Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1897, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1897—16 PAGES, SPECIAL NOTICES. SPECIAL NOTICES. ALL PERSONS HAVING PERSONAL pledged with H. K. Paltox. on which year's interest or more are requested ay ‘interest due or the same will at auction TUESDAY, January 26th inst. HK. FULTU ICE. property eon jalese* 0. E. S.-THE INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS Grand Chapter will take place in Scottish Bite Cath SAT., Jan. 16, 7:30 o'clock p.m. All members of the order are invited to be pres: ent. By order of Worthy Grand Matron. ie Wok! NALLEY, Grand Sec. Serrir ILL HOLD ENING tn hall 606 posaitattons dally; “business a ee {ENT OF DELICACIES ived that’re famons the ALIA HAMS and REASTS. We send any quant! op postal or telephone. serve everything geod to eat in sea- world over, oay put Gur special dishes are Steamed Oysters i Brotled Live Lobsters. FRITZ REL R'S HOTEL AND RESTAURANT, oR. 4% ST. AND PA. AVE. Jalsa weting of the stockholders of the wiiding Company for the election of dl- ‘the ensuing year will be held Virginia Brick Company in Alexevdria county, Va., near end of the Long fridge, on THURSDAY, Jannary 21, 1807, be- ween the hours of 12 m. an eA et ae President. GEO. B. EMMONS, Secreta $07, 14820 5 : Office of THE NATIONAL TYPOGRAPHIC COMPANY, ane building. NEW YORK, December 31, 1896. ing of the stockholders of che hic Company will be held at Lune building, New York city, cn the THIRD SATURDAY of the 16th dey of the month, rectors for the ensuing year ‘The anni Naticnal ‘election « and the tiansaction of such other business #8 nay_be brought before It asta. . oe AM CLEPHANE, SFAL SALS WILL RE RECEIV % be opened at THRE! or THURSDAY, ‘FaNtaRy TWENTY-FIRST, 1897, at my office in the Kellogg building. for the Trivit'ze of the use of reservations and spaces fronth n-yivania avenue from 17th street Nl for the erection thereon of stands for sightseers on the oc auguration of Preside Teservations and Fpaces upon : Se eae pine ata Prams nat purposes which eum be there Ob blanks for {at Der arcpsican of the several tained a ye esac information as to requlre- Fae a eT ee stale to confor" will be furnished by me to responsible ties. Bach bid to be accompanied by a certified check equal to one-fourth of the amount of the bid, this eck, to be neteceea Mt tee Nid he aot accepted we tight to reject any and all bids and defers fw eseved, HA. WILLARD, Chairman Committee on rks and Reservatious. Wasbing- . D.C. Janu 12, 1807. jal2z-7t OLD SOLDIERS AND SONS OF VETERANS—Me- Kinley Union Veterans’ Patriotic League—Rally TOMORROW NIGHT, Jan. 15, 7:30 o'clock, at Republican Hall, 923 F et. n. it_busi- revs. J.-H, DEWEES, President. J. W.. F. WILLIAMS, Secretary. 1 I_0. 0._F.—MEMBERS OF GOLDEN RULB Lodge, No. 21, L O. O. F., are requested to at- tend a special meeting tobe held at Odd Fel- lows’ Hall, 5 THURSDAY (this even- ing), January 14, o'clock sharp, to make arrangements for the funeral of our late brother, John VU. O'Neill, By order of it G. J. CROMPTON, Noble Grand. SPIRTIUALISM—TYPOGRAPHICAL TEMPLE, 425 G@ st. n.w., FRIDAY NIGHT, J: 15, "7:30 .m. Rev. F. A. Wiggin, who is for the Piest Aseociation of Spiritualists during March and, April next, will, by special request, give Public seance, also. January | 22 29, and Februrry 5. Mr. Wiggin will be remembered as being here last year, when the ball was crow to soe and hear bis wonderful ballot tests. Mr. A. J. Maxham, the well-known vocalist, will have charge of the music. §al4,15,21,22,28,20,fe4&5 OFFICE OF THE MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Washington, D. C., January 1, 1307, ‘The annual meeting of the MUTUAL FIRE IN- SURANCE COMPANY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA will be held on the third MONDAY of Jamrrs, 1897, the 18th instant, at tho office of the company,” corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Ninth street northwest, commencing at 9 o'clock a.m. By the charter of the company tbe election of seven managers, to conduct the affairs of the company, is required to be held at the above meeting. By the sixth article of the by-laws of the com- pany it is provided: At the annual meeting of the company the first business In order shall be the appointment of a chairman, who shall conduct the meeting and election in ‘accordance with the act of incorporation, between the hours of 9 o'clock a.m. ‘snd 6 o'clock p.m. Amount of premium notes held by the company 942 00 Amount of 698 66 Securities . 