Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1895, Page 8

& SSOOCO SS EG e GIVEN AWAY Tomorrow, with Shoe pur- tall 3 stores, ;CKER BOARD.” SOSSOOOI00 OVE. Tomorrow is the last day that we hope to occupy any rented MAIN STORE” EST BRA’ are already in buildings owned by us. Next Monday our “CAPITOL HILL STORE” will be located in our own handsome new bullding, quarters. and our specially built for your and our Detter comfort. I (=) 3 8 3 2 é. & GOOSOSOOSS OOHOOOHIDOSSOOOOOO || oe the last day of our Great Removal Sale” Hill © Store, 231 Penna. Ave. S.E. Every Shoein this store to be sold at a reduction for to-= morrow only. SAOSOSOOSOOSHOOO SNH OOHHHDHOOO styles of all our lines several pegs SOOOOOSHOOO® ae upward, while leaving prices—at were. 2) © PA least—as low as TOMORROW WE PLACE ON SALE AT Main Store AND OUR. West End Store: > For Pien. OVee es Fine Tan Laced Shoes, 2 new styles Genuine Kangaroo Shoes, SSHGOSOG0 ft, es) new styles 3 Tan Russia Calf Shoes, ey Excellent $2.50 Values. For Ladies. ¢ 2 new styles Ss Black and Tan Low Button, 8 new styles % Kid Extension Sole Boots, $2.50' ew styles ‘elght Dress Boots Good $3 Values. les Finest Vici Kid Low Ties, 6 new kinds Soft Kid Low-cut Shoes, w styles At 2 Kid Button Boots, 2 new styles i Toe pe, STE Well worth $2. POSOMOOOSS OSS SOO IOS @ ies} For Children. 2 ne 5 new styles Boys’ Calf Shoes, At $1.25 Regular $1.50 Values. les s ‘nild’s Soft Kid Shoes, 8 new kinds Lisses’ and € Button, 2 kinds Misses’ end Ch gola oes "3 Don- 2 kinds eitincme aa ZAC Calf Shoes, 3 new styl Infants’ Finest Shoes, Splendid $1 Values. s r] a 0, § ad RELIABLE SHOE HOUSES: 930 and ith st. it 7th st. 1914 and 1916 Pa. ave. 231 Pa. ave. s.e. Seees bog Don’t Fool — —with gasoline, home— trying to clean your ible to do it right, plete and approved for throughly clean- ing dress kid gloves Or anything in the fabrie line. Late of Pa ae Spindler Ss Anton Fisher, 12TH ST. ONE DOOR ABOVE F ST. apparatus in the cit mh14-9d HE-NO TEA In convenient %, % and 1b. packages. GUARANTEED PURE By Martin Gillet & Co., the oldest importers of tea in AMERICA, {8-3m,12 LOST—$50 TO $150 Per year (according to size of your wardrobe) by not 7 . We work wonders with ao fer : THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. Are ; Women Logical? That “‘no man can serve two masters’? and that a cash business enables low= est prices are sound busi- ness principles that will only be denied by the credit merchant who imagines women are not logical. Patais Royal. The best of the latest spring arrivals are mone too good for Sunday wear. The Palais .Royal’s cash prices for such are con- spicuously lower than at the stores where the busi- ness is largely credit. $1.50 Pair for Best Quality French Kid Gloves—the very latest. Canary with heavy black embroidery and four big pearl buttons, “Equally stylish is pearl and white kid with biack embroidery and black kid with white embrpldery. gc For Real Kid Gloves, such as for $1 at the “credit” establishments, All size¥ here, in tans, browns, black, with four big buttons to match. 25cC - For choice of eleven new and beautiful styles of Warranted Pore Linen Handkerchiefs. Some with harrow hemst'tched borders with bend-embroldery look worth Ue apiece. Dainty beauties are those with filmy lace insertion and edge. Spring- like are those with tiny dots of embroider colors, ‘Those desiring Mourning Handkerchiefs will De more than satisfied with the variety that can be shown. 18¢ Instead of 25¢ for many styles. cause they cannot meet the new arrivals mentioned above. 15c To $15 for the New Celluloid Tollet Articles. Everything for men, women and children’s tollet is is the largest and most complete col- fon of Fine Toilet Articles ever gathered in Washington. Enterprise should be encouraged. Be a looker tomorrow If nothing more. A big, inducement to buy in the Hand Mirrors at Se, worth We. 25C For set of Warranted Sterling Silver Shirt Studs, and G8e for set Including Sleeve Links and Shirt Studs. New, artistic, low priced. 23¢ For the Sterling Silver Belt Pins, 59c for the Bird Vell Pins and $1.25 for Silk Belts, with sterling er buckles, are prices less than prevalling. Zc For choice of 25¢ Veils, and 59¢ instead of 68 d 75e for the New Double Vellings, are “‘spe- for tomorrow onlye Price lowered be- competition of the ‘To $10 for the N the usual $1 collar only saves are beauties for $2.43 that we at $2.98. 2ice For the 25¢ Silk Windsors is a special price for Saturday only. New Silk Waists. E7The very latest Paris styles, with blouse front, and sleeves—that will ve pronounced bideous when no longer in vogue. $15 For liaported Silk eats eae of which are being retailed at $18 und $12.50 © Changeable Silk Waists, and $10 for Fancy ik Waists that sumetimes pose as imported, at $s. a 5 9 $5.50 a $4.98 for Fancy India and Crepon Silk Wiuists. Though low in prices these garments are the acm? of style, finish and fit. Separate Skirts. ‘With all the latest “points.” Even the 1ckar iticed are fined’ thronguout and otherwise a ike the more cxpexsive. nd $15 for the All-wool Crepon Skirts. Nothing er than the $15 garment. though you, may nk so When you read of them elsewhere at $15. w Venice Lace Collars. 