Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1894, Page 7

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The steam whistles of tugs and | Qi Sof to the tet that | steamers shrieked; the spectators howled | & Sof tt has never fail. | with glee; hats went skyward, bunting | fai ed to bring relief | dipped and the crews of several bugeyes | o + whenever used. |and long boats anchored in midstream g sit is quick, sure * | chimed in with their salutes. a) . and thorough, * * iQ | “Look out, there, she'll come together | . even in the most * * \() | with the Mary Washington,” sang out | } . stubborn cases, * * | some of the crowd, as the stern of the | | . and bas bun °° | Candoc rushed close to the bows of the | } . dreds of testimo- © | ancient mariner. A stout pull on the after | , a “a. . '% | Fort guide halyard and the gliding boat | SOSA OOOOVHED Sold By ! Mertz’s Modern Pharmacy Py AND OTHER DRUGGISTS. “Ot fer Q. 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Warmly Welcomed by Older Sisters and Brothers Today—The New Boat and Her Future. The steamer Candoc was launched this morning from Nilson’s ship house at the slip of the old Inland and Seaboard Coast- ing Company. The young craft glided down the way, took the water as if animated with the spirt of the occasion. in whict. she played the star role. The Candoc is to be used as the officers’ yacht and the pay boat of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal | Company, and Mrs. Nicholson, wife to the superintendent of the company, broke the bottle of wine and said the word by which the new steamer will be known on the register of the American warine. Although designed primarily for duty on the canal, yet the river shail know her well, for many | will be the excursions which she will make along the old Potomac when her people | wish a relief from the Georgetown climate. Warmly Welcomed. ‘The entrance of the Candoc into shipping society was heralded by blasts from senior | craft, waving of hats, handkerchiefs and | flags, and lusty whoops and huzzas from | the river folks. The ship has been build-| ing since last fall, and from the date of her laying down she has been a fruitful topic along the front. Comment became more and more favorable as the Candoc evolved from a mystery of strips into a steamboat. | ‘The launching has been looked forward to | with keen interest, but the date on which she was to have her christeaing bath seer not to have been announced till yesterday. | Then the news spread in that epidemic! fashion peculiar to the river fron: at this season, when conversation, conviviality and | communion are the chief employment of the | waterfaring folks. All on Hand. She was to go off at flooi tide. Everybody | told everybody else and everybody was! there. The Candoe was to have a send off, of which she might feel proud even unto her days of barnacles, rust and condemna-| | tion. Early the workmen began the task of | | greasing the ways and making fast the| | suide lines. There was some chopping of! | adzes, rasping of saws and clatter of ham- | mers. Groups of people with hands in pock- }ets and pipes in moath stood around and _ aided the progress of the work with their wrescuce. The groups grew in size as the morning did in age. Clusters of ladies took up position on the decks of the Mary Wash- ington, bright parasols and bonnets blos- somed on the decks of the River Queen, and some ribbons and laces fluttered frum the Samuel J. Pentz. The pier of the Inland Cempany was densely peopled with curious lookers on, and the stress of expectation was so great the flow of converse was in- terrupted. The harbor police fores, under Commodore Sutton, was early on the ground and the power house folks turned out in force and all the steamboat companies were | Tepresented by full quotas. At 1:30 Supt. Nicholson of the canal company, his wife, Miss Williams, Master Jack Williams, Trus- tee Hugh L. Bond, jr., Mr. C. F. T. Beale, Mr. T. N. McAboy and Mr. J. D. Mallory, the contractor for the machinery, drove up and the crowd broke away that the guests of honor might pass. Constructor Leonard J. Nilson was the busiest man at the slip, but he doffed his hat and escorted the visi- tors to the pilot house of the steamer. There was some preliminary talk and Mr. Nilson sang out: “Saw away, ther>, for- ward, and look sharp aft.” Two ship car- penters, with saws, began to buzz and rip through the planking which would release the runners of the cradle on which the steamer rested and let them slide down the ways. Into Her Element. The timbers were cut through, a slight quiver ran through the frame, the guests clutched pieces of the wood work and the new boat budged slightly, then moved more freely and finally rushed along the |inclined railway and with a splash of waves, churning of water, bounding of | blocks and clangor of chains plunged stern on into her element. Mrs. Nicholson lean- ed far out of the pilot house, raised the big bottle of champagne above her head, | and, in a clear, firm voice said “Candoc Then the bottle descended, there was smash, the forward deck was strewn with glass and stream