Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1894, Page 9

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Instead of industrial armies aimlessly marching over the coun- try, it is a great regret that some of these “armies” did not march out on the va- cant land adjacent to any of our large ¢'ties and demonstrate this at least, that the labor of hana and brain would make | self-supporting citizens, which is oné step |in the problem There may be, and doubt- less will be, differences of opinion on the tariff and on wages, but there ure some points of industrial problem that i seem to be settled, so far as authori- n settle anything. The of the United States for 189) sho the two most remunerative occupa- in this country are “fruit raising” mall farming. t ms and * We begin to realize that the lot of the farmer, “who is nearly always holding his own and mo is not alto- and undesirable, The wolf not been, the door of any distinctively American farming com- munity the panic began; while, on the other hand, in every large ‘city in’ the United States today the problem that wi not down and is paramount to tariffs and and every other interest is = with the poor and unempk ag wint and this thought d any by the further con- an inerea large s die homeless and penniless nd in New York one-tenth of all who di are buried in trenenes and “potter's field” e. On the other hand, the “hard times” have - | proved conclusively during the past year nat the owners of non-mor' about the happiest, most independent citizens in the land. ‘The old-fashioned farmer is di nd in his stead is coming the man on a farm, od appearing ‘business the “commercial orchard- aiser for profit and cientific fruit raiser. In very fact, ther “What | g number in all) study at night. tented and | | none the | never was ss much real progress in agri- culture as is now going on. The gencra- | tion that fs now reaching the plow handles | will be the legitimate descendants of the Lord Rosebery, the W. E. the William M. Singerl and will make than was e of the world, formerly an * a “profession.” . Gladstone and style of farmers, r done before fn the history esides ennobling what was «ecupation,” but is soon to be So aes RAILNOAD SALARIES, The Pay Receive Grades of St. s erat. a lot of talk nowadays about the salaries of railway men, but the report of the New York Central road the Various loes not seem to offer great inducement a uecessful me business to hunt for s 2 up freight. It is true that there » sixty-nine general oflicers who average h h most of us vell. ) locomotiv ach, and this nest avera re omitt! ch, and then come t s equipment, who y are really mariners y men. Mechanics and tin have $7 rathe vers on the road receive about $634, and ‘emen and wipers $646. Station agents and = trainme: other than en- en and conductors have the rule. Roadm ers and ge $609, and telegraph operators have other than ager sn $600, Station men, sraphers, ave mechanics and helpers Switchmen, flagm ive $40; shopmen, other than mechanics and _heipe about », and trackmen have $41 m« h The numerous class on the road are the s men, other than agents and telegraph op- rackmen, “3,516 mechanics the shops and the 2 What is Courage? t's Ma . s upon such facts, the narrator t other specifi- is about nite as the word what re: "we rv there are curious oral and physical courage. the victor of Philipsburg had an absurd f sassination, and in his fertified p ot Chambord’ kept two constables for the purpose of scrutin- izing every unknown visitor. The Duke of Alva got nervous at the mere sight of a and during bis residence at Ghent red his patrols to ot every unmuz- zled specimen of the obnoxious quadrupeds There are men whose actions defy the th of public opinion, but who turn pale the thought of seeing their names in the 1 newspaper; and others who advance fearlessly to the brink of a precipice, but shudde= =¢ steht of a spider. wr But as | more profit with less labor | | Tammany man. | He joined Tammany, ONE MAN’S WORK Tammany’s Overthrow Mainly Due to John W. Goff. THE NEW RECORDER OF NEW YORK CITY His Gigantic Task Before the Lexow Committee. HIS PERSONAL HISTORY Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, November i2.—One ian could claim the entice credit for the great Tammany overthrow of Tuesday, were he not so mcdest, as well as for the enormous Morton majority in the state. That man is John W. Goff, who is today one of the most prominent characters in the city. It was Dr. Parkhurst who started the cru- sade against Tamn.any, but it would never have resulted in Tuesday's victory if the reverend gentleman had gone on himself with the fight. Dr. Parkhurst started in the wrong way. He admits that he did now, and says that were he to go over the same thing again he would adopt different meth- John W. Gof. ods. It was not intil John W. Goff stepped to the front that real headway was made sainst Tammany. Before that sentiment was aroused against the great democratic crganization, but not that practical opposi- tion that finally swept everything before it. His Fight for Parkhurst’s Agent. Mr. Goff came to the front at an