Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1894, Page 11

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Nore ave. and ith st., MERTZ’S MODERN PHARMACY, Cor. ith snd F sts.. Keep 2 fall line a] Bands, Pills and Fruit alt Im ste Sent by mail_on receipt of price. The Bands cost up; the Fruit Salt $1 per per bottle, or 3 bottles for bottle and Pills $1. dre 42 West 22d st. Department No. & CO., rit, of 22 Hamilton place, Department 2 $e6-3m Madam Jeanneret, RELIABL HAI TONIC, i ES HAR ALO: «l have patd | THE STRIKERS IN PULLMAN Distress Prevailing Among the Families of the Workingmen. Supported by the Union and Only Bare Necessaries Provided—In Debt to the Pullman Company. A Chicago special to the Philadelphia Press says: All of George M. Pullman's working peo- ple in his town of Pullman are not starving to death, but scme of them are. Before the strike began they had a little money and some employment. Then they had credit at the stores in “The Arcade” and by clese caleulating managed to feed themselves like human beings, and ff all are not starving it is a fact that if anybody fancies that they are lolling in the Iap of luxury he is very far from the truth. There are now left in the town about 3,000 of the people who were once employes of the Palace Car Company. These people are fed by the supplies by cummittee of the American Railway Union, whose distribut- ing point is in Kensington, which adjoins Pullman on the south. Every man receives a ticket from his union which eatitles him to bread, meat, sugar and coffee or tea when the union has anything to give. The union is doing business strictly and does not indulge the fancy tastes of its members. They get no butter, milk, eggs or anything like that. They must be satisfied with the substan- tals. The people beside showing particular traces of want in their faces show that they are distrait and that their minds are troubled. But they have some sort of an indefinite, vague hope that their troubles will be settled some time soon and that they wilf once more be able to eat but- ter, and give chicken broth to their sick wives and babies, although as to how it is to be brought about they have not the least idea in the world. Objeets of Charity. If the strike goes on, as they think it will, the time will come when they will be compelled to beg the great American | Publie for bread, and that time is certainly | not far distant. They know this, and hence have done nothing to lose the good opinion of the public. If they leave the union and go back to work they say their feet will be deeper in the quicksands of wretchedness than ever before. Pullman is an industrial principality. It shouid be said before going any further that the Pullman company has never losi money since the big engine did its first lick of work. Everybody in Pullman knows that the company has never done business at a loss. The reason it began to cut wages was because it was not making as much money as it had made in other and | better times. But Pullman has never been | a losing game. The correspondent of the Press, who had | been listening to the cémpany’s side of ihe story for several days, went out yes- terday for the purpose of getting the opin- ion of the people on the whole distasteful ffair, and he got it without any trouble hatever. They spoke quietly and peace- ully. The town of Pullman might stand for ages before these people would pull down the houses over their own heads. In Watt avenue there are rows of di brick houses filled with strikers and their fami- lies. The weather is quite warm, and dur- ing the day the men and women sit upon the long steps before the houses and the lite ones play bare-footed in the streets. It is a picture of a great tenement district in some vast city. There is absolutely nothirg to eat in some of the houses. One of the Victims. Before one of these doors sat a delicate- Icoking midcle-aged woman, mending a stocking and taiking to another woman with a baby at her breast. The first wo- man spoke English well. : “Is there much distress in Pullman?” she was asked. se “Well,” she replied, with seme show of interest, “there certainly is. We are most of us suffering with hunger. There is also a fair proportion of sick people in town, and these are in great need of little delica- cles which now they cannot have. We get our supplies from the union, and it gives mly bread and meat, and now only oc- mally." ‘Have mary of the away?” “Yes, some of them have gone, but most of us are not able to go. You see, we haven't had a cent of money for so long, and money is necessary.” “Why are these flats so crowded?” “There is a goed reason for that, woman replied. “We get meat, but it is raw. It must be cooked. Coal is scarce. Rather, coal is not scarce, but we have no money to buy it, and we try to get along the best we can on what we can borrow or get on credit or pick up from the railroad ks. To do this the families have »bed together, and two or three of them together in one flat, The place is ex- families moved the live healthy enough, and we @on’t suffer, cept for a little crowding.” “Do the men want to go back to work? Will they give up the strike? “They want the work, but they will not quit the union. F haven't heard one word like that since the strike began. fight it out.” “Do they hope that Mr. Pullman will give in?” They wiil She straightened her body up, and her big, gray eyes -sparkied. “Give in! No. Gegrge M. Pullman will see every brick in this town crumble, every shop and factory a rain, before he will move one inch. Oh, we know what kind of a man Pullman is.” Why They Do Not Go Back. ‘Why would it not be wise, then, for the men to give up the union and go back as } plain employes?” “The woman's eyes softened. said, “it would be wise. We could better curselves by doing so. But if they went back to work they would he worse thar they were before. 