Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1895, Page 8

' THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. Our Annual: Furniture Clearance Sale Ends day after tomorrow night. Until then you may choose anything you want from any of the furniture departments, and pay ro to 50 per cent less for it than you will have to pay for it Saturday. Here Are Some of the Mark-downs: Chamber Suites. ‘The ‘The $15 ones 24 oner ‘The $44 ones The $58 ones ‘The $180 ones at. The $265 ones at. And this is th runs. Parlor Suites. Overstuffed, Brocatelle and at. ate at. at. Plush, 5 pleces........0-- $47.00 $29.85 Overstuffed Damask, 5 pleees.. = $90.00 $73.00 Overstuffed Brecatelle, 5 pleces.. $128.00 $88.50 Dining Tables. Solid Oak, G-feet extension. $5.40 $3.75 Solid Oak, Sfeet extension. $7.20 $4.70 Solid Oak, 6-feet extension. $12.00 $8.50 Ladies’ Desks. Solid Oak Derk, suitable for a Lady or for a Child for School Desk, only......$2.25 W. B. ‘MOSES —————— Hall Racks. Oak. $8.00 $3.95 Oak. $13.50 $7.75 Oak oy $23.00 $14.50 uk. $42.00 _ $26.70 Easy Chairs. Ramle Covering. $4.60 Mahogany Finish, Corduroy . $20.00 $10.00 Grandfather's Chair, Denims.$20.00 $10.50 Solid Mahogany, Leather....$40.00 $21.50 Rocking Chairs. Ge. $1.29 Oak or Mahogany Finish.... $4.75 $2.85 Oak or Imitation Mahogany. $4.00 $1.95 Couches. ‘ Leatherette $12.00 $7.85 Box Couch, $10.00 $8.45 Box Couch, Cretonne. +$15.00 $10.00 Corduroy, with pillow. -$25.00 $19.75 & SONS, Cor. F & uth Sts. Storage Warehouses, 22d St. Near M. = ELWOOD AND THE APACHES. ‘A Circumstance That Alded Him in Getting Knowledge of Their Ways. From the Chicago Dafly inter-Ocean. “Superstition forms the greater part of the Indian's character,” said John Elwood yesterday. There are few people that are in closer touch with the Indians, and especially the Apaches, than Jack Elwood, as he is familiarly known through the Rockies. Jack is a character. Early in the sixties Jack went to California. His for- tune did not come at once, and finally Jack drifted hack toward the land of the rising in. He landed in Arizona, and for years has been one of the best-known prospectors in that territory. He lives at Phoenix, and is getting almost too old, one would think, to keep up his efforts to uncover a fortune, but it would not be safe to tell Jack El- wood that. In the latter part of the vigh- ties Jack had an experience while crossing the plains that led to his close relations with the Apaches, -and since then he has been one of the few who bave the confi- dence of this band of warriors. “How did I get my great stand-in with the Apaches?’ Well, I'll tell you, I hardly know,” continued Elwood. “I sort of grew into their confidence, and have shared it more or less since about 1886. "Long in January of that year I had an occasion to get pretty intimately acquainted with the Apaches. “In Phoenix, in a_back street, stands a little adobe house. It is off by itself, and its occupants have no communion with any of their neighbors. It is the home of an Indian by the name of Melo, who, with his wife and two children, lives a quiet and sol- itary life. They, like all Indians, are clan- nish. They do not want to associate with the outside world, and have little or noth- ing to do with their own people. I am about the only one who ever gets inside the threshold of that little adobe cottage. From its doorway, to the east, can be seen in the distance ‘Four Peaks,’ with their summits covered with snow. Between Phoenix and these mountains is a broad desert. “Early in January, 1886, I was crossing that desert with a team. It is quite a trip, and the valley is quite warm even in Jan- uary. It is necessary to carry water across this plain, and I had a goodly supply in a barrel on the wagon.. Everything was going along in good shape until nearly noon when an accident resulted in the loss of every drop of water we had. It was im- possible to proceed far without water, and yet te remain there would be equally as se- rious. We did our best. "Long in the even- ing I was picked up by a band of Apaches in an almost exhausted condition. They gave me water, and one young couple, who seemed to be superior in intelligence, fed me. I, however, did not have my full senses. The terrible strain on a cry alkali plain without water and in a burning sun ‘was enough to turn any one's brain, I tell you. “Indians are superstitious, illogical and childish to a degree of which no civilized man has any conception. This was to my advantage. They thought me insane, and, as they regard one out of his natural mind as something supernatural and to be revered, they treated me with the greatest kindness. I did not trust the Indians, and hence when I began to recover my mental balance I tried to give no outward evidence of this fact, and wandered among them in solitary and speechless manner. I was shamming to get away all the time. “A few days after my arrival at camp twin boys were born to the young wife of the Indian who had fed and cared for me. This is not any more uncommon among the Indians than elsewhere, and although the red man is passionately fond of children, yet the appeararce of twins and a crazy man (as they thought me) forbode them evil, and the medicine man said that Mrs. Melo was a witch, and that she and her infants must be sacrificed. Melo pleaded for his wife, without avail. She did not at- tempt to escape. I was not yet able to un- derstand the Indian language, and it was some time before I was aware of what troubled my younr friends. Already the dance had commenced, and only a_few hours remained before the mother and her children would be burned. I made my escape, and succeeded in reaching the agency. Here, with much trouble, I se- ctred a detachment of cavalry and led them back to the Indian camp. “I had no hope of being in time; but, for- tunately, the chief had eaten something that did not agree with him, and the sacri- fice was postponed a few hours. When we rode up the noise of the beating of tomtoms and the singing of dancers drowned out the sound of our approach. In the distance we could see the young wife and her two children being driven into her shack, and the warriors, with burning firebrands, gradually closing in to ignite the funeral pile. At this moment we were discovered, and the dance was brought to a standstill. ‘The presence of the troopers was sufficient. I persuaded Melo and his wife to return to Phoenix with me. They have lived there since, and aided me in gaining knowledge of the Apaches s00 Whole Whent Brend, Pulled. From the Household News. There is a decided difference between whole