Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1896, Page 8

~ Rema you want. by the prices we quote for purchases and big ones we Japanese Rugs. SIZE. WORTH. FOR. by 36 in. . by 42 tn. by 52 in. by. 60 in. ASACARNY RPRR SS ERE ft. 2 ft. by 15 A big line of Japanese Hall Rugs have just arrived and been put in stock. Russia Rugs. SIZE. WORTH. FOR. ‘B8e. $1.29 1.49 1.99 FOR. 18 in. by 86 In. 79e. 21 in. by 42 in. $1.25 26 in. by 52 in. 1.00 30 tn. by 60 In. 1.90 3 ft. by 6 ft. 2.90 4 ft. by T ft. 5.50 6 ft. by 9 ft. z 12.00 7 ft. 6 in. by 10 ft. 6 in..32,00 19.75 9 ft. by 12 ft. 27.50 9 ft. by 14 ft. 85.00 Japanese Mohair Rugs. We bought out the entire stock of Japanese Mohair Rugs from Horikoshi & Co. at less than cost of importa- © tion. That accounts for these prices: WORTH. FOR. 18 tn. by 3 -$2.00 $1.00 26 in. by 54 in. - 450 1.73 86 in. by . 8.00 3.00 7 ft. 6 in. by 10 ft. 6 in..34.00 18.00 Scotch Wilton Rugs. Another fortunate purchase. The manufacturer needed cash, and we were willing to take his stock if he would make concessions. We won our point, and Scotch Wilton Rugs will sell next week at © about a third less than usual. SIZE. WORTH. FOR. = $1.25 Te. ba) 150 $1.00 2 - 2.50 1.3 pectations. aN are unequaled—the ultra desirabie. eductions in Rugs. We stand right at the head of the list for .Rugs. Our Rug rooms are probably the best in the country. Their jmmense well-chosen stocks are so displayed that it is a matter of very little trouble to select just the Rug» We are going to startle the Rug trade about town OUR 4TH ANNUAL FURNITURE SALE starts its second week Monday. The past week has been one of unparalleled buying. We’ve exceeded our fondest ex- This next week promises to be one of still greater triumphs. The bargains goods fresh, clean and EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1896-TWENTY-TWO PAGES, rkable next week. Many fortunate have recently made give us opportunities. to. underquote the lowest prices we have yet asked. We'll tell you about them in the list below: Our stock of these Rugs is entirely too large, and the Rugs we don’t intend to carry. any more go next week at less than wholesale cost: SIZE. WORTH. FOR. @ @ @ Kelin R e ein KUgS. = ® © © 80 In. by 60 in. -2-$2.00 $1.50 36 in. by 72 in. + 4.00 2.00 7 ft. 6 in. by 10 ft. 6 tn. -15.00 10.00 Fur Rugs. White and Gray Fur Rugs, 28 by 64 in.,- worth from $2.50 to §3, Sheep 3 Bedside Rugs. It has been quite an idea of ours to make up our short lengths in Body Brussels, Wilton and Axminster Car- pets into Rugs of from 1 to 14 yards long, and sell them at about half what the Carpets are really worth. We get or- ders from everywhere for these Rugs. Some in stock now at 59. 75 and gic. Art Squares. We're closing out all of last season’s patterns at one-half their regular prices. 2 SIZE. WORTH. — FOR. 28 Good Quality Kensington Art Squares at these prices: WORTH. FOR. $1.50 Best Quality All-wooi Squares, 100 of them, at th 2% by S yds 8 by 3 yds 3 by 3% 8 by 4 3 by 414 Bu by 4 3B by 5 5 5.00 4 by 5 yds. .00 Oriental Rugs. We carry a $25.00 stock of Oriental Rugs. We show everything In these Carpets from the ortent that can be de- sired. All the different makes and all the different sixes. ‘Oriental Rugs used to be for the rich alone, but the way we buy and sell them: they ‘are within the means of persons of ordinary circumstances, and prove the most economical Carpets that can be bought. O@ = F Street, > Corner Eleventh. W. MOSES ) SED SSSOSS SS SHSOSS SESSS SONS, Storage, 22d and M Sts. ~Another prop has been removed, and show prices drop still lower. ‘This’ time Me've singled cut the very cream of Wilsoa’s stock, and will turn the shoes over to early comers tomorrow for a : smell part of their worth. We'll tell < aes about — bargains now and others Messe ‘Ladies’ $2 Slippers, $1.23.. 7 Were ‘Now seveee SL23 (Ladies’ $3.50 Boots, $2.68. >; Fire Hand-sewed~ Black Kid Button Boots, extension edge, s 0 Seeniee aaa ( Were $3.50." Now... > $2.68 »Youths’ Calf Shoes, $1.69. Youths’ Black Calf Button ( er ae Men’s $6.00 Shoes, $3.85.. Tire Russia Calf and Fnoamel Leather Shoes, heavy and me- dium soles, pointed and medium toes, custom made. Were $6. $3.85 Wade & Butcher Razors. Torrey Razor Strops. 2.00 W. & B. Razor, hollow groand. 1.50 W. & B. Razor, bellow ground. # Four-sided Torrey Stfop... ‘L Swing Strop. S.& A. Special. f0c. Flat ‘Combination. 25e. 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METHODIST BROTHERHOOD Young Men's Organization of the Southern M. E. Ohurch. Annual Meeting at the Epworth Church — The Alaska Missionary Work and Its Commencement. The annual meeting and reunion of the Washington district Southern Methodist Brotherhcod of the Baltimore conference, which is composed of young men from the various M. E. Churches South in Washing- ton, Alexandria and elsewhere, was held this week at Epworth M. E. Church South, corner of 7th and A streets northeast, Rev. John O. Knott, pastor, and Mt. Vernon Place Church, Rev. Dr. I. W. Canter, pas- tor. Delega’ were present from all the churches entitled to representation and much enthusiasm was manifested. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, W. W. Millan; first vice president, Sydney Roche; second vice president, L. Pierce Boteler; secretary, J. C. C. Patterson; treasurer, F. E. Wood- ward; executive committee, those already name and Messrs. J. Ed. Baird and D. H. Reed. The brotherhood has since its organiza- tion, nine years ago, it is said, accomplish- ed a vast amount of good in both the home and foreign missicnary fields. It has re- ceived and welcomed and secured for Chris tian usefulness the constant stream of young men coming to Mt. Vernon Place Church and other churches; it has provid- ed a medium by which they could come in- to contact from time to time for spiritual, moral and intellectual improvement (a lit- erary feature being incorporated and some sort of a program at each meeting provid- ed for); it has presented an organized, com- pact, available power, capable of being used at a moment's notice for any good work; it has been an army always mobil- ized, always ready for the field, and the pastor has frequently called upon {t for ac- tive service, and never called in vain. In December, 180, a committee of the so- ciety, together with the pastor and the leader of the young people's meeting, or- ganized a Young People’s Society of Chris- tian Endeavor, which has exerted a power- ful influence in their church and grown to magnificent proportions; some would say perhaps, that the child has outgrown the parent, but its members are too loyal to the Roone Men's Christizn Society to concede that. “It is difficult at the present time,” said a leading member, “to exactly place the responsibility or credit for the organization of this society, though the larger measure of it is undoubtedly due to our dearly he- loved friend and pastor, who has now gone to reap his reward in a brighter clime— Rev. S. W. Haddaway. “He was its warm friend from its founda- tion and gave it the benefit of his presence at its meetings and his advice in its de- Liberations, and whatever other influence may have contributed to its foundation, it is quite certain that it would never have reached the position of power and influence that it soon attained but for his fostering eare during the years of his pastorate at Mt. Vernon Place. “Mt. Vernon Place Church had long been tstinguished for the large proportion of young men among its membership, and this class was being rapidly augmented when Mr. Haddaway took charge as pastor ir March, 1886. He early conceived the idea of banding them together for Christian usefulness in some sort of a permanent organization. There was in existence at the time a young men's prayer meeting, the exact history of which no one seems able to give; it had no regular organization, ard during the summer of 1886, after a somewhat fitful career, it died of dry-rot. “No favorable opportunity for organiza- tion presented itself, but the pastor st! cherished the idea and frequently mention- ed it to some of the young men, including Mr. George P. Cannon of Maryland, who had connected himself with Mt. Vernon Place about this time; Brother John Q. Adams, now of Atlanta, Ga., and Mr. W. W. Millan, who had come to Washington from Tennessee, in May, 1886. “In March, 1887, Dr. Sheldon Jackson, Presbyterian missionary in Alaska, deliv- ered a lecture at the church which aroused great interest in the sfibject of Alaskan missions; particularly did it fire the heart of one young man—Mr. W. D. Lambuth, who had come from Kentucky to Wash- ington the preceding fall, and coming from the farrily that he did, could hardly fail to feel a deep interest in foreign missions. He at once became filled with the idea of send- ing missionaries to Alaska, and being of an enthusiastic and sanguine temperament, bordering perhaps upon the fanatical, but being withal a zealous and faithful Chris- tian, he at once set about trying to form an Alaska missionary society amcng the young men, and afterward extending it to other Southern Methodist churches and support- ing oge or more missionaries in that coun- try. “A meeting was held in the church parlor on the 26th of April, and a constitution was submitted by Mr. Lambuth and adopted by the twenty-five young men who enrolled themselves as members. At the next meet- ing officers were chosen, as follows: Pres- ident, W. W. Millan; vice president, J. Everett Baird; recording secretary, W. D. Lambuth; corresponding secretary, John Q. Adams, and treasurer, George P. Cannon. “Mr. Lambuth had in the meantime been in correspondence with the authorities of the Southern Methodist Church at general headquarters concerning the Alaskan prob- lem, meeting at first with no encourage- ment and, later on, with positive discour- agement. So at the first meeting after the regular organization a committee, consis:- ing of Messrs. J. R. Fague, John C. Wood and W. D. Lambuth, vas appointed to re- vise the recently adopted constitution. Messrs. Fague, Wood and the president of the society met at the residence of the first named on the 8ist of May, 1887, and the present constitution was the result of their deliberations; it differed from the old one in but one or two particulars.” Since the latter date the work of the brotherhood has been constantly widening until at this time its influence for good can scarcely be estimated. eee eee Mrs. Jarley’s Object. From Harper's Bazar. “Mra. Jarley,” said Jarley on awakening suddenly and finding his wife going through his change pocket, “what are you Senet “we ing for free silver, my dear,” re- turned Mrs. Jarley sweetly. MR.DOLAN SURPRISED | Tumeli ‘the Ratios toad W ought the Eckington as pac ace Motors, —_—_s.1 _. ROAD HAS BE BEEN LOSING OR eld Mr. Kane Scorég,‘ the Projected Rapid Transit. ft = a SPEAKS OF FORFEITURE Mr. Thomas