Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1894, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1894-TWELVE PAGES. Danger Just Ahead.|AMONG THE POOR. = roaring fire in the stove and in the cupboard | old colored woman sitting on the stoop of there were all the constituent parts of sev- | a tumble-down shanty remarked that they eral generous meals, among them a large ; might as well be 5 cents a dozen for all supply of hearty looking pork chops. As- AN INEXTRICABLE TANGLE A Prominent Professor Speaks About E i i i ih i il g F bt | it ae gea& te sie x itself Liebig Company’s Extract of Beef, Married We have somthing important to say to you— furnishing of Per- Furnish Your House | Distributing Alms in a District in South Washington, SCENES AT A CHARITY OUTPOST. ——_o The Hovels in Which the Destitute | Are Huddled. SEARCHING OUT FRAUDS. Poverty! Utter, abject, hopeless poverty! Poverty that means cold and hunger and that dares not hope for anything better! Do you know what that means? No? Well, then, come and find out. You with your comfortable fireside and your well spread table, do you know what it means to go to a wretched bed hungry and only certain that when you rise up in the morning it’ will be no better and that there will be no breakfast for you then? No? Well, there is just that sort of | poverty right here in the city, in the very shadow of the nation’s Capitol; there is hunger that gnaws at one’s vital and dries up the well springs of human life. There are dirty beds in filthy hovels that do not mean rest for the occupant, for one cannot sleep well when one is hungry. You know your Connecticut avenue and your Dupont Circle, your hospitable homes, where you are always welcome and find a plate set for you at table. That's all told about iif the society columns of The Star. This is another sort of story. It is the tory of Some of the things that a Star man aw esterday in the slums of the city. “Go down to Faith Mission, on M street between 41-2 and 6th streets southwest, and see how they distribute aid to the poor: "Then write about what you see.” “Among the Very Poor. This was the assignment the city editor gave in the morning. From that time on through the day The Star man was with Rev. Mr. Woodruff and his assistants. To write al! that one can see in that section of the city that is unusual would require more space than one would suppose. Jacob Riis, a newspaper fhan of New York, wrote a book which he called “How the Other Half Lives,” and the book gave many people their first insight into the actual life' and wretched experiences of the very peor of that city. Washington people read the book with interest and flocked to hear Mr. Riis lecture on the same subject when he was here at the convention of Christian workers a couple of years ago. They were very much worked up over the picture of suffering that was drawn by this man, whose life as a police reporter on a great New York daily brings him into such close touch with the tenement life of New York, There is the same sort of distress in Washington, though, of course, not to such an-extent. What are the good people of the city doing to reileye this want and suffer- ing? A great deaf it is true. But there is room for.so much more good work. There are slums in this city as dirty and disrepu- table as any that bring a blot on Gotham. ‘There are miserable little dens in which double floors full—and that price is there to } stay whether cash being’ are penned, beside which a i Rely sire pay wring well-managed farm would be . a place of positive comfort. Into some of nm these The Star man went with one of the workers from the mission, who went to Investigate Into the condition of those who i had applied for immediate aid. This is no r 1 fervid appeal to the reader, but a simple, y unvarnished and hustlly written story of , meuns and agencies that are u: Maier iw gAge sat mlm ani the distribution of the funds which the there's no interest to pay.—You will find | ~ have tanned Fustee set Mol Ream ‘Festiere, ee at | CvecT slack charity, workers, If the ver to ieir cha a cae pl Bothyopdieth, pie: peat only knew the good their money ee ht Get an Cates te tee mats | Sees thay’ would give more. § tching figures. Keep stores, to. | Some one has coined the phrase, “the sub- Pen nd = merged tenth.” It is not a pleasant expres- Sree Tt | mon: Terefere tore clase Whb-aF0 50 HOOT a ae ctiati that they realize there is no chance for them and cease to look for it. They have lost much of the sensibilities that mark the J “upper ten.” They are in a sense dumb and unreasoning. They have become ac- customed to destitution, and they receive ald, whether it be food or money, in a man: that is mar! particularly MAMMOTH Bence “of all evidences of feeling. | Whew charity is distributed they do not show GREDIT MOUSE, = | ratte: $19, 821, 823 TTH ST. N.W., ‘The Faith Mission. BET. H AND I STS. Faith Mission is one of the chapels estab- BB We dso EVERY evening at 1. lished by the New York Avenue Church tn a neighborhood where churches are not plen- ty. The congregations are large, but the .