Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1895, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pi ie | Avenue, Cor. 11th Street, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company 8. H. KAUFFMANN, Prest. Recah i New York Office, 49 Potter Building. os ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers in the elty by carriers, on thelr own account, at 10 cents F Week, or 44¢. per month. Copies at the counter cents each. By mail—anywhere in the Unite States or Canada—postage prevaid--60 cents per ment! Suturday quintupl> Sheet Star, $1.00 per year; with foreign postace nilded, (Entered at the Dost Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ‘All mail cabscriptioas must be paid in advarce. tes of advertising made known on applicatico. Part2. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. THE NATIONAL GUARD Selecting the Teams to Represent the District at Sea Girt. RESULTS OF RECENT COURTS-KARTIAL Complaints Renewed About In- sufficient Light at the Armory. —— THE NEW DRILL REGULATIONS ——— When the range at Ordway fs closed this evening the inspector general of rifle prac- tice will have a clear idea as to the identity of the twenty members of the District Na- ticnal Guard who wiil shoot for places on sm rext Tuesday. Perhaps the list of the fortunate twenty may not he quite complete, but there will doubtless be general understanding among the de- capitated ones that their only chance for getting on the brigade team of 1895 will be to settle down to hard work at voluntary for voluntary scores will be t as closely by the brigade team captain as will be the totals put up by the old-time experts, who regard the job of getting a place on the team as a soft thing. Tuesday's work will be the first team work of the season. The team captain will pair off the men, and will keep a minutely accurate record of every shot fired by tne little handful of sharp- shooters selected from the big bunch of ccmretitors. By Wednesday it will doubt- less be definitely known who are the six- teen, and within a week from that time things will have so settled down as to make it probable that the shooting twelve be arnounced. Of course, the scores made will have a great deal to do with the seam selection, but -hat undefinadle some- thing known among riflemen as the “team i will aiso have considerable influ- Selfish men, who, by concealing some atmcspheric or other change they have noticed in the conditions, will be out of the contest, and so will no! who disturb everybody for yards around them; the same fate fall the man who is forever grow Kicking. Vor at le past there has been hai n the team to make membership in that organization sure, and it will not be surprising if m of 1895 is quite on a par with the teams that immediately preceded it. A Hot Fight on. Regimental team captains have had their eyes wide open ever since Monday after- noon. There is a hot fight on between the first and second regiments and the engi- neer corps. In 1Si1 and 1802 the first regi- ment team walked away with the regi- mental honors at Sea Girt; in 18% and 1994 the engineer coms captured the bronze trophy for regimental teams. Shouid eith the first regiment or the engineer cor} win it next month, the bronze horse will Fecome the property of the successful team. But t ond regiment proposes to have something to say about ,that bronze horse, and a great deal of Tirst- € 3 shcoting may be looked for in that competition this year. Skirmishing is the principal feature of the regimental match. To be sure cach competitor fires ten shots at 200 yards and ten shots at 5W yards, but @ slight advantage gained in the known distance work is easily wiped out by the forty rounds of ammunition shot in the two skirmish runs. fore the local teams will pay especial attention to skir- mish practice and they will do it Tuesdays and Thursdays in August after 5 o'clock of each evening. At 2:30 gach Tuesday and Thursday the brigade team practice will open up,’ and it will, it is expected, close by &. ‘Chen the regimental teams will be given the freedom of the G00 yards range, over which they will prance up ard down until 6:45 when the range will, as usual, be shut up for the night. The opportunities for skirmish practice are much more plentiful this year than they have even been before, so that big scores may be expected at the Sea Girt meeting. The First Regiment Team. Capt. Cash’s illness renders It impossible for that officer to attend to the first regi- ment team, so Lieut. T. S. King will take charge. He has, not including himself, seven good men from whom to select the recessary team of six. The candidates are Sergt. C. Taylor, Sergt. W. E. Colla- . Private Crist, Sergt. Hadger, Major O'Brien, Private Sneeden end Lieut. F. E. Gibson. pt. Bell will, of course, have command second regiment team and may him- be one of the shooting half dozen; the material the second has on hand just now consists of Capt. W. H. Moyer, Lieut. John A. Kirk, Col. Clay, Lieut. C. H. Laird, Corp. Appleby, Sergt. A. S. M in, Q. M. ergt. G. P. Hyrne and Private Murray. Lieut. Glendie B. Young, the engineer corps captain, has a wealth of good ma- terial, which he, of course, believes is bet- ter than any other material likely to be found facing the tar in Jersey next month. ‘The engineer candidates are Lieu A. O. Hutterly, Corp. R. P. Carletoi Jeorge € < ivate Russell, £ te B. Wetherald, Private H. H. Leizear, Sergt. C. W. Dickey and Sergt. R. B. Smythe. The National Rifle Association. evening the recently organ- tional Rifle Association (not the Na- tional Rifles’ Association, as some people have understood it to be) will begin active istence. Saturday in each week has been set apart as association day at the Ordway range. The board of directors will hold their first meeting on the range Tuesday and will cndeavor to have things started in good shape Saturday. A number of guards- men are all ready to become members, and inquir $s to membership have been made by thirty or forty loeal riflemen who are not members of the National Gua By September it 1s