Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1894, Page 6

HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To keep the refrigerator sweet, Wash it out with bot water into which bas been vet a bandful of W. B. MOSES & SONS. | WE LEAD IX— Refrigerators, Mattings, Awnings, Screens, ‘Sbades, Summer Necessaries. Buy Mattings And Carpets NOW: — OUR GREAT SACRIFICE CLEARING SALE of $20,000 worth is drawing toward a close. It's been @ remarkable sale—we've sold thousands of yards of pretty floor coverings—the very best that ave made—at prices sur- Prising on account of their lowness. We quote again some of the most notable prices, and it’s our advice that 4f you want CARPETS, MATTINGS or these values. Clearing Sale Carpets. HEAVY TAPESTRY BRUS- SELS, 8 patterns, suitable for SELS. Regular 75-cent quality. BEST QUALITY TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, 15 patterns, suit- able for parlors, dining rooms and = chambers. Regular $1 quality. Clearing price. BODY BRUSSELS. Regular $1.15 quality. Clearing price... BEST ENGLISH BODY BRUS- SELS, including “Lowell, “Bigelow” and “Hartford” makes, suitable for parlors, chambers and libraries. Regu- lar $1.35 quality. Clearing post wn 95Ce = a5C. Sale Mattings. White China Mattings that would regularly sell for 12%3¢. 65C. 75C. Fancy China Matting, 15¢. quality. Our price... Faucy China Matting, choice patterns, fresh goods, usually 15 cents. Our price Heavy Fancy China Mattings, choice patterns, usually ney Jointiess Matting, new pat- terns and colorings, usually 25 ets. Our price... Extra Heavy Fancy Jointless Matting, in choice patterns and colors, usually 30 cts. Our price Best Quality Fancy China Jointless Matting, usually 40 ets. A special drive at Cotton Warp Japanese Dam- ask Matting, all new and choice patterns and colorings, usually 50 cts. Our price. 200 Matting Rugs, 15C. 174%C. asc. 3sC. 25C. 50C. 300 Matting Rugs, 36 by 72 fmehes. Each. Special Sale Baby Carriages. ‘We have just received a consignment of 50 odd BABY CARRIAGES from one of the leading manufacturers of the country, who is retiring from business. Bought at a very low price. Will seil Far Under Real Values. These ave “specimens” of what you may expect: 1 Rattan Carriage, in old rose silk plush,’ with satin parasol. Worth $24. Now.... 1 Rattan Carriage, in old red silk plush, with satin parasol. Worth $21. Now.. 1 Rattan Carriage, in old red siik plush, with sateen parasol. 1 Rattan Carriage, in olive sk plush, with satin parasol. Worth $24.50. Now. 1 Rattan Carriage, it blue silk plush, with satin para- sol. Worth $18.50. Now.. 1 Rattan Carriage, in light Dive etlk plush, with satin para- ol. Worth $18.50. Now...... 2 Rattan Carriages, in light Dive silk plush, with satin para- sols. Worth $25. 1 Rattan Carriage, in light Diue silk plush, with satin para- sol. Worth $21. Now. 1 Rattan Curriage, im drab coachman’s cloth, with satin parasol. Worth $25. Now.... 1 Rattan Carriage, in brown corduroy, with rattan hood top. Worth $25. Now. ‘$15. $14. $13. $18. ‘$14. $16.50. $18. $16. $15. $20. 1 Rattan Carriage, in red sik plush, with satin parasol. $13.50. spoke wheels and best gear. “Pot Pourri.” Solid Oak, Finely Carved and Fintshed Desks, with nicely ar- ranged interiors, book shelves underneath, can't be duplicated ctor 390, ““'S5-95- Ladies’ Des, sold all over prarelpo "53-95- Foiding Upholstered Cot: 79 CENTS. Folding Wire Cots for... $4 CENTS. White Enamel and Brass. Beds, fll sine, for. $5-45- $ RATTAN ROCKER. ~ $2.20 @ fact. We have 2 dozen in stock, and this price holds till they're gone. Price includes cost of finishing. Best Oak Clothes Poles On Earth At 78C. 3» MOSESsox: SONS 2 uth and F Sts. N.W. Se S.&B. S. & B. The ‘Reversible’ | Mattress Has cotton filling on both sides and at the ends. The “one- sided"’ Mattress has cotton fill- ing on one side ONLY. The cost is the sare. Which will you buy? C7 All first-class dealers sell “the Reversible.” S. & B. S. & B. my23 ae we “some cir UMM ova umm mi Lister’s Dentifrice —the fashionable tooth- wash—no grit—no acid— oniy pure chalk and harm- less antiseptics. 25c. W. S. THOMPSON, Pharmacist, 703 15th St. myz3 GAS RANGES Are largely reduced during our specisd sale. Buy quick, though. They’re golag at these -$19 -$21 Entirely Free esti- How about your PLUMBING healthy? Let us remodei it. mate on request. S. S. SHEDD & BRO.,.£. | Baum’s Retiring From Business. An Open Letter. OFFICE OF CHAS. BAUM, street. 416 Seventh HAVING DETERMINED TO iE FROM USINESS. I OFFER MY ENTIRE STOCK FOR THER IN BULK OR AT RETAIL. MY ‘OW THAT I HAVE ALWAYS KEPT BLE AND SEASONARLE STOCK OF ND ALWAYS SOLD THEM AY REA- PRICES. GREAT REDUCTIONS ARE. ADE FROM DAY TO DAY, AND ALL 1 ASK OF YOU Is A VISIT AND TO SEE Fort YOURSELF IF YOU CAN SAVE ANY MONEY BY DEALING WITH Us. THANKING YOU POR THE PATRONAGE HERETOFORE BESTOWED UPON ME, 1 AM, VERY RESPECTFULLY, CHAS. BAUM. Specimen | Bargains For Men. A lot of Colored Bosom Unlanndered Dress Shirts, open front and back, nobby patterns, Ir laundered geods these would cost you $1 and $1.25 in furnishing stores—now. .. 7§5C. Dress Goods. Nobby and Stylish 50c. and 75e. Spring Dress Materials, never woven for the d Prices we are now selling them.. BHCe YA. Another lot of I5e. and 25e. Dress Goods, light and medium shades, make dresses that will look twice as expensive. . 124%c. yd. RETIRI GOODS” & Se Millinery. Unheard of cuts for so earl in the season. shapes ladies and © 25¢. each. Beautiful Straw Hats, this season's latest style black and none’ worth less than $1.00, moat worth $150 and’ $2.00 4c. each. $1.00, Hats children. BOR a can" $1.48 Fine Legtorn Hi $1.75 and $2.00 Pine $4.00 and $5.00 | ideas, fire ¢ Trimmed Hats, new materials * $1.75 each. $8.00 Beautiful and Stylishly Trim- chote “ $2.50 each. Ca 48c. each, Curtain Material. Finest Scotch Madrases, e: Vv to $6.00 to med Hats, Your kinds, from 75e. to $1.25. Choice wuisite colorings and "30. yd. designs. Choice. ue, 45¢ A lot of Pretty tein Nets. Were yard. Your choice now. Suits, Wraps, Shirt Waists. Two Navy Blue Serge Suits, slightly soiled, well Printed I5e. to 2 made, well titting. Go pone Shoes ° $1.98 each. $1.00 Print Wrappers, Navy and Black, are good as any dollar wrapper 59c. each 11 Ladies’ Cloth Capes, navy Brows, Gy Diack, ridiculous price of. 25 and myrtle, 98 each. $1.98 each. A lot of Ladies’ Tan Checked Scotch Tweed Newmarkets, with adjustable capes, excellent for traveling purposes. Value, $10. Chotce "$3.98 each. Ladies’ Black and Navy Satteen Shirt Waists, a better waist never ~H75C. each. 6 Ladies’ Long Cloth Capes, stytay “eu. Geely tat ed. Were $12.50. Now...D4o 5 Black Tosea Net Shoul- der Capes. Were $6. Choice ase 2c. for $1.50... Chemisettes. Chemisettes and Cuffs, nobby patterns.50c.set. Chemisettes and Cuffs, nobby patterns. 