Evening Star Newspaper, June 3, 1895, Page 2

G ‘STAR, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. — ‘LATE NEWS BY WIRE}GO'NG INTO COURT! IGHTING STREETS A Dooomotive Plunges Into a Wash- out. CASES OF NEW YORK POLICE OFFICIALS Developments in the Minneapolis Tragedies. MILES OF FOREST ON FIRE McCOOK, Neb., June 3.—Last night, while searching for washouts between Edison and Oxford, the engine of the repair train plunged into a washout about two miles east of Edisén, and of the fivé men on the engine four were killed. The names of the dead are: B. V. Nally, roadmaster. Frank Jeffries, engineer. C. M. Powell, fireman. Samuel Mundy, conductor. Frank Harries, private secretary to Su- perintendent Campbell of the Burlington, miraculously escaped with slight injuries. All but Mundy are married men, whose families reside in McCook, where the dead men were brought this morning. This is the most disastrous accident to life that has ever occurred on this division, and ts one of the results of the breaking of Cur- tis Lake dam. Must Review Their Action. NEW YORK, June 3.—The general term of the court of common pleas has handed down a decision ordering the police com- missioners to review their action in dis- missing from the department ex-Police Capt. Wm. 8S. Devery and his wardman, Glennon. The decision with -regard to Devery was granted on the grounds that the defendant was ill and unable to appear, although the police commissioners held that he did appear. With reference to the case of Glennon, the decision was granted on the grounds that Glennon objected to his trial going on in the absercce of Capt. , as the latter was an important ‘witness. The Elias Murders. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 3.—Evidence Presented at the Elias inquest today went far toward clearing Loren Elias, the weak- minded son, from the suspicion that he was the murderer of his mother and si!s- ter. A. P. Walker, a clerk in a St. Paul gun store, testified that he had sold Mrs. Elias a 38-caliber revolver and that she had brought it back, saying it was not heavy enough. He had then exchanged it for the 44 with which the shooting was done. Mrs. Elias Lad once been insane and evidence was adduced to show that she made vague allusions to something terrible that was abcut to happen. Loren is still in the lockup, but sticks to his first story. The police now believe him innocent. Five Square Miles of Flames. KANE, Pa., June 3.—At an early hour yesterday morning the locomotive of a lumber railroad set fire to the woods near Hinter Run, a small settlement seventven miles southwest of Kane. As soon cs the fire was discovered 200 men were sent to the scene to fight it. They fought the fire through Saturday night and all day Sunday before they succeeded in getting it under control. The National Transit Company pumped water from their Hunter Run station to a point in advance of theeflames and thus aided in preventing the destruction of much valuable property. A large number of logs and about 50,000 feet of hemlock lumber were desiroyed. The fire burned over about five square miles of forest. ——.—— . SHOT THE CAPTAIN GENERAL. A Rejected Suitor Draws His Revolver in an Angry Dispute. MADRID, June 3.—A sensation has been eaused here by thé shooting of the captain general of Madrid. A lieutenant in the army has for some time past been paying his address to the cavtain general’s daugh- ter, and today he requested her hand in marriage. The captain general refused the Neutenant’s request, and some hot words were exchanged, resulting In the lieutenant Grawing a revolver and shooting the cap- tain general. ‘The captain general, Primarivera, Is still living, aithough dangerously wounded in the breast and arms. His assailant, Lieut. Clavigo, was cut down immediately after the shooting by an aid de camp of the cap- tain general. ——___ SWELTERING IN THE WEST. Three Deaths From Suastroke at Pittsburg. _ PITTSBURG, Pa., June 3.—This city Is @gain sweltering under a hot sun today. At noon the thermometer registered 93 Gegrees In the shade, and the weather bureau predicted higher temperature dur- img the afternoon. There were three deaths from sunstroke tcday and several other eases of persons being overcome by the heat were reported. The mill men suffer most severely. CHICAGO, June 3.—The sweltering tem- perature in this city continues. The gov- @rmment thermometer registered 87 at 10 o'clock, whioh is the highest record ever reached in this city for that hour. A good breeze alleviated the suffering efrom the bstering temperature to some extent, but Prostrations were numerous. ———_—_. AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY, BMeercises of Graduating Week Begin Today. ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 3.—Graduation week at the Naval Academy began this morning with the official reception of the board of visitors. The reception took place $m the open space in front of the superin- tendent’s residence, and the cadets were led as a battalion under Lieut. Haez- The board was escorted through the ds and buildings by the heads of the tments, all officers being in full dress. Asslute of seventeep guns was fired. ——_—_ JUDGE COLE ON WHISKY. Ble Gives a Practical Temperance Les- son to James Eckles. By direction of the court, the jury tn the ease of James alias “Reddy” Eckles, barged with the larceny of a horse, valued at #0, the property of Elisha Bates, on the 1Sth of last month, returned a verdict — of not guilty. - lge Cole decided that the offense was mot larceny, but was one of false pretences, Wekles having sold the horse under the pretence thet he was directed to do so by fits owner. The judge gave Eckles some good aivice, telling him that it would de- tf upon himself whether or not he should indicted for false pretences. “Whisky,” said Judge Cole, “was un- tedly the cause of your trouble, Ec- and I trust that hereafter you will let = and make a man of yourself.” ve ready made up my mind to do s replied Eckles. “Well, I am glad o hear that,” continued Cole, “and if you do let it alone,, will be all right. If you do not, you find yourself indicted, and soon be on way to the penitentiary. Now, go and fe yourself.” ———— Ocean Steamships Arrived. Bouthampton, June ‘.—Arrived, steamer Wolds, New York for Bremen. @LASGOW, June 1.