Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1893, Page 4

4 THE EV THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. FRIDAY.............November 10, 1893. CROSBY Ss. NOYES. Eaitor. 5 ~ fHE EVENING STAR has a regular and permanent circulation in Washing- tom more than three times larger t that of any other paper. As a News and Advertising Medium it has | mo competitor. C7 Letters to THE STAR should be so addressed, or to the Editorial or Basi- mess Department, according to their character or purpose, not to any indi- vidual connected with the office. —$———_—_—___—_ The average taxpayer, the honest and un- assuming citizen who thinks that govern- mental business should be conducted in ac- cordance with the principles by which pri- vate enterprises are profitable, will, if he is informed on the subject, indorse the propo- sition to place in charge of Gen. Thomas Lincoln Casey, chief of engineers, the con- struction of the new post office building, as well as the building of a safe and capa- clous government printing office. There is great probability that these propositions will become facts during the coming ses- sion of Congre: for, from the utterances of Chairman Sayers of the House commit- tee on appropriations, and Senator Cock- rell, chairman of the same committee of the Senate, it is evident that those two powers have given the idea hearty indorsement. | All the work which has been done in this | city under the supervision of Gen. Casey has been well done. The State, War and Navy building, the Washington monument and the almost-completed Congressional Library bnilding tell the tale with convinc- | ing force. Solidity of construction, achieved economically ani yet without sacrificing an essential detail or an artistic effect, challenges comparison. In every instance the work has been done within the time planned, for less than the original estimate of cost; and In a manner creditable to the government and-to-the national capital. In the construction of the State, War and Navy and the new Library buildings Gen. Casey has been ably assisted by one of the most thoroughiy competent civil engineers im the country—Mr. Bernard Green—and to | him would be committed the detalls of su- perintendence. should Congress decide to do that which it ought to do as to the lin- gering post office and the imperatively needed printing office structures. The transition from politics of the most ex- pensively practical sort to the economy of non-partisan business is extremely de- sirable. Our public buildings should com- bine in their construction the best archi- | tectural thought and unexceptionable qual- ities of material and workmanship, but they rever will so long as the politician has control. ——~+ o> & few among New York's republicans, unreasonably exultant oyer the happenings of Tuesday, have proposed the honoring of ‘Thomas C. Platt an¢ the chairmen of the republican state and city committees by serenades and handsomely-engrossed a/- dresses. This is absurd. No sane being who knows anything of the causes that re- suited in republican victory in New York state is willing to ascribe any degree of | eredit to the republican machine. That organization—less objectionable than Tam- many only because it is less powerful and has, fewer opportunities—was not in any sense a factor. It was inactive from the day when it nominated one of the weakest tickets ever known in the city of New York and a state ticket that was designed to be sacrificed. At no time in recent years hag the conscientious voter seen in either the republican or democratic machine of New York anything that looked like clean politics and this discreditable condition of affairs kept thousands of decent voters away from primaries, conventions and Folls. The republican managers who man- ipulated the nominations for the recent election in the empire state had no hope of success and really did not desire it. For @ mess of patronage they have again and again sold the interests of the party which they pretended to serve and there is ample testimony of close relationship with the worst elements of their political