Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1896, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1896-FOURTEEN PAGES, ° SPECIAL NOTICES. A_ A. S. R., SOUTHERN JURISDICTION OF THE —Lnited States—The regular meeting of Mithras ‘Lodge of Perfection, No. 1, will be held at the Cathedral ef the Rite, No. 1007 G LW. On THESDAY, November 17, 1896, at 7:30 o'clock p-m. Work, Lith degree. order of. V. M. nolé-2t W. H. OLCOTT, 17th Deg., Secretary. I HAVE THIS DAY ASSOCIATED WITH ME AS an equal partuer Mr. Samuel A. Drury, who for the past teu years has been with me,’ and who during that period has shown himself to be pos- sesso of ex t business qualifications, good Judxment and great ability. The firm name will be Arms & Drury and the business will be con- tinned at No. S10 F st. m.w., where I have been lo-ated for twenty-one years. nolé-3t* JOHN TAYLOR ARMS. MILLER'S SELF-RAISING BUCKWHEAT MAKES MOST DELICIOUS CAKES. Dou't take any sist om having otier from your grocer. In- iller’s."" ©FTell your grocer to buy MACKEREL. 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THE HYGIENIC ICE COMP Works, 15:h and E ne. sel2 BICYCLE SUITS é AT A BARGAIN. For the balance of the season we will sell oar re- maining stock of Bicycle Suits, both golf and bloomer styles, at a uniform redaction of 25 per cent from: Ils: price. All garments are carefully se- lected and tailored. aad as we still bave three f this Lest riding. you can save mv NY, Office, 1423 F st. nw. Suits at all prices, from $5 to . Same reduction will apply ‘to all Golf Hise and Caps in stoci. Hose, with and without feet. at prices from $1.25 up to §° per palr. Rememb = FAMBLERS at vady for delivery. argains on + also in second- hand and shop-worn RAMBLERS. GORMULLY & JEFFERY MFG. CO., 0cl0-28d 1325 14TH ST. N.W. he : ES OR POWDER. Coughs, Colds, Cured ‘S$ CIGARETT! Suffocating, Chest, ~A laxative. refreshing fruit lozenger, very agreeable to take for T Amar CONSTIPATION, . hemorrhoids, bile, INDIEN loss of appetite, gastric and intestinal troubles and headache arising from them. F. GRILLON. 38 Rue des Archives, P: Sold by all Druggis! SENATOR MITCHELL'S VIEWS. He Thinks 16 to 1 Will Not Be Heard by the Next Election. Senator Mitch-ll of Wisconsin fs in the city, having just returned from Brigantine Island, near Atlantic City, where he has a vottage. He visited his sez.shore home to see what damage it had received during the late storm, and found it had suffered but slight- 1 though much injury was done in the neighborhood. Sneaking of the late cam- paign to a Star reperter, Mr. Mitchell said: “I didn't expect Wisconsin to go over 30,000 republican, but it has rolled up near- ly 100,000 majority. I don’t think we will hear of 16 to 1 by the time the next elec- tion rolls around, unless very hard times should prevail then. “If the G-mocrats had talked for some recognition of silver that did not demand so definitely the 16 io 1 idea I think they would have come out a great deal better. I think 16 to 1 will have to be dropped now.” It will be remembered that while Senator Mitchell was a “sound money” democrat, he did not bolt the regular democratic tick- et, as it was believed by many he would do eariy in the campaign. ras ——— An Octogenarian Justice. From the Boston Herald. Mr. Justice Field of the United States Supreme Court is about to celebrate his eightieth birthday, which cecurs on No- vember 4, and the event ‘s destined to at- tract attention not only among his personal friends, but among the people generally. It is now thirty-three years since President Lincoln appointed Justice Field to the bench, end he reaches this eighticth mile- stone in the possession of unimpaired men- tal faculties and with greater freedom from physical infirmities than is common among men of fotrscore years. He comes of a long-lived family, but he appears to be the most vigorcus of them all. There has been talk at frequent intervals of his retiring from the bench, but there does not appear to be any immediate prospect cf his doing so at present. 7 | amounted to almost $1 The Stockholders’ Yearly Review of Business. ; FEATURES OF THE ANNUAL, REPOR? Prospects as to the Election of Di- rectors. i POSSIBLE CHANGES The seventieth annual meeting of the stockholders of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company began at 11 o'clock this mornirg at the general office of the com- pany in Baitimore. j Mr. Reverdy Johnson, who has been chairman of cach annual meeting for many years past, was again called up)n to pre- side. For the first time in moze than a quarter cf a century the veteran secretary of the company, Mr. Andrew Anderson, was absent, and his place was tilled by Mr. Custis W. Woolford, the assistant secre- tary. More than nine-tenths of the, stock was, ‘represented in the voting. Among those present were Gen. Louis Fitzgerald, presi-! dent of the Mercantile Trust Company, of New York; Messrs. Willlam A. Read, Eu-' gene Delano, Howland Davis, Henry Bucge, August Belmont and EB. R. Bacon,, also.of that city, the latter being likewise pres!