—Arrived, steamer @eandinavan, Boston. WEW YORK, June 3.—Arrived, steamer Wurnescia, Glasgow. SS Lively Fire. A few minutes before 3 o’clock this after- an alarm of fire from box 62 called partion of the fire department to an alley the rear of the government printing to extinguish a blazing shed used by Gleason for the storage of straw feed. A Friendly Suit to Settle St’ Mark's Vestry Trouble ~ Bjshop Paret Approves a Pian by Which All the Facts Can Be Re- viewed by a Court of Equity. No day passes now, seemingly, without new developments In the St. Mark’s Church embroglio. Since the action of the recent diocesan convention in refusing to settle the question at issue between the two fac- tions speculation has been keen and in- cessant as to what the next happening might be. Both sides are naturaily ob- serving a discreet silence, especially since it became clear to all concerned that noth- ing short of an adjudication by a court of equity could be relied on to produce peace and bring about a legal reorganization of the church. Mr. Bennett, the delegate chosen by the de facto vestry to go to the diocesan convention, said today that everything was going along smooth enough. He did not regard the failure of the convention to adopt the report of the elections committee as at all inveighing or reflecting on the position of himself and his associates. All Progressing Satisfactorily. “As a cool matter of fact,” said Mr. Ben- nett, “if anything can be cool today, we are going on in peace, good order and brotherly love. Tne collections yesterday were nearly fifteen dollars more than they were for the same Sabbath last year. That speaks well for a church that is divided within itself, doesn’t it? And they do say that there were some who refrained from giving on account of the trouble over the vestry. Yet in the main the church is go- ing forward, pretty much as well off as if nothing at all had happened.” “Did Bishop Paret during the recent con- vention vorchsafe cny opinion on the pe- cular situation in St. Mark’s Church?” None whatever to my knowledge.” t was apparent in the convention that the bishop did not consider any action the convention might take as absolutely bind- ing, og as a precedent. I think he was sat- isfled not to have the convention act on the report, but he stated that the decision of the committee went on record and so far had its force.” A Settlement Likely. “Well, is this the end of it, or is there a movement on foot to settle the controversy authoritatively?” ~ - “I think I may say that we hone to ar- range the whole matter amicably. That 1s all I can now say about it.” It is rumored that the acting vestry have elected vestrymen to fill the places of tnose who were recently declared not :o be vestrymen in reguiar and active perform- ance of their duties. This report, however, still lacks confirmation, and it is believéd that while the de facto vestry may have taken this step PP view of a possible ad- justment of the difficulty in a court of law, their action has been arrested and held in abeyance until it may appear what com- promise or settfment may be proposed and agreed upon. It is understood that the bishop has suggested to both sides that they agree to a plan proposed by Mr. Me- loy, who acted as attorney for the de jure party before the committee on elections in the recent convention. This is to make up a friendly case and bring it before some court in equity for a dectsion. The Question to Be Decided. This seems feasible, because the main question to be passed upon is whether the communicants at the mission could be taken into the Easter election at the parent church and permitted to vote as if they were stated worshipers there, and upon this question there is little, if any, differ- ence to the facts. The one side claims these voters were rounded up, their neces- sary church contributions paid, and their votes secured, and this, they claim, was egal. The other side admits having done this, and insists it had a right ‘to do It. ‘The Meloy plan could, it fs thought, be car- ried out promptly, without any further clash, and both sides would be obliged to abide by it. What is a Church? There is another point that would nec- essarily be forced into consideration, and that is the proper character or bounds of a church. The other day before the com- mittee in the convention Mr. Graham, the rector of St. Mark’s, was questioned by a member of the committee as to who the imported voters were. It aypeared, from his answer, that the names of these voters were entered in a pocket diary, which, he said, ir answer to a question, he regarded as one of the books of the parish. He had entered these names in the index of the parish book because, he said, he thought some question might come up about the right of these people to vote. The law 1 quires that they should be regularly enter- ed in the book thirty days before the elec- tion. This he had done only with a few, but he thought the right to vote ought not to be taken from them on this account. The Rector’s Construction. Some one—one of the ushers of the church—asked him if these voters were stated worshipers. Mr. Graham said they were. “At our church?” continued the questioner. “They are stated worshipers in the church,” replied the rector. This answer created surprise, for it was known that many of them were wholly strangers in the church and did not attend there. It has since occurred to several who knew this circumstance that the rector said some- thing like this in his statement to the church at the outbreak of the trouble. He then said he regarded the church not as the building, but the people, and {t includ- ed the whole parish, the mission communi- cants as well as those cf the parent church. Any decision of the matter will doubtless have to include a definition of a church, so as to make it clear who are to centrol and be responsible for thé main- tenance and prosperity of the church. ——__. AWAITING THEIR DEATH. Three Condemned Men Now in the District Jail. ‘The Court of Appeals having dismissed the appeal of Joseph A. Beam, convicted several weeks ago of murdering his step- daughter, Annie L. Leahy, on the 22d of last December, Clerk Smith of Criminal Court No. 2 today transmitted to the war- den of the jail the warrant for the con- demned man’s execution Friday, the 26th of next month. As