Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1895, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th Street, by The Eyening Star Sonepetee Company, 8. H. KAUFFMANN Pres't. New York Office, 49 Potter Building, —- ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers {n the ity by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents week, or 44 cents per month. Copies at 1 goanter 2 cents each. By mail—anywhere in the United States or Canada—postage prepald—S0 cents te Sheet Star, $1 per year, with oars per y Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. 48 second-class mail matter.) All mall subscriptions must be paid in advance. tes of wdvertisiug made kuown on applieatio: Che Fvening Star. No. 13,180. WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. TWO CENTS. Tbe proof of the pudding is in Bc eating Yesterday's Stor contained 56 cofumns of advertisements, made up ef 738 separate announces ments. These advertisers Sought pubficitp—not merefp Space. THEY WANT CAMERON Far Western Republicans Desire Him for President. ———— ADVOCATES THE CAUSE OF BIMETALLISH Senator-Elect Carter of Montana Talks at Some Length. ——— SILVER TO BE REMONETIZED ator-elect Carter of Montana, chair- man of the republican national executive committee, arrived in Washington thi morning from New York, where he attend- ed Mr. Depew's harmony dinner. To a Star reporter today Mr. Carter ex- pressed himself as greatly pleased with the social event at Mr. Depew's home. “Mr. Depew's dinner,” he sald, “was a mest thoroughly enjoyable affair and en- tirely social. It afforded a number of gen- tlemen an opportunity to meet under most agreeable conditions, and the meeting was rtainly harmoniou: Althcugh among republicans generally the invitations to that dinner included all the prominent republican candidates for the presidency, Mr. Carter's choice for that honor was not there. When asked who he favored as the standard bearer of the re- Dublicans, Mr. Carter replied: Wants Cameron as the Candidate. ‘The Rocky mountain and Pacific coast country, in my judgment, will work in- fustriously to secure the nomination of Senator Cameron for the presidency. He Is a sound protectionist and a fearless ad- Vocate of the cause of true bimetallism, which consists in the free and unlimited voinage of both gold and silver at a fixed ratio, and a ratio of 16 to 1 iz the most Iib- eral adopted by any nation in the past.” Mr. Carter is in no way uncertain as to the course he thinks the advocates of silver should adopt in the coming national campaign. His important position as chair- man of the republican national executive committee gives added weight to his words, as the members of that committee cre always extremely influential in framing the platform of the party and in determining who shall lead the party in the national campaign. The National Committee and Silver. ‘he national committee as an organiza- tion,” said Mr. Carter, “will not take any position for or against silver. It is no part of the business of the committee to under- take to declare party position on current questions. That task is left to the party when assembled in national convention. “Individually, the members of the com- mittee generally reflect the sentiment of the states from whence they come on- the money question. It is needless to inquire whether the republican party is going to take notice of the silver question. That stion is becoming as wide as commerce and absolutely irrepressible. The party seeking to ignore it convicts itself of un- pardonable stupidity. No individual can Predict what communities may do in such contingencies as may arise in the future, but it is safe to say that a majority of the states west of the Mississippi river cannot be held in line with any party which ex- hibits hostility or manifests indifference on the subject of the free and unlimited coinage of sliver. The Term Bimetallism. “The advocates of the free coinage of silver have teen educated to understand that many so-called bimetallists are real- ly gold monometallists. Their bimetallism consists in a gold standard, with silver as a@ subsidiary coin. This understanding cf bimetallism has so far credited the word that it can no longer be used as an all- It sufficient term in party platforms. seems that it will be absolutely necess to have what !s denominated in the lai guage of the street, a ‘show-down,” In 18u6, The growth of sentiment in favor of the free coinage of silver during the last year throughout the eastern and middle states has been marvelous. The fact that the administration has deemed it necessary to begin an aggressive fight for the gold standard, and the further fact that the gold standard people have become abusive, mis- taking epithets for arguments, may be taken as evidence of the manifest strength of the free cojnage sentiment. Silver is to Be Remonetized. “It is just as well to have it distinctly understood that silver is to be remonetized, and so understanding, address ourselves to the task of bringing about the desired re- sult. Mr. Whitney has borne testimony to the fact disclosed by the public prints in England some time ago. It seems prob- able that the Roseberry ministry will not succeed itself, and a general election at an early day is quite likely. With the min- istry dominated by Mr. Balfour and his friends, a way toward an international agreement on free coinage of both gold and silver at a fixed ratio would be made more plain. This country, however, will not wait the pleasure of all the governments in Christendom before determining upon a policy of its own. We wouwti like to ac- commedate Mr. Whitney and his friends by waiting two or three years, and it Is quite probable’ that under the present adminis- tration we will be compelled to wait, but in the meantime the opinion is constantly gaining strength that this government alone can determine its own financial pol- lcy. Our interstate commerce {s greater than the commerce of all the seas, and the balances to be settled abroad in gold con- stitute a very trifling and insignificant part of the payment