Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1896-TWELVE PAGES. ‘: $3. A MONTH) SINTEEN TO ONE, FREE AND UNLIMITED )N° "® Mogors ver Doctor McCoy Waives All Personal Fees During September. For This Month, bat Only for This Month, He Will Allow All to Place ‘Themselves Under Treatment at the Nominal Rate of $3 a Month Until Cured. MANY WHO HAVE VISITED THE OFFICES OF DOCTORS MeCOY AND COWDEN DURING THE PAST FEW MONTHS HAVE FELT THEY COULD NOT AFFORD THE MONEY NECESSARY FOR ‘THE TREATMENT. MANY ALSO HAVE BEEN KEIT AWAY BECAUSE OF THE GENERAL KNOWLEDGE THAT DOCTOR McOOY'S FEES ARE MIGH—NECESSARILY MADE SO BY THE GREAT DEMANDS UPON HIS TIME AND SKILL. WHEN DOCTOR McCOY ESTABLISHED A NA- TIONAL PRACTICE IN WASHINGTON IT WAS HIS PLAN TO GIVE EVERYBODY AN OPPOR- TUNITY TO OBTAIN THE BENEFITS OF HIS TREATMENT WHICH HAS DONE SO MUCH FOR THE THOUSANDS AND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF THE SICK AND THE DEAF IN OTHEL CITIES. IT 13 STILL DOCTOR McCoY’S PUR- POSE TO DO THIS, AND WHILE IIE DOES NOT PROPOSE TO REDUCE HIS FEE—WILL NOT DO It IN FACY—HE WILL FOR THE TIME BEING ABOLISH IT ALTOGETHER, AND GIVE FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER HIS SERVICES FREE, CHARGING ONLY FOR THE MEDICINES, MAKING 4 UNIFORM HATE OF $3 A MONTH. THIS RATE WILL ONLY BE GIVEN DURING SEPTEMBER, AND WILL APPLY TO OLD AND NEW PATIENTS ALIKE, AND WILL BE MAIN- TAINED UNTIL A CURE IS EFFECTED; THAT 13, ALL NEW PATIENTS WHO APPLY BEFORE OCTOBER 1, AND ALL OLD PATIENTS WHO RENEW BEFORE OCTOBER 1, WILL BE TREATED UN- TIL CURED AT THE UNIFORM RATE OF 83 A MONTH. CURING THE AGED DEAF. Patrick MeGraw, {SS years old). { | Hearing restored. 214 E st. s.w. Deaf ten years. | ) See Patrick McGraw, 214 E st. s.w. (SS years of age). “I had been hard of hearing for ten years. During the two years past I grew very much worse. After I heard of Doetor McCoy's coming to Washington to found a Natlonal Prac- tice here, I decifed to go to see him. I reallaed I was a very old man, as elghty-five sears ts pretty well ulong in life, and I had some doubt whether he could help me. I knew he was curing deaf people, But I fett I was perhaps beyond the time when he could do anything for me. I live with my daughter and grandchildren, and they have bad to shout at the tops of thelr volces to make me under-tand. There were distressing notses in my ears like saws and machinery all the time. I could not hear a clock or wateh tick at all. “IT have this to say regarding the improvement that has taken place in my bearing. People don’t have to shout to me any more to make me hear, apd I can hear clearly eversthing going on around me. Now, I bave to keep telling folks that they need rot holler so loud. I can hear street cars passing and the voices of my grandchildren around the house. The distressing nolses have left my ear His Daughte: Statement. ‘Mrs. Patrick Sullivan, daughter of Mr. McGraw, sali: “Father was very deaf; there was po ques- tion about that. Everybody in the neighborhood knows how deaf he was. Since he has been under oy'S care we all notice a remarkable is hearing. It is not necessary to speak re than once now, and yesterday he re- proved Howanl, the bey in the store, for speaking #0 load, saying be could hear as good as anybody.” DR. McCOY’S RECORD. The Six Years of Preparation. Matriculant at University of New York. First boner man in his class. Winner of famous Loomis pr! -1876 1879 1879 Candidate for Bellevue Hi appoint- ment... March, 1879 Chosen open to all uysiclan of the doctors of the world, resident Belle vues Hospttal -.-Mareh, 1879 During service at Bel iting pe in to training school for nurses....April, 1880 Served ax resident physician to Bellevue. .1570-1880 Study in hospitais of London and Dublin. -1881 Formulation of regular treatment for chronic trou- bles ax a result of hospital expertence.......1882 Formulation of regular treatment for the ew catarrbal, bronchial and lung diseases.......1883 Announcement of Dr. McCoy's cures first introduced voluntarily by weil-known Journalists, with pic- tures and Interviews of patients cured. April, 1884 Doctor McCoy treating over one thousand patients a month. ae 1885 Extension of office facilities by employment of students from Bellevue 1885-1886. ‘The second visit to Europe for further hospital Study snd Inspeetion. Serving In the laboratories of Prof. Koch, at Bor. itn x cls Study ‘in Charitte Hospital’ of Berlin and’ Royal CUinte under Von Berzmann.. 1801 Formulation of a system of medicine based on the discovery of potson in the blood as the origin of dlsease. 1891 im pecfectad ication ‘and. expert Dr. McCoy's prac- Z 2 1802 scovery of a cure for Deafness September, 1895 Location of @ in Washing- +++++-March 28, 1896 Copies of Doctor McCoy's mono- graph on deafness will be mailed on application to those directly inter- ested in the cure of this condition. NicCoySystem of Medicine 715 13th Street Northwest. Dr. J. Cresap McCoy, Dr. J. M. Cowden, Consulting Physicians. Office Hours, 9 to 12 a.m.,1 to 5 p.m. 6 to S p.m.daily. Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m Painless Extracting wit pure gas or by applica- Bion of ZONO to tho gums...... Highest class dental operations ° by experienced experts at one- Balf the chargo of other first- elas dentists. G7 Out-of-town ;atients supplied with artificial Beets in one visit. Painless Te. up Tory best tooth, $2, Solid crowns, $5. U.S. 2 Dental Ass’n, a0l2 40,tf Cor. 7th & D Sts. Further Remarks on the’ Question of Cheap Money. , “xX. Y. Z.."" whose remarks on cheap money in Monday's Star have attracted con- siderable notice, continuing the discussion of the effects of “sixteen to one, free and unlimited,” writes: id “What will be some of the results if the 16 to 1, free and unlimited policy, is estab- lished? Its exploiters will be seriously disappointed if it does not increase prices, for this has been. the supreme argument with which they have plied at least the agriculturists of the country. There is not the least doubt but that it will have this effect. By the inevitable operation of the law that prices will adapt themselves to the price of gold, or that an arbitrary ad- dition to the value of the purchasing me- dium will be attended by a corresponding increase in the price of goods purchased, this result must follow. At this point the law of self-preservation, the ‘first law of nature,’ finds play. When 53 cents’ worth of stiver is by fiat made worth 100 cents for exchange purpcses, then, of course, wheat and corn and cotton and tron, food and clothing will advance nearly 100 per cent in price. If they did not, then the pro- ducer would be worse off than he now fs. But what has any one gained by this pro- cess? If the farmer, though selling his pork and cotton and butter at the advanced price, is still unable to purchase any more clothing or farm implements or other ar- ticles with the proceeds than before, how is he benefited? If he could sell his wheat at the new and buy his coat or his wife’s dress at the old price, it would indeed be a fine thing for him. But what would it be for the other man? If a man can sell what he has to sell at the new silver figures and buy what he needs to purchase at the old gold figures, that would be an advan- tageous arrangement so far as he is con- cerned, but undeniably one-sided. Is it possible that our farmers and other pro- ducers can be persuaded that this is what ‘free silver’ means—high prices for my goods and low for yours” It almost seems as though this is what its advocates have set themselves to do. It does not seem to be in strict accordance with the golden rule; but it must be borne in mind that it isn’t the golden, but the silver, rule that has sway. There is something in the sheen of the white metal, with its promise of cheap money and high prices, that seems to dazzle the judgment and blind it to a keen perception of moral distinctions, for they who urge the policy surely belleve that they are advocating an honest procedure. Goldites should be equally honest, and frankly admit that free silver will unques- tionably increase prices. The great ques- tion is whether on the whole this will be advantageous to the common people, whose interests are chiefly concerned, Higher prices, when the result of operations of natural laws, when caused by a revival of business, by the increased employment of labor, and therefore a larger ability co pur- chase and a larger demand, are wholesome and Indicative of a thoroughly improved economic condition. But this cannot be said of higher prices resulting from a de- Preciation in the value of the purchasing medium, or by an arbitrary or statutory in- crease in its purchasing power. The one is an evidence of healthy and happy ac- tivity; the other of a struggle which is neither healthy nor happy, and of doubtful benefit to any one. “Let us suppose that 16 to 1, free and un- Mmited, has become the law, and that what is now 53 cents’ worth of silver bullion has been made worth 100 cents for the pur- poses of trade, and that stlver barons and brokers, who have reaped the prime ad- yantage, have introduced the new coin into circulation, in what way, precisely, te this to be of benefit to farmers and wage-earn- ers? Of necessity, for them to sell their products at the old prices would be no gain; it would, rather, work ruin to them. They must receive a price increased above the old in proportion to the increase in the -value of silver, or they will suffer loss. It is only when the increase in the price of their products exceeds that of silver that they gain a penny by the new arrange- ment. If wheat now sells for 6) cents per bushel, and cotton at 8 cents per pound, and labor at $1 a day, and a fiat increase of * per cent Is imparted to silver coin, then to equalize matters, simply to keep ‘imes as good as they now are—and that is pretty boor—wheat must sell at W cents, cotton at 12 cents and labor at $1.50. It will be only when higher prices than these rule that there will be any tmprovement what- ever over present conditions. The farmer and other producer can in a measure pro- tect themselves under the new order of things. When the wool broker, the cotton broker and the cheese broker present them- selves, the farmer is not usually under the necessity of accepting their offer. He can hold his products for a better price, and If there is a ‘rising market’ he will ultimately command his own price, unless It be un- reasonable. His wool and cotton and cheese will not spoil and waste by keeping. They will be worth as much tomorrow as today, and perhaps more. His class have this matter, in good measure, in their own hands, and can protect themselves. But the case is vastly different with the day la- borer, the wage earner. Every one knows that ‘wages are slow to rise, that while products go up wages often remain sta- tionary, to the great disadvantage of the laborer. The expianation is not far to seek. When the labor broker or employer makes his offer of wages, it is for what cannot be kept until tomorrow. [t must be sold today’ or never. It cannot be put in the store room and held for a better offer in the future. At sunset it has perished out of sight and gone forever, and only pri- vation and tears are ieft. If only $1 is ten- dered as the wages of a day, when in all justice it should have been $1.50, and the Wage earner, from a manly self-regard, and with a desire to protect his own rights and those of his class, declines the tender, at the end of the day he has neither his $1 nor his day’s labor. He cannot tomor- row do its work and today’s also. He ts al- together at a disadvantage in the matter of higher wages in comparison with the farmer or merchant in the matter of higher