Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1893, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, For Bo Coxps. La Grippe, Bronchitis, Croup, Whooping Cough, Asthma or any disorder of the Throat and Lungs, the best medicine 1s AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL. It isthe favorate snodyne with sinzers, actors, preach- ers and teachers. “‘Some ten years ago I had » bad cold which settled on my lungsand was so ill as to be unable to work. I Dewan to TAKE AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL, and in less than three weeks I was cured. I am quite sure that this oreperation saved my life.” M. T. POMEROY, Calais Me. “I take pleasare in voluntarily stating that of all she medicines I ever used for fresh colds and la grippe AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL is pre-eminently the most potent remedy. Ordinarily the most virulent cold vanishes in night asif by magic. Follow the directions and AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL wil ao the rest." GEO. H PIKE, Cadiz, Ky. AYER’S CHERRY PECTORAL Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. PROMPT TO ACT, SURE TO OURE 4LWAYS AVOID FURGATIVE PILLS. ‘They first make you sick and then leave you con- stipated. Carter's Little Liver Pills regulate the bowels and make you well. Dose, one pill. FOR D’ INDIGESTION AND STOMACH Sr pe ‘Toate. -It- rebuilds the system, cleans the blood and the muscles. A splendid medi- cime for weak and debilitated persons. 5 WOODBURY’S FACIAL SOAP Ree me Hale” toate. asd clear skis Also and Bars, Hair JOHN H. WOODBURY. Dermatologist, Fit at ctrect, ow Tesh. Consultation free, oct-1y treat: Ww THE BABY Is CUTTING TEETH BE SURE and use that old well-tried remedy, Mrs. slow's Syrup for children teething. GREAT GUNS OF GREAT NAVIES. The Expensive Guns Can Be Fired Only Seventy-Five Times. Two of the mammoth 10-ton guns, upon which the British admiralty has so proudly commented as the “modern naval artillery,” and which cost about $100,000 each, went down into seventy fathoms of water with the battle ship Victoria, and in connection with this fact there must have been awak- ened much interest among readers as to Whether such heavy war weapons, heavier than any yet made for the United States navy, and heavier than will probably be built, are a wise addition to a modern war vessel. And yet this big gun is not a new thing, as it practically dates back twelve years. About forty of these big guns have . been built and some of them were sent to Italy. It is easy to comprehend among navy officers that such guns are an expen- sive luxury, not only in the actual cust of the gun and its ammunition, but also in the size of the ships required to carry them. Bu. what wiil bé of most interest to lay People is the quantity and cost of ammu- nition, and the life of the gun itself. The best ordnance experts calculate the life of the 110-ton gun to be seventy-five rounds with full charges. The 110-ton gun, and in- deed all large guns, are fired with slow burning cocoa powder, the name cocoa be- img derived from the brown color of the powder. It is shaped in hexagonal prisms, this being the most convenient form of packing, and 10,000 of these prisms are need- ed to make a full charge for this monster gun. Each prism is pierced with a hole in the center to give ready access to the flame and insure an equable ignition. For nearly all naval guns the powder charge is made up of four cartridges, but, owing to the ex- traordinary weight of the 110-ton gun charge @8 pounds), it is divided into eight cart- ridges, each weighing 120 pounds. To load the gun it is necessary to bring it to its extreme elevation, that is, the muzzle is pointed upward as far as it can be on the mount; and these operations follow: (1) Un- lock and unscrew the breech-block; (2) with- draw the breech-block; (3) traverse breech- block to one side; (4) place the loading tray in the gun; swab out the gun; (6) ram home, or put into place, the projectile; (7) lace the first charge; (8) place and ram e the second half charge; (9) withdraw the loading tray; (10) replace the breech- screw; Gl) screw up and lock the breech- screw. The gun is then ready to be sighted by the captain of the turret from his conning tower. It is fired by electricity. The gun can. be loaded and fired within two and a half minutes. The projectile used in the gun, when ships or forts are attacked, weighs 1,800 pounds, or only 200 pounds less than a ton, and it leaves the muzzle with a velocity of 2,10 feet