Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1897, Page 11

= 2 THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1897—12 PAGES. Woodward *, Lothrop. roth, 11th and F Sts. N. W. eae + Our present business hours are 8:15 to 5:3. ae Friday’s Our Remnant Day. We are not trying to keep store like other people. We have a way of our own. We conceive the idea of modern storekeeping to be the supplying the demand of our customers—the public—for their daily wants at the lowest prices, quality considered, and from a properly as- sorted stock—as to styles, sizes, general fitness, etc. Hence we adver- tise regularly, five days of each week, only complete lines of fresh and perfect goods, and reserve for one day, Friday, our remnant day—broken lines and sizes, odds and ends, short lengths, etc., giving the exact size, quantity and length we have to sell at the prices that you may know at a glance whether it will or will not meet your need. Tomorrow will be an interesting Remnant Day to the many who know the great inducements we offer to our patrons to relieve us of our weekly collection of remnants. Articles of use, comfort, convenience and ornament for home and the person will be in the great list. To make the quickest possible clearance, prices are reduced a third, a half—in many cases more. Friday Bargains in [lillinery Department. All of Our Untrimmed French Felt Hats That Have Been $2.25 Are Now 10c. Each. A Miscellaneous Lot of Flowers, More or less soiled or mussed from handling. 5c. for Choice—Many Have Been $1.00 and $1.50. 2M tloor Men’s 1g Stiff Bo. 1 Handkerchief Department. plored Shirts, pars and | 15 Women’s All-linen Handkerchiefs, hemstitched ‘Sizes 13° Reduced | and embroldered; soled. Reduced from 12Ke. to h ene ais. plain and plaid effects. |S Women’s All-linen Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, $6.90, $1 and | edd sizes and various widths of hem. Reduced from 18e. to . exteh. Ww linen Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, oda ‘sizes and’ various whithe oF hem. Red from 25c. to 18e.. 6 for $1.00. Department. wil x ‘eats, plain broadeloths and 34 te 4 Reduced from | men's Sheer All-linen Handkerchiefs, em- | broidered scallop. Reduced from IXe. to 12%e. tach, Ist floor. Children’s Underwear Dept 6 Children’s Nainsook Skirts, on waist; deep nem, finished with herringbone stiteh. Reduced from 73 towne, Hubbard style; + mule of Cloak Department. Sizes 34, 26 and enc silk Mned. Sizes 1 to $5.00 each. Reduced from Sizes 34 and 36. h. } 24 tloor, Hosiery Departmeat. es thy irs Wom tern Lis Fur Department. ; . mb's Wool » extra leagth. Re- Finsh » to $1 If Wool red Pants. Size 3 pairs for $1.00. = White Merino Fanta.” Size 28, to Bie. pate. Natural pA Combina- aiees 3, 4 and 5. Reduced } ist floor. | Black Goods Department. rds 47-in. All-wool Canvas Cloth. Reduced en! t. Reduced from | Sizes 32 and Rednesd from Reduced b izes 34, 36 and b. ‘ool for picee. Henrietta. -in. All-wool Henrietta. Reduced $4.00 for piece. All-wool Boucie. Reduced from Redaced from Reduced from Reduced from made and Reduced ’ | Leather Goods Dept. 1 Leather Brad Dressing Case. Reduced eae 'r Portfolio, satin lined. Reduced from Roll. Reduced from $3.50 to Hand oe White Gauze Fan. Reduced to $1.00 Leather Muste oH. ‘Souvenir Department. _ 4 Celluloid apkin Kings, Glove Powder Boxes, Reduced from 35c. to 10c. each. ombe, Keduced from $2.50 fo < F ae nok Reduced from iver Butter Knives, hand-engraved. D0 to §: Infants? Department. in Hand-painted Pin Cushio sake ny fiand painted Pin Cushions. Reduced donble- Hand-painted Vell Cases. Reduced from Redaced from 2%e. to 20c. ea. Spachtel Embroidery Centers, Doylies, at one-half regular prices. China Department. Odd Decorated Dinner Plates, slightly dam- Reduced from 10 to 5e. jain White Turkey Platters. $1.00 to Soe, 2 Decorated Sauce Plates. dee “in vil: Hned : h. "Reduced from Reduced from 10 Reduced from 60 ina Soup Tureens. Heduced from $ to 6 (White Silke Wrapper, tufted with baby ¢ with silk. Reduced from ex ine Small White