we make afmually to our foreign creditors. Our payments are made in wheat, cotton, beef and other staple articles of every day necessity that our neighbors cannot get along without. “Any course of action that will stimulate home production and bring about better times in this country will facilitate the fayment of our debts abroad. The presi- dent of one of the most extensive railway systems of the western country, who for years past hus been most aggressive in support of the gold standard, recently an- rouneed that he had entirely changed his views, and was satisfied that the hope of the great railway systems of the middle and western states rested on the remone- tization of silver; that, continuing under the gold standard, for a few ars more would throw every railroad west of the Allegheny mountains into the hands of re- ceivers, This gentle nan represents Boston capital, and it is a fuct worthy of note that Boston has not joined the crusade against silver. Hill's Criticism of Sherman. fr. Hili's criticisms on the vague and indefinite terms used by Mr. Sherman are quite forcible. In a short time I am sat- isfled that Mr. Hill will see the logic of dropping his international bimetallism and taking a stand in favor of an independent ‘arter remarked that the national executive committee will probably meet in October, or in the early part of November, to fix a time and place for holding the national convention. Under the rule it is hecessary to give six months’ notice of the time for kelding the convention. There {s an inclination, he said, for holding the con- yeution in May instead of June, as hereto- fore, and the desire for the earlier meeting gcems quite strong. STEVENSON AND SILVER Friends of the White Metal Want Him To Declare Himself. His Possible Object in Holding Back & Definite Expression of His Position. There is a very strong sentiment being developed in regard to the attitude of Vice President Stevenson on the financial ques- tion. ‘ Formerly there was a large faction of the silver people of the democratic party who favored Mr. Stevenson as a presidential candidate, as they looked upon him as a friend of the white metal, and one who could be depended on to carry out their views on that subject. Silverites in Wash- ington have been looking forward to some strong declaration from Mr. Stevenson out- lining his views on silver. They have re- ceived ex-Speaker Crisp’s short and posi- tive statement, showing him to be an out- and-out silver man, with a great deal of satisfaction, and they say Mr. Stevenson o it to his many followers to as clearly detine his position, whatever it may be. The fact that a cousin of the Vice Presi- dent, who bears his name In part—Mr. Ad- lat Ewing of Chicago—has come out posi- tively as a gold man is leading the silve ites to believe that the Vice President may yet take a position which will be very luke- warm in regard to the white metal, if it is not positively on the side of the sound money men. Mr. Adlai Ewing has been re- garded as being very much in the confi- dence of his distinguished cousin, and his utterances of late have increased the doubt felt by the silver people about Mr. Steven- sen’s position. To Ascertain His Attitude. To a Star reporter this afternoon a silver man of prominence, who is interested in the work of the National Bimetallic League, sald: “There has been some talk among the silver men of addressing a letter to the Vice President asking him to give his views on the financial question. Since silver has become the leading issue in politics Mr. Stevenson has been exceedingly reticent about this question. This attitude has caused the silver people to doubt what his views are. I do not know whether this letter will be written, but there is no ques- tion that Mr. Stevenson is not the most Important candidate in the democratic ranks who has not made known in some way just how he stands regarding silver. While this is the feeling of the silverites the sound money people are no less an- xious to hear from Stevenson. They are inclined to think he will take some con- servative position on silver and they want to know what that position will be. His Object in Holding Back. Among some politicians there is a feeling that Mr. Stevenson has an object in hold- ing back from an expression of his view: One by one the leading democratic can- didates have given out their views on silver, and criticisms in the press have shown how these views have been received frem all quarters of the party. It is in- sinuated that Mr. Stevenson reads these views with the greatest interest, and that he will profit by them in his ability to out- Ine the policy he believes in pursuing, that it may quite nearly conform to what the great body of the party really will want after the first stages of ihe silver dis-.| cussion have worn off. It is understood there will be an effort made to present to the convention to meet at Springtield next eek the views of the Vice Pre: many silver men think these views will rot be forthcoming until the work of that convention is over. In view of the great campaign for silver being waged in Illinois, politicians generally and silver men in pa: ticular are inclined to belleve that the Vice President will finally record himself a frtend of increasing the use of the white metal in the currency of the country. o—_____ ORDERED TO WASHINGTON. Col. Alexander McKenzie to Be Gen. Craighill’s Chief Assistant. The first change in station of an officer of the corps of «engineers since the appoint- ment of Gen. Craighill as chief, of en- gineers, was made teday, when Lieut. Col. Alexander McKenzie, corps of engineers, statiored at Rock Island, Ill., was ordered by the Secretury of War to report to the chief of engineers at Washington for duty in his office. Col. McKenzie is in charge of the improvement of the Mississippi river from the mouth of the Missouri to Min- reapolis, and has the supervision of bridges across the Mississipp! between Davenport, Towa, and Rock Isiand, fll. He also has charge of the Galena river improvement and the Des Moines Rapids canal, and in