a second, and has a destructive energy equal to 55,306 foot-tons. When tested before mounting on the Sans- pareil three years ago the shot tore its way through specially manufactured steel armor 20 inches thick, and yet the armor belt of the Victoria ranged from 16 to 18 inches in thickness only. In addition to the 20 inches thickness of steel the shot went through 8 inches of iron fastened in a heavy wrough- fron frame, 20 feet of oak baulks, 6 feet of granite blocks, ll feet of concrete and 6 feet ef brick. In other words it went through # 1-3 feet of a wall unique in history for combination of width and variety and strength of materials. The cost of one fir- ing of this gun was $400 for the powder and $600 for the projectile and fuses; and after 7% rounds there wduld be the cost of the gun to add, namely, $100,000. In firing the gun against a body of men or a flotilla of boats.it is intended to use shrapnel, a drum-like cylinder of steel, in- closing 2,300 four-ounce bullets. As soon as the shrapnel bursts the bullets go flying on, the spinning of the shell caused by the rifled grooves of the gun spreading them out over a large area. When a shell is used it is charged with powder, which causes it to explode and scatter its pieces with great destruction. +o+____ BILLIARD BALLS. They Are Costly Things aud Repre- sent a Life Taken for Each One. From the Million. The globe of ivory which is knocked about @ table in a game of billiards costs, ‘f of good quality, at least £2. This represents ils cost in money. There is, however, « far more important and formidable element in the price which has been paid for it. The billiard ball of pure ivory represents, as it Mes white and glistening upon the cloth, an expenditure of human life-blood as well as of money. Elephants’ tusks are brought down to the African coast by caravaas, generally in charge of Arabs, which have been trading in the interfor. Very often they have picked up slaves as well as ivory. But this phase of the matter may be left out of the account. It is estimated that every targe caravan bringing ivory to the coast has cost more than i60 human lives through fights and murders in the course of the expedition: Thirty more men are likely to have suc- cumbed to fevers or other diseases and the fatigues of the march. The hunting of the elephants and the capture of the ivory cre very likely to have caused the death of ten men altogether. Such casualties are the rule in elephant hunting rather than the exception. An average tusk does not furnish mcre than enough material for two good billiard balls. Of course the remainder of the ivory in each tusk 1s made use of in other ways: & perfect cut billiard ball requires spectai quality, or so-called “nesve.”” which 1s found one part of the tusk. The chances are that a billiard ball of the first quality has cost at least one human life; and there is not one such ball which may not t.uly be said to be stained with men's biood. be considered, therefore, & cheerful accompaniment to a seusitive person's diversion. Lady Colin Campbell, who some months &go informed a gaping world that kissing ruins the complexion, has now reached the conclusion that all women should smoke Cigarettes. If the ladies adopt the latter Proposition they need have no fears for their complexions. A female with a cigarett tainted breath is about as kissable an object Qe an aged he goat PAY HEAVY TAXES. Men Who Have Fortunes in Wash- ington Real Estate. THE SHOWING OF THE TAX BOCK Many Whose Assessments.Go Over Five Figures. AN INTERESTING LIST. Washington does not count many million- aires among its citizens, but there are many here whose circumstances might be described as exceedingly comfortable. The new tax books just made up from the re- vised assessment show what citizens of the District own in the way of real estate. The books of course show the judgment of the assessors as to the value of the prop- erty. A representative of The Star who has gone over the books has prepared the following list of taxpayers whose real es- G. tate is valued at $40,000 or more. The names are given as they appear on the tax books. In sdme cases the names have passed beyond the reath of the tax gather- er. In such instances the name represents the estate. A man is not dead in the as- sessors’ eyes until his estate has been set- tled up and the property borne under other names. According to the books the heaviest as- sessment against an individual name is that of W. W. Corcoran, representing the Corcoran estate. The Corcoran property