Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1894, Page 3

eons ie Da & = NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION, ‘The partnership heretofore existing between the under the firm name of Maloney & jon business at No. 3 . has this day deen dissolved by iutual consent. r. John E. Hogan will continue the business Under the firm name of John E. Hogan & Co., ho Will pay all debts due from the late firm and col- Jeet ail bills payable to said dru. 3TON BENEFICIAL ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION. Certificate holders tm this company would do well to examine into the merits of the Mutual Life In- furance Co. of New York, which tx the oldest life company in the United States and the largest im the world. CKALLE & MORGAN, t_Man- Agers, 1333 F st. nw. aulT-6t MORE RECORDS FOR RAMBLERS: At Denver, € August 15. Ziegler of Californie ap unpaced mile, start, on a = LER in ‘20 15. — Comment Is aunecessary. At Suffolk, Va.. August 2, RAMBLERS won 8 firsts, 6 seconds, 2 thirds, in $ races. Not much more they could’ get, you see. At Greenwood, August 14, RAMBLERS Fron § firsts and in 10 ‘races, W. F. Sims of Washington taking 4 firsts. All above on RAMBLE th RAMBI GORMULLY & JEFFERY MFG. CO., 1325 14th st. nw. NG TOWN HEL SUMMER OUTINGS, wis are looking for a good place to i t Bx” come and eat with ne paltte of an epicure” — Regular dinner, floor. Entrance on 4%; 8, COR. PA. AVE. AND 4% WiLL BE rade and . By order FF as dent. Wil, If SIAGHAS, President. _C. ©. HESSLER, Recording Secretary. auld-3t_ 1 BEREBY NOTIFY THE PUBLIC THAT AFTER this date I will not be responsible for debts con- tracted by any parties besides n.ysclf. ae ate 3 RKELEY. NO USE LOOKING, YOU CAN'T FIND BETTER Or purer American Wines than ours. No water with ours we bottle ourselves, 5 bottles for $1. JAS. THARP, 812 F st. nw. aul DR. W. B. POMEROY, $02 O SE. N.V las recovered from his Inte Hlaess and resumed aul4-6e* practice. ATTENTION: OWNERS OF VACANT HOUSES, tenants, can sare 'y placing them ia charge skell & MeLeran, 1008 F st. n.w. Good are now applying ‘for houses for early ‘ersonal attention In every case given. MR. SAMUEL A. COLLIN PERT WATCH. maker, formerly with H. Semken, has charge of fur watch repairing department Complicated Watches a specialty. M. GOLDSMITH & SO: O11 Pa. av Js21-1m Wow To KEEP Coot THiS WEATHER—BRI me seme unbound magazines of any kind, let me bind them. Then set cut, read and forget the beat. HOD - 511 9th st. seat burrs TO ORDER. $11. ; ne om $15 and a MORTON £ stove & co., Merchant Tailors, 1112 F st. ow. 2m NE 4TH.—ARE YOU RUT. nd Buff Bricks in all s! Tiles and Terra Cotta to ha fet JH. is PRINTER’ AND PURLISHER, FINE BOOK AND JOB Pre 3 (fel2) 1108-1116 E ‘Fhe weather is lkely to be fair. Established 1824. A 70-year-old Lumber Firm. Georgia Pine Flooring, Kiln Dried, $2 per 100 feet. White Pine Doors, 1¥% inches thick, ‘Alf Stock Sizes, 90 Cents Each. Frank Libbey & Co., "stig t, Mill Work and Builders’ Hardware,” 6th and New York Ave. iat : > Going to ‘Boston by Sea? 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Every Saturday During July and August the undersigned deal- ers in HARDWARE will close thelr establish- ments At 4 P. M.: MAY & A. SCHNEIDI SCHNEIDER'S SON. Punch for the K. of P’s. When your Knights of Pythias friends come to see you show them some of the hings we Washingtonians have—for instance—a bowl of punch compounded from To-Kalon Claret. Only We. gal. for the claret. To=KalonWineCo.,614 14th ‘Phone, wus. faul6) _Vaults, 27th x w. Thinking of Roof Painting? For a paint that fills every requirement get THE OHIO MINERAL PAINTS. | Never cracks, blisters, els or dries out. Water, fire and acid proof. Wrestea under intense heat and cold—it remains al- Prices right. Sampes can be seen CHESLEY & €0.'S, 1004 F st. ) MINERAL PALNT €O., 1335 F If There’s Tiling —to be done in that new house of yours tell your architect to let us “‘figure out.’* AL we want ts a chance, for we can easily convince you that you cannot get better work for less money. Write us a postal. PALDING, Manufacturers’ Agt., 08 E st. ways the same. at & on A AES 2 EE Were You Satisfied With last printing? If not, let us do the next. We don't claim to bave reached perfection, but do use every effort to pieuse Our patrons. Byron S. Adams, Printer, pee SIZ 1th st. mw. The Union Savings Bank, 1222 F Street N. W., ri CENT INTEREST ON SAVINGS aYS FouR PER CENT INTE : ament and ee 2S os way daze, 2 NEW CHINESE LOAN Over £100,000,000 Has Been Offered by Money Lenders. GREAT SCRAMBLE AMONG FINANCIERS Negotiations Have Affected the Price of Silver. HARDENED THE MARKET LONDON, August 17.—The financiers of this city, Berlin and other capitals of Eu- rope are eagerly discussing the proposed Chinese loan. Inquiries made by a representative of the Associated Press at the offices of Jardine, Matheson & Co., London and China mer- chants, and at the offices of the Hong Kong and Shangha! Bank Company, show that the loan which the great banking institu- tions of Berlin are said to be floating fot China amounts to 10,000,000 taels and not to 10,000,000 pounds, as previously announc- ed here and in Berlin. A tael is estimated to be worth about one ounce and one-third of silver, or, roughly speaking, 6 shillings sterling, or $1.40, supposing that these amounts represent the value of silver of the weight of one tael. It appears that about a month ago China inquired, through the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, for the rates at which such a loan to be made in silver could be ef- fected. The bank immediately offered to loan the Chinese government 1,000,000 pounds sterling, or $5,000,000. Jardine, Matheson & Co., who had also been con- sulted in regard to the proposed Chinese loan, offered to lend China another 1,000,- 900 pounds, or as much more as the gov- ernment should require. But Viceroy Li Hung Chang declined both offers at the time, saying that there was no :mmediate need