Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1894, Page 9

= << THE EVENING STAR | PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. mn AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Ivania Aveuue, Cor. 12h Street, by The Brug, Suc Newspaper Company, 8. H .UFFMANN, Prest. ‘The Evening Star fs served to subscribers in the eity by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents Ls Week, or 44c. per month. Copies at the counter nis each. By mail—anywhere in the United Seates or Canada—postage prepsid--30 cents per Saturday quintupts Sheet Star. with for D i. CEnteredvat the Tint Unies 2 @s second-class mail matter.) ‘All mail subscriptions rust be paid Rates of ‘advertising made known oo applicatice. $1.00 per year; Washiagton, D. C., Partz. Che # ening Sta _ Pages 9-24. WASHINGTON, D. C., SA’ Lace st. now. } vember 15, time. ont: roth st. n. w. ‘This coupon entitles holder to | 20 per cent discount | Good cnly at main office, 514 20th st. n.w., or plant, 43 G From November 1 to No= will allow 20 per cent off with coupon onali lace cur= tainslaundered withinthat - Coupons are good at our main office, 514 st., and at plant, 43 G Nottingham Curtains, soc. Pair. Tambour and Other Lace Curtains,75c. Pair. eal Lace Curtains, $1 Pair. ques We have had seven years’ experience in laundering On Curtains. inclusive, we A ge TUXEDO Is beautifully situated on the main stem of the Pennsylvania Railroad within a few minutes’ ride of the center of the city, and about one- quarter of a mile from the District line, with railroad station on thegrounds.’ Commutation almost as low as street car fare, SIX CENTS. All lots are situated on a high elevation com- manding a beautiful view of the surrounding country, and in full view of Washington. Judg- ing from the rush we had during the past week we feel confident in saying that it won’t be very many weeks before every lot is sold. Our motto always has, and always will be, QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS. Your Choice of Any Lot for $50--- Cash or on Easy Payments. : lace curtainsand guarantee the finest quality of work. Although we guarantee them we have never yet had a claim for damage against usfor lace curtains promptly. YALE F. H. Walker & Co., *Phone 1092. injured in laundering. Upon receipt of postal we will call for your lace cur- tains and return them Steam Laundry, Main Branch, 514 10th St. Plant, 43 G St. N. W.. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP A Large Business Building to Be Erected on the Avenue: peregrine AN HISTORIC AND NOTABLE STRUCTURE A Recent Sale and the Expansion of a Business Section. BOME IMPROVEMENTS ET? An important improvement is contem- plated on Pefnsylvania avenue. It is pro- to remove the large building on the orth side of the avenue between th and 20th streets now occupied by the business establishments of J. W. Boteler & Son and B®. F. Droop and erect on this site a fine Modern business building four stories in height. This improvement has been in con- templation for some time by the owner of the property, Mrs. Hitz, and each year the necessity for it has become more urgent, as the needs of the business of these two es- tablishments demand better and increased facilities. ‘The plans for the new building, which have been prepared, provide for the erec- tion of a substantial building of brick, ris- tng, as has been stated, to a height of four stories. The front will be the buff color which ts so popular just now, and which ts eo suitable in this climate. The frontage, which {s some forty-seven feet, will be en- tirely given up to the show windows and the entrances to the two stores. As the present entrance from the street to the up- per stories will not be retained in the new building, the additional space thus gained will be thrown into the width of the two mew store rooms. The upper floors will be ‘sed by the occupants of the stores. It 1s not expected that the work of con- struction wili be begun before next March. The present occupants of the building will, course, have to find other quarters while e improvements are being made, as the sent butiding, which extends back to D et, will be entirely removed and a new structure erected from the ground up. ‘This proposed improvement will bei a potable one in several respects. It will @n addition to the number of handsome and @ommodious business structures which now lorn the city. It will also, with the excep- fe: of the building at the corner of 9th and ie avenue, be the only modern business building that has been erected on