Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1895, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. — SPECIAL NOTICES. SPIRITUALISM—MISS MAGGIE GAULB OF BAL- the wond-rful medium, St FRIDAY oy for private sittiegs, 90S H st. pw. Every FRIDAY SIGHT, Woun's Hall, 721 6th AN EXAMINATION FOR THE POSITION OF AS- sistant resident physician will be eid at Colum- bia Hospital within the xt forumight. App pply at once to the ff, Dr. J. F. SCOTT, 12-6t ary of the Medical 1513 Rnode Island ave. ATIONAL BANK WASHINGTON, + Dee. 12, 1895. The annual election for directors of this bank will take place at the banking house on TUES- DAY, January 14, 1896. Polls open frou’ 12 m. del2,19,20%)a2,9 ALL ENTION.—JOLL the Woman's Christiau ‘Ceuperance Union at First Congregational Caurch_ SUNDAY ERNOON at 3 o'clock Sulo by Mr. Percy 8. mtr (his owns couprmition). | Members of the to 1 p.m. " WiITE, Cashier. vody Chole will the singing. ‘Ihe ¥ Choir will inj A Day. seats. Mrs, PLATE NOTICE—THE REAL ESTATE ance Company of the District of Coluutbi e usual nbual divided of three dollars ($3) per share on the capita: of sald company bas been declared, payavle at the ottice of said compauy on and after January 2, 1506 ‘"Transte books’ clos: Dec.mx 412,21 28, 31 REINMUTH'’S BAKERY WILL BE OPEN FRIDAY MOKNING, Dee. 13, at 6 o'clock, with all kinds of fresh bread, ‘rolls and cakes. All orders will be promptly filled, and the patronage of brook- 1 landites will be thankfully received. appointed by the national command terans’ Union, until, DECEMBER cust. of the completed monumes ed in its place in Arlington cemetery, 1s xeeed twenty-tive hundred dollars. “All b and designs will be forwarded to S. F. Hamilton, recorder of the boar 1 Fst. ne. By orier board. J. G. BURCHFIELD, Chairman. of th ain CREICE OF “THE MUT COMPANY OF THE Dis WASHINGTON, jers in th 1 to bring their polic delay and have then gesessinent™ to the ‘These who HAV der their receipts, paid by them refunded. aT -dind3o. J. WESLEY BOTELER, Sec. b— ‘the JAL FIRE INSURANCE ICT OF COLUMBIA, Mondzy in December, PAID are requested to ud have the amount annual meeting of the stockholders ional Bank tion of dive » Lith day of J: o'clock noon JOHN C. ECKLOFF, Cashier, of Washington, ary, 1896 and 2 0% 12,1 THAT THE P between Jobn Auth and ND_REITZ. OYSTERS THAT COME FROM CHINCATEAGUE BAY Are way ahesd of any other Oysters in the world—this season. Reports say—tner ones never came from salt water. Glad to hear it—cause our oyster beds are in Chincateague Bay, right in the we get a supply every day. ‘They're ters that need no salt.” You ought to ty some tonight. Fi “4 REUTER’S, COR. PA. AVE. AND 4% ST. 1-10d. 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Some time ago Secretary Morton issued an order requiring that all beef ordered for ex- portation shall be accompanied by a certi- ficate of an inspector of the Agricultural De- partment showing thet the cattle from which it was produced were free from dis- ease, etc. As many petitions have been re- ceived from reliable exporters of beef al- ng that great damage to the export beef de must follow the enforcement of this r by January 1, 1896, the Secretary has c_rected that the order tll not be eutorced until March 1 next. oe “Before They Were Married.” The firal chapter of the mystery story, “Before They Were Married,” will appear in Satvrday’s Star. The thousands of gtessers who sent in their solutions can then see how near they came to solving the mystery. THE CIVIL SERVICE (Coatinued from First Page.) The delegates from affiliated societies are as follows: Washington—Civie Center—Dr. Jno. Greg- cry, Rev. Dr. 8. M. Newman, Edwin Wil- letts, Chas. Lyman, Rev. Alexander Kent, Mrs. Ellen 8. Mussey, Miss Josephine Clark, W. F. Willoughby. Board of trade—S. W. Woodward, Henry F. Blount, Myron M. Par- ker, Gardiner G. Hubbard, Jno. B. Wight, Simon Wolf. Troy—City Club—Mont. G. Curtis, Rev. T. P. Sawin. Marietta, Ohio—Citizens’ Prof. Jno. C. Shedd. Massachusetts Reform Club—A. M. Howe, Samuel Y. Nash. Philadelphia — Municipal League—C. P. B. Association — Woodruff. Boston—Municipal League — Samuel Capen, J. G. Thorp, Arthur Hobart. New York—Good government clubs—W. M. Schieffelin, Geo. R. Bishop, M. D. Roth- schild. Board of trade and transportation— Oscar S. Strauss. Mr. Foulke’s Addres: At the afternoon session today Mr. Wm. Dudley Foulke of Indiana made a short address ufion “Superannuation in the Civil Service." He began by saying that Jno. Wanamaker when Postmaster General once wrote by the hard of Marshal Cush- ing a circular letter to a number of civil service refcrmers throughout the country, asking why both parties should not dis- card their insincere professions for the law. and have the patriotism to go back to the old