additicn he is a member of the Missouri river cummission. His coming here will not displace Maj. Adains, as was at first supposed, but by rea- son of his higher rank he will naturally be Gen. Craighill’s first assistant, with Maj. Adams as second and Capt. Goethals as third. There has been a vacancy in the of- fice since April 1, when Maj. Knight was transferred to take charge of the Wash- ington aqueduct, vice Col. Elliot, retired. Since that time Capt. Goethals has been doing double duty. The crder tssued today was the result of a conference between Secretary Lamont and Gen. Craighill. No one was selected to succeed Col. McKenzie at Rock Island. Gen. Craighill said to a Star reporter that there would be no other changes in his of- fice for the present. Col. McKenzie is a native of Wisconsin, and was appcinted to the Military Acad- emy from Illinols. He was graduated Sep- tember }, 1860, and was successively pro- moted to the various grades in the en- gineer corps. He reached his present grade of lieutenant colonel in February last. He stands high in his corps, and has an ex- cellent reputation in every respect. Oct NATIONAL CURRENCY. Figures Shown in the Monthly Re- port of Controller Eckels. The monthly statement of the controller of the currency shows the amount of na- tional bank notes outstanding to be §$211,- 388,029, an increase for the month of $1, 10t,and for the last twelve months of $4,237, 347. The circulation based on United States bonds amounts to $18!,969,578, an increase for the month of $: »254, and for the twelve months of $4,450,230. The circula- tion secured by lawful money aggregates $26,631,434, a decrease for the month of $676,148, and fer the year of WS3. ‘The amount of United States registered bonds on deposit tc secure circulating notes is $20,652,300, and to secure public deposits $15,278,000, ‘ —_—_——_+-o+____.-_ Treasury Department Changes. The following changes have been made in the classified service in the Treasury De- partment: Appointments—Secretary’s office—A. H. Gawler, District of Columbia, $720 per an- num. Office of internal reyenue—M.B. Stur- gus, Iowa, $1,000 per annum. Promotions—Secretary’s office—J. C. Rob- inson, Pennsylvania, from $1,400 to $1,600; J. P. Jackson, Kentucky, from $1,200 to $1,400; Ed. Brown, District of Columbia, from $1,000 to $1,200; S.T. Neal, Texas, from $00 to $1,000, Office of auditor for Post Office Department—Faber Stevenson, Ohlo, from $1,600 to $1,800; B.A. Allen, Kansas, 0 to $1,600; W. C. Waterbury, from $1,000 to $1,200; Dennis Cough- * York, from $00 to $1,000; B. A. Massachusetts, from $840 to $900; J. THE Jacobs, L. Wilmeth, Arkansas, from $720 to $840. STORY OF THE WREC Details of the Sinking of the Colima. STEAMER BECAME UNMANAGEABLE Would Not Right Itself When’ the Load Shifted. OF SURVIVORS ————— EXPERIENCE SAN FRANCISCO, June 1.—An Examiner special from Mazatlan says: The steamer San Juan has arrived here with the twenty-one passengers picked up on Tuesday from the wrecked Colima. From them your correspondent has learned some of the particulars of the dreadful dis- aster which happened on Monday at noon, when the Colima was about twenty-eight miles out of Manzanillo and ten miles from shore. All the rescued are badly bruised. They were all picked from pieces of wreck- age and refts with the exception of A. J. Sutherland, who had clung to a boat after it had capsized five times and drowned all the other cccupants. As all were afloat in the fiercest gale of the year and buffeted by the waves for twenty-fou- hours, they are hardly yet in a condition to tell a connected story of the wreck and the experiences of their escape, but many interesting particulars have been obtained. The steamer was heavily laden and hai a large deck-load of lumber, When the storm struck her she made bad weather of ft, the captain having great difficulty in keeping her head to the sea. The wind in- creased in fury until it is said to have been the fiercest storm known along this coast in twenty years. The sea rose rapid- ly, waves washed over the vessel and started the deck load. As the waves rose and the storm increased the managing of the steamer became impossible and about noon her head could no longer be kept up and She breached to. Once in the trough of the sea a mighty wave struck her and she was thrown on her beam ends. This wave struck her with such force that the steam- er trembled as if she had run upon a reef and most of the passengers thought this the cause of the shocks. This gave rise to the first reports that the ship had struck ona reef. Whether because of the heavy deck load, the shifting of the coal and cargo, or the force of the storm, the steamer would not right herself. The passengers were pretty badly stunned by being pitched about, but rushed up on deck in a panic. Here they met another danger. The gale tore part of the deck load of lumber from its fasten ings, and whirled the heavy planks about with appalling violence. Many were struck and maimed. At least one passenger was killed by having his head crushed by one of the flying timbers. In ‘their terror the passengers made few mental notes of their surroundings at this juncture. The survivors say, however, that the officers of the steamer were brave and active. Capt. Taylor stood upon the bridge, his first officer, De Griffiths, with him. At an crder Griffiths rushed aft to superintend the launching of a life boat, No. 5. Sec- ond Officer Langhorne was at the boat No. 2, and succeeded in getting it launched and filled with passengers. Then down went the ship, and Lang- horne’s boat was capsized. All in the boats were supposed to have been drowned. Went Down With the Ship. Capt. Taylor went down with the ship, sticking to his post. As the ship pitched downward he blew three blasts of the whistle, supposedly as a signal of good-bye. Then he disappeared beneath the waves. All the passengers praise the captain for his coolness and heroism. The last they saw of htm, he stood at his post, the waves and wind dashing and washing debris all about him, and the wail of that whistle will sound through