wheat bread and the ordinary brown breed. The bread that you use must be fre2 from bran. Make it with as little yeast as possible; pour one pint of boiling Water into one pint of milk. When luke- warm add one yeast cake, dissolve in a quarter of a cup of lukewarm water, then add a teaspoonful of salt and suflictent whole wheat flour to make a batter; beat this batter for at least ten minutes. Stand it_in 2 warm plece for three hours. Then add sufficient flour to make a dough and knead carefully. When too stiff to handle with a spoon turn it out on a board and knead until ii ts elastic. Form this at once into four loaves, put each loaf in a square pan about eight inches long, four wide and from four to six Inches in depth. When light again, ut the end of about one and a half hours bake in a moderate oven one hour. Take from the fire and turn out to cool. When cold cut the crusts from top ef loaf. These make admirable food for the remaining part of the family. With the fork pull the bread from the top of the Joaf toward the bottom in.sort of strips Puil or break them apart. Put these p! on paper in the bottom of a large pan, return to the oven and bake until they are crisp to the center, and fs pulled bread, and the only form of br. you should use. SALISBURY’S SPIRE IN DANGER. The Weight of Its Leaning Walls ia Spreading the Cathedral Tower. From the London Daily Graphie. The report of Sir Arthur Blomfield, A. R, A., upon the condition of the celebrated spire at Sal'sbury Cathedral is calculated to cause ‘anx’ety, if not alarm. It is quite evident, from that report, that the dan- gerous symptoms which threatened this beautiful structure some centuries back, and which it was supposed had been com- Pletely overcome by a system of “tieing” and “bracing” then adopted, have begun to reappear, ard that the thrust of the leaning walls of the spire is again forcing the straight walls of the spire outward. which, if not atiended to immediately, may lead to danger, if not disaster. With the experiences of Chichester, Peterborough, Mayence and Seville before us, it is no: likely that the appeal for funds to execute the necessary repairs will remain unan- swered. Although the tower and spire of the cathedral appear so admirably suited to the building that we could not imagine the church without this, its most distinguished feature, it formed no portion of the origi- nal design. The cathedral, which is nearly all of the same date, was completed (ex- cept the tower and spire) in 1258. Tho center tower then erected was probably either a low lantern crowned by a pyra- m.‘dal roof, or a dwarf spire like that of Oxford Cathedral. The bells were sus- pended in an isolated campanile, which stcod about thirty feet from the west front. This very solid bell tower was in existence dewn to 1790, when it was pulled down because the ‘wise men” of that day thcught it interrupted the view of the cathedral! But as it was built by the Same men who ere-ted the cathedral itself. we may be pretty sure that those who pul'ed it down made the blunder, not those who set it up. About a century after the bull ling of the cathedral it was determine] to take down the low central tower, and in its place to erect the present magnificent tewer. It has always been a question whether it is judictous, from a constructive point of view, to erect a lofty tower or spire over the center of a great church, and the feature is almost peculiar to Eng- land and Normandy. In other parts of France and in Germany (except in some of the Romanesque churches) it is practically unknown. The constructive difficulty Is this: A central tower cannot be supported upon its own walls, but has to rest upon fcur columns which are more or less re- stricted as to size, because if they are made very large, they block the church in the center. Salisbury is the largest stone central spire in existence (it is rath- er over four hundred feet in height). It was a very hold thing to place such a great structure upon four columns intend- ed for one only about half the height, and we take It that the fact of its having stood over five hundred years has justified the experiment. it must not, however, be supposed that all has gone quite smoothly in the history of the Salisbury spire. The first notice we have that all was not right dates back as far as the year 1417, when the chapter obtained a royal warrant to acquire lands to the value of £50 a year to restore the steeple, which was then found to be in a dangerous state. At some time later on the spire was filled in with beams of timber and tied with iron. Sir Arthur Blomfield thinks that the latter operation did more harm than good. In 1681 the pillars or piers at the west side of the tower were found to have sunk, thereby throwing the apex of the spire twenty-two Inches out of the _perpendicular—from scme points of view this inclination is dis- tinetly_ visible. Sir Arthur Blomfield proposes that the great pinnacles at the base of the sptre | should be carefully repaired, as their stone- | work is perished and fractured in places. It is to be hoped that this will stop the “spreading” of .the base of the spire, which Str Arthur regards as a serious danger. Might not the chain round the drum of the dome .of St. Peter's, Rome, offer a suggestion? ' ——__+e+___—_.. GIANT OF THE POLICE FORCE. Royal MeKenzie of Duluth Towers Above His Associates. Duluth Special to the Chicago Times-Herald. Patrolman Royal McKenzie was un!il a short time ago the tallest officer at the head of the lakes. A short time ago Gus Anderson, a coal heaver, was appointed on the police force at Superior, Wis., and as Anderson is a trifle taller and heavier than McKenzie, the championship medal has been handed to him. This does not discon- cert McKenzie, who is still growing, and hopes by the time he is a year older to have distanced even Anderson. McKenzie was twenty-six years of age his last birth- day. He came here from Huron county, Ontario, and now meusures precisely 6 feet 10% inches in height and weighs 257 pounds and 3 ounces. He is a remarkably well- built man, and one does not notice his great height until he stands near a man of the ordinary size, when the latter looks like a dwarf. For the last year Patrolman McKenzie has been growing steadily, and is now nearly three Inches taller than he was in September, 1894. He was appointed on the police force two years ago, and is by all odds the Jargest man in the department, although Detective Thomas Hayden is a close second, standing 6 feet 7 inches. The two men make a remarkably handsome team, and are of as much service