Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1896, Page 4

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1896-TWENTY-SIX PAGES. THE EVENING STAR. “WASHINGTON. SATURDAY. ............... April 4, 1896. CROSBY S. NOYES. .Editor. THE EVENING STAR and permanent Family Circulation much more than the combined cf uintion of the other Washington dailies, As a News and Advertising Medium it has no competitor. c7Im order to old delays, on ac- mt of personal absence, letters to ‘THE STAR shoald not be addressed to any individual connected with the office, but simply to THE STAR, or to the Editorial or Business Depart- according to (enor or purpose. More Cloth for the Coat. “Our coat can be no larger than our sup- yiy of cloth will permit’ is about all the arswer vouchzafed those inquisitive people “ko ask our legislative leaders why Con- ess is so stingy as to proper 4pprapria- ms, The answer fails, of course, to sat- A coat that is too small must neces- ily be uncomfortable and if it fit very htly may be depended upon to make its suffering wearer change his tailor. Con- xresvional sentiment is realy strong in x of liberal appropriations for all need- +d public improvements. From all parts of the land «ome demands for such govern- mental expenditures as should in most in- stances have been disbursed long ago. Op- posed to serstbly large appropriations are those who have strange ideas as to party expediency: who imagine that failure to huy somet! ing essential to health and com- fort is economy; who shiver whenever any- the turnip, candls, and sheet bugaboo of “a billion dollar Congress.” The political expediency of liberal appropria- tions and speedy betterment of industrial and commercial conditions do not appeal to seme of those who once had reputations ot large minded courage. Caa they not the sizns of the times? During the past three years all manner necessary public Improvements have one upre: of }een veglected and the constantly growing needs of a steadily expanding country have been ignored, to the end that money might be “saved” and a record for “economy” be made. The folly of such a course must be evident to every intelligent and thoughtful son who gives the subject any consid- ti Business stagnation still afflicts “us, and it will probably continue to afflic so long as the legislative ideas and meth- now in vogue continue to prevail. very dollar spent by the government re- sults in benefit to the individual and the and the greater the number of dol- ¢ disbursed the greater will be benefit. rhe present insufficiency of cloth cannot he urged as an argument in favor of mak- ing 4 hich is too small for him who kas ¢ it. More cloth is procurable, and publicans who control Con- ress are worthy the contidence of the to which they must soon appes ¥ will see to it that the revenue short- shall speedily be succeeded by a sur- of inceme. That would be statesman- the procrastinating Holmanism now inuaily in evidence is demagogy, and mzgozy is dangerous. The coat may be I that the man cannot wear it; in which event the. man may roll up his shirt-sleeves and proceed to assert himself srously. rnment needs revenue, and there for public improvements. The the manly policy, the policy that will be supported at the polls, would to raise more money and spend more money ship: rather v The <ov clamor a ———_+ + + ___ That Wooden Roof. If the Supervising Architect of the Treas- y ever had any lingering doubt as to the impropricty of putting wooden sheathing n the roof of the new city post-office buildiag it must have disappeared when he read—if he did read—the testimony pre- senied in The Star yesterday by the Dis- trict inspector of buildings, the chief of the tire department and the fire marshal. Each looks at the wooden sheathing from his own professional point of view and the nvensus of expert opinion is unanimously verse to the dangerous construction ainst the completion of which there is <o much of protest. The Supervising Archi- tect has the power to so change the plans as to make the building as nearly fireproof ax such @ building may be. He can stop the objectionable construction at any time and substitute for the inflammable material any variet) © many kinds of fireproof roof- ing to be found in the market and common- ly used in the erection of buildings that are ot intended to be used as bonfires. The