Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1897, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, TUE SDAY, JANUARY 12, 1897-14 PAGES. See the windowful of 9c. Patent Leather Oxfords. " Ask for the $5.00 Shoes at 9Tc. ready. Cc Ss. ~ Regular $5 quality- make and finish. 35 cents. This price is description. Never mind how we do it. Leather Shoes—some with vici kid tops—others with cloth or kid tops—both lace and button. 1.50 and 52 Shoes at 35c. Regular $1.50 and $2 quality Ladies’ Oxfords, Strap and Opera Slippers in vici kid—grand values. we guarantee it— Ladies’ Patent | Most elegant quality, They go at | too extraordinary to need much | STOLL Every Shoe sale in aes Washington totally echpsed! , Shoe prices have gone a-glimmering. We have laid low until now, busy with the work of:great preparation. : We startle the town this morning with the literally true announcement that * ~ we shall sell Ladies’ $5 shoes at NINETY-SEVEN CENTS: Ladies’ $3 patent leather Oxfords at NINETY-SEVEN CENTS; Ladies’ $1.50 to $2.50 Kid Oxfords, Stra) ra Slippers at THIRTY-FIVE CENTS; Ladies’ Web House Slippers at: SEVEN Believe our word and come quickly to secure a: ‘pair. We stand behind every pair with our guarantee. Here they are: $5 Shoes at 97c. Sales are in progress all over the town, $3 Shoes « 97c. . Regular $3 quality—we guarantee it-Ladies’ Fine Patz, ent Leather Oxfords—ined with white kid—exquisitely made, —very suitable for‘evehing wear. “A to-Ecinall-sizes. While they last, at-97 cts. $3 Shoes, The newest and most fashionable of 1897 season foot-_ wear for ladies are slaughtered. Elegant goods that are just - in from the best makers in the east. Vici Kid Shoes reduced from $3 to $1:73—B to E=alf sizes: Ladies’ Web House Slippers, 7 cents: Ask for the Web House Slippet ° Now WE are and Sw PRR AS 25 $1.73. Cloth-top Button Finest “810” Seventh. No other house does—ever did—or ever wili sell such sterling qualities at such low prices as we quote See the Attractions! # Choice of $12.50, $13.50, $15 and $17.50 Suits, Overcoats and Ulsters for... .. Choice of $20, $25, $30 Sui f0F . 22.5 Enamel and Russet Shoes for. . Choice of $2, $2.25 and $2. doras for. . season. ‘Tisn’t a choice of the Overvoats tr all the fashions. purpose for a sale. No, indeed! be the best $12.50, $13.50, $15 a1 are that, too. $10 is our emerge: $15 for the cholve of any of our $20, $2 and $30 Fancy ‘Seltings—made to order— with all the care and excel- lence that would go into ‘em at regular price—is a bargain. All the work is done right here in town — tried on before they're fin- tsbed. We'll have them creditable to os—and that means they can’t help betug satisfactory to sou. worth $5, 96 skip. A chanc “best ‘world’ price. these Just three stock we thin and w Choice of Hanan’s $5, $6 and $7 Patent Leather, Look into ’em carefully. The $10 sale You'll find eclipses anything the season has developed this but enough of it for you to get just what you want. Single or Double-breasted Sack and Cutav ay Frock Safts—im Black Clays and piain and fancy Chertois, Cassimeres and Worsteds. Ulsters that are worthy of the Saks gnarantee. You're not selecting from a mongrel mass picked up on $3. for Hanan’s Shoes that are + chance you don't want to ce to buy the footwear at a Mitle too full—and when we want to The quicker we want to be— the thinner we make 1 hurrying row. $10.00 $: itings made “to order” .---- $15.00 $3.89 50 Derbys and Fe- $1.00 { 4 entire stock at those grades— ' We made these garments to nd $17.50 could buy—and they ncy price. . 89 | $1.00 rie Spares | for Derby or a Fedora Hat that’s worth §2, $225 or $2.50. We're at the end of the rope now. This lot We're offering winds up the reserve stocks to be had, and if the manufasturers didn't take 2 big lees you Dever could get a chance like it. Pleaty of Hats to be had to sell at » dollar— and less, too. But they're Rot the latest shapcs—and not worth $2 to $2.50, as these are. in below-value happens that lines are a the thin out out the price. “Saks’ Corner.” Saks and Company, A MYSTERIOUS COUPLE. Their Sudden Disappearance While | Under Police Surveillance. Major Moore and Inspector Hollinberger visited house No. 1607 16th street last night. where a man and woman known as Edward Golden and wife had resided for | a little more than a month, and from where they had suddenly disappeared last ‘Tuesday morning. Complaint had been made to the police of the alleged doings of | @ couple in Salt Lake City, Utah. Detec- tives Gallaher and Boardman had kept the house under surveillance for several days. supposing that Mr. and Mrs. Golden were the couple wanted in Salt Lake City. When the couple first reached this city they went to.