system. Mr. Wanamaker is not the only one who has desired to return to the old methcd of political pull. They make the claim that the efficiency of the departments will be seriously interfered with in ten or fifteen years by the old age of many of the clerks who could not be re- moved. It is easy to answer that these clerks ought to be dismissed when they cease to be efficient, and it is easy to say that when they accepted employment: they knew that no pension awaited them, and that it was their duty to save in the days of their prosperity enough to support them in the infermities of age. It is still true that permanency in office holding, which the merit system encourages, makes even discretionary removals more difficult, and as men everywhere outlive their useful- ness this so-called tenure during good be- havior sometimes fastens barnacles upon the service. He said that he used the epi- thet barnacles, for it is used by ancther high in authority in the camp of our ene- mies, Mr. Porter, who conducted with such impartial and disinterested fidel:ty the tak- ing of the last census. The competitive plan has removed one great temptation. Men are not dismissed for the mere purpose of appointing to the vacant place, a personal or partisan fol- lower. But there are other temptations to retain the {nefficient, and some of these temptations spring from the best of feel- ings in our nature. Very few chiefs will discharge a man who has spent the best years of his life in the government service, doing faithful work, just because he hap- pened to have beccme superannuated. Many of those who are aged and incompe- tent, but who can point to a record of past usefulness will stay in place, and beside drawing pay for work that is not per- formed, they will injure the service in other ways. We may say that the chiets of departments ought not to consider any of these things, but keep only the west men, but no man w'th a heart will ever discharge a clerk, who, by we'ght of years and infirmities, has become inefficient. There are some men, who, by mere length of service, come to believe that they have an indefeasible right to office, and there- fore become hard to manage. Even the judges of our federal courts sometimes be- come arbitrary and d-sagreeable, largely on account of the life tenure by which they hold their places. A certain insecurity in office is a great stimulus to urbanit: Mr. Foulke advocated the formation of superannuation funds by retaining a por- tion of the pay of each clerk every month, and believed that a system comprehending the entire classified service would be the most perfect of all. He thought it wise to provide some plan by which the service may be kept from fossilization, even before the period when the members should be- come entitled to the benefits of the super- arnuation fund He also stated that all grades of the service should be open to Promotion upon periodical competitive ex- amina-ion, Mr. Siddons’ Paper. In his paper on “The Important Function of Civil Service Reform,” Mr. F. L. Siddons said: “As the movemert known as civil service reform gains in tke respect and good will of the American people and its principles are extended to the various forms of gov- ernment that exist in this republic, civil service reformers and friends of good gov- ernment generally must of necessity busy themselves with the many details involved in the labor of giving legal expression and effect to those principles, which this or- ganization in a large degree stands for and represents. But their zeal in the labor al- luded to fs greatly misapprenended if it is supposed that it is inspired only by the con- viction that the system of examining ap- plicants for admission to or promotion in the government service, to test their effi- ciency, is superior to the old method, which made party or personal allegiance alone the- ‘open sesame’ to government employ- ment. For irrational, unjust and quite in- defensible as the old method was, and, ales! ctill is, it would not in itself, and n.erely because it was and is irrational ard unjust, as a method of supplying govern- ment servants, have earned for itself the undying hostility of so many who count country above party and justice above the supposed requiremerts of political ob- ligations. “No. 1. Back of a mere method of how persons should get into or out of govern- ment service He questions of far greater moment to the welfare of the country; questions that indeed claim the anxiou: thoughts of every lover of our institutions, and upon a right arswer to which much of censequence to America depends. “Let us for a moment consider them. “It can hardly be denied that a govern- ment, organ:zed upon the theory of the censent of the governed, and which de- rived all its powers and functions