Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1895, Page 8

PAGES. , THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1895-SIXTEEN [RE RER SIEM ERE ESE RES SEER EE SS [xx XK SEER KEREE SERRE EREREEEE SEC EMSEEES CORRES REESE EEET AND SONS, « MOSE Storage Warehouse, 22d near M. F Street i Corner Eleventh. |{ ‘The $30,000 CONSIGNMENT SALE of Chotcest ORIENTAL RUGS will be Dbroaght to a close next Monday. Mean- while the lower than auction prices will continue. Keeping Faith —with the public pays. reaping the rewards of adhering strictly to this principle in a phe- nomenal increase of business. Every- body seems to have found out that it’s profitable to buy at Moses’. A Parlor Suite Sale ; —from now until Saturday night. Every Suite in the house at a special price. You will pay more for these same suites if you buy next Monday or after. B-plece MAHOGA FINISH SUITE, covered in silk tapestry, value $23, with spring seats, for. $13.75 ~ 5 - pleee OVERSTUF! SUITE, tufted backs, fringed base, spring edge seats, va $05, for .... $43.00 =—These are illustrations of the re- ductions that'll be offered the next two days. The sale includes every suite and odd parlor piece that we have in Upholstered Furniture. World's Pair! HIGEEST AWARD. INP ERIAL GRANUL The STANDARD and BEST prepared FOOD A very palatable food! A most wholesome food. Delicate children, and delicate, infirm and aged persons, INVALIDS and convalescents praise the 1 virtues of this food! Mothers know its value preceding childbirth and while nourishing their off- spring. Infants from birth thrive on it! Sold by DRUGGISTS EVERY WHERE! John Carle & Sons,-New York. Gray Hair ‘A thing of the past when Nattans’ Crystal Dis- <overy is used. Guaranteed to restore gray or feded hale to fis natural color in 3 to 10 daye— positively not a dye. Stops the hair from falling out, arrests dandruff and makes the nicest dressing for” the air one can use. No poison No sede Price, ment. No stoins. $1. ‘Crial size, 50c. KOLB PHARMACY, SOLE 433° 7TH ST. N.W. AGENTS, Sent, express prepaid, to any part of the country on receipt of price. §a26-tf Go to Siccardi, Bargains in Hair. Genuine, bona fide bargain prices are prevall- ing Just now. And you can aelect from the finest stock of Hair and’ Toilet Goods ever shown in Waning oe Next Palais Royal Ne — ER Ute Sta eee ent Sony, x. ocl2-9m14 Cold, Bleak DaysWiil Come. Prepare for them. B. SEXTON & SON'S GET 5. B. Latrobes, Furnaces and Ranges. They Are the Best. For sale by the PRINCIPAL STCVE DEALERS IN se23-3m WASHINGTON, D. C. Get together a Reading Club And we'll make an astonishingly low membership in our Cireulating Library. now, We charge about 1% cents ¢ day, and call for as well as deliver books every day! Imperial Circulating Library, _ 511 mth Street. “tuteus" ton, Librarian. 0023-164 The Clock has never been made I ran't repair and put in first-class working order. ‘fhe fact is, I don't do anything else ex- cept repair timepleces. Let me fix that “won't ron" clock of yours. $i is my charge. Hutterly, Timepiece Expert, 632 G St. 023-124 price for a As It is Do you know that electricity is a cheaper, better, safer and more re- liable power than steam? It makes a better light, too—better for stores— better for offices. It ts as far ahead of gas as the modern electric locomotive ts aheud of «he old stage coach. We furnish power only. Telephoue us to turn it on. U. 8. ELECTE‘C LIGHTING Co., 218 14th street. ‘Phone 77. ocl8-204 Shoes That Bring Buyers —back for another pair—that’s the 7 we sell. §2.50 and $3 Sboes—: good ag the finest $3.50 shoe ever made. a your feet. Suit your taste. Save D0c. & oa every pair. And our personal guaran- tee goes with them. Robt. Cohen & Son, 630 Pa. Ave., ‘OWN AMERICAN SHOE MEN, oc23-200 = DOWNT! i A “blue rooms” "green" and “Jap.” vooms, Louls XVI parlors <these are proper now. Drop = postal and ‘we'll send our man, , TcC. Farr & Co., 1115 G St. Seartistic Wall Papering and Eouse Decoration,” Late of Lovie Dieter), 28-108 We are| eee e 33 Our Tomorrow--ERIDAY’S FOUR-HOUR SALE. hour sales” each Tuesday and Friday have proven a wonderful success. Hénceforth we pro- pose to make these sales a special feature of our business. While we hardly think it, necessary, yet we desire to emphasize the fact that the prices quoted by us as “regular prices* are OUR regular prices dur- ing other business hours, and are in most cases LOWER than the “regular or special prices” quoted elsewhere. We have not fallen in the error committed by so many and “imagined” that they were regular Xxx Keo “BON MARCHE, 314 and 316 7th St. + prices. 3 iy In addition to the extraordinary bargains offered during these “4 special hours” each department is | showing other attractions in this season’smost desirableand fashionable merchandise, and in NO CASE |) do we ask QUITE AS MUCH as you will be charged ELSEWHERE. 3) % : | : THESE THESE | THESE | THESE > \e a | , t ‘og toroa.m.| '9.t0.1.4.m. |3 to 4 p.m.