Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1895, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. SSS — ~ — a= SPECIAL NOTICES. NEEDS OF BRIGHTWOOD THE OFFICIAL WEATHER MAP. STREET CAR STOPS INDEX! TO) ADVERTISEMENTS: FINANCIAL. W. ©. 7. U. GOSPEL MASS, MEETING > AMUSEMENTS . and trip. marty irs. 5. M. rertntendent. INCERN: Th desir » that I have never ma- Hefoisly attucked the character of my late part- ner, Mr. Howard F. Johnson, and [ impute to him F peither fr dishonesty ger unworthy n in any business oF transaction, a be transaction narrated in the at nly filed by Willlam A. ast Hanna L. Kelly and James, Madi GNEW. W. R. BAILEY. copy of original. |S. H. A. ite CLATRVOY- Ly and have forme of myself (F. M. of wy late part and John €. un in 4 public gene aniouling iy Baw y a. with first tion of we. W FOR A € How abont that FURNACE, LATROBE or RANGE? Don't it need overhaullag? Or perhaps you want something new fn the heating Hn We tre experts, and can guarantee solid winter com- fort. Send tn your orders now and a rush. KR. STANSBURY TIN ROOFING 22-46 A SE MOST POPULAR DININ PLACE IN THIS CITY. ‘Think we may safely claim that title. Men who've “been ‘round a bit” tay our Sc. Din- nere are the finest in town. © trying to make them so. Think we've succeeded. Are you a judge of good eating? Try one and see for 48. day . AVE. AND 414 ST. S, AIR ENGLISH AND SWISS WATCHES, © modstly and guarantee all the work T Cleaning, $1. New mainspring, $1. L. E. COLE 12014 F st.. Jeweler and Watchmaker. ault3ui,4 CAL CLARET, 5 BOTS. FOR $1. Our high standard of purity and excellence ts strictly maintained In this California Claret, of Which we are selling 5 botties for $1—we couldn't afford to let it be other e JAMES THARP, 812 F ST. ~ HL. McQUEEN PRINTER A! ui FINE ROOK Syl 1108-1116 EI Fok COUNTRY RESIDENCES—ALL ANDIRONS, fenders, spark guards and fire sets in stock wili be sold at cost until further notic 122. JI. H.C NIN! 13th st. SPECIAL NOTICE -DENTISTRY DONE ON WEEK- Iy and monthly tnstailments—10 per cent discount for cash. Dr. T. W. STUBBLEFIELD, fe7-tf 11th and F sts. u.w.—Mertz bldg. Bicycling Beats Them All. It's the best exercise—is the Luilder up of failing health—and Is the most progres- sive means of locomction. You can't afford to hold off any longer—-get a wheel at on:e— get a COLUMBIA or HARTFORD, and if you don't know we'll teach you to rite free. District Cycle Co., 0 452 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. N.W. Alway Insist on Having AST GINGER ALE. It's the i the most de- efreshing drink you can take. equals the best linported ales — comes in same size bottles—but COSTS € Y AS MUCH. At soda fountains and gro- cers’. We'll supply you direct if you wish. Drop postal or telephone. SODA AND. Sam!.C. Palmer, vitteil waters. 615-62) D ST. S.W. TEL. 480. au22-1id rds"? aul0-3m,14 ‘There 1s just one printer in town who Never Disappoints, and he's ADAMS, wu2l-l4d 512 11th st. Ready For Fall Business? Getting in your fall stocks? Don't put off getting your fall supply of Stationery. 11's Koing to pay to buy everything you need in the stitionery Ine right here. We've evecythta, that we should have—eversthing that any om could wish, Prices, as always, the very low Easton & Rupp, 421 11th St. Popnlar-Priced Stationars. (Just above ave.). aull-ld Lead With a Liberty. Pree rrr ar ea i ee Something like Twain's jingle: “Punch, brothers, pungh with ‘care— uch in the presence*of the passen- ire."* But she Liberty Bleycle fs un- ike ‘any other in every respect—in word, it 1s the Ideal Bleyele. There isn't’ an {mprovement that 1s worth having that the Liberty kas not got. Tt won't require more than a gla to show you that. Take that glan Te brand new muchive. W. D. HADGER, THE WHEEL HEADQUARTERS, 1024 Conn. Ave. Lead With a Li The Most Popular Riding Schoo! In Washington {5 located at 1325, 14TH ST. N.W., as the hundreds of satisfled patrons can testify. Hours for ladies—9 a.m. to 4 p.m., 6 to 10 p.m. 10 ticksts for $2.00. Hours for gentlenen—7 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6 pm. 5 tickets for $1.00. “Special pains taken with backward pupils,” berty. a3 the boarding school circulars put it. Open every evening but Sunday, rain or shine, only We prefer not to teach puplis In the rain. 8,500 square feet of space, with sandpapered surface, and the most lofty and star-spangled canopy of any riding school in the U. 3. Lighted by elec- tric lights in the evening. GORMULLY & JEFFERY MFG. CO., $523-28a Washington, D. 0. A PERMIT FOR POLES. The Commissioners Grant the Request of the Electric Light Company. The Commissioners have decided to grant the United States Electric Lighting Com- pany a permit to replace Its line of poles on 13% stre>t. Superintendent Clark of the company appeared before the Com- missioners this afternoon and urged that the permit be issued, for the reason that the present line of poles has been in use for seven years fnd many of them had rotted. ‘The Engineer Commissioner waated all wires that could be placed in the under- ground conduit taken from overhead, and this the company agreed to do. ——-_—_. Minnehahn Lodge. Several lodges paid a fraternal visit to Minnehaha Lodge, I. 0. G. T., Tuesday evening, and after the Initiation of L. H. Points they were delightfully entertained by well arranged exercises. The