from the people whom it is to protect and rule, must depend for its success and permanence upon the freedom and ease with which its citizens are permitted to give expression to their wishes and desires, and their ‘con- sent’ obtained, in all matters concerning their social and political well being. It has leng been our boast that the United States of America afford to the world a striking example of such a government. A govern ment quickly responding to the needs and aspirations of its people and knowing 10 ms but those of equal justice to all ithin the sphere of its jurisdiction. This is our boast. But can we make it good? “Review the political history of the coun- try for the past seventy years with un- biased minds, and we must frankly confess that some of our most cherished institu- ticns have become mere delusions, and who Lelieves today that a single Important elec- live office is filled by the free choice of the electors? Who doubts that much of the mcst needed legislation must be purchased, if obtainable at all? And to whom must the people go for permission to elect their servants or to procure the enactment of their laws? To organized bands of pelitical free-booters or to single individuals who have reached a position of political power quite inexplicable, when their education, hcnesty or ability are borne in mind. What an extraordinary spectacle is presented when a great city is completely dominated for years by a little coterie of ignorant Castoria For Infants and Children. CASTORIA PROMOTES DIGESTIV comes Flatulency. Constipation, Sour Stowach, Diarrhoea and Feverishnies. Thus the child {s rendered healthy and its sleep NATURAL. CAs- TORIA contains no morphine or other narcotic property. “CASTORIA is so well adapted to children that IT recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me.” H. A. ARCHER, M.D., and ove. 111 So. Oxford st., Brooklyn, N. ¥. “For s 1 oy I have recommended ‘Casto- ria,’ and shall always continue to do so, as it has invariably produced | F. PARDEB, M.D., 125th st. and 7th ave., New York clty. THE OFFICIAL EXPLANATORY NOTE: Observations taken at 8 a.m., 75th meridian time. bars or lines of equal air pressure, drawn for each tenth of ar inch. lines of equal temperature, drawn for each ten degrees. WEATHER MAR. -. vp Olas, 50° @ Partly Cloudy rispksorw'® & Cloudy @ fain. ag a0" @snom. BOE OHS Solid lines are tso- Dotted. lines are isotherms or Shaded areas ure regions where rain or snow has fallen during preceding twelve hours. The words “High” and ‘Low’ show location of areas of high and low barometer. Small arrows fly with the wind. MORE SNOW IN SIGHT. It Will Probably Be Followed by Clenring Weather Tomorrow. Forecast till 8 p.m. Friday.—For eastern New York, eastern Pennsylvania, New Jer- sey and Delaware, threateneing weather and snow; cold, northeasterly winds, In- creasing on the coast, followed by warmer Friday evening. For the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, snow, probably followed by clearing weather; northerly winds; slight changes in temperature. Weather conditions.—The snow storm which prevailed during Wednesday night and continues this morning from New Eng- land and the middle Atlantic states west- ward to the lake regions and the central valleys is due to an extensive, but shallow, depression,which has moved during the past twenty-four hours from the lake regions southeastward and is central this morning over the east gulf states. The snowfall has been moderate in amount and the winds generally light. The severe storm yesterday morning off the New England coast has moved northeastward into the ocean, attended by dangerous gales. The barometer is high north of Lake On- tario and in the central Rocky mountain regions, and lowest north of Montana, where another storm is developing. It is generally warmer throughout the south Atlantic and east gulf states and generally cooler elsewhere. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of water at 8 a.m.: Great Falls, temperature, 32; condi- tion, receiving reservoir, temperature, 35; condition at north connection, 36; con- dition at south connection, 36; distributing reservoir, temperature, 35; condition at in- fluent gate house, 36; effluent gate house, 36. Tide Table. Today—Low tide, 10:27 high tide, 3:56 a.m. and Tomorrow—Low tide, 5:00 a.m. and 5:28 p.m. ‘The Sun and Moon. Sun rises, 7:13; sun sets, 4:34. Moon rises, 3:14 a.m. tomorrow; sets, 1:41 p.m. tomorrow. The Bicycle Lamps. All bicycle lamps must be lighted at 4:34. The police regulations require that “Ali cycles, bicycles and tricycles in motion after sundown shall carry a suitable light.” The City Lights. Gas lamps all lighted by 5:53 p.m.; ex- tinguishing begun at 5:57 a.m. The light- ing is begun one hour before the time named. Naphtha lamps all lighted by 5:53 p.m.; extinguishing begun at 6:12, The naphtha lamps burn fifteen minutes later in the morning than tie gas lamps, and the moon. Schedule dges not apply to them. Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau today: 8 a.m., 24; 2 p.m., 24; maximum, 25; min- imum, 23. men who turn out to be, as was long sus- pected, common thieves, “and when the first ficod of public indignation has ebbed after engulfing the rogues, the same metropolis in a little while ts again in the possession of another set of equally ignorant and cor- rupt individuals, ‘who, more daring than their predecessors, extend their evil influ- ence and control until a state is in their hands, and they reach up and out for larger spoil. How comes this avount? The answer ts at hand. By a systematic de- bauching of the political conscience of the electors. By appeals to their ignorance, cupidity or necessities. By the bribe of office. How many leaders of movements for the public good have been tempted and fallen and their cause betrayed, by the snare of public place, set in their pathway by those who held the key to what has been aptly called a ‘vast bribery chest.’ And bribery such as this is not checked by Avstrelian ballot laws or proportional rep- resentation. “io destroy the ‘bribery chest,’ the one hope of the political striker and boss; to restore the freedom of speech and political action of the voters; to make our public scryants truly the servants of the publi to clear the way for those industrial an economic reforms made necessary by the greatly changed industrial and economic Condition of the country; in fine, to make cur government, in its’ best and truest sense, ‘a government of the people,’ is the important function of civil service re- form.” Dana on the Postal Service. Mr. R. H. Dana, in his address, said that in the American spoils system we spoil not a distant eremy, but ourselves. Nowhere is this better fllustrated than in the postal service. We have the worst postal service in the civilized world, as a result of letting our representatives strengthen their politi- cal fences by asking frequent changes and unfit appointments that would ruin any business exposed to open competition. To- kio, sapan, has more frequent deliveries than New York, and England, France, Ger- many and Italy are twenty and thirty years ahead of us in improvements, espe- cially in their branch offices. So much have the Posmaster Generals and their as- sistants been occupied with the distribu- tion of patronage that they have not had time to attend to the organization of the department. Model postmasters come for consultation on business of the service, have to wait in the ante-room while ap- pointments in unimportant localities are considered. As a result, the organization is on the same_ basis as it was under Franklin with only seventy-five post offices in the country. When ordinary business grows it is subdivided, but the Post Office Department has no officers between the general-in-chief, with his small staff, and the captains of companies. All questions relating to the wants of the various post- masters &re practically to be passed on by the two clerks at Washington, who are too far off to be able to judge of the circum- stances. That the people of the United States do rot rise and demand a better service is be- cause they have not seen any better. It is only a small portion of the small minority that have intelligently compared our postal service and that of other civilized coun- tries. Mr. Dana cited the railway mail service as showing the excellent results of civ service reform. But, he continued, the sub- jects that corcern cs most are the cot Tupting influence o# the spoils system in our politics and the danger to our liberties. If each of the 70,000 postmasters can mus- ter only five friends together they make 420,006, or one in twenty-one voters, or a clean majority of all persons taking an a tive part in our nominating machinery. As to corruption, we have seen the bar- gaining of postmasterships at conventions in trade for votes of delegates, to say noth- Ing of selling them by Congressmen or de- feated candidates for Congress of the dom- inant party for ready money. We give special welcome therefore to the messenger bringing us the news that the postmasterships or any number of them have permanently been forfeited, against the raid of the Kurdishl:ke spoilsman, and the recent order of the President has a peculiar and almost absorbing interest. It cheers the heart and brings hope to the breast. He referred to the plan now proposed by the President and Postmaster General of consolidating as far as possible neighbor- ing offices with larger one, and said: “When all this is done and when some mere extensions