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THE EVENING STAR will be sent by mall 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 ac- companied by the money, or the paper cannot be sent, as no ac- counts are kept with mail substrip- tons. THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1895-TEN PAGES. THE MUDDY WATER It is Not Necessarily Dangerous to Heath COL ELUO? TALKS OF FILTRATION He Says it Would Cost Too Much for Washington. NOR IS IT ESSENTIAL see Several times each year the Potomac brings down to the Great Falls, and thence to the reservoirs, millions of gallons of water, so turbid and yellow that there is a general outcry against’ the unwholesome supply, and there is a fear abroad lest, in these days of intimate acquaifitance with minute animal life, some one might discover hordes of harmful bacteria in the water that !s so freely’ used. Old in- habitants know better. They know that they have imbibed yellow water from the Potomac year after year, and have felt no ill effeets, although, of course, the ochre- colored fluid is not so nice to contemplate or to bathe in as a purer grade. Col. Geo. H. Elliot, U. 8. A., retired, until recently the officer in charge of the Washington aqueduct, is as competent authority on the subject of water supplies as there is to be found in this country, and his opinion is most valuable. It should therefore set at rest many fears for the people to know that Col. Elliot is never perturbed when the water Is rofly and off-color. He believes, of course, that it would be pleasanter all around to have the water always clear, al- though harmful becteria may abound in Perfectly transparent water, as clear as crystal, and so he is completing for Uncle Sam the improvement of the old receiving reservoir at Dalecaria, which will be used as a great settling basin whenever the rains bring tons of upper Maryland and Pre ta floating down the Pocomac’s broad Washington’s Pure Supply. “The Potomac water,” sald Col. Elliott today to a Star reporter, “is by no means unwholesome. It is as good a supply as is drawn from any American river. This is notwithstanding the fact that it is often so offensive to the eye as to make it appear to be unfit even for bathing purposes. Dr. Busey, president of the Medical Society of the District, in an address before the ap- propriation committee of the House of last year, urging an appropriation for tmprov- ing the sewerage of the city, stated that no germs of typhoid fever (one of the most dreaded of all disease germs) have been found in Potomac river water; and Dr. Wales, recently director of the museum of |.hygiene of the Navy Department, at which daily analyses of the water have been made for some years, in a communication to this office giving the results of a chem- ical examination of Potomac water when it was in a turbid condition, stated that, al- though there are found in Potomac water five forms cf micro-organisms, they.are all irrocuous and are generally present in all river waters, and added that he regarded this water, after a careful study for three years bacterlologically, as good as any river water in the world. Good Conditions Above. “That the Potomac water should com- pare favorably with the best river waters might be inferred from the character of that part of its watershed that is above Great Falls. From the source of its north branch, in western Maryland, about 200 miles above Great Falls, following the course of the stream; from the source of the south branch in West Virginia, about the same distance, and from the source of its principal tributary, the Shenandoah, about 175 miles above the falls, the country is mostly wooded and mountainous. There are but a few large_towns on these streams, ard I understand that none of them are sewered. “These towns range from forty-four to 152 miles in distance from Washington, and this fact, when considered in connection with the well-established phenomena that rivers, especially those that flow over rocks and dams and those that have wide sur- faces exposed to the sun and air, tend to purify themselves, gives assurance that under ordinary conditions we have little to fear from our Potomac water. ‘The Talk About Filters. “But, of course, these periodical treat- ments of yellow water keep agitated in the public mind the subject of filtration of the supply, which fs more or less discussed all the time in all the large cities of the coun- try. There are two principal methods of fiitration on a large scale, the one being known as mechanical or rapid filtration and the cther as natural or slow filtration. The former is a somewhat broad term used to denote those systems of water purifica- fion in which an exceedingly rapid rate of filtration is made possible by means of mechanical devices for frequent, quick, and thorough washings of the filtering ma- a without removing them from the liter. C “The filters cf this system, which is called the American system, are cylinders of iren or steel, containing filtering ma- terial, which is generally sand, and are extensively used by papermakers, bottlers, brewers, icemakers, laundrymen and in other similar occupations. They are used also for che filtration of the public water supplies of several American cities, but so far none of the larger cities of this coun- try have established filtration works for their entire water supplies. The cylinders are made vertical, in sizes up to 12% feet in diameter and 16 feet high, and hori- zontal, in sizes up to 7% feet in diameter end 35 feet long. The numbers of filters are regulated by the quantity of water to be filtered. The cleansing of the sand is ordinarily done by means of a reverse cur- rent of water during the stirring up of the sand by a rake with long vertical teeth, which is revolved horizontally by ma- chinery through the sand. The cleansing is done daily or oftener, depending on the turbidity of the water. A Rapid Rate. “In the American system there {is a yield of filtered water of 3,000 to 4,000 gallons per square foot of filter surface per diem. This rapid rate {s produced either by a great pressure or head of water on the sand, by which the water is forced at a rapid rate through it, or by frequent cleansing of the send for the purpose of removing obstructions to a rapid passage of the water, or by both. “The objection to the first is that fis- sures or channels are lable to be forced through the sand through which the water may pass without any inodification, and the objection to the second is that clean sand alone does not make an effective filter against bacteria contained in the water. This latter objection, it is claimed, has been overcome by the use of alum, which Nicotine Neutralized CHEW AND SMOKE MOATOG POUCH TOBACCO. NO NERVES QUAKING. NO HEART PALPITATING. NO DYSPEPTIC ACHING. )T]-NERVOUS. (AN TIpYSPeptic. 3 is said to combine with the carbonate of lime, existing to a greater or less degree in ali natural waters, and to form a jelly-like gubstance (hydrate of alumina) on the sur- face and in the interstices of the sand, which collects and retains the bacteria con- tained in the water until, after the stop- ping of the inflow, the reverse current is turned on and the sand is cleaned. “The amcunt of alum used, which varies with the turbidity of the water, is ordi- narily about three-fifths of a grain to a gallon of water. It is one of the principal items of expense in this system. At At- lanta, Ge., 70,032 pounds of alum were used in filtering the 756,762,600 gallons of water used by that city in 1889. At this rate there would be required for our Washing- ten supply of about 50,000,000 gallons per diem 5,200 pounds of alum per diem, or 1,905,300 pounds per annum, the cost of which, at two cents per pound, would be $38,106. Objections to Alam. “By some the use of alum is objected to as dangerous to health, but it is claimed by th» owners of the patent and makers of the filters that no alum passes through the sand and that none can be ‘ound in water filtered by this system when the process is used as directed. There is one point in connection with these filters that I have not seen mentioned. After the sand has been cleansed, and the water again passes downward throvgh the sand, a certain time must elapse before the alumina jelly, on which the efficiency of the filter as against the bacteria depends, is again formed on the surface and in the inter- stices of the sand and replaces that which has been washed away by the reverse cur- rent, together with the dirt retained by the filter. Until this time it is obvious that the water passing through the filter should be wasted and not sent into the mains, but, as far as I have observed, this has not been done in any use of this system for the purification of public water supplies. “In my judgment, this system should in no case be applied to our Washington water supply, which would require proba- bly two hundred or more filters of the larg- est size, before it has been thoroughly test- ed without expense to the United States or the District of Columbia. This could be done at a cost not exceeding $5,000 by means of a single filter through which is made to pass, for such length of time as may be deemed expedient, water filled with bacteria, cultivated for the purpose, if necessary. and comparing the results with the known results of the other system of filters. The test for color should also be made at the same time, and the water for testing should be taken from the conduit immediately after one of our heavy spring freshets. The Natural Process. “The slow method has been in use a Jong time in the largest European cities,” continued Col. Elliot, “including Hamburg, Berlin and London. It has also been adopt- ed by certain American cities. It is not patented. In this