program ineluded an address of welcome by W. R. England, C. T.; plano solo, Mrs. Carrie Smith, address cn “What Makes a Model Lodge,” by A. N. Canfield, G. C. T.; song, “The Temperance Cause is Growing,” Min- nehaha Sextet; remarks on juvenile insti- tute work, S. W. Ruesell; instrumental trio, E. C. Palmer, Jno. Shepherd and Mr: Smith; recitation, “Face Upon the Floor, Mrs. M. A. Naylor. Remarks by EH. H. Jones and C. F. W. Bergman of Columbia Lodge; song, “Fling Out the Banner,” Min- hehaha Sextet. —— 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. ¢>But all such orders must be ac- companied by the money, or the paper cannot be sent, as no ac- counts are kept with mall subserip- tions. A Petition Embodying Them Presented to the Uommissioners, A Police Station and a Fire Company Located Near Brightwood Avenue Particularly Wanted. The citizens cf Erightwood feel they have been neglected by the authorities too lon! and today sent a delegation to the Commis siorers to lay before them the urgent needs of that section. The delegation consisted of W. V. Cox, chairman; Dr. C. G. Ston: and Edward T. Bates. The delegation pre- serted a petition from the citizens’ associa- tion urging the Com: joners to embody in their estimates for the support of the District government for the next fiscal year an appropriation for the building of a police station and the location of a fire company in the vicinity of Brightwood avenue. They set forth in their petition that the population of the section is about 000, and is rapidly incri The near: St regular fire company is No. 7, located cn R Street between $th and 10th, in the city, and the nearest police stetion is on U | street between nd 10th streets, both | about five miles from the section sought to be protected. Continuing, the petition sets forth: “In case of a_fire occuring at or near Brightwood or Takoma, it is almost us less for the fire department of the city proper to make any effort tu save the prop- erty thre: demonstrated by the recent de at Takoma, which destroyed the bus portion of that town, and the fire that destroyed the sta- bles of the Brightwood Hotel, and the one that consumed the car stables of the Brightwood Railroad Company. “It seems, therefore, that a thoroughly equipped fire engine Should be provided, and as watet mains and fire hydrants have been placed throughout the larger portion of this section, the equipment of a fire en- gine is now practicable. “The value of the property to be protected, as shown by the books of the assessor, is more than sufficient to justify the expense of installation and maintenance. “It is well known that Brightwood aye- nue is the principal and most traveled of any of the thoroughfares to and from the ety. It is also a popular driveway, and is much frequented py pedestrians and by parties who take trips on the electric cars for recreation and pleesure. It 1s not al- ways that entire order prevails; and al- though the officers on duty in that vicinity are active, diligent and efficient, the terri- tory to be covered Is so great and the sta tion where they report for relief so remote that thieves and other evildoers easily be- come fumiliar with the time when no offi- cers are in the neighborhood, and during which they can ply their nefarious callings without hindrance. ‘The location of a_po- ce station would largely overcome thi difficulties, and would also have a great moral effect and be a most excellent poitt antage to intercept criminals or other undesirable characters attempting to enter or leave the city by this direction. The posed condition of this location, we believe, warrants the establishment of a police station.” ————— THE FIRE ESCAPE LAW. It ix Causing Some Trouble in Matter of Liquor Licenses. An interesting question has just been raised by the excise board, which will probably take a legal opinion from the at- the atnre, drawn for each ten de, falien during preceding twelve hours, The high and low barometer. 8: wes, words “High’’ ill arrows fly with the wind. @ Partly Coun isonville 0 Cloucy ey V/ 5 Itt iN 30/0 %2n Hi i, ac iis, © Observations taken at § a.m., 75th meridian time. Solld lines are isobars al alr pressure, drawn for each tenth of an inch. Dotted lines are isotherms or Ines Shaded areas are regions where rain or snow has and “Low” show location of areas of WHAT CAUSED 'THE COOLNESS. Warmer Weather ix Promised, How- ever, for Forty-Eight Hours, ‘The area of high pressure has moved from lower Michigan to eastern Pennsylvania, increasing in magnitude, a pressure of 30.30 inches being reported from Harrisburg. A second high pressure area is central off the north Pacifie coast. The storm in eastern Montana has moved to the north of Minnesota. Rain has fallen in the south Atlantic states, the middie and upper Missouri and ississipp! val wing heavy rainfalls (In inches) were repert iring the past twenty-four hours— Tamp: 1.60; Santa Fe, 1.04. temperature has risen in the lake regions and the lower Missouri valley, has len in the extreme northwest, and re- mained stationary elsewhere. t til S p.m. Friday: y England and eastern New York, warmer Friday afternoon; variable winds; becoming southerly. For the District of Columbia, eastern Pennsylvania, New Delaware and followed by western M: winds, becoming land; outh- showers warmer; eri For Virgina, fair, followed