1 think thé times must have been very hard for Pullman to cut tae wages the way he has done. I know the time when my husband was making $3 a day and over, and when I would as soon live here as anywhere. But they cut the y_and cut it until he was getting only 35. Then we pay $14.71 rent. The $14 is for the flat and the seventy-one cents is for water. We had te go in debt. We owe cld bills for meat and groceries, and now we owe several months of back rent. These debts will have éo be paid and at the last rate ef wages we never will be able to make it “Why,” ste up. “We must have more pay, or get out, or die, or do something.” “Has the rent been lowered?” “No. That's where the trouble is. If they had cut the rent when they cut the pay they would have been all right. But the rent kept going on just the same and the pay ‘was cut and we found that_we never had a cent to buy clothes with and were deeper and deeper in debt all the time.” In the Pullman Slum. The “brickyards” of Pullman are its “poorer” quarters. They lie off to the south and are reached after a rather long walk from the center of the town. There is squalor and want in this section of the town as weil as in the other districts. Its four rows of hovels certainly would be enough to satisfy the most morbid seeker of poverty, if one can judge by surround- ings. There are forty-four of these shanties closely together. In order to enter ne of these abodes, it is necessary to pass through a gate, for the fence is built tight- ly against the houses and the one door Is at the side. There are only four or five small rooms in ery of the dweilings, and they are oc- cupted by all the way from eight to fifteen per Made of only one thickness of boards, the interior is unfinished and the roofs are decidedly leaky. The corzespond- personal investigatiun and learn- © Of the occupants had had noth- ing to eat but stale bread and water for eight days. Some of them, for thiriy-six hours, hai not had a bite to eat of snything. The presenc the militia in the town has had a depressing effect on the ® popula- The average American workmgman 3 very little aout soldiers, He re- gards the soldiers with a certain amount of contempt. The military spirit is sadly want- ing in the people of Pullman. It fs said that if the people will only give up the union, Mr. Pullman is tc treat them with great kindness in the future. But it fs hard- ly probable they will give up the union. Meanwhile, the Pullman strike is on, and the town fs a military post. ENJOYING SEA BREEZES. Residents of This City Who Are Stay- ing at Atlantic City. Correspondence of The Brening Star. ATLANTIC CITY, July 12, 1894. Acting asa magnet to thousands who suf- fer from the overproduction of caloric in the larger cities, Atlantic City is at pres- ent the place of sojourn for a large crowd. The boardwalk offers the greatest variety, and as a result is the Mecca of the ma- jority of strangers. The inlet district is not far behind in this line, the main attraction up there, the Atlantic City Base Ball Club, daily drawing immense concourses of peo- ple. Bathing ts just now at its height, and every day the wate> ts literally black with those wha, take delight in invading old Nep- tune’s domains, and profit by the benefits he offers. It has become quite the thing for the fashionable element among the visiting contingent to take a dip in the surf about 5:30 in the afternoon, in adiition to that taken in the morning. They claim that at that hour the water is even more pleasant than early In the day, having by that time received the full benefit of the sun's rays, and, in addition, causes a freedom from the inconveniences caused by the presence of large crowds. A hop was given at the Sea- side Wednesday evening, in its vast open court. The ball rcom was crowded with pretty women, handsomely attired. Some of those present were Miss Octavia Stuart, Miss Spotts, Misses Donelly, Miss Hampson, Miss Reed, Mrs. Charies ‘T. Yerkes, Miss Dorothy Maitson, Misses Campbell, Miss Caroline Reed, Miss May Williams, Miss Cleaveland, Miss Chapman, Misses Boner, Misses Wood, Misses Kutherford, Miss Be:- tha Wooiman, Miss Heien Woolman, Miss Hattie Steele, Miss Mabel Troth, Miss Mary Lippineott, Miss Helen Marshall, Miss ‘Townsend, Miss Bessie Cramer, Miss E. H. Folwell, Miss McMullin, Miss Disston, Miss Somers, Miss Laura Chandler, Misses Ing- nam, Miss Georgia Adams, Misses Purvis, Muss Florence Knight, Misses Stirley, Misses Mashee, Miss Montgomery, Misses Wood, Miss Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Doughty, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. Whitemarsh, Walter Douglas, James Lallo, Theo, Senseman, Geo. Dean, D. W. Brooke, R. F. Foiwell, Wm. R. Fotasimmons, Al- bai Darby, William Bows and Frank Mins- trim. Sixty-five of the most popular school teachers in Pittsburg arrived in this city Wednesday, as a result of a contest re- cently waged in the Pittsburg Dispatch. They are under the guidance of Mr. Fred J. Grant, the business manager of the paper. White seems to be coming more in evi- dence this summer than ever before, and the summer giri and her escort are wea ing costumes whose immaculate purity daz- zies the eye to look upon. A most notice- abie instance Was seen on the boardwalk yesterday. The yotng lady, of course, was the more attractive, and was dressed in a white duck costume, cut after the con- ventional tailor style. A collar, revers and cuffs of light blue served to set the dress off to greater advantage than if it were all one color, The young man wore white duck trousers, a white vest and a coat of blue serge. A white yachting cap completed the nautical appearance he presented. A euchre party was given at the Tray- more Tuesday evening. Mrs. John Gilbert and Mrs. W. G. Scariett won the sirst and second ladies’ prizes, respeetively, while Lallon carried oft e ‘The Mr. John Gilbert and Mr, th Gilpin, Frank H. Galloney, Miss Florence E. Knight, Mr. and } Spotz, J. R. Ritten, Mr. ‘Lallon, mgel, Miss Canty, Frank Lehman, C. Her- . Mrs. S. V. Hammond, Miss Jen- Mrs. W. the various articles of usefulness and ornament the summer girl attaches to her belt this year, none is more noticeable than a tiny oval mirror. It is usually set in a silver wreath or some such fancy design and flashes the sun’s rays up and down the boardwalk and in the eyes of promenaders. ‘The mirrors are generally of the finest make, and, though small, are costly. They are used by the fair ones to