Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1894, Page 9

PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. 1101 Penseylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th Street, by The Star Ni A ora kat Newspaper Oompany, ‘ment Be h "Gor 4 turday quintupl> Sheet Star, $1. + ro mene Ste, 91-00 per reur THE EVENING STAR AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Postaze 4 fered at the It Ovfice at Washiagton, D. C., cond-clase iaail matzer) Part2. Che Ep ening, Star. Page oe: ‘All mail subscriptioox must be paid in advaree. es of advertiviag made known on application. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1894—EIGHTEEN PAGES. BOOODD OOOHHOGOOHODOHOOSOHOH9OOOHOOO © 6 ® a 2 fe é) @ 2) & © © © & QOOTSSOSOO DOO: 7u Market Space. T'S ALL OVER NOW, Ard our guests have been treated nobly. Strangers have become friends and friends have become dear ones. And our GREAT BARGAINS, put down as Pythian souvenirs, carried to the four sections of the Union. Now We Come Back to Our Regular Business. 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Monday and the entire week we shall sell 1,000 11-4 White Spreads, double warp and extra heavy, finished the same as Marsell worth $1.69, At 98c. Monday and the entire week we shall sell $5.50 Portieres, extra width and very deep dado, in old rose, electcie blue, garnet and terra cctta, At $3.48. Monday and the entire week we shall sell 3-Ib. Feather Pillows, steamed and war- ranied odorless, made of Lancaster ticking, wort: $1.50, At ooc. Monday and the entire week we shall sell All-wool Red Twilled Flannel, the regular pate At 25¢. Monday and the entire week we shall sell Amoskeag Ginghams, in all the neatest checks, new fall styles, worth 8c., At 5c. Monday and the entire week we sball sell $30 10-4 Crochet Spreads, in four different patterns, worth 75e., At 49C. Monday and the entire week we shall sell 4/-irch All-wool Sea Foam Novelty Dress Goods, in different shades of brown, navy, myrtle aud black, worth @vc., Qc. 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Monday and the entire week we shall sell 50-inch Imported Navy Blue Storm Serge, Worth $1, At 5C. Monday and the entire week we shall sell 10,000 yards Best Quality Dressmakers’ Cambric, all colors, worth Ge., 1=2¢. At Monday and the entire week we shall sell 6S-inch heavy and soft finish, worth Ge., gc. At Monday and the entire week we shall sell 160 dozen Full-stzed Fringed Doylies, war- ranted pure linen, plain and fancy borders, worth 75e., At soc. a Doz. fre week we shall sell Biack Crystal Bengaline, new full trim- At 89c. Monday and the entire week we shall sell Yard-wide Fine Unbleached Cotton, worth x At 5c. Monday and the entire week we shall sell Light and Dark Outing Flannel, styles, worth 12%c., At 1=2¢. Monday and the entire week we shall sell 1,000 Silk Windsor Scarfs, new goods and "At 12 1-2¢. ‘¥ and the entire week we shall sell 114 and 14 gee igc. Each. Monday and the entire week we shall sell 33-inch Strict!y All-wool Novelty Chev- fot. Worth 45<. At 25¢. Monday and the entire week we shall sell real Irish Point Lace Curtain Ends, running 144 and 2 yards in length. Worth from $20.00 to $28.00 a pair in their orig- inal length. At $1 each make ‘rich basement drapery. Monday the entire week we sball sell 2.000 Sample Handkerchiefs, embroidered in plain white and fancy; also initial for men and women. Worth 25c. to 35c. At 12 1-2¢. Monday and the entire week we sball sell Nottingham Curtain Ends, 1% and 2 Te. yards long. Worth At 29c. Monday and the entire week we shall sell real Brussel Curtain Ends, 114 and 1% yards long. Worth $25.00 im full length pairs. At 75¢. Monday and the entire week we shall sell Tambour Swiss Ends. Fine drapery for basement windows. Worth $2.00. At 50c. WE GIVE YOU MONDAY AND THE ENTIRE WEEK THE BEST SELECTION OF NEW GOODS THAT WE COULD POSSIBLY OFFER YOU, AND ALL THE PRICES ‘MENTIONED ARE REAL SOUVENIR BARGAINS. BE WITH US AND YOU WILL ENJOY A RICH TREAT. Monday and the entire week very for recovering man Cream Damask, extra Monday and the e1 ming silk, worth $1.2 neat ard length Nottingham Cur- S. KANN, SOUS & 6O.,3 5 Zi I 529SSSSS9S900 66 60999686569 ». Kann, Sons & Co ° ] © ®@ DPOGDSSSS OSH SSH SOSH SE OGSDESO OSHS SOS HOS SH HSI OSS OSHS SHOTDOOGESO bD O60 6ORCORCOEORES: eee Sees eek aaacadariasiaciass portunities. COC OCO CES TOC TECE PSS: low prices quoted. PP POPOEOSSESSOSOCCOSCOSO COO OEOOOOOOEESOOEOOOE Seeseseseceesecsesescececeesesges 3S SELES TELE EEE e EL EEL ELLE TEL PELLETS PPCFSOCO OSS OSE OOD MOSES’. ANNUAL. SEPTEMBER CLEARING SALE Begins Monday llorning. The most remarkable of allour annual bargain op- The Sunday “Post” will publish nearly a page of the most surprisingly Furniture, Carpets, Up- holstery and Drapery | Goods and Wall Papers can be bought practically at wholesale prices. It will pay you to see the advertisement in to- morrow’s “Post.” ‘ & MOSES Largest Exclusively Retail Furniture, Carpet, Upholstery, Drapery and Wall Paper House in America, uth and F Streets. we've ever : AND SONS, HYPNOTISM. An Interesting Demonstration as Applied to the Oure of Patients. ies of St. Vit Dance and Epilepsy Treated Through a Hypno- tized Subject. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, France, August 23, 1894. I went, the other day, to se? the most interesting demonstration in hypnotisin, as applied to the cure of patients. Dr. An- causse, lately associated with Dr. Luys in practice at La Charite, now has his clinic in a room in a small apartment, a tiny room not larger than ten feet square, the ceiling nearly touching your head, and cne little window, opening on an adjacent roof. It was crowded quarters for the twelve persons who were there, but all were good- | natured and interested, and we managed to survive it, and the recollection will remain with me forever. First, the woman—the medium, I suppose she might be called—came in, already in a somnambulistic state, as she had been used for treatment in the adjoining room, just previous to our arrival. She was perfectly natural, all but her eyes, which were queer and unseeing. Dr. Ancausse put her in a chair, and to show us that she was hyp- notized, he put two of his fingers, one in front of each of her eyes, and above them Her eyes turned instantly toward thet and as he lifted them higher and higher, she rose from her chair, her eyes fixed in a y By a quick movement, as if throwing some- thing aside, Dr. Ancauss2 broke the spell, and she was able to look away. He then touched her eyeballs, without any con- sciousness of it on her part, she not making a movement or uttering a sound of any kind. Cases of St. Vitus’ Dance and Epilepsy Swiftly and deftly he rubbed both her eyes, passed his thumb over her forehead, and, like a flash, she fell heavily back in her chair, in what is called, the state of lethargy. Her eyes were closed, and to all appearances she was sleeping a deep, nat- ural sleep. The treatment then commenced. A girl of perhaps eleven or twelve came in— a victim of St. Vitus’ dance—her whole body jerking and twitching painfully. She seated herself in front of the medium, took her hands, and Dr. Ancausse, who stood by, turned a large magnet, which he held, first toward the medium, then toward the child, saying again and again, at the same time to the child, that she was cured, she was cured. The twitchings which had con- torted the little frame of the girl grad- ually ceased, and we noticed that the medium began to twitch and jerk, thus taking to herself, although unconsciously, all the sufferings of the patient, and re- membering absolutely nothing of it after- ward. After ten minutes of this, the child was sent away, always with the sugges- tion that she was cured—and the next pa- tient was called in. This was also a child, an epileptic, who was treated in exacily the same manner, Dr. Ancausse impress- Se eo ee ee ee ing upon her, the suggestion that she would never have another attack, &c., &c. In this way three or four were treated in turn, and it is wonderful to know that after a few vieits to the doctor the change for the better makes its appearance in these poor afflicted persons—and gradually a cure is effected. No medicines are used, no diet, no exercise is required. After all the patients had been dismissed, Dr. Ancausse kindly showed us sume very curfous and interesting hypnotic phenom- ena. Some Interest = Phenomena, He first hypnotized another one of the subjects by a simple movement of the hand, lightly touching her eyes wi_1 his finger tips, and passing his thumb across her fore- head. This put her at once in the state called somnambulism—her eyes were open, and she walked about the room at the doc- tor’s bidding. Without words he willed her to hear and see no one but himself, in other words, to be “en rapport” with him only. We spoke to her; she answered not; but replied instantly to any word of the doc- tor's, He came to me, took my hand, and with his other hand in hers told me to speak to her, Instantly she was able to recognize my presence. I said to her: “Madam, you are dropping a hair pin," and she put up her hand and put the pin in place. Then came what was to me the most marvelous thing I had ever seen. He said: “You will now notice that the power of feel- ing physical pain is not in this woman's body, but two inches out from her body, in any direction. It is not one inch and a half, nor two inches and a half, but ex- actly two inches.” He demonstrated this startling assertion by pinching severely the medium’s flesh, without producing the slightest effect—not a motion, mot a sign of any suffering. Then he pinched the air two inches from her arm. She drew quickly back, crying out that it hurt her very much. He burnt her with a match the game way, holding it lighted two inches from the back ef her neck. After this he