prices; the latter declines an offer, but re- tains his goods; the former declines an offer, and loses a day or a week. The one may profit by the delay; the other toses ab- solutely the value of his labor, and can never recover it. He cannot, if he refuse $1 a day, ask and receive $2 or $3 tomor- row. The day he was idle because he would rot sell his labor for less than he thought it worth is gone, never to return; the dollar he might have had he never can have, even though his children cry bitterly for bread. He ts therefore in no small measure at the mercy of the employer, and must often be compelled to accept what is offered for the sake of wife and children, even though in consequence of rising prices it will not purchase what It used to do. Then what of that larger class that now receive no offer at all for their labor, who stand waiting all the day long and no man hires them—who run hither and thither seeking employment and finding none; who are obliged to say of time and opportunity, as the prophet said to Ahab concerning his alleged prisoner, ‘As thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone’—gone the days and the weeks, and sometimes the months, and nothing to shew for them. It is not strange that the price of labor rises slowly, when it is so unable to contend with capital, with its superior advantages? “If one will stop seriously and honestly to study the question, it will be quickly ap- parent that it Is not so much an increase in wages that is needed as steady employ- ment for the wage earner. Wages today are high enough if every working day of the year could be utilized, if workmen were not ‘laid off’ and wages suspended. Give full time and present pay, and there would be no complaint on the part of wage earn- ers, other prices being left as they are. If a laborer accustomed to earn $1 per day is ‘laid off’ only thirty days in the year, his wages have decreased 10 per cent. It ts the restoration to labor of the per cent of wages that has been lost through enforced idleness that is the real remedy for present evils, and this can be accomplished only by resumption of ‘full time’ at our mills and factories, by the revival of our multi- plied and diversified industries, so many of which have been long dormant. It is work, not higher wages, that is wanted. To offer ‘free silver’ to an idle wage earner is to offer a stone to one who asks for bread. That ‘free silver’ will relieve the plethora of the labor market, will open any new avenues to employment, will withdraw la- borers from the field and establish them in manufactories, and thus enlarge the home market, all of which are essential to ‘bet- ter times,’ has by no means yet been proved, though loudly asserted. That it will increase the price of products in pro- portion to the premium on gold is certain; that the price of labor must also increase or times grow worse is also certain. But should the cost of living increase only 25 per cent by reason of going to a silver ba- sis, how long will labor be in persuading capital to add 25 per cent to its pay? In other words, how soon can wage earners who now receive $1 per day expect io re- ceive $1.25? This they must receive, or be ‘worse off’ than ever. It will be well for them to consult their past experience be- fore concluding that there will be any rapid rise in wages. Not this way Seems to Ne progperity.” “As to Cheap Money.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening Star: A thoughtful article with the abové heading appeared in your excellent paper, dated September 14, and many of Its state- ments carry conviction because they are based upon expertence and common sense. The article was written by X. Y. Z.—“a well-informed student of economical sub- jects.” While not professing to be ‘‘well- informed” on this subject, it seems to me that a few of the statements in the sald article are, to say the least, doubtful, and not altogether based upon facts and fig- ures. They are referred to because A. B. C. agrees with X, Y. that ‘the essen- *° © is the dis- The article on ‘Cheap Money” gays: “By the demonetization of silver all demand for coinage purposes was suspended and destroyed, and the entire supply thrown upon the market for use in the arts” (ex- cept the government purchase of silver at market rates, and which was only a tem- borary experiment). Now, we find in the Encyclopedia Britannica that nearly four- fifths of all the silver produced in the west- ern world, from the discovery of America to the present time, have been consumed in the arts, lost, etc, or exported to Asia. Taking this as a basis, only about 20 per cent of our silver has been used for coin- age; and as we only produced, even as late as 1893, 37 per cent of the whole production of the world, our demonetization of silver, if It occurred, should only have lowered the price throughout the world (20 per cent of 87 per cent equals) 7.4 per cent, whereas we know that the market price is at pres- ent about 47 per cent below par. In other words, about 4) per cent of the fall in silver seems to be due to other causes than its alleged demonetization in 1) That there were apparently adequate causes, X. Y. Z. himself indicates when he writes about “a decrease in the value of silver bullion un- der the inevitable operation of the law of supply and demand,” for we find that in the twenty years between 1873 and 1803 the government purchased some $509,000,000 worth of silver, and ceased furohasing mainly because the mines were worked so much the harder that the supply became greater than tho special demand, resulting in the “inevitable” fall in price, and nearly killing the goose which laid the silver egg. ut was silver demonetized in 1873, and has it remained so ever since? The test seems easy. Let the average American search his pockets, and he will find some coins and some notes. Those