Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1896, Page 10

10 LOCAL MENTION. AMUSEMENTS TONIGHT. Chevy Chase Park.—Music. Columbia Phonograph Company, 919 Penn- sylvania avenue northwest.—hxhibition of the Graphophone and Kinetoscope. Cycle Cottage, Carroll avenue, Park.--Musie and Dancing. Kernan’s Lyceum Theater. — Cyrene’s High-Class Vaudevilles. —_—.—__ EXCURSIONS TOMORROW. Takoma Steamer Macalester for Marshall Hall! at 10 a.m. and p.m. and 6:30 p.m. er Queen for Marshall Hall 30 a.m. and for Mar- News for Norfolk and at 7 p.m. Steamer Samuel J. Pentz for River View at 10 a.m., 2 and 6:45 p.m. Steamer John Sylvester for Colonial Beach and Lower Ceder Point at 9 a.m. Steamer Jane Moseley for Colonial Beach at 9am. ‘Trains leave the tion for Bay Riege at Steamer Harry Ran at 7 am. Itimore and Ohio sta- 15 a.m. and 4:28 p.m. all for Chapel Point —__.—__. s HOME- S you've yet to realize the the finest quality Beef Washington. 1 Center Market. See Johnston's, » that ent T. KEAN sar Tomorrow. es SMASHED ware, Cut Glass, Crockery ~such as you've never had before, nor are likely to have again—at the Assignee’s Great HALF-PRICE SALE of Boteler & Son's stock, Penna. ave. SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cw inful, swollen, smarting feet and takes the sting out of corns and It's the greatest comfort discov- bunions| of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes iting or new shoes feel easy. It is rtain cure weating, callous and Try it today. Soid hoe stores. By mail amps. Tr: 1 package FREE. , Le Roy, N. Y. ABSOLUTE Y¥ PURE are Kenny's Preserving Sugars—products of best American refineries. Beware of Seven city stores. C. For Spring Lamb and New York Roast so to John R. Kelly, 9th st. wing Market. Corned Beef a specialty. CITY AND DISTRICT. MONEY. fler Son Gives Notice of a Contest of Her Will. Boggs, a naval officer, has of an intention to contest the ¢ will of his mother, Ellen M. gs, the widew of Admiral Boggs, filed here several days ago. It Is claimed that the will provides that he skall receive but $1,500, $1,000 of which was be- queathed to him by his father. The es- tate is 1 to consist of about $29,000 in United States and District bonds and val- te, and the residue is divided Lawrenee given not the contestant's sister, Katherine Stewart Berry, her children,” and the widow and children of his deceased bro! Wm. B. Boggs. Mr. Boggs complains that if his mother Wrote the will she was not at the time of sound and disposing mind, and that its execution was due to undue influence on the part of his sister or or persons. Several years ago Mr. Boggs d Miss Annie Dodge of Georgetown, is said that his mother opposed the arriage. Hence. it is said, Mrs. Boggs cut off her son with the small bequest. Mr. Randall Haga ppointed collector of the estate Saturday, that afternoon found the $29,0% in bords in Mrs. Bogzs’ box at the Farmers’ and Mecha Bank marr! ef Georgetown, atso found a fourth ecdieil to the W. L. Marbury of Baltimore. in place cf Chas. M. Ma Judge W: er trustee under > AMUSEME: TS. Openin Lyceum.—Bright silver dollar was last Sature were thrown open or the first regular performance of the season of 1806-97, with Cyrene’s High- Class Vaudeville Company as an attrac- Resident Manager Kernan and Treas- Hlouf were on hand to welcome old and bri Kernan’: Ly-ecm night. when the nt as a new Thea joors tion. , and threvghout the house the old of employes has been_retained, in- cluding tte under the leader- ship of Prof. o'clock, the to the doo red to be 1, or in thi , @ menu that has or in the eyes of the Ly- E jedert, in fancy . Was well receiv: a Then car » on the sisted | or Soler, a famous clown, th: ring a great hit. The e rie_ trio, : and Erooks, in startling, grotesqu unique acro- ms, proved to be novelty of the mor a tinuou! 1 startling fe The little ts be- inging and dancing soubrette, Mis ows, followed with a taking s r and Rennat, in a serio-comedy act calle: “Home Again,” were well received. son-Hak or t of the an io closed progr exhibition The jumping of B: ture of the act, his fe marvelous, especially ti he easily vaults over »binson, a lady fully = performanc comedy entitle the straight with filustrat- of high and ke tomim 3 vorit tion from the comic op. During the progr Seen to great ac specialty ua Peric’ of this pla ntage in a new ——— Winter Work of Wimodaughsis. The board of directors of Wimodaugh- sis will occupy the present headquarters at No. i324 I street northwest until Sep- tember 1, when the society will remove to the Lenman building, New York avenue near 15th street, wiere a number of rooms have been secured, and are now being com- fortably and tastefully fitted up. The win- ter's educ work will be vigorously resecuted, along useful ines and ¢ nal as heretofore, sses are already forming. -—— Settling Estates. The will of the late Catherine Weil, dated July 5 appoints Annie C. Sellner and George A. Weil executors of the