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a o— AUCTION SALES. a FUTU RE DAYS. THOMAS DOWLING & CO., AUCTIONEERS, 612 Est. o WRUSTEES’ SALE OF A VALUABLE TRACT OF ABOUT TEN ACRES, ADJOINING BRIGHT- WOOD DRIVING PARK AND TRAVERSED WHOLE LENGTH BY SIXTEENTH STHSET EX > By virtue of a — az the recorded mbia, <1 of trust to ua, of the District of Co and at the req We will sell, at aucth ; TUESDAY, THE STX: Ob JUNE, A.D. 1896, AT FIVE JON TM. the following described tract of in the District of Columbia, being part o} Z “Peters? MiN Seat," de- Sat the northeast | conveyed to Samuel D. 16, 1454, and recorded District of Columbia . being on the sou vhenee alonz si 38 perches, 1 to Keese by records in Liber cast line of 2 degrees west 5 of road ““B,"" then as 8 corns of part of said tr Fincicel by deed dated May, of th with th Qegrees cust 23.85 per-ues of Whole tract cenveyed to r of land mong sald at with in 1 said pure chaser’s Le P. Lo R, Trustee, JOHN D. ¢ ‘Trustee. BUILDING ADOBE HoOUS The Simple Architecture of the Mud Residences in New Mexico. From t ago Keeord Architectural engineering is a branch of the gentle art of making mud pics in the land where the adobe houses grow. In the land of sunshine, where a rginy day is so rare that it is marked with a red eress, the native contracter and builder wast no time ng on the strength of material the crushing limit of tubular columns, and the wind pressure per square foot of eleva- die does not pore over blue prints of os: and elevations, nor he whittle down his figures to the t point, so as to come under some oth- €r contractor's bid. He simply rolls his trousers up above ik digs down in @ favored ditch or pond until he strikes the ‘debe mud,” and in a short time he is ready to begin constructive operations. Adobe houses are brick huuses, but the Dbr.ck 1s sun-dried and made with straw. The clay or mud of which the brick is inade is tural cement, peculiar to the arid Plains of New Mexico, Arizuna, Nevada and that beit of states and territories. It 1 turned out in the most primitive manner and the Blue Island icKmaker who might happen upon a halfbreed or Mexican “doe | brickmaker would view the operation wiih amusement or disgust. Kiin-burned brick, made of blue clay, however, would not meet the requirements izaposed by the climatic conditions of those countries where adobe brick is used. In summer an ad ter it is warm. I ial house is cool; in win- s thick walls absorb the eceasional rain, and although the sun-dried brick is soft compared to the kiln-dried ar- ticle, it does not crumble, and it stands for age: A man who ently traveled through New Mexico was much Interested in the *"dobe houses. For weeks he inquired and searched for a ‘dobe house In the hands of the ders. At length In Santa Fe he stumbled upon a co! of men stamping with their bare fra: lo brick. In des “The men actua y in a wooden znd that he w; ng the proce: 2 sitd: lug up the ‘dobe mud m the bottom of the ditch which skirted road. They mixed ii, or, as we si t. with v until it was ency. Then they into short pieces and mixe: and their material was rel A wood frame me was filled ve mud mixed with hay, and men got into the frame and wn with his hare feet, tamping It with a stick. was packed hard he tim frame 5 nud off with a stick, s top surface was level with the v of the frame, and then lifting th m the clay he carried the t kK to one sid of the road and stood it on its edge. The next brick he made he leant 3 t one, and soon he had a ks—each tw s wile 1 thick as an ordinary " One of the men would he ready ys, and that t the bricks are adobe house are very three feet, and dobe house, whi region, they are reach the supported on wooden » on the walls, and the > level with the top of the ween the timbers, leaving the of the rafters exposed. The roof has ht slant. made of a lohe bricks. it rains water soaks into the bricks, but does not begin to drip »wn into the rooms below until the rain Is ¢ Then the family moves out until the water {s through with its drippin T saw an adobe horse in Santa Fe which was built In the sixteenth century, and, so far as T could see, the walls were as strong and good as any house around there. Walls are built of adobe cement, if T ma walls are ‘one, plastered with so call it, and such strong and solid. I suppose ff that courtry had half as much rain as falls in Chicago the ‘dobe houses would after a time crumble away, but the average year in New Mexico fs made up of 187 days of un- clouded sky, 129 days when sunshine pre- dominates and only days of cloud, so that the rainfall dees rot amount to much More than a good-sized fall of dew It is estimated that an adobe house costs about $11 a room, but there are mansions bollt of this material which cost not les: than £1,000 to construct. When the “Am: feans” settled In New Mexico, Utah, Arty na, Nevada and the lower part of Califor- nia, they accepted the treeless condition of the country and built their houses of ‘dobe mud. = . ae age = Scientific Jottings. From the Chicago News. When the Roentgen ray was discovered people at first were aghast at the possibili- ties it opened up, ‘but calmed down when they recalled the fact that {t took consider- able time for a photozraph of the contents of one’s pockets to be made. Recently a Perugian professor has demoralized us by making an instrument which enables him to see with the naked eye all objects the X rays can penetrate. This would make civilized life scarcely possible. The pick- would be able to see where one’s s and what was in it, and the sur- d no photograph of the body where was the bullet he wanted. Asbestos is playing more than ever a re- markably useful part in electricity. Its lat- lication is called the electrotherm, used in hospitals in place of the old- 1 hot-water bottlh It con ts of a » sheet or pad of asbestos, in which . imbedded. These wires any source of electric form heat maintained. It © moistened and made to serve ag a est ap and i can poultice. ‘The French decided that kissing was un- healthy and told us of the millions of dread- ful little microbes which were transferred by this pernicious practice. Now the Rus- sian scientists come along and say that it is dangerous to shake hands, as microbes are transferred that way. Handshaking, they say, Is a useless and undignified cus- tom, besides being dangerous. From a comparison of tables it is learned that in the past two decades the mortality from tuberculosis In Vienna, Berlin and Hamburg has decreased. In Munich there has been a decrease of eighteen per 10,000. Formerly one-third of all post-mortem ex- aminations were of subjects who had died of some form of tuberculosis, while now the number has diminished one-fourth. ————_-e+ In a Department Store. From Life. “I want something nice tn oil for a din- irg room.’ “Yes, madam. A landscape or a box of sardines.” | ried in the air like chaff. A Fr CURED (BY SQUEEZED AIR), Of Nervous Debility and Loss of Vitality. A Prominent Boston Offi- cial Tells How He Was Restored to Health and Vigor. FAMOUS EVERYWHERE, FROM THEIR CURES, ARE DR. CHARCOT’S KOLA NER- VINE TABLETS. “Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Statistics of Labor, Claflin building, st., Boston, Dec. 31, 1895. Gentlemen: Your Kola Nervine Tablets (Dr. Charcot's) have been used both by myself and a member of my family. In my own case I had a good chance to test them, as I began their use after a period of brain labor and close application covering some eighteen mouths. This work was in connection with the State sus of Ma! usetis, and when the strain was re- Bureau of 20 Beacon | moved I fourd myself quite “ran down,” as the saying is, with a continual “tired feeling’ and muscular pains that affected one part of my body and then another. The Kola Nervine Tablets have formed an important part of a treatment which Jeaves me teday in my usual condition of activity e meinber of my family suffered from hi trouble and shortness of breath, and the Table were used y in eritical times with manifest increase in strength and a consequent ameiioration of symptoms as a result. rt It 1s so seldom that a medicine IS a specifle for certain ills and does ALL that ts claimed for tt, it {sa pleasure, as well as an humanitarian duty, to end your preparation of Kola, and advise Very truly, “CHAS. F. PIDGIN, Chief Clerk.”” Chas. F. Pidgin is known far and wide as a Writer of popular songs, und in New England is west highly respected as an oftelal who had pt cal charge of the Massachusetts census in 1So5. Fifty Cents and $1.00 at dragyists or sent direct. Dr, Charcot’s name “i. Write for free suunple” packas Eureka Chem- feal and Mfg. Wis., and Boston, Mass. mys La Crosse, SUN SPOTS Some Memornble Storms That Were Very Disasirou: It is claimed that storm periods travel in a cycle, and that every eleventh year {s likely to produce atmospheric disturbances of great viclence. While Prof. Langley has stated that the presence of spots upor the sun does not indicate an increased degree of heat upon the earth, it Is contended by others who have studied the subject that these spots indicate great activity in this source of all heat, and that when they are present an appreciable variability in atmospheric con- ditions on our globe may be expected, and that hurricanes, tornadoes, etc., will’ pre- vail. Memorable Storms. It is interesting to recall some of the fearful catastrophes which have taken place in different parts of the earth in past years, caused by the action of the ele- ments, and to note the awful destruction that followed in their wake. The loss of life and property from the St. Louts storm has been great, but when compared with the results of some of the typhoons and hurricanes of the equatorial region, it loses in part its appalling aspect. A storm in India in the seventies resulted in the destructica of over a quarter million of lives. The sufferers were not of a high grade of humanity, but imagine a multi- tede of nearly three hundred thousand rople losing their lives in one night! In ISz3 a cyclone near Calcutta destroyed 23) tishermen’s houses, with their oc- cupants. During the storm, it is said, a piece of bamboo was driven through a stone wall five feet thick. In the same region a errible seawave, in October, 1877, lestroyed 15,04") natives. Dead bodies were washed m town to town 9 much driftwoos z and for years the district was uninhabit: able. A cyclone in 178 generated, it 1s believed, in mid-Atlantic, near made its appearance in it destroyed houses, blew the bark from u and, it is stated, fairly uprooted the bottom and depths of the sea. Forts and castles were washed away, and guns car- nch tran iF the equator, Sarbadoes, where port fleet, consisting of forty vessels destroyed, with 4,40 soldiers. ne thou and_ persons perished at Martinique, 1,000 at St. Pierre, where not a house was left standing. St. Vincent, St. Eustache and Porto Rico were devastated. At Royal the cathedral, seven churches and fourteen hundred houses were blown dow Sixteen hundred sick and wounded were buried beneath the ruins of a hospital. At the Bermudas fifty British ships were driv- €n ashore, two battle ships went down at sea and 22,000 persons perished. In the year 1839 a cyclone swept over a ion of France, near Paris, which did lible damage. Thousands were kille uliarity of this storm was that it gu inside cf the houses without blowing them down. A stone wall was cut in five equal parts, of eight yards each, the first, third and fifth pieces being lald in one di- rection, the second and fourth exactly op- posite. At Guadaloupe, on July 25, 1825, a hurri- cane destroyed the town, carrying debris ever an arm of the sea fifty miles to Mont- serrat. The wind drove tiles from the roo through thick doors. Bulidings were blown around like cards, and a piece of deal 5 inches long, 10 inches wide and nearly an inch thick, went through a palm tree 18 inches in diameter. In England, in the year 1703, during a violent hurricane, whole fleets were cast away, and mansions blown down. London and Bristol gave the appearance of having been sacked. Eddystone light house, re- garded as impregnable, was destroyed, with the architect who built it inside! In October, 1864, a great gale prevailed in India, during which 50,000 persons perisned. This was a year during which the spots on the sun are said to have been especially prominent. It is stated that during the storm a vessel was actually lifted out of the water and torn to pieces by the elements in midair. a EX-GOV. BROWN SAT ON HIS TRUNK. And So He Always Got ‘Train in Europe. From the Baltimore American. Ex-Gov. Brown is arranging his affairs preparatory to his departure for Europe on June 6. He seid yesterday that he ex- pected to meet a 1.mber of Baltimoreans during his trip abroad. He intends to spend some time in Buda-Pesth, and to