coins (omit- ting the very small change) are silver, and those notes are certificates that on demand at the treasury he can obtain silver. In ofher words, silyer is the only precious money we have in circulation, except in some of the Pacific states. Let us look at it from another point of view. Our total silver coinage for the hundred years be- tween 1793 and 1893 was about 3670,000,000, while the silver in circulation in 1504 was over one hundred and twelve millions—i. e.. more than one-sixth of the coinage for the whole previous century, and yet we are told that silver is now demonetized, and that there is not enough In circulation, Apropos of circulation, {t may be well, in passing, to touch upon the statement in the same Issue of The Star, that Mr. Bryan spoke of the reduction of the total money circulation in“ the United States between 1804 and 1806, when it fell from $24.28 to $21.10, or about $3, per capita. But why any excitement? First, if we hold to the policy which compels the export of gold to pay the balance for things, most of which we used to produce ourselves—a policy, Moreover, which induces timid people to hoard gold—there must be a reduction in the normal circulation. Second, if the year 1873 is to be taken as the standard of per- fection (of course, before “‘the crime’ was committed), then the circulation per capita should be $18.13, or $3 less than at present, and we have a large margin of safety. Mr. Bryan does not state that the highest per capita was attained in 1892, as the culmina- tlon of the economic policy which he cp- poses. It almost seems as if his garbling was intentional. To return to X. Y. Z., he writes: ‘“Furth- ermore, the same law * * * made gold the sole metal of coinage. * * * The de- mand * * * was thrown wholly upon gold.” If that were literally true, then we who do not live upon the Pacific coast have no money at all; but, fortunately, as we have seen above, we still have silver and silver notes. X. Y. Z. continues: “The in- evitable consequences of this * * * was to Increase the value of gold, or (and?) en- hance its purchasing power. * * *” Has this resulted? We are aware that some members of the silver party assert that it is not the silver dollar which has declined to 53 cents, but the gold dollar which has apprectated to 200 cents. This also can easily be tested, Let the average Amer- ican fetch out that five-dollar gold piece which he “‘hoarded” against hard times, borrow that ten-dollar pocket piece from his wife, and hunt up those naif-dozen gold dollars in the family trinkets and coin collection; let him go down town with his gold, to prove its ‘enhanced purchasing power in relation to,” say a suit of clothes or a month's groceries, and he will find that a gold dollar of ordinary date and mintage is not worth 200 cents, and that It will buy no more collars or potatoes than the silver dollar, which the government still keeps up to par, but only because the latter Is not as yet “free and unlimited” as to coinage. ‘X. Y. Z. proceeds: “The demand for silver being thereby (under supposed “‘free silver” statute) enlarged, and for gold diminished, they will again necessarily approximate each other in purchasing power, though it is not in the least probable that silver at 16 to 1 will be at par with gold during the present generation, if ever.” But we have seen by experience that any demand for silver will be met by a still more enlarged supply; that the demand for goid will te continued as long as we pursue a quasi “free” trade policy; that it is unnecessary to wait for silver and gold to “‘aguin” ap- proximate each other in purchasing power, for they are now practically {denticai in power, and that the probability of the ratio ever becoming 16 to 1 is more remote than ever, because the real ratio, after falling to about 32 to 1, still continues to fall. Further on we find the doubt: “Whether, on the whole, this (silver monometallism) would prove a blessing or a curse is not yet manifest, and can be determined only by results, probably neither in unmixed measure.” But how many “results” do we need? Why not compare the economico- financial policy of, say, France, Germany and the United States with that of, say, Mexico, China and Indla, and govera our- selves accordingly? We are using gold for certain purposes and silver for other pur- poses. Let us retain both ‘for the present, and by a future return to the tried policy which has always brought prosperity to this country, increase both to any extent required. A. B.C. ——_.+__. THE COURTS. Equity Court=No. 1—Judge Cox. Bradley agt. Bradley; divorce a vin mat granted. Atkinson agt. Dammann et al.; decree setting aside sale. Hormes agt. Hormes; testimony before W-. Herbert Glesy: exmr. ordered taken. Washn. Ben. End. Aasn. agt. Commercial Alliance Life Ins. Co.; time for filing transcript of record until October 3, 1896. Johnson agt. John- son; motion for leave to amend bill denied. Probate Court—Judge Cox. Estate of Osceola C. Green; pro rata dis- tribution approved. In re Thos. J. Edmon- ston, guardian; order returned served. Es- tate of Chas. S. Whitman; will filed. E: tate of Thos. P. Collins; will partly proved. Estate of Mary G. Temple; petition for leave to distribute household effects and pay funeral expenses. Estate of Eliza W. Coombs; petition for letters of administra- tion filed.