|4 to 5 p.m. eS GS 0 ‘a 3 - sale between 10 and 11 a.m. The folfowing items ‘go on The following Stems go on tomorrow. Before and after sale between 3 and 4 p.m. sale between 4 and 5 p.m. |?) SRS NORING ACS RL Oe this hour they will be sold tomorrow. Before, and after tomorrow. Before and after — |®) pales het ream Rony aoe at regular prices: this hour they wil Si ate he Rie ce ee Fine Double-width “Thx- eases ase will be sold edo” Veiling, plain and dot- Boys’ Lovely agular prices: ed. Rezwag price, Scarfs, in plain col and Misses’ — Black Oe. 10 to 11 a.m, SZC yd. attractive plaids and stripes. School Mittens. —_—— New ools. Regular Assorted .Cloth Caps, Hee, 19 rted lot of 121%, 15 and price, 5c. 3todpm.. IDC. and fancies of evel 0 am forchon Lawes. tion. Regular pric 10 to 11. n.m....., OCe yd. 49 and Toe. 4 to 5 p. —— ° S x en's Natural Gray Wool Extra Fine Quality Steel- hal at ye si Pro Wen wie tine a on un Shirts and Drawers, | Regu A) rod! Gloria Sik Umbrellas, |¢ eae lar price, 5c. 10 to Women's Extra Heavy paragon frame. Regular tachi EB ee rade eleee 11 a.m. s+ BCs “Onsa"" Tngraln ase, supe- Bre, $1.98. 4 to > 61.36 » oe. ‘ o ur ms Elie one Sec Sand 30 Fine Percaline, black and price, 4 .. BFC. | I. Sascei es colors. Regular price, _ Separate Skirts of fine black \2 c. ta Women's Navy Blue Sweat- Aluzoral and serge, skirt y 5s 26-in. Gloria Silk Umbrel- | &.m. ...... Tye. ya. ers, with white and lined with percaline, velvet dns, gon frame, stripes. Button 01 bound, tallor made. Regu- I$] of fancy looped "handles, Black Ostrich Feather Prin- shoulder. lar price, $4.49. 4 to $3.45 le. Regnlar price, $1.25. 9 cess Tips. Regular price, price, $2.96. 3 to 4 5 p.m. ° ch cer ie FOC. } tore. 10011 a.m..... BYCo| pa”. .. $1.96 — Infants’ and Children’s EI |) — peetttg[f, HK ant Velvet Men's Plein White and derdown ani Cloth Coats, |$) s foses, 6 In a bunch. Regu- Fancy Night Robes, extra This winter's latest styles, — |?) Men's New — ‘Japonette’” lar price, 49. 10 to 11 it e5 pric F $ | Hi ae wee like ke <a saat 34c. Degen Ree belts) 35¢. noe eS ts ces 3: plain white and faney ber- ans I ders: Just the thio oe + Benutttul Nacre or Sunded Lovely Swiss Muslin Pitow 2 i ot sem. - pirds. Regular price, Shame, very dainty. Regu- Infants’ Knit — Worsted lar price, %e. 9 to 10 10¢- 59e. 10 to 11 am...... 46c. iar peice, G24 Stn ge ues. Regular osc = fam wees —— fpm... «S168 | ane dtoSpm....... IC tin and Chenille Millinery aan Braid. Itegular price, e 3 tpt: 46c. 10 to 11 am..... 35Ce * Je! pits, Tetion's Corfrtexion Ge, Le eine Pease: doz | 12c Dress Shields,8c;:) i pagers Women's Extra Heavy fy pts Fleece-lined Vests and Pants, toc. lowe: Rac! S,5C | 12¢ Dress Stays, 7. pine irom it in white, natural gray and | 12C. Bone Casing, 8c) 10c Hair Combs, gc’; Tale ers. ecru. Regular pr 9 to 10 a.m n-, OC.} he. 10 to 1 am...... 40C. | 5¢ Hooks & Eyes, 2c | 7¢ ToothBrushes, 4 cxxa seeeee ~ BON MARCHE, Ceeeseveevee Double Stores, 314 and 316 Seventh Street. . Fertilize Your Lawn —with Bone Meal—far irae to manure. Costs very little—that is, if bought of us: 25 Ibs, for $1. Fp We sell only the best quality of Grass . Sceds—and of course the prices are way ¢ below the others’. F. W. Bolgaino, Ftontsr, 1339 14TH s?. 0¢23-3m, 12 Hotels—Restaurants, Housekeepers! You want to try ‘The “Empire” or “Smith’s” Home-made Egg Noodles. Both Brards are Clean and Wholesome. IN 5 AND 10-CENT PACKAGES. CVRED BY PATENT PROCESS TO KEEP FRESH. Don't bother yourself to make Noodles when you cam buy just as good or better the corner. ST . with or without fruit. BAI FRY, or put ins ton dealers are now regularly sell- . . . It’s free! try it, . the wonderful coffee 294 biscuit CE and SHREDDED WHOLE t BISCU We're having a dewon- st this week at our store and everybody's {nyited to call and sample the only food and epere "tis possible to attain. © * tatoes, Sc. bushel. 1210 F St. BARKER, Buy Your Wo have every style of lamp Lamps on the mack Our handsone . Silk Shades not be duplicated and in the city. 0: ees ee In fas great Ansa i ‘at popillar prices, Drop myx and Aes selection. Tables of Geo. F. Muth & Co., _ 418 7th Street N.W. 23-240 Tear Your Lace Curtains? won't! No matter how fragile ond fal the pice PROCESS DYEING AND CLEANING. Crystal, 10c. HIGH “ART” PHOTOGRAPHY. our matchless ess. Wagon calls. Anton Fischer, 906 G St., oes NOd Best Mi force of wate makers, livery of work. All work warrant for one year. oc28-im,6* AL KAUN Watchmakel 985. F¥ nw. Do ycu appreciate high “‘art’’ photography: In this we are ine of Photogravures which we are making for only §6 a dogen we have realized tr Stalee, 1107 F St.