system a filter bed is a small basin generally of an acre or less in size, with water-tight side walls of masonry or of earth paved with masonry. The number of beds required in any case depends on the daily supply of filtered water required. Above a system of drains are placed several layers of filtering ma- terlal, increasing in fineness to the top. The lower layer is generally formed of small stones or broken stone, then, pro- ceeding upward, there is coarse gravel, then fine gravel, then coarse sand, and lastly, at top, the filtering material proper, which is fine sand. The aggragate depth of the layers and the depth of each layer are not uniform in the: different countries and in the different cities of the same country, but they vary with the materials available and the judgment of the engi- neers. The aggregate thickness of the lay- ers {s usually from six to eight feet and the thickness of the sand is from two to four feet. On this latter depth, the depth or pressure of water on the sand, and the degree of cleanness of the sand, mainly depend the vertical rate of fall of the col- umn of water above the sand, the rate and the duration of the percolation of water through the sand, and the yield of filtered water per square foot of filter surface, and on them, in turn, depends the dezree of efficiency of the filter, especially as against bacteria. The Slime Does the Work. “The efficiency of the filters depends on the slimy deposit that commentes at once to form on the surface of the sand and in its interstices, and which, when in suffi- clent quantity, not only collects, but con- gumes and destroys the bacteria. When the deposit forms to such a degree as to impede too much the percolation of water, the upper portion of the sand is removed, and at proper intervals the entire body of sand is replaced by fresh sand. From time to time, as is found necessary, the water ig drained from the sand and the filter is allowed to rest. The air which replaces the water oxidizes any organic matter that remains in the sand. In order to protect the water from the heat of summer and from freezing in winter filter beds in this climate should be roofed. “Prof. Leeds of Stevens Institute makes this explanation of how the bacteria them- selves purify the water: It is easy to see how the filters remove the dirt and sus- pended r-atter, but the way in which bac- teria were eliminated was a complete mys- tery until the last four or five years. But few people had ever seen or examined bacteria before that period. It now has been shown that the bacteria remove the bacteria, The bacteria in the waters are con.paratively few of a dangerous charac- ter; the great bulk of them are our great- est friends. It is through their aid, to- gether with the oxygen of the air, that the filth in the water is destroyed. They feed upon it and they feed upon each other. Since that knowledge has been obtained, the object now Is to cultivate the bacteria. In order to make the filter bed do its work effectively it is necensary that the growth of the bacteria shall be facilitated until a filter bed becomes populated with an in- credible number of millions of them. As the result of their activity they multiply themselves in vast numbers, and they form, at the top of the filter beds and between particles of sand, a sort of jelly or slime— a bacteria jelly—and it 1s by the ald of this bacteria jelly that the bacteria in the un- filtered water are removed. “When a filter bed js first put in opera- tion and afterward, after each of these changes, the water passing through the filter 1s allowed to run to waste for about ten days or two weeks, until it is found to be chemically and bacteriologically pure by a chemist and biologist constantly em- ployed at the filtration works. Ketter Filtration if Slower. “In the European system there is a yield of filtered water of from 50 to 100 gallons per square foot of filter surface. The in- terstices in the sand occupying as they do about one-third of the body of the sand, the downwurd rate of percolation through the sand in the European system is about 1 foot an hour, and in the American sys- tem is about 75 feet or more an hour. The depth of sand in the European system be- ing on an average, say 3 feet, and in the American system on an average, say 5 feet, It follows that water in process of filtering is in the European system in contact with the filtering sand about three hours and in the American system about four minutes. “In Europe no subject connected with health has had in recent years so much careful and scientific investigation as the filtration ef public water supplies. The imperial board of health of Berlin, of which Prof. Koch, the discoverer of the microbes of consumption and cholera, is a member, has formulated the rules by which filtration “should be conducted. In__ this country also, especially at Lawrence,Mass., the