Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1896, Page 9

i= = THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT TH& STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenne, Cor. 11th St. by The Evening Star owspaner Company, 8. H. AUFSMA |, Pres’t. New York Oifoe, 49 Potter Building. e Evening ris served to subscribers In the by carrlers, own account, at 10 cents ber week, or 44 cents per month. Cop ter 2 cents exch. By mall-anywh ited States or Canada—postage prepaid—50 cents per month. Saturday’ Quintupl foreign postage udided, $3.00. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., second-class mail matter.) ye b7 ML mall sal Sheet Star, $1 per year, with 00. rt, Che Lyening Slav. Paces o-» WASHINGTON, D. 0, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1896-TWENTY PAGES. to another. Millinery. All Tsimmed Hats that were $9, $10 and $12 to go at Ealance of the Children’s ‘Trin med Hats rhat were $3 at fn Short-back Sailors gc. for. tee unset ousiae 25e- Fren-h Felt Alpines, in brown, navy pov esr mammii 6) ip 1 Hat Trimmings. r k and Col a About buncles of Assorted Flow- Ribbons. Another Jot of th Nes. 5S and 7 Pub ~ Sutin eo iy boats: 2c. 1,000 5 Ribtons, v can of AlLsilk . sd, yards ns thi MAYER BROS. & CO.,. 937-939 F St. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP a Building Operations as Viewed From One Standpoint. MISTAKEN IDEAS ABOUT HOUSES Advantage of Small Houses in De- sirable Residence Localities. = ee A GROWING POPULATION see Eee who fs extensively engaged in yerations In this elty as a con- much work as he was able to handle, and that he had just signed a contract to erect % house which would cost about $30,000. te the rather fnactive real estate “whether in- market, average citizen, terested in property or not, will no doubt be rather surprised to hear that any one in the t bust has as much work as he is abl> to de, but this experience, while not a ral one, is probably not infer who progress of building the past few months. iy speaking, the real estate not active one, yet it does that there is no business at all. : one might is an nw Plans for Houses. ar when the di jouses Which it This is the season of Is of plans for ne proposed to start dt the coming fall | ere being finally deciied upon. Architects and jents are in consultation, and the pl carefully considered. As a rule a = 2 house but once in a life- time igh the saving is that one must r 1a heuse before he becomes | © etent for such an undertaking. It | fcllows that a per n is just as apt to) rn Kes In Getermining upon the | ft is in settling up- business or per- the de that one opinion about as good as another, but in sh i the arrangement of there is certainly much to be m_ experience. In _ build. as well as in other things, people Want to get as much for their possible, and they run u and four stories and extend back a hundred feet or more, when i haif stories and a depth of 40 et would have been ample. About Small Homes. ‘The house builder is atways beset with the thought .of what some one else might think of the house in case it should be placed on the market for sale, and he cal- 1 that the more rooms he has the will be the rental in the event he and the bigger the price in As this is a very gen- s is rior are apt or of eral notion, the result fs that the propor- tien of 1 houses to large houses, es- pecinlly tm popular residence sections of the city, fs very small, and those of the fermer kind are seldom unocgup'ed. The fact 1s overlooked that a smali house is Irore economical than a large house to fuz- nish, to heat and to maintain, and for this Yeason such a dwelling ts in demand by hese incomes are rather limited. etice of occupy almost all of the residence f seems to be on the increase, and in inion of some the result of this will ut In a few years houses with ample ‘k yards will be in great demand. After awhile people wiil find that {t {s more ad- Yantageous to have generous area for air erd light in the rear of thelr houses than that there should be three and four rooms fn depth on each floor. Suburban Population. One of the officers of a suburban railroad fall the cther day that while the busine: of the road has been larger during the sum- mer months than was the case during the the per- vel is increasing. ns, course, that there are more people living % the Mie of the road this year than 3 (he case last year. These people have Zone out there and established thelr per- nt residence, and In this way their onage continues through the summer and wint The business of all the suburban rail- roads leading out from the city experiances pers Wash Suits. 