their dreams for years to come. Down went the engineers and firemen at their posts. Freight Clerk Berry was in his room at the time of the final plunge. Officer Hanson’s Experienc Third Officer Hanson was saved. As the steamer sank he cut some of the lashings of the, deck lumber. Then he jumped or was thrown overboard on the weather side of the vessel and reached the deck house. This had been torn off and washed away by the great wave which threw the Colima on her beam. There Hanson clung, buffeted, for twenty-four hours. He saw men and women sink about him, but was powerless to aid them. Hanson says that as the steamer founder- ed her boilers burst. The deck burst under his feet as he left the ship. Ten other men were thrown into the sea with him. The bursting of the boilers tore off the deck and threw part of it over at least a dozen men who were struggling in the wa- ter, drowning them all. Flying debris hit others. Hanson says the deck fairly burst under kis feet as he left the ship. Two life rafts were seen to be afloat. On one were three men, and on another six, including J. A. Childburg of Seattle Wash., who seemed to have been a leader in the work of launching the raft. Those in a position to take in their sur- roundings saw many who clung to bits of wreckage and the lumber from the deck load. The gale caught this wreckage from the crests of the great waves and beat the struggling urfortunates with it. One man's skull was crushed by a whirling plank as he was about to climb upon a life raft. The dash of the sea made each timber a menace as well as a hcpe. Fearful Fight for Life. So the fight for life began. There was no hope for women or children and small chances for men in such a storm.. Many of the women and children must have re- mained in their cabins. The completely nude bodies of the stewardess and two other women came floating by the deck house some time after the steamer sank. All were dead, and the sight was so dis- tressing that Officer Hanson and the others on the deck house pushed the bedies away with pieces of scantling. Prof. Harold Whiting of the California University made a heroic effort to save his wife and four children and the nurse. He got into a boat in which A. J. Sutherland and others were. The boat was soon swainped. Then it was hted, after being overturned. The women were dropped despite all efforts to save them. Some were killed or stunned by the flying debris. » At last only Sutherland was left. He clirabed upon the seats while the life boat was overturned and so floated with the boat acting as a protecting shield. Atr came to him through the breken sides of the boat. Sutherland says he was on the weather side of the steamer when she went on her beam ends, but slid over to the lee side and fell into a boat. As the steamer went down a mast or part of the rigging took the boat under water. When it came to the surface Sutherland crawled into it ayain. Then he picked up Prof. Whiting, Mrs Irving and ancther lady, supposed to be Mrs. Whiting. Almost immediately the boat capsized, and, as has been reported, went over no less than five times, drowning Prof. Whiting and the two women. Then it was that Sutherland came up under the boat and remained there, protected, as he tells, from the flying timbers and debris. The survivors drifted about for twenty- four hours, in what Capt. Pitts of the San Juan says was the hardest storm exper- ienced on the coast in twenty years. Of course, mone but the stoutest could sur- vive. The weaker ones succumbed from hour to hour. Many of those saved were badly hurt by the wreckage and lumber. Among those most injured was young C. S. Cutting, jr., of Oakland. He and another man floated about on an improvised raft,but his brother was drowned. His injuries are severe. foe of the others are in a pitiable condi- ‘ion. Appearance of the San Juan. The appearance of the San Juan kept up the spirits of those who were ready to give up the unequal struggle as hopele: The notice of the trouble came to the first officer of the San Juan, who noticed a large quantity ef wreckage, and reported the probability of a disaster during the storm. Capt. Pitts immediately sent men aloft, and soon some of the survivors were sighted. All the twenty-one picked up were found within a radius ef two or three miles, Five more survivors drifted ashore at Coapuayana, sixty miles south from here. They are J. EG. Chilburg, Louis H. Peters and Enrique Viter, cabin passengers; Fred Johnson, seaman, and Itobert Gonzales, messboy. They were thirty-three hours on a life raft, without food or water. Their account was heartrending. Every attention was given them. Cunse of the Wreck. The Colima is in 600 fathoms of water. The location where she went down is given as 18 degrees 38 minutes latitude; longi- tude, 104 degrees 14 minutes west. Though the direct cause of the disaster was the tremendous sea and the fearful gale, it Is generally believed that the Co- lima was badly overloaded. She refused three lighters ot freight here, having al- ready all she could carry. It {s supposed that at Manzanillo she discharged some of her fretght, but that she transferred some to the deck from the hold, making her topheavy and unable to withstand the heavy sea and cross sea. Then, tod, it is thought the cargo was badly stowed, and that it shifted as soon as tne steamer began to heel over again. It is estimated that within three minutes of the time Capt. Taylor gave his farewell blasts of the whistle the steamer had en- tirely disappeared. ——.—_—_ PETROLEUM IN FLAMES. Many O11 Tanks at Harburg, Germany, Destroyed, HAMBURG, Germany, June 1.