|| contributions are small. The members of *|| the church have no money to spare to put in When You Furnish {|| the plate o” Sundays. But i€ is an active «|| and energetic little church, just the same, our Home *|| and the congregation is for the most part 29 |$ | made up of railroad and street car men, Buy the “Reversible $.| nucksters, oyster shuckers and men from Mattress. je|| the oyster and coal boats, men from the vi *|| river boats and the wharves; a congiomer. one 7 * | ate, but not a wealthy congregation. ju coo eg Se meee Cat Oe oll eaey aks’ h itvaty Inticest in the work of anee Tatclligeat “seople’ know |2|| the church and the meetings for men and ““ Detter, because * Reverst- |$ | for women and all the special services are “« * ble” is ‘alike om both sides and |$|| attended by numbers that would do credit pnd has just twice the service im |, | to some of the rich up-town churches. ‘The Pond it as bas the “one-sided” mat- e | Pastor of the church is Rev. Mr, G. C.Wood- “"* tress,and IT COSTS NO MORE. |? | ruff. He has worked so long In that section For Sale by Dealers Throughout District. CXeeueeex) REMINGTON’S Sure Cure FOR Rheumatism And Gout perhaps the most wonderful of 19th century remedies. It owes its existence to ite unfailing success. of ‘the city that his people know him and he knows them. For this reason the selections of the church as the distributing point of the Associated Charities and of the pastor as its agent were wise ones. The mission has been the distributing city since the 2d of January. During that time relief has been extended to upward of sixty people a day on an average. This Is no small undertaking, for every case must be examined separately and its merits pass- ed upon at once, for in many cases the r lef must come at once if it is to be of any avail. But not a lump of coal or a peck of meal is given away until it is certain that the applicant {s in actual destitute circum- stances. This section of the city contains a large? proportion of the city’s poor than any other, and the ground to be covered is very extensive. Many of the people here would be poor every winter, whether times were hard or not. The heads of the fami- lies:are many of them employed in the brick yards in summer time, or at some other job that gives out when cold weather comes in. ‘They are an improvident set, and when they have money they “live high” and go on ex- cursions down the river and demean them- selves generally in the manner of those whose incomes are assured for all time. When cold weather comes hunger comes Po: ancien reas with it, for this sort uf: people never think to put aside a penny or two Seren eoerey en, np eaeten now ‘nwt }for the evil day that they ought to vere. Eradicates entirely the dis- ease, banishes the pain, reduces swelling, cures gout and sciatica, @rives away neuralgia and chronic or infammatory rheumatism—in short, restores @ sufferer to perfect health. Has myriads of testimonials. SOLD BY Mertz’s Modern Pharmacy, jaz-Sm AND OTHER DRUGGISTS. eee > An Excellent Fuel i Is Gas. If used by means of the > proper GAS STOVE it is an ideal fuel. 5 Hot, clean, safe and eastly managed. > We sell the proper GAS STOVES at very moferate prices. S. S. SHEDD & BRO., 432 Ninth St. N. W. , weed Ladies’ Evening Gloves a ~» > > 2a aneseesecees tv we Vewrwwe rw ee rewew nd process Reasonable prices. St NW Anton Fischer, se 3. >| aned ejual to | know must come. This, of course, does not apply to all in this part of the city, any more than it would in any other part. ‘There are many fn dire need today who have never known before what it was to want for the necesefties of life. It makes no difference, however; ‘whether one was rich last sum- meryiiso Jong as he is poor right now. The, memory of a good dinner does not fill an_gmpty stomach. ‘The Unworthy Applicants. Ia the general distribution of aid at a time like the present one of the first things to do is to guard against fraud and impo- sition. It is surprising how many peo- ple try to obtain assistance who are per- feetly able to take care of themselves. *As {soon as they hear that charity is being dispensed they hold their aprons out for | some of the croppings, ignorant or careless | tnat everything they get means just that | much kept from those who are actually in | need of food. One of the applicants at the jmission last week told a most pitiful story {of destitution and begged for assistance, |me matter how little. What was needed | Was something to eat and that at once. | That person took it for granted that no |investigation would be made and that the aid would be given without question, for | when the case came to be examined’ into jit was found that the applicant was hold- |ing a good position in one of the depart- }ments and was living in more than or- ;dinary comfort. Assistance was not meted } out. Here is a literal copy of a letter received at the mission une day last week: Dear Sir, I am a widow with a lot of lit- | tle children to support and reduced to the {last degree of destitution, not haveing a peice of Bread in the House nor a spark of |fire. I am compelled to ask help of the good People who I hope will do all they can | for me in my sad condition. food and fuel lis what I need. The letter was signed with the widow's name and