of sparkling wine | | trickled overboard and mingled with the | | | Swerved from her course and threw spray over the lower deck of the Mary. The crowd heaved an exclamation of re- | lief and the launch was pronounced a suc- cess. The Boat. The Candoc is 61 feet over all, 12 feet beam and 3 feet draft. She has a graceful | overhanging deck and one of the trimmest bows on the creek. Her forefoot is all | that the designer’s art could make it and all her lines are pleasing. She is fitted with a compound engine and 10 and 5-inch cylinders; will carry 230 pounds of steam in her Roberts boilers, and although she was not built to race with the Joe Blackburn she can be driven nine or ten miles an hour. —_s—___ OPPOSED TO REFORM. Maryland Senate on Qualifica- tions of Office Holders. A dispatch sent last night from Annapo- |lis says: The Maryland legislature put it- | Self on record today as being unqualifiedly | Opposed to civil service reform. A bill simi- |lar in its provisions to the Massachusetts | law was introduced early in the session by | @ senator from this city and came up on its | {Passage today. Efforts to save it were, {made by friends of the cause offering an | amendment limiting its provisions to Bulti- |more city, but both amendment and bill! | Were defeated by decisive majorities. The !leading democratic member of the senate | | created something of a sensation by saying | | that the democracy of Maryland added to | | the Jeffersonian test questions, “Is he hon- est?" “Is he capable?” propounded to appli- cants for office a third question, “Is he loy- al to the party whose favor and patronage he asks?” ———__+0+—_ | The Associated Press Leased Wires, | The leased wires of the Associated Pr. | have been extended to the Pacific coast by | virtue of a contract which was perfected | yesterday for a line from Denver to San | Francisco. With this addition, the leased | Wire service of the Associated Press now includes some eleven thousand miles of line, stretching from St. John, New Breuns- | wick, via Bangor and Portland, Me., Bos- | ton, Springfield, Mass., Hartford,” New | | Haven, New York, Albany, Syracuse, Roch- | jester, Buffalo, Philadelphi Baltimore, | | Washington, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Toledo, | Detroit, Columbus, Ohio, Cincinnati, In- | dianapolis, Louisville, St. Louis, Chicago, i St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, Omaha, Kansas City, Nashville, Memphis, Little Rock, Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco, | Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Galveston, Topeka, Pueblo, Denver, Salt Lake City, = Reno, and Sacramento to San Fran- | cisco. +o+—___ To Consolidate Three Roads. | fourteen and one-tenth miles. HITE’S SUCCESSOR. | SENATOR W Representative Blanchard Sent to the Upper House. i | ed United States Senator from Louisiana to} ) Succeed Judge White, whose resignation | takes effect March 12. Newton Crain Blanchard was born in Rapides parish, Louisiana, January 29, 1849. | After receiving an academic education he | commenced the study of law at Alexandria, | im 1868, and in 1869 entered the law depart- | ment of the University of Louisiana. He | was admitted to the bar in 1870, and the same year moved to Shreveport, where he has since continued to reside. Here he be- gan the practice of his profession, forming @ partnership with James Ashton. He | Soon became prominent in politics, and was | selected when only twenty-seven years old | as chairman of the democratic executive committee of Caddo parish. In 1879 he was elected to represent Caddo parish in the! constitutional convention, which framed the present constitution of the state. In the fall of the following year he was nominated for Congress by the district convention at Natchitoches, and was elected by a hand- some majority. In 1s82 he was re-elected | and has been returned to every Congress since without serious opposition. In_ 158s, | when Senator White succeeded Mr. Eustis in the Senate, Congressman Blanchard wa: @ candidate for the position. As chairman of the committee on rivers and harbors he has achieved distinction in his management of the river and harbor legislation of Congress. It was under his advice and suggestion that the old system | of making small annual appropriations for | the improvement of rivers and harbors, | which were soon expended and the results partially destroyed befure another appro- priation was made, was changed to the new system of awarding contracts for the com- pletion of necessary improvements. Under this new system, adopted by Mr. Blanchard, the government really saves money and achieves practical resuits. Instead of ap- Propriating a few thousand dollars every year for the improvement of a river or har- bor, the committee under his management contracts for the completion of desired im- rovements, to be paid for as the work is lone. Mr. Blanchard has the reputation of being the most skillful marksman in the House. He is a great sportsman, and has the record ot having brought down twenty-two quail in twenty-three shots. With a pistol he is even more expert than with the shotgun. Occasionally