Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1894, Page 6

Echoes From The “Opening” Week Trade Of Our Shoe Dept. Many of the different lines were dipped into to a consi le extent during the Tush of opening week. It'll be our work to clear them out this week. Remarkably low prices will give you your choles of some of the finest-made, best-looking 2nd most select lines of Shoes you'll be fortu- Bate enough to run across. Here they are:— ee Misses’ and Children’s Shoes at 20 Per Cent Off. *¢** | High Shoes and Oxfords, in black and °° tam, button and lace. A big chance for e*** @ choice. Blk. and Tan Oxfords, $1.47. ***-* Black Blucher and Common-sense Ox- °° * © fords that sold for $2.25. $1 Bik. and Tan Oxfords, $1.97. $ °° Opera and common-sense toes and also Sos * Black “Juliets* that regularly sold for eer? $3.00. $1 Barnard’s Best Oxfords, §3-73- eee Hand-turned, Putent-vamp Blucher Ox- °° fords, Vici’ Kid Blucher Oxfords and *%** Louisheel Oxfords. Regularly $5.00. eee H $8.73. igh Shoes—$3.47. Very swell High Shoes, with large but- tons and “wing” tips—biack ai that regularly sell for $5.00. $3.47. Co'lt’s well to see them, even if you don’t buy. You'll Know what we have and what moderate prices we ask. Palais Royal Shoe Dept., A. LISNER, G and nth Sts. (Also see column 2, page 5.) it (iz PENNA. AVE. N. .AW~WT~_~v Ww. 55. ) 2 % le is, We ie proper (Don’t Be [3:22 Sae ee eae ery é {Ciailin Optical Co, | } a e 4 oe To Sleep fe C TEMPLE, F ST. ae By am anaesthetic whea you have a )| =~ aa xo tooth extracted. Have it extracted 4! Grossman sean ———— while you're in full possession of your Bata Pans sere | AWN ges i ~. ee con Gener dental opera: For City and Country i > ee Do eeeee RESIDENCES are made “here. tn H test most artistic desizns— yEvans Dental Parlors, )) are ude to “last at lowest { Ap extragrdipary price. RUBBER HOSE 5Co ott FIRST-RATE QUALITY GUARANTEED. ‘There’s no sense tn buying a 25-ft. reel of hese when, perhaps, 8 or 10. feet would do as’ well. You can buy as muck or as little as you want from us, and we'll guarantee ‘the stock In this hose every time. At this bargain price balance of wee! L. H. Hopkins, 933 F St. Get our number right—933. Carpets Up? If not, let us TAKE THEM UP, CLEAN and STORE THEM till next fall. It’s an easy way of being relieved of a great Buisance, at a very small cost. ‘When the carpets are up let us furnish the MATTINGS to be put down. Prices on Mattings are away down. $3.20 & [TTT And Tender and Lam 9 Juicy. WASHINGTON cattle. This week will be an un- one for lovers of good meat. Just now we have on hand some of the very finest Beef and Lamb ever sold in Washington, t prices same as elsewhere. Don’: fail to see us If you appreciate THOS. T. KEANE. Only the Very Finest Meat, 0 Center Market. HHT When you buy Butter do you Finest Elgin BUTTER, ded im brick form. "Fresh, a appetizing. delightful in fiavo 3 Lbs. Ve positively guarantee there's pothing finer to be had. It will 7 C. contribute an enjoyment to any ° meal. Try it, you'll be glad we the suggestion. T. D. DALY, 917 La. Ave. _set t full weight? .'S Taking Up CARPETS? Well, let us save you the trouble— doth of taki: up and cleaning. Our men will make short work of both and do them excellently. The Satisfaction of having a thing done right will compensate you for the small -ost. If you have no place to keep your carpets during the let us store them for - B. MOSES & SONS, HOME COMFORT FURNISHERS, 1th and F Sts. N. W. Ce Se Garden Hose Is another of our summer specialties. Our Teputation for selling only what's good Stands us in good stead here. Looks are deceitful im hose. You have to rely om the dealer. You can rely on us to give you good quality, and that at a moderate price. Remember, GAS RANGES are reduced. $5 of every range that usually sells for $20 or more. S. S. SHEDD & BRO., 482 9TH ST. N. ee Ne ee ee ae Ne Waterman‘ Refrigerators Are built on scientific principles, save money as well as save food. Ico ie too high to waste nowadays. Put Zor, ice Im the Waterman and it will not wasted. We have sold them for 13 Years without complaint. WATER COOLERS. Porcelain-lined, we $1.75 Wilmarth & Edmonston, \Crockery, &c., 1205 Pa. av./ Jet 3 to Le ee 19th CenturyDyeingé We have a thoroughly modern plant in every respect, including steam machinery and thoroughly skilled workmen. G7 Jost wow, our speciaity, everything worn in summer. Prices modest. Telephone J. Fisher, 707 9th St. r he AYER’S } AYER'S fe | HAIR VIGOR Hair Vigor | rr PREVENTS | rei BALDNESS, | conn Removes Dandruff RESTORES COLOR | eee | Fadea & Gray | ashe Sa | couoR | Best Dressing. They make one feel as though Hfe was worth living. ‘Take one of Carter's Little Liver Pills af- it will relieve dyspepsia, aid digestion, one und vigor to the system. THR MODERN MIRACLES OF HEALING WHICH are indisputably performed by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills should recetve the closest tnvestiga- tien by sick people and their frieuds.ja%3-tu&thly Physical Culture Corset Co.’ ipa coor S svumxnr corsers. original ‘ices. 107 G 8T. Mgr., NOBHANGH. xou this. week. SUMMER-WEIGHT CORSETS, and short Walxted, ne a, = values in LIGHT- Pirs. Whelan, w RSETS are here to tempt Jet wy oe ee oe we ww ww owe 4 } If You Have , , e t ‘ ‘To Squint: **** Your eyes in order to see pain, 4 2252 Moat insecn ats as “examine "sour { . Just bow bad your eyes and trou- 4} for samples and estimztes. re largest Tent and Flag ers in Wulted States. M. G. Copeland & Co., 409 11TH STREET (opp. “Star “EFMr. Adam Johnson wen the May aboe con- test by a vote of 1,494. If *“Wilson”’ Is Stamped in Your | Shoe It is O. K. Look for the name Wilson stamped in every pair of our calebrated $5 made-to- noes. Rut it is not a case of $2 for and $8 for the name Wilson. Fall $5 worth of shoe—the name Wilkon simply indicates merit and high quality. Any shade, tan or black, best leather, fit guaranteed, $5 to order. : P. S. Full line of the ceiebrated Wilson $3.50 shoes for tender feet. Wilson, “Shoemaker for tender feet."* 929 F St. N. W. Jet Ladies From Every Section of the City, corgetown, Nave Yard. &e. number our patrons among ¢ dents of all sections. All declare themselves pleased with the prices we charge and our style of DRESS- ING HAIR as well as SHAMPOO- CURLING AND CUTTING. May we number you among them? ‘S: Heller, 720 7th St. Jet We } Do You Not Enjoy Delicious Coffee? VERY ONE WHO DRINKS COF- fee desires the best. Yet how few obtain itt We do not hesitate to say that our makes the most de you ever tasted—all our trons Our price is but Little above the average, While the quality ix beyond say comparison with otter coffees. 