Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1894, Page 6

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No necessity for getting a 25-ft. reel hose when perhaps 8 oF 10 feet Would do as wei EF How about a LAWN MOWER? We have first-rate ones at $3, $3.25 and $3.50. L. H. Hopkins, 933 F St. “Everything in Hardware and a BRE SESRTT SEE ANGOSTURA BITTERS SHOULD FIND A PLACE im every housebold. The best cure for indigestion. SIEGERT & Manufactured by Dr. J. G. B. SONS. All dealers Keep them. AN OPERA SINGER SPOILED. King Oscar o: Have Made Hi! From Lerdon Truth. King Oscar, out of patience with the long and fearfully cold Swedish winter, has gone to sun himself on the Riviera. He is an accomplished tenor, and was in his young days one of the first in Europe. Be- fere he succeeded his brother he was the idol of Stockholm society, in which he then mixed a good deal. He was fond of singing at private concerts, at the houses of his friends, and, indeed, might have, were he obliged to earn a livelihood, supplied the void caused by the retirement of Mario from the operatic stage. The tall, lithe, graceful, and manly figure of tha king was everything the stage re- quired for a trovatore. A more strikingly handsome or prepossessing face could not be imagined. The eyes were at once black as night and bright as day, the features of a noble aquiline cast, and the countenance beamed with a ity. He escaped being a dilettante by having to serve in the navy, and not as a prince, but as an ordinary officer, except Im respect of pay—he not being ajlowed, because of bis royal status, any salary. On coming to the throne he gave up music, except in the innermost home circle, to attend to the serious and | the parade duties of kingship. His amiable, tactful, and courteous man- ner render personal intercourse with him delightful to his subjects—even in Norway, where he is bound to live at least six weeks a year. Prince Eugene, more than the other three sons, inherits his grace of manner and the taste for pictorial art of the late King Charles. Oscar {s a charm- ing writer. I was shown, in Sweden, ele- gantly-turned little notes which he wrote in former days to different friends. Queen Josephine, his mother, treasured his letters written from abroad wh weden-Norway Would Fort the Stage. nm he was a young naval officer. I believe she had them printed for private circulation. The je on Charles XII, which ap- peared last year in a t Was supposed to ha ondon magazine, and e been specially con- tributed to it by the king, was written More than twelve years ago, aud publicly read by the royal author. In when the Norw queen goes to Ulric Drottningholm. She floor, in the season is over, lives rooms used by Princess of Denmark and her mother. king drives over to see her every Sunday, and lunches with her. on the ground the crown The —~-eo—__ The Smuggled Garter. From the Atlanta Constitution, On the promise of seeing something new, ff not startling, I accompanied an acquaint- ance to meet an incoming steamer from | Europe. My acquaintance had informed me | that his cousin was bringing over goods of | very great value, and I expected that con- siderable trouble would be consumed in ex-j} amining and appraising the articles. The “cousin” was an tive young lady and |{ looked rosy and hy as she tripped down the long p ad a delightful | n good enough to nese were found, y examination of “were oniy or- aw dinary w i the backs, and we started off. We went up town and| made for a good restau t. The interest- | ing small talx of travelers filled in the time} until we three were seated at a table and} the order given for luncheon. The lady sat Rext to wall. ything is aJl right, Julie?” she replied, smiling tri- ymised to show this gentieman some- | “There's no catch on, | committees mentioned THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, ITIZENS TAKE HOLD Encouragement for the Knights From the Meeting Last Night. VASTNESS OF THE ENCAMPMENT Commissioner Ross Made Chair- man of the Movement. A NEW COMMITTEE Pursu&nt to the call issued on Monday by the District Commissioners there was a meeting of citizens yesterday afternoon at Willard Hall for the purpose of forming a citizens’ committee which shall co-operate with the Pythian encampment committee in the matter of the biennial convention of the Supreme Lodge and biennial encamp- ment of the Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias to be held in Washington in Au- gust. The Pythian committee attended. After a season of informal talk Commis- sioner John W. Ross took the stand and ex- plained the reason of the meeting. The ob- ject of the call, he said, had been given full and careful consideration by the board of Commissioners, and their decision was that the co-operation of citizens with the Pythians was the proper thing. All Wash- imgton should be interested, and was inter- ested, in making the Pythian celebration a success. The fair name of Washington de- manded this. The citizens had no idea of interference with the plans of the Pythian committee, as the members of that meri- torious order had worked faithfully and weil, and had appointed their various com- mittees. There was no design on the part of the citizens to disturb this arrangement. The citizens felt that in large part the responsibility for the, appropriate enter- tainment of the visitors rested on them, and, because of this, they had felt it their | duty to organize. It was a duty made im- perative by the magnitude of the coming encampment. Commissioner Ross then made fitting ref- erence to the size and influence of the or- der of Knights of Pythias, anc alluded to the now well advertised fact that Wash- ington {s the birthplace of the order, and that its founder, J. H. Rathbone, lived and died here. The promptings of patriotism should urge the citizens to aid in the cele- bration. This action should be dictated by local pride. He said, from what he had seen and heard, he believed that throngs of American people from all the states and ter- ritories would come to Washington. This city should provide handsomely for their welcome. Washington was their city. They owned these magnificent avenues and mighty buildings. They had a right to ex- pect fair treatment in this city, which they loved as their capital and in whose welfare it pride. on, he said that his duty was Hing the meeting to order and stating its objects, and it now remained for the citizens