Dolan, one of the famous street railway syndicate of Elkins, Widener and Dolan, whose headquarters are in Philadelphia, was utterly astounded when informed last night by a Star reporter at the beautiful country seat of Mr. Dolan near Torresdale, Pa., that not only are the compressed air motors not running on the lires of the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home and Belt railway companies of this city, and in which the syndicate has a contrelling interest, but that there does not appear to be very much prospect that any improvement in the motive power of those lines will be made in the near future. Continuing, Mr. Dolan said he had been informed by persons in charge of the rail- way interests here of his firm that the compressing plant at Eckington, from which it would be necessary to get the supply of air for the propulsion of the cars, was almost ready to be put in opera- tion. “Iam certainly surprised,” Mr. Dolan further continued, “to hear from you that matters connected with the conversion of the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home and Belt Line railways into rapid transit lines are in such a backward state. “The troubles under which the Columbia and Maryland Electric Railway Company are now laboring have no connection what- ever with the delay for furnishing the compressed air motors for the two roads named in the District of Columbia. The ccntract given to H. K. Porter & Co. of Pittsburg for the equipment of the roads with compressed air motors required that Porter & Co. should erect the necessary compressing plant and furnish ten or twelve motors—I do not remember which—to our company; also to operate the entire equip- ment for six months free of all expense to the railway company, and to have the rapid transit cars running in Washington by September 10. “If, at the end of that perlod, the service had proven satisfactory, the railway com- pany was to pay a certain amount of mcney for the equipment. If, however, the results were unsatisfactory, Porter & Co. were to remove the machinery and care furnished, without expense to the railway company. : “As far as the financial Eckington and Soldiers’ Home and Belt Line railways are concerned, the loss in operating them has been so great for a leng time that they ought to have been in the hands of receivers three years ago. I do not, however, say that a receivership for them is impending. “Regarding the Columbia and Maryland electric railway, for which receivers were appointed a few days ago. No railroad goes into the hands cf receivers without there being goed cause for the adoption of such acorrse. What the reasons were for taking that step with the electric line referred to I do nct care to say for publication. “There is one thing, however, The Star can announce as a certainty, and that is while I do not -knowi just when the work which is now suspended on that great im- provement will be resumed it will be push- ed to completion just as’ soon as the neces- sary legal steps to acecmplish this result can be complied with. Mr. Kane Not’ Surprised. Referring to the prérent status of af- fairs in regard to the developments of the last féw days cdnctrning the prospect of getting rapid transit cn*the Eckirgtor and Soldiers’ Home and ‘Belt. Line roads, Mr. T. P Kane,. who, with hundreds of other enterprising citizens,has been anxious that some system of modern propulsion should speedily be put in use by the com- panies named, said: “The collapse of the Eckington air-motor bubble, announced by The Star of Thurs- day, was not a surprise to those who are familiar with the history and methods of the Eckington company since it passed into the hands of its present owners. hey never have made an honest atiempt tOWard the installation of the rapid transit system, as required by the act approved June 10, 18%. Their whole scheme before and since the passage of that act has been one of miserable subterfuges for the purpose of delay, in the hope that by the time the Bal- timor? and Washington line was completed some cheap motive power would be discov- ered and proved to be reasonably success- ful at the expense of some other corpora- tion, cr that a Congress would be elected favorable or indifferent to trolley interests and by some game of chance they would be enabled to restore that obnoxious system and reintroduce it upon all their lines with- in the city limits. “As late as the lith of September I re- ceived information from Norwalk to the effect that the patterns for the machinery had only then been completed, none of the machinery had been molded, and none of it would be ready under thirty days or six weeks. “If the air motcrs are not in operation on both their lines by the 10th of December their right to use that motive power ceases, and the act of June 10, 1896, requires them then, within twelve months fromm that date, to put in the underground electric system. They complain that the line is belng op- erated at a loss. This is but the natura? séquence of the miserable service they have offered the public. They have driven away their patronage, and if their present course is persisted in it will continue to shrink until nothing is left them but, as I heard it aptly expressed the other day, their right of way and four streaks of rust disfiguring the streets through which they run. “The Metropolitan Railway Company trifled with the laws of Congress in the same manner that this company has done, until an act was passed forfeiting their franchise if the rcad was not equipped with modern transit power within a stated time. Before the present Congress expires by law a similar measure will be passed with respect to the Eckington road, if it is within the power of the people, who are tired of and disgusted with the deceptive tactics pursued by this company for the past year or more, by united and vigorous effort to secure its passage. “Besides the air motor equipment, not a thing has been done toward the commence- ment of the extensions allowed them under the same act. If these are not completed and operated by the 10th of next June, then, says the act, ‘so much of this act as authorizes such uncompleted extensions shall be void and of no effect.’ It will be for the people to see’ tHat no exiension of time Is given for the BUllding of these ex- tensions.” affairs of the Taking Stock. Early this morning'!&@ number of men, with horses and wagons, were put to work gathering up the loose ties lying along that part of the line about a'mile or so north of Eckington, and hauling’ them away, but as to what would be dotié with them no one in authority would sa¥:" It is the impres- sion among railroad men that this step was necessary in order to! take account of the stock on hand in acgordance with the in- structions of the court. , McKINLEY TO HIS VISITORS. ~ Responses to the Greetings of His Supporters, Major McKinley responded to Governor Hastings and the Amerieus Club of Pitts- burg when they presented their greetings yesterday at Canton, Ohio, as follows: “Governor Hastings, gentlemen of the Americus Club and my fellow citizens of Pennsylvania: I appreciate more than I can find words to express the compliment and honor of this call from the citizens of a neighboring state. I am glad to give welcome to the city of Canton and to my home. (Applause.) I am glad to give wel- come to the governor of the state of Penn- sylvania, General Hastings (cheers), and, if he can secure for the republican national ticket as large a majority as he secured for himself (aughter and applause), we will be entirely satisfied here in Ohio (great cheering), for 1 beiieve that he received the largest majority that was ever given to any candidate for any office in the his- tory of your state. (Applause.) “I do not appear, my fellow citizens, to make a speech to you, but only to express my personal gratification that the famous Americus Club and the business men who stand behind them should have turned aside from their usual occupations to come to our city on this great opening day of our republican campaign; and I want you all to know that I regard it as a special honor and compliment to me to have you with us today (great cheering), and I trust that our people will give you most generous and hospitable welcome, as I am sure they will, and I wish for all of you a safe return to your homes after the day’s doings are over.” (Great applause and cries of “Hur- rah for McKinley.”) To the Tradew Delegation. To the greetings of the building and trades delegation from Columbus Major McKinley responded as follows “My fellow citizens of Columbus: I have been very deeply and profoundly touched by the message which your spokesman brings to me as your representative, speak- ing for the great building and trade occupa- ticns of the capital city. I recall the four years I spent in your city, and I cherish them among the dearest and pleasantest of my life. (Cheers.) I cannot recall an hour during my incumbency of the office of governor that I did not have the sympathy and encouragement and friendship of the workingmen of the city of Columbus. (Great applause and cries of “We are with you yet.”) “Your spokesman has well said that there are two questions of supreme moment to the American people—the one is work (ap- plause) and the other is pay. (Renewed applause and cries of “That's right.) Our trouble today in this country is that we have not got enough work (cries of “That's right and all of us, no matter to what political party we have belonged in the past, are going to vote for that policy which will give to the American working- man more work. (Great cheering and eries of ‘Hurrah for McKinley.”) We have lost a good deal of work in the last four years, and we want to get it back, and then when we get it back (cries of “We want to keep it”)—yes, we want to keep it, and when we get it back we propose that that work shall be paid in the best dollars known to the commercial world. (Tre- mendous applause.) We do not propose to vote in favor of a money the value of which you have got to ascertain every morning by consulting the market columns in the newspapers. (Great cheering and laughter.) “We have had ne such money as that in the past and we do not propose to en- ter upon such an experiment just now. (Applause and cries of “Our money is good enough.”) We have had since 187 gold, silver and peper—every dollar the equal of the best and the best equal to the best in the world (cheers and cries of “That's right”), and we propose to keep all of our money that way. (Renewed cheering.) “And we propose another thing, my fel- low citizens, no matter what may be our vocations in’ Mfe, we propose to indignant- ly repel the idea of classcs in the United States. (Tremendous applause and cries of “Amen, Amen.”) Every man in this coun- try is 2s good as any other man. (Great eering and hurrahs for McKinley.) “very man in