38C. LB. = TrComplete stock of choicest Wines * and Liquors. ‘Jackson & Co.,626 Pa.Ave. roveries, Wines, ete. "Phone 1524. jet = Au MABE ASSSSOOP SP OOPEOOPOEEI OOH OOS The Best" ~ Gas ‘Ranges. This cool weather is un- natural. Time for cooking on & coal range Is almost up. First you know it'll be terrible hot, and a Gas Kange will be absolutely mecessary to comfort. Let us put in a word for for they are We set them tional cost. > 4 ° 2090SeSo 0% | | { We set them up free. 2-burner Gas Range, $13. 3-burner Gas range, 4-burner Gas Range, $22. Wash. Gaslight Co., 413 10th st. nw. f} AAA aR ee » OOSSHHOS HOSS OS HSOS SSIS SSO 38 i Pounds El gin Creamery Butter IN STONE JARS. ‘This is a Butter price extraordinary. At this rate it’s 22 cents @ pound, with a stone | crock’ gratis. for the 4 Butter, WEL NTEI ‘s (GENUINE EUGin (i REAMERY. Don't fail N. T. REDMAN, Wholesale and Retail Groceries, La. Ave. N.W, The American Catarrh Cure is the result of 26 years’ study and treatment of he disease. One bottle will convince the most it is always ready for use, jouche nor atomizer. It restores the hear- - hawking cough and expectorating, the headache and nose bleeding, increases produces sound siecp, invigorates and ‘increases vitality. Pre- B. JONES, M.D., 1336 8. Sth z E. P. MERT2, mr: I-s&tu3m 11th and F sts., Washington, D.C. PETSTET EF a | 9 Rese vatier gucis tx ear Same Ba | ; » Rubber Hose 5 AIL sizes. all grades, all kinds, for garden, LES, FIXTURES. AIRED. We are heady Examine our s Goodyear Rubber Co., RUBBER GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION ,\ 30 9TH ST. N.W., ABOVE PA. AVE. ( my3-im MELVILLE LINDSAY. Mer. > RUE SRS S A—~NY “Bright eyes, healthy complexion and a vigo: stem result from x. Augostura Bitters. ries Dr. J. GB, Siegert & Sous, at | all dealers. SDAY, JUNE 5, 1894-TWELVE PAGES. A MATTER OF MOTORS The Commissioners Report on the Metropolitan Bill. THEY SOGGEST SOME AMENDMENTS They Think Some Sort of Surface Motor Should Be Provided. JOINT USE OF THE TRACKS After two weeks of constant attention the Commissioners this afternoon com- pleted their report upon House bill 6171, to authorize the Metropolitan Railroad Com- pany to change its motive power. The re- port is radical in many respects and con- tains several important recommendations. The section making all plans of construc- tion and location subject to the approval of the Commissioners is retained, and a sec- tion is added providing for the maintenance of passenger houses. Another important recommendation is that permitting the Rock Creek railroad to use certain portions of the tracks of the Metropolitan Company, and the latter to use such portions of the Rock Creek Railroad Company's tracks as designated. Another change ts one which gives the Commissioners power to permit the use of the tracks of street railroads by the cars of other railroad companies tn the District at and near terminal points on lengths of track in each case not exceeding four squares. The most- important amendment urged, however, is one giving the company author- ity to equip its road “with surface mo- ters other than steam motors, or with an underground system for propulsion of cars other than a cable system.” In @iscussing the matter the report favors the adoption of some form of surface motor. Text of the Report. The full report of the Commissioners, which ts addressed to Senator Harris, chairman of the Senate District committee, is as follows: “The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have the honor to return here. with the bill H. R. 6171, “To authorize the Metropolitan Railroad Company to change its motive power for the propulsion ef the cars of said company,’ and to recommend amendments, with reasons therefor, as given below: “Amendment A.—Strike out all of section 1 after the word ‘provided’ in line 11 and substitute therefor the following: ‘With surface motors, other than steam mctors, or with an underground system for pro- pulsion of cars, other than a cable Provided, that the change to said ; Motors or said underground system shall | be first male on the streets followir gs. to wit: Beginning at 41-2 street and C ctreet southwest, running thence nocth on 41-2 strcet to Missouri avenve, st to ¢th street, north to B street. west to 9th any and north to 9th street ard Florida aven Provided, that said change of propuls! of cars so required to be frst made shall be commenced by said company without unreasonable delay after the approval of this act, and shall be fully completed with- in eighteen months after said approval, and that within three yCars after the approval of this act the change to sail surface ino- tors or said underground system shall be made tpon every other parc and portion of said company’s lines as now existing with- in said District, including extensions there- of on East Capitol street from 9th street east to lth street east, with a singl> track along each side of Lincoln Square, and, if surface mofors are used, from the inter- section of Water and O streets, south on Water street, east on P street to 41-2 street and north on 41-2 to O streets; {f surface motors are not used then an ex- tension on 41-2 street from O tu P streets is hereby authorized and present tracks on O street from 41-2 to Water streets may be abandoned; Provided, thet the part and portion of said company’s lines in the Capitol grounds and in 14th street from H to F streets shall be abandoned, the tracks removed therefrom and the pave. Ment restored by said company to good comlition, and there is hereby authorized for sald company’s tracks a rote on H street from 1ith to 13th streets and south on 13th to F streets northwest, or a route or routes substantially parallel thereto, as may be designated by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. And provided further, that the part and portion of said company’s lines on Floridu avenue and on 7th street shall be abandoned by said com- pany, unless the nature of the mechanical power used by said company wiil allow the use for its cars ot the tracks of the U street line of the Rock Creek Railway Company. In default of completion of either of sald changes of propulsion of cars as herein required all acts or parts of acts chartering the said rajlroad eom- pany or other railroad company of which the said railroad company may be the Successor or assign or extending the lines of eithe> are hereby repealed.’ “Amendment B.