Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1894, Page 3

THE REGULAR QU DIVIDEND OF ONE PANY will. be payable atthe olBce of the ‘cook com- S, Sen ‘st. nw, on and after OCTO- Bait 1 °ison “Books for % of stock will lone BEI 25, 1804, eZ J.D. COUGHLAN, Secretary. iy 1B J. VOIGT, HAVING LEFT WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 21, 1804. TO THE PUBLIC: ‘AILOR, N.W. jive hii our order and will be suited. pa eae AND ALL KINDS OF SEA FOOD, Cooked and served in the most tempt! FRITZ REUTER'S, COM. PA. AVE. AND 4% ST.10d SPIRITUALISM.—MISS MAGGIE GAULE OF BAL- Limore, the wonderful medium, ae yuipaY during ‘day, for private sittings, - DLW cron, PMIDAY NIGHT, Wonn's Hall, 721 6th st. W. W. BRADY, “THE HORSESHOER,” CAN BE found at the Tally-Ho shoeing shop, bet. vth and Jor N and O sts. n.w. sel9-6t ALEXANDER & BRADY, Horseshoers. W YOU ARE A SUFFERER ASK YOUR DRUG- gist for the Red Star corn and bunion plasters aud you will bless the day that you saw this advertisement sel9-Gr iN OFENSTEIN, HURSESHOER, HAS RE- TQhoved from G25 Be st aw to Sth st. near K st. nw. ee18-6t* BRICK MANTELS FOR HALL, LIBRARIES AND a rooms. Send Twenty cents in stamps for ining ot J. H. CORNING, 520-522 13th st. ENS SHIRTS TO MEASURE. « best modern fa-tliti-s for making Costom eof any style, with or without col- ua MORE WINNINGS ON RAMBLERS: At Asbury Purk, N. J., August 80 to September 1, as follows: ‘August 20- 2 seconds; August 21—2 firsts; 2 thirds. best peg 1—1 second; 1 third. ‘eee and nearly all wiunings by In addition to ‘above, W. F. a eSete cee rd aliall Se Med “Ride RAMBLERS and wear diamonds!” GORMULLY & JEFFENY MPG. CO., CABINET AND me I Nae = SLATE MANTELS, ‘Tiles and Brass Goods at reduced prices for fall t Special att called to my Gas-heating rade. Grates and ean be seen in operation at any time. See my $2.00 Brass Fire Sets. ‘M. ROCHE, se3-im* 716 13th st. o.w. 4 L McQUEEN, PRINTER’ AND PUBLISH ‘BLIS! FINE BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, ‘Telephone, 763 (fel2) 1108-1116 E st. nw. a What Pen Do You Use? No matter what make, or what shape, we're sure to have it. Box Paper and Envelopes, in of shapes and tints dainty Get your wife a box of “Jack- Pens—extra long point—sinoothest “writer” made. 7 Our prices “touch bottom.” Easton & Rupp, 421 mth St. ‘Popular-priced Stationers (just above the ave). 14d To Attorneys. ‘The Supreme Court of the United States and the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will con be in session. Bring your Briefs ‘To the official printers for the courts and have them printed In accordagee with the court rules. GO All work delivered when ised. JUDD & DETWEILER, 420-422 11th st. nw. © Punctuality, neatness, fair prices. se2i-I1m Trusses For Every One. Ye have the most complete stock of Trusses in this city. We have all kinls, makes, sizes and shapes. We can fit you, a0 matter how you are ruptured. Ovi peices are 50 per cert cheaper than elsewhere. CF We make vo ext-a charge for fitting and adjusti the exset_trusa. jilman’s Drug Store, 2 “tv. Let Spier Fix Your Watch zwhen it gets out of repair. The cost of “fixing” and a guarantee to keep it in order for a year—all for $2—no matter how often it out, of repair. Geo. 'W. Spier, 310 gth St. “Expert Wateh Repairer.” iad ’ When you use Ohio Min- eral Paints Sek you'll find they never blister, peel or Every re- Fi Water crack, tmcurei—s times the — of . i. ‘HESLEY & CO 104 F St. H. Cl 12d __ OHIO MINERAL Pa “SANITAS” iT CO.. 1 35 F st. curative ageat—delicious— sparcling—as pure as gurgling spring water. One pint bottle makes half gallon pure grape juice. Only T5e. pint. 7 ‘o-KalonWineCo.,614 14th ‘Phone, 968. Vaults, 27th and K sts. nw. 15d Have You Tried OurFamous 50c. Table d’ Hote Dinner? Exquisitely cooked and served—with pint bottle of fine claret, only 0c. - Ei er cner in the land. mapas ‘able beard, includi de. tle. bent ing our fe. dinners, HOTEL ENRICH, (S5 TO 489 PAL AVE. C. M. EMRIC: * M. EMRICH, PROP. 144 Better Be Measured Now Before the Rush Begins. Sis The first ‘coo! wave” may find many of yoa unprepared for it. $15 Then you will want a suit made $1 “right away.” But there are ‘S ety to te others “in the same $15 boat” as yourself, we may keep you Waiting. ‘The safest plan is to be $15 measured Now. CFSEE OUR $15 SUITINGS. SIS see cur $ TRouseiNcs. Morton C. Stout & Co., FINE TAILORING AT POPULAR PRICES, aa 1112 F STREET N.W. Mosaic work on floors is becoming “the thing.” Some of it cracks and warps. Ours never does. See us about it. 5. K. Spalding, 603 E St. NUFACTU KER'S AGEN SPS a daa a SCHOOL SUPPLIES, Drawing Boards, Easels, Pencils and Payers; * Squares, ‘Tria tnd Instruments; Water olors, Brushes, & HOOL SPECIALTIES. ARTISTS’ MATERIALS. iO. F. MUTI & @ Successors to Geo. Ryneal, 7-6e Fall Weddings. Invitations engraved in the latest correct style, At lowest reasoaable rates. Invitations printed in steel plate serfpt imi- aving so vearly that many cannot detect the difference. Byron S. Adams, Printer, “Phone. 