45e. set. § PAU W D POPULAR SHOPPING TT ST. Physical. Culture DISCOUNTS Prevail _here now. Too much stock hand. We must get rid of some of it. And the We're quoting are helpi FITTING CORSETS ly—our own styles and patterns. Nothing unreliable in the WHITE CORSETS are ues. lto7 G 8ST ‘The New Chemisettes all reduced. Chemisettes and Cuffs, nobby patterns.19¢. set. PLACE, BIG Corset Co. - us unload fast. HIGH-CLASS, PERFECT- house. For the sale all $1.00 and $1.50 NO BRANCH. Aa ae eee ; Well _ fitted, make GLASSES—the kind the kind you get oculists. You can trust the care of your eyes to us. Our reputation tells you that you'll get the best attention, Claflin Optical Co., MASONIC TEMPLE, F ST. my23 Finest Quality Gray Switches $4.50 is a zenuine bargain. We were lucky enough to get an opportunity to some of the stock of a prominent N. ¥. hair mer- chant. this. price. Switches, any ~$2. vesing the finest, prices the . Advice given, styles suggested. S. Heller, 720 7th St. my23 perfect EYE- you want—and t when we're your 4 ; 4 4 4 1 ‘¢ Hence ee rma ‘Awnings, Recherche Designs bd —for city and country Residences— made up in richest styles at low- est prices. If you want a Teat for the lawn or for outing purposes, We are headquarters. C7 Largest Flag ‘manufacturers in the United States. M. G. Copeland & Co., Limited Number Ladies’ $2 Sailors, $1.5: Ladies’ $2 Sailors—blue and white—natty, stylish shapes—Himited number only, $1.50. 7A few finer Imported Sallors at re- daced prices. Willett & Ruoff, 905Pa. Av..: myZ3 é 2 5 i | Soiled Summer Garments DYED & <D CLEANED. 33 manner. the Charges as work. Gentlemen's "PHO: 1152, or telephone. J. Fisher, 707 oth St. J my? Important. Before leaving the city bave your feet treated, and with a supply of our prepara- a ‘pa tlons can keep yourself comfortable ail summer. Bunions and Corns treated, 25¢. each. Prof. J. J. Georges & Son, PARDORS, 1115 PA. AVE. N.W. £6 6 p.m. Sundays, 9 to 1, Atiractive and Handsome Chandellers do not cost as much as you may think. Lst us show you through this stock ond give you our estimate of how zeusenable can fit up your house, either in Elec- Gas or Combinattn Fixtures. A. Muddiman, 614 i2th. THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1894-TWELVE PAGES. Ayer’s Pills Received Highest Awards At The World’s Fair eae PILLS. As pus wes The Best Family Physic. WORLD'S FaIR, TO GET RELIEF FROM INDIGESTION, BII- fousness, constipation or tor liver without dis- turbing ‘the stomach or purge he the bowels, take a few Carter's Little Liver Pilis, they Will_ please you. THE MODERN MIRACLES OF HEALING WHICH are indisputably performed by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills should receive the closest investiga- tion by sick people and their friends. ja23-tu&thly Trustee’s Clearance Sale Of the Late John E. Little’s Shoe Stock, 1002 F St. (Opposite the Boston House.) ‘The patronage extended us has been exceedingly gratifying, and we cannot but take it as an indorsement of our method of conducting this sale. We refrained from running in cheap and Worthless stock to palm off on the un- suspecting public, as has been the tom of all other “Trustee,” “Assignee” and “Bankrupt” sales, Mr. Little car- ried the finest shoes manufactured, and many of his 5} orders had just been delivered, hence the stock was very heavy. We shall continue the sale until every palr 1s sold, and Ladies and Gen- tlemen wearing the small and large sizes will dnd even better bargains than those who Wear the average sizes: Regular stock reduced as follows: All $2.50 Shoes $1.50. All $3 Shoes now $2. All $3.50 Shoes $2.25. All $4 Shoes $2.50. All $5 Shoes $3. All $6 Shoes $3.50. 2 “Odd” Lots Less Than Half. 1 lot “Odd Sizes” in Ladies’ French Kid Opera Slippers, narrow lasts. Reg- ular prices, $2, $2.50 and $3. Choice, $1 Pr. 1 lot “Odd Sizes in Ladies’ Oxfords and Southern Ties, blaek, russet, ete., mostly narrow lasts. Regular prices, $2.50, $3 and $3.50, Choice, $1.50. B. Rich & Sons, (Late John E. Little), 1002 F St. PPSALOALS4O0600OO CCS S555 All For One Dollar. W B are fitting our FINEST LENSES in hard rubber and polished steel frame EYEGLASSES and SPECTACLES for only $1— you can't buy more comfort or Satisfaction at any price. No charge for scientific ex- amination of McAllister & Co., Opticians, 1811 F STREET N.W. (Next to Sun Lidg.) my24 SEC OPOOLO FOSS OOO OES CO EOS: Nothing Pleases A Woman So much as “smart gowns,"’ but they some- times become soiled. If you wish them re- stored to their former beauty, without slightest injury, send them HERE to be cleaned. Fin- est work guaranteed. oe mable prices—wagon will call. Anton my23 Fischer, 906 G St. $100 In Gold Have your wife, mother, father, uncle, sweeth sart. law, sister-in-law, " brother-tu-law, and clsé read how to get it. On page }, Sat- Star. my 23-3 ANGOSTUKA BITTERS, SAYS A LONG-TIME sufferer from indigestion, Sole manufacturers, Dr. J. SCNS. Dealers. POSSSSSSISS OSHS IOS 3 : TO PROTECT FISH. First Prosecution Under the New Law Released. The first case under the new law for the protection of fish in the Potomac was heard in the Police Court today. The defendants were George and Henry Raum, and they were arrested for hauling seine in the East- ern branch. The law says ‘Potomac riv- er,” and when the case was heard, Lawyer Sillers, their counsel, said that the ¢e- fendants honestly thought that they were rot violating the law, because the law spe- cifically mentioned the river. Judge Miller said that the law covers tide water, whether in the river proper oF one of its tributaries. He thought, however, that the defendants did not commit an jin- tentional violation of the law, and took their personal bonds. ——.