now contemplated, [ am informed will include some 17,000 more places have been made we may know that not only is the back of the spoils monster broken, but that the work of extermina- tion is practically completed, and we may prepar2 to attend the funeral obsequies, keeping, however, our weather eye open all the while, and our hands at the sword hilt lest some hydra head spring to life again.” The Local Committees. The local committees which had charge of the arrangements for the me2ting and the entertainment of the delegates, are as follows: Reception committee—Mr. Jobn Joy Hd- son, chairman; Rev. Dr. Alex. Mackay- Smith, Mr. Jno. W. Douglass, Mr. Charles Lyman, Mr. F. L. Siddons, Rev. J. Havens Richards, S. J., Mr. Gardiner G. Hubbard, Me Sv. We id. Mr. Cnarles G. Conn, Mr. Joim B. Wight, Mr. Henry B. F. Mac- farland, Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, Bishop John J. Keane, Mr. Crosby 8. Noyes, Gen. Ellis Spear, Mr. Berlak Wilkins, Mr. Henry F, Blount, Mr. Matthew G. Emery, Mr. Charles C. Glover, Rev. S. M. Newman ard Mr. M. M. Parker. Press committee—Mr. Henry B. F. Mac- farland, chairman; Mr. Francis E. Leupp, Mr. P. V. De Graw and Mr. Charles A. Boynton. Entertainment committee —Mr. Charles Lyman, chairman; Rev. Dr. Alex. Mackay- — Smith, Mr. Theodore W. Noyes, Mr. John Joy Edson, Mr. John W. Douglass, Mr. ease A. Lambert and Mr. F. L. Sid- ons. —S es ELECTRIC CONDUITS. Injunction Asked for ,Agninst the Commissioners and the Potomac Co. A bill for an injunction was today filed against the District Commfssioners, the Potemac Light and Power, Company, 0. T. Crosty and Charles A. Lieb by Samuel T. Howard and Anthony Hanlon, jr., asking that the Commissioners be restrained from issuing a permit to the other defendants to corstruct any conduits along any streecs in the city. In their bill Howard and Hanlon state that they ure the owners of valuable real estate in Georgetown, and then go on to say that the Georgetown Gas Light Com- pany holds a contract for lighting the Aqueduct bridge with illuminating gas. It is believed by the complaiuants that the Commissioners are about to or have enter- ed Into an agreement with the Potomac Light and Pcwer Company whereby) twelve of the lights on the bridge supplied by the gas light company are to be dispensed with, and in place of them twelve electric lights furnished. Believing that it is viola- tion of law to permit the Potomac Light and@ Power Company to construct the con- quits, the suit was brought. Shellabarger & Wilson are the attorneys for the com- plainants. —E— Must Serve It Out. A rather novel case was brought before United States Commissioner John H.O'Don- nell at his office on Capitol Hill this morn- ing. It seems that Frank E. Gales was con- victed, sentenced to be confined in the Uni- ted States jail for six months and to pay a fine of $35, and in default to stand commit- ted further until paid. The six months’ sentence having expired, the prisoner, by his attorney: |. H. Jeffer and T. K. Groff- enre:d, made application to Commissioner @’Donnell fer his release under the poor convicts act. The hearing was: given this morning, and Mr. Jeffords, the assistant district attorney, claimed that the prisoner was not entitled to h:s release, because, while he had served his six months’ sen- tence, he should serve thirty days addi- tional before he could be released. The at- torney for Gales claimed that all prisoners were allowed five days each month for good behavior. The six months would give him the thirty days. The warden, Capt. Leon- ard, being heard, stated that the court had not allowed the good behavior time on ac- count of the fine not being paid. The com- missioner remanded the prisoner back to jail, having sustained the district attorney in his objection, ——. Thefts Reported. S. Gardella of 604 4% street southwest re- ported to the police this morning that his store was entered Tuesday evening and a package of pens, some chewing gum and thirty cents were stolen. G. A. Clark, 119 6th street northeast, re- ports that a law book was stolen from his carriage while it was in the alley in rear of his house. Mary Chapman of 1034 3d street _com- plains that her house was entered on last Thursday and a lady’s black suit and a gentleman’s cutaway coat were taken. Craig & Jackson of 3140 M street report that their place was entered about 8 o'clock” cn Tuesday night and $40.50 was stolen from a@ safe, which was thought to have been un- locked. —.