Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1894, Page 9

_ THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th Street, by by carriers, on thelr owm account, ut 10 cents ‘cok, or 44¢. per month. Copies at the counter cents cach. By mail—anywhere tm the United tes oF se ‘ meee. bestage prepald--30 cents per Saturday quint Sh wa pu By — Pare = se per yea Fost Oifice at Washiagton, D. C., (Entered at the 5 seroud-class inatl matze:) All mail subscriptions must be paid In advarce. tes of advertising made known on application. Dart. Che # ening Slav. Paco WASHINGTON, D. ©. SATURDAY, AUGUST 4 1894—TWENTY PAGES E< ClSSSEE SESS OS COCHHES CNGOS values are leaders. CARPETS 621 yards of Heavy Ingrain Carpets thit sold “for 50 certs a yurd. Now oe 1,173 yards of the Best All- wool Ext-a Super Ingrain. €arpets, mostly Lowell and Martford mako—curpets that sell everywhere oe cents a yasd. Now........ $37 1s of our famous Agra Ca-p-w-—better wear- ing carpets than any 3-ply mauufactured, Always sold for $1 a yard. 33 rolls of Heavy Tapestry 75c- Brossels, sold ‘everywhere 2 for 6 vents a yard. New.. MOC. gic. 50c. DOVOQID SOOO DOS H$OOOHODOHSD OOO 9GGOOO yards Best Quality pestry Brussels, which always sold’ for 90 65c. 75C. yards Body Brussels, regular $1.10 quality. Now 1,725 yards of the Rest Five- frame Kody Brussels, man- ufactured at the best mills boca then — everywhere for $1.35 8 yerd. Our price now...... 85c. 1,181 yards of Extra Wilton sold for 95¢- Velvet, regularly $1.25 $1.35 a yard. Now $49 yards of Heavy Wilton Carpet, that _sells_ every- where for $1.75 and $2/a yard. Our closing out price 1,171 yards of Axminster and ‘Gobelin Carpets, in parlor effects, quality ‘that would be cheap at $1.50 a yard. Our price now 0 rolls of Moguette Carpet SSaen ike and’ cart cote nt a rk “col po Daring this sale, $1.00 QOSOODOGSOOHOSGOGOS. 85c. yard Oil Cloths 3s patterns of OM Cloths, new, regular 25-cent qual- 4 Igc. ; Smyrna Rugs ‘At almost HALF PRICE. @ ity. During this sale, yard now. SeauE 1 .e 2 3. 3. cx ea 23 Bi. aa atout 16x32 in. Regularly IC. % ecuts A big barguin at 3 . Russia Rugs. Our justly famons Russia Rugs are unequaled in durability by any rugs the world that sell for near the same money. Less than cost buys them now in order to make room fer new ones we've ordered. REGULAR REDUCED e SI PRICES. PRICES 21 by inches... $1.25 5 26 by 52 inches.. 1-75 125 6 30 by @ inches.. 1.50 36 by 72 e ® by 12 feet.. Special 4 Japanese <2 100 J: Rugs, @ quality, 3x6 feet. S regularly for $3 eac! €23 WW Tapanese _ Rugs, ‘ quality, 4x7 feet. larly $4 ench. Now Hassocks. Rugs. = $1.75 Sold Now extra © 800 Hassocks, quality that G@} never sold for less than G0 25C _ cents. Now . e 500 Hassocks, kind that sell elsewhere for $1. Now. 50c. Clearing Out Carpets and Rugs. Every summer we give you a chance to practice economy by purchasing your Carpets and Rugs out of season and at out-of-season prices. season’s chance comes now. ready for you Monday morning. New prices will be tacked on the Carpets— the lowest prices of the year—prices economical people cannot resist. These DHOOOEOESO The Will be CarpetRemnants 500 Kemnants of all kinds of Carpets, in lengths from 1 to 1% yards, for 85, 50, 75 cents and $1 each. Bordered Carpets? Some of the greatest bargains of the ‘2 sale. Here are a few to show what you (3) Tapestry Brussels 3 Carpets.© a OOOSOSSSOO 8 ‘The following have % SIZES. 8 ft. 3 in. 5 7 ft. 0 tm. by 13 ft. 9 i 12 ft. 9 in. by 19 ft. 9 Body Brussels Carpets. With % berders. 8 ft. 8 in. by 13 ft. 9 in.. 80.00 16.50 8 ft. 3 in. by 12 ft. 2 In. 30.50 15.00 8 ft. 8 in. by 15 ft. 9 tn.. 32.50 16.75 8 ft. 3 im. by 11 ft. O in. 28.00 14.00 10 ft. 6 in. by 13 ft. 6 in. 35.00 17.50 10 ft. 6 in. by 14 ft. 9 in. 86.50 20.00 @ 10 ft. 6 im. by 15 ft...... 49.00 25.00 eS Wilton Velvet Carpets. With % borders. 8 ft. 3 in. by 8 ft. 10 in..$24.00 12 ft. 9 in. 85. yy 12 ft. 9 in. 40.00 10 ft. 6 in. by 13 ft. 9 in. Axminsters and Moquette Carpets. 8 ft. 3 in. by 8 ft. 4 tn..