Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1893, Page 2

2 —_— THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C..SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1898—SIXTEEN PAGES. ORS. Some of the Callers on Senators and Representatives. MOST OF THEM ARE OFFICE SEEKERS. pee ee oe If Not for Themselves, Then for Their Relatives. CAPITOL VISIT SOME OF THE CRANKS. ene entre who haunt the Capitol but a goodly propor- ‘They come from all sec- untry dnd represent all of society. Of all the great con- fourse that streams through the corridors of the vast building day after day the of- fice seekers are the most forlorn-looking. Whey tmportune their Senators and Hepre- sentatives over and again, and refuse to be turned from the phantom they are pursu- ing. Before Congress meets every day the Beneral reception room to the south uf the Benate chamber is full to crowJing with ‘those waiting to send in their cards to Sen- tors. A majority of these are after of- fice, elther for themselves or for relatives or friends. By the time the Invocation of the chapiain is finished the bits of card- Board begin to fail in showers upon the desks of the statesmen. These gentiemen do not have time to go through their mail before they are interrupted by callers. The visitors hand their cards two one or ‘the other of the numerous doorseepers and assistants, and retire to the great leather- coveréd chairs and sofas scattered around = ‘gee vee room to await the result. It @ noticeable fact that women largely predominate in these waiting and anxious throngs about the Senate entrances. Per- haps st Is thought that their earnest solwi- tude will more favorably and deeply ‘r- press the men who are suposed to contro] the dispensation of official favors. They are ef all ages, appearances, an conuitions. ‘The f je society woman elbows her more humble sister of the work-a-day World, and blushing. diffident young giris sit and wait by the side of aged, infirm wo- men in the sear and yellow leaf. Silk rus- tles against the simple garb of the humble poor, and beauty smiles into the face of de- crepit age. Many of them wait Jong and patiently without reward. Their Senator is “not in.” or he is “engaged.” or he sends word. “please to call again.” And the re- cipient of the message xoes away with « heavy heart and troubled countenance, to come again in a few days and try it all over again. Others Are More Fortunate. Others are more fortunate. It will usu- ally be noticed that these are apparently People of more importance, more entitled to consideration perhaps. The messenger returns and calls out, “Who wanted to see Senator Gorman?" or Benator Brice, oF some other Senator. And then the lucky one will spring briskly to his or her feet and advance eagerly, to be shown into the marble room, just off the lobby of the Sen- ate chamber, where the Senators usually receiv: their callers for business inter- views. Sometimes, however, they cpme out Anto the reception room and talk to them there. TRis is when they wish to make the interview brief, knowing that they can- Rot be followed back into the sacred pre- cincts of the legisiative halls. For two oF three hours after the Senate meets this re- ception room is crowded, and the messen- ers are kept busy carrying in cards and Bringing back Fesponges. Even after the first crush of the morning is over the eall- ers are sufficiently numerous to fill the chairs and sofas of the waiting room, and there is no itme during the day when the coming of Senator is not anxiously Swalted by some one in the reception room, are. co! He always has thi Shown to the marble room and there listens Patiently to their requests. The close proximity of his constituents renders him easily accessible, and much of his time is consumed in this way. Senator Brice is. also much sought after at the Capitol, his callers being Very numerous. Senator Hill Feceives @ great many cards and can al- Ways be seen by those having actual busi- ness with him. Sometimes, however, if he 45 engaged with correspondence or other- wise he will send a request that his caller sce him at his hotel. There he is as much sought after as at the Capitol. Senator Hawley usually comes out into the recep- tion Foom to see his callers and has a way of strolling about the corridors with them they earnestly state thelr wants. Of southern Senators perhaps Senators iordon and Ransom and the two Alabama Benators have the greatest number of Cap- itol callers. The southern Senators are usually very particular to see any of their constituents who may call. Their popu larity Is more affected by their hospitality than Is that of @ Senator from the north. During this crush around the Senate doors similar scenes are being enacted at the House end of the building. The Repre- sentatives, bowever, receive their visitors with less formality, and dispose of them more rapidly. They hurry out in a very business-like manner and usually talk with Yhem in the corridors near the House en- ‘trances or take them over into the semi- Privacy of a window recess. Sometimes they repair to the seats provided in the statuary hall for congressional callers, but these are always well filled, and if a mem- ber thinks he can get through the inter- view quickly he does not go far away from the House entrance. ¢ missions that carry these people daily to the Capitol are varied, but nearly. all of them want money from the government in one way or another. With most of them it 4s simple office seeking. They bave come to Washington after an office, and they are Getermined to have something. Or they #re after promotion or office for relatives $F government aid of some other nature. ‘The army of the office seekers is alway full, and their number never decreases They are here all the year around, but @ session of Congress multiplies them many times, ‘They come with great aspirations, and usually meet great disappointments. They “aim high,” but they rarely secure the game for which they first go gunning. Generally. after waiting weary weeks and months, suffering disappointment after dis- appointment, and running low in money, they are glad to accept anything they can we. About the corridors of the Capitol may be seen any day. in the uniform of a Capitol policeman, a minister of the gospel, who was a candidate for the post of cha; Jain of the present House before that organized for business. He came from the iar west. and his canvass for the coveted position gave him such a craving for office that he could not reconcile himself to the idea of returning home empty handed. When he found that he could not minister to the spiritual needs of the House he de- termined to serve that body In some other city. and after seeing several other slip through his fingers he landed be- the brass buttons of @ conservator of the peace A young man who south after an office Qalucky. He reached Senate met in special with his heart set on a committee clerk. which bis Senator had partially prom- him. All these months he has waited. and at last saw the desire of his heart warded to another man. Meantime his money has melted and now he is heg- @ng for « position means of livelil Without regard to the honor attending. ‘When he first reached the capital his purse ‘was well filled and he spent money with a lavish hand. He put up at a high-priced Rotel and nothing was too good for him. Now he occupies a hall room in a cheap lodging house, and catches his meals as he ean get them. His aur and he Repre- sentative have tired of him and cast him Off, as it were, and he cannot get the ear of dither. If he could now secure the place of @ laborer about the Capitol he would be Gontent. Many instances of the same na- ture could be detailed. but they are too nu- Merous to be interesting. ‘The Class of Cranks. ‘There is another class of people who fre- qent the Capitol. not as numerous as the Office seekers. but equally as troublesome. ‘These are the cranks. They divide their attention between the Capitol and the White House. Many of them imagine that the government owes them large sums of Money, and they call at the Capitol to col- Jeet their claims or have them put through Congress. ‘The other day a wild-looking wan in