1 Very Fine Duck Suit. Size 36, Sail- or effect, trimmed in rich embroidery. Wis $12. For... $3.98: ‘€ 1 Extra Quality White Piue Duck 3 Suit. Size 32. Trimmed with G @ $4.50 of our Liven Crash Suits, eS ) d goods, wide skirt, 51.99; with deep hem, go at...... GOESSHSOSSOSHS ey Odd Lots. 1 assorted lot of White Orfental 3 Lace, all widths. Was 25e. lo 23C.— stitehed H 4c. 10e. at iD SHIRT WAISTS. © wut every ‘e have put ¢ You get a bar- the lot. 1 lot of Ladies’ Satin Sto Scarfs that we At IOC. At BIC. gin if your size is i —so that were that wer ne oS, & om during the summer, owing to the practice of people who gain some relief during the hot evenings by riding on the street cars, Of course the city lines profit from this excursion business as well as the suburban lines, but in the former «ase it serves as an offset to the falling off in re- ceipts which marks the summer business of the street railroads, as of nearly all other enterprises in the city. No doubt the experience of this railroad in the particular that the permanent busi- ness is increesing is a common one with all the suburban railroads, for withoat doubt the pepulation outside of the city is increasing as well as that within the urban limits. The increase is indications it seem: tainly the railroad to afford satisfactor steady, and cer- es above referred as well as encourag- ing evidence that in spite of the general | @epreszion in business the nation’s capital is steadily forging ahead. Work for 200 Men. The District Commissioners last Monday issued orders for new work on sewers, street paving and curbing for the coming fall and winter which will give employ- ment fer several months to probably 200 men. The cost of the work will aggregate something like $180,000. The improvements in roads and sidewalks will add to the beauty of the streets of the city, and the sewer improvements will contribute to the sanitary facilities. The employment, how- ever, which will be given to laboring men is no small ccnsideration. An Office Building. Fred. C. Schlaich, architect, has recently completed plans for an office building for Mr. Wm. Berens, jr., to be erected on E street northwest between 6th and 7th adjoming the steam bakery of W. Berens & Sons The front, which is elab- orate, will be of Roman brick, with orna- mental copper and Seneca stone trimmings. ‘The n floor wil be used as a dairy lunch room, whieh will be finished through- out in hard wood. The upper floors will be for office rooms and the cellar for storage and light manufacturing purpose: The entire building will be lighted by elec tricity. The frontage will be 26 feet 6 inches and the depth i16 feet. Some Improvements. An Improvement of some importance is contemplated at the corner of 6th and K Streets, where a row of five brick resi- dences will be erected. The houses will be modern in all respects, will be two stories in height, with pressed-brick fronts, bay windows and mansard roof: Plans have been drawn by B. F. Judson, architect, for a two-story residence to be -cted at 1211 Massachusetts avenue. It will have a pressed-brick front and the in- terfor finish will be of a high order. Hot- water hea will be installed. A two-story dwelling is to be erected at 20 Sth street southeast, from plans pre- pared by Richard Rothwell, architect. A store building and dwelling will be erected on Pennsylvania avenue southeast, next to the corner of 10th street, from plans prepared by W. J. Palmer, architect. The Building Record. The only occurrence of any importance that happened during the week at the office of the inspector of buildings was the filing of plans for the new Mount Pleasant Con- sregational Church. The permit for the erection of the structure has not yet been ied, but undoubtedly will be within a jay or two. According to the plans, the new church, which 1s to be located ‘on the Columbia road near 14th street, will have a front of 68 feet G inches and a depth of 106 fect 6 inches. It will be two stories in height, with a basement, the construction material being brick and stone. The architecture will be Romanesque. In addition to. the church auditorium, the building will be provided with Stnday school, class and Bible instruction rooms, a library, a kitch- en, supper and sewing room and an amuse- ment hall. The architect is B. F. Meyers. Randolpk T. Warwick has secured a per- mit to erect two three- story press-brick dwellings at 