Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, = THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Peunsylvania Avenns, Cor. Lith Street, by The Evening Star Ne x Company, cing Sar ewmaner Oo Few York Offce, 49 Potter Building. gente: + —Hnerern be ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers in the eity by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents = week, or #4c. per month. Copies at the counter cents ‘each. By mail—angwhere in the United States or Canada—postage prepal cents per month. Saterday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1.00 ear; erday Quintuple ns ber 5 With foreign postage . Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., Che Evening @9 secoud-class mail matter.) All mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. Rates of advertising made known on application. Vor 85, No. 21,003. Star. WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. TWO OENTS. MR.DUNLOP’S REPORT He Tells the Stockholders About the Labor Day Parade. CONNECTION WITH THE AFFAIR The Rights of the Public and of Processions. NOT HOSTILE TO LABOR Mr. George T. Dunlop, vice president and acting president of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company, has made the following report to the stockholders of the company: “I bave the duty and the pleasure of making this special report on the operation ef the Washington and Georgetown rail- road and the conflicts arising therefrom during the busiest week of the year, “Special preparations were made for the increased demand on the facilities of the company incident to the encampment of the Knights of Pythias. Additional employes were taken into the service and thoroughly drilled in their duties, and every precaution was taken that the machinery and dis- cipline should be perfect. Every effort was made to promptly use the entire equipment of the road for the safe accommodation of the public. That reasonable success crown- ed these efforts is, I think, amply attested by the facts. We have gone through the era of the Pythian encampment, during which there were three parades on the streets, without a single accident, and with- out an uncommon incident, save unauthor- ized interference with the operation of the 7th street line on Labor day. The ability of the company to run its cars when the streets were crowded, without delay to the traveling public, and without casualty, was most happily demonstrated. ‘One of the features of the busy week Was the trade procession on the night of the 20th of August. The crowd on Penn- sylvania avenue on that occasion has been Set down by the most intelligent observers as larger than any previous multitude on that great thoroughfare. Crowds came from all sections of the city, and not only the sidewalks but a large portion of the roadway on either side of the tracks was compactly occupied by masses of human beings. This was the condition of the ave- nue for a distance of two miles. The scene was a falv illustration of the orderly char- acter of the people of Washington, who imposed upon themselves the reasonable discipline necessary in a great crush. This concentration would have been impossible without the help of the street railways. Meht of the Trade Procession. “The whole equipment of this company on the avenue was necessary to meet the Public demand, and cars were kept run- ring during the parade. No sooner had the last of the people beea delivered down town till our whole resources were required to send hone the vanguard of the returning pilgrims. That in this great surge there Was not even a slight accident, no default in the service which the company was bcund to render the people under the terms of the charter, and no embarrassment to the traveling public or the procession, was owing to the extra and ample precautions taken by the management of the road, well seconded by the good-nature and sound sense of the general public. Experienced men were stationed along the tracks at the points where the past had shown there vculd be the greatest congestion, to keep the tracks clear and pilot the trains safely through. I was at the point where the most difficulty was to be apprehended, and Saw that the tracks were thoroughly guard- ed and policed by trained employes of this company. “Everything went well till 10 o’clock,when there was a stoppage at the corner of Penn- lvania avenue and 15th street, and short- ly thereafter there was an accumulation of cars on the avenue from 15th street to 7th. I knew of no order of any kind, or from any source, for the interruption, but I read in the Post the rext morning the statement that the stoppage had been on the order et Capt. Powell, the Engineer Commis- sioner. I then had a correspondence with Capt. Powell, which is attached to this re- port. I deemed it my duty, as representing you, to call his attention to what I believed to be an unauthorized interference with the company in its best efforts to comply with the terms of its charter. I noted the exact language of the statute, in (he eighteenth section of our charter, and set forth my impressions as to the liabillty of the Dis- trict for improper interference with the running of cars. “In this coi as the letters spondence, the es will show, I was guided solely by a desire to preserve the legal rights of the Washington and Georgetown raflroad, and to protect the traveling public, for whose delivery-at their homes I felt ‘in a large measure responsible, and in no spirit of resistence-to any reasonable request the Commissioners might make, or of disobedi- ence to any order they might have the right to promulgate. Labor Day Procession, “On the day of the labor parade, subse- quent to tke proceedings hereinbefore re- lated, another case came up involving the same question of the rights of the company against unlawful interference that. was scen in connection with the trade proces- sicn. While at the company’s office in the morning of that day I was advised of a re- pert that the cars would be stopped at the intersection of Pennsylvania