to perfect a permanent organi- zation. The Expected Crowds. As he took Kis seat, Mr. Marshall W. Wines arose and briefly put Mr. Ross in romination for the chairmanship of the committee. He put this motion, and it went with a rush. Mf Lawrence Gardner nomi- nated Mr. James McNabb, jr., as secretary, and this nomination prevailed. Mr. Richard Goodhart, chairman of the executive com- mittee, Knights of Pythias, then addressed the meeting. They wanted the aid of the citizens, and the success of the celebration made this assistance necessary. ‘The order was born in Washington in 1864, and the Supreme Lodge was organized here in 1808. Its organization extended to every state and territory in the Union and to several foreign countries. In the United States it had a membership of over 500,000, the uni- form rank was between 50,000 and 60,000 strong and the endowment rank had a mem- bership of 40,000. At the last encampment and convention, which was held at Kansas City in 1sv2, the Grand Lodge of the Dis- trict invited the Supreme Lodge to meet here. Before the Grand Lodge of this juris- diction made this invitation it was sanc- tioned by the board of District Commission- ers. Representatives of the Grand Lodge had also conferred with the board of trade, and had received “encouragement, which to @ great extent warranted them in extending the Invitation to the Supreme Lodge. Al- ready they had gained one point, and that was in securing the use of the Monument lot for the camp, in which would be pitched 3,000 tents for the use of the uniform rank. They had every reason to believe that the city would be thronged with those attracted by the convention and encampment, the beauties of Washington and the low rail- road rates. “Why,” sald Mr. Geodhart, “in Kansas City, in that far-off place, away out across the state of Missouri, 116,000 people entered during the term of the encampment.” They expected that Washington would have at least 150,000 guests. Mr. Goodhart then dropped into a panegyric on the order of Pythias. He quoted the statement made by Senator Wade Hampton, that the Pythian order had done more to bring about a bond of sympathy and unity between the north and south,than any other organization. Resolation Adopted. The secretary then rcad a letter from Mr. B. H. Warner, expressing his regret at being unable to attend, but pledging his aid, and otherwise giving encouragement to the projectors. He said that although the board of trade would take no action oMicially as a body, yet the members, in their individual capacities, could be relied en to further the success of the Pythian celebraticn. The letter was applauded. Mr. Lawrence Gardner then presented a resolution previding “that the chairman of this meeting be authorized to appoint a cemmittee of fifteen to represent the citi- zens in the arrangements for the reception, comfort and entertainment of visitors at- tending the biennial encampment of the Knights of Pythias, beginning August 27 next; that the committee so appointed be requested to confer with the local Knights of Pythias committee, and to take such action as it may thea deem best to promote the success of the encampment in August and to insure to visitors a hearty welcome and a pleasant stay; ard that citizens generally be urged to give ald to the efforts of the to provide for a yper entertainment of the city’s guests.” yen. John E. Smith moved its adoption. Chairman Ross then called for remarks. Mr. Goodhart expressed his admiration for the resolution. Mr. Wines spoke in its favor, and it was carried. Confidence Reig: Chairman Ross announced that he was not then quite ready to name the commit- tee, but would do so in due time. Mr. Good- hart and Mr. Medford explained that a special meeting of the Pythian executive committee had been called for Thursday night, and Chairman Ross stated that he would have his committee ready by that time. Mr. H. P. Godwin moved that a vote of thanks be extended to Col. Staples for the use of the hall, which was done. After ad- journment, there was a free exchange of ideas and congratulations between the Pythians and citizens. Everybody sald to everybody else that the event was to be a go. That there was nothing to prevent this being made the biggest and the greatest display which the people of Washington have ever witnessed. Even after the citl- P . She blushed furiously and re- . I don’t know that I care, but | don't know ¢ her hand a a it was closed over it toward me, saying: 1 be careful.” I did as y palms mond y blazed hispered,“Smuggled y, While her compan- ion smiled ay and remarked: “1 shall keep that interesting piece of ribbon. It saves me several thousand dollars in du- ties." ' “There's another like it,” said the fair cousin. “But I guess I won't teke that off.” The other, of course, was on thi next to the wa now for a she added, that article was ‘for use as well as profit, and if I w ell, it might come down, and that wevdn't be pleasant.” And after lunch went away in a c the happy smugglers | see Fatal Oil Steve Explosic By the explosion of en oil stove at the house of Louis Kin 1 North 24 street, Philadelphia, yesterday, Rebecca King, a daughter, was burned to death, a 1 her baby were badly nage to the house amounts | { hosp zens left the hall they got together in groups on the portico or the sidewalk and discussed the situation. Confidence reigned at headquarters today. 1| Everybody felt that although the success of the undertaking has never been in doubt, yet victory is much more certain to be real- ized now that the citizens have taken hold with the intention of making !t one of the most gala periods in the history of the na- onal capital. The collectors report that the action of the citizens has given a na- tional tone to the coming celebration, which all the people of the District did not seem tate before. Some who have al- nibscribed have, out of respect for ction of the Commissioners and the the citizens as expressed in the meet- yesterday afternoon, signified their to double their subscriptions. Py- ock is still going up because of yes- terday’s boom. A great many citizens with whom The Siar man talked expressed sur- prise at the vastness and dignity which the coming celebration is assuming. They said that up to the time when The Star began to print full reports of the doings of the executive committee they had been under the misapprehension that the celebration was to be strictly a Pythian