1363 and 1365 Ohio avenue. The houses will have flat tin roofs, no cel. lars, and are to be heated by latrobes. The builders are T. J. King and J. W. Thomas L. Chappel has obtained the necessary authority from the Inspector of buildings for the erection of five two-story brick dwellings, 631 to 689 K street northeast. The houses are to be of press brick, with flat tin roofs, and heated by furnaces. A. W. Chappel is the builder. Sees Business and Politics. From th> New York Weekly. Mr. Stealall—“I have done you a good many favors in the past, buying up dele- gates for you, carrying conventions for you, hiring repeaters, counting votes, and so on; and now, a3 I am out of a job, I thought maybe you would give me a chance in your factory. I hear you are in need of a confidential bookkeeper.” Great Statesman (also a biz manufactu- rer)—“Um—er, I don't think you would suit in that poattion. Put I'll tell you what I'll do; I'll back you for county treasurer.” ® Mayer Bros. & Co., 937-9390 F St. Progressive Storekeeping Demands that no goods should be carried from one season Broken lots of every description must be stamp- ed out. We are at work clearing such lots out now. These very exceptional offers show how we are doing it: CAL CENTERS A Visit to the Places in This City Where Opinions Are Made. MANAGERS OF FIVE ORGANIZATIONS Chat About the Men Who Are in Charge. WHAT THEY ARE DOING The shop for the manufacture of senti- ment and molding opinion is an interesting institution. The machinery is very simple, and the chict cpera‘ors are the only ones who have to be to any considerable extent skilled, but the product is ingeniously fash- foned, complex in design and varied in quality. The manufactured sentiment ts usually very firm and strong and highly colored, but of thin texture. The manu- factured opinions are usually of thick and heavy texture, with a mixed and indistinct design. ‘The several shops that have been started up here in Washington are working at full blast now, and are turning out a strange and miscellaneous lot of goods. There is a common impression that about ail there is to do at the several political headquarters is to send out tons of printed speeches, which were at some time deliv- ered at the expense of the audience, set in type and preserved at the expense of Con- gress, and finally distributed at the expe of tne Post Crtice Department. But, as a matter of fact, this is only a part of their work. They have got to be constantly pre- pared to furnist: cpinions on all sorts of subjects having any reiition to politics, and if there fs not a ready market for those opinions they have to provide one. They have to provide the crude article of puclic sentiment and send it out for de- Yelopment, and then they have to hold up cleverly constructed reflectors to this senti- ment when it is sufficlently developed and spread out the shadows thus caught, to construct what is put on the market as in- formation or news. This is again caught on the reflectors, after it has become well worn from use, and out of it fs manufac- tured campaign contidenee. ‘ampnign Contidence. The method of manufacturing campaign confidence is very tomplicated. Favorable impressions are subjected to the Influence of powerful magnifying glasses. Unfavor- able impressions are put through the shrinking system of diminishing mirrors and reduced to a dim perspective, upon which the rainbow colors are brought out. Some very fair articles of campaign confi- se dence are being manufactured at all the campaign establishments here. Now that the several party campaign committees have got down to work there is considerable of interest and importance in what they are doing. Four committe: of the Bryan combination and one repub- lican committee have headquarters here. The establishment of the republican com- Senator Faulkner. mittee is larger than that of the other four establishments put together. The repub- lican national committee has no branch here, but the congressional committee has an establishment su: as was never known before, and is doing work which no other committee has thought possible. ‘Ten rooms at the Normandie are oceupied for offices, and two buildings near by are occupied as work shops, where thousands and 8, of documents are folded shipped. Four members of the tne lit- erary secretary and a force of about thirty typewriters, stenographers and other as- sistants, are employed at the offices, and mployed there are perhaps two hundred in preparing documents for ship: the workshops. About