280,648 98 Real estate ‘70,000 00 Office furnitu: ‘500 00 Losses by fire for the year Justed and paid ~ 6,756 7 The annual statement will be ready for dis- tribution at the office of the company about January 11th instant. By order of the Board of Mi rs. ja2-14t SAMUEL ‘Secretary. TIES HAVING ROOMS, HALLS OR VA- fees whieb they wish to it — ural e wiles, March 4, 18u7, will ase 1419 F st. call at. the Glover ‘building, and bave them registered by ous ce pane coe a WRIGHT, Chatrman. cust of Gi ore conducted by the ald George ¢ rstgued unier the Dame of Gross Boothers, at 411 oi at. s.w. Said business will hereafter be carried on under the pame of Joba Groes. Jal3-ct* SEALED FI the OPOSALS WIL ened at THRE! logge building Hege of the use of reservations and spa ¢ Pennsylvania avenue from 17th street fo the ot ection thereon of stands for seers on the occasion of the coming inauga- McKinley. a ations and spaces to be bid for sepa- ty mumbers as shown on.a pint at ny ofhce planks for that purpose, which can be there ned, and where dimensions of the several ‘es snd other needed information as to re- frements can also be had. The stands to conform to plans and elevations of which biue-print copies “will be furnished by mie to responsible partles. Exch bid to be accompanied ty a certified check equal to one-fourth of the amount of the this cheek to be returned if the bid be not accepted The right to refect any and all waive defects is reserved. ler the firm day of Jan- the ‘sald firm will be parable, 10 and id firm dis- ue bis place Now D street nort FRANK KR. RICH MONI THE STOCKE onal Safe Deposit, Savings and f the District of ‘Columbia, for s and for such other busi- come before it, will be company, northeast cor- York avenue, oa MON. im, will give sittings her new development im addition to ber al controls. Readings given from contact of tips: MeNetl has always been a bat has won and a siti Mrs, OD. - € Jor 14 Pa. ave. Hours—9 to 6; ngagement onl: jag-6e* SBURGH FURNITURE AND All pa. quested to call at above number at thelr Indebtedness. Owing to the s of entire stock, we are greatly In need and will apreciate your prompt settie- JULIUS LANSBURGH FURNITURE T CO. de30-tt THE ANNUAL MEPTING OF THE STOCKHOLD- ff the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home [ail- NEWBOLD, Preside RE REPAIRED AND F $83 Est. nw. Also fur- piment. All work first-class rE YOUR FURN 2 at WALTER'S ure packed for sh: panie prices. I never disappoint We're after every lawyer —We want them all to let us print their Briefs. 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Sold =a F st jul3-104 Private Correspondence 5. demands CORRECT STATIONERY. ou AN! . Ht YS and HITING’S BOX APER aud EXVELOPES are recognized by Bare E yg ere ax boing emi shapes, siaew nod tints. Rss CF Prices are always lowest here. Easton & Rupp, 421 1ithSt. POPULAR-PRICED _ ANE. Jai3-144 What Better Holiday Gift Than either an 1896 PATTERN RAMBLER at Siaty Dollars (trand-new, late product and fully guaranteed), or A NEW 1807 RAMBLER—equal to any would-be $100 bicycle in the world—and sold at only $50: “Twenty dollars saved earned.”” Cheaper Bicycles, if you are looking for them, too—all the way from $35 up. Largest stock and Lest assortment in the south. Open evenings until Sfter the holidays. Gormully & JefferyMfg.Co., 1325-27 lath st. ai9-28a equals twice that Down Town Agency, 429-81 10th st. nw. THEY WERE SENTENCED. Three Months’ Favorite Time Today in Police Court. The docket in Judge Kimball's branch of the Police Court today was unusually light, but the sentences were exceptionally severe. The favorite utterance of the court was “Three months,” and that term was the fate particularly of persons arrested as vagrants. The most interesting case was that in which Hester Carter, Ida Sillard, Alberta Gibson, Emma Stewart and Bertha Brad- ley, all colored, figured as defendants. They were charged as vagrants and also as sus- picious characters, and-were arrested in a raid yesterday, conducted by Sergt. Barry and Policemen Harries, Osborn and Bruce. ‘The women, together with four men, were found in a dilapidated shanty in Pork Steak alley, between F and G, 9th and 10th streets. They are all notorious characters, so it was testified, and were engaged in cooking a sumptuous repast at the time of the raid. In the hut was found stolen goods to the value of $85. ‘The women dented that they lived at the house, claiming that they had merely hap- pened to meet there yesterday. “Three months each,” remarked the court. Clothes-Line Strippers. ‘The four men fourd in the house, Eugene Vincent, Walter Tyler, Charles Johnson and Georg Bradley, were arraigned in the United States branch of the court for housebreaking. The quartet 1s known as the “clothes-line strippers’ and the mem- bers have been a source of great annoy- ance to residents of South Washington for several months past. ‘The property found in the house was identified as that stolen Tuesday night from Mr. P. J. Mulligan of 942 Virginia avenue southwest, and Mrs. Ida Cook of 10th and C streets southwest. The stolen property eceupled a large portion of the floor space of the court room. The men mentioned were by the evidence connected with the theft, and Judge Miller held each of them for the action of the grand jury in $500 bonds. John Riley is not the individual “they speak of so highly” in the popular song, but Is a typical representative of the genus hobo. As he stood at the rail, John was armed with a cane and carried a bundle, the covering of which was a red bandana handkerchief. “Are you guilty or not guilty?” asked the clerk. g “He says he wants to go down for sixty days to tide him over,” responded a bailiff. “Haven't you any money?” asked the court. “No, sir,” John said. ‘Why haven't you?” “I was too Mberal with my last pension money.” “And