Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1893, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1893~TWELVE PAGES. SPECIAL NOTICES SPECIAL NOTICES. 4 MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company, for the election of directors, will be held at the office of the company, Seorgetuwn, om W! NESDAY, the loth day of January, 1804. ‘The poils will be at 10 a.m. and closed $a oe Ban Transfer books will be closed on the january, a opened on January 11, 1894. T. DUNLOP, Vice President. 6. M. KOONES, Secretary. _ a-14t Mx THE MEMBERS OF FEDERAL LODGE No. 1. F-A.A-M., will assemble at Masonic Tem- 10 o’cloct a.m. TUESDAY, the 26th in- stant, for the purpose of paying the last sad rites to the remains of Brother P.M. Charles A. John fom, late of Washington Lodge No. 4, P.A.AM., Fancouvers, Washington. ‘The deceased having deen a captain U.S.A., retired, the interment will be made at Arlington. Br order of the W.M. = _ WILLIAM H. PROCTOR, Secretary. NEW YEAR. 1804. NEW BOOKS. ‘This is a necessity and the National Bookbindery te the place to fill the order. OE NERS at short notice. ps — NATIONAL BOOKBINDERY, P.-L T e ‘TO MERCHANTS AND ALL FRIENDS OF ORGAN- ized labor.—This is to give notice that no one is authorized to make contracts or collect money for advertisements in the “Labor Advocate,” the Offictn! organ of the Federation of Labor and the District Assembl; hts = Durer ae Knights of Labor of organ- seals attached. By 23-3 THE CARIN JOHNS HOTEL 1S CLOSED FROM = date SS Pr until further no- on account of of the proprietress, Mrs. Rosa Bobinger, di9-tt USEFUL HOLIDAY PRESENTS FOR GENTLEMEN. Silk Hats, Neckwear, Derbies, Dress Shirts, Fedoras, Underwear Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Cmbreilas, Collars and Wrist! Suspenders, Half Hose, &c., &c. R. C. LEWIS & SON, 1421 N. ¥. ave. B. One price, marked in plain figures. di8-6t WASHINGTON MARKET COMPANY. The anoual meeting of the Washington Market Company will be beld at the office of the com- Pans i the Center market, in the city of Wash- ton, at 12 o'clock noo on the first Monday, being the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, 1804, for the choice of thirteen directors for the ensuing Year, and to act on any other subject within the Porer of the corporation that may be brought fore che meeting. SAMUEL W. CURRIDEN, Secretary. Washington, D. C., Dee. 15, 1893. di6-tjal WASHINGTON MARKET COMPANY. DIVIDEND, No. 34. ‘A dividend of forty cents a share has been de- elared on the capital stock of the company, pay- able at the office of the company in Center mar ket on and after JANUARY 8, 1894. Transfer books close January 2, 1sa4. PRESTON S. SMITH, Treasarer. Washington, D. C., Dec. 15, 1898." dlétjaS JOUN MORAN, PLUMBING, TINNING, LATROBE and Furnace" Work, 2126 Pa. ave. Entire stock of Ranges, Heating and Cooking Stoves reduced for cash. Open evenings until 9 o'clock. 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Owen Owen,Tailor,423 11th ace “Special Prices.” XMAS GOODS. CAMPS, SHADES, ONYX TABLES, FIREPLACE GOODS, &c. The E. F. Brooks Co., Gils G31 ISTH ST. N.W. TLEPSY. An account of the only rational mode of treat- ment. Pamphlet edition, 10c. Address Dr. WILL- IAMSON, New London, Conn. Am yeas Alaxative. fruit lozenge, ‘Very agreeable to take for CONSTIPATION, hemorrhoids, bile, lees of appetite, ric intestinal troubles: headache arising trom them. F. GRILLON GRILLON, it Rue des Archives, Paris. ‘apl5-m9u.-1p Bold by all Drusvists. INDIEN ‘and MR. OLNEY’S TURKEYS. His Christmas Presents to Employes of the Department of Justice. Attorney General Olney has established a pleasant precedent in the Department of Justice. He not only excused all the em- ployes at noon on Saturday, but in addition | specially gladdened the hearts of the mes- sengers, firemen, elevator conductors and charwomen by giving each of them an or- der for a turkey for his or her Christmas dinner. This recalis similar generosity on the part of ex-Secretary Whitney,who made it a practice to give a turkey to everybody in the Navy Department, high and low in station, on the four Thanksgiving days in his term, and to entertain them at his coun- | try home at Grasslands on the Fourths of | July falling within the same period. The action of Attorney General Olney with his comparatively few employes is never apt to be followed by the heads of departments of the huge size of the Interior, Post Office, | Treasury or War, with their legion of em- | ployes. - United States Attorneys. Edward G. Woods has been appointed as sistant to the United States attorney for th district of South Carolina. The Attorney General has accepted the resignations of Frank Plumley