Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1896, Page 2

LATE NEWS BY WIRE Commercial Effect of the Recent Election. AMERICAN TRADE IN EUROPE a Results of Inquiries Made in Va- rious Centers. BRITISH TRADES UNIONS (Copyrichted, 1806, by the Associated Press.) LONDON, November 28.—Representatives of the Associated Press have been making inquiries in various British and continental trade centers as to the effects upon trade already traceable to the result of the presi- dential election. These inquiries have been made among the leading export houses, at the American consulates and of the larger forwarding agents. In England the increase in the number of invoices presented for authentication at all the consulates in the first week after the election of McKinley was more marked than during the second and third weeks. But the increase for the second and third weeks over the same period in October was at many consulates over 6) per cer At all the consulates the percentage of Increase is expected to continue. Among forwarding agents there is the liveliest belief in good times abroad, many of them having since November made con- tracts for large amounts of cubic space. Exporters and large commission hoz report greatly increased activity, which they expect to continue unabated for at least six months. English Labor Leaders Here. NEW YORK, November 28. Woods and John Malinson, delegates of the British Trades Unions to the convention the American Federation of Labor, to be helé in Cincinnati in the middle of Decem- ber, arrived on the steamship Campania today. They were met by Contract Labor Inspector Robert Watchorn. Delegate Woods hag been for four years the secre- tary of the Trades Union, and was once member of parliament for the Ince divi- sion. of Lancashire. Delegate Woods said, as he stepped from the ship to the dock: “I have not heard about the strike of the Hamburg and Kiel dock laborers, but I do not believe that there will be an international strike of dock laborers in sympathy wita them. “They might as well strike the moon," said he, “we do not believe ir strikes, nor do we believe in arbttration; we prefer con- ciliation. es AT McKINLEY'S HOME. Senater-Eleet Wellington Pleasant Conference. CANTON, Ohio, November 28.—This has been a busy day for Major McKin’ Callers began to arrive early in the morn- ing and were numerous all day. Many were old acquaintances or chanre sojcurn- ers in the city, who merely called to pay their respe and some were high in the vounsels of the party. Aside from the demands of visitors, the weather, which is cold, damp and dismal, militated against unnecessary ventures out of doors, and the President-elect spent the morning in the ruddy glow of the grate fire in his own room, or in Mrs. McKinley's room, across the hall. Among the early callers was Senator G. L. Wellington of Maryland, who came to pects and to discuss tie mat- ‘h are now occupying the minds of . He had a very pleasant con- ith the President-elect. Perkins, who was assistant secre- tary of the national committee headquar- ters in New York during the campaign, reached here last evening, and today had a very pleasant visit at the McKinley home. Col. Kuert of Kenton, Ohio, command- ing the 2d Regiment, Ohio National Guard, and an oli friend of Maj. McKinley, made @ social call. Had a PRESIDENT CLEVELAND THANKED. Resolutions Passed Thanksgiving Day at Union M. E. Church. An impressive service was held at Union M. E. Church, Rev. Alexander Bielaski, pastor, Thanksgiving day at 11 a.m., the Fifteenth Street M. E. Chureh and Union vniting therein, and the pastor of Fifteenth Street Church, Rev. W. W. Van Arsdale, preaching the sermon. At the close of the service resolutions were offered by a mem- ber of the congregation and unanimously opted by a rising vote. They recited hat we, as a congregation, return our sincere thanks to the President of the United States for his very unique and ex- pressiss ‘Thanksgiving proclamation, Fecogrizing, as it does, not only our de- pendence upon Almighty God, but also our holy Christianity by a reference to the great head of the church in more definite terms, perhaps, than have ever heretofore been used in any similar proclamation. “That we have listened with great plens- ure and profit to the very excellent and impressive sermon of the Rev. W. W. Van Arsdale, In which he has so clearly set forth the great truth that God has ever ruled among the nations of the earth, and that His special providence is particilarly manifest in His continued care for and great mercies and blessings granted to the American republic. Also in pointing out the absolute necessity of the nation aban- doning iis national sins, especially that of the liquor triffle, if it is to gontinue to be % natien upon which the blessing of heaven will rest in the years to come as in the pas: —_———_—_. DR. HAMLIVS STATEMENT, Said to Be a Mistake by Secretary Olney. ‘The Secretary of State this afternoon au- thorized the statement that the assertion made by Dr. Cyrus Hamlin that American women in Haskeui fled from massacre not finding protection under the American flag is an entire mistake; that the flag was neither furied nor insulted at that point, ane that not an American man or child at Haskeui during the massacre. Equally untrue, he says, is the statement recently made in New York by Miss Grace 1 that only the English flag is re- in Turkey. During the massacre at Constantinople, the secretary says, she hurried by other flags and fcund protec- tion urder her own flag, and the escort of the American consul general. ‘ She passed through the street where men were being killed by mobs and went safe- ly under our flag up the Bosphorus. Through scenes of mob violence all over Turkey our flag ard m’ssionaries have been protected by Turkish troops. “We have lost by incendiary fires,” says Secretary Olney, “at but two places, both of them fn the interior, and the value being much less thgn the claims of England, France and Italy for lives and property lest, and for which no indemnity hae been paid. Every peaceable American arrested or detained has been released on demand of the American minister. — A Conference on Customs. W. B. Howell, special employe of the Treasury Department; J. M. Crowley of the customs division, and J. J. Crowley, chief of the special agents’ division, will hold a conference in New York next Monday with the several collectors