Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1896, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES. Wilmarth & Edmonston, 1205 Pa. Ave. Refrigerator time in earnest. If you are going to buy a mew one this year sure to see our line, which is certainly the largest and most varied in town. All are worthy, too—worthy cf your buying, for we have found them to be the best to be be Jewett’s “Labrador” —with all the ‘96 improvements. Made of oak, with handsome finish, and are noted for econ- omy of ice and refrigerating qualities. : $12.75 to $35. | The ‘Read Odoriless” Onions, cantaloupe, fish, but- ter, milk (the two latter in open vessels) can be put in the “Read” together and the odors will not Waterman Refrigerators. | Slate stone | Charcoal packed. -$18.50 to $15.00 - $23.00 to S18. be imparted to the other. We guarantee this. Such is made rson Dining possible by the new system of reduced from ventilation. $17.59, $20, $25 & $27. The Boston Hygieni A Fine High-grade Refrigerator. removable. $22.50 to $85. WILMARTH & EDMONSTON, ivania Avenue. C. All compartments separate Pennsy Auction Sale. | Enjoyable ses at the Frie atomceea & School. signee Sale. The Frien is’ Me House, on I street, count Sale. was filled to overflowing Friday morning with the parents and friends of the stu- aa Scare CoOM EE NT TeL ESE dents, whe had been invited to attend the re cons 5 of my: tches of mous Literary persons ‘and scenes and alogues from their nicst popular books. he building was beautifully decorated | with 1 flowers, and the boys and ‘girls. with the Teauty and freshn he- longing to youth, were a delightful sight to to the oer sent. The fact of the school be coeducational and for all z r ible to give a widely taken of ume ited Drs chool to depart- folks fiom Have ma m, and and k at my en Jackanapes prices, as they wer the now. | . the general. = oe | annie Hume as Rebecca, protect- } self scrrewhat frem mis les by a Tr from her tower win- nting a most ° ie 9 ppearance, and : lotion of the besiezement was ex- MANUFACTURING JEWELER, realistt. The wounded Ivanhoe, ¢ t mated b: Mr. George Gould Lin- ¥ coln, lay on a couch n r by, and eagerly 1012 F Street, | cr, leren x coun near ir, and exgerty rz Opposite Boston House. see, and chafed in true knightly style at —— ee bis inability to aid In the st gle going on for his deliverance. Patsy's visit to the kindergarten, given by Mrs. Kirkland and Frank Bennett, fur- nished an iy the free kindergarten ts Wretchedly poor children. “The Ruggles’ Dinner Party" was | by Mis girl r a clear interpretation of ker part, together doing for the Elphonzo Youngs Co. One dollar for four pounds of finest Elgin Creamery Butter—direct | with the good work of the otiers in the from one of the most celebrated | scene. made this a delightful conclusion to n interesting occasion. — PROVIDENCE AND A PISTOL. creameries in Elgin, Illinois, whos entire output we control. We guar- antee it the finest that can be had, no matter what the price is. A Somewhat Remarkable Story With a Moral Tenching. A half dozen or so men were sitting out Gentine Vernbut Maple Sear tnd tires |i front of an up-town hotel the other for which we have become celebrated. | evening telling stories, and a Star reporter was taking them all in with an avidity reculiar to his class. Elphonzo Youngs Co., “When I was twenty-ore,” said a tall Tjan, evidently from a southern state, “I Wh 1 Retail Grocers, had an ungovernable temper, and a half- brother three years older than myself. We Were both church members, but that didn't seem to bring us any closer together, for he was a Methodist ard I was a Baptist. You may have observed,” he threw in as a deco- ration to the story, “that Christian charity and brotherly love don't always thrive on Genominational feed. Howev ry, as I was | S«ying, we were of different denominations, | and we got along fairly well together until 428 Ninth St. bet. D and E. + atest Invention of; the Age. ler Johnson and Co.’s Preserver and Restorer | ‘in e ly the {Iv | GET THE BEST— | e“Concord Harness.” | 9, We began arguing on our respective faiths, Then we got hot, and I always lost my I may say that he did very nea ‘ame, but he wasn't quite as bad as as in that regar “One day we were out hunting with only cne gun, a squirrel rifle, between us, and I bad the gun. I may add here that we lived on farm, and a one-gun hunting party Was not at all unusual. We had sat down cn a rock near the edge of a stream to c nuine Concord | rest, and in some way I slipped and went Harress is st fr and trade | into the water. It mad mad to begin Bo al = a ie with, and when he be chafling me and Li TZ & Bi M) | telling me that a Baptist ought to he used W © Didar | to a little thing lke t I got ten times 49T PA. AVE. N.W., | and hit him a lick’ in the face. He Adj cal Hotel. | tan off a few yards and picked up a me and Satchels of the best eres boulder about as big as your double fist, lowest price while I made a grab for the gun, which I had set up against a willow under the hank, “Of course, we did not know what we were doing by this time; only I remember of telling him ff he raised his hand to throw the stone I'd shoot him. He was nervy. though, and I hadn't more than got the words out of my mouth than he let the boulder come at me, and, true to ny word, I banged away at him.’ We weren't forty feet apart, and it was a stand-off be- tween the boulder and the bullet as to which was the more dangerous, but Provi- dence, I reckon, was watching over us, for as I fired the boulder flew into a dozen pieces, and both of us wereeleft standing looking at each other in a dazed, helpl kind of a way. Then, still n6t understan ing what had happened, but realizing how early our tempers had brought us to Trees and Paper. bloodshed, we rushed into each other's the Rumford Falls Times. ms and began erying over each other. z c 7 : : “When we had got over the exciteniont With the advent of the railroad and in-} 9:4 collected our wits sufficiently to make ention ef wood pulp, the uses of the spruce} an inv ‘stigation, we disc ered that by have been changed or enlarged, and so| the merest. chance—by {providential inser- cones @ man-| ference, I mean—my bullet and his boulder : Me en ee ee man" | had metibe thelr, Hightiand nullified: ea6h of getting it from the forest to the! other. On one plece of the broken atone we irket has changed The logs are now | found the blue mark of the bullet, and In ded onto cars in the forests and hauled! another place we found the battered bul- ry mill doors, where they are con-| jet. He took the bullet and I took the 1 into pulp and paper. During the | picce of marked stone, and we have kept esent winter logs have been hauled to the | trem to this day as sacred souvenirs, and Rumford Falls Paper Company's mill, ¢: as very potent reminders never to discuss verted into paper, shipped to distant cit our respective beliefs. I'm just as strong a where it is used by some of the leading dai: | Baptist as ever, and he 1s equally a Meth. ly papers, printed, returned, and read by | ¢ put we both believé that greater than the camp’s crew where the lumber was cut Baptist or Methodist is the Provi- within a fortnight from the t'me the tree was cut in the forest. Such Is the effect of e that watches over us all.” = +. the progress of civilization upon this branch of business. Only a few years a: Marriage Licenses, ven now, in remote sections, where rail- Marriage licenses have been issued to the roads have not reached, one year is reck- , ot regen ad one sear is tecle | following: William Ross and Hattie Harris; ened on to get e lumber to market, id it a = y . fometimes takes two years to run the lum- Bank eS wybite eng — Be WCCE Ce ber out of the stream to the main river. Franklin Beavin of Crownsville, Md., and spiel ae Alexandra G. Dawson of this city; Daniel PEST EE A. Triplett and Bettie Green. < . ————__—_ For Sale and Partition, Louise E. Perkins, widow of Bishop W. & Perkins, and her two daughters today filed exer- | a petition for the sale and partition of lots wW, 91, 92, 08 and 94, square 150, PRESCRIPTION 4387, FOR Rheumatism. apiS-Ims From Vanity. Miss Vernon—“Of course, Mr. Wilkins Mr. Wilkins—“No; I only dress f The trouble of putting on my suit is @ise enough for me.” yeu play golf, 1. OWED THE B. AND 0. An Analysis of the Debit and Credit Columns. NOT AN ENCOURAGING SHOWING Reorganization Committee Holds a Meeting in Baltimore. OTHER RAILROAD MATTERS The Baltimore and Ohio reorganization committee held a meeting Friday in Baltimore, the first since the committee re- ceived a letter from Receiver Cowen, stat- ing the willingness of the receivers to al- low the committee to employ an expert to examine the books of the Baltimore and Ohio company. After the adjournment one of the mem- bers of the committee said to a Star re- in response to questions, that no was transacted at the meeting, but that “the committee had been able to get down to the facts in reference to many of the deals made by those acting for the B. and O. during the years 1585-96, and thay, while the transactions so far touched upon do not disclose anything criminal, they re- Veal a state of mismanagement which is appalling.” i Conunuing, the banker said: “Up to this Ume the BaNimore anc Ohio Railroad Com- pany has detauited on ail bonds whose cou- pons have matured, except the extended 4s und the cquipment bonds. “The following roads in the system paid the maturing coupons: West Virginia and Pittsburg. paid coupon due April 