Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1896, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1896-10 PAGES, WO Roses Secs | Storage, 224 and M. F st., cor. 11th. Everything we sell bears the stamp of perfect workmanship and finish. Getting Ready For New Year’s. —We'lll start off with Parlor Fur- niture. Give you a chance to buy what pieces you feel that you need before that New Year's reception at prices that'll save you money. Lots here we want to clean out and we'll give you the benefit of it. Arm Chair, in mabogany fin- han marquetry, upholstered $15.75 in damask. e aes terse: $1475 $14 Side Chair to mateh $9.70 Vignteh, carved back, upnointered in damask... ss $10.80 $13.50 Mahogany-finish Star Mar- quetry Reception Chat - c aa sages » $8.50 ask.. $10 Reception Chair, in mahogany $6.75 finish...... $25 S-plece Mahogany-fiaish Re- go. —- ception Suite, in tapestry. ....- $15.75 $37.50 3-plece Mahogany-finish Reception Suite, in damask... $28.00 it W. B. MOSES & SONS. THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS’ PLAN@A RRA DAO LAAAEANERAS EASE ODEO SOE. > For Engraved Plate and 50 Cards! This offer for MONDAY ONLY. SELES 22 Nothing like this price Las wer The very cheapest work hus ever been ° from $1 We emphasize goes fizure— ER, PELPOHID HA AEDS YOO OOOO OH POIPPES OSS SI PPOPS SOOO LIP OE POMP DIION LAMEN ever grown them. They last to $3 cach. ASSORTMENT OF them and be con- v a PLANTS IN virs ed. Ora es. Ardisias, Aranearias, be et, apything you can expect Fine Roses. Lily of the Valley, Violets, ete. et at reasonable MISTLETOE. a1 CHRISTMAS 7 J. R. Freeman, 612 13th N.W. 1740. n06-3mn.28 CF Open evenings and hi Xmas for late SHOES. No finer or mo ctory Shoes exist Wilson's. The more you appreciate nd, comfort the better you will lke them. The art of the best workmen is plainly evident tn their making—the quality coulda’t be improved upon. $3.50 and $5 @ pair. EA pair of our Slippers would be appre- lated mnch more than come useless trinket. Shors made to your measure for $5 that are pre-eminently the best made! “Fine WILSON, -.z:. 929 F Street. 023-404 RAILROAD SITUATION The Plates Included in the Commis- sioners’ Report. GRADE CROSSINGS ON B & 0 Engineer Pelz Discusses the One! Viaduct Plan. DIFFERENCE IN Cost > The citizens and property owners along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in this etty are watching with anxious eyes the progress of the legislation which is to relieve them of grade crosings. In the report of the Commissioners upon the bill, heretofore printed in The Star, reference was made to several plates ac- companying the report. The Star presents herewith two cuts explaining the railroad situation. Plate 1 shows the lines for elevated tracks running over two viaducts, in ac- cordance with the provisions of Senate bill 2809. The bill, however, mentions no par- ticular location for passenger and freight stations, and the ore shown here was THE RAILROAD street t. Delaware avenue. Any system of track elevation that crosses streets in one direction is suitable, but one that diag- onally crosses both north and south and east and west streets is decidedly objec- tlonable, as it is a two-fold damage to prop- erty. Again, the plan proposed for the head heuse. j.e., waiting rooms, offices, ete., contemplates vasting a large area of the block on which said head house is lo- cated. Massachusetts avenue is arched over for 500 feet; Delaware avenue be- comes virtually railroad property, as the tracks are placed in the center thereof, and sidings are apt to be strung out for its entire length on both sides. By consulting the plate, which shows a profile of the Une, it will be seen that the elevation of tracks in train shed will be forty-six feet. This level is necessary in order to carry North Capitol street under with a fair grade. Therefore, the train platform level will be twenty-eight feet higher than the corner of New Jersey avenue and D street ard fifteen. feet higher than the corner of New Jersey avenue and C street. At once It becomes apparent that passengers will be obliged to ascend steps, in height vary- ing between fcurteen and twenty feet, to reach the level of train platform. Following the Ine of what is known as the Washington branch to a point where a depressed track must eventually replace the one now in use, we find that an aver- age grade of 0.6 per cent rise is needed to cross Florida avenue with a viaduct. Here a slight level grade occurs; then a 0.9 per cent down, to reach the depressed tracks just mentioned, so as to give 13th street extended a crossing by means of a bridge. From this point all streets are to be car- ried over until the District of Columbia boundary line is reached. One Viadnct. The plan, however, which meets with the approval of the Commissioners, and the one which they would like to see adopted, is shown in plate 2, printed herewith. This is generally known as the “one viaduct scheme.” In commenting upon this plan, Engineer Pelz says: “This pre- sents a plan for entering the city by means of one viaduct, and the placing of terminal between Delaware avenue and North Capi- tol str This plan proposes the widen- ing of C street from 80 feet to 105 feet, the entire widening to be made on the north side thereof, and extending from Delaware avenue to New Jersey avenu station to front on C street anc tol street, and train shed along De re avenue. Freight shed to be on North Capi. tol street and extend northward as far as E street. Massachusetts avenue to be arched for 250 feet. No streets to be closed. Tracks in train shed of sufficient length to accommodate trains from 600 to 800 feet long. Freight tracks may be ten in num- ber, and of such length as to be entirely available. The storage tracks for passen- G street to Florida avenue, 4- track viaduct. Difference in favor of the plan shown by plate 3. . 4,050 feet Plate 1: G pies end of depot tracks.. 2,110 feet Plate 2: G street to end of depot tracks.. 1,870 feet Difference in favor of plan shown by plate 2...............+0+ + 240 feet Total difference in favor of plan shown by plate 2... 4,290 feet “The amount of grading necessary to make an open cut along P street would be about 500,000 cubic yards. To build a fiat- roofed tunnel along said Hine, in connection with lines, as proposed by plate 2, would be cheaper by at least $500,000 than the routes proposed by plate 1. The cost of maintenance of the two.viaducts, as com- Pared with one, would be quite a consider- ble item. “In the plan shown on plate 2 the only property of.any consequence that the rail- road“ company would have to purchase would be block 683, and that block 682 would be relinquished for railroad pur- poses, but could be used to great advantage for the building of large hotel or for stores. North Capitol street would be free from any tracks, Delaware avenue would have a continuous roadway, uninterrupted, in its proper location, and I street and streets ad- jacent thereto would once more rise to the ignity and value that their location de- ands.” ao ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS Christmas Observed in all the Ohurches in the Ancient Town. Various Minor Happenings During the Holiday Season in the Trans- Potomac City. ‘The Christmas congregations In the vari- ous Catholic churches this morning were larger than usual, and the music, a pro- gram of which has been published in The Star, was especially pretty and well ren- dered. At St. Paul's Rev. P. P. Phillips preached; -at Christ Church, Rev. Berry- man Green, and at Grace Church, Rev. C. E. Ball. There was a, celebration of the Holy Eucharist at Grace Church at 6:30, Rev. C. E. Bali, celebant. At St. Mary’s Roman Catholie Church mass was said at ) a.m. and gain at 9:30, Rev. Father Ernis of Georgetown, celebrant; Rev. Father Bowen, ,deacon, and Rev. Father McCarthy, subdeacon. Sunday morning the Xmas muste will be repeated at Christ, Grace and St. Paul's churches, and the fol- lowing program will be rendered in the Baptist and Methodist Episcopal Church South. i Baptist Charch. Voluntary, Sing, O, Heaven, Danks; offer- tory, Bending O’er a Cradle Low, solo, Ed- vtardo Marzo; voluntary, Arise! Shine! Mur- tay. Evening+Voluntary, Break Forth In- to Joy, Danks; offertory, O, Holy Night, solo, Adolph Adams; voluntary, And There Were Shepherds, Danks; sopranos, Mrs. H. K. Field, Mrs. Thos. Ballenger, Misses Ef- fie and Annie Tyler, Lucy Graves, Mamie Williamson, Katie Leef and Cora Thomp- DOUBLE VIADUCT PLAN. iw |. | It's really Ike patting money on tn- I terest when you put electric lights all tl || over your house, because should you i ever desire to rent or sell, you'd be le to make better terms’ than. yo would otherwise’ See us about suppl 1 ing the current—It"ll not cost as muc S you think! U.S. Electric Lighting Co., 3 1sth "Phone de18-20d LD FOL ate useful yifts, By presenting them with a set of Georges’ Bunicn or Corn Shields you ma e them hapyy at ttle cost Prot. J. J. GEORGES & SON, Foot Specialists, 1115 Pa. ave. S$ a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, 9 to 1. d022-8i 3 table should be f Angostura Bitters, the world- tizer of exquisite flavor.” Beware of HER £20,000 CHANDELIER. An Hetress Discovers the Expensive- ness of a Title. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. It is all very well for an heiress to wed @ title, but it is sometimes better for her to inquire into the gentleman's character beforehand, if a couple of stories from Paris are true. A rich English girl who had married a French nobleman was show- ing @ friend through her magnificent hotel, and called her attention to the beautiful chandelier in the drawing room. The friend did not show much enthusiasm, and the bride said “Well, you don’t seer: to say much about $2),000 chandelier?” wenty thousand? a polite laugh. er high? Tha to me for $11 The bride went to the shop and indignant- ly remonstrated at being cheated. The dealer interrupted her to ask if the chan- lelier had not been sold to her husband. It had been. “You gave him $20,000 to pay for it, did you not?” asked the dealer. “We offered it to him for $11,000, and he beat us down to $19,000. ‘That's all we got. Ask him for the recetpt—he has probably lost it.” The same bride received a handsome peari necklace from her husband as a birth- day present, and, although she knew she would have to pay for it, as the allowance e made him was not sufficient to pay for h an expensive present, she was pleased at the attention. The bill came, and it was for $8,000, She remonstrated with the jew- eler, saying that it was too much for two strings of pearls. “Five strings, madam,” said the jeweler. “Here are our books. ‘The necklace con- tained five strings when we sold it to your busband.” She paid the bill and went home to her two surings. m said the friend, with “Isn't that piling it up rath- very chandelier was offered ”"? Word comes from all quarters that the neatest aod most satisfactory dye for the heard a brown ‘or black is Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers. st! ‘Jwreacirot compiled and drawn from a photograph of a modei for the proposed terminal, made by the railroad company. It will be noticed at a glance that the above plan gives great length of tracks, in fact, more than is re- quired for tracks which are in constant use. The length of the tracks entering the freight shed is 1,000 feet, and eight tracks are shown. This gives in all 8,000 feet of track, of which about 5,000 feet are avail- able for loading and unloading purposes. The tracks as shown between the two sheds are believed to be intended for stor- ing passenger coaches, and are believed to be too lengthy for the purpose. The District engineer, Mr. Carl E. Pelz, who made a special study of the situation, anl upon whose report that of the Commic- sloners was based. believes that the pas- senger train shed fs of too great length, having as much as 700 feet of tracks under shelter and about 400 feet clear length of track outside, of which 300 feet or there- abouts will be a waste, as trains in this vicinity are seldom if ever longer than S00 feet. Engineer Pelz's Report. Continuing his report Engineer Pelz say These are minor considerations, however, as compared with the peculiar location of the two main buildings, namely, the pas- senger and freight sheds. ‘These are shown to be placed over North Capitol street, and are, indeed, a serious f1ult and would hard- ly be in harmony with the improvements which are taking place in the District of Columbia. North Capitol street is des- tined to be one of much beauty and of great importance as an: outlet to the coun- try immediately north of the city. To build tall structures across this street would be quite #s absurd as buiiding them across New Jersey avenue or Maryland avenue east. ‘The main or passenger shed would hard- ly be less than sixty feet in height from the level of rail, and the rail must be at least twenty feet from the street grade. In other words, a structure eighty feet in height would be built across the entire width of one of the principal thoroughfares of the city. This , Moreover, contem- plates the ciosing of D street from New Jersey avenue to Delaware avenue, and the clcsing of E street from North Capitol ' ger coaches to be in front of and in line with the main tracks in shed; this is con- sidered by many authorities to be a very advantageous plan. Only D_ street has buildings across it, a fact which is unim- portant. as said street is but 70 feet wide. Again, this plan provides for the entering and departing of travelers to and from C street at grade. The proposed height of train floor is 50 feet; the height of the curb at the corner of Delaware avenue and C street is 57 feet; and the height at the cor- ner of North Capitol and © streets is 47 feet. This last named corner will be the principal entrance to station. In other words, allowing for the amount of rise on € strect, the main door would be exactly on grade with the sidewalk. The freight shed may be 22 feet above the street grade. The viaduct leading from the depot to be placed on the west side of Delaware avenue, abutting against the property line, and leaving enough width for a sidewalk be- tween viaduct and roadway. The diverging point of the branches is to occur imme- diately north of Florida avenue, and the Washington or Baltimore branch is to fol- low in the center line of P street extended until the present line is reached. The Met- ropolitan branch is to follow the projection of the tracks on Delaware avenue to inter- sect with present line. A connecting ‘Y’ is to be placed between the two lines, and located on an elevated structure, as shown in this plate. “Another plate not printed here shows a profile of this line. The 8 per cent grade necessitates the lowering of L street about four feet, M street about three feet, and Florida avenue about two feet. N street is not graded at its intersection. The number of houses along the west side of Delaware avenue is limited and are almost entirely frame structures. The advantage of hav- ing the viaduct on one side of the avenue is that all sidings will be upon one side only, and they will not mar the appearance of the street. The extension of Delaware avenue or what is now Brentwood road is crossed by the viaduct, and from here the grade will descend by a 5 per cent grade, cutting through a hill a distance of 4,000 feet, the same to be left either as an open cut or flat-roofed tunnel. “From there the old line is reached by an easy curve, and the depressed system is followed, as mentioned in discussion of plate 2. The stars on plates 1 and 2 show the common point of the routes of the two plans. The distance from terminal to com- mon point by plate 1 is 10,000 feet; from terminal to common point by plate 2, 10,- 800 feet. This latter amount provides for both branches to the city limits, whereas the former plan entails the additional via- duct along laware avenue, amounting to 8,150 feet; or, in other words, plate 1 will involve 13,150 feet of line as compared with 10,800 feet, as shown by plate 2. Comparison of Lengths, “To compare the lengths of viaducts; in Weshington, of the two plans we will com- mence at a point just clear of both termi- nals, for instance, the center of G street. Plate 1; G@ street to Florida avenue (W- Br.) 4-track viaduct. eevee Near H street to Florida avenue (Met. Br.) 4-track viaduct. 4,380 feet son; altos, Mrs. Edward Nalls, Mrs. Rus- sell Wilkinson, Mrs. Charles Adams, Mrs. O. F. Baggett, Miss Frankie Chase; tenors, Messrs. P. H. Dempsey and D. M. Steers; bassos, Messrs. Wm. Owens, Henry Hun- ter and Russell Wilkinson; organist, Mr. Wm. H. Starnell. In adition to the organ, an orchestra will render the instrumental mesic. M. E. Chureh South. Morning—The Gloria from Mozart's twelfth mass and The Holy Babe of Beth- lehem, by H. P. Danks, Evening—Tha Sing, O, Heavens, by Ber- thold Tours, and The Angels’ Message, by J. B. Herbert. Choir—Sopranos, Misses Re- beccca Pollard, Edith and Madge Graham, Anna Summers, Mrs. Tubman and Mrs. Wareld; altos, Misses Virginia Driscoll, Lu- la Cockey, Mary: Williams and Mrs. Mc- Arthur; basso, Messrs. Pollard, Gaines and Wright: terioa' Neth: erland, Anderson and Powell; director, Henry K. Field; organist, Miss Alice E. Thomas. A Qatet Day. The day generally has been a quiet one and but little disorder has been noticed. THe small boy, with his tin horn and pop crackers, has been very much in evidence, but as Christmas comes but once a year it is very cheerfuY to ‘hear so much noise and racket, Third Regiment Dram Corps, There was a ‘¢all#d meeting of the Third Regiment Drum Corps in their rooms last night, at which important business was transacted. At an/early hou: - ing the corps paraded the atresia cin martial music t awake the late sleepers. Sunday Seheol Celebrations. The Sunday ‘‘schbols of St. Paul's and Christ Churchés had their Christmas cele- brations late yesterday afternoon. Both were largely attended, and the Christmas carols were extremely pretty. The scholars were treated to nuts, raisins, candy, &c. The children ;o9f Grace Church Sunday school will hawe their celebration Monday night next. The Sécond Presbyteria: Baptist, the Southern “Methodist one the Methodist Protestant will celebrate on Tuesday evening and Trinity and the Lee Street Chapel on Wednesday evening next. “The City’s Conncil. The inmates of the city jail were not for- gotten Ly the jailer, Capt. “Billy” smith, today. A splendid dinner, consisting of turkey, with cranberry sauce, chicken, ham, celery, bread, butter, coffee, ‘Bu raisins and candy, was served up, and “topped' off” with a fine cigar... ‘The Alexandris ‘Times, which has recent- ly come out in favor of wiping the gam- pathy with the tough element, who seem to control the county legal machinery. A prominent county man said this morn- Ing to a Star reporter: “I am glad to see that one at least of the Alexandria papers has decided to come out against this Alex- acdria county jawlessness and join in a po- sition which The Star has so ably sustained and aided to such a large extent.” ‘ Notes. Alexandria Council, Junior Order of American Mechanics, held their regular weekly meeting last night. Routine busi- ness was transacted. The Christmas german of the Alexandria German Club will be given tonight. D. J. Howell has gone to Charlestown, W. Va., to spend the holidays. The December term of the Alexandria county court will convene Monday. ———__ DEAD ONE DAY. Edwin Bodenheimer Awoke While Lying a Vat of Ice Water. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. Edwin Bodenheimer is one of the very few men who have apparently died, spent a night on a cold marble slab in a morgue and then have risen from the uncomforta- ble and uncanny couch to tell of his ex- Ferience. He has been in Louisville for a week and has been the occasion of much merriment and not a little wonder to his friends. Bodenheimer is a little, thin man who suffers from indigestion and frequently has spasms. Last summer he was in Louisville with his wife, Gertie Reynolds, who danced at the Bijou Theater. After remaining here for a week, he started west, intending to go to Kansas City, where he expected to transact some business. His wife, knowing that he was in danger of being attacked by spasms at any time, and that he quickly lost consciousness when in one of the nar- oxysms, wrote a note something like this: If anything happens to me, please com- municate at once with my wife at — —-, New York. She slipped the note into her husband's pocket and he started west. He visited Chicago, and then went to St. Joseph, Mo. On his way from St. Joseph to Kansas City he was seized with a fit of coughing and then fell forward apparently dead. When the train reached Kansas City, phy sicians were called and examined Boden- heimer. They pronounced him dead. He Was removed to the city morgue and his wife was telegraphed to according to the instructions in the note. At the morgue he Was treated like any dead man would be. He was stripped and laid on a marble slab and a stream of water turned on him. He lay, amid his frightful surroundings, the whole of an afternoon and all night in a pool of water. The next day he awoke. It was early in the morning and the sun had just begun to steal through the half-closed shutters, showing the attendants dimly. He shivered and sat up. He didn’t have to rub his eyes. He was painfully awake in an instant. “What am I doing here?” he asked in a veak, frightened voice. All the attendants looked at him. “Grzat_ snakes!” they yelled, and then six men fell over each other in their efforts to get through a door made for two. Bodenheimer looked around him and saw a dozen or more white and black bodies jying on long, white marble slabs. Startled and horrified to find himself surrounded on all sides by death, chilled to the verge of the grave by the pool of water he found himself lying in, he at once lost conscious- ness again and sank back apparently life- less. But the attendants had carried their tale of ghosts and hobgoblins to the physicians 4t the morgue, and a hasty examination was made. They found Rodenheimer's Tulse beating. He was quickly conveyed to a hospital, where he hovered between life and death for a month. He is now en- joying his usual health. He said yesterday: “The time between my spell of coughing on the train and the awakening the next day is a blank to me. 1 knew nothing of my terrifying position until I awoke the next morning and found @ corpse so near me that I could touch ‘t with my hand. If resurrection day is any- thing like it, I don’t want to hear the resurrection trumpet.”” Mr. Bodenheimer left last night for New York. 7° “PARSON JIM. In the Little Dugout He Told the Boys Why He Came Out West. From the New York World. It was the season of the year in Texas when the cattle are rounding up to be driven north for better grazing. The cow- boys had just finished supper, and sat around their little dugout swapping lies. Gradually the conversation turned on the motives which had prompted the different members of the group to go west. They all told of the more or less discreditable causes for their migration, with the excep- tion of a rather taciturn but generally popular fellow who was known as “Parson Jim,” because of the clerical cut of the at- tire which he universally affected. “Why did you come west, queried Swamp-angel Sam. “Well,” drawled out the individual ad- dressed. “I left the east because I didn't build a church.” Everybody smiled at what was considered the drollery of the parson, who, not notic- ing the merriment ich he had created, continued: “It ws this way. We used to hold meet- ings in the district school house in Massa- chusetts and I did the preaching. The lit- tle flock grew, and it was decided to build a small church. The funds, as they were collected, were put into my hands for safe- keeping.” He paused. “That's why I came west.” Parson?” —_—_———_e-_____ Written for The Evening Star. The Phantom Flower. ‘Twas winter, and a Uttle girl Of four short years stood guzing where The snowflakes danced In wildering whirl ‘Their gay cotillons in the air Aud rested om the branches bare. ‘Then rang sweet childish shouts of glee, With fair face pressed against the pane, And capering feet, “O, Mamma, see! ‘The tpple blossoms come again We lost Iast summer in the rain!” ~_ y, dearest, those white tufts are snow,” ently the mother’s voice replies; Would you learn where the blossoms go? Where safely sheltered softly lies The ghost of every one that dies? “Through this great apple, ripe and nice, Watch bow the blade I quickly send To cut just wafer-wide a rlice Across the core—rou comprehend— Betwixt the stem and blossom-end! “Now to the light hold up the fine Teed-veined, translucent, filmy round! Look in the midst! Ah, daughter mine, ‘What wondrous treasure have you found? ‘The blossom you deemed underground!” —BESSIE B, CROFFUT. —_ —_ : Responsibility for Selling Liquor. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. After tigation extending over a period of five years, the widow of Andrew Bell, who was drowned in Fox river at Yorkville, UL, in 1891, while in an alleged state of in- toxtcation, has finally succeeded in secur- ing judgment as a result of a damage suit which she brought against Jacob Helmuth, the saloon keeper who sold her husband the liquor. Mrs. Bell received a verdict of $6,- 000 in the court of Kendall county egainst Helmuth, who In the meantime had dis- csed of his business and left his bondsmen i the lurch, Proceedings Were then insti- tuted against the bondsmen, when Freder- ick Shoemaker, the only one owning prop- erty, transferred everything to his wife to avoid execution. Mrs. Bell’s attorneys. fpereupop igs to set ane Phage tenons as |, and this case lercely