Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1895, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1895-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 19 THE NEW SENATORS Thirty Senators-Elect to Be Sworn in Next Monday. OF THESE FOURTEEN ARE NEW MEN -_- Their Faces and Briéf Sketches of Their Careers. a eS ABLE MEN ITHIN FORTY- eight hours the United States Senate will preserve its time-honored con- tinuity by swearing in thirty Senators elected for the term beginning March 3, isos, and ending Mareh 3, 1901. These thirty gentlemen are the first officials elected by the peo- ple whose terms of office extend into the next century. They represent the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Il- nois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minne- scta, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virgin'a and Wyoming. Of the thirty, sixteen—Morgan, Berry, Wolcott. up, Cullom, Lindsay, Caffery, Frye, Hoar, MeMillan, Walthall, Chandier, Sewell, Pettigrew,Harris and Warren—have had prey rvice, Two of these, Wal- thall and Sewell, have served in the Senate and been out of public I'fe for soveral years. Senator Walthall resigned January 24, 18 when he had already been elected to suc- ceed himseli. He tried to resign both terms, that in which he was serving and that for which he had been elected, but it was heid that he could not resign the term for which he had not qualfied. Senator Warren of Wyoming, who had served one ‘erm in the Senate, succeeds Joseph M. Carey, his own seat being Mark, a rew man, vacant interval of two years, owing cilure of legislature to elect. The new Senator from Delaware, Mr. Dupont, will probabiy not qualify with the other new Senators. there being a question of regularity in nis election by the legis- lature. Among Senators who rank in considera- tion with the new men are five—Buriows, Mantle, Pritchard. Wiison and Clark. These Senators were chosen to fill vacancies and qualified in the last days of the -third Congress. Of these, Pritchard is in class Ill, whose terms expire March %, 1897, and Mantle, Wilson, Clark and Burrows are in class 1, whdse terms expire March 3, 189. The thirty Senators who qualify Monday will be known as Senators of class I. There are thirty of this class, and twi nine of each of the others. When Utah sends her Senators there will be just thirty Senators 4n each of the three classes. aken by Clarence D. ufter to but sure, and today he is regarded as the foremost lawyer of the state. Mr. Thurs- ton’s entrance into public Hfe is the result of a spirited contest by the republicans of Nebraska to defeat ex-Congressman Bryan, whcese gifted attainments as an orator were proving too aliuring to the populists. Senator Clark. Clarence D. Clark of Wyoming, who is yet to become a familiar member of the Senate, is a New Yorker, forty-three years old. He has lived in Wyoming since 1881, practicing law most of the time since that year. He was appointed a supreme judge of the state in 1800, but declined the honor. He was elected to the Fifty-second Congress, defeating George T. Beck, son of the late Senator Beck of Kentucky. He Was a candidate for the Fifty-third Con- gress, but was defeated by Henry A. Cof- feen. He is a free silver man. Senator Carter. Montana sends two new Senators—Lee Mantle and Thomas H. Carter. The latter is well-known in Washington. He was for two terms a delegate in Congress and then commissioner of the general land office dur- ing President Harrison's administration, un- til made chairmar. of the republican national committee in 1892. He was born in Ohio in 1854; earned his way upward, making his first start in life after leaving the farm as a book agent. For several years he taught school. He studied law and enjoyed a good practice until he entered public itfe. He ts a@ genial man of most popular qualities and a good politician in the west. He conducted President Harrison’s campaign against Mr, Cleveland in 1892, Senntor Nelnon. The new Senator from Minnesota is an old hand at legislative work. He is one of the best politicians in the republican pacty. In Minnesota ke is known as the “Little Norwegian Giant.” He is the first Scandi- navian to enter the Senate. He was never Deuten fc for which he h He has served in t consin | nt of the and t state which he is represent in the Sonate. He, for terms, represented the “bloody fifth’ dis- th r state in Cong: last time with over 6.000 trict of the being ele majorit The fifth district represents fully half the area of the state, and is one of th the country. Since ieav- ing Nelson chosen goverr He v He served through the war nd studied Jaw on returning He has always been a stead- ffering with his party . which his Minnesota at opposed. He is r and a speaker of great nator Davis, his colleague, stood with the people Senator Sewell Senator Sewell, who reappears in the Senate after an interval of eight years, was from ISS1 to 1887 the colleague of Sen- ator