of customs at the frontier ports in Michigan, New York and Vermont distriets, with a view to securing uniformity in the proceedings at the sev- eral port: The French chamber of deputies yester- day adopted a bill to prevent the circula- tion of foreign copper coins in France. The customs committee of the French thamber of deputies yesierday adopted the sugar bounties, 3% francs to 44, and also a tax of 2 francs to 2% francs, according to distance, on colonial and French raw sugurs sent free to port refineries. Forty-one hold-ups have been reported to the police of Chicago during November, and it is probable that the number will reach fifty before the month ends. Ar- sts have been made tn half the cases, ut the epidemic ef robberies only seems © increase. BONA-FIDE CIRCULATION. A reference to the statement be- low will show that the circulation sworn to is a bona fiés ese. It 1s easily possible for a news- paper with an elastic commeience to swell its legitimate circulatioa enor- mously, in order to deceive eawer- . tisers, by sending out thousands of papers to newsstands, which are re- turnable, and which are in fact re- turned, but nevertheless are in- cluded in what purports to be am honest statement of circulation. Intelligent advertisers, however, Judge by results, and bogus circula- tions don’t give them. The family circulation of The Star is manythousands in excess of any other Washington paper, and is be- lieved to be fully five times that of our afternoon contemporary. Circulation of The “Evening Star.” SATURDAY, November 21, 1896............33,935 MONDAY, November 23,1896... 27,696 TUESDAY, November 2%, 1596... 27,940 WEDNESDAY, November 25, 1896. 28,190 THURSDAY, November 26, 1896. 26,618 FRIDAY, November2i, 1396.. RT, 871 ‘Total... «-172,250 28,708 Dally average........ I solemnly swear that the above statement rep- resents only the number of copies of THE EVEN- ING STAR circulated during the six secular days ending Friday, November #7, 18%6—that is, the number of copies actually sold, delivered, furnish- ed or mailed, for valuable consideration, to bona fide purchasers or subscribers, and that none of the copies so counted are returnable to or remain in the office unsold. J. WHIT. HERRON, Cashier Evening Star Newspaper Co. Subscribed and sworn to before me this twenty-eighth day of November, A. D. 1896. E E. RAMEY, Notary Public, D.°C. A HOME IN PRINCETON. President Cleveland Buys a Home in the College Town. A dispatch from Princeton, N. J., dated yesterday, says President Cleveland has purchased the old Slidell property there, with a view to making it his permanent home. A special from Princeton to the Philadelphia Times today says: Professor Andrew West was in Washing- ton today and saw President Cleveland about the final arrangements of the pur- chase, which has been under negotiation for some time past. Professor West was seen this evening and authorized the fol- lowing statement for publication: “President Cleveland has purchased the residence of Mrs. Slidell, on Bayard avenue, in Princeton, and will make Princeton his permanent home soon after the expiration of his term as President. Negotiations look- ine to this end have been in progress about tt ee weeks, and were consummated today by ine purchase of the property. A number of reasons have attracted President and Mrs. Cleveland to Princeton. The Presi- dent's father was educated for the Presby- terian ministry here. The quiet and in- dependent home life of the place, its health- fulness, its convenience to New York, the attractions of a university society, as well as other reasons, have been instrumental in forming his decision.” It is understood that the price paid for the property 1s be- tween $10,000 and $50,000. Mrs. Slidell is now traveling in Europe, and the house has been closed for some months. She has a son in the present sophomore class of the university. The house itself and its surroundings are most beautiful and stately. Standing far back in a clump of cedars and pines, the house is reached by a wide gravel road. Its archi- tecture {s of old colonial style, the material in it being brick and stone stuccoed over. It is two stories high, without the garret. The front entrance is by a broad porch, supported by four stately pillars, while the glass-inclosed verandas extend along each side of the main building. Princeton's fac- ulty and students are delighted with the news of the Cleveland purchase, which can be attributed largely to the pleasant recep- tion the President received when he was in Princeton during the recent sesquicen- tennial celebration. Private Secretary Thurber confirms the statement that President Cleveland will make his permanent home in Princeton after the close of the present administra- tion. The President will retain his prop- erty at Buzzard’s Bay, however, and use it as a summer home. The house at Wood- ley, just outside of Washington, occupied by the President's family, is rented, the | lease running until next May, and it may be utilized next spring before the President and famtly make their final arrangements for moving to Princeton. The Princeton purchase has been under consideration only three weeks. Mr. Cleve- land liked the locality when he visited there recently for the purpose of making an address. Later Mrs. Cleveland returned there and looked over several houses which were offered. She decided upon the Slidell mansion, and the purchase followed. ———___+ e+. CAUGHT IN THE ACT. One Less Burglar is Now at Large in the City. John H. Warren, a colored crook with a rather long police record, is again in the toils of justice. Housebreaking is the charge against him this time, and he was held today by Judge Miller for the action of the grand jury in $2,000 bonds. Warren was arrested about 11:30 o'clock jast evening as he was in the act of making a forcible entry into the residence of Mr. Anthony Poliok, 1700 I street. The burglar had unlocked the storm doors and was in- serting a skeleton key into the lock of the inner door when he was interrupted and placed under arrest by Special Policeman . J. Hanley, a private watchman on duty in the neighborhood. Mr. Hanley had no- ticed the burglar mount the steps of the front portico, so he quietly followed and made his presence known in the nick of time. “You're just in time this trip,” remarked Warren to the policeman. He was removed to the third precinct police station in a patrol wagon. In court today he entered a plea of not guilty, but, after hearing the Statement of Mr. Hanley, the court took the action stated. . Werren was recently released from the penitentiary, after serving a term of five years for housebreaking. He has also been to jail and the workhouse severai times. —_—_ His Will. By the will of the late Robert E. Con- stant, dated June 29, 1695, and filed yester- day afternoon the estate is bequeathed to Mrs. Mary E. Nordyke of Santa Roze, Cal., a@ sister of the testator. —_——.