@ fashionable boarding house on 15th street, where they lived for a short time, and they then rented the 16th street house, promising to pay $175 a month for it. Mr. Golden leased the premises for six months and offered to pay his rent in advance, but the owner preferred the rent in monthly payments, and the result was, it is stated. that she was not pald a cent. Soon after they took possession of the house the land- ‘asinvited to dime with her supposed- to-be-wealthy tenants. The invitation was accepted, and now the landlady has an amusing story to teil of i i H i Circle.” He is alleged to have gained th confidence of an elderly Mormon woman named Clarke. She owned some valuable property In Salt Lake, so the citizen told the police here, and Dr. Stoddard, by his influence over her, managed to secure about $1,800 of her money, besides some real estate. When the property was sold, it is sal the doctor and his’ wife’ dems: ‘While they lived in Salt Lake they were great so- clety people. Mrs. Dr. Stoddard, as the handsome wo- man was known, had gained the confidence of scores of fashionable ladies, and, so the detectives were informed, she had fre- quently borrowed diamonds to wear to the theater. These she had returned with the Same regularity with which she had bor- patter it & said she borrowed a mi on eve her departure which a not o— returned. t was use Mr. and Mrs. Golden were supposed to be Dr. and Mrs. Stoddard oe ese here pe spay them. ist t seme ¢! @ dispatch was sent to Gov. Wells asking for information. It is thought some of their friends in Salt Lake wired the couple here, for the next morn- ing about 7 o'clock they took their sudden departure. Mrs. Golden, as she was known, appeared to be heartbroken, and she told the hired man that a telegram announci; the death of a near relative ‘had been ceived. The LIFE IN THE ALLEYS Results of the Investigation of a Civic Center Committee. SOME OF THE PRIMITIVE CONDITIONS A Speedy Change to Small Places and Streets Favored. ag STRICTER INSPECTION URGED 2 + The condition of some of the alleys of this city is the subject of an interesting report just submitted by the commitcee on housing of the people to the chairman of the center council of the Civie Center of this city. . Tae committee, consisting of Gen. M. Kober, chairmau; G. A. Weber, secretary; Katharine P. Hosmer, G. W. W. Hanger and Henry Gannett, made the fol- lowing report: “The Civic Center committee on housing the people has for its field of work the in- vestigation of the alley houses and slums in this city, with special reference to sant- tary and sociological conditions aud their effect upon the health and morals of the inhabitants. A preliminary investigation was made by the committee in 1806, refer- ence to which by “Pauline Pry” appears in The Evening Star of November 23, 1805. In the following winter the committee pre- pared a schedule of inquiries, of which a copy is herewith appended, and in the spring of 1896 employed an agent for one month in conducting a house-to-house in- vestigation. The Woman's Anthropological Society was asked to co-operate in this in- vestigation, and Its executive board very generously voted to support the agent, al- ready in the field under the direction of the Civic Center committee, for one extra month, during which time the same eched- ule sheets and methods were to be used by the agent, in order to unify the work and facilitate the tabulation of the entire re- sults. “The investigation extended to thirty-five alleys and 191 dwellings, and the results have, tn part, been tabulated by Miss Clara de Graffenried, special agent of the de- partment of labor, in a paper read by her before the Woman's Anthropological So- elety November 14, 1896. Miss de Graffen- ried’s analysis, however, applies to only fifty homes situated in thirteen different alleys, gnd from it we learn that 248 indi- viduals ocupy these fifty family dwellings —very nearly an average of five persons to a family; 92 of the 248 residents are under eighteen years of age, and all are negroes or mulattoes, except one white man, who lives with a colored woman. Location of the Alleys. “The thirteen alleys were distributed as follows: Nolan's court in the southeast, Armory place, Willow Tree alley and Clark's alley in the southwest, while the remaining nine ate situated in the north- west. The geographical distribution seems quite impartial, and no doubt a worse show. ing