Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1893, Page 12

THE MARINE BAND R WHENTHEBANDPLAYS | exzst stn naret easecee te enjoy. A Saturday Evening in the Beautiful White House Grounds, MARINE BAND CONCERTS. Good Music and Appreciative Au- diences the Rule. EXCELLENT PROGRAMS. Tast Saturday was the first in three weeks that the band wasable to play at the White House. When the music began at 6 o'clock it fs safe to say that there was not vacant seat fm the grounds. Neither was there standing Toom in acircle of 200 feet from the band stand. ‘The weather was perfect. A pleasant breeze stirred the trees, the fountains played, children yan in and out among the crowd intent only on their frolics, and old folks and young ones could well forget the worries and cares of this work-e-day world looking on such s picture. ‘There is i ittle or Around the Eoye. Youean hear the mnsic as well in one place amanother, but some people think they hear ‘with more pleasure if they get so close to the musicians that they could pnt their hands on them. To keep off these kindly attentions the has a rope ail around it. ly it’s the little folks who get nearest to the rope fence. There are rick ones and poor ones among them, bat they are full of the wonder asto how so many ioud and weet sounds can be stored up in the big horns. Very Appreciative. It isa pretty well-known fact that everybody does not go to hear the music alone. Indeed ft would be just a little stupidif everybody did. ‘The girls go to show off their pretty summer and the boys go to see the girls. Fora parade a smooth green lawn and a back- ground of . and flowers and trailing are valuable accessories. fl [| Committee of Inspection. ‘When any band plays the leader is the center ©f attraction. Professor Fanciulli, therefore, Comes in for a great deal more attention than the head of an ordinary corps of musicisns. He is alrcady a great favorite with the concert- Soing public. His programs are well arranged, end w! yh order of music expected, the selections are so varied that every taste Coustlted, and there is heard on all sides ex- Pressions of complete satisfaction. A a of these Saturday audiences isin ‘earriages all around the grounds. At the fur- ‘thest point in the semi-circle below the foun- {ain it is not always possible to bear the musie Prof. Fancialli. The band on these occasions plays to tho:- coshly appreciative, listeners’ and the greatest applause is given when some such creation as the “Stabat Mater” is rendered. ‘Last Baturday this happened to be on the m and was loudly applauded and enco: en there is a cornet solo, and very frequently it forms the gem of the concert, the artist can well be proud of the attention shown him and the genuine pleasure he bas given. A Cornet Solo. Little feet go jigging when some popular dance is played, and then the audience is apt to forget the music in watching the pranks of the small colored boy who is dancing because every fiber in his being responds to the music, A Popular Air. and intense enjoyment and satisfaction beam from his —— face. President an the White House durin, The President is fond of listening to the music from the south balcony, but as bis presence or Mrs. Cleveland are rarely at the concert season. that of his wife always diverts public attention to him from the band, they seldom appear there. Daring the last administration it was rather a feature of the social routine. President and Mra. Harrison were thea at home to their friends and society had a good many nt meets on the balcony each Saturday in June. The old-time Presidents and their families liked to keep up this custom, and their guests, after paying their respects, used to stroll about the grounds, as well as enjoy the kaleidoscopic pic- ture from the balcony. Manners were simpler those days than they are now, and what seemed the natural order of things then would be very much out of place now. (SER tos THE MAN IN THE MOON. Stockings Had Been Named After Him and ‘There Was Troable. From the New York Tribune. “Man in the Moon” stockings are the latest eccentricity. Thoy come in ail colors, but per- haps the most startling are those in which the groundwork is black, the moons bright orange ‘nd the features outlined in each moon with Diack thread. These moon faces are half an ineb in diameter at the toe of the stocking, and ee eee ae eee mee. Acertain young woman saw a pair of these stockings hanging in the window of a Broad- way shop. At the time she was too busy to buy them. but © week later she went down town again and entered the establishment where she salesman and induced a twelve-year-old errand boy to wait on her. She es them. So she started kept leave, she reached the door that dreadful boy called to her: had never but just as “Gay, lady, you can, get those ‘Man in the Moon’ stockings at ——"'s, a block below here!” The poor girl rushed out, while the clerks and customers in the place smiled at her con- However, she went to ——'s, and at the stock- ing counter she saw haifa dozen salesmen and one women clerk. She asked the woman to show her plain black hose, as the men were standing near by, and she didn’t like to ask for kind she wanted until they moved away. after pair of plain stockings were rejected. ‘rere too thin, come ‘were too thick; none r. the salesmen were engaged with other then she leaned over the counter tial whisper asked the woman Man in the Moon” stockings. man turned and in an overloud Finally customers; 3 “Those will do nicely," she sald. ‘I think they'll be very effective’ on the stage, don't you?" She preferred to be taken for # balles dancer ber a well- of outrageous She bought the stockings and then—discov- qred she hedn't money enough to pay for them, 80 she had to give her name and address in or- der to have them sent to bome. She has been living in terror ever since jest through the indiscretion of some of those salesmen s rumor be started that she is about to goon the stage im the ballet: Discovery. ‘From Puck. Bobbie—‘‘Last night when Mr. Wensdinyte was calling on sister Clara I went into the room suddenly.” His Father—‘*And what find out?” mth ee ee Around the Horn. ‘From Life. ‘THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1893-SIXTEEN PAGES. HOW THEY GET RICH. Some Lucky Real Estate Specula- tions of Famous Public