Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1895, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. 13 RECORD OF YEARS The Forty-Third Anniversary of the Y. M,C, A. of This City. THE FOUNDERS AND THEIR WORK The Efforts Put Forth for the Benefit of Young Men. AN UNFLAGGING ZEAL Tomorrow the Young Men's Christian Association of this city will celebrate in a quiet way the forty-third anniversary of its organization. This institution, so firmly fcunded now, and so widely recognized by the citizens of the community, regardless of sect or denomination, as one of the safe- guards of the city, is among the very old- est of the kind in America. To be sure, the first American organization was not effect- ed here, but the idea that was brought from England, where the Y. M. C. A. was started by a London draper's clerk in 1844, spread with almost equal rapidity through the east, and associations were started in Boston, New York and Washington with but little difference in time. This city later became in a stronger sense the progenitor of Y. M. C. A. work through the nation, for it was through the efforts of one of the founders of the Washington association, Mr. Wm. C. Langdon, that the national organization was effected, and the asso- ciational work was placed on a broad, ef- fective basis. The local organization was the result of the concurrent thought of three young mi of religious instincts, who believed that there could be a great deal of good done by banding together the active members of the community in an interdenominational effort to interest all the people, especially the youths, in spiritual matters, and to af- ford a good means of relief from the temp- tations that every large city throws about young mea. The idea of the Y. M. C. A. that hed been started in London was the inspiration of the movement. These three Birthplace of the Association. men were Wm. Chauncey Langdon, then a lay member of Trinity Episcopal Church, and now a minister of that denomination in Connecticut; Wm. J. Rhees, since chief clerk of the Smithsonian Institution for many years, but then a clerk in the United States census office, and a member of the Presbyterian Church, and Thomas H. Dun- can, now an Episcopal minister at Earle- ville, Md. ‘The idea of forming an association on the Ines of the London organization was discussed by these young men. They met often, and gradually the notion began to take a tangible shape. Others of their ac- quaintances were interested, until at last, in June, 1852, the enterprise was ready to launch, and a call was issued by the three founders and a few others for a meeting at the Central Academy, which was then one of the most prominent meeting places in the city. It was located in a building that still stands at the northeast corner of 10th and E streets, and which has been the home of very many organizations and in- stitutions. It was then a place of general meetings, although {t was the home of the academy, which was under the direction of Rey. James Nourse. This building, which should be noted in passing as the real place where the association was born, was later the home of the Masonic traternity of the city, and then was used by the pub- lle schools of the second district. Later it passed into commercial hands, and is now used as a storehouse. This first meeting was well attended, and a committee was appointed from each re- gious denomination represented to pre- pare a constitution and by-laws. The churches represented at this first meeting were a3 follows: E Street Baptist, First Baptist, Trinity, Ascension and Grace Episcopal, McKendree Methodist, Methodist Protestant, Methodist Episcopal South and 5 Second, Fourth and F Street erian, there was a secoMd meeting held at the same place, and the constitution and by-laws reported by the committee were adopted. This constitution was sign- ed by ninety-one members, including some of the most famous of Washington’s later citizens. Of these men less than a@ score are now living, but it is remarkable that such a large number of the originators and ders of the association have taken an est In its affairs throughout their Those whose faces are shown with article represent a few of the me whose efforts have been beneficially dir ed toward the building up of the a tion, and all of them are now ready times to lend a helping hand. It is said cities can boast of such a showing were now in good shape, and the tion was proceeded with rapidly. July 9 the organization was completed and officers were chosen. Mr. Alexander H. Lawrence was elect- ed president and Mr. Langdon and Mr. Rhees were made corresponding and r \ cording se respectivel rence, hoy not serve long, and soon afterward Mr. Zalmon Richar« of Washington est and best-belo citizens, who ts still alive, was made pres ident in his stead, Z.-Richards." and {s now generally known as the first presiding officer of the association. He was at one time superin- tendent of schools of the District. July 18 the inaugural exercises association took place in the lecture room ir.Law r, did of the Smithsonian, and an address ¥ delivered by Senator R. N. Charlton of Geor The association met for a few times at the Central Academy, where the rooms were placed gratugfously at its dis- posal until it might make permanent ar- rangements, and soon after the erganiza- tion was completed a room was secured on the third story of an office building next to the southeast corner of 7th and E streets. The space was very limited, and there was room but for a library, which grew rapidly, and soon two or more rooms were imperatively needed, and these were obtained in the building—first two rooms on the nd floor and then one more room. But even these changes did not accom- modate the expanding young organization, in 1855 the association moved to rooms over Parker's store, on Pennsylvania ave- nue opposite the Metropolitan Hote Then the assoc tion went from pil to post, alway: growing and al flourishing, until had covered tie fol- lowing itinerary Northeast corne Sth and H_ stre vith the Ch Commission; Topham's ‘ store, now Kne on 7th street; Metzerott building, W. J. Rices then known as the Iron Hall, recently de- molished, ylvania avenue between 9th and 10th streets; the Lincoln Hall building, built for the association and oc- cupied by it for a number of years; then rooms were secured in a building near the corner of 9th and E street: finally the association moved into its present home, w York avenue, this