Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1896, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR. pi Ss PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvanie Avenue, Oor, llth 8t., by Ne Com; 2 Te serene New York Office, 49 Potter Building. ‘The Evenin ‘ar is served to subscribers in the counter 2 cents each. United States or Canada—postage prepaid—50 cents per month. Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with forelgn postaze added, $3.00. (Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C.. ‘By matl—anyw! ae second-class mail matter.) £7 All mail subscriptions must be paid In advance. Rates of advertising made known on application. sstoesoeseesonsendonsonionzonrontentententententen : > = Laces= Parte. Che Fen Q S Tar. Pages 13-28. pended eee eee EMI Some special happenings in Velvets--Silks WASHINGTON, D. O., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1896-TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. PERRY’S. Cheapness lies We know how 3 The safety of a ship depends upon who is-at the helm. These % are treacherous times on the ocean of commerce. ® hidden just under the surface of quality. = But there are safe pilots in command here. $ to steer to avoid the satisfaction-wrecking reefs. We know where to tind smooth sailing—and not a hope founders that takes pass- 8 : = age with us on the voyage for greatest value at lowest prices. = s yas 5 = = & 20 inches wide—$4 a yd. : Laces. = “ 7 : ya. £ Pattern is the first thing 28 inches wide—$7.50 a yd. = you think of—and we have a = superb line of the very new- Better values at better prices. = est effects—limited to our spe- = showing. From lowest to highest price quality accom- cially for Jackets—$3 a yd. panies uniquene: Better quality than ever, we think— all along the line of grades. If you don’t pay as much —and get more—that is the true bargain, is it not? 24-inch Point Venise all-overs, with Edges and Bands to match. it Brussels Nets, with Insertings in all widths SOOM i Chantilly, jenciennes, ene ook Veilings. The heralds of fashion have proclaimed the proper styles— and our stock follows the edict strictly. Follows our parity of low prices, too. By the yard—for you to make up—ready-made for you put right on and a to wear— ‘Lenille Spot Velling, in Brown, and and small dots. Z-inch Black Chenille Spot Velling— to $4 a yard. 1Stneh Sewing Silk Vellings, in White, Brown, Navy Blue and Black— < Se. a yard. + Ready-to-wear Veils, in Black and Colors—B0c. to $2 « Lace Neckwear. Some novelties that we se- lected in the land “from whence come all the gems of fashion”—made by the au- thors of the fads— sor eye be = Black and Colored Pompadour Ruf- oS flings, in all the new color combina- : tions. = Black and Colored Taffeta, Chiffon, > 4 and Net BKoas—T5e. to $6 ea KS eocaee = Black, Eero and White Lace Collars $ and Rewst shapes. + White, Black and Ecru Bolero Jack- > ets—$4 to $25 each. + eee = Ladies’ Linen Collars and Cuffs—in a all sizes and popular shapes. + pitiless = ot aa a a a ak a a a as ae Velvet. You will probably want some for some garment or other—but you don’t want it if it isn’t good. Nothing betrays cheapness quicker—nothing wears the glory of richness more royally than reliable velvet. We know we haven't a disappointing inch in this exceptionally large and varied stock. We leave it to you if the 24 Inches wide—$5.50 and $6.50 a 1%inch Black and Colored Velvets— $1 a yd. Good value at this price. inch Velour du Nord, for capes and jackets—$3, $3.50 and $4 a yd. 24inch Black Velour du Nord, spe- 24-inch Black Velvets—$2.50 a yd. 321neh Black Wrap and Cape Vel- vets—$3 and $3.50 a yd. We have Velutina. We have Corduroys in all shades. We have a handsome line of Plain Colored Silk Plushes, “Handsome is as handsome does!’— and these you can depend upon. Silks. The importers have been paying for some interesting offerings we have made. Profited you and us both. Tomorrow we shall bear the loss ourselves—and the values we invite you to inspect ate equal to the best of the other special sales. They are small quantities that we want to close out before they get cut up into undesirable lengths. It is our way of’ doing—as original as our styles—as gen- €rous as our qualities—as like us as our prices. Enough for a day or two’s brisk selling. Fancy Taffetas—Carmeles, checks, figures, ete.