Evening Star Newspaper, April 29, 1893, Page 12

r CRINOLINE OPINIONS. Senators and Pzpresentatives Give Their Views on the Subject. S2ZO0PSKIRT LEGISLATION @lay Bo Necessary and Some of the Law Makers Indicate What Their Votes Would Be on Measures to Regulate the Sale and ‘Wearing of the Articles. ooo KIRTS GROW WIDER and the walk around them is longer. Hoops are on sale in Sth avenue establishments patronized by ewell women, and the skirts of gowns brought from Paris are found to) demand some support more stanch than silk and starched under- skirt, Of course cot gressional gentlemen ‘not expected toderfully posted on all these 5 but they are ohserving men and mark } “tbe strange appearance of women in these lat-| er days, Congressmen and Senators are sup- | §posed to hare opinions on all subjects from | ‘Wack rabbits to the latest discoveries in the as- (al business, and crinoline and hoops come ‘within these limita Tt was Serator Ransom of North Carolina Wwhofound himself penned in a corner of the ‘wotunfia of the southerner’s favorite hotel by Cour fair young women who insisted on finding wat Just where the Senator stood on the hoop- ekirt question. “sow, girls, don’t you know you ought not @eesk me such a question? Whatdo I know ebont crinoline and heopskirts, anyhow?” know whether you like them or not, and you also know that many a wilder subject than ‘these has been brought to the attention of Con- | mm the last few years, and if skirts extending at the present rate some pre- ious congressional crank or dress reformer ‘Will Introduce a measure destined to regulate Ye anle and wearing of the articles; and what Stand would you take then?” ‘When Mr. Ransom had it duly impressed on Bie mind that “hoops” were on the way ‘buff” he turned on the girls with, “ @e you want those things for?” SENATOR RANSOM GETS MIXED. “Why, don't you think they are becoming?” excouraged the girls, and the Senator, between his desire to be extremely guilunt and his an- tipathy to hoops, stammered, lost his urbane dignity and blurted out: “Oh. if you girls must wear ‘em, why wear ‘em ¢ Of course I ‘Want a woman to be happy and wear just what she wants, but I can't see for the life of me why she wants to look like a bell buoy, and— well, nobody ever looked nice in those con- trivances. Of course if I had to consider the question in open session I'd voto with the ladies, which ever way that was. But if it was im secret session I'd vote to imprison every manufacturer of the despicable articles. Now, ere you satisfied?” and the girls looked so tickled at the Senator's lecture that Mr. Ran- ‘som began to plume himself on his own opin- Senator Wolcott, the eloquent orator from Golorado, was toc busy to enter into details. ‘But he stopped as if shot while one of his double-deck breezy western smiles went career- {fhg down the corridor and the Senator looked ‘a8 if be had tome very learned opinions that Were not designed for publication. “If you mast know my position just say it don't make a bit of ditference t. me’ whether hoops run the country or not as long as the women who wear them are nice. Would I make a speech on them? Weil. I might if anybody was so foolish @ to tryto deprive women of their rights to vole their own clothes. But I hope nobody is 80 foolish as <o try that.” A SUBJECT FOR SECRET SESSIOS. Tf you want to get a satisfactory answer ont @f man catch him after the second round of a @atisfactory Sunch in That is Senator P hoop menti Tis done | in one $s and ‘tacked like w ww, und on the Benator’s eve, vi of ineffable eontentment. t the sugge ‘Hon of th eI sition to | seemest to se awered the f Benate looks: Aleve tha of Idaho. } | on the r grew pale and di er still, dif mer tried to ight wear the ome wher turned and men would tind Up against them. tables would be id scores coun A SENATORIAL MEDICAL oPtNiox. A medical man has an opinion ready on about @réry question under the glowing sun, and Sen- ator Gallinger of New » of course, looked at hoops with pro! wal eyes an well as with aa eye of two to beauty. On the score of cbstructions to transportation he thought the Seuate had power to order hoops out of From a medical standpoint the doc- here, of course, the Senator-doctor is thority, advised women to let them alene. But with ail these considerations weighing down the anti side of the scales the doctor hated to eome out like a brave man and declare himself against them. If the women want hoops let them have them. The Senator thinks it is enough to regulate affairs of state in his local- ity and keep peace generally, without incurring the eumity of the wives of all his constituents by meddling with their dressmaking arrange- ment te Indeed, if all the dressmakers and all the Promoters in the country had crossed ‘the senatorial palms or worked the lobby the | sentiment couldn't be much more in favor of women to fight it out with hoops than itis, Hfall the same good men were in favor ‘women the right to settle the suffrage j swered., ‘THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, Aven 28. 