—__ Street Cleaning. Superintendent McKenzie of the street and alley cleaning departmert has pre- pared a supplemental report for the Com- missioners upon the subject of street clean- ing by hand. In a former report he stated that the cost per thousand yards for this work would smount to 82% cents. From the figures in the supplemental report he makes the amount exactly 30 cents per ‘thousand yards, At the present time the District pays 241 cents per thounsand yards for machine sweeping. ——— Seven Marringes Between Them. From the New York Sun. Gecrge W. Céutant of 759 Driggs avenue and Mrs. Virginia P. White of 110 South street, Brooklyn, were married in Hobokey yesterday by Justice of the Peace Lewis R. MeCulloch. After the ceremony the bride remarked with a smile that it was her fourth wed- ding and the groom said tt was his third. He gave his age as forty-eight and said she was forty-three. The witnesses to the marriage were Health Inspector Anthony Graneili and Constable iliam Wise of Hoboken. THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER _28, 1896-24 PAGES. Se Resinets Men Mash Ploasod by the Recent S” Malihd Deal. First Traia te Sarrisonburg to Cesry a Manicipal Excursion—Other Notes From Acrows the River. There is much rejoicing upon the part of business men and others over the proposed direct connection between Alexandria and Harrisonburg in the vailey of Virginia by trains operated by the Southern Railway Company, via Manassas and Strasburg. Prominent business men here propose that the running of the first train from this city to Harrisonburg be made the occasion of a rand demonstration. It will probably take to Harrisonburg a large excursion, com- posed of the mayor, city council, city offi- clals, Business Men’s League, board of trade, and as many of the citizens as pos- sible. Owing to the recent sensational occur- rences at the city jail, City Sergt. Smith has issued orders to the wardens to search all visitors to the jail in the future before they are allowed to hold intercourse with thowe behind the bars. The first visitor to the jail after this order was issued was a woman, and Warden McCuen was rather embarrassed at the position in which he found himself. He, however, happened to find a woman in the residence part of the jail, whom he got to search the visitor. On her person was found a bottle of whisky, which was held up and returned to her when she had concluded her visit. Dead in @ Cellar. Sandy Hodge, an old colored wood saw- yer, was fcund dead in the cellar of Mr. Julian Burke's house, on Prince street, yes- terday afternoon. Hodge went into the cel- jar about 1 o'clock to saw some wood. When Mr. Burke went into the cellar late in the afterncon he found him dead. Stole a Lot of Furniture. James Reed and Mat Williams were ar- rested yesterday evening upon the com- plaint of Mary Springsted, who claimed that the men had broken into her house and stolen a lot of furniture. Officers Beech and Young were detailed upon the case and in a short while succeeded in locating che furniture at Rallinger’s store in the West End, where the accused had disposed of it. It appears from the evi- dence before the mayor this morning that about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon Reed and Willlams went to the ferry wharf and hired a wagon and went to the Springsted woman’s house, on Princess street, and breaking open the back door proceeded to load the wagon with the parlor furniture. Mr. Ballenger, who bought the furniture from the men, stated that Reed and Wil- | iNams met him dn King street yesterday and asked him if he wanted to make a bargain, and he told them that he did. They then told him that Mary Springsted rad requested them to sell the farniturc for her. He bought it and agrced to give them $6 for it. They only brought part of the furniture, and he gave them $1 on ac- count. The mayor, after hearing all the evidence, sent the accused to jail to await the action of the grand jury. Notes, Several cab drivers were before the mayor yesterday for violating the rules at the local depot. Mr. A. H. Thomson has returned from a visit to Marshall. The Electric Railway Company has put in improved switches at the corner of King and Washington streets. Potomac Ledge, I. O. O. F., held a reg- ular meeting last night. Mount Vernon Council, Daughters of America, was instituted last night. —_ The Nationalization of Scrapple. From the Philadelphia Record. Scrapple as a species of viand peculiar to Philadelphia has long brcught ridicule upon the Quaker city, and has caused the shafts of wit to fly from many a professional humorist’s pen. The development of recent facts, however, would tend to the belief that these who have scoffed the loudest Were the ones who were most ignorant. Quite @ number of the most fashionable cafes and restaurants of New York now make a feature on the menu cards of “Phil- adelphia scrapple.” Now comes the ccn- version of ex-Postmaster General Bissell, | who, during his visits to Philadelphia, ac quired a great appetite for the mysterious morceau. He has ordered a local dealer to stip a pan of scrapple every week to his heme in Buffalo. ——_+o+____ George Da Maarter's Ancestry. From the Westminster Gazette. Mr. G. L. P. B. Du Maurier is said to have been much unconcerned about his noble descent, but he might well have con- sidered if an interesting one to English people. For one of his kin, Maximilian Du Maurier G’Auberi, Seigneur de la Fontaine Dange, was the royal “commissaire” to the Provincial synod of the reformed churches of Poitou, which met at Chatellerault, in June, 1653. A Guarter of a century later, after the revocation of the edict of Nantes some of the persons present at thai as. scmbly were Huguenot refugees in Lon- don, and probably some hundreds of En- glish people are descended from members of the congregations repres:nted at the synod. a Uniform Sise of Circns