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Historic Ground on Both Sides of the Famous Stream, THE LOUDOUN REGION AND TIS FUTURE Transportation Routes in the Days Before Railroads. THE OLD BRADDOCK ROAD Correspontence of The Evening Star. LEESBURG, Va., March 26, 1894. Several days ago from a hill near Lees- burg I saw the smoke from an engine on the Metropolitan road as the train wound around the bese of the Sugar Loaf moun- tain near Dickinson station. Just then a, train blew for the Leesburg station on the Washington and Ohio road, and it brought to my mind very forcibly the parallelism of the roads in coming from the capital city— | the one in Montgomery county, Md., the other in Loudoun county, Va.—and also the kinship and similarity between these coun- ties in colonial days, in their means of travel and transportation, in the character of their settlers and in the mode and aim of their agriculture. In those early days Frederick county, Md., included within ita domain part of Carroll and all the other counties that now make up western Mary- land. On this side Prince William included all of Fairfax, Loudoun and Fauquier. Roy- al provinces they were, and in the diversi- fied character of sofl and mountain and river scenery were equal to some of our smaller states of this day. The faith bond of interest to them must certainly have been the Potomac river. The navigation Was obstructed to some extent by the falls in the lower river, but their canoes and flat boats could be used as carriers for many miles on the upper stretches of the river and portage around the falls for the light boats and unloading and reloading for the heavy ones afforded them good facilities for transportation to tide water. The next means of travel and transporta- tion for mutual benefit was Braddock’s road. This mighty tactician of Europe, but most dismal failure as a bushwhacker for America, landed in Alexandria in 1755. He sent a regiment of his forces and a portion ef his stores to Winchester, and another to Frederick, Md. Here were two roads open- ed up and improved through the counties of Maryland and Virginia adjacent to the river. Through every county south of the Potomac, from Alexandria to Winchester, there are remains of Braddock’s road. In Gaithersburg district, not far from the line of the Metropolitan railroad in Montgomery county, tradition locates the crossing of Linicar creek by an old Indian trail from Alexandria to Frederick, Md. Over these roads were transported artillery and bag- gage wagons. The road from Frederick to Winchester must have been in better con- dition than from Alexandria to the latter Place, as Braddock, when in Frederick, pur- chased from Gov. Sharpe an English coach and six horses, in which he was driven to Winchester, and thence to Cumber- land. He had intended going to Cumber- land by the northern bank of the river, but the road was not sufficiently completed for the undertaking. As it was, the journey days, and when he reached Cumberland he relinquished the coach cs being unfit to travel over such roads. Primitive Methods of Travel. After Braddock’s defeat these roads were used by the settlers of the counties bor- dering on the Potomae for travel transportation of supplies. For twenty years after these roads were made scarce- ly a vehicle traveled over them. Foot- men and horsemen used them in reaching the frontier to trade with the inland set- | tlers. The hardy pioneers made their Acquainted with the use of the rifle, plow and sickle, travpling on foot was no iabor. Pack horses carried their freight. When the wives or dauzh- ters took the trip they rode on pillows be- hind their fathers, husbands and brothers, The trade consisted in leather, saddles, harness, boots, shoes, linen, woolen and flaxen threads, honey, butter in firkins, Salt and iron implements were carried on pack horses, and a »ushe of alum salt was a fair equivalent in trade for a fresh cow and calf. The trade went to Alexandria and even to Baltimore and Annapolis. As early as 1700 there was a public road from Frederick to Annapolis. The trade inland consisted of cotton goo4s, indigo, salt, lead and gun powder. The transportation of tobacco was done in a manner peculiar to itself. was rigged out with shafts and seats and with a mule and driver was wheeld to the market. Tobacco was made a legal tender In 1732 at one penny per pound, so that when the Montgomery or Fairfax planter rolled into Alexandria on his queer vehicle found himself literally astride of a “bar'l of In 1789 travel from the east to the west had assumed such proportions that the general government, which was then organized, gave some ‘attention to the matter, and In 1818 the National road Was organized, and Henry Clay, who was always its ardent friend and patron, ptloted through Congress its first appropriation of $30,000, one of the first main thoroughfares from south to north was the Carolina road. Loads of cotton, molasses, st were brought to tide water by this road, and when Leesburg was reached the freight could go east by the Alexandria and Winchester road or pass on directly north and take the tonal road in. Frederick county to Baltimore. The Winchester and Alexandria pike drained much from the Piedmont county and was used by wagons from Augusta and Rockingham. There Was Heavy Traffic. Fifty wagons, with miscellaneous freisht, but particularly flour, with from four to six horses in one continuous line, have been seen to pass through Leesburg on the way to Alexandria. The pike passing through Fairfax Court House to Alexandria was a 2 } crowded thoroughfare, and men now living have counted 150 wagons in one day en route to Alexandria, loaded principally with flour. The most important road, easi- ly ac ible to the counties of western Maryland and used to a good extent by the counties of Loudoun and Fairfa in Virginia, was the National pike. What a vision of o travel is called up by that name! vas commenced in ISIS, and was a trunk line for thirty years, an immense artery throbbing with the bustle and trade and of those times. it was completed in 1 miles long and was intended to exte tward from Baltimore to St. Louis. A few miles inland on either showed the forests and streams in all their primeval wildness, “Most things were still and brier.” To have stepped forth upon the magnificently kept thoroughfare must h a translation to old Eng- coaches going either way pass in the course of a day, gaily and bright ‘colors, n eight to fifteen p: ‘ ur ands . and twelve hour. yy were the “Roya F. F. of that time. The miles were marked The br $3 were built in antial ne>. The toll » of iron and the taverns cattered along the route, and b t with the best to Herds of cattle, sheep and passed ten horses, ith eight feet ight.” and dic Many disti road in of Vir: to its execs began. The sta n@ beth contr pletion. 