Bowls. uce Boats, Teedneed from 25 to ’t Tea Plates. Reduced from te Vexetable Dishes. Rednced from 12 to Reduced from $1.00 a Pots. : Housefurnishing Dept. Reduced Wicker Chairs, solled. — Reduced Reduced ing Dish, with hot water pan. Redaced ans, heavy tin, Reduced Reduced Buskets, small size. Reduced Reduced ts ‘overed Clothes Hamper, cover from $3.25 10 p Teduced from $1.00 to -. each. Housemaids’ Pails, scratched. Reduced from to $1.00, large size. Reduced from 75 rap Baskets, rasa Coal Ho, Reduced from $6.50 to $3.00. ss Wood Basket. Reduced from $4.50 to rass Coal Vase. Reduced f 0 a a Juced from $9.00 to $5.00. Lamp Department. * 1 Pink Globe for Princess Lamp, slightly imperfect cduced from 50c. to 0c. Odd Pore nes, for table lamps. "Re- Reduced -pouring ( ir. . made of side stecls, 3 to te mal quality coutil, zee 24, 28, 29 and pais Underwear Dept n + ory Handsome Imported Silk Petttec fig- | duced from $3.50 to 31.50. 2 i $2.50 to $190. n Mack and dainty evening tints kta mip ink green; solied. ape trimmings of ex- Re i from $1.25 Pe pee 4 from Te. to _ unce of Swiss | = = ine—clegart ticks, wrought iren a Japangse wa ‘sl 80 each sl ed. Heduced from to Be. em ‘amdle Shades. Teduced from 25. te 3 from ec. to 10e. each. ath ther | aE a, pete Departiment. rx’ satin: neatly | CURTAINS. do with fasteners. Re- 1 patr Irish Point. from $4.5 1 pole Irish Point. 2d floor 1 pair Nottingham. Sh rt 1 pate oe x oe 1 pair Mus! ? Depa ment. 1 pair Mustin Sash. a's Patent Leather Oxford Ties; | 1 pair Muslin Sash, cece teat Conteee see Tie Date. emeced from $3.50 ly bale ¢ —s Portieres (damaged). Pee oe omypety Vortieres (damaged). Was duced trun, $5.00 eee yz er slupestts, Portieres (damaged). Was ‘2D pairs Mises” = Dongola _K b. . 2 ton Boots; cloth and kid woe patent yg 1 Mme comnts Couch Cover, Was $6.75. Now i irass Fire 8 Wi 00. 7. x8 Fire Screen. Was $40. Now $7.50. 1 White and Was $8.50. Now 1P 50. Now sfocs. square ten Sls duced from $1.50 A. B lasts. 80 101.60 par. 15.00. Now Flannel Department. 15 Javanese Hautoo Fortteres. Were $2.25 and 7 10-yard lengths of Lavender and WI 4 Fe be i ar php ee a to cath damaged. Reduced from ‘Bd Boor. 4th floor. Woodward & Lothrop. | menting with all high explosives, except }event of premature explosion before the HIGH EXPLOSIVES Important Tests to Be Made at Indian Head Next Week. ‘The Strongest Piece of Ordnance Ever | Manufactured in This Country to Be Used for the Purpose. Arrangements are being made at the Navy Department for a test of some of the highest explosives known to modern sci- ence at the Indian Head proving grounds next week. It will bring into use the strongest piece of ordnance ever manufac- tured in this country, a product of the Washington gun factory. It is a twelve- inch rifle, but, excepting the matter of bore, it has all the qualities of a thirteen-inch piece. It has the steel and all the parts of a thirteen-inch rifle, including the jack- ets and other heavy parts, and could not be distinguished from a piece of that caliber except by measurement of the bore. The gun was built with the object of experi- dynamite, that the inventors may think can be carried in shells sent from rified guns, and the authorities have made the walls of the piece unusually heavy in order to guard against possible serious accident in projectile leaves the piece. If it stands the tremendous strain to which it is to be subjected it will be con- verted into a thirteen-inch rifle at the foundry at the navy yard, by having an extra inch bored from its interior, in which event it will be placed on one of the bat- tle ships now under construction. It was made in accordance with a pro- vision in the last annual naval appropria- tion bill, appropriating $50,000 for testing high explosives in modern guns. The ex- perience of the navy has shown that gun- powder can be fired in moderately thick projectiles, and that the walls of these shells need not be thicker than is necessary to penetrate eight or nine inches of the best armor plate. But some of the ord- nance experts