avenue and 7th street and at the junction with the Lith street line. No officer of the road had re- ceived notice that there would be an inter- ruption of traffic, and as it had been the undeviating custom of the Commissfoners of the District to send us notice in ample time when they desired a suspension of business on the road, I was much sur- prised. Over the telephone I learned from the secretary of the Commission-rs that a notification had been ordered to be made, but through inadvertence had not been sent. ‘The procession was marching by this t'me, and the cars on beth the 7th street and avenue lines were moving with but slight annoyance to passeager business and without interference with the labor demon- stration. It has not been an uncommon thing for large processions to move ale e of the matter. ell cases extra precautions on of the management of the road have been deemed sufficient. It has only en on extraordinary ons that the honorab ard of Commissioners bas thought it important to have transit by rail interrupted “These occasions have been when the whole s and social life of the capital has subordinated to the sentimental and ar; when the se f the celebra- tion has ma ing hosts to occup: ue not taken up by the spectators. The guration of the President and the me ble assem- blag of the Grand Army of the Republic | might be mentioned as events the bigness ot which made it necessary for the railroad companies to surrenler temporarily their privileges on the streets. i With the Commissioners. less to say, except for the con- tinuity and symmetry of this report, that the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company has always promptly and cordial- ly co-operated with the Commissioners un- der such circumstances, joining in the gen- eral public spirit, and gladly. complying with requests of the board, or with the orders, if any one prefers that term, The business between the Commissioners and the railway managers has, however, always been so reciprocal and easy of disposal that the distinction between compliance and obedience has not been drawn. The officers of the company have always felt that they were sufficiently protected against any charge of non-compliance with the terms ef their charter when they had the full warrant of the Commissioners for sus- pending operations, on occasions when the public was best accommodated by having the streets clear for imposing and patriotic festivities. “These occasions are few. While the la- bor parade was an eminently successful demonstration, doubtless bringing into view almost the entire labor interest in the Dis- trict, it was not like an inauguration or Grand Army parade. Its proportions were not as great, or its duration as long, as a Knights Templar or Pythian procession. It Was one of the general average of parades through which our skilled gripmen have been left to pilot the cable trains, yielding when there was danger of interfering with the marchers, and taking advantage of gaps in the ranks, or the long delays to which a hastily orgenized body of men is always subject, to push the business of the road and comply with the contract to carry the people; a contract which cannot be as easily abrogated as some people who fly off at a tangent seem to think it can. What Was Done on 7th Street. “I proceeded, with an assistant, to the 7tb street junction when I was informed, on Labor day that the 7th street cars were to be stopped. I found no authority for the stoppage. A police heutenant was there, acting, he said, under the orders of the chief of police, with the purpose to halt the 7th street cars. Nobody connected with the company having committed a breach of the peace, and the running of the cable cars not being a matter over which the police had original jurisdiction, I pursued the usual and long approved course in such emergen- cies. I ordered the gripmen to move their trains cautiously through the open spaces in the procession. This was done without embarrassment to the parade, and under cafeful regulations that presented not a possibility of injury to any person. “I take pleasure in assuring the stock- holders of the railroad, as well as the board of District Commissioners, that the published accounts of my action were in- flammatory and untruthful. I trust I have too much sense to make such an exhibi- tion of myself. I have certainly no desire to quarrel with the gertlemen of the press, with whom I have friendly relations, but on misinformation they did me an injystice. “I did not seize a grip, strike a threaten- ing attitude and command the gripman to rush madly through the crowd and run people down to death. I did not have my hand on a grip, and merely gave the orders that were necessary and usual on such oc- casions. No effort was made to start a car unless there was a reasonable space, and then the movement was so deliberate that there was not a possibility of accident. My geverning idea was to do my duty as managing officer of the company. The cars were crowded with people, and each passenger was doubtless anxious to reach his destination without delay. There was a duty to the general public which was dis- charged in the best possible manner under the circumstances. Not an Insalt to Labor, “There was no reason why the cars should not run. There had been no embargo on other kinds of circulation, and many vehicles were on the street. No indignity was intended, as some one has foolishly suggested, toward the men in the proces- sion. There would have been no business sense in insulting the paraders, even if there had been the siightest disposition on my part in that direction, for I am familiar with tke policy of the company toward the comrmtnity represented in the procession. Anyledy can see that a very large propor- tion of patronage comes from the working people, and it is our policy, as it is our Pleasure, to be agreeable to them. “I was arrested and fined $20 in the Po- lice Court. The compensation for having been ‘detained’ by the officers Is my knrowl- edge that I only did my duty, and