opponents. They had calculated upon defeat at this time in the execution of a deal by which democratic support for the republican can- didate for judge of appeals at the last elec- tion was to be repaid by allowing the elec- tion of the democratic candidate (May- nara) for judge this year. But the plans of the “bosses” of both parties were sunk under the great wave of non-partisan de- cency that swept over the state. —_>+=—____ Trolley advocates who are wilfully blind to the merits of any other system of street car propulsion are discreetly dumb just Row as to the work that is being done by the company that controls and operates the Second avenue line in New York city. Since last May six storage battery cars have been in constant use, and so well is the company satisfied with the motor—both from the electrical and commercial standpoints—that it has decided, it is said, to increase the number of cars and to extend the trips farther down town. Discussing the motor critically the Electrical World says that the engineering details of the experiment have been more carefully worked out and the commercial factors more systematically noted than in other experiments of the kind; and “the figures presented are not only encouraging, but exceedingly favor- able, in comparison with competing systems of street railway traction,” The Electrical Engineer says that “the result obtained on the Second avenue line has shown that fn practicability and reliability storage-battery traction can be depended upon to fill the needs of the most exacting conditions.” From the day when the overhead trolley Patents ‘passed into the possession of a great monopoly capital has suborned brains to destroy competition, and has frequently succeeded in discouraging storage battery inventions of the most promising types. This discreditable conduct resulted, doubt- less, in, great financial gain for the mo- nopoly, for the public rage for rapid transit | —artfully stimulated by agents in all grades gf saciety—brought about the establishment and reequipment of many roads. ectual experiments with storage batteries in this city were used as clubs by the trol- | ley fiends, who by a strange sort of logic tried to make it appear that nothing was available for street car use save only the most murderous and unsightly of all pro- pulsive machinery. But trolley has demonstrated unquestionable superiority, and now comes good news from New York. The ideal street car motor is to be operated by a storage battery, and it will soon be along, for the trolley monopoly has about reached the conclusios that its sun is setting in a hurry. +e It would be interesting to know what Mr. Van Alen thinks of the election—if he has heard cf it. ———__++-— Now that the silver debate is a wearisome memory and the elections of 1893 things of the past it behooves the American public to prepare for the weather which is at hand, and to lay in fuel supplies which ac- | cord with the respective beliefs of individ. | is confict of | ual citizens. That there opinion, and will be much controversy until the weather itself comes along to settle the differences, is already evident, and should be taken imto account by wavering indi- viduals. The bucolic prophet who makes a specialty of meteorological prediction the while he laughs scornfully at “highs” and “lows” and “isobars’” has come to the front, and there are at least two of him. Every community is affected with the vol- uble presence of at least one weatherwise individual, but their fame is generally local ‘There are, however, two no —Loren Cu county, valley prophet of Scranton, Pa. pre-eminent in the profe guessing, and have la’ m of weather- @ and devoted fol- Both hatic in their pre- dictions and occasionally are of one mind, but it so happens that they are at variance Inef- | the underground | lee to the temperature and snowfall of the coming winter. Prophet Cushman, in a series of utterances, made public in The Star a few days ago, stirs up those careless folk who imagine that the stock of atmos- pheric frigidity was about used up during the last cold season by insisting that the coming winter