1; Pitts- burg, Cleveland and ‘Toledo paid ‘coupon maturing April 1 on Pittsburg, C eland and Toledo first mortgage 6s; Cleveland Terminal and Valley raiiroad paid coupon cue May 1 on Cleveland Terminal and Valley railroad first mortgage 4. The following bonds have defaulted and the coupons remain unpaid or unpureh Pittsburg and Western second mortgage ie coupon due May 1, and Newark, Somerset and raitsville first mortgage extended ds, coupon due May 1. In the of the Pitts- burg and Western second mortgage 5s, it is provided that, on default for six montis, the trustee, the Mereantile Trust Company of New York, shall, upen request of the holders of a majority of the bonds, take possession, operate and sell the property as ted. le matured coupons upon which de- fault has been made and which have t purchased by bankers are as follows: Baring Bros., London, coupons due Mar 4 on Baltimore and Ohio sterling by J. S. Morgan & Co., London, and J. P. Morgan & Co., New pons due April 1, 1 Par branch 6s, and coupor ay 1,1 Baltimore and Ohio Brown Bros. & C and Brown, . coupons due April ah on Philadelphia branch 4 and coupons due May 1 on Baltimore Belt 5s; by Speyer & Co., New Y. id London, cou- s due March 1, 1 on Central Ohio rig: p AY Messrs. Sp r& Co, ve notice that they will purchase the coupons due Avgust 1, 1896, on Baltimore and Ohio 5s of 1925, if not paid by the com- rany; by V » & Co., coupons due May 1, 1896, on Akron and Chicago junction first mor| Shown. “When the Baltimere ard Ohio Railroad Company went into the hi of re I remarked that there would be no de ments of 1c ttennes: rs lop- . as in the case of the ading, Atchison and such cther r nt kruptcies, and still think that ht in this. opin‘on I do not that ever befere have bankers brought out loans beer so irg in the event of the placed in tre hands of rec forward end buy the coupons, prior Hen bonds, but aiso of junior tssue: which may possibly under reorganization be compelled to make corcessions. I think this shows great faith In the Baltimore and Ohio property and also an expectation that the company will be able to pull through its difficulties without any very great sac- ces on the part of the security holders. “Of course the purchase of coupons on defaulted bonds by some half dozen differ- ent banking houses has other significance than faith in the solvency of the Baltimore and Ohio ccmpary. These bankers are not united in an effort to preserve the property as a whole, but rather for the protection of separate interests, and for the enforcing of rights which such individual securities may possess or which they are supposed to possess. “In looking over the details and provis- ions cf tne several mortgages, it is seen that there are some conflicting issues. For instance, the mortgage securing the Balti- more and Ohio 5s of 1925 (Pittsburg and Connellsvilie) declares that these bonds are entitled to the same security given by any subsequent mcrtg: ge. This was in 18S5. In 1889 the consolidated mortgage 5s were issued, but in this mortgage the pari passu lien of the bonds issued under the mort- gage of 1885 is Ignored. Again, in the con- solidated 1 ortgage of 1887, among other security mentioned, ate all lands, etc., along sali railroads ccrrected with the business thereof, except those for the gen- eral offices in Baltimore, all appurtenances, rolling stock, franchises, etc. And yet, in 1891, the Terminal mortgage, covering lands, ete., along the line of the road, was issued, and there may be a contest be- tween these interests. “These difficulties are, Lowever, small in comparison: with the threatening aspect of the complication with reads which have been acquired and underwritten by the Baltimore and Okio company in recent years, and which, according to railroad ex- perts, have sapped the life out of the pa- rent stem. property being to come not only of Owe the B. and 0. “The West Virginia and Pittsburg, for in- stance, whose $4,000,000 bonds the Balti- more and Ohio company was persuaded to indorse, 1s ostensibly being worked at 40 per cent of gross earnings, and thereby made to show that the road is earning its paid charges and is self-supporting. The facts are that the Baltimore and Ohio has been compelled to assist the West Virginia and Pittsburg company, and that road owed the Baltimore‘and Ohio when it was placed in the hands of a receiver more than $175,000, I presume this debt is still owing, notwithstanding the West Virginia and Pittsburg company paid the coupon due April 1. “The Pittsburg and Western system also owes the Baltimore and Ohio over $2,000,000, The notes of these and other companies held by the Baltimore and Ohio were indorsed by the Baltimore and Ohio, securities held in the treasury of the com- pany were used to