this country has an equal opportunity and equal privileges (appla\ and cries of “Yes, yes.”) And, my fello citizens, the man or the party that wouid seek to array lavor against capital and capital agalust labor is an enemy of both. (Great cheering.) “l thank you, my countrymen, for this i call. i appreciate “the good will of the men representing the great building trades of the city of Columbus. I know that you Il be glad to hear from the state of Pennsylvania, and as we have on this pl form that splendid republican governor, General Hastings, I take pleasure in pre- sa.ting nim. (Great applause.) Visitors From Columbiana County. The delegation from Fairfield township, Cclumbiana county, called at the McKin- ley kome and were addressed by the major as flows: Mr. Chairman and my fellow citizens: It gives me very great pleasure to meet my old friends of Fairfield township, Colum- hana county. (Applause.) Among my earl- jest political recollections, I recall the vil- lage of Cclumbiana. Among the earliest political speeches I ever made was one made in your town. (Cheers.) 1 remember that in the twenty years 1 was a representative in Congress, I always had the encourage- and sympathy and support of the good people of your township. (Applause.) We arc battling this year for the same cause that we battled for during the last twenty years. We have the same principles to contend for now as we had then. The re- publican party stards this year, as it has always stood, for the country and the honor. (Great cheering and criss of ‘That's right.) It ls opposed to nation- al dishonor and repudiation in whatever form it may come and from wh itever quar- ter {t may come. (Appiause.) It believes in good, sound, honest dollars (cheers), dollars that you know just what they are worth every day of the week and eve! week of the year, dollars that are not on! gocd in cur own country, but good whe: ever trade goes. (Loud applause and cri of “Hurrah for McKinley.”) The republican party stands, too, this year, as it has stood in the past, for an American protective system (great ap- plause), a system that serves cur own peo- ple rather than the interests of the alien and the stranger who lives | nd our shores. (Great applause.) It stands for a policy that gives to American cit.zenship the widest and broadest opportunity to work at American wages, and to the farm- ers of the United States the best home market that can be found anywh in the world. (Great cheering.) But, my fellow citizens, this is not my day to make a speech. There are orators here who will speak to you, and I only come now that I may make suitable recognition of this frierdiy call on the part of my old friends and corstituents, years inanifested their devotion to the re publican cause and to me personally (Applause.) 5 2 THE RAILWAY WAR. Scaboard May Unite With Southern Freight Association. The most recent rumor growing out of the Scaboard-Southern railroad war in reilway circles is that the Seaboard 1s about to seek to reunite with the Southern States Freight Association. It is possible that the only ground for the report is to be found in the fact, as stated on good authority, that while in Atlanta a few days ago Vice President St. John of the Seaboard -called on Commis- sioner Haines of the Southern States Freight Asscciation. The call seems, how- ever, so far as has yet been ascertained, to have been purely personal and without ref- erence to the Seaboard re-entering the as- sociation at an early date. The personal relations between the vice president and the commicsioner have always been friend- ly. Mr, Haines was Mr. St. John’s firs: choice for eommissioner wien Comimission- er Stehlman retired, and the Seiboard was cne of the first roads, if not the very first, to arrovnce for nim. Whetker the Southern would consent to the Seaboard again Lecomiug a member of the Southern States Freight Association, which the latter helped to organize a few years ago, but soon left, is a matter con- cerning which there is much ifterence of opinion in railroad circles. Immeriately following the announcement late yesterday afternoon that Judge Hughes of the United States court for the western district of Virginia had enjoined the At- lantic Coast line from catrying into effect {ts cut rates, the impression prevailed that the effect of the proceeding would be to bring the rate war to an abrapt termina- tion, but the consensus of opinion among railroad men today is that a truce has sim- ply intervened and that after the decision oi the court at the hearing, which takes place in a few days, hostilities will be re- simed with even more vigor than has heretofore been displayed by either side. ——__ The Storm Found Coal. From the Pittsburg Telegraph. The recent cloudburst at Industry, Pa., while it did great damage in the neighbor- hood, may yet prove to be a blessing in dis- guise. The ravine at the western edge of- town, where the flood of water filled the culvert under the C. and P. tracks last week, now shows two veins of bituminous coal, clearly exposed. One vein is four and one-half feet in thickness, underlaid with eight feet of superior fire ciay, and another is three feet thick, with fourteen inches of fire clay underneath. The flood also washed bare and exposed a thirty- foot stratum of building stone similar in grain, quality and appearance to the fam- ous Cleveland or Berea stone. At the glen at the eastern end of the Eagle Prairie peach patch a formation new to this sec- tion has been opened and exposed. It has eighteen inches of the finest bituminous coal and immediately under and joining this are twelve feet of cannel coal, the formation resembling the Kentucky cannel coal. who have for so many | — exchange is demanded, it will _be his duty to adopt that course.’” ist. If you are correctly reported in the above extract from said letter, then and in that evert I will thank you to refer me to the authority of law under and by which the Secretary of the Treasury could and Would exchange silver dollars for gold dol- lars? 2d. Would silver dollars so exchanged for gold dollars be reissued for gold dollars upcn demand therefor and under cond!