Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1894, Page 6

Midwinter Early Spring “Opening,” Monday, 29-1-1894. The Palais Royal proprietor and “buyers” of the various departments request your presence on Mon= day to the Sixteenth Annual “Opening” of Midwinter and Advanced Spring Styles. Anticipating a contin- uation of the success that has attended The New Palais Royal the importations are unusually large, so that we think the display will be quoted as larger and better than any ever seen in Washington at this season of the year. According to annual custom the new goods will be offered at nominal prices as sou- venirs of the “Opening.” List of Souvenirs. Hdkf. Dept. Souvenirs. (FIRST FLOOR.) |Tlen’s Dept. Souvenirs. (RST FLOOR.) $1.50 French Percale Shirts for 1894, A2ige Plain and Embrotdered Be" Swiss Embroidered Hundkerehh Duchess Lace and Silk Ribbon Dept. Souvenirs. (PTHST FLOOR.) $1.39 yard 9-inch-wide Moire Ribbon. 45 yard 3-inch Satin Ribbous ( Ze yerd Btnch Moire Ribbons We yard l-inch Moire Kibboas Be Millinery Dept. Souvenirs. (SECOND FLOOR.) Te Trimmed Sailor Hats... 39 bunches English Violets. @Se bunches Ostrich Feathers. Shoe Dept. Souvenirs. $1.98 Warranted Gloria Silk Umbrellas. .$2.48 Warranted Union Silk Umbrellas. s 48e Natural Wood aN a cae 10 per cent on all Mac! per cel evant ea Hand Satchels aud Dress Suft Cases. Art Dept. Souvenirs. (SECOND FLOOR.) 35¢ Momfe Bureau Scarfs, 72 inches long. 35e Hemstitched Squares, 2, feat square. ot jc 83 Tdies Shoce: a myles: 33e Tray Covers, 18x27 inches. 9% Ladies’ Shoes, all styles. 35e Brocaded Sofa Pillow Tops. 97 Ladies’ Shoes, all styles. a8e Hematitehed Linen Scarfs 97 Ladies’ Shoes, al! styles. Be ited Initials stamped, free here during the “opening. Linen Dept. Souvenirs. (SECOND FLOOR.) 43c yard 58-inch Cream Damask Linen Ge Jurd Otlnch Bleached Irish one 1 $1.79 dozen 3-4 Bleacbed Table Ni i5e Warranted All-linen Hemmed 6c Full-size White Crochet Bed iters. all sizes... ‘s and Ze ‘. Misses’ Snoes at 20 per cent dis- count. UnderwearDept.Souvenirs. (FIRST FLOOR.) ‘5c Ladies’ Fast Black Hose. ‘owel: gle ve ts Se yard Amovkeag Ginghams for . ‘BSe Bust Black and Fancy Soe Stik’ ylated Hose® black and ‘colors sx: | Glove Dept. Souvenirs. $e Ribbed Meri: Vests and Pants ie IST FLOOR.) e | $1.50 Foster Kid Gloves, 7 hooks. Boe Ribbed Silk Vests, black and colors. S8e | $1.50 Foster Kid, lo Jewelry-Dept. Souvenirs. quetaires, 12 buttons. . Secde Kid Mousa ST FLOOR, 75 Suede Kid Mousquetaires, 16 buttons 1 98e Real Gold Pa ® Tle 50 Suede Kid Mousquetaires, buttons. Soe Sterling Silver 1h ide | $185 Rest English, Walking Gloves, 4 buttons.$1.50 5 rate iE ous: G8 Gold and Silver Watch Chains. se | $2.25 Sue | Meare $1 and $1.25 Misses’ and Dress Goods Dept. (SECOND FLOOR.) 49c yard All-wool Figured Challies SGe Yard Silk ard Wool Carmalite Satting! $1 yard Fancy Granite Cloth Suiting 25e yard All-wool Cheviot Sultings. 1:32 $1.19 GPS | $10, $12 and $15 Novelty Dress Pu cc St Jard Black ‘Tateta silts... se Wrst FLO: 25 yard Biack Satin Ithadame. Be Sterling Silver Souvenir cond | $1.50 yard Black Marie and Satin ithadame. . .$1.35 | Be Plated Kaives, Forks, | $1.25 yard Evening Bengaline Silks. 131.15 | 25e Silver Filagree Cologne Holders. w+ .3le F yard Evening Satin Duchess. 1y lo cent discount on all Sterling Silver and | $1.95 yard Evening Novelty 1.68, | Ze yard Figured China Silks. . oe yard Evening Crepe de 5oe yard Wash Silks for 1894 G8e yard Figured India Silks. $1 yard Figured Taffeta Silke: Wrap Dept. Souveni (THIRD FLOOR.) $15 Cloth Suits, all styles. | $18.75 Cloth Suits, all styl | $22.50 Cloth Suits, all styles $7.50 Sik Waists,’ all style $2.98 Eiderdown ‘Buti He Dressing Sacques, all Plated Goods, including Rogers’ Knives, Forks and Bpoons. Leather Goods Dept. rs. 10 per cent Umbrella Dept. Souvenirs. «(FIRST FLOOR.) .98 Men's and Ladies’ Warranted Umbrellas. 48 Warranted Silk Umbrellas. 2.75 Stik Tea Gowns, all Cashmere Tea Gowns. 1.25 Best Indigo Wray 1.35 Best Mourning Wrappei $1.25 Hes Flannetette Wrappers, ali lea 1:75 Fiannelette Wrappers, all styles 2.50 Flannelette Wrappers, all styles. | $10.50 Cloth Capes, latest styles. $18.50 Cloth ¢ 39e eG per cent discount on all Umbrellas over $3. Rubber Goods Dept. «(FIRST FLOOR.) per cent discount on’ Mackintoshes Toilet Article Dept. Underwear Dept.Souvenirs d (THIRD FLOOR.) 19¢ Cambrie Corset Covers, all sizes.. Se Drawers. Very superior garment se Cotton and Cambric Underga: Undergarments, all styles. Undergarments, all sty 5 Undergarments, all styles. $1.15 Knit Wool Skirts, all’ styles. Black Sateeu Skirts. . 1% Bottles Bay Kum. . te 25e boxes Battermilk Soap. ve Neckwear Dept. Souvenirs. (FIRST FLOOR.) Ze Silk Windsor Scarfs and Bows... $3.48 Ostrich Feather Boas for evening. o : Scarfs and Faney Made-up Neck- Wear at 10 per cent discount. Laces and Embroideries. @IsT FLOOR.) 