Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. = Tes PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenne, Cor. 11th Street, by The Evening Star Newspaper Jompany, 5. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. = ot New York Office, 49 Potter Building. ee ee ‘The Evening Star ‘s served to subscribers in the eity by carriers, on their own xecount, at 10 «¢ week, of 44¢. per month. Coples at the counter ceats ‘each. By mali—augwhere in the United States or Caneda—posiage prepald—50 conts per month. Saterday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1.00 per year; With foreign postage added, $:1.00. ‘(Entered at the Post Cifice at Washington, D. C., 8 secoud-rinss mail matter.) ©FAll mall subscriptions ninst be paid fa advaner. Rates of advertising made known on application. HEROIC MEASURES Caen > eee Eight-Hour Law Not Regarded at City Post Office. WORKING HEN OVER TIME Not Enough Laborers in the City to Meet Emergencies. ets < . OTAL DROPS s > - The fi ily over the office of w city post ernoon und custe fe own thin the as fer BI vio- ret lable ir of > iron toa were work. rk the as if they extra w es = said th s toa There has been ro ¥ eight-hour law. Ther “Sa last night. The storm that coming up threatened te 2 the embankment ard to destroy » be tilled up s for ha the irc a time, but there are 1 ti aw.” sey se to 2 question thi ty their men for all ext Kk ot weree With the state- Z disctarged last night, did rot get any extra and that they ieft whether th was within the s has usually been the reason why ions for alleged violations of the have failed. Tiere have been several with the United States and two of them have ito the grand In both however, the plea of emergency one e: in point was connected with the construction of the East t , where it was admitted that over- ad been done. But the an ap- ney, for it was shown that tra time been put In there Great loss caused to sur- property, owing to a flood that eatening. This was considered by and ju: 3 suflicient excuse. ermeney. nt instance the. emergency In was merely one that aifected the interests the pre of the contractor himself. The work was Rot finished by the extra labor, and the walls of the excavation were left exp to Une severe storm that swept over the the night. bank de no da ty ‘Ihe storm did not wash wn, and, as it proved, did littie ge to the work already done, It is by the men at work that ther ave n no necessity for this baste had sufficient men been put at in the beginning. Had the entire been laid bare at the start—as could have been done—ihe whole job would have been finished before the end of last extremely doubtful if the habitual Viclation of the law in the case of the iron hauling can be excusea under the eimer- gency clause of the statute. The only at exists there is that caused y of the contractors, and it is Questionable if a jury would consider it as @ suificient cause for breaking the statute. Was certainly no emergency last ay, When the only reason for extra work was to get a certain section finished before the close of the week. The Total Drops. This is a gorgeous day for out-door work. The storm has passed, and tite skies are blue. The air is bracing and the threat of frost has gone. Yet there are { at work upon the building today than yes- terday. There se2ms to be ample reason to believe that Providence and the weather bureau are on the side of quick work, but the contractors and others connected with the butlding do not seem anxious to take advantage of this fact. There were thirty-five men laboring to- day, making a rate chat w butiding on or about the The reduction was causod largely by Most total suspension of the trench work, where there were only about half a dozen at work. This branch of the enter- prise will probably be conciuded by night, ind then the total will go de il fur- ther, unless there ts a Burst of Energy on some other branch. Tae Water & as not yet cone back to his aquiverous duties at the site. He is said to be still looking for schooners. Encouraged by ats success night betoure last he is sitting on the wharf “wishing in” the other two boats that are on their way from Fox Island. —_-— THE CRUISER MINNEAPOLIS. Be Rendy for Active Service Next Monday. The double-turreted monitor Miantonomoh, @ harbor defense ship almost exclusively, Will be put out of commission at the League Island navy yard in a few da: in order that her crew m: be utilized in ning the triple-serew cruiser Minneapolis, which has the distinction of being the fastest ves- sel in the rew navy. The Minneapolis re- quires a crew of 400 men, and it has been found necessary to take those of the Mian- tonomoh to complete her complement. She is now at Philadelphia, and Messrs. Cramp, her builders, say she will be ready to go into commission for active sea service on the 15th instant. The detail of her otil- cers is now being prepared at the Navy De- tment. She will be commanded by 3 jas. O'Kane, Capt. H. B. Robeson or Capt |. J. Cromwell, with the chances in