Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1896, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, DECEMBER 38. 1850-19 PAGES EDUCATIONAL. FOREIGN POSTAL SERVICE: IN WASHINGTON, THE STUART SCHOOL. A select dey and boarding school for Girls and Young Laiies. Academic, Collegiate, Breparatery Courses. 1224 AND 1226 13TH ST. N.W., COR. MASS. AVE. Miss CLAUDIA STUART, Principal. el MADAME MALLISON GF THE ECLECTEL ting rnd Dressmaking Academy, No. 5 W ington st ,apem & school fn this city in January fon to a1 send- ing thelr names te idiivesn Del January 14. The Baltimore sehcol { the largt and best in America. Send for circular, de2s-fm’ “ct Lex PRENCH LANGUAGE SCHOOL OF 23 PHONETIC courses of S) lessens In 27 or 40 weeks; conversation and reading lessons. Mile. ¥. PRUD'HOMME, 807 D et. nw. nezS-2r0% | Ss) NIGHT COW Shorthand x0’oruse atascurs Individual instruction—by practical Writer of long experienceSpecial, three months’ night equal tc ordinary five months’ course— money and time. 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Empress of Indi close here up to 6:30 P. Mails for CHINA, Pera, from Sa specially addressed from Vancouver, |. December 28. (d) JAPAN ‘and HAWATI. per Franeteco, clove here datiy up 2 - a s for AUSTRALIA (except West Australia), VAIT and FIT ISLANDS, specially addressed enly, per 6.8. Miowera, from Vancouver, close here yup to 6:30 P.M. January 1. (4) AUSTRALIA (except those for West b orwarded via Europe), NEW I and SAMOAN ISLANDS, San Francisco, close here uury 9. (a) Malls for HAWATI, per ¢.s. Australia, from Son Franciseo, close here daily up to 6:30 P.M. January 20. alls for the SOCIETY ISLANDS, per ship City from San Erancisco, close here dally up f. January 25, ¢d) fie inwils are’ forwarded to port of sail- Ing dally, and the schedule of closing is arranged on the presumption of thelr uninterrupted overland tered mail closes at 10:00 A. istered mail closes at 1:00 P.M. ‘tered mail closes at 6:00 P. yRegistered mail cieses at 6: , Same day, same day. \Registered mail closes at 1:00 P.M., Tuesdays and Saturdays. e268 JAMES P. WILLETT, Postmaster. “PIANOS AND ORGANS. Sl lle ANOS, Chas. II. Stieff, 21 ELEVENTH ST. N.W., NEAR F ST. de15-3m,28 J. C. CONLIFF, Manager. Warerooms. A complete display of the . world-renowned KNABE Pianos; also a few slightly used at a re- duction from usual net prices. Pianos of good medium grade makes trem $250.00 upward, ard second-hand Pianos from $50.00. TERMS, CASH OR TIME. Pianos to rent, tuned, moved and repaired. 1422 PennsylvaniaAve. de19-28d Vose Pianos== We are sole agents for their famous instruments. iD. G. PFEIFFER & CO., 417 llth St. N.W. de25-200f = Piano bargains. New Pianos, $250. Easy terms. Piano bargain. An elegant, richly finished Upright Grand Piano, only slightly used, for 160 cash. Fine Stool gud Searf with it, son, Dr. Nichol ses. Hy Consul- . Thurs, COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS * -CHARLES S.BENDY, 7 COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, Of all the States andoTeaitories, 317 4% st. ow. (new Equicy building). aeit-te STEAM CARPET CLEANING. HE OFFICE OF THE aMMONIATED STEAM Carpet Cleaning and fenovating Works and U. S Mattress Con ts removed to 6OT 11th st. mw. Good work and low figures. W: 1065 aud 1067 sth st. uw. Tel. $04. M. NEWMYER. Mgr. sel-tf Piano bargain. A magnificent it Grand Piano, superb tone-une of the finest makes. Worth s It goes for $200 cash. Piano bargain. A handsome Square Grand Piano, new. i) price, . Only Fine Cover and Stool with it. The Piano Exchange, 913 Penna. Ave. as cash. ONE UPRIGHT PIANO, THREE PEDALS, MA- bogany case, left with us to sell, only $115 cash. A snap for some one. ‘HUGO WORCH, de22-84 924 7th st. nw. VEAUTIFUL JAMES HOLMSTROM (N.Y.) UP- right transposing plano for sale; on 8 ferme lewone belp pay for plano. a. Ww. MEYER, ‘Ast. Flano and Voice Calture, 11657 13th at.” ow. Am POPULAR KRAKAUER COMBINE “ALL eo ee —— BALE-—ATLANTIC CITY, ae -A. FEW ane pi meltg > cLances, easy ——— Boor tle City, N. J. eee in “every ADAMS de: é SEASIDE HOUSE, Ss Ocean and Pennsyivania ave., Atlantic City, N. J., elevators and every convenience. pave cy ‘CHAS. EVANS. LEEDS & LIPPINCOTT Desire to inform thelr patrons that HADDON. HALL, witt be reATEANTIC CIPY, 8. J., kept entire winter for THE PENNHURST—OCEAN END OF M \N Se ee oe, eae ene Send rated booklet. Specie and Witter rates. JAMES HOOD. erie Bome comforts. Good fishing and bun table. Ra table. Rates, $6, $7 and $8 per week. JOHN H. DUE (x020-t)_W. J. MURPHY. OCEAN TRAVEL. American Line. New York-South: ‘Londen- ‘Twin.sctew a Mat Stenushipa New York. Dee 30n10 au), St. Louls ian. 27. St. Louis. -Jan. 6, 10 any Paris. . Paris.....-Jan. 18, 10 um St. Paul Ww -Jan. 20 10 ayn| St. Louis. Red Star Line. ‘December 30, January 1m, G, 12 noon January 18, 1 p.m. River. Office, 6 Bowling Green, N.Y. GEO. W. MOSS, Agent, 921 Penn. ave. ~ ACCOUNTANT. J. E. BATES Public Accountant and Auditor, Room 37, Washington Loan and Trust building, ec31-2m Cor. 9th and F st: W. R. Speare, Undertaker & Embalmer, 940 F Street Northwest. Everything strictly first-class and on the most rea- sonable terms. Telephone call 240. Jal-tr PROTECTION ‘OF SUNDAY. Corporation Meetings May Not Held on That Day. An interesting decision regarding the sanctity of the Sabbath has just been ren- dered by Judge Pryor of the New York supreme court, denying the application of the “‘Agudath Hakehiloth of New York,” for a certificate of incorporation. The clause in the petition to which Judge Pryor excepts is this one: “The time of holding its annual meeting is to be on each and every second Sunday of January of each and every year.” In refusing the certificate Judge Pryor says: “In the certificate submitted to me I ob- serve that the annual meeting of the pro- posed corporation is appointed to be held “on each and every second Sunday of Janu- ary of each and every year.’ It is not a religious corporation, and its annual meet- ings are for the performance of precisely such secular business as is transacted by other civil corporatiors. Protection by Common Law. “The question is not whether such meet- ings on Sunday are illegal, but whether they should be approved by a justice of the supreme court. A thing may be lawful and yet not laudable. “In the state of New York the Sabbath exists as a day of rest by the common law, and without the necessity of legislative ac- tion to establish it, and may be protected from desecration by such laws as the leg- islature, in its wisdom, may deem neces- sary to secure to the community the privi- lege of undisturbed worship and to the day itself that outward respect and observance which may be deemed essential to the peace and good order of society, and to preserve religion and its ordinances from open re- viling and contempt.’ (Lindenmuller vs. The People, 33 Barb., 548). “The Christian Sabbath is one of the civil insgitutions of the state, and the legislature, for the pur- pose of promoting the moral and physical well-being of the people and the peace, quiet and good order of society, has au- thority to regulate its observance and pre- vent its desecration.’ (People vs. Moses, 140 N.Y., 215). This sanctity of the Chris- tian Sabbath is sanctioned and secured by repeated acts of legislation extending from the colonial period to the present year, and as well by the impressive deliverances of the court of appeals. As justice of the supreme court, I may not approve that which the immemorial and uniform policy cf the state condemns. Aggression Upon Christian Sabbath. “Although not explicitly stated, it is nevertheless an inference, from the face of the certificate before me, that the members of the proposed corporation are of a race and religion by which not the first but the seventh Gay of the week is set apart for re- ligious observance. The fact might be of decisive importance were a desecration of their holy day contemplated; but the act Intended is an aggression upon the Chris- tian Sabbath. The law, which scrupulously protects them in the observance of their ceremonial, gives them no license, and I am sure ‘they have no desire to affront the religious susceptibilities of others. True, to @ prosecution for work or labor on the first Gay of the week, the defendant may plead that “he uniformly keeps another day of the week as holy time and does not labor on that day, and that the labor complained of was done in such manner as not to inter- rupt or disturb other persons in observing the first day of the week as holy time,’ (Penal Code, Section 264); but otherwise the legislation of the state against profana- tion of the Christian Sabbath is operative and imperative upon all classes of the com- munity. “Because the holding of corporate meet- ings on Sunday !s contrary to the public policy of the state, if not to the letter of its law, I decline to approve this certificate.” Be ———— SPANISH WERE REPULSED. Ineffectual Attack om One of Rivera’s Forts. A special to the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune from Key West, Fla., says: “Reports from Havana are that an at- tack was made on one of General Rivera's foothill fcrts yesterday by some of Wey- lJer’s forces and that the Spaniards were repulsed, the big dynamite gun belonging to General Rivera’s command securing the victory for the insurgents. It is reported that over fifty men were lost on the Span- ish side and fewer in the Cuban ranks. All information is refused in Havana, where the officials say that no such engagement took place. As the report came through the regular Cuban channels, it Is believed here. “Col. San Martin’s columns have been burning houses and destroying plantations all through the section south and west of Artemisa as far out as they dared venture. During the past week over three hundred houses and many plantations have: been destroyed, four hundred head of cattle se- cured and a number of tobacco fields and cane patches laid waste. Weyler’s orders are to spare nothing. A number of ‘acifi- cos, it is reported, offered resistance to the taking of their cattle, saying that their families would starve, and they were killed. Over twenty-five such instances have been recorded. “General Rivera’s forces are increasing and he has had accessions to his stock of arms and ammunition this week, an expe- dition having landed on the southern side of the island, from Honduras or Mexico, it is presumed. An American correspon- dent, whcse-name is not given, has suc- ceeded in getting through the Spanish lines and joining Rivera’s column.” —+e+—____ Suit to Confirm Contract. Annie E. Miller and- others; through At- torney John Ridout, have filed a bill in equity against Mary M. Lang and others to confirm contract for of parts of lots 6, 7 and @ square An A well-dressed man about thirty years ie, step af che’ Brooklyn ity halt Friary bt. his pockets indicnted_that the suicide’s name was Wiltam W. Mor- row. SPAIN. ENRAGED Only Hor Weakoes Braves a Deol oe ess ney PEOPLE CLaMOR FOR A’ cRete Details of a I United States. ; war 4 Iv FAILED os From the New York Journal. * MADRID, December 21.