secure the same, and the notes thus protected were discounted by various banks and bankers, and now form a portion of the Baltimore and Ohio's floating debt. These transactions were en- tirely legitimate, and I only mention them to show that the Pittsburg and Western, the West Virginia and Pittsburg and other such schemes were unprofitable and ill-advised. “The position of the Pittsburg and West- ern division is very interesting, and there are some financiers who declare that the Baltimore and Ohio was most thoroughly taken in when it purchased the majority of the capital stock of that company and tried to carry it. Mr. King, the late president of that company, is now receiver of it, and is still expressing himself very favorably about its prospects, ete., but great disap- pointment is bound to follow, as that little system, extending from Pittsburg to Chi- cago Junction, cannot carry its load of debt, notwithstanding the fact that they own seven miles of water front at Alle- gheny City, opposite Pittsburg. “There are $10,000,000 first mortgage 4's which cover the terminal property, and about 70 miles of valuable and 130 miles of narrow gauge. In addition to that, there is a second mortgage of $3,500,000, of which over $2,000,000 are issued, and about $1,000- 000 car trust bonds. The firsts were placed by Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., and will probably be well looked after. “The Pittsburg, Cleveland and Toledo has $30,000 per mile first mortgage bonds, which 1s about all it is worth, although the books have probably been kept in favor of the Pittsburg, Cleveland and Toledo, because it was intended to make an attempt to float a second mortgage on that property, and it was necessary to show surplus earnings in order to accomplish that fact. “The Pittsburg, Painesville and Fairport is a small property with a fair harbor, but without any earnings of its own account. “The Akron aud Chicago Junction, con- necting the Pittsburg, Cleveland and T, ledo with the Chicago division of the B. and O., is of little value in case the Pittsburg and Wé¢stern should be separated from the B. and! O., and if the system is kept together it may have to make some concessions, as the line commands no busi- ness of its own. Other) Acquisitions, “The last acquisition of the B. and O. system, the Cleveland Terminal and Valley railroad, the successor company to the old Valley of Ohio, is one of the companies which was not,put into the hands of a re- ceiver. This was probably done to protect the banking house which had taken the new 4 per cent; bonds of that company, guaranteed by the B. and O. at a very high price, and who have not succeeded in ais- posing of them to the public. “The interest on West Virginia and Pitts- burg 5's was paid on April 1, to the great surprise of a good many people. The com- pany is bonded for $25,000 per mile, on whica the Baltimore and Ohio guarantees the interest. The road is being operated for about 40 per cent, and shows its intcrest charges earned, but it certainly must get a very” large arbitrary, probably getting double mileage, or it could not earn its 5 s. Main line bondholders would be quite apt to object ‘to the keeping of this arbitrary. “Before the Baltimore and Ohio ts ready to be reorganized it will undoubtedly be de- veloped where the mistakes of management have been made, and where and how large sums have been expended and sunk. “It is most desirable that the Baltimore and Ohio should be reorganized, if to: sible, without foreclosure, but it is imper tive that all embarrassing and nsive complications shall be eliminated. The above are not the only ones.” Other Matters, It is stated that Baltimore i: vestors are awaiting the issuing of receivers’ certifi- cates to cover the cost of rew equip- ment and other improvements for the road. The issue will be made as car-trust cer- tificates, authorized by the court and in- d by the receive It will consist of 400,000 to run thre $ or only two ye ye if they can he id off in that time, and will bear 6 per cent interest. Should the receivership be ended before the ma- turity of the certificates the oruer of the court granting authority to issue thei would guarantee their payment by who- r might bo in control of the road. A meeting of te board of control of t pint Traflic ‘ociation was held in New inci object: of the meeting was, tated, lo see if a hgements could not be made to stop utting of rates, which, it was alleged, was being done by the Norfclk and West. ern, Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton and one or two other lines. After the adjourn- ment announcement wis made that the representatives of the N. and W. and C., H. and D. had agreed that their companies would stand with the other mem}! the