—Insert the following sec- tions, numbered 3, 4 and 5, after section 2, and make section 3 of the bill read sec- tion . “Section 3. All plans of location and con- struction of track and other structures in public places, pertaining to the said rail- way, shall be subject to the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, | and all work thereof shall at all times be subject to their supervision. The said com- pany shall, from time to time, deposit with | the collector of taxes of the District of Co- lumbia such amounts as may be deemed necessary by said Commissioners to cover the cost of inspection, supervision, chaages to water pipes and sewer connections, changes of curb and pavement, and work not otherwise provided for, which may be made necessary by the locaticn, grade or underground conduits of said railway; any unexpended balance remaining after the said reconstruction and extension of the road shail be returned to said company, with an account in full of the disbursements of such deposits. “Section 4, That the said company. shall furnish and maintain passenger houses, run cars to or into them, use first-class cars on its railway, with all the modern improvements for the comfort, convenience and safety of passengers, and sha!) run cars as often as the public convenience may require, in accordance with a time table to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, all as required by said Commissioners. The said Com- missioners may make such regulations as to mode of use of tracks and removal of ice and snow from tracks as, in their judg- ment, the convenience and other interests of the public may require. Should the said company, its servants or agents, fail to comply with any of the above-named con- ditions, or violate any ordinance cr regu- lation by this section authorized, said com- istrict of Co- and every such failure or violation, said fine to be recovered in any court having competent jurisdiction, at the suit of the Commission- ers of the District of Columbia. “Sec. 5, It shall be lawful for said railway company, having first obtained the permis- sion of the District Commissioners therefor, to make all needful and convenient trenches and excavations in any of said streets or places where said company may have the right to reconstruct or extend its road as eforesaid, and place in such trenches and excavations all needful and convenient de- vices and machinery for operating said railroad in the same manner and by the means aforesaid. But whenever such trenches or excavations would interfere with any sewer, gas, or water pipes, any | subway, conduits, or any public work of the kind, then the expense necessary to change such underground construction shall be borne by said company. The said company shall, before commencing work on said railroad, and, from time to time, deposit with the treasurer of the United States, who is hereby authorized and directed to receive such deposits, such sum or sums as the Secretary of War may consider necessary to defray the expenses that nay be ineurred by the United States for inspection tn connection there- with and in executing as the Sec- retary of War may require any work for the safety -of.the mains, fixtures or appa- ratus of the Washington aqueduct, rendered necessary by the construction of ‘said rail- road, which said railroad or its contracting agents may fail to complete, as deemed necessary by the Secretary of War or his authorized agent: Provided, That the sums shall be disbursed like other moneys ap- propriated for the Washington aqueduct, and that whatever shall remain of said de- posits at the end of one year after the com- of said road shall be returned to mpany, with an account of its dis- ‘ment in detail. Amendment c. Strike out all of section 4 of the bill, and add the following sections, numbered 7 and “Sec. 7. That when the Rock Creek Raii- way Compeny shall have ‘built @ branch from its line in 18th street, along Superior and 17th streets, as said latter streets may be extended, to Howard avenue, then the Metropolitan Railroad Company shall per- mit the Rock Creek Railway Company to Tun cars over its tracks from the intersec- tion of Florida avenue and Connecticut ave- nue to a polat in F street, not east of 11th Street, to be designated by the Commission- ers of the District of Columbia, upon condi- tions of use by the Metropolitan Railroad tompany of tracks of the Rock Creek Raili- way Company, from said intersection north- ward, of equivalent value of trackage as se- lected, and determined and adjusted from year to year, ty said Commissioners: Pro- vided, That the motive power for cars will allow the said interchange of trackage: Pro- vided further, That the use of trackage on the lines of either of said companies by the other said company may be further extend- ed by mutual consent and agreement.’ “Sec. 8 That the District Commissioners shall have the power to permit the use of the tracks of street railroads by the cars of railroad companies in the District of Co- Tumbia, at and near terminal points for lengths of track in each case not exceeding four squares, upon such terms and condf- tions as said Commissicners shall deem just, to the end that greater convenience of the public may be subserved without the duplication or unnecessary increase of rall- road tracks and for the prevention of switches or turntables in the streets. If either party is dissatisfied with the compen- sation for such use so fixed by the Commis- sioners, the compensation may be deter- mined by the Supreme Court of the Dis- trict of Columbia. And the said Commis- sioners shall be authorized to permit exten- sions of the lines of street railroads in said District, not exceeding in each case four ; squares in length, at the localities and for the purposes named hereinbefore.” The Reasons Given. Reasons for amendment a 1. The bill permits only a chenge of power to under- ground electric. The Commissioners do not look upon such system for street cars as being well established. It Is believed there ig no underground trolley operated and maintained by a railroad company In the United States, and that the Buda-Pesth con- duit, now two years or more old, has not been duplicated in Europe; and, consequent- ly, that latitude should be given for a cholce between all conduit systems, ex- cluding the cable system. The cable is noisy and dangerous; it was specially de- signed for steep grades, while the route of the Metropolitan road and that of any prob- able extension is generally level. It is further fudged that, excepting a steam motor, the new motive power al- lowed should inciude surface motors. Every recommendation as to car power for sireet railways made to the present Congress by the Commissioners has included surface motors. Subsurface constructions are al- ways objectionable; they cause an extensi tearing