Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1893, Page 3

~~ THE EVENING STAR: — WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY,” FEBRUARY 18, 1893-SIXTEEN PAGES. THE THE INAUGURATION. | Prepar for the Public rade and the Has Beon m Arranged for the P: Grand Ball Night What Dow iow Fireworks, at Citizens There can no longer be any doubt that t will be the 2 gi has preceded it has xt before yeer. The 1, show clearly Pr »- | evenson will be more For nearly two months ths tive com: ing to augural execn- tee have been hard at work attend- derails of the preparations for the inangura’ perience with other affairs of the sort in this city would seem to have dev oved a community of pron who un- derstand bow to handle ail t! ntals of a big gathering as eactiy ond svstematically as | heir own private This bas | ie occasion of the nation! the ampment a few Knights Templar conclave, other oecasions racter. As soon aa it is known there ix going to be another big ring in this eit: meeting is held hose wh ointed to take charge of it. is effected, sinb- > take charge of the m the work goes ngh it wero no more serious a le a crowd { visitors that doubles the population ef the capital for a few days than it i= to sell a piece of real estate or transact the daily routine of a business house. Itisali in the knowing how, and the suecess a such efforts in Wash- | 8 detal > one can ever ay that there is “something 1, for the committee,” berond the satisfaction that every one takes in success following upon honest endeavor. Washington ix the ideal place for the gather- | ing of large crowds. The city bas on many occasions been hiened to a sponge in itscapac- ity to absorb more than one would ever think | it could possibly hold. ‘The popuiation of the city is about a quarter of a million, yet from the time that the subcommittee on lic comfort at the inauguration began ita work, soon after the new year came in, they have had on the books record of ample ‘accommodations for be- m two and three hundred thousand pegple. | has been more remarkable is the fact that | there has been almost no attempt to put up ex- | orbitant prices during the days that the crowd wili Le the greatest. People from a'l over the country who bare gone to other cities to attend | conventic or other great gatherings and have been charged the most ridiculous prices for t! poorest of mmodations would be very | much surprised to learn that the average price set for bed and board during the inauguration le there are records of thou- a bed or cot with three meals a day can From ali evidences now at hand it is certain that the crowd that will come on for the com- ing inauguration will be a tremendo: From all sections of the country have in applications for quartera and by th: Mareh the ad Visitors will vario i railroad members of the comm and then turned over to messengers, who will be hired for the purpose of showing them to the quarters that have been engaged for them. Is wii not be until the day before inauguration that the great nomber of organizations ry and civic bodies tens of thousands, and g to their plans almost all of them will here on the afternoon of the 3d. From north and south and from as far west as Utah special trains bringing big organizations will eta ith the idea of all pouring tn the stations here at almost the same tim Whether they will all get here on the appointed hour isa matter that depends on the railroad facilities d on fate. By Sat ag. at any rate, all the or- ganizations ad then the fun will de at it« higie ef interest in the in- rse. centers about the parade. two general divisions, the mili- aud will be under the com- { marshal, Gen. Martin T. Me- t New York city. Gen. MeMahon is an old soldier, and has until recently been tine col- he |e city regiments in the ‘ork National ( He is now a prown- ‘otham lawyer, with a large practic Me Mabon pointed, a the chiet the civic parade, Mr. William Dick- city. The right of line in the mili- tendered to the famous eon public comfort tien of hon id by the Tammany Up to th of ion President- elect Cleveland will ceeup ters at the Ar- qca. be escorted to the iret division of the military pare, consisting of the forces from the regu- fF army and the regiments from the state guard of York. While they are m: their way up the avenue the remainder of the Je will be forming in the streets leading out from the Capitol. After the exercises at- tendant upon the taking of the be formed and the will march down the avenue, up 15th street and around past the White ‘House, where it will be reviewed by the md #0 on out to Washington Cirele and back along K street to Mount Vernon where the line will break. It is thought, bowever, that many of the organizations will drop out of line by the time they have reached ‘circle. Gen. McMahon will review them ‘on the avenue near the cirele. It ‘ted that the paride will be quite as of those in but it Mington. From there he w Capitol by the ‘The following is a complete list by states of the military organizations that have siguided their intention of taking part in the parade. UNITED STATES FORCES. _ Garrisons of Fort Monroe, Fort Myer, Wash- | Upwards of $210,000 will be spent on the ing | INAUGURAL BALL SOUVENIR 1. Engineer Corps, Maj. Ga | mpson. regiment of infantry, Col. 4 O'Brien; third flarricon. Second | ‘ecil Clay—Fonrth ell; sixth battalion, | separate battalion | f infantry, Maj. Fred C. Revell. High School Col, L. AL Reichel- | F. Skinner, .. Parker. Battery pt. H.G. Forsberg; first alry), Capt. HL Bar- ps, First Lieut. I ; second separate company (cycle), Capt. rack B. Cone. | THE STATES. ! Maryland Governor and staff, Brig. Gen. | Stewart I aff, first regiment, 400; fourth regiment infant 500; fifth regiment infantr: Independent companies—Col- ered troop, 200; Fifth Infantry Veteran Corp 200; students Maryland Agricultural College, 100; Monumental City Guards, 50; Bultimore Ritles, 50. Pennsylvanin—Governor and staff, third reg- iment, first and second regiments, battalion State Feucibles, sixth, fourth, eighth, ninth, twelfth, thirteenth and fifth’ regiments, fif- teenth, sixteenth, eightecath, battery B, the governor's troop, Skeridan ‘troop, sixteenth regiment, battery C, Grey Invineibles, naval battalion, owden and staff, Gen. Wiley and staff, Gen. Dechert and staff. Connecticut—Governor and