adjust stray curls. lend is here, accompanied by his family, in which there are five daughters, Commanier G. KE. Riter of the United States navy is among thoae enjoying a so- journ at the shore. Edward A. Newman is here enjoying a holiday. A few of the Washingtonians noticed in a trip through hotel corridors, include Jesse Lashhorn, E. Everett Ellis, Miss Gertrude Paxton, John G. Holden, R Bealt, Miss M. Brom, M. B. Hallore, €. R. Hoof, J. H. Mc- Creesy, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Cogswell, Mrs. J. 1. Richardson and daughter, Henry Hall, H. R. Groce, E, A. Dick, Alex.’R. Mulloune, nd Mrs. Jas. Dundan, Nellie Mat- Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Willis, “Mr. and Mrs. L. B, Stine, Dr. Henry L. Gostin, John Winship, Mr. and Mrs. Latrobe, Mrs. Sam- uel Spraul and son, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Don- Mrs. J. S. Schiff, Fuller, M. A. . H.S. Benson, W. J. Hancock, Mr. ee. Mrs. FE. V. Letch, Rees Stephen ? eLeod, T. L. Waggaman, Mr. . Mertens, Mrs. M. T, Havenner, Mrs. Max Fis! Mr, and Mrs. ing, F. Hocheisen and family, J. . Speare, John S, Harknes ackwood, Mrs. W. ary, C. D. Mgore, . House, Mrs. A »burn, Mrs. Mary Coogan, Miss |. Geiselman, . M. F. Talty, A. C. G, C. Coogan, Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. W. K. Schoepf, Mi ‘valty, A. F. Seaoeg, L. Lawrenc ¢ s man, Irving He n,J. M. Higgi Phillips, Mr. and Mr#: O. M. Latham, J. C. Aull, H. P. Parker, Chas. Warren Stoddard, Mr. and Mrs. C. Schroth, C. 8. Hyde, Mrs. EB. J. Payne, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Brown, 3. N. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. N. Danzen- uker, Mrs. Chas. R. Johnson, Mrs. John Gordon and two children, H. Jones, Geo. M. Johnson, A. Chapman, Mis. 8. J. Lewis, J. Hall Lewis, Sidney Zerber, 8. C. Crossley, W. L. Hodgkins W. EE. ee ee. WASHINGTON AQU CT. Report of Operations During the Month of June. Col. Elliot has made a report to Gen. Casey, chief of engineers, of operations on the Washington aqueduct during the month of June, from which it appears that the wa- ter works and approaches were kept In good condition, and a number of minor repairs and improvements made. The macadam pavement of the Conduit road was repaired. The repair of the footways of the Pennsyl- vania avenue aqueduct bridge is about one- fourth completed. A measurement of the hourly and daily rate of consumption and waste of water in the city was made June 2sth, and it was found that the daily rate was 49,162,357 gallons. This shows a heavy progressive increase in the consump- tion and waste of water, and indicates clearly the necessity for an immediate in- crease in the water supply of the District. The daily rate of consumption and waste for the past four years is as follows: June 1890, 35,541,845 gallons; June, 1891, 38,504,743 gallons; June, 1802, 41,161,790 gallons; June, 1893, 46,727,108 gallons; June, 1804, 49,162,357 gallons. During July Col. Elliot says it is proposed to commence the excavation required for the proposed drain from the vault chamber of the distributing reservoir of the Chesa- peake and Ohio canal; to remove the de- posits in the bed of the Potomac opposite the intake of the conduit at Great Falls which interfere with the proper flow of water Into the conduit and to continue the survey of the boundaries of the aqueduct lands. Col. Elliot says part of the project for the improvement of the Dalecarlia recetving reservoir has been completed and the «p- ropriation exhausted. The work referred 0 consisted in the excavation and lining of the receiving shaft in the valley of Lit- tle Falls branch and the excavation and lining of the main drainage tunnel under Dalecarlia Hill, the former being 581-2 feet deep and the latter 935.6 in length. The remaining part bo the project consists in the excavation and lining of a tunnel through the hill which Mes to the east- ward of Little Falls branch; the construc- tion of the permanent drains across Little Falis branch, Mill creek and Hast creek and the excavation and embankments re- quired for the open channels between those streams. Work on this part of the project will commenced as soon as the appro- priation for it, which is now pending in Congress, has been enacted. aes SEPEE ‘The Vigilant, Britannia and Satanits have been entered for the race for the gold cup. Kelly, the wardman Indicted in New York for blackmailing people in the name of the Pollce department, has fled the country, The average annual yainfall over the whole earth is thirty-six inches. nie Pearce, Miss Lyons, Harry J. Lyons, H. P. Moon, I. G. Calder, Mrs. Geo. F. | Moore, Mrs. S. J. Carr, J. McGlynn, G. B. Johnso State Senator Thomas A. Holmes of Mary-' CHICAGO STREET SCENES Sa 5) Sree How the Debsites aud Anti-Debsites Are Bf vi A West Pciat one Who Commanded His Father—#regucacy of Extras —Some Kconomies. From a Staff Correspondent. CHICAGO, July 14.-When Eugene V. Debs endeavored to. separate the sheep from the goats he adopted the device of having those who sympathized with his efforts wear a scrap of white ribbon con- spicuously,and as a result a considerable per- centage of this city’s population is so dec- orated, the men usually having the ribbon on a coat lapel, while the women wear it at the throat or on the breast, Since the riotiag became such a prominent feature of the strike some one who was an anti- striker conceived the idea of wearing—as did many Washingtonians and others on Flag day—a miniature of the stars and stripes. The notion was popular from the start and now you will meet thousands of Chicagoans of each sex who continually display the national colors. Division be- tween the Debsites and the non-Debsites is therefore clearly established. By their ribbons ye shall know them. A writer in the Railway Times, the official organ of the American Railway Union, calls the flag wearing “‘the latest dodge of the enemy.” He insists that “the flag of freedom, of democracy, of popular rule” should not be abandoned to those whom he denounces as adversaries of the people, and calls upon the Debsites to wear both the flag and the white ribbon, the former being uppermost. In concluding his appeal