Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1896, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY | 11, 1896—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES =~ RECEIVERS’ SALE OF OPPENHEIMER’S STOCK, | 514 oth ST. N.W. The mammoth stock of Dry, Fancy,Gents’ Furnish- “ itig’ Goods, Sewing Machines, &c., &c., is in the. . hands of Receivers and must be disposed of. - Look for Startling Bargains Next + Every MONDAY, JANUARY 13. Counter is a Bargain Counter. ~~ “Coats and other Seasonable Wraps on second floor will .be.sold less than they cost to manufacture. Leon Tobriner, S. Sugenheimer, > vidi Cad © Receivers. + anew ot; AMUSEMENTS. Grand..Opera House.--Henry Irving, Miss Ellen Terry and the London Lyceum Com- pany will reach Washington by their own special train early tomorrow afternoon. ‘This great assemblage of artists are made as comfortable as possible by the man- agerg. ofthe fifth American tour of Henry Irving, Messrs. Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau. Manager’ Affén” has also been re- celying every day the, past week from one to three carloads of scenery and properties to be-stored ‘In the’Grand Opera House, sent in advance of the company’s arrival. Each of the six different plays to be gi in-Washington-is to be an absolute produc- tion, with the same scenery as used in New York and the exact copy of the scenic embellishments and appointments used in Henry Irving's Royal Lyceum Theater, London. Two plays are to be repeated dur- -ing the week—Shakespeare’s “The Mer- ‘chant of Venice” and J. Comyns Carr's new poetic drama, “King Arthur.” Three plays of the six to be given have never be- fore been seen In Washington—“King Ar- thur,”) “Journeys. End in Lovers Meeting” and a ‘Story of Waterloo.” The more or less familiar works are, besides ““The Mer- chant of Venice,” “The Lyons Mail” and “The Bells.".> The bill for Monday night and for the Saturday matinee is “The Mer- chant of Venice.” Ii is to be noted that this versio., unlike those commonly given in this country, retains the beautiful, poet- icat and merry fifth act. is usual to end the play with the judgment made upon Shylock, and since the principal actor then disappears from the stage, to sacrifice the beauty and interest of Bassanio’s return to Portia’s home, because the star as the play is commonly giver has no part in the last act as Shakespeare wrote it. Hen- ry Irving's Shylock wins no small measure of respect, where hatred is the common verdict. Miss Ellen Terry's Portia is a cre- ation of atsolute excellence—sprightly, gay, “earnest: and lovable. The retention of the fifth act in the performance gives her only lesser oppcrtunities for fine histrionic dis- play than does the famous court scene. ‘The entire company has full measure of fine work in this play. On Tuesday night a double bill will be given—a new play. in which Miss Ellen Terry appears, entitled “Journeys End in Lovers Meeting,” 2 proverb in one act. by John Oliver Hobbes (Mrs. Craigie). Om the same evening Hen- ry Irving will be seen in his marvelous dual impersonation of Dubosc and Le- surques, in Charlies Reade’s adaptation from the French romance, “Le Courier de Lyoz,”-by MM- Moreau, Giraudin and Del- ecour, under the title of “The Lyons Mail.” ‘Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings the most sumptuous of all Henry Irving’s productions, J. Comyns Carr’s “King Ar- thur,” is to be given. In beauty of rhythmic diction “King Arthur” possesses literary worth fairly deserving to be called superlative. Feunded upon legendary lore of the period of the Knights of the Round ‘Table, if one may speak of anything like @ definite time for what is mythical, Mr. Carr has not blindly accepted the colloca- tions of the many legends written by any other poet—Tennyson, for instance—but has made a new and effeetive grouping of in- cidonts into a beautiful and sustained story. He bas afforded in the play glorious opportunities for scenic effect and marvel- ously picturesque costuming. Henry Irving appears as the loyal, great legendary hero of chivalry,’ the progenitor of all that is grand in the romartic history of the times of the Knights of the Round Table, King Arthur; Miss Ellen Terry as the beautiful, gracious, lovable, but guilty Queen Guine- iss Julia Arthur as the “fair Mr. Ben Webster as the beloved Launcelot, and Mr. Frank Cooper as Mor- dred. The play enjoys the entire com- pany’s best endeavors, The closing bill of the week, that of Saturday night, will be a double production. First will be given “A Story of Waterloo,” written by the famous young author; Dr. A. Conan Doyle, in which Henry Irving depicts a senile old veteran; a-hero of the great battle named, who Is passing the last years of his life as a pensicner. This play will be followed by Leopold Lewis’ adaptation from the French of Erckmann-Chatrian’s “The Pol- ish Jew,” under the title of “The Bells.” Mathias, Henry Irving's original creation, has for years been established as the acme of melcdramtic expression, and perhaps no role requires more of his consummate art than does the depiction of the dream. In response to many,deimands there will be an extra matinee given on Thursday af- ternoop,..when Ternysan’s great histori- cal play, “Becket,” will be produced with a Magnificent. setting. Henry Irving will be seen in his admired impersonation of the great prelate and Chancellor Becket, and Miss Julia Arthur will appear as the fair Rosamond. S2ats can now be obtained for this extra performance. Lafayette Square Opera House.—Next Monday at -he Lafayette Square Opera House the new musical comedy, in three acts, entitled “The Schoot Girl,” the libret- to of George Manchester, and the music by Albert Manrice, will be given with Minnie Palmer as the star. The story of the piece tells of Miss Lonisa Allason (Little Miss Loo), a mischievous and charming young girl, who fs beloved by Jack Gadsden, a handsome young fellow, upon whom her mother has matrimonial designs. The mother, in order to get Little Loo out of the way, sends her off to a fashionable : Boarding school. The hero, who really does Jeve Louisa, secures the position of a French dar.cing master at the school. Here Miss Loo indulges in rumberless pranks and is finally expelied, but arranges with hher lover to array herself as a French Mar- avis, and In this disguise, attend the grad- uation ball. In the last act everything erds happily. During the performance Miss Palmer sings a number of new and catchy songs. The piece is given with en- tirely new and ccstly scenery and unusu- elly handsome costumes. Miss Palmer's Support has been specially selected and in- cludes some well known artists. National Theater.