is valued at $1,264,472, Next comes Caleb C. Willard,who will pay taxes on $966,861 worth of real estate. Samuel Norment'’s estate is Put down for $682,396; B. H. Warder ts cred- ited with $663,916 worth of houses and lands; J. C. Willard has the comfortable figure of $608,281 set opposite his name; John R. Mc- Lean comes next to him with an assess- ment of $479,650. The Corcoran assessment is greater than that of any individual and of any corporation except the Washington Gas Company, which heads the list with an assessment of $1,329,716. The Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company's prop- erty in Washington is assessed at $599,699, in Georgetown at $117,084, and in the county at $112,562, making a total of $829,28. The Washington’ Market Company is charged with $614,888 worth of property. But the list given below shows for itself: Atlantic Building Company. Anheuser Busch Brewing Co. 108,756 Ethan Allen .......... 61,503 Elizabeth K. Anderson eee 539 Arlington Fire Insurance Co. 3 |J. Harrison Johnso1 longs | Wm: W. Johnstoi | Charles King... George C. Ames.. . 43,161 Henry B. Adams. . 60, John J. Albright... . 82,164 | John A. Aspinwall. . 41,945 N. L. and E. K. Anderson. 76,286 Army and Navy Club. 44,045 American Security and T: 127,298 Annie V. Barbour 72,647 Alice P. Barney. 44,314 Amnon Behrend. 49,201 Alex. Bentley, jr. - 50,283 Alex. Bliss. . Ti 884 Alex. T. . 44,222, Alex. T. Britton e1 . 55,583 A. B. Brown and H. . 41,904 Alex. M. Brueu. . 45,083 A. H. Bugher.. 47,529 Augustus Burgdorf. . 198,160 Benj. Beall. 3 86,316 Charles Baum. . 93,650 Charlotte M. Bridge. . 61,866 Daniel Birtwell...¢. . 57,542 Emily E. Briggs.. . 67,016 Builders’ Exchange Imp. Co. . 65,836 Frederick Bates... . 98,996 Frank T. Browning. . 73,292 Frank P. Burke . 43,579 George Bancroft . 68,581 George 5 . 45,401 George W. Brown . 70,081 H. M. Baker.... 5 184,420 Harriet S. Blaine. . 78,272 Herman Burkhart. . 55,540 John A. Baker.... . 137,827 James W. Barker. . 52,124 James Blair.... . 41,266 James G. Blaine. . 55,645 Joseph F. Bradley 47,206 James R. Brevoos' 78,860 Jerome N. 40,342 James W. Boteler. 51,429 Joseph Bryan. 47,631 Joseph Bryan... 48,942 Joseph B. Bryan L. A. Barr and F. 114,395 113,784 171,336 Baltimore and Ohio . ‘285,167 Baltimore and Potomac Railr’d Co. 705,668 Richard Barry. at teeseescees: . 7,211 Robert Beverly and Robert Samuel Bieber... Samuel R. Bond. A.Hooe Wm. Ballantyne. Wm. L. Brumhall. W. W. Burdette Anthony J. Clarke. Allen C. Clarke. Albert Carry.. Columbia Athletic Club of D. C. Augustus B. Coppes. Blanche Carter. Benj. Charlton.. 2 BEBREEIE RS @ Chas. P. Crandall. 98.530 Chris Cammack, § 5 68,307 Calderon Carlisle and A. T. Brice, trustees .. + 137,810 Calderon Carlisle et al. 66,483 Calvin Cain... 56,763 Chas. Christiant. Columbian College. c. B. Church and Dorsey E. W. Fitzhugh Coyle.... George W. Cochran. G. G. Cornwall. H. S. Cummings. Carroll Institute. J. D. Cameron. : Sno. Cammack and B. F. Leighton, trustees .......... J. Fairfax Carpenter Ro John Miller. Jas. J. Clark. 49,175 J. B. Cralle 93,169, J. F. Cook. 72,488 J. T. Coombe. 48,158, Julia A. Cox. Kate T. Carlisle. Lawrence Cavanaugl Letitia G. Chandler. Lewis Clephane. Mildred E. Carlish . 60,318 Mary E. M. Clove 44,388 Mary E. Cullinan . 69,187 Capitol, North O Street and South Washington Railroad Company.. 183,241 Phillippa Caulfield. CS Patrick Cullinane. R. G. Campbell. 40,649 46,556 . W. Corcoran et 201,669 Walter S. Cox... 176,980 Colymbus Delano. - 44,007 Christopher Dickson, 77,065 E. W. Donn...... . 51,841 George T. Dearing. : 10s. Henry Dickson... . 50. J. C. Bancroft Davis. . 57. Jno. C. Davidson . 73, Dick..... 49. J. R. Dos Passos. 112.936 Donn.. 44,705, . Dubant. 52,821 jot. Downing. Sam’! Drury... W. W. _Danenhower. W. O. Dennison. Anton Eberly. Bls . Emory. Chas. Early.... Chas. Edmonston G. E feet. o..-.... John W. Easby John 0. Evans Louis H. Emme L. H. Emmert an Matthew G. Emery holas Eckhard lolph Eichhorn Evening Star Thomas Ev: Abram P. Fardon. | Abraham Fisher. 7! James G. Payne. Ino. M. Gregory, et al. trustees. James Gibbons (arch) Jacob Gideon. Grand Lodge, I. Matthew M. Galt. Michael Gatti... Mary A. Grisw6éld F. J. Heiberger sevece G. F. Harbin and E. F. Arnold, trustees ..... M. D. Heusey and K. C. Ferre! Phoebe A. Hearst... Phaeton Herdic Company. Robert R. Hitt. Geo. J. Johnson. H. 8. Johnston. Jos. R. Johnson. Wm, P. Jenks.. Charles W. King. Edgar 8. Kennedy and isaac N. Davis Daniel Loughran Henry Landon, t Harvey Lindsey. Mary T. C. Leite Metropolitan Club. Caroline F. Morgan. ion Mueller... cis Masi. Francis Miller. . B. Mi G. W. Geo, A. Geo. E. Helen I. Mor T. Munson.. Isabella C. May Jas. McMillan Jas. E. Miller. J. H, McGowan. Jas. E. Morgan. John Moore... Levi P. Morton Massachusetts Life Insurance Co. M. C. Mei Sarah P. Mickun. Sam'l C. McDowell. 