that side @f the block. The Vernon building at the @orner of 10th and the avenue might be @lassed in that category, and is a sub- etantia! structure, but tt was put up a good y years ago, and the interval of time tt has elapsed illustrates forcibly the icy of non-improvement which char- terizes so generally the management of fivenue property. Shanks’ Iron Hall. Tm the removal of the present bullding | property owners of the city. one of the notable, and it might also be added one of the historic structures of the city, will disappear. It was erected about the year 1850 by the late Mr. Shanks, the father of the present owner, who was one of the well-known business men and large For a number of years the building was popularly known as Shanks’ Iron Hall, a name which was probably suggested by the material used in the construction of the front. There was a large hall on the second floor, and here some of the well-known actors of former years appeared before the Washington pub- lic. Forrest, the distinguished tragedian, played there, as wel other notables. In later years it became the home of the legis- lature of the District under the old form of government, and there that notable body, “the feather duster legislature,” sat until it was legislated out of existence. Of late years the building has been devoted entirely to business purposes, and the later genera- tion are not famiiiar either with Shanks’ Iron Hall, or as it came to be known later, Metzerott’s Hall. An Important Land Sale. A sale of considerable interest was con- summated during the past week. The American Security and Trust Company pur- chased a@ lot abutting on their property, having a frontage of 82 feet on the west elde of 14th street between G and New York avenue, and an average depth of about 107 feet. The price paid was over $50,000, and the rate per square foot was about $15. These figures afford anotber illustration of the growing importance ¢f that business section of the city. The tendency toward the expansion of the busj- ness area on each side of F street ani especially toward the north is familiar to those who note the progress and develop- ment of the city. The process of transforming G street from a residence street into one given up to business has gone ahead so rapidly during the. past few years that !t is now practi- cally accomplished. A similar change is taking place on what are known as tne side or connecting streets from 7th to 15th, and the trend of the movement is plainly still further to the north, and already sev- eral squares Cag H street are showing evidences of this transformation. The fu- ture progress of this improvement toward the north ts freely predicted by conserva- tive men, and there is also a growing con- viction that the business area will also go westward. The skirmish line, as it might be termed, has already reached Vermont avenue along H street on {ts western march and passing over the squares fronting on Lafayette Park has planted some outposts on 17th, street and along Connecticut avenue es far north as M street There {3 a difference of opinion as to whether the interval of the Lafayette Park frontage will continue in the future. Some maintain that It will al- ways continue as a barrier to business en- croachments, while others are equally as confident that even this choice residence section must give way before the growth of the business interests of the city. Building in the Suburbs. Reference has been made in this column to the bullding* activity which prevails throughout the section on each side of 14th street extended. While this region cannot any longer properly be classed un- der the head of suburban, still as it is out- side of the old bounds of the city it prob- ably is still officially under that designa- tion. There is more or less building going on in other sections of the suburbs near and remote to the bounds of the city. At Chevy Chase a number of new houses have ‘That Fortune knocks once at least at every man’s door. ‘That Tuxedo has the best of train facilities. ‘That we offer you the best lots for the least money. ‘That the Title has been examined by the Prince George’s County Abstract Company. ‘That Deed ts given absolutely free, without any cost to purchaser. That Taxes are paid in full until lot ts paid for. That Tuxedo 1s not backed up by any syndicate, but by the largest operator in suburban property in this country. Pure Air. Pure Water. No Malaria. «REMEMBER! ‘That @e Commutation fs almost as low as siteet car fare — SIX CENTS. That We 1s easter to own your own homp'than