1 Opened. opened for naviga- ext from : thorough- 1 much for trav to every county in Its m and cor- and the “ragi our great freizht re the ¢ and | dried apples and | The hogshead | On the Virginia side of the river | r and flour | in desert bush | Al | THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1894—TWELVE PASES. the Loudoun and Hampshire railroad was completed from Alexandria to Leesburg. This road gave an impetus to the adjoining counties, but the war coming on s0 soon} fter its completion, it never in its history | attained the success and importance that belongs to it at this time; but more of that anon. I wish at this point to call attention | to a striking similarity between the early settlers of the Maryland and Virginia counties bordering on the river. Mont-| gomery, Md., and Fairfax, Va., were settied mostly by English people. The eastern portion of Loudoun, Va., and Frederick, Ma., were settled by the same people, but the northwestern portion of these counties were settied by Germans. | _The English settlers of Montgomery and! | Fairfax cropped principally tobacco. They | raised corn, but without rotation in crops. They handled slave labor, and lived in ease and affluence. The Germans of Frederick and Loudoun engaged in mechanical pur- suits, and rotated their crops. Their farms Were smalier, and whilst they did not | affect the slippered ease and elegance of the tobacco planters, they were industrious, thrifty and frugal. The steady cultivation | of tobacco after so many years began to} show its ruinous effects. It was the custom | to exhaust a piece of land, abandon it, and| take up new land. There could be but one termination to such short-sighted ex-| travagance—and in 1820-30-40 there was! much abandoned land in Fatrfax county. Howe, in his History of Virginia, says of | this condition of affairs in Fairfax: “In| some parts of the abandoned lands there! sprang up a spontaneous growth of low| pines and cedars, whose somber aspect, | with the sterility of the soil, oppresses the traveler with feelin thirties some of th e enterprising farmers of German origin from Dutchess county, N. Y., commenced emigrating to thig | county, and purchased consider ible worn: | out tracts of land, which they have m| many instances succeeded in restoring to their original fertility. | Restoring Worn-Out Lands. | “Good land can be bought for eight or ten {dollars an acre, tolerably fair for three, which, in a few years, can be brought up | with clover and plaster. Some of the finest | farms in New York are upon lands the soil | | of which, a few years ago, was mainly sand | | blowing about in the wind. The worn-out | | Virginia lands are not so bad as this, and | with a fair chance are as easily restored. | The success thus far attending the experi-| |ment is encouraging, and emigration still continues, These farmers find it more profit- | able than going west, for they are sure of a good market,” &c. Which, says Scharf, the historian, about Montgomery county, which | was in the same condition from too much tobacco planting. “First were the old to- bacco planters with their baronial estates and armies of slaves. They felled the na-| tive forests and planted the virgin soll in| tobacco and Indian corn. They did very | well so long as there was timber for the ax | and new land for the hoe. They feasted | and frolicked and fox hunted and made the | most of life. ‘But in less than a_ century after this system of denuding and exhausting began, there were no more forests to clear and no | more new lands to till, Then succeeded the period of old fields and decaying, worm | fences and moldering homesteads. ‘his saddest condition of the county had reach- | ed its climax about 1840, at which time its population reached its minimum.” i About 1845 there was introduced into | this county some pure Peruvian guano. Its effects were magical. To make two blades of grass grow where none grew be- fore was an easy task. The farmers wouid get a “catch” of grass on the old worn-out | | fields, and then a “stand” of wheat would follow. Emigration was changed into immi- gration, and the name of Montgomery was no longer the synonym for poverty. in the decade preceding the civil war this county | [made gant strides. They were halcyon | days for old Montgomery, During the war | the county suffered to some extent, but | wheat and corn commanded big prices, and | the condition of the people was fortunate, compared with the sister counties across the river. These latter counties came out of the war utterly devastated and bankrupt. Fences entirely gone; homes falling in ruins fiells grown up in trash and briars, with a | statro government borne to the earth with | | the “onus” of its debts; its departments | | of laws, revenues and public schools to be renewed and remodeled. This condition of affairs frightened immigration. Great Railroad Improvement. The means of transportation and travel were in not much better condition. ‘The | | Loudoun and Hampshire opened up its way | |to Leesburg, but upon iron rails which had {been torn up by many a “raiding party,” | pited on burning ties and bent out of