staff. ware—Governor and staf. Georgia—-Governor and staff, Georgia Hus- sare, Lonisiana—Governor and staff. Massachusetts—Governor and staff. New Jersev—Governor and staff, Phil Kear- Guards, 100. South Caroliza—Governor and staff, Palmetto Gaards, second regiment South Carolina. New York—Governor and staff, seventh regi- , company A, thirteenth regiment; forty- fe company. rolina—Governor and staff. Obio—Governor and staff, Cleveland Troop, Alliance Guard. ‘Texas-—Fort Worth Fencibles. Virginia—Governor and staff, second regi- ment, 300; fourth regiment, 200; two battalions artillery, 80; Richmond Light Infantry, C0. West Virginia—Second regiment. Wisconsin—Governor and staff. ‘The civic division of the parade will embrace famous organizations from many states. OTHER ATIHACTIONS. In addition to the parade there will be lots else of interest to the crowds who are here for | the inauguration. First, of course, comes the inaugural ball. This is to be held nt the pen- | sion office on Saturday evening and promises to be the handsomest affair of the sort ever given. G.R decoration of the ball room in the way of bunt- ing, flowers and illumination. The number of tickets issued is 12,000 at $50 ticket. There will be no complimentary tickets, and each ticket will admit but one person, To provide for the happiness of the people whe will remain in the city over Sunday there be three promenade concerts at the pension office on that day and two on Monday. The concert on Monday evening will be turned into ‘an informal dance Inier in the evening and pos- sibiy on Tuesday there will be a concert at a re- duced price in order that every onemay have the opportunity to hear the fine music and see the beautiful decorations. Saturday evening the | avenue and the Capitol willbe gorgeously illumi. nated aud there is to be a wonderful display of fireworks around the mounment. Inauguration day is now only a fortnight | away, but all the arrangements for the ocea- sion are practically completed and there is but little left to do beyond attending to the thou- eand and one details that have necessarily to be done at the very last moment. When the gen- eral inaugural committee meets next Mon- | day the executive committee will be | able ‘to report pretty fnlly on every nt of interest and to tell just what will done to make the inauguration a suc- cess as well as what has already been done. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE BALL. Mr. E. B. Hay, the chairman of the floor and promenade committee, yesterday presented to Mr. Lawrence Gardner, the general manager of the ball, his ideas of the system for conducting the dancing at the maugural ball. Mr. Hay will take his stand near the band stand and will be in communication by means of electrici with the different aids in charge of the various rections. The ball room will be divided into twelve sections and will be in charge of Wm. A. MeKenny, Alexander Britton, R. M. Larner, John C. Maxwell, Capt. J. F. Oyster, Arthur P! rman, jr, Lieut. &. H. Buckingham, Lieut. J. H. Gibbons, Barry Bulkley, E. A. Newman, s and Albert T. Coumbe. Each en wili promptly notify Col. Hay when sets are ready for dancing. “A wire will also be rnninto the room for the President- elect und his entrance into the ball room will be promptly signaled. As special aids to Chair- the following have been appointed: . Engene MeCarthy, G Ww. J. Holdsworth Gordon, Capt. G. E. Overton and E. M. Ezekiel. ‘The plans for the decoration of the ball room are on a more lavish scale than ever before at- tempted. They involve the covering of entire ceiling of the peusion builing with a canopy of white and gold, measuring 10,000 square yards of material, and 35,000 feet of rope will be required to hoist it in position, Draperies of white, gold and red will be hung around the walls of the entire Luilding and under each balcony and gallery. Silk banners, trimmed with gold and bearing the coats of arms of all the states and foreign countries, the gallery will be decorated with American flags und shields with foreign flags. The sec- ond tier will have shields of all the states, sur- rounded by American silk flags and surmounted by gilt eagles, together with draperies in red outlmed with green garlands. | On either side of the court will be erected an reh sixty-five feet high decorated with plants onabackground of pure white soft bunting. The numes of Cleveland and Stevenson will be displayed in electric lights on the front of these Tho President's reception rooms will be elab- | orately decorated in whiteasa background for | ahandsome floral display, comprising orchids, . maidenhair ferns, Ulric Bruner, Magna Charta and American Beauty roses. The corners and every nook are to be filled with plants and cut flowers, and will be a triumph of art. The other ‘reception rooms will be decorated with plants, flags and shicids, as will also the supper rooms. ‘The electric light dis- play will cost about $5,000 in addition. MUSIC FOR THE BALL. Chairman W. H. Slack of the committee on | music has arranged the following program for | the ball after consultation with Prof. Fanciulli | of the Marine Band aud Prot. Zimmerman | of the dance orchestra: | Grand inaugaral march, “The Great | charging 1 Fantasie comiqne.. “Trip to Mare” ...Panctulli DANCING AND PROMENADE, “Christmas Ev ‘encing Master’? Johns -De Koven .Santelmann Polka... Promenade. arin”... Ganne Lancers.......Isle of Champagne”... Furst Waltz........1"Polar Star’. Waldteufel Schottische | .Country Band”.........Smith Promenade -.*Diyertiserment Espagnol,” Desormos Lancers. “International ... Moses vmenade. oad to Moscow" ‘De Loetz Waltz... ‘La Cigale” . Andran Promenade... ““Pal Costume’ Rubenstein Polka... ..*Jolly Students’ March”... .Pahrbach Waltz. Bachelors’ Favorite”. .... Williams Promenade. ...“‘New York” i York Lancers. Waltz... 