1898—SIXTEEN PAGES. question for themeclves Susan B., Miss Willard and all the other good equal rights women ; Would be stuffing the ballot boxes tiext year without any interference. WHAT PRIVATE ALLEN SAYS OF SENSIBLE GIRLS. Private John Allen of Mississtppi can dodge any question that has two sides to it, bat on hoopskirts he feels strongly. It isn’t his weak cint, The Mississippian. whose stories are as ‘anny as Bill Nye's somotimes, sai nt I can't decide yet’ whether women really want hoops or not. Do they? If I thought they didn’t and fashion and those men dressmaker ere trying to impose on them I'd vote twice a day against them. I'll have to study up the subject and any pamphlets on the subject would be metal. Ierant women to be happy. They don't have such achance as men do, and if hoops will make ‘em happy then I'm in favor of hoops. But as for the, small boys in my district, {f heops mean the revival of rattan I should be compelled to protect the boys even at the expense of the girls, But sensi- ble girls won't wear those hideous things. Mr. Allen’s simple trusting faith in girls not wearing what is fashionable is very touc! ing. Of course Apollo Gibson, the colleague of Senator Gorman, from Matyland, would be considered an authority on any matter of this kind, but it wouldn't bo safe to repeat all the Senator said on the crinoline and hoop ques- tion. Yet with all hfe chivalry and desire to let women rule the world and have their own he docsn't seem very enthusiastic ir surrendering to the all-conquering hoops. He requested particularly shouldn't be quoted on this topic, but it mgh to say that he came back to whisper in regular stage key: “Say, if the newspapers have any influence with the ladies do get them to pitch into hoops.” nator Daniel of. Virginia bas @ pretty, lack-eved, dimpled daughter, to whom he re- ferred the subject with a puzzled expression. “I'm not an authority on the subject. The Indies of my family would control my vote and influence on that topic. Say,” turning to his daughter, “How do we stand on hoopskirte? If you want em you shall have ‘em. Speak out.” ‘Mise Daniel's dimples grew deeper and more dimpling as she promptly said: ‘*No, pa, I hate hoopskirts. We don't want them.’ They aren't becoming, you know, especially to petite women.” And the Senator said: ‘That settles it. Count me against them every time. She says so and she knows what suits her.” WHEN GEN. WHEELER THOUGHT THEM ANGELS. Gen. Wheeler, the Alabama member, doesn’t exactly prostrate himself before the ides of » return of hoopskirts, but he hassort of rev- erential attitude that isn't halfo funny after all when the cause is understood. Gen. Wheeler was rushing through a by way eorri- dor leading from the post office of the House. His pockets were bulging with letters and his hands held still bigger bundles to be an- Thaven't got time to state my position on the hoop question. I've not thought about it, but that reminds me of alittic incident. I don't know but what after all I'm in favor of them. Why, once on a time I thought a street full of women wearing hoops was full of angels. It was late in ‘65. Id been out in Texas. We didn't see many women m those days out there and what few there was didn't atronize fuskions until they got to be at lenst jen years old aud most of them didn't know what fashion meant. Istarted for home and came down the Misslssippi, landing at his. When I walked across the plank and up Main street the sidewalk was filled with figures that seemed to float rather than walk, so graceful were they with something I'd never seen before, bolding their skirts ont and eway- ing gracefully as they came along. Ther seemed to me for a time like angels and I stopped the first man I met and asked him what the women were wearing. The sight woman weartng hoops alwavs brings back that idea,” and the general smiled dreamily at the thought of his first impressions of hoopekirts. “Yes, [believe I'd vote for hoops if I had a chance.” MR. MANTLE EMBARRASSED. Young Mr. Mantle, who wants to be seated as Senator from Montana, is not apt to forget his first intervfew with a Washington news- aper woman. There was no intent to alarm him, but it just simply happened that the first newspaper woman whom be met flung the boopskirt qiu at him. The 5 of course, is another senatorial bu he stammered looked thunderstruck, but finally admitted that he would hate awfully to see his mother. who is his ideal woman, wear- ing hoopskirts, and if he ever had to vote on the subject he should have to protett her. Mr. Murphy of New York thinks the hoop- skirt cartoons are all justified, and makes it one of his enjovments lately to get a lengh at all of them. Hosts of other Senators have ‘CHAMPION OF HER SEX A Strong-Minded Young Woman on the Alleged Foibles of Ladies. CONTRASTING THE SEXES Refating the Antique Slander About No Thanks for Street Car Seate—The Men Re- sponsible—Men Are Fickle and Vain, Have No Better Sense of Humor—The Sterner Sex Taken to Task. —_+__ Written for The Evening Star. HIs,” SAID THE i) strong-minded young P woman, “is now abeut the 999th time since ‘ New Year that I have seen this assertion, and as even then it was tot- tering with age, I think Tam not going to ex- tremes when I remark that I am beginning to \ got sickof it.” And she wa y wid) threw down her paper with vehemence. “What assertion?” inquired her mild-man- nered visitor. “Why, that women vever thankanen for giv- ing them their seats in street cars. “Tam a champion of niy own sex,” she went on, “as every woman should be, indeed, and whenever I hear the sisterhood accused of any weakness I immediately set to work to try and discover how much truth there is in the charge.” “And