Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1895, Page 16

16 - THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1895-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. AZTEC AND SPANIARD In the Footsteps of the Conquering Cortes. > VESTIGES OF AMERICA’S VENICE Unique and Interesting Street Scenes in Mexican Cities. —-— SALES BARGAIN EVERY DAY No. IL. Edlitorial Correspondence of The Evening Star. T HE AMERICAN IN Spain naturally takes a deep interest in the reminders of Co- lumbus. He finds not even the Alhambra more thought-inspir- ing than the bridge of Pinos near Gran- ada, where Queen Isabella's ¢ ou rier, sent by her from the recently conquered i, sMoorish city, over- took Columbus, who was about to quit Spain in despair, and turned him back give “to Castile and to Leon a new worl The American also develops a spontaneous Columbian enthu- siasm in Palos, with its convent of La Rabida, so intimately associated with the turning points in the career of Colu 3. and its port whence the great discoverer sailed; and in Barcelona, from which the most imposing of the many monuments erected in his honor looks out upon the Mediterranean, where he was royally wel- comed by Ferdinand and Isabella on the return from his first voyage. A similar interest at hes to Mexiean reminders of Corte the first old world conqueror of the new, and this interest is not diminished by the fact that the asso- ciations connected with Cortes, who took possession for Spain of what Columbus fou e in the land where his fame was wen, and not In the mother-country whcre both discoverer and conqueror died neglect- ed and humiliated. In t ¢ Footsteps of Cortes. ‘ace every stage of the wonder- ch of Cortes and his handful of fol- s from the coast near Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico. He at Tlaxcala, a mountain town, not far from the present city of Puebla, the Spaniards fought with a fierce and warlike mountain tribe which soon became the faithful ally of Cortes, saving Lim more than once in times of im- minent danger, and sharing the litary honors of the conquest. In this city, which at the time of the conquest was compared favorabiy by Cortes with Granada, but The story of the ccnquest of Mexico ts the most exciting romarce ever written. It has not been neglected either by the his- torian or the novelist. As the average tour- ist in Egypt finds an catertaining guide in “Uarda” ard “The Egyptian Princess,” | and the visitor to Italy's resurrected city delights more In the descriptions found in “The Last Days of Pompeii” than in those of Baedeker, so in Mexico “The Fair God” and “Montezuma’s Daughter’ give to many buildings ard historic spets still visible, and to many views which may still be en- joved, a vivid interest which they would otherwise leck. It is a fascinating occupa- tion to visit the scenes described in fiction and history, and to trace reminders of an ancient y in the modern successor upon its site. The Old Capital and the New. The Aztec city of Mexico—Tenochtitlan— was more extensive and populous than the present great capital. It was the Venice of the New World. It was built originally on some islands In the western part of Lake Tezcuco. It stretc its habitations on piles out into the shallow lake. Canais sun, and ovr barefooted gondolier, dressed in white cotton and a sombrero, poles us slowly down the equally sluggish canal. Here we see a picturesque, scantily clad, dark-skinned Indian propelling a small boat laden with fagots. We pass hundreds of flat boats on their way to market, piled high with vegetables, flowers, wood, hay, fruit and stone. Some of the scows are house-boats, and whole families, from the infant to the grandfather, live in them. Domestic operations are performed in the open air, with a Neapolitan abandon and tack of reserve. Here we pass under a low stone bridge, and are compelled to throw ourselves flat in our beat, with our awning spread upon us. The scenes on the populat- ed banks of the canal are as interesting as those on its surface. We see women and children in various stages of undress, wash- ing their clothes or performing their per- sonal ablutions. The Viga laundry consists of an equipment of stones conveniently lo- cated on the river bank. Occasionally we can look up some small intersecting canal and see gardening operations upon the mod- ern floating islands, and small boats filled GONDOLIER, traversad it in every direction. Canoes as the New World goadolas were the ordinary Tenochtitlan vehicles. Great causeways of lime @nd stone, 1 enough for a dozen horsemen to ride abreast, connected the elty on the