| To the Ladies of Washington. Fall Opening for 1895-6, ARLINGTON HOTEL, OCTOBER 25 AND 26, 1895. | Mme. I. Kite, Modiste of Balto., Will have on exhibition at the above named Hotel Parlors her latest tu ion of French costumes: from the I in house: You are cordially invi same. More New Hats! the . seller, $f possible, than the jaxt. Many of my own creation. TFLatest styles in Untrimmed Hats ani Wounucts—with the larg: est, prettiest showing of trimmings in the city. rs. C. Stiebel, 1113. G St. Importer of Fine Millinery. ? drink in the world that’s as near perfection as | 1 OF Another attraction, Finest Burbank Po- | 2 . Chas A. Muddiman, 614 12th St. We offer you an assortment of useful articles at close-out prices, Remnant Bargains. Many of these we have only one left, and will sell to the first eustomer—we will not raise the price next day, but hold offer open until this lot 1B disposed of. Lamps. with Malis Now. $1 .0O 1 of auother pattern... Now $1.75 1 fine Pittsburgh Lamp 4.75. Now $2.75 Tam ees. 8$6.50, ‘Now $3.00 Sie Tovaiieale Sant phe fringe Say shade .. "$15.00. Now $9.50 Garden Hose. Heavy, superior quality, we sell now at Se. foot, will pay you to keep it. Gas Stoves. $4.00. Now $2.2 $3.25. Now $175 2 slightly shopworn, each smaller siz large size, each 35.50. Now 93-75 ‘The aboye five are all good heaters. We also have heuvy Caste Oven, with burner under same and Droller attached. “$9.00. Now $3.00 - Gas Fixtures. quare, with iy shopworn. $10. Now $2.75 "$6.00, Now $3.00 1 Bronze Hall square bevel glass. 1 2It, Chandelier; c used. $3.00. . $1.75 1 3-It. Chan rT, last one of this ‘style on hand...-....-+ 11.00. Now $4.50 We include. globes and hanging on all above. Ceoking Utensils. rer ss $1.25. Now O5C. “ho St jamie apartments.$2.40, Now $1.50 1 smaller size......0--ee0-+.$2.00. Now $1.25 1 set 3 plec to over on burner Sf Gas or Oll Stuve..75e., Now SOC. Set. Silk Lamp Shades. 1 lot carried over from last year we close out at buif price. We have just received a new lot of late styles to be sold at minimum price. We keep a full assortment of all Gas goods, including Gas Heating Stoves, and sell you a Drop Light, complete, 95c. Another style, with tubing, to set | on. table, $2.40 complete. Cc. A. Muddiman, 614 12th St. POST OFFICE ROOF. Contract for Its Construction Award- ed to John Peirce. ‘The contract for roof construction of the Washington post office building has been awarded to Jahn Peirce of New York, who the lowest bidder for the work at 40. oe St. Louis Bridge Investigntion. The federal grand jury at St. Louis has begun an investigation into the affairs of the Terminal Railway Association, the St. Louis Merchants’ Bridge and Terminal A: sociation and the Wiggins Ferry Company for the purpose of ascertaining whether are violating the t Congress pronibitin and trusts. This investi was brought about by order States Attorney General Harmon, in a number of witnesses being subp2enaed to appear before the grand jury now in session. w enacted by the combina- ee The New Library. - Forty of the leading American and for- eign artists have assisted in- the work of decorating the interler of the new Library F af Congress building. Some account of their. work, appropriately Ulustrated, will bo printed In Saturday's Star. A MILLION BICYCLES. Growth, Influence and Effect of the Bicyéle Habit. From Harper's Weekly. The historian, whp will write the true his- tory of th closing years of the nineteenth century will be compelled to say a great deal about the growth, influence and effects of the bicycle ‘habit during that period. The points which he will feel obliged to cover are as numerous as they aré’ inter- esting. The bicycle, as the legitimate suc- cessor of the vélocipede of a quarter of a century ago, was taken up as an appliance for exercise and pleasure. These it has fur- nished to an extent not anticipated by its’ Frost enthusiastic dvotees. In addition, it has passed beyond any limits of mere pleasure or exercise. It has forced itself on the attention of the great war powers of the earth. It remains to be seen what warlike purposes it may serve; but it is safe to say that In the next European war the first man of the invading force in the enemy’s country will be mounted on a wheel. It has conquered society. Aristoc- racy in England and France, as weil as in this country, has recognized its worth. In adopting it the idje and luxurious cl: ca have rendered a service by enormous! creasing its popularity. The hundreds of thousands who might have hesitated 1 tween desire and dread In the uncertain as to whether it was the proper thing have had their doubts cleared away. A custom which has the sanction of the Faubourg St. Germain, of the British peerage, of the Michaux Club of Newport and of the local fcur hundred in each one of our great e'ties is as firmly established as the Con- stitution with its subsequent amendments. In this country it is creating, as we have said, social and economical conditions worthy of the attention of the historiag, It may not be true, as Mrs. Anthony says, that “woman is riding to suffrage on the bicycle,” but it is undoubtedly true that she is riding to greater freedom, to a near- er equality with man, to the habit of tak- ing care of herself, and to new views on the subject of clothes philosophy. The wo- man on the wheel is altogether a novelty, and is essentially a preduct of the last de- cade of the century. Im this. country alone the sales of cles for this year are estimated at 500,000. The total number of bicycles in use is esti- mated at 1,000,000. These figures are mere guesses, but there is nothing incredible or improbable about them. It is certain that we are only at the beginning of what is called the bicycle craze, and the indica- ticns are that the craze is not getting ready to