he drops into one of the local shooting galleries, and, with a pistol, can hit the bull’s-eye of the target almost every time. He will toss a coin in the air and bore it with a bullet two out of three times. Once he was challenged to a duel by a political adversary in Loulsiana. He ac- cepted it with such celerity that the chal- lenger was amazed. W) heard of Mr. Blanchard’s skill with the pis- tol, and decided to withdraw his challenge. | 1 | Speaking of the appointment of Mr. Blanchard Senator Caffery said last even- ing: Mr. Blanchard is a man of character and attainments and the governor of Louisiana has perhaps done the wisest thing that could be done. Mr. Blanchard’s record in the House has been that of an honest, earn- est and industrious representative, and he has exhibited much ability as chairman of | the committee on rivers and harbors. It may reasonably be expected that he will carry with him into the Senate the same industry, ability and character. “Mr. Blanchard ts a young man of fair name. He has a large constituency behind him who expect great things of him. What- lever may be his attitude on public ques- tions, it will be at least honest and sin- cere.” coo ‘THE INDIANA. She Will Average Over Sixteen Knots an Hour. The battleship Indiana,which left Cramps’ shipyard in Philadelphia Tuesday morning, dropped anchor off the breakwater late yes- terday afternoon, after a most successful preliminary trial trip. She will be back at her dock In Philadelphia this afternoon. Early yesterday morning the ship, ¥hich arrived Tuesday night, was put to sea and given a hard run of four hours over the course usually chosen by the Cramps for their builders’ trials. This course is off Five Fathom banks, extending between the southwest and northeast lightships, the dis- tance being nine and sixty-five one hun- dredths knots. Three trips were made over this course. The first, under natural draught, was accomplished at a speed of The second, under half forced draught, in a trifle less than fifteen knots, and the third, under forced draught, at fifteen and thirty-five hundredths knots. The guarantee speed of the Indiana is fifteen knots. The engines, which behaved splendidly, reached a maximum velocity of 125 revolutions a minute, the average under forced draught being 122 With selected coal and speed over deep water, there seems to be no doubt that the big battleship will average 16 1-2 knots an hour when the of- ficial trial trip is made. The result of yesterday's test was so far ahead of expectations that Edwin S. Cramp, who has charge of the ship, gave orders last evening that she should return to the yard this morning, instead of taking the hard run at sea customary with ships on a first trial. Everybody aboard is well pleas- ed with the behavior of the Indiana. Her machinery seems perfect. She is steady as a rock, and there seems to be no doubt that she will take her destined place as the queen of battleships of the world, TRIAL OF + a PERILS OF THE RAIL, An Express Ditched Near Syracuse—A Freight Swept Into a River. The St. Louis express on the West Shore read, shortly after leaving Syracuse at 3 o'clock yesterday morning, ran into a heavy NEBUCHADNEZZAR WANTED The Agricultural Department Anxious for an Expert on Grasses. Two New Scientific Branches for the Horny Handed Farmcr—To Study After Effects of Rainfall. The Secretary of Agriculture has de- cided to make two important additions to} the working force of the department which will very materially increase its value to} the farming classes of the country. The | two positions provided for are an agrostolo- | gist and a head for the division in the Weather bureau, to be devoted to the sub- ject of meteorology in its relation to agri- cultural soils Both these posts while appar- ently of the most scientific and theoretical sort will be actively connected with the practical farming indusiry. The position of agrostologist is simply that of a man who is thoroughly femiliar with that branch of botany which deals with grasses. It is now known that there are more than 10,000 varieties of grasses in existence and their importance to the farmer cannot well be overestimated. It is of the utmost importance to the farmer who desires to get the best out of his land to know something of the relative merits and characteristics of grasses, and this information the agrostologist of the depart- ment, who fig to be attached to the division of botany, is expected to furnish. The Secretary having given his approval of the general plan of the work mapped cut for the new department has authorized Mr. B. D. Coville, chief of the division of botany, to correspond with the leading botanists of the country, stating to them what is de- sired, and securing the names of suitable men to do this peculiar work. Mr. Coville has been given to understand that the de- partment wants the ablest expert that can be secured to prepare monographs on grasses, care for the grasses in the herba- rium, identifying the grasses sent here, and to conduct correspondence upon this sub- ject. This agent will also have charge cf any special investigations of