south, the west, and the north th: mainland. Canals intersected nd were crossed by draw- s which could be raised in ca: cutting off all communic: with danger, with th bled in loca ancient lake dwellings of Europe. It made a Chin or Cantonese vse of the surface of the water to su: human habitations, not merely in houses on piles, or in house boats, but in the famous chinampas cr floating islands, which were for the most part immense rafts of reeds and rushes, bearing several feet of a rich soil from the bottom of the lake. me of these artificial movable fs! Ss were two or three hun- VIGA ©. aAL. ON which is now the mere shadow of its former self, a half-deserted, decaying vil- E und the most interesting col- in all Mexico, One 7 r which accompanied [ in his memorable march, the stand- vhich Cortes presented to the Tlax- calan chiefs who befr’ended him, portraits in oil of the latter, the robes which they wore at their baptism and the font in which they were baptized, a silken em- broidery on which is pictured the, first battle between the Spaniards and Tlax cal 1 one can visit the palace occu- turning rds to be valley e with of the a some ‘end Popocatepetl for sul- in gunpowder, way of Span we enter Ameca- used of M Yortes d and st at prosp ter of phur to the > by . and £: admiration upon spread before us. basin were | th the lakes, occupying then a much larger portion of the sur thar. at pres- | their horder: studded the t— and mic Indian er her coronal } rls—the fair ¢ co, with her white towers and pyramidal temples, re- | posing as it Were on the bosom of the | Wate | We vend in Cortes’ footsteps, and after a brief halt at Ixtapalapa, where. | in the palace of Cuitlahua, Montezu- | ma’s brother, the ards were royally I 1ined, ‘we follow Cortes upon the | causeway ross Lake Tezcuco | nt into the City of Mexico. Historic Points in the Aztec Capital. Where the Hospital of Jesus now stands . Montezuma welcomed the Spaniards, and | thence they marched to their quarters near the present Plaza Majot and cathedral. We can rebuild In imagination the vast pile of Montezuma’s palace, on the site of the present national and the Chapultepec, r structures, suburban Tose high d | which | laying upon th which it crown- ed th me v cypresses which | are ac ther ye can imag'ne ontezuma in his Hy after mans the audactous ca ity and fir own nd es of the attempt of the | to escape from the clty on Noche | sorrowful night, by way of the can recreate the the dike, aided by structures which mark historic points of this exodus. The movable bridge, built by the Spaniards as a titute for draw- bri roved the Azte stuck ti » first anal of the causeway, and the tld be | crossed only upon a br | At this point now 5: ancient chureh of San Hiy whose ¥ carved this Inscription: “So great t ef Sr the A n the of July 1, 1520, S reasor Dismal Night, in the . follow ng ur Ye= con- pe a chapel to Martyrs; and Jicated to San Hipolito, capture of the city oce nt wher his fam , using his I the recor it at Popotl under whieh Corte: arred in memori thus comm the Span’ards a : ish leader f grief. Having seen Cortes ignominions 1 out of Mexico we must tmagine him cuperating at Tlaxcala, colle ciplinirg a new army to serve as his nav, finally engaging In ting and d building brigantines n Lake Tezeuco, and fierce struggle with the new A: emperor, a herole figure In the war, cutting his way over the Iztapalapan caus way, back to his old quarters near the py. ramidal Aztec temple, and to the mastery of the city. a the soldiers of Guatemozin. and dred feet long, sustaining the residence hut of a gardener who grew flowers and vege- tables in the greatest profusion, Modern Mexico is no ionger a Venice. The waters of Lake Tezcuco have with- drawn until the center of the present city is eral miles from its shore. Only a few feeble reminders remain to suggest its jan days, its causeways, its canals floating islands. Vestiges of the Aztec Venice. One of the most interesting of Mexico’s suburban excursions is to the south to Ix- tapalapa and along the Viga canal, includ- ing Sauta Anita and its alleged chinampas. The great causeway to Ixtapalapa was that by which Cortes twice entered the city across the waters of Tezcuco, the first time hailed with demonstrations of weicome by myriads of Aztecs, the second the oc- casion of Terochtitlan’s final conquest, greeted by the fiercest and most desperate resistance. The modern trip to Ixtapalapa begins pro- tically in a lite street car pulied by single rule. We enter this car at Mexico's great plaza in full view of the vast cathe- dral, which takes the place of the pyramid and