Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1894, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR FUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT suNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, me I Evening Stas jn oar cas hie 4 8.H. KAUYMANN reve, : Now York Office, 88 Potter Building, “Saturday a “Seca at Sa ho mee (Bntered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., “EE Ait mal meristems ast be pad tn adrance Rates of advertising made known on application AMUSEMENTS. ENTERTAINMENT BY_THE POPULAR _ Linthicum Students, Linthicum Hail, 0 st. det. and ee RIDAY EVENING, Sbaigtad'S seek “Wapigre "ay SELUKNOwN Locay. . MISSION, 25 CENTS. DANCING. Grand Concert. ANTON KASPAR, PHILHARMONIC ALPLNE FOUNDRY M. CHURCH, ‘PRAY, AVRIL TWENTIETH, 1804, ‘AT 8 P.M. ission, 33 cents. cel ‘Tickets on sale at Metzerott’s. apld-2t° Base Ball CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES TODAY AND TOMORROW, Washington vs. Phila. Game called at 4:30 pm, aplo-ct Admission 25 and SOc. CADEMY. PRICES 25, 50, 75 AND $1. Mat. Saturday. Mat. prices: 25, 50 and Se. LAST TIMES OF THE LAUGHING SUCCESS, Greet and shout, Yell and scream at ‘The Queen WENNIB TEAMANS AND THE ORIGINAL COM- PANY. NEXT WEEK, _SEATS SELLING. aplo-tt_ @upaven's. ‘2 and LAST WEEK. Me Lat A Crowds ‘cverywhere J of Comedies, Daniel Frohman’s Lyceum Comedy Company tn EVENINGS ATS LAST MATINEE SATURDAY. Black Crook. Stage Direction of LAWRENCE McCARTY. LAST OF THE—— Gorgeous Ballets, Grand Marches, Huge Scenery, Startling Specialties. Almost a complete change this week in Ballets, Songs, Dances, Marches and Music. _ Commencing woxdar, April 2Ba Engagement of M. MOUNET-SULLY Of the Comedie Francaise, Time. SEGOND-WEBER Of the Comedie Francaise, AND COMPLETE COMPANY, Under the direction of ABBEY, SCHOEFFEL & GRAU. Monday, April 23. -HAMLET mesday. April 24. OEDIPE-ROT ednesday, April 25. RUY BLAS Thursday, April 26. -HERNANI Seats on Sale at the Box P1S-tf Prices, B0c., $1, $1.50, $2 Masonic Temple, THURSDAY, APRIL 19. GRAND ENTERTALNMENT, Mr. Edgar Emerson, WONDERFUL TEST MEDIUM, Ofain attraction.) Followed by dancing and refreshments. a Ee. SHARP. ADMISSION, r and $2.50. Be. re, Che Fpening Slav. = > AMUSEMENTS. DRAMATIO ENTERTAINMENT, Under auspices of THB ORDWAY RIFLES, - By the OAFITAL CITY DRAMATIO COMPANY, NATIONAL RIFLES’ ARMORY, THIS (THURSDAY) EVENING aT 8 P.M. Program will include “WITHERED LEAVES,” “a PAIR OF LUNATICS” and “CROCODILE ae ADMISSION, 25 CENTS. Metzerott Music Hall. , FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 20. Lena Louise Kleppisch. 4 BEAUTIFUL LECTURB, Dilustrated by 70 Stereopticon Views, On Celebrated Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Prices, 25, 50 and TS cents. Now on sale at Metzerott’s, BN J Cc. Samuel . Ja Mrs. Stanley Brown, Miss Davidge. can be Miss Waite, 1616 R. L Mrs. Haseltine, T st; Mrs. 1721 X James Miss Afleen 1517 85th at. 8, Metzerott’s and Brentano's. BANJO. BANJO.—A TRIAL LESSON PREB. Banjo quickly and correctly taught by note or ited method; only $7 per quarter. I guar- antes to teach the most unuusical person to play a Derfect tune euch lemon by my simple method or no charge. Par! pen from a.m. unt 9 pm. GRURGE DEABUER, 604 K st. nw. apli-Im LECTURES. “PAGAN TESTIMONY TO THE TRUTH: Revelation."" Mr. lus Bray, Y. M. Parlors, FRIDAY, April 20, 1804, at 8 p. lustrated by raphs thrown’ on sereen;_in- teresting and Tnstractive, Admission freeapis-$t EXCURSIONS, _éc: TALLY HO COACH LINE DAILY, 10 AM. TO 9 . 2 P.m., from 511 13th st.—Arlington, Cabin J. B. and all points of interest. Trip, 60 to T5c, Finest Tally Ho on earth. No cars to Ari! fel9-3m* ELECTRIO RAI. ROUTE TO MOUNT VERNON, Passing over the famous Long Bridge, in view of Arlington, t the principal streets of Alex- andria Christ Church, where Washington e Marshall House, where Col. Bltw- killed; Gen. Braddock’s headquarters, Washington Lodge, and other historic places, thence south, you traverse the high bluffs, giving @ beautiful ‘view of Maryland and tLe Potomac River for miles; you then enter the Washington estate, 7.600 acres (with ancient and revolutionary wl ‘hrough four miles to mansions), you run tl the gate of mansion and tomb. ‘The only route giving an opportunity all points for the tourist, and tukes but for the round trip; no delays; no smoke . RR. station, 9:45, 10:57, of Aig on 3 mo dust. Also Alexandria Ferry, foot 80, 11:30 a.m., 12:30,” 1:30 ington to Mt. Vernon and re ‘of FOR CABIN JOHN BRIDGE-STEAM LAUNCH Florence will make two trips, Sundays only. Bout leaves 32d st. canal at 0 a.m. 2:30 pom Boat for charter for the Great Falls and Upper ¢ at reasonable rates. engineer Be 420 Lith st ewe, oF J. MANCONNIEN. 10T3 324 st. nw. mh22tu, th&s-3mo ALONE IN CENTRAL AFRICA. (Adventures and Experiences In the German Colonies. POPULAR LECTURE OF GEOGRAPHICAL Bink BUILDERS’ EXCHANGE, SICKETS, 50 CENTS, AT BUILDERS’ EXCHANGE. p< DE METZEROTT’S MUSIC HALL, THURSVAY, APRIL 26, 1894, 8 O'CLOCK, EEE WASHINGTON MASK AND WIG CLUB MIKADO. N. DUSHANE CLOWARD, DIRECTOR, ‘ UNDER THE AUSPICES OF ‘THE LEGION OF LOYAL WOMEN. “Reserved seats, $1.50 and $1, at Metserott's, ‘W110 F st. aw. apis-st ADMISSION, 50 CENTS. NwW NATIONAL THEATER. COGHLAN, (And the Great Coghlan Company, Oscar Wilde's Latest r. .A Woman of No Importance he Wallack ‘Theater’ Soecese, Forget-Ile-Not. Het Howeresl ARISTOCRACY, Bi ‘TS NOW ON STEAMER MACALESTER TO MOUNT VERNON. Daily (except Sunday), At 10 a.m., returning by 2:45 p.m. FARE, ROUND TRIP, 50 CENTS. Admission to grounds, 25 cents. ‘Tickets. with Mount Vernon admission coupon, for sale at wharf and at hotels. Will also make river landings as far as Glymount, stopping for freight and passengers both ways. For charters, &e., apply at office of Steamer Macalester. sels LL. BLAKE, Capt. AMUSEMENT HALL. FOR RENT—BY THE DAY, NIGHT, WEEK OR month, Odd Fellows’ Hall, ou 7th st. between D and B sts. n.w.; largest staged hall in the city; with ante rooms supper room attached. Suitable for balls, concerts, tainmets of all kinds. Parties desiring first- class, centrally located hall at moderate rental will ‘fnd it to their advantage to call for terms on WALTER A. BROWN, 1423 Pa. ave. Great reduction in rent until fall. mb21-3m EDUCATIONAL. IN WASHINGTON. ¥. M. C. A. BUSINESS SCHOOL.