Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1894, Page 3

SPECIAL NOTICES. ip you Waxt “Goon BATING” WHILE YOUR FAMILY 18 AWAY regular SOc. dinner. Our menu embraccs HY scammatoie eveiastinns and delicacies. Our Serrice ie vertect.. Our cooking. most COR. 4% ST. AND PENNSYLVA) VE. lod CABINET AND - SLATE MANTELS, Tiles and Brass Goods at reduced prices for fall trade. Special attention called to my Gas-heating Grates and which can be seen in operation at any time. my $2.00 Brass seS-Im* Tie 13th 9 mw ‘GRAND CO-OPERATIVE PICNIC, UNDER THE suspen of conference, Bethesda Ze., including car fere and admission PERSONS HAVING GOODS ON DEPOSIT Fulton - Endowment Association send name, and amount of policy to the committee, ave. sel-2t° INGTON, ASHI i, D. C., 31, 1894. I have removed my office to No. 1410 G st. mw. (Ames , Where I shall be * te friends le suaiae 7 Geo. Fane tai st. RE ALBANY, 17TH AND Hf STS. i es a auti-ste and Teaugeed ‘practice? “THis PYTHIAN WORLD.” to sell “The Pythian World’ thias will its of pment call for papers at 912 E st. n.w., Mariol’s Hall, on and after SATUPDAY, At 2s. Pythian World” will be sold to and dealers at 3 cents, &. BUN re from $15 MORTON G sToUT & CO., %25-2m_ 1112 F st. aw. fuse ane Yt UILDING? MOTTLED and Bod im ait stsce nt sage: Boot ‘Tiles and ‘Cotta to harmonize. it 3. _H. CORNING, 520-522 18th st. oe AND ¥INB BOOK AND JOB (fe12) The weather ts likely to be warmer. Established 1824—70 Years A “Reform” 12-Light Windows, Glazed, 75c. Each. $4.50 Per 1,000 Best Cypress Shingles, 4x20, . $3.50 Per 1,000 Every Shingle Guaranteed. Best Boards, $1.15 Per 1e0 Feet. White Pine Doors, 1% in. thick, goc. Each. Different sizes! Remember, these Doors are full meh amt a half thick, and not 1%. ‘emember, they are “all pure shite pine, and not poplar paneis’* —heing good enough for any ordi- nary house. Frank Libbey & Co., ™s3i" “Lumber, Mill Work and Builders’ Hardware,’ 6th and New York Ave. Use Blank Books? We have all kinds. From SCRATCH the smallest CH BOOK to the largest | ‘They in any kind of furnish books to order, with prices “touch bottom."* aston & Rupp, 421 mth St. Ranke Stationers (just above the ave.). Suits Cleaned & Pressed, $1 We restore that neat, fresh appearance, so es- ential to, ood Storm. Coats, "Soc. Vesta end ‘Trousers, each. © Wagon calls snd delivers Fall Weddings. Invitations engraved in the latest correct style, a | oo pla: cat 3 steel plate script imi- to engraving 80 Dearly that many cannot’ detect Adams, Printer, difference. Byron S. Phone, 990. (oa) 512 11TH ST. N.W. Table Board, $20 permonth Which Includes Our famous soc. Dinners. Everything that on our tables is ex- quisively cooked and served. AI the appoint ments first-class in every detatl. re ceive every attention. HOTEL EMRICH, at EMRICH, PROP., 487 TO 459 PENNA, AVE. The Logic of Roof Paint Is that {t's intended to act as a itive, but qidere,are polate and points. " Estetet ieee “bests,"” but gone of them in any equal test and wear the OHIO MINERAL P. against acid, weter and fire. —— end, consractinn of bog oe roofs under heat cota aeiaples to be seen’ here z H. CHL & ©O., 1005 Pst. O10 MINERAL PAINT CO, 1335 F sr. —for two dollars we re- pair your watch and insure it for one year. You'll save money by it. GEO. W.SPIER,310 oth St. “Watchmaker. Jeweler Optician.” 11d There are no profits et peducton, Het SS Sake “Stas cot “CLARET FOR PUNCH, 9c, GAL. COOKING BRANDY, $3 COOKING SHERRY, $1.50 GAL. To-KalonWineCo.,614 14th "PHONE 008. VAULTS, 27TH AND K STS. 13d A Good Truss for 75¢. Money Back If Not Suited. We make a specialty of TRUSSES. Our long experience and buying In large quanti- ties enables us to quote lowest prices. cy Our 8 are 50 t than ee Rte, Prices are 60 per cent lower dilman’s Drug Store, $27 Pa. Ave. ES Let us furnish the mantels ~or at least give us an op- portunity to put in a bid to furnish them. We are agents for the largest manufacturing concern of this sort in the world. A postal will bring us. @ &. SPALDING, Manufacturers’ Agent, 603 E st. lad LABOR DAY THEMES What Famous Labor Leaders Sey of the Holiday. SUGGESTIONS PROM POWDERLY President Gompers Makes a Re- view of the Year. THE INDUSTRIAL SITUATION pee ere Mr. Millard F. Hobbs, chairman of the legislative committee of the District Feder- ation of Labor and D. A. 66, K. of L., and who was made marshal of today’s parade a8 a recognition of the fact that to his ef- forts is largely due the enactment of the law making this day a holiday, has recely- ed a letter from Mr. Powderly, dated at Scranton, Pa., August 30, 1804, as follows: Dear Sir and Brother—I wish to con- gratulate you, and through you the bodies you so ably represént, upon the valuable services which you have rendered the cause ef labor in your efforts to secure the pas- sage of the national Labor day law. It is not necessary that further argument should be made as to the neéds for such legal recognition of the claims of labor to @ breathing spell, and to one who has so assiduously struggled for the enactment of the measure as yourself nothing further need be said. It now rests with the labor- ing people of the nation to make this day of great importance and benefit by the discus- sion of such measures as will redound to the god of humanity, When each recur- ring anniversary of the day shall roll