—rich In effect—T5e. and $1 qualities—Choice for 50c. a yd. Printed Warps, Figures. grades. _ 7§¢. a yd. Fancy Stripes and Regular $1.25 and $1.50 Chotce for 22-inch Chemeleon Striped Peau de Sole. the popular weave for Walsts, Skirts and Linings. The assortment is 24-inch Black Peau de Sole, with a finish most appropriate for mourning wear. As good value as we have ever had for $1.50. Now— $1.25 a yd. 224nch Fsconne Moire Antiques, the latest Parisian novelty—a Lyonaise cre- ation, with all the elegance that im- 4 plics. Regular $2 value for $1.50 a yd. Probably no silk stock in town is recruited oftener than ours. Arrivals daily—new als of popular styles—novel- ties that make their first ap- pearance. You will see a lot of new comers here now— Glace Motre Antique, Molre Velours, Faconne Moire Antiques, ‘Taffeta Velours, Chameleon Pleid Taffetas, ‘Tinsel Brocades, —strictly exclusive and of the very best qualities—fortu- nately bought. You know what that means with us—to you. PERRY’S, “NINTH AND THE AVENUE.” BIKE CLOTHES, BUT NO BIKE. The Latest Fad Consists in Wearing the Cyclists Garb to Business. From the New York Times. The latest Parisian fad has struck New York, and the more sedate members of the community are now wondering how it hap- pened. Apparently this particular fad was of most insidious growth and was gradually acquired by the swell set before they had any idea that they were simply following the lead of certain Parisian damsels who were the possessors of good forms and who knew In a word, it is now the correct thing to be seen on the Boulevard. in the park and even down town in the business district in a complete bicycle costume, and the funny part of it is that the bicycle itself is a matter of no consequence. It is a common sight now to see men on lower Broadway and Wall street diligently pursuing their different vocations, but clad in the regulation bicycle suit. Who in their meanderings through the winding walks of Central Park these beautiful autumn days has net noticed handsome young women, some with and some without escorts, leisurely strolling along the leaf strewn paths, apparently obliviots of all the world except themselves; in the height of bicycle fashion? Many people who see- these, somewhat scantily clad youths and damsels with ex- cessively abbreviated skirts wonder where their bicycles are. The wise ones éo not. These latter know full well that nine out of every ten of these knickerbockered men and short-skirted young women do not cwn a bicycle, and the chances are could not ride one if they did. They are simply following the fad, and are on pa- rade, much the same as the well formed soctety girl who does not know how to swim delights to stroll about on the New- port or Long Branch sands clad in a swim- ming costume which is never wet from the beginning to the end of the season. On any fine day the parks and boule- varis of Paris are thronged with young men and women dressed in bicycling cos- tumes, but without any indication of ever having owned or ridden a bicycle. They have simply adopted that style of costume because they*think it more convenient, and it has the additional advantages of show- ing the feminine form to the best pos- sible advantage. oo —___ An Improvement. From Up to Date. “It seems to me that these tandem wheels might be vastly improved,” said the fair Miss Fadlet to her. robust: compan- fon. , “What wor juggest?”" “Tad make the front seat reversions hear Mutely got so excited in a silver argument last night that he lost the power of arti sad z i In& (Che fittle choot Ph a-repe Scented It is claimed for fe Washington Star, and proBabfp trutStuffe cfaimed, that no offer newspaper in. fBe counfre goes info 80 farge a percentage of aff fhe Bouses wifdin a radius of fwenfp mifes from fe office of pufificafion. SHYLOCK WORKMEN Cutting Off the Nose in Order to Spite the Face. DOWNWITH THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT Silver Means a Chinese Isolation. Proposed Independence OUR COUNTRY’S GREATNESS ——————— The creditor Shylocks, marked for finan- cial destruction in free coinage retaliation for the crime of 1873, include every one (millions in the aggregate) who is paid salary or wages only after service or labor is performed. To the extent to which free coinag2 depreciates the dollar in which wages are paid, to that extent it reduces wages, although they still remain nominally at the same figure. Let us assume that free coinage would, as many of its advo- cates assert, raise the price of all commod- ities to double their present rate. No workingman believes that his wages would be doubled at once. He knows that months and years of strikes and lock-outs would elapse before wages could be raised in due proportion. Cutting wages in half by their payment in 53-cent dollars might increase our foreign trade by placing our manufac- turers on an equal footing with competitors mainly in silver countries who have the advantage of employing cheap labor. American manufacturers would not dare to propose directly to American workmen this cut in wages; but if the workmen them- selves clamor to be paid in depreciated money and the same result of a reduction in wages can be reached through compli- ance with the workingman’s own demand the thoughtless manufacturer who