McPherson, whom be now succeeds. He is a native of Ireland, came to America when has lived vearly all his life in s he wv t Chanc In th again hurt. eapts was Vii he He brig: ville he iid at seived nine vib un ate, during thr: siding cficer. Fer ma one of the ccrtrollin: of the New 7 viral road, an man ¢f wealth. More than any Jersey, probably, Gen, and friendst whom he s Senator 7! John M Senator, is a s in Vermont ir ¥ cer r ears old his ted was kille whe y regim: nt, sconsin eay- i) y had ~ that Ume on to earn his way. Wh wes twenty-cne he was in Omaha re w. His progress at the bar was slow and Te tr Senator Mantle. Lee Mantle, Mr. Carter’s colleague, is new to public life, although he took his seat a few days before the end of the last session. He was born in England in 1854 and came to America in 1963. For several years he lived in Utah, working on the Mormon farms. Then he emigrated to Idaho and worked as a mule driver for several years during the building of the Union Pacific road. Go- ing to Idaho in i870, he became a station agent on the Union Pacific, learned to tele- graph and started a stage line. Having ac- cumulated a little property, he moved to Butte, Mont., and there became agent of the Wells-Pargo Express Company. Later he engaged ii banking, a livery wspaper. Be- ing ac pveral terms in the leg: 1 became a leading can- didate 1 States Senate. Senator Chilton. Judge Horace Chilton comes to the Senate for the second time. He was appointed in 1890 to serve out Judge Reagan's term, which expired in 1893. Now he succeeds Senator Coke. He is a native of the lone star state, forty-three years old. He knows how to set type, and has edited a newspa- per. While runni a weekly paper of his own he read law and was admitted. He was successful at the bar, and has been chief justice of his state. His father served in the confederate army and lost his life in battle. He is well-to-do financially, yet inclines, they say, to populistic views of thi Senator Marion Butler. Marion Butler, who will represent North lina in the Senate, is about as young the law ailows. He was only thirty-one hen his term began. He was born tn the heel state, graduated from its State nd read law there. While an academy he got into politics and joined the Farmers’ Alliance. He also edited a paper oud me a populist. He displayed great ability as an organizer, and set things up at such a Ilvely pace that the old mosshack politicians of the state ors behind. Besides be- Were left two arte q ing the youngest man in the Senate, Mr. Butler will uadoubtedly be rezarded as one oft v Baker. e of alls— a r man, Lucien Baker. He. too, an Ohioan and likewise a lawyer. He was born in 1847. For twenty: years he has practiced law in Leavenworth. His education he gained in the public schools in Ohio, and he studied law at the Uni- versity of Michigan. The only official po- sitions he has held up to this time were those of city attorney and state sena- tor. He held the latter office when chosen for the United States Senate. Fifteen years ago Mr. Baker was shot through the right lung by a man named Thurston, who was gunning for D. R. Anthony of the Leavenworth Times. Thurston m‘ssed An- thony, but the ball hit Baker a block away. Thurston was tried and sent to prison. Afterward he came to Washington and was given a place in the government print- ing office here, where he worked until his death, a few years ago. Senator Baker has been’ a strong opponent of the populists and prohibition!sts. His ambition was to be chief justice of Kansas. He protested against his nomination by his party caucus for the United States Senate, and tried to have it reconsidered. He wanted Judge Horton chosen. He has a daughter at Vassar, and his son, gradyated recently from Michigan University, has decided to and will be a newspaper man, be his father’s secretary. tor Elkins. West Virginia is to be represented once more by a republican Senator. Stephen B. Elkins, the Senator-elect, is an Ohioan, fifty-four years old. He went to Missourl when a boy and got his schooling there. After a brief experience in the army he emigrated to New Mexico, where he prac- ticed law, served in the legislature and en- gaged in many business enterprises, which for the most part proved successful. One of the best known of these was his inter- est in the Maxwell land grant. For four years he represented the territory in Con- gress. For several yeurs he was on the r publican national committee, and in 18St he was chosen chairman and conducted the Blaine-Cleveland campaign with distinct ability. In 1891 President Harrison asked Mr. Eliins to enter his cabinet as Secretary of War when Gev. Proctor resigned to take his seat in the Senate. Mr. Elkins is a son- in-law of ex-Senator Davis of West Vir- ginia and is associated with him in many large business interests in that state. Senator Bacon. Augustus ©. Bacon, who comes from Georgia, takes the seat to which Patrick Walsh, the well-known Georgia evlitor, wanted