violated no lawful regulation. “I respectfully submit the importance of arriving at a clear and final construction of the rights and duties of the Washington and Georgetown Raiiroad Company on oc- casions when there are many visitors in the city. Who has the right to stop the cars? Certainly not a single member of the board of District Commissioners. There are three members of that body, and it must require at least two of them, in for- mal session, to perform an official act. The rights of the public are involved, even to a greater extent than those of the railroad company. The company cannot be expected to take the risk of invalidating its charter on the judgment or caprice of an individ- ual. Processions undoubtediy have rights which the company is bound to respect, but the public at the same time demands that pessengers shall be carried promptly and speedily. TREASURY REORGANIZATION, The Dockery Law to Go Into Effect on Monday. The reorganization of several bureaus in the Treasury Department under the provi- sions of what is known as the Dockery law was completed today, to go into effect next Monday. The details of the reorganization have been published from time to time in The Star, and the program heretofore out- lined has been followed. There were no dismissals today, and the forty-two clerks who were dropped a short time ago will represent the total discharges, There were a great many transfers, reduc- tions and changes today, but for obvious reasons the names of the clerks affected thereby are withheld from publication. A number of clerks were put on the temporary roll to bring up to date certain classes of current work, which duty will keep them occupied for some time. There is a feeling of great relief among the officials and employes now that the change has been inade and the reorganiza- tion put into effect. It has been an anx- ious time for the clerks and they can now feel that the crisis is past and can eettle down into the winjer’s work. The new law abolishes two whole divisions—the office of commissioner of customs and that of the second controller of the treasury--while the force in the first controller's office will be materially reduced, the work being dis- tributed among the other divisions. The statement is made at the Treasury Depart- ment that of the 88 clerks who will be placed on the temporary rolls fully 50 of the more efficient will be retained. ———_- e+ _______ Commissary General Hawkins Retired By operation of law Brig. Gen. John P, Hawkins, commissary general of subsist- ence since December, 1892, retired from active service today. The fact was an- nounced in an official order from the War Department, recounting at length the gal- lant and meritorious services of Gen. Hawk- ins since his graduation from the Military Academy in 1 After Indian service he ; vell at Bull Run, in the ‘ant's staff at Shiloh and Vicks- burg and at Mobile, He became a brigadier general in 1863 and commanded a Givision and received a number of brevets for meritorious and gallant service. Gen. Hawkins’ retirement will promote a number of officers, whose names will be announced by the War Department in a few days. o.—___ Additional Recess Appointments. The following recess appointments were announced at the White House today: Mr. Archie M. O'Connor, collector of cus- toms for the district of North and South Dakota. Postmesters—Thomas H. Studebaker at McGregor, Iowa; James Comiskey at St. Mary’s, Kansas; Lyman 8. Coleman at Castile, New York. —_— $s Congressman Serg Renominated. HAMILTON, Ohio, September 29.—The democrats of the third district today nom- inated Congressman Paul J. Sorg for Con- gress. EASY TO BE AN M. D. Pauline Pry’s Experience With a So-called Medical College. ee eas A NEWLY INCORPORATED UNIVERSITY To Get a Diploma in a Few Months’ Time. DEFECTS IN THE LAWS ‘The announcement that Washington is to have another university, that its incorpo- ration has already been effected, and that on October 8—inside of ten days—it is to open its doors to students, cannot but ex- cite a lively interest in those who view Washington as a city of universities. According to the brief announcement made, this new university is to be called the Hahnemann Homeopathic University. It is to occupy a building at 42% K street northwest. It is to have a faculty of learned doctors. Students are to be grad- uated after a course of four years’ study— all of which would mark another step in Washington's educational progress if two important events had not occurred. First, a representative of The Evening Star has arranged with the new university to secure a diploma and become a fully equipped practicing physician at the end of one year. And, second, the Washington Homeo- pathic Medical Society, through their at- torney, John Ridout, will today apply to the Equity Court for an injunction against the alleged university. The operations of the proposed univer- sity are best explained in the story of “Pauline Pry,” who investigated it for The Star, Pauline Pry’s Story. The fool of the family has a great oppor- tunity in Washington. If he won't’ preach and can’t get :narried for a living, he can practice medicine. I know this to be a fact, because I have taken the preliminary steps in the practice of medicine myself. I have matriculate in the “Hahnemann Homeopathic Universi- ty,” the dean of which has promised to give me the degree of M. D. and a diploma at the close of the first session next spring. Thus, though up to date I know nothing of medi- eine except what I have casually learned frem an encyclopoedia, dictionary or al- manac, in less than a year I shall be a full-fledged physician, if nothing happens. To be sure, something has happened. The Washington Homeopathic Medical Society today petitioned the court to issue an in- junction restraining the Hahnemann Ho- meopathic University from doing business. But even in the event of the success of this move, I am not without resources. I shall simply give up the thought of studying medicine at all. 1 shall just hang out a doctor's