Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1893, Page 9

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The Navahoe’s Mission to Bring) Back American Prizes. i BILLIARDISTIVES’ CONDITIONS | | | | Anson Wins From the Senators—The Grand | Prize of Paris — Notes of Chess Players — Disputes Over Dividing Ball Receipts. od ‘The Navahoe, Royal Phelps Carroll’s speedy yacht, sailed yesterday from Newport for Eng- | land, with Mr. Carroll on board. Mr. Carroll is after, first and foremost, the Cape May and | Brenton Reef cups, which were presented to the New York Yacht Club in 1872 by the commo- dore that year and which were in the posses- sion of the club until the rear 1885, when Sir | Richard Sultan's Genesta then visited ua for | the America’s cup and, beaten by the Puritan, | won them both and carried them away in her | lockers to England. There they nave remained ever since. | ‘The course for the cup when held by a for- eign yacht 1s from the Needles, Isle of Wight, toand around a stake boat off the harbor of Cherbourg and return. | ‘The building of the Navahoe shook England to its yachting center. Leaders of the sport there immediately cast about for a means to de-_ feat the Yankee craft and her plucky owner. The Prince of Wales first came to the rescue and the Britannia is the result. Mr. A. D. Clarke ordered the Sanitina and a stock syndicate the Caliuna. The building of these crafts kindled anew the yachting spirit across the Atantic. The Britannia thus far bas | | shown to better advantage than the Sanitina or | the Calluna, but it is early ret to form an opin- ion of their merits, as yachts which are new | have very funay wavs, and inter on those that | seem at first like the worst of failures becom teaders of their classes and champions. | THE START. It wasa perfect day for the start, and it had | | been looked forward to with great auxiety by | | Royal Phelps Carroll and by his friends. Tho | scene in the harbor was particulariy animated, the water being dotied for hours by boats of every size and rig, as early as 1 o'clock every available craft had been engaged by par- ties “who desired to be on thegvot when the Navahoe weighed anchor. Woodbury | Kane and Mr. H. B. Duryea, who accompanied Mr. Carroll on taking leave of his friends at the elab and at the landing siage of th: Yacht Cinb, went on board the N o'clock and prepared themselves for trip to England. LEAVING NEWPORT HARDOR. At 2:55 the anchor was for the last time | cleared from Newport harbor, and the yacht | moved out of Brentoa’s Cove under mainsail, | | or ‘ing topeail, forerail, small jib and baby | jib topsail. She was quickly past Fort Adams dock and into the outer harbor, where the [n- | 4, Conqueror and sloop’ Kat | her. 3 i Games jew York | hoe at 1 | ir long Sir. Georg uly for a trial with ey y fifteen minutes had been iaiug to | it the | For | avery skort time the Katrina appeared to be | deing weil, but shortly after the recond tnek the Navahce was seen to not only have cut| | down the lead the Katrina but to be leay- | ing her astern, aud when the boat tacked in Mackerel Cove the relative positions of the two | boats were reversed, | | Assbort tack was made toward Castle Hi another in shore and then for the last time in | ner home waters. the Navahoe came about and | pointed for the Brenton Reef ligltship. GOING LIKE A RACs HORSE. At this time the Nevahoe was going like a} race horse, taking the seas easily, pointing high | and standing up like a church, while the Katrina, now far astern, wae moving her nose pole into the long rollers ina way to indica:e an abundanee of eal! water on deck. The con- test between the two vessels was pleasant, but in no reapeet did the Navahoe show so well as j the ease with which she pushed the waves about in a lively manner. Across the Continent on a Bicycle. H Thomas Roe began his race to San Francisco | ona bicycle against time from New York yes- terdav morning. He was started from the Bar- rett House, Broadway and 43d street, by Mr. | George H. Dickinson, editor of the Daily | America, prompily at 11 o'clock. Frank Wailer | iM accompany Roe as pacemaker us far a | Yesterday, to which H. Roberts, Geo. Suter, | with a Ruy Lopez, | the “Missivsippi river will be crowed. Mr. C.G. Sinsabongh of Benrings will company Koe by wheel aud The entire party weer the colorvof the Chicago Cycling Club. Koe’s schedule time is sixty-five davs, | twenty days better than the record held by | Nelson A. Bradt, The men may also bent the record to Chicago. This record is held by Charies Neilson and is fourteen days, | =e | Base Ball Notes. | ‘The Senators conidn’t hit Mauck, the Chieazo | pitcher, on Saturday, and lost in consequence. | The Saturday games resulted: At Washington—Washingto: At Philadeiphia—Philndeiy hin, 6: At New York—New York, 7; Louisviile, 6. Ten innings. ‘At Boston—Boston, 8; Pittsburg. 3. A: Brookivn—Brookiyn, 4; Cincinnati, 2. At Bulumore—Bultimore, 4; Cleveland, 1, Ponnsyiva: At Ann: | College, | At Princeton, N. J.—Princeton, 0; Yale, 2 | ‘The Cornell Caiversity nine closed its season Saturday.with its third defeat of Pennaylvania | by 6to3. The nine won fourteen out of teen games. | . Priest, the Cornell pitcher. has been offered $175 a month by Baffalo for the balance of the season. Pitcher Sexton of Brown University was s1s- | pended on Saturday. ‘There is suid to be con- siderable doubt abeut bis playing with the Bos- tons at all this year, azd this troubles Manager | Sele a great deal. | Staley of the Bostons has not got into form | and @ isa great cry for some one to he | ont. ing hus been dore, and as long as =e apolis—Naval Academy, 15; St. John’s No! the eInb continues to be as near | now the case there is very little 1i | anything wiil be done. | | ‘The national bourd has decided that Catcher | | Bord, who was reserved by Butfalo and subse- | quently signed with Cleveland, was properly