study the model street railvay of that city. The.ex- governcer says he can speak no language the Right except English, but in his travels abroad heretofore has mzraged to get along quite well. Said he: “I have found thai there is but one safe rule in traveling abroad, and that is to imitate the elephant, and follow your trunk. In my former travels I made it a point to get my trunk checked through, er registered, as they call it. Then I kept my eye on that trunk. When I saw the baggezemen put my trenk on a car I at once got into that train and took a for- ward seat, where I could see the baggage car doo: Whenever I saw the baggage- man take my trunk out of the car I got off. In this way I never made a mistake, though I could not speak the language of the country I was traveling in and had no interpreter. “On one occasion f was at the station in Berne, Switzerland. The station was a union affair, and so many trains were com- ing and gcing that I got uneasy, for fear that I would get on the wrong train. So I sat on my trirk and waited. While I was sitting there I wes approached by a young lady, who, like myself, could speak En- glish only. She vented to know whica train to take. I told her to do as I was doing—sit on her trenk. She did so. I gave the same advice to a man, and both of ther went right. It’s the only safe rule, for the baggage generally goes right.” — A Bargain Sale. From the Indianapolis Journal. Shé—“Just look, dear. I bought two hun- dred papers of tacks for 50 cents.”” He—“What in thunder did you do that for? Taey are cheap enough, but what are we ever to do with two hundred papers of tacks?” = She—“Why—ah—oh! Maybe some day scmebody you don’t like will get a bicycle,” THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY,: JUNE 65,.-1896—-SIXTEEN PAGES. The New York Metropolitan Road _ and the New Motor. BUILDING LARGE AND COSTLY PLANT Positive Statements in Regard to the Use of Air. SOMETHING COMING Much interest is taken throughout the ceuntry In the project of using compressed air as a motive power for street cars. The assurance given a few days ago, as then published in The Star, by Mr. Thomas Dolan of the Fikins-Widener-Dolan syndicate, that if compressed air motors prove suc- cessful on the Metropolitan railway in New York they will be placed on the Soldiers’ Home and Eckington and Belt Line ratl- ways of this city during the present sum- mer, has excited great local interest in the subject. A Star reporter who recently went to New York saw those interested in the air motors ard some of those connected with the Metropolitan Traction Company of that city, and was afforded an opportunity to inspect what has thus far been done to- ward putting the new power into success- ful operation. There is now being erected on an im- wense plat of ground, at the corner of ii7th street and Lenox avenue, a power house, in which will be placed the machi ery necessary to run the cars by air, All kinds of valuable machinery, including boilers, engines, etc., are on the spot, and most of the foundations have been built for the placing of the various pleces upon them. Have Contidence. The utmost confidence is felt, as express- ed to The Star reporter, by the officers of the Metropolitan Traction Company, the owners of the motor patents, and every one who has made a study of the possibilities of compressed air in this connection, and yet, ev subordinate, from general su- perintendent down, has_ received orders from the president of the railroad com- peny to refuse to answer any and every question in regard to the motor. Nevertheless there are some persons con- nected with the road and motor company who were willing to sive The Star reporter interesting information relative to the new power. One of these men said: “We regard compressed air as a means of propulsion for street cars as an assured success. If it Were not so, do you think that as reasona- Me thinking business men we would invest the thousands of dollars In machinery that you have seen at the site of the new power house? “It is probable that not nearly so much attention would have been paid to the de- velopmeat of compressed air motors had it not been for the enormous price put by the General Electric and Westinghouse com- panies upon thelr producticns. Of course, e overhead trolley is out of the question, and for two reasons, the people would not let us have It, and we regard it as causing tco much disfigurement of the streets “But there is still another cause for the rapid development of the new motor. The people of New York have become sick and tired of the way trains are run on the ele- vated roads, They have long been wearied the discomfort caused by the smoke and noise of the little locomotives, and more especially since other means of rapid transit, besides steam, have been brought into use. Air Motor for L Road. “It is no slander of Mr. Russell Sage, who, with Mr. George Gould, controls the Manhattan system of elevated railways, which practically occupy almost every ave- we ronning north and south through the ‘ity, to say that he does not hurry himself in the matter of heeding public opinion; ut both Mr. Sage and Mr. Gould have ar- rived at the conclusion that something st be done to appease the publie an- to the elevated railway trains, or time will soon come when thelr re enues from this source, which are now lossal, will be curtailed to an immense extent. “As a proof of this, it can be stated on authority that at the request of the former Gen, Hueb, the eminent enginee who built the Hoosac tunnel, and who has been a life-long friend of Mr. Sage, has re- cently made a thorough study of the com- pressed air motor which the Metropolitan ‘ailway Company is about to try, and is now meeting Mr. Sage in conference from jay to day on the subject. It ts generally understood among rall- way men that the time having arrived when a change of motive power must be eon the elevated lines, the manage- ment of the latter will test’ the values of both the electric locomotive and the com- pressed air motor, and whichever of these proves the more satisfactory will be ted. t Is believed that Mr. Sage would really efer the adoption of the latter power if it n be made to work as well as electricity, on account of the great cost of the con- struction of the latter. Great Cost of Conduits. “To equip ten miles of undergrond elec- tric railway in the city of New York, not including the cars