vst ef making such a desirable change ‘i be but small—hardly worth men- ticning—while the assurances of safety that would result therefrom would have decided value. Supervising architects gen- rrally—and the present official is not an exception—have been willing enough to 1 and otherwise alter the work of sors; no regard whatever being paid to the money which was more fre- auently wasted than saved. If the Super- vising Architect is careless of his reputa- tion he may permit the work of lumber sheathing to continue until either the Sec- tetary of the Treasury or Congress com- pels him to do that which he onght to have done without suggestion. —_+++___ Art In Washington. wo idence of the Increasing interest in art in Washington is furnished by the organ- ization of the Washington Water Color lub. The new association is not to be, as might at first be supposed, in opposition to either the Society of Washington Artists or the Art Students’ League, but is rather a fraternal organization, working, with dif- ferent instrimentalities, but with the same excellent ends !n view,—the promotion, ele- vation and appreciation of art, and partic- ularly of art im Washington. That it will do good service can scarcely be doubted; and whey its efforts and influence are i to those of the two organizations along with the admirable work lene in the same direction by the Corcoran ee Art School, it will be seen that the tional Capital is pretty well supplied with agencies for educating and elevating the public taste. The facilities it will thus afford to art students will be fully equal if not superior to those of any other city in the country. ——— The authorities having in charge the pros- ecution of the cases against the alleged violators of the oleomargarine laws in the District of Columbia will find an article in another column of this issue of The Star which will prove instructive on perusal. ‘There can be no good or valid excuse for further procrastination In the prosecution of these cases and the punishment of those who may be found guilty of the charges tontained in them. SS eee p Imported Contract Labor. The day was when the contract system for the prosecution of public work was, in @ measure, necessary because of the lack of sufficient system in municipal govern- ments to ensure the proper kind of super- vision over day's labor. As the system was then in vogue and regarded as neces- sary in every city of the country, when the present form of government for the District was devised, Congress inserted in the or- ganic law a provision requiring public work to be given out by contract. It is doubtful whether such a provision would be inserted today If the law were to be re-enacted. The gontract system is no longer a necessity, and the question is now raised whether it 4s not rather a positive evil. The commit- tee representing the labor organizations of the District that appeared yesterday before the District Commissioners, presented what was undoubtedly a very strong argument in favor of abolishing.the system. The gang of Italian laborers imported here to work on the Brookland sewer arrived op- portunely, just in time to give an extra point to the views pressed upon the atten- tion of the Commissioners by the commit- tee. The community, the labor committee maintains, can presumably do the work just as cheaply as the contractor, and when it is done it stands a far better chance of being well done. The community, there- | fore, can spend oa the work all that it would pay to the contractor, and putting the prefits to account “it can get better results with practically the same amcunt of super- vision and executive anxiety. If the Com- misstoners had the power te do public work without recourse to the contract system they could control the selection of the workingmen end so prevent the outbursts of properly indiguant sentiment that just now give evidence of deep feeling on the part of the public. Other things being equal, the day’s labor system is preferable to the plan of letting contracts. It may be a debatable question whether Congress should 50 to the other extreme and absolutely for- bid contract work, although the labor com- mittee makes a strong showing to support such a prohibition—but surely there ought to be no delay in repealing the law that Low forbids District officials from having the work done