__ Officers Elected. St. Peter's Commandery, No. 134, R. C. U., Knights of St. John, at its regular meeting elected officers for the ensuing year as follows: Spiritual director, Rev. M. P. Sullivan; president, Joseph T. Jen- nings; first vice president, John F. Gates; second vice president, .Albert J. Ronspies; recording and corresponding secretary, Daniel ‘Sullivan; fihancial secretary, Michael Noonan; treasurer,‘John E. Tay- lor, trustees, John J. Dolan, Wm. 5. Jones, Frank J. Nolte, John F. Darnall and George W. Montgomery; medical ex- aminer, Dr. E. J. Collins; military officers— commander, with rank of captain, Joseph T. Jennings; first vice commander, with rank of first Meutenant, John F. Gates; second vice commander, with rank of sec- ond lieutenant, Albert J. Ronsples. a A Claim for Overwork. The Lafayette Square Opera House was brought into litigation’ today when a suit in equity was filed by the Youngstown Bridge. Company against John W. Al- baugh, Uriah H. Painter, Harriet Stan- wood Blaine and others to enforce a me- chanics’ lien, amounting to $5,703.90, claimed to be due on the work of construc- tion of the theater. It is stated in the bill that the original contract with the Youngstown company was for $22,921.82, including $5,222.82 as a charge Sor extra work and material. Mr. Albaugh and Mr. Painter, it is claimed, on several occasions, obstructed and delayed the completion of the work under the con- tract, the delays amounting to sixty days. The sum claimed for extra work is in part a result of the delays. ——. Lane’s Presidency Declined. Rev. Dr. Samuel J. Nicholls, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, has declined the presidency of the Lane Sem- inary, Cincinnati, Ohio, which position was offered him several weeks ago. NOT READY TO REPLY Dri Satterlee Asks for Time to Make a Decision. STATEMENT 10 THE COMMITTEE Reluctant to Leave His Work in the Metropolis. A PLEASANT INTERVIEW Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, December 12.—‘I am more than pleased to receive my fellow church- men from Washington and you the citizens of that most beautiful city. I wish I were in position to make your pilgrimage more profitable than I fear it will be.” This was the greeting with which Rev. Dr. Henry Yates Satterlee, rector of Cal- vary Protestant Episcopal Church in this city, received the delegation from the na- tional capital yesterday afternoon. He stccd in his study at the rectory, a noble figure of ecclesiastical and scholarly dig- nity, hemmed in by a half circle of friends and the members of the two committees that had come from Washington to notify him of his election to the bishopric of that city and to urge his acceptance of it. Dr. Satterlee’s daughter, with two or three members of his congregation, stood a little apart and listened to the tender of the hon- or to preside over the Episcopal diocese of Washington. One of the committees from Washington represented the diocesan convention which elected Dr. Satterlee, and the other was composed entirely of laymen, having been appointed at a meeting of laymen to visit Dr. Satterlee and urge his acceptance. The gentlemen composing them reached New York at 4 o’clock end went immediately to the rectory of Calvary, which is at 2ist street and 4th avenue, in one of the most aristocratic sections of the east side and a short distance from Stuyvesant square. The committee representing the conven- tion was headed by Rev. Dr. John H. Blliott, rector of the Church of the Ascension and president of the recent convention; the other members of it were Rev. Dr. Mackay Smith, rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church, and Gen. Parke of the United States army. The committee of laymen consisted of Messrs. Lewis J. Davis, Gilbert B. Towles and W. H. Webster. Dr. Satterlee hid Leen apprised by a tele- gram of the coming of the committees from Washington, and gave them an extremely cordial welcome. Dr. Elliott and Dr. Smith are old personal friends of Dr. Satterlee, and he was extremely genial in receiving them. The notification to Dr. Satterlee by Dr. Elliott was a formal one. The party as- sembled in the study, and Dr. Elliott, ad- dressing Dr. Satterlee, sald in part: The Committee's Address. “Dr. Satterlee, the diocesan convention of Washington directed myself and my asso- ciates to officially notify you of an event of which you have already doubtless heard. You were the unanimous choice of the mem- bers of that convention to fill the vacancy existing in the head of the diocese. Your selection was inspired no less by your ad- mirable personal qualities than by your high and deserved reputation as a church- man, and it is with the fondest hopes of myself and colleagues that we come to you today to notify you of your selection as our biskop, and to urge upon you the accept- ance of an honor that is intended to em- phasize our appreciation of your fitness for that position. Dr. Elliott then stepped aside and Mr. Davis, representing the delegation of lay- mien, urged Dr. Satterlee to accept the prof- fered honor. He assured