disappear, even if it is not getting ready, as is more likely, to supersede all other methods of locomotion. DIAZ’S BROTHER-IN-LAW. The Story as Told by an Electric Street Car Motorman, From the St. Louis’ Globe-Deiocrat. Febrino Rubio, who claims to, be a con-0f the late Romero Rubio and a full brother of Mrs. Porfirio Diaz, wife of President Diaz, is in the employ of the San Antonio Street Railway Company of San Antonio as motorman. Febrino Rubio has been a resi- dent of San Antonio for seventeen years. In an intefvflew today he stated that when he was twelxe years of age his father placed him in the National Military Col- lege at Chapuitepec. He ran away and joined a wagon train bound for the United States. They ¢ame direct to San Antonio, where young Rubio has remained ever since. He states that his father learned of his whereabottts ‘soon after his arrival and tried to induce him to return, but he was ashamed—to face his comrades, and has never been in Mexico since. Three years ago his father wrote to him, telling him that he would pass through San An- tonio on his way'to Chicago to visit the world’s fair, andtithat he wanted to see him. Young Rubio refused to meet his father, although the latter stopped off here for that purpose. He has received but one letter from Mrs. Diaz since he left. A few years ago the young man was taken seri- ously ill, his father was notified, and one of the most dfstinguished physicians of Mexico came here and treated him until he was well. When asked today whether or not he ex- pected to inherit any part of the great for- tune which his father leaves, young Rubio replied that he did not know whether he had been disinherited, but he knew his father was very angry with him for refus- ing to return to Mexico. a eee The Franklin Pierce Statue. Krom the Hartford Courant. The commission of the state of New Hampshire have accepted the model of Walter Sanford, architect, and Karl Ger- hardt, sculptor, both of this city, for the proposed $12,000 monument to President Franklin Pierce. The monument is to te placed in front of the government: building at Concord, the capital. The statue is to. be of heroic size, and the work is to be finished by next October, at which time the Gedication is to take place. Colds, Coughs and Bronchitis Cured: by Taking YER’S Cherry Pectoral Awarded Medal and Diploma At World’s Fair. USE AYER'S HAIR VIGOR FoR COLOR. es = _ @ IF ‘TNE BABY IS CUTTING TEETH BE SURE and use that olt and well-tried remedy, Mra. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. for children teething: Tt soothes the child, xoftens the gum, allays ali Rain. cures wind colie and is the best remed; thoca, 25 cents a bottle. TLERE A ; Vility in RE y tl 3 Those whe Tron Pills. are troubled with ne _Senkness, night sweats, should try th Nothing contri ard a sound diges- tion than the use of Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bit- ters, the ce appetizer, elebrat VISIT TO A DUGOUT" Romance of a Oareer That Was Begun in This City. A Story of a Woman's Life — Amid hips and Privations She Struggled Bravely On. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HAMBURG, Kans., October 14, 1895 All my life I have heard of “dugouts’ being used as houses, but I never saw one until yesterday. The friend whom I am visiting wanted a pair of quilting frames on which to knot some ccmfortables be- fore it Is necessary to put up stoves, as her rooms are too small to stretch the frames when the stoves are once up, so she asked me to accompany her to a farm a few miles distant, where she was owing a visit and where she could get the frames. “You know Mrs. Williams lives in a dugout,” observed Marian, as we drew near to some well cultivated fields, with flower beds just beyond the alfalfa, over which I exclaimed, wondering who would plant flowers In such symmetrical fashion so far from a habitation. “The house is just around the point of the hill, where it will face to the east, Marian went on. It is an ideal house, cool in summer, warm in winter, and she keeps It like a band- box.” I rather wilted at that explanation. I thought like a great many others that no “ood could come out of a dugout. Suddenly the ponies swept around the poiut of the hill and the dugout was be- fore us. The front of it looked very much as any one-story house would look, having two wide and deep windows with a deep doorway, two steps down between, which stood invitingly open to the morning sun. For a space of six feet back the dugout was built of sod, the walls all of six feet through. Back of that the hill was hol- lowed out for an extension of the house, making a room about sixteen by twenty, which was covered over with a good shin- gle roof. It looked odd, but nothing of the scarecrow that I had imagined, and all around the front gently sloping to the dry creek below were beds of geraniums and phlox, fall roses, china asters and mis- nonette. Only One Room. The room was all in one, necessarily, since the only light came from the front, but it did not seem at all dark. One cor- ner in the back, screened off by pretty chintz curtainr, was evidently the kitchen, from