re- | served by Eaffalo, and i# not eligible to piay with any other club | The Louisville € ae a | Pfeffer is retained get a casket for base ball in | this city. Bury it deep, for that will be the inevitable result,” aA Clarkson of the Clevelands is suffering with soreness of his pitehing arm. The Pittsburg: have dropped. Brooklyn now ties them for first place, and Boston and Phila~ delphia are on their heels. i Corcoran has returned to short for Broo! and Richardson to second. : It looks as though Brffalo might take Louis- | ville’s place next Fear. Cincinnati would like to give Scrappy Joyce | a trint. | Stricker covered third on Saturday, the local howi against McGuire having caused’ the man- | agement to restore Farrell to the cutcher’s po- | sition. Ho secured a bit, but, like the rest, couldn't hit whe: a hit w:# needed. | Boson and Clevesaud suocld give Pittsburg | @ handicap of ten games and a beating.—bos- | tom Globe. Not this year. Charley Suyder Las not been a succes this seuson as one of Uncle Nick's staff of ump Exchange. And yet the New York ps say that he is the best they've seen there. Record of the ate Over Admissions. It turns out that on the visit of the Phillies | settled on the basis of but 25 cents foreach admiseion, the same a prevails in Dhiladelph: fogers has got very an ‘aw suit uniess the Bogtons agree to send the balance | that he claims The Boston managemen: has decided not to withdraw from its position | and some fun is expected. The Boston club, however, is clearly in the | wrong. The league agreement calls for ad vision of the receipts into three parte, 50 per cent for the home club, 40 for the visitors and | . It makes no difference | nb whether the price of admis- | sion is 10 or 50 cents it gets a percentage of the | | thonght to be out of the race, as Ragotsky | In next to the structed in Maine, and the contractors have a | rected tor tidal enrr receipts. This is the only equitable arrange- ment. Philadelphia doesn’t settle on a 25-cent basis and then claim settlement on # 50-cent basis elsewhere, That's the wrong way to look atit. It settles ona percentage of the receipts. The fact that the admission at one placo 1s 25 cents and at another 50 cents is a mere incident and doesn’t affect the equities of the case. ' The American BliMard Champion. Frank Ives, the American champion billiard player, told a reporter in Paris yesterday that | he would not accept the challenge of Johu Rob- | erts, the English champion, recently defeated by him, to play another match unless Roberts first put up a deposit. He rhould insist, he said. that the pockets of the table be cut aight. He was contident that even with the | jammed stroke barred he could beat Hoberts, | { nt even so he would not return to London to play unless the stakes should be made unus- ually large. Ives will open this evening his en- gagement at the Roval Club in Paris. His sal- ary will be $100. night. Record of the Female Walkers. At the close of the first week of the female walking match at Kernan’s Lyceum Theater on Saturday night the following was the score: Mollie Harvey, 114 miles, 18 laps; Aggiv Harvey, 161, 18; Rose Tremont, 161, 8; Mamie Hewitt, 150, 3: Mamie Taylor, 78 (withdrawn); May Gaffney, 152, 13, Hoagland walked a mile heel and toe in 7 minates, 9 seconds. The following is the record made by the walkers in Baltimore last week: Clara Beil, 175 miles, 28 laps; Jennie Frazer, 182, 17: Nora Evans, 175, 26; Alice . 174, 7; Frankie | leming, 155, 7; May Hamilton, 123, 17. Aggie Harvey's world championship record of 173 45 miles, made in Boston March, '93, is therefore beaten. agin ips Balt!more Bicyclists Here. Capt. E. G. Freburger of the Harlem Cycle Club of Baltimore called a run to Washington H. Barr, C. Raabe, H. Raabe, W. Brown, C. Rhine responded. ‘The boys arrived in good ‘ime and were entertained at the home of Mr. Pembroke Shipley of Sontheast Washington. After « few hours’ use of their wheels on the beautitul streets of the city ‘thoy returned | home il, much pleased witb their trip. 1 Chess Notes. The score of tho masters’ tournament of the Manhattan Chess Club of New York was tho following after the completion of Saturda: game: Hidges, 6; Delmar, 5!{; Hanham and Ryan, 5; Isaacson, 3!f; Clapp and Simonson, 214 each; Holladay, 1. J. W. Baird, the well-known chess amateur and one of ‘the directors of the Manhattan Chow Club, wil! leave for a chess tour through e Bri the slands, Russia, Germany and Italy on Saturday next, Walbrodt. the German chess expert, and Max Judd, the consul general of the United States, stationed at Vienna, played two games of chess in midocean on board the steamer Augusta Vic- toria from New York for Hamburg on May 20. Yalbrodt played a French defense and won er fifty moves. The second gume was played ou May 22, when Walbrodt opened the fight After forty moves the cou: al sui had to resign. rnelins Vanderbilt has contributed €100 to- ward the fund of tie Columbia chess congress, ‘The treasurer reported €3,000 on hand on Sat- urday. ‘The Great Cowboy Race. Cwaprox, Nzs., June 12—The Chadron- Chicago cowboy race will begin here at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The correct route will not he published. although it is likely the riders will take a straight line near the southern Nebraska line, crossing the Missouri river by ferry or swimming the river, in which manner There will be three registering men. who will tuke trains from place to place, thus avoiding any interference of the humane society. WON THE GRAND FRIZE. Ragotsky, Baron de Schick!er’s Bay Colt, Takes the Great French Race. ‘The race for the grand prize of Paris was run yesterday at Longehamps, near Paris, Baron A. de Sehickier's bay colt Ragotsky came in first; Mr. Rose’s bay colt Ravensbury second; A. Abeille’s brown colt Cullistrate third. Ragotsky is by Parploxe, out of Czardas, and two weeks ago won the French Derby