Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1896, Page 14

14 THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1896—SIXTEEN PAGES. WAKING _ THE DEAD -—BCHOE3 OF A FADED AND ALMOST FORG(“TEN PAST SEEMS TO BE THE EFFECT WHENEVER WE SHY OUR CASTOR INTO THE RING. OLD-FOGYDOM WAKES UP FROM 1TS RIP VAN WINKLE SLEEP, RUBS ITS EYES, BORROWS A PAIR OF MODERN GLASSES 4ND MAKES A DESPERATE EFFORT TO FORGE TO THE FRONT. IT’S A SAD SIGHT TO WITNESS THE HOPELESS ENDEAVORS OF THESE OLD BOURBON MOSSBACKS TO MODERN- IZE THEIR ANCIENT METHODS AND BRING THEMSELVES AND THEIR BUSINESS UP TO THE PRESENT STANDARD OF THIS PROGRESSIVE AGE. THEY SCREW UP SUFFICIENT COURAGE TO MAKE ONE BOLD MOVE, AND THERE THEY STICK,TREMBLING, DOUBTING, PEar’ (G LEST THE NEXT ERING UNMERCIFUL DISASTER. WE ARE NOT GLOATING OVER THE INEFFECTUAL EFFORTS OF THESE MIFERLY INCAPABLES TO MAINTAIN THEIR POSITION IN THE BUSINESS WORLD, NOT AT ALL! SEE EVERY OBSTRUCTION REMOVED FROM THE CHANNELS OF TRADE, IN THAT'S THD POINT AT ISSUE, AND ONE IN THAT THERE MAY BE FAIR SAILING. WEICH = ALL THE 4RE INTERESTED. “ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR.” FaIR. AND ¢ FUTURE PROSPERITY. BUT WE SHOULD LIKE TO ORDER PEOPLE AND ON THIS POINT WE ILAY THE WINNING CARD. THEY SAY: BUT IN BUSINESS ONLY THAT IS FAIR WHICH IS THIS SINGLE, SIMPLE PROPOSITION WE HANG ALL OUR HOPES OF IN YOUR HOUR OF NFED TRY US, PROVE US; AND IF YOU FIND US WANTING IN ANY ESSENTIAL PARTICULAR—DROP US! You, sir, need a sult of Clothes today. Shall we furnish it? Here are the prices for Men’s Suits. $3.50, $3.98, $5, $6, $6.50, $6.75, $7.50. Boys’ Suits. $2, $2.98, $3, 54, $4.50, $5, $5.50, $6. TWO PIECES, 5 to 15 years. $1.75, $2, $2.50, $2.75, $3, $3.50. Men’s Overcoats. TOP COATS, ULSTERS, STORMERS. $7.50, $10, $12.50, $15. You may hunt the wide world over and you'll mot duplicate any one of ‘em at the price quoted. Boys’ Overcoats. REEFERS AND STORMERS, $1.50, $2, $2.50, $2.98, $3, $3-50, $4, $4.50. Ten’s Pantaloons. No other stock is comparable to this. $1.50, $1.75, $2, $2.50, $3, $3-50, $4. THOSE PRETTY PLAID MEN’S FURNISHINGS. This is one of our new depart- ments. It has been in existence but two. short weeks—and of course everything is entirely new. To enumerate the thousand and one beautiful, stylish, comfortable and health preserving things, so profuse- ly and elaborately displayed, would occupy more of time and space than we have at our disposal. We want you to come on a tour of inspection. You'll find it both pleasant and profitable. HATS. Another new thing. Altogether new. We couldn’t give you an old style Hat or Cap at any price—be- cause we haven’t either. But all the new styles, shapes, shades and colors are open for your inspection. We'd be mighty glad to have you look ’em over. Coz why? You'd be sure to find something to tickle you amazingly. CHEVIOT SACK SUITS ARE AWFULLY TAKING. es E. ADLE OUTFITTER TO MEN. 923-925-927-929 7th Street N.W., Corner Massachusetts Avenue. THE TRAVELING LIBRARY. ities A Method of Supplying Com: With Reading Matter. From tle Book Buyer. Instant interest is always aroused by de- scription of the traveling library system, not only because it is novel, but because its value is at once apparent. As it is of special importance to reading clubs, we shall devote this number to some account ef its objects and operation. ‘The traveling library is established by law in New York, Iowa, Michigan and Montana, although in the latter state the appropriation is not yet available. In Wis- ecnsin they are furnished in different sec- tions by two generous citizens, and in other states varying tentative methods are being tried. Mr. Btead of the Review of Reviews, a man who looks afield with a telescope, has in a year put two hundred bexes of from forty to fifty books each in circulation in different parts of Europe, this ceuntry, Africa and India. ‘The system originated in New York three years ago, when the Albany state library resclved to loan boxes containing from fifty to one hundred books to such public libraries ag needed them, and to communi- ties where no libraries as yet exist. The title is derived from the fact that each brary remains in one place but six months, and is then returned to headquar- ters, to be followed, if desired, by another selection, while it ts sent elsewhere. Print- d catalogues are supplied with each box, and each library is well equipped for use, aithevgh New York, I think, does not, as some other states do, include a book case in the loan. The fee is five dollars for the larger library, three for the smaller, and includes all charges for transportation. The application has to be made through responsible citizens, and the persons using the books bind themselves to aid in any future attempt to establish a public library in the place. The New York system is ready to be of solid, practical benefit to all study and reading clubs in the state. It will fl any