Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1895, Page 6

8 — THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. Mertz and Mertz, Tailors, Importers, Drapers, 906 F Street. Progress is the watchword—progress toward lower prices and higher values. We're better equipped and more completely organized to present greater bargains during our “‘tearing= down’’ sale than we’ve gains we submit today ever shown. The bar= are without precedent, and cannot be had anywhere at near our ex- clusive prices. One Thing More-- See the line of Suitings we're reduced to 58 62 Urgent meed for more sales space to accommodate our steadily in- creasing business makes this sale imperative—we’re doubling our last July’s business—fust as it should be—crowds of buyers. One Thing More== Not a bit Bee the Iine of Suitings 9 00 We've reduced to.....+ 1O surprising when you see the fresh—handsome—seasonable and stylish suitings they’re get- ting at the cost of only the work- manship and trimmings—we throw the materials in— One Thing More== Don’t hunt for better goods or lower p rices—-there are none— come straight here and have your suit made to order. Let us em=- phasize, ‘‘made to fit you.’’ We’re not hurrying you to leave your or= der—but you miay wish to get into “patm grasp’’ with first choice. One Thing More=- Bee the line of Suitings reduced sat 675 There’s not a cent of profit in this sale to us—but the savings to all the men—who take advantage of_ our “tearing down’’ will be something enormous. One Th More== ing reductions § ., .82 3 Bee the Hne of Imported Trouserings we've reduced to You may select two of our best suits for the same money you pay any other tailor for one—in fact, there’s a here—if great deal you can learn you have an eye for the best at the right prices. The Problem is more room for a fast-increasing business, — — —— A GLIMPSE OF LINCOLN. An Account of a Chance Meeting in the White House. W. D. Howells in Harper's Magazine. I was then on my way to be consul at Venice, where I spent the next four years a vigilance for confederate privateers, Which none of them ever surprised. I had asked for the consulate at Munich, where I hoped to steep myself yet longer In Ger- mian poetry, but when my appointment came I found it was for Rome. I was very glad to get Rome even; but the income Of the office was In fees, and I thought I had better go on to Washington and find out how much the fees amounted to. Peo- +ple in Columbus who had been abroad said hat on $600 you could live in Rome like a prince, but I doubted this; and when I learned at the Stgte Department that the fees of the Roman consulate came to only $800, 1 perceived that I could not live bet- ter than a baron, probably, and I de- spatred. The kindly chief of the consular bureau said that the president's secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay, were interested in my appointment, and he advised my going over to the White House and see!ng them. I lost no time in aging that, and I learned that ag young western men they were in- terested in ie becausé J was a young west- erh man who had done something tn litera- ture, and they were willing to help me for that reason, and for no other that I ever knew. They roposed By going to venir the salary was then $750, but they thought they could get it put bp to $1,000. In the Co ney Bot it put up to $1,500, and so I went to Venice, where, if I did not live like p princé on that income, I lived a ood deal mofe like a prince than I could fave done at Rome on & third of it. If the appointment waa not present for- tune, it was the beginning of the best luck I have had tn the world, and I am glad to owe it all to those friends of my verse. who could haye been no otherwise friends of me. They were then beginning very eurly careers of Gistinotion which have not been wholly divided. Mr. Nicolay could have been about twenty-five, and Mr. Hay nireteen or twenty. No one dreamed as yet of the opportunity opening to them in be- ing so cofstantly near the man whose life they have written, and with whose fame they have Imperishably interwrought thelr names. appointed him cogsul for Venice and the ports of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, though he might have recognized the terms ot my commission if I had reminded him of them. I faltered a moment in my longing to ad- dress him, and then I decided that every ong who forebore to speak needlessly to him, or to shake his hand, did him a kind- ness; and I wish I could be as sure of the wisdom of all my past behavior as J am of that piece of it. He walked up to the water cooler that stood In the corner, and drew himself a full goblet from it, which he poured down his throat with a backward tilt of his head, and then went weartly within doors. The whole affair, so simple, has always remained one of a certain pathos in my memory, and I would rather nave seen Lincoln in tMat unconscious mo- ment than on some statelier occasion. ——__—__e+ AT HIS WIFE’S GRAVE. For Fifteen Years a Devoted Hus- band Has Lived in a Cemetery. From the St, Louls Globe Democrat. “If you die, I will sleep by the side of your grave all the rest of my life.” This remarkable vow whs made fifteen yeara ago to his sick wife by Edwin L. Morrison, at that time chief clerk of the Pennsylvania frelght department, and a protege of Ralph Peters, the superintendent of the Miami division of the Pennsylvania road, For twelve days after his wife's death Mor- rison’s grief was too great to allow him to fulfill his vow. He lived at Camp Denison, and when the stupor left him he built a tude hut at the side of his wife’s grave in the Miamtville cemetery. To the sexton, who