- dent of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwest- ern Company; Messrs. George C. Jenkins, Aubrey Pearre, George A.. Von Livgea, Alexander Shaw, William F. Frick, Mau- rice Gregg, William H. Blackford, James L, McLane and other prominent men. The report of Mr. John K. Cowen as presi- dent, and of Mr. Oscar G. Murray and himself as receivers, was revi and. ac- cepted, but will not be published in full, 46 has been done each year heretofore, for the present at least. Although the receivers make frequent reports of the transactions of the company to the United States coyrt at Baltimore it Was anticipated that the first annual re- port made after the road went into the hands of receivers would be quite inter- esting, and there was no disappointment felt on account of the exhibit made by the statements of the president. : President Cowen dealt In consid: tail regarding what has been done along the lines of the entire system during the past twelve months, and the reading by the secretary attracted the close attention of every stockholder present. ‘The salient points of che report were given today to a Star reporter at the Bab timore and Ohio building in Baltimo and it was stated as the belief of those most largely interested that the proofs as made known in the report. showed that if the wise policy in regard t> bringing the road up to a first-class condition which was inaugurated by Receivers Cowen and Murray soon after they took charge is continued, the road can be made a divi- dend payer in a much shorter period than it has heretofore been fear-d would be the case, and it was, it is understood, shown to the satisfaction of the stockholders that the money derived from the sale of the $5,000,000 — receivers’ certificates and equipment bonds has been careful and well spent, while the completion ot the im- provements projected will be almost cer- tain to add largely to the revenues of the company. As a matter of fact the latter are regarded in transportation cir as indispensable to the proper condust of the Baitimore and Ohio's great and increasing business. ‘The report stated it inerease in gross rec was said that the ipts for the year 10,000, every dollar ef which has been spent in improving the physical condition of the property. Gratifying Results. it was further stated that the receipts, as demonstrated by the figures submitted, were as great as there was any reason to expect they would be, and that there has been a decrease in net receipts as com- pared with some previous years is owing to the fact that it was found necessary to make enormous expenditures for improve- ments in the roadbed, maintenance of ma- chinery, such as engines, ete. ‘The figures in this respect showed, it was stated, that notwithstanding the great de- mands, upon the rolling stock, which com- prises 875 locomotives and upward of 35,00) cars of various kinds, less than 6 per cent are now in the shops, and this is said to be attributable to the fact that Mr. Murray has completely reversed the policy of the former management in respect to repairs, insisting that when it becomes necessary to repair any rolling stock it is done in the very best manner possible before it is again put into service. It is understood that there will be one or two changes in the present board of direc- tcrs, which will be made at the meeting. Board of Directors. The retiring board is composed of Messrs: William H. Blackford, Maurice Gregg, W: i. Frick, Alexander Shaw, George A. Von Lingen, Aubrey Pearre and George C.-Jen- Kins of Baltimore, and E. R. Bacon, Will- iam A. Read, Howland Davis, Eugene Delano and General Louis Fitzgerald of New York. The five New York directors, with Messrs. Henry Budge and August Belmont, also of that city, are the members of the reorganization committee-appointed by the security holders in New York and a portion of those in Baltimore, principal among whom were the Garretts and Fricks, and it was to then: that the report was made by Expert Little of the condition of the road, together with a statement of the causes which are said to have taken the Baltimore and Ohio into the hands of the a SSS « ADENTA? THE BEST NATURAL APERIENT WATER. 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See that the Label bears the well- known RED DIAMOND Mark of THE APOLLINARIS CO., LD. Employed at the leading HOS- PITALS in NEW YORK, BOS- TON, PHILADELPHIA, BALTI- MORE, CHICAGO, etc., and at the rincipal HOSPITALS IN ENG- -AND. B. AND 0. MEETING. The practitioner. js thus en- | | of grain which fell from the cars as they | into the hands of receivers. THE OFFICIAL oor) WEATHER MA P.. ‘Ocear @ Partly Cou FSechsonvill ‘Jacksonville 0 Croudy EXPLANATORY NOTE: Observations taken at 8 a.m., 75th meridian time. Solid lines are 1s0- bars, or lincs cf equal alr pressure, drawn for each tenth of an inch. Dotted lines are isotherms, or Mnes of equal temperature, drawn for each ten degrees. Shaded areas are regions where rain of snow has fallen during preceding twelve hours. The words “High and “Low” show location of areas of high and low barometer. Small arrows fly CONTINUED FAIR WEATHER. That is Predicted, With Slowly Ri ing ‘Temperature. Forceast till 8 p.m. Tuesday—For the Dis- trict of Columbia, Delaware and Maryland, continued fair weather; slowly rising tem- perature; southwesterly winds. For Virginia and North Carolina, fair; slowly rising temperature; variable winds, becoming southerly. ‘Weather conditions