by showers in extreme southeast portion; warmer; vari- able becoming southeasterly. ‘The above map shows a marked general motion in the atmosphere toward the east, ccounts in part for the cooling mixture of strat: Since yesterday a pressure has moved quite rapidly Michigan and Penn ania, and at from the same time it has increased in mag- radiation in the center cf caused a coolness, which will now give way to a gradual warming for at least forty-eight hours. There is no clear sign of rain fer thirty-six hours, though the northwest storm now in north Minne- sota may give us rain in its outskirts to- morrow night or Saturday morning. Tide Table. ‘Today—Low tide, 3:11 a.m. and 3:29 p.m.; high tide, a.m, and p.m, ‘Tomorrow—Low tide, 4 a.m. and p.m.; high tide, 9:47 a.m. and 1 The Sun and Moon. Sun rises, 5:19; sun set: rises, 748 a.m.; moon sets, 7 The Bicycle Lamps. All bicycle lamps must be lighted at 6:45. The police regulations require that “all cycles, bicycles and tricycles in motion after sundown shall carry a suitable light.” The City Lights. Gas lamps all lighted by 6:59 p.m.; ex- tinguishing begun at 4:06 a.m. ‘The lighting is begun one hour before the time named. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of water at & a.m.: Great Falls, temperature, 75; condi- lion, 36; receiving reservoir, temperature, S1; condition at north connection, 36; condi- tion at south connection, 36; distributing reservoir, temperature, 79; condition at i fluent gate house, 36; effluent gate house,3s. Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the thermcmeter at the weather bureau today: S a.m 2 p.m., maximum, min- imum, SHOUTING AND SINGING| A Regular Oid-Time Camp Meoting Being | Held Here. torney for the District to answer. The law of March 2, 1895, amerding the fire escape law provides: “That it shall be unlawful to Issue a H- cense to the lessee or proprietor of any building in the Distric: of Columbia used as a hotel, factory, manufactory, theater, tenement house, hall or place of amu: ment, or other building used for a bush for which a license is required, unless the application for such license is accompa- pied with the certificate of the inspector 9 buildings that such building ts provided with fire escapes, standpipes, ladders lights, alarm gongs and descriptive ne- tices as required by sections one and two of said act.” Recently application was made to the excise board for a retail liquor license at a place on 7th street which had a hotel license, and was generally known as a ho- tel. The applicant was informed of the ve recited, which the excise board construed to apply to any place where a liquor license was required, and the li- cense was not issued until he had complied fully with the terms of the act. There is considerable difference of opin- ion among liquor men as to the appli tion of this law. There are In this city a number of saloons with restaurants at- tached which have heen required to take out a hotel license before serving food to customers. These places having hotel i- censes are known as hotels by the assesso> for the District, and he certifies the list to the excise board. According to a rule of the excise board, a hotel is a house which has twenty-five or more sleeping apartments. The house just required to put up fire escapes has not that number of rooms. It is believed that the question will be submitted to the attorney for the district for a legal interpretation. — ER SCHOOL, THE MIN Action of the Board of Trustees on Protests Regarding Its Use. Protests of residents in the vicinity of the Miner building on 17th street near Q street, against the occupancy of that build- ing by the colored pupils from the Stevens School, corner of 21st and K streets, were considered at a special meeting of the board of school trustees, which was held yesterday afternoon. The necessity for using this building during the three months that the work of improvement was in progress on the Stevens builéing was ex- plained by President Whelpley. The Miner building was tendered by the trustees of the Miner fund to the trustees free of cost, and the board had gone to some exjense in pre- paring the building for the use of the school. In view of ali the facts the board decided that the Miner School could be oc- cup'ed unless some more convenient and suitable building could be obtained without expense to the beard of school trustees. It was stated by a representative of the trustees of the Miner fund that as soon as the pupils of the Stevens School left the building that it was the intention to open there an industrial’ schoo! for colored chil- dren, which, it is said, would be permanent. a Funeral of Sam’! P. Keller. The funeral of Mr. Samuel P. Keller,who died Tuesday of paralysis, will be held to- morrew afternoon at Laurel, Md. Mr. Kel- ler was during the war a member of the first Maryland infantry, and lost a leg in the service. For nearly a quarter of a century he has been employed in the pen- sion bureau. — aval Orders. Lieut. W. B. Fletcher ordered to the At- lonta, Passed Assistant Engineer A. b. Canaga, Assistant Engineers W. B. Day and W. ©. Herbert, Lieut. Commander A B. H. Lilly and Lieuts. F. Singer and C. H. Harlow to examination for promotion. Castoria For Infants and Children. CASTORIA PROMOYES DIGESTION, and over. comes Flatulency, Constipation, Scur