Men. PROPERTY HOLDERS IN THE DISTRICT. Romantic Stories of Washington Property and Its Increase in Value. STATESMEN WHO RENT HOUSES Written for The Evening Star. Wasuinatox, —, 1898. RS. GEN. GRANT sold her New York house afew weeks ago for $135,000 and I un- derstand that this money is to be invested in6 per cent mortgages on Washington prop- erty. The story of the sale is an interesting one. The house was |, bought some years be- fore Grant's death by his friends, George W. Childsand Mr. Drexel of Philadelphia, and was made a present to him. Drexel and Childs paid $90,000 for the house and it formed Gen. Grant's home during his last daya, In it he wrote part of his book and from it he went to Mt McGregor to die. After Gen. Grant's death Mr. Child's advised Mrs. Grant to sell the house, telling her that she would probably find it too large for her use, and that by investing the money which came from it she could get » better income than by renting it, Mra. Grant refused to do this. did not like to part with the pi erty largely for sentimental reasons, and she told Mr. Childs that she had refused an offer of $100,000 for it. As time went on, however, she foung the property rather a burden than a source of income. She has been living in the country with her son, Ulysses 8. Grant, jr.. and not long ago she received this offer of $135,000 for the house. She wrote Mr. Childs and he advised her to accept it. She did so, and ag soon as she vooekved the money phed Mr. Childs to come to New York to meet her. Upon his appearance she told him she wished him to invest this money for her. She said that Gen. Grant had relied upon his business judgment more than upon that of any other man in the world, and that she wanted him to take this money and to place it where he thought best. She thereupon gave hima check for $135,000, and he took this with him to Philadelphi oO the there he fell into conversation friend, and this man asked him som about Mra. Grant. ich his friend tells me. As shor my friend the check he was aaked what he expected to do with the money. ing ‘Mr. Childs thereupon told He replied: “Teball invest it in mortgages secured by Washington real estate, which will net Mrs. Grant 6 per cent. I believe Washington prop- erty is the soundest in the United States today. It steadily grows in value and it will not be af- fected to any extent by panics or strikes,” How Statesmen Make Money. It is wonderful how many statesmen are making money out of Washington and how capital flows in a steady stream from all over the country into the District of Columbia. Postmaster General Wanamaker sold the Whit- ney house the other day toa rich New Yorker for $90,000, and this man already owns a large amount of ‘Washington property. A number of actors and actresses are making invest- mente here, and Lotta is said to own os number of houses —_weat of the White House. Richmond parties Dought a great deal of our suburban real estate, and President Cleveland made about 500 per cent on his Oak View purchase, He lives now within sight of it, but the land surrounding kim has doubled and qnad- rupled again and again since he purchased it and it is now sold by the square foot fnstend of the acre. Cleveland made just about $100,000 clear off of it and Secretary Whitney realized about $75,000 from the sale of Grass- lands. Idrove yesterday through this region. The farms are now planted with real estate signs, instead of wheat and oats, and ground which could have been bought eight years ago for $300 an acre is now worth from 2,000 to $15,000 an acre. Magnificent houses have been built on some of it, and just across the road from where President "Cleveland's conntry home now ts is the mansion of Gardiner Hub- bard, Telephone Bell’s father-in-law, while on the other side of it, nearer the city, is the beantiful home of ‘another millionaire, Mr. James Elverson, the editor of the Philadelphia, Inquirer. Famous Real Estate Speculators. Senator John Sherman said the other day to a Cleveland, Obio, man that he owned in con- nection with his brother-in-law 1,000,000 feet of land on Columbia Heights. This land is now adoliar afoot and upward, and as a great pert of it is made up of some of the choicest land on the Heights, it cannot be worth less than $1,500,000. Senator Sherman was one of the syndicate who bought the Stone estate, which was put on the market in lots not more than ten years ago. They got it for a few thousand dollars and the Innd is now worth millions, Senator Sherman 1a born money- maker. Had he not been in public life he would ha’ been a millionaire and would have made s name as a t business man. When he began life he decided to save $500 x year, and I venture that his in- crease of his fortune now amounts to some- thing like a thousand times that amount an- nually. Ho isa builder as well as a dealer in land, and he has a large number of houses at the capital, which bring him in a steady in- come. He bought the old house just below him which Edwin M. Stanton once lived in a year or so ago for €35,000, and turned it over in the course of a few months at a big profit. ‘The house which he is building will be worth when it is completed at least $100,000, and you not bay the one next door.’ in which he is now living, for $50,000 cash. He has always had great faith in the growth of the national capital, and has owned more or less real estate ever since he came here to Congress way back im the firties, California Investors. Some of the biggest houses in Washington are owned by western men and California mil- lionsires have always had faith in real es- tate in this city. Not long ago the Inte Sena- tor Stanford was taking « ride across the Poto- mac and he stopped his horses at the end of the Aqueduct bridge, near Arlington. At this t you get a good view of the river on the side. Senator Stanford stood up in his carriage and looked up and down it and then said to his secretary who was with him: “I want you to look into the values of land about here and buy me all you can see in every direc- tion from this point. If I get it we will then build a magnificent bridge across the Potomac, will run a cable or electric railroad across it and make anew city on these bills.” His secretary at once looked into the purchase, but he found that the land bad such question: able