Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1897, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1897-12 PAGES. 5 EDUCATIONAL. | PIANOS AND ORGANS. IN WASHINGTON. APPLICANTS FOR GOVERNMENT POSITIONS shenld apply at once. tf they wish to prepare for the spring exumications. Illustrated catalogue sent free, containing testimomals and names of bundreds ‘who have been success? THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE SCHOOL, > jevint Uacorporateh, Wasbington, D SOIENTIFIG WHIST CLASS BEGINS MONDAY, Tan. 4, at 7 o'clock. WIMODAUGHSTS, 1425 N ¥ e. Terms, $1 a mo. to members. pe Learn to be a Draughtsman Evening lessons in all Kinds of draughting and Mathematics resumed Jaguary 4. 531 7th st. ne. $1 @ year 0 S. B. Mills), Pa. ave nee de Luxe! TANNER, hours. Parisien, 1502 19th st., Dupont cirfle. de2u-2w® THE STUART SCHOOL. A select doy and boarding school for Girls and Young Ladies. Aca . Collegiate, Preparatory Cours-s.” 1224 AND 1226 13TH ST. N S AVE. Miss CLAUDIA STUART, e address before nary 11. ‘The Baltimore sckcol is the largest best in America. 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The new gun is so perfectly fitted that not only can its various parts be with- drawn and replaced readily, but in case of a desire to remove the gun from one point toanother the sections can be easily sepa- rated, packed and transported. ame Early Dictionaries, The first dictionary was compiled by Paout-she, a Chinaman, who lived about 1100 years B. C. It contained about 40,000 characters, most of them hieroglyphics. The first Latin dictionary was compiled by Varro, who died 28 B. C. “Onomasti- con,” @ collection of vocabularies in Greek, by Julius Pollux, was published about ’77 A. D. The first Hebrew dictionary was compiled by John EH. Avenar in 1621. state in Europe except iain has had prepared er government authority a standard dictionary of tae OE) be dictionaries been prepared under the auspices of the universities. Feom Fun, “I understand that drinking your husband’s faflings?”’ “Failings? Oh, no—it ie one of his most notable successes!” is one of YEAR'S RECORD IN THE-BISTRICT Pages of Local History U > be itten in the Past Twelve Momths An Interesting Summary of Events -- Progress Made in Many Directions-- The Record of Crime-- Legislation and Acts of the District Government. The year 1896 has added several interest- ing pages to the history of the District. It has-been a year of satisfactory progress in many fields ef activity. While the District has shared with the rest of the country the business depression that has marked the year, it has been conspicuously free from serious business disasters, and new evi- dence has been given of the stability of its institutions. In the promise of general prosperity for the new year the District also shares and looks forward with confi- dence to a year of happiness and successful effort. Appended will be found a summary of the chief happenings of local interest. DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. The District Commissioners were mainly occupied during the year with two ques- tions, that of disposing of the city’s gar- bage and that of lighting the streets by gas and electricity. The close of the year finds the garbage system unsettled, and the con- tract requirement to dispose of the refuse by creriation being daily violated. Owing to troubles between the garbage contractor and Mr. Brown, the inventor of the furnace in use at the foot of South Capitol street, that plant was closed on three separate occasions, and as the year ends it is still out of use, the inventor claiming a large sum from the contractor, which the latter refuses to pay. On each of the occasions of the closing of this furnace the contractor has disposed of the garbage ordinarily burned by loading it on scows and taking it down the river. In order to provide for com- plete disposal of the garbage by cremation, the Commissioners decided that a second furnace was necessary, and selected for this purpose a site in the immediate vicinity of the old observatory reservation, near the bank of the river, and orders were given for the erection of a Smith crematory at that place, which had not been completed at the close of the year. There were disputes be- tween the Commissioners and the garbage contractor from time to time regarding the amount of money due the latter, who claimed a sum in excess of the appropria- tion, notwithstanding the fact that during @ part of the time at least he had not been complying with the contract requirement to dispose of the garbage by cremation. After the South Capitol street crematory was closed for the last time the contractor ne- glected to present his bill when the proper date arrived, so that no decision was ren- dered on the point of whether or not he should be paid cremation rates for river disposal of the garbage. At the close of the fiscal year the Com- missioners advertised for proposals for the work of lighting the city by gas, electricity and naphtha for the forthcoming twelve months. The United States Electric Light- ing Company, then performing the electric service for that part of the city lying east of Rock creek, declined