as United States attorney | for the district of Vermont and of J. B, Hill as marshal for the eastern district of North Carolina. +2 ___- Masic at the Covenant. The social committee of the ladies of the Church of the Coverant have arranged for an organ coacert in the church tomorrow evenirg at 8 o'clock. The male quartet of the First Presbyterian Church will be present and render several selections. Mrs. Shir-Cliff and Mrs. Rheem will give their aree, with Mr. Toof, the organist of church, and Mr. Clark, the precentor, s will be arranged for a ry offering to tho once. ‘After the 1 ‘ Will bo spent in the chapel, where +e audience will be invited to exchange “oliday greetings. A very en- joyable e- eving is expected. THEIR CAREER ENDING Close of the Family History of the Starrs. TERRORIZED THE COUNTRY FOR YEARS. The Woman Who Clung to the Desperadoes. DEATH SENTENCE OF HENRY. —_—_s—__ — Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 25.—The recent trial, conviction and sentence to death of the no- torious bandit, Henry Starr, at Fort Smith, Ark., bring before the public the history of a family that has for years terrorized the people of southern Kansas and the Indian territory, committing depredations that would shame the James and Younger gangs in their palmiest days in western Missouri. The latest exploit of the gang has been the holding up of a train near Coffeyville Sat- urday night. The Starr family during all these years lived in the Cherokee nation. In the days when Old Tom Starr was at his best he de- fied the Cherokee authorities, though him- self a Cherokee, to interfere with his custom. of killing disagreeable persons. The light horse pursued him into tangled jungles and into mountain fastnesses, only to mark the road with their own blood. So successfully did Ola Tom elude his pursuers and by de- grees pick off their choicest braves with his trusty rifle that the United States govern- ment was called in the case and the light horse gave it up. The army fared no better than the Indians. From out of the dark corners and the mountain cliffs the sharp crack of Old Tom’s rifle came with deadly effect as long as the army followed him. Consternation and dismay ensued and the army returned to the barracks, confessing that the unconditional repeal of Old Tom was an impossibility. The government then compromised with him and let him go. The Cherokee nation did likewise and Old Tom became a good citizen. A story is told to the effect that the Read gang, another family of Cherokee bandits, who nine years ago robbed Uld Clay Wright, a Creek Indian, of $30,000 in gold, left $7,000 of it with Old Tom Starr for safe keeping. Read wus killed soon after in endeavoring to make his escape from Coffeyville, Kan., where he attempted to rob a bank, and hi wife went to Old Tom to get the money. Naturally he refused to give it up. A year or two later the woman married Old Tom's son, Sam, and thereafter became known as Belle Starr, the champion female bandit of the West. As the wife of Sam Starr she be- came a member of Old Tom’s family and made earnest efforts to locate the $7,000, but she learned that Old Tom had given the money to his wife to hide away so that thieves could not get it, and so that if he should be taken off without notice, which was always a probability, she could have the money. But the old lady died while Old Tom was absent from home in _ Labette county, Kan., stealing horses, and the gold has never been found. About this time Sam Starr got into some kind of a difficulty with the United States, and while scouting en- gaged in a personal row with a friend, and according to the Starr fashion agreed to settle the matter in a duel. The result was that both men were Killed. This, however,did not change the life of his widow, Belle Starr. She became the lover of Bandit Middleton, a desperate character, who was drowned while trying to cross the Potean river on a horse that was a poor swimmer. Middleton's two pistols and well- loaded cartridge belt were too heavy for him and he went down in the raging stream to rise no more. Belle had gone down the country with the understanding that Mid- dleton was to meet her at a designated place. She waited anxiously for weeks, and not until the body of a drowned man was found in the Potean river and buried and dug up and buried again‘ the second time, and identified as that of Middleton, did she learn that it was useless to walt longer. Belle Starr's participation in the Fort Smith fair, when she was a prime at- traction, was later. At the time Al. Powe Was a young reporter on one of the papers, He was on friendly terms with Belle and made the most out of her for the entertain- ment of