surmounking temple of the Az* god, We leave the Plaza Major zo southward down the main street of Tenoch- titlan, which, when Cortes first entered It, was lined on’ poth sites with beautiful pal- aces of red stone, belonging to the Aztec nobility, and exciting 1 astonishment and unbounded admiration in the Spaniards. But in the second en- trance—that of the conquest—every one of these fortified palaces was leveled to the ground. Near the city’s limits our street ar turns to the left and we are soon par- alleling the Viga canal, the last rotable tige of Tenochtitlan’s waterw: Af- ter a lonx but interesting ride along its banks, over a fine, well shaded road, ing through the Indian villages of Anita and Ixtacale we turn sha the te aleingo, and are s Ixtapalapa. Here were the famous gardens of Cuitlahua, Montezuma’s brother, where he feast the visiting Spaniards. Here also was the home of Guatemozin, the last great Aztec emperor. Now gardens and | palaces have disappeared, and only a miser- able, dusty, mains, pating Islands and the Viga. On the return trip to Mexico we left our street car at Santa Arita and took a scow ride in among the chinampas—all that re- mains of the floating islands. If any of these islends ever did ficat it is evident that they are now fastened immovably. Wor -n were engaged in raising rich soil by the bottoms of the intersecting d in spreading it over the “floating which thus assumed an artificlal > and might easily be supposed, examination, to rest upon soil of these artificial garde sry fertile and grows immense crop: scantily populated village re- of Near the Site of Cortes’ Barracks, bles and flowers, ading of the Vig: Mexican m which form part flat boats that sup- rkets. Me n gondola for a trip down the Viga to Mexi Our gondola is not even an Aztee canoe, but vnequivocally and flag- rantly a flat boat, constructed on the grace- ful lines of the mud scow. We sit under a low awning, which protects us from the with natives navigating the ditches around them. Decidedly, there is now no suggestion of Venice in the scene. If several thousand windmills and as many fat cows were scat- tered over the flat landscape the canals might, however, enable the scene to recail recollections of Holland. Other Old World Suggestions, Though Mexico no longer reposes as an island capital on the bosom of the waters and present resemblances to Italy's beauti- ful city of palaces and canals are remote and far-fetched, there are many obvious suggestions of the old world in Mexican scenes, a few of which may be noted. An old world superfluity of beggars, for instance, is conspicuously in evidence. The Mexican beggars are not to be com- pared in deformity with these of Constan- tinople, or in persistency with those of Kil- larney, but they maintain a fair European average in beth respects and suffice to cause the American visitor who has been “so long abroad” to feel perfectly at home in Mexico. Cortes, distinguishing ‘Cholula from other Aztec cities, wrote that he saw there “mul- titudes of beggars such as are to be found in the enlightened capitals of Europe." Since the conqnest all the other Mexican cities seem to have attained Cholula’s distinction and now proudly display these evidences of European enlightenment. Mummies and the Like. In several different places, including Guanajuato, Mexico has a display of ccmparattvely modern mummies, and of stacomb: The practice prevails, as B. and some other uropean of renting tomb space for use of a corpse. In exico, if the expiration ef the original term is no renewal of the lease, the corpse 1 and dumped into an extensive underground chamber. If in the dry air the evicted mummifies he stands against the wall; if he tumbles to pieces his bones join the vast miscellaneous heap. The Guanajuato catacomb is ghastly enough to satisfy the most exacting connoisseur of the gruesome. velona communities, the Unique Street Scenes. Then there are street scenes of a strange and foreign aspect to the American, as, for instance, black street car hearses and street car fureral hacks, utilized in the burial of tre most distinguished men, like the late Romero Rvb.o, Diaz's father-in- law, and at his death a cabinet officer in the present administration. There are also curious street signs, rude but vigorous and highly colored pictures depicting scenes A Mexican Regaar. suggestive of the business ‘conducted w.thin, and irappropriate names in staring letters as trademarks, so to speak, of the different stores. Imagine, for instance, “The Last Days of Pompeii” as a business sign, or “The Sacred Heart of Jes which is the name of a score of