Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1893, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT TRE STAR BUILDI nL jvania Avenae, corser 11th St, br The Evening Star Newspaper Company, 8 H. KAUFFMANN, Pres’t, rk fice, 83 Potter Building, Few York Ooo, 83 < Te Evexrvo Stan ts served to eabacrfhors in t etty by carriers, om their own acconse at Ibevats foe See cee, bee ont, Copion at the comer © eas, Byaail anywhere rived States Sraede“powtice {SO conte per month. ‘i ATCRDAT QUADRUPLE SurET Stan 81. 3 with foreign postage ado, 82.00. none tered at the Port Office at Washington, D. C., sccond-clasemail matter sie atin clag E27 All taail sudscrfs tions mast be palin advance Rates of advertising made known ou application, | Vor. 83, Na 20,632. —— Che Evening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1893. Great Damage in Northern Massachusetts TWO CENTS. SPECIAL NOTICES. TT MAY CONCERN: 7 0: = ‘The varruershin heretofore existing be- Eween McIntosh © Hone. Plumbers and Tinners. ta $his day dissolved. Mr." lose. the plumber of frm, will hereaiter be found with albiuson & Chase 2723 14th st. n.w., where he Lopes to meet all his old custower=. SAM B. ROSE, ~ July 22. 1863. s24-2e* es HOUSES TO RENT. 1: is now the season when people are looking for houses. We aredaily turning away good tenants, as ‘mont of our property ts rented. Place your vacant bouses with us, and we guarantee they won't stay vacant long. We make this branch s specialty. BANES & SIMPSON, 2724-2038 _ Cor. 14th and G sts. | ST. JAMES’ CHUMCH, STH ST. NEAR Sass ave. me—st Jaives’ Day, Te th Benediction of parish housest 8 p.m.’ Preacher: Rev. Mr. Harding. ‘Ibe publte cordially invited. 124.2% i OFEICERS A OF NAOMI Lodge, No.1, D. of R., we requested to meet WONDAY, JULY 24. at 8 o'dock p.im.. ta the Biue Room of Odd Fellows’ Hall, 7th st a.w.. to | make arraneements for the faneral of cu: late sicker | Moa “Godman. By order of the Noble Grand, ADDIE. | ML DUVALL. inecording Secretary, SARAH Mf. SA\- | DERSON. it | 1. 0. 0. F. THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL ‘tuceting of Martha Wastington, No. 3D. | of RT at7p.m. HIS (Monday) EVENING to take ‘action in ‘regard to the death of Bro. A.C. Wolf, | Foneral ar 4°30 p.m. Tues lay from his late residence at sth and L sts me Interment at Congressional Cemetery. . Mrs. E. V. SCHUTT, N.G, i Bg OME TEERIELY “TUMELED® PRICES. —Your last “whack ™— If you want one of those Tennis Rackets at reduced prices you had better hurry. They are going like “chag before the wind.” There ten’ much wonder when you can buy: Remember how the Gas Stoves are reduced? This way: R-purner Gas Stoves now. THE GARDEN AND LAWN NEED WATER 25 fect Garden Hose, patont nosale snd coupimas complete,” $1.75. Ce ges sass ane Soe anteed “awa. Mowers . BARBER & ROSS, COR 11TH ANDG@ STS. | <n FOR $12 AND 815 FLANNEL SUITS. Tee eee es © We've ““banched”* . - . our entire stock of ee ‘Men's Fine Imported SS 55555 3 Tigre and gts Flannel Satie oS SS quke Sourchsice butbeita hurry, B. H. STINEMETZ & SON, 1207 PA. AVE. 552% FOR LEASE. 1114 AND 1110 F ST. 8. W.i lectris bts. ‘0. W. WHITE, 900 F st. a. w. FIRST IN PUBLIC FAVOR—OUR PIANOS, “Tbe tpectal barga’n sale of new pianos is attracting mach atisation styles are almost the @ st to 7:2 14th iy22-1m" DRUGGISTS, GIsTs. YOU PAY NO “RENT!” Tf you appreciate rest, comtyrts gocdbeaitn. perp water. GLORGE S WALKER, 3¥10- lawéw? CASP®R FP. GEIER. TO WHOM TT MAX CONCERN—TAIS 1S Bee conic fe: Twit nose reaps = one contracted Ed Ba Nettie cum- paige ne Mer Tay Sethe y. CUMMINS, BEAUTIFUL PLACE FOR SUBURBAN home; Sacres; 2 small houses; vouns or- and le trees :larwe shade trees ;:} min- and Glen Echo railroad 10 to Chevy Chase cara. App! and N sts, ‘ wont. Claims, onaldson & Cons ie thie day" disssived by mutual consent, KB. Donaldson having transferred ail his fmterest in said Dusiness to Mr. H. J. Lauck, who will continue the same as success: to the Sait Arp. EB. DON ALDSON, Uy2t-or] HOS Late. THE MANY ADVANTAGES rooming and boarding in the same deer mma ‘be obtained at the HOTEL 13 | <i ANDOUPH.” This hove’ is convenient, new, clean, thoroughly m home~ Bibs and mnbderately priced. 1308 6 5 Is the penalty when cyclists are arrested for riling at night without a lantern. As we are making a reduc- thon of 50 percent on fonr styles of onr well-known patterns of Lamps (former prices being fro: $4.50 to ‘€6) there ts no longer any reason for being without ene. Good for the next thirty days. GORMULLY & JEFFERY MFG. 00. Bae 1325 14th stn. w. BTN verter Asa Summer beverage thaa PALMER'S BELFAST GINGER ALE, dy2l-tt Equal to imported, Ask for st at your Grocer’s, Drazgist's or Restaurant, er order from the manufacturer. SAMUEL c. PALMER bas , <a BEOS’. STUPENDOUS OFFER. Our whole stock of Men's Fancy Cassimere, Cheviot and Worsted Suits and Punts, and sil Children’s Suits without reserve, fo be sold this week at a discount of 306 per cent aff reguiar marked prices, EISEMAN BROS, 3 Eand 7th THIS 18 To GItk NOTICE To M¥ = friegds and the putitc wenerally hat {have Femoved my ofice from saw to mew. WALTER 1. ACKER. Siew eS HOT WEATHER sHioy are golng raps Quick, ss they are going rapidiy. rem = Factory, 908 Fst. TAMOND - SETTING Aepecialty of our Factory. R HARRIS & CO., ‘Manufacturing Jewelers, me Cor. 7th and Da.w. WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW BS ott iow you want a printing job “sot ap” plllom ue” Wo'lt Bx ie) and youll be vod ot Our tyresatters are all ezperte, Funruntes satisfaction at "moderate ‘prices, too. McGILL & WALLACE, Printers, mylt 107 EST. N.W. NOT BUSY 50 I can give you better service than in the Eat sean ood repens oe me mS iniow: BYEON 3 ADAMS, PRINT! Ge20i Ss retuet we Phone 530. T. KEEN, TalLor, . myoSm 1312 F STREET. QUFES te EN er ann PUBLISHER Fize book and job printing. Televbone 76. Us Toe 1B E st. now ypamas Auaxative. refreshing r Fruit loscuas, ‘Very agreecbie to take for CONSTIPATIC INDIES GRILLON, {Ut Rue des Archives, Paris. ‘Sold by all Druziste, TOE Lath at. | By | IIRTS to order. Come 8. COTTRELL, Jr, Rec. Sec. MEMBERS OF COVENANT LODGE, XO. ii LO. O. B.. are requested to meet in the lodge room THIS EVENING at Suclock to make arrangements to attend the funeral of Bro. AC. Wolf, ‘which will take place from his late residence, cor. 8tli and L sts. southeast, tomorrow (inesday) at 4 7, Interment at Congres: cemetery. All brotl invited. 8, COTTRELL, Jr., V. G.. By T. HIPPIE, Heo. Ses, SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL —& stated meet! of Robert de Bruce Council, Rie fURSDAY. Jury of Ina ate so a oe Byekee AH Ont” Sed dae” Recorder. ATT TION, C /FEDERATE. ET. ERAN! Encampment No. 69, Union Vet- eran cordially invites the members of the Confederate Veterans’ Asnuciation and thelt wives as ete ih @ Painiiy Excursion to Marsal Hall on SDNESDAY, July 28, 1-9 ‘There witl be vocal and instrumental musi, (lancing and addresses. ‘The Macalestor will start at 6:45 o'clock p.m. Tris earnestly boped that wher will accept tite cuurtesy./ Doped that “HW. HOSTERD af President. C. Ve AL Be ENBERS OF NATIONAL NiGHT OWL Club, No. 1. will meet at their elub rooms, Sth ahd Lsts s'¢., THIS EVENING at 7:30 to make arrangements for the funeral of our deceased brother, ALC. Wolf. A full attendance is requested. ‘By order of the e. ae CHAS. H. RAINEY. Feu can ware oF lose friends by the attention or inattention which you bestow upon your correspondence. Wher a man can talk off fifty letters in half an hoar to the Edison Phonograph, and more if he is a rapid spesker, no man can say he ‘hasn't time” to attend to his corre- spondence. Draw your friends closer to you by auswering their letters promptly. The Phonograph will make it an easy task. Sold or rented, COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH CO., 627 Est nw. one knows just where, if they any size, any Kind of Dinding, any quailty, ttoan be obtained. We are pot ly Biank Book Makers, but Dealers inerery sense. ler cout and Paper when desired, in any size required. We are al-o Leadquarcers for Stationers’ Sun- dries, at lowest prices. Not want « BLANK BOOK, EASTON & RUPP, Pypular-priced Stationers, #21 LITH ST. (Suet above the aver Jy ~ 82 Imported Neglize Shirts now $1.69. 