Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1895, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, MARCH i9, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. = 8 SPECIAL NOTICES. SPECIAL NOTICES. ON WEDNESDAY headquarters, over _Wonn’s Hall, 721 6th st. n.w. SPIRITUAL TEST CIRCL NIGHT DAY EVENING. Removed to 619 F st. nw. Daily consultations and treatments. Call at once. Mr. and Mrs, PERKINS, Test Mediums. * SPECIAL GOSPEL SERVICES TONIGHT AND every evening this week, except Saturday, at the Central Presbyterian Church, cor. of 3d and I sts, at 7:30 o'clock. All are invited. mb1s-3t MISS BERTHA STIDHAM Would like her iriends and patrons to know she is locuted at 1842 7th st., and is making sults from $7 to $9. . _A full line of spring styles on band. 1t* AD REGLAZING BENT SHOW CASES —is a new feature with us, and we are the only bouse in this city doing it. Sending it out of town meant a risk and cost of freightage. Our wagon will call for and deliver it. CHAS. E. HODGKEN, 913 7th st., “Glass Expert.!" mh19-124 NOTICE. STOCKHOLDERS’ " MEETING. To the stockholders of the American Graphophone ‘Company By order of the Board of Directors of the Amer- tean Graphophone Company, a general and special meeting of the stockhoklers.of said company will be held on WEDNESDAY, April $1895, at 1:30 o'clock p.m., at the Mountain View Hotel, Har- per's Ferry, West Virginia. ‘The purpose and object of this meeting is to enable the stockholders of the said company to pass upon the following resolutions proposed to be offered, in effect as follows: First_A resolution to increase the capital stock of said company. Second—A resolution authorizing the issuing of certain preferred stock. to the acquirement honograph ‘Third—A resolution looking of # certain interest in the Columbia P' Company by the American Graphophone Company. CHARLES J. President. - E. D. EASTON, Secretary. mhi2,19,26,ap2 THE BEST “BRACER” a s FOR TIRED, OVERWORKED MEN, <a better tonic than drugs—is MUNCHENER HOFBRAU BEER, Brewed from the finest hoy and malt. 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New stores, néw stock and the old method of giving hon- est value for money received are here to greet you. ‘The Batkeies Sedecement we of- fer is fitging of the very high- Burns _per- the fitting . est onder. Mr. eutting of all garments— that assures you of everything J. D. BURNS & CO., Cor. 9tb and G sts. o.w. mhi19-14d Poorer shirts every time—still a lot of men Jeft who want a good shirt—we cater to them. MANAGER SI ‘DLER SHIRT co. mh1S-7d 75C- Dress nouse,“we have always en- the reputation of made for their respective prices. We have the best T5c. shirt made, and we for a while at Open back, two styles of bosom, Wamsutta musi! and we believe it is town. a while we will rum it at 6c. Rather Ei wouldn't take but one at this price. 931 9th st. (next mh19-14d_ N. Y¥. ave.). Cards. We have the patience—to wait for the public to Our Domestic Finish Is the creme de la creme of Collars and Cuffs Are coming in by thousands to have this high- ‘Try our coupon system and get 15 PER CENT ON YOUR WORK. ect supervises being right. Cheaper Shirts Mean Harry T. Miller, 604 14th. Being an exclusive Shirt Shirts, 65c. feces the best shirts are going to create a little sensation by running it even eq to many of the dollar shirts sold about ilery & Ireland, 3y°,0¢0™¢. Patience and Shuffle the be convinced that ALL LAUNDRY WORK. toned and LINEN-SAVING finish, AS WE DO IT. The Godfrey Laundry, en—or we don’t Ir money. One Tel. 592. 1307 F st. mhi6-co —The kind every well- “ dressed man should MADE=T' wear. Shirts that fit the form so perfectly FIT” that a bulge or wrin- kle is an utter im —— | bility. We make suc to fit and sai SHIRTS most particu- 7 shirt, as a trial, FRANK WELLS, 1411 PA. AVE om: Ad Shirtmaker, uder Willard'’s. 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N.W. mb7-14d 480 Sheets Good Paper, 75c. Whether you're, out" of Paper or not, ‘evill pay you to lay in a good sifpply while prices are so low. You'll need it later on. » ENV ic.—just what you need for ordinary otfice uses. cow wave everything else you'll necd in the Station at very lowest prices. Easton & Rupp, 421 11th St. Popularipriced Stationers. (Just above ave.) mbi8-14d - Riesling or; —you can have your colored shirts and shirtwaists washed and ironed here with- out fading. If we should fade we pay for , it. No other laundry in Washington guar- antees this. Drop a postal and our wagon will call. ¥. H. WALKER & CO., YALE Steam Laundry, MAIN BRANCH, 514 16TH ST. "PHONE 1002. (it) PLANT, 43 G ST. N. ‘Weather tomorrow—probably rainy. Until March 24th, We will cut the PRICE OF FLOORING To $1.25 per 100 ft. Heart, Small Knots, One Width. Flooring per 100 ft., $1.25. Flooring per 100 ft., $1.25. Flooring per 100 ft., $1.25. Flooring per 100 ft., $1.25. Flooring per 100 ft., $1.25. Or $12.50 for 1,000 feet. Established Frank Libbey & Co., "ist “Lumber, Mill Work and Builders’ Hardware,” 6th and New York Ave. 1t Good and Bad Varnish —look alike in the liquid, and even when first put on. Soon the bad begins to wear off. For interior work we have # var- nish at 60c. a gallon which sells about town for a dollar. CHAS, E. HODGKIN, 913 7th st., pert.”” “Glass Ex] mh19-10d CURED WITHOUT THE KNIFE. Cancers attarus. 