the sports who read the paper to keep posted on the races. One day Belle was on the track mounted on a magnificent charger and bantered Powe to get up be- hind her. Not to be outdone, he allowed his companions to help him up, and when fairly seated, Belle and her own special represen- tative of the press sped past the grand stand at break-neck speed, while the crowd yelled itself hoarse. Belle then married Jim Starr, a brother of her former husband, and they made their home in the eastern part of the Cherokee nation, about twenty miles from Fort Smith. One day while Jim was in Fort Smith news came to town that Belle had been assassinated. Jim jumped on his horse and next day brought in a man who was suspected of the crime, but who was able to prove his Innocence. Belle Starr was shot from ambush, as she was riding along the road, but the assassin was never apprehended. \ ‘The next interesting member of the Starr family is Pearl, Belle Starr's daughter, whose name, however, is not Starr, but Younger, being the daughter of one of the Youngers, now in the Stillwater, Minn., pen- itentiary. She is quite prominent in Fort Smith, where she lives, and popular with the sports. She is a very handsome woman and possesses a very amiabie temper. Some of the Starrs are the most promi- nent families of the Indian territory. Zeke Starr is treasurer of the Cherokee nation, and is a man of high personal character. He 3s an uncle of Henry Starr. The name Starr is a very common one among the In- dians. It belongs to that class of names of which Six Killer and Bushyhead are speci- mens. There was a custom among the In- dians, yet in vogue to some extent, of naming the male children for the first thing that attracts the attention of the mother after the birth of the child. This accounts for the few Bushyheads and the many Starrs. Now that this gang of bandits have been suppressed the people of the towns along the southern Kansas border breathe easier and feel that life and property are more se- cure. The Starr family was more to be dreaded than the Daltons, because their operations extended over a period of fifteen years, in which they pillaged and murdered with scarcely any interruption. —_—>_—_ ANXIOUS TO TESTIFY. Alexander Sullivan Denies Certain Statements of Mra .Foy. NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—A Chicago special says: Alexandria Sullivan has ‘at last broken his long silence regarding the Cronin case. The sworn statements of Mrs. Andrew Foy, which connected him with the conspirators, have caused him to speak and to repel the imsinuations which have been made. Suli- van says he has not purposely kept silent regarding the crime. in an intervi yesterday he said: “When Cronin was tirst reported to be missing I stated repeatedly to reporters and others that L knew nothing concerning his whereabouts. When his body was discoy- ered 1 expressed regret for his terrible fate and hoped that the guilty one would be discovered and brought to jusuce. During the coruner’s imquest 1 requested yohn Lune, 4 Well-known reporter, to intorm Coroner Hertz tat 2 was wiiing to testry at the inquest. sir. Lane intormed me that he did so state to Mr. Hertz, but 1 Was not called. Luter, one of the grand jurors who investigated the case—Henry Greenebaum— net me in the street and expressed regret hat I did not testify before the grand jury. I told him the state's attorney had control of that investigation and I could not go un- less subpoenaed, but would have gone promptly if I had been asked, and was ready to testify whenever called. Subse- quently Mr. Greenebaum informed me that he repeated the conversation to State's At- torney Longenecker and had suggested that the latter interrogate me, but Mr. Longe- recker, he said, declined to do so. I am ready now to testify, but am powerless to force my appearance in a case to which I am_ not a party. “So far as the Foy woman's testimony refers to me it is infamously false. She made a statement for publication recently in which ‘she ascribed to another the au- thorship of an imaginary letter which she now pretends to ascribe to me.” Sullivan's reference !s to that part of Mrs. Foy'’s story in which she speaks of overhearing one of the conspirators at her house reading aloud a letter in which oc- curred the phrase “remove at «ll hazards.” At first it was reported that the author of the letter was Michael Davitt; then it was said that the letter was signed “Alex.” THE COLONEL’S GRAY EAGLE The Doubt That Hangs Over a Trophy at the Press Olub. An Adventure While Hunting Tar- keys at Woodmont—Two Ver- slo of the Story. ‘There is a gray eagle at the Press Club measuring seven feet from tip to tip. There is a