Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1894, Page 2

LATE NEWS BY WIRE Sensational Testimony Regarding the New York Police. PROFITED BY THE ROBBING OF MEN ‘ Saloon Keepers Who Paid for Protection. CHARGES AGAINST DIVVER os NEW YORK, June 19.—The Lexow police Investigating committee met today in part Ii ‘of the superior court. Lawyer Moss of Dr. Parkhurst's society opened the proceed- ings by reading the reports of certain cap- tains made to Superintendent Byrnes in the spring of 1802. These included lists of policy and gambling shops, pool rooms and houses of prostitution. The names of the Proprietors of these places were given. Counsel said that when the Parkhurst s0- ciety brought these lists up before the grand fury the fact was brought out that Superin- tendent Byrnes had it in his power to issue warrants. “Immediately after that,” said Lawyer Bioss, “the captains, in their reports, said that the bad houses were closed.” He read from the successive reports of Capts. Doherty and Cross, which showed that up to the last report made this year there were no gambling places, pool rooms, policy shops or opium joints in their pre- einets. “As soon as the responsibility was shown to rest on Superintendent Byrnes, the cap- tains suppressed reporting the places,” de- elared counsel. Then th mous report of Inspector Wil- Mams attacking the Parkhurst Society was read and with all the other reports were offered in evidence. They have all been Published from time to time iu the news- Papers. “What ‘s your object, Mr. Moss, in in- troducing this testimony?” said Chairman Lexow. “I desire to »r'ng out why, on the 3ist ef March last, the police stopped reportirg those places. although they still existed.” Rev. Dr. Emile Hamilton was the first witness called. He said that there were) many brothels open in Captain Devery's precinct after he reported them closed. Hi gaid he complained to Captaim Devery on} the station house steps. He quoted the cap- tain as saying: “Well, men that are lool ing for that sort of thing can ‘tind plenty. The witness said he told the captain that be did not come there to be insulted. Orce he called on a policeman to close saloons pen on Sunday and said the officer replied that he dared not. ‘The minister ascertained the character of the houses by going into them to distribute tracts. He did not go, like Dr. Parkhurst, to secure evidence. He was often solicited on the street, as were members of his ficck. The witness now has a charge in Brooklyn. Counsel Goff then called “Paddy” Crow, the policeman who warned the president of the Bohemian Saloon Keepers’ Association, that the excise law would be strictly en- forced by the “Pantata” (the police otticials). ‘The policeman, who Is attached to the East ith street station admitted that he had en the warning, but could not explain y. If you saw a burglar about to break in @ house, would you warn him that he would be arrested?” asked Mr. Goff. , “No, I hardly think I would do that,” an- Bwered the witness. Counsel sought to bring out that the Policeman arrested only the saloon keepers ‘who were not members of the association, Dur was not successful. The next witress was Nicola Kobar. He fs a member of the association, and testi- fied, through am interpreter, that it was organized to sell beer at 8 cents a pint and pay police blackmail. “Was there any talk in the precinct that Capt. Schmittberger required more money than his predecessor, Capt. Gunner?” “Yes, sir, there was. The organization arranged to have a committee wait on Mr. Deimor, the Tammany Hall leader of the district, to ask him to use his influence with Capt. Schmittberger to accept the same @mount as Capt. Gunner received. The ‘committee reported that they had ‘arrénged everything.” ” The witness further stated that the or- ganization had paid Capt Strauss $100 as @ Christmas present, and his wardman $25. He said the captain was referred to as the tate.” “To whom did you give the money to ‘turn over to the captain?” “To Pospisil, Zerrerdof and Herrofsky, members of the organization.” “What did they report?” “That it had reached the right place.” The witness said that the police arrested @ome members of the association, and when Feminded that arrests were inconsistent ‘with “protection,” they answered that the tribute did not go to the right place. The witness said in May, 1892, he gave ‘Wardman Gannon $5. No one was present ‘when the money changed hands. Mr. Ponisil, president of the associa- tion, followed. He said he gave the $100 fo Capt. Strauss personally in an envelope @t the station house. This created a sensation, which was some- What dulled when he told that “Happy New Year” was written on the envelope. Capt. Strauss several days later desired to Feturn the $100, but he refused. The witness said he had given the #23 to Wardman Frank Clark, a former gambler, came ext. He was a dealer in a faro game in ince street called “The Old General. ‘That 1859 to 1865. His testi- mony showed that the police have exacted blackmail for years past. “Were you visited by officers?” “Yes, sir. They came around for money. Kelso, Dusenberg and Tilley came around from headquarters once a week.” “What was the amount paid?" “We paid $100 each wee. The money {was paid from 1859 to 1965." Be was afterwards superintendent of ce?” “Yes, sir.” The witness told with a wealth of detail how victims were fleeced. When they complained to the police the wardman would warn the gambiers to lie low. Then the victim would be brought to the premises to identify the gamblers, but they never ‘were there. “The police,” said the gambler, “received half the money. If the victim ‘lost $1,000 the police received $500 of It. We had to give half or go out of business,” Then came a sensational disclosure im- plicating Police Justice Patrick Divvei ‘who then used to keep a saloon. The wi ness said that Divver set his (clerks) em- Ly up in business, and that the money the robbed countrymen poured over his bar. Divver got half the proceeds, be- sides the money spent for drinks. The witness had taken money from his employer to Divver, and sometimes it reached Divver through outside channels. ‘When a victim went to headquarters the Getectives there would have to be bought off. Detective Sergeant Heldelberg, he gaid, had received money this way. The detective is now at headquarters. The sta- tion house ple felt the money belonged to them and not to headquarters. The witness mentioned the name of De- tective Wall of the first precinct, now de- ceased, and Capt. Murray, who was after- ward made superintendent of police, as having “done business” with the rascals. Then recess was taken. —_—_—__. MRS. HALLIDAY’S TRIAL. Whe Prisoner Caused to Wince by the Prosecuting Attorney. MONTICELLO, N. Y., June 19.