Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1894, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1894-TWELVE PAGES. T 5.Kann Sons &Co 7 Market Space. 5c. | Warranted strictly linen and wizes are from 12% to 19. No | Union for 15c. straight. 50 DOZEN NEW | UNLAUNDRIED OUT: (acellent selection of patterns and they 2sc. Ea DOZEN NEW SPRING-WEIGHT NATURAL | fact the ning for any as that wrishoy te are ine any u wi om heaty Wo wediam before going into | extreme summer weight. 69c. Each. ‘They are just as good ralue at $1 as they are gt the prices we quote, but our motto—aiways be deal | than ther house. mo DRAWERS. 2sc. Each. You can get the same goods elsewhere st 50 per cent OL e. 2 DOZEN NEW BALBRIGGAN SHIRTS AND I DRAWERS for boys. This is a complete line of sizes, running from 26 to 34. | 56c. a Suit. Worth _98e. 50 DOZEN NEW LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS. | ‘These goods have a full 14-inch hem; warranted ure linen, but come unlaundered in paper — | I2le. ‘OF value. MEN’S SEAMLESS HALF HOSE, made of the | Dest quality of Maco thread and finished as per- | fectly as any 25c. Kind. } toc. Each. MEN’S FANCY HALF HOSE, full <>wiar made, Freuch toe, and all sives. | roc. MEN'S FAST BLACK HALF HOSE, Hermsdorf @ye, full regular wad: 5 t = the ordinary. lowe. It our regul: SEws Sick’ crix BRGGAN HalF ri Tegular ard French toe. 16¢ Those socks are goirs t this coming season, although for several years—advertiac SOILED UNDERWEAit.—1 and DRAWERS, that 40-gauge . ! @ worn a great deal they were in exile elsewhere at 25¢. 0” DOZEN OF SOILED broken sizea and a we sold from 48 to 5c. 25c. If your size ts among this lot you get a bar These items ure to be found in our Men's Fur- Department. Open till 9 p.m. tomorrow. mized each. ibbons. Our line of Ribbons ts very complete and some it salues predominate. S—alietik, Satin and Gee Grain, 50 different —All-silk, Satin acd Gros Grain, 50 different "Ne CAI stk, Satin and Gros Grain, 50 different es Allailk, Satin and Gros Grain, 50 differ. Fe 7 State Sutin ont Gres ie aehare A large cdllection of Colored snd Corsets. DRAB and CREAM CORSETS, extra lum and short waist, including Nursing the celebrated R. & G. brand. These @i and $1.25) kind, without boxes, all sizes, ij JACKETS and CAPES, all Rewest effects, at $1.50, $1.60, $1.75, $1.98, 50, $3.98, $5 aud upwards. low par. Toese Wrappers. Good quality PRINT WRAPPERS, sizes, ruf- Be front, well made and tt as well as any. 49¢. Big line of ner goods just as low in proyor- aists. LADIES’ PERCALE WAISTS at 29¢. and LAUN- DERED WAISTS at 50c. and 98¢.; all sizes; all Temarkable values. We can show you an immense assortment considering our limited space. Cotton Underwear. |B. UNDERWEAR at special prices. Cambric Gowns trimmed in colored embroidery, worth $1.25. Te. Muslin Gowns, all-over embro iy embroidered, worth 81. at 6¥c. Mu ‘Skirts, colored embroidery, rufile,with cluster of tucks, worth $1.1! Muslin" Drawers, lace insertion, ruffle and ‘tucks, worth $1, S0c. A com f and cheaper Underwear, second plete line of ne: 7 Market Space. DR. DAMON'S | | | AND SUCCESS. How the Public View the Work of This Magnetic Phenomenon. @ Permanent Washington Institution. Nothing !s more fascinating than the records of uman science and skill triumphing over sickness Bnd disease. This is particul: trae when the Maladies which have been mastered belong to the @atalogue popularly supposed to be incurable, and, fmasmuch as nothing more profoundly interests the People than a knowledge of the progress and tri- Umphs being won by the intelligent and progressive Physicians in the realms of the healing art, we fake pleasure In speaking of Dr. Damon, the noted Specialist, who stands in the front rank of the fadical or progressive wing of the medical pro- fession of America. Cases that have seemed beyond Duman aid have been cured by this man and his ble associates right here in Washington, and it is @2 acknowledged fact that no physician in the @untry can show more honest, genuine testimonials ef cures than he. A little over one year ago Dr. Damon came to th ¥ almost a perfect stranger. Be began by giving a course of lectures and public | @emonstr: bis ability to cure disease at Builders’ Hall. He invited every one who was lame, crippled. blind or deaf to come and test his power. Hundreds came to him and were seated free and cured of all manner of diseases, Batil the army of free patients numbered over 9 During this t 500 people, from all over the World, were at iy Dr. Damon had the courage conv . He must have veen positive of Bis ability to cure the worst forms of disease or rc bave dared to appear before a as he would be sure to dnd at n. ‘The fact remains, ! A stands > say, the sician within a thou- nted offices | ny im the city from all points. ck work. From 75 to iF without the slight- sensitive woman ot y be ex- f. One tilag bly to the peo- fees are always low. Most perform the remarkable cures by this gentleman would | hat none but the weal special request the free lecture and clinic to “ change Hall next Wedaesday, is will be the ac on very } daily bell more last until next fall. as tt will be fully l- It No iad miss thi Bustrated with pew charts. 