Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1895, Page 18

18 Ne 2 “THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. IN OTHER DAYS Musicians Who Have Pleased the People of Washington. VOICES HEARD IN CHURCH AND CONCERT Their Possessors Have Mostly Re- tired or Passed Away. ALOYSIUS’ Sr: CHOIR Written Exclusive! for The Fventag Star. FEW YEARS BACK Washington was al- most dead, musically. ‘There were good singers then, excel- lent pianists, even a few violinists of mer- it. But these were the exception rather than the rule. They lacked the training and what fs equally as essential, they were denied the praise and encourage- ment given witheui the asking by a music- loving people, the masses of whom have been educated to a love of the artistic tather than the gauze and tinsel of sound. But all this, in a measure, at least, has been overcome. The very best that the World can give, musically, now comes to Washington,because its people have shown an ability to appreciate and a willingness to support the best of everything. This more than anything else, demonstrates the rapid strides made by our musicians @uring the last twenty-five years. It is the purpose of the writer in this and @ subsequent article to give some account of many of those who have been prominent in musical circles here. Away back in 1859, at the opening of St. Aloysius Church, which was the fashiona- ble Catholic church here, “The Creation” was performed, under the direction of Mrs. Cecilia Young, which was the most im- portant musical event chronicled in Wash- ington musical history up to that time. The organ in this then new church was not yet completed, so Mrs. Young en- aged an orchestra, the only one then in the city. It was composed of the Marine Band, with the «dition of all the outside players she could get, making fifty in all. Then she had a chorus of 150 voices, and the soloists were Mrs. Young, soprano; Mr. French, tenor, and Mr. John Dawson, basso. The ‘oraturio was magnificently given. Of Mrs. Young, afterward Mrs. Kretch- mar, and her singing too much canot be said. She came here from Baltimore in 1858, and went at once into St. Matthew's choir as leading soprano, taking the place of Blanchard, afterward Mrs. John F. Coyle, who resigned. Mrs. Young re- mained at St. Matthew's a little more t a year, going in October, 1859, to St. Aloy- sius, where she remained about fourteen Ia 1878 she went again to St. Mat- «'s, where she had charge until Mr. Garnon’s time. To thi accustomed to hearing Mrs. Young-Kretchmar no other voice has ever seemed so satisfying. Besides Mrs. Young- Kretchmar there was at St. Matthew's Mrs. Callan, the alto, who has long since given up singing, but is still living in shington, and Mr. Crouch, the bass, who wrote “Kathleen Mavournee! s as though ved the words. over eighty. still teac and he loved the mus! He Its a very old m: nd was, at last ac- ig in Baltimore. Dr. now, counts, Carmichael was the tenor, and had a voice that matched the others. The First Organist. The first organ:st of St. Aloysius was Dr. Perebean, a fine mus: n and well-known and well-liked by every one. He was a very intimate friend of Dr. Pope. Prof. Harry Sherman, then a young man and an enced organist, ed him and re- mained there about eighteen years. An alto, so well remem- bered in this choir, was Mrs. Donnelly, the wife of Ignatius Donnelly of Shake- speare or Bacon fame, and who was in Congress at that time. She had a very sympathetic voice, rich in quality, and was an excellent musician,which made Dr. Berebeau. her a great favorite in society here during her husband's terms. She died only last summer. Mrs. Kretchmar’s Pupils. During the t fifteen years many wo- men—pupils of Mrs. Young-Kretchmar—and whose husbands were prominent in the polities of that time, were heard in St. Aloysius. Mrs. S. S. Cox was a delightful soprano and a great favorite; Mrs. Delano, whose husband was a Representative from Massachusetts, and Mrs. E. Joy Morris, whose husband was afterward minister to Constantinople. Miss Emma Campb al substitute during Mrs. Young’s ab: he is now Mrs. Ja K. Red- dington, and well known—but seldom sings. ‘These were ali pupils and substitutes for Mrs. Young. Prof. Samucl Carusi was o@e of the ear- - Mest piano teachers here. He was Mrs. John P. Caulfield's fether, and uncle of Eugene Carusi of this city. He was also one of the handsomest men in old Wash- ington Prof. Sherman was his pupil, as was also Leo Coy The latter’s sister, Miss_ Emily Coyle, was quite a talented musician, playing the piano at an early age, singing later on, and still later taking up the violin. She lives in a_ beautiful house on N strect, is still a devotee of music and a member of the most exclusive musical clubs in the city. M Dr. Pope was then, as she was in later years, the friend and heiper of musi- cians, and the best music the city had in it was heard at her hcuse. Hardly has there ever been a musician of any ability in Washington but has been heard there. She died in February last. Her musical brary was more extensive and valuable than any other in the District. Miss Sophie Schmidt had one of the sweetest voices ever heard in Washington, and she was well known among the older residents. Her voice was among the few well-cultivated ones of those days. She was the first wife of Mr. E. F. Droop, and died while her voice was in Its prime. Mrs, Butts was an- other singer of prom- inence here many ye: ago. She was a French girl and a pupil of the old Bas- sin. Her name was Herminine | Marion. She married Ale: a Sutts, a New York man, who came Mrs. Kretchmar. here as a clerk in one of the de- partments. She had an excellent method in singing, and with a fine natural voice— no wonder she has left such a good impression behind her. She sang soprano in the First Congregational Church quartet, under the direction of Dr. Jno. P. Caulfield. Mrs. Caulfield was the contralto. This was during the early days of Dr. Rankin’s pastorate of that church. Mrs. Butts: re- mained there for many yea When she left here she was a widow, and went to Brooktyn, to be leading soprana in one of the largest churches there. It was during the time that he was or- ganist and director of the Congregational Church choir that Dr. Caulfleld organized the Philharmonic Society. This chorus was composed of nearly all the singers in Wash- ington, and did a great deal of excellent work. Mrs. Caulfield was frequently a so- loist at the society's concerts, but has given up singing for so many years that very few of our present singers know that she ever was a prominent contralto. One of the most important concerts the old Philharmonic gave was “The Creatt "in old Lincoln Hall. Charlie FE the and had Parepa, Zelda Seguin, Campbell and a tenor who was a young protege of Parepa. What a glorious performance it was! Charlie Ewer was at that time the director of the Unitarian Church choir, at the corner of 6th and D streets northwest, used as the Police Court eee years after the new church was 1 Prof.Colliere, father of Lucien Colliere, the professor of languages here, was amoag the first singing teachers of Washington. He came here as an old man, with white hair, but taught very successfully for some years. He then retired to a Catholic mon- astery in South Carolina, where he spent the remainder of his life. The First Prima Donn Eva Millsshad the most brilliant career as a singer of any one excepting Mrs. Young-Kretchmar. She had music born in her,and when first heard in St. Aloysius choir she was a little child, bubbling over with happiness and de- light at being al- lowed to sing in the chorus. Here she sang for many years. As she grew older from time to time a solo was given her in the mass. She was dubbed “the little prima donna.” The name stuck to her until she was offered tha position of so- prano soloist. She took this position as a very young girl, and at once proved Miss Eva Mills. herself worthy of her teacher, Mrs. Young-Kretchmar. She left St. Aloysius choir to go to fresh triumphs in New York and to study with Max Maretzek. The last service she sang in St. Aloysius was a memorable one. In the words of one who heard her that after- noon, “she sang like an angel.” Everybody cried, from the choir clear down to the al- tar. After going to New York she soon went into Duff's Opera Company, and created the part of Josephine in “Pinafore. But Eva Mills was more of a lover of home and friends than she was of fame and fortune, and while here on a visit to her mother was easily persuaded to take the soprano part in All Souls’ Church quar- tet. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman and Mr. Wid- rey of the St. Aloysius choir were already there, and when she joined them the oid choir was complete, excepting the tenor, who was Mr. Witherow, and who was a familiar figure in that choir for many years. Miss Mills stayed in All Souls’ choir for eight years, going frequently to New York and Philadelphia to fill concert and operatic engagements. She held undisput- ed sway here for many years, and had she chosen to remain in opera would have made a brilliant star, to say nothing of the fortune. Typhoid fever came on her, while still in All Souls’ choir, and she was at death's door when her mother died. She resigned her position, and could never be induced to take another one. The next soprano of prominence at St. Aloysius was Mollie Byrne, who married Dominick I. Murphy. Never was there a sweeter voice or sweeter woman. Ivery- body loved her, and her greatest ambiticn was to sing like Eva Mills. She sang there for something like eight years, and was buried from there after one short year of married life. Her place among her friends has somehow never been quite filled. K. 8. BROOKS. — An Idea in Belts. How many belts have you got? A wo- man almost has to have as many belts as she has bodices nowadays if she wears them belted, and it is a very brave woman who snubs fashion and wears a “basque.” Here is a bit of science in dressing that is worth a lot to a woman who has not the waist of a sylph or the figure of Hebe. Have your dress skirts made so long that you can fasten the tightly-made belt well up on the bodice. Have ihe upper part of the skirt fitted smoothly to your hips and make the belt pretty tight. When you fasten it, it will stay right there. Then be sure to have the outside belt as nearly like the bodice as possible, made of the same material, in fact. Adjust it so that the top of your skirt belt will just come to -the top of the outside belt and you need then have no fear that your skirt and waist will part company. A belt like your bodice will make your waist appear two inohes longer and more than that much smaller. A belt like your skirt will shorten your waist perceptibly. It is a fwolish notion trying to pull the skirt down to make the waist longer. Let the skirt belt go in its natural place and lengthen the waist with the wide belt placed over it. By the way, the narrow belt of the early season has given away to a very wide one. Metal belts and bands of velvet