10 per cent discount on all Laces. De | $1.68 | $1.18 | 68e | fo | 10 per cent discount rt 1 A la C. BP." Corsets, 1894 styl 50 “Marie Antoinette’ Corsets. $1.50 “A la P. D." Corsets, 1804 style. Sec Baby Waists, latest and best ‘Te Misses’ Corsets, all styles. Infants’ Cambrie Slips 45¢ Cambrie Skirts 30e Plaid Muslin Apron | . all ‘sizes. | 48e yard Veilinzs, ail styles. +-40€ | O8e Fancy Muslin Aprons, all sizes, 6se | = as all styles. . ++ | $1.15 India Lawn Aprons.’ all sizes. Ts count on all Embroideries. Trimming Dept. Souvenirs. | pe (FIRST FLOOR.) 9% yard Jet Bead Trimmings. de yard Jet Bead Trinumings. “se yard Fine Cut Jet Band T: Ie yard Black and Funecy Mohair Braids. % yard Mohair Braid, biack only 4@8e dozen Peart Cloak Buttons. Se dozen smalier Pearl Butt: Te dozen Black Croehet Buttons. Notion Dept. Souvenirs. (FIRST FLOOR.) Kleinert’s “‘Feather-weight Dress Shields. Ye piece Taffeta Ribbons, 10 yards Se yard Silk Braid, all colors. Ave 300 SSe White Benguline Silk Caps. Ie Children’s Muslin Drawers, all sizes, Ze Cuiidren’s Drewers, all sizes... .. 48e Children's and Misses’ Nizht Gowns. | 3ve Children’s and Misses’ Skirts... | Sec Children’s and Misses’ Garments. e| UpholsteryDept.Souvenirs. (FOURTH FLOOR.) Se | 3e | i4e 220e | + Be 73 pair Chenille Curtains. 4-4 Chenille Tabi pair 6-pound Feather Pilio by Carriages, 1804 design. : Rug Dept. Souvenirs. I5e | (FOURTH FLOOR.) Ie | $15_and $17.50 Ca: rid Rug -3e 7 Dagestan Iie piece SUE 4 Ile : Ue dozen Montazue Hair Curlers. lve Ie pieces BS Real Whaiedone, 30 inch 88 Gozerr Sewing SOK. (FIRST FLOOR.) | Se Hurd's Prussian Blue Paper and Envelopes. 1c | Ze Hurd’s Gid-style Paper aud Envelopes. rd's “Highland Heath Kid Finish Housefurnishing Dept. | (BASEMENT FLOOR.) I" Carpet Sweeper, warranted the, Tass L090; inger, regular $1.25 Spice Cabtnet, with eight’ drawers }t Ladd Made’ rablets.. (FIRST FLOOR.) t Authors, bound in red and white. lar Works, | 400 4, $1.25 top id Boxes, fuil &: ed B: i 28e Nickel plated Call Bells, large size. China & Glass Ware Depts. | } Japanese Dept. Souvenirs. | iniomemes pion’ (FIRST FLOOR.) $15 Dinner Set, 1 98e Decorated China Jardinieres. . it Taizan Vases, sli styles... Nets, 56 pleces, mall Set, 36 De | ‘Se China Tea m China Cuspidors, 25 per cent on all other Japanese Goods. ’ romely — 49 - a 2.50 Pittsburg Lamp, Doii Dept. Walle cco cknak trae core 1.80 D pt Souvenirs. {oe ‘Table Tumi engraved Be (FIRST FLOOR.) 10° per cont afse Marked on the one ¥: | 9c Crystal Glass Tumblers, decorated. “tenth off the price | Boys’ Clothing Dept. | Palais Royal, Fe (THIRD FLOOR) A. Lisner, Prop. mi! F cent discount—one-quarter off price marked | G AND ELEVENTH STREETS. Separate Vauts, Suits and Overcoats of ull | 1 ‘|The comments upon the performance last .| these characters were sustained by Master \ing and the ladies are confident that they 93 | will be fully up to the standard. The other | ance of the ‘“fhree Dukes” the audience will | March concert. | flute, | of the great ‘cello master, | education in a course of studies at ¢ | came a member of the famous Gewandhaus | one musical studies under the best masters of ork, subsequently pursuing a | conrse-at theaBsussels Conservatory. under | $9 the instruction of the celebrat ; ber of the Philharmonic and Symphonic i Annual Dinner | vice presidents, John H. Voorhees, ¢ | Victor Kauffmann; treasurer, E. S$. McCal- AYER’S Hair Vigor PREVENTS BALDNESS, | Removes Dandruff AND RESTORES COLOR TO Faded & Gray HAIR. THE Best Dressing. AYER'S HAIR VIGOR FOR GROWTH There are many forms of nervous debility in men that yield to the use of Carter's Iron Pils. ‘Those who» are troubled with nervous wi night sweats, &., should try them. ‘DIES NEEDING A TONIC, OR CHILDREN sah want building up, should tak stony Biljounjess andLiver Complaints, ‘makes fhe Blood rich and pure. 1 THE MODERN MIRACLES OF HEALING WHICH are indisputably performed by Dr. Williams Pink Pills should receive the closest investiga- eir friends. ja27-eos: BY 18 CUTTING TEETH BE SURB ‘and use that old well-tried remedy, Mrs. Wins- low’s Soothing Syrup for children’ teething. It | soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all Iu, cures wind Colic and fs the best remedy for Siarruoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle. mylay WOODBURY'S FACIAL SOAP FOR THE SKIN, eval and cowplexiop. All druggists. oe sult of 20 years’ experience treating the tile. “a book on Dermatology with every cake, ocd-1y The fashionable ladies’ corrective tonic is An- gostura Bitters, the world renowned tonic of Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons, Ask your druggist. IN MUSICAL CIRCLES The Coming Performance of “Pinafore” by Little Children. Everything Indicates an Excellent Pre: fon of the Opera—Th: Capital Glee Club Concert. Next Saturday afternoon at the National Theater there will be a repetition of the performance of “Pinafore” by children that was so successfully given last spring. The interest felt in the coming production is even greater than at its first presentation, both among the ladies who have charge of the matter and the children who are to take part. The rehearsals have been go- ing on for some weeks, and all the little ones are now perfect in their parts and anxious for the day for their appearance. spring