building being y famous as a club house and a taurant. The association got into considerable financial ditticulty as a result of the enter- prise that led to the erection of Lincoln Hall and it kas never quite recovered from the debt thus incurred. Tho proposition was mace by a citizen to erect a building ‘Sanization, and a bargain was all sed that would have given the as- m at a small cost a very valuable property at the southeast corner cf 10th and F streets. But other counsels pre- vailed, and a building was finally put up at the corner of 9th and D streets, where the Academy of Music now stands. This home of the association was de- stroyed by fire some years after the as- sociation had ceased to occupy it. It was known as __ Lincoln Hall, largely from the fact that it was erected soon after the assassination of the President, in 1865, and also from the additional fact that the association had vainly endeay- cred to secure pos- session of the build- ing on 10th street known as the Ford Theater, where Mr. Lincoln’ was shat. The plan was to make of this a great W. ©. Langdon. memorial hall, to be caved for by the ¥. M. C. A., but the pro- t failed. When, therefore, the hall at the corner of th and D streets was put up it was called Lincoln Hall as a substitute Ford Theater hall. tort thees, who, at vatious times filled in the association, but who d, through {1 health, to zation of hrough the of the asso- yound a number ected with its s kindly furnished -ourse of lectures in give up actly late years, ha: inuics of the first ten tor Chariton, Rev. Dr. HH. D. V. Johns, Rev. J. P. Durbin, Prof. A. Guyot, Prof. Joseph Henry and Rev. Dr. N. Murr Missicn Sunday schools were established 505 O street and at the corner of Massachusetts avenue and 2d street, and in 1856 at the corner of Lith and B streets scuthwest and at the corner of Pennsyl- ania avenue and 10th street. There were cemmittees appointed on lectures and ser- mens, meetings, ways and means, library, statistics, rfoms, periodicals, printing and publication, Bible classes, mission Sunday schools, visiting the sick, city prisons, <ylum, employment and boarding houses. ch wari of the city was assigned to certain members of the association, whose duty It was to report any fleld or oppor- tunity to do good work which might legiti- mately be occupied by the association. The policy in selecting fields of labor for the mission schools was to reach the really destitute portions of the city, and when- ever this region was provided for by any church organization another field was se- NeThe first Bible class was led by Mr. Thomas V. Walter, the eminent architect, whose great ability as a teacher and ex- pounder imparted a rare interest and ulus to the exer- In November, the Bible cl: vas formally estat lished, under the di- rection of a commit- tee of ministers of the five leading de- nominations, as fol- son, Bapt Dr. Jesse Methodi Byron Sunderland, Presbyterian, and Rev. Mr. Duncan. Rey. Dr. J. G. Butler, Lutheran. During the first six months 244 members had been secured. The annual dues were . Ten persons hecame life members by the payment of $20 each. In 1854 there were #86 annual and twenty-nine life mem- bers. In January, 1856, the number of life members had increased to sixty-cne, and of these, it is believed, the following nam- ed are the only ones now living: Rev. George W. Samson, Wm. Ballantyne, Wm. C. Lan; Byron Sunderland, Z. Richar Rhees, Rev. Thomas Duncan, Rev. Huntingdon, A. C. Richards and Rev. J. G. Butler. Through the efforts mainly of the H- prarian, W. J. Rhees, who visited several large cities in this interest, a library of 1,200 volumes and a large number of periodicals for the reading room was se- cured as early as January, 1854. This has always been one of the most excellent fea- tures of the Y. M. C. A. work, and the reading rooms are now very popular and weil attended. In 1857 the Mbrary had reached 2,000 volumes, and all ladies who tausht in any of the mission schools were given the freo use of the books. The free- dom of the rooms of the association was also granted to the clergy of all denomina- tions and the editors of the city papers in Mi 1S5-9, while the assoclation was keeping in touch with the rest of the worid, and in . it elected Rev. Dr. C. M. Butler as a delegate to rep- resent it at the annl- y of the . A. in London. his return he pre- sented many valuable suggestions for the improvement of the york. The corre- ponding secretary Wm. Chauncey Lang- dou, was from. the irst a most untiring, ZY) \icvoted and intelli- US 7 went worker. He not Zp 7 only stimulates e Z / wome association, but oO. C. Wight. se he was the first to the importance and to propose the establishment of a union of Kindred societies in this country. The Washington As: ation took the initiative in a movemen 2 national con- ference, and although opposed by the Bos- ten and New York associations, a conven- tion was held in Buffalo, N. Y., where nineteen associations were represented by forty delegates. The Washington delegates were Rey yron Sunderland, Z, Richards, Wm. C. Langdon and Wm. J. Rhees. Mr. Rhees was elected secretary of the con- on, and a Young Men’s Christian Con- yen federation of the United States and the British Provinces was organized. At the second convention in Cincinnati the Washington delegates were Messrs. Langdon, Rhe Ketler and Haskell. Mr. Langdon was chosen president. The third convention was held in Montreal, and the Washington. dele- gates were W. C. Langdon, Vv J. Rthees, D. H. Wood. er, Joseph y, ir, Wm , John Va Sam and Linds! was mad and . was appointed a dele gate from the Amer- jean As i to those of In Octobe sociation wa i854, a committee of the as- called his atten ent Pierce and great neeed of a house of refuge for juvenile offenders, and asked him to recommend such an es- tablishment to the Congress at the next fon. In 1855 a lot was presented to the ciation in Glenwood cemetery, in which member of the association or any stranger might be interred. A marble monument was erected in the lot, and a hedge was planted around it. R. L. allwood, of the early members, was d secured the passage of a ate for the appointment bill through th for of a chaplain the city prison, but it failed of considera- tfon in the House Rhrough B. H. Stinemetz. was made. About the vocal music Was or- Munson es of the terlan Church made Presi mnasium the association. While Mr. Rhees was president an arrange- ment was made by him for co-operation