—EVENING SES- ‘sons; ‘ical education; thorough instruction; commercial arithmetic, bookkeeping, stenography, typewriting, algebra,’ geometry, lish, maaship, mechanical and architectual exhibit of work in parlors during this Young men and others cali and examine; member- Ship in the association entitles to one year’s tuition, ¥. M. C. A., 1409 New York ave. aw. apl8-4t Gunston Institute. Jal6-6mo Mr. and Mrs. B. R. MASON. Asaph Junction, Va. Information ‘recet GENTLEMEN'S DRIVING PARK, NEAR | ST. Trains leave B. and P. depot at 11:50 a.m., 1:50 and. 3 28 pm. 15 minutes to driving park. api e Convention Hall, @™7,) 4, BVERY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT THIS WEEK. 0. H. BUTLER, Manager. PIDWAY 52%, Includes Admission to Hall, G Plaisance. {iiss | vunem, ADMISSION Turkish Theater, pe Chinese Theater, HALL File Streets im Cairo, AND U Moorish Maze, SIDE 2 Old Vienna sHOWwSs, : And MATES) PHAM, HAGENBECK’S 2Se. to all shows. CIRCUS. ‘Thousands of People visit the Big Hall to see WASHINGTON HEIG! ENGLISH AND FRENCH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. 1850 Wyoming ave.. cor. 19th st. api8-3m Miss FRANCES MARTIN, Principal. PRIVATE LESSONS IN FRENCH GIVEN BY A competent French professor. Address 2422 K st. BO re me: ae ___ apls+ ZRT STUDENTS’ LEAGUE_NINTH SEASON Studio classes during May—Antique day and evening. Get of Goer clasece tn olls ond water colors. For cirevlars, send to 808 17th st. n.w. LANGUAGES. THE BERLITZ SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, 723 14th st. ow. Branches {n the principal American and European cities. all Also hool at Asbury Park, COLUMBIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, 900 K st. n.w.—Piano, harmony. &e. Evening lessons if desired. EDWIN HART. Principal,from New Eng- lund Conservatory of Music, Boston. ap0-18t® PROF, GRADUATE LEIP- theory; vole culture, w. ‘organ and ‘system, based on psychological law: guar: Whis great show nizbtly. Gnices absolute perfection of training. 1305 “12th DON'T FAIL TO COME. apit-st | St mw eS om is64-—_S pPEARE'S BIRTHDAY.——1894| ACME PHONOGRAPHY.—LEARN THE EASIEST ee ‘and best system of shorthand. Proficiency reach- Carroll Institute ed in from 2 to 3 months. Oidest exclusively Dramatic Club, DPnder the direction of Mr. Vincent E. Lyuch, in an entertainment ‘n honor of THE BARD OF AVON, fonday Evening, APRIL 23, 1804, WARROLL INSTITUTE HALL, 10th st. near K. Scenes im Costume from BoM \ULLET. Tae ate ANT OF VENICE. TWELFTH NIGHT. an LIUS CAES. § ae a. | AMLET. Music by the Carroll institute Orchestra. conta. p16-6t KERNAN’S LYCEUM THEATER. ALL THIS WEEK. ——THE FAMOUS! THE FAVORITE!_— RENTZ SANTLEY NOVELTY AND BURLESQUE COMPANY. Company of Peerless Stars! a ialty Acts It Mr-Glenngic SPoment Vaudeville Stars—20 30-Bright Burlesque Artists—80 Next week—THE CITY SPORTS BIG SHOW. a16-6t Shorthand and tspewriting school in city. ACME SCHOOL OF PHONOGRAPHY, 1110 F st. 2. mh27-1m* GAILLARD SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, and bal method, indorsed by the lead- New met “ "america. original educators of France, England aud 1-im COLUMBIA COLLEGE OF COMMERCE, 623 La. ave., bet. Gth and 7th sts. n.w. ‘The leading Highest attainable ines grade of instruction at moder ate cost. Catalogue. 026 ITT, RMONT AVE. N.W., PIANO AND HARMONY. 21. THE JANKO KEYBOARD, Woop's Cog COLLEGE AND SCHOOL = Rates reduced. Call or write for circular. WHITTINGHAM INST., TAKOMA PARK, D.C, A boarding and day school for young ladies and children. Full graduating course in English, Rate languages, &c. Miss ROSS, Prin. mh19-3m GEO. W. LAWRENCE, Director Mt. Vernon Choir VOICE CULTURE AND PIANO. Studio: 1003 ¥th st. n.w. Weak voices special- Examination free. Very low terms. Hours 9 to 7. *HARRIS" THEATER. Week of April 16 Matinees Tuesiay, Thursday and Saturday. ABLOTT & TILLOTSON’S Great production of NIOBE. 190 laughs in 180 minutes. Next Week—Vlorence Bindly in The Pay Train. aoleds PRACTICAL EDUCATION. 1804, Eighteen years of successful teaching in Washington have made the principal a well-known and trusted teas Full business course, day or night, $25 a year. The typewriting and shorthand course, $15. Letter writin: bookkeeping, arithmetic ship and all business subjec 1876. Send for announcement, IVY INSTITUTE BUSI- NESS COLLEG ‘W. cor. 8th K sts. p.w. ‘apt-4m* a FLYNN, A. M., Principal. Shorthand and Typewriting, 407 Hast Capitol ‘Young people of good character of both sexes elcome. itions sécured. Day and «vening WASHINGTON, D. 0. THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1894-TWELVE PAGES. | ' EDUCATIONAL. IN WASHINGTON, WHO HAS TAUGHT SUCCESSFULLY, few pupils at home, to whom she will jd adupt her teach- of tl pupil; references W., 2212 Host. pw.’ aply-ste BLOCUTION ACTING “AND ORATORY | PUPILS Atted for the parlor rostrum ant dramatic stage, Apply to AGN NES BURROUGHS, Directress, api9-8t* Ti2 10th st. nw. ng hg NY tf al in F — and time apy At I~ ap! MME. TAYLOR, OPERATIC TEACHER, HAS had eight years’ experience in New York ‘city in placing the yolce correctly for operas and certs. 516 11th st. nw. ___ap3-Im* FRENCH TAUGHT TO BE SPOKEN AND UN. derstood; new classes of all grades now form. ing; good pronunciation; private lessous if de- V. PRUD'HOMME, 307 D st. n.w. ap2-1m* MISS BALCH’S CIVIL SERVICE INSTITNTS AND 10th n.w. Pupils prey , departmental and _fe ati Stenography taught. se2-tr MRS ALICE SWAIN HUNTER, STUDIO 1316 N GD. Prpit of Leouce Prevost, Bitore Barlll, . ce . MOUNT VERNON SEMINARY, ‘M and 1th sts, Poarhing and Day Scheol for Young La@ies and ve Tioroush modern and progressive in meth- ve met ods and spirit. secondary and colle- te classes. ela term February 1. Sins. “SEZs BETH'S. “soMMERs, Principal. Spring jad-tt Norwood Institute, 14TH STREET AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, oc80 Mr. upd Mrs. W. D. CABELL, Principals SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. Annual Meeting of the National So- etety at Annapolis Today. This morning at 10 o'clock the steamer