sign, and trust to luck to escape a killing or dodge the coroner. Laxity of District Laws. You see, by a beneficent provision of the laws of the District of Columbia, a person need not know anything to practice medi- cine here. There is no medical board to examine or license him—no possible means by which anybody can find cut how little he knows. If, perchance, he loses a patient —but that is another story. In the states the mere practicing of medicine without a license is counted a misdemeanor, and you may work the cures of Galen, it’s all the same—something like $500 or ninety days, or both, at the discretion of the ccurt. Here, however, the only thing a doctor must do is to open an office. I went to the health office yesterday, and said: “I wish to prac- tice medicine in Washington. What must I do to satisfy the requirements of the law?” “Well, you must open an office the first thing,” said the gentlemanly clerk. “Of course, you can practice medicine forever in Washington without reference to the law, so long as you don’t kill anybody. Then you would need to have a diploma and b2 registered at the health office. Oth- erwise, your certificate of death would not be recognized, and we would turn you over to the coroner. The safest thing is to reg- ister. But before you register, you must have your office and begin practice. Then bring down your diploma when you come to register, and thats all there 1s to it.” Being thus officially satistied that,though not an essential, a diploma is, nevertheless, a handy thing to fall back on in the prac- tice of medicine, I cast about for some- thing in this line, and hit upon what I be- lieve to be a bargain. A New College. Thursday morning's papers contained the announcement that the Washington Hahne- mann Homeopathic University had been in- corporated by the trustees, Charles A. Massie, president; Joseph C. Ellis, A.M., M.D., dean; W. W. Baker, M.D., Thomas Robinson, LL.B. .D., H. Conner Ellis, M, D., William E. Quicksall and Philip Recher, M.D. The papers went on to state that “the object of the university is to, teach médicine in all its branches and to have ali the provisions for education possessed by a university for teaching the minor and major branches and for instruction in the preliminary and advanced studies required to confer the degrees of A.M., C.E., Ph.G., Ph.D., LL.B., LL.D., M.D. and DD.S. The university will have a dispensary and hos- pital attached. A suitable buildings has been secured at 423 K street northwest, which will be opened October 8. Joseph Cannon Ellis, A.M., M.D., dean, wil® make the opening address.’ This announcement seemed to me_ to promise a good thing in the way of a med- ical education, and I speedily sought the university building on K_ street. I found there a large, solemn red brick house, con- venient to an undertaker’s shop across the way, but having about it no sign of life. There was a but it read: I had expected that an institution of the scope of this one would have at least an odor of jodoform in the air, if it did not have ready a week before the opening any other feature of the necessarily eleborate equipment of a university, dispensary and hospital combined. In my disappointment I turned to the trustee named in the pa- pers, whose place of business was nearest at hand. This was Wm. E. Quicksall, in Holtzman’s real estate office. Mr. Quick- sall, however, assured me that he knew nothing whatever of the Hahnemann Ho- meopathic University or {ts incorporaters, and was at a loss to understand how his name had come to be connected with it. “No one has any authority to so use my name,” he said, ‘and I'll look into the mat- ter.” Some Information Obtained, When I applied at the office of the dean of the university, Dr. Joseph C. Ellis, 1455 14th street, I learned that the Wm. E. Quicksale associated with the university is a nephew of Dr. Ellis’ wife, who has not yet arrived in town. I learned, further- more, that Dr. Ellis’ wife, whose sign, hung above her husband's outside their door, reads, “Dr. Hannah C. Ellis,” is the H. Conner Ellis, M. D., of the university board of trustees and incorporators. She is also secretary and treasurer of the university. Dr. Hannah Conner Ellis told me that she is a graduate of the National Homeo- (Continued on Third Page.) THE CZAR MUCH WORSE A Oclebrated Specialist Summoned to His Bedside. Partic Are Suppressed—His Iiness the Re- rs Concerning His Conditio: salt of Worry and Anxiety, LONDON, September 29.—A dispatch to the Times from St, Petersburg says that the condition of the czar is considerably worse, The kidney inflammation from which he is suffering is much increased, and as his majesty’s breathing at the beginning of the week became somewhat difficult Prof. Ley- den, the celebrated specialist in internal complaints, was summoned from Berlin. He arrived at Spala Tuesday evening. His majesty appears to suffer much pain and is very low spirited. Profs. Zacharin and Leyden, who are in attendance upon him, wish to send his majesty as soon as possible to the Crimea, but have not yet been able to decide upon taking the risk of the long journey. The dispatch adds: “So far as we know here, where nothing is published about the ezar’s health, his majesty did not leave Spala yesterday, When he was ill with in- fluenza in St.Petersburg bulletins were daily posted, giving all the particulars. Strange to say, now that his majesty’s illness in Poland is the subject of grave anxiety to all Tiasses not a word has yet appeared in print, official. or otherwise, regarding his condition.” ‘A dispatch to the Times from Vienna says it is considered there that the czar’s kidney disease is the result of moral and mental anxiety and worry. Commenting upon the probability of the czarewitch ascending the throne it is added that traditional etiquette requires the heir to the Russian throne to keep aloof from politics. Thus every Russian emperor at the beginning of his reign is obliged to be largely dependent upon his advisers. This it is that gives cause for European anxiety, especially at the time when the war be- tween China and Japan gives a possibility of complications. The fact that Prof. Leyden, who is a lead- ing specialist in brain and spinal diseases, has been summoned to attend the czar, gives color to the ort that his majesty is suffering from a stroke of apoplexy. The Oflicial Messenger of St. Petersburg announces that since; the severe attack of influenza, from which the czar suffered in January last, his health has not been fully restored. This summer, it is added, neph- rids supervened, pecessitating passing the winter in a warmers climate, in order to bet- ter effect a cure. Therefore, the czar, act- irg under the adviee of Profs. Zacharin an Leyden, will make @ temporary stay in Livadia shortly. 