list of books, and send ex- ectly what ts needed for work. Mr. East- man, the librarian in charge, is most gen- ercus and thorough in his efforts to assist students, ard the New York clubs have very superior advantages over many oth- era. It fs pleasant to know that as a con- Sequence of the work six public lbraries have been established in the state in towns where interest was aroused by the travel- ing library, and that at least forty thou- sand volumes have been in circulation since the plan was adopted. The traveling ll- brary is also am object lesson, ag it shows how easily the work can be managed, and hew useful it fs. The “special” Hbraries are made up upon application, and clubs usirg such subjects as Ruskin, Bhakes- peare, American writers, etc., have been supplied with not only the necessary books, but with ample supplementary reading. In Iowa the system {s comparatively rew, but it resembles that managed by New York, and is open to study classes. ‘The Michigan appropriation is liberal and the demand is large. The Montana ar- rangement provides for libraries of one hundred volumes each. We have not the complete details of management, but its plan of organization seems open’ to criti- ciem, as control is given to state officers instead of literary workers. Minnesota in- troduced a bill at the last session of the legislature which failed only for want of time. It places the control in the hands of the ccmmittee on university extension of the faculty of the state university. In this connection it should be said that several universities, notably those of Chicago and isccrsin, are sending out boxes of books for vae in connection with extension lec- tures. The Harvard College library, the Boston Atheneum, the Worcester Ubrary, and the Massachusetts state library ali Jend books to students within the state, but I do not know whether clubs are con- ai The Smithsonian Institution, and the Sur- geon General's office library lend books most liberally to students ‘at long dis- tances. The free libraries of Philadelphia, especially the Drexel, are very liberal in their arrangements, and quite ready for aby possible advance in future. The Boston Society —— Encourag:ment of es pursuing special lines of literary and scientific work. These organizations rez- ister with the reference librarian, with the understanding that the library will give, as far as possible and without infringing upon the righta of other readers, the books needed in their work. —————— ——_+e. NOVEL RACE ACROSS THE OCEAN. Three British Sailing Vessels Speed From China for a Prise of $25,000. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. On September 6, 1886, the most extraor- dinary race by ships across the ocean came to a close by their arrival in London with- in a few minutes of one another, after very long voyages as regards distance. On May 30 of that year the three competing vessels, the Serica, the Ariel and the Taep- ing, passed the bar of the harbor of Foo- chow, on the east coast of China, a port which since 1842 has been cpen to foreign commerce and is one of the principal tea merkets. They were preceded on the pre- vious day by the Fiery Cross, and were followed on September 81 by the Taitsing, both of which sailed from that same port. The next news heard of them came by telegraph from Anjer, an island in the Straits of Sunda, in the Malay archipelago, The Fiery Cross passed there on June 19 and the three racing vessels on June 23, all within a few hours of each other, hav- ing run the distance from Foochow in twenty-three days. On September 5, 1866, Lloy: agent telegraphed the arrival of these three ships in the Downs, the Ariel ané Taeping having arrived at 8 a.m., and the Serica passing Deal at 1 p.m. They had all steam tugs in attendance and were pushing on for the Thames with all pos- sible expedition. The distance, 14,060 miles, had been run in ninety-nine days, and it appeared that the Ariel and Taeping ran almost neck ard neck the whole passage, the Serica fcllowing close in their wake. The resvlt of this extraordinary race was declared to be as follows: The Taeping, docked in London docks 9:45 p.m., first: the Ariel, decked in East India docks 10:15 p-m., second; the Serica, docked in West India docks 11:30 p.m.,-third. The ‘Taep- ing, therefore, was winner of the Prize, which was about $25,000 in value, to be paid in the form of new teas from Foo- chow to the one of these three sailing ves- sels which should be first in dock. The False Teeth Exploded. From the New York Times. A set of false teeth started a small fire Saturday in the office of W. Leeds, a den- tist. Henry F. Richambeau, who makes den- tists’ supplies, had left a set of teeth with Dr. Leeds for his examination. The teeth were made of a new composition and were said to be strong and durable. The doctor made a test of the set and to try their strergth struck them with a ham- mer. As he did so they exploded