and general forecast— An area of high pressure continues central over the east gulf states and extends north- eastward to New Brunswick and westward to the Rocky mountain slope. A trough of low pressure extends from the upper lake region westward to the north Pacific coast, with a depression central in Minnesota. The pressure is high north of Montana, increas- ing in intensity with decidedly lower tem- perature. The barometer bas risen over New England and the extreme northwest; it has fallen in the upper Mississippi and Missour! valleys. The temperature is warmer in all dis- tricts, except northern New England and the northern Rocky mountain plateau, where it has fallen decidedly. For the twenty-four hours, ending Sunday morning, occasional rain or snow 18 report- ed in the upper lake region and the north Pacific states. During the last twenty-four hours light snow continued in the upper lake region and to the north of North Da- kota and Montana. Fair weather has pre- vailed in the other districts during the past forty-eight hours. with the wind. Fair weather, with slowly rising tempera- ture, 1s indicated for the Atlantle ‘and east gulf states, but cloudy weather will :-revail in northern New England and prohably'in the lower Mississippi valley with possibly occasional showers. 5 * The following heavy precipitation (in inches) was reported: “ » During the past twenty-four hours—Port- land, Ore., 2.14; Roseburg, 1.56. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of water at 8 um.: Great Falls, temperature, 42; condi- uion, 20; receiving reservoir, temperature, 48; condition at north connection, #2; con- dition at south connection, 2); distributing reservoir, temperature, 49; condition at in- gene gate house, 36; effluent gate house, Tide Tabie. Today—Low tide, 11:05 a.m. and 11:40 p.m. High tide, 4:31 a.m. and 4:58 p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 11:47 a.m. High tide, 5:18 a.m. and 5:42 p.m. The San and Moon. Sun rises, 6:44; sets, 4 Moon sets, 4:09 a.m. The City Lights. All gas lamps are lighted tonight by p.m.; extinguishing is begun at 6:09 a.m. Public are lamps are lignted at 5:54 p/m. and extinguished at 5:54 a.m. Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau today: 8 a.m., 43; 2 p.m., 70; maximum, 71; min- ery receivers, and which paper has been stu- diously kept from public gaze. Of the members of the present board Major Alexander Shaw of Baltimore is chairman of what is known as the Ralti- more reorganization committee, and which has been threatening to go into court with the alleged intention of trying to force the receivers to allow the minority stockhold- ers, as represented on the committee, to have an examination of the books of the company made by an expert appointed by the committee. New York Party Strong. Whether this fact will cause Maj. Shaw to lose any of the votes by which he was made a director at the last annual election, and by which he had been constituted a member of the board during several years previously, cannot as yet be stated with any certainty, and any active opposition to him, if any such has existed, will not probably be made known until during the meeting. Certainly no want of ability to perform the duties of the place he has for a long | and trying period held—that of chairman of the finance committee—can be alleged against Maj. Shaw, and the only reason to fear that there is danger that he may not be re-elected is to be found in the fact that the Garrett estate, which has warmly and effectively supported him in the past, is now actively allied with the New York par- ties, who, it is said, have a disposition to rule matters in their own way, and may exercise their power to put a man of their own choosing in Maj. Shaw's place. Old Board Re-Elected. A dispatch this afternoon to The Star from Baltimore states that the count of the votes showed that the old board of di- rectors, with one exception, was re-elected, Mr. James L. McLane, who represents the Jobns Hopkins University interests, taking the place of Mr. Aubrey Pearre, who will, however, remain as a director in several of the leased lines. This is taken to mean that the security holders of the Bal- timore and Ohio in New York are not alarmed concerning any action that the Baltimore committee of reorganization may take in carrying out their proposed attempt to compel the former to allow the Baltimore people to employ an expert accountant to examine the company’s books in order to satisfy themselves of the true condition of the Baltimore and Ohio's affairs. It was today stated to a Star reporter by a prominent Baltimore and Ohio official that there would be no further changes in the personnel of the company's staft, ex- cept for causes that may hereafter arise, and that there was not an official in the company’s service at this time who is not entirely satisfactory to the executive man- agement. The Gencral Manager's Report. Among the matters referred to in the re- port of General Manager Greene are the immense system of improvements at Cum- berland, Md., which place, it is intended by Receiver Murray shall become the Altoona of the Baltimore and Ohio Company, and which hes heretofore been fully described in The Star, and the doubling of the capac- ity of