association in the maintenance of r It is reported that Gereral nag Greene of the Baltimore and Ohio is about to issue orders for the removal of'the car record department from Camden. station, Baltimore, where it has been located for many years to Brunswick, Md. as IN CON DISTRICT ERESS. The Von Essen Bequest. Senator Gallinger has reported favorably from the District committee the Dill to es- tablish harbor regulations for the District of Colu recently prepared by the Com- He also, from the same com- rted favorably the bill author- Commissioners to rec the be- quest of the late Peter Von n for the use of the public white schools of George- town, Ce Memorial Home. Senator Peffer has presented an amend- nent intended to be proposed by him to the di y appropriation bill, It pro- Vides Unat the sum of $100,000 out of arrears of de ur pay, ased color bounty, due the estate of d soldiers now in the treas- shall be used to erect a national me- et morial home for aged and intirm colored people. This is the same proposition that has been pending for several jons in the form of a bill, Old Claims to Be Audited. Senator Martin has intyoduced a bill di- recting the auditor for the District S preme Court to examine and audit for set- uement all claims for damages resulting from the destruction of the Northern Lib- erty market in 1S: The work is to be complete] in two years. To Regulate Appeals, Senator Martin has intreduced a Dill to regulate the right of appeals in certain cases in the District. It provides that all als or writs of error which have been ssed from the Supreme Court, in cases entered prior to the passage of the act of March 1801, may be reinstated therein within six months from the pass- age of the act, after reasonable notice. Jurisxdiction of the Police Court. The report on the bill relating to the jurisdiction of the Police Court as sub- mitted by the House District committee, says: “By section 4 of the act of Con- gress, approved March 3, 1801, writs of error in matters of law were ‘authorized from: the Police Court of the District of Columbia to the Supreme Court of the said District upon the approval of a judge of that court. This provision of the statute was satisfactory to both the bench ana the bar, but was repealed by the act creating the Court of Appeals of the District, ap- proved February 9, 1803. This repeal was incidental, and so far as appeals from the Police Court were concerne ably inadvertent. The act refe stroyed the general appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the District, and did not authorize writs of error from the Police Court to the Court of Appeals. The purpos2 of the present biil is to restore writs of error cn law points from the Po- lice Court, by permitting such writs to the Court of Appeals of the District upon the approval of any justice of that court.” Belt Line Track on Water Street. The House District committee has amend- ed the Belt Line Railway bill, in addition to the amendments heretofore noted in The Star, as follows: “Provided, That if there is not sufficient room for two tracks in Water street without encroaching on tracks already there, that the said Belt Line Railway Company shall purchase at its own cost sufficient ground to open Water street from the terminus of its line as now located along said projected route to P street.” Important Naval Changes. Rear Admiral Kirkland, who was relieved from command of the Europ2an sqnadron because he congratulated M. Faure upoa his election as president of France, has been placed in command of the Mare Is- land navy vard, one of the most agreeable assignments in the service. Commodore Char.es S. Norton, late in command of the South At tic fleet, has been ordered to take command of the Washington navy yard, relieving Commodore Howell, who will remain on duty in this city as presi- dent of tue naval examining and retiring board. Army Orders. Leaves of absence have been granted as follows: Post Chaplain H. H. Hall, for six months on acccunt of disability; Lieut. H. R. Lee, cleventh infentry,for three months; Lieut. Chrrles H, Martin, fourteenth in- fantry, for one month; Lieut. R. E. L. Spence, sixteenth infantry, for three months. a Vacancies in the Engineer Corps. There are at present twenty-two vacan- cles in the grade of assistant engineers of the navy. By July 1 there will be three retirements, Chief Engineer Jackson McEImell, for age, and Chief Engineers James W. Thompson and G. F. Kutz, for forty years’ service. : ———————-2o+—___ Correspondents Invited. Mr. E. G. Dunnell, chairman of the stand- ing committee of press correspondents, has received a letter from the managers of the Tennessee centennial inviting the corre- spondents and the ladies of their families to attend the exposition at