Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1895, Page 9

= THE EVENING STAR. ive PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th Street, by The Ivoning Star Newspaper Company, 8S. H. KAUFFMANN, Prest. x Prasicnnlae New, York Office, 49 Potter Building, ‘The Evening Star {s served to subscribers In the elitr by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents © Week, or 44c. per month. Coples at the counter cents each. By mati—anywhere In the United cote or Canada—postage presaid--5O cents per cath, Suturda; quintuply Sheet Star, $1. . with foreign eee uhied, pie pee egtihns Entered at the Post Oiee at Washington, D. C., as _second-cines tall matter.) mail obseriptl yas must be patd i Raton of advertiviag tade known on application, - Part2. . Che Foening Siar. Bases 9=20. . WASHINGTON, D. ©, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. Qrinfers’ Inf, fhe fitffe seBoof: master of advertising), saps: Jf is cfaimed for the Washinsfon Sfar, and proBabfp frufSfuffp cfaimed, 1Bof no offer newspaper tn fe counfrp goes info 80 fargz a percenfage of aff fhe Bouses tiffin a radius of twenfp mifes from Be office of pubfication, CHRIST AND CHURCH The Great Gathering of the Christian Endeavor Society in Boston. LARGE DELEGATION FROM THIS CITY An Enthusiastic Reception Awaits the Visitors From the Capital. TO WASHINGTON IN 1896 —— With the beautiful banner of the District of Columbia Union proudiy borne by a young standard bearer, with innumerable badges fluttering from the breasts of 400 delegates, and to the stirring strains of gospel songs, a small army of local Chris- tian Endeavorers will leave this city the morning of Tuesday, July 9, having for its destination Boston, and for the object of its trip to attend the fourteenth annual inter- national Christian Endeavor convention. A special Royal Blue Line train of ten coaches will pull out of the Baltimore and Ohio station a few minutes after 10 o'clock of the morning mentioned. m When New York is reached the party will be joined by the delegation from the metropolis, and together the two bodies will embark on a steamer of the Providence line for the remainder of the journey to the hub. It is expected that breakfast will be served on the boat, and that the delega- tiens will arrive in Boston the forenoon of Wednesday, the 10th ultimo. The conven- Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark. tion will be held from the 10th to the 15th, inclusive, after which a number of dele- gates will return to New York by boat, and to this city by the Pennsylvania railroad, enjoying the new scenery offered by the different return route. For some months past—in fact, ever since the convention of last year held at Cleve- land—preparations for the journey to Bos- ton have been actively carried on by the District transportation committee, Messrs. Perey S. Foster and Norman T. Elliott. One of the finest cf Boston's hotels has been secured for the housing and feeding of the local delegates, situated on the same block with Mechanics’ Hall, in which sessions of the convention will be held, and ten minutes’ walk from Boston commons, where will be erecteg.two im- mense tents, which will be necessary to ac- commodate the expected throng. More than 360 delegates have signified their in- tention of journeying to Boston, and have been provided with accommodations; and it is fully expected that before the {th of July this number will be increased to 400 or even more. Mr. Norman T. El- Hott, who has charge of providing seats_on the train, berths on the boat and rooms in the hotel, is daily sought out at his of- fice, 623 D street, for information and tick- ets, and each day some new name is M. Shand. added to the already ist of those who will constituie the Boston party. It is confidently expected that the coming convention will be the largest in point of attendance of any previousiy held. In 182 40,000 persons attended the convention held in New York, which up to this time holds the record for attendance; but it is expect- ed that Boston's registration will reach a mark folly 10,40 names in advance of New York's number. The delegation from the Distriet will be one of the largest to visit Boston, and elaborate preparations are be- ing made at the other end of the line for the proper recepticn of the local party. While all £ on will act as hosts to the visiting thousands, the mem- bers of Union Congregational Church in particular will see to the interests of the favored delegates from the nation's head and make thelr stay as agreeable as cor- dial Christian Endeavor lostonians can siily make it. ‘The hotel at which the al delegation will stoo will be profusely rated with flags and bunting, and the streetrin front of the building tched a huge banner, on whick ington in iS In Mechanics’ Hall, where the convention ons are to be held, each state will ave a booth, where information can be Ptained and general headquarters estab- gre . The booth of the District of Co- mbia is to be handsomely decorated and within will be displayed large photographs of public buildings and views of all places of interest in and around Washington. It fs expected to be thron, to whom visit the capital in the center of admiring a hearty Invitation to ‘96 will be extended and a most cordial welcome assured. The enormous crowd which will attend the thr Eoston convention has -necessitated > great meeting places for the general ons of the convention. The headquar- ters will be at Me- chanics’ building, Boston's largest au- ditorium, sald to h seating ca- The angu- plat- shape, tains a large form at one e admirably for the pur Chri @ large galler- fes in addition to the with the main audie: yr of it, is a broad y by ps of which persons may pass to the front of the building Without annoying the audience by walking through the The other auditoriums will be of made especially for this “con- and to become the property of the riety and will be used in later conventions. It {s not improbable that they will be called into reauisition next year to accommodate the, immense crowds which are expected to come to Washing- i ‘ton in attendance upon the convention to be held here in ‘96. In Boston the tents will be erected on the famous commons, in the very heart of the city and the most accessible point in all Boston. They have veen named the “Endeavor” and “Williston,” and have a seating capacity of 10,000 each. Accom- modations for 28,000 people are, however, considered inadequate for the needs of the convention, so the Boston committee of arrargements have been tendered the use of twenty of the largest churches in the city, centrally located, in which overflow meetings and special services of all kinds will be held. ‘Three immense choruses have been or- ganized and drilled. Each choir numbers about a thousand voices, and assisting them will be several cornetists of national repute. Mr. Percy S. Foster of this clty has been asked to direct one of these great bodies of Gospel singers. .Mr. George C. Stebbins of Brooklyn and Mr. George K. Somerby of Boston will direct the other choruses. Two hundred and fifty meetings will be held during the five days of the conven- tion, Devotional prayer meetings will be held at noon of each day in the shops, stores and factories of Boston, thereby reaching thousands of churchless people. It may be*that there will be occurrences analogous to the re- markable scene in the New York stock exchange when the convention was held in the metropolis in 1892, at which time business was entire- ly suspended for sev- eral minutes in one of the bu: the the while N. T. Elliott, visiting delegates took the place by storm and the refrains of spiritual songs succeeded the hearse cries of excited speculators. There will be twenty or more early morning or sunrise prayer meetings each day of the convention, and daily evangelistic meetings in Faneull Hall, rescue missions and street ear stations, conducted by such men as D. L. Moody, Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, Rey. H. M. Whartcn and others, assisted delegations of active Endeavorers and “singing” evangelists. Although the sessions of the convention proper do not commence until Thursday morning, July 11, simultaneous preliminary meetings will be held Wednesday. even- ing in twenty of the largest churches of Boston and vicinit e of which will be addressed by Rev. . Teunis S. Hamlin of this city. Thursday morning will be de- voted to receiving and responding to ad- dresses of welcome from Governor Green- halge, Lieut. Gov. Wolcott, Mayor Curtis and others, while Thursday night meetings will be held in the hall and the two tents, at which accounts of “Washington, ‘!6,"" and invitations to be present at the great- est convention the history of Christian Endeavor will probably ever know will be delivered. In Mechanics’ Hall Mr. W. H. H. Smith, chairman cf the committee of '96, 1 stir up a commendable amount of enthusiasm; in Tent Williston Rev. Dr. Hamlin, cne of the trustees of the United Society, will tell what preparations Washington is mak- ing for the next convention, and in Teat Endeavor Mr. W. H. Pennell, also a trustee of the United Society, and with whose name is indissclubly’ associated the fact of his being the first signer of a Christian Ex deavor constitution, will speak on the ut- tractions presented by the most beautiful city on the globe and the capital of the greatest and most enterprising of modern nations as a place for holding what prom- ises to be the grandest convention of Chris tan workers ever known in the history of the world. Throughout the six days’ sessions topics of unusual interest and practical value will be discussed by some of the most prominent men in the religious world, such as Rev. Dr. Francis L. Pat- ton, president of Princeton College; Rev. Russell H. Con. well of Philadelph'a, Rev. T. De Witt Tal- madge, Dwight L. Moody, Rev. Way- land Hoyt of Minxe- apolis, John G. Woo!- ley of Chicago, the great temperance ad- vocate; Rev. A. Gordon of Boston and many others. Some of the Wash- ington speakers Perey S. Foster. whose names are on the program to take active part in the exercises are. besides those heretofore mentioned, Rev. E. B. Bagby, who will conduct one of the Friday morning meetings, and Rev. Dr. S. Greene, who will deliver the sermon in the main hall Monday night just prior to the closing consecration service. Some Who Are Going. . The following is the lst of persons who have, up to this time, entered their names as members of the party: Maude Aiton, R. M. Alden, Rev. Mr. Al- den, L. D. Alden, Grace L. Altschu, Mrs. J. A. Andrews, Mary G. Andrews, Fannie E. Atkinson, Rev. E. B. Bagby, Rev. Richard Bagby, Lucy R. Balley, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. B. Ball, Dwight B. Ball, Ida Ball, Lou E. Pallenger, Nannie D. Barney, Mattie Bart- jett, Mrs. M. M. Bartlett, J. Wm. Beatty, itd. A. Beekman, Anna J. Bell, Dr. and Mrs. M. C. Bennett, Carrie Bennett, Annie Bew- ley, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Birch, Mr. Albert Birch, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Bliven, Miss I. Bobrer, Katherine Bohrer, Katinka Lowret, W. J. Bowman, Ella Bowret, C. F. Beyden, Jane Brockett, Zue H. Brockett, Mrs. V. Brooks, Mary A. Burger, R. B. Burnham, Alice Burrows, Mrs. M. F. Bur- ton, Rev. J. G. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Frank I:yram, Blanche Campbell, Annie J. Carr, Edith Carrigan, Clara‘Carter, Mrs. BE. A. Carter, Jennie ‘Carter, Mrs. S. C. Carter, Schuyler Catlett, Lizzie Caywood, Lula H. Chappel, Dr. C. W._ Child: ‘. . H. Church, M J. E. Clark, Mr, and Mrs. Allan C. gh, Mr. and Mrs. Newton L. Collamer, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Copeland, Mary Cowell, Mrs. L. A. Cowman, Emma Craigen, Etta Craigen, Lillian Craigen, Emma ‘Cresherd, Miss’ M. J. Crossman, Miss Cruit, Sidney L. Culverwell, Miss Cussack, Alice M. Darrall, Miss 'F. C. Darrall, Bertha Davis, Elizabeth M. Dawes, May Dearing, Florence Dearing, Eva Denham, Miss A. B. Detrich, Fanny Detrich, E. P. Dickinson, W. S. Dickinson, y A. Dedge, Emma F. Drew, Mr. and . GJ. Drew, Blanche Dunnington, R. L. Dutton, Sadie E. Emmons, and Mrs. Norman T. Elliott, Edith E) erctt, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Everett, Mamie C. Everett, W. W. Everett, John Ewing, E, T. Fenwick, Lelia Fuey, Mrs. F. W. Finch, Estelle M. Fisher, Alice M. Fletcher, Mai Falks, Estelle Foster, C. C. Fos- ter, Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Foster, Norman Foster, Mrs. J. Faught, Mrs. Albert F. Fox, Margaret R. Fox, Cora Frank, Mary W. Frank, Mrs. Elizabeth French, - Laura French, M. B. Garrett, Mrs. R. A. Garrett, Lulie Gary, Emily Given, Carrie Golden, Florence Gore, Albert E. Gorham, Ida Green, Sarah Green, Frank I. Green, Em- ma Greenwell, Mr. and Mrs. Z, P. Gunion, Miss Gunion, Mr, Gunion, R. H, Hadfield, Blanche C. Hall, O. A. Hamlet, Anna Hamlin, Annie V. K. Handy, Joseph Har- per, Minnie Harper. Maude ‘Harper, Wm. Hart, F. W. Harwood, jr., Chas. F.’ Hast- ings, Alverda G. Hawk, Robt. H. Hay Mis: Mary E. Hedrick, A. J. Maggie M. Hercus, Alice T, Hercus, Herron, Mazie B. Herron, ough, Josephine Halderly, Kirk Hol- E. mis, Hattie Horner, Mrs. L. H. Hyer, John Mrs. Lieut. Jenks, Holland Jenkins, Lottie Jen- R, Hudson, j W. Jenks, M kins, M. E. Joyce, Carrie Kaiser, Minnie Kalser, Lena Kayser, F. C. Keefer, Martha. A. Keys, H. H. Kim- ball, Emma E. <nehler, Clara B. Kreem>r, Edw. H, Latch, Mrs. Edw. Latch, O. Ledoux, Bes- Sarah Lamtorn: H. Latch, Anita L. race Lewis, Mrs. Ida_ Lewis, Mary L. Little, Mollie S. R._H. Lynch, ‘elie Manchester, ers, J. P. Morgan, Si le V. Moore, Miss B. W. Mortimer, Rachel Moth- erkead, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Muth, Lizzie Muth, Lula Muth, Rufus Newell, Helen C. Newman, Albert Oliphant, Zand Oliphant, Annie Owens, Mrs. J. C. A. Page, Mrs. B. P. Patterson, C. E. Paul, Dr. G. B. Patch, Miss M. E. Pearson, Mr. and Mrs. W.-H. Pennell, Mollie Phil- lips, Cora _H. Pimper, Jeanette Piper, Lee Pitchlyn, Dr. A. W. Pitzer, Hannah Polkin- hern, Kate Polkinhorn, Mrs. Lucy E. Pond, W.W. Poultney, Anua Prentiss, Alice Pren- tiss, Miss L. A Rankin, Bertha Rathbone, Mrs. Rathbone, Miss Maud Rathbone, Ella M. Ray, Ivah Richards, M. Richards, E. E. Ricks, Julia E. Robinson, Emily H. Rose, Miss M. L. Rose, Geo. Ryneal, jr., Mar- garet R. Samson, Dr. and Mrs. Geo. C. Samson, T. T. Sanborn, Mrs. Cora B. San- bern, Anna L. Sargent, Miles M. Shand, Miss L. A. Shears, Miss M. E. Shears, Clara Shriver, Nettie Shotwell, E. S. Shuffle, jr., Florence Shuffle, Carrie Sigler, Mr. and Mrs. D. W.__ Skel- lenger, John B. Sleman, jr.,Mr. and Mrs. W._H. H. Smith, Miss Mary E. Smith, C. S. Smith, Edith Smith, Jennie M. Spears, Mabel Spicer, Bertie Spicer, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Squires, Mabel Stick- ney, Rosamond Stickney, Ella L. Stine- metz, Miss M.-A. Stinemetz, Clara Sto- well, Bertie Simms, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Taylor, Bessie E. Taylor, Miss H. M. Ten= ney, Theodore H. Thomas, Emma O. Toep- per, Edith H. Tolman, Francis H. Tolman, Mrs. J. P. Tolman, Rev. C. S. Trump, Bet- tie, W. Tschiffely, Lou Tschiffely, Wm. J. Tucker, Nannie A. Turpin, Miss S. H. Tur- pin, Saml. J. Venable, Sophie Vogt, H. B. Waddey, Mrs. H. B. Waddey, Mabel C. Waddey, Laura V. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F. Ward, Lizzie M. Warman, F. C, Warman, Rev. Edw. Warren, Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Watson, Rev. Semple Webster, Mary M. West, Mrs. Walter Weston, Kate S. White, Louisa J. White, R. D. White, Mrs. A. S. Whiteside, Mrs. L. P. Wiggins, M Williams, J. E. Williams, Miss T. F. Wills, W. H. Wills, Miss L. L. Wilson, Maggie Wilson, Lula Windsor, E. Pauline Wise, S. G. Wise, Nannie C. Withers, Mary Withington, D. P. Wolhaupter, Alfred Wood, iliza Bruce Wright, E. Youngs, jr., Elizabeth Zea, Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Zim- merman. —_+-— ART NOTES. One of the most important pictures, in both size and composition, that will be sent by the local artists to the Atlanta exposition 1s “Alexander's Feast,” by Rob- ert Hinckley. The painting contains thir- ty life-sized figures, treated In the style of the Reubens school. Mr. Hin¢kley’s por- trait of General Baird, which he has re- cently finished, will also be sent. Other members of the profession have not as yet fully decided upon what they will exhibit, but the committee In charge expect to send a collection of canvases that will in every way worthily represent the local fraternity, which includes both profession- als and amateurs: Brooke’s canvas “Halt by the which formed such an important feature of his spring exhibition, is being exhibited in New York. The artist expecis to leave the city within a -few days for his home in Warrenton, Va., where he will execute a number of commissions for can- vases which require more space than his present studio affords. The artists who have paid flying visits to Paxton, Va., where E. C."Messer has es- tablished a miniature art village, bring back amusing accounts of the gay doings of the young peopie who are spending the summer there with the very laudable in- tention of furthering their artistic educa- tion. With all sorts of home-made con- trivances, invented to lighten the burdens of paint boxes, easels, camp stools end lunch baskets, they scour the neighboring country in search of motives for canvases, which will doubtless appear later in the season, when local exhibitions and art views are among the city’s attractions, o*e Miss Katharine Chipman has_ recently completed portraits of Mrs. Theodore je- bus and Mr. Hub Smith, both of which, besides being excellent likenesses, are ad- mirable specimens of the difficult art of water-color portraiture. . ote The Corcoran Gallery will close July 15, and until the middle of September will be in the hands of workmen, who will place both it and the school building in good con- dition for the coming winter. Both build- irgs will be entirely overhauled and ex- tensive improvements made. Dr. Barbarin expects to devote his usual vacation time to going over the paintings, many of which need varnishing, retouching and eneral renovetion—a branch of work which fcr several years has received the curator's personal attention. Besides recently closing a very success- ful exhibitton of water colors in Boston, and finishing several commissions, Le Grand Johnston is preparing a number of decorative designs, which are to be sent to Japan for