anan a Nfe member of with the Young Catholics’ Friend Society for the relief of the poor, and a commit- tee was appointed, representingj ail parts of the city, consist- ing of Messrs. Lang- don, Moore, Young, Grayson and Rees of the YM. C. A, ard Messrs. Jones, Clarke, Walsh, Du: hamel'and Laws of the cther organiza- tion. Christian unity was thus exemplified in the most practical and impressive man- ner. Co-operation was also shown by allowing any member of a young men’s lit- W. J. Sibley. erary or debating scciety to have the priv- Mleges of the librar: kc., at one-half the regular rates, provided there were ten from any one society. The presidents of the associaticn from 1852 to 1858 were Alex. H. Lawrence, Imon _ Richards, Otis C. Wight, Wm. J. Rrees, Thos. J. Magruder, Rich. ‘T. Morsell, “Jno. H. Bradley, jr. _ Among “ the vice presidents were Wm. Ballantyne, A. M. Zevely,Wm.Q. Force, P. A. Keller, 5. H. Latimer, Jas. N. Da- vis, Thos. J. John- Z ston, Rev. J. G. But- Thos. McG ler, Dr. L.A. Ed- wards, Rev. S. H. Mirick, J. Aug. John- son, J. G. Weavem Samucl H. Young, Hen- ry Beard, Wm. T. Smithson, Jno. Van Santvoord, Dr. J. C. Grayson, Charles H. Norton, Dr. Richard H. Coolidge, Robt. CF Corresponding secretaries, Wm. Chauncey Langdo.a, Rev. Stephen H. Mirick, David H. Wood and R. T. Morsell. Recording secretaries—Wm. J. Rhees, Dr. J. Hall Moore, Jos. H. Bradley, jr.; Chas. H. Hoimead, R. ‘T. Morsell, Joel C. Green. Treasurers—Mitchell H. Miller, Chas. W. Schreiner, Wm. C. Langdon, Dr. J. Hall Moore. Librarians, first—Wm. J. Rhees, A. L. Edwards, E. H. Thompson, Jas. W. Wal- ton, H. Brison ‘Tucker. Registers—Fred L. Moore, David Bassett, Cc. F. M. Grammer, John Ott, J. J. Under- wood. The first board of directors consisted of Jno. W. Clarke, Geo. W. Dutton and Thos. rooks, R. Smallwood, Baptist; T. M. Han- son, C. W. Schreiner, Thos. Duncan and C. Dusenberry, Episcopal; Chas. Pierson, A. &. Johnson and Geo. H. B. White, Metho- dist; Dr. J. S. Mackie, Jno. T. Cochrane, J. C. Whitwell and O. C. Wight, Presby- terian. . The original members of the association were as follows: Zalmon Richards, William J. Rhees, James A. Dunnington, James V. Iddins, Rev. S. P. Hill, Joseph Eckloft, Alexander G. Brown, Samuel H. Latimer, W. H. Bangs, B. F. Jacobs, B. L. Small- wood, J. Lb. Hines, Wm. H. Pritchett, Eph- raim Wreeler, Wm. Hinwood, A. H. Law- renc?, Thomas Duncan, Charles F. Stans- bury, L. D. Gale, Wm. S. Roberts, J. L. Kidwell, J. H. C. Coffin, T. M. Hanson, H. J. Kershaw, A. N. Zevely, Richard H. Coclidge, Rev. CC. M. Butler, John c. Whitwell, Wm. Flye, C. Dusenbery, Edward Myers, O. C. Wight, Francis N. Shaw, J. Hall Moore, Wm. S. Eveleth, Rev. James Nourse, Alexander R. Shepherd, Lorenzo D. Johnson, John W. Clarke, Ge. W. Dutton, Edward F. Chilton, Rev. R. W. Cushman, A. G. Fitzhugh, A. B. John- son, James N. Davis, John W. McKim, Rev. A. G. Carothers, Thos. J. Johnston, 3. H. Lane, Charles Sexton, Joseph T. Walker, L. Campbel!, J, F. Campbell, Rev. D. X. Junkin, Thos. Brooks, S. W. Grubb, Wm. Q. Force, Samuel C. Smoot, J. G, Weaver, Jos. Schwartz, G. H. B. White, A. L. Edwards,Charles Pierson, Ho- bart Berrian, Wm. B. Waugh, Charles E. Perkins, Wm. P. Ferguson, Wm. Thomas Turpin, Samuel Norment, Wm. C. Lang- don, H. F. mmerman, L. D. Walter, W. J. Sibley, Rebert Isracl, Rev. S. A. H. Marks, John McFarland,Prof. Jewett, Rich- ard B. Norment, Chas. W. Schreiner, Chas. F. Perrie, J. F. Lewis, Ferdinand ¥. Myer, L. B. Hardin, Dr. S. A. H. McKim, J. T. Cochrane, Z. D. Gilman, Jas. S. Mackie, John H. Clarke, Moses ‘Kelly, Jay Spur- rier, M. H. Miller, Wm. H. Phillip, Henry H. Rhees, Samuel Rust, Jos. H. Nourse, Rev. Mason Noble, F. P. Noble, P. A. Kel- ler, Robert S. Jordan, Dudley Digges, Joel C. Green, T. L. Lamb, Thos, Steel, J. B. Rand and D. Jay Browne. There will be little formality about the celebration of the anniversary in the hall of the association tomorrow, the main feature of the pftogram being an address by Rev. Dr. Butler of the Memorial Lutheran Church. Dr. Butler was a charter member, and took part, as will be seen by the foregoing notes of the early history of the association, in the formation of it and of the national organization. —— Art in Corea. From the Argonaut. A young Englishman visiting Corea was induced to paint the portrait of the com- mander-in-chief of the Corean land forces, Prince Min Yomy Huan. Eleven o'clock in the morning was fixed for the sitting. At 6:30 the prince, having been unable to sleep for excitement, ar- rived at the place of appointment, and the artist was forced to hop out of bed and be- gin work. “As I posed him,” says the artist, “he did not utter a word or wink an eye. And during the whole of the sitting of three hours he sat motionless and speechiess, like a statue. “It is finished,’ I finally said, and he sprang up in a childish fashion and came over to look at the work. His delight was unbounded, and he seized my hand and shook it at intervals for half an hour, after which he suddenly became grave, stared at the canvas and then looked at the back of it. He seemed horrified. “What is it?’ I inquired. * ‘You have not put in my jade ornament,’ he said, almost in despair. “I had painted his pertrait full face, and, as the Coreans have the strange notion of wearing their decorations in the shape of a small button of gold, silver, Jade or am- ber behind the left ear, this did not appear thereon. “I then tried to remonstrate, saying that it was impossible to show both back and front at once, but he seemed distressed at what was, to him, a great defect; I com- promised the matter by making another large but rapid sketch of him from a side point of view, so as to include the decora- tion and the rest rather magnified in size. ‘You will find no fault with this one,’ I remarked, with confidence. “Alas, my Corean sitter advanced to the portrait, scrutinized it carefully and turned to me aggrievedly. yes,’ he admitted, ‘you have painted my decoration we®, but where is my other eye?” +00-—____ The Four-Post Bedstend. From London Titbits. In mediaeval times, when life was very insecure, it was usual for peopie to sleep on a ped which was surrounded by sides of board, with st & posts at the four cor These les contained sliding doors, which could be fastened inside. When men retired to rest they took a weapon with them. If attacked in the night they were aroused by the noise made by the crashing in of their wooden defenses, and were able to defend themselves. When the law became strong enough to protect hu- man life, the sides of the bedsteads were gradually dispensed with, but the four posts remained. The box-like bedstead still survives in the rural parts of Scotland, and is almost necessary where the earthen floors and imperfect ceilings cause much damp. Emily Brorte, in ‘Wuthering Heights,” describes one of these bedsteads in the old mansion as forming a “little closet.” Mr. Lockwood who had to sleep in it, says: “I slid back the panel sides, got in with my light, pulled them together again, and felt secure.’ A Blind Noveli: From the London News. Miss Alice King, the popular novelist, who was wholly blind from the age of seven, became a fearless horsewoman, and would gallop over hills and alons rough moorland paths that would have been im- but the most proficient King, who was educated at gained more or less proti in seven languages besides her own, nai rench, German, Italian, Greek and Hebrew. s done with a typew! aid she could write as quickly with sight ordinarily writ All Miss King’s time not taken these literary labe teaching and influen and lads in her father’s pari own efforts this w tablished for them a read club, home, and with its nd by her blind girl es- room, cricket band and other institutions, A ROCK OF COPPER ———_} The Ontonagon Boulder and Its Dra- matic History. FROM LAKE SUPERIGR T0 WASHINGTON A Singular Journey and Many Com- plications. ITS SAVAGE PROPRIETORS Written for The Evening Star. N AN OBSCURD corner of the Nation- al Museum a boulder of native copper, weighing, perhaps, three ton: rests on a plain wooden base. No inscription bears record as to the cri- gin or the history of this copper fragment, the size of which would alone make it notable. Reposing in that American Pan- theon of things inanimate, not even a number points to some page of the museum reports, whereon the curious investigator may find by what right the copper rock can claim even its neglected corner. Worshiped as a manitou by the super- stitious Indians during uncounted years, the siren of mining adventurers while yet the flag of England floated over the luke country, the objective point of hazardous expeditions by explorer-and scientist, the Ontonagon boulder has never been so left to itself as it has been during the half century that has elapsed since it was brought to the national capital, where the expectation was that all eyes might gaze upon it as the representative of national wealth and enterprice. Alexander Herry’s Explorations, In 1771, lured, doubtless, by the mass of copper at the forks of the Ontonagon, Henry and his associates undertook to pierce the bluffs of clay and red sandstone which border that stream, in the hope of finding the vein whence the boulder came. Only complete ignorance of the geology of the Lake Superior region can explain what Dr. Houghton calls “these quixotic trials,” and complete failure was the natural re- sult. In 1819 Gen. Lewis Cass made the first explorations of the Lake Superior region that were undertaken by this governmen Turning from their’path, his party ascen ed the Ontonagon river for thirty miles to visit the mass of copper, whose existence, he says, had long been known. “Common report,” he writes to John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, “has greatly magnified e quantity, though enough remains, even after a rigid examination, to render it a mineralogical curiosity, Instead of being a mass of pure copper, it is rather copper imbedded in a kard rovk, and the weight probably does not exceed five tons, of which the rock is much the farger part. It was Impossible to procure any specimens, for such was its hardness that our chisels broke like glass. I intend to send some Indians in the spritig to procure the neces- sary specimens. As Ijwnderstand the na- ture of the substance, We can now furnish them with such tools: as will effect the object. I shail, on’ thelr return, send you such specimens as you may wish to re- tain for the government or’ to distribute as cabinet specimens to the various literary institutions of the’ country The party sent by Cass were not so for- tunate as he anticipated they would be. They cut about thirty cords of wood,which they placed abont.the poulder and set fire to the pile. Wheh the copper was well heated they dashed water upon but tae only result was to detach pieces of quartz rock adhering to the native copper. The party, having become disheartened, left the country, hav:rg moved the rock four or five feet from the bank of the river; nor did the rbeau part who went from Sault Ste. Marie, two years later, hav better success. It so happened, ho that Mr. Joseph Spencer, one cf the Cass expedition, told the story of the copper rock to Mr. Julius Eldr a hardware merchant of Detroit, and for sixteen years this enterprising man schemod and planned bow he might succeed where others had failed. A Scientific Report. Until the report made by the state geolo- gist of Michigan, Dr. Douglass Houghton, in 1841, there had been no authentic or trustworthy statements in regard to the copper-bearing rocks of Lake Superior, but within four years from the date of that re- port the mineral lands from the tip of Keweenaw Point to. the Ontonagon river were overrun with prospectors, the great majority of whom left dollars where they found pennies. It is in Dr. Houghton’s re- port that the best scientific account of the copper rock is to be found. “I have thus far,” he says, “omitted to allude particu- larly to the large mass of native copper which has been so long known to exist in the bed of the Ontonagon river, lest per- haps this ‘isolated mass might be con- founded with the veins of the mineral dis- trict. That this mass has once occupied a place in some one of these veins is quite certain, but it is now perfectly separated from its original condition, and appears simply as a loose, transported boulder. * * * The copper boulder is associated with rocky matter, which in all respects resem- bles that associated with that metal in some portions of the mines before describ- ed, the rocky matter being bound together with innumerable strings of metal; but a very considerable portion of the whole Is copper in a state of purity. While this mass of native copper cannot fail to excite much interest, from its great size and purity, it must be borne In mind that it is a perfectly isolated mass, having no con- nection with any other; nor does the char- acter of the country lead to the inference that veins of the metal occur in the im- mediate vicinity, though the mineral dis- trict crosses the country at a distance of but a few miles.” Leaving for the moment the question as to the origin of the copper rock, let us fol- low its history. Prior to 1843 not a pound of copper had been shipped commercially from Lake Superior. The billion and a half pounds which have been taken from that region have been mined since that year, and more than half that product has been taken from a mine discovered since the war of the rebellion ended. The Ontonagon boulder was not regarded ‘primarily in a commercial light; for its market value as ingot copper could not have exceeded, $600, Mr. Eldred's object in transporting it to the lower lakes was to exhibit it for money in the various cities of the east. It was a curiosity. As Senator Woodbridge said, it was ‘a splendid specimen of the mineral wealth of the ‘far west.’ ”” In 1841, Mr. Eldred arranged with Samuel Ashman of Sault Ste. Marie, to act as his interpreter in the purchase of the copper rock from the Chippewa Indians, on whose lands it was situated. Obtaining a trading license from Mr.. Ord, the government agent, the two men set out for the mouth of the Ontonagon, where they met the chiefs and concluded the purchase for $150, of which sum was paid in cash at the time, and the remainder in goods two years later. Tho party then proceeded about twenty-six miles up the river; climbed the high hill which intervened between the main stream and that point on the fork where the rock was situated, and raised it on skids. More than this they could -not do; nor did they have greater success the following summer. Removing the Boulder. In 1843 Mr. Eldred started from Detroit with wheels and castings for a portable railway and car; and to protect his prop- erty tights he secured from Gen. Walter Cunningham, the United States mineral agent, 2 permit to occupy for mining pur- poses the section of land on which the boulder stood. Arriving at the rock, Mr. Eldred was surprised and chagrined to find it in possession of a party of Wiscon- sin miners, under the direction of Col. Hammond, who had located the land un- der a permit made directly by the Secre- tary of War to Turner and Sndyer, and by their egent transferred to Hammond. The only thing to do was to buy the rock again, and this Mr. $1,365. It took a week for the party of twenty- one p2rsons to get the rock up the fifty- foot hill near the river; then they cut tim- {bers and made a stout wocden railway track, pleced the rock on the car and moved it with capstan and chains, as houses are moved. For four miles and a half, over hills 600 feet high, through val- leys and deep ravines, through thick for- ests, where the path had to be cut, and tangled urderbrush, the home of pestifer- mosquitoes, this railway was laid, and the copper boulder was transported; and when at last the rock was lowered to the main stream nature smiled on the labors of the workmen by sending a freshet to carry their heavily laden boat over the lower rapids and down to the lake! While arranging transportation to Sault Ste Marie, Mr. Eldred was confronted by an order Irom the Secretary of War to Gen. Cunningham directing him to sieze the copper rcck for transportation to Washington. “The persons cla'ming the rock have ro right to it,” says Secretary Perter, “but justice and equity would re- quire that they be amply compensated for the trouble and expense of its removal from its position on the Ontonagon to the lake; and for this purpcse Gen. C. will examine into their accornts and allow them the ccst, compensating them fully and fairly therefor—the sim, however, not to exceed $700, * * * If they set up a claim for tre’ ownership of the article itself, that is not admitted or recognized, and their redress, if they have any, will be by an applicaticn to Congress.” The sum mentioned by the Secretary be- ing manifestly too small to compensate Mr. Elired “fully and fairly,’ Gen. Cun- ningham allowed the former to transport the rock to Detroit, and promised that if the curiosity was ordered to Washington Mr. Eldred would be placed in charge of it. On October 11, 1543, the boulder was landed at Detroit, and placed on exhibi- tien for a fee ef 25 cents; and among those who embraced the opportunity to visit it was Henry R. Schoolcraft, who renewed an acquaintance with the copper monarch fermed twenty-three years previous. After less than a month of uninterrupted pos- sion, United States District Attorney George C, Bates informed Mr. Eldred that the revenue cutter Erie was waiting to re- ceive the rock for transportation to the capital; and on November 9 the boulder started on its long jo! ey, by way of Buffalo, the Erie canal and New York city to Georgetown, D.C. Mr. Eldred ac- companied it as far as New York, and met it at Georgetown with a dray, by which it was hauled to the quartermaster's bureau of the Wer Department, and de- posited in the yard, where it remained un- tl some time subsequent to 1855. Mr. Eldred now appealed to Congress for redress; and it so happened that in the Senate William Woodbridge of Michigan was chairman of the committee on public lands. An exhaustive report was made on the matter at the first session of the Twen- ty-eighth Congress, and three years later, by an act approved January 26, 1847, the Secretary of War was authorized to allow and settle upon just and equitable terms the accounts of Julius Eldred and sons for their time and expenses in purchasing and removing the mass of nativ copper common- ly called the copper rock. The sum thus paid was $5,664.98. From the yard of the old War Depart- ment to the National Museum is not a long journey for so traveled a rock, and we need spend no time on it. CHARLES MOORE. ——.