difference between the story told by the colonel and that told by his companion, but the eagle is at the Press Club, in evidence, and one leg and its head are severed from the body. The party were shoving at Woodmont last week. They were after turkeys. The colonel objected that the custom in this region of baiting turkeys with tempting morsels and then lying carefully concealed behind blinds to await the birds’ coming to be shot, was nothing but the shameful practice of pot hunters; only the theatri- cal sports of dudes and royalty, and that no true sportsman would indulge in it. The right way to hunt turkeys, he said, as in other game, was to give them 4 show for their lives. The hunter should take equal chances with the bird. He, there- fore, went out to revolutionize the method of shooting at Woodmont, and to champion the cause of the abused and oppressed wild turkey. He said before he started that the turkeys were as tame as chickens, and were tied in the woods to be shot at by amateur sportsmen. The Conflict With the Eagle. There was no witness to what happened to him in the woods. All that is known is what he has told himself, and the fact that the report of his gun was heard twice. The story he tells is that he saw a gray eagle, the same which he deposited on the floor of the club house as a trophy, and that the eagle had in his claws a big fat wild gob- bier, with which he was flying away. The colonel said he rushed to the rescue of the turkey, which had been so tamed for the benefit of sportsmen as to be unable to de- fend itself. And this is how it happened that one of the eagk claws and its head were cut off. The eagle and the colonel fought over the possession of the turkey, the colonel seeking to liberate it and the eagle contending for its prey. The colonel said that the eagle held the turkey in one claw and fought him with the other, tear- ing his clothes and striking at his face. Finally, the wild bird of the mountain fixed his talons into the collar of the colo- nel’s coat, and it seemed for a moment that instead of the turkey’s being liberated the eagle would carry oif both the turkey and the colonel. Then the coionel thought of the long, sharp knife he had in his pocket. With great presence of mind he opened the blade with his teeth, and by a mighty stroke severed the eagle's foot from the body. The colonel thought then that the battle was over, but not so. The eagle, still cling- ing to the turkey with the remaining talon, settled back on a high stump near by, and, as the colonel advanced still nobly to the rescue of the turkey, picked at his face and pounded him with his wings. Finally, the eagle seized the top lock of the colonel’s hair in his beak, and again made as if to take flight. Then the colonel’s knife came into play once more and the eagle's head was severed from its body, Thus it hap- pens, says the colonel, that the bird is so maimed. For the turkey? Well, the colo- nel let him go. As Told by the Major. As the major tells the story (and he says jt is identically as the colonel himself told it in nis sleep) the turkeys were aggressors throughout and the colonel was the victim, the eagle not figuring in it at all. The ma- jor like a true sportsman, who adjusts him- self to hus environments, sat shivering in the blind for six hours and in the ordinary routine way of a sportsman shot a fat hen turkey, which he brought home and which will be eaten for Christmas. During his concealment in the blind he says that he heard the report of tne colonel's gun twice in quick succession and after that all was still, When the two met at the club house for breakfast, as the major tells it, the colonel was sorely depressed and intimated that if he had brought home no game, he, at all events, new a funny story, which he was going to tell no one as long as he lived. After that, as the major says, the colonel fell asleep and in his dreams told the fol- lowing story: ‘I went into the blind like any other pot hunter before sunrise. It was awful cold. A bit of tempting bait had been placed at a convenient range from the blind, but the turkeys didn’t come to eat it. It was awful cold, and after awhile I began to get drowsy. was sure my feet were frozen and suspected that I was freezing to death, but I didn’t care. I had been there two hours and those blamed trained turkeys had not yet come up to their contract. I knew they were trained and should have been by there an hour before to take their part in this theatrical sport, but they didn’t come. Finally I began to yawn and I lay down, put the gun on the ground, wrapped myseif in my overcoat. Soon I slept. I don't know how long I slept. Soon all the ani- mals of the forest