experiments with filtration have been most thorough and conclusive. “On a statement by the state board of health of Massachusetts that ‘no mechani- eal filter examined by it removed enough bacteria to warrant the board in recom- mending the city to accept it,’ the city of Lawrence entered upon the construction of a system of natural filtration works which for efficiency are probably not excelled in any country, and the result has been that typhoid fever, from which the city former- ly suffered severely by reason of pollution of its water supply (the river Merrimac) from the sewered city of Lowell,a few miies above,has been almost complctelyeradicated. Cost of a Filter Plant. “Now, a few words as to cost,” said the colonel, after having given these facts re- garding the merits of the system. “I have had considerable correspondence on this subject and I found that in Providence, where there was recently a competition as to cost between the two systems, it was calculated that an American or rapid filtra- tion plant of 15,000,000 gallons capacity a day would cost $280,890 for the filters, houses, engines, &c., $15,000 for earth fill- ing and $1,000 for raising the standplpe to give more head, a total of $296.95; while it would require $94.20 a day for maintain- ing the plant. On the other hand a con- tractor offered to establish a plant on the THE OFFICIAL EXPLANATORY NOTE: Observations taken at 8 a.m., 75th meridian time. fsobars or lines of equal air pressure, drawn for each tenth of an inch. or Ines of equal temperature, drawn for each ten degrecs. WEATHER MAP. \O Clear © Partly Cloudy ° Clouay @ fon” a Sil Solid lines are Dotted lines are isotherms Shaded areas are regions where rain or snow has fallen during .preceding twelve hours. The words “High’and “Low” show location of areas of high and low barometer. Small arrows fly with the wind. ane NO SIGNS OF A HOT WAVE. The Weather Map Looks for Continu- ed Pie: sant Weather, Forecast till 8 p.m. Thursday: For the Dietrict of Columbia, Maryland and. Vir- ginia, continued cool and fair weather; light northerly winds. The storm which occupied the Saint Law- rence valley Tuesday has moved south- eastward over Nova Scotia. An area of high barometer of great magnitude covers the intericr of the country, A marked fall in temperature has oc- curred in the Appalachian mountain and Atlantic coast districts and in the lower lake region, and the temperature has risen slightly over considerable areas in the west and northwest. An extensive rain area has developed cver the western and southwestern states, which promises to extend eastward over the central valleys. Fair weather is indi- cated for the Atlantic coast districts dur- ing the next two days. In this section the weather will continue fair durirg Thursday and Friday. There are no indications of a heated period, al- though the temperature will be somewhat Pigher Friday. Condition of the Water. ‘Temperature and condition of water at 8 a.m.: Great Falls, temperature, condi- tion, 2; receiving reservoir, temperature, S2; condition at north connection, 2; condition at south connection, 3; distributing reser- voir, temperature, 77; condition at influent gate house, 1; effiuent gate house, 2. Tide Table. Today, low tide, 4:18 a.m. and 4:41 p.m. High tide, 10:08 a.m. and 10:35 p.m. Tcmorrow, low tide, 4:58 a.m. and 5:16 p.m. High tide, 10:47 a.m. and 11:12 p.m. ‘Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau today: 8 a.m., 63; 2 p.m., 72; maximum, 72; min- imum, 59. cther system, with six basins having a capacity of 15,000,000 gallons a day, for $200,000, and it would cost about $20 a day to run it. On these bases [ calculated that to establish a European plant for Wash- ington capable of filtering 50,000,000 gal- lons a day would cost $666,657, and to put in a plant of equal capacity on the Ameri- can plan of rapid work, with alum, would take $883,000, But in the course of ten years the demand here will require a daily supply of about 75,000,000 gallons of water, ard on this basis the cost would be: Nat- ural process, $1,000,000; rapid process, $1,324,500, To maintain the plants on the basis of 50,000,000 gallons a day would cost sums each year: method, ; rapid methed, $114,366. If we were to run up to 75,000,000 gallons the yearly cost of operating would be: Natural plant, $36,500; rapid plant, $171,550. Not Desirable ™for Washington. “And so I have which Ihave officially ¢xprgssed in my re: Ports; that-as tong as»the;present condf- ticns as to the great waste-of water here continue, the large expétdithres that would be required for the first ¢gst of filtration works for our water supply jand the annual cost of maintenance of; these works would not be justifiable, and that; for the present at least, reliance should: be; placed on sedi- mentation. ° + “It is, expected.that whem the works of improvement required for