Nashville. Unofficial information has been received to the effect that it is contemplated that those who accept this invitation will leave Washington on May 30, by special train, er- rive in Nashville on May 31, remain there until the evening of June'J, and reach Washizggam on June 2 abe*t midday. HIS TENTH ANNIVERSARY Long Service of the Pastor at the Third Baptist Uhurch. The Success and Growth of the Con- gregation—Labor That is _ Appreciated. The celebration of the tenth anniversa-y of the pastorate of Rev. James H. Lee of the Third Baptist Church, corner of Sth and Q streets northwest, began yesterday morning, and will be concluded tonight with a reception to the pastor. Three services, all of which were crowd- ed, were held yesterday. Rev. W. P. Gib- bons, pastor of Mt. Carmel Baptist Chusca, preached in the morning. At 3 p.m. ad- dresses were delivered before the inday school by Rev. I. V. Bryant, Rev. W. A. Creditt, Rev. S. Miler and others, and at night Rev. Mr. Lee preached his tenth an- nual sermon. Although the Third Baptist Church has been in existefce more than ten ye it nay Le said that ite season of pro has been coincident with Mr. Lee's services as pastor. The church fs the outgrowth of a move- ment which was started by Mr. Alber Boulden at his residence, near the corne! of 4th and L streets northwest, September 5, 1857. It soon became evident to those who attended the services that a ch: ought to b2 organized, and after the ne sary preliminaries were complied wi ecclesiastical council, which conven this city June 20, 1858, declared the T Baptist Church of Washington entitled to recognition, ¢ The congregation met at different places until 1863, when the membe: lot at the corner of 4th and L streets and began to erect an edifice, the corner stone cf which was laid June 6, 1863. The chur was controlled by Rev. Mr. Boulden until 1867, when disturbances aros2 betwe and the chureh, in consequence of w became necessary fer the members to s cure another location, and th rented a house on H street between 6th and 7th streets, reraoving, however, after a short time toa F on 9th street. At this time the church was under the le ship of Rev. W. B. Jefferson. Being in a more settled condition than for som- time pre , the members felt uble to buy a place where they might be perma- rently located, and in view of this th bought a lot on Franklin street betwe: 4th end Sth and P and Q str December the ccrner stone of the new church was laid, and on the last Sun- day in September, 171, ted. Here for more than t gregation worsh| ine ed the ne came apparent, 2 the lot corner of 5 mem 1 of a larger edifle id in due cour hand Q stroe cation of the building now occuy: Third ptist Church, was pur - March 19, 1886, the church extended a call to Rev. James H. I of seu Mass., to become their pastor, and much’ correspondence, he accepted, taki charge on the Yth of the following May. The Successtul Pastor. Rev. James H, Lee born May 1, 18 in Anne Arundel county, Md., of free pa- rents. His boyhood days were spent in Annapolis, where for several years he rved as messenger in the state house. At the early age of ten years he professed | VSHSSSOOTS F3 | | conv on and united with the A. M. E. Church in Annapolis. At the outbreak of the war he was employed at the Naval | Academy, and when that institution wa removed ‘to Newport he w: Alter a few months he tion there and went to accepted a position in the land regiment, stationed at A few years later found him in ployment of the United States quarter- master’s department at Alexandria, Va., subsequently also being detailed to duty at headquarters in Washington He was baptized and received into the Third Baptist Church in 1865, and he was elected clerk of the board’ of trustee serving witn great acceptance to all the members for five consecutive years. He was granted a license to preach November 19, 1860. After serving faithfully before congregations in Washington, G: Alexandria and Baltimore, he was in 1s called by the Salem Baptist Church of New Bedford, Mass., to become their pastor. He accepted, and remained there for thirteen years, when, his health having become greatly impaired, he resigned. May 9, 1886, having, as above stated, ac- cepted a call to the Third Baptist Chu: Washington, he took charge and was in: stalled pastor by the Baptist ministers of Washington May 30 of the same year. Sade ea THE WEEKLY ESTIMATES, s taken along the em- One Gives McKinley a Majority of Delegates—The Opposition Statement. Gen. Grosvenor’s statement, given out Sunday night, shows 548 McKinley dele- gates now clected. This includes sixty con- tested delegates, leaving 488 which he claims, even should all the contests be de- cided against the McKinley delegates. He seys no human