$16.00 8 ft. 3 in. by 9 ft. © in... 28.00 8 ft. 3 in. by 12 fr. 0 in.. 35.00 8 ft. 3 in. by 12 ft. 9 in. 32.00 20 ft. 6 in. by 13 ft. 9 In. 39.00 10 ft. 6 in. by 14 ft. 5 in. 40.00 sizes. Measure your room and come in and look over ‘the stock. You'll find ‘our size. A month later theyll not be here. Mattings. ‘The largest Matting season we have ever known is nearly at an end. Neces- sarily we have many Nennanta left from the Immense quantity we've ban- lead. 500 Remnants of all grades, in lengths from 5 to 25 yards, will be closed out at HALF REGULAR PRICES. Summer Necessaries Of every description for the house are here. We'll anticipate your needs in some of them. BABY CARRIAGES of every kind and description from ‘the plainest to the most Iururious, And we ean please yuu in style and price. It'll cost ttle to have a good Filter in your house. Then the pieasure of drinking pure, clear water is ours. All Kinds here at rock-bottom prices. Refrigerators. Never Sold fer Less. Ice Chests, well made o 92.50 finished. Worth $3.50. Now t ith coolers, ft the tors, with coolers, one of the best & x were *° $10.00 © “Sweet” Refrigerators e A lot of them, well made, nicely fin- ished and vhoroughly reliable. ° futh and F Sts. NW. © MOSES AND = SONS," SS SSSI9SOH SSOESSO TOSS SO MARRYING IN GERMANY. Union Between Kinsfolk Prevails to a Great Extent. Prom the Pittsburg Dispatch. Matrimony in Germany fs a singular in- stitution. There are so many restrictions, such a complement of formalities to be sub- mitted to, that marriage ts rather unpopu- n oth The prevailing idea is » money in the family, and to attain 1 the people, so sensible and level- im many respects, are willing to go A man may evea have for his a: aunt, his Jaw combined—he doesn’t - has a hold on the me his ¢ > results apd there are in like ts not ces. I heard of married his first ren, one of whom of them idiot the fourth mar- had an idiot child ef ap intermar- was two imbecile out died young. In rs of people with dread- necks may be met. In the and siletde two ¥ . formed idiots on earth are to be found. They are Cretins, and live by Legging, the epmother | the Alps some of the mosi de- | hideoncness of their looks bringing them in a good deal of money from the charitably disposed. Arid yet these poor creatures in- termarry and spread the scourge. The marriage knot does nat yequire any great effort in breaking it in Germany. Chronic mutual dislike and incompatibility of tem- per are sufficient reasons for divorce. ——— The “Beautiful Word” Lady. From Good Housekeeping. There is a good English word which for- erly had several beautiful meanings, and which we Fave nearly lost the use of these | latter days—“lady.” Its downward course have been traced for nearly twenty years by newspaper jokes too familiar to i ition, We thought we had reach- ed the bottom, when, som ago, a wit- ness in a divorce case testified of the de- fendant that “She was very much of a lady when she drunk.” But since tien even lo) h in evidence. It is s we should at least bemoan ently and pass cme resolution of condolence. It was such a beautiful word, and we do miss it so. I do eraber—not an apothecary two si who, when I was a chil, ways personification word had quiet ways of dcing things, and low voic I couldn't then have explained why it was, but somehow for years afterward i never heard the word iady without thinking of the Misses D— thing that made them seem different her people was that they wore their waved in front and plain behind, | at a time when it was the fashion to have the hea” look like @ last year’s bird’s nest in the wind. Let us hope that the twentieth century vsage will restcre my lady to her own again. ® ® & 21-inch 4 42-inch Bl & Pex SSOHS9S088888 6600 S, Kaun, Sous & Cog Silks! sGreat Slaughter in Ladies’ Shirt: eooneeee 7i1 Market Space. All Good Things HAVE AN ENDING. LAST WEEK WK HAVE MADE GREATER SACRIFICES MER STOCK THAN ANY ONE HAS ANY IDEA OF, BUT ISFIED, AND WE KNOW OUR CUSTOMERS HAVE BEEN MORB THAN PLEASED. The Wheel of Bargains WILL UNKOLL ITS STRING OF LOW PRICES BEGINNING MONDAY, AUGUST 6, ‘\D) CONTINUE THE ENTIRE WEEK. Silks 24-inch fine quality plaid Surahs and Taffetas that cold at 75 and 89c., 49C. 20-inch Figured Silk Japanese Crepes in evening shades, OC. tin Duchesse—Rhadames—Black Satin de Lyon—Faille—Francais Bengaline— and Taffetas—Sold at 8¥c., 9Se. and $1.19, 59¢. 24-inch All-silk Colored Surahs, good value at 49¢. 25¢. 