Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1893, Page 2

2 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D ©. SATURDAY. JULY 8. 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES. THE SOCIAL WORLD. The Effect of the Extra Session on Washington Society. A MIDSUMMER SEASON. ae eee ‘When Well-Known Houses Will Be Re- opened — The Kehabilitation of Old-Time Residences — Where Washington People Are Summering-- Personal Notes of Interest —— ‘With the official families at widely separated ts and everybody off fof an outing who ‘ean possibly get away the -capital, so far as fociety is concerned, has now reached point of dullness not usual till s month later. An three or four weeks more this condition of things will be somewhat reversed and the favorite haunts and meeting places ill have much of their customary liveliness ‘restored. Excepting a very few ladies, who mever desert their husbands under any emer- gency, it is not expected that the reassembling pf Congress will bring back the wives and fam- Ahes of the Senators and Representatives to any t extent, but as there does not feem to be the faintest shadow of doubt but that the session will last indefinitely, it will all eontribute to making the quiet and social dull- ‘Bess of September and early October much less (pvident than usual. ‘The early autumn is likely to be very inter- sting any wa: ebanged freshening them up and introducing more mod- ern systems of plumbing. Two or three are only too glad to have followed. leg tacupioal cabinet homes would have been settled long ago were it not that these ob- stacles caused the negotiations to come to an Mr. and Mra. Lucius Q. Lamar are about to build themselves a house in this city, which has given almost entire during the last four years, ff friends here, both in s0- Mexican minister and Mrs. Romero, sare of getting away on’ Monday. id a week or ten days in tht the early part of September Yellowstone region, and Lieut. Diaz will sc- i ie : Hl t I c 4 a: a patriotic at their farm. Lake View, aly ich was attended by Mrs. H. ©. Jo Chas. Phelps, the Misses Wag- ber and Mra. Parke and other friends. Among the W: nians spending the summer at Halpine are Capt. Fred McDonough and wife, Mr. and Mrs. H.C Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Siker, Miss Columbia Noyes and Mrs. and Miss Phelps. Miss Anna Rankin of 925 Rhode Island ave- nue is having a pleasant time among friends in ‘Trenton, N. J., and the last of this month will Visit Mauch Chunk, Mrs. Mereder Horner is visiting relatives at Bordentown, N. J. ‘Mra J. N. Whitney and her:niece, Miss Fanny Moore, have returned to the city from a visit to relatives at Aurora, Ill , and Chicago. Mrs. H. D. Barr and her daughter, Miss Rene, left the city yesterday to visit her brother, Capt. George Woodbury. at his resi- dence, Walnut Hill, Amesbury, Mass. During August they will be on the cogst of Maine, at York Beach, not returning to Washington until Jate in the autumn. , Mrs. Clarence G. Allen has gone to Rehoboth Beach, Del., for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Eéorard Demaine left the city for and will be Beat for sereral nota’ Chief Engineer and Mrs. D. P. McCartney ee are mi terested Duilding 0: Gen. and Mra. Benet are at Sorrento, Me., for Phe summer. Admiral and Mrs. Upshar are visiting Mr. bnd Mrs. David King at Newport. Mra LB. M. Mason and Mrs Julien James Bre summering on Long Island. Admiral and Mra. Queen are at ‘Deer Park. ‘Lieut. and Mrs. Sontherland and family have pone to Kentucky to spend the summer. Miss Thompson, whose father has just been Among resent were Miss Thompson, Miss Mason. iss Maure, Mise Grosvenor, General an ‘Mrs. Denver, Mr. and Mra. Berry Bulkley, ‘Mr. Muncaster, MroSeaton Perry, Dr. Deale, Mr. Vincent, Mr. Evans Fugitt, Mr. Hoebling, Mr. Hill and Mr. Bennett. An interesting wedding set‘for the early sutumn in this city will be thatof Miss Ellen Biddle, daugiter of Col. Mrs. James Biddle, to Mr. Louis Evan Shipman of New York. Mr. Shipman, who resides at No. 359 West 20th street, New York city, is a mem- ber of the Players’ and Grolier Clubs. Miss Biddle has been a busy student the past year at | the Harvard annex. Anown in this city. Mr. Alan Johnstone of the Pritish legation, ‘Washington, is at Gray Towers, the country seat of Mr. J. W. Pinchott, bis father-in-law, where Mrs. Johnste ne is passing the summer. Mra. Frank P. Burke and Master Frank Burke are going & Newport next week to spend the rest of the summer with Hepresentati and Mra O'Neil of Massachusetts, who have lately bought a simmer home near the city by ‘the sea, are widely Miss Genevieve Petty went last Thursday to Mechanicsville, Md. Mr. and Mrr. H. P. Sanders left Loorpor-* for Chicago to, be the ts of Judge and Mrs. Theodore Brentans. Mr. Sanders will take charge of the patent office exhibit at the world’s fair the 10th instant. Misa Emily Fought has gone to her father's country residence, Locust Grove, near Falls Church, Vs.., for the remainder of the summer and will return in the early fall. Miss Mary C. Devereux and her-cousin, Miss Sophie Gheen of Baltimore, are spending a few doje iy Alexandria, ected sun, torrving - was no ladder on ‘Mrand Mrs. Wm. H. Magruder have issued cards ‘of invitation for the of their daughter, A., to Mr. George, McIntosh. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Thomas have issued cards for the of their daughter, Maud M., to Mr. Thomas H. Sturgis. The brides are cousins and the ceremony, which will be a double affair, will take piace at Christ Church, West Washington, on Wednesday, July 12, 1899, at 8 o'clock p.m. Mrs. E. C. Brandenburg and her mother are at Harper's Ferry. Mise B. May Hunter of East Washington is spending the summer vacation with relatives and friends in eastern Ohio. She will return early in the autumn. Mrs. ©. E, Davis and children left Monday for the Bine Ridge to spend the summer. ‘Miss Josie Weismann of Capitol Hill left on Thursday for her future home, New York city. She will spend the rest of the summer at Mont- clair and East Orange, New Jersey. Mrs. M. F. Evans and Mrs. J. 0. Nourse | sailed for Europe today on the steamer Berlin. ‘They will return the latter part of August. Mme. J. Esputa Daly is at Asbury Park for the month of July and August. Mrs. John Klenk and her sister, Mrs. John F. Vogt, and daughter Rosa are spending their vacation in Pennsylvania. The Misses Adelaide and Sallie Michener have left the city for the summer. Mr. M. V. Tierney and family are at Clop- per’s, Md., for the month of July. ‘Misses Mamie and Rosie Mehler are on « two- months’ visit with friends in Wheeling, W. Va. Mrs. M. B. Drane and the Misses Churchill are on a visit to Mrs. Drane's parents and rela- tives in this city and Virginia. Miss Edith Richardé of 928 8 street