auspi- cious momert. ‘Tammany was fighting Parkhurst and was beating him. They had arrested one of Parkhurst’s agents and were convicting him. Judge and jury alike were Tammany men, and the outlook was dark, There was no one who wanted to take up the Parkhurst agent's case, it seemed so one-sided. John W. Goff saw the trouble and stepped forward himself. He took up the case and fought it so vigor- ously that the court room rang with his d nunciations of Tammany and its method: He attacked the organization so strongly, and the ways of the court in upholding Tammany so bodly, that Recorder Smyth fined him $200 ror contempt of court. If it had not een for that incident Mr. Goff would not now be recorder-elect. He would not have taken the office. But that fine arrayea him against Recorder Smyth ia a duel to the death, which Goff won, Smyth fined Goff $200, but on Tuesday the city of New York fined Smyth a ‘najority of 54,000 votes, and in favor of Goff. Mr. Goff d clared at that time that he would not p: that fine. He would go to prison sooner than submit to what he thought was rank injustice. The pleac of his friends had no eff he declared that he would not pay one cent. His friends became alarmed, and, headed by his law partner, they quietly paid the $200 themselves before Goff knew of it. Mr. Gof's Early Struggles. This man who has downed Tammany was once a Tammany man himself. He is mocrat and drifted inte that organiza when enly a boy. Thirty-five years » Goff came here from Ireland, a dozen urs of age, landing on American soil with a few shillings in his pocket and his baggage in his hand. He became office boy, then clerk in a large mercantile house. He was ambiifous to learn, but he had his bread and butter to earn, so he could only tut when night came he under his arm and went to Cooper Union, The boy was thin, but straight as an arrow. If he came to classes without his dinner, because dinners were too expensive for his purse, his smile was the less jolly, his lessons none the less perfect. He obtained an education and then began to study law in the same , taking ad- vantage of generous old Peter Cooper's free school. He studied hard and was ad- mitted to the bar, and then he gave up the store for the cou: As a young lawyer he took a book was noted for his honesty. Some of his friends ridiculed him. He would not d fend the wrong, even for pay. “Sometim they called him’ Abraham Lincoln, becaus Linco was honest and worked by day and studied by night on an empty stomach, for he was an en- thuslastic democrat, but he was not a real They called him a black sheep because he condemned the metaods of his party, This did not bother the lean, good-natured man, who went on in his in- dependent way building up an honest prac- tice. The more they called him hard names the sharper they found his shafts, the mere disagreeable his chafing. So the young Irishman went on and suc- ded as a lawyer. He learned to despis mmany and detest its methods. He splendid fight for Parkhurst’s agent and w When the Lexow committee met the voice of New York was unanimous that Joh Gott should — le: the nst New York corruption. How he nd what the work he has done hole world knows. But they do not how much of the evidence he has rthed himself; how he has been the shoullers and soul of the whole i ion. The world has seen him ci witnesses, but spending nights amining have him they in not the darkest s of the city uncovering fraud and ing the very nests of crime. His Great Work With the Le: mittee. Legal experts have pronounced his work before the Lexow committee as the best that New York ever saw. The task tha he had was a gigantic one. The witnesses represented all grades of humanity, from the highest, to the most degraded. Many of them sat on the witness stand against their will, rebellious and sullen. Many of them were criminals, afraid to talk lest they convict their pals or themselves. To get evidence from these persons was to be w Com- able to run the whole gamut of human emotion, But this Mr. Goff did. He played upon all the differ He ig a wonderful judge of human nature, and treated each witness differently. He was aggressive, coaxing, defiant, persuas threatening, sarcastic, patient, as the oc sion required. He made no mistakes. Whether it was a high Tammany official or a green goods man upon the stand, each one had to pay an involutary tribute to Mr. Goff’s power. He brought out facts that made people hold their breath and even their nose. The meral stench in that little court room was often terrible. But he went straight on, and every day made votes against Tam- many. With each week the revelations grew blacker. Tammany was frightened and defiant. Threatening letters and anony- mous notes poured in on Mr. Goff in a flood. Tammany thugs were in wait for him everywhere. For the past six months he has not stirred out in New York city without a couple of shrewd and muscular detcetives in attendance. But he went on with his work, and the verdict of 50,000 against Tammany shows its effectiveness, His Home Life. Mr. Goff is a wonderfully interesting man. He has a home life that is as quiet as