with a loud report and began to burn. ‘The floor and a curtain caught fire, but the flames were quickly extinguished. A patient who was having a cast of his mouth taken thought the building was on fire and rushed out of the office with the plaster still in his mouth. He was caught, however, before he reached the street. ‘The doctor said that it was a beautiful set of teeth. ——+0+____ Very Unnatural. From the Boston Courier. Mrs. Easy—“Only to think of such a thing happening to dear John, when he’s always prayed that he might die a natural death.” Doctor—“Why, madam, ‘what do you mean?” Mrs. Easy—“Didn’t you tell me, doctor, that John was passing away very test?” EES e certainly did, » and so ota Mrs. Easy—“And I'm sure, doctor, there's nothing natural about that to John.” “What is this. Young Turkey party I see so much about in thg papers?” asked the typewriter boarder. “I don’t know 7» the Cheerful Idiot hastened to say Gut 1 thik We ie some sort of boarders’ protective associa- THE GAPLAND ARCH Sas Sy hee (Continued From Page Thirteen.) with wholly inadequate provisions or bag- having very few blankets even. Everyboay was, in extreme sense, in light marching order, particularly the corre- Tespondents, who provided for themselves, and at that time had nothing to provide. Not one of them, as I remember, had a horse, and most of them were foodiess and blanketless. To add to our discomfort the afternoon of our arrival was bright with sunshine and warm in Tennessee for the season, but during the night a sudden, sharp change to wiatry cold occurred, accompanied by a snow storm. We had no regular shelter and nothing to eat for the three days and two nights we were with the Union forces except what little we could buy, corn bread and bacon, at the miserable farm houses in the vicinity. We suffered so greatly from cold and semi-starvation that we were well-nigh exhausted when the fort sur- rendered. Myself and another New York corre- spondent, Richard T. Colburn, trfed to sleep in a forlorn outhouse without fire. Get- ting up to move about in order to get warm we fell down heavily again and again, our legs, stiff from exposure, having lost the power to support our half famished bodies. We frequently followed army wagons over the rough, snowy roads till they jolted out fragments of hardtack, which we picked up and eagerly devoured. At Fort Henry a large wooden box of cartridges having accidentally exploded near where I was standing, one of the fragments struck my eye, causing severe inflammation, with which the other eye sympathized, and I was rendered partially blind. Wandering over the Held, the snow reflected the giare on my disabled eyes, producing constant pain that wasoften tor- turesome. In this condition I, with the other €orre- spondents, left Donelson the evening of the day of the surrender on a government transport, carrying dispatches for Cairo. As I wrote until sunrise my account of the two days’ engagement by the obscure light of oil lamps hanging high in the cabin, my pitiable plight on reaching port may be readily conceived. After posting my account I went by rail directly to St. Louis, where I healed my diseased eyes by @ prescription of my own, and after a few days I was again enabled to use them. Such instances of hardship were not un- common among the correspondents, who were sometimes accused’ of living lux- uriously in the field. This is a specimen of our luxury. Courage Acquired. A man entirely inexperienced in war is apt to believe at his first participation in battle that every time a gun 1s fired some- body is hit. After sharing in a number of engagements, and seeing how much powder is wasted, he is ready to believe the mili- tary proverb that it requires as much lead to kill a man as would equal his weight. Only a tried soldier learns to discriminate between real and apparent danger; and to such discrimination‘1t is altogether prob- able that much of his courage is to be ascribed. All men, speaking generally, are what is loosely called brave. They become so by accustomedness. The raw soldier who might run away, and is often tempted to, in his first battle, will, after getting well seasoned, charge a battery without a tremor. Is courage little else than getting used to being scared? The difficulty of hitting a man was re- Peatedly exemplified by our going up the Yazoo in one of the rams in the summer of 1862 on short trips of observation in the enemy’s country. The river, which empties into the Mississippi a few miles above Vicksburg, is narrow and deep, having le- vees on each side to prevent the adjacent country, lower than the bed of the stream, from overflow. Behind the levees the guer- rilla Mississippians would shelter them- selves, and, taking deliberate aim, though invisible from the ram, with old rifles, mus- kets, shotguns, such nondescript arms as they had or covid collect in their rural homes, would fire at a dozen or more