what luck have you had?” questioned the visitor. “The same luck that the sun has when it bursts on a fog.” she affirmed, with vigor. “Totally dissipating it?” interrogated the itor. ‘otally dissipating it,” repeated she with the strong mind. “And as for this partienlar tale of thankless women and strect cars,” she weut on, ‘w! it is so palpably false. as any one who can even as little as a molecan testify, that,it really ems absurd to refute it, except that our other man keeps on iterating and reiterat- ing it. THE MEN RESPONSIBLE. “It is the men themselves, too,” she pursued, ‘who are responsible for its immortal life. I think sometimes, indeed, that they aro banded together, a secret brotherhood, whrose oath of office is that they shall resolutely refuse to meet the ere of any woman to whom they proffer a seat, that they thus may not perceive any expression of thanks on her part in either word oF look. ‘Tust watch the next man you seo give the next woman his sent,” she suggested, “and if it is on average instance he will not even glance at her, but will recognize her presence in the bumanity-sate? car only by shobting from his own place, the inference thus being that it is thereby tendered her. Then as be sec strap and clings to it iris eyes will assume away expression, as if no object short of the uttermost limit of the horizon had the faintest interest for him. “Of course it is unpleasant to have anything to say to such a sphinx-like individual, even if one’s communication is a patent duty, but women are conscientious creatures and they in- variably send a mild ‘thank you’ in his direc- tion, which quite naturally is unrecognized be- cause unheard, and then when the subject of women and street care next comes up this martyr is armed and fortified with another in- stance of woman’s ingratitude to man. ‘But you should hear me,” she continued, “when aiuan gives me a seat, for I utter my thanks so loud that people in the other end of the car stop their conversations and gaze at me. Idon't, of course, enjoy being so em- phatic, for it n't pleasant to arouse so much wonder, but it 1s my only way of contributing but what enrages me is that vanity should be sverred to be peculiarly a feminine vice, when I have seen men themselves stand and Cages § the quarter hour in some tailor’s window, wit © spring suit only $oo evidently in mind, and they'd wear, too, just as mat and furbe- lows and colors if Queen Fashion ‘only decreed it, for once in awhile, when she does slightly relax her rigid rule over them, look bow quickly they avail witl wail themselves of it and appear forth- in red neckties, silk shirts and brocaded rave over the length of time it takes a woman to devise and oversee the Preparation of soason’s wardrobe and after- ward to don any particular en of it! Why, when thet get to talking on that point they almost make me bel are alot of overgrown children, they betray so remarkably little eense. For docen’t it stand to reasen that with all the perplexing numbers of shades and fabrics and fashions to choose between and to sdapt to one’s style, so that one’s im fectiors will be in the background, and on graces in the foreground, that it is going to take longer for a woman to properly costume herself thanif, like aman, she could saunter into a tailor's, where the greatest latitude al- lowed one’s taste is in the selection of two or three fabrics and two or three patterns. “And then when it comes to arraying ourself for going out isn't a woman's compiex dress going to take more time to adjust than the severe simpticity of man’s; -while the arranging and general care that she must give her hair will, of course, re- quire more than the momentary attenfion that a man's abbreviated (if not totally absent) locks call for.” UNREASONABLE BEINGS. She paused quite breathless before adding: “Men are indeed strange and unreasonable beings—mere overgrown children, as I said before—and when, once in a while, as today, I come toa realizing sense of all their failings I about decide not to mary a single one of them, no, not one.” “But,” interposed her visitor, as she reflected on a certain absent member of this living brotherhood, “they are good for something— good to take one to the theater, good to supply one with flowers, good to ‘buy Christmas presents, and then, too, woukin't it be rather dreary when all one’s friends and one’s brothers and sisters, too, are married and one’s parents dead to be living alone a forlorn old maid.” “How sordid you are!” said the strong- minded young woman, frowningly, “and you surprise me at the lengths you lag behind the times, for in the process which is constantly going on that lends to the sutvival of the fittest Jorn old maid,’ as you term her, has long since disappeared. from mortal sight, and hor place is filled by the woman who has suffi- cient resources within herself to be indifferent to relatives and to circimstances.”” And the visitor weakly responded, “Oh,” as if, though unconvinced, she was still unable to cope with such philosophical utterances. mmc “oat The Cost of Municipal Lighting. To the Editor of The Evening Ste: Your editorial note and the communications subsequently published signed “W. C. Dodge” and “X,” on the subject of electric street light- ing by plants owned and operated by munici- palities, call for a little further attention. Within the last week I received