4 No Immegiaie Anxiety. ST. PETERSBURG, September 2.—Prof. Leyden, the Berlin specialist in brain and spinal diseases, whe has been summoned to attend the czar at Spala, has announced that the condition of bis majesty is not such as to justify immediate anxiety. pent Prtrcaet THE PRESIDEST’S HEALTH. sare al So Much Beuefited ‘That He Will Stay Away Uatil October 20, Special Dispatéh to The Evening Star. *- BUZZARD'S BAY, Mass., September 20,— President Cleveland will probably remain at Gray Gables until about October 20. So beneficial to his health is the outing here proving that it has virtually been decided to delay breaking up here until that time unless executive business demanding an earlier return or other unforeseen circum- stances may arise to prevent such plans. His physical condition is excellent, his face is bronzed and the lassitude and lack of vigor which marked the President's appearance when he arrived here last month has nearly, if not quite, disappeared. Mrs. Cleveland has also wonderfully improved by her long summer sojourn here. Mr. Cleveland's private secretary, Henry T. Thurber, expects to depart from Marion with his family on Friday next. —_>_— HELD THE INFORMER. Charged With Conspiring to Rob a Train. MEMPHIS, Mo., September 20.—W. E. McDaniel, the informer, of Gorin, Mo., train robbery fame, has been held to the grand jury in $1,300 bail upon the charge of conspiring to rob a train. He pleaded not guilty to the information entered against bim before Justice C. S, Sanders, and so far failed to secure bonds:men, his own father even refusing to go ua his bond. McDaniel persists in his xt ry‘ :athe had nothing to do with ‘the y.a° 4a, simply following Overfield’s instruct) . nd keep- ing the railroad company intorn:r4. McDaniel was brought from ‘‘opeka by Detective J. J. Kinney and Matthews of the Santa Fe secret service, who, upon infor- mation that complaint had been made against him on behalf of the wounded and captured robbers, Abrahams and Overtield, advised him to surrender and accompany them here. —_—.—-_ APPO'S NEW STORY. He Says That He Was Stabbed by An- other. NEW YORK, September 29.—Geo. Appo, the Lexow committee witness who gave away the doings of the green goods men, and who was found yesterday afternoon in the North River Hotel, on West street, with his throat cut, was arraigned in the Tombs police court today. The cut in his throat is not a serious one. With Appo was ar- raigned Michael J. Reardon, who Appo now says cut him at Barr's North River Hotel. The final disposition of the case was or- dered. Appo was held for examination on a charge of having attempted suicide, and Reardon was held for felonious assault. Reardon and Barr repeated their story of yesterday that Appo went into the hotel crazy drunk, and said his life was not worth $2. He satd he would show he was square by cutting his throat and tried to do so with the knife, —.——— PARNELLITE MANIFESTO. The Other Faction of the Irish Party Bitterly Attacked. DUBLIN, September 29.—The independent, or Parnellite, party has issued a manifesto, in view of the anniversary of the death of Charles Stewart Parnell, who died October 6, 1891, bitterly attacking the other faction of the Irish parliamentary party, saying: “A general election is a certainty in the near future, and even were it the avowed policy of the Irish allies of the government to continue the present moribund ministry in office they are too demoralized and di- vided by deadly internal strife to be useful even to their British paymaster. “We may expect, therefore, before the date of dissolution individual appeals to the constituencies from out of the ranks of the Irish allies themselves,’ —_—_—_ Killed by a Trolley Car. PHILADELPHIA, September 20.—James Cahill, aged fourteen years, was instantly killed this morning by being run over by a Ridge avenue trolley car at Ridge avenue and Wallace street. Young Cahill, who was on his way to work, was riding on the rear end of a wagon which attempted to turn out of the track just as the car came along. The car struck the wagon, and the boy was -hrown under the car and cut in two, WELLMAN TALKS The Arctic Explorer Tells of His Trip North. SOME MISREPRESENTATIONS EXPLAINED There Never Was Any Need of a Relief Expedition. WILL TRY IT AGAIN Mr. Walter Wellman, who has been for a number of years one of the best known newspaper men in Washington, and who has this year achieved fame as an arctic explorer, returned to his home in this city last evening. He was accompanied by Mrs. Wellman, who has been here all summer, and who went over to New York to meet him on his arrival there. The other three members of the expedition have not yet returned to the city. Mr. Wellman is in the best of health and seems not a bit the worse for his experi- ences in the far north. He brings back equally satisfactory accounts cf the con- dition cf the other Washingtonians who accompanied him on his hardy. dash for the north pole, Of all those who were glad to see him back none were so demonstra- tive as the five pretty littie daughters, who have followed their father's progress as best they could all summer, and have hun- gered for news of him when he was out of reach of civilization. Their happiness today is unbounded. A Call on Mr. Wellman. A Star reporter found