to be re-elected. Mr. Bacon is about fifty years old, and is a native of Georgia. He has practiced law many years, and is a well-to-do nan. He has served several years in the “legislature of his state and been a deieated candidate for governor Against both Governor Boynton and John B. Gordon, and also for Congress and for the Senate. After announcing that he would not act with the democratic party, he once more reappeared in the Georgia legtslature, and by his popularity secured his election to the Senate, in a contest which involved defeat for Mr. Walsh, Judge Turner, ex-Speaker Crisp and other lead- ing democrats. Sénator Gear. Governor Gear takes the seat occupied for many years by James F. Wilson. He was born at Ithaca, N. ¥., in 18v5, re- ceived a common school education and en- tered on a pioneer line in Illinois in 18%. For a time he lived at Galena, then in 1838 he went to Fort Snelling. Engaging in fiat-boating down the Mississippi, he finally located at Burlington in t, where he has since lived. He has been elected to office a great many times, serving several terms in the Towa legislature, several times heing chosen speeker of the lower house. Twice he was elected governor of Towa, and then to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses. During a part of the Harrison administra- tion he was assistant secretary of the treasury. He was then elected to the Fif- ty-third Congress, and finally to the Senate. Governor Gear is a man of unmistakably good sense, and possesses the confidence of his people. Senator Burrows. Michigan's new Senator, Julius Caesar Burrows, {s old to public life in Washing- ton, He has been in the House of Repre- sentatives sixteen years, entering with the Forty-third Congress and serving in the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Fiftieth, Pitty first, Fifty-second and Fifty-third Cor gresses. In the Fifty-first-he was a candi- date for Speaker against Mr. Reed, and was recognized as one of the leaders on the republican side. He was born in Pennsyl- vania in 1837, read law, served two years in the army ani settled at Kalamazoo, Mich. He. became prosecuting attorney, and having an aptitude for polities for Congress. He made no little reputation for himself as a stump speaker during the greenback craze in 1877-78. He is a good parliamentarian and a_ strony partisan. He has paid little atiention to money-mak- ing, ard is comfortatly poor. qualified last winter and took his seat. Jeter C. Pritchard. Jeter C. Pritehard, who took his seat last ry, was the first republican to come Senate from the south in many is election was due to the upris- st element in co-operation th the republicans. He is a Tenne: years old ‘law. Hé served in the legis- for gc candidate for 2 n old Pa- in Ohio election s in the last n minutes of the legi » so5sion. He is said to be a man of plain and airect speech, and a ready and formidable debater. Col. Henry A. Dupont. ‘vhe claimant for the seat vacated by An- thony Higgins of Delaware is Col. Henry A. Dupont of the celebrated family of powder makers. He was probably €cted,but there 5 F is a nice question to be passed upon by the Senate before he can take his seat. After a long and remarkable contest over the election of a Senator, on the last day of the legislative session, the deadlock lasting right up to the last minute, ceived fifteen votes out of twenty-nine In the joint session. At this point: Gov. Wat- son was brought in to take his senatorial seat. He had been president of the state senate, but became governor om the death of Gov. Marvil. With his retym the num- ber of votes in joint session hecame thirty, equally divided between Cok, Dupont and J. E. Addicks. The United States Senate must decide whether Watson, could be gov- ernor of the state and a senator at the same time. George Peahody Wetmore. George Peabody Wetmore, the new Sena- tor from Rhode Island, who takes Mr. Dix- on’s seat, is known as an !mmensely rich manufacturer, coming of af old and sub- stantial family. He*is in with the ultra- fashionable set in Newport and New York and a familiar with the Astors and Van- derbilts. The society of the capital will experience an accession in the Wetmores, B. R. Tillman, Senator Tillman of South Carolina will be one of the most picturesque features of. the new Senate. He is a remarkable man in many respects and will undoubtedly make | his presence felt at an early-day. His rise in politics marks a new advent in South Carolina. He came to the front as the ren,+ resentative of the farming and labo class of the state, in opposition to tr" Gig aristocratic element typified by Bar and Hampton. After years of 8uLGM nation to the old regime, this clement Jp “ne State rose in revolt and completely Rew ithe political aristocrac, “uch had ruled it for a century. Sensor Tillman is more vigorous than Ddi*\ned in speach and ex. pression, and w' pay but secant “re to senatorial Oenity. eae Senater Martin of Virginia. nator Martin pf