1920 @ st. 2" CHARLES ALLEN, mb2-1m LIFE INSURANCE MEN. An Important Meeting to Be Held in This City. The executive committee of the National Association of Life Underwriters will begin a two days’ session tomorrow, at the Shore- ham. The association was organized in Boston in 1886, with eighteen members, and has developed from a pigmy into a giant, the membership now numbering 10,000, The object of the association is to build up the business of life insurance. The executive committee is-the machinery of the association, and as the latter will hold its annual meeting in Philadelphia in October next the executive commitee is here to prepare a program of exercises to be followed at the aanual convention, to look into any grievances that may be pre- sented and provide ways and means. ‘The committee comprises President E. H. Plummer of Philadelphia, Thomas L. Al- friend of Richmond, J. P. Cullom of Den- ver, E. 8. Folsom of Indianapolis, A. EK. Nicholas of Decatur, Ill, W. H. Haskell of Albany, J. W. Harris of Waco, Tex., J. E. Halstead of Topeka, Louis Hyams of Salt Lake City, D. G. Holbrook of Sioux Falls, David S. Hendricks of Washington, . P. Maule of St. Louis, F. C. Nicodemus of Baltimore, W. J. Roddy of Rock Hill, S. C., J. D. Sutton of Kansas City, Mo., Thos. Peters of Atlanta, E. D. Scofield of Port- land, Me., C. D. Van Slyke of Des Moines, E. D. Weeks of Litchfield, Conn., E. B. Wharton of New Orleans, J. S. Wilcox of Montgomery, H. D. Neely of Omaha and W. D. Yerger of Cincinnati, all vice presi- dents; Secretary George F. Hadley of New York city, Treasurer C. A. Wiedenfeller of Brooklyn, George P. Haskell of New York city, L. D. Drewry of Chattanooga, C.E. Logan of Cincinnati, Isaac S. Borley of St. Albans, Vt., H. I. Kenney of Milwaukee, W. G. Justice of Buffalo, Henry C. Ayres of Pittsburg, Ben. S. Calef of Boston, F. A. Kendall of Cleveland, C. E. Staniels of Concord, E. F. Berkeley, jr., of Louisville, Joseph Ashbrook of Philadelphia, Ben. Williams of Chicago, H. L. Sheperd of St. Paul, Wm. T. Gage of Detroit, Geo. N. Carpenter of Boston, Charles H. Raymond of New York city, C. E. Tillinghast of +| Cleveland and Charles H. Ferguson of Chicago. The majority of those named are expected to be present at the opening ses- sion, which will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. The Life Underwriters’ Association of the District of Columbia will tender the ex- ecutive committee of the national associa- tion a banquet at the Shoreham on Thurs- day evening, to which a number of promi- ment persons have been invited. —_——__ A Military College Change. First Lieut. Warren R. Dunton, U. 8. A., has been relieved at his own request from further duty as military instructor at the Ohio Military Institute, Cincinnati, to take effect June 5. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. | Page BOARDING . BUSINESS CHANCES COUNTRY REAL ESTATE DEATHS DENTISTRY EDUCATIONAL . RSIONS . FINANCIAL FOR EXCH. FOR rm Ah LR RRR AAEM OARAARAAAIIEAL REE ARATAR RRR ARE RAEI R RAT FOR RENT (Houses). FOR RENT (Miscellaneous). LE (Miscellaneous). LE OR RENT. SS AND VEHICLES. PIANOS AND ORGA POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. PROPOSALS RAILROADS WINTER RESORTS. NOT ENGLAND'S FLAG Captain Crossman Hoisted the Stars and Stripes. AFFIDAVIT 10 THAT PURPORT MADE He Also Denies Carrying’ a Cargo : of Rifles. — OFFICERS CORROBORATE HIM NEW YORK, March 19.—The cable dis- patch from Havana, published today, to the effect that the commander of the Span- ish cruiser Conde de Venadito had reported that he fired on a stéamer March 8 off Cape Maysi efter signaling her, and was replied to by the Foisting of the British flag on the steamer, has brought forth an affidavit from Capt. Crossman of the Alli- anca. The affidavit is corroborated by a number of his officers, who’ also make sworn statements that the American and not the English ensign was flying from the staff of the Allienca. The captain's affida- vit reads as follows: “Capt. James A. Crossman, being duly sworn, deposes dnd says that he has read in the morning papers of this date, Tues- day, March 19, that the commander of the Spanish gunboat Conde de Venadito has made the statement that the steamship that was off Cape Maysi, Cuba, on the 8th day of March, 1895, which was fired on by his gunboat, hoisted the British ensign in saluting him. In view of this statement he does most solemnly swear that the flag hoisted on the staff of the steamer Allianca in salute to the Spanish gunboat off Cape Maysi, Cuba, on the, Sth day of March, 1805, by his order and“in his presence, was the American ensign. This is the only flag used for such purposes—the national flag of America.” ‘The others who signed a similar affidavit were: Benjamin Corning, first officer; F. W. Russell, second officer; W. H. Churchill, purser; A. S. Jussen, freight clerk; E. L. Kingman, surgeon. These affidavits will be forwarded et once to Washington by the company. Regarding another cable dispatch from Havana, which stated that a report was current that the Allianca carried rifles on her south-bound trip, it was also emphati- cally denied by the representatives of the Panama Railroad Company. —<—— EX-SECRETARY WHITNEY’S OPINION. The Firing on the Alliancn Was a Wanton Affront. In reply to a message asking for his views on the Allianca affair, sent by C. R. Miller, editor of the New York Times, Wm. C. Whitney, ex-Secretary of the Navy, sends the following cable dispatch: NAPLES, March 18.