to submit a formal bid, claiming that, under the terms of the District appropriatior act of 1896, the Com- missioners had no right to open up the general territory to competition, and offer- ing to continue the work at the rates stipu- lated in that statute. The Potomac Elec- tric Light Company submitted a bid cover- ing the entire District. The Washington Gas Light Company refused to accept the Specifications of the Commissioners, and submitted a bid based upon their own specifications. After a considerable discus- sion in the matter, the bids were referred to the attorney for the District, who ren- dered an opinion to the effect that the Com- missioners were without authority to ac- cept the bid of the Potomac company for lighting streets east of Rock creek, and were also without power to specify as they did in regard to the gas lighting. On final consideration of the matter by the Com- missioners, it was decided by a vote of 2 to 1 that the Potomac company should be given the work of lighting west of Rock creek, and of lighting certain streets east of Rock creek not included in the contract with the United States company. Commis- sioners Truesdell and Powell voted thus to overrule the attorney for the District, Com- missioner Ross dissenting. The work of lighting of streets by gas was allowed to be done, as before, by the Washington Gas Light Company. Immediately upon the rendering of this decision, the United States Electric Light Company secured a tem- porary injunction against the Commission- ers to restrain them from awarding the contract to the Potomac company, and, after a hearing on the merits of the case, in an application to make the injunction permanent, Justice Cole rendered a decision in favor of the Commissioners and against the electric lighting company. An appeai was immediately taken to the District Court of Appeals, which declined to con- sider the appeal, and dismissed the case. ‘The Commissioners thereupon signed the contract with the Potomac company, and granted permits to that company for the construction of conduits under the streets. The Commissioners formulated regula- tions governing the use of bicycles in the District, and gave a number of hearings to’ wheelmen on the subject of their re- vision and enforcement. On the approach of Independence day the Commissioners issued an order prohibiting the firing of explosives in the public streets and requiring that all such celebrations of the holiday should take place on vacant lots to be thereafter desigaated by them. This order raised a storm of protest and finally the Commissioners modified it and allowed the firing of crackers and other ox- plosives on the streets under permits from the chief of police. ‘The Commisstoners were called upon. from time to time during the summer to oblige thé Eckington and Soldiers’ Home Railroad Company to maintain its sched- ules according to the public demands. They also brought suit before a justice of the e in September to enforce the provis- Kas of the act of June 10, requiring that company and the Belt Railway Company to begin the compressed air test within three months from the passage of that act. Judgment was rendered for the Commis- sioners, and an appeal was taken, but was not pressed, leaving the case unsettled. ‘The Commissioners granted a permit to the Capital Railway Company for an over- head trolley on the Navy Yard bridge. Pro- tests were made against this action, which involved the consideration of the exact limits of the city of Washington. The com- pany, however, failed to avail itself of the privilege, for no work was done toward the construction of the line. The Commissioners encountered embar- rassment in the matter of erecting public school puildtngs, and 8 @ result of the fatl- ure of the con! tor for the Stevens School they decided to renew their recommenda- tions for legislation permitting them. to erect such structure by day’s labor. ‘They included in the range of this decision the street-sweeping, work which was not done throughout the year to the entire satisfac- tion of the Commissioners or the people. Act upon complaints from citizens, The occasion to demonstrate during the summer that the street-sweeping con- tractor was not observing the ep oe nema of his contract strictly, and the Commis- aioners thereupon caused Loe al to be given that resulted for a time better The new regulations requiring rapid tran- Beal Sly rote watt al St cat and repeal. The Commissioners foe cegeettarr ting ey 3 and decided to re- the regulation in 7 ‘ [fl a b i boards: under the “new statute regulating the practice of medicine in the District. ‘They took action. upon a large number of bills and joint resotutions proposed in Con- gress, including those relating to the aboli- tion of grade crossings, to which reference will be found in another part of this review. DISTRICT LEGISLATION. The year has been unusually fruitful in District legislation in Congress, and a num- ber of very important laws relating to the District have been enacted. Congress was in session from the beginning of the year until June and again in the early part of December. The partial reorganization of the Senate a short time after Congress