favor of the selection of the last named officer. Tht vessel will remain on the home station until her sea-going qualities have been thor- oughly tested, when she may be sent off on @ more extended cruise. w Che Lvening Star. ——————— rs | Ver. 85, No. 21,012. W YASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1894—TWELVE PAGES. TWO CENTS. proved and more expensive. The consumer ’ WASHINGTON‘ MR. ROOSEVELT TALKS! THE STAFF OF LIFE | cumethcematays. ts camer| MR. SHINGTON'S BIRTHPLACE | sets of bakers and two sets of drivers have = to be employed, As the unions allow men ee to work only so many hours, extra horses, —— ea ; He Has Something to Say About the New Fi That Violate the Rnles of | m2" harness and hostlers are required. . Has More Cand What is Being Done Toward the Erection cS igures at Violate the WES OF | In fact, the expense of putting the same Th Th jandor :, York Campaign. number of loaves of bread in the hands of ey ink He Has More ofa Suitable Monument. | ‘ the consumers has nearly doubled in five or ‘ = : = Proportion. six years. why not get the total expense Than Diplomacy. r . aarti necessary to carry on a large establish: eehen | Vielations of the Civil Service Law— = ment? T am ae Interested a cent’s worth —— a: ei selena: as Been . in any bakery, but believe there ts always Bate ‘ ee a4 G = S me re! ik cena seiner og pues THE LAW ABOUT THE WEIGHT OF BREAD | tws'staes'to uestion. Doo wor tot ws Jom | SPATEMENTS MAY HURT THE PARTY ernment Clerks. | at conclusions before we know what we & ably a Sim Share as 2 talking about. By all means let us have ae 2 ——- the figures. FAIR PLAY. — How the Law Was Changed. ‘ ree Commissioner ‘Theodore | Bakers Compelled to Reduce the) Mem the Lan Was c The Money Question a Delicate} arter many years of neglect aad delay It, who returned from his vacathon, 7 a practical steps have been at last taken to- + ublished an article in The Star : . which was spent upon his ranch tn the far | Price of Crackers. = One in the South. ma with @ pepriate sone Bei rftnapa det beac Semele Ut < “The Weight of Bread.” Flour was at eet eke eed ee ee 4 > » = 4 ant ot cee ih ces Ge tae that time, according to the article, $8.50 for jw ae eterna : pee | wright and early s morning. He had a OF FL00%! G. aoe Gee es i a ce aes . eeee. . Wa 1a, Westracr nty abou: delightful time, and was already plunged lawton POI ANI pris 3 i ; , Pot m th ratoleriad halons ig? poregli hee ypeoa hare : ae = | ounces. A number of bakers made a sing = - : oP a am teats i = ee See ee Cone 2 single: s, | ioaf of bread more than sixteen ounces. ‘ pe ¢ | to the published ReGhie Uieaiies SOCe ETS | o Ueeence outa, WnOlcnaler. 38; DEee dS Cet ee coe ect eaten retary Hoke Smith's explanotion of which t anther j {-Flour, wholeaale, $3.50; bread, 5 cents. | Among these bakers was Themas Haven. : . - : - | that he was be jously regarded in | ssh 2 : | aie ete dhe | the result In Georgi: © criti wa, The idea of erec This simple statement figures is a] her, Whose bread was confiscated, and he : Apt eh < ; | New York city as a catndi¢ for the = ae ei ify so PAI <a Aub tor maine the be cism in democratic sin Wa - 1 this hi pot | mayoralty by the repul jared good || mathematical \poopontion vehih: \eiataring, | er ie, Rane aie: wneninel the throvgh the fecr felt in several quarters | years ago it wa \ | xcvernment ciubs, Mr. Roosevelt said he | the citizens of Washington in the face at} Coyaker recently was 1 for that injury may proceed from it betweely| that Concess teok any ain the mat- | t hel fickt head Ge the sncece le in | G's time, Within the past two days The | bread short of weight. article had the | now and the N er election day iff ter, In that month an appropriation of | | penn ne has devo! uch space to giving th 1 effect, as the ationy changed sh Ganon 1 t Vir 1K) was or the erecth .* the west. “Four or five copies of the New | Stir has devoted much t ‘ rth ina, a 40 was made “for the erection of a suit ie sie ie te law, by inaking the minimum weight : ; ad ‘ : : | Tork Sun. containing the statement yon eee oe ane ee ener ree eatren a7 | Bikteen Ounces and the maximum eighteen | Binla. It is not expected to bav able monument,” and th ary of State | alinde to, were sent to me," he arked, | pitin thelr present positton in the nutty louncesa. ‘This is the law at the present | fect in < ja. The situation th wat t 2 | | “and I also received severa ns of | the price of bread. r discussion | time (see Webb's Digest, page 5D. We likely to change mat ly, except as the | Ptr expemy i = . | brought out the fact they ignorant of another portion of the law, | reviving intluence everywhere attend the , } inquiry. It was frely new und T . retin Sy propos : : knew absolutely nothing about the existence | now buy their flour for § | when. ‘at the recent meeting, they proposed | nomination of Senator Hill for guve ; | of such a movement. [received at the same | than they paid for It two years a L eMeaNc nen itis caslnertal “toe w York aay show itself. return | time a number of telegrams, some urging | they bake 250 loaves of bread from | to offer for sale bread une popular with the democrats of « to Sin me to run and others urging me not t | which is a reduction of one cent per I | Shall be of the best quality of | now that his leatial of the House committee on cage ‘There is nothing more to say. Under onding reduction has been wu Lag, hfe bring ietuircrks a Poaion! ne view | there, as elsewhere, will be designs of a com rati ture to be elreamstances T should have been most price of the staple of life. | tof bread upon the loaf, nor have | themselves. But Sccretary ranite, with tiled roof amd a Raw Kose yee mine te | nsus of 18M) showed that the bakery | the hakers thomght proper to give the max- 1 attitude were fully uu i ; te in election of Mr. aiole | broducts of this city amounted to $1400.57. | imum weight of eighteen ounces. This | forth on the stump in the ca an l cocettment tekce — j fhe business has largely increased wittin | should nave been the action at thelr last | state ticket at nd oh 1 ee | tour years, vo that it is probably | Which would have obviated part | poopie will read with no sur ' t | The New York Campaign. | proximate the yearly output | yplaints. It is not so much butter, Sry ait eAGe! ca’ eee Maa ven 4 fain ‘ ink | in value a omttifon and i sugar that makes the quality of | 4bIY with no effect cn their acti buiky 2 Wosll you wind telling whet you think | Tilo s this in bread. « | our bread, as it fs the new process in man- | month, what his cen ns are With re # about the pending gubernatorial contest in| gut ww loaves per d. It | ufacturing flour and what chemistry has | gard to Ueir recent verdict. Lut what of i | New York, and 4 © outeor veus | seon that the item of bread is by nem jdone in the baking business of the present | the probable effect in shuse soutiern stats ‘ the reporter, ja small on ke in contrast with methods in use in| where the d Tatic om. rite a nu 1 t + “ . er days i King bread TAW. erably sinalles than tie on y in » not belleve it would he proper for A Pa Crackers. former days In making : : : : ity : ying the position I do, to give ¢ veral of the larger bakeries of the city | a is stat proline ay an aoe an ap , jons on a strictly political | in fition to furnishing bread and rolls | ALL EYES NOW ON) HILL aoe , | ‘ the purehas Or course, Tam a republican, | make crackers and cakes which they sup- | Me. Smlthvs Akece ee | oe ots erection thereon Senator Hill will be defeated, | ply to the It was learned today | ~ Smith rirtab sue Jor a ' mt. Under this au- ‘polities he tenreaenne, °f | that the wholesale price ¢ wekers has | 7, ings i D Outaideic? dix lowe Bhai ahs filled a $ u sa f State secured the know what Mr. Evert, | fallen within the past month. ‘The reduc- | How Things Look to Democrats Outside o was polled in those jocalities wher Maho oe ahi ah ae mae a rs campalan as a candidate will | tion a nounted to or cent her ead on | Ber Yok | ineal Gtenochatic Jeeieen Si00e wn and also obtained the righ a ay Oe om the Fesult, H rwever Va anuch | cream eee one ancldue: Cee most mantully for th: poliey of sound | rice matic a janding place poster ‘suggested that Mr. | snaps. Thig reduction by the local hakers money as illustrated by the record of the | Was i the proper transportation | | t ng to say | Was necessitated by the npetition of the | Stalwarts Generally Cleveland admunisi n. He himse:f cham- pica a Hevansee we ages x about the civil ser ission. | sre bakers of eastern cities. ‘The | | ploned that n every ap, and | fromthe river the material we iti lower cost of flour enabled thom to sell | ight Ticket—Not he note that satisfy bim that no | D& S@uled over @ rougn roa oes ican | their crackers cheaper, and the Washington | | other should be taken on fedaecare ‘ this hauling | “Ses, x In his blunt, | bakers Immediately evidenced their ability by the Independents, | money question by tie Gemocracy but ut der were | straight w of him. “We | to meet the cut. Of course there is no such jone illustrated by the Cleveland poll j estimates pr work, but mowh- | } z i J competition ‘from other clties in furnish. a This, of course, is tantamount to | ne further ne toward the con- | are having tr reasury De- | ine bread. i ae z aan render | {hat the President has no thought of mak- | S8euen of Chet cmes | partment, but just now we are having Ret dumitities Gt-rolle are caahe ue tke Th nents in New ender ling even any modificauiops of his j gyltt, April. 