by days’ work when in their judgment such a course would be adv: tageous to the city. The bill drawn up by the labor committee deserves respectful attention. ——___+-e+___ Faith in-the President. President Cieveland’s failure to make publicly known his views on two or three topics in which the multitude is interested is resulting in a great deal of guesswork. Some of it was on exhibition in the House of Representatives yesterday when the Cuban concurrent resolutions were being debated. There having been a <loubting inquiry as to what might be accomplished by the r are not binding upon the chief executive—Chairman Hitt of the Cemmitize on Foreign Affairs, said that he believed “that the President of the United States is not so reereant to his duty as an agent ani servant of the people that he will desregard the vote of the people of the United States as expressed through the House of Representatives and Senate by vast majorities."". That assurance hav- ing been loudly applauded Mr. Hitt pro- ceeded: “The House has already given a majority of 245 upon this question, but it has been null, because, the action of the two houses not being in accord, it has heen in the air; but when these Senate resolu- tions have passed both Houses I have faith that we have a President who will act as the elect of the people of the United States, and not their ‘ruler.’ Therefore 1 say that I believe that the passage of this resolution will secure “the recognition of 2 delligerency of the Cubans.” If Mr. Hitt’s confidence is not misplaced the Cubans may soon hear of something to their advantage. Another instance of faith in the President comes from Hamilton, Ohio. It comes from €x-Governor James E. Campt« ll, who, is occasionally mentioned as the poss nominee of the democratic convention which is to be hell in Chicago next June. Replying to an inquiry made by the New York Journal, the ex-Governor says—spes ing of an episile the President is have prepared—: “I know nothing of ‘he alleged letter nor of Mr. Cleveland's in- tention, but I have too much confidence in him to believe that he desires that which Washington would not have and Grant could not get.” Here we have two examples of trustful- ness; one republican in its abiding place, the other democratic. One of the state- ments is undoubtedly sincere. ———__+e = ____ A Memorial Arch Suggested. When those legislators who are inter- ested in the proposition to erect in this city a memorial to the private soldier who fought for the Union get down to the consideration of details they would do well to consider the idca of a memorial ar suggested by a correspondent. Washirg- ton has statues galore, with more of the same sert to come, but the great triumphal arch {3 missing. It would be difficult for even the greatest sculptor to produce any one figure, or even a group of figures, which would fitly and equitably represent the private soldier of all arms of ihe service. A majestic arch, suitably loc: would fill the bill admirably. —___~seo A man In New York tried to commit suicide because he was behind the times. He was rescued, fortunately, and may yet live to enjoy the congenial arguments of the gentlemen who take it for granted that the District of Colimbia is suppor: at the expense of the government. ——_~++____ In view of the mildness wita which other monopolistic enterprises have been treated by the national authorities, Senator Butler sees no harm in reserving interviews with himself for publication in his own paper. ——__~e-— Major McKinley's friends have appar- ently settled down in a serene confidence that the only question which remains to be settled at the republican convention is as to the vice-presidential candidate. ——__ + ee One of the joys of the season is in-philo- sopaic contemplation of the fact that the baseball crank is not as likely to make trouble as the political crank. —— The predictions that the country will have a red-hot campaign is supplemented by statements that some candidates have money to burn. —+ ¢ =—___ The rather scanty popular interest aroused by Congress this year appear to nave made the matrimonial gossips par- ticularly Mert. —__+ e+__ Several gentlemen are regarding Mr. Hanna with much of the same suspicion that attaches to the boy with a China egg. od Only fifty men were employed upon the city post-office building today. —_—__~e-+____ Au