Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1895, Page 9

4 'HE EVENING STAR. aegis PUBLISHED DAILY FXCEPT SONDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor, llth Street, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company Ss. H. KAUFFMANN,, Prest. New York Ofioe, 49 Potter Building, Star ‘swerved to subscribers In the ut 10 cents The Evening elty by carriers, on thelr owa account F Weel. or 44¢. per month. Copies at the counter cents each. By mall—anvwhere in the United Btates or Cinada—postuye presiid G0 cents per t Star, $1.00 per year; $2.00. + Washington, D. C.. ez, Che Kpening Slav.r- >» eg ecriptias must be paid in advarce. Rates of advertising made known on application, WASHINGTON, D. ©, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. = Printers’ Inf, cfBe fitffe school? master of advertising), saps: JE is cfoimed for the WasBinzfon Stor, and profablp frutSfullp claimed, 1Bot no offer netospnper tn Be counfrp goes info 60 farge a percentage of aff fhe Souses wiffin a radius of twenty mifes A POWERFUL UNION} An Interesting Review of the Brotherhood of Bookbiaders. INCIDENTS OF WIS ORGANIZATION Improving Alike to the Interests of Employe and Employer. A ITS AIMS AND OBJECTS ———— “Prior to May, 1992, there was in the United States a condition of organization that was of that value which made each local union of bookbieders a union of itself, and in consequence was instrumental in forming in the minds of its members a feeling of self which to my mind has been the cause of tardiness in bringing abcut that which the most advariced thinkers of the craft are striving for—a brotherhood in its fullest sense; one that will compel every member, whether he or she be situated In New York, California or any other section of this country or Canada, to feel an interest in what con- cerns the craft in general, and that inter- est to be born of education by coming in contact with the brotherhood and profiting by its influence.”* ‘The above was a part of a conversation had today with Mr. W. B. Hyde, president of the Wasaington local union of the Brotherhood of Bookbinders, by a Star re- rerter, and was in response to a request by the latter for Information as to the aims and purposes of the International Brotherhood of Bookbjnders, an organiza- tion of which Mr. je was for three terms president. and refused a re-election to a fourth and is now one of its most valved members. “At the time of which I speak,” con- tinved Mr. Hyde, “there happened to be a ecnvention of two national organizations— the United Rookhinders of North Amer- fea and National Trade Assembly, 230, of the K. of L. The former was composed princtnally of printed bhookbinders and the latter principally of those employed in the blank trade: and let me say richt here hood has done nothing else Trawn closer together those two branches and eliminated much, if not all of that bitter feeling that we Know existed et that time. Well, these two conventions were In session in Philadelnhia in May, 189 and some of the members of both factions conceived the idea of bringing them together ' the same room to try ard patch up thelr differences and form cre union to embrace the whole country. They were brought together. and for the first ten or twelve hours T, for one. could see nothine to iraze me in the belief thet the obiert we were working for would be attatned. Rut. finally, after the most hitter ficht T ever took nart in, the differ- erces wore adinsted to this extent that we World amaleamste and form the Tnter- Tatianal Protherhead of Bonkhinders, and With thet Intention we left Philadelphia ard torte? for resnective homes. not krewing what disposition our local unions would make of our suggestion. The Applications Pour In. “The executive counetl met the following week.” Mr. Hyde went on, “and those who were present wondered kow many would apply for a charter, but we went right on with the preliminaries. We got un a char- | ter. ar rather a design for one. when all of & sudden Preoklyn was heard from. and was given charter No. 3: then came No. 1 of New York, then No. 4 of Washington, then the foh blank men. No. 6; then the Hebrews, No. 1; then the rulers, No. 9; then Akron. Olfo. No. 5: then the manu- facturers, No, 7: then Chicago. No. 8: then Philadelphia. No 2: then Albany. No. 10: then the gilders, No. 11: then the Germans No. 12: then the Roston rufers, No. 17 then Holyck ss. No. 14: then Hart- then Roston again. No. 18. Thon we were forced to call a halt. as every Iectl unton thet was represented In Philadeinhia had annlied. But that council ung made of other material. They cam- menred lookine aromd for other game. We hunted up the histery of all elties Where hookbindire was done, and if that city hed a union we began on onslaught thronzh the mails. for we had no money to send organizers: so we trnzted to our per- sv powers pnt non naner, and the re- sult was we est them in rotation, and with No cost excent for nostace. “The work went on ir this line until the Chieaeo sonvention. when the first money was spent In ormanizine, and that was $I7, te orsanize the printed men of Cincinnati, Then the orranizer. Rrother Schoolev, was sent to Cleveland, and he succeeded in plac- another charter in that city. and we have worked on !n that line until there aro tut three hookbinders’ mnfons in the land Lot attached to our brotherhood. e employer and the effort are continned, “the brotherhaod nized against him, but for him. honest, fair-minded man, be he employer or employe, but will say r interests are {dentical, and if the rkmen Insure good to him, tt . sure much greater good to the empluve an individeal; for does he not Yeeatve his per cent of profit or herent on benefited by the rien! is not a bookbinder does that no advance has e'the that o union of w must of nec ton? There rot kno n place in the trade since he or she be- or who t came connected with it but that s creash or benefit has heen brougt by the organ‘zation. It was this that gave the fob blank men a scale of $15, $18 and $21 per week: {t was this that gave the rulers $18 and $21 per week; it was this that has advanced the price of p'ece work whenever advanced tn the printed line. Tt is this that has deterred