Mr. Wellman at his handsome home on Thomas circle this morning. The returned voyager talked most entertainingly of his trip, and while he admitted that it had not been as great a success as he might have hoped, he showed not the least sign of being discouraged. In fuct, Mr. Wellman rather intimated that he might return to try the same trip next summer in the hope of more favoring for- tune. He did not care to speak definitely on this point just yet, as he said his plans depended largely on what he might hear in the course of the next fortnight from par- ties in Europe, who are greatly interested in his work, and who have the utmost con- fidence in the possibilities of his scheme for reaching “the farthest north” by the same route that he followed this summer. Mr. Wellman said that he had had several very flattering offers to lecture both in England and since his return to this coun- try, but that he thought that the results of his first essay to reach the pole hardly deserved so much attention. In the course of his conversation with The Star man this morning Mr. Wellman said: Enjoyed the Summer. “Barring the extraordinarily unfavorable condition of the ice on the north covct of Spitzbergen, making it impossible for us to advance beyond the Sist parallel of lat- itude, we have much enjoyed our summer in the far north. We have no tales of woe to.tell, Some hardships we did have, due, not to the cold, but to the rough and broken condition of the ice over which we trav- eled. But one can get accustomed even to wading t ice water and slush up to his waist. Notwithstanding a good deal of this sort of exposure, we had splendid health ard really enjoyed our experiences. Now and then our position was somewhat dangerous, but there never was a time in which we lacked confidence in our ability to take care of ourselves. It was rather hard luck to have the ice break up off the northern coast and become impassable just as we were ready to travel over ft. We had a fine party of men—better men than my American companions and our Nor- wegian followers never went into the arc- Ucs—an equipment which the European experts have admitted was the best ever used in that work, and in only eleven days out from jorway had reached a point farther north than that attained by all the arctic expeditions known to history, with half a dozen exceptions. If the ice had re- mained solid, it does some years, or if, after breaking and piling up, it had drifted out to the southwest, as it often does, we should have been able to go very far north- ward. But this ys it did neither, It Uroke up in hopeless confusion, and then jay all summer along the coast, blocking our way, But these things are the fortunes of war. “We have the satisfaction of knowing that we did all men could do, and that’we were rot weak enough to risk the lives of our party in a hopeless task. Arctic ex- ploration, when prudently conducted, may be done in safety and without extraordin- ary hardships. There is nothing in the re- sults to be attained that will justify reck~ less sacrifice of human life. 1 believe the people of this country are tired of reading of starvation and other horrors in the arc- tics, ard I do not blame them. Of course, accidents may occur in the far north, but they occur everywhere. I have no quarrel with the people who do not believe in arctic exploration, Men do not agree on that question any more than they agree in politics. Those who don’t believe in it will do weil to let it alone, while, if I do believe in it, and wish to invest my money and energies in it, that is my business. If some persons persist in misunderstanding, in misrepresenting and even in questioning motives, I suppose they must be permitted to amuse themselves. In earning a little money and doing what I please with it, I am much too busy to waste time chasing yellow dogs up alleys because they chance to bark at me.” Some Misrepresentation: “You have been misrepresented?’ “Well, I should say so,” replied Mr. Well- man, smilingly, pointing to a desk full of newspaper cuttings from all over the world. “I have here my obituary in all languages. It would be amusing but for the pain caused my wife and family. How the reports as to our death in the arctics came to be pub- lished and given credence is more than I can understand. Carl Siewers of London, who was authority for some of the reports, is a crank, who has killed us off, and Nan- sen also, with no other weapon than his imagination. Col. Feilden, the Englishman who made the wonderful discovery that our Prof. Oyen was starving to death at Dane's Island with 12,000 pounds of the best pro- visions in his house, and who afterward apologized for his misrepresentation, also sought to advertise himself by reading a burial service over the supposed fate of my companions and myself. All these reports Were pure conjecture, without the first trace of actual information to stand upon. Besides these false tales there have been baseless stories about dissensions in our party, al- leged lack of food, failure of equipment, and so on. In fact, the misrepresentations and the criticisms based upon them have been so phenomenally wide of the truth as to make my companions and I laugh where I suppose we should have wept. It is going rather too far, however, when the fakirs make one’s own wife say disagreeable things about him, isn’t it?” “You had some good men with you?” Good Men With Him, “Splendid. Prof. French of the coast and geodetic survey is the best man for such a trip I ever saw. If I go again, as I hope to do, I hope he will be along. Dr. Thos. B. Mohun was a most admirable medical officer and charming companion, while Charles C. Dodge of the bureau of con- struction, Navy Department, was in his element among the polar bear, the reindeer and the dangers of boating amid fields of floating ice. Our Norwegians were almost ideal. They have all oe to go again if we go, and I could nof ask for better men. By the way, I see we have been criticised for inexperience. That is a true bil, so far as I am