reproduction. Lucien Powell left the city last Thursday for Paxton, Va., where he will join the art colony and remain during the summer. . Within a short time’ Max Weyl will also join the little company of artists, and be- gin vfork on canvases intended for exhi- bition next winter. . we Hobart Nichols is making arrangements to spend a month at Ocean City, where he will begin preparations for the exhibition he will hold early in the winter. . we Carl Weller and Wells M. Sawyer are spending the summer at Riverdale, Md. oe The many friends of Miss Elizabeth Nourse will be gratified to hear of her re- cent election to membership in the Salon Champs de Mars, Paris. This is the first instance of such a distinction being con- ferred upon an American woman. ———— SUNDRY PE! Interesting Intricacies Incident to Identifying Intending Indigents. Assistant Secretary Reynolds of the In- terior Department has rendered a number of decisions in pension appeal cases. In the case of Jesse Curry of Kentucky, who was granted both invalid and dependent father pensions, the assistant secretary holds that at the date of the granting of a second pension the applicant must decide ‘under which law he desires to receive a pension, and after that no change can be | permitted. Another case is where a woman who was deserted by her soldier husband, but was never divorced, married again and lived with this second husband, both before and after the death of the first, through whom she claims a pension. Secretary Reynolds holds that the second marriage was void; tbat the woman is the legal widow of the soldier and entitled to pen- ‘in other cases Secretary Reynolds holds as follows: Where a claim for pension is rejected the attorney of record is allowed ninety days to take the steps necessary to reopening or to file an appeal. If the at- torney of record shall have done this end within the ninety days allowed hima new Yeclaration be filed by a second attorney, such filing ts contributory service on ‘he part of the latter and Is to be credited to the former. If, on the contrary, the origi- nal attorney fails to take the action re- quired, but instead files a new declaration, his position is the same as that of an at- torney who has had no previous connection with the case, and such filling is a pro- ceeding de novo. The attorney who first files a sufficient declaration and valid power of attorney will be recognized. THE NATIONAL GUARD The Affairs of the Late Camp Rapidly Being Closed Up. SOME IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ARMORY An Important Year in the History of the Militia. NOTES OF INTEREST ——_>—__—_ During the past week the armory of the District National Guagd has presented a somewhat lonesome appearance compared with the week prior to the opening of the | recent encampment at Fort Washington. The soldiers were considerably fatigued by their ten days’ outing under “canvas, ard for some time to-come. will probably rot display undue eagerness as regards aris and other duties. At headquarters the situation is diametri- cally opposite, for there necessarily re- sulted from the camp a vast amount of business, and Col. Mosher and his assist- ants do not find that) time hangs very heavily on their hand§. There are bills, vouchers, invoices, eipts and other papers demarding attention, and the proper treatment of each entails the expenditure of much care and time. Since the departure of the troops from Camp Washington Saturday last Lieut. T. S. King, with the assistance of a large force of men, hes almost constantly been engaged in storing away in the fort the tents and equipagé made use of by the brigade. At the present rate all such mat- ters will soon be disposed of, and’ the guard will then resume its normal state. ‘The Rifles at St. Louis. ‘The trip of a teain from company B, sec- ond battalion, more popularly known as the National Rifles, %@ the interstate driil and encampment which* opens Monday next at St. Louis is attracting consider- able interest, and has been the subject of more than a little discusston among guards- men. The general sentiment seems to be that the representatives of the company recently mustered in cannot reasonably be expected to make a remarkable showing in competition with such organizations as the famous Branch Guards, Belknap Rifles, McCarthy Light Guard and. others that have entered the dri. Since winning the fourth prize at the drill held in this city in May, 1887, the Rifles have not “devoted much attention to drill, and, in fact, have clung to Upton’s tactics until but a few weeks ago. The team has not had more than one month's instruction under the new regulations,-and that period is not con- sidered sufficient for properly mastering the maneuvers included in the program. However, the enterprise of Capt. Oyster's men is commended on all sides; thelr work will be eagerly watched, and only satisfaz- tion expressed should they, return to Wash- ington, as have the Fencibles, Morton Ca- dets and Emmet Guard/ with prizes dan- gling from their belts. Improvements at the Armory. Company A, second battalion, has recent- ly made extensive alterations and Improve- ments in its quarters at the new armory building, and now possesses as cozy and hand¥omely furnished a suite of rooms as any in the building. The room originally assigned to the band has been turned over to Capt. Edwards’ men for a locker room, a doorway has been cut through the wall as an entrance from the company room, and an ornamental doorease erected at the main opening into the quarters. During the coming week company A, third battalion, intends to fit up its room on the second floor of the armory building sumptuously, and $300 is to be expended with that end in view. While the brigade was in camp painters were kept busy staining the floors of the hallways at the armory, the appearance of the same being greatly improved thereby. Army Regulations Adopted. The United States army regulations were recently adopt:d by the military board of New Jersey to control future enlistments in the National Guard of that state. Here- tofere no uniform regulations prevailed. Those adopted are as follows: 1, Applicants for enlistment in the Na- tional Guard of this state must be persons who are residzat citizens thereof, between eighteen and forty-five years of age, of good character and habits, able-bodied, free from disease, and they must be able to speak, read znd write the English lan- guage. * 2. Minors will not be enlisted without the waitten permission of parent or guardian. 