around, it is to be hoped that all great questions of sccial and moral reform will be presented to the thoughtful consideration of the masses by those who will speak from public platforms. The rights of labor are many, the claims of labor are deserving of ibove a other one, time. Machinery, at once a destroyer and a builder, is destroying the old methods of hand iabor and building up a community of interests between men. There are those who see in machinery some- thing to dread, but it need not be feared, and a people intelligent enough to demand recognition which will give one day in the year, from consideration of all other subjects, to a discussion of the labor ques- tion can be depended upon to eventually contrul machinery so that through its man- agement the greatest good will be conferred upon the greatest number, instead of con- ferring profits upon the few, as at present. The most powerful machines in use at the present time are the loccmotive and the electric motor. These agencies unite in transporting the product of toil from the field of luction to the place of consump- tion; they are essential to the life of this nation, as the arteries are to human ex- istence. If labor is wise she will discuss the complete and absolute ownership of steam and electricity as agencies of trans- portation on every national Labor day, un- Ul the people are educated to know that these powerful factors in latter day civiliza- tion are of right the property of all the peo- ple, and not the private w@ipons of a few. if the national Labor day is utilized the currency question of this nation will be discussed during its hours, until we will learn the lesson that a people's currency, untouched by the hand of usury, greed or private interests, is absolutely necessary as @ medium of exchange between those who produce and consume what our avenues of transportation carry from point to point. Side by side with these two great questions of currency and transportation should go that of taxation of land to Its full value for uge, and the abolition of monopoly in the earth. that a wise Creator intended should grow everything required for the use of men. These great questions should receive our consideration on Labor day to the exclu- sion of everything else, until such time as they are established facts, for with the in- auguration of these three great reforms will fall every vestige of power that a few men can exert to the detriment of the many. I extend to you my hearty congratulation for your noble service in bringing about such opportunity for practical education on practical lines, and expressing the hope that you may live long to witness the at good which will follow your work, I re- Sincerely and fraternally yours, Gigned) T. V. POWDERLY. Gompers on Labor Day. Samuel Gompers, the president of the Fed- eration of Labor, says in “The Federation- ist:” In the cycle of time we are again on the dawn of our most important national holi- day—Labor day. Most important, since it for the first time in the history of the world devotes a day to the recognition of the fact that the wage earners must here- after be regarded as the important factor in the economy of life. In this day, when so many look upon the dark side of the ogress of the labor movement and pre- Stee worse things in store for the laborer, it is not amiss to call attention to the fact that the life of the human family is one vast struggle, and that though the progress is not as swift as we, ag well as our impa- tient brothers and sisters of labor, would like it to be, yet the fact is that in our de- cade we can see the rights of labor more clearly defined; the vantage ground ob- tained, and obtaining a clearer insight into existing wrongs, the more intelligent per- ception and determination to achieve labor’s rights. “tne past year has witnessed several con- tests, some of them defeats, but though de- “SPECIAL NOTICES. FIRST GUN! FIRST GUN! Fall stuffs are tumbling in, Without lowering our high staod- ard of workmanship we propose to quote lower prices than ever before—espectally in two special Mines of Trouserings and Suitings, Choice of ; Trouserings, $6. Look at the windowful of fall é patterns in $8, $9 and $10 Trous- erings, which we shall make up for $6 per pair. Choice Suitings, Biack and Fancies, $20. We shall make # specialty of $20 Buits to order. These are in Black and Navy Blue Cheviots and Fancies—strong and dressy, and represent the best values that ever left a tailor shop. t All Work Guaranteed. G. Warfield Simpson, Tailor, 12th & F Sts. N. W. it Elixir Babek. for all MALARIAL '. a bottle. een Bure cure gists". ‘B0e. Never Prostrated BY SUNSTROKR those persons who drink light wines instead of fee water. You can get the it Cal. Clare’ for 5 bots. of JAS. THARP! Sia p'st, reget A laxative, rotreshing fruit lozenger, very agreeable to take for CONSTIPATION, qTaxtaB INDIEN F. GRILLON, = Archives, Paris, 8s by all Druggists, THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1894—-TEN PAGES. feated in the immediate object sought, they have awakened a new conscience tn the American people, and will contribute more to the thorough organization of the wage- workers of our country than hundreds of m speeches or lets. The greatest conquering armies in the history of the world have had their reverses, and