Rings. From the Chicago Times-Herald. The one-ring circus of our grandfathers’ day had a ring no larger than each of the three uséd by the big shows today. Circus horses are trained to perform in a stand- ard ring forty-two feet in diameter, In a larger or a smaller ring their pace be- comes uneven, irregular and unreliable, and the riders in turning somersaults aré Mable to miscalculate the curve and miss their footing. One of the “greatest shows on earth”—there are several—gave a series of performances last year in Madison Square Garden, New York By mistake the rings were made 42 feet 6 inches in diameter. On the first performance three riders fell and one was severely hurt; be- fore the second performance the rings were reduced to the regular size. e ——a Smoke Against Lightning. ¥rom the Philadelphia Press, There exists an old saying among peas- ants that when a storM is approaching, a fire should be built in the stove, with as much smoke as possible. In a recent arti- cle by Shuster in tals journal he shows that this custom ts a rational one, as the products of combustion and the smoke act as @ very effective conductor to discharge the atmosphere slowly but surely. He quotes from statistics showing that out of every one thousand accidents, 6.3 churches and 8.5 mills were struck by lightning, while the number of chimneys of factories was only one in every three thousand. ——_-++ J. C. Watts, cashier of the state bank Bcole, Towa ta defaulter in the sum 0 000, le 1s supposed to 10) = where in Colorado. Beers Detective Cowles of New Haven, Conn., fas arrived at San Francisco to take charge of H. C. Clark, who is wanted for stealing §500 from Peck & Bishop. He will leave with his prisoner Monday. William Greer Harrison of San Francisco, poet, playwright and business man, cele- brated his sixtieth birthday by walking from there to San Jose—fifty miles, amone ene passengers who sailed for the In! ates today from England wi Mile. Yvette Gutitert. bie Gov. Hastings of Pennsylvania and party reached Nashville yesterday afternoon, and were taken to the centennfal grounds. James H. Fitts, treasurer of the Univer- sity of Alabama, for thirty years past, bas addressed the general assembly, and demands that a showing be made to the institution for the money due it by the state. . J. Weston Plummer, representing an Eng- Ush syndicate of fruit growers and capi- talists, has been: making an investigation of south Missouri as an apple producing region. General Manager Holdridge of the Bur- lington has announced that that road will contribute $30,000 toward the success of the transMississippi exposition. Judge Foster has appointed Dwight Bra- man of New York receiver for the St. Considering ‘the Place in Which Is Shah By Hild EW LBRARF AND PENSION BUILDINGS Some of tha ‘Objections to Using BOTH EDIFICES DESCRIBED A suggestion recently made about hold- ing the inauguration ball next March in the new Congressional Library building has been received with considerable interest. The idea seems to be, on the part of those who suggest having the ball held there, to devote the magnificent rotunda to the pur- poses of the ball proper and to have the dancing on its floor. A Star reporter this morning visited the new Mbrary and ex- amined it with a view to ascertaining its fitness for a function of such magnitude as the inaugural ball will necessarily be. At the same time he had a talk with Mr. Bernard R. Green, the superintendent of the building. A survey of the rooms and a study of their arrangement with a view to inaugural bali purposes led to the conclu- sion that the new library building would be entirely inadequate for such a thing and would present too many disadvantages, many of which that might be possible to overcome, but a number that would be in- surmountable. The Rotunda. In the first place, the rotunda, which is 100 feet in diameter, is equipped with sta- tionary desks and forms for the use of the coming visitors to the brary who will pursue their reading or researches into the vast literary riches which it will contain. These forms and desks are built into the floor, and are as much a part of the struc- ture as the walls themselves. They are also most important adjuncts of the heating and ventilating arrange- ments of the vast apartment. To remove them for the purpose of holding the in- augural ball there would open up immense holes in the floor, which would have to be covered by gratings, or the entire heating and ventilation of the rotunda would be impossible. The middle of the floor of the rotunda for a space probably thirty-five feet in diameter is raised a foot or more above the surrounding floor, and in its center a small stairway leads down to the basement. The other apartments in the building above the basement tloor are noth- ing less than long, narrow halls, looking into the court on the one side and out upon the parking on the other. These apart- ments or halls are thirty-five feet in width and 317 feet long, and it 1s thought no one of them would be adequate for a ball such as that of the next 4th of March will be. They are high cellinged, but possess no gal- lerles whence a view -of the scenes on the floor could be obtained. A number of the other rooms aré ‘fitted with book shelves which are permanent fixtures, and while they would be adtiirably adapted for cloak room purposes, they could be put to no other uses. No Place for Supper. There would be no place apparently for the supper to be prepared, and in the mat- ter of entrances and exits the deficiencies would be rotablé: There are but two entrances to the Congressional Library building, one at the west front and one at the east, and it wduld be almost a matter of impossibility to-handle the great crowd that is always present at an inaugural ball. In conversation with Mr. Green, The Star reporter was told that {t would be hardiy wise to utilize the Mbrary building for the inaugural ball,even if 4t were possible to comfortably, apgommoate the crowd and provide proyerly for their entertainment. He was of the opinion that in any event the defacement of the building would neces- sarily follow where such an immense crowd of people gathered. On the other hand, it is claimed the pen- sion building, which’ has been the scene of Inaugural balls in 1885, 1889 and 1893, is admirably adapted for the purposes,and ‘the work of preparing it for President’ McKin- ley’s ball would be simplified to