3. Applicans must satisfy the recruiting officer regarding their age and character, and should, if required, he prepared to fur- nish evidence thereof. 4. For infantry the height of enlisted men must not be less than five feet six inches; Weight not less than 128 pounds and not more than 190 pounds. 5. For cavalry the height of enlisted men must be not less than five feet six inches; weight not more than 175 pounds. The Officers Were to Blame. The year 1894 was an Important one to the National Guard, aceording to the Mili- tary News, for during that short period over twenty states had to call on their sol- diers to aid in enforcing law and in main- taining order. This service has, in a meas- ure, demonstrated the efficiency as well as the shortcomings of the guard. Where mistakes occurred, and in the few Instances where the guard failed to do all that was expected of it; the enlisted men wére not to blame. The men in the ranks proved theriselves to be brave, enduring, patriotic and efficent when properly ofti- cered. The officers who failed to play their parts well rank from governors down. In the instances where the guard proved ineffi- cient the officers were not cowardly, but lacked military knowledge, executive abil- ity and judgment. Among other propositions in the line of improvement, it Is suggested that line off- cers should have some military claims to a commission before one is issued. The National Guard officer is not a figurehead for a bedy of men, but a necessity in every state. He should be a man of education, general intelligence and military experi- ence. He should know something besides tactics and be a student of military works. He should have a clear ide& of the laws that govern him and his rights and powers when on duty. Staff officers should beeappointed because they have some adaptability or experience in the department in which they are to serve. The best place to get experience is in the service. The efficiency of the guard depends on the officers and the supply departments. Goods arms, good clothes, good food, and good officers bring gcod men to the ranks and keep them there, In many instances there are good men in the ranks without these essentials. : Resignation @f Capt. Pcixotto. Capt. D. L. M. Ppixotto, adjutant of the first regiment andjat one time major and chief gf opine on the brigade staff, has fendered his Fesignation. The reason for such action, according to those who Gaim to know, fg that the adjutant and the colonel of the first regiment misunder- stood each other several times while at camp and also daring the dress parade on the White Lot last Saturday; that the adjutant repeatediy directed the colonel es regards commanding the regiment, until the latter became weary of receiving svg- gestions from his subordinate. Language of an“uncommon sort is said to have been uttered, and the adjutant lost no time in relinquishing his commission. Sergeant Major Hudson of the first regiment will, it is understood, be appointed to che va- eaney. Notes. The dishonorable discharge of Private Marion Jenkins of company D, third, now fifth, battalion, has been revoked, and an hcnorable discharge granted in its stead. Leave of absence for three months has been granted Maj. Gilbert Thompson of the engineer corps. During the period mentioned Maj. Thompson will be on field duty for the geological survey. Quartermaster Sergeant Louls Freeman of the engineer corps has been appoint- ed acting first lieutenant and quartermas- ter of the corps. Private George N. McLoughing of com- pany D, sixth battalion, has bean trans- ferred to the ambulance corps. Honorable discharges on their own ap- plications have been granted to Private O. D. Wilkerson of company C, engineer corps, and Privates F. C. Kleinschmidt and Edward Mitchell, company C, second bat- talion. Because of expulsion from their companies the following have been dishon- orably discharged: Privates Amos Cream- er, J. E. Holmes, T. J. Holmes, Harry d. Luskey and William W. Wheeler, all of company B, fifth battalion, and Privates Abraham Slaughter of company A, first separate battalion. Commissions have been accepted by Frank E. Gibson as first lieutenant and in- spector of rifle practice of the third bat- talion, and by Benjamin G. Pool as first leutenant and surgeon of the fourth bat- talion. —_——>———_ WEST POINT CADETS. Appointments to the Military Acad- emy. During the Past Week. The following appointments of cadets to enter the Military Academy at West Point in June, 1896, haye been made during the past week: Geo. B. Comly, Clarksburg (atlarge), W. Va.; Wm. Tidball, Washington (at large), D. C.; Robert E. L. Saxon, Smackover, Ark.; Clifton P. Arnold (alternate), Pres- cott, Ark.; Roy C. Kerr, Pueblo, Col.; Rob- ert F.“Jackson, Middletown, Conn.; Francis S. Hurn (alternate), New Haven, Conn. Jerry L. Adams, Yatesville, Ga.; Geo. Kar- shaw (aJternate), Macon, Ga.; Clifford C. Carson, Cowan, Ind.; Geo. W. Price (alter- uate), Richmond, Ind.; Patrick J. Casey, Anderson, Ind.; Leroy T. Hillman (alte nate),Indianapolls, Ind.; Wirt B. King, Fair- field, Iowa; F. G. Lane (alternate), Keo- sauqua, Iowa; Frank B. Reid, Oskaloosa, Iowa; Wm. A. Bibson, Des Moines, low: Edwin E. Larson (alternate), Knoxville, Iowa; Ernest E. Watson, Marion, ° Kan. Frank Richardson (alternate), Augusta, Kan.; F. A. Pope, Marvin, Kan.; Delbert Smith (alternate), Prairie View, Kan.; Va- rien D. Dixon, Dixon, Ky.; Jack J. Henry (alternate), Slaughtersville, Ky.; John P. Sullivan, New Orleans, La.; Gordon Robin- son (atternate), New Orleans, La.; Wm. G. Glidden, New Castle, Me.; Frank A. Thomp- son (alternate), Round Pond, Me.; Ernest E. Haskell, Bridgewater, Mass.; Geo. E. Bolling (alternate), Brockton, Mass.; Geo. R. Spalding, Monson, Mich.; Andrew J. Weatherwax (alternate), Jackson, Mich.; Jay