at Chan- tilly. Raven-bury, the favorite among tho English horses thet ran, is by Isonomy, out of Penitent. Callistrate is by Cambyee, out of Citronelle. There were eleven starters, The conditions of the race are ‘The grand prize of Paris, 200,000 francs; 50.000 francs given by the city of Paris and 50,000 by the five great railway companies for colts and fillies foaled in 1890, of every descrip- tion and country, added to @ sweepstakes of 000 francs each: the second to receive 10,000 nes; the third 5,000 francs ont of the stakes; course, one mile and seven furlongs. ‘The horves got a capital start. Ravensbury was off first, but was overhauled quickly by the Duke of Fetre’s Chantenay. At the end of Cc r ‘8 Fousi Yama, tra £, Merino’s Sylphine. Micnet Ephruesi’s Ger- manoyfnd P. Anmont’s Fraline brought up the r After the second furlong Ragotsky drew up alongside Ravenebury, and Callistrate spurted three lengths ahead of both. 4 ve positions of the horses remained front with Ragotekv, allistrate in hot pursuit, Ravensbury was shat in on the rail and was scemed to be winning easily. st furlong, however, Ravens: je a desperate +purt, closed in on Kagoteky and finished but a+hort head behind and two lengths shead of Callistrate, Fousi Yama was fourth. Timo, ‘The betting jast betore against Ragotsky, 6 to 4 agaist Call he start was 5 to 1 8 to 1 agninst Ravensbury, trate, 10 to 1 against Foust Yama, :2 to st Fraline, 20 to 1 against | Regal, 25 to 1 st Sviphine, 33 to L against Germanoy, 66 to Lagainst Ramteh and 100 to L against Chautenay and Sylphin The day was fine, and ail the social and political ons of Pari« were at the track. = | dreds of members of the English and American colonics were prevent. ‘The ustal display of magnificent costumes and elegant equipages was made. President Caraot and bis sons arrived at the track early and were cheered with enthusiasm wherever they went. ‘The naval o*ticers here are very much ploased with the performance of the gunbeat Machias, the first vessel of the new navy to be con- right to feel pleased, becnuse they have sue- ceeded in getting abo! + cent more speed een tl ent | t Today ed the following tele- iknap, president of June 11. Speed ted and co~ nt, was fifteen knots and forty-six hmndredths, ‘The contract required the boat to make thir- teen knots, und provided fora premium of 30,000 for each quarter knot of excess specd. sono cl eaass Avmy Orders. The leave of absence granted Second Lieut. | Edmond S. Wright, » | fifteen days. Leave of absence for one moutia and fifteen days is gran Walter A. Bethel, fourth bsexce for two mouths Second Lieut, illery. Leave of ted Capt. nd. artillery. and fifteen First Lieut. John V. White, At bis own request First Lieut. |. third cavalry. is transfered 3 of that regiment, e First te, third cavairy, who is hereby transferred trom troop G to troop D. > -scubeadatiealy Secretary Carlisle Regulates His Time. Secretary Carlisle has issued an order setting apart Mondass and 8 for personal in- terviews with applicants for office and their friends, in order that he may devote the other days of the week exclusively to the consider- ation of public business, Tuesdays and Fri- days the heads of the departments aro required to attend the meetings of the cabinet, and Mr. Carlisle believes be 1s entirely justified in set- ting apart at least one-helf of the remaining days of the week for the consideration of public business in his office. There are numerous written recommendations on file for every po- 1 within the gift of the department, all of which have to be examined before appoint- ments are made, and therefore the time and labor given to personal witnesses are sub- stantially wasted. | carelessness of the government in housing its WHAT PAPERS SAY. Journals All Over the Country Call Congress to Account, FRIDAY’S GREAT DISASTER. It Could Have Been Prevented — Warnings as to Other Public Butldings Which Are Known to Be Unsafe—The Lessons Taught— Indignant Editors. —-___ The following extracts from newspapers in various cities express indignation at the criminal mployes in unsafe buildings. Warnings are sounded as to other structures whichare notori- ously insecure. Congress is Responsible. From the Baltimore American. The public is temporarily helpless in the presence of the appalling disaster which oc- curred in Washington, and this aggravates the feeling of indignation and resentment. Some- body ought to be held responsible forthe wholesale maiming and slaughtering of the government's humble employes, but so many and such diverse agencies must share in the re- sponsibility that no practical result is likely to follow investigation. immediate cause the collapso was unquestionably the senseless di ‘away of the su; upon which one of the rested, in order to remedy the sant! defects and lack of light: but it is doubtful the wretched rattletrap would have long sus- tained the strain upon it, had there been no dig- ging away at the foundations. A part of the structure was titioned off nd Seeorated with the danger signal. Its gen- eral insecurity was a matter of gossip, and the clerks worked under protest in fear of their lives. Official reports of its insanitary condi- tion and generel unsoundness had been made thirteen years prior to the catastrophe, and the museum had been transferred toa safer spot, it being of more value in the eyes of the gov-| ¢; ernment than the lives of a few hundred clerks, The clerks could be replaced, but not the curiog Congrexs had been repeatedly appealed to for an appropriation to make the building secure or construct another one. But the House of Representatives, true to its demagog- {cal ideal, preferred to economize on the poor clerks, who had no influence, and waste mil- lions upon stractures in small towns, which would not grow up to their ambitious’ adorn- ments mn a generation, if ever. ‘The clerks’ rniaries first and their comfort