concerned. But my executive officer, Capt. Pedersen, had been in the arctics every summer for twenty-four years. The captain of our steamer was one of the most experienced ice pilots in the northern waters. So of eight or ten of our other men, they had practically passed their lives in hunting along the edge of the ice. We had at our command more ex- perience, I am free to say, than any other expedition that ever went into the arctics. It was rather amusing to read the serious criticisms of one great editor that we had failed because we deserved to fall, being tyros. We weren't inexperienced, as a matter of fact, but if we had been, I sup- pose every one that goes to the arctic has to be inexperienced on the occasion of his first visit. To say that a man ‘deserves to fail’ the first time, is a good deal like say- ing that when a young man marries he de- serves to be unhappy because he has never had experience in matrimony.” “At the time you were su to be Icst were you anxious to have a relief ex- pedition go out after you?” No Need for a Relief Expedition. “We never had any need for a relief ex- pedition. At all stages of the campaign we were able to take care of ourselves. On my order and at my expense a sloop was taken out to Spitzbergen with the mail and with some articles of convenience in case of @ possible wintering. Even this ship was not a necessity, for we had at Danes Island everything needful for wintering had win- tering been necessary. I don’t believe in relief expeditions, and was very much afraid that when the news of the loss of our steamer reached civilization my friends would go to the unnecessary expense of sending out a steamer. Offers of money for this purpose were made by friends of mine in Chicago, New York and elsewhere, and of course I feel grateful to them for way, decided a steamer wes not If it happens that I wish to do so I may go to the arctics three or four times more before I die—that is a splendid sum- mer resort—and if I do I venture the pre- diction no relief expedition will be needed to fetch me back. You will remember I said last spring the only thing we felt cer- tain of was getting back this fall, and that this end of the journey was of a great deal more importance to us than the other. Here we are, and we have two things at heart to be proud of—our friends that have stood by us and the fact that every mem- ber of our party returns alive and well.” ‘And are you to lecture?” ‘No, I never had any idea of it. It is not my line. I am nothing but a newspaper nan. I never had any expectation of mak- ing money of arctic work. On the con- tray, kaew I should lose money, end a good deal of it. But I lost my own money, and, I Stypose, @ man has a right to do what he pleases with his own. In London I declined & good offer to give a series of lectures, and I have jist declined a similar offer in this country. On the Spree coming over, at the request of 200 of my fellow passenger, I did give an arctic talk, which raised a snug sum for the beneft of the seamen’s hospital.” “And your plans for the future?” Hopen to Go Again. “I hope to make another trip to the arctics, elther next summer or in 1896. In my opinion, what is known as the polar problem will be solved in the next ten yeers. Jackson, the young Englishman— met him in London last spring—is a strong bidder by the Francis Joseph land route, though the latest news is that he, along with Peary and ourselves, has found the ice extremely unfavorable this year, and will have to wait till next summer to reach his proposed did fellow, Peary has magnificent American pluck, and I believe he will yet accomplish what he set out to do, notwithstanding his bad luck of this year. “The membars of his party who have come back to say unkind things of him would do better, in my opinion, if they kept silent un- til he comes to defend himself. It is so easy to strike at @ man two or three thousand miles away. The bravest of all arctic ex- plozers is Dr. Nansen, who, I think, will come out ali right next year, without his ship, probably, but with important disco’ eries, He is quite able to take care of him- self, the critics and the sensation mongers of London to the contrary notwithstanding. In the modern method of arctic work, there is little risk to life, and even if there were more danger than there is, exploration would continue just the same.” —_—__— THE NEWS LIBEL SUIT. A Hearing in the Police Court Before Judge Miller. This afternoon in the Police Court Mr, Mullowny called for a preliminary hearing the Evening News libel case, which was brought several weeks ago by Professor A. Webster Edgerly of the Martyn College of Oratory. The case was brought to the al tention of the court because of the publica- tion, at various times, of articles respecting Professor Edgerly, and an article printed August 13 was the one charged in the war- tant. Robert B. Gelatt and Charles M. Rippey were named in the paper issued from the court as the responsible parties. Gelatt was business manager of the paper at the time, but had resigned when the Warrant was issued. Rippey, who was city editor at the time, has also severed his con- nection with the paper. But he appeared in court to defend the charge made against him, and Lawye> Obear represented him. Lawyer E. B. Hay represented Professor Edgerly, and assisted Mr. Mullowny in the prosecution. The defendants’ connection with the paper was shown by the evidence of R. J. Diil, reporter, who declined to answer when ask- ed if he knew who wrote the article. Professor Edgerly’s evidence was short and to the point. He simply denied the truth of the article, especially so far as it spoke of his alleged matrimonial transac- tions. He has been legally married three Jonge pote pad as he knows, his wives are all living. vorce proceedi: separal ed him from his first two vive. “The first marriage,” he told the court, ‘was not a marriage in the sight of God, but it was in the eyes of the law.” Counsel then argued to the court upon the legal aspects of the case, but Judge Miller was not