930. ach ITH ST. N. Use Tharp’s “Old Reli bie Berkeley’? Whisky for medicinal purposes. Physi- cians say there are none uirer, Si qt. $4 gal. AS. TH RP, Siz r ST. Elixir Babek. a for all MALARIAL diseases. At drug- gaat Gos. “a ‘bottle: ‘au29tose2s THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1894~-TWELVE..PAGES... SPECIAL NOTICES. Some [en Make Money Exsily; can afford to be almost careless how they spexd it; can buy anything they sce | that looks attractive. Some Other fen Save Money Enough by judicious buying to have many Vitle lusuries—bank accounts, for instance. You Need not be a shoc expert to sce that the Shoes I sell at $2.90, $3.50 and $4 are Money Savers, And that they show plainly how true that my prices are conspicuously lower Shoes For [en, aun F St. N.W. it The weather is likely to be fair. ESTABLISHED 1824, ‘THE OLDEST FIRM. Jeptember 21, 1894, 6th st. and N. ¥. ave., 10 a.m. ‘The WHITE PINE TRUST of Maine, Michigan . and Wisconsin has been broken by FREE LUMBER. ALL WHITE PIXE LUMBER CHEAPER. White Pine Doors, 1% IN. THICK, different sizes—pinned, mor tised, and glued with as much care as a $10 door. FRESH AND BRIGHT right from the factory, goc. Each. Established Frank Libbey & Co., ™= “Lamber, Mill Work and Builders’ Hardware,” 6th and New York Ave. LikeYour Last Winter Suit? Don't lay it aside because it's soiled. We'll lean and press it, making it look fresh and Snew,"” only $1. Coats, 50c. Vests and Trousers, 2e. each. Altering and repair! ring. Hahn, &d CLEANING AND 705 9TH ST. N.W. REPAIRING. _—Telephone 143-2. THE NEGRO IN POLITICS. Mr. Still Speaks of the Work of the Democratic Bureau. The headquarters of the Afro-American bureau of the democratic congressional com- mittee presented a scene of busy activity this merning. Chief R. G. Still, who has been canvassing several states in the inter- test of the bureau, has returned to the city, and he and his assistants were busily en- gaged in sending out campaign literature into the various states where the colored vote is doubtful. In reply to queries from The Star repre- sentative Mr. Still said: “I don’t know that I can say anything now of great inter- est to the public. We are quietly doing the werk we contemplated in the outset. As you see, we are sending literature to all parts of the country which is especially adapted to the voters of color. This litera- ture, which is prepared and selected by us, is not for the colored democrat, but for the colored republican. The demand for it in- creases daily, and it.comes not only from our people, but from whites as well. This latter fact ts significant, since it shows that the democrats themselves are hopeful of getting the negro vote, and we believe we can if we succeed in reaching them. “The negroes of this country are fast be- ginning to think for themselves— especially the northern negro. He is learning that it is his vote which has elected every Presi- dent in the last twenty years, and yet when he has desired for himself ele2tion to any national position he has been shelved. The greater the republican majority in his state, the leas representation he gets. We have never had a colored member of Con- gress from any state north of Mason and Dixon's line, and no representation in the legislatures of any northern state except where our ovetwhelming numbers com- pelled such election. “Take Pennsylvania, for instance, where the negro vote reaches at least 45,000. He holds no elective position in that state, and yet, when party lines are strictly drawn, he elects or defeats any nominee. To show you that the negroes are thinking, a prom- inent colored man from one of the doubtful states, writes me as follows: ‘Ever since the negro has held the ballot he has been the bower necessary to the election of every President of the United States. In the States of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, New York and North Cerolina his voce is not only the balance of power, but as goes that vote so = and has gone every presidential elec- tion.’ “This is true, and the writer is not the only negro in the country who has learned that fact, and is beginning to turn it over in his mind. . “These thinking negroes we are going to get, and their numbers are legion. They ere not unmindful of Lircoln, Sumner, Seward, Chase and others who championed their caus>, when it tried men’s souls, but they realize fully that with the change of times conditions have changed, and their political status also. “We are getting some assistance from our people, and many of the department em- ployes have assisted us with beth time and money, and we are grateful to them and expect more. The expevse of running the bureau,together with the expense of print- ing the literature we are issuing, is no small one Our contributions do not only come from colored employes, but from col- cored weli wishers all over the country and cur white friends. In fact, the major por- tion of our contributions have come from white friends, who are anxious to see the political emancipation of the negro.” The literature which was sent out today was in the form of an address to the col- ered voters of the country. These docu- ments have been put into every state in the country. —— For Congress. The fight for the republican congressional nemination in the seventh Massachusetts district has heen decided by the caucuses. Yilliam E. Barrett will be the republican nominee. Of the 160 delegates to the con- vention 118 are pledged for him, 37 to Elihu B. Hayes and 5 are unpledged. Mr. J. K. Cowen, the chief counselor of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and a leading refcrm democrat, has come out as a candidate for Congress to succeed Isidor Rayner in the fourth Maryland district. Mr. Cow acted, in conjunction with the late S. Teakle Wallis, as the strongest op- ponent ef German in Maryland. Republicans of tne fourth Tennessee dis- trict have nominated John H. Denton of Dayton for Congress. At Chaska, Minn., yesterday, the third district republicans nominated J. P. Heate- wole of Northfield for Congress, The democratic congressional conference of the twentieth Pennsylvania district has nominated Thomas J. Burke of Altoona for Congress. At the New Mexico territorial of republicans today Thomas B. nominated delegate to Congress, The democratic congressional of the first Nebraska Cistrict nated Mayor Weir of Lincoln. the populist candidate. —- 200 . Below Harrington, Del., on the Delaware railroad, yesterday morning, the crown sheet of freight locomotive No. 86 blew out. Engineer John Parsons, Fireman <Aibert Dunn and Brakeman Curtis Ellingsworth were seriously scalded by escaping steam and hot water. convention Caton was conyention has’ nomi- He ts also DISASTER ON THE SEA Wreck of the British Ship Senegal in a Storm. — THE RED LIGHT SEEN 70 GO OUT An Engine That Got Beyond Con- trol Causes Damage. POUNDED ON A BAR SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., September 21.