four hundre sand documents are sent out eaca The clerical force 1s occupied fr the morning until 5 o'clock in the ofter- noon caring for the correspondence, mak- Ing up lists and keeping the books. Five or six hundred letters are received and as many are written every day by the cor- responding secretary. The committee is in communication with every congressional district in the country. The Republican Committee. Representative Badcock, the chairman of the committee, is an experienced politician of unusual penetration and shrewdness. Though a man of rather genial disposition, he has won among politicians the cogno- men of the silent. He has a way of listen- ing much and talking little. He is not given much to boasting about what {s going to be accomplished, but goes steadily ahead along the lines he has laid out for himself, keeping the public largely in the dark as to what he is doing. He is quick to come to a decision and prompt to act. He considers resu!ts rather than costs, The casual run of visitors see little of him. Representative Mercer, the secretary of the committee, is the one who comes closest in contact ith the public. He possesses a great t@t, has a manner of the utmost cordiality and an air of frank ness which renders him exceedingly popt- lar. On most any subject he is a fluent talker, and in three minutes can remove any doubt an anxious visitor may have about the result of the campaign. He is the picture of amiability, brightness, good nature and self-confidence. The visitors are received by him and the more import- ant correspondence passes tlfough his hands. "fhe literary secretary, Fr2d. Shrader, is a newspaper man. Such is the bulk of ‘his correspondence that he occupies two rooms. In one ha receives and reads his mail. He sits there with ‘etters piled on his desk as high as his chin until he has dug his way to the bottom of them. Then he goes into the other room, where there are typewriters, stenographers and a phonograph, and there dictates a few hun- dred letters. The Bryan Combination. At the other headquarters they have net “| yet got down to this smooth running order. The lack of money and dependence on yol- unteer service has contributed to tardine: but they have at last got where the docu- ment mill is turning out a great quantity ef matter. The four committees are in one building, with three wicker gates be- tween them, not fo® the purpose of keep- ing them from encroaching upon each other’s territory, but in order to separate their visitors. Attendants at the two en- trances in use sort out the visitors and direct them on their way according to the character—whether they are populists democrats or members of the silver party. Senator Faulkner and Lawrence Gariiner preside over the democratic congressional committee, which occupies the annex of the Wormiey building. ‘They have a force of about twenty assistants, and a large volunteer force, who work at night when free from the domiraiion of government service, The work of this committee and that of the branch of the democratic na- tional committee established here are pret- ty well merged. Faulkner, as chairman of the congressional committee, {s prac- tically the head of the national branch. Gardner is secretary of both the congres- sioral committee and of the League of Democratic Clubs, of which McMillin is the actual head, Postmaster General Wilson, the president of the league, being just at present not in sympathy with the alins of the organization. Representative Richardson is in charge of the literary branch of the national com- mittee, ceting in conjunction with Senator Faulkner, so that these three things are practically grouped, and a long-dis telephone puts them in communication with Senator Jones in Chicago, who is in lor-g-distance command. All the literature of this combination 1s sent out through Faulkner's committee, but the correspond- ence of the two committees is distinct. Mr. Richardson gets the national commit= tee letters for his branen and has a cor- tespondence which keeps him and wo typewriters fairly busy. Mr. Faulkner's committee sends out, cn an average, a hundred anc nty-five thousand docu- ments each day, and the daily mail runs from a thousand to fifteen hundred letters. With Senator Faulkner. Senator Faulkner, Mr. Gardner and their immediate staff occupy two large rooms and an ante-room on the second floor of the annex, facing on 15th stree Senator Faulkner has the back room, where be can enjoy a limited degree of privacy. Mr. Gardner is in the frent