stated in Saturday’s Star, the con- demned murderer’s coursel have filed a petition for a commutation of the deatn sentence, and that is, of course, the only hope Beam has of escaping the gallows. It is understood, however, that District ‘Attorney Birney ‘will oppose the granting of clemency in the case. Thos. J. Taylor, who stands convicted of the murder of his wife in September last, was also sentenced to be hanged on the 26th of July, and today his counsel wag al- lowed by the Court of Appeals to prosecute his appeal at the expense of the govern- ment. District Attorney Birney moved that the appeal be heard next Wednesday, but Taylor's counsel asked for a few days long- er. The matter was taken under consider- ation by the court. There is another murderer in the Dis- trict jail awaiting execution—James L. Travers, the young colored man who mur- dered Lena Gross, a young colored woman, near Brightwood last November. Travers Was sentenced to be hanged on Friday, the 19th of next month. He noted an appeal, and the Court of Appeals is expected to decide the case some time today. It is sald that in the event of an adverse de- cision Travers’ counsel will ask the Pres- ident to commute the death sentence. . ———_. Killed by unm Overcharged Trolley. The deadly trolley has claimed another victim, and the circumstances connected with the tragedy points out another danger from trolley cars, John Darneille, forimer- ly of this city, and a brother of Mr. H. H. Darneille, disbursing officer of the District government, met his death in Philadelphia last week. He had started from his resi- dence in that city in perfect health to take a ride on the trolley cars. As he was about to board a car, he received a terriffic shock through the brass railing of the car. His right hand was terribly burned, and he re- ceived a shock to his nervous system,which resulted in his death. Deceased was well known in Georgetown, where he resided for many years. was @ widower and leaves no family. A Complication Which Threatens to Become Serious. BOTH GAS COMPANIES OBJECT ay the New District Specifications are Unreasonable. THE PRESIDENTS’ LETTERS ‘The Commissioners today were confronted - with a serious condition of affairs, affect- ing the lighting of the city streets, ave- Tues and alleys Today was set aside by advertisement for the opening of bids to light the city straets with gas, naphtha and incandescent lights. New specifications were drawn for this work and advertisements placed in the rewspapers inviting proposals from con- tractors. After the bids were opened it was seen that the appropriation granted by Congress for this work would be insuffi- cient if the lowest bids were accepted to maintain the present service, and the re- sult will be that a number of street lamps will have to be abandoned. Just at this time, when the cry for more light is heard on all sides, and every mail of the Com- missioners contains requests for addi- tional str. lamps, it is particularly unfor- tunate that the service will have to be cur- tailed. It was confidently hoped by the Commissioners that the bids would be so low as to admit of scme further extensions of the service. The last appropriation bill contains an item of $142,400 for gas or oil lighting, and specifically provides that no more than $20.50 per annum for each street lamp shall be paid. The first bids opened under this head were for naphtha, and were quite discour- aging. The specifications for this service have been so modified owing to the in- creased price of oil as to cut off avout one- ninth of the number of hours in which they were to be kept burning. Fet not- withstanding this, the bids are one-sixth higher than they were last year ang the lowest bids for lighting the streets with oil is $20.50 per lamp per annuri, an in- crease of $: per lamp per year over last year’s contract price. ‘The cther bidders for gasoline were Nicola Brothers, $20.40, and the Standard Oil Company, 25. Then the bids for gas lighting were opened. Maj. Powell read letters from theWashington Gas Light Company and the Georgetown Gas Light Company, but in neither case were bids submitted on the specifications. Generally speaking, both companies protested against the specifications, which they criticised as_ unjust. They were wilting, however, to light the lamps under the old specifications at the old contract price of $20.00 per lamp per annum. 1 Georgetown Gas Company. President Henry C.Winship of the George- town Gas Light Company submitted the following letters: “We have carefully gone over the speci- fications of the proposed contract for street lighting during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, and we find the changes are so radical and onerous that it is impossible for this company to comply with the same at the limit which the Congress of the United States has placed upon the District of Columbia to be paid per gas lamp for street lighting, as the said specifications would increase the cost of furnishing gas and maintenance of lamps almost $10 per lamp. Still,in order that public comfort may not suffer, we most respectfully submit a Proposal to continue the street lighting upon the same specificaticns that the streets have been lighted for the past four years and at the price placed upon the said service by Congress.”" The other letter of President Winship contains the proposition to light the streets through which it has gas mains at the rate of $20.50 per lamp per annum, the -speci- fications of the contract to’ be the same as last year. Mr. McLean's Letter. President John R. McLean of the Wash- ington Gas Light Company has this to say in connection with the proposition to light the city streets “After careful constderation of the spect- fications, with the, many changes from the éormer contract which have governed this service for many years, aad the many cosi- ly additions thereto, which additions if car- ried out as set forth in said specifications, we will say, in our judgment, would in- crease the cost of the service required to such an extent as to preciude the Wash- ington Gas Light Company from making a proposal to perform this service. “Inasmuch as the act of Congress mak- ing apprepriations fcr the District of Co- lumbia for the year ending June 30, 1806, limits the amount to be paid for street jamps to $2.50 per lamp per annum, it would be impossible to perform the service required under the specifications as fur- nished by you, without very serious loss to this company. -We do not want to believe that the honorable Commissioners would wish this company to perform this impor- tant service without a just and honest com- pensation therefor. “As set forth in your own statement of the location of the lamps now in present servico it will readily be seen that owing to the rapid growth of this city, with its suburbs extending for miles around, and the demand for gas lamps ever so large a portion of the District, the cost of street lighting is now and must be of necessity more costly than ever before. Under the specifications, as referred to above, the cost of street lighting would, if carried out, be far in excess of the limit, as per act of Congress, and for the following among the reasons: Under the recent con- tract 4,800 lamps was the minimum, and it is proposed to reduce this to 4,000 or fraction thereof. Under the present ar- rangement one hour is allowed for the company to light and extinguish the lamps. This, as we understand it, you propose to reduce to one-half hour each night of the lighting, which change, if, agreed to, would force the company to increase the number of lamp lighters at an expense of not less than one-third greater cost than now paid for this service. “Under the head of ‘repairs’ it is made obligatory to clean lamps daily. This would also require an extra force for day labor, thus increasing the cost, a failure to do which, with the other requirements, would subject the company to heavy Toss at the discretion of the Commissioners. It is re- quired that the company shall clean ail lamp posts and lanterns at least once every year, with the best quality of zinc paint. “Under the head of ‘Plant,’ section 7, the District proposes to furnish at its property yard, or erect on the street, if already there, one lamp post and lantern and designations; the remainder of the plant to ve furnished by the company. This includes lamp cock and burner, for which alone the District pays the gas company one dollar and thirty-two cents; also delivers post wherever to be erected. Again, under our present arrangement, when new lamps are erected, the District makes all repairs of asphalt, Belgian blocks or other pavement. Under the present specifications, all of this excessive cost is placed upon the company. These changes, with others not noticed here, are additional and not required under contracts, and would now be required of the company under your specifications, without the slightest compensation there- for. If we have rightly stated some of the new requirements under your specifications, we are sure that you will on further inves- tigation agree to modify, and grant us the contract, as follows, the terms of which are in accordance with the last one, made for the three years ending June 3, 1894: “We will erect street lamps, supply illum- inating gas to such lamps as shall be designated by the Engineer Commissioner; light, extinguish, clean and keep clean, and repair all such lamps, and otherwise main- tain the (sales under the direction, and to the satisfaction of the Commissioners es tke District of Columbia, tn the city 0: Washington and suburbs thereof east of Rock creek, for the year ending June 80, 1896, according to the terms of the con- tract between the District of Columbia and the Washington Gas Light Company, dated September 14, 1891, as interpreted by ex- perience and custom, for the sum of $20.50 each per annum.” No bid was received from tha United States Electric Lighting Company, and none was expected, for the reason that the Proposals called for street lighting by in- candescent lights,and further that fe would have been impossible for any other com- pany to bid on aro for the reason ig = O. H. Douney, of Albion, Ind., an acknowledged expert in mat- ters relating toadvertising, pro- nounces The Washington Even- ing Star one of the best six daily papers:inthe United States for advertisers’ use, because-= to use hisown words--‘‘because it comes rer to covering its field entirely than any other paper on earth.” eS that no company, was located here. The manager of the Potomac Heat and Power company, however, submitted a letter re- questing the Commissioners to delay the consideration of bids for arc and incan- descent lighting west of Rock Creek until the officers of the company couid be con- sulted. In this connection, it may be stated that while the Commissioners ques- tion their authority to issue permits for the laying of electric conduits within the city limits they believe they have the power to permit them to be laid outside the city limits. A The subject of strect lighting is such an important one that nothing will be done in the way of awarding contracts until the Commissioners have had an oportun:ty to confer. —_.—- A CABINET CONFERENCE. A Suspicion That It May Have Been in Regard to Mr. Olncy. President Clevelarid arrived at-the White House this morning at 10 o'clock, and short- ly afterward sent for Secretaries Carlisle and Lamont. He was in consultation with the secretaries some time, and after they left sent for Attorney General Olney, who reached the White House about 2 o'clock this afternoon. These meetings at a time when the talk of a successor to the late Secretary of State Gresham is at its height gave rise to speculations in regard to the appointment. It was considered possible that the earlier consultation had been to talk over the availability of the Attorney General for the vacancy and that his being sum- moned to the White House meant that he was to be asked if he would take the port- folio of the State Department. At the White House no infermation re- garding the prospective appointment could be secured. Secretary Thurber said that so far as he knew the matter had not been discussed. +--+ THAT DELAYED LETTER. Hnwalians Are Not Chargeable, With Delayed Delivery. At the request of United States Minister Willis the Hawaiian government has been investigating the cause of the delay in the letter asking, for the recall of Minister Thurston. Reports made to Minister Da- mon show that the errors by which the let- ter went to Japan occurred before it passed into the hands of the Hawalian postai authorities. so that they are not chargeable with the delay. Recent reports from Hawaii received here show much activity in preparing for an ex- pected .filibustering expedition. The gov- ernment has sent out the revenue cutter ‘Lehue, with a Krupp gun aboard, to look for the filibusters. SS Diddeféa bn City Sewers. Bids were opened by the Commissioners today for cofStraéting sewers in Lin- den, North Capitol, 12th, 6th, I and H streets and Virginia avenue. The bidders were Lyons Bfothers, John Jacoby, Bolden & Wermley.