8. T. G. Morrill. Theodore J. Mayer. W. F. Mattingly wm. Washington nal W. G. Metzerott.... , trust. for Jane . B. Moses........ Wm. W. McCulloug! Allison Nailor, jr... Adelir.e M. Noble et al..... National Bank of the Republic. National Bank of Washington. Belden Noble. Florida Y. Neff. F. G. Newlands and F. W. Sharon, trust ete National Hotel Company John W. Nairn... Jos. H. H. Newhan: John Noonan.... Northern Liberty Association National Metropolitan Bank. Northern Market Company. National Safe Deposit Company. Samuel V. Niles. Samuel Norment. National Insurance Washington... Washington T. Nailor. Wm. M. O. Nixon Henry Orth Owen O'Hare. Simon Oppenheimer. . Stmon and Gustav Oppenheimer. Williem O’Brien.. . Anastasia Patten Anthony Pollock. Portland Apartment House. Charles H. Parke: Dwight J. Partello. Daniel W. Prer ti: President and Dir town College. Estelle T. Paine George 8. Parker. Geo. H. Plant, tru: Geo. 8. Pepper. Geo. W. Phillips Henry E. Pellew. Julia D. Paine.. Jas. W. Patterson. Company, Joseph Prather. John W. Pilling John Purdy... Lizzie M_ Palmer. Myron M. Parker. Mary E. Patten et al. 2 Phoenix Life Insurance i Robert Portner. Sarah A. E. Perry et al. Smith Pettet . Smith Pettet and Jas. Dripps Samuel L. Phillips. Samuel L. Porter. . H. Payne. Wm. E. Prall Christian Rupert. David H. Rice. Richmond and Danville R. R. Co. &. Francis Riges et al. ©. Francis Riees. Raward A. Rollins. George T. Raub. James Richmond. John Riley.... Jeannie T. Rives. Matilda Rutherford. Philip K. Reilly. Robert Reyburn lam. Bernard Schlosberg. Chas. A, Schneider. Chas. W. Simpson Celestia A. Smith. Chester A. Snow. G. F. Schafer.. Geo. J. Seufferle Geo. A. Shehan. John G. Slater... John H. Small et al. John Sherman Jesse A. Sunderland. Louis M. Saunders. Louis H. Schneider. Martin J. Spaulding. Michael Shea........ St. Patrick's Church. Philetus J. Sawyer. P. A. Sellhausen.. Sarah S. Stone. ‘Phos. Swann. Theodore Sheckels. Thos. W. Smith. Thos. Somerville | Anna R. Taylor. |C. G. Thorn...... Edward T. Tayloe. Elias Travers.....: | Edward Temple et | Edward Temple. 70,335 | James ‘Travers 45,755 | Joseph Travers... 44,057 | J. W. Thompson and H. H. Well: 59,044 ducius Tuckennan.. 45,960 Michael Talty...... 54,489 , Marion V. Thompson. ee *__ | Traders’ National Bank of Wash- 53,775 | ington. as teseevinaes: 7,976 | Nelite O. Taylor. 43,758 Parthenla Thyson. 50, 45,457 | William Thompson. 92,068 | William S. Thompso! 73,811 | Agnes Upshur.......... 92,847. Union Building Company. 45,968 | University Club. \) George Jona” T, Varnell. $9,867; James M. Varnum, tru: 111,861 | Joha F. Vogt. 46.561 | John L. Vogt 59,922 | Alexandria C. 146,148 | Asa. Whitehead 66,192 Anna R. Wilma: 98,558 | Washington Brewin: 54.599 |B. H. Warder. sse9g | Brainard H. 105,295 | Washington Brewing 55.433 | Charles Wheatley. gtsio | Caleb C, Willard. 92,353 | Charles 1. Wilson... , D. A. Windsor....... | Ellen M. Warder... ‘Ellen M. Ware . 56,049 72,074 Washington Gas Compan: Washington and Georgetown Ry John Wannamaker.. James White. J.C. Willard: Jeremiah M. Wilson Washington Light Infantry Co. Washington Loan and Trust Co... Levi Woodbury. Mary a a eae Washington Market Co. 104.688 | Mf'T. Weller and G. R. Repetti M. William... Minerva S. Wyne. Rosa Wallack and Jesse Brown. Washington Real Estate Co. Samuel H. Walker........ Washington Safe Deposit Co. Sarah Adams Whetmore. Woodward and Lothrop Thos. E. Waggamen, trust. of es- tate of John Lenthall. Thomas Wilson... William T. Walker William Walters. aA ms William J. Wi Deniel L. Yulee. ‘The Georgetown assessments $40,000 are as follow Edward L. Dent George T. Dunlop. Henry H. Dodge. Reuben Daw. Georgetown G John Gibbons. BW. Kennor John EB. Libby Louis Mackall. Metropolitan R. R. Josephine A. Simmons Washington and Geo! R. Co.... Joseph Weaver. In the County. fo> $40,000 or over: American Security and Trust Co.. Amzi L. Barber. Chapin Brown & J. L.Alkins,trust. Emily Beale eee H. J. & 8. F. B. Biddle. Chas. M. Campbell...... Columbian Heights Land Co. Jas. D. Cameron Amanda M. Dean. A. J. Drexel... ©. Withelmina Dobbins. D. B. Groff.. vere Gardiner G. Hubbard John B, Hende-son... R. O. Holtzman and G. W Swartzell Wm. A. Hammond Co David