grasses and forage plants which may be undertaken by the department. Few and Far Between. Assistant Secretary Dabney, in conversa- tion with a Star reporter this morning, said that he would not be surprised if there were not more than a score of men in the world who could be regarded as experts in this thin an hour he had| branch of botanical study. Notwithstaad- ing its great importance from a scientific and utilitarian standpoint there are so few openings for a man who has made a spe- elalty of this subject that it is hard to say even if there are any of the first rank in this country, although it is expected that Mr. Coville’s research will discover at least a few. The salary of the new position is to be $2,500, rather more than the department is usually able to give, but the Secretary regards the new post as of such importance that he wants to get the very best man that can be had. To Help Crops. The new division added to the organiza- tion of the weather bureau, devoved to the subject of meteorology in its relation to agricultural soils, is to study the climatic conditions of heat and moisture under the surface of the ground and the relation of these conditions to crop production, The first suggestion for such a division came in June, 1891, from the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Ex- periment Stations, which submitted to the department a resolution asking that the work of the weather bureau should be en- larged to include the physical corditions and changes of agricultural roils. This mat- ter, according to the department, is of the greatest importance to the farmer. The reports of the weather bureau on rain fall carry the matter only as far as the surface of the ground. It is after the moist- ure percolates into the round, however, that it becomes of the greatest importance to the farmer. The Secretary has appointed to be chief of the new division Prof. Milton Whitney of Maryland, late of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, and the writer of a sp 1 and very valuable report on the physical prop- erties of the soil and their relation to. moisture and crop distribution, published by the weather bureau in 1892. Dr. Dabney said, in speaking of the new departure: “I regard it as of the highest importance to agriculture. It will not do to leave the study of the rain fail just at the point where its benefits to the farmer become most marked. Nothing enters so essentially into the conditions of crop grow- ing as moisture. If we could control the application of water to the growing crop we could control the most important con- ditions of its growth; hence the necessity that the work of the weather bureau should include the meteorslogy of the soil and that it should continue to follow and study the rain fall after it enters the soil. The appointment is an excellent one,” added Dr. Dabney. “I know Prof. Whitney well and regard him as admirably fitted to carry on the work assigned him.” Not Opposed to Science. One of the leading officials of the Agri- cultural Department, in talking with The Star man this morning, said that the pro- vision for these two new posts on the part of the Secretary ought to remove entirely the erroneous impression that he is opposed to scientific work in the. department. Such, according to this gentleman, is by no means the case, for Mr. Morton has not the slight- est objection to science per se. It is only when he considers that work is being done under government auspices that is neither authorized nor needed that he feels it in- cumbent upon him to step in and interfere. Mr. Morton's attitude toward the weather bureau, he said, has given some people the freight, with the result that its engine and cars were thrown from the track. The wreck was a bad one and the track and roadbed for a distance of a hundred feet were torn up. Many of the passengers were shaken up and suffered severe bruises, but so far as learned no one received serious injuries. While engine 277 and five coke cars on the Pittsburg, Youngstown and Ashtabula branch of the Fort Wayne road were pass- ing Kenwood, » yesterday morning, a heavy land slide came down the hill and swept the train into the Beaver river. The trainmen narrowly escaped death, but all got off with injuries of a more or less serious nature. Their names were: Engineer M. Hubbard, Fireman George Jones and Brake- man Thomas Reed. The slide covered the tracks with hun- dreds of tons of earth and delayed traffic several hours, see Disgusted With His Neighbors. Moore Baker, whose wife and child were foully murdered at Franklin Park, N. J., on March 1 by the negroeg Henry Baker and Willard Thompson, is sick of the whole affair. He says he was praised the first two days, sympathized with the next two days, and is now criticised because he sold the effects of the bed chamber where the tragedy occurred to a museum representa- tive. He offers his house and farm and all the contents at auction, and will leave the state as soon as possible. He authorized this statement as to what he sold: “I sold the crib, ax, shotgun, blood-stained car- pet on the bed room floor; the broken pitch- | er. my