-Estate of John McDermott; order allowing administrators to pay share to Marie Murra: ———— The Cattle Market. At the Union stock yards at Benning yes- terday 181-cattle were on the market. Best sold from 3 3-4 to 4 1-4c.; common sold from 21-2 to 3 3-4c.; roughs sold from 1 1-2 to 2 1-2c, Three hundred sheep on the mar- ket. Lambs sold from 8 to 4 1-2c.; old sheep sold from 2 1-2 to 3c. Fresh cows sold from $30 to $50. The Equipping of the Eckington Road Postponed. RELATIONS WITH BOULEVARD SCHEME Large Stockholders Said to Be Dis- satisfied on Account of Losses. STEAM VERSUS ELECTRICITY ‘The equipping of the Soldiers’ Home and Eckington and Belt railway lines of this city has been postponed until the affairs of the Columbia and Marylend Electric Rall- way Company have been settled. This, at least, was the statement given today to a Star reporter by a prominent official of the two lines named. “As is well known,” said this official, “the syndicate composed of Messrs. W. L. Elkins, P. A, B. Widener and Thomas Do- lan of Philadelphia are the chief owners of the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home and Belt Line roads, and they are also dargely in- terested in the Columbia and Maryland Electric Railway Company. They have, as I know, grown tired of the losses sustained by them in connection with running the roads controlled by them here, which have been at the rate of $100,000 a year for sev- eral years past, and they have determined to lose as little in the future as is possible. “The act of the District Commissioners a-few weeks ago in compelling them to run more cars on the Eckington and some other lines, by which the expenses were increased $6) a day without any corre- sponding increase’ in revenue, was the straw which broke the camel’s back and caused them to reach the determination to postpone the completion of the com- pressing plant and the operating of a rapid transit system here until, as stated, the af- fairs of the Columbia and Maryland, and in which they have, as is stated, several millions of dollars locked up, are in better shape than they are at present.” A report was circulated both here and-in Baltimore that the Baltimore Traction Company, with which Messrs. Elkins, Widener and Dolan are also connected, might become involved in the troubles of the Columbia and Maryland, but an in- quiry at the banking house of Mr. T. Ed- ward Hambleton in Baltimore, one of the receivers of the electric road, brought forth the reply that the only way the Traction Company wags interested in the Columbia and Maryland was that the former would like to collect a bill of $1,700 due by the lat- ter for railroad crossings, and that the two companies were separate and distinct in every particular. Advices from Pittsburg state that the motors contracted for by the Eckington company have been finished by the con- tractors, Messrs. H. K. Porter & Co., fue that the motors are now on the B. an . tracks at that city, awaiting shipment, but that no ordera will be dssued by the ‘rail- way company to send them to Washington for the present. Although the Columbia and Maryland Electrle Railway Company has gone into the hands of receivers, and pending the ad- justment of various matters connected with the obligations of the road; work has neces- sarily been suspended, there is reason to believe that the stoppage of tife con- struction of the ne will be but for a short time, and that this great. public improve- ment will be opened for traffic early next spring. It is admitted on all sifles by those who are conversant with the affairs of the Co- lumbia and Marylan@ Eiectric Railway Company that Messrs, W. L. Elkins, P. A: B. Widener and Thomas. Dolan, who are among the leading street railway magnates of the United States, are abundantly able to furnish the money needed to complete the line, but it is also stated that after having invested more than $2,000,000 In the stock and bonds of the corporation, they have become d‘ssatisfed with the manner in which some of the officers of the com- pany administered their trust, and insisted upon a change in that direction. The only way to accomplish this was to have the line go into the hands of recetv- ers and by them have the company reor- ganized, and this course was agreed to after consultation with all the creditors. It is also reported that persons who are closely connected with the management of the Pennsylvania have intimated a desire to become financially interested in the Co- lumbia and Maryland, provided they were given an opportunity to get enough stock to give them an influential voice in the management of the road after It is opened to the public. There is no doubt, in the opinion of rail- road men, that the Pennsylvania and Bal- timore and Ohio companies are both strongly opposed to the construction of the new line, because of the cutting into their passenger traffic which it is believed will follow. cetric Road Competition. Both the Pennsylvania and B, have found to their serious cost that at every point where they have come into competition with electric lines the patron- age of the public has almost entir2ty gone to the electric lines, and the loss resulting therefrom has been so great to the Penn- sylvania and B. and O. that both roads have in many instances not only taken off a number of their local trains, but in some cases have abandoned this branch of their service altogether. This was the experience of the B. and O. at Pittsburg, where the company, at great expense, built a road some fifteen miles long for the almost exclusive accommoda- tion of the men working in the mills and living in the suburban towns near Pitts- burg and Allegheny. At first the receipts of the railway company were enormous, and surpassed the expectations of those who projected the road, but after a few years a competing electric railway Mne was built and opened, and so great was the falling off in receipts that in less than twely® months the local trains were all withdrdwn and the field of competition abandoned to the electric company, which has ever since occupied it. The Pennsylvania has recently had a similar experience at Catonsville, near Bal- timore, and between Washington and Al- exandria. In the former instance tie Penn- sylvania was the lessee of what was called the Catonsville Short Line railway, and so great was the travel between Baltimore and