nd safety afterward have been for years the bys of these model economists in reduc- ing the estimates, while the dry bed of some rainy weather creek ina remote district has ubsorbed the government's funds just as afore- time it absorbed tho temporary torrént from the hills. Already it has come to light that a number of buildings in which haman beings 1 office hours like sar- box are equally unhealthy and un- the ruin which bas carried mourning itution into hulfa hundred homes, other result of the miserable sham which the House bas for some years exploited as economy and which the American with monotonous iarity has denounced. sponsibility rexts with those in charge of the building and the department to which they belong, but it reste to a larger extent with the House ‘of Representatives, which, in spite of the willingness of the Senate, has persistently refused, during a dozen yeare, to grant tho money for the erection of proper buildings and the repair of others in which to house the humble and faithfal servants of the govern- ment, Those who have been injured and the families of those who have been slain cannot sue the government, bat if ever there was an instance where damages, and heavy damages at that, should be paid to the survivors, this is one, and the public should send a mights 9 peal to Congress to make some a1 to victims for the wronge which departmenial and congressional parsimony and carelessness bave inflicted. Other Unsafe Public Buildings. From the Philadelphia Ledwer. ‘There are other buildings in Washington used by the government which are believed to be more severely taxed than prudence would sug- gest. Increase of business has crowded em- ployes in apartments not designed to contain vo many, and bulky secords, masses of paper and machinery have been assembled on floors not calculated to be exposed to such a strain. If government employes are exposed to such risks merely because of cheess-paring methods in Congress this false economy cannot be too ‘rongly condemned. The safety of luman life should be one of the first considerations of a logisiator, and it is in no sense an extravagance to vote appropriations, however large, for the construction, equipment and repair of build- ings absolutely required for the safe and orderly dispatch of public business, ‘The Washington catastrophe has lessons which apply throughout the country. Un. doubtediy there was carelessness on somebody's rt, Such accidents are avoidable when in- Migent and conscientious inspectors, acting under comprehensive regulations, pass upon not merely the enfety and fitness of new structures, but the «daptabiiity of all buildings to the purposes to which they are put F quently, with no alteration whatever in th structure, with no strengihening of wails or bracing of floors. machinery andipiher heavy objects are introduced into room: fitted to bear thestrai come buildings collapse, but that so few break under the pressure. It is incumbent upon all responsible for the safety of the pubiie to give serious con- sideration to the lessons of the Washington horror. Persistent OMcial From the Philadelphia Record. The disaster in Washington, by which more than a score of hives were lost, strong men crippled for life and the historic Ford’s Theater building wrecked, is manifestly to be classed in the list of preventnbie exsunl~ ties. The building had been condemned years | ago, and had only beon kept standing upright by much repairing, propping up and general | renovation. Under the foundations of this de- | crepit old edifice workmen had burrowed in their task of putting in an electric light plant, until the walls) sagged and the heavily lade floors came down with acrash, grinding aud choking helpless victims to denth. ‘The weak- ened condition of the structure had long been notorious, yet the perverse national Labit of taking chances was indulged none the loss, with shocking and calamitous results. The men who | lost their lives in the terrible disnster will be | regarded by the public as the victims of per- sistent official negligence for which no valid ex- cuse ean be offered. It will be the privilege as well ns the duty of | the government to make such sad my be poxrible to the relatives of the « and to the maimed survivors. Fortunately for | these latter. no leaping flames followed the col- | lapse of the building, to devour with flery jaws whatever the first frightful shock might have | spared. With the advent of the fire fiend the | fearful scene would have lacked no element of horror, Aud, while dealing liveruliy with the victims, the government should by no means neglect the work of prompt invest: by | which the re: be definite! To Prevent a Recurrence. From the Baltimore American. While the investigation in the cause of the | catastrophe in Waehington foliows, as a matter of course, it might be suggested thet an inqu having for ita object the preventing of a reew! rence of the disaster would Ue far more p ticnble The atten‘ion of the governn now been called to tho dangerous condi other buildings in which government employes are housed. and they should be removed to place of safety ax toon ns possible. ‘Th trophe also eiils attention to the culpab! eligence. ponsibility for the calamity may ed. reck- lessness on the part of the authorities who al- | lowed the iives of their emplores to be placed | in jeopardy by a contractor without providing | any snpervision by some representative expert of the government. The Inspection of Pablie Buildings, Frou the Vichmond Times, ‘The useful leston to be deduced from its fall is that all large buildings in any city which have | attained ton very old age whould be frequently | and carefully inspected, and if the slightest | flaw is found in them they should Le pulled | down at once, before thoy have the opportunity | to bring about such u disaster as foliowed the fall of Ford's Theater and the floor of the