protested at first, Morrison said that he was receiving $35 a month to watch the graye. Time went by, and the man still sat in his hut gazing at the grave. At last the keeper of the cemetery learned his story. Now Edwin L. Morrison, once the handsome railroad man, is old, wrinkled and haggard, but still sits in his rude hut by the side of the grave of the woman he loved so well. For fifteen years he has kept up this solemn vigil. | Morrison's history is full of tender pathos. An example of trie devotion, he fs famil- | larly known by every child in the village, and few persons visit the sequestered ttle town of Miamiville who fail to hear the sad I remenuer the sobered dignity of the ene, and the humorous gayety of the othe! and how we had some young men's jokin; and laughing ‘ogether, in the ante-room where they recelveqd me, with the great soul entering upon its travail beyond the closed door. They asked mo if I had gre seen the President, and I said that I ad seen him at Columbus, the year before; but I could not say how much J should like to see him again, and thank him for the fa- vor which f had ni claire to at his hands, except such aa fh slight campaign biog- aphy I had written could be thought to ave glyen me, That day pe krother, s I left my friends, mat le in thé corridor without, and he looked at the space J was part of with his ineffably melancholy eyes, without kno ing I was the indistingu ble perso: in whose “integrit he had r Dosed such spec! as to have and abiliti confidence” | story of Ed Morrison. In rain or shine, summer or winter, he lingers around that | ttle Le of green turf. He seldom talks long of his wife now. A small Bible is in his hut. It cortains the names and dates of the birth of several boys and girls of his name, but most prominent upon ¢ page of resord are the w y L. | Merrison, Med Apr 24, 1880," written with [ieee oenelt in a very irregular, trembling and. tos Bank's a Cool Place. From the Philadelphia Record. Hoax—"T'd lke to have a job in a bank this kind of weather.” Joax—“So as to be near the cold cash, eh | _Hoax—“No; because ro many $) Be bring drafts with them in poeple come lo raise the For Good Color and Heavy Growth Of Hair, Use YER’S Hair Vigor. One Bottle will do Wonders. Try it. Purify the Blood with Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. IF THE BaBY IS CUTTING TEETH BE SURE and use that oll and well-tried remedy, Mrs. Wipsiow's Soothing Syrup, for children teething. 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His heaith is not the best. He suffered recently from South American fevers and came home on the advice of his physiclan. He expects to have a two months’ vacation from his diplomatic laborm Since his return he has expressed the opinion that it would be bet- ter to complete the Panama canal than to try to build the Nicaragua canal. ‘The predominant question in South Amertca just now,” he said, “is the proposed Nica- ragua canal. I have been all over the ground and I Rave come to the conclusion that it would be much more feasible to complete the Panama canal than to at- tempt to build the new Nicaragua canal. It is said that the Panama canal ts a wreck and ro good. That is all wrong. I was all over it recently and I found 6) men at work there,and besides I found from fourteen to sixteen miles of good canal already built, with splendid embankments already overgrown with tropical vegeta- tion, insuring stability. That leaves about twenty-four miles to build. The depth, as sounded, !s from twenty to twenty-four feet. Could Be Purchased Cheaply. “To be sure, we could not simply talee the canal without a word to the French capitalists that. have gone bankrupt in building it. But I think that It could be purchased very cheaply. It is _usel talk authoritatively, as a commi: s now down there looking over the ground and it has not made a report yet. While it 1s not a part of the original program, I am told that the members intend to visit Panama this month to look over the work that has been done. They may see it in another light after their researches. Micarngua Canal Not Feasible. “As for the Nicaragua canal itself, while I want to see it built, I do not think it Is feasible. I talked with many naval men and emment contracters, one of whom I have since learned was a shareholder in the Nicaragua canal, and they tell me that a harbor can never be built at Grey- town. The water there is shallow, and constant dredging and the building of a breakwater would have to be resorted to in order to keep the channel open. That would, it seems to me, kill the thing. I am not an expert, and I am interested only as an American citizen. We want a canal down there. In fact, we should have one at any price, and I will await the report of the present commission with a great deal of interest.” Trade Relatins. Mr. McKinney talked about trade rela- tions between the United States and Co- lombfa, and said that the British and Ger- man merchants were making tnroads on the United States traders. He says that the people In Colombia have many unique ideas about trade. These don’t agree with what American merchants send down there and the American merchants won’t con- cede anything, while the English and Ger- man merchants do, and thus secure the trade. For instance, the usual credit time there is six months, and the New York merchant wants his pay in thirty or sixty days. Again, they buy frequently, but in small pleces. Américan merchants won't send in the orders desired, and again trade is lost. He says the friendship between Colombia and the United States is of the warmest kind, and he expects to see trade relations made closer in the near