20-inch Art Shades, in All-silk China, 19¢. All shades in Silk Polinase, a foundation for Mull and Organdie Dresses, 25C. EVERYTHING else in Silks ts being reduced fully one-half of former prices. Woolen Dress Goods! Black and Blue Serges, fine twill and storm effect and Blue Storm Serge and Blue Storm Ser SO-SHS OGSOSOS OOO EDIEOSOD 46-inch SOO 40-inch Cream Albatross— Batiste . All reduced to. : Light Blue—Pink je © White Wash Goods. WE have reduced our Fine White Piques—Persian Lawn: —Piatd and Striped Dimittes as follows: We. White I reduced to. ke. White F reduced to White Pique—redaced to White Pique— reduced to. White Pique—teduced to Fine White Pe Fine White Persian 1 Fine White Persiaa L Plain White Swiss Plain White Swiss— reduc otted Swiss—reduced to 124, 15, 20 and 25e, Fine India Linons— reduced to Se., 10c., 12%4¢., 15e., White Plitd and Striped Dimity” 12%’ and 15e. quality 12Wge. quality Striped Duck reduced to, Se Fine Bleached Muslin, fall 36 tne ». free {rom Miae or dressing, redaced to 6%c. Pride of the West Bleached Cotton ed to Nike, Ike., 20c., Be. “reduced to Se. “8 reduc _ Towels! Towels! and Table Linons!,, @ Unbleached Bath Towels—extra larze— 10, 121%, 15 and 2ic. Bleached Bath Towels— 12%, 15, 25,35 and 39¢. Huck Towels-Fringed Huck Towels, Satin Finished Fringed or Hernaed Huck Towel! Extra Quality Hemstitehed Satin Huck Tow Best Quality Satin Huck ‘Towels, extra large, @ Unbleached Table Damask. 25, 31, 40, 49, 59 and 69e. = Bleached Table Damask, 49, @ Turkey Red Table Damask, c . complete Hine of Dinner Napkins and Doslles. Now 1s your time te lay tn your A supply if you are making any preparations for the coming encampment, Bed Spreads! 11-4 Clarendon Spreads, Marseilfe finish, always sell at $1.5@ 8c. 11-4 Alpha Spreads, Marseille finish, regular price $1.25, OC. ite Spread—the best value ever sold at T5c., 49c. Remnants! Remnants! 10-4 Fav nts of Percale Prints, 3tgc. Remnants of Fine India Linon, Se. ° Remnants a, Bue. Remnants hams, 4%. Renmante Stace i Renitiants of Ker Duchease, 6%. Rei tton, 2%Ke. Remi Linings! Best Quality-Dressmakers’ Cambric, 3%4¢. Best Quality ecia, GC. Best Quality Best Quality Cri All colors in Canvas, 97jc. Pythian Decorations! Plain Colored Bunting, fn ail shades, 2c. Decorating Caltco, 5e. Heo, Te. * Viag Bunting, 10. pe Remnants of Freueh S ; Ginghams, 6c. Remnants of Heavy Unble: in Plaid White Goods, 6c. € a ch wit 3 ting Fiage, 20x36, mounted om finished Bunting Elage, 29x50) mounted on finished sticks, 4c. Bunting Flags, 4 by 7 feet, $1.00. SSOCSO Waists. All our Shirt Watsts must be sold. ffre the greatest bargain in Walsts that Washington has ever seen. Here ts the way they go : TARLE NO. 1.50 dozen Light Percale Siirt Waists, ruffed fronts, platted backs and large Bishop sleeves. Black and Hlue polka dots. ‘Sold at 39 and 50., Choice 1gc. TABLE NO. 2.50 dozen Laundered Shirt Walsts, yoke back, Sold at 50 and 69¢., Choice 29c. 0. 8.100 dozen Extra Fine Laundered Shirt Walsts, in Plaids and Stripes, leeves, yoke back, Sold at e. ard $1.00, Choice 49c. 98. nese Silk Walsts. Sold for $4, at $1 k cs) 3) em One lot Light Jay One lot Ladies old for $2.50, at £B, ie re lity Du n and Blue stripes. Sold for $4.50, at $1.98, Go bt Bes Gee Sold at $1.59 urd $3.50, for 60 and ter poy enit, € SAND ARE THE GREATEST "BARG ATS ON Eat . eee , the last W of our GREAT IMPROVEMENT Bargains, WE s! be COMPELLED ‘No folve THE PROBLEM, WHAT W BECOMING NE THING VERY INT! . NO T IT IS, IT WILL bE SOM! ESTING TU OUR MATTER TRADE. . Kalil, 11 MARKET SPAGE. S 4 S8SSS008 0800 The Bri From the St. Louls Republic. “The prospect of a war between China and Japan reminds me of a very grewsome incident which occurred on the occasion of the taking of P thirty who e day were capital, when their march was stopped by | a river too deep to be forded. had b ordinat a leng have t by way found. to purchase their coffins and store them in readin are th seale influen make ure Scoutt and brought in a great many more cofilns than were needed. These were chained and spliced pontoon bridge, with three or four thick- nesses of.coffin lids on the top for a road- way. good joke in connection with it cropped up. was at | British army, but who is now residing tn | York, and was at the recent rains out A GREWSOME INCIDENT. It took a day to construct the bridge and most of the troops crossef it during the Queer Mater That Built a it. By morning the water had failen so rapidly that the balance of the troops pre- ferred to wade through it rather than wait their turn over the bridge of coffins. Sev- eral sections of Nds were brought away by the troops and preserved as curiosities.” —— How Shrimps Are Caught. From the Charleston News and Gourler. The shrimp sold tn the elty are caught during the night before by “casters,” who | go, two in a boat, to some favored locality | and there “cast” all night long for the de- | Hetous little crustacean that is served up at nearly every breakfast table In the city in the morning. « ‘astiag’’ is the throw- ing widespread on the water of a circular net, the edge of which 1s weighted with leaden balls and provided with drawing strings, which, Passing through the center of the net, are