establish- ments, ranging from a saloon to a flour mill. Then one enjoys in the streets the spectacle of men embracing, each patting the other's back with the hand of the em- bracing arm, the whole performance con- stituting the national form of greeting, as handshaking is with us. The delicate pat- ting of this salute has no justification on utilitarian grounds. If, instead of patting, the Mexicans were to scratch one another's backs, in the self-Inaccessible spot be- tween the shoulderblades, one could under- and the significance of the performance and with good reason commend it. Countless porters at the railway stations ready to carry anything from a hand tehel to a Saratoga trunk for the small- st of small fees sugzest Europe; also the vendors who crowd about the win- dows of the cars at every stopping point to sell their wares. arie of the ar- ticles thus offered ‘s extraordinary. In addition to the edibles and drinkables, the pulque and the strange fruits, nearly every alty to offer. Thus at the peddlers have buckskin at Aguas Calientes linen drawn gloves, work of a fineness and cheapness to turn the heads of lady tourists, at Irapuato strawberries every day in the year, at Quer by the peck, at Celaya famous dule confections of milk and sugar; at Guadalajara pottery, at Puebla onyx ornaments, and at Apizaco canes of coffee wood curiously and sometimes ar- tistically carved by the Indians. Bargain Sales Every Day. These things can not only be bought at the places where they are made or grown or found, but at the metropolis, and there also can be had cheaply old silver, filigree work, beautiful straw work, wood cary- ings, feather work keeping alive some of the ancient Aztec art, figures In wax and clay, and countless other Mexican pro- duets, in addition to direct importations from Europe which have paid little or no duty, and American goods,which to meet the vigorous European competition are in many lines sold more cheaply than in the United States. When it is considered that the de- preciation of the Mexican silvcr causes every transaction to appear to the Ameri- can as a bargain sale, with a discount of nearly 50 per centzthesatiractions of Mex- ico as a shonpirg plage at once become notably apparent, 7 What lady can resist the oppor- tunity for foreign cheap shopping, when she remembers t she may also ex- perieuce the unho! (a returning Euro- pean traveler's erhotigif) of smuggling her purchases across,ithe sborder, and of get- ting ahead of the,customs officers and of Uncle Sam? 3 While the ‘adie§’ are’ shopping the men can, if they please clifib Orizaba or Popo- catepetl, snow clad molcanoes, 2,000 feet higher than Mt. Blane.pit is not necessary, however, to rule,out the ladies in the mountain climbing’ trips. I see that a par of and womey nave recently ascende Popocatepetl, and tha{,they went from the City of Mexico, ag far,as the first stage of the ascent—wonderf: to relate—on bi- cycles. As further evidence that Mexico is in many respects fully ‘abreast of the times attention may be called to the recent news- paper announcement of a projected’ cable road to the very top of lofty Popocatepetl. THEODORE W. NOYES. es GREENLAND BIRDS. Large Collection Made by Lieutenant Penry. From the New York Herald. Birds of a strange feather are many of those in the collection brought by Lieut. Peary from northern Greenland. They were shown and their peculiarities pointed out by Mr. Frank M. Chapman, assistant cur- ator of the ornithological department of the Museum of Natural History, before the Linnaean Society, at its regular meeting of last week. Mr. Chapman exhibited the fifty or more specimens that constitute the Peary col- lection, and which had been prepared under his direction. These specimens are only a small part of Lieut. Peary’s original col- lection, the greater part of which having been eaten by the dogs when the provi- sions of the expedition had run low. “There are one hundred and forty species of birds reported from Greenland,” said Mr. Chapman, “one-half of which properly belong to the country, the other half being found there on their visits from other lands. Fifty of these are water birds.” An interesting member of the collection is a guillemot that was shot. by Lieut. Peary. ‘The guillemots live in enormous colon explained Mr. Chapman, “and as the tens of thousands of females sit each on a single egg, on the edge of a cliff, with their black summer backs toward the s they darken the rocks. When approached by a boat, in their fright they suddenly turn, presenting their light breasts, and thus instantly apparently transform the rock from black to