—I reply to your dis- patch as follows: In considering what should be done concerning the outrage per- petrated by the Spanish man-of-war in firing on the Allianca, one fact should not be lost sight of. It was deliberate, and with full knowledge of the character of the act. It is certain that no person in command of any war vessel in the world would be ignorant that firing upon a mer- chant vessel of another power on the high seas in time of peace would violate the law of nations. There isn’t a subordinate offi- cer of any man-of-war in the world who hasn’t been sufficiently instructed to know that. It is, therefore, a case of a willful insult to the American flag and people. I do not recall so wanton an outrage as happening to any first-class power in fifty years, An apology scarcely wipes out such an affront. ‘The truth is, we have happened to come in for a piece of the general brutality and ruffianism that holds Cuba. The thing is a relic of the middle ages. It is a disgrace to us that lies at our doorstep. It makes my blood boil, for one. Of course, they will apologize elaborately and discipline the officer. But when we-are looking toward him the general terrorism which holds Cuba down while they suck her blood will have been substantially increased at our expense. You can gather what my _ opinion is. What the government should do is an- other matter. The President, in such mat- ters, is generally a safe person to follow; but, as you ask my opinion, there it is. W. C. WHITNEY. ———-+e2+—____ ANOTHER SCHOONER FIRED ON. A Report That the Irene Was Damag- ed by Spanish Shot. A Key West special to the New York Herald today says: “The latest report is to the effect that the schooner Irene was fired into and dismasted by the Spanish cruiser Infanta Isabel. The news was brought to this city this afternoon by a vessel en- geged in the cattle trade between this port and the mainland. The Irene is a small schooner, owned in this port by Canary Is- larders. She has been employed in the fish trade all winter, but within the past few deys returned with a party of court officials frem Fort Myers, where an important mur- der trial has been held. She afterward sailed for the fish ranch at Punta Gorda, where, it was reported, an expedition sailed for Cuba. This point has been under sur- vetllance by the Spanish cruiser, and the schooner was followed from here and fired into. This is the report given by fishermen at the ranch to a vessel which has just ar- rived. The family and owner and the crew of the Irene live here, and considerable alarm has been occasioned tonight by the news.” The Report Not Credited. Officials of the State Department say they have no information of the sinking of the ‘American schooner Irene, owned in Key West, by the Spanish cruiser Infanta Isa- bel, and they are not inclined to credit the report. . , oo Capt. Crossman’s Denial. Captsin Crossman of the Allianca said yesterday, when questioned about a report from Cuba that a launch had left his ves- sel fcr the shore: “I am about tired of answering the ab- surd rumors and suggestions set in motion by the Spanish government and minister to Washington regarding the firing on my ship, and shall pay no more attention to them. The statement that a launch was seen to leave the Allianca before the Spanish gunboat fired on us is a lie, pure and simple. I never had a launch aboard, never expect to have one, and don’t know that I want one. I have no doubt that the Spanish officials know what gunboat it was that fired on us and chased us. Their pretense of not knowing is ‘rot.’ ” ee COURT OF CLAIMS DECISIONS. Two That Affect the Cherokee Indians and Their Funds. Two important cases have been decided by the Court of Claims. In the case of the Delawares against the Cherokee nation the original decree de- clared the Delawares, as adopted citizens, to have equal rights with the native Chero- kees in the common property of the nation and to be entitled to their proportionate part of a fund of $600,000 derived from the public lands of the nation. After the case had gone to the Supreme Court, the United States purchased the Cherokee outlet, and the Cherokee government distributed $6,- 640,000 of the purchase money among those who were “Cherokees by blood.” Congress reserved $1,600,000 for the protection of the Delawares, Shawnees and freedmen of the nation, and to await the event of the pend- irg suits. This case now comes back from the Supreme Court with the former decree affirmed, and the Court of Claims has ex- tended it to the new fund derived from the sale of the outlet, and awarded the com- plainants, the Delawares, an additional judgment of $188,254. In the case of the freedmen against the Ckerokee nation a decree was entered for the first time, in like manner declaring that the complainants, as adopted citizens, are ertitled, urider the Cherokee constitution, to share equally in the common property of the nation. As the number of freedmen greatly exceeds that of the