over- looks the disastrous effect upon his future market of national repudiation and the adoption of a depreciated currency might be well pleased to take the workmen at their word. The necessity of paying high wages in this country in order to keep our people up to the mark of a higher order of life, de- velopment and culture than that prevailing in Japan, China and Mexico, has been the most serious drawback in American compe- tition with many foreign manufacturers. Perhaps a temporary seeming business prosperity might follow if our workingmen would declare of their own accord that they are overpaid, that our money is too good for them, and that they wish to be paid in the kind of money, with the same reduced purchasing power, that satisfies foreign cheap labor. But if any American working- men are prepared for this act of self-sacri- fice, why go at it in a round-about way by debasing the national currency—a procedure which will swindle thousands of innocent third persons who are so unfortunaie as to be creditors, and work general panic and disaster? Why not move directly to the point and announce a willingness to have their wages reduced one-half without any tampering with the nation’s money and the national honor? ‘atting Off the Nowe to Spite the Face. The individual who cut off his nose to spite his face is as Solomcn in wisdom in comparison with the workman who, in re- sponse to the demagogue’s appeal to spite the moneyed cla-ses, cuts the purchasing power of his wages in two and leaves him- self merely with the privilege of fighting for a proportionate increase to make mat- ters even again. As the farmer 1s invited to raise at his own expense as taxpayer the price of sil- ver, which he does not produce, in the hope that in some way he will thereby also raise the prices of what he does pro- duce, so the laborer is invited to legalize half wages for himself now in the hope that his employer, whom Mr. Bryan is teaching him to hate as his natural enemy, will philanthropically double wages in the future in order to make him as prosperous as he was before. Defrauding the Republic’s Preservers. Another group of creditors who are to be swindled out of one-half of their dues by a G-cent dollar are pensioners and holders of certain government bonds the obligations to whom on the part of this republic are based upon blood shed, danger incurred, sufferings endured and money advanced in order to save the Union. It is now fropcsed that a grateful nation shall show its appreciation of these serv- ices by dishonorable repudiation of one- half of the obligations incurred in the struggle to preserve the nation’s life. We are invited to revive in 1896 the spirit of 1776 and to declare our independence of the financial tyranny of England. The vital facts of the proposed independence are silver monometallism like that of Mexico as our national financial system, and the payment of 100-cent debts in 50- cent dol'ars. We are invited to declare not self-re- specting Independerce, but Chinese or Mex- ican isolation. We do not want to be iso- lated. We wish to be in touch with the rest of the world. The American spirit is a conquering, absorbing, dominating spirit, not that of the surly hermit who shrinks from everybody in the recesses of his cave. We can hold our own with all the world. We want the best of everything in the world. We want to profit by the world’s experience in all respects and build to higher levels of civilization upon that experience as a foundation. We want the best larguage, English, the coming lan- guage of the globe. Who cares that it came to us from England, and who pro- poses that we declare a new independence of Great Britain, discard the English lan- guage and restore Choctaw as a dis- tinetively American tongue to the proud position which it occupied on this con- tinent prior to thé time when it was struck down by European immigration. We want the best money in all the world in order to make domestic and foreign exchanges and we will not, merely because England uses it, discard gold, the world’s money, and substitute either the Asiatic and South American money, silver, or our own North American wampum. Independence of the Ten Command- ments, Our proposed isolation will be that of the outcast, for it will flow from repudiation of part of our national debt. We declare cur independence not of the decrees of Lombard and Wall streets, but of the Ten Command- ments. Our defiance is leveled not at Brit- ish financial tyranny and the Rothschilds, but at the God of nations who declares to governments as to individuals, ‘Thou shalt not steal. The free coinage pronunciamento is not a declaration of independence, but with its as- sociated issues in thie campaign is rather a Troclamation of civil strife. The Chicago and St. Louis coalitionists run up the ban- ner