Stomach, Diarrhoea and Feverishness. Thus the child is rendered healthy and its sleep NATURAL. CAS- TORIA contains no morphine or other uarcotic property. “CASTORIA Is so well adapted to children that I recomme it as superior to any prescription krown to me" H. A. ARCHER, M.D. Ht So. Oxford st., Brooklyn, N.Y. “For several years I have recommended ‘Casto- ria,’ und shall always continue to do so, as it bas javarlably produced beneficial results. EDWIN F. PARDEE, M.D., H 125th st. and 7th ave.. New York city. lored People Gathering in Crowds to Give Vent to Their Relig- fous Enthusiasm. ‘An old-fashioned southern plantation camp meeting was in progress Sunday out in the northeastern section of the city, and was crowded during the day with good old colored brethren and sisters. These meet- ings are unusual to the elty, and ve been discouraged by the clergymen. years past and gone such meetings used to be the occasion of big gatherings of the col- ored population, but with the advent of the educated ministers and the stone churches they have become rare. The brethren and sisters who in days East and gone used to sing and shout as loud as they wanted to, have been cramped in giv- ing vent to their pent-up religious feeleings by the coming of the new, preacher and the stone churches,and they always avail them- selves of such meetings as that of Sun- so that they can sing shouts of their own composition and praise “de Law er their own fashion. The meetings in the northeast have been conducted after the old plantation times, and the mes enacted have been similar to those that used to transpire down ‘uth. arge tent had been erected in a vacant field and had been filled with chairs and benches for the accommodation of the con- yn. An impromptu pulpit had been erected at the extreme end of the camp, and it was from this that the preacher, who happened sometimes to b rpical Unele Remus, expounded the “word” to the “assemblage Creature Comforts Not Forgotten. Outside of the tent a good old sister from Virginia had 2 separate tent, in which cooked chicken, sweet potatoes and Vil ginia hcme-made potato ple was disposed of to the visitors, who paid according to what they ate. This sister did a thriving business preliminary to the opening of the meeting, and the old brothers and sisters gathered around and related their exper'- ences of “former and better days,” as they term it, wren they did not h: to put rest in their religious worship. Two brethren had charge of the entrance to the camp, and each one that entered had to pay an admission fee, which, the brother announced, was for the purpose of de- fraying the expenses Incident to lighting the grounds and the accommodation of the visitors. It was announced that the meei- ing to be held in the afternoon would par- take of the nature of a class meeting, and the brothers and-sisters would be given an opportunity of telling “how the case siood with them and the Lord.” The brethren and sisters seemed anxious to avail them- selves of the opportunity, and after while the ing was begun, to the evident de- light of ail present. ‘As one brother started up: “Get oa board, oh, my little children, “Get on beard, oh, my little children, ‘There is room for many a more,” the brethren and sisters began to leave the dining camp and to gather in the big tent. One of the class leaders arose and announced that the meeting was open, and that he wanted everybody present to tell “how they were journeying to de promised land.” He didn’t want anybody to be ashamed, because Christ had said that “he that denies me before men him will I deny before my father in heaven.” In old-time Personal Experiences Related. This announcement seemed to have had the desired effect, and nearly all present arose and told their Christian experience; lew long they had been fighting in the fieid, what the Lord had done for them, and khew they had determined to fight until the war was over. As each one told his ex- perience he was followed by some one sing- ing “Jordan's Banks,” “Roil, Jordan, Roll,” “'Tis the Old, Tried Religion, ou Can Have All the World, Just G Me Jesus,” and cther favorite hymns, and as they sang, gome laughed, some Shouted, others cried, clapped hands, shook hands re- jcicingly with each other, and there were exclamaticns of ‘Bless the Lord!’ “Glory to His name!” “Hallelujah to the Lamb!” One old sister who was bent with age arose to tell her trials and triumphs, and as she seemed to be well known to the gathering there were many loud “amens” and long “hallelujahs" as she talked of her “golden slippers and long white robe,” and some one struck up: ister, Fight in the field he war is ended.” Then the leader arose and encouraged the sister In all that she said, and urged the others not to fall by the wayside. The ng hynin was: "er think the victory won, or lay thine armor down; The work of faith will not be done "Til thou obtain the crown. In the evening there was pre ing, and the sisters shouted until they were ex- hausted, d many of them had to be fanned until they were revived. The meet- ing is to be kept up until the Ist of Sep- tember, and ni tly there will he preach- ing ard exhortation, and the old brothers and sisters, who are not allowed to shout in the church will avail themselves of shouting and singing as they did before the advent of the stone churches and the edu- cated ministry. DOCTOR TO THE AMEER Miss Hamilton is a Young Englishwoman Favored by the Shahzada. A Weman's Remarkable Experience in an Eastern Court—She Tells the Story of Her Career. Fiom Black and White. “I must confess that English misconc2p- tion of the Ameer of Afghanistan anno;s me very much,” said Miss Lillias Hamil- ton, “and I can only account for the crud- ity of the popular ideas concerning him by the garbled descriptions of the man and his methods in the newspapers. Instead of being a savage, he is en enlightened and conscientious sovereign; as a man, he is most charming and most kind.’ Miss Hamilton fs the doctor who accom- panied th> shahzada to England by the desire of his father, In the capacity of consulting physician. We were taliing of Afghanistan, and something I had said regarding the ameer had called forth her instant defense. “Would it be too delicate a question to ask why the ameer overcame Asiatic scru- ples and conventions, and engaged you as nis doctor, Miss Hamilton?” I asked. “That is another misconception,” she re- plied, eagerly. “My attendance upon the ameer arose from the merest accident. Soon after I was appointed head of the Dufferin Hospital at Calcutta, I fell 1 with fever. I was unable to shake it off, and, not wanting to come to Europe,I was think- ing of going up into the hills, when 1 heard from Mr. Martin, the agent to the govern- ment of Afghanistan, that the ameer was anxious to find an English lady who would visit Kabul. He wrote: “fhe gentlemen of my court have seen many English gentle- men, but my ladies have seen no “nglish ladies? He wanted some one who could show his wives and daughters the customs and ir terests of Englishwomen. I was de- lighted to accept the post, as Afghanistan is very healthy; so, you see, I really went to Kabul as a lady specimen and not as a doctor.” “Was it long before you became the ameer’s medical adviser?” “Oh, yes; some time. His highness gave me a pretty little house In the middle of a great garden, about four miles from Kabul. I went to the harem to be looked at fre- quenty; end then I fell ill, The ameer sent one of his own body physicians to me, and it was entirely owing to his xkill and constant care that I recovered. There was a village close to me, and when I was strong enough, I used to prescribe for the villagers, simply by way of something to do. My success came to the ameer’s ears through the Mir Munshi, the most trusted and important official of the court. The ameer was at his summer place, an {deally beautiful place, at the time, and was suffer- ing acutely from gout—and here I should like to say,” Miss Hamilton addedd with emphasis, “that his malady is purely hered- itary, and is not, as has been reported, due to his use of stimulants. a total abstainer and a medan. When I reached him he was in acute pain, which I was fortunately able to relieve, and his gratitude and consideration were really touching. A gorgeous wicker tent was erected for me within call of his pavilion. furnished with everything that one could desire in the way of comfo-t, ard he himself sent me food and fruit from his own table. “But the ameer's gratitude was not satis- fied with compliments, He has adopted me as h!s daughter—an action little unders:o0d in England, but of paramount importance in the east—and has placed a house in Ka- bul for the winter months, as well as a country house, at my disposal. He trusts me completely, I think I,may venture to say, and will even allow me to mix medi- cines in my own room for him—a great honor, considering the justiflable eastern fear of poisoning.” “And you are going back to Kabul?” “I shall return with the shahzada, of whose health I have to send reports to his father by every mail. It is a real pleasure to be in the service of the ameer, of whom I can only quote Mr. Curzon’s words: ‘His ser- vants are his slaves, and those who like him love him.’ And, besides, Afghanistan has a great future, and offers a field for unlimited work.” He is practicatiy devout Maham- Good Stories. 's Star is published the last in- stallment of the attractive and well-writ- ten story, “A Knight of the Nets,” by Amelia E. Barr. In continuation of the series of stories which is exciting so much attention, there will be published in to- morrow’s Star, complete, a story by the well-inown writer, Hamlin Garland, en- titled im Experienc: Saturday there will appear the first installment of a story of thrilling interest entit! “The Mystery of Benita,” which will be contin- ued from day to day until completed. announced that the Madison, Ill, race track will resime operations at the conelusion of the fair grounds meeting. A. Cello will be president. M. Comfort is one of the principal backers. They will run without a charter, and the name of the Madison Jock Club, instead ef Madison Turf Association, as formerly. It is | two broods. A Hearing by the Commissioners on the Subject Today. Most of the Presidents Protested Against Any Change in the Present Regulations. In amending the police regulations the Commissioners thought it would be a good opportunity to change the law regarding the stoppage of street cars. At the present time, with the exception of two railroads, all of the companies stop their cars at the far side of the street. It is the desire of the