estate, directs that it be taken by her children, two abov W. Wei in equal shar ‘The estate of the victin to his broth and Stahl, one of the late hot spell, is given Thos. B. Stahl, in trust for the testator Henrietta H. Stahl by a will $10.00 to Ningara Falls and Watkins Special expre through coache and Pullman parlor ears w O8 tation, V tkins Thursday, 4 1 leave £ hington eed Redaction in Rate to Bay Ridge. The rate to Bay Ridge, the beautiful ex- cursion resort on the Chesapeake Bay, has been reduced this season to 50 cents for adults, exeept for evening train a rate of [5 cents will be charged, with rebate of 25 cents after coupon is stamped by ticket agent at Bay ize. Half rate for children between the ages of 5 and 12 years. ‘Trains leave B. and O. depot week days, 9:15 a.m. and 4:28 p.m.; Sundays, 9:35 a.m., 1:30 and 8:15 p.m.—Advt. GRADE CROSSINGS _ “AGAIN Mrs. Kate Neil and Her Son Run Down by a Train, A Serious Accident in the Northeast Caused by Inadequate Track Protection. Had Congress responded to the call of the people long ago, and abolished the deadly grade crossings and surface tracks on the steam railroads, James Neil, a horseshoer, who lives at No. 1003 2d street northeast, would not now be so sadly afflicted. His wife and boy were caught on the 3d street crossing Saturday afternoon and hurled through the air several feet. When picked up, the boy, Joseph, seven years old, was mangled almost beyond recognition, while his mother, Mrs. Kate Neil, was severely cut about the head, and was unconscious. There is no regularly defined street crossing at 3d street, though it is so near the heart of the city, but pedestrians are in the habit of using this place as a crossing, as well as following along the path beside the tracks. The scene of the double accident is the northeast corner of the property occu- pied by the Little Sisters of the Poor. Mrs. Neil end her son Joseph were going southward from home shortly before 5 o'clock. Before they could reach the south side of the track a train came along and did the serious damage. No Watchman at Hand. A train of freight cars was moving along the south-bound track, and Mrs. Neal and Joseph waited unti lit had passed. They saw nothing of a north-bound passenger train moving on the other track, nor was there any watchman there to give them no- tice that they were in dang‘r. In conse- quence of their being no protection of this kind, the little boy moved south as soon as the freight had passed. The mother heard the train come thundering around the sharp curve just northeast of the H street crossing. Joseph was on the track, not far from the moving train, and the mother, who was horror-stricken, made a leap to ve him. But the train was too close on him, and {t was then impossible for either mother or boy to get out of the way. The engineer reversed his engine, applied brakes and did all in his power to stop the train, but all to no purpose, for the train was too near the mother and son on the track, and both were struck and tossed some distance ahead. : When picked vp both were alive, and the boy, although horribly mangled, had not lost consciousness. One hand had been cut off and dropped beside the track, while one leg was so badly crushed that he may lose it. In addition to these fearful wounds, he may have received internal in- juries. Still the doctors thought yesterday that he would possibly pull through. The mother, although unccnscious, was not 80 badly injured, and her condition was far more favorable than was that of the boy. There were several ugly cuts about her and a piece of her scalp had been entirely cut from her head. Somebody picked up the boy's hand and burted it in the cinders, but later the police took charge of it. A Police Investigation. Both Mrs. Neil and her boy were picked up and taken to the depot on a train, and from there they were removed to Provi- dence Hospital in the ambulance. When this had been done the police made an in- vestigation, and it was learned from sev- eral railroad men that the train was not going fast at the time the accident hap- pened. This morning both Mrs. Neil and her son were doing fairly ell. Joseph is, of course, the much worse off, and there is not much certainty about the result of his injuries. Mrs. Neil, however, is much im- proved, and the physidians’ feel certain that she will recover. ————— A PARADE AND SERENADE. Th Republicans Pay Honor te Na- tional Committeeman Parker. The local political campaign wag opened Saturday night by a lively and enthusiastic demonstration given under the auspices of the McKinley and Hobart Interstate Cam- paign Club. The occasion was a serenade to Mr. Myron M. Parker, member of the national republican committee from the District, and it was preceded by a parade of the club and the Union Republican Club, headed by the Fourth Artillery Band, from the Peace monument to the Hotel Norman- die, where Mr. Parker is temporarily re- siding. There were 200 men