event, in which the citizens properly could share but little, and In which they did not feel any glowing of interest. All this is changed now. ot only a Pythian affair, but a na tional event, and the city of Washington {s called upen to prove that her reputation for tality is mot undeserved. There will be a full meeting tomorrow night of the execu- tive committee to confer with that commit- tee which Commissioner Ross is to appoint. Friday night at the Ebbitt House there is to be a conference between the executive committee and General Carnahan, com- mander-in-chief of the Uniform Rank, who will arrive with two members of his staff from Indianapolis tomorrow at noon. This is to be an important conference, but now that the citizens have spoken the local Py- thians have no misgivings as to the result of the session. A communication was received at head- quarters today from Frederick A. Lang, grand chancellor of the jurisdiction of Iowa, asking that headquarters be provided for that jurisdiction at the National Hotel. Other communications were also received. ——__— SHE TOOK POISON. Mary A. Bailey. Mary A. Bailey, a young colored woman, who failed to make for herself a record of which she might be proud, ended her earthly troubles last night by taking a dose of “Rough on Rats,” a mixture which never fails to do deadly work when taken with suicidal intent. Mary came here sev- eral years ago from Virginia, so it is said, and soon found a home in an alley in the northwest section of the city. She was a good servant, and had no trouble in getting Positions in good families, where she earned. @ salary larger than that earned by the average servant girl. But she was dis-! honest, and for that reason she did not get } 7, alcng so well. At the houses of ex-Post- master Conger and Mr. George Laferty, where she worked, she helped herself to the jewelry belonging to the wives of the persons mentioned. In November last De- tectives Weedon and Lacy arrested her, and recovered the jewelry, but Mary was well liked by her employers, and it was due to ~ kindness that she was not sent to Jail Sin her arrest she has lived in St. Mary's court, between 23d and 24th, G and H streets, where she had a male companion and several children. Not long ago this male companion left her, so the police say, and last night she took the fatal dose. Per- sons in the house discovered her condition before she died, and a phyrician was called, but Mary was unconscious and the poison had taken effect to such an extent that Tecovery was impossible. She died about 10 o'clock. ———— WAR’S NEW TERRORS. Devices for Slaughter That Are Almost Beyond Imagination’s Grasp. From the New York Sun. Indicatious are that when two European armies eventually meet on the field, if the war talk ever resolves itself into actual con- flict, a good many men will faint away in terror of their adversaries. The “inven- tions” which have been brought out lately in France,Germany and Austria, and which hay been purchased by the governments of those countries, are innumerable, and every one of them is designed to slaughter human life at a rate that appalls the imag- ination, The most intense and theatric se- crecy is maintained concerning all these in- ventions, and only a few general facts re- garding them have been made public. The German army, it is understood, is armed with rifles which will send a bullet through four men, standing one behind the other, at a distance of two and a half miles from the rifle. Austria has a machine gun which shoots several thousand bullets a minute, which Is operated by steam and controlled by a single gentleman with a waxed mus- tache and a monocie in his left eye, who lightly turns the crank. At least this is the condition of things according to the jatest illustrated journals at hand, The man with ihe eyegiass can turn the crank fast enough to sweep thirty or forty thou- = men into eternity during the luncheon jour. Incidentally, a German tailor has invent- ed a coat that makes the wearer absolutely indifferent to bullets at any range, and the Italians have machines for throwing very smail and aimost invisible torpedoes a dis- tance of nearly a quarter of a mile. ‘The torpedoes describe a parabola in the air, drop into the camp of the enemy, and ex- plode with force enough to kill a hundred or more soldiers, if they happen to be in the vicinity. Great numbers of them can be thrown at a time, and a pleasing and cheer- ful feature of it is that there are no disa- greeable odors nor any smoke whatever when the explosion occurs, M. Turpin of France is the latest hero in tnis direction. He has invented something which is so altogether awful that the tax- payers have requested the government to give M. Turpin a great amount of money so that he will not turn his machine over to the Germans. This machine is operated by electricity, and, according to its inven- tor, it is of so terrible a naturé that it will d> away with all fortifications throughout the civilized world. This is merely a detail of the execution which this machine is ex- pected to accomplish. Forts will be of no use, because M. Turpin’s machines would rend them all into atoms, and at a distance of several miles a man can mow down the enemy at the rate of 20,000 at an engage- ment. The facts are inspiring, but there is a lack of detail about them which is in ac- cordance with much of the literature which has lately been put forth by the various Munchausens among ‘the war officers of Europe. The Turpin invention so far out- strips everything else, according to the crit- ics of modern warfare, that it will insure universal peace. One machine alone is ‘Richardson of Louisiana, Mrs. Alice Hill of enough to devastate a country. CURIOUS HAILSTONES, America They Sometimes ‘Toads and Pebbles. From the Atlanta Constitution. A gentleman connected with the Museo Nacional (National Museum), at San Jose, Costa Rica, in a private letter tells a graphic story of the wonderful hailstorm which recently visited the southwest coast of that Central American republic. His let- ter, In part, is as follows: “The cloud came almost directly from the west, and was blacker than the proverbial ‘Egyptian darkness.’ We are now well used to tropical storms, with their accom- paniments of real thunder and itning, something grander than the folks in old Missouri have ever seen or heard, but in this case it seemed a thousand squalls, hurricanes and cyclones combined in one. All of a sudden there was a terrible roar- ing and splashing in the bay near the camp. I have since thought that the only thing it could be compared with would be a shower of bricks and cobblestones fall- ing into the ocean. We had hardly time to take shelter in an immense hollow guave when that portion of the cloud which was dumping its immense load of ice into the salty water veered to the northeast and crossed to the treeless tract of m ains lying over toward Hanfeta. It was hot a hailstorm in the grand, true sense of the word—it was simply an awful precipitation of thousands of tons of ice from the clouds. Some of these lumps were not larger than one’s fists, but the majority of them were larger than full-sized building bricks, and one which buried itself in the sand near our camp kettle on the beach was a jagged, three-cornered mass of ice weighing twen- ty-tZree pounds an hour anda half after the storm cloud had passed. As one of the boys afterward remarked: ‘It seemed as if the cloud had been frozen solid to a depth of about six or eight inches and then sud- denly knocked to pieces and thrown to the earth.” But few of the ice chunks bore the least resemblance to ordinary hailstones; all were of jagged and irregular form, the majority of the pieces containing some foreign substance, such as a ball of earth, wads of rotten leaves, sand, fish and frog spawn, &c. The head of a dead sunfish was found in one piece, and a half dozen or a dozen of the ice slabs gathered up and put Into our water jar yielded two live and one dead frog, a \mass of kelp, or seaweed, three small pebbles,a seashell and some queer black seeds about the size of buck- shot.” . —_—__-o-_____ The Mevs Case. The diplomatic correspondence just pub- lished by the State Department shows, among other things, that the government of Haiti paid $6,000 United States currency in settlement of the much talked about Mevs case. —__-_ + 2-+_____ Investigating Charges. Second Assistant Postmaster General Neilson has returned from Buffalo, N. Y., where he went to investigate charges of violation of departmental rules. so The New York Guard Encampment. Col. Henry C. Merriam, seventh infantry, has been detailed to attend the encampment of the National Guard of New York at Peekskill, commencing June 16, — Disbarred From Practice. Frederick Douglass, a pension attorney of Newberne, N. C., has been disbarred from practice before the Department of the Inte- rior for taking illegal fees MOUNT VERNON’S REGENTS Extending Oourtesies to Gov. O'Ferrall on Historic Ground. The Many Improvements Made at Washington’s Home—One Lady Makes a Complaint. The annual council of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, which has been in Progress since Thursday last at the man- sion at Mount Vernon, is likely to conclude today, although the ladies may not return to town till tomorrow afternoon. It has been a busy session, and will continue so till the end. Mrs. Justine Van Renssalaer Townsend of New York, the regent, presides at the daily meetings, and the vice regents present are Mrs. Barnes of this city, Mrs. George R. Goldsborough, representing Maryland; Mrs. Elizabeth A. Rathbone of Michigan, Mrs. Letitia H. Walker of North Carolina, Mrs. M. J. M. Sweat of Maine, Mrs. E. B. Mh os ington of West Virginia, Mrs. Emma Dell ot Virginia, seas i H. Pickens of South Carolina, Mrs. S. E. J. Hudson of Connecticut, Mrs. M. T. Letter of Illinois, Mrs. J. M. Ward of Kansas, Miss Alice mgtellow of Massachusetts, Mrs. I. A. Colorado, Mrs. Baker of Florida, Mrs. Dun- das Lippincott of Pennsylvania, Miss Mary Lloyd Pendleton of Ohio, Mrs. Francis Con- over of New Jersey, and Miss Mary Polk Yeatmans of Kentucky. The week has been taken up with detailed discussions of the reports of the regent and ef the superintendent, Mr. Harry Dodge, and today the ladies are talking over the re- port of the treasurer of the association, Mr. E. F. Riggs. The general air of prosperity which has prevailed around and about the home of Washington of late years has in- creased during the past twelve months. Visitors are impressed with it from the moment they land, either at the wharf or at the railroad station. From the station to the steps of the mansion along the graveled walks there has been laid a path of broad stone flags. Mrs. Dundas Lippin- cott, the vice regent of Pennsylvania, bore the cost of this improvement, and nothing better could have been devised for the com- fort of every visitor. The ordinary work of restoration, witch has been going on from year to year, has been continued, the more special branches being paid for by the vice regents, either out of their own pockets or from contributions in their states. Mrs. Hearst contributed the money to drain a tract of land on the river front, but the association next year intends to have a water wall built to preserve the river front from further destruction. The Old Coaches. The old coach house, with its generous provision for the storage of carriages, has beem restored to what it was in Washing- ton’s days, and now the ladies want to com- plete the illusion by replacing one or more of the family coaches in their accustomed places. They have some information that these ancient vehicles are still in existence, and they hope for the same good luck in securing them that they have had in getting together other important relics of the father of his country. So many genuine relics, both in the way of furniture and personal belongings, have been either given or loaned that the rooms of the mansion now look as full as formerly they were barren of all these interesting things. Mrs. Charles Coi rad of New Orleans has presented lately a dressing case in lacquer work, a pocket toilet case and a beautiful ivory fan, all of which belonged to and were used by Martha Washington, She has also given to the as- Bociation two handsome silver lamps, which originally stood on éither side of the mantel in the old banquet hall. ‘The old spinning house has been restored and is now one of the most interesting places about the grounds. Mrs, Ward, the vice regent for Kansas, stood the expense, the money having been collected from the schceol children of her state. The front room has a rag carpet, a number of large and small spinning wheels and a rude loom, all of which once made music and material for Mrs. Washington. The small rooms in the back of the house have been fitted up by vice regents, named for their