a letter in which the following occurs: “The reader who hastily looks over his paper for news glances atan item appearing to give statistical infor- mation and lays his paper down with an in- correct idea hatched in his mind, if the sta- tistics are not reliable or self-explanatory, when his better judgment, after careful study and investigation of the subject, would prevent him from accepting the error.” I do not know what list Mr. Dodge had before him to the figures from which he so unhesitatingly gives currency, but Ido know that he betrays his utter inability to deal with the problem when he asserts that “candle power is the standard unit of measurement” for lighting by electric are lamps. Prof. Elihu Thomson said in a aper read before the National Electric Light sociation, Providence. R. I., February, 1891: “The term 2,000 candle-power arc has little significance in indicating the illuminating power of the arc. It is now generally taken to Tean an are with 10 amperes and not less than 45 volts potential between the carbons, or a 450 Watt arc. ‘The quality of the carbons will de- termine whether the 450 Watts will be expended in obtaining the most light or not, or whether the light will have a maximum intensity at one my little all toward the abolishment of an erro- néous idea, Nor ovrnty. “Yes, there are a lot of things with which men tax us of which we are, notwithstanding, inr * went on the strong-minded woman, “all of which confirms me in f that women, after all that 1% said to . are less narrow minded than men, for we are not incessantly attributing them wath this or that small pecadillo and unpleasant peculiarity, as they are us, “Why, 1 believe you have turned man hater,” said the Visitor in a grieved tone, which seemed to indicate that she herself did not partake of the opinion. “No, 1am not a man_hater,” she returned, “Tam only an analyst. Men are very well ine deed in their way, but they shouldn't insist that women are the only beings possessing foibles. HOW THEY LOVE ONE ANOTHER, “One of the meanest things with which they charge us,”she went on, with an animation born of sudden recollection, ‘tis that of not ad- mirtug each other.” “That is, of course, an awful story,” admitted the visitor, “for you know, Gertrude, I think you are as lovely as you can be, and I tell every- body so. and if my gowns only looked like yours, why, 'd— “48 far as Tam concerned,” pursued Ger- trude, “I'see more women that it seoms to me been canvassed, and if any crank tries to get Congress to indorse any auti-crinoline legtwia~ tion he will be promptly admonished that dis- cretion is his proper cue ou that subject, — Wititen for The Evening Star. A Dream of Fantaay. Tdreuined I save, hand firmly clasped in hand, Tw rits, high o'er eartl’s polluted alr, Spee with ure, to some far-off land Of tight beyond my ken, I knew not where. Behind these two, a awitt By faree fair si ‘Loo yo Ea ying ghost sel¥ followed ilitng left the world’s Ic +h with a faded rose-wreath on her head. whit And who, I weened, had from no spouse veen torn. iese—I mused—were happlest? aly not he— men would like to marry than men that women would like to marry.” “How very impersonal you are,” remarked the visitor. “One wouldn't think you were on earth yourself at all.”” “An idea.” continued the orator unheedingly, “which leads me to look lentently on the so- called fickleness of mau, for since it is possible for him to see in different women so many dif- ferent admirable qualities it is perfectly rea- sonable to believe that he might love each pos- sessor of these qualities, love being of many kinds rather than different degrees of one kind, We do not love some people better than others, we love them differeutly,” she explained. “So aman might very easily be fascmated by the brightness and charia of manner of the woman he called on Tuesday, with the beauty of the one he visited Wednesday and with the grace and sweetness of the one he escorted to the theater Thureday.”” —— 1y awful man you describe!” le Visitor in” horror, as she reflected fearfully to some possible brunet , While as unblest pursuing three. nought most happy were; ree set Wedlock’s yoke, aired wanderer . foF Just then I woke. W. L. Sormaxum Was—what 1 judge —+oe Unsophisticated, Chteazo Tribune. “I don't like your mill the house. “What's wrong with it, mum?” “Ite di lly thin, aud there's no cream said the mistress of er you've lived in the city a while, ‘aid the milkman encouragingly, | you'll git over them rooral idees o" yourn.” cee Not an Appetizer. First Itinerant (looking in window of hotel kitchen)—“I've got = awful appetite, but I iaain't got der price der satiety Ie Second Itinerant—““Well, dey won't give yer nothin’ in dere.”” First Itinerant—“I know, but when a feller sees how dey prepare de food he won't want nothin’ ter eat for a week.” rival, “just as if any girl would look at a wretch whe would fancy three women inas many days! And I wouldn't mention such an idea agnin to any one. Peopke might think you would justas soon have beena Mormon if you'd been born a little earlier in the century. ou take too lowa view,” responded the strong-minded young woman. “This is only a deserved tribute I pay my sex. NO SENSE OF HUMOR, INDEED! “And then again,” she continued, indig- nantly, as the realization of her wrongs grew upon her, “we are declared by men to possess no sense of