Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1895, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. = Il ll & OBE & € =-in the most popular store. bargains with the emph The inviting welcome. ‘Hun © that uid are $i0— go at are marked Worth — $13.50, ve $12.50 dreds of Boys’ Suits and cut—and full back. | years. fs rare ex. * people here. $3 Reefers- $4.75, $00 @2Oe $6.75. $7.00 2000 Boys’ Reefers. prices—bot so Reefers==$1.50. ™ Reefers==$1.75. $2.50. ly Reefers==$3.75- H i Reefers=-$4.50. Reefers--$5.50. i Reefers--$6.00. Reefers--$7.00. net picking for we Every that cannot call First of January Sale. Group E $3. THE THE $5.00 THE $5.75, ! THE $6.75, } THE $7.00 ‘THE $7. | ‘THE $8.00 6 Washington’s Greatest Outfitters. The Boys’ Suits are Single and Deuble-breasted Sacks—of the latest style and newest pattern, and im sizes ‘| to fit ages from.14 to 19 years. | Overcoats are Blue and Black Kerseys | —-with plain or fancy linings—long= Sizes 14 to 19 | ae Boys’ Ulsters. Four lots made up out of a dozen. noswer fof sizes is ‘sactitice| 4 TO 12 YEARS. One. Ulsters==$3.00 Group Two. Ulsters==$4.00 Group Three. Ulsters= Group Four. : Ulsters--$6.00 | Overcoats. asis of actual saving. ====TAKE YOUR CHOICE==--=- _ Hundreds of Men’s Suits and Overcoats. v that are marked — have sold ‘Those that are for —and are worth $20, $18, $17.50 for—and are Worth and $16.50 —go at $10 — go at The Unequaled in thirty years of endeavor! | We strike a succession of blows that prostrate the BOYS’ LONG PANTS SUITS and OVERCOATS--that make this great occasion a “family affair.’ They are blows that affect the most popular lines of the most popular stock Blows that beggar deserving prices---and pronounce O3S DBSESSHOGSSOISOSHOIGSHHS SDS IOSOIS SSOGHSOHOOSS DSIHHOHSHH HO HSHIDHOGOHSSOSHOSIHSSSHOHSSOHSSHOHSOSOSSHSOOSS We Leave -TO JUDGE---isn’t this the- value prices that ever crossed the path of your experience? --TO ENJOY---this wholesale offering of sterling qualities on the altar of expediency! But the half hasn’t been told! opportunities will surpass it! in all history of competition! It To You greatest discounting of actual- Great as was yesterday’s privilege, tomorrow’s Unparalleled — That’s the watchword. . marked — have sold $13.50, $12 and The Men’s Suits are Single and Double-breasted Sacks and Regent Cutaways—in Plain Black Cheviots and Fancy Cheviots, Cassimeres, etc. The Overcoats are Blue, Black and Brown Kersey, Beaver, Chinchilla Sack Coats and Cape Coats—and Ulsters. ‘Those that are marked for —ané are $20, have sold worth $18, $17.50 and $16.50 —go at the roll | in this great ‘Those that were $4.7, 3 $6. go now st $5.00 Suits—-Dress Suits—Play Suits—Staple AND a kind left has been put in one of these two divisions. They are the season's successes. School $4.00. Every lot of Boys’ Short Pants Suits im stock of which there's only one, two or three of with up to COMPAN Boys’ Shoes. Two lots that are made up of a dozen values—but all broken lines. Lot One. CALF and IN LEATHER LACE and BUTTON SHOES— with regular and spring heel—values from to $2.50—go now at Lot Two. BOYS’ CALF LACE and BUTTON SH OE S—all ae heels—value 1.50 $1.00 MEN'S | $1.35 | @O500690S90000 Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. OSSSSSHSS O050SES9NNOSNNNNONSODSESESS Men’s Shoes. Likewise broken Jots-Uines of which only @ pair or two remain. Lot One. CONGRESS SHOES—val- ues at $1.50, $2 and $2.50 go now at. ‘Lot Two. CALF CB and CONGRESS SHOES —values at $3, $3.50, $4 and $5--go now at Modern Apparel.’ Lac $1.00 La 91.75 rveyors Of * Pu GOOOHSOOOSSI]HOSSHOHOPSHHDHDHHSH GOGSDHOSHODODHOHHOHGHHOGHH OOOSHGHNIOOVONS GOO SSSSSSS @ What Senator Stewart Says of the Declara- tion of Principle. He Thinks a Majority of the People Will Agree With It—Woney Ques- Aion of the First Importance. Speaking of the St. Louls conference of the populist party, Senator Stewart of Nevada said today: “I am very much pleased with the following declaration of principle contained in the address of the St. Louls conference: sist upon the restoration of the coinage gold and silver as It existed prior to 1873, at the ratio of 16 to 1, with- out regard to the action of any other na- tion, and that all paper money shall be issued by the general government without the intervention of banks of {fssue, the same to be a full legal tender. We also declare our implacable hostility to the further issue of interest-bearing bonds.’ Against this Issue the republican party and the Cleveland democracy present the gold standard. pure and simple. There Is no doubt that a majority of the people of the United States cordially agree with the St. Louis conference, on the declaration of principles above quoted. ‘The Insue Embarrassed. “Unfortunately, however, this great issue fs embarrassed by other subjects about which there fs a great diversity of opin- fon. I fear it will be impossible for the people's party or any other party to suc- ceed on the main issue unless ft is m the sole Issue. The Omaha platform was made under very different circumstance: At that time It was not known that the two old parties would unite upon the single issue of the gold standard. Both parties dented their platform that such was and both declared in favor tion of silver, either by the alone or by international It is true thelr platforms were but still it was claimed by the west and south that both ies were for the free col 8 nd by reasen of the posit all parties there was very little disc’ ion of the money question in the presidential gt Is02. To Maintain the Gold Standard. “Since that time President Cleveland called an extra session for the express purpose of repealing all laws recognizing silver as standard money, reducing all silver coin in existence to mere token mone and adoptjng the gold stantard. ajority of the republicans of es of Congress co-operated with the President in the extra session and reduced the money of the United States to the goli standard. This union of the two old pavties to maintain the gold standard requires the political u of all who are opposed to ft. If that union can he et- fected success 1s certain. If at, de- feet irevitable. The 1 at- tached to this one tseue by those who are The great m: the two how striving to establish a gold standard is shewn by the facility with which party lines are obliterated when it is made a question. : Money the First Importance. “Whatever may be the separate value of the other measures indorsed by the con- ference they are evidently of minor im- portance to the money question, and as they are certain to engender antagonisms and divide the friends of financial reform it is in the part of wisdom to subordinate them to the main issue, which must first be settled b2fore any other reforms are possible.” a we A PECULIAR TRANSFER TICKET. ‘The Faces of Five Men and Two Wo- men Printed at the Top. From the New Yerk Herald. The Consolidated Traction Company, which, directly or indirectly, owns and con- trols everything that works with a trolley pole, has succeeded in making all New Jer- sey laugh over the new tickets with which it furnishes passengers who desire to transfer from one of its lines of cars to an- other. The system of transfers is very | liberal, enabling citizens of Jersey City and Newark to go from almost any place in either city to any place in the other. To prevent people not too honest cheat- ing the railroad company out of a fare by using a transfer for an original ride, the company has devised a ticket, on the top of which are printed in a row the faces of five men and two smooth-faced man, the man with a mus- tache, and another with side whiskers, a feurth with chin whiskers and the fifth with a full beard. There are only two wo- men—one meart to be young and the other old—a hat designating the former and a bonnet the latter. There is, also, as an ad- ditional safeguard, one position of the tick- et, just under the heads, which when punched shows the age of the holder to be more than or less than forty years. Now, what conductor will presume to decide in woman's age? Think of the possibilities of le, and then you will not wonder why decided that for a time, $ are not to be punched for passengers. | Under the ne stem passengers will be | allowed only ten minutes from the time of | the arrival at the transfer point to the time of leaving on another car. On one end of the ticket is a sort of a checker | board arrangement. In the first column are the hours from 1 to 12, and then come | five other columns giving the minute divis- jens of the hour. THe day of the month, | and whether afternoon or forenoon, are given, making a practically complete rd. —_—____-+e+—___—_- Strange. From Life. “No, ma’am,” sighed Mrs. McGinnis to the church visitor, “I can't seem to keep Johnny from swearing, nohow. He’s only three, and you wouldn't believe what things ne’ll say. Here, Johnny, swear for the lady.” -2ee—___— A New Soctal Departure. From the London Daily News. In the south of France a new social ex- periment is about to be tried. A wealthy land-owner has given a large tract of land in the department of the Cantal to a small sect headed by the painter M. E. Gravelle, whose aim is a return to the manners and habits of primitive life. women. There is the | ‘an instant en the most delicate matter—a | GONZAGA COLLEGE Organization and Growth of the Young Men's Catholic Club. ‘The Latest Feature is a Dramatic As- socintion Which Will Present Gil- lette’s Private Seeretary. The Y. M. C. C. of Gonzaga College was born a little over five years ago. The at- tempt to form a club had frequently been made before, but without success. In the latter part of the year 1889, the new parcchial residence being completed, it was occupied by the faculty of the col- lege and clergy of St. Aloysius Church, leaving a part of Gonzaga College building vacant. Rev. Father McGuirk, who was then rector, offered the vacant rooms to nine young men for the purpose of organ- izing a young men’s club. Mr. O'Connor, 8. J., who was then a pro- fessor in Gonzaga College and a school- | mate of the original nine, co-operated with them, and a call Was issued to