the sounds that came from thence, and the othe: corner was the bed room, for the curtains, chintz again, were looped back so that I could see the neat home- made bedstead, with its snowy draperies. ‘The walls of the room were cemented with a smooth plaster of the clay soil and whitewashed in a soft yellowish tint that was wonderfully pleasing to the eye. As a frieze, artistic hands had made a twelve- in h border of bright sumack leaves, wht with bunches of ampolopsis ber- ries and arbor vitae at frequent intervals. You can have no idea how beautiful it looked over those yellow walls. There were several pretty pictures, some were copies in steel of celebrated etchings and others were simple colored pictures, and they were all framed in ivory and gold, some with sprays of flowers thrown across the white and others with grasses. The windows were hung with cream white cheese cloth, and I noticed that some beautiful tidies in drawn work done on cheese cloth decorated the two easy chairs, just as “Mrs. Williams came back to us with two cups of fragrant tea and some okies. veer spent my girlhood in Washington, and made my debut in soctety there in the first year of the war,” sald my hostess, as sim- ply as though she might be telling me of her iast week's washing. ‘My father was a close friend of Secretary Stanton, and he honored my coming-out party with his pres- ence. There have been sad changes since then,” she said, with a gentle smile, which was at the same time full of tears. “I have not seen the country of my nativity since 163, and I think you are the first woman I have seen from there In nearly thirty Reads Like a Romance. “And none of your friends remain there?" I asked her. “Not one,” was the sad reply. “I do not know that a person I ever knew in or about Washington 1s alive today, and I have not a single blood kin living. Except my son, I am alone in the world.” I told her as well as I could of some of the changes, and her eager questions guided me quite often. She seemed so hungry for news, and yct when I told her how some of the old landmarks had disappeared, and of the destruction of some of the once noted homes famous for the brilllancy of their social gatherings, I could see that it pained he er. I did not learn it from her, but Marian told me that she was born in one of the old mansions down near the octagon house. Her father was interested in some army contracts for the government, and was not entirely honest in his transactions, bring- ing djsgrace upon an honored name. The shame killed her -mother, and her father had to leave Washington. He buried him- self in the wilds of Missouri, and the daugh- ter married a young army officer, who was ordered to the frontier, and was there killed in a fight with the Kiowas close to old Fort Larned. “Her life reads like a romance,” Marian sald, after we got away, ‘a romance with a sorry ending. She was devoted to her young husband, 2nc, as he was buried at the fort, near where he was killed, she pre- ferred to settle near where his body lay. Se she took the ‘claim’ upon which she lives today, an olkler brother running it for her. They made a good deal off of it the first few years, and then her seapegrace brother ran away, taking every dollar she had in the world, and leaving her with a baby boy” only three years old, born after the death of his father. “Since then she has sone on by herself, hiring help as i cemed necessary, but often doing the rd work of the farm her- self. She educat her son for college her- self, and now he has completed his college education and has come back to the farm to help his mother. They have heen poor, very poor, but their fortunes are mending, and I think it will not be long till Mrs. Williams will leave the farm, and, I im- agine, she will go back to the home of her girlhood for < visit. Ft will be almost like looking down into the sepulcher of her dead youth, won't it? Just think! She has never been away from that farm over twenty miles. in thirty years!” a A Kipling Story. ; Saturday's Star will contain a capital story, complete, with characteristic ius- trations, from the pen of Rudyard Kipling. A HANDSOME CHURCH The New Edifice of the Sweden- borgians Nearly Completed. See /DESCRIPYION OF THE BUILDING Fine Memorial Windows Depicting €cenes From the Bible. CONGREGATION AND PASTOR In just avout one year since ground was first brokcu the local congregation of the New Church, or, as they are more general- ly known, Swedenborgians, will be in their magnificent new home. From present pros- pects the opening service will be held on Thanksgiving day. The work of building commenced about that time last year. The church is not to be dedicated, however, un- til next May, at which time the general cenvention is to meet here. With the ex- ception of the tower and some minor de- tails, the exterior of the house of worship is completed, while in the interior the ma- jor portien of the contractor's work is also done. - The ground has a froutage of fifty feet on 16th street and a depth of over one hundred feet oa Cercoran street, running back to an alley. The church edifice cov- ers 47 feet of this