Virginia, who was.sur- prised into sn election last winter, suc- ceeds Gen. Eppa Hunton, He ts an elderly ag old Virgigla fmply and a er. ‘The singular and ais- ng fact in ‘his careersis that he r heldany office of any slcind what Seever uni chosen ta the United! Seates Senate. a AN IDOL ‘FACPORY. Heathen Cownirles ‘Sappiied With Erow the Martford Times. ‘There has been discovered in Birmingham, very center of Christian England, a where idols’ are made for heathen Many attempts to obtain ad sion to the factory huve heen: made, Lut a strict watch is kept upon outsiders anxious to pry into the secret chambérs where the | heathen gods are made, and reporters, es. pecially, are prevented from entering the works. Idols of all kinds are turned out, representing the gods of all heathen nations, from Tokai to Timbuctoo. The,export trade to heathen countries is a fairly large one, al- A The Various Expenses That Cut THE FACTOR OF SAFETY | night and day, | machinery | bave a factor of twenty-five-that is to though more gods are sent gut 10 fo dealers in curios in the bazaars ef + Damascus, Columbo, etc., for sale to unsus- pecting travelers anxious to.take home sume | mementoes of their stay abroad. Hl The price of gods varies greatly. You may | get a Birmingham made one. !n a London | curiosity sop for half a crown, or you may | run up the pretty bill of $100 for an especial ly ugly one, “stolen,” according to the deni- er, “by a sailor during the Chinese war!” in | the Cairo bazaar, however, the price of a| first-class god of this kind may run up from $100 to anyt A traveie in detecting a of Birmingh erally displays some slight arresularit change of ‘lesixn due to the native w by hand, while the Birmingham gol wa correct in form. .The trade idols is kept such a close secret that it is difficult to esti- mate the output, but there is no doubt the trade ts a fairly large one, and that some en- terprising Birmingham men do very we!l in the business, Sa! thal there is little Ity god of native make from one | manufacture. The first gen- | y or | +e. A Shocked Philanthrepist. From the Chicago Evening Post. The little boy was crying, and his tears touched the heart of the charitably inclined lady; he was so small and seemed to be in such distress, she said, soothing- “Dry your eyes and tell me what the trouble is. Did some of the big boys hurt s still sobbing. she persisted. you for some- o’m, but he will.’” “Oh, tha the trouble, is it?” “Well, it’s a. shame,” she exclaimed, ang- rily, “Why will he beat you?” ause I lust 10 ccats.”* he send you to buy pomgening es’m.”" rd you lost it on the way?’ m.” = a ‘Oh, well i guess we cai said in her kindly way, as from her purse and hande® ‘ow he won't beat (o’m."? “What did he send you to*buy with it?” Beer.” jth fix: that.” “she thok a dime the boy. it you, will h@ Beer!” The good lady gasped at the thought. “And how did you lose it#t + “Matchin’ pennies.” 1 Liefore she had sufficiently recovered to emand the return of her dime the boy was —-se0 ae An Excess of Politeness. po Tid-Bits. They tell it of a member of a Well-known club that he never, under any circum | stanevs, forgets to be polite. The relations | | veen the gentlem vife have k matters 1 ina row culminat which resulted in a separat When the war of was } tits height the wife cried, bit “Then you love me no longs Madame,” replied the h to Live up to his reputation, +o Bafiled. From the Somerville Journal. First Poct—“Did you get a check for your pcem that you read to me a while ago?” Second Poet—‘No; my aspirations got a check.” | careful riders only there would be no diffi- j ing ou NEXT YEAR'S WHEELS Dupont re-} Why Bicycles Will Not Become Oheaper. DEALER'S VIEWS Down the Profits. > QO YOU THINK ther: will be any re- duction in the price of high-grade wheels luring 1896?" asked a Star reporter of a prominent bicycle dealer the other day. “No,” he replied, see no reason for ticipating a reduc- tion. In fact, every- thing points to the continuance of the hundred-dollar price for the next two years at least. There will be an abundance of machines of the $50, $60 and $75 grades, and for beginners and per- sons of very limited means they are really a Godsend, but the thousands who ride the year round want the best wheel they can get, eunts, and put them through a course that is sometimes too much for even the best of makes.” “But if the manufacturers of the cheaper grades realize their anticipated success, **,¢ $100 machine will be crowded ¢ tht wall, and a arbp in price will be in- yitable. “That is not within “ne range of possi- bility,” said tho deer, emphatically. “The high-grad2_m*chines cannot be crowded to the Wa, “Last year the number of wheels but yee py five or six of the representative peas climbed ‘well up toward the half-mil- tion mark. Factories were kept running forces were doubled, addi- tions were built, and the trade were busier than ever before in the history of the bi- cycle. Were any of the wheels