—__ Eldred did, paying for it NEW PUBLICATIONS. PERSONAL REMIN TIONS OF FORT IN THE MEDICAL SOCIET' TRICT OF COLUMBIA A} THIS CITY, with Biographi of the Deceased Members. By M.D., LLD., President of the of the District of Columbia, 1877, This is not an autobiography. It is an interesting succession of impressions and experiences, dealing with men and women who contributed much to the history of the city and with places and people and things which, while not conspicuous, are neces- sarily sketched to round out the story which Dr. Busey tells so well. Especially valuable are the reminiscences which have to do with Abraham Lincoln, with whom the doctor was a fellow-boarder in one of those. peculiarly Washingtonian establish- ments which gave to the national capital the temporary title of “The City of Board- ing Houses.” Of the great Lincoln, who Was then a member of Congress, Dr. Busey says: “Finally, at the suggestion of my friend and classmate, Dr. W. H. Saunders, who died in Nicaragua during the last and dis- astrous invasion of that country by Walker, the freebooter, and not entirely free from the hope that I might attain saccess with- out going too far away from the young lady to whom I have already referred, I took the office on A street southeast, now included in the eastern part of the Capitol, vacated by Dr. Francis M. Gunnell, who had a week before passed the medical ex- amining board for the navy, at the head of the list, and took my meals at a boarding house kept by Mrs.Sprigg, occupying a seat at the table nearly opposite Abraham Lin- coln, whom I soon learned to know and ai mire for his simple and unostentatious manners, kindheartedness and amusing jokes, anecdotes and witticisms. When about to tell an anecdote during a meal he would lay down his knife and fork, place his elbows upon the table, rest his face be- tween his hands and begin with the words ‘that reminds me,’ and proceed. Every- body prepared for the explosions sure to follow. I recall with vivid pleastre the scene of merriment at the dinner after his first speech in the House of Representa- tives, occasioned by the description, by himself and others of the congressional mess, of the uproar in the House during its delivery. “I had not attached any importance, and had rarely referred to the fact of haying boarded in the same house with Mr. Lin- coin, until I read a statement in one of the daily papers to the effect that a diligent search made by the Memorial Association of the District of Columbia had failed to locate the house in which he had resided during his service in Congress; and, more recently, having declined an invitation to make an address at the memorial meeting held April 14, 1804—the twenty-ninth anni- versary of his death—in which I was re- quested to set forth such facts, circum- stances and reminiscences of Congressman Lincoln as I might recall, it has seemed not only eminently proper, but incumbent upon me, to comply so far with that re- quest as to record in some permanent form the brief details of that association. “The house was the fourth of a row of houses Known as “Carroll Row,” ‘situated on the east side of 1st strect east between A street south and East Capitol street, the south house of the row being at the corner of Ist and A streets south. The Iccation is now better known as the west front of one of the squares (720) upon which the new library is being built. The corner house was occupied by Gen. Duff Green and family, who took their meals at the Sprigg boarding house; the next ‘by William I. McCormick and family, and the third by John H. Houston and family. The two houses ncrth of the Sprigg were boarding houses, then a stonecutter’s yard and the three-story brick house at the cor- ner of Ist street east and East Capitol street, with a shop on the ground floor and dwelling above, occupied by the stone- cutter, completed the west front of the square. “There was a large number of boarders at the Sprigg house, among whom may be named, besides Mr. Lincoln, Messrs. Me- Tivaine, Dick, Blanchard and Pollock, mem- bers of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, and Trompkins, M. C., from Mississippi, the Green family, Nathan Sar- gent—better known as ‘Oliver Oldschogl’— Edmund French, a private citizen, and my- self. All the members of the House of Representatives were whigs. The Wilmot proviso was the topic of frequent conversa- tion, ard the occasion of very many angry centroversies. Dick, who represented the Lancaster district in Pennsylvania, after- ward represented by Thaddeus Stevens, was a very offensive man in manner and conversation, and seemed to take special pleasure in ventilating his opinions and roveking unpleasant discussions with the emocrats and scme of the whigs, espe- cially Thompkins, who hold adverse opin- jons on the Wilmot proviso. Nathan Sar- gent was alco a radical, but was so inter- ested In the success of the whigs and the election of Zachary Taylor that he re- straincd himself and followed Mr. Lin- coln, who may have been as radical as either of these gentlemen, but was so dis- creet in giving expression to his convi tions on the slavery question as to avoid giving offense to anybody, and was so con- ciliatory as to create the impression, even among the pro-slavery advocates, that he did not wish to introduce or discuss sub- jects that would provoke a controversy. When such conversation would threaten angry or even unpleasant contention he would interrupt it by interposing some anecdote, thus diverting it into a hearty laugh, and so completely disarrange the tenor of the discussion that the parties engaged would either separate in good humor or continue conversation free from discord. This amicable disposition made him very popular with the household. “Congressman Lircoln was very fond of bowling, and woul? frequently join others of the mess, or meet other members in a match game, at alley of James Cas- paris, which was near the boarding house. He was a very awkward bowler, but pl ed the game with great zest and spirit, solely for exercise and amusement, and greatly to the enjoyment and entertain- ment of the other players and bystanders by his criticisms and funny ilustrations, He accepted success and defeat with like good nature and humor, and left the alley at the conclusion of the game without a scrrow or disappointment. When it was known that he was in the alley there would assemble numbers of people to witness the fun which was anticipated by those who knew of his fund ef anecdotes and jokes. When im the alley, surrounded by a crowd of eager listeners, be indulged with great freedom in the sport of narrative, some cf which were very broad. His witticisms seemed for the most part to be impromptu, Lut he always told the anecdotes and jokes as if he wished to convey the impression that he had heard them from some one; but they appeared. very many times as if they had been made up for the immediate oceasion. “Congressman Lincoln was always neat- ly but very plainly dressed, very simple oachable in manner, and unpre- He attended to his business, going prompt! to the House and remain- ing till the ion adjourned, and ap- peared to be familiar with the