titles that it would take several years to straighten them out. Befors proceeding far- ther he went to the Senator and Stanford told him to give the matter up. Said he: “I am too old a man to begin to fight real estate suits and Ido not need the monev that this investment might bring me. I guess you had better let it go.” And soit went. Had be bought it it would now form a big part of his estate. ‘The larges} zeal estate syndicate in Washing- ton today is known as the Californin syndicate. It is up of the Sharon estate, Senator Stewart and otbers, and it has already put millions into its purchases and their develop- ment. It owns hundreds upon hundreds of ‘acres of land which will probably be divided up into lots this spring, and ithas one of the finest electric railroads of the country. It has for years been buying and buying and not sell- ing, and when its property is thrown on the market there will be a great rush for it. ‘The same men whoare connected with it were among the first to buy the property about Dupont Circle, which twenty-odd years ago was sold for a few cents a foot, but which you cannot now get unless you carpet it with greenbacks. Senator Stewart still owns the big castle there, which is occupied by the Chinese legation, and the ground is now cov- ered in every direction with buildings which have cost fortunes. Within a stone's throw of Biaine’s is the house of Senator Hearst's widow, which with its interior furnishings is said to have cost more than a quarter of a million dol- lara, Ex-Sonator Sawyer’s brown-stone ma: cost more than 100,000, and the which Levi Z. Leiter is buildi ground for whieh be paid $100,000, Mr set Cox owns a howe in this vicinity which is. worth about $40,000, and one of the green-stone mansions which jooks out upon Dupont Circle was bought by Sunset Cox just before he went to Turkey, and he told me a short .time after this that he had sold it for 950,000, and had made just $20,000 off of it. Money in Bricks and Martar. There are, I venture, fifty men in Congress who have made and are making more money out of bricks and mortar than from law mak- ing. James G. Blaine added materially to his fortune by his real estate investments, and Mrs. Blaine in one of the big taxpayers of Washing- ton. Blaine’s house on Dupont Circle cost him aboat $80,000, and it has netted more than 12 per cent during the past ten years from the rent which Leiter has paid for it. If the reports are correct its rent has brought in during this time to the Blaine family some place between a hundred and a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollai The house in which Binine died was bought by him, I understand, for $10 a square foot, The ground upon which it is located must “be worth over $100,000 to- day. Just next to Blaine’s house is the yellow old-fashioned brick of Don Cameron's, for which he paid $6,000 six or seven years ago and which you could not buy now for $100,000. It has a wide frontage, and, like that of Blaine’s, would be just tho place for a great hotel or flat. Don Cameron owns a great deal ot prop- erty about Washington. He has a mount of suburban real estate and it seems that all he bas to do is to stick the spade of his tive brain into the ground and the earth straightway turns into gold. Shrewd an was his father Simon, Don is said to surpass him, and he has made gold galore here in houses and lands. He built « big red brick mansion on Dupont Circle, which cost him, I am told, some- thing like $40,000 and he sold it in 1885 for $95,000 ensh. “This house was bought by D. P. ‘Morgan, a New York banker, and is now owned by his ‘widow. Just across from it is the Windom house in which Blaine wrote the first part of his book and which practically ruined its owner politically, photographs of it being made and distributed with the question as to how a man could build a house of that kind out of $5,000. year. Cameron has a place along the 7th street road for which he paid something like $150 per acre, but which, it is said, you cannot now buy for a thousand. Mow Don Cameron Lost a Fortune. On the other side of this house is the home of the ex-Vice President, Levi P. Morton, which cost him a fortune, and on which he spent an- other fortune in improvements. Mr. Morton bought this house from Telephone Bell and it was in connection with Telephone Bell that Don Cameron made one of the few mistakex of his life. He must have thaught of it often when Bell lived in this big red brick house with him, for which he paid €100,000. The mistake that Cameron made was in ‘not going into the Bell Telephone Company. Shortly after Bell had made the invention and when the poopie as yet bad no faith in it he called ‘upon Don Cameron and offered him a controling interest in his com- ny for §6,000. Cameron hesitated for a fimo and finally refused and Bell teft his house a disappointed man. He gotthe money from other quarters and made his fortune without the aid of Cameron's money. Had Cameron given him that 96,000. it wonld have brought 1m in the neighborhood of million dollars a year, so Tam told, fora number of years. In talkihg of it some time ago he said to one of his friends: “I would ha it [hadn't been hard uj that thy investment would prove remunera- tive, but I did not like to risk it.” Rich Men Who Rent. Some of the richest statesmen here at Wash- ington pay rent for their homes, and it is wonderfal how much money they put on in im- provements on rented property. Secretary Whitney spent more than 220,000 on the old Frelinghuysen mansion when ho went into it, andJohn Wanamaker tore down a number of Whitney's improvements and made others. Sen- ator Brice has, during the past year, spent half of tho salary of his six years’ senstorial term on the improvements of the Corcoran mansion and it is not uncommon for a rich man to spend more in making improvements on his house here thau the rent he pays for it. Chief Justice Fuller lives ina rented house on the corner of 18th street and Massachusetts avenue. It is Senator Van Wyck'# mansion, which the Nebraska man built when he was here in Con- gross ata cost of something like €100,000, and which I understand he would be glad to sell for Jess than that amount today. Senator Palmer of Michigan still owns his big brown-stone front on McPherson Square, _ which cost him in the