89c for fou lle, but here yw of elsewhere F ud $10 for Figured Taffeta Silk and Mohair Mol Skits ‘tat are being much admired ye 3 Au y and and and $3.69 for the “Humbug"’ me is appropriate, since the the expensive All-wool Crepon How, we don't know, but here At $3.60. Small Children. delighted with the new sea- ring the children to third Mothers will be son’s gathering here. g8c Yo $7.75 are the price extremes for the new Coats fit children from 2 to 4 years. Though the is $7.75, you will here find the $10 Coa For Silk Coats, in white and fancy silk. To write that they have double cape and are Ince and Dralé trimmed is not to tell of the most important feature—the style. But, how tell of the inex- sible? Only with the eyes—your eyes. 8c For a Coat reads bad. You'll expect to see a trashy garment. Prepare for a surprise. You choose from Check and Stripe Cloth Coats in th soft neutral tints that are typical of spring. Then arge cape, big sleeves, braid trimming. mine the work of this coat and wonder the more at the price. $1.68 75 are price extremes of the New Reefers, in 2 to 6 years. Ask to see those at $1.65—for ab agreeable surprise. gc ‘To $10. Prices of Caps gradually rise from lowest to highest, for a collection that will enchant moth- ers. ‘Those having children from 8 months to 6 x of age are specially invited to call tomorrow. the stock is entirely new we are anxious to “subjects” to try them on. gc Is a price that doesn’t represent the actual, worth of the really pretty Baby Cap offered. It's just an advt. costing so much. The more we sell the more expensive the advt. ‘That's why we say please do not ask for more than cne. - Qc For Silk Embroldered Japanese Silk Caps that we tink you will Judge equal to any you have seen elsewhere at 50c. Husbands,Fathers Wife or daughter, husband or father will find no finer stock of Men's Furnishings 1n town than here. 25¢ To $2 for the New Spring Neckties. Onl; the Imported De Joinvilles that sell for “exclusive’’ stores. Only 25¢ for the Washable De Joinvilles, white ground, With colored silk embroidery. $1, $1.50 Be ‘50c for 1 at the and $1.75 pair for Men's Good, Better and Gloves. ‘The English Dogskins at $1 are rranted—tried on at our risk. The best at pair are $2 and §2.25 elsewhere, a5 most now. . Palais Royal, A. Lisner, G and mth Sts. Aree te 4: Some Things You Ought to Buy ot a -At-- PERRY’S. x Each department is a link in the chain of supply. All based alike on quality—all governed alike by progressive policy—all marked alike,at the“‘lowest possible” prices. We have no specialty—but worth. No ambition, but to have vou regard us in the true light of our honest endeavor to serve you best: Fancy Bosom Shirts— Made of these qualities—and as these are most folks would ask a dollar. So would we if we didn't make it a point to sell everything as low as possible. They aro White and Fancy Pique and Madras bos- oms—and good muslin body. 70c. is our modest price. ae The spring weights, of course—Ralbrig- gan, Merino, Wool, Silk. We think that we have got a little bigger variety this season than ever before. Quite sure the Quite sure the prices are lower. “catch the drift’? from these three lots. What do you think? Better and cheaper—or not? Natural Gray Wool Shirts and Drawers— fine and soft, finished with patent seams, silk facings and braid—pearl buttons and a whole lot of satisfaction et ceteras. How much would you say—$1 aplece? Wrong— only 75c. White Lamb's Wool Shirts and Draw- ers. You would expect to pay about $1.50 for this grade. Another surprise—another saving—$1 each piece. That is not say- ing they aren't worth the’extra fifty cents. A small money bargain—Blue Baib: gan Shirts and Drawers, with French necks, satin fecings, pearl buttons and al, together 50 cents’ worth of Underwear in each plece. 35¢.—3 for $1. How is that! bee values are better. You can Suppose you have been in the habit of Duying 25c. Sox. If you can save a five- cent piece a pair you won't object—pro- vided the quality hasn’t shrunk a nickel’s worth. Not a penny’s worth, we assure you—Hermsdorf dyed—that’s a good rec- ommendation for the fastness of the Black. Maco yarn and spliced heels and toes. 200. & pair—8 for 50c. “Straws’’— More signs of the superiority of the store— 1800 Linen Collars—10c. each. Plain and Link Cuffs—18e. a pair—2 for Be. Silk Garters—12c. a pair. White Lawn Bows—full dress—12c. each. - White Silk and Black Satin Reversible nd Imperial Four-in-hand Scarfs—20e. each. Black and Fancy Band Bows—25c. each. Gloves— ' If we have any preference in the dozen or more makes of Gloves we have Reynier and Trefousse are entitled to it. They are first ready with thelr spring shades— On the Reynier side are 4-button Glace—modes and tan shades, with wide self or Black brode—$2. 