in line, wear- ing white caps and most of them carrying flags, and when the hotel was reached a crowd of 2,000 persons was assembled. President John C. Chaney opened the pro- ceedings, after eral airs by the band, with a short address, in which he felicitated the republicans of the District upon being represented on the national committee by such a loyal and staiwart republican as Mr. Parker, who had the friendship and confidence of all the party leaders, as well as of all intelligent and respectabie repub- leans in the District. President Chaney pledged the enthusiastic co-operation of all republicans here in the work of electing McKinley and Hobart. Dr. A. P. Fardon, president of the Union Republican Club, also made a pleasant speech, complimentary to Mr. Parker, pte- senting him, on behalf of the club, with a bouquet of golden rod and roses, made by Mrs. R. B. Buckley of Anacostia. Mr. Parker was greeted by continued cheering when he came forward to reply, and his remarks were received with close attention and liberally applauded. After thanking the assemblage for its greeting Mr. Parker said no man who lived in Wash- ington should be ashamed to say he was a republican, and declared that local re- publifans should occupy prominent ground and lend material aid to the work of the present campaign which they were ente ing upon and which was of such great im- portance to the future of the country and of this city. Other speeches were made by Messrs. Louis T. Michener and P. H. McCall and letters of regret were read from Col. Chas. P. Lincoin and Mr. B. H. Warner. Afi the close of the pro! gs at the Noi mandie the procession was again formed and the various newspaper offices were ser- enaded. — SENATOR GORMAN INDORSED. Ratification ond Flag Unfarling by Lakeland Democrats. A rousing democratic mass meeting for the purpose of ratifying the nomination of Bryan and Sewall was held at Lakeland last Saturday evening under the auspices of the Bryan and Sewall Club of that place. Farmers, laboring men and free silverites from a radius of ten miles gathered to hear the speakers, and many ladies were among the audience. The Mt. Pleasant Field Band dispensed patriotic airs. A handsome ban- ner, bearing the names of Bryan and Sew- all, was thrown to the breeze. The meet- ing was called to order by Dr. Charles A. Fox of Belisville, vice president of the club. The first speake 3 Mr. Milton E. Smith of Vansville district. A feast of watermelons followed, and then spirited silver speeches were delivered by First Auditor E. B. Baldwin and Dep- uty Pension Commissiorer Bell. The clos- ing address was made by Mr. S. D. Nedrey of Nebraska, a personal friend of Mr. Bry- an. At the conclusion of the oratory a res- olution was passed, unanimously declaring that “the Lakeland Democratic Club heart- ily commends and indorses the political course of Senator Arthur P. Gorman in supporting the regular nominees of the democratic party, and believes that his wise counsel and experienced statesman- ship will prove a benefit to the national democratic party and an honor to the state of Maryland; and we hereby pledge our- selves, individually and as a club, to use our untiring efforts to redeem Maryland from the < of doubtful states and give a rousing majority for Bryan, Sewall and silver.” x The club decided to’ attend a democratic meeting at Brightssat, at 7:30 tomorrow evening, fer the purpose of orgunizing a Bryan and Sewall club. —>——_ Personally Conducted Tours to Ning- ara Falls via Pennsylvanian Railroad. The passenger department of the Penn- sylvania railroad announces a series of personally conducted tours to Niagara Falls, leaving Washington by special train 7:30 a.m., August 20, September 5 and 1% Rate, $10; tickets good for ten days.—Advt. THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1896-TEN PAGES. ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS Washingtonians Find Trouble Down the River. IMegal Liquor Sellers Apprehended— Another Attempt at Suicide —Other News. Frank Riley, a young white man from Washington, who has several times been warned by the police of this city to keep out of Alexandria, visited a house of ill fame on North Lee street, kept by Kate Fisher, Saturday night and made an as- sault on the woman named, which landed him in the police station. He was fined $50 by the mayor this morning for assault and battery. His brother, Thomas Riley, @ prepossessing-looking young man, came over from Washington early this morning and, visiting the scene of the trouble, tried to intimidate the inmates of the house, who had been summoned to appear in court as witnesses. Some one informed a policeeman,who soon had Thomas behind the bars. A fine of $10 was imposed upon him for his interference, which he paid. Unless Frank pays his fine of $50 by 6 o'clock this evening he will go to jail for three months, Mayor's Court. Mayor Thompson had a long docket to vade through in the police court this