5 Polka High School Cadet March”... Sousa The following is the program for the street illumination and fireworks at the White Lot the evening of inwuguration day ILLUMINATION Grand iumination of Capitol by nine elec- tric suns placed on stands twelve feet high in frout of Capitol, each sun being thirty inches in diameter and containing fifty pounds of composition, the grass to be protected by iron plater Colonial sainte, thirteen twenty-one pound aerial cannon salute at Capitol; return salute (thirteen) at Washington monument. National illumination of Pennsylvania avenue from Capitol to White House by forty union illuminators, each illuminator containing fif- teen pounds of composition, lasting thirty min- utes. Iiluminati f Treasury building by two re- volving suns six feet in diameter, each sun con- taining thirty-six pounds of composition, ‘The principal work of the committee on ball tickets and invitations has practically been done, for to it wax givon the task of providin, the tickets and souvenirs for the inaugural balk, ‘These have already been issued front the bureau of engraving and printing and have been placed onsale throughout this city and other large cities in the east. The chairman of the com- mittee is Mr. Beriah Wilkins, the publisher ofthe Post, and in addition to the secretary, Mr. B. Lewis Blackford, he has had associated with him eight well-known business men of Wash- ington, an have used a great deal of taste in the selection of their designs, The souvenir and ticket for the ball are really works of art. The former is a large, handsomely engraved card, containing. scroll work inclosing the por- traits of the two gentlemen who are most inter- ested in the inauguration, Beside itare twohand- some female figures and below is the list of the oificers of the general committee and the list of the members of the inaugural executive com- tee. Each souvenir is inclosed in a large en- velope, which also contains the card of admis- sion te the ball. VIREWORKS DISPLAY. 1. National salute, forty-four 21-pound Union cannon salutes, displaying the national colors, then exploding with tremendous report. 2, Dispiay of 100 6-pound Congreve rockets, pearl streamers. 8. Prismatic illumination of Washington monument and landscape by soventy-five 4- pound priematic illuminators and twenty mammoth Gatling batteries, each battery dis- 28 variegated stars amid an im- mense forest of scintillating Chinese fire and golden sprays. 4. Discharge of fifty floral shells, 18 inches in cireum‘erencs, displaying carnations, eryaan- themums, forget-me-nots, bride rones, labur- num blorsoms, lilacs and’ violets, golden rod, Passion flowers, &c. 5. Device—George Washington equestrian statue, 40x40 feet, depicted in lines of white fire, embellished ‘on sides by jeweled batteries attended by salute of honor, three salvos, twenty-one bombs eac 6. Ascent of 200 6-pound rockets, forty mete- oric showers, forty dragons, forty quadruple ascensions, forty pleindes and forty chameleon changing stars, 7. Battery of 100 mammoth fanfaronades, discharging 10,000 hissing and writhing cobras, 8, Fusillade of fifty bombette fountains, each bombette containing a flight of ten shells ten inches in circumference, displaying all the tints known to the art: discharge from bom- better preceded by electric spreader effects. 9 Device, 40x40 feet-—Harrison and Morton, encircled by national border aud surmounted by American eagle depicted in appropriate colors of lance fire. 10. Salvo of 100 batteries of contortionists and pyrotechnical harlequinades. 11. Salvo of thirty shells, twenty-four inches in circumference, introducing silver and blue, purple and amber, silver and carmine, emeralds and pearls, parachutes, trailing stars, ke. 12 Device—Andrew Jackson equestrian statue, 40x40 feet, depicted in lines of fire, | flanked on sides by musketry and artillery fu- silindes. 13. Display of 109 fiery geysersemitting show- ers of gold and silver sprays, ascending and de- scending. 14. Axcent of 100 eight-pound rockets, twenty- five chains of ten jewels, twenty-five electric bouquets, twenty-five weeping willows and twenty-five golden clouds, 16. Device—Prismatic cascade, 50x60 feet, forming an immense cascade of liquid fire. 16. Flight of thirty shells, thirty inches in circumference, forming aurora borealis. 17. Independence salute by battery of 117 aerial twenty-one-pound salutes, being one ea- lute for each year of our independence. 18. Device—Columbia, 20x35 feet, depicted in appropriate colored lines of fire, enriched by ux ‘mammoth batteries, two each red, white and ue. 19. Flight of fifty eight-pound rockets of liquid gold, producing one of the most marvel- ‘ous effects in pyrotechny, 20, Ascent of 100 eight-pound rockets, twenty- five peacock plumes, twenty-five musical, twenty-five golden rod and twenty-five triple bouquet. 21. Salvoof 5,000 aerial saucissions. 22. Discharge of thirty shells, thirty inches in circumference, form! MED Ke juets of erystal flowers, writhing, fiery cobras, float- ing asteroids, Italian streamers, comets and musical effect. 28. Grand device, portraits of Cleveland and Stevenson, with motto, “Public office is pub- lio trust,” encircled by national banner sur- mounted by American »» all in propriate colors of lance ire, enrbca ae | Capitol, having been escorted from the White \ they will ali assemble in the Senate chamber, INAUGURATING A PRESIDENT. ‘The Ceremony That Will Be Performed at the Capitol. ‘THE SCENES AT THE CLOSE OF THE CONGRESS— THE PROGRAM FOLLOWED IX INDUCTING INTO OFFICE THE NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT—SWEARING IN SENATORS. The merely official part of the inauguration of the new government will not take very long, nor is the ceremony very impressive, but immense crowd will be present at the Capitol, and the disappointment of those who cannot get in the building to witness it will be great. Cards will be issued for admission to the Capi- tolon inauguration day. There is sure tobe a terrible pressure to get possession of tickets, but the number is necessarily limited, and the persons disappointed will bo vastly in excess of those who will get admission, The officers of the Capitol are usually vigorous in the enforce- ment of the orders of the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate to exclude all but the holders of tickets, and while they may be roundly abused | by many free-born citizens who have ‘walked | the way to Washington to see Grover inau- gurated,” or who have not had their bait cut since his first election and think that they should be entitled to some consideration, or who know their rights aa citizens and part own- |° ers of the building, they will keop the doors closed to all but the chosen few who have suffi- cient pull with Sevators or members of the House to get