night shirt and corners of the bed- clothes. I sold nothing of my wife's or my baby’s. I told the museum people that T would burn the bedclothes, so they only took pieces of the corners. The clothing of my wife and child, which I regarded as too sacred, I have burned. soe Caught in a Collapsing Building. A new three-story front and two-story | An Annapolis special says: Mr. George | | Yakel, representing the Edmondson Ave- | | nue, Catonsville and Evlicott City, the Bal- |timore and Washington Transit and the | Burnt Mills and Sardy Springs Railway = | companies, was here today with a bill pro- viding for the incorporation of the three | roads into one, to be known as the Balti- more and Washington Transit Company. Under the three charters of the existing reads a railway with electrie or any other rapid transit motive power can be built from Baltimore to Washington. The pur- pose of the bill is simply to consolidate the three roads, which are now under the same or friendly management. The bill will be, presented in the hous coe Ten Years for Assault. David Houck, aged forty-five, was sen- tenced to ten years in the penitentiary at Frederick, Md., yesterday morning for attempted assault upon a young girl last summer. Houk was reieased from the peni- | tentlary one year ago, where he served a term for a similar charge. rear building in process of construction col- lapsed last night at Stoneham, Mass., fatal- ly injuring one man and badly injuring others. The front and rear walls of the building were of wood and the side walls of brick, and it was one of the side walls that fell out, thus precipitating the front wall into the street. Mr. N. Loud was passing at the time and was crushed under the fall- ing wall, and so badly injured that he died a few minutes after being extricated. One woran was injured so badly that she will probably die, and several others were more or less injured. The building was to have been used on the ground floors as stores and the two upper stories on the front were de- signed for halis, while the rear was to have been occupied as tenements. —~+e+ Today's prices, groceries. Page 5.—Advt. pol kt ela All Quiet in Hawail. ‘The brig Albert has arrived at San Fran- cisco from Honolulu. She left there Febru- ary 28, five days later than the date of the last previous advices. Nothing of import- ance has transpired on the isl idea that he was opposed to advanced work, but that his hearty co-operation in the mat- ter of the two proposed additions should put a stop to this mistake. $+ 4s Explorers of the Polar Regtons. The monthly meeting of the Geographical Club of Philadelphia last night was re- markable from the fact that addresses were made by two men who are completing ar- rangements for polar expeditions, and a let- ter was read from another who will make an exploration of Labrador. Dr, E, A. Cook outlined the plans he had made for his proposed antarctic expedition. Walter Wellman, who will sail for Europe next Wednesday to prepare for his arctic ex- pedition, gave an interesting talk on the preparations he had already made. Prof. Hite of the University of Pennsylvania, in a letter to the club, stated that he would start with a party of ten on June for an exploration of Labrador. He asked the loan of certain instruments, and in re- turn he will give the club the honor cf fathering the project. The request was granted. ———--+0+ Anti-McKane Meeting Broken Up. Some of the representatives of the various organizations at Gravesend who were op- posed to Chief McKane and his friends met on Monday night in a Gravesend en- gine house on Crapsey avenue. A mob of the McKaneites, headed by officials, swoop- ed down on them and broke up the meeting. The meeting was held for the purpose of selecting delegates to a convention to be held in Gravesend on Tuesday night to select an independent candidate for su- pervisor to succeed John Y. McKane, now in Sing Sing. |AND YOUR RUNDOWN SYSTEM BUILT UP AND REORGANIZED. Your Strength Renewed — A “pete agg of 8.8.3, tre ed, languid feeling, and ‘ck of energy, your blood is at right, and needs purifying. Will ‘thoroughly clear away all im- life to th hole system. “Thave used your jedicine often for the past eight — — safe 2 a it is the st gene! ith restorer in the world.” =e . H. GIBSON, Batesville, Ark. Our Treatise on Blood and Skin diseases mailed free: ‘SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY, Atlanta, Ga. Good Judges are in Favor eee? Of the hariess we sell. Its beauty, strength and durability makes it easily eee the best. Every part Of the Concord Harness . © ° Is made of the best stock and fitted with | *** the utmost care. It’s the HARNESS par | * * © excellence. LUTZ & BRO., 497 PA. AVE. mbT AN IMITATOR OF PRENDERGAST. Shooting of a Boston Alderman by a Crank. Alderman Martin M. Lomasney was shot at Boston yesterday afternoon by James N. ! Dunan as he was about to enter the private | chamber of the aldermen in the second floor | of the city hall. Mr. Lomasney passed Dunan, who was just to the left of the door | to the aldermen’s room, and started to open | the door when the man drew a revolver) from his hip pocket and fired five shots in rapid succession. The first shot struck Mr. Lomasney in the hip and he sank to the floor. As the man was raising his hand to fire the last shot one of the policemen seated in the corridor | rushed upon him and caught his hand just | as he pulled the trigger, sending the bullet up into the casing of the door at the en- trance to the mayor's office instead of to- ward the alderman, who was then kneeling upor the floor. "Phe man was hurried away and Mr. Lo- masney arose unassisted and walked into the mayor's office, and was taken in a car- riage to the Massachusetts General Hosp!