future. An Art Criticism, From the Detrolt Free Press. The artist had some pictures on exhibi- tion in a dealer's gallery, which was such a cramped up little ptace that the artist complained about it, but as it was all that could be had he was compelled to endure it. The day after the first day of exhibition the artist was talking to the dealer. “I heard a good deal of. adverse criti- cism on your pictures yesterday,” sald the dealer. “What did they say?” inquired the artist. “They said the pictures were no good. “Of course,” replied the artist angrily “How could they be in a little cubby hole like this? What the pictures need is the proper distance. “[ guess you're right,” admitted the dealer, smiling. “I heard one man say, who was backed up against the wall, that if he gould get about four miles and a half farther away he believed the pictures would be right satisfactory. — +o. —____ Fare for the Mummy. From the New York Tribune. The Rev. Dr. Sprecher of Cleyeland re- calls a story told of Morgan, the Egyptian explorer. He once discovered a mummy of one of the Pharaohs. When he got It to the railway station he refused to put {t in the luggage van. This the officials did not greatly mind, but they compelled the dis- coverer to take a first-class ticket for Pharaoh as well as one for himself. On reaching Cairo there was fresh trouble with the “octroi” officials, “What have you got there?” Morgan was asked. ‘A mummy,” was the reply. ‘Ah, you can’t get that through without urged Pharaoh's guardia: mies surely don’t pay ‘octrol’ duty “Don't they?" replied the official; ‘we will seo what the register says.” Here the entire staff consulted the reg- ister, but, strangely enough, the article in question had been overlooked by the ad- ministration. “Well,” said the officer, “we shall enter that as dried fish; duty, three plasters!” And so poor Pharaoh was compelled to make his solemn entry into Cairo under the degrading category of dried fish, yum-= A TRIANGULAR FIGHT Contest for the Senatorship From Virginia. PULSES OF THE POLITICIANS QUICKEN Daniel, Lee and O’Ferrall in the Race. NEXT NOVEMBER’S ELECTION Special Cor-espondence of The Evening Star. RICHMOND, Va., July 6, 1895. The temperature of the free silver-sound money agitation throughout Virginia is now wielding a strong influence upon the forecast in the forthcoming triangular fight for United States Senator. Already the pulses of politicians are perceptibly quick- ening through a general concession that the state senatorial election next fall will prove decisive of the question whether Senator John W. Daniel, whose eloquence has re- sounded through the halls of Congress for some twelve years, will retain his seat in that dignified body or be succeeded by Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, ex-governor of Virginia, or Charles T. O'Ferrall, formerly Congress- man from the seventh district, now gov- ernor of Virginia. ‘The twenty members of the upper house who will be- chosen on the first Tuesday in November next will retain thelr seats until after the big political question is settled. Upon this election hinges largely the result of the United States senatorship, while the election of the state senators themselves depends in a great measure upon the free silver issue. ‘The advocates of free silver In many sec- tions of the state are almost as numerous as clamorous, and that is saying a great deal. -In other sections thé thinking classes shy off from the new spurt of an old theory. Politicians with radical views, and folk with energy, patience, strong convic- tions and still strcnger lungs, are making a deal of noise in southwest Virginia and in some parts of the tidewater section, while scattered hither, thither and yon through- out the state the dishonest dollar has many disciples. On the other hand, conservative men who cling to sound money can be found everywhere in Virginia, and non-par- tisan critics hold that what they lack in vocal and journalistic agitation Is offset by a permanent and vital influence. The Triangular Fight. However this may be, it is pretty well settled, if not by the candidates themselves, at least by thelr friends and supporters, that this contest for the next highest hon- or within the gift of Virginians will be a close neck-and-neck event, whose result will offer no odds to the political sporting man. When Gen. Lee was appointed by Presi- dent Cleveland internal revenue collector for the western district of Virginia some few newspaper correspondents wrote around the country that an acceptance would prob- ably cripple his prospects for the senator- ship. Others sensibly held that unsought honors from an outside source could not affect for the worse the political future of a man whose name has been for years a household word throughout Virginia. Gen. Lee has not yet announced himself a candidate for the senatorship. Many of his warm friends and supporters have urged him to enter the race, however, and it is believed that when the time for tha contest approaches he will be unable to re- sist the pressure brought to bear upon him. His views on the silver question have not been authoritatively announced since the recent oratorical outburst over the white metal. He {s generally understood to be a sound money man, with views based upon a careful deliberation of the question In both lights. Gen. Lee's Strength. Gen. Lee would put up a stubborn fight for the senatorship. He is, perhaps, the most popular man in Virginia today. His friends and admirers are not confined to any one portion of the state. His whole- souled, nature, bubbling over with indline: humanity In general, and Virginians in particular, makes him the {dol of the Virginia people.’ His presence at a public gathering {s always a sighal for ntaneous outbursts of appla Gen. “'s war record, his personal magnetism in private Ife, attractive power on the stump and honorable administration as governor of Virginia, during which he made new friends everywhere, are used as argu- ments for his strength as a candidate. He is personally acquainted with every local politician of any prominence in the state with whose interests he 1s 50 closely iden- tifled. Daniel, the Orator. Several noteworthy facts may be men- tioned in connection with each of the can- didates. All three have splendid military records. Each was badly wounded in bat- tle. High public offices have been ably filled by them all. Two of them have been in- fluentlal members of Congress, and two have performed the duties of the chief ex- ecutive of Virginia with marked ability. Each is known in every nook and corner of the commonwealth. It is a question which of the three is more popular in Virginia, and all three are excellent stump speakers. When the campaign opens there will be in- tense interest in the development of strength by the three political giants of tho state. Senator Daniel's powers as an orator make him one of the most widely known Tien In the south. His speeches in Con- gress and elsewhere have been widely read and heartily praised, at the same time win- ning for him the title of “The Lame Lion of Lynchburg.” With his splendid military and political record he is expected to re- ceive a strong support from various parts of the state. He will doubtless develop reat strength among the free silverites. is pronounced views so often publicly an- nounced and advocated from the platform in behalf of free silver are well known to every reader of the newspapers. Goy. O’Ferrall in the Race. Goy. O'Ferrall has not yet announced himself a candidate for the senatorship. He thinks there fs yet ample time to reach a decision in the matter, and has conse- quently concerned himself very little, to all appearances. “It is yet time enough to think over the question,” sald he, “but if I should decide to become a candidate, I am not under such obligations to any probable competitor as to prevent me from entering the race.”” it ig a well-known fact that the governor's mail brings him almost daily a batch of let- ters from friends in various parts of the state, urging him to be a candidate for the high’ position, with many cordial assur- ances of confidence in his success, should be consent to run. The impression prevails that Goy. O’Ferrall will enter the contest with a strong backing. As yet he has made no statement for publication setting forth his views on ‘the silver question, though he is rnderstood to be a sound money man, wedded neither to gold nor silver, but wiliing to Indorse any medium that bears upon Its face an honest dollar of 100 cents. He thinks the great money controversy will be settled somehow in fhe near future. Unless this can be done by going to loan, which he serlously doubts, he is willing to leave the colossal question to international agreement, which, in his opinion, is the only solution of the problem. —.__ Teachers at Denver. The National Educational Association council met In the supreme court rooms in the capitol building at Denver, Col., yes- terday. The meeting was called to order by Prof. C. C. Rounds of Plymouth, N. H., sident of the council. The attendance meager on account of several delayed trains. N. C. Dougherty of Peoria, secre- tary, vas present. The report of the com- mittee on moral education on “Moral in- struction in the elementary schools,” the pregram for the morning session, was dis- pensed with, on account of the non-arrival of Emerson’ C. White of Columbus, Ohio, chairman of The trunk murder mystemy which has dis- turbed all Omaha since Tuesday was clear- ed up last night when the frightfully mutt- lated body of the victim, John E. Seljan, was found in the river, and the prisoners first arrested, Mato Mikan and wife, Anton Beckovitb, John Urban and John*D; were formally charged with murder. prisoners still r¢ to talk, but the police expect a confession. THE PRICE OF MILK Difference Between What the Farmer Gets and the Consumer Pays. Risks Run by the Dealers in Carrying on Their Business—Complaints by Purchasers. ‘The man who gets up early enough In the morning and strolls through the city streets befora the cable and horse cars begin to run will see numerous wagons speeding along In a spasmodic way, stopping at in- tervals to let the driver jump out, turn the mouth of a shining tin can into a measure more or less battered, and run with the latter to 2 doorway to transfer its contents to a bucket, pitcher or jar that has been set out the night before. As a rule, the man looks like a farmer’s “hand,” and the wagon will probably bear some such rural legend as the “Breezy Farm Dairy,” or the “Clover Fields Cream and Milk Company,” but the chances are that the individual never sees the country unless he goes on an excursion, and that tke vehicle has never known what suburban mud is. Buy From the Farmers. Most of the wagons snd men, despite their truly rural appearance, are a part of the business equipment of the hundred and more milk dealers who t-¢ their establish- ments scattered all over the city, and who are not required by their business to see a cow outside of the chromos that sometimes decorate their business offices. They buy the lacteal fiuld dispensed to Washing- tonians from farmers living contiguous to the city in the District and Maryland and Virginia, and every morning their wagons are at the trains to receive the cans