Lancaster left Baltimore for Annapolis, having on board the representatives of the General Society of the Sons of the Revola- tion, which holds its annual meeting today. The applications for admission of the newly-formed societies in Ohio, Connecticut, California, North Carolina, Illinois, Mis- souri and Alabama will be considered, and they will doubtless be admitted. Such other business as may come up will be attended to, and then the delegates will be shown the Chase mansion and the Naval Academy. The naval cadets will receive them on the grou On the return trip Secretary of the Navy Herbert, Gov. Brown, Capt. R. L, Phythian, United States navy, commandant of the Naval Academy, id Lieut. L. L. Reamey, United States navy, naval aid to Secretary Herbert, will be the guests of the society at a banquet to be served on board the Lancaster. The District of Columbia representatives went over to Baltimore this morning over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, at 9:05 o'clock. The delegates include army of- ficers, clergymen, a bishop, lawyers, phy- siclans and merchants. The local delegates are Gen. W. B. Roch- ester, United States army; C. G. Lee, Capt. C.W.Whipple, United States army; Thomas Blagden and Admiral Jas, R. Greer, United States navy. HENRY 8. IVES DEAD. The Napoleon of Finance Passes Away at Asheville, N. C. Henry 8. Ives, the “Napoleon of Finance,” died at Asheville, N. C., Tuesday night. Mr. Ives reached there about two months ago from Florida in an almost dying condition and hardly left his bed since. He leased a splendid residence in the suburbs and lived quietly with his wife and a few servants. The cause of death was consumption, ‘When the failure of Henry S. Ives & Co. was announced a few years ago it was learned from the schedule filed by the assignee of the firm that Ives had been able to pile up Mabilities aggregating $17,666,175, while the actual assets in sight only footed up to $11,122,016. The failure created a great sensation, and while there was talk at the time of criminal prosecution, the im- pression gradually became general that the scandal would be allowed to die out. In the following year criminal proceedings were, however, begun against Ives by Ju- lius Dexter of Cincinnati, president of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad. It was charged that Ives had $889,500, of which he ts said to have misappropriated $100,000. Ives was arrested and was held in $25,000 bail at the Tombs police court in New York. He was convicted and served a term in prison, ——__++-____ A WILD MAN AT THE ALTAR. le Startles People at Prayers in a Philadelphia Church. A madman, stripped to his shirt, and standing in front of the altar wildly threat- ening any one approaching him, caused con- sternation among a dozen or so men and women who were saying their prayers yes- terday afternoon in St. Joseph's Catholic Church at Philadelphia. The man entered * the church unnoticed, and entering one of the confessionals, removed all his clothing but his shirt. With a cry that startled every one he ran down the aisle, and taking @ stand before the altar he began to break the ornaments and overturn the statues. When the sexton of the church attempted to approach him, the lunatic picked up a bell and hurled it at him. An officer wi: found, and he succeeded in taking the man into custody. ‘The man was unable to give any account of himself, and answered all inquiries by et eo He was taken to a hos- Pil ——__+s- Ernest Knabe’s Death. Ernest Knabe, the piano manufacturer, who died in Baltimore on Tuesday, had been in ill health for two years. His father was William Knabe, the German Piano maker, who went to Baltimore in 1883, and four years later began the manu- facture of pianos with Henry Gaehle, under the firm name of Knabe & Gaehle. In 1854 the firm name became William Knabe & Co. At the age of twenty-one years Ernest became a member of the firm of William Knabe & Co. His father died in 1864, On the death of William Knabe, sr., in 1864, the business was taken up and con- tinued under the same name by Ernest and William Knabe, sons of the deceased, and Charles Keidel, his son-in-lgw. His life was not supposed to be in imme- diate danger until within the last few weeks, when his family began to realize that death could not be far off. Mr. Knabe was at the ware rooms of the firm on Friday last, and from there he went to the manufactory and remained an hour or two, This was the last time he left his home, for after returning there he gradu- ally sank until he died. When the end came his sons Ernest and William, his sis- ter, Mrs. Charles Keidel; his cousins, Miss Emma Riemann and Mr. Ferdinand Rie- mann, and nis physician, Dr. Hemmeter, were by his side. He had been unconscious since Monday night, and during the last hours he simply sank into a sleep that end- ed in death. —_—_+e+_____ David Dudley Field’s Will. Justice Stephen J. Field of the United States Supreme Court, filed, at New York yesterday afternoon, for probate, the will of his brother, David Dudley Field. The will was received by Probate Clerk Wash- bern, It was executed May 22, 1890, and at- tached are two codicils. In one the testator appoints Robert M. Galloway trustee, in place of Field's brother, Cyrus W. Field, + who died since the will was made. Most of the estate, whose value is not stated, is sett to his daughter, Lady Musgrave, and her children. To the town of Stockbridge, Mass., where, he says, so many of his an- cestors are buried, he gives $5,000, so that the town graveyard, where his ancestors lle, may be kept in order and the bell in the belfry, which he erected, may be tolled once each day. He gives $5,000 to his native town of Haddam, Conn., so that the Field parks may be kept in order. He explained the absence of other public bequests by say- ing: “I have, during my life, given so much in that way that my fortune has become peuman- | only~ what seems to be sufficient for the | support of my daughter and her children in the manner to which they have been ac- customed.” A POINTER. ‘The circulation of The Star is greater than that of all the other ‘Washington dailies combired, and is believed