4-button White, Pearl, Cream and Buttercup Glace, with wide Black brode—$2. Established 1840. _ Telephone 995. > > B-- <b > Oe A-buton Glace Walking Gloves —White, Pearl, Cream and Burtereup, with Black sewed seams and brode. ‘This is probably the season's leader— $2.25, ‘ 4-button Glace, in plain col- ors and Black—$1.76. 4-button Spring Tint. Suedes— Black, too—$1.50 and $1.65. 4-button Glace Walking Gloves =colors and Black—$2.25. Here 1s the Trefousse offering: 4-button Pearl Glace, with Black and self brode—$1.25 and $1.50. 4-button Buttercup with wide self and Black brode $2. Glace, 4-button Spring Shades Glace— $1.25 and $1.50. 4-button Binck Glace—$1.25, $1.75 and $2. 4-button Suedes, Drode—$1.50. 8-button Primrose with Black brode—$1.50. 4-button Glace—Mode, with Black Suedes, ‘Tan, Gray, Brown and Black—$1. Men’s 1-button Cape Walk- ing Gloves—$1.75. Men's 1-clasp Walking Gloves —$1 and $1.50. Ladies’ and Children’s Underwear and Hosiery— If we haven't bought some big valuo Underwear and Hosiery for the ladies and children this season then we don’t know what value is. We have marked it just some as if jt was the commoner kind. ‘More “‘strayg''—3, UNDBRWEAR— Ladles'; Jersey Ribbed Vests, with Jaw, neck, no sieeves—but taped;-in White, Bluc, Lavender and Pnk--12%c, each. Children’s White Jersey Rib- bed Vests, with low neck and no sleeves—sizes to fit ages from 6 méuths’ to 5 ycars—12kc. each. Ladies’ Richelieu Ribbed Lisle Thread Vests, with low neck and #hort, or no sleeves—25c. each,” 4 HOSUERY;- Ladies’. | Drop-stiteh ‘Threat, aboot anteed fast colors—25e. pttir. Ladies’ ¥ Plain Bhick “‘Eisle Threa@ Hdse, with White heels and tovs—a 35. 29e. a pair. Children’s Fast Black Hose, with double knees, heels and toes and’ solld White feet— sizes 6 to 914-35c. a pair—3 ‘: for $1. Lisle patterns—guar- quality for PERRY’S, “Ninth and the Avenue.” PSHESSS6-$ Oo 3909-08 “seth Stee BONY size, §9. Unusually} OUR $10 excellent timekeeper.» Jeweled—nickel? arene Full Our Weekly Remnant D Weather we will make it a memorable BAR- SILVER == b} guarantee goes with {VV ATCH each —_wateh. Beek { them in the window. OME-MADE CAKE. Delicious—strictly pure materials only used. Not bakers” “stuff.” Made in her own kitchen by Mrs. Granville. Number the best people in the West End among our patrons. Very modest prices. (7 Have you tried our Walnut Cara- mel Cake? 40c. the price. M, L. GRANVILLE & CO., Snecessors to Corby Bros., 520 12th st. nw. Just off F st. mh15-164 Fa ee hoch tae AOR DAIS ‘Half Price BOWLS TO $1.75. ]§1.75 BOWLS, We have filled one windor * —and even less in some in- HES 1.35 price-ticketed, to help selectio 3 3 stances, siinply because we de- sire to close out a number of small lots of Handsome Deco- rated China Fruit and Salad Bow! Very attractive shapes, in “George Jones,’’ *‘Vienna,’” “Dresden,’’ and French China, in rich color decoraticns. Here Wilmarth & Edmonston, Crockery, &c.,1205 Pa.Av. Soosarsoorseseosccesoeooees ‘Get the Best, THE CONCORD HARNESS, LUTZ & BRO., 497 Penn. ave., adjoining National Hotel. are a few sample prices: BOWLS TO $2.00./$2.50 BOWLS, Horso Blankets and Lap Robes at low prices, oclG-16a OO S9OOSF909000500609: We charge for best TUS ‘The $1,000 prize story. A tale lustrated; in paper, only five mh13-Sd qe MAINSPRING 6 o All work guaranteed for 1 year. —"A Comrade of the Cross"’— of the Christ—very interest and instructiv beautifully in cents per copy. C.C. Pursell, 418 9th St. { Only 75c. oO CRYSTALS, 10c. Specialist in Swiss and English Watches. fl42m* A. KAHN, Watchmaker, 935 F st.n.w. ESA Ae a ee ea ¢ Lining, Felts, Fire Brick and Ciay, Asbestos, aints, Brushes, Lime, Cement, two and three- ply Roofing Mat eel GAIN DAY, for unusually good one-day Values will be offered. You can’t buy at these prices Monday, so you'd best come tomorrow. Call for these: 10 Big Bargains: Bargains in Sundries: that were from ch, tomorrow, 8 $2.00 DISTRICT CYCLE CO., “GOLUMBIA” AGENTS, 452" Pa Ave. ti 1 9B MARIAN HARLAND COFFEE POTS. Just received a new lot of M. H. Pots at 90c., $1.20, $1.40 and $1.65. These pots make first-class French drip coffee {p a few minutes—no cooking— all that is neceygary;is boiling water and pulverized coffee. No t-ouple {o show them. C.A. Muddiman,614 12th st. mbl4-12d f H and H. ‘Try it once, and you will always use it. It cleans silks, laces and the finest fabrics with- out injury. Removes grease and paint. Is unequaled for the bath and shampoo. Ask your grocer for it. §a23-2m* it Marriage Licenses. Marriage licerses have been issued to