attached to the edges, The net, when cast in the water, of | cou! sinks more rapidly at the edges than in the middle, and confines within its meshes the shrimps over which it may have fallen. The rope to which is attachod Ses drawing string being pulled the net closes at the bottom, and is lifted into the boat with {ts contents. When Aurora begins his work of tinting the eastern sky those hardy casters are on their way to the city. Here they hand over their booty to men, who cry them | about the streets, measuring the shrimps | ok to them from their boats by the age for the Passage of Troops. kin by the British ever * sald Clement Bazante, an officer in the} years agi one time outhern yester- The troops had little opposition, and marching rapidly onto the Chinese No provision een made for crossing it because in ry weather it is a mere brook. For time it looked as if the army would ‘o wait until the rush of water caused itself. A had exhausted of the dilemma In China it is cust ess for being needed. Chinese coffins >roughly air tight, and the joints are up So as to protect them against the e of drying out. It was deelded to a raid on all houses within reach and enough coffins to make a bridge. Ing parties went out in all directions together and formed an excellent “plates” or pan, the seller agreeing to sell the shrimps and hand over the proceeds, less a liberal commission, The bridge answered all right, but a S@@00 |THE NATIONAL GUARD How the Brigade Rifle Team Will Be Made Up. NAMES OF THE SELECTED COMPETITORS All the Practicing to Be Done at Sea Girt. NEWS OF THE TROOPS District National Guardsmen have been waiting with a good deal of interest and a trifle of not unreasonable impatience for some definite information as to how and when the brigade team of 1894 will come into existence. It was the original intention of the inspector general of rifle practice to conduct an exhaustive competition, the competitors being selected by the various regimental and battalion inspectors. But circumstances over which the local solditry had no control compelled a change in the program, co that there cannot possibly be the looked-for competitive effort. With the range at the barracks completely disman- tied, team practice in Washington or its vicinity was impossible, and as the short time available was nothing like enough to afford opportunity for the equipment of another range—where to be located no- bedy knows—an appeal was made to Gen. Spencer, New Jersey's inspector general of rifle practice, for target and camp ac- commodations at Sea Girt. The response was a hearty one, and in the affirmative, and it fs now detinitely undersiood that the seventeen men from among whom the bri- gade team of twelve and the four alternates will be selected are to leave here on the evening of Saturday, the 25th instant, and will put in several hours each day from the Monday foliowing until the next Saturday in @ red-hot fight for the much-coveted po- sitions. In many respects the week of pre- liminary competition will be almost, if not quite, as interesting as the following week, when the matches for which the team is to be trained will be shot. These Are on the List. The final roster of those who wiil be or- dered to Sea Girt as brigade team competi- tors cannot yet be published because there is possibility of one or two of the sharp- shooters who have been selected being un- able to fulnll the practice requirements. The selection at present is as follows: Cor- poral Maurice Appleby, Capt. James E. Bell, Private R. P. Carleton, Capt. W. L. Cash, Private George Cook, Col. Cecil Clay, Sergt. C. W. Dickey, Lieut. A. O. Hutter- Sergt. John A. Kirk, Lieut. Charles Lair. Private H. H. Leizear, Capt. W. H. Moyer, Private J. M. Pollard, Private 8. L Scott, Brigade Commissary Sergeant J. M. Stewart, Private S. B. Wetherald, Lieut, G. L. Young. The team will be commanded by Maj. Geo. H. Harries, will have Capt. H. H. Parmenter as quartermaster, and Lieut. W. P. Vale as adjutant and ordnance officer, As to Regimental Teams. It now seems certain that the first regi- ment will not send a team to compete for the New Jersey interstate trophy, which the first regiment's representatives won in | 18v1 and 1892. This is regretted very much by national guardsmen, but it so happens that mest of Capt. Cash’s team material has moved into the second regiment, so Col. Moore and he have come to the conclusion that a regimental team cannot be had dur- ing the present season. It is possible, though, that a team may be organized :n the second battalion, but