left on «the hands of the manufacturer? Not one. Double the number could have been disposed of had the makers possessed facilities for turning them out fast enongh. Some manu- ctirers sold their entire output, in large during the first few months of the year. And now that the 1896 models are coming out, I find the prospects are equally bright. The number of riders has doubled, or maybe d, and if the manufacturers can sell r a hundred dollars each all the wheels they ean turn out, why should they cut the price? Putting aside the net cOst of a wheel —whethcr it be $ or $50—is a man goiug to sell for $85 an article for which he can as easily get $100? The manufacturers will churge $100 for every wheel just as long as the riding public will pay it. You can count on that. 1 The Profit on Wheels. “fsn't there a tremendous profit on them at that rate?” I asked. “Perhaps there is and perhaps there isn’t. Suppose you demonstrate the thing for yourself. Consider the various items of necessary expense to the manufacturer. Take first the present guarantee on wheels. No other manufactured article is sold un- der such liberal terms. You are given a year in which to develop imperfections. If you come into the store six weeks after purchasing with a broken frame being hauled behind you, you get a new one. ‘1 s riding easily,’ you say, ‘and it just went down with me. There was no shock, nd the road was very smooth.’ And so, even though a magnifying glass fails to re- veal any defect or slight flaw in the metal, a new frame must be forthcoming. The agent cannot refuse to supply it; that would be a black eye for his company. “The Safe Lond" : “Then, too, bicycles collapse sometimes, just as men who have lived too eng, or who are not strong enough to bear the bat- ue. Frames twist, forks break, spokes der and rims are shattered to Sut in nine cases out of ten the part is replaced without a word. Do now what the ‘factor of safety’ is in dern bicycle? It is just one and a quarter, which means that if any part be strained more than 25 per cent over the that part is Hable to give way. d for light wheels has caused reduction of the factor of safety to a igure far below that of any other class of manufactured today. Bridges they are so constructed as to sustain a weight twenty-five times heavier than is Ukely ever to be put upon them. In loco- motives and boilers it is from ten to fifteen. But through the demands of the riders for light-weight whe the manufacturers n compelled to reduce the tubing to the thinness of a postal card, rims to the lightness of paper, and spokes to the ize of broom straws. Axles and cranks are made tubular, sprockets are stamped out ot sheet steel, bolts and nuts are hollowed out, and every fraction of metal not absolutely reces: to the strength of the machine is cut away. How Wheels Are Overtaxed. “Now, if you could sell your wheels to culty, But Tom, Dick and Harry want wheels, and Hurry, for instance, is a rider of record-breaking propensities, and not very carsful with his machine. He rides it in read races, where collisions and falls are frequent; he rushes away through sand and mud, up steep hills and down long stony grades, sometimes even riding curbstones and ditches, Finally he gets in a sand pocket, throws all his weight and power into one tremendous effort, and twists the frame as though it w made of lead. Plainly, the fault lies with the rider; he overtaxed the wheel. But who can prove this? ‘It went down under me,’ he says “There must have been a flaw somewher And the manufacturer, to save his reputa- tion, hands out a new frame, and with it goes 1? per cent of the profit on that par- ticular wheel. Riders seldom overtax a machine, according to their own ideas of the matter. It is not the fault of the man- ufacturer. The wheel was built to stand just so much strain and no more. Additional Expenses. “Aside from the expenses for guarantee jabor, materials and new machinery, a steady expenditure is required for adver- tising. The whegt:must at all hazards be Kept before the public eye. A rial dis- tributes among wheelmen elaborate cata- logues, calendars and souvenirs, and in- serts full-page advertisements in news- papers and magazines all over thescountr: And if you want your wheel to stand in the front line you must foliow suit. Ad- vance agents, at splendid galaries, are sent out year with new styles to book orders id regular agents must have their percen Slaborate displays have to be maintaiv ie shows; a team of racing men, with trainers and atte ts, must be kept following the circuit; p: are to be bought, royalties 1 on tires, pedals nd ddles, an ex- tal corps of experts kept constantly at work, and in the midst of th tho: sand and one drains on the compat et hook comes tie announcen »poly in steel tubing and a rise of 10 in its cost. ‘Then, too, hundreds of 31 hments are starting up, turn- h lots of nk h catch the eye of the im from the high-grade mount. , the price of high -duced uniess and