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The report says: The committee on the District of Co- lumbia, acting under authority of House resolution have made the investigation therein directed, and respectfully submit the following report: in response to the first subdivision of the resolution referred to Girecting the com- mittee “to investigate the workings of said company,” etc., we have to submit that we find that the Washington Gas Light Com- pany was chartered by Congress in the | year 1848; that the company now has 275 | miles of street main, ranging in size from | twenty-four inches down; that about eigh- teen miles of main were laid last year, mostly for extensions to the suburban stc Uons, and that about elghteen miles of pipe | for mains have been purchased for use dur- | the present year—largely to be used in | stitution of larger n.ains in the thickly | Settled districts of the city for those which now prove to be too small to accommodate the demand made upon them. The number of consumers is stated by the superin- | tendent of the corypany to be about 26,000, | and that its original capital stcck was $50,- 000; that the amount of stock has been in- creased from time to time by various acts of Ccrgress until it is now $2,000,000; that in addition to said stock the company has issued bonds, which are rew cutstanding, for $600,000, and certificates of indebtedness for 4un equal amount, so that the total amount of capitalization of said company, as shown by said stocks and bonds and certificates, is now 0,000, Financial Summary. | Your committee find that of the capital | Stock of the company $7,500 represents a bonus given with the stock in 1849; that $500,000 increase of stcck under the act of May 24, 1868, represents earnings of the company or dividends, though such earn- ings seem to have been largely used or in- vested in the extension and improvement of the works; that e $600,000 of certifi- cates of indebtedness were distributed to stockholders, and also represent earnings or aivicends, though the amount seems to have been used in the extension of the plant. Your committee, 01 examination into the aftairs of the company for the five years from 1889 to 1893, inclusive, also find that during that time the company have invest- ed of its net earnings in extensions of its \ works or plant, in addition to the other dividerds declared as such, the following amourts: In 1889, $165,620.36; in 1890, $07, 030.12; in 1801, $18,109.03; in 18¥2, $112,- 525.22; in 1893, $89,500. On the capital stock an annual dividend of 10 per cent on par value is regilarly paid, and interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum ts paid on the bonds and certificates of indebtedness. Your com- mittee find that additional dividends have from time to time been paid on the stock and that there ts now in the hands of the company tendistributed earnings amount- ing to $250,000, invested as follows: $80,000 in Metropolitan railway bonds, $78,000 in Louisville and Nashville Southern bonds and $1:3,000 in United States 4 per cent bonds. The Quality Good. The gas supplied by the company is man- ufactured by two methods—namely, “coal | Bas, by the modern regenerative furnace | system, and water gas, by the Wilkinson system.” It is stated by the superintendent | of the company that these two kinds of gas | are mixed in the proportion of one of coal | to two of water gas, and the ccmbined | product furnishea to the consumers. As to the quality of the gas, your com- mittee have to report that the evidence shows that the quality is generally up to | to the average of that furnished {n other cities. On the first point, Dr. Ford, the U. S. gas inspector for the District of Co- | lumbia, testified that according to offictal | tests the gas was found to fall below the standard required by law, to wit: “16 candie power, using an Argand burner consuming 5 cubic feet per hour” but once in the year 18098, and that in the years 1891 and 182 there was not a single de- fault, and that the general average was above the requirements and nearly 18 can- die power. The testimony of Measrs. Lansden, Dickson and other witnesses agrees with that of Dr. Ford on the point that the quality of the gas furnished in this city ts equal in quality and purity