any precise state- ment as to that probability cannot now be had. The second regiment will put in the field the strongest team it has ever had; Capt. Bell is very hopeful, and with good reason. The engineer team promises to be at least as good as the team of 189%, which, without very much trouble, succeeded in covering itself with glory; Lieut. Young and his men wiil make a desperate effort to capture the bronze horse for the second Ume. As those who will be on teams of the second ent and the engineer battalion are incl in the list of competitors for the brigade team, the regimental teams will also have ample opportunity for practice. It may be that Capt. Tomlinsc’ -one of the most enthusiastic of national svardsmen— will, as in years past, take a dozen or so of his best men to do battle for the sixth bat- talion. Last year Capt. Tomlinson’s team achieved an aggregate larger than that with which the first regiment team won the trophy in 1891; this year the sixth battalion boys may do a good deal better. Nothing is as yet known as to the individual marks- men who of their own motion desire and propose to become a part of the detachment of the local force at Sea Girt. Those who contemplate going will need to make up their minds in a hurry and report at once to Capt. H. H. Parmenter, who will dis- pense ail the necessary information as to terms and accommodations. The remark- ably fine program presented by the New Jersey State Rifle Association, and publish- ed some time ago in The Star, should at- tract a large number of the local “cracks a better program has not been seen in the east since Creedmoor was in all its glory. Last year the total number of District guardsmen who went to Jersey was about thirty-five; this year it should not be less than fifty An error in the Sea Girt progra;n gives to the second D. C. regiment the credit for having won the New Jersey interstate trophy in 1891 and 1892. The error some- how or other was perpetuated in The Star's reprint of the program. Of course Wash- ingtonians know that the magniticent bronze was wen by the first regiment team, which, unfortunately, no longer exists. How the Official Work May Be Done. Plans as to how the official practice of the brigade will be done are as yet in a some- what incomplete condition, but the chances are that as soon as the fourth artillery gets through with its rifle practice on the Marshall Hall range a pest will be established near the range and that the practice will be pushed through with vigor. Broadly, the idea is to have a battalion or a combination of commands transpert- ed by steamer from this city in the even- ing and put into camp at the Hall. At daylight of the following morning practice will commence and will continue until every man present has fired the required scores; whatever time might be to rpar could be used up by those who want to improve their scores by voluntary practice. in the evening another talion would be taken into camp and the first batta shington ceed back to W a which brought the r lieved that the entire brigade could get through with the requirements in less than a week. As soon as the official work Is ended, the an- nual competitions will doubtless take Praise for the Mlinctsians, The good work dure at Chicago Illinois National Gu ject of much comment. The Chicago Record sa: city and throvghout the s' forget the debt of gratitude they owe to the various militia regiments which have taken part in quelling the recent scenes of riot and disorder. Of all the bodies of troops thus engaged not one has failed to give a gcod account of itself. The membership of these regiments is drawn from among citi- zens whose regular vocations are those of peaceful business and mercantile life. The greatér part of their military experience the d has been the sub- i) ist - People in this tate will not soon | has been acquired in the drill room and in occasional — in camp. But there yet to be reported an in- stance in which one of these citizen soldiers failed to do.his duty unflinchingly or to ccnduct himself with soldierly firmness and resolution. There were times, no doubt, when, in the presence of surly crowds, the insults and stone throwing of the rioters were a sore strain upon the militiamen’s tempers. That they acted so cool-headedly and with such strict obedience to orders is a flattering sign of their discipline and their fitness for military tasks. One of the lessons which the peace-loving citizens of the state have thus learned from the recent disturbances is that they may in time of need place