con- seater s — first oe going to both the appel and supreme courts. The points made by Mr. Herrington, attorney for Mrs. Bell, were finatly affirmed by the courts, has been advertised for sale to satisfy the judg- amount of his bond. The case is for the New Year. & Good Thing . The beginning of the year is 8 good time | to start a year’s subscription to the Satur- SUBURBAN NEWS ANACOSTIA, ‘The vesual Christmas eve entertainment given last night to the patients of St. Eliza- i § Ff H i re from a list, which com musical instruments of the SE ag oF eitain t wr of t ing the tres was rintent- ed by aie. Godding,. wife of the superintendent, and Dr. A. H. Witmer, aesistant medical super- Intendent. and it is said’that there was not one of the nearly 1,900 patients who failed to receive & present of some kicd, either from those detailed the tles of nature or from other sources. At conclusion of th» distribution of presents danc- ing was indulged in for an hour or two, after filed, refreshments were served in the main din- room to several hundred of the a ur attendant patients and carly mass this at St. Teresa's Catholic Church was attended te a Very large con- regation, and the t vale was of ‘a oner. A feature, which was ‘ve jeasing to all who heant the singing and which had neves before been tied in Anacostia, was the carrying out of a suggestion by Rey. Futher Sullivan, that the solo portions of the Adeste Fidelis should be sung by ‘a in the chotr gallery, and the response placed in the basement of the church. The cel brant of the mass was Rev. M. P. Sullivan, who Was assisted by Rev. A. 0. Beavan and others, many Is of Rev. Mr. Beavan, who was Gfitined to the priesthood about a week ago” in Baltimore by Cardinal Gibbons, and who was born and raised in Anacostia, will be glad to learn the fact now, for the first time made publicly known, that the young priest hus been appointed by the cardinal assistant pastor of the Church of the Im- meculate Conception, Washington. Father Beavan has been for some days the guest of relatives amd friends in Anacostia, by whom he Is esteem, and who have given several hector, ‘one of which wae attended priests of the archdiocese. The weval Christmas services at those of the Protestant churches in Anacostia at which the event wus observed in that mauner were well tended, and the music rendered was in every way appropriate to the Joyous occasion. ‘The semi-annual election of officers of t People’ ¥ of Christian Endeavor o Memorial Church will, It Is expected, take place early next month. If is understood ‘that during he society has had a healthy growth fairs have been prosperous, AI the officers have, it is said, given so much satixfacti that they would, did'not the constitution dire otherwise, be honored with re-election, but as cannot in’ most instances be done legally, a co mittee appointed for the purpose will select. the hames of those who are to be voted for for the respective positions. The action of the committee in this regard is generally accepted as final. thoug the society may subtitute other names when th> report is made, If the members are so disposed, and it is expected tl1s course will be followed in the coming instance. A nunber of the very poor people of Anacostia were tcday remembered with the gifts of nice, large baskets of provisions by various members of the different churches, who mrke a practice of remembering in this Way, at least annually, some of those who are less favored with this world’s goods. Miss ‘Theda North of Anacostia has been elected e noble commander of Golden Commandery. No. 712, United Order of the Golden Cross of Wash- ington. Mrs. Fentress, formerly of Washington, who re- crutly removed’ to Avalon Terrace, Anacostia, 1s ntation at the Masonic Hall =a will, it is understood, be assisted by the Marine Band. The event wil! ir is expected, take place some time in Mr. Rezin Forrest, who bas been in since last May on business, has ret his home, on the Bowen road, where he expects 10 naucin for some time. ‘The children of the German Orphan Asylum, on Harrison street exterded. will have their usual Christmas entertainment during the present holl- days. Mr. George Holmes of Landover, who has been serfously fll for some time, is believed to be con- valescent. A number of the residents of Oxon HIll have de- termined to form a Good Templar lodge, and a meting for the purpose of organization will be held ina few evenings. who recently resigned the Mr. Frank Mayberry Postmastership at Aniwick, has removed to Ana- costia, Mr. Mayberry was succeeded In office by Mr. George W. Brovn. The Sunday school of Mount Oak will have their annual celebration next week, when a cantata, entitied “The Crownlag of the New Year,” will be re Charles Murphy, the driver on the Anacostia car line who was assaulted by two men, who boarded Ms car late Tucsday night while pissing along G street southeast, in the city, is rapidly recovering. He har not ax ‘yet been able to furnish any clue as to t identity of bis assailants, a BROOKLAND. ‘The Christmas exercises of the second, third, fourth and fifth grades at the Woodburn School, the combined charges of Miss Minnie Compton