Catonsville that the company operated twenty-four trains daily through the week and nearly as many on Sunday. An elec- tric line was built between the same points, and although the latter has been in opera- tion but a few months, the Pennsylvania has taken off twenty of its daily irains and abandoned Sunday trains altogether. The effect of the opening of the electric line between Washingtoni and Alexandria 1s well known to the readers of The Star, and it is also well known that in the latter instance the Pennsylvania’ months ago pro- tected Itself by securing @ controlling in- terest in the electric Mne,/80 that while it now runs no local steam’ trains between this city and Alexandria, its revenues from that branch of the servicé are amply pro- tected through its corinettions with the electric company. The recent experience of the Pennsylva- nia gives the basis for/the-Delief that when the Columbia and Marflaad Electric Rail- way Company is reorgunited the Pennsy}- vania will have a big say in what the former will do. m As for the local travel, the new line so closely parallels the B, and O. to Laurel that it is hardly to be expected but that the residents in the suburban towns as far out as Laurel, and including that town, would to a large extent take the new line, unless the B. and 0. ‘reduces fits rates of fare much below those charged at present. From Laurel to Baltimore the electric line is several miles distant from the B. and O. tracks until both roads reach Il- chester, but the route is through a much More prosperous and “populous country, which would, no doubt, ‘give the Columbia and Maryland a lucrative patronage. The Construction Company. The corporate name of the company, which is now in the hands of receivers, is the Baltimore and tonsville Construc- tion Company, of ‘ich Col. Henry T. Douglas, formerly chief engineer of the B. and O. Railroad Company, was until he resigned yesterday president. The re- ceivers appointed by the United States court at Baltimore are Messrs. T. Edward Hambleton, representmg the bondholers, principal of whom are said to be Messrs. Elkins, Widener and Dolan of Philadelphia, James Bond and Richard Morton, who rep- resent various creditors. The construction company was incor- porated under the laws of Maryland, and its original capital was placed at $13,000, which was subsequently increased to $52,000, and on June 29, 1895, it contracted to build an electric railway between Wash- ington and Baltimore, and to make various necessary connections with certain rail- ways that were named in the two cities. As payment for the work to be done the construction company was to, and did, re- celve 10,625 shares of the stock of the Eck- ington and Soldiers’ Home Railway Com- pany and 5,000 shares of the stock of the Belt Railway Company of this city, to- gether with other large quantities of val- uable stocks and bonds. The construction company has done @ large amount of work under its contract, and has already spent about $1,000,000 on the work, but most of the securities which it had for sale for the purpose of securing funds with which to prosecute the work have become unmarketable, owing :o the existing financial depression, and the Bal- timore and Catonaville Construction Com- pany has, !t is alleged, become insolvent. and this led to the request on the part of those interested that receivers be ap- pointed, ——_—_———— GEORGETOWN AFFAIRS. Events of terest to Residents West of Rock Creek. The rernains of Mrs. Elisabeth R. Quesen- bury, a former resident of Rosedale, just above Georgetown, were brought to this place Tuesday evening and interred yes- terday morning. The demise occurred at Galveston, Texas. Death was caused by paralysis. The deceased was seventy-three years of age, and was a sister of the late Cc. C. Greet and George F. Green. She was a sister-in-law of the former ruler of Mexico, Emperor Iturbide, who was de- throned some years ago, when the country permanently adopted a republican form of government, She was also an aunt of the young Prince Iturbide, who is now residing in this city, The funeral was held yester- day morning at 10 o'clock from that place, the pastor of Trinity Catholic Church of- ficlating. The interment was at Holyrood cemetery. The services were attended by only the relatives and a few friends of the deceased. Dr. Ricks’ Residence Burned. The property of Dr. Ricks, about two miles from Georgetown, and located be- tween Ball's Cross Roads end the Chain bridge, caught fire last evening about 11 o'clock, and was burned to the ground. The flames shot high in the air, and were vis- ible for many miles around, the spectacle being witnessed by a number of George- town people. How the fire originated is not known, but the loss is supposed to be quite heavy. The building was a large and roomy two-story frame suburban dwelling, with a number of outbuildings. The facilities at hand for fighting the fire were very lim- ited, and the efforts of thore at the scene Were mainly directed toward saving the surrounding buildings. A Trio of Accidents, Shortly before 4 o'clock yesterday after- noon Policeman Brown found John Cohen of 1430 36th street lying on 37th street, near N street, ip an intoxicated condition, with @ bad gash on his head, from which the blood was flowing freely. No one knew how the man had been injured. He was picked up and carried to the Emergency Hospital in the patrol wagon. A few minutes after 9 o'clock an unknown white lady created quite a scene on a cable car, almost opposite Jefferson avenue, by fainting in her seat. She came from the city and was enjoying a car ride. She was taken to Brace’s drug store at 30th and M streets, where she was quickly revived. Arthur Neilson, a native of Denmark, while working at the quarry in the rear of Glen Echo yesterday afternoon, was struck by a piece of flying rock during a