now you want the District to sup- port you until the next payment of pen- sions, when you will again squander your money. You're a fine citizen. I'll give you thirty days more than you bargained for. Three months.” i Vickey Riley is not related to John, either by blood or marriage, but was in the dock as a fellow vagrant. Vickey, in company with George Jchnson and Michael Cava- naugh, was begging yesterday on 7th street near the Center Market, and the trio were promptly arrested by Policeman Sullivan. All of them will be released from the workhouse on the same day, three months hence. Charles Wilson and William Burke were amusing themselves last night by stopping bedestrians on Pennsylvania avenue and demanding coin of the realm. Policeman Walsh assumed a commending hand in the little game, and in court today no exception to the three. months’ rule, so far as Wilson and Burke are concerned, was noted. oo Home for the Aged. The ennual meeting of the ladies inter- ested in the Home for the Aged of the M. E. Church, corner of 12th and N streets northeast, was held this morning at Foun- dry Church, and the following officers were re-elected for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. D. B. Street of Hamline Church; vice presidents; Mrs. A. E. Evans of McKendree, Mrs. William Burris of Metropolitan, Mrs. C. W. Baldwin of Wesley, Mrs. E. J. Har- per of Douglas Memorial, Mrs. L. B. Wil- son, at large, Mrs. 8. M. Hartsock of Ry- land and Mrs. J. E. Talty of Foundry; treasurer, Mrs. T. C. Smith of McKendree: recording secretary, Mrs. J. C. Tasker of Metropolitan; corresponding secretary, Mrs. W. G. McDowell of Metropolitan; physi- cians, Drs. D. B. Street, E. 3. Lothrop, D. O. Leech and R. King; trustees, Messrs. Richard H. Willett, Andrew B. Duvall, G. W. ¥. Swartzell, Robert Cohen, W. Taylor Birch, W. F. Rodrick, Henry L. "Strang, Z. Jones and D. D. Thompson. ——————— Federation Headquarters. The American Federation of Labor, through Vice President Duncap of Balti- more, has closed a contract with Mr. John F. Waggaman for the lease of three com- modious rooms in the building corner of 14th and G streets northwest, and will take posssession of them Saturday, from which time the headquarters of the order will be located there. Castoria For Infants and Children. CASTORIA PROMOTES DIGESTION, and over comes Flatulency, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrboca and Feverishness. Thus the child te rendered healthy and its sleep NATURAL Cas. TORIA contains no morphine or other narcotic property. “ RIA 1s 20 well adapted to children that I recommend it ss superior to any prescription known to me.” H. A. ARCHER, M.D, 311 Bo. Oxford st., Brooklyn, N. ¥. “For several years 1 have recommentied ‘Casto ria,’ and shall always continue to do s0, as it has invariably produced beneficial results."* EDWIN F. PARDEE, M.D:, 325th ot. and ith ave., New York city. FOR THE NEWSBOYS A Committee Protests Against Sunday Newspaper Order. COMMISSIONERS LISTEN T0 ARGUMENTS Dr. Kent Thinks the Order a Dan- gerous Precedent. IN OTHER CITIES The strongest protest that has yet been made against the order of the Commission- ers forbidding the crying of newspapers on Sunday was presented to the Commis- sioners this morning by the committee ap- pointed at the Willard Hall meeting. Although the Commissioners had already acted finally in this matter, and had given @ public hearing upon the subject, they agreed to give the friends of the newsboys another opportunity to present their case. And so when the hour set for the hearing arrived, the Commissioners were all pres- ent, and no time was lost in getting under way. Mr. Simon Wolf, who presided at the Willard Hall meeting, opened the discus- sion. He preceded his remarks by an in- quiry as to the influence that prompted the Commissioners to make the change. Presi- dent Ross replied that it had been stated several times and widely published. The Commissioners’ had received very many protests against being annoyed by the cry- ing of newspapers on Sunday. Some of them based their complaints on being dis- turbed while at their religious observance, while others objected to being disturbed in their slumbers. The Commissioners took the ground that they would not interfere with the legitimate sale of newspapers on Sunday, but only decided that the day should be one of absolute rest and quiet. Mr. Kent's Appeal. Mr. Wolf then called attention to the fact that the order was not made because of a public nuisance, but in accordance with the wishes of a few who were disturbed. Other nuisances were taken care of by the Police, when their attention was called to them. The Commissioners would have a big job on their hands if every one in the city who was disturbed by one thing or an- other undertook to regulate them by orders. He introduced Rev. Dr. Kent, who said; “At a mass meeting held in Willard Hall on the 7th instant we were appointed a committee to appear before your honor- able body and respectfully ask at your hands a recall of the order recently issued by you forbidding the newsboys of this city to cry their papers on Sunday. “We beg to urge this upon you, first, in the interest