for the money, as China had plenty to go on with. Later, however, it became known that in view of the re- payment of the last portions of the present 7 and 6 per cert gold bonds, due at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in 1895, and in view, also, of the war needs, China desired to increase the amount of her avail- able cash. A syndicate of German bankers was at once formed in Berlin and their agents at Tien Tsin were instructed to ask Viceroy Li Hung Chang for an option on the loan. Dozens of London and other promoters fol- lowed the example of the German bankers and Li Hung Chang and the Chinese min- ister here were besieged with offers from responsible and irresponsible parties anx- fous to have a share of some description in the Chinese loan. As a result it fs prcbable that over £100,- 000,000 was offered to China, and this pro- duced the result that China was not in- clined to pay over 4 per cent for her loan. There is no doubt that a £1,20,000 gold loan will be issued here early in Septem- ber. The loan will probably consist of 5 per cent thirty-year bonds, end at least two-thirds of this loan will be payavle to China in silver. For this loan there is no special security, like the customs receipts, but only general faith in China. It is not believed that Ferlin will have any controlling hani in the issue of the new loan, although probably Berlin will be allowed to take a portion of the loan on “ground floor’ terms. . There is a great scramble among finan- ciers, including the London brokers of all ranks, to get on the inside of the opera- tion, and there is no doubt that the loan is coverable in London twenty times over. ‘The negotiations for the loan have al realy affected the price of silver, and there is no question that silver will go higher, some financiers predicting that it will go as high as 32d. per ounce. The hardness of the silver market is most pronounced, and it has sympathetically hardened the price of copper. Alleged Reerviting for Japan. LOS ANGELES, Cal., August 17.—The Herald says: An effort is being made in this city by a man who is said to repre- sent the Japanese government to secure the services of 1,000 men to go ta the do- main of the mikado and help the Japanese in their struggle with the Chinese. The sum of $25 per month, besides transportation to and from Japan and necessary rations, are promised those who will enlist. Because of the extreme penalty attached to an en- deavor of this kind, under the laws govern- ing the treaty with foreign countries, the agent has made himself known to but a few people. Those whom he will secure are ostensibly employed to engage in railroad construction, but the rea} object is to go into active war against the Japanese enemy, the Chinese. It is intended that a regiment of 1,000 would furnish material from which officers could be secured to lead the nation’s troops. Funds to Aid the Japanese. SAN FRANCISCO, August 17.-The Jap- anese Patriotic Society is the name of a new organization which already has branches established in Portland, Sacra- mento and Los Angeles. The object of the society is to collect funds from willing Jap- anese contributors, to be used in the war now in progress between ina and Japan. The society of this city and Oakland have @ committee of thirty members, and its president and treasurer is Nao Nabekra, Manager of the Yokohama Specie Bank. Mr. Nabekra said: “The Japanese feel that we should do what we can to help our country in this war with China, and so we called a meeting and formed a society. The committee having the collection of funds in hand is composed of Japanese in all post- tions of life. These gentlemen will collect the funds, accepting anything, from $1 up, from Japanese only. The money will be sent to me, and by me remitted to the gen- eral government. We do not propose to specify the - oe" to which the money shall be put. We believe the government will know best how to expend whatever we send. I have already received about $700, though regular blanks and receipts will not be ready before tomorrow. “We have received subscriptions from American merchants, but have declined to appropriate them to war purposes. While we appreciate such kindly feeling, we deem it wiser to decline such offers. We agree, however, if the contrjbytors wish to send the money to the Ri is Society, that is to say, the ambulance corps, we will ac- cept such contributions.” Contradictory Reports. BERLIN, August 17.—The Post says that the syndicate of Berlin bankers, which met at the Dizconto-Gesellschaft yesterday, re- ceived a cable message from Shanghal ac- cepting the syndicate’s terms for a £1,000,- 000 lean, It will be secured by the mari- time dues. The Ppst adds that other loans will follow. LONDON, August 17.—It was stated in Japanese circles this afternoon that ad- vices had been received to the effect that the negotiations with Berlin for a Chinese loan have turned out unsatisfactorily, and that they have been transferred to London. AMSTERDAM, August 17.—Silver in open market today advanced from 47 to 48 guild- ers per kilo, fine, ATROCITIES OF KAFFIRS, Women and Children Butchered by Rebellio PRETORIA, South Africa, August 17.