Delawares, the judgment in this case is for a very large amount, $903,365. In each case the opinion was by Justice Nott. EXPLANATORY NOTE: Observations taken at 8 a.m., 75th meridian time. Solid Mnes are isobars or lines of equal air pressure, drawn for éach tenth of an inch. Dotted lines are isotherms or lines af, equal, temperature, drawn for, each, ten. degrees. or enow has fallen during preceding twelve hours. Shaded areas are regions where rain ‘The words “High” and “Low” show location of areas of high and low barometer; Small arrows show path of storm. THE STORM CENTERS. The Story of the Weather as Told by the Map. -s Forecast till § p.m. Wednesday: For the District of Columbia, Maryland and Vir- ginia, fair, followed by cloudy weather, probably showers Wednesday afterncon or night; winds shifting to northeasterly. ‘As indicated by Monday’s map, a storm has developed in the west, producing: rain in areas in the western and southwestern states. The storm over the Gulf of St. Lawrence has remained nearly stationary, and the barometer continues low on the North Pacific coast. The temperature has risen decidedly in the southern districts; elsewhere the temperature changes have been unimportant. Conditions presented by this morning’s map indicate that the western storm will move eastward, attended by rain in the central valleys and southern states today, and in the middle and south Atlantic states Wednesday. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of. water at 8 a.m.: Great Falls, temperature, 40; condi- tion, 05; receiving reservoir, temperature, 42; condition at north connection, 3; con~ dition at south connection, 19; distributing reseryoir, temperature, 42; condition at in- fluent gate house, 3; effluent gate house, 6. Tide Table. Today—Low tide, 9:31 p.m. Tomorrow—High tide, 3:16 p-m.; low tide, 9:45 a.m. and 1 Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau today: 8 a.m., 39; 2 p.m., 48; maximum, 49; mini- mum, 36. MUST PAY $75,000. Great Britain’s Demand of Nicaragun for Expelling Consul Hatch. ‘The British government, through its min- ister at Managua, has submitted an ulti- matum to Nicaragua. It demands a cash indemnity of £15,000 as smart morey to pay for the expulsion of Mr. Hatch, British con- sular agent at Bluefields, during the trou- bles there last year, and also the-appotnt- ment of a commissioner to adjudicate the damages sustained by the persons and preperty of British subjects who were ex- pelled from the Mosquito reservation about the same time. By the terms of the ultimatum Great Britain is to name one of the commission- ers and’ Nicaragua another, and these two are to choose a third, who shall not be a citizen of the United States. It was also made.known that a British warship. is now on her way to Nicaragua to enforce these demands, which must be complied. with within seven weeks from the 2th of Feb- ruary last, the date of the ultimatum. Gen. Barrios, who was appointed a spe- cial ambassadpr by the Nicaraguan g0v- ernment to endeavor to settle. its dif- ferences with Great Britain, has-been in Washington for a week andthas' paid sev- eral visits to the State Department in com- pany with Dr. Guzman, the resident Nica- raguan minister. = Tt cannot be denied that this new inci- dent, taken in connection with’ the hostile attitude of Great Britain toward our sister republic of Venezuela, promises to lead to trouble of a character much more serious than the ttle incident of the Alllanca, which has caused such a commotion... The adininistration is evidently about.to be put in a position where it must lay down a new construction of the Monroe doctrine or else abandon all concern ftf the future of the smaller republics of Central and South America. The Case of Veneaut! In Venezuela it is alleged that the British are steadily extending their boundary line and encroaching upon Venezuelan territory in spite of the strong protests’ of the Venezuelan government and the repeated urging of the United States that the ques- tion of boundary should be settled by a re- sort to arbitration, not of a part of the question, excluding the main issue as de- sired by Great Britain, but by the submis- sion, of the whole issue. But there also are questions of indemnity arising in Venezuela growing out of claims preferred by other European ‘nations, and there are indica- tions noted by officials here to show that these are being pressed by concerted action. Many of the claims for indemnity grow out of the failure of these revublics to meet their obligations to foreign debtors under the stress of hard times and the influence of the world-wide depression in trade. the European governments appear to be moving to collect these individual debts on their own account, it is a question that the United States must speedily settle as to how far it is prepared to permit this pro- cess to go on. : ‘As to Nicaragua it is felt here that the terms of the British ultimatum are unduly severe. ‘On the whole, it is more than probable that the President will feel called upon to interpose to secure at least an amelioration of the term8 of the ultimatum, by an appeal to the British government, representing the great hardship that it would work to Nicaragua under the present depressed con- dition of her finances to prefer a demand for so large an indemnity as $75,000. SSS THE COURTS. Court of Appeals—Chief Justice Alvey and Associate Justice Shepard and Justice Cox. Admission, Joseph Shillington. No. 390— Stearman agt. Baltimore and Ohio Rallroad Company; argument concluded. No. 403— Stewart agt. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; on_ hearing. No. 428—United States ex rel Stout agt. Smith; appeal dis- missed with costs by appellant. No. 437— Miller agt. United States; judgment a firmed; opinion by Chief Justice Alvey. No. 427—Knight agt. United States; judgment’ affirmed; cpinion by same. - Equity Court No. 2—Judge Hagner. United States agt. Luches; tithe to take testimony extended thirty days, Kain agt. Kain; rule to show cause, returnable March 95. Alfred Richards Brick Company agt. Trott; order vacating pro confesso against defendant Rabbitt. Orme agt.. Anderson; leave to, amend bill granted. Diggs agt. Wormley; order allowing reargument, de- cree sustaining report of auditor and over- ruling exceptions; appeal and appeal bond fixed at 3100. Circuit Court No. 1—Judge Cole. Sloan & Bro. agt. McLean; judgment by default. Barbour & Son agt. Gleason; do. Circuit Court No. 2—Chief Justice Bing- te -ham., 3) Phelps agt. District of Columb{a;/on hear- ing. : ‘ wee Criminal Court No. 1—Judge McComas. United States agt. Chas. Tillman; lar- ceny from the person; verdict, guflty; sen- tence, Albany, thrée years. United States agt. Lindsey Pitts; larceny from: the per- son; sentence, Albany, three years.” United States agt., Sam’l Hutchinson; larceny; sentence, Albany, three years. Criminai. Court No. 2—Judge Cele: United States agt. Jos. A. Beam; murder; on trial. * Probate Court—Judge Hagner. Estate of Martha Slaughter; petition for letters of administration filed. Estate of Charles A. Arundell; executrix bonded and qualified. Estate of Richard M- Goundie; will filed. Estate of Catharine Forrest; petition for probate-of will filed> Estate of Benj. F. Miller; order requiring additional bond of $8,000.. Estate of Thomas Antisell; sworn statement in lieu of inventory filed. —.___ French Cadets Depart. The French cadet ship Iphigenia, Com- mander Galliard, which’ passed last ivetk at Newport, R, I., has sailed for Qediz, Spain. While here her officers visited many points of interest.in the east, including Niagara, Boston and New York. Use Horsford’s Acid. Phosphate. ‘When night comes the literary and active business man’s brain is hunzry from the exhausting Inbor of | the day. Horsford’s Acid Phosphate quickly sup- piles the waste of tissue, aud refreshing sleep re- A DISAPPROVED SUBDIVISION. The Plat Prepared Under Maj. Powell's Supervisi: Robert E. L. White and Saul S. Henkle, trustees for the Harewood Park land syn- dicate, have submitted to the District Commissioners a statement of what are represented to be the facts in connection with the subdivision of the property owned by the syndicate on Brightwood avenue, formerly belonging to John H. Glick. The dccument recites the subdivision under the supervision of the District surveyor; the presentation of the plat for approval and the notification from Maj. Powell that the alleys were no: in accord with existing regulations. It further stutes that all the suggestions and alterations proposed by Mai. Powell were aduptea and a plat made by Mr. Richards, an emplove of the Dis- trict, im, accordance with an agreement entered into between the trustees and Maj. Powell, that Richards should prepare the plat “n accordance with certain instruc- tions and alteratious given by Maj. Pow- ell, The Richards plat was completed, say the trustees, and ws presented for ap- proval, when they were told it could rot be..aceepted because of a place forty feet wide that cannot e used fur building pur- poses. The statement asserts that this place is but a widening of a fifteen-fout alley at the extreme end of the property.The trus- tees then proceed as follows: “This plat was prepared, stated, by Mr. Richards, and ‘the width of ‘Galena Place’ as well; even its name was furnished by his superior officer.” Other circumstances are set forth with much detail, and the Commissioners are petitioned to approve the Richards plat as Pyepared and submitted. AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN. Interesting Happenings on the Other Side of Rock Creek. The first canal boat from Cumberland will probably be here next Sunday. if mules are driven both night and day Fri- day will witness the arrival of the first 1895 cargo. Mules are never hustled on the first one or two trips of the season. They are turn- ed out during the winter to graze in scanty pastures, and are consequently weak until they build themselves up on the regulation feed when the spring opens up. Twenty- one boats left Cumberland yesterday laden with coal. Others left ports this side for Georgetown with nfiscellaneous cargoes. ‘The canal business promises to arouse more interest this year than ever before. Nego- tiations are now pending between shippers here and ship owners of the northern ports looking to the entering of vessels into the Georgetown trade. The Gredt Falls Railroad. To promote the construction of the long- awaited Great Falls and Washington rail- road and get the necessary