__ Dancifig at River View. Prof. F. M. Proctor will give a May fes- tival to his juvenile class to River View next Saturday, the 26th instant. The de- lightful program that characterized the May ball at Odd Fellows’ Hall on the 11th of this month will be repeated in the mam- moth pavilion at River View, and will in- clude the ballet, ariel, flag dance, Highland fling, rope dance, jockey hornpipe, wreath dance, May pole, Chinese dance, village hornpipe, flower dance and many others of the latest fads of dancing. The beautiful green lawn of River View will be the play grounds on that day for the rising genera- tion. After the exercises the genial profes- sor and Capt. Randall will entertain the hosts of young Americans. Two trips will be made Saturday, at 1 and 6 p. m., by the speedy and safe Samuel J. Pentz. ia For Admission to the Bar. Secretary Leon Tobriner of the examin- ing committee of the Bar Association an- nounces that the examination of candidates for admission to the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia will be held Saturday, June 2, 18M. Applicants will present themselves for examination on said day at the civil service commission, corner of Sth and E streets northwest, at 10 a.m. Written applications for such’ ex- amination should be filed with the clerk of the District Supreme Court on or before Tuesday, May 2y, 1804. os Officers Elected. At a meeting of the beard of trustees of the Riggs Fire Insurance Company, held today, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: M. W. Beveridge, president; Wm. S. Thompson, vice presi- dent; Thomas Hyde, treasurer; Harry Birge, retary; Oscar P. Schmidt, assist- ant secretary. A LIVELY INTEREST In the Coming of the Hosts of the Knights of Pythias, ACTIVE WORK AMONG LOCAL MEMBERS Words of Encouragement and Prophecy Fiom Gen. Carnahan. MEETINGS OF COMMITTEES The Pythian mother is reaching out her hand and bidding all her children come to Washington. The proposition is well put by the executive committee, which, in its cir- cular of invitation to the officers and sir knights of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, and to the members and friends of the order generally, sets forth that “The Pythian mother is preparing to kill the fatted calf and spread a feast for you at the old homestead in the capital of our country, and she opens her doors to you and most cordially invites you to come and join her in a grand family reunion around the old hearthstone.”” s In its greeting to the Knights of Pythias throughout the land the knights of Wash- ington thus sound the praises of their city: “Here are the monuments and trophies of war and the monuments and triumphs of peace to inspire the American with new love for his country and increase his admiration i Here are sym- | of her grandeur and glory. posiums representing the ever onward pro- Bress of her inventive genius—palaces dis- playing the marvelous advancement of her skill in architecture and museums exhibit- ing the achievement of her enterprise in gathering a colossal collection of the won- ders of nature, science and art in all ages of man, from all departments of human en- deavor in every country of the world, and indicating the footprinis of history in the mutations of time—to astonish and instruct. Here are panoramic views set in gorgeous scenery, whose entrancing beauty no ac- quaintance can stale, whose infinite varieties no inspection can wither and whose surpass- ing interest no knowledge can lessen; build- ings of state that challenge comparison with the weird castles of the antique world; homes of luxury that beggar the foreign palaces of modern times; luxuriant parks like dreams of fairyland clothed in Eden glory; streets of Parisian perfection, Ike frozen rivers in smoothness,stretching away in the distance till lost in vistas of over- arching foliage. imposing Monuments. “Here is that goddess-crowned dome of imposing grandeur which proclaims the presence of Congress; here is that gold- covered cupola of dazzling splendor which marks the home of the most stupendous Lbrary on this side of the Atlantic; here are Christian minarets of every shade of devotion pointing up to heaven; here is that matchiess cenotaph, sky-reaching in its height, which a grateful country reared | in honor of departed worth.” ‘Ehese local knights are loyal Washing- tonians and they talk Washington as it stould be talked. They know her beauty they feel the inspiration which she gives, and they are singing it forth to the whole world, in the leudest tones of black-face type. Just now the graces and glories of our city are being heralded over mountain and plain. Mr. Percy G. Smith, secretary to the éxecutive committee, was astir early today and before the sun had climbed very high above the heights of Benning was wrestling with his heavy morning mail. Letters of inquiry are coming in from ail quarters and in great bulk. Because of the unsettled matter of railroad rates, no defi- nite assurances are being recefved from the organized bodies by the Washington Managers of the encampment, but scores of letters stating “that we expect to be in Washington with full ranks” are coming to hand in each mail. Unsettled Ratlroad Rates. ‘rhree months are yet to elapse before the biennial session of the Supreme Lodge and the encampment of the U. R. convene, and there still remains plenty of time to talk about railroad fares. But the end of this question ts in sight. At a meeting of the public comfort committee held last night at the Belvedere Hotel a communication from General Carnahan was read, in which he stated that the matter would soon be arranged. He said that the unsettled status of the rate question was the reason why the Washington people had not heard posi- tively from more divisions of the uniform rank. It was impossible for the officers to tell how many men