as a whole squad of ordinary-sized men, as there is not a woodsman in the entire northwest who dares even wink crooked when they are arcund. McKenzie can, standing in his stocking feet, touch with his finger tips a point al- ‘most ten feet from the ground, while Hay- den can make a scratch just nine feet two inches high on the wall. McKenzie some years ago gained quite a reputation as a member of the Canadian tug-of-war team, and it is said that he was more than a match for any two men who could be pitted against him. He was born of very large parents, his father standing 6 feet 1's inches, and his mother 6 feet 1 inch, and each one weighing in the neighbor- hood of 230 pounds. McKenzie is not ashamed of his great height, and takes pleasure in performing seemingiy Impossible feats for the edifica- tion of his fellow-policemen while around his station. Quickens The Appetite Makes the Weak Strong. Sarsaparilla Has Cured : Others And Will Cure You. IF THE BABY IS CUTTING TEETH BE SURE and use that oll and well-tried remedy, Mra. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the , allays all in, cures wind colic and is the best ‘rem my foe se! liarrhoea. 25 cents a bottle. HARRIET HUBBARD AYER’S RECAMIER CREAM WILL CURE PIMFLES SAMPLE POST PAID ON RECEIPT OF 25 CTS. 181 West Sist st. -------- ++ New York. 4a30-wly Mrs. A. Hi. Cransby of Memphis, Tenn., had a terribie cancer, which ate two holes in the breast, and was pronoanced incurable by the best physi- chins in New Y S.S.S. cured Mer permaneutly. NO WELL REGULATED HOU! be Without a bottle of Dr. § Bitters, the celebrated appetizer SUNDAY LAW FAVORED. Action Taken by the New York Re- publicans. = Contrary to the expectation when the republican convention assembled at Sara- toga, N. Y., yesterday, it was decided not to ignore the Sunday salocn question. When the report of the committee on reso- lutions had been read yesterday afternoon ex-Senator Miller got the floor with an amendment. Sticking his thumbs in his trousers’ pock- ets, he began a vigorous speech in defense of the Sunday laws. Mr. Platt sat ner- vously stroking his beard, and Senator Hiscock sat twirling in an equally nervous manner a cigar. The amendment read by Mr. Miller was: “Resolved, That we fevor the mainte- nance of the Sunday laws in the interest of labor and morality.” Mr. Miller spoke forcibly in supporting the amendment and demanded a vote on It. In the course of his speech Mr. Miller de- elared that he had been elected governor of New York, but was counted out by the fraud of Tammany Hall, To the surprise of everybody, Hamilton Fish, the chairman of the committee, arose and said: “I desire to say that I have come to the conclusion that the amendment of Mr. Miller should go In the platform.” Mr. Lavterbach—“Can I have the resolu- tion read?” It was read, and Mr. Lauterbach, waving his hand in a deprecation of calls for him to to the platform, said: good republican can object to that.” (Applause.) The amendment was adopted unanimous- tv. The Platform. The platform demaads enforcement of the Sunday licuor law and preservation of the Sabbath. It scores the democratic ad- ministration for failing to defend the rights of American citizens ‘resident or travel- Ing in foretgn countries and for permitting foreign countries to encroach on the west- ern hemisphere. The tariff and the hand- ling of the deficiency question by the last democratic Congress received condemna- tien. A sound and stable currency, giving the people a dollar's worth for a dollar, is indorsed. The return of prosperity Is hail- ed as resulting from the election of a re- publican Congress, giving confidence to the people in the assurance that no further tarlif tinkering will be possible. The ig- norance and unwise policy of the demo- crats in‘passing an unconstitutional in- come tax Is referred to, and the favorable record of. the rezublicans in Congress in their opposition to that law. Governor Morton’s wise and patriotic ad- ministration is indorsed and his candidacy for President formally launched. The dan- gers to the people of a return of the dem- ocratie party to power in the state are portrayed, asserting that the same men who have been repudiated by the voters are still in charge of the affairs of the democratic party in New York state, and that their return to power will mean but a repetition of the old -outrages. The Raines ballot reform law {s pointed to as the best enactment for ballot reform vet passed in the state. The platform further sets forth that the demands of the people in the clty of New York have been grant- ed in reform legislation. It was a close fol- lowing of the work mapped out is evident from the fact that the security of the state ticket was made possible by the vote of one man. The Ticket. The convention last night, after follow- ing very closely the work mapped out by its leaders, named the following ticket for presentation to the people of the state in November next: Secretary of state—John Palmer of Al- bany. Controller—James E. Roberts of Erie. State treasurer—A. B. Colvin of Warren. State engineer—C. W. Adams of Oneida. Attorney general—F. E. Hancock of On- ondaga. Judge of the court of appeals—Celora E. Martin of Broome. : There was general rejoicing on the results of the convention. The opinion of the ma- jority of the delegates is that the adoption of the Sunday enforcement plank Is a clever move that will aid the party. It 1s gener- ally conceded that the democrats next week will pass a resolution favoriag local option, and this will make clearly the line of di- vision between the two parties. Dr. Depew ts particularly pleased over the work. He has urged ever since his arrival that the party take some stand on the mat- ter, and Mr. Miller's plank on the platform, he believes, will answer the purpose. Depended on One Vote. After the opening session there app2ared on the horizon a cloud of discontent, that grew so rapidly that at 3 o'clock the fate of the state officers seemed to be sealed against renomination. ‘he trouble arose over the contest for seats in the first district and hinged on the seating of the contesfing del- egation, headed by Congressman Mahany. With everything appareitly running smoothly, the leaders were suddenly con- fronted with the statement made by State Committeeman George Urban, jr., and Sen- ator Parsons that if the Mahany delega- tion was seated the Erle county delegation would leave the convention, and Mr. Rob- erts’ name would be withdrawn from the convention, thus breaking the slate. When tle convention met the committee reported against