shape. | | The motive power consisted of two or three | | small engines, veterans of the war, and one | had followed the fortunes of the defunct | confederacy over a dirt read to another | railroad. What a striking and magnificent change has taken piace since the Richmond and Danville has taken control. | ‘The schedule has been much’ shortened | and when the time arrives, which will be soon, that several bridges span the | Potomac instead of the present wooden structure, we will have several passenger trains running eastward in the morning and | westward in the evening. This road will | be as great a boon to the counties through which it passes as the Metropolitan has | | been to the Maryland side. Don't let the | “kicker” of ten years from this time regret that “his foresights were not so good as his | ndsights,” and he failed in taking ad- | tase of low prices when these improve- ments were in their Inception. the Metropolitan road done for county? A few years after the ) it was opened up for traffic and | . Since its completion half a million of | dollars have been expended annually in the | purchase of lime, bone phosphates and other fertilizers of a kindred character, resulting | in a greatly increased production of Indian | corn and wheat. This gives employment to | at least twenty-five mills, located on the | several streams of the county, some of | which are merchants’ mills. Besides this, a large quantity of cereals is annually export- ed, the average production of which has | often reached seventeen bushels per acre, in Frederick county seventeen and a fraction and in Washington county twenty-one. Can | any of the border counties of Virginia equal | it? If not, why not? We have not kept pace | with the times on this the reasons why Loudoun, Prince William have not kept a Frederick, Washington and Montgon any and cogent, but istory repeats itself,” and the same tors that have put the M ‘Yland counties ahead of us in material prosperity exist here with us, but to a great extent dormant and | undeveloped. Marble and Ochre. je of the river, and | ast with nery & hat thme is emi One of the dormant Industries is the mar- ble quarry ten or eleven miles south of Lees- | burg. ‘here is enough marble quarried and | | piled up In great blocks of five to eight tons | to build a new Capitol, Is tt marble? Half | a dozen scientists of this country and Eu- [rope have pronounced it equal to Italian. | All that is wanted is transportation. One mile northwest of Leesburg are immense beds of ochre, used in the manufacture of paints, and a peculiar clay used for making vitrified brick. Experts have surveyed, ex- amined and experimented with the ore upon the ground. Two years ago, paint made | from this ochre was used upon some outside | work in this town; it stands today without scale or cra The vitrified bric | Washington and New York elty to | itself. A charter was gotten through the Virginia legislature during the past winter to con- i y neh road to the on and Ohio. The improvement lopment of these Virginia counties | to a condition of material prosperity, higher than ever before, upon us. We | nothing of a boom in the advanceme f our realty. Our progress, while rapid, is built upon solid lines. The every-day trav-| li take notice of the tmp: nt, but | casionai passenger is struck with the r of new residences built up and puild- and with the spigit of enterprise and thrift and progress, that marks the advent of a new era, we have outlived the war and | the state debt. The last obstruction to our rapid progress is the inadequate means of | ing the Potomac river. As “all roads 1 to Rome,” so all of our lines of travel | with but one exception, no Repres | friend, Col. Auci | yet, | the big Yorktown steamed up mvyerge to Washington c' r facilit of exit and entrance are not proportional to the extent and bulk of our travel and trans- | portatl We have outgrown the on When this last cause of ob-{ jon and hindrance is supplemented by two more bridges across the Poto-| sftburban | full tide of im- n, to the c provement a | our borders. al city, and a nd prosperity will flow throu Cee Se What Chessmen Cost. From the Cumberland Times. set of chessmen usually an inexpen- sive thing, but it may cost as much 4 grand plano. Of cours may small set of ordine a few do ebony che: size, one ary boxwood ¢ . a finer set of boxw« r $i, and tau! men of the best African ivory, for $75. And these are all plain you indulge in f carving and 1 moun om $100 to & $300. For a really ex + he wever, the enthusiast usually us metals, and there is ab- mit to the cost. | A NEW PARTY IN VIRGINIA Col. Lamb Proposes to Use the Old Name “Whig.” It Will Include Those Favoring a Pro- tective Tariff, Bimetallism and Internal Improvements, Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. RICHMOND, Va., April 19, 1894, The proposition of Col. Wm. Lamb of Nor- folk to resurrect the old whig party, with some modifications and improvements, chis spring, has brought forth widespread com- ment throughout the state. Most of ihe papers have discussed it as being a huge Ist of April joke, but Col. Lamb's good standing and his reputation for sound politi- cal sense entitles the proposition to some serious consideration at least. Col. Lamb was one of the most prominent political tig- ures in Virginia eight years ago, when Mahone was in control of the state govern- ment. In fact, he was Mahone’s right bow- er, especially in the Norfolk section of the state, and has ever since commanded the re- spect of the people, which cannot be said gs of gloom. In the jf several of the other neophytes of the high priest of republicanism inVirginia. Col.Lamb has been foremost, since Mahone lost his power, in every new commercial enterprise of Norfolk and has frequently made trips to Washington and elsewhere in the inter- est of Norfolk business men. In explaining his new, old party, Col. Lamb sa: “This spring I will issue the call, and think that I will suggest a plat- form upon which