make the waist jook thick, gaudily striped belts have the same tendency. —_—_—___ A Hand-Shaped Orange. From Pearson's Weekly. , The five-fingered orange is a queer thing. Tt grows in exactly the shape of a human hand, with a thumb and four fingers. It is a half-open hand, that of this curious fruit, and the close resemblance to the lean, iong- nailed hand is startling. Even the nails are identical, hard pointed and clawlike, tipping the orange fingers with a length equal in some cases to three inches. It {s no interloper in a well-regulated family of oranges, but a regular member, belonging to the osage variety. It has a family name and a Christian name of its own, but its pet name is “five-fingered orange,” and nobody but the botanist cares to call it by the one, which means the same thing. The tree itself is a ragged Httle shrub that does not average more than five or six feet.in height in its native Japan. It does not grow straight, as a properly be- haved tree is supposed to do, but is curved everywhere. It would be very difficult to find two consecutive inches in the entire tree whose line of direction is the same. Even the branches grow in spiral forms, so that the width of the tree is often as great as the height. The fruit itself is of a light yellow color, a pure lemon hue, growing greenish toward the stem. ‘The size is immense, considered relatively to other oranges or to the size of the tree, the largest ones measuring when mature fully ten inches from the wrist to the point of the middle finger, including the nai). The fruit is not edible—none of the osage variety is—but what it lacks in being un- able to tickle the palate it more than makes up in good perfume. The strangest thing connected with the perfume is that it is the fruit and not the flower that is most odorous. The fruit when ripe is so redo- lent that its scent can be recognized a fuil mile from where the orange is growing. SS ee ‘The steamers Wakefield and Arrowsmith run to Coltons Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, and leave there for Washington every day, except Fridays.—Advt. —_— > Searcity of Camphor. From the London Telegraph. Camphor is becoming scarcer and scarcer. ‘The Japanese government has placed still further restrictions on its export from its dcminions, ani the officials who have re- placed the Chinese in Formosa have re- ceived instructions to do the same with re- spect to that island for the present. This will seriously interfere not only with many medical compounds, but with the manufacture of smokeless powder, into which camphor largely enters. Japan, therefore,appears to have suddenly jumped into the position of the universal arbiter of war conducted in accordance with the latest scientific discoveries, as it practical- ly controls the supply of camphor, and thus of the smokeless powders, which are now extensively manufactured throughout Eu- rope. ee Interested in the Emblem. ~ From the Chicago Mail. . ‘A friend of mine,” said the floor walker, “asked me the other evening to go and call on some friends uf his who had iost the head of the family the day previous. He had been an honest old laborer with the pick and shovel. While we were with the family an old man entered who had work- | ed by his side for years. Expressing his sorrow at the loss of his friend, he glanc- ed about the roo: and observed a large floral anchor. Scrutinizing it closely, he turned to the widow and in a low tone asked “Who sent the pick?’ ”" ee Her Method. From Life. “Mrs. Brown never sits up to walt for her husband.” ‘No? ‘No. When she expects him to be out late she retires early, sets the alarm at 8 o'clock and gets up fresh and reproachful.” EE If there is any breeze blowing you'll get it at Coltcns-on-the-Potomac.—Advt. ART IN ADVERTISIN One of the Things in Which Wash- ington Leads the World. GREAT DEVELOPMENT IN RECENT YEARS The Ad. Writers of the Capital and Their Recognized Skill. GROWTH OF BUSINESS ° GOOD MANY bright things have been said i behalf of advertising, until it has come to be a generally accepted axiom that advertis- ing does indeed pay. An aphorism on this subject that has at- tracted attention is: “To do business with- out advertising is like winking at a pretty girl from be- hind a pair of green goggles. You may know exactly what you are doing, but no- body else does.” The merchants of Washington are not winking at anybody from behind such an- tiquated obstructions. They are today leading the country for their sensible ap- preciation of the value of an adequate pre- sentation of their claims upon the favor of the public in some good medium. It may astonish even Washingtonians, although they know full well how the newspapers of this city have improved in this respect dur- ing the past few years, to be told that there are more columns of advertisements publisked each week day in the local Papers than any other similar number of sheets in the country. That is to say, Washington is at the top notch in the amount of its mercantile Mterature. Nor is this all. It is now an acknowledg- ed fact that the advertisements printed in this city lead the country in their quality, as well as their quan- tity. Charles Austin Bates, a recognized leader in authority on such subjects, im @ recent paper in Printers’ Ink, said that the advertise- ments in The Byen- ing Star surpassed all others in America for artistic excel- lence of presenta- tion. And so this town, which so many are in the habit of regarding as a ‘“‘slow coach” in matters of business because pri- vate