convened caused but little interruption in the course of District legislation, as Chair- man McMillan, who took charge of ‘the work, in place of Mr. Harris, had a wide experience in such matters, having served in that capacity in a previous Congress. On the House side, Chairman Babcock had @ committee of hard workers to aid him and the committee accomplished good re- sults. The session closed last June with a total of 38 acts added to the local statute books. This is one of the best records ever achieved. Some of the most important acts which Passed were these: To regulate the price of gas in the Dis- trict of Columbia. To establish and provide for the main- tenance of a free public library in the District of Columbia. ‘To incorporate the Post-Graduate School of Medicine in the District of Columbia. To amend the act relating to the punish- ment of false swearing before police and fire boards. Extending the time within which the Maryland and Washingion Railway Com- pany shall be required to complete the building of its road within the District of Columbia. To incorporate in the District of Colum- bia the Supreme Council of the Thirty- third Degree of Scottish Rite Masonry for the southetn jurisdiction of the United States. To incorporate the convention of Protestant Episcopal Chur« of Washington. To amend section 9 of the act for the appointment of a seaier and an assistant sealer of weights and measures. To authorize reassessments for improve- ments and general taxes in the District of Columbia. ‘To provide for the incorporation and reg- ulation of medical and dental colleges in the District of Columbia. To regulate marriages in the District of Columbia. To regulate the business of storage in the District of Columbia. To establish certain harbor regulations for the District of Columbia. Requiring bills of sale, conditional sales, mortgages or deeds of trust of chattels in the District of Columbia to be recorded. Relating to’ ithe testimony of physicians in the courts df, the District of Columbia. Received by the P1 ident May 13, and be- came a law withont his approval. To amend the act incorporating the Capi- tal Railway Company. To amend section 416 of the Revised Stat- utes relating, to the District of Columbia relating to the disposal of the property of persons dying intestate within the District. Defining tne standard, shape and size for dry measures! in usé in the District of Co- lumbia. * To amend the laws of the District as to married women and io make parents the natural guardfans of their minor children. To incorporate the National University. To regulate ‘the ptactice of medicine and surgery, to license physicians and surgeons and to punish persons violating the pro- visions thereof in the District of Columbia. To authorize ‘the: Baltimore and Wash- ington Tran;ft Company to énter the Dis- trict of Columbia. To extend thé routes of the Eckington and Belt railway companjes and to requ: the substitution thereon of rapid transit. To extend the time for making an assess- ment of real estate in the District of Co- lumbia. To amend the charter of the Washington and Great Falls Electric Railway Company. STEAM RAILROADS. The last year has marked considerable progress in the history of the effort of the people of Washington to abolish grade crossings within the city limits, though no legislation affecting the steam railroads has yet been secured. There has been a continued effort on the part of the board of trade and citizens’ associations to bring the railroad problem to a conclusion. Ear- ly in the year a joint committee, appointed by the Washington board of trade and the Northeast Washington Citizens’ Associa- tion, waited upon the Commissioners, and @ consultation was held regarding the best means of procedure in order to influence the steam railroad companies to abolish their crossings at grade. The Commission- ers advised the introduction in Congress of a bill providing that after the year 1900 no steam railroad should be permitted to maintain a grade crossing in the city of Washington, and on February 1 a bill to this effect was introduced in the Senate by Mr. McMillan and in the House by Repre- sentative Babcock. While this bill never became a law, it was the forerunner of an effort looking to an agreement between the railroad companies, Congress, the Commis- sioners and the citizens of Northeast and South Washington on a plan for the eleva- tion or depression of the railroad tracks. About a month after the bill to abolish railroad crossings had been laid before Ccngress Mr. McMillan, chairman of the ccmmittee on the District of Columbia, in- troduced in the Senate bills to abolish grade crossings on both the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio. railroads, and it was understood that these bills were acceeptable to the companies. Jm- mediately after their introduction these bills were referted_to the Cémmisstoners. Major Powell, the Engineer Commissioner, did not approve either plan in its entirety, and he kad conferences with officials of both roads without coming to any agree- ment. When Congress assembled both of these measures were still with the Com- missioners, hut jt before Christmas