Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1896, Page 3

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COST OF THE WORE ——— Shortly after the highway act was de- clared unconstitutional, the Commissioners discussed at length the advisability of abardcring it altogether and offering a bill covering the defects as pointed out by the court. After mature deliberation, how- ever, with their attorney, they concluded that the only hope of obtaining legisla- tion lay in an amendment of the present law. As stated from time to time in The Star, there have been many cofiferences between the legal representatives of the District and the Commissioners on th's subject. ‘The evident intention of Con- Erees to favorably act upon separaie bills of extension of individual streets, stirred them to action, and late yesterday evening they took up Senate bill 23, and amended it in accordance with their plan. The re- sult of their deliberations they have em- bodied in a letter to the Senate District committee. After suggesting a number of minor amendments the Commissieners say: “The principal objects of adding section 7 are to cure the highway act of 18% of some radical defects developed in a late decision of the Supreme Court of the Dis- trict, and to authorize the Commissioners to lay out, upon the maps required by said act, parkway reservations as distin- guished from reservations at intersections of principal avenues and streets. In the decision, named, being the case of the subdivision, known as ‘Dernison and Leighton’ included within section one of the plan for the extension of a permanent system of highways in the District of Columbia, the court found that the high- way act was urconstituticnal cr invalid, since compensation for land taken for pub- lic use is, by section 11 of the act, to be made in part by deducting from the val- ues of condemnation assessments for fu- ture and contingent benefits; also on ac- count of the impracticability of determin- ing the lands benefited, which, by section 15 of the act, are to be assessed one-half of the amount of award for damages for each highway or reservation, and the ab- sence of any standard for such general as- sessment. The court referred to the re- cording of the map as an additional fea- ture of the situation, showing the import- arce of some legislative revision of the act. It is therefore proposed by amend- ments named above co have the map of the plan of extension of highways filed in the cffice of the Commissioners instead of filed and recorded in the office of the sur- veyor, and to wholly omit sections 11 and 15 from the highway act. “It might be remarked since this map, under the law, must be a guide for the action ef the Commissioners in upon plats of subdivisions offered for rec- ord urder the subdivision law of 1888, that the custody of the map in their own office would be more appropriate than at the snrveyer’s cffice, und that it is in the province of Congress, and appears just, to assess upon abutting property when the benefit is gonferred the cost. or part cost of actually opening and improving high- ways obtained by condemnation where no benefits were assessed for the platting or laying out of the highways. The Piney Branch Parkway. “The map of section 1, as delivered and certified to the commission, composed of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the In- terior and the chief of engineers, as required by the highway act, showed a parkway on a nearly east and west line, along the Piney branch and Spring road, connecting by a broad belt of park and driveway the Rock creek park and the Soldier’s Home, and fur- nishing a main entrance to the park from 16th street and New Jersey and Minnesota avenues. This parkway was commended by Messrs. Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot, land- scape architects, in their report on the first section plans as ‘a most excellent’ idea. In order to preserve and include the Piney branch, to secure other ornamentation, and to provide a riding lane separated from the streets at the sides of the parkway, its width over all was designed to be 200 and 250 feet at different parts. The highway commission, for a compliance with a pro- v.sion of the highway act, limiting the width of highways to 160 feet, altered the park- way to such limiting width, but informed the Commissioners that ‘we heartily ap- prove your plan for a wide parkway con- necting the Rock Creek Park with the Sol- diers’ Home grounds. We recommend that an amendment to the highway Dill be se- cured, legalizing the parkway as laid down upon your original plans.’ “The third section plans show somewhat wider parkways along deep valleys, where the lands are of less market value, are not suitable for building purposes, but which ace natural entrances to Rock Creek Park, and should be preserved as such. These parkways are likewise approved or were laid down upon the map by Messrs. Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot. “Other amendments to the highway act intended by the new section 7 to Senate bill 28 are self-explanatory. Suburban Sewers. “The Commissioners appreciate the great Cesirability of a prompt completion of thé works of sewage disposal and protection against floods for the city of Washington; but they do not understand that all of such works are more important from the standpoint of public health than ts a sewer system for many of the suburbs (in which there is now nore), and where typhoid fever has keen most prevalent. * “Senate bill 28 would provide for the urgently needed suburban trunk sewers and would accomplish the speedy rectification of streets in existing misfit subdivisions, on whose new street lines main and branch sewers In the more thickly settled suburbs could be laid at the expense of current revenues, or under the assessment plan, where applicable. and connected to the cue sewers as soon as the latter were ady. “The trunk sewers also should be locat- ed along highway lines. It would be un- wise to build sewers and then lay out streets afterward, as well as more costly, by reason of the expense of rights of way and grading and surfacing, otherwise un- necessary or useless. The sanitary en- ginéers who prepared the sewage disposal plan for Washirgton were expected, by the law, to report upon the system of seweruge in and for the ‘District of Columbia, but they neither estimated for, designed nor located any sewers outside of Washing- ton other then the outlet sewer for the city system. The parts of this system are designed in size to rece!ve the sewage and drainage from the county which would vaturally flow through the city. The want of knowledge of where highways were to be, as well as where the settlements would be, a) a ee renee for the sanitary engineers not reperting upon sewer pla: cutside of Washington. Led Sewerage systems for the county or paris of the county are indissolubly connected with a plan of street extension, not 1eces- sarily with the actual opening of even many of the new highways, but with the fixed street plan on paper, and with pub- lic ownership of intended streets before laying sewers in their spaces. Washington has a sewer system already built, and its parts are in use; the county, practically, has no sewer system. Works of sewage disposal for the city are sim- ply for carrying the sewage further away. Operations thereon so far have been dil- rected to considerably ameliorate the con- dition of the three open cesspools in the city. The Easby’s Point sewer of the sew- age disposal plan was~irst built; it diverts sewage from the 17th street sewage canal. The next step was at Rock creek. An in- tereceptor has been partly built on the left bank; its completion to a point on the Potomac as a temporary outfall, where the volume of river flow Ys large and the cur- rent strong, is under ‘contract. This in- terceptor will divert most of the sewage which now fiows into the creek and permit t stream to greatly cleanse itself. The third open cesspeol is the James canal, from which a large amount of sew- age would be diverted by the New Jersey avenue interceptor, the construction of which is not yet authorized. The fourth step in order of importance would be build- ing the, F street part of the Easby's Point HIGHWAY EXTENSION A S aed oe Be _-: THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, MAROH 20, 1896—-FOURTEEN: = Sacksonville © Cloudy, | @faln, 50" Ton @Snom, =f % 8 EXPLANATORY NOTE: Observations taken at 8 a.m., 75th meridian time. Solid lines are iso- i ‘| Commissioners Report Adversely the ", Bill to Incorporate a Company. ERECTION OF THE PROPOSED BUILDINGS Favorable Action onsthe Bill Author- izing a Bond Issue. ae OO cou [SOME REASONS GIVEN As predicted in The Star, the Commis- sicners today recommended adverse action upon House bill 1202, to establish a far- mers’ wholesale market in the District of Columbia, and submitted in Neu thereof, bars, or lines of equal air pressure, drawn for each tenth of an inch. Dotted lnes are isotherms, or | With favorable report, House bill 6262, with lines of equal temperature, drawn for each ten degrees. Shaded arcas are 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 F. WEATHE ms ea fax, 1.42; Montreal, 2.30; Northfield, 1.68; Albany, 1.20; Hatteras, 1.26. But It is Predicted That It Will Be . Colder Tonight. Forecast till 8 p.m. Saturday—For, the District of Columbia, Delaware and Mary- ‘and, fair and colder tonight; Saturday, fair; northwesterly winds. For Virginia and North Carolina, fair and colder tonight, with freezing temperature; Saturday, fair; warmer in western portion; northwesterly winds, becoming variable. Saturday. It will be decidedly colder in New Eng- land and warmer in the gulf states and the Ohio valley. It will continue cold with con- Atlantic states tonight, and in the east gulf states. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of water at 8 a.m.: Great Falls, temperature, 40; condi- tion, 1; receiving reservoir, temperature, 40; condition at north connection, 1; condi- Weather conditions and general forecast: The severe storm, central in West Vir- ginia Thursday morning, has moved rapidly northeastward to the St. Lawrence valley, increasing decidedly in energy, the barom- eter reading at Quebec being 28.84 inches at 8a.m. This storm has been attended by heavy rain or snow in New England, the middle Atlantic states, the Ohio valley and the lower lake region. Severe gales have prevailed on the New England and the middle Atlantic coast, with hurricane velocities at some stations. High northwesterly winds also prevailed on the south Atlantic coast. High north- westerly winds will continue today and to- night on the New England and middle At- Jantic coast. An area of high pressure covers the central valleys, highest on the west gulf coust. A storm of considerable energy is developing north of Montana. The barometer has fallen rapidly in New England and also throughout the Rocky mountain districts. It has risen generally in the central valleys. It is warmer in New England and gencr- ally west of ihe Mississippi river and de- cidedly colder in the middle and South At- Jantic states and thence northward over the lake regions. Frosts are reported generally in the gulf states. The following heavy precipitation (in Inches) was reported: reservoir, temperature, 40; condition at in- Tide Table. Today—Low tide, 5:20 a.m. and 6:25 p.m.; high tide, 11:52 a.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 6:18 am. and 7:19 P.m.; high tide, 0:07 a.m. and 12:42 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Sun rises, 6:08; sun sets, 6:12. Moon sets, 0:40 a.m. tomorrow. The City Lights. 8 Gas lamps.all lighted by 7:18 p.m.; extin- guishing begun at 4:56 a.m. The lighting 13 begun one hour before the time named. Naphtha lamps all lighted by 7:18 p.m.; extinguishing begun at 5:11 a.m. Public arc lamps lighted at 6:48 p.m. and extinguished at 5:41 am. Range of the Thermometer. THE WEATHER FORECASTS BY FLAG SIGNALS. No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. No. 5. Clear or fair Rain or Local rain ‘Temperature Cold wave. weather. snow. or snow. signal. Explanation of the Flags. The flags are hoisted each day upon the issre of; the morning weather msp and font untif dave They indicate the wenther that may be expect * during the following thirty-six hours, but more. pay. ticularly the last twenty-four Lours of that petiod. ‘They are to be read trom the top of the st: downward. If more than one kind of weather 4s predicted for the period from Sp:m. to 8 p.m. the conditions first .amed in the forecast will be represented by the uppermost fing. When a warning of a “cold wave” is included in the forecast message, the cold-wave flag will be displayed below the Proper weather flag. The temperature flag, when placed above numbers 1, 2 or 3, indicates ‘warmer weather; when placed below numbers 1, 2 or 3, indicates colder weather; when not displayed, ,the Indications are that the temperature will in stationury. rag k several amendments. In a letter to Chair- man Babcock accompanying the bill the Commissioners say: “The object of H. R. No. 1202 appears :o During the past twenty-four hours—Hali- | be to incorporate a wholesale market com- peny under the name of the Farmers’ S Wholesale Market Company, with unlimit- ther will clear in New England tonlent ‘ani fair weather ls indicated for | ed power to issue and sell bonds, or to bor- the middle and South Atlantic and gulf| row money and execute mortgages and states and the Ohio valley tonight and| deeds of trust upon its property and fran- chises. The capital stock is fixed at $100,- 000, of which but 50 per centum need be subscribed for, and of the amount sub- ditions favorable for frosts in the South} scribed but 10 per centum is required to be probably also | naia in cash. Cn a cash investment of but $5,000 the bill authorizes the farmers named in the bill and their associates to take pos- session of the wholesale market square, be- tween 10th and 12th, Little B and B streets northwest, containing 80,485 square feet of ground, and to erect thereon market sheds and buildings to serve the purguse of a tion at south connection, 23; distributing wholesale market. “The bill relieves the company from the fluent gite house, 36; effluent gate house, 34. payment of all taxes except on personal property, and grants the exclusive use for a period of twenty-five years of this val- uable square of ground, appraised by the agsessor of the District of Columbia at $311,000, in consideration of the, payment