a superla- tive degree because of the thorough experi- ence gained in the past by the citizens of Washington who wiil naturally have charge of the arrangements for that approaching. Fension Office Court. The great hall or court of the pension building is 280 feet in length and 130 feet wide. The apex of the roof which covers it is 150 feet from the floor. The frame- work of the roof is supported by eight massive pillars eighty feet in helght and placed four abreast so as to divide the court into three equal compartments, but wide enough apart .to allow free move- ment between them. Surrounding this im- mense space are three galleries, rising one above the other, two of them being twenty feet in width and the third ten feet wide. The latter is a balcony projecting from the walls of the building and in- closed with an ornamental iron railing. There are four entrances to the hall. At the north and south and east and west fronts o. the building and surrounding the court are a number of large and com- modious rooms on the first floor which were used on occasions of former tnaugu- ral balls for cloak and toilet rooms, barber shops, supper rooms, information and press rooms, telegraph offices and police and fire departments. The Last Inaugural Dall. At the last inaugural ball, Saturday, March 4, 1893, the gentlemen’s cloak room occupied the apartments at the north- west corner of the building; the ladies’ rooms were at the southwest corner of the building; the supper rooms occupted all the apartments reaching from the north entrance at G street around to the east entrance fronting 4th street. The Presi- dent and Mrs. Cleveland occupied the three rooms of the commisstong of pensions on the secoid floor, and the Vice Pres{ient and the diplomatic corps adjoining apart- ments. The arrangements for the recep- tion and enjoyment cf every one who at- tended were perfect. The dressing rooms were provided with all the necessities of the toilet and tke hat and cloak boxes were in charge of 135 employes of the city ice. Pethe total number of boxes was 11,000, 7.000 being aesigned to men and 4,000 to the use cf ladies. To prevent confusion end to facilitate the delivery of articles the cloak rooms were divided into sections, each in charge of a letter carrier, who re- ceived and handed out the hats and cloaks, and to prevent copfusion the boxes were numbered, after the plans of the houses on the streets. For {fstance, the left-hand corner of the bottom row began with the number 102, the next 202, and so on. The numbers were the»stme in every section, and the tickets had printed on them the number of sectitn‘as well as the number of the box. The information bureau was cn the south side'of the ball room, and im- mediately adjoining were the telegraph of- fices ond the pressroom. The dining room and kitchen were in the northeast corner of the buliding,.the kitchen being in a structure erected, fer the purpose on the parking fronting G street. Carringe Arrangements. ‘The afrangements for those who went to the ball by carriag¢s or other vehicles were equally completg. ‘he conveyances were divided into two classes, private and public. Private carriages entered Judiciary Square on F street, and deposited their passengers at the Sth street entrance. To each oecu- pant of a private carriage a ticket was given with a coupon attached. When the occupant alighted he retained the coupon and the driver kept the ticket, and w! the conveyance was wanted the number was called, and, being the same on each slip, all confusion was prevented. Those who hired iveyances to the ball by an ar- rangement of+the-tiveryman’s association were azsured of being carried home in the same character of vehicle as that which they went to the ball in, the kind of vehicle being printed on the card which was given to the occupant cf the carriage. Over Eight Thousand Present. Seven theusand four hundred and thirty- Louis, Kansas and Southwestern railway, | five tickets were sold to the last inaagura- running from Arkansas City to Anthony tion ball, and every ticket was represented by a guest. In addition to this immense gathering, thére were probably fifteen hun- dred @ttendgnta, who were not included in the number buying tickets. “This immense crowd wag hapdied without crushing or crewding ef apy serious characjer.' The eabcrigs wore sed for’ promengging, apd % the same time gave opportunities for emgellent vjews of the beautiful an@ ple twresque scene on the ball--oom flugr. ‘Fhere ware bet tow exchanges of wraps oF cloaks, @nd fewer dresses and gowns were injured than at any geception at the White House held years. On the Monday and Tuesday following the inaugural ball of 1893 there were promenade concerts given at the pension office by the United States Marine Band. ‘The concerts on Monday were held at 10 o'clock in the morning, 3 o'clock in the af- ternoon, and 8 o'clock in the evening, the jatter being followed by a dance of Sfteen numbers. There were also concerts Tues- ‘day afternoon and Tuesdey night. ‘Phese entertainments were largely attended, the persons listening to them,. altogether, amounting to about 25,000 people, A SWEEPING DENIAL. Mrs. Cleveland Never Was Refused Credit at Kaan’s. A story abounding in minute detail] was printed in a New York paper today about the alleged experience of Mrs. Cleveland last Wednesday, when she attempted to purchase certain goods from 8. Kann, Sons & Co. and have the bill sent to the Presi- dent. This alleged account of Mrs. Cleve- land's shopping tour stated that the man- ager of the store politely refused to give her the destred credit, saying he could make no exception to the rule of “no credit,” and that she left the store very in- dignant. When Mr. Louis Kann was asked regard- ing the alleged incident today he made a sweeping denial of the report. ‘Mrs. Cleveland was not refused goods at our store and required to pay cash for them,” he said. ‘Mrs. Cleveland has not visited our store for some time, and when she was there she paid cash without re- questing to have a bill sent to the Presi- dent. The story is false in every particu- lar, and the interview printed as with the manager of the store never took piace.” ee WEYLER GOES TO THE FRONT. The Captain Genernl Leaves for Pinar del Rio. Captain General Weyler left Havana yes- terday on board the Svanish cruiser La Gazpi for Martel, prevince of Pinar del Rio, where he will resume personal