P. Hopkins, Cassopolis, Mich.; Wm. H. Yore (alternate), Benton Harbor, Mic! Gilbert A. Youngberg, Cannon Falls, Min: Henry G. Allanson (alternate), Henderso: Minn.; Robert E. Wood, Kansas City, M Kirby B. Crittenden (alternate), Kansas City, Mo.; Walbridge H. Powell, Rolla, Mo.; Allen M. Yonge (alternate), Bonnots Mill, Mo.; Raymond H. Fennen, Virginia City, Ment.; Geo. E. Kumpe (alternate), White Sulphur Springs, Mont.; Frank P. Amos, Kimball, Neb.; Joan A. Boyle (alternate), Kearney, Neb.; Jos. C. Kay, New Bruns- wick, N. J.; Wm. A. Anderson (alternate), Somerville, N. J.; Geo. H. McDevitt, 125 Willlams avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.;Wm. A. Browning (alternate), 155 Reid avenue, Brooklyn, N. ¥.; Arthur P. 8. Hyde, New York, N. ¥.; Thos. B. Connery, jr. (alter- tate), New York, N. Y.; Ernest L. Doty, Pleasant Valley, N. Y.; John H. Doughty, jr. (alternate), Matteawan, N. ¥.; Wm. S. Root, Buffalo, N. Y.; Howard M. Rice (al- ernate), Buffalo, N. Y.; John R. Slattery, S89 Park avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio; Morris E. Locke (alternate), Avondale, Ohio; Jas. Pewell, Mount Cory, Ohio; Morton C. Mumma (alternate), Findlay, Ohio; Wm. E. Gmore, Lorain, Ohio; Earl H. Noel (alter- nate), Ashland, Ohio; Gustave R. Lukesh, Akron, Ohio; Thomas Stewart (alternat Hubbard, Ohio; James W. Furness, Phill delphia, Pa.; Louis W. Taylor (alternate), Philadelphia, Pa.; John McManus, Thurlo Pa.; Mark Brooke (alternate), Radnor, Pa.; Richard M. Thomas, Wilkesbarre, Pa.; Gar- rick M. Borden (alternate), Wilkesbarre, Pa.; Jas. O. Hackenburg, Milton, Pa.; Thos. H. Low (alternate), Lime Ridge, Pa.; Geo. Timmerman, Graniteville, S. C.; James Goethe (alternate), Varnville, S. C.; Dennis [ H. Currie, Glen Rose, Tex.; Rufus J. Har- rsll (alternate), Brownwood, Tex.; W. Irv- ing Westervelt, Corpus Christi, Tex.; Floyd Frisby (alternate), Corpus Christi, Tex.; Lewis S. Morey, San Antonio, Tex.; Henry M. Holden (alternate), San Antonio, Tex.; Geo. M. Lee, Glasgow, Va.; John P. Walker (alternate), Welker's Ford, Va.; John W. Wilen, Martinsburg, W. Va.; Hugh Warder (alternate), Grafton, W. Va.; Geo. Perkins, La Crosse, Wis.; Elverton E. Fuller (alter- nate), La Crossé, Wis.; James F. Lawwill, Danville, Ky.; Chas. Kemper (alternate), Marksbury, K Robert S. Conklin, Albany, Y.; Walter J. Fitzpatrick (aiternat Franklin L. Callison, Jamesport, Mo.; Gé. A. Trigg (alternate), Richmond, Mo.; Arthur Rhinehart, West- ville Center, N. Y.; Bernard Keenan (alter- nate), Hogansburgh, N. Y. ee eee EXHIBIT OF THE TREASURY. Things of Interest to Be Shown by the Department at Atlanta. The Tréasury Department is going to spread itself at Atlanta. Details of its ex- hibit have not been decided upon as yet, but it will embrace meny interesting fea- tures. For example, the medals for the exposition will be turned out on the spot from a coining press of the sort used by the government. This will be a feature of the display of the mint bureau. Also a collection will be shown of fac-similes of the medals issued at various times by the government of the United States. No decision has been reached as yet as to whether the bureau of the secret service shall offer an exhibit. This division of the Treasury Department has not been repre- sented at any previous fair or exposition. What it might show in the way of count- erfeit notes and coins, together with pho- tographs of noted forgers and apparatus employed in their industry, would be re- markably interesting, of course. But the notion has been held hitherto that such matters were best kept in the dark, while the display of imitations of the national currency to the general public might con- vey unfortunate suggestions to some peo- le. Pithe bureau of engraving will exhibit tac similes of all notes and bonds that have been Issued by the government up to date. The register’s office will place on view a collection of actual and real specimens of all the bonds and notes printed by» Uncle Sam, including the old Colonial and revolu- tionary currency. To these will be added a complete series of the revenue stamps, which will be shown by the bureau of in- ternal revenue. ‘The lighthouse beard will show the ap- paratus used in {ts business, including lanterns, illuminating olls, etc. The ma- rine hospital service will’ exhibit models of quarantine stations, detention camps and steam disinfecting chambers. If it can be arranged, a separate building will be established for the life-saving bureau on the shore of an artificial lake, and a crew will be sent to Atlanta to give daily drills and to show how people are rescued from wrecks. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP Some Recent Sales of Property on Pennsylvania Avenue. : BRIEF SUMMARY OF TRANSACTIONS Values as Indicated by the Record of Fifteen Years. SOME IMPROVEMENTS ————_>—_—_ Attention has been called to Pennsyl- vania avenue recently by two sales of property fronting on that thoroughfare. Owners of avenue property seem to be so well tatisfied with their holdings that it is only occasionally a transfer is made. For this reason, as well as, perhaps, the gen- eral interest which is taken in property values on what is regarded as the princi- pal street of the nation’s capital, more at- tention is paid to sales when they are made than is usual with similar transac- fions in other localities. Last week The Star added to its property holdings on the avenue by the purchase of premises No. 1105, for which $35.55 per square foot was paid.. This wéek a deed was recorded transferring a piece of prop- erty on the avenue between 9th and 10th streets, the consideration being $20 a foot. The further details of these purchases may b2 found below, in the list which is given of the transactions in avenue property run- ning back over a period of fourteen years. As will be seen, the movement in property cn this thoroughfare has not been, during the time referred to, very active, and it will no doubt be a surprise to many to know that the transfers have been so lim- ited in number. It is not claimed that the list is a complete one, but it is very nearly so, and includes all of the important trans- actions in the