restoring to, yse the Dalecarlia recelvitg reservoirs! have been. completed; thé time. during which the water may be ‘settled’ before it is sent, to the city from, fhe distributing res: ervoir will be £0 much ‘increased—it will be doubled—that the condition of the water as to color after high water “nd freshets in the Potomac and its tributaries will be much improved, and that ;wl reservoir near Howard University, which is to contain 300,000,000, gallons of water, shall have been finished and brought into use, there will be but little to be desited in respect to the quality of our water supply.” SSeS sa Tcumorrow’'s Alexander Island Entries First race, six and one-half furlongs, sell- ing —Kenyon, 111; Old Pepper, 110; Bel- wood, 107; Columbus, 105; C. O. D., 105; Plizzard, 103; Unity Seven, 103; Headlight, 102; Watch Charm, 102; Glenall, 101; Duke of Fief, ). Second race, four and’ one-half furlongs, Stewart, 100; Arda, 100; Ada- iberia, 100; Lilian L., 100; Ida R., I., 100; Harris, 100, six and a quart maidens, selling —Paymaster, 10: 105; Isaacs,95; Gascon, Jr. 5 2; Hungarie, 92; Lady Brooke, 90; Fan- tire, 20., . Fourth race, five-cighths of a mile—Imp. Plunderer, 112; Finanée 1, 109;.Faxesr, ,10 Grampian, 109; Eddie M., 106; Tolo: Penzance, 108, “Dervish, 103; Levina, 102; Lady May, 101; Harry Keis 1W0: Elmstone, 100; Miss Modred, 98; Tai many Hall, 94. Fifth race, one mile and one-sixteenth selling—Tom Tough, 112; Gonzales, -108; Prince Kiamath, 108; Sandstone, 105; litzer, 108; Paris, 108; Gallatin, 103;° Val- er, m: kyrie, 92; Bronston, 90; Irene, 88. fixth race, six and a half furlongs, sctl- irg—Woodchepper, 114; Trinculo, | 112 Traitor, 112; Padre, 111; Clansman, 109; Tenacious, 106; Oporto, 106; Belisarius, Note.—Sixth race declared off; first’ race divided, second half being run as sixth. ——— Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: Chas. H. Fickling et ux. to Watson F, Clark, part sq. 100, Georgetown; $1,000. Adam H. Ritter to Jno. T. Clements, part lot 2, sa. $10. Alex. Elliott, i to Wm. C. Woodward, part lots 8 and 9, sq. $10. Michael Clark to Har: lot 18, sq. 73; $10. Jas. C. Cre ux. t2 Eugene F. Arnold, trustee, part lot 54, sq. 92, Georgetown; $1,000. Douglass F, Forrest et ux. to Alex. T. Britton, lot 64, sq. 247; $10. Anna M. Hays et al. to Patrick T.’ Moran, part lot 17, sq. 37, Georgetown; $5,550. Samuel F. Hyman J. Edw. Chapman, lot $, sq. pace ge Owen McDonald, a prominent member of the Newark, N. J., Lodge of Elks, was res- cued from drowning in the surf at Atlantic City yeSterday. SRAM b Am eRe SHOR SEO RS Se naemanoncece tee Seomee (Rooras). aD (Situations). = 4 ome to the epnclusiony. AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN Making Things Unpleasant for Owners of ing Unsanitary Property. Many Other Matters of Interest and Importance From Acroxs Rock Creek—Aqueduct Repairs. Sanitary Officer George A. Howe is mak- ing things hum over here in a hygienic way. Nuisances that have existed for \Years are coming daily beneath his eye and being abated with official aid. He has done much to promote the atmo:pheric conditions here. In the lower and meaner sections of the town the vilest nuisances have lived long in undisturbed infection. These he is making special war upon. For inattention to his notices for abatement, two warrants were sworn out yesterday, one against an agent, the other against a woman. + Real Estate. Jumes C. Crampton has sold to Eugene F. Arnold, trustee, for $1,000, part of lot 54,square 92, Holméad’s addition to George- town, being property fronting on 27th street between O and P. This is the “Beck- ett Hall” property. Anna M. Hays and John. T. Core deeded to Patrick T. Moran for $5,550 part of lot 17, square 37, being improved property on M street, north side, near Potomac avenue. The Aqueduct Repairs. The contractors on the work of repairing the base of the fourth pier of the Aqueduct bridge have thoroughly exposed now the foundation rock through the construction of the coffer dam and its pumping out, and preparatory to the putting in of the concrete called for in the specifications, ‘the surface is being cleaned of mud to a micety. The tearing out of the imperfect nry has been done, and the rebuild- also. The foundation rock seems to have been dropped in the river expressly for the purpese it has been used for dur- ing the past stxty years. It is not a part of large rocky bottom, but a tabular mass just large enough for the purpose. Before the present pier was constructed it was chiseled as flat as a floor. About ten men are now engaged on the reconstruction of the pier’s foundation. ‘Whe coffer dam is doing its work splendidly in keeping out the water, and no inter- Fyption for two weeks has been met with. © Trains hac but a trifling effect upon the work. Notes. Negotiations between the contractors and Great Fails Railroad Company for the con- struction