he says: “Let the two badges together tell the story of your struggle in behalf of your down-trodden brothers in Puilman. You are fighting for principle and for the interests of justice to men whom most of you have never seen. This lifts your battle high above the plane of ordinary strikes for the betterment of the strikers’ position. A sympathetic strike marks a new era in the labor movement, an era whose motto will be solidarity, that the injury of one is the concern of all. Such a spirit will inevitably bring you vic- tory; even defeat in such a cause is vic- tory. Let our national flag, the tri-color of liberty, equality and fraternity, indicate what you struggle to bring forward, and let the white ribbon of peace indicate the methods by which you propose to usher in the new era of human progress.” But no- body seems to be taking the advice. Which brings up a nearly related matter of some interest. = In every issue of the daily bulletin of the Railway Times has been some fcrt of a re- quest to strikers to keep the peace and many disavowals of the violence that has un- fertunately been so conspicuous. Yet there must somewhere be insincerity, for the offi- cial organ of the strikers makes inerry over an occurrence in which the liberty and physical self of one person was assailed as surely as though his assailants had been armed. The story was abont the boycott which some of the newsboys have inaugu- rated against the Tribune, Inter-Ocean, Her- ald, Post and Journal—papers that hit from the shoulder. Thé st#fke-sympathizing gam- ins, says Editor Debs, “carried only the Times, Record and jhe strike bulletin. A big fellow of twenty: years, who had been sent out by thi bOycotted papers, was omptly pounce uptn at the head of News A little cijip 6f ten sprang upon his back and in a”twinkiing he was right- flanked, left-flanked and hemmed in. His papers were trdthpé®& in the mud and a dozen grimy little fists used him up as ef- fectually as a coyple of big ones could have done. He shook-off his assailants and fled like a deer, followed by the derisive yells of the victors,” If that 4s not encouraging the young idea\how to agt during a strike will some one please shy What it is? But there are at-least two edges to that boycott business. I have seen scores of men refuse to buy gn kind of a paper from the boyeotters, 2 The Bhy¥ Was “Ross.” } While the West Point cadets were visit- ing the world’s fair one of the cadet com- panies was commanded by Cadet Capt. Corrad. In an evil moment it entered into the head of that young gentleman to steal out of camp and up to the city. He wi: found out, tried, and was finally sentenced to suspension for one year, which term will be up in August. Out of these happenings a curious state of affairs has come to pass, for ex-Cadet Capt. Conrad, having Idle time on his hands, engaged as an assistant United States marshal, and was given charge of twenty-six deggties. To sup- port this civilian force, an fo do the bid- ding of its leader, a company of the fif- teenth United States infantry was ordered, and {t so happened that the detail was company C, which is commanded by Capt. Conrad, father of the ex-cadet captain. Tne son is therefore on top of the heap, and orders his father around as he pleases. Now, it so happened that there was trouble in Spring Valley the other day. Miners were abusing those who disagreed with them, and there was much wrecking of property. Ex-Cadet Capt. Conrad was sent to quell the disturbance, and when he went —as he did in a hurry—he took with him Capt. Conrad, United States army, and company C, fifteenth infantry. Rocks were thrown at the ex-cadet captain and at his subordinate—Capt. Conrad, United States army—and there was a steady increase in violence until ex-Cadet Capt. Conrad re- marked to Capt. Conrad, United States army, that it would be just as well for the troops to open fire. Capt. Conrad, United States army, obeyed the order given him by his son, and the result was so much of death and wounding that Spring Valley has been tolerabiy well behaved ever since. But after the coming of August ex-Cadet Capt. Conrad will not be giving many or- ders to Capt. Conrad, United States army. “Here's Yer ‘Extry.’ A dweller in Chicago at this time will forever be hardened to the cry of “Extra,” for here there is no cessation to that yell, no moment of peace from daylight until it is almost time for daylight to come again. Whether anything particular has happened or not the “extra” keeps on putting in re- newed appearance. First it forecasts the doings of the day, then it announces a change in the program, then it denies that any change was ever contemplated, and an hour later declares most positively that nothing has occurred or will occur until 3 Pp. m. of the following day. But its “extra” editions keep on coming just the same, and people who are recent arrivals keep on buy- ing them until there is threat of bank- ruptcy. An extra on “Renewed Rioting at the Stock Yards” generally tells you that it has exclusive information to the effect that if all the men in the yards strike and are determined to keep everybody else out and new men to: force their way, and thus cause a there will surely be a riot, and the ies and the police and the deputy marshals .will,all be there, and there will be a great .big, murderous, blood-be- spattered sort of a time. For Mr, Mgiman’s Eye. The picayunish manner in which some of the executive departments are run was never better illustrated than wien Col. Martin, Gen. Miles’ chief of staff, was com- pelled to telegraph the authorities at Wash- ington for a few'4ollars out of a contingent or some other fund,;to be disbursed in the purchase of ice “for‘use in a water cooler which is just inside the entrance to the as- sistant adjutant, general's office. Officers are plentiful around; department headquar- ters just now,there is no lack of newspaper correspondents, andsthe weather is as hot as the streets are dusty. But regulations are Inelastic, and even officers of high rank are tied down by all manner of official fool- ishness. The chances are that the telegraph bill for correspondence over that ice moncy amounts to-more than enough to have pur- chased a Greenland glacier. A Forchanded Striker. Half a dozen telegraph linemen were working in and around a big menhole at the Intersection of Jackson and Clark streets, immediately in front of the gatling, which is one of the Federal building’s prin- cipal mechanical defenses. The wires were adjusted and the cover was about to be put pt Riace when a ribbon-wearer step; up to th goa and said most seriously: “Would you mind ey hole open for awhile? é of the Soldiers just told e that he didn’t know the minute when that gun might go off, and if it does go I'd to use that place until all the eammu- nition has bees “=.1 away.” } ‘PLOTTING IN VENESUELA. An Organised Effort Being Made to Bring About a Revolution. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. MARACAYEO, Veneguela, June 28, 1804. Those who sustained the cause of Andueza Palacio, Villegas, Pulido, Urdoneta, Men- doza, Monagas, Casanas, Saria and Pepper against congress, the supreme court, the n.asses and Crespo during the last civil war, are apparently still busy plotting against the public peace. Their latest move is to ally themselves with the Colombian radicals of Barranquilla dynamite plot notoriety, and their plan to spring a revolution, simul- ‘taneously, in the Venezuelan states of Los Andes, Zulia, Zamora and Falcon, and in direct operations, and a printing office set up there; “secret” circulars are being +dis- seminated therefrom, mailed in sealed en- velopes, to persons in sympathy with the clique in Colombia and Venezuela. In those mailed to Colombians, President Nunez and the government of Vice Presi- dent Caro are denounced as having made an unrighteous deal with the present govern- ment of Venezuela,and signed a treaty with Crespo's plenipotentiary at Bogota, receding to the Caracas government a great part of the Venezuelan territory claimed by Colom- bia, and decided by arbitration at Madrid, two years ago, to belong to the Bogota gov- ernment. On the other hand, the little yel- low slips printed for circulation amongst Venezuelans denounce the Madrid award as unjust, and claims that the great mass of Colombiar. liberals, ever generous in spirit toward the sister republic which gave birth to Bolivar, the liberator, are unwilling that she should be dismembered—even to their own advantage. Venezvelans are urged therefore to assist the Colombian liberals to set into power, and promised that once Nu- nez and Caro fall a new government at Bo- gota will voluntarily cede the territory back to Venezuela! Level de Goda, Andueza’s representative, has just completed a tour of Colombia, and, upon his return from Bar- ranquilla and Panama, took part, with the Colombian leaders, Vargas-Vila, Generals Ruiz, Rosas and Perez-Triana, in organizing in co-operation with Crespo’s enemies in exile at Caracas the new junta. Considerable munitions of war have been brought here during the last three months and smuggled hence across the frontier, via Cucuta or Tachiva, to the discontented in Colombia; and a few weeks ago it was openly claimed in the club here that Crespo’s general in command of the fron- tler was tn sympathy with the Curacao Plotters, and secretly furthering their plans. And there may have been some basis for the charge; but the ssfd general ts no longer in command on the border. Crespo evidently heard of the reports against him; and the minister of war has relieved him, naming to fill the post Gen. Espiritu Santo Morales. Morales is a godo or conservative, and nowise in sympathy with either Co- lombian or Venezuelan’ liberals. A Russian Engineer, M. Cristobal Daco- vitch, who lately discovered petroleum in the southern districts of this state (Zulia), has gone to Caracas to formally apply to the federal government for concessions cov- ering the same. Specimens of the crude product, which he carried with him, having been analyzed at the capital, show: Ben- zine, 15 per cent; petroleum, 48 per cen lubricating oil, 32 per cent; asbestos, The principal well opened by near the Tara river, produces 4,000 ga! per day. Martin Tovar, the noted Venezuelan ar- tist, now in Paris, is at work upon 2 ne ture to depict “The Battle of Ayarucho,” ich decided the fate of five South Ameri- can republics, ‘The minister of public works has sicned, with Count Charles Conde, the representa: tive of a French syndicate, a contract for the construction of a new line of railway, intended to give Caracas a new outlet to the sea, in competition with the British rail- road to La Guayra. The road the French are to build will run to Carrero and Hi- guerrote Bay, a magnificent hazbor, less than a hundred miles east of La Guayra. A concession has also been graated to a Franco-Belgian syndicate for the construc- tion of a railway to connect Puerto Cabeilo with Araure. Gen. Riera, newly appointed chief of the federal troops garrisoned in the capital of Falcon, telegraphs that all signs of imsur- rection heve been stamped out in that state. A _new marine dock is being constructed t Puerto Cabello, under direction of the inister of war and navy. In future Vene- zuelan warships will be repaired there, in- stead of being sent to Martinique, Trinidad or the United States. A combined effort is being made by mu- nicipal, state and fede-al authorities to close all the gambling houses in the republic of Colombia. Gen. Crespo, president of the republic of Colombia, has been made supreme com:man- der of Venezuelan Masonry. 