states and during the council are occupied by them. Some of the furniture was once used at Mount Vernon, but the most of it is of the same period and was used in other historic homes, | The Governor's Visit. ‘The council did little or no business yes- terday, the time being given up to the re- ception and entertainment of the governor of Virginia. A clause in the charter of the association makes it binding on the oc- cupant of the gubernatorial chair of Vir- ginia once a year while the council is in session to visit and personally inspect the property. It was Gov. O'Ferrall's first of- ficial visit yesterday, id he was accom- panied by Col. Robert Washington and Mr. Taylor Barry, who were named by the leg- islature for this duty. Mrs. O’Ferrall ac- companied the official board also. Mrs. Townsend, the regent, and her associates, after welcoming the governor, entertained the party at luncheon. Superintendent Dodge afterward escorted the governor and his alds all around the mansion and grounds, showing the new work and ex- plaining what was in contemplation for the coming year. The governor everywhere took occasion to say pleasant words of commendation, but perhaps nowhere more than in the old garden, where Mr. Franklin A. Whelan, the head gardener, and his as- sistants, were on hand to recelve him. ‘The garden is looking so well and has been such a satisfactory source of revenue that the green house committee, of which Mrs. Pickens of South Carolina is chairman, have been more than ever pleased with the results and have so incorporated it in their annual report. In addition to the governor's party, the Maryland Council of Colonial Dames were there yesterday, upon the invitation of the regent, who is the president of the national society bearing that name. There were probably a hundred Baltimore ladies in the party. They made a day of it, leaving it 9 o'clock and not reaching their homes again until nightfall. One Complaint. Their presence, with the necessary courte- sies extended to them by the council, had rather a provoking side to the multitude of other visitors, who wanted to see all there was to be seen in the mansion, and at the points where these ladies were hold- ing little jubilees themselves. The council chamber, which is the banquet hall at the left of the mansion, is just large enough te comfortably accommodate the ladies, who, during their meetings, sit around big ‘table, which is strewn with papers, books, &c., and into which, therefore, the public cannot be admitted. One lady who was anxious to show some friends the relics in this room was very indignant at not be- ing able to do so, and freed her mind at a vigorous pace. One suggestion she made was a good one. “If these ladies want a place to hold business meetings in why don't they build an office, somewhere re- mote from the mansion, where they would not see or be seen by visitors. It is exas- perating to come here and find you can't go in this room or that room because the re- gents are there. They ought either close the mansion entirely to visitors during their sessions or else hold their meetings where they would not interfere with the people who come here wanting to see all there is to be seen, and who are ‘not treated fairly in being kept out of any particular place, even if it 1s for only one week in the year.” Over 26,000 visitors were at Mount Vernon last year, the cars bringing a thousand or so more than the boat. The income of the past year, in round numbers, amounts to about $18,000, — The Colonel Dentes, Col. Breckinridge has emphatically de- nied the report that his friends had induced him to withdraw from the race for Con- gress. He characterized the statement sent out from Lexington as false, and expressed his usual confidence in an outcome favor- able to himself. He said: “The story is utterly without foundation. Whether it was instigated by enemies or not I will not say. At any rate, it is a ma- licious Me. In the first place, I have no brother Cabel Breckinridge. I have a cousin, however, bearing that name. I have entered on the campaign for renomination, and I propose to continue a candidate. Nothing but death will take me out of the race,” said the colonel, with a dramatic gesture, and he added: “You can depend on that. Further than that I have nothing whatever to say.” —— Salt Works in Danger From Flood. The Arkansas river at Hutchinson, Kan., is the highest for seven years, and is still rising. Water is destroying thousaads of barrels of salt in warehouses near the river, and one of the largest manufacturing salt plants is in imminent danger of col- lapse. SS SE SEE NTA RPE TN Oe 1894—TWELVE PAGES. AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN. Washington and Georgetown Road Gets Land for a Depot. . C. Glover and wife yesterday conveyed to the Washington and Georgetown Rail- road Company lots 22, 23, 24.and parts of lots 32, 33 and 34, Peter Beatty and others’ addition; also parts of lots 32 and 33, in square 83. This is the high property on the north side of M street at. the Aqueduct bridge, the bulk of it having a frontage on three streets—36th, Prospect and M. The combined lots contain over 50,000 feet of ground. It is said a strong effort was made by Mr. Glover for the railroad company to purchase Southworth cottage, the home of the novelist, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, but she would allow no figure to tempt her, The property both to the south and front.of her is included in the purchase. The com- pany have now at last secured a convenient locality on which to contruct a long-desired depot. Their present bill in Congress asking for the power to extend their tracks westward from their present terminus near 32d street to the Aqueduct bridge speaks of their desire and intention to construct such a building on private property. This depot will enable the com- pany to make the transfer of their passen- gers to and from the projected Great Falls and Arlington roads, and shift their cars without blocking the street. This will be carrying out the wishes of the people here and the recommendation of the congres- sional committees. Some Notes. ‘The old wheat and corn crops through Maryland and Virginia have about become exhausted and Georgetown’s incoming car- goes are consequently few. Commission merchants, however, report a sufficient quentity on hand to supply all immediate wants, — rhreg will be ready for ship- ping about July Things