labor cannot expect to be an exception to that rule. ch defeat acts as a trenchant ror must be avoided, that intelligence must prevail, and that no success can come to them unless it is through our own efforts and their own organization, and by their persistency manifested. Pessimism results in indifference, leth- argy and impotency, and this in turn bese permits the corporations and trusts and the entire capitalist class to filch from = = rights which have been cearly ught. The organizations of labor must be thor- ough and complete, and, above all, must be permanent. Tho: organizations which arise like a flash in the pan only £ to show how arduous is the struggie fore the toller, in order to overcome the antagonism wealth-possessing classes of our country. Today more than ever the toilers recog- nize how essentially they are thrown tpon their own resources; that they have few if any outside of their own ranks who sym- pathize with them in their effort for the emancipation of mankind. Tollers, organize. Let us carry on the good work, and in a few more revolutions of the earth upon its axis. we shall have a better world, a better mankind, Waiting will not accomplish it; deferring till another time will not secure it. Now is ‘he time for the workers of America to come to the standard of their unions, and to organize as thoroughly, completely and compactly as is possible. Let each worker bear in :nind the words of Longfellow: “In the world’s broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Iife, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife Laber Organizations and Trusts. Edward Atkinzon, in the September “Forum,” writing on “Present Industrial Problems in the Light of History,” says: “Our present difficulties are not to be tributed to organization of labor, but rather to lack of organization of labor. If I am rightly informed, the total number regis- tered in all the trades-unions is but a few hurdred thousand. The organization known as the Knights of Labor in its palmiest day reached a considerable number, but it has almest faded out. There are now at least eighteen to twenty million men and two to three million women belonging to the ranks of labor, by far the greater _ of whom are working on in isolation. hat is most needed is that the representatives of each of the different arts shall be organized, in order that through organization each union may come to comprehend the terms of its own existence and the conditions under which its own work must be done. I even weleeme the Farmers’ Alliance, and the Grangers, and all that; anything better than stagnation or inertia. The farmers are learning the true lesson. The cheap- jacks who first misled them are being thrown out of the ranks. The strong men, who for a long time were themselves at first deluded as to what they could do, are learning how to lead. Step by step the or- ganization of labor will proceed. The terms of admission to the trades-untons will be- come, as they were in the guilds, the pos- session of skill, aptitude, character and merit. True unions will cease to attempt to reduce all their members to the dead level of mediocrity, or else all men above mediocrity will leave them and form new organizations, by which the inferior ones will be beaten out of existence. “If we explore the deeper currents now actuating great bodie. of men, we may see that these forces of intelligence are surely working either to the destruction of the labor organizations that are trying to work against the nature of things; or else by development they are bringing the labor organizations to a true perception of what the rights of labor really are. On the other hand, I think there is a rapidly growing Ferception on the part of the possessors of Property as to what the duties of capital are. “Nor have I any fears of trusts. They are of two kinds. One is a mere combination of very able men, who, having obtained the control of certain ente~prises, combine and hold it by doing the work for society at less cost than it was ever done before, and at less cost than it could be done except by such combination. And yet even these trusts may not be of long duration. The Standard Oil Company has worked so ef- fectually that light is furnished us at less cost than any other important article of living, and, as I have said, a man can cook his week's supply of provisions with two cents’ worth of Standard oil; yet even with that expenditure of energy I do not suppose more than 5 per cent—even if as much—of the real potential of the oil is converted in- to the work of cooking. There are other trusts and companies which are merely of @ selfish order, often a fraud upon the com- munity. Such combinations contain the seeds of their own dissolution, and may even promote—as strikes also often promote —the completion of important inventions which might have been delayed for many years except for this incentive. I know of No textile art in which the mechanism is so crude or so far behind that of others as the making of cordage. A trust which would undertake to limit the products of that art and to confine it to existing inventions could have no permanent existence. There are many other trusts too numerous to mention; but I venture to say that there is not one from which any excess of profit is or can now be derived that is