confidently expected that . ociation will have at least one hun- ved members, Results in the First Separate. The findings of Capt. John H. Campbell and Capt. Peter B. Meredith, detailed by Maj. F. C. Revells to try the absentees from the fi approved by the f ded to headquarters. follow: Company Private Co: onorab! nder and They are as A—Corp. Thomas Jonss and nelius discha George e and Wal dishono! ani ed for William William Murr Privates Anth Marshall, excus Comp: smmended for dishi at found, ling, re rable he case of William H. Maj. Revelis no Such pla was gi address, and therefore rge is recommended f Butler, ypears that dishony: ‘or the guod Battalion Courts-Martial. Maj. Wilson of the third battalion has issued an order announcing the resul the courts-martial recentl: tulion, of which Capt. E company A, and Capt. Clarence V. Sayer, company C, were the courts who tried twenty-three men for absence from the brigade encampment at Fort Washington without leave from their commanding offi- cers. Privates J. Walker Babson, Francis O. Grayson, George F.Pierce, Henry H. Sheets and J. Frazier Sheets, company A; Privates Gustay Escher, Harry L. Kelley and Frank K. Newcomb, company D, and Privates Robert H. Noyes and Gilbert Ray, company D, were pronounced not guilty. First Ser- geant Earnest C. Herrell, company A; Pri- vates William H. Alberger, Gover T. Hox- ton, William H. Sipple and Louis A. Zan- nelly, company B; Privates Zwengli Oertly, company C, ard Sergt. David S| Walters and Privates Harry R. Andrews, A. E. Brown, Marshall C. Candee, Lowell L. Chichester, Chas. F. Fenwick and Hugh Langdon were found guilty. ‘The courts nmtenced First Sergt. Her- rell and Sergt. Waters to be reduced to the ranks and reprimanded in battalion orders; Privates Andrews, Brown, Candee, Chi- chester and Fenwick to be reprimanded in battalion orders, end Privates Alberger, Zannelly and Oertly to be dishonorably dis- charged. The proceedings, findings ani sentences have been approved. Observations of Maj. Wilson. Maj. Wilson states that in the majority of the cases he is gratified to observe that the evidence showed an ignorance of law and regulations rather than a willful in- tent to violate them. Some of the accus2d, 8 the major, seem to have pleaded that their only information regarding the camp was derived from the newspapers, and that they were not properly notified by their commanding officers. He takes occasion to state that as this alleged ignorance of the erder for camp finds its only force in a neglect to attend the weekly drills of the companies, the offense charged is thereby eggravated. . In other cases in which reasonable ex- cuses for absence are apparent, continues Maj. Wilson, the accused failed to bring their excuses to the attention of their ccmmanding officers, and thereby demon- strated their failure to comprehend the first and most simple principle of military law. “A good soldier never permits. kim- self to forget that he himself fs not the judge of what constitutes a sufficient ex- cuse for absence from duty,” according to Maj. Wilson. “The battalion commander trusts that the leniency with which the courts haye treated these first offenses May not be construed as a precedent for future action. The future conduct of these men will be carefully observed, and a repe- tition of the offense which constituted this charge will most certainly be summarily dealt with. ‘The men tried, except those sentenced to be dishonorably discharged, have been re- stored to duty, and the battalion courts formally dissolved. Twilight at the Armory. With the disappearance of cold weather the heating of the new armory building was discontinued with commendable promptness, but the woeful lack of light supplied throughout the structure after nightfall continues with unvarying persis- tency. It was hoped by those guardsmen who are forced to perform clerical duties in their quarters during the evening that the fuel saved from the heating furnaces would be made use of to increase the pow- er of the lighting dynamos. But such ex- pectations nave come to naught. A party of officers a few evenings ago, while discussing the question of light, en- deavored, by an expenditure of thought, to solve the absence of the fixtures for which wires are in position in almost every room in the building, and which, if placed in evidence, would undoubtedly shed at least a medium illumination. No plausible ex- cuse for the existing condition of affairs could be adduced. One company of the second brigade, finally abandoning all hope of a betterment of the situation, has se- cured a big oil lamp to dispel the darkness of its room. The heat thrown out by the latter illuminant is far from soothing these torrid evenings, but it {s considered prefer- able to the possibility of damaged eyesight, Early Use of the New Regulations. As soon as the War Department formally adopts the new drill regulations, so far as they relate to the manual of arms with the new pattern Springfield rifle, it 1s under- stood that an order wiil be issued direct- ing the District National Guard to observe the same, although the brigade is not yet supplied with the new firearm. The object of following the new regulations with tne arms now in use is to familiarize the men with the new system, and thus save time when the rifte, generally known as the Krag-Jorgenson, is issued to the local com- panies. Among’ others, the batteries of artillery stationed at Fortress Monroe, Va. have anticipated the promulgation of the new regulations, and are daily demonstrat- ing the practicability of the same and thelr superiority over the set now in vogue. Going to the Next Dri Company A, fourth battalion, at a recent meeting, adopted its revised constitution and elected the following board of- di- rectors: Captain Harry Walsh, Lieuten- ant Charles J. Harlow, First Sergeant E. J. Liston, Sergeant T. A. McAnally, Cor- poral T, O'Connell and Privates J. C. Fan- ning, G. M. O'Connell, J. A. Gallagher, Harry Whaley, Thomas J. Leonard, Harry Martain and Thomas Boucher. The report of the treasurer showed that