unscrupulous em- 's from flooding thelr shops with boys. the only means, the only weapon we hove that will In any sense do aught to frsure to us any of the rights to which we are entitled, and so I say the effect of or- ganization tends In no way but to benefit Its members both personally and collective- iy: ch {n- about Objects of the’ Brotherhood. “And now the objects of the Interna- tional Brotherhoed. They are to insure in & greater sense fust what I have tried to pleture shove. Tt will, I believe with all my heart. insure to the members and those dependent upon them, better homes, a greater chance to properly clothe, educate end maintain their families. But to be mere s) its objects are to regulate our trade so that there shall be a uniform scale of wages and prices, and above all, to formulate an apprenticeship law that will he both just and equitable to employer and employe, and In this do I see the panacea for much of existing evil, for notaing will stop the subdividing of our our insisting upon all boys sery- regular apprenticeship, and requiring R the employer properly teach sue! the trade: not one sub branch, at part of the trade which is recogn as ezitimate. To be clea we must in- ure to the hoss the of the t for 2 certain m1 he must tn to learn z 1 men can or will co act. Again, it pro {t that the work day shall a shorter work day hat ft will come in such A I! do nothing to injure or his_ tra mployer. Women Must Have Thelr Rishts. “In short. its objects are to insure to ship those inalienable rights long to every man, and-such re- sults can come in no way but by the hard work of the rank and file, and when I say the rank and file I mean not only the male members, but the female as well. The ladies have rights, which are being tram- pled upon daily, and the only way to pre- vent this trampling is to organize. I tell them the came as I tell the men, that only through organized effort will they main- tain their rights. : “The movement has taken root. We have lady unions In Chicago, Albany, St. Paul and Washington, and the latter are going on in the good work in a manner which inclines me to believe that they will In the near future have the banner organization he brotherhood. nless the ladies everywhere tome to- gether and follow the good example and crganize, just so sure as night follows day and day follows night will they see the calling in which they are engaged go swiftly down, and instead: of work it will soon become drudgery, wifich it is but little hetter than now. “While I know there are times- when a strike is unavoidable,” said Mr. Hyde, in conclusion, “yet I firmly believe the strike in a vast majority of instances is the re- sult of imperfect organization. Where a perfect organization exists it will be hard to find an employer who fg so indifferent to his own interests that he will inaugurate a strike, and I belleve that the majority of strikes are brought about by the belief of the employer either that the union is useless or that It is too imperfect in its power to withstand a continued struggle. So, I say if our craft wants no strikes they must perfect their organization. Let me conclude the subject by saying we are against strikes, ‘but in time of peace we shouid prepare for war.’ AN AMPHIBIOUS CRIMINAL Tt Was the Simplest Thing When They Only Knew How He Did It. He Made Many Escapes and Was Finally Captured by an Accident, The retired detective was talking for the benefit of The Star writer, and the S. W. was letting him do as much of it as he wanted to do. “One of the hardest chaps to run down I ever came across,” said he, ‘was one I had something to do with when I was on the London police force, many years ago. He was an all-round thief, ready and will- ing to crib anything he could get his hands on, from a house and lot to a hot stove, and he never let anybody get their hands on him if he could help it, and he always did, while I was on the force. For the five years I was working along the dock dis- trict that fellow kept at his work, and we couldn’t catch him. One night he cracked a safe and got away with a thousand dollars or more, and a reward was offered for him. This put us all on our mettle, and I was keen to make a reputation, and had everything and everybedy spotted. Not a hair of him, though, showed for as much as three months, and then one night I flushed him and gave chase. He went for the dock, and I was sure I had him, for there was only one way to get out of that, and that was by the water, and in this par- ticular place he couldn’t sneak under the flcoring, but had to take to the open water. I wasn’t ten yards behind him as he went out the dock oa a run, and I saw him go over and heard the splash. It couldn't have been a second till I was in sight of all the water where he went in, byt when I got there there wasn’t any sign of my man, and the whole place was well lighted with lamps. I made a thorough search, going all around under the docks beyond, the only place where he could get under, but there wasn’t any man there. I was sure then that he kad been drowned, and we dragged the plece, but could find noth- ing in the shape of a man, though we did fish out a dead woman, who had evidently been in the water for a month. His body had floated off, that was all there was to it, and we congratulated ourselves on get- ting rid of him, even If we had lost the re- ward. However, six weeks later, a de- tective “detected” him one night on a boat on the Thames, and just as he was going to take him in he went overboard and dis- appeared in the dark waters of the river. Every effort was made to find him again, but without success, and this time we were sure he had been drowned. For a year af- terward nothing was seen of him, and then we heard of him in Liverpool, and one of the Scotland Yarders went there to take him if possible. He spotted him, +s usual, down about the docks, where he seemed to be careless. and again he took to the water and escaped. By this time we felt that he wasn’t born to be drowned, and that he would turn up again. He did, several times, and each time he got away. At last, about five years after I had been in Amer- ica, I received a letter from a friend of mine at Scotland Yard to the effect