threadbare clothing and with a great roll of manuscript under his arm ap- Deared at the door of the Senate and asked to see Vice President Stevenson. Upon Being asked his business, he declared that the government owed him a vast sum of Money. and as evidence of the fact he dis- Played the manuscript. which was an item- Statement of the alleged claim. He came here from the has been even raore the city when | sata he was going to get Mr. Stevenson and Speaker Crisp to approve his claim, after Which he would present it to the President and “get his money or know the reason why.” He was led gently from the Capitol and advised to go home. When the present session of Congress first convened a middle-aged man in seedy black made a daily pilgrimage to the Capi- tol and wandered nervously and restlessly through the corridors. He paced from the Senate side to the pther end of the build- ing and back again continuously throughout the day, but was never seen to speak to any one. Throughout the hot August weather he sweltered in a heavy winter frock coat, worn smooth and shiny, and his general appearance was that of a “shabby genteel.” When not at the Capitol is haunted.the down-town hotels, going from one to the other in an al manner. There, as at the Capitol, he spok to flo one and never remained still a mo- ment, roaming up and down the corridors and about the streets. At last it developed that he had been a commissioned fficer of the army, wha had been relieved of his command for some reason, with the result that his mind became unbalanced. In his wanderings to and from the Capitol he was engaged in an effort to have himself ap- pointed major general of the army. He finally disappeared, and his friends prob- ably removed him from Washington or con- fined him where he could not harm him- self or others. A Strange Old Woman. One of the strangest characters to be seen about the Capitol 1s an old woman of the genus crank. She makes herself entire- ly at home and to the casual observer ap- Pears to be an employe. She is well ad- vanced in years, but wears her hair in curly ringlets, much as would @ young girl, about her wrinkled features, and the effect is very grotesque. She wanders bareheaded about the building, greeting with a simper ing manner every one she meets. She speaks in d piping, childish tone and {s very volu- ble. Sometimes she sits at a window in one of the corridors for hours at a time, speaking to every one passing her way as if she had known them for years. If one for conversation and tells some marvelous tales. Recently, under the inspiration of the centennial ‘celebration, she has been telling visitors that she was present when the corner stone of the Capitol was laid. If her statements are not readily accepted she becomes very angry. Another favorite narrative with her is that she was wounded | during ‘the late war while serving in the southern army in male attire. What may be her motive in frequenting the Capitol no one knows. Those who should know state that she fs not on the pay roll in any capacity, and she does not ask aid in any way. Where she comes from to the Capitol and where she goes when it closes is @ mystery, but as she appears entirely harmless no one interferes with her or de- mands to know her business. The Order Against Grips. A few days ago Sergeant-at-arins Rright of the Senate issued an order to doorkeepers and messengers instructing them to allow no one to enter the Senate lobby or galleries with a valise or package of any description. ‘The fact was telegraphed a New York paper with the sensational explanation that the order was issued to frustrate a plot to throw & dynamite bomb into the a = talls of the conspiracy, it was stated, hav! leaked out here. This was supposed to be the measure of punishment to be visited upon the Senate for its tardiness of action om the repeal bill. The story was probably without foundation, but be that as it may, the order was issued. The very next morning @ man, apparently from the country, started into the public gallery of the Senate with rusty-looking valise in his hand. A door- keeper detained him with the statement that he must leave the Valise on the out- side. He became inc it and argued in a loud tone for several minutes, but finally consented to be relieved of his burden when the doorkeeper promised to be responsible for its safekeeping. When he returned he opened it to get his lunch, and the only other contents were a pair of old shoes and a bottle of whisky. There was no dynamite. Employes of the office of the sergeant-at- arms explain the recent instructions as only the revival of a long-standing order intended to prevent the transformation of the Senate galleries into baggage rooms. Trouble for Congressmen. ‘The casual visitors to the Capitol make more trouble for Congressmen than would be generally supposed. They send in their cards and when their Representative ap- pears they explain with much self-satisfac- tion that they are “after no office, but merely Called to pay their respects.” In other words, they have no business with hima. They are constituents of the member, however, and of course he must show them some attention. He takes them down into the restaurant to lunch and then chases them over the building. A Congressman showing friends through the Capitol is al- ways amusing. He knows considerably less about the building than the professional guide, and his ignorance ts made painfully apparent through the numerous questions of his visitors. He usually makes the tour of the building in a rush, skipping as much as possible and getting through as soon as may be. If, after accompanying his friends for a few minutes, he can turn them over to a guide without being detected in plac- ing the half dollar in the latter's hand, he is glad to excuse himself and slip back into the House. ‘The Cupitol guides complain that there has beer very little money in the crowds that have filled the building thus far this season. The depress2d firanctal situation seems to have aifected the visitors, and they are not scattering money broadcast. Indeed, they are spending .as little as pos- sible, and the great majority of them do the Capitol withont the services of « guide. Mary of them procure guide books before they reach Washington and study up on the points of interest, so that they are retty well informed before they reach Fven foreign tourists can secure these Looks in their native tongue on the other side of the water, and nearly all of them come supplied with information de- rived from that source. The guides depend almost entirely on American tourists for their fees, and they declare that this has been one of the hardest seasons they have ever known. The Capitol guides have been well advertised by the press of the country, but they think that the advertising kas not helped their business. ‘The average Capitol visitor soon tires of the gallery. They come imbued with the Idea that the debates are always at fever heat, and the monotonous nature of the congressional proceedings soon drives them from the gallery. Lady visitors are fond of carrying opera glasses with them into the galleries, and with these they seek out the younger and handsomer Senators and Rep- Fesentatives. The identity of Senator Wol- cott 1s much inquired of, as is also that of Senator Hill. The male visitors nearly al- ways ask about Senators Gorman. itrice and Sherman. Over on the House side Tom Reed Is always an object of interest to the sallery visitors, and many inquiries are made about Bourke Cockran. Wilson of West Virginia has grown into prominence, and there 1s a general desire to have’ him pointed out. Since Mr. Holman was dls- Dlaced from the head of the appropriations committee he has in = measure lost his identity, it may be sald, and he does not attract the attention he once received. The gallery habitue Is fickle in his devotion, und if he does not find the debate full of inter- est or his favorite on the floor he soon abandons his seat, and thus the gallery doors are kept swinging back and forth from noon until the session closes. a INVITATION TO DR. BRIGGS. The Cumberland Presbyter! Wants the Fa Preacher. ‘The Princeton presbytery of the Cumber- land Church