will leave Sunday for Olney, Md., where she will visit her sunt, Mrs. E. W. Owen. Miss Carrie Downs of 495 H street southwest is visiting her grandparents in southern Mary- ‘Mise Lizzie Sefton of 1837 14th street left to- day for Fortress Monroe, where she will spend several weeks. Miss Nannie Dorsey left Wednesday for Win- chester, where she will be the guest of her rela- tive, Mrs. Bruce Worthington. —_—_-o-_ GARBAGE MATTERS. ‘The garbage complaint book at the health of- fice is being filled with complaints from day to day and the number of complaints average about forty aday. Then the persons making in | the complaints state that the collector's failure to appear dated back from one week to »month. Among the complaints received yesterday was one from No. 910 East Capitol street. “The garbage collector has failed for about three weeks," says the complaint. “In case of epidemics we would be in great danger. I hope for more promptness for the future.” In the case of the prosecution for neglect to remove garbage from the house of Mr. Geo. MI Washburn « new information bas been Bled. In this Mr. B. M. Clark, the original contractor; Maj. T. B.’ Ferguson of the sanitary company and Secretary Travien of the same company are named as defendants. The information is a voluminous document,and contains s history of the contract and charges that the failure to collect the garbage accord- ing to the terms of the contract constitutes a nuisance for which the contractor is respon- sible. ‘The case will probably be heard next week. ——_ THE COURTS. Cracurt Cover, Divison 2—Judge Cox. Yesterday—Bear Green, J. Lansburgh agt. T. J. Murray and C Kaufman; judgments by default. Today—Eehols agt Deane; jadgment for want of plea. Carlisle agt. 8. G. ;, mo- tion for judgment overruled; motion for bill of ted; defendant given ten Spe to phak Dapeng 8 On. apt Murray; judgment by default. Beveridge agt. Clock; do. ‘Laws; illard —agt. do. Norton & Co. agt. A. R Williams; mo- tion for judgment overruled and security for costs State Line and Sullwin KR. Co. agt same; security for costs ordered. Moeller agt. Moeller; order of publication. Woods agt. Ingraham; do. Walker agt. B. and agt. P. R.R. Co.; exceptions signed, te. C. Carring- ton agt. same; do. Fit ‘gt. same: do. Equrrr Covrt—Chief Justice Bingham. Yesterday—Crouse agt. Bissell; decree sus- taining demurrer. In re Martha A. Gilliland; order refusing change of investment. Williams agt. Marshall; appearance ordered. Bowber agt Guy; guardian ad litem appointed. Elec- trolibration Co. agt. Sanche; order for defend- ants to pay counsel fees. "Willet agt. Pabst; order for investment. i ‘Today—Tulicek agt. Tullock; guardian ad litem sppointed. Mose agt. Moss: decree for sale, F. Beall, trustee. Ball Electric Light Com- pany agt. Gilbert: do., H. P. Blair, . Smith against Bondin do., Ashburn agt. Carr, do. Clark agt. Rich’s hb title. Stieger agt. Sadi port rati- fied. Pettit agt. Bean; reference to auditor. praia crate ‘The Temperature. The following were the readings of the ther- mometer at the signal office today: 8a.m., 75; 2 p.m, 92; maximum, 98; minimum, 73. SETS BEAUTY IN DISTRESS. Why Girl Swimmer Sat on Cold Raft Till After Sundown, From the San Francisco Examiner. ‘The whispering waves rose and fell after the manner of whispering waves at Santa Cruz and elsewhere. There were not many bathers in the surf, for the best of the day was past and the smile hadall gone out of the weather. This was Wednesday afternoon. Away out beyond the float a black speck showed now and then. It was the head of the girl that swims better than anybody else at Santa Cruz. The float is the limit of the ordinary swim down there, but to her the swim to the raft 1s but the first step of a journey. She swims away out beyond the line of boats that do what they can to make the sunset picturesque, On Wednesday she tarried at the deserted float on the way out to sea, and when she had gone there remained on the float bathing skirt. Skirts are rather cumbersome in long- The wind rosea bit, and the distance swimming. bay is very breezy nowada s and the skirt was hurried along. Nobody no- ticed the garment until it had floated close in, and nobody paid much attention then. After a while the girl who swims better than any one else turned her strokes shoreward. She reached the raft and looked for her skirt, which by this time was being used as a mop by the washing waves on the sandy shore. While a skirt is inconvenient in a long swim, it is prac- tically indispensable in = walk up’ the beach when a lot of people are looking on. So the best swimmer at Santa Cruz huddled up on the float, where a ladder prevented the people on the beach from seeing whether she on a skirt or @ ball dress. em: ple noticed her there and id not come in. The inter- long it could, for there wide, had at last to set, t colder and colder. More people soa Sine bench to wonder.” ‘They ald not think she was burt or in danger, for she mado no outery, but it did not seem possible that any- body would voluntarily siton a wet raft after sunset. ‘At last somebody saw the skirt swashing around in the sand. The girls and matrons comprehended and giggled. Maybe some of them thought it served her right for being able toswim so well. The cause of the trouble was apparent, but the remedy was not clear. It was very cold by this time, and nobody wanted to swim out to the raft, even to rescue the dis- tressed one. There was no boat handy. and it looked for s time as ifthe best swimmer at Santa Cruz would have to roost on the cold, wet raft until dark. ¥ But the occasion, as is customary with crises, produced its hero. Addison Mizner, in a new | bathing suit, burst through the ‘wondering throng, seized the garment and plunged into the yeasty sea. As he neared the raft the girl dived and swam to meet him. kirt and the rest was easy. ee More Nordhoff's Falsehoods, From the Honolulu Advertiser, Jun Charles Nordhoff will long be remembered in Hawaii as the man who basely ignored the pop- ular and triumphant campaign of last fall in opposition to the lottery bill, and in the face of that conspicuous fact slanderously charged the business community of Honolulu with forcing the ex-queen to sign the bill. With the brand upon his brow of this impa- dent slander of a whole community, we dismiss this unworthy falsifier. THE STAY-AT-HOMES. They Find Pleasure in Remaining in Washington All Summer. How Some Ladies Manage to Get Comfort and Enjoyment Even if They Don't Go to the Seaside. ‘The stey-at-homes are not asking for any par- ticular sympathy this summer. The weather is ; all right so far and any lapses in its good be- havior are, at all events, not one bit worse than anywhere else. Last week's cool breezes gave everybody reserve strength to face the more heated atmosphere