Richmond capitol. The Responsibility. From the New Yuri Recorder. The responsibility? How idle to talk about it! What is tho use? ‘This old trap of a build- ing was condemned yearsngo by the authorities, but no one paid any attention to the warning. ‘The duty devolved on Congress of making tho structure safo or tearing it down. Congress failed to perform its part and deaih reaps his | of economy introduced by Mr. Second Murder in Ford’s Theater. ‘From the Chicago Evening Pos:. What adds new horror to the catastrophe in Ford's Theater at Washington (a crime scarcely Jess horrible than tlat of April, 1865), is the fact that there are other buildings in the na- tional capital in which a similar horror may | occur at anytime. The public printing office, which is occupied daily by 2,000 employes, has been condemned as unsafe for many years, yet Congress bas persistently refused to make pro- vision for ite repair or t by @ more stable building. It was no secret to men that the old Ford Theater was tottering and unsafe. Yot not only was it permitted to stand and to be used daily asthe workshop of 500 men. but by the criminal negligence of the authorities excavations were allowed to be made under the vital places of the structure. The con: t collapse was nothing less than crime which can definitely be traced;to ite source. No less a crime is the apathy or mistaken economy which permits the other government death traps to stand. A special session of Con- gress will, it is believed, be called in September. Heaven send that it will not even then be too! Inte to make provision against another murder quite.us horrible an that which, in Ford's Thea ter, a generation ago. stunned the whole world. the Responsibility. From the New York Times. It is to be hoped that the responsibility for the Ford's Theater disaster at Washington will be definively fixed by the court of inquiry ap- pointed by tho Secretary of War, at the re- quest of the head of the record and pension division of the department. The building was of | used entirely for the work of that division, and the responsibility must be somewhere in the War Department itself, unless it was hampered by some other autbority. The matter ought to ft | be thoroughly sifted and the blame put where | blame. it belongs, for somebody was clearly to Another Tragedy. From the New York Herald. ‘The fault is in thine own people. —Exodus, v: ‘The disaster in Washington by which scores of able-bodied young men were either killed outright or maimed for life is not connected with a single mitigating circumstance. {t would be very stupid to classify it asan accident; it must be put down in the list of So far as our information extends gf io ent it was nothing less than wholesale The responsibility should be fixed and the guilty party or parties made to pay the penalty of general contempt and indignation. It is useless to talk under such circumstances inscrutable Providence, for the Almighty had nothing to do with it—no more than he bad to do with the deliberate murders which follow each other in rapid succession. He hes made certain laws that are univer- sally known, obedience to which ix necessary to the protection of society and to personal health and security. If a man swallows strychnine or leaps from the roof of a four-story building, he arranges for bis own funeral, and it is folly to lay the accountability for his act atany other door than the oue he ought to have kept locked or guarded. If the government hires a building for its employes which the municipal authorities have examined and condemned, and death or in- Jury results, then ou the government's head Tests the crime. It breaks a law which is inex- orable, « law which it knows beforehand is in- exorable, breaks it in the full consciousness that fatal consequences may at any moment occur, and is therefore criminal. teen many tears aro shed for which the Al- ty is in no degree responsible. A gront deal of misory exists which God has metne ferponlbllity f good): ion of the responsibility for a ly proportion the happenings among men is sternly repudi- ated in heaven. Our business is to know that a rotten build- ing Will some time fail. If we fill it with clerks and it does fall, we have ourselves to blame and mpoce tem ee ‘What a pectacle of horror we gazed at! That grim old theater in which was enacted the his- torical tragedy of the century ought never to have been used by the government for any pur- pose whatever. No foot of man in the employ of the country should hare crossed its threabold. It ought to have veen razed to the ground long ago as a building of baleful influence. Not one stone should have been left on another to re- mind us of the foul crime which sont Abrabam Lincoln to heaven. That theater was a blot on the District of Columbia, s perpetual night- mare. a ghastly reminiscense. Bat its floors were propped up with fron pil- lars becaure it threatened all the while to tam- ble down, aud to its insecurity were intrusted the lives of a hundred clerks. Like a demon it had tasted blocd and wanted more, and sivly watched the opportunity which came at last. At10in the morning there was Ianghter be- neath that roof; at 11 there was x mass of ruin, with many # brave man buried beneath. ‘There ix an oid saying, “If Satan cheats you once it is his fault; if he does it a second time it is your fault.” We are ourselves at fault, therefore, for we have been cheated a second time. Now let the rubbish be cleared away and let the ground be fenced in and sown with salt. It is a xpot of anguish and horror. Dut God pity the stricken families which are in mourning today because, thoagh fully aware of the threniened danger, certain officials took the ris! Worse Than a Blunder. From the New York Mail and Express. Noexcuse or explanation can be offered by Congress for compelling the use by goverament | employes of a condemned building five years after its condition