room, where vis- itors who have got as far as the second floor are recelved. Im the room with Mr. Gardner is Mr. Miller, who has charge of the Ists for the distribution of documents. In the ante-room Mr, Syme, with the as- sistance of a phonograph and a stenog- rapher and typewriter, takes care of all the correspondence. This {s the strictly confidential room. It is there the long distance telephone’ i located. It is the long-distance conference room—the annex to Chtcago. Senator Faulkner’avails him- self very Httle of thg opportunity afforded by the pdssession # « bdck room to se- cure privacy. His debr is usually open, Lawrence Gardner. when no conference 1s in progress, and he is seldcm too busy to see those who have any excuse for a demand on his time. He is a very hard worker, without ap- pearing to be always on the hustle. Hi skill as a political manager Is generally recognized. One of his strong points is th he never gets excited or rattled, but g) a sitvation promptly, and goes to work in the coolest manner ‘imaginable to adjust things as he wants them. He has an amiable manner, even in turning people down, and he never lores any time in musing of his own cleverness. Gardner is the silent and cunning one. Fat and amiable looking, a gleam of cun- ning flashes out of his eyes, and in the mest confidential manner posaible he tells you—nothing. He fs in touch with every manager in the campaign, and somewhere or other has hold of all the threads that lead out in every direction. Conrad H. ne can talk about two hundred and twenty-five words a minute into the phonograph, and when he gets steamed up to this speed he has to use the machine, becanse he is too much for the ordinary stenographer. He reads and answers more than a thousand letters a day. Mr. Syme is the law partner of Stuart W. Walker, United States district attorney for West Virginia, and has an office in that state, as well as one in this city. He is as thorough a politician as he is a lawyer. He expected to stump West Virginia this campaign, but at the personal requ Senator Faulkner and Secretary G: took charge of the important vorrespond- ence of the committee. National Democratic Committee. At present Representative Richardson is monarch of all he surveys in the quarters of the democratit national committee. What he surveys ts Frank P. Morgan, the newly appointed newspaper secretary, first assistant to Mr. “Grizzley” Adams, who is “1 in Chicago, and two typewriters, 1 yards of mapping covering the floor | Cc. H. Syme. of three second-stery rooms, a long two desks and several chairs, besi¢ large bundle of letters, which is con reappearing and cry tion. Richardson is age of the shrewdest, most diplomatic and active of politicians. He keeps things smoothed out around him, and never loses sight of his game. The Populist Committee.” Senator Butler, chairman of the populist committee, has a suite of five rooms on the first floor, by the H sireet main entrance of the building. In these quarters the work atly ng out for his atten- of the populists’ committee 1s done. Sen- ator Butler occupies the corner room, that used to he a reception room when Worm- ley’s was a hotel. Here, with his private secretary and Mr. J. M. Divine, he handles everything pertaining to the management of his end of the campaign. The room across the hall fs occupied by the kecretary of the committee, Mr. Edger- ton, and Mr, Pirtle. Senator Butler has excited the admiration of the wise and the shrewd men in politics. He is regarded as one of the keenest po- litical managers who has appeared in the field of politics in recent years. He is in- describably watchful and cunning, and his energy is tireless. He thinks and acts at the came time, and docs not neglect the smallest detail. It is difficult to tell on what lines he is moving when he does not Want to disclose his plans, but he is not idle for a minute, and apparently 1s never in doubt. The Silver Committee. Mr. Stevens, vice chairman of the silver party, in charge of the headquarters here, is a young man new to national politics in Washington. He, too, has attracted atten ticn to himself by shown. Old political manage: been thrown in contact with and have had to act with him speak in the highest praise of his ability, his quick and easy gras questions and the promptness ar ness of his judgment. He and Secretary Difenderfer, wit force of assistants, have the H str ond floor front of the building. They have about thirty employes, and are conducting an immense correspondence, and sending