at this end of the canal are re- ported exceedingly dull. No coal of conse- quence has come down since the opening of the trouble in the mining regions. Orders for shipments to northern ports are being received, though, in profusion. All are through necessity being shelved. The rail- roads are getting all the coal mined, canal men say. Wilson, the strike agitator, is still busy at his regular employment, but some of the old strikers are reported to have gone back yesterday. —_—~<—_— THOSE DATED TRANSFERS. They Are the Cause of Two Arrests for Assault. ‘The new arrangement of the Washington and Georgetown railroad in timing their transfers was the cause of two of the road's employes having to answer a charge of as- sault today. Gripman William A. Miskell and Conductor E. F. Dorsey of a 14th street cable train were the defendants, and Charles Miller, a resident of 4 1-2 street, was complainant. He got his transfer at the 15th street shed, and then went off to transact some private business. When he returned to take the car and resume his journey he was on time, but the car that came along was crowded, and he waited for the next car. Then his t was out of date, but he got on the car and made a start. The conductor, however, refused to accept the transfer, and informed the passenger that he would have to pay his fare or get off. Mr. Miller refused to do either, and the gripman and conductor as- sisted him to the pavement, but used no more violence than was necessary to eject him. This all happened in the presence of the passengers on the car, and the arrest of the street car men followed. Prosecuting Attorney Mullowney investi gated the case and decided not to take the case into court. The men had carried out their orders in a gentlemanly way, and if the regulation of the road is not legal the olin oe _ informed a Miller, will have o settle the matter. e charge against the railroad men was nolle —_————_ Death of Benjamin Chariton. Washington lost one of its oldest citi- zens and most prominent business men by the death of Mr. Benjamin Chariton, which occurred yesterday afternoon at his resi- dence, 1223 M street northwest. The de- ceased was well known as the proprietor of Havenner’s bakery, @ director ‘of tne Central National Bank, a trustee of the Metropolitan M. E. Church and a member | 2nd from of the board of trustees of the new Metho- dist University. Mr. Charlton was seventy- four years of age, and had resided in Washington during his entire lifetime, and although he left no wife or children a sis- ter and brother in Missouri, a brother in Pennsylvania, a sister in Washington, as well as several nieces and two nephews, Messrs. Edward and Benjamin S. Graves, survive him. The funeral will be held from Metropolitan M. E. Church tomorrow at 4:30 o'clock, after which interment is to be made at Congressional cemetery. Hall and Literary Association was well at- terded, and the reports made showed a gratifying condition of affairs. A new con- stitution, containing additional provisions and changes that have been found neces- sary in the conduct of the association, was read ani adopted. The principal change was the abolition of the office of financial secretary, the duties of that officer being consolidated with those of the secretary. The election of officers resulted in the re- election of the old board, viz.: President, I. 8. Hollidge; vice president, Dr. Frank T. Howe; secretary, Dr. J. H. Penrod; treas- urer, F. R. McCormick; board of managers, Cc. J. Noyes, W. H. Armstrong, J. L. Sher- wood, C. J. Carmick, Small. —— Used a Blackjack. This morning an unknown negro com- mitted a murderous assault on a sixteen- year-old boy named William Bickings. The boy’s mother keeps a store on the Bowen road, in the county, beyond Benning, and this morning about 5:30 o'clock the negro entered the stcre and found the boy alone. He asked to be shown some tobacco, and when the boy turned his head he dealt him a severe blow with a blackjack, knocking him to the floor and rendering him uncon- scious. Then the negro attempted to get the money drawer open, but was frightened off before he succeeded. The negro is described as being about thirty years old. He wore a pair of gray trousers and a dark coat and vest and cap. The police were notified of the occurrence and given a description of the negro. Sala ePsaT Laud for a Union Transfer Station. There was recorded yesterday a transfer from Chas. C. Glover to the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company of lots 22, 23, 24, and parts of lots 33 and 34, square 33, Georgetown, running on the north side of M street 180 feet east from the southeast corner of Lingen street, north on Lingen street 240 feet, and back by an irregular line to the point of beginning. The con- sideration was not given. The property is near the Georgetown end of the Aque- duct bridge, and was purchased for the erection thereon of a union transfer station for street car lines. > Violation of the Law in Bladensburg. A Hyattsville justice of the peace writes to The Star in reply to the communication published Monday complaining of the open saloons in Bladensburg on Sunday and of disreputable conduct of rowdies at Hyatts- ville and Highland stations. He urges those who make such complaint to bring the charges by swearing out a warrant for violation of the law, and promises that a speedy trial and the strict enforcement of the law will result. —_—.—— To Celebrate Bunker Hill Day. The Martha Washington Chapter, D. A. R., intends to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill, on Monday, the 18th (as the 17th falls on Sunday), by go- ing down to Marshall Hall for the day. All the members of the soctety wil! partictpat as well as the Sons of the Revolution an of the American Revolution. a To Return to the Government. ‘The Cheyenne land office has been order- ed to reconvey to the government the silver crown lands that were recently ceded to the state on account of the deaf, dumb and blind asylums. The reason for this order is that the gelection of the lands, contrary to law, embraced over 5,000 acres of mincral lands. ————_+0-___. Convention of Southwestern Millers. The first annual convention of the South- western Wheat Millers’ Association met at Kansas City yesterday. President C. B. Hoffman and Gov. Wm. C. Renfro of Okla- homa were among the speakers. One of the principal objects of the association is to show the people of the southwest