morn- ing and disposed of the cases as follow: Joshua Haney and Matthew Shelton, ccl- ored, were fined $5 each for disorderly con- duct and fighting. Wm. Barnes, colored, was fined $1 for dis- orderly conduct. Michael and Dennis Dal fined $2.50 each for disorde: fighting. Kate Green and Lillie Banks, colored, charged with disorderly conduct and fight- ing, forfeited $5 collateral each. Jane bryant and Peyton Grey, colored, were fined $5 each for Indecent conduct. Dallas Washington and Kate Williams, colored, were fined $5 each for indecent con- duct. Frank Riley, white, was fined $50 for an assault on Kate F'sher. Thon as Riley, white, was fined $10 for trying to intimidate witnesses. Geo. McCuen, white, charged with disor- onduct, was dismissed with a repri- white, were conduct and Washington Bird, colored, was fined $4 fer selling liquor without a license and on Sunday. John Shelton, colored, was fined $64 for the same offense. Edward Green and Roxie Smith, colored, charred with disorderly conduct, forfeited $5 collateral each. Jerry Dorsey, colored, was fined $5 for assauiting his wife. Harry Mills, Frank Richards, James Wood, Ernest Henry, Roy Beach, Walt is and Roy Nevitt, all white boys, w 50 each for gambling. Two Sunday Raids. Policemen Betties and Knight raided two “speak-easies” cn South Pitt street last night, kept by Washington Bird and John Shelton, both colorcd. The police have sus- pected for some time that liquor was be sold by these men, and yesterday they cided to Investigate. Bird keeps a barber shop, ard when the officers walked in they found a colored man in the act of taking a drink of whisky, for which he had just laid down five cents, They placed the pro- prietor under arrest and confiscated several bottles of whisky and gin and a number of glasses. Later they visited the house kept by Shelton and found a man and woman drinking beer, which they said they had paid for. A number of negroes, both men and women, who were in other parts of the house, escaped in the darkness. The men were taken before the mayor this morning, and, the evidence being clearly, against them, they were fined $64 each, in default of which they will go to jail for, four months. Washington Man Missing. Chief cf Police Webster has been request- ed to look out for Edward Pollock, who left Lis home at 442 H street southwest, Wasi re de- ington, D.C., on the 11th of August. He is described as being five feet three inches high; weight, 160 pounds; dressed in a thin light coat; no vest; blue serge trou- sers, straw hat and has a heavy mustache and very thin black hair. Another Attempt at Suicide. Alexandria has been having quite an epi- demic of suicides and attempts at sel{- destruction lately. The last person to try is Wm. Medeila, a young negro, who yes- terday filled up on bad whisky and then went to Hunting creck bridge and jumped overboard. He was specdily pulled out by scme bystanders. He claimed that unre- quited love was the cause, the woman in the case being Hattie Tyler, a good-looking mulatto girl. Death of John T. Creighton. Mr. John T. Creighton, one of the oldest retired merchants in this city, died at the Alexandria Infirmary at 2:30 o'clock yes- terday afiernoon, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. For many years Mr. Creigh- ton and his son, Mr. J. Carlin Creighton, conducted a hardware store at the south- east corner of King and Royal streets. Several years ago the elder Mr. Creighton retired on account of his advancing years and his son engaged in other business. Since the death of his wife, several years ago, he has made his home with another son, Dr. W. Frank Creighton, the druggis but several weeks agé it was found neces- sary to remove him to the infirmary. The will take place at 10 o'clock to- morning, from the residence of Mr. J. C. Creighton, at 1102 King street. The Local Trains, As heretofore announced, all of the local trains on the Washington-Southern rail- way between this city and Washington were withdrawn yesterday, and from now on the local passenger traffic will be almost entirely In the hands of the electric road and the ferry boats. The electric road off!- cials have at last aeceded to the demands of the public, and will stop their trains at all street crossings and will accept local tickets between points within the city lim- its. Six local tickets will be sold for 25 cents, though the present high rates be- tween this city and Washington, Mount Vernon and other points will remain in force. Nine-tenths of the traveling public of this city are praying that the rumors of a fast ferry line, to be operated in con- junction with the Traction company in Washington, are true. Noten. | Mr. Charles Appich has returned from a ten days’ stay at Colton’s, on the Potomac. Mr. Henry Wattles is at Atlantic City. Miss Edith Smith is spending some time at Round Hill, Va. There will be a meeting of the W. C. T. U. at the M. E. Church South tomorrow at 3 p.m. ee