Undoubted Cuban Capital. From the New York Sun. Some of the arguments put forth in Con- gress against according belligerent rights to the Cuban insurgents are fast losing whatever virtue they may once have been thought to possess. It has been urged that the patriots have no capital, and that the seat of government of President Cisneros is in the saddle, pro- tected in Its migrations by the forces of Gomez and Maceo, as it may chance to be nearer the one or the other. But as a fact there exist the most positive assurances that the capital of the Cuban government is established on Cubitas mountain, only about twenty-five miles from Puefto Prin cipe, and that it has been there ever since last autumn. It has no doubt been migra- tory in the sense that when the Cuban armies were operating in the eastern end of the island it was also, of course, tem- porarily established there, and afterward was removed elsewhere in the province of Santiago de Cuba. But with the march of the troops westward the seat of civil gov- ernment has followed. The very fact that rumors have lately sprung up of a pro- posed movement of Spanish troops from Puerto Principe against Cubitas suggests this new question whether the Cuban pa- triots have a capital or not. Up to this time, however, Cubitas has hardly been threatened by Weyler as much as Havana by Gomez. In fact, Spain has not troops enough to prevent the operations of the field forces of the republic, to say nothing of sparing any for a movement against this stronghold. Her purpose 1s perhaps better served, so far as our Congress is concerned. by ignoring the existence of Cubitas, and so lending a shadow of ex- cuse to the few who still cry out that the Cuban cause has no established seat of government. te to THE WEEK. ‘The House of Representatives took up the conference report on the Cuban reso- Ivuons, but Mr. Boutelle prevented action. The New Hampshire republican convention declared for Reed or McKinley for Presi- dent. A series of debates between Secre- tary Smith, for sound money, and ex- Speaker Crisp, representing free coinage, began in Georgia. Gov. Lippitt, republican, received a vote of 28,448, a plurality of 11,278 in the Rhode Island election. Two hundred delegates, representing fifty col- leges, attended the convention of the Re- rublican League in Chicago. Methodist ccnferences in Kansas, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania voted in favor of admitting women as delegates in the general con- ference. In a cloudburst_on Little Sexton creek, near Boonevilie, Ky., a dozen or n.cre p2ople were drowned. Fire destroyed @ part of the business section of Bruns- Wick, Ga., causing a loss of $500,000. The railroads and many towns in northern Wis- consin were blocked with snow. Floods pre- vailed In New York state. Frederick Booth- ‘Tucker, American commander of the Salva- tion army, arrived from Europe. The Su- preme Court decided that parallel and com- reting railroads had no right to consolidat. the Supreme Court also decided that it was not illegal for railroads to charge less for transporting imported than for domestic goods. Ten Italians were suffocated during a fire in a tenement in Brooklyn. Benjamin J. Franklin was nominated for governor of Arizona. A train of the St. Louis and ’Frisco railroad was held up near Lebanon, Mo., and the express car robbed. Suit was filed in Denver, Col., by the interstate com- merce commission, invoking the aid of the jaw to enforce ifs orders against ten west- ern railroads. ‘The Secretary of War sent to the House the report of the survey for a canal connecting Lake Superior with the Mississippi, the cost will range from $7,050,- 000 to $30,000,000. A score or more of the leading steel manufacturers met in New York and formed an association for pro- tection of their interests. The coroner's jury In Philadelphia held Samuel P. Lang- don for the action of the grand jury in con- rection with the death of Anna McGrath, the nineteen-year-old typewriter, who was found dead. The shaft of the monument to Washington at Wakefield, Va., his dirth- place, was placed in position. The deaths included Frederick A. Humphries, said to have been the oldest Free Mason in the United States; Burt Van Horn, ex-memeber of Congress, and T. O. Barbour, treasurer of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Com- pany. Foreign. The