paying rent. ‘That ee of the best Loan Assocta- tlons'will lend you money on very easy terms to build. Ani, last, but not least, that Tuxedo ts the tiflest of all subdivisions arousd Washington. Being within easy aqgess, high and healthy, and Tmust be seem to be appréciated, ; advantages. Polite Agents Will take you out any time srotinds, to see she Two Excursions Daily at 11:30 a. m, ahd 4:30 p.m. Sundays 9 a.m. and 1 p. m. OM PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD STATION, cuncCLAKS AND TICKETS AT OUR OFFICH OR FROM OUR AGENTS AT SIXTH AND B_ STREETS N.W. DEPOT. Tuxedo Co., 623 F St. N. W. eae been erected. Mr. Charles J. McCubbin has recently completed a large double frame house, which he is now occupying. Dr. Glavis, Captain Denny, U. 8. and Dr. Compton have purchased houses which have recently been built. Mr. John W. Boteler has become the owner of quite a large block of land and intends to erect a residence there for his own use. A friend of Mr. Boteler proposes to build a house on an adjoining lot. Dr. Dieffenderfer, Rev. Dr. Porter of Connecticut, Prof. John M, Gregory, John D. Coughlin and others have purchased lots with the intention of build- ing in the spring. Building Record. The building inspector’s record for the past week ending yesterday shows that twelve permits were taken out for the erection of new buildings, aggregating in cost $104,060, This was divided among the several sections of the city as follows: Northwest, two permits, $74,100; northeast, four permits, $9,950, and the county, six permits, $20,000, Some Improvements. Henry H. Jacobs has planned the erection of three dwellings at numbers 8021-23 and 25 14th street extended, Columbia Heights. They will be each 162-3 by 52 feet, built of pressed brick and heated throughout by furnaces. Wm. J. Palmer is the architect and J. Peter Fersinger the builder. ‘The inspector of bulldings has granted to John Joy Edson and others, trustees of the Swedenborgian Church, a permit for the erection of a handsome brick and stone church edifice at the corner of 16th and Corcoran streets northwest. It will be 88x 110 feet, built of brick and stone, with double pitch roof. It will be one-story high, with cellar, with concrete and stone foundation, and heated throughout by steam. Pelz & Carlisle are the architects and W. E. Spier & Co. the builders, J. @. Berchman has commenced the erec- tion of a presséd-brick dwelling at 840 E street northeast. It will be two stories high, with basement; 20x34 feet. J. G Berchman is the builder. D. H. Kent has been granted a permit for the erection of a three-story and base- ment pressed-brick dwelling at 2224 N street northwest. It will be 24x32 feet. J. W. Keyes is the butlder. J. W. Poston wiil shortly erect two two- story brick dwellings at numbers 336 and 888 12th street northeast. They are to be built of red brick; 16x88 feet. R. Rothwell is the architect and J, W. Poston will do the building. Elmira Hill ts building a frame dwelling on Capitol avenue, Ivy City. It is to be 15x16 feet, and two stories high. Albert Mcintosh will do the building. ‘The erection of two brick dwellings at 8026 and 3028 Sherman avenue will shortly be commenced by D. Flaherty. They are to be two stories high, 12 1-2x145 feet and built of red brick. J. D. McIntire is the builder. E. H. Eakle has planned the erection of an attractive residence of pressed brick at 1108 East Capitol street northeast. It is to be three stories high, with cellar; 18x44 feet, and heated throughout by furnace. Wm. H. Fowley is the architect and Wm. Thompson is the builder. —_——_——_. Use of the Malls. The Post Office Department ts conducting an investigation into several patent medi- cine companies that are, It 1s charged, us- ing the mails for purposes of fraud. A large number of such companies have been pro- hibited the use of the mails for the transac- tion of their business. A NEW WONDER-LAND Shoshone Falls More Picturesque.and Fan- tastio Than the Mighty The River Flows Through a Canon Nearly a Quarter of a Mile Deep. Wm. E. Curtis in the Chicago Record. Some of the pen painters who prepare the railway advertisements would lead peo- ple to believe that the Shoshone falls in Idaho are grander than Niagara. That is @ great mistake, for it is not so, They are only about one-third of the size—perhaps as large as the American fall at Niagara— and carry about one-third of the volume of water; but the two mighty wonders are so different that it is difficult to compare them, You might as well compare the canon of the Colorado with the