all Virginians, not free traders and monometaliists, can stand. I want our Virginia manufacturers, miners and farmers protected by the tariff m various foreign competition. I prefer, with Mr. Jefferson, that our revenue for the sup- port of the federal government, should be raised through the customs house instead of by a tax gatherer coming to annoy us at our homes, The federal government, which should justly pay bounties to support the Union soldiers and sailors of the civil war in their oid age, and thus necessarliy contribute largely to the northern states, should equal- ize matters, as far as practicable, by assist- ing the southern states in educating their in the Blair edu- bi iliiterates, as proposed cational bill. In Virginia we favor a metallic standard and a liberal supply of currence: We want a whig construction of the Constitution to enable us to foster our agricultural and commercial interests. should carry out the recommendations of muel J. Tilden in his last fame letter to Congress, about fortifying our seacoast | and foreign borders, and we should make our navy worthy of the flag it floats, “Looking at the great work of the age— the Nicaragua canal—we should enforce the Monroe doctrine in our foreign relations, so as to avoid future complications. “I give this brief outline of the principles of the whig party, but you must wait for the address before you judge of our claims for support by the Virginia people.” In the Ninth District. It has developed that Representative Marshall of the ninth Virginia district, com- prising the extreme southwestern counties, will have opposition in the democratic party for a renomination to Congress. There is no especial complaint by the democrats of that district of Mr. Marshall’s course in Congre which has been a vigorous one, but it is a | singular fact that for the past several years, D wtiy from this district has been allowed to serve more than one term in Congress without a change of nominee by the democrats. The exception was in the of Representative Buchanan, Mr. Marshall's predecessor, who was allowed to serve two terms, thus break- ing a long record. It ts lutionary spirit of the democrats of the ninth district, a concerted opposition has sprung + st Mr. Marshall, but his friends claim that he will be minate after a figtit. Several of the leaders of the } district ai sing ex-Attorney General Rufus A. to. ome a candidate against M. shall, but it is not believ- ed that Mr. Ayres will oppose his warm personal friend for the honor, M : Wysor of Pulaski county, it is s will make a fight for the nominatio. is onceded, however, thac ad In the Fourth District. In the fourth congr larly known as the pnsiderable opposition to Re pes has already developed. Mr. chief opponent for the democratic notni tion is Col, W. T. Atkins of Mecklenbe essional district,p: “Petersbu become a candidate, Will not oppose his Some of the leaders in this district say that Mr. Epes will not be a candidate for renomination. They Mr. Epes is tired of c seriousl, was dissuaded a: thought of resigning recenuy, but bis uld irom who think secve out his term th: ton. Numerous comp against Mr. Epes’ inactivity, especiaily in the matter of obtaining tedcral patronage in b district. Th Ss been no change in the Peters- burg post office, which is said to be di the fact that Mr. Ey S not pushed the matter. Gne of Mr. itu sh of ‘ who recently made a visit to the We) aid that on account of this revo- | hu aints have been made | SPORTING NEWS IRISH CRICKETERS COMING, They Will Reach America the Latter Part of Next August. * PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 11—A prom- inent member of the Germantown Cricket Club is authority for the statement that a team of Irish cricketers, under the captain- cy of J. M. Meldon, will come to America this year and play a series of matcnes in Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Chi- cago. A letter has been received from Mr. Mel- don asking for two games in this city, and, although the dates have not yet been defi- | nitely arranged, the matchés will likely take | place at Manheim early in September, as | the Irish cricketers expect to arrive in this | country the latter part of August. It will be remembered that Capt. Meldon’s team visited Philadelphia in September, | 1802, and played two games with the local jeleven. The first match resulted in a victory for the Irishmen by 127 runs, but the All- Philadelphians succeeded in’ turning the | tables in the second contest and won by 2% runs. A third match was started, but owing to the extreme cold, it was declared off, with the advantage slightly in favor of the visitors. it is sald the team which Capt. Meldon will bring here next fall will be made up nearly the same as that which played at Manheim two years ago. CONEY ISLAND STAKES. Entries for the Spring and Fall Meet- ings at Sheepshead. The stakes for the June and autumn meetings of the Coney Island Jockey Club closed yesterday. The entries have filled well in most of the stakes, the following being the number each event received up to | teday: | For the June meeting, 1894—The Subur- ban handicap for three-year-olds and up- ward, 52; the June handicap for three-year- olds and upward, 80; the Zephyr stakes for two-year-olds, 78; the spring stakes for two-year-olds, 76; the June stakes for two- year-olds, 76; the Vernal stakes for fillies, two years old, 71; the Swift stakes for three-year-olds, 62;'the Spindrift stakes for three-year-olds, 4! tue Daisy stakes, 66; the Pansy stakes, the Grass inaugural Stakes, 46, For the autumn meeting, 1894—The Flight stakes for two-year-olds and upward, 1 the September stakes for three-year-olds, 20; the autumn stakes, 75; the Flatbush Stakes for two-year-olds ; the Great Sastern stakes for two-year-olds, 42. Corbett on the Jackson Match. Champion James J. Corbett was seen at ese Hotel Vendome, New York, iast even- ing. He said that he was quite willing to fight Jackson in private, and at short no- , tice