—The great petroleum fire which recently broke out at Harburg, six miles from here, at the works of the Bremen Trading Company, destroy- ing five tanks of oil and a-great deal of other property, has been mastered, al- though the inner tanks are still blazing. The damage done is estimated to amount to 2,000,000 marks. During the fire huge mounds of earth were thrown up around the burning tanks, thus preventing the flames from spreading to the adjoining factories. and houses. As already cabled, the Guiser factory and the American Company's peteoleam depot were saved, as the wind drove the flames in the direction of the Elbe. Thousands of bar- rels of petroleum, in addition to the -oil contained in the five tanks, previously re- ferred to, were destroyed. The differsut fire brigades which fought the flames and the pioneer battalion did excellent work and succeeded in keeping the fire from spreading to the laborerg’ cottages, as well as saving a great alount of othar property from destruction. SS PRESIDENT DIAZ'S CONDITION. His Bed With Badly In- flamed Eyes. CITY OF MEXICO, June 1.—Presi- dent Diaz is confined to his bed with a very serious case of inflammation of the siclans report the condition of lent as threatening serlous con- sequences. He has been confined to Fis bed for four days, and his sight Is sald to be greatly impaired. No ministers or other official visitors have been received in three days, and there is much apprehension among those fully acquainted with the vity of the president's physical condi- Confined to ————— LIVELY FIRE. Earnshaw’s ocery Store Damaged This Morning. Shortly after 10 o'clock this morning smoke was discovered issuing from the gro- cery store of J. 'T, Earnshaw, corner of Sth and E streets southeast. Investiga- tion disclosed the fact that the large store- room immediately In the rear of the store was ablaze, and a fire alarm was promptly turned in from box 518. Engine companies 3 and 8 and truck A responded. Assistant Chief Belt took charge of the fire and di- rected the assault. By quick and effective work the fire was confined to the grocery store and the adjoining buildings escaped with lttle damage. ‘The neighborhood is built up with a number of frame dwellings, and had it not been for the promptness of the fire department the damage would have been very great. The-house of James Dove, S06 G street, was damaged in the rear by water, as w: the bar room of John Costello, 8th street. The loss will probably reach $2,000, partially insured. ——— PRISONERS WILL BE FED. A Great Deal of Suffering Will Be Prevented Hereafter. Several times The Star has called atten- tion to the treatment of prisoners who are often required to remain in Police Court more than half the day without food,and be- cause of these publications Judge Kimball interested himself in the matter and ad- dressed a letter to the Commissioners upon the subject. Today it was determined that hereafter the prisoners will be fed. They will be given coffee and sandwiches each morning, and a great amcunt of suffering | will thereby be prevented. —S es WILL OF JAMES HENNING. The Entire Estate Left to the Widow Eacept Namerous Bequests. The will of the late James Henning, dated June 1, 1894, filed today, appoints the widow of the deceased, Ellen Henning, and Joseph O. Henning, a nephew, as ex- ecutors, and directs that Mrs. Henning shall have during life the entire estate, real, personal and mixed. The following bequests are made: To Hiram Lodge, No. 10, F. A. A. M., $100; to Mrs. Geo. H. Lyon of Dexter, Mich., $300; te Mrs. Wilcox of Scio, Mich., a sister, $800; to Amanda Hen- ning of Ann Arbor, Mich., a sister, $300; to George Henning ‘of Springfeld,' Mo., a brother, $300; to Jos. O. Henning of New York, a nephew, $1,000; to Mary E. Gra- ham, Mrs. Henning’s nieee, $200; to Janct and Mary McWilliams, $25 each; to Mrs. Agnes Campbell, §25, and to David Wilcox, a nephew, a gold watch and chain. —— Silver Coinage in May, The monthly coinage statement of the dl- rector of the mint shows the coinage of May to have been $4,163,937, and of silver, $440,503. The minor ‘coinage amounted to $87,510. Of the silver coinage, $150,180 was in standard dollars. q - = Today at the Treasury, National bank notes received today for redemption, $224,628. Government receipts rom internal revenue, $290,132; customs, $544,569; miscellaneous, $250,258, Closed at 3 O'Clock. All the government departments closed today at 3 o’clock on account of the heat, NO HOPE HELD OUT The New Weather Forecaster Has No Cool Wave in Sight. THE HOT WEATHER WILL CONTINUE Washington is Cooler Than a Good Many Other Cities. MAY BE THUNDERSTORMS There is a new man at the weather bu- reau today in charge of the sizzle. He ts Mr. Alexander McAdie, and this will be his first appearance as official forecaster. He enters his work in a trying time, for, though it may be very easy for him to sit back and confidently predict hot, hotter, hottest, from day to day, and score 100 per cent each time, it will also be easy for the unthinking but choleric people to blame him for all their discomfort. Mr. McAdie’s chief claim to fame and renown up to date has been his successful work in the photo- graphing of lightning flashes, and maybe he acquired such familiarity with Intense heat in his experiments in that lHne that he feels quite at home now with the mer- cury running out of the top of the tubes. The Hottest City Yesterday. All this preliminary matter !s merely for the purpose of breaking more easily the news that there is no hope for suffering humanity here in Washington today,and on- ly a slight hope for tomorrow. The records are going to smash all over the country, and the chief pleasure in life here in the capital now is that it is so much hotter in some other places. Mention was made yes- terday of the town of Yuma, which is in Arizona, and not in California, as was in- advertently stated. But even Yuma will have to hurry to keep up with the proces- sion just now, for Raleigh, N. C., is after the belt as the hottest place in the coun- try. Yesterday there were 98 degrees of heat registered there. There were but 94 registered here. There is a vast deal of dif- ference In those four degrees. Four inches on a man’s nose, it used to be said, would make a freak owt of him, and so four degrees in the wrong direction at just this time of year makes the difference between a cool town and a hot one. For Washington is really a cool town, There can be no gainsaying that fact. Coolness and heat are only relative terms, and as there are others, and they are