came tropping by. I saw squirrels and rabbits, and partridges, and pheasants, and turkeys, and deer, and bear going by. I thought one deer jumped over my head; then I was a little aroused and knew It was all a dream. Still there was a great noise around me, a scratching of leaves and a breaking of branches and clucking and gobbling, until I commenced to think that after all I had not been dreaming. I threw the overcoat off my face and sat up. There was a whole drove of wild turkeys scratching about me, half burying me with leaves and a great gobbler standing up surveying me critically, When I reached for my gun they scampered off. T fired, jus@ to scare them, but it didn’t even do that. They flew up in the air, circled around and came back to within twenty yards of me, and I shot at the gob- bier on the wing, and he didn’t even pay any attention to me, but the whole drove shuffled off through the woods. Then I came home.” When the colonel was told that he had related this story in his sleep, he denied it emphatically, and pointed to the eagle as evidence that his first story was true. = ——____ THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. Dr. Robert Fletcher Chosen President at the Annual Meeting. The Philosophical Society of Washington, D. C., held its annual meeting in the Assem- bly Hall of the Cosmos Club Saturday even- ing. The following officers were elected: President, Dr. Robert Fletcher; vice presi- dents, Profs. W. H. Dall, F. W. Clarke, Marcus Baker, F. H. Bigelo treasurer, W. A. De Caindry; secretaries, W. C. Win: lock, Richard Rathbun; members of the generat committee, H. H. Bates, P. H. Bean, J. H. Gore, B. R. Green, M. W. Har- rington, H. M. Paul, O. H. Tittmann, C. V. Riley, L. F. Ward. —_—-_— Death of Thos. Shipley Moore. Mr. Thomas Shipley Moore, senior mem- ber of the well known firm of Moore & Led- ing, jewelers, died at his residence, 315 A street northeast, at 8:10 Saturday evening from pneumonia, after an illness of but about twenty-four hours. The deceased suffered an attack of the grip during last month, being sick about three weeks, but had seemingly fully recovered from that complaint, and was attending to his busi- ness up to the day preceding his death. He left the establishment of the firm, 1109 Pennsylvania avenue, about 1 o’clock Fri- day afternoon, compaining of suffering from a bad cold. Reaching his home he went at once to bed, from which he never arose. Mr. Moore was born in Baltimore about sixty-three years ago, and came here in 1858, During the war he held the responsi- ble position of agent for the Adams Ex- press Company. Later he entered the Jewelry business, and subsequently estab- lished himself in that business with Mr. R. Leding, with whom he was associated at the time of his death. The deceased was a prominent member of the Episcopal Church, warden of the vestry of St. Mark’s Church, Capitol Hill, and was often a delegate to the various gatherings in the work of the Episcopal Church. He was a man of high character, and his sudden death has occa- stoned great sorrow. His funeral will take place from St. Mark’s Church at 9 o'clock tomorrow mornin, ——— Promotion Examinations. The Secretary of the Navy has ordered a board to convene at the marine barracks in this city Wednesday to examine officers of the marine corps for promotion. The board is composed of Capt. Geo. C. Reid, Capt. D. P. Mannix and First Lieut. H. K. White, with First Lieut. Chas. A. Boyen as reco! CHRISTMAS SCENES. How Washingon Observed the Great Festival. THE EARLY BOY AND HIS HORN. The Bright Sun Makes Promenad- ing Fashionable. HAND ORGANS AND FAKIRS. It might almost be the Fourth of July, so far as the thermometers and the sky are concerned. Here and there one sees an overcoat, to be sure, and once in a great while a new Christmas fur coat comes bundling along, but the wearers do not seem to be happy, and look as though they would far prefer linen dusters. It is about ‘the “greenest” Christmas Washington has ever known, and one of the happiest. Were mere noise a sign of joy this is the merriest city in the world tcday. From away back this morning, be- fore the stars had ceased to twinkle, and while the yellow sputters of the gas lamps were still trying to perform their difficult tasks, tHe horns began to toot, It seemed as though the whole world had taken one jong breath and was letting it’ out through the tin throat of a gigantic trumpet. In- deed, were it possible to gather all the sound that has been tooted out of horns this day into one great blast it is probable INDEX TO ADVE”. cISEMENTS. ACCOUNTANTS. Pave 11 AMUSEMENTS.. Pare 9 FOR RENT (Miscellaneous) FOR RENT (Rooms). FOR RENT (Stables). FOR