were highly complimentary to all the young people of the cast, not only by the papers of this city, but correspondents of outside papers said some very pleasant things about the singing and acting of the children. The principals will be the same as jaat spring, with two exceptions—the Ralph Rackstraw and Hebe. Last Spring Merryman Walker and Miss Pierce, and both did excellently. This time Master Lee Cox and Miss Winter will assume these roles. They have been diligently rehears- characters will be as follows: Capt. Cor- coran, Paul Sperry; Dick Deadeye, Harold Tracy; Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. B., Fred Hazzard; Boatswain, Burton Garrett; Lit- tle Buttercup, Miriam Stoddart, and Joseph- ine, Marie Howe. These are all perfect in their parts and will do even better than they did iast spring. Perhaps unusual in- terest attaches to tne part o1 Josepnine, for jast year the little gui was very nighly praised for ner work,the.New York Dramatic News saying that “the little lady gave a per- | formance in precision, vivacity and seif- command far beyond her years. it evi- denced the possession of talent of no mean degree.” The chorus will number titty and nas been carefully trained by Profs. Clow- ard and Howard. The production of the “Three Dukes” is also exciting a good deal of interest, not only from the fact tnat the opera, both mu- sical score and book, are by two Washing- ton young men‘and High pchooi graduates, but because those who have been fortunate enough to attend any of the rehearsals are Satistied it will be handsomely put upon) the stage, and will be well sung and acted. The Messrs. Harris are very busy just now in putting the final touches on at the rehearsals, and are confident that when the curtain goes up on the first perform- | be thoroughly convinced that authors and performers have neglected nothing that could contribute to its success. . Next Wednesday evening the excellent choir of the Eastern Presbyterian Church, under the direction of Mr. John A. Roeder, will appear in a public concert forthe first time in an effort to contribute to the fund of the church. Miss Eleanor Simonds, first contralto of the Philharmonic Quartet, has resigned from the choir of the Church of the Refor- mation, and hes been engaged for the en- suing year by Mr. Jas. Watson for the choir of Christ Church, Georgetown. The Philharmonic Quartet will sing for the Haydn Association, Baltimore, at their This shows that this ex- cellent organization 1s appreciated else- where as well as in Washington. The New York Philharmonic Club, which appears at the concert of the Capital Glee | Club next Thursday evening at Metzerott’s Music Hall, comprises a string quintet and under the direction of Mr. Eugene | Weiner, who is the originator of this ex-| cellent organization, now in its sixteenth year. As a flute virtuoso he has few peers. Mr. Sol. Marcosson is a violin virtuoso. His musical education was acquired at the Royal High School for Music in Berlin, | where he remained for five years under the | instruction of d’Ahne and Joachim. He| concertized with great success in Italy and | England as well as in Germany, winning | the highest praise from the most exacting critics. Mr. Carl Barth, the violinceilo! virtuoso, as part of his most thorough mu- | sical education spent five years at the| Leipsic Conservatory, under the instruction | Prof. Jullus Klengel, also receiving instructions from | se ng | we Sreat masters, Prof. Dr. Jadassohn and} Prof. Piuttl Mr.’ George Sauer, the viola, soloist, also received much of his musical the Leipsic Conservatory, where he latterly be- Orchestra. Since returning to America he | has been connected at various times with | all the leading orchestras—Boston Sym- phony, Seidl’s, Damrosch and others. Mr. Frank 8. Porte, the second violin, began New Y¥ ed Eugene | Ysaye. Mr. S. Elkind, the double bass} soloist, studied at the conservatory in his native city of Moscow, Nicholas Rubin- stein being then the director. Upon the completion of his course he became a mem- Societies of Moscow. erg THE ORANGE AND BLACK. of the Princeton Alumni Association. The twenty-third annual dinner of the Princeton Alumni Association of the Dis- trict of Columbia and southern states will | take place Tuesday evening, February 13, at 7 o’clock, at Welcker’s. Several dis- | tinguished guests have been invited, and it is expected that the dinner will be more at- tractive than usual. The annual election of | officers for’ the ensuing year will be held immediately before the dinner. The officers of the association are as fol- lows: President, Joseph K. McCammon; ‘harles | Abert, J. C. Welling, A. B. Hagner, Henry | B. Munn, James M. Johnston: executive committee, Henry E. Davis, chairman; A. B. Kelly, F, S. Presbrey, H. B. Davidson, mont; secretary, Henry C. Stewart, jr. —_ Judge Colt, at Boston, has confirmed Judge Wallace's appointments of Thomas Cc. Platt and Marsden J. Perry as perma- nent receivers of the New York and New Ergland railroad. —_—_—_— None better; take Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. SAFETY