Commissioners to make the rule unl- form, and with this in view gave a hear- ing to the representatives of the several street raflroads this morning to get their views on the subject. The large majority favored stopping on the far side of the street. President Phillips of the Metropol- itan, and President Baker of the Columbia thought the near side the proper place for the cars to stop. President Dunlop's Views. President Dunlop of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company was the first one to speak. He was opposed, he said, to any change. The public had long been accustomed to the cars stopping on the far side of the street, and he thought any change in the rule would be detriment- al to the interests of the public. It would increase the lability to accident, and bring about great confusion. If the railroads were compelled to stop on the near side of the street the trucks and heavy wagons would not be slow to take advantage of the situation and insist upon crossing in front of the car. Attorney Rideout Converted. Mr. John Ridout, attorney for the Eck- ington Railroad Company, said before he arrived at the office this morning he was in favor of having all cars stop on the near side of the street. He had been converted, however, and belfeved that the only proper place for the cars to stop was on the far side of the street. To change the custom suddenly would be productive of much con- fusion. If the drivers of carriages knew of the rule which made the cars stop at the near side of a street, it would lull them into security, and they would take chances that might result badly for them. Then again in defending suits for damages agairst the company the great question would be, “did ths motofman start when an approaching vehicle was so near that an accident was inevitable?” If this rule Is anged there will be many accidents. He represented, he said, the Eckington road in the hearing, as that was the only line be- longing to the company which used rapid transit, although the Belt line would short- ly be fully equipped. Engineer Carll of the Washington and Georgetown, Superintendent Ciaude of the Rock Creek railroad, H. T. Pardy of the Georgetown and Tenleytown r: 1, and Superintendent Todd of the Eckington rail- road also spoke against any change in the present arrangement. Mr. Baker Prefers the Near Side. President Baker of the Columbia railroad favored stopping on the near side of the street, as he considered it safer. Commissioner Ross stated that in Balti- more, Philadelphia and Pittsburg the rule for stopping on the near side of a street Was universal. President Duntop also called attention to the urgent need of flagmen at the intersee- tion of 7th and B streets, 9th and Pennsyl- vania avenue, and 7th and L streets outh- west. The Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company, he said, had already xp- pointed the flagmen, ard the company was waiting for the Metropolitan company to do the same. It was unfair to make the Wash- ington and Gcorgetown railroad bear a’ the expense. He said President Philips had refused to appoint flagmen. The Commis- sioners promised to look into the matter. — INJURING WEST IRN CROPS. Inrects Which Are a Source of Trou- ble and Loss to Farmers. From the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Prof, Otto Lugger, who, in his official capacity as state entomologist, has to do with the destruction of insects injurious to the welfare of the Minnesota agriculturist, has returned from a visit to the Red river valley, where he has been waging a war on the cecidomia destructor, in common par- lance known as the Hessian fly. He was at the state capitol yesterday, and In a con- verration with a Pioneer Press reporter he recounted at some length his battles with grasshoppers, chinchbugs, etc., during the early summer. The grasshoppers, Prof. Lugger says, are practically done for in Minnesota, so far as this season is concerned, but the farmers are now confronted with the question of ex- terminating the larvae of the hopper. The grasshopper, and, in fact, nearly all insects, cease to live after propagating their specie: They quit eating and gradually waste away and dle. The eggs, however, are left to hatch out and produce young hoppers with a voracious appetite for the destruction of next year’s harvest. These grasshopper eggs may be destroyed by ploughing them under after September 10, and Prof. Lugger urges all the farmers in the state, who were afflicted this summer with hoppers, to plough under their stubble as soon after that date as possible, as by doing so they will be going a long way toward exterminat- ing the next season's crop of grasshoppers. The chinchbugs, Prof. Lugger says, have not done very much damage. Hundreds of acres of wheat have been saved by infecting the bugs with the germs of sporotrichum, of which Prof. Lugger kas shipped out an average of 200 boxes per day during the wheat and small grain-growing season just passed. Each of these boxes contained mil- lions of germs. The boxes are about the size of a dollar, are half an inch in depth, and may be mailed in an ordinary envelope. ‘The chinchbugs are now attacking the corn crop in the southeastern portion of the state, and again the sporotrichum tis doing good work in causing their destruction. A clipping from the Scott County Argus, pub- lished