and Mr. Webster, were exceptionally good. They opened with Bible reading by Dallas Martin and a prayer by the school, after which followed songs by the schools and recitations by the pupils, which were thoroughly enjoyed. Among those who took part were Edna Russel, Bertha King, Nellie Powell, Stanley Rumbough, Andrew Hammond, Coleman Cockerelle, Bell Murphy, Mary Donally, Wright Rumbough, Wallace Lamond, Mildred Langley, Mary Hancock, Jennie Morton, Mary Burk, Emma Jenkins and Gertrude Brown. ‘At the conclusion of thig program candy and toys Were distributed by Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus, impersonated by Amy Langley and Louis Anderson. The Woodbury School now has the piano for which is has been striving for some time, and it was used for the first time at the Christmas exercises, The numbers which deserve special mention in Miss H. E. King’s room were the vocal solo, “The Three Wishes,” by Leo Russell, and "J and Willie's Pra} a recitation, by’ Nellie King. Mr. Jobn, Carr. a student of Georgetown College, is spending the Christmas holidays with Mr. Thos. Crook. ‘The M. S, C. Club of Chillum will give a dance at the Brookland Hall next week. Se KENSINGTO: Rev. and Mrs. Robert M. Moore have been called to Baltimore by the death of Mrs. Moore's grand- mother. They will probably be absent till early in the new year. A cordial invitation is extended to the people of Kensington ard vicinity to witness the annual Christmas entertainment of the St. Paul's M. E. Sunday school, which will be beld in the town ball tomorrow evening at 7:30. Candies for the little scholars and books for the older ones have been provided. Several instrumental, and vocal solos have been provided for, while the main feature of the evening will be Murray's stereopt jew the Suoly Land and cence te Ge Titer eacare Miss Annie Warner is at home for the holidays. Miss Margie Hart is quite sick with tonsilitis, For an hour and a half last Saturday evening Rey. Robert Nourse amused and interested the audience gathered in the town hall to hear his celebrated lecture, ‘John and Jonathan.” The lecturer would change in an instant from a mirth- provoking anecdote to a story which brougiit tears to the eyes of the listeners, then as quickly back again, now showing the laughable ce of John ‘concerning Jonathan, now enjoining the peace and mutual reverence which sbould exist, betwecs the two. Dr. Nourse's discourse was bright, pithy and, above ail, impartial, and it well merited the hearty applause given by’an appreciative andience. —__ : HYATTSVILLE. A very Interesting mecting of the Tuesday Clab was held on the evening of the 221 at the bome of Mr. and Mrs, Jnckson H. Ralston. Mr. McDevitt read an essay on Lord Bacon, dwelling at length upon bis moral terpitude and Mterary greatness. ‘Mrs. H. W. Gore read an essay on Sir Walter Raleigh, and was followed by Miss Rathborne, who guve a selecticn from Raleigh's works. *“Phe Lie,” ‘one of Raleigh's poems, was recited by Mr. A. H. Hollen, A committee consisting of Miss Fuller and Misses Nellie and Lottie Fenwick was ap- Pointed to arrange the program for the next mect- ing, which will take place at the home of Mr. aud SHAKERS AND DOCTORS TALK TOGETHER. In his able work, entitled “Lengevity,”” published & few years ago, Dr. Jolin Garducr of Encinnd pre- | Gicts that a vegetable agent will yet be found that shall so retard those changes that bring about 01d age as to prolong buman life much beyond tte present Limit. Acting, perhaps, upon the impulse produced by this thought, many emivent physicians have called from time to time upon the Shakers of Mi. Leba- Ron to inquire of them concerning the secrets of medicinal plants, in which these sincere, simple- { minded and God-fearing people are ku to be Wise and skillful Leyond all other men, ‘The Shakers willingly told what they bad learned, and im return received from thelr visitors much Valuable information about disease, whit they at once made practical use of. The most impartanc Foint was that if a genuine and certain remedy could be foand for indigesticn and dyspepsia, and the ailments growing out of it, a long step would be taken im the right direction. OM age, enid these physicians, begins in a failure of the diges tom, and so do most disnases at any and all periods of life. Th. resnit of *hese consult: ations: was the discovery Uy the Shakers of the desired ‘specific, made wholly from herbs, and vow known as the Shaker Digestive Cordial. magical and worthy of tts origin. Where there is distress after eatiag, be: Sick headache, bad taste in the mouth, Wil) ‘weakness and weariness, cold hands and feet, ave sion to food, nervousness, or any other eymptom of dyspepsia, the Cordial will prove its tues. Bebing it is the rej Ite action is curative vir tation of a people who have never defrauded or deceived Qi: fellow men, In order to test whetber this remedy is adapted to your case, ut practically no cost, you many pro- cure @ trial bottle fer ten cents of almost any druggi leat week at the Rome of Mrs Ke Tse for u eof holding an annual election of off cere. Mts, Sarab 3. Gramlich wes Mrs. Sallie E. Baukhages tirst vice pr James