the guarante: pocl moi ish, whi the changes come. ready ng of 1897 wheel: and ciliptical tubing, of small larger tires, of hundred-and-t and nine-inch cranks. In a few years, at the present rate, we will need neither chain nor pedals; our wheels will be driven by electric or petroleum motors, and the racing men will be a matter of history. They are | of D-shaped wheels and Ive gears STIMULATES DIGE Horsford's Acid F It acts directly om the food, stomach, and aio sti digestive fluids, putting the stomach iu un active, healthy conditioa, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov’t Report Ro al VaR Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY ORE UNIVERSITY- NOTES Columbian University. The many friends of Columbian University will be pleased to know that the ““iversity has decided to issue 2 magazine. On Wed- nesday a meeting Vas held of those inter- ested in tho ‘ew publication, which was presidzd over by President Whitman. An election of. officers took place and resulted as follows: Editor-in-chief, Dr. B. L. Whit- man: associate editors, Dr. Otis T. Mason, Dr. Charles E. Monroe and Dr. Lee Davis Lodge; business manager, R. T. Barrett, college, "97, A corporation was formed,with Robert T, Martin as president and Dr. Lee Davis Lodge secretary and treasurer. “The Columbian Review,” the name given the magazine, will be issued quarterly and centain about 200 pages. Arucies will be contributed by members of the faculty, students of the gradvate school and mem- will be of a literary, scientific and ph 1 sophical character, embodying the resy*, of original research. ‘The cCzb°" ation shares, of which there will Ye oi aty, have been put at $20 per shes tind the control- ling interest will yefisid by the charte- members, in yrder that the controlling in- terest m2 Ye held practically by the uni- vers.” ‘The subscriptign price has been fiow.q at $2 per annum, and from the present prospects all feel confidert that the Review will rank among the first publications of the kind in the universities of this country. The class in applied mathematics will be formed on Mondey by Prof. Francis R. Fava. Dr. H. N. Craig, 9, medical school, has been appointed resident physician at the Children’s Hospital. A number of the law students met last week for the purpose of forming a quiz de- bating society. They adopted a constitution and decided that the society: should be known as the Blackstone Club. F. B. Good- heart of Tennessee was chosen president, and Charles BK. Jahnson vice president. The club will debate once a month. The rest of the time will be devoted to quizzing. M. A. Coles, president of the law class of ‘D4, was lust week elected a member of the Virginia legislature from the Northumber- lane district, as an independent. ‘Dr. Montague, who left on Wednesday for Easton, Pa., to represent the college at the ecnvention of the Association of the Col- leges of the Middle States and Maryland, has returned. Dr. Montague invited the ascociation to hold its next meeting here in the university building. At the last meeting of the Enosinan So- ciety a spirited election of officers took place, which resulted as follows: H. H. Donnelly, president; Mrs. 8. F. Ramsey, vice president; Miss Helen Ruth Biddis, secretary; J. W. Beatty, treasurer; eritic, Miss Grace Ros: librarian, J. Tyssowski; sergeant-at-arms, A. R. Stuart: first editor of the Be, C. L. Parker; second editor of the Bee, W. K. Ward; first editor of the News, F. L. Biscoe; second editor of the News, C. K. Robinson. Dr. Herman Scheonfeld inaugurated last week his new course of Slavonic languages. The class has taken up the study of Polish as the first and richest of these languages, to be followed later on by Bohemian. At the last meeting of the Dental Class Association of the university the following officers were elected: Thomas B. Cochran, president; E. V. Young, vice president; E. M. Carter, secretary, and E. F. Concklin, treas- urer. Georgetown University. At the last meeting of the Philodemic Society it was decided not to aczept the challenge of the Debating Society of Bos- ton College, as they (the Philodemics) will require all their time to prepare for the annual Merrick debate. The Toner Scientific Society will discuss glaciers at their next meeting. Arrangements ate already made for the base ball team of "96. From the present prospects it is more than likely that the team will be as strong as heretofore. Cole- man, who played first base in the Rock Hill College team, will probably hold the same position at Georgetown. Fleming and Dillon will likely play second base and McLaughlin third. An enthusiastic meeting of all interested in dramatic art was held at the university Monday evening for the purpose of organ- izing the Dramatic Club. The meeting re- sulted in the election of Mr, Carroll Doone, S. J., professor of elocution, as director of the club. The other officers were elected as follows: President, Outerbridge Horsey, "96; vice