COMPRESSED AIR CARS IN NANTES, The People of the French City Are Not Bothered With Vibration. Apropos of the matter of the vibration of the new compressed air cars, Prof. Rene Lamson of this city has written to The Star, calling attention to the satisfactory experience of the people of Nantes, France, with that form of locomotion. The Star several years ago published a brief expla- nation of this line, which had then been in successful operation .for several seasons. Prof. Lamson Writes: “In that city the compressed air cars have been in use for at least twenty years, and the 120,000 inhabitants of the town are so pleased with them that they would not have electric cars. All the new lines ; they build in the center of the city or in the suburbs must be equipped with com- pressed air motor cars. I cannot tell you what is the exact speed of the cars, but I know that they run as fast as our electric cars, if not faster. The noise is so slight as not to interfere with conversation. 1 think if the Eckington line were equipped with that system of locomotion the resi- dents of that locality would be delighted.” Special Train Service From Berkeley Springs—Sundays, Commencing August 16 and coatinuing Sunday evenings during balance of season, for accommodation of Washingtonians, special train service has been established leaving Berkeley Springs at 7:40, arriv- ing at Washington 11:25 p.m.—aAdvt. INDIGNATION VIN. .VIRGINIA The Attempted Wreckrof the “F. F. V.” Growing Convittiom That Tramps or Perhaps Weuld-De Robbers Tarned: the Switch. From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening Star. RAVENSWORTH, Va., August 17, 1996. Saturday morning’s incident at the sta- tion here has convinced the people more than ever that the law against tramps and suspicious persons should be enforced to the very letter. It is generally believed that the dastardly attempt to wreck the “F. F. Vv.” train was the work of tramps, and not of men who were daring enough to imitate the Morganfleld-Searcey “hold-up” near Quantice about two years ago. This, however, is merely a surmise, for it may be that some of the gang to which the darirg robbers mentioned belonged perpe- trated’ the erlme Saturday morning, and falling to accomplish what they had in- tended in the way of wrecking the train, became frightened and were glad to leave. The firing upon Flagman Muscoe proves beyond a doubt the character of the men who participated in the affair. These men, for it is thought there were several of them, were only a short distance from the switch when Muscoe returned. They were secreted on the edge of the woods near the track, and when the flagman advanced toward them they thought they had been ‘seen and were going to be surrounded, and probably fired upon by the train crew. It was while he was going in the direction oe them that the three shots were fired at him. Switch Lock Battered. An examination of the switch showed that the lock had been battered, probably with a sledge hammer, and when this was done the switch was thrown open. The switch had not been tampered with an hour before the wreck, for a west-bound train passed here. without any trouble. People who live along the line of the rali- road in this vicinity reeall the fact that # number of tramps and suspicious-looking people have been ately seen about some of the stations, but as a rule no notice was taken of them, and they were permitted to 60 unmolested. The strange men seen about Mallow station ‘two weeks ago, it is thovght, may have taken part in this af- fair. Indeed, some people have an idea that they were along the line of the road that night selecting a good place to op- erate. When the armed polivemen from Alexandria appeared in response to com- plaints the strangers hud departed. Warm Reception in the Future. It is certain now that any tramps or, other strangers who come about here in the near future may expect trouble, and if they do not find themselves in the hands of the law they will have reason to con- gtatulate themselves. That a number of passengers were not killed and wounded amd the train completely wreck surely no fault of the miscreants, f selected a good place for a. “hold-u; although this spot is not fifteen miles from Alexandria, it is to all intents and purposes ovtside of civilization, for the road is densely wooded, while on one side the vitch there is a deep ravine. Had the robbers succeeded in their undertaking the train would'no douyt have gone own over the embankment and the wreck. would then have been attended with loss of life, but, as though by an ect of Providence, the engine pushed straight ahead until the box car on the spur track or blind siding was reached, and the impetus was so much checked that all it did. was to plough through the ground a distance of several feet and to upset a wood pile. Fortunate Circumstan: Fortunately the box car was there and there was an up grade. It was also for- tunate that the Intended