out about 100,00) documents a day. Th large dining room on the first floor, where many great banquets have been held, is shared between the populists and the silver party as a folding room for documents. SEPTEMBER HAS AN «R” Accordingly the Oyster Will Renew Its Rela- tions With the Public. who huve Reports Indicate 2 Good Supply of the Favorite Shell sho im Ex- cellent Condition, It’s a pity poor John Chamberlin ever had to die, but it’s doubly sad thai he was call- ed away just as the gastronomic season was about to be ushered in with an entr of epicurean delicacies which he loved so well and prepared with such consummate perfection. Next to a slice of Rhode Island turkey, cut close to the side bone, John Chamberlin most liked a teed bird hung on and broiled over a bed of live coals that had lost all their smoke and gases an hour before. If he had a half dozen fat and h oysters and the belly of a broiled Spanish mackerel to preecde the birds, and the latter were accompanied by some fried apples and daintily crisp potato chips, with a bottle of Chambertin in easy distance, the prince of American ben vivants would have asked nothing more. And next week ne could have had them ail just to his vir There will be many of his friend ever, who will linger over such a lu 8 that before the sun sets a weck fi for along with the reed > oyster, ushered in by the that September contains lov how- heon om t bird comes magic “it” An enthusiastic r of the bivalves once said that he al- included in his August prayers a READY FOR REEDIES An Army Preparing to Advance on the Marshes. per ee ORTOLAN AND REEDBIRDS PLENTIFUL —- + Veteran William Wagner Discourses on the Sport. ————— MR. CLEVELAND'S SHOOTING > I TISENTIRELY unnecessary to an- nounce that the sea- son during which the rail, cr ortolan, or soro, as it is differ ently called, and the reed bird can be legally killed will commence Tuesday, because all persons to whom such a statement would Interesting have been well aware of that fact for ma and have been paring themselves ordinly, sportsman has been overlooking his shoot- ing outfit, erdering hundreds of shells, « gexing a skiff end a good man to push land practicing getting up early and » ing awake. The small c Cup alle ored boy who lives in T y has been industriously “removing the rust from his father’s musket, and say- j mE his pennies to get an yeast powder bot- tle full of powder, a beer bottle full of shot and a box of shiny brass caps, and between the two extremes has bee an army comprising professional men, mer- chants, clerks in stores, business olfices jand the departments and those fortunate ndividutls of leisure who are always evidence when the pr thing 1s to | done at the proper time, and who would as | Scon think of missing the marshes the first Week in September as the theaters the first week in the season, all ardent in their « slaughter “reedies” und vail, and in anticipation of the opportunity 1 Kinds of Guns. al ad’ ay morning, the Will take into action will be conceive as it would be to des it has long been aec able fact that any eld thing cf a gun, so long as it has barre appropriate or raul, and, 2 use froin the latest re on the marshes nd bck, Stock a to blaze away with © will ‘oved hara- im merless to the cast iron barrel that pour- ed slugs into the greasers at the battle of Halo Alto. he skirmish tire in the Wilderness will be repeated, so far us the sense of sound is concerned, in a. semicirele.arewnd U southern haif of the city, and it may result almost as painfully in many instan-es be- ‘ause where there the reeds so ef each other that some one so many shooters of th easona| peppered. til the tide won't shooting will continue get and even after that, nd then the men will come home with the birds have Killed and a magniticent assort- ment of picturesque tergiversation about y they did it. The inspiration of all this prepar found in two little birds « known to ornithologists un die Latin names, but more popularly in this section as the ortolan The Rail or Ortol ad reed bird ¢ ortolan is known in the rail, and when it passe the sora. lis habi exer whole of North America, es} eastern pr *, and as far south nezuela, In the Bermudas the mig re immense. It comes north inthe ng, and breeds from Pen frigid zone, as 2 Pear- s have hearty one for the biessing that next month a a ee ee ee would have an “R" in it. There are thous- S OfEDin ar Aine be nhce ands of individuals who are equally as | {70*© sbaaaeperay go thankful for the same thing, so they ean | ff8) _ 3 Lines hurry themselves to the nearest raw box | USO aiven ff and replete themselves with succulent shell | \Af Neh water it is driven fr fisn fresh from the briny, or perch on | a 5S eareaiee stools in front of a marble slab and eage i nah pani call for a half—ne, a whole—peck of | ak-kuk-kut steamed. |, and goes south It is in the raw state or in a steamed aeiar Gee toe condition that oyst sought for the ae oak pure purpose of tickling the palate. 