1554, ‘ . Who hi | | most trouble over s matter of political akers. In addition to furnishing @the situation still more bewildering to the | policy, and coming from a Member of lie | UHeM Teacted place ag. the | | assessment 1 call any non-presi- tables with delicious rolls in’ the | democrats who are looking on from the eut- | cabinet, ond the representative southern 1d he setioriandnper i legislative dential election y wh we have had | Morning the bakers find good customers in| side. ‘The affairs there are exciting so] Member at that, the declaration in ihe neg He, uate 4 ep ont half s ent decision of the {the many dairy lunch rooms of the city. ! much interest as to distract attention from | Southern states is certain to attract atten. Bi foermemager hageoo Departm Justice HE a Teter nent to | Tiere Hae treen mo reduction tnithe: price Of) ots oe matters in pelltich and Hill 4s ma meee mane var to be 1,40 feet long |@ kovernment employe requesting im tof TOUS. ea hi | the central figure the campaign, almost Serre etn Bee, Sheree " 5 td to be 40 by Go | contribute money for campaign purpo: wuse about twenty-five dozen rolls a : eat acy is confessediy in great t. Niger Spy age ttn flee | did not come within the provish f the | My,” Said one of these lunch room 1 fe- | as much so as if he were the national can- a Sk isecals Giasinia’ can | tomes : OT eee ak | law prohibiting the as is for | t nd the price has been the same as | didate of the party. A curious « ven : S feet, am | m al reasons from the clerks has mill- | lone as I can remember. The low cost of | of the opposition to Hill which comes from | West Virginia, Desertions to the popullsts 3 ‘ in Congress Pentes aaainet thet cra sacctec’ cor mn | Hour has not affected the price of rolls in | Of Me opposition § Td faction ie that | Mave been numerous, and a ype | in its efforts to stop the foul business, ‘The | the leas std Age 1 of the | those stl adhering to the old jlaw, to my mind, plainly covers s Flour at Re i oalinbncrbsceatshe! ee ae n¢ | force of old attiliations is apparent on every | where demands for contributions The retail price of four has come down | Hill nomination ing OF Hume] Ck dae cismeeheiie gaat hav- | | by letter: but the Attorney General thinks | steadily in proportion to the drop in the | tien and disap are becoming red- | ing’ all that they cat < ‘in- us lumated t e es J ss Wholesale pric In 1802 the best grade ¢ | hot advocates ef Un Straight democratic to at all in their people. ny | ueted | “The commission ts very anxtous to get a | bediesens : Haines focal | ticket, and using very uncomplimentary tion Is virtually the only question in | decision by the courts. Investigations were | Minnesota flour was quoted by the locai | : those states. The tariff cuts bat a small {ordered today into two big cflices, outside rs at barrel. Today it ts language about the purlsts In politics who | those states. The tariff cuts bat a smal agg of Washington, where the employes. are and $4 person Who can afford | Would defeat th WN party to show per- | HsUre, : i Waeengenae 4a dice he Wbart being called upon to subscribe to campalan y flour by ite harvel pa acca his | Sonal resentmefit. agains: ene man. The | Poe ie nangle, creel rege eR pr Powe the \ bart, a vee lcst tl sa peta t home makes a considerable saving | action of the Shepard faction in nominating | have been clamoring ier free sliver coinage, Bbc poe sens en gia » fo rst of his by put he who | ay 2 ‘ Tr, ar dass. ces had be en th nat ployes that their off itions will not | on the fo ne f bis bread. but he who | an independent candidate for governor, and ana ssutrann shad been given them tnat a be in any way J iO he a reftusat tol pover or other ressons is com- | of the Fairchild-Grace people in indorsing | the administration, de e the repeal of mer ot public | accede t : ands for contributions, | Pelled to buy his bread by the loaf from | the republican candidate for mayor of New | the purchasing clause of the Sherman act, Ss, und ue at once t : the ; sly | the baker does not benctit in the least by | York, 1s spoken of very lightly here by | and the Presideni’s known porsonal views, | ‘comp tie curl and we shall Iay the matter as. strongly sani : i n : ‘are #3 p le before the President and Con- | the reduced cost of flou | democrats. is suggested by some that | was in sympathy with the demand for the | tracted is ‘ { pri ihe a aa ahs iia ha ‘The Law About Pomerg Gi Noe Work Galiistone| seNabnitedba ar eine Philsdet = the conmtrac- ““Did not the commission request the] One of the excuses advanced by the | Kept in for anything, that what t opulinin Making Use of It furans reported to Seeretary | Attorney General to br a ease in which s for not reducing the price of their | btve done will pr sag Fete sei vga thing | Rut now comes Secretary Smith with a | ere ali sir : oeatbery - oes | Seat’ tached the tenecr. nt ™* #1" | tne extent of 1 cont per lost, and if they | and Grace have shown by theif course In |New face on things, and which the populist | structures of 1ts Kind alone the rites It did,” replied Mr. velt, “but the | Should reduce tt cent the grocer would | this matter how lictle they know about pol- | manag re sowing broadcast over the A Simple Shaft Proposed. | | Attorney General has not done’ so. Ax I| profit and nbt the consumer. ‘To this swg- | ites, and that whfie declaring for tari re- | south as evidence that the administration | ‘The character vf Sicha sie Sane ite Fe es re iat utter | gestion (hab the weight and