of the very inadequate rental of $2,500 per year. Ought Not to Be Leased. “If there were any public necessity for renting this square it ought to bring at least $20,000 per aunum. A prominent and wealthy citizen has offered to pay $10,000 per year for it, and expresses the opinion that it would bring at least $20,000 per annum should the Commissioners be au- thorized to lease it. “The Commissioners are of the opinion that it should not be leased at all. It is needed for and is now in use as a whdle- sale market. ‘True, there are no buildings on it worth mentioning, but the Commis- sioners hope to see suitable buildings pro- vided for by Congress at an early date. “This valuable square cf ground has only recently, and after protracted litigation, been rescued from the possession of the Washington Market Company, and now it is proposed to give it to another company upon a mere nominal rental of 3$2,) per annum. “A significant provision of the Dill !s found in the last paragraph of the second isection, which reads as tollows: ‘No sales at retail, except as allowed by the corpora- |* ‘tion ordinance of 1856,,shall be allowed upon any sidewalk or pavement within three squares of the lands herein granted to the Farmers’ Market Company, except upon the sidewalk and pavement south of and abutting on the Center market.’ f Opposed by Farmers. , “It was stated at a public hearing in the Commissioners’ office by several farm- ers that the bill wae cpposed by a large uumber of prominent farmers, and they assured the Commissioners that they rep- resented a great majority of all the farm- ers who sell their own produce in this market, and that they desired that the Cemmissioners of the District of Columbia sewer, mainly for catching storm water and carrying it direct to the river, instead of letting it continue to flood the fow-lying district of Pennsylvania avenue and B street. “The F street and New Jersey avenue in- terceptors, estimated to cost $560,000, rep- resent the parts of the sewage disposal, works, which are considered equal in im- portance to the sewerage of the unsewered: and more thickly settled suburbs. “For these reasons the Commissioners are not able to recommend that the i¢- mainder of the sewage disposal works should be given precedence to tne sewer necessities of the suburbs, as would ke done by Senate bill 2444. Cost of Highway Extension. “It has been frequently asserted before the committees of Congress and elsewhere by those opposed to carrying out the highway act that it would involve an expenditure of twenty million dollars and upward. In view of the great importance of the mat- ter, and of the necessity for accurate in- formation upon the subject, the Commis- sioners several months ago caused a careful and detailed estimate to be made by three prominent real estate experts of the value of the land to be taken in the forty-seven sub- divisions embraced in the first section. While this estimate was under way, they caused another estimate to be made by a fourth expert, without the knowledge of the other three, and the reports were, re- spectively, as follows: $5,473,420 and $5,~ 255,185, exclusive of improvements and de- ductions for benefits. As the total assessed value of all the improvements effected in the forty-seven subdivisions is only $733,480, many of which are but slightly damaged, the Commissioners believe that their esti- mate of $6,000,000 as the total cost, includ- ing improvements, is a very liberal one. “Considering the vast area of the land covered by these estimates and the wide range of values of the land appraised, their close approximation is remarkable, and establishes their accuracy beyond contro- versy. But an additional and equally strong test was furnished by the award of the jury in the Dennison and Leighton sub- division, which on a total valuation of $190,167.26 differed from one of said esti- mates only $14,187.26. “As these forty-seven subdivisions com- prise the principal ones in the District, be- ing the most valuable and densely popu- lated, the Commissioners are confident that the value of the land to be acquired in carrying out the said act in all of the other subdivisions will not exceed one-third of the above amount, or two million dollars ($2,000,000), making the total cost of exc- cuting the act eight million dollars ($8,000,- 000. .) “This, the Commissioners have every rea- son to believe, is a liberal and fuil esti- mate. This amount will be largely reduced by benefits and assessments should they be sustained in court. “Having set forth in this and in previous reports upon this subject some of the more important reasons for speedy action by Congress, the Commissioners again invite attention to its importance from an eco- nomical standpoint. The report of the as- sessor shows that the assessed value of the property in these forty-seven