recently purchased the church edifice of the Remsen Avenue Baptist Chureb in New Brunswick, N. J. ‘The os- tensible object of the move was the found- ing of a church of the Cumberland faith in New Brunswick. Reliable information shows that the main purpose of the move was to place the Rev. Dr. Briggs, who has been reduced from preaching in the regular Pres- byterian pulpits, in charge. It has been understood for some time that some of the leading lights in the Cumber- land Presbyterian Church are leaning to- ward Briggsism, and it is evident from cer- tain articles in their denominational paper that overtures have been made to Prof. Briggs to come with all his followers into the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. ‘Some of the young ministers of the Cum- berland Church who belong to the recently- organized Princeton presbytery of the Cum- berland Church are students in the Union Seminary of New York, in which institu- | tion Dr. Briggs has long taught. They are in favor of recetving Dr. Briggs. and it ts | tought that when the Remsen Avenue Church 1s made over to the denomination this winter the pulpit will be supplied regu- | larly by the Rev. Dr. Briggs. Rev. Dr. Miller of the Princeton presby- tery now has control of the Hemsen Avenue Church property, and the present tenants are leasing the building until the new edi- fice is completed. The lease ext November 1. Dr. Mier expects services in November or December. of these stops to talk with her she is eager | REAL ESTATE GOSSIP. The Market Showing Signs of Retarn- ing Activity. - THE OVERHEAD TROLLEY DELUSION Prospect of the Removal of Heu- tich’s Brewery. OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST One of the phases of the recent financial uncertainty was the plan announced by some to have cash on hand, so that when the era of cheapness came in they would have the means to avail themselves of the opportunities that would be presented. Per- haps this era has come and gone in the stock market, and perhaps in other classes of investments, but as yet real estate in this city has not been affected, and people who are waiting for great bargains and sacrifices are disappointed. There are none such, and what is more, there are not likely to be. Prices are just as steady as they were before people began to hoard their money. There is plenty of property for sale, but the owners are not willing to give it away. They don’t have to do it, and of course they prefer their price. People are beginning to realize that there is to be no panic, and that there is no use waiting for the time so fondly pictured by a few when real estate will practically be given | away. ‘The result is that buyers are beginning to | appear in the market after the summer cation and they are finding investment and are securing homes. There is a steady demand for houses for rent, and offices of the real estate dealers present quite an animated appearance. Aftogether there is @ good deal doing in real estate circles, and | no doubt after the financial world is more settled than it is at present the investors will put in an Fance. As it is, quite | & good deal of building is going on, although not half as much as architects and builders, and, in fact, all interested in the butlding trades would like to see. But considerable business is in sight. There are plans for buildings and improvements of vartous kinds that are only awaiting a return of better times to materialize into brick and mortar. It is thought that building opera- tlons will be active early next season, and the reason for this belief les in the fact that @ growing city demands a constant volume of building, and that it is impossi- ble to remain stationary as long as the population continues to roll in. . Prospects of Rapid Transit. In addition to this factor in the prosper- ity of the city there ts another that is quite j{mportant, and that is the probability of the general introduction of rapid transit on the railroads of the city. It looks as if the overhead trolley delusion was losing hold on those who have a good deal to do with some of the city lines, and, in consequence, they are giving their attention to other modes of rapid transit. This change, if it is gen- uine, is a happy one for the people, because it makes more remote the possi- bility of the streets being disfigured with this modern muni curse and also holds out @ hope that in the near future the horse cars will be left in the sheds, along with other obsolete apparatus. The Metropolitan railroad is said to be willing to put the underground trolley on the 9th street line, with the ultimate in- tention of extending the same systens over the entire road. The Hoek Creek Ratiroad Company wants some extensions, so that it can have terminals nearer the cenjer of things than they have at present, and the officials of the road are so well pleased with the practical results of the underground system that they have had in operation along U street ever since the early part of last spring that they express a willingness to lay the wires underground along any ex- tensions that may be allowed them within the ctty limits, ‘The loss of time to citizens and the depreci- ation of property which 1s the result of the antiquated methods employed by a major- ity of the street railroad managers of the city is being felt severely by the citizens. It is a matter of congratulation and cer- tainly one of the cheering signs of an im. Proving real estate market that some rail- Toad managers have come to realize that the overhead trolley is not the only mod- ern means of getting a street car to move along with any degree of celerity. They Rejoice in Beer Alley. ‘The announcement made in The Star the other day that a new site had been secured for the proposed new plant for Heurich’'s brewery was @ pleasing bit of news to a good many property cwners and residents in the vicinity of the present brewery. As every one knows the brewery occupies nearly a whole square between 19th and 2th and M and N streets, which is right in the heart of one of the fashionable resi- dent sections of the city. The vista of a short but fashionable street is closed with the huge chimney stack of the brewery, and as everybody knows, chimney stacks, especially on brewertes, are built for ut and not for ornament. This proximity sug- gested to some facetious person, who, of course, Ives a safe distance from the brewery, the name of Beer alley, and it has clung to it ever since. Of course resi. dents don’t recognize the name, but like all the other people in the vicinity, when they found that they could not get rid of their big and unwelcome neighbor, they concluded to tolerate it. Out of this it Is said grew the idea that ts prevatent in the locality of Dupont circle that the smell of hops is extremely healthful. So it happen: that when some incautious visitor for the first time perceives the odor as it is wafted in the parlor of a friend bursts out with the hasty exclamation: “What is that horrid smell?’ the response is at once smilingly made: “You can’t pos- sibly mean the hops from the brewery, for I smell nothing else. We think that’ the odor 1s delightful and we miss it so when we leave the city. In exchange for the smell the property owners have made the brewery property extremely valuable, and it is on this account mainly that the company intend to change the location of the plant. It is not known what use will be made of the property when it is abandoned. It is expected, of course, that it will be sold, but it is not known whether the great building will be torn down or not. The suggestion has been made that it could be remodeled into an apar‘ment house. The new location is said to be in the vicinity of Virgitfla avenue and 2th street. A Spacious Residence. The residence of Mr. W. J. Boardman, which is being built at the northwest cor- ner of 18th and P streets, will be a type of a home which {s becoming more common in this city. It ts to be a very large house, and instead of the architects exercising their ingenuity in cutting up the interior into all sorts of cubby holes, which by courtesy are called rooms, the only object of which ts the satisfaction of being able to say that the house contains fifteen or twenty rooms, the opposite policy has been pursued. The house will have that luxu- rious spaciousness which only large rooms can give, although the dimensions of the house will be unusually large for a city residence—the frontage will be some eighty feet—there will practically be only three rooms and a hail on the first floor There is to be # large staircase hall, a parlor or reception room and then an’ immense li- brary and a finely proportioned dining room. The same generous policy marks the arrangement of the upper stories. Spa- cious bed rooms, with ample dressing rooms and closets attached, appeal to those who like to be comfortable when they are at home. The main entrance will be @ part of the carriage driveway, which under @ portion of the second story of the house into the rear yard. From this entrance steps lead up to the front door, which opens into the great hall. There is also a doorway leading into the basement rooms, which will be fitted up as dressing rooms. On occasions when an entertain- ment is given the guests can pass directly from the outside into the dressing rooms and after removing their wraps can pass to the inside staircase, which brings them to the great hall. The exterior walls wi be built almost entirel; of ti shade known as old gold and the entire di ign will be characterised by the elegant mplicity which 1s the feature of the work of the architects, Messrs. Hornblower and Marshall. Some New Improvem ‘The past week has been a light one with the inspector of buildings. The number of building permits issued by him has not been numerous. L. A. Sheets has taken the contract for the erection of a press-brick welling for Dr. J. E. Toner at 24 1th street northeast. The building will have a frontage of 17 feet and will consist of two stories and a basement. The cost is esti- mated at $3,500. Mr. John Davis has awarded the contract for the construction of two twb-story houses, Nos. 92 and 904 27th street north- Hest, to WH. Wilkins. "They wit “cost 000, é At Fort Reno, Mr. EB. Boose will erect on Kearney street’ a two-story brick dwelling to cost $500. Dr. ‘Neson Hall has been given the contract for construction. Builder August Getz is erecting for Her- man Berens on lots 637, 689 and 641 I street southwest a row of three tenements to be constructed of red brick. Two of them will have @ frontage of 121-2 feet and the other of 14 feet. ‘The cost of the three will not exceed $3,100, The work of excavating preparatory to commencing the foundation of the new St. Matthew's Church is in progress. It is ex- pected to have the walls ready to lay the corner stone at an early day. PES COL, AINSWORTH DEMUR: His Plea of Not Guilty Withdrawn- Argument Next Friday. ‘The long expected initial move of the de- fense in the case of the United States agt. Ainsworth, Dant, Covert and Sasse was made yesterday afternoon before Judge Mc- Comas in Criminal Court, No. 1, when counsel for the four defendants, Messrs. R. Ross Perry and H. E. Davis, withdrew the formal plea of not guilty as to the first indictment and filed a demurrer. The court then set the demurrer down for argument at 11 o'clock next Friday morning, The district attorney next called the attention cf the court to the second indictment re- turned against the four men last Wednes- day, and upon his motion the accused were then called upon to plead to that indict- ment. Judge McComas permitted the four men to enter a formal plea of not guilty to the second indictment, with the privilege of withdrawing that plea not later than 11 o'clock Friday morning next, and then fil- ing such other plea or motion as they may deem proper. ‘There were very few persons in the court room when at 3:30 Judge McComas re- quested Marshal Ransdell to open the court in the absence of the regular court crier. District Attorney Birney stated to the court that a second indictment had been returned against the four men and asked their ar- raignment upon that Indictment. A Demurrer Filed. Mr. H. E. Davis thought, however, that the first business which should be trans- acted was the withdrawal of the formal plea of not gullty as to the first indictment. This was done and then Mr. Davis ex- plained that counsel now proposed to take other action than that first determined upon by them, and had they not so determined they would probably have asked a further extension of time. Counsel for the accused had_now, however, decided to file a de- murrer to the first indictment. The de- murrer claimed that the Indictment was bad in substance because, first, that the indictment upon its face discloses a mis- joinder of defendants. Second, that the indictment upon its face fails to charge a definite duty in the prem- {ses upon the defendants and gives them no legal notice of the particular act of neg- lgence wherewith they are sought to be charged. Third, that the said indictment upon its face charges upon the defendants an illegal measure of care and diligence in the prem- tes. Fourth, that the indictment upon its face charges criminal responsibility upon several defendants for the omission of an alleged point or common duty not exclusively the duty of any one of said defendants, and yet not a point or common duty in the sense that each of said defendants was charged exclusively with the performance of con- temporaneous or successive parts of a joint oF common process. * ‘The Second Indictment. District Attorney Birney at once entered Joinder of issue with the demurrer, and, stating that the second indictment differed with the first one only as to Col. Ains- worth’s first name and in the matter of one or two slight clerical errors, asked that the same demurrer be entered as to the second indictment. Counsel for the de- fendants objected to such a course at the present time, and at Judge McComas’ sug- gestion the second indictment was then read and the accused entered a formal plea of not gullty, their counsel stating that both indictments would be answered at the hearing of the mater Friday morning next. The court thereupon adjourned until that time. ae OVER NINETY WENT DOWN. Frightfal Loss of Life in the Sinking of a Haytian Gunboat. ‘The Alexander Petion, one of the new gunboats of the Haytian navy, foundered on September 6, near Cape Tiburon, and only one of her crew survived. to tell the story. The news of the loss of the war vessel was brought to New York yesterday by passengers on the Dutch steamer Prinz Willem First, which arrived from Port au Prince. : ‘The Alexander Petion was the last of the gunboats constructed for the Haytian navy. She was built in Havre for the government of Hayt! only a few months ago, and left Port au Prince on September 4 bound for the city of San Domingo. She had ‘on board as passengers Gen Molina, special Dominican plenipotentiary to Haytl, M. de Jean, consul to San Do- mingo, and Mr. Cohen, formerly Haytian minister to Mexico. The party was going to San Domingo to arrange the final terms of an agreement between Hayti and San Domingo. Only One Saved. ‘The Alexander Petion carried ninety sail- ors, marines and officers besides the diplo- matic party. She foundered on September 6, at 4 o'clock im the morning, near Cape Tiburon. Why it was that she sank nobody knows. Her sole survivor, a colored sailor, was picked up @ few miles from Porto Piminto on Sep- tember 8. He was upon a heavy plank, and was paddling with a pair of oars. He was an ignorant man and could not give an intelligible account of how the acci- dent took place. ‘The negro said {t was in the early morn- ing. The gunboat began to go down bow first. A few jumped and kept up until they were too exhausted to struggle longer. ‘The survivor found the plank and two oars near the vessel. He floated about for a day and a half, when he was picked up by a small sailing vessel. ‘The news of the loss of the Alexander Petion cast a gloom over the town of Port au Prince. Many of the gunboat’s officers and crew had familfes in the town. The citizens of Port au Prince are in the hope that others of the crew may have escaped. ‘There are no reefs and shoals in the neigh- borhood where the vessel foundered, ac- cording to official charts. The point 13 cut of the usual channel of navigation. Gen. Molina was a gallant soldier and popular in Port au Prince. Shortly before his departure on the ill-fated gunboat a dinner was given in his honor by United States Minister Durham. m that occasion,” ‘said Mr. Durham yesterday, “the general spoke in an exceed- ingly pathetic manner, He has just been complimented on account of his many dis- tinguished services to h y. “It is true,’ he said, ‘that I have fought and suffered much for my native land, but I have really lived for my family and for those depending upon me. In all these years my constant thought has been of them and what would befa‘l them should I be taken from them.’ ” ‘The diplomatic party were cordially treat- ed while in Port au Prince, and many peo- ple went to bid them farewell on the day the Alexander Petion steame) out of the harbor. ‘The vessel was one of the best equipped gunboats of the Haytlan navy and cont $250,000. ae UNIVERSALIST CONVENTION. Three Different Bodies to Meet in This City Next Month, The general convention of the Univer- salist denomination of the United States meets in the Church of Our Father, in this city, during the week of October 16 to 0, 1898. There are three different bodies that meet at that time—the church proper, the Young People's Christian Union and the Ladies’ Centenary Association, the lat- ter being @ missionary organization. The conventions are composed of the general officers of the bodies mentioned and dele- gates from the parishes and local organ- izations throughout the country. ‘This ts the third time that the convention has met in this city, the previous mectings occur- ring in 1873 and 18%. The gatherings are expected to be unusually large ones, com- prising the ablest members of the denotn- ination, and as the Universalist church claims ‘to be the pioneer of the movement for a broader religious faith, which has at- tracted so much attention of late, the mcet- ings will doubtless be highly interesting. ‘The committee of arrangements consists of J. W. Webb, chairman; H. E. Wiliam secretary; Rev. Dr. Rogers, Geo. H. 1) and G. A! Jordan. LABOR PROBLEM PHASES|| ATE RECORD MAKING|'N A TEST OF ENDURANCE| T## ome roumicaL campatan. ‘As Viewed From the Standpoint of a Labor Advocate. ‘The Need ot plying Work for the | Great Army of the Unemployed— t Foreign Agitators. t “Trouble ts brewing in Chicago,” said ex- Special Immigration Commissioner Herman J. Schulteis yesterday to a Star writer. “There are 260,000 unemployed men in the city, and they are getting hungry. Because of the world’s fair they have flocked to the great town from all parts of the country. Being unable to get work, they are becom- ing more and more desperate every day. A hungry man becomes very desperate indeed when his wife and children are crying for food and he cannot find a way to earn a cent, no matter how hard he tries. “Take the miners, for example, who were recently thrown out of employment in Colo- rado. Denver fed 12,000 of them for a while. Work could not be found for them, and 20, for the sake of getting rid of them, they were shipped away by regiments to swell the army of the idle in eastern cities. 80 anxious were the people out there to dis- pose of them, recognizing their presence as @ menace, that the ratlways transported them for ‘nothing. ‘These miners are the sort of men who are extremely dangerous under such conditions. A single policeman can handle fifty starveling Russian Jews, but it takes fifty police officers to handle fifty such men as those from Colorado. “I tell you, we are right at the danger line. You have no notion how rate these people are. Only the other a cannon was hauled out on the streets of Chicago to prevent riot. ‘The midnight yell has never been heard in this country as yet, but unless the conditions are changed it will be heard in the coming winter. They have got used to it in London. Once in a while in the British metropolis there is a sudden flocking together of the unemployed, who emerge from every corner like so many Tats from their holes, to join in a nocturnal procession with torches. They loot the shops, and, before the police can be con- centrated, they scatter. “The authorities in the world’s fair city and in New York have suppressed anarch- istic demonstrations in public. They have done more harm than good, for they ha not been able in this manner to diminish the trouble. On the contrary, it has sought refuge in dark places. In the secret meet- ings of the trades unions the most radical talk is indulged in. We are on a volcan which may explode at any moment. Lon: don is, to some extent, prepared for resist- ing mob violence. We are not #0 at all. The shop windows there are barred with steel shutters; ours have no better protec- tion than plate glass. Mem Without Werk. “The men who swarmed to Chicago for the purpose of procuring employment there while the fair was open have not found it. ‘The building trade in that city, for example, is idle. In the very neighborhood of the exposition grounds are scores of buildings standing uncompleted because there is no money to finish them with. There are twice as many unemployed in the United States this year as there were last year. Hereto- fore men employed in building have had regular work up to the winter season at all events; but this year they will begin the winter without any savings to carry them through, That means starvation. Mean- while the government is aggravating the situation by refraining from spending the $44,000,000 already appropriated by Con; for public buildings and rivers and harbors. ‘That money s beng held back in the treas- ury for fear of increasing the deficit. The law has ordered that the works thus pro- vided for shall be carried out. Yet; so far as the public buildings are concerned, the plans for them have not even been drawn in the office of the supervising architect. “Look at the Washington post office, now supposed to be in process of erection at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and lth street. Money to pay for that building has been appropriated and is ready in the treas- ury. Yet, not a man is now working on the structure, the site of which looks like a deserted graveyard, with a few pillars stick- ing up here and there in leu of tombstones. When work was going on there, foreigners instead of Americans were employed to do it. They were sent to this city direct from Castle Garden. I have in my possession af™fi- davits proving that some of them had been in this country only four days when they were engaged to do work on the post office here. They got employment while Amert- cans went hungry. And why? Simply be- we they were willing to do the labor for day less. The contractor got that dol- "a ‘Chance to Earn Somethti “That $44,000,000 in the treasury ought to be spent at once for the putposes declared by law. Jt would go a long way toward relieving the general distress, In holding it back the administration is taking a grave responsibility. It is not as if Con- gress was asked to give the cash. It has already been appropriated and there can be no excuse for not carrying out the pro- visions of the law. In New York, Philadel- phia and other cities all over the Union bread is being distributed to the hungry and soup houses ure filling them up with liquid sustenance. But charity in that or any other form {ts not what they require. ‘They want work. This would be an ex- cellent opportunity for the government to undertake the construction of certain long- projected canals, which would be enormous- iy advantageous to commercial traffic, After the winter, when the expected trou- ble has occurred and irreparable damage tn one shape or another has been done, we hope to get some legislation from Con. ress of a remedial nature. ey was. in Chi last Labor Day. In the procession th ner which attracted most attention and most unqualified ap- proval was one which bore the legend, ‘No More Pauper Immigration.’ The truth is already recognized that pauper immigra- tion is the cause of the present trouble. Europe is dumping her unemployed upon us. Eighty-five per cent of the immigrants come to this country on prepaid tickets. ‘This 1s expressly forbidden by existing jaw, but that clause in the law is practical- ly, a dead letter. The clause of the law which forbids the importation of paupers into this country {s also to all intents and purposes a dead I If these two clauses were enforced, the present deplorable sit- uation of affairs would not exist. We have some hope of getting through Congress the bill introduced by Mr. Stone of Pennaylva nia, which requires for each Intending im- migrant a consular inspection on the other side, @ $20 fee for that inspection, and an education qualification for all persons over sixteen years of age. ‘When the trouble breaks out in Chicago, you will notice that the head devils are for- eigners. Whenever there is rioting in any of our cities they are the leaders. Read the names of those arrested, and the chances are that you will not be able to pronounce one of them. It is high time that we shut them out. —~___ COLORED ODD FELLows. The Thirteenth Triennial Assembly to Meet Here Next Wednesday. At 10 o'clock next Wednesday morning the thirteenth triennial assembly of the Patri- archal Order of Past Grand Masters of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows,colored, will convene in a two days’ session here in the new Odd Fellows’ Hall, 1606 M street northwest, with Past Grand Master Eugene Brooks in the chair. Rev. W. J. Howard, M. V. P., will open the proceedings with an invocation, ‘which will be followed by the address of welcome, delivered by Past Grand Master John C. Norwood. M. V. P. John R. Brown will review the origin and work of the order up to date. Wednesday night banquet will be ten- dered the visiting grand representatives by the ladies of the Households of Ruth, com. posed of the female relatives of members of the local colored Odd Fellow socleties. ‘The banquet will be spread In the meeting hal Thursday afternoon a grand parade w occur, under the command of Capt. Wiliam P. Gray, chief marshal. The parade will form on'M and iéth streets northwest and move to Washington circle, thence down Pennsylvania avenue to the west gate of the White House grounds, where it ‘will be reviewed by President land. It will then go down Pennsylvania avenue to the District buildings, where the procession will be reviewed by the Commissioners and other prominent citizens. From there In- diana avenue to 3d street, on $4 street to New Jersey avenue.to Rhode Island ayenue, to 16th street, to M street. All the grand representatives, all the visit- ing and local subordinate 1 of the or- der, several coming from Baltimore, Alex- andria and other cities, will be in the pro- cessiol ‘This is the second of these triennial as- semblies to convene in Washington. All arrangements for the session are in charge of James W. Jones and James E. Evins, respectively chairman and secretary of the general committee on arrangements, Fister’s Recent Attempt.the Topic in Oyoling Circles. AN EFPORT MADE. 10 BBAT HDL The Coming Contest Between Mes- : senger Boys. LUCK OF LOGAL RACERS. Record making and record-breaking seems to be the order of the day in local bicycle circles just now, and while so much interest in such affairs is being manifested, little at- tention is being paid to regular club run: and the good weather is silpping by and the 00d roads are not being enjoyed to any great extent. The twenty-four-hour cham- pionship contest, heretofore mentioned in The Star, {s still under tire, but whether or not the record of J. J. Fister of the George- town Club is an honest one will probably be of importance but a short while, us sever- al more riders will make the trial, and the 280 mile record will undoubtedly be beaten. Mr. John C. Wood of the Washington Road Club made all arrangements to start on the twenty-four-hour journey at 2 o'clock this afternoon, and next week Wahl will go over the same ground. ils friends are confident that he will record fully 300 miles when he makes his next attempt. While these wheelmen are struggling for the glory of holding the record, others are looking ‘on the affair as being extremely amusing. “After all,” remarked one of the oldest and best riders in the city, “what is to be gained by such # record? When the bicy- cle was invented it was supposed to be for the pleasure of riders and not an in- strument to extinguish life and break down the system by hard riding, such as a twen- ty-four-hour record breaking trip must be. Instead of taking pleasant rides through the country, enjoying the fresh air and benefiting their health, they are riding in the night air at a break-neck speed, over- heating themselves and rendering 'them- selves lable to a period of sickness. “Then, too, the manner in which the rec- ords are being made is questionable. In the first place the exact distance of the road should be known and timers repre- senting different interests should be on Even then in the excitement and confusion mistake is possible and such mistakes always benefit the rider. If there is to be @ genuine test of the question why Tider start from a given point ® poin and then i BE it, ret i Among the Racers, While a ceftain number of wheelmen are interested in the twenty-fouf-hour record, many others are paying attention to track racing, and some good prizes have been captured during the week, and the racers At Norfolk, Va., on Monday the bicycle club of that city ‘gave a series of interest ing events, and among who partici- pated from this city were Clapp and Robertson of the Arlington Wheelmen and Sims, Schade and Gause of the Washing- ton Road Club. Clapp won three first prizes, Robertson two second prizes, Sims two third prizes and Gause one third prize. Fred Schade, although « member of the Washington Road Club, resides at Hern- don, Va., and being a resident of the state he was eligible in the state championships. In the one-mile and three-mile champion- ships he crossed the tape first, and in ad- dition to winning these events he was awarded a time medal for having made the fastest time during the meet. When the fast riders attended the Balti- missing link in the first day's events, the lateness of the trains being responsible for Among the Washington par- ong ashi riders who oie in the events were J. T. Hunter, of the Washington Road Club; Hardy Pritchard of the Georgetown Cycle Club; Claop of the Arlington Whoeisres Sead n en; Hi Rhine of the Singer Road Club; W. F. Sims of the ¥. MC. A- In the heat races the wheelmen aid well, ‘as most of them were able to qualify in the finals, but when the finals were ridden they failed to secure a place in any event. Hardy Pritchard rode in the one-mile novice and secured second place. In the second day's races there was a large crowd in attendance becatse it had been announced that Zimmerman would figure ‘in the events, but early in the day he met with a mishcp ana the result was that he hod to give up his wheel. Although the audience was disappointed there were some fast exhibitio: ad the best men won. ‘The Washingt rhc repeated their good riding of the day before. and secured places In the finals, but the company was too fast for them :nd they failed to cross the tape first in any event. Clapo ani Gause were the only ones to carry off prites, each se. curing the third honor in an event. the meet proved a success in every par- r Some weeks ago it was announced that the Washington Road Club would probably give @ race meet on the Y. M.C. A. track, but owing to the inability of the club to get aultable prizes the idea has been abate doned, and the local wheelmen who have — pdt = geeectnnece) will rr ps mn urn tl com, ent to friends. si 7 Messenger Boys to Race, There will be one race meet here this sea. son, however, and although the races may not record Zimmerman’s or Johnson's tine the affair will be interesting as well as amusing. Saturday afternoon of pext week is the time fixed on for the event, and although the program has not yet been completed it is likely that there will be in- dividual races, a team race and a relay. The riders are all boys under eighteen years — they mage gd Ector of the mes- Benger service of The Evening Star The Evening News. rag Er Some days ago a challenge was sent from the latter paper and the acceptance of the ne, pod Syne were complied with y the ents of it. The names and ages of the riders are: i ‘The Evening Star team Harry Fisk... 16 years. 