white. Then, as they take flight, they often carry their eggs some distance between their legs, and lit- erally pelt the approaching boatmen with them.” The specimens of the guillemots show the remarkable change in the plumage of arctic birds from the dark of summer to the light of winter. This change is strongly emphasized in the specimens of lagosus in the collection, which are sufficient in num- her to show every gradation from black to white, according to the season in which the bird was killed. “Those changes are remarkable,” said Mr. Chapman, “for they are very radical, and sometimes take place in a single week without the loss of a feather, there being no moulting. This change is a wonderful example of protective coloration, the bird in summer being nearly the color of the moss and arctic ghrubbery, and in winter that of the snow. Some naturalists claim that this remarkable change is not protec- tive coloration, but that it Is due to en- vironment.” . The collection contains some most beauti- ful specimens of the sandpipers, in their bright summer plumage; also of the swift- flying falcors. ‘The summer loon, with its beautifully shaded neck feathers, used by the natives for personal ornament, has a fine representative in the coHection. An eider duck, in the light plumage never seen here, and accompanied by her nest, built of softest down, is a rare specimen of the collection. i There is a cempiete series-of snow bunt- ings, that shows the” gradual progress in change of plumage from brown backs and heads to black backs and white heads. The series is of cspecial interest in showing that this change comes from. the wearing of the tips of the feathers. The long feathers lose their browntips. exposing the rker portion of the feathers on the back and lighter portions on,the head. “Lieut. Peary did not prepare the: skins,” said Mr, Chapman, “but employel the native women for the purpose. These women have @ novel method for preparing the skins, and one yery different from that employed by us. They clean them by chew- ing them. - ‘When. these women cleaners of skins go out for a social visit, they do take their fancy needlework to while away the time, but supply themselves with bird skins, on which they chew as they carry on conversation.” eee. AN UNEXPECTED CHAMPION, An Angry Cow Attacks an Engineer, Who is Only Saved by a Fighting Elk From the Bozeman Avant Courter, While a freight train was lying over at a small mountain station in Montana, the en- gineer borrowed a shotgun and started out for a hunt. He was about returning to his train when a cow made her appearance. Be- fore he realized that there was any danger the animal made a rush at him and he ran with all his speed. But the cow was a bet- ter racer, and in a few minutes caught him by the clothing, splitting his coat from waist to collar and tossing him into the air. Gptting to his feet as quickly as possible, he dodged behind a tree, and then, to his dis- may, found that the gun barrel was bent so as to be useless. - The next ten minutes were very lively ones. The cow chased the engineer round and rouad the tree, and when he got a chance to hit her with the gun barrel it only seemed to enrage her the more. It was only a question of time when he would suc- cumb to fatigue, when a diversion occurred which saved his life. An angry snort was heard, and a big elk appeared upon the scene, head down and prepared for a fight. The cow was so mad by this time that she was ready for anything, and in another moment the two animals dashed at each other. The engineer watched the combat for a few minutes, until prudence suggested that he should make a retreat while he could. He regained the train in safety and never knew the outcome of the battle, but the presumption is that the elk was the vic- tor. A STRANGE STORY. Rescued From Her Coffin, a Ye Girl Marries Her Preserver. From the Bismnrek ‘Tribune, Good material for a novel may be found in a tale which comes from Hope, Stelle county, this state. Miss Ellen Norman, liv- ing near there, was engaged to be married to George Thompson, a prosperous youyg farmer, but hergparegts were strongly op- posed to the match. Gn October, 1834, the girl was taken 11; October 24 she died, at least the doctors: propounced her dead, af- ter subjecting her tomumerous tests. The funeral s set. for Gctober 25. The body was kept over night th the Norman house. The only watcher wag Mr. Thompson, who declared that he was hot afraid of the dis- ase, atever it was. It was due to his watching that the young woman is alive today. Thompson removed the lid of the coffin in order to gaze Orce More upon the face of his tlancee. He, was startled to see the chest of the body in the casket rise and fail in a spasmodic way, as though the girl was | gasping for breath. 