hot- ter, Washington is therefore logically cool. Just take Atlantic City, for instance. Yesterday the record was %6 degrees at that place of alleged bliss and comfort. Even old Nantucket went bounding up the scale ar! broke the previous record for the last ten days of May by 15 degrees. And out on Block Island, where they* are supposed to sleep under double blankets throughout July and August, the record was broken by 6 degrees. What more is wanted to convince the world that Wash- ington is a most desirable summer resort? The Storm Has Gone. That miserable storm out west that gave so much trouble here by refusing to budge and hung fire until it had scorched one-half of the country and soaked the other half, has now-gone kiting away off toward the Dominion of Canada, very much reduced in size, and of no earthly importance what- ever now as a factor in the weather con- ditions, except as it fails to do anything to ameliorate the present agony. It is now no larger than the traditional man’s hand, and will probably be heard from no more, though it has shown such peripatetic ten- dencies during the last few days that it would not be at all surprising if it sud- denly turned up some morning out in Montgomery county, askirg to be taken ih- to the District, a full-fiedged storm. As a result of this cruel fickleness on the part of the Kansas storm the high that has been hanging around the Florida coast has spread all over the eastern section of the country and practically rules the roost. The map this morning showed about as dry and hot a country as ever the Sahara was in its most annoying days. There is, of course, a possibility that the intense heat may produce a thunder storm, and so bring some relief by virtue of its own wickedness. But thcse things are hard to forecast, so Prof. McAdie only throws them out semi-officially as a small sop to the people. Thunder storms are nice thing: to have in reserve in such weather, and it is sincerely to be hoped that one of them may put in an appearance at about 4 or 5 o'clock, It is likely that even the Wash- ington base ball players would be willing to forego the pleasure of taking a game from the Louisvilles this afternoon’for such a good caute. Litdle Prostration From the Heat. Fortunately there has been little prostra- tion from the leat. Yesterday there was not a case at the Emergency, and today there had been no calls for the ambulance up to noon. This is a most favorable cir- cumstance, for the hot weather, coming rather suddenly, might have stricken many people. It may be a little cooler tomorrow, but only a Httle. There is positively no relief in sight yet, and too much hope must not be based upon this idea that tomorrow will be better than today. The best thing to do ig to sit down in the coolest spot that can be fourd, and then think of Yuma, and Raleigh, and Block Island and those really hot places. ; ——>—__. INTENSE HEAT AT NEW YORK. A Boston Man Rolls Of His Roof While Asleep. NEW YORK, June 1.—Today the tempera- ture is as high as it was yesterday, with the added discomfert of greater humidity. Several cases of prostration from heat were reported during the forenoon. The weather forecaster reports the possibility of a thunder storm during the evening cr night, but Sunday 1s likely to be as hot as yesterday was. BOSTON, Mass., June 1.—Owing to the irtense heat last night John Callahan ct 106 C street, South Boston, went up on the roof to sleep. This morning he was found on the sidewalk, having rolled off while asleep. His skull was fractured, and he cannot live. —— THE HALF-MASTED FLAG. Ten Days at Séme Places and Only One Day at Others. Critics point out what they regard as a solecism in President Cleveland's procla- mation announcing the death of Secretary Gresham, in that, as an expression of na- tional bereavement, he directed that the national flag be displayed at half-mast over all United States embassies and lega- tions, at all forts and military posts, and at all naval stations, and on all vessels of the United States for a period of ten days, whereas the similar display of the flag on all other public buildings throughout the United States, including the executive de- partments in this city, was limited to the day of the funeral. No explanation is of- fered as to why the flag should be half- masted for ten days at some places and for only one day at others. —_—_—__-e+.____ ‘The “Post” Joins the Associated Prean, The Washirgicn Post has abandoned the United Press and joined the Associated Press. IN THE OLD DOMINION Representative-Elect Otey Thinks Silver Will Be the Only Issue. The State Delegation Will Be Solidly in Favor of a Free Coinuge Candidate, Representative-elect Peter J. Otey, who will represent the sixth Virginia district in the next Congress, is in the city. Mr. Otey’s home is at Lynchburg, and his dis- trict includes that city and Roanoke. He was elected by a plurality of 2,300 over his republican contestant with three candidates in the field, the third being supported by a combination of populists and prohibition- ists. In the sixth district last year there were 3,600 of the 10,000 populists’ votes cast in the state of Virginia. Mr. Otey is an ardent free silver man, and belleves that silver will be the only issue cf consequence In the next election in the old dominion. He is not a mere theorist on the money question, as for many years &@e was the cashier of the Roanoke National Bank, which position he resigned in 1887, in-order to accept the presidency of the Lynchburg and Durham railroad. He was the financier of this road, which involved an expenditure of $2,000,000, and was its president until it went in the hands of a receiver. Since that time Mr. Otey has been actively engaged as a real estate operator, and he has proven exceed- ingly successful in his undertakings. He never held a public office, and until he be- came a candidate for election to the Fifty- fourth Congress never ran for an ollice. Silver Sentiment in the State. Speaking to a Star reporter today of the political situation in Virginia, Mr. Otey said: “In my judgment the delegation that