IN THE MAIL The Four Special Means of Transmitting Money by Post. The Advantages Offered by the Postal Note, Money Order, Registered Let- ter and Special Delivery Stamp. “Give me one of those special registry orders,” said the woman to the clerk at the branch post office. “How much is it—ten cents?" By dint of considerable questioning, the clerk ascertained that the customer want- ed to send a small sum of money in a let- ter, and knew that the United States gov- ernment had provided some means by which she could insure its safety in its course through the mails; but her mind was in hopeless confusion as to the nature of this device, for every friénd she had con- sulted had called it by a different name, and ‘she had, conceived that all the names referred to the same things. It took the clerk some time to explain, He told her that he was not surprised at her misap- prehension, for hundreds of valuable letters passed through the local post office every day whose writers had evidently resorted to some insurance process other than the Precise one suited to their case. “You can take your choice of four ways, ma'am, according to just what you want,” said he. “If you are going to send only a | ttle money less than $5—and your only wish is to avoid inclosing coin or postage stamps, or paper ‘as soft and bulky as @ greenback, which may be felt through the envelope, we can give you a postal note for three cents. This is printed on a thin, stiff paper, of a size which will lie flat in an ordinary folded letter-sheet. The clerk and letter carriers might handle your let- ter all day and they would never guess from the feeling what was inside of it. When your correspondent receives it, he can take it to the post office and get it cashed, or bank it as he would a piece of money, or use it to pay his grocer, or send it away in a letter himself; for it is good at any post office in the United States, and in anybody's hands, so long as it is presented for redemption within three months from the day of issue. But this very convenience is the chief drawback of the postal note; for, if any dishonest person should get hold of it, it would be the same as money in his hands. The Safe Money Order. “If absolute safety is what you are most anxious to secure, we can give you a money order. This is pretty nearly as good as a bank check. We send from here a private letter of advice containing your name, and when your correspondent receives your or- der, he can collect the money on it only by telling who sent it to him and by being him- self identified as the person in whose favor it is drawn, or else by indorsing it to some- body who is known at the post office. This, you see, is a decided advantage on the score of safety. But, more than that, if your or- der should be stolen or destroyed, the gov- ernment holds itself responsible, and, "if you comply with certain requirements, will issue you a new ofder. This is something it will not do for you if anything happens to your postal note. The bad feature about the money order, however, is that it can be cashed only at the one post office on which it is drawn. If you have it drawn on Carson City, for instance, and your correspondent happens to be gone to Santa Fe and left word to have his mail forwarded to him there, the postmaster at Santa Fe won't cesh his order for him. The only thing he can do is to indorse it to somebody who can collect it at the Carson City post office, On account of the additional security su: rounding the money order, we charge more for it than for a postal note. A $5 order would cost you five cents, and a $10 order eight cents, a $15 order ten cents, and so on upward. The Registered Letter. “Then, again, there is the registered let- ter. You give us your envelope, sealed and indorsed in your own handwriting. We know nothing about its contents. You may have put only a love letter in it, or a $1,000 government bond; it is all the same to us, and the price of registry is uniform for everything—eight cents. This process has the advantage of absolute secrecy, for you don't have to take a single soul Into your confidence. It has the further advantage of assuring you that whatever you send reaches its destination; for we refuse to de- liver it to any one except the person ad- dressed, who must either present himself in Person and be identified, or give us his au- thority in writing to deliver it to somebody else, whose identification we require in the same way, and whoever reccives it 1s obliged to give us a written receipt in his own hand- writing, which we send back to you without expense. This makes a good deal of differ- ence if you are making a payment to a slippery creditor, or if you are sending a bill to a debtor, who might want to make believe he had never heard from you. In any such case you have his own signature to confront him with. The safety of the registered letter is pretty well guarded. Every post office official through whose | hands it passes has to account for it to the one from he received it; so that, if it is lost, it can be traced by our vouchers