7 aie. seach haps the chafing dish may be included to | piumage is br own abo: a degree in this distinctly pleasure-giving | PIMmare fs be ere character of the oyst bet when A renincheras ese as hite, are broiled, frler or roasted thes seston SOON or cite ah ally eaten with regard to their f . oat, is K abdom, i as much as for the gastron Sie ean bane cata Tpllinibeooe fon they afford. And they meet the re- | Jig Ives are long, and yellowish ieee in quirements in either case. or. it rises ‘singly, and is mever found The season about to open promises to be | jy Hocks. y one of the most successful in the local | history of the oyster. Reports from. the The Metamorphoned Bobolink. nemerous beds in the Chesapeake and i The recd bird is the bobolink. Who PaO oe aie ae rs further | gets down to South Carolina ft is the ri the Washington market, shows that they j Pird. ard when It reaches Jamaica, where are in excellent condition and that t tks, it is known ters are particularly fat and healthy eae gs Sons of Jonadab The twenty-fifth annual session of the Sovereign Council of the Sons of Jonadab will be held in Washington, D. C., next Tuesday, September 1, and it is expected that a large number of representatives will be present from the elght subordinate councils located in this city and couneils in Baltimore and Harper's Ferry. The order at the present time has about six hundred members. The officers of the Sovereign Council are as follows: Sovereign chief, Ec ward Mullen; vice sovereign chief, J Hayre; past sovereign chief, John J. We sovereign patriarch, Wilmer Benjamin sovereign secreta Wm. H. Young; so’ ereign treasurer, F.’ J. McQuade; sovercizn guide, Chas. A. Caho; sovereign watchman, James Campbell. The Sunday Night Music Club. The Sunday Night Music Club celebrated the birthday of Moszkowski at the re dence of one of its planisis, Miss Anna Marshall, in Langdon, playing the Inau ration March and other selections from ): opera Boabdil, his Serenata and a few of his Spanish dances. Miss Bertie Reichen- bach sang one of his songs, with piano and string quartet accompaniment. After the Moszkowski program they played a Haydn selection. J. SS es MeKinley-Hobart-Mudd Club. The McKinley-Hobart-Mudd Campaign Club met Tuesday night at the Palo Alto Hotel, Bladensburg, Md., with seventy members present. The meeting w: to order by President Garges, who and introduced a number of promi republicans, who addressed the meetin: es The Late Dr. Argyle Mackey. The body of the late Dr. Argyle Mackey, who committed suicide in Baltimore, was brought to Washington last night and t en to the residence of his mother, No. 905 M1 street northeast. The funeral services will be held when the brothers and siste of the deceased reach this city, and cenducted by Rev. Thomas J. Ker the Church of the Holy tive eailed poke it is found in marvelous fic as the butter bird. In the SP whe the reed bird comes north, its musical notes is heard in the meadows and fields and th song of the bebolink is weleocmed. The male is then mostly black in color, with white markings, but in the autumn he takes on the yelloy 1 brown dr Mi female. “It breeds in the north and st south in the autumn in immense floc and continues its journey as Brazil. The reed bird moults twice a y the most interesting phase of his c! 1 best when it is on It is so fat when it ri that it is broiled best in its own and with the proper pinch of sit and the correct dash of pepper it becomes a morsel that would have made Lucu! schew nightingale’s tongues forever once experienced its gastronomic The rail, or ortolan, is also good t but It dees not excite the subtle mpathies of the palate like the reed bird So it is fortunate the reed bird ties in flocks and gives its pursuers a better show to get more victims than they would if it flew by itself like its autumn companic A Talk With William Wagner. The undisputed authority in Washington on guns, ammunition and everything per- taining to a combination of them that re- lates to sport in the woods, fields or marsh- far south as hei ec- es