the young men of the city. At the first meeting Mr. O'Connor was elected the first president. From the outset it was realized that to be successful the club should cater to the aifferent tastes of young men. So it was decided to embrace all features for the in- tellectual, physical snd moral culture of its membership, and the result was seen in the first administration. During the year 18%) Father McGuirk was called to a new field of labor, and the Rev. Father Cornelius Gillespie, S. J., was selected as his successor. He was, previous to the foundation of the club, a professor in Gon- zaga College, and aided in educating many members of the club, and for that reason he became at once the greatest friend it ever had. One of the features of the success of the club was the course of lectures on philos- ophy given by the Rev. A. M. Mandalari, S. J., formerly professor at Boston Col- | lege, during the same year. | “During the year 182 great improvements | were made in the gymnasium, with the latest appliances, especially bowling alleys, which have not only been a fruitful source of ‘amusement, and beneficial to the health and physical development of the members, but a welcome source of income. Last year the introduction of the literary and dramatic feature was decided upon by the appointment cf a special commit- tee, who. after due deliberation, reached | the conclusion that the club should pro- duce a play, and the Irish comedy-drama “My Geraldine” was selected. The play was a very pleasing one, with pienty of | sentiment and vein of cornedy run- ning through it, h illustrated the irre- sistibility of the Irish peasantry. Every one pronounced it a great. success. For this year (during the New Year week) | the club intends to offer its many friends | and the public the well-known and favorite comedy “The Private Secretary,” by Wm. | Gillette, a comedy of rare excellence, abcunding with mirth and humor, a class of work rarely attempted hy amateurs, but which promises to be a great success on this occasion, owing to the great number of efficient and thorough rehearsals, under the stage direction of Harry C. Cassidy, who for a number of years has been a member of the theatrical profession, but | is at present ‘residing i Washington, and being a member of the club naturally takes great interest in the production. Mr. Cas- sidy for five years was stage manager for Mr. David Henderson of the Chicago Opera House and assisted very materially in all his great productions, such as ““Gondoliers,”* “Crystal Slipper,” “Sinbad” and “Ali- Baba.” Mr. Cassidy will also take the part of Robert Spaulding. The part of Douglass Cattermole will be played by M. A. Keane, for a long time a prominent member of the club and at present holding the office of vice president. He therefore naturaily takes great interest In everything that pertains to the club. This will be Mr. Keane's first appearance upon the stage. J. R. Lansdale, who takes the part of Knox the Bailiff, is an active member of the club and is at present captain of the bowling team representing the club in the District Amateur Bowling League. He is ret only an enthusiastic athlete, but has shown much dramatic ability. Tke other male characters will be taken by Messrs. ‘Thos. P. Kennelly, Bernard Waggaman, ‘D. Edward Sweeney and Lewis Carroll. Of the ladies tho will assist the club in the presentation of this play are: Miss Mary Devercux, a staunch friend of the organization, will take the part of Eva Webster. Miss Devereux was educated at the Notre Dame Convent of Visitation and possesses a remarkably sweet voice, hav- ing appeared before the public on several occasions. It is, however, her first appear- ance as an actress, but she will undoubted- ly score a great success in her new role. Miss Helen Prentiss Donohue, who has won favorable recognition in her work as leading lady with the Baker Dramatic Com- pany and Linthicum Students, will have the part of Edith Marsden. Miss Donohue took the part of leading lady with the Linthicum Students after the professional engagement of Miss Daisy Hammack last year. Her acting is natural and grace- ful. With the Baker Dramatic Company and Linthicum Students'she has been seen in the following parts: Jessie, in ‘Hickory Farm;” Moselle, in “Nevada;” Silvie, in “Picket Line;” Daisy, in “Take the Girl Away;” Norah, in “Confederate Spy,” and Lavenia, in “Spectre Brkiegroom.” Miss A. Helene Lackeye, sister of Wil- ton Lackaye, the well-known actor, will Flay several parts, namely, Mrs. Stead, Mrs. Ashford and Mrs. Spaulding. She was educated at the Notre Dame Convent and Holy Cross Academy. Her splendid rendi- | tion of Countess iConstantia in ‘Queen Planclte of Castile," Mrs: Eva Thornley in “A Social Glass” an@ Portia in “Merchant of Venice,” proves that! she is capable of ably carrying the abovd three parts. As a whole, théJertife cast possesses more than ordinany merit for amateurs, and judging from reheaysals, the comedy will score a decided hit.. The most untiring worker behind sceriés has been Francis A. W. Van Reuth, president