frontage and extends back to the alley. The ground plan is in the form of a cross, At the northwest cor- ner a splendid tower is being erected of the same material used in the edifice, namely, Indiana lin estone. The base of the struc- ture is of massive Potomac bluestone. Just at present the contractor is at work on the belfry of the tower. Unlike the rest of the church, this belfry is being built of dressed sicne, and when completed will be particularly handsome. It has double Gothic openings on each of the four sides, apd st the corners are carved pinnacles. e tower is 18 feet square at the base, and will have an elevation of nearly a hundred feet. It will be surmounted by a spire of copper on fron frame work, the whole to measure 180 feet. fome Handsome Details, A featur. of the exterior uf the edifice. is the elaborate carving. Abovt the finest bit of the sculpter’s art has been placed in and around the north tower door, where a design in Scotch roses has been worked out by the ariist himself. The-main entrance is located on the 16th street side, and is reached by a flight of low, broad steps of stone. There are also two entrances on Corcoran street, cne through the tower and the other through the pastor's study. When the plans are fully carried out a Sunday school building will be built ad- jeining the south trensept, but for the pres. ent a temporary wall of brick has bec erected to fill in the end. The arched front entranze opens into a vestibule, which, in turn, opens into the main auditorium of the church. Besides this door the interior may also be reached by a stairway in the tower connecting with a gallery. One of the features of the interior awill be the memorial windows. In contracting for these a distinct plan has been followed. ‘The general idea is to have the complete set of windows represent scenes from the Bible, beginning with the book of Genesis and ending with the book of Revelations. The nave has six window frames, and these are to be filled with glass represent- ing Kings and Prophets of the Old Testa- ment. Memorial Windows. One of the windows already in place is the gift of Mr. Carll A. De Silver of Brook- lyn, in memory of his grandfather, Rev. Maskell L. Carll, one of the earliest min- isters of the Church of New Jerusalem in this country. The general subject is the ite of our Lord, the name of the window being the Gospel window. The window is divided into three parts, the central por- tion reaching to a height of thirty feet and the other two very nearly as high. The three panels in the center represent “Christ as the Good Shepherd,” “BlesSing Little Children” and the “Holy Comforter.” Be- sides these life-size figures there are ten smaller figures, typical of the life of Christ trom the Nativity to the Last Supper. The design of the opposite window in the south transept is devoted to the “Passion,” “Resurrectioa” and “Ascension.” At the west front of the church is an opening for a large triple window. Tais will be filled with a memorial to the late Judge and Mrs. Scudder, formerly of this city, but originally from Massachusetts, who were the chief contributors to the building fund, The general subject of this window is to be the “Creation.” Mrs. Sara A. Spencer will give in memory of her husband, Prof. Speacer, a memorial window representing the age of Noah. In the chan- cel will be seven lancet windows. These will be devoted to the book of Revelations, being the seven gifts of the Spirit to the seven churches, as described in Revelations 2d and 34. The Interior Arrangement’ Like the exterior of the edifice, the archi- tecture of the interior is English Gothic. Across the west end is a handsome gallery. The apse at the east end is twenty by twenty-four feet, and kas a vaulted roof of buff brick with stone ribs, the ribs meet- ing at the top in a rose keystone. The floors of both the chancel and the vestibules are being laid in Roman mosaic, and the floor of the auditorium proper of wood. The vestibules are built entirely of buff brick and lighted with Gothic windows. To the nerth of the chancel is the pastor’s room and committee room, and to the south an arched space for the organ, which is being built. The walls have a sand finish, and will be decorated in a warm tint. All the windows are mullioned, and have rich stone tracery around them. The roof, which is of Georgia oiled heart pine, ts forty-five feet to the ridge and twenty-six feet to the eaves. Large trusses of the same material as is used in the open-work roof spring in arches from aisle to aisle. All other wood used in interior decoration is dark quartered oak. The communion table will be in memory of the l.ie Mrs. Gurley, one of the early workers of the local church, and will be the gift of the Ladies’ Aid Association. It will be elaborately carved. A brass lectern will be a memorial to the late Mrs. Tasker. Seats for the clergy will be placed in the chancel. Immediately outside, on a plat- form in front, are to be placed the choir stalls in three banks. Ca im Stone. ‘The crowning glory of the chancel, how- ever, is to be the two stone accessories, ramely, the baptismal font and