*al. The assailant was taken to station two im: mediately and locked up. A Councilman’s Narrow Escape. At the time of the shooting the corridors of city hall were filled with people, as, in fact, they almost always are, and several persons were standing near the head of the stairs when Mr. Lomasney came up. All of these people have a different story to tell of how the man appeared before the shocting and some of them think they noticed, previous to the entrance of the alderman, that Dunan was nervous, though he was waiting for some one. When the man began shooting the police- men thought he was a “crank” using blank cartridges for notoriety, but when they saw Mr. Lomasney sink to the floor they all made a rush for the spot. One of those standing in the corridor was Councilman Boyle, who was just at the en- trance to the mayor's office, and one of the bullets went through his overcoat, which Was unbottoned, and passed into the wall. Dunan is a tall, slight man, with a sandy complexion and a light mustache. He looks like a laborer and lives at 9 Billerica street. For the past four or five years he has been known around the city hall and has spent most of his time standing about the corri- dors with his hands in his pockets, and be- cause he hardly ever spoke to any one he has come to be known among the other idlers there as the “silent man.” Lomasney Not Badly Hurt. He is about thirty-five years of age, and it is said he has served a sentence for man- slaughter for killing a woman with whom he had quarreled about money matters. At the station house Dunan is reported to have said, in answer to a question as to why he attempted to kill the alderman: “I had a good reason for doing it. If you knew as much as I do you would have done it yourself. He is a villain and anything but a friend to the unemployed.” He would say nothing beyond this, and is believed to be a crank. At the hospital it is said Mr. Lomasney will be able to be out In a few days. The bullet has been extracted from his hip and no permanent injury will come from the wound, - ee TAKE CARE OF THE TREES. Yesterday's Sessions of the Foresters at Albany. The second day’s session of the Ameri- can Forestry Association meeting at Al- bany, N. Y., was devoted to discussion on varied topics, brie! iiei, and at ine evening session the principal feature was the illustrated lecture by Professor Roth- rock of the forestry commission of Penn- sylvania. Among the papers of the two sessions may be mentioned those of Bishop Doane on forest preservation, Dr. Loomis of New AWARDED 34 CENTS. Given to a Man Who Wanted $5,000 for Failure to Honor His Check. William H. Burroughs brought an action at Brooklyn yesterday for $5,000 against the Tradesmen’s National Bank of New York, for damages alleged to heve been sustained by reason of the failure of the institution to honor his check when he had sufficient money on deposit to meet it. Jus- tice Brown said he did not see how the plaintiff could recover anything beyond 34 | cents, the amourt of inzcrest on the deposit | for the five days’ payment on the check, | which was withheld after demand. The court decided that the error had been made through a mistake of the bank’s book- keeper and was, therefore, unintentional. | In the absence of proof to show any dam- | age, the court directed a verdict in his favor in the amount of 34 cents. ~——se0 Te Reduce Her Draft. It appears that the reasors for the sug- gestion by Chief Naval Constructor Hich- born that four of the eight-inch guns of | the battleship Indiana be taken off have | been misunderstood. Probably because the suggestion was referred to the board which is now examining into the question of the stability of the new vessels, it has been as- sumed that the change was recommended because it would correct a lack of stability in the great battleship. As a matter of fact, the chief constructor says the reason | for the change is a desire to lighten the | vessel. There has been complaint when>ver a vessel exceeded her designed draft of | water, and it has been determined that here- | after the weights will be kept well in hand, | so as to avoid such complaints in the fuvare. | The removal of the four guns in the case of the Indiana would result in reducing the draft by three and a half inches. They’re going to pieces both the women who wash, and the things that are washed, in theold-fashioned way. That con- stant rub, rub, rub, over the washboard does the business. Rubbing is hard work. Rubbing wears out the clothes, There's nothing