prateeded to put all of her sensation into a glass of water, which he moved from one part of her body to another, never touching her, but pinch- ing the water between his fingers, and thus producing in her pain, with its attendant symptoms, scowling, writhing an groan- ng. Any Sentiment Can He Called Forth. To show us how any sentiment could be called forth at his will, simply by touch, he pressed two of his fingers on the back of her head. Her face assumed an angry, resentful, revengeful expression; she clenched her fist, and made a noise, a snarl- ing sound like a beast about to spring upon its prey. He had fouched jthe spot where lodged the sensation of revenge. He pressed her forehead; she raised het eyes to heaven, clagped her hands, and her lips moved in pra; The seat of aspira- tion, elevation, had received a_ stirring touch. And so on down the list, joy and sorrow, love and hate, the animal and the spiritual, all influenced alike under this magic touch We left, glad that chance had given us this opportunity of seeing even this little of the workings of one of the wonderful forces within uz, and Jooking eagerly for- ward to the time when we might be per- mitted to see and know more. c. M. DERBY. The New Orleans grand jury Tuesday returned a joint indictment against Coun- cilmen Thomas Haley and Peter B. Calfield and Alderman Frank B. Thriffiey in con- nection with the Louisville and Nashville switch privileges. A SHADOWY HOST Famous Men Who Have Passed Before Brady’s Camera. HISTORY RECORDED IN PHOTOGRAPHS His Wonderful Collection Now Held by Creditors. INTERESTING MEMORIES Probably no man now living his enjoyed a wider or more intimate acquaintance with the men and women who have made United States history for the past half century than Mr. M. B. Brady, the photographer. Statesmen and warriors, courtiers and scholars, and the fair dames who made the social life of America dazzling, have passed before the unerring lens2s of his camera, and, at the sane time, extended to him the privileges of their friendship. One who en- joys an acquaintanceship with Mr. Brady Goes not marvel, however, at this rare dis- tinction which he has possessed. He brought to the profession, in which he will ever stand out prominently as one of its most brilliant pioneers, the discriminating taste and the elevated ideals of an artist, and he added to these qualities a courtly grace of bear- ing, and a wide and varied fund of infor- mation, which he had the power to dissem- inate mos: interestingly. The story of his life would be a valuable contribution to American literature, for it would contain pages of romance and chapters of tragedy, to end at last with pathos deep and affect- ing, for today the man who was once the petted favorite of fortune, whose heart and purse were ever open to the pleas of versity, and to the largess of whose bounty there was scarcely a limit, is crippled in body, with failing eyesight, and harassed almost to th: point of madness by the stings of poverty. he is on crutches, with his wonderfully valuable collection of historic pictures and negatives threatened by the demands of creditors, he preserves almost a happy de- M. B. Brady. meanor, and seems to live again in the days when fortune was bountiful to him, as he recounts the reminiscences of their pleasant hours. A representative of The Star met Mr. Brady yesterday, and spent a pleasant, if pathetic, half hour with him. “I remind myself,” he remarked, “of one of these ocean derelicts, which once sailed proudly over the sea, but has become bat- tered almost out of usefulness by the tem- pests and the storms, and now drifts help- lessly about waiting to be driven on the rocks. I have no other thought now than to seek to have preserved in its entirety the collection of my wocks, which represents the busy period of over forty years. I can’t bear to think of its being broken up and seattered in innumerable quarters. I be- lieve I have a right to be proud of it and to love it, because it represents, I am free to say, the most important contribution in existence to the illustrated works of the world from a historic standpoint. When I was lying in bed suffering from my leg, broken, you remember, some months ago by a carriage which was driven over me rear the Treasury Department, my cred- jtors took possession of my life work, and it still remains in their hands. I have been moving heaven and earth since I managed to get out to devise some means to regain possession of it, and now I am almost at my wits’ ends to know what to do. I try to dissipate the belief that it will be sacrificed, but every day the feeling grows stronger, in spite of me. The reporter sympathized with the fa- mous old man and endeavored to draw him away from his present unhappiness by asking him for an Insight into his career. ‘A Pioncer In Photography. “I took up photography,” said he, “short- ly after Daguerre made an artist of the sun, and “my purpose ever since and all my tastes and energies have been devoted to advancing that branch of art in Ameri- ca. My first associate In the study of pho- tography was Prof. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, and I shall never forget our researches and experiments and the dis- appoiatments that overwhelmed us one after another. Diligence, however, always proves the greatest factor In success and it was not long before 1 was well estab- shed in my_. profession. My _ first gallery was in New York and old-timers will tell you what a central point of at- traction ‘Brady's’ was forty years ago. Well-to-do visiters to New York deemed it a proper thing to come to me to have their pictures taken and to look at the collec- tion of distinguished people whose faces looked out from my walls, and when I es- tablished a gailery in Washington the same custom prevailed here.” “What distinguished people have I pho- tographei,” you ask. “I was almost going to tell you to take the Ist of all the men who have attained national promi- nence in this country, and all the distin- guished foreigners who have visited it in the last fifty years, and use it for an an- swer. They ail to me, and I can see them in my mind's eye, like a procession of ghosts, passing in review. Recollections of Famo: People. “Tell you something about the character- istics of the great people who sat for me?” repeated Mr. Brady. “Well, I can only skim here and there over the pond, 80 to speak. There was Henry Clay. He sat to me in New York In the forties. He was easy enough to manage when you got to him, but he was the most difficult man to se- cure for a sitting I have ever known. He was diffident, backward, I might almost say bashful, about undergoing the experi- ence with the camera, and it needed almost as much influence to get him to consent to sit as would have been needed to se- cure an appointment as collector of the port of New York. “I made my first picture of Daniel Web- ster in New York in 1848. He was as cour- teous and as pliable as it was possible for man to be. ‘Use me as the potter would the clay, Mr. Brady,’ he said to me, and he was more than pleased with the result. Webster cane to my gallery with Stetson of the Astor House, in response to a sig- nal waved from my window, showing the office was vacant. y first picture of Lincoln was made in New York in 1858, on the day before he made his famous Cooper Institute speech. He was full of fun in the gallery, as gen- jal as 2 summer day, and teeming with reminiscence. One day after he was elect- ed President, Ward Lamon, who was mar- shal of the district, met me at the White House, and started to introduce me to Mr. Lincoln. ‘Don’t introduce me to Brady,’ ejaculated the President, ‘I know him, Lamon. Why, man, his picture of me and my Cooper Institute speech made me Pres- ident.” “The first negative I ever took of Gen. Grant was attended with exciting Jents,” Sull, hobbling around as | he came from the west to Washington to take command of the army of the Potomac. You will be surprised to learn that only two or three people in this city knew what Gen. Grant looked like when the announce- ment of his transfer to the most important command of the army was made, and I was one of them. The day he arrived Hanscom of the New York Herald, and Crounse of the New York Times, got me to go down to the depot with them to identify him, so they could know who to talk to. And he was so unknown that there was not a corporal’s guard on hand to receive him. The next day he came to my gallery with Secretary Stanton. It was a cloudy afternoon and rather dark in the gallery, so I sent an as- sistant, who was a German, up on the roof to take the tarpaulin covering off the plate glass skylight. Grant was seated before the camera immediately beneath the light. In his attempt to get off the tarpaulin my as- sistant slipped and fell on the glass, break- ing it in innumerable pieces and falling through to his waist. The glass fell all around Gen. Grant in a shower, and if any of it had struck him it would have injured him severely, because it was an eighth of an inch thick, and the pieces were as large or larger than a dinner plate. Grant never changed color or moved a muscle, save to look up and see the man's legs hanging through. His only movement of counte- nance s a slight drawing up of the nostrils; that was all. Secre! was white. He grasped me by the arm, pulled me into the dark room and whisper- ed: ‘For God's sake don't let this get out to the papers. It would look lke a design to kill the general.’ ‘ar Photographs. “Ah! yes,” said Mr. Brady, with a sigh, “those were stirring times and full of inci- dents. I was the first man to take a cam- era on the battle field and make it the hie- torian of war. Many years ago the War De- partment purchased a large number of negatives that I took during the war, and they have been largely used in illustrating the works issued from time to time by the government. Did I ever photograph Gen. Lee? Oh, yes! I performed what was con- sidered an impossible feat in photography, with Gen. Lee as a subject, on the day al ter his surrender at Appomatox. In the rear of his own house at Richmond I tock twelve negatives of Gen. Lee in an hour, a performance in the art which wa: then con- sidered impossible. Over 20,000 copies of that photograph were sold in a short time.” Mr. Brady would never have been com- pelled to wage the battle with adversity in which he is now engaged had the copyrignt law, which was in existence during the | period of his greatest activity, been pro- | tective to those who sought its advantages. Mr. Brady's rivals were nowhere with him in the artistic race, and his photographs gained national reputation. This feature caused them to be pirated unmercifully. Despite the fact that each one was copy- righted they were still copied and sold in thousands by unprincipled publishers, to whom the laxity of the law gave full power to use Mr. Brady's work in any way they saw fit. It is understood that a movement is on foot among Mr. Brady's friends to subscribe an amount sufficient to satisfy the claims of bis creditors and release his valu- able collection now in their possession. The members of the seventh regiment of New York, of which Mr. Brady was a popular member many years ago, and where he is still esteemed in a high degree, are said to be formulating a plan to this eff which will admit of co-operation by other ee of Mr. Brady throughout the coun- rx a THE SOUTHERN CONVENTION. It Finishes Its Labors and Adjourns— Committee on Permanest Organiza- tion. The southern development convertion yesterday afternoon adopted the report of the committee on plan and scope, published in yesterday's afternoon Star, after making a few minor amendments in addition to those noted in The Star. The chairman an- nounced the following committee on perma- nent organization as follows: Alabama, T. S. Garrett; Arkansas, J. C. Littlepage; Florida, D. H. Yancey; Georgia, Claude Bennett; Mississippi, L. Q. C. Lamar; Mis- sourl, C. H. Mansur; Maryland, C. C. Ma- gruder, jr.; Kentucky, C. M, Foree; Texas, L. M. Lipscomb; Virginia, W. 8. White; West Virginia, T. F. Barrett; North Caro- lina, W. F. Beasle; South Carolina, T. Stobo Farrow, District of Columbia, Rob- ert W. Hunter. ‘At the night session a number of papers were read-and addresses delivered upon the resources of the south. A resolution of thanks was tenderel to the committee that has had the preliminary arrangements of the convention in charge |for their untiring efforts in behalf of the objects to be subserved. A committee pre- viously appointed to express the thanks of the convention to Col. E. G. Staples for his kindness in placing Willard Hall at the disposal of the movement appeared, escort- ing Col. Staples. The gratitude of the mem- bers was expressed by a rising vote. The convention then adjourne: DR. HOLMES’ BIRTHDAY. The Poet Enjoys Good Health at the Age of Eighty-Five. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes passed his | eighty-fifth birthday Wednesday at his sum- mer home at Beverly Farms, Mass. There | was no demorstration made, and but few personal friends of the poet were present to offer their congratulations. “The burden of years,” said Dr. Holmes, “sits lightly upon me as compared with | the weight it seems to many less advanced in age than myself. But after three score | years ard twenty the encroachments of | Ume make themselves felt with rapidly increasing progress. “I am often asked whether I am writing my autoblography, to which my answer Is: am tn the habit of dictating many of my recollections, some of my thoughts and | opinicrs, to my secretary, who has in this Way accumulated a considerable mass of rotes. Many of these will be interesting | to my family and intimates, some of them, | perhaps, to a wider public if I should eee fit to make use of them, or leave them to be made use of by others. It is the one thing a person long past the active period of life can do with ease and pleasure; and, in the midst of much that might as well, perhaps, perish with the writer, will, not improbably, be found memoranda deserving of permanent record.” Dr. Holmes is looking well, walks a mile every morning and’ drives a dozen miles every afternoon. ——-+e- REPRIMANDED BY HUNTINGTON. Southern Pact Superintendent Fil- more on the Strikers. Superintendent F. J. Filmore of the South- ern Pacific Company has modified his atti- tude toward those engaged In the recent strike. Just after the strike he was quoted as saying that none of the leading strikers would ever obtain work in California if he could help it, and if any secured positions he would try to have them discharged. These threats caused much indignation, and President C. P. Huntington wrote a sharp reprimand to him from New York. This letter caused Mr. Filmore to make a supplementary statement, in which he de- nies that he said that he would hunt down the strikers and deprive them of their po- sitions. “I am not interfering with any one,” ex- plained Mr. Filmore. “The men who de- stroyed our property, stole our trains and killed our employes are on the black list This st goes to other roads. It 1s a cu tom which has been tn vogue for years.’ “If an ex-striker can get work you do not propose to interfere, then?” Mr. Fil- more was asked. “Certainly not, except so far as the black lst may come against him. There are strikers now scattered all over the state picking fruit or hops. A secord letter has been received from Mr. Huntington, in which he again referred to Mr. Filmore’s threats, saying: “I can- not believe any one would say anything so malicious and idiotic.” grumtatanae, cheansersec|REAL ESTATE GOSS 1 MEET MODERN REQUIREMENTS The Sanitary Conditions of the City Will Be Improved. THE PYTHIAN CROWD Public attention has generally been drawn to the change in the building regulations which went into effect during the pest, week, fixing a limit to the height which buildings may be erected in this city. While this new regulation is regarded as one great importance and as likely tribute, among other advantages, health of the city, it is not the only change in the regulations which will the same result. As it happened, & . #7 3 i i ee i r in the the open space of the abutting yard, the oo cupants of such houses are compelied to live in badly-lighted and badly-ventilated rooms. The ice of subdividing corner lots into small lots of this description has has made a subdivision of his pooperty into a frontage of wen: £. ia 22 EM Lae deft: fl & to give a more generous width to streets in Georgetown ard in the county than the criginal surveycrs of the streets allowed, It is now unlawful for a citizen in these rections to put a projection on a house which fronts on a street which is sixty feet or less in width. Of course, if the house is set back from the street so that the width is increased a projection will be allowed, This regulation was not made to apply to the city of Washington, for the reason that most of the streets within the city limits sixty feet or less in width are practically built up, and it was thought that it would be an unfair discrimination to make this change apply to the few remaining vacant The building regulations.as may be judged from what has already been done, are being carefully gone over by the Commissioners, especially by Col. Truesdell, in whore de- partment this matter properly comes. He has found that this city is not up with some other cities in this country and is way, behind most European cities in the line of buildirg regulations, especially those which are calculated to improve the sanitary con- dition of the city. It is said that im the matter of tall buildings that the new regu- lation, which has just gone into effect here, is much more liberal than those which are in force in a number of the prominent cities of Europe. Col. Truesdell believes that @ great deal can be done to improve the pres- ent building regulations. He regrets the lack of money to employ a sufficient corps of inspectors. The regulations in regard to the material used and the style of con- struction of houses are regarded as not up to date. It is probable that portant changes will be made in the future in the building regulations which will tend to im- prove not only the sanitary condition of Washington dwellings,but lessen the danger from fire. Money Pat in Circulation. During the past week the streets of this city have presented an active, bustling ap- pearance. It was not exactly a business activity, but it was remarkable that so much animation could be displayed at this season of the year. On one or two of the evenings the avenue reminded one of the scenes made familiar when the inaugura- that each of the strangers it 10 while here, the snug sum of Ly been put in no doubt this money will be distrib- and with the city. These pleasant impressions generally diffused among the constituents of the members of Congress, who are the legislators for this city, will have a bene- District legislation have a frontage of 103 on 7th street and 76 feet on the avenue. There will be four stories and the walls will be built of brick and brown stone. The first floor will be used for stores and there will be twelve suites of apartments. Some New Houses. Plans have been prepared by George Cooper, architect, for a block of hcuses, which Hobbs Bros. will butld on Fiorida avenue between Ist and North itol streets northwest. They are to be ctories in height, 16x48 feet each, and A two-story residence, to be erected at corner of Oak and Center streets, Pleasant, has been planned by T. M. Hais- lip, architect. The front will be of press SS eee Three houses will be built by F. H. Smith ‘M street between 15th 16th streets.