of the present week, and'it’s ® poor philosopher who could not strike an average of great comfort and satisfaction out of the combination. A majority of the members of the stay-at- home club are so by necessity, but many are by choice. These are the folks whose opinions are worth having on the desirability of Wash- ington asa summer resort. One's social posi- tion in this city does not depend on how many months you are out of town. There is an es- sence of go-as-you-please in this atmosphere that probably does not exist in the same degree in any other city in this country. One potent reason for it is doubtless found in the fact that many officials are obliged to stay, and their de- voted families remain to keep them company. So whether you stay home or whether you shine in the front rank of society at Newport or Bar Harbor, it makes no particular change in your standing when the clans gather home in the fall. t is what braces up the fal spirits of the stay-at-homes when they read gay doings of their next door neighbors at the summer circles of fashion's devotees. SUMMER PROGRAMS VARY. Poor people who can't afford to travel, and Washington society has plenty such and is proud of it,are exasperated with their rich friends, who can travel and will not, because, as they say, theycan get more pleasureat home. 80 now what constitutes the pleasure of society when it spends the summer in Washington? Just as the degree of heat that » feels depends entirely on the condition of the blood, so do the summer Programs vary. Some peo- ple find their pleasure {n absolutely doing noth- #0 if they are particularly energetic the Test of the year they can be relied upon to keep quiet for these two months. If they are not compelled to go abroad on bread-winning ex- Peditions their public appearances are pretty ‘well limited to the front door step in the even- 8. Some other folks having more idle time on their bands in the summer are wild to employ every moment of it to the best advantage, You see them chasing around the stores after the delusive bargain or they are at the libraries hunting up authorities, or are at home deep in reading. OW SOME WOMEN PUT IX THEIR TIME. One of the prettiest women in the congres- sional circle always remained here with her hus- band during the long summer sessions, and she managed to keep cool and pretty, well occupied and thoroughly satisfied with her surroundings a4.t ho wore facing the breakers at Newport Sho was very systematic about it, too. | Keep- ing house she found diversion in’ making three early morning market trips each week. On the alternate days she spent two hours or soata Turkish bath. Theafternoon hours she was invisible. A white wicker furnished sitting Tom, 40 situated us to, eatoh such cooling breezes as were goiug and temptingly supp! with the latest magazines and books, was where she really spent the time. When the House ad- journed her husband found her waiting for him in a light carriage, she daintily arrayed in tho most fetching, but, at the same time, the sim- plest of cotton dresses, witha mull hat. An early dinner and acountry drive were regular featuresand then a balcony gathering of friends, the conversation broken at intervals for cooling drinks to be ‘around, was the special attraction of this house. Nothing but a rain storm ever spoiled this latter feature of their Washington summer. Another lady who stays here all summer be- cause she can’t help herself finds enjoyment in making up all the new linen her house require for the next year. She is always busy and never hot, because she does not have time to think about it, She makes beautiful em- broidery when the other work becomes monot- onous and at the end of July and August hor linen closet is the envy of all her acquaintances. SUBURBAN RAILROAD EXCURSIONS. Since the suburban railroads became so numerous the enjoyments of the stay-at-homes have been greatly increased. Two or three years ago only those who had carriages knew anything of the beauties of the environs of this city. Now s quarter's worth of street car tickets opens up great possibilities for whiling away an hour ortwoon a hot evening. It might seem strange to many people who know all about every new enterprise that there are others who know little or nothing of either the number or the routes traversed by the suburban railroads, Two ladies who have plenty of horses and carriages are so afraid of accidents that their coachmen were always warned to avoid any neighborhood where the electric or cable Lines run. They wanted. , toimprove their knowledge of the geography of the neigh- borhoods over which the electric roads go whizzing and they have been giving their morn- ings to this enjoyment lately. They have done the Glen Echo, Bethesda, Chevy Chase and Silver Spring routes and have yet the ride -to Mount Vernon before they feel that they have accomplished all the wonders _ possible in the way of home sightsecing. Great larks theso suburban ti can be made, too, on moonlight nights or even nights when there is no moon. A jolly party were do- ng the Glen Echo ride on last’ Monday night The lightning paralyzed the motive power, and for an hour so, until connection was made again, the occupants of two cars, like babes in the woods, had to entertain themselves the best they could telling stories and giving swaps. PORCH PARTIES. The front porch, and the back one, too, for that matter, enters largely, and always did, into the summer life of the capital. ‘The balcony salon is a greatly enjoyed institution, and par- ticularly so among the oldest resident families. Some houses are very popular in this regard. Youare sure to meet charming people, who know how to tell a good stury, and the amount of general gossip and information after one of the evenings is something marvelous. REAL ESTATE SHOPPING, ‘There is another source of employment for leisure hours that several clever ladies are working for all it is worth. They desire to make investments in real estate or they want to select a site for a home. The first step is to let the real estate denlers know these yearnin, aad they will take care of the rest. One lady in particular—but the conditions would prob- ably fit fifty who are busy on the same quest— has determined that this summer will not go by without her securing a home such as she de- sires. Naturally, as she is regarded as a good purchaser, owners and dealers in ideal homes are showing her lots of attention. She is being driven around day after day by one or the other, and while she has not yet found the exact’ thing she wants, she is fast becoming a compendium of information as to sites and values in land and stylee and fancies in archi- tecture. This time next month the population will be considerably augmented by Congress and those who come in its train. The