aise of the inat | form and. condamnine the nrinelites of the |has no friendly Intentions toward silver, | structure has not yet boen decided upon be nce with Mr, Olney, t would also like to | might be increased the reply was made that | Tepublican party, they have made them- | ing that the only way for the free colnage the Secretary of State, and further work ts | express my hearty admiration of his course | the law does not permit the baking of a | S¢!ves nothing more than an annex to that | titn of that sectiom to secure anything is . | during the riots. Senator Davis, President | joaf which is beyond the standard of weight | Patty in the New York campaign, to vote the populist ticket and help plice | 2¢¢erdinsly suspended. Mr. Evarts’ desien | Cleveland and the Attorney General cer-| fixed by law. | At is predicted that the only thing they | that party In jowe of fourteen years azo dors not meet with | j tainly deserve well of he country for their | ‘The law governing the making and sale of | Will accomplish will be to draw to thelr | UEC now reports ady coming up | the unanimous thorities action at that critical time.’ bread fixes the weight of the 1, the | own c ee Se ae ae ion dee ~ from North Carolina. wo weeks ago one | Of i. ay, aud, & s ther incom- | | SI Jens Ic es to ” i ny jess dent votes hich wour ee eee ” - or pret n ‘epublic shi ie miuible with t iimaat available for FE RetBs a Stee ee de ee iat ate | cumatances: ba castitor INL and whieh, if] Of ie moet oe zaltienit sepaounans ia, abe) Pais “ i T0O VIGOROL piven (noe sare, {ba Signtaent. ounces. || owe ne imenaotenticandiiaw an ihe tar-heel state, while on a visit to Washing- | the purpo See ial fae es oe OEP bakers’ wagons, found short-welghe booed | fehl, Rr SH aV Ane ee cane alectn ce sticcrepublican combination “down ‘there | With affairs of so weishtier t Why a West Virginia and prosecuted the offenders, but never in | (at {tt he could: hanily. have done any | Would make but a poor show at the polls, | that he has not een devote much Asked to Resign, recent years hes abekor been prosecuted | Pict Sous ee oe to ler then =| He had opposed the fusion, and ascribed | Attentign to tos matter - is not alto- r “nites = os n or giving o eight. N ol he sub- - rm os - . mer > situation c ie un hi sevher improba wever, that he will be | the district of West Virgin at the request RB nctBecieg , vithin | cratic view of thing which has already hap- tn ee caeeon POM ig © intter te o a ns | person oF persons to offer for sale within | Cratle view o Helped now. hat. | a letter was received here from this gen The hatter t ion that | , has resigned and the city any loaf of bread manufactured of ae hdatinee tore © SE ave . to | man, in which he states that the combt- iiding propos 1 by Secretary Bvarts e . appointed te ' vate jour, : wn as | eve satisfactory. i nation ts har tn ex bibit-« x hardiy be a len has ppoiated to the | Wheaten flour, wi that enown | a5 eee ee it ce entity tebe nation is besinning to extibit surprising ii ra Mr. Vincent was appointed in| bakers’ wheaten bread or any other « Boe ee wee ae ce and vigor, and gives it 2s bis opinion that pe eral deputies were present at a political] same ‘shall be composed of the best quality | alway se en a = io defeat his pecan i) a ea ara Piciag N segp sent che bares acipey ytrnetin eay meeting at. Wayne, W. At the conclu-| of fine, sweet, supertine wheaten flour, free | New York | naturalty “ee nad | of the demo nd on the one issue of tied with nd used as a sion of an address, which did not please | from adulterating ingredients and from any | 4mens thos tempruo free silver © lation for i column, suitably | bim, Vincent arose to reply, whereupon |8nPreper or unwholesome mixture what | {he machine d : Pisetnin- aed want Winatakal decribed, of & helgy Mt to make it yo r1¢ ® hall. ‘This = rae ' ce ie cunther bie to passengers ers passing po Ad Sg Moar See Viner cai “The loaves of wheaten bread sold inthe | The Agricultural Districts. In Virginia there is apathy from the | Weary Haale rpms j altercation arose, “which culminated In in| CY shall be of three distinctive: s The thing which is giving more concern | mountain tops to the svater, confessed | “Levels are now being made to ascertain | affray, during which one man was killed | Welshts, to wit: The first to weigh 1 and throwing doubts inio the minds of|openly by Senrtor Damel, and imperiling shatt should be for this pur- and three others wounded. The marshal | {an sixteen nor more a. oumees | some of the most sanguine is the dani several districts. ‘The populistic-repablic an th of water at the end of the and his deputies were arrested and are un- | 4 NrlystWO MOF MOre thay thiy aes | of losses to the democratic ticket from the | opposition is not especially etrong in iteclf, t to enable all the pas- than thirty-two nor more than. thi | Rog der bond and await the action of the grand y = ae te roar Ab > 7 ie a EE ‘ agli ors that ply the to ounces avoirdupois, and the third to weigh | agricultural districts and among the laber- | but thé democratic rank and iile are in It is, theret nable t jury. Complaints have been made 10 the : : is ses z Is, therete able to Attorney General that twice before Vinw| ot less than sixty-four nor more than | ing people. ferent. Silver Is the cause. at when the spot ts properly cent oF his deputtes hal been. guilty of | SXtY-elsht ounces avoirdupots weight; and| Ty is in consequence of his stre In West. Virginia the ro nd prepared for the inspection of 3 Gistathances at polities! macctings | {22 Wat Of tweed shall Bave legibly | uses’ tro cuete nas ae tn claiming three out , ais sakny uelihslp wns eaux At Blochiclds ned Haunting cet roe atings | stamped or impressed thereon the weight of | (ese tWe able to defy the independent | including Mr W s. The the pilzrimage to Mount Vernen to pay as Vincont Sak 6 y | the bread In figures, one, two or four, the | mugwump opposition, It is believed that | fetor in that state, heccuse tribute at che tomb of Washington will find tee otenscs V incent was reprimanded by | figure one to be stamped on the loaf of the he wall iveisine hte personal popularity | ened, but silver as alse a di “auan- | it proper and convenient to continue their TE ee eee ae frat ivelaht; the figure two on the second | among these and with a certain class of | tity. The democrats there are not pl Journey a few miles further down the river Weenf and the figure four on the third | ropubiicans who have generally voted. for | With Secretary Smith's interview, ‘which, | {o"the eaualie: persiotic cheme thie eee heb fc heeahaintin 7 him when he has been a candidate. The | as_ they a is anything but assuring to | the place where he was born. The Japanese minister has informed the |, poited wheaten pias “ ihe four or of | fear is, however, that the tartif issue in- | € Thee are or Neaticorgigre i i ane — ——— Secretary of State that Prince Yamashina |") Mal for male shall be eee 2read, | voived "in the campaign, the opposition tan ware Seietin aeeaine, ROUMIBITIVE DUTY, ae y a ae ance Famashina | when offered for sale shall be of sizes and | Viv) hae eer eeeioa in the aeetealta question. ‘There are ‘democratic leade: whens . of Japan, a nephew of the emperor and a | weights ‘ ad, | district by the tariff bill_ and the general | Who are glad Secretary Sruith has spoken, ei es brother of the Japanese prince who recently | and shall also be free from any adulterat: | discontent on this question inay be Serious | 8d spoken so frankly. They declare that mmerce Menaced by visited thts country, will arrive at New | {Mg or unwholesome ingredient whatever. |“ Satie © loss of votes | the fight eught not to be won by shuflling exe Transit Tax. Be ge “Any person offering io sell bread in| SROUsH to cause him the loss o! or evasion on any proposition. Fruits + York on Friday on his way to visit the | joayus alttcrent in weenie oF ‘quality from | Which he has hereto been able to hold. if | Or evasion on any propos pret ° | It is said at the State Department that Fee Ce ee ee ate ne Seire_| that ‘prescribed “hy law ahall forfalt the | Wests) Cee a ee ice a, een | La. Te wha MAN Qty. hey Relieve teen | American endl ether commsicns be Masky eb tary of the Treasury has been requested to| same, and pay a peaalty of $2 for every Seer SAE oat . : he decided to speak for the administra- | riously menaced by the decision of the Chi- S ¥ | around New Yerk and Brooklyn becomes a Instruct the collector of customs at New | louf offered for sale, aud for overy: hut y tion to make his meaning aitogether plain York to extend the usual customs courtesies to the prince and suite, and to facilitate the passage of their Inggage. ———— Several Hundred Decisions, Decistons in several hundred land and rail- road cases were placed on record at the In- terior Department today. They are the re- sult of the work of Secretary Hoke Smith, art of whose attention has been engaged on them while undertaking his speech-mak- ing tour in Georgia. 2+ —____ Richmond Boiiding. = Secretary Carlisle has ordered a suspension of work on the public building at Richmond, Ky., on the ground that it cannot be com- pleted within the limit of the appropria- tion of $75,000 made for It. Comgress will be asked to increase the appropriation so as to permit the completion of the building in accordance with present plan: a To He Examined. “irst Lieuts. Charles Willcox, H. E. Me- Vay and E. B. Frick, assistant surgeons, have been ordered to examination at San Francisco to determine their fitness for pro- motion, Lteut. Col. C. R. Greenleaf, deputy surgeon general, Is president of the examin- ing board. Dr. Arthur White Dunbar of Callfornta has successfully passed the examination for ad- mission to the medical department of the navy, and his papers will be sent to the President for his appointment as an assist- ant surgeon. much more serious matter to him. The demoerats took upon the heavy registration in the city districts as a very favorable in- dication, This is usually