not at the mercy of some one, or perhaps of a hun- dred, inventors, by whom every process that the trust controls will be invented out of existence within the next ten years.” Condition of the Masses Improving. In the current number of the “North American Review” is an article by W, H. Matlock on “The Significance of Modern Poverty,” in which he combats the general proposition, made the basis of socialistic appeals, that the rich are growing richer and the poor are growing poorer. “Now, as to America in connection with this mat- ter,” writes Mr. Matlock, “I am not quall- fied to speak with sufficiently precise knowl- edge; but as to the chief countries of Europe, and England in particular, it may be said with the utmost confidence—a con- fidence derived from the most authorita- tive and various information. at the above belief is altogether wrong, that it is not only not the truth, but an absolute in- version of the truth. In England the aver- ege fortunes of the rich are distinctl; even if not greatly, decreasing; with moderate fortunes, of from £150 to £1,000 a year, are increasing faster than any other class; while so far as concerns inerease of the individual income, the average increase has been greatest among the laboring and wage-earning masses. Mr. Giffen, for instance, the statistical secretary to the board of trade, to whom English socialists, whenever it may suit their purpose, are accustomed to appeal the greatest living authority, has decla: that so far as ‘the individual income’ is concerned, ‘it would not be far short of ‘the mark to say that the whole of the great material improvement of the past fifty years has gone to the masses,’ And whatever test we apply, the same conclu- sion is forced on us. The masses not only receive as a whole larger incomes, but their incomes procure them more comforts and luxuries; they inhabit better houses, wear better clothes; they consume per head an increasing quantity of bread, meat, but- ter, tea, sugar and tobacco; and, as the last census shows, the number of persons, such as clowns, jugglers, singers and the humbler class of actors, who minister ex- clusively to the amusement of the poorer classes has increased during the past ten years by much as 80 per cent. If the socialistic view of the situation were true in any particular, we might imagine it would be true in the following—that even though the number of moderate incomes was increasing, the number of employers and small independent tradesmen was de- creasing, many small factories being merg- e@ in a few larger factories, and many small shops in a few gigantic emporiums. But even this, when the matter is examin- ed, appears not to be the case. So far as it is possible to arrive at any conclusion, the number of manufacturing firms and re- tail shops in London has, during the past ten years, kept pace with the increase of the population, or has even grown some- what faster; while the number of separate textile factories, instead of diminishing, as Karl Marx predicted, increased from 6,807 in 1870 to 7,465 in 1855. “It is not,however, my purpose to go fur- ther into details. It is enough for my pres- ent purpose to observe that the whole clalistic view of the existing situation is wrong—certainly ao far as regards Europe, pre-eminently go far as regards England; and I believe I am right in saying with regard to America also. At all events, if the case of America differs in any respect from that of England, the difference is due to some other cause than the modern system of industrialism, for that is practi- cally the same in both these countries; and the natural tendency of that system, as is shown by England, which is its most com- plete example, instead of being, as the socialists say, to mak th ever richer, Kaeo cnt a ile classes, hag been for the past fifty tly poorer; to multiply the middle class far faster than the rich, and to lift the masses of the people further and further above poverty.” ORIGIN OF THE DAY, States That Have Made Labor Day a Legal fr ny. Today, under the provisions of an act of Congress, approved June 28, 1804, is a legal holiday in the District of Columbia. ‘The day ts known as “Labor day.” While the day has been heretofore celebrated in the District, this is the ‘first time it has been celebrdted as a legal holiday. There- fore, today’s great parade of the laboring people of the District has more than usual significance and importance, since it is @ two-fold celebration, celebration first of the day itself, and second of the recognition by Congress of the rigtts of the laboring people to have their one great holiday de- clared to be a legal one. The First Labor Day. Labor day owes its origin to an incident which occurred in New York city on the 5th of September, 1882. On that day. the various labor organizations of the city and vicinity paraded, afterward holding a pic- nic, at which addresses were made. The Knights of Labor of New York city at that time were not working openly. The Tame of the order was kept secret, and the Public expressions of the members went out to the world under other names than those selected to designate the local assemblies. Under different names, too, the local as- semblies were represented in the Central Labor Union. On the 5th of September, 1882, the gencral assembly of New York convened in