address. When the visitor went ‘to the house the “widow's” husband was lying on the bed in a complete state of in- (toxication. With this exception t point for all the southwest section of the | sistance was not meted out. But ihese are the exceptions and not the rule. It does not take impostors long to find out that their game will not work and they ‘do not try it a second time. Now al- most all the applications are from the worthy poor. The mission is in the elev- enth district of the Associated Charities and the pastor's room, which is used as the office, is open to the public from 10 to 1 o’clock every day and during these three hours there is a steady stream of people who come to ask aid. Perhaps nine out of ten of them are colored and most of them are elderly. All dress their parts well and lcok poor from head to foot. Waiting for Assistance. When The Star man pushed open the door of the parson’s study yesterday morn- ing there were about a score of people waiting with a stolidity and patience that were almost brutish. They seemed to take no interest in what was going on. They never spoke to one another. They simply sat there until their turn came and then they stepped up in a weary, uninterested manner and gave their names and ad- dresses and told what they needed most. It was invariably food and coal. A number of the cases ‘were those of people who had been assisted before and were known to be worthy. With these there was no delay and they were given an order on a neighboring coal wharf for __ three | bushels of coal and an order on a grocery store for a supply of provisions. The lat- ter varied somewhat and the amount de- pended upon the size of the family that was being assisted. This would be an av-| erage order for a colored applicant: One peck of meal, two pounds of pork, two quarts of beans, four quarts of hominy, and four quarts of oatmeal. For a white fam- ily something like this would be written dcewn on the order: Five pounds of flour, one pound of pork, four pounds of soup meat, one pound of rice and four pounds of oatmeal. If the applicant was aged or sick, coffee, or tea, and sugar would be added to the list. With the order in their hands the people would turn away without as much as a “thank you” and go out In a weary, hopeless manner that so often characterizes the class that need assist- ance. with regularity. Last week an Irish woman with a very sad story, that was true, too, was given an order for a quarter of a ton of coal and an extra large supply of provisions. She came back in half an hour and complained that she had not been given any wood. She was told that there w: be given and she showed the determination to make trouble there and then. - “Faith,” said she, “and it is an outrage, ‘so it is, to give a pore widdy woman a load of coal and no good wood to kindle it wid. How do yez expect me to light me fire wid- out wood?" She was told that she would have to skirmish around for her own supply of wood, which could be picked up without any trouble around the wharves, and she went away with the manner of one who has been very badly treated. The First Case Yesterday. The first case taken up yesterday morning after the reporter reached there was that of a very old colored “aunty,” who, the records showed, had received some coal last week. This time she wanted something to eat and Mr. Woodruff decided that it would be better to have the case looked into thoroughly before anything was done, so he directed one of his visitors, Mr. Harry Pflieger, to go to the woman’s house and see if there was anything in the cupboard. The office force of the mission is not large. Beside Mr. Pflieger there are four volun- teer visitors, and Miss Foster, who officiates as Mr. Woodruff's secretary. The expenses of the office are less than $10 a week, con- siderably less, and on this outlay upward of 400 cases are handled every week. Mr. Pfleger wore in his lapel the button of the ¥.M.C.A. With him The Star man went out to call at the residence of the wo- man, who gave her name as Anna Coleman. She stayed at the mission while the visit was being made, for experience shows that it Is best to look up such cases when the people are not at home. If they have any- thing to eat in the house and know that the visitor is coming they move their pro- visions into the next door neighbor's and in other ways get ready to make a-good ap- pearance. The Coleman residence was in the back yard of a shanty on M street and could only be reached through a hole in the fence. The Star man, whose duties have often led him through the purlieus of the city where are sights that the average citizen wots not of, had no idea that there was in all the city such a disreputable place for any one to call home. A Sad Pictare. In a filthy back yard, a disease breeding hole, some one had at some time put up some boards in such a manner as to give a poor imitation of a very poor cow shed. In that three people lived after a fashion. The floor sagged as one walked over it. The dirt was so thick everywhere that nothing short of a shovel could ever have made any impression. The room was perhaps eight by ten feet square, for there was only one room there. In it was a