would have resulted had the canvasser confined her Inquiries to certain notorious districts of the city, whereas, in fact, these districts have been merely sampled. “Of the thirteen alleys tabulated by Miss de Graffenried several vary in width at different parts, Goat and Blagden being in one place 30 feet wide and in another 20 feet, while Freeman seems to dwindle from 30 to 15 feet. Willow Tree is narrower in some places than at others. Counting this among the r ning ten alleys, three are 30 feet wide, one ia 25 feet, one 24 feet, three are 20 feet, one is 18 feet, and one— only 10 feet across. Seven out of the thirteen ere blind alleys, no thor- oughfares. They form # cul-de-sac, wind- ing and turning in the middle of blocks of and verable almost ex- cept by the initiated, “Twenty of the houses under discussion alleys, the frontage of one is not ) and twenty-nine front on blind alleys. In other 58 per cent of these dwellings are hidden away tn the rear of other ln papotinger elit only one approach, and it _ sometimes disguised. ‘The buildings are difficult, even dangerous, of access, off the policeman’s beat, inviting lawlessness and crime. * * © 2 for purposes of drainage. This absence o Sewers “our poorest suburbs tn an directions, and (as regards alley property eng tack sof eones re, facilities is:confined to 19 9 rter of.the city, but exists: " Landlords én tonnect with dfatant eens nly at great expense. me seeetae Facts ‘fhdicating the landiora’s neglect are, however, not, wanting, .Whlle absense of a ‘sewer is a justifiable excuse for not furnishirg drains and pipes in fourteen cases, yet in thirty-eight instances the family dwelling house or flat has no direct sewer connection. This proves that in twenty-four cases -co! idm ‘has not been made, though possiblée.~Th#é yard at least, if not the house itself, in some of these thirty-four family dwellings has a sewer. Indeed, we fina twenty-six water closets— presenting quite so many premises, bat nevertheless a Hopeful sign, eineaens et muore than half th housés fhvolved. Se oe aes Primitive Conditions. “Twenty-four privies are reported. Con- sidering the crowded reavon which they stand, this number repre; ntg primitive conditions that are truly agpalling, in‘ view of the facts that Washington is supposed to be a modern city, with nb nuisances, and with appliances up to date that pumps and hydrants,, are in use In all the h@lghborhedds in ques: tion, and that good residence property backs up against these very vaults. In fact, since the alley yards average barcly 10x12 feet, the privies, are invariably very close to the dweflings,, Often the home Itself is contiguoug, to another’ person's box privy, and the stench from these vaults is reported as ‘smothering.’ ; ““Beaides these, urban. health: destroyers and water contaminaters, anothe=,.the ubl- quitous stable, isin. evidence near six of our fifty dwellings. One or twe: nomes, in- deed, are located over stables. inthe al- leys themselves decomposing rats and cats contribute to the stifling smells. In twenty instances there Is reported as a great hard- ship either bad, or foul,or dreadful stenches about the alleys. or premises. _., “Nor fs water for household and drinking Purposes easy to obtain or plentiful. In several cases the supply used for cooking and cleaning: must be brought frein.a dis- tance of one to two blocks. Only twenty of the dwelllings we ure stidying have water In the house. In thirty cases it comes from a hydrant in the yard, or from @ neighbor's, or from public hydrants a Square or more away. On this point our returns are rot so exact as could be de- sired, but they afford ample proof that the convenience and saving grace of water in the kitchen are lacking in three out of five alley homes. Condition of the Houses. “As to the state of repair in which these premises are kept, a gratifying number are reported to be in good condition, fully half, indeed. The other half seem in various stages of decgepitude and decay, involving & double wrong--wrong to the tenant, who ‘pays for’ decent Shelter, and wrong to the landlord with higher standards, whose Property suffers from the proximity of un- sightly and dilapidated dwellings. The former Distriet jail is perhaps the oldést habitation on our list, built at least a cen- tury ago. Three other houses are described as unfit to live in. Twelve, families, cq) plain of damp walls and floors. This con- dition-is, in-the opinion of the committee, largely due to improper surface drainage, or-entire absence of facilities for the re- moval of storm