— ‘The big British ship Senegal is at the bot- tom of the Pacific somewhere in latitude 30.17 N., longitude 19.08 W., for it was in about that locality that O. Olsen, a sailor on the schooner Mary C. Russ, saw her red light go out one stormy night at sea. The Senegal was bound from San Diego to Tacoma with loose sand for ballast. She was a large iron ship of the latest design and was considered one of the best in the English merchant marine service. The captain was accompanied by his young daughter and the crew consisted of twenty- seven men. It was early in March when the vessel sailed and the only tidings of her was when Capt. Thompson of the schooner Mary C. Russ wrote from San Diego a few weeks ago saying that he was in company with her on the night of March 18. Olsen was on the deck of the schooner during the whole of that night at sea, and he says that the storm that tossed the lit- tle ship about was the worst that he had experienced in the score of years that he has spent on the ocean. ‘The Senegal, he says, was sighted just hd darkness was closing in, beating up again: a freshening northeast gale. At midnight the gale was at its height. Olsen said ‘he soon to watch for a gleam of the Senegal’s ight. It seemed to him, in his dread of death at sea, like a ray of , Sometimes he missed the light when his vessel rode the crest of a wave, but the Senegal was then down in the trough of the seas. Just before daylight the red light of the big ship appeared fer the last time. The Senegal rose on the crest of a wave as @ squall more severe than its predecessors came down upon them. The red light gleamed, then went out for an instant; it appeared for a moment, then was lost al- together. In vain the crew of the schooner watched for it. It had gone out forever, and with it went the lives of all her crew. When day broke, about an hour afterward, the big ship was nowhere insight. Smashed Into the Deck. Going at the rate of fifteen miles an hour ard with a full head of steam, the N. P. C. R. R. Company’s new steamer Sau- salito crvshed into the new slip and depot at Sausalito and inflicted damages to the amount of $20,000. The big slip and hy- draulic aprons were demolished. The huge concrete blocks that support the apron are a mass of ruins, as well as the entire lift- ing gear of the aprons. Capt. Wilson, who is one of the most careful pilots on the bay, gave the signal to stop when about 200 yards from the mouth of the slip, but the steamer kept ahead at full speed. The big steamer hit the spring piles with such force that the noise of the collision could be heard all over the town. The bow of the boat was smashed into splinters, the restaurant was completely wrecked, as was also the bar and sailing gear, damaging the Steamer to the extent of $5,000. All this time efforts to stop the boat's machinery were of no use, and for five minutes the steamer’s powerful machinery kept pushing her farther under the apron and tearing the lower portion of the boat into splinters. The force of the crash wreck- ed the store house of the company, situated nearly twenty feet from the slip, id dis- placed a track twenty-five feet from the pier head. When the engine was finally stopped, in- vestigation showed that a piece of defect- ive blacksmithing was the cause of all the trouble. The ergine was stopped only when the steam was allowed to blow off. The de- fective section of the engine is known as bee Spoor Ged lever. 'y not being properly welded the easily snapped and was ieft in such cere sition that it couldn’t be removed. while the engine was in motion. This is the sec. ond time the Sausalito has wrecked the slip at Sausalito. The engine was caught on the ceater the day of her trial trip and cal damage to the extent of $500. Pounded on a Bar. Word hes been received here of the ar- rival of the German back August Buchard at Guaymas in a disabled condition. The vessel was bound from Atlanta, Mexico, for Hamburg, and had on board a valuable cargo of wood. The captain had his family ard started to leave Altata on a falling tide. There is a very dangerous bar at Atata, which fact the captain of the Ger- man bark now knows to his sorrow. It was not very rough when the vessel an- chored, but there was a gentle swell riding over the bar and at intervals heavy rollers came tumbling in. By the time the bar was reached the tide had fallen consider- ably, and the rollers let the August Buch- ard on the bottom with a jar. She will be repaired ut Guaymas, —_—~_—_ GREEN ON THE MOON. A Chicago Amateur Astronomer Makes a StarUling Discovery. Chicago Special Dispatch to the Philadelphia Press, Louis Gathmann, the Chicago astrono- mer, who is the owner of a powerful tele- scope and whose private observatory is one of the best equipped in the west, be- lives he has discovered vegetation on the moon. Some time ago Mr. Gathmann became dissatisfied with the way his telescope