tickets, KEEPING PEOPLE ovr. Fifty thousand people may surround the building without, but within the purpose is to avoid all crowding and to leavea clear way from the Senate chamber to the stand at the east | front of the Capitol. where the oath of office is | administered to the new President and where | he delivers his inaugural address. This stand is now being erected, taking up the entire epace | of the east main portico and staircase leading | to the rotunda. | Congress is liable to be in session ail night | from the 3d to the 4th of March, with short re- costes evory now and then, if there are appro- priation bills still hanging fire in conference, as is usually the case, and a lot of sleepy atates. men lying on the sofas or snoring back in their chairs, with their fect on the desks, will grect the rising sun of the 4th of March with languid indifference. The Fifty-second Congress will be in existence nd in session until 12 o'clock on the 4th of March, but constructively it will bo the $4. up to that hour. The Congress will live until 1 o'clock by the Senate timepiece. Shortly be- fore 12 o'clock the President and his cubinet nd the President-clect and the President aud the Vice President-elect will reach the House by the inaugural procession through a clamorous crowd. IN THE SENATE CHAMDER. The outgoing and the incoming Presidents'and the cabinet will occupy the President's room, and Mr. Morton and Mr. Stevenson will oceupy the Vice President's room. Shortly before noon members of the House and Senate and Supreme Court being present. Probably about two min- utes before 12 the retiring Vice President will administer the oath of office to his successor, | and then, with a very brief address will, at the stroke of 12 declare the Senate of the Fift second Congress adjourned without day. The new Vice President. an extra session of the Sen- | ate having meanwhile been culled, will then call the Senate of the Fifty-third Congress to order and administer the oath to all the newly elected Senators. The custom is to take the list of new Senators in alphabetical order and swear in the Senators in blocks of four. This being done the new Senate will, if cus- tom is followed, take a recess, and the proces- sion will move from the Senate chamber to the east front of the Capitol. The way will be led by the sergoant-at-arms and a squad of Capitol olice. ‘Then will follow the President and the ident-elect, the Vice President and the ex- Vice President, the chief justice, members of the Senate and of the House and various officials of the two houses and of the Supreme Court and others who have tickets to ths stand. THE OATH OF OFFICR. ‘The oath of office will be administered to the President-elect by the chief Justice, and the new President will deliver his inaugural address. ‘The length of time the ceremonies will take will | depend upon how much the new President has tosay to the assembled multitude and to the people on the subject of democratic teachings and the importance of the ceremony being per- formed and its obligations upon the principal actor. ‘This over Mr. Cleveland will be ready to go back to the President's room and from there to be escorted to the White House, while the clam- orous crowd cheer, cannon boom, flags wave and there is a wild expression of rejoicing. The Senate will reconvene after the formal cere- mony of administering the oath, and will be ready to at once confirm the cabinet, provided no wicked person raises an objection to the prompt cont ion. ‘The administering of the oath by the chief justice in really all there is officially of the in- auguration of the new President, but the crowd and the procession, the address and all the noise and rejoicing, and the ball at night make up the great demonstration of the day. Officially the thing is very simple. Heelies sis KANSAS POPULISTS DISAPPOINTED. ‘They Abuse the Governor for Yielding to the Republicans. As telegraphed briefly to yesterday's Sran peace again reigns in Kansas, Gov. Lewellyn signed the perco agreement between him and the republican house of representatives. ‘The proposition came from the governor. The conditions are precisely the same as those of the agreement presented by the honse to the | governor Thursday night. It proposes to give the republicans undisputed possession of repre sentative hall, with all of its appurtenances and connecting rooms, the republicans to agree not to make any further arrests of populist house officers for contempt. The populists are to continue their meeting in a hall down town, the governor to remove the military force and the sheriff discharge his large force of deputies. Immediately after the agreement had been signed dispatches were sent out by Adjutant General Artz ordering all troops on their way to the capital to return to their homes. ‘Tho populists also loaded down the wires with mes sages to their supporters that all occasion for their presence had passed for the time being. ‘The news of the settlement of the revolution was received in the republican ball with great demonstrations of joy. Cheer after cheer echoed through tho broad corridors of the state house. Hats were thrown in the air; coats were ‘taken off and waved wildly. ‘This demonstration coased only when the legislators had cheered themselves hoarse, ‘The terms of peace are a complete buckdown by the governor and the republicans claim that they have gained ail that they ever demanded. ‘The decision of the courts is now awaited with great anxiety. In the supreme court L. C. Guno, who was arrested by the republican sergeant-at-arms for contempt of the republican house authority, has asked for his release on « writ of habeas corpus. He claims that the republican house is illegally conatituted and tly has no authority to hold him in custody. POPULISTS ABUSE THE GOVERNOR. ‘The populists are very much discouraged at the turn affairs have taken, and are abusing the governor for agreeing to terms of peace. Many of the leaders say that they will not obey the supreme court if it decides against them. me of the hot-headed populists are inclined to be decidedly ugly, contending that the gov- ernor should have held his own until the repub- licans were either starved out or driven out of ‘the state honse. Among the citizens, however, there is a feel- ing of profound relief that the crisis has been averted without, bloodshed, and that the good name of state is not to jisgraced by open civil war. The exodus of sympathizers with Doth sides commenced with the afternoon | ‘trains. —-- +04 Publishers Banquet and Elect Officers. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP. Some New and Extensive Hotel Schemes That Are Under Way. HOMES FOR STATESMEN. Some of the Improvements That Mark the Opening Days of the Spring Season—Trans- actions in Housesand Lots and Other Mat- ters of Interest. —_+_—__ B=: IN THE CoM- ing winter a fine mod- ern hotel building will be opened in this city, Its location will in itself give the new hostelry prominence, although if the patronage will not be large. Workmen have already begun to make the changes in the upper floors of the building at the north- east corner of Pennsylvania avenue and 12th street, now occupied by the Palais Royal. By September it is expected that the entire build- ing will be available and the work of trans- formation will be rapidly pushed. The pro- Jectors of this enterprise propose to conduct there a first-class hotel, and the choice of this location is an interesting one from more points than one. It ocenpies an important corner on Pennsylvania avenue and its projectors hope to make it one of the leading hotels in the city. Perhaps the fact that the city post office build- ing is being erected on the opposite square has something to do with the selection of this site. At any rate it may be the beginning of the changes which are inevitable in the future do- velopment of Pennsylvania avenue if that thoroughfare is to keep pace with the rest of the city. This hotel project ts unlike most of tho others that have been started in recent years from the fact that its location is in distinct- ively business section of the city. The major- ity of the modern hotel buildings Rave been erected in the residence sections and it is claimed that now there are too many hotels, But it is probably true of hotels as of the pro- fossions, that there is always room at the top. No doubt if a new hotel building is erected in most any section of the city and ia run by a competent man that © good business will re- sult. There is a wide difference of opinion as to competency in this line. There is some talk of acquiring a large block of land on 14th street to be used as the site of a hotel building, and if this project materializes this will be a bran new addition to the list of hotels in this city. STATESMEN AND REAL ESTATE. It is understood to be the intention of Sena- tor Proctor to erect a row of houses on the ground he recently purchased on the north side of P street between 17th and 13th streets. He intends to erect’ a fine residence for his own eat the corner of Vermont avenue and K street, and altogether he will before long be- come pretty well interested in the material welfare of the handsoment residence city in the country, if not in the world. Senator Proctor is not the only member of the upper house that indorses in this practical way the value of this city as place of residence. There are also members of the lower house who own their own homes here. To the growing attractiveness of Washington as a place for homes is perhaps due as much soas to any one causo the change in the habits of public men and in political methods, For instead of being away from home when they are discharging their duties as legislators members of Congress are, asa rule, at home. Here they have their wives and families and about them are thrown the influences of the domestic circle, which have just as wholesome influence on statesmen as on’ the humblest citi- zens. The constituents of members of Con- gross ought to, rejoice whenever they learn that their member or Senator has set up his house- hold gods in this city. for then they bave a hostage, as it were, that their business will re- ceive that degreg of attention which its impor- tance deserves. PRICES OF LOTS. Some sales of lots on 14th strect extended Were made recently at prices which indicate that values are not wasting away exactly in that section. Two lots at the northeast corner of A4th and Princeton streets, 150x175 _ feet, bronght 21.65 per equare foot. For an inside lot, 106x181 feet, fronting on 14th street between Roanoke and Yale streets, $1.50 per square foot was paid. ARCHITECTURE OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS. A bill that the architects of the country are very much interested in has been passed by Congress and ix nowalaw. It empowers the Secretary of the Treasury to employ architects to turnish designs and plans for public build- ings which are authorized to be erected in various parts of the country. This measure has been before Congross for several years. It is indorsed by the leading architects of the country and it is believed that the effect of the Jaw will be to bring about an improvement in the architecture of the public buildings of the country. All this work has heretofore been done in the office of the supervising architect of the Treasury Department, HIGH-CLASS RESIDENCES. Just now there is a good deal of inquiry for high-class houses, and it is evident that there are quite a number of prospective purchasers in the field. The market for property of this kind is necessarily a limited one, and it there- fore must be gratifying to the owners of resi- dences of this kind, especially if they are anxious to sell. to find evidences of a more ex- tended interest on the part of the public. The recent sale of residences of this character are not numerons in point of numbers, but still it is not common to record the sale of two high- class residences within a period of as many weeks. That is the record, however. The Grafton house, at the corner of Massachusetts avenue and 17th street, was purchased by Bishop Hurst for $77,000, while Lev. Dr. Mackey Smith, who has recently come to the city as the rector of St. John’s parish, has bought the fine residence of Col. A. T. Britton on 16th street just above Scott Circle. The consideration in the latter case is stated to be $95,000. While these figures may seem to be large yet they are regarded aa fair prices for the prop- erty. It would probably be impossible to duplicate either one for the sums mentioned, Judging from the prices quoted for houses of this class it is possiblo to secure a