was made known. Such a policy of “economy” ia worse than a blunder, for it is a deliberate tempting of fate. Cheese-Paring Methods, From the Philadelphia Evening Telecrayt. A few dead men moro or less cannot make any difference to a grent, a mighty govern- ment. It is the duty of good citizens to die for their conntry, but there are ways of dying less horrible than being crushed by a falling build- ing, and there are better reasons for the wacri- fice than to save the government the expendi- ture of a few thousand doilara, The killing of thowsands upon thousands of brave men in batile for the coxntry brought no reproach upon the government for erue ‘Yhe murder of thirty or forty men in the leadfali_at Washington should excite pop- nlar indignation and place the stamp of pub- lic disproval upon the cheese-paring methods Holman and practiced by his dirciples, ~ os A Statement by Mr. Ford. Mr. John T. Ford, now of Baltimore, for- merly proprietor of the Ford’s Theater build- ing, has sent to Tux Star tho following state- ment: Ford's Theater in Washington was built in 18G3—just thirty years ago. All that was left of it after itw occupancy for governmental uses two years later still remains there in its integ- [rity at this time. Nothing belonging to the | theater fell in the recent fearful accident or The wailsare vet iniact and the roof is still mm withstood the otherwise resistless force of the conenssion caused by the fall of the floors, which were not in anv way a part of Ford's hey Theater. Had the wails fallen the casualties would have been terrible indeed, compared to those that did resuit from the disaster of Fri- The terms used by many of the press, calling the theater a ‘death trap,” an “eggshell,” &e., are not to be justitied, except under the plea of oxtravagant expressions springing from great excitement, When thorough investigntion is made the conclusion now becoming evident that the catastrophe came solely from ui mining the supports of the floors in the atiem to excavate for the purpose of locating elect: light machinery will be evi even the interior of the place inight have stood in xafety for thirty years longer. Associated as my name has been with the property, and assuming ail responsibility for the part o7 it that I baili, which xt this writing ais intact and unimpaired, I beg the pub- tion of this explanation. Take It Down. To the Editor of The Fvenine star: The government bought Ford's Theater build- ing simply because Mr. Lincoln was shot there. Had not Lincoln been shot there the govern- ment never wouid have thoaght of baying such pt abuilding. Then, after having bought it, it shoutd have been left intact, Instead, at once ofticials set about destroring its identity. So, when citizens from varisus parts of the coun- try come here ex;ecting to see the place pre- served asin the days of Lincain, they see a mere barn of an interior filled with ofice desks aud men—so crowded that there is little room for passage ways. Like some fatal ship, a curse roems to_have hung over the building from the first. In the beginning it was not well built, aud it has been nothing but patch and alter ‘ever since. It would seem about time the whole. thing was taken down, something new and appropriate erected there: else, as suggested in ‘lux Stan, left as an open space, wiih a monument arte who fell in the fuins on June st , otherwire | Protect the Employes. ‘To the Editor of The Evening Star: One of the results which rhould follow as a| {lesson ‘of the hour incident to the appalling | |eatastrophe and holocaust at Ford's old! theater is the immediate inapection by ta | of all buildings in which the govern ramect works its employes, particularly those which aving been constructed for other and lighter | purposes are now loaded down with heavy weights and materials. Yours, © Crrizex. same Sutil Let Justice Be Done. To the Fditor of The Evenine Star: | _In view of the fact that a committes or court | of investigation has been appointed by the | ‘War Department, and also a strong jury, to. thoroughly sift and investigate the person or | | persons who and the causes which have brought | about this terrible sacrifie of human life, I would respectfully and earnestly suggest that two conditions at least are absolutely necessary to enable these authorities to get at the bottom facts ofiicially. I mention us two essentials: 1. That actual impartiality be exercised in the investigation, aud that whether a man be or low in military, civil or social standing shall stand on his own merits, and that no whitewashing be the result ‘on ac- jcount of any status of any individual. 2. That every witness called upon to testify should be guaranteed absolute immunity from subsequent persecution and protection from official decapitation or other punishment, ‘unless perjury or other false tcstimony be adjudged against him. It is only by means that the exact truth can be obiaii | Fears of partiality, persecution or dismissal | Would lead many a witness to eithor suppress a | Portion of the trnth or to te. He would feel handicap; ‘The Secretary of | War particularly (and I believe in his thorough honesty and impartiality) should issue an to the effect that no employe of his depart- ment need fear dismissal or other punishment on account of any honest testumony given in this investigation. JUSTICE. eget A Good To the Editor of The Evening Star: In the midst of the terrible disaster which has turned scores of happy homee into places of mourning, does it not become the thinking men of Washington to stand together and by lamity which must be far more horrible than the one we deplore today. In the H street wing of the government printing office—a structure braced and patched together in away that shows it not be usede day longer—are crowded at this very day « ‘or more workingmen and women. Not only that, but ali around them is heavy machinery, mountains of public documents, tons of type and scores of heavy, marble mages eager Think of the of all this! How soon to assemble, to the end that anew and safe be erected for the public printing, and that in the meantime the death trap now in use be cleared of its occupants, who may tempo- rarily be placed in rented buildings that are not | in danger of collapsing from this overweight. | Let us do this, Mr. Editor, and good may arise ‘even from the present calamity. Avoust Doxats. ——.