- tiens similar to thase existing. at’ said first excharge, af if so, would such exchange be kept up as, frequently vassitver dollars Were presented for exchange for gold dol- lers and under like conditions, and if so, please refer me to the authority of law under and bymwhich such reissue change would be so made aad continued? 3d. I will atso-thank you to inform how gold would be supplied to the treasury aaa a continue said exchange of Jars : Peter woulars for silver, dollars, and also to PRESIDENT’S POWER Opposing - Statements of Secretary Carlisle and Mr. Bryan. —__+—___—_ ON ONE POINT THEY SEEM 70 AGREE The Executive Can Put the Country on a Silver Basis. ex S Te if ie Ra authority a pro- STUDYING THE QUESTION | [she steathe authori 0 law ror poe treasury adequate and sufficient in quan Boos for making, repeatin; exchange? ° — 4th. You stated in. continuing suc The coincidence that the day Seeretary Carlisle's letter to Mr. Helm of Louisvilie was made public announcing that, if it were necessary in order to maintain the parity between silver and gold, standard silver dollars would be redeemed in gold, Mr. Bryan, in . speech in North Carolina, should declare that if he is elected the present money standard “shall not be re- tained one day Icnger than I can help it,” is a subject of wondering study among financial authorities. The general belief is that it is within the discretionary power of the President to put the country on a silver basis by ex- ecutive action, This conclusion, in view of the possibility that a majority of both branches of Congress may not be secured by the silver party, gives a new phase to the campaign. In his daily letter from New York to the Philadelphia Press “Holland” reflects the view taken by financial leaders upon this point at issue. He says: “Mr. Carlisle's letter is regarded as not orly an important contribution to the cam- paign in the way of information, but as the mest opportune, being published, as it was, upon the day that Bryan declared it to be Lis purpose to bring the government to a silver basis if he were elected President. ‘The subject which Mr. Carlisle treats in this letter has been one which has caused a great deal of embarrassment to some of those who nave taken the stump in behalf of the gold standard, and to almost all of those who argue for that standard more privately, The assertion has often been made that the Treasury Department does redeem silver dollars in gold when such re- demption is asked. And more than one speaker has been confused by the proof that his statement is incorrect. “Then the silver men declare that, if the i jour circ y 1896, entitled “Information Tyee 7 A ed States Bonds, Paper Curren Production of the Precious that gold coins and standard sily being standard coins of the are not redcemable. at new law or statute have you dis- covered since the publication of your par. phlet on the Ist of July last, or what new orders have you recelved which do not aj- Pear in the statute books? I am anxious to ascertain what inspired your offer to ex. change gold for silver dollars and sly certificates. Are there enough options to redeeni greenbacks and treasury notes in gold or silver to surrender to gold gamblers demanding gold to furnish you excuses for the sale of United States bonds? Do you Propose to sell bonds enough before your term of office expires to buy gold to redeem not only the treasury notes and greenbacks, tut also to redeem’ the silver dollars and silver certificates now outstanding? I know that you will not issue bonds under any cir- cumstances until after election. The time for issuing five or six hundred millions of bonds will be very short after the 3d of No- ember before your power in that respect will terminate. For what purpose, then, have you made this offer to gold gamblers at this particular time? Was it for the pur- pose of restoring confidence in your ability to wreck the treasury or for the purpose of including the Rothschilds combination ‘0 invest large sums of money to buy votes for McKinley, in order that they may continue to enjoy the bounties which a gold adminis- tration confers on its friends without re- gard to residence or nationality? Yours, respectfully, * WM. M. STEWART. ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS silver dollars, United States, A Large Orowd Expected to Meet Mr. silver dollar is not redeemed in gold and stands apai a separate standard metal, Bryan. and is worth its full face value in its purchasing power, why will not the same quality remain with it, if the coinage be free and upon private account? ‘it is safe to s that this question has proved greater stumbling block to many of those who have been speaking in public and pri fe ag: st free coinage than any other of the trick questions or vague and ract as tions which the free silver are fond of using ‘This is not surprising, when it is known that, even in well-informed financial circles, Gen. King Addresses the McKinley Hobart Mass Meeting—General News of the Day. abs m A largely attended meeting of the Bryan Club wes held last night. Arran ments it has been often found impossible to get a | Were Made, as far as possible, to give Mr. clear statement of the reason why the si!