humor ud there are, let mo see,” cogitated the Visitor, “what women writers that correspond to the masculine humorists/” * “Women,” returned the strong-minded one, with dignity, “are far too sensible to make it a life business to be funny. Woman's wit and humor is integrated ir. her entire life like deli- cate seasoning in some dainty, thus making every day palatable; man’s is in badly distrib- uted lumps, rendering him at one time very funny and at another very stupid. Woman, as usual, has the right of it,” concinded tis dispenser of wisdom, “for humor should be as the sparkle on the stream, not the current it- self. “Some of their jokes about us, too, are #0 foolinh,”” mid the‘ visitor, after a momentary Tauacking of her memory, ‘such as Easter bonnets, the summer girl and ice cream, and all the rest of that ancient family.” “They call us parsimonious, too, in the mat- ter of tipping servants while traveling and when staving in hotels,” continued the “One can say, and say, and say thit the accu- sation is false, but, nevertheless, they go on making it. However, it is romething to know that it is not so,” she added virtuously, “for with that, as with the assertion that we thank men for seats in cars, I have taken par- ticular and personal pains to investigate and ‘am 80 prepared to totally refute it. “Yes, indeed,” echoed the visitor, “that is the biggest story of all, for if you don't ti them you won't be half served. “Why, when was going to St——" as To vaxrry. “There,” went on the strong-minded young woman, too full of enumerating the wrongs of, her sex to stop to discuss any one of them in detail, “there are a lot of things besides with which they taunt us, of which they, too, are mort palpably guilty, such, for instance, as t ‘deprecate,’ — that I "she ly, “the motive that. sometimes ends in vanity, for vanity is only an e: self- respect. _idn't say ‘Belf- ove is not so vile e thing aa angle or another within certain limits.” In the schedules of the eleventh census, prepared for the “Electrical Industries,” the term ‘‘can- die-power” is nowhere used in connection with the are lamp. The service rendered is invaria- bly designated by the current required, de- termined by the volts and amperes necessary to operate the lamp. Now for the figures: I have before me the oficial» “re- port of the electric light committee of the town of Peabody, Mass. February 15, 1893." ‘This report covers the’ months of September, October, November and December, 1892, and January, 1893. The plant was oper- ated only 39 1-6 hours iu the month of Septem- ber, therefore the figures for that month should not be considered. I will give the figures for one item: “Paid for sundry materials—Octo- ber, $12.58; November. $16.08; December, $28.17; January, $36.97." At this ratio of in: crease what will be the amount of expense for this item at the end of tho year? Is not this sufficient evidence to justify a caroful person in waiting for the returns for a full year before giv- ing currency to the statement that “the lamps in Peabody are 1,200 candle power, and will cost for the entire year, everything included, $6 .12? According to the official statement the Peabody plant cost 243,176.92, of which $1,690 was for land. In the statement “‘cost of lighting” depreciation is estimated at “5 per cent on 330,000." of “The Cost of ing at Topeka, Kan.,” rical Engi 12, 1893, the cost of repairs for 38 months is shown to be #4,S47.57, which is 8.93 per cent of the total expense for the entire tizae covered by the report. Tiyis ix, almost double tho estimate given in ie Peabody report. Is it not alittle better to trke the experience of 38 months than the inexperience of 4 months as a basis of calevlation? The plant at Topeka, Kan., is owned nd operated by the city. It Mi will read an article in the Elee- trical Enginecr for March 29, 1893, by Mr. Ho- ratio A. Foster on “Street Lighting by Private Versus Municipal Plants” he will get more light on the figures given by Mr. Robert J. Finley in the Review of Reviews for February. By simply taking the figures as given by Mr. Finley and reducing the cost to lamp hours Mr. Foster is able to give the following comparative table. Cities and towns in the same state are compared. The first columu shows the cost per lamp per hour for municipal plants and the second column the price per mp per hour where lighting is done by pri- vate plants: for April Private. Texarcana, Ark... « Tackronvilles Tik7, 1083 Bloomingto: Soltet. TH aft Flein. Tit, Feorts, 1 O66? Moline, Til Sprincteld Gees Kokomo, tds. ‘Tremout, Oni Hilisborough, Lebanon, New Castle, 0449 Dallas. Texas. Houston, Te: Parkersbur; c Averages, The average per lamp hour is: For twenty-four private plants For nineteen municipal plants... Gismnbersbiire, Pa Meadvilie, Fe Averages. Excess changed by private plants.. .0065 ‘The reader must bear tho fact in mind that .0828 given for municipal plants is the cost of operating the plants as shown by the accounts askept by the municipalities, while the .0393 given for private plants is the contract price paid by the municipalities, Does any person trho has the least familiarity. with municipal bookkeping suppose tl is small margin of .0065, only 65-1,000 of a cent, would not be much more than’ wiped out if all munici books werg so kept as to fully show theentire frye cost of operating these planta? Did Mr. “X” seo this point when he examined Mr. Finley's Ggures? If not, is his opinion ‘the kind of evidence on which grave affairs of mu- nicipal fingnciering should be determined? 