5 per him, ons CROP REPORTS. Little Damage Yet Reported From the Drought. Notwithstanding the fact that the present long-continued drought is very wide in its extent, and is particularly serious in the | west and the northwest, comparatively lit- | tle damage to the growing crops has as yet been reported. Corn and cotton, the two staples which would be most likely to suf- fer damage at this season of the year, are able to stand a great deal of dry weather befote they show any il effects. In point of fact both of these products are rather better off than they were at this time lavt year. According to the latest report of the statistician of the Agricultural Department, Mr. Henry A. Robinson, just issued, and compiled from reports from all sections uf the country, the condition of the cora on the Ist of July was %, being 1.8 better than last year, 13.9 better than the year bef and higher than any in the last ten years with the exception of 1887. Cotton is 4.4, the highest since 18v0. The importaat pe- riod, however, will be from now,and unless there should be a general break inthe drought the harm would be immense. Iowa and Missouri report the besi condition for July 1 in corn, 100 and 101 respeciiveiy, that is to say, all and more than they hed any reason to expect. Texas and Okla- homa lead in the matter of cotton, ‘The preliminary acreage of cora, a3 re- ported by correspondents, shows 106 per cent as compared with the acreage of 1503, being an increase in round numbers cf 4,000,000 acres, or 76,000,000 acres against 72,000,000 last year. The condition of winter wheat is 83.9 against 83.2 in June, and 77.7 in July, 1803, The condition of spring wheat is 68.4 against 88 in June, and 74.1 in July, IN. The fall since last report is nearly 20 points. The consolidated returns place the condi- tion of oats at 77.7 as against 87 lest month, showing a reduction in condition from last month of 9.3 points. The condi- tion July 1, 1803, was 88.8. The acreage under potatoes is 105.1 per cent of that of last year. The low price of cereals partly acounts for this increase. The condition for the whole country stands at 92.3,.a8 against 94.8 and 90 in 18% and 1802, respectively. This is nearly two points below the average condition for July dur- ing the last ten years, the chief causes cf the deterioration being drought and the prevalence of the Colorado potato beetle. In the states of largest production, Low- ever, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, the condition ranges near or above the average, standing at 94, 95, 98 and 97, respectively. The returns for cotton make the average condition 89.6 against 88.3 in June, chowing an improvement in condition of 1.3 points. The condition in July, 1893, was 82.7. The reports sh slight general improve- ment of conditioM throughout the cotton belt. In five states, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee, there has been a decline, while in the states cf North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Texas there has been an im- provement in the condition of the crop. see Chr m Endeavor Election. The Christian Endeavor Soctety of the Ninth Street Christian Chureh has elected the following officers for the ensuing six months: Rev. E. B. Bagby, 409 9th street northeast, pastor; A. W. Bowen, 104 9th street southeast, president; Mrs. Emma V. Cohill, vice president; Miss Lida Billups, rding secretary; Miss Mattie B. Allen, 10 K street southeast, corresponding sec- retary; Justin A. Runyan, treasurer; Thos. H. Means, Brookland, D. C., press corre- ndent; Miss Addie Melchoir, organist; . C. Arnold, music director; Justin A. Runyan, delegate to international conven- tion, July 11-15, 1894, Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. . V. Cohill, delegate to District Christian Endeavor Union. The new officers were installed with a very pretty and impressive instaligtion ceremony, arranged ®¢ the president. The ceremory was original end something new in Endeavor circles. RAILWAY LOSSES SUSTAINED The Strike Has Not Been as Costly as First Believed. Actual Destrection of Property and Loss of Life Not Se Great as in Previous Contests. History will set down the strike which has just ended at Chicago as the cheapest and best that has occurred in the vountry since the celebrated occasion when rioters threw British tea overboard in Boston har- bor, says a Chicago special. Mxagserated tales of riot, pillage and bloodshed have led to equally exaggerated estimates of loss and damage from the strike. The excite- ment being over, intelligent computation of the actual damage sustained has been be- gun. From violence arising indirectly from the strike eight persons have been killed in and near Chicago, and probably forty wounded. In actual conflict between rioters and the law five men have been killed, four In Chi- cago proper and one in Hammond. None of them were in arms against the authorities and only one or two of them were strikers. One other striker was killed as he was on his way to fish with his rod over bis shoulder. He was killed by the wife of a fireman with whom he was quarreling. One woman was killed by 4 stray shot from a policeman's revolver. Besides the deaths and injurics arising directly from the strike there has been more than the usual number of collisions and similar accidents, due to the employ- ment of green men. In these three or four Persons have been killed and several in- jured. No policemen, soldiers or deputy marshals have received serious injuries at the hands of the mobs, but two soldiers and deputies have been killed by the cars and many have been accidentally shot by themselves or their comrades. In the northern Illinois coal field three or four persons, innocent spectators, have been killed and several injured in fights indirectly connected with the raliroad strike. In proportion to the extent of the strike and the strength of the force brought out to suppress it, the loss and injury to life have been trifling. Nearly as many were killed and v-ounded in the Homestead strike, which was confined to a single town. la the last general railroad strike of 1877 more than 10 were killed. This lack of bicodshed has been due partly to the mod- eration of the real strikers, who gave little encouragement to the mobs, and largely to the forbearance of the forces called on to suppress violence. The soldiers at the crit- ical time of the strike were frequentiy in a position where they could have kilied scores without making themselves guilty of murder. ‘The Property Losses. Of the damage to property the record is equally short. Only railroad property has suffered and that to but a small degree in comparison with the vast amount of such Property open to damage. As soon as violence began the railrcads sent out mon to cover every foot of track and yard, and note every least particle of damage done to cars or other property. This was