Mr. Mahahy. It was learned that the vote was 16 against and 15 for, the de- ciding vote having been cast by Mr. Wheel- er of Utica. Thus was the catastrophe averted. : — CATTLE STEALING SYNDICATE. Evidence of the Existence of a Crim- inal Organization. Capt. Joe W. Taylor, county attorney of Mcl.ennan county, Texas, has laid be- fore the grand jury the constitution, by- laws, lst of officers, and secretary and treasurer's report of an association of negro members, organized for the purpose of stealing cattle and ‘horses. While the rolls do not show any names of white men, there are evidences in pos- session of the county attorney that the cattle-stealing syndicate was to some ex- tent under the control of whites. ‘The thieves had monthly meetings at a rendezvous, and have at least once declared dividends. This is shown by the report of the treasurer. Their operations have been extensive, and the losses, though scattered over a wide territory, are large. It is prob- able that in some cases they shipped stolen cattle in carload lots. Arrests will follow. SAM SMALL’S TASK Will Make Sixty Speeches for Tem- perance in Ohio, - ACTIVE PRORIBIFIONISTS’ CAMPAIGN The Democrats Pleased and Re- publicans Worried. STATE OF THE FIGHT Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 18.—It now appears that the prohibitionists of Ohio are also to conduct a lively cantpaign this year. Sam. Small has come here and set_up head- quarters. He announces that he is under contract to deliver sixty speeches in the state campaign. This will, of course, cover practically all the time of the campaign. He generally commands good pay for his work, whether in the pulpit or on the politieal platform, and it is a question of much discussion among politicians here as to where the money came from that has brought Small to this state. The prohibi- tionists do not, as a general rule, have cam- paign money to throw at the birds. The prohibitionist leaders say they have prepared to make a supreme effort this year to get a county prohibition local option law. The bill has been up In the last two legislatures, but defeated each time. The margin in favor of the free liquér traffic was very narrow in the last legislature, and the prohibitionists are very hopeful that the measure will become a law this winter. They are going into the legislative electtons with a great deal of vigor, and expect to pledge every candidate to vote for the measure or hold him up to their friends as an enemy of the cause and deserving of de- feat. The adoption of this policy, together with the fact that the cold water people are go- ing to work with’an apparently ample sup- ply of campaign funds, has begun to worry the republican managers a great deal. The democrats are rather pleased with the outlook in this respect. It is well known that a largely increased prohibitionist vote means a diminished republican vote. The election statistics in’ this state show that the prohibitionists always gain, when they gain at all, at the expense of the republi- can party. So well is this fact known that the belief is general that some of the funds which the prohibitionists are now using has come from a democratic source. Chairman Kurtz's Eastern Trip. A story was sent out from here last weelc to the effect that Executive Chairman Kurtz of the repuolican state committee had paid a visit to Senator Quay to fix up a deal with him by which Ohio, with Penn- eylvania, was to be thrown against Mc- Kinley and for Reed in the republican na- tional convention of next year. The tact is quite to the contrary. Mr. Kurtz went to. Pennsylvania in quest of campaign money. Owing to the strong pro- tectionist proclivities of the republicans of Pennsylvania and the prominent part in the battles for protection taken Ly Ohio's favorite son, the republicans of this state have lately got in the habit of going over into the keystone state to get some of tke sinews of war, The contributions have generally been liberal, and it is un- derstood that they will be so this year. Given as this aid fs, it means that the state is for McKinley for the presidency if it means anything bearing upon the re- “publican presidential nomination. So Chairman Kurtz's visit to Quay, in- stead of being against the interests of Gov- ernor McKinley was rather in his favor. The Alleged Factionnl Fighting. The talk of factional fignting among the republicans in this campaign should be taken with a grain of allowance. As Goy- ernor McKinley expressed it to a fellow republican a few days ago, “in this cam- paign everybedy's eggs are in the basket.” ‘The leaders of both the factions are in- terested In carrying the state. If the state should be lost, the Foraker faction would blame the McKinley faction for it, and McKinley's chances for the support of the state in the national convention next year would not be worth estimating. In his speech at the opening of the re- publican campaign at Springfield, Gov. McKinley put himself unequivocally on record as favoring the election of Foraker to succeed Senator Brice, and said in so many words that he was the only can- didate of the party for the office. This ought to set at rest the stories that the governor ts really after the office himself. He could not afford to accept the senator- ship if offered to him against his wishes, after making such a declaration in his public utterances. The republicans wilt push the campaign work on the stump very vigorously from this time on. There will be meetings every day in the centers of population, which will be addressed by campaign speakers from this and otker states. Gov- ernor McKinley will place himself at the hands of the state committee of his party after he returns from the Chickamauga dedication and give his whole time to the campaign. The Democratic Campaign. The democrats will open their campaign here on the 28th of the month, and after that ex-Governor Campbell will speak every week day until the close of the cam- paign, the’ night before election. Gen. Keifer’s Disappointment. ‘There is some talk of sulking on the part of General J. Warren Keifer, one of the disappointed candiates for the republican nomination for governor, and it seems that there Is some ground for it. All the other defeated candidates for the nomination but Keifer were at the opening meeting at Springfield. Poe, Nash, Hoyt and Berger all marched in the parade, but Keifer was conspicuous by his absence. As the open- ing was held at his own home his absence was all the more talked about. It has since been stated that General Keifer was at Louisville at the time, attending the