that the ‘water dog,’ as we called him, had been captured by an accident. He had been seen near the docks by a rotindsman, and chased, and as he went toward the water across the dock he tripped on a rope and fell, striking his head on a stanchion, and falling into the water in an unconscious condition. He was fished out and resusci- tated, but before they brouzht him around they discovered his amphibiousness, so to speak. Fastened about his neck w: rub- Ler tube, ten feet or so long, with a mouth- plece ready handy at one end, and the other end fastened Into a small cork float, so that when he went into the water he staid there, either swimming away or hold- ing to a,d62k-pile, but never coming to the surface ‘for alr, as he got all he vranted through the tube, with its open end in the float, which wouldn't be yoticed one time in @ thousand in the dark in such nasty water as is about the docks. Of course, they would have got onto him efter whi but the accidental falling saved time and explained a m which he no doubt gverded sacrediy, even from men of his for I know none of the thieves we caught could give him away.” What is an Anthem? From Lite. People who know Uttle about a subject explain it more clearly than those who know all about it. An old sailor had heard in church an anthem which greatly pleased im. He was telling a shipmate, who asked: 6 “I say, Joe, what's an anthem?” “What!” replied Joe. “Do you mean to say you den’t know what a hanthem is?” Not me.” ‘Well, then, I'll tell yer If I was to say to yer, ‘re, Bill, give me that ‘andspike,’ that wouldn't be a hanthem. But was I to say, ‘Bill-Bill-Bill-giv-giv-giv-giv_ me, giv me that Bill, giv me, that hand, giv me that hand, handspike, spike-spike-Bill-giv me that hand-handspike, hand-spike spike- spike, ah men; Pill, giv me that hand-spike- spike, ah men!’ that would be a hanthem.” = —- Troubie to Show Goods, From the Chicago Tribune. The young man had gone into a depart- ment store to buy a fountain pen. The girl in charge of the fountain pen showcase had supplied him with a sheet of paper, a bottie of ink and several of the pens, and, in try- ing them, one after another, he covered the sheet with the words ‘Tempus Fugit,” the girl looking on with a kindly interest. “If you buy one and it doesn’t suit you, Mr, Fugit,” she remarked, “you can bring it back and change it.” —+ His Medicine, From Tid-Bits. “I am on my way home, doctor,” said a parsimonious city alderman, who was fond of getting advice gratis, meeting a well- known physician, “and I’m thoroughly d and worn out. What ought I to tak T: the ake a cab,’ medico, replied intelligent THE NATIONAL GUARD General Gratification at the Rifle Team’s Success. RECEPTION PLANNED FOR THE VICTORS The Corcoran Cadet Corps’ Coming B Military Fete. OTHER ORGANIZATIONS With its rifle team winning glory at Sea Girt, and its commanding officer and ad- jutant there busily engaged in rooting for the team, and very successfully so, mat- ters In the National Guard have been rather quiet here during the past week, and little has transpired. With the rifle team’s departure went the almost universal belief among the brigade that the team wculd do itself and its home great credit, and that it would return with added laurels. Therefore, when the news came Thursday evering that the District marks- men had landed the Hilton trophy, and, in doing so, tad broken the record, there was unbounded enthusiasm at the armory and emong the citizens, although that enthusi- asm, especially among the members of the National Guard, was tempered not a little by the reflection that the victory was just what was expected, although it was not expected, of course, that the team in yin- ning would break the record for good shogt- ing. The moment it became known that the Hilton trophy had been won by the District men a movement was started at National Guard headquarters having for its object the calling out of the guard upon the return of the marksmen that they might be welcomed home with all the honor and ceremony due them. That the recep- tion will be an imposing one is evident from the arrangements already made, the program of which The Star has reported. The Corcoran Cadets’ Fete. Commencing on the 2sth of next month and running until the 9th of November, a military fete will be held by company A, second battalion (the Corcoran Cadet Corps), at National Rifles’ Hall. The corps intend to make the affair one of the events of the season, and some two or three hun- dred ladies have been invited to assist. They will meet at the rooms of the corps at the National Guard Armory next Mon- day evening for the purpose of completing their arrangements. The fete will be 2 purely military one in every way, and ev- erybody will be in military uniform, even the ladies who will assist. One of the fea- tures of the affair will be a military com- petitive drill, open to National Guard com- mands. There will be a squad drill of sixteen men frem the different companies, and there will be an individual competitive drill, in which two men will be allowed to enter from each ccmpany. It is also pro- posed to give prizes for cumpetition by the juvenile drum corps of the District, and -for the most popular labor crganizatoin here. A drum major’s baton will be offered for the first, and an elegant banner for the labor organization. At a business meeting of the company this week it was decided to provide a large oak frame, in which will be placed the photcgraphs of the officers nd men of the command, in full dress corps uniform. i Troop A’s Practice March. At 6.30 this afternoon troop A, first sep- grate company, will assemble at the arm- ory for a march to Great Falls, Md., as will be seen from the following order of First Lieut. C. L. Beatty, commanding: “The troop will assemble, rain or shine, at the armory, mounted. at 6:30 p.m., Sat- urday, September 7, 1895. Fatigue uni- forms, campaign hats and black belts and slings will be worn. Sabers only will be carried, attached to the saddle. Each trooper will carry on his saddle one rubber blanket, one poncho, one woolen blanket end one nose bag, and in his saddle pockets cne curry comb and horse brush, and such other articles as will be wise for him to