1 agree with Mr. W. C. that this affair is urely ® question éf policy, to be determined Soiaty on ‘basis of ‘the asonomie advantage secured by the vate or public ownership of these plante; but I challenge him to show the ccounts of any municipality that truly exhibit all items of cost for and maintaini inds them I fracts by private KEN-GAR S THE NAME OF COPP’*S NEW SUBDIVISION OR ADDITION TO KENSINGTON, MARYLAND. A PRIZE OF A $300 LOT WAS OFFERED BY THE PROPRIETOR, HENRY N. COPP, FOR THE BEST NAME FOR THIS HANDSOME Woonrp SUBDIVISION OVERLOOKING ROCK CREEK VALLEY AND A MAGNIFICENT SWEEP OF GOUNTRY. TED, MANY OF WHICH THE CONTEST CLOSED APRIL 10. BUT A NAME WAS FINALLY SELECTED THAT WAS FORMED BY TAKING THE FIRST SYLLABLES OF COPP'S TRACT IS BOUNDED BY ACCORDING TO THE RULES OF THE SEVERAL OTHER GOOD NAMES, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NAMES WERE PRESENTED BY MISS E. J. GILBERT, ONE OF WHICH RECEIVED SPECIAL CONSIDERATION, DILKUSHA (IEARTS DELIGHT, SAMARCAND. THE NAME OF TIMUR'S MARVELOUS GARDEN NB AR F. WEBB HODGE OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SENT SEVERAL INTEREST- ING SPANISH AND INDIAN NAMES, OF WHICH PATTAQUONK (A ROUND PLACE ON A ROUND HILL) WAS REGARDED HIGHLY. RU. GOODE OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SUBMITTED A EUPHONIOUS ARBOLEDA (WITH LEAFY SURROUNDINGS) WAS MOST DFSIRABLE. AS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND WAS BORN 1N KENSINGTUN THE NAME VICTORIA WAS APPROPRIATELY SUGGESTED BY MIS N. E. L. McoLEAN OF THE FIRST LIST, OF WHICH DIVISION, PUBLIC SCHOOLS. PERHAPS THE MOST CHARACTERISTIC NAME PRESENTED WAS VALLEY VIEW BY NEARLY A DOZEN CONTESTANTS. HIGH BY MRS. H. 8. BRINKERHOFF, VIEW AMONG OTHEK GOOD NAMES. sxsinctox Park axp Gannett Pass. ‘D LIES BETWEEN THESE TWO HANDSOME PARKS, CONTEST THE PRIZE GOES TO GEORGE S, KROUSE, CORNER OF 11TH AND B STS. WASHINGTON, WHO SENT ABOUT 3.000 NAMES WERE sUBOR WERE BEAUTIFUL, CHARACTERISTIC OR OTHERWISE DESIRABLE, THERE WAS BEEN DIFFICULTY If CHOOSING BETWEEN THEM, MISS HARRIETTE D. KNOX OF ALEXANDRIA SUGGESTED THE UNIQUE KANE COMANSEE (COME AND SEH. THE Most ACAL ANNEXATION.” 4 SEAT NAME Was AIGRETTE BY E MILLER AS KENSINGTON IS AN ENGLISH NAME SEVERAL RUXDRED GOOD OLD ENGLISH NAMES WERE OFFERED, THE MOST POPULAR BEIN@ HYDE PARK. HERE ARE SOME CAPITAL NAMES: Content BY MRS. 8. E AIKENR Golden Rod BY MISS A. K STEWARD. Best of View BY GEORGE T. WILLIAMS, Birds Eye BY SUE & TrMPrIR Basking Ridge BY W. H WESSEIZS Ghriscol (PROM THR DISCOVERER BE MARGARET M HASKELES THE PRESIDENT AND HIS BAMILY WERE REMEMBERED. Ruthiand, Ruthven and Ruwthdale ARE PRETTY NAMES. THE PROPRIETOR WAS COMPLTMENTED BY WUMEROUS COMBINATIONS OF THE WORD “OOP.” % @ STODPARD OF THE CENSUS OFFICE SUGGESTED COPSE (COPP'S), APPROPRIATE FOR THIS WOODED BILL, THE THE GENERAL LAND OFFIOR MOST INGENIOUS WAS ACHENCOP (i, N. COPP, BY D, A Bax OF COPPONTO (COPP'S BEIDGH Was A BUFEO NIOUS NAME RECOMMENDED BY BATHER ROSENSTEEL OF ROCKVILLE Lots in Ken-Gar Range From $200 to S500 In Prise AND ARE SOLD ON SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS TO SUIT PURCHASERS, WITH LIBERAL DISCOUNT FOR LARGE CASH PAFMBSTS NO INTEREST IS GHARGED. INVEST IN SUBURBAN REAL ESTATE AND MAKE 15 TO 30 PER CENT INTEREST ON YOUR MONEY, WASHINGTON WILL SURELY REPEAT TEE sUB URBAN HISTORY OF BOSTON, NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA AND CHICAGO. COME AT ONCE AND SELECT A GOOD LOT, HENRY N. COPP, No. 706 Sth st., Noar Patent Office. THE NATIONAL GUARD Inspection and Muster Now Close at Hand, AFEW SCRAPS OF GOOD ADVICE + What Should cr Should Net Be Worn—Sev- eral Interesting Points—As to the Bullet- Proof Fabric—Looks Bad for the Proposed Chicago Encampment—Other Matters. WO MATTERS OF considerable import- nce stare the District National Guardsman in the face — inspection and the gallery rife competitions, A good showing as to the for- mer is absolutely es- sential, while snpremacy in the latter is hardly less desirable. But the inwpections come first TSR aid must be disposed ar there were many individual jes evident when the inspector general and his aids went their rounds, and several people who were touched on tender places winced perceptibly. This year many of the old errors can easily be avoided, and every officer and enlisted man should display a_per- sonal interest in bringing the commands to which they are attached up to the highest posible standard. Now, it is much better that there should bean understanding before the muster than that ill-vature should follow ignorance, and a3 ‘Tux Stan wants to see the brigade maintain the maxi- mum of efficiency it thinks this is as good as time as any for saying that the soldier who wears kid gloves when he presents himself for scrutiny will receive a black mark. Asimilar punishment—only it is to be much blacker—will be meted out to him who appears in russet shoes, Patent leather ‘“understand- ings” may be permitted, but Inspector General Macauley's preference is for the ordinary shoe of commerce properly polished with “ 2 blacking. Then there has to be unanimity as to neckwear. A year ago there were several varieties of flaunel shirts, many denominations of the “outing” brand, high linen collars, low