- | Bryan a royal reception on itis arrival in ver dollars now in circulation are as good | Alexandria this evening. A committee of as goll dollars in their purchasing power, although the government does not redeem em in gold, and why this same quality 1 not be found in silver doilars coined on count. ‘Mr. Carlisle hus been asked by some of our own financiers to answer this question, ten members of the club will go to Quan- tico this morning and escert him city. If he Mas the time to leave his an effort will be made to have his address delivered from a stand at the fair grounds, to the cise newer this question, | only two squares from the depot, other- and his whe : ape : says that ke has received many inquiries of | Wise he will speak from the rear of tt this kind. While the Secretary’s exposition } train. It being Saturday and a half holi- of the re: why silver and gold have been maintained thus far on a parity, and why, under an administration favoralle to such maintenance, that relation can Le «on- tinued, is lucid and authoritative, it, of course, does not differ from statements which have been made by well-informed persons and by editorial comment, such as day, with the banks and workshops closed, a large crewd will greet him. The town bell, the fire bells and the factory whistles will be all called into requisition as his train pulls into the city. McKinley and Hobart Mass Mecting. A mass meeting under the ausp:ces of the |has several times been printed in the | McKinley and Hobart Club of th = Siss2 held in the Opera H last ‘ “But the important and new declaration | he 2 ee eee ee A which is contained In the letter, and which instantly attracted the eye of every finan- cler here, was the assertion that, while it has hitherto been found possihle to main- tain the parity by limiting the coinage, and by receiving without discrimination gold or silver, and also by paying without discrimi- nation gold or stiver in accordance with de- mands, yet, if the emergency should ever arise when it was found necessary that such a course could not alone maintain the parity, then the Treasury Department will exchange gold for silver in case the de- mand be made. “This statement, while it suggests the radical difference between tne supporters of the existing standard and of the polic: of maintaining the parity of gold and s ver, and Bryan and his free silver party, is also regarded as of great importance at this time, since it amounts to an assurance to the world that, until the end of this administration, no matter what happens, the parity will be maintained, and gold will be exchanged for silver if that is deemed large crowd was in attendance and jixtened with interest. The stage was’ beautifully decorated for the occasion. Park Agnew called the meeting to order, and, after a few remarks, introduced Gen. Adam E. King of Baltimore. He said that the free and unlimited coinage of silver would bring nothing but disaster upon the people. He declared that the republican party arked not the consent of any other nation in fay- oring legislation, but asked the American people. He raid that overproduction was the cause of the present hard times. Seated upon the siage were City Chairman Joseph Crapper, Charles King, W. P. Graves, Thomas Burroughs and Samuel Garwoud. During the evening the 3d Regimeat Drum Corps dispensed delightful music. Police Court. Mayor Thompson this morning disposed of the following cases: John Pettit, arrested by Licut. Smith, for using threatening and abusive language toward A. W. Lyons, was dismissed Jerry Dorsey, colored, charged with es- caping from the chain gang, had twenty days added to original sentenc Harry Jackson, a small colc rested by Officer Proctor for harp, was put on bread and wate days. James Wright, colored, charged with stealing a lot of tools from Mr. McKeown, had his case continued until tonight at 7 o'clock. A. J. Morris, charged with vagrancy, was sent to the work house for ninety days. WIL Probate; The will of the late Major George Duffy, commissioner of revenue, was admitted to probate in the corporation court yesterday. His daughter (Ella A. Duffy) is named as aiministratrix. He leaves all his property, consisting of a house and two lots on Fair- fax street and household furniture, to his three daughters as long as they remain un- married. If they should marry the proper- ty Is to be sold and divided among his heirs-at-law. Notes and Gossip. The Young Men's Sodality Lyceum is making extensive preparations for the cele- bration of the seventh anniversary of its organization, the Sth of October. Letters of administration were yestenlay granted by Judge Norton to M. 0. Camp- bell upon the estate of B. P. Campbell, deceased. The funeral of old “Aunt” Mariah Ma- della took place yesterday, and was attend- ed by a large number of her friends. Frank E. Anderson of this city will speak at Falls Church Tuesday night and at Clifton Saturday next. Capt. Marmaduke