—Since my inter- view with Prime Minister Canovas I have become ‘convinced ‘that nothing-but the weakness of Spain prevents her from an- swering the action of the United States Senate committee by a direct threat of war. = The whole kingdom 1s in An uproar. It is the rage of -a' proud but helpless people. The newspapers are passtonately calling on Senor Canovas to appeal to Europe and defy the Americans, ‘i Last night Senor Salmaron, leader of the republican party and once president of the republic, left Madrid to fire the Catalonian heart against the government. I saw him while he was taking leave of his friends. He told me that this was a critical mo- ment in Spanish history..Sagasta’s lteu- tenants are arousing the public mind’to the necessity. of immediately granting local self-government to Cuba in order to avoid war with the United States. Excitement Constantly Increasing. Every hour the excitement increases. All seem to feel that the existence of the pres- ent Spanish dynasty is involved in supreme peril. Canovas is firm as a rock.” As he sald to me, he fs determined not to yield an inch to the sentiment of the civilized world until the Cubans are beaten to the earth. But while the death of Maceo has served to deceive the common mind, the prime minister knows that the Cubans are strong- er than ever, and that Weyler's campaign isa failure. There ‘s no braver nor more patriotic Spaniard than Canovas, but the tide is ri: ing at home and abroad. He tried. to nego- tlate a war loan in France and faiied. He succeeded in raising a domestic war loan of about $64,000,000 in gold, but within three months the money will be exhausted, and then where can the government look for funds? Troubles That Reset Spnin’s Govern- ment. The revolution in the Philippines is spreading; the war in Cuba becomes more expensive every month; a strong garrison must be kept in Spain, for the Carlists are armed to the teeth and thoroughly organ- ized, and no man can say when the Spanish pretender may change his attitude and give the signal from Italy for avrevolution. Meanwhile the hatred for Americans in- creases and the position: of the American minister in Madrid growg anjore painful. The guard of soldiers at “his ‘Moor protects him from actual violence, but it cannot save him from social octracisi. ©. The cry for an appeal ‘to“¢rmed Europe rises clear and distinct .a¥pye all other sounds in this mighty confliet. Cuba must be crushed and the United States humillat- ed. So far Canovas has resigfed the pres- sure to invite war, but itis hard to say at what moment his strong heart may fail him. He knows that Spain % unequal to an.armed struggle with the. United States, end he fears to approaeh ‘the European powers for assistance lest’ he might offend the American people and hurty his country into instant war. The Story of Spai: Suppressed Ap- penl. (3 > The. situation is grave heyéha the power of words to. express. Only, afew months ago Spain prepared an eppéal ‘to Europe against the United States, but was check- @d by the sudden and bold action of the American minister. Although Mr. Taylor and the State Department have declined to make the facts public, the whole story has leaked out in diplomatic cir: and today I am in possession of nearly all the facts. The surprising thing {s that Congress and the American public have been kept in ignorance of an evenf so tremendous that but for an accidental discovery by Minister Taylor, followed by his instant protest, the United States might have been forced to face a hostile coalition of European na- tions, compared to which the Holy Alliance, which Mcnroe defied, was insignificant. I give the following facts to the Ameri- can public upon authority which is beyond dispute. List July the Spanish court moved to its summer quarters at San Sebastian, accom- panied by the whole diplomatic corps. A few weeks before this the Spanish minister of foreign affairs, the Duke of Tetuan, held corferences with the six European ambassadors. . Our Minister Kept in the Dark. He informed them that it was ‘>e pur- Dose of the queen regent to send an iden- tical note to the six first-class powers, ask- ing them to address a note of advice and warnirg to the United States on the sub- Ject of American interference in Cuban affairs. Mr. Taylor knew nothing about the matter, and the Spanish minister kepv his secret well. His purpose was to carry out his plan by stealth, so that President Cleveland would have no opportunity to protest or use nis influence against. the proposed threat of united Europe. The joint note of the powers was to be a surprise. 