take along. “The march will be to Great Falls, Md., where the command will bivouac, and re- turn to Washington about 10 o'clock Sun- day night. It is important that each and every man will report.for duty on this oc- cesion. No one will be excused from tak- ing part in this ride without first obtaining leave of absence from me, and this applica- tion must reach me on or before Thursday, the 5th instant.” This evening company D, third battalion, will assemble at the company rooms for the purpose of talking over the question of a reorganization of the company. Among other matters to be discussed will be the selection of officers, the company now be- ing without any. The command {fs regard- ed as one of the best in the guard, al- though the loss of its officers has some- what retarded its good work. It is believed that with the selection of officers the com- pany will soon be restored to its former high standing. athe Morton Cadets, At the*recent business meeting of com- pany A, third battalion (Morton Cadets), arrangements were made for securing the rew uniforms of the command. They will be of black, with black silk braid, and the letters “M. C."" in gold will be placed upon the lapels of the coat. The trousers will be of black, with a wide black stripe of braid down the leg. It was also decided to give this season, at National Rifles’ Hall, a series ef dances, a8 well as a number of stag parties. The first of the dances will be given about the middle of next month. George J. Harris was elected treasurer, Arthur B. Claxton, financial secretary, and Henry R. Sisson, recording secretary. A constitution was adopted for three months, and at the regular meetings of the company meantime the constitution will be so amended as to permit its adoption as an entirety at the end of that time. Edward M. Muth and Hunter Jones were elected honorary members, and William Shane was elected an active member. The com- pany will enter both the squad and individ- ual drills at the coming military fete of the Corcoran Cadet Corps. Notes. Capt. Mattingly of company B, third bat- talion, is considering the ordering of a road march by the company to Glen Echo and Cabin John bridge some time the lat- ter part of this month. Capt. Harry Walsh, company A, fourth battalion, thinks that his command passed an excellent inspection last Monday night. Company D was inspected Wednesday night, and C last night. It is said that all passed an excellent Inspection, the books and property being found in splendid con- dition, it is said. Lieut. Charles Swigart, company A, fifth battalion, has been granted thirty days’ leave of atsence. Adjt. Meck of the’fifth battalion has re- turned to the city from a pleasure trip. Lieut. William H. Mellach, company A, fifth battalion, is reported down the river on a fishing trip. Second Lieut. Arthur Carr, company C, third battalion, has tendered his resigna- tion, to take effect September 1, 1895. It is understood that the resignation was tender- ed because Of business reasans. Troop A propose entering thé regimental rifle matches, and will g6 to Ordway for the purpose of selecting fifteen men, from whom the regimental team will subsequent- ly_be chosen. Sergts. Doney and Squires are said to he popular candidates for the second Meuten- ancy of company B, third battalion. Capt. Harry Walsh is still in command of the fourth battalion, Maj. Campbell being yet on leave, although im the city. Lieut. Silas H. Kingsley’s resignation as quariermaster of the fourth battalion has been forwarded to brigade headquarters. ‘The lieutenart will make his home in Iowa. A business meeting of company C, sixth battalion, will be held Tuesday evening, when it ‘s the purpose of Capt. Streeks to se active operations in the matter cf ills, Maj. Bartlett has refused to accept the resignation of Lieut. Chisholm, company A, sixth battalion, and although refusing the captainey of the company at a meeting this week, Lieut. Chisholm will take charge for a time and endeavor to make the com- mand all {t should bé& Capt. H. S. Barbour, troop A, will return to the city on Monday. He has made Lieut. Beatty the heppy recipient of a miniature eavalry model, by which all movements of a troop are made possible and instructive. Thursday next the first battalion (Wash- ington Light Infantry Corps) will celebrate its fifty-ninth anniversary at the armory by a review and dress parade. Service medals will be presented, and there will be @ grand hop. Monday next the regular company drills of the first battalion will be resumed, com- pany A assembling then for that purpose. At a meeting of the Washington Light Infantry Corps on Wednesday last John W. Frizzell was elected a rmember of company A and B. A. Hickcox of company D. It is rumored that Second Lieut. D. W. Neligan, company B, fourth battalion, thinks of resigning, because of business reasons. Philip P. Shea and J. and T. Gate- ly have been elected members of the bat- talion. THE SCHOOL OF THE STREET How the Ohildren “Learn Badness” While Parents Neglect Them. Dangers for City Mothers and Fath- ers to Avold—No Mystery After All. “Oh, how does the child learn so much badness?” How many times a day do distracted mothers give utterance to that exclama- tion? Who gives them answer? And if the truth were told them, would they find it palatable? Hunt “the child” this minute, and where will it be found? Sittington the curbstone, its small ears and big reutd eyes absorbing moral poison by the sou} fuli. Playing on,| the asphalt are three or*four little urchins from back in the alley. They are matcning pins. Soon The Child wants to take a hand, and he is told to “sneak” some pi which he proceeds to do, taking them fr: his mother's room. Presenily some ol: boys stop to match pennies. The Chi says it has a bank full of pennies. He is cajoled into “sneaking” a few out for the purpose of adding to his store. Of course he is robbed by the older boys. Evening comes, and, with an’ aching little heart. The Child tells the story of his wrony: The mother tl “it. is perfect!) awful” but never thifks about her neg- liZence tn letting The Child be on the street, and the father says it's an outrage that hig little boy. can’t protect himself, and forthwith pro: céeds to instruct him in’ the “art” of matching pennies and pins. The lesson is . well learned, and the next time The Child comes off winner. It is the first step perhaps in “learning so much badness,” certainly the first at gam- bling, and a premium Is set on its stealing the pins and pennies, that being entirely forgotten. Things go wrong in the department, at the shop, in the office. The father comes home, and, in language that reeks with brimetone, relates his trials to his neigh- bor over the back yard fence. The-Child stands beside him, enriching its vocabulary at the rate of a dozen words of questionable decency a minute. The next morning at breakfast its dislike for codfish balls is expressed in the tonghest of profanity. Neither parent can stand that, and The Chiid gets a blistering whipping, while the mother says: ‘Where does he learn so -much badness!" even while it tearfully protests that papa talks that way, and what papa does must be all right. indeed, does he learn so much v badness? A neighbor's child tosses a ball through the plate glass front door, and the mother, red with anger, threatens the fleeing, frightened boy with a broomstick and a desire to “kill him the next time she catches him.” A day later she is horrified to see The Ghild make a*lunge for his lit- tle neighbor playmate, with a case knife, and telling him that he will kill him ff he digs up another spear of grass! Of course, The Child gets “licked” and-lectured. Do you fancy that either do him much good? Or that his mother will have far to go to find out where he learns so much “badness.’* Perhaps the house is cleaned up for very particular com- pany, and The Child is in the way. His mother gives him a nickel to go and play on the street till she calls him. That is license enough, and he goes ranning. A blg boy comes along snd coaxes him to change his nickel for pen- nies. Then they match pennics with half @ dozen other hoodlums and win three or four and “divvy up.” The big boy gets some cigarettes, and ‘The Child ts taught to smoke one. It makes him ill, and the big boy flees, leaving The Child on a strange streét by himself. A policeman finds him almost unconscious and not knowing his home carries him to the sta- tion, where he has to stay amid sights and sounds which pollyte the place till he Js able to tell where he lives, or the mother, her company gone, remembers his existence and starts out to hunt kim up, telling’ everybody that he gives her so much trouble, and she so careful of him, too! It isn’t hard to tell how he learns badness, and It is almost 2s easy to tell whose fault it is. Perhaps it is a little girl who is growing wayward. Is any wonder, when the mother smilingly Invites compliments from strangers in street cars and on the river boats, in church or on the street, regard- ing her pretty little daughter, who is just old enough to be getting vain? How can the little thing help being sullied when the mother sits on the door step in the evening and sees her little girl playing with half a dozen alley hoodlums, running up to passing people with a merry call for ®@ penny, to which call her sweet face often brings the copper. Off she files to spend the penny, and 3s picked up and fon- dled by strangers in the shop, kissed and told that she is pret- ty as a peach; asked who her sweetheart taught to repeat horrid doggerel be- “cause she lisps it so “eutely; fed brandied eaches, Ww! ‘y drops Qnd hard clder. + Is it any wonder Hf at children grow “tough” when they. are turned out on the streets night after night to play among street scenes, where drunken men, abandoned wo- men, and the scum of the city wander back and forth, mingling with respect- able men and women, and lowering the moral atmosphere of adults, to say” nothing of the young? GAIN FOR THE WEST Free Silver Sentiment Losing Its Hold. DIVERSIFICATION OF — INDUSTRIES People Turning Attention to New Pursuits. FEELING FOR CLEVELAND Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, September 3, 1895. Ex-Congressman Coombs, who is now government director of the Union Pacific railroad, is just in from a pretty thorough tour over the Union Pacific road and its branches. His trip has brorght him Into contact with a good many people in this western country—people of all sorts, from the officers and employes of the railroad down through the various gradations— bankers, merchants, hotel managers, resi- dents of the cities and towns end stations along the road and its branches, stockmen, ranchmen, mine owners and employes, poli- ticlans, lawmakers and men who want to make laws. “One of the things that especially inter- est me in this interesting country,” said he, talking to The Star correspondent, “is the@fact that this country is rapidly getting over {ts absolute and unqualified demand for free silver. It is getting to see that it is not coming, and this fact is really prov- ing very valuable to it. “Hew is it valuable, Mr. Coombs, to a country that has as much silver as this, and which has looked upon the loss of sil- ver as ruinous to it?” “Because it is turning its attention to its other undeveloped resources, and in so do- ing accomplishing much more for this coun- try than would have been the case under other circumstances. Heretofore,when there was a market for silver at good prices, all attention was turned to that one industry. Now that silver mining has become less profitable, the people are turning their at- tention to other industries, such as the mining of gold, the raising of stock, the de- velopment of other mines and manufac- tures. In other words, the industries of the country are becorning much more di- versified, and with excellent results.” “You think, then, that this section fs not ging to suffer as much from the loss of er as had been supposed by its peo- Undoubtedly not. Of course the silver mines will not be as profitable, but the gold mines which have been developed since the recent fall in the price of silver are very numerous and profitable, ard will be more so. Then, too, the changed con- ditions regarding silver are resulting in a general turning of attention to other in- dustries, not only gold mining, but many others, both in mines, stock raising, agri- culture and