—“The Shop Girl” comes to the Naticnal Theater Monday night. This is the elaborate musical farce that ran rearly two years at the Galety Theater, London, where It was presented by George Edwarde: large burlesque company, which en in the piece in this city. This was imported for the American presentations of the play by Al. Hayman and Charles Frohman, and made an in- stantaneous success in it at Palmer's Thea- ter, New York, where it remained for one hundred nights, delighting audiences that crowded the theater. The libretto of “The Shop Girl" ts by H’ J. W. Dam, and pre- gents, between picturesque songs and dances rendered by the seventy members of the company, a story of the search for @ shop girl, who was once a foundling and who is now unknewingly the heiress to four millions. Of the countless songs and cheruses that serve the progress of this story, or inierrupt it, the most successful in New York were the captivating “Louisl- gna fou,” the “Shop Girl” song, “Good- ness, Wasn't It Cold?” “Man Froposes” and ‘Beautiful, Bountiful Bertie.” A very rovel and taking thing is the Japanese dance, done by the rimble little floorwalker and the fitter, who adores him and who accompanies him in his plan of vengeance against the proprietor. Prominent in the large and brilliant cast are George Gros- smith, jr., as a silly, languid Johnny; Ber- tie Wright, as the little floorwalker; W. H. Rawlins, as the consequential proprietor; Harry Gratton, as the medical student; Violet Lloyd, as the pert and pretty “shop girl,” and Connie Ediss, as the girl whom the proprietor marries in haste to repent at leisure. The music cf “The Shop Girl” was, most of it, composed by Ivan Caryll, several numbers having been contributed by Adrian Ross and Lionel Monckton. All the scenery and accessories are carried by the company, which will arrive tomorrow afternoon by special train. Academy of Music_—Wm. Barry in “A Rising Generation” will be at the Academy of Music next week. Kernan’s Lyceum Theater.—John W. Ish- am’s Octoroons, in all their oriental splen- dor of stage effect, will appear at Kernan’ Lyceum next week, giving the usual mat nee performances. Mr. Isham has can- celed all anterior ideas and replaced them with up-to-date specialties and big acts, and only such as will be found with “The Octo- roons,” an organization of first-class art- ists and singers. Novelty upon novelty will follow in quick succession, introducing songs and dances. The company is headed by Mme. Flower, “the bronze Melba,” who was the summer sensation in “Black Ameri- ca” and at Nantasket Beach, who will be ably seconded by Fred J. Piper, the phe- nomenal baritone. Among others in the company are the famous Hyers sisters, the Mallory brothers, Mattie Wilkes, Tom Brown and Johnson and May. Yvette Guilbert—Yvette Guilbert, who will appear at the one performance to be given at the Metzerott Hall, Monday even- ing, January 20, is an artist who stands entirely alone in her genre. Whatever else may be said of her, certainly no artist of ‘ful as she ts more than the ordinary chauteuse. She has been the rage in Paris for five years. In London, Vienna, and, in fact, all large cities, she receives fabulous sums. Not hecanse she Is only the fashion, but because she is a truly great artist. She has invented the style of her performances. and her songs are as artistic bits of realism as are Bern- hardt's, Duse’s or any of the great lights of the stage. By merely reading one of her songs it is impossible to get an adequate idea of what she can make out of the words. She is dramatic, cynical, humorous. The writers for the New York press have gone to their wits’ end to make comparisons, but there 1s no conclusion to any article written about her, save that she is a genius—a something entirely new, something to hear and enjoy. People’s Course of Lectures._The third series of the People’s Course will be opened at Universalist Church Monday, January 20, by the Rev. A. G. Rogers, with the illus- trated entertainment “Ben Hur.” The other gentlemen who will give evenings in the series are the Rev. Howard Wilbur Ennis, pastor of the Western Presbyterian Church; Mr. John P. Clum, whose American stories proved so popular with Washington audi- ences last season, and Mr. B. P. Murray, the eminent traveler and lecturer. Already nearly all the good seats have been secured for the season, and this series bids fair to be as popular as the preceding two. The season tickets, including reserved seats, for $1, are now selling at Metzerott's, where cir- culars containing information concerning dates and subjects may be obtained. A Dramatic Recital—Mrs. Mary Manly. Haywood will give a dramatic reading and costume recital on January 27, at Carroll In- stitute Hall. Mrs. Haywood will be assisted by Mr. John Tweedale, Miss Mary Helen Howe, Mr. Goldwin Patten, Miss Juliet Don- tally, Dr. W. A. Croffut and Mr. Chas. E. Rice. Secretary Herbert and Miss Herbert, Mrs. Hoke Smith and Mrs. Zebulon Baird Vance aad many others are much interested in this recital. Albion W. Tourgee says in a recent letter: “If Mrs. Haywood’s talent has not deteriorated since I heard her, a few years since, her readings wil! be a delight to any audience.” An Organ Recital.