his official life has been stormy. He lives up in Harlem, just where the crest of the hill begins to fall toward the North river, a point swept By Jersey breezes, good for the lungs of the young Goffs. There in his straight-backed armchair, by his broad oak desk and grate fire, he is a thorough home man. He las a handsome face. More—a face whichis good to look at in all lights and under all conditions. His sparkling eyes (tell a story without words. His pi ley with its beard, fur- nishes an outline model for a Greek head, but the front view ip the Irish-American of today. He walks ith a stoop, but the moment he enters a court room he stands perfectly erect. He never bulldozes. His delightful brogue, with its many modula- ticns, serves to ce the witness imme- diately at hom le also has a rasping veice when occasion requires that makes the witness wish that he was at home. If he has a fault it \s fhat of being over con- scientious. Such is John W. Goff, the leader and mainstay of New York's greatest moral movement, the central figure of New York city today. —-_—-—_ THE COST TO CANDIDATES. They File Their Statement of Elec- tion Expenses, Some of the candidates in the recent elec- tion in New York city have filed their state- ment of expenses, and they show that money is less needed than is generally sup- posed. It cost William Sohmer, the candi- date for sheriff on the Tammany Hall ticket, just $14,980.40 to meet with defeat. His heaviest expense was for stationery, clerk hire, addressing, folding and distrub- uting circulars, $3,208.83; advertising cost $501; lithographs, printing and distributing ccst $4,819.20, It cost Alfred R. Conkling $961.45 to be elected to the assembly. He gave $00 to the republican organization of the district for circulating posters and canvassing the district, $20 to the Good Government Club tor printing and circulating pasters und posters, 311 for cab hire and $10 for hiring a hall Lor a mass meeting. waniel J, Gieascn, tue Tammany candi- ‘| date Lor assembiy in the eighteenth district, expended 9250, including an item of 95 for a coach, vvnn Doolan, a candidate for assembly in the twenty-eghth aistrict, spent gi Which 93 was Lor inciuentai eapenses. Abram Sussman, who ran tor Congress in the ninth aisirict, Says that he did not spend a cent im aid of his election. benjamin Zacharias, Who was a candidate for assemviy iM ne filth disurict, expended 2v cents lor car tare during te campaign. Jeremiah Keuniex, the ‘Tammany candi- date ior atderiman m the lirst aisirict, says Unat it cose nim aio. tHe gave p1uz lo Une ‘Yamunany tau organization of the district duu spent sev LOY carriage mre. Wiatnrop #arker, Who ran ior alderman in iue (wenly-tmird district, puts bis aggre- wale Expenses wl WUS.V1. An item OL piv Lor sunury uisvursements and car are 1s m the bun. ueorge W. Miller, Good Government Club Canuuate Lor wssemuiy in tne mint dis- LICL, EoLUMALES Mus EAPENSES al 94U.Us. fullun MeManln, Woo ran Lor aiderman in tue ereyentn aisirict, says Luat he aid hivt coniiwute or expend, airecuy or inul- recuy, auy moneys whatever during ms canvass. Some Remarkable Instances of High- ly Developed Sense: Can it be that bugs are endowed with a wonuertul sixin sense? Prot, C. V. Kiley tuinas he has discovered sausiactory evi- ucuce Of telepathy amung inseets—taat is to | say, a SIALA pense, by Which ley are able tw cummunicate weas from one to another at great aistantes? The power, as itlus- trated im the case About to be mentioned, evimenuy depenyS Hot upon sight oc smell er hearing. ‘Ln@ dagt that man is abie to tar smut sound by velegraph aimost instan- laneously arcumd the givve may suggest sometlumg Of Lars subule power, even though it turmsnes no €xpianauon wereof, VUuce upon a fimg Prot. Kuiey two ailaatnus Crees im ug front yard, They sug- gesued Lo hun we adea of obtaining from Jupan some eyes of the ailamtnus sukworm, jae got a lew and hatened “tiem, rearmy tne tarvae and watching anxiousiy for the appearance of the nrst moths trom the co- coons. He put éne 6f the moths in a little Wicker cage and“htng it up out of doors on cue of tue duantaus trees. ‘nis was a fe- mnaie Mou. Yh ine Same evening he took #4 male moth to a cemevery a mile and a hail away and jet him jouse, having ;revi- ously led a SK Unread arvund tne base of his Ubuomen to secure subsequent identifi- cation, rot. Riley’s purpose in this performance Was U lng vut it We Young mate and the female moth would come together for the Purpose uf maung, they vemy in ail proba- biuly tne only imsects of ther species wito- im @ distance of hundreds oc mutes, except ing omy the others pessessed by Prof. Ailey himseif. ‘This power of locatthg each otper had previously been remarked in these insects, Jn this case sure enough the male was round with the captive temale the next morning. The latter had been able to at- tract the former trom a distance of a mile and a half. Conceruing the ordinary senses of insects comparatively little is “known. Most of them certainly see well, the eyes of many species being far more elaborate than those of human beings. The eyes of common house Mies and dragon flies are believed to be better fitted than the human eye for ob- serving objects in motion, though those creatures are short-sighted. It may rea- scnably be supposed that insects possess taste,judging from the discrimination which they exercise in the choice of their food. That they have smell is a matter of com- mon observation, and has been experiment- ally proved by Sir John Lubbock and others, Most: insects seem to be deaf to the sounds which are heard by human beings. At tne same time there is no question that they produce sounds and hear sounds that are entirely beyond our own range of audi- tory perception, Sir John Lubbock has said that we can no more form an idea of these sounds than we should have been able to conceive a notion of red or green if the human race had been blind, The air is doubtless often vocal with the sounds made by insects of so high a pitch as to be en- tirely out of range of man’s power to hear. Certain senses in insects appear to be beyond comprehension. The neuters among the ants known as “termites” are blind, and can have no sense of light in their bur- rowings; yet they will reduce a beam of weod or an elabcrate piece of furniture to a mere shell without once gnawing through to the surface. An analogy is found among mammals. A bat in a lighted room, though blinded as to sight, will fly in all directions with great swiftness and with infallible cer- tainty of ayoiding concussion or contact with any object. It seems to be able to feel at a distance, Ra dd Speed. From Seribner's, In high speeds the United States seems just now to hold the world’s record. Neith- er Erg'snd nor any cther country in the world has any traias as fast, for the dis- tance, as the Empire State express, which runs 440 miles at 50.7 miles an hour, in- cluding four stops, or as fast for the dis- tance as the defunct exposition flyer of Jast summer, which ran 964 miles at 4 miles an hour, including nine stops. Among the very fast special runs we find the following pretty authentic records of performances in! the United States, which, so far as I know, have hot been equaled in Englend since a rn made on the Great Western, in 1848, Of fifty-three miles at sixty-eight miles an hour, and that was not up to the best of those given here: September, 1891, on the New York Central, New York to East buffalo, miles, at 6 miles an hour, ircluding three stops; , seme railroad, 21 1-3 miles at the rate of miles an hour, no stops; Pennsy vania railroad, 1891, Jersey City to Wash- ingt 2 miles, 54.3 miles an hour, two ew York Central, *0.4 miles at 5 mies an hour, no stop: -———_—-+e«-_ The Golden Cross, At the regular meeting of Meridian Com- mandery, United Order of the Golden Cross, Friday evening NobleCommander N. W.Wil- kerson presided. The degrees were con- ferred on one candidate. Carl F. W. Berg- mann, from the committee on the good of the order, reported that the necessary ar- rangements were being made for the public entertainment to take place on the 30th. Miss Kate Bowbeer, the newly elected or- ganist, entered upon her duties. Interest- ing remarks under the good of the order were made by Noble Commander Wilker- son, R. A. Walker, 8. W. Maddox, sr., Dr. D. M. Ogden, Charles L. Bart, Henry H. Hough, Miss Lauretta Henrick and others. The official vis:tation to this commandery will take place on Fridvy, tl POLICE PROPERTY Mr. Sylvester's Report of That Re- ceived and Its Disposition. HOW THE POOR WERE RELIEVED Money and Provisions Distributed Through the Police. AN EXCELLENT SHOWING ——_--—_—_ Chief Clerk Sylvester of the police de- rartment has submitted to Maj. Moore his annual report, showing the operations of his office during the last fiseal year. The re- port also gives a synopsis of the operations of his office concerning the work done last winter to relieve the suffering. “I have the honor to transmit herewith, for your, information, several statements bearing upon the finencial and property transactions of the police department dur- ing the fiscal year 18M, the operations of the office in this particular exceeding, by fifteen thousand dollars, those of last year,” says the report. In 1894 the items of account were: Pay roll of department.. Police Court tines deposited. Emergency expenditures.. Fines and rewards collected and deposited, ‘ aan ET) Property cle: * ‘ou3.11 Collection and payments for unl form.. fs ae 11,774.04 Charity’ disbursement 15,850.12 Verification of department ex- penses.... 19,447.44 Police Relief’ Association pay- ments. + 6,212.00 Property to property clerk. 44,390.34 $622,323.64 Relief of the Poor Disbursements, Great destitution end want prevailed throughout the District of Columbia during the year 1893-04, and especially marked was this condition in the winter season. The call of distress was heard on all sides, and at times so many were the appeals that not only was the clerical force of the depart- ment compelled to devote the greater part of its time to the work, but the entire police force was called into requisition to receive and dispense charity. Aid was granted or refused in each instance after investigation as to the worthiness of the applicant by some member of the department. Many friends of the police institution placed do- nations in the hands of its supermtendent. ‘These consisted of money, clothing, fuel and provisions. When money was given, tne superintendent noted the date and amount, and issued a deposit ticket to the chief clerk; the tickets running in series, and operating as a check in connection with the vouchers for expenditures, when finally pre- sented to the superintendent for settlement and approval. Supplies contributed were delivered at the veveral station houses, and distributed by the lieutenants thereof. This was but the beginning of the work which enlisted the sympathy and support of all good citizens, and the centidence placed in the depart- ment was further evidenced after an or- ganization of the citizens’ central relief committee was effected. The committee, it will be remembered, was the outgrowth of a mass meeting called for the emergency, and its purposes were detined in brief as follows: The Citizens’ Central Relief Com- mittee. “The unusual destitution prevailing in the city, the great number out of employ- ment exceeding anything known in the history of the District, and the suffering for common necessaries of life among those who ordinarily are not In want, call upon those in whose homes the blessings of pros- perity, of employment and of steady income are enjoyed, to make some sacrifice in the name of common humanity to relieve the distress of the less fortunate. Those who can give, how much or little, should give promptly, for the need is urgent. The money and supplies contributed will be ap- plied under the direction of the central re- lief Committee to the relief of residents of the District wac are in need and deserving of help.” ‘The officers chosen were Col. John Tracy, chairman; Jas. W. Somerville, secretary; Beriah Wilkins, treasurer, and Justice C. C. Cole, Mrs. J. W. Babson, John F. Cook, L. S. Emery, Lawrence Gardner, J. Harrison Johnson, Miss Harriet B. Loring, Theodore W. Noyes, John G. Slater, Dr. L. W. Ritchie, B! H. Warner and’ Simon Wolf. The committee invited to its support a number of willing hands, who made a ca vass of the District for donations of all kinds, With that generosity which has al- ys characterized the residents of this community in times of distress a bountiful harvest was reaped. This office not only had its own donations and charges to re- ceive and dispose of at that time, but it was selected by the committee as its prin- cipal channel for affording relief. Funds payable to The order of the super- intendent of police were placed to the gredit of the chief clerk, with the deposit check, already referred to, and payments made by check drawn by him in favor of the mer- chants from whom provisions and fuel ed. In each case the standing and worthiness of the applicant was look- ed into by the officer on whose beat he or she may have resided, and on his report the lieutenant of the precinct would base the allowance, giving orders upon merchants nearest the applicant's residence. ‘These orders were filled for substantials only, re- ceipted by the recipient, and forwarded by the creditor to the chief clerk as subvoucher for his account. All cases reported to the police by members of the relief committee, ministers, physicians to the poor and cit: izens generally were promptly looked into, there being no delay in relieving the de- serving. In some instances shoes were pur- chased, but none of the money appropriated by the committee was expended for rent in rare instances, where persons were in danger of being evicted and put upon the street, rent was advanced from the de- partment funds,provided they would change their residence. This was done to avoid the payment of rent in arrears to landlords. The Needy Embraced All € ‘The needy embraced all classes, there be- ing a greater number of white persons among them than was ever before known, discharged government employes,mechanics out of work, laborers in search of employ- ment, and those who are dependnt at all times being included. Many widows and children and aged and infirm persons were compelled to make their wants known, de- spite their inclination to avoid it. ‘The work was conducted harmoniously and the thanks of the department ar@ due for courtesies received at the hands of the weneral public, the department officials, and particularly the chairman of the relief com- mittee, Col W. Somerville, Treasurer Beriah Wilkins, Lawrence Gardner and Miss Harriet Lor- ing. The charity concert, under the able management of Dr. Frank T, Howe and others; Was a most enjoyable and profitable ssen, success, which contributed to the grand result. 1 submit herewith a full statement of all amounts received and disbursed, as ap- proved by yourself, Amounts Reeeived Through Relief Committee. Jan, 13. To amount received, concert fund.$3,000.00 Jan. 20. To amount received, concert fund. 44.12 . 31. To am eived, relict 1,500.00 . 1. To amount received, relief cow.) 1,500.00 . 6 To amount received, relief com.. 1,000.00 9. To amouut received, relief com. 1,000.00 ‘9 amount received, ef com. 1,400.00 ‘To amount received, retief com. "700.00 ef com. 500.00 350.00 $12,693.36 Amount expended by police department, D. C., for relief of the poor during Janu- ary, 1894; Fuel Food To- Precinct. Expended. Shoes, Orders. Orders, tal. ‘. $253 50 GL 70° 181 2. Tl 3. 513 4. 445 5. 6T7 6. 7. 8. a John Tracy, Secretary James } Fuel Food To- Expended. Shoes. Orders. Orders. tal. All precincts $927 00 1 179 390570 Amount expended for relief of the e from April 17 to August 15, 1894: SS Fuel Food Tu- Expended. Shoes. Orders. Orders. tal. All precincts oo 1 eae Ch aaa Summary. To amount received from committee, $12,693.36; by amount expended by police, $11,894.06; to balance on hand, $799.30. 24; shoes, 10; total orders, 444, Estimated number of persons relieved thereby, 37,220, Contributio: to the Major and §: perintendent. ‘ To amount received, $1,848.91; by amount expended, $1,848.91, By provisions furnished in orders, $146; by fuel furnished in orders, pong by rent furnished in cash, $252; total, Estimated number of persons relieved, thereby, 3,045. Centennial Inaugural Interest Fund. June 1, 1893.—To balance received from Commissioners, District of Columbia, $457.41. January 8, 1894—To draft credit, superintendent of police from Commission- ers District of Columbia, $475; January 5, to draft credit, superintendent of police from Cormissioners, District of Columbia, $525; January 27, to draft credit, superin- tendent of police from Commissioners, Dis- trict of Columbia, $1,082.99; total, $2,490.30, August 17, 18—By amount expended, 10 ; to balance, $383. By provisions furnished in orders, $505; by fuel. furnished in orders, $301; by rent furnished in orders, $122; total, $929. Estimated number of persons relieved thereby, 4,645. Summary of All. To amount received, ail sources. By amount expended... $17,082.57 15,850.12 Balance.. seeeeeee + $1,182.45, Total number of persons relieved, 44,910. Many who were known to the depart- ment as chronic dependents and a few professional tramps endeavored to take ad- vantage of the charitable extensions being made. In some instances the latter came to Washington from Baltimore, Richmond and neighboring villages, expecting to realize on the charity being bestowed. Some of them were sent to institutions, other: afforded meals and told to leave the city, but gener- ally turned down, This action being de- cisive, operated to dissuade further implor- ings from these sources, leaving the police —" the deserving classes oply to provide ‘or. Provisions, &c., Sent to Precincts. In addition to the expenditures enumer- ated in the foregoing statement, there wer lets of provisions, fuel and clothing sent from the relief committee depot to the sev- eral precincts, and there distributed by the lieutenants. In the first precinct clothing was given out in nine cases. In the second precinct groceries, flour, clothing, coal and meat were distributed to 130 heads of families. In the third precinct 520 families were the recipients of cuke, coal, clothing and a large quantity of bread. In the fourth precinct, South Wasaing- ton, 612 families received bread, provisions, meat, clothing and fuel, and 270 families were the recipients of an eighth of a cord of wood each from J. Harrison Johnson. In the fifth precinct ninety-nine families were provided with shoes and clothing. In the sixth precinct there was a large is- sue of provisions, the aggregate not being furnisned. In the seventh precinct 130 families were furnished with clothing and 400 with pro- visions. in the eighth precinct eighty-three fam- ilies received the clothing donated by the relief committee. In the ninth precinct ninety-four families were given the clothing sent there for those deserving. Moneys From Fines, &c. Collection and deposit of moneys received frem fines, rewards and lost time during the year were as follows: 1893—June 30, to balance uncollected, $54.89, 1884—June 30, time lost, $20.31; June 30, rewards received, $266; June 30, fines imposed, $1,325; June 30, property sale, $523.11; June 30, donation to Lieut. Amiss, 3100; June 30, balance, police ball, $02.50, Total, $2,351.S1. 1894—-June 30, by cash, time collected, $20.31; June 30, by cash, fines, $1,029.89 June 30, by cash, reward: by cash, property sale, $ cash,balance police ball, e os, donation to Lieut. Amiss, $100. 1,857.31. 1s94—June 30, by fines remitted, $125 June 40, by part rewards to officers, $144.5 3 balance due, $225. Total,$494.50. 1 y Total, Total, E Deposited—1808—August 16, by cash to collector, D. C., $4.50; September 16, by eesh to collector, D. October 16, by cash to collector, D. C., $45; November 9, by cash to collector, D. C., $100; December 14, by cash to collector, D. C., $144.07. 1s04—January 11, by cash to collector, D. C. $11; January by cash to collector, D. $121.50; February 8, by cash to collector, D. C., $100; February 24, by cash to coile: tor, D. C., $100; March 1, by cash to col- lector, D.'C., $120.64; April 11, by cash to collector, D. C., 380; May 14, by cash to collector, $95; June 11, by cash to collector, D. C., $120; June 16, by cash to collector, D. July 21, by cash to collector. D. Total, $1,852.31. Er- ror, deposited October 15, 1894, $5. Total, $1,857.31. is Value of Returned Property. Estimated value of money and property returned and the disposition of same for the first fiscal year 18%: July, §: August, $1,7: tober, cember, delivered i sold, $00.59. Estimated value of remainder, —_—_ SEVENT. ATIONS REPRESENTED Phe Los Angeles Exhibition Opened Saturday Evening. The Los Angeles international exhibition was opened at Hazard’s Pavilion at 8 o'clock Saturday evening. Seventeen nations are represented in the booths which are arranged on the first floor of the building. Some of the most interesting exhibitions of the world’s fair at Chicago and the mid- winter fair at San Francisco have been se- cured and are now in place in the hall. The flags of all nations float in the building, and at the end of the main hall is a staxe Where native entertainments and dances will be given by the various foreign nations repre- sented at the exhibition. Friday night a banquet was given by the management to the representatives of the press at the exposition. From present in- dications the exposition bids fair to be successful. — 00 ‘I'S VICTORY. She Has to Pay for It With Snubs and Threats. The adverse decision in the case of the Empire Music Hall is still a topic of ex cited discussion all over London. The di- rectors are chagrined that their appeal to the courts from the decision of the county council not to grant the Empire a liquor license unless the promenade was closed was dismissed, and are yet undecided as to what course of action they will adopt. Mrs. Ormisicn Chant, the leader of the crusade against the Empire, is naturally jubilant over the sucessful fight she has made. She states that she has been threat- ered with bombs, dynamite, stabbing, vit- riol, shooting, ete. In the ‘streets she is bowled at and fs told in certain shops where she is knowa to take her trade els where. Fifteen hundred anarchists went out to Waldheim cemetery, near Chicago, yester- day afternoon to attend a demonstration in memory of Spies, Parsons, Fischer, Lingg and Engel, who were hanged for the part they took in the Haymarket riot. Herr Most addressed the assemblage. One thou- sand of the red-bedecked men paraded the streets and marched to the Wisconsin Cen- tral depot, where they boarded a train of twelve cars. The train was wrecked, how- ever, at 40th street, and the passengers hag some dilliculty in reaching their destina- tion, The tngineer and fireman jumped, but the engineer Was probabiy fatally in- jured. A number of passengers were cut and bruised. A report comes from Denver that Gov. Waite received a dressing down in his own executive chamber Saturday night by the conservative men of his own party. Nearly all the candidates on the populist state ticket were present and each one in turn “sfiled him,” Bach declared himself a true believer in the party principies, but hence- forth he wanted to hear no more from the man for whom they were sacrificed. Lafe ence, Congressman from the first district, was the principal speaker. Following this conterence it Was decided to abandon oll Sunday political meeungs which caused sv much scandal and jucurred the enmity vf the churchmen, and organize on the vasis of good government. Fully 8,000 persons gazed on the re- mains of Mike iveliy, the ball player, yes- ‘erday in the rooms of the Boston Lodge of wiks. AL SL Joseph's Church a brief service Was held. Aiter the service the re- mains were taken to Mount Hope ceme- tery, where they were interred according io ihe rites of the Elks. The Bridsh naval court of inquiry, sum- moned by the british consul Ww inquire into” the iacts concerning the joss of the British ship Otogo, bas concluded its work by suspending for three months the British cerllicate of competency of Capt. Landry, Who commanded the vessel when she was abandoned, A severe earthquake shook the Island of Ambrym, one ot the New Hebrides group, on October 15. it was followed by an erup- on of Lhe volcano on Che island. The lava destroyed the villages on one side of the ssiand and numbers of natives sought ref- uge aboard H. M. 8. Dart. airs, Mary Ridgely Carter, wife of Mr. ernard Carter, the Maryland lawyer, died yesterday at Baltimore of heart failure. Airs. Carter was the davghter of the late met Atidgely, and was sixty-one years old. Charles Miller, a watchman, was found murdered in the olfice of the Empire stone works, No. 335 East 107th street, New York, yesterday morning. His head was a mass of wounds. The motive for the crime was not robbery, for upon the body was fouad all the money he had when he left home. Attorney General Patterson of Tennessee yesterlay received information that the meu summoned for jury «uty have been chosen in such a way by the sheriff aad deputies that it would not have been pos- sible to secure a conviction of the Milling- ton lynchers,, however guilty the accused. Une accepted juror remarked in the hear- ing of a deputy, who afverward summoned nim, that he would not convict a white nan for murder in any case. Gen. Patter- son will today ask the discharge of the eleven jurors who have so far been ac- cepted for the trial of Smith and Rich- ardsoa. Cheney Brothers, the big silk manufactur- ers of South Manchester, Conn., will today start a uumber of important departments of their mills on full time. All departments will suvuon be running full time. The mill employs 2,500 haw A colony of milies of the Pullman unemployed will arrive in Alabama this week. They have secured 2,000 acres of fine land at & per acre, iocated on the very spot where the last battle of the civil war was fought. Saw mill and brick-making machinery have been bought on time. A Lutheran minister named Van Kooch, for- merly of Ohio, but now of Ajiabama, is the instigator of the enterprise. The colony will be located about ten miles from the Gulf of Mexico. A dispatch from Tokio says: A special steamer has arrived at Hwang Chu with dispaiches as to the course of the war in Corea. Kin Chow was taken bv the Jap- anese on November 4. The garrison con- sisted of some 1,200 infantry and artillery. The batteries were very badly served dur- ing the defense. The Indiana coal operators are hoping that the threatened strike in the Pittsburg district may be averted by resort to the method of arbitration provided in the Co- lumbus agreement of June 12,which brought the big strike to an end. The populist party in Wisconsin was the only one of the four, according to State Chairman Scnilli that gained any votes. The gain is estimated at 45,000, about four times ihe vote cast in 1892. The republicans have fewer votes than they had in 1sv2 and the democratic 4oss was evenly divided between stay-at-homes and deserters to the populis Compiete returns for Minnesota shew that the v of the state was 288,000, which is 00) more than the presidential vote 5 elson has a clear majority a mpctitors. The seven stessmen are elected by ralities ranging from 14,00 for McCleary in the sesond district to 781 for Eddy in the seventh. Complete cfficial returms on governor of Nebraska give Holcomb, democrat-popuiist, 96,015; Majors, republican, 92,958. Hol- comb’s plurality, 3,087. All the remainder of the state officers elected are republicans. The straight populist vote was cast for Powers for state treasurer. It was 66,377, an increase of 15,000 votes over last year, and an increase of 5,000 votes over two years ago. The friends of Majors have de- cided to contest the election. The action of Gen. Cassius M. Clay, aged eighty-four, in preparing to marry a girl has caused a sensation at Loultsville. He drove over from White Hall, his home, to Richmond, took out a Keense to marry Dora Richardson, a fifteen-year-old girl, whom he has been educating. Owing to the low state of the Chicago city treasury, Chief of Police Brennan has issued a general order arranging for the dropping of about five hundred police offi- cers from the force. Herr von Hammerstein, director of the province of Hanover, has been appointed Prussian minister of agriculture to succeed Herr von Heyden-Cado By reason of the extended term of mayor Tammany cannot make another fight to regain power for thr ears. ins of the late Czar Alexander scow yesterday and were taken to the Cathedral of St. Michael the Arch- angel, where impressive services were held, and the remains afterward lay in state. The republicans had a great demonstra- tion at Wheeling Saturday night over their recent vietory in West Virginia. Stephen B. Elkins was there and announced his candidacy for the United States Senate. The of Charles A. Morganfield, charged with robbing the Adams Express car at Quantico, Va., was postponed in Cincinnat! Saturday to December 22, The inauguration of the president of Bra- zil occurs this week. A natianal convention has been called to meet in St. Louts, December 11, to formu- late plans for the care of poor children in the cities of the United States, see In Moore's Behalf. . The Chinese minister has conferred with Secretary Gresham as to what can be done for the relief of Mr. Moore, formerly inter- preter of the legation, and now a prisoner of war in Japan. The minister has no direct interest in Moore, except as a friend, as it is claimed he acted on his own re- sponsibility, Messrs, Wilde and Cameron, who were arrested with Moore, first wrote to the Chinese minister, offering their dy: mite torped » minister paid no atten~ tion to the letter. Then, it Is sald, Mr. Moore took up the subject on his own ac- rity from the min- count and, with: uthority from ister or China. w that he is in prison, however, the minister wishes to help him in any way possible. The conference w ham has not resuited in any ces from the United advi Ruggles ts informed Schindle, sixth infantry, om heart disease at Fort Thomas, Ky. Capt. Schindle was appolated the regular army from the volumveer vice as a second lieutenant of the sixth ry in October, 1861, and served gal- throughout the war. He was twice iropped lantly revetted for gallant and meritorious serv- at the second battle of Bull Run and ices, ut € Lieu! itysburg. Hts death promotes First B. A. Byrne, sixth infantry, to be a and Second Lieut. W. K. Jones, pt nth infantry, to be a first Meutenant,