3 I know as a fact that the chief spirit among those who counseled the Duke of Tetuan to procure action by the European powers was the Austrian ambassador, who, as the diplomatic representative of the queen regent’s uncle, Francis Joseph, ‘has been especially active in promoting a bel- ligerent and defiant attitude on the part of Spain toward the United States. Spain’s Note Pat Into Form. Finally, in San Sebastian, Spain's note to Europe was put into form and read to cach of the six ambassadors. It proposed that a joint note should be addressed to Presi- dent Cleveland, advising him not to permit any interference with the domestic affairs of Spain, and warning the American gov- ertment of the consequences which must inevitably follow any gross breach of in- ternational law. Under the cover of advice the European nations werc to make a plain threat and practically dictate the course of the United States. If I have made any error in this statement of the note which the Duke of Tetuan read to the ambassgdors in July, it is a very slight inacenracy. The facts are as I write them. President. Cleveland’s 2proclamation ad- visirg the American pegple not to violaté the neutrality laws was @ shgck to the dip- lcmatic conspirators. Two of the ambassa- dors declared that the Pr nt’s. action had destroyed the point of; the proposed European protest, and had«taken away any excuse which might have existed for joint action, The Duke of tan and the Aus- trian ambassador in: \however, that Spain’s appeal to her sister nations should he sent, in spite of the Presfdent’s friendly proclamation. tate . One of the two relugtan{. ambassadors was won over by the argument that the Spanish crown was in r and must be upheld against the mischieyous meddfing of the United States. — . = : Mr. Taylor Hears the Secret. At last the Spanish government draftéd the identical note in its final form, and.waa about to send it to the first-class powers by special couriers, when a gentleman uncon- nected with the diplomatic service who had learned the facts accidentally, revealed them to the Amerfcag minister. Mr. Tay- lor was astounded wiep he heard the de- tails of the plot against his country:.-~ A more timid man might Rave waited to consult Secretary Olney before ‘but Mr. ‘Taylor-saw: that no time was to be lost. At.eny hour the Spanish protest might be fg to the’ widest Sore. called “upon him. de eee pany HOW ing oe the “diplomat that ne-ned, @ of Europe, and. was abput to cable action the whole matter to Washington. Mr. Tay- jot to “Coerce the |: lor-intimated strongly his belief that the next business he would have with the Span- ish govérnment would be to demand his passport. > ‘The ambassador was aghast, and begged the American .minister in the interest of Spain not tu make any report of the matter to. Washington until he could have a con- } ference with the Duke of Tetuan. Mr.-Tay- lor firmly declined to suppress the matter. ; Tite: diplomat earnestly asked Mr. Taylor to withhold his cablegram to Secretary Ol- !ney for an hour, assuring him that before the expiration of the time he would be summoned to the palace. | Vigorous Protest to the Duke. Mr. Taylor consented to this delay, and presently he received an invitation to call upon the Duke of Tetuan. The Spanish minister of foreign affairs frankly confessed the whole matter. Mr. Taylor declared thai what Spain proposed would be even more offensive to the United States than the alli- “ance which provoked the declaration of the Monroe doctrine, nd would Inevitably lead to war. He said that the American nation would never tolerate such a direct insult from Spain; that the issuance of such an appeal to Europe by Spain, immediately after the President’s proclamation, would be a delib- erate and open imputation against the na- tional honor and the good faith of Mr. Cleveland. ‘Thc Enterprise Totally Abandoned. The Duke of Tetuan collapsed. He gave Mr. Taylor his word of honor that the en- terprise against the United States should be at once abandoned. That is the whole of the matter. I have written the facts as simply as I know how to write them. it is now within the power of Congress to ascertain the details of this extraordinary conspiracy to coerce the policy of the Amer- ican government and the manner in which the peril was averted. But there is one thing I can say with absolute certainty: That is that neither Great Britain nor France will ever consent to such an alliance should it be again pro- posed, and that Austria is the only Eu- rcpean power which has given any proof of a desire to aid in dictating the course of the United States in its relations to the Cuban republic. JAMES CREELMAN. Extermina: mn of an Company of Cuban Insargents. Advices received at Key West, Fla., say that the Lone Star Company of the insur- gent army of west Cuba, consisting of fif- teen Texan sharpshooters, perished to a man after heroicaliy battling more than six hours aganst vastly superior Spanish forces in Pinar del Rio Province, billing double their own number and wounding probably as many more. A Cuban band was observed near Pinar del Rio City Thursday morning, and Gen. Melquizo sent two squadroas of Span.sh cavalry to attack it. After a running fight the band, which proved to be composed of fifteen Texans, was chased into a “bottle,” a bit of hummock having only one opei- ing. ‘the Texans retreated to the further end and fortiued themselves behind some big boulders. The Spanish troopers ctsmount- ed and surrounded them, pouriag a fire from all sides. The Texans repited, and kept up the fight for more than five hours. ‘By that time six of the fifteen had been killed and four were wounded, while twen- ty-five of the Spaniards had been k.iled ana ten or more were wounded. A flax of truce Was sent in by the Spamsh and the Texans were cailed on to surrender, but the Ameri- cans refused, with one acco to lay down their arms, shouting: We remember Maceo!” 