—An organ recital, un- der the auspices of the Young People’s As- sociation of the Church of the New Jeru- salem, was given at the newly erected edi- fice of that church, corner of 16th and Cor- coran streets, last evening. The church is admirably adapted for concerts and the like, being very lofty and :emarkably free from interferences to the carrying of sound. The organ, though small, is power- ful and exceptionally sweet in some of its registers. The erganist was Mr. Frederick Maxson of Philadelphia, and he was as- sisted by Mrs. R. P. Barnard, mezzo-so- prano, and Miss Bertha Lucas, violinist. Mr. Maxson played with power and ex- pression, his first number, Alex. Guilmant’s Sonata in D minor, beirg given with fine effect. His power of expression was shown in Schumann's “Nachstuck,” and his tech- nical skill in the Tocatta and Fugue in D migor by Bach. Horatio W. Parker's “Concert Piece’’ had a popular swing to it, however, and caught the audience's fancy more than the other numbers. He also played Mozart's Larghetto, Rheinberger’s “Vision,” Padre Martini’s Gavotte in F, a remarkably queer and wierd work, and Hoffmann’s “Russian Romance.” Mrs. Barnard sang “My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice,” from the Samson and Delilah ora- torio, giving it with excellent effect. Mi: Lucas played the andante from Mendel- ssohn’s concerto for violin and organ, and was given the only emphatic demand for an encore during the evening. She ren- dered it with her usual skill and expres- sion, and disappointed a great number of her hearers by her non-appearance for a second number. Columbia Phonograph Musical Parlors.— Jonn Philip Sousa’s Peerless Band was the attraction that crowded the parlors all this week. Records of all his most popular se- lections were taken, including “The Dar- kie’s Temptation,” “March King,” two-step, composed by Mr. Arthur Pryor, the cel- ebrated trombone player of the band, and dedicated to Mr. Sousa, and the “Kansas Two Step,” also composed by Mr. Pryor. “Sandow,” the strong man, is seen in a series of muscular posings on the Kineto- scope. The World of Books.—“The World of Beoks” was the subject of Librarian A. R. Spoffcrd’s lecture before the Y. M. C. A. last evening. His principal point was that if a little learning 1s dangerous, less learn- ing is still more dangerous. He said, that beoks were the reservoirs of the isdom and wit of the past ages, and that by their aid the reader 1s transformed from a nar- row-minded man, living only in the local- ity in which he exists, to a citizen of the world, interested {n the world’s movements. He then gave his preference for the authors in the different lines of literary work, and erumerated the various kinds of readers. In history Mr. Spofford prefers Gibbon, Ma- ceulay, Motley, Prescott and Bancroft; in biography, Fraaklin, Johnson and Plu- tarch; in poetry, Homer, Dante, Shake- Speare, Milton, Burns, Tennyson and Long- fellow; in fiction, Scott, Dickens, Haw- thorne, Thackeray, George Eliot, Bulwer and Hugo; as essayists, Goldsmith, Irving, Macaulay and Emerson, and among the | ciassics, Horace, Virgil, Sallust and Caesar. Among the different kinds of readers, he said, could be mentioned slow readers, fast readers, drowsy readers, sensitive readers, absorbed, credulous, itical or captious readers, admiring, careless and rough read- ers. Prof. E. F. Andrews of the Corcoran Art School will deliver the lecture which occurs in the parlor series next Friday evening. His subject will be “The Emo- tional in Art.” Mr. William Eleroy Curtis will lecture January 24 on “Japan,” and on January 31 there will be a vocal and instru- mental concert. This course of lectures is free to both sexes, and every one is cordial- ly invited to attend. Amos Cummings on Horace Greeley.—A lecture for the benefit of the relief fund of Columbia Typographical Union, No. 101, of Washington, will be delivered tomorrow evening at Typographical Temple, G street between 4th and Sth streets northwest, by Representative Amos Cummings of New ie His subject will be “Horace Gree- ley. The Ice Palace.—The ice palace at Con- vention Hall was crowded this morning by the school children of the city, for whose especial benefit the session was held. ‘Their merry shouts as some luckless individual went head over heels on the glassy ice filled the building, and a happier crowd of youngsters would be hard to find. Those who did not know how to skate were welt taken care of by the instructors, while the more proficient showed off their skill at every opportunity. The afternoon session was also well attended, the majority of the SEWERS ANDSTREETS ———— as CAPTAIN BEACKES INTERESTING TALK ree Spree Mr. Read Speaks Froman Economic DISCUSSION TO BE CONTINUED An important meeting of the Washington board of trade was held last evening in the kal: of the Builders’-Exchange,-on 18th street. A Owing to the interest attaching’ tothe subjects assigned for -the consideration of the meeting there was quite a large attend- ance of the members. The principat topics of the evening were those contained tn. the reports of the committees on sewerage and streets and avenues, submitted at’ the an- nual meeting of the board. There- were several speakers invited to deliver ad- dresses, and, besidés,’an opportunity was afforded the members generally te give an expression of their views. President S. W. Woodward calied ‘the | Peeting to order at 7:30 o'clock, briefly an- nouncing that this was the first meeting of the, board for the year 1896. After ~ the reading of the minutes of the annual meet- ing Mr. Woodward stated the objects of thts gathering, after which several com- munications to the board were read, the first being a letter from Mr.Berlah Wilkins, chairman of the committee on finance, ex- pressing the opinion that, while he did not think the present annual dues of $5 would be sufficient to pay the current expenses of the beard, it would still be inexpedient to raise the dues to $10, as this might result in the withdrawal of many of the members of the board, and the committee asked leave to withdraw Its recommendation in favor of raising the dues. This was grant- ed, and the whole matter goes over until the next annual meeting of the board, in November, 1896. The committee on membership, through Mr. Thos. W. Smith, reported in favor of imiting the proposed honorary membership to the members of the board of District Commissioners while in active service. There