they reported onthe Baltimore and Ohio bill, recommending that it be amended so that the main line and Metropolitan branch of the road should be Joined just north of the Deaf Mute Institution, and both come into the city over the line of Delaware ave- nue iustead of causing. two viaducts to be built to come together just above G the of the diocese street northeast. lajor Powell also rec- ommends t! Yhe!depot of the company be located a sq ast of its present site, so that the elevated Would come to the depot on a i -with the street. This recommenda’ favors locating the depot on C street i}wetn Delaware avenue and North Capitél, street. All parties inter- ested in the bial aré agreed on the viaduct pea for the ation of the tracks, and seems re hie for the people of Northeast ington to hope that before Congress ig this bill will- be acted upon. @! TH The bill to regulate the manner in which the Pennsylvasia foad shaH enter the city is still In t) ds of the Commissioners, and the diffefences of opinion between Major Fowelland jWe railroad company are such as propeply © prevent a conclusion being reache@!for some time. All parties had agreed upon a general plan for the de- pression of thé tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad Cor ‘but Major Powell has insisted that they Should be depressed sev- eral feet below the level advocated by the company, and this is resisted the company claims Major Powell’s plan would result in the flooding of the track when there is high water in the river. The road proposition of semi-depressed tracks ig criticised as’ in seme rspeots more, objectionable than P it tem. levation der was issued July 29, 1896, -but-has- not Si been complied with. The Northeast itizens’ Association also succeeded in the past year in having the Baltimore and Ohio Raflroad Company place night watchmen at the chief street crossings on their lines within the city limite. © Question of the formation of a ter- minal company to build a grand union de- pot in this clty for the Pennsylvania, Southern and Chesapeake and Ohio rail- roaé companies has been discussed. but nc action looking to its accomplishment hes yet been taken. CHARITIES AND PHILANTHROPY. During the year that has just come to'a close the people of Washington have done @ great deal to maintain their reputation for generous charity. There has been des- titution and sometimes actual suffering, but never yet has a call for aid gone unan- Swered, and thousands of dollars have been spent through the regular distributing channels in supplying food, clothing and fuel to the needy. The dispensaries and hospitals have always stood ready to care for the sick who are without means. On all sides there have been countless deeds of quiet kindness and charity which have néver come to the attention of the public, while the regular relief organizations, the Associated Charities, the Central Union Mission, the United Hebrew Charities, the Catholic Society of St. Vincent de Paul and others have all done excellent work, as) have the hospitals, asylums and houses of refuge. Last winter, when the condition of affairs grew serious, an emergency relief committee was appointed, and through this agency a large amount of money and sup- plies was raised and distributed. Early in January The Evening Star Santa Claus Club held a pound party in the public schools of the District. During the sum- mer the experiment of city lot farming was tried again with some measure of success. The Bell Home for Siek Children, opened at Colonial Beach, further carried along the good work done by the Children’s Coun- try Home. The Newsboys end Children’s Aid Society opened its new home, 230 C street, in the fall. December 4 the Com- missioners appointed a central relief com- mittee for the alleviation of suffering among the poor. Judge Cole was chosen chairman of the committee, and December 28 a general appeal to the public was made, the committee expressing the hope that a house-to-house carvass would not be nec- essary thie winter. The Evening Star Santa Claus Club was again organized, and a pound party was held December 23, as a result of which an immense amount of pro- visions was secured and a considerable sum of money, the latter to be expended in the purchase of shoes for poor children in the public schools. COLLEGES AND U?IVERSITIES. The year 1896 was marked by a few hap- penings of great moment in the higher in- stitutions of learning in the District. The most important events of the year had to do-with the new American University and the Catholic University. Early in the year plans were decided upon for the Hall of History, the first building to be erected of the group that will compose the home of the new institution. Ground for the new building was broken in March, and in Oc- teber the corner stone was laid. Early in October the Catholic world was surprised by the announcement that Bishop Keane, the rector of the Catholic University, had keen asked to resign. Bishop Keane yleld- ed gracefully, although the matter created no little stir in this city. Dr. Thomas J. Cenaty of Worcester, Mass., was chosen his successor. In May the announcement was made that the Columbian University had