Dr. Satterlee that the people of Washington would extend to him a most cordial welcome. Dr. Satterlee’s Reply. Dr. Satterlee Ustened to both Dr. Elliott and Mr. Davis most attentively, with a pleasant smile on his face, and when they had concluded, he replied: “It is with heartfelt gratitude that I re- ceive and acknowledge the honor which the diocese of Washington and its citizens have conferred upon me. The invitation to be- come a resident of your beautiful city is a n ost alluring one, and were I to consult my Fersonal feelings in the matter, I fear I should not hesitate very long to consider favorably your offer. Other consideration: however, make it, I regret to say. absolute- ly Impossible for me to decide whether I can accept or shall be forced to decline. I have already discussed the matter with members of my own beloved congregation, and so strong are the ties that bind me to them, as weighed against your splendid in- vitation, that I have not yet been able to definitely decide just what I shall do. “I think I will have to crave your in- dulgence for a more extended period—until perhaps the first of the year. I have been so engrossed in the interests of Calvary during my fourteen years’ pastorate that it will be an extremely difficult task for me to sever my connection with it. The sug- gestion of parting with friends grown very dear to me during these fourteen years is not easily to be waved aside even upon the receipt of so tempting an invitation as you, my brothers, have extended to me. Before giving my answer one way or the other, I shall want to devote much more serious thought to the proposition than I have been able to give it. I think that by the first of the new year I shall be in position to send you my decision in the matter.” Dr. Elliott and his associates urged Dr. Satterlee to decide in favor of coming to them at Washington. He received their pleading with good-natured grace, and al- though the gentlemen from Washington attempted to secure some significant ex- pression from him, he resolutely declined to give them the vaguest sort of idea as to what his ultimate decision will be. The committees from Washington remained at the rectory for some time, and were pre- sented to several members of Dr. Satterlee’s | church, who dropped in to learn if he had given his answer to the invitation from Washington. The Washingtonians return- | ed to the capital city last night. What He Said to a Star Reporter. Dr. Satterlee granted an interview to a reporter for The Evening Star last evening. He declined to discuss the chances of his either accepting or rejecting the offer of the bishopric of Washington. “As I told the committees. I cannot decide the matter before January 1,” ne said. “During the fourteen years I have been rector of Calvary I have declined the offer of two bishoprics because I felt that my work here was a solemn duty, and that I had to carry it out. There are so many branches to my work that it would be very dfficult to tear myself away, no matter how flattering the inducement, but then, on the other hand, the honor the people of Wash- ington have paid me is so generous and flat- tering that I cannot say just what I shall do. I must ponder on the subject. The question with me is whether my church here or the diocese of Washington needs me most.” It was learned last night that Influential members of Dr. Satterlee's parish will call upon him next week in a body and urge him to remain. The doctor is one of the most popular churchmen in New York, and his departure would be regretted by his confreres of all denominations. The gen- eral impression among members of the Protestant Episcopal Church {s that he will remain in New York. The Committee Feels Encouraged. The Rev. Dr. Mackay-Smith, who was one of the committee appointed by the diocesan convention to formaily convey the call of the diocese ef Washington to Bishop-elect Satterlee, was seen by a representative of The Star this morning in relation to yes- terday’s conference with that gentleman. Dr. Mackay-Smith satd that Dr. Satterlee stated that he could not give any definite answer to the call until after Christmas, because he desired to confer with some members of his family not now in New York. Dr. Mackay-Smith also said that the committee felt encouraged over its’ recep- tion by Dr. Satterlee, and had strong hopes that he would accept the call of this dio- cese. ——.—_—_. Detached From Command. Capt. James O'Kane has been detached from the command of the Richmond and granted three months’ leave. INDEX TU_ ADVERTISEMENTS. AMUSEMEN ATTORNEYS AUCTION SALES. BOARDING .. CITY ITEMS.. COMMISSIONERS OF DEEDS. OOUNTRY REAL ESTATE... DEATHS. .., CENTISTRY . EDUCATIONAL EXCURSIONS . FINANCIAL . 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