the followin; James E. Curtis and Julia A. Courts; George Denny and Katie Busc! Wm. H. Moore and Ida Butler; James H. Hunt and Lillie C. Vigel; Charles Boston and Mary E. Oliver. —_—->—_ Eastern capitalists are trying to secure the immense water power on St. Louis eas and conduct it by electricity to Du- uth, ‘FOR DEBILITY: And dyspepsia, accompanied by rheumatism and all the distressing compleints usual to a debilitated condition of the system, I have used Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and found, not only relief, but @ permanent cure. I had paid out hundreds of dollars for doctors’ bills and medicines, without obtaining the elightest bene- fit. The first bottle of Ayer's Sar- saperilla helped me, and a few suc- ceeding bottles cured me.”"—D. SAGE, Stewartville, Minn. $Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. : HIGHEST HONORS AT WORLD'S FAIR. IF THE BABY IS CUTTING TEETH BE SURE and use that old and well-tried remedy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething. It soothes the child: softens the gum, allars all pain. cures wind colic and js the best remedy, for rrhoea. 25 cents a bottle. nel0-1y Use Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters to stimulate the appetite and keep the digestive organs in order, ALONG THE RIVER FRONT Harbor Officials Have Been Stricken With a Dread Disease. They Cannot Speak Regarding Any- thing Oceurring Nearer Than San Francisco. In consequence of the order issued by the Commissioners, directing that no news concerning District affairs shall be given to the press without authority from them, the harbor office was a dry place to the reporter for The Star today. Harbor- master Sutton said that he would say nothing. The officers of the harbor cruiser Joe Blackburn said that they would say nothing. They all did it. Everybody at harbor headquarters carried out the in- structions of the Commissioners so faith- fully that it . required several minutes longer than usual to get all the news there was. : Harbormaster Sutton today caused to be pested at the harbor office, and in the va- rious shipping offices along the Washing- ton and Georgetown fronts, copies of the act establishing harbor regulations for the District of Columbia. This act ‘provides that every vessel coming to anchor in the Potomac river between the junction of the Washington and Georgetown chan- nels and the extension of the south line of P street southwest shall anchor as near the flats as possible, so that the channel shall not be obstructed, and that if such vessel is to be moored for more than twelve hours it shall be moored by both anchors, 80 that no obstruction of the channel shall result from the swinging of the craft with the tides. No vessel shali be permitted to anchor in the Washington channel between the extended lines of P and K streets southwest, but may come to anchor above the line of K street extended. No vessel shall so anchor that it will be within four hundred feet of any wharf, the said anchorage to continue only twenty-four hours, unless otherwise order- ed or directed by the harbor master. No vessel shall be permitted to lie in 17th street canal, New Jersey avenue canal or James creek canal, or at the entrance thereof, unless such obstructing vessel is actually engaged in loading or discharging cargo, and, at the discretion of the harbor master, shall be removed to such place that it shall not obstruct any passing ves- sels. Any captain or owner of any barge, scow or other craft which shall sink in said channels shall raise and remove that craft within five days. Any vessel at the end of wharves or in docks, when required by the harbor master, shall haul either way to accommodate vessels going in or coming out of such wharves or docks. No vessel shall occupy the berths of regular steamers or sailing packets without the permission of the recognized occupants of those berths. They shall also be required to rig in all fore-and-aft spars, have boats hoisted and davits turned in, as the har- bor master shall direct. Vessels when not engaged in loading or discharging cargo shall give place to such vessels as are ready to deliver or receive freights. If the cap- tain or other person in charge of interfer- craft shall refuse to move when noti- fied by the regular occupant of the berth the harbor master shall order him to move to another berth or into the stream. The act further provides that in the absence or temporary inability of the harbor master the pilot of the police cruiser Joe Black- burn, now Harbor Officer Russell Dean, shall be in authority. Any person. failing to comply with the new harbor regulations shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof in the Police Court of the District, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100, or by imprison- ment not exceeding six months, or by