up of streets; they frequently nece: sitate changes of water, sewer and gas pipes, whose avoidance is desirable: they require numerous manholes, whose covers and other iron surface constructions of the conduit break the smoothness of Washing- ton pavements, diminish their freedom from ! nois streets Peskies the prevention of objectionable conduits, a surface motor would tend to diminish the gridironing of the streets of the national capital. The underground trolleys on the market number a half dozen or more, each enough different from the others to require arate tracks. There are now four tracks on 14th street between H street and New York avenue. Rapid transit on all of them would practically block the street; the sa is true of New York avenue and 15th si A part of 22d three tracks; cars of three differc panies now run cn a part of 9th and, by frequent use, obstruct the street. ‘The Metropolitan Company's cars reach the intersection of 7th street and ‘Florida ave- nue over the U street underground line. It is highly désirable for the public conven® enc» that they should continue to reach that point, and this can only certainly be se eured, without filling the whole roadway vith rafiroad tracks, by the use of surface motors, the U strect system, or the over- head trolley. Th tracks In the city, which must proba cease, and in case of future roads be mad imprecticable, thereby causing undesirable results, if different mechanical systems for propulsion of cars or different kinds of the same system are used by the dierent com- panies. Asa rule, each company wants the exclusive uge of a set of tracks in the pub- lic street. The suburban roads, nerally built or projected to favor land investments, are seeking entrance to the heart of the city over new routes, whether the new route in the city is needed by the public or pot. It is not the business of railroad com- panies to enhence or even preserve the quiet, freedom from obstruction and beauty e j of the streets of Washington; they are look- ing for traffic alone, without regard to the general public interest. An established surface motor would tend}| te displace the present overhead trolley which are not satisfactory on city or suc burban streets. The motor would cffer an alternative requiring no change of roadbed or tracks. In stort, the advantages of surf2ce motors of compressed air, gas, vapor, or other kinds, which are noiseless and’ smokeless, are very considerable, and their use shouid not only be allowed, but encouraged. One of the Commissioners is of opinion that if overhead trolleys and con- duits were positively prohibited, a sati factory surface motor would be promptly produced. In fact, one kind of surface motor seems to be available, or, to say the least, is very promising. According to a late report of the United States consul geaeral at Frankfort, pub- Mshed fn the consular reports for April, 1894, gas-motor cars are in successful opera- tion at Neufchatel and Dresden; a line of such kind is being built at Dessau, 2 com mission, headed by a government Way engineer, sent by the elty of No hausen, to examine and report on the work- ing of the new system, declares it to be a practica] success, and recommends its adoo- tion at Nordhausen. All this fs in the home field of the Siemens-Halske Electric Com- pany, which i{nstals electric roads, and within reach of Buda Pesth, where underground trolley has been in operaticn for two years or more. full extract from the report of the con- sul general is submited herewith. Its main points are that the two lines of gas motors are 3 and 3 1-3 miles long; that gas costs $1.05 and $1.00 per 1000 cubie feet at the two places, and 1s supplied from the ordinary street mains; and Chat the loaded car climbs a gtade of 6 23 per cent at four miies an hour, while the speed on low grades or Jevels {fs eleven miles and upwards per hour. Figures are given from an address before the German Gas Association of gom- parative costs of construction and equin- ment of a five-mile track line for overhond trolley,,gas motor and horse car system, making the cost of the Kas motor system but little more than for the horse line and considerable less than for the electric. The expert author of the address is quoted as stating that the net operating expenses of horse cars in Germany is 5 1 0 7 cents: of electric cars, 5 cents; and gas motor cars, 4 cents, gach per car kilometer; or, in other words, the gas motor system not only costs less for construction and equipment than | the overhead trolley, and, conseguently. much less than for e conduit system, but the expense of operation of the gas motor system is 20 per cent less than that of the overhead trolley. Reasons for amendment a, 2d. One year is consfdered to be too short a time for a selection of a motive power and completion of the change. It is important for the Dis- trict that the best selection should be made, and it seems only reasonable and proper for the public, as well as for the railroad com- pany, that the new system should be tried on one part of the road before its introdue- tion, or the substitution of another item, on the other parts of the road. of time and penalty for failure, named tn the amendment, were carefully considered before adoption for recommendation. 3d (as to route). The southern terminus of the Mh street line is O street at Water. The route could advantageously be extended along Water street and P street to the en- trance of Washington Barracks, and thence north on 4 1-2 street past the company's new car house, or depot. to jola the pressnt tracks. For such extension, the cable tracks should be used for two squares, and, there- fore, is only allowable for a surface motor} system. For any system the extension on 41-2 street to P street is desirable and prac- ticable. On account of the ceble tracks on Mth street between H_ street and New York aveaue, and especially if the cable line is to be extended on that street to Pennsyl- vania avenue, the Metropolitan tracks, for rapid transit, should be moved*from Lith street. in order not to have four tracks on the same part of a street. The running of rapid transit cars on racks in one di- rection and on two tracks in the opposite direction would require gates at the strest crossings and fencing between for the pre- ventjon of accidents, about the same as for a steam railroad. ‘he Senate District committee having taken action for requiring the running of the Movnt Pleasant cable cars through on 14th street to Pennsylvania avenue, mak- ing thereby two cable tracks on 14th street, the Commissioners’ amendment herein is made to change the Metropolitan com- pary’s