of those newsboys who wish to sell their papers, and, second, in the inter- est of the reading public who wish to buy. “It cannot be doubted, we think, that the order prohibiting the crying of papers will very materially lessen the sales. There are many who would gladly buy if they hap- pened to see or hear the newsboy, who will not take the trouble to wait for an hour on the street or at the window to secure the chance. If the newsboy is not allowed to make his presence known in the neighbor- hood in the usual way he will certainly lose a very large part of his custom. “This is a very serious matter to him, for Sunday is his principal harvest day. His profit on each paper is twice as great as on other days, and he sells twice or three times as many. To deprive him of any part of this income is to lessen that which is already inadequate to his needs and increase the pressure which is forcing so many into beggary and thieving. “If it be said that this order does not prevent him from ringing each door bell and secking a customer, it may surely be affirmed that this 1s something which the citizen will not long permit. If the bell can be rung by one boy it may be ten, for no one has any means of knowing whether another has been there before him. The average citizen, therefore, would prefer to dispense with his paper, or take the chance of getiing it in some other way, rather than expose himself to the annoyance of so many successive attacks on his bell. “Tt is fully granted that the public has @ clear right to protect itself against unnec- eceary or unjustifiable noises, but it may well be questioned whether it has the right to single out one of the least offensive and disturbing ard discriminate so clearly against the interests and business of those who cause it. If there is any right which society should guard with peculiar sacred- ness it is the right to earn one’s living. I} do not say the right to get it. I say the right to earn it, and any restriction upon an honorable callin, which makes the returns from: that calling inadequate to self- support and to the maintenance of those de- pendent on the earner, is a serious inter- ference with his rights. I am sure that the gentlemen of the District commission do not desire to sacrifice the rights and inter- ests of any class—even the humblest—may I not say especially of the humblest—merely to promote the quiet and comfort even of the highest and best. If there is any truth whatever in the claims made for our gov- ernment and civilization, the highest and best must be those who are most deepiy concerned for the welfare and happiness of others, and not those who are chiefly intent on securing and protecting their own. “I have failed to find any one in the circle of my acquaintance who has been seriously disturbed by the newsboys’ cries. The only person with whom I have talked who seem- ed to feel that tho public had a genuine grievance against them, and that the gen- tlemen who demanded a suppression of their cries were public benefactors, was the man who keeps the general news depot on 14th street, and whose principal business is the sale of out-of-town papers. The quieting of the newsboys’ voices means custom for him, and so he thougat their cries extremely annoying and reprehensible on Sunday. Gentlemen, Washington cannot afford to go on record as sustaining this order. There is no public demand for it. There is no public need on which such de- mand could be justly based. The feeling prompting the few at whose instance or request the order wus issued had undoubt- edly a basis in notions of Sunday observ- ance which are utterly impracticable in modern civilization. This order can only be justified and sustained by a sentiment which goes very much farther, I am sure, than you are willing to go; a sentiment which must result, if carried into effect, in @ practical reversal of the Sunday legisla- tion of cur Puritan forefathers. I have no fear, gentlemen, that anything of this kind is before us, and I do not conjure this up as a fogy. I only wish to say that the path on which you have entered in passing this order concerning the newsboys is one which logically leads you where you cannot afford to follow. “We beg, therefore, you will return to the law as it was, which gives the church services all the protection they need with- out seriously infringing the rights of the | ats the newsboys or the reading pub- ic. Mrs. Logan’s Letter. Mr. Wolf continued the discussion by reading the following letter from -Mrs. Logan, who was prevented by illness from being presen‘ “Gentlemen: If a modus vivendi could be arrived at by which the newsboy could be made ‘to roar as gently as any suckling dove,’ as Srakespeare says, and still be not deprived the privilege of crying their wares on Sunday, that arrangement would probably satisfy all concerned. Their cry is their only capital—their advertising coi- umn and their perambulatory store. They earn three times as much by selling the Sunday papers as by selling the weekly papers. If you had been at the newsboys’ meeting, gentlemen, you would have seen one boy—and a big boy, too—break down and cry, as he told how his earnings from sales