to that sold in other cities of the countr: end that the complaints about the quality of the light most generally proceed from an Insufficient supply of gas at the point of combustion, which is the result of local | causes, mostly defective pipe service in- side the buildings. Dr. Ford says the cause in one-fourth of the cases ig bad burners. Some Inequalities. There seem, however, to be at times fluc- tuations or inequalities in lights, which have Do You Wish To Save $4.00? THEN CALL AND PURCHASE CUR S16. BUSINESS SUITS, MADE TO YOUR MEASURE. AME QUALITY OF CLOTH, | MAKE AND TRIMMING AS OUR FORMER $20 GRADE, NEW SPRING STOCK READY. LEAVE YOUR MEASURE NOW c "AND RAVE IT IN TIME FOR EASTER. GUSTOM TAILORING ONLY. NICOLL, The Tatlor, 615 & 617 Pa. Ave. mb 19, 23-2t Ladies, Be Beautiful. —It's possible for every one. No dif- ference how irregular the features, a soft skin, a clear, transparent com- plexion, renders the otherwise homely person beautiful. TURKISH BATHS open the pores—remove unsightly se- eretions In the skin and make the flesh FIR What {s more beautiful thaa a plump arm? Turkish Bathe ‘* work wonders—a great luxury, bd Ladies from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Men from 7 a.m. to 9:30 Pm. Sat- urdays.till 11 p.m. urkish Baths, 1329 G St, mh22 2 ma | ume a Comfort! 3 es 30 difference how many corns or bunions you have we can make your feet PERFECTLY comfortahl and in a ry few moments. ur Bunion nields will them comfortable until a cure ed. Prof. J. J. Georges & Son, mb22 Paslors, 1115 Pa. ave. nw. produced dissatisfaction and are not fully and satisfactorily accounted for. The in- spector, however, recommends that the law fixing the standard of purity shall be so amended as to require the company to ex- clude the element of sulphuretted hydrogen, which to some extent {s sometimes present in the gas sold here; and an amendment to the law, which at the request of the com- mittee was furnished by him, is respectful- ly recommended to the favorable considera- tion of the House. Dr. Ford also suggested that it might be well to raise the legal standard for gas to twenty candle power for the new argand gas burner, or 25 candle power with the flat flame burner. The City Ligh ‘The witness who testified upon the point concur in the statement that so far as the street mains are concerned the city is well piped, and it is so regarded by the gas en- gineers of the country. It was shown to ydur committee that, in addition to com- plaints arising with consumers who have pipes of insufficient size, or of defective construction, bad burners, &c., others come from residents in some hotels and boarding houses, in which the supply of gas is purposely cut off by the proprietors to save cost. From ail the facts adduced, your committee believe that with a sufficient ficw of gas of the quality at present being furnish- ed there would probably be very genera) sat- isfaction among consumers, if the price charged was thought to be a reasonable one. Question of Pre: ire. As to the pressure used in forcing the gas through the mains, it was stated by the company that the day pressure is from ten- tenths to twelve-tenths pressure of a column of water, as indicated by the water gauge at the office of the company, and that the night pressure is from thirteen to sixteen-tenths, ‘There seems to be some difference cf upin- fon among those who might be supposed to have accurate means for determining what is the proper pressure, and as between | them your committee, not being experts, are | not prepared to decide. Dr.Ford, the United States inspector, thinks the pressure prob- ably too high, while Capt. Derby, assistant | engineer, in charge of this branch of the | service, is reported to think ft not high | enough. The statement of Dr. Ford upon | this point is, substantially, that an increase of pressure makes an increase of consump- tion, and therefore excess of pressure should be avoided. He says, however, that the company is now engaged in laying larger mains where needed, and that an increase of size in mains will relieve the necessity for so high a pressure as is at present used. Company Inspection. “As to what provision the said company has for a thorough inspection of their meters and pipes which transmit the gas,” your committee would respectfully submit that the company has a system of inspec- tion and repairs of pipes, burners, &e., and the evidence shows that a sufficient force of men is employed to attend to such work with reasonable promptness, and usually with satisfactory effect. Accord- ing to the evidence of the officials and employes of the company the number of complaints made to the company on ac- | meter head, after it has been sealed, for and your committee respectfully