50 Laporte Negiige Shirts new §2. Imported Negiige Shirts now 82.30. And don’t think you can do as well elsewhere. Youcangot. tracy Shit desirblon, Pay others $1,590 and @1,79.f0r a Bathing Suit ast es evod a Suit here for @1 25 THE KNIFE CUTS Di “yor the nazt few daye. 1 Fou pleas Yi wis tee Oe ngings”), KS Pa ave. iy2k ‘We Lave FOUR @ CARGOES or PIECE STUFF —Joust and Studding.—§ We will deliver any one of these cargoes to any part of the city for $11 PER 1,000 FERT. One careo contains 30,000 feet One contains 33,000 feet. One contains 50.000 feet. Amd one contains 75,000 feet. wir you at in our ad. ite s. LIBBEY, BITTINGER & MILLER, “Lumber, Mill-work and Builder? Hardware.” Cor. 6th and N.Y. ave. nw. sy2t ee LIEUT. CLARKE DROWNED. A Brave Young Officer Meets a Sad Death. Lieut. Powhatan H. Clarke, tenth cav- alry, was drowned at Fort Custer, Mont., Friday afternoon, but so far no particulars of the accident have been received. Lieut. | Clarke was a Marylander by adoption and | Was one of the most promising young offi- cers In the army. He was the eldest son | Clty College. He was graduated from | Georgetown College, and went from there to West Point, where he was graduated with high honors in 1884. Lieut. Clarke's wife and mother were with | bim at Fort Custer waen he was drowned. | He leaves a child only a few months old. | | Many anecdotes are told of Lieut. Clarke’ bravery wnile on the frontier. On one oc- casion in 185 he rescued a colored corporal who had been wounded by the Apaches and left on the fleld. At the risk of his own lite | Lieut. Clarke carried the corporal on his | back ‘to a place of safety. For this act he recelved a medal. While at North Hatley, | Canada, in the summer of 180, his sailboat capsized. The enant did ‘not lose his nerve. Being unable to right the boat he cocliystruck ‘out for shore, and when he arrivel the lighted pipe which was in his mouth at the thme of the accident was still burning and he was coolly puffing away, He was a bold and careful handler of horses, and was an athlete in every sense of the word. | o-—____ OCCULTATION OF ANTARES, A Brilliant Phenomenon Seen in the Heavens Last Night. One of the prettiest and most interesting of astronomical phenomena occurred last evening about 8:0 o'clock, when the bright star Antares was in occultation with the hat the scientists call it, but in ordinary parlance one would say | that the moon had come in between us and | the star and that for the time being An- | tares was out of sight. | Star oceuitations «re continual’y eee ring | in the course of the moun’s monthly round | of the heavens, but oritnarily they are in- Visit to the ‘ted cye, sine the licht of all except the ry brightest stars is over- powered by the moon's stronger ght | While they are still at a considerable dis- from her. Antares is so bright that last night it was ible to wateh her untli the very mo- had come so close to the as to pass behind the dark rim of luminary. Her occultation was par- larly well worth watching, for happen- ing as it did, before the moon was at its full, Antares’ disappeared behind the dark limb of the moon toward the east, whietl made it seem as though the star had simply ropped out of the heavens before it had actually reached the line of the moon. The star passd beljnd the lower section of the moon. It was easy to be seen with the | unaided eye, but with the assistance of a | pair of feld glasses or even of good opera | Slasses the beauty of the sight was great- | 1 enhanced, People who were looking around the heav- ens last night were pleased to find that the ever-popular and beautiful Venus is again in the ascendant. After an enforced retirement for nearly ‘a year this bright | ance as an evening star, and may now be seen for a short time in the early evening n the west. She will continue to adorn the western skies during the remainder of the year, growing brighter and brighter and hot reaching ‘her greatest brilliancy until the 6th of January nex As she appears now, having but just emerged from behind the sun, she Is nearly full. On December 6 she will be at her greatest apparent distance from the sun, Tay her “crescent will grow. more and. more slender until it becomes invisible, except through the largest telescopes. fine RE Ne Assistant Attorney Genera! Maury Re:igns Assistant Attorney General William A. Maury has tendered his resignation. Mr. Maury has been in the service of the De- partment of Justice for over eleven years nd resigns to return to the sencral prac- ice of law in this city. He Was Snecessful. One of the successful bidders for supply- ing the stationery to the Navy Department for the present fiscal year was William H. Teepe of this city. | of Prof. Powhatan Clarke of the Baltimore | | celestial body has again made her appear- | and on January 6 will have ettained her kreatest brilliancy. After this last date | she will draw ly toward the sun, and MIGHT BE TRIED TWICE. Gol. Ainsworth May Be Court-Martialed After His Givil Trial ‘FOUR MEN INDICTED.. | Ainsworth, Dant, Covert and Sasse Presented by the Grand Jury. THE 22 DEATHS Resulting From the Disaster at Ford’s Old Theater. | What Experts in MiMtary Law Say—A Ver- dict by a Civil Court Would Not End the Case, “RESPONSIBLE FOR | Secretary Lamont's recent order dissolv- ing the court of inquiry appointed to in- vestigate the Ford's Theater bullding cas- ualty given rise to all sorts of con- filcting theories. The sole meaning of that action, as stated in The Star at the time, Was to prevent any posstble conflict in the civil and military proceedings in this case and to permit free and untrammeled action by the civil authorities before the military authorities took official cognizance of al- leged dereliction on the part of Col, Ains- worth, the only person subject to military discipline who 1s implicated. Liable to Military Discipline. While it 1s true that Col. Ainsworth oc- cuples the anomalous position of being the only officer in the army not attached to any corps and of holding an administrative of- fice that can be filled by no one else while he is in the army, equally true that he is lable, like all other officers of the army, to punishment for any infraction of its rules or regulations. The military investigation of his responsibility for the accident in the 10th street branch of his office has not been abandoned by any means. It has merely been postponed until after the civil auchorities shall have dis- posed of the matter. It was deemed Inex- pedient to have two trials in progress at the same time, and very properly the mil- {tary gave wey to the civil jurisdiction. Nothing was waived in this, aa Col. Alns- worth’s conduct will be subject to a mil- itary investigation regardless of the action }of the civil courts. His acquittal in the \eivil branch would not relieve him from subsequent trial by court-martial for an fn- fraction of military