RENT (Stores). FOR RENT (Warehot FOR SALE (Bicycles FOR SALE (Houses) FOR SALE (Lots). FOR SALE (Miscellaneous... FOR SALE (Pianos). HORSES AND VEHICLES. OFFICIAL NOTICES.. POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. RAILROADS . SPECIAL NOTICES. STORAGE... SUBURBAN PROPERTY. UNDERTAKERS .. that there would be vibration enough to send the note trembling on through space to the moon, Yes, it is a very noisy town on such a day as this. The exuberance of the youthful world lets itself out in that way, early, and perhaps it is a good thing. There is no knowing what turn this bottled up en- thusiasm might take were horns absolutely prohibited. But it is hard on those who = to sleep to the usual hour, neverthe- jess. Juvenile Enthusinsm. By 8 o'clock the youngsters began to emerge from houses, clad in their soldier regalia, and beating their drums, form- ing milliary companies on the spot, and marching to conquer new worlds. The tooting was reinforced by the tapping and thumping, and here and there came the noise of a giant fire cracker. Toy wagons were trundled up and down in front of porches, fresh in their new paint, and filled with happy morsels of hu- manity. Velocipedes, propelled by uncer- lain little leglets, and occupied by very much concerned young men, added to the general rattle. Little girls wheeled their new doil carriages up and down and com- pared notes as to the relative blondness of their waxen infants, and jerked the un- fortunate creatures about to exhibit their winking propensities. The “children of a larger growth,” who had fared well at the hands of the gray- bearded saint came forth also, clad in new things that smacked of the good will of someone else, and that had the air of be- ing “gifts.” Fine new hats and gorgeous neckties, pretty scarf pins, and here and there the gleam of a ring, spick-and-span cloaks and dainty gowns—all made a pan- orama that belied the general belief that there was not goiag to be “much of a Christmas this year.” Promenading. After the breakfast hour there was a ten- dency toward the downtown streets. The gaily dressed holiday crowd gravitated to- ward the avenue as naturally as ducks waddle to the water. That Mecca of time- killers was, by 10 o'clock, a swarm with promenaders, with that curiously indifferent and yet eager air that bespeaks the man or the woman who has nothing to worry about and yet who is anxious to miss noth- ing of interest in the surroundings. With ali the life on the streets there were some very bare spots in the city. One of the most desolate of these was the neigh- borhood of the great Central Market, where all was silence, in the place of the bustle and business of a few hours ago. Frag- ments of Christmas trees and evergreens strewed the unswept streets round about, and at one plice on 9th street there were several wagon loads of this debris in the gutters. All the out-door stalls on the west and south sides were closed and deserted, the old “mammies” and their herbs were gone, and in their places were nothing but the wind-tossed scraps of paper and the litter that had drifted in from the paving stenes. Once in a while a man who had tasted of the Christmas cup too often would reel around the corner and try to sit on the deserted benches, without’ any too much success. His early beginning foreshadowed much of the same sort of celebrating later in the day. The Fakirs. The fakirs were not yet sold out at the corner of 7th street and Market space. Bal- loon men let their wares float high above the heads of the admiring and wistful gamins, who felt in their pockets without success for stray pennies left over from their paltry holiday buyings. Servant girls, emancipated for the day from the toils of the kitchen by some cu- rious stroke of ‘housewifely beneficence, flaunted along gaily, chattering like mag- pies and making the most of their liberty. Bootblacks played the cavalier with them as they passed, and in their polite efforts to attract attention became themselves the object of interested notice on the part of | the passers-by. On the skirts of the crowd! hung the boys who have no definite location in life, no positive mission but to eat and, only too often, to drink. They kept their keen eyes alert for chances to pick up the wherewithal for a Christmas dinner, and their shrewd, pinched faces formed a back- ground that told of the real suffering there is at this time behind all the gaiety and the glitter. The store windows showed the results of the tremenddus raids that have been mak- Ing on them for the past fortnight. There were great windows of spaces where bar- gains had been, and where the telling fire of the purses had done great execution. The