most of this influx comes unwillingly and nobody blames them. For Washingtonians a summer Congress always makes hot weather hotter, because the weather becomes such a never-failing sourch of conver- sation. Toall these legislators Washington offers | shealthy city with fine markets, clean streets, not | too clean, but cleaner than usual, shady parks, electric and cable car rides to the wharves and the woods, boating on the nver, delightful suburban drives, a dozen or two’ convenient mountain and ocean resorts in the neighbor- hood for over Sunday stays, tennis courts, pleasant companionship and a thermometer not given to any more frequent upward leaps than anywhere else. eet Redeemab! To the Editor of The Evening Star: Your enterprising paper of yesterday states under the article, “A Financial Plan,” that Secretary Carlisle decided that the word “coin” in the Sherman bill means gold. Now this is the exact wording in that bill: “The Secretary of the Treasury shall, under such regulations as he may prescribe, redeem such notes in gold or silver coin at his discretion.” Here it is ob- vious the Secretary in not required to define the word coin, but todecide whether he will pay the notes in ‘gold or silver coin. No part of | the Sherman oft requires the payment of any gold, either for the purchase of silver or for the redemption of the treasury notes issued in payment of silver bought under the act of July | 14, 1890. ‘The Sherman bill had nothing to do | with causing our present troubles—it helped us | by providing us with millions of additional currency. ‘Taurs, DISTRICT AFFAIRS. Superintendent Stevens Makes His Monthly Bathing Beach Report. GARBAGE OPINION WANTED. Lots of Bathers at the Free Beach—Liquor Licenses Issued and Refused — The Garbage Man Wants to Collect All of the Refuse. en The following is the first monthly report of Superintendent Stevens of the bathing beach: In accordance with your order of March 81, 1898, I hereby make my first monthly report of the bathing beach to July 1. The concert given for the benefit of the beach was in all respects creditable to the performers and to the management, but from unknown causes it was a failure, leaving me $14 out of pocket. Then, by about two weeks of hard work Policeman Cotter collected $200 donations, Others assisted in collecting, ands few dollars were handed to me personally, besides which #4 has been received for rent of the cake stand, making the fall amount received €261.60. The amount of expenditures, $224.67. Balance on hand July 1, 1898, $36.93. ‘The houses have been repaired. A neat fence has been made inclosing six houses for the use of Indies. One-balf of the south wharf and the whole of the north wharf have been rebuilt. This was not my first intention. One morning I pointed out to » carpenter certain broken boards that should be removed, and I had bought new ones to replace them. On returning from my office at night I found one wharf stripped of boards and the other half stripped. In explanation the carpenter said he found the boards rotten, but after two days’ trial he seemed to be managing for a long job for himself, so I let him look elsewhere for it, I report this in some detail be- cause it made the wharf repairs cost twice as much as my estimate. A neat andcon- venient office has been made, though it is small and crowded, A part of it, used as cake stand, rents for $5 a month, The boundary fences and the floating fence ure in place as recommended. The old diving stand was too far gone to be rebuilt and o new and better one twice as large has been made. ‘Last week was cold and did not pay expenses. More and more of the bathers are providing thomselves with suits, so that nineteen-twen- tieths of those who use the beach pay nothing, and though the balance of the donation fund will soon be exhausted, vot I do not solicit farther donations, feeling sure that as the weather becomes warmer the receipts of Thuredays will increase and balance up the de- fioits of cold days. Many used the beach while were in progress, but the book was not open until June 4, and in the remain- der of that month 5,076 bathers registered. On some hot evenings ‘many were turned away for want of more rooms, though three or four were put in each room. A few have been helped by the lifeboat, but I have no casualties to the beach to report. On Sunday, June 17, I went with my large boat by solicitation of two policemen from the fourth precinct across to the south aide of the tidal reservoir near Long and after a half hou bIr the body of acolored boy old, It was taken charge of b . The water bordering on all the reclaimed flats is deep close up to shore and very danger- ous to bathers, and I recommend that bathing in all that region be prohibited. An officer at Long bridgo and one at the 17th street sand flate to give warning and one or two raids I think would stop it, Three boys were drowned in the tidal reservoir last year. My boat is frequently ‘needed for such pur- pores and I moor it in front of the beach. Over a month buoy was taken from its an- chorage by the tugbost, Jas, Jackson, jr. belonging to J. B. Lord, sand dealer. 1 have demanded its return, but no notice is taken of my letter. The little basin and its mouth at the big basin of the tidal reservotr are constantly cluttered with wreckage of sand boats, and the preinises aro » disgrace to gov- ernment property. Is there no means to foree him off from the pubhe domain and out of waters set aside by the government for special purposes? Police Officer Cotter is in charge of tho beach and is always reliable. Police Officer Stamler is in charge at night. Ho says that the first few nights it became evi- dent to tres ‘that he was thero to stay and he has had no more occasion to warn them away. ‘Ladies, some of them married, some mothers, some young girls, have bathed at the beach on about ten different days. Everything moves smoothly at the beach, and all who call seem pleased with it, LIQUOR LICENSES, There was a mecting of the excise board yes- terday afternoon, at which the following appli- cations for liquor licenses were acted upon: Retail approved—James A. Ballinger, 1009 lith street southeast; Daniel Hennessey, 93524 street southwest; Cosmos Club, corner 1534 and H streets northwest; Metropolitan Club, corner 17th and H streets northwest; Mysterious Club, 1006 E street northwest, Retail rejected—Wm. J. Kerr, 601 New Hamp- avenue northwest; Wm. 