mercantile somewhat W. A. Orrison. interests have been overshadowed by the great interests of the government centered here, has come to be known as_ the home of the best of American adver- tismg. It is indeed astonishing, and the more so, as the result has been achiev- ed during the past five years. Such an awakening of interest in this vital question of how best to voice the wares of the stores has never been witnessed in any other city of the land. Merchants who ten years ago would have scoffed at the mere idea of ad- yertising are today regular patrons of the newspaper columns, and those who a de- cade back were spending only a few hun- dred dollars a year for spasmodic adverti: ing are now annually laying aside thou- sands for this purpose, and have in their employ high-salaried men whose duty ts solely to stady the best methods of writ- ing their “ads.” And in still another branch of this won- derful business: does the capital city lead the world. It is the home of the ad. writer, the birthplace of the ad.-writing bureau, the place where men of clever attainments devise ingenious ways of catching the attention of possible buyers, and of con- Nincing them that the goods mentioned are the very things they have been look- ing for. In this re- spect The Evening Star is the pioneer of the country, for the ad. ee that is connected with this W. G. Kent. paper was the first of {ts kind to be established in America, the Prototype of scores of bureaus that are now doing successful business in all sec- tions. : So it is not strange that the eyes of the mercantile America are today turned upon this city, as never before, and that its newspapers are scanned by business men in the most remote cities. To the merchant as well as the housewife the advertising cclumns are the most interesting part of a newspaper. To them the daily pabulum of current events is as nothing when com- pered with the clever presentations of ad. writers who never lose an opportunity to arrest the attention. It is safe to say that the advertising columns of The Star have quite as large and as faithful a clien tele of r-aders as the other columns. This has come to be true in the new era that has so recently come upon the mercantile world of Washington, the days of appr ciation of the value of what is now known as ‘printers’ ink” in bus’ The Star, like many other papers that are given to artistic advertising, has no system of enormous displays of gaudy types that arrest the eye by brute for as it were. Here lies the secret of the great reputation of which Mr. Bates wrote. The theory of the advertising that is now the vogue Is that people who are sincere readers of the advertising col- umns,the people who are scanning them to be informed rather than seekers after pure amusement,pre- fer to be told the truths about the commodities that are set before them in a calm, truthful manner. Honest advertis- ing, therefore, is the style rather than sen- sational screaming of wares. The space that is usually filled elsewhere with tre- mendous displays of densely black marks is now given over to clever arrangements of words that tickle the fancy while in- structing the ad. reader. There is, in other words, a literature of commerce growing up in the development of this new epoch of advertising that is as distinct from the old style as the present news columns of The Star are different from those of twenty years ago. To the study of this literature, and to its betterment and its general spread, the ad. writer proper is devoted. Washington has a large number of men who are exceptionally clever in this line of work. Occasionally, from the wilderness of New York and Philadelphia and Bosto and even sometimes from out of the vas ness that contains Chicago, there comes a man seeking for light. He is shown the files of the papers, he is shown the ad- vertisement of today as compared with that of five, ten, fifteen years ago, and he is then told that this has been done in ad- vance of all the rest of the country, and he goes away convinced that this is indeed a great place, and that its ad. writers are mighty clever folks. ‘There is scarce a business house in this city that does any very large amount of business that does not employ an ad. writer. He must be familiar with the business, with every deta of the trade and traffic, with every quirk and turn of the tastes of the buyers. He must he. able to feel the pub- lic pulse in the mat- ter of styles, and, most of all, he must be an adept in the art of so presenting the allurements of the establishment in type that he can in- augurate a new line of goods with a of buyers. But he must he G. H. Lewis. Piiuy Moran. great rush honest with the peopie, who are guided by thing to secure a day or a week, satisfy the peo- ances that they same store for da. writer is to- ‘e the pilot of the genious advertise- his words. It is one great run of trade for, and it is another thing. 