brought in. There {s rattle and clatter and anima- tion when the milk trains get in. They have come down. or up through Mafyland and Virginia in the gray of the morning, stopping at stations to take on the cans, and it is long before breakfast time when they arrive. It was dark when the farmer drove to the station and deposited his quota, and the cans he put on the cars are usually the result of the night and early morning milking mixed together. Widely Varying Prices. The price paid for this milk to producers and that paid to the men who sell it by the pint, quart ar gallon to city consumers vary widely, and recent communications to ‘The Star have commented upon this fact. The farmers, after paying from 2 to 2% cents per gallon freight, sell the milk to the city dealers at 11 cents a gallon. If the miik is sour, or curdied, or not up to the standard set by the men who receive it in bulk, the farmers do not get paid for it. The Washington dealers, after buying the milk at 11 cents a gallon, sell it to con- sumers at 82 cents a gallon. To very large customers there is a slight reduction, but such patrons are few, as those who use @ great amount of mfik usually purchase direct. from the farmers, with whom they make yearly contracts. It will be seen, therefore, that the city dealers charge only a little less than three times as much as they’pay for the milk to these who purchase it from them, Not only do the farmers complain, but there 1s general objection on the part of house- keepers to this charge. They are, however, powerless to resist it, as the small amount each person {s compelled to pay prevents anything like co-operation for resistance. The amount derived from these alleged overcharges, though small as to each in- dividual, ‘is very large in the aggregate, as can be readily realized when it is con- sidered how many thousands of gallons of milk are daily sold amd consumed in this city. The Other Side to the Controversy. There is, of course, another side to the milk controversy, opposing that taken by the aggrieved farmers and housekeepers, and the milkman's case has been clearly stated to The Star, as follows: “The small consumer of milk {s tempted ain at a price four times as great allon as that received by the producer, and the wholesale producer in like manner feels that he ought to get more than one- fourth of the price paid by the small con- sumer. The producer and the consumer could confer and arrange mutually better te provided the consumer wanted the product, but, in general, the producer wants to sell by the can at the farm, and the consumer wants to buy by the pint at his ewn door. The principal part of the cost to the smail consumer, as pointed out some years ago by the late Donn Piatt, is in the ex. pense of distribution. In present condi- tions there are many retail milk routes 'n Washington which do not daily distribute more than twenty-five gallons; that is, 100 quarts or 2 pints. This requires the maintenance of a horse, wagon and driver, with a set of cans, measures and botiles and a supply of ice, securing sales of 4 cents’ worth at a time. Those retailing greater amounts must increase thelr equip- ment, often in a greater ratio than the in- crease of receipts. The dealers must lose about half a gallon of waste in measuring out a ten-gallon can by pints. They have their losses through delinquent purchasers, their postage and cost of collection, like dealers in other commodities, and milk re- mains sweet but a few hours at best. ‘o immediate remedy is in sight for the waste of force in milk delivery that be- gins at half-past 3 in the morning and re- quires the constant crossing and recross- ing of routes by different retailers. A thorough system of inspection would ex- clude those who sell poor milk, and tend to diminish the number of men, wagons and horses necessary to distribute the sup- ply of the community to an extent justi- fying Its cost and giving fuller protection to public health. Such inspection would prevent the dangers which accumulate till suspicion of the dealers prompts examina- tion and that have much to do with the excessive subdivision of the retail milk trade. “Any man who Is tempted to become a re- tail milk dealer by the enormous percent- age of profit represented by the difference between the net price to the producer and the extreme cost to the retail consumer, ex- cluding all cost of delivery, will do well to look up the history of an effort within a few years which a joint stock associa- tion of farmers made here to improve their receipts. 1 am credibly informed that the Investment of $4,000 was a total loss, and that the producers did not secure more than 8 cents a gallon for their milk, and during roctions of the year no more than 5 cents a gaslon. This movement had so little effect on the general conditions that most citizens d» rot know that it existed.” ——_—_>—_—_ Falling Off in Sugar Imports. Worthington C. Ford, chief of the bureau of statistics, has returns on the imports of sugar at six of the leading ports of the United States receiving that article. The returns from San Francisco are not yet in, but they will not materially modify the question of duties, as nearly all sugar coming through San Francisco is of Ha- wallan origin, and therefore entered free of duty. The six ports give a total import of 333,567,945 pounds, valued at $6,851,055. The importation is, therefore, much less than in the month of May, and is much less in quantity than the imports made in June, 1594, and only about one-half in value. —_—_____$§_+o-.