water, and the: evils are ‘intensified “by” the absence of ‘eemented ground floors and damp-proof walls. In one case the yurd drains into the kitchen. Many dwellings are open below the floor- ing, and not buflt'to withstand ¢old or rain’ Houses declared to be too far gone for human occupancy, yet inhabited, notwith: standing, and at high rentals, emphasize the need of a stringent law, constantly: en-" forced, to empty and raze to the ground all buildings below a certain fixed standard of safety and sanitation. “Space will mot permit the committee to enter into details. regarding the. relative fairness of the rentals that prevail, and which are best judged by Miss de Graffen- Fela’ apersiens s use alley, for example, where -dis- reputable houses are reported, 4-room of eroua: wenger Intaer tat arisen eaten jouses 5 dine even $10.50 tn some‘cases ant $8.30 in others. A single room igiitwo costs the tenant $4 a month, and the can- vasser says that the panes: ot which this room forms a’ pat t worth $3 a month. The presence mf rmapning water in the kitchen or from a. hydrant seems to affect the price but, ae Some p Houses. “A group of 4-room ings with water in the house,.briags drommS7.30. to . $10.50 each per month, whilebknother group, des- titute of this conventefite; Pents frdm 36 to $10.50 apiece. The old2jat# three rooms, cost $5 a month beforp, the, new roof was put on, and even now, it js hardly habit: able. Water. is block: One BS dwaiinghs HU geven occupants, has no water inside and where tae ot ates the rater closet .atands:..Phe floors of the bulldings lie on the earth and the walls down are only 8xi0 feet, the wo back tear, within three feet of the w! the. other yands,~ the located So crmowenes. ¥ mptive Wed bee a sul co | ma aehptice O3 re te f |.sttuated on a singte alley. fence in twelve dwellings of our study, all “As another type, we have two-story houses, like the preceding, without cellar Ro a m flats. There a month—a total of $12.60 for six rooms, Best of the Lot. “One cf the best rows of houses reported on any alley—three frame dwellings—lies on Foundry place, a diind alley, twenty- five feet wide. Each ten by tweilve-foot yard is paved and drained, having also a closet and hydrant, and every house has four papered rooms, not ‘needing repair. Their rent is $10 a month. Two brick dwellings three doors away at the same figure, have yards fifteen by twenty feet, but no running water, only a pipe from a neighbor’s hydrant, which, of course, ne- cessitates bex privics. In one of these homes, to quote the canvasser, were found ‘thrift, intelligerce and cleanliness that would be a credit to any one.’ ‘Goat alley, blind at one part, open at another, and varying in width, leads off in high prices, with a two-room house at $8 a month, destitute of yard, the closet in the area and the alley foul and insan!- tary. “One conclusion at least ts evident—that rents in these alleys are dear, the accommodations and environment. Moreover, the moral consequences of such narrow quarters are often disastrous. Crowded sleeping rooms contribue to vice and indecency. Indeed, crowding goes on to an extent not acknowledged to the can- vasser by the tenants. At night these poor ‘roofs shelter many rrore people than are here reported, for this society’s agent can do no more than give the statements of witnesses far from disinterested—in fact, deeply concerned, from their point of view, .pto make a good showing, to present a clean bill of health and morals. “I have no doubt that lodgers are harbor- ed in these alleys whose presence, for many’reasons not creditable to the occu- pants, is always concealed. The confessed facts are startling enough. We have here accounts of seven persons living in two rooms—the mother and her sons—twenty- one, seventeen and seven years of age, oc- cupying one bed chamber. Again, nine in- dividuals live in two rooms; eleven people in fuur rooms. Five, almcst all adults, sleep in one room—the mother forty-three, @ son twenty-one and daughters nineteen, seventeen and fourteen; and four persons use another room—a mother forty-five, an aunt seventy, a son twenty-two and a baby nine months old. Effect on the Death Rate. “The death rate, if must be remembered, everywhere rises where overcrowding pre- vails. Russell in his statistics of Gilas- gow, 1871 to 1880, has shown that mor- tality is largely determined by the num- ber of occupants to a room. When the average number of persons to each room was only 1.31, the general mortality was 21.7 per cent; and when the average num- ber of occupants was 2.05 for