would be in their command until they knew how much the | luxury of a trip to Washington was going to cost. Gen. Carnahan spoke words of encourage- ment, and prophesied that it would be the biggest encampment in the history of the order. He counseled the Washington man- agers to keep wide awake, and not to blink an eye in sleep till the goal of mighty tri- umph had been reached. He advised them to pull all together with stout hearts and a Pythian stroke. He spoke of the fiery en- thusiasm which was animating the hearts f the knights, and with what high degree \of hope their thirsty, longing gaze was fixed on Washington. The word Washing- ton was a magic one which made the pulse of devoted knights beat faster. It was the mein thing talked about in Pythian circles. The Pythian press was tull of it. It was being looked forward to as a great and gloriqus excursion, where fun and work would be compounded in due proportions, and where they could pay their patriotic duties to the tomb of the father of his country, and offer up tstimony of their love at the nation’s shrine. Stendy Progress Reported. The letter of Gen. Carnahan evoked genu- ine enthusiasm, but the Washington knights needed nothing in the way of en- couragement. They know that success will attend their efforts, and they are working that way. Talk is reduced to a minimum and work raised to a maximum at head- quarters. At last night's meeting of the public com- fort committee there was a full attend- ence, and everybody who was there report- ed steady progress along all lines. A _reso- lution presented by Committeeman Mino, that the executive committee send out a second circular letter to all the branches of Knights of Pythias, was approved, and will be brought before the executive com- mittee at its next meeting on Monday night. A Cireular of Inquiry. This circular will be about as follows: Interrogatories to be answered. Please furnish the informaticn called for by the following queries as scon as possible: 1, How many sir krights of your division will go into camp and desire cots? 2. How many members and friends of the order (not going into camp) will accompany your division? 3%. For how many of them do you desire accommodations provided and reserved at hotels or boarding houses, and at what rates? 4. At what time does your division expect to leave home. Or what road will you enter Washing- > ton? 6. What is the day and hour of your an- pated arrival here? 7. Will you telegraph this information as to tme of departure, road of entrance and hour of expected arrival to the chairman of the committee on reception of the uniform rank on the day of your departure from home? John C, Yost is chairman. Address No. 715 9th street northeast. A letter has been received from Gen. Carnahan, stating that already twenty divisions of the uniform rank have entered for the competitive drill, which is to be one of the spectacular features of the en- campment. This, says the general, is an auspicious sign, because it is the greatest nvmber ever entered the lists three months prior to the encampment. Divisions are signifying their desire to compete, and at this time it is not practicable to estimate the number of divisions that will be en- tered for the contest. Committecs and Meetings. The meeting nights of the various com- mittees are as follows: Executive, Monday; press, second and fourth Wednesdays; ways ard means, Thursday; horses and carriages, alternate Friday: amp and camp grounds, alternate Fridays; transportation, badges, reception, decorations, information, halls, auditing, entertainment, music, printing, at the call of the chairmen. The committees are as follows: Executive committee—Richard Goodha: chairman; Geo. W. Heisley, vice chairman; B. T. Doyle, correspcnding ‘secretary; A. F. ti Mecford, recording secretary; John Hum- phrey, treasurer; J. H. Mitchell, v. Doherty, J. W. Carter, T. H. Gladmon, Notley Anderso1 big, W. T. Mockbee, Coggins, N. Bunch, F, B. Crown, Ed. Brown. Chairmen of subcommittees—Ways and means, R. Goodhart; transportation, G. W. Heish reception of Supreme Lodge, A. F. Medford; badges, B. T. Doyle; decorations, Johr Humphrey; public comfort, J.H.Mitch- ell; camp end camp grounds,N.Anderson; in- formation, J. W. Cronie; hall for Supreme Lodge, J. B. Conner; auditing, J. M. Kline; entertainment of Supreme Lodge, Col. H. Coggins; music, F. W. Helbig; printing, J. a Fay horses and cart Ww. = lockbee; Press, N. Bunch; reception of Uniform Rank, J. C. Yost. The Press Committee. Chairman Bunch presided over a meeting of the press committee, at the K. P. head- quarters, in the Warder building, last night. The work of the committee was dis- cussed at considerable length, and a sub- committee on promotion was appointed, consisting of Messrs. Godwin, De Graw, Bone, Osgood, Boynton, Foster and Cush- ing. It is intended to arrange for needful facilities for representatives of the press from other cities during the Pythian en- campment, and to provide for furnishing hews to the press of matters of interest concerning preparations for the encamp- ment. ee eee ee ALEXANDRIA NEWS. Matters of Interest in That Virginia City. About half-past 10 o'clock last night there Was some little excitement in the neighbor- hood of “hard corner,” caused by blowing of a police whistle and cries of distress. On investigation it was found that a man named Davis had got drunk and picked a row with some negroes in the bar room, when one of them struck him on the head with some blunt instrument, which inflicted a flesh wound and knocked him senseles: The negro made his escape. Davis w taken to the station house, where his wound, which proved to be not serious, was dressed by Lieut. Smith. Later he went to his home. Mr. J. D. Stanton has been made a judge of elections from the first ward, and Mr, 8. A, Maukin commissioner of elections. ‘The steamer Lady of the Lake of the old Norfolk line has been sold to the People’s Transportation Company of Washington. She will be run as an excursion boat. The Young Men’s Sodality Lyceum are considering the matter of engaging Hite Peckham, the athlete, as their boxing