stylish home in a fashionable section of the city for a sum ranging from €40,009 to $30,000. Of course, there are houses which are held by the owners at munch higher prices. There are a number of houses that have cost more than the highest figure named, but there is no record of purchaser of a single resideuce exceeding six figures in the price paid for the fee simple title to such a piece of property. However, that record does not count for much nowadays, OUR BUILDING RECORD. The city of Baltimore, says the Building Register, with » population of 500,000, is prid- ing itself on the fact that it expended about £15.000,000 Inst year in the construction of buildings. On this chowing it would seem that the District of Columbia has a right to regard itself as one of the prosperous communities, for with an urban population not half ¢o large a that of Baltimore it sxpended over $9,000,000 in buildings, £ HOUSES IX ROWS. a The north side of Washington circle between 23d and 24th streets will soon be improved by the erection of two dwellings for Daniel Shan- naban, from drawinj soewet by Jobn B. Brady, architect. Each of house will have of 18 feet 6 inches, ranning back 60 a fron| feet. v will have finished basements and ‘three stories above. The fronts will be faced with pressed brick and Hummelstown red stone. B. Stanley Simmons, architect, hes planned three Saoeclaey and 5 shomacayy Pere gon be aint ie that is its only merit | fnish being used to good advantage on the | second floor, which is used for ments, trunk room, bath, &c. rt sleep maxed the The rest o! ne quarry anda dam in the river t «npply | |afeeder for the canal. The rair. nil pursued | us, and after cat-hing halfa dozen bass we took | house is finished in white pine. The kitchen is | passage on a canal boat for the Great Palle of located in the basement. SOME BUSINESS IMPROVEMENTS. Plans for» three-story and cellar building at 914 9th street have been prepared by Architect Kefustein for Richard Gnech. The front will be of brick and brown stone. At the second story will be an oriel of copper, the same material to be used on the cornices. The first | floor, used for store purposes, will hare large Inte glass windows, the remainder, to be used for residence purposes, will be finished in white ine. PrGalloway & Son are building a store on 0 street between 7th and &th streets northwest for O. H. Bu: It will be 20x60 feet, three stories and and piain pressed-brick front. Jos. C. Johnson, architect, bas prepared plans of a store front for the firet story of the building No. 1224 Pennsylvania ave th west, A third story will be added to 428 and 430 10th street for J. F. arbour. IN THE QOUTHRAST SECTION. Jos. C. Johnson, architect, bas designed for the Bayne estate a building 44x75 teet on Penn- sylvania avenue between $4 and 4th streste southeast, Two store rooms occupy the first story, and the remaining floors will be devoted to four flats, containing five rooms each and bath. Press brick and Hummelstown brown stone faces the fiat front, which has a pedi- ment finish. Copper will be -used on the cor- nices and the large show windows. ‘The same architect has made designs for this ontate for three houses to be located on C atreat between Sd and 4th streets southeast. They will be 16x30 feet each, two stories and cellar, with fronts of pressed brick and stone, broken by square bays renching to the roofs of fiat tin. h house contains seven rooms and bath, is finished in white pine and possesses all modern improvements, . ASSISTANT SECRETARY GEAR. The Official Who Will -Step From the Treasury to Congress. Assistant Secretary John Henry Gear of the Treasury Department has been a prominent figure in public life for many years and brings to his pretent position a most valuable prac- tical experience. He was born in Ithaca, N. ¥., April 7, 1825, and received common school education. He emigrated to Galena, IIL, in 1836, and to Fort Sneliing, Iowa, in 1838, Five years later found him in Burling- ton, Iowa, engaged in mercantile pursuits, His stay there was more permanent, That his career there was successful is evidenced by the fact that he was elected mayor of the city in 1863 and was subsequently elected to the Iowa | house of representatives of the fourteenth, fif- teenth and sixteenth gencral assemblies of the state, serving as speaker during tho last two terms. choice of the people for governor of the Ftate and administered its affairs in a most credita- ble manner. He was next elected to the Fif- tieth Congress from tho first district, com- prising the counties of Dos Moines, Liens ferson, Lee, Louiga, Van Burenand Washington, and was re-elected to the Fifty-first Congress, defeating John J. Seerly, democrat, by nearly a thousand votes. He was a member of and means committee in the Fifty-first ( and was the author of the free sngar clause of the McKinley act. At the lastelection he was re-elected to. Congress from the first district of lowa, defeating the democratic incumbent, Judge Seerly, for the second time. Since then he was appointed to his present office asa special compliment, bnt will have to give it up larch 4 next, regardless of the change of ad- tration, because his term in Congress begins on that date. He is a genial man of sunny, even temperament, and has already be- come a great favorite in the department. His family consists of a wife and two daughters, both of whom are married, one being the wife of Mr. J. W. Blighe, general solicitor of the Chieago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Com- pany, and the other being the wife of Mr. H. 8. Rand, ono of the leading lumber merchants of Iowa, THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN FISHING CLUB. How It Originated and Some of Ite Many Expeditions. Maj. Thos. B, Kirby in Shooting and Fishing. In September, 1837, four Washington news- Paper men sat upon the porch of the hotel at Weverton, Md.. after a good day's fishing upon the best bait-casting water on the Potomac. Weverton is fifty-two anda half miles from Washington on the Baltimore and Ohio rail- road, and it is also known as Hagerstown junc- tion. There was just room enough at the foot of South mountain to build the Chosapeake and Onio canal, the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, the hotel, three or four houses and a flour mill. ‘The problem which troubled the minds of the four fishermen was the old one of ways and means. At last Fergus Patrick Ferris, corre- | spondent of tne Baltimore Morning Herald, spoke. He had been talking all the time, but this was the first time that he said anything. “saw the general passenger agent last week and he told me that if we would organize a club we could get reduced rates, round-trip tickets for one fare.”