at Shakopee, states that on the farm of Peter Oster, on the Spring Lake road, the corn was black with chinchbugs. That was last Friday. He sent for some sporo- trichum, and two days after he used it the chinchbugs were dead by the millions, and his corn fieid has been cleared of the black pests. Prof. Lugger says that if the farm- ers generally would use more of the disease germs it would not take long to kill off every chinchbug in Minnesota. There is now actively engaged in the de- struction of the local spring wheat crop a new insect which feeds on the upper joint of wheat, and the heads, instead of filling, turn while, the grain shrivels and is almost worthless. It works something like the Hessian fiy. It is bright green, with golden eyes, Is about half the size of the ordinary house fly, and is a very pretty insect. The like of it has never before been seen in Min- nesota, and I’-of. Lugger says he never be- fore saw or heard of the insect. He has several specimens on exhibition at the state experimental station, and is looking up its family tree with a view to finding a name for it. The bug, he says, has never before made its appearance In the United States, so far as he knows, but he says it may be well known in Europe, although he ts not acquainted with it. He is studying the in- sect with the intention of finding some way of fighting it should it prove a_serlous menace to the Minnesota farmer. In large fields, Prof. Lugger says, he has seen one- tenth of the ears of grain turned white from the ravages of this nameless green fly. The Hessian fly, which is at work in the Red river valley, bores into the second joint of the standing grain and extracts all the sap from the joint, causing the wheat stalk to break over and the kernels to wither. The Hessian fly resembles a mosquito in shape and 1s successfully fought with spo- rotrichum. The potato bug, while not dangerous this year, is preparing for next season, and Prof. Lugger says the farmers should fight them now if they want to keep out the pest and save their potato crop next . The female bug is now eng: in laying its third brood, having previously disposed of Each bug lays about six hun- dred eggs at a brood, and thus it will be seen that a very few bugs may be responsi- ble this season for a large army next year. Prof. Lugger advises the farmers to care- fully destroy all the eggs possible, as that is the only way to rid the state of the po- tato bug. F ATTORNEYS . FINANCIAL FOR EXCHANGE. YOR RENT (Flats). FOR RENT (Houses) FOR RENT (Miscellaneous). FOR RENT (Offices). FOR RENT (Rooms) FOR RENT (Stables) Ae ee ee Te ROAR HC HOTELS LEGAL NO" LOCAL MB! LOST AND FOUND. MANICURE Awe eee ee BOR weed Ae eee PERSONAL PIANOS AND POTOMAC RIV PROPOSALS .. RAILROADS . SPECIAL NOTICI a STEAM CARPET CLEANING. STORAGE ..... SUBURBAN PROPERTY. IMMER RESORT UNDERTAKERS . WANTED (Help). WANTED (Houses). WANTED (Miscellancous) WANTED (Rooms). . WANTED (Situations) Beoming Brace Durirg the meeting of colored citizens Varioun Aspirants — Mr. y Serve Agnin. held at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church last night there was put in circula- tion a petition to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia asking for the ap- pointment of the Rev. George W. Lee as one of the new members of the board of school trustees. The people who presented the petition say that similar ones will be in a few days placed in all of the churches for the purpose of reaching all who are friendly to Rev. Mr, Lee. Friends of Mr. Daniel S. Murray are, it Is sald, ready to urge his appointment to the school board. Friends of ex-Senator Bruce say there is no warrant for the assertion that Mr. Bruce would decline a reappointment as a school trustee. His position 1s that he is not seeking a reappointment as an avowed candidate. He was not a candidate when originally appointed, the honor having been conferred upon him without his seeking A friend of Mr. Bruce said to a Star re- perter today: “Mr. Bruce has at no time intimated to any one that he would not accept the honor if again conferred, while we know he is in no sense a candidate now any more than he was when first ap- pointed. Yet, knowing him as I do, I do not hesitate ‘to say that he would not re- fuse to again serve the public in the ca- pacity of trustee {f again called upon, and would in the future, as in the past, per- fcrm the dutles conscientiously, without fear or favor.” Referring to the state- ment that Mr. Bruce's business interests require his time and would prevent his serving, the friend referred to said: “He is no more a business man now than when first appointed. That the schools have suf- fered because of his occasional absence no one claims. On the contrary, there was never a time when the duties in the se enth district were so faithfully and con- sclentiously performed. The duties of tr tee, after all, are merely supervisory; the real work in the schcols is done by sal. arled officials, who are supposed to give their entire time to the schools. One trus- tee has announced that he has recently voluntarily given up the major and most lucrative portion of his professional prac- tice in order that he may in the future de- vote his entire fime to the duties of trus- tee, if reappointed. We don't believe the public or any patrons of the schools re- quirg any such sacrifice.’ Sa A SUNDAY GAME. Mission School Pupilx Introduce a New Pastime at Forest Park. From the St. Louis Globe Democrat. The attertion of observant visitors at Forest Park yesterday afternoon was at- tracted to the movements of a band of children, They were evidently carrying out @ prearranged program, but it was a new game to the obscrvers. Finally, the mat- ter was investigated and the mystery solv- ed. The youngsters were boys from a down- town mission school upon whom the spec- tacular Sunday school lesson of the day hed made a great impression, and for a long time they delighted themselves in crouching on a hillside to the rear of the merry-go-round and acting the whole story out. Twelve boys were chosen from the rest, and these would press grimly up the hill and thread their way like shadows among the crowd, casting cross-eyed glances at this and that big man, sneaking on all fours behind benches in order to observe more closely, giving lttle jumps and starts of wildest terror when’ they espied a bicycle or a baby carriage, and firally gliding back again in breathless silence to their comrades under the hill: when ten would make a xreat show of knocking their kne2s together and chatter- ing their teeth, and falling all in a heap, would wail dolefully, “Oh. say, we can't never lick them!” But just then the tow- ering forms of Joshua and Caleb would Icom above the hill, and from the dizz: heights of improvised stilts these two would shout in concert, “We can, too!” which weuld so enthuse the doubting Israelites that a deafening “Yi-i-l!" would cut the air, and the whole band would rush madly out in the very midst of the Canaanites. Whichever two reached a certain tree first could be Caleb and Joshua next time. The sisters of Joshua and Caleb were not quite sure that this game was good form for the Sabbath day. The Bible part was all right, but the noise, that was very worldly; and after a spirited debate they dec'ded ‘that the boys might play it If they Liked, but as for them they would just go off to a corner and play a nice, quiet game of “Abraham,” which they did by building a tiny fire and laying on ft a Ittle carved Piece of apple to represent the boy, Isaac. “If the smoke goes straight It means you're geod, but if it goes crooked you're bad,” explained the prim Ittle leader of the crowd. Hammocks as Insulators. An evening paper, writes Walter Besant, in the Queen, the other day, published a letter from a correspondent giving advice what to do in case of lightning. I read the advice éagerly, because I am horribly afraid of lightning. The greatest safety, he told us—I hope I am giving the informa- tion correctly—is to swing hammocks in different rooms. They must be suspended from the wall by silken ropes. Very good, indeed. It is an eminently practical plece of advice. My own family contains nine persons, as a rule. There are, happily, more than nine rooms. I shall have all the furniture stowed in the garret and rig up a hammock in every room instead. You cannot well put more than one hammock in each room. Think of the beauty and the convenience of the arrangement, as well as its safety. When there is no light- ning about, we shall sit in the hall—where we shall also take our food; we shall re- ceive our friends on the stairs. When thunder clouds gather, we shall retire each to his own hammock and await the storm in calmness. Houses, in the future, will be built, no doubt, on purpose for the aecommodation of the anti-lightning ham- mock. 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Open untils p. m. on Gevern- ment pay days and Satur= day evenings between 6and fe20-208 A Charch Rent in Twain. From the Chicago Mall. In Mason, Ohlo, the organist of the church, daughter of the richest man in the county and stoutest pillar of the congrega- tion, first got a bicycle and then got bioom- ers. They were not only bloomers, but they were red bloomers, a striking, insistent, clarion red. ‘As soon as those bloomers appeared the other pillars of the church called en he minister to compel the young woman to give up the organ or the bloomers. The minister was a timid man and hesitated. The organist and her bloomers shouted de- fiance by walking into the church the next prayer meeting night and sitting down to the organ. Then the majority of the can- gregation, though it may have needed ing for, got up and went out without wa ing for the prayers. They may nave been afraid that those noisy red bloomers would drown out the pastor's voice. According to the latest telegraphic reports the bloomers still hold the church, an] the congregation has seceded and threatened to form another church. ————— The English Language Enriched. From the Saturday Review. Francis Thompson has enriched the En- glish language with words like acerb, cro- cean, ostends, lampads, preparate (for ready), reformate (for reformed) and many equaliy desirable Latinate _vocabules. Might we not, by following Mr. Thomp- son's method, add some degree of “literary gorgeousness” even to the least Thomp- sonian of our poems? For instance, certain well-known verses would be redeemed from much of their sordid quletude if presented By fonts of Dove, ways incalcable, Did hobitate 1y inamable inte. uscose stone when but one, Ostends its vult. f-w eculd know But © the dit “when, lo, Sue's tumulated,