believe that gun cotton, and perhaps other forms of high explosives, are superior to powder, and propose determin- ing the whole question with the gun just finished. They have felt for a long time that a decided advance might be made in the effect of the weapon as opposed to armor if explosives of terrific force could be fired in armor-piercing shells. The diffi- culty of accomplishing anything with high explosives is that their use is fraught with &» great danger to the ship carrying such ammunition as to the enemy. The likeli- hood of premature explosion and of com- bustion is greater than when simple powder is ried in the magazines, and there is constant menace in handling such com- positions as gun cotton. Still, the very deadly effects of a shell loaded with a high explosive are alluring to ordnance experts, and they have devoted much time and thought to finding some method of firing a projectile so filled. The tests to be made at Indian Head next week are on this line, and consequently are regarded as of the highest importance. Their dangerous character is fully appre- ciated, and every precaution will be taken to guard against accident. NOW A LAWYER A Former Washington School Teacher Ad- mitted to the Bar. Miss Sophronisba P. Breckinridge, daugh- ter of ex-Representative Breckinridge of Kenturky, was sworn in at the Lexington bar as a practicing attorney on Monday. Judge Parker solemnly admonished the yourg and fair disciple of Blackstone “to not engage in duels and to refrain from taking up arms against her country.” Miss Breckinridge will not enter upon the practice of law at once, but will remain a student in the office of Breckinridge & Shelby. Last week Miss Breckinridge was admitted to practice before the court of appeals of Kentucky, being the first wo- man to be accorded that distinction In her state. Miss Breckinridge in personal appearance very much resembles her mothers fam the Deshas, and, like them, {s posses of an abundance of will. From the Br inridges she inherits a taste for the law, as John Breckinridge, her great-great-grand- father, was an able lawyer, and was ap- pointed Attorney General by President Jef- ferson in 1793. At no period since then bas the bar of this country been without an able member bearing the family name. It was largely through the efforts of Miss Breckinridge that the doors of the Kentucky State College were op2ned to women students, and she began her col- leglate education in the first class of young women ever admitted to that insti*ution. She then went to Wellesley College, Massa- chusetts, where she graduated. She then came to this city, and for two years teught mathematics in the High School. She spent more than a year abroad in the study of the French and Roman law. Iteturning, she attended the University of Chicago, where she continued her studies of political economy. For the past two years she has been a student in the law office of Breck- inrldge & Shelby, her father being the senior member of the firm. The j.nior member is John T. Shelby, a great-grand- son of the first governor of Kentucky, and one of the best pleaders at the Kentucky bar. Miss Breckinridge is a young woman of pleasing personality. She is about the medium height, rather slender, has dark brown hair and eyes, regular features, ard there is about her eyes something that re- minds one of her distinguished father. She is a brilliant conversationalist, and her mind is so well stored with general infor- mation that she 1s equally at home on all the leading questions of the day—the law, social science and political economy. As her father sald of her, “Books were her playthings before she knew her letters, ond as she grew they became her companions, then her friends.” —_—__+e+—___- To Save the Game. A ndmber of gentlemen of Hyattsville and vicinity interested in matters pertain- ing to rod and gun held a meeting Tues- day evening at the Hyatt Mansion, Hyatts- ville, for the purpose of discussing plans for restocking farms in that locality with quail, and for a more rigid