blast and was badly injured around the face, his nose being broken in several places. He was taken to the Emergency Hospital for treat- ment. Notes of Interest. Rev. C. Alvin Smith and wife have re- turned from a trip to Nantucket and Long Island, being absent for over a month. They are now living at Woodley Inn, and will secure a suitable restdence for house- keeping. Miss Maggie Archer of 32d street is lying quite 11. Miss Carrie Johnson of Dumbarton ave- nue is convalescing from an attack of typhoid fever. Joe McPherson, the colored man who was struck by an electric ear, 1s reported to be improving. Miss Edna Gertrude Griffith and Mr. Jo- seph Van Dusen Sloan of New York city were married Wednesday at St. John’s Church by Rev. Dr. Buck, the rector. Anna M. Hayes las bought of Franklin H. Mackey and Charles H. Cragin, trus- tees, lots # and 100, square 1231, for $2,500. Elizabeth Cathell Connelly, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Con- nelly, died Wednesday at her parents’ resi- dence, 3258 O street, after a short fllness. The funeral was held this afternoon at 3 o'clock, the interment being at Oak Hill cemetery. ——__ The Late L, H. Schneide The funeral of Mr. Louis H. Schneider, who for many years was one of the best known business men in Washington, and whose death occurred Sunday last, took place yesterday afternoon from his late residence, on Vermont avenue near Iowa Circle. The services were conducted by Rev. Drs. S. Domer and J. G. Butler, by the latter of whom Mr. and Mrs. Sckneider were mar- ried forty-four years ago. The interment was mace in Oak Hill cemetery. The de- ceased leaves a widow, two sons—Mr. Har- ry M. Schneider, who was his father's part- ner, and succeeds him in business, and Mr. Ferdinand T. Schneider, an architect—and three daughters, Mrs. G. R. Riggles of this city, Mrs. Davis, wife of Prof. Davis of Wilkesbarre, Pa., formerly of this city and well knowr here, and Mrs. Weaver, whose husband is a chaplain in the United States army, and is wow stationed in the far west. Mr. Schnetder was born at Lauffen, on the Neckar, Germany. More than sixty years agu (1832) he established himself in Washington, first 2s a bell hanger, then as a brass founder, and from 161’ to 1886, when he withdrew from the business, he conducted successfully a large hardware establishment. He was a man of great business ability, popular, progressive and enterprising, and enjoying the implicit con- fidence of business men. Personal integ- rity, business probity and a high sense of honor were distinguishing traits of his character. He was a public-sptrited citizen ot the national capital, always believing in its future and ever ready to assist in all gcod words and work. He was a judicious adviser and encourager of younger bus- iness men, in whom he inspired the same qualities of integrity and honor that so eminently marked his own business career. In all the relations of life he was respected and honored for many roble qualities of mind and heart. Se Transfers of Real Extate. Nannie B. Croswell et al., to Gilbert A. Clark, lot 80, eq. 1029; $10. Gilbert A. Clark to Nannie B. Croswell and Eliza A. Fawcett, same property; $10. Henry C. Wolf to H. Clay Stewart, south half lot 11, sq. G01, lot 7, sq. 602, lot E, sq. 603; $10. Mary FE. Alcorn to Robert E. Knight, part lot 3, sq. $81; $10. Robert E. Knight et ux. to Emille M. Darncille, RGorseiee a. ners y et ux. to E R. Berk oraclins A. ‘Berkeley et ux. to Euget ork. eley, part lot 17, bik. 8, Meridian THM: $1,800. Chapin Brown’ et al., trustees, to Howard) W. Silsby, dois - = 6, oe 6, Ingl 3 James Hensley et ux. et al. to How lois 4 aud 5, bike G Inglendes geen Sisto, Franklin H. EE et al. Hayes, lots $9 and 100, sq. 1231; $2 500, 1000, 2 to James Mooce, part lot 14, Harlem; Ctarles Wilson, survivi trustee, 10 Ja Wesley A. M. E Gunes bee 8 and iy = aes Daniel Murray to Sarah J. Forrest, lots 72° and 74, Chichester; $10. Elkanah Waters a. et al. to Richard A. 0. L lot 168, aq. 1 tru: ‘Thos. KE. W trustee, to Bernard Conroy, part lots 3 . 0, sq. 235; $4,175. 2 ‘Thos. E. Waggaman ct ux.'to Prank H. G. White, = 4, eS sail Terrace; Ae mit “arish to Grant Parish, tot Boge’ to Bitzabeth A. Do eats vm. C. Dodge to Eitzabet = 10,09. 725; $10. a et Wm. G. Dodge ct ux. to Chas. C. Burdiue, part lot_10, sq. 725: $10. Guag, G Burdine to Wm. C, Dodge, part lot 10, sq. 725; $10. ‘Chapin Brown et al., trustees, to Fannie K. Fox, lot 34, bik. 2; lots ¥ and 5, bik. 3; lots 1 to 4; Vik, 4, Belair ‘Heights: $4,910.66. Wm. J. Dante to J. Henry McCauley, part lot 1, bik. 8, Le Diott Park; $10. Geo. B. Newton et ux. to David ©. Aruotd, lot 64, 84. d. eo, 8. Richardson to John J. Sanborn, lot 8, a. 536; $00. Jobn J. Sanborn to Richard E Pairo, same prop- <6 $200. as. E. Purvis et ux. to Wm. H. Tibbs, part lot bik. 17, Effingham Place; $900. Bashrod Robinson et ux. to Howard G. Douglas, lot 208, 94. 132; $10. THE BATTLE SHIP TEXAS. THE TEXAS AGROUND. Order Frem the Bridge Misunder- stood in the Engine Room. The battle ship Texas, which left the north Atlantic squadron yesterday after- noon, for the purpose of getting a supply of torpedoes, struck bottom while coming into the harbor at Newport at 5:50 o'clock and ran hard and fast. She resisted all attempts made by the tug Aquidnick to dislodge her. The place where the vessel struck is al- most directly opposite the torpedo station. The Texas left the north Atlantic squad- ron after the Massachusetts had left the harbor and joined the other ships. When she reached the harbor the tide was run- ning out strongly and was at about “half ebb.” The first warning the officers had of the danger was a slight shock just forward of midships. Capt. Glass at once ordered the port anchor out. The hook held firmly and the ship gradually swung broadside on the beach. She was firm and could not be moved so as to make