was some question as to whether this proposed amendment to the by-laws came before the meeting in the. proper form, but the report, construed as not be- ing an actual by-law, but simply a sugges- tion of the committee, was unanjmously adcpted. An Exposition in 1900. Mr. W. S. Knox, chairman of the com- mittee on the exposition of 1900, reported for the committee fayoring the proposition to hold such an interstate and {nternation- al ‘exposition to mark the birth of the new | century and the beginning of the second cettury of the existence of the national government with its home in Washington. Connected with the proposition is bound up the plan for each State in the Union to masxtain a permeneps exhibit inthis city. ‘The committee-reported strongly in favor of the propgsitio: h on sentimental and praétical groundg? ‘Tt held that’ the expost- tion should be maintained by the national government, as the fime has passed w: the government shoujd go into “the travel- ing show business” by carting {ts exhibits ait over the cothtry, Washington is the natural and proper place for holding any such affair, and“if "tt were held here it would result in great benefit, -both to Washington and to the United States, -Not skaters being ladies. The instructors were kept busy during the special hour from 1 to 2, fcr ladies only, but the corps was equal to all demands made upon it. This evening's session will end the first week of the ice palace. Considering the fact that good skating {ce has been found in plenty in close proximity to the city, the attend- anee has been marvelous, and the hall could not well find, accommodations for more. The doors have been shut in the faces of several hundred people several nights during the week, while the stoppage of the sale of tickets to go on the ice has been a common occurrence every evening. POLITICAL MEETINGS. The Merry Fight for Delegates to St. Louis. A meeting under the auspices of the Fifth District Colored Republican Club, Mr. Geo. Phillips, president, was held last night in Crawford Hall, 26th street, near M street northwest, and as usual the excitement among the large audience was intense. Be- fore the meeting began Mr. Phillips told a Star reporter that the district was “dead solid” for Carson, but subsequent develop- ments appeared to show that he was mis- teken, for the Carson mén were unable last night to get an indorsement of their favor- ite. It may have been that it was because Col. Perry was unable to be present that things went against him, but at any rate the meet- ing refused to Indorse any candidate except Col. L. M. Saunders. An effort was made by Mr. E. C. Payne, who made a short speech, to get an indorsement of Rebert H. Key, the young colored candidate from South Washington, but it failed. 5 Col. L. M. Saunders made an address, in which he referred to Col. M. M. Parker as his personal friend, but claimed that he (Saunders) had the greater right to their suffrages because his father had done great service for colored men before the war, ard the speaker had fought in the army for the preservation of the Union. . Other speakers were Thomas L. Jones and Arthur Boston. During the attempt to in-, dorse Key a veritable pandemonium reigned’ and when it became evident that order could not be restored the chairman declared the meeting adjourned. Other Meetings Past and to Come. The Perry Carson Club of the eighth district held a meeting last night at 12th and R streets northwest, presided over by Joseph Ambrose. Addresses were made by M. M. Holland, Edward Odom, 8. A. Mel- vin and Col. Carson, the latter’s address creating much enthusiasm. Arrangements have been completed for a meeting to be held in Green’s Assembly Hall, Pennsyivania avenue between 17th and 18th streets northwest, next Monday night, by the followers of Rev. Walter H. Brooks. Speeches will be made by a num- only would the different states put up buildings for permanent exhibits of their manufactures and resources, but the chances are thatjalfhe sister republies on the western hemisphere would fallinto line and take advantage of. the opportunity presented to thert’to maintain permanent exhibits at the eafital of the grandest country that has ever existed under a re- publican form of: government, — ; ‘The report: im conclusion recommended the “indorsement of the general idea sub- mitted. Mr. B. H, Warner asked whether this re- port-would commit the board of trade. to any action In support of the proposition. He said that he had mae a thorough study of the plan for an exposition and realized fullyshow much such a plan meant to the city. It would make it necessary to raise at least $2,000,000, and he could assure the other members of the board that not three states in the Union wouid ever Indorse the plan if it involved the expenditure of a singl+ dollar on their part. Mr. C. C. Lancaster moved the adoption of the committee's re:smmendation, and followed it with a ringing speech, in which he characterized as an “act of treason to our well-beloved capital to raise as much as 4 little finger In opposition toa scheme which means so much to the material wel- fare of the city.” Mr. Warner's Points. Mr. Worner said that even at the risk of being mistaken for a traitor he must pre- sent a few carefully considered arguments against a vote in support of the proposi- tion. Only gigantic efforts on the part of the people of Chicago had made the ex- position in that city a success. It took such efforts as could not_posstbly be ex- pected from the people of Washington. The ecent exposition at Atlanta was made a success only through ‘he instrumentality of a small group of nen, who had sub- cribed a couple of hundred thousand d lars emong themselves when a_particular emergency arose. \imore also has an exposition on her hands for 1897, and this will mean tha expenditure of an enormous sum of money on the part of the business men of our sister city. Mr. Warner said that he did not want to be understood as arguing against the desirability of anything that would tend to the advantage of the city of Washington, but cnly against the feasibility of holding an exposition here in the immediate future. Mr. Lancaster’s motion was then put and lost, whereupon Dr. A. P. Fardon moved that the report be referred to the executive committee and this was adopted by a con- siderable majority. At this point the regular order of bus?