* “Why didn’t you say eo before?” ‘The organization was perfectedat once. The name was taken from the historic mountain at whose base we sat. The offices were divided by matual consent as follows: — President, Thomas B. Kirby; vice president, FE. M. Hood; | secretary and treasurer, Fergua Patrick Ferris; bait catcher, Charles J. Hayes. ‘There’ was no act ‘of incorporation nor were any written constitution and by-laws adopted, although it was understood that every member of the club should have an office and should go a fishing whenever the water was clear, The original distribution of the offices has been modified somewhat. Mr. Hayes has been placed upon tho retired listand several now members have been taken in. The South Mountain Fishing Club (iimited) has added to its membership Col. Wm. G. Sterett of the Galveston-Dailas News, to whom Mr. Ferris was compelled to surrender the office of secretary, retaining as his own proj erty the office of ‘treasurer, which is the only sinecure he has been able to obtain. Mr. John P. Miller of the Washington Star has been sworn in as commissary, and Mr. A. J. Kaiser, who is not a newspaper man, but a plumber, is bait catcher and general hustle conventions, is purveyor general. There are no elections held for the officers of the South Mountain Fishing Club, nor does the club ever meet except inal members took all the necessary offices and intend to keep them, while new offices have to be created for new members. The club has now seven — Rice the extreme — of the , and, wi are present, Sr acca the last one or two to draw from the discards, which is unplossazt, ‘The club keeps no reeords ¢ of ite tin the mem- 4 fl Hi ret ag g f i In 1878-79 and in 1850-81 be was the | » Jef | Col. Richard | the Potomac. That is, Ferris and I dit. Hood and Haves had previously taken p on the | towpath, which is quite as cupetitiess and most a8 comfortable. But they left the bait buckets and the minnow seine with as | There areaix locks at the Great Fal canal boat which we had taken, tied up night about a quarter of amile from the upper- | most lock of the six. There were several other boats below, and very interesting medley of mules, feeding troughs,tow linesand dogs along the twopath. I was carrying the seine. two rods, a bait bucke: \d my tackle satchel. Ferris was behind me, similarly laden. Out of tho darknes appeared a: overflow; on thecanalside two feet of water, on the lower side a fall of ten a the fect and a narrow plank crossing. Teaid I did not believe T could eros. To which Perris re. a “You and we did er. When we ar: the Palie Hot ev had a corner apon all the wet goo ‘Next day was a beenti | Sebea | two or three | of the previous two dave by the mail wagon, ail base, We had sent ourcatch with the understanding | meet u t the and take us to Washingt: driver left our fieh at the club of the Widowater and went off with Then Ferris lay down road and swore he wou! in the mid He also remarked upon the character of | the driver of the mail wagon in eloqnent lan- guage. Then we ail gathered up our belong- ings and started along the Conduit road, which is built upon the aqueduct that #upplies the national tal with water from abore the iat Falls of the Potomac. Four miles we |tramped from the Widewater to th Locks, also a famous fishing ground. gota to take us home. . 1889, a sertous calamity befe ountain Fishing Club, in common with ther fishermen who frequent the upper Potomac. The same protracted and viol tains which caused the terrible disaster Johnstown, Pa, raised the Potomac to an heard-of height! The flood broke the Chesa- Peake and Obio canal inn hundred places, and when the water subsided canal boats wero left stranded at almost every lock and along ev" level. That year it lit the Potomac « Ye mn t to Squirrel n May outh Mc we. did bh A ‘tated Press, We sen firhing for cod and halibut off famous Monhegan Island, at twelve mi evutheast of Pemaquid Point. But we got a barrel full 0 | cusk, pollock, rock cod, eunnera, not to” men } tion the dog fish which we threw away a otber dog fish who snapped off our | tackle ai 4 made us wonder why the 200 f line, with two-pound sinkers on, came up #0 easily. When we brought our catch Lome we bad more th We of- fered to give them to the keeper of one of the hotels, but the Maine man was too wars | copt gifts from strangers. Ho said he wo | buy the fish at the price he paid to profes: sional fishermen --2 cents pound, dressed. So | when we settled up the expense account we had 75 cents assets to apply upon the captain's bill of $20 for two days’ ase of the yacht. In 1890 the session of Congress lasted until October. The South Mountain Fishing ¢ had been surfeited with silver legislation, the McKinley bill and politics, and its members mged to get away from the world. “Tom” ‘kinner, the representative in Congress of the | first district of North Carolina, Lud given us | such glowing accounts of the sport to be had | in the North Carolina sounds that we mado up | our minds to go there. From Mr. J of Elizabeth City, ton schooner Roxana, Capt. C. C. Heath. The crew of the Roxana consisted of the captain and his mate and Enoch, the cook, who was J equal to any emergency.” The charter price for the schooner, including was €5.75 a day. The members of the club who cruised in the Roxana were Hood, Miller, Sterett, Ferris and the writer. When we sailed our first objective point was ‘ag's Head, which is a small settlement on the a, to Oregon inic and. We arrived there about davlight the next morn- ing, and after catching a mess of spots and | croakers for breakfast took our guns aud hand |lines and went across to the ocean to shoot fish cod, hake, blue fish through the breakers, We shot as | many birds as we needed to eat, caught about a | dozen weak fish and drum and one shark. We are all enthusiastic fishermen, but Col. W. G, Sterett was indefatigable. Even at night ly insisted upon keeping his line out as long as he was awake, and many a time, turn to open a jacl jis reel would whir-r, | and he would say, “Wait a minute till I seo | what I've got. At New inlet we found a most hospitable life- saving crew, unde: command of Capt. L. B. | Midget, jr., aud the prettiest sen fishing that ever was acon. ‘The Roxana was moored close to shore in ten feet of water, clear as crystal. We fished with black bass rods, reels and lines, with an ounce sinker at the bottom, and two hooks above, on gimp or wire enoods, casting from the bank. If a weak fish, drum or blue fish failed to take the bait near the surface a soon as the bait struck the bottom a flounder seized it. In two day's fishing we caught all that we could eat, and all that the crew bad «alt to cure or casks to pack in, and then we stopped and sailed for ag’e Head aguin. 