°E.’G. Gummell, Lamb & Darty, Thomas Buckley and Jno. B. Lard- Way. ———— Today's Business at the Treasury. National bank nates received for redemp- S24882. Gov nternad revenue, S78, Haneous, $228, Se Gone ‘to! West Point. Adjutant Gen. Ruggles has gone to West Point to attend. the graduating exercises of the Military Academy. Gen. Vincent is acting adjutant general in his absence. z Mixs Dodge Better. Late this afternoon Miss Dodge was con- sidered a little better, and had taken some nourishment. ee Unfair Discrimination Is Alleged. ‘To the Editor of The Evening Star: Kindly allow me space in your valuable paper to call attention to an injustice which is being perpetrated in one of our government departments. Last Wednesday (0th instant), the burial day of the late Secretary Gresham, all the government de- partments were closed, with the exception of the navy yard. When Secretary Blaine was buried it was the same thing, and such it has been for a number of years to my Knowledge, and I don't know how much longer. While the employes of the other departments have beet enjoying their holi- days, they of the navy d have been compelled to toil on day after day, all the year round, except for a nationai holiday, which may happen to come in once in a while. We often hear the remark, ‘All the departments were closed on such and such a day.’’ No doubt the speaker thinks that he or she is correct in their statement, but unless it be of a national holiday they are speaking, what they say is not so, for the navy yard employes are sure to be found at their posts. If this was all it would not be so hard to bear, but it is not. In all the government departments (with that same navy yard exception) the employes have a certain amount of annual leave, generaily thirty days, and the same for sickness. The employes of the navy yard have not one day. Even if a man is injured in the discharge of his work, and has to stay at home, he is not paid for his lost time, and if his injuries are serious, and he is away @ month or more, he is lucky to get back at all. It I am not mistaken, there is an annual appropriation made to supply ice, towels and.soap to the departments. The navy yard receives none of these, and why such discrimination should be made is one of the untold mysteries. Is it because they are mechanics and not clerks that they are denied these necessities? These are the most prominent of the injustices heaped upon these men. When a man gives his time to serving three or four years of ap- prenticeship for comparatively no pay, and in so doing has his hands soiled and is compelled to put on a suit of overclothes, is this any reason why he should be looked down upon as not on an equality with one who works at a desk? In my opinion it is not. On the coatrary I think he deserves credit, and should be given his just dues at any rate. It has been acknowledged by experts that the Washington navy yard employes do finer and better work than any like class of: workmen on the globe, and taken as a whole there will not be found in mechanics a better class socially in six months’ travel. OBSERVER. The Baby's Father. From Life. : > 7 Wife—“How sweetly the baby sleeps.” Husband—"Yes. The poor fellow, he doesn’t know' I've come home.” —t- 0-08 - & Wish, From Life. Alberta—“I’do wish it were not the cus- tom to wear the engagement ring only on the third finger of one’s left hand.” Alethea—“So do I. Lcan’t get more than half my engggement rings on at one time now.” — 41-400 ___ “Foo Previous. From the Chicago Tribune. “T could get a heap more advertising out of this ride,” hoarsely muttered Paul Re- yere, bouncing up and down in his saddle, if I’ were doing it on a pneumatic-tired bicycle.” + The Star Out of Town. THE EVENING STAR will be sent by mail to any address in the United States or Canada for such period as may be desired at the rate of fifty cents per month. (But all such orders must be ac- companied by the money, or the paper cannot be sent, as no ac- counts are kept with mail subscrip- tions. Se SEES EE pee eee A WATER WARNING|FORE'GN JUDGMENTS/ FINANCE AND TRADE There May Bea Famine if the Hot Spell Lasts. WASHINGPONTANS GREAT WATER USERS What Maj. Knight and Col. Elliot Say on the Subject. IMPROVEMENTS BEING MADE The citizens of Washington must stop their lavish use of Potomac water if they do not want to bring about a water famine. The intense heat of the past week and the lack of rainfall have caused the water in the dam at Great Falls to sink steadily, and while there is today enough water in the reservoir and at the dam to supply all the legitimate needs of the city, there is just enough danger of a famine to watrant every householder in being careful not to use more water than he really needs. There has been no rain for over a week, and the intense heat that has prevailed in this part of the country has dried up many of the small streams that flow into the Po- tomac, and so has decreased the supply to fn certain extent: But the great trouble is that at just the time when the supply gets fainter the demand upon the water service grows greater. Thus, there is the greatest draft at the time of the least stock. _ People Should Be More Conservative. Should this dry spell continue many more days it will possibly be necessary for Major Knight, the officer in charge of the Washington aqueduct, to warn the people that a water famine is impending unless there is a marked decrease in the con- sumption. To a Star reporter today he said that he felt that while there is no immediate cause for alarm he thought the people ought to be told that they should be more conservative in the use of street washers and more careful to see that A ea are not left running without real need. “The work of ralsing the dam at Great Falls,” Major Knight went on, “cannot be pursued except