of the club, and to him, more than any ‘other, is due the successful staging of the play. - SR aes ag ghee es Strike of 6,000 Shoe Makers, A general shoe strike is on at Haverhill, Mass. The lasters started the battle, and they have ben reinforced by the work- men in all other departments. While the fight is against the three largest firms in the city—Chick Bros, W. W. aiding and Spaulding & Sweet, who émploy men under contract—every firm in the city is suffering. A big parage was formed by women and was later augmented by 6,000 striking men. After the firms refused to arbitrate the strikers surrounded each fac- tory in town and the employes at once left their benches. J. H. Winchel & Co. made a 15 per cent advance throughout, but their men will come out today, ds this advance does “ot restore union prices The entire cutting force of the city will quit today. n THE GERMAN PROHIBITION How It Was Brought About According to the Agricultural Department. An Extract From the Leading Organ of the German Agrarian Interests to Prove the Theory. It is asserted at the Agricultural Depart- ment that the agricultural or agrarian party in the German empire brought about the prohibition: of the importation to Ger- many of live cattle, dressed beef, canned beef, and other meat products from the United States. Secretary Morton says that the landed proprietors in Germany are the protectionists, who teach McKinleyism in “high Dutch.” They desire, he says, to ex- clude all competition which may arise from fertile lands of the United States. In proof of his position, the Secretary gives out the following extract from the morning edition of December 7, 1894, No. 572 of the Kreuz (Neue Preussische) Zeitung, published in Berlin, which ts the acknowledged lead- ig organ of the Agrarian interests: “The business firms of Hamburg inter- ested in the importation of American cat- tle are doing everything in their power to remove the prohibition, which was en- forced on account of the danger f diseases. ‘Experts’ went to England for the purpose of obtaining information as to the experience derived there from the im- portation of cattle, and—to the surprise of no one—r2turned home with the ‘most fav- erable’ news. Englishmen who look for ‘diseases’. everywhere, and for this reason have made the German business-life a burden for years, state ‘that they are of the opinion that Texas fever has no dan- gerous< character and Is not contagious at all It is to te hoped that the Hamburg gentlemen will be mistaken if they are of the opinion that this optimism which, from their standpoint, is easily explained, will be shared by the responsible authorities. ‘The Hanseatic business interest was warn- ed, when it fcrmed the idea several months age of replacing the exportation of human beings (emigrants) with the importation of cattle. “The conservative and ‘agrarian’ press had already, at that time, called attention to the considerations against it on account | of the danger of infection; but, as is al- ways the case, no impression was made. The ‘New Course’ (Caprivi’s) had pampered ‘business’—in so far as it’ was not of an agricultural charcter—to such an extent that the busiress people had the idea that they might do anything. Therefore the cat- tle stcamers were built and the ball began to roll. That this. prohibition, coming sooner than anybody could have antici- pated, is disagreeably felt, we readily be- lieve, but we are all the same convinced that the Hamburg business interest will bear this loss casier than the German ag- ricultural interests could bear the impor- tation of dangerous and contagious dis- eases, and we therefore sincerely hope, as already stated, that the English ‘trav- eler’s experiences’ of the Hamburg ‘export’ will be shelved with the records as ‘valu- able material’ in Berlin and elsewhere.” - CAN YOU sHOOT? If Not Avoid Accidents by Following ‘These Suggestions. A correspondent of the American Field sends that paper tae following rules, which, if carefully observed by those carrying weapons, will avoid many sad accidents: 1, Never, under any circumstances, point your gun toward a human being. 3 ae Never carry it so that if it were acci- lentally discharged it would the life of a dog. Sree See ~ 3. Always think which way your gun is pointed, «nd if a companion Os the field with you, no matter how near or how tempting the game appears, do not shoot until you know where he is; a stray shot may be sufficient to destroy an eye forever. 4. Never carry a loaded gun in a wagon. 