McClelland. | Metropolitan R. R. Co. Aulick Palmer. Julia T. Peck M. M. Parker & John D. Norton, trust . Richardson trust for Scheutz-n Park John Sherman & Alfred M. ‘Jeorge Truesdell... E. Waggaman and John Ridout - ny Washington Loa‘ E M. M. Parker and John D. Norton. Agricultural Lands, t al W. A. Gordon ana C C. Duncan- son, trustec john F. Hurst. Ivy City Brick Co Sophia 8. Kale... *rancis Mattingly francis G. Newlands. ‘atherine Pearson (heir: ‘onway Robinson M. Roveson and Effie H. Saul. Archibald White Washington Brick Maichine Co. exceeding Following is a list of owners of property in the county (not agricultural) assessed D. ©, THURSDAY, OCTOBER’ 26, 18983—TWELVE PAGES. ~ BEETS E3 7, 07, 41, 102, 64, 40, sank a8 2282 2238 Ba8 8 s agssiies PEELE EEE ETS an & § B222K Ed PERGCEEEEER EPS Bria seebsiae eseneze Boks Seeeaseee BReEBES 235 BLERE 2 Bt 2 5 3 TeV ews BSSSRQBSeazs gaeSse Zz & 53 410 $49,429 86,312 67,518 52,666 4ft5s7 248,314 42,948 121.465 206,837 82,946 43,341 48,168 115,474 114,201 126,730 189,62" 54,28 $43,500 134,908 63,080 52,500 BOS. S. W. HADDAWAY DEAD. The Ohaplain of the House Passes Away This Morning. Brief Sketch of His Ministerial Career His Work in Churches tn This City. Rev. Samuel W. Haddaway, the chap- lain of the House and the pastor of Marvin M. E. Church, passed away at 4 o'clock this morning. The end has been expected for the past two days, and his friends and fam- ily were with him at his death. He had been for many years suffering with Bright's disease, and about two weeks ago was forc- ed to abandon his duties at Congress in his church, ’ It was believed, however, that his con- dition was not critical until last Tuesday, when he lapsed into: unconsciousness from which he never really recovered. His Ministé Career. Rev. Mr. Haddaway was born forty-three years ago, in August, 185@, at St. Michael's, Talbot county, Md. on the eastern shore. His father was a prominent wholesale dry goods merchant in Baltimiore for over thirty years, and Dr. Haddaway was brought up and educated on the eastern shore. He entered the ministry in 1568, and preached his first sermon when only nineteen years of age, at Freedom, Carroll county, Md., in the Baltimore circuit, Later on he was transferred to the Beltville circuit, and was from time to time stationed in Baltimore, Piedmont and Moorefield, West Va. and Middleburg and Falls Church, Va. His Work in This City. In '85 he took charge of the Mount Ver- non Chureh of this city, and during his four years’ stay raised the church to its prominent position. From here he went to the Central station in Baltimore, where his health broke down and he was obliged to take a year's rest. It was only last March that he came to this city, founding and dedicating the Mar- vin Church, of which he became pastor, as well as the Grace M. E. Church on Capitol Hill. In August, at the meeting of the extra session, he was the choice for chaplain of the House, which position he has since filled, the successor of Dr. Milburn. He was married in February, 1874, to Mollie E. Tompson, and his wife and a daughter of thirteen years survive him. He lost one son and two daughters. During his last illness he was attended by Doctors Hyatt and Brownell of this city and his father-in-law, Doctor Tompson. . As a preacher Dr. Haddaway was.a man of great force and magnetism and popular among his many friends here and in sur- rounding states. His two brothers, Rev. C. M. Haddaway of the Philadelphia confer- ence, and T. D. Haddaway, the general man- ager of the New York Life Insurance Com- pany for the District, were with him in his last hours, and his many friends have filled the house during the day. The Funeral Arrangements. The funeral will take place at the Marvin M. E. Church, corner of 10th and B streets, at half-past 4 oclock tomorrow afternoon. Dr. Smithson, the presiding elder of the dis- trict, will conduct the services, and on Sat- urady morning the remains will be taken to Freedom, Md., and interred just opposite the hall where he preached his first sermon twenty-four years ago. Action of the House. ‘When the House assembled this morning, Mr. Richardson of Tennessee offered a res- olution declaring the profound regret of the House at the death of Dr. Haddaway, and providing for the appointment of a com- mittee of seven members to attend the funeral as a mark of respect. The resolu- tion was unanimously agreed to, and the Speaker appointed Messrs. Compton, Rich- ardson, Dingley, Cockerill of Texas, Kyle, Curtis of New York and Cobb of Alabama. The