—_ Her Only Support Gone. ‘To the Editor of the Evening Star. ‘On account of the dreadful calamity of Fri- day I would suggest that in every department there should be a committee uppointed to re- ceive contributions from the clerks, both male and female, and that every clerk contribute one day's pay. ‘Think of the agony and suffer- ing entailed on those sc left. I will cite one case. Among thove killed was a €75 per month clerk who was supporting an aged andinfirm mother, and when she receives the news at her home of her son's death she atso will be informed that her only support is gone. H. Morais Ruszaxp. ————— Safety of the Patent Ofice. Suggestions and gossip have filled the air since the great disaster of Friday. Clerks in all the departments have talked of little else. ‘They have also talked of their own situation in buildings which more or less have the reputa- tion of being unsafe. In this regard the west wing of the patent office is freely mentioned, and clerks in that building tell bow, by actual caicnlation, the northern portion of’ this wing carried a load 60 per cent greater than the esti- mated strength of the building allowed. These clerks point out asa significant fact that on hour after the terrible necident on Fri every avaiinble man around the building was | put to work removing the heavy files and ac- | cumulation of papers from this locali*y. aaa emi Is the Curtis School Safe? To the Editor of The Even ne st: In yiew of the appalling calamity Friday I desire to ask if it would not be advisable to in- | quire of the proper authorities what is the coa- dition of the Curtis school house in George- town. It is commonly reported to be in an unsafe condition. Some of the scholars inform me that the teachers will not time to go up the stepr, cortainiy not if they | march in step. I am also informed that the window e every time any one moves across the floor. I believe the teacher has informed the scholars that the steps may last a year or | two loager wrth care. 1 do not know whether the building is cafe or not, but there are many Devides myself who would like to have an au- thorisative opinion on the subject from the proper officer. By publishing this vou will mueb oblige, jan Fussy. Leoking te the Fature. » Evenine Star: 1 disposition on the part of the citizens of Washington to contribute to the relief of the families of the dead and suffering who were in the wreck of the old Ford Theater, oceupied by the record and pension division of the War Department. While this manifesta- tion of liberality is very commendable in its vay, Tam of the opinion that it is not far-| Touching enough in ite benetits, Most of these } clerks have families dependent upon them for support. The real effect of this ealamity will not be felt by these people until ther are for- gotten by the general public. Then they must jcome face to face with a straggie for bread. ‘This struggle will last for a lifetime. Why can't the President. in consultation with the civil | Serviee commission, amend, suspend or in’ some | Way fix the civil servico plans co as to admit to the classified service some member of the | family of theso parties who were killed in the j falling building, vo as to give a certainty of support after this sympathy of the public has subsided? W. P. Bnowxtow. ae ‘What the District Attorney Says! | Referring to the disaster at Ford's Theater | District Attorney Birney stated to a Star re- porter this aftervoon that if any person or persons should be shown to have been crimi- nally negligent in the matter prosecution | to the full extent of the law wou'd at once fol- | low, no matter whoever might be implicated. | In addition to the investization made by tho coroner, Mr. Birney stated that he would alao have the benefit of the one to be made by the | War Department, and he wns, therefore. conti- | dent that if any one was criminally liable for | the dreadful affair it would be brougit out. ‘ Senator Cockrell on the Balding. | Senator Cockrell of Missouri, at present chair- | | man of the Senate committee on appropriations, and a Senator who has always taken an active | nd have it| Bat in each case repiaced by 2 new building. he had failed. after getting the appropriations safely through the Senate, because of the re- \fusal of the How+o to concur. ‘Tho most he could get was a trifling appropriation to repair one of the walls, The Senator doubtless re- ferred to the cast wall, which was afterward re- paired beeause of the report of Gen. Casey, now chief of engineers U. 8. A., to the effect that it was insecare. Sermons on the Disaster. The themes of the sermons in the city churches yesterday very generally had refer- jence, more or less direct, to the disaster of | Friday. In some cases the entire sermon was jon this subject and tho lesous to be drawn from it. ,_, Fire recently destroyed the store of Wagner \& Chancel, San Antonio, wholesale crockery and hardware. The loss, $99,000; insurance, €46,000. Melchior Fox. one of the oldest and richest residents of Eau Claire, Wix., was murdered, ‘probably ‘Thursday night, at’ his farm about & mile anda half from the city on Eau Claire river. |mander took him into the united effort prevent the occurrence of s ca-| be! | the breakfast and the reception President Hig- “hotel business from the Atlantic to the Pacific, EULALIE STIRS UP CHICAGO. People Talking A» Mer Conduct at Mrs. Palmer's Reception. SHE IS SAID TO AVE FXUPRED