regulations. It 18 pos- sible for him to escape punishment by the former and still be severely dealt with b; the latter. His conviction by the civil courts would undoubtedly result in the loss of his army commission. What Experts Say. In order to get all possible light on this matter a Star reporter interviewed Col. TEXT OF THE INDICTMENT. a The grand jury, in an indictment return- ed today, say that Col. Fred C. Ainsworth, Contractor George Dant, Superinten- dent William E. Covert and Engineer Fran- cls Sasse, on the 9th of June, 1893, “willfully | and feloniously did kill and slay” Frederick B. Loftus, one of the victims of the Ford's ‘Theater building disaster. These are the four men held responsible for the deaths of the twenty-two mea who died from the effects of injuries received in that terrible catastrophe, and, as indicated in The Star weeks ago, their indictment was merely a question of time. The pre- sentment of the indictment today was the final result of several | weeks’ consideration of the matter by the grand jury and the examination of more than two score of witnesses. And it is doubtful if ever a case was more careful- | ly and patiently considered in ail its | Phases than the one just concluded. The awing up of the indictment was also a | matter of great consideration and care, in- volving as it necessarily did such a state- | | | if course, expects that it will be the subject of a long and fierce legal battle, he is confident that it Will withstand all attacks and insure a | trial of the accused parties upon the facts in the case. The Indictment. The grand jurors of the United States of America, in and for the District of Colum- bia aforesaid, upon their oath do present: | ‘That by and under an order of the Secre- , Leiber, acting judge advocate general of | Beaten,“ aarea” Of (the sald United | che army, and Capt. Lemly, judge advocate duly,” inthe “year of our. Lord | general of the navy, and also consulted one ‘thousand eight hundred and eighty- nine, there was created and organized a{ division of the War Department of the said United States, to be known as the “record, &nd pension division of the War Depart- ment,” and that a certain Frederick C. Ainsworth, then a captain and assistant | surgeon in the army of the said United States, was, on sald 3d day of July in the | year last aforesaid, designated and appoint- ed as the chief officer and head of said di- vision and given charge of a certain bulld- | ing hereinafter mentioned, and of the per- | Sons empioyed therein, and that the said | division continued to'be known by the | name of the “record and pension division of | the War Department,” until the sald name | was changed to that of the “record and | pension office of the War Department” by an act of Congress approved May 9, 1892, | entitled “An act to provide for the perma- nent preservation and custody of the rec- ords of the volunteer armies and for other | urposes;” and that in and by sald act of | ongress the President was authorized to | Winthrop’s standard’ works on military law. In regard to the pI for ‘the same offense, Winthrop says: “A trial and conviction in a civil court of a civil offense 1s not a bar to a prosecution before @ court-martial for a military offense involved in the same act, since the two offenses are not the ‘same,’ but are distinct in law, and the accused {s amenable to er not affecting the legality of bringing him to trial for the other.” Where a civil and a military court have concurrent jurisdiction of a crime commit- ted by a military person, the court which is the first to take is entitled to proceed, and although the precedenceof the civ risdiction is favored “in the law, yet, If this jurisdiction does not assert Itself until the other has been duly assumed in the case, its exercise may be Properly. postponed ‘until. the ott Boek exhausted. “Upon. the commission of such a crime the military authorities will in general properly wait a reasonable time select an officer of the army of! for the civil authorities to take action; but the said United States, and, by and| |? before the latter have titiated proceed- with the advice and consent — of | {itgs, the party is duly brought to eral bY the Senate, to appoint him in the army to| court-martial for the miigary offense Ine be chief of’said division, to wit: Of the said | (Ulead in his act. th nander may, “record and pension office of the War De-| ang ordinarily will, proper!y decline to act partment;” and that said act further pro- vided that the oificer so selected and aj inted should have the rank, pay and ywances of a colonel in the army of the cede to an application for his surrender to the civil jurtsdiction until at least the milf- tary trial has been completed. ‘The court-martial is exclusively a crim- said, United States; and that the said | jnaj court. Its function ts the investigation Frederick C.— Ainsworth Was select | of an offense and the trial of an offender. et and appointed as chiet offteer | f Nag no elvil jurisdiction whatever. Its eo eto nO ene toresald. | under | judgment {s_a criminal sentence, not a and in conformity with the terms of the act of Congress aforesaid; and that the said Frederick C. Ainsworth, from the time of | his first eppointment as chief officer and head of said division, in the year of our Lord one thousand ‘eight hundred and eighty-nine, as aforesaid, continued to be, and was at the time of the committing by him, the sald Frederick C. Ainsworth, and others of the felony hereinafter mentioned, to wit: On the gih day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- | dred and ninety-three, the chief officer and head of said division, and from the time of | bis said first ae #s such chief offi- | cer and head of said division, as aforesaid, | continued to have,and did, on the said 9th | day of June, in the year of our Lord one | thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, the chief officer and head of said division, | have charge and control of a certain build | ing commonly known as and called “Ford's | Old ‘Theater building,” and of the persons | employed therein, which building was and is | situated on the east side of 10th street be- tween E and F streets northwest, in the | city of Washington, in the District afore- sald; and which s: building was, on the sald 3d day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand ‘eight hundred and elghty- |nine, provided by the said United Siates | as a place for the accommodation and use thereafter, in the harge of their du- | tes, of cierks employed by the said United | States, and assigned to duty in the said | division; and that thereafter and continu- | ously from the said sd day of July in the | year last afo-esaid, and until the sth dey of June, in the year of our Lord one thous- civil veniict. Its proper function ts to award punishment upon the ascertainment of guilt. Amenabte to Civil Law. Officers and soldiers of the army do not become relieved of their civil obligations by assuming the military character, but 2s citizens or civillan inhabitants of the coun- try, remain Mable liable equally with other citizens to the jurisdiction of the civil courts far offenses against the local laws, as well &s for wrongs done or responsi- bilities incurred toward individuals. ‘The principle that the amenability of a military person to the civil jurisdiction for a particular act or ofense is not at- fected hy the fact that he is amenable to the military Jurisdiction for a military of- | fense involved In the same act, or even by the fact that he has been tried and