at that, say a mouth, but he was sure _that neitner a business man nor the pub- lic could expect him to engage with a man who had ail to gain and nothing to lose, | for a less amount of money than had been |hung up for his contest with Sullivan and | Mitchell. “i am willing to fight Jackson for $30,000 \a side. I will go even further and bet him | $85,000 to $30,000, ‘The twenty-round busi- ness won't do. When I fight Jackson it must be to a finish; that is what 1 will | sign. | “It will be wherever we can arrange to bring off the contest for the largest purse or something like that. In this Jackson | matter 1 have only one desire, and that is to bring off the match. I shall keep my engagements, as I always have, and more than that I think it is unnecessary to say.” The Pennsylvanin-Cornell Race. | The Cornell University crews are train- ing faithfully every day on the inlet of uga lake. Coach Courtney of the Cor- nell navy has decided upon the men who will compose this year’s "Varsity crew. |The following will man the shell, unless unexpected faults are discovered in their rcwing: Freebarn, bow; Robbins, Oo. 2; . 3; Dyer, No. 4; Carver, No. y, No. 6; Shope, No. 7; Hall (captain), roke; substitutes, Hamilton and Strong. A new launch is being constructed, which y for use by the crew early in purtney said that he was satisfied with the arrangement to row the Univer- of Pennsylvania on the Delaware at sdale, near Philadelphia. -- Commodore Brown says it is one of the finest courses in the country. The scheme of making use f snap photographe to find out defects in te men while rowing is proving very pful. The prints are arranged on the lis in the boat house and dated, and these show the progress of the men made day by day. Good Practice for Brooklyn, The Grocklyns played their first real hard practice game of the season when they met the Wilkesbarre club at Eastern Park yes- | terday, The gdme was quiet and exciting | throughou although there siderable difference in the score made by the respective teams. Geo. Sharrot pitched for the Brooklyns and did ex. enuy. The score: Lrooklyn, 11; Wlikesbarre, 2. was con- Harvard in The Harvard first practic afte ts New Sheil. "Varsity crew took its in the new shell yesterday noon. There ‘Were two important anges in the make-up. Waters was put at No. 7 and blake at No. 5. President ke to the latter about the | cbahits wie 2% aie Petersburg post office. During the conver- : ation the President suddenly inuutred of A NeNie meee ve. ntleman the name of the Re ta- tive from the Petersburg district, saying “1 don't remember ever having ‘met te gentleman. imund but Maj. Pe! + Otey of Ly nator Allen Wai st for the h | mun who is known as Fa- munds in his district, is very popular with the agricultural classes, and it is thought he wii! be renominate —_—__ SQUELCHED A CANADIAN SE oR. Fighting Bob Evans’ Method of Deat- ing With a Defiant Lawbreaker. The “R. D, Evans” as having charge of the Violet when that little warship took the President and se retary on their @uck-shooting trip recentiy was “Fighting Bob one of the most popular men in the navy. He is de- scribed by the New York Sun as small, clean shaven and wiry. shorter n the other, -but it does bother him at all in getting about. achieved some prominence in the Mite Corbett meeting, made a good record in Chile, and afterward championed Fred Iay’s cause in New York. One incident in Fighting Bob ns’ career, howeve has not been published heretofore. It v He eil- in Besing sea, where Commander Eva was making a vigorous effort to poaching on the part of Canadian s ktown at He was in command of th the time when a particularly active and joop had given th elusive little Canadian s long nd was in the foggy overhauled, alongside of the sloop she sent a shot across her bow and the skipper of the sloop was seen upon the forward deck, w ed in the Canad finally flag, an . ating violently. Cor mander EB started to eo aboard the sloop, and as he got within e hot the per could be heard denouncing th United States government and biackguard- ing every Yankee that ever drew breath of life with rob enthusi The commander of the Yorktown stepped aboard the sloop, approached the owner nd deman an explanation, The little d-whiskered Ca wrap) up) flag still n nued to hurl v to make his v the clamor of the gzotesque skipper fruitless, n until he w tocping over, picl er fich lying on deck, which ency and pastiness of a ind sharply, landing face of the him and over the Cz 8 fished I the , swung It arc the whiskered, and knocke and flag clean into the sea. Whe e surface he sand landed ¢ . swallowed a £ wian ut by th 1 Jost h we deck. at deal of t water and all of his defiance of the nited States had disappeared. ————_+e- _ -_____ ell B. Peterson of the Wells Ston Mich., who charged ne ny in moving book the com any, Was afternoon, who was announced | One leg is a bit} not) the | From the Detroit Journal. Whe the great and good commodore, David Farragut, was a boy, his father wz a captain on a steamboat on the Mississippi river. David was a bad boy, not that he meant to be bad, but like many other boys, he had got the foolish idea that to swagger about and chew tobacco, to swear and drink, were manly, and that he could not show | himself a man unless he did ik 2 loaf- ers along shore, and some, I fear, on the ship. One day, when he wes about sixteen 8 old, the boat had only just left Mem- phis, going down the river, when his father spoke to him, and wanted to see him above. | He kad been disgusted at seeing the boy | smoking and swaggering about the town, and he thought it was time to teach him a on, es, he loved the boy and was rry to see hi others out of the cabin, he what do you expect to make ? I calcul What! To be kicked and cu port, an | casts, | friend: “No; I mean to tread the quarter-deck, to | be a commander,” said the boy, stung to ick. You a commander, you who drink, who smoke, who s e to follow the sea. a common drunken sailor, 1 about, a loafer in eve: ate of drunkards and cut- grace to your father and idie, vicious and unedueate you have only one thing before you, to stop what you are di and t ght about, or go on and be re drunken sailor.” | The bo: 1 not see the quiver of the old captain’ . hor the moisture gathering in his It was bitter icine to the bo but he knew that the fa 3 words were true, and meant for his good. He pass out without a word and went to his room, choking with indignation and tears. What, he, the captain's son, to be a drunken loaf- er? He made a resolve then and | ther ik off all those bad habits, and jin he said, “iby the grace of God I never have broken my promise.” 