fail- ed to penetrate the mysteries of the starry world, and straightway set about makmg one of his own, on an entirely novel prin- ciple. Instead of a single object glass he uses a composite one, built up of seven lenses, lying in the same plane, and he ciaims that this departure nas not only established the correctness of his optical theory, but has brought facts from the heavens inaccessible to even the great Lick telescope. He was using his new telescope the even- ing of August 12, scanning the moon, then nearly at the full, when he made his latest discovery, The instrument has a seven- inch aperture. “About 9 o’clock that even- ing,” said Mr. Gathmann, “the moon was well up toward the zenith and the atmos- phere was remarkably favorable for ob- servation. I was sweeping about with my telescope over its surface, in the vicinity of the great crater, Tycho, when I suddenly saw a spot of vivid green in the midst of the blacks and whites that mark moun- tains and valleys. “Green is.a color hitherto unknown among the shades of the moon. I thought I must be in error, and, after wiping the eye-plece carefully, rubbed my own eyes and looked again. There it was still, a well-defined patch of green close to the famous crater and slightly to the west. I changed the eye-piece—still the same re- sult. Then, thcugh I had never suspected I was color blind, I called in my family and several neighbors. All saw the ver- dant spot as I did. We watched it till 11 o’clock that night, while it passed through the entire field of vision, unchanging in form or color.. That «was an important point to me, as it showed the perfeci achromatism of the telescope. - “The spot was shaped much like a4 spocl, lying in an easterly and westerly direction, and was, I estimated, about forty by seven- ty miles in extent, or about four times the size of Tycho. I made no accurate calcula- tions of either its size or its exact position on the lunar surface that evening, und the next night when I attempted more @labor- ate investigation it had disappeared. I ave not seen it since. “To my mind the green spot could have been caused by nothing but vegetation in perfection of development—pernaps grzss, perhaps forests. That it has not since been seen may be due to causes unknown on earth, but theoretically quit: familiar to the moon.” coe John Condon’s gambling house, on Quincy street, Chicago, reported to be the “swell- est” resort in the city, was raided Wednes- day by detectives employed by the civic federation, the citizens’ organization which has been making descents on other equally celebrated gambling house BUGS THAT BORE IN WOOD —— They Sometimes Oausd a’ Marked Depreci- ation im Values. The Stuins Occurringim Woods Are the Result of the Wérk of These Little Inseets. oo i £ Some attention hasibeen given by ento- mologists recently to the subject of damage done to-timber by boring insects. This is a cause of a money loss that amounts to mil- Mons of dollars yearly. Some of the crea- tures responsible for the mischief are beetles and others are moths. Certain spe- cles attack dead wood exclusively, while others feed only on living trees. The injury thus occasioned cuts down the market price of the timber or of the lumber sawn from it. The most interesting of these insets has been discovered only recently. It is ac- countable for the peculiar black stains which occur in oak, poplar, beech and birch. They are of such common occurrence in oak that, tn looking over a large lot of that kind of lumber, one can scarcely find a Piece which does not show one or more of the discolored patches. The latter surround peculiar black holes, from which the stain seems to have extended. They are often found near the heart-wood of large trees, showing that the damage was done a long time ago. Professor A. D, Hopkins, who discovered the beetle that produces the holes and stains, too the trouble to ascertain, in a number of instances, the precise dates at which they were made. By counting the annual rings in oak logs, he learned that one of the stains was made in 1753, another in 1693, and a third in 1479—thirteen years before Columbus discovered America. Depreciating the Value. Out of respect for the individual insect which thus left behind it a record of pre- Columbian activity, the name “Columbian timber beetle” has been conferred upon the species. It appears that it attacks only the healthy wood of living trees. The black holes ure its galleries, which have side chambers that serve as nursery rooms where the young remain from the time they are hatched until they are grown up. An egg is deposited by the parent in each of the chambers. From the eggs come minute grubs, which feed on the sap. Nobody knows exactiy what makes the tains, which are apt to spread for a con- siderable distance through the woods, somet times two or three feet. It may be that an acid is excreted by the insect and produces the discoloration. Or perhaps it is merely that the sap, mixed with the excrement of the developing young, escapes from the ducts which are ruptured by the boring and makes the stain. The phenomenon is open to anybody's off-hand observation. In a piece of oak fur- niture it is not uncommon to find ten or twenty such spots. They are frequently to be noticed in wainscoting and in osk floor- ing. When they occur in a plece of lumber or timber its value is reduced at the rate of $5 to $20 per 1,000 feet. One million feet of lumber having such defects may be de- preciated by $10,000. If the split or sawed surface exposes an entrance to a set of gal- leries in staves or shingles the defects somewhat tesemble small’ steam monitors, the black hole form! .the smokestack. This likeness has long noticed by lum- bermen, wh» term the marks “steamboats.” The rule ts that if a ‘stave contairs more than two steamboats it'{s ‘ho good. An Artistic Importance. Nevertheless, oddly hough, there is be- ginning to be a demand | fer wood that shows these stains, The Iatter often pro- duce beautiful effects. In the course of time the tree repairs ‘the injury made by the insect, closing up the hole so that only discoloration is left. Far’ from being ob- Jectionable, these staing in aritcles of fur- niture and in the natwrab wood finish of floors and wainsccting ought to serve as Pleasing objects to draw attention to na- ture’s handiwork. ~_ This remark does not apply to holes made in timber by certain other kinds of in- sects. What are termed “pin holes” are commonly net with in oak and chestnut. Often there is a great number of them within a small space. They are made by small, long, round-bodied worms, which are the young of winged beetles. The lat- ter deposit their eggs in the crevices, and the minute worms, newly hatched, bore dl- to the wood, forming at first holes as to be scarcely visible to the naked eye. They extend their burrows to the heart of the trees, and remain in them until they are matured beetles. The holes, which frequently extend several feet, are called “pin holes,” from the fact that they are often plugged by stave makers and coopers with small wooden pins. This timber worm will not infest a living tree unless some wound in the bark or wood occurs, in which the parent beetle can deposit her eggs. A wound produced by a small bullet in a young and thrifty tree has been known to start a colony. In anothez {nstance a wound made by a load of shot in the bark of a young tree six inches in diameter was the means of start- ing so many of the worms to work in the wood at that point that the tree died. Another of the many timber-eating in- sects is a large grub, the young of a moth. It is called the “carpenter worm.” It is reckoned that manufactured timber pro- ducts are depreciated by boring insects to the extent of from 2 to 50 per cent, depend- ing on the kind of wood and the locality. SSeS ae SATURDAY’S STAR. A Big Paper Full to the Brim With Good Reading. Saturday's Star will be filled with inter- esting reading. It will be a bright and attractive paper from beginning to end. Besides the complete news of the day it will contain many special features. There will be delightful reading for the home, much information for those interested in the questions of the day, pleasing stories, inviting miscellaneous matter and timely articles on local and general topics. Its eighteen pages will be crowded full of good things. Among the features of the paper will be the following: A DAY AT THE ZOO, (illustrated.) The experience of a Star reporter who went into the lion's den. DEAD BROKE IN PARIS. (llustrated.) Sterling Hellig describes the dodges to which impecunious Ageyfcans resort. THE WOMEN OF COREA. (Ilustrated.) Frank G. Carpenter writes of the femi- nine part of the herinittnation. THE CZAR'S MAD DOCTOR. The eccentric physicianswho now rules the palace. tf 7 WELLMAN IN THE ICE? Au account of the rapid put rough jour- ney to Table Island» teers FENCING IN HER PHASANTS. George Kennan's intétesting account of the condition of Ruggiap, peasants. THE OLD AND THE NEW SENATE. Changes in methods since the days of Webster. SENT TO FOREIGN LANDS. Naval officers who will go abroad to study. QUEER STATE PAPERS. Some strange things done or talked of in the Continental Congress. STRANGE THINGS PEOPLE EAT. Results of recent official investigations of food adulteration. HOW ROYALTY DRESSES. The German Empress’ wardrobe and her methcds of shopping. GIGANTIC TORTOISES. The strange habits of the monsters of the Galapagos Islands. LOCAL HORSEFLESH The Brilliant Oareers of Charley 0. and Sadie M. BOTH ONCE OWNED IN THIS CiY The Winner of the Six-Heat Race | Fixaxciat . at Belmont Park. THEY ARE. MONEY GETTERS ‘The history of the American trotting turf has nev’r known a moze consistent race horse than the gray son of Sam Purdy and Bessie O'Malley—Charley C. As the zreat gelding was bred a short distance from the naticnal capital; was, at one time owned here, was trained here and trottcd his first Taces in and about this city, and as his sire stcod for service during the greater portion of his career w:thin sixty miles of Wash- ington, added to the fact that his dam bas, for years past, done service in a delivery wagon on the strcts pf this city, makes a detailed history of this horse of special in- terest. His remarkable performance of Thursday lest at Belmont Park, in which he won a six-heat race, trotting the fourth, fifth and sixth heats in 2.13 1-2, 2.15 and 2.17 3-4, excited the admiration of all lovers of fast horse flesh. Sam Purdy (2.20 1-2), his sire, was a race horse. The son of George M. Patchen, jr., also a race horse of considerable reputatior and he the son of the renowned George M. Patchen (2,23 1-2), and the fastest stallion of his time, Charley C. has a right to be game and fast. His dam, Bessie O'Malley, by Davis O'Malley (thoroughbred), has not a drop of known trotting blood in her veins, nor has she ever shown more than ordinary road speed. She is at present the property of George Gheen of this city, and although bred repeatedly, has never thrown anything else that has risen above mediocrity. While Charley C. derived his speed through his sire, as well as nis level-headedness, with- out which no snimal can become a race horse of the first rank, no matter how speedy he