to the very point where it disappeared—even into the hands of the carrier who took it out to de- liver. Registered letters do sometimes go astray, but the risk attending loss or theft is too great to make either carelessness or dishonesty profitable. The government does not hold itself responsible to you, but the last postmaster or clerk or carrier who is found to have had your letter in his posses- sion is likely to lose his official head, and, if the evidence of crookedness is’ strong against him, is Hable to go to the state prison for a term of years. . The Special Delivery. “Finally, if your great object is speed you may find it best to use the special de- livery. We sell you a peculiar kind of 10- cent stamp, which you put on your letter besides its regular postage. The instant | the letter is taken out of the box into which you drop it it is hurried into the first mail, on top of the whole pile of other letters, with the stamp sticking up, so as to catch the eye of every clerk who handles the package. When it reaches the town to which it is addressed it is picked out with- out an instant’s delay and sent to your correspondent by a special messenger, so that if the ordinary carrier deliveries are in- frequent it may reach its destination one, two, three or four hours before it would if left to take the usual course. The messen- ger who delivers it takes with him a bool in which the recipient of the letter signs a | receipt, noting the hour and minute, so that if any question ever arises afterward you can have the messenger's book hnnted up and nail the whole thing down with great exactness. Which to Select. “So, you see, we have something to meet every need, and the way to make sure of the best results is to choose just the right thing. If you are sending something whose value you don't‘care much abgut, but which you are in a great hurry to push throngh, don’t register, but use the special delivery. If you are sending something which you are in no haste about, but you want to make absolutely sure, with your own eyes, thot the right person has received it, den't bother with money orders or speclul deliv- ery letters, but use the registry. If you are sendifig a sum of money simply and find it inconvenient to use a check or draft, but want to assure the same safety of pay- ment and don’t mind letting the post cffice people know what you are doing, taxe out a money order. If the amount you are | sending is too small to worry about and all you care for is to send it in some form which won't tell tales through the envelope, buy a postal note. Uncle Sam has given you quite a choice between % cents and 10. | You thought at first that all these things were alike, but now that you have found out what each means you understand why there are four of them instead of only one.” PEA OR) A Definition. From Puck. ‘Teacher—What is the feminine of man, Thomas? Thomas—Woman! Teacher—And the feminine of gentleman? Thomas (unhesitatingly)—Dude! coe A Critical Period. Frem Life. Young Editor (reflectively)—If I don’t pub- lish this poem Grace has written she wilt have nothing more to do with me. And if I do publish it, I shall probably lose my posi- tion. { a “Ze PRET ROT RE rer zy ERS. sh 5 SOK. ROVAL BAKING POWDER €0., 105 WALL ST. NEW-VORK. THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. RFR RST ROT RUS otis She exh pO SO% ot Ney URING hard times cannot afford to ing powder. with inferior, cheap brands of bak- It is NOW that the great strength and purity of the ROYAL stand out as a friend in need to those who desire to practise Econ- omy in the Kitchen. Each spoonful does its per- fect work. Its increasing sale bears witness that it is a necessity to the prudent—it goes further, N a B. Grocers say that every dollar in- vested in Royal Baking Powder is worth a dollar the world over, that it does not consume their capital in dead stock, because it is the great favorite, and sells through all times and seasons, consumers experiment ES SE a a nae TOT BIE A ALPINE DISASTERS Fatal End of Foolhardy Reaching After Distinction. A PARTY OF SCIENTISTS PERISH Fell Seven Hundred Feetand Frozen to Death. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. VIENNA, Jan. 14, 1804. The official reports of the great Alpine disaster on New Year night, which cost the lives of three scientific men, Dr. Ludwig Kohn, Dr. Patzau and Dr. Pick, have just reached here. The bodies of. the unhappy yesterday. In the case of Dr. Kohn, it was a double funeral, his intended, Frau- Jein Camilla Schwarz, a well-known com- poser of charming dance music, having dropped dead at the sight of hi8 corpse. case of broken heart. Camilla was young and lovely, full of sentiment and of a very nervous disposition. Dr. Kohn was her cousin, When she received the news of her lover's untimely end she broke into tears and for an entire week refused food and drink, crying almost incessantly. Her friends tried in vain to prevent her from viewing the body. She stole to the side of the coffin and almost instantly upon be- holding the face of the dead, through the plate glass window