the Locust Point yards at Baltimore, thus providing storage room for 3,500 cars. In all, six acres are belng added to the former area of the yard, giving the com- pany twelve additional tracks, and making one of the longest, if not the very longest, freight yard in the United States, and cov- ering an area of nearly twenty acres in all. The rew tracks will also run under Fort avenue, one of the leading business streets in the southern section of Baltimore, as do the others. This will necessitate among other matters the extension of a bridge along the street about 400 feet toward Fort McHenry. This will be a steel structure with substantial granite abutments. The lot which is being converted into the new yards was formerly a-sort of public dump and feeding place for the goats and geese of Locust Point, the former having great piles of tin cans upon which to whet their appetites and the latter an abundance were being taken to the elevators. The Baltimore and Onio has needed more track room at Locus: Poin for some time, and more especially since the road went Of late it has been almost impossible to properly accom- modate the heavy freight traffic there on acedunt of the smallness of the yard. ‘With the extension the company will have almost a solid yard for a distance of nearly four miles. The yard will be run under the new portion of the bridge the same as under the old. At least thirteen miles of additional track will be laid, and the entire ost of the improvements will be about 5,000. —_+—__. FIFTY HOUSES. Improvement Depended on the Re- sult of the Election. As soon as the result of the late presi- dential election was known Mr. T. Franklin Schnelder, the architect, states that he was directed by a capitalist to prepare plans for the erection of a block of fifty resi- dences. Details of this project were dis- cussed some months ago, but the man with the money decided to await the casting of the ballots. He has now, so Mr. Schneider states, given orders that the preparation of the plans should be begun, and he has assured Mr. Schneider that if the houses ean be built for a certain sum the money will be available. As Mr. Schneider has no doubt of his ability to keep the cost within the limit prescribed, it seems to be considered that this extensive improve- ment will be made. Mr. Schneider declines. to state where the houses are to be located. I undue disappointment if there 1s not a re: AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN. Celebration of the Centennial of St. John’s Church, The centennial celebration of St. John’s Church was held yesterday, and. the serv- ices durirg the day were well attended. The presence of the high church dignitaries lent interest to the oceasion. The historical sermon was delivered at the morning serv- ice by Rev. Dr. Buck, the pastor, and gave a complete history of the edifice, substan- tially the same as published in The Star Saturday. At the evening servicés Bishop Satterlee and Rev. Dr. Regestery a .former rector, were present,’and each,made an address. Dr. Regester spoke of the friéndly relations which existed during the time that he was connected with the church, while Bishop Satterlee spoke of the ggod the church had done, and prophesied great work for it in the future. He corgratulated the peopie on at- taining a century of eaurch existence, and spoke cf the glory of the shurch and its service. 4-1 SF Mr. Joseph Columbus, Chick died Satur- day at the residence of his son at 1646 Val- ley street, in the sixty-ninth year of his ese. ‘The funeral was beld this afternoon from his late residence, the:interment be- ing at Oak Hill. cemetery., He.was one of the old residents of town, and was of a Most quiet and amiable disposition, and without an enemy, Two of the pallbearers were Seth Schell and Charles H. ‘Crunnel, who were his sChoolmates fifty. years agc at the Lancaster school on Dumbarton avenue, where the Methodist Church now stands. Few of the old pupils of the Lan- cester school are now living, but for many years they were banded together as the members of a bretherhood.. ‘There wore only nine arrests during the peetewe) cavslat cs geventh precinct, and vost of those locked up wer most 6 ny e on petty ‘Two of the residents of the House of the Good Shepherd on the New Cut road man- aged to escape Saturday evening, but they were quickly overhauled. Just as the girls scaled the fence Mr. McCrystal, who liv: near by, spied them, and he caught one, while the other got away. Subsequently the secord runaway was captured. The many friends of Mr. Walter Ty. Weaver Will be glad to Jearn that he kas itirely tecovered from the effects , recent serious illness. eee The Return of Prosperity.