robbers were ig- norant of railroad matters, for had they understood how to. manipolate the switch much. more serious trotihle wotld have resulted. When the affair happened there was con- siderabie. excitement among some of the passengers in the front cozches, while some of those in the rear coach hardly knew that there had been any trouble, for a skght jar, as if caused by the sudden ap- plication of the brake, was all they felt. “What's the matte! many of them asked, as they put their heads through between the curtains of the sleepers. One or..two passengers ventured the answer, “It's a hold-up,” but after several min: utes, when none of the expectel masked burgiars appearcd, all hands were satisfied that there would be no trouble, and some of them were soon asleep again. Railroad men who have been here since the acci- dent happened are firm in their conviction that this class of crimes should be in- cluded among the capital offenses. Detec- tives are invesUgating the affair and are making efforts to apprehend the guilty parties. a Why Prices Are Lower. To the Editor of The Evening Star: Your correspondent, “Hard Facts,” it strikes me, is a little off when he asserts that, “When a dollar will command in ex- change a greater quantity of other things it is more valuable than when it com- mands Jess.”” a On the contrary, it simply proves that the other things for which the dollar 1s exchanged have depreciatel in market value. The price of nearly every article in use is very much less now than ten or twenty years ago, due to improved processes and machinery by which they are produced, and consequently a dollar will buy more of is them. It not the value of the dollar that has changed, but the cost or value of the articles. Another reason for the change in the amount of goods that a dollar will buy, is the overproduction of the articles, or what amounts to the same, the lessened con: sumption of them, due to the hard times, or other caus ‘ Again, while the price of one article goes up, frequently another goes down, and ac- cording to his theory in such case the val- ue of the doliar would be both decreased and increased at one and the same time, which, of course, is absurd. It is not the value of the dollar that charges, but of the ariicles for which it is exchanged; and the change of valve in the latter is regulated by the inflexible law of supply and demand. The dollar is sim- ply our unit of valucs—the yard stick, so to speak, by which to measure the value of property, and no jugglery of words gin make it anything else. The only reason:why the silver dollar is worth less than the gold dollar is simply because of the increase in the production of silver, and the @ecrease® demand. for it for use as money. With us, owing to the promise and practice: of our government to keep it at a parity ‘with the gold dollar, the silver dollar at present. will buy as much as the goldidollar; but let the gov- ernment adopt free sliver coinage, and re- fuse to undertake to Keep it at a parity with gold, what them? Why, it would at once drop to its bullio& value, and no power on earth cculd prevent it. The law of sup- ply and demand regulates the value of both gold end silver precisely as it does other things, as is shown ’y the fact that at one time the silver dailar was worth more than the gold dollar,{at another or other times it was worth Idss, depending on the relative production of: the two metals. True, the change relative values is not affected. as speedily as in other ar- ticles, because of the universal use of gold and silver as money, but that they do change, and that the change is due to the law of supply and demand, the record for the past proves beyond question. OBSERVER. — Lovell Diamend Bicycles, with factory guarantee, will be sold by Ratcliffe, Sutton & Co., auctioneers, at their rooms, 920 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, on Wed- nesday morning at 10 o'clock. Remember, these wheels have a reputation and a fac- tory guarantee. Now on exhibition.—Advt. Luxuriant Hair Is produced by the CUTICURA REMEDIES when all otkers fail. They cleanse the scalp of irri- tating, scaly, crusted and blotchy bumors, stimu- late the hair follicles and destroy microscople insects which feed on the hatr, and hence suc- ceed when the best physicians and all other reme- 1 ates tail. sold throughout the world. aul? NEW OFFICERS INSTALLED The Typographical Union Starts a New Year. No Effort to Be Made to Secure the International Convention of 1898 for Washington. The recently elected officers of Columbia Typographical Union were duly installed yesterday before a large audience, composed of members of the union, at Typographical Temple. The meeting was opened by the retiring president, Mr. George A. Tracy, who, after calling the body to order, made an address, in which he briefly reviewed the situation in the organization. At tne clese of his remarks Mr. Tracy announced bis willingness to