national encampment of the G. A. R. Keifer has not a large following, however, and though he may not work enthusias- tically for the success of the party, no sertous defection is likely to result from the fact. His defeat was a hard blow to him. He seemed to believe that he was likely to get the nomination. Shortly be- fore the vote was taken The Star corre- spondent talked with him and found him in high glee. A delegation from his old army regiment, composed of delegates to the convention, had just called at his head- quarters and announced to him that he would get their votes. This was aid from an unexpected source. When the first ballot was taken the result showed that not over forty delegates had voted for him. It was plain that many had represented themselves as friendly to him who after- ward cast their votes for other candidates. This was a hard blow to General Keifer. Trouble at Cleveland. ‘A serious local break has occurred in the republican ranks in Cuyahoga and neighbor- ing counties, which threatens trouble for that party there. Cleveland and Cuyahoga county had up to this time been regarded as certain to give a large republican majority. The republicans of that part of the state have always been less prone to take up with “isms” of the politics of the day than their brethren of the rest of the state. For this reason the party has always looked with confidence to Cuyahoga county for substan- tial pluralities. At the republican eonvention at Cleveland to nominate a candidate for the circuit court bench, there was 4 split, one faction with- drawing and nominating a candidate—Judge L. A. Jones of Cleveland—and the other Hold- ing the fort and choosing Judge Marvin of Akron. This can but cause contention in the party, which may have the effect of throw- ing the county in the democratic column. The Silver Democrats, The free silver democrats are being closely watched by the Brice managers of the cam- paign. The former seem to be very unrea- sonable in the matter. It would seem that the action of the party in the Springfield gon- vention meant that there was to be no free silver in this campaign. That ought to go without saying, but Dr. J, A. Nor- ton, who wanted to be state executive chairman, took it as a demand upon him brought to surrender his principles, when asked by Senator Brice’s friends if he would hold his tree stiver views in the background, if he should be elected to this place. Last year when Allen W. Thurman as chairman of the state committee made the committee a free silver propaganda theré Was much indignation among members of the party. The action was tolerated at the time for the reason that no one believed that there was the shadow of a chance for. the party to carry the state, and so there was little ventured. But now the case is different. No free silver literature will be circulated this year through the state com- mittee, Col. W. A. Taylor, who was Allen W. Thurman's ablest colleague in the free sil- ver movement prior to the state convention, has been placed in charge of the press bureau of the state committee, and some of the more radical of the single gold standard men are watching his work with a little suspicion. ———.—__ ARMOR AND PROJECTILE TESTS. ‘That at Indian Hend Yesterday Upset Some Previous Theories. The test of the structure representing the side armor of the battle ship Iowa, in con- junction with a test of the penetrating powers of a 13-inch gun, which took place at the Indian Head proving grounds yes- terday, proved most satisfactory to the officers of the ordnance department. The Plate was the same used in the tes; two weeks ago, when it withstood the ‘shots from the 12-inch gun, save for having been cracked down the middle. The plate was fourteen inches thick and of Harveyized nickel steel. It was fastened to a structure representing the sides of the battle ship. In yesterday's test a Wheeler-Sterling armor-piercing shell, weighing 1,100 pounds, was fired from a 13-inch rifle with 480 pounds of powder, a distance of 380 feet, with a velocity of 1,800 feet per second. It struck the plate upon that portion not In- jured by the previous shots, cracked it into three pieces, penetrated the plate and bulk- heads supporting {t, and disappeared in ihe sand. There is no doubt among the naval Officers that the shot would have pen- etrated any armor made, and in a ship equipped with a plate like that tested the conclusion is that the shot would have penetrated the ship und knocked the plate off on the opposite side. The construction officers of the navy were especially pleased on account of the showing made by the structure designed to represent a portion of the Iowa. It has loug been claimed that if a shot should Pierce an armor plate the structural por- tion of the ship to which the plate is bolted would be damaged for twelve or fifteen feet along the ship’s side. The shot yesterday upset this theory, as it damaged the structure only locally. The fact that the whole framé held together showed that the plates of this frame, which is the same as are being put in the new battle ships, and weighs twenty pounds to the square foot, are all that is necessary. There was some discussion as to whether a ship could be saved from sinking after being pierced by such a shot, the impres- sion being that if a ship did not sink she would be surely disabled. o—____— AT HONOLULU. ALARM Radical Measures to Stamp Out the Scourge. _ The ‘Hawaiian mail was landed at San Francisco from the sieamer Rio Janviro yesterday. _ HONOLULU, September 3.—There have been fifty-nine cases of cholera up to date, with forty-six deaths, since the scourge broke out. Two white people were attacked yesterday and have since died. C. L. Dodge, business manager of the Hawaiian Star, and formerly of San Diego, Cal., was one of the victims. Mr. Carroll, a nurse, was the other. The city is in a state of alarm, and busi- ness will be suspended for one week, while a house-to-house inspection will be made. Radical measures wiil be adopted to stamp out the disease. In nearly every case, the cause of death has been traced to poison- ous fish. The steamship Rio Janeiro was prohibited from landing her Japan freight, and will take it on to San Francisco. The Bennington and Olympia have gone to La Haina, or one of the neighboring is- lands, as the captains of the vessels are afraid to remain in port. Residents of the island positively refuse to allow passengers or freight from Honolulu to be landed. T. B. Reed Club. Ai a meeting of the T. B. Reed Republi- can Association held Monday night at 517 22d street northwest four new