- ness was taken up, and Mr. Woodward an- nounced that the first hour would be de- yoted to the consideration of the report of the conmmittee on sewerige. History of the Sewernge System. Capt. Beach, the assistant to the Engi- reer Commissioner, was then introduced as better qualified to speak on the subject number of well-known republicans. Other meetings In Mr. Brooks’ favor will rapidly follow. At a meeting of the Hillsdale Mc- Kinley Club, held last night, at W. B. Simms’ residence in Hillsdale, resolutions were adopted indorsing the candidacy of Robert H. Key and Andrew Gleeson. —— TRIBUTE TO MR. WIGHT. Action of the Correspondents in Re- gard to His Death. The committee appointed at a meeting of Washington correspondents held at the House press gallery on Thursday to ex- press the sense of the meeting upon the death of Mr. Wight adopted the follow- Ing: The announczment of the death of Eugene Barton Wight brirgs to his former as- sociates a feeling of profound sorrow. For nearly thirty years he labored at Washing- ton as a correspondent. ‘The nature ‘and quality of his Iabors, recorded day by day, attest his ability as a journalist and his character as a man. With thorough equlp- ment and careful training, which were mul- tiplied by experience and close observation, he united indefatigable industry, a high sense of honor, a sensitive consélentious- ress, and a sterling integrity with a gentle negs of manner, a kindliness of disposition and a genfality of temperament that brought him high ard deserved reputation as a journalist, secured for him the untver- sal esteem of his associates and command- ed the highest respect of all with whom he was brought in contact. The Washington correspondents, in mak- ing this tribute to the memory of their late than any member of the board of trade. He delivered an interesting talk on the his- tory of the sewerage system of the District of Columbia, its present condition and the reed for improvements ‘n the near future. His talk was illustrated by a large map of tho city, on which was drawn in heavy lines the location of the principal trunk sewers, which are callad upon to dispose of all the detritus of the city. ~ Capt. Beich spoke of the present system as inadequate to the needs of the city. The necessity for impr>vement is accent- ed by the condition of Rock creek and the Eastern branch, which are expected to carry away much of the sewage of the District. The Anacostia river at high tide iooks like quite a considerable stream, but in point of fact the volume of water which flows through it is, but very Httle larger than that which goes through Rock creek, and every one knows the condition of that muddy and disagresable stream. He had been given to undersiand, he said, that there had been a good deal of sickness around the Navy Yatd as a result of its proximity to the Hastern branch, while there was scarcely a house In Anacostia which had not beeu visited by some form of malarial trouble. ff The development of the city, said Capt. Beach, will reqifire a considerable exten- sion of the system of trunk sewers through- out the system, and by means of the map he pointed out what the plans of the Com- missioners actually contemplate, but le ex- pressed the opinion that it is inadvisable to build the sewers in advance of the need for them. To supply sewer connections for every frontage in the city not already sup- plied would involve an expenditure of about $1,000,000. The Commissioners hope to be able to close up the James Croek canal as @ sewer, but what will finally become of it associate, do so with a feeilng that each has lost a valued friend, and that collective- ly the corps of correspondents has lost one of its foremost, ablest and most honored members. In extending sympathy to his bereaved family they would lighten their sorrow, if that could be done by sharing it with them. is a matter that is still under consideration. It may bs found advisable to leave it open as a canal pure and simple, so as to enable funds for street and sewerage im- ents. This opposition arose for the Tost part from the laboring classes of the city, but he desired to call the attention of the laboring men of the city to the fact that all of money to be in such improvements between two-thirds and three-fourths would be paid out directly for pure labor. Of the amount asked for the proposed sewage @isposai system fully $2,- 900,000 would go for labor, while an equally large proportion of the money to be used for trunk sewers and street grading would go straight into the hands of the laboring men of the city. From a Sanitary Point of View. Mr. Albert M. Read, chairman sewerage committee, followed Capt. Beach with an interesting paper, in which he discussed the question of sewers from an economic and sanitary point of view. In the course of his: paper, Mr. Read “That the death rate of our city is large and that it is made so-by preventable dis- eases is generally recognized by all classes of our citizens. But how many of us fully Teal the fact that over two hundred of our neighbors die every year from diseases that tae expenditure of money, in com- paratively small sums, would banish from our midst. How many of use realize that about 2,000 of our people are yearly kept for weeks at a time from the enjoyment of health and the avocations of life by these same diseases that the judicious expendi- ture of money would entirely eradicate. Let us see if these statements are in any way exaggerated. In the twelve years ending 1892 there died in the District of Columbia 1,657 persons from typhoid fever, 336 from typho-malarial fever and 330 from malarial fever, or an average of 236 deaths per annum from these three diseases. Dur- ing the same period the deaths from diar- rhceal diseases were 4,922. A grand total of 7,754 in twelve years, or 646 per annum. If three adults recover to