Yosemite valley. Niagara 1s more majestic and more im- pressive, illustrating better than anything I know the existence and the presence of irresistible power; and the hydrant of the great lakes ficws toward the sea in the broad sunlight. The Shoshone falls are more picturesque and fantastic. The dark cavern that shields them is weird and mys- terlous. _The atmosphere is sullen, and the everlasting roar of the falling water is often broken by stramge sounds whose source is a secret no one has ever been able to explain. Zhe lights and shadows are always changing with the morning sun with startling effects that come and go suddenly and incessantly. The Trip There. ‘The falls are about twenty-five miles due south from Shoshone station, on the Union Pacific railroad. ‘The rvad is so good that the quick-footed Haaho horses make the jJourrey in four hours, and by starting early you can get back the eame evening. ‘The plateau is almost as level as the sea. The landscape is a monotony of pale blue sky, sage brush and scoria, with a range of purple mountains in the distance. No living thing will be seen the whole dis- tance, unless it be a scampering jack-rab- bit. There isn’t a house or a tree, only a guid’-boord to indicate the road that leads off to t Blue lakes when you have made two-thirds of the distance. Away back, near the Genesis, when this queer world was forming, a river of fire 400 miles wide and 900 miles long flowed over the breast of this great plain that stretches between the Rocky mountains in ot rag, and the coast ranges in Ore- gon and lifornia, and, cooling, léft a mass of black lava lying upon the earth, in some places twenty, and in others 806 feet deep. They say it was suddenly sub- merged under a great sea, of which the Salt lake ts the residue, and, contracting by the chill, left curious fractures here and there that gape open unexpectedly on the plain and so far as human knowledge sca are bottomless. If you drop a rock Into them it will go down clinking from as Words are tnadequate to praise’ TURDAY, NOVEMBER 38, 1894-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. Sth Issue of Stock. ——— Shares, $2.50 Monthly. EQUITABLE = Co-operative Building Association. age OFFICE: EQITABLE BUILDING, 1003 F STREET. He nae Cane Assets, $1,378,395-94- Statement, October 15, 1894. Amount of payments on stock = = = $4,614,458.65 Amount returned to shareholders - = 3:448,549-15 Amount of present active stock = = = Amount of advances to sharehelders - 1,165,909.50 6,200,900.00 Advances held by shareholders - = = 1,239,393-68 Amount of net earnings Amount of earnings paid shareholders _ Net earnings and surplus = = Receipts, past 12 months Average receipts, past 12 months = Total receipts - = Withdrawal Value of Bhares in Each Issue. ist tenue $687 20 TION, M. TO 4:30 P.M. Ir PRovIp! BOUND. T AND 490,216.49 277,730.05 212,486. 44 - 1,148,000.84 - 95,666.74 = $10,374 102.67 SHARES. SHARES IN THE 28TH ISSUB ARE NOW OPEN FOR SUBSCRIP- AND THE FIRST PAYMENT THEREON, MADE AT THE OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATION DAILY, FROM 9 A. SHARES, $2.50 MONTHLY. WHICH CAN BE THE EQUITABLE IS A PURELY CO-OPERATIVE SAVING AND LOANING ASSOCIATION. IT YIELDS FAIR AND RELIABLE PROFITS TO ITS SHAREHOLDERS ON THEIR MONTHLY PAYMENTS ON STOCK. THR SUREST WAY FOR ITS MEMBERS TO (ON ‘To SECURE HOMES AND OTHER PROPERTY. IT ADVANCES MONEY TO ITS MPMBERS AT FAIR RATES OF IN- TERES! ‘TERMS. LAY A IN ADVANTAGEOUS 129 80 112 52 1 HTS CONSTANT AIM-18 KE, As as TH 2h ADVANTAGES AND BESEETIS: MUTUAL AND BQUAE TO. THe 62 50 SHAREHOLD! BOTH BORROWERS DIN AND TO 46 42 DO BUSINESS UPON A SAFE AND CON VATIVE B. 26U 30 6 2th 1517 810 ISSUE OF STOCK OPEN FOR SUBSCRIPTION. FOR PAMPHLETS, explaining the object and advantages of the Association, and for additional information, apply at the office, Equitable Building, 1003 F st. nw. THOMAS SOMERVILLE, Pres. A. J. SCHAFHIRT, Vice Pres. INO. JOY EDSON, Secy. G. W. CASILEAR, 2d Vice Pres, DIRECTORS. BENJ. F. FULLER, H. H. TWOMBLY, N. TH Witham, Eup h Eee ear Sal M. C. BARNARD, Attorney. side to side as long as you can hear it, but never seems to reach the bottom. Before this flow was stagnant, or since, by some mysterious and mighty force, a canon was forged through the lava, and in the midst of the river of fire that was, a deep green stream of water now flows with such silence and sinuosity that the Indians called it the Snake river, although it de- serves a better name. It rises in the Teton mountains of Montana, and taking a wide sweep of 1,000 miles to the