may be, he undoubtedly got much of his gameness to do or die in split Leats through his dam, although no one has ever accused the Patchens of being faint heart- ed. It has been said of old Sam Purdy that he was so sluggish that his driver could go up and down his back with a whip from wire to wire in a race and he would trot every step of the route, and same may be said of his greatest son. The same has been said of George Wilkes, founder of the mighty Wilkes family, and a number of his descendents are to this day driven with a small chain as a lash, owing to their phleg- matic dispositions. Purchased for $150. Charley C.’s history in the trotting world commences in 1884, when Mr. David Sond- heimer of this city and a well-known horse dealer visited Harrisonburg,Va.,in search of horses for the Iccal market. It was court day, and, as is usual on such occasions, those who had horses for sale made it known to the dealers gathered there. Among other Washingtonians present on the day menticned were Manuel Lacey, since deceased, and William Yates, who five years ago drew $15,000 in the Louisiana lottery and retired to live a life of ease on a stock farm near Fairfax Court House. The gray gelding was then four years old and was the property of Lawyer Strayer and was for sale. He had shown a little speed, was a likely-looking horse and Lacey was inclined to buy him, but on close ex- aminst’2n thought he discovered that he was b’ ad, or nearly so, and passed him by. Sondhe.mer, in relating the circumstance yesterday, said: “I watched the proceed- ings of Lacey at a respectful distance and when I saw that he did not want the horse I stepped forward, examined him closely and inquired the price. During my inspec- tion I discovered that the Norse had a de- fect in his right eye, which was ‘cross- eyed.’ I made a deal for him then and there, the price being $150. - “Shortly after Lacey came up an said: “You think you are smart, don’t you; you have bought a blind horse.’ I replied that I guessed not, when Lacey offered to bet me $0 that he couldn't lead him over a bridge that was nearby without his falling off. Lacey wos a very strong man, and thinking there might be a catch to his Proposition I e.id. ‘Lacey, to win that 0 you would pull him off the bridge if it was necessary. I will now demonstrate that his eyesight is perfect.’ “I then placed: a pole on two chairs. ‘Now,’ I said, ‘if in leading him to the pole he knocks it down I will concede that he is blind, but if he leaps over it you must dmit that he is sound.’ Lacey consented and led the colt to the pole, jumped it and the horse leaped it so quickly after him that he nearly knocked Lacey down. ‘You scared him!’ cried Lacey. I denied it and explained to him that even if I had done so the horse would have knocked down the pole. = “Wi exlaimed Lacey, somewhat exasperated, ‘he is blind in his left eye enyway.’ “To demonstrate that he wasn't, I sud- dénly picked up a board on that side of him as if to hit him, and the horse shied so friskily that he nearly knocked Lacey down again. That last trick settled the contro- versy, and I received no more guying from him. I brought the horse home, drove him around a little, and found he had a good way of going. He finally came to show close to a three-minute clip. Childs & Son, the well-known brickmakers, anted a driving horse, and I parted with him to them, the consideration being $225. In the course of their driving on the road, in which they met a number of crack road horses, which he easily vanquished, I ad- vised them to put him in the hands of a trainer, which they did. Obe Sanderson, the veteran trainer, got him, worked him a while, won several smali purses with him, and finally gave him a record of 2. About seven years ago Hentschel & Hopps of Baltimore purchased him for the round sum of $3,500."" During the intervening years Charley C. has been raced every season, and in a man- ner that has tested to the fullest his mar- velous vitality. As a matter of fact, few horses have been raced as he has and stood up under it, and had not his fiber been of the very best quality his carcass would years ago have been found in the bone yard. Every year for nine years past he has come forth to do battle with the giants in his classes, each year he has clipped a second or more from his record, and now, at the advanced age of fourteen years, he has reduced his record of last season, 2.15, to 2.13 1-2, and has won during his turf career over $),000 for his owners. This is a marvelous showing. Had the great geld- ing fallen early in life into the hands of experts his winnings would doubtless have reached three times the above figures. Nor is it estimated that this wonderful horse has reached the extreme limit of his . He has recently shown trials in 2.12 or better, and those who claim to know say that 2.10 will not stop him. In equine history his name is worthy to be placed alongside of Goldsmith Maid and Flora Temple, who, indeed, outrank him in years when retired from the turf, and in the number of heats trotted, but whose records he has beaten. Who its astute enough to prophesy that even in these last particulars Charley C. may not, with his wonderful vitality, gamenese and speed, outrank even these queens of bygone days Another Washington Trotter. One other Washington horse that has gone out on the grand circut, the crucible in which greatness is tested, and won name and fortune for her owner, ts the celebrated race mare Sadie M. the big bay daugh- ter of Prirce Orloff and Fossil. was bred the late Gen. E. F. Beale at “Ash Hill.” Gen. Beale owned her sire and dam. In ber