will be the most severe this country has experienced since 1833. The forecast is based on the more than ordinary thickness of the corn husks, the “jagged” in- stead of smooth running of the hogs’ melt, the extraordinarily large and white spots on the goose-bone of a May bird, the heavy crop of nuts and the great stores thereof that are being laid up by squirrels and chipmunks, the domesticity of partridges and woodcock, the U-shaped flight of ducks moving southward and the changing of skin by the green frogs. The Lacka- | wanna valley seer says that the winter will be unusually mild, He bases his affirmation on observation to the effect that toads are still hopping on the dead leaves in moist places, that these same toads “sang” sixteen days later than usual, that | meadow moles are still rooting up little mounds of dirt in rich soil, and that the | fur of skunks and coons is thinner by half than It was a year ago. Decision, when two such eminent authorities disagree, seems impossible; but it is safe to conclude that the temperature will be seasonably chilly | and that the average householder will have several opportunities to pay some one for | shoveling snow. —__—__> e+ -—____ | Tammany must be given credit for having done a great deal in the interests of politi- |cal harmony. The manner in which it united both the democratic and the re- publican editors of New York against it is | most striking. ———__+++____ Considering the advertisement Sara Bern- hardt got out of the bombardment at Rio, it would be only reasonable for her to pay for some of the fireworks, ————~++-—____ Why doesn’t some broad-minded Penn- sylvania democrat arise in his place and move that the election of Mm Jackson be made unanimous? ————_—_+2—____ It Is hoped that the London Times did not get its ideas of American politics | through interviews with Mr, Roosevelt- | Roosevelt. —_——_>+>—___ The grief of the situation in New York | may not be fully felt until the Tammany | bookkeepers get to work on a trial balance. ——_+ e+ —____ There is absolutely no sympathy felt for Prendergast. He is even considered as had | #8 some of his newspaper portraits. oe There is a prospect of almost as much trouble over the world’s fair beer as there was over the world’s fair music. ————_+2____. It remains to be seen whether the “fare- | Well” of the democratic vote is constructed on Patti principles. —— > e=____ With reference to Mr. Altgeld, Chicago has evidently determined to put her foot down, SHOOTING STARS. What it Was. “What a beautiful coat-of-arms Mrs. Quickrich has on her stationery!” said one | girl. a “That isn‘t a coat-of-arms,” replied the other. “It's a moneygram.” Oh, some are now in clover, And some bereft of glee; You can tell election's over By the brand new hats you see. “This would be a nice world,” said the careworn editor, “if writers had more orig- inality and compositors less.” By the Man Who Likes Noise. The melancholy days are here— The saddest that I know— Too cold by far to mow the lawn, Too warm to shovel snow. He Wanted to Borrow. He had strayed into one of the public buildings and was looking wistfully at a rack on which were a number of hand-gre- nade fire extinguishers. He was a very mild locking little man, and he called out “say!” to several people before he could get atten- tion. At last a watchman saw him and said: “What are you doing here?* Nothin’ in particular. But now that I'm here I've got an idea. I want to borry one of those fire extinguishers.” “What for?” “Cos I'm cold and hungry, an’ the only place I can be anywise comfortable in is jail. But I don’t want to do anything that'll hurt my conscience ¢er git in.” “But how will the fire extinguisher help you?” “Why, I'll jest grab it and muss my hair up and run through the street. Then I'll git arrested fur being a crank an’ git more Square meals than I've had before in montas.” “Wid a man named McKinley in the chair,” said Mr. Dolan, “Oi make a motion to have the name of the state writtenO’Hio, begorrah.” A Question. “I don’t know what to make of Miss Bin- kles,” he said. “Why?” “The other evening everybody was beg- j Sumber to