the nec. sity of opening Mexican markets to Ameri- can lers. . CARRIER PIGEONS They Fly by Sight and Not by Instinct. Popular Notion Conccrning These Birds Entirely Dinsipated—some of the Pigeons Are Perfect Chumps. From Popular Science Monthly. Prof. C. F. Hodge of Clark University, at Worcester, Mass., has been experimenting to ascertain how many carrier pigeons find their way home. 1t entirely dissipates the popular notion that carrier pigeons are guided by some “direction sense” or blind instinct, or, as the French have put it, that they follow certain electrical currents which their deli- cate senses apprehend. The result of Prof. Hodge’s work is to demonstrate that carrier pigeons are guided by sight alone. He says that no carrier pigeon can find his way over strange coun- try, that he is likely to get lost in a fog and that until he learns from experience he is often fooled by colors or objects which ap- Pear to be familiar. Thus with some young pigeons with which the professor experimented, they flew to the nearest red barn when let out of a closed cage, supposing it to be the red barn near their home loft, and for a time they would fiy to any red barn that came in sight. Another curious fact was noticed about these young pigeons. The moment they were liberated from their home loft they flew to the top of the nearest chimney and began to look about and take mental notes. Thirty-five minutes were thus occupied in noting every detail of their surround- ings, looking eagerly this way and that, and covering all the points of the compass. Having learned the “lay of the land,” they were ready to be taken off a quarter of a mile or so, when, flying up to a great height, they saw some familiar object to which they would fly at once, and quickly find their way to the loft. It was noticed by the professor, however, that some of these pigeons were fools and others very sagacious. The fools got lost easily, did not proceed upon any rational basis, and allowed themselves to be de- ceived by trees and hills which took them in the wrong direction. The more sagacious pigeons, when liber- ated in a strange place, would fly to a great height in a constantly winding circle. In a very few minutes they would sweep a terri- tory fifty miles in extent of vision. Even when the home loft was less than a mile away some of the carrier pigeons wasted immense effort and time in trying to find it. One of them made four circles and rose high in the air. To the south and west were lakes and woods, with but few farm houses. Toward the north was the village of South Madison, Wis., near which the ex- periments were held. The pigeon rushed off in the wrong direc- tion to inspect a red barn, which he thought looked like that near the loft, but he came back to the starting point, and from there ftarted off to the state capital. He reached the city, but found nothing familiar, and spent some time circling over it, having covered a distance of ten miles in less than eight minutes. He was liber- ated at 4 o'clock and returned to the loft at 5, having flown, it was estimated, at the rate of a mile a minute. A week later this same pigeon flew home from the same hill in less than a minute. The first flights of the carrier pigeons were very crooked and tortuous, and are illus- —< by the charts published by Prof. But after they had been once or twice over the ground they flew almost in a straight line, and with incredible speed. Liberated from a boat on a lake, it was no- ticed the birds always flew to the nearest land. “fool” pigeon, looked One of them, a over the same ground again and again, with no it confidence in his own ability, then flew back to the boat in the lake. One of his companions, a clever bird, kept increasing his circles over the land until some familiar object caught his eye, there he quickly found his way home. The former was subsequently lost when liberated with eleven others, all of whom found their way to the home loft. This also goes to show that carrier pigeons do not fy = —— and render no assist- ance to each other, each one apparently desiring to paddle his own canoe. The birds, it seems, can always find their way back to the point from which they start, ana failing to learn the way to their home will often return there. When they proceed by making constantly widening circles, however, there is no use of their returning for a fresh start. Some of the carrier pigeons, especially the younger ones, started off in a zig-zag course when liberated and missed familiar objects at a short distance. The spiral, says Prof. He ts the ideal way to cover every inch of the ground. He says that carrier pigeons do not circle about in the air for sport or exercise, but that it part of their searching instinct, always on the alert to see their way and note the pe. In searching for a lost tennis ball he noticed that the natural instinct of dogs and men seemed to be the spiral widen- ing out from the center, but that some boys searched by a series of straight lines. Prof. Hodge estimates that the distance at which a prominent landmark is visible is three miles. The best time made in the first flight of a bird was 26 miles in 5 hours and 9 min- utes. Taking three miles as the limit of vision over broken country, Prof. Hodge estimates that the least length of the in- volute of a circle which Would bring a bird from a distance of 26 miles to within sight of the loft iy 219 miles, and he says that in five hours it is not likely that the pigeon flew less than 2%) miles. . What becomes of the lost carrier pigeons? That is a question suggested by the numer- ous disappearances of trained birds within the experience of every piceon fancier. It has been supposed that they united with others of their breed, but it is a rare thing for strange pigeons to fly into the loft. To be “lost” is supposed to cause the carrier pigeon the utmost distress of mind. Its whole life and all its instincts appear to be directed to finding its way back to its home. But then even carrier pigeons come to love a new home even better than an old one, and they can pick up a living wherever they may happen to be. A RIVER ON FIRE. ‘Terrible Accident Near Rotterdam to the Paris Express. From the London Telegraph. The railway accident which occurred near Barendrecht recently in the late hours of night was of a very serious character, Al- though there was no loss of life, the pas- sengers by the Paris express had an ex- tremely