the pulpit. Both have been designed by the architect of the church, and are being carved in the same stone as is used in the exterior walls. The pulpit is unique in that it will be of stone, and will be something like the large one now in the National Museum. The bap- tismal font is a donation from the King’s Daughters of the Holy City. Over the chancel arch at the east there is being placed an inscription in Gothic text, reading as follows: “He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.” A feature of the interior is a frieze running eround the entire church, and con- taining avother inscription, as follows: “I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, descending out of heaven, prepared as a de adorned for her husband. Behold, the tabernacle of God Is with man, and He will weil with them. I, Jesus, have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. The pews are to be arranged in two sec- tions, on either side of a broad central aisle, and will seat abcut five hundred. The gallery will have accommodations for about undred more, and this, together with what the iransepts will contain, will give the church a large seating capacity. In the hasement underneath will be_tollet rooms and the heating apparatus. Provision has heen made for both gas and electric lights. Those windows not devoted to memorials will for the present be filled with plain cathedral rlass of an amber tint. Fifty Years ef Church Work. ‘Yhe Wesuington Society was formed over fifty y2ars ago, and has had four ‘pastors besides the present one, via, Revs. Rufus Dawes, Jaivez Fox, E. D. Daniels and Wm. B. Hayder The body is called the New Church o- Church of the New Jerusalem, fom {ts =f in the prophecy in Revela- ticn that the “Holy City, New Jerusalem,” is not merely @ future state in heaven, but that it “comes down out of heaven,” and is now a new religious state of mankind on earth. Measures were taken in 18%? by the general convention of the New Church in America looking to the raising of a fund for the erection of a new house of worshii the old one having been burned down in t! same year, so that the present edifice is really a national memorial of the New Church. H. Langford Warren, professor of archi- tecture in Harvard University, is the de- signing architect, and Pelz & Carlisle of this city the supervising architects. The pastor, Rev. Frank Sewall, is a native of Bath, Maine, and was educated first at Bowdoin College and then later at the Universities of Berlin and Tubingen. He | has been successively pastor of a church in Cincinnati, president of the New Church College at Urbana, Ohio; pastor of the Glasgow, Scotland, Church, and then min- ister of the chur€h here since 1889, He is well known as a contributor to sev- eral of the lea.ling periodicals. The official board of the Washington Society is as fol- lows: President, Dr. R. B. Donaldson: sec- retary, Charles F. Keefer, and treasurer, Job Barnard, and trustees, besides the offi cers ex-officio, Charles G. Smith and Dr. N. Schcoley. Mr. John Joy Edson is at the d of the national building committee, and has had aetive direction of the work —————— THE BLAIR MANSION. me of the Historic Homes of the City and It» Oceupants. The o}4 Blair mansion, No. 1651 Pennsyl- venia agenue, is one of the most famous of the old historic homes in this city. Sev- eral generations have enjoyed its hospitali- ties. It was built in ISlQ by Dr. Joseph Lovell, then surgeon general of the army, who cccupled it until his death, in 1836. Soon after the death of Dr. Lovell the ansion was purchased hy Francis Preston Blair, sr., from the Lovell estate, and he resided there during the years he filled the position of editer of the Globe, the demo- cratic organ of that period. His death oc- curred at his country seat, Silver Springs, Montgomery county, Md., October, 1876, at the advanced age of eighty-five. His son, Francis Preston Blair, jr., was born in Lexington, Ky., February 19, 1821, but spent his early youth in the old home. The mansion was leased to the late George Bancroft during his term as Secretary of the Navy, from 1815 to 1846. In 1846 Mr. Bancroft ‘resigned the portfolio of the Navy Department to go abroad as minister to England. The next distinguished occupant of this histeric house was John T. Mason, who succeeded Mr. Bancroft as Secretary of the Navy in 1846, retaining the position until the end of the presidential term. During the latter part of his administra- tion Gen. Taylor appointed Thomas Ewing of Ohio: Secretary of the Interior, and to him the Blair mansion was leased. He was the father of Generals Thomas and Charles Ewing, both of whom won distinction dur- ing the late war. General Thomas Ewing also filled several diplomatic positions. Sec- retary Ewing, after the death of his friend, Charles R. Sherman, adopted his son, Wil- liam Tecumseh Sherman, whose youth was spent with the Ewing family in this house. Secretary Ewing used his influence and had “Cump” Sherman, as he was familiarly called, appointed to a cadetship at West Point. He afterward served with distinc- tion in the Mexican war. and later was sent to California