play the piano, but she per- | Sistently refused.” “What of that?” “I can’t make out whether she is very dis- obliging or very considerate.” ——__++2___ Not a Party Victory. | Ex-Mayor Hewitt on the Election, | “I regard the election just past as the | most important since the time of Tweed. Everywhere the bosses have been rebuked and decent citizens have asserted their rights. The bosses and their rings had be- | come nearly omnipotent, lacking only the | control of the judiciary to complete their | absolute control. The nomination of May- nard was tentative. Had the people ap- proved it there is no saying to what lengths the ring would have gone. Therefore the rebuke administered is most timely and telling. The result is not the victory or the defeat of any party, but indicates that the | people are ready to disregard party ties when the stake is great enough to evoke the | moral sentiment of the masses.” ~~ 30 2 — __- Poking Fun at “The Thunderer.” From the New York Sun. Our esteemed contemporary, the London Times, has ears that reach far, and small | indeed is the sound that can escape them. “Mr. Cleveland,” it says, “may now think it advisable to preak with Tammany and | discard Hornblower.” The Times should | wait a week. If Alaska should vote the democratic ticket, this prediction will not be verified. We must inform the Times, too, that there will be a general election !of United States Senators next April, and that the Hon. Hoke Smith of the home de- partment will stand for Atlanta. In partic- ular we would advise the Times to keep its eye upon Chihuahua and the by-election in | Jagtown. —__—_—__> «2 _______ | The Geary Act Extension. | } From the Omaha Bee. We shall soon know whether the Chinese residents in this country are disposed to obey the law requiring their registration un- der the Geary act within six months. If they use the extension of time for the pur- pose for which it was intended this may be the end of Chinese legislation for some time | to come. ——__ + +e Wants No Interference. | From the Chicago Times. Emperor William has given strict orders | that officers in his army shall for the future pi no games of chance for money. Wil- am is playing for such great stakes him- self that he doesn’t want to be bothered by the presence of side bets on the table, ap- parently. ———__~ +e Quarantine for Cranks. From the Chicago Tribune. To stay an eprdemic of murderous crank- |ery there is nothing 80 effective as a |hempen quarantine promptly established | and rigidly enforced. - SAKS AND COMPANY'S COLUMN. Why We’re Leaders. HAT does this great brick block of ours meant What does the immense success we have had mean?——What does that broad floor full of Boys’ and. Children’s Clothing mean? What do our twen- ty-seven years of continu- ous growth mean? Here's the answer: “Noo! will sell such low as we quote.” ——and the “schemes’’—and all the subterfnges combined cannot fidence of the ple from the that have t them satisfaction and saved them money. ‘We are fearless in our challenge.—— ualities at our prices?———Listen to these ets about Children’s Suits. Our line of Short Pants Suits at $2.50 " washed wool—and picked cottov—woren into strong wearable fabrics—that you can de wil sell yon __ their equal for less $3. ——Isn't — G0e. worth 0 saving?——Our price is. A little more brings 2 sightliness.——The —ad- ditional dollar buys bet- ter fabrics.. There's & Wool—all bite t rate —¢ our next gr 4. — Cheviots and Cassimeres. wool——and it——in Neat patterns wou't find a1 ence between them and other folks’ aut inne ——Xoa can't be con tent to select from the straggling assortment of dry goods stoi em at least a Soiiar more. With all sizes a complete 0 variety our price is.... The world is ours— Every competition ts conquered in our incom- parable iit of CH. N'S SHORT PANTS SUITS. ——It save you # dollar.