of repudiation, sectionalism and internal dissension. Their campaign arrays class against class, section against section, and appeals to the basest passions of the indi- vidual. ‘The American republic toward which de- pressed but aspiring humanity in every quarter of the globe has turned for inspira- tion, is in this struggle, subjected to a test of its right to live. Has the national con- science become corrupted? Are the people, rent by passion and faction, class ha! sectional rancor and individual envy, and boundaries and to all men everywhere, but in diffusing the blessings of justice, of Christian beneficence and of the good faith which develops naturally and inevitably from a ser sitive national conscience over its own people and the whole world. The spectacle of the masses of a vast population, the masters of a new world, governing themselves with sound judgment, toling industriously and with success for their own material, intellectual and moral advancement, toward whose progress the law, the government and all the national institutions are tributary, has given life and strength to the spirit of liberty everywhere. The grcwth of the power of the people in this favored land and.their advance in num- bers and in physical conditions, in intelli- gent skill, in self-reltant readiness to grap- ple with emergencies, in fertility of re- source, in broadening enterprise and in loftiness of ideals, have not only blessed America, but all of marveling mankind. Lessons Taught by America. The old world knew well only govern- ment by the few; America taught the pos- sibility and the blessings of wise and righteous government by the many. The old world had degraded labor, ll the workman was as the cattle of the field; America has magnified and glorified labor, as a Divine command, through obedience to which a whole nation of toilers have reaped the reward of unequaled power and prosperity for themselves, and have pro- claimed human brotherhood, and hopeful, helpful, Christian sympathy to the op- pressed of all the world. : Shall we abdicate this noble leadership of nations? Shail we taint the stream of our world influence and change it from a bless- ing to a curse? Shall we destroy our lesson of the dignity and worth of labor and of the capacity of the common people for self- government by so using the forms of that government as in the name of that labor to strike down the national honor and to brand the republic as a swindler, filching from his coin of payment and shirking honest debts? The sweating of coin and the sweating of labor by employers are alike infamous. It is proposed that Uncle Sam shall crimi- nally apply the sweating system to’ the coin and the wages of the land and rob each of half its substance. The very greatness in population and re- sources which is cited as a demonstration of our ability to declare our independence of the Ten Commandments furnishes a suffi- cient reason for adhering to the principles which have made us great, and for mpying steadily forward in the path which we have trodden. The Nation's Greatness, To preserve liberty and union as one and inseparable, and to increase our domestic blessings and our whoiesome influence upon the world as the leader among na- tions in the arts of peace and civilized pro- ress, it will be necessary for the great middle class, Lincoln's common people, the real rulers of America, to guard vigilantly against the encroachments of aggregated wealth on the one hand, and the threaten- ing demonstrations of the lawless mob on the other; to steer the ship of state between the rocks of plutocracy and the whirlpool of repudiation and anarchy. But let no one in the name of the people preach the doctrine of sectionalism and class prejudice, potnting to disunion, and the destruction of the gov- ernment by and for the people. Let no one in the name of labor degrade labor from its high estate. Let no one in the name of na- tional pride stain the national credit and make the republic, once so honored, a hiss- ing and a by-word among the nations of the earth, 4 : We are told by the free coinage advo- cates that this nation is great enough, sin- gle-handed, to double the price of silver over all the gloke, great endugh to make fifty cents one hundred cents by act of Congress, great enough to bear, Atlas-like, a world’s weight of silver on its shoulders, great enough, by its own voluntary act, to double with impunity the pressure of ihis crushing load. . But the nation is not great enough—in folly—to attempt unnecessarily and with no promise of reward this impossible task, and is not great enough—in knavery—to brazen out the swindle which will result from its inevitable failure to ralse the burden of the silver of the world to twice its present level. The nation is too great to be ungrateful to the pensioners and