linen collars, turn-down linen collars and no collars at all in single companies, but thé changes are against such a kalei jic display this time. Regimental, battalion and separate company commanders can surely prevent such & grotesque exhibit. A quietly issued order prescribing the style of shirt eoliar and necktie to be worn would accomplish & great deal. Closely clipped hair will not be regarded as an eccentricity, but hair that covers s man's ears up and crawls down the back of hi: neck will be unpopular. Gloves will be white and clean, or they must fail to do their wearers credit, Somebody wants to know whether any colors except the national colors shall be saluted by specting officers. That isa question over rhich authorities dispute. In the absence of a decision it is just as weil to leave the matter to the discretion of the inspecting party. Another inguirer_wants to know whether the color a regiment w! deen inspect and mustered with his field and staff on same night asthe first battalion of his ment may then command the battalion ite inspection and mustér. Inspector Gen Macauley says “‘No!” Don't make any mistake about the belts, webbed article is the Part—and an important the aration for the annual muster is the getting of men who are of no use. the past day same service at the same or whose shoulders all the blame must rest. If there is anything in all the broad field of com- pany work with which Sergt. Muzzy is un- acquainted the men of company A would like to know what it is, WILL IT REALLY TURN BULLETS. Discussing the bullet-proof fabric with which some of the European countries propose to protect their troops, the London Lancet says: “This subject is still attracting a good deal of attention in Germany and on the- con We strongly s“spect, however, that it Will be a long time before soldiers go to war as a sort of pastime owing to the battlefield having been robbed of its terrors hy the resistance of the fabrics worn by tuem’ to rifle and revolver bullets. Even if the bullets do not penetrate the texture there is the force of impact to be considered. and we havenot yet experimentally seen what this will be on living animals encased ina sort of wire netting covering. As it was very unlikely that Herr Dowe or any one else wouid act upon Prof. Bilroth’s humorous remark that it would have been more satisfac- tory if the inventor himself had stood up to be fired at, and as no one even in that case would be emuions of firing at such x mark it has been determined to test the properties of the inven- tion by clothing piga in it and shooting at them. There does not appear to be any doubt, accordirig to the accounts of an expert, Capt. Ziegler, that modern rifle bullets are’ com- pletely stopped by the newly discovered ma- terial at a distance of 200 vards; but we have not yet received any particulars as to its weight and cost or how it is to be worn or whether it is hot and uncomfortable to wear or not. Weshall soon hear, no doubt, what has been the result of the’ numerous experi- mental files that have been instituted with the Lebel and Mannlicher rifles, and until these are published it may be well to reserve our judgment as to what will be the practical outcome of the alleged invention of a bullet-proof fabric. Meanwhile Herr Dowe is no longer alone in the field, for he has a competitor—also of Mannhein— named Reidels, and another in the person of an Austrian engineer named Sarneo. The inven- tion is supposed to consist of a kind of light mail and hemp woven together. If it be heavy or at all cumbrous and likely to impede or in- terfere with the soldiers’ movements or com- fort even. its use will obviously be of a lim- ited kind; and we do not yet precisely kuow, as we have said, what might be the effect of a rifle bullet projected with @ normal velocity when stopped by a resistant structure as re- gards shock to the nervous system, bruising an 1 Fupturing of internal organs and structures of the body generally. ‘The great penetration of a bullet is caused by its high velocity, but the actual impact effect of builets of Very small caliber on living tisaues has yet to be de- termined. It is possible if the alleged roperties of these duly invented armaments Pezperimentally proved to be well founded, and if their power of resistence to the crush- ing effect of large and heavy projectiles be also established, that a new material has been obtained for defensive purposes which will al- together alter the aspect of warfare; but wo far as anything is actually known at present there is room for conjecture and but little for ac- Inowledged and ascertained facts.” THAT CHICAGO ENCAMPMENT. camp accommodations at Chicago, but his efforts have not as yet met with flattering suc- cess. A letter received a little while ago from & prominent officer of the Illinois National Guard Association ‘says: “With reference to ean pe regarding a suitable tract of land on wi successful, In a general Shad the trouble ‘originated the rds go. They seem to have been released about 2 o'clock in the afternoon when strong wind from the northwest made rapid flight impossible. Lieut. Munson did his best at this end and was ably assisted by Privates H. K. Gibson and C. F. Jenkins, second separate company, but the handicap at the Fortress Monroe end was too great. Some of the birds released during the gale are still miss one came in