with the idea of presenting to | the city after the trouble was over a fully itemized bill. Uitold millions could not have bought these claims aguinst the city during the excitement of the first few days. Now they are scratching bravely to find damage enough to foot up $1,14KL000, and if they could settle the bill for $500,000 they would have $200,000 or $300,000 to put on the right side of the profit and loss account. This includ of course, only damage resulting directly from mob violence. In that resulting from collisions and other accidents due to incompetent employes the city cannot be held Hable. By tnclua- | ing in their losses the total value of every car that was upset or had the paint blister- ed by fire the railway managers fi about 7 cars “destroyed.” The value of these they fix at $50 per car. Ninety of them are said to have been loaded. But as the freight was mostly coal the loss is not heavy. The Pennsylvania company, on whose lines mostly this destruction occurred, esti- mates its loss at $530,000. Its experience in collecting damages from Pittsburg after the 1877 riots probably encourages it to aim high. The lilinois Central comes next | with $130,000. The Burlington wants $73,- ow for cars burned. The Grand Trunk claims $14,000 for station house and cars burned, and the other roads estimate losses as follows: Great Western, $11, Shore, $10,000; Rock Isha Plate, $5,000; Sante Fe,$3,.%; Monon, $2, Eastern Iilinots, $2,009; Wisconsin Central, $1,000; Baltimore and Ohio, $1,000, and Western Indiana, $590. ‘The Indirect Losses. The indirect loss includes that on freight and passenger traffic. There is Jiitle offset | to this total loss in saving of wages, for while manysthousand strikers will not have to be paid, many thousand other men have been employed as deputy marshals, watch- men and guards at the expense of the rail- roads, and exorbitant wages and expenses have been paid to new men vo take the place of strikers. The strikers themselves will lose from five to fifteen days’ pay as individuals, but the labering people as a mass will lose practically nothing. There were oniy about | ) actual strikers and at least 10,400 of these formerly employed have been at werk jeputy marshals and guards at higher es than the strikers would have receiv- ed. Probably the most of the actual ret) loss to the working classes through the strike will come from the increased cost of living. The only concern that will suffer ary really serious and permanent loss from the strike is the Pullman Palece Car Company. The damage to its property has beea ter- rible, but the injury to its popularity is in- calculable. The difference that the exist- ence of this sentiment wili make when the Paliman company comes to renew its con- tracts with the raliroads is obvious, but even regardless of this the direct loss will be very great. ati al iceman BIG STORIES, NOT WINNINGS. Exaggerated Reports of Amounts Lost and Wen at the Race Track. the New York Sun. reason for the great popularity of racing among men who ki.ow nothing about the sport is the extraordinary fortunes which people are supposed to muke in the course of fiftecn or twenty minutes, by bet- ting or horses which have a long price marked oppesite their names. The racing editors of several of the morning papers are exceedingly careful in voting the winnings and losses of prominent men on the turf, when they are worthy of comment, put this is not true of all the men who sit in the re- porters’ stand at the tracks. Every year some particular man ts picked out, and the stories of his are mentioned day after day, quite as a iat‘er of course, but never with any real notion of the actual facts of the case. Meat for instance, is commonly credited ! papers with having landed between $50,000 and $60,000 on a single race this week, and a few days before it was soleranly announc- ed in the papers that “Pittsburg Phil” had a rather bad two-days’ racing, but having landed $55,000 on Candelabra he was feel- ing more comfortable. Such winnings as these are noted usualiy as a matter of course, in the shape of a foot note or some small item of news of the track. The inconsistency of these statements is apparent, sometimes, even to people who have no knowledge of racing. When Mc- Cafferty rode Rough and Ready, for in- stance, the price was 50 to 1, and it was stated McCafferty bet $5,000 of his own and his partner's money cn his mount. Of course, it would be impossibie to place such an enormous sum of money on an outsile horse, as the bookmakers are too sharp to be caught napping that w: But, assuming that the ry is true and that McCafferty had bet that amount of money, his winnings would have amounted to $250,009 on that particular race. People who imagine that the bookmakers at Sheepshead Bay can pay out a quarter of a millica dollars on a single over-night race, have a lofty cpinion of the financial sta- bility of the ring. It is curious to note how persistently this exagge-ation is practiced, since Yt is apparent to all racegoers that such enormous winnings are entirely imagt- wary. ie and Riera Reena LIFE AT DEER PARK. i Well-Known People Who Are Staying at This Resort. j Correspondence of The Evening Star. ' DEER PARK, Md., July 11, 1894. { ‘The tide of travel Deer Parkward has been perceptibly affected by the recent strike! yet few familiar faces are missing frons’ among those who yearly come to the cool! retreats of these mountain fastnesses af! the first signal of summer heat in neighbors’ ing cities. Each day the arriving traing’ bring increased numbers among hotel and’ cottage dwellers, principally from Wash ington and Baltimore. The sister resorts of Deer Park and Oakiaad, but six miles" distant, already present a gala-lixe appears A number of handsome new private cot- tages have been added. So closely associated are these sister re- sorts that a residence at eliher is merely @ question of accommodation, and a spirit of generous rivairy keeps the ball of hospital ity in continuous revolution. One of the pleasantest features of the combination is the opeu air concerts held upon the Lotel porticoes. Among the cottagers are Mrs. Jno. Small and Mrs. Jno. Steele