French senate refused to vote con- fidence in the government in its policy toward Egypt: the ministry decided to re- tezin in office. China consented to enter the postal union. T. Simon Sam was elect- ed president of Haytl. President Crespo ot Venezuela issued a decree, directing the erection of a bronze column at Caracas, in nor of Americans who took part in the Venezuelan struggle for independence. The commission to bring about peace in Nic: ragua failed, and hostilities are to be re- sured. Five Cuban insurgents were pub- ly tortured to death by-the garrote in the di executioners in Havana. > were received of the arrival at Cuba of another filibustering expedition, making the seventh expedition from the United States to reach the island. In the District. The Commissioners reported to the Sen- ate District committee a plan for street all of UBS :s- mnibus" bill; by this plan the etion, Metropolitan, Ee and E htwood 1 the Zoo by Other street railway extension bi introlu n the two houses of Congr. There wa3 a hearirg before the House D's- trict committee on the question of the best location for the farmers’ marke! also on the proposed ng commission bill. Senator McMilla airman of the Senate committee, forming them that there would be extension bills considered hy stee pending the decision of courts on the highway act. Indictments were found by the grand jury against Walter P. and Joseph Wilkins, dealers in oleymargar: charged with vivlating the law of that product. There was an outhurst of indignation when it was learned that the contractor from Pennsylvania who secured the job of building the Brookland sewer had imported a large number of Italian 1 borers, to the exclusion ef local working- men. Daniel Beach, an iron worker on the city post office building, fell from the third story and fractured his skull; attention was called anew to the lack of proto-tive devices, and also to the use of inflammable material ir the root of the building. ‘The question of a site for the new printing of- fice caused a serious dispute in the House committec on public buildings and grounds, and opposition to the bill recently reported was foreshadowed. Bishop Satterlee preached His initial sermons in the new dio- cese Sunday. There was a development of the moveirent to secure the selection of this city as the site for the proposel con- federate memorial hall. The Union Reput lican Club became disorganized through the withdrawal of many members on ac- count of differences of opinion regarding the financial management of the club. Libel charges were filed against James F. Rule, correspondent of the Knoxville Jou 1, by Representative Franklin Bartleit of New York, and Dr. Wm. A. Hammond by Dr. Mahlon Hutchinson; Mr. Rule was held for the grand jury. The trial of John Lucas for the murder of Oliver Taylor, both col- cred, was begun. Frank Stewart, fourteen the local roads, embodying their tions in an nugton ra rote to the Commissioners in- treet ommit- years old, was crushed to death by a street car while riding a_ bicycle. Rey Dr. Thomas G. Addison, for many years rector of Tririty pai died Friday morning, at d Seaton Morroe, a well-known Washington- jan, Friday night. ———_+ e +_. SHOOTE The Point of Similarity. “That poem of vours,”’ remarked the flip- pant person, “reminds me of ‘Spenser's Faery Queen.’ "* But,” said the aspiring writer, “you told me yesterday that you had never read the ‘Paery Queen.’ ” ves. That's why your poem reminds me of it.” A Maxim Misapplied. How oft to Folly may the wise ‘Their well-mesnt teachings lend. Procrastination smiles and sighs, “It’s ne’er too late to mend. Regalar. “I am very regular in my atieadance at church,” gaid the worldly young man. “Indeed?” I go every Easter.” Litera Come, friend, with me; T tell you true, I have a bone 2 To pick with yon. The shad his charm Does now renew— , © I have a bone To pick with you. A Different Case. , The artist had a worried look on his face. He painted out his work many times and labored on with a patient determination which surprised his friend. “You seem to have reformed your method,” was the comment which his ex- traordinary care evoked. “You mean I am taking more pains than nal with this picture.” “Well, I have to. This isn’t any master- piece that I can do just as I please wit It's a pot-boiler, and it brings in money. Strange