perfect reliance upon the members of the National Guard. In the fine Chicago regiments—the first, the second and the seventh—and in the well-drilled de- tachments from other portions of the state the public has a protecting agency amply deserving of trust and confidence. It is but fair that these soldiers on returning to their usual civic pursuits should understand that their service has won them the public's hearty appreciation. In the face of these facts it seems incom- prehensible that any employer who may Eappen to have a member of a militia regi- ment in his employ should so far forget his own possible needs in future time of danger as to discharge the man who has been obey- ing the orders of his officers and has taken an enforced leave of absence. There are rumors that this has been done in some cases, and, if so, the responsible parties must expect to receive from the public an emphatic and just rebuke. Notes. Edwin R. Smith, private of battery A, light artillery, has been appointed acting first Heutenant and surgeon of the organi- zation named. Capt. E. D. Smoot, company C, sixth bat- telion, has tendered his resignation, to take effect July 31. The same action has been taken by First Lieut. and Adjutant Alex- ander B, McDowell of the sixth battalion. Gen. Ordway has ordered that company C, engineer corps, go into camp at Ocean City, Md., leaving Washington August 10, and returning August 21; that battery A, light artillery, indulge in an outing to Marshall Hall, leaving Washington August 11, and returning August 19, and that com- pany D, fourth battalion, journey to Sea isle City, N. J., leaving Washington Au- gust 11, and returning August 19. Anent the proposed interstate drill and elcampment to be held at Indianapolis, Ird., next year, it is going the rounds that the entire fourth battalion will participate in the competition. Nothing need be said of the ability of company A (Emmet Guard). Company C (Campbell Light In- fantry) and cempany D (Ordway Rifles) in- tend entering teams in both the maiden and interstate infantry contests, while company B (Columbian Zouaves) has an idea that it can make even the famous Chicago Zouaves i very hard for first place in the zouave class, ——_— TOTAL ABSTINENCE. Mer. Satoll Letter Approved by the Catholic U The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America, in session at St. Paul, Minn., strongly indorsed the papal delegate’s temperance views yesterday. The resolu- tions declare that “the union secs in the recent action of Bishop Watterson, which has been so nobly sustained by Mgr. Sa- tolli, a long step in the right direction. It 1s believed that this action will crystallize | the irfluence of the church against the | saloon, and will stamp this letter indelibly on the irreconcilable enemy of the church. The decision of the papal delegate cannot fail to give additional authority to the recommendation of the court of Baltimore | that all Catholic saloon-keepers abandon as | secon as they can the dangerous traffic and | embark in a more becoming way of making | a living. The decision will serve a re- newal of the invitation which our holy father, Leo XIII, has already addressed to all priests of the land to enter into the work of temperance reform. And with the | clergy strongly committed against the sa- loon the day of vindication for the church in America will be near at hand. scandal of a preponderating number of Catholics In the saloon business is a dis- grace too long endured. Whatever the cause of the fact, a new day is at hand.” Fraternal delegates were elected to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union con- vention. Officers were elected follow: President, Rev. J. M. Cleary of Minneapo- lis; J. A. Logue of Philadelphia was re- elected first vice president; P. J. McManus of Scranton, Pa., second’ vice president: Mrs. O. R. Lake of St. Louis, third vice president; Rev. W. M. McCann of Cleve- land, treasurer; Rev. A. P. Doyle of New York, general secreta: The convention adjourned to meet in New York the first Wednesday in August, 189 coo _____ Why the West Poor. From. the Albany Journal. The depression which has overspread what is known as the granger section of the west —the states in which wheat is either the staple crop or occupies a position of im- portance, next to corn—is easily explained. Yesterday this statement of comparative wheat prices at Chicago, the great market for wheat, both fall-sown and spring-sown, was prepared. It told the story of depres- sion. The | July 18, Cents a bushel. sw Si s 1S91 78) 1s 2 iss 55 | on P ». Which was just about equal to the crop of 1 year, Wheat sold at neariy 87 cents in i compared with 62 cents in 1893 and 55 cents in 1804, In 1891, on the largest wheat crop ever grown in the United States, and larger by nearly 100,000,000 bushels than the phe- nomenally large crop of 1884 the cereal sold at nearly S$ cents, while yesterday the wheat grown in the 18% crop, which was over a third less in quanuty than the 1891 crop, sold at over a third less money a bushel. The 1882 crop, while not as large | 2s that of ISM, was next to it, exceeding even the figures of 1884. Nevertheless, wheat in 1892, although the crop of that year considerably over a quarter larger than the crop of last year, sold nearly 25 cents a bushel higher than in 18M, and nearly 18 cents a bushel higher than in 1883. It has been the coincidence of a small wheat crop in 18%, and low prices extending into 1804, for the cereal which has robbed the granger section of the pros- | perity which it enjoyed in 1891 and 1892. In those years the coincidence was of enormous crops and relatively high prices, In 18M) there was depression throughout | st, because the crops were short and prices were considered low. In 18 came | another year of short crops. But prices | | which were considered low in 18%) looked | | high last ye arison, | What is true of wheat applies with me | or less force to all other crops. Fat yi | ana rs have been experi characterized t years. When crop of ISI caused a bushel, since th e between » and & rt crop in 1893, of only an average crop this the INH, after a spect in Jul uh |" A coincifence of short crops and which 1893 brought, tut interests. anything but sari of | cannot replenish their farm imple- cannot paint their buildings; cannot | il those varied articles which bring freight trattic to the railroads and employ | ment to labor end capital in the various in- | dustries of the east. When egriculture suffers all other indus- | suffer. Agricultural di on, neces | sarily and in the natural o: of things, | decreases the volume of gereral business and stops the wheels of industry. The pres- | ent condition of things at the west is con- | | tributing in no small measure to the preva- | lent depression at the east. ‘ low means ruin to 8 cannot | feet deep and j ern section of the city and dia REAL ESTATE GOSSIP The Money Available by the New WHAT WAS PAID FOR THE MINT SITS Assessment Values in Philadelphia and in This City. SOME IMPROVEMENTS Now that Congress hae gotten through with the District appropriation bill it will be possible for those in charge of the vari- ous interests affected by this bill to make their plans for the new year. To rome ex- tent the Senate made amends for the heavy cut in the estimates which appeared in the bill as 1t came from the House. The upper body did not go as far in that direction as meny would have liked, and as, perhaps, the real interests of the District require. However, the bill came out of conference with an increase in the total amount of about $350,000. As ccrpared with the ar- Propriations of last year, the new bill shows an increase of about $131,000. There is con- siderable disparity between this amount and the addition to revenues which was pro- duced by the late advance mae in the as- sessed valuation of property. The sontea- tion that the app-opriations should bear more equitable relation to the annual reve- rues of the District is considered by citl- zens generally to be entirely just, and sur- prise is expressed that Congress does not look at the matter in the same light. Although there might have been and, as it may be expressed, there should have been a larger sum total of approp-iations than is provided for in this measure, still there is available for public expenses during the coming year the large sum of over five mil- lions and a half of dollars. Of this amount about a million goes to the payment of the interest upon the debt and the charges of the sinking fund. There is nearly a million dollars devoted to schcol purposes, and then the fire and police departments come in for a good round sum. There ‘s, of course, great interest In improven«nts, especially those relating to the payment and maintenance of our streets and highways and in the new bill, not including the sum of $165,000, which is ‘provided for assessment and permit work; there is about $150,000 for work on streets and avenues, and a somewhat amount for the improvement and extension of our sewer system. Dida’t Get It for Nothing. The recent purchase by the government of quite a large tract of land in Philadel- phia, amounting to some 80,0W) square feet, as a s.te for the new mint bulld- ing has some features which are of special concern here. The government eccasion- ally buys land for building sites in this city, and it is probable that in the next few years such purchases will be more fre- quent. The statement is often made in Congress and elsewhere that Uncle Sam is obliged to pay an excessive price for land which is acquired in this city. The recent land purchase in Philadelphia, however, shows that the government paid a pretty good price for that property. The iaud selected is in what is known as the manu- facturing district, lying between the for- mer tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad and the present tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading. It is not therefore either a residence or a commercial business section cf the city. The price paid, however, was W00, which is at the rate of $3.80 per square foot. According to the Philadelphia newspa- pers the assessed value of the ground ts $105,000, and therefore in this instance the market price or rather what the government paid for the property was nearly three times the assessed valuation. It is under- stood, however, that there was included in this amount a consideration for the loss. and inconvenience to the owner in remoy- ing his business plant now on the site to another location. it is estimated that Inde- pendent of this consideration a good fair market price for the property would be about $250,000. At any rate it is quite evi- dent that the government did not get this site for nothing, and that the Philadelphia owner received full compensation for his Property. It is not likely, however, that any member of Congress will rise up in his place and denounce the owner as well as the entire body of citizens of Philadelphia for trying to rob the government. If the transaction had occurred in this city such comments would probably not have been lacking. The ding Record. The record of building operations for the past week shows that eightcen permits were issued for the erection o? new buildings at a total aggregate cost of 908,000. Of this amount # me {roi the northwestern section of the city, with two new buildings; the northeast had three permits, amounting to $7,500; southwest oue permit, costing $1,200, and the county twelve permits for new buildings, aggregating $46,500. A_bullding permit was issued yesterday to Wm. L. Patterson, architect, for a two- story and cellar abattoir, to be erected at Benning Station, Benning, D. C. It is to have a frontage of red brick with stone foundation. The building will be 140 feet deep, 532 feet high and 140 feet front and will not be placed within 200 feet of a dwell- ing. Henry Smith & Sons of Daltimore have been awarded the contract. Plans have been completed and the bufla- ing permit issued’ to R. F. Lukel for the erection of a three-story and cellar pressed brick dwelling at 1306 2ist street northweet, to cost $9,000. The butlding will be 30 feet deep, 35 feet high and 21 feet front. It wilh be built by B. F. Grimes. The inspector of buildings issued mit yesterday to George W. Lew who will soon build six three-story red brick dwellings on M street extended, Trinidad, at an estimated cost of $9,500. J. H. Lewis: is the builder. Each of these dwellings will be 43 feet dep and 17 feet front. Samuel J. Prescott has planued the erec- tion of three handsome dwellings at num- bers 1218, 1220 and 1222 M street nort & per- | east. They will be three stories high, bullt of red brick, 30 feet deep each. Samuel J. Prescott butider, Charies Ruoff will shortly build a three story and cellar brick dwelling at 151 8 street extended. The building is to be @0 t front, of pressed brick hout by hot air. W. builder and Sta a It is to mt of brick and stone, with ¢ tower, tiled roof, oak and pins trim. The New Building Regulatio The 4 16 feet front will be the d heated th ison pmons is the two amendments to the building regulations promu wee Commissioners to th after the tabling o floor of livery stab the one regulating came in for 2 goodly during the week from ar ers. Mr, F. T. Schne Commissioners an: a in the amendment regulating the heigi-t of build- ings. He said he was about to erect an- other apartment house In the northwest- think % was prohibit the he its height should be lMmited iy ¢ missioners. The Commissioners i»formed him that the regulation would not be en- forced for thirty days, during wh‘c. time permits would be issued as usual.