north- erners standing fully exposed on the fore part of the upper deck. One would say that at so short a dis- tance, and screened from all peril, their sectional foes never suspecting their con- tiguity, they could not fail to kill or wound some of them. But again and again have I been thus exposed, when, suddenly and un- expectedly, the balls and buckshot would rain around us without striking anybody. No wonder that some of those superstitious southerners were of the opinion that “them d—d Yanks” bore charmed lives. Hav- ing been in no regular engagements, they had not learned how much lead is neces- sarily wasted in well-intentioned homicides. Near Greeneville, on the lower Mississippi, the guerrillas were in the habit of planting six and twelve pounders behind the levee during the last half of 1862 and the first half of 1863. Thence they would fire on Union transports in the vain hope of ob- structing its navigation to the enemy. In August of 1862 I was going up to Mem- phis on the ram Queen of the West, which had been very badly damaged in encounters with hostile vessels on the river. We had to run very near the right bank to follow the channel, and as we were quietly and slowly steaming against the swift current the unseen guerrillas began firing at us with small arms. We replied with some old worn-out Mississipp! rifles we had captured, simply to show fight, conscious we could do the enemy no harm. Then they suddenly opened with invisible cannon, whose rapid firing we were obliged to endure in silence for nearly half an hour. They struck the ram everywhere, protected in most parts solely by thick oak boards, no better de- fense than tissue paper, adding materially to her already shattered condition. Never- theless, they killed but one man, and slight- ly wounded another—myself. I was hurt with splinters, made by a round shot that cut the other poor fellow, standing by my side, completely in two—a ghastly spectacle. Taken Prisoner, The career of myself and another Tribune correspondent in the field,Albert D. Richard- ‘son, came to an abrupt end when we, with a third correspondent of the New York World, attempted to run the batteries of Vicksburg, on the night of May 3, 1863. It was fortunately the last expedition, as it was the most ill-fated. If it had been the first, others might have been deterred from following an example that had had so un- lucky an outcome. Several expeditions had got through in comparative safety. When ours had been prepared, the river had fallen; the moon was at the full; the confederates had got the range; everything was against us. Ex- perienced' Mississippi pilots warned us against taking the great risk, predicting that we should probably ground on a bar and be shot to pieces. Our reply was that we were'not bound to go; that we wanted the experience, and that the more danger- ous the venture, the greater the experience would prove. Our expedition, composed of a steam tug, the Sturges, and two barges, lashed to It, and loaded with barrels of provisions and bales of hay, had on board about thir- ty-five persons, including the correspond- ents, and some twenty privates, with a captain of an Ohio regiment. Every one cf them had volunteered. Regarded by the military authorities as exceptionally haz- ardous, they did not wish to order any one to join it. we started from Milliken’s Bend, La., General Grant's headquarters, about mid- night, the moon being in the zenith, the night so clear and radiant that we could read the newspapers easily. We journal- ists, Intimate friends personally, were a merry trio. We had some wine with us and a@ box of cigars. We smoked and drank to the success of our enterprise, laughing, Jesting and chatting as we floated with the current, not caring to attract attention by the working of the engine and the escape of steam. The river formed a long loop then (it has wholly changed since, receding from the town and leaving it inland), Vicksburg be- ing below the loop on the left bank. We felt sure the countacetatee must sce us in so transparent an atmosphere. Before we had reached the sharp curve had sighted us, pickets having been unwisely- allowed to cross over from the city to the opposite peninsula, on which the trees had been felled to give the batteried free range. The pickets discharged their muskets at us harmlessly to give a signal, followed by a signal rocket from the town. ‘Thereupon began the warm welcome which flashes from the batteries.’ Beyer! a bombardment I had neve§' before heard; and my ear had been attu! during the war, to some most ext cannon- ading. ¢ One uninterrupted fashiot fire seemed to run for a mile ahead. The myriads of bril- Want stars appeared to tremble at the din, and volumes of smoke hr over the river like a dense fog. The attnosphere fairly shook with reverberations5- - Directly ‘opposite Vi rg, the Missis- sipp! is, or rather was, parrow, deep and so low at that period thaj at times we were not more than three or four hundred feet from the 10-inch guns. It was strange that our frail vessels, which; were repeatedly struck, were not blown gut of the water, as the enemy, we learned afterward, con- fidently expected they wi be. But they moved steadi! hurt. The puff, puff, pi the tug, which we heard in brief al lulls of the fiery tempest, assured us that she was still floating. The enemy seemed en: at our defi- ance. He increased his stlphurous efforts; thundered louder than evér. The air was full of messengers of death; black fate smiled grimly. We seemed destined to run the terrible gauntlet in safety. We had passed the most perilous points. Another quarter of an hour would make us secure. Suddenly there was a crash, at our side, of wood and iron, a rush of steam, a loud explosion, a descending shower of ashes and cinders. The puff of the tug had ‘ceased; our prog- ress had stopped. A wild, shrill, savage yell pierced the murky air, such as we had often heard at the battle’s front, told us that the confederates had triumphed at last. ¢ ‘The boiler of the tug had beem exploded by a plunging shell from one of the upper batteries—accidental, but wholly effective. It had totally wrecked our expedition. The shell had passed into the furnaces, throw- ing their fuel on the barges, and igniting the loose hay, a danger we had foreseen and pointed out before starting. But as we were going for the adventure, we did not insist on the removal of the scattered hay. “ ig is up,” I shouted. At the same poner the groans and sharp cries of the wounded and the scalded assailed our ears. We sprange forward, trying to tramp! out the spreading flames. Vain effort. They rose higher and higher all around us, iike fiery serpents, paling the full moon, kindling the turbid waters of the broad river and the neighborhood for twenty-five iles around. mThe confederates, who had for a few mo- ments suspended firing, resumed it, and again the iron missiles swept over and around us. Several more of our men were wounded by bursting shelly. veryone was forced by the advancing flames to desert the rapidly burning boats. A few of the private soldiers and of the tug’s crew leap- ed madly overboard, and in three minutes only the wounded and the three journalists remained on the barges. We threw many bales of hay into the water, and helped the wounded as best we could, to get on them. We got off ourselves, the water feeling very comfortable after our hot work. But we were captured by the confed- erates, who came out in yawis, fully armed, when we thought we should escape by swimming. "Air the thirty-five were killed, wounded or made prisoners. Colburn was sent north by the flag-of-truce hoat after reaching Richmond, Va. But the Tribune corres- pondents, after lodgment in seven prisons, finally escaped from Salisbury, N. C., hav- ing been shut up almost two years. They made their way, ‘n raid-winter, with many adventures, to the Union lines at Strawberry Plains, in east Tennessee, £0 near the close of the war as to be de- prived of any further campaigning. Address of Henry Mosler, War Artist. When Maj. Anderson, after the surrender of Fort Lincoln, made hig return through the states, a glorious reception was given him at Cincinnati, and this impressed me so much that I concluded’ to make a little sketch of the same, and then decided to send it to Harper's, and upon the strength of this little sketch, to my surprise, in re- turn I received a check, and also a request whether or no I would be’ willing to act as their “war artist” in the jvest. 2 This I accepted, with great pleasure, .and through an old friend, a:man of consider- able literary ability, I retefved a letter of introduction to Geo. D.. Prentice of. the Loutsville Journal. I réa¢hed: Louisville promptly, and Prentice advised .me to walt, but gave me @ letter'to Geni Rousseau (the only Rousseau), who was then retreating with a handful of men,fypm Maldrpugh Hill. I started on, however, to Lebanon Junction, about twenty-one miles from Louisville. There I ‘encamped- with a few hundred men, as progress was impeded by the bridge being destroyed by the confed- erates. While sketching around this place, a re- inforcement arrived, and this troop was headed by a thin, dried-up looking man, with dusty uniform and only a colonel’s shoulder strap. I strode around as proud as possible, when all of a sudden this man rode up, looked down at me and said: “What are you doing here?” In reply, looking up from my work, I said: “I am special artist for Harper’s Weekly, and with that I pulled out of my pocket my credentials: “This will certify that Hen- ry Mosler is special artist for Harper's, &e.” It did not impress the man as I expect- ed, but quite to the contrary. He called emphatically: “We don't want any of you d—d artists nor confederates around here! Pack up and go home!” As a@ young man hardly.twenty, with no military