- From the Finenelal Review. If the republican party honorably pays a hundred cents to the doliar upon Rhemrone ises of its recent-campaign“{t will put this country upon the sure road to many years of peace and plenty. If it fafls to perform the Ligh duty now intrusted to it the coun- try will suffer and no similar mistake will be made four years hence.. The average free silver voter was honest in purpose, watever his lecders may have been. The great ‘farming vote of the country, for in- stance, feels keenly that it is not receiving the berking accommedation and facilities ccmmensurate with its. real credit and property, and unless this question is better aalusteean 2 non-partisan way, the settle- ne! ur real trouble ha Bostpores. le has only been There fs plenty of money, but the facili- ties for getting it out are too restricted and inelastic under our present banking system. In times of plenty it piles up in bank yaults for want of cusiomers; in times of adver- sity it piles up in bank vaults and in old stockings for want of confidence. We therefore caution our readers againat tcration of tmmediate prosperity: ‘The ele: tion has undoubtedly contributed to it and has hastened it because primarily it:has eliminated the disastrous uncertainty of our business and financial conditions. But we must successfully perform the nece: Sary accessory tasks before a permanen: basis of real prosperty is established. Time must also be allowed for the recovery of losses already suffered. As has been well said by the Financier: “But the election cannot wipe out the losses which have becn incurred, nor can it put back into the sav- irge bark the money which idle waye earners have been forced to withdraw in order to live. It cannot give back to the manutacturer the lost prdets of a past sea- son, and the days of work which might have been devoted tovard.developing the resources of a nation afe, in, a way, not re- ecverable, although they ;may be partly made up in the future”’ It must not be fotgotten, either, that whilst hoarded moneys will’ gradually be redeposited in banks, such gain may be more than offset for d while by withdraw- als for purposes of inyestment. It may be that banks will not be in very free position to make general loang uatfl the spring of 1897 follows the adjotirnment of the pres- ent Congress. - > ¢-e—,—_—_ Polling Places,in New York. From the Century, Cae, The polling place used to be generally some small shop belonging to a faithful ad- herent of the dominant party, who received fifty dollars from the city for the use of his premises during the four days of reg- istration and one day's voting. The same Place was likely to be occupied, and the same inspectors and clerks often served, year. after year, partly for the pay ($36), but largely because the service carries with it exemption from jury duty for a year, and gives a man 4 certain distinction. among his neighbors. Cigar shops were favorite places, but shoe shops, barber shops, undertakers’ rooms and even stable: were taken. In almost every case they us to be too small, and were dark, ill-ventilated and inconvenient. At one place a watcher met with (and stopped)’ the practice of leading horses in and out through the vot- ing inclosure. The new police board has broken up the old custom of choosing these places for political reasons. ws... PERILOUS ROUTE: The Unique Mail Service Into the Interior of Alaska, BOAT AND DOGS BY How Letters Are Carried to the Upper Yukon. AN INTERESTING a REPORT The most perilous mail service in the whole world, as well as the most unique and the longest star route service on rec- ord, has just been established by the gov- ernment through the heart of Alaska. For a long time the Post Office Department has had in contemplation the inauguration of some scheme to afford regular postal communicetion from the Alaskan coast to the settled portion of the interior. A vast part of the territory is wild and un- inhabited, but about the recently discover- ed gold fields there has sprung up a-rude sort of civilization and the hordes of pros- pectors and miners who have flocked there dazzled by the intermittent reports of rich strikes have settled a section of the in- terior region. The glittering of gold at Circle City, 000 miles inland on the upper Yukon river, attracted a large number of miners and others, who after settling had no regula mail communication with the rest of the world. Compelled to trust to chance in sending out their mail they sometimes paid as much as a dollar a let- ter for the privilege of sending by per- sons leaving camp for civilization. A Hazardous Route. The country was so inaccessible that it was difficult even to secure any accurate information, and the major portion of the vast tract is sti!l as little known in the United States as the remotest parts of the heart of Africa. Postmaster General Wilson, through his assistants, looked over this field and its needs and after a lengthy correspondence with Gov. Sheakley finally obtained some data. He found that in the vicinity of Circle City there were about 900 people and many more during the winter; that in going over the proposed Toute, which has now been adopted an is being covered under contract, begin= ning at Juneau, the mails could be car- ried by river for a distance of about 100 miles. Then would have to be encountered a difficult portage of over thirty miles. Supplies have to be packed on the backs of Indians over this stretch, at the end of which the upper Yukon is reached. The First Trip. For the remainder of the distance to Circle City it was decided, as is now being done, to carry the mails cn the river in a small boat during a short season when the river is open and at other times by a dog train. This service {s now an accom- plished fact. The first step was taken by the establishment