bed, covered with a dirty tick and without a vestige of bed clothes. Close by the bed was a little stove that was all but falling apart. One tiny pane of soiled glass let !n a little of the sunlight that was making the outside world glorious. This but made the squalor more noticeable. On the bed sat a young colored woman. She was clad in the scantiest manner. The waist of her dress was of torn calico and open wide that she might nurse a little brown baby, showing that there were no other garments beneath. A more miserable picture one could not imagine. This little shanty fairly reeked of despair. The woman was asked if there was any- thing to eat in the house. She said there was not, and that if the visitors had any doubts ©n this point they were at liber to search, She rather intimated that if tney found anything she would be greatly pleased, It did not take long to toss over everything in the place. maging, while the reporter smoked hard and fast to get the better of the odors, brought to light a half pint of dirty flour that would never have passed muster in a pure food exposition. That was all there was in the house,and no one could tell where anything was to come from. Without as- sistance from outside Anna Coleman and this younger woman, whoever she was, would have gone to bed hungry last night. Are you surprised that a favorable report was made in this case, and do you imagine, oh, gentle readers who give more or less generously and regularly to the Associated Charities, that your money is not well ex- pended? If you do, go out and look for yevrselves, Do you know Van street, Van court and Van alley? No? Then there is a pleasant part of your city that you know nothing of, a place where it is very nice to live— that is, unless you would prefer to die. There are some people who would rather not live than live in such a way. But they are supersensitive. It is true that it is an ill-smelling locality. The ground is wet and slimy in places. The houses are very, very small, so small that one can hardly understand how so many people can sleep in them unless they sleep standing up or on edge. The houses are almost all of one story. A tenement, high and _ crowded, would be better, for then the dwellers would be farther removed from the damp earth. In the Direst Need. Winnie Roy occupies an apartment in a two-story building in Van alley. It is a far less attractive neighborhood than that first visited.. Winnie had locked up her room before she left home, just why it was hard to tell, for no one could be so poor that he would steal any of her belong- ings. She gave her key to the visitor that he might see that she had told the truth when she said there was nothing to eat in the house. Her room was up a narrow, dirty staircase, dark, and in every way ob- Jectionable. The room was about six feet square, and quite as dirty as the approach. There was a bed; that is, it looked like a bed. Beside it there was a bag filled with chips and pieces of wood, thag showed the occupant had scoured the streets for the wherewithall to keep a spark of fire in the tumble-down excuse that answered for a stove. Over the door there was a horse stoe, but it was upside down, so that the geod luck had run out long ago. In a drawer of a bureau, that did duty as a cupboard as well, were seven old plates, but not a suggestion of anything to put upon them ever. There was not a thing to eat in that filthy hole. There was no evi- dence that there had been anything. There was nothing but squalor, not dirt that could have been avoided, but the dirt that comes from utter destitution, and that is not the least pitiable accompaniment of poverty. The cracks in the board walls were stopped up with bunches of paper to keep out the cold wind. Enough was seen in a moment to con- vince any one that the occupant of that iserable hole was in the direst need. Do ou wonder that a favorable recommenda- y tion was made in her case? Does any one | begrudge her the little supply of food that she was able to get from the corner store? As the reporter and the visitor were walking through Van court a huckster was trying to sell some eg “Th: only I cents a dozen a little cheap for egg said he. and may This levery sign of comfort about. There was aj have reflected upon their quality, but an no wood that could | her ability to buy any. And Still They Co When the.return was made to the church there was no decrease to be noted in the number of those waiting for assistance. The places of those who had gone were taken by other needy ones. An old “aunty” had just received an order for provisions and fuel. She was the only one who showed any particuiar signs of grati- tude. When she was given to understand that if she presented the little slip of Paper at the corner grocery she would get some provisions she got so excited that she reminded one of a person “gettin’ ‘ligion” at a camp meeting. “Thank you miss, thank yo’ all, thank all yo’ genmen, and may the good Lord bless yo’ and yo’ efforts and yo' work. Yo" am doing a mighty Gord's work; bless every one of yo’, yo’ sutnly am good to me, praise the name of Aimighty Gord. I have been mighty po’ in my day, but I ain’t never got so po’ but the