experience, I gazed at him per- fectly dumfounded, and told him that I should go anyhow. He faced about and left me. I slept all night on the ground, the com- mon soldiers being kind enough to lend me @ blanket, and next morning early I joined @ party of men pushing up a steep grade a hand-car loaded with ammunition, heavily guarded, for the support of Rousseau. We reached the small retreating army of vol- unteers, but lo, and behold! here was that man again. I saw that Rousseau bowed in subm:ssion to this evidently superior officer. I stepped forward and handed my letter to Rousseau, who handed it to the less agreeable man, They conferred, and then the “unknown” looked at me again. “By G—d,” sald he, “you did get here, did you?” I told him: “I informed you yesterday that I would come.” “Well, since you are here, I suppose we will Jet you remain.” It is useless to state that this man was no other than Gen. Sherman. We became better acquainted, and soon he was most friendly inclined. I messed at his head- qvarters, slept in the same room with him, and ate at his table for some months, He was always opposed to sitting for his pic- ture. I, however, succeeded, while he was walking up end down, in making a sketch of him, which I showed him afterward, ard also published the same in Harper’s. He took this very good-naturedly. My exper- ience with Gen. Sherman was, possibly, the mest important event to me at the begin- ning of the war, and likewise after tha bat- tle of Shiloh, he rode over the field with me, showing me the points he defended, &c. The facts that I got from him, how- ever, history will never state. I messed also sometimes with Rousseau, Nkewise with Gen. R. W. Johnson, to whom I be- came A. D. C. on his staff. I herewith copy Gen. Johnson’s noted # “This is to certify that Henry Mosler served on my staff as vilunteer A. D. C. for 1861, and in which capacity he served with distinguished credif,,to himself and his country, and his serviegs were of great essistance to me. | R. W, JOHNSON, “Brig. Gen. U, B.A” Next I was for some, time with Col. Blake of the 9th Indiand Regiment, with whom I became quite irititiate. His Tegi- ment was termed the ‘ ninth,” and was nearly always in advance, which gave me an opportunity to witaess a number of skirmishes and engagements. Letters Rend. Letters were read from: {ucretia. R. Gar- field, Francis Lynde Stefsgn, Capt. Frank H. Mason, Chas. A. Dang... P. Hunting- ton, P. E. Studebaker, Gem Anson G. Mc- Cook, Chandos Fulton, Gen. Horace Porter, Gen. Granville M. Dodge, Henry M. Stanley, Darius O. Mills, Frank Thomson, Gen. W. B. Franklin, Gen. James H. Wilson, William C. Whitney, Robt. R. Hitt, Henry Watter- sen, Gov. Asa 8. Bushnell, Gen. J. Watts De Peyster, R. C. Kerens, John W. = walter, Editor Nixon,.ex-Gov. Richard C. McCormick and De B. Randolph Keim. ———— Im the Street Car. yn, as yet un- From Clips. Mr. Brown (seated by ® stranger in a cable car)—“What time:is it by your watch, please?” a: THE BOYCOTT STILL ON Ladies of the U. V.L. Do Not Approve of Reporters. The Annual Election Was Held This Morning, but the Result Was Kept a Secret. ‘This is the third and last day of the con- vention of the Ladies, Auxiliary to the U. Vv. L., and it was not until this morning that the convention actually got down to business. It is true that at the meeting Wednesday evening a number of reports were read, but these were as nothing com- Pared with the real business of the year, the annual election of officers. The difficulties which have beset the local auxiliary and the spirit of strife and en- mity engendered among its members have occupied the attention of the national body to the exclusion of almost everything else. They have furnished almost the sole topic of conversation and discussion among the delegates, and apart from any question as to the merits of the fight itself, the ladies are up in arms against the sister or sisters who first allowed the newspaper men to learn that there was a “rift within the lute.” For her, or them, they have only words of condemnation. ' Could they but locate the leak, it is safe to say that some one would be discharged from the body ‘eres scant ceremony. ‘n earnest effort was made yesterday by Mrs. Tuxbury, the nation: president, “4 have the story suppressed, and she called at the newspaper offices with a demand that nothing at all be printed that did not meet with her approval. She explained that she was the national president of the Ladies’ Auxillary, and that what she said ought to go. For example, she insisted that Whatever The Star was going to print on the subject was false in every particular. Thus, it came about that The Star re- Porter who called at Willard Hall, where the convention was in session this morning, was decidedly persona non grata. The troubles in the local organization have taken up so much of the time of the del- egates that there was practically no session last