___ Disbursemeprts and Expenditures. The disbursements of the government are always unusually heavy in July, owing to large interest and pension payments, and treasury officials rarely expect the income to meet the expenditures that month, The receipts have been larger than expected far this mouth, but the monthly deficit js already over 36,000,000 and probably wy continue to grow until toward the midd| of the month, when expenditurés will gtad- ually decrea: ©. Heavy Rains in Kansas, The heaviest rain that has fallen near Fort Scott, Kan., for many years occurred Thursday night, and there was a precipita- tion of 4.19 inches of water. The Missourl Pacific freight depot is on an entirely inac- cessible island, and the Missourl Paciti¢ shops are under water, necessitating thé suspension of work. The two rivers have joined on Nattonal avenue, and the water fs sull rising. So severe was the storm that the safest country roads were for hours impassable. ——ss. Rizging the Defender. Herreshoff’s workmen were yesterday en- gaged in placing the topmast of the De- fender in position. Her mainmast and bow- sprit are in place, and the riggers are hur- rying their work on ail parts of the vacht QS CONNECTICUT AVENUE Mr. J B. Wimer Takes Issue With Prof, Riley's Protest. He Gives Reasons Why He Thinks the Extension Should Not Be in a Straight Line. To the Editor of The Evering Star: As Prof. Riley, in his protest, has seen fit to so prominently mention me personally, making me responsi¥te for the fancied damage to our Washington Heights, I am constrained to point out some of his in- accuracies. I am not unwilling to take the burden of this apparent “monstrosity” for the reason that the day is to come when this beautiful avenue shall be completed on the plan reo- ommended by the Commissioners, which will not only be a credit to those who sug- gested and adopted it, but, I will guarantee, a@ most acceptable thoroughfare to our en- tire community, from whom will come, al- most as a unit, nothing but words of praise for such a boulevard as it is to result in. Permit me through your paper to point out some of the errors fallen into by the pro- testor. In the public hearing referred to I was very much in the minority, there being ar- rayed against me from one dozen to eighteen of our good people, who, as evi- denced by the action of the Commissioners, had not studied the situation with that care as would have been creditable to them before so vigorously defending their posi- tion to a straight-alignment avenue. They had but one plea; that was a straight ave- nue, without reference to conditions then existing and to come in the future, no mat- ter what the extravagant cost to the peo- ple, none of which came out of their pock- ets; no matter what discomfiture, expense, delay, harassment—nothing but a straight avenue would answer the purpose. I maintain that the avenue as adopted by the Commissioners is not In any degree a “blemish,” and can convince any one who will take interest enough in the matter to go over it with me, with a little care, and who may care to be convinced, that it must result In a most magnificent boulevard, in- terfering with no one and costing that much less, both out of private purse and the public coffers, as to make it not only justifiable, but emphatically the handsomer’ of the two, and unquestionably in strict conformity to the law under which the street extensions are based, which the Com- missioners have been designated to a cer- tain point to make provision for the carry- ing out of. The history of the proposition as to the extension of Connecticut avenue beyond the Boundary and the adoption by the Com- missioners of what the protestor seems Pleased to term a “distortion,” and which appears to him curious and instructi’ is rerdered in a greater degree curious and irstructive by the inaccuracies which he hes permitted himself to record, and which my purpose {s to correct; in the fact where so many readers as the protest has been Lrought to the attention of through the columns of your paper they should not be misled by statements based upon an eyi- dent lack of thorough familiarity with the whcle situation California, Wyoming and Kalorama ave- nues, on Washington Heights, recetve the cordemnaticn of the protestor on the grcund that they bear no relation to the gereral plan of the city. I am not able to determine just what bearing this has upon the extension of Connecticut avenue, as these streets are not to be changed, but in correction cf this first inaccuracy it will be seen upon reference to the map that these streets are termed avenues and are parallel with Rhode Island avenue in our city. The 80-foot roadway marked on the plans as Connecticut avenue extended is published as “having no existence in the surveyor's office.” The surveyor'’s office has a recorded subdivision of ‘George Truesdell’s addition to Washington Heights,'’ recorded in the office of the sur- veyor in liber county No. 6, at folio 77. The Truesdell plat of this subdivision shews this 50-foot extension, as do all other plats subsequent to the recording of this subdivision. ‘he statement that “this avenue was originally simply opened up by the owners Interested hout being dedicated to the District” is erroneous. I have read the dedicatory deed to the Dis- trict, which Mr. Truesdell took special pains to have properly prepared that there mright-be no question of @vidence as to the greund having been formally dedicated. In.the reference made to the widening of this 50 fect to the west the protestor nar- rates the fact that two fine houses are on the corners of Connecticut and Wyoming and Connecticut and California avenues, and that they were built under a permit on the line of said Connectfcut avenue extend- ed, and were