th- structor. Mr. Samuel L. Monroe, deputy revenue | collector for this district, yesterday seized | three barrels of “moonshine” whisky, which | Will be brought to this city and sold’to pay the tax. | | ‘The varlous fire companies will go through their annual inspection this afternoon before the board of fire wardens. She Old Dominion Boat Club will hold i annual meeting at the boathouse tomorrow night. | Oificers for the ensuing year will be elected and other important business trans- acted. | A charter was granted in the corporation court yesterday by Judge J. K. M. Norton |to the American Creamery and Cold Stor- | age Company, with a capital stock of $500,- | 000, Capt. K. Kemper is named as its local | agent. The foliowing were designated as its | officers for the first year: James A.Andrews of Allegheny, Pa., president; A. B. Nettle- ton of Washington, secretary and treasurer, who, together with Henry D. Cook of New York, James McLean of New York and*J. M. Morgan of Washington, will constitute the board of directors, Now that a purse has been raised to help | defray the expenses of the trip, it is more than likely that the Alexandria Light In- | fantry will go to Richmond on the 30th in- | Stant to take part in the ceremonies incident | to unveiling the confederste soldiers and | sailors’ monument. Today is confederate memorial day. There will be a parade this afternoon at 6 o'clock and ceremonies at the monument to the memory of the dead confederates. CLEP nb TO CRUSH THEIR RIVALS. The Standard O11 Company and the Russinn Refiners, Rumors that negotiations in Paris between the Standard Ol] Trust and representatives of the Russian refiners have resulted In a division of the oll business of the world have been current. The New York World says that there is In existence a memoran- dum of agreement which has never till now been made public. It is signed by all mem- bers of “the syndicate of the Russtan pe- troleum refiners, with the consent of the minister of finance.” The ostensible object of the Russian com- bination is to establish a regular organiza- tion for handling the export trade in Rus- sian refined oll. The shares of the whole business are allotted to the individual re- fincrs named in the second section of the agreement. A committee of tive controls the business of all the refiners. The power | of the five managers is absolute and foreign | sales are conducted in their ame for the benefit of the whole association, } The agreement binds «ll of the Russian | methods of the syndicate to April 1, 1899, and stipulates that the board of managers may secure changes in the by-laws or clause with the section of the minister of finance. Then comes the meat of the whole affair in the following paragraph: “The committe> of five per: communicate with the American Standard Oil Company to work ont the necessary conditions of arrangements for dividing the markets of the whole worli for the trade with Russian and American kerosene. When adopted, the conditions of such atrange- ment shall be forwarded to the minister of finance for his approval, and afterward 1ep- resentatives shall be chosen to sign the agreement with the Standard Oil Company, which shail be binding on all members of this agreement.” This memorandum binding the Russian refiners was signed in October, 189%, by men representing 62 per cent of the output of that country, and since then nearly ail the other refiners have come in. The “neces- conditions" mentioned have already been “worked out,” and the execuzion of the formal treaty “dividing the markets of the whole world" waits but upon the fulfill- ment by the Standard Oll Company of one condition. One great refinery—that of Manheim—re- fuses to join the trust, and one or two American associations, chiefly the Indepen- dent Producers’ Oil Company, has not yet surrendered to the Standard combinetion. Until either the Manheim refiners refuse to buy crude oil of the Producers’ Company, of the Producers’ Company refuses to sell to the Manheim refiners, the monopoly will still lack a little of being absolute, and the Russian minister will refuse to approve the treaty. To fulfill this last condition of Russian favor the Standard Oil Company is now in a struggle to crush the Producers’ Oil Com- pany, which has for years defied its power. It is in consequence of this fight that refined ofl is now being sold by the Standard Oil Company at less than the price of crude. Army Orders, The following transfers in the twenty- th.rd infantry are made: Second Lieut. Henry T. Ferguson, from ecmpany C to company A. Second Lieut. Ferdinand W. Kobbe, from company A to company C, Capt. James C. Ayres, ordnance depart- ment, is relieved from duty as chief ord- | narce officer, department of the Platte, and will take station at New York arsenal, Governors Island, N. Y., and he is assigned to duty as recorder of the board of ordnance and fortification. First Lieut. Fremont P. Peck, ordnance department, is assigned to duty as recorder of the board of ordnance and fortification vrtil the arrival of Capt. James C. Ayres, ordnance department, at New York arse- nal. Leave of absence for three months ts granted Capt. Geo. P. Scriven, signal corps. First Lieut. John E, Myers, third artil- lery, is relieved from duty as inspector of small-arms practice, department of Texas, and will join his battery. The following transfers of officers are or- dered: First Lieut. Benjamin C. Morse, from the eighteenth infantry to the twenty-third m- fantry, company D. | First Lieut. George W. Martin, from the twenty-third infantry to the eighteenth in- fantry, company K. The following transfers in the eighteenth | irfantry are made: | First Lieut. Charles L. Steele, from com- pany B to company K. ns have to First Lieut. George W. Martin, from company K to company B. Leave of absence for two months is grant- ed Capt. Daniel Cornman, twenty-first in- fantry. ee Letter Carriers’ Excursion, The Letter Carriers’ Association gave an excursion to Marshall Hall last night. Al- though the rain continued in the evening, there was a large crowd carried down on all of the four boats chartered