there 1s $1,200 in his hands, with all in- debtedness paid. The company proposes to purchase a new company fatigue unt- form and reserve the remainder of the furd for the purpose of defraying the ex- penses of a drill team to the next inter- state competition. ‘A St. Louis firm is preparing a hand- some souvenir history of Captain Walsh's command. Discharges, Honorable and Otherwise The following have been honorably dis- charged on their own applications: Geo. L. Beeler, corporal second separate com- pany; Harry A. Whallon, private com- pany A, first battalion; Peter Snyder, ser- geant company B, first battalion; Clifford R. James, first sergeant, company D, third battalion; Timothy D. Daly, private com- pany A, fourth battallon; Thomas BE. Cu tis, private company B, fourth battalio! Frank Trumbull, corporal company B, fourth battalion; Thomas Jones, private company B, sixth battalion, and J. J. Smith, corporal company D, sixth bat- talion. In the interest of the service Jas. Conlin and Michael J. Cook, both privates, company A, fourth battalion, have been discharged. Investigation of the Third. Major Alexander has completed the spe- clal investigation of the third battalion and is quoted by an officer of that com- mand as saying that he is unable to con- ceive any cause for ordering the inquiry. Beyond the fact that he considers the members of the command too young in years, as a rule, it {s understood that the inspector general is not otherwise than plea: with the condition of the third. He will recommend that the age limit he increased and that no one be commissioned as an officer who has not attained twenty- one years. Notes. James P. Lavin, first lieutenant, com- pany B, fifth battalion, has tendered his resignation. : The ambulance corps goes to River View on its second a al outing Wednesday evening, Augus' any B, second battalicn, held sway 2 rifle gallery Thursday evening for t time and made a creditable show- ith the rifle. Lieutenant W. P. Vale xth battalion acted as range of- eutenant T. S. King being on duty way. Com: Corporal G. J. Harris, Corporal H. R. Sisson, Private L, C. Stewart and Private F. O. ‘on of company A, third bat- talion, will appear before the brigade board of examination at its next meeting to qual- ify, if possible, as candidates for second lieutenants. A CITY OF SLEEPERS For the Accommodation of the Visit- ing Knights Templar. CARS AT BOSTON TRIENNIAL Hotels Where the Rest of the Visitors Will Stay. GRAND PREPARATIONS a ———— Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. BOSTON, August 9, 1895. When the mighty army of Knights Templar marches on Boston two weeks hence it will find a city ready to receive it, a city rich in historic in- terest, made brighter and more in- teresting in scores of ways never before thought of. The triennial conclave will be the biggest event of the kind in the history of Boston as well as in the history of Ma- sonry, and everything now points to a week of gorgeousness and entertainment which will far outclass the last famous triennial at Washington. The Knights Templar of Boston and the surrounding towns and cities have entered into. the work of preparation with the true Masonic spirit of liberality, originality and liveliness. The merchants are preparing to join with them, and the railroad companies running’ into Boston are outdoing them- selves in their determination to facilitate the transportation of the mighty hosts which will surely arrive. ‘The ranks of the ‘Templars embrace most of the solid men of the country; they repre- Sent wealth and influence, and this fact is apparent in all that is being done to re- ceive them. Every palace car available is being pressed into service for their especial benefit, and the splendid Knight Templar trains which will run into Boston this month will mark an epoch in railroading. A Rallrond Park. One of the unique features of the conclave will be a city of steeping cars, the like of which has probably never before been seen in this country. It will be made a feature of the triennial, and some of the finest en- tertainments of visiting knights will be offered at the settlement, which will hold forth in glory for a week. The Boston and Maine road evolved the idea when it gave an official announcement that track room for 500 sieeping cars would be provided on the old McLean asylum grounds, a park-like expanse used by cne of the best known sanitariums for years, until it gave way to the encroachment of business, and the managers sqld out at a big price to the railroad corporation. Day by day the magnificent stretch of green dotted with fine old trees is giving way to lines of steel gridironed with sleepers, but the pi is so large that even though the work go rapidly on, it will be many weeks befora it is completed, and the 25th of this month, when the first contingent of knights reach- es Boston, will find plenty of pleasant room left for the accommodation of the “sleeper visitors.” Probably only breakfasts will be regular- ly served in this car city, but booths will be arranged so that if any one is hungry or if sick ones find it necessary to remain there all day no one shall suffer from want of food. Nowhere about the city can a cooler place be found than the asylum grounds, and it is not unlikely that In the steaming dog days not a few of the visitors, especially ladies, will find it very desirable to wander about the shaded park, rather than travel in the dusty and heated city. For that rea- son, if for no other, the committee of ar- rargements desires to make the place fully as attractive as the city breathing places. Some of the visiting commanderies will invite the fraters whom they wish to enter- tain to that place and evenings there will be a scene rivaling the most famous of Pa- risian boulevards. Generous Hospitality. When Boston put in her claim for the conclave of '95 its representatives declined to say anything about the amount of money that should be spent in entertain- ing. Some rival municipalities mentioned that $75,000 or even $100,000 could be raised, but the Boston men declared