power can prevent Me- Kinley’s nominaticn. The Opposite View. In view of the big boom for McKinley during the past week the statement given out by Mr. Aldrich is particularly inter- esting as an explanation why the opposiuion to McKinley still holds out. Mr. Aldrich say: “The friends of Speaker Reed, fully con- scious of the gains made by Goy. McKin- ley in the pending national contest during the past week, but with full information concerning the position and standing of the delegates thus far elected, are yet hope- ful, if not confident, of the ultimate suc- cess of their candidate before the conven- tion. “Up to date there have been elected S22 out of a total of YIS delegates, of which number it is reasonable to say’ that Gov. McKinley has,including the contested case #61 votes. Concerning the latter we w hot prejudge the action of the convention. The number of delegates yet to be elected is eighty-six. Should he succeed in cap- turing all—and he will not get one-half of them—he will still fall short of the ne sary majority, and must then rely upon the contested cases to give him the nomination, “All republicans favor protection, but it is quite evident that the tariff will not be the sole issue of the campaign, for a new com- and more important element now mands public attention—the money tion. The siraddling platform will do, nor can any candidate who was e¢ it gain the full confidence of the people. It is for this reason, and because we be- lieve that sentiment undergoing a rapid and radical change in that particular, that we are convinced the candid, sober judz- ment of the delegates, after the deliberation which will be had between now and the \ith of June, will nominate Mr. Reed, bi cause he best represents the great business Interests of the financial world and’ the American people. er on Hurt by a Car. Last night about 10 o’clock Matthew D. Hart, a colored boy three years old, was knocked down by a Belt Line car near 4th and G streets and his right arm was crushed. He was sent to the Emergency Hospital in the police ambulance. > Champion Long Distance From the Providence Journal. Apples ripened this year and success- fully transported a distance of 30,000 miles are on exhibition here. They were grown in Tasmania, Australasta, and were shipped by way of the Suez canal to London, thence to Southampton, from which port they were brought to New York by the Ameri- ean liner New York, arriving about fifty days after being picked from the tree. This probably is the champion long-distance ap- ple shipment on record in this country. The fruit is not very large, nor is it es- pecially handsome, but it is in fine eon- dition, and the aroma certainly is delight- ful, while the flavor is very good. The apples are separately wrapped in paper of odd style, and the crates also show their foreign manufacture. The shipment was partly as an experiment and partly to furnish a curiosity to Providence pcople, who are interested in fruits. ——-e+—_____ Taylor Delk, leader of a notorious gang of Georgia outlaws, was captured Wednes- day and lodged in jail in Atlanta, Apples. gAt the Soda Fonnt At the Candy Department tomorrow Ove. Candies, inchiding 20 varieties mels, cut creams filled with nuts, ete 3 ‘4 : ‘47, 590 and 65c. $ This is the greatest collection of Shirt W 53 “very Waist in stock is this season's style. each. 47¢., 59c. and 65¢. 1 line of Linen Waists, plain of “exclusive” patterns and duced this season. SOSSSE WUBIN OSHOH TE yond Boxes of Marshm Cho okates, con 600 Shirt Waists, in Washington. No such values have ever been offered before. $2.50 Leghorn Flats, $1.19. We shall place on sale tomorrow a manufacturer's balance » of 600 Leghorn Flats, in plain crowns, with fancy 3 fancy crowns with plain edges, some of the nobbicst Flats intro- ‘ Regular prices $2 and $. CHOICE, $1.19 EACH. BON MARCHE 314 AND 316 7TH § ain tomorrow—Fresh Crushed Strawberries, with Ace Oream Soda, “YB Hows, 106. nuts, figs and cara- ining a ists to be found Worth up to $1 4; Novelty D: to be fo POSES FSOC SSSR SSS ETOOALEO NOL 100-04 nda dene and Persians, < ou. elbow nm Wasl eds , and » > > > > > ° . 2 ° > > ? > > : ° 9 ° Re ° : ‘Ladies’ Linen Suits, $4.98. 3 A new line just opened this mornin, Brown Linen Skirt 4 with brown linen blazer jacket, with broad revers, elab- 4 orately trimmed with linen lace inserting. $7 alue > ) Only Z ce _ ake nen lace insertin: s. ee “$4.98 4 _Belts and Waist Sets. 3 $ Biggest collection of - Colored Leather and Silk Belts to 3 £ be found anywhere. All colors and an attractive variety of 2 é Buckle 2 28 . Siemioe Shit Wala Sak Ske : : 2 4 > ‘BON MARCHE, i314 & 316 7th St. : SUSOSESESESESTESESUSES EES ENTE CAVE CA es] fee) 3 {2 | ic] S72 es) To know what the people ©; want, but it’s fine art to know — : . how to fill their wants at accept- °} able prices. This is the art we -! 