sen- tenced by a court-martial therefor, is, with its converse, now well established’ tn’ mili- tary proceedings. Thus an officer or soldier may become amenable to prosecution for a felonious crime made punishable by a statute of the United States or for an embezzlement of public money pr to a suit on his bond as a disbursing officer, He may also be amenable to a state or territory for a crime or offense made pun- ishable by its laws or to a municipality for a violation of a local ordinance or po- Uce reeulation. ‘An officer or soldier may not only be sued for a debt, but is liable also In damages, to a clvilitn for any transcending of au- |and eight hundred and ninety-three, the | thority to the detriment of the latter, how. , sald building was occupied between the | ever honest the motive of the act; the mat- jours of 9 o'clock ante-mecidian and 4/ ter of animus affecting only the measure o'clock post-meridian, of each working day, by @ large number, to wit: Four hundred and fifty of the clerks aforesaid. while en- gazed in the discharge of 1 eir duties, under their employment by the said United States, and that such the clerks last aforesaid, while so engazed in the discharge of their duties, as afcresaid, were dist-ibu- ted by their official superior, the head, or of damages. He is similarly Mable for the execution of an illegal order, and this al- though such order was received by him from his proper superior and was executed by him in good faith. If both superior and inferior are subjected to suit by the injured party, the former should be held ‘to a strick accountability and a heavier propor- tion of damaces awarded against him, | | chief, of sald division, and by those in’au-| “An ‘nation will not lie against au officer | thority, under him, upon and over the three | of the army on a coniract made by. him floors of the building aforesaid, divers of | for the Cnited States ‘nan eifical capace them, the clerks last aforesaid, being placed | fty. Nor can an officer be sued" upon a in such distribution upon each of the said tract of the government which ft is three floors; and that on the said Sth day of June, in the yea: last aforesaid. and | from ‘the hour of 9 o'clock ‘ante-meridian until the hour of 19 o'clock anie-meridian of | the said last mentioned day, at which Said | for the surrender to the civil ies last ‘mnentioned hour of the snid last men. | fo" the surrender t Gidd icireibed aoniad Gey. portions of thane en) | of military persons charged with clvil floors of the said building rene wey ed | often It 1s an established principle of fell, “as hereinafter stated, the “building | our public law that in time of peace and aforesaid, was in like manner and as was | on common ground the military authority simply his part to execute. ‘The Civil Law Supreme. ‘The fifty-ninth article of war provides | | usual, being occupied by the clerks afore- | is subordinate to the ci and it is fur- | said in the discharge of their duties afore-| ther settled that military persons are | said; emenable in their civil capacity to the | ‘The Building. | civil jurisdiction for breaches of the erimi- And the grand jurors aforesaid, upon | Bal law. In, recognition of these princi- - les and to facilitate the exercise of these their oath aforesaid, do further present: | Functions ‘the fftyeninth article, was. cae That each of the said three floors of said | acted. Its wenerai purpose is “to ald the building constituted a single large room, | Civil authorities in the administration of having respectively a length along the Justice and to place it out of the power of north wall of said building of 103 feet and | @ ¢riminal to escape the just civil penel- | seventeen hundredths of a foot, in a| tes of his acts by entering the military | straight line from front to rear, and @ ice or claiming its protection while in width between the north and south walls of | it sald butiding,which varied at places along sald line of length ‘aforesaid, from fit | two feet and six-tenths of a foot, which { was the width of each of said floors and | rooms, along the west or front wall of sald | | building, to sixty-four feet and nine hun- | dredths of a foot, which was the width of | each of said floors and Tooms' along ‘the east or rear wall of said building: and that | the first or ground floor of seid building { had an area of more than 5,200 square feet, and that the foors of building, above | the sald first floor, to wit: The sald’ second nd third floors, each had an area, which was less by about 278 feet than the area of | the said first floor, owing to an opening about the center of each of sald second and ry a Charged With Crnetty to Enlisted Men. Capt. John O. Mackay of the third cay- airy, $s being tried by court martial’ at Fort Reno, Indian territory, on charges involving cruelty to the enlisted men un- der his command during the campaign against Garza, along the Mexican border, several months ago. It is alleged that sev- eral of his men so displeased him by their conduct during that campaign that he Punished them by ‘suspending them by their thumbs, a method of punishment not recognized by the reguiations. Capt Mack- ay is a native of Nova Scotia and was a} pinted to the Naval Academy in 1875 fro! m | third floors, for the admission of light | Nevada. “Up to the proccee tine - pe eee (CRED OF SOME peared and ord has been ‘excellent. Col. “Anson Mills | snd the grand jurors aforesaid, upon | | their oath aforesaid, do further present That the said second floor of said building | was of great weight and rested immediately. | wa i m an arrangement of certain heavy iron | ‘The acting secretary of w: i" v= oe ‘orizontally, end to end, an? | = oa } .. placed = beams, pl the north walt ‘at’ ait | ed the recommendations of the Gilmore jing from i e | extthag to the south walls thereof, im limes | board, recently in session at che War De- partment, and hereafter all printing under which were parallel with the west’ or front | | wall thereof, and with the east or rear wall | the War Department will not be let out ly Teer ad ee erVanECment atwtecteh | the year, but by the Job, and rates which | Which’ last mentioned beams the zrand jur:| the department stipulates as reasonable | ors aforesald will call om beams in. this cle cnn nian Apa Mcgee Re Brew: wefie y way : ou! E s ures To} | presentment 05 “arei nforeaail: and whan | printing orders and stationery at the dice ferent department headquarters. At court which {s to trjs ‘Mackay, Reform in War Department Printing. | from the beams firet aforesaid. and which | rrangement aforesal one | cross beam? porizontally, end to end, upon | office It was found that the orinier had land over the beams first aforesaid, and | charged 10 cents for each envelope that : eams extended from the | had passed through his hands, and that all srhlch sald crpcont wall to the eald east or | he had done to the envelope, “which was rear wall of said building, in lines which | furnished by the government. ‘was to print were parallel with the said north wall and | on the face an address and a “frank.” In the said south walls of sald bulding; and | other words, he had charged for ail the so that in the arrangement of beams and | space which might have been occupied by cross beams aforesaid, the end of said cross | type, just as if the envelope had been cov- henms would meet at, upon and over the | ered’ with matter, Hereatter it ts proposed | | he | to only for the work actually perform- Dotnt_and_potnts where. the ende_of the| $4 regardices of the space covered ty’ the (Continued