Specimens. The balmy atmosphere once more Invites to botanizing, And we shall make, e’er spring is o'er, Discoveries surprising. u Let others prose o’er orchids rare, Or turn a rural sonnet; We find the freaks that thrill us there Upon her Faster bonnet. —___+ e+ ___. Mr. Hitt's Speech. From the Baltimore American, ’ Mr. Hitt's speech on the Cuban question yesterday was one of the very best and one of the fairest made on that subject. Its conclusions are incontestible. The Span- jards themselves have furnished more than enough testimony to justfy the recognition of the insurgents, . BON MARCHE, eX 314 and 316 7th St. MONDAY’S DRIVES. Monday being a holiday we propose to celebraie It by the offering of a number of extraordinary barscins. ‘The greatest drives will be in Ligings, Notions end Dress Trim- mings. Wise shoppers should rot fail to lay in a supply of these three Mnes, as it is not ilkety!' Ut such low prices will Prevail again: , 7 LININGS. Best Dressmakers’ Cambric, per yard. 3Ce 0c. Silesiaa, black and colors... O14C- Best Leno, black aud gray........- 3c. ._Hard-rattle Percaline . Wire Fiber Skirt Stiffening.. . Fast Black Fintshed Percaline . Bengaline Skirt Stiffening. Crinoline (splendid for ning: dresses)... . ge. 124%c. ek and Park o>4'3 5c. black ce 12 y% Cc. - Genuine Haircloth. . All-linen Cany: Genuine Haircloth, 16c, Fast Black Figured Sitesias..HHI4 Ce NOTIONS. all "OVC, mgc. Se. Belting, silk stitched (per stripy..4/Ce 12e. Seam Binding, piece... Ize, Bone plece .. colors, Casing, silk stitched, 10c. Whalebones, per dozen. Ge. P. & B. Dress Facing, per yd..... 3Ce 8c. Basting Cotton, per spool........5 1c. 10e. Pearl Buttons, 2 doz. on card.... 5+ r piece. 4Ee 10e. Feather-stit Trimmings We bought the large Importer’s stock of Dress Trimmings, ete., at a big concession, and propose to let you have them at bulf what you will be charged abont towa art of a retiring 1,200 yds. of Fine Jet and Silk sings and ¥ orth 15, 1 Jet Kand Trim- 10° - oper yd. Cc. Fine ind SI ming. Worth 15 a Only. Tha Enainvled, Persian, Miniat Imported Dresden, Rhineétone and large sizes. each. On MARCHE, 314 & 316 7th St. It CRSCHE PESTS SHOTETZIEIFESIOD ‘Euchre ‘Parties AN be provided with the choi est of Creams in all kinds of quaint and original molds, In- dividual cards a specialty. efally packed panctually delivered. "Phone 1000. T. JARVIS, Cntcctioner 426 Ninth Street NNN Ne ee Bradbury Plano. Warerooms, 1235 Penn. ave. How beautifully and har- moniously does the rich, mel- low tone of the Bradbury blend with the human voice. It was one of two grand thoughts of the inventor to make a piano to accompany singers. That he succeeded is } attested by hundreds of the most celebrated vocalists who will use no other. And the tone of the Brad- bury is good forever—improv- ¢ ing with age. If you have an old square, write or call to see us about exchanging it for a new up- right. We will allow you its full value and let first payment. Bradbury Factory Ware Rooms, 1225 Pa. Avenue. FREEBORN THE W. BP. VAD KLE, ‘Manager. it ON Oe be your infacturer, =~ aaa ee $4.78 Trunk. It Is a better Trunk than you think, It is as strong as any $6.50 Trunk we have ever sid. It was simply a plece of good fortune that we are enabled to offer it for that price. It Is canvas covered, has fiat t sheet-Iron bottom, 3 heavy steel hinges, reinforced strips, heavy steel clamps, heavy lock bolt, ‘Excel- sior’” lock, heavy hard-wood cleats, full covered tray--muslin lined throughout. 28-in. 30-11 ¥, in. 34-In. 36-In. HT $5.25 $5.75 $6.25 $6.75 (Krezssi, 425 7th Street. d OEE en Bursting buds and blossoms abound. Every beautiful flower and every stately plant produced by na- ture can be seen at the store of A. Gude & Bro., 1224 F St. Fragrantly fresh and moderately priced. a4-12d Get In Tonight. Lower prices all through for Eas- ter Cards, Novelties, Booklets, &c. Beauties every one. C.C. Pursell, 418 oth St. apt-1éd * Mattings. SPP DDG PPM 0-4 rid oredr decidir Absolutely free credit. Don’t Deny Yourself and family the com- forts that make home enjoy- able. If you’re short of cash and have a housefurnishing need come to us. Weill will- ingly credit you for any amount and allow you to ar- Tange the terms to suit your convenience. Small prices for cash elsewhere— smuller for cash or ergiit here. Come in any time and make your selections, Baby Carriage, @." ideboard, “2." $9.5! Bedroom suite, 2"," $14.5 Newest and neatest Mattings. RUDDEN’S Credit House, 513 7th St, apt-5od Dee ORO Raff’s Enterprise, 1239-1241 1th St. S. E. 1,000 Pairs of Feet CAN BE FITTED AT OUR Special Shoe Sale this week. We have closed out the entire stock of an eastern jobber. He handied but the best makes only. We took all he had und intend to offer them to Wash- ington at prices anattainable by com- petition. If you come you'll want to sce them—and if you see them you'll buy. 400 pairs of Men's Bals. and Congress Shoes, $2 und $1.50 quality. 