1 All-wool— to-measure, STICKY FLY CICS PAPER. Process of Its Manufacture a Jealous- ly Guarded Secret. nd Rapids Letter to the New York Sun. The world’s supply of sticky fly paper cores from this city. There are three or four other small factories scattered about the country, but none of them makes enough to cut much of a figure in the mar- ket. The great producer Is the single fac- tory in this city, a big concern employing 400 to 600 hands all the year round, and its product is shipped to every la The factory is surrounded by a picket fence, and guards are on watch day and night to keep out intruders. The best friends of the proprietors meet with as cold a reception when the matter of going into the factory 1s mentioned as any stranger. The sticky preparation with which it {s expected the flies will form en- tangling alli is prepared by the pro- pristors personally, ani they alone know the exact formula.” The preparation is not patented nor copyrighted, as to gain the protection of the it would be necessary to reveal the 1 erials that go into it and make the formula known to the world and give es a chance to ded in the same man- t infringement, instead of being Most of the ma ry was de- signed for the special purp: which it was put, and the four brothers engaged in the business for it them- chine shops. The 7 four 1 two- and the employes in re not alic to visit any e department circumstan under any depart- ment. None but trustworthy men are em- ployed, and once engaged they have sub- ; but even the mos‘ rusted is not allowed to know one branch of the by The fly paper Is made | tain balsams and 7 manila paper. The shect has border of wax to prevent the sticky from oozing out. The border on, the sticky prepara the sheet !s folded rea shipment by one machine, this ma- chine has a capacity of about 50,000 sheets a day. From the mact the she to inspectors, v! more than arrow stufl and pass to t n into box to Africa, per goes Asia, E ‘ope, Australia and South America, be all parts of this country. The manufacturers of the sticky paper n business mall se bout twenty ye ago on ng a lean-to in con- n drug store which had established as a branch of their city business. of the brother carried on the fly paper manifacturing as a side issue, and at first 0} manufactured te supply a limited local < mand. The demand gradually gre and the factory is now one of the big institu tions of the city, and the four brothe: devote to it their entire time. Some time ago the brothe: to discharge one of the!r employ who had been with them several years, and had unusual facilities for learning the inside of how everything de It was suspected that it was his intention to s the secrets of the manufacture of fly paper, or such of them as he possessed, to a rival manufacturer doing business on a small scale In another town. The brethers immediately brought sult t him by injunction to restrain him from. telling what he knew, aud ivom himself engaging ne the brothe high board | is of | for shipment. | study, and we think this “New Era” tailoring emporium fur- nished pretty good evidence that ” we have mastered it— ; eper wearing sack suits “10. “ Mertz ana Mertz, ie eet Seer j ts of it con- | PIS RE Rn tert 8 ? ° 2 ? Price Makers. | € Yee) ¢ é j in the busi: e suit has not yet been dec a It a question of law never yet adjud in this state, and one that is specially turers and attorne; interesting to manufac. A CO-0r' What is Being Done munity now in ony of m r h lands have al Sv though it is ne e the altruistic town of Tennessee. The 1. All the and 1 to join uni ol ne and m residents of The lands 3 No. 1, valued at from § nds, worth Ss member has to pay in i ore he is allowed to pa ipate in frawin If he wants forty res mt ay in $4, and put in a like amount 1 every t want twenty nhually by each member. extra fund of $# to be h member, te and family, | > in the col omitting the se ar, limes in four eq One im mong the mem- bers of th < enough to Hv and the who are not so 7 ‘ sted by the unto abundance of food quality daily served r colonists hav , of which are 1 resident members of thi rk stock and utensi dual mem» stocked with horses, rou farms are tomatoes, fruit ‘ghey pr ship: 5 he town site, acres hav idence lots. edy laid eres of th Two 1 to I county fer publ ings, for the colonists have alrea a movement to have the county s € to Hohenwald. The site of the town is and very slightly r g. A large park near the town been re- They have an attractive depot, and it is crowded with goods all the tim Rou clanetaat! eat ie Johnson, colored, bishop of Kan- arrested at Fort Scott, Kan., en an indictment charging him with mak- ing false pension afiidavits,