tracks to H and 13th streets, from 14th and F streets between 13th and 14th, F and H streets. It is believed investigation will show that the best solution of the 15th street trouble would be to have one cable track on 15th street for south-‘@und cars, one track on i4th street from Peansylvania avenue to re are other examples of joint use of an | ‘The limits ; New York avenue for north-bound cars and one track on New York avenue for both the Georgetown cars going west and the Mt. Pleasant cars going south. In case of such an arrangement it would be a mat- ter of further accommodation for the pub- lic, motive powers permitting, for the Met- ropolitan east-bound cars to leave H street at 15th street and go south on 15th street |over ihe abandoned cable track to F, and | thence along F; while the west-bound cars should go up l4th street from F to H over the new cable track. Therefore, the route amendment herein recommended for the Metropolitan cars provides some latitude in selection of streets depending upon -the change, if any, made in the cable tracks at 15th street, and upon the kind of motive power selected by the Metrepolitan com- pany. Reasons for amendment b.—The proposed new sections, 3, 4 and 5,-are for conformity with requirements of street railway char- ters granted in late years and with recom- mendations of the District Commissioners on railroad bills made to the present Con- gress. |" Some of the requirements of the new sec- tions are embodi-d in the company's char- ter, but in general terms and without pro- vision for determination in case of differ- ences and without means of enforcement, All of the requirements are considered important and necessary. A Reasons for amendment c.—It is thought the wide and indefinite authority which section 4 of the bill would grant might | !nies of the District, and probably would embarrass the Metropolitan company in obtaining the means for changing its mo- itive power, which {s a main object of the bill. Therefore the amendment embodied in new section 7 limits the right of use of another company of the Metropolitan com- pany’s tracks to a single, well-defined case, and fixes a compensation therefor by ac- cording a right of equivalent value to the Metropolitan company. In this icular ease the public interests would doubly benefited. Thus it is desirable for the Rock Creek cars to reach the cummerciyl and shopping center of the city and for the Metropolitan cars to reach the Zoological Park and the Rock Creek Park. The public should have ample street car facilities for transportation to the grand parks of the District, and there is need of a street railroad from Mount Pleasant west of 11th street. 0 mended, when revorting on H. R. bili 2571. that the Rock Creek company be authorized to build a branch from 48th street to How- ard avenue, in Mount Pleasant, via Superior street and 17th street extended, and indi- cated that the road might be extended near- er the parks when the streets were opened between them and 17th stret extended. The authority for interchange of trackage would encourage the use of the same kinds of system of car propulsion. 2. The main object of new section § is stated therein. The switching in the street of mechanical power cars, especially in the crowded parts of the elty, is an obstruction, a mulsance and a danger. Running on private ground near the middle of the city | for switching is not an available remedy from the expense of land. Resides, a short circuit at a terminal better .2zecommodates the public. and where two or more lines meet on the circuit a passenger has more convenient facility for reaching different ; parts of the District. A present case in point is the terminal of the Columbia railroad on New York avenue and 15th street. ‘This company, has filed notice of an intention to changé, without delay, the motive power for thelr cars to cable, under authority of existing law. ‘The switching of cable cars at the point named | Would be an intolerable nuisance, and so, likewise, would be the operation of two additional mechanical power car tracks on New York avenue between 14th and lth streets. It is suggested that the words “and for other purposes” should be added to the title bf the bill. FOUR MINERS SHOT DOWN. The Sheriffs Power Unnble to Protect ‘Them. A telesram from Montgomery, W. Va., states that as the miners at Powellton were leaving the mines last night sevoral shots were fired at them from ihe si rounding timber, resulting in four men being killed. None ef the men who did the shooting were discovered. The pro- prietor cf the Fowellton mines telegraphed the fact of the shocting to the governor, stating that he had asked the sheri for Protection and esked if nothing cculd be done te protect his men. The governor :eplied that he had taken the proper course in calling cn the sheriff, but that under the state laws military atd coull be extended only when asked for by the sheriff. The governor said last night that he Was determined to use every meana to pre- i vent violence; that he is determined % maintain the law at whatever cost. He ordered three companies of military w be dy to march at a moment's notice. ‘an Powell, the manager for the Pow- elton Company, telegrapbed to Point Pleasant last night for bloodhounds tu be used in running down the men who shot the Powellton miners, eclal from Wellston, Ohio, says that 000 miners visited the town yerter- a. nd 2 menster demonstration was given, with 4.00 men im line, Dr. Hoy read a telegram to the assem- bled strikers to the effcct thit the Norfolk and Western railway mteuded to continue hauling West Virginia coal. The miners were greatly roused over this information and immediately xppointed a committee of twenty-seven to devire means to pre- jvent the hauling of “scab” coal and to report as to the advisability of moving in a body on the West Virginia coal fields and persuading the miners.to quit work. Dr. Hoy and others addressed the miners, begging them to refrain from violence. The feeling against the railroad is very bitter, as the miners consider that on tne action of the N. and W. and the Chesa- |peake and Ohio railways in hauling coal | hinges the result of the strike. It is re- ported that an unauthorized committee of several hundred started for the West Vir- ginia coal fields. ———— e+ — FAREWELL TO ANNAPOLIS. Opening Ceremonies of the Graduat- ing “Exercises at the Naval Academy. ‘The graduating exercises of the M4 class, United States naval cadets, began. yester- day at Annapolis and wil) continue until the Lith instant. The class of ‘M4, which } graduates Friday,is composed of forty-seven members—thirty-four of the