of the kind, if you'll let Pearline do the washing. All you'll have to do, then, is to look after it. It'll save all this work and rubbing _ that does so much harm. But, be- cause Pearline makes wash- ing easy, you needn't be afraid that it isn’t safe. That idea is worn out. Just as your clothes will be, unless you use Pearl- ine. 385 BORDEN’S PEERLESS is unsurpassed in quality. It is Offered after deliberate and con- Clusive tests of every condition. NEW YORK CONDENSED miLK CO. sBright Eyes, gA Clear Complexion, tural results of are within reach of Otterburn Lithia Water OOo are the nai HEALTH—both ALL. this life-giving water will transform you inte a pew being— give RUGGED HEALTH. recommended by physt Cr HAL. BO E- LIVEKED FOR ONLY 25c. EACH half the price of other Lithia Wa- $H E. Barrett, Agent, Shoreham Drug Store, 15th and H sts., And Drew's Drug Store, Coan. ave, and L st. mhz DPTOSOS SSS ESHESSOSOSOOSESS ici SMASHED. The ever changing current of ** 9 © store happenings” on a center table some Decorated Hi in “open-stock” pa we desire to close out. Preposterously Low Prices Will Prevail. Wilmarth& Edmonston Crockery,&c., 1205 Pa. Ave. mb7 seeeee SOPSIPSOS SS OSIVSIS 19th CENTURY MIRACLES, BUILDERS’ EXCHANGE HALL THE SCENE OF STRANGE DOINGS. York, who spoke interestingly upon the subject of the forests as a means for th> preservation of health and the cure of pul- j monary diseases; Verplank Colvin cf the state land survey, who argued for a better establishment of the boundary iines and the securing by the state of better and clearer titles to land, so that there could be no doubt of the ownership of the land te be included in the state park, and Arthur 8. | Hamilton of Rochester, who is president of the Genesee Forestry Association. The latter speaker said that if the farm- ers of the state would allow nature to do its own planting in the lands on their farms where there were wooded strips, fair re- sults would follow, and there would un- doubtedly be a profit for them. He believed it would be wise for the state to remit its tax on all wooded lands which were proper- ly inclosed, or protected so that the young timber should grow, provided the owner files a map with the county clerk and cuts the timber according to forestry rules and under the direction of the commissioners. Trees should be planted by the state on the banks of the canal and roadside; plan’ ing should be encouraged. He believed t! every city in the state should have a fores- try association. . The meeting closed last night with the il- lustrated lecture of Professor Rothrock, who, with the aid of the stereopticon, kept . large audience interested for over an jour. soe BIG RAILROAD DEAL. It Is Said That the Rockefellers ani nderbilts Are Interested. Information regarding a big railroad deal said to be on foot came out at Louisville yesterday by the authoritative statement that an agent is now in that city to ar- range for the carrying out of the plans. Those interested are the Rockefellers and the Vanderbilts. The roads concerned are the Chesapeake and Ohio,the Louisville Southern, the Louis- ville, Evansville, St. Louis and Missouri, Kansas and Texas. The plan is to secure a continuous traffic arrangement between Newport News and Galveston. This means a shortening of time between the two points of ten hours and will mean much to shippers, The Air Line is worth in the neighborhood of $7,000,000. bond- ed debt is $10,500; the floating debt is $1,- 000,000, and the stock ts $2,000,000. It is to be bought outright if possible. The Louis- ville Southern is willing to go into the scheme. Carlsbad, pl ns, 18 worthy of a visit from the jer bent on pleasure, but it bristles with still greater beauty in the eyes of the invalid, racked with the pain of diabetes, gout, catarrh, gravel, cardialgia, splenetic tumor, ulcerated stomach, gall stones, stone in the bladder and a tall heap of other diseases mentionable and unmentionable. the Carlsbad Sprudel is unrivaled by any other natural spring in the world, and in its remedial power and the wide field of usefulness it covers, is without an equal. The chemist may bave dis- covered its ingredients by analysis, but he cannot convey to you in a questionable copy the benefits of that body which nature intended should be a most important factor in its curative value. ‘The water {s bottled as it bubbles up hot out of the earth, and supplied genuine to all dealers under the seal of the City of Carlsbad by the Eisner & Mendelson Co., Sole Agents, 152 and 154 Franklin st., New ¥ From a common pimple on the face to that awful disease, scrofula, cured by Dr. Kennedy's Favorite it drives every taint of im- purity from the blcod and restores the complex- fon to health and beauty. PELL PEEOE POLO SOSEO SO SO® You often hear of other extracts which CLAIM TO BE “just as good” as Liebig ¢ Company’s $ Extract of Beef, z {Bot these claims only call attention to 3 $ tue tact that the company’s Ex. 3 o° TRACT ts 3 $ The Standard ; ; ae for quality. 