in the coffin, dropped down, never to breathe again. A Lofty Peak. be The Grossglockner is the loftiest peak in the Rhaetian Alps, 13,100 feet above the | level of the sea. It- is capped with per- petual snow, and its glacier region begins at an elevation of 9,000 feet. One thousand feet below the ice region is a tavern, the Keeper of which is known to all tourists as the Glocknerwirth, who furnishes guides, provisions, alpensto¢ks, scaling irons for the boots, ropes and other pharaphernalia for braving death in the wind-swept wilder- ness of ice and snow. It must be said, how- ever, to his credit, that in the case of the Vienna tourists, he did his utmost to dis- courage the men from undertaking the hopeless task of ascending the peak. The Inn Keeper's Story. His testimony before the coroner’s jury, which was corroborated in every detuil, was as follows: “Some three weeks before Christmas I received a letter from Dr. Kohn announc- ing his intention to scale the Glockner in mid-winter, with three or four other tour- ists.. He asked me to advise hint how many guides he needed, and if there were any great dangers to overcome. I told him trying to ascend the Glockner at this time jof the year meant certain death. He ar- | Tived at my inn the night before New Year with two other gentlemen, Dr. Pick and Dr. Patzau. There were several guides in | the house, buts they refused to undertake | the journey. ‘Bah!’ said Dr. Kohn, ‘if you are afraid for your precious lives we will g0 alone, all we want is a strong fellow to carry our provisions up to the Stuedi hut’ (an uninhabited resting place for tourists on the road to the peak.) “Seeing that they persisted in their folly I sent for Johann Groder, the best guide in the Alps. He promised to accompany them | to the hut, but at the same time joined the rest of us in advising the gentlemen not to risk their lives in a hopeless undertaking. It availed us nothing. They had staked | their honor on it to be the first scaling the Grossglockner in midwinter, ahd so they went to their icy grav The Guide's Story. Johann Groder,, the guide, took up the narrative as follows: “We left the inn at 6 o'clock New Year night. I had seven bottles with tea, wine and cognac, three pairs of scaling irons, | bread, meat, apples and sweets. ‘The toon was shining, but the road hard to traverse on account of the deep snow. At 9 o'clock we rested at a way station. Dr. Peak, the smallest-af the.gentiemen, suffered already intensely from the cold, ‘but insisted on go- ing with the rest. They ,then sent.me ahead to the Stuedi hut to make a fire and prepare supper. After eight hours I reached that station, and half an hour later Dr. Kohn came in, followed after forty- | five minutes by the other gentlemen. Dr. Peak was in a sad plight; he had frozen the toes and ball of his right foot. When I tried to remove the shoes of the other tourists the stockings proved to be frozen to the jeather inside. Their feet and lezs felt like ice, and rubbing with snow failed | to do much good. Dr. Peak said, ‘I can’t go any further. I will rest here and re- turn_as soon as possible. “ ‘That's right,’ I said. ‘You will never be able, anyhow, to redch the summit, for, according to my observations, there are snowdrifts at the Kodnitzkes (a station higher up). Dr. Patzau said he also had enough of the thing, and Dr. Kohn like- wise promised to give up the attempt. I made their beds near the fire, and after again receiving their promise not to go | \ } i the bargain, as he said, gave me the scal- ing irons to take back. ‘We cannot as- cend the peak without them,’ he remarked, ‘therefore in returning the scales we give sufficient proof of our intention to adhere to our promises.’ " Asked by the coroner how he accounted for the fact that Dr. Kohn and associates subsequently started for the summit, the guide said: “I suppose that when, in the morning, | Dr. Kohn found that snow had ceased to fall he persuaded his friends to try reach- ing the peak. As they had neither scaling irons nor a guide, their ascent was doubly any further, departed. Dr. Kohn, to bind | BREAKING OF A GIRL’S HEART | bY explorers were received by their relativs | with them, we ascended to the point called | few days ago, and the funeral took place | Eagles’ Rest. In the Archduke John hut | | } | i .} reparing their foothold with every step by applying the ax to the glacier before them, cutting steps, as we call it. Sixty to 100 of them can be cut in an hour. Their fall was due, I suppose, by stepping on a snow field without a bottom or their and the lower parts of their legs may have become entirely frozen, and thus they may have slid down the glacier. It is also pos- sible that, overcome by sleep, they laid wind storm swept them off.’ How the Bodies Were Discovered. Sebastian Hutter, a guide, who placed himself at the head of the rescuing party and helped to bring back the bodies, gave e following account of their experiences: When we left Luckner hut we were struck by intense cold. The wind was high and e 7 great. After twelve hours we reached the Stued] hut,where we still found some fire in the stove. There was also a claok, a compass and a barometer that had belonged to the missing party. We found it impossible to go any further that day, as the storm had increased to cyciénic force. At noon the next day ex "3 ness prevailed on the mountain. While we were preparing to leave three other guides came to the hut, who had been sent out by the authorities to look for us. Together there we found almost the entire of the three gentlemen, namely, two valises, with a change of linen, provisions, brandy, three hats, a pair of snow spectacles, brok- en in two, and a small with cards inscribed Dr. Kohn. Three of our The doctors say that it was a genuine |Party then descended to the lower route, and afte: a few hours they shouted to us, “Here they are.” We tried to go down, but the storm prevented us. It was the worst we ever experienced. We thought every minute the hut would be blown down the incline.” During the night following we used up our last wood, and provisions be- came scarce. The cold increased to 26 de- grees below zero. “On Thursday morning four guides came to our rescue, who were afraid that we would fall victims to the cold. They helped us to descend. The body was still in the Position it occupied when first discovered. it was that of Dr. Kohn, who was lying on his back, perhaps 700 feet below Eagles’ Rest, with his head toward the valley. A mighty glacier rock, was we espied, with the old near the Koenitzkees, the body of D>. Patzau. Both unhappy man stuck in a the body, ag rope around the waist, on the other end t which Dr. Pick was hanging, about ten lower down the mountain. Both had ing {rons on their shoes and an ice ax in “It seems that the three men w. gaged in ascending the mountain in this a when misfortune overtook them. carrying the other with him. they quickly frose to death. Gid not live more than ten tminutea” The bodies were brought to the Glock: inn on low sleighs, under great @ifficulties. Relatives of the dead men had assembied there to receive them and bring them back to their homes. The bodies were frozen hard as stone; the faces and hands yellow as wax. Their clothing, very brittle when touched, emitted sounds like tin. Dr. a a — = = 1, side, one hand brea: e was high. iBone was drawn in ‘ y 7! the Monte Rosa. after the Mont Blanc of the Pennine Alps, of Italy and Switzer- iy The Monte Rosa, the highest summit rises at the frontier — — 15,208 feet. ‘ew Year night a party of Italian arm: officers and friends made an unsuccessful attempt to ascend one of its loftiest peaks, the Punta di Grippi, in order to settle point of military and strategic importance. They were five in number and it appears that the same cyclone struck them that caused the death of the three Viennese is the report by Capt. Angelis, “3 oa omuivee: “ “We reached the it below Guisetti peak, which is "ad01 meters shove the. . in ray when my comrades cou! Go one sti 3 We retired, thereupon, into a ravine, bound » and pretty soon were enveloped in absolute The etorm was the worst I had ever experienced in these regions. Lieut. Giani soon lost ail power of resistance. He a, moreover, groaned in the most infuse some life into body into our midst and gave him the benefit of our animal warmth. When he became weaker and weaker, I resolved to obtain help at the queen's hut near by, but when I crawled up to the door a few hours later, the proprietor re- fused to permit me to go back, as it was then twenty-four degrees zero, and I was completely exhausted. “At 4 o'clock on New Year morning, Lieut. Perrcl, one of those in the ravine, began to ascend the glacier wall to the queen’s hut, which was but 180 feet above the retreat where the five men had spent a terrible night. He arrived safely, and my- at once went to the rescue of the remaining four. We found Lieut. Gilani breathing his last. The guides fastened his body to a ladder and thus we hoisted bim to the hut. He died on the way. brothers, Lieuts. Fiori, were carried up alive, and after warming themselves at the log fire were able to take refreshments. Three days later, all of us, except poor Giani, reached terra firma. The guide, Per- ottl, was obliged to carry Lieut. Alfred Fiori half the way down, a herculean task, which probably has not been equaled as long as the world stands.” oon with two guides and the keeper of the) i The! NO AGREEMENT REACHED The Conference Last Evening of Those Engaged in the Building Trades. A Reduction im Prices All Along the Lime Defeated—The Labor Organi- sations Opposed the Pian. e A conference of those in the building trades in this city, whether as material men, contractors or mechanics, which was held last evening in the hail of the Build- ers’ Exchange, did not result in any deti- nite action. The suggestion, and, in fact, the call for the conference, came from the Builders’ Exchange, and the motive, as de- clared, was to endeavor to stimulate the building industry by offering such induce- ments in the way of reductions from the usual scale of prices that capital would be at- | tracted from hoarding places and be