administer the oath of office to his successor and the other ofticers- elect, who went forward, and each of them Promised solemnly to fulfill the duties of the office conferred upon him for the en- suing year. The new officers are: Presi- dent, John D. Kehoe; vice president, James M. Krelter; secretary, C. M. Robinson, and treasurer, John J. Higgins. After the ceremony was over Mr. Tracy left the chair, announcing, however, just before he did so, that in pursuance of in- structions from the union he had called upon the chairmen of both the republican and democratic campaign committees, and was informed by them in response to his avestions that all the campaign documents sent out by them were printed in union of- fices. Announcement of Committees. Upon assuming the chair President Ke- hoe in a graceful speech returned thanks to those who had elected him and asked all the members to aid him in placing the organization on such a footing as that to which it was justly entitled. The chair also announced the appointment of the fol- lowing committees: Business—G. A. Meyer, John Darlington, Daniel O'Connell, J. F. McGinness, W. M. Keener. Nominations—Henderson Doxey, 8. J. Triplett, O. J. Ricketts, J. K. Wallace, F. C._Roberts. Printing—Willlam A. Pratt, J. H. Smith, George P. Phiilips. Finance—J. J. McCarthy, John Dickman, W. W. Ludlow. Auditing—James Willis, F. J. Ward, C. E. Holmes, J. W. Carter, P. L. Moore. Grievance—K. 8. Brow, J. B. Stowers, F. M. Lewis, T. B. Hoagiand, Vv. Juno. Entertainment—W. F. Reed, J. F. Grant, 8. W. Edmunds, Isaiah Cox, C. J. Unger, Carrie L. Whitehead, Grace Lee Fisher. Library—J. H. Broadnax, L. A. Shimp, J. McFarland. Conference—H. K. Southland, George F. Norton, ©. F. Sudworth. Relief—W. R. Love, Augustus Bruehl, D. J. McCarthy. A Presentation. At this point Vice President Kreiter on behalf of a number of the friends of Mr. Tracy presented the ex-president wiih a handsomely inscribed gold-headed cane as a mark of their esteem for him. Mr. Tracy was taken by surprise, but replicd in appropriate language. A committee was appointed to call on Senator Stewart: and request him to move the office of “The Silver Knight” from Alexandria to Washington, so that the printers employed thereon will receive urion wages. ‘The union decided that it would be im- practicable to ask the International Typc- graphical Union to hold its convention for 188 in this city, on account of the at- terdant expense. It was said that such a session would cost the union at least $2,000, and the majority of the members thonght it would be better to apply that stm to the payment of the debts of the union and thus again get the organiza- tion back to its former excellent financial cendition, The Metropolitan Railway Trouble. President Kehoe was requested to cail on the officers and directors of the Metropoll- tan Street Railway Company, and see if the difficulty between it and its discharged em- ployes could not be adjusted. Mr. Kehoe will, it is understood, explain to President Phillips and the board of directors that he represents the 1,400 members of the union, who, with their families, are forbidden by the union to ride on the cars of the com- the would-be patrons of the road, it is also @ loss of revenue to the railroad company. A report having been made to the union that several members were patronizing the Metropolitan line in spite of the fact that there fs a fine of $5 on every one so doing, & committee was appointed to take the names of all offenders and report them at the next meeting of the union. ——___ A New Lily. To the Faitor of The Evening Star: The new Iily referred to in your extract from tke Baltimore Sun, printed in your Saturday’s paper, is evidently of the species Datura, and perhaps of the variety Meta- loides, synonymous with Wrightii, or of the variety known as Ceratocaulon, de- scribed in Peter Henderson’s Hand Book of Plants. The origin of varieties, as well as species, the boundaries between which Dar- win describes as indefinable, is involved in obscurity. The common ancestor was, per- haps, mcre nearly allied to the present form of the Jamestown weed, Datura stra- monium, but when the diversion occurred is not known. Every practical florist knows how seldom a new variety or variation ap- pears that has any value, yet sports are continually occurring. Some sports assume the form of what Darwin calls “monstros!- tes,” and this is common in the animal erganic, as well as in the vegetable king- dom. Fortunately, these monstrosities are seldom fructuous. In my Virginia garden I have been growing the sweet-scented Da- tura for five or six years, and use the flow- ers on my dining table for decoration, as well as for perfume. Verily, there is noth- ing new under the sun. H. 