members of the House also cohtribu- ted a handsome floral offering for the funeral. —_——>—__ Bancoed in Chicago. From the Chicago Post. Wise folk who walk along in the vicinity of the Masonic Temple are continually on the lookout for bumps. The countryman who comes—and goes—invariably stops in open-mouthed wonder to gaze upward to- ward the gigantic sky-splintering building, and then there is a brief season of bump- ing and blocking and falling, and sentences culled from strongest English, and then the countryman restarts on his way, a sadder and a wiser man. It is an occurrence of every five minutes or so, and the habitues look for it. Yesterday an old man with a cracked and shiny satchel, tied together with brown twine, stood in the old familiar pose, looking up until his eyebalis seemed to have eatirely disappeared in a sea of white. “Great building, ain’t it?” remarked a smooth and snug individual at his elbow. “Great, by gol!” ejaculated the old man. “But it ain't a circumstance now to what it is when it moves. You ought to see it turn round!" went on the newcomer. “Turn round!” said the old man, “that ‘t turn round, man. It’s solid!” Yes, but it moves, just as easy as a spool on a pivot. Turns once every two hours!" “Dash my luck! An’ here I got tew catch y train in half an h te ‘oo bad! Too bad!” quoth the old fel- nee acquaintance. “It’s great, I I can’t stay; but ef I could see it I'd be willing to give up a dollar!” “Perhaps I could fix it. The engineer is a friend of mine, and I think he might to give her an extra turn for a $2 bill!" The old man sighed, looked regretfully at the great building, looked again, then thrust his hand into his pocket and fished from the recesses of a worn leather bag a brand-new, crisp $2 bill. “Paint very flush,” he said as he handed it to the stranger, “but I don’t want to go home without seeing that thing twirl, and this is cheape> than stopping over a train and getting another ticket.” So he handed the bill to the stranger, and he— “He never came back Honor at Home. From the Detroit Free Press. A number of citizens from some interior town arrived at the 3d street depot yester- day by special car, and, as they were gath- ered outside in a body, an old man who be- longed with them said to a carriage driver, yho was soliciting a fare: we ‘ee that feller with the brown hat on?” “Well, if he comes this way be mighty slick 2nd polite to him, for he’s the biggest man in our town.” “Who is he, anyway?” Phe old man advanced, raised himself on his tiptoes and whispere3: r. Smith, and he owns the race track, is foreman of the fire company and owns two-thirds of a mill-dam a hundred feet eee Princess Marguerite of Orleans, daughter | of the Due de Nemours, died of consump- | tion yesterday at Paris. Thomas W. Palmer, president of the world’s fair commission, was the guest of | honor at a magnificent banquet tendered last night in Chicago by his colleagues on the commission. x ‘The special race between Lamplighter, Yo Tambien and Clifford, to be run off Satur- day, Is the topic of much discussion in sporting circles. Capt. Wm. Cranfield and the thirty harty tars who manned the Valkyrie in her races } against the Vigilant sailed for home yes- terday on the steamship Teutonic. The suit of Mrs. Mary O. Davis for $6,000 from the estate of Walt Whitman for money alleged to have been given the dead poet and for services rendered as house- keeper, has begun at Camden. Letters from Rio Janeiro say that Presi- dent Petxoto has issued a decree restrict- ing the liberties and privileges of foreigners in’ Brazil. COST OF THE NAVY. Annual Report of Paymaster General Stewart. UNUSUAL DEMANDS PROMFTLY MET. Against Purchasing in All Cases From the Lowest Bidder. SOME RECOMMENDATIONS. —_—__>—____ Paymaster General Stewart, U. 8. N., has made his annual report to the Secretary of the Navy for the fiscal year ending June 30 last. The report was made public this morning and shows that the demands upon the department of supplies and accounts during the past year have been unusually great, owing to the presence in navy yard ports for very considerable periods of the largest number of ships in commission and preparing for commission witnessed for muy years. Capability of the System. That these demands, innumerable, multi- farious, and urgent, have been met quietly and with so little delay, shows the capabil- ity of the system under which we are work- ing, and indicates the degree of progress made in its development. Its further suc- cess depends now and henceforth