that it was not a question of money—if the conclave came to Boston the knights and their la- dies and friends would be well taken care of. Today in the city and suburbs alone it is estimated that $150,000 has been raised, and probably surrounding cities, like Lowell, Worcester, Salem, etc., will offer at least $40,000 more, so it can be easily seen that the conclave here is bound to exceed in magnificence and brilllancy anything heretofore held in the way of triennial gatherings. But beyond the question of money ig the feeling mani- fested by the people generally. There is a universal desire to see the knights, to help them have a good time and for them to go away with the best of impressions of the New England metropo- is. In every way those things are to be done which will make visitors feel that they are welcome, and no stone will be left unturned to insure a sojourn which shall be not only pleasurable but profita- ble. This feeling {s marked particularly by the arrangements for decorations that have already been announced. Every business house in the city will display the sters and stripes and bunting, and Masonic as well as Templar emblems in profusion. All the big hotels will practically be coy- ered from doorstep to coping with bunt- ing, and the visiting commanderies will tack up enough emblems and Templar em- blems to lend variety to the lines of red, white and blue. The electric decorations in all colors on some of the business buildings, on Ma- sonic Temple, on Horticultural Hall, the headquarters of Boston commandery, and the Vendome, where the grand encamp- ment and several other visiting organiza- tions will be quartered, are to be the finest and most elaborate ever seen in this coun- try and probably in the world, says the electricians. + Commandery Headquarters. ‘The quarters arranged for the comman- deries thus far are as follows: Grand En- campment, the Vendome; Alabama, No. $4 Huntington avenue; Arkansas, No. 45 West Newton street; California, Hotel Bar- tol; Colorado, Hotel Victoria; Connecti- cut, Hotel Abbottsford; Delaware, Maver- ick House, East Boston; Georgia, No. 658 Massachusetts avenue; Illinois, Hotels Vic- toria and Vendome; Indiana, Cotilion Hall; Jewa, Nos. 527 and 529 Massachusetts ave- Kansas, No. 553 Boylston street; Ken- tucky, Hoteis Brunswick and Oxford; Maine, Hotel Victoria; Maryland, Hotel Vendome; Massachusetts and Rhode Is- land, Hotel Brunswick; Michigan, Hotel Brunswick; Minnesota, Perkins Hall souri, Hotel Huntington; Montana, No. Massachusetts avenue; Nebraska, Copley square; New Hampshire, Young's Hotel; New Jersey, Hotel Victoria; New York, No. 59 Commonwealth avenue; North Carolina, No. 439 Boylston street; North Dakota, Hotel Vendome; Ohio, Hotel Brunswick; P vania, Hotel Vendome; South Caro- . 509 Columbus avenue; South Da- Hotel Vendcme; Tennessee, No. 491 Massachusetts avenue; Texas,No. 328 Com- monwea.th avenue; Vermont, No. 23 Union Park; ‘ginia, Hotel Brunswick; West Virginia, Hotel Brunswick; Wisconsin,New England Conservatory of Music. Some of the more prominent local com- manderizs have the down town hotels, while as can be seen the grand comman- deries have secured quarters at and about the Back Bay, the Vendome and the Bruns- wick, the ‘“‘swellest” hotels in the city be- ing the favorites. The quarters of some of the more noted local commanderies have been arranged as follows: California of San Francisco, Parker; Oakland of Oakland, Cal., Bartol; Golden Gate of San Francisco, Columbian; Wash- ington of Washington, D. C., Adams;. Co- lumbia and De Molay of that city, Cop- ley square, and Potomac, Brighams; Apollo of Chicago, Parker; Chicago, Huntington; St. Bernard of Chicago, Copley square; Constantine of Lincoln, Ill., Victoria; Chevalier Bayard and Montjoie of Chicago, Young’s; Raper of Indianap- olis, Copley square; Louisville, Reynolds; Maysville, Ky., Brunswick; De Molay of Louisville, United States; Maine of Gard- iner, Me., Quincy; Portland, Victoria; St. John’s of Bangor, Santa Monica; Crusade of Baltimore, United States; Beauseant of Baltim:are, Vendome; Detroit, Vendome; De Mclay of Grand Rapids, Vendome; St. Louis, Bellevue; Ascalon of St. Louis, Vic- teria; Hugh De Payens of Jersey City, Richwood; Palestine of New York, Quincy: Monroe of Rochester, Norfolk; Clinton of Brooklyn, Langham; Apollo of Troy, Ran- dclph; Lake Erie of Buffalo, Brunswick; DeWitt Clinton of Brooklyn, American; Hugh De Payens of Buffalo, Langham; York of New York, Maverick; Cincinnatl, Thcrndike; Reed of Layton, Bartol; Chili- cothe, O., Clarendon; Oriental of Cleve- land, New Creighton; Calvary of Ports- mcuth, O., United States; Hanselman of Cincinnati, Reynolds; Pittsburg, Quincy; Philadelphia, Quincy; St. John’s of Phila- delphia, Vendome; Hugh De Payens of Easton, United States; Reading, Claren- don; St. Alban of Philadelphia, Arlington; Tancred of Pittsburg, Oxford; Cyrene of Sioux Falls, Vendome; Richmond, Craw- ford; St. Andrew of Richmond, Copley, square; Cyrene of Wheeling, American. The Drill Arrangements. On the morning of Wednesday, August 2S, there will be a drill of different com- manderies on the Boston base ball grounds, at the south end, and companies of knights will contest for the reward of merit in that branch, which is presented at every ec@clave. The ‘little commandery,” which is composed of boys from the Masonic Widows’ and Orphans’ Home of Louis- ville, Ky., will appear on that date and try to put their elder fraters to blush by their proficiency in maneuvers and the hand- ling of the swords. These boys will be under the leadership of Sir H. B. Grant, the author of Grant’s Tactics. They are said to be very skilled in the peculiar style of marching and maneuvers. affected by the Knights Templar. HOW HE GOT HIS TITLE. He Claimed That Gen. Grant Placed Him in Commund. The cobbler who mend«d@my shoes, states a writer for The Star, was named Bigly, and he was always called “general,’’ which scmehow did not quite campert with my idea of the cobbler. ‘True, he had been a soldier Guring the whole of the rebellion, but just what kind of a soldier I did not know. ‘rue, also, he had lost his leg at Gettysburg, but it was a dozen years after the war in the accidental upset of a traction engine drag- ging a threshing machine into a field. Still he was “General Bigly” im the com- mon parlance and one day I asked him about it “Weren't you in the army?” I inquired. “Yes, sir,” he answered, proudly and premptly. S “See much fighting?" “Brom April, '61, to September, ’65 “fT notice that everybody ¢alls you ‘gen- eral,’ what was your rank? Were you a general?” “I was in command of the Army of the Potomac, sir,’ he said, as truthfully in tone as any man I ever heard speak. “Oh, come,” I laughed, “I never heard of a General Bigly in command of that army. You are giving me guff, as the boys say.’ “It's true 7s gospel,” he insisted. “Tell me about it if it's all the same.” “Well, you see it was this way,” he said, pegging away at the shoe in his lap, and not looking squarely at me. “I was in the Army of the Potomac when Gen. Grant took charge and I was a sergeant. You see I used to know the general out in Ga- lena when he wasn’t so much, and he was mighty friendly with me and made me his orderly. I used to go every place with him, ridin’ over the field and that kind of thing, and sometimes there wasn’t nobody but me and the general ridin’ around for miles together. Well, one day we had rode out along the road and we come to a little Place where a man lived that could make the finest mint julep in the whole state of Virginny. I knowed about the place and so did the general, and when we struck it, I could kinder see his mouth waterin’, fer mint juleps didn’t grow on trees in them days in Virginny. When we got opposite the gate, the general sorter stopped his hess and looked over at me, and I shut down one eye soft and easy.” “BIN,” says he, he always called mé Bill rivate, ‘Bill, will you do me a favor?’ ything on top of earth, general,’ I. ‘What is it? ‘Will you be kind enough to take com- mand of the army while I go in here and get a mint julep?’ “Of course, I will, general,’ says I, straightening my back as if I had a ram- rod stuck down it, and comin’ to a salute.’ ““Thanks,’ says he, ‘and please hold my hoss at the same time.’ “Then he went in, and for about fifteen minutes I set there on my hoss like Na- poleon crossin’ the Rubicon, and was in command of the Army of the Potomac, and ever since that time the boys have called me ‘general,’ and I didn’t see any use of saying they shouldn't.” It didn't occur to me to ask the “general” for an affidavit to back this rather remark- able story of his, but I fancy if I had asked, he would have readily furnished me one, for the “general” wasn’t a man to let a little thing like an afiidavit interfere with a war tale. ——.__ A STREET SCENE. Cruelty Finds a Ready Rebuke in a Kindly Act. It was up by the Treasury building just as the departments were closing that a Star writer saw this. On the corner stood a stylish looking elderly lady, clad in white and silver gray, immaculately dainty in appearance, and a lady from the top of her gray-crowned head to the: toe of her neat fitting boots. Just as she ratsed her hand to hail a car, a poor, frightened ‘dog came yelping and howling down the street, with a tin can tied to its tail, and almost over- turned her in its blind frenzy. Away went her bundles and books and umbrella as she grasped at the trembling: brute; with an exclamation of pity on her lips. It fled from her and ran spang between the legs of a white-serge-clad yeung man who was crossing the street, and nearly upset him as the string to the tin can lap- ped itself around his dudishly attired shanks. Before he could catch it the dog was off again. “Oh, do call it and take that awful thing off,” cried the woman, and the young man obediently whistled to the carine, which came at once and gronehed, trembling and whining, at his eet. : The two, the stylish woman ard the sum- mer man, bent over the brute, and while the man held the dog’s head the woman worked with the string with her white- gloved hands. It was tled so tight that it cut the skin, and the dog howled with every twist at it.” “Give me your knife,” said the woman. The man pulled it from his pocket and opened it with his teeth and one hand. Tnen the woman took it and cut the hor- rid string, and the dog was freed. She handed the knife back with a bow and a pleasant “Thank You,” made her way through the crowd that had gathered, and boarded a 14th street car; the man lifted his hat and went slowly on his way with a trembling, whining hound crawling and creeping along behind him, a look of un- bounded gratitude on its half-starved face; the crowd melted away, and the episode closed—down here, perhaps, but somewhere in the book that the angel keeps two peo- ple have each a pearl white day and deed get down to their credit. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP Prompt Action of the Suburban Highway Commission. APPRECIATED BY PROPERTY HOLDERS What Now Remains to Be Done by the Commissioners. SOME IMPROVEMENTS It is hard to estimate the importance to property holders of the prompt action of the suburban highway commission. It cannot justly be said that they have need- lessly consumed time in considering the map of street extension prepared by the Commissioners. A comparatively brief pe- riod has elapsed since the Commissioners completed their part of the work and sub- mitted it for the inspection of the higher commission. The members of this latter body have regular official duties which occupy their time and attention, and the supervision of the map which was in- trusted to them by Congress was in the nature of an extra duty. It was possible for them to have defer- red consideration and action on one ground and another, and in this way proved a serious obstacle in the consum- mation of what is generally believed to be a most important feature in the future evelopment of the city. However, the commission did nothing of the sort. They promptly took the matter up, gave the citizens who so desired a hearing and then as promptly announced