subscription to the stock, it has been determined by the prime movers in the enterprise to deed to every one who subscribes to $1,000 worth of stock land along the line of the road of an gqual value. This, it is thought, will dissipate all hesitancy on the part of those who look upon the undertaking as a risk, for éven should the road not pan out suc- cessfully subscribers will hold land equal in value to all the money they put in. Those who are forging the construction ahead control most all the best land on the road’s line. © B. and 0/s Southern Extension. ‘fhe Baltimore and Ohio's engineers, who have been for some weeks running lines for the Metropclitan Southern branch exten- sion, have crossed the country from Beth- esda, to which point all grading has been done, to the Chain bridge, and are now pre- paring to cross the Potomac to make the Virginia surveys. The lines will be run about midway between Falls Church and Dunn-Loring. It is proposed to cross the Potomac over High Island, which was bought, presumably by railroad men, last summer from Maj. Geo. Hill of Georgetown. It-ds und2rstood that this Great Falls electric road will have formal vonnection with the Metropolitan Southern just to the north of the Chain bridge, and that a con- siderable amount of commercial matter will be brought into Washington through this end,'from the sections of Virginia, Mary- land and West Virgiria the Metropolitan Southern is designed to open up and bring into ready communication with Washirg- ton and neighboring cities. This will mean much convenience to West End merchants. The steam railroad engineers nightly store their implements, etc., with the residents of Harlem, to the west of Georgetown. It is reported that the Baltimore and Ohio will look to the construction of warehouses, etc., at the point where the two lines will meet. as before —— Income Tax Instructions. Collectors of internal revenue have been instructed that “corporations are required to make income tax returns to the collector of a deputy collector of the district in which their principal office, from which all of their business is directed, and where their books and records pertaining to such business are kept, is located. Branch houses’ and subagencies are, therefore, not required to make returns to collectors of that part of the business under their con- trol.” Combinations Not to Be Tolerated. Assistant Postmaster General Jones has ordered the dismissal of a letter carrier at Youngstown, Ohio. An inspector had made a report on the case, and the carrier was charged with conspiracy in trying to de- feat the order of the Postmaster General making regulations preventing overtime charges. It was learned that the Youngs- town carrier had taken advantage of leave of absence to go to Canton, and was about to perfect an organization of letter car- niers, so that they would stand by each other and prevent the discharge of any man for any cause whatever. Mr. Jones says that combinations among employes of this kind will not be tolerated. HALL'S VEGETABLE SICILIAN HAIR RENEWER is unquestionably the best preservative of the Lair. It is also curative of dandruff, tetter and all scalp affect THEEARTH’S SURFACE An Organization of Washington De- voted to Its Study. ITS HISTORY AND SUCCESS The National Geographic Society and Its Lecture Courses. TRIP TO FREDERICKSBURG So much attention has been attracted of late by the work of the young but flourish- ing National Geographic Society that it will be of interest to many of The Star’s readers briefly to review its history, organi- zation and purposes, and to give an outline of its program for the remainder of the present season, and such a review may well be prefaced by the remark that for an eight-year-old (for it is now only in its eighth year) it is a most vigorous and prom- ising infant. Already, indeed, its member- ship, now 1,200, equals or exceeds in num- bers almost all of the great geographical societies of the world, and as it has in- creased its active membership since last October at the rate of fifty a month, it bids fair to rival them all soon, as far as numbers go at least. Moreover, competent judges have declared that the good, solid, everday work that it is doing, the energy Mr. Gardiner G. Hubbard. that it shows in keeping abreast of or a little ahead of the times in its lectures and publications, the reputation of its leading members in the world of science, the char- acter-and size of its audiences and the range and quality of its lectures are hardly equaled by any other society of the kind in the world. Officers of the, Society. The president of the society, Mr. Gardi- ner G. Hubbard, recently elected as one of the regents of the Smithsonian Institution, has been its presiding officer since it was first organized, in the winter of 1887-88, and no one disputes his title to the honor of presiding over the society that he has done so much to bring to its present high standard of efficiency. Associated with him as vice presidents are Dr. Chas. W. Dabney, department of the land; Engineer-in-chief G. W. Melville, U. S. N., department of the sea; Gen. A. W. Greely, U.S. A., department of the ai Dr. C. Hart. Merriam, department of lif Prof. W.