at very low water, and hence it is not Nkely that it will be com- pleted for a good many months to come. Therefore, we wiH not feel the benefit of the improvement this season, and probably not until late next season. So we must not count on the increase in the supply this summer. We know, by reference to the annual report of Colonel Elliot of last year, that it is impossible to fill the conduit unless there is water three feet deep over the dam at Great Falls. When the stream gets below that point the cun- duit runs at less head and gives less of a supply. This morning the water was the lowest it has keen this spring, being only nine-tenths of a foot above the dam, so thag the conduit was two and one-tenth feet below being full of water. “I cannot estimate just now how far that can continue, but I fear that if the people do not shut down on their waste of the water this flow, which is more apt to de- crease than to increase, will hardly suffice for the consumption. I have had no com- plaints yet of insufiiciemt service, but I lcok for them to come in at any time. At all events, it is well to anticipate such matters and to give warning in time. Tremendous Water Users. “It is no cxaggeration for me to state that this city uses just about twice as much water per capita as any other city in the country. We are tremendous water users her But, while this is true, we know that fully two-fifths of the people do not use a bucket of water a day for their own personal needs, while the general average for the people is about five barrels. Yet those two-fifths of the people manage to get along with less than a bucketful. Of course, there is a very large consump- tion somewhere to make up this average of five barrels per capita. There is, in other words, a frightful leak. The govern- ment may be responsible for some of it, the many park fountains may do their share of the waste, and the waste caused ty each householder probably fills up a large part of the balance. “But it is my belief that if you will find a large commercial establishment where water is used to condense steam in the engines, you will discover the main pari of the waste. I have been informed of veral such cases, but I have no definite information, and so cannot do anything. I believe, though, that such people ought to be compelled to take the, water for con- densing the steam from the river by means of their own pumps. It would serve their purposes fully as weil as the water from the aqueduct.” The Delearlia Reservoir. Col. George B. Elliot, formerly the officer in charge of the aqueduct, but who, upon his retirement from active service a few weeks ago, was retained in charge of the work of completing the improvements at the Delcarlia receiving reservoir, said to the reporter that this reservoir would be ready for use in from six weeks to two months. It will not materially aifect the supply, but it will reinforce the head of water and will also insure a reserve supply of water in case of sudden failure at the dam. It is estimated that this reservoir will hold enough to supply the city for two and one-half or three days, though this would necessitate draining it to the bottom, which might not be quite practicable. Its chief function will be to settle the water before it reaches the distributing reservoir and so improve the quality served through the mains. “The people of Washington should thank ‘The Star,” continued Col. Elliot, ‘for the magnificent aid which it rendered in se- curing the appropriation for raising the dam at Great Falls instead of the proposed sur- vey, Which would only have delayed the necessary work and would have made still more certain the event of a water famine. This work should have been done several seasons ago and because it was not done then the people of the District will suffer this year and next year for the lack-of an adequate supply of water. I do not see how the new coping on the dam can be finished before the fall of 1896 and so it is unlikely that the increase in the supply will come before two heated seasons have passed by. Meanwhile there will unquestionably be considerable distress for the lack of water and everybody must be extremely careful not to waste in the summer when the sup- ply is shorter and the demand is greater. Potomac Supply Sufficient. “There is no question in my mind, and I have studied the matter thoroughly, that the supply of water in the Potomac river is enough for the city of Washington for all time to come. But the time is rapidly approaching when It will be necessary to duplicate the Washirgton aqueduct from Great Falls to the city. This present work of raising the dam will give relief for some years, but it will only enable us to keep the conduit full, and the time is soon coming when even that conduit filled to the crown cannot supply the city ade- quately. We should at once begin the work of agitating the necessity for a new con- duit running from the dam to the city mains. “I very much fear that there will be need of great care by the people to prevent a water famine tais summer. From my experience in this connection I would say that it will soon be necessary to restrict the people very considerably in their use of street washers and to enforce with rig- idity the penalties prescribed by the mu- nicipal authorities. “If I had my way, every man, woman and child in the District of Columbia should have every gallon of water they could pos- sibly use, but when there is an emergency like the present one, everybody must b made to sacrifice a little. It seems absurd, concluded Col. Elliot, “that that ragamuffin there,” pointing to a colored urchin sitting | on a curb in the last stages of dirt and hap- piness, “‘should be responsible for his five barrels of water daily, when we know per- fectly well that he uses probably five cupfuls to drink, and probably five drops to wash himself with. Somebody is using not only his own share but that boy’s share, and there is where the waste comes. If we could save what those'two-fifths of the people do rot use”—referring to Major Knight's fig- ures given above—“there would be no need whatever for economy at such periods.” The Supreme Court Declares Them to Be Tavalid. Decisions in Two Test Cases—Date of the Effect of the Present Tariff Finally Fixed. In the Supreme Court today Justice Gray announced the decision of the court in the case of Henry Hilton and others agaifst Guyot, liquidator of the estate of Fortin & Company, involving the validity of for- eign judgments, reversing the decision of the court below and remanding the case for trial in the circuit court of the south- ern district of New York. Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Harlan, Brewer and Jackson dissented. Justice Gray also announced the decision in the case of Samuel J. Ritchie agt. James B. McMullen and George W. McMullen, in error from the circuit court of the northern district of Ohio. This involved the same questions as the Hilton case, except that the judgment which it was sought to have affirmed was rendered by a Canadian court. History of the Contention. The case of Hilton and Libbey agt. Guyot involved the validity of judgments rendered by foreign courts against American citi- zens, and it is understood that a large num- ber of claims of a character similar to that prosecuted by Guyof, involving many mil- lions of dollars in am®unt, have been held in abeyance until the conclusion of the court in this case should be made known. The case does not properly belong to the present term of the court. It was twice argued during the term of 1893-4, but no conclusion was announced by the court prior to the adjournment of .that term, and it has remained undecided through this term and until today. Guyot appears in the case as the liqui- dator of the French firm of Charles Fortin & Co., formerly glove manufacturers of Paris, and Messrs. Hilton and Libbey, as the successors of A. T. Stewart & Co. of New York. The history of the case goes back to 1880, and that of the transaction on which it is based to 1850, when the house of Stewart & Co. entered upon an agreement with one Alexandse, the predecessor of Fartin & Co., to take from the French house all the gloves manufactured by them for the American market, the twe establishments to share both the profit and the loss of the businéss. Judgments in France. In 1890 this agreement was brought to a close by'a misunderstanding and mutual charges of bad faith. The French firm brought suit in the tribunal of commerce of the Seine, where the case was decided in favor of Fortin & Co., and from which decision it was appealed by Stewart & Co. to the Paris court of appeals, where the decision was also antagonistic to Stewart & Co., the final judgment in the French courts fixing the amount of the indebtness of the New York house to the French firm at $195,122, with interest. Before the final decree was announced Stewart & Co. closed their Paris establish- ment, and, being unable to collect the anicunt of the judgment in France, Fortin & Co., in 1889, brought suit in the United States circuit court for the southern dis- trict_of New York to compel coilection on the French judgment. The defendants filed a bill of discovery, alleging counter claims and asserting that the judgment of the French court was re-examinable. The de- cision was rerfdered by Judge Wallace of the circuit court. He dismissed the bill of discovery and ordered that Stewart & Co. should pey the judgment in accordance with the findings of the French courts. The case was appealed to the United States Supreme Court in 1890, When the Tariff Took Effect. Chief Justice Fuller handed down the opinion of the court in the ease of the United States agt. Burr & Hardwick, in- volving the date when the present tariff law went into effect. The decision was that this did not occur until August 28, 1894, when the bill became a law, notwith. standing the law itself fixed the date as August 1. Chief Justice Fuller also announced that the court had decided to grant the appli- cation of Constable Beach, in the South Carolina dispersary law case, for leave to file a motion for habeas corpus. The case was set for hearing on the first Monday of the next term of the court. Justice Gray’s opinion was very brief and was delivered so indistinctly that it was impossible to catch his language. The decision was a denial of the validity of the judgments of countries which do not recognize the rule of international comity in such matters, RNMENT. Commissioner's Private Secretary. Commissioner Truesdell today named Mr. D. Frederick Alvey as his private secre- tary at a salary of $1,000 per annum. In the last appropriation bill provision was mede for two assistant secretaries to the Ccmmissioners. The Engineer Commis- sioner 2lready has a private secretary, and Commissioner Ross has made his selection, which, he will name when he returns from the west. Mr. Alvey, who is to guard Com- missioner ‘Truesdell’s desk and look after his affairs, is a son of Chief Justice Alvey of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia aud brother of William Alvey, general agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Company in this city. Building Permits. Bullding permits have been issued to the following: Patrick Burke, to erect one two- story frame building, lot 2, block 29, Brook- land, D.C., to cost $900; R. Kingsman, to erect one brick and stone building, 711 East Capitol street southeast, to cost $8,000; |. H. Meriwether, to erect three three- story brick buildings, 1303, 1305 and 1307 22d Street, to cost $15,000; Mrs. L. A. Buck- ingham, to erect one two-story frame build- ing, lot 1s ck 2 ightwood Park, to cost $15,000; W.~E. Paxton, to crect one two-story frame building, lots 3 and 4, Block 5, Tenleytown, D. C., to cost $2,000. ———— ees Foreign Minister for Sweden. Count Ludwig Douglas, governor of Up- sala, has been appointed foreign minister for Sweden, in succession to Count Carl Lewenhaupt, who kas resigned. oe Wrecked in Magellan Straits, The American steamship Washtenaw, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, has stranded in the straits of Megellan and will be a total loss. It is thought the crew is safe. About a year ago the vessel stranded on the Florida coast, and on be- ing hauled off was repaired at Newport ews, Va., and then soid to San Francisco parties, 00 Grain and Cotton Markets. Cotton and grain markets, reported by Ww. B. F st. Close. Hibbs, stock, grain and cotton broker, 1431 ' GRAIN. Close. 7.06 Baltimore Markets, BALTIMORE, Md., June 3.—Flour 2.8523.00; do. extra, 3.25a3. 