recommends ment, however, on the part of all the wit- nesses examined on that point, that for awhile last fall, at the beginning of colder Weather, the service seemed worse than usual, and generally unsatisfactory. The probable cause assigned by the company, and substantially concurred in by the in- spector, Dr. Ford, is the crystalization of naphthalene in the service pipes, the cause of which seems not to be definitely under- stood, but which, accorling to Dr. Ford's statement, is not pecullarly attributable to the method of making or distributing the gas furnished by this company. Dr. Ford states that three-fourths of the gas manu- factured in the Urited States is made by the same method in use by this company. Inspecting Meters, As to the inspection of meters the gas company has nothing to do, as that work is done by the United States inspector of gas for the District of Columbia, who is appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate, and paid a salary+of $2,000 per annum, and gives an official bond in double that sum. There is also an assistant inspector ap- pointed by the Commissioners of the Dis- trict of Columbia, whose salary is $1,000, which is paid by deposits of money made annually with the collector of taxes for the District of Columbia by the Washing- ton Gas Light Company, and the George- town Gas Company, in proportion to the sales of gas annually made by said com- nies. on order to provide for the proper ins; tion of gas, and gas meters, as oes db; law, there have been established, in addition to the office of the gas inspector, two addi- tional laboratories in the city of Washing- ton, the expense of which is paid by the Washington Gas Light Company, and one in Georgetown, the expense of which is de- frayed by the Georgetown Gas Company. The law provides that no meter shall be used by either company until it shall first have been inspected and sealed by sald in- spector; and in case of the removal of any Purposes of repair, ete., it cannot be again used until reinspected and sealed. The in- spector calls to the aitention of the commit- tee the fact that no penalty is attached by existing law to a violation of the law, and suggests an amendment to cure this defect; the adoption of the same, in connection with the bill submitted with this report. With reference to the method of inspection, your committee has nothing to suggest. The propriety and wisdom of making this im- portant work entirely independent, as it} now ts, of the gas companies, whose service is thereby to be regulated in the interest of the public, is too obvious to admit of any argument; and it is with pleasure that we can conscientiously state that we have dis- covered nothing in the work of the present incumbent to discredit either his competency or his fidelity in the discharge of his official duties. He testified, however, that the work of his oMfce has grown to such proportions as to make it necessary for him to have the services of a clerk; and your committee, ac- cepting the truth of such statement from the facts presented by the inspector, re- Spectfully recommend the allowance of such assistance. The Important Point. In the estimation of your committee the most important thing to be considered by Congress in connection with the subject referred to is the question of price at which gas should be supplied to the public, and to that question we have devoted consider- able time and labor. Under direction of the committee letters of inquiry were di- rected to the mayors of about seventy of the largest cities of the country contain- ing queries as to the gas service of those cities. To most of these letters responses were made, and the substance of the infor- mation acquired by this means, as well as some of a kindred nature, and bearing on the same point, taken from Brown's Di- rectory of Gas Companies, which is ac- cepted as standard authority, is presented herewith in tabulated form. Your com-| mittee find that there is great variance in the price charged at the various places for substantially the same kind of gas, and that, in some instances, there ms to be Uttle relation between the price paid for coal and other materials used in the manu- facture and the price obtained for the product. The amount of the ontput, cther conditions being the same, ougnt to be an important factor in fixing the price at which gas can be sold, but investix; do with the case, and that sot with large product seil at than others paying similar prices for ma- terials used in manufacturing an¢ much smaller amounts. The pric seems, therefore, to be more or | trary, and your committee felt that best and safest tesi &as can be profitably sold in is what it costs and w measured by the expen of the gas compan: ed for gas in thi $1.25 per 1,000 fe pared with price: for, as Mres and receipts ‘The price now ch y and District, namely, would not, as com- arged by other cities approximately near to Washington in popu- lation and consumption of gas, appear un- usually hi; in fact, the price charged here seems to be below the averige charged in such cities; but, after a careful examina- tion into the financial condition of the Washington Gas Light Company, as shown by the statement made by its president and secretary before your committee, cov- ering its business operations for several years past, and examinations of witnesses as to cost of gas, we conclude that it is preaticable for said company to furnish gas of the quality now being supplied to the public at $1 per 1,000 cuble feet and pay @ reasonable profit on the capital invested in the business, Would Leave Plenty. The testimony of Mr. John R. McLean, the president of the company, shows that for the year 1893 the gross receipts of the company were §1,135,305.60 and that the ex- penditures, exclusive of dividends and ex- tension of works, were $881,2 net earnings of $454,02! fee net earnings $: tension of works leaves still a net surpl of $164,528.03. Upon the basis of last veer business a reduction of 25 cents per 1,000 feet for gas to private consumers, making the price $1 per 1,000 feet, would be a re- duction of $227,061.12 in gross receipts, which Would leave $908,244.48 as the gross receipts for the ensuing year, and deducting from this expenses, including interest on bonds and certificates of indebtedness, which ag- gregate $681,277.57, would leave $220,966.91, which would pay a dividend of $200,000, 10 per cent on the par value of the stock, and leave a surplus of $20,966.91 for incidentals. Comparisons Difficult. Your committee, therefore, respectfully recommends the passage of H.R. No. 4279 fixing the maximum price to be charged for gas sold by the Washington Gas Light Com- pany at the sald price of $1 per 1,000 feet. The committee prints with this report such 7, leaving 8.03. Deducting from 200,000 invested in ex- ation | When I broac! proves that this seems to have ltitle to| ever. me compunies | When I got to know him better, I asked him higher prices | Why he kept such a rin, i selling | will never part with it charged | Necessity forces me to.’ 33 arbi-| to let me have the ring if the | to sell it. t of the price at which | 4nd went to Vienna, Washington | = whom I told the story, begging him to >| portunity ever offered. tables of information as to price of gas, etc., as may be of service for purposes of reference. As to the price of the gas furnished by said company to the District for the pur- poses of street illumination your committee finds that when comparison of cost for street lamp illumination is sought to be made between prices given for different places, there are four points to be consider- The size of burner used (or number of feet per hour of consumption), the number of hours burned and the price paid for the total amount of gas furnished, and whether the care of the lamps, repairs, etc., is re- quired of the company or is supplied by the municipality. It is, therefore, difficult to make satisfactory comparison of cost be tween the different cities of the country, un- less these points, as applicable to each case, first be satisfactorily determined. Again we find that the prices paid to the different companies in the same city vary greatly. In the city of New York, for in- stance, the prices paid run all the way from $12.50 up to $28 per lamp; although the quantity consumed is about the same, the burners being made to consume three feet per hour, and the number of hours being uniformly 4,000, the average price paid in that city for the 12,000 feet of gas per lamp consumed being about $18.41; but in some cases the municipality cares for the lamps, while in others that expense is borne by the compary. So we find in cities where the gas is paid for by the 1,000 feet consumed, instead of by a certain fixed sum per lamp, in some cases the cost of caring for lamps is embraced in the price paid for the gas: while in other places, as “Kemarkable bow well mamina looks, and how she has guined In flesh. You should do the same.” “The loss of flesh is a trifle. You think you need not mind it, but you are gradually running down, Do like mamma. Use Carlshad Sprudel Salt every count of imperfect service has largely de- creased within the last year, and that at present the number is smaller than ever | before, There is @ concurrence of state- morting before breakfast. It will increase your appetite and cure you of that dyspepsia and bil- Jousuess from which you are suffering. Re sure to | et the genuine imported article. No