each one that dies, we have 1,938 persons dis- abled jor several weeks each, every year from preventable diseases. If loss of life from these diseases can be pre- vented it is clearly our duty to at once take the necessary steps in that direction. The remedies for this condition of the public health are mainly three: Adequate sewer- age faci‘ities, a large supply of pure water and pure foods. ‘All these money and legislation can buy us. The first of these, adequate sewerage Sete we are here to discuss this even- ing. Mr. Read then quoted statistics from a rumber of other cities to show the effect of sewerage on the death rate from typhoid fever, and continued: “In cities with good sewers and general water supply the averages for the five years ending 1884 were as follows: Munich, 1 Dantzic, 1.5, Frankfort, 1.4; Breslau, 3.3; Hamburg, 2.6; Berlin, 2.9; Brussels, 3.3; London, ; New York, 3.0; Brooklyn, 1 Boston, 4. fo 10,000 inhabitants. “In cities without sewers, or imperfectly sewered, the yearly average for each 16,000 residents was: Paris, Marseilles, 12.8; Turin, Naples, 7.1, Palermo, 13.1; St. Petersburg. 9.9 Buda Pesth, 9.2; Chicago, 7.7; Philadelphia, @3: Washington, 6.2. It will be seen from this that the greatest diminution in typhuid fever has taken place in England and Germany, where expert en- gineers and tiberal municipal governments have combined in the work of sewering ihe principal cities. The example of Dantzic shows that an abundant water supply alone does not diminish the death rate. That city wes supp:ial with water in 1869 and sew- ered in 1s No marked diminution in the death rate of typhoid fever occurred until after the introduction of the sewers. Wash- ington, with a daily individual supply of 177 gallons, has an average annual mor- tality of 6.2, while New York, with seventy- four gallons per capita, has 3.1 yearly to 10,000 population. Abundance of water aione, therefore, does not limit the spread of typhoid fever. Fatal Defects Here. “Washington, whose sewerage system is very good in some respects, has fatal de- fects which dimiaish its efficiency, and with the equally great danger from soil pollution from its 9,000 privies, has an average an- nval mortality of 6.2 for the last thirteen years. This is four times the death rate of Brooklyn and twice that of New York. | “In Washington we supply all the neces- sary conditions for the rapid and perfect propas=tion of the baciili of typhoid and other diseases—leaking privies for the re- ception of the excreta and their contained germs, a damp and illy drained soil for their reception and rapid growth, neighbor- ing wells for the resulting contamination of drinking water consumed by a thirsty pop- ulation. What more conveniences can we supply? What more successful means can we adopt to raise our mortality to a point higher than that of Brooklyn, New York and Boston? We are today among the most successful cultivators of the deadly bacilli in this country. “When we reduce our death rate from 6.2 to 10,000 population, to 1.5 as in Brooklyn, and there is no reason why we cannot by the proposed system of sewers, we will save to our city the lives of 144 of its citzens per annum from typhoid fever alone. When we put an end to the pollution of Rock creek, James Creek canal, and our entire water front from Georgetown to the marshes of Anacostia river with sewage, we will save as many more from malarial fevers and cther diseases, “Capt. Beach has ably pointed out to you how this can be done In view of the evi- dence, can you doubt the efficacy of these sewer conduits as life-saving appliances? “The possession of these sewers with which to combat disease, and to rescue our familics and ourselves from the danger of premature death and place our city in a decent sanitary conditien, requires but thi That we, the people of the District of Co- Ivmbia, unite as one person in demanding of Congress the power to obtain the money Lecessary to construct them. “It thus appears that immunity from these diseases places upon us no present hardship, asks of us no present sacrifice. It simply re- quires that we borrow from the present a few millions, to be returned in the future by our offspring, whose very existence we insure thereby. It asks us simply to do what every business man, corporation and community hes done; what every business men, corporation and community will do un- til the end of the world—exchange present credit for prospective profit. In this transac- tion the profits are certain and large. I do rot belleve that any venture in any part of the world has made so large a return upon the capital invested. as has been realized upon the money expended in schools and hospitals, water works and sewers, pave- ments and walks, in our own well-governed, beautiful city of Washington. If you doubt it study the Increase in valuations, as shown on the assessors’ books in the past thirty years. The expenditure of the seven and one-half millions for the purposes stated in this bond bill during the next few years will return to us in taxable values twice seven and a half millions before the last of it ts paid out. And this is not all. It will insure us healthier and longer lives. It will give cur artisans and laborers work. It will fill the mouths and clothe the backs of hundreds of hungry, half-naked men, women and chil- dren who are now perforce eating the bread of charity. It will start the wheels of com- merce and bring prosperity again to our doors. “And it will give our city a healthy rate that, with her other advantages, will attract to her precincts the best of the nation’s heart and brain. Tan we as citizens of Washington ignore the facts placed before us by our own mor- tality statistics? Can we reet content until our water supply is the purest and our sewerage system the finest in the world? I am sure we cannot and will not.” Street Extension Postponed. At the conclusion of Mr. Read’s paper President Woodward announced that the re- mainder of the evening would be devoted to the consideration of the report of the committee on streets ard avenues, and that in the absence of the chairman, Col. Par- ker, the