invest- ea in improvements that would give work to all those engaged in the building trades. The meeting was well attended, nearly ail the branches of this industry being repre- sented either by delegations or by mes- sages, the latter signifying, as.e rule, their desire to co-operate in the purpose for which the conference was called. The president of the exchange, Mr. Henry A. Jones, was to have presided, but he did not reach the hall until after the meeting had been in progress for some time. Mr. Thomas J. King, the chairman of the special committee of the exchange on reso- lutions, presided. These resolutions were read by the secretary of the committee, Mr. James H. McGill, and, after recounting the general situation of the market, ahd the ex- pectation now held by many that in ‘the tariff would result in lower prices, and that capital was waiting for these low prices to come, the resolutions added that the step “necessary to satisfy the public that the present is an opportune time to commence building operations is for all individuais, firms and organizations fixing ard controlling vrices of material and la- bor that have not already reduced their prices to at once voluntarily do so in the amount to meet the exigencies of the time.” A speech on this general subject was then made by Mr. King. A letter was read on behalf of the dele- gates appointed by the board of trade of this city to attend the conference, which stated that the board of trade would cheer- fully co-operate with the convention im te adoption of any measures that would bring about the resumption of building a tions. Further than that they no Gefinite suggestions to make, but that if any successful arangements’ were finally entered into for a reduction in the cosi of building, it would undoubtedly influence materially the resumption of building op- “The, accre tary of ra, Mr. Wigh of the boa ir. it remarked that Mr. Edson, one of the deie- gates, had stated to him that since th question of reducing the cost of building had been discussed, that several had called on him stating that if a reduction in the cost of butiding was adopted that they would consider it a sufficient induceme; and profitable to them to improve ned rades | property with buildings. | Discounts Proposed. Offers were made by a number of material men and contractors proposing discount in prevailing prices of varying amounts. From District Assembly, No. 66, and the Bricklayers’ and other organizations of labor, it was stated that a reduction woulda, be impossible in wages. Mr. Paul J. Bowen, the representative of the Federation or Labor, took the ground that reductions, pou: not to be asked in the prevailing, ) Wages of the laboring people as that was the wrong source from which reduction should comme. thought that the present depression tn the buliding trade was due to the high price \of building sites, and this could be reme- | died by a change in the method of taxation. In other words, he advocated the single tax, which is a tax on land and not on im- provements, and urged that the conference join with the Federation of Labor in urging to adopt the single tax system. Several speeches were made which reflecto4 rather severely on capital and real estate | Operators, and an attempt was made by the’ chair to check these speeches because for- eign to the purpose of the meeting. A somewhat confused and excited scene followed the speech of Mr. Bowen and his | Proposed amendment to the resolutions of the committee which proposed to substi- | tute the words “money and land” for “ma- j terials and labor.” The presiding officer refused to entertain the amend: and | Suggested to Mr. Bowen that be offer it as |a separate resolution. In the opi of | President King, no hot house theorist or experiments were wanted at this time. The resolution offered by the committee was | put to vote and was lost. This result added to the confusion and before the amend- ment of Mr. Bowen could be = ~ @ motion to adjourn was presented and de- clared by the presiding officer to have been carried. Among the organizations represented at | the conference were the Washincton Boert l\of Trade, the Federation of Labor, the | National Brotherhood of Carpenters and | Joiners, No. 1, the Rricklayer's Union, > |1, District Assembly No. 66, representing building trades. the Journeymen Tin and Sheet Iron Workers, the Journeymen Stone Cutters’ Association, the Master Buflders’ | Association, the Master Bricklayers’ As- sociation and the Machine Wood Workers’ | International Union of America... —_———_ For Sommer Lands. Health and pleasure seekers will be tn- terested in the advertisement of the Atlas line of steamers, in another column, sn- nouncing a special excursion to the West Indies and the Spanish main, by the steamer “Aline,” to leave New York next W: Gay. The steamer every accommoda- tion for tropical passengers, and as the trip will occupy a little over a month, tt will be a veritable pleasure outing, at @ cost of about four dollars per way. eae j A Predicted Renaissance. 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