2| He lily advanced until he was the glory and pride of the American navy, and boys will find in his history a model hero, whose name is written on the pages of the national record. tee Naval Orders. Lient. C. T. Forse to. duty as steel inspec- ltor at Homeste: Lieut. W. F. Fuiiam, detached from the Naval Academy and or- dered to the Raleigh; Lieut. Geo. H. eters, tetached from the naval intelligence office and ordered to the Raleigh; Constructor J ter, detached from the board of ; Constructor W. H. Varney, to duty the board of surv Passed Assistant gineer G. W. McElroy, to temporary duty on the Alert, and, on ling in with the Concord, to duty on that vessel, re- ssed Agsis gineer Norton; J N detached from Inance instruction ¢ ordered to the bureau of equ y Department, ps. n affairs has ved a dispatch from Capt. Woodson, in of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe asking that the troops e. red to the War making a fool of himself. | , Who play cards, who are | FEASTING COLLEGIANS, A Pleasant Evening in Prospect for the Columbian niversity Alamni. The annual meeting and dinner of the Alumni Association of Columbian Uni- versity will take place this evening at Wil- lard’s Hotel. There is to be a reception, beginning at 7:30, and then at 8:30 o'clock the line of march will be started for the | banquet hall, where the members will en- | joy a dinner. A further feast is to follow when the cigars are lighted, and under the able and inspiring direction of Dr. W. P. Carr, the first vice president, who will be the toast master, speeches, both wise and witty, will be elicited. President Welling will be called on to speak for the faculties of the university, Rev. C. A. Stakiey for the corporation, Judge A. Brown Evans for the academic department, Gen. Greely for the scientific department, Henry 5. Davis for the ‘school of graduate studies, Judge Bradley for the law school, Dr. Sterling Ruffin for the medical school and Dr. Wm. P. Hay for the dental department. an THE CLOSING DAYS. Finishing Up the Distributions at the Candy Show. The candy exposition, which has for two weeks held sway over Washington, ends to- night, The fairyland of sweets will soon be but a pleasant memory. The eager youth and winsome lasses who were wont to wend their way thither will have to seek new paths of amusement, and in the long vista of future generations that eager youth will again wish for free candy and plenty of it when his six best girls all get a phillipena on him at once. The management are very much gratified at the Support which they have received from Washingtonians, and will endeavor in return to make everybody sick tonight with all the candy they can eat | and some to take home. By request of a |number of young people the management have decided to celebrate the close of the exposition tonight wich a dance, beginning at 10 o’oclock. Much of the success of the exposition has been due to the indefatiga- ble efforts of Mr. E. L. Johnson, the super- intendent, who has been in the show busi- ness for twenty years and is brimming over with interesting reminiscences and has had many hairbreadth escapes. The bromo- seltzer people deserve the credit of having made the biggest hit of the exposition in having distributed free nearly 25,000 sheets of popular music, They are to be congratu- lated in having such an enterprising repre- sentative as J. Edgar Lewis, who is, by the way, a Washingtonian, —-—_- Intemperance of Pro! ition. The disagreeable weather last evening was sufficient cause for the small attend- ance at Metzerott Music Hall to hear Miss Kate Field on the “Intemperance of Pro- hibition.” This lady is well known as a lecturer here and needs no commendation. She gave a graphic description of her ex- perience in purchasing some brandy for medicinal use in a prohibition state, and declared the article which was pass¢d cff as brandy to be much worse than could be procured in a license state, The people of the world were classed as men, women and cranks, the latter of either sex, and frequently mistake the liver for the conscience, The’ lecture was mainly a description of the failure of probibitory laws to accom- plish the desired end, with comparisons be- tween such laws and proper licease laws, bw ‘aie being held to be more bene- icial. The abuse and not the use of stimulating beverages was declared to be the point which is harmful, and the substitution of light wines and the milder forms of in- toxicants for the stronger ones the true remedy for the evils of intemperance. —__ Death of John W. Palm John W. Palmoni, who, although only twenty-seven years old, had been an ac- tor and manager for ten years, died yester- day of typhoid pneumonia at the Metropoll- | tan Hotel in New York city. He played in the companies of Frederick Warde and W. 5. Sheridan, and managed Louise Pomeroy as a star. He was last engaged as man- ager of the “Power of Gold,” which closed ils Season in Philadelphia a month ago. His body was brought to Washington this morning by his brother, Mr. Cripti Palmoni, Pfeiffer, No, 408 M street northwest, where the funeral will take place tomorrow af- ternoon at 2 o'clock. The interment will be at Rock Creek cemetery. Mr. Palmoni Was a native of Washington and had many friends here, who will be greatly grieved at his sudden death. He was a young man of many estimable