discussion would be in the charge of Mr. Chapin Brown. Mr. Brown called attention to the late- ness of the hour, and moved the postpone- ment of the whole subject to a special meet- ing, to he held next Friday evening. This board had indorsed generally the grand plan for the street extensions, and it was one that undoubtedly should be carried out. He himself was heartily in favor of the general plan, but there were, he thought, some defects in the present law that should be pointed out and remedied in justice to the property owners whose !and.it was pro- posed to take. This could not be done, how- ever, in the limited time now remaining. The matter, he said, was one so important that a whole evening would not be too much to devote to its discussion. The high- way extension act, he maintained, was not generally understood by the citizens of Washington. The motion gave rise to a rather lively and at times heated discussion between Mr. Brown, Mr. Mattingly and Mr. Worth- barges, coal boats and the like to come up ington, in which the merits and defects of the street extension act were gone into from the river well into the city and in close proximity to the ratlroads. at some length, though in rather an infor- mal way. Some opposition, said Capt. Beach, had arisen against the proposed bond bill to Mr. Worthington offered a substitute mo- tion pledging the board to the support of How Are You? - ms Nem YOU HAVE oiten been asked this question, But have” you ever realized its meaning? If you were asked it at this very moment, could you candidly reply, “I am feeling quite well?” Might you not be forced to answer, “I am not feeling so well as I ought to feel?” THIS IS a serious question for you to consider, because this is a dangerous time of the year. 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It speedily puts the liver. and -kidneys.in-good order, purifies and enriches the blood, and drives out every dangerous germ of disease that lurks in the system. There is nothing like it for building up the strength and regulating the digestive organs. It is not an experiment, but a standard remedy, indorsed by the,world’s greatest physicians. No other remedy has ever received such,an enermous num- ber of testimonials from people whom it has made strong_and well. the bond bill appropriating $7,500,000 for street extension ad sewer improvements, but Mr. Brown’s motion was put and car- ried almost unanimously. A Reception Committee. Prior to the adjournment e motion was made and carried providing for the ap- pointment of a committee of five members to arrange for an informal reception, to be held the latter part of this month, to which members of Congress be invited, so that the members of the board of trade and the members of the national legislature, espe- cially the members of the District com- mittees, might have a chance to become better acquainted. President Woodward appointed as this committee Messrs. John Joy Edson, Beriah Wilkins, Wm. M. Mattingly, Gardiner Hub- bard and Dr. S. C. Busey. The meeting then adjourned. a WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET. Butter Advancing — Eggs Falling— Other Products Stationary. The advance in butter, predicted last week, has been realized, prices today being slightly higher than those prevailing lust week. Eggs, however, are lower today, due to the rise in temperature, and, if the Weather continues mild, prices will fall still further and quality of goods will im- prove steadily. Poultry exhibits no ma- terial change, either in prices or receipts, and the same is true of game. Eggs, how- ever, advanced during the week somewhat, because of the extreme wintry weather, as did poultry, momentarily. But both pro- ducts are greatly, if not wholly, influenced by the weather, and if the temperature continues to rise prices will corresponding- ly decline. Cheese, while holding out a slight .future advance, today remains 2s last quoted. Beef and other meats show no decided change one way or the other, and that is to be said, generally, of fruits and vegetables. Throughoat, the market exhibits a firm, healthy tone, being splen- aay, supplied both as ‘to quantity and qual- y. Butter today shows an advance of about a cent a pound, particularly in the finest grades. The receipts are moderate, but show wintry # fects, the result of making in very cold weather. Future goods will also exhibit, for a short time at least, such a fault. Dealers are selling out closely, and foreign buyers are quite strong. An effort is observed to firmly hold up prizes, and not only are prices in the lower grades steady, but there is an upward tendency in all grades. Today’s prices are: Fancy Elgin and other western extras, 26 cents a pound; choice, 24; firsts, 22; seconds, 18 to 19. Choice bakers’ stock, 15; New York tubs, 18 to 20; dairy print, Maryland and Virginia creamery, 18 to 20; dairy packed, 16 to 18. While the future In cheese is rather en- couraging, its condition is today practically unchanged. The market is, however, firm and healthy, with prices as follows: New York state cream, large, 11% cents a pound; flats, 12%, and ponys, 14. Eggs are not. only a cent a dozen lower today than a week ago, but the receipts are larger and the quality, of the goods much improved, both condi@ons being due to the warmer weather. The stock of stcr- age goods is not only nearly depleted, but their quality is vastly inferior to that hith- erto observed. For nearby fresh goods 22 cents a dozen are asked today; 20 to 21 for western; 19 to 20 for southern; 17 to 18 for storage stock, and 7 to 9 for keat or guinea goods. The supply of poultry has been adequate, and, while the rising temperature is some- what weakening, the market prices today, as will be seen from the following, are those quoted a week ago: Drawn turkeys, from 11 to 13 cents a pound; live, 9 to 10; live chickens, 6 to 2; dressed, 10 to 12; old stock, dressed, 8 to 10; live, 5 to 7; ducks, 10 to 12, and geese, 6 to 9. Little, if any, real change is observable in game, either in supply or prices. Pre- vailing prices today: Venison, saddle, 12 to 16 cents a