— The rebellion of the Kaffirs is assuming alarming proportions, and the efforts of the authorities of the republic to suppress it have up to the present proved unavail- ing. The Transvaal mounted police detach- ment which has been attempting to re- Heve the garrison of Agatha, which has been besieged by the Kaffirs for some days past, has been repulsed with, it is feared, serious loss. Emboldened by their success, ~ SPECIAL NOTICES. Watch “Out of Gear?” You never know wi you are going to injure it. Bat if its insired by us for $2 a year you can bring !t to us and get {t repaired, for we azree when we insure it to keep it in perfect or no matter how often it gets injured. Geo. W. Spier, 310 9th St. aul7 Watchmaker, Jeweler and Opticiaa, THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1894-TEN PAGES. the Kaffirs pursued the retreating troopers and made an attack upon the main col- umn of the Boer forces. The Kaffirs were driven back, but the advance of the col- umn has been retarded. From the Boer settlements along the Let- abax river come reports of severe fighting between Isolated parties of retreating Boers and the Kaffirs, who are burning the Boer homesteads all along the river. The Boers are fleeing before the Kaffir advance, tak- ing with them all their portable property; but large quantities of provisions and cat- tle havé necessarily fallen irto the hands of the Kaffirs. The latter have murdered a number of Boer farmers and their wives and children, and the fiercest feelings of the Boers have been aroused against the re- bellious natives. In the Zouthansberg district devilish out- Tages have been committed and large num- bers of women and children have been’ kill- ed and a large amount of property destroy- ed. In all the disturbed districts the mail Passenger coaches have been stopped, pas- sengers killed and the coaches looted and destroyed and the mules stolen. The Murchison road is entirely closed. The Kaffirs are reported to have erected a strong barricade across it at a point where it passes between two hills, and they are taid to e prepared to defend this point vigorously. ‘The government is reinforcing its column of troops as rapidly as possible, and {t is expected that an advance in force will be made upon the Kaffirs today or tomor- row. VIGILANT DID NOT START. The American Yacht Preparing for Tomorrow's Race. RYDE, Isle of Wight, August 17.—The Vigilant did not start in the yacht race to- day, in which she was to have again con- tested with the Britannia and Satanita. To an Associated Press representative Mr. Gould explained that his reason for not sailing the Vigilant today was that he vished to get her in trim for tomorrow's race with the Britannia for the £100 cup offered by Mr. Wolverton, fifteen miles to windward and return. Speaking of yesterday's defeat, Mr.Gould said the race was fairly railed and he was satisfied with the result. The yachts contesting today’s race for the commodores’ cup were: Britannia, Sata- nita, Corsair, Carina and Namara. The courre is around the Isle of Wight. Britannia crossed the finish line first, Satanita was seccnd, but the Carina wins on time allowance. MAY BUILD A NEW BOAT. George Gould to Be Rendy for Amerie: Cup Challenger. RYDE, August 17.—In spite of the denials which foliowed the exclusive announcement by the Associated Press that George J. Gould was ordering a new Herreshoff rac- ing yacht, the statement then made was perfectly correct. It is true that actual work on the new yacht will not be started until the negotiations,which are now known to be pending, result in a challenge for the America’s cup. Talking to Mr. Jameson and Capt. Carter on board the Britannia the other day, Mr. Gould said: “As socn as I know that a challenger is building I shall order a boat to meet her.”” ‘The Messrs. Gould will return to the Unit- ed States in October, but they will visit England in February, and thereafter will live in this country, —_— THE STRIKE COMMISSION. Testimony Given Regarding the Trou- le at La Salle. The first witness called before the govern- ment strike commission at Chicago yester- day was W. H. Lovejoy, a Rock Island rail- road ex-employe, from La Salle, Ill. Lovejoy was questioned as to the cause of the strike at La Salle, and declared that the mer. went out at the point because they were unjustly discriminated against. Sec- retary Kelliher of the A. R, U. succeeded Lovejoy on the stand. He entered into a detailed statement the troubles leading up to the strike, and was questioned closely regarding the proceedings of the conven- tion at which the boycott was declared. Secretary Keliher's Statement. Secretary Keliher of the American Rail- way Union succeeded Lovejoy on the stand. He entered into a detailed statement of the troubles leading up to the strike, and was questioned closely regarding the pro- ceedings of the convention at which the yeott was declared. Secretary Keliher, when asked for his views as to the best method for preventing strikes, sald that he firmly believed gov- ernment ownership of railroads would solve the problem. “Next to that,” he continued, “I think compulsory arbitration would answer.” “How would you force the raflroads to abide by the arbitrators’ decision?” asked Commissioner Wright. “By law,” promptly responded the wit- ness. “Let the law be such that in case of trouble with its employes the railroad be compelled to submit the matter to arbi- tration. Then let it be understood that, if the railroads will not accept the terms upon which the arbitrators decide, the com- pany be compelled to go out of. business. In other words, the railroads should be compelled to abide by the decision, and as to the employes, if they are not suited by the decision, let them leave the employ of the company.’ The Rock Island Strike. Mr. B. B. Ray of Rock Island, Ill, was next called. He stated that the strike at Reck Island was caused partially by the Pullman strike and partially on account of the treatment he had received at the hands of the Rock Island Railroad Com- pany. “I had gone west to visit my relatives,” he said, “and when I returned I was told by the Rock Island officials that I had been discharged. I asked for a reason and was told that it was because I was a member of the American Railway Union. General Superintendent Dunlap of the railroad said that I would be blacklisted, and could never get work on his or any other rail- road. I was not a member of the American Railway Union at the time of my dis- charge, but since then I have joined that union.” Ray agreed with Keliher that govern- ment ownership of reilroads would prevent strikes. Ray favored a law, he said, compelling tallroads to give discharged employes a dccument setting forth the reasons for their discharge. At