period indicated. The list is as follows, the year of the transaction be- ing first given and then the price paid per square foot, which includes, of course, the value of the improvements: "S81. $17.72. No. 1101, northwest corner of 1ith street and Pennsylvania avenue, with a front- age of twenty feet, and containing 1,683 square feet. Total cost, $50,000. "S3. $20.00 No. 939, fronting twenty-three feet seven inches, extending back to street, and containing 1,673 square feet* Total cost, oe "ST. $5.00. No. 1222, on the south side of Pennsyl- vania avenue, between 12th and 13th streets, fronting sixteen feet six inches, running back to D street, and containing 1,526 square feet. Total cost, $7,630. ‘ST. $21.12. No. 1105 Pennsylvania avenue, having a frontage of fifteen feet ten inches and containing 1,100 square feet. Total cost, $24,500. "ST. $42.00. At the northeast corner of the avenue and 7th street, with a frontage on three streets, containing 2,452 square feet. Total cost, about $105,000. tle $12.30. The southeast corner of the avenue and 1lth street, having a frontage of twen- ty-eight feet, and containing 2,892 square feet. Total cost, $33,300. Si. $2.44. No, 333 Pcnnsylvania avenue, fronting twenty-five feet, and containing 4,500 square feet. Total cost, $11,000. "S38. $5.14, No. 920, fronting twenty-three feet six inches on the south side, and extending back to C street, and containing 2,669 square feet. Total cost, $13,713. $12.54. No. 604 Pennsylvania avenue, fronting twenty-two feet on the south side of the avenue, and containing 2,232 square feet. Total cost, $28,000. "88, $6.93, Nos. 928 and 930, fronting thirty-nine feet ten inches on the south side, and containing 2,572 square feet. Total cost, $17,825. ‘8S. $20.7: Nos. 915 and 917, fronting twenty-six fee! and containing 1,855 square feet. Total cost, $38,500. $12.11, Southwest corner of the avenue and 10th street, having a frontage of twenty-one feet six inches, and containing 1,832 square feet. Total cost, $22,000. 88. $17.00 No. 619, fronting 21.98 feet, extending back to C strect, and containing 2,162 square feet. Total cost, $37,000. "89. $5.00 Northeast corner of 3d and the avenue, having a frontage of 25 feet and con- taining 4,359 square feet. Total cost, $21,795. "90. $50.80, At the northeast corner of the avenue and 10th street, containing 2,559 square feet, with frontages on three streets. Total cost, $130,000. No. 1103, fronting 15 feet 10 inches and containing 1,194 square feet. Total cost, $40,000, = 1. $10.59, ‘The whole square 323 on the south side of the avenue between lith and 12th, pur- chased by the United States for the city post office building, containing 61,436 square feet. Total cost, $850,162. "91. $4.50. No. 225, fronting feet and containing 4,043 square feet. Total cost, $18,0U0. "Sl, $12.10. The whole square 255 on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue or E street be- tween 13% and 4th streets, for the power house of the W. and G. R. R., containing 45,910 square feet, Total cost, $555,511. $8.00. No, 1337, E street or the avenue betwe: 13th and 14th, having a frontage of 20 feet and containing 3,180 square fect. Total cost, $25,440. Old Imperial Hotel property, frontin feet on E street or the avenue, between 13th and 14th streets, and containing 11,130 square feet. Total cost, $80,000. "92. About $30.00, Northeast corner of the avenue and 12th street, fronting 46 feet 6 inches, and containing 5,200 feet. Total cost about $157,800. "92. $18.00, Northwest corner of the avenue and 14th street, having a frontage of 139 feet on the avenue, and extending back to F street and containing 33,467 square feet. Total cost $602,406. "95. $2.75. No, 339, fronting 50 feet and containing 11,245 square feet, including the rear part of the adjoining lot. Total cost, $95.55. No. 1105, fronting 15 feet 10 inches, and containing 1,160 square feet. Total cost, $41,250, $19.23. No. 919. fronting 24 feet, and extending back to D street, with a frontage of 20 feet on that street, containing 3,197 square feet. Total cost, $61,500. Mr. Herron’s Residence. A residence is being erected by Mr. J. Whit Herron on 13th street extended, be- tween Lydecker avenue and Lamar street. The lot has quite a spacious frontage, and the house is so situated as to leave lawn space on all sides, as well as affording op- portunity for numerous window openings, which make such a desirable feature of domestic architecture in this climate. The exterior walls are to be built of select red brick and brown stone, and will extend to the height of three stories, being finished with a high slate roof. The architectural treatment is colonial. There will be an octagonal tower at the corner, and on one side at the second etory will be an oriel projection. The entrance hall, which will have the unusual width of eight feet, opens into a reception hall or sitting room, where there will be o. fine platform staircase of oak, leading to the upper stories. On this floor will be also the parlor and dining room, the former being finished in white, and the latter in oak, as will be also the reception hall. Bookcases will be built in the wall in the sitting room. In the dining room the sideboard will be made a part of the house, and in the entrance hall the hat rack will be built into the wall, The upper stories will be conveniently arranged. The architect is C. L. Harding. ——— SHOES MJ Go UP. The Rise in Hides May Cause an Ad- vance in Prices. The big rise {n the price of hides, which has been brought about, it is charged, through the machinations of the beef trust, will soon be felt in its effect upon the pockets of the masses. For months past the people all over the country have been groaning and complaining under the ne- cessity of paying unprecedented prices for beef, but, as !f that was not enough, they will now have to “step up to the office” and pay for another commodity. Leading shoe merchants of this city are the au- thority for the statement that the manu- facturers cannot continue to make shoes at present prices, and that by fall the aver- age will be fifty cents a pair higher at re- tail than was the case last fall. This is anything