25; winter wheat patent, patent, 4.35a4.60; de shipments, weak—spot and August, 75%a7 5 ‘bushels; stock, Dushels—southern white cor No. 2. mixed, jock, 137.717 .741 bushels. Hay steady—choice Grain freights very ‘dull, unchanged. 100 ibs, gvod Tadie, Mal2; By alae, Biny "do. 85 alse, Sys do. size, 845; . 22 size, 9%. Tone of the Market Strong and Confident. GRANGERS © MOST CONSPICUOUS Course of Prices Depends on Lon- don’s Attitude. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, June 3.—Although extreme- ly dull and professional, the tone of today’s market was uniformly strong and confident. Opening figures were irregular within a radius of 42 per cent, but subsequently be- came steady at fractional advances. The tendency to limit the activity to the stead! ly increasing group of specialties was again Pronounced. National Lead Common was in goga demand, .as the result of improved dividend prospects, gaining 1 1-8 per cent from a strong opening. General Electric added 1% per cent to first prices on the revival of the rumor that the company will likely secure the contract for the proposed electrical equip- ment of Manhattan. Pacific Mail was advanced over 20, a8 originally predicted by those in charge of sg aa upward movement in this prop- Sugar was dull and at times neglect but sentiment in the main is Favorable ts higher prices before the closing of the vom. ca a books for the next quarterly divi- In the regular list the Grangers were the Most conspicuous features at moderate advances over opening figures. Burlington advanced easily under a fair demand and will likely lead the group in the next active market. Manhattan gained 1 per cent on purchases by traders who were noted among last week's sellers. The cotrse of prices during the week will depend largely on London’s attitude on the resumption of business. tomorrow and the character of crop reports. The street is far from satisfied with the reports of damage thus far received, many of them being contradictory and illogical, end is awaiting more congruous details. There are evidences of individual inter- ests having been considered in the compli- cation of certain reports previously sent out, as the same reports did duty in both the stock and grain markets, but with op- posite results and intentions. If prices at the beginning of the rise which followed the consummation of the bond deal were not too low it might reasonably be con- strued that those now prevailing overesti- mate the extent of the improvement in general business, out it is believed that the lower level will, on investigation, be found the more inconsistent. Should crop reports be unfavorable, a reaction would follow immediately, but the decline is not likely to so completely revolutionize sentiment as to deliver the control of speculation into the hands of the pessimists. Gautious trading and a decreased volume of business should, and probably would, follow, but the short side of the market, after the first flurry, will become extremely hazardous to the average operator. . The trading of the last hour was un- changed in character, traders trying adjust prices so as to influence London's opening tomorrow. Some concessions from best prices were recorded, but the changes were not signifi- cant. The day’s trading disclosed the al most complete absence of incentive,and un- til one is found inactivity and narrowness are sure to follow. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. ‘The following are the opening, the high- est and the lowest and the closing prices cf the New York stock market today, as re- ported by Corson & Macartney, members New York stock exchange. Correspendents Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 80 Broadway: Stocks. Open. Hizh. low. Close. American Suga’ Urs US | 173 118% American Sugar 100%y «100%; 10085 American Tonaceo. American Cotton Oil Atchison. Canada Southern. Canada Pacific... : Chesapeake and Ohio. &.. C. and St. L. Chicago, B. and Q- Chic.and Chicago C..M. and St. Paui.2.2° M. and St. Paul Pfd. ic.. RI. and Pacific.. Lack. and W...... Delaware and Hudson... Den. and R. Grande Pfd Dis.and Cattle Feeding. General Electric. iinois Central, Lak chi De! Louisville and Nashville Long Isiand Traction... Metropolitan Traction... Manhattan Elevated... Michigan Central. Y. and N. E. Cfa...2 C. and St. Louis. Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—regular call—12 o'clock m.—Belt Railroad 5s, $1,000 at 871. Washington and Georgetown Railroad, 5 at 207. Metropolitan Railroad, 3 at 78." District Title, 100 at 10%; 100 at 10%.” After cail—People’s Fire’ Insurance, A Government Bonds.—U. 8. 4s, id Aa, coupon, 113% bid.” 0. BAe, 1 bi U.S. 5s, 115% did. District of Columbia Bonds.—20-year fund 5s, 106 bid. 30-year fund id, 112 bid. Water stock Zs, 1901, currency, iid. Water stock 7s, 1903, currency, 120 bi 1 " bid, 112 asked. Sigs, registered, 2 N ‘ous Bonds, Washington conv. 6s, Ist, 130 bid, 140 asked. Georgetown Railroad conv. 6s, 24, |. Metropolitan Railroad conv. 6s, fread — bid, 88 ee 5 ington Railroad 6s, 100 bid, Columbia. Railroad 6s, 110 bid, 111% asked. Washington G A, 114 bid. Washington Washington as 1 Vash ington 111 bid, 115 asked. 6s, i11 bid, 115 Bank Ste of the Ki shington, 28 Metropolitan, tonal Rank Central, 275 bid, 360 asked. “Farmers a Mechanics’, 180 bid. cond, 187 bid. Citize | 135, a —, 135 a eer : = 7% bid. i ask: tr id ‘ 107 id Lincoln, 99 bid, 108 asked. os.—National Safe ed, tick asked. American’ L “l Trust, 3 bid 124 aske merican Se- | Tanty and Trost, 137 bid, 138 asl Washington Safe Deposit. 80 as Railroad Stocks. Georgetown, Washington M . 78 asked. |, 280 20 das, | u. i 5 2 bid, 45 asked. 43% bid, Metropolitan, 70 Corcoran, 55, ae, OSL, bid.” Are Tington, 140 bid. German: x tional Union, 13 Md, 14 ask: Riggs, 7iz bid, S814) asked. oln, Sa bid Sie asked. Commercial, >" Insurance Real Fetate Title, 108 |, 118 asked, Columbla Title, 7% bid, 8), asked. ‘shington Title, 84 asked. © District . 10 + | bid. | Telephone Stocks. —Penrsylvania, 37 bid. 50 asked. | Chesapeake and Potomac, &8 1 jn: id, 61 asked. Ameri- id, 5 asked. bid, ed. 28 asked. faneous "Stocks.—Washington Market, 14 Md. Great Falls Ice, 130 bid.” Bull Run Pa | rama, 20 asked. Norfolk and Washington Steam- boat, 90 bid. Lincoln Hall, 75 bid. Mergentholer Linotype, bid, 200 asked. *Ex div. 1Ex rights an Grapl Pneumatic Gun | Carri Misi