two-year-old form she passed into the hands of Engel Cochran, jr., of Chester, Pa., who developed her enough to discover that she possessed a great deal of speed. He being a lawyer, and not car- ing to spare the time to bring out all that he felt sure was in her, she passed. into the hands of D. H. McCray of Chester. From that period up to the present her history reads like a romance. McCray at the time was a poor carpenter and joiner, working by the day. At odd spells he worked the mare on local tracks and oc- casionally would take a day off and race ber at @'¥rrent points for emall pu-tes. This mare | { AMUSEMENTS Page 12 ATTORNEYS . ‘Page 5 AUCTION SALES. ‘Page 10 BOARDING .. Page Page Page 3: Page Page Page Page DEATHS . Page DENTISTRY . Page EDUCATIONAL -Page EXCURSIONS Page 1 Page FOR EXCHANG! Tage FOR RENT (iats) Page FOK RENT (Houses) Page FOR RENT Qfiscellancous). FOR RENT (Offices). FOR RENT (Pianos). FOR ‘RENT (Stables)... FOR RENT (Stores). FOR SALE (Bicycles). Hittite tettit ett DOME Banreaetameans seat sssaneruasagiiae LOST AND FOUND. MARRIAGES . Page Bae seetatnanaaaa The mare was speedy enough to always Ox. « piece Ot the money an ip enrpenter prospe! Finally he got enough ahead to venture out on the several circuits. He was a shrewd man, and he always played for sure second or third money, which in the mean- time prevented the mare frum getting a record. Hence, he could always enter in slow classes. In the meantime his mare was continually making Occasion- ally, however, the “speculators,” who knew the mare had speed enough to win in her classes, and who knew that when she did not win McCray “pulled” her, would com- plain to the judges. When the latter would threaten to take McCray from the sulky, the mare gencrally stuck her nose first under the wire. Notch by notch, but very, very slowly, the mare's record was reduced, and larger and larger as the years went by grew McCray’s bank account. First Fast Record. Two years ago the “speculators” came very near breaking McCray’s heart. It was at Pimlico. Sadie M. was favorite and the money was heaped on her in huge stacks. The men who had their money up had their eyes keenly fix@l on McCray, and were de- termined to have no fooiishness. They cem- plained to the judges and the “derrick” was about to be applied when Mac announced that he would go on and win if he could. He did and the mare got a record of 2.16 1-2 When the time was announced Mac nearly fell from his sulky. Last season he was compelled to drive the mare out in 2.16 1-4. Then mishap followed mishap. The big mare got a foot in a hole and badly wrench- ed it at Pittsburg. She was laid up for many weeks in consequence. Early this season she is being carefully prepared for a big “killing” all along the line. In her work she had stepped a trial mile in 2.07. Then she suddenly broke down and is now retired, but in doing so she does not owe her owner one cent. She has earned for the once poor carpenter $75,000, and yet he is far from being satisfied. N. D. 8. ——-——+e+ SOME CHIEF RULERS’ AGES. Very Young a Very Old Sovereigns and Middle-Aged Presidents. From the New York Sun, This is an era of very young or very old hereditary rulers. About the only men of middle age who are at the head of govern- ments are the presidents of republics. The postponement of the festivities which usu- ally accompany the celebration of the queen's birthday in Holland and which were omitted this year in consequence of the defeat of the Dutch troops at Lom- bock recalls this fact to mind. The queen of Holland was born on August 31, 1880, and is, therefore, only fourteen years old. The hereditary monarch of Spain is still younger, a boy born om May 17, 1886, and, therefore, eight years old. The Khedive of Egypt is just twenty and the Emperor of ‘China, who has come prominently to notice of late in consequence of the hostilities in Corea, was born in 1871, The King of Ser- via was eighteen years of age in August. The King of Portugal is thirty-one; the Grand Duke of Hesse is twenty-six; the Prince of Bulgaria is thirty-three, and the Emperor of Germany is thirty-five. On the other hand, Queen Victoria was born in May, 1819, and is, therefore, seven- ty-five years of age, having been queen fifty-seven years, a remarkably long time for a modern monarch. The King of Den- mark, Christian LX, is a year older, having been born in April, 1818. The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Streiitz and the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar were born in ISIS. The Bey cf Tunis is still older, having been bern in 1817, but this does not altogether complete the list of foreign monarchs past middie age. The King of Sweden is sixty- five; the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria was born in August, i880, and is, therefore, sixty-four. The King of Saxony is sixty- six, the Grand Duke of Baden is sixty-eight, the Shah of Persia is sixty-three and the King of Belgium is in his sixtieth year. In past times the monarchical rulers have been represented during their minority by regents, a fruitful cause of strife and intrigue, whereas elderly rulers have usu- ally fallen under the control of prime min- isters and have had, therefore, only the semblance of political power. In the pres- ent generation, however, the rule of elderly Kings and queens or the rule, by proxy, of minors, has not been fruitful of any difficulty or complications. , One former ruler whose reign is at an end is Liliuokalani of Hawaii, who' is lit- tle mere than a year younger than her great and good friend, Grover Cleveland, twenty-fourth President of the United