evening. A number of the national officers got together after the return from Marshall Hall and discussed the program for the balance of the convention. But this morning the clii Toming the climax was reached when the Keeping It a Secret. The election occupied several hours, and was not without its exciting features. Sev- eral nominations were made for each of- fice, and as the election was by ballot, each auxiliary voting in turn as its number was called by Mrs. Tuxbury, a great deal of time was necessarily consumed. It was well on toward the close of this important event when The Star Teporter knocked gently upon the glass door which kept the rest of the world on the outside. There was a great shaking of heads and a waving of arms, so that any man less dense might have understood that his pres- ence in that vicinity was out of order. Finally one of the delegates, who bore upon her bosom a badge inscribed with the cabalistic word “Conductors,” came out. “What do you want?” “I would like to learn election.” “It is not over yet, but I think you can get it in a little while.” Just then a large lady stuck her head out of the door and told the conductor that she mustn't say a word. “The national president says that not a bit of news is to be given out,” said the newcomer, gingerly. “Oh, I didn’t mean to speak of the pro- ‘ceedings of a secret society as news. I ‘simply meant to print the names of the of- ficers. I thought the ladies might like °t.”* “Well, Mrs. Tuxbury says that you are not to be told a single thing of any sort, ‘80 you might just as well go away.” Mrs. Tuxbury has put all newspaper men urder the ban, and a rigid boycott is still in_force. Those ‘who were interested in the trouble in the local auxiliary, and claim that the national president had arbitrarily ruled out the charges they had brought, claimed to- day ‘that they had triumphed by defeating for re-election Mrs. Tuxbury and all the national officers who sided with her. * Officers Elected. The new officers are as follows: Mrs. Hattie M. Miller, national president, Mt. Gillead, Ohio; senior vice prcsident, Sister Mary ‘Kose, Columbus, Ohio; junior vice President, Mrs. Daugh, Reading, Pa.; chap- lain, Mrs. Rankin, Buffalo, N. Y.; treas- urer, Miss Lottie McCaffrey, Allegheny, Pa.; sccretary, Miss Eva Gardner, Mt. Gil- lead, Ohio; inspector, Mrs. Maggie E. Fos- ter, New Castle, Pa.; I. and I. officer, Mrs. C. W. Ford, Washington, D. C.; counsellor, Mrs. M. E. Tuxbury, Wilmington, Del advisory board, Mrs. E. P. Green, Colum- bus, Ohio; Ellen G. Wogan, Wilmington, Del.; Mrs. C. Bogart, Brooklyn, N. Y. It is stated that during a portion of this morning’s session the proceedings were of @ most exciting character. As a matter of fact, however, the fun was started yester- day, when Mrs. Ford of Washington intro- duced a resolution that only one auxiliary be allowed to the three encampments of the U. V. L. in the District of Columbia. As soon as the resolution was seconded Mrs. Tuxbury called one of her friends to the chair from the floor and strongly advo- cated the passage of the resolution. The matter was not disposed of at the time, and came up this morning as unfinished bus- iness, when, upon a vote being taken, it was overwhelmingly defeated. The reason given for Mrs. Ford’s action is said to have been that some of the mem- bers of No. 32 have been talking of starting another auxiliary. —_———__ THE NEW CHURCH. the result of the {ts Annual Meeting Being Held Here This Week. The Maryland Association of the Nation- al New Church convened in annual meet- ing this afternoon at the church, corner of. 16th and Corcoran streets. Sessions are to be held tomorrow and Sunday. The meeting began this morning with a ministers’ conference, those in attendance being Rev. Frank Sewall, Rev. Peter J. Faber, Rev. Philip B. Cabell, Rev. William M. MacIntosh, Rev. Peter C. Louis, Rev. Hiram Vrooman and Rev. A. L. Allbutt. ‘The ministers held a Bible study, the topic being the promises of the Spirit to the seven churches in Asia, as set forth in the second and third Revelations. The requi- sites for church membership were also discussed. The meeting of the ministers’ conference was followed by a meeting of the executive committee of the association, to map out the work of the meeting. The members of the committee present were Rev. Frank Sewall, presiding minister; Rev. Philip B. Cabell, vice president; C. A. E. Spamer, recording secretary; Charles F. Keefer, corresponding secretary; Ralph P. Bar- mi treasurer; Job Barnard, Rev. Will- jem M. MacIntosh, William H. Swift and Peter Knapp. The association proper was called to order in the church shortly before 3 o'clock. The first public address is to be the reading of the general itor’s annual report, which is scheduled for 4:15 o'clock. A social reception in honor of the members of the association is to be held at 8 o'clock this evening at the residence of Rev. Frank Sewall, 1618 Riggs place. ‘he program for tomorrow and Sunday is as follows: ey October 17, 9 _—_— pat of the Lord lUshment of His Church;” 8:30 p.m., report of the board of missions,. with addresses; 8 p.m., annual meeting of the Maryland New Church Sunday School Unton. Ad- Soe th fam L. Worcester of Pl —$ = Net on a Bicycle. ‘From an Exchange. Needy poet—“Can you use a poem on the Biegesers sean Editor— unless strapped bers, Much as I can do ‘ to the my feet and hands.’ FOR MEDICINAL U NO FUSEL OIL The Best Remedy for Chills, Coughs, Colds, Grip and Pneumonia. It affords the greatest relief to WOMEN and gives strength to MEN. Send for DUFFY MALT WHISKEY Co., Rochester, N. ¥. CONVENTION HALL CROWD. Will Net Be Allowed to Exceed Six Thousand. Building Inspector Brady is not going to allow Convention Hall to be overcrowded tonight on the occasion of the Davis-Hutch- ins debate. He has placed the limit at 6,000, and has directed Assistant Building In- spector B. C. King to see to it that the limit is not exceeded. In a letter to that official today Inspector Brady says: “You will see that Convention Hall must not be taxed beyond its seating ny eng which, I am advised, is 6,000. Ask for the co-operation of the police department for assistance to carry out this order.” ‘The Commissioners promptly affixed their approval stamp to this order, and a delega- tion of Major Moore's finest will be on hand to execute the order. —>—_—_. DEATH OF MRS. WYLIE. The Wife of the Ex-Associate Justice Stricken With Apoplexy. Mrs. Wylie, the wife of Judge Andrew Wylie, ex-associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District, died very suddenly about 12 o'clock last night at her resi- dence, 1205 14th street. Up to a short time before her death Mrs. Wylie appeared to be in her customary good health, but dur- ing the evening she suffered a stroke of apoplexy and sank rapidly until the end came. Before her marriage Mrs. Wylie was Miss Mary Caroline Bryan of Alexandria, a member of an old and well-known family. She was married fifty years ago last March and the judge and she had made this city their home for the it forty- five years. She leaves one son, Mr. Horace Wylie, who is a member of the local bar. Mrs. Wylie was a member of St. John’ Episcopal Church. Her death will mean real sorrow to a large circle of friends and acquaintances, who loved and respected her for her many admirable qualities of mind and heart. The funeral will be held from the family residence next Monday morning at 10 o’clock and the interment will be at Oak Hill cemetery. —.——_—_. THE POSTAL CARD VOTE. Results So Far Reported of the Chi- cago “Record” Poll. A special to the New York Herald today reporting ‘the results of the postal card vote up to last evening says: As the count of ballots in the Chicago Record’s postal card poll advances the in- terest in it and the figures it shows in- creases rapidly. The showing made by the tables today from two states not listed be- fore and from additional counties of the two listed this morning is a generous ad- dition to the returns. The total vote counted up to 5 o’clock this evening was 112,239. This is the table: . Palmer. Bryan, McKinley. cr, 132 51 1302 56 2aa7 a (a 1,066 % 509 2108 30 418 os 29 it 4127 % 434 2.207 ai 400 2112 2 = oe oe 08 1,24 30 a1 1036 28 311 1263 ry 304 1408 8 312 117 2 303 Les a0 Ff 2118 Fa Tw math. sss Twentyeainth. 22. 8,608 804 18 cee a a = i -3 98 1250 38 18,308 G16 451 cero),84 counties 4,169 11,535 223 2,950 2476 a 1,801 <498 F*) 2.047 4.028 ® ‘otals........ 24,267 $5,057 1,002 It is to be remembered that these re- turns are far from complete, as votes are coming in in large graye = have not been reached in the count on the returns from Missouri it will be noticed that Bryan maintains the lead shown by the first tables from that state. In Missouri, Iowa and Indiana the de- fection of Harrison voters to Bryan is larger than that of Cleveland voters to McKinley, in spite of the fact that the total McKinley vote, in Indiana and Iowa at least, is greater than that of Bryan. This table shows the change of Harrison voters of 1892 for Bryan and Cleveland votes of the same year for McKinley: dda Chicago and Cicero. ..8,679 od ‘94 counties... "720 — "133 Mie 98 counties. 340 15 1850 Towa, 84 counties.... 485 ee = Indiana, 83 counties... 180 ‘The net Bryan gain in Iowa, Missouri and Indiana out of the bolt from onc party to the other is 463. ‘Troops Assigned to Posts. Under authority conferred by the War Department the commander of the Depart- ment of California has made the following assignments to posts of the troops trans- ferred to that department from the Depart- ment of the East and the Department of the Missouri: Third Artillery: To Angel Island, San Francisco harbor, which will be headquar- ters—Col. Bainbridge and Maj. Darling; Batt D, Capt. Chas. Hi . 4H, Capt. J. 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