com- mand of the Spanish forces operating against the insurgents. Later in the day a telegram was received from Marie! stating that General Weyler had reached that city and was received by the authorities and large crowds of people. He immediateiy started for Artemisa, und on arriving there visited the hospitals, which he found in an improved sanitary state and the health of the troops gen- erally better. From Artemisa the captain general went on to Vuelta Abajo by train, leaving the cavalry and Brigadier General Calixto Ruiz to join him later. Later in, the day the correspondent of the Associated Press called upon the chief of staff at Havana and informed him that a dispatch received in New York from Jacksonville, Fla., stated that General Wey- ler during the recent operations in Pinar del Rio lost 700 men killed and 1.600 wounded by the explosion of an insurgent mine, and that 2,000 men of the Spanish force were killed and 4,000) wounded dur- ing the two days’ figating in the Rubi Hills. The chief of staff distinctly stated that there was no truth in the statements made, that no mines were exploded by the insurgents, that there had not been two days’ fighting and that the report of the engagement cabled to the Associated Pres: at the time was correct in every varticu- lar. Se eee The Flood-Yost Matter. In the court of appeals at Richmond, Va., yesterday the state board of canvassers mace reply to the mandamus proceedings in the Flood-Yest matter. The answer says that the board is a ministerial and not a judicial board, and juscifies its action in awarding the certificates in ac- cordance with the reports furnished by the clerks of the varlous courts. The mutter will be argued on briefs Mon.lay. — Charged With Forgery. Charles H. Balley, son of the late probate judge, O. P. W. Batley of Kansas, was ar- rested at Kansas City yesterday, accused of forging a letter of credit for $1,000 on the National Live Stock Bank of Fort Worth, Tex. Bailey cashed the letter of credit, securing $0 from the Metropolitan Na- tional Bank of Kansas City and $100 from the Crisman-Sawyer Bark of Independence, Mo. When Bailey was arrested all the money except 8150 was recovered. Bailey says he is not guilty. The letter, he claims, was sent to him by his uncle, but the Me- tropolitan Bank officials said it 1s in Bai- ley’s handwriting. —-+08 Chicago Lace Deniers Fail. Shoeninger, Levy & Co., Chicago, whole- sie dealers in laces, confessed judgments yesterday .o amounts aggregating over $50,000, the Corn Exchange Bank being a creditor for $20,200, The exact assets are not known, but the Habilities are placed at $75,000. Difficulty in making collections in the last few months is given as the reason for the failure, the firm having a large number of ouistanding accounts. — +00 - Around the World in Thirty Days. From Harper's Weekly. There is soon to be a new country to visit and a new way of going round the world. It seems only the other day that Jules Verne’s man went around in eighty days, and thought it a considerable feat. The record for circumnavigation is now sixty- six days or thereabouts. Baron Hilkoff, the combination of American mechanic and Russivn prince, who was in this country recently, said that when the rafiroad acroes Siberia is finished, which, he thinks, will ‘be in four or five years, the time of getting around will be cut in two, and from thirty to thirty-three days will suffice for it. He allow te. days to cross Siberia from 8t. Petersburg, ten days from Vladivostok to San Francisco, and thirteen days from there to St. Petersburg again. Karly in the next century, then, the tired American may turn his face eastward when he starts on his month’s vacation, and keep it turned that way untit he gets home, just about in time to resume his work. ———+e-_— Reason in the Lower A: From the Dog Fancier. We have a fox terrier whose happiness was complete until Dodgerfield came. She is very affectionate, consequently very jeal- ous. If looks and growis would kill, Dodg- erfield would die many times a day. Both dogs eat from the same plate, but not at the same time. One day last week we fed Dodgerfield first. The fox terrier was vely hungry and begged hard for first dinner. Dodger seemed to eat more slowly than usual, and Nettie watched dolefully. Finally hunger got the better of her hon- esty, and she barked sharply, three short Larks. Dodger left his plate and sprang to the window, looking excitedly up and down the road. Nettie looked neither to the right nor the left, but made straight for the plate of food as soon as Dodger’s back was turned. If this was not an exhibition of reason and human intelligence, then mankind in general possesses a large degree of animal “instinct.” —__—_+-00—____—__ the Drawing Roont. From the St. James’ Gazette. The announcement that the drawing-room amusement this season will be bagpipe playing by ladies is somewhat dismaying, and is by no means an improvement on skirt danaing. Even the polite persons who are accustomed to remark, at the end of amateur performances in the drawing room, “Thank you; so very charming,” will have some difficulty in preserving their elegant composure during a bagpipe display. The details given are tantalizingly ecanty. Are the young ladies to be attired in the correct if barbaric Highland full dress, and are their operations to be accompanied by the true Highland whoop? The new French Grawing-room craze—character reading by the mouth, or buccal physiognomy, gs it is called, the rest Of the face being concealed —seems to us far preferable. The farmers of Mayfield township,Caya- hoga courty, Ohio, are excited over the discovery of petroleum on their farms. GEORGETOWN AFFAIRS. ‘ —— Watters of apse} to Residents West of Creek. George U, Morgis Post, No. 19, G. A. R., tape mage gi rations for. marking the upmarked gyaves af the Union soldiers in the cometeries of this section of the city. A Rew er-sine hag been installed at No. 5 eure, gad will be put in eervice today. Euch of the rear wheels weigh 318 pounds, while the front wheels weigh 245 pounds each. It has @ capacity of 700 gallons a minute. Mr. F, W. Weaver of the firm of W. T. and F. B. Weaver is at Washington Grove sperding a few days. Rev. David Wells, D. D., of Philadelphia is in town on a visit, stopping at 205 Q street. Miss Mamie Becker, the daughter of Dr. Charles Becker, is oy a visit to Washing- ton Grove. . There will be a masquerade ball Monday evening at Masonic Hall, on 324 street, given by the Bon Ton Dancing Academy. The evargelist, Rev. J.W. Wicker of Bal- timore, will conduct meetings every even- ing next week at the Gay Street Baptist Church, corner 3lst and N streets, ——>__ Rev. Dr. Keeling at Trinity. As announced in last week's Star, the Rev. Dr.