of the Sunday papers had enabled him to buy a pair of new shoes for his Uttle sister, and always to replenish the cupboard for mother for the whole week; and how she would have perished on many a bitter day had it not been for the coal he was enabled to buy through the sale of the Sunday papers. Another boy said whatever learning he had was derived from the Sunday papers. It is claimed that papers can be sold here as they are in New York city—on newsstands. Gentle- men, remember that fh New York city stores are open on Sunday morning until 10 o'clock; people are running about with their market baskets buying groceries, bread, milk, meat, &c., and the streets look almost the same on Sunday mornings as they do on week days—would that please here? When buying their Sunday morn- THE OFFICIAL Re a EXPLANATORY NOTE: Observations taken at 8 a.m., 75th meridiar time. Hn a acer’. WEATHER MAP. Hi | lh i sh c= {iy my" @ Partly Coup — sacksomrill® & Crug @ fain, 60° @Snom Solid lines are tso- bars, or lines of equal air pressure, drawn for each tenth of an inch. Dotted lines are isotherms, or lines of equal temperature, drawn for each ten degrees. Shaded areas are regions where rain or now has fallen during preceding twélve hours. The words “High” and “Low’’ show location of areas of high and low barometer. ‘Small arrows fly with the wind. MAY CLEAR TOMORROW. ther Bureau Looks for a Rise im Temperature. Forecast till’8 p.m. Friday.—For the Dis- trict of Columbia and Maryland, threaten- ing weather and light snow or rain, prob- ably clearing during Friday; not so cold to- night; easterly winds, shifting to northerly. For Virginia, light rain or snow, clearing by Friday afternoon; not so cold tonight; north to east winds. The W Weather conditions and general forecast. —The barometer has fallen from the lower lake region southward to Florida and in the extreme northwest; it has risen in the Mississippi valley and thence westward over the Rocky mountains. It is highest north of Minnesota and lowest north of Montana. It is warmer this morning in all districts east of the Mississippi and colder from Texas northward to the Dakotas. Light snows or local rains are reported from the central valleys, the southern and middle Atlantic states and upper lake region. Conditions are favorablé for light snows from southern New England southwest- ward over the Ohio valley. Showers will prevail in the southern states, probably followed by clearing weather Friday. The following heavy precipitation (in inches) was reported: ; During the past twenty-four hours—Au- gusta, 1.94; Knoxville, 1.06; Los Angeles, 1.12; San Diego, 1.20; Adairsville, Ga., 1.70. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of water at 8 a.m.: Great Falls, temperature, 82; condi- tion, 36; receiving reservoir, temperature, 85; condition at north connection, 36; con- dition at south conection, 36; distributing reservoir, temperature, condition at in- fluent gate house, 36; effluent gate house, 36. Tide Table. Today—Low tide, 9:59 a.m. and 11:12 p.m.; high tide, 3:38 a.m. and 4:20 p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 10:48 a.m. and 11:57 p.m.; high tide, 4:28 a.m. and 5:10 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rises, 7:18 a.m.; sun sets, 5:01 p.m. ‘ Moon sets 4:51 a.m. tomorrow. Tomorrow—Sun rises, 7:18 a.m. The City Lights. Gas lamps all lighted by 6:09 p.m.; ex- tinguishing begun at 6:26 a.m. The light- ing is begun one hour before the time named. Are lamps lighted at 5:54 p.m.; extin- guished at 6:41 a.m, Temperatures for Twenty-Four Hours. The following are the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau for the past twenty-four hours, beginning at 4 o'clock yesterday afternvon: January 13—4 p.m., 26; 8 p.m., 26; mid- night, 25. January 14—4 a.m., 22; 8 a.m., 25; 12 m., 29, and 2 p.m., 30. Maximum, 30, at 2 p.m., January 14; min- imum, 21, at 6 a.m., January 14. ing provisions it 1s easy enough for the New York people to buy the Sunday papers, and think how numerous the news- stands are—at all the elevated stations, before the barber shops, cigar stores, at all the street corners, and, of course, at all hotels, which are so thickly scattered in every neighborhood, one has not to walk more than a square in any ditection without finding a newsstand. “One wealthy newspapér owner in New York furnishes a red table free of charge to all storekeepers who will sell his paper, and the consequerce is’ that no matter which way you Icok you'8ée these red ta~ bles out on the sidewalks, not on week days only, but on Sundays, fob, even in residential neighborhoods. Réd‘tables all over the city, on Sunday, in ‘residential neighborhoods! Would that splease- here? Gentlemen, I ask you to remember the idio- syncrasies of the Washington people, par- ticularly of our women here,'‘who, rich or poor, are all dainty in their apparel, as far as they are able, and don’t like to show themselves in the streets looking like slat- terns. Women in the tenemént” neighbar- hoods of New York don’t care*a’ pin how they look. Such women would walk out to a newsstand looking Hike frights; but a busy housewife in Washington, -who is not all dressed up, will only stick-her head out of the door and buy 'a paper, when she hears the boy's cry. if you suppress the ery she has to go without her; paper, for she has no money to.place a m@ath’s aub- scription at the office for thepaper to .be delivered, as the:rich.people,-da, Should the street delivery be .suppressed some highly capitalized” trist ‘will’ get ‘Kotd of the newspaper delivery business, ‘and possibly we may see a price prohibitive to the poor, placed upon the Sunday news- paper, which is now the cheapest and most astounding compendium of popular art and information the world ever saw. “I ask you not to prevent that boy’s buy- ing the shoes for his little sister, not to prevent his filling the cupboard for his mother, nor replenisHing her coal scuttle cn wintry days; not to hinder that other boy from gleaning a little precious learning from the newspapers he is selling; not to make one law for the poor and another for the rich, as between the poor people buy- ing the Sunday newspaper at their doors and the rich people ordering its delivery monthly by subscription.” Mr. Wolf's Indorsement. Mr. Wolf said he indorsed ‘every word that Mrs. Logan said. The Commissioners were the government to whom the people have to look for protection. Tite issuance of the order was not Mm linewith their wishes, or did it subserve their best inter- ests. He wanted it understood that no member of the committee desired to in- fringe upon the rights of others. Thé en- forcement of the order would result in an- other trust, and this country was already too heavily burdened with trusts. It would drive from the streets a number of hard working, honest boys, and they would be stranded upon life's highway. He believed if the people who had brought about this objectionable order would only investigate it and see the misery its enforcement would Produce he was certain they would stand by the committee in its effort to have the order revoked. If 7:30 was too early for some people to get up, or be disturbed, why, regulate the sale of newspapers by limiting the crying of them on Sundays between 8 and 10.o'clock. It is the New York papers that the people wanted, and they did not get in until 9 and 16 o'clock. If the order Stands {t will result in a greatér nuisance to the people than the crying Of newspapers did to the few who objected. The news- boys would ring the door bells, and being ignorant of the fact that a householder had been served, the ringing would be kept up all day. He had great confidence in the District Commissioners, but was free to say that this order had been issued without giving to the subject the consideration it demanded. He closed by appealing to the Commissioners for a restoration of the newsboys’ rights. Others Heard. Mrs. Bell Brown and Mrs. M. D. Lincoln also spoke in favor of a modification of the order. Then came Dr. Purvis, and he made a strong plea for the newsboys. He started in by criticising the methgds adopt- ed by the advocates of the order. It was the duty of the Commissiongys,.to admin- ister the laws for the benefit, of. the poor as well as for the rich. It.,was an easy matter to favor the rich. He keen for years trying to find some’ wi amelio- rate the condition of his racé. To instill into his people the knowledga/ofi the bene- fits to be derived from good sitizenship. There was a large number ‘ok people in Washington, many of them depéndent. To take away from the poor néw#doys their source of revenue would be torcontinue the record that Washington hadijgained of being the city with the largest criminal record in proportion to. its ation, He criticised in this connection ohe,pf the Po- lice Court judges for having @ small huckster, who had been e1 d in the business for years without having a license, and who was not reonfred ,to,bave one. He said that if this order. were.supmitted to the people they would laugh it out of court. Mr. L. M. Saunders closed the speech- making with a strong appeal for the news- ys. Embessiing Charg This morning Detectives Carter and Gal- laher arrested William B, Peters, alias Bergman, on a charge of embeszling $16.50 from his employer, John’ M.’ Rueth, the baker. The defendant, who is about fifty years old, was employed as driver by Mr. Rueth, and it is charged he’ made -collec- tions and failed to turn in the money. When arrested he cl: med. af, he- had spent the money with ie ‘ustomers in the interest of his ernployer’s busifiess, and sata he had been ‘drinking. The case will be tried in the Police Court Saturday. : SUNDAY AND THE NEWSBOYS. With Some Remarks Also on the Subject of Bells. The newsboy question is still under de- bate. The discussion has taken in church tells and other matters, as well as the cries of newsboys Sunday morning. Mr. G. M. Wood evidently believes in suppressing the newsboy altogether. He writes to The Star: “The order of the District Commission- ers forbidding the crying of newspapers on the streets on Sunday is a good thing, but it does not go far enough; it should be so extended as to cover the other six days of the week also. Why should this noisy and annoying practice of hawking and sell- ing newspapers on the streets be permitted here at the national capital, which ought to be a model city, undisturbed by street cries of any kind? Itinerant bootblacks were once as offensive as these newsboys, but in most cities they have been sup- pressed. Yet one is here still beset—as- saulted, almost—by dirty urchins, black and white, who, with hands long unwash- ed, thrust newspapers into one’s face, of- ten obstructing the way, and always add- ing their noisy cries to the other noises of the street, thus increasing the danger to pedestrians from passing vehicles. Statis- ties of prisons show that criminal life of- ten begins with street life. Certainly this peddling of newspapers prevents these boys from receiving a proper education or industrial graining. Let these lads be sent to schools or to workshops. A really great newspaper does not need to be hawked about the streets. There are numerous places where newspapers are sold, and if there are not enough of these, more can be added. A petition to the Commission- ers asking that the street sale of news- papers be entirely prohibited is now beirg circulated.” “A. C. H.” writes: “I want to say a word in regard to church bells. I was a patient in Columbia Hospital in the winter months, and suffered greatly by the ringing of St. Stephen's Church bells at 6 a.m. After nights of suffering, getting quiet toward morning and in a sound sleep, I was sud- denly awakened at 6 a.m., while quite dark, to suffer several unnecessary hours of pain. Why ts this permitted? Is there no remedy for this evil? I have a friend who lives in the rear of a church, who is suffering from the same trouble as I did. If the newsboys and others are not permitted to make a noise on the streets (which I heartily ap- Drove), why are we to suffer from the church bells at such unreasonable hours? I wonder the hospital doctors and others do not protest. I think I voice the senti- ment of other sufferers.” W. H. Pritchett, in a letter discussing the moral aspect of the Sunday newsboy question, says: “For much of our Sabbath lesecration ministers and members of Christian churches are responsible, and if our ministers will not cry out against this great evil, and if religious papers do not, then laymen must resort to secular papers to warn th2 people of the danger of popu- larizing the principles of. the champions of the newsboys at Willard’s Hall on last Thursday evening. Again I say, ‘Let not our friends be drawn into this whirlpool by the deceitful sophistry of the newsboys’ ad- vocates at Willard’s Hall.’ Do we, do they, not know that Sabbath toil is insatiable, and mu Boe, by what it feeds on and ever cry ‘Give!’ ‘Give!’ until it gets everything? “The Sabbath spirit will die outs the thoughts of a higher, better life Perish from the minds of men, absorbed, harassed, fatigued by ceaseless pursuits of toll and Gratification of appetite.” ———— Hotel Arrivals. Raleigh—R. N. Hall and W. B. Gill, Phila- delphia, Pa.; J. H. Burton, L. P. Cook, G. H. Waggoner, J. F. Stout, T. EB. Quinn, W. H- Baker and F. J. Grant, New York; EB. ‘W. Wagner, Chicago, Ill.; L. M. Meyer, Pittsburg, Pa.; J. T. Anderson, Richmond, Va.; H. M. Higgins, Hillsboro’, Ohio. ‘Wellington—R. F. Steward and wife, St. Louis, Mo. Oxford—J. A. Gary, New York; C. A. Whiting and wife, Cleveland, Ohio; M. V. Morrow, Baltimore, Md.; C. Broderson and wife, Newark, N. J. Riggs—J. G. Miller and W. B. Dean, New York; M. 8. Kelley, Providence, R. I.; Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Pettit and H. B. Morris, oo Il; 8. W. Moore, Kansas City, fo. Ebbitt-E. H. Ripple and W. Connell, Scranton, Pa.; W. C. Marion, jr., Indian- apolis, Ind.; A. D. Porter, New York; P. T. areee Newark, N. J.; J. F. Hill, Augusta, le. Willard’s—J. R. Carter, New York; N. W. Shafer, Pittsburg, Pa.; J. E. Stuart and H. N. Cooper and wife, Chicago, Tl.; H. M. ore Zuma, N. Y.; J. J. Smith, Roches. fer, N.Y. Cochran—C. H. Grosvenor, Athens, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs, C. B. Seaman, jr., and G. B. Swayne and wife, New York; Rev. J. C. Hodgins, Germantown, Pa. Hamilton—H. Remley, Iowa City, Iowa; 'W. A. Gillepsie, Philadelphia, Pa. Normandie—C. Bary, Chicago, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. P. F. DeDan, Philadelphia, Pa.; A. P. Baker and wife, Nashua, N. H.; A. B. Van Houten and wife, Newark, N. J. ‘Arlington—W. W. Catlin and J. M. Gearin, Portland, Ore.; C. R. Carhart, Brooklyn, N. ¥.; N. A. Moore, Kensington, Conn.; J. H. Ricketson, Pittsburg, Pa.; J. H. Finks, ‘Waco, Texas. Shoreham—J. De C. Ireland and C. M. Dally, New York; H. Phipps, jr., Pittsburg, Pa.; F. R. Shattuck, Philadelphia, Pa.; J. L. Ireland, Cleveland, Ohio; E. W. Baker, Brookline, Mass.; 8. H. Gilmore, New Or- ‘fetropelitan—C. W. Anstin, Chi letropolitan—C. W. tin, Chicago, Iil.; L. F Rockwell, New York; Ashe- ville, N. C.; Col. G. North Lowell, Philadelphia, Pa,; B. ‘wife, Boston, Z According to. the Kelly the sidewall tm northwest is in need of repair. ‘The report was referred to the street department. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. ACCOUNTANTS AMUSEMENTS .. EDUCATIONAL EXCURSIONS BINANCLAL . FOREIGN FOR EXCHANGE. FOR BENT (Flats). FOR RENT (Halls). FOR FOR FoR FOR FoR FOR FOR Z i RENT (Rooms) RENT (Miscellaneous). .. RENT (Offices) RENT (Stables) RENT (Stores). RENT (Warehouses) FOR SALE (Houses) FOR SALE (Lots) FOR SALB (Miscellaneou: HORSES AND VEHICLES. wADIES' GOODS. LOCAL” ME\XTIO: LOCAL MENTIO! LOST AND FOUND. MEDICAL . MONEY WANTED AND TO LOAN. OCEAN TRAVEL. PERSONAL FIANOS AND POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. RAILROADS ... SUBURBAN PROPERTY. THE INAUGURATION. UNDERTAKERS . WANTED (Help)... WANTED (Houses). WANTED WANTED WANTED (Situations) WINTER CON ree Pe ee ee ee ee re DENSED LOCALS Ice on Little river, back of Analostan Is- land, is almost thick enough for skating, while there is not much ice in the main river, “Little river will freeze in the sum- mer,” remarked Lieutenant Vernon this morning. “I've seen ice seven inches thick over there, when the other part of the river was navigable.” Agnes Ehring, the girl who came here from Columbus, Ohio, several days ago with George Ward, was sent home last night by the police. Ward was released from custody two days ago. Broken pavements in front of 512 and 518 7th street southwest were reported by Lieut. Vernon yesterday. Lieut. Gessford re- ported a leaky fire plug at 1ith and W streets and a leaky water main near i7th and V streets. Lieut. Kelly reported dangerous holes in front of S15 4th street, 309 H street and 100 I street northwest. J. C. Greenman, secretary .o the chief of police of Kansas City, and agent of the Humane Society there, is in the city on a visit. He called on Chief Clerk Sylves*er at police headquarters yesterday to learn something of the police methods here. William De Atley of 612 7th street south- west, the proprietor of a pool room, was fined $5 by Judge Miller in the Police Court for assaulting Guy Norbeck of 719 G street southwest. Norbeck was formerly em- ployed by De Atley, but the two had a mis- understanding, during which the assault was committed. Annie Tucker, a colored servant girl, was in the Police Court today, charged with the larceny of a bicycle, valued at $100, from Charles H. Mitchell ef 441 7th street south- west. The wheel was returned later, and, as the owner stated that he did not care to prosecute, the case was not pressed. Bieyclists should beware of the mounted squad of the police force. The bells on wheels are now being carefully examined, and all that are defective, warrant the ar- rest of the owners. The crusade in this direction has begun, the policemen having learned that many riders attach articles that are bells in name only to their wheels merely to give the appearance that they are complying with the law. Charles Coates, the young colored man who was arrested at his home in Anacostia for the alleged murderous assault on Sam Lung, the Chinese laundryman, a few days ago at the celestial’s laundry, No. 611 2d street northwest, will probably be tried in the Police Court Saturday. Sam Lung, whose sku was sald to have been so bad- ly fractured, is able to be at his work again. ———— Fell Overboard. Capt. Gecghegan of the steamer Potomac has reported to the customs office in Georgetown that Jaruary 11, at 5:30 p.m., Charles Egan, a rative of Ireland, fell overboard frem ths schooner George P. Garrison in Britton’s bay, Md., near Leonardtewn, and was drowned. The body Was not recovered. The name of the cap- tain of the schooner is Edward George. It could not be learned whether the unfor- tunate man was known in this city or not. The schooner to whose crew he belonged Was one of the fleet of Chesapeake bay oyster boats, and was built in Baltimore, although that city is not given as its home port. ———— Runaway Bo; Robert E. Combs, eleven years old, and Charles C. Combs, his brother, who is two years his senior, were arrested this morn- ing- by Policemen Anderson and Riley as fugitives from their parents. The officers found them on what is known as the “Swamppoodle” beat about 6 o'clock, and took them to the ninth precinct station. Three days ago their father, John W. Combs, who lives at No. 40 E street north- west, asked the police to lookout for his runaway toys. They had been sent to Sunday school Sunday morning and had not returned. Nothing was heard trom them until this morning, when they were found by the officers. They were turned over to their parents. ——— Transfers of Real Estate. Kalorama Heights—Julla J. Copenhaver to Jennie McCamp, part lot 5, block 21, Kalorama Heights; $10. Stony Hill, Bayley’s Purchase—Allen G. Clark et al., trustees, to Roscoe E. Redway, part: $2,900. Second and B streets southeast—Nathaniel Carust et al., trustees, to Frank ©. Riley, lot 128, sq. 788; $1,075. ‘Twelfth st. o.e. bet. G and H sts.—A. T. Mc- Guiggan et al. to Nicholas T. Haller, Isaac W. Moore and George M. Beckett, lot 28, sq. 982; $10. Morton vlace ne. bet. 6th and 7th sts.—Patrick H. ©. Brennan to Wm. P. Kellogg, lots 8 to 89, 2g, 858;, #10. st. ‘n.w. bet. 17th and 18th sts.—The Columbia Real $5,271.60. ‘ate Co. to Cora Berliner, lot 44, sq. 156; P st. pw. bet. 17th and 18th sts.—Cora Berliner to Frances A. Galver, part lot 45, 89. 156; $10. ‘Twenty-second st. u.w. bet. C and Water sts.— Michael J. 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