their decision, which was the practical approval of the plan submitted by the Commissioners. Red Line Mortgeg To the average property owner whose holdings have been depreciated by the “red line mortgages’—as the proposed chinges in existing subdivisions have been aptly termed—it is, of course, a source of great satisfaction that the end seems to be in sight of the doubt and uncertainty which has hovered over a great deal of suburban property for the last ten or fif- teen years. Whatever differences of opin- ion there may be in regard to the plan, every one is heartily glad that the pros- pect of “something” being done is appar- ently so near realization. The uncertainty has perhaps been the most injurious tea- ture of the entire situation, and now there seems to be a likelihoo:l that all this will be ended. It remains for the Com- missioners, acting under the provisions of the law, to have the lind which will be taken for streets and avenues condemned, and there seems to be no question that the money can he secured by appropr tion of Congress to pay for the land thus taken. It is quite certain that having reached this stage, there will be practical unanimity of opinion as to the importance of carrying it to compietion. Mrs. Mosen’ Residence. A handsome residence Is to be erected on the west side of 16th street between V street and Florida avenue by Mrs. Mc- Knight Moses. As designed by the archi- tect, Mr. W. J. Marsh, the house will only occupy a portion of the lot, which has the unusuelly spacious frontage of 80 feet. Ample lawn space will be reserved on the south, and that side of the house will be finished in the same style as the front, and will have numerous openings. The ma- terial used will be mottled brick with stone trimmings. Terra cotta of harmonizing shade will also be employed. There will be two projections on the front, one a bay window on the left of the entrance, extending to the third story, while on the other side there will be an oriel projection, extending through two stories. An attractive feature will be the third story, wrere there will be a loggia across the front of the house. Above will be the attic story, the elevation being fin- ished by a high sloping roof. The main entrance will be on a level with the street, and near it will be the porte cochere, passing beneath the second story of the hcuse to the yard in the rear, and so on to a handsome stable, which will be constructed on the lot. As there is no alley in the rear, this provision for-a car- riage drive is absolutely needed. The entire first or basement floor will be devoted to domestic purposes. A staircase about in the center of the house leads by an easy flight to the reception hall, which is en suite with the drawing room in front and the dining rocm in the rear. A short flignt leads to the staircase hall, from which there is access to the library, at the front of the house. The interior finish of the house will be handsome, nearly all the rooms on the parlor floor being paneled and wainsevied in hard woods. The drawing recom will be finished in white, the library in mahogany, the reception hall, staircase hall and dining room in oak. Record of the Weck. Although this is considered the dullest season for building purposes, the record for the week is very good. During that period thirteen permits were issued by the inspector of buildings, aggregating in cost $245,100. The northwest gets the bulk of this. The five permits issued for that sec- tion aggregate in cost $237,500. The county got five permits at $4,200; the southwest one at $2,000, and the southeast two at $1,400. Some Improvements. Two houses will be erected by Frank E. Altemus on the south side of Whitney avenue between 13th and 14th streets. The fronts will be built of Pompeiian brick and white stone, and the elevation will be finished with a tiled roof. On the west side of one house will be a driyeway leading to a stable built on the rear of the lot. Plans have been prepared by J. F. Den- sen, architect, for a two-story dwelling for William C. Prentiss. R. A. McLean is building at 1130 6th street northwest a three-story-and-cellar brick dwelling. The house will have a frontage of 16 feet 10 inches, by a depth cf 68 feet. James Hughes is the builder. Extensive improvements are being made at 807 I street northwest by Fannie Free. A brick addition is to be built at the reav, two st 3 high with cellar, together with a bay window and general interior repairs. W. H. Germann is the builder. A private stable is being erected for Senator Proctor in the rear of his home, on L street. R. W. Darby is the builder. ee THE HOT TAMALE, Mickey Explains How the Strange Name Originated. From the New York World. Snag Finnerty was a lad with a philo- sophical mind and a broken tooth. It was this “busted toot,” as he called it, that gave him this pretty little pet name of “Snag.” They were standing on a corner one day when a hot-tamale man passed. “I won- der,” said Snag, “whatever made "em call dem tings tomales?” “Don’t you know?” asked Micky. “Naw! nor you don't needer."” “Yes, I does, and I'll tell yer if yer wants ter know. D'ye know Cully Flynn? Yep!” “Well, Cully was er goin’ up der Bowery one night wid his gal and she said she was hungry. Cull had der price, so he gets gay and says ‘come on,’ and drags her inter a restaurant and sits her down ter a table. Up comes der waiter and says: ‘What d’youse want?’ Der gal's name was Mollie, and she says she wants er nice hot sausage an’ er cup er coffee. Cull says he wants a cold sausage an’ er bottle of beer. Der mug wants to git dat order straight, so he says: ‘Jist say that agin.’ So Cull says: ‘Der hot to Mollie and der cold to Cully, see!’ Well, he goes away saying to hisself: ‘Hot ter Mollie, cold ter Cully,’ so at he'll git it right. When he comes back with it he says: ‘Here's yer hot ter Mollie.” Sure? Aw, £0 01 at's right: so ever since dat time they calls ‘em hot ter mollies.”” “Say,” said Snag, “I'd like ter jist carve my initials into one o’ dem hot ter mollies right now—talkin’ about eatin’ allus makes me hungry.” And the pair disappeared arcund the corner In search of something to eat. —_——_+e+____ AS TO SNAKE STORIES. The Loudoun County Man Was Able to Tell a Good One. The gent with the Loudoun county whis- kers was waiting at the Baltimore and Po- tomac station for a train to take him home, when a Star man, mousing around there for a stray bit of news, happened on him. “Hello, there, young feller,” he said, cheerily, “do you know anything about that Loudoun county snake with a pneumatic tire skin I read of in the paper last week?” “Nothing whatever,” was the reply. “Well, do you know I've got my opinion of snake stories,” he continued, as he made a place on the truck for The Star man to sit down. “It seems to me that hoss trad- in’ and fishin’ and snakes and politics are all in the same class, and a nman can’t have anything to do with any of ‘hem if he don’t lie some.” “I don’t knew about that.” “You're old enough to,” said the Loudoun man, with a note of reproof in his voice. “Just the same, argued The Siar man, “I know honest horse traders and truthful fishermen and veracicus snake narrators and square peliticians and——” “Hold on,” interrupted the Loudoun man. “I ain't talkin’ about angels. Keep on the ground.” Very well, then, take yourself. Now, you've lived in Loudcun long enough, and have tramped over the Blue Ridge moun- tains encugh to have had some experience with snakes. What—"” “Loudoun’s a local option county,” grin- ned the man from there. g matter,’ said The Star ‘The Loudoun man rubbed those whiskers for a minute or two. = “Well,” he began, slowly, “I have run across a thing or two in that line. Just about two weeks ago, as I was going along the ridge between Snicker’s Gap and Ash- by’s, I met up with a snake about sixteen feet long—" “How long?” put in The Star man, with promptness. “About six feet long,” replied the story teller, without turning a hair, “and about fourteen inches in diameter——” “How much?” “About four inches in diameter; and he had a head onto him as big as my hat, eae ee “How big did you say?” “As big as that;” and he laid three fin- gers across the palm of his hand us inno- cently as if he never had been called down in his life. “And he was_stretched across the road like he was sunnin’ himself.” He stopped as if In doubt about finishing, and The Star man urged him a bit.« “Well, what did the snake do?” le asked. ‘Just laid there.” ‘And what did you do?” “I slipped upon him as qulet as I could with a corn knife I had along with me and give him a whack.” ‘Did you kill him?” “Kill him?” he exclaimed. “Not much, I chopped him into a thousand pieces, for I counted them after the fight was cver, but I didn’t kill him after all.” “Come off,” kicked the listener. “Do you mean to tell me—” “Of course I do,” interrupted the Lou- doun man, starting for his train in a hur- ry, “the dern snake was dead an hour be- fore I got there.” —.__. Written for The Evening Star, A NOTED OLD HOUSE. Cne of the Residences in Georgetown and Something About Its History. There is a house in Georgetown which from its fovndatior kad a foreign influence about it. It is a large, substantial thougn unpretentious mansion, minus low win- dows, turrets end other accessories which mark the modern dwelling. It stands at the corner of {9th and N streets. It was planned by the owner, a man of fine at- tainments, literary testes and a great lin- guist. He held office under the govern- ment, and not havirg a surplus ef the “needful,” was compelled to mortgage the house. The money was loaned from the es- tate of the celebrated Polish patriot, Gen. ‘Thaddeus Kosciusko, by Col. George Bom- ford, the owner at that time of beautiful Kalorama. The owner did not live long to enjoy his comfortable home, and his widow was com- pelled to rent it in order to pay off the mortgage. The first foreign tenant was Count Morthelon, whose father was exiled with Napoleon Bonaparte. His wife was Victoria, daughter of Gen. Gratiot. The count was a charming man and most agreeable in all his business dealings with ee whom he termed his “amiable land- lady.”” The minister from Mexico was the next foreign tensnt, but he died shortly after taking the house. Baron Gcrolt lived eight years in the house, and was so pleased with it that he made a proposition to purchase it. The Chevalier de Potestad of the Spanish lega- tion, whose wife was the beautiful Miss Chapman, granddaughter of the celebrated Dr. Chaprran of Philadelphia, was a tenant during the war, and when there was a scare here on account of the southern troops being near the capital promised to keist the Spanish flag shculd the place be invaded. The house did not lack for distinguished American tenants. R. Barnwell Rhett of South Carclina, a noted secessionist, suc- ceeded Count Montholon, and purchased from him his elegant Parisian furniture; Mr. Allen, an editor from St. Louis; Gov. Fulton, Serator from Arkansas; Col.’ Chas. Ellet, the great engineer; Mr. Worthing- ton, a gentleman of wealth, whose daugh- ter married Col. William H. Philip, a law- yer of note in Washington, and others. —_—__. A TALL REUNION. Thirty-Seven Feet and Four Inches of Sons Visit Their Parents. From the OM City Derrict ‘There was a family reunion at -Tionesta, Pa., on Wednesday, that calls for more than mere mention. It was a gathering together of father, mother and six sons, all of the latter over twenty-one years of age. This family group had not all been tegether since the boys, some of them years ago, went out Into the world to fight their battles for themselves. Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Coleman are the father and mother, both hale and hearty, and the sons’ names are J. F., Henry, William, J. E., S. W. and Frank. The main object | of this item is not so much to mention the fact of the happy reunion as to try and picture to the reader the size of the six long-separated sons, or rather their respective and collective heights. Here are the exact figures: J. F. is six feet five irches; Henry, six feet two inches; Wil- liam, six feet three inches; J. E., six feet five inches; S. W., six feet three inches and Frank, the short one of the stalwart fam- fly, an exact six feet. These measure- ments were all taken in stocking feet. The tctal height of the whole sextet is thirty- seven feet four inches. The father and mother are only about the average height of ordinary mortals. The boys are all well- to-do in the towns and citles where they are located. < CAPITOL CONCERTS At Least Once a Week Thera is Harmony There, POPULAR ENJOYMENT OF THE MUSIC Prof. Fanciulli-Favors the Erection of a Sounding Board. BEAUTY OF THE SCENE If there ts a lack of harmony within the halls of Congress during the sessions of that body there is compensation for this shortcoming during the summer months, when, on every Wednesday afternoon, Prefessor Fanciulli leads the Marine Band before the steps of the east front of the Capitol. These concerts have become a part of the life of the city, and were they discon- tinued their loss would be seriously felt by the great number of people who look for- ward to the middle of the week, when they can enjoy a first-class concert at most popular prices. The scenes about the great building that beautifies Capitol Hill and is the Mecca of every American can never be forgotten by one who has sought this open-air concert hall for which Pro- fessor Fanclulli wields his baton. The last gathering of the musicians be- neath the shadow of the Goddess of Lib- erty was the occasion of a concert devoted entirely to the march music, and all the local military com- panies that have been honored by hay- ing music composed for and dediczted to them were remem- fi bered by having | their favorite com- \ positions played. )) wonder that the members of the band were annoyed by the tramp of many feet on the broad , asphalt plaza before the Capitol. No one can attend these concerts with- out being impressed with the peculiar beauty and even grandeur of the scene. As the sun goes behind the great dome the first strain of the program to be ren- dered is heard. The steps of the build- ing are appropriated as the grand stand by the audience and others who prefer a seat at a lower level lounge comfortably on the grassy lawns, while a large con- tingent of the assembly prefer promenad- ing on the smooth asphalt. Al) classes are there—the nurse maid wheels the con- tented babies to a choice place for the enjoyment of the musical treat, and the dudes of both sexes keep step to rhythm of the music and are the chief ob- jects to be observed in the crowds. Ladies and gentlemen who are seen at our most fashionable gatherings consider it @ privilege to secure a place on the Capitol steps, where they may Hsten to the selec- tions rendered by the band. Here and there is a man who has stopped on his way home from work to “take in” the music, and all kinds and classes sit side by side or jostle ach other in the crowd. The weekly gatherings at the Capitol during the hot months of the year are par- tially responsible for the turning of the park into a popular promenade at all times during the evenings of summer. Just on the crest of the hill there is always a breeze wandering about to the great satisfaction of those who are seeking a cool location. The Capitol is approached by the larger portion of the people who seek it in their even- ing promenade by way of East Capitol street, which has be- come the most popu- lar boulevard for the people living east of the Capitol. The only uncertain element of the after- noon out-of-door concerts is the rain, and members of the band watch the heavens eagerly when they rise on either Saturday or Wednesday, the days when they are to play either at the White House cr the Capitol. At the last concert at the latter place there was no sign of a weeping sky until the program was nearly completed, when before the presence of black clouds could be realized, there was a heavy fall of rain, and the band and audience were driven away to shelter. However unconcerned the musicians-may be regarding the dangers of - a rain soaking there is a standing crder that the sheet music must not be injured, and in consideration for the music the mem- bers of the band are always pleased to have Prof. Fanciulli give orders to break ranks and disband for the day. There is one improvement which Prof. Fanciulli thinks could be adopted at both the Capitol and the White House grounds to the great advantage of the music rendered by the band. He believes that a sounding board could be con- structed at little ex- pense, s0 arranged that it could be readi- ly put together and- removed again after the concert. An open air concert is not de- sirable from the standpoint of the musician who wants the very best effect possible from the music. There is, however, a sounding board at the Capitol of which few people are aware —it is the great expanse of asphalt on which the band is located. Professor Fan- ciulll_ considers that the concerts given at the Capitol are heard to better advantage because of the asphalt, the grass lawns of the White House grounds acting to deaden the sound, and, consequently, to detract from the effect of the music. On the other hend, the tramping sound that results from the movement of the crowd on the asphalt greatly disturbs the musicians, and the leader of the band would like to have a reform brought about by the placing of several rows of chairs about the band stand so that listeners might be accommodated and at the same time the band would be protected from the annoyance of the tramp- ing sound near them. While the columns of the Capitol give back a slight echo, it is not sufficient to seriously interfere with the good effect of the music, and if Professor Fanciulli could be provided with a sounding board for his band stand, and could be separated from the moving crowd by having an audience seated around him, he would be happy in the thought that the character of his en- tertainments would be improved. But the concerts, under pres- ent conditions, are well worthy the attend- arce of every one who enjoys music, as they are maintained at a high point of ex- cellence at all times.