of a post office named Cirele on March 19 last. L. N. Question was appointed postmaster and net long afterward a contract was signed with the Yukon Transportation Company, a Chi- cago enterprise, for carrying letter mail over the route. Five round trips already have been made and one more during next June will be performed under that contract. ‘The compensation fcr the service is $0) a round trip. The first trip was made on June 11, when 1,474 letters were started from Juneau and carried into the Circie City post office on the 14th of the follow- ing month. This initial expedition was under the personal supervision of the president of the contractirg company, N. A. Bedloe. The Destination Reached. ‘The season was very late, and while the snow was too soft to permit the taking of the launches over the Chilkoot pass the lakes were not sufficiently open to allow of their use. To overcome this obstacle lum- ber was purchased for two boats, to be built on the other side of Chilkoot pass, where they would be launched on the lakes. Half way to the summit of the mountain it was carried by the Indians, when,tired out and exhausted, they abso- lutely refused to carry the lumber further, and it had to be abandoned. Nothing daunted, the party pushed on with the mail and supplies, and at the lakes logs were out and a boat built. From there down, going day and night, there was no mishap, but the seething waters of the canyons and the terrible rapids passed through are enough to add years to a man’s life. The question now with the lit- tle expedition was to get the return mail back to Juneau at the earliest moment pos- sible. 1t was impossible to start up the river owing to the rapid water. For 500 miles the current averaged eight miles an hour. Then Bedloe concluded that if he re- mained at Circle City until the end of the month it would take forty-five days to pole the boat up the river. It was, there- fore decided to go on down to St. Michaels and come out through Bering sea. The party finally got back to Juneau, after traveling 6,500 miles, in addition to the regular trip, and saved over a month in time in delivery of the mail. The Contractor's Report. The contractor was the last man into the Yukon and the first one out during the season. In his report on the trip, which has just reached Postmaster General Wil- son, he gives some interesting and hitherto unknown data about the character of the section, and says: : “This Yukon trip is a terrible one, the current of the river even attaining ten miles an hour. Miles canyon Is a veritable death trap into which one is likely to be drawn without notice, and the White Horse rapids, known as the miner's grave, to say nothing of the Five Finger and Rink rapids, both of which are very dan- gerous. All these dangers are aggravated by reason of the defective maps and re- ports of the country. You are probably not awure that for a distance of 150 miles, commencing at Circle City, and going north, the river is fifty miles between banks, and contains thousands of islands, very few of which appear on any map. it is impcssible to perform this mail contract without at least three parties fully equipped, the distance being so great. It is out of the question for the first party to return in time to depart with the succeed- ing mail, and the expense of each will be about the same. Circle City is a place of 1,800 people, and from careful inquiry 1 am satisfied that this winter there will be $1,000,000 of gold dust there. Yet when’ I left the only government official in the town was the postmaster, and when one considers that town lots are selling for $2,000 each, it is a wonder that there are re complications.” netnis contract did not provide for service this winter, and another contract recently was signed by which the mail is carried over the dangerous long stretch of snow and ice four times—round trips—from be- tween November 1 and May 31 next, the contractors, a Juneau firm, reaping $1,700 a round trip as their reward. ———— St. Mark’s Vestry. In the case of John P. Torbert and others against Joseph B. Bennett and others, filed to test the legality of the election of ves- trymen in St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church, at the Easter election of 1895, Judge Cox today made a final decree in the matter, approving and confirming the re- port of the auditor of the court. The court also decreed that the complainants recover from the defendants the sum of $70.06, bal- ance of moneys found by the auditor to be in their hands belonging to the vestry of the church’s parish, with the costs and ex- penses of the proceedings, to be taxed by the clerk, attorneys’ fees excepted. poke ay Marriage Licenses. . Marriage licenses have been issued to the following: White—Alexander 8. Carruthers and Laura W. Spaids; Geo. W. Gallahorn and Leontine F. Burrus; Frederick Gray and Margaret S. Teel; Geo. L. Jacobs. of Newport Uews, Va., and Virgie Ricketts of this city; Chas. R. Howison and Hallie Lewis. ‘Colored—James M. Watts and Fannie J. Smith; Thomas Perkins and Rosa E..Stey- Richard Mooney and Marion Mec- EXCURSIONS .. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. AcoouNTANTs ... AMUSEMENTS - ATTORNEYS ... AUCTION SALES. BOARDING .... BUSINESS CHA} CITY ITEMS. COMMISSIONER: NTRY REAL ESTATE. DEATHS DENTISTRY EDUCATIONAL CHES, FALL RESORTS. FINANCIAL . 