each sleep- ing apartment, the mortality reached 28.6 per cent. Korosi of Buda-Pesth has proved that the mortality from infectious diseases is increased in proportion to the num- ber of occupants of houses. It is only 20 per cent when the number of occupants to each room does not exceed 2, Lut is 2 per cent with 3 to 5S occupants, 32 per cent with 6 to 10 occupants and 7 per cent wheu there are more than 10 occupants to each apartment. Crowd-poison is, there- fore, a distinct evil of these alley houses, coupled as it is with insufficient light, impure air and greater chance for the spread of contagion. “The committee regrets that it has been quite impossible to determine the exact amcunt of sickness and mortality which prevails in alley houses. By far the iarg- est number of inmates when sick are treat- ed in hospitals, and these institutions often fail to record the exact address. while in many irstances the applicants for treatment give the address of their em- ployers. “It is no secret that many of the alleys hide crimivals. Our records reveal three openly disreputable houses, but the in- quiry in that direction was not pushed, my purpose being to show the average rather than extremes. In one dwelling re- sides a woman with a jail history. Other houses are tainted with the suspicion oj being ‘fast,/ and men tn them are sup- ported by women who have no visible in come. Tenants not immoral themselves profit by the traffic in sin, as one night chambermald in a brothel whose ‘tips’ ex- ceed her wages. In another family the oldest unmarried daughter has two Lle- gitimate children. Three other cases ot drunkenness are chronicled. One woman, upright herself so far as the evidence goes,- besides her own numerous offspring, cares for the two youngest children of a sister in the penitentiary, whose three daughters and two sons are in prison, while still another son is at the reform school—seven out of nine in that family behind the bars.” Some of the Conclusions. “Your committee ts of the opinion that the foregoing analysis is a fair indication of what may be expected should every alley house in this city be subjected to the same critical investigation, and feels that for a wise sclution of the problem, this preliminary investigation by the Civic Center should be followed up by an offi- ctal investigation, either by the District authorities or by the department of labor. The latter has made an investigation cover- ing some of the points embraced in this Preliminsry work in the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and C cago, in accordance with a joint resolu- tion of Congress, the results of which were Published in the report of the department of labor on the ‘Slums of Great Cities,’ 1894. “Frem the results of the preliminary in- vestigation the objections to our alleys may be summarised as follows: ‘ofl. The existence of blind alleys, or cul de sacs, shutting off smal communities from the outside world, and which are cal- culated not only to promote sickness, but also immorality and crime. “2. Insanitary condition of the alleys and aliey dwellings, which menace not only the health of the immediate inhabitants, but also of the people residing in the same block. “43. ‘The undue prevalence of immorality and crime, since it may be taken for grant- ed that the majority of alley tenants suffer Positive deterioration from witnessing the uncurbed vice around them. ‘4. High rents in proportion to the in- cemes cf the families, especially in con- sideration of the accommodations offered and the actual value of the property. The. Fints Plan. “At the first glance It would appear that the best remedy for existing evils would be the complete abandonment of every alley house in this city, and the substitution of sanitary flats at a reasonable rental. Your committee, after mature reflection, doubts the wisdom of such a radical measure, and for the following reasons: The financial suc- cess of large sanitary flats depends upon the Interest cn the capital invested, and the capitalist, unless he is at the same time a philanthropist, would feel obliged to order their construction on ground in undesirable parts of the city, with a consequent concentration of people under One roof, and possibly even more effectually removed from elevating environments than now. “An aggregation of a large number of families in flats means crowd poison from increased sources of pollution of the air, greater danger from the spread of infec- and con: great Mi ' t g # if HH i tf BE tt i i 1 G6OSOOS ODE 6905 OSO9960089 works Washington physicians. results, In the treatment of was! to weather mamation of cases to ite excellency.” BODO LT COSS SOS SS ODD great good in every case of HACKING COUGH or SEVERE COLD in adults and children. it cures quickly and permanently. made regarding Terraline that is not indorsed by eminent “I have used Terraline in my professional practice at diseases is very the bruacbia! and hich are often vers severe and continuing for a find Terraline gives the greatest relief. 