to be five times that of its afternoon contemporary. A sworn detailed statement of circu- lation is printed each Saturday, TRC PUBLIC WARDS Two Plans of Providing for Depend- ent Children, WORK THAT OFFERS LARGEST RETURNS Caring for Them Before They Reach the Criminal Stage. ——__>+—— PUBLIO GUARDIANSHIP Written for The Evening Star. During the year 1874 the national prison congress held its annual meeting in the city of St. Louis, and throughout its ses- sions much importance was attached to the value of work among children before they had reached the criminal stage. lt was generally conceded by all who discussed the question before the congress that pre- ventive work offered the largest returns for the outlay and must supplant, if ef- fectual work is to be done, reformatory agencies. The published proceedings of that con- gress contain a brief notice of the establish- ment of the Michigan State Public School, from which we quote the words of the sec- retary, Hon. E. C. Wines, whose life we ever associated with the best efforts build up truer systems of reform, and still a nobler humanity in dealing with ul conditiohs of misfortune and depravity, and whose name must ever awaken sentiments of profound regard in the mind of every American philanthropist. After quoting a section of the law, which declared that the object of the institution was to provide a temporary home only for children until homes can be secur for them in private families, he said: “The school is established on the family plan, with cottages for thirty inmates each. It is a charity of a novel kind, from which the very best results may be looked for. Michi- gan seems to be taking the lead of her sister states in social reforms, and it wouid not be strange, as things look, if she should take precedence of all others in establish- ing model systems of prison discipline, and of preventive and reformatory work. May |she have many imitators in her good | ways.” These words were spoken three before the first child was received at this novel institution. Whatever may have | been the hopes of founders, experience alone can determine results. ‘The Michigan Experiment. At the meeting of the American Social | Science Association in the city of Detroit, in May, 1875, Gov. John J. Bagley of Michi- gan said, speaking of the state work for dependent children, as authorized by the act of the legislature establishing the state public school, with its active placing out system and careful official supervi- sion of children after their settlement in private homes: “What a noble work for @ state to engage in; reaching out a hand not heavy and restraining, clothed in iron mail, but gentle and tender, clasping inno- cent children and holding them out to its citizens as their brothers and sisters.” A statement of the conditions because of which this public agency for the rescue of children was needed seems to be here de- marded. There were at that time in the alms houses of the state of Michigan about 600 children under sixteen years of age, exposed to the moral contagion emanating from adult paupers, and costing the people of the commonwealth, in round numbers, $50,000 per year. The numbers of such de- perdent were increasing more rapidly than the gereral population. The experience of older and more populous statés with differ- ent methods of meeting this need was any- thing but encouraging. The population of the state was 1,500,000 and the ratio of de- pendent children to population was one to 2,500. The annual cost of their support in the alms houses was $3.33 per 100 of the Population. In 1890, after sixteen years of work on | the lines laid down in 1874, there were in |the state public school 200 children, and in |the poor houses, diseased and idiotic chil- dren and those inadmissible from other causes, about 100, making in all not more than 300 supported at public expense. By this showing there was in 1800 one de- pendent child (including feeble-minded) in each 7,000 of the population, the aggregate expense had fallen from $50,000 to $42,500 ($35,000 for maintenance of the state public school and $7,500 for diseased, idiotic and inadmissible children) and the cost per 100 of the population had fallen from $3.33 to $2.07, including all classes. During — this period the population of the state had in- creased over 50 per cent. Considering only those usually classed as dependent children, this shcwing would be one child supported at public expense to each 10,000 of the pop- ulation. The Example Followed. ‘Lhis record being made in Michigan could not long go unnoticed, and in 1885 Minne- sota and Wisconsin organized their work for dependent children on precisely the same lines, and it has in each of those states been fully approved by governors and legislators up to the present time. At the end of five years there were in the state of Minnesota 593 children under pub- He guardianchip, 457 of whom were self- supporting and 136 supported at public ex- pense. The report for the last fiscal year showed an average of 524 wards of the state during that year, and the total cost of the maintenance of those in the state institution and the supervision of those in private homes was $25,105, or $47.93 per child, or at the rate of $1.92 per 100 of the population of the state. Wisconsin had 500 in free, private homes and 210 in the state institution, and made a correspondingly favorable financial show- ing. Rhode Island enrolled herself in the same line of preventive work in 1885, and at the close of 1891 had 218 children under public guardianship, one-half of whom were self- supporting in free, private homes. Massachusetts has a pecullar system all her own, but the domesticating of children in the homes of her people has found no less earnest approval there than in the northwest. In 1882 the number of children placed in private homes under public au- thority from the State Primary School at kept in the institution. In 1887 it had arisen to 60 per cent and in 1892 it was 140 per cent. The Bostonians recognize an ad- vantage when one is placed before them, Beginning this work tentatively they in- creased it 20 per cent during the first five years of the