both such punishments, in the discretion of the court. The third section of the act repeals all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with these provisions. The effect of the new law will be to greatly augment the authority of the har- bor police, and te reform many of the abuses of the harbor privileges. The Arrowsmith, ‘The steamer T. V. Arrowsmith, belonging to the Washington Steamboat Company (Limited), is at Baltimore for extensive renovation. In the first place, her ma- chinery is being completely overhauled; new parts will be supplied wherever it shall be deemed advisable with a view to increasing the speed of the steamer. Sub- stantially all of the machinery now in the Arrowsmith is new, she having within the past two years received new boilers, a new cylinder, new piston, new beam and new egcentric. But even these new parts will bé disassembled and made as fresh as new. Her hull is to be practically rebuilt, and this will increase her beam by four feet and her displacement by eighty tons. About the only part of the old Arrowsmith which has not been replaced since she came into the possession of her present owners is the joiner work between decks. She will come around to Washington about the Ist of May and will go on the lower Potomac route, taking in the new territory around the bay and in the river of S$. Mary's, the region of Maryland first settled by Euro- peans. She will be commanded by Capt. Entwisle, and her chief engineer will be Mr. Fox. Her other officers have not been engaged. Some Notes. The tug Juno of Alexandria ts at Balti- more for the purpose of receiving a fine new Scotch boiler, and having extensive re- pairs made to her hull and machinery, preparatory to making strong bids for the ice-towing business of the coming season. The propeller John E: Tygert of the Weems line, successors to the Maryland and Virginia Steamboat Company, is being overhauled at Baltimore, with a view to making ready for the warm weather trade. The steamer Jane Mosely has been pur- chased by the People’s Transportion Com- pany, vice the Lady of the Lake, burned. The Mosely is one of the best known steamers in these waters, and for a num- ber of years was on the Washington: and Norfolk route. It is understood that she will be placed again on this run. She was ‘ought from the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road Company, which had been using her between Baltimore and Bay Ridge. She will be renovated throughout. Oyster dredgers cut out today; that ts, dredging is to be suspended for the season teday. It is said at the front that the season has been a splendid one for oysters, but an unprofitable one for the oystermen, es- pecially for the boatmen. A number of oyster craft came up today, and will con- tinue to arrive during the next few day: Prices at the wharf range from 40 to 75 cents per bushel. River freights are heavy. The business of the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company is particularly brisk. The Poto- mac boats are bringing up large quantities of oysters, poultry and fish. neh Sse Justice Aldrich Dend. P. Emory Aldrich, senior associate jus- tice of the superior court of Massachusetts, died last night at Worcester from exhaus- tion, after an illness of two weeks, the re- sult of a recent trip to the west in the in- terest of the Union Congregational Church, of which he was an active member. MENACING THE'DISTRICT The Sewage Plan of the Citizens of Ken- sington, Md. The Use of Rock Creek as a Sewer— The Opinions of Several En- gineer Officers, The citizens of Kensington, Montgomery county, Md., are considering a proposition for the introduction of a system of sewer- age for that town, which is of vital interest to the citizens of the District of Columbia, particularly that portion residing in the vi- cinity of Rock creek. At a recent meeting of the citizens of Kensington, presided over by Mayor Martin, a committee was ap- pointed to inquire and report upon a prop- osition for the establishment of a pipe line to drain sewage into Rock creek. The committee consists of Dr. R. B. Detrick, B. H. Warner, Dr. J. L. Lewis, 5. F. Stack, H. L. Milligan, C. F. Scott and H. L. Amiss. The committee was instructed to-make an equable distribution of the estimated cost among the property owners directly ben- efited, and to report its findings to a future meeting. A Star reporter talked with several prom- inent officers of the engineer corps of the army at the War Department today in re- gard to this subject, and found them al- most unanimously of the opinion that the introduction of sewage into Rock creek would prove a serious menace to the health of the citizens of the District living near the line of Rock creek. This opinion was based generally on the theory that the cur- rent and character of Rock ereek beyond the District line is