or the building of the power house, means an investment of not less than $2,000,000, The cost of the same system on the elevated lines would not be quite so great, it is Ikely, as there would be no excavating to be ‘done. With the compressed air motors the great expense would be in the case of the elevated lines, and also of the Metropolitan system in the first cost of the cars, its tracks now in use being laid so as to permit the operation of either electric cars or compressed air mo- tors. “It is doubtful if Mr. Sage would be at all disturbed by the action of any other railway company in New York besides the Metropolitan, and this can best be ex- plained by stating the fact that the Metro- politan system parallels the elevated sys- tem on almost every street, and in some instances its cars are run on the surface of the same highways as those upon which the elevated trains are operated. “The Metropolitan company does not in- tend to rest satisfied with the developments made by the inventor of the motor, and in order to ascertain 1f any improvements can be made thereon the chief engineer a few weeks ago went to Europe, where . now is, busily engaged studying the sys- tems in several of the continental cities where compressed air has been used for street car propulsion for some time past. It is also stated that the man to superin- tend the running of the first cars by com- pressed air in New York has been selected, and that he was formerly a warrant officer in the United States navy, where he had special charge of the compressing of air for the firing of dynamite guns.” A Detinite Program. The following authorized statement in reference to the new motors was given The Star reporter at the residence of Mr. John D. Crimmin: “It is intended, as soon as the company which has been organized to make the mo- tors on a large scale is in position to fill heavy orders, to place air compressors on every cable, electric and horse car operated by the company. If no important changes are found necessary in the first installment of cars, after trial, the Belt line, the 6th and Sth avenue lines, the avenue C line and the Fulton, Chambers, 28d and 50th streets cross-town lines will be fully equip- ped with the new power, and the Broad- way and Lexington avenue cable lines will follow. t is claimed that while the new motive power is but little, if any, cheaper to in- stall and operate than the troiley system, it is noiseless and far cheaper, as well as better in other respects, than the cable system. The air compressor will also do away with the long succession of futile ex- periments that have been tried by the Van- derbilts with conduits, trolleys and air motors on the 4th avenue line, which is to be leased for ninety-nine years to the Met- ropolitan Railway Company.’ Husband—“Do you know, my dear, I never get tired of looking at that photo- graph of you. Wife—“Why don’t you heve it framed and hung up in the club?’"—Life, THE FILLED 2CHEESE BILL. Finally Passe@ the Senate Late Yesterfay Afternoon. ‘The Senate had one of the busiest sessions of this Congress yesterday. Late in the day the filled cheese "bill was passed as it eame from the House by a vote of 87 to 13, thus completing the legislation on this sub- ject. The measure is analogous to the oleo- margarine law. The Dill defines “filled cheese” to embrace “‘all substances made of milk or skimmed milk, with the admixture of butter, animal oll# or fats, vegetable or any other oils, or compounds foreign to such milk, and made in imitation or semblance of cheese.” Manufacturers of filled cheese are taxed $400 annually; wholesale dealers $250; retail dealers $12, In addition to these taxes, the product itself is taxed one cent per pound, and imported filled cheese is taxed 8 cents per pound, in addition to the import duty. It 1s provided that filled cheese shall be packed by the manufac- turers in wooden packages only and brand- ed with the words “filled cheese” in black- faced letters not less than two inches in length. It also provided that all retail and wholesale dealers in ‘filled cheese shall dis- play in a conspicuous place in their sales room a sign bearing the words “filled cheese sold here” in black-faced letters not less than six ffches !n length upon a white ground. Several efforts to add tariff amendments to the bill were defeated. An amendment by Mr. Stewart of Nevada for a tax of 10 cents per pound on wool was lald on the table, 32-14. Ancther amendment, by Mr. Lindsay, repealing the 1-8 differential duty on sugar was tabled, 31-16. Mr. Mitchell of Oregon had given notice of an amendment embodying the Dingley bill, but did not press it. The vote by which the filled cheese bill was finally passed was as follows: Yeas — Republicans, Aldrich, Allison, Brown, Chandler, Clark, Cullom, Davis, Du- bois, Gallinger, Hale, Hansbrough, Hawley, Lodge, McBride, Mitchell of Oregon, Morriil, Nelson, Perkins, Pettigrew, Platt, Pritch. ard, Quay, Sewell, Sherman, Shoup, Teller, and Warren—27. Democrats--Hill, Mitchell _of Wisconsin, Palmer, Smith, Turp!e and Vilas—6, Popullsts—Dutler, Jones of Nevada, Peffer and Stewart—4. Total, 37. Nays—Democrats, Bate, Berry, Chilton, George, Gorman, Harris, Jones of Arkansas, Lindsay, Mills, Morgan, Pasco, Vest and White—i3, After the disposal of the cheese bill an arimated contest occurred over Mr. Lodge's motion to take up the immigration bill. A number refrained from voting, thus break- ing a quorum. After dilatory tactics had proceeded for half an hour, Mr. Lodge was obliged to withdraw the motion. Before adjournment the final conference report on the general deficiency bill was adopted, thus completing that measure. Bills were passed as follows: Granting 160 acres of land to Bilox!, Miss., for a char- itable hospital; authorizing the appointment of the survivors of the Lady Franklin hay expedition as sergeants, retired, of the army; for the improvement of Fort Smith, Ark., government reservation and a. bill construing the laws relating to the award of Mfe-saving medals. At 6 o'clock the Senate adjourned. eet Se FRANCE MAKES A PROTEST, e Objects to the Exclusion of Her Cattle From American Markets. The French government has made a for- mal protest against the retaliatory action of this government jn putting an absolute embargo on French cattle. This rigid en- forcement of the prohibition of importation of meat cattle and their hides from coun- tries infected with