the least headway by means of the anchor. The ebbing tide left her a fixture for the night at least. Capt. Henry Glass and Lieut. D. J. Kelly were both on the bridge and neither sup- posed the water at that point to be 30 shallow. An examination was made at once, and it was decided to send for a tug, with the tide below halt ebb, five fathoms of water were found under the bow and about the same depth under the stern. As the tide fell, the bow began to appear above water and last night was out of water. The stern was on a line with the water. All the naval officers who saw the vessel a4- mitted that her position was a dangerous ‘one. The tug Aquidnick arrived alongside the Texas within half an hour after she struck, and quickly got a line out. The warship however, proved too heavy for the tug to handle and was apparently firmly fixed on_the rock. The tug was obliged to give up the at- tempt to float the monster battle ship last night. Capt. Glass when seen last night refused to be interviewed. He gave orders to let no one come aboard the vessel, The Navy, Department was notified of the accident. A statement was, however, given out later by the commander of the Texas. During the evening a diver was sent down and he said that the rocks in the vicinity did not press against the vessel. He re- ported that she rested on a sandy ridge and was in no danger while the water was calm. The following is the official state- ment: “The ship slowed down in fifteen fathoms of water aad stopped in elevent fathoms. A signal was given to back to the port engines, but was mistaken in the engine room, and the engine started ahead. Word was sent down to sec if the engines were backing and the word cr back ‘yes.” Word was sent back to back both engines at full speed when the mistake was dis- covered, but before they could be backed the vessel struck on the beach. The port anchor was dropped in twenty-three f of water, the vessel drawing twenty-thr feet forward. Although no shock was felt on the hummock on the port bow, divers were sent down and she was found to be resting easily, no rock being under her. It is thought she will come off at high tide. The machinist in the engine room is responsible for the affair. It is Col. W. A. Bartlett and B. H. Warner to Meet in Debate. It was announced some time ago in The Star that an open meeting of L. A. 2672, K. of L., would be held at Typographical Temple, on G street northwest, Friday evening of this week, at which a discus- sion on the merits of free coinage would take place. The question was decided upon, as follows: “Resolved, That the unlimited free coinage of silver at the established ratio of 16 to 1 would be to the best interests of all classes, including capitalists,” and Col. Wallace A. Bartlett was chosen to uphold the affirmative. A challenge was issued to the Sound Money Club, a recently organized association, in the hope that some speaker might be se- lected to debate with Col. Bartlett. This challenge was accepted today, and the Sound Mone Club delegated Mr. B. H. Warner to act as its representative in the joint discussion. The speakers in the debate will be lim- ited to forty-five minutes each. The open- ing address will occupy twenty minutes, the second speaker may use forty minutes if he so desires, while the closing talk will be limited to twenty minutes. Each speaker will have five minutes for his re- joinder. The debate is to be held under the auspices of the Federation of Labor, and a number of invitations have been sent out to prominent democrats and republi- cans to be present. As the meeting ts an open one the discussion is quite likely to draw a large audience of interested people. ——— Woman's National Press Associ The Woman’s National Press Association will hold an open meeting at the Riggs Heuse, Friday, at 8 p.m., at which several interesting papers will be read, and ar- rangements perfected for a reception and banquet to be given in honor of Mr. Harry D. Vought, president of the International League of Press Clubs, who will make an official visit to Washington in October. Mr, and Mrs. Vought will be the guests of Mrs. Marian Longfellow O'Donoghue while in Washington. —S Virginia Resident's Divorce Petition. George Leonard Blum, who states that he is a citizen of the United States, but re- sides at Arlington, Va., petitioned here to- aay for divorce from Cetharine Blum, to whom he was married in Georgetown No- vember 3, 1891, Attorney Charles P. Lin- coln represents Mr. Blum, and the fact that the petitioner ts a resident of Arling- ton raises the question, it is said, whether he can apply here for divorce. —— Another Connecticut Convention. Despite the unanimity with which wwe democratic convention was conducted yes- terday at New Haven, Conn., there is a deep current of opposition to the ticket by the gold sympathizers, whose leaders held a meeting in Exchange building in the afternoon and discussed plans for a cam- paign for the national democratic party and arranged details for a strong fight. It was decided to call a state convention of the national democratic party in Hart- ford October 8. Presidential electors, state officers, a state central committee and all the work usually transacted by a state central committee will be completed. —_—_+2 +—___—__ Harry Edmonston was fined $10 in the Police Court today for disorderly conduct and profanity of an aggravated nature, the offense having been committed July 6 lost at 10th and C streets southwest. Patrick Collins, charged with dealing in liquor by the wholesale without a license at 5th and N streets northwest, was today acquitted in the Police Court. Gladness Comes Wit a better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys- ical ills, which vanish before proper ef- forts—gentle efforts—pleasant efforts— rightly directed. 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