'M. Drury, 1100 th street northwest; Maurice Rooney, 112834 F street northeast, and Bridget M. Sweeney, 1117 Ist street northwest, Wholesale appraved—Harry Dawes, 96 Fe ton street northeast; Chas. G. McChes 1636 9th street northwest. GARBAGE OPINION WANTED. “Are the Commissioners required under the contract for the removal of gatbage and dead animals to secure to the contractor the exclu- right to collect all garbage and remove all dead animals?” ‘This iy the question submitted to the attor- ney for the District today. Several days ago Mr. SP. Bailoy, who is president of the National Sanitary Company. called the attention of the Commissioners tothe fact that the company he represented was not collecting all of the garbage of 1 city, nor transporting the dead animais iuired by the contract between his company and the District. ‘The reason, ho maintained, was that at present there were a number of people from the country and surrounding sub- ‘urbs who collected the garbage and fed it to cows and hogs. This was, in his opinion, not only » violation of the contract, but un- lawful, a the law was very distinct in its terms that no garbage should be fed to cows or hogs. Beside, such an arrangement as 1g8| at present existed seriously interfered with the operations of his company. Timo was lost in applying at houses where the garbage was removed by private parties, and altogether the situation was becoming serious. Many of the complaints came from this class of persons, and he urged the Commissioners to put a sto} to the practice. His company was not allow: either to collect or dispose of the dead animals, and this also was a breach of contract. ‘As stated in the opening paragraph, the Com- missioners have asked the attorney for an in- terpretation of their linbility in the matter. Ifthe attorney finds upon examination of the contract which is submitted with the letter that the Commissioners are required to secure to the contractor the removal of all garbage and dead animals, they request him to Prepare a police regulation and submit it for the action of the Commissioners. BUILDING PERMITS, Building permits were issued today as fol- lows: C. T. 8. Brent, one brick dwelling, 118 5th street southeast; $1,600. HEALTH OFFICE REPORTS. The health officer has reported the houses from 1189 to 11513¢ 28d street northwest as dilapidated and unfit for habitation. Dr. Hammett says in a letter to the Com- Olive avenue from 27th to 29th streets north- west. He also reports the necessity of the im- provement of the alley’ between West- minster and S street northwest. He also urges the condemnation and raising of premises 121 and 123 10th street southeast, as they are dangerous to life and limb. In another letter he inquires whether the san- itary inspectors are to report as to condition of the county roads. He says reports from them show the an unsanitary condition by reason of defective drainage and grading. PUMPS AND HYDRANTS. Upon the recommendation of Capt. Derby the Commissioners have ordered that the pub- lic hydrant at 11th and M street southeast be replaced by a new one; that the hydrant on 6) street between Dand E streets be dispense with and a new hydrant be erected on the cor- ner of 4 ind D southwest in its place; that the street hydrant at 92d and T streets northwest be removed and abandoned; that the hydrant on Florida avenue between § and T streets northwest be removed and a new one erected; | thats new pump be placed in the well on E street between 12th and 18th streets southeast; that the street hydrant at 4th and L streets southeast be abandoned and a new bydrant erected in its BIDS OPENED. Bids were opened yesterday by the Commis- sioners for furnishing the District with broken stone, sand, gravel, blue stone, trap frames and covers and sewer brick. The bidders on broken sand and gravel were Chas. G. Smith & fon, J. G. Summers and John B. Lord. For blue stone, trap frames and covers, Acker & Co. and John Burns. For sewer brick, Washington Brick and Terra Cotta Company. POWERS AS TO WELLS. The attorney for the District has decided that the Commissioners have the power to require the owners of property upon which wells are situated that have been found to be im and unwholesome to abate the nuisance upon notification from the health department. By failure todo so they may be prosecuted in the Police Court. XO ADVICE IN PRIVATE CASES. Attorney Thomas says that he does not think his office should be called upon to give legal advice in private cases. There was recently received by the Commis- sioners ao iter from a minent real estate dealer requesting cer information with relation to sesessments. In the letter it was suggested that the attorney for the District be cailed upon to give his opin- fon and to examine the gase and find if were any precedents whereby the assessment could be quashed. Mr. Thomas says it would be estab! bad precedent to have the attorney for th trict pass upon such cases. thinks the gentleman should employ a lawyer. MISCELLANEOUS. Commissioner Parker will return to the city on Monday next. ——___ THE WAY SHE DOES IT. How One of the Dear Creatures Fidgets Herself in » Street Car. From the Detroit Free Press, It's worth your while to observe her. She is going to ride a mile or more on the street car, but hasn’t gone two squares before she suddenly turns around to see if the conductor is where she can nod to him when she wants to get off. He is there, and she feels relieved, but only for minute. Then she begins to wish she was at the end of the seat, or nearer the door, or had walked. She crosses the left foot over the right, uncrosses, fidgets with her shopping bag and parasol, and twists around to face the con- ductor. Up goes his hand to the strap, but she suddenly decides not to get off—not just then. “‘Hang that woman! Does she want to get < Ee no?” growls the conductor under his reat Sho moves parasol and bag over on the other side of her and crosses her feet again. For half a minute she is interested in a baby two seats ahead. The other half of the same min- ute is occupied in wondering if the man at the end of the seat will draw in his legs when she | wants to pass. “Fare, ma'am!” lt the conductor. She'd f all about the fare. She gives « jump, grabs the beg and looks for her paren, {teeta there, She drops the bag and searches her pocket Not there. She goes back tothe bagand is scattering its contents on the seat when she ro- members that sho has ten cents in her glove. During the next square or two she recovers her self possession sufficiently to encer at two early summer bonnets promenading the to wonder why the lady on the seat sista tn wearing such sboddy lace Sudden start of alarm. It has just occurred to her that she can never, never gat off that car gracefully. She begins ‘to twist and wriggle. missioners today that a sewer is needed on | ‘ilk, Ford and Military road to be in | She grabs the im one hand and the in the other and moves along the seat. Up goes the conductor's hand. alarm. She'll ride another square or two. The coi ductor spits over his shoulder and talks to him- self inlow tones, and the man with the legs looks at her in a reproachful