offered six scholarships to High School pupils. The Woman's College of Baltimore also presented two scholarships. During the year a new building was erected for Gonzaga College, and in November the col- lege celebrated its seventy-fifth anniver- sary. CONVENTIONS HELD. During the year 1896 Washington again held its own as the leading conven‘ion city in the United States. From the 1st of Jan- uary to the last day of December there has scarcely been a day when there was not some national body in annual session in this city. As the years go by the desirabil- ity of the national capital as the meeting place for societies and associations is more and more recognized, and the fact that such a body meets here once is a pretty sure sign that it will come back again. The most important gathering of ihe year Was the annual Christian Endeavor con- vention, which was held July 8-13. For the better part of a week the city was filled with enthusiastic young Christians from all parts of the country, while there were also many delegates here from Canada, and, in smaller numbers, from all over the world. The principal meetings of the con- ventions were held in three mammotn tents erected on the White Lot, and at- tracted immense crowds. The Union VYet- eran Legion held a big reunion and the National Grange, Patrons of Hus»andry, held its annual session here in November. Other bodies of greater or less importance that held conventions in Washington dur- ing the year were the Association of Ma- rine Engineers, the American Association of Inventors and Manufacturers, the Na- tional American Woman Suffrage Associa- tion, the United States Potters’ Associa- tion, the American Forestry Association, the national board of trade, the National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial !nion, the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, the American Poultry Association, the American Protective Association ad- visory board, the National League of Mu- sicians, the Baltimore conference of the A. M. E. Church, the National Academy of Sciences, the congress of religious educa- tion, the presbytery of the Chesapzake, the arbitration conference, the National So- ciety of Colonial Dames, the general con- vention of the New Jerusalem, the Mary- land and Washington City Dental associa- ticns, the Mount Vernon regents, the Army and Navy Union, the Sens of Temperance, the National Amateur Press Association, the National League of Colored Women, the National Federation of Afro-American Women, the Southern Methodist Brother- hood of the Baltimore conference, the Dis- trict W. C. T. U., the Baltimore branch of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. Church, the National Associa- tion of Life Underwriters, the Woman's Heme Mission Society of the Baltimore conference of the M, E. Church, the Mary- land Association of the National New Church, the National Spiritualists’ Asso- clation, the Missionary Convocation of the Diocese of Washington, the District Sun- day School Union, the Association of Agri- cultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, the Epworth League of the District, the Columbia Association of Baptist Churches, the Grand Lodge of the District, 1.0.G.T.: the American Anti-Saloon e, the Non- Partisan W.-C. T. U., the National Wool Growers’ Association, the Geological So- ciety of America and the executive com- mittee of the Bimetallic Union. NEW CITY POST OFFICE. During the yeaf' 1896 the new city post office building has been put under roof, the tower construction completed, the great court bridged over and fitted with glass panes and floor arches built on every floor. On New Year day the last brick on the building proper was laid, followed by the setting of the stone finials that top the dormer windows. The. work on the tower was pushed, and the last stone to be laid on the entire structure was set_the middle of August. Considerable comment was occasioned by the character of roof placed on the build- ing, and the matter received official cen- sure in the passage of a resolution by the Senate directing the Secretary of the Treasury to construct the roof of strictly fireproof material, to conform to the orig- inal act ‘authorizing a fireproof structure. In hearings before the House committee architects and builders condemned the pine with asbestos, but nothing ever came of it, and because @ plea by Secretary Carlisle that a change of plans would in- ep » Slate-covered pi was allowed fo stay. The only interior work accomplished dur- je year has been the putting in of the brick and tile arches in every floor. ;the public buildings. Lflluokalan! passed through the city en route to Boston, and a nephew of King Humbert, the Grand Duke Abbruzszi, made a brief stop in town. Dur- ing the course of his remarkable campaign and stumping tour of the country William J. Bryan visited the city and was greeted by an immense throng at the old base ball park, but a sudden rain storm cut short his address. After speaking in Baltimore he returned to the home of friends and spent Sunday here. Earl Russell, lori chief justice of England, and a distinguished Party spent a few days in sizht-seeing here, and other distinguished