3N POSTAL SERVICE. RENT (Flats) RENT (iall:) RENT (Houses). RENT (Miscellaneous) RENT (Offices), RENT (Rooms) RENT (Stables) RENT (Stores). SALE (Bicycles) FOR SALB (Houses). FoR SALE FoR FOR FOR FOR FOR FOR FOR LOCAL. MENTION. LOST AND FOUND. MARRIAGES MEDICAL . . PERSONAL . : PIANOS AND ORGANS. POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. PROPOSALS RAILROADS SPECIAL SUBURBAN PROPERTY STEAM CARPET CLEANID STORAGE . UNDERTAKERS WANTED (Help): WANTED (Houses) WANTED (Miscellaneous). (Koams) . (Situations). CONDEN WANTED SED LOCALS James H. Bell ef Piedmont, W. Va., who is in the city on a visit to his sister, fell down the steps at the union depot in Georgetown Saturday night and was badly hurt about the head. He was taken ty the Emergency Hospital. Saturday afternoon about 5 o'clock the house of Policeman John Boland, or the Anacostia road between Anzcestia and [Be ning, was destroyed by fire. A defective flue is supposed to have caused the fire, which resulted in about $1,200 damage. The property was fully insure Saturday night about 9 o'clock John H. Parson, a Baltimorean, fell on the side- walk near 30th street and Prospect avenue. His head was so badly cut that he had to be sent to the Emergency Hospital tor treatment. Saturday night about 7 o'clock a colored man named Enoch Smiler, who lives at 421 Temple court southwest, was struck on the head with a hatchet and painfully in- jured. The wound was received during a fight in which Sarah Scott d Mame Grant are alleged to have figured. Smiier was taken to Freedmen’s Hospital for treatment. Fences facing the public squares seldom fail to get covered streets ond with bill posters after they have been erected several da Complaint about this method of advertising has been made by the own. ers of ferces who do not want them di figured, and the police have given no-tee to the Dill posters that fences are not to be utilized in this way without permission of owners. Henry Wilson, alias Wilzen, and James Howard, who are under arrest in Philadel- phia to answer charges here, have be held under bail for the local authorities. They will probably be brought morrow by a deputy marshal. The Virginia Republican Association will hold a ratification ling tonight at its headquart: No, $ F street northwest. Several well-known speakers will make ad- dresses. here to- Encampment No. 23, Wnion Vete gion, has passed resolutions cong:atulat- ing Comrade William McKinley of campment No. 78 of Columbus, Ohio, on his elevation to the présidency. While the new city post office is slowly creeping toward completion, the supe: tendent’s offices in the one-story frame structure at the northeast corner of the square have just undergone thorough reno- vation. The walls have been newly kal- semined and frescoed and freshly painted. Officer William Amiss, assistant to Sani- n Le- the woodwork He will not return for two weeks. A new lice department was received shop by Sanitary Officer There are service. The gipsy camp in Berry's wood, near the Catholic Univgrsity, has been reinforced by about a dozen families, and the female members did a thriving business yesterday telling the fortunes of the large number of bicyclers and pedestrians who stopped to view the picturesque tents and sur- roundings. Z “Hillsdale was as quiet as a graveyard yesterday,” said one of the mounted po- licemen today. “Judge Miller once said that there'was a pig’s foot in almost every window and a jug in the back room. But now we've cleared away the speak-easies. Such places caused most of the Sunday troubles.” During the forty-eight hours ended at 8 o'clock this morning the police made one hundred and twenty-nine arrests, and only eleven of the victims were fortunate enough to be released when sober without a charge being preferred. thirty-one females arrested. One morning, last week Policeman Kelly of the fifth precinct caught a good string of black bass in the Anacostia river near the asylum trestle. The fish averaged a little less than a pound each. ‘Fwenty-one dogs, a mule and a cow were captured last week by Poundmaster Ean- stein. Thirty dogs were killed at the pound during the past week. Money from sales and redemptions amounted to $15, Food Inspectors Mothershead and Hoover last week condemned 342 pounds of beef, A) pounds of mutton, 50 pounds of veal, 405 pounds of pork, 4 turkeys, 62 bir: rabbits, 29 squirrels and a quantity fruits and vegetables. Last week there arrived at the river front 9,475 bunches of fish, 110 carp, 16,200 bushels of oysters and Inspector Harris condemned of fish and 1,800 clams. Early Sunday morning the front door of Mr. McKay's house, No. #00 H stret north- east, was found open. The occupants of the house were notitied before a thief visited ‘the place. Sake ee Claims Damages. Samuel Lindheimer, in a suit filed by him today against the Metropolitan Railroa’t Company, claims $6,000 damages because of injuries alleged to have been received by him the 22d of last August in a collision with one of the company’s cars on Capitol street. The plaintiff, through Attorney Leon To- briner, Gharges that while driving on the sald street on the day in question, his