of the later projected road are nearing consummation. The contract, it is understood, has been sent off to Mr. Stii- son Hutchins for his signature, he being | the most largely interested man in the com- pany. Mr. Louis D. Wine was yesterday elected to fill the vacancy on the board of the Potomac Insurance Company created by the death of the late Thomas Knowles. The college is almost deserted, all the boys having gone, as well as a small num- ber of the faculty. Members of the latter are visiting at various points in Maryland and Virginia, where Jesuits “most do con- gregate.”” Aaron Walker, a workman at 1669 31st street, fell in a fit yesterday at 36th and O streets, and was conveyed home in the pa- trol wagon. Mr. Frank Burdette, for many years the West End lamplighter, died yesterday at 2318 I street. Geo. Thomas is the defendant on the station blotter in an assault and battery case. John Vincent is the complainant and Heide the interested officer. The scene of the disturbance was in the county. eeareee gems THE COURTS. Equity Court No. 1—Chief Justice Bingham. Colbert agt. Brownell; order Hmiting time to take testimony amended. In re Oliv.r P. Donn, lunatic; committe authorized to make loan. Beach agt. Beach; defendant required to testify as to his faculties. Quinn agt. McCarthy; motion for modifica- tion of decree denied.’ Jackson & Sharp Co. agt. Metzerott; appearance of absent de- fendants ordered. White agt. Metzerott; do. Gresham agt. Fickling; leave to file amended bill granted. Willis agt. Thurston; commission to get infant's answer ordered to issue. Torbert agt. Beanett; rule dis- charged by consent of complainants. Mor- rison agt. Bedford; sale finally ratified. Cireuit Court No. 2—-Chief Justice Bingham. Brown agt. Mindeleff; judgment by de- fault. Werner agt. Hirsh; do. Western National Bank agt. Hedges; order permit- ting plaintiff to withdraw note upon filing verified copy. Groves et al. agt. Bonnell; fiat on sci. fa. agt. Defendant Bonnell. Probate Court—Judge Hagner. Estate of Chas. O’Cornor; will proved. In re William Ricketts, rdian; petition for authority to sell railrcad stock filed. Estate of John F. Heider, petition for pro- bate of will filed. Estate of Adam Ritter, jr.; letters of administration issued to Jno. T. Clements, boad $1,200. In re orphans of Barbara Ritter; Jno. T. Clements appointed guardian, bond $s00. In re Gen@vieve Thompson; Samuel N. Tyler appointed guerdian, ‘bond $200. Estate of Margaret Davis; petition for probate of will filed. Estate of Clara V. Pope; petition filed. Es- tate of John H. McInerny; inventory filed. tate of Wm. H. Cromeline; affidavit of Wm. H. Cromeline filed. Estate of Frances W. Lowery; will admitted to probate and Jetters testamentary granted to A. H. Low- ery, bond $1,000, Estate of Arthur St.C. Denver; will fil Estate of Wm. H. We: rich; petition of widow for letters of ad- ministration filed. Estate of Mary A. Stocking; inventory filed. Estate of Geo. Samuel; will partly proved ond ‘petition for probate filed. Estate of J. Geo. Schulz; final notice 1aming Friday, August 2, for settling estate. Estate of Elise D. Sautte: will admitted to probate and letters testa- mentary issued -to Leon Tobriner and J. Latimore Hoffman, jr., bond $4,000, Estate | of Jnd, H. McIn2rny; private sale ordered. ENJOY THE GRASS|MANY THOUSANDS CURED. Play on It and Lie on It, but Don’t Make Paths. PUBLIC PARKS ARE FREE 10 ALL Col. Wilson Explodes Some Cher- ished Delusions. THE PUBLIC PLAYGROUND The children of Washington apparently do not appreciate the public playground allotted to them by Congress. At any rate, they have so far failed to avail themselves of the privileges accorded to them by spe- cial legislation. This playground is located on the southern portion of the ellipse south of the President’s house. It has heen open” for the free use of the children of the Dis- trict for tennis, croquet and other lawn games since the Ist instant, but up to date it has been innocent of the tread of chil- dren in any form of pastime. Early last week, as duly recorded in The Star at the time, Col. Wilson, who has charge of the grounds, issued a permit to four boys liv- ing in the vicinity of 30th and N streets to use the grounds for lawn games, but so far none of them has taken advantage of the: privilege. This seeming lack of intesest in the mat- ter may be ascribed to several causes. It may be sufficient, however, to mention but one—the weather. The first week in the month was (oo wet for outdoor diversion, and the present week has been much too hot for a proper enjoyment of exercise in the daytime. Not Considered a Failure. Col. Wilson does not consider the experi- ment of opening the public parks to the children a failure, by any means. In his opinion, the lack of interest displayed so far is due entirely to unfavorable condi- tions of the weather. He thinks, and there are