manufacture. T have no doubt that the resuit will be such a development of these other industries as to render the country thus affected really better off. The state of Colorado is this year producing enormous quantities of gold and is giving California a close race in this line. The fruit productions, the agriculture, as well as the various mining and manufacturing interests of this western country, so de- pendent upon silver, are being rapidly de- veloped, and the people are not going to suffer from the loss of silver as much as they had expected.” : “Do you find any cessation of the ex- treme silver sentiment which was so clear- ly defined and persistent here as to put aside everything else in a political way “Yes. The people are many of them see- ing that it is impracticable for this country to undertake free coinase of silver. under the present circumstances, and are accept- ing the situation. I do not mean by this that all the people, or even the majority, have reached that conclusion yet, but I do find that the more intelligent, thoughtful and experienced business men, who have an opportunity to study the situation from the broader standpoint, are coming to that conclusion very rapidly.” “Yet, this country will doubtless send free silver delezates to the national con- ventions of both the great parties, will it not, Mr. Coombs?" F “DoubUless. That Is to be expected. It would not be reasonable to expect so rapid a change as to produce other results, at present.” hat do you think they will do in case the great parties refuse to put free silver in their platforms?” “That Is pretty hard to say. If there should be a free silver convention, nomi- nating a free silver candidate, they would doubtless sup» that candidate. But if not, I think they will follow the leaders of the old parties. “You do not think they are likely to sup- port the populist candidate then, even if the great parties refuse to indorse free sil- ver?” * ‘No, I think they have had enough of that periment. The populists are too ex- treme in their fiat money and other ‘isms’ to suit even those whe are extreme free silver men, Yor they do not look upon the fiat money idea as at all allied to thelr free silver view.” “Do you find any crystallization of sen- timent yet as to candidates of the parties for the presidency?” “No. Of course the silver sentiment and the fact that none of the proposed candi- dates are of that sort prevent: the forma- tion of a definite sentiment here, at pres- ent. But it is astonishing how warm a sentiment there is toward Mr. Cleveland, even in this section, where his views in regard to silver have not met with general approval.” “Do you think there is really any thought of a third term for him?” “He seems to be more spoken of than anybody else. I find one thing especially marked, that he is more popular among the people and away from the politicians than we had realized. 1 do not think that we realize in the east, and especially in Washington, how near Mr. Cleveland is t the hearts of the masses of this country O.P. A: ——.——__ WASHINGTON NEEDS A LIBRARY. The One Large City Without One Ac- ceasible to the People. From Harper's Weekly. The city of Washington is the ene large city in the United States which has no pub- lic library. There are libraries in plenty, and there are more books in these libraries (counting the library of Congress) than in the libraries of any other city in America. But there is no Hbrary for general use ex- cept the Congressional Library, and the use of that Is so restricted that it does not serve the purpose of a pubilc library in any great degree. The need of public li- brary facilities has led to a movement, in- augurated by Theodore Noyes of The Wash- ington Evening Star, for the establishment of a public library by congressional enact- ment. Unfortunately Washington is d pendent wholly on Congress for its laws, and Congress specifies the uses to which its funds shall be put. There is no way to establish a public lbrary in the city with- out a special law of Congress unless some public-apirited citizen will endow one. And Congress is notoriously slow in action. Therefore the Fifty-third Congress has gone out of existence without taking action on_the Mbrary bill. The library of Congress is the largest Ubrary in the United States. In fact, it Is one of the largest libraries in the world. is growing constantly under the provisions cf the copyright law; for Librarian Spof- ford has to mourn the fact that Congress declines to make large appropriations for the purchase of books, and the copyright con- tributions and the books obtained by ex- change with other countries (chiefly public reports) are the chief accessions which the library receives. The annual appropri- ation for the purchase of books and for subscriptions to magazines, of which the library receives a large number, is $10,000. Of the books purchased, the mo&t valuable, in the eyes of Librarian Spofford, are in the set of the London Gazette from 166, which was obtained at an auction in Lon: don. The librarian has agents all over the world, who keep him advised of books which are offered for sale. The most val- uable contribution to the contents of the library was that of Dr. J. M. Toner of Washington, who presented to Congress in i882 more than 27,000 books and pamphlets. ‘These are stored in a room in the crypt, but they will find an appropriate resting place when the new library building is completed, a few years hence. There is also a fine collection of Chinese works, which was presented to the library, and to this have been added some Chinese writings purchased at the time of the sale of the late Caleb Cushing’s brary. The students of Chinese literature in this country are few, and there are not many demands for the Chinese volumes. It fs possible at all times to consult the bocks and pamphlets in the library, and many students resort to the Capitol for that purpose. In fact, there are many-vis- {tors who come hundreds of miles to avail themselves of the unequaled facilities of the library. a VERACITY AS A FINE ART The Kind of Truth Men May Tell When Competing With Other Men. A Series of Stories Calculated to Show the Extent of Imagination of the Tellers. The Star writer