ve- hicle was carelessly and negligently run into by one of the company’s cars. His vc- hicle was badly wrecked, and he was verely injured, he declares. ——>—_—_ For Divorce. Adolph A. Van Reuth today appited for divorce from Mary Van Reuth. The papers in the case were withteld from publication the husband's attorney, Mr. W. Preston Williamson, explaining’ that Mrs, Reuth is charged with desertion. ambulance for service in the po- from the Fraak Saturday. now four ambulan: in the There were ii of 15 by; 00) clams, bunches had East Van Durcanson Brothers, auctioneers, sold at public sale houses 1205, 1207 and Street southeast to James F. $1,999, $1,985 and $1 I Hood for respectively. WA’ KNIVi ‘a RAZORS, PICTURES PIPES and other valuable articles in exchange for coupons with (S0id us all deaters) “Ove, coupon i us lers. coupon in cach 5-rent (@-ounce) package. COUPONS EXPLAIN 01 Ssune Tae Above. Packages (now = eal containing no coupons will be accepted as coupons (208, empty bag, ae ove coupon. Send for iilus- tien of all articles, also fh = THE BLOCH: BROS. re tells how to get them. TUHACCO CO., Wheeling. W. My25-m,w, Ett FINANCIAL. Why not start a. bank account? ‘The way is made < comveniont accept ‘s from $1 wy Lays—-pay“in- ake a start— ’ hours for you on p terest on now! Union Savings Bank, 1222 F St. nots 2a WM, 1B. GURLEY. J. V. BARROSS. GURLEY & BARROSS, Bankers and brokers, Members of Washington Stock Exchange, Teléphone 390. No. 1235 F st. Buy and sell First-class Investment Securities for customers. Orders solicited in Stocks and Bonds, to7-1m 1419 F st. Glover Corresponds uts of Messrs. M. Broadway, Bankers and Deulers in Government Bonds. Deposits. Exchange. Loans. Raflroud Stocks and Tonds and all securities listed on the exchanges of New Yor! Ph} le Boston and Baltimore Vought aod sla. ee pecinity made of investment sec ies. Di trict bonds and all Joc Rallrond, pig and Telephone Stock dealt in. Stock bought and sold. It American Bell Telephone Je31-166 Washington Loan & Trust Co., OFFICE, COR. STH AND F STS. PAID-UP CAPITAL, ONE MIL Interest PAID ON DEPOSITS. Loans "1°. jistenae Acts as Executor, Administrator, Trustee, Guardian and Committee on Estates. Acts Regimrar, Transfer and Fis- cal Agent of Corporations. Takes full charge of Real and Per- sonal Estates. Safe Deposit Boxes for rent Stcrage Vaults for trunks, boxes, & containing valuables, silver, tries trac, &e. Incorporated undir act of Co and sub to. supervision comptroller of th» currency. John Joy Edson Joln. A, Swope. Joun B. Lari A. 8. Worthington. 3. . Darlingtor DIRECTORS: Charles B., 4 te Theodore We Isadore, n Fox, Albert rs James, William B., aus -10,64tf W. B. Hibbs & Co., BANKERS. Members New York Stock Exchange, 1421 F Street. Correspondents of LADEDBUKG. THALMANS & 00, 406-160 ew York. Silsby & Company, BANKERS AND BROKERS, Ofice, 613 150th st. o.w., Natioral Metropolitas Brak building. Telephone 60S. mba ROOMS 6 AND M1, ATLANTIC BUILDING EMBER WASHINGTON SY0CK EXCHANGE, Real Estate & Stock Broker Direct Wires New York and Chicago. Commission on W heat, 1-16. Telephone 453. se13-214 a: Hodgen & Co., BROKERS AND DEALERS. STOCKS, COTTN, GRAIN AND TROVISIONS, Rooms 10 and 11, Corcoran Uidg., cor. 15th and and 605 ith st. nw. OFFICES. Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, Ge10-16¢f* F sts, The National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Company, Of the District of Columbia. CORNER ISTH ST. AND NEW YORK AVE Chartered dy speciat act of Congress, Jan., 1867, and acts of Oct., 1890, and Feb., 1892 CAPITAL: ONE MILLION DOLLARS. PROFITABLE INVEST- all or send THE BEST AND Nc ment—a home at Ch for booklet. oclT Office, $10 14th st. DU MAURIER. Bix Latest Work Receives a Big 4d- vertixement In Hix Death. Atlanta Constitution, From the A glance in an Atlanta book store day made this striking truth stand forth: Death is sometimes a big advertisement. In no department of human effort do men put forth such terrific energy as In their attempts to catch the public eye. Men rack their brain for ingenious schemes to attract public attention. The good ad- vertiser is the rarest and rich¢ of suc- cesses. But sometimes all the clevers ana ingenuity of these brain workers are beat- en—and unexpectedly. Du Maurier’s death last week was an ad- vertisement for Harper Brothers, which no idea they might dig out of their brains could excel. It has started a great rush after last month's Harper's, which con- tained the first installment of “The Mar- tian,” Du Maurier’s new story, and a third ecition of the number ts now being fast exhausted. Those who cannot tind the magazine are investing in “Peter Tbbet- son,” and if there happen to be any who have not read “Trilby” they invest in that. The book dealers will tell you that in the past four days there has been a wonderful demand for Du Mauricr’s work: ‘This great author, who has added thou- sands to the coffers of the Harpers by his Ife, is adding thousands to their profits by the mere fact of his death. —_—_—_+99—__—_ Her Will Filed. ‘The will of the late Mary J. Smith, dated November 9, 1806, and filed today, be- queaths her estate to her children, Daisy E. Atexander and Wm. A. Smith, as tenante in common, Chas. W. Alexander being ap- pointed executor.