New York city, and that body was invited to review the great parade of the laboring people. The invitation was accepted, a recess being taken by the as- sembly to permit its members to view the parade. As the procession passed the ree viewing stand Robert Price of Lanaconing, Md., remarked to the general worthy fore- man of the Knights of Labor, ichard Griffiths: “This is a Labor day in earnest, Uncle Dick.” The term may have been —_ enoriaon owe ia — definitely nown. as it may, the parade of that day has ever since been referred to as the first Labor day parade. The labor organizations in New York in paraded on the first Monday in Sep- tember. In 1884, when the Central Labor Union of New York was discussing the question of parading George K. Lloyd, a Knight of Labor, moved that the first *Mon- day in September be designated as Labor day. The resolution was adopted, and im- mediately steps were taken having for their object the enactment by the legisla- ture of a law making that day a legal holi- day, to be forever known as Labor day. The movement was successful in New York, and from that state a like movement extended to other states, and with very gratifying results. Today, by legislative enactment, Labor day is celebrated. in most of the states. ‘The Day in the States. In the following states Labor day, as in the District of Columbia, is the first Mon- day in September: Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgla, Illinols, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachu- setts, Michigan, Misscuri, Montana, Ne- braska, New Hampshire, New Jeragy, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Péhnaylvank,’ Tene nessee, Texas and Washifigton. In Callfor- nia, the first Monday‘ in October is Labor day, in Louisiana, the 25th of November is the date on which gities with a population of 100,000 or more obderve Labor day, while in Wisconsin the day is’ designated by the governor of the state!* It will thus be seen that no less than twenty-five of the states of the Union have designated Labor day by legislative enactment as a legal holiday. New York 18 the fifjt state in which a Measure recognizing ‘and designating La- bor day as a legal hofidéy was introduced, and Oregon was the first‘state to make the measure a law. In Burépe the Ist of May is found convenient ‘as’ a on which to inaugurate labor discussions and strikes, and in that way it may be said that the Ist of May is Labor day there. So, too, the Ist of May is selected by the trades unions of many of the cities and towns of this country on whi¢h'td parade. The se- lection of that datehowever, in no way interferes with the observance later in the year of the legal Labor day holiday. Character of its Qbservance. It was undoubtedly the intention of those who introduced the first Labor day resolu- tion to make the holiday one apart.from all others, especially so in the nature of its observance. That observance, while it Permitted and perhaps encouraged parades, Picnics, festivals and games, contemplated and sought to establish exercises consist- ing of lectures and discourses upon topics relating to the welfare of the laboring classes as the main features of the holiday. The day was to be an “open court,” in which all sides to the great questions in- teresting and affecting the industrial mass- es should be discuss So it is that on .no other day of the year is the intellectual in the laboring man appealed to as on La- bor day. But not until during the last two years has a new feature been intro- duced by inviting employers of labor to participate in the celebration of Labor day, and address those assembled from the standpoint of the employer, or from any other point which might appear more ap- propriate to the speakers. In ancient times labor was not commem- orated when holidays were observed. On the contrary, in those times workmen were cast into the arena to rest from labor only while engaged in killing each other for amusement of their masters. Hence, it re- mained for this day and this land to cre- ate a holiday devoted to the celebration of labor. As best observed, Labor day is one of rest, recreation, and education. Not in honor of any one man, lving or dead, is the day celebrated, but in honor of and by liv- ing, moving humanity, whose needs higher stand than respect for the memory of the dead or a regard to their wishes. It is true that so far Labor day has been but an ex- periment. Whether it shall continue as a day of recreation and education remains to be seen. But if one may judge from the success it has so far attained, from the growing popularity of and respect for the day, the holiday has come to stay, and with each succeeding observance of it, it can safely be concluded that as the years go on its influence and benefits will grow, un- til at length the conception of those who originated the day will be fully realized. -————_— K. VANDERBILTs, THE wW. Entertaining Together in England, Ward McAllister Says. Mr. Ward McAllister has arrived at New York from England. He was questioned in regard to the reported separation of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt. “I think the people have been misinform- ed as to the separation of Mr. Vanderbilt and his wife. They are now at their*coun- try house on the Thames, entertaining a prince, whose name I have