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One dollar. ided by the benevolent or speculative Ianalord, an tell what life in blocks is where the population is low cl 5 “Sinks and drains are 8! yards pro- vided fo. exercise must be closed because of misbehavior; * * * * wash houses or staircases become the nightly haunt of the vicious, the Sunday gambling ase boys; the yell of the drunkard ec! “<4 through the hollow a the eons are blocked by dirty children, and the — of any decent hard-working family = comes intolerable. * * © People — brutal in large numbers who are gentle when they are in smalleregroups and know one another. * * * * For, after all, the ‘home,’ the ‘life,’ does not depend on the number of appliances. * * * > ee “I heard a workingman once say, wit! some coarseness but with much truth, *Gentiemen think if they put a water closet to every rooin they have made a —— it,’ and the remark often recurs to me, for the element of truth there is in it, and there is more decency in many a tiny little cottage in Southwark, shabby as it may be; more family life in many a one room aging family, than in many a populous block. * « *’* Hence the enormous importance of keeping a large number of small houses wherever it be possible, for the better training of the rowdy, and the protection of the quiet and gentle, and I would im- plore well-meaning landlords to pause be- fcre they clear away small houses and erect blocks with any idea of benefiting ceee the poorer class of people. Recommendations Submitted. “Your committee heartily indorses the sentiments expressed by this distinguished authority, and believes that it is not only in the interest of morality and public health chat the smaller houses should be retained in the heart of the city, but also from an economic point of view, in order that the laborers may be nearer their at nd their opportunities for securing work. BSS to remedy, remove and prevent the evils connected with the subject of housing of the poor, as revealed by the preliminary examination, your committee submits the fellewing recommendation: “1. The speedy conversion of ail alleys containing a sufficient number of human habitations into small streets and places. “A law now exists authorizing the open- ing, widening and extending of alleys when the Commissioners or health. officer deem it necessary, or when more than one-half the owners of the property so decide, but as to the costs, whether each block shall pay for the benefits derived by improving the conditicn of the property, or whether the cost shall be defrayed by the District, has not.been decided; but the principle, whether assessment for benefits is consti- tutional or not. is involved in the highway extension case now pending before the United States Supreme Court. “2 Waen impra>ticable to extend or cut through the blind alleys from north to south or. from east to west, and to widen them at least to thirty feet, they should be ccndemned as unfit for human habitation. The law enacted in 1892 forbidding the erection of dwellings in alleys less than forty feet is 1 most commendable one. Reasonable Sanitary Standard. “3. AN alleys and alley houses should be subjected to a searching official investiga- tion; tne houses should come up to a rea- scnable sanitary standard, and dwellings unfit for human habitations should be con- demned; proper pavements, branch sewers and water should be supplied, in order to carry out the law providing for the proper in: of lots, and thus lead to the aban- Sonment of box privies and the unlawful a: 1 of human excreta. Special atten- tion should be given to the cleanliness, re- mo\%>f garbage and ashes. The inhab- itants™® alleys, as very properly said by Miss de Graffenried, ‘lacking the educa- ticn and the means which are at hand to guide and assist the rich and intelligent, reed even better facilities for sanitation and cecent living than are claimed by the privileged classes. The privileged classes will be neat and moral, it is to be supposed, without such aid; while the poor man, tound to the treadmill of daily toil, re- quirez all the agencies