southward flows north and west again, and contributes with sister streams to form the great Co- jumbia. When the Falls Were Discovered. The river and the falls were discovered by Meriwether Lewis, the private secretary of Thomas Jefferson, who, in company with Capt. Clark of the army, explored the Louisiana purchase that was made from Napoleon in 1808. The river was originally called the Lewis Fork of the Cclumbia, and appears as such upon some of the old maps, but when the gold-hunters came into the country fifty years after they adopted the title by which it was known to the Indians. You can see nothing of the falls or the canon until you come immediately upon them. There is no jandmark by which they can be located from the wagon trail except one solitary cedar tree, which clings to in the lava ani can only be seen ata ort distance. The mesa or table land which stretches across the country for hundreds of miles is a favorite winter range for cattle, as the snowfall is light, the climate mild and the bunch grass is nourishing, and herds are driven in from all the mountains around. It is said that there is a great deal of gold in the soll, I saw an old miner who said he “got 100 colors for every shovelful;” but there is no way of reaching the plain with water. The Shoshone canon is about eighteen miles long and almost regular in its depth for the entire distance, the greatest alti- tude ofits walls being 1,220 and the small- est 1,050 feet above the water. The walls are dead black; first a stratum of granite, stained by subterranean fires, then a bed of packed gravel, upon which lie 700 or 800 feet of lava in regular level layers, Some poetic person has likened it to “the grave of “ volcano that has been robbed of its dead.” Nature hes curiously opened a portal from the face of the plain to the canon, just above the fells, and it is the only route’ by which they can be reached. A wagon road was built by the miners who discovered the pass about thirty years ago. Then hundreds of men were here seeking gold. A narrow trail was blasted out of the side of the cliff and leads to the bot- tom of the canon over ledges of broken lava, when it enters an almost circular amphitheater three-fourths of a mile wide. Into this soll has drifted and made a nat- ural platform from which people can view the falls. The cliffs that surround them show curlovs formation—rounded domes of rock and huge, frowning battlements that rise 1,000 feet like fortresses to protect the place. The Flowing River Below. Below, in the shadows that they cast, the dignified river flcws solemnly along until it is divided by a dozen or more vast voleanie rocks which the water has carved into fantastic shapes, some like domes and pyramids and some narrow and sharpened like pillars. Then it suddenly plunges down between them eighty-three feet, then makes @ vertical leap 220 fect into a great basin and finally moves on {tn a still, deep cur- rent into the gloom of the canon again cd — until it passes out of sight between two great black promontories. The scene is gloom intensified. The river is always in the shadow, except for two or three hours each day while the sun hangs directly over- head, and shares its solitude with low log stable and a small frame house that is called by courtesy a hotel, where they give you a miserable meal and bed. Three miles above is another fall, where the current is divided by a rock in the center and then drops 180 feet. The color of the water is very peculiar. Some people insist that it is green, others that it Js blue, and both are right, for, as the sun shifts, the tints change, hen it falls below the cliffs the river reflects the sky and carries light like an opal, or a girl with auburn hair. The sunsets are usualiy beautiful and sometimes startling. The sky sometimes blazes with fiame-bursts and yellow banners. As the light becomes subducd the clouds take on the colors of violet and crimson, with shadings of pink and gold. Then cool amber tints creep over them, which fade into gray and darkness as the stars are lit, The effect of these lights upon the surface of the stream ts marvelous, and I wonder that some great artist has not been here to catch them, although if they were transferred truth- fully to capvas the picture would seem un- natural, and people would criticise it as exaggeration. Strange Stories of Phenomena. Strange stories are told of phenomena that appear at the Shoshone falls. Some- times when the air is perfectly still the spray arises several hundred feet above the walls of the canon and can