-B. Powell,’ department of geo- graphic art, and Mr. Henry Gannett, de- partment of commercial geography. The treasurer is “Mr. €. J. Bell, and the secretaries Lieut. Everett Hayden, U. S. N., and» Miss Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, now on a tour around the world. The beard of managers comprises also such well-known names as Mr. Marcus Baker, Mr. Henry F: Blount, Mr. G. K. Gilbert, Mr. John Hyde, Mr. W. J. McGee, Mr. F. H. Newell and Mr. Edwin Willits.’ Among former members of the board were Capt. Jchn R. Bartlett and Lieut. G. L. Dyer, U. S. N., hydrographers to the bureau of navigation; Capt. Rogers Birnie of the ord- nance corps, United States army; Major J. W. Powell, well known as the former di- rector of the geological survey, and now of the bureau of ethnology; Prof. A. H. Thompson of the geological survey, and Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, now superintendent of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Mr. H. G. Ogden of the coast and geodetic survey. While such a list—and it might easily he extended—comprises what may be called the leaders and wheel horses of the society, many other names of men and wo- men prominent in every branch of scl- ence, literature and art are found among its members, as well as members of the cabinet, Supreme Court, Congress, army, navy and diplomatic corps, and a large element of laymen, who are as well known locally as their associates are known sci- entifically and politically. Popularity of Its Lectures. In fact, it is becoming a “fad” to attend meetings of the society, and the loan of a season ticket to attend one of the course of popular lectures is appreciated as highly as an invitation to one of the Lowell Institute lectures is valued at the “Hub.” Nor is it to be wondered at that this city, with its enormous facilities in the way of literary and scientific work, should support a big society of this kind, which year by year provides a program of such character and merit that the annual dues of $ would not pay a tenth of the expenses of the lectures, let alone the publications, were it not so largely a labor of love on the part of the great majority of the lecturers, who regard as ample compensation the honor of an invitation to lecture, and the opportun- ity to lay before a cultivated and appre- ciative audience the latest and best results cf their own and others’ efforts and re- searches. The list of lecturers who have appeared on the platform of this society embraces such distinguished speakers as Dr. John Murray, or “Challenge Murray,” as he is affectionately known by his associates in. the great Challenger expedition; Prof. W. M. Davis of Harvard University, Lieut. Peary, U. S. N., who, perhaps, gt this very moment holds the proud honor of having carried the stars and stripes to the farthest point north; Gen. Greely, Engineer-in-Chief Melville and Capt. Stockton of arctic fame; the late Miss Edwards, the authoress; Dr. Emil Holub, Mr. Paul B. du Chaillu, Mr. George Kennan, the Japanese minister, Mr. Kurino; Maj. C. E. Dutton, U. S. A.; Serg- ius Stepniak, Prof. McKenney Hughes, Ad- miral R. W. Meade, U. 8. N.; Mr. Charles Sprague Smith, Mr. I. C. Russell, Mrs. French-Sheldon, and many others, whose names are household words wherever mod- ern civilization has penetrated. Leetures This Spring. A new and interesting course of illus- trated afternoon lectures has been plan- ned for Mondays and Fridays in Lent, the first of which was given yesterday after- noon, descriptive of a trip across the corf- tinent, from Washington to the Pacific coast and back again, via Pittsburg, St. Paul, Portland, San Francisco, Flagsta! Denver, St. “Louis and through Kentuck: and Virginia, with visits to the Yellow- stone Park, Mount Rainier, Crater Lake, Mount Shasta, Yosemite, the Grand Canon, Sonora, the Mammoth Cave and Grottoes of the Shenandoah, and the West Virginia coal mines. Each section of the trip will be under the guidance of an expert, and the scenery and economic and _ scientific features of the country will be fully illus- trated. To those who have made the tour this course will be as attractive, probably, as to those who have it still in store. Extended reference is not necessary to point out the great aid given by the so- ciety to original research, such as that of Mr. Russell in Alaska, carried on by this society, to its encouragement of geographic study in our schocls by the award of prizes for essays, or to its publication, the Na- ticnal Geographic Magazine, and all of these-must be passgd over here with this brief meation. Social Features. That less serious subjects sometimes oc- cupy the attention of the society is evi- denced by the fact that every year there is a reception and (in spring) an excursion and field meeting, when practical geogra- phy and pleasure pure and simple are com- bined in about equal proportions. What bids fair to be the most brilliantly success- ful of these receptions is to take place to- morrow evening at the Arlington. In the way of excursions, Harper's Ferry, A SEA CAPTAIN'S STORY What a Grand 0:4 Sailor Told a Press Reporter. HIS SECRET OF LIFE What He Has Seen and Found in Neurly Every Port of the Globe and the Value Me Has Received. I met a happy oid sea captain at the barge of- fice Festerday, and had