pound; bucks, 8 to 10; bear, die, 10; pheasants, 50; rabbits, per dozen, $1.25 to $2; quail, $1.25 to $2.50; wild tur- keys, per pound, 10 to 12; woodcock, each, 2 to 40. Potatoes and cabbages are slightly higher today, but other vegetables and fruits re- main about as last reported. Cabbages, $3 to $6 per hundred; potatoes, 15 to 40 cents a bushel; sweet potatoes, red, $2 to $2.75 a barrel; eastern shore sweet potatoes, $2.50 bunches; yellow onions, $1 to turnips, 60 to 65 cents 7 cents to $1 a bushel #2 to $3.50 fancy California oranges, $4 to $4.50 a box; Messina, $3 to $5: Valencia, $3 to $3.50; lemons, $ to $7 a x. No material change in the price of beef and other meats is observed today, live cattle selling at from 2 to 4% cents a pound; lambs, 4 to 4 3-4; sheep, 2 to 34g, cows with calves, $25 to $50; calves, 4 to 6 cents a pound, and dressed hogs, 4 to 7. ——— 3 W. BISPHAM RESIGNS. fancy table apples, REV. Cc. He Will Go to Be Assistant Rector in New Haven. Rev. Clarence W. Bispham, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Mi- cheel’s and All Angels’, tendered his resig- nation of that position this week to his vestry, and it has been accepted. It is not to take effect until the 15th of May, how- ever, at which time he will leave for the rorth to become assistant rector to Rev. George William Douglas, 8.T.D., pastor of ‘Trinity Church, New Haven, Conn., and former pestor of St. John’s Church, Was! ington. The resignation of Mr. Bispham is the cutgrowth, it is asserted, of differ- ences Letween the vestry of St. John’s and that of St. Michael's. A prominent mem- ber of the latter parish states that when St. John’s erected their church into an in- dependent parish last spring, and of which St. Micheel’s had been befcre a mission, the deed recorded was such as to give the freedom to the latter that they asked for, but to practically take away their means of support by making it a free church, and also reserving a number of pews, free, to the clildren of St. John’s Orphanage. A meeting of the vestry has been called for next week te consider the matter and the question of a successcr to Mr. Bispham. Mr. Bispham came to the church from be- ing an assistaat pestor to Dr. Douglas of St. John’s in the fall of 1891, and since his incumber cy has raised and expended near- ly $12,000 in improving the church build- ings, and has increased the roils of the See membership to about 300 communi- can’ — Foreign Money. You will learn all about foreign money in The Star's Almanac and Hand-book for 1896. 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Doubles on His Tracks and Decerives the Spanish. e The news previously cabled that Gomez had passed Alquizar and Guira Melera, in Havana province, Cuba, was received with relief by the friends of the insurgents, though the direction he bad taken was not known, but it was generally supposed that he was bent upon retreat into the eastern provinces, glad to escape the trap set for him. lt is now evident that he was merely making a pretense at retreat to misiead his enemy, and meantime he has once more ccunter-marched like a fox doubling up on its own track, and now has nearly his whole effective force in the tobacco dis- trict in the sduthern part of the province of Pinar del Rio, ready to visit destruction upon the tobacco crop, as it has already been widély visited upon the sugar crop. His march wes:ward from Guira Melena was a swift one, and he has been reported from Artemisa, Mangos, Bagate and Can- delaria. The town of San Cristobal, which came next in his course, was left on one side, but, judging from the route jaken by his vanguard, he has passed By Senta Cruz, Taco Taco and Paso Real toward Consolacion del Sur, which is the termi- nus of the railroad from Havana running southwest into Pinar del Ri The northern portion of province of Pinar del Rio has by no means been strip- ped of insurgents, and it fs reported that a band of five bundred, manded When the news of :his movement was re- ceived at Havana troops were hurriedly dis- patchei to Ugbia Honda by sea to reinforce ed garrison at that important seaport wn, it regents Expecting Friends. There are indistinét rumofts that an -im- Pertant expedition for the relief of the in- surgents has been landed upon the rorth- ern coast of Pinar del Kio. The boldaess been attributed to their expectation of the landing of the expedjtion, ‘ The authorities Have discovered evidence of what they consider a’ conspiracy to cause hand the is believed to be widely discovery has calisod grave uneasiness in Havana, and suspicioas that disaffection is much more widely disseminated than has ‘hirty have been Zayas ata point between the plantations of Regalado and Begona, in the district of Cubanas. The Spaniards, it is ed, took the insurgents’ position, who fied, leav- ing twelve killed and carrying off many wounded. At Celba and Aguacata, between Havana and Matanzas, in the province of Havana, band of one hundred and fifty insurgents is reported to be active, and they fired upon a train. At Duran they have destroyed the telegraph. ‘Tbe insurgents have destroyed the rail- read station and have cut the telegraph at. Aguada, In the province of Matanzas. ——-- eee Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: H. A. Griswold et ux. to Otho 8. Pum- phrey, lot 227, in Griswold’s addition to Anacostia; $500. Wm. M. Starr to Chas. T. Yodcr, original lot 9, sq. 878; 36,000. Mary V. Ennels to Eugene M. Merrick, lots 15 and 16, bik. 7, Ivy City; $10. Wm. F. Holtzman and Arthur A. Birney, tris- tees, to Jno. L. Schaffert, lot 36, sq. 374; 4,155. Wm. F. Holtzman, surviving trustee, to Anna R. Shoemaker, lot 35, sq. 374; $1,560. Jno. O. Johnson et ux. to Thos. C. Pale, lot 13, sq. 180; $10. Saml. Maddox et al., trustees, to Benj. B. Bradford, trus- tee, part lots 1, 2 and 3, bik. 1, Mt. Pleas- ant and Smith's Vacancy; $9,800. Chas. A. Pike, assignee, to Henry G. Wagner, part lot 24, sq. 1280; $3,300. Jno. F. Redgers et al., trustees, to J. Burr Johnson, all bik. 26'and part bik. 27, Kalorama Heights; $1,000. H. Walker Tucker et ux. to Henry G. Wagner, lot 24, sq. 1280; $5.