line and thir- teen in the engineer division. The following is ‘the graduating class: | Line division—1, W. P. Robert, Mississippi; / 2, Daniel H. Cox, New York; 3, Irvin Van |G. GiMis, New York; 4, Thomas G. Roberts, Alabama; 5, David F. Sellers, New Mexico; 6, Lawrence 8S. Adams, Pennsylvania; 7, Raymond Stone, Alabama; 8John T. Tomp- kins, Louisiana; 9, Ridley McLean, Tennes- see; 10, Charles Webster, Massachusetts; 11, Provost Labin, New York; 12, Winston Churchill, Missouri; Lewis B. Jones,New York; 14. Simon P. Fullinwider, Missouri; i, Stephen V. Graham, Michigan; 16, Er- nest L. Bennett, Massachusetts; 17, John M. Luby, Texas; 18, Fritg L. Sandos, Lou- isiana, 1%, Gilbert S. Galbraith, Pennsylva- nia; 20, Melville J. Shaw, Minnesota: 21, Arthur S. Kavanah, Nebraska; 22, Charles S. Bookwalter, Illinois; 23, William P. Scott, vi ; 24, Carleton F. Sno’ Mis- 5, Robert H. Osborn, New Yo Roscoe Spear, Pen: Manion, Louisian North Carolina; Maryland; 31, William S. Whitted, North Carolina; G. L. P. Stone, Georgi: i, George C.Gelm, New York, 34, Clarence England, Arkansas. ineer division—1, John M. Hudgins, ; 2, Boling K. MeMorris, Alabama; ed W rk eely, 2, Walter 8. Turhine, », Roscoe C. Bulmer, Nevada; 3, Al ". Hinds, Alabama; 4, Roscoe C. Moody, Maine; 5, I. T. Cooper, Delaware: 6, H. ‘T. Baker, New York; 7, Ralph H. Chappell, Michigan; 8,, Leland’ F. James, South Carolina; 9, Frank Lyon, Kentucky; 10, Joseph M. Reeves, IMinois: 11, Hutch 1. Cone, Florida; 12, Emery Winship, Georgia: 3, Edwin H. Delaney, Tennessee. —— aw —heee EGAN SAYS IT’S ABSURD. That Parnell Had Anything to Do With the Phoentx Park Murders. Mr. Patrick Egan, ex-minister to Chile, when seen at St. Louis in regard to P. J. Tynan’s book containing startling charges relative to the Irish invincible conspiracy, which resulted in the Phoenix Park assas- sinations, remarked that Tynalh’s writing and publication of this book is said to be at the instigation of the London Times, which Is believed to be making a second attempt to connect the late Mr. Parnell and the Parnellites with the extreme or invincible Irish agitators, charged with the assassination of Cavendish. He was per- sonally aware of the fact that the Times had been seeking for evidence to vindi- cate its attacks on Parnell. He. said: “The charge that Parnell knew of these plans or that he was aware of the deter- mination to keep the office of chief secre- tary for Ireland vacant by assassination, or that he urged more vigorous action when the invincibles failed to assassinate is absurd on the face of it.” | operate unjustly toward railroad compa- | THE BUSY PYTHIANS Progress of the Preparations for the Great Encampment, CONTRIBUTIONS 10 THE CITIZENS’ FUND What Was Done at the Executive Committee Meeting. THE RAILROAD RATES ‘There is no abatement of interest in the coming of the Pythians. The committee on which rests the responsibility for this hearing event ts full of hope and hustle. Money was the thing most talked of at headquarters this morning. ‘The duty of gathering in the funds is in charge of Mr. Frank J. Donnelly and Mr. John M. Me- Clintock, and they are making strenuous efforts to have the people of Washington subscribe a greater citizens’ fund than was pledged for the Grand Army encampment. ‘This is possible, but hardly probable, as tor the last named celebration the people of Washirgton put up $51,000 in cash and paid in taxes the $90,000 which Congress ap- propriated. These canvassers have already secured over $20,000; the canvass is by no means complete and nearly three months are yet to elapse before the Pythian in- vasion is due. ‘This 1s an encouraging prospect. They report at headquarters that they contem- plate having no trouble in swelling the citizens’ fund to at least $40,000. This the committee think will be sufficient for the great enterprise with the addition of sev- eral thousands which this jurisdiction of the Knights of Pythias will chip in. Messrs. Donnelly and McClintock entertained sev- eral members of the committee this morn- ing with stories of the methods employed to reach the pockets of Washington's peo- ple. They have different ways of “striking” different men, and some of their tales are funny, some pathetic, and some tragic. Altogether, they say, the people of Wash- ington are responding to the call for money with about the usual degree of and spontaneity. Each man before he planks down his check wants to know how much the city is to be benefited by the outlay, and the fact that several hundreds of Washington's most solid business folks have piedged to swell the fund shows how strong is the belief in business circies that the’ and encampment is to Registering of Boarding Places. The business of the public comfort com- mittee, of which Mr. John H. Mitchell is the chairman, ts progressing at a satis- factory pace. The principal work which it has to do just now is the registering of accommodations for the advancing legions. The houseksepers of the city are sending in their addresses at a goodly rate, and all the hotels are on the books, but many available places of abode in Washington are as yet unaccounted for. They will all come in due time, but it is to the interest of those who wish to help to entertain the city’s guests that they send in their names and numbers at as early 9 date as possible. One of the things around headquarters at which a lauch can be indulged in is the dogged persistence of some Washington landladies. There are several of these a ; very few of whom are young, who headquarters two or three times daily to make inquiries as to how the land lays, and what the outlook is. Representatives of this class will pull up a chair by the side of Secretary Percy Smith, no matter how hard he happens to be working, and proceed to bore him with a biographical sketch, giving all details as to former prosperity, present reduced cir- cumstances, and a tlegeeg oy ry gee aren tion about the neighbors on the next square. Several of these —_ — ed granis of their premises and p! file. On one chart is indicated the loca- tion of the cots, which are numbered and can be reserved Hke an orchestra chair at the theater. Some ies have filed specimens of their bills of fare, which, if true, will compel many 6f the visiting knights to unbutton their waistfronts and take an anti-fat prescription. All day Sec- retary Smith sits and talks to the ladies, and writes, opens letters and answers them. ‘Talk at Headquarters. Secretary McNabb of the camp and camp grounds committee is one of the most con- stant callers at headquarters. He taken Pythian convention succeed. wp his residence there and is laboring