of Baltimore, Mr. Har- mer Deuny of Ailegacny, airs. Biddle of Philadelphia, Mayor Latrobe of baltimore, Airs. Nesbitt Turnbull and W. A. Henway. ‘Two of the largest new cotteges are owned by Mr. C. K. Lord and Mr. Jozias Penning- ten of Baltimore. At Oakland the arrivals are early in the ficid. One of the first coming, as usual, was Gen. E. G. Rathbone and family of Hamil- ton, Ohio, who during the administration of Harrison had their home on Rhode is- jand avenue in Washington. Their pretty Villa in these mountains is a raliying point for the fashionable world of the netghbor- hood, where the hostess takes pleasure im dispensing those pleasantly informal hos- pitalities that add so largely to the real enjoyment of midsummer |ite. Gen. and Mrs. Innis Palmer expect to take possession of their new cottage during the present week. Mrs. Arthur Brice and wife are already domesticated in the cottage so long occu- pied by Gen, Palmer, situated upon one of the most commanding sites in the suburbs, Ameng Baltimoreans the Pextons, Wheel- rights, Howards and Carters have arrived. Also Admiral Crosby, U. 8. N., and family, Mrs. Crosby is in mourning for her brother~ in-law, Admiral Queen, whose déath fol- lowed so shortly after his return from Deer Park last autumn. Judge Jeremiah Wilson arrived carly in the month, and after seeing his family com- fortably settied at “Windemere,” left for a much needed ocean voyage, to be absent some months. Mrs..Wm. Haywood and little laughter will remain with her mother throughout Season Crook's Crest, the dwelling of the widow of Gen, Geo. Crook, is once more by the mistress,who has her sister, Mrs. Read, with her. Few changes are noticeable in the vicin- ity, with the exception of the closing of the Rest, which was yesterday sold under the hammer to the highest bidder. COFPFINED ALIVE. Girl Overcame Her Trance While Borne to Hearse. Sprakers, a village not far from Rond@- out, N. Y., was treated to a first-class sen- sation recently by the supposed resurree- tion from the-dead of Miss Eleanor Mark- ham, who to all appearances had died on the Sunday before. Miss Markham about a fornight ago com- plained of heart trouble, and was treated by a physician. She grew weaker gradu- ally, and on Sunday morning apparently breathed her last, to the great grief of ber relatives, ®y whom she was much beloved, The doctor pronounced her dead, and tur- nished the usual burial certificate. it was decided thai the interment should take place Tuesday, and in the moraing Miss Markham was put in the coffin, After her reiatives had taken a last look on what they supposed was their beioved ead, the lid of the coffin was fastened oa, and the undertaker and his assistant tovlt it to the hearse waiting outside, As they approached the hearse a noise was a 3 and the coffin was put down and open in short order. Behold, there Eleanor Markham lying on her back, her face white and contorted and her eyes dis- tended. “My Goa,” she cried, in broken accents, “where am I? You are burying me alive. “Hush, child,” said Dr. Howard, who happened to be present. “You are all mght. It is a mistake easily The girl was then taken into the bouse and placed on the bed, when she fainted. While the’ doctor was adminstering <timue lating restoratives Uhe trappings of woe were removed and the hearse drove away with more cheerful rapidity than a hearse was ever driven before. The cordiais had the desired effect, end Miss Markham grew a litvle stronger. As it was evident that her nerves were suffer- ing from the terrible shock they aad re ceived, the doctor ordered the doors thrown open and told the girl's mother and im- mediate friends to stay with her until she had completely recovered, and say nothing in her heariag or sight not cheerful and stimulating, and above «il, not to refer to the late sensational cpisoje. But this Eleanor would not have. She ke of it herself, and seemed relieved, passe] into a refreshing sleep whem bad unburdened her mind. a I was conscious all the time you yere making preparations to bury me,” she held, “and the horror of my situation is alte. gether beyond description. I eould hear everything that was going on, even @ whisper outside the door, and though I ex- ted ail my will power and made a su- e physical effort to ery out, I was powerless. I had read ina New York paper lately about how the Rev. Mr. Kane die@ and went to heaven, but felt that my fete was to be buri alive, and the frightful idea was the saving of me, for as I vas borne to the hearse I prayed to God for strength, and making another attempt sue ceeded in tapping on the lid of the coffim, At first I fancied the bearers would rot hear me, but when I felt one ead of the coffin falling suddenly, I knew that I haa been heard.” Miss Markham ts on a fair way to re covery, and what is strange is that the Mutterings of the heart that brought om her illness are gone. ee ee Count D’Orsay's Politeness, From the Chiengo Herald. The story- was teld at a luncheon, and ft reminded Fred Hild, superintendent of the public library, of a story he heard when he was dining one day in Brussels. Mr. HN@ apologized for the probable old age of his story, but safd that an old story was some- limes like old wine. The story was om Count d'Orsay. When the count was a very young and handsome man he was invited, during a visit to England, to dine with the brillant but capricious Lady Holland. She was regally imperious always, but more so om the occasion of the dinner to Count @’Or- say than usual. Soon after they were seat- ed at table Lady Hollacd@ dropped her fan, The count, with greai gallantry, picked it up. Then she dropped her napkin, and the count, with all his grace, picked up that article. A moment later she dropped her fork, and the count restored that without being the least disconcerted. The next ar ticle to fall was Lady Holland's glass. The count then lest patience, and summoning the footman, he said to him: “Put my plate on the Moor. I will finish my dinner there; it will be so much more convenient to my Lady Holland. es DON’T rand DXCE:VED Reidsvilie, Rockingham Co., N. 2. Dr. R. V. 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