is Mr. Wiliam Wagner. He is the best shot in this section of the country, either in the field or over the t and his knowledge is scient tical, Wiile his experience exten pearly half a century. in a modest, un Mr. Wa ject. He did th's reporter 5 ge loader operated sistant made appiopriate a to the conversation, and a | ttle fellow, who | calls “papa,” and is as proud of being of a 28-gauge breech-lead ing able to kili fi wing as he ly listened. “I have shot the marshes of ‘he Eastern braneh for forty years,” said Mr. Wagner, “and until a few years ago was out on the first day as early as the tid Most of the ola fellows have dre and row there are very few mar lefz, but amoung us it used to be the object | Printers’ inf, fe fiftfe ecfoof master of advertising, saps: Jt is cfaime> for the Wasingfor Star, and profabfp frufsfuflo cfoimed, what no offer netspaper tn f6e counfrp gocs info 60 fars: a percentage of aff fhe Gouses tiffin a radius of fwentp mifes from Be office of puffication. to see who could make the big: the first tide. Yes, I'm cred two biggest re t bag on with th inj 4 ‘ords; the top one ortolan, or rails, as they should be py ly called. The other shame to slaugnter in sport, as 1 neve and it Was 25. 1 was a m that way, thougi sold a bird in my life was hard to find friends to give them to, The Best Marshes to Hunt. My experience has taught me,” contin- ued Mr, Wagner, “that the t marshes for rails are those in the Eastern branch Letween the two bridges—the Navy Yard and Benning. In the recent past the East- ern branch has rapidly filled up betweer the Navy Yard bridge and the railroad bridge and the reeds are very thick there how, and there will be plenty birds there this season, 1 am eure 1 ern branch above Benning bri “Of course, a man must t to successfully shoot rails,” ner. “They are very timid birds and s concealment above everything tide they hide at the roo’ and keep in the thick leaves no getting them out. and there When the v they are foreed out of thes cling to the reeds above wat when the bow of the skif is pushed through. A good pusher is a valuable man to have handy at this season, but he bard to find nowadays. A good pus keeps his skiff going where his exper teaches h rails are apt to be ttends as much to mark en they rise and markir birds that are killed as he docs aging the skiff. a Cum’ excellent pusher and £0 are berland boys. A Splendid s: “L have be year,” con: lentiful, ai ng them w on the Wa n dowr ued Mr befor ns over and in order to go down the condi 1 bird or rail empts me at such a time, for I'm a perfe rank on game laws their strict observance. J was down t rday with Ha ‘ and he had his 28-bore broech-load “ He kil g blackbir atch a twelve-year vy. 4 I saw some rail also. ‘The rever in’ be than they this ar, ww very thick. I noticed a peculia that T ney i years’ mass President Kept the load veland’s shells, reper velund’s SU are lowle oa: of rod powder, Which is equa! to about 4 hms and a quarter of No. 6st The tent aiso has an S-xauze Kon and a ang gun, He is an exceilent sho “There are so many cranks in the worl that J never let any one know when Thay an order from Mr. 4 Wagner sagacions! me io come up fo The W bim 3 wder r of little viais, each of w was fle “T showed : Mr. 4 him if many shells were net sont to He said he had received 560 not long bets from a manufacturer. 1 asked bh } said he hadn't, but had no objections t en 1 asked him Mf cranks thers laughed ani eal in that, 1 said nd he fied with the way 1k is the hest 1 for a gun?” ask ¥ 1 that will : i wht N a< prompt reply well-d . opinion ax quickly raN Richard Sr y May. 3 Kander k i Pobick bay, Qveogr 14 5 tations dow? v v yith marshes an Wi be soueh 1 £08 It }itat the wise man q 4 1 the recds are tt his pusher will be better able t the tmmershes, and, what is 1 rer of marking a bird and t he will have the best 0° the the least trouble and v Ml 20t pm and and 4:10 rtd am. and € = ADDITIONA os. orn Wve is every reason te believe that Southern Railway Company, des» , fact nat so aroas their 9 s w Baltimore, Norfolk and Newno News are concerned, are carrying pase r av ight at less charges than eve “ except since the aboar| met th ent schedule a few 4 5 K With as much Fuccess as anticipa when their Chesapeake bay line was «i a couple of months 1 re preparing f very larg: « trade out of Ne to bota " s points Liwi vera Southern v rough inspe and re the Fs comp ner’s Point will be paced in proved manner, and that ¢ = hh will visit fail for the rope. room of which wh ing