be seen on the plains at a considerable distance, Then for days and weeks at a time there is scarcely any spray at all. Often the whole canon around the falls will be filled with spray and every bark and rock will drip with moisture. Again it will be as clear as a frosty night under the same conditions from influences that no one has been able to discover o: explain. Often above the monotone of the falling waters weird sounds may be heard, unlike any that were ever named, and can be com- pared to no other; and, again, from time to time, a sullen throbbing ts audible, meas- ured by regular intervals like the beating of a human pulse. These, too, proceed from no apparent cause, and science has been unable to solve their mystery. At the crest of the highest rock in the center of the Shoshone falls is the nest of an eagle, and for thirty-four years the same bird has come regularly on the 26th, 27th or 28th of March to repair and reoccupy it and raise a brood of young. Charley Wal- gomet first noticed her when he located here in 1860. The nest was standing then, and as long as he lived here, until five years ago, he kept a record of her reap- pearance. She never varied more than three days in her arrival. Since his time the record has been kept by othe: who testify to the same regularity. This year she appeared on the 27th of March. Last year she was one day late. The spray from the falls carries a sedi- ment which clings like frost to the windows of the little hotel, and can be scraped off with a knife. Mr. Keller, who keeps the place, says that they clean the glass every spring by laying the sashes flat and pouring upon it a solution of vinegar and salt. After they have soaked for three or four days the coating can be wiped off with a cloth, but in a few weeks the glass is covered again as if it were frosted. The scrapings look lke the dust of lime. The same sediment clings to the leaves of the trees and vege- tables that are grown around the place, and can be scraped off the rocks and the face of the bare clay. THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE How It Was Driven From the Oongo Free States. Mr. Dorsey Mohun Tells of an Excite ing Campaign in an 7 Arab War. . Gradually the grip of the slave trader on the throat of Africa is weakening, and with every advance of civilization the vicious dustry, with aJl its horrible accom ments, is being extcrminated in the dark continent. The last territory from which the nefar- fous traffc has been driven is the Congo Free States, and the manner in which its extirpation was secured is the subject of an interesting talk a Star reporter had with Mr. Dorsey Mohun today. Mr. Mohun is commercial agent of the United States to Congo. He has just returned to Washing- ton frem Africa. While en route from the dark continent he stopped at “Brussels, where, by order of the king, he was made Chevalier of the Royal Order of the Lion of the Congo for military services volun- tarily rendered the state during the Arab war, when a blow wi: given the slave trade from which it has never revived. Mr. Mohun was also decorated with a badgeof the order of which he was made a member, and js the first foreigner to re- “Shir. Mohun eft this country tn February ‘ yun: a 1892, for the Congo Free State, arriving in Boma, the capital, later in the month. He remained several months in this town, fa- miliarizing himself with the language of the country and with the various duties of his mission, and then started for the ap Congo, arriving at Starley Pool the mid« dle of September. He pushed on from this Place to Lake Leopold, on the Lukenie river, exploring this region thoroughly, and earning the distinction of being the fourth man who had visited this section since Stanley’s advent, some dozen years ago. He returned to Stanley Pool, and there learned the first news of the outbreak of the war against the Arabs of Kosongo, as a result of the slave trade. Kosongo ts the capital of the Manyema, a territory within the jurisdiction of Tippo Tib, who was the recogt ized sovereign of the whole country. The Outbreak. “I heard from the Delcommune expedi- tion, which had just returned from thi Katonogo,” said Mr. Mohun, “that the Arab posis at Stanley Falls would be at- tacked by the troops of the Congo Free State authorities, whose base of supplies was at Bosoko. I immediately started for Bosoko, arriving there in March of 1893, Finding that Stanley Falls was not to be attacked, but that an expedition was being formed to proceed to the Lomami river to act in co-operation with Commandant