-R. J. Keeling preached at Trinity Church last Sunday morning to a congre- gation which filled the auditorium to over- flowing, including very many who had been his parishioners when he was rector of Trinity, nearly thirty years ago. After the sermon, which was a most eloquent and forcible one, from the text, “One sow- eth, another reapeth,” a large number of his old friends and admirers waited upon | him in the chancel to present their re- Spects and congratulations. Dr. Keeling has been suffering from an affection of the eyes, and his appearance in the pulpit at Trinity last Sunday was the first for many months. He is slowly but surely recover- ing, and has been visiting friends and rela- tives at Harrtsburg and Washington. In this city he is the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Stilson Hutchins. Dr. Keeling will jeave for Harrisburg, Pe., Monday next. Sees The Lutheran Young People. A mass meeting of the recently organiz- ed Lutheran Young People’s Union of this city was held last evening in the Zion Lutheran Church, corner of 6th and P | streets, representatives from the several churches of the deromination being pros- ent. Mr. L. D. Alden, president of the union, presided, and, after a brief song service, led by Mr. M. E. May, introduced Rev. Paul Menzel, pastor of Concordia Church, who conducted the devotional ex- ercises. An address of welcome was de- livered by Rev. A. Homrighaus, pastur of Zion's, and Rev. J. C. Bowers of St. Mark’s spoke on the topic of the evening, “Our Young People.” Miss Elsie Ketiler and Miss Margie Bodwell read papers aypro- priate to the occasion, and talks were made by Dr. James W. Graham, Rev. C. H. But- ler and Rev. Dr. Domer. — The Death of Robert 0. Ixracl. The announcement of the death at Port- au-Prince, Haiti, on the 17th instant, of | Robert O. Israel caused deep sorrow to his many friends in this city. A few weeks | only had elapsed since he left his home for a business visit to the Island of Haiti, hi future bright with anticipated success Mr. Israel, who had just attained his forty- first year, was the son of the late Robert and Elizabeth McNeir Israel, and was a native of Washington, where his early life and manhood was passed. He filled many positions of trust in the District, and al- Most fifteen years ago he resigned a clerk- ship in the pension bureau to engage in active business in Philadelphia. Subse- quently he removed to Brooklyn. . a Mushrooms Plentiful. Mushrooms are unusuaily plentiful about the country just now, and the colored wo- men who gather them are reaping a har- vest. Low prices are being paid for them, however, because of the plentiful supply. This morning there was a glut of them in the market. and they sold as low as fifteen cents a quarter pock, “Even ladies and gentiemen on bievcles are gathering them now,” remarked one cf the old colored women, ‘who had them for “and I'se been lookin’ fur a piece in de paper "bout ‘em.’ ry. At the meeting of the Miles Cycle In- fantry this evening the main business of | the evening will be the election of a first lieutenant. The relay ride of the company will be held next Sunday and will be from this clty to Frederick. Capt. Wiggins was de- sirous of having the ride come off tomor- Tow, but some unforeseen events have ne- cessitated a postponement. The schedule for the ride has not been drawn up, but the distance will be divided into five-mile relays, and the men are expected to cover the distance in about three hours. No re- tura ride will be made. A message will be secured from either Gen. Miles or Gen. Ordway and delivered to the mayor of Frederick. A hitch has occurred in the process of organizing the bicycle band of the com- pany, and the scheme has been temporari- ly abandoned, the ten or more members secured for the purpose going into the ranks of the company. The equipments and other paraphernalia of the band could not be secured In the quartermaster’s de- partment and the company has not the funds on hand to purchase the same. A movement will probably be started later in the season toward raising funds for this purpose. a Washiagtom Road Club. The Washington Road Club is hustling preparations for the fair the latter part of February. The committee in charge is hard at work, though no definite results have as yet been reached. The regular meeting of the club will be held Wednesday evening at 1225 14th street, at which the renort of the fair committee will be submitted. During the absence of Capt. Wm. Jose from the city, Lieut. Joseph Prince is in charge of the club runs. Though no run has been called for tomorrow a short trip will in all probability be made in the fore- | noon. | Harry Greer, who has been in the moun- tains of West Virginia on a gunning trip, returned home during the week. A gold medal will be presented this after- noon to Master Leo Vogt, the fourtecn- year-old youth who made such a splendid showing In the recent twenty-mile open road race of the club. Though given the limit, he waseclearly cutclassed by all of | the other riders, but he pluckity kept on and finished the course. Several members of the club took up a collection among themselves and secured enough money to buy a gold medal, which will be presented to the youth as a memento of his ride. } ee Grain and Cotton Markets. Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., 1421 F | street, members New York stock exchange, correspondents Messrs. Ladenburg, Thal- mann & Co., New York. GRAIN. Open. ,High. Low. ‘Wheat—Dec. 81% RA 85% 2 =e BALTIMORE, November 28.