decade under consideration and four times as fast during the second five years. A Striking Contrast. In striking contrast with such work as has been here described has been the prac- tice in other states, notably New York, Cali- fornia and the District of Columbia, where the dependent children have been cared for in private and sectarian esylums supported more or less fully by a,propriations from the public treasury. In 1875, about two years after the enact- ment of the Michigan law establishing a state temporary home, a law went into ef- | fect in New York which provided that chil- jdren should be committed to institutions controlled by persons of the same religious | denomination as their parents, and that the county should pay their board. ‘Under this ‘law the number of children supported by |New York county alone was swelled from | 9,862 in 1875 te 16,358 in 1890, this statement |including only the twenty-aine institutions |which can demand and do receive public | money toward their support. Some of them which have come into existence since it was passed were directly created by that law. It provided exactly the care which parents desired for their children, that of persons of the seme religious faith as themseives, and supplied ample means for the chil- | dren’s support. Although the funds were derived from public sources, yet the institu- tions were managed by private persons, and the stigma which unfortunately attaches to public relief was wholly removed. Thus Monson was 40 per cent of the number | every incentive to parents to place their children in an institution was created and every de! it removed. The law demand- ed rothing from the it in return for the port of his child and did not deprive him of any of his rights over the child, al- ee ie relieving him of every duty to- ward it.” Five years after the passage of this law, Kings county, seeing whither it would lead, had itself relieved to some extent by se- curing the enactment of a special law re- lating to that county, which provided that no children should be admitted to institu- tions to be supported at public expense ex- cept upon commitment by the commission- ers of charities and corrections, and giving to those commissioners power to bind out or apprentice any child upon his arrival at a certain age. This had the effect indicated by universal experience, and the ratio of de- pendent children in Kings county and the ceity of Brooklyn fell from one in every 405 of the population in 1880 to one in every 745 in 1888, while in New York county, under conditions otherwise exactly similar, the apie reached one dependent child to every i of the population in 1888, and the tax upon the people of the city of New York for the support of children in asylums reached a dollar a head for every man, woman and child in the city. California’s Experience. The experience of California with public subsidies to private institutions has been almost equally dreary, and all attempts to change the matter come to naught. When an attempt was made to get some state control of the institutions supported by the state through the creation of a board of charities and corrections, two gentlemen went to Sacramento and in one- half day convinced the committee in charge of the bill that it ought to pass, and it Was reported favorably, but the report melted away under the opposition of those interested in the effect of such a law on sectarian institutions, and the bill was never heard of again. So it is still the case that for the present biennial period that Magnificent st’ e, with all the advantages of perpetual syring and unparalleled nag- ural resources, will hand over to private Individuals and close corporations more than half a million dollars for the support of more than four thousand children sup- posed to be dependent. The gathering to- gether of children into sectarian asylums presupposes the purpose of influencing them In the direction of that sect, and it is worthy of note that had the plan been de- vised for the purpose of increasing the number of the faithful of any particular denomination when supported by public subsidies it would have been found perfectly adapted to that end. The people of a State as tax payers may not be interested in that sort of church extension, but there comes a time when they can offer no ef- fectual objection. In the District. In the District of Columbia there were in 1880 three institutions for children which received public subsidies, the amount ap- propriated being $16,500. were thirteen, and they received an aggre- gate appropriation of $54,750 for the sup- port of over 600 children, only 115 of whom had becn received at the request of some Public official and nearly 500 at the re- quest of parents and relatives or other in- terested parties. The ratio of children to whose support public contributions were being made was 1 to about 389 of the popu- lation, and the drain sustained by the Dis- trict revenues was more than twice as great as that made by the state of Minne- sota, where the population was five times as large as in the District of Columbia. In other words, it cost a quarter of a million people in the District of Columbia twice as much to support their dependent chil- dren in private asylums as it cost a mil- lion and a quarter people in Minnesota to care for theirs under state control. The expense per hundred of the population in Minnesota was less $2 and in the ps hd Was 0 $20, exclusive of the pro’ is made in each locality for the care of the feeble minded. These are some of the financial peculiari- ties of the two systems of care of depend- ent children in operation the United States. They might be reinforced and ac- centuated by accounts of similar experi- ence abroad, but they should be sufficient to teach an important lesson as they are. While they are important, and while all laws should tend to foster economy and not extravagance, it 1s upon its socio- logical side that this matter presents its most glaring inconsistencies. These it is not the present purpose to point out, but merely to say that, in the light of reason and common sense, {t will ever be safe to take the side of the free