forgotten. I have not read the published accounts of their Civergence, but I do:no$ believe a word of it. I did not see at their country house, but I was so informed and have no i, to doubt theltruth of the informa- ion.” Prof. Koch Gone to Pieces. From the New York Heralé. This former medicaé:celebrity,subsequently notorious by reasort'of his scandalous di- vorce and his hui , Marriage with a “belle soubrette,” is &@ overcome and broken up by his senile love affairs that he has had to take refuge in a‘hy€ropathic establish- ment, with a view to recruit his strength. Sic transit gloria mundi. He will probably end his days in a lusatic asylum. , ees The Texas and the Ericsson. The Navy Department has received a re- port from the inspector who has recently made an examination of the Texas. Last May, while the ship was having her dock trial, a lumber rchooner was caught In the eddy made by the cruiser, and the blades of the Texas were badly bent. The inspec- tor says the blades may be straightened, nection comment is made at the depai ment concerning the bending of the blades of the Ericsson. No official report has been received at the department, but it is believed that the accident must have occurred by striking floating spar or some other obstruction, as it would be impossible from action of the blades in the water unless they are ex- tremely thin. The Ericsson broke her cast iron blades coming down the Mississippi. It has been determined that the trial of the Ericsson will take place in the sound, and will be twenty-five miles each way. The trial will not take place unless the wager is quite smooth. LABOR CELEBRATING Imposing Demonstration Made in New York City. NEARLY 20,000 MEN IN THE PARADE Saturday the Legal Holiday in Cal- ifornia. - CHICAGO MAKES DISPLAY NEW YORK, September 3.—Labor made an imposing demonstration here today. The weather was favorable for marching, the sun being obscured by haze, while a cool breeze from the east made the air bracing. Not far from 20,000 men, representing near- ly all the trades, were in line, and here and there in the procession were bands of wo- men from the various assemblies, such as the cloak makers of organized female labor, Cooper Union was the focus about which the bodies gathered for the parade. It wap some time after the hour set for the start, 10 o'clock, before the procession was under way. The fisst division, which formed in Astor place, was composed for the most part of those engaged in the stone in- dustries, while the theatrical trades brought up the rear. ‘The line of march was up 4th avenue to Union Square, to 17th street, to Sth avenue, alent street, where the procession dia- Such of the marchers as were so disposed Broceeded thence to the picnic of the Cen- tral Labor Union, at Brommer’s Union Park, but at least ar many others finished the day in pleasure seeking with wives and children in othe: ways. In Brooklyn the Central Labor Union had direction of a grand parade. Federal Offices Open as Usual. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., September 3.— Acting under Washington advices, the cus- tom house, post office, subtreasury, mint and other departments of the government located in this city are not observing Labor day, but sre transacting business as usual y- The United States courts, with the ex- ception of the district court, met as usual this morning, but an adjournment was im- mediately taken until tomorrow. United States District Attorney Garter is of the opinion that Labor day is a legal holiday, and ccurt proceedings in that event mighc occasion trouble for the litigants. Collector Wise, Postmaster McCoppiles end other federal officers had posted notices that their offices would be closed, but they were subsequently notified that they must keep open unless the day should be made a legal holiday by proclamation of the gov- ernor. As the California legislature had selected the ist of September as Labor day and state holiday, the governor made no Proclamation for today. The public schools are not observing the holiday, and the municipal departments are open, having shifted -heir positions on the mooted points several times during the past forty-eight hours. The state supreme court and the county superior court are closed. The banks had posted notices that they would be Closed today, but they finally con- cluded to remain open for business as usual. All labor organizations united in a parade, foliowed by literary exercises. Celebrated Throughout New England. BOSTON, August 3.—Labor’s holiday was celebrated throughout New England today. Business was generelly suspended. In all the cities a wealth of entertainment and Sport was offered and all day the streets were alive with bands of music and proces- sions. In Boston, over 15,000 men were in Ine. This forenoon the annual barge races were rowed on the Charles river, followed by the regatta of the New England Ama- teur Rowing Association,while half a dozen yacht clubs held their annual races during the day. Ball games, athletic contests and —— entertainments attracted thou- san In New Bedford and Fall River the great strikes were an incentive for a greater dis- Play than usual, and the labor tions turned out with full ranks, bearing banners warhead the sentiment of the tollers regarding the situation. Fifteen Thousand Marched at Chi- cago. CHICAGO, Sept. 3.