on the interest evinced in it by the officers to whom its administration is committed, the cepacity and fidelity of the appointees in the general storekeeper’s department at the several yards, and the employment in this bureau of a sufficient force of capable and experienced bookkeepers. In this respect the bureau is sadly deficient at the present time. Expert accountants are absolutely indispensable in the department of supplies and accounts, both in the bureau itself and at the several yards. The general store- keeper is a bonded officer and held to a strict accountability for the property com- mitted to his care. The accounts which in minute detail he is obliged tc maintain, the information and reports he is constantly called upon to furnish, and the vast amount of current work that is at all times de- manding the closest and most painstaking attention, render it absolutely necessary that the persons appointed for duty in his office should be men of more than intelligence, ability, and experience. I would respectfully recommend that such regulations be established as shall require these employes to pass a satisfactory ex- amination before receiving appointments. An Assistant Chief Recommended. It seems to me fitting and desirable, in view of the amount of business demanding the attention of the paymaster general and the weighty responsibility resting upon him, that there should be an assistant chief of the bureau of supplies and accounts, and I recommend that Congress be asked to authorize that an officer of the pay corps shall be detailed as assistant chief of the bureau of supplies and accounts, who shall act as chief of bureau in the absence of the paymaster general, and who shall receive the sea pay of his grade. The act of August 5, 1882, provided that the number of paymasters should be re- duced from fifty to forty, the passed as- sistant paymasters from thirty to twenty and the assistant paymesters from twenty to ten. Since this reduction has been ef- fected considerable embarrassment has been experienced from the lack of a suffi- cient number of officers in the lower grades. Owing to the greater number of vessels now in commission and the import- ance of having assistants to the general storekeepers alt navy yards, it would be greatly to the interest of the service to restore the grade of assistant paymaster to its original number; and I therefore recommend that Congress be asked to fix the number of it paymasters at twenty, and that hereafter all appoint- ments to the pay corps be made from grad- uates of the Naval Academy. , As to Purchasing Supplies, ‘The purchase of supplies in all cases from the ‘lowest bidder is neither advantageous nor economical, but on the contrary is pro- ductive oftentimes of serious delay in ob- taining necessary and urgently needed ar- ticles, owing to repeated rejections, involv- ing not infrequently additional expense to the government, and the delivery finally of the poorest article that will pass inspec- tion, an article which, by reason of in- ferior quality, must soon be replaced, ne- cessitating further expenditure of money. The navy has suffered for many years from being obliged to make its purchases from the lowest bidder, and I recommend that Congress be asked to authorize awards to be made “to the lowest responsible bid- der for the best and most suitable article,” in conformity with the law governing the purchase of supplies for the use of the army. The method adopted for the preparation and assembling, prior to the commissioning of a ship, of articles of outfit and supplies needed ‘for her is attended with excellent results. When a ship is put out of commission surveys cre called on her outfit and stores, after which all serviceable articles of a per- manent character are set aside for. that particular ship. She can be recommissioned at any moment. Her allowance book gives immediate information as to what is to be placed on board, and the general store- keeper, having a record of what is set aside for her, is enabled, without further instructions, to complete her-outtit. The tabulated statements appended in- dicate the business transacted in the bu- reau in the past fiscal year, its character. volume and infinite detail. The money for which account is rendered in the financial Settlement is about $50,000,000, — Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the ther- Mmometer at the weather bureau today: 8a.m., 42:2 p. m., 59; maximum. 