members were taken in. Spe2ches were made by several of the members. ——— A Suspected Filibuster. A dispatch from Key West sent last night says: The revenue cutter Winona n today the schooner Lark, picked up off Pine Koy, witn thirty-five Cubans on board. When picked up by the cutter only two men were on deck, but a search revealed others concealed below. The ves- sel was selzed and brought in because Capt. Juan Reyes could not give satisfac- tery explanation as to what he was doing with so many men on board and without any papers and because it was thought she was a filibuster. The men were examined by the United States commissioner and _re- leased on bond until the hearing of the ease next Thursday. While it is believed the men are filibusters it will be difficult to prove this, as they had no arms or am- munition on board. —— - —+e+-____ Maryland Democratic Opening. The Maryland democrats opened their state campaign at Annapolis last night with a largely attended mass meeting. State Senator Robert Moss was made tem- porary chairman of the meeting, which was addressed by all the candidates on the dem- ceratic state ticket and numerous other speakers. Great enthusiasm was mani- fested. — coo____ The Sons of Veterans Parnde. The parade at Knoxville yesterday in honor of the battlefields encampment of the Sons of Veterans was witnessed by many thousands of persons. The parade was the largest and most imposing ever seen at Knexville., Gov. McKinley of Ohio, Gov. Upham of Wisconsin, Gov. Woodbury of Vermont, Past Commander-in-Chief Law- ler, G. A. R. veterans and citizens took part in the parade. +08. Judge Stewart Han Resigne?. Another important resignation is an- nounced, that of Judge Stewart, one of the United States judges for the district of Oklahoma. He was appointed to that office several months ago, at the time that ex- Representatives Kilgore and Springer re- ceived their commissions to the same ju- dicial circuit. Family reasons are said to have caused Judge Stewart to leave the bench. The office pays $5,000 a year, so that the President fs not likely to suffer from lack of applicants from whom to make a selection. 3 o+—__ Mail Service on Cable Cars, ‘The new mail service on the 3d avenue cable cars in New York will begin October 1 next, unless something occurs to pre- vent. The cars will be run over the road on September 20 to test their fitness and to let the public get a glimpse of them. —_—_-e—_____ Patents Allowed. Patents have been allowed to Washington inventors as follows: George,W. Melville, steam garbage scow; Joseph C. Fowler, assignor to Fowler Com- posing and Type Setting Company, Chi- cago, lll, type-distributing rail; William E. Arderson, design for cotton bale. o A Big Government Suit. The United States government has com- menced a sult in the United States court at Deadwood, S. D., to recover $500,000 damages from the Homestake Mining Company, alleging that during the last seventeen years the Homestake company has cut 1,001,200 trees. The case is one of the most important that has come before a federal tribunal in South Dakota, and over 300 witnesses for the defense are in Dead- wood. Killed in a Bull Fight. Two men were killed and five injured at the bull fight at Sawangel, Mexico, Monday, on account of a floor giving away. Sa- wangel is a pretty suburban town, the favorite rainy season resort of the aristoc- racy. : 'HAWAII’S SCOURAGE Asiatic Cholera First ~ Appeared Among Chinese Immigranta, NATIVES EASY VICTIMS OF THE PLAGUE Microbes Believed to Be Conveyed by- Fish in the Harbor. INSANITARY CONDITIONS Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, September 5, 1895. A ghastly visitor is among us, doing deadly work. The public mind is diverted frcm other subjects to the active war which we are wagirg with cholera. After several days of doubt, it was decisively de- clared by the doctors, August 23, that cer- tain deaths that week were cases of Asiatic cholera, the “common bacillus” be- ing present in the excreta. The authori- ties at once augmented their previous ac- tivity in isolating, disinfecting and cleans- ing. These measures have undoubtedly held the pestilence in check, but could not prevent some spread of the disease among the careless native population in more insanitary sections. Suspicion was first awakened August 10 by four successive cases of intestinal dis- order at the quarantine ground among 538 Chinese landed on the 9th from the Bel- gic, from Hong Kong and Yokohama Three cases were fatal. None appeared to present decisive symptoms of Asiatic cholera. The most thorough isolation and disinfection were used, and no new cases occurred among the 535 survivors, who have since been transported by sea to the various plantations expecting them. Hefice, it was doubted whether the infection of the natives on shore came from the quar- antine. After a Native Feast. Between the 18th and 2isi six cases of cholera appeared among natives living at Iwilel. All but one of these were fatal. Tkese people had participated in a feast where the usual viands of raw fish, sea moss and crabs were provided. It is prob- able that the sea products were infected from the quaraniine islet of about thirty acres, which is separated from the Iw-lel shore by half a mile breadth of shoal water. The islet is at the same distance from the deep water of the harbor. Notwithstanding disinfection, sore of the ‘infection must huve reached the sea, or crabs may have penetrated to the bodies buried in the shal- low sands. Some think that native labor- ers contracted infection by handling freight from Kobe, which was landed from the Belgic. But the week's interval between the quarantine and Iwilei cases indicate direct connection, six days being the reg- ular period of cholera incubation. - After the due interval, the malady reap- peared In two cases cn the 24th. One re- covered, and one stroag young man died in six hours after the attack. He lived near the judiciary building. No connection with Iwilei was traced. This made eight cases and six deaths in the city.’ Meantime, the through steamer from Sydney, the Mon- owai, passed us, refusing to carry our mails, although carefully fumigated. We cannot tell what extreme statements her People may have carried to the coast about cholera in Honolulu. An embargo was early placed upon trarsport of passengers to the other islands, and freight was soon prohibited. In some cases the people at outpcsts refused to allow freight to be landed. Great inconvenience already ex- ists on those islands from the cutting off of supplies. Cholera reappeared in force from the 2th to the Ist of September, with one case each on the Ist and 2d. The morning of the 34 the whole count stood at twenty- six cases and twenty-three deaths. All of the cases were native Hawaiians, excepting one fatal case on the U. S. S. gunboat Ben- nington. This was a sailor, who probably was infected by tainted water, in which he bathed alongside the ship. The gunboat immediately removed to the roadstead out- side, where, on the 2d, she was joined by ine U. S. cruiser Olympia, en route to shina. A Tainted Strenm, _ It became clear that many of the later cases had originated in a tainted condition of the Nuuanu stream, which empties into the head of the harbor. In this stream natives constantly bathed and fished. A death on the 24th took place in a house on the edge of the stream. Along the bank, near the lower part, and even over- hanging the water, were houses where cholera broke out on the 30th, and in- fected matter passed into the water. In consequence It was determined to remove all those people, destroy the houses, and open a wide street from Smith’s bridge around to the old fish market, now re- moved. Disinfection of the stream was also effected by charging the water of three branches over half a mile inland with a heavy dose of four tons of hisul- phate of soda, obtained from fertilizer works. This has at least killed all the fish above the mouth of the stream, and, it is hoped, also all the microbes. Comveyed by Finh. Among sanitary measures was, a week ago, the prohibition of all sale of fresh fish, as well as alf fishing around the city. This was because the natives eat much fish raw, and several cases of cholera have been preceded by such meals. The fish in the harbor are undoubtedly infected with chol- era microbes. It is well known that raw oysters and clams propagate typhoid. An- other measure was the closing of all the Chinese poi factories in the part of the city rear the Nuuanu stream, aS they were lable to use water thence in various ways. The natives at first thought the whole sup- ply of their favorite and indispensable diet was cut off, and were greatly agitated. The interdiction of raw fish was a severe deprivation, but could be remedied by dry fish and salt salmon. They soon found that poi could be bought in other parts of the city. Difficulty of Dealing With Natives. A cholera hospital was established about the 24th at Kakaako, near the east side of the harbor. But the natives are generally averse to sending their sufferers there. They rarely notify the health officers until they ar2 dying or even dead. I have veri- fied by perscnal inquiry the statement that a considerable proportion of the natives have adopted the belief that the white dectors poison those who are taken to the hespital. This not only prevents timely remedies for the sufferers, but hinders due disinfection to prevent the spread of the plague. This prejudice against the for- eigners’ medical treatment is one of long standing. Its source is in the evil instruc- tions of thelr numerous kahunas, or medi- cine men, who have diligently taught them to eschew the medical treatment of the white man, who could not reach the demons who caused the disease. Moreover, their family g2ds were angry with them for dealing with the white doctors, and would kill them. In consequence, the pub- lic hospitals have never been popular with the Hawatians. The result of the above named among other causes has been, up to the 3d of September, an alarming spread of the malady among Hawalians only. But for the vigorous measures of the board of health the dead would have already num- bered hundreds instead of dozens. But why do those attacked nearly all dle? This sad fact accords with all experience of sickness among Hawaiians. They easily die. They lack resisting power to disease. They area poor, dying race. They suc. cumb readily to the maladies from which other races recover, as well as contract those maladies with great facility. Nine times the averdge number of Hawalians contract leprosy above any other race, partly from the absence of sanitary pre- caution, but largely also from greater sus- ceptibility-to disease, and lack of vigor to overcome it. And so we find the cholera hitherto confined mainly to Hawaiians, and nearly all the cases fatal. This is deeply saddening to all friends of this amiable and hospitable but steadily wasting people. Insanitary Conditions, The most insanitary conditions by far have been found by the agents of the board of health in the Chinese quarters. There is the worst crowding, there also the vilest cesspools and collections of filth and foul pools. The disinfecting and cleaning up ———<—<$— has been severe, amid great opposition, and protests from discommoded celestials. One presperous corner storckeeper, a mile and a half from the center, was found to have behind his nice-looking front a quarter acre with sheds lodging 150 Japanese around a fearful pool in the center. And he had no lodging-house license, 80 was run in. We are certainly in a great trouble. The board of health and public officers are greatly overtasked. The business of the city is largely arrested.. Revenue falls off. Government expenses are increased. We cannot tell how much farther the evil will go before it is arrested. There is no panic. General quiet prevails. The most active and cordial support is given by all whites to the authorities. Should any number of whites be attacked, there would doubtless be increased alarm, and even should it spread among Chinese and Japanese. So long as the disease is confined to the Ha- waiians, there is Jess fear for the rest. The opening of the schools for the fall jerm fs postponed. Last Sunday all the churches were ordered closed by a quite unanimous vote of the body of doctors act- ing with the board of health. Our rather cranky Anglican bishop’s temper went to pieces over this, and on Monday he de- nounced the board's president, Attorney General Smith, for a worse than papal in- terdict on all worship. So some farce mingles with the tragedy. Poor W. O. Smith‘ is sick with overwork. He is next- door neighbor to the bishop. He has re- plied in a dignified manner, stating strong reasons for the action taken. Up to # late hour yesterday no new cases or deaths had occurred that day. There were eight cases and six deaths the pre- vious day, making thirty-four cases and twenty-nine deaths in all, not counting the Chinese in quarantine. The cholera has continued strictly to maintain the race Ine in this city. One might easily become superstitious over such a fact. I do not know if there is precedent for