American home which takes in and cares for one homeless child against the old world monastic senti- ment, which herds children together in the unnatural seclusion of institutions. In view of these facts, it becomes very evident that a change in the policy of the District of Columbia toward this question was not necessarily a change for the worse, and that the effort of Prof. Warner, the former superintendent of charities, to se- cure for this District the adoption of the principle that public support carries with it necessarily the right of public guardian- ship was entirely commendable. It was an effort to do for the District what was done for Kings county, New York, in 1880, by the enactment of the law which reduced child dependence so promptly and effect- ually in the city of Brooklyn as pointed out above. He did not see that there would be any injustice or hardship in withholding from all persons and corporations all pay- ments of public money, except such as could be given in the form of specific pay- ment for specific service rendered, and he believed that having lost or never had the right sort of family relations was the cause of the troubles of most of the help- less, friendless little children of our city, and that that would be the best work piieh soorest restored to them what they lost. He thought it would be better to remove tremendous temptations to parents to unload their children upon the public, and to relieve pire private charity from every touch of officialism, which could not be done as long as it sought to secure public money for the prosecution of its enter- prises. He saw no reason why the people of the District of Columbia should be taxed for the support of paupers, whether adult or juvenile, shipped to Washington solely for the purpcse of sharing in such pro- vision as we made for our own, and he sought to embody the needed reconstruc, tion ‘in the bill creating the board of ehil- dren’s guardians, There is an increasing number of thought- ful people who fully agreed with him in these matters, Y. ——-—_—_ Views of a Recognized Authority. From Printers’ Ink. In importance in Washington The Star comes first and is probably not only the most conspicuous and prosperous daily in Washington, but is without doubt the best | appreciated and best patronized evening newspaper in the United States. In point of circulation it is not reached by any other evening paper that is sold for more than 1 cent anywhere in America. The circulation of The Star 1s confined almost | exclusively to Washington. It is claimed for it, and probably truthfully claimed, that no other newspaper in the country goez into so large a percentage of all the houses within 2 radius of twenty miles from the office of publication. The Star has enjoyed unprecedented prosperity for twenty-‘ve years, and is| one of the very few papers that has failed to advance its advertising rates in propor- tion to its growth in circulation, influence and popularity with the community in| which it is issued. - Considering its character, influence and circulation, its advertising rates are ex- ceedingly low, being matched in this re- spect by no more than two or three ne papers issued in other sections. The class of advertising it carries is of the best.; The value of this paper to an advertiser, In 1893 theres | right to put whom he pleases in the posi-| all things considered, and taken in con- nection’ with the comparative cost of ad- vertising in it, places it not lower down than third in a list of all the best daily | papers published in the United States, and in making out such a list a well-informed advertiser will have great difficulty in de- ciding upon even so small a number as two to piace in advance of The Star. He may even fail to fix upon one. Heir Renewer is pronounced the best | the growth of is gray to its | Hal's eparation made for thickenii the bair, and restoring that W1 original color. ever, that the VIRGINIA one person, * ‘ position, and one for which the postmaster Topics of General Interest in the Old thinks he should be allowed to make his ot own selection. There is con: Dominion. feeling here over the little fight result of the investigation is awaited. li Comment on Senator Hill's Speech— The B. and 0. and the South—R. and D. Sale—The Post Office Dispute. —___ THE DETROIT RIOTING. Sheriff Collins Probably Wounded in the Fight. In the fight mentioned in the dispatches to yesterday's Star, which occurred yes terday in Grosse Point township, just over the easterly county line, with a force of Polish laborers seeking employment om the Detroit, Mich., sicn, Sheriff Collins was probably fatally injured, two Polish rioters were shot dead, half a dozen more were seriously injured and at least three fatally. A police officer Correspondence of The Evening Star. RICHMOND, Va., April 18, 1804. The speech of Senator Hill in the United States Senate a few days ago on the tariff question has been the sole topic of political discussion in Virginia ever since. There is great diversity of opinion as to the probable effect of the speech. Several of the news- papers have criticised him for his stand, badiy hurt, and as the result the while others declared that he represented | ¥@* in jt the true interpretation of democracy. | County Jail was last night filled with tty State Chairman Ellyson thinks that the i the party, but will result in driving the| rioters, and by night fifty of the law: democrats together. He says he talked with | breakers had been gathered in, ‘The com a number of Senators while in Washington, | Tidors of the jail were filled with them, and they seemed to be convinced that the | About 6 o'clock ED paw Fw) ee time had come for united action in support | Strations. ‘One ‘of, them Anthony “Pooet of democratic measures and of the admin-| was shot in the leg by a deputy out istration. He further stated that he be-|and was carted off to a hospital. The Meved that the speech of Senator Hill had point yeu BH you Fe ened Spectator, un cee ee Tot ane war: Set OY Hom Slee) Fhe th guna ram al extent st night. A meeting ‘The B. and 0, in the South. @ Polish hall, from which it was A well-defined rumor has been