Dhanis, at Kosongo, I left for Stanley Falls and found Rachid, a nephew of Tippo Tib, in command of the Arab t; Rachid ut the same time being the vall, or goyernor, ler the Congo State authorities. At that time no fears were entertained by the state thorities that there would be a it at Stanley Falis. to Ja gen against Riba Riba on the river. is village was an tmportant b post, ahd Was under command of who had massacred the Hodister ex ition a year previous. It was found fore the march was taken up that two of ‘the officers wi too ill to proceed, and in this extremity voluntee! my Commandant Chaltin gave me command of two Krupp cannon and some ninety men. The maf was then taken up, and seven days later we met and destroyed a large Arab force which had been sent to oppose our passage of the Kassuku river. Smallpox Raged. “With the flight of our foe we resumed our march on Riba Riba, and found that town deserted upon our arrival. We were welcomed by two right hands nailed to a flagstaff in front of the chief's house,which had evidently been lopped from the arms of white men. Smallpox having become epidemic in our army, we having lost 100 men in ten days, and there being a hundred or so men down on the sick list with the disease, it was not considered advisable to continue our march on Kasongo, and we returned to Rene Kamba and Losoko. On the march back the scenes along the were frightful, as many of our men fallen on our forward march afflicted with smallpox, and had been eaten by ants, leay- ing the bones whitening in the sun. “We were told at a post, called Isangi, un- der the command of Abi Bou, a nephew of Tippo Tib, that an agreement had been reached between the state authorities and the Arabs, and peace had been declared. Upon the same day, however, while steam- ing down the river, we picked up two mea bearing dispatches from Commandant Tob- back of Stanley Falls, asking assistance, and stating that he expected Rachid to at tack him at any moment. We continued to Bosoko and secured more troops and then left for Stanley Falls, where we found that the Arabs had erected palisades around the Belgian trading house. It was captured, 4 were the two Arab towns on the banks 0! the river, at the point of the buyonet. Thou- sands of our opponents came in immediately after the capture of their strongholds and surrendered, and the war at Stanley Falls was practically ended. The War Ended, “I learned a few days afterward that Com- mandant Dhanis was in need of assistance and went to his aid at Kasongo, with forty- five men. Dhanis had taken position direcly in front of the Arab camp, 300 yards dis- tant. He had been fighting this force for two months, and had succeeded in checking their advance. Mr. Dhanis told me that it would be impossible to defeat the Arab force, unless he had 400 more soldiers. I volunteered to go to Basoko and Stanley Falls to get them. I accomplished this mis- sion, and upon returning found that chance shot had struck the Arab chiefs nagazine, exploding the ammunition, and an immediate sortie by Dhanis had fight the enemy. Some 6,000 prisoners taken and 3,000 men were killed. This bat- tle closed whole of thig enormous territory, wh) been under the control of the slave dealers for thirty-five years, into the hands of the state government, “Most of the prominent Arab chiefs sur- rendered. Among them was Rachid and Mserera, Sefu, son of Tippo Tib, having been killed in action. “I obtained a confession from one of the four men who killed Emin Pasha. Ac- cording to this fellow’s story the mien grasped hold of Pasha’s arms and legs and cut his throat with a native knif They were afterward hung with Mserera and his son. Slave Trade Killed. “The head of the slave trade in Africa before the war was Tippo Tib, who fitted out most of the expeditions which left Zanzibar for the interior to purchase ivory. In order to buy this product, it was neces- sary to have slaves, and villages were there- fore raided to get them. Some of the slaves were sold for ivory and the others were employed to carry it back to the coast, where they were ye og of among t Arabs. In all the slave raids made the villages were pillaged and burned and the infirm were killed. I belleve that as far as slave trading is concerned, there is an end to it in the Congo Free States. I do not consider It possible that the Arabs will ever again be able to resume thelr ne- farious trae within the territory west of the Tanganika.” Mr. Mohun will remain ir Washington some months tn order to com plete his report for the State Departm«nt.