—— It means much to say we show you a variety in this one grade alona equal to all the stock Tartt_All prices —others carry. ere are Cas- Simeres and Cheviots and Homespuns and Twills— in all sbades and styles <-SINGLE and DOUBLE- BREASTED SUITS svits— BLOUSE SUI NATION SUITS (with (with double knees and seats). We'll — trust them in the toughest tus- tle _boys can give them. ——They are sewed to 58.00 better But there are Cheviots and Cassumeres in patterns and the plain Tough and smooth weaves ——made uD in nobbj boy — try the styles and see bow trimly they're Z Give them your closest seruting and see bow instakingly the work Bas been done.——"You find any of the won't Rovelties anywhere, else comes more rs Chevi- ots and Cassimeres com- pany.——_REEFER SUITS, With’ belts—SINGLE and DOUBLE STED Two nad PIECE SUITS—erclusive in pattern and elegance. —When you pay § away from here you're only getting measure full our of value.. We never increase the rice ‘til the (4 mats it to a igher piteh.——Our $8 Suits are worth §$8——not a cent more—nor less— though they're what others demand “ 3 e —— We can fit the smallest Pants wearers—and the largest ——the slimmest and the stoutest.——Every cent of your $8 will be ‘0 well spent. We outmerit them.——— The CORDUROY —SPAN- ISH_ COSTUME NOVEL- TES —~ the VEL. JUNTORS—JERSEY ——REEFER SUITS —— IMPORTED CHEV and CASSIMERES are ((/j effects they cannot show — finenesses they cannot — claim. \ 0 sizes——4 to 16 years.. But wtat’s the use of multiplying words? Everybody must con- cede that we are the leaders—carry the only complete stock of Chii- (jl dren's Suits fp Wash- ington. We've a dozen other grades—at |\ 0 $12, $15 and so. 2) — "ttl every feature of quality and” every phase of talloring - excelle has hy been exhausted.——We (J stop at $20-—because the Inder of possibility does tb o higher .. not reach any {\ Wrar Kr iD Or A Coar To Ger We've SINGLE and DOUBLE-BREASTED SACK OVERCOATS for the boys—CAPB OVERCOATS—and REEFERS—but most everybody wants an ULSTER ——— We've doubled and trebled our usual large va- riety of them.—lHad them made long and as warm as possible—so if you're after an ULSTER for your boy you'll find just what you want._—aAll sizes— 4 to 19 years—$3.50 to $18. TURBANS all-wool cassimeres—in as- sorted colors—tfor 39 Certs tomorrow. AND COMPAN Just for AKS Only Complete Outfitters in Town. 7TH ST. Daily Letter. Washington’s Leading Coat & Cloak Store. A quarter century’s experience in placing before you the most fashionable of each Season's conceits in Couts, Cloaks and Bults places us squarely at the bead as the leading Cost, Cloak and Suit house of this city, Comparing other stocks of Coats, Cloaks and Suits with ours is like comparing a rhinestone to the diamond. Our styles are “exclusive,” our qualities the best, our garments the most perfect fitting and our Prices (quality apd style considered) are by far the lowest. Fashionable Coats & Capes. We pick haphazard the following fash- fonable Coats, which give you but @ faint {dea of the stock: Ladies’ Black Beaver Cloth Coats, Worth cape and collar, cape finished with three rows of black fur piping, only $15. Stylish Martin Fur and Braid-trimmed Coats, $18.50. Handsome Coats, $25. Elegant Persian Lamb-trimmed Diagonal ‘Coat, $35. Astrakhan Fur-trimmed and full-braided “Novelty” Skirt Coat, $85. Ladies’ Mink Fur-trimmed Beaver Exquisite line of Stylish Black Plush English Long Capes, jetted, braided and fur-trimmed, $80 to $92.50. For ladies in mourning and those of quiet taste we have an elegant line of Black Diagonal Capes, plain and with astrakhan Piping at collar, from $12 to §21.50—the latter being especially desirable. Coats & Cloaks th Fer Mines And Chugee: As we have repeatedly advised, it ts poor economy to buy a “cheap” cotton- mixed loug cloak. We have confined our felections to garments made of reliable cloth in fashionable styles and you will instantly recognize their general superiority ever those shown about town, Note the following specials: Line No. 1,097—Children's and Misses? Long Cloaks of @ tan diagonal weave, fin- ished with deep cape and braid trimmed. Sizes... 6 8 10 12 “ Line No. 1,025—A very stylish line of Children’s and Misses’ Long Cloaks, double shoulder frill, braid trimmed, in three col- orings—a mixture of gray-tan-and-red; also blue-tan-and-red, and brown-tan-and-black. 