for the oc- tion of Prof. Fanciulli, furnished music on one of the boats going down and on a spa- cious pavilion at the grounds. Dancing was also enjoyed by a good number of the crowd, easion, The Marine Band, under the direc- | IN HOTEL CO! IDORS. man who has his good, hard money stak- e4 on a horse's chance to win a race don't “The education of the blind has been tak- | I'ke to see it handed right over to the book- ing some prodigious strides of late,” said G. E. McFarlane of Detroit at the Riggs House yesterday. “1 am very much inter- ested in it because for more than ten years I could not see, and yet managed to read by means of raised letters. I have just heard of two instances of the practical education of those who live in the darkness that are really wonderful. Out in a small Towa town called Swaledale there is a blind woman named Hattie Angell, who is working on the local weekly paper setting type. She is an expert in the language of the blind, and the matter to be set up in type is first dictated to her and she writes it down in that. Then she goes to her case, and, running her fingers over the raised surface of her peculiar manuscript, she quickly transfers the sentences to cold type. “She learned the boxes in her case very quickly, it is said, and she arranges the type properly by feeling their nicks while they are being raised to the stick. “Another and still more remarkable case in point is the recent demonstration at the Wisconsin School for the Blind at Janes- ville, by which Lyman Pease, the superin- tendent of the institution, has proven that blind persons can be taught tc cook. This ‘is not all. They have been taught also to manage the stove perfectly and take proper care of all the kitchen utensils. Several to- tally blind girls in the institution showed themselves perfect mistresses of the kitch- en, and a list of the dishes recently pre- pared by them in the school included all kinds of bread and cake, roasted and broii- ed meats, vegetables in various styles, as Well as preserves, pickles and other things. They depend entirely upon their extremely delicate sense of taste, smell and, more par- ticularly, touch. I can realize their gratifi- cation at being enabled to accomplish some- thing to take away the full sense of their awful affliction. As I said before, I was sightless for ten years, and experienced all the terrors of blind: and know what its helplessness means.’ “In addition to the many other accom- plishments which made the late William Hayden Edwards one of the best equipped men in the world, he was a graceful and expert billiard player,” said Howard Sey- mou: of New Jersey at La Normandie last night. “A good many years ago he played about the best game I ever saw for a gentleman. I remember once, when we were together in Baltimore, we dropped in- to the Eutaw House one day to get out of a passing shower. We went into the bil- liard room, and were attracted by a crowd that was gathered around one of the tables looking at a game between a clean-cut, sprightly, confident young man, and a flushed-face, heavily-built man, who a peared to be a naval officer, and who was pretty nearly too far gone in liquor to see @ ball across the table. “It was evident that the dapper Individual was a sharper and was engaged in fleecing his antagonist. Edwards looked angry in a minute, but said nothing. When the game was finished a bystander handed some mon- ey to the sharper, who had won, when the loser looked in our direction and espied Hayden. He gave no sign of recognition saye the slighest sort of a wink, and then addressed his opponent. “You can beat me easy,’ he remarked, ‘but I can pick a man in the room who caa do the same by you.’ The other immediately expressed his will- ingness to play anybody for any amount, and the naval officer, for such he turned out to be, and an acquaintance of Hayden's, staggered about the crowd, apparently aim- | lessly, and careened against Edwards. Un- |der his breath he whispered that the pro- fessional had won $30 from him, and then, | out loud, he announced that he would select | ‘this little fellow,’ as he designated Edwards |as his champion. ‘He can beat you for | fifty dollars,” he continued, with seeming recklessness, pulling out some bills. The money was quickly covered, and Edwards selected his cue from the rack. The game was a hundred pointe and Hay: den won the bank and made twenty-eigh.. | His opponent made a miscue and Haydea exactly duplicated his run. The sharper made a few caroms and slipped up on a draw shot, leaving the balls in the corncr, whereupon my friend got them in the jaw and ran the fifty-four points necessary to make the game. Hayden put up his cue | witheut glancing at his antagonist, and we walked out. ‘I detest that drunken lout,’ he remarked, ‘but I hate a professional bil- liard room thief a great deal more and made up my mind to give that one a lesson.’ The raval man overtook us at that moment, and it took us two hours to get rid of him and his exuberant gratitude.” “Everybody is getting vaccinated up my said Dr. L. R. Randall of Philadel- |phia at Wormley’s yesterday, “and I pre- sume the same conditions hold good here. Yes, the doctors reap a great harvest when a smallpox scare is abroad in the land. I don’t know what vaccine points are sold for by the druggists in Washington, but in | Philadelphia we get them for 10 cents ,aplece. It is not only the children who re- | bel against submitting to vaccination, but |in my practice I have met scores of men | and women who approached the operation | with almost as much fear as they would jhave prepared themselves to undergo an amputation of a leg. Speaking of vaccina- tion reminds me of something that recent- ly occurred in Germany, which is as nearly herioc as anything I ever heard of. Two German physicians, who had been prose- cuting researches into cholera, recently vaccinated themselves with a preparation made from cultures of the baccillus of that lawful disease, and afterward swallowed virulent cholera germs to test the efficacy of their experiment. They experienced no evil results whatever, and