for | the good of the cause. The work of his | committee is well advanced, and the 3 pects all that the most enthusiastic th- ian could wish. Mr. F. B. Crown, a member of the execu- tive committec, has tendered his resignation because of the stress of private business. He is heartily in accord with the work of the committee, and is with them like a brother knight, but the duties of the place assigned him on the committce could not be faithfully filled without neglect to his private interests, The resignation has been accepted. a There is a slight misunderstanding in the ranks of the subcommittee on music, which will be straightened out at the next meeting of the executive committee. It had its origin in the fact that the subcom- mittee misunderstood its instructions and entered into a contract with the Fourth Artiliery Band which was repudiated by the central committee. The matter was fully set forth in The Star one week ago. The contract read that the musicians were to be paid at the rate of 4 per day, with $15 for the leader, and that eight hours was to be considered as a day's work. This was unsatisfactory because the committee must heve a band subject to call at any time of the night or day for escort duty to incoming knights, and desire to make a contract for a lump sum. It is stated that some resignations from the music committee have been threatened, but they will not be accepted, because of the cer- tainty of an adjustment of the matter. As to Railroad Rates. Nothing definite has been heard today re- garding railroad rates. Mr. Hege of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad talks more to the point than any other railroader thus far and states that his company will an- nounce the encampment tariff within a few days. The exact figure is still in doubt, but it is accepted on all sides as a certainty that the fare will be reduced one-half, and ic is believed by many that a lower rate than this, even, may be agreed to, Several communications Were received today by Gen, John E, — Secretary to the trans- portation committee, but although ti al full of promises of good Denetine ee the part of the railroads toward the conven- tion and encampment, no rates have as yet been agreed on between the various traffic associations, A brief meeting of the executive com- mittee was held last night, with Chairman Richard Goodhart at the head. There were present Messrs, George W. Heisler, A. F. Medford, J. H. Mitchell, J. PB. Connor, J, W. Carter, T. H. Gladmen, N. Bunch, Not- ley Anderson, J. W. Cronte, J. M. ‘Kitne TE w. coop ie minutes of the previous meeting were disposed of. Secre- tary Medford read a communication from col, John M. Wilson, commissioner of public buildings and grounds, approving the plen of the camp which had been sub- mitts to him, agreeing to the use of the White Tot for dress parade and inspection and granting the ure of the S5-foot flag pole, not now set, for service during the encampment. The committee applauded all these courtestes.whith Col. Wilson had extend<3. The work ot making cuts of the camp grounds anf cirevlating diag-ams threugnout the Pythian world will be be- gun at once, and on this Chairman Ander- son is engaged today. To Witness the Mikndo. Vice Chairman Helsley moved that the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, of this jurisdiction be invited to attend the per- formance of the “Mikado,” to be given at the Academy of Music Wednesday even- ing and Thursday afternoon by the Ne- tional Ideal Opera Company, in uniform and as divisions. them without extra charge. Chairman Helbig of the music committee reported a slight disturbance in his com- mittee, but was advised to let the matter rest till the next meeting of the executive committee. A motion was made to adjourn because of the meeting of the Knights of Pythias Hall Aasociation, but pending the putting of it Mr. Anderson said that ke thoight it bad policy to cut the executive com- mittee meeting short and allow the meet- ing of the hail association to interfere with the transaction of the encampment business. Mr. Heisley replied to tils by saying the by-laws of the hall association compelled a meeting and that these had been made before the organiza‘! Seats will be reserved for | executive committee, and that therefore that Committee was interfering with the association. 4 Before adjournment a communication was read from Gen. Carnahan prophesying sreat things fof the co:ning encampment and expressing setisfaction with the opera- tions of the various committecs. A letter from the Secreta:y of the Treasury was also read permitting the use of the side- walk at the southeast corner of the ury for the erection of a etand. ee IN HOTEL CORRIDORS, “The public school authorities of the reat cities would do well, I believe, to adopt an innovation recently iptroduced in the public School system in my town,” said William 8. Moore, a well-known merchant of Detroit, at La Normandie yesterday. “I allude to the dental inspection of the scholars, which has recently been inaugurated, and the re sults of which have already been highly ap- breclated by many of the children’s par- ents. Mothefs and fathers are notoriously careless about the condition of their chil- dren’s teeth. The milk teeth are pulled out with a plece of string when they become loose and then no further attention is paid to the others that follow, except that the little ones are sometimes Sympathized with when their molars ache them. I am not @ dentist myself, but I have given a gool deal of attention to the subject, and I have found that blemished are the rule rather than the exception among the men and wo- men of the present generation. In most in- stances henge oO has crooked or un- e test rs childhood would have prevented he dis. = oe = —s children’s examin: y dentists, and the parents of the ‘canton who have bad teeth are informed in order @ great deal of as ure by the community in general, and, ‘white the children do not, of course, like to sub- mit to the woes of a dentist's chair, they will every one grow up to be thankful for the peg that they row regard as @ punish- “T can't understand your American news- papers,” said Walter Duffy Callan, an Irish gentleman, now residing at Stratford-on- Avon, where the immortal Shakespeare is interred, and who is visitihg relatives in this country. He is stopping with friends in this city, and was at the Riggs House Saturday night. “An acquaintance here called my at- — to @ paragraph published in an At- janta paper called the Constitution. It went gn to say that 6,000 Americans visited "7 peare’s birthplace’ every year, end added that most of them were of the sud- deniy rich class, who 0 to Burope because it is the fashion, while the fact was that they didn’t know the difference between the —— Stone and the Koh-i-noor, or the ‘ower of London and a hole in the ground, while few of them had “ munch ever read even so appreciative and:more familiar, not onl: with the writings, but with the vague his- tory of the Bard of Avon, than any other class of the people who come to it, not even excepting our own people. I can't, for the life of me, see why American newspapers are continually running down their own country. It seems to be particularly de- lightful to the average American newspaper writer to throw inky mud at his successfal fellow citizens who are fortunate enough to enjoy the leisure that weaith affords. The average Englishman, who reads all the stories in his own papers about the vulgar- ity of the American well-to-do classes, and then sees similar stories published in the Papers of the United States, expects, when he comes to this country, to find the tawdry and the make-believe overtopping all else. He is agreeably surprised to find that neither the journals of his own people nor those on this side of the water correctly represent the better classes of Americans. He quickly discovers that the refinement of the better American homes and the peopie who occupy them is not to be surpassed by the aristocracy of eny older nation. And he will also find, which is better still, a true eppreciation the better things of life among those who can afford to enjoy them. But I was amazed at the far west. I spent three weeks in Denver and I never met more cultivated people in my life. Their society is charming, their homes are superb. When I go back to England my notions of America will be vastly changed. But T can’t understand the way yotr newspapers invariably sneer at everything American after it gets enough to indulge in the satisfaction of a cultivated taste. They should be ‘called down,’ as the saying is here, and be taught that a person must fot pov meey ny A be an. — vul ~ be- cause happens worth t vewr forty thousand ‘actars a year.” o “June is the budding month of sevetal other sweet things besides the noses,” sald Albert F. Bittman of Ithica at the Ebbitt this morning, “and among them is the girl graduate. Within the next two weeks wo- men’s colleges and high schools and finigh- ing academies and all the other institutions where the fair sex is guided up the plane of a higher education will invite their friends and patrons to see hosts of white ymuslined creatures bid adieu to the school room and launch their frail crafts upon Ufe’s troubled ocean, as most of their vgi- e@dictorians will remgrk. [ was present “at & discussion up home the other day, in hich this question of higher education of ‘women was consi in regard“to its ef- fect upon the future healthy growth of the nation. There were several professors and other learned gentlemen present, and the consensus of opinion seemed to be that the System now in, vogue of educating a girl in the higher branches of learning would ventually have a tendency to reduce the intelligent population. The teason for this was found in the fact that girl graduates stect clear of matrimony, It was shown that only 36 per cent of all the young ladies who have received diplomas at Vassar Col- lege got married, while the results In many other directions were equally as alarming; | Consequently, I suppose, if the women’s col- leges keep on turning out graduates for two cr three hundred years the country may } Peach a state where its intellectual peopie | will be comp: entirely of spinstere and | bachelors. J: , however, it see to me to be Wery easy to sce where the highly educated woman shuns matrimony. TI don’t hate my own sex, but the average man of today does not meet the require- ments of the average woman, and the bet- ter a woman is educated the better qualified she becomes to steer clear of the various pitfalls which matrimony with an averace man promises to be full of.” ] } ! i } | “The author whd proposes to write the real and only American novel may find a very fair plot In the story I am about to relate.” said Frank N. Harris of Chicago at Willard’s yesterday. “Several years ago the people of a small western city bezan to wonder how the cashier of the leading bank could afford to ilve as well as he appeared | to be doing. His salary. it is true, was very Uberal, but his expenditures far exceete? it. He bullt himself a splen@id residence, had hig horses and carriages, and all to- gether conducted himself like a man who owned rather than worked for a bank. He had the contidence of the bank directors, however, and the rumors and gossip thet reached their ears apparently had no effect upon them. The cashier was suddenty taken sick with a Ingering malady, and la: | in a barely conscious condition for two three months,-when @eath finally claim him. An examination of his books which fo lowed hie death showed an apparent det ciency in his actounts of over ¥ i | Peal friends were thrnderstruc and woul | not believe that the dead man had heen dis- honest. His bondsmen, too, could not be jconvinced that he had made way with the funds of the hank. but the books showet the shortage. While they were arranging to make the sum good the ceshier's widiw came forward end presented the bank pre* | dent with a check for the entire amount. } telling him thet she knew her husband | had ‘never taken * cent of the money, and | that, while she coulin't vnderstand the ap- ‘parent preof of his dishonesty, she was sublimely confident that he died a ¢: upright man. No one knew, either. wh the widow had rotten such 2 v sum of ready money. She continued t> oc- cupy the family home, and ther change whatever in her | the town was therefore recond mystery, as inexplicable ar the firet. {Four years after the death of the ca the man who had been assistant cash and who had succeeded to the when it was@na ant, also d his death he confessed that when his pre- decessor was taken ill and had relapsed linto a comatose condition, whence the doc- tors said he could never recover, he him: had manipulated the books of the faulter, and had takep the own, uses. He left his propert; widow of the man whose memory he h } so dishonored, and it then turned dut that | the former cashier had early in his career invested in weetern mining stock, and that the money he was spending #9 lavishiy during his life, and from which his widow made good his apparent shortace after his | death, was the result of his wise foresight when he was a mere bank clerk. Now, I tion of the | think that’s a pretty good plot for a novel.”