subdivisions has increased 479 per centum during the last ten years. Justice to the property holders, as well as to the public, would seem to demand early action upon this im- portant subject matter.” ————__ A Disastrous Fire. The dwelling of Dr. R. F. Kearney at Magruder’s station, in Maryland, just be- yond the District line, was totally destroy- ed by fire last Tuesday night. Everything ef household furniture, clothing and pro- isions that Dr. Kearney possessed was consumed, and himself and wife and five children were left perfectly destitute. The house was an eight-room structure, and Dr. Kearney had purchased it as the result of years of careful savings, and its loss now falls very heavily cn him. Many friends have come forward with assistance, but to clothe a family of seven and get suffi- cient furniture to resume housekeeping is ro easy task. Officials of the Court of Claims, where Dr. Kearney is employed, have urranged to rece!ve and care for any contributions that may be made. —_—>__ Their Name a Guarantee. Upon every box of Reeves, Poole & Co.'s 4ic. bon bons and chocolates are their name with monogram in the Corner—a guarantee that the contents are the finest and purest confections pozsible to buy, no matter what the price. 1209 F street—advt. | DEATH OF ROBERT EDWARD EARLL should be authorized to improve and con- trol the Wholesale Market Square as con- contemplated by H. R. No. 6262. Jit does not require the instrumentality 02 a private corporation to improv. sonian Corps, square. The District of Columbia, fan Mr. Robert Edward Earl, who died Wed-| erect its own market house thereon, and nesday afternoon, at his residence near | conduct a wholesale market there “as it A Well-Known Member of the Smith- Chevy Chase, was one of the oldest and } does the other public markets, in the in- | commission ‘under Prof. Baird as a fish.cul- most trasted members of the staf of the |/erest Of the public. Smithsonian Institution, with:which be had |, What the Commissioners Favor. been connected in various capacities since] “‘The Commissioners recommend adverse 1877. He was born at Waukegan, MIL, |'action on this bill, and they submit as a August 24, 1853; educated in the Waukegan | substitute for the same H. R. No. 202, ee penecla ne Teel ed of Chicago | with certain amendments thereto, upon a ie Northwestern University, where | .. ij he was graduated in 1877 with the degrce of | “ich they ask favorable action. ‘Said amended bill authorizes the issue B. S. He entered the service of ‘the fish os of 3 per cent bonds of the District of turist; In 1878 was transferred to the scl-|lumbla to the amount of $75,000, roncing entific staff, and from 1879 to 1862 was en-|,for a period of twenty-five years, and the gaged in the fisheries division of the tenth | sale of the same at not less than par, the census, under the direction of Dr. Goode. | proceeds of which are to be used for erect. From 188 to 1888 he was chief of the di-|ing suitable market buildings on sald vision of statistics in the fish commission, } square. He was sent, in 1883, to the internationai| “It further authorizes and directs the fisheries exhibition in London as a member | Commissioners to establish such reasonable of the staff of the United States commis-| charges and fees for the occupation of sloner, and rendered very efficient service | space, stands and stalls in sald buildings fg Cxecutive officer and deputy representa- | 88 will provide » proper sinking fund for tive. Lis aptitude for exposition work was | extinguishing said bonds at thelr maturity so fully demonstrated on this occasion that | and provide for the payment of the interest he has been designated chief executive offi- . cer at all the expositions which have since been held, for the exhibits of the Smith- sonian Institution and the National Mu- “A direct appropriation might be made for the purpose, but as the revenues .are 2 needed for other important purposes, and Tsot ana weguisville and New Orleans, in | as the proposed market will easily supply 184 and 1885; Cincinnati, in 1888; Chicago, | the means of taking care of the bonds st }83, and Atlanta, in 1895. .At the time of | maturity, the Commissioners are disposed his death ‘he had just completed the un-|to recommend the bond issue as being the packing of the exhibits returned from the | Most practicable and least inconvenient south, method of paying for the buildings.” eS 888 he had been connected with the —_—=___ ‘useum, with 1e le = tor and for three years Pat oat Giese FOR PERMANENT ARBITRATION, e Proceedings and Bulletin: S niente eum. “He was recognized by his aasociates | 4 Conference to Be Held 1 as a man of fine administrative ability, ington Next Month. which, combined with great force of char-| A call, or invitation, has been issued for acter, nad brought him into the position of | a national