the conclusion of his examination a recess was taken. Among those present at the day's hear- ing were G. W. Moon, who desires to pre- sent to the commission a plan for prevent- ing labor troubles, and a number of Amer- ican Railway Union men. The commission has the power to sum- mon witnesses, but cannot compel them to answer questions. There is no doubt that George M. Pullman, Vice President Wickes, General Managers Egan, St. John and other corporation officers wil] be called. Whether they will testify or not is quite another matter. Life at Pallman, The condition of hfe of the employes at Pullman will be gone into at length by the commission. The statements by all the witnesses heard thus far, that the wages paid by Pullman were not sufficient to kcep the men from starvation, and that this was the excuse of the boycott, make it necessary for the commission to investi- gate this phase of the case. Chairman Heathcote of the Pullman strike commission was on the witness stand during the afternoon session. He showed @ table of the Pullman Company's wages, and claimed that wages had been cut 60 per cent in the last teo years, Mr. Heath- ecte also exhibited what he claimed was a blacklist issued by the Pullman officials, requesting other institutions to refuse to employ the en whose names appeared thereon. Miss Jennie Curtis, president jof ,the Girls’ Union at Pullman, testified in the afternoon. _ Her father had been iff the em- ploy of the Pullman Company for fifteen years, until shortly before his death, last year, He was delinquent in his rent to the amount of $60. The company com- pelled her to assume the debt and sign a ecntract to pay it out of her wages at the rate of $3 a week. Some weeks she had so little left from her wages that she could not pay her board. In 1893 the company was paying its girls 22 1-2 cents an hour for sewing, and the poorest seamstress earned $1,50 a day. Be- fore the strike the best of them had got dcwn to 70 or 80 cents a day, while the poorer needlewomen could make only 40 to 50 cents, 8 MANY ARE. COMING Probably ‘Teri Th ieand Pythians Will: Be in Camp. GEN. CARNAEAW'S ESTIMATE Aili aia Work of the Reception Committee Nearly Finished. —— OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST e —_—___ As the time approaches for the encamp- ment the prospects brighten, and the pro- moters of the great event crying “One hundred thousand” more lustily than ever. Even the conservative people, those who have heretofore acted as though a Pythian biennial encampment was not the mightiest event of the century, are willing to give odds on 75,000 strangers being in Wash- ington at the right time. The latest in- formation from Gen. James R, Carnah:n, commander-in-chief of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, sets forth that at least 9,000, and very probebly 10,000, knights will be in camp. Camp preparations are being made now on the basis of a smaller calcu- lation than this. A number of communica- tions have come in within the last tweaty- four hours indicating that the througs will be here, as already prophesied, The Keception Committee. ‘The subcommittee on reception of the Su- preme Lodge met yesterday afternoon. The following were present: Chairman Good- hart, Messrs, Medford, McLeod, Kline, Wagner, Foxwell and Johnson. A contract had been made with the Marine Band for the promenade reception to be held at Con- vention Hall on the evening of the 27th of August. The programs were in the hands of the printers, and three thousand invita- tions, to be distributed to the officers and representatives of Supreme Lodge, officers of Uniform Rank, subscribers to’ the en- campment fund, members of encampment committees, members of the order of Odd Fellows, heads of executive departments, army and navy officers and prominent pub- Me men. About one more meeting of this committee will be held. Indications are that the President will review the parade on the day of the 28th. Gen. Carnahan is expected to arrive in Washington on Monday. A meeting of the committee on grand stands will be held this afternoon, and the finance committee will meet tomorrow. Agent Grapp of the Union Transfer Com- pany has had the privilege of baggage trans- fer granted him by the Pythian executive committee, indorsed by the citizens’ exec- utive committee. The Columbia Phonograph Company has put in an outfit at headquarters, in charge of Mr. James Edward West, for the use of that committee. Market Decorations. The dealers in the Center Market will decorate their stands with flags, bunting and emblems of ‘the order of Knights of PyThias, Already ‘the‘bright colors are be- ginning to fly, and the visitors and resi- derts of the Distrfet' Who visit the market during the next #eek will find it in gay holiday attire. The florists will make a display and have gong to work in earnest. Arreng the promifent Pythians in the mar- ket are Capt. Geo. J. Bessler, Mr. R. A. Golden, J. K. Mangum, W. A. Thompson and F, Slye. . 1 The Pythian Sisters. The Elks’ Hall hus been secured by Rath- bone Temple, No. 1,» Pythian Sisters, for the session of the Supreme Temple of that order. Rathbone Temple is preparing for the reception of the supreme chief of the staff, and has appointed committees as fol- lows: Executive commjttee—Chairman, Mrs, S. G. Van Horn;, subcommittee, Mesdames E. Richie, M. Mangum, E. Woodward, H. Treadwell, P. Harlan, E. Zurhorst, ( Cathran, H. Tyser, E. Schwab, O. Hi c. Barnard. Chairman of hall, M. gum; subcommittee, A. Man- Markward, E. Woodward, E. Schwab. Reception commit- subcommit- tee—Chairman, 8. Van Horn; tee, E. Richie, P. Harlan, E. Zurhorst, C. McCathran, H. Tyser, Nelson. Banquet committee—C. Williams, C. Beacham, Min- niss, F. A. Brumagin. A reception by the Pythian Sisters will be held at the Elsmere on the 28th. A ban- quet will be held in Marini Hall on the 29th, and headquarters have been secured in the Metzerott: building. The Mercantile Parade. ‘The prospects are that