shops that had not been covered with curtains looked as though a cyclone of cash had passed by, scooping up tons of goods and scattering them to the four sections of the city. Grinders of wheezy organs took their seats on their rickety stools early in the mornig, hung forth their pathetic placards of distress and affliction, and prepared to do a rushing business. “After the Ball” and “Trovatore” were succeeded by “Love Me Little” and “Rusticana,” and pennies dropped into the tin cups and the old or- gans gave forth their notes. A certain part of the population became less and less steady as the day wore on, and fell to blessing the thoughtful officials who had provided so many lamp posts and other stable bits of street furniture. Early Morning Delivertes. The postmen made their early round with the remnants of the Christmas mail, and the express wagons went flying about hither and thither to relieve the anxiety of the folks who expected packages from thought- ful relatives. The policemen looked wearily at the merry crowds in the street, and wondered how much work they would have to do before the day closed, and the girls in the tele- phone rooms told each other of their Christ- mas presents between “Helloes” and “They're busy nows.” The street car grip- men and conductors were on duty just as though nothing whatever had occurred eighteen hundred and ninety-three years ago this day, and the former pulled their levers and the latter their straps, and both made the city hum with a little more noise than that contributed by horns and drums. It seemed as though the horns grew bigger as the hours waned.. Small boys, with scarce breath enough to blow tiny trumpets, tcok to toots on enormous cones of tin, that required the lung power of giants. Mean- while the sun smiled down on the confu- sion and the nolse, and seemed to wish everybody a very merry Christmas, > Dropped Dead. Samuel Griffin, a colored man, 4ro; dead in the office of Johnson Bros., foot of 13th street, yesterday. He lived on Van street southwest. Chicago’s Mayor Here. Mayor-elect Hopkins of Chicago is now in Washington. He is stopping at the Ar- lington. His mission here just at this time is said to be to lend the aid of his in- fluence to the appointment of Mr. “Broad” McAbee of Chicago as public printer. Mr. McAbee helped bis canvass for the mayor- alty and he wants to reciprocate. Mr. McAbee is also in the city. SE TESE ESTEE RTOS TESTS GEES Ee GEE TERS EC EEE EEE T EET SSSESSESS UMM SESE SESH SR use ESSSSRASSSSSSSSSSucotusta BALTIMORE VS. WASHINGTON. Several Big Mains to Be Fought by Game Cocks, Special Dispatch to Tbe Evening Star. BALTIMORE, Dec. 25.—The great annual “main” between birds from Washington and Baltimore will take place in a barn not a thousand miles from a saloon in Canton, this afternoon. A perfect pit has been fitted up there with seats ar- ranged around it in amphitheater style. Birds have been in training for the great main for several months. of the twenty-four battles is backed at $10 a side, and the whole fight is backed at $500 a side. This is the largest amount of money taked in a “main” for several years. ‘Blood” Wannenwich will “heel” for Bal- timore, and a crack heeler who resides in Keadysville will “heel” for Washington. One of the principal men of the Balti- more cock-fighters lives in Southwest Bal- tumore. In a large yard at the rear of his bkome he has about 100 game birds of all ages and breeds. The “main fighters” are confired in a large lattice enclosure, and are fed “‘like stud horses” to prepare them for the Christmas day contest. Their feath- ers are clippid close. Their “combs” and “gills” are shorn off, and tne spurs of steel are fitted to their feet. Twice a day the “heeler” “winds” the birds under his charge. He takes each bird into an open space and chases the “rooster” at full speed until it is completely gaded. After undergoing this exercise every day for a few weeks there is scarcely any danger that the “game bird” will die from fatty generation of the heart. The bird is in a good condition for fight and can be relied upon to stand a long battle and endure a considerable number of spur strokes from his opponent. The night before the fight the birds are gener- ally removed to the scene of action, con- cealed in baskets and boxes to avoid the eagle eye of ihe ever alert “cop.” The birds generally weigh from four and one-half to six pounds. Scales are ready in the pit and when the heelers begin to show their birds they are weighed out and matched for the it. eadyville will bring ten The man from “stags” over which, it is said, it will be hard to lick. They are all of the celebrated “saddle-back” a race which has