had sat down in the midst of a group of conversationalists fathered in front of a hotel, where there were acccmmodations for those to sit who love to indulge in an hour or so of afte: dinner talk. “That reminds me,” said a m&n from Virginia, when another man had finished a pleasing and pertinent story, f a cow we used to own when I was about coming of age. I was working on my father’s farm for my board and clothes, and part of my arduous duties was to milk the cows. They “were pretty good miikers, every one of them, but there was one that was the ‘milkin’cst cow you ever see,” as one of our hired hands put it. She was £0 little that the hired man could pick her up and pack her into the milking shed, and she gave so much milk that it took two men to carry it to the spring house. It required about a minute for the fire points of this narration to work their way into the perception of the listeners, and then a long-legged Kentuckian gave a gulp as if he were swallowing the yarn bodily. “Huh,” he said with an air of superiority, “that's nothing to a cow we used to own when I was a boy down in the Pennyrile neighborhood.” “Where's the. Pennyrile?” asked a for- igner. “Off to the west and south of the Blue Grass.”” “And where’s the Blue Grass?” the same man. “You'd better go to school awhile,” re- plied the Kentuckian contemptuously. “But as I was saying: My daddy had a cow that used to come up at night as reg- ular as clock work, but one night she failed to show up and a nigger boy and I went out to drive her up. There was a sink hole—" “What's a sink hole?” asked The Star ei asked a funnel-shaped hole, that looks as if it might be the crater of an extinct vol- cano, varying in depth from ten feet to bottomless, and from fifty to a hundred feet or more across the top. As I was saying: There was a sink hole about a half mile from the house, and as we went by it, we heard the cow bawl, and going over that way we found her in the hole and unable to get out. I reckon she was twen- ty-tive feet or so below the level and the sides were too steep for her to climb out. We figured awhile on the -best way to get her out, and at last the nigger boy said he knew how to do it, and right away slid down into the hole with the cow and began to miik her. He told me to wait at the top for him and I did it, and in a mighty little while, I'll be dogged, if that nigger hadn’t milked enough milk into that sink hole so that both him and the cow could swim out.” The Virginian looked at the Kentuckian as if he wanted to hit him, but a New York man began to talk and the battle was postponed. “Speaking of gunflints,” he said, “re- minds me of bullet holes, and I met a man today looking for a patent, who was in the inventing business fifteen years ago, when I lived up the Hudson. He had in- vented a machine for taking bones out of shad that was the very best thing of its kind ever tried. AN you had to do with it was to screw it on the side of the table, drop in your cooked shad, (urn the crank and the machine fired all the meat into your mouth and all the bones under the table. All the inventor needed was to find a man with money to help him bring out the machine and put it on the market, but moneyed men were scarce and it was a long time till one was found, but he was found at last, and then the inventor was happy. He showed the capitalist how it worked, and the capitalist was so well pleased that hé took it home with him to show it to his wife. Next morning, just after breakfast, the inventor got the ma- chine back again and with it a note that crushed his hopes forever. The capital not only didn’t want anything to do wi h the confounded machine, but hoped the inventor would go to a place where there wasn’t enough water in a million years to float a minnow. It was a long time before the inventor could find out what the matter was, but he did at last, and then he learn- ed that the capitalist in attempting to show his wife how the machine worked, turned the crank the wrong way and filled himself so full of bones that he couldn't get his shirt off for six weeks.” There was something so pathetic in this tale of the disappointed inventor that it was fully two minutes before an Ohio man could say something to dispel the gloom. “All inventors don’t have such bad luck as that,” he sald, with the confidence of the average Ohioan, “and one I used to know out there in the western reserve in- vented a machine that would have revo- lutionized the sheep business, if he hadn't been killed on his way to Washington to get_out his patent.’ “Do you call that luck?” asked the New York man. “This patent,” continued the Buckeye, ignoring the interruption, “was the neat- est thing I ever saw. It looked like a small threshing machine, and it utilized all the products of the sheep in the most complete manner possible. The operator simply tied the legs of a sheep in a bunch, dropped the animal into a hepper, set the machinery going and in three minutes he would turn out four quarters of mutton, a peck of chops, two dozen tallow candles, three wool hats and a leather apron.” An immediate and vociferous call for affidavits followed the Ohio man’s narra- tion, and during the excitement The. Star man escaped. ——__ Proof of Genius. From Harper's Bazar. First Poet—“I think Thomson's Seasons is the mest remarkable book ever written.” Second Poet—“Why?” First Poet- t contains over a thousand lines on spring, and he managed to get it published.” |REAL ESTATE GOSSIP Money Seeking Investment in Houses and Lots, A RECENT EXPERIMENT IN BUILDING A General Demand Among Tenants for New Houses. THE BUILDING RECORD The healthy tone that has characterized the real estate market in the District for the past few months shows no indication of lessening, but on the other hand, it is plainly apparent that it promises to grow in vigor. The private balances in banks usually present the most truthful barome- ters of the condition of real estate, be- cause it is naturally the chief channel through which idle money flows to seek in- vestment. Taking the local financial feel- ing as a basis therefor there has been in the very recent past a substantial amount of capital diverted to profitable ends in the purchase of city and suburban