will go to the next national democratic conven- tion to nominate a President will be solidly in favor of a candidate who will come cut for free coinage. Cleveland could not again be the choice of the Virginia democracy on account of the policy he has adopted in relation to silver. “I do not think there is any sentiment in the south in favor of what is being designated ‘sound currency,’ except the banking element, and that portion of the business which is very closely allied to New York and Boston in its business trans- actions. I know that when I was in the banking business it was frequently neces- sary for us to borrow $150,000 when the tobacco crop was being gathered. It was in the power of the New York bankers to have refused the loan, though I have never heard of them doing so. It is easy for the New York and Boston bankers to say to their correspondents in the south that if free silver legislation becomes a fact they can borrow no more money from them. They may give one reason or another. “They may say that they will not be se- cure in mzking loans under such condi- tions. But the eftect will be the same. It will cause the men in the south dependent en nortnern loans to advocate what the north wants. That, in my opinion, is all there is of the southern ‘sound money’ movement, and without such influences there never would have been a Memphis convention, That convention was a north- ern rather th: southern affair. “Among trepethie of Virginia there are great numbers of good business men who give little thought to the relative adyan- tages of gold and silver as money metals. They cre now waking up to an active in- terest in this matter, and men are study- ing the question who gave to thought to it previously. The result of this campaign of education, I think, will be to gain convarts for the silver cause in quarters that are row indifferent to any legislation cn sil- ver. No Fear of Republican Succes: “I do not think the tariff will be men- tioned in Virginia in 1896. I have no fear that the republicans will meet with any better success In my state at the next elec- tion than they did in the election when Gen. Mahone was beaten for the governor- ship. The republicans have been talking about an honest ballot for years, but {f our present election Jaw does not secure honest elections, I do not see how we can ever have them. That law was framed to se- cure an honest expression from the people at the ballot bo: 2 AND CAR FENDERS. No Action Taken by the Comminsion- ers to Enforce Their Recent Order. Although it was generally understood that the Commissioners would proceed against the railroad companies today for non-com- pliance with their order of several days ago requiring them to equip their cars with ap- proyed fenders by June 1, nothing was done. Yesterday afternoon the attorney for the District was asked whether if a rail- road company equipped its cars with fend- ers and not with wheel guards it would be liable to prosecution. His opinion was that the law contemplated both fenders and wheel guards, and unless the cars were equipped with both the road operating them would be liable for failure to comply with the law. * It was stated at police headquarters that the police had not been notified to proceed against the companies, and Inspector Brad- shaw, who has charge of the railroad mat- ters, recelved no detail to look after the cars today. This afternoon the Commissioners wit- nessed, at the corner of 15th and New York avenue, a trial of the Smith fender and wheel guard placed on the Columbia rail- road. They expressed themselves as highly pleased with the showing. The fender has already been approved by the Commission- ers, but they have heretofore insisted that all cars should have a projecting net in front of the car. It is understood that pro- ceedings will be instituted against the rail- road companies Monday. ——.__ MR. GRESHAM’S DEATH. Sympathy From the Government of China. - The Chinese minister today informed Acting Secretary Uhl that he had received the following cable message from the Tsungli Yamen: - “The imperian government, and the min- isters of the Tsungli Yamen in particular, desire you to convey to the United States government their deepest sympathy ond condolence on the sad occasion of the demise of Walter Q. Gresham, late Secre- tary of State.” 5 The Distinguished Sick. Representative Hitt is better today. He has been gaining slowly but steadily of late, and it is possible he may be able to sit up In his room in a few days. He spends restless nights, however, and this has prevented @ more marked gain of strength. Miss Mary A. Dodge is resting quietly, but her condition shows little change ———+o+____ Dropping: War Department Clerks. Forty-six clerks in the War Department will be dropped on the 1st proximo by rea- son of reduced appropriations. The list will be made up mainly in the record and pen- sion office and in the rebellion records office. The unfortunates will probably be given leave of absence from Monday with pay up to the end of the month. - —————-e-—____. Mr. McAdoo Going to Newport. Assistant Secretary McAdoo will leave here tomorrow morning for Newport,where he will deliver the opening address at the Naval War College Tuesday. He has also arranged to attend the closing exercises at the Naval Academy on Friday and Satur- day next, AN ERA OF REFORM Big Gamblers Inaugurate It in Be- half of Little Ones, VIRGINIA DIVES CLOSED UP eel But the Foreign Books and Policy Wheels Run Every Day. AIMS OF THE GAMBLERS The activity of the board of trade in the direction of helping the authorities of Vir- ginia to purify that portion of their com- monwealth lying opposite Waeshington which is directly injurious to the national capital is already having good effects in a roundabout way. A few days ago the pro- prietor of the disreputable resort on the Virginia shore above the Aqueduct bridge known as “Heath's,” where faro, crap, hazard and roulette have been played day in and day out, and especially on Sundays, was notified by certain officials of Alex- andria county to close up the place at once