qualities and promised to acquire a high standing in the profes- sion he had selected. He had already de- veloped great managerial ability, having handled all of Walter Sanford’s attrac- tions, and at the time of his death was resident manager of the Star Theater, Brooklyn. He had a wide circle of friends in the profession. + Cobble Stones and Other Impositions. To the Editor of The Evening Star: A good deal has been said in your paper recently on the subject of home rule, but it has all been in regard to the appointment of an outsider to one of the District offices. That is all right, and I hope more will be said. I am surprised, though, at the sub- mission of the people to the impositions street railroads, impositious on the people on some streets, while those on other streets are exempt. Look at Sth and G streets from New York avenue to 15th street. Two tracks, leaving barely room for _a team to stand between car and curb, and if the wagon or carriage is not hauled close to the curb or if the team moves a little the track is obstructed, so that cars have to be stopped until the vehicle is straightened. One of those tracks should be on 6th and more double tracks allowed, the avenves or wide stree: Why don’t some company want a ne on K ‘street? There's room enough there. But they won't profit hy experience. Look at G street between 4th and 5th and 5th south of G! Double track in both those narrow streets, and they are paving them with cobble stones! This is an outrage on the people of this city. After being except on » like K street. kept clean, to allow any one, especially a rallroad corporation, the stock of which is held and the profits of which go to out- | siders, to do such things. Why, language | 1s not strong enough to denounce it. And why do they want tracks paved with cob- ble stones on New York avenue and in Eckington? Not for the reason that the and G streets? No more horse car lines should be allowed. If it pays to run a road it will pay to run it right, and all should be compelled to bulld for cable or underground trolley or not at all. Now, why are these impositions and outrages | allowed? You have my thanks and, I doubt not, those of a large majority’ of our people for your continued opposition to the overhead trolley, and I hope you | will use some of your time and influence in opposition to the disfigurements of our | smooth street: SUBSCRIBER. — ee Legend of the Bastille, Prof. de Garennes, a graduate of the University of Paris. delivered a lecture in | French on the “Legend of the Bastille” | yesterday at the Washington College, No. 1704 Q street northwest. The reoms were tastefully draped in the national colors and | the speaker hel? the attention of his au- | diters until last word was uttered. | He was introduced bv Mr, Lucien Collier. | Among those who attended were Mrs. Con- Smith, the M Brewer, Col. and | Mrs. Colton, Prof. Luciea Collier, Mrs, Robey, Gen! ant Mrs. Hooker, Richard Muloney, Mrs. Tayl M. Cnlp, Col, and Mrs. E. B. Byington, Secretary end rs. Hoke Smith, Miss Morton, Senor Muruaga, the Spanish minister; Dr! Loho of the Venezuelan lega- 8 Clarke. Miss ——— Real Estate Matters, G. H. Shoulters has purchased of G. H. La Fetra, for $120,000, lots 13 and U4, and |part 15, square 222-62 feet 2 inches front jon H between 14th and 15th streets north- | west. | W. C. Longnecker has bought, for $10,000, } part of Congneror Defeat- “ 2 roods and 21 perches, on taway road. G. H. La Fetra has bought of G. H. ‘houlters, for $60,000, subs 1 and naa Test of Steel Plate, There was a test of three-inch Harveyized nicke! grounds yesterday, The plate represented a lot of 155 tons of armor intended for the Rrooklvn. The test wae very successful and was taken to the residence of Mr. | the Commissioners allow by some of the} H streets and no/| taxed to put the best and most expensive | pavements in our streets, which can be | Metropolitan, Columbia and Belt lines | were allowed it—to give horses a etter | focting. Or why do they want it on 5th! tion, Senor Zeballos. the Argentine min-, | Zeballos, M. de Peralto of | : . Mearcial, A. Martinez, Mrs. Powell and Mrs. C. K. Davis. steel plate at Indian Head proving | A Natural Food. Conditions of the system arise when ordinary foods cease to build fiesh— there is urgent need of arrest- ing waste—assistance must come quickly, from natural feod source. Scatt's Emulsion is @ condensation of the life of all foods—it is cod-liver oil reinforced, made easy of digestion, and almost as palatable as milk. Prepared by Scott & Bowne. N.Y. All dmericts, rr er ——_____ What to Do With Coxey’s Army. To the Editor of The Evening Star: In your editorial of last night you ask “What shall be done with ‘Coxey’s army’ when it arrives, in case there are large ad- Gitions to the present contingent?” You ask a remedy. Without going into too much detail I think a few suggestions J may make, although they may not imeet with the approval of the members of the “Peace unions” and national arbitration societies, will nevertheless show a sure way to give the “army” somewhat more active werk than at present engaged in and re- move the idle from our midst on short no- tice. That the invasion of any section of the country by a large number of unemployed men, no matter how peacefully they may presume to be, is fraught with danger is without question. These men are human and must eat in order to live, and it goes without saying hunger is a desperate toe to deal with. To be brief, the outcome of this question looks and smacks very sauch like revolution, and that means civil strife, the most terrible of all. In the present condition of the country’s Jal classes it needs but very little smoké to cover up a smoldering fire from which a conflagra- tion may develop, the end of which none — God alone a Napoleon avoided civil strife when threa’ ened by employing the discontented in h: armies and relieved the country by setting them at war with his neighbors. It re- lieved matters until times ‘and the people became contented. It will take the country from one to two years after @ tariff bill is passed to get its industries fitted to it; im the meantime thousands are suffering for the necessaries of life and nothing to be gained thereby. We have got to suffer; let us have a glory with it to make it less monotonous. W have had share of “hauling down the flag” in ‘past year. Let us do some “histing up of Old Giory” and when we get her up “nail her to the mast” and “shoot the first fman who attempts to haul it down.” Cuba has long to be free; why not free her? Hawaii stands with outstretched hands waiting for our erasp of friendship. Why not proceed to grasp? England, in her control of the Bermudas, ts a standing menace té our eastern seaboard and we might practice a little on “Twisting the British lion's tail” by scooping them in. England might ob- ject, but she has “objected” before, and it did her no good. Canada loves us dearly and might aiso be invited to the feast. When Peary gets to the north pole we might accept that too, and if he raises the stars and stripes up there we have at least the consolation of knowing Cleveland would have @ hard time getting some one to go up and “haul it down!” You say all this would bring international complica- tions! Well, that’s nothing new. We have had them for a year and are beginning to get used to it. We might lose a few lives, but there is more fun to be got cut of dying with your boots on in front of the enemy than there is passing in your checks in bed from starvation. The more compli- | cations we get the more men we will nead | to employ. Every workshop, mill and tn- | dustry in the country would be staried up inside of thirty days. Our seaboard cities would become patriotic enough to pay for all the fortifications needed to protect them without government help, or pay toll f | their shiftiessness. Our regular army would be in other occupations than | dress “Maybe not as but” more ivening at any rate. tramps would have no excuse for such methods of gaining a livelihood. We eg or thirst wou! a to pede gm 3g Ek TAN termine their status and the strength of the “armor plate.” English ships have stolen all our “carrying trade” and we | will be able to see if the “American liners’ would be able to catch them and. brin them back to us, .Above all, it woul create a diversion for the members of the House and givé thera chance to do-wons enuire filibustering” and the “Sight- weights” a chance to distinguish tem- selves, In fact, all the conditions are ripe for a- first-class scrap, and from the fact that thirty years has not smodthe? out | the ruffies of the last unpleasantness among ourselves, while only a few days’ | rest suffice to cool our heated brows after a litle fracas with an outsider, besides giving us something to crow about, ft is | my candid opinion that if we are to have | war it would be far better to take our °p out of some one else's hide than to have a free-for-all among ourselves. | As a remedy for the ills you complain it the above “ideas. rsaecas E. A. BRYANT. —_———_— jow to Treat the Coxeyites. To the Editor of The Evening Star: How to deal with the Coxey army ts a per plexing problem for which various solutions | are being discussed by the citizens of Wach- | ington. As {t appears to me, the authorities of the city are going to make a serious mis- | take if they adhere to the policy they seem | to be acting on at present. Monday's Ster reports Prosecutor Pugh as saying that “the police, and, if necessary, the militia and the United States forces, are perfectly w id able to protect the people of the Distri: From present appearances such language | Seems extravagant. Coxey snd his army may not be a mole hill, but they are certaine | ly not such a mountain as the prosecutor's language would indicate. | It strikes me the citizens and the author- | ities of Washington should treat Coxey and ‘his followers in a manner the reverse of that indicated by the prosecutor's lan- | suage. Wouldn't it be better to treat the | a8 visitors, welcome them, and give them the freedom of the city? Will it not be bet- | ter to act on the presumption that the so- \ called army is simply a delegation of citi- zens from other parts of the country, who have a perfect right to visit the nation’s capital on business of their own? It is well enough, even in a police court, te presume a man is innocent until he is proved guilty, The advantages of the treatment I propose may be briefly stated as follows: 1. By treating the army as a delegation of visitors the city will put them on their | good behavior and reduce all danger of dis- | turbance to a minimum. | 2. If, after such a reception, the members of the army should abuse the confidence and hospitality of the citizens, ‘public opinion | will uphold the authorities in taking radical measures of protection. On the other hand, if the army is received as a band of dan- \ gerous characters, public sympathy will be | with them, and prosecution will be looked as persecution. nat the Coxeyites are treated as T sus- gest the authorities will, I believe, have the assistance of its leaders and rs in protecting the people against wie of thieves and thugs, which ts likely to swoop | down on the city under co the army's visit. If the leaders of the army pursue the same course here as they are reported to be pursuing on their march, they will re- pudiate all dangerous characters who may |try to use the army as a their | nefarious practices, and will nue thorities in ridding the city of such charac- ters. |““Many will no doubt of treatment the elty w visits in future. if the author! with the visi importance arouse for the army lions who now view th ference, and bring: to th date, instead of a pe ; gm hundred, an army of a hundred thous angry and determined m Better meet the Coxey band than with a patrol wacon, give them bread and coffee than hat a Better treat them as fellow-citizens, unud they prove themselves criminals. Ss PDWIN THOR STON