subterfuge.” Cincinnati, Cleveland and other places, it is paid for by the municipality outside the price agreed on for the gas per lamp. We find, therefore, that the only safe way to arrive at a fair price for this kind of serv- ice is to estimate fairly the cost of the gas furnished, and ther add the amount neces- sary to meet the expense of caring for the lamps and of keeping them in repair. The law here requires each, street lamp to be equipped with an automatic burner that consumes six feet of gas per hour, which amount multiplied by the 3,000 hours, which it Is required to burn, will give an aggre- gate annual consumption of 18,000 feet. Under the existing contract the gas com- pany {s compelled to light, extingush and keep in repair the lamps, &c., the cost of which service, as estimated by Capt. Pow- ell, Engineer Commissioner of the District, is $4.56. Taking the price id under the present contract between the government and the Washington Gas Light Company, which is $21.60 per annum per lamp, and deducting therefrom the amount estimated by Capt. Powell for expense of lighting, extinguishing, cleaning and repairs, name- ly, 34.50, leaves $16.04 as the net sum re- ceived by the company for the 18,000 feet of gas per lamp furnished, or $0.941 per 1,000 feet. —_—___-2-____—_- IN HOTEL CORRIDORS. A gentleman wearing an Egyptian scarab on his watch chain for a charm inspired Mr. Theodore Roessle, proprietor of the Arlington, to reminiscences in the hotel lob- by last night. “I have some very good scarabs,” he re- marked, “and I came about them in rather an exciting way. Marriott Bey gave them to me in appreciation of a little act of mine in saving him from assault by a number of Arabs. While prosecuting his excavations in the desert, Marriott Bey had occasion to hand an Arab, whom he had found looting the tombs, over to a village magistrate for punishment, and the latter promptly had the offender strung up. The man’s com- panions were incensed at his fate and bi-led their time for revenge. At last they suc- ceeded in getting Marriott Bey in a secluded place and were undoubtedly about to kill him when I accidentally rode up, and, see- ing the aspect of affairs, discharged my re- volver. This brought the other members of my party, who were behind me, quickly forward, and they also shot off their pistols, scaring the Arabs, so that they fled. Mar- riott Bey was, of course, very grateful for our unlooked for assistance, and in the course of the acquaintance that sprung up he gave me a number of scarabs. “On one occasion he sent word to me at Luxor,” continued Mr. Roessle, “that he was about to open a newly discovered tomb and invited our party out to witness the ceremony. When broken into it was found that the tomb contained the bodies of twelve ancient Egyptian queens, and we amused ourselves unwrapping them. Around the neck of one were two necklaces composed of scarabs, and, taking them off, Marriott Bey presented one of them to me. From the finger of another I took off a ring myself, that I still possess, which I know was on the mummy’s finger for several thousand years, anyhow.” Mr. Roessle proceeded in a most interest- ing way to tell of other valuable antiquities he had run across while abroad, and after relating how he bought in Italy, from some workmen who had just excavated them, a number of intaglios for twenty lre, or $4, out of which he afterward sold upward of $1,000 worth, he went on to recite the story of a ring. “When I was in Paris on that trip,” he remarked, “I frequently played billiards in the billiard room of the Grand Hotel with a young man whom I did not know, but who wore a remarkable cameo. It was perfect in its cutting and was set in the antique | style, surrounded by diamonds with flat fasces and all the color the stones affect. I saw him around at receptions and lunches | where I went, and one day I asked of a friend who he was. I was told he was Prince Henry of Bourbon. “ “He is very poor,’ said my friend: ‘in- deed, he is absolutely penniless and lives in most part by the dinners and lunches he is in pity invited to.’ “I thought it singular that one so poor should wear such a splendid ring, and made up my mind to buy it, if he was agreeable. ‘hed the subject to him, hcw- he would give no assent. One day, i if he was so poor. he exclaimed, ‘and I until the direst Then he promised he ever concluded 1 left Paris shortly afterward where I met a friend ‘It {s all I have left,’ eep an eye on Prince Henry of Bourbon and to secure that ring for me if the op- One day, a year or So afterward, my friend walked in here and handed me the ring, saying he was glad to get rid of its possession. 