conference to be held in this ng. ‘His7ost efficient exposition experts | city April 22 and 28 next, with a view to living. His unselfish devotion to hi and his absolute trustworthiness were ap” | DFinging about the establishment of a per- Preciated by all who knew him, and he was | manent system of arbitration between the exceedingly popular among his associates. | United States and Great Britain. The call otwithstanding his constant occupation | is signed by well-known men in New York, in executive work, he produced and iblish- leant ed a considerable number of important ae Citcago, New Oricans, Stans ae San Francisco, Washington pers in regard to the methods of the fisher-| Phia, Boston, ies and the nadie of fishes. He was one of | and elsewhere. e est authorities upon the natural his-| The call says: “It is earnestly desired tory of the shad and herring, an: exhaustive otudles of the fishery statistics | that all parts of the country should be of the Atlantic and gulf coasts and of the | fully represented at this conference, and great lekes, Several new fishes were dis-| in order that this may be assured, a simi- covered by him, one of which, an important | lar invitation has been sent to represen- food species of the southern coast, obtained tative men, irrespective of party or creed, by him at Charleston in 1881, is called in 3 Re anonor Haris hake, phycis Earllit, He | {n cvery mince and territory in the Union— was also a skillful fish culturist and had Much experience in the early experimental | HOUSes of Congress, being See ee Work in the ieararg ERE ote ae on GeTnWeontiningithalmresent suoreteen te the establishment ‘of the cod-hatching sta- the promotion of arbitration between the tion at Gloucester.» Ho was A manoof the purest personal | United States and Great Britain, we are character and avidevout member atone, | not unconcerned for the wider application Calvary Baptist Church) He assisted in the | Of the principle involved. But, taking into organization of the adult departeent ce | consideration the importance und the value the Sunday schod}, in+i1889, was its first | Of Practical results, it has seemed wise to superintendent, and remained in charge of | Concentrate our immediate efforts upon the attainment of a permanent system be- it until in 1893, avhem his official duties called him to Chicago. He was one gues tween the two great English-speaking peo- ples.” Pestor’s Closest friends and advisers. His joss will be:decply felt by many in| It is expected that the conference will last two days. Washington, and by reason of his peculiar abilities and his great experience his death | Co-operating with the general committee are the following gentlemen, constituting creates a void which it will be practically impossible to fill. i) io the committee of Washington: Melville W. He was one of the founders of the Dis-| Fuller, Nelson A. Miles, John G. Walker, trict of Columbia Society of the Sons of the | Gardiner G. Hubbard, John W. Foster, American Revolution;‘and_a committee, | Alexander Mackay-Smith, George Tries. consisting of Hom.C. D. Walcott, Mr. H. | dell, C. S. Noyes, Stanton J. Peelie, Teunts P. R. Holt, Mr. W. A»DeCaindry, Mr. F.|S. Hamlin, Charles C. Glover, Samuel C. W. Clarke, Mr. J. F, Bilis and Mr. Richard | Busey, H. F. Blount, John A. Kasson, John Dana, Dr. W. J. Hoffman, Dr. D. Web-| Joy Edson, Charles C. Cole, W. J. Board- man, Beriah Wilkins, J. W. Woodward, ‘Thomas Nelson Page, Samuel H. Greene, ster Prentiss, has been appointed to attend his funeral, which will be held at the Cal- John ae John F. Hurst, A. P. Langley, Cc. J. Bell. Wash- vary Baptist Church on Sunday at 2 o'clock. = Ata Tucethig, of the members of the staff —_——>—_ ‘e Smithsonian Institution and the National. Museum and fish commission, Labeled ea rl Oe ete ead held in the office of the assistant secretary | Robert M. Stabler, a prominent resident of the Smithsonian Institution, at noon to-| of Montgomery county, -Md., died at his ee appropriate resolutions offered by Mr. home, “Edgewood,” last evening. Mr. True were adepted. : It was decided also to attend the funeral. Etahicr was & ena of the late Caleb Stabler. The honorary pallbearers thus far select- | He was one of the best known farmers in ed are Dr. G. Brown Goode, Mr. F. W. | the neighborhood of Sandy Spring and was True, Prof. Otis T. Mason, Mr. W. V. Cox, |a charter member of the Enterprise Farm- Mr. R. I. Geare, Dr. Frank Baker and Dr. | ers’ Club that was organized in 1865. His H. M. Smith. wife was Hannah Taylor of Loudoun ccun- ————-_ ty, Ve., who was also a member of the Government Receipts. Society of Friends. The widow, one son, National bank notes received today- tor) Sere meaner, ny cag and five daugh- redemption, $236,190. Government recetpts| piace from his late residence. tomorm = xrom internal revenue, $161,024; customs, we afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment $487,519; miscellaneous, $25,301. at Sandy ' 3 sd le Very = Best Storage facilities in the city! Most central location—finest Rome, al well Yeniliated, ‘clean aed "During March we will haul all goods to our Rooms FREE. ERCHANTS’ to, 929-931 D St. ’Phone 659. mili20-20a Sea STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE CALE- DONIAN INSURANCI of Scotland. on the Sist day of December Fi a act of Congress, ap we ly Capital stock pata’ up. a ASSETS. CSsh in bank and in office. . . $187,877 64 Stock and bonds (market value), and loans, secured by mortgages... + 1,684,412 50 Premiums uncollected and in hands of agents . + 112,205 65 All other assets ‘B1,318 5a ABILITIES. Reserve premium fund. 1,056,160 36 Reserve for unpaid losses claims 249,596 19 710,147 28 a CHARLES 11. POST, Manager. EIL, Assistant Manager. this 9th day Subscribed and sworn to before me, of March, 1896. WM. ELLSWORTH, BY Notary Public for Kings county, with certlticate tiled in New York county. it WOLF & CUHED CONDITION NT OF TE THE 2 STA‘ PLATE GLASS INSURANCE COMPANY of Philadelphia, Pa., on the Rist day of December, 1895, as’ required by act of Congress, approved July 29, 1892. Cupttal stock... Capital stock paid up: Agents, 926 F st. nw. DE Cash in bank. bonds (a ai ralue) Bills receivable and collateral loans. Promiums uncollected and iu hands agents: Interest due and miscellancous assets... ‘Total assets... Gash capital, Reserve ium Reverve for unpaid Net surplus. Statement of dividerds nnd expenses for six months ending Dec. 31, 1895: Dividends ----- Current expenses. V. SMYTH, Tetatlnt sie BP. Vv. 5 Ty, Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of February, 1896. y. 3. SMYTH, K Notary Publie for the Commanwealth of "Penn. sylvenia, reciding in the City and County of Philadelphia. 1 WG. DUVALL, Agent, 925 F st. nw. STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE GMARD FIRE, INSURANCE COMPANY of Philadelphia, Pa., on the 31st day of December, 1395, required by act of Congress approved July 29, Copital stock... Se eeee $300,000.00 Capital stock peid uj 300,000 00 Cesh in bank. $103,975 16 Real estate. 7,500 00 and mortgages (first len on real estate) 813,910 00 Stocks and bonds (market value) 456,024 17 Bills receivable and collateral re other eee ewe 84,555 5S cmtums uneollect in pM coitites tse 114,927 35 Interest due and accrued on December 31, 1895... Cesh capital... Recerve premium fa Reserve for unpald losses Net surplus. $300,000 00 919,000 34 FINANCIAL. FI RE proof building Vaults PROOF against. burglars We offer 43 uar- in separate, Tocked ‘iron ROOMS for $3 per mo. up. Trunks, 25c. per mo. We pack china and furniture of all kinds for shipment and ship to ANY PART OF THE WORLD. Trust Co.,4 1140 15th st. "Phone 463 for estimate. _ mh30-284 Silsby & Company, BANKERS AND BROKERS, Office, 613 15th st. uw., National Metropolitan Bank building. ‘Telephone 505. Choice Six Per Cent mbi9 nao o| Real Estate In amounts ¢rom $500 upward be bad of ue at par and accrued tn- terest. Why allow your money to Femain Idle when you can get such “gilt edge” investments? A Ine will sccure you our booklet, “‘Oon- corning Loans api Sevestmenta.” W. B. Hibbs & Ca; 1421 F Street. Correspondents of LADENBURG THALMAXN & ©0., Ge6-164 New York. FRANK WILSON BROWN BROKER, 1335 F St. N. W. Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Provisions and Cotton, Direc: private wires to principal cities. Long-~istance telephone 1414. Corresponden's of Messrs. Theo. W. Myers & Co., No. *7 New st., New York, members of the New York Stock Exchange. Jel0-28tt : $1,897,257 19 Statement of, dividends and expems for six months ending Dec. 31, 1 gine Dividends... Vice President. 3. EDWIN F. ME! Subscribed and swo teenth day of February * “GEORGE. W. ary. to before me this Nine- $u6, Capital stock. Capital stock Cash in bark and cffice. Teal catate.. Bords and mortgages (first lien on real estate) ..... 5 Stocks and bonds (market value} Premiums uncollected and in hands of its - agents . Interest and rents December 31, 18% Cash capital... Reserve premium fund. . Reserve for unpaid losses and claims. Net surplus. es E Statement of dividends ‘and expemes for sit months ending December 31, Divid nis + $77,000 00 penses.. 2. 007,107 15 Corrent expens. = . o. ident. E. LANNING, Secretary. Subscribed sworn to before of Febraars. 