many others of a similar mind, that it is too hot even for children to play. And then the public playground. is ovt of the way, and it is troublesome to take the apparatus for the games so far, get them in position and then take them down and lug them away again io distant homes. That is, all this is troublesome while the thermometer is in the nineties; but what is now a labor will undoubtedly become a mere pastime in the fall, when the weather is cooler and altogether more favorable for outdoor sports. Then, again, many of the children who would be likely to use the grounds are out of town just now with their parents. They will be back in the fall in time for school, and unless Col. Wilson’s predictions are at fault, they will want to utilize just such a place as Congress has placed at their disposal. Popular Errors Corrected. In a recent conversation with a Star re- perter Col. Wilson took occasion to correct an ‘impressioa that seems to heve a firm hold in the public mind about the exclu- siveness of the public perks. He said that these parks were public in fact as well as in nome, and are as free to the people as they possibly could be. As he put it, “a man can do anything in them that he would do in his own garden.” He said he didn’t think anybody cught to ask greater privileges than that. The childien are free to play on the. grass, he said, and so also are the older people if they feel like it. A man can lie down on the lawn under the shade of the trees if he feels like it, just as he»would do" in “Lis own garden. The only restriction that is made is that they shall not break the shrubbery, injure the flower beds or make what are called tres- pass paths across the lawns. Col. Wilson added that .n 1886, nearly ten years ago, he ordered the signs of “Keep of the grass” remcved from all the parks in the District, and that they aave since been conspicuous by their absence. There was only one ex- cepticn, hcwever, and that was in the case of the ellipse souta of the White House, where, in order to make what is known as a “short cut,” the people had begun to spoil the lawn by making a trespass path across one corner. With this exception, he said, none of the signe to which exception has been taken by some correspondents of The Star has appeared in any of the parks or reservations in the District for n ten years. oe, —— 2+____ COLORED EDITORS MEET. A Large Attendance at Their Press As- sociation Convention in Baltimore. The National Afro-American. Press As- sociation of the United States met in con- vention at Sharon Baptist Church, Baliti- more, yesterday, with delegates present from New York, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Indiana, Philadelphia, Washington and Louisville. The convention was called to order by President John C. Dancy of the Quarterly Review of Washington, with Rev. Ge». F. Bragg as secretary. Rev. Geo. F. Bragg delivered the address of welcome, and the Rev. W.M.Alexander of the Sharon Baptist Church, extended to the editors the hospitalities of his church. Mr. T. Thomas Fortune, editor of the New York Age, de- livered an address on the advisability of organizing the Afro-American Ty; = ical Union. ann At the evening session Mr. Jesse Lawson of the Colored American, Washington, read a paper on “Editorial Style.” During the sessions of the convention ac- tion will be taken in the direction of having John L. Waller released from the custody of the French government and to have his rights restored. Waller is now in prison in Marseilles for interfering in the Hovas government in Madagascar. Among other editors present from Wash- ington were Mr. W. Calvin Chase of the Washington Bee, Mr. Edward A. Cooper of the Colored American, Rev. Wm. B. John- son of the Baptist Review and Mr. C. A. Johnson of the Colored American. —— Gunboat No. 9. ‘The Secretary of the Navy has made the ninth payment of $12,600 to the New- port News Shipbuilding Company on ac- count of the construction of gunboat No. 9. This vessel, as well as gunboats Nos. 7 and 8, building by the same company, is about one-half finisked, and they will be ready for launching in a few months. FINANCIAL. FRANK WILSON BROWN BROKER, 1335 F St. N. W. Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Provisions and Cotton. Direct private wires to principal cities. Long-distance telephone 1414. : Correspor dent of Messrs, Theo. W. Myers & Co., No. 47 New st., New York, members of the New York Stock Exchange. Jel0-28rt “CONCERNING LOANS AND INVESTMENTS.” ‘This is the title of a booklet issued by us FREE on application. Do not fail to rend it before borrowing or investing. “Gilt-edge"* six per cent real estate loans always on hand. B. H. WARNER & CO., Je7-2m 916 F st. nw. LIFB, TONTINS, ENDOWMENT AND PAID-CP INSCRANCH POLICIES PURCHASED "AT. A ‘AIR DISCOUNT. Money loaned on same. mpett EDWARD NO BURNS, 1807 F st. a0. ‘The record of Dr. Walker for been remarkable, both to the profession “and the! People. He has cured hundreds of chronic cases See ONY. His rooms today are filled “with Pircintts, Ls, Dractice is the most extensive of any ‘Dr. Walker cures, speed perman Aisorders of the “Drain aud, and, mi ws nervous dis- ecses of the rkin and }lood, cata: con- sumption, | malaria, ‘gsper ralgia, hemorrhoids, vitality and all affect heart, liver, stomach, and other organs. He ‘also tal and physical health those men who lave be- con regiened and dejilitated on 0 result: oC gaat cesses, . Or suffering nervousness arising “uy caus Dr. Walker nay be consulted free of charge at ‘his well-known ranitarium, 1411 Pennsylvania ave- Testores to sound men- whatever. nue, adjoining Willard's Hot . Office hours, 10 am, to 5 p.m: Wednesday" and Sature day evenings, 7 to 8; Sui 30 to 12. Gharges foc treatment very’ low. interviews and correspondence sacredly con- fidential. No cases made public without consent of patients. it == FINANCIAL. AMERICAN SECURITY AND TRUST CO., 1405 G ST. This company has abundance of money to loan on real estate and collateral securities such as stocks, bonds, etc., at the prevailing rates of interest in sums to suit. Are you making arrangemerts to go away? Store the sliver ware and valuables im. specially designed vaults in this company’s storage warehuose at 1140 15th strect. ‘The vaults are fire and burglar-proof, and have Witisstocd a rigid test made by the govern- ment. If you're moving anywhere in town or out, let us move you. We take the re- sponsibility, Experienced packers and sbip- (ee aA Le, American Security and Trust Co., Storage Warehouse, 1140 15th St. A, Ti. Read, Manager. Toney To Loan. —— T%ls conpany bas money to Joan upon District real estate and acceptable col- lateral securitics in sums to suit. It you desire to iu drove your present property, or erect mew buildings, this com- pany will advance the necessary amount. Call for particulars. OFFICERS. JOHN JOY EDSON... JOHN A. SWOPE. a. v HELL TTT Washington Loan & Titst Co., Cor. 9th and F Sts. CFFICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE _AND POTOMAG ‘Telephone Company.—A dividend of 50 cenfs wea share will be payable on the 224 day of JULY, 1895, to the stockholders of record at the close of busiriess on the 12th day of JULY, 1895, at the office of the treasurer of, the company, G19 14th st. Washington, D.C. ‘The transfer books will be closed from the 18th of July to the 224 of July, inclusive. SAMUEL M: BRYAN, Prosident. Syl0tozzin CHARLES G. BEE! Washington, D. C., July 11, 1895. Tilford & Maynard, BROKERS, 1341 F Street. Correspondents of Price, McCormick & Co., New Members New York Stock Exchange, Cotton Ex- change and Chicago Board of Trade. Private wires to New York and Cilcago, an Henry A. Heiser’s Son, 47 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. STOCKS, BONDS, GRAIN, PROVISIONS, BOUGHT AND SOLD FOR CASH OR ON MARGIN. COMMISSION, 1-16. OUR PAMPHLET ON SPECULATION, ALSO OUR DAILY MARKET LETTERS, SHOULD BE READ BY ALL SUECULATORS AND INVESTORS. MAIL- ED FREE ON APPLICATION. jy3-wés3m W. B. Hibbs, Member of the New York Stock Exchange, Banker and Broker, 1421 F Street. it of MESSRS. LADENBURG, .,THALMANN & ©0., my18-164 46 Wall at, New York. C. T. Havenner, Member Washington Stock Exchange, Real Estate and Stock Broker, 11, Atlantic building, Investment Securities. Stocks, Bonds and Grain bought and sold for cash or on margin. Cotton bought and eold in New York or New Orleans, Private wires to Now York, Chicago and New Orleans. ‘Telephone 453. aplo-tr The National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Company Of the District of Colambia, CORNER 15TH 8T. AND NEW YORK AVE. Chartered by special act of Conzress 1867, and acts of Oct., 1890, and Feb., Jan., 1892, CAPITAL: ONE MILLION DOLLARS. SAFR DEPOSIT DEPARTMEN z Rents safes inside burgiar-proof vaults at $8 per annum upward. Securities, jewelry, silverware and valuables of all kinds in owner's packaj taken on deposit at moderate cost. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT. Deposits received from TEN CENTS upward, and interest allowed on $5 and above. Loans tnoney on. redl estate and collateral security. Sells first-class resl estate and other securities in sums of and upward. TRUST DEPARTMENT. ‘This company ts a legal depository for court and trust funds and acts as administrator, ex- ecutor, receiver, assignee, and executes trusts of all’ Kinds; Wills prepared by a competent nce, in dally at AMI SNYDER, President. (AS HYDE, First Vice Precident. JAMES M. JOTINSTON. Vice Pres. THOMAS R. JONES, Thind Vice Pres. E. FRANCIS RIGGS, rer. ALBEI STURTEVANT, Secretary. apl8 CORSON & MACARTNEY, MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK’ STOCK EXCHANG! 1419 F st., Glover buflding. Correspondents of Messrs. 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