON & CARR'S $3.50 SHOES. FOR MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S SATIN AND SUEDE SLIPPERS Go To WILSON & CARR. FOR GENTS’ DANCING PUMPS AND PATENT LEATHER SWELL SHOES Go TO WILSON & CARR FOR SHOES OF FOREIGN AND AMERICAN PATTERNS @o To Wusox & Cirn - 929 FS. NW. fe7-4f BALTIMORE STORE, 4AND6 BALTO. ST. s THE ARIZONA KICKER. A Scheme im Forestry—A Poor Play—As Error at Poker. ‘From the New York Son. Ax Excetiexr Arrorsrwext.—We point | with pride to the fact that we have been ap- | pointed chairman of the Senate committee on forestry. We regard this as the most important | and responsible chairmanship on the list and | can truthfully say it came to us unroaght, We hope no one will charge us with egotiem wher | We say that the right man has been put in the right place. The committee las already had three meetings and transacted a great deal of business. Next week we shall introduce a bill to vide for purchasing and planting 1.000 ushels of mixed hickory and chest- ute on the crest of the Biack Mountain range; also for the purchase and transplant ing of 20,000 wainut and butter- nut trees to adorn and enfich the Gilla river valley. There is no earthly reason why the territory cannot «upply the world with crab apples. She can also be made to control the But Elementary Studies Are Needed ot Pirst. ‘From the Pal) Mal! Gazete Altbongh hypnotiom has been much talked about it is very little understood, not only by the general public, bat by otherwise well-in- formed people As a science hypnotiem stands ‘now on @ sulid foundation of well-established and, authenticated facts, but it is «till in its infancy. In 1878 Prof. Charcot, at the Hospital of La Salpetriere, im Paris, began his public clases, and attracted a good deal of attention from the scientific world by bis experiments on hystero- epileptic patients during the hypnottc state, Bat the interest so rouned was only momentary, and soon died away. It was revived several venrs defer, in 1884, by the further experiments ow hyp uotized subjects made under diffesent conditions by Profe. heim of the Medical Sehool created a eure scientific baste it phenomena by market on wild plums and buckeyes, There are-Khown psychological laws which bad received millions of acres of scrub pine and cedar-On the mountains of this territory. Why not re- place this useloss growth with rim, beech, Tedwood. sycamore and other valuable | wood We believe that the India rubber treo would ‘thrive in the valleys, and that mahogany and logwood would be a euccess on the hillsides. ‘Our bill will call for an appropriation of $100,- 000,000 as a starter, and af no spirit of talne economy pops up to scale down the sum we'll make foresiry walk to the front ina way to aa tonish everybody. Daamatic.—The Boston Dramatic Company presented “‘The Merchant ot theater-going public Thuraday play (disappointed eversbods. igh kicking. Nobody was murdered, Not « Gondola was to be sven. While the actors ap- peared to be well up in their parte, and while some of them wore fairly good clothes, there was @ total lack of that chic which makes a play go in the weet. We saw as many as six Good openings for some one to be killed, but Rot # hand was lifted. At one stage of the game they could have made a bit by having » girl throw herself over « precipice, but the git preferred to sit in a rocking cbair and read a novel. Those who went expecting to see Uncle ‘om tracked by bloodhounds, or Buffaio Bill rescue the passengers of the Dead- wood stage, demanded their money back, but no one got it. He Kxew Ir Att.—Last Monday the travel- ing agent of a liver pill concern in the east struck this town to contract for an advertise- meut in the Avcker. Finding that he was an old newspaper man, and that he purposed re- maining for two or three days to take in the town, we set out to post him some of the idioms avd customs, He thougat be kuew it all, however, and that’s the reason he is in bed in room No. 48 in the hote! with « bullet in bis groin. It seems that he dropped into There was no the Wild Engle saloon and took a hand in «| game of poker. One of the things we were Zoing to post him about was poker. The game is rather eccentric in this town, Sometimes two pairs beat four of a kind, and so It's a good deal nc st | playing and how much mones there is up. It seems that our fricnd got a royai flash and wae | called by three jacks. He at once jumped to the conclusion that he had won the jackpot, but he was sadly mistaken. Big Pete O'R | not. was im the game, and it wax an occasion when a pair of sixes, if held by Pete, would beat four aces, While raking in ‘the pot tho liver pill stopped by a bullet, and even if he