current in | the Folenders Would march to the jail Richmond for the past week to the effect | Wreck ut the police were that the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Po- | #"4 the meeting did not materialize. tomac railroad was trying to induce the Cause of the Trouble. Baltimore and Ohio to build to Quantico and| The trouble began Tuesday, when Engi come south over its line, thus heading off | neer Williams of the waterworks sought to the scheme of the Richmond and Manassas | irtroduce a system of paying the men by people. It is well known that after re-| the cubic yard of excavation instead of @ peated failures President Myers of the| daily wage rate. The Polish laborers re- Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac | belled at this, and as a result the water has recently been able to induce the Penn- | board decided to suspend operations. sylvania road to sell from Richmond round-| Yesterday morning Engineer Williams trip tickets to New York. It is possible | and a smal! force of men, accompanied by that a hint was dropped by Maj. Myers that | Sheriff Collins and five deputies, went to the Baltimore and Ohio might be induced to| the scene of the disturbance to remove build to Quantico. It is also probable that thy 8 per Th ye Beng bmg this is the source of the rumor. There can | Were five hu be no question that the management of the | tya° ivate Gemonstrations of violence om Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac | sheriff Collins and Deputy Sheriit Ber: and of the Richmond and Petersburg have skall addressed the men in English done all in their power to serve the interest | Gitman, and advised them not te of their patrons. They have spent their the peace, when a Polander in the dividends in improving the road, and al (f° the crowd made some in northern railread man who went south re- speech, and the Polanders, who had cently declared that the Richmond and Pe- | SP@" shovels, made a rash tersburg track was smoother than the Penn- | Goiy, who had just sylvania track. They have built fine depots | Colney, who had Just begum to res at Richmond and Petersburg, and the track | 2" Suppiy pipe was being laid. of the Richmond and Petersburg has been | * Suphly Ripe Wee ene cee who Felaid with 70-pound steel rails. During | wused most strongis with’ the President Scott's administration the fare} Wiich the workinemen had made between Richmond and Petersburg bas | Wuich the rons uew ta been reduced from $1.75 to 30 cents for a! Pons Stich felled him to the bottom commutation ticket, and it is a remarkable | (i?) vation. Sherif Collins waved fact that during that time the road has | ne ©XCAryUon a fairly ehrieked to never killed a passenger. When President | 25 WUnly “ila “bur ne attention Scott was asked about this rumor he de- | MCh to Stand Deck. Mut mea he drew ried that there was any truth in it. revolver and simed it point blank st “If the Baltimore and Ohio people wish foaie ” “, crowd. The ots rang out to come south,” continued Mai. Scott, “and | Towa. The shots rae oma pail will build to Quantico, the Fredericksburg . road will be only too glad to bring them to = eC yo shovel, Richmond over its tracks at much less | raised behind mete yg —- than it would cost them to keep up 2 road | * Commer of eng ho S of their own. If the Baltimore and Ohio Fd “a J Baga A - _— could not make terms with the Richmond, | ciao pert = — a. oe Fredericksburg and Potomac at Quantico, | blood pon ah = and should build to Richmond, the Rich- aiming fresh blows at him when a imond and Petersburg road would give them rene tn ond unter Gs eainer cried out a route to burg on such favorable at x terms that they would handly, as a business “Tiss dant; teove Wie Proposition, ‘build an independent line. But if they should do so, I would not have a word to say.” Sale of the Richmond and Danville. The decree signed by Judge Goff of the United States Court Friday, ordering the sale of the Richmond and Danville rail- road, provides that the sale shall take place sixty-two days after the issuance of the de- cree, which will be on the 15th day of June next. The company ts allowed twenty days within which to make redemption, after which the sale will be advertised. The sale is to take place in this city. There seems to be no doubt of the fact that the reorganization committee, which controls ninety-five per cent of the bonds, will buy the In fact, the foreclosure is a part of the Drexel-Morgan reo>zanization scheme, undertaken by them some time ago. According to the provisions of the de- cree, all of the property of the Danville road covered by the morigage under which the property is sold, including the property of the company in the District of Columbia, is included in the foreclosure. The prop- erty in the District of’ Columbia is to be first offered for sale as a separate parcel, and then the railroad, appurtenances, equipment, material, leasehold interests, bonds, and other property offered in the|- same manner. The property is then to be offered as a unit. No bid will be accepted for the railroad less than $2,000,000. Judge Goff said that the sale was to be made in a shorter time than usual, but he thought that the interests of the prop- erty demanded a sale. Attorney Stetson said it was a matter of vital im- portance to sell before July 1; that the road had to raise about that time $6,000,000 in cash, and he did not know who was going to put up the money. When asked as to what that sum was needed for, he re-| plied that one million was for receivers certificates, four millions for floating debts, a. iis! | E ; il BSSEREESFae id ried off by some of the friendly men to a shanty about a furlong distant. Cathey did not escape with the first blow. Again and again the shovels fall on his head and his hands until consciousness left him and he sank downward into the water which covered the bottom of the excavation, He would have @rowned there but for Jemes P. Murtagh, @ reporter, who, with the assistance of another man, raised him from his perilous position and carried him off to a place of safety. When the sheriff fired Turnkey skall and the four police officers had been deputized followed his and for a few moments there was a show- er of bullets, all fired at short range into the dense crowd. There was no time to discriminate. Anybody who happened be in the way of a bullet was struck, whether he was taking any part riot or not. This did not deter furiated laborers. Though several rumber fell, they pressed on muzzles of the revolvers were very breasts and mowed down everybody who opposed them. ewe SENSATION AT ANTWERP. Arrest of a Leading Society Woman for Poisoning Relatives. eral of her relatives in order to obtain the amount of the insurance on their lives. As Mme. Joniaux occupied a prominent posi- tion in society centers of the kingdom her and one million for back interest. Mr.