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This Ss 200 miles further up the river than required for their purpose, but they wanted to see some of the scenery of the Grand canyon, The boat, supplies, and men had to be lowered with ropes down the sides of the canyon. The discovery was at once made that the bogt was not adapted for the v age, being a keel boat, narrow and heav In a short time the craft became utterly un- manageable and every moment threatened them with death. They were bumped on rocks, thrown against the si of the canyon, drenched with spray and shot through gorges with the rapidity of an express train, With sal- vation out of their sight there was apparent- ly nothing but certain death ahead of them. Above rose the perpendicular walls of the canyon thousands of feet. Still the boat kept in the water for seventeen terrible miles, when a rocky rapid was reached. Quick as lightning the boat was tossed bot- tom upward, rolled over and finally crushed to pieces. The four men struggled to save their lives. It was useless to try to save anything else. But, strangely, none of them was hurt and they reached a place of safety. At once their dangerous situation forced itself on their minds. There they were, without provisions and shut in to meet cer- tain death by starvation. They started down tke canyon, hoping to find a trail by which they could get out. After many a weary mile the men decided to follow some of the sheep crails, which were only a few inches wide in places, Success attended their efforts, although at times they hung between water and sky on the edges of the bluff. Occasionally their strength seemed to fail, but a sight of that awful chasm be- low was sufficient. At last the top was reached, but they were delivered from the terrors of the canyon only to find themselves in a desert. They struck out bravely, know- ing that they had only to keep going to reach the railroad again. At Hackberry station four haggard, ragged, dirty and almost shoeless men dropped down to wait for the next train. They reached Needles again to rest and refit for the voyage to Yuma. ee EVERYDAY HEROES. The Veteran Engineer Had Lost Con- fidence in Himself. From the Chicago ‘Times-Herald. “That man ts in hard luck,” said a rail- road official the other day as a dark, heavi- ly bearded, anxious looking workingman left his office. “He has run an engine on ovr road for twenty-three years, and dur- ing all that time his record has been per- feet. We have considered him one of the most experienced, efficient and reliable men in our employ. Well, sir, the other day he was running an express train out in the ceuntry, and as he drew near a little one- horse country town he ‘lost himself,’ as the saying ts, for the first time in his life, and fcrgot to blow his whistle. The next thing he knew there was a horse and wagon on the track ahead of him and all the brakes and whistles in the world would have done no good. He had to crash into the team and kill two persons. “But would you discharge such a man for one fauit?” I asked. ‘No; the road did not say a word to him. He sent in his resignation and we refused to accept it, But now he tells me that he will never run an engine again, that he cannot do it—he has lost his contidence. He says he could never get back his old feeling of security on the track, his old trust in himself. So now, when over fifty years of age, he finds himself out of work and deprived of his business. I call that the hardest kind of luck.” tee Fussy Old Lady—“Now, don't forget, con- ductor. I want the Bank of England. Conductor—“AH right, mum.” (Aside)— ‘She don’t want much, do she, mate? Punch. Chri ristmas. 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Con- stipation, brain fatigue, indi- gestion, irritable stomach and dyspepsia, caused by under- fed and starved organisms, are cured by the simple and sensible process of supplying the needed nourishment to BRAIN, NERVE, BILE, BONE. ~- The healthy ought to use it to escape these diseases. It has been tested by offical and by use. We have heaps on Leaps Ufying ts merits. The TH letters cer- ORY is sus- tained by ACTUAL FACTS. A lot of jour’ knowledge mailed on mnplete Flour’? $1. inter McGutre, Richmond, Va. Its value would be HARD TO ESTIMATE.” Cold, Bleak Days Will Come, Prepare for them. GET S. B. SEXTON & SON'S Latrobes, Furnaces and Ranges. They Are the Best. For sale by ‘th PRINCLY. 