89c. pairs Misses’ Dongola Spring Heel Shoes, $1.25 quality. 6gc. 100 pairs Boys’ and Youths’ Kusset Shoes, $2 auolity. $1.19. 50 pairs of Men's Russet Shoes, $3 quality. $1.69. 300 pairs Ladies’ Common Sense and Opera ‘Toe Shoes, buttou or Ince, $2 and $1.50 quality. 98c. pairs Ladies’ Buttcn Shoes, $ 75¢ and Youths’ Lace quality. pairs Bi quality. Dress Goods. Colored Figured Novelty Goods $1 Black Sicilts $1 All-wool Se $1 Camel's Hai $1 White $1 $1 Chenille Coy #2 Vortieres, 3 5c. Turke 20c. Huck Towel $1 Ladies’ Shirt Waists. $1.50 Ladies’ Shirt Waists. ‘Tse. Ladies’ rale Wrappers. $1 Ladies’ Navy Blue Wrappers. hades. : i . Corded: Sikes Toys’ Pe Outing Waists, 1 Waists. ->| Rafi’s Enterprise, 1239-1241 11th St. S. B.. TAKE CABLE OR ANACOSTIA CAR. It ‘Rain, Snow and Windy Weather { prove that winter isn't _ . Almond [(ite'Srer set. on Still 5 need our ALMOND and and GLYCERINE CREAM. ‘These “cold snaps make “t ne (igentinls gid face: red and “Ce: rough. A Iittle of our Glycerine | esa eu them to their usnal_ soft- Cream, |ness and whiteness, Free ? |from grease. Swectly perfumed. Only 25e. bot- 25¢. tle. OGRAIVS 'wo Drug Stores, }7f 3nd fave. aps-28a Amusements At “‘Droop’s.” Our Patron’ and the Public are confially invited to visit our NEW and SPACIOUS MUSIC WARE- ROOMS, where we have on exhibition and for sale the LARGEST AND MOST VARIED ASSORTMENT OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS fn the city, com- prising products of the best makers of PIANOS AND ORGANS, MANDOLINS, : GUITARS, BANJOS, VIOLINS, FLUTES, CORNETS, MUSIC BO: XES, TNA, To all cash customers during next week we will allow a discount of 15 per cent. Our goods are all marked plainly and prices are already the lowest. It will be worth your while to visit us. THIS SPECIAL OFFER HOLDS GOOD ONLY DURING ASTER WEEK at DROOP’S, NEW STEINWAY PIANO PARLORS, 925 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. Free Orchestrion and Electric Piano Concerts dally from 3 to 6 p.m., beginning Monday, April 6. t J. T. WALKER SONS, 204 10TH ST. N.W., CAR- vinta Bushes Lime, Gemeat tre ace ree: 8, : it, three: ply Roofing Material. eos sel Woodward -. Lothrop, toth, 11th and F Sts. N. W. —— Monday, April Sixth, Special Display and Sale of Spring and Summer Upholstery, Decorative Stuffs, Lace Curtains, &c. Time has come for thinking over refixing and refurnishing. We are grandly ready to serve you. The splendid spring assortments, in all their newness and brightness, in which are the latest styles and novelties, are nearer to the ideal in all that pertains to a perfect stock than in any season gone. Correct in quality and style, bountiful in variety and more than or- dinarily attractive from the price point of view. Lace Curtains. No less than two hundred and fifty styles and de- signs in Lace Cartains, «from the ‘Nettingham, through the. various intermediate grades, to the Real Lace. Nottingham Curtains, 3% yards long, 54 inches wide. Per pair..... aS = $1.35 ‘Tamboured Muslin Cartains, 3 yards long, 50 inches wide. Per pair. Antique Lace Curtains, 8 yards long, wide. Per patr. + -$3.00 Irish Point Curtains, 3% yards long, 54 inches wide. Per palr.. + -$4.00 Tamboured Lace Curtains, 3% yards long, 34 inches wide. Per pair. $425 Brussels Lace Curtains, 3% yards long, 54 inches wide. Per pair. a5 + $8.00 Fancy Denim Curtains, 3 yards long, 36 inches wide. Especially desirable for bed rooms. Per pair . 5 + -$3.00 Sash Curtain Muslins. All the newest designs in Curtain Musing, 20, ‘36, 45 and 50 inches wide. Per yard, up from .12!4e. Fish Nets for Curtains. The newest thing. Per yard, up from ... -12%e. Be. Fringes. Ap cntirely new assortment in spring colorings, suitable for trimming mantel scarfs, tidies, window draperies, &c. Cotten Ball Fringe. Per yard. Silk Tassel Fringe. Per yard. Better Fringes up to. Rug Fringe. Per yand Furniture Fringe. Per yard, up from. Table Covers. 