neighborhood of $85,000. It was for some years or the market, and I snp- ose, now that Secretary Elkins is going to Joave it, that it will be for sale again this sum- mer. Senator McMillan of Detroit paid som thing like €80.060 for the house which he lives in on Vermont avenue,and just above him is Senator Allison's home, which ia worth about $30,000. One of the finest houses at the capital is that of Senator Hale, which was built with the money from the estate of Zach Chandler, and which cost considerably more than $150,009. Both Senator Teller and Senator Wolcott rent their honses, and so docs Senator Manderson, who has fine residence next to the house of Gen. Sheridan, Senator Voorhees owns a house here which cost him somethin like 14,000, and Senator Washburn lives in the prison-like mansion of Senator Edmunds the corner of Q street and Massachusotts av nue. Ex-Senator Bayard owns a house here which is worth porhaps $20,000, and for which Senator Cullom pays a good round rent. Cush Davis of Minnesota has a house on Mas- sachusetts avenue just across the street from Cullom's, and a little above ¢ house in which Secretary living at the time of h It cost something like $75,000 to build and it has bad ‘or Sale” sign infront of it for the past ear. ‘The Inte George Pendleton’s house is also for It is on 16th street above Scott Circle, worth 50,000. Next to itis a mansion which has just been bought by the Episcopal preacher of St. John’s Church for $90,000, and alittle furtber up is Bourke Cockran's Wash- ington home, which was built by Secor Robe- son, and for which he paid somewhere be- tween $75,000 and $100,000. And so might go on for another column with the names of noted men who own prop- erty here. The list is not confined to states men, but it contains litterateurs.retired capital- ists and rich women. There are a number of newspaper mon who own good homes at the capital, and Washington has within the past eight years grown a crop of millionaires of its own. Fraxk G. Canpenten, ae Radyard Kipling at Home. From Harper's Bazar. ‘The house built by Mr. Rudyard Kipling for himself in the midst of the hills near Brattle- boro’, Vt., is charmingly situsted and com- mands «superb view of meadow, mountain and woodland, including prospect of Mt. Monad- nock and other New Hampshire peaks. The house itself is a long frame structure, two stories and a balf in height above the irregu- larly Inid foundation of stone, and is painted in wood greens and browns that harmonize pleasantly with the hillside at ite back. In spite of posters Mr. Kipling bas had difficulty in keeping too-curious visitors off of his land and out of the house itself. Near the new dwelling is the homestead of the Balestiers, into whose family Mr. Kipling married, and ‘within easy walking distance is the tiny cottage where Mr. aud Mrs, Kipling have spent the winter and are Still biding the completion of thelr larger home. Mr. J. Lockwood Kipling, the novelist's father, who is now staying with them, has been for twenty-cight years in the civil nervice in India. His son apparently takes kindly to American rural life aud may be met. tramping about the wooded roads, gun in hand, in heavy boots, shooting suit and huge gray felt hat wreathed with a white pugree—a picturesque figure who might have stepped out of @ book of subtropi- cal adventur “Pressed for Time.’ From Life. FORD'S OLD THEATER. The Proposition to Use It as a City Library. APPROPRIATE USE FOR THE BUILDING. Libraries in Other Cities Endowed by Private Citizens. SOME REMINISCENCES. HE SUGGESTION IN Tax Evexine Star 8 day or two ago that Ford's Theater should be fitted up asa city library will, I am sure, be approved. almost unanimously. It would be @ fitting consecra- tion of that ill-fated building that it should be devoted to the dis- tribution of knowledge among men. The effort toward the end of the last session of Congress by Senator Wolcott to establish « city library was received with general approval, the only objection urged against it being to the proposi- tion to use a portion of the new city post office building, now in course of erection, for that Purpowe. |The chairman of the committee on ublic buildings and grounds objected to yield- ing any portion of that building for any pur- pose but that for which it was erec! He stated the committee had fully understood what the needs of the government were and had pro- vided for them in this building, and expressed himself as favoring the object of providing for a library as propceed, but rather than yield any portion of that building he would favor the erection of a library building for the city. ‘The recent distressing calamity which renders vacant Ford's Theater makes it very improb- able that it will be again used for offices. gloom which surrounds it would be more effectually dispelled by devoting it to such beneficent purpose as a public free library. There is hardly a city in this country where the want of a library is more keenly felt than here at the seat of ‘government. The Congressional Litrary, with ite large and valuable accumula- tion of books, cannot be regarded in any way as acity library. What it may be in the future remaina to be seen, and some years must ela before ite treasures can be spread before world. In the meanwhile the Congressional Library, by the law creating it, cannot be con- verted into such a library as the needs of the ling and studious population of Wash- large read ington demand. The debate on Mr. Wolcott's bill, reported from the library committee, de- veloped no opposition except as to its location and occupancy of any portion of the new city post office. The details only required more careful study, and ns it was near the adjourn- ment it wes referred back to the committee on the library for more careful revision of detail, ‘We have seen propositions to do this and that with that building, gloomy enough in the mem- ory of the country from the events of the fatal April night of 1865, but now darkened by the recent tragedy, where somany human lives were sacrificed by an economy so fruitful of ill, Its devotion to this cause, none more holy, of instruction would, in some measure, remove the unpleasant memories that now hang around it. There ix bardiy a city in this country where there is not a public library. ‘That need 18 