on Sizth page.) printing. it is| A SIDE PARTNER. The Trolley People Greatly Aided by the Metropoliten Road, EXPERIMENTS SAID 10 BS A FARCE. Three Years Wasted and the Mo- tive Power Not Changed. READY FOR CONGRESS. It is highly probable that the affairs of the Metropolitan Railroad Company will eccupy some of the attention of Congress at the coming session. It is evident that the company has not complied with the direction of that body and made the stipulated change in the motive power. Even the company odinits | that as it is one of those facts that can’t be very easily concealed. Nevertheless, | while the company confesses to disre-| | gard of the mandates of the chief legisia- tive body of this country, or to put it| |in another way, they’ have failed | to comply with the law, still they maintain that this position is not the result of con- tempt for that body or a spirit of disdain | for Jaw, but rather is due to an unfortunate combination of circumstances over which | the company has had no controLIt 1s not at all improbable that Congress will be asked to give the company a further extension of time, in order that the scientitic experiments ea of former trial | trial for both a previous conviction of eith- | venizance of the same | other has | D~ | of the third cavalry is president of the | and tests which have been going on for the | | past two or three years may be continued and it is possible that when the company | appears before the body which legislates for | the District and tells the tale of the past | two or three years and relates the manner | and the method followed in the pursuit of a | motor that would carry the cars around the |curves and up the grades of the | road without the juice trickling out and |}eaving the car ignominiously stranded in | the streets, then the legislators will feel that the cause of sclence demands that the researches carried on with so much vigor by (President Pearson and his associates shall be completed even if it takes two or three years more. Some practical men of affairs are inclin- ed to make light of the scientific work | that has been carried on by this company and are even so severe as to say that /it has nothing to do with railroad businefs. However there is a ray of light on the sityja- | Uon even from a business standpoint, jit is sald that the company has not | carried away with the inventor's zeal an enthusiasm to such an extent as to wast or even to spend the money of the company’ [It is true that the company has in! the past two years placed on the market and sold some $4,0W worth of bonds. This | money, however, has not been spent in‘ | tancy ‘salaries to scientific experts or in acid3 and motors. The bulk of it been “invested “in substantial | [real esate and in buildings to | improve the same. An entire square was | | purchased In South Washington and a | great power house has been erected there. | | Another power house has been built on the | company’s jand at the P Street bridge. ‘These’ buildings, and the machinery in them, can be used even in the event that the scientific calculations of the company come to naught, and the storage battery car should prove to be a failure. In the | contingency that such a bitter disappoint- | ment should come there will be consolation in the thought that only about 5 or 6 per cent of the total issue of bonds has been lost in experiments, while all the remainder of the proceeds of ‘the bond Issue 1s repre- | } | sented in well-eaqutpped . It may seem to be @ fittie singular, to those unta- | miliar with the designs of the trolley peo- ple, that while the company n updarently engrossed heart and. soul. in making the ase car a success, | their new | be admirably adapted | for the trolley system. | ‘This fact may be incidentally called to | the attengion of Congres: but not, of course, by’ the officials of this company for the reason that they may take the position that they are anxious to go ahead and po that the storage car is a success. f members of Congress should ques- tion this position then the __offi- | clais of the road will ask: “Well, what are | you, going to do about it? The cable road can't be used because the curves in our road are too numerous. The under- ground electric road has not been demon- strated to be a practical system and. so | what is there left except the trolley if you don’t let us go on and equip the road with the storage cars,” Among trolley men this is regarded as a@ strong position and they conclude that Congress, Whether it wants to or not, will be thrown into the arms of the trolley | people. If Congress should grant the use | of the trolley to this road, the offici take kindly to the change, especially as it will cost practically nothing to equip the road with the trolley. There is a good deal of confusion in the minds of some well-Informed people in re- gard to the law of August @ eb, which rected that the Washington and George- town and the Metripolitan roads should change their motive power within two years of the passage of the act. The pen- alty was forfeiture of their charters. The former road has made the change and the latter secured from Congress extension | of the time for one year, This extension j expired on Saturday and the road now oe face to face with forfeiture proceed- ines, In order to enable the roads to comply with this law Congress at the same time gave the privilege to issue stock to cover the cost of the proposed change. Neither of the roads availed themselves of this priv- Hege. The Washington and Georsetown had already decided to make the change in its motive power, and to meet the cost they issued bonds secured on the property of the company, The Action of the Commissioners, The Commissioners are evibently deter- Mined to do their share toward forfeiting the charter of the Metropoiitan Railroad Company for non-compliance with the act of Congress approved March 1 | day they wrote etter to the Atzorney Geas eral in which they say: “The Commission- ers of the District of Columbia have the honor to call to your attention paragraph three of an act of Congress approved March 2. 1880 (25 stat. 3), ‘an act ing appropriations to provide for |the government — of ~—the ~—_ District | ot Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 9, 18%, and for other purposes, authorizing | street railroad companies in this District substitute for horses, electrical y storage or independent elec- | or underground — wires, | or underground cable, moved by steam pow: | er, on the whole or any portion of its raod- | way, &e., and to section three of an act of Congress approved August 6, 1890 (26 stat 293) declaring that if any street railway compa- hy operating a ‘line or line: sireet railways from Georgetown or west Wash- | ington to and beyond the Capitol grounds, shall fail to substitute for horse power | to cars, power b; trical battery, | the power herein provided for on all its lines within “two years — from the date of this act, such company [shall forfeit its corporate | franchise | and also to a joint resolution of Congress approved September 2, 1892, extending the time within which such street railroads compelled by act of Congress, approved | i | August 6, 1890, to change their motive power from one horse car power to | mechanical power from one year, and to suggest to you that the Metropolitan Railroad Company of the District of Co- | lumbia, operating a line of street railroads | from Georgetown or West Washington, to or beyond the Capitol grounds, has fail | ed to substitute for horse power ‘the provided for in section 