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CAPITAL CYCLING PARK 1408 N. ¥. ave., cor. 14th st. nw. Complimentary lessons to ladies." Careful in- struccers in attendance. Electric lighted. — Cool evening resort. Lady visitors and friends welcome. Sy15-70 COLUMBIA ACADEMY ™as™ One uf the sigits of Washington. Cycling taught on a 17,000-ft. tivor. wee SESS a small. Music every evening. and P streets, of J. HART BRITTAIN, ae ‘mbse urn. ients for gale. alii am. “RIVER VIEW Every Sunday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, jon of E. S. Randall, 30 p.m. returning at 1 Children, I5e., except on the 10 im. trips Friday and Saturdays, when tickets are 10c. ‘to all. ‘All objectionable characters excluded E.S. RANDALL, aul7-204 Almas Temple, A. A. O..N. M.S., Excursion TO Marshall Hall, Tuesday, August: 18, 1896. Tickets, 50 Cents. BOAT LEAVES POSITIVELY AT 6:45 P.M. Delightful Trips to Salt Water. STEAMER T. V. ARROWSMITR For THE PICTURESQUE LOWER POTOMAC. ‘Teuching at all the popular watering piaces and summer resorts. Leaves Washington Mondays and Wednesdays, 3 m., for Coloulal Beach, Colton’s, Leonardiown, S Washington’ early Wednesd y and Fs ‘Saturdays, pan, for Conia Beagh, Caltons Riney Volnt st. George's Island, Su ; Coan and Yeocomico rivers, arriving at Washing: ton Sundays, 10 p.m. Special Saturday evening excursion tickets to Colonial T:euch, returning Stnday—round trip, 5c. ‘All accommodations first-class. For rates, st room: te. to BLE a. BS SgUASsex, y n. Manager, ry Wil SyT-osel while this is a matter of inconvenience to EXCURSIO 8, ET 10. Down the Potomac to Marshall Hall. 33g nteamer “Macalester leaves 7th st. wharf pt Sunday) at 10 a.m. for Marshall landings —at Return. daily all, wut and intermediate 0 and 6:30 p.m. for Marshall Hall. leaves Marshall Hall at 12:45, 4 oe pam & TO INDIAN HEAD. 32 | Macalester leaves every ‘Thursday, Friday ** and S ever o'clock, lund aes Marshall Hall Toth we nd aa shall can avall themsel 4 trips without extra charge ic by Prof. Schroeder’ DANCING DAY AND Fare, Round Trip, 25 (Except Chartered Excurs ms.) FAN °PLLENT COU NNER wilt be served on arrival of boats for 50. Good cafe on steamers. Ladies are especiaily in- vited. stall Hall has no competitor for beauty, cleenliness and good order. Steamer ‘Chas. Macalester’ To Mount Vernon, BOF WASHIN . ¥, EXCEPT SUNDAY m. and 2:30 pap.; returning, reach, at 2:15 and 6 p.m. FARE,” ROUN dmission to grounds, 25e, El. amer. L. L. BLAKE, Captain, BELT RSION FOR $2 rtlew $6, $7 and $8 per SPECIAI i HARKY RANDALL, Fine boating Es. 9 am Crating m. CENTS The Tenth Grand Annual Tournament and Dress Bali RIVER VIEW, Wednesd The entrane with Fe The Oniy DIRECT ROUTE TO Colonial Beach. SHE PALACE STEAMER Jane Ploseley. Fastest, safest, Jarcest and most elegantly ap pointed boat on the Potomac. EXCELLENT TABLE D'HOTE MEALR. TRE BEST CONCERT AND DA ROUND TRIP, 50c.—CHILDREN, 25e. From foot of 6th st. daily (except Monday), at & .: Saturday at 6:30 p.m. SER THAT YOUR fri4tt JANE 3 BAY RIDGE ‘The only Salt Water Bathing resort in the victn- ity of Washington. Excelleut restaurant. Efficient train service. Low rates. Trains leave B. and 0. staticn, week dare, 9:15 a.m., 4:28 p.m. Sundays, 9:25 am., 1:30 and 3:15 p.m. Round-trip tickets, 56 cents. For the 4:28 pm. train 75 cents will be charged and 2 cents farded upon return of coupon to egent at Wash+ wten ctation. Je10-w.s.in, Ulaustlin-28 Norfolk & Wyashin Steamboat Co. Every das in year for For — Norfe wport News = mperh powerful — “Newport News.” “Norrolk” on the following seh Southbound. nefollk Portsmonitin 8:00 am Visitors to © Mygeia,” ard Vis the most att fortable night's Large and lox and. fitted. th Dining room Pennsylvania aven vania avenue; B . corner and on can also be had, Any other information @estred will be for- nished on appl fersigned at the company's ‘Wasb- incton, D. C_ Telephone $y18-404 JNO. CALLAHAN, ager. “Ericsson Line Excursions FROM RALTT 2 £100 - $20 coe 30) $4.00 Phila Philedelj Mi Atlantic City and return ¢ Atlantic City aad return (se a and the great fish- ickets for sale at and [iiners’ Trans. Co. Queen of Summer Trips. Boston by Sea. Providence by Sea. Steamer BALTIMOKE to Boston every TURS- DAY, THURSDAY an x ttf yp Btermer PALTIMOKE to Vrovidence every MON- DAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 4 pan. Bot sunuver tour books. and, further nfo cress ©. R. GILLINGHAM, Agen’ Be Long Dock, Bult: 61g Henna, ave joa Sait Water Trips to. Chesa- peake Bay. U. S. Mail Steamer Sue. ELECTRIC LIGHT All Accommodations Strictly First- Class. The stramer Sue will leave sth st. wharf every ‘aint, S SATURDAY, at 5 pan. for Pi nge's Island, Point Lookout 3 on and ear the € Fishing, Returning, nd the peake lay, Piney Point crabbing snd batbing, leaves every Sunday at 3:30 p.m., arriving in Washington at 11:30 p.m. ‘This is decidedly the best trip cut of Washing- tea ariiving at Pincy Polrt als night, and retursing to Washington 11:36 o'dock Sunday vight. Thus dispersing with ex- perse of siate rooms. Fare, Round Trip, $1.50. STEPHENSON & BHO. 910 Pa. ave. nw. Telephone 745, pout 32 o'clock Saiur- my26-3m,39