pro- vided for among the very first requirements of its existence. locrease of Libraries. ‘The increase of libraries of all kinds has kept pace with every other advance of civilization, ‘The study of that advanceis an interesting one. In 1800 a careful estimate placed the number of volumes in all the public and private collections at barely 80,000. In 1880 a report from the board of education gave the number of libraries in this country as 4,503, azgregating 13,700,000 volumes. There Ubraties embrace thoso supported by subserip- tions, as the mercantile libraries, those by in- dividual endowment, and those depending on municipal and state support. The ‘“motber of all subscription libraries in North America” was the Philadelphia library, incorporated in 1742. Franklin aided greatly in the establishment of this library and ways, “‘So fow were the readers, he with dificulty procured fifty subscribers, mostly young tradesmen.” New York, Phila- delphia and Boston have heretofore taken the lead in the formation and support of libraries, but the recent endowment of Mr. Walter L. Newberry of $300,000 for the purpose of found- ing a great public library in Chicago, and the more recent bequest of Mr. Crerar of some- thing over two million of dollars for a like pur- pose, will equip that western metropolis more adequately than any city in the Union with those beneficent institutions. ‘There was universal regret that the decisions of the courts deprived the city of New York of the benefits it would have derived from the large bequest of Gov. Tilden. The sum de- voted to the library was somewhere about ten million. Since the decision Mrs. Hazzard, the daughter of Col. Wm. T. Pelton, and one of the heirs of Gov. Tilden. relinquished to the executors about $2,000,000 to be devoted to carrying out the provisions of the will as far as that sum will go. Only those who are obliged to use a great library in the pursuit of literature asa means of living can adequately measure its usefulness. The Astor library, the Lenox library, the li- brary of the Historical Society of New York are among the most beneficent institutions in that i ty. ‘The city of Washington is greatly favored by the Congressional Library. Its stores of learn- ing are nccessible, and ihe vast knowledge of books possessed by its accomplished librarian, Mr. Spofford, are bestowed most cheerfully upon all who seek it. The law, however, closes that repository of learning just at a time when it would ailable to the thousands whose hours of labor deprire them of its ber fits, It is to be ae tthe idea suggested in Tux Evexixo Stax will be pressed upon Congress, and that the session may not close without the necessary 6! in being taken to secure so important an institution for our city The opposition to the Sunday opening of libraries and galleries of art failed to move the Inte Peter Cooper. who provided, in founding tho Cooper Institute, that its library and read- ing rooms should ‘be open on that day, and I have occasion more than once to visit it on Sunday to consult its excellent collection and found it crowded with attentive readers. A like provision should be made in the contem- plated library here, but, taking the advice of the famed Mrs. Glass, ‘first catch your hare.” Batchelor Philanthropists. A remarkable coincidence in connection with the great benefactions which bave been made in this country and by our countrymen is that the great philanthropists were batchelors, Commencing with Stephen Girard, who was within my memory about the only millionaire in the country: Geo. Peabody, McDonald, Jas. Lenox, Samuel J. Tilden, John Crerar, samuel Wood, Jas. Lick, Enoch Pratt of Baltimore, all were batchelora. Mr. Crerat's benefaction to the city of Chicago, amounting to $2,500,000, gives that city, with the munificence of Mr. N Derry. over $5,500.00 for library purposes. While in Baltimore I met one of the veterans, happily spared to us, who was a boarder at Barnum's when Mr. Peabody boarded there, long before he removed to London. Mr. Pea- body paid for his room and board at Barnum’s $365 a year, under contract with old Davy Bar- d one of the conditions of the contract was that he was to sit next to Mr. Barnum at the head of the table,a favorite seat in the days when the landlord presided and carved, as old Mr. Barnum did for years. ‘The late John Crerar was almost unknown until his death revealed his wealth and his dis- tion of it, He had lived so obscurely that ut vory few knew of his existence. He con- tributed $100,000 for» monument to Lincoln, and Jas. Lick’ left a large sum for a monument to Francis Scott Key, the author of the ‘Star Spangled Banner.” I passed the old home of Koy in Georgetown not long since. It is falling into decay, as in also the handsome resi- dence of the late John Marbury. The trail of the serpent of advance and progress is over them and they must yield to the inexorable, Reminiscence of Gen. Albert Pike. I meta distinguished Texas judge who is called here tocorsult with Dr. Batchelor,the successor of Gen. Albert Pike in Masonic matters, and among many incidents be told of Gen. Pike he said when the late Reverdy Johnson was appointed minister to the court of St. James his cliente called on him to inquire what would be done with the business intrusted to him in his ab- sence. He replied ho had left their matters in the hands of one of the best lawyers in the United States, Gen. Albert Pike. Judge Tucker, who was for many years on the bench of his stateand_an eminent lawyer, said he re- led Geu. Pike as one of the best lawyers he ever met. During the war of secession he provoked the enmity of some of the leaders on ‘the southern side by sustaining the civil law as supreme over the military. Judge Tucker was commissioner of prizes during the late unpleasantness and witnessed the capture of the Harriet Lane by the Bayou City, in which fight her commander, Richard Wainwright of our city, wax killed, He said the remains of Capt. Wainwright were buried with military and Masonic honors. Gen. John B. Magruder, in command of that department, was the official and personal associate of Judge ‘Tucker, of whom he hasa store of pleasant memories, “Maryland, My Maryland.” With no desire to provoke controversy, I want to record a fact stated ina German musi- cal eyclopedia I