good Gord has come to my aid. Bless His name and I'll bless His name all the rest of my few days clean to the time when I get down to the very sho’ of the great river.” In the crowd was a big strapping colored man. He wanted aid for his sick wife. Mr. Woodruff asked him if he did not want to earn it by sawing wood for a few hours. He said his wife had been sick for three weeks and he wanted food for her right away. a “Well, supposing we give you the food right away, are you willing to saw wood for it afterward?” He Wouldn't Saw Wood. This able-bodied man did not seem to see it in that light. His wife was sick, so he sald, and there was every reason, in his opinion, why he should have the food right away without having to labor in return. He went away disgusted with such a sys- tem of charity. It is the desire of these distributors of aid to give work whenever it is possible instead of encouraging pro- fessional mendicancy. A young woman was in the crowd and she was given assistance without delay, a3 her case was thoroughly understood. She had two children to care for, and her husband, though regularly employed, re- ceives but $1 a week. This is a very small sum with which to fill four mouths, but the good intent on his part was present, and everything that could be done was done for them. These are but a handful of cases from the half hundred or more that were acted upon yesterday, snap shots at suffering, as it were. There were scores of other incidents equally pathetic. And this was only one day in the week, and the winter is long and the need is great. Does any one won- der that the newspapers of Washington are constant and unremitting in their ap- po for ald for the needy poor of the city? Associated Charities. The second subdivision opened their room December 5, ard to the close of the month received clothing and supplies from Mrs. Dr. Robbins, Mrs. Lindsay, Mrs. E. L. Huboard, Gen. and Mrs. D. L, Stanley, ond from Weightman and Grant public schools. The report of Mrs. Chapman ows that there were 267 applicants for relief; 71 fam- ites, 213 adults and 210 children, Clothing j Was distribute] in 30 families, and fuel in 20 families; visits. were made. Groceries and food are purchased in bulk, and put up in small packages for distribution as may be needed. There are many calls. | Money may be sent to A. B. Hagner, pres- | ident, or ‘to W. G. Duckett, treasurer, cor- ner 22d street and Pennsylvania avenue, and clothing and supplies to Mrs. M. H’ Chapman, 2037 H street northwest, EEE EAGER TO BREAK STONE. The Opportunity to Earn Something Given to Baltimore's Poor. A movement for the rellef of Baltimore's unemployed was started yesterday morning in the form of a stone yard. The central relief committee, who have inaugurated the plan, had the necessary ground for the yard loaned to them free for such time as it should be needed. The stone is what is called “scrap building stone,” that is, such blocks as are too small or too much broken to be shaped into building block. This stone is beaten up by the men into small pieces, such as is used in macad- amizing country roads -or roads in the Suburbs of the city. Stone thus broken by hand is considered much superior to stone crushed by machine, as the latte is said to crumble much faster. The relief com- mittee in their circular to the charitable societies co-operating with them say: “Certificates (to be given work) are de- signed for unemployed residents of Balti- more who have families dependent upon them for support.”” Each one of these certificates given by the different societies entitles the holder to be allowed to do “one unit of work,” | which amounts to breaking up about three- quarters of a ton of stone, and for which he receives 50 cents. To the ordinary un- skilled laborer “one unit of work” requires | about flve hours’ time. No one is given work except such as hold certificates prop- | erly stamped, and no single men are given work. If a man has less than four persons dependent upon him he is allowed to do | only one unit of work a day; if he has four or more persons dependent upon him he 1s allowed to work double time—do two units—receiving therefor $1 a day. No more than one certificate is given at a time, but until a man can get other work he is allowed to do his unit or two units a day, as the case may be, getting his cer- tificate renewed each day. In addition to the wages paid 10 cents is allowed for car fare to certiticate holders who live south of East Baltimore street and east of Broad-| t | Way and on the neck east of, Webster | A diligent rum- | Z - | street. The yard opened for the first time yes- terday morning, and during the first few hours more than one hundred men had! applied for work. About half of these were | without certificates. and were directed where to go for them. One man said he | | had a job, but came to see if there was a/ better one to be found. He was soon satis- | fied that he would find no soft snap break- ing rock and took himself off, A big, burly fellow, who was also looking for a soft job, tried his hand for a while, | but quit, saying he was not looking for hard work like that, though he had a wife and children suffering for bread. He was | the only man who refused to work during | the day. It was an interesting and a sad sight to see these men, nearly all so eager for a chance to work that they would break stones for 50 cents a day—men, too, who appeared to have had better luck and been well-to-do mechanics before the hard times. In fact, a large majority of the men who | worked yesterday were mechanics—carpen- | ters, painters, &c.