cattle diseases, includ- ing France, Germany and Switzerland, which is provided fer-in the old tariff act of 1894, but not invoked until seven months ago, when a proclamation on the subject was issued, is directly due to the aggressive policy of countries [ke France and Ger- many in endeavoring, on one pretext. or another, to exclude” Aterican cattle and meats. Repeated representations and warnings have been made to both coun- tries through the Suite Departmeat, but to no purpose, so that # proclamation was i sued by President Cleveland last Novem or which, in effect, excluded from the United States caitle from Branee, Switzerland and Germany on the ground of the alence of disease in those three countrie The rt-of the proclamation, whose issurnce just attracted gégeral attention, has been the complete stoppaxe of shipping of cattle from France and Germany ever since last November, but it was not till our consul, Mr. Chuncelior, stopped a ship- ment from Havre a few Ss ago that French shippers felt called upon to remon- strate, France always has been regard+d by agri- cultural officials here as among the comn- tries worst affliced v diseases, the percentage of stock being regarded as unusually high. this, however, the United States undcubt edly would permit the entry of Fr tle under a rigid inspection sys! ance would make a similar con h cate n if »ssion to the United State In the Havre cxse, which called attention to the President's retaliatory proclamaticn, the fact has been developed that the cattle stopped there were Swiss cattle. Minister Piola of Swit- zerland already has taken steps to learn the reasons for barrin informal talk: perts of diseases among Swiss cattle, but so far as can be learned has made no for- mal representations or protests io this gov- ernment. Swiss cattle, and tn has been advised of the re- ————— THE MINORITY REPORT, Grounds of Mr. Wheeler's Approval of the Senate Bond R The minority report of the w means committee in favor of the Senate bond resolution has been prepared by Rep- resentative Wheeler (Alabama). It de- clares that it was never contemplated that the act of January 14, 1875, should be con- strued to Lave any operation further than to effect the resumption of specie payments in 1879. It certainly was not contemplated at that time to glve any President of the United States unlimited and continuing au- thority to exercise the power which the framers of the Constitution conferred up- on Congress slone. The report declares there is no emperor, king or potentate rul- ing over any parliamentary country on earth, other than the United States, who ¢laims the right to exercise this extraordi- Lary prerogative. The report points out that when the act was passed every branch of the government was under the control of the republicans, and that every demo- crat In the House voted against it. It Is contended that the effect of the resump- tion act was so disastrous that its repeal was demanded by the platform of 1876 and a repeal bill passed by the democratic Con- gress which came into power. ——- + e+ — BUREAU OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS. A Set of Rules Reported for Its Gov- ernment in Fatuare. After considering the subject for several months, the commited; appointed by the governments contributing to the mainten- ance of the bureau $f “American republics has reported to the delegates a set of rules for the conduct of this bureau in the fu- ture. Under this plan, the bureau will be considered as an international organiza- tion. All of the present force of employes are to be continued suring good behavior, but hereafter all vagantles are to be filled and promotions made jjafter examination and nomination by @ foard appointed by the delegates themadived: A permanent ex- ecutive committee is,crpated, composed of five of the representatives of the American nations constituting thé union. This com- mittee is to act as a load of supervision of the administration of the bureau and audit all accounts, The publications of the bureau in the form of monthly bulletins and handbooks and monographs are to continue. An im- portant amencment of the existing rules of the bureau is an authorization conferred upon the director to arrange for the inser- tion of advertisements in the publications made by the bureau. eS Confirmed by the Senate. The Senate executive session yesterday confirmed the following nominations: John F. Nash, to be surveyor of customs for the port of Syracuse, N. ¥. Jennie A. Harmon, to be postmaster at Palmyra, N. Y., and also the military pro- motions which were sent to the Senate Wednesday. ogee Commander Quackenbush’s Case. The House has agreed to the Senate amendment of the deficiency bill placing Commander John M. Quackenbush on the retired list of the navy. ON JERSEY’S SANDS Spring Cleaning Activity Down at Atlantic City. IMPROVEMENTS IN EVERY (DIRECTION The New Board Walk and Its - Characteristics. NOTES AND GOSSIP Sta Correspondence of The Evening Star. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 2, 1896. Usually the sound of the surf and the smell of the salt sea air are the most pre- dominant soothers of the senses on this sandy Jersey island, but av present the rap of the hammer and the screech of the saw and the aroma of paint fill the atmos- phere to the exclusion of all else. Lucky is the individual who prefers to get up with the ice man, because such does not have his beauty sleep spoiled by the muscular efforts of the merry carpenters. Fotlowing up the natural interrogation that such a condition inspires the observer here is apt to reach the conclusion that every fourth house of a public character is having its capacity enlarged in order to meet the de- mands which each summer season sees in- crease in remarkable proportions, and for every four such additions it is hardly ex- aggeration to state that one entirely new building is being constructed. The vacant jots on the more prominent avenues are held at ever rising figures, and find eager buyers at seemingly ridiculous prices. The meadows up near the inlet are giving place to city streets and cottages. ‘The well- known sand hills down near the Excursion House at the opposite end of the city have been leveled, and there are now blocks upon blocks of houses lning the broad avenues running through them. Atlantic City, in a word, is increasing the capacity of her already enormous maw to swallow summer visitors