found in the library of Prof, Foertech, where I had already found the origi- nal air of “Maryland, My Maryland,” published in the early part of the present century, be- fore the right of secession had been settled by the arbitrament of arms, and indeed before the convention which formed the confederation of states bad met. Mr. Randall's song, which was sung everywhere, in the loyal north as well as in Dixie, was set’ to music by a musician of Baltimore named Ellenbrook to the old famil- iar German ballad, but claimed it to be an orig- inal composition. The world-renowned Marseillaise Hymn was said to have beon composed by Jos. Rouget de | Isle in 1792 in Strasburgh. Until 1830 it was uot claimed to have been composed by him, but there is satisfactory proof that the melody was taken from a mess composed bya German com- poser, Ign. Holtzbauer, and formed the credo in the mass which was sung st Strasburgh be- fore 1792. At that time Rouget de Isic wasa member of the choir. There is a remarkal resemblance to the same air in the opera of the “Huguenots, "by Myerbeer,in the dagger scene. The famed air of Kathleen Mavourneen came from the same source, old German folk songs. ) Jor F. Corie. —___+e+—_- CONGRESSIONAL STORIES, Sherman Hoar Mistaken for a Page and the Result. Dan Quinn in the Kansas City Times. Sherman Hoar was very young then. Indeed he is still Buta year ago he was very young. It was also his fate to closely resemble in per- sonal appearance the chief page on the repub- lican side of the House. This similarity came at last to be the basis of grief to Sherman Hoar. It was this wa: Congressmen, many of them, have a taste to be cleanly. As an adjunct to the House isa lavatory, much like in sort and scheme to the “wash room” of a hotel. After some unusually airty piece of legislation members are wont to go there to wash their hands and submit their countenances to the cooling waters of the Po- tomac, which flow from the faucets. This lava- tory is in care of a young colored man. He i not a person of broad views nor quick intelli- gence and his specialty is sleep. The page aforesaid has a taste for humor. It was bis joy to discover the colored young man wrapped in slumber and overturn his chair or by cuffs and kicks restore him to indignant wakefulness. The page always made a timely and successful exit just as the colgred person became fully alive. These athletis One day toward the close ‘of last session the had been uncommonly jocund. Fully » round dozen of times had the poor colored person been brought back from peaceful dreams in the riotous manner described. Nor did be get a chance to retaliate. The joke was never on the nimble page once. So the bedeviled colored young man was very low spirited. Just as the House clock pointed to4 the wronged Congo came into the wash room freighted with towels. eyes? His enemy was there bent above a wash bowl bathing his humorous face. The colored race is not original. It is an itator. Ite schemes are simple and its methods direct. On | # occasion the colored young man merely kicked his foe, but he kicked him with accuracy and emphasis. He thought of the wrongs of his race and threw his whole soul into it. The victim's head struck the wall with the vO~ lent force of the billy goat in fu!l career. Then the victim, with an exclamation of rage and horror, lifted his dripping and astonished face. It was Sherman Hoar. Eye witnesses recite that the colored man did not faint. He probably did not. No colored pereon ever faints; that is purely a Caucasian accomplishment. ' But he compromised by turnings dings ecru. Thus it came to pass that Sherman Hoar's whole record could be stated. He eame to Congress to be kicked by a colored janitor on a theory that he was a page. Such be the mishaps of greatness. It was a beautiful afternoon. Two Congress- men filled a bappy side-bar buggy, the whole bending its way at a brisk, thirsty trot to that noted and popular hostelry of the suburbe, the Woodlev Inn. One of the Congressmen was Col John R. Fellows, the other withholds his name. ‘As they spurted along a level stretch of coue- try road they ran on tive who was very much dissatisfied with his wife. She did not, in some of her domestic economies, altogether meet his rigorous views, and he was confiding his obje-tions to her with no end of noise and bitter profanity just as our law givers drove up. In fact, the ugly husband was advising himself to whip the offensive lady and betrayed symp- toms, indeed, of acting on Coi. Fellows drew rein strated with the ugly husband. The ugly hus- band retorted in a forcible and boundless way. He declared it to be immaterial whom he chas- tised and offered to whip Col. Fellows in lieu of fe. ‘The other statesman, being a young athletic six-footer, then assumed the pressure. He asked the ugiy husband—who was not a giant at alland very much resembled what is colloquially termed a sure thing—if he would rmit him to act asa substitute for Col. Fel- ws. The ugly husband said he would be too happy. Thereupon the member so substituted got out of the buggy and the ugly hr id beat him to rags in a moment. His wife, who stayed to see the fun, was very much delighted, and at the close kissed the ugly husband and extolled hig valor. ‘The ugly busband was ugly no longer, and he and she went their way rejoicing in each other and cooing like doves. I saw the icemaker afterward and he looked as if he'd fought with a dog. A Check to Hospitality. From the Toronto Mail. “Mra. M—is a good deal ofa tuft hunter, isn’t she?” “Yes, indeod, she had two dukes anda dis- tinguished author at her country house last ” re they coming back this year?” Xo, [think not; you see the dukes stole her plate and the author is in prison for pla- jem”? ‘hy, you can't imprison a man for pla- garism, can you?” “Well, you see he took another man’s name and wrote it on the bottom of a check.” ——— ++. Mr. Puffanblow—“Ain't you the fellow who said the sun was losing its heat?” Mr. Weathercrank—“Yes, all the scientists agree with me on that point.” Mr. Puffanblow—‘Well, I believe it now. The sun can't keep this up very long and Lave any heat left. —___+e2—____ A Satisfactory Thing All Around, From Puck. round you observe Mr. Stuffenberg, wondering how he is going to get rid of that last string of sausages. Here you have