—Court opened this morning at 9:30 o'clock in Mrs. Halliday’s trial for murder, with the court room crowded with curious and expectant people The district attomey opened the ease to the jury. He spoke of what must have been the actions of the woman while trying to inveigle the McQuilian woman into the trap set for them. While he was speaking the prisoner became very nervous, her mouth twitching at times when the at- torney would hit upon some important fact connected with the tragedy. —_—> WHI Not Admit Negroes. CHICAGO, June 19—The American Rail- way Union delegates defeated the propost- tion to admit negroes to the organization today by a vote of 113 to 102. The discus- sion of the question, which began early yesterday, continued until today, President Debs meeting defeat in his fight against the establishment of the color line in the new constitution of the order. ———— The Marion arrived at San Francisco from Yokohama yesterday. Stockbrokers Give No Satisfaction to the Sugar Trust Gemmittee. The Senate sugar trust investigating com- mittee developed a new Mne of inquiry to~ day. Geo. W. Silsby, the stockbroker through whom Geo. Ransom, son of Sen- ator Ransom, and Capt. Barnes, am at- tache of the Senator's committee room, made their dealings {f sugar #toek, was the first witness before the committee, and one of the questions asked related to the @aily order sheet showing the names of these gentlemen and how ft came to be made public. When this question was reached Mr. Silsby said that'an answer to this question would probably involve refer- ence to a criminal ing, and that he Toust decline to reply umtil he could consult his attorney. He was then excused that he might see his lawyer. The inference from the hesita- tion and statement of Mr, Silsby, was that the sheet had been stolen from his office and that Mr. Sileby hesitated because of the charge that an answer would imply. He did not, after he em from the com- mittee room, <leny that this was the case. Mr. Stlsby confirmed the statement made in Senatcr Ransom’s testimony as to the deal- ings in small amounts of stock by George Ransom and Capt. Barnes, and said that no purchases were made by the Senator himself. He declined, however, to answer the general questions as to Knowledge of sugar speculation by Senators through his establishment, or any other brokerage firm. John W. Macaftney of the firm of Co: son & Macartney, Washirigton co: A ents of the New York brokerage firm of Moore & Schley, was also before the com- mittee, but his testimony consisted simply in declining to give the committee any in- formation as to private orders of sugar stock, or to say whether Senators had been among his customers. He stated, however, that in making this reply he did not de- sire to be understood as conveying the in- ference that Senators hed been dealing through his house in sugar si The committee did not press the ques- — and Mr. Macartney was soon e: Lester S. Fisher, telegraph operator for Corson & Macartney, wag also before the committee, but he declined"to answer ques- tions as to whether he wired orders for sugar stocks, and was excused after a very brief examination. STICKS.TO HIS STORY. Informer Sill Continaes His Exposure of Armor Plate Frau Informer Si today resumed his general narrative to the congressional investigating committee of the armor plate frauds at the Carnegie works. For three days he has been engaged with Chairmah Cummings of the committee in identifying specific falsi- fications of re; made by Superintendent Cline. This identification is now completed and in the aggregate presents a startling array of detailed irregularities, pA 5 as DISTRICT IN CONGRESS. Alarms for Schools. Senator Gallinger has introduced in the Serate an amendment which he proposes to offer to the District appropriation bill, mak- ing an appropriation of $2,500 for providing instantaneous fire alarm apparatus for the public school buildings of the District. This sum has been estimated to be all that will be required to fit 100 schools with the alarms. There are at present only two school bulldings provided with alarm boxes, the Curtis and the Randall. ——————-~-—___- CAPITOL TOPICS. Shiloh Battle Field for a Park. The House committee on military affairs has agreed to favorably report.a bill intro- duced by Representative Henderson of Towa to buy part’ of Shiloh battle fleld for a national park, at an expense of $150,000, Remarried Widows’ Pensions. The House committee on pensions rati- fied today the report of the subcommittee in favor of Representative igeedeae mn widows who were taken ym pth errno remarried and whose second husbands have died or been di- vorced. Breakwater on the Pacific Coast. The Senate committee on commerce was in session today to hear representations concerning the respective merits of Santa Monico and San Pedro as the place at which to build a breakwater on the coast near Los Angeles, Cal., but the entire time of the meeting wes consumed in the presentation of Santa Monico's advantages, by EB. L. Cortheil, a civil engineer, who estimated the cost of a breakwater at that. place at $3,729,199, while he quoted a re- port made by a board of engineers showing that the cost of such a structure at San Pedro would be $4,834,440. ‘The Funston-Moore Contest. Again the House committee on elections failed to muster a quorum today to vote on the Funston-Moore contest from Kansas. One republican was present, but several democrats were not. 8 Patents té District Inventors. Patents were granted today to: Washing- ton inventors as follows: Thofias Armat, conduit for electric railway; John E. Buck- lin, assignor to. Bucklin Copy-Holder Com- ny, Richmond, Va., copy-holder; Wm. '. Downey, horse shoe; Thos. D. McClary, apparatus for making mortar.’ ———__---+ e+ No Fourth-Class Postmasters. For the first time in several weeks no appointments of fourth-class postmasters were made today. 