4 ple who accept bargain, c! ought to go back to their next needs. So the day more than ever befoi business house. An ment may turn the tide of trade, and transform dullness intd prosperity. There- fore, there are some high salaries paid by Washington’s merchants to the commer- cial architects who deyfs¢ their annourice- ments. ig One of the achievements of the Washing- ton ad. writers has been to persuade some of the firms who had fallen into the habit of Keeping themselves before the public by some staple arrangement of words, or by a well-known cut, announcing one spe- cial commodity, to alter their course and adopt the new style of crying their wares through the newspapers in a constantly changing scheme of words. A notable in- stance of this Is in the case of the Wm. M. Galt & Co.'s flour concern, which was for- merly represented for years in the columns of the papers by a picture of a flour bar- rel. Some months ago the manager of the establishment was induced to try the plan of having his ad. written up attractively, differing each day. He was at first skepti- cal. He did not believe that it couid be done. Since then his special brand of flour has been chatted about in The Star so en- tertainingly, ‘and so cleverly, and with- out repetition, that the housewives, the folks who buy flour, now make a point daily to seek out this particular advertise- ment instead of taking for granted the old- time cut of a barrel. These flour ads. have attracted wide attention outside of Wash- ington, and are often reproduced as excel- lent specimens of the ad. writers’ art. - To Messrs. Woodward & Lothrop belongs much of the credit of having inaugurated the new era of advertising. They were Pioneers of liberal expenditures in_ this + line, and they freely says that they owe their remarkable suc- cess to this policy. Prior to 1880, when the firms generally began to understand the true function of the advertising col- umn, The Star was Tunning about one column of general ads. each day. That was exclusive of the small announcements special notices,wants, and the similar ma ters that have al- Isaac Gans. ways filled more or less space. To show the tremendous de- velopment, which marks in a degree the general increase of the city’s business, it is but necessary to state that The Star now prints an average of about thirty- two columns of this class, called general advertising, in each daily issue. In these y days there were few merchants who advertised with comparative liberality. For instance, Hable Brothers, who kept a gen- eral store at the corner of 7th and D streets, where R. Harris is now located, ran an ad. that was very large for the times, but covered only a small space. Charles Baum and E. G. Davis then used to put in an ad. in the high tide of buying, such as at Christmas, and startle their more conservative colleagues in business by continuing it for a week or a month. Hable Brothers and Davis are now out of business, but Mr. Baum has kept up. his pace and is a liberal advertiser. Taylor & Hufty, too, were among the firms that did what was for the time a heavy lot of adver tising, but they concentrated their efforts at the Christmas season. Willet & Libbey were noted in those early days by keeping an ad. running once in-a while announcing the price of lumber. This is now kept up by Mr. Libbey, on a scale more in propor- tion to the modern plan of. advertising. These were the most liberal advertisers in those days. Woodward & Lothrop of the Boston House set the new pace. They inaugurated the plan of changing the ad- vertisement frequently, and took more space than any other merchants. March 6, 1880, they made some,of the more conse! vative business men gasp when they filled eighty lines of space and kept the ad. stand- ing for a week. A year later they made the first yearly contract ‘for advertising ever made in this city and bargained for fifty-six lines a day for every week day of the year. That contract dil more to break Gown the old-fash- joned barriers be- tween the merchants and the- buying pub- lic than any _ other act. Staid old firms gave the new com- ers a short shrift. They predicted that such extravagance in advertising would ruin the house. That the others were wrong and that Woodward & Loth- rop were right was shown by the fact . ‘) | that their business W. A. Hungerford. improved at once, and in 1886 they contracted for an entire column each day, again taking the far lead, and assuming front rank among the merchants of the country in the matter of money spent in printers’ ink. Today this Cc. C. Archibald. G. W. Miller. firm occupies two solid columns in The Star every day of the week, and spends more than twice as much money in ad- vertising in one month as it spent in one year in IS8S1. Other Washington firms deserve credit for taking part in this new movement that has contributed so largely to the commer- cial prosperity of the city. Mr. Lisner of the Palais Royal has been ready to recog- nize th® value of liberal appropriations for newspaper space, and his ads. are to- day among the most attractive that are written, and cover space that ten years ago would have been ridiculed by the trade as ruinous. Seaton Perry, whose estab- lishment was once one of the most con- servative of the local houses, is now well to the front in the A. Kauffman. matter of space and artistic ad. writing, and so the list might be enlarged until it covers every firm that has any title to suc- cess and prosperity in the last ten years. Lansburgh Brothers, Saks & Co., Robinson, Chery & Co., and so on through the list of the stores, all have come to see that in the midst of the terrific competition that marks modern trade the only salvation is a wide- open policy of notoriety and publicity. No winking at a pretty girl from behind green goggles here! As already stated, itis new era has been marked by a high development of the art of ad. writing, until:it is*tecognized as a distinct branch of litératuré. Trade papers , devoted to the inter- “of clever adyer- Using are in existence todd* in numbers. » Fivelor ten years ago they, . would have been considered the most remarkable of freaks. The Evening Star’s ad.