Englisa visitors to this capital were Sir H. Strafferd North- cote, a member of the English parliament, and Henry Norman, editor of the London Chronicle, whose Washington correspond- ence to his paper on the Venezuelan ques- tion did much to enable the English reader to understand the American attitude in the controversy. Mr. James M. Barrie and Dr. John Watson—better known as Ian Mac- laren—whose stories of Scotch life have brought him prominently to the view of the Hterary world, both made bricf stops in this city. THE POLICE COURTS. Unquestionably the feature of the year, so far as the Police Courts of the District are concerned,-was the disappearance of Daniel Williams, the collector of fines for the District branch of the court, who ab- sconded without accounting for upward of $12,000 of the funds of the District that were in his keeping. Williams was appre- hended in St. Louis and returned to this city, being now under bonds to await the course of the law. The prosecution of per- sons engaging in the sale of adulterated milk and other foods, including olive oil, vineger and also drugs, attracted consider- able attention, and desirable results were attained owing to the energy displayed by Assistant District Attorney Alexander R. Mullowney, and the co-operation of the health office. Cases involving the illegal sale of whisky were by no means as numer- cus as during the preceding year, the situa- tion being due to the severe penalty pro- vided by the new liquor law, its rigid en- forcement by the Police Court and the un tiring prosecution of the assistant attorney for the District, Mr. James L. Pugh, jr. The officials are highly pleased that a great reform was accomplished at Ruppli- ville, a settlement just outside the city limits, where, it is said, prior to the turn- ing on of the searchlight of the law 75 per cent of the houses were conducted as “speakeasies.” Assaults on policemen and cases of wife-beating seem, from the record of the year, to be on tne increase, in spite of the exceedingly stiff sentences imposed on such offenders by Judge Miller, who frequently advocated the adoption of the whipping post as the enly and proper punishment that should be meted out to brutal husbands. A most positive stand Was taken against all persons brought he- fore the court as keepers of houses of pros- titution, and vagrants, especially those of the professional tramp class, learned to their sorrow that Washington is a danger- ous locality wherein to ply their calling or to merely yisit. The new bicycle regula- tions went Into effect and a daily feature of Judge Kimball's court has been the ap- pearance of wheelmen gathered into the toils for “scorching,” not displaying a suitable light after the fall of darkness, or for riding wheels not having a beil at- tached thereto. In both branches of the court the number of cases tried since Jan- vary 1, 1896, were fewer than during 1% and the aggregate of fines paid ccrrespond- ingly smaller. In the United S' consideration was given to 5 in the District branch to 9, of 15,013. The fines collec: States bra: ia the United h amounted to slightly more aad in the District branch, as near as can be estimated, to $1 DISTRICT NATIONAL GUARD. The twelve months just closed have been the opposite of uneventful in the history of the District of Columbia National Guard. The progress of the local citizen soldiery has been seriously handicapped by the lack of facilities for drill, owing to the trans- formation cf Convention Hall, formerly used as a drill hall, into an ice skating rink and the consequent exclusion of the troops of the guard therefrom. In an en- deavor to increase the general efficiency of the brigade a plan has been formulated and is about to be put in operation, providing for a competition, in which all the com- panies are expected to enter and which is to be conducted so as to embrace all branches of military work. Cash prizes will be awarded from a fund contributed by the commissioned officers of the guard. A series of rifle matches was held in the gallery at the armory during January, February, March and April between com_ pany, battalion and regimental teams, with the most gratifying resuits. The annual rifle matches were shot on the out-door range at Ordway and consumed three days during October. The prizes won then and in the gallery matches were presented to the winners December 7 at the public cere- mony held in the rifle gallery with an es- cort of two full companies and the 24 Regi- ment Band in attendance. The series of in- door rifle matches were resumed in De- cember and a marked improvement in the scores was noted. Early in September a large detachment of District guardsmen journeyed to Sea Girt to attend the annual meeting of the New Jersey State Rifle As- sociation. After a spirited contest the Dis- trict brigade team again won the coveted Hilton trophy, while several other valuable prizes were carried off by the local con- tingent. On their return to this city the victorious riflemen were met at the depot and escorted to the armory by a large turn- out of guardsmen. It was nounced that in all probability the District will not in the future send a representative