McFarland second vice president, A. Kellar treasurer, Miss Biiza tary, Mrs. Dr. Buck chaplain, Miss tor, Mi Widdicomb the meat mi ; idence of Mr. Dr. Buck on: the January. ing, which will take pli on Miss” Alice Owens, Miss Christine Messrs. Charlie und Bernard Owens the holidays. Miss Willie S. Patterson has returned to her home in Harrisoubarg, Va. Mrs. Dr. Dent of Anne Arundel county is visiting her paren’s, Mr. and Mrs. Arth Mr. T. T. Grifith has gone to Newmarker, Md, for a few days. cong S 1, Friendship Lolg: Ji, and Benning Lodge visit laet Monday might! to 45, of Hyattsy comed the visite fui address. est of reason anc sul” was th , the grand # copying U master's chair and « waster of ceremonies. TI speeches by G. W. Berry, P. Lodge; J. H. Ralston of Golden Plant,’ P of Friendship Lodge; KF. D. , of Golden Rule Lodg: mons iden Rule Lodge: G. H. conductor of the Grand Ladge of thi Columbia; W. Brooke Hunter, P.M Rule Lodge, and R. F. Brown, grand outside sen tinel of th nd Lidge of the District of Colum bia; duets by Brothers Davies and Potbury and Davies and Cross, 2nd the reading of a porin, on titled “Friendship, Truth and Love,” by GW Berry, P. G. A. ‘After partaking of refreshmen: in the adjoining hail the visttors returned to Was ington with warm expressions of preise for Gold Rule Lodge. a “IT’S A BOY.” Vital News Flashed on a B Passenger Sicam' From the New York World. ner toa An elderly couple, who couldn't have looked any happier if they had owned the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Madison Square Gar- den, Dr. Parkhurst’s church, the Aquarium and a few other things, went down to the American Iine pier to meet the Paris yes- terday. They were followed by a proces- sion of children of assorted sizes Under his arm the man carried a roll of cloth. The man laughed, then the wo- man laughed, and then man, woman and children all laughed together. The old man had something up his sleeve: some joke, or some demonstration was about to be sprung, that was evident When the Peris pushed her nose in sight and turned deliberately toward the slip the grandparents and grandchildren became nervous with excitement. The Paris dropped down a little nearer. The senior member of the group could wait no longer. He unrolled a fiery red banner three feet long and two i wide and held it between his outstretched hands. Emblazoned on the canvas were the » gnifi- cant words in boid letter: “IT'S A BOY.” A rosy-cheeked man, who looked as though his sea trip had thoroughly agreed with him, standing on the main deck for- ward, caught sight of the banner and the group that rallied ‘round it. He jum; into the aicv and waved his gic hat. When the gang-plank was placed in po- sition the voyager rushed into the arms of the waiting circle. He was already in pos- session of the most important news in, America. 2h Saas SEALSKINS ARE CHEAPER. The Bering Sea Commission S$: Commence Work. From the San Francisco Chronicle. THe sleek and costly sealskin seems to be somewhat out of fashion. The tale of a falling demand in the product of Bering sea and the Pacific has just been told by the yearly sale at Lampson’s, London. Tel- egrams have been received in this city stat- ing that the price for the Alaskan fur was 16 per cent less than that of last year; that of Copper Island (Russia) furs 17% per cent, and that of coast furs, including Call- fornia and Japan, 20 per cent lower than in 1895. This news comes as a surprise to local tradesmen, for the catch of this year was much lower than that of 1895, The entire catch of the Canadian sealers in Japan wa- ters and Bering sea amounted to seals. In 1895 tne catch of the Canadians amounted to 74,124, and in 1894 to skins. The catch of the American p sealers entered at this port amounted to only 5,040 seals, as against about 15,000 in 1895. ‘To the former number 30,067 skins are added as the catch of the North Amer- ican Commercial Company on the seal islands. Very few sealing vessels will be sent from this port this year, while from Van- couver from sixty to seventy schooners will clear for Japan and the Bering sea. Among pioneers of the sealing business at this port few have anything to show for their years of toil and danger. It is expected that there will be some interesting developments while the Bering sea commission is in ses sion in this city. The commission is ex- pected here within a few days. It is com- ef Justice King for Canada and Judge Putnam for the United States, and there will be quite a retinue of assist- ants. Don M. Dickinson is counsel for the American government, while Sir Charles H. Tupper is acting for the Canadians. The investigation of the commissioners here, it is expected, will extend back to the earliest days of sealing from this port. The Mary Ellen, which was the first British schooner to fit out at this port, first came here in 1882. Notwithstanding the decline in prices of sealskins, British vessels are coming down the coast to hunt in California waters be- fere proceeding to Japan, and three schoon- ers are now on the way. Only two Ameri- can sealers have sailed thus far from San Palen 2 Fenen, postmaster si Content, ‘at the age of