-writing bu- reau is, as noted be- fore, the leader in the country in point of priority of establish- ment. It is also high in the estimation of professional ad. writ- ers and advertisers G. Nordlinger. in the matter of ex- | cellence of its work. It was instituted by | The Star, under the charge of Mr. Wm. A. Hungerford, who was originally in the em- ploy of Woodward & Lothrop, and then had charge of their advertising business. He has made a study of the art of adver- tising as thorough as though he were a physician who has gone through the human body to understand every bone and muscle. He has now associated with him in The Star bureau Messrs. George W. Miller and Clarence C. Archibald, both of whom are unusually clever young men in this line of work. The functions of this establishment are peculiar. It is not an agent in the sense that it places the ad. of the merchant in any certain papers, in the hope of earning a commission, but it is the hired agent of the merchant of the firm, simply for the purpose of writing and arranging its ads. In the best possible form. There is a great distinction to be drawn between an ad. writer and an advertising agent. The former is an architect, while the latter is @ commission merchant. The bureau is hired by the sixty firms that now employ it simply to see that they. get the full worth of the money that they pay the various newspapers for ad- Vertising space. The firms make thé con- tracts with the pa- per, and the ad. writers of the bu- reau undertake that these contracts shall make the greatest possible return by making the adver- tisement most at- tractive. The ranks of the city’s ad. writ- ers include some of the brighest devisers of attractive an- nouncements known J. A. Sehaffer. | in the country. Among these are Mr. George H. Lewis, who is in charge of the advertising colunins of the Saks store; Mr. Fliny Moran, for many years one of the pillars of thé Kobinson-Chery store, and who handles all of its ads.; Mr.Orrison,who takes care of the interesting announce- ments of Woodward & Lothrop; Mr. Wm. G. Kent, who. devises Mr. Lisner’s allure- ments that are printed in the daily papers for the Palais Royal; Mr. Gus Nordlinger, who secures trade for Eiseman Brothers by his ingenious pen pictures of their bar- gains; Mr. Abraham Kauffman, who looks after the advertising interests of S. Kann, Scns & Co., and Mr. Isaac Gans, one of the oldest of ad. writers,whoso talents are very valuable to Messrs. Lansburgh, and who is president cf the Ad. Writers’ Association. In addition to these bright men, who have served to make Washington such a certer for advertising business, there are two young men in the same line who have established suc- cessful bureaus sim- ilar to that connect- ed with The Star. These are Messrs. James Albert Shaf- fer, who was for- metly with The Star's business de- partment, and Fred. McC. Smith, who re- ceived his ‘advertis- ing training in con- nection with the High School Review, which he made quite profitable during his F. McC. Smith. management. These are the men who have contributed to the movement that has resulted in plac- ing Washington in the front rank of busi- ness. Today the Washington merchants are spendirg upward of $500,000 in adver- ising in a single year, a sum that cannot be equaled anywhere in the country in proportion to the population. VEST’S BOARDING HOUSE. The Missouri Senator Tells a Story of His First Visit Here. “When I first came to Washington,” said Senator Vest to a Star writer, “I was en- tirely unacquainted and didn’t even know my way about the city. About all I did know in Washington was Joe Blackburn of Kentucky. I felt that I might rely on Blackburn, and the first day I was here I hunted up the Kentucky Senator and placed myself in his hands as a sacred trust to find me a boarding house. “Why, certainly,’ said Blackburn, ‘come right along with me to my boarding house. It's a splendid place and near at hand, too.’ “Blackburn and I didn’t go to the board- ing house right off. In fact, we didn’t get around to the caravansarie in question until about 10 o’clock at night. It was dark and I had no opportunity to study the out- ward evidences of my proposed home. All I knew wes that Blackburn lived there, and that convinced me that it must be ele- gant and sumptuaus, and everything else = a gentleman and Senator could wish cr. “Come right in,’ said Blackburn; ‘you'll feel in a weck as if you were in your own home.’. “Then he led me up a pair of stairs, and I saw that whatever the boarding house was, it at least was in a store building. “The next morhing I arose and after paying the landlady for a month in ad- vance I walked out on the street. I found with some accession of gloom that the lcwer floor, that is, the store floor of the block, was an undertaking establishment, and that right under me—for my room Was on the second floor—was as elegant an assortment of coffins as any dead man could ask. “That night when I was alone in my 1com I got to thinking of these coffins un- ger me, and every night after that while I stayed my mind would revert to the un- dertaking business down in the room be- low, and I must admit that my reflections in no wise brightened the joys of our boarding house. “The un@ertaking business didn’t serve to depress Blackburn—coflins had no ter- rors for him, and he didn’t care any more about a corpse than he did about a cold. But mine was a different case. Those coffins preyed on me. I felt lonesome and homesick enough without them, and at the end of two weeks I had fully made up my mind to get out at the end of my month and hunt a new place for myself. I was getting the worse of the boarding house, anyhow; Blackburn was getting the fat and I was getting the bones right along. “It was on Sunday night at the erd of my second week, and I was sitting alone in my own room, forlorn and sorrowful, and brooding over that stock of buriai cases just under my feet, when in canie a young friend of mine from Missouri. He had been in Washingion several years, however, and worked in one of the d partments. He was a light, easy talke: and had begun to cheer me up a little, when he suddenly looked about the room with a bird-like air, and remarked: “Your room here is very familiar to I used to be up here quite that?’ I aske: nt on my young friend, ‘this room used to belong to Jones. You knew Jones—young Jones of Sedalia—used to work here in the War Department. Com- mitted suicide, and all that. Yes, indee committed suicide right in this very room “My horror began to recur twofold. My interesting young friend gabbled on. “Certain! I came up here one night and lights were burning, the door was ajar, but no one answered when I rapped. After rapping awhile I pushed along in. Here was Jones hanging by the neck to that chandelier. Yes,, indeed, cold dead. We cut him down. I remember the incident clearly, and how his head rested on that figure in the carpet.’ “It was at this point I interrupted him. I told him I had business to transact with my landlady. I called that good woman and simply told her that she might send my trunk the next day to an address I would mail her. As for myself, I would change my boarding house that night, and I did. To live over a coffin factory and in the actual room of a suicide was more than my herve could bear.” =e fn Anecdote of Lessing. From Harper's Round Table. Absent-mindedness has been frequently a characteristic of men of fame. It is to be supposed, no doubt, ‘that their minds have been so wholly absorbed by great matters that the smaller, more trivial things of life have been considered un- worthy of their attention. Among men of this stamp who have suffered in this way was Lessing,/a famous German writer of plays and books of criticism. Lessing dis- covered at one period of his life that he was being robbed of his ready money by seme person in his home, and, unable to determine who the culprit was, he put the servants of his household to a test by leav- ing a handful of gold upon his breakfast table one morning. Meeting a friend he told him what he had_ done. i “That was risky,” said his friend. much did you leave there? “Dear me!” cried Lessing. got to count.” Making the Best of It. From the New York Weekly. Mr. Bronston—‘‘Where is the dessert, my dear . Mrs. Bronston—“The pastry cook has left. You'll have to be satisfied with kisses for dessert today. Mr. Bronston—“All right. Bring on your French maid. low “I quite for- e+ Steamer Macalester to Marshall Hall and Indian Head Friday and Saturday evenings at 6:30 p.m.—Advt. The most elegant people in Washington are patronizing Coltons-on-the-Potomac this year.—Advt, Highest of all in Leavening Power—Latest U.S. Gov't Report Ro al Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE : Do You °- Know It? Do you KNOW that you know it? Some people know a thing and never put their Knowledge to ‘tny” practical Use, Do you know that we sell Furniture and Carpets on CREDIT—at cash prices? Do you know that Your Credit Is Good Without signing a note—and without pay- ing a, penny of interest? Do you know WHY Wwe give credit? It’s because our patrons appreciate it. It’s our way of showing gratitude. If you want a’ Re- frigerator or a Raby Carriage—or a new Parlor Suite—it ts waiting for jou—and the wagon is ready to take it out to your houre, Come in apd see our big get acquainted—and don't that your credit is good— any time—for anything you want. We sell the World's frigerator—the ‘North Star f from the Ice Chest at $2.50 to the Mam- moth Refrigerator at $50. Solid Oak Bed Room Suite, $13. Plush or Tapestry Parlor Suite, $22.50. Baby Carriages from $5 to $50. Carpets, 50 cents a yard. Carpet, 35 cents a yard. rolls of Best Mattings. 1,000 We'll: tack them down—free. Solid Oak Extension Table, $3.50. Woven Wire Springs, $1.75. 40-pound Hair Muttress, $7.00. GROGAN’S Mammoth Credit House, 819-821-828 7TH STREET NORTHWEST. 4c25-84d HEN WE ADVERTISE A COR- SET AT A CERTAIN price, no -matter how low it is, you can rely upon St that it is a “GOOD” Corset—for we won't sell any other kind. Bought a limited quantity of Fine J. B. and C. B, Summer Corsets, extra long waist, made of OC imported net, 2 side sca ° which we can sell for. (Fit guaranteed or money refunded. HOW ARD’S CORSET NEXT TO Store. 1003 F St. Sostox tovse. ‘PROFITS Given Away ! ! ! | Down to absolute cost t# the way we 1 have remarked all our stock of Etigray- ! ings, Etchings, Colored Plates and Pho- tograph Picture Frames, and the smaller deck articles! ‘The profits we present to Good till Saturday evening i111 F ST. Stationer. je? sr — PEOCESESCE DOES OC OESIOOSIIES {Our Oxfords ° 3For Summer. THE shoe above all others for hot 2; cool—80 stylish—make Never “pinch”* when they come from US—WE FIT your feet. Coe 3 3 3 ‘weather comfortable—so ni wear, They're 80 your feet look so dainty. That's the way we've priced OUR OX- FORDs. lower t We know it's at least 50c. prices uptown, But) then— We've always sold for honest prices. We're joing jt now. Uptown dealers charge $2.50, $3 and §8.50 for the same shows, We've all BLACK avd TAN. [7A good Oxford as low as $1.50. Robt.Cohen& Son 630 Penn. Ave. N.W. DOWN-TOWN AMERICAN SHOE MEN. $ 2 Je2s-40d POESSHOSSI STS eee AO sss aesos styles—all toes—in jthe Eddy” Refrigerators pare built on scientific p-inciples. THE COLD DRY-AIR. CIRCULATION makes dampness an impossibility. Matches left = the, shelves indefinitely Will readily ignite. The SLATE STON: aa ure another “of ite ett 8. 