1 NMiodest Maidens Eat modern is Quaker Oats. Quaker Passenger list beginning with C., and we concluded that was his name, but when we reached quarantine and the bagaage was brought up to be fumigated I saw the name on a trunk, with the address “Rue de University, Paris,’ on it, and knew I was wrong. He told me, however, that his wife would meet him on the dock and he would be glad to have me meet her. I rejoiced Sold Only in and carried the news to my friends, who were fairly concerned with curtosi At last we were to learn that nam hen we reached the dock the gentleman was warmly greeted by a lady and then beck- oned me forward. ‘Mr. K,’ he remarked, ‘this is Mrs. C.’ “I felt like killing him then and ther: Here at the end of five days of diligen* search his identity was still confined to an initial. He told me he was going to the 5th Avenue Hotel, and my heart jump- ed. I knew I couldn't help finding out his name in a few hours anyhow. That night I went to the hotel and addressed the clerk. “Can you tell me the name of a gentle- man who came over on the Bretagne, and is stopping here. He {s the business man- ager of the Chicago Herald and his name ac. weston. no, it don’t,’ responded the clerk cheerily, ‘that is his name. It is spelled S-e-a “The age of interior decoration is ap- proaching the ripe period of its renat: sance,” said Mr. C, A. White of Boston at the Ebbitt, “and in a very few years few first-class buildings of any character will be erected whose interiors will not be finished on the lines of art and beauty. The advance of invention in this direction has been re- markable. Up to a few years ago in the one item of relief work, for instance, the ex- pense was too great to allow of its general use. Builders were compelled to depend upon carvings or castings for effects of the character mentioned. Nowadays paper can be used for the purpose at slight cost and with every bit as good results. In Boston papier mache moldings are being used in all the fine edifices now in course of erec- tion for such decorations as cornices and so forth. The effect of stone or wood carv- ing is absolutely secured, and the extreme lightness of the material does not allow so much strain to rest upon the structure prop- er. And there is no question, either,as to ite duraMility being equal to its artistic effect.” “The sensible negroes of the south are be- ginning to eschew politics and give more attention to their personal advancement in education and business,”’said Luther Griggs, @ well-to-do colored man of Mississippi, in the lobby of Willard’s. “A quarter of a cen- tury’s experience as political foot balls being CURES::OTHERS Severe, For Weak “Every jeweler in Europe knows it,” he remarked. ‘I was arrested four times on ae pie “Witl @ ring came its history,” con- tinued Mr. Roessle. “There are wo other cameos like it in existence, and they are in the Naples Museum. The three were origi- nally worn in the helmet of a Roman sol- dier. The one I have was set in a ring and worn by Geoffrey de Boullon in the eru- sades, and had been in possession of the Bourbon family for a thousand years, until Prince Henry disposed of it.” “Talking about the devil of names,” re- marked a well-known young newspaper man at the Riggs House this morning, “re- minds me of a very amusing experience I had a year or two ago, when returning from Europe. We had a small party on the Bretagne and as we were congenial to one another we didn't make any a quaintances among the other passengers. When about half way over, the water be- came very rough and «ne morning oly three members of our party and a gentle- man I had frequently noticed, but did not know, were in the cabin. A sudden lurch of the boat threw the stranger against one of the ladies with me and his profuse apologies led to a general conversation. He remarked in the course of it that we should organize a press club on board, as there were several newspaper men among the passengers besides him and me. I didn’t know who he was, but soon learned he was the business manager of the Chicago Her- ald. I know it was sublime ignorance on my part not to know the name of a man holding such an important place in my profession, but I didn’t, and as he did not introduce himself I began to have curi- osity about it. This sentiment extended to the other members of my party, and one day he pulled out a coin containing a picture of a lady and sald it was Mrs. C. The man was aggravating, so we thought, and we looked over the passenger list. There was but one American name on the DO YOU? Do you observe the laws of life? Do you take good care of yourself at all times? Do you always use clear judgment instead of often acting upon impulse? Do you carefully guard the Mfe and health of those who are dependent upon you? 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