not required to be set back this 50 feet. This is so; and this same Connecticut avenue extended Is reputed to be “not opened, but projected.” In proof that it was opened it was paved and as- phalted by the District on the permit sys- tem, which could not have been done had the street not been accepted by the au- thcrities,as every one informed well knows. The statement that I sold the lots built upon on permits issued on these corners, absolutely blocking the widening of the avenue 50 feet on the west, is also er- reneous, as the first lots on these corners were sold to Mrs. Stevens by Col. Truesdell, for her home, of which I knew nothing un- til the sale was accomplished. The statement that the act of August 27, 1888, is imperative in requiring that any streets and avenues beyond the boundary shall be in exact alignment with those of Washington is evidently based upon a Want of careful perusal of the act approved March 2, 1893, providing a permanent sys- tem of highways, enjoining upon the “high commission” that they “keep in view: the intentions and provistons of the act and the necessity of harmonizing, as far as possible, the public convenience with economy of ex- penditure.”” The general orders printed un- der the act of August 27, I8SN, reads: “The existing avenues of the city of Washington shall be extended as nearly as practicable in continuation of their direction within the city, but may be deffected beyond the city limits wherever the Commissioners deem advisable.” These order, emanating from the District office, were printed in The Star and Post of this city on the 10th, 1ith and 12th of December, 1888. The subdivision of thePhelps tract referred to as approyed,for me,finally granted Febru- ary 27, 1894, asked for three years before, was approved after most mature considera- tion on the part of the Commissioners; and I refer to this as evidence of the fact that the deflected line, which is but slight, with the donation cf the land for the avenue made by the owners of the subdivision (through me) known as Connecticut Avenue Heights was determined upon as the only feasible and economical project for the car- Be out of said avenue. gannot refrain at this juncture, as Prof. Riley has referred to ne own home as in the line of Connecticut avenue, to revert to the fact that in the “elaborate statement,” with which he credits me, I emphatically expressed the fact that {he saving of my own home entered into my efforts for the deflected avenue as an ele- ment to be under no conditions considered. I beg to state here that if the straight avenue, which I have so strenuously op- posed, 1 gone through my house,it would be largely to my pecuniary interest. In this connection itis well to insert a condi- tion not referred to by Prof. Riley, but frequently mentioned to me by him, that the avenue carried through on an align- ment with the avenue in the city would leave his home property on the west line of* Connecticut avenue. The arraignment of the Commissioners seems anything but just when they have simply carried Into effect Instructions oblig- tory upon them, contained in the law un- der whioh they are acting. Tam pateteated in this particular section and naturally protect the Interest of my owners €nd myself in connection with it, but my Whole Course has been actuated by earnest desire to promote the interest our people; and I claim that I am not influenced by any less patriotic motives, oF any less interest in the future beauty and welfare of this section than those who dre oomplaining. and making importunate demands for a straight avenue without reference to conditions to ensue from it or the cost of it to our people. The curve sanctioned has no existence whatever in the proposed @venue, there is no curve contemplated. I resolutely abstain from publle print anything over my signature that savors of controversy, except where I am published in a way as to create wrong impressions, and have hesitated seriously to reply to the professor's strictures. In doing s0, however, I disclaim all inten- tion of any reflections, in a personal sense, but deem it only proper that the people be correctly informed in a matter invelv- ing RO great interest as is taken in this 27. ventilating in Connecticut avenue extension. J. B. WIMER. THE OHIO CAMPAIGN Neither Party Has Put Forward Its Leader for Governor. AN ENTIRELY NOVEL STATE OF THINGS The Candidates Are Proxies of Foraker and Campbell. A REPUBLICAN ADVANTAGE The Ohio democrats appear to be fashion- ing their campaign after the plan adopted by the republicans. That is to Bay, the leaders, instead of leading, will direct. Mr. Bushnell Not a Leader. Mr. Bushnell, whom the republicans have nominated for governor, Is not recognized as a leader of the party in the popular ac- ceptation of the térm. He possesses very estimable qualities, is a safe adviser and a suena mar of business. He is not a novice in politics by any means. But be« ed his services as committeeman, which ave been much appreciated, he has con- tributed nothing to political history. neither a speaker nor student, and if ele = to the governorship of Ohio will get his ca taste of real official responsibility, till the republicans have put him up with i ectieegerod and Mr. Foraker will represent im on the stump, and otherwise direct the campaign. This program is not altogether new, but it contains elements of some risk, and when it seemed likely that the demo-« oe would put up ex-Gov, Campbell ag their candidate for governor a shade of un- easiness passed over the republican camp, The fear was of the effect of sending a Prony in ane an of Mr. Foraker to meet ‘atic s in his own behalf o eater