6 8 10 12 14 97.50 $8.00 @8.50 $9.25 $10 Children's and Misses’ Stylish Navy Blue Reefer Jackets, cape collar bandsomely braided. Sizes to 1# years. Only §7.50 each. $1 Gloves 6i1c. ‘When we advertise a glove under a dollar you can depend upon it being a bargain of the “first water,” for we doa’t handle any wloves under dollar qualities. 4but. Fine Suede Gloves, soft and pliable, tans, modes, gray and browns, regular $1 Oxtx Blo. Pex Pam 4-bat. Fine Pique Sewn English Walking Gloves, best glove made for shopping, etc., Qs {t never wears out, regular §1.25 value. Oxty 880. Pex Pam 4 Awards Ar Taz Wons Fim For Dz. Jararrs Goons. THE N. ¥. DRY GOODS “ECONOMIST” SAYS: = Dr, bas = Sanitary Woolen we received four awards for excellence, respectively lerwear, blankets, on and general a rel. We are vole Bre Sa " tow wr teed eger’s goods W.H.McKnew 933 Pa. Ave. Presents Given With Furniture Tomorrow--Last ‘Day of Gifts. Selling goods lower than anybody else and giving away these costly presents besides may be a good ad- Yertisement, but it is mighty ex- pensive. Tomorrow will be your last and only chance to secure these valu- le and useful presents with furni- ture. We only hope your friends will do as well by you at Christmas time as we are doing now—very few can afford to give more expensive presents than these, Read: Woven Wine Bep Sprrxes Fuze —to all purchasers of Chamber Suites amounting to $20 and up. $9 Conxer Caam On Onxyx-Tor ABLE F REE to all purchasers of Parlor Suites amounting to $40 and up. 30-Ls. Har Marrress Freez —to all purchasers of Wardrobe Fold- ing Beds amounting to $20 and up. Tomorrow Oxxx. JULIUS LANSBURCH'S “Rink, uN. Y. Ave Near 141s Sr. cBEEER oBGEgeo oS ifze <eGEger For Saturday, STERLING Silver-Mounted Pocket Books o8c. EACH. We can do better for you in Trunks and Traveling Requisites than any other store in this city—quality considered. Kneessi, 425 7thSt. o88fgee o88§gee 0883880 cet ifsc TES. Have your dress material sponged at KEEN’S to prevent spotting, 1310 F st. n.w. oc2l-im NG STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1893—TWELVE PAGES. McKnew’s JOHNSTON'S , (29 7th St. GPOCEPrIeS. Ham, 18¢. Ib. Lard, 10e. JKlectric Light Best Family Flour, $4 bbl. Lilly Best Pat, }4.75, New Buckwheat, Granulated Sugar, 5. Kat Mackerel, 8¢. Ib. MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO ‘Read the following Pricess TEAS. GONDENSED MILK 4 baal Gpamvion Bd, Bier 5s. Pes SB “BABY BRAND” CONDENSED MILK. BEST FOR INFANTS, LUNCHEON GOODS. Sardines (small), 5 for 250. Sardines Game); for 250 Sardines, 1 on Per Ib. | SUNDRIES. = 2600 me Gottec Emenee Wash Soda. 1S'to0 PURE WHOLE AND GROUND SPICES FOR PICKLING. Pepper, 80, Banngte's, Brome, Sta line, ize. Olfvine” feaseselise. WASH BOARDS, BUCKETS, H, B, JOHNSTON, i China, Glass Ware. Books Free. oifie Read the List: 729 Tru Srezer. Tilustrated History of the Great Civil War. ‘Museum of Wonders. History of the Bibie. Encyclopedia. Robb’s Family Physician, Star of Bethlehem, ‘The Prince of Glory. History of the United States, Indian Horrors. Africa. 729 Von Srreer ar eames et tg nd und Gd, Bod aid 61 er pound. “See 729 Tra Srazer. 1s LTS’ BEAD THI! i Life of Barnum. bpoks absolute free of cost. an We JOHNSTON'S, reat China and Japan Tea Co., 729 Tth St. N.W. TELEPHONE, Mustard, Ch Cloves, "Gtoner, ‘Allapice,” Mastard. Seca ===” F ALL KINDS. Star, Oleine, Borax, Trory, Boss, tants, Citron, Nuts and ‘Holiday at our otker ‘Goods a iy 3 MONEY RETURNED IF GOODS ARZ NOT SAT- ISFACTORY. CLARK'S 734 AND 738 7TH ST Children’s Cloak Day Saturday. Tomorrow wo will make memorable for the ae great bare ains im our Ghil- ren’s Clonk Depart- mont, the values have never heen offered before by any one, mo matter what humbage Ging names the sales are designated. WH Gretcders tn 784 AND 738 THST. 0000000000 re) —$3.50— re) O 0 O Armaan O Q OQ @ Shoe, suitable O aime tor sunday oF O srer7 dar, thoroughly made, artistically fin- O iunea, ciove ntting, © & & Meee te overy- thing but the price— O eateintne sn00 wo otter to Indies or gentiemen ‘at $3.50 per pair. WILSON & CARR, CO Ft. Gate W. Balto. st, Belto.) 000 oO —33.50— oo0000 00 o eoeoeooooocse o 38 ooo