6-4 Tapestry, up from. 6-4 Chenille, up from, Other sizes’ in Tapestry aud Chenille at propor. tionate prices. Fancy Covers in Denim, Japanese Crepe, Silk, Velour and Velvet. Felts. 724nch Felt for fancy work. AM shades. yard Folding Screens. ‘Twenty shapes, styles and sizes, mounted in silkaline, denim, burlap, tapestry aud eretonne. An especially good 3-fold Screen, 5 feet hich, mounted in silkaline, at Single Panel Fire Screens, mounted. Per + $1.90 Drapery Materials. New and artistic colorings and combinations in Better up to.. 0-Inch Tapestry, Jute Cotton De Derby, Brocatelle, &e. Per yard, up from. Denims for Curtains and inches wide. Per rd, up from. Tapestry Porticres. 8 yards long per pair. Better, up to.. Cotton and Silk Portiere: 3 yarns long, Better, up to. Rugs. Rests Japanese Jute Russ, Japanese Inte Rugs, x12 fect. Each Other sizes at proportionate prices. Window Shades. Oil Opaque Shades, 3x6 feet. Each... +2 In addition to the above we have a complete line of Silkalines, Cre- tonnes, Sateens, Japanese Crepes, Curtain Poles—everything that should be found in a first-class Upholstery Store. We submit without charge estimates and carefully executed de- signs for furnishing hotels and private residences with hangings, drap- eries, etc.; also window shades, slip covers, window and door screens, parquetry flooring, etc. We clean lace curtains and blankets perfectly. (th feor soseessDIth st, tmilding.) Black Dress Goods. Rich and elegant, suitable for nearly all occasions. Very interesting is our new stock of blacks. Whatever the style demands is here in the fullest assortment—hundreds of patterns and genuinely new goods. New weaves, foreign novelties that were made to our order, by the yard and in Single Dress Lengths, including Mozambiques, Armures, Soliels, Ben- galines, Crepons, Grenadines, Cheviots, Granites, Serges and a splendid variety of the lustrous, silk-like Mohairs, which are among the most fash- ionable fabrics this season. Every help to the satisfactory buying of Black Goods is given you here. A room exclusively for Blacks, with its flood of mellow da light, affords the most gratifying results. Mohair Brilliantine. yard. yard. yard -inch, high luster, per yard. Sa-inch, per yard. Gtinch, per yard. Mohair Sicilian. 42-Inch, S4-inch, 45-inch, 52-inch, 48-inch, 64-inch, 56-inch, 56-inch, Mohair Serge. 48-inch, per yan. DS2-inch, per yard. Mohair Florentine. 48-inch, per yard S24nch, per yard. Mohair Granada. yard yard, yard... yard... 45-inch, per 46-inch, per 4H-inch, per 48-inch, per Mohair Jacquard. 38-inch, per yard. M%-inch, per yard. 45-inch, Siclilan, per yard. ich, Sicilian, per yard. ch, Brilliartine, per yard. All-wool Storr’ Serge. 37-inch, per yard. 400, per yard. Be. per yard. fie per The per =Te per $1.00 (ist floor. . Colored ness Goods. All-wool Armure Serge. : 45-inch, 59-inch, 60-inch, f9-fach, 69-inch, 69-inch, 60-Inch, per per y per per per ber yard, Cravenette, per yard All-wool Granite Weaves. lich, special ot fnch, per yard. S0-iuch, per yard. TO-fueh, figured, per Plain Crepons. 45-inch Mohair, per yard. 48-inch All Woel, per yurd 444inech § per yard. 48-Inch per yard. 45-inch Silk and Woo}, per Crepons. Faney 6-toch 45-inch 43-inch #-Aneh, 45-inch Striped, per yard. Striped, per yard. ir, per yard. Mohair, per yard. #-toch Vigured and Striped, per yard. 45-inch Silk and Wool, stripes, checks, dines, ae. quards, per yard. ards, per yurd WAnch Fixures, Stripes, &e., per vard. 42-inch Armure Fancles, per yard... i A large awortment of Faucies in All Woul, sil aud Wool avd Mohair and Wool, per yard, F125 Same, better g-ades, up to. Etamine. A new light-weight fabric, rough surface, apom mesh, plain and fancy, per yard. $1.50 etter 09 -Annex to 10¢h st. Wntlding.) An elegant and extensive ensemble of everything correct in novelty textiles; also a wonderfully choice grouping of the medium and lower priced fabrics. For Monday the Following Special Value: ' Silk and Wool Heather Mixtures In the latest 1896 designs and mest desirable color ings. Look like the very expensive kind. 2sc. the Yard. Regular 37’c. Quality. (ist Boor... esas -10tb st. building.» Health and Breakfast Food Exhibit—Fifth Fioor. Woodward & Lothrop.