the result of « happy arrange- ment between Mr. Sprockets and Mr. Stuffen- the page regarded as a | great, continuing zest, as so, indeed, they were. | believe his | LOLLIPOPS BY MILLIONS. Chocolate, Cocoa and Cocoa Butter Turned Out by the Ton. Oddities of the Chocolate Manufactare— ‘What Cocoa is and How It is Made—Cocoa Butter. Correspondence of The Evening Star. ‘The biggest chocolate factory in this country is in New York. It uses 100,000 pounds of the denns ina year, They are not at all pretty to look at, From their appearance one would never suppose that such delicious prepsrations could be made from them. Most of them come from Venezuela. The concern described ordi- narily keeps in stock as many as fifteen differ- ent kinds of them. Varieties differ so much in | quality that prices paid for them run all the | way from 15 cents to 75 cents a pound raw. | Fine chocolates are made from mixtures of the different sorts of beans in carefully adjusted | portions, a few pounds of the best in each hundredweight contributing flavor. The broken chocolate kernels, duly mixed, are poured into a hopper on the seventh floor. They fall through a metal tube all the way down to the first floor of the building. There they drop into « machine which grinds them between two great steel disks revolving hori- zontally in the fashion of a mill. From this ,. form of is is because the beans contain 45 per sent of vil. The cells holding the ister are broken by the grinding process, and the oil li . dered substance. eee ‘The processes by which the beans are trans- NOW ON THE ROYAL ROAD. Rev. Bruce in the Straight and Narrow Way. The Way That Leads to Health, Happiness and Long Life, Au Aubert Men Woo Pail His Onn Cit lege Expenses. Happiness is so fragile that one risks tue loss of It by talking of tt, It Mies from him who deliberately pursues tt, an@ Shuns the hand that would seize upon it. Yep Much umhappiness may be avoided by keeping well. ‘To the steady brain worker (and all are brats workers) it is important to be able to percetve the indications of the coming storm. Rev. Charles G@, Bruce, the well-known pastor of Somerville, Mang formed into commercisl chocolate are interesting. To begin with, they are ronst Then they are broken in « mill conrsely. Next, they are sifted. he shells separated from the kernels by sifting are sold for half a centa pound to wholesale Grocers, who grind them up to adulterate pep- per with. Incidentally to the same process the Vegetative germs of the beans are removed. It is desired to get rid of them because they are too hard to be utilized to advantage; but they are purchased by manufacturers of cheap can- dies for making « poor quality of chocolate. Each germ looks somewhat like alittle clove. All of this work is performed on the seventh floor of the factory. The chocolate beans are called ‘cocoa beans.” The liquid stu‘, somewhat thicker than mo- lasses, is termed “cocoa.” It is transformed into the chocolate of commerce simply by adding sugar. It is commonly imagined that cocon is made from the shells of the beans, but sucha notion is absurd. What cocoa is really will be presently explained. The liquid stuff is transferred toacircular receptacle in which huge rollers go round. Then eugar is put in, The rollers mix the cogoa liquid and theeugar thoroughly together. When this has been done the mixture is passed through other machines with rollers revolving against ench other. It goes through them again and again, until it is #0 finely divided that there is not the smallest lump in it. Now it is finished and has m to be cooled in molds in the refrigerating room in order to be ready for sale. Commercial Cocoa. as chocolate, without any sugar and with two- thirds of the oil taken, away. Hence, in a dry state, ithas little more flavor than so much dust.’ By subjecting the liquid stuff to pressure | the oil is squeezed out of it. Of the original | 45 per cent of oil 30 per cent is extracted, leavy- ing only 15 per cent. This oil is caught in tubs. It is clear and limpid—almost as trans- parent as water. Poured into molds it hardens when cold, and is thus turned out in the shape | of great cakes of a yellowish-white color. ‘These cakex are sold to ries and other dealers. They are pure “cocoa butter.” Toa gteat extent this soothing and deliciously fragrant substance has taken the place of the | old-fashioned cold cream. It is admirable for | sun-burned noses and for chapped hands. In South America the natives have recognized ite virtues for many centuries. Cocoa butter. obtained from the chocolate factories, is sold by the ton wholesale. It isa useful and profitable by product of this sort of manufacture. But how about the cocoa? It | comes out from the a apparatus in the | form of dry cakes. are reduced to pow- der beneath rollers, and the powder is then sirted through cloth toan impalpable dust. Now jit is ready for market and is poured |intoa machine which fills cans with it auto- | matically. The cocoa butter is put to another | use. Some of it is added to the chocolate that is employed for coating creams and other can- dies, because it makes the flavor richer. The chocolate tabiets for nickel-in-the-elot machines are made in molds and set in the re room to harden. Some people make asort of j tea out of cocoa beans and | highly. The factory described uses most of its choco- late in making candies and the greater part of | that for coating creams and nute. The way in which the creams are made is very odd. A shallow tray of wood is filled with finely sifted flour. Upon the smooth surface of this is Inid down a board, the under side of which is cov- ered with excrescences in whatever shapes may be desired. The board being removed perfect | molds of the excrescences are left in the flour. | A number of such trays of molds having been Provided, the workman goes along with a cone of canvas filled with “cream,” which is simply | sugar and water boiled and’ flavored. At the point of the cone is » small copper spout, through which the operator squeezes enough cream into each mold to fill the Inter. Now it | only remains for the stuff to barden, and the | trays are dumped into a sifter, thus separating | the molded cream drops from ihe flour. The cream drops next pass into the hands of young woman with deft fingers, who drops