leg. This town isn’t as big as Chicago or New York, uoras wicked as St, Louis, but we have | our customs and idioms just the ‘same, andgthe | stranger who can't tumble to them must take | the consequences, | ~ ee | The “War Lord” of the German Race. | From the [ustrate! American ‘That noisy young person, Wm. Hobenzollern, who signalized his succession to the scepter of the German empire by the madman boust that | he was the “war lonl” of the German race, is | beginning to out that “divine right” to | rule does not imply even common capacity to govern. The army floats iaim; the proletaire execrates him; the learned abhor him. Ger- many, in short, has found out the anomaly such a personage is, in this age of wide-eyed, | liberal free thinking he will havea bad limp to ints left |}. tion, Then hypuotim aneptitance to other countries, t investigators im el Germeny, Italy and Rosia de- elves to ite tad searches clic! not prevent the general public from considering hypnotiem either as @ More object of curiosi:s of as something rather snepiciogs, having 4 strong favor of occultiem, which had better be left alone. It is « #rong impression ¢ cannot repea: of there time nothing eccalt often enongh for the aake Persons: Hi ‘otbing supern can be thoronghly explained bs of natural laws within our knowledge The more ism is etedied the more tt asserts ite punt importence on almost every branch, of human knowledge of light on religion, educe- heredity avd ertminnltt our most im, enabling us which was impossible with: medicine (by establishing be tion the powerful phy» on the body). It asserts powerful act and involuntary func But before opening ful mental world, of which pevchology by puiki an experimental pevebology * hyp ence of the mind the outeet the all of the mind on every voluntary. the homan bear + kore must pase through some stages and be taught the rudiments of this aa | of every other branch of human knowledge. BETTER BE ON YOUR GUARD. | where ts = Pessibiny That « Forepeen Enemy May Invade Us Again This Year— A Suggestion in Vimeo. from Ly al of nth Aon (e lieates the prove za, fut ony tn that waghout and Burope. ‘Tate te the way the grip ep! of nat year started, and it ty the highest part of wisdom ant common sense to keep the system fortified against an attack of amount of coughing, «peem pain in the m 4 arms, t jie j tog: stated, and yet it emsen, In ‘view of these sensible man Manifestiy guard dangerous disease. FP Not» quinine, but by strengthening. by tem With some pure ott re Tuere ar@nany which clatm to possess this quale ity, but there is it. ' That one ts Dui stond : may at itis w | only grocer to persu having what you Ne Which actually dues pomews, «Pure Malt Whiskey. It hae 1 popular or druggist oF insist upom cuar, XL | Continued Story about Bon Ami THE STArLE. Do you wish to clean the trimmings on | the harnesses, the lamps | and glass in the car- | riages, the buttons on the iootman’s coat? Bon AMI DOES IT. The First Regiment of Connecticut, use Bow Ast for their brass buttons, and for the bugles and other instruments of their band. Note. In order to keep the White dust from theevat take a piece of cardboard, cut a slit in it and slide under the button and then polish with Bow Aut. It saves new but tons. OWE PRICE, GASH. CREDIT. And that “‘one price” shall be /omer than similar qualities sell for in any cash Furni- ture House in Washington. Can we say more? Our reputation gocs out with every article we sell—and we will stand by it. If you buy for cash our prices are the lowest— if you prefer long timeand easy weekly or monthly payments you are as welcome to ‘them as to the air you breathe. MATCH THESE PRICES IN ANY STORE IN WASHINGTON. Plush Parlor Suite, 7 pieces. $22.50. Hair-cioth Parlor Suite, 7 pieces, ®22.50. Solid Oak Bed Room Suite, bevel giass in bureau, $13. ‘Six-foot Oak Extension Table, €3.50. Woven Wire Springs, $1.75. Brussels Carpet, per yard, 50s. Ingrain Carpet, per yard, 350. 40-pound Hair Mattress, $ All the CREDIT you want—but not a penny discount for cash. No notes to sign—weekly or monthly payments, ‘We inake and isy all carpet free of cost—no charge for waste in matching figures. CROGAN'S ORED HOUSE, 19, 821 AND 823 7TH ST. XW. | metal WE ARE Mitracreness OF 8. N. Mera = es Canuart & Leror, Asp 706 K Sz N.Wy TARE ir 9287 WIM offer a line of GENUINE KID MOUSQ) GLOVES that Lave never sold les tha’ pair at 98- Blacks aud colors. ONE HUNDRED EXTRA WhAYY AND SIZB WHITE CROCHET BED SPREADS at $1.00 escu. Prepare for the inanenration We are offering ber eine in Biaukets, Comforts and Table Lipens. caxuSkt & Ley, fe8, 2 Teh and 706 K wt. w. W. M. 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