bondholders who risked life and treasure {n the republic's defense in Its mortal struggle; too great to stifle the warning whispers of the na- tional ccnscience against dishonorable re- puélation of just obligations; too great to place upon America and Americans the stigma of fraudulent bankruptcy; too great for isolation and disgracciul éxile from the family of civilized nations; in short, too great to be dishonest, too great to be nailed to a silver cross after the fashion and as a legitimate successor of the im- penitent thief. The Star's Election News. The Evening Star's election news will completely cover every point of interest !n the country. In addition to the facilities afforded by the wide-reaching arrange- ments of the Associated Press, The Star has posted staff and special correspondents at all the important news centers, and the readers of The Star will enjoy the benefit of a service unrivaled for accufacy, full- ness and completeness. Those who want to get the quickest and best news should arrange to get Tuesday's editions of The Star. The Star will display the news Tuesday night on two mammoth screens, so that every one who desires can get the news as quickly as the telegraph brings it to the city. The Star will receive and display the bul- letins of the Associated Press, the Western Union and the Postal Telegraph companies, besides the special bulleting of its own corps of correspondents and the election news to be gathered ‘and distributed over the country by long distance telephone. ee er Tight Gloves. Some wearers of tight gloves will be interested to learn that the women whose hands and arms are famous for their beauty all wear loose gloves. Bernhardt wears long, loose-wristed gloves, Rays the Pittsburg Dispatch, and ner white, beau- tiful hands are among her charms. Miss Terry has a large hand, almost masculine in the strength of {ts lings, théngh the fingers are beautifully $epered. Her hands are in proportion ‘h her figure, and she does, not squeeze either imto tight compresses. She wears gloves, and her hands are lily white as stooth as @ young girl's. ——— 0+ = _ . All Improveméiits, From the Providence Telegram. Homeseeker—“Seems to me; this house isn't very wel built. The floor-sittkes when we walk.” Agent—Um—y-e-s; that’s the new kind of spring floor for dancing, you know.” Homeseeker—“And these stairs creak ter- ribly.”” ~ x Agent—“Y-e-s; we furnish this new burg- lar. patept alarm’ stairway ut extra at a — . .. Strictly’ Business. : HustHng Commercial Traveler— “Miss Geatle. I've been around a good deal, and r good judge of girls, I’m ready to marry and settle downfand I’ve picked you out fora wife. Does ft gor - Handsome Young. Milliner—“It doesn't Commercial Traveler—“All Miss Carrie, What can I Show you in fibbons today? I’ve got the gol-w: lot you | ever saw.” £ cs IS IT THE TROLLEY?| @@@e@e0e8 Gese6 scecce sce Mr, Kane Sees a Threat Behind the Air Motor. THE ECKINGTON COMPANY'S PLANS Delaying Matters Until a New Con- gress Comes In. BOND AND STOCK HOLDERS “Do you know of anything new in the Eckington and Belt situation?” inquired a Star reporter of Mr. T. P. Kane of the Eckington Citizens’ Association, whom he met this morning. “Well, no; nothing specially new,” he re- plied, “but I read the statement in Wed- nesday’s Star to the effect that a better feeling seemed now to prevail among the financiers interested in the affairs of these roads, because of the action of the court on Tuesday last. “Now, I understand the financiers to mean the bondholders, and, notwithstand- ing the effort on their part, as evidenced by the statement referred to, to pour ofl upon the agitated waters, as far as the present contention in the courts is concerned, be- tween the management of these roads and the bondholders, it is wholly a matter of pull Dick and pull Devil, and the public be d—4, with each of them. “At first it was thought that the bond- hoiders and the minority stockholders were working together for their common good, and that although known to be actuated by motives of self-protection solely, the public would be more or less benefited by the success of their efforts. It now seems, however, that neither the interests of the minority stockholders nor those of the pub- lic, which are more closely allied with those of the stockholders than with the bandholders, are being considered by the latter, and if any benefit comes to either the stockholders or the public as a result of the legal squabble for mastery now go- ing on between the management and the bondholders, it will be more of an incident of the latter's éfforts to protect their own selfish interests than any purpose or desire on their part to subserve in any manner the interests of the minority stockholders or the public, except so far as by so doing they may benefit