—men who would be con- sidered skilled laborers,although there were some of that class also. At least two of the men who worked yes- terday had not known previously what hard manual labor was, as shown by their small, white, delicate hands. They had probably been clerks, bookkeepers or some- thing of the sort. It was a curious sight to see this heterogeneous crowd working to finish their units of work, and to see the delight with which many received their 50 cents and hurried away to get their cer- tificates for the next day. Many of the men looked pinched and worn from hunger and care, and Dr. Gould remarked: + “The saddest thing about it is the apparent lack of nourishment in the faces of so many.” The work will go on, rain or shine, as Dr. Gould has had a large covered shed built for the men to work under in wet weather. Mr. John McHugh is foreman at the yard. Dr. Gould has already sold two hundred tons of the stone, but this will soon be finished and he thinks the city ought to buy the stone, as it is constantly needed and can be used advantagéously. About one hundred men can be put to work at Dr. Gould’s yard and another yard similar to his will be opened today or to- morrow, where twenty men can be em- ployed. This will be situated on the Falls road, in North Baltimore, at Atkinson's quarry. The new stone yard fs in charge of Dr. C. C. Shippeu, another of the executive committee. —___- -+e« —___ Cornell University's Growth. ‘The new annual register of Cornell Uni- versity has been issued and is now being distributed. There are this year in all 151 instructors and 1,752 students, as against 145 teachers and 1,655 students last year. The total given for this year does not in- clude the names of 169 students in the va- rious courses of study in the summer school nor those of forty-eight students in the winter course in agriculture. scholarships for graduate students have just been established, and five new fellow- ships in addition to the eighteen already existing. The library has received several | notable gifts during the year, including the Moak law library of 13,000 volumes, and the Zarnoke library of equal size. soo Pure food exposition every afternoon and evening at Convention Hall. Doors open at Ten new | 2 p.m. ard close at 10:30 p.m. Cook lectures dvt. The Position of the House on the Sugar Schedules. ment That Was a Mishit— at the Voting— There were nine members on the floor of the House last night and seven of the nine were speakers. The public were, however, more appreciative. All the galleries except the private galleries were crowded. An unusual thing happened yesterday, in that the excitement and commotion in the House was during the taking of the votes rather than while the give-and-take discus- sion was in progress. All during the day, as shown by the report in The Star, there was a high tension over the sugar question. Then men who were anxious for a duty on sugar were worked up to the highest pitch of anxiety, and antagonizing them were the advocates of the income tax and those members who regard it as the duty of the majority party to sustain their committee on ways and means, even if their action is not fully approved of. When the Star went to press the talk was still in progress and no vote had been taken, but what the result would be was quite evident. The absurdity and confusion of the situa- tion later in the day was-beyond concep- tion. It was a quarter after 4 o'clock when the voting began. It was not over when the hour of half-past 5, the time fixed for the recess, was reached. An Inextricable Tangle. The time was then extended indefinitely, and twenty minutes later the committee rose because they were in such an inex- tricable tangle that there was nothing to do but get away and think the matter over calmly during the sleepy hours of the night. What a majority of the House were trying to do was to strike out the bounty pro- | visions retained in the Wilson bill and to! place all sugar on the free list. What the, republicans wanted was either to retain the old McKinley bounty of two cents a pouad on sugar or to get the democrats in a hole. What the ways and means committee and their faithful supporters wanted was to up- hold their committee action. Louisiana members wanted to have a duty of above a cent @ pound put on sugar. What happeaed was that the House got in a tangle, which left every one in doubt what they had done | and where they stood. There was a com. plicated lot of amendments to vote on, and 4 very stringent rule governing the matter, which had been adopted by unanimous ccn- ! sent. Much confusion attended the taking | of the first vote, which was on an amend- | ment to an amendment providing for t retention of the present bounty. This wi supported by the republicans and four of the