insufficient to properly carry off polluted drainage. Rock creek heads near Laytonsville, Mont- gomery county, Md., and from that point to its mouth the general trend of its basin is a little to the east of south. The dis- tance in a straight line from the head of the basin to the mouth of the creek is be- tween twenty-one and twenty-two miles. ae . annem on Rock creek, ree miles from the northern boun- dary line of the District. Character of the Country. The area of the watershed of the creek is about 77.13 square miles. Of this, 60.81 square miles He m Maryland and the re- mainder, or 16.82 square miles, is included within the District of Columbia. Practi- cally the whole of the former area is now agricultural land, possibly one-eighth being wooded. Owing to its proximity to Wash- ington, and to the Metropolitan branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, much of that area may be expected to gradually take on a suburbaa and ultimately an ur- ban character. From the head of the stream to the gen- eral vicinity of the Military road the slope of the valley and the other conditions are not regarded by engineer officers as fa- vorable to a very rapid discharge; but the portion of the watershed to that road southward is considered as a comparatively quick one. As a whole, the basin is free from ponds, lakes or marshes, the presence of which would naturally tend to retard the free discharge of the rainfall. As al- ready stated, however, this discharge Is not considered sufiicient for the removal of sewage received at any distance from its mouth. In 1893, when the District Commissioners were considering a proposition for the con- version of Rock creek into a closed sewer, Capt. William T. Rossell, then Engincer Commissioner of the District, made a re- port on the subject, in the course of which he said: “Rock creek must always re- main a drainage line for the large area from which it now carries the water, and no plan of sewage disposal should be pre- pared looking to its abandonment. The creek is not in any sense a menace to health if it merely carries storm water uncontaminated with sewage, whether it remains an open conduit or is arched over.” e Not as a Sewer. On the general subject of making Rock creek a closed sewer, Capt. Rossell said: “As a means of sewage disposal it would be wrong in principle and enormously ex- pensive. But, until works for the proper disposal of the sewage can be built, Rock creek must carry sewage. It is greatly to be hoped that this time may be short. To reduce the unsanitary conditions prompt- ly, the canal company should be required to open the gates at the mouth of the creek every night, and the creek should be flushed. From a sanitary standpoint, I can see no necessity for covering the creek at all if the sewage can be kept out of it.” Capt. James L. Lusk of the engineer corps also made a report on the general subject of the sewer proposed for con- veying the waters of Rock creek from Massachusetts avenue extended to the Potomac river, in which he said: “Consid- ering the question from a sanitary point of view, I cannot recommend the inclosing of Rock creek as a means of securing the proper interception and disposal of the sewage which now poliutes the lower part of its valley. “That result, greatly to be desired, can be much more safely, speedily and econcmic- ally reached by means which are well un- derstood and which have been officially re- ported to Congress. Precisely the same system of intercepting sewers at practical- ly the same cost will be necessary, whether the stream be inclosed or not. The sewage having been satisfactorily intercepted, I believe that the utmost that will be re- quired for sanitgry purposes will be to provide for the stream, at some future time, a regulated channel with a smooth and solid invert, which shall conduct the comparatively unpolluted water between parked and terraced banks. * * * I be- lieve the construction of the system of in- tercepting sewers heretofore recommended, followed within a reasonable time by the regulation of the channel, to be not only al that is necessary, but also the safest and best solution of the problem, consider- ed solely in its hydraulic and sanitary as- pects. * * * If provision be not made in the near future for keeping sewage out of Rock creek, some temporary measures shovld be taken to flush the bed of the stream as often as possible. To this end the flood-gates at the dam should be raised every night as soon as the canal boats cease using the creek, and should be kept open as nearly all night as possible. To assist in the flushing, arrangements should also be made to impound a suitable quan- tity of water at one of the existing mill dams or elsewhere, and to increase the cur- rent in the creek by letting the impounded water run off while the flood gates at the mouth are