progress of legislation. “During that s the eldest son, wi: but was so reti sion Mrs. Lincoln, with at the hou: ‘or a time, ing that she was rarely seen except at the meal: obert was a bright boy, about four old, and seemed to have his own way. If there were any other children I do not recall the fact. During the short session of that Congress Mr. Lincoln lived down town, where, I do not now remember. People who knew the Weshington of 1845 and who have watched its progress from that time until the present will be de- lighted with some of the descriptive work in this interesting volume, while people who have only known it in its later years will, in this book, find great store of fas- cinating matter. It is an invaluable con- tribution to the general and medical his- tory of the District of Columbia during the past fifty years. When the busy advocates of free silver some littie. time ago made it evident that they and their friends proposed to inform and misinform the country in the import- ant matter of finance, there was remark- able lack of published argument and tes- timony of a popular description on the other side of the question. Books that dealt technically and at times ponder- ously with sound money propositions were good enough in their way, but they could not be used to reach the masses, which had .read with avidity the readable but deceit- ful conclusions reached by those who avowed themselves the friends of silver and the enemies of all other money metals. Since that time, however, there have come into existence in response to the demands of that majority of the public that will not bow down before the silver image a great variety of books in-which the fallacies of silver fanatics are completely exposed. Some ox these books are the following: COIN’S FINANCIAL FOOL. By Horace White. I- lustrations by Dan Beard. ply to Coin's Financial School. New York: J. S. Ogilvie Pub- lishing Co. A FREAK IN FINANCE; Or, The Boy Teacher Taught. Being a Reply to Coin’s Financial School. Containing an Outline History of Bi- metallism in the United States from’ 1 the Present Time. By John cago: Rand, McNally & Co. CASH vs. COI Scho An Answer to Coin's Financial By Edward Wisner. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Go. “cormn'$" FALLACIES EX- nley Waterloo. Chicago: ‘The hing Co. WER TO COIN’S FINAN- AL SCHOOL. Tlustrated by Frank Beard. Chicago: A. B: Sherwood Publishing Co. THE GOLD STANDARD AND PROSPERITY. Friend of Honest Money. SAM'S DILEMMA. A Parable Bearing on the Sil- ver Question and Its Solution. By Join Lundie. Chicago: Anderson Printing Co. DOLLARS OR WHAT? A Little Common Sense Applied to Silver as Money. By W. B. Mitchell. Chattanoog: Dollars or What Publishing Co. Washington: J. J. Decker. FARMER HAYSEED IN TOWN: Or, The Closing Days of Goin’s Fipancial School. By L. G@. Powers. St. Paul: Industrial Publishing Co. ‘THE GLOBE TREASURY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWL- EDGE. A Condensed Encyclopedia. New York: G. W. Dillingbam. Cheap in its make-up and not at all pre- Possessing in appearance, this paper-coy- ered volume is full of all sorts of infor- STANLEY Woop’: Bya By BF. Tilustrated. Washington? Wood- mation likely to be interesting and edu- cationally valuable to the reader. THE JUDGMENT BOOKS. A Story. Benson, author of “Dodo. York: “Harper & Brothers. ward & Lothrop. AT THE FIRST CORNER and other stories. By H. B. Mariott Watson, author of “Diogenes of London.” Boston: Roberts Brothers. Wash- ington: Woodward & Lothrop. THE ZIG-ZAG PATHS OF LIFE. & Novel. B: Matilda Vance Cooke. Chicago: Charles 1 Kerr & Co. Washington: Brentano's. LOYALTY TO CHURCH AND STATP. The Mind of His Excellency, Francis Archbishop Satolll, Apostolic Delegate, “ Baltimore: Jolin’ Murphy POCKET GUIDE TO THE COMMON LAND BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND. By M. A. Willcox, Pro- fessor of, Zoology, Wellesley Coilege. — Boston: Lee & Shepard.’ Washington: Woodward & Lothrop. JIMMY BOY. By Sophie May, author of “Wee Lucy,” “Little Prudy Stories,” “Sotty Dimple Stories," &e. Boston: Lee & Shepard. Wash- ington? Woodward & Lothrop. DOCTOR GRAY’S QUEST. By Francis H. Under- wood, LL.D., author of “Quabhin,” “The Poet and the Man,” “Builders ‘of American Litera- ture,” *‘Handbooks of English Literature,” “Man “Lord of Himself,” &e. Boston: Lee & Shepard. Washington:’ Wood- ward & Lothrop. THE STORY OF PATRIOT’S DAY, Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775. With’ Poems Brought out on the First Observation of the Anniversary Holiday and for Forms in which it was Cele brated. By George J. Varney. Boston: Lee & Shepard. Washington: Woodward & Lothrop. THAT EURASIAN. By Aleph Bey. Chicago: F. ‘Tennyson Neel ORIOLES’ DAUGHTER. By Jessie Fothergill, an- A thor of “The First Violin, farch in the Rauks,"" *Probation,”” &c.' New York: Lovell, Coryell & Co. Washington: Woodward & Loth? rop. OHILDREN OF THE SOIL. By Henryk Sienkle- wicz, author of “With Fire and Sword.” “The Deluge,” “Pan Michael,”” “Without Dogma,” “Yanko the Musician,” “Lillian Morris,” &c. ‘Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Cur tin. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. People who want to go away from home during the summer time and who are in doubt as to where to go and how to get there will find material assistance in the book of summer excursion routes, just is- sued by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany—a copy of which has been forwarded The Star by Mr. Colin Studds, the south- eastern passenger agent. A vast quantity of interesting facts, embellished with su- perior illustrations, is to be found within the decorated covers of a railroad guide that gives its readers a very fair impres- sion as to the amount of money needed to defray the expenses of excursions into New | the summer resort regions of the east and northeast. The Southern Literary Messenger {s the latest ad nm to the long catalogue of Magazines that have gone out to the world from this city. Years ago—in 1si4—the original magazine of the same name was | published In Richmond, and there it con- tinued to be published until 1833, when ft ices Were removed to this city. A little hile later it suspended. Among those who edited the old Messenger were Its founder—a Mr. White—Edgar Allan Poe, Dr. Minnegerode, Mr. Minor, Mathew Fountaine Maury and Dr. George W. Bag- by. The present editor and proprietor {is Mrs, A. Truehart Buck, who in No. 1 of the revived Messenger gives