president, A. J. Smith, “96; secre- tary, Charles F. Valentine, ’96; treasurer, Andrew Berry, censor, F. X. Delany, ‘v7, and stage Manager, Thomas C. Nelson, "06. The club will produce several light plays soon after Christmas. Later in the year, however, they will give “Hamlet.” On Thursday next the Philodemie So- ciety will elect the fuur debators for the Merrick debate,. which will take place on Washington's birthday. The Athletic Association is now arrang- ing for a series of cross-country runs for the winter. The first two contestants will be Douglas and Delany. ‘The new quarter-of-a-mile track is en- tirely completed. Its renovation and all the new fixtures were donated to the col- lege by Walter 5. Martin, president of the Athletic Association. Catholic University. The lecture course on geology to he given by Mr. Robert T. Hill will begin on ‘Thurs- cay. : Dr. Shahan of the divinity faculty will cceupy his new home on T street in Eck- ington next week. Prof. John Quinn of the department of Greek will give his next illustrated lecture Friday on the gold-ivory statues made at Argos and in Athers. Judge Wiliam C. Robinson, dean of the law sehool, returned to the university on Tuesday from New Haven, Conn. He was accompanied by his wife and children, and they are now permanently located in their new cottage erected in the university grounds. A large donation of valuable books for the Divinity Library arrived at the uni- versity last week from Rey. J. J. Dough- of Hornsdale, Pz. . James M. Wilcox, who recently died at bis home near Philadelphia, left by his will a bequest of $40 to the endowment fund of the university. Mr. Wilcox had al- ready given $10,000 to the University Fund Association. The University Library received this week from Mgr. Satolli a number of valu- able books on Tuscar art. This is the third donatior the library has had since the be- ginning of the scholastic year. One of the innovations recently intro- duced into the Hall of Philosophy is a course on Roman law, given in the Latin Academy by Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, D. D., of the divinity faculty. ————— Eyesight Saved by a Magnet. From the New York Times. Joseph Brown's eyesight was saved by a magnet at the eye and ear infirmary yes- terday. Brown isa workman, Plainfield, N. J. On Saturday w a piece of steel flew from his hammer and imbedded itself in his eye. An examination at the steel had sunk so deeply ye that an attempt to cut it out ves would probably result in loss to the eye and car That institution possesses the strongest magnet in the w It con- sists of coiled wire about tweive inches in At the r end two feet in length. soft wire co: 2 t is connec in the building. The e magnet is not known, strength of the but it is e points yes opened. He fi and then, on the appeared a small bit of shining steel, which had come to the surface of the wound. A of small magnet was then piaced to his eye and the steel was drawn away. The doc- tors he will not lose his sight. The use of a magnet in such is not rare, the ‘doctors say, and it has prevented many a | man from becoming blind. CONGRESSMEN IN TOWN, Where Members of Both Branches of the National Legislature Are Located. The following is a list of Senators and Representatives in the city and their ad- dresses, so far as can be obtained: Senators. Bacon, Ga.. 924 14th st. / Baker, Lucien, Kans., 1742 Q street. Berry, Ark., Metropolitan. Brice, C. S., Ohio, 1611 H street. Burrows, J. C., Mich., 1404 Mass. avenue. Butler, | Marion, N. C., 1711 Q street. Call, Wilkinson, Florida, 1903 M street. Cameron, Don, Pa., 21 Lafayette square. Carter, Thos. H., Mont., 1432 Stoughton st Chandler, W. E., N. H., 1421 I street, Cockrell, F. M., Mo., 1518 R street. Cullom, S. M., Ill, 1413 Mass. avenue. Dubois, F. T., Idaho, 1230 13th stree' Elkins, W. Va, 1437 RL ave Exe W. P., Maine, Hamilen, - Gallinger, J. HN! BL pp ays: Gear, J. H., lows poritand. Taina A. 4, Ma., 1432 K street. yr“: wagene, Maine, 1001 16th street. qceSbrough, H. C., N. D., Page's Hotel #iarris, Isham G., Tenn., 13 1st street ne. Hawley, J. R., Conn., 1741 G street. Jones, Ark., 915 M st. Martin, Va., Cairo. McMillan, James, Mich., 1114 Vt. avenue. Mills, R. Q., Texas, 1746 S street. Mitchel!, John H., Oregon, Chamberlin’s. Mitchell. J. L., Wis., 32 B street northeast, Morrill, J. S., Vt., 1 Thomas circle. Peffer, W. A., Kans., Oxford. Pettigrew, S. Dak., Chamberlin’s, Platt, Conn., Arlington. Pugh, Ala., 1333 R st. Sherman, Ohio, 1319 K st. stewart, W. M., Nevada, § Dupont Vest, G. G., Mo. 1901 P'streee Sn Walthall, Miss.,’ Page’ Wilson, J. L., Washington, Cairo, Representatives, Adams, R., jr., Pa., Albany. Aitken, D.’D.."Mich., 407 C street s.e. Aldrich, J. F., Ill, 1401 Stoughton street Anderson, W. C.,’Tenn., National. Andrews, Wm. E., Nebr., 685 Md. ave. ne, Apsley, L. D., Mass., 1752 Q street. Arnold, W. C., Pa., Hotel Varnum. Avery, John, Mich., National. Babcock, J. W., Wis., 11 B street