3 of sald act o: | gress approved August 6, 189, to the end | that vou may take such proceedings to for- feit the charter from the sald Metropolitan Railroad Company as you may deem proper. ae Congressmen and Their Clerks. First Controller Bowler has decided that Congressmen are authorized “to employ clerks during an extra session of Congress; that any number of Congressmen may em- ploy and pay the same clerk if they desire, and that clerks so employed do not have to take an oath of office. ‘The first controller has called the atten- tlon of the clerk of the Mouse, Mr. Kerr, to the fact that but $20,000 1s appropriated for “miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committces,” and that if all members avail themselves of the privi- leges of hiring a clerk during the entire session the fund will be exhausted during | the first month of the session. More money will probably be appropriated for this pur- pose at an early day. ——— Removal. F. N. Wicker, a Chinese inspector lo- gated in Florida, was today removed by Secretary Carlisle. | | | | | THE OPIUM CONSPIRACY] Indictments Found Against Oustoms Officers and Others, Frauds Discovered Through an Investigation ‘Made by Secretary Carlisle—Violations of the Chinese Exclusion Act, A year or more ago information reached the Treasury Department that oplum in large quantities was smuggled into the districts of Puget Sound, Washington and Willlamette, Ore. Several seizures were made by customs officers, one upon the steamer Wilmington upon information fur- nished through the consul at Victoria, B. C., resulting in the selzure of that ves- sel, which was one of two steamers owned by the Merchant Steamship Company of Portland, Ore. the other being the Hay- tian Republic. N. Blum and W. Dunbar of Portiand ap- pear to have been the principal owners and managers of this company, and their prin- cipal business seems to have been the sm ing Of oplum and the illegal ing of Chinese laborers: In April last, upon information received at the department that Chinese were be- ing Improperly landed at Portland, Chinese Inspector Noles was sent there with in- structions to investigate and —_re-| port on the subject. His report | convinced _ Secretary Carlisle that Chinese and oplum were landed through the corrupt connivance of the custom offic- ers, and he determined to make a tho- Tough investigation of the matter. Secretary Carlisle's Investigation. Accordingly he sent Special Agent Edwin O. Wood of Detroit and Special Inspector Chas. E. Lewis of Suspension Bridge to Portland and the ports of Puget Sound districts with instructions to quietly obtain all the facts possible, and the names of those officers responsible for these Irregu- larities. The investigation has brought to Mght one of the most gigantic conspiracies to defraud the revenue and to. violate the Chinese exclusion act that has yet | been disclosed. Proof has been obtained | of the smuggling by the two vessels named during a period ot five | months of about elght thousand five hun-| dred pounds of opium, upon which | the duties would be more than $100, ow, and of the landing — during | the Bay of about 1,700 | Chinamg ter number of whom n landed by collu- upon faise afi- taiming said pe Much of this busi\ess h: done sin\e orders were issued\py the ury Dep to collector of customs | J affidavits of Chingse elaimin: ants, as it had ‘discovere! rie on in that a re the manufal purpose of inging Chinese laborers into the country i violation of the idw. ft Portland, upon information them by the United States dis- trict attorney, secured by Specia! Agent Wood and Special Inspector Lewis, who have lately also had the co-operation of Special Agent Leslie Cullom, have found an indictment against fifteen persons for con- spiracy, cight of whom are ex-custom oM- | cers: James Lotan, late collector at Port- land; C. J. Mulkey, late special agent fc that district; Inspector Paddock, Porter, Cairo, Cardinel, Lenville and Carney; M. Patterson. Capt. John Ross, Thos. Berg, W- Dunbar, N. Blum, Jacklin, Garthorn; also two indictments each against Blum and Dunbar, one each ageinat | Garthorn and | Jackling for smuggling opium and Chinese. | No Politics f ve been Portlan\ it. | to create the im- J and in the district of Efforts hi pression a’ | Puget Sound that these prosecutions are} Striking at the commerce of due to political motives and that they were | used simply as means for the removal of collectors at Portland and Port Townsend before the expiration of their terms. The facts found by the grand jury are regarded | by the department offictois here as a sufti- | cient answer to these statements. The Sec- retary of the Treasury and the Attorney | General are, it Ix stated, determined to use | all the means within their power to bring | to justice the viclators of law in these | transactions, and to put an end to the! shameful practices which have for year: given those districts a scandalous notoriety | in the country. If the collectors recently appointed to those districts fail to enforce | the law and put an end to official corrup- tion, Secretary Carlisle says other officers will be found With the disposition and cour- | age necessary to the accomplishment of that purpose. THE FINANCIAL QUESTION. Representative Hall's Proposition to Settle the Present Difticaity. Representative O. M. Hall of Minnesota has proposed the following settlement of | the financial question: First--The Sherman silver-purchase law | to be immediately and unconditionally re- | pealed. No more silver certificates, green- backs, Treasury notes, or gold certificates to be issued, and as fast as the same come into the Treasury they are to be canceled. Second—There shall be forthwith issued “national currency notes,” of denomina. tions of % and upward, to an amount not exceedirig outstanding paper money aforesaid, viz., $€96,000,000. These notes shall be a legal tender, and receivable by the government for all dues except customs. They shall be paid out in place of the said paper money which may come into the Treasury, and in exchange for and redemp- tion of the same kind of money. Such notes mag also be issued in_pur- chase of or exchange for gold and gold cer- tificates. Whenever the accumulated gold in the | Treasury shall be equi to one-third of the | amount of the currency notes so issued as | aforesaid, there shall thereafter be issued | for each’ additional dollar in gold which may come into the Treasury three dollars of ‘such ‘Treasury notes, the same to be paid out for the expenses of the govern- ment and in the purchase or redemption of outstanding bonds. Third—All customs duties shall hereafter be paid in gold or gold certificates. But af- ter the amount of accumulated gold in the Treasury (exclusive of gold covered by out- standing certificates) shail be equal to one- third of the amount of the currency notes so issued in place of the paper money as above provided, the Secretary of the Treas~ ury may, in his discretion, accept in whole part payment of such duties, the curren- | cy notes herein provided for. Fourth—After the conversion of the pres- ent paper money of the United States into such currency certificates aforesaid, the total amount of such notes and redemp- tion bonds herein provided for outstanding shail never at any time exceed the propor- tion of $% in-notes and bonds to 1 ii gold hen in the Treasury. Nor shall the total amount of such notes and bonds ever at any one time exceed the proportion of $35 for exch inhabitant of the United States, as ascertained by the latest United States