but a pleasant outlook for heads of families, who are all the time being called upon to pay shoe bills. As so often happens in matters of this sort, it is the poor and those in moderate circumstances who will be the chief suffer- ers. A prominent local dealer said to a St4¥ reporier today that the “shoe would pinch” along the cheaper grades of goods. The man who buys footwear for himself and his family ranging in the neighbor- hood of $2.50 to $i a pair is the one who will probably be called upon to pay the extra half dollar. The increase will not apply to the man who can afford to go to an expensive shoemaker and pay from $7 to $15 a pair. Makers of that sort of goods have such a large leeway in the matter of profits that their products do not so quick- ly show the effects of a rise in the price of the raw material. As the agent for one of the big New Eng- land shoe factories expressed it, “We run so close to the wind in our prices that it is out of the question for us to keep on much longer selling our goods at present figures. I am pretty certain that we shall be com- pelled to shove them up by fall, if not sooner. I presume we shall have to keep about the same line of prices, also, but I am afraid the quality will not be the same. We shall probably keep $4 shoes, as we have always done, but you will not be able to get as good a shoe for that price as you could last year. It is not our fault. The re- Sponsibility rests with those who have put up the price of hides.” A Tendency to Higher*Prices. Shoe and Leather Facts, a journal de- voted to the trade, says that the position of the market is a very strong one, with the tendency all toward still higher prices. Manufacturers have reached the point where they are no longer looking for any immediate break in*prices on leather, but are satisfied that the advance has come to stay for this season at least, and the busi- ness they are taking is consequently on that basis. The finer grades of good have not felt the advance as much as the cheaper grades, owing to the fact that the largest advance in leather has been on the cheaper qualities. Still, the better grades of footwear were not sold as close to the cost of production as the cheaper grades, which gave manufacturers some leeway to _ up the advance for the cost of produc- tion. “The business in shoes has not been ac- tive, both jobbers and retailers holding back their orders as much as possible. One feature of the situation is the discontinu- ance of the. making of low-priced shoes on the part of the manufacturers, owing to the great rise in the price for low-grade leather and the impossibility of getting a proportionate advance for the finished product. Another noticeable feature is the willingness of most manufacturers to give a better quality of material and a better grade of workmanship in their goods in order to offer this extra inducement to their customers to pay an advance. “The extremely cheap and low-quality shoes which came In as a part of the evils of the great depression have already be- gun to disappear, and manufacturers, job- bers and retailers alike recognize that the demand which existed for them will, to a considerable extent, vanish with the added purchasing power of the masses.” phat Sees a DECEIVED BY APPEARANCE. The Surprising Result of a Dog Fight at Sitka. “Up in Alaska,” said Col. Ainsworth to a Star reporter, “the Indians have a native dog, large, savage and shaggy, which goes by the name of ‘coyote.’ These dogs are much larger than the prairie wolves of that rame, and look much more like the big wolves of the plains. They are, however, and very plainly, nothing but dogs, and you can see hundreds of them around any of the Indian villages. In the dullness of skan life, every method of amusement ‘esorted to. Dog fights are common, and, I might say, very popular. Everybody but the chaplain always goes to a dog fight, and the mere intimetion that a dog fight is pending is enough to hurry everybody through his business, so that he may be foot-loose to attend. On one of the steam- boats which used to ply up and down the Alaskan coast, the officers had a bulldog that weighed about 55 pounds, and whose mission it was to drive away dull care. Whenever the boat stopped they would let Jack—that was the dog's name—out on the wharf, and Jack would tackle the first dog he came to, and then there would be @ fight. Jack was a great warrior and won all his battles. And so fond was he of these martial affairs that whenever the steamer began nearing its pler Jack always crowded anxiously to the front at the gangway, and was the first one down the plank and onto the wharf. Jack was al- ways looking for a fight, and if he couldn't find one he felt pained and discontented. “One day I was lying asleep in my state room. The boat was at Sitka. One of the officers came Gown and awakened me. ““There’s a dog out on the wharf that looks like a wolf,’ he said. ‘One of the deck hands has tied him up, and as soon cs the work Is over we're going to turn ck loose and let him lick him.” ‘This was very inspiring, as information, and I at once arose to be present at the ceremony, Jack was aboard the boat, and hadn't yet heard of the foe. I took a look at the victim, which the men had roped up and found him a sad, taciturn dog; in fact, one of those Indian dogs which we called coyotes. 4 “There was no preliminaries,when Jack's time came. When he was turned loo he started in at the coyote with the greatest ardor. The battle didn’t last over thirty seconds, but was the most savage thing of the kind I ever beheld. At the end of thirty seconds that desipsed slouch of @ te had simply cut the bulldog to * and he was too dead to skin. The “imost went into mourning about it. Some of the bereaved officers who hi been warm friends of Jack wanted to mete out death to the coyote. But a fatrer senti- ment prevailed He had won his battle on ihe square, and there was a nine-tenths yete in favor of his being liberated. He was thrown loose and lurked off with a sort of hang-dog expression, with his tall between his legs, as if there wasn’t an cunce of real fight in him. But we looked at our dead bulldog and knew better.”