way. Prieta bays Ag car!" is on her feet, motioning with and baj He rings the bell, but she climbs over the vast expanse of shanks and hoofs, grabs | the railing with hor right hand—changes to the left—lets go with both and drops off an stumbles to the sidewalk to find herself fi squares short of hor destination. ——_+-+—____ ME JOINED THE TRIBE And Was Remarried According to the In- dian Custom. J. K. Guinotte, superintendent of the city de- partment of buildings, says the Kansas City Star, astonished his frionds the other morning by announcing that he was married at Vinita, L T., to Mrs. Mamie Guinotte. Mr. Guinotte also stated that he was married according to the laws of the Cherokee Indian nation and is now a full-fledged member of that tribe, Mr. and Mrs. Guinotte were first married about six years ago and have lived in Kansas ity ever since. Mrs. Guinotte traces her an- cestry back through several generations to the nughter of an influential member of the Shawnee tribe of Indians. Her mother, Mrs. ney Chouteau, who lives at No. 423 Maple ‘ue, is of this lineage and retained her rights asan Indian. Some years ago Mrs. Guinotte had her rights established at Washington by legal process, and for the purpose of dealing with the government she claims the rights of an Indian, When the Shawnces and Delawares made a treaty with the Cherokees it was agreed that thoy should be treated as members of the laut named tribe, and Mrs. Guinotte is, there fore, in the eyes of the federal government, a Cherokee. She owns a valuable farm of 320 acres fully improved near Henpah, I. T., and abort forty miles from Vinita. The land has been rented to « white tenant, who has refused to acknowledgo Mr. Guinotte as his landlord on the ground that he was not a member of the Cherokee tribe. Mr. Guinotte went to the Indian territory last week, accompanied by his family, and after a visit to the farm coucluded that in order to set all doubts aside be would be re- married. Mr. Mrs. Guinotte had been originally married according to the laws of this state, but thought best to be remarried under the Cherokee laws. As the Cherokees area civilized and nominally Christian tribe the ceremony is not unlike that observed by Americans with one exception. It is necessary for a white man marrying into the tribe to prove his good character by the testimony of ten Cherokees who have known him at least six montl ——— oe PAID IN HIS OWN OOIN, A Humorous Story From Normandy of a % Peasant’s Thriftiness. Paris Letter to London Telegraph. By way of illustration of the proverbial craftiness of the Norman peasantry an amusing story is related, which, if not in strict accord- ance with fact, has at least the merit of origi- nality, Acertain baker in business ina small town obtained his supply of butter from a farmer in the neighborhood. One fine day he discovered that the pats, which were supposed to weigh three pounds each, were not up to the standard, and further examination revealed @ steady diminution in the daily _pro-| vision, At last the baker lodged a formal complaint against the farmer and the affair was brought before the local court. “Have you any scales?” inquired the magis- trate. “Yes, Monsieur le Suge,” was the ready reply. “And have you any weights?” continued the judge. An answer this time in the negative | way promptly given. “But how did you man- age to weigh your butter?” asked the magistrate. Then the farmer related that ever since the baker had taken his butter he had returned the compliment by buying his bread. The baker supplied him with three-pound loaves and he aed them aa weights for bis butter. "It ts. his fuult, not mine, if the weight is not correst,” | added the farmer, who was speedily acqu ‘ited and left the court in triamph with an escort of friends and admirers. Since thistrial the farmer is said to have been supplied with more than his due provision of bread; but he has taken good care not to fail into the opposite error, and the baker has now his three-pound pats of butter full weight, but not an ounce more. SS ‘The Pan-American Medical Congress. The chairman of the subcommittee having in charge the details of the Pan-American medical congress, to be held in this city next month,jmet at the Arlington last night and discussed a plan of entertainment for the delegates. It included areception by the President and o visit to Mount Vernon. The forcign delegates are to be taken on trip to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Chicago to inspect the hospitals in those cities, Dr. 8. 8 Adams pre- sided, and there were present Surg. Gen. Stern- berg, U. 8 A.; Surg. Gen. Tryon, U. 8. N.; Surg. Gen. Wyman of the marine hospital serv- ico, Dre. G. L- der, H. H. Barker, H. L. E. Johnson, T. E. lyn Elliott and others, A METEORITE FRAGMENT. It is Now in the Possession of « Scientist Here. ‘Mr. Howell Makes a Statement Describing Ite Characteristics and Giving It @ Distinctive Name. + There appeared in Tax Stan of June 26an sccount of a meteoric stone that fell along Beaver creek in British Columbia on the after- noon of the 26th of May. The largest section of this meteoric stone is now in this city in the Possession of Mr. Edwin E. Howell, a scientist who has made a particular study of this subject, He received the stone yesterday, it having been brought here by James Hislop, who dug it from the earth the morning after it fell. Mr. Howell has claimed the right to name this stone, and yesterday furnished the follow- ing statement to » Stax reporter: meteorite, for which I propose the name of Beaver Creek. It isa typical serolite of very Pronounced chondritic structure. It is com- pletely coated with a black crust except at one end, where about three pounds have been broken off and scattered mostly among mere curiosity hunters. The mase now weighs 2234 pounds and measures 6x73{x93¢ inches, and in Shape approaches an acute octahedron. It fell May 26, between Sand4p.m., near Beaver creck, West Kootenai district, British Colum- bia, penetrating the earth three fect. It was dug out the next morning by Mr. James His- lop, who bronght it to Washington, and from whom I purchased it. Two smaller pieces, ¥ five or six pounds, were and were picked upafew minutes later. Probably other pieces fell, but from the character of the country they are not likely to be found. “One piece of the meteorite fell between two workmen, who, thinking it was from a blast, became very indignant. They picked it up and carried it to the Justice of the peace, saying that they were American citizens, and in their country people in the vicinity of « blast were in time to get out of the way of dun- They wanted the man prosecuted who it, direction of the hole made by the meteorite was fifty-cight degrees from the horizontal and thirty degrees south of east. Fresh