5. Never carry a loaded gun over a fence; put it through and then get over. . . Always carry a gun at half cock; breechloader, never let the hammers meee “ oe plungers. . Never get in front of a gun; if yor falling drop it so that the muzzle vill be from you. . If the cartridge sticks the stout blade of a knife will probably extract it; if not, take out the other cartridges, cut a straight stick and poke it out from the muzzle; even then do not get in front of a gun. 9, After firing one barrel take tl tridge out of the other and Se “the wad to see that it is not loosened, as it ory s =— = heavy recoil, for, get up into tI to burst = nk : e barrel, it is Hable . Never take hold of gun to draw it toward ae coer eee 11. Never set a gun up so that if it should fall the muzzle would be toward you. 12, Never keep a loaded gun in the house. sapien au these rules, be self-possessed e fiel qnnithe will afford you sport without ——__+-. Cigarette Girls Then and Now. From the Rochester Herald. Years ago, when the business was new, and before the introduction of the compli- cated machines which reel off the “coffin nail” in such quantities that to remove the finished product is of itself no easy task, the cigarette girl was a light-heart- ed and fashionable-appearing maiden of whom things not exclusively complimen- tary were said. She was a victim of circumstances which today may be considered fortunate or un- fortunaie, as the critic’s mind inclines. Now, as then, the cigarette girl is as light- hearted and gay as ever, and cuts quite a figure in the way of things the latest in style. She is not a person of wide acquaintance, and that is why unthinking and unkind people who have no business to pass judg- ment regard the cigaretie girl as a trifle blase. She usually wears the newest thing in gowns and coats, and, at the theater, view may be obstructed by plumage on her gaudy hat, which cost enough to sup- port an ordinary family a month, and this in the face of the fact that the salaries of a dozen years ago have been just about cut in half. Style comes high, but the cigarette girl must have it. It was a thing inaugurated by the frivolous debonnaire girl of a more prosperous period, but will doubtless continue: until the cigarette girl and the product of her busy fingers are relegated into history. But to know the cigarette girl in her own home is the only way in which to know the cigarette. girl as she really Is, the model member of Rochester's army of working women, SPORT FCR THE TRADERS. New Year's Revel on the Chi< The annual New Year revel on the board of trade was observed yesterday at Chi- cago, with unusual enthusiasm. The fes- tivities began with a series of blood- curdling yells and a vivid imitation of the ghost dance. A short, fat trader, with a high silk hat, who was leading the vocal exercises, was suddenly cut short in his musical flights by the swift descent of a bursting sack of flour. With the signal, every man on the floor entered energeti- cally into an attempt to pound every man with a flour sack. Hats were battered and hurled toward the ceiling, coats were torn, men were upset, and for half an hour a sneesy War oye pel Kae Et EN iar ur. When the stock of flour was exhausted the sample tables were robbed of barley, oats and corn, and the air was full of fly- ing missiles, until exhaustion ended the fun. When it was over the pit looked as though it had been struck by a blizzard, and the traders resembled a choice collec- tion of tramps.- ———__+e0_____ ‘To Be Freed After Many Years. Gov. Flower of New York yesterday commuted the sentence of Fitzgerald, who has been in prison since the draft riots in New York, so that he will be released from Dannemora prison on April 1. “After looking carefully into this case,” said the governor, “I became convinced that Fitzgerald had been amply punished for his crime. He was a soldier during the riots, and, with his company, been sent to protect the ambulance service in Harlem. A mob surrounded one of the ambulances, and Fitugerald fired in the air to intimidate the mob. The bullet struck a womar who was leaning out of a window on the top floor of a building and killed her. He was tried and sen- tenced by Judge Barnard to imprisonment for life. So far as I know, he has no rela- tives, but friends have applied to every governor since Gov. Hoffman's time. Capt. Sauger, in whcse company Fit id was, has promised to aid him in earning a live- lihood.” si ’ — see. Laugh and Grow Fat. From All the Year Round. Garrick was in the midst of a tragedy when suddenly he stopped and roared with laughter. What was the cause? Why, simply this: “A butcher in the front of the pit, who had taken off his wig to wipe the sweat from his head, had placed the wig for a while upon his large dog, who stood facing the stage, with his forepaws rest- ing on the pit railings.” This is as good an example as could be found to contest the foolish assertion that all laughter has its ris2 in something in- evitably lowering to human nature. It Was pure incongruity. " The French tell us that “le rire est hy- gienique.” We knew that even before they made the phrase, but it is well to have their confirmation of the fact. Salubrious! Why, of course it is. For what purpose else did our wise forefathers keep certifi- cated fools to make sport for them at their meals and in the intervals of business, or more methodical pleasure seeking? The city council of Little Rock, Ark, at its last meeting, in adopting a license ordi- nance, added a new section taxing tele- graph, telephone and electric light and power poles 60 certs each per annum. Al