16 years. 15 years. 15 years. 6 years. MT years. 15 years. 14 years. 15 years. 17 years. It is probable that the ¥. M. GC. A. ‘track will be secured for the meet. Ne Clab R Last Sunday none of the clubs went out on their regular run as so much interest was manifested in the twenty-four-hour road event on the Conduit road, and that scores of riders went during the day to see Fister’s last few hours’ riding. ‘Tomorrow, the weather proving good, there will an equally large number of wheelmen on the road, as Capt. Jose of the W. R.C. has no. tified the other clubs of Woods’ tide, and he also invited them to send representatives to the starting and finishing point to see that the ride was done without any unfairness. In addition to this event there will be several interesting runs tomorrow which will mark the opening of the autumn sea- son. Washington Cycle Clab. Six members of the Washington Cycle Club will make a century run to Baltimore and return tomorrow. They will finish the 100 miles by making an additional run to Cabin John bridge, on which occasion they will be accompanied by the remainder of the club, and expect to arrive there in time to witness the finish of the run against time by Mr. J. C. Wood of the Washington Road Club. ie Bismarck Slowly Regaining Strength. Prince Bismarck is slowly regaining his strength. He is exceedingly pleased with the frieadly dispatch from the emperor. Dr. Schweninger, Bismarck’s body physi- clan, has sent the emperor a written re- port of his patient's condition. Count Her- bert Bismarck and Count Rantzau, the prince's son-in-law, have arrived at Kiasen- gen. The Anti-Repeal Senators Seem to Have the Advantage. They Are Younger and Stronger Phy- slcally Than Those of the Majority —What Continuoas Sessions Mean. ‘The old-time Senators, who have taken ; Part in many hard fought battles, do not relish the idea of having to sit in continu- ous session, night and day, in order to reach & vote on the Voorhees repeal bill. Mr. Platt had the sympathy of many when he eaid that such @ course smacked too much of the custom of locking a jury up in @ room to force a verdict, and that there were Senators whose physical condition was such as to render it inhuman to exact so much from them. A test of physical endur- ance in the Senate is quite a serious thing for men advanced in years, as many of the Senators are. It means that they must stay in the chamber or cloak rooms for twenty-four or forty-eight hours or perhaps longer, getting what they can eat hurriedly down in the Senate restaurant and enjoy- ing only such sleep as they can get in their chairs or on the few sofas in the chamber or in the cloak rooms. Even the little un- comfortable rest they can snatch in this way is subject to interruption at any mo- ment by @ demand for a quorum, if enough of them leave their seats at one time to break the quorum. Some ex: scenes have been witnessed in the Senate during such sessions in the past, and perfect sobriety has not always been observed by every one after the sessions have run into the small hours of the morning. Kept from their beds and from their regular meals, Senators have found these sessions ex- tremely exhausting. Yet it is maintained that this is the only courteous, orderly and decorous way to force a vote on a mea- sure in this punctilious body of statesmen. The Majority Disadvantage. In such a contest, under the practices of volves the duty of keeping @ quorum always Bresent. The opposition may have only few of their men present a: can take turns and rest, whil to force the vote must be or the point of no quorum one who is taking his turn purpose. It may devolve tion to have some one or o' the while to occupy the time, but they not all have to talk at once. resting while others are on they can always have a place of those of the forces tigued. But the majority, who hai the listeners, can get no leave the chamber to ateal a wink or to get @ bite of something to or get nourishment in some other form, on ® i H Fes ike: i From Present Appearances It Will Be & Dull One. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. COLUMBUS, ©., September 22, 1898. But six weeks remain of the paign and it is quite evident that it & comparatively quiet one. Bo far the republicans nor the democrats initely announced the coming of any guished speaker from outside the if the special session of Congress is tracted until election day it is not any prominent Congressmen will come Ohio. 1t is Known, however, that ex-Speaker Reed of Maine, and Congressman J. C. Burrows of Michigan, on the republican side, have written letters to Chairman Dick offering their services in the campaign, with the proviso that &re not held by con- reasional duties in is to ve Lay speeches so far prove un- ini , Both Gov. McKinley and Mr. Neal confining the discussion to national issues. This sems to be by common consent. There is some criticism of Mr. Neal by democratic leaders because of this. think it would be better tactics to the governor's administration. It would instantly put the governor on the defensive. Governor McKinley ts evidently pleased to come, will undoubtedly influence many laborers who have been thrown out of em- ployment or bad their wages cut down in the last four months to believe the gover- Ror's statement that it was due to alatm on the part of capital lest the tariff laws be interfered with, and vote for him. In his opening speech at Newark Col. W. A. Taylor, the democratic candidate for Meutenant governor, dipped lightly into the Sensational by charging that Maj. Dick, chairman of the republican state executive committee, had entered into a contract with & pension attorney in Washington, D. C., by which his circulars were to be put into the hands of every soldier and soldier's descendant in this state. Besides paign literature the envelopes were to carry certain propositions for increase of pen- sions, and the recipients were asked to ad- dress the attorney, each inclosing five 2- postage stamps. Col. Taylor estimat- ed that there were 400,000 8 in Ohio to whom these letters would be addressed. By a system of approximation he arrived ‘t the conclusion that Maj. Dick and the attorney would realize at least $10,000 out of the scheme before the Fi Falls publication, In which he denies entered into any such agreement z ¥ f if money 4 ts back. The majority ha do the tiring-out act, but mi- nority they are supposed to be working on do not necessarily have to participate in the proceedings. : ih ‘Teller and Voorhees. haust Mr. Teller, by himséif staying in the Senate without food or rest, Mr. Teller may be asleep at his home, or more probably in his committee room, and the vigorous and brilliant young Senator from Idaho may be in the Senate to see that Mr. Voorhees . When the young Senator gets weary, Mr. Teller may return, All the filibusters have to do is to keep « few of their men there to keep up the talk and to see that the men who are trying to tire them out stay in the Senate all the while. It is not difficult to guess which side will be first to get weary. It is Mike the man who puts his finger between the other fellow's teeth to hold him. Sometimes the opposition will yield rather than go into « fight of this sort, but if they are willing to go into it there is no reason why they, who can take their ease, should get tired before the majority, who have to be constently on hand and watchful. Talk of wearing out a minority by a test of physical endurance is a flimsy fiction. All the wear is on the majority. A@ In this silver fight the anti-repeal men have an advantage for such @ fight in ad- dition to that of being a minority. They have a vigorous lot of men. There are vigorous men on the other side, but it is not enough that some of them should be so; they all have to stand the strain. Voorhees can no longer stand the physical strain he once could endure. Hoar is an old man. Dolph, though a big man, is not physically strong. Morrill ts, of course, quite feeble. Mills wears himself out in a short time. McPherson is not a man of powerful endurance. Sherman is pretty tough, but he is getting too old to make