earth was scattered around the hole, the farthest being ten feet in the direction the stone badcome from. Thismay have been thrown out by steam generated immediately after falling. To E. L. McNair of Dansville, N. Y., is due the honor of first suggesting that the reports heard were due to te. . “It was evident from ‘the freshness of the hole that no rain had fallen between the time that the meteorite fell and its discovery. “The freshly broken surface of the meteorite ae like coarse gray sandstone. It is com- mostly of stony matter with small par- Beles of nickeliferous iron seattcrod which to the uninitiated look like » silver. A complete analysis will be made. The smaller pieces fell about a mile to the south- west of where the large one fell. The black crust on the meteorite is the fused portion caused by friction from ite vapid motion through the air.” r. ee A CEREMONIOUS COSTUM: It May Bo Worn at Marriages, at Yacht Receptions or at the Races. The gorgeous panoplies of war are called forth by the strife between the fair women who are still hovering near the delights of country Life about this hugo furnace. The’ summer campaign is on, and the cherished plans, hidden in perfumed sachets, are shaken forth todo their little best in the neld of action. The functions during the last woek of the month and the exodus immediately afterward de- manded the display of the best troops. In fact, we have seen, for the present, at least, the most loved costumes of grand ladies. They fulfill the predictions of the fashion writers with praiseworthy exactitude, more u larly, perhaps. in the combinations of colors than ‘in the oddity of cut. Mra, James Waterbury wore at a recent race 's blue and white shot silk, the bodice of which was simply trimmed with’ insertion, while the ‘THE GREATEST AMONG THEM. umbrella skirt was as simply finished with white corded ruffles. Another dainty costume on a young debu- tante—pretty Miss Davis—was Frenchily dar- ing in its tints. The material was gray crepon, fashioned with many ruffles andcombined with green and yellow. Her bat was an immense white straw, piled high with pink roses. Another costume on a young matron was noted in greater detail at one of the Country Club's meetings. It was of stately biack satin covered with a lattice of white dots and bro- caded red roses twisted together by long green leaves. The skirt was closely fitted and trailed exactly like the graceful skirts of last summer. The bodice was not at all novel in its style, though it was most effective through the rich- ness of its materials, It was short and slightly inted, opening upon a crossed front of rare nck lace. The revers, starting at the waist line, gradually widened to the shoulders, where they fell full over puffed sleeves of satin. The revers carried a pattern of smaller roses twin- ing along the edge. Upon the shoulders stood two wicked bows of rosy ribbon. The hat was a marquis, with two velvet roses and tall green sprays against the dented brim. ‘The gloves were whit —————_+e2—____ Suicide tn France. From the New York Sun. From the report on the administration of Justice in France and Aigeria for 1891, which has but now appeared, we gather some signifi- cant facts about suicides. The total number in France for that year was 8,120, while ten years before, in 1881, with nearly the same popula- tion, there were but 6,751. ‘This shows an increase of more than 21 per cent, and seems to indicate that in France the conditions of life have become harder than they were; perhaps as a result of an increased Inte bad financial state. Suicides were most frequent in the depart- ment of the Seine, where 1,465, or 50 in 200,- 000, occurred, while they were fewest in Cor- sica, where only 12, or 4 Ee 100,000, took place. In general the inclination to self ‘destruction was markedly stronger in the north than in the south, Thus in the northern eight depart- ments there were 2,882 suicides, or 36 in 100,- 000, while in the thirteen departments of the south only 795, or 19 per 100,000, occurred. In the northeast there were 25 in the 100,000, | but in the southeast only 15; in the northwest | 18 per 100,000, and in the southwest only 13. ‘erhaps the warmth and sunlight of the south lead to a more cheerful view of life than the comparative gloom and cloudiness of the north; but it seems likely that the variation in suicides is a result of actual physical differences in the conditions of living. ‘Thus, if a man is cold and has no fire, he may feel tempted to seek warmth in a future world, while if he live ina warm or bright climate, he need only go outside and stretch himeelf in the sunlight. Of these suicides 31 per cent occurred in spring, 26 per cent in summer, 21 per cent in autumn and 22 per cent in winter. ‘The most popular mode of death was by hanging; 3,055 killed themselves thus. Next came drowning, with 2,159 victims, Very few poison themselves, probably from difficulty in | getting the poison. Only seventy-nine used that agent. | seeing anything.” “Ihave today added to my collection a new | they military burden together with depression from | is prolonged ‘the n sat behind me and I had more fun than I [cArdie, W. Bowen, Liewel- | ezer had before in my life preventing him from MIXED RELIGIONS, From the London Daily News. We ure apt to be very proud of our religious toleration, forgetting that this is quite a new idea among ourselves. As the religious statis tics of the Punjab seem to show, it must be a very old idea in the east. Only 140 years have Passed since the mild séct of Episcopalians were persecuted in Scotland. Only 230 years have gone by since Mr. James Guthrie peti- tioned King Charles to persecute every one who did not agree with him, Mr. Guthrie, whereupon they hanged Mr. Guthrie, “pour encourager les autres.” ss in the dusky orient, toleration must have been more prevalent, or the Pun- jab could scarcely rejoice in so many religions, Sir Alfred Lyall has shown that almost any man who can preach and work miracles may found a new sect, and these gifte are, or are esteemed to be, ‘common in the east. ‘Thus, in Mr. Maciagan's estimate, he about 90,000 believers in ¥« are very contrary to those Squire informed the mind mere. “in the miracles see nothing wonderful,” as being suaded that miracles are matters of ecourrence. Outside tributors to English people. If ‘the plished as they declare, that they do not come over and work miracles under test conditions. If » sealed up in a bag. with Mr. Myer's him, can make tables walk about the: = — red to admit that in more eicentons te matic conditions, even if finds it too cold for miracles mediums do De Foe remarks, with misplaced confidence, that “we don’t find our houses disturbed as they used to be and the stools and chairs walk- ing about out of one room into