appearing - Mr. Campbell's Proxy. ‘ut this uneasiness passes with the fi Ss rm refusal of Mr. Campbell to take the guber- natorieal nomination. And he not only re- fuses it, but recommends the nomination of ve Sorg, who holds a place in the demo- cratic party somewhat similar to that of Mr, Bushnell in the republican party. Mr, Sorg 1s a successful man of business whose judgment in counci} is valued by his party associates. But he is neither speaker nor student, and his whole experience in office {s comprehended in the service of half a term in Congress. If Mr. Sorg is nominat- ae el will, of course, represent n the stump, and r cunpalee IP, otherwise direct his A Novel State of Things. Here then will be a very unusual, if not an entirely novel, state of things. ither side will have its strong man in front, but” on either side the strong man will be just behind the man who Is in front. The man in front will receive the shock of partisan assaults, and become the target for the enemy's sharpshooters. The man behind will thus be free to study the tactics of the enemy. The man in front will contribute of his Mberal store to the sinews of w: r, while the man behind will direct the dis- tribution o the supplies. The scheme is thought to have its merits, and worked, as it will be, by men of shrewdness and ca- pacity on elther side, ought to be fruitful of interest during the whole campaign. The Issue One of Business. The suggestion is made that business men, much more appropriately than péli- ticlans, fit this campaign. The issue Is ono purely of business. The question relates to sound business principles and to values. How shall these Ee maintained? Mr. Bush- nell and Mr. Sorg will serve as object les- sons in the oratorical explanations of wise finance. Both have acquired wealth under the sound money policy. Neither could have done so under a policy of depreciated currency. Both favor a continuation of the policy now in operation. The election of either of them, therefore, so far as na- tional finance is concerned. will be a tri- umph of sound money. On other matters, of course, they differ. The one is a repub- lican through and through, favoring pro- tection and an ambitious foreign policy. The other is as consistent a democrat, g0- ing with his party on all of the cardinal points which distinguish it. An Advantage for the Republicans. So far as local issues go the republicans are said to have the advantage. The ad- ministration of Gov. McKinley has been clean and satisfactory, and this makes for the proposition that the state's af- fairs be continued in the hands of that party. The election of Bushnell would mean that. ee Naval Orders. Ensign W. 8. Montgomery has been order- ed to the cruiser Cincinnati, at the New York navy yard. Chief Engineer J. J. Mac- cennell has been detached from the receiv- ing ship Minnesota and ordered to the Olympia, relieving Chief Engineer Joseph J. Trilley, detached and ordered to the Philadelphia as the relief of Chief En- gineer David Smith, detached, ordered home and granted two months’ leave of absence. Lieut. J. B. Harber has been ordered to compass instruction, Navy De- partment. Assistant Naval Constructor H. L. Ferguson has been ordered to temporary duty in the canes of construction and re- pair, and later fs assigned to the Colum- bilan iron works, Baltimore, as assistant to Constructor Rock, in charge of the build- ing of the three new gunboats. Lieut. J. J. Hunker has been detached from the navai Intelitgence bureau and is ordered to the New YorR navy yard. Lteut. John Craven is aoieren to the Naval Academy. Car- renter Geurge W. Connover is placed the retired list. . en —___-e-_____ The Stanford Case. Attorney General Hermon spent the Fourth at Cincinnati, and will not be back to Washington until Monday. He could not state yesterday what would be the next move in the suit of the government to re- cover $15,000,000 from the Leland Stanford estate. He will not consider the matter until he has the opinion of the district court in California and a letter from Attorne> T. D. McKissick, who had charge of the case, giving the opinion of the latter, as well as the status of the cage. 65 Kortgard Must Go to Prison. Kristian Kortgard, who wrecked the State Bank of Minneapolis, must serve a reform- atory term in the state prison. The su- reme court has affirmed the sentence of he lower court. Kortgard was once city treasurer of Minneapolis, ——— Alleged Inclosures of Public Lands. A spectai agent has been sent by the gen- eral land office to investigate alleged in- posus of public lands in the vicinity of ‘ortland, Oreg. Peers Reject an Irish Bi The British house of lords yesterday re- Jeoted, by a vote of 77 to 17, a motion to go into committee on the municipal francft: Ireland, bill. The Chinese Loan Concluded. A London dispatch sayg: It 1s believed in well-informed circles that the Franco-Chiga loan of £16,000,000 guaranteed by Russia has been concluded without a Men on the customs of China, and with the annullment of the clause providing that China -shall not borrow any more money for six months. Execution at Mobile. ‘Thomas Norville was hanged in jall at Mobile, Ala., yesterday. His neck was broken. Norville was hanged for the mur- der of Louis Coleman, colored, whom he killed last summer. This was the third le» gal execution at Mobile in & year. The Star Out of Town. THE EVENING STAR will be sent by mail to any address in the United States or Canada for such period as may be desired at the rate of fifty cents per month. 7 But all such orders must be ag- companied by the money, of the paper cannot be sent, as no ac- counts are kept with mail subscrip tions.