a large number of the mercantile and manufacturing concerns and the transportation companies of the District will turn out in the illuminated trades display or mercantile parade, to take place the night of August 28 The thou- sands of visitors in the city and attracted to the avenue that night will be given op- portunity to see that Washington is not only the capital of the naflon, but an im- portant business center, full of live and energetic business men. A number of con- cerns are preparing floats or devices illus- trative of their respective branches of trade, but many will be represented in line by their wagons, illuminated with lanterns. The committee in charge desires all who are to enter the parade to send in notices early, in order that they may be assigned places in the line. Such notices should be Sent to the chairman of the subcommittee, Mr. Godwin, at The Evening Star office. — os HURT ON HIS YACHT, Rev. John A. Aspinwall Mects With a Serious Accident. Rev. John A. Aspinwall, rector of the Calvary Parish Episcopal Church, was seri- ously injured yesterday near Stellar Island Heights by the explosion of one of the tubes in the engine of his steam yacht Vanish, The Vanish, which ts a forty-foot launch, and remarkable for {ts speed qualities, was running under a heavy pressure of steam while engaged in a friendly race with Mr. J. B. Edson’s Palos. When the tube burst the fireplace became filled with gas, whica ignited, filling the engine room with ‘flames. Mr. Aspinwall was engaged in running the engine, and was badly burned about the face, hands and legs. The engineer jumped overboard, with only slight burns. The Vanish was not badly injured, the fire being extinguished by the crew of the Palos. She was towed into the harbor, where Mr.Aspin- wall was given medical aid. The Vanish was built only a year ago, and this is the second serlous accident that has happened to her, eee ogee eens Death of Mrs. Ardeesar. Mrs. John P, Ardeesar died yesterday morning at her residence in this city. The deceased was oné ofthe old residents of Washington, and’ was a member of the Calvary Baptist Ghureh. Her death was a severe blow to a large circle of friends and acquaintances. She léaves three children, Mr. W. H. Spignul, Mrs. James G. Bowen and Mrs. Somersét R. Waters. Her first husband was Willtam.B. Spignul. She was the daughter of the late Harrison Taylor and a sister of Mrs. ;Rosalie McKnew and the late Richard H. Taylor. Real E: ate Matters, Mrs, Edward W. Creecy has purchased frpm S. W. Rittenhouse and Randall Hag- ner, trustees, for 36,500, the residence No. 1515 28th street northwest. —_——.—_ American Enterprise. Mr. Clifford Smyth, consul of the United States at Carthegena, Colombia, has in- formed the Depertment of State of the completion and formal opening for traffic of the Carthegena-Magdulena railroad on July 20, This road is an American enter- prise and runs south through the republic of Colombia for about sixty miles to the town of Colomar, on the Magdalena river, and is expected to revive the former com- mercial importance of Carthegena, which is said to have one of the best harbors on the South Atlantic coast. —+e-— J. Sloat Fassett announced himself as a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination, through the Chemung county republican convention at Elmira, N. Y., yesterday, IN HOTEL CORRIDORS “There is a merry war going on out in my town between the city authorities and the owners of vehicles,” said David Kendall of Cleveland at Wormley’s last night. The finest city in the west, you must un- derstand, has many of its streets paved with bricks, just as those of Washinrton are paved with asphalt. More brick yave- ments are being put dowa in the road vays every day and it bas been discovered that the Natrow tires of the wheels of vehicles that pass over them are fairly ruining the streets. There was an odinance passed by the city council several years ago, pro- viding that every wagon wheel that turned on a Cleveland street should be equipped with a wide tire, but it was never enforced. Now a new orditance has been proposed, covering the same ground, and ihe council is considering it with every probability of its passage, although a great fight is going on between vehicle owners, who want to defeat it, and the people who pay the taxes to keep the streets in goud condition. I wouldn't be surprised if November 1 is selected as the date for the new ordinance to go into effect, and until then the black- smiths and wheelwrights in our vicinity will have no reason to know anything about the depressed condition of the country.” “I don't suppose I am constituted any different from any other man,” said Henry C. Bolz of Pittsburg at the Riggs House last night, “but there is nothing that makes my blood boil quicker than to see a nurse or a parent neglect a baby. I was coming down the street that the yellow cable cars Tun on this afternoon and passed a pretty little park, The sun was mighty hot and the park was full of inviting shady spots, yet right out on the corner was a nurse girl of a brassy complexion chattering vol- ubly with a big hulk of a fellow who was as black as the ace of spades, while in a baby carriage, whose canopy was thrown back, lay an infant with the sun pouring straight down in its poor little unprotected face. The child began to cry lustily about the time I came along, and the nurse im- mediately took hold of it and shook it, say- ing to it: ‘You better not carry on that way because the old booger man and the bear and the Hon will come out here and catch you and eat you right up.’ The cry- ing ceased almost immediately, and the look of terror on the little one’s face was sim- ply pitiful. I interfered at this point and spoke rather sharply to the woman, and threatened to have her arrested for cruelty to children, whereupon the man slunk off and the girl trundled the carriage and baby ‘away at the same time, reviling me in hor- rible language and taking good care to keep her helpless charge in the full rays of the sun. If parents only knew how nurses treated their little ones when out of sight of home they would be more careful in their selection of such attendants. A large amount of the sickness among very small childten is brought on by the inattention and criminal carelessness of those hired to take care of them. Nine-tenths of the cowards in the world are created from the same cause. It is difficult to find a nurse who does not endeavor to prevent her charge from doing what it should not do by frightening it with threats of animals and ghosts end goblins generally. A great many parents indulge in the same repre- hensible practice. The booger man and the bear and the lion and the other hor- rible things which children are led to be- lieve exist in the garret and the cellar and the chimney and other tabooed places are the prime causes of over half the cowardice and timidity we have in the world. No parent should ever frighten a child or al- low it to be frightened, and mothers should Keep an eye at all times on the nurses, no matter what jewels they may appear to be when around the house. I am pretty warm when I get on the subject of babies, and I would like to join a crusade in favor of their better treatment if some one will only start it up.” “The farmers of California and the vine growers as well are confronted with a pe- culiar condition of affairs,” said William D. Denson of San Diego at Wormley’s last night. “You know the state of California gives a bounty of $5 for the scalp of each full grown coyete. One man in Tulare county made over $4) in three months in killing these animals, besides the sport he had in gettirg them. For the first six months of this year 65,000 coyotes’ scalps were taken and paid for, and if this rate is kept up till January next the state will have to fork out something like $650,000 in bounties. Of course that sounds mighty high for wolf hair, but the figures are cor- rect, nevertheless. Now, the coyote is the natural enemy of the jack rabbit; indeed, the long-eared sprinter is really the staple food of the coyote. These cowardly wild dogs will get a rabbit a day in good season, end will average, the year round, probably, two or three a week. The jack rabbit is greater pest than the coyote. So terrible have been the devastations of this animal upon the young vines, the alfalfa and the other growing crops in California that the farmers at certain periods band together and have what fs called a jack rabbit drive. All the residents in a wide stretch of ter- ritory will start out at a given time in a long line and beat over the entire country Wherever a jack rabbit may have an op- portunity of hiding. The line proceeds slow- ly, converging toward a given point, where barbed wire fences have been run out for a long distance from a corrall. Thousands of rabbits are driven into this corrall in such drives and are then slaughtered amid much excitement. If the coyotes continue to be killed off for their scalps such drives as I allude to will have to be of much more frequent occurrence, for the farmers of California will suffer still more terribly from the jacks. I think the bounty on a coyote scalp is really a premium for the propagation of jack rabbits, and a great many agriculturists in the state share in my opinion, because every coyote killed removes a natural enemy of the jacks and one who keeps their population down very materially.” ———s>——_ . PAINTED ON THE HEAVENS. A Remarkable Mirage of the City of Toronto Shown at Buffalo. Buffalonians who lifted their eyes toward the northern sky between 10 and 11 o'clock yesterday morning saw there a beautiful and wonderfully perfect mirage. It the city of Toronto, with its harbor and the lit- tle island which Hes in Lake Ontario a short distance to the south. Toronto is fifty-six miles north of Buffalo, but those who first witnessed the phenomenon were able to count the church spires in the Canadian city. The phenomenon is classed by natural scientists as a mirage of the third order, the objects looming up far above their real level, and not inverted, as is the cases with mirages of the first and second class, but appearing like a perfect landscape far away in the sky. The mirage showed the entire breadth of Lake Ontario, a projection east of the mir- rored Toronto being easily recognized as Charlotte, a suburb of Rochester. In a direct line between this point and Toronto bay a large side-wheel steamer could be seen making her way. The vessel was the Norseman. Far to the north of this steamer were seen two dark objects surrounded by smoke, and standing out from the glassy surface of the water. They were two large steamers of the New York Central line, ply- ing between Lewiston and Toronto. A’ sail- boat, apparently a yacht, was the most distinct of all the objects. Her mainsail was set, and she was lying close to the wind. She was seen to turn and careen with the west wind, and then suddenly dis- appear, as though nature had removed a slide for her magic lantern. In the same way the whole great scene began slowly to dissolve, a bank of black clouds sweeping along and obliterating the picture, to the disappointment of thou- sands who had swarmed to the tops of the highest buildings. Experts who used fine glasses in viewing the mirage say they were able to discover the outlines of all the streets of Toronto, and declared that a bet- ter view of the city could not be had with- out approaching within ten miles of it. A careful examination of a map of the country pictured in the sky showed that the mirage was without the slightest dis- tortion, The gradual rise of the city as it slopes back from the water was distiact, and the perspective had a natural appear- ance. Twenty thousand people saw the rare spectacle. see) ——— The Louisville Southern Sold. Charles H. Coster, representing Drexel, Morgan & Co., bought the Louisville South- ern road at public auction yesterday at