2+ +___ ‘The Minneapolis. The triple-screw cruiser Minneapolis will go on her official trial trip July 9 from Philadelphia. os Speaker Crisp’s Indisposition. Speaker Crisp had sufficiently recovered today from his indispositien of yesterday to be out of bed, and Dr. Sowers, the at- tending physician, said the Speaker would be well enough to return to congressional duties tomorrow. Mr. Crisp is suffering from a stomach disorder of mild but some- what painful character. —————_- o+___ Custom House Change. The first change that has occurred in the effice of the collector of customs at George- tewn, D. C., since Mr. Manogue's induction took place tocay, when Secretary Carlisle approved the collector’s nomination of Jill- son D. Entwisle as deputy collector, at $1,800 per annum, vice Edgar P. Watkins, resigned. Mr. Watkins has held the office since December 26, 1990, and is a democrat In politics. He was a strong candidate for appointment as collector at the time of Mr. Manogue’s selection. ———————__ Assured of Pay. The printers at the government printing office who were recently discharged are now assured of pay for their accrued leave of absence, the President having signed the act for their relief today. ——— Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued by the clerk of the court to the following: James R. Thompson and Virginia Price; John Egerman and Mary E. Ingerman; Paul R. Stewart of Tallahassee, Fla., and Bertha E. Jackson of this city; Adwin W. Green and Lillie Gray, both of Anacostia, D. C.; Robt. H. Allen of Gayton, Va., and Hattie P. Wright of New York elty; Edward Inger- soll Wade and Mary Belt Magruder; Geo. F, Price of Colonial Beach, Va., and Mary M. Owens of this city; Walter L. Savary and Blanche G. Browder, both of Manches- ter, Va.; Rouzee E. Latham and Kate E. Eastwood, both of Manchester, Va.; Wm. T. Cornett and Gertrude Lee Thurston, both of Richmond, Va.; Robt. G. Tegler and Grace West; Collin Wyatt and Rosa Barker; Henry Sydney and Ida M. Truxell; John Taylor and Sophia Jones: Stansbury Tibbs and Sidney Ross; Washington C. Perkins and Leanna Gordon; Clarence Eugene Mc- Cullough and Catherine E. Foley; Alfred R. B iffin and Mollie E. Stagg, both of Rich- moni, Va; Lyman Joel Amsden of Chi- cago, Ill, and Mattie Slocum Ball of this city; Alvin G. King and Gertrude Vermil- Mon, both of Anacostia, D. C.; Alexander Shepherd Merchant and Adela Morris Web- ster; Thes. E. Lewis and Fanny Norman; James Quinn and Bertha Freheime. ——_—_ United States steamship Afliance arrived at_ Fortress Monroe yesterday. Steamer City of Madison struck the wharf at Madison, Ind., yesterday and sank. All on board were rescued. One thousand men were thrown out of work through the closing down of the Mount Clare repair shops of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad yesterday. The close down will be for two weeks or more. THE AQUEDUCT PIERS Heering on the Bill to Allow. Their 3 Use. The Railroad Company’s Proposition Diseussed Before the Commission- ers—Motive Power to Be Used. The Commissioners this morning gave a hearing to those persons interested in House bill No. 7452, to provide for the repair of the pliers of the Aqueduct bridge and for its use by a street railway. The street failway referred to is the Washington and Arlington and Falls Church Railroad Com- pany of Virginia, and representatives of the road were present at the hearing. Col. A.. D.. Anderson presented the case. He read the bill in full, which provides that the company shall extend its road across the Aqueduct bridge and thence to the Proposed union passenger station in George- town, and to operate its railway on the same, provided the company shall first re- pair the piers of the bridge and put them in safe order and condition. It also pro- vides that the company shall pay-the col- lector of taxes a toll of 1 cent for each passenger passing over the bridge and that the company shall be reimbursed out of these tolls for the amount of money ex- pended for the repair of the piers, with legal interest: The repairs and the road are to be com- pleted within six months. Col. Anderson called attention to the necessity of this legislation, and said the company are will- ing to undertake the repair of the bridge. He read a letter from the president of the company setting forth that the company would execute a bond in such reasonable penalty as the committees of Congress may designate payalge to the Commissioners of the District, guaranteeing the repair of the ers of the bridge when the bill is passed; also that the work should be constructed wholly under the control of the Commis- sioners of the District of Columbia, and third, that the tolls collected would suffice to Keep the Oa in repair hereafter, there- by saving the United States and the Dis- trict further expense in regard to the bridge. in reply to 4 question from Capt. Fiebeger, who represented the engineer de- partment at the hearing, Col. Anderson stated that there were three propositions td lay the tracks, one to lay them in the cen- ter of the bridge, another, to widen the bridge and place the tracks on the side, and Ci third, to have a single track on the west piers. Capt. Fiebeger said he thought the most feasible plan would be to widen the side- walks and place a single track on one side and widen the other sidewaik in proportion. He pointed out many defects in the bill and asked what motive power the com- pany proposed to use, as there was nothing designated in the bill. Col. Anderson thought the trolley would be acceptable, although horses could be used. Capt. Fie- beger also called attention to the fact that no provision was made for other railroad companies to use the tracks, and it could hardly be expected that the Commissioners would recommend the turning over of such a valuable structure to a corporation for its exclusive use because, forsooth, it had agreed to repair its piers. Mr. C. G. Lee remarked that the company seeking to obtain this charter. had no exiatence in fact. It had purchased some of the property of the defunct Washington and Arlington railway, and claimed that under the laws of Virginia the purchasers of corporate rights succeeded to the charter. But this was not eo. The Washington and Great Falls Railway Company had ‘also purchased the property of the Washington and Arlington ratircad, and as the company was chartered by Congress, and not under the laws of Virginia, the Washington and Great Falls Company had the better right to the use of the bridge. It was agreed by the Commissioners to have the gentlemen submit their remarks in writing. The following gentlemen were present: Dr. L. W. Ritchie, Col. A. D. Anderson, Mr. David Shoemaker, Mr. W. W. Dungan, Mr. R. A. Phillips, James E. Clements, Mr. Cc. G. Lee, Mr. John W. Clark, — SUICIDE BY SHOOTING. An Old Veteran Prefers a Quick to a Lingering Death. John C. Martin, an inmate of the Natton- al Soldiers’ Home for the past three years, committed suicide in the grounds of the institution early this morning. He shot himself through the head with a thirty- twe-caliber revolver and died instantly. He was a veteran of the late war and Was fifty-six years old. For some time past Martin was confined to the hospital, suffer- ing from gangrene of the foot. A few days ago he came into the city and saw a phy- siclan, who told him his case was hopeless and that there was no possibility of check- ing the progress of the malady. He re- turned to the hospital, and the diagnosis of his case preyed upon him. This morning he arose very early and, going out of the infirmary, went beneath a tree nearby and accomplished his self-destruction. He left a note stating that he preferred to die at once rather than face the horrors of a slow death from his terrible affliction. Coroner Woodward visited the home and, after learning the facts, gave a certificate of suicide without holding an inquest. _——_s___. DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. Street Railway Track Repairs. The Commissioners have ordered: ‘That before any street railroad tracl hall be laid or relaid on any portion of street or other highway already oceupied by a water main street car companies for which the work is to be done shall deposit with the collector of taxes a sum sufficient to pay the cost of laterally moving such main So that it will be clear of the ties of the tracks, and notify the water department of the District in time for tt to da the work, He Complains. Frank Hume, wholesale grocer of 454 Pernsylvania evenuc, has called the atten- ticn of the Commissioners to the conditton of the pavement on the south side of Penn- sylvania avenue between 41-2 and #th streets northwest. He says that in some places the pavement ts entirely gone, and asks that it receive attention. For Examination. The Commissioners today received a draft of Senate bill 2104, to incorporate the Wash- ington City Railway Company, introduced by Mr. Gordon, for examination and report. Condition of Streets. The Comnissioners have received a letter from Frank A. Roderick of 66 1 street north- west, in which he calls attention to the con- Gition of New Jersey avenue between K ard L streets. The gra: ind shrubbery has béen = the fences brcken and bricks un- rr Reviewing Stand. Richard Goodhart, chairman of the execu- tive committee Knights of Pythias, has asked permission of the Commissioners to erect a reviewing stand at the southeast cor- ner of the Treasury Department, facing the avenue. Jackson Aley. Publfc Printer Benedict has addressed a letter to the Commissioners urging them to correct the wretched condition of Jackson alley adjoining the office on the south. The winds bring every foul odor from the alley into the building, torming @ serious menace to the health of the employes, Contagious Disenve Hospital. ‘The Commissioners were somewhat ex- ercised today over the statement that unless they selected a site for the contagious dis- ease hospital during the present month the appropriation would lapse, ‘The controller was interviewed and gave it as his opinion that the appropriation was « ecntinuous cne and did not lapse with the fiscal year. An Adverse Report. The bill to incorporate the Union Passen- ger Railway Company of the District of Columbia has been adversely reported to the Commissioners by Engineer Commis- sioner Povtell, who was given charge of the bill. In his indorsement upon the bill he says: “The bill is reported adversely for the reason that the street railways already recommended, chartered and desirable ex- tensions of present roads will fully accom- odate the public in the territory covered by the railroad proposed in the bill.” — An Act Approved. The President today approved the act making appropriations for deficiencies in appropriations for printing and customs expenses for the present fiscal year and the act in regard to the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi at Burlington, Towa. |A BRIGADE ARMORY|4 COMPuicaTED!F Gen. Ordway at Last Suooeeds in Securing One. 10 ADJOIN CONVENTION BALL Comfortable Quarters for the Dis- trict National Guard. THE PLANS OUTLINED After years of peripatetic existence and occasional periods when it did not know where to look for satisfactory shelter, the District of Columbia National Guard is about to have that for which its wide- awake members long have pined—a# brigade armory. Congress, in its capacity as Wash- ington’s common council, has never been anything but “close,” so far as the local soldiers were concerned, and would only Sppropriate the sum of $14,500 annually for armory rents. The sum was ridiculous- ly small for that purpose, and it was too infinitesimal to talk about when compared with the expenditures made by states in which the citizen-soldicrs were far less effi- cient than they are here. New York frequently pays as much as $30,000 a year for an armory for a single | o¢ regiment» realizing that without sufficient quarters the work cannot possibly be done as it ought to be. Doing the best they pos- gibly could the financiers of the National Guard could not find even half-decent ac- commodations for the brigade, and they widely scattered; the very least that shel- ter could be secured for was about $16,500. The Buil a to Be Leased. ; Wearying of his efforts to have Congress do the business-like thing and appropriate sufficient money for the building of an ar- mory, Gen. Ordway proposed that legisla- tive permission be given for him to lease such premises as he deemed suitable, for @ period of three years, and this pea sion was granted. But it was one thing to ve the power