3 pyewererrverveverereererees Who Doesn't Know Our Butter? The purest, creamiest and sweetest butter pos- sible to produce—received daily from Pennsyl- vania's famed creameries. Same low prices as ever. “‘Saltless" butter a specialty. Jas. F. Oyster, oth & Pa. ave. ’Phone 271. whs The Hall Crowded With the Elite of Washington to Witness Dr. Damon's Power Over Dixease—These Marvel- ous Cures the Talk of the City. The greatest and most popular men are those Who have done the most for the advancement of the human race—and the man who stands promi- nentiy before the publie today in the cure of | disease is Dr. 8. J. Damon of Weshington. Ry special request of 1,200 ladies the doctor gave an r one of his popular lectures and healing clinics yesterday afternoon and the hail Wes crowded, as usual. The lecture, which was fully illustrated by charts and drawings, was | Ustened to attentively. "he greatest interest, | however, was centered upon the treatment that has made this wan so famous all over the world. Case after case of seemingly helpless cripples was taken to the stage and in less time than it takes to write the story they were cured ant went upon their way rejoicing. An aged Indy who had been using crutches many months walked Mke a girl in about three minutes. Several eases of deafness were made to bear a whisper in from two to four mivutes. Large goitres were reduced at least one-half in size in a few moments, while rheumatisin seemed but a toy im the hands of Dr. Damon or his associate. One thing certain, these cures are facts beyond the shadow of a doubt, as they are largely Washington people and well known. The ladies present requested the doctor to give another free clinic. This the doctor has decided to do on Wednesday next, same time and place as yesterday. Dr. Damon's office At GOS 12th street northwest are filled daily with such as are able and willing to pay for treat- ment, the clinic at the hall being given for the benefit of those who are unable to pay. No in- valld should miss the chance of seeing this great Specialist, as be will tell mi frankly just what can be done in each individual case, and mo pa- tent is taken that does not warrant a reasonable chance of success. at uresquely nestling in an arm of the | ‘ SORT SS SPORES ESCOO SC SEOEE : keep his workmen busy. We canmot get more of them, so take them while you have the opportunity. The 3Se. Shirt is of good mus- lin ts uninundered. has Vien ..¥. has linen is. Sold every- SOPPOSOSHOS*SOS $ Carhart & Leidy, Soceseseseseoooos $028 7th St. & 706 K St. Seccocescescoeeecoecoseoss Ladies, Be Beautiful! Why be afflicted with wrinkles, flabby flesh, drooping eyelids, liver spats or freckles? De Armond’s agent will be in Washington March & Register the 12th, 13th and 14th and receive @ coupon for @ treatment of hygienic steaming, scientific massage and bequtifying with ber peers less Fleur-de-lis. Adbere to her eystem of physical culture es® you will become beautiful. Graduate in attendance. We cordially invite you to call. To avoid hotel Publicity we locate privately, Doe’t miss this im valuable opportunity, as it will last two weeky only. 737 13TH ST. X.W, i i Call early and avoid the rash, | a you ont a MATTRESS i = Ae 0 24 24 2a oe ae | ra mera HF a , iThe “Reversible”! |;Bargain Hunters, {xm met oie tte are | | Sis your Meccay | Mattree’ and TE costs No G [USES RNS tdi ater hort apr aad | goes at 2 & & & i { : fiat the mont DURABLE keomy 0 j stamped tn each corner of the Iq rT aas snes a ete with prices > t label, else it's not genuine. 4 Isewhy CY Easy monthly payments, > : S. & B.?|{ The Piano Exchange, ———— ‘la __ 913 Penn. Ave. 3 "The price is |) Y enough to attract : lu a crowd, yet the 307 12TH ST. N.W. j Corsets are 33} per URGEON SPBOLALINT. rice indica ; — . hey are ae a Nervous Debility Corsets, black and Special Diseases. white, warranted Practice Tmlted to the treatment of satisfactory or Gentiemen Exclusively money back, yet —- Nadir. — their price is Ura Sedtanemt, UU FOC. IPP. |e SS Fe M.C. Whelan’s Corset Store, 1003 F St Burchell’s Spring-leaf Tea old friend, tried and true! the best homes, Washingto broad land. for its purity, #1 fiavor—Oniy . BURCHELL, 1325 F A 40-Qt. Wash Boiler, 390C. This same Wash Boller was advertised another firm as a gre: opportunity came the ‘offered tn these necessary utensils. | “Washington Variety,” | CHINA. CROCKERY, &c., 824 7th St. H. H. HENSEY, Prop., mune 1 one of the greatest values eve practice to th Se harms for you? bu f centlemen exclusively, KILLFUL, SUCCESSFUL Treatment ot free to 3 p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m. p.m. ouly. Consultation free, ph 9 10 to 2 Ree eee eee eeeee ee Baldness is Curable! 1 solicited IMER" It will positive- a profusion of hair on the baldest any age, no matter from whet e halduess arises. and after all ; It cures bald sling out, nd thin eyelashes 7 will restore gray and to its original color. It will abso- produce a luxuriant growth of Mustaches on the suiooth- the most dell- truly marvelous, lutely Whiskers est face cate skin. $1 per bottle. Mode macy, Agent for Washington, Jorner of 11th aud F streets 3. T. WALKER SONS, 206 10TH &T. WN. Building Papers, Moth-proof Goods, Firs Brick, Ciay end Tile Asbestos, Flue Lining, Pulp Slate,