inclined to hold the defendant guilty, as he doubted that the article con- stituted a libel. Mr. Mullowny suggested that the court let the case go over and give him time to submit authorities in support of his position, which was done, and the case may = tled Tuesday. Boa a Chinese Legation Change. Mr. C. F. Moore, who came to this coun- try with Mr. Yang Yu, the Chinese min- ister, as chief translator, has resigned his position and left the legation. Mr. Moore is a native Chinaman of rank and is a man of education and attainments. It is not Known what caused him to sever his con- nection with the legation, but it is said it Was on account of a disagreement with the minister. Mr. Moore left parting call cards on Sec- retary Gresham and members of the diplo- matic corps and is now thought to be it New York. = ' cision on the question of the proper duty to be assessed upon reimported domestic spirits. The Secretary holds that such spirits withdrawn from bond after the date upon which the new tariff act went into effect, August 28, are subject to a duty equal to the internal revenue tax imposed by that act, namely, $1.10 per gallon. ————-o___ Fourth-Class Postmasters. The total number of fourth-class post- mi rs appointed today was forty-six. Of this number thirty-three were to fill va- cancles caused by death and resignations and the remainder by removals. The Virginia ointments were: Port Republic, W. H. Hamberger, vice 8. E. Lee, dead; Sharp’s Wharf, Fred. Downing, vice G. W. Everett, resigned. JAPANESE IN CHINA Reported Landing on the Coast of THE DESTRUCTION OF THE KWANG KAT Rumored Mutiny of Chinese Troops at Wiju. SAID TO BE PANIC AT PEKIN —__+_—_. SHANGHAL, September 29.—It is rumored here that the Japanese have affected a land- ing on the coast of the Shan-Tung promon- tory (China), to the northward of Che-Foo. Advices received here from Pekin say that there is ever increasing anxiety there among the foreign population, and at Tien-Tsin the foreigners are actively organizing for de- fense of the foreign quarters, YOKOHAMA, September 29.—The reserves of the imperial guard have been called out for active service. LONDON, September 29.—A dispatch from Shanghal today says that the commander of the Japanese warship Naniwa has reported to the minister of marine, Count Saigo, that, while cruising, in company with the Akit- sushima, on September 23, a Chinese war- ship was sighted, stranded in the gulf of Tair-En-Wan. The Japanese believe she was the Kwang-Kal. The Chinese crew on pleted her destruction. A dispatch to the Times from Yokohama, says: The destination of the second Japanese army of 30,000 men is kept secret. The Japanese army in Corea is rapidly advanc- Thg north. No resistance to its progress expected on this side of the Chinese tier, There is no truth in the rumor of ta armistice. Contemplated Change Advisors. A dispatch from Shanghal, dated Friday, action off the Yalu river, against him is strong. It is reported from Shanghai that the emperor has granted Li Hung Chang's re- quest to be allowed to take the field in son, and that Li Hung Chang his headquarters at Lu Tal, the North channel in onier to evade the At the Japanese Legation. No information concerning the rumored China-Japan conflict has been received at the Japanese legation in this city up to 2:30 o'clock. The officials with whom the re- porter talked gave credence to the dis- patches relative to a battle between the frontier and the capital of Manchuria; the advance of this force toward Ting Sing aad also reports that the Japanese reinforce- ments are being landed at Shan Tung. Nothing is known by the officials, but look upon these things as possibilities. Reported Chinese Mutin: The New York Herald today publishes the following from its correspondent: SHANGHAL September 28, om The Chinese army at Wi-ju, on the Yalu river, which is opposing the advance of the main Japanese army in Corea, has mu- tinted. The men are throwing away their arms because they have no ammunition, being cut off from their bave of supplies. The Chinese defenses have completely collapsed and are now only a farce. There is a panic in Pekin, and the very name Japarese inspires terror everywhere. China is perfectly helpless. elliecemnreth AN AWFUL REVENGE. 5 Martin Randall Stabbed Supt. Atkin. won fer Discharging Him, CHICAGO, September 29.~Two men strug sling on a bit of iron that projected from the Metropolitan “L” railroad bridge super- structure over the river attracted fully 300 persons to the Jackson street bridge last night. The battle lasted scarcely three minutes, and then one of the contestants plunged headlong in the water, with @ fearful gash in his abdomen, and from the effects of which he will probably die. Martin Randall, who was, urtil a few days ago, employed in the construction of the new bridge, was the assailant. George Atkinson, superintendent of ' construct! who had discharged him, was the ——4 Randall sought to escape, but was captured as he reached the ground, > ——_ SAVED BY SHADOW. Remarkable Escape From Assassinae tion of Broker hnestock. LANCASTER, Pa., September 99.—An at~ tempt to assassinate George Fahne- Stock, a well-known broker of this city, was made early this morning. He was standing in his office in such position that his body threw a shadow on the glazed Joor, when a tullet crashed through the giass and passed within an inch of his side. person who fired the shot had evidently stool on the door steps and used the shad- ow as a culde. An CHICAGO, September 29.—Rev. S. BL Newman, elghty-two years old, tor of the Emmanuel Swedish Methodist Church, has taken ovt a lMeense to marry Miss Anna Cecelia Ohman, aged twenty. The prospective bridegroom has been a minister ~ forty years and has been married be- fore. — Another Rhode Island Tragedy. September 29.—The body of an unknown woman, whose head had been beaten almost to a pulp, was found today in the bushes near Scituate, It is believed that she was murdered at Providence and her body conveyed in & carriage to the place where it was found,