narrow escape. The goods train, which consisted of three tank cars, con- taining 11,400 kilogrammes of petroleum and several trucks laden with empty oil barrels, was in the act of crossing some points when the Paris express dashed into the midst of it at great speed, striking it obliquely. The petroleum tanks exploded instantly, with a tremendous report, and in a moment flames spread over the whole length of both trains, towering up to a height of fifty to sixty feet. The burning petroleum poured in a torrent over the line and into the canals which ran along both sides, and the water was soon alight with the flaming oil on its surface. The express did not leave the line, and the engine driver, who behaved most gallantly, turned off the steam and put on the brakes. When the flames rushed along the car- riages there was a complete sauve qui peut, the passengers, who numbered about fifty, leaping through the encompass the ground. Seven persons sus’ some of @ severe nature. Two or three English ladies were in the train. One of them, a Miss Warburton, was injured by fire, and also sustained a severe cut on the forehead from the broken glass of the win- dow. The injured were eventually taken in a goods truck to Rotterdam. The engine driver and fireman did not leave thelr posts, although their clothes were ablaze, until | they had done what was necessary to pre- vent an explosion of the boilers. They then threw themselves into the canal to extin- guish thelr burning clothes. The engine driver of the express states that the signals | were clear. The responsibility for the acci- dent fs believed to rest with a youns points- | who had been on duty only a ac! | Cheney, the Con Thompson Taken to Task for Upholding Seuthern Lyachings. ‘To the Editor of The Evening Star: tion of what was there said representa- tive southern a4 from the Rt. Rev. Protestant EB; respect to lyn im the south. The bishop said: “The people lynch for one thing, and for one t only. When it hing: comes to such a pass that a girl six old cannot go from one neighbor's to another without gongs of being car- gro brute, what tie .é ore sadly a ise can we do? the doubtful lynching. caught, always confess The iaws are slow, the the lawyers are banded feat justice, as they always coming from such a The first stat . pie iyneh ‘tatement quoted, “that the peo- only,” must know. The one thing referred to by him ts D he y rape or attempt. ed rape. indicted for the crime. from the time the cri; was tried and convi nent he ‘was execate 22d im less than @ ecu! The bishop's third statemen “the Jails are full,” is a slander try of the south. If this distinguished plemee in doing his Master's Service, had gone into our southern jails to visit the Persons ac- show, than other section of our country, Her jails are not full. ces they are empty, and ‘The bishop banded to- pharisees; with a large share of that pale mar eee preached on the mount; they been They rest against human life without due —— the civilized wil the lawyer who defends a negro crime and demands in the name justice and humanity that suffer the death penalty without trial, approaches nearer the the just and upright man, set up in teachings of Christ, than does who would hang him without judge or Jury. The south should in some Th one formed a the criminals gees it with if tried do not believe a “¢ where a court and duties and where lawyers were banded be together to defeat fustice. do not believe a man can south, or elsewhere, as profession as legal H alta i ii the as safe from molestation as are pm alhgtag * in So oars of the i or among t ills of New Such sermons as Bishop Teenbere to bop Ported to have preached in New York will do more to retard the growth and ment ~t the ong gy! all her enemies can say against - It ts to be hoped she repudiate such friends as 4 ff serious accusations made against her. His statements are not true, but they have gone forth, and will doubtless do irreparable in- MARSHALL, Jury. SYDNEY F. Wi June 11, 1894 —.——_ Marringe Licenses. The clerk of the court has issued mar riage licenses to the following: John Thomas Clements and Bertha Ritter; Jas. J. McCarthy and Mary Sullivan; Chas. H. Abbott and Mary E. Montgomery; Henry Converse Parkmann and Sailie Willy An- derson; Wm. A. G. Freeman of Glenwood, Pa., and Julia A. Griffith of Prince Wil- Ham's county, Va.; Jonas Willis and M: E. Pen dell, both of Anne Arundel county, Mas Allen L. Herron and Ida B. Wood. iveg- ter D. Molter and FY ure man A. Lee and Emma E. Bentley; Archi- Wm. D. Washington and Julia opie Lewis Robertson and Anna May Rollog Armstrong. Can The liquor case of Henry E. Meade, pres- ident of the Brightwood Driving Associa- tion, charged with the {illegal sale of liquor on Sunday, April 29, when Coxey’s army was occupying the grounds of the associa- tion, was finelly disposed of in Judge Mil- ler’s court yesterday. The court held that under the license issued to a corporation the president of the corporation could not be prosecuted for violation of the incidental regulr tions. Had the license been granted to Mr. Meade as president of the associa- tion the matter would have been different, but under the license the court had to dis- miss the case. _ Verdict for Defendants. A verdict for the defendants was return- e] yesterday afternoon in the case of Re becca Nathanson, administretrix of B. J, Behrend & Son, inst Thompson, Foust & Co. The plaintiffs claimed $25,000 dam- ages because of an attachment alleged have been wrongfully levied against them by the defendants in November, 1891. candinatillaanentiay The Last Rites. Funeral services over the remains of Dr. David Skutch, late editor of The Deutsche Press, were held yesierday morning in the presence of the brother of the deceased and a few friends. Later interment was made at Mount Olivet cemetery. Against Funston. A report in favor of giving to Col. H. Moore, the democratic contestant, the seat of the second Kansas district, held by Fun- ston (republican), has been made by the subcommittee to the House committze on elections. Peter Cheney, the Chicaso coun: has been arrested in Indian Territ was secn to a $10 | Bank of Tahlequah. A *m_ the | making | j und Passing of the coin is in the custody of | the olficers, Petroleum From Wy The first carlond of petroleum from the Casyer wells of Wyoming was shipped to Denver yeetorday, Frow all indications these of] fields will be a% productive as any, in the west.