afterward, with | Serum of their own blood, they inoculated guinea pigs, and discovered that the ani- mals were thus protected against cholera, This experiment has turned the usual sys- tem followed in simllar researches entirely upside down. Heretofore the guinea pig has been the object upon which the virus Was first tried, but it appears that the Ger- man physicians were brave enough to offer themselves as possible sacrifices on the altar of advanced practical science. If you conclude to get vaccinated, just remember those two doctors, and don't whimper.” “There is a commercial custom in En- gland, as well as in many of the larger cities of continental Europe, that could be followed, 1 believe, with excellent results by the merchants and tradesmen of this country,” said Bernard White, one of the foreign buyers for a big New York dry goods se, at the Arlington this morning. “When a person enters a shop in London,for instance, and selects an article he may de- sire, no matter whut it is, and inquires the price, a certain sum Is stated. If the buyer |happens to have an account at the establish- ment and instructs salesmen to charge hi purchase to him he is politely informed that the price of the article is two or three pence higher than the first-named cost. This sys- tem is followed in all the better mercantile establishments in the united kingdom. The credit price is invariably a few pennies higher than the same article would be sold for spot cash. The reason for this is very simple, and, I believe, entirely proper. When a person buys a thing for cash the transaction is closed, and there is no fur- ther expense involved to either party. When a perosn buys for credit the item must be attended to by the bookkeeper, the services of a paid collector are brought into requisition for the collection of the bill, and the running expenses of the establishment. wherein the trade took place are thus in- creased. I understand that two or three of the largest and best known retail houses in New York, who sell goods on the credit plan, as well as for cash, are considering the feasibility of adopting a similar-eystem in their establishment: “The annual spring exodus of the poor people who are willing to work when they can get anything to do is beginning to take place from Baltimore,” said Spencer Loomis of the Monumental city at the National this morning, “and the objective point of their pilgrimage is Anne Arundel county, where the truck and berry farms will afford them employment for two or three months to come. The opening of the strawberry season in Anne Arundel county is always the signal for the class that I have men- cioned to pack up bag and baggage and de- sert their stuffy winter quarters for the pleasant fields of Maryland. Hundreds upon hundreds of the poverty-stricken peo- ple who barely manage to exist through the winter in a most precarious sort of a way find remunerative employment picking strawberries and peas and other spring and early summer berries and vegetables down there, while they also gain health and strength from their pure surroundings. If the Coxey fellows now out near Bladens- burg really want to work I can assure them that they can find the most pleasant em- ployment imaginable down in Anne Arun- del, that will beat living on charity and the backsheesh of the curious and sympathetic all to pieces.” “The men who had their money on Clif- ford in the Brooklyn handicap haven't got through kicking at Starter Rowe yet,” said Andrew Slater at the Metropolitan last night. “His action in leaving the favorite at the post when he dropped the flag to a start probably took $75,000 in original bets out of the pockets of Clifford’s backers. There is no doubt of Rowe's honesty, but makers without any action at all. The new jockey club should establish some rule to govern a starter. There should be a limit set upon the time the horses are allowed to remain at the post, and then there will not be so many breakaways caus- ed by jockeys maneuvering for position. Im the American Derby at Chicago last year, Pettengil! kept the horses back for an hour end a half. This was just as reprehensible on his part.as.the action of Rowe in send- ing off the handicap field with the favorite standing still while two other excellent horses were shut out from making a run for a place. The starter’s powers are entirely too autocratic, and I believe every horse owner in America would like to see a limit Placed on them.” “A great many of the criminal cases for which detectives are given credit for won- derful shrewdness and acute cunniag in Working up to a legal conclusion are a great deal of that estimable quality called luck,” said Henry A. Sullivan, a former fly cop of Chicago, at the St. James last night. “I don’t mean to say that the men in my profession are not keen and abun- dantly equipped with the subtle instinct which allows them to solve mysierious criminal puzzles that may be placed be- fore them, but in many cases where a crim- inal is apprehended and brought to book for ‘some well-covered-up crime the soddess of fortune has a great deal to do with it. I remember one instance, which ray serve as a case in point. Several years ago in Chicago a pawnbroker’s shop was eniered in. the night, its safe blown open and a very large quantity of watches and jewelry copteret — carried off. There was ab- solutely no clue to the perpetrators of the crime, and the police and detective depart- ments were at their wits’ ends to find some | Suggestion, no matter how faint it might | be, of the identity of the thieves. The work did not bear the impress of any burglars then known to be in Chicago or anywhere near it, but that it was done by profes- sionals there was no doubt, because every- thing was clean-cut. and the safe itself showed that it had been attended to by men who understood all about the business. ‘One night, a couple of weeks after the rebbery had occurred, three central office Getectives who were off duty were playing & friendly little game of poker over on the north side. Along about midnight all three of them got broke and concluded they would go home. While