themselves. University Stock Not Represented t the conference of the opposing coun- sel held last Tuesday morning in the of- fice of Mr. Ridout, attorney for the rail- way companies, at which the plan adopted was agreed upon and subsequently .sanc- tioned by order of the court, the minority stockholders were not represented, and in reply to an inquiry made of ong of the at- torneys for the bondholders as to what the attitude of the bondholders was in the mat- ter, he said that their only purpose was to protect their own interests, and if it be- came necessary they weuld ask the court for an order directing the sale of the roads at public auction. In such an event, he said, they would force the present owners of the roads to bid enough for them to in- sure the bondholders against loss and en- able them to get out whole. “In other words, it is not the intention of the bondholders in forcing the roads to’ be sold at public auction, shculd it become necessary to resort to that expedient, to make a bona fide bid for them, with a view to securing absolute control and improving them for the mutual benefit of themselves and the public, but simply to force the present owners, who in no state of the case would ailow the roads to pass from their control, to pay enough for them to insure the redeniption in fuil of their bonds and payment of any interest that may be due thereon. Then with the cash for their bonds in their pockets they propose to step down and out and leave the minority stock- holders and the public at the mercy of the gang who have wrecked these roads and who then will be in full control of them, “Tt was suggested, in answer to the statement of this attorney, that their pro- posed course would be all right, as far as the bondholders were concerned, but what became of the interests of the minority stockholders and the public in the matter? ‘Oh,’ he replied, ‘they would have to look out for themselves, We are looking only after our own interests.’ “The same statement of the situation in Wednesday’s Star quotes a bondholder as having said ‘that it was an error to de- clare that the minority stockholders of the two corporations had been frozen out, ex- plaining that the stockholders were the owners of the properties, and that the bondholders occupied the position of hold- ers of mortgages on the concerns; thit the properties needed improvement, and the owners were naturally expected to make it. Accordingly, he says, if the roads were reorganized and a system of rapid transit introduced the stockholders would be assessed for the expense. The Freezing Out Process. “The present quoted market value of Eckington and Belt stock is $12 per share. Many of the minority stockholders paid $0 and more per share for their stock. I know of one stockholder who says he paid $65 per share for his. If these shares ar assesse¢ for a sum greater than the stock Is Now worth, with no option left to ihe holder but to pay the assessment or for- feit his stock, is his position not equivalent to being frozen out? If it is not, I would like to know what it is. “The utter selfishness of the bondholder is further manifested in his position with respect to the equipment of the roads with a rapid transit system. He strenuously ob- Jects to the issuance of receiver’s certifi- cates to cover the cost of such equipment because they would take precedence of his” bonds as a lien upen the properties of the roads, but he wants to enhance <he value of his bonds at the expense of the stock- holder by assessing him for the cost cf such improved equipment, who has al- ready lost rearly all that he put into the unlucky investment, with the probability, and a very strong one at that, that the additional amount will be frittered away and wasted in an unsuccessful experiment with an untried motive power. “Citizens of the District who are com- pelled to use the Eckington and Belt lines are following recent developments in this matter with interest, and none more ¢o than the members of the North Capito! and Eckington Citizens’ Associazion. They are not concerned in either the bond or stovk- holding interests. What they want, in common with other citizens of Washington, is a satisfactory rapid transit service nut upon these lines at the earliest possible date, and within the time required by the act ‘of Congress. Unless some steps are promptly taken toward an equipment cf the lines in accordance with the terms ef the act of June 10, 1896, which thus far have been totally disregarded, vigorous ac- tion will be taken by the Eckington Citi- zens’ Association at the next session of Congress looking toward a forfeiture of the. charters of these roads. That such con. gressional action is not improbable is mani. fested by the expressions cf several prom- inent members of both houses, including those of the District committees made during the discussion on the bill referred to. “The air motor provision was inserted in the act of June 10, 1896, at the request of the representatives of the roads. The gommitiees had no faith in the air motor: ‘Shey wanted no time wasted in e: ent- ing with it. They wanted the underground tric system put in within eighteen ths from the date of @ GOOGSSOO® OSE @ Holiday goods. 