0e23-8m L_ STOVE DEALERS IN WASHINGTON, D. G ‘Go to Siccardi, Bargains in Hair. Genuine lona fide bargain prices ace prevall- ing just now. And you can select from the finest stock of Hair and ‘Tollet Goods ever shown in Washington. 7a ith St., TLS Sivas, xx. oct? Bargains in Long Hair Switches $2.50. Formerly $5.00. $4.50. Formerly $6.30. $6.50. Formerly $10. U7 First-class ‘ttendance in Hair Dressing, Shampoolng, etc. ‘Try our “Curlette," for keeping the bair in S. HELLER’S, 720 7 7th Street N. W. RAILROADS. BALTIMORE AND OHIO KalLiuaD. Schedule in effect December 1, 1895. Leave Wusuugivy trom sition corner or New v For Chi aveaue aud © at. trains (Hacer? At Serthwest, Vestiviled Limited pXer Cimeinnat, "St. Louis and Indianapolis, Vestie iol bjt so pak, Express 12:01 might Sed gem ra : a.m and 840 pm. = rip For Lexington and Staunton, 11:30 a.m. or Winchester and way stations, *5:30_ p.m. Kuox For Li ray, Natural Bris Chattasouga, “Memphis a New Orleans, 9:1 Pm, Gai; Slecbing Cars roug’. 1. For Luray, 3: 25:10, 6:20, = 312-01 nicht. Annaj is, 72) js ne Maas BO a SRS ps, TS ane m5, Frederick, 19: kerstown, °11:30 a.m. and °8: Boyd and way points, °9:40, oss Be veer A and way ints, 6:00, °8:00 12; 5 . 4:33. 33S. 997205, 99:40, = is gg Washington Junction and points, 19: m., "1:15 p.m. E ucipal siations onig: °4:3); °8-20 pom. eee , *5:20 pain. Yal BLUE BR FoR NEW YORK AN! PHILADELPHTA, 7 All trains fluminared with pintsch light. For Philadelphia. New York, Bost od. East, week days (7:00, Dining’ Cer) 8:00 {10500 11:20 am, a.m., Dining Cars, 11:30 «(12 . en al E ocd y. ui Car), (9:00 a.m., Dining Car), Car), 3:00 6:03, “Dining Car), 8: Sleeping Car open for passensers, Ws Bute: Piclor Cars on all day trains, For Atlantic City, 1 and 11:30 + 12s pom, Sundays 435 aim 12330 pa many pt Sunway. wily. tSunda} > aExpress trains, tard Baggage called for aud checked from hotels and resideuces by Uuion Transfer Co. on orders left at ticket offices, 019 Pennsylvania avenue uorthwest New York avenue and 15th street and at depot. R.B CAMPBELL, CHAS. 0. SCU geq Ge Manager Gen. Pass. agt SOUTHERN RAILWAY, (Wiedwont air Line. Schedule in eect Aovemver 3, 1898. All Uains arrive and eave at Pennsylvania Passenger Station. 18200 AM = —Loci! for Dauville. Connects at landesas for Strasburg, ditily, except Suuday, and St Lepehburg with the Norfolk aud Western daily, with ©. % sural flat Potge. daily for Natural Bridge 215 A.M.—Dally—The UNITED STATES FAST MAIL carrics Pullman Buffet Sleepers New York und Washington to Jacksonville, unitlag at Cbar- Jotte with Pullman Sleeper tor Augusta; also Tull- man Sleeper Ney York to New Ocleans via Mont- gomery, | connectig at Atlanta with Pullmaa Siweper for Birwinghaw, Meuphis apd St. Louis. 4:01 P.M.—Lucal for Strasburg, daily, except Suns day. 4.29 P.M.—Daily—“Exposition Flyer,” Pullman Sleeper New York and Washington to Atlanta. Vestibuled Duy Coaches Washington to Atlanta. ily—Loral for Charlottesville. 243 P.M. —waily— WASHINGTON AND SOUTH. WESTERN VESTIBULED LIMITED, Solid Train of Pullman Vestivuled Sleepers, Dining Cars and Day Goaches, New York to AUlanta. Pullman Sleepers New York to Asheville and. Hi ings, N.C. New York to Memphis via Birmingham New York to New Orleans via Atlanta and Montgomery, «nd New York to Tumpa via Charlotte, Columbia and Jacksonville. Vestibuled Day Couch New York to Atlanta. Dining Car from Greensboro’ to Mont- daily and 4:45 M. daily, except Sunday, Mp Mt Sun days only, for iteund Hil ex Sunday, for Leesburg, Plat, dally ior Herndon. Retur on. 8:26 A.M. and 3:00 FS" dally ‘from Round fil, 7:08 A.M. daily, except Sunday, from Herndon, and 8:34 A.M. dally, except Sunday, from : ‘Thi h trains from the south arrive at Washit ton AM. 11:45 AM., 2:20 P.M. and 9: P.M. daily. Manassas Division, 9:45 AM. daily, except Sunday. and 8:40 A.B. daily from Char lettesee. ickets, Sl Car reservation and information furnished at offices, 511 and 1300 Pennsylvania ave nue. and at Peonsylyania asiroad Passenger Sta W. H. GREEN, General Superintendent. 3M CULP, “Trame Manager. . W. A. TURK, General Passenger Agent. L. 8. BROWN, Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. CHESAPEAKS AND UNO KALLWAY. reat eae fa effort Nerecber 40) 1808. ivave from Union Station (B. and P, 6th and B ts. rough the grandest scenery in America, with the bandsomest ‘ud inost complete solid tralia serv: ice west from Washington. esi ewly Equi lec tric-lighted, Steam-neated Train. Pullman's finest sleeping cats Wasbington to Cincinoati, Indianapolis end St’ Louis daily." Diaing Car from Washington. Arrive Cincinnatl, "8:00 a.m: Indianapolis, 11.30 am., Chicago, 5:30 p.m.; St. Louis, 6:48 p.ui.; Lexington, 11°10 a.m.; Louisville, 11:50 a.m. (vid Cincinnatt). 