they were walking down the street they saw two men approaching carrying an evidently heavy carpet bag be- tween them. One of the detectives suggest- ed, in a jocose spirit, that the party might get another poker stak by holding up the men with the grip. His remark caused @ laugh and the trio proceeded toward the two men without further thought, when Suddenty the latter stopped irresolutely, Instantly the detectives suspected some- thing was wrong and intuitively closed im on the strangers. That carpet bag con- tained nearly all of the stolen property from the pawnbroker’s shop which was robbed as I described, and the two men were Tecognized as cool and determined burgiars from the east. Their names were Chase nd Muller and they are still serving their terms at Joliet. Of course the detectives were applauded by the public and the press for their wonderful shrewdness in running down the perpetrators of such a mysterious crime, and recovering so much of the booty, but the facts were exactly as 1 have stated and any Chicago detective can su! the story if you*ask him about quiet.” —_—_ UNION OF TENTS. Prof. Browne's Address at the Meets ing of the Order Last Evening. The Metropolitan Baptist Church, on R street between 12th and 18th streets, was crowded last evening to witness the exer- cises of the Washington Tents of the J. R. Giddings and Jollifee Union of the United States of America. The southern division of the order is now holding its twenty- jelghth annual session in this city. This order is one of the oldest and strongest benevolent organizations among the col- ored people. It received its charter sixty years ago. About three hundred of the members of the Washington tents, robed in | white and bearing the colors, marched into | the body of the church to listen to an ad- jdress which they had invited Prof. Hugh M. Browne of the colored High School to deliver. Prof. Browne spoke of the past and pres- ent of the race, and characterized the fu- ture as full of promise of development and ve have before us today,” he said, “the records of the experiences of two and a half centuries of slavery in this country; | the rec of thirty years’ freedom in this country; quite an extensive knowledge of Africa and its peoples, and the the civilizations of all the other races and peoples which inhabit the earth. The time, I believe, has fully come for us to widen the horizon of the negro problem and read our destiny between the lines of these ree ords. We shall fall to discover God's pur- Pose concerning us if we fix our attention upon any one or any class of facts in our history. We must take in the whole circle of His providences if we would come to know by what path He leadeth us, and to appreciate the design running through them = = on ed at the history of races }and peoples will show that each on its on- | ward and upward march has passed through three distinct stages, viz: Exypt, the wilder- ness and Canaan, and that the brilliancy of Canaan has most largely depended upon the fessons learned in Egypt and the discipline heeded in the wilderness. Tt Out for Himself. “When our training in the wilderness stall have cemented us into a nation able to take care of itself, we shall enter our Canaan. We, who are now living, may not be allowed to enter because of our disobedi- erce, but the inheritance will fall to our children. I have neither the time nor the | disposition to discuss at this time either the location of our Canaan or the honey which shali flow so freely i cannot possibly do better in this matter than to quote from a distinguished writer in a recent number of the Educational Re- view: “The Negro is being prepared for ¢tizenship and self-government: he is bein, lifted out of barbarism into civilization, ani 8 soon as he is able to take care of him- self and to carry on the lessons of his youth he will willingly coalesce into states and ; communities and start out for himself, And the hand of God will reach down and gather him together and put him some- where on the face of the earth where he can work out his own destiny in his own way. When this time comes, it will be done slowly and without jar or hurt to the scuth or to the negro.’ Let me conclude with the remark that if we study our pres- ent condition and environment in the light which I have hinted, we shall find that ‘all things work together for good to them that love God.’” The Other Speakers. Remarks were made also by Revs. Bishop Johnson, Bryant, Robert Johnson and Mrs. A. M. Lane of Norfolk, Va.; Mrs. H. R. Taylor of Hampton, Va., grand travel- ing deputies; Mrs. M. A. E. Chandler an@ V. A. Waller of this city. —__ HIS COAT LLET-PROOF. English Riflemen Shoot at the Tailor in His Armor. The Duke of Cambridge and a large num- ber of military and naval experts, together with the military and naval attaches of the foreign embassies and legations, including Lieut. Commander W. 8. Cowles, the United States naval attache, were t_yester- @ay afternoon at the Alhambra Theater in London to witness a special vest of the bullet-proof coat invented by Herr Dowe, the Manheim tailor. A number of shots were fired at Herr Do’ when incased in his coat, but the coat was not pierced. The shots were fired at different ranges, A committee, composed of well-known mill- tary officers, guaranteed that the tests were genuine, and all the officers present express- ed great satisfaction at the results. oo___—_ The Brooklyn Tabernacie. The elders and trustees of the Brooklyn Tabernacie held a joint meeting last night for the purpose of discussing the matter of securil a temporary place of worship. After "some Gebate they decided to secure the Brooklyn rink, on Clermont avenue. It was likewise resolved to employ, the Rev, B. Fay Milis, the evangelist idence, R. L, to fill the pulpit during Dr, Talmage’s absence, ————-0+____ Farnham Post Reinstated, ‘Noah L. Farnham Post, No. 158, G. A. New York city, isno longer an “ind veteran association.” It was taken back into the fold Tuesday night and the instal- lation of car —_ was mE ed in 7 — - street —— — +00 Naval Movements, ‘The Navy Department is informed thag