nw. Bailey, J. W., Texas, Riggs. Baker, H. M., N. H., 1411 F street now. Baker, Wm., Kansas, 210 5th street n.w. Barham, J. A., Cal., Ebbitt House. Barthold, Mo.,- Hamilton. Bell, J. C., Colo., 1324 I street. Bennett, Chas. G., N. Y., Shoreham. Blue, R. W., Kansas, 200 E. Cap. st. Bowers, W. W., California, Bancroft. Brewster, H. C., New York, Shorehamp. Broderick, C., Kansas, Elsmere. Bromwell, J. H., Ohio, Ebbitt. Brown, F. V., Tenn., Ebbitt. Bramm, C. M., Pa., Willard’s. Burrell, O., Ill., 633 Md. avenue n.e. Burton, C.'G., Mo. 215 Bast Capitol street. lerhead, W. ansas, 213 N, Cap. Calson, D. G., Ky., Hobie me Cannon, J. G., iL; Normandie. Catchings, T. C., Miss., 1722 Q. Clark, S. M., Iowa, Ebbitt. Clarke, R. H., Ala., 4 B street n.e. Clardy, J. D., Kentucky, Varnum. Cousin, R. G., Iowa, Normandie. Cooper, C. M., Florida, 1743 Q street. Cook, S. H., Wis., 1415 Mass. avenue. Crowley, Miles, Texas, Rizxs* Curtis, Chas., Kansas, 1314 15th street. Curtis, G. W., Iowa, Normandie. Curtis, N. M., N. ¥., 2113 Pa. avenue um Daizell, John, Pa., 1605 N. H. avenue. Denney, Walter M., Miss., Varnum. DeWitt, F. B, Ohio, 620 R. L ave. Dolliver, J. P., lowa, Hamilton. Doolittle, W. H., Wash., Willard’s. Dovener, B. B., W. Va., Willard’s. Downing, F. E., Ilinois,’ Willard’s. Ellis, W. R., Oregon, Bancroft. Eaay, FM Miun., 201 A st. 5.6. s, Walter, Kentucky, Norman Fenton, 1 “i Ohio. EL bit, et lynn, D. kla., 2820 ith st. nw. Gibson, H. R., Tenn, Nationals Grosvenor, C."H., Ohio, Cochran. Hagar, A. L., Iowa, the Portland. Hanly, J. F., Ind., Willara’s. Hardy, A. M., Indiana. Elsmere. Harmer, A. C., Pa., 1602 K st. Harris, 's. BL Ohio, Epbite. artman, C.'S., Mont. 1734 R st. now, Hatch, J. A., Ind., Ebbitt. ee Heatwole, J. P., Minn., Cairo Flats, Heiner, D. B., Pa., 243 North Capitol. Hemenway, J. A., Ind., Riggs House. Henderson, D. B., Iowa, Normandie. Henry, C. L., Ind., 1817 Wth st. nw. Hepburn, W. P., Iowa, 1124 E. Cap. st, Beak = Jasin 1201 N. porn, S. G., Cal., Hamilton Hi Hitt, ROR, i, 1507 K st. nw. Hooker, W. B., N. Y., Bancroft Hotel, Hut, G. F., Pa., 1315 10th st. Hulick, S. W., Ohio, Varnum, Huling, J. H West Va., Willard’s, Hui, J. A. T., Iowa, Portland. Jenkins, John J., Wis., the Buckingham Johnson, H. U., Ind., $10 12th n.w. Johnson, G. L., Cal, Cochran Hotel. Johnson, M. N., N. D., 288 Md. ave. me, Keifer, AR Minn., 201 A st, se. rkpatrick, 8. S., Kans.1378 Harv, Kulp, M. H., Pa., 815 Vermont ave Lacey, J. F., Iowa, Page’ Law, P. B., New York, 1101 K. Layton, C. F., Ohio, Normandie. Leighty, J. D., Ind., Willard’s. Leisenring, John, Pa., 831 18th st. now," Linton, W_S., Michigan, 201 North Cap, Little, J. S., “Ark. Metropolitan. Livingston, L. F.,Ga., 290 N. J. Long, C. L, Kans., 285 14th st. nw Loudensiager, H.C. J., Willard’ McClellan, G. 1445 R. T. ave, ork, the Albany, 1328 I st. “S Mercer, D, H., Neb., 1435 K st. now. Meyer, Ad., La., 1700 Q st. nw. Miller, O. L., La., Normandie. Miller, Warren, W. Va., National, Minor, E. S., Wis., S08 Kast Cap. st. Morse, E. A., Maxs., Cochran. McClure; AS. Ohio, vid Mt. Newlands, F. G., Nev., Chev: Northway, S. A‘, Ohio, pansion O'Dell, B. B., N! Y., Arlington. Overstrut, J.” Indiana. Riggs. Payne, S.B., Normandie. earson, R., N. C., Shoreham Hotel. Phillips, T."W., Pa., 1116 Vt. ave. nw. Powers, H. H., Vt., Riggs. Prince, G. W., IIL, 620 Md. ave. ne. eed, Thomas B.. Maine, the Shoreham, Reeves, Walter, ill, Varaum, ooo J. 8. Pa..'1301 Conn. ave. . D., Tenm, 110 fe Robbins, GA. Ala. Atno Heiles o™ nw, P rno Hotel. Royse, L. W., Ind., Ebbitt. Settle, Thos. @hamberiin’s, the Hamilton, Skinner, H.. N. C., Ebbitt. Smith, G. W., TIL, 918 14th st. now. Scuthard. J. H., Ohio, Varnum. Sparkman, S. M., Fla., Metropolitan. Spencer, J. G., Miss., 157 D st. s.e. Stahle, James A., Pa., 1224 8 street uw. Steele, G. W., Indiana, Shoreham. Stephenson, 8. M., Mich., Ebbitt. Stone, W. A., Pa., 1721 Q. Stone, C. W., Pa., 46 B st. ne. Strong, L. M., Ohio, Varnum. Taft, Chas. B., Ohio, 1811 K. awney, J. A. Minn., Bancroft Tracey, J. P., Mo., 215 East caper Bracewell, Ind, Hamilton. nderwocd, O. W., Ala., 1126 Conn. Updegratf, Thos., iowa, 201 Bast Capitol’ Van Voorhis, H.'C., Ohio, Cochran, Walker, Jas. H., Mass., Shoreham. Walker, J. A. Va. Willard's, ington, J. E., 2013 Hilly. ace, Watson, D. K.. Ohio, Hamilton, a Williams, J. S., Miss., 100 Ist st. nw. Willis, 5.8 aware, 134 A st. ne Wiison, Geo. Ohio, Varnum. Wilson, Edgar, Idaho, Willard’s. Wood, Benson, Il, Ebbitt. Wright, A. B., Mass., Riggs. H., Texas, 17 Grant placa, ee Getting Carelens, From Le Petit Parisien, Baptiste!” Monsieur?” “You are getting careless, my boy.” ‘Oh, monsieur!” You don’t brush my clothes now.” I assure you—"" I left a half-frane plece in my waistcoat pocket yesterday, and it is there yet.” ——_-+0+ A Cultivated Taste. From the New York World. Pastor fy dear friend, were you born with your thirst fer liquor?’ De Tanque (promptly)—“No, shir. the reshult of long and severe trainin’ unlimited capita] in my case at leasht. It'sh A