a successful test of strength with young men. Palmer is neither young nor strong, nor is Hawley. Platt has already told the Benat at _he does not enjoy the prospect of u test of his strength, and Cameron is not given to great exertion. Yet if these men do not take part in the proceedings through the long and weary hours of the fight, there is no use in the effort to tire out the opposition, for without them a quorum cannot be kept, and noth- ing can be done without quorum. ‘On the other side Teller and Stewart are not as young as they were twenty years ago, but they can probably go as long with- out rest as any men in the Senate. Pugh and George are like pine knots. Dubois and Wolcott are good for a foot race or a fast, can stand in the rush line or sit up to sce the sun rise without blinking. Cockrell was never known to get weary of anything he is interested in, He makes the other fellow tired. The Longest Talkers. In fact about the only man in the silver ranks who would have to be cared for is Morgan, and he will never get tired as long as he is talking. The longest talkers in the Senate, those who can keep it up for more hours without showing fatigue, are to be found on the anti-repeal side of this fight. There are a number of very active and tenacious men on the other side, such as Gorman, Gray, Allison, Aldrich and Vilas. But take them all and they cannot make a. quorum when their allies are worn out. If the anti-repeal men yield before the Prospect of @ test of physical endurance it will be not on account of fatigue, but for political reasons of because they are not as sure as they say that they have suf- ficient support behind them to warrant their making the fight. The majority have to sustain nearly all the fatigue of a continuous session. The majority must always rely on the generosi- ty of the minority or else they must have rules whieh will enable a vote to be reached at some time. Yet the adoption of a new Tule now might be more difficult than the President will rule in such a way as to end debate arbitrarily. ———__-e-______ STOPPED A STEAMS! Am American Medical Inspector Holds 'p the Augusta Victoria. A special cable dispatch to the Philadel- phia Press from London says: The steam- | ship Bertin of the American line, which} sails for New York tomorrow, was hardly | made fast to her dock at Southampton this | morning before the local officers of the line | were visited by a score or more of passen- | gers who were booked to sail today by the Hamburg-American steamer Augusta Vic- torla, but were informed on arrival at the com ’s pier by @ special train from London that thelr steamer would. be de- | tained forty-eight hours off Southampton to await the arrival of Dr. Nash, the Amer- ican resident inspector at Hamburg. This notification, taken together with the chol- era scare in Hamburg, caused the passen- gers booked on the Augusta Victoria to give her a wide berth. Among the passengers booked in London for the Augusta Victoria was Mrs. sames G. Blaine and her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Damrosch. They failed to! appear at Waterloo station this morning. | Possibly they had been privately warned that the vessel would not sail from South- ampton as advertised But fifty or more passengers aid go down | and are quartered at the Southwestern Ho- tel there tonight. Among them is Mr. Run-| dolph Robinson, a well-known New York | lawyer and an ex-governor of the Union | Club, who was to join his daughter Elcea- nor on board. Miss Robinson had taken passage at Hamburg. Among other pas- dengers who sailed from Hamburg are Mrs. | Halderman and daughters from Louisville, Ky., probably the wife and daughters of Waiter N. Halderman, the venerable co- adoption of the bill itself, unleas the Vice | t | has applied to him for prow Democratic newspapers have made much of the criticism of Governor McKinley members of the fourteenth regiment, cause of alleged hardships put regiment on Ohio day at the "s fair. about eight miles were accustomed to such work; #0 were overcome by Governor McKinley the heavy ing orders. It develops, regiment {itself was to’ Dla to be a dress parade after other exercises, and the f to make « —_ troops; so they carried in their knapsacks would have them to put on ‘This gave each man adiitional Boney penne to cary. fact tI i Hh ig ERT | i this the report that the turned into i a 3? Ex-Governor Campbell's victory curing the appointment of Joe Dowling be revenue collector at the talk of politicians here. It is that the ex-governor has in this case & political debt, at « doth to himself and his party. Gently demoralized the democrats, and probably lost a elect @ democratic delegation to lature. Under the control Cox, ex-Governor Foraker's tenant. | Hee f B. Jar movement, though not Same extent, has given the chance to carry Cuyahoga these two counties it would democrats Scent legislature. may be, therefore, Appointment Dowling will cost the democrats the state legislature with all that ‘story is published json ex-Governor Campbell Dowling getting this ing put 36,000 into the campaign to Campbell, and of course ist right,” said a democrat last he heard the story. “I lke grateful, as well as honcst; to pay one's debts with what belongs exclusively. ANGRY AT A CORRESPONDENT. He Made a Statement Refiecting on the Brunswick Authorities. At the joint meeting of the board of health and the relief assoctation at Pruns- wick, Ga., yesterday, after the reports of sickness from physicians, Col. Goodyear moved that both bodies, as the only guvern- mental organizations tn the city, go into joint session to consider a matter of vital importance. ‘The motion being carried, Col. Goodyear said:.“On yesterday we had occasion to de- ounce as untrue a statement made by Mr. Mike Eagan, correspondent of the Sa- vannah Evening Press, that the rauitary conditions here pointed out Brunswick as the pest hole of Georgia. Today we learn that in the issue of that paper on the 30th instant appears a statement which demands immediate action, and I ask that the secre- | tary read from the paper. The article was read, charging dissatiafac- tion with the authorities, The obnoxious statement was as follows: “Aifidavits are offered to your correspond- ent by people that a certain member of the relief canvassing committee offers to barter food certificates for virtue. “ it was headed by the Savannah Press “Food for Virtue.” Mr. Eagan was asked if he was the cor- respondent, and if he telegraphed this state- ment. He sald he was the correspondent, and telegraphed the statement. When asked which of the five canvassers the charges referred to, Wwe replied that he could not give the name now, but would de so later, with his proofs. Jacob’ E. Dart jumped to his fect and de- nounced Eagan in the most scathing terms. Col. Goodyear followed Mr. Dart. He was calm and collected, but the force of his arraignment was not less fearful, though in @ different form. Rev. Ed. F. Cook, D. Watson Winn and others present asked Eagan why he 423 not produce the names then, yut Eagan did not answer. ‘The excitement on the streets Jast night was intense, 4 a crowd of men met and agreed to give Eagan # chance to clear him- self, or else deal with him in a maaner nut to be mistaken. The regulators are quietly but determinedly organizing vo deal with Eagan and all persons laying themecives Hable. Chief of Police Beach says that Eagan ae ae andl was red that he sho have it. Jn discuss- ing the regulators, Chief Beach said he had two regular policemen, besides Assistant Levison. In addition to thove, he had @ fol! force of men who had been’ recently em. ployed, and he believed they wouid do thelr uty and help him to preserve order. He said that as long as it lay in his power he would suppress any and al! regulators, and he believed plenty of goud conservative citi gens would help him. se Rights of Mrs. Ab Fong's Chiteren. Collector of the Port West at San Fran- cisco is in @ Quandary as to how far the low applies to the right of Mrs. Ah Pong's chil- | dren to land in the United States. She ts proprietor with Henry Watterson of the | Courier-Journal. of Portuguese and Hawallan descent, be. her children are of Chinese descent.