raised. It should be clearly un- derstood, however, that no adequate relief for the existing polluted condition of Rock creek can be secured without the construc- tion of the system of intercepting sewers referred to elsewhere in this report.’” The Rock Creek Park. Capt. Rossell’s remarks adverse to con- verting Rock creek into a sewer referred to the section of Rock creek within the District and city limits. There are addi- tional and perhaps more forcible reasons why the creek outside the District limits should not be made a sewer. Such a use of the creek would practically destroy the attractiveness of Rock Creek Park. Speaking to a Star reporter today of the reported intention of the people of Ken- sington, Mr. R. Ross Perry, one of the com- missioners appointed to locate and estab- lish Rock Creek Park, stated that the matter was news to him. He was confi- dent, however, that if the report was true the people of Kensington could and would be prevented from carrying out their in- tentions. Explaining that Rock creek was a@ running stream, Mr. Perry stated that the emptying into it of sewerage would, of course, befoul the stream. No one, not even a town or city, said he, has the right to befoul a running stream, and he had no doubt whatever of the power of the per- manent park commission, consisting of the District Commissioners and the chief of engineers of the army, to prevent the people of Kensington by proceedings insti- tuted in the Maryland courts from building any sewer cr sewers intended and designed to_ empty into Rock creek. From the Maryland line, sald Mr. Perry, to the southern boundary of the Zoo Park, the stream is bounded on both banks by land in the possession of the United States, but from the Zoo to the river there are private persons owning land abutting on the creek. One or more of them, if it should become necessary, could, by pro- ceedings instituted in the Maryland courts, successfully restrain the Kensington peo- ple from building sewers emptying into Rock creek, thought Mr. Perry. But whether the District could successfully in- stitute such proceedings he did not care to say without an examination of author- ities, although he would not deny that it could. But, however, of the right of the permanent park commission or an injured person to have such an injunction, Mr. When Little Ones refuse to eat and begin to look thin and pale, the wise mother Tesorts at once to Scott's Emul- gion of Cod-liver Oil and Hypo- Phosphites. She knows they will take it willingly, for there is no bad taste of the oil about it, and it will not make them sick, Soon their appearance tells the cheering stoty of re- turning health. They grow bright, active, plump and hun- gry; they eat anything now. With babes in arms it is just the same. Nourishment! That’s the secret of Scott’s Emulsion. Don't be persuader to accept a substitute? Scott & Bowne, N.Y. All Druggists. 50c. and $1. Perry declared he had no doubt what- ever. Maj. Powell’s View. Maj. Powell, Engineer Commissioner of the District, today, in discussing the pro- posal to drain the sewage of Kensington into Rock creek, seid to a Star reporter that if the proposed action were taken the waters of the creek, of course, would be polluted, thus menacing the health of the people of Washington. It would also, he said, be detrimental to the attractive- ness of Rock Cre@ék Park. Maj. Powell added that if the Kensington people at- tempt to construct the proposed drain pipe the board of control of Rock Creek Park would undoubtedly apply to the courts for an injunction to restrain them from so do- ing. —_——>—__ THE OLD CHOCTAW CLAIM. Suits Growing Out of the Amount Col- lected by McKee. Interest has been revived to some ex- tent in the old Choctaw claim, which at- tracted general attention five or six years ago, by the hearing now in progress in the Supreme Court of the United States for a readjudication of the claims of cer- tain attorneys. The case goes back for many years. It was originated through the instrumentality of the late Gen. Albert Pike, and was bas- ed upon a claim for lands taken from the Choctaw Indians, but it was iinally set- tiled in 1889 by the payment of about $2,- 000,000 awarded by a judgment in the Su- preme Court. While the matter was pending in the ecurts and in Congress a number of at- torneys and agents became interested in it, among them being one Henry E. Mc- Kee, who held a contract for 30 per cent of the judgment, whatever it might be. After the Choctaw claim was allowed, other at- torneys applied to the courts of the Dis- trict of Columbia for an injunction, which was granted, to prevent McKee’s collect- ing the entire amount from the treasury. ‘There was an informality in-the writ serv- ed upon him, however, and he collected the money called for by his contract, amount- ing to about $800,000, and left the