census, Fifth—Such currency notes shall, when presented in sums of $° and multiples thereof, be redeemable either in gold coin or in the redemption bonds herein provided for at the option of the Secretary of the ‘Treasury. Sixth—For the purpose of the redemption of said notes there shall be issued the “re- demption bords" of the United States of | denominations of $#) and multiples thereof, bearing semi-annual interest at the rate of 2 per cent per annum. and at all times re- deemable, 2t the ontion of the holder, in seid national currency notes, or payable, at the option of the Secretary, in gold coin within forty years from their date. Seventh—For @ purpose of obtaining gold for the redemption of such bonds at maturity, should there not be sufficient gold then in’ the Treasury for that purpose, the Secretary ts authorized to purchase gold with bonds to be issued, hearlng interest at | not more than 5 per cent, ai payabie tn | ten to forty years from date. Eighth—All stlver dollars now or hereaf- ter coined shall be: a legal tender in amounts not to exceed $10, and no more. and the silver bullion now owned by th: government shall be coined into dollars and subsidiary coins as fast as required by the business needs of the country. ‘inth—Such currency notes may be held legal reserve by national banks, and na- tional bank notes may be reteemed in the same. But no more national banks shall be chartered, and the 10 per cent tax on state bank ‘circulation shail remain in ree. A Bank That Reaumed. The deposits of the First National Bank of Santa Anna, Cal., which resumed busi- Ness on the 22d instant, were on the day of resumption as sz pt $12,000, as against $,000 with- | TO BLOCKADE SIAM. France Has Notified the Powers of Her Intentions. ENGLAND SAID 10 BE INTERFERING. Indignant Expressions of the Lon- don Papers. SIAMESE WARSHIPS READY. PARIS, July 24, noon.—The foreign office has not yet notified the powers uf the in- tention of France to blockade the Menam river. It is stated that M. Pavie, the French minister to Siam, has been onlered to leave Bangkok in twenty-four hours. M. Develle had a long confereace with Premier Dupuy all yesterday. Only at the last minute was it decided to impart to the press Siam’s reply and the government's Gecision. It is stated that M. Develie has notified Admiral Humann to procesd at once to declare the blockade. ‘The Soir comments thus in an extra edi- tion on Siam's reply: “Siam concedes only the least important of the conditions put by France. Her resistance ts due ob- viously. to. English influence. ML. Develle Would’ do weil to speak cleariy and firmly to Lord Dufferin.” Will Blockade the Siamese Const. ‘The government has notified the powers that it Intended to establish a blockade of the Siamese coast without ice to the other measures that May be taken with the object pany A to to ed the guaran- tees to which she js entitied. “A council of ministers will be held to- morrow to decide what additional measures shall be taken to insure the obtaining of Guarantees from Siam. President Carnot is at Marly-le-Rol and the cabinet will go there for deliberation. ‘The miniaters wlll meet at’ o'clock to- morrow morning, jent pre- siding. The French government ts making ar- rangements. with another. government, for the protection of French subsects in Siam during the absence from Bangkok of M. Pavie, the Prench minister. Slam Warships Keady for Action. LONDON, July 2.—The Bangkok cor- respondent of the Daily Chronicle tele- graphs under yesterday's date: “The Siamese war ships which are anchored one mile from the French are crowded with men ready for action, Ther intention in case the French commence hostilities to steam down and ram the French gun boats, attempt to board them in force and attack the crews with fixed bayonets. The German gun boat Wolf has arrived here. A special to the Chronicle froma Paris says The tenor of the French ultimatum to Siam leaves ro doubt as to France's in- tentions. She would much prefer not to Teceive money down trom diem. The ai: ternative of becom ‘catherer the coveted districts of Angkor and Bat- tambang is far more to her taste. Opinion of the English Press. The Times this morning publishes an edi- torial whieh, it is thought, expresses the general English opinion of the merits of the Franco-Slamese dispute. In comment ing upon Siam's answe> to the Prench ulti matum the Times says: “Slams refusal vo go beyond just and reasonable limits concede territory to which France put in an effective claim until the other dey is ho excuse for a measure of hostility, os- tensibly directed against Siam, but other countries having relations WiThe Globe “The flagrant French ve Says: “ ie cl > gression is aimed at ‘a. Slazn fs merely @ pretext. Hence the duty of the british foreign office is one of extraordi- nary difficulty. England's place in the sit- uation is paramount. Firmness is neces- sary, for doubUess France is counting the feebleness of the British counsels, She is not hungry for war nearer home than the Mekong river.” The St. James Gazette says: “One thought conveyed by Siam’s reply to the French ultimatum is that she has suffered gouged humiliation for @ small power that has unfortunate enough to get in the way of a big one. But France gone forth to grab and ‘to extort her desires at the cannons mouth, We can endure the pillage of Siam to the eighteen be latitude, Dut the pillage of Slam? Ching and Burmah to the twenty-third is a different matter. We are id that Lord Roseberry (the British foreign minis- ter) must let the governments at Bangkok and Peris know that this is going a trifle too far. Such a check in the present tem- per of the French may ‘have serious re- | sults.” The Pall Mall Gazette, comment upon | the situation in an article headed “Black- mali,” “Siam has spoken with - nity’ and’ moderation. “She gives up ‘tso much, but she does not for a moment recognize the other p: terous demands made upon her. In to thebe de- mands France must con with i oles be We must not hesitate to let our be heard. Lon Rosel and Lord Dufferin (the British ami lor to France) must be alert and M. Develle (France's { minister) careful, ea of bombarding Bangkok jet her re- member that the English gunboats in Sia- mese waters could blow French gun- boats out of the water in half an hour. blackmatl Let France pocket her and be conten! —_—_—_ MR. HAMLIN AT GRAY GABLES. He Took Some Financial Data to Be Used in the President's Message. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. BUZZARD’S BAY, MASS., July 24.