's Head there i a frosh pond, a singu- lar body of water not more than 200 yards from the ocean, about seventy acres in extent, very deep and full of large-mouthed black bass, as weilns other fish. The natives suid that we could not catch the bass, which they call chub and Welshmen, at that time of the year. We thought we conld. We had acast net to catch | bait, and one cast by Col. Sterett secured about | a hundred salt water minnows. With these ina | bait bucket we started for the pond, a number | of natives following to witness the discomfiture of the city spottemen. The water in the pond | is shallow for about fifteen feet from the shore and then deepens suddenly. Col. Sterett put ona minnow and made a weighty cast of about forty yards, In less than two minutes he landed s two-pound base. In less than two hours we had twenty bass, none less than two pounds, and the natives began to think that perbaps they did not know all about fishing for “Weishmen.” Next day we started on our homeward voyage. In 1891 we tried weak fishing with black base tackle at Brigantine Island, N. J., and bad great sport, besides supplying the hotel with fish. The weak fish makes nearly as strong @ | fight on light tackiens the biack bass, but be does not keep it up so long. But with rod and reel and landing net one can save more weak fish than with a hand line. Itmust not be forgotten that during all these years we never neglected an opportunity to go for the Potomac black bass when the river was clear and the water was not too warm or too cold. tea Se Cycling Notes. Thomas G Allen and W. L. Sachtleben of St. Lonis, the famous round-the-world wheelmen who have nearly completed their tour, left Yuma, Arizona, last week for New York via New Orleans, having safely crossed the dreaded Colorado desert, making an average of fifty-six miles per day, They spent one night at the famous Salton sea. Both were in cxcellent health and spirits, Their trip through Califor- nia wasa perfect ovation. They expected to reach New York in ninety daya. ‘The Alpha Wheel Club of Norwalk, Conn... will celebrate its second anniversary on Satur- day afternoon, June 17, by holding « 10-mile road race on ‘the East “Avenue course, and a reception at the club rooms in the evening. It is proposed to open the race toany L. A. W. wheelman in the stato, instead of to only wheel- men in Fairfield county, as was the case last year. The Chicago News claims to have recently interviewed 300 young women of that city on the question of presente, and all but two of them replied in favor of safety bicycles as their choice. The other two were divided between a pug dog and an opera cloak. Fla., to take up subscriptions from the citizens Pagano rman ee track rd wd in that place. sport is © deny spresding in the south, Hackensack, ry . Brackett | . C., we chartered the 10- | pay of the crew, | bench birds and fish for weak fish, drum and | IN THE HOTED Cor The preiigious me=mors worth Spofford of the ¢ bis remarkable ab the bundreds of « and bis familiarity with th them is well k resentative Aes Ciny Evans Mr. Sy aaands 4 « how ri wns . to ths . i 4 agama, ¢ . the Me 4 " 4 | Tom ¥ | | Philad Central | good coffee land |to and © | Ammer to thir «the rich planters sr or London, There capital inverted fife " rom a are an The coffee planters are paid for th | duet in gold. They pav thet expenses on their plants | their own silver money in on the dollar it is thom when exchang coffee pla: lished, ly 2 tains and the | profits from bn them are good planters are enh for people srill @riak trees are kept in be It takes large cap th about ust expend large anus and, years before there tan taal re cago, at th cludes i, Wivcouste Indiana. New Yorkers can must nominate come frot out dominate at fatare con four vears hence this ix based uy tons © be must you wall see oy that mn the asumpt Wisconsin and Lilinois are eafely in the demo= cratic column. Speaking for my own etate L will say t for good. It was not a be the popular im| many of campaign: ties of de Were made to cc trines of the dem votes for our candidates in t outalde of Chi educational cans 1 wert the torn up politic Mr. Beasing ix to receive the ¢ nation for mayor. The Germa with ns, and Illinois will assist hereafter ia. bossing things at democratic conversti “The tradition existing in Boston thet the jorical Common is racted from the vandaba, istic hands of progress ir +o > be «hattered,* said J. N. Parker,{ n merchant of the city of baked beans mai tens, the Normanie to Tee tty asly ancl Boston is still a provincial eity sion is refuted by the effort present to ran an ele | tunnel through the sac | ladies of Boston op dresed the logielat if « portion of the soon all be absorbed i the gr of trafic in Tremont, We strects, which bas become tion, owing to their narrownes is relioved things will come t buriness and property val affected. “Once upon a time the historic beloved « as Bos a eyeten The O14 Haysced Was Not to Be Fooled by 8 Conductor. From the Cleveland P healer, On board # Baltimore train pulling inte Packersburg wasa man who-e demeanor cone veyed the impression that he was matter-of-fact all the way through. No foolishnoss, no trifling with or in the every-day affairs of this busy old life. “Mr. Conduetor, what time do we get inte Parkersburg?” fen-twenty,” replied the official politely. “Yes. Well, what time can i gel train og don't take me for n fool becsmse my beard grows the wrong way aud my clo'es suggest wbip-poor-wills and pennyroyal. i