5 This infuriated the Spanish, and they fought with renewed fierceness. Twice they charged, but the rapid firing of the little band drove them back. By getting on a high ridge behind the Texans’ position, the Spaniards were enabled to pour i fire that killed all but two of those those two gallantly continued to fight, held off the enemy an hour longer. Then, overcome by th.rst ant enfechled by loss of blood flowing from a dozen wounds, they were cut to pieces by the Spaniards, who finally dashed up as the Texans fell exhausted, feeb! vi “Vive Cuba Libre! seen de The bodies of the Texans were left to the buzzards, while the dead Spaniards were |, buried on the field. Twenty wounded were carried to Pinar del Rto City. The official report says that a Spanish column of 100 men cut to pieces a band of 400 insurgents, w.th only seven wound Gen. Rivera has ordered that the nimes of the Texans be called at roll cali for the next two months as a mark of honor. eee GEN. MEREDifH READ DEAD. The Diplomat and Ex-Minister Passed Away at Paris. General Meredith Read dicd at yesterday morning. John Meredith Read was born in Phila- delphia February 21, 1837. He received his education at a military school und at Brown University. He was adjutant gen- eral of New York in 1860-66. He was one of the originators of the “wide-awake” political clubs In 1860. He was chairman in April of thé same year of the com- mittee to draft a bill in behalf of New York state, appropriating $300,000 for the purchase of arms and equipments, and subsequently received the thanks of the War Department for his ability and zeal in organizing. qgquipping and forwarding troops. He’ first United States consul general for France and Algeria in 1800-73 and 1870-72, and acting consul general dur- ing the Franco-German war. After the war he was appointed by General de Cos- sey minister of war, to form and preside over a commission to examine into the desirability of teaching the English lan- guage'to the French troops. In November, 1873, he was appointed United States minister resident in Greece. While. minister to Greece he received the thenks of his government for his effectual protection of American persons and inter- ests in the dangerous crisis of 1878. Soon afterward Congress, from motives of econ- omy, refused the appropriation for the le- gation at Athens, and General Read, be- Heving that the time was too critical -to withdraw the mission, carried it on at his individual expense vntil his resignation, September 23, 1879. General Read was president of the Social Science congress at Albany, N. Y., in 1868, and vice president of the one at Plymouth, England, in 1872. He is the author of an “Historical Inquiry Concerning Henry Hudson,” which first threw light upon his origin, and the sources of the ideas of the navigator. Paris ee ass FUND FOR A BATTLE ABBEY. United Confederate Veterans Will ‘Take Collections on Lee's Birthday. The movement of the United Confederate Veterans to erect a memorial institute, or battle abbey, is to be pressed during the coming year. Gen. John C. Underwood, superintendent ‘and secretary of the Con- federate Memorial Association, has estab- lished offices at Covington, Ky, The ex- ecutive committee consists of Chairman W. H. Jackson, Tennessee; Robert White, West. Virginia; J. B. Briggs, Kentucky: L. 8. Ross, Texas, and W. D. Chipley, Florida. The Fourth National Bank of Nashville is treasurer of the fund, and the executive offices will be at Nashville. Mr. Charles B. Rouss of New York has pledged $100,000 as soon as the association raises an equal amount. The trustees and officers want to duplicaté the Rouss fund in 1897, and’ then erect an institute in which to preserve con- federate relics and archives. It is now urged by an official circular upon all division, brigade and camp com- manders to provide for a money collection by every confederate camp January 19, the birthday of Gen: Robert E. Lee. Every ef- fort will be made to have the Lee anniver- sary next month celebrated by a successful ne in securing a sum equal to the Rouss nd. ee National Fencibles, The National Fencibles have decoratea their cozy quarters with evergreens, and instead of their usual drill this week wt Sie: now in Thursday evening’ wit be t in ven! t willbe confined. to its members: and their lady friends, owing to smaliness of _ quarters. ceo eens pet jeld January 21, arrangements for which have-been perfected. The annunf election at Boston Friday night. $ A Defense of the System in Use in Washington. ANSWERING- A. RECENT CRITICISM All Modern Buildings Provided With Approved Appliances. — eee AIR AND HEAT —— At the meeting of the Civic Center held several deys ago, Mr. W. H. Pennell, in @ report submitted by him on the ventla- tion of. school houses, made the assertion that there is no regulation in the Dis- trict respecting the heating and ventlla- tion of school houses. Only in the High School, he said, is there any system