and keep it closed until further orders. This was immediately done, and the score or so of dealers, cappers and other em- ployes ofthe notorious dive were informed that their services would be no longer re- quired until further notice. The same ac- tion was taken in regard to the gambling room that has heretofore been openly run above Clark's saloon in Rosslyn, and the Keepers of the various liquor places in Rosslyn and Jackson City were instructed to preserve order and to allow no games of crap or other form of gambling to be car- ried on in their premises. The policy kings who operate from Alexandria were also notified to carry on their business with more circumspection and to be careful to whom they intrusted the duty of carrying the “plays” to the various places where policy players gather to leain the result of the day's drawings. Candler Makes an Offer. As If to swell the sudden wave of reform and further astound moral meteorologists with the singular acpect of the Alexandria county atmosphere, Mr. Harry Candler, at whose place, it will be remembered, Eddy, Desmond, now in custody accused of being firebug, housebreaker, bank burglar and highway robber, made his headquarters and was arrested, announced that he would place his commodious hall at the disposal of the evangelists who might desire to hold services at Jackson City in behalf of ptrifying its pollution and reforming its habitues. Of course, there is no one with sufficient temerity to even imagine for a moment that the authorities and gamblers and the tough element generally of Alexandria county Leve not experienced a complete change of heart. They have done so on several former cccasions When they an- ticipated vigorous action on the part of law-abiding citizens of both Virginia and Washirgton, who had grown tired of their reckless and profligate reign. There is na need of going far, however, to discover the reasons for this remarkable moral meta- morpkesis which Alexandria county has undergone. There is an old couplet which Was written to show the manner in which the strong are beset and annoyed by the little things of the world. “Big fleas have little fleas to bite em.” And s9 on, ad infinitum. The Meat in the Cocoanut. Across the river the big fleas are tha gamblers who have graduated from tha baize-covered faro layouts to bookmakers* blackboards and their accompanying race tracks. The little fleas are the skin fara bank proprietors, the crap joint keepers. and the others of that ilk who infest Jack- son City and Rosslyn, and are scattered in other near-by localities in considerable pro- fusion. The big fleas some time ago ap- preciated the fact that the presence of the little ones and the attention they attracted by the sore places they made on Virginia's body politic was inspiring indignation that reached the very chalk on their own black- boards. They therefore determined to hav them driven away for the timebeing at least, and, consequently, the gamblers owning the race tracks made it a part of their agree- Ment to re-elect County Attorney Johnson and Sheriff Veitch that they should sum- marily close up all the little gambling places whose proprietors were not strong enough to have what is known as @ “pull.” Attorney Johnson was willing to do his share, but Sheriff Veitch declined to interfere with the places that he had al lowed for so long to continue without re- striction. The result was that Mr. Johnson was re-elected and Mr. Veitch was de- feated. Results That Are Expected. The present cra of reform has been ine augurated solely for the purpose of frus= trating the expected efforts of Governor O’Ferrall and the Washington hoard of trade to place Alexandria county on @ plane of decency and law. The idea is that the detectives who may be employed by, the board of trade to secure eviden: against the gamblers and other law break: ers in Alexandria county will find every« thing closed up, and be compelled to re¢ port their inability to make cases. In thi¢ way the big gamblers who now hold ab+ solute sway over the county will be ens abled to make the representations that the crusade of the Washington board of trada is not really inspired by the actual con- ditions in Alexandria county because it had been unable to support its charges by; the proof it had promised. The promoters et this novel scheme, however, seem to have forgotten that the statute of limita- tion covering such misdemeanors and fel- onies as those which have disgraced Alex- andria county will not become a safe ref- uge for those who have been known to break the laws of Virginia in the imme- diate past for some time to come. Mean- time the small fry gamblers across the river are waiting for permission to open their dives again, and the race track gam- blers and policy kings are poking each other jocosely in the ‘ribs and chuckling with satisfaction over the way in which they imagine they have frustrated the in- tention of the decent citizens ot Virginia and the District of Columbia to put a stop to the reign of lawlessness which has dis- graced Alexandria county for ten years past. Meanwhile their foreign books are illegally conducted at both St. Asaph and Alexander Island and their policy wheels roll with periodic regularity in the city of Alexandria itself. > THE PRESIDENT AT WORK. Mrs. Cleveland and Children Will Shortly Lenve for Buzsard’s Bay. ‘The President spent the day at the White House disposing of accumulated business. He drove in from Woodley about 11 o'clock. He has evidently recovered from his recent indisposition, and is suffering no unusual discomfort from the hot weather. Mrs. Cleveland and the children will leave for Buzzard’s Bay next week, and the Presi- dent will probably accompany them. His movements will depend entirely upon the state of public business. ——-2+___<_ i The Danish Minister's Adicu. Arrangements have been made for Count Reventlow, the Danish minister, to take official leave of the President this after= noon at 4 o'clock. He has been transferred to diplomatic duty at Rome and Madri and will be succeeded at Washington Mr. Brumm, now at Copenhagen.