as she never has before. Board Walk or planade. Along the ocean front a new board walk is being erected. I will be criticised and calumniated for calling it a “new board walk.” Its supports are powerful steel posts driven deep into the sand, with steel piers resting upon them, and on the latter the heavy wooden flooring is being laid. Owing to the modern character of its con- struction the old and familiar name, which made and makes Atlantic City famous the world over, which makes this sandy strip of Jersey shore as distinctive in London or Bombay, in San Francisco or Chicago, as the magle name of “Broadway” makes New York—in a word, “The Board Walk’ ven decided “entirely too com- , and the new affair is to be known as “The Esplanade,” and to make it worse those who favor the newer nomen- clature call it the “Asplynard.” It will be interesting to hear what the coming mil- lions of summer visitors will call it, and whether they will submit to the eradi-ation of the name of that broad wooden swe=p along the shore, where they ail meet on a common level, and which presents. on a July or August Saturday night or Sunday the most remarkable Kinetescope of hu- manity on earth. Along the Inside Edge. Probably there are mb other three miles of walk or “asplynard,” or anything else you choose to call it, in the world fringed by such a complexity of catchpennies as this stretch along it from Pennsylvania avenue to the Excursion House. ‘There are the tin-type galleries profuse as the apocryphal leaves of Vallambrosa. The specimens of work exhibited in the frames in front of them are ten years’ study for an ethnologist. In them you find the sum- mer girl portrayed in every style of gar- niture—walking dresses, ball costumes, bathing—but let’s draw the line. Here are the summer boys from every Pennsylvania and Jersey town, and from other places far and near, and here are te business men and sturdy farmers. In those frames is the composite photograph of the Ameri- can people, and on a day of sumrmer crowds you see the breathing original of it surging up and down the broad boards in front of them. Then there are the merry-go-rounds, where little and big chil- siren” whirl around the live-long day; the omnipresent candy booths, filled with “salt water taffy;” phrenologists, who invite you to-have “your talents told; phonographs, Kinetoscopes, curio shops,” mineral water and soda water booths, millinery establish- ments, those dy a creators, better known as eating ses; jewelry stores, servation towers, toboggan shoots, and th houses that seem capacious enough in their number to accommodate a million people. Proprictors of the Place: The proprietors of all these places make money, too, and lots of it, but for eight months in the year they sit by with folded hands, so far as Atiantic City 1s concerned. Many of them follow the crowds to the south, A Turk sat with his legs crossed on the floor in Haddon Hall yesterday, with rare draperies spread before him. He gave me a pieasant smile and a little nod. I had priced his wares last winter in the Windsor Hotel at Jacksonville. Before then he had quietly conducted his business at our own Arlington. The Turk was a picturesque representative of the nomadic ss of merchants who favor Atlantic ty in summer, although he will probably iy “still further northward and be found silent and squatting at Newport and Bar Harbor before August comes around. There is an army of the craft, however, whose members make Atlantic City their home ail the year around, and they one and ail as- sure every one who gives them the op- portunity that they “starve nine months in the year in order to live three.”. Home Talent and the Imported. Another peculiarity with them is their hearty hatred of those who have eniered into business on the island without making. it their permanent place of residence, while if such persons happen to purchase their supplies elsewhere than in Atlantic City itself they are regarded as entirely proper subjects for crucifixion or worse. Some- times there is a big storm and communica- tion with the mainland eitner by way of the “meadows” or by water is cut oft for three or four days. 1 was here in Septem- ber, 1889, during such a period when even telegraphic news could not be sent out or gotten in. One of the big hotels—it was the Brighton—suffered a scarcity of supplies nd yet could get nothing for its guests from the Atlantic City mercharts because the Brighton had secured its meats and vegetables elsewhere before the storm. And the Atlentic Cityites, to the manner born, brag of this sort of thing as theugh it was the most applaudable course in the world to pursue! A Hypnotic Exhibit. Already the sensational form of attrac- tion so delightful to the crowds here is be- ginning to be presented. Last night a young man, who needed money badly, I suppose, submitted to the powers of some hypnotic professionals who are doing a turn at one of the local play houses, and immediately after being placed in a som- nolent state he was put to bed on a cot in the window of a store on Atlantic avenue, adjoining the post office. There he has been ever since, calmiy sleeping, while crowds of people stand and stare at him. Now and then he changes his posiiion slightly, as sleepers will, but it is evident that he is resting easily despite the glare of the broad daylight and the constant noise and movement in the throngs outside. A large placard in the window announces that the sleeper will be awakened tomor- row night after forty-eight hours’ repose. One irreverent spectator suggested-that the condition of the man might have been superinduced by Atlantic City whisky, but it is said there is no awakening from the slumber inspired by the real Jersey brand of the article found on this slip of the sand. There must be an enormous quantity of it sold here during the season, and there are apparently nearly as many Saloons in some sections of the city as there are boarding houses. Comparison could ge no further. In Another Month. By July 1 Atlantic City will have finishea its spring cleaning. The shavings and sawdust will have been burned; the paint pots laid away and the painters and carpenters will have forsaken their overalls for store clothes and wiil be enjoying the proceeds of their spring activ- ity on the board walk—beg pardon, “Asply- nard”’—in various ways. The beach will iook its loveliest with the crowds of gay and gally-dressed