that can be pro- vided to help him toward cleanliness and ess.” ee Tne attention of capitalists should be drawn to the fact that no class of realty pays as well as alley property in this city, ‘and that there 1s a splendid field for in- vestment in the building of sanitary and comfortable alley houses on a business and humanitarian basis. The committee be- lievee that no city affords a better oppor- tunity, on account of the size of squares, for. the conversion of. alleys into minor streets, and as the improvement would naturally influence favorably the value or desirability of every lot in the same square it should meet with no opposition. “5. The committee refers with pardonable that the systematic in- vestigation of itiated by the Civic Center, and has since en the attention of a number of thé question and the measures necessary to open up the blind alleys and render ‘slums’ in the national capital impossible.” The Growing Tendeacy to Finer Handwear and Where to Buy It— A Visit to McKnew’s, Oldest Established Glove House im the District. HE TIME when poorly made, ill-fitting gioves found a ready market has Jong since gone by and no article must now poesess firat- clase style, fineness of fabric, be perfectly cut, as well as beauti fully fintshed, to prove acceptable to even the most modest of wear- ers. I have always found the Slove department of McKuew's, ‘M83 Pa. ave, the model place at which purchase reliable hand-wear. It is the oldest glove house in the District, being es tablished since 1862, and aatural ty essames that leadership in variety and noveltics ly tong service and expe tlence can bring. This establish ment handles only such gloves as it cam guarantee, and I think th Tule should be followed by : glove stores. voubt McKew has the mos © And best-selected stock of Indies’ walking mona and evening gloves im glace and suede to be found hereabouts, calculated to suit the taste and means ©: all. 1 confess T have always been dubious ax to the staying qualities of any dollar glove, but being aseared by the enlesiady that McKnew's wns far avore the average I finally consented to be fitted in a pair, and after giving it a fair test I am convinced that It is the best $1 glove in the city and would compare very “favorably with most $1.50 qualities, Asking for their vest glove for cycling, shopping, traveling and office wear, I was shown their mous “Castor” at $1.25, and I felt that it exac Milled the use fo. which it was intended —not being injured or affected by perspiration or moisture. McKuew's house ts always the first to show nc eltles, and its shrewd head is always planning snd getting out :ew and taking innovations, of which the anovc mentioned Castor glove is a fair example. When it comes Xo: fine glover, Pteleve onc cant Suve wuney aud secure more satisfaction by shop. ping at McKnew's. All the evening gloves are shown by this house, even up to the 20-but lengths. The prevailing color for evening gloves ibis year is white, embroidered in self and Ula: Prices, #v the salesindy informed me, cange ax fc lows: 4-button lengths, $1 up pair; §-button lengths, $1.25 pair; 12-button lengths, $2.25 p No need to know what size you weat in buying of this taodel glove house, for all gloves are perfectly fitted to the hand before the customer leaves the store. I think any woman, no matter how fastidious, Would feel well satisfied by any patr of gloves she should buy of the “oldest established glove house.”” CARRIE V The crop report of the Mark Lane Express of London, Eng., says: The aspect of the growing wheat in England is very satisfactory. The area is 10 per cent above that of 1596, the farmers are dissat- isfied with the prices of barley and cats, and, therefore, it is probable that February and March will witness a larger sowing than usual of spring wheat. C. M. Chipman Dead. Charles M. Chipman, the young New Yorker who attempted to cormit suicide at the Howard House Thursday afternoon of last week by inhaling illuminating gas, died at the Emergency Hospital, where he has been lying in a critical condition, at 2 o’cleck this morning. Chipman’s brother was here yesterday, but could give no mo- tive for the dced or throw any ugat whai- ever on the reason for the suicide. Chip- man icaves a wife, who hives with hs mother, at 264 W. 28th street, New York. ike: will not towipe out the den Medical Dis: Dis- It makes » and the di- liver to strong mus- active brain all cases and testified "t ume Sep te T had mo appetite. itecemed by Sook sts me to == ~ o i spare! testend De refew are asure constipation liver, A