—Fiour firm, unchang- | ed—receipts, 27,985 barrels; exports, none; sales, | 1,500 barrels. "Wheat firmer—spot,' O4avdig; De- | cember, wai May, 934 asked; steamer 2 red, 87% a: recetpts, 8,690 bushels; export: nomb; stock, 459,712 buslitls; sales, 23,000 bushels — southern wheat by sample, 94a95; do. on rade, 4%. Gorn firmer—spot, 29%230; month, 293, 820; November and December, new and olf, 2%3 29%; Jai > February, 80a30' er mized, 2bin20%—recelpts, 1 is ex- ports, 65,000” bushels; st L172,335 bushels; sales, 22.000 busbels—southern white and yellow | corn,” 20829, Gate firm demand fate_No. 2 white | Western, 25026; Ne 123-—recelpts, TB Tor" bushels: exports, IoiTS0 beshelse neck: | 1,762,714 bushels. strong and hizher—No. 3 | nearby, 43a¢4; weatern, 46347—receipts, 7.098 bush- els; stock, 145,639 bushels. Hay ras —choice timothy, $13-Soasii.o0, Grain aes ve qui unchanged. Sugar itter steady, tochanged” Fae, weak, unchanged. Cheese firm, unchanged. ‘unchanged. | disappointed holders have sold out to aw j above legal requirements. | Trust, 119 tia, | asked. [FINANCE AND TRADE couraging Influence, DUE 70 PROFESSIONAL ONESIDEDNESS Increase in Loans Shown by the Bank Statement. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS ———— ee Specta? Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, November 28.—The nar- rowness which has characterized the week's operations in the stock market was es- pecially emphasized in today’s short ses- sion. Disappointing trade reports and the reaction in the fron market discouraged confidence in an immediate business re- vival. Conditions may not have been sig- nificantly improved so far as immediate re- sults ere concerned, but pessimism is held well in check by assurances of “future prosperity. The market yields from day to day as the result of its professional onesidedness. No significant buying has been noticed dur- ing the last few days, and here and ther the termiration of the crumbling move mem. Profits have accrued to the original sellers, and a covering of outstanding con- tracts may be undertaken at any moment Fresent indications are that such a move ment will be entirely voluntary, as no & eral disposition to force it is apparent The actual or assumed fear of Congr will, in all likelihood, be utilized the coming week to reduce short account. The idl operators and the scarcity of speculative enterprises are not the of indifference on the part of interesis capable of defeating the designs of the room. These interests in many tistances are committed to neither unt and are consequently prepared for aciive partici- pation m the market the momen? the out- look becomes propitious. If the Cuban question is commented up- on in a manner suggestive of no new In- ternational complications, the President's message will be accepted as an incentive to improvement. Improvement in values may be delaye for an indefinite period, but that fluctua- tions are likely to be widest im the direc- tion of added market values, Burlington's report of earnings for the month of October reflects en increase in gross <f $104,651, and an increase in sur- plus of the charges of $20; This showing was construed unfavorably and was followed vy a decline of 1 per cent in the price of the stock. Lacloie Gas was again a feature, opening down Iz per cent, selling down i per cent further | and recovering on the liquidation of shor: contracts to a point % per cent in advance of yesterday's final figures. The expected decision against the com- pany fully explains the movement. The general list Icst a few fractions for the day and closed without indication of a change in general conditions. The banks have gained $5,690,000 in law- ful money during the week, and have add d $8,895,000 to their loans. Deposits have Deen increased $14,239,000, necessitating an increase of $3.554,000 in the reserve, leay- ing $2,816,000 to be applied to the surplus The latter _re- serve fund is increased to $31,411,625. The demand for money, as the increase in loans indicates, is for purposes not identified with Wall strect’s operation en FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. ‘The following are the opening.the highest and the lowest and the closing prices of the New York stock market today, as ~eported by Corron & Macartney, members New York stock exchange. "Correspondents, Messrs. Moore & Schley. No. 80 Broadway. Open. High. Low. Chose. 12y Big bts "4 American Spirns... Americau Sugar. American Sugar, Pf American Tobacco. Canada Pacific. ‘Chesapeake & Ohio. C. C. CL & St. Louis Chicago, B. &Q.. Chicago & North western Delaware & Hudson, Den. & Rio Grande, Pra. Erie General idiectric. iMinois Central Laclide Gus. Lake Shore. Lousville & Nashville. Metropolitan Traction. Manhattan Elevated. Michigan Central Missouri Pacific. w York Central. jorthern Pacific. Northern Pacific, North American. Ont. & Western Paliman ?. ©. Co. Southern Ity., Prd Phita. Traction. Texas Pacific. ‘Tenn. Coal and iron. Union Pacific... Wabash, Pfa. 5 Wheeling & L. Erie... Wheeling& L. Eric,Pfd. Western Union Tel..... Washington Gas, : mat 0%: 2 at 4 im. Alberican Graphophone mh Carriage ar fund Gs, gold, 110 bid. Water © + 110 id! Water stock Ts, 1 3.958, funding, eurroncy Misectianeous Bongs. Metropolitan Railra 107 Md. 112 akked. Metropolitan Reflrosd «x 116 bid, 120 asked. | Merman cates of Sndetstedns asked. : n Gas Compeny is, werios A. Washington Gas Compavy Gs. : Chesapeake and Potomac Fi awd ‘Trust fx, jean Security |. Atmerteran Security and Trust Ss, A. and 0., bid. Washington Mark, Ast Gs, 1s aa” inp. Gs,” 16s mpany ext. Gs, His 108 bid, J. Metropol anid ie 4t and Trust Compantes,— id Trost, 110 bid. Washington Laan ated avked.” American Securl Trust, 136 bid, 142 asked. ~ Wa: posit, 50 bid. Railroad | Stocks.—Capltal ‘Traction id, 56 asked. Metropolitan, *Mi bid, 1 Columbia, 50 bid. and Electric Light Stoc Depostt ‘ashington ( 4014 Did, 46% asked. Georgetown Gas, 40 Wid. € 8. Electric Light, 90 bid, #9 asked. Insurance St Firemen’s, 3 nklin, bid. Metropolitan, €5 bid an, 0 id. Arlington, . 140 asked. rnan-American, 150 bid. 4, 14 asked. Columbia, 12 bhi, 14 aske 1% Si anked. Feaple's, 54 bid. 6 Lincoln,” 3° bid, 9 asked. Commercial, “41 2h ask ‘Fitie Insurance Stocks.—Real Estate Title, qtulombia, Tit ington Title, Giy i fceyoue Stocks, Pe peake and Potomac, 58 bid. Ameri Phane, 8 wad, |B akira. “American |G referred, SY Wd, Tl ase uur ti E mid, 45 anked, Fluge, 17 Miscellaneous Stocks.—Mergeuthaler Linotype, 130 Did, 122% asked. Lanston Monutspe, asked. Washington Market, 10 Wid. « Ice, 122 bid, 165 asked. Norfolk and Was Steamboat, 100 asked. Lincoln Hall, 00 asked. *Bx. diy. National Unik a. bid, 115 Si asked. Wash- —_———— Government Bonds. Quotations reported by Corson & Macart- ney, bankers. 2 per cents, registered... per cents, registered of 1907. on of 1925. tered of 1025. regixtered of 1908. per cents of 1807 per cents of 189s per cents of 1899. Asked. i103 110) 120 120 113) 113: