Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, i ‘AB BUILDIN! aay ranks Levees Gar Hieh Sect, by 101 ‘The Evening Star Ne Company, SEL KAUrRMaNh Prost Few York Olice, 40 Potter Building. ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers in the carriers, their own account, at 10 cents per wack ar ate. per month Caples at the counter ‘All mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. S2cen of edvertioing made Enewn en agyiieation. Ghe Hven a Star. Vor 85, No. 20,986. WASHINGTON, D.C. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1894—TEN PAGES TWO CENTS THEY ARE HUSTLING|FOOLED IN OUR FooD Those Who Desire to Succeed City Postmaster Sherwood. — RUMORS AS 0 A DARK HORSE There May Be No Appointment Until Mr. Cleveland's Return. GOSSIP AS TO CANDIDATES py eee cae Se The various Washingtonians who desire to occupy the cool and commodious apart- ments of the city postmaster on G street for the next four years are pretty warm under the collar at present, and their high temperature is not entirely due to the con- dition of the atmosphere. Ever since the administration changed and Mr. Cleveland assumed the presidency the impression has Prevailed that a local man would be ap- Pointed to succeed Postmaster Sherwood when his commission expired in Septem- ber, 184. Mr. Cleveland had recognized the claims of the District to this position at least during his former term by appoint- ing Mr. John W. Ross, at present a Dis- trict Commissioner, to the place, and in consequence the local democrats indulged in pleasant anticipation of a repetition of such action. Some weeks ago The Star announced the presence of another Rich- mond in the field of candidates in the per- son of Mr. Frank Thomas, chief cleck of the Post Office Department and a native of Michigan. The Star also pointed out that the Washington post office had come to be regarded by politicians in the light of a Michigan property, becauSe two of the former incumbents, Messrs. Ainger and Conger, as well as the present postmaster, Mr. Sherwood, were natives of the wol- verine state. Other Candidates Hustling. The publication stirred up great interest among the other candidates and their friends, and there was an immediate move- ment by all of them to strengthen the forces of their influence and bring them to bear more impressively upon the President. Mr. Thomaz himself was not the least energetic of them. He did not care to rest his chances of appointment upon the pow- erful friends he had at court, chief among whom were Mr. Don M. Dickinson and Private Secretary Thurber. He had been @ resident of Washington for six years, a large portion of which time was devoted to private business, and he proceeded to secure the indorsement of prominent Washington- tans who had become weil acquainted with him in a business and socfal sense. The result has been that Mr. Thomas has ob- tained a variety of papers from leading citizens here urging his appointment, and it is said by ais friends that the indorse- ments of this sort requesting his appoint- ment as a local man are as strong, if not stronger, than those from the Michigan members of Mr. Cleveland's personal cab- inet. The other candidates are well aware of this state of affairs, however, and while they are somewhat exercised, they have re- Jaxed_none of their energy in the hunt. Mr. W. D. Peachy is still regarded as a formidable candidat and his numerous friends continue to increase the heavy pressure that has been brought to bear upon Mr. Cleveland in his behalf. The adherents of Mr. Robert Beall are working quietly, but , and the whispers are frequent that he is the dark horse in the race, who is destined to surprise the lookers on at the finish. It is also rumored that Mr. James P. Willett has recently been strongly commended to the President as the proper man for the place, and it is generally admitted that Mr. Lawrence Gardner could have the place by filing an application for it. Mr. Gardner, however, will not ask for federal appointment in the District. Sherwood’s Term Expires Wednesday. Postmaster Sherwood's commission ex- Pires on September 12, and he enjoys the honor of having recetved what is known as @ senatorial confirmation. When his name was sent to the Senate Mr. Sherwood’s numerous friends at the Capitol, where he had been for many years employed, called upon Senator Sawyer to put the nomina- tion through without formal reference to a committee, and this was done. His con- duct of the office has been of the most ex- emplary character, and he has won the encomiums of all classes of citizens by his excellent administration. It is probable that his successor will not be appointed un- til Congress convenes. The President had not called for the papers of the various candidates before he went to Gray Gables, and they are still on file. Postmaster Gen- eral Bissell is away on a vacation also, and the impression is that the fight is too warm and the contestants too evenly matched for @ decision yet awhile on the part of the ex- ecutive. It will probably make the local candidates feel a little better to know that another na- tive of Michigan some time since filed an application for the postmastership of W: ington, and asked Mr. Don M. Dickinson for his support. Mr. Dickinson replied that it would be useless, as he had been inform- ed and believed that a District democrat would be given the appointment. At the Pest Office Department. The Star man was told today by several of the officials of the Post Office Depart- ment that it w: not likely that any change would be made in the Washington post- mastershiy till after the return of Pres- ident Cleveland. The various candidates recognized this, it was said, and as a con- sequence the pressure which is being brought to bear on the department just now .is very light. It is generally thought at the department that were the President here he would appoint a successor to Post- master Sherwood directly after the expira- tion of the latter's term. They have no prophecies to make as to who the new man will be. They hear a number of rumors, they say, which come from high sources. They think, though, that no reliance ought to be placed in these, in view of the exper- ience of the past. $+.) ACCOUNTS SETTLED. mits His An- nual Report to the Secretary. Judge Mansur, second controller of the treasury, submitted his last annual report to Secretary Carlisle today. it shows that 33,165 accounts involving $2su,0UZ,0U2 were settled tm his office during the last fiscal year. He says that a comparison of the work of his office for the past three fiscal years shows that the amcunt in yolume has been very much increased; in round numbers, since the fiscal year 18¥1, $104,0uu,u00, with an increase in the iast fiscal year of over 374,000,000, He bears testimony to the efficiznt serv- ice rendered in the aggregate by the clerks in this bureau. With scarcely an exception, their faithtul service and ability in the dis- charge of the onerous duties imposed upon them have commanded his highest respect. Under the provisions of the act “making appropriations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the government for the fiseal year ending June 3v, 18u5, and for other purposes,” this bureau is abolish- ed on October L. 1su4, Everything We Eat and Drink is More or Less Adulterated. Interesting Report of a Special Agent Show! the Enormoas Increase of a Nefarious Practice. ‘The question of adulteration of food and drugs in this country is discussed in de- tall in the report of Special Agent Alex- ander J. Wedderburn of the Agricultural Department. After referring to the fact that the public ideas of adulteration of food are in many cases very much exag- gerated, the report states that the atten- tion of foreigners has been drawn to the fact that greater or less adulteration ex- ists among us, and that as a result. for- eign competitors of our manufacturers of food products have used the fact to their own advantage. “America today occupies the unenviable position of being one of the very few coun- tries that fall to require by law the proper branding of their manufactured food and drugs,” says the report. “Whether such requirements would accomplish the de- sired result is unknown, but the evil would be mitigated by wholesome legislation. This belief is sustained by the results of the food laws of England and other for- eign countries, as well as of the various states. The concurrent testimony of state offictals, charged with the enforcement of state and local laws, is that a national law is necessary to secure proper enforce- ment of state laws. Imperative Need of Laws. “If it he true that it is tmyrossible for any state to fully execute its laws, no matter how stringent, co lorg the orig- fral package decision stands as law, then the need of a federal law is imperative. The effort to purge the country of this crime ts doing good and aids in keeping down the adulteration of the products we consume, but each year brirgs to light new articles in which a method to improve the profit, if not their quality, has becn found. That almost every article of food end drug used in our country is adulterated is provei most conclusively by a vast amount of information gathered by the de- partment.” The extent of the practice is sald to be as broad as the centinent, but their char- acter injures the pcecket rather than the health. The general character of fvod adulterations is principally commercial fraud, and the extent of criminal or potson- ous adulteration in food is so limited as to amount to but a bagatelle in the immense sum of the products consfmed. A large proportion of poisonous adulterations arises from carelessness and ignorance. But ig- norance is no excuse for the wholesale de- struction of life by the addition of potson- ous pigments to many articles of food, es- pecially confectionery, cream and like ar- ucles, Everything is Adulterated. It has been proved that adulteration is general and increasing, and that no kind of food, drugs or liquors is free from the fin- ishing touches of the manipulators. Whether: the intent be criminal and vicious or simply fraudulent, the result is the same, and the people will continue to suffer until the strong hand of federal law steps In to sup- plement and support the action of the states. “The extent of adulteration is fully 15 per cent, of which 2 per cent is of @ character injurious to health,” says Mr. Wedderburn. “But to furnish 65,000,000 people with food, drink and drugs costs not less than $6,760,- 000,000, and it is found that the amount of adulteration reaches the immense sum of $1,014,000,000 annually. As st least 2 per cent of the whole is deleterious to health, $135,200,000 constitutes the annual amount paid by the American people for sacrifice of their lives or injury of their health. As there exists no more serious or exhaustive drain upon the resources of the people than the adulteration of their food and drug products, the federal government should enact a law to prevent the transportation of misbranded, poisonous or deleterious food and drug products from one state or territory into another, not interfering with the police powers of the states. This being done, the various state laws would become effective, and by systematic effort on the part of officials or honest dealers and man- ufacturers adulterations would be reduced to a minimum and millions of dollars saved annually to the country. The cost of exe- cution of such a law would be moderate, and should be borne by the manufacturers of food and drug products.” The report embodies a large number of comments on the subject by offici and others directly interested. Nearly all the state officlals and representative trades- men who give their views unite in urging the passage of a national food and drug law for the protection of legitimate indus- try and our interstate and foreign com- merce, as well as the. public health. ——___-+ e+ —____ THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. They Will Open One Week From To- day for Business. One week from today. the public schools of Washington will be open for business. Thoughts of resuming school room duties and the corfinement thereof on such an excessively warm day as this are undoubt- edly harrowing in the extreme; but that such must be done is inevitable. The last week of vacation opened most auspiciously at the office of Superintendent Powell. All plans for the opening of the schools have been completed, and the dis- tribution of new free text books is the only thing that remains to be done. This year, more so than ever before, Superintendent Powell is in the dark re- garding the number of new pupils that will enter the schovls. This state of ignorance is due to the recent large number of dis- missals in the various government depart- ments and the consequent removal from the city of a large number of families. However, those parents desiring to enter children should remember that cards of ad- mission to grades below the High School will be issued at all the school buildings on Friday and Saturday, September 14 and 15, from 8 to 10 a.m. and from 4 to 6 p.m. The supervising principals will be present on that occasion to give all desired informa- tion. The principals of the High Schools may be found at their respective schools at the tle mentioned. —___ FIRED AT HATFIELD'S HOUSE. Kentucky Desperadoes Made a R: Into West Virginia Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. RICHMOND, Va., September 10.—A spe- cial from Williamson, W. Va., tells of an- other Hatfield-McCoy outbreak in Logan county. Just before daylight Saturday morning six desperadoes belonging to the Frank Phillips faction crossed the West Virginia border from Kentucky at Wil- Mamson ard proceeded to storm the dwell- ing of James Hatfleld. The door was broken down and volley after volley was fired with Winchesters into the house. Hatfield was not at home at the time and the ma- rauders soon withdrew, but not until they had fired a farewell saiute into the Esther Hotel, riddling the windows with bullets. A posse of citizens was formed, who sued the mob and coming up. with t! captured two of the gang after a sharp en- gagement, in which the two men ¢aptured were wounded. They were given a hearin, and sent on to the grand jury. 2 « ee THE HOT WAVE Washington Sweltering Under an Unusually Hot Spell of Weather. EXPLANATION GIVEN-BY PROP. HAZEN It Will Have Spent Its Force by Tomorrow Night. A COLD WAVE COMING Woe is the young man who thought he heard the straw hat gun go off on the Ist of September. Woe, likewise, is the math- ematical citizen who regulates his life by the drug store calendar and dons his fian- nels on the initial day of the month of oysters. For they are both sad, even to the point of sorrow. In the first place, the gun missed fire, and it hasn't gone off yet. Sometiding is the matter with the powder, und the month is all awry. The man who put on his flan- nels ten days ago is muttering matters vnfit for publication and mentally tossing pennies to find out if he will violate his vow and take them off. The straw hats have been brought back from the closets and doced with milk and starch and made to look seemly once more, and the ther- mometers have gone sizzling up and up, and that old plague, humidity, has kept company with the mercury until the neigh- bors have begun to talk. ‘ A Full Fledged Warm Wave. In short, Washington is having a tussle with a full-fledged, able-bodied, ambitious warm wave. Coming as it does in Sep- tember it is a sort of surprise, one of those unwelcome visitations such as the coun- try host gets occasionally in winter—this is @ good time to mention winter, it is so cool—when the neighborhood drops in en masse to spend the evening, and the ap- ples are all gone and there is no more pte. Surprises are all right enough in their way, but they do make trouble sometimes. ‘That's just the way with this one; it ar- rived with a rush, and came within an ace of breaking the record. If tt had only con tented itself with being just a mild little surprise, one that would have made the folks mop their brows and wonder if it wasn’t a bit warm, it wouldn't have mat- tered so much. But there's another trouble with the weather. It is so everlastingly enterprising, and is always trying to beat something or other. Perhaps it isn’t that way in Europe, or Alexandria, but that is quite another matter after a! Congress got itself into lots of disrepute for having tarried here all through June, and then July, and even through August. It was called all sorts of hard names, and the people said that the members did not know enough to go away and enjoy them- selves in cool places while the hot weather wes here. But those chaps who draw five thousand apiece for breaking quorums knew what they were bout. Some «ne of them must have had an offictal ti ‘rom Secretary Morton that this thing was going to happen, for they are now getting a va- cation in what is, if not the hottest part of the year, at least the most uncomfortable. There's the rub. It isn’t so much the actual number of degrees that counts as it is the way the degrees affect us. It's com- fort, and not statistics, that regulages the world, after all. So in the present case, although the thermometers do not record a temperature as high as we have had this year, there is probably more good solid misery to the square inch scattered around by this hot wave than by any of its pre- decessors of 1894. Relative Humidity Indicated. This is what the meteorologists mean when they indict “relative humidity” with the crime of making the world perspire. That is an old friend. He used to be known as “general humidity,” and the newspaper men had all manner of fun with him by playful allusions to his title. Later the more scientific name for him came to be “relative humidity,” and now the jokers are trying to get even with him by calling him a “poor relation” and cther scandalous things. But he does: seem to mind it. He just squats down on a community and makes the folks swelter. He grins and they bear it He has his best fun when the sun shines hotly, for then he just whoops himself and makes the collars fall down and the cuffs gets mushy, and the extreme peak of the bald-headed man grows pink. He kills the babies and worries the horses. He drives sick people into spasms, and makes the heart of the ice man glad. He reduces the population and increases the beer bill. Oh, he is a sly dog, is relative humidity. He is hard to find, too, as a Star reporter ascertained this morning, when he journey- ed to the weather bureau to find out just why and when, and how much and how long, and a lot of other things about this hot wave. The reporter found Prof. Hazen in charge of the hot and cold water spigots. The professor is not a pessimist, and he does not like hot waves any more than the bootblack at the corner, or the society young lady who has just come down home from New Hampshire, where for some time past she has been sweetly sleeping under a pair of blankets. When the reporter said that he had come to talk about the hot weather the professor waved his hand and smiled beamingly of hope for the future. He said: A Talk With Prof. Hazen. “Oh, that is almost over,” and then he led the way to the place where he finds out all about those things, behind a large screen, where he thinks out the facts and figures concerning the maps. “This is very warm weather,” he said, in the manner of a man who knew he was not telling a secret. “It is hot even for September, which, as perhaps you know, is apt to bring some very warm weather. It may be interesting and comforting to know just now that the highest tempera- ture ever known here—that is, since the organization of the weather bureau and the starting of the records—occurred on the 7th of September, 1881. That was the year that Garfield died, 1 year, with a ter- rible drought, and scme intensely hot weather. I remerber that just after that hot day we had a very dark day. But that temperature, by the way, was registered at the old office on G street, and perhaps it was a little high. It was 1044. On this occasiy2 the heat has been just ten de- grees less, being 94 yesterday, and it will probably be higher today. On Saturday it was 9. The maximum for the present year is 97.5, which was recorded on the 13th of July. The September maximum, you might tell the folks, is 73. “The trouble this time is with the mois- ture. If it were not so moist we could easily stand the heat. But I think the worst is over, and there are signs that the hot wave has spent itself. The humidity was 76 per cent this morning, end now— well, I'll find cut for you how much it is.” And that was how the reporter came to discover how “relative humidity” is drag- ged from his hiding place. The professor took from his desk a glass apparatus that looked something like a two-pronged grid- iron, but which was really a pair of ther- mometers. One of them has a piece of cotton tied around its bulb, like a boy with a sore finger. This end the professor dip- ped into a bottle of water, and then he unwound a string that was tied around the end and gripping this tightly he swung the apparatus around and around, vigor- ously, It reminded one of the old-fashioned direc- tions on medicine bottles: “To be ‘well shaken before taken.” After .@ minute or ee two of this exercise the professor ceased his swinging and looked at the bulb. Then he read the dry thermometer! The wet one was 75.6 and the dry one 1.3. The differ- ence was 15.7 degrees. He opened an old book and scanned a column of figures for a few seconds and then announced the re- sult, much as a scorekeeper might at a Sea Girt rifle match. “The humidity just now is 48 degrees, which is much less than yesterday. So we are going to suffer today. ‘There is probably just as much moisture in the air now as there was this morning, but there is more heat, of course, and means a less percentage of relative humidity.” An Interesting Theory. Then the professor began to talk about why this is thus. He evolved an interest- ing theory, which, if true, may cause trou- ble in Europe a little later. “The present condition,” he said, “is due to @ general movement of heat from the west to the east. That is the usual course for such developments. The hottest wave ever known in: the west ‘occurred this year, when, on the 26th of July, the temperature recorded at 108 degrees. The crops we-e fairly burned up. That wave did not reach us, voradliessaprreego ny chet agyaa mrmerpenpee a some way on the |. Now we are having @ wave that reached us from the west, but 1t did not develop the same amount of heat there as it did here. It is the reverse of the conditions of July. ‘Che sun, however, has been shining on the east and the west with equal intensity and yet it has not Produced an equal effect. It is prob- that in @ month’ or two there will be a hot wave in Europe, while we have had weather imme- diately preceding it. 1 belleve that this is due to scme condition that affects the earth, that 1s, perhaps, within the earth. Remem- ber, please, that the sun is shining now in both places with equal intensity, and there is a cool wave in the west; ‘The amount of heat must, therefore, be regulated by some condition or conditions wit! the crust of the earth, some electrical fo>ce‘or current, or whatever it may be, but something, nev- ertheless, that controls the effects of the sun's rays. The orthodox meteorologists believe that the sun’s rays do not heat the air, but that the earth is héated by the sun and that the air gets its heat from ‘the earth. 1 do not believe: that. I think the sun heats the air and the af:, together with the sun’s rays, heat the éarth. I think that this will be the subject of the next import- ant investigation In this science, and that it will develop some very material facts concerning heat and cold.” A Cold Wave Coming. But the professor suddenly remembered that it was a condition that faced him, and that the condition was stfonger than the theory. The condition was brought to him by the stalwart man who Has watched the bulbs and the wind vanes and the revolving cups on th> roof of the weafher buerau for years past. This is & Beall, better known in higher and more efclusive weath- er circles as “South West.” ‘He stood by the screen, and brought theimews that the thermometer on the roof ae registered 92 degrees. That was at o'clock. “Now, to busiress,” saf@ the professor, mopping his forehead a scientific swing of his handkerchief. “‘There is a good time coming. It is @ cold wave, that in now somewhere out i the northwest, and is due to arrive here by Wednesday morning. The thermometer at Prince Ai- pen C., 1s now 28, and 4t i@ 38 at Chey- te % hn. but our own lowest was 82, at Willis- The greatest cold will"probably be iced here on Wedesday morning, and then i¢ will warm in. Yet I do not believe that it will get‘ng warm as it is now again tnis season. ‘This*seems to be the expiring gasp of the yegr/ and we are not likely to be troubled*any more with excessive heat or, what js Just as bad, with hot weather and ity. "There may be a shower this , though that 1s not certain, and there.mgfj not be enough moisture. id “So you can tell the peopfe that they are rot in danger of being stampeded to the seashores by this weather. It will not be hot enough to interfere with the opening of the schools next Monday. Yet there is a record that on the 20th of September the schools at St. Paul were ci on account gf the intense heat. That will not happen ere.”” Whether the schools keep or not, it ras been terribly hot here for three days. Even on Friday it was muggy and uncomfortable. Yesterday was the boss day of the wave. The people gasped for breath like chickens in a farmyard. They Streamed out into the country only to find it'as hot there as at home, and then they streamed back, to be where they could get down near to the con- ditions of attire that prevailed in the days of Eden. In the evening thousands went out on the streets and found some com- fort by walking up and down. The avenue was lined with pedestrians, eager for a breeze. The soda fountains were rained to their last sputter of fizz, and the keepers of establishments where the amber fluid, commonly known as beer, {s sold sighed in regret that there is a strict Sunday law in the District. —>__— MUST SERVE SIX MONTHS. Jadge Cox's Decision im the Case of Arthur Cromwell. Judge Cox today decided that where a sentence of imprisonment 1s commuted to one of so many days, months or years of actual imprisonment, the convict must serve the full term of the reduced sentence. The case wes that of Arthur Cromwell, who lest week petitioned for his discharge from jail through a writ of habeas corpus. Cromwell plead gulity the 8ist of last March to violating the palicy laws, in the Police Court, and was sentenced by Judge Miller to pay a fine of $500 and to be im- prisored in jail 364 days. In default of the fine he was to serve 180 days additional. The sentence was commuted by the Pre: ident to six months’ actual imprisonment. It is provided by the statutes that from the sentences of convicts there shall be de- ducted five days during each and every month of the first two years of the im- prisonment—provided, of course, the con- victs earn such reduction of their sen- tences by good behavior in prison. On the ist instant Cromwell had served five months’ imprisonment. He ‘therefore petitioned for his release, contending that, having served five months in prison, and having earned thirty cays because of his good vehavior ir prison, he had to all in- terts and purposes served an imprisonment of six months, and was therefore entitled to his release. Judge Cox, however, held to the contrary, deciding that the President, in commuting Cromwell's ‘sentence to six months’ actual imprisonment,: meant thi the prisoner should serve ‘six months, ex- clusive of any and all deduetions. Cromwell was, therefore, remanded to jail to com- plete the six months’ jmprisonment. ——+__. Personal Mention. Assistant Secretary McAdoo, who has been spending his vacation near Saranac lake, in the Adirondacks, telegraphed to the Navy Department today from New York that he expected to resume his duties in Washington tomorrow. Assistant Secretary Hamtin, who is mak- ing an insepection of the customs service along the Canadian frontier, left St. Paul yesterday for Montreal. ‘He is expected to reach Washington by the 20th instant. Assistant Secretary Curtis has gone to New York for a few days. Mr. John Bowler, with his son Willie, left Saturday evening for an extensive trip west. Mr. Thomas F. Dawson of the Asso- ciated Press and Washington correspondent of the Denver Times-Sun, left for Colorado this afternoon to watch the coming cam- paign for its lively news points. Mr. Fred. Dickinsheets, managing editor of the Denver Republican, is the guest of Mr. Jerome Wilbur of the Associated Press, gn, Wallach street. ‘ Prof. Daniet Quinn has returned * from Saratoga, where he lectured before the American Association of Social Sciente ou the “Higher Education in os tens He will he reside at his ni home, 2422 street northwest. IMPORTANT RUMOR|SHARP AND Sarcastic! PITTSBURG CROWDED Admiral Walker May Command the THE SQUADRON 10 BE INCREASED Significant Changes of Program to Be Made. WHAT GOSSIPS SAY One of the latest naval rumors is that the Astatic squadron is to be largety increased and that Admiral Walker is to be placed in command. The execution of such a plan would involve important changes in the present naval program. Admiral Walker, who has just returned from Honolulu, is under orders to relieve Capt. Phythian as superintendent of the Naval Academy. He is now at one of the Virginia springs. When here a week ago he said he expected to take charge of the Naval Academy in u few weeks—at any rate before the beginning of the rfect school session in October. The relief of Acting Admiral Carpenter, commending the Asiatic fleet, 80 soon after his arrival would be construed by his friends as a serious refiection on his abil- ity. It is said that. Admiral Walker wants the ccmmand, and it is common gossip that he invariably gets what he wants. In fact, he is known as the “officer with the best pull in the navy.” In the absence of Secretary Gresham ard Secretary Herbert, who would have to decide such a question, it is impossible to make a positive state- ment in the matter. There are good rea- sons for the belief, however, that no change in the Asiatic command is contemplated, and that Admiral Walker's orders to the academy will stand. Se DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. Work and Material Ordered. The Commissioners on Saturday ordered: That contracts for furnishing as many paving bricks for sidewalks as may be erdered be awarded the Frederick brick works, under their proposals, received Au- gust 20, 1804; and the Washington Brick and Terra Cotta Company, for furnishing as many paving bricks as may be ordered, under their proposal of August 20, 184. The contract for grading Massachusetts avenue extended be awarded to R. 8S. Israei, the lowest bidder, under his proposal recelved September 4, 1894. That sidewalk on the east side of 5th street northwest, between F and G streets, be relaid with cement; the cost to be paid from the «uppropriation for “repairing side- walks and curbs, 1805." That cement sidewalk be laid and new granite curbs set on the east side of Con- necticut avenue extended between Florida avenue and Le Roy place, under ue pro- vision of the permit system. Thet a sewer on Florida avenue north- east between North Capitol and Portner streets be added to the provisional schedule sewers to be built during the fiscal year 1906, providing ‘appropriate funds See senl, oF one Ye perant it system, upon receipt of the usual deposit. That the hydrant on 20th street, between Pennsylvania wate and H E Whitney avenue and La- arava, ar as ‘Catimated cost of $1,282, including the erection of one fire hydrant. A Crossing Needed. Cc. M. D. Browne of 144°R street northeast has written to the Commissioners calling attention to the need of a crossing at Flori- da avenue, on the east side of North Capitol street and on Florida avenue on north side of Q street. He states that in both cases there are brick sidewalks, but no crossings whatever, and the dust in dry weather is several inches deep and very muddy in wet weather. To Drain the Cable Cond: Architect H. O. Bailey has made applica- tion to the Commissioners to construct the sewers for draining the cable conduit and detaching services from the water and gas mains on the Columbia railroad, the con- etruction of which will be commenced in the near future. Mr. Bailey, having rendered similar services for the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company, to its entire satisfaction, he says he feels thoroughly qualified to do the same for the Columbia road. Urgin, Cornt Another numerously indorsed petition was received by the Commissioners this morn- ing urging upon them the reappointment of Mr. L. A. Cornish as trustee of the 8th division colored schools. The petition bears the signatures of a number of officers of the Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church, and states that in the past years Mr. Cor- nish has rendered most faithful and efficient service as a member of the board, and be- lieves him the most suitable person to suc- ceed himself. The Case of Dr. Thompson. Health Officer Woodward has experienced a charge of heart in the case of Dr. H. T. T. TLcmpson, one of the physicians to the poor, whom he charged several days ago with makir.g a wrong diagnosis in a case of dipitheria. In a letter to the Commis- sioners upon the subject, Dr. Woodward recommended that Dr. Thompson be sus- pended for thirty days, without pay, or be requested to resign. Neither of these pun- ishments will be meted out, Dr. Woodward himself writing to the Commissioners today requesting that the matter be dropped. He certified further that Dr. Thompson is will- ing, obliging and efficient. No’ More Light on Blade urg Road. The Commissioners have informed Pres- ident A. A. Falls of the District reform school that the present condition of the available funds for street lighting will not permit the establishment for additional light on Bladensburg road. Cannot Be Laid at Present. Relative to the request made a short time ago by Mr. D. B. Groff for a water main in front of 714 to 726, inclusive, on Irving street between 7th and 8th streets north- west, Capt. Powell today reports that a water main cannot be laid at present in Irving street, as this street has not yet been graded. - Miscellaneous. The Commissioners have been requested by W. H. Newhall, master of records, Unit- ed States National Museum, to issue a per- mit to Fidelity Castle, No. 7, Knights of the Golden Eagle, to hold & lawn party at 12th and Florida avenue northeast for the week, September 10 to 15, inclusive, for the benefit of the Castle. 8. 8S. Daish & Son have requested the Com- missioners to grant them permission to con- duct a coal business at 3d street east of Brentwood road, Eckington. —_ Cholera Advices. Advices have been received at the State Department from the consul at Riga, Rus- sla, under date of August 21, that cholera has appeared there. There have been twenty-eight cases, most of them resulting fatally. eS | The Cruiser Raleigh. The cruiser Raleigh, which is cruising in ‘Chesapeake bay to “shake cown” her ma- K | chinery prior to her official trial, arrived et Fort Monrce yesterday. Republicans Charge Secretary Morton With Violating Givil Service Laws. Wife's Relations to Ofice—Rot Sides of the Question. The Washington ccrrespor dence in today’s New Yerk Herald is devoted to an article reciting the charges against Secretary of Agriculture J. Sterling Morton, contained in the recently published campaign book of the republican congressional committee. “Secretary of Agriculture Morton,” says the correspondent, “comes in for some re- markable criticism in the handbook of the republican congressional campaign com- mittee, which will be published during the present week. He is charged with viola- tians ‘of the civil service law in appointing to'office relatives who have not passed the civil service examination. The object, of course, is to discredit the administration im general and Mr. Morton in particular, and to manufacture party capital for the coming campaign. The following, from the advance sheets of the handbook, shows the nature of the charges made: z 'y Morton, the self-named sage of Arbor and the pretended origi- nator of the sentimental Arbor day, holds in high contemptible scorn, and by high- handed as well as underharded methods persistently violates, the civil service law, which is termed in his intelligent, humor- ous vocabuilariy the ‘law of the snivel service.’ “One of the most flagrant instances of this executive officer's defiarce of the law he is sworm te obey and maintain is found in the case ot the Skinner family, three women and a man, sistets and brother, nieces and nephew of the Secretary's wife. The young women are employed in con- tempt of law as clerks. No one of them has ever passed the civil service examina- tion, as required by the statute. Mr. Skinner's Citizenship. “Their brother was made foreman of the department printing offite at $1,200 a year, taking the place of a $1,000 man, after a special non-competitive examination by the civil service commission. Mf. Skinner's ap- Plication for this examination was formally sworn to as prescribed by law. In it he claimed citizenship in a state of the Union. He is a British subject and a legal resident of the Dominion of Canada. ‘! “These facts were brought to the atten- tion of the committee, and upon them due complaint was made. Mr. Morton was noti- fied thereof, and drove hot foot to misstoners’ ing informed, he gulped a little, swallowed ‘much and returned to his domain, whence he wrote to advise the commission that Mr. Skinner had, much to his surprise, tendered hie resignation, and desired to know whether, under the rules, he ought to accept the ‘sanié. Hé was informe that not only was it stri proper for him to perform this function, but it would be just as well for him to do it im=the manner sometimes known as ‘P. D. Q.” “The letter books of the commission are Public property, open to inspection, and they oe the ere! facts. Neverthe- less, r. ‘ Skinner, Morton's nephew, is today, 1, 1894, the im the printing In the United tes Department of Agriculture at Wash- His Landlady Made Scrubwoman. “He and his sisters, who board at the same house, were dissatisfied with the dif- fererce. between the prices: of living in Washington, Canada, Michigan, etc. and made a protest. Immediately thereupon their landlady was placed on the rolls of the @epartment as a scrubwoman at $30 a month, which enabled her to somewhat re- duce the rate of pay for the food and lodg- ing of the Secretary's folks, and, Incidental- ly, to ride the —. horse in the ranks of her companions if the charwomen’s force, = the latter ts hardly a civil service mat- The handbook further charges that the Secretary of Agriculture has appointed as his private sccretary at $2,000 per annum a young Swede who has never been natural- ized, and that a Frenchman named E. Aime Barbaux has been given a clerkship in the department without having passed the civil service examination and in direct violation of the law. Secretary Morton’s Denial. “I saw Secretary Morton in the Hotel Imperial last evening, and received from him an emphatic denial of the charges made by the republican congressional com- mittee,” says the Herald in a local item following the correspondence. “To my knowledge,” he said, “there is not a single violation of the civil service law in any eppointment 1 have made. The books of ihe department are open for in- spection at any time by any person who has a right to look at them, and they will bear out my statement. “I have no relative in any department, either by blood or marriage. There are neither Skinners, Smiths, Browns nor Joneses there in violation of the civil service law. If so, I am Hable and ready to take my medicine. There are no aliens there that I know of, but I found aliens in office when I took charge.” In relation to the statement that he had appointed as his private secretary at $2,000 a year a young Swede who had not been naturalized, the Secretary said the young Tan was appointed upon the recommenda- tion of Representative Michael D. Harter of Ohio, and although he was foreign born he was a naturalized ciiizen of the United Stetes, so far as he knew. The young man had resigned the office a few months ago to become the secretary of a land company at $5,000 a year. Mr. Morton characterized as “rot” the statement that the landlady of the Skinner family had been placed on the rolls of the ee 3 scrubwoman at $30 a n.onth, enabling her to reduce the ot board for the Skinners. sree “In proof of the efficient manner in which my department has been conducted,” said Mr. Morton, “the recent report of the di: bursing officer shows that I cover 23 = _ alte) wrad appropriation for my department, making an aggregat. of $600,000. = ss: sin: “I have put more persons in the Depart- ment of Agriculture, legitimately, than my predecessors, and I am the only Secretary who has had the heads of the departments classified under divisions. “I think,” said Mr. Morton, tn conclusion, “that these charges come from a printers’ union, which has tried to regulate the print- ing office of the department to suit itself.” ——_- e-__ Ft. Monroe Sewerage Board. The acting Secretary of War has ap- pointed Lieut. Col. Royal T. Frank, se2ond artillery; Maj. George B. Davis, judge ad- vocate, and Capt. John W. Pullman, assist- ant quartermaster, a board to meet at Fort Monroe, Va., September 17, to prepare a draft of the rules for the sewerage sysiem at Fort Monroe, provided for in the last appropriation bill. The iotal number of fourth-class post- masters appointed today was thirty-six. Of this number thirty-five were to fill vacan- cies caused by death and resignation, the ingle rem*val being that of Amos Hagrett, at St. Mark's Fla. ——- Naval Orders. Commander George E. Ide, detached from attendance at Newport Nayul War College and Torpedo School and ordered home to await further instructions. Past Assistant Engineer Mickley to physical examination, preliminary to promotion. Over a Hundred Thousand Visitors in the City. PROCESSION OF THE NAVAL VETERANS Preparing for the G. A. R. Parade Tomorrow. —a—_ Over 1,000 men, i i ti s §F i i i hee Foytd sented a martial front. ment, Sons of Veterans, occupied of line, together with the armed column was reviewed by the nai cers from a stand on Cedar a gheny. Miss Daisy Tittle, the mascot veterans, who arrived yesterda; cirnati, was in the parade. ed in the regulation sailor un’ Admiral Osborn, his messenger. Miss Tittle has mascot of the organization since its tion, —* ey general favorite among of honor in the Grand Army ae” Naval Veterans’ Convention. The naval veterans went into their annual convention this afternoon. Thirty-four as- sociations were represented. Commander- bi ii gs tid i f i i proclamations asking that as possible be = people may see the parade. The streets are almost impassable, so the crowds which closely pack walks. It is expected that three hundred and will be in the city exclusive of the veterans and their rela. tives. Windows on Sth avenue and other Prominent downtown streets are being sold at premiums for tomorrow's eye hil ressed by Gov. R. E. Pattison of Penn sylvania and Gov. McKinley of the local R ‘The police from other cities and force are arresting man: acters and crooks and are retiring. thers until after the encampment. afternoon at 2 o'clock a drive was given to the visiting ladies of the Corps by the entertainment committee of the Pittsburg ladies. The drive was Schently Park and points of interest the city. The seventy-sixth regiment of Pennsylvania infantry had its reunion this afternoon, as did the eleventh Pennsylva- nia reserves, the second Ohio cavalry and the fourth Pennsylvania cavalry. Senator Quay’s regiment, the eighteenth Pennsylva- nia cavairy, will reunite this evening and the Senator will be present. Senator J. B. Gordon of Georgia, who was second in command of the confederate army at Appomattox, is jn the city and to- day met a number of men who were in the Union army when Lee gave his sword up to Grant. Senat Hl the Naval Veterans’ Association asking Congress to establish a college for the education of the daughters of soldiers sailors. A Sad Accident. Mrs. Eleanor Scott, seventy years old, of Marysville, Mo., accidentally stepped off the Pullman vestibule of an incoming train this morning and was ground to It was her daughter's bridal tour y was coming to see the enc and visit relatives. Pittsburg i rapidly filling up visitors, and it is becoming more difficult every hour to thread the crowds on the streets. The arrivals today up to noon are estimated at over 40,000, and the total num- ber of visitors already is place’ at 150,000, The influx during this afternoon and even- ing is expected to be enormous, but high- water mark will not be reached until 10 a.m. tomorrow. A Naval Veteran Prostrated. John Driscoll of Milwaukee, a member of the Naval Veteran Association, was taken to a hospital today. The physicians say he is insane, and that his condition is pre- carious. pieces. and the with ——_—— TO TAKE PLACE WEDNESDAY, Arrangem: nts the Fancral of the Count Paris. LONDON, September 10.—It was defin~ itely decided this morning that the funeral of the Count of Paris is to take place at Weybridge, Surrey, on Wednesday. The coffin is of plain elm, lined with lead and covered with black velvet. The mount> ings are of silver, and the plate bears the name, date of birth and date of death the count, interspersed with fleur-de-lis the arms of the Orleans family. — Militia to Be Investigated. SACRAMENTY, Cal., September 10.—Gove ernor Markham has appointed a military, court of inquiry to investigate the insubore Sination of the ‘state militia in. this during the recent raitway strike. ‘The court en Hrancisco on the