a pleasant and profitable conversation with him. I think he had traveled to all quarters of the glove, for he mentioned Sitka, Stockholm and Kio Janeiro, in addition to an tbe Principal seaport cities of the world. ote wanted to find a healthy, ruddy specimen of Lumantty this captain furnished it to such am extent that I remarked about it. He laughed and “But you should have seen me a number of years go. Why, even a pale-faced cabin boy looked ship i mo ekey" tam, 2 fhetiy Commend ; and I suffered matism, debility, it the ills’ chat. we’ hear’ so: mock abote, "twa Fou ull the detail Ze all the details, but T will say that for not only heal! best, aaa 3 believe it 1s all due to one ad eng =a me, port I stop I cai me what it is?) T's else. ways Do ask will tell you— Warner's Safe {hls to advertise the’ medicine, le who make it, and, don’t know what TeEiaade of, but I do know that tor brokendome jen, weak women, and, I belleve, sickly children, Sneet ie er cicre ties don't ‘hesitate te say so."? =e I left the old captain, whose ship war about sail, much impressed by’ his since earnest- ness. Certainly as it living cathe pie rorld calls , and hence what consider happiness. FINANCIAL. Real estate... os 020 pawns : eens seee ; Stocks and bonds (market value). 5.982 25 Bills receivable and collateral loans. (320,751 79 Premiums uncollected and in hands agents .. 59,117 40 Cash capital...... $300,000 Reserve premium fund and all other a Mabilities ........... - 798 99 245 (Signed) WM. C. COART, Subscribed and swora of March, 1895. Signed) tary. to before me this 13th day. (si WILLIAM SLADE, Nc Public. (Seal.) HH. CLAY MEWaitre SON heen ts, it 620 14th st. nw. The Union Savings Bank, . 1222 F Street N. W., -Pays four per cent interest on savingsaccounts. Open until 5 p. m. on Govern- ment pay days and Satur- day evenings between 6 and 'e 120-208 The National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust, Company. Of the District of Columbia. CORNER 15TH ST, AND NEW YORE AVR ~ Chartered by special act of Jan., 1867, and acts of Oct., 1890, end Feb., 1692, 20d CAPITAL, ONE MILLION DOLLARS. ‘CORSON & MACARTNEY, MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK STOCK and ‘Stock American Bell “Telephone Stock bought and sold, Se ee ‘our 3 vanced on ‘ponds, “trusts and other ap proved collateral." No delay. ee ee ee C. T. Havenner, Member Washington Stock Exchange, Real Estate and Stock Broker, 9 and Atlantic st. nw. 930 Investment Securities. Stocks, Bonds and Grain bought and sold foe cash or on margin. Seema and sold in New York on New Prt x xe on a ae, Oe W. B. Hibbs, 1421 F Street, REPRESEY’ HUBBARD I'RICE & CO., * BANKERS AND BROKERS. Members New York Stock Exchange, New York” Cotton Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade. 6-16att LIEB, TONTIN INS! NCE FAIR DISCOUNT. Mone; same. jai5-ttf EDWARD N. BURNS, 1807 F st. n.w. = — Luray, Shendun, Annapolis, the Dismal Swamp gnd even Indian Head and Cabin John have been visited already, and this spring a day’s visit to Fredericksburg, with a study of its geography, geology and bat- tlefields, is planned. oo DR. PARKHURST GRATIFIED. Expresses Sati: jon With the In- dictment of Police. Dr. Parkhrrst expressed much satisfac- ticn last night at New York regarding in- dictments of police officers, reported in yesterday’s Star. “The presentments and the indictments,” he said, “reaffirm with a very important addition the position taken by the jury of 1892. “It is gratifying to know that the jury are inclined to judge leniently the in- ferior ranks of the force, and it is just as satisfactory to know that the superior officers are to be held responsible for the ccrruption which permeates the depart- ment. “The fact that only a comparatively limited number of indictments, seeming- ly. has been found, scme of which, doubt- vss, when tried, will not result in convic- tions, only goes to show that from the very nature of the case relief is not to be secured by the ordinary process of the courts, but that we ar2 obliged to look for purification of the fotce in the medium of legisiation. “This, then, is the unfortunate position in which we are placed. The courts can- not do it, and the senators will not do it. “If we can judge from appearances, the Lexow people at Albany would rather we should fester in police rot than to sur- render their hold on patronage. Legis- lative perquisites count more with them than municipal decency and cleanliness. “A striking feature of the presentment is its brief but weighty characterization of the official iniquity practiced by the superintendent, made all the more effective by the fact that it is based entirely on the superintendent's own unforced confession, “This presentment, together with the in- dictments, forms one more interesting and determined chapter in the history of our municipal regeneration.” Dr. Parkhurst added that there was a probability, even likelihood, that von om would return more indictments than those in the first lot. The jury is willing to sit until April 1 and continue the work. Tho obstinacy of police officers, he said, in re- fusing to give testimony had prevented as many indictments at the present time as had been expected. ENDOWMENT AND PAID-UB LICIES PURCHASED aT & loaned on