States. She was born in September, 1838, and he in March, 1837. He was born in New Jersey. The present Emperor of Russia was born in 184, King Humbert of Italy in 1844, the Emperor df Japan in 1852, the King of Greece in 1845, and the Sultan of Turkey in 1842. The new president of France is a young man. “The King of Corea ts forty- bree. It mdy be stated as a general thing that claimants to European thrones live longer than these who actually attain to kingly power. Don Carlos is forty-six and the Prince Victor Bonaparte is thirty-two. Pope Leo XIII, the oldest living sovereign, is eighty-four, and Alphonso XIII of Spain is, as already said, eight. There are no known pretenders to Asiatic or African thrones, titles or authority, for the very simpf€ reason that in those coun- tries it has been for long years customary to decapitate a pretender in testimony of the better title of his successful rival. oo Hard Thivgs to Do on the Stage. “When I was in Paris two or three years ago,” said Helen Dauvray, recently, “I met M. Got of the Comedie Francais. During our chat I asked him what he considered the chief stage difficulties which a young actress had to overcome. ““To walk on and off properly,’ he re- plied. “*And the next?’ I usked. ‘To sit down and get up.” “*And are those the most insurmountable of all her difficulties? “I think so—with one exception. There is only one thing harder to do gracefully en the stage.’ ‘And that is? “Nothing.” ceed cao. The delegates to the convention of the German Roman Catholic vereins, at New York, having concluded their business,spent yesterday on the bay and wound up with @ banquet last night. jashington, D. C.. is to revel bat o_O RCE A by first mortgages ‘earnings, homes _ mm in — > your ak counts. ‘ until © p.m. on government OORSON THE NEW EXCH. M. Correspondents jenars. Moore a Bankers and Boston CG Dis. all local ‘Gas, Be T — ‘elepuone FINANCIAL WASHINGTON LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, FIRE-PROOF GRANITE BUILDING. PAID-UP CAPITAL, $1,000,000. ORGANIZED UNDER ACT OF CONGRESS AXD THE SUPERVISION OF THE UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT. FIRST-CLASS INVESTMENTS, EXHCUTES TRUSTS. IN PAYS INTEREST ON DEPOSITS. LOANS MONEY. RENTS OFFICE ROOMS AND SAFE DEPOSIT it BOXES. ‘TO THE COM: COLUM a ONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF The following is a ccarect statement of the sets “and ‘liabilities of the, UNITED <5 Ploney accTued interest American Security and Trust Co., 1405 C.J. BELL, fourth year 15 per cont; best invest= * gy Ml 3. loans: ROBT S. FORBES. 1410 G et nee ee6-lm* U.S BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, building and loan plain and as safe as government Shares fn Series B withdrawn before matority pay 5, 6 and 7 per cent interest. Tavest’ sour ‘idle’ moucy "where every dollar earns much singly as if it were thousands. bat as if it ‘& part of You have been thinkin: for 2 long time that you would to moneys. You have savings bank account. a ‘There f= no time better tha the present to begin, The Union Savings Bank, i222 F ST. N.W., Pays 4 per cent interest on savings ac- iN & MACARTAEY, MEMBERS CF NEW YORK XCHANGE, 1419 F st., Glover Stocks and Grain CUMMISSIONS \ PRIVATE WIRES... CONTINUOUS QUOTATIONS. Capital Inv. and Commis- sion Co., Rooms 9 and 10, Washington Loan and Trost Building. ‘corner Oth vad F sts. nw aet-ies The National Safe Deposit, Savings And Trust Company ‘Of the District of Columbia, CORNER 15STU ST. AND NEW TORK AVE Capital: One Million Dollars Safe Deposit Company, ‘Special act Congress 1867. Savings Bank, Special act Congress 1870. Trust Company, Goveral act Congress 1890. rer TONTINE, ENDOWMENT AND PAIDUP y POLICIES PURCHASED aT & Fair Di Money loaned on same. mubSi-tf NT. EDWARD N. BURNS, 1307 F st.nw, C. T. Havenner, 3 Member Washington Stock Exchange, Real Estate and Stock Broker, ‘Stocks, Bonds and Gratu bougut and sold fo or New ‘Orleans. Private wires to NX — renase eer Tem, Chtenge ont mew . Sallors Who Cant Swim. From the Philadelphia Record. It is a rather curious fact that a large Proportion of tars who take their life in their hands in cruising among the wild waves of the Atlantic cannot swim. Robert Bean, an able-bodied seaman on the British steamship Braganza fell overboard from his vessel at pier No. 11, north wharves, yesterday. Yelling lustily the tar went down like a lump of lead, and would have drowned but for the bravery of Samuel Phillips, a landiubber, who sprang over board and dragged him ashore. oo A Slot Machine to Supply Heat. The “penny-tn-the-slot” system of gas supply is now being applied to gas stoves. A Liverpool hotel has had a penny-in-the- slot gas fire on trial in one of its bed rooms for about twelve months, and has row, we are told, decided to fit up the whole of its bed rooms in the same way, 80 that the occupant of the room can have fire whenever he wishes by placing in the meter a number of pennies equal to the number of hours he wishes to have the fire burning. ——_+oo— In Dire Distress. Mme. Bazaine and her family are said to be in the direst poverty, the last re- sources of the marshal’s wife having been spent in an attempt to recover from the Mexican government her property, which had been confiscated by President Jaurez on account of her marriage with a French general, who was a friend of the Emperor Maximilian. . Francois, son of the mar- shal, resigned his commission in the Span- ish army in order ~- = Mexico I about his mother’s pi 3 failed in his task, he has now asked the queen regent to allow him to resume his duties in the regiment to which he belonged,