to lease and another thing to find the someone who would carry out the general's plan, and for two years Gen. Ordway has steadily endeavored to interest some wealthy citizen or citizens to do what he belleved to be the proper thing. After & great deal of persistence and steady peg- ing away, the general has at last not only found the capitalist, but has closed the deal. All the papers have been signed, sealed and delivered, and in a litle while the brick- layer’s trowel and the carpenter's saw and hammer will be vociferous in the vicinity of Sth and L streets. Room for Everybody. The armory, which is to be an unpreten- tlous-apearing brick structure, will have a frontage on L_ street of 122 feet, a depth of 147 feet and be four stories high. The ground floor will be devoted to headquar- ter’s offices and to the use of the light bat- tery, the cavalry troop, the cycle company, the quartermaster, commissary and ord- nance stores. A lecture room will also find place on this floor. The second and third floors will be devoted to company rooms of ample size—about 20 by 27 feet, with a locker room besides for each company. On the fourth floor will be the rifle gallery and the gymnasium. The gallery will be about tiftv feet wide and probably 125 feet long, and will have a much greater target capacity than the present one. Will Drill in Convention Hall. There will be no drill hall in the armory; ft there does not need to be, for the armory will be connected with Convention Hall by a bridge, and the terms of the lease pro- vide that the biggest hall in Washington may be used for drill purposes three nights a week. The ample floor space will permit the simultaneous drilling of several com- panies. The plans are not yet quite com- plete, but soon will be; until they are done Ro one can give any very definite informa- tion as to the thousand and one minor de- tails which will interest those who expect to occupy the building. Ample facilities for éleanliness, in the shape of well-equipped. bath rooms, will be provided, and in every way possible the comfort of the guardsmen will be carefully attended to. To Re Comp! Immediately after completion of the plans the work of building wiil commence, and the entire structure is promised to be ready for occupancy within ninety days. The architect will be Mr. C. W. Summerville. Of course the building will not compare esthetically with such structures as are common in New York elty and vicinity— the armory of the twenty-third regiment of Brooklyn cost but little less than a mil- Non dollars—but the structure will be solid and roomy and will be very much of an cid over the present state of af- irs. The ground upon which the armory is to uilt was purchased from Mr. E. Fran- cls Riggs. —__—— DIED IN POVERTY. End to the Life of Mrs. Adele Blake. In @ squalid room and among surround- ings suggestive of anything but comfort, a woman died this morning under circum- Stances that made it appear at first a case of suicide. Investigation by Coroner Wood- ward, this afternoon, however, showed that death was due to natural causes, although it came in unusual guise. The unfortunate woman was Adele Blake, a widow aged about forty-five. She occu- pied a little room on the third floor of the building, No. 831 7th street, the first floor of which is used as a Chinese laundry, and the two upper floors as tenements. She had few acquaintances and fewer friends, and her life was that of thousands of others who know the discomforts that poverty brings. There was little to relieve its dull monotony, and of late sickness was added to her other miseries. The other roomers in the house say that she never drank at all until her condition became such that she could hardly stand it longer, and within the past few days she became more flighty than she had been befo and the neighbors found much to talk about in her queer va- garies. Yesterday she ran into a neighbor- ing saloon and demanded whisky. Was Flighty Yesterday. “But you have had all the whisky you can stand,” said the saloon keeper, who knew who she was. Instead he gave her a schooner of water, and this she dashed off fn a jiffy. Then she ran out into 7th street, and her actions led to the conclusion that she was getting worse in. It has only been a short time since she was released from a hospital, or the insane asylum, the neighbors are not sure just which. She occupied her miserable little room with her son Willie, a boy of about thir- tesn. Last night when he went to bed his mother lay down on the floor, saying that she was suffering too much to go to sleep. Toward mornt she called him to get her a drink of water, and when he had done this he went back to bed. The next thing he knew he was awakened by the woman who had the next room to his, and who had come in to see how Mrs. Blake was getting along. Mrs. Blake was dead. Found Dead. There she lay stretched out and stiff. There she lay when the coroner viewed the remains and the sight was one that is not often to be seen. Her coal black hair was tossed back and fell in a tangled mass on the floor about and beneath her head. Her figure was horribly emaciated and the coarse cotton garments that were open to the waist showed pitifully wasted little body, which was distorted in an un-human way as though death came in hideous form. Some charitable ladies of Epiphany Church who heard of the case will see that she has decent burial. a MR. CHICKERING’S NEW POSITION. He Has Been Chosen Superintendent of the Flushing Schools, Mr. John J. Chickering has resigned as principal of the preparatory department of the Columbian University, having accepted the position of superintendent of the public schools of Flushbig, L. I. He expects to enter upon the discharge of the duties of his new position next September. Mr. Chickering was the unanimous choice of the trustees of the Flushing schools, which vas a gratifying recognition of the abilities of Mr. Chickering that have been tested by his years of service in this city. Party Lines to Be Loosely Dzawn in Kansas, All Parties Except the Prohibitionists Will Lose Votes for Varying ‘+ Reasons—The Issues. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. TOPEKA, Kan., June 16, 1804. ‘The campaign in Kansas this year will be the most compiicated in the history of the state. While the republicans and populists are the two strong contending forces, there are two other elements that will prove to be potent factors in determining the result in November. For the first time in twelve years the republican party turned its back on the question of prohibition. In every platform of the party since the prohibitory amendment was adopted in 1880 a ringing resolution pledging the candidates to a strict enforcement of the prohibitory liquor law was made part of the state platform until this year. When the delegates to the recent convention met they declared that ae age Was @ settled question and re- ‘used to again indorse what they claimed Was a part of the state constitution. Having decided to let prohibition take care of itself, there was a determination not to get tangled up in the meshes of the woman suffrage question. The voters of Kansas are to decide at the November election whether the word “male” shall be stricken from the constitution as describing the qualifications of an elector. The advocates this measure were here in great numbers, urging the republican convention to insert @ plank in the platform favoring the adop- tion of the amendment. Miss Susan B. An- thony of New York, Miss Anna B. Shaw and Mrs. Carrie Lane Chapman-Catt, with local leaders, swarmed about the convention hall and pleaded for suffrage indorsement. These women before the platform committee and begged for a plank. They finally threatened the party with defeat, de- claring that the coming populist state con- vention would take advantage of the situ- ation and grant this request to the women of Kansas and thus command their sym- pathy in the pending campaign and their support in future elections when they shall ie _ Lemos These appeals and threats not move the republicans—they decided to fight this battle in the middie of the road, leaving all side issues and isms to the The Women Won the Day. One week later when the populists met in state convention the same enthusiastic ad- vocates were here to demand recognition for their pet hobby. It is safe to say that three-fifths of the delegates were opposed to the indorsement of woman suffrage when they arrived in Topeka. Gov. Lewelling and the leaders of tie populist party were @ unit against a suffrage plank, and the full force and power of the administration Was used against it, but without avail. The fight lasted two days, and the women finally won what is conceded the greatest victory ever achieved in Kansas. They put in a day and night with the platform com- mittee, which was packed against them, and lost. Then they went before the con- vention, and after a running fight lasti = "yale they won by a remmectabae od Since the enactment of the liquor law the democrats of Kanes tory been opposed to this system of controlling the liquor traffic. In their campaigns prior to the populist movement the party polled an average of 100,000 votes in the state. & declaration in the platform for @ resu! mission of the prohibitory amendment oa vote of the people. That party is as an- tagonistic to woman suffrage as It has been to prohibition. This fact explains the ac- tions al the recent convention above Te- 0. Mixed Motives of the Parties. The republicans did not ignore the suf- frage question with the hope of getting democratic support. They desired to hold 20,000 republicans, who have heretofore voted the democratic ticket because of the continuous indorsement of Prohibition in the platforms. The popullsts know they cannot win unless they get the democratic vote, as they did two years ago, hence the determined effort of the leaders to prevent the adoption of a suffrage plank, which is 80 obnoxtous to the democrats. It in believed that the refusal of the re- Publicans to incorporate in their Platform Woman suffrage and prohibitior. planks will lose the party 20,000 votes, which will be given to the prohibition party. As an'oft- Set to this loss the adoption of the woman ‘sul resolution by the populist conven- Menated the democratic vote, and that party will meet in state convention on July 3 and nominate a full state ticket. This convention will declare against female suffrage and for the resubmission of the Prohibitory amendment, while ex-Gov. 8t. John will stump the state and tell the peo- ple that the prohibition party ia the only one that stands for the home and against the saloon. These conditions make it im- possible for any one to foret ecarter tell the result in —-_—>—_—_ GREELEYS MANNERS WERE BAD. But They Were Forgiven for the Fine Speech He Made Afterward. From the Int jer-Ocean, Horace Greeley stories being in order, in view of the unveiling of his statue a day or two ago, I will tell one that I heard in New Orleans. The genial old philanthropist went there after the south had taken him to her heart in grateful recognition of his action in going on the Jeff Davis bail bond, and the people were anxious to show him every attention in their power. A dinner seemed to.be the proper thing, and the markets of New Orleans, than which there are few better in the world, were ransacked to make the occasion as notable for its viands as for distinction of the guest and the diners. Judge Walker, veteran editor of the Picayune, pre- sided; he was a great gourmand, and, the manner of gourmands, wished none of the fine points of the dinner to be lost to the guest for lack of commentary. “Mr. Greeley,” said he, “these oysters are the best that come to our market, and we think they vie with those of Norfolk. I ob- serve that you are not eating th “Well, no,” replied Greeley e truth is, I never could abide shell fish,” and he passed. Then came some delicious green turtle soup, which Judge Walker explained was prepared from the finest fat. turtle the Florida bays could afford, “No doubt, no doubt,” was the Greeley’s peculiar whine, “but col animals are an abomination to me. The pompano, imperial fish that it ts, and fresh from the gulf, was open to the same objection, despite Judge Walker's eulogy, and that, too, was passed. Mr. Greeley barely tasted the accompanying Parisian dainty, and shook his head rue- fully at the idea that anybody would im- joel his digestion by eating cucumbers. hrimp salad, another New Orieans deli- cacy, proved no more tempting; shrimps, he said, looked so much like worms that they always give him the creeps. “Ah, here is something you will Mke—a homely dish in name,” said Ji Walker, “but fit for the gods. It is a Galicia ham.” And he went on to tell how the hogs from which these hams were obtained were fed only on chestnuts, making the flesh ——— and delicious. ie i aaa e ps 80; very interest! e observed Greeley; “but do you know, judge, that there is so much talk of trichinae nowadays that I wouldn't dare taste a bit of pork.” The judge gave up in despair. The only things in all of the array of dainties which had been provided which Mr. Greeley would eat were bread, potatoes and cauliflower, and he feared that he might be overloading his stomach at that. But when It came to the speaking, although he had drunk noth- ing but cold water, he spoke as one in- spired, and with a fervor, eloquence and tenderness that nobody at the table could ever forget. ly in To Raise the Drowned. From the Rich Hil Review. A very effective method of raising the drowned, used on the lakes of New York and elsewhere, and which can be used to advartage on our rivers, is given us by a gentleman of experience, and is as fol- lows: Take a half-gallon fruit jar, fill it half full of unslacked lime, then put on the rubber and screw the metal top perfectly air tight. Perforate the top with simall holes, attach a weight and sink the jar in the locality where the body of the drowned person is supposed to be. As the water seeps into the iar the lime gradually be- comes slackel ani generates a gus, whic! in ten minutes’ time, will cause an ¢xp‘osion with the force of dynamite, raising every object to the surface within a radtus of fifty fee:. Those why have s¢en the oper- ation say it hus never fatled to bring the desired cesults. SCHOOL GRADUATES. Parewell Exercises of the Classes in Three Schools. In addition to the combined commence- ment exercises of the graduating classes of the Central, Eastern and Western High Schools, to be held on Thursday evening in Convention Hall, the schools referred to have each arranged distinctive exercises of their own. The graduates of the Central High School will on Friday evening hold an elaborate farewell reception and dance at National Rifies’ Armory. Tomorrow evening the Eastern High School Hall will be the scene of the class Gay exercises of that school. Beginning at 7:43 o'clock, a program of unusual excel- lence has been arranged, which will consist of the following features: Overture, “The Transformation,” by the Marine Band, F. Fanctulli, conductor; se- lection from “Wang,” Marine Band; “East- ern High School Cadet March,” composed by Miss Hettie Diver of the graduatin, class, and to be rendered Band; invocation, Rev. Dr. address, Mr. 3 “The First Heart larine Band; class poem, Miss Hettie Diver; address, Mr. W. B. Powell, superintendent of public schools; selecti E. K. Baker, class of '96; serenade, glee club, “Stars Trembling O’er U; history, Mr. B. G. Foster; galop, Sleigh Ride, Marine Band; address to graduates, Mr. C. M. Lacy Sites, principal of Eastern High School; class prophecy, Miss Macintosh; benediction, Rev. Dr. W. E. mn; march, “Liberty Bell,” Marine Band. Miss Diver will be the accompanist for the giee club in its selections. The floral decorations to be used tomorrow evening have been kindly loaned by N. Studer of Anacostia. After the completion of the program the building will be open for in- spection. The committee on class day exercises con- sists of Edwin H. Etz, chairman; Miss Josie E. Braham, Miss Florence Bowman, Miss Minnie L. Spencer, James W. Hart, Capt. Harry , Robert L. Floyd and Miss Hettie Diver. Miss Bessie Early as chairman and Miss Lulu M. Macintosh, Miss Annetta M. Etz, Lieut. C. R. Hillyer and Allen Diehl Albert are the members of the committee on reception. The members of the graduating class of the Western High School enjoyed pleas- ant but informal closing exercises this ternoon at their school building. An ad- Gress was delivered by Rev. A. D. Mayo, the well-known educator. Mrs. Walton, the i: structor of physical culture, gave several recitations, and Mrs. sev- eral vocal selections. es STORM BOUND. The People W Met in One Hallway ” What They Did While They Waited. From the New York Sun. It came on to rain hard, and I stopped in a hallway to wait. It was an old bullding in a busy down-town street. I was alone at first, except for the company that I had in the bight of @ hoist rope of an old-fashiuned hoisting apparatus, which fell in a long loop by the wall. The hatchways were closed. After I had been standing there a little spell I heard footsteps back of me on the stairs. I looked around and saw two men coming down, carrying some photographic apparatus. I imagined that they had been doing some work in the building and were now going away. But when they got down in the hallway and saw how it was raining they set their things down and waited. Presently a scissors grinder turned in from the sidewalk and set his machine down near the door and leaned himself against the side of the doorway. A moment later a newsboy turned into this hospitable shelter. He was the last. It kept on raining. It would let up a little occasionally, but a glance at the clouds was enough to show that it was not yet safe to venture out. The two photographers talked together for a time and then they stopped. One of them got out a n and began to read; the other lighted a cigarette and stood there and smoked and looked out. The scissors grinder read and smoked, too. He filled his pipe slowly and lighted it care- fully, and when it was well a-going he got out his newspaper. All this was much too slow for the news- boy. He had very soon got tired of waiting and had gone on in the rain; the rest of us still waited. The reading photographer turned a fresh page, the smoker lighted a fresh cigarette and looked at the clouds, the scissors grinder kept steadily on with his reading and I looked at the endless pro- cession of trucks and wagons in the street and read the signs on them, many of them with names that were very familiar and many with names that were entirely new to me, of people in all sorts of business in all parts of the town. Pretty soon the rain slackened; the scis- sors grinder looked up at the sky and folded his newspaper and put that and his pipe in his pockets, then he picked up his ma- chine and started; the two photographers weighed anchor and started in his wake and I followed closely. A moment later we were Jost in the passing throng. —_+e-—___. HORSES CRY OUT. ‘When t= Pain and Suffering They Give Votee to Their Anguish. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “On the way to St. Louis I purchased a copy of a magazine and read a very inter- esting article on the patient way in which animals bear pain without crying out,” said Raymond Howard of Boston, who was at the Southern yesterday. “To one state- ment in the article I take exception from Personal experience, acquired during the war. The writer says that a horse will endure pain in battle without any outcry. During the war I rode the same horse for nearly a year. He was wounded two or three times slightly, and always gave vent to so pitiful a cry that I felt as much sym- pathy for him as though he had been a uman comrade. One evening I was out with a foraging party in Virginia, when ‘we were shot upon from ambush by a small detachment of confederates. My horse was struck and fell, and I escaped by riding double with one of the other boys. We ob- tained reinforcements and soon drove that gray-coated detachment out of the neighborhood. “As we were returning through the woods | I distinctly heard my horse's cry, and re- turning to it put an end to lis troubles and misery by getting a friend to shoot it, the task being one I could not perform myself. Last month I positively saw half a dozen mules do just the reverse. They had been working in a coal mine for three or four years, and when first brought to the surface could not see at all in the daylight. After a few minutes they got accustomed to the light, and then, kicking up their heels, they gave vent to something so much like laugh- ter that those who were watching them en- Joyed the scene hugely.”" Chicage Grsin and Provision Markets Reported by Siisby & on” et Ages. CHICAGO, June 19, Siu Sig gs" hg Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE. June 19. ed—receipts, 18, rels; sales, 1,225 barrels, ent 5S%a00; July,” 60%a00%: A tember, 82 tenner Knot Feceipts, 11.115 ‘bushels: stock, 480 18% tokinie: gales, 60,000 bushels: milling wheat by sample, 3Sa6i dull—spot, 4314 asked: 46 - | Corn dull- June, asked; July, 46 bid— receipts, 16,421 bushels; stock, | — bushels; com by sample, Ont frm NaS mi erie, 1.600 bushels» svuthem, 4950; do. * ow No. 2. S5a5% 846 bushels. Hay Grain’ freights very quiet and unchanged. Sugar strong. active and un- a Butt: and st wncbar a a ia ae & Swift, surface railroad con- structors and bankers of New York, as- signed yesterday. The senior partner is Wendell Goodwin, the noted athlete. | FINANCE AND TRADE Union Pacific Touches Its Lowest Point in Years. ADVANCE IN CHICAGO GAS Big Speculators inclined to Let Sugar Alone. GENERAL MARK ET REPORTS —_>-__—_ Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, June 19—The absence of any important news and the thoroughly Professional character of speculation re- sulted in a dull and uninteresting market this morning. Opening figures were irreg- ular within fractional limits, and except in the case of the bankrupt stocks were not materially affected by subsequent deal- ings. The latter group of stocks early at- tracted the attention of traders, and were marked down to a level conforming more accurately to thelr intrinsic value, as judged by the always extreme bear stand- ard. Union Pacific, with the prospects of a suit for taxes instituted by the Attorney General and the postponement of July in- terest, was « shining mark for the believers 21-2 per cent to 9 3-4 was recorded, being the lowest point touched by this stock since the panicky times of the early seventies. The value of Northern Pacific preferred Was adjusted by subtracting 1 1-2 per cent from initial figures, and Atchison lost 8-4 ber cent from similar methods. The Gran- gers were steady around closing figures, and Muctuauions elsewhere in the railroad list were unimportant. ‘The industrials were not heartily dealt im, but were well supported, at fractional net gains. Chicag- Gus scid up 3-4 per cent to 48 3-4, the highest point yet touched by the pool now in charge of that Continued buying for the original chasers on the recent rise is regarded satisfactory evidence of the strength company’s position in regard to legal proceedings. Shorts are being forced out at every rise, and tet Mga only schedule now seriously a probable one in the dave fixing the t time tn which the provisions of the bill shall be- come operative. Distillers was sold down 1 moderate dealings, and the group was dull and steady. qotsiiroad earnings anrouncea aay were practically @ duplication ous reports, with a slight “4 figures on the same side ect last year. The market for sterling and continental bills opened strong and dull at previously quoted rates, ues Final sales in the regular list were made at rates slightly under last . the industrials were mreeuieer ty any improved for the day. ——. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. exchange. Corresponden’ Messrs. Moore & Schiey, No. Broadway: Stocks, Open. High. Low. Cicse ed ik Pullman P. Car Co.. Richmond Terminal Phia. _—_—_ Washington Stock Exchange. Bales— call-12 o'clock m.—' saan oak an, Se Tes, Washiagwe Gan” a, curreney, 1901, 15 UN — 120 bad. "3.650, 1s *iiseeliaa a sete ‘George- town Railroad conv. és oo ‘Railroad Bait allroad "hay Tad aingts Ratlrond 6s, 90 5 series A, 116 bid. Wi Be, B, 18 bid, cont. fs, 130 ‘bid. U.S. 1s 1B naked. curity ced treet Fst ‘ind Ok ia Washing: cu al . be “ ton + ~ Cc ‘ Washiagtup ec cone ot mae Masonte Hall Association Washington Light lnfant ‘ash: ington Ligh: Infantry, 2a Nations! Bank 318 bid, 330 bid. 275 a enked. : aes no ne est Lip Estate Tithe, 118 7% Did, § asked. bid, Bail Ron ea, 15 ington ‘Sicambaat, 05 bid. | 100 eked. Inte Bui ‘ax div Prank! The exhibit of the manual training work | and also of the English work of the chil- ren of the public schools at the Franklin building will be thrown open to the public | for the first time this evening. The hours | of exhibition are from 7 to 9, and « general | invitation is extended to ail interested to inspect the exhibition. —___— Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau today: 8 am., 74; 2 p.m. 7; maximum, 90; mini- mum, 73