to meet Kearney’s expe- dition across the plains. He was then first lieutenant of the third artillery. On return- ing, Beep ad Tecumseh Sher- an marri Ellen Boyle, the on! daughter of Secretary Ewing. id td The ceremony took place in the large drawing room of the Blair manston, Father James Rider, president of George- town College, officiating. It was a very brilliant affair, at which were present Presi- dent Taylor and his entire cabinet, of which Secretary Ewing was a member; Senators Clay, Webster, Mr. Calhoun, Jef- ferson Davis, Stephen A. Douglas, members of the army and navy, and hosts of notable people resident in Washington. In 1850 Thomas Corwin, who was Presi- dent Fillmore’s Secretary of the Treasury, eccupied the Blair mansion. Since 1853 the house has been occupied by the family of Montgomery Blair, the latter being a son of Francis Preston Blair and SEES of Major General Francis Preston The okt mansfon is now occupied the descendants of the late Montgomery ait who are Dr. and Mrs. 8. O. Richey (the latter was Miss Minna Bhar), Mr. Wood- bury Blair, and Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery Blair. The latter was Miss Edith Draper, the davghter of William F. Draper of Hopedale, Mass., and whose marriage was one of the social events of the past winter. Qn the walls of the house hang the po! traits of Levi Woodbury, father of Mrs. Mcntgomery Blair; Dolly Quincy, who was Mrs. Hancock, and her sister Elizabeth, who was the great-grahdmother of Mrs. Montgomery Blair; also of Judith Cary Bell, by Copley, who was the great-grandmother of Montgomery Blair, and one of G. V. Fox, assistant secretary of the navy during the war, and brother-in-law of.Mrs. Blair, and of Francis Preston Blair and Mr. Mont- gomery Blair and others. K. T. M SS The Naval Militia. The first result of an important work in connection with our coast defense, under- teken by the naval militia at the suggestion of Lieut. Niblack, in charge of this division at the Navy Department, has just reached the department. It is a report ofthe mill- tary reconnoisance made by the New York naval brigades during the past summer of the north and south shores of Long Island sound. The brigades made four preliminai expeditions, lasting in each can from re day evening to Monday morning, and then spent a full week in the work. They located with exactness and plotted sites for signal stations to cover this entire territory, selsct- ed sites for shore forts and submariaze mines, furnished close measurements of ‘he depth of water at wharves and bridges, indi- cated the nearest points of the telegraphic and telephenic communication with nead- quarters, and, in fact, compiled a store of in- formation that is simply invaluable to both naval and military authorities. As the work was done by the state forces, the re- sults have been deposited with the adjutant general at Albany, but the copy furnished the Navy Department will serve as a basis for the extension of this work along our en- tire coasts by the naval militia of other states. a Recruits for Spain’s Army. The commander of the U. 8. S. Yantic reports to the Navy Department that :he steamship San Francisco sailed from Monte- video September 16 with over 1,200 Span- iards who had volunteered to join the Span- ish army in Cuba. Eleven hundred of these were from Uruguay and the remainder were deserters from the Spanish army who had volunteered to return for service in Cuba. A great proportion of the total number were boys. They were taken in charge on the San Francisco by. @ guard of Spanish soldiers and not allowed to leave. No formal ¢n- lstments took place ashore, but each man on boarding the vessel presented a paper proffering his services to Spain. 2 ______ Fourth-Cla& Postmasters, There were fifty-two fourzh-class post- masters appointed yesterday—four to fill vacancies caused by removals and forty- eight where resignation and death had oc- curred. At Dryfork, Randolph county, W. Va., J. W. Boner, jr., was appointed, vice A. C. Smith, resigned, and at Jonesville, Lee county, Va., B. F. Conk, vice Mrs. M. E. Crockett, removed. SSS Republican National Committee Sum- moned, Senator Thomas H. Carter of Montana, chairman of the republican national com- mjttee, has issued the following call: Tke republican national committee is hereby called to meet at the Arlington Ho- _ tel, Washington, D. C., at 2 o’clock p.m., December 10, 1895, to designate a time and place for the meeting of the national con- vention in 189%, and to transact such ocher business as may demand consideration. (Signed) THOMAS H. CARTER, Chairman. J. H. Manley, Secretary. ° Naval Orders, Chief Engineer J. L. Borthwick has been «ranted three: months’ leave of absence. Ensign A. Il. Norton haa been detached: frcm steel duty to Munhall, Pa., and is as- sigred to the Naval Academy. Lieut. B. W. Hodges is detached from the neval ob- servatory and ordered to conduct @ draft ef men to- the Boston. Lieut. York Noel, de- tached from duty on the staff of Admiral Kirkland and ordered home, with thres rocnths’ leave. Lieut J. B. Nickels tm de- tuched from the San Francisco, with two leave.