Louisville, bidding $1,000,000 therefor. He was the only bidder, INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS, Page 10 -Page 4 -Page 8 -Page 5 Page 4 -Page 5 Page 10 ~Page 4 -Page 5 -Page 4 -Page 7 Page 5 -Page 5 Page 10 Page 8 Pas -Page FOR RENT (Hotels). -Page FOR RENT (Houses). Page FOR RENT (Miscellaneous) -Page FOR RENT (Offices). -Page FOR RENT (Rooms). FOR RENT (Stables). FOK RENT (Stores) FOR SALE (Bicycles) FOR SALE (Houses). FOR SALE (lots)... FOR SALE (Miscellaneous). FOR SALE (Pianos). ... HORSES 4ND VEHICLES. LADIES’ LOCAL MENTION y LOST AND FOUND. MEDICAL MONEY W age OFFICIAL Page PERSONAL . Page PIANOS AND ORGANS, age POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. PROPOSALS RAILROADS SPECIAL NOTICES. STEAM CARPET CLEANING. STORAGE . SUBURBAN PROPERTY. SUMMER RESORTS. UNDERTAKERS WANTED (Help) WANTED (Houses). WANTED (Rooms). WANTED (Situations). WANTED (Miscellaneous) 4 4 a ‘ ‘ 4 4 4 5 4 5 4 5 4 5 4 0 4 5 4 4 4 ‘ 4 4 5 4 5 4 5 5 4 4 4 ett t ett etch FROM BEGINNING TO END. Tomorrow's Star Will Repay the Most Thorough Reading. The special articles to appear in Satur- day's Star will have unusual interest for Washirgton people, for many of them are on local topics, and all are timely and pre- pared in a most entertaining and careful manner. A number will have the added merit of appropriate illustrations. The following are some of the features to- morrow: A MODERN PRINTING OFFICE. trated.) The Star's new marvelous presses and other mechanical facilities, which make the office complete in every respect. «dlus- COREA’S CAPITAL. (illustrated.) Carpenter's description of the wonderful city of Seoul, which may be wiped out by the present war. ' STYLE IS THE THING. (llustrated.) Much depends on the way well-made clothes are worn. A WORLD OF SHOES. (illustrated.) How different naticns have been curiously shod. POSING -FOR ARTISTS. (Illustrated.) The vocation of a model and those who follow it, with glimpses in a Parisian studio, THE STORY OF A SUMMER MAN, A seaside episode told in a most enter- taining manner. THE GREEN DRINK. The French national beverage and its great consumption. By Sterling Heilig. CLEARING TRACKS. How railroad wrecks are handled by skill- ful hands, and quick time made. WHITE HOUSE LILIES. Some of the wonders of aquatic plant life exhibited around the Executive Mansion. A PRISON EPISODE. How the Andersonville prisoners put a ‘stop to lawlessness. POLITICAL MATES. ‘ne character of the relations which hi nearly always existed between Pres- idents and Vice Presidents. A BOARDING TRAIN. Senora Sara finds good manners amid rough surroundings in the west. WINNING HIS STAR, A continuation of Sam T. Clover's cap- ital boys’ story —__.——— IN MEMORY OF BRYANT. The 100th A iversary of His Birth Celebrated at Cummington, Mass. The one hundredth aniversary of the birth of William Cullen Bryant was cele- brated in Cummington, Mass., yesterday. The exercises took place in the grove just beyond the Bryant home. After the invo- cation and the address of welcome by Lo- renzo H. Tower, librarian of Bryant Li- brary, on behalf of the townspeople, Parke Godwin, who was associated with Mr. Bry- ant for many years, cnd married his eldest daughter, was called upon to preside. He made a brief address, eulogistic of Mr. Bryant and reminiscent of the poet and journalist. Edwin R. Brown of Elmwood, IL, wes the orator of the day. The great- est interest, however, centered about John Howard Bryant of Princeton, Ill., the only surviving brother of the great poe! Mr. Bryant read “The Rivulet then a written by him in 1878, at the time of his brother's death, and “At 87,” a poem appropriate to the occasion. Among the after-dinner speakers were John Bige- low, Julia Ward Howe, Charles Dudley Warner, Prof. C. E. Norton, Rev, Hadwick, President G. Stanley Hall, A. M. Howe and H, 8. Gere. —eee THE COURTS. Cireuit Court, Judge Cole. Samuel Jacobs agt. Adolph Oppenheimer; judgment for plaintiff by default for $117, with interest from February 17, 184, and costs. Equity Court, Judge Cole. Willett agt. Washington and Georgetown Raliroad Company; decree confirming au- ditor’s report. Probate Court—Judge Cole. Estate Christian Wagner; assent of next of kin, and order granting letters of ad- ministration to Emma F. Wagner, bond $200. Estate of Jacob H. Crossman; pro- bate and granting letters of administra- ton, special bond $200. Estate of Mary Beckett; order admitting will to probate and granting letters to executor, bond $200, Estate of Wm. Easby; order appointing Wilhelmine M. Easby administratrix, bond $3,000, Estate of Elizabeth P. Larcombe; order granting letters to J. Howard Lar- combe, bond $300, Estate of Charles R. Kengla; order to send wards to school at cost not to exceed $200, Estate of William Miller; letter from Janet Miller Hay, asking postpcnement of case filed. Estates of William H. Bailey. Margaret A. Bailey, Elizabeth Goddard, allas Elizabeth Rollins, Maria H. Wheeler, Ethan Allen and Amanda J. Scott; ac- counts of administrators approved and passed. Estate of Henry Berger; inventory returned by Chapin Brown, administrator. Estate of Charles Gessford; renunciation of John F. Donohue, one of the administra- tors, and ordered to state his accounts, &c. Estate of Isabel Kall; will filed, —_—~—> Had Two Dogs. Maria Clinkins, a buxom colored woman, is the owner of a couple of dogs of doubt- ful pedigree, but there is no doubt of her fondness for them. She failed to pay the necessary license for them, however, and this delinquency brought her into the Po- lice Court this morning. She was fined $ pe> dog, but Judge Mills suspended sen- tence until Monday to give her a chance to either tag her pets or kill them. —_——__ Henry Mallory was fined $10 or thirty days in jail today for a grievous and unprovoked assault upon Lucinds Dickerson. —_$$———— FINANCIAL. Money to Loan IN ANY AMOUNT AND AT LOWEST RATE OF INTEREST UPON REAL ESTATE AND COLLATERAL SBCUR- ITY. LOANS ARRANGED PROMPTLY, THE