enforcement of the game and fish laws of the state. A temporary organization was formed, with Mr. W. D. Porter, jr., chairman, and Mr. Marion B. Freeman, secretary. The name of Mr. Howard O. Emmons was suggested as deputy game warden, and a request will at once be made upon the state for his ap- pointment. A committee, composed of Messrs. J. C. Robinson, Eugene Fowler, R. G. Whiting and H. O. Emmons, was ap- pointed to prepare a list of sportsmen and secure their co-operation. The next Ing will be held at the same place Wed: day evening, February 3, at which time tt is proposed to make the organization a permanent one, and its plans will assume more definite shane. ————s Pennsylvania Republican Association An adjourned meeting of the Pennsyl- vania Republican Association was held Tuesday evening, at 923 F street north- west, Mr. B. F. Crawshaw, presiding; W. M. D. Rosser, secretary. Several commit- tees reported, considerable routine business was transacted and fourteen persons elect- ed to membership. A letter was read from Senator-elect Penrose, expressing thanks for the cordial congratulations extended him upon his recent election. It was de- cided to attend the meeting of the Mary- land Republican State Association next Monday evenirg, on which occasion a state flag, also portraits of Gov. Lowndes and Senator Wellington, are to be presented to that club. The next meeting of the Penn- sylvanians will be Thursday evening, Feb- ruary 4. el See Presidency of the W. R. C. Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, president of OQ. P. Morton Corps, W. R. C., writes to The Star denying that O. P. Morton Corps has been Iirstructed to vote for any par- ticular candidate for the position of presi- dent of the W. R. C. Mra. Laytcn says: “We shall endeavor to do in the coming convention what we always have dene— carry out our motto, ‘Fraternity, and Loyalty.’” and F street sewer, $62,000, creek and New Jersey avenue intercepting sewer, $100,000, $50,000; boundary sewer ex- etc., school supplies, $42,0( $1,000; exhibit of pup! eous expenses, $60,934, politan police, phone, $63 3120; ckemical laboratory, $500; Sarbage, $57,000, $57,000; incinerating com- $2,500, Fe o4 HTE DISTRICT BILL ——__e+——— (Continued froth fort Page.) Miscellaneous—Cont! trict offices, $25,000, penses, stables, enginee! $5,000; rent of District o! $10,000, $9, rent of property yards. $300, ‘3800; collecting overdue personal taxe¥’ $1,500, $1,500; judi- cial expenses, $1 ,000, $1,000% contingent ex- penses, coroner’s.office,x$1,4, $800; morgue, $12,000; advertising, generak $2,500, $2,000; advertising, notice of faxes;in arrears, $7,- 500, $7,000; preparing arrears of taxes on real property, $2,400, $2,000; photolitho- graphing county plats,$},986; market houses, repairs,$4,633.81, $1,500;, repairs to interior of District building, $1,000: reproducing will books, #2000; total, Salaries and miscel- laneous, $373,779.31, $312,007; plats of subdivisions, — $3,000, 000, permanent system of highways, $27,000; $16,000; assess- ment and permit work, alleys, sidewalks and _ sewers, $250,000, $125,000; permit work, roadways of streets, $15,000. Improvements and Repairs. Work on sundry streets and avenues, $600,000, $100,000; grading streets, alleys and roads, $6,000, $6,000; repairs to pave- ments, $150,000, $150,000; condemnation of streets, $15,000, $1,000. Total improve- ments and repairs, $771,000, $257,000. Sew- era: Cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, $50,000, $50,000; replacing obstructed sewers, $25,000, $25,000; main and pipe sew- ers, $50,000, $50,000; suburban sewers, $171,- 000, $36,000; Rock creek and B street inter- cepting sewer, $130,000, $90,000; 15th street $62,000; Tiber tension, $50,000; east side intercepting sewer, $0,000; condemnation of rights of wey, $10,000, $1,000; automatic flushing tanks, $1,000, $1,000. Total, sewers, $609,- 000, $365,000. Streets—Repairs streets, avenues and al- leys, $60,000, $30,000; replacing sidewalks and curbs, public reservations, $5,000, $5,000; repairs county roads