1896. EDWA! XE Notary Public Kings Co., N. ¥. Ctf. Filed in N. ¥, Go., 5 . C. DUVALL, Agt., me 92 F et. nw. at ANOTHER FEATURE PAPER. Tomorrow's Star W Be Rich in Rending Matter. The following partial list of the special articles to appear in tomorrow's twenty- four-page Star will give an idea of the char- acter of the treat in store for Star readers: WHO WILL IT BE? (Illustrated). A canvass of Congress as to the demo- cratic nomination for the presidency. THE BICYCLE SHOW (illustrated). Scenes and incidents at the interesting exhibition of wheels. IT COST MILLIONS (illustrated). A description of the big battle ship Iowa, which will be launched next week. A SECRET OF THE HEART {ilustrated) A capital story by Howard Fielding, to be published in full tomorrow. NEW TRUCK COMPANY (illustrated). Its home in the northern section of the city. FREAKS IN SLEEVES (illustrated). Ellen Osborn tells of the various forms and how they may be classed. ON THE FRONTIER (illustrated). Sterling Hellig’s letter on smuggling on the Franco-Belgian border, and how it is done. OUR LEARNED FELLOW TOWNSMAN illustrated). An entertaining story, complete, by George Gissing. WHEN HOT WEATHER COMES (llus- trated). Summer gowns for summer girls, and how to get them ready. TORMENTED INDIANS, Civilization and savagery at war in the west. By Geo. H. Harries. GARFIELD'S BULLET. F. G. Carpenter tells how Prof. Bell tried | paiDoPOSoctce to locate it by electricity and why he failed. A TRIP DOWN SOUTH. From the Land of Frost to the Land of Flowers: By a Star staff correspondent. WELCOME TO VISITORS. Plans of the entertainment committee for the C. E. coavention. FASHION IN TEAS, Holmes & Co., 61 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. MEMBERS OF THE N.Y. STOCK EXCHANGE. Receive Accounts and Deposits of Firins, individ- ‘sls, etc., and allow interest on dally balances. Buy and sell for cash of earsy oa marzin at low- gst rate of trterost on “he New York, Vhiladelptla, Chicago” Stock ~ Exchauges, Stocks, nds. Grain, Cotton, etc. WASHINGTON OFFICE, 1515 H ST. N.W. mh2-1m The Union Savings Bank, 1222 F Street N. W. MONEY TO LOAN On approved District real estate ané collateral security. FOUR PER CENT Interest paid on savings deposits. Open until & p.m. on government pay Gays, and Saturday «venings from 6 to & mb5-238d me ine 21m any | The National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Company Of the District of Columbia. OORNER 15TH ST. AND NEW YORK AVE Chartered by special act of Congress, Jan., 1807, and acts of Oct., 1890, and Feb., 1892, CAPITAL: ONE MILLION DOLLARS. SAFE DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT. Rents safes inside burgiar-proof vaults at $5 per annum upward. Secerities, Jewelry, silverware and vnluabler ‘of all kinds in owner's package, trunk or case taken on deposit at moderate cost. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT. Deposits received from TEN CFNTS upward, * and interest allowed on $5 and above. eons money on real estate and collateral eecurity. Sells first-class real estate and other securities in sums of $500 and upwani. TRUST DEPAETMENT. ‘This company is a legal depositors for court and trust funds, and acts as rdministrator, exe ecutor, rececver, assignee, nod executes trusts of all kinds. Wills prepared by a competent attorney in daily attendance. BENJAMIN P. SNYDER, President. TUOMAS HYDE, First Vice President. JAMES M. JOHNSTON, Second Vice Pres, THOMAS R. JONES, Third Vico Pres. E. FRANCIS RIG‘3S, Treasurer. GEORGE HOWARD, Assistant Treasurer, ALBERT L. STURTEVANT, Secretary. T. J. Hodgen & Co., BROKERS AND DEALERS. STOCES, COTTON, GRAIN AND PROVISIONS, Rooms 10 and 11, Corcoran bidg., cor. 15th and F ets, and 605 7th st. nw. OFFICES, Baltimore and Washington. adel CSUs titel CORSUN & MACARTNEY, MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, 1419 F st., Glover bullding. ents of Messrs. Moore & Schley, 80 eS t Bonds, ani Dealers in Governmen Ex Loans. securities ladelpila, and and listed op the exchange of New York, P Boston and Baltimore bought and eold. A specialts mide of Jovestment securities, Dis. and cil local road, Gas, Insurance aoe ‘Tel Stock dealt in. ee American Bell Telephone Stock bought and sold, es 5 Per Cent Loans. We have a supply of mwoncy, practically on- mited, to joan at 5 per cent, requiring oniy first- lass security. nd to borrowers, No delay, the mone; Washington capital, & McLERAN, mb10-tf 1008 F st. Social changes which have been brought | WE TARE AS COLLATERAL AXY LISTED about by the use of bicycles. HANDSOME STONES. An interesting chat by an expert in gems and their qualities. AN ECONOMICAL TOUR. © How England may be seen from a bicycle at a cost of $100. THE TROTTING RECORD. Something about fast horses, and how they acquire speed. BICYCLING AND BASE BALL. ‘The latest news and gossip about popular | O° ®!! reputable pastimes and games. bond in any city of the United States; also old line life insurance policies, syndicate certif- cates, warehouse receipts, real estate erott building. ++ Do}-ef C. T. HAVENNER, ROOMS 9 AND 11, ATLANTIC BUILDING Real E WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE, eal Estate & Stock Broker, Can execute orders in Investment Securities, Stocks, Bonds, Grain or . Cotton Munn, either for CASH or on MAMUTY