a sign of activity by the machine and a heavy democratic vote. Sometimes, of course, signs fail, and on this occasion the registration may prove to be increased by the assembling of the anti-Hill forces, each man armed with a knife. actually sold; the ipformetion to be lodged with a police magistrate within 24 houre after the offense has been committed? One- half the penalty shall go to the informer; | and the magistrate shall, in all cases, make alicwance fer the staleaess of the bread or loss of weight by drying. No Prosecution for Overweight. Mr. James L. Pugit, prosecuting attorney, who prosecutes cases involving alleged violations of this law, said to a Star re- porter today that he weuld not for an in- stant think of prosecutiag a baker because his sixteen-ounce loaf contained twenty ounces. The law, he said, certainly did not intend to punish persons for giving over- weight, but does require that they give the lowest amount required. “At any rate,” said Mr. Pugh, “I will certainiy not take a case into court and prosecute a baker if it is shown that his smallest loaf of bread con twenty ounces. Judge Kimball said he had not carefully examined the law, but from a casual read- ing he was of the opinion that no prosecut- ing officer would ever prosecute a case be. cause the loaf of bread exceeded the weight mentioned in the law. A Word for the Baker. To the Editor of The Evening Star: Is not the consumer partly to blame for the price of bread? Why not send a re- porter to one of the leading bakers and get a few figures? Fo: instance, when flour was 40, 50 per cent higher than it Is now wages were not as high, machinery was not as expensive or as improved, and one trip was enough to deliver all the bread, How is it now? Machinery is much im- ——— 2+ VIRGINIA POLITICS, Gen, Mahone Predicts Repu cess in*Five District “The news which Gen. Mahone brought from Virginia yesterday,” said Chairman Babcock of the republican committee to a Star reporter today, ‘is of the same tenor of the information which comes from the entire northern tier of southern states. Everywhere in Virginia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia and Kentucky, too, for that matter, there is fiean Suc- disaffection and apathy among the demo- crats, They are disgusted with the conduct ir party and are taking no interest in the campaign or else are openly grumbling. I think we will make large gains in those states.” Gen. Mahone said he would not be sur- prised to see five republican Congressmen returned from Virginla. A few months ago Gen. Mahone advised against even running republican candidates in some of the dis- tricts, but now he is in high feather over republican prospects. He thinks that the ninth, sixth, fifth, fourth and second dis- tricts are promising fields for republican victory, and has asked the congressional committee to aid the candidates as much as possible in the hard fight before them. and direct. The President is not a free- coinage man in the sense that the average North Carolina or Virginia or West Vir- ginia democrat is, and {t would be useless, not to say false, to pretend that he is What Mr. Smith's Critics Say The critics of Mr. Smith put it in this way: He cught not, in the first place, to have taken the stump; and in the second place, he ovght not, in interpreting the re- sult at hcme, to have emphasized the par- ty’s differences on so tender a topic as the money question. Diplomacy, they urge, was the thing, and it was the 4dministraiion’s duty particularly to “diplome” at such a time. This is politics, It is bad enough, they admit, for one view of the party faith to be presented in Maine and another in Colorado, but for two views, diametrically opposed, to be presented to the people from the stump in the same state is, to say the least of it, pretty dangerous management. But these critics admit that Secretary Smith is a pretty frank sort of man, = Personal Mention. Secretary and Mrs. Gresham, who have been at Hot Springs, Va., for several days, will return to Washington tomorrow morn- ing. on Paymaster Rodney, U. S. N., has sailed for London to return about Christmas. Attorney General Olney has returned to the city from_a short visit to his home in Boston. Representative Ben. T, Cable of Tlingts, who has just returned from a trip to Bu- rope, passed through Washington today on his way to Chicago. He will take an active t in the coming political campaign in < Mlinots. nese government to impose a transit tax on goods than by anything that has occutred since the war began. This tax is well known to diplomatists under the name of Le Kin. It is a species of internal revenue tax, and is levied cn all goods, imports or It is a ter- for it is through exports, passing through China. rible restraint. upon commerce, levied repeatedly at every town which the goods pass, and aceumul: rapidity to a total that is actually pzohibi- tive upon rge class of goods which our ave just succeeded in introduc- ing after painful efforts into interior China. For