another as formecty all this occurring in printed books. which ought to be a great en- couragement to Yogis. i . : a is HE a He 38e¢ at 100 guineas « month. The paid that sum, and whose sole whistling for « south wind and rather aptto burn a few river toleration had not obtained such » manners. “Most of the river worshi to the Od sect." t rain, i H iit i LE mourning till a flood in the resent seems extremely unlikely to ey might get their friends, the Y cause a flood by the occult power of and if a Yogi really can do. this, then Sutber- land is the county where a Xogt simply adored. But if he cannot do Ganges he is not likely to succeed Oykel or the Helmsdale. There is very snakes are so widely distributed and so far from exclusive in their habits. If © man worships an opossum or an ornithorny- cus he must go to Australia to do so, but serpents are everywhere. So is | the earth (Prithi), and the earth, as Hertha, Demeter and under many’ other names, has never wanted adorera. Even the untutored Pawnees are earth worshipers, and bury objects by way of sacrifice, which is more economical than burning them, as they can be dug up again. ‘ancestral mound is good deal adored in the Punjab. In Scot- land it became the fairy hill, as at Aberfoyle, and was treated with conspicuous respect in times comparatively modern. The church was ‘Usually built as near it as le, perhaps to counteract the influence of the ancestral mound, or to acquire any local sacredness that might be going. There are said to be thirty-three crores of gods in the Hindoo Pantbeon,and put- ting the crore ata million, even allowing for the depreciation of the rupee, this is a large supply. In the British Punjab there are said to be only 2,000 sun = . statement painful to believers in the ‘theory of myth. For it is plain that serpents, rivers, the earth and ancestors, not to speak of Yogis, must supply more my than the sun, if the figures be correct. At all events, all these denominations live very peacefully together, and do not burn each other for their very striking differences of theological This proves that they are wiser than our re- cent ancestors. No Od would puta fellow- creature to the torture(like Archi Spottis- woode with Father Ogilvie) for being a sweep. Yet sweeps differ as much from Ods as Episco- palians from Jesuita, ——-__“see ‘The Streets of Paris, From the Yorkshire Factory Times. From 4 o'clock im the morning till 6:30 the street cleaners sweep and wash the sidewalks and streets, throw sand over the roadway when necessary for the security of traffic, disinfectants and give a first cleaning to the public urinals, says a ndennt, Among the disinfectants used and liberally appled every morning when necessary in the streets of Paris are sulphate of iron, phenic acid and chloride of lime. 6:30 to 8:30 the household rubbish, which has been meanwhile brought down into the strects by the maid servants and concierges, has to be removed, and also the sweepings of the street. It is just before the cantonniers come up that the rag pickers work the hardest. Formerly rubbish used to be thrown out of each house in « heap, and the rag ickers had but to pick and choose. Now all household refuse ‘his to be thrown intoa large tin box, known familiarly as a poubelle—after the prefect of that name who enforced this decree—and the chiffoners have to dig among the contents of the box for what they want. Sometimes one may witness a fight between a rag picker and a fam- ishing dog. It is on the contents of the pou- belles that the starving dogs of Paris prolong their miserable existence, and it is owing to them that the rag pickers find so few bones and so little bread, most valuableto them. From 8:30 to 11 the street cleaners have to remove all horse dung from the roadway, clean out the gut- ters and water the streets and sidewalks when necessary. They finish the morning's work with the complete cleaning out and disinfection of the women go off work with from one and twopence to one and tenpence for their seven hours’ work in their pockets. The regular staff have two hours for dinner, except when what the bureau- crats of the Hotel de Ville call “a ric circumstances” force the inspector to reduce it to one hour. In very hot weather, when con- stant bacenrer | is requisite, there is sometimes no dinner bell at all aliowed. Fromone o'clock to four, when the cantonnier's day finishes, he has to rae wator the pavements, remove horse sweep the troittoirs again, but this time without raising his broom, so as to avoid raising the | dust, again clean ‘and disinfect the urinals and wash the public benches. When necessary work ‘one, two or three hours, especially in summer, when incessant watering has to be carried on. During five months in the winter men are employed from 7 to 9 in the evening throwing sand over the asphalt and wood pave- ments rendered slippery by the wet or ice. quae od owaie Up @ Meteor im California, From the Oroville Mercury. About a year ago great meteor fell at or near Table mountein. The fall of the visitor from unknown spheres and the consterna- tion it caused among those who were wi was told in a graphic manner to a meget this paper by Prof. tendent of schools, and created wide interest Searching parties wero organized, and several scientific gentleman came here to tible, a piece of the meteor. Mr. Stout reselond letters from all over the United States from Earope. But despite strenuous meted trace of the mysterious maas could The other day, however, eae, field, who resides some imiles to where this meteor was supposed to have eterek discovered what is undoubtedly a tragmest at the same. | He was ploaghing hie field when the implement turned up mineral mass which Mr. Bloomfield immediately recogn being of the ordinary character. He brought the same to Oroville this morning, and it is now on exhibition at Norton & Ekman's a re. fragment weighe fift is Sint or brownish color en theasthace, and for its size is remarkably heavy. Assayer Ekman says that the mass is mostly composed of iron, although he has as yet no regular assay. meteoric origin, and be will at once test it and find what its component parts are. He will also send samples of the meteor to different scientists. tH tir Ht i 4 iit rif it if i | f F E a 1 i ih ' f i i E E 8 g i & | z; 8 i i i i . urinals. At 1lo'clock the half-time men and | men, thera iH Hi fe P| i i byte HI Australian natives is thats widow, for husband she marries after the first, is e to cut off « joint of a finger, which to her spouse on the wedding day. ‘The Sioux Indiane make puzzle the finger bones of men and women fallen beneath their tomahawks. i I i é is Ey 7 I: ¥¢ iid | le g Papert SFE pula ide in Ht | 9 Hy tf 5 [ : i i rat E i i 5 Efforts have been made by the cers abroad to secure specimens of the EF