here of ventilation, in the other buildings ven- tilation being obtained mainly by opening windows. Mr. W. B. Powell, superintendent of the public schools, was present at the meet- ing, and he took occasion to deny the assertion of Mr. Pennell that there ts in the District public schools no systent of ventilation. In conversation with a Star reporter today Mr. Powell again asserted the District public schools have a system of ventilation, and while the authorities do not claim that it is a perfect one, they do cl: that it is the best obtainable un- der all the circumstances. The system provided, he explained, is the Ruttan, and not only are the new school houses’ pro- vided with it, but it has, he said, been introduced into many of the old buildin: Not satisfied with this, he remarked, authorities, after investigating the ‘sub- ject, reinforced the system by the em- ployment of what is known as the far? system, and the last three school houses built’ were so supplied. The author! are still considering the matter and will neglect no opportunity to further improve the ventilation of the scheol houses. ‘The present ventilation, said Mr. Powell, is good, excellent In many of the houses, and will compare most favorably on the whole with school houses elsewhere. By the Ruttan system, explained Mr. Powell, the air is received from beiow, and passes over furnaces which heat it. Then it is carried into the rooms above the heads of the children at the sides, passing out of the rooms through perfor- ated baseboards, and passing under the floors to exhaust chimneys which are kept hot by furnaces provided for that pur- pose, the furnaces always running. There are two exhaust stacks or chimneys, said Mr. Powell, to every eight-room school house here, each stack exhausting the air from four rooms. in the new buildings this same system is in operation, reinforced by fans in the cold air chambers, the fans being driven by gas engines, and the con- tracis for the houses in course of erec- tion provide for the employment of this combined system of ventilation. Mr. Dodge's Statement. FRESH Mr. W. ©. Dodge, who, as a former mem- of the hoard of school trustees, was rgely instrumental in introducing the present ventilating system into the public hools, has written to The Star in regard to the statement made at the Civic Center meeting as follows: “If this statement had heen limited to the score of one and two-room buildings in county to a few of the larger buildings erected prior to 1884, I do not think tt would be far wrong, but when ap- ber to the large number of elght-room ings ere: sce that time it conveys a very errone i As chairman of the committee on build- nd. repairs in the school board in * I gave special attention to the sub- jects of heating and ventilation, with the result thai in Tss4'we secured the adoption of what was known as the Rutian-Smead system of warming and ventilation, which as been applied to nearly all the build- ings since erected. In brief, this system consists in providing each building with two ventilating stacks, generally four by six fect in area, extending from the base out above the roof to receive from the various rooms the foul air, and convey ft to a point above the-roof so it may not by any means be returned to the building. To secure a strong draft in these stacks a small furnace or heater is located in the base of the steck in most cases, though in some of the more recently erected build- ings fans have been rubstituted; and where power is convenient fans are undoubtedly preferable, because they insure a more positive movement of the air. When the city is supplied in all seetons with the elec: current, as it should and we hone soon will be, that will furnish the sim- plest means for operating the fans. “A special feature of the Smead system consisis in the use of furnaces having an immense heating surface, and in bringing in a very much larger volume of fresh air than usual, the idea being to supply a very large volume of fresh air at a spring tem- perature, instead of a small volume at a high temperature, as ts the case with ordinary furnaces as generally used. Not only does this give a much better supply of fresh air, but it gives {t in a better condi- tion for respiration, as the moisture which the air naturally contains is not extracted from it to near as great an extent as wher highly heated, it being a well-established fact that the dryness of the air increases by heating in a greater ratio than the in- crease of temperature. Air should be fur- nished in the rooms as nearly as possible with the same degree of moisture as it ordinarily has outside, and for that reason provision should be made for moistening the air when highly heated, as dry air has great affinity for moisiure, taking it up from any and all substances with which it comes in contact. When highly heated air is inheled, it absorbs the moisture from the mucus membranes of the nostrils, throat, &c., and hence it is that furnace heat so often produces bad effects, ly where the volume of fresh air is small, 2nd it enters the room at a hi temperature. This the Smead sysiem secks to avoid. “Another feature of this system con- sists in taking the foul air out at the bot- tom of the room, by which means all parts of the room can be uniformly heated, and which is a very