WASHINGTON LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, GRANITE BUILDING, CORNER YTH AND F STS. 3 it JOHN JOY BUSOR, Pres. ———* FIDELITY BUILDING AND LOAN 08-914 ASSOCIATION G wt. Of WASHINGTON, D.C. 6 AND 8 PER CENT CERTIFICATES. Six per cent per annum will be paid on special? deposit certificates of $5.00 aud upward, and can be withdrawn at any time upon giving 30 days’ Patice in writing to the secretary, as per coustitt- 1 Eight per cent per annum will be paid on special deposit certificates of $25.00 and upward, and can be withdrawn upon giving 30 days’ notice ip writing, after five years from date of application, HARRISON DINGMAN, Pree, ALONZO TWEEDALE, Secy. auld “Put Them Away Safel” S | In a week or so the transient popa, lation of this Se et a0 influx of beggars, fukirs « light fingered gentry, Including sneak vo Dickpockets apd confdeuce ~~ 2 2 They'll reap a rich harvest from 4 > nd 4 Ube pony = be one of the Arde ahd x ones by depositing your valuatle seeee ta hae, Wo ab BE year, according to eins. oa American Security & Trust Co., 1405 GSt.N C.J. BELL, Presi Four Per Cent Tits, eased to give to our cu rate upon accounts, subject to withdrawal at anytime.” The Union Savings Bank, 1222 F street nw. (Open until 5 p.m. on government pay days and Saturday evenings from 6 to 8.) au8 Hooper, Helphenstine&Co., MEMBERS \ Y YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, 1333 and 1335 F st. ow. We do a geteral commission bosiness and furnish financial information free; elso receive deposits ag to check at sight and allow interest balances. cial attention given to out-of- orders, Telephone 471. LIFE TONTINE, EXPOWMENT AND PAID-UP INSURANCE POLICIES PURCHASED AT A FAIB DISCOUNT. Money loaned on same. mb3i-tf EDWARD N. BURNS, 1307 F st. nw, The National Safe Deposit, Savings And Trust Company Of the District of Columbia, CORNER 15TH ST. AND NEW YORK AVE. Capital: One Million Dollars Safe Deposit Company, Special act Coagress 1867, Savings Bank, Special act Congress 1870. Trust Company, General act Congress 1890, fe24 C. T. Havenner, Member Waslington Stock Exchange, eal Batate and Stock Broker, vow |. Atlantic building, wo F st. ow. Investment Securities. Stocks, Bonds and Grain bought and sold f& cost or'on margin, on bought aod sold in New York or New Seans. Private wires to New York, Chicago and New Orleans. Telephone $53. aplo-tr CORSON & MACAKTNEY, MEMBERS OF THE NEW YoRK STOCK EXCHANGE, 4419 F st., Glover buliding, is of Messrs. Moore & Schley, 89 Broadway, Bankers and Desiers in Government Bonds, posits. Exchange. Laan. Railroad stocks and bonds and all securities lst- 4 on the excimuces of New York, P Boston aod Baltimore bought and sold + I S Savona securities. Dis- t ‘and all local Rallrosd, Gas, Insurance and Teli ‘Stock dealt in. American Bell Telephoue Stock bought and sold, A LIVELY Row. Wilson Street i a Neighborhood Tempest. There was a dense black cloud this morn- ing in the big room in the Police Court building where Judge Mills, in the absence of Judge Miller, is dispensing justice among the lawless clements. There were occa- sional flashes of lightning, low mutterings and rumbling of thunder, and at times the elements clashed and made confusion worse confounded. It was all the outcome of a jolly good neighborhood row that occur red on Wednesday evening in Wilson street, The defendants in the case were five in number, Alfred Carter, Sadie Gant, Mary Tyler, Laura Tyler and Agnes Tyler. In idition there were about a dozen colored ladies and gentlemen who were called as witnesses. To make matters worse there were three colored lawyers who continually with the witnesses, with the defendants and with each other. They had hard work to keep their clients separate and to segregate the parties to the fight from the witness. Judge Mills looked wor- ried. It was like watching the Kilkenny cats in a triple-reflecting mirror. But ft was lots of fun for the spectators at the trial today. Exhibit A in the case was a big board that some one of the young ladies tore off a fence during the fight and used in be- laboring one of the other you ladies. Exhibit B was a calico waist that was worn by one of the ladies and torn to shreds and tatters during the trouble. The charge against them all was for com- mitting an affray. To § from the de- scriptions it must have a beauty, Ten referees would ve had « hard task to decide the fight on its merits. Judge Mills listened to the conflicting stories for half an hour in an effort to bring order out of chaos. As soon as he could see a ray of Nght he disposed of the case by fint Sarah Gant and Agnes Tyler $ each, an Laura Tyler $10. Mrs. Tyler, mother of the two Tyler girls, and Alfred Carter were let 0. ‘There are two organizations of fat men in this city, and the fact that one of these organizations was mixed up in the police Scandal is the source of annoyance to the members of the other club, because of the fear that the two organizations will be confused in the minds of the public. It was stated today on behalf of the officers and directors of the Jolly Fat Men's Club that it is not their club, but the Fat Men's Ben- eficial Association that ts involved in the police scandal. They state that they have their own club house at 719 6th street northwest, and that they always do their business openly and do not violate the law. Their organization, they state, ts an incor- porated body and consists of some of the best business men in the city. The officers and directors are as follows: J. H. Busher, president; M. Scaneider, vice president; J. . Scott, secretary; Charles Schafer, treas- urer. Board of directors—-Capt. E. 5. Ran- dall, Capt. George J. Bessler and Thomas OBrien, es Mar. Sa Return. Mer. Satolli has returned from Butler, N. J., where he attended the recent cele- bration at the shrine of St. Anthony of Padua. He will leave Sunday morning for brunswick, Md., te f the corner stone of a chureh, officiate at the laying new Catholig