of the steamer Belle- haven is confined to his home on North Royal street. Mr. William EF. Webster, who has been confined to his home for the past two weeks with malarial fever, is able to be about tion which has been financiers here, and which European capitalists have, perhaps, more persistently asked than any Ameri- can has done. No satistactory answer has been given to it before this time. All that could be sald was that the’ Treasury De- partment did not exchange gold for silver, although there was nothing to show that it had ever been asked to do it. “Whether it would, if demanded, make such exchange was something about which financiers differed. Some were of the opi: ion that it would be obliged to, if the de mand was made in good fatth, and not simply for the purpose of embarrassing the Treasury Department. It had discr ticn as to the coin with which it should redeem treasury notes and greenbacks, al- though it had never exercised it, always assuming that when these notes were pr sented for redemption gold was wanted. “Some of our financiers say thi when Mr. Carlisle was in this city a year ago he was asked {f he would exchange on de- mand gold or silver, and he declined to re- ply, perhaps because he felt that he should not be asked what he would do unless the emergency had arisen which compelled him to make a decision. “It is not probable that any such emer- gency now exists. Until after election, at all events, the Treasury Department is safe, and Mr. Carlisle would probably de- cline to exchange gold for silver in case the demand were made upon him, since he would feel certain that such demand was made not in good faith, but for the puroose of embarrassment. Therefore it is evident that he has been thus frank in declaring that, while the Treasury De- partment has not made this exchange, yet if the necessity should arise it would not nesitate to do so, so that the parity might be maintained, because he desires that those who are advocating the sound money doctrine may be freed from ali embarrass- ment. “They may hereafter say to any silver ed boy, ar- aling a for five advocate who asks them if the silver dol- | again. lar can b: redeemed in gold, ‘It is not re. 55-5 deemed now because ft is not necessary, The Phonendoscope. but it will be received in exchange for gold | From the Scientific American, whenever the Treasury Department finds it is necessary to do that in order to main- tain the parity.’ “The feeling bere is that this announce- ment will, when it is heard in Europe, tend to increase the confidence which in the past three or four weeks has been slow- ly but surely growing there. It will aiso have a moral effect of much importance during this campaign. “It should be said that the announce- ment does cause some surprise, since the common opinion here has been that the Treasury Department. would not under- take to receive silver for gold in any event, although the ablest of our financiers have always said that an emergency might arise when it would be necessary for the Treas- ury to do this if it proposed to use all its powers and resources in maintaining the parity.” This instrument is said to be useful for hearing: 1. The sound of the respiratory organs, of the circulation of the blood, ant of the digestive organs in the healthy bod as well as in the sick subject. 2 The sounds made by the muscles, joints and bones. 3. The sounds in the matrix at the time of pregnancy and the noise provoked by the foetus, 4. The sound of capillary circulation. The slightest sound pro- in any diseased condition of the hence, it is impcssible to draw on the body dimensions, the position or any alteration in the position of the various organs and of the fluids which have xath- ered in the most important cavities of the body. 6. The sounds in the ear, the eye, the bladder, the stomach and the intestines The instrument consists of a circular, flat metal bex or tympanum, having on its one surface two apertures for the attachment of the rubber ear tubes, while the other surface is formed by a thin disc, which is readily thrown into vibration. The best Senater Stewarts Inquiries. Senator Stewart has today addressed the following letter to the Secretary of the ‘Treasury: results aro obtained by eimply applying this UNITED STATES SENATE, @ise to the surface to be examined. By an WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 19, 1896. ingenious contrivance a second disc can be superposed upon this one and a vulcanite rod attached to the former, so that the area of auscultation may be extremely cir- cumscribed. The condition of the sounds is only slightly diminished by the use of thie rod, which thus combines the princi- ple of the colid stethoscope with that of the tympanum. The instrument is considered highly useful as an aid to auscultation; it may be also found useful in class demon- Hon. John G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C. Sir: In a letter copied and published in the public press, addressed by you Septem- ber 12, 1! from Bar Harbor, Me., to Mr. James P. Helm of Louisville, Ky., there is recited therein as follows, to wit: “Whenever the Secretary (of the Treas- ury) shall be satisfied that the silver dollar cannot be kept equal in purchasing power | stration.since it would be easy branched with the gold dollar, except by receiving it | tubes to enable several persons to listen ef in exchange for the gold dollar, when ‘such | one time.