evidence of editorial abflity. The Health, Sanitation and Climatology of the Southern States is a quarterly jour- ral devoted to the advancement of #an{- tary science, material resonrces amd medi- cal climatology, with especial reference to the mineral springs, health resorts and sanitariums of the states south of Mason and Dixon’s line. Edited by Dr. Walter C. Murphy of this city and published at 932 K street northwest it is largely a local venture. Each number has in it a great quantity of professionally and generally interesting reading matter, illumined by, artistic illustrations. z _>-— - ART NOTE! The rapidity with ‘which the new Cor, coran Art Gallery building has assumed shape during the past few months has proven a source of decp satisfaction to those in charge of the Corcoran Art School and the present gallery, the former being in pressing need of more commodious quarters, and the latter having long since felt the want of better and more modern facilities and accommodations, It is expect ed that within another year the building will be completed. s*e Although still undecided as to his plans for the summer, U. 8. J. Dunbar expects to’go to St. Paul early in July in order to deliver a number of commissions exe- cuted for the state capitol and to put the finishing touches to others that require personal sittings before heing completed. : . oe E. F. Andrews left this morning for New York, and cn Tuesday will sail for, Europe, going direct to London for the purpose of visiting the Royal Academ: . ra then to Berlin, for the exhibitions ere, The circle of local artists has recently, received a number of valuable additions to its ranks, and now includes not only, sculptors, landscape and portrait painters, but several miniature painters, who havo made positions for themselves in the much contested field of thcir profession. Of these Robert Lee Keeling is one of the mest prominent. At present he is engaged on a series of ivory miniatures, which are interesting not only for their workman ship, but as being portraits of some of America’s most beautiful countrywomen, among them being Mrs. Gordon McKay, Mrs. Burke Roche of New York and Mrs. | Henry May and Mrs. Stilscn Hutchins of this city, ote : Z In Demorest’s-Family Magazine for June, Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston of thig city has an interesting and attractive ar< ticle cn the Orchids of the White House, for which, as is her wont, she suppiies both the illustrations and the text. It is not tco much to say that Miss Johnston ranks with the very best amateur pho- tographers in the country. Indced, in se curing artistic result, whether in portraits vre or landscapes, she is equaled by few and probably excelled by none, even among the professionals or those of much longer experience than she has enjoyed; and in- asmuch as she wields 2 ready pen, it is quite unusual that she is without an im- portant commission, either for magazine work or from friends who desire exame | ples of her taste and skill. - ete Just at present interest in local art cir cles is*centered upon the exhibition which the artists of Washington have been ine vited to send to the Atlanta exposition. The committee appointed for the selection of pictures will hold a formal busiuess meeting on the 19th of July, at which time the pictures will be adjudged. Artists wishing to contribute to the exhibition are expected to address the secretary, R. N, Brooke, in writing. ste An interesting full length portrait of @ young girl has been placed for a short time in the Corcoran Gallery by Hubert Vos, the well-known Danish artist. ste Henry J. Ellicott’s equestrian statue of General Hancock is rapidly being cast im plaster, in readiness to te sent to the bronze foundry for the finishing process, The studio presents an interesting mediey. of detached sections of the model, upon which the sculptor is putting the finishe ing touches. The granite pedestal is alsa rapidly approaching completion, and ag socn as finished will be placed on the site in readiness for the statue, Owing to the necessity of executing seve eral competitive models of statues ins tended for erection in this city and eises where, Mr. Ellicott will remain here throughout the summer, postponing his usual vacation until the autumn. ste The portrait of Gen. Heath just finished by Miss Daisy Blackford has been placed on exhibition in the Corcoran Gallery. ete Some of the most interesting work ac« complished this sezson by the out-door sketch clubs has been executed by stus dents under the supervision of Miss S, W. Kelly. Nearly every point of interest in the District has been visited, and the result is a collection of clever sketches showing familiar scenery. . ae E. C. Messer, accompanied by his fam-= ily and a large class of students, will leave the city on Tuesday for « several months’ sketching tour among the moun- tains of Virginia. —_——___ The Engineer’s Salute. From the Chicago Times-Herald. Nearly every engine on roads running irto Chicago blows Its whistle in a differ- ent way upon entering or leaving the city. A geod many members of the crew have wives or sweothearts within hearing dis- tance of these whistles and the signals an+ nounce to them the arrival or departure of the train, = Lines of Valkyrie IIL, From the Glasgow Citizen. —————— VIGILANT The picture of the Valkyrie III plainly shows that Mr, Watson has, so to speak, out-Herreshoffed Herreshoff, and, following the lead of the Bristol designer, has turned out a most powerful boat. Practically a fin keel, she is without doubt the beamtest boat ever built to take part in the races for the America’s cup. Designer Watson evidently took well to heart the lesson taught him by the Vigilant when he built a boat a foot more in beam than the victo- rious cup defender, Not a line of the British vessel but be- speaks power. She is more cut away for- = VALKYRIE 2x4 ward than the Valkyrie II, and she has & sharper rake to her stern-post by about. four degrees than the Defender. The top of her lead keel is approximated to be 82 feet 6 inches, or 2% feet less than the over- all length of the lead keel of the Defender, Her draught is said to be 18 feet 6 inches, and that of the Defender 19 feet. Thus, with a shorter lead keel and less draught than the Bristol boat, and with a lateral plane area of 861.37 square feet, as against the Defender’s 915 square feet, it would seem as if, other things being equal, she would be quicker in stays than the De- fender,