2O@ to instill it into the sales. Oe say “come.” morning. i Foubourg Poissonnierre, Paris. ~ November Clearance Sale. That simple announcement is sufficient to crowd our double stores with eager buyers. It announces an event of unusual importance—a sale that must make room and re- duce stock at any sacrifice, preparatory We have reduced thousands of dollars’ worth of Mil- linery, Wraps, Hosiery, Underwear — everything —as we alone reduce goods, where all the life is taken out of profits We've said enough—we'll let prices do the rest of the talking and clinch the argument. All the new prices will be marked on the goods Monday to receiving the It won't be necessary to ] ®MILLINERY. 4 Hat Trimmings. {fe S 8 Glace pee 24S Sells at 50c. yard. For. Ribbon at... I Oe SOOOOS. es iz © Moire Glace Tuffeta Rib- bon, 4 inches wide. 33c. 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DSOSSOSOHSEO > @ of them before the House committee th: ten air motor cers could be had within thir- ty days afier the order for them was placed, the committee allowed them six months of the eighteen to experiment with air motors and equip their lines with that system, if it should prove successful or atisfactory after a trial of three months within the six months, but as an evidence that the committees had no faith in their representation in regard to the air motor system, they also provided in the same act that the underground electric system should be put in within twelve months from the expiration cf the six months in the event that the air motors did not prove successful or satisfactory. The Air Motor Talk. “The request of the receiver for authority to waste large sums of money in experi- menting with air motors evidently contem- plates an appeal to Congress for further lime in which to make the test. The ect of June 10, 1896, vests in the District Com- missioners the power of approval or disap- proval of the compressed air system, but before’ they are authorized to do either, it requires an actual test of the air motors to be made over the tracks of these companies in this city for the period of three months, within the six months allowed by the act for that purpose. But forty-two days re- main of the time within which this test can lawfully be made; not sufficient time to make the three months’ experiment re- quired by the act, and, therefore,any money now invested in that experimental test will be risked upon the anticipation or assump- tion that Congress will grant to these com- panies at its next session the additional privilege of an extension of time for experi- mental purposes, and without which au- ext the District Commission- ers have now no authority of law to permit the adoption of the compressed air system. “Any extension of time or other privileges asked for by these companies of Congress = AYER BROS. & CO., 937-939 F Street. certificates to cover the cost of the air mo- tor experiment, for which we contend there is now no authority of law. “This whole air motor pretension on the part of these companies is nothing but windy vaporing for the purposes of delay, in order to carry the matter over into @ new Congress, with the trolley as the ulti- mate aim.” - A Stay-at-Home. From the Atlanta Constitution, “Lived here thirty years, and yet never saw the city?” “Never.” “Did you ever have a desire to go to town?” “Well, yes, I reckon I has. But you see, “fore the railroad coine hit wuz too fur ter travel on foot, an’ the mule wuz too busy plowin’; an’ arter the railroad come, they Went ter chargin’ people fer trav2lin’, an’ so I jest though: I'd stay nome an” not bother "bout seein’ the world. But what da you reckon happened ter us t'othcr day?” “Don't know.” “Weil, sir, my son John ackchully bought a ticket, jumped aboard o’ the railroad, went ter the clty an’ subscribed fer a news- Paper!” ea Always on the Fence. From the Indianapolis Journal, “How are the farmers hereabouts—on the fence?” asked the man who was gath- ering political statistics. “It ain't so much the farmers that is on the fence as the hired hands, goldarn “em,” answered Mr. Haiccde, with vigor. “Bf they is one thing a hired man loves more'n to eat two dinners in the cme al- - lowed, for one, it is to set hisself on the fence.’ a ————--_. Proof of Povert: “You say he’s poor?” “My dear wir, he’s ground down by pinch- ing poverty until he has to deprive himself of many of the necessities of life.” “T can see no signs of it.”