won renown in the pit for the last twenty-five ears. “Sackie,the Game Cock,” is another sport- ing resident of West Baltimore, who will have a few “choice things” in the Canton pit. Those who have charge of the arrange- menis for the great annual main generally take the strictest precautions to keep the “thrusting place a dead secret. ‘It wouldn't do to tell everyone about it,” said a noted Canton cock fighter yesterday. “While the authorities don’t enforce the Jaw against cock fighting very strictly, if they get on to the location of ‘the main’ they would do some pulling; or at least so many policemen would be seen in the vi- cinity of the place that ‘some of the boys’ would be scared off and we wouldn't have a good crowd. Without a good crowd we would have no betting and with no betting we would have no fun.” “Is there much betting at a cock fight?” “Betting! well, I should say. As much betting and far squarer betting than at a prize fight or on a horse race.” ‘How's that?” “Well, you see it's this way,” continued the sport. “There ain't no swindlin’ can be done at a cock fight. The birds can’t have sense enough to make a ‘fake fight’ ike prize fighters do. The fight is on the dead square. The best rooster wins all the time. There can be no arthly chance ty deception. The man who backs the best bird wins the money every time. Then, again, a race horse, no matter how fast. may be ‘pulled’ by a bribed rider and peo- ple lose oceans in coin in that way. The heeler can't do a thing to prevent the best bird from win>in’. He throws him down to fight and that's all he does. Yes, sir, the ae ne wins all the time, an’ no mistake about it.” The “main” commences about noon. If the birds are well matched it will be dark before the twenty-four battles are over. The-e is not much betting until a few min* utes after the birds are thrown down, and then, if the contest is in any degree excit- ing, men begin to dangle the dollars in their pockets and betting commences in earnest. If the birds are closely matched the excitement reaches a high pitch. a CHURCH SERVICES. Some of the Features of the Gather- ings Held Yesterday. In most of the churches yesterday the services held were commemorative of the great Christian holiday, and in a number of churches the elaborate musical programs published in Saturday's Star were rendered, although in many of the churches services were held today, when excellent music ap- propriate to the day was rendered. The perfect weather of yesterday and today brought to the churches unusually large throngs, and the day might well have been said to have been twice celebrated. High mass was celebrated in all the Catholic churches yesterday, and at Georgetown College last night midnight mass was cele- brated. At the People’s Church yesterday morn- ing the Rev. Walter Vrooman of the Arena Magazine, Boston, addressed a large con- gregation upon the subject of the “Union of Moral Forces.” He explained that such an union was not only necessary, feasible. Out of every ten dollars, said Me Vrooman, nine were wasted, and by the union proposed that waste and many other evils would be avoided. The pastor of the church, Rev. Alexander Kent, spoke briefly in commendation of the scheme, and a number of those present assured Mr. Vroo- man of their assistance. Last evening at the Church of Our Father @ very enjoyable musical and literary ser- vice in honor of the Christian holiday was held, the Sunday school, under the direction of the superintendent, Mrs. H. E. Will- jams, rendering a-cantata, Miss Lizzie Blas- land, soloist, and Mr. E. Tracy, cornetist, assisting. The services closed by an ad- dress by the Rev. A. G. Rogers upon —— Gifts and Christmas Bless- Missionary Wm. H. Shepherd, a it young colored man, and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, who has been engaged in missionary work in Central Af- rica for the past four years, addressed the congregation at the Central Presbyterian Church yesterday morning, speaking very interestingly of his experience in that fielid. In the afternoon Mr. Sh: related his experience to a large gathering at the First Congregational Church, being introduced by Senator Morgan, who spoke very highly of the young man, explaining that he was a self-educated young man, @ native of Virginia, and had been sent out to Africa by the Southern Presbyterian Missionary Society. Mr. Snepperd exhibited samples FINANCIAL. Safe and Remunerative Investments. American Security And Trust Co. Cc. J. BELL, Presidesh Banking House, 1405 G st. Storage Warehouse. 1140 15th st. mw. ua The Fidelity Building, Loan And Investment Association CORNER 15TH ST. 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