| arrest has created a profound sensation. — represented the reo>ganization Mme. Joniaux is the daughter of the em- committee. inent Belgian Gen. Ablay, and niece of a former aid-de-camp on the staff of King Leopold. Though she was never wealthy in her own right, her high family connections end the great wealth of many of her rela- tives assured her an enviable social posi- tion. Mile. Ablay was married at about the age of twenty-two, to Frederick Faber, the author of a book entitled “The French Theater in Belgium,” and other works, and lived with him until he died, in 1884. In 1886 Mme. Faber was married to M. Joni- The report of the special masters showed the indebtedness of the road to be as fol- lows: First mortgage, dated Oct. 5, 1874, Central Car Company, trustee, 7,000, Second mortgage, Feb. 1, 1882, trustee as above, $4,000,000. Equipment sinking fund, 5 per cent mort- gage, Sept. 3, 1889, $1,493,000. Equipment sinking fund, 6 per cent mort- gage, May 1, 1891, $909,000, The Post Office Dispute. Postmaster Cullingworth is awaiting with eager expectancy the decision of the civil service commission in reference to the sup- planting of a colored man who held a posi tion in the post office under Postmaster Russell, the appointee of President Harri- son, by a white man. The colored man be- longed to the classified service and claims that he could not be removed. Postmaster Cullingworth claims that a part of the du- ties of the holder of the position was the handling of money and that as his personal bond is responsible in the matter he has a| ux. Although M. Joniaux’s income was con- fined to a salary of only 10,0% francs @ year, and his wife was virtually without private means, they lived in great style, maintaining a magnificently appointed es- tablishment in a larce mansion in the Rue de Nerviers, where they entertained lavish- ly, and where the relatives died for whose murder Mme. Joniaux has been taken into custody. The first of Mme. Jonlaux’s alleged vie- ° | tims was her own sister, Mile Leonie Ablay, who was unmarried and resided with the Joniauxs. When Mile. Ablay died it was announced that the cause of her death was influenza. A short time subsequent to her burial {t was learned that her life had bean insured for 70,000 francs in favor of her niece, the daughter of Mme. Joniaux by her first husband, M. Faber, and it was further found that the premiums on the policies had been paid by the Joniauxs, The next victim w Mme. Joniaux’s brother, M. Alfred Ablay, who was former. ly a captain in the Belgian army, but had been retired, presumably on account of his dissolute habits. His life was insured for 100,000 francs, for the benefit of his sister, a few days before his death, the prem! in the case of Mile. Ablay, being by *the Joniauxs. ‘The third victim was Jacques Van@ées Kerchove, a wealthy uncle of Mme.Joniaux, who was extensively engaged in cottom manufactures in Ghent. M. Kerchove’s I was insured for a large sum in favor Mme. Joniaux, the policies having been take en out only a few weeks before his death and a few days after his arrival at Mme Joniaux’s house. The succession of sudden deaths at Mme. Joniaux’s residence of persons whose lives were insured for her benefit aroused the suspicions of the police, and their investi- gations have developed overwhelming of her guilt. The bodies of Mile. and ex- Capt. Ablay and M. Kerchove have been ex- humed and examined, with the result of finding unmistakable traces of poison ta each. tion. Postmaster Cullingworth is much dis- | turbed at the warlike dispatches from | Washington placing him in the position of | Being at war with the civil service com- mission. He said: “I am not fighting the civil service commission, it is my desire to | co-operate with the commission, and 1 | would like to have the support of that body | in my efforts to make certain reforms in the post office here.” Mr. Cullingworth claims that the position in question was not covered by the classified service until after the appointee had held the position for some time, and that it was a reward for party services, which resulted in giving him the position. When Mr. Cullingworth was reappointed and took charge of the of- fice a short time ago he wrote to the de- partment at Washington requesting that this position be taken- out of the classified service. He explained that the appointee | had the handling of stamps and money and | sked if it were not right and just that he | should have power to appoint to a position | of that character whens he and his bonds- men were responsible for the acts of the officer, especially as the incumbent had never passed the civil service examination. He made the case so piain that the depart- ment at once authorized him to make the | change. The colored man was removed and a white man appointed in his stead. | The friends of the colored man caused the | civil service commission to send down here | and have an investigation made. Ex-Judge Waddill ‘and Mr. Edgar Allen, prominent republicans, are assisting the negro in his fight. ——_—_-+e+ Nominated for Congress, Second Indiana—A. M. Hardy (rep.). First Oregon—J. K. Weatherford nd Oregon—J. H. Raley (dem.), Mr. Cullingworth in reorganizing his of- fice modified the duties of some of those persons who were put in the classified ser- vice by his predecessor so that such no longer have the handling of money and Keep Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup ham@y,