THE GUESTS TRERE—MUES. PALMER, HOWEVER, SATS "HE | INFANTA Was VEY GRaciocs—reE raixcess | WILL KAVE XoTIIu MORE To Do WrtH soctAL | FUNCTIONS, A Chicago special to the New York erat says of the reception to the infanta at Mra Potter Palmer's: | ‘The reception had been fixed for 9 o'clock. | At that time all the guests—about 700 in num- | ber—except the infanta and her party were | present. At that hour Eulalic was rest- | ing plaedly in ber rooms at the Pal- mer House. Vice President Stevenson bad just arrived at the hotel from Blooming- ton, I, The infanta heard of it and said she wanted to see Mr. Stevenson. She ordered Commander Davis to bring him up. The com-| Jor, where he | chatted several minutes with the ‘princess, | Meanwhile the guosts at Mrs. Palmer's man- tio om the North Side were waiting impa-| ; | ‘When her conversation with the. Vice Presi- | dent was finished the infanta retired to pre- | pare for the reception. At 9:30 she was ready to start to Mrs. Palmer's, Her wae waiting at the door. It was raining and one of the colored porters of the hotel stood at the | door with an enormous utabrella, which be | expected to hold over Eulalie’s bead as she crossed the sidewalk. The strect was running | with water and the mud was deep. The ins fanta looked at the sidewalk a moment, stamped | her foot and said: “I wili not go! Back again! | “No, no, no! We cannot go!” exclaimed the Princess, “Why, look at my drese!” wi shoes and a costume that might easily have been ruined by mud and water. But the princo urged her to think of the hostess and the guests. Mr. Waite, the chict clerk of the hotel, snatched ‘the big umbrella out of the porter’s band and advanced with it and secured pieces of and tesa arn een reap) wit usband, riage and drove off to Mra. the guests were introduced to her. them claim that they were treated in cold end distant fashion. Mra. ever, says that she is not offended at fanta. “{ donot want to be put in criticising my guest.” she said it it. “The gracious. and everybody i se ie Fils . i | ay, Guest Feally most kind and hour and « half i ; && i i i to hotel. She did not touch the magnificent quet at which she was expected to be io The men of her party, to the hotel, returned to is said that they felt bad!y because the left so soon. When asked why she did not go to the cert the next day in honor of the infanta Mra. Palmer said: Oh, the weather was so terribly bad that I'did not think anybody would be there.” But the infanta was there. Commander Davis had F s' § i Ft f of ina to him. She made it up according to her own judgment. The publication of an interview in an after- noon paper the day after the reception, in which ‘Commander Davis is alleged to have said Corimander Davis, whose superior ways have not endeared him to Chicago soéiety, could not be seen today. ‘The Chicago newspapers have not told the story of Euialie’s supercilious conduct at the reception. They have apparently wished to a it, ‘The princess, it is enid, notified Commander Davis soon alter he: ception were the events arranged. inbotham of the fair, who lives in the grandest house on Michigan boulevard, decided that he would tender the infanta an ex- clusive dinner. Society had not yet done smiling at President Higiabotham's appearance at the mayor's breakfast in his dress suit. When this dinner was announced the princess, it is said, objected, but ber scruples were overcome and rhe appeared at the Higgin- botham residenco and next morning at break- fast on the fair grounds. She resolved that the Palmer reception should mark a cessation for @ | time. She has objected to the daily fixed pro- gram, and has notified Commander Davis that the shall go where she pleases and when she pleases. ——_+e-— Exports of Mineral Oils, ‘The bureau of statistics, in comparative ‘atement, reports to the Treasury Department that the values of exports of mineral oils were as follows: For the month ended May $1 last, $3,758,149, an increase over the month of May, 1892, of more than 500,000: for the eleven months ended May $1 last, €37,611,594, a de- erease irom the corresponding period of 1892 of more than 83,000,000. ‘The total values of the exports of cotton are reported ns follows: For the month ended May | $1 last, $11,251,126, an increase of nearly €500,- 000 over May of last vear, but for the nine months ended May 31 last, €174,779,878, a de- crease of nearly $63,000,000 f; P the month ended May 31 10,400, 41 falling off of neariy $700,000 as compared with the exports for a similar period of 1802; for the five months ended May 31 Inst, $45,245,992, a ‘compared loss of littie more than $10,000,000 as with the came months of 1892. —_———__e-____ The suit of Frederick W. Pauly, receiver of the California National Bank of ‘San Diego, against the Equitable Life Assurance Com- pany of New York for €25,000 uns been com- promived by an offer of the defendant to pay 17,500. A’ Managua, Nicaragua, special enya that a high government official ‘sid confidently yes- terday that the new government of Nicaragua will make no change in the canal concession. Warren Leland, last survivor of five brothers who made the name of Leland famous in the died at Port Chester on Thursday, ‘The imports, exclusive of apecie, at the port | -w York for last week were €10.217,370, of | 79 were general ndive 4 U. R. Reid,a leading clothier of Chattanooga, has made an assignment. His tiabilities are named as $70.@), with but $20,000 as asscte, 's no that Dr. Saze's Catarrh Remedy cannot cure. ‘The vs of this modicine will pay ($500 for any incurable case. A Back Num- ber soap. 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Our ~~ Eeurraste Carprr Sysrex ‘came to his rescue—saved Lis purse—and wave him immediate possession of the house furnishings He had no better backing thea you've got. He gave us his word to pay so muchso—often. 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