fifty years all of the commercial pow- ers have been united in the effort to secure its abolition. They finally obtained from the Chinese government an arrangement b which imported goods should be taxed only once, upon eniry, and the Le Kin was abol- ished, to the great benefit of trade. If it ts again to be imposed, fear is expressed that it will be almost a permanent tax, as even in the event of a speedy restoration of peac the revenue derived will be needed by the Chine: government to p the Ormous: war indemnity that will certainly be exact- ed by Japan. Will Leave Friday Secretary and Mrs. Carlisie, Secretary and Mrs. Gresham and Secretary and Mrs, Lamont wiil leave here Friday morning for Batavia, Y., where Secretary Carlisie is to dehver an address the following da; on the life and racter of Robert Morris, formerly Secretary of the Treagury. te -<- Treesury Receipts. . Government receipts today were as fol- lows: From internal revenue, $189,467; cus- toms, $52,786; miscellaneous, $16,454. STORM'S FATAL FURY a It is Raging, Along the At- lautic Coast —_ + —— SEVEN-STORY BUILDING BLOWN DOWN a Many Persons Buried in . the Ruins, STORIES TOLD BY WITNESSES The Work of Rescuing the In- jured Progressing. - 5 OF GREAT DAMAGB eming fr heard The list of 1 thus far recovered om the ruims is as fullows ree Robineviiz, Uwenty-nine, back sprained and ear « broken ny Contusions twenty-two, badly cut , fourteen, head crushed ¢ ny Dolan, cuts and bruises Abrahams, fourteen, cut about Abrahams, twenly, contu sions of Avral contusions of head ding. has been in the course t two months. it Was to have ween occupied, when com- picted, as a iiver since the foun- ¥ation Was laid Were have been complaints ou every sive that the structure was a wea . flimsy at 2 express. ed the belief tn, befor root could be pat « certain A far wrong, fer the ruot had not been compieted ven bh when the building rashed 4 sat 4 sterday afternoon meal in the root, and thea there were « The work- men put wr hat the bright suripes Would haug over the street and two kees of veer Were taken up to the top story ty add ty the general rejoicings. Described by VW iimesse To this morning's disaster there secm to have been two eyewitnesses, and the they tell agrees in every particu Thomas Waisa is the watet Heck- er in ine rear of whlch fell. It was ju o'clock when the dis- a eccurred. 4t was a wid night. The ain fell in torrents and the wind blew @ gale. The watch s that there was a | sort of mysterious haiti igni in the air wich “he ser By it, through black ight, he saw, as he prepari © ms round’ of the ple, th He Dig new butiding and the slan Sheets of rain as they beat Vil never toiget that sight,” says Walsh, Even as } re came a change tn » side of the wall, It an that a big biack across 15 dark line was a crack ia re was a low, rumbling sound, and the seven stories e building crumbied before his eyes, nt Waisa stood zed. A t up, but the pelting rain blotted it out before the watchman could recover himself stable. enough to re-enter the Walter J. Bryan of 77 Monroe street was returning to his home, and he st at the corner of Pike and Monroe streets, fifty feet aw when ue building fell. Me saw the big crack in the wall, too, and saw the building topple for an instaut before it fell, “That building,” said this witness, “was more badly put up than any that was ever put up by Buddensieck.” Buddensieck is the man that went to state's prison for eighteen years for using sand in the buiding of houses instead of mortar. When the Policemen Arrived. When policemen patrolling in the vicinity reached the scene of the catastry call ed thither by the noise of the falling butld- ing, they foaad extending half way across the street @ mass of debris, On top of it, thirty feet above the street level, two men and a woman were making an effort to get to the street, while trom the intertor of the pile came muitied for help that told of the people imprisoned beneath the mass, Calls were sent in for tire engines and ambulances. In the two-e house Ni street there lived two famil: Isaac Abrahams, consisted of ten persons, inclu Mr. Abrahams’ mother ané@ brother. In the upper part of the house lived Michael Kroris and his wife; their son David and his wife; two other sons named Solomon and Abraham, a daughter, nd two boarders, Jacob Abrahams Robinovitz. story homse to the north, some upents of which were also in- 4 on the ground floor the family el J. MeGuirk, consisting of five 1 of whom slept in the exienston, crushed in, All of them, how- ever, escaped uninjured, e ed Their Beds, On the second floor thre was the family of Joseph Brady, consisting, besides himself, of his wife and four children and one boarder. All of these were sleeping in the extension. They were pinned in their beds en the crash came. All of them are more or less injured, but the little boy, Joseph Brady, 1s the most seriously hurt. His head was caught bencath a beam and crushed, and his left leg was broken. ‘The people, as fast as they were rescued,