it. It cor- responds to the race line less perfectly drawn by leprosy, which has attacked over 5,000 native Hawaiians, and less than 100 of all other races in these islands. It affords much food for thought. How far is a race so incapable of saving their own lives otherwise capacitated for service or responsibility? HAMEHA. —————— FALLS CHURCH. Mrs. William Stranahan and son, who have been spending a couple of weeks in Strasburg, Va., returned to their home, “Echo Hall,” on Little Falls street, last evening. Miss Louise Tucker of Washington, D. C., who has been the guest of Miss Alice Heiston at the Esgle House for a few days, returned to her home Tuesday. The regular meeting of the I. 0. G. T. was held at their lodge room in the Odd Fellows’ Hall, on Broad street, Tuesday evening. Mr. Robert Lay was initiated into the order. The program was in charge of Mr. Carl Rathburn, and con- sisted of the following: Recitation by Miss Emma Garner; vocal solo, Miss Matilda Rawlings; reading, Miss Margaret Thorne; Miss Ida N. Ball also gave a reading, which was followed by a speech by Rev. T. C. Jordan, and one by Rev. R. N. Hart- ness, both of Aurora Lodge, Phoebus, Va. Rev. Mr. Hartness is chief“templar of Aurora Lodge. James Proctor of Merrifield, Va., was arrested Sunday night by, Constable A. R. Jacobs for stealing clotwing from Charles Taylor, also of Merrifield. tried here before J. jley Monday night, but the case was dismissed for lack of evidence. = Rev. D. C. Hedrick, presiding elder of Greenbrier district of the Virgiria -con- ference, and wife are the guests of Rev. and Mrs. 8. P. Shipman, on Columbia stfeet. ‘The case of LeRoy Jackson, for larceny of a suit of clothes at Merrifielé, which was first tried here, has been appealed to the county court by the defendant. Miss Lillie Christman, who has been spending the summer at the residence of her uncle, Mr.“P. H. Christman, has re- turned to her home in Washington, D. C. A few of the young men at West End entertained their friends by a strew ride Tuesday night. Those who enjoyed the fun were Misses Jessie B. England, Belle Davenport, Claudia Curtis, Blanche Brun- ner and May Davenport, and Messrs. Web- ster Flagg, David B. Patterson, George T. Mankin, Arthur Flagg and George B. Garrett. After the ride the party had refreshments at Mr. Elmere Perrygo’s ice cream parlors, then driving to West End had a quiet little dance at the residence of Mr. james L. Davenport. Miss Vass of Danville, Ya., is the guest of Mrs, Nathaniel Tyler at the Lawton House. Rev. T. C. Jordan and Rev. R. N. Hartness of Phoebus, Va., who are returning home from aftending.the Alexandria district con- ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which convened at Waterford, Va., last week, are the guests of Miss Ida N. Ball, on Washington street. Mr. Fred Buxton of Jersey City is visiting Proctor was his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Buxton. Mr. . Buxton is in the employ of the United States Express Company at their New York office. While south he will spend a week at Shenan- dale Springs, on the Shenandoah ri above Harper's Ferry, and, after spending another week with his parents here, will return to New York. Miss Virgie Thompson, who has been visit- ing Miss Anabelle Rowell at West End for - some weeks, has returned to her home ia Washington, D. C. At the adjourned meeting of the Villace Improvement Society, which met at the resi- dence of L. B. Parker, on Washington street, Monday night, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year, viz.: Dr. J. B. Gould, president; Mr. G. A. L. Merrifield, vice president; Mr. E. C. Hough, secretary, and Mr. Albert. P. Eastman, treasurer. The next regular meeting of the society will be held the first Monday night in October at the residence of Mr. Edgar Watkins, on Fairfax street. Quite a number of young people were de- lightfully entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kinsley, at East End, Mon- day evening. Games, dancing, music and re- freshments filled up the evening’s program— music by Miss Florence Poole, Miss Marga- ret Nourse and Mr. Frank Eastman. In one of the'games, which was truly original, the feat was to make twenty engagements in the corresponding number of minutes, and the person fulfilling the greater number of said engagements in ten minutes won the prize. Mr. Charles Parker curried off the prize, having fulfilled eighteen engagements in the allotted ten minutes. Among those present were Misses Elsie Febrey, Leanora Wright, Edith O. Merrifield, Fannie L. Moore, Flor- ence Poole, Ida, Jean, Grace and Loraine McFarlan and Margaret Nourse Falls Church, and Miss Edna Bailey of Washing- ton, D. C., and Messrs. Brynson Buxton, Frank Eastman, Edwin Rorebeck, Edward Talbott, Phillip Nourse, Guy Luttrell, Carl Kinsley, Charles Parker and Wirt W. Kins- ley of Falls Church, and Fred Buxton of Jer- sgl and Albert Myers of Washington, ———— TWO NEW BATTLE SHIPS. Proposals for Their Construction Anked for Todny. The Navy Department today called for Froposals for constructing the two new battle ships provided for by the last Con- gress. The advertisements present one important feature different from those heretofore issued, in that ship buflders are invited to submit two sets of bids, one for ships' with armor and accessories and one without the armor. The statement is made that the department adopts this procedure because it has not yet reached a conclusion on this most important point. Heretofore the government has contracted for all armor separately, but a question has been raised as to the economy and expediency of making a single contract for the ship and armor. It is estimated that the armor for these two ships will cost about three and a half million dol- lars, and as,the Umit of cost for both ships is eight millions the armor item becomes of the first importancs. The bids are to be opened November 80 next. Three years are allowed for the éelivery of the ships, which will be about 10,000 tons displacement and sixteen knots speed. No premiums will bespaid. Sale of District Bonds. The United States treasurer has accepted the bid of Harvey Fisk & Sons of New York for $27,000 of District of Columbia 8.65 bonds, to run until 1924. The bid was $1,124. ————-—__- The Denth of Miss Marie Jirdinston, The death of Miss Marie Jirdinston, which occurred yesterday morning, will be greatly deplored by her wide circle of friends. She was endowed with many lov- able traits, which made her a favorite with all she came in contact with. funeral will take place tomorrow from St. Paul's Catholic Church, od re