yesterday. Maj. Thompson Teut. Munson manage, however, toextract considerable gratification from the fact that on another occasion one of the engineer birds reached here in $ hours, 33 minutes, or two hours less than the time of birds liberated by other parties. Noes. Inspections will take place as follows during the coming week: Monday—General staff and non-commissioned. staff at 8 p.m. Third battalion at 8:30 p.m. Friday—Second battalion at 8 p.m. National guardsmen and others who witnessed the presentation ccremonies in the K Street Market Hall last Tuesday everiing are still sa; ing many complimentary things about the sec- ond regiment and about Col. Clay and Capt. Bell. ‘They deserve all the praise they will get. Company C, engineer corps, Capt. Averill commanding, bas made a remarkably fing map of the Bellevue naval reservation, upon whicl it is proposed to construct a rifle range that shall be used by the District National Guard and the United States marine corps. Estimates of the quantity of material required and the cost of labor will be submitted to Gen. Ordway within a day or two and then immediate de- velopments are looked for. Very many national guardsmen will be sorry to learn that First Lieut. John T. Eiker of the first separate company has tendered his resig- | nation. Lieut. Eiker is an admirable officer, thoronghly conversant with his duties and ex: tremely popular. He leaves because affairs require closer attention than been able to give them. Voluntary rifle practice in the gallery con- tinues with undiminished force. The gallery will be open each weck day from 3 to 6 and from 8 to 10 for the completion or bettering of scores or for team practice. It will be remem- bered that the gallery closes for the season of 1893 on the last night in May. Maj. F.C, Revells, commanding first separate attatio , is doing his utmost to remove se of the grounds for criticism upon which the in- spector gencral stood a yeur ago. The major has issued a circulcr to his company officers in which he asks for extraordinary effort. He de- Svea aes serves to get it, Quartermaster James S. Wescott of the en- gineer corps has resigned. Business calls him, and Major Thompson with him regret fully, for he has been # good officer. Inspector General Macauley will, this year, be assisted by Capt. W. S. Horton, aid on the ral staff, and First Licut. Alexandor fight battery A" Great team! ‘Be prompt with your muster rolls, ‘When the dogwoods and the honey suckles blooms in greatest plenty—when the sap's up in the forest and the bark slips on the hickory and you ruther make some whistles f children, or do nothin—when it suits « ile ui | F : i : i I 5g if g BEE tf £ i i Af is RY’ i i 2 FE i EF i if ul i it ht i i Ey I th HH io"has| BANQUETING THE VISITORS. Foreign Admirals and Commander Enter tained by the New Yorkers, The chamber of commerce banquet in New York last night put an appropriate capsbeaf om the festivities incident to the naval review, Among the guests present were the British, French, Russian, Brazilian and Argentine ad- mirals, the three American admirals, the com- manders of the German and Dutch vessels and the captains and flag lieutenants of all the ves- sels of the fleet. These were essentially the guests of honor. Other guests of distinction wore the Secre- tary of the Navy, Mr. Herbért; the governors of New York and Illinois, the mayor of New York and members of the foreign legations. The British and French ambassadors and the Italian minister sent regrets, as did also the Earl of Aberdeen, who had been expected to be Present. The Wanquet was held in the main @inti room of the Hotel Waldorf, fronting on 5 venue. Covers wore laid for about 400. Nothing was attempted in the way of decora- tions but a most artistic arrangement of choice flowers and of fextoone 1 flags of all the nations represented. Nevertheless, the scene wasa brilliant one. The oratory was short, pointed and witty. : Mr. Alexan‘er E. Orr, president of the chamber of commerce, presided and most of the prominent members of the chamber were present. International fraternity was the general burden of the speeches. “Germany” was proposed by Joseph HL. Choate, “Great Britain” was gracefully hon- ored by Bishop Potter, ex-Necretary Fairchild proposed “Brazil,” ex-Judge Howland, “Rus- sia;” E. Ellery ayn “Italy;” Gen. ‘Horace Porter in his own happy vein gave “Spain,” | Elihu Root, “The Argentine Republic;” Fred- rick J. de’ Peyster, “The Netherlands,” and ex-Secretary Tracy, “France.” ‘The foreign guests were given the option of permitting the response to the toasts to be made by music, and most of them availed themselves of the privilege, no that the banques was not spoiled by dreaded anticipatious after-dinner oratory. ——_-+e- ___ Society. From Life. ‘Mrs. G. Hangfast Milleure has had the mount- ings of her new harness made of solid gold. Of course there is no reason why she shouldn't have it if she wishes, as her husband, Gregory HL. Miller, is well able to afford it. The only bad thing about it is that the Pulleures, the ‘Tuekeurs, the Fisheures and the Mattbours will all be having the «ame thing, and then there'll be no distanction in it, don't you kuow. The dinner at Mrs. J. Bumpleigh Alistyle's last Monday was a great success. Ever; was expensive, and there was such an of vulgar simplicily thatno one had the remotest idea what they were eating.