3 More than 500,000 families Es Prive, $5.85 Price, $5. according to size —sreat ice severe” e “White Mountain” Ice Cream Freezers are second ouly to the “White Moun- tain'’"—they freeze cream in 7 min- Utes. B-qt., $1.50; qt, $1.79, C7 Book or ipholce decal ts for mak- ing frozen delicacies ‘FOR THE M. W. Beveridge, 1215 F St. and 1214 G St. Ceasesaeeoe SMR NOWNURUUNS WORLD'S FAIR HIGHEST AWARD. NIPERDAL CRANUM IS UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED he STANDAR'| And the BEST Prepared FOOD For INVALIDS and Convalescents, for Dys- peptic, Delicate, Infirm and Aged Persons. PURE, delicious, nour- ishing FOOD for nurs- ing mothers, infants and CHILDREN. sorhondontonteesententontonsestensenfonzeeseeteateatoeseetenge ¢ ) Fa e 6 a w ri | qa = i Shipping Depot, JOHN CARLE & SONS, New York. my18-s,tu&th,1y as ie i ek oneestoniotiestonionte Bargain Day AT The Warren. ‘While they last we will sell as follows: One lot Ladies’ $2 Russia, Calf Ox- fords, sizes 1, 1% and 2 A, at 69. per pair. One lot Ladies’ $2 Low “Black Shoes Qfelba’s) at $1.45 per pair. Two lots Ladies’ $2.50 Low Button Shoes at $1.75 per pair. Three cts of Ladies’ High Russet Lace Shoes at $1.95 per patr. © All Men's Low Shoes (except Kangaroo Southern Ties) at actual cost. Boys’ and Youths’ Genuine $2 Calf Lace Shoes, sizes 11 to 1 and 3 to 5, at $1.25 per pair. on #ligh Tan Shoes from $2.35 to The Warren Shoe House, Geo. W. Rich, 919 F St. Ice Cream & Ices FREE. Here is one of the greatest of the 20th century wonders. Ice-cream making revolutionized. To introduce to the Washington public this won- derful invention for the instantan- eous making of Ice Cream. Water Ices, &c.. 2 manufacturer will hold a demonstratio our establishment all day Monday, beginning at 10 o'clock. ° In addition to reeing this wonder- ful invention you are also invited to partake of Ice Cream, Water Ices, Custards, Punches, &c., lute! —— free. ‘This Freezer will freeze gallons of c eam in three hours, @ FIREWORKS! 10-ball Roman Candles. ‘One-pourd ‘Two-pound : n goods, best’ quality, Silverberg, 417 9TH N.W. Je28-20* Gray Hair A thing of the past when Nattans’ Crystal Dis- covery 1s used. Guaranteed to restore. gray or faded hair to its natural color in 8 to oan — Positively rot a dye. Stops the hair from falling out, arrests dandruff and makes the nicest dressing for’ the hair one can use. No poison. No sedi Price, $1. ‘Trial size, 50c. PHARMACY, SOLE AGENTS, 488 7TH . N.W. Sent, express prepaid, to any part of the Country on Feceipt of price. Ja26-tt No stains. If You Are Suffering from any irritating, disfiguring humor or eruption, such as Pimples, Blotches, Blackheads, Ring Worm, Tetter, Eczema, Salt Rheum, Prickly Heat or Itching Piles, yoy can be speedily and per- manently cured by using Foster*s German Army and Navy: Cure. A positive remedy for all skin diseases, and insuring a bright, clear, healthy com- plexion. 60 CENTS PER BOX aT Dba sToRES, Foster Medicine Co., Baltimore, Md. 42d12r-2 CRA AAAAAADAAAAAAARAARAAR AOD ‘Ladies!’ Are you going to buy your Shirt Waists ready made and run the risk of getting a misfit, or will you buy the material here, make 'em yourself, save half your money and get a perfect At? re only 37%4e. Lovely French Organdies, yard. Exquisite Jacorette Percales, 12%e. yard. Novelty Taffeta Silks, only 75c. yard. B. Nall SUCCESSOR TO HOOE BROS. & CO. 9 1223 B ST. je28-20d J. quart at each freezing, and uses in —————_ that time but 7e. worth of salt and ———— fice, Come Monday. Begins 10 o'clock, Wilmarth & Edmonston, Crockery, &c.,1205 Pa.Ave. Je28-24a Wilson’s Way of Shoemaking WE either MASTER every protlem in the shoe business or hire men who can— nothing second-rate will do. The summer shoe. problem was the hardest yet—easy enough to make lght sboes—but to make ’em DURABLE— there was the ru’. We hired the BEST SHOEMAKERS that big wages would at- tract—bought the most reliable. light leather on the market, and the result is a line of summer Shoes and Oxfords that for beauty, comfort, lightness, coolness and durability haven't an equal in the world. And these “perfect” Oxfords and Summer Shoes start at §3.50—what do you think of that? Ison, SHOEMAKER FOR TENDER FEET, 929 F St. eee eeereeees Peereerrr eee TeTTerrrr errr Je28-364 Bargains In Long Hair Switches, te Formerly ee C7 First-cl Formerly Formerly $10.50. Shampooing, ete. ‘Try our “Curlette,”” ‘attendance in Hair Dressing, S. HELLER’S, 720 7 7th Street N.W. For Little Babies” there's nothing lke EVANS’ TALCUM POWDER to relieve |, itching skin and prickly beat. PES Vindet Iinported Way Tim, $2.50 gal. {nest Impor (im, $2. EVANS DRUG STORE, 996 F STREET. Wholesale and Retail. 5e27-84_~ How’s Your Sketching Outfit? - It uay need replenishing, or perhaps you want a new one. In either cate, come in and let us :upply your wants. We have everything necessary. Colors, Brushes and Blocks for both ofl and water color, Easels, Stools, Umbreljas, etc., at prices which are perhaps lower than yon have been paying. Geo. F. Muth & Co., 418 7th St. N.W., Successors to Geo. Ryneal, jr. Jel -248