loungers and bathers, and the Strangers will do everything that is to be done, from “shooting the chutes” at the inlet, which, by the way, is a popular amusement managed by Grant Parish of Washington, to getting mosquito-pecked on an electric car ride to Longport. It is gratifying to note that it will be easier to get here this summer, and that the journey can be msde without the cx- asperating transfer across Philadelphia by electric trolley or carriage and ferry boat. The Pennsylvania road has completed a bridge over the Delaware river, across which trains are now being run directly in- to Atlantic City, from the Broad street station, and returning the same pleasant way. By Washingtonians and others run- ring from the southward, this new arrange- ment will doubtless he greatly appreciated. CLUSKEY CROMWELL. ee re Fall of the Gold Balance The Secretary of the Treasury has de- clined to pay for gold deposited at the as- say office at Denver by gold checks on New York. Several of the largest Gepositors at Denver preferred payment by check on New York rather than on Chicago, as here- tofore. It is stated at the department that the expressage on bullion from Denver to Philadelphia, where it is coined, is her $1,000, and it is not the policy of the Secretary to pay this heavy charge, and at the same time put gold checks in the hands of depositors where they can be most con- veniently used in withdrawing coin from the subtreasury for export or other pur- FOR MECICINAL USE NO FUSEL OIL FOR PREVENTING WEAK, TIRED FEELIN . this pure stimulans it gives strength. ations, ers and druggists, Send fe poses. ‘The gold balance has fallen to D ae $106,490,000, ard further withdrawals are rink —, feared. = To Design Furniture. 1 The treasury cabinet shop needs a draughtsman. A civil service examination —~—B will be held June 16 for applicants for the Place. The salary is $1,200. Candidates must take the clerk-copyist examination and be up in designing furniture and gas and electrical fixtures. —<$<$<$<—$ 9 The Parks of Some Fortunate © From the Pittsburg Dtspateh. Of the public parks of the principal cities of the world London, England, has the greatest area In the great English it is said there are no leas than 1%) parks of various kinds, aggregating 5,000 acres in extent, or an average of 33.33 acres each. en. A DELICIOUS BEVERAGE The forty parks of Philadelphia come At all Soda Fountains next, with an average extent of 79.38 acres, MR HOME USE, 7 CENTS, and an aggregate of 3,175 acres. Then SAM'L T. STOTT. 305 PA. AVE. N.W. LIBRARY PHARMACY, Pa. ave. S DRUG STORE, I5th'and 1 nw. ty 21-th, fn, 1,16 comes St. Louis, Mo., with twenty-one pub- & 2d se lic breathing places, summing up acres. Titn in order, Chicago, 2,115.10 acres, divided into twenty-five parts; Dub- lin, Ireland, with only two public par! they aggregating 1,90) acres; Minneapolis, Minn., 1,552 acres, divided into eigntecn fair-sized parks, the rest mere squares or triangles; Edinburgh, Scotland, 1,280 a: save a few pennies. It won't pay you. Always insist on distributed in fifteen parts, “ine ludin ES C1 Queen’s Park and Arboreum, which are FURES Rooth ee a under government contrel, and contain 614 lade only by wey ped rains} ~ and fifty-eight acres, respectively; Berlin, | 4% e448 sakes Seatious, Sold overywhere : Germany, 1,263.10 acres, distributed in | ===s-== == == ===! eighty-three parts; San Francisco, 1,1: GLAD HE SUFFERED. acres, divided into twenty-four different parts; Louisville, Ky., 1,079 acres, in nine parts; Baltimore, Md, with 911.25 acres, in twenty-six parts, twenty of which are public squares; Buffalo, N. Y., 900 acres, in five parts, and Detroit, Mich. 881.38] “I do not believe in acres, in ten parts, misfortunes of others Next to Detroit comes Pittsburg, with | man is in trouble. 800 acres of park land, 455 of whi : 4 He Had 5. From a0 Post gloating over the but I am glad that she said, as she threw are a comprised in Schenley Park, about 300 in {Gown the paper she had been reading. Highland Park and the rest divided be-| “Who is it, and what has he beea tween the Herron hill, Bedford and 2d | ing?” he asked avenue, or “Goosetown” Park. “— Bont know wip be is> o plie Schenley is the jewel of all the Pitts- CP sp hd eg ny a Di, acer burg parks, and always will be such. It ts | Ut he sold his wife for $10. one of the largest in any American ci y, is He did delightfully situated, and offers every op- “Yes, he did.” portunity to its managers to add to and “The scoundrel.” multiply its various beauties. Bie docked sak Sites hae ——__-+e+_ “Are you glad that he is in trou o Russian Cookery, she aske From Lippincott’s Magazine. “I hope that he is sent up for life," he The curse of all hotel cooking in St. | Teturned, emphatical Petersburg ts boiled beet. There'are other | car thst pas aboee oe ee ee oe Aishes, of course, but the stomach weakens Jer thought you would ing tk at ers at this point. In St. Petersburg it is quite | kcod joke, or ankind remark.” possible to get boiled beef by ordering “Is no * he answered, mutton chops, and the head waiter will] “I'S @ crime; that’s what it is. It's « Provide a seasoning of ‘argument. At one | Sud honest mon and meee eee : favorite tabie d’hote breakfast roast suck-] as su.l, ; ed oa ing pig, stuffed with black buckwheat groats, is served every other day, and one must go early If he be attached to this hearty delicacy, so great is the demand for it on the part of the Russians, who are at tracted thither by it. But boiled beef is the Russian as it is the German and Austrian proteus. It appears on the bill of fare under different names at least three times every day im the year, after already having done yeoman service | “!ty},2 in the soup, with one onion fried from} AU4 early morn to dewy eve to make a strong | 4, 4° but thrifty flavoring. It scores at leas: | + eleven hundred economical and { lectual triumphs for the Germans every year, and the stomach, which cannot, like the eyes, be defrauded by fancy titles, at last flees, howiing, from the struggle with slow nau seating starvation. But in Russia the enemy is less fertile in stratagem. It mas- querades most frequently under the name of “cutleis" or “bitki,” with a prefix of & distinguished name, preferably that of a “Oh, I'm so glad 1 that wa Pat's wh you v of that I it as a to find glad injustice. What his pumishm Td make would be a plied. “I with a m ou an do with him if so that it warr all fraud hi less ¥ : and § selling him to li for the aot a ca in favor of with the wife he has sui his natural life. It is mercy.’ toe ads & Queer om Guiana. From the London News. slashing military man, as is fitting. Poz-| Visitors to the Zoolozical Gardens should harsky cutlets (Minin, the butcher comrade | inspec that remarkable amphibian, th of Prince ieee is most unjustly foi Su jam to: twe spe as of which a gotten), Skobeleff cutlets, Dolgoruky cu Bite sie hy: Saternsiter soni let and the whole race of cutlets a eed ea hbag rsesdin dcsctirlrtaes Dery ~ bitki, may be safely avoided. fhe backs of these two overed with But, alas! the anxious query as to any |Jarge round eges, remin. ling one in size unfamiliar dish, “Is it chopped?” generally | and color of those adariantine comfte brings the answer, es." Then one knows | wy: ich sometimes perally bestrew sur- that it will turn ‘out a hard, dry ball of | ach sometimes liberally estrew the sur chopped boiled beef, variously seasoned, | [4¢¢ Of Plum cakes. It has been long and fried in grease, sunflower seed oi] | Known (We believe o iginally through Mme, being often used in Lent and other fasts Merian, whose scientific st atements wer for the soul’s sake, when sinners will per- | received ith such skept m) that this sist in eating meat. i f a1 frog shelters its young with really Sree €d parental affection unexy iina A Supreme Court on Fortane Tellers. ooded amphibian in ho.es excavated From the Lansing (Mich.} Journal. in its back. From these they only em when ful edged. Lat at t Za An opinion handed down by the supreme | initial stare, which has not yor peor ne court Is likely to send cold chills running | is observabie. @he eggs are there. wat up and down the spinal columns of mod-| the back, where they have beon place ly ern day seers, fortune tellers and the 1! who have been wont to find a rich har- vest In Michigan. It is evident that t learned justices do not take much stock in the ability of the seventh son of a gev- enth son to tell the future. This intimation of the views of the court was contained in an opinion written by Justice Grant and signed by the other justic in the case of the People agt. Arthur Elmer, Last year Elmer appeared at Ionia and advertised extensively his power to foretell the future. He was liberally patronized, but after advising a woman to leave her husband, saying that while in a trance he had seen the latter In the act of killing her, he was arrested as a disorderly person and convicted. the joint efforts of the iady and her ina band, and from where they will presum. ably sink down into pits—i:tle egg cups, in fact—whtch do not appear to be as yet ready for their reception. ‘Phis is one of the most novel and interesting sights thaf the Zoo has recenily atffo to In Narrow Quarters, From the Buffalo Courter. A Springfield QMlass.) man is erecting brick business block, 8) feet long, 4 feet deep, including the wails, and 8 feet high The strip of land which it will occupy hag been lying idle for nearly twenty years and bas been a source of owner, It was ke expense to ite recently acquired by ite This judgment was affirmed in an opinion | PTeSeNt possessor, who is de:crmined to us in which the English statute," which de_| five @ revenue from it. He intends to ae clares that “every person pretending or | Vote the building he 18 erecting to cfticn professing to tell fortunes shall be deemed | Shoemakers’ shops and a bicycle rc & rogue and a vagabond,” was approvingly | (ry. There will be a space of less than quoted. The opinion also approves the lan-| t#ree feet between the front and back guage of the trial judge to the effect thai | Walls. By letting the doors opsa cutward no person not a lunatic could believe the | @%d having his tenants sit parallel with accused possessed the power to foretell the | the street, he thiuks he can accommodava arenes! enough of them to insure him a profit on ae. his investment. But they will have to small men to be entirely comfortable im the narow quarters he is providing. Used Her Leap Year Chance, Paid With Checks on His Honeymoon, From the Portland (Mle.) Argus. A few days dgo a young couple came here from Boston and went to a clergyman to be married. After the ceremony the groom passed to the clergyman a check for $10. Then the groom invited the clergy- man and his wife to accompany him and his bride in a ride aLout tcwn the next day in order that the ccuple might see the city. The invitation was accepted, and the four had a very pleasant ride. The bride and groom pirted from the clergyman with many expressions of regard, evidently sin- cere. Later on the clergyman had an in- quiry from a stable keeper as to the iden- tity of th: young man. It turned out that he had presented a check in payment for his carriage, end the check had come back marked wcrthless. The fellow paid his ho- tel bill with a bogus check, and the check he gave to the clergyman was also no good. The couple heve left town and their whereabouts cannot be ascertained. The bride is described as a lady of very attrac- From the Newark Advertiser, Will a woman take advantage of he leap year privilege? Well, won't shef Folks who are skeptical on the subjeat ought to refer to the county clerk of Mor- ris county, N. J. He thinks he has at least one genuine case. According to hig story, a wealthy widow moving in high cial circles was married to a well-known Newark man. A few days before the cere- mony she went to the clerk’s office and asked for a marriage license, explaining that she wanted it for a friend who was ill, and who had asked her to do it for him, The license was given to her, blank, of course, and she was instructed how to fill it out. Under the clerk’s eyes and direction she wrote the names of the bride- groom and his father, his oczupation, and then the name of the bride-clect, with the various necessary bits of information eu CET about her. The clerk asked her to sign het EERE own name, as representing the purchaser Best Thing Said by Horace. of the license, with her address. The wo- From Life Miss Vassar—“Are you fond of Horace?’ Miss Abat War (from Chicago)—“Yes, indeed. He never said a better thing than “Go west, young man.” man hemmed and hawed, asked question# and tried in every way to evale the point, When she found the name must be signed she made the best of it, took the pes bravely and wrote. She fled without any explanations.