—The latest notable arrival is Charles Hamlin, assistant Secretary of the treasury, who |landed here yesterday afternoon with a big fat bag in his hand. This bag created a Ereat commotion in the village. The New York newspapers are sending mes- sages every day to their representatives here to huat down rumors concerning federal appointments to be made in. thal city, and when Secretary Carlisie’s assist- ant’ appeared it was a very easy matter to suppore he was taking the nominations to the President to slgn, but of course he Was doing nothing of the kind. The New York appointments will_not be made while the President is here. The ob- ject of Mr. Hamlin’s visit_was to carry to the President from the Secretary of the ‘Treasury official, information concerning the financial condition of the government, which is to be used in the preparation of the President's message. ‘The assistant secretary's coming was not unexpected. Mr. Hamlin tel from Washington to the commander of the light- house steamer Verbena to meet him at New Bedford this morning to conduct him by water to the President's residence, but the message evidently failed of delivery as the Verbena did not show up at the ap- pointed time. Failing to find the steamer, Mr. Hamlin Went to hig brother’s residence in Marion, gna from there drove over to see the Presi- lent. He went to Boston this morning, and will thence journey to Maine. Before returning to Washington he will go to Chicago to see if some pian cannot be formulated, by the terms of which the foreign exhibits at the world’s fair may be disposed of satistac- torily to the exhibitors and to the United States government. RESIGNATION. ‘The Chief Clerk of the Patent Office Asked to Step Down. The commissioner of patents has called for the resignation of Chief Clerk Bennett of the patent office to take effect August 21. ‘This action has no reference, it ts thought to the recent patent office Investigation” as the charges against all of the defendants were dismissed. Mr. Bennett will locate in this city after a short trip north. wet Han ccc Cholera Cables. Assistant Surgeon G. Marine Hospital service stationed at Naples, Italy, today cabled Surgeon General Wy- man that cholera continues at that place, ay 6 three cases daily. The Marine ital service also received a cable m the ‘State, trom Consul Sertck saying: ent of land at Goree-Dakar, Africa, Senegal.” B. Young of the ‘holera prevails in 5 Xo statistics as to the number of cases the and deaths . 4.7% (iter particulars were given in West Africa. and Southern New Hampshire. NEW YORK, July 24.—A special from Haverhill, Mass, dated July 23, says: Ter- rific thunder and wind storms have been raging over this district for the past forty eight hours. The damage has been reat. The lake region of New Hampsiyire hes been ‘the worst ravi though Ports- mouth, Dover, Haverhill and Lowell have been Visited with cyclones and are suffer- ers to the extent of thousands of dollars. Advices from Portland, Me., state that the wind has been terrible, trees were blown down, awnings ruined and piles of lumber torn to pieces, huried through the air. Sev- eral persons were struck by flying missiles and many limbs broken. At Laconia, N. H., Seturday’s storm was repeated today (Sunday). Nearly a hun- dred trees were blown down an@ man! small buildings and barns were either lift from their fastenings or unroofed. Tele~ service is ruined till new pwies and eS can be put in order. At Lowell all the trains from New Hampshire are late owing, to the number of trees that have been blown across the tracks. A second wind storm visited the latter ‘city Sunday more terrific in force than that of Saturday. For a few minutes the air was filied with flying limbs of trees end, other missiles ca at a terrific Along the shore at Hampton and at Ssl- isbury ‘beaches the storm was so terrific that the waves at times were fifty feet high and dashed up to the very doors of the cottages. All through the distriet dam- age was done. The loss to crops is the heaviest for years, apes THOUSANDS OF DRUMMERS. This is the Gala Week of the Commercial Travelers at Chicago. CHICAGO, July 24.—In « steady stream the commercial travelers poured ito Chi- cego today. This ts their gala week and@_ Wednesday 1s their red letter day at the Everything is ready for the selebra~ tion. Today most of the 25,000 men expect- ed will arrive. Chicago herself beasts of an army of traveling men 12,000 strong. The ranks will be swelled on Tuesday plement of 500 men. On the official program today is set aside asa day of preparation for the great things of tomorrow. An informal recep! be held at the Travelers’ Club on Michigan avenue all Gay and a bureau of informa~ tion will be opened the Great Northern Hotel. Tomorrow will be the parade. Wednesday will be the biggest day of the ‘week for the visitors. They will al out to the fair and meet in festival at it giclock, Here Mayor Harrinon will deliver e address of Welcome Responses made by W. F. Mitchell of Iowa and John ©. Fenimore of Ohio. After the meeting the whole body of travelers will march the stock pavilion to see the military tour- nament. fter this show they will met by the Association of American Exhibitors: and escorted through Several of the bulld- ings and then to the rooms of the associa- tion on the second floor of the north end of the terminal station, where @ luncheon ortne greatest ‘Sieplays of reworks ise feen on the ids, for which the l= tion committee has 000, Thursday afternoon and even! be ‘voted to Buffalo Bill's show. se gen gral amusement day. Saturday Columbian Travelers’ Association will hold a business meeting in the hall of the Colufibus Art In- stitute. Matters of interest to the traveling man will be discussed. will ee WATER AT TAKOMA, What Prof. Hird Says of His Anasiysis of Samples. The house to house inspectors have been making inspections in and about Takoma, Park for some Gays and, in addition to in- Specting the houses, samples of water from springs and wells were procured, and Prof. J. D. Hird, the chemist ia the | health department, made en analysis of | them. In his report upon the result of his investigation he says: walle the analysis of the above samples ws in general that there is m ih- jurious associated with the waren ek in Faye nie means “hme w sulpauret i ‘his in itself is not injurio: but from which it is derived Detomes am tater esting question and one of vital “There are two sources from wi ges may be obtained, one, by the position of metallic sulphides of organic matter. “Oreanie mateer eaten Taal a Tatter = ing ur and Peasped pertsen ea uch ey sorbed by the water and carried into the tWvere ‘sch the condition of attairs Takoma I should be inclined to regard the Water with considerable suspicion 1 informed, however, that this condition the water existed’ at Takoma befure the introduction of the numerous cess pools at that place. I am therefore constrained to fall back upon the analysis and te await further de ts Tor @ solution of this question. In the meantime can see nO ol to using the water. bios THE CASE SETTLED, ‘Mr. Bert! Will Pay the Debt and the Admin- istration Drops the Matter. The diplomatic incident growing out of the attempted attachment of money ée- posited with the Italian consul af New York is closed, and the consequent danger of international compiications «nd legal en- | money to satisfy a judgment against Bertt for $200. The consul resisted the process ‘and appealed to the Italisn soinister @t Washington for relief. The latter pres@nt- @d the case to the Secretary of State, did not get much satisfaction. The tary informed him that he would 4o all | could to relieve the consul from | noyance, but that he could not in of. ficlally with the legal proceedings, ani he j advised that the consul procure ‘the ser- vices of a lawyer. There was | correspondence on the subject, without ef- fecting any material change in the situn- tion, until at last Mr. Bert! came to the rescue by promising to pay the debt with- out any further delay. athe matter was, aronpals and (the matter was Srotped— at any rate, so far as the administra’ is fi cerned. Dut the discussion of this are ae a exempt legal criminal, uniess it treaty with the a ‘li F sah i E if J. W. Jones of ‘Baltimore ts) visiiing “Mr Jonn ‘Holbrook <f 20 F Bir: Robert Gelishan, jr. of Capitol #1 has gone ‘to Colonial for the sum William H. is has on a trip to Department. First. Controller Bowler of the Treasury. Department has gone of on a shor: vee tion. ternal Revenue Commissioner Miller has seturned from West Virginia. tion any it in ‘work