real estat especially of an unimproved character, Consequently there is what may be regard- as a tightness in the money circles, Persons desiring to secure loans on prop- erty find it somewhat difficult to do so. it is not because capitalists are chary about letting go of their funds, but simply be- cause there has been a general investment already in promising properties, and there is not sufficient balance held back to make negotiation on the part of those who de- sire loans as easy as heretofore. In the immediate past the most signifi- cant building operations have been going on in Columbia Height vi ck- oe ights and at West Eck- An Interesting Experiment. An experiment which was commenced several months agv in a subdivision on the berder of the city. and which has been Watched with much interest by builders has been completed and is regarded by, these who made it with much satisfaction, Last winter a company of capitalists deter- mired to see what could. be done in the District in the line of erecting houses of mederate size, but equipped with all the ecnveniences and- attractiveness of more pretentious residences. The class of dwell- ings they had in view were those so plenti- ful in the vicinity of Philadelphia and New Yerk. Sixteen six-room houses, with but- ler's pantry, bath and cellar were, there- fore, put up. They were finished in the same style of material and workmanship that enters houses costing $14,000 or $15,000, The bath rooms were tiled and fitted with pcreelain tubs. Hand carved cabinet mun- tels with French plate mirrors, handsome- ly decorated walls and ceilings, electric lights in imported chandeliers, and sanitary plumbing were introduced. These houses were to be sold for $4,800, or rented for #80 per month. They have just been com- pleted, and seven have already fouad pur- ckasers. The experiment has been so suc- cessful that the capitalists have determined to build fifteen more houses Ike those al- ready erected on the same street. New Houses in Demand. The general building trade is increasing despite the lateness of the year, and the class of houses being erected is better than heretofore. This is due to the fact that builders and. investors recognize the aimost universal demand of these in search of dwellings or residences to rent new houses. There is a very stiff and steady inquiry for residences of this character, while old houses find few expectant tenants who are willing to even so much as look at them. A walk through any of the sections of the city where the houses have been standing for any number of years shows numberless “for rent” signs inside of closed windows or tacked on the joors. The sam conditions do not exist so strikingly in the newer portions of th city. The general acquaintance which the public now possesses with the importance of improved plumbing and the prime neces- sity for proper hygienic safeguards in and around dwelling houses probably xccounts for the hesitation of house hunters in rent- ing old houses. With the rew and rapidly increasing fa- cilities for quick transit, hqsise hunters are going to the outskirts of town, where they eanrot only secure dwellings in keeping with their incomes, but gratity their desire for new houses as well. The expected com- pletion next spring of the electric system on the Capitol Hill branch of the Metro- politan road has increased inquiry for pron- erty lying north of East Capitol street and in the vicinity of Lincoln Park, and a healthy growth in the number of medluin- priced houses in that vicinity is looked for in real estate circles. The Bullding Record. The record of the past week shows a total of nine new buildings at an estimated ecst of $21,850. The northwest gets the bulk, six permits, at $19,900. The county got two new houses, at $1,750, and the southeast had to content itself with a stable, at $200. Senator John Sherman fs building two handsome suburban dwellings. One is lo- 3G08 Newark street and the other 526 Folsom strect. Pelz and Cariyle are the architects, and P. F. Gormuley the builder of the first house and John Simp- son the builder of the other. . J. Menakin ts building at the north- west corner of 3d snd Q streets a hend- sc:ne store and dwelling, two stories high, with cellar. Wm. Eslin is the architect. Three new two-stcry dwellings are being erected at 33, 35 and 37 Q street northwest for D. B. Gottwals and F. E. Middough. A, B. Morgan Is the architect. eps “Life is for Itself.” I have never found a man wholesome and lovable to the core who had not some- where in his composition a capacity for wide and smiling idleness. For your over- busy person needs be of necessity a cow- ard or an egotist. Elther he permits him- self to be whipped by life into a nervous and flinching energy, because he is not strong enough and courageous enough to offer the necesSary resistance, or else he is of that class of self-appointed heroes who have a taste for being at the front and who find no privilege of exemption half so clear as the opportunity for self-expression that comes with participation. A great deal of unnecessary work, such as Con- gresses for discussions, id societies for advancements, and fin-de-slecle literature, gets itself done in this way, and by these persons, uot because the world is in any way benefited by such performances, but simply because the performers are not able to efface theinselves and their opinions, One longs at last for the cool presence of the idler, to whom “‘life is for itself, and not for a spectach and who has no feel- y resentment that there is not sperate situation for him to redeem. I do not believe that Shakespeare ever thought the better of himself, except perhaps before Anne Hathaway and his debtors, for having written the sonneis, m I uncomfortable in the opinion that Shakespeare’s peers have lived and died so blessed by fortune and a high indifference as to be under no temptation to coin their gold and barter it for a world's considera- tion. For in the richest nature its activ ties distill back into itself, and thereby is knowledge fortified into wisdom and both ripen into character. Happy and thrice happy is the man whose life to him a king- dom is, and who is of royal blood to sit down and enjoy it.