brigade team to battle for honors at Sea Girt, the reason being that the money necessary to cover the expenses of the team may be put to a better end by applying it to increasing the efficiency of the brigade in general in the matter of rifle practice. Twenty-five of the expert riflemen of the guard organized as the Amateur Rifle Club for the purpose of perticipating in a big Scheutzen match to be held in Chicago in June next. The club hus secured a range near Chevy Chase, constructed a shooting house, and the members mean to practice continuously through the winter. Company A, 3d Bat- talion—the Morton Cadets—attended the interstate drill held at Savannah, Ga., May 11-16, and captured the first prize, $2,500, the title of champion military company of the United States and with it the right to possess the Galveston semi-centennial championship cup. The company, upon its return, was welcomed by the remainder of the guard and several independent mili- tary companies, and escorted to the armory in a blaze of colored fire and a profusion of fyretechnics. A serious ‘split occurred in this company in November, about twelve of the leading members bolting from the organization and attempting to take the affairs, property and funds of company into their own hands. After the lapse of several weeks, during which charges and counter- charges passed to and fro, the bolters sur- rendered and much discussion followed as to whether they should be honorably or dishonorably discharged from the National Guard. The company finally voted to rec- ommend that the seceding faction be “hon- orably discharged in the interest of the service.” The case, however, has not yet been disposed of. One of the surprises of the year was the return to the guard in July of the National Fencibles, formerly the champion military company of the United States, which had been mustered out just twelve months before. The organization was assigned to its old _designation—Com- pany C, 2d Battalion. The second annual company competitive drill of the Sth Bat- talion was held before a large gathering, including a number of officers of the army, in Convention Hall. The competition, and with it the battalion championship cup, was again won by Company D. Orders for camp were expected during July and Au- gust, but it was finally announced that the outing of the brigade under canvas was postponed until Jun THE CRIMINAL RECORD. In police circles the year has been an uneventful cne. There has been no “Jack the Slasher” to scare the city and keep the police hard at work for weeks, nor has the fire-brand been very active. Early im the year professional burglars paid sey- eral visits to houses in the northwest sec- tion of the city, including the residences of Mrs. Robert Anderson, on 16th street; Mr. THE SHAKERS DO THEIR DUTY. “Tf @ man discovers a valuable medicive.” #92 Horace Greeley, “it ts his duty to advertise it.” Yes, and at once; for suffering Gemamis the «pecsl- Jest relief possible. But let the man first be sure Suffering bad vetter wait than be deluded by false hopes. Medicine, ke surgery, must often seo cruel in order to be really kind. On this prin the Shakers of Mt. Lebanon, N. ¥., with reat indigestion and dyspepsia remedy from public for several yeara. With them right is everything—money comparatively notbing. Me the popularity and success of whatever they offer for sale. Having safistied themselves of the merit of thelr medicine by employing it in ‘he canes of digestive disorders in their own vi for years, they did thelr duty—they adver: ised under the mame of the Shaker Digestive Contin! In all cases where there is distress after atti pain in the stomach, chest and back; food with the resulting symptoms, such as ache, furred tongue, cructation of gas, with © ness and loss of flesh, etc., the Cordial »a® a happy effect. Being ftsclf a digested food wiih Power to digest otber foods, it relleves the w And possibly inflamed stomach of the labor {t ix in Ro condition to perform, gives new strength to the body and presently restores to the Jige their normal vigor. Taken immediat ing, this remedy insures the digestion of ¢ And prevents the fermentation of the food, is the source of most of the aMicted sy which accompany dyspepsia. It is also ax a able to the taste as it ts potent as a medicine To show thelr own confidence in it, and to bas‘en its universal adoption, the Shakers author! sists to sell trial bottles at the poninal ten cent which 6 drag, t a successful use of “knockout this means several crooks rob unsuspecting victims of chloral, and one of them, perhaps best known crook of them all. “Happy Jack” Lawson, was apprehended and given a term of five years imprisonment On the night of January 31 the Ecking- ton and Soldiers’ Home street railroad ot- fice, at 13th and D streets northeast, was robbed. Two men and a woman figured in the robbery, the men doing the actual work. The night clerk was “held up” at the point cf a pistol and was compelled (o deliver up the cash and car tickets. Mon- roe D, Schenck and W. Roberts re- ceived eight and one y: sentences, re- spectively, for this robbery, while Grace Gooding, their female companion, was re- leased on her personal bonds. In addition to these classes of thefts a number of adroit swindles were operated here during the yea nd while some of the schemes worked well, many of the work- ers were landed in prison or are out on bond. Crimes of forgery and false pre- tenses figured rather largely. Frederick Smith was held on a charge of forging the names of naval officers, while W. A. Bate- man and R. A. Bowen, the so-called rectory swindlers, are also awaiting tri Frederick W. Emrich, a business man, was “held-up” on the street by a colored mai, who not only attempted to rob him, but who also shot him. On the night of No- vember 3 Mr. Samuel F. Merrill, while re- turning home, was waylaid and robbed. This daring crime was committed on 14th street, in front of the Portland flats, and a man was arrested as the alleged robber The murderous record kept pace wi similar crimes in former years. Samu Patterson, colored, started the record Ja uary 4 by taking Lewis Dade's life with knife, and he is now serving ten 3 On the 8th of January Hack Inspe Groff was murderously assaulted by so’ unknown men, but he managed to recover. In April the hunchback shoemaker, John Wesiey Hall, was brutally murdere shop and robbed. murderer is still at large. ward Bryant Mackall stabbe drops.” managed alcohol Ry aud the kil) and Thornton Burrell on the Anacostia bridge and has been heid for manslaughter. murder of Elsie Kreglo followed, and two days after this brutal mur game of cards at a “parlor social” ended in Louis Walker shooting and killing Will- The in May, ra jam Jones. For this Louis is serving a sentence of ten years. On the morning of June 6 the notorious George McCauley tempted to murder Lieut. Amiss. | Ten years was the sentence given him. Frank Washington, colored, was arrested for a wholesale assault on a fami and Rich- ard Stewart, who only a few days ago at- tempted the lives of his mother and blind stepfather, is awaiting trial. Columbus Fearson, an aged man, shot an killed a young man named John Ford the former's home in Georgetown. A dict of murder was returned against F scn. Arthur Sloan was killed by John Palmer on the 234 of August, in South Washing- ton. These young colored men had been friends and they quarreled over a sweater, but the killing was done in self-defense and Palmer was acquitted. At Heurich’s brew- ery, in September, a colored man named John Sites struck Conrad Plock with a brick, so badly wounding him that ne sub- sequently died. Sites is in jail awaiting trial. Five days later Meldon Phillips w fatally cut by Daniel Gray, and the grand jury has returned an indictment. George Fitzhugh received a fatal stab the same month, and the following month Abe Mii- dieton tried to kill his wife by shooting her. She was dangerously wounded, but has recovered. On the 12th of October Gywnne Tompkins, the turfman, was shot by John W. Collins, a clerk in the Commis- sioners’ office. It was alleged that Tomp- kins had sent letters to Collins’ wife. Be- fore the case was called for trial Tompkins left the city. In South Washington five days later John Minor was fatally stabbed by Frank Turner. This stabbing occur at a “parlor social,” where Minor was doorkeeper. An in@ictment against Turner and a companion has been return but the case has not been called for trial. Saloonkeeper John T. Clark fired two shots at two customers with whom he had trouble, but neither bullet took effect. He is under bond for the grand jury's action. Several arrests for assaults on were made and severe penalties imposed. The only fatal shooting in which a pe lice officer took part was the killing of London Shears by Policeman Curry. One special policeman, Joseph Williams, com- mitted suicide. During the year the police made 21,584 arrests, of whom 10,090 were white and 11,- 794 colored. The members of the detective force made a total of 635 arrests, including the apprehension of a number of fugitives from other jurisdictions. The work of the sanitary officer of the department has m: terially increased, and one ambulance a’ driver have been added to the service Cranks who come here from a distance either to kill somebody, to press an imag- inary claim or to have some imaginary wrong righted have held their own, the having been an average of about two « month. There has been an unusually large number of applications for transportation this year, but because of the limited amount of funds, not more than one-third of the requests were granted. In all, #20 persons were sent from here to other places. The hospitals received 3,900 per- sons through this office. STREET RAILWAYS. The past year has been one of unusual interest in street railway circles. There have been many important happenings, and from January to December an animated activity has been presented on the part of one company or another. The most im- portant events of the year were the com- pletion of the wrecking of the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home and the Belt Line rail- ways, the appointment of a receiver to take ies, and the attempt the interests of bondhoiders and stock- holders alike by experimenting with com- are still in the receiver's hands, =e Hambleton of Baltimore Edward