60; minimum, 40. > — A Cyclone’s Queer Freak, From the Indianapolis Journal. “Cyclones does some funny things,” began the man with the ginger beard. The grocer almost showed signs of interest, while the man from Potato creek stopped’ pounding his heel against the counter and prepared to listen. “I was ketched in a cyclone when I was farmin’ in Nebrasky that carried me about a mile high,” continued the man with the ginger beard, “but, strange to say, it didn’t damage my clo’es none—that is, with one exception. After they had picked me up an’ kinder got me round agin, they took me home an’ laid me on the bed. My wife she begun pullin’ off my boots. She tuk one off, and then she tuk the other off, and then she says: “Why, paw, whatever has become of your socks? I know as well as I’m a livin’ thet you put ‘em on this mornin’.’ “And so I did, but that there exhibition of the resistless forces of nature, as the Paper called it, had pulled off both socks without disturbin’ of my boots at all, and that ain’t no le neither.” The man with the ginger beard then wan- dered out, and the grocer said to the man from Potato creek: “That there old man never comes in here but what I always feel like the store was liable to be struck with lightning or some- thing.” ee as Short Cut to Wealth, From the Detroit Free Press. The visitor at the business man's desk might have been a tramp, and he might not. In any event, he was not there ask- ing a loan. “Do you wan't to know how to make a dollar?” he inquired politely. “Yes, I'd like to know how to make sev- replied the puzzled business man. : u can, sir, but, of course, you must know how to make one first.” “That's so. Tell me how. ‘My information ts valuable, sir, it will cost you 10 cents.” “That's two beers?” “Yes, sir, including the lunch that goes with 3 “Here’s two dimes. Now tell me.” “Well, sir, when a friend strikes-you for % lend him $4. Good morning, sir,” and as |the visitor passed out the business man remarked that it wasr’t half as bad as begging a dime, anywa: —_—_—_—_—_—_ ALL LOVERS OF BABIES WHO SAW THE beautifel off painting representing the “Awake ing of Love,”” in the Mellin’s food exhibit at the 's fair, will be glad to know that the V's fair ‘commissioners have grunted to Mel- lin's food the hiehest award for infants’ foods— @ medal and a diploma. ‘ we SUNNNETTERERE LTTE ggg LETTS oval Pure A cream of tartar baking pow- der. Highest of all in leavening strength.—Latest United States Government Food Report. Royal Baking Powder Oo., 106 Wall &., N.Y. Why He Wouldn't Forgive Him, From the Chicago Evening Post. “Forgive him!” exclaimed the great ora- tor. “No, sir! There are some things that @ man can never forgive. If it were only an ordinary quarrel I could forgive him; if we had had a stand-up-and-knock-down fight I could forgive him; if he had slander- ed me I might forget it, but some things man cannot forget, however hard he may wy. ‘Did you have a political argument with him?" asked the great politician. “No; we were both on the same side of the political fence.” “Both fall in love with the same girl?” inquired the young lover. “No; he never knew the girl I married.” “Tried to beat you by underhand means in some business transaction possibly?’ suggested the business man. “Never. I never had any business deal- ings with him. I'll tell you wheat it was, though. I was making a speech one night— it was the effort of my life—and he was carried the audience with me, as I told the little story I had interpolated to illustrate the point I was making. sound in the vast that the people were hanging on every word, every syllable that I uttered. And at that moment—the very moment of my triumph. “Well?” asked the others together as he hesitated. “At that moment this man yelled ‘Louder!’ ” ooo There was to have been a meeting of the Intercollege Foot Ball Association in New York last night, but it was interfered with by the railroad accident at Lawrence, on the Pennsylvania rafiroad In the afternoon. pital erday at ‘Berlin suffering, with yest at Asiatic cholera ‘te SHEPHERD." On Wednesday, October i o'clock a.m, THOMAS E., eldest James: 5 _ Fi 4 = Shepherd, in the Precious darling, he has rans ieee = But again we hope to incet thee ‘On that bright and ha) shore. UNCLE GRORGE. BY Puveral from bis parents’ residence, 1315 K street southeast. then to I Methodtet Church, Friday, October 27, 3 p.m. Relatives And friends invited to attend. (Baltimore Sun please copy.) : STITH. At the Lovlse Home, October 25, 2 Mrs. CLARA MORSELL, widow of the Girard Stith of Louisiana. 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