Loutstana men and defeated nearly two to one. Then arose a complication as to the manner of offering amendments and us to how many could be offered. Half of the House were engaged in trying to instruct or coerce the chair, and for a while there was no telling how things stood. The chairman, Mr. Richardson, pounded on his desk until the splinters flew and finally got order | enough to put the vote on an amendment to | @ substitute for the pending amendment, | Proposing to put in force the sugar schedule | which was contained in the old Mills bill. This amendment was offered by Mr. Price and was supported by the radical sugar men. It was lost by a vote of 19 to 149. Another scene of confusion follow and then a vote was taken on the Harter sub- stitute for the pending amendment, provid- ing for a duty of a cent a pound on sugar This was lost. The McRae Amendment Carried. An attempt was then made to get in other amendments to the pending amendment and all were ruled out amid much talking and protesting. The vote on the first amend- ment .was then taken. This was the McRae amendment striking off all bounty, and it was carried by a vote of 135 to 6. Then came the vote on the amendment to the next section, to which an amendment was offered and then a substitute for the amend- ment and amendment. Among those who voted for the amend- ment were the following republicans: Messrs. Grosvenor, Dalzell, Ellis, Moon, Keifer, McCall, Cannon, Wilson of Wash- ington, Lacey, Hopkins, Haugen, McDow- = aad Scranton, Marsh, Doolittle and ‘un Refined Sugar on the Free List. Mr. Robertson of Louisiana offered an amendment providing for a tariff tax on ar. To this amendment Mr. Warner of New York offered an amendment putting refined sugar on the free list. Mr. Breckinridge of Kentucky offered a substitute providing for a duty of 1 cent per pound on molasses, sirups, and all raw products of cane juice, beet juice, tank bettoms, sugar eepings, &c. Mr. Warner's amendment was first voted on and was agreed to by a vote of 137 in the affirmative to 52 in the negative, nearly all republicars voting in the affirmative. The Breckinridge amendment was* then Icst by a vote of 67 to 144. A Mistit Amendment. It was then discovered that the amend- ment to the amendment dM not fit. The second amendment did just what a major- ity of the House wanted to do, put all sugar on the free list, but added to the amend- ment to which it was an amendment it had quite a different effect. The combina- tion put refined sugar on the free iist and raw sugar was left to pay a duty. The House knew what it wanted, but did not know how to get at it. An attempt w: made to reconsider for the purpose of s' ing over again, but amid the confusion they cculd not make that. Finally, Mr. Wilson moved that the committee rise, which it did, not being able to do anything else, and a recess was taken until evening. The Night Session, At 8 o'clock the evening session, for de- bate only, was held. It presented a strange contrast to the excitement of the session two hours before. All the litter of the bat- Ue had been cleared away. The floors were clean, the desks in order, and there were not enough members in the House to make a little. The speakers during the evening were Brookshire, Broderick, McCreary, Gold- zin, Helborn, Fletcher and Mr. Avery of Michigan. THE HACKENSACK DISASTER. Beginning the Coroner's Inquest Into the Adair. Over 500 men attended the inquest begun last night by Coroner Volk at Hoboken, N. J., concerning the recent fatal wreck on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rail- road near Hackensack, whereby eleven lives were lost. Before the investigation began the jury retired to a room below and were closeted for nearly half an hour. When they appeared Foreman F. W. Ben- der announced that the jury had been con- sidering the published rumor to the effect that attempts had been made to tamper with certain members of the jury. Foreman Bender admitted that there were founda- tions for the rumor, and he promised that the grand jury of Hudson county would be put in possession of the facts. The over- tures he declared, however, proved futile. Several witnesses were examined. The first was Engineer H. Stitcher of the Dover express. His testimony was but a report of the catastrophe. Dewitt P. Wheaton, flag- man of the wrecked train, testified that he had no time to flag the coming train. Asked why he did not jump on the right side, he replied that if he had he would have gone into the ditch. Fireman Frank Cooper and Brakeman John Pierce gave unimportant testimony. The inquest was adjourned un- til Thursday evening. After 25 About twenty-five years ago I was afilicted with a disease which the doctors I yy several physiciansand specialists without being benefited; and I tried many blood Temedies, without relief. was recommended, and after Years LS S.S Be eaten coat would not be in my former condition for two thourand dollars. Cure d ¥. T. BUCK, r Delaney, Ark. S253S: Send for Treatise on Blood and ‘Skin Diseases mailed free. SWIFT SPECIFIC C0. ATLANTA, | Morey, | 12,000 miles ON THE BREAKFAST TABLE In coffee, tea, chocolate and in many delicious beverages, Richness \ is added