important feature. The General Principle. “As every one knows, heated air rises simply because it has been expanded by the heat, and is, therefore, lighter than the cold or surrounding air. If now the warm er air be brought ifito a room at or near the floor, and an opening fer the escape of the foul air be located at Gr near the top of the room, jhe result will be that the warm, fresh’ air pass through the room in a direct line from the inlet to the outlet, leaving the air in all other portion of the room comparatively unwarmed an: stagnant. Iv, on the other hand, there no escape for it above, the inflowing fres! air will ascend to the cefling and spread ou. in a horizontal! strata over the entire room and ag the warm air continues to flow in the horizontal stratum will become con- stantly deeper until the room is filled uni- formly from ceiling to floor, thereby in- suring the same decree of temperature at all sides of the room. Another importani result of the downward movement of the air is that the particles of dust, germs, ete., stirred up by the movement of the feet upon the floor are carried downward and out, whereas by an upward qrrent they are carried up past the face, and are necessarily inhaled with the air more or less. Having thus explained briefly what the system adopted {s, now let us see how it operates; and fortunately I have the data furnished..by disinterested outside parties by which to do it. “In 1888 a city in Massachuisetis concluded to build a fine High School building, and the city council appointed a commission, consisting of the mayor, one or more mem- bers of the city council and several mem- bers of the school board, with the superin- tendent, as f revélect,“to investigate the various systems heating and ventilation, in order to The commis- and on thelr return. visited our city Fetexamine the Smead system in’ use here; of which they had heard. Le ae Sith his’ own. instramen iment, measured "the jhe: Renee sion went.through the northern and west- ; 5 @onsiderabie time, and then down iato the basement, ‘where ‘the urinals and dry closets were, and where they made thelr measurements, as all the air passing through the four rooms on the boys’ side passes out through the choset on that side. and the same on the girls’ side, each “as Separaie and independent of the other, an the measurement being made on both sides. “The measurement” ShOWéd a voliime of 6.720 cubic feet per minute of air through the four rooms on each side of the butlding—or for the eight ns 13,44) cuble feet per minute. In another building it was 14,720 cubic feet per minute. A Scientific Commission. “In I882, under a resolution of the House, & commission, consisting of the surgeon Seneral, Dr. Billings, the architect of the Capitol and the comiifssioher of education, was appointed to examine and report-apon the sanitary condition of our school bulld- ings, and in their report they Say each child should have as a minimum thirty cubic feet of fresh air per minute. “Now, taking 14,000 feet as ‘the avet of the two buildings mentioned, Aas ne posing each of the eight rooms to contain fifty scholars, it would give to each child per minute 2615 cubic feet, or 6 more than the minimum amount set by the commission. With sixty scholars in each room it would give 2% cuble feet, but it is seldom, if ever, the case that there are sixty schol- ars present in a room. This i= a fair state- ment in regard to the ventilation of nearly all the school bulldings erected since 1883. “The visitors from Massachusetts ex- pressed themselves in the highest terms in favor of the system, and, as I war in- formed, it was adopted in their new build- ing with the substitution of fans for the stuck heaters in use here, as I know it has een in numerous rhool buildings in the vi i of Boston. 1 find by the report of the inspector of buildings that we have, all told, 108 school buildings, including about suburban buildings, from one w four rooms each. “Of the whole number 46 are eight-room buildings, ten ai with two or three each of nine, d eleven-room buildings. Nearly ali of these have been erected since 188%, and contain the Smead system of heating and ventilation, so 1 think we may safely say that very few cities in the United States Thave as large a proportion of well-venti- lated school buildings as Washington. “With regard to the very large buildings erected during the war and subsequently under the board of public works, viz, the Wallach, twelve rooms: the Jefferso twenty rooms, and the Franklin, sixtee rooms, some provision was made for ven- tilation, but it was not as thorough or sat- isfactory as that subsequently adopted, and that was one reason for the remodeling of the Wallach, which is now under way. “Then there are of twelve-room buildings the Peabody, Grant, Force, Gales, Garnet, Henry, Webster, Dennison, Seaton and pos- sibly some others, which are heated by steam, and provided with a different means of ventilation. In these buildings the steam coils are located under the windows, and provision is made for bringing fresh air from the outside in upon the coils, by plac- ing under the window sill at the top of the coil a perforated plate, opening into a flue extending down in rear of the coil to near its bottom, the theory being that the heat of the coil would create a draft which would draw fresh air in through the per- forated plate and fiue. Of these buildings the c n in its report says incipal defect from a sanitary point of view in all these buildings is In regard to the fresh air supply, which is reiy insuflicient.’ They then describe the means used, and then add: ‘When it ts remembered that this (inlet) is intended to ply fresh air for sixty children, each of whom should have as a minimum thirty cubie feet per minute, it will be se that it is simply impossible to obtain such @ supply through the openings provided, which in faet will hardly furnish five cubi¢ feet per minute per pupil.’ A Curious Fact. “I was present with Dr. Billings at the time he and his assistant examined the Peat ody, and we found another important fact not mentioned in the report, and that was that the fresh air came in only on the windward side cf the bullding, and that the warm air passed out through the fresh air flues on the opposite side of the build- ing. The result ef that was that the rooms on the leeward side instead of getting fresh air got only the foul air which came through the hallway fromthe rooms on the windward side of the building, together with what little might sift into the hall around the doors and windows, and be drawn up the stairways from the basement rooms, where the closets and urinals were located. If the school room doors were kept closed, of course even this air could not enter the rooms on the leeward side. “It was this condition of affairs, with even worse In some of the old and rented bulld- ings, which led me to make the investtga- tion’ referred to when I went onto the school board im IS8?, That investigation was made by spondence, and cost the District nothing. I still have in my pos- session a mass of correspondence, explatn- ing and recommending the Ruttan-Smead system, the substance of which was em- bodied in a report by the school board to the Commissioners in the winter of 1883, Less Fuel Needed. “One important result of its adoption, as shown by the records in the District office, was a large reduction in the cost of fuel per room, as compared with those heated by steam, and less cost for janitor, as, of course, the steam-heated require the serv- ices of an engineer, while the furnace-heat- ed do not. “It would be a simple matter to improve the ventilation of these twelve-room build- ings by enlarging the alr inlets, changing their location from the top to the bottom of the coils, covering them with a hood to pre- vent the strong wind from entering in excess and faster than it can be warmed, and using an exhaust fan in each of th foul air stacks. At the same time, the opening from the rooms into the foul air duct should be brough, down to the floor, as otherwise there will always be a stratum of cold alr over the floor—the warm and Nghter air, of course, never descending be- low the point at which it can escape. “In one respect, the Ruttan-Smead sys- tem has noi been properly applied. Both Ruttan, in his work, and the Conservatory of Arts and Trades of Paris, in its report on this system of ventilation (republished in the Smithsonian reports in 1873-74), lay it down as an inflexible rule that the warm fresh air should be brought into the room ai or near the celling, and so as not to have a draft on the occupants, and taken out at ort ugh the floor. In its application to our buildings the warm air inlet is at the ficor on one side of the room, and the result is an inrush of hot alr at that point which is very disagreeable to the scholars in the vicinity—so much so that sheet metal screens have had to be used to protect them. It would cost but a trifle, if any, nore to have the inlet elevated above heads of all, and, if necessary to have a place where children with wet shoes or feet could dry and warm them, a small register for that purpose could be located at the floor. 1 urged this change upon the late inspector of buildings repeatedly, but for some reason it has not been adopted, ex- cept in a single bifllding, and there, as I understand, without any provision for the children io dry their shoes or feet. What cught to be done, is to have an imate made as to the cost of improving the ven- tilation of these twelve-room and other de- fective buildings and ask Congress for an appropriation sufficient to do the work. At the same time provision should be made for substituting in all the emall buildings a jacketed stove or school room heater for the ordinary stoves or heaters now in use, and provide ducts, which may be of wood or gulvanized iron, for the-admission of fresh air, and fur carrying off the foul air, The cost would not be much, and the ben- efit great. “But few persons; I presume, have any definite idea of the amount of fresh air re- quired. An average adult at each inspira- tion inhales 19 cubic inches. This, with twenty inspirations ‘pet minute; gives per hour 22,800 cubic inches, or 547,200 cubic inches in twenty-four hours." better idea of the quantity can be had by ex- pretaing it ine form soos anaes by ordinary persons. 2,860 gallons, 15% ‘barrels”or Meads of egal standard. Supposing the children to inhale but 12 inches, each would require in six hours 86,408-ewbte inehes, or 5,084,000 fer sixty children in a nen room: oR “Tt therefore ‘readily ‘be seen, a : Pewety of fresh air to our school