country. He subsequently turned $162,000 of the amount over to the local court, but it was not sufhcient to meet all the demands, and was divided pro rata among those whose claims were considered to be proved. This settlement was unsatisfactory, and the cases now being argued in the Supreme Court grow out of it. Cases Now Being Argued. Among those to whom payments were made were John H. B. Latrobe of Balti- more and Ward Lamon, at one time a law partner of President Lincoln. There are five of the present cases. One is brought at the instance of McKee against the La- mon estate and another against tue La- trobe estate, he claiming that they were not entitled to anything; another by La- mon and Chauncey Black of Pennsylvania to compel a complete settlement; the fourth by the executor of the late John F. Cochrane, who was ore of the original attorneys in the case against McKee, La- mon and Latrobe, and the last by James Gilfillan and others against McKee, Lamon and Latrobe. McKee, it appears, is still absent from the country, and his where- abouts are unknown. The argument was begun Wednesday, after the conclusion of the argument in the income tax cases, consumed the entire day yesterday and is still in progress. A large number of counsel are engaged in it, including Messrs. Jeff Chandler, J. J. Weed, Enoch Totten, Reginald Fendall, James Coleman, Nathaniel Wilson, A. B. Duvall and Calderon Carlisle. ————+o+_ Thefts Reported. This morning there was a report in po- Kce circles that burglars had blown open a safe in South Washington and had made a gcod haul. The report, however, proved to be without foundation, and was circu- lated because of a safe robbery at the wcod and coal yard of Mrs. 8. C. Carter, on D street between 10th and 1lth streets. The office door had been opened by some one who had a duplicate key, and the iron safe that had been left open was robbed of twenty Columbian half doijlars, a $3 gold piece and about $3 in change. Two small drawers in the safe were broken open. Jacob Wittel, whose residence is given as North Capitol street and Florida »ve- nue, reports to the police that when he reached the*Baltimore and Potomac depot in this city several days ago he was taken to a house in an alley near the depot and robbed of $35 and a satchel containing clothing. The satchel was found on Maine avenue. R. L. Christian reports the theft from the Forrester House of an overcoat. Last night some thief stole a box of groceries from one of C. C. Bryan's gro- cery wagons. ———————— ixhibited a Nude Model, Prof. Thomas Eakins, noted as an artist and sculptor, and more particularly as @ lecturer on artistic anatomy, brought out a nude male model on Monday in his mixed class in the Drexel Institute, at Philadel- phia, where a nude model had never before been employed. As a result, the profes- sor’s course of lectures has been discontin- ued. Dr. James MacAlister, president of the institute, has no quarrel with Prof. Eakins’ ideas of the use of the nude model, but “thought it best that the series for which the professor was engaged be dis- continued.” He said that it had been dis- tinetly stipulated before the lectures were arranged for that there should be no nude models. ——— Northedge Not Mprdereda. George Northedge walked into a law office in Masonic Temple, Chicago, yester- day, and announced that he had not been murdered, an@ that he had come for the $25 reward for information as to his &%here* abouts. The lawyer of the firm which had been advertising for information concern- ing George William Northedge replied by telling him there were £500,000 waiting for him in England. This did not surprise or elate him. Then he told the men present . he had not been murdered, but had stayed in retirement for a year because so many people were trying to divorce him from his money by unlawful means. ————— Heavy Flood at Columbus, Ga. Columbus, Ga., has just experienced the heaviest rain starm in twelve years. A great down-pour cf rain occurred early yes- terday morning, though rain Wednesday and that night was continuous and heavy. Wasbouts have been reported on all rall- roads, and nearly every train coming to the city yesterday was delayed from one to three hours. The lower portion of the city is overflowed, houses washed away, and every bridge in the immediate vicinity of the city and across the river in Girard and Phenix City have disappeared. People are cut off from their homes and are paddling about the streets in batteaux. ———_+e+ “Prince Williams,” a gipsy, was buried with great pomp at East Hartford, Mass., Monday. All his numerous family were born in wagons while the tribe was on the road. He left quite a fortune, some in real estate, but most of it in cash. He melted down his gold and silver coins into bullion. He had led a wandering but exceedingly thrifty life for over fifty years.