by the use of the | Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk. For more than thirty years the Eagle brand has stood the test, has given per- Gxt aiden to Oe : People, and has had an enormous Export Trade. It is the Best, it oes the farthest and is economical. You can use it for general household purposes. TALKING OF CEYLON. A Native of the Far-Off Isle Enter- tains a Washington Audience. Mr. William Morey, jr., lectured last night at Metzerott Music Hall before an appre- clative audience on Ceylon. Mr. Morey is a native of that island and more than superficially familiar with its people, cus- toms and traditions. He treated of its phys- feal characteristics, cities, people, govern- ment and resources, its arts and industries, and told of life at the pearl fisheries and the story of an elephant hunt. “To the people of the United States,” said Mr. “imbued with cis-Atlantic tradi- tiens only a few hundred years old at the most, and yet radiant with the accomplish- ments of those early pioneers who settled in the fertile valleys of fair Virginia and the rocks of the bleak New England coast, the bare suggestion of a vish to Ceylon, into the land of sunrise, awakens recollections of school geographies which taught that the great peninsuia of India and the little Island of Ceylon were fitted to be associated in the minds of the western world only in connection with coffee. teas, spices and benighted humanity. They may have also taught that some Europeans had been stranded on those dis- tant shores and had remained there tor Purposes of barter, and that a few mission- aries had been sent there to sacrifice their ives in an endeavor to regenerate the mii- Mons of human beings buried in the depths of heathen darkness and to lead them to the full enjoyment of the modern spiritual day. The name of Ceylon is derived from a Singalese word, meaning the home of the Kcn race. The Greeks and the Romans re- ferred to it as the “Utmost Indian Isle,” and the Mohammedans who settled in the mountain provinces during the early por- tion of the fourteenth century knew it as Seundib, while the eari; Dutch colonists called it Island of Mannar, a long sand-bank known as Adam's and the Island of Ra- meswernas, noted for its Hindoo temples, it extends southwardly under a tropical sun to a distance of 270 miles and has an extreme breadth of 140 miles. According to Buddhist traditions, Buddha visited Ce: jon three times, although there is no au- thentic information that he visited Ceylon at all. On the occasion of his alleged last | Visit, he is said to have left the amprint | of his foot on Adam's Peak when he passed over into India. The Brahmins claim that it is the footprint of Vishnu, the Moham- medans that it is that of their prophet, and the Christians attribute it to St. Thomas, and have built a chapel and a number of cells on the mountain for the use of priests. The lecturer then carried his audience through the city of Colombo, where he was | born, and showed them a picture of the little chapel of the Church of England, in which he was baptized a Christian. Coloim- bo is a city of 130,000 Population, hotels, colleges, museums, parks and all the accompaniments of city life. yee which protects its e ravages of the Indian ocean at the periods of the southwestern hurricanes was shown and explained. Kandy, the capital of the ancient an dynasty, was visited and inspected. Thence all hands went to Point de Galle, yA traveled through great cocoa groves and tropic jungles, alo! banks of the abandoned Dutch canal” ue Morey dwelt on the home life of the tives. and treated of the racial and relig- fous differences of the inhabitants in an entertaining and instructive manner. Mr. Morey is a pleasant talker, with an eastern accent and an oriental imagination. He received hearty applause and was warmly congratulated at the close of his discourse. The illustrations, thrown on the screen by Mr. Murray, were from views sna; by = Morey in his wanderings in tae tonok le. a en THE ROYALIST MEMORIAL. The Men W! Signed the Petition to the President. Application was made at the Hawetian legation last evening for information con- cerning the men who signed the royalist memorial transmitted to Congress by the | President yesterday. Mr. Hastings, secre- | tary of the legation, said that he preferred to say nothing upon the subject, but re- ferred the reporter to Minister Willis’ vpin- jon of the men as expressed in his dis- Patch (No. 2) to Mr. Gresham, dated No- vember 16, 1898. The first four names and | the last signed to the memorial, it appears from Mr. Willis’ letter, are among those whom C. B. Wilson, the marshal of the | Queen at the time of her dethronement, had selected, with her authority, to act as coun- cil to the queen when she should have been restored. Of this council as a whole Mr. Willis says: “An analysis of the list of special advis- | ers, whether native or foreign, is not en- couraging to the friends of good govern- ment or of American interests. The Amer. icans, who for over half a century hell YOU CAN SEE IT, aps, one of Dr. ‘ierce’s Pleasant Pellets—but you can’t feel it after it's taken. 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