0 PM. DAILY.—fhe fameus “F. F. V. Lim- LA solid Vesiibuled train, with Dining Car and Pullman Sleepers for Cio-innati, Lexington and Louisville without change. Pui! s ington to Virgiaia Hot Spring: Salon Depot for a , EXCEPT 5 folk. Only 2:25 P.M. DAILY.—Express for Gordonsville, Charlottesville. Waynesboro’, Stauaton and prin cipal Virginia points, daily; for Richmond, except Sunday. Pullman locations and tickets at company's of+ fices, 513 and 1821 Pennsylvania a} Bolt a General Passen: PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Station corner of Gth and B streets, In effect November 17, 1895. 10:30 AM. PhasS.LVasia Liu... —Pullmaa Sleeping, Dining, Si and Ubservation Cars Harrisvurg to Chicago, Cincinnati, indiana St. Louis, Cleve!snd and ‘Toledo, ' Buffet Car to Harrisburg. 10:30 A.M. FAST LINE.—Pullman Butet Parlor Gar to Harrisburg. Parlor and Dining Cara, Harris urg to Pittsburg. 8:40 P.M CHICAGO AND ST. LOTS EXPRESS — Pullman Buffer Parior Car to Harrisburg. Sleep- ing and Dining Cars, Harrisburg to St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville and Chic TAO PM. WESTERN EXPIESS Pullman Sloop ing Ca to Chicago and Harrisburg to Cle Dining Car to Chi SOUTHWESTERN EXPRESS.—Pullmaa 7:20 PM. Sleeping and Diving Cars to St. Louis, and Sleep ing Car Harrisburg to Cincinnati. 10:40 P.M. PACIFIC EXPRESS.—Pullman Slecp- ing Car ‘o Pittslurg. 756 AM. for Kane. Canandaigua, Rochester and eegeeS Pills Galy, excent Bentay. is mira and Renovo, except For Willismspert deiig, 3240 PML. 7:10 P.M. for Williemsport, Rochester, Bu‘falo and Niagara Falls daily, except Saturday, with 5 fag, Car Washington to) Suspension , Uridge fe lo. P.M. for Erle, Canandaigua, Rochester, Buf- falo and Niazara Falls daily, Sleeping Car Wash- ton to Elmira. ‘or Philadeipl.ia. New York and the East. ‘CONGRESSIONAL LIMITED.” | datly, “ars, with Dining Car from Baltimore, Regular at 7:05 (Dining Car), 7:20, 9:00. 10:00 (Dining Car), and 11°00 (Dining Car from Wil. gion) AM.. 12:45, 4:20, 6:40, 10:00 and 11:35 P.M. On Sunday 7:05 (Dining Car), 7:20, 9.00, 43:00 A.M. (Dining Uar from Wiimington), To%ib, Mists, “4:80, 6:40r 10-00 wed 1130 SP ae For Philadciphia only, Fast ress, 7:50 A.M. Fook dass. Express, "12:10 week days, 2:01 and he wis ot change, 7°50 A.M. week days, P.M. daily 6: 05, 7:29, 00 ‘and 31:50 A.M. 40, (4:00 Limited), 4720, 10-00. 10:40," 11:15, 's Creek Line, 7:20 A.M. and 4:38 PM. except Sunday. 9:00 A.M.. 12:15 and 4:20 nrapolls, 7.20, Gailx. except Sunday. “Sundays, 9:00 A.M. and 4-20 PIs. Atlantic Coast Line. Ex for Richmond, Jacl M., 3:46 P.M. dat sonville and Tampa, 4: €' Richmerd ani Atlant . duily. Mic a. AM, datly, and mond only, 10:57 A 8:40, 9:45. 10-57, Accommodation fer Q 4:25 PM. For Alexandri i andiny at 02 and 10:19 the station Oth and B streets, where orders can be left for the checking of baggage to destination from hotels and residences. > J. R. WOOD, General Passenger Agent. POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. _ THE WEEMS STEAMBOAT COMPANY. LL SCHEDULE. Steamer Potcmse will leave Stephenson's wharf, foot 7th t., every Sueday at 4 p.m, and steamer Sue every Monday 2nd Thursday at 9 p.m., Baltimore nd ndings. Acco:nmodations strictly firet-class. nt for river landings re- celved or Mondas rsdays and Saturdays, aod must be prepaid. given on Baltimore freight, ON & BRO., Agents. Office, 910 Pa 26-00) Telephone 745. WASHINGTON STEAMBCAT ©O., FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS, Frou 7th st. Ferry Wharf. On Mond: Vednesdays ‘and Saturdays at 7 a.m.: 3 for river landings to St. Clement's Ba, eton's Bay and Nowin! Creek; returning, arrives Tursday afternoon. Wednesdays for river landings to Breton’s Bay and Nomini Creek; thence to Piney Point, St. George's, Smith's Oreek, Coan and Yeocomicd rivers; returning, jeaves Nominf Creek Thursday afternoon for river landings, arriv- ing Friday morning. Saturdays for river landings fo Nominl Creek and st. Clement's Bay; returul arrives Sunday afterioon. in effect Nov. Sce schedwe. ©. W. RIDLEY, Gen. “Man. no}-tf E. S RANDALL POTOMAC RIVER LINE Steamer Harry Randall leaves Kiver View Wi Tih street, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, at am., landing at all wharves as far down as Mad- | dor ‘creek, including Chapel Point and Colonial returning on Monda: ednesdays and Friday @ pine’ Pasaener accommodations Srst~ | Gass” Freight received eatil bour of suiling. Tele phone 1765, FA. & CO., E. S. RANDALL, Agents, sandria. Proprietor and Manager GEO 0. CARPINTER, Gen. ante ‘Washington, B.