them one after another into a ci pot filled with hot chocolate. As she them out again she places them in rows upon sheets of waxed paper, which cover rectangular pieces of tin. To each one she gives a final touch, as she sets it down, by a twirl of her fingers, which makes a sort of curlyeue of chocolate on the top of it. Todo this properly requites great dexterity, though one would imagine that the entire process was extremely simple and easy. | It is just the same if peppermints are to be chocolate-coated, or marshmallows or nuts. When finished in this manner the lollipops are placed, tin trays and all, upon shelves in a sort of cabinet on rollers, ‘Here each trayful is carefully inspected by the foreman, who must see that every sugar plum is perfect. Some Oth-r Confections. In the same way marshmallows and creams are dipped into jellies of apricots and other fruits, instead of chocolate. When ther have hardened they are put into very shallow pans covered with coarse wire net. Sugar and water, boiled to- ther to the point of crystallizing. are poured into the pans. Next morning the jellied drops i Commercial cocoa is exactly the same thing | recommend it | Preaches a very practical sermon to those wha, from sickness, are unhappy. He was sick. He took Paine's celery compound, the wonderful Temedy that makes people well. Beis now on the Toyal road to health and jong life. His own words are: “Jam nearly thirty-eignt years of age and weigh hormaily 156 pounds, at present my weight ts 148%. ‘My sickness took me down to 134i, 60 that you cam see that I am getting back to be myself, and, Got willing, shall soon be there. “I have been avery sick man, but owing tothe Goodvess of the supreme powers and to a few good friends I am mow on the royal road whose end & | Perfect health. “Iwas born in Peterboro, N. H., and lived there ‘until I was sixteen years old. My father, whos very noble man, sent me to the Appleton academy for three years, then be told me ‘if you want any more education you must get it.’ So when I was sixteen I went to Amberst College and earned every cent that paid my bills there forfour years and graduated. Then I was persuaded to go te Andover Seminary, and studied there three years, and took my degree asaclergyman 1 2676, ané went to preaching. I preached eleven or twelv¢ years and then went back to college aud studied two years for the Ph. D. degree. “ALL these two years I was studsing and suppor tug my famity. ‘This, a8 you will easily imaging, | Was excessive labor. At length I was elected to @ position in a high school in Boston. but the worl told on me and I.grew ill. ‘Thgidiiness lasted for praatippeadennes 5 But nT om so thatl can see the end, andamore thankfol man you | never saw. A gentleman who lived neat me begaa | to use Paine’s celery componnd and tt ballt him up. I thought of this and soon I was led to sett, and is j hasbeen bringing me out all right. “Tam inclined to think that I 9 iWiqm@e bereo- | tean in strength.” Paine's celery compound is toGay prescribed by physicians in every town throughout the country. ‘It has made thousands of over-worked and worm ‘out men and women well and thankfal. ‘There ts | Rot a profession or calling that has not sent testi- monial after testimonial to the value of Psine’s celery compound. It makes people wel. Try i ‘and be convinced. 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No chargs for waste im matching fieures, Weeells six-foot Oak Exten- sion Table for $3.50. A forty-pound Hair Mat- tress tor $7. Woven Wire Spring, @1.75. Get whatever you need. We'll help you to arrange the Deyments satisfactorily. A little money once © ‘Week or ounce a month will do first rate, Pay Just are shaken out, and appear all covered with crystals of sugar. This is the manner in which crystallized candies are made. Almond paste is produced by hashing up sweet and bitter almonds together, after which the mixing is completed by machinery. he paste is made in like fashion, by mixing almonds and Pistachio nuts. Nougat is manufactured by raising sugar and water to a tem; tare of 260 Gogrees, adding the flavoring and mute duriug the cooking. This preparation is ‘out on cold marble and allowed to barden in frames which look somewhat like newspaper forms, How do vou suppose the nougat is cut into strips? With a buzzsaw, just as though it were so much plank. Sheets of caramels are beneath a row of revolving circular es. Being passed through once they are cut into Strips. The sheet is then passed through cross- Wise, which separates it into small squares. But they are not quite separated by this operation, and are cut apart by hand with knives. To chop them apart requires no little dexterity Jordan almonds are made by putting the freshly shelled almonds into a revolving bowl of cop- per, together with a thick solution of boiled The almonds are thus made to take on gar, after which they are transferred to another revolving bowl where they are polished smooth by friction. Eight persons work hard all the time to shell the nuts required for the use of the factory. To get the kernels out whole from English walnuts, &c., is a job requiring a good deal of skill, as any- body knows who has tried it. Of course, only the very finest nuts that come to market can be made use of. The almonds, after being boiléd, are blanched by a machine. Being shoveled into a hopper on top, they come out below all skinned and white. This factory puts up each year 19,000 cham- Pagne quart bottles of fruit sirups for flavor- ing—such as raspberry, strawberry, peach, pineapple, plum and apricot. All of this mate- Tial—nearly 5,000 gallons—it uses in its busi- ness, A vast quantity of violets and roses are used up to supply those flavors for candies which gratifies the palates of the fastidious, ——— i Accounted For. From the Troy Press. “Grimley doesn't seem so tall as be used to be.” “No, he lost foot in that railrosd scci- dent, you know.” ‘what you can spare GROGAN’S MAMMOTH CREDIT HOUSE, £19, 621, 623 7TH ST. H.W, BET. BAND 18TS. |Tunex Coxrortaste Tuxxos Te mAVE: 1. Gas Cooking Range. ‘2 Weisbach Perfect Reading Light & Gas Bagine, White & Middleton pattern. GAS APPLIANCE EXCHANGE, 1428 NEW YOKE 4vR Get the Best. THE CONCORD HARMESS. LUTZ & BRO., 407 Penn. ave., sJotning Nevonal Hott Trunks and Setcheis et low prices —