—The tenth annual La- bor day parade by the trades unions of Chi- cago left Bricklayers’ Hall at 10 o'clock this morning. The procession finally halted at Ogden’s Grove, where it disbanded. Passing Lincoln mctument in Lincoln Park, the large proceerion was reviewed by Con, in McGann, who was also speak- er of the day at len’s Grove; —— v. Debs, president of the American way Union: John McBride, president of the United Mine Workers’ Union; John Wat- ters, Mark L. Crawford, Victor F. Lawson, Willis J. Abbott, 8. 8. rs and William C, Hollister of the Eight-Hour Herald. Fully 15,000 men were in line, many in uniform, and headed by a platoon of police. = eight divisions made a brilliant specta- cle. Prises were awarded for unions having the largest number of men in line, for best uniformed body in line, for best re- port of the day's ge and for the t athletic events at the picnic grounds. Big Parade at Baltimore, BALTIMORE, Md., September 8.—This being Maryland's first legal labor holiday, no effort was spared by the Federation of Labor and other workingmen’s associations to make the occasion a notable one. At noon a parade containing from 8,000 to 10,- 000 men started from Eutaw and Baltimore streets, and after marching through the principal thoroughfares, which were crowd- ed with sightseers, proceeded to Darley Park, where speech-making and athletic games of every description were indulged in, es MR. WANAMAKER’S PICNIC. He Entertains at His Country House the Members of His Bible Class. Ex-Postmaster General Johp Wanamaker on Saturday extended the hospitalities of his country seat, Lindenhurst, near Phila- delphia, to the members of his huge Bible class, to their husbands and wives, to their sons and daughters. Fully 1,500 persons availed themselves of the opportunity to spend Labor day amid such delightful sur- roundings. Music and athletic, religious services and eating were so blended that the day and the scene will long be remembered by those who participated. Although quite a number of the visitors reached Lindenhurst some time before that hour the day was formally begun at 10 o'clock with the blowing of bugle blasts. At this signal every one present gathered about a fountain at the side of Mr. Wanamaker's home and sang “Old Hundred.” Bethany’s pastor, Rev. Dr. Van Deurs, then offered a prayer and away the merrymakers went to their various amusements. Hammocks and swings were hung in every available place. Off in the meadows, at the side of the lake, foot ball, base ball and cricket were in full blast. For the women and the men, too, there was archery and croquet and quoits. For the little tots there was bean bag throwing galore. Two huge hay wagons were constantly in use taking gay parties of little ones on tours about the Then, for the babies and their mothers, there were depot carts to fulfill the same mission. Shortly after 11 Rev. Dr. George Pentecost, pastor of the Marylebone Presby- terlan Church, London, held a half hour service on the piazza. At high noon the luncheon was served. Seven thousand cups of coffee, 6,000 sand- wiches, 5,000° pieces of cake, 400 water- melons, 4,000 peaches and lemonade ad in- finitum. After luncheon a squad from the boys’ brigade gave a drill on the mall, in front of the house. After this came a potato race, and one in hopsacks. After a balloon as- censton a service was held. Jay Cooke was to have spoken, but telegraphed that his health was too poor to warrant his leaving his seaside home. In the evening Mr. Wanamaker enter- tained the teachers of Bethany Sunday school at supper. ——____+0+ Major Churchill = mbreling, who at one time commanded the Duryea Zouaves dur- ing the war, died recently at Baltimore, etter itt t ty) ce secrets eeHeee Et Ctt tt tite ti tit ete t to 5 ‘ 4 ‘ « ‘ IN HOTEL CORRIDORS A travel-stained guest reached Wormley's yesterday evening with stubble-covered face and cinder-filled hair. He went to the barber shop before going to his room and returned transformed. The metamorphosis that his appeatance had undergone inspired Proprie- tor Charley Gibbs tp reminiscence. “A good many years ago,” said Mr. Gibbs, “‘the bar- ber shop of this hotel was managed by a Gern.an, French and Russian ministers and other prominent people. Cox employed a new barber one morning, and he had no sooner taken charge of his chair when Mr. Norman Eaton came in. He was also a regular customer of the shop, and it was well known among the barbers that he never allowed any one but himself to touch his hatr. The new barber shaved Mr. Ea~ ton's face in excellent style and then pro- ceeded to rub his head. Eaton was furious. He exploded in a recond; demanding that the amazed barber should hand him the brush, and, after fixing his locks to his own satisfaction, he d ‘The new barber approached Cox and inquired who the gen- tleman was that was just shaved. Cox, who was something of a humorist, quietly replied, ‘Why, man, that was Henry Ward Beecher.’ The next morning the ambassa- dor from Russia sauntered in for his usual scrape, and he too fell to the lot of strange artist. features the will finish my face myself.’ With quick strokes he ted the work; went to the basin and washed his face; staunched the slight flow of blood from chin, and then sailed out in high The barber walked over to consolate sort of a way. Cox,*“he inquired, ‘who wuz dat gennerman dat done cut in de chir? ‘He is the Russian minister,’ responded the ietor. “Then T’se gwineter quit,’ returned the barber,with decision. ‘Ise a good I is, an’ yes- tiddy Mr. Beecher he come in an’ cuss’d ‘an’ swo’, an’ now, today, here anudder minister a rippin’ an’ a Swearin’ worsen ary sailor mans, & gwineter stay aroun’ no place people what ‘fess ‘! carry such way.’ The very next day work down in a 10-cent shop on telling his patrons what frightful of tongue and exhibitions in a dis- “The fight among the Chilcat Indians up in Alaska and the account of the monstrous cruelties they practiced on each other dur- ing the drunken battle recalls to me some experiences I had among them many years ago,” said Philip A. Webster, now of Oswego, at the Riggs House last night. Mr. Webster was an employe of the Alaska Seal Company during the early part of Mr. Hay- ward M. Hutchinson's presidency, but be- experience. “The Chilcats are the most brutal and re- vergeful Indians on the American conti- nent,” he continued, “and their system of torture comprises more ingenious modes of exqusite deviltry than even the inquisition practiced in its palmiest days. It would make your blood run cold to listen to a re- cital of some of their deeds. party that rescued a victim cat country many years ago. just been put through the first stages of torture, and yet he was a raving The Chilcats had caught that was attempting to do a little branch of their tribe, and as summer’s sun of the arctic would shine Girectly into his eyes, without any possi- bility of their being protected by him. He had undergo: to break thongs that bound him, you would believe, as T'do, that the arch-fiend himself could never have conceived @ more malignant form of cruelty.” ——+oo—_____ INNES’ BAND. Its Excellent Concert Last Night— “War Peace” Today at Base Ball Park. The attendance at Albaugh’s last night ‘was not large, but those who were present enjoyed one of the most delightful programs that has ever been given in this city by a rilitary band. Mr. Fred Innes proved that he was an accomplished conductor, and his thirteenth regiment band showed that they were excellent musicians. The overture to “Tannhaueser,” with which the program opened, was artistically interpreted, and re- celved an emphatic encore; in fact, nearly every number on the program was so well performed that the audience insisted upon a repetition, so that practically two programs were given. The number which excited the greatest amount of enthusiasm was the “Chronicle Telegraph March,” dedicated to the Grand Army encam; take place in Pittsburg facing the performance of this march, Mr. Innes made a happy Uttle speech, in which he paid a delicate and deserved liment to Mr. John Sousa, whom he the originator of the two-step march, and hoped that his own composition would be received with some degree of favor in a city where this class of composition had been made so popular. Mr. Innes’ march has a delightful swing and dash, and the applause at its close was most enthusiastic, so much so that on its repetition Mr. Innes himself took a trombone and played the leading theme. This excited more enthusiasm and a second repetition was demanded. His descriptive fantasia on the worid's fair was excellently received. Of the eolo- ists were Mr. Herbert Clark, who proved himself an accomplished cornetist; Mr. Bowman Ralston, who sang the well-known bass aria from the “Magic Flute” in splen- did form, and who gave as an encore the popular song, “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep.” Miss Miner sang effectively the waltz song from “Romeo and Juliet” and gave as an encore one stanza of the “Last Rose of Summer.” These two vocalists, to- security at prevailing Drop in and see us about it. American Security and Trust Co., 1405 G St. N.W, pd. RS G. J. BELL, President. Hooper, Helphenstine & Co. BANKERS AND BROKERS, MEMBERS N. Y¥. STOCK EXCHANGE, Buy and sell Cotton, Provisions. “Have uni facilities for orders. Our senior is on the oor ‘this means accurate 1288 AND'355 FST. TELEPHONE 4m, Tcerperated Unter the Laws ot the State of oy cork. Capital, $100,000. Moome 9 ant 1C, Washington Loan and Trust Oo. BWellding, corner Oth and F ots nw. audt-im? FIDELI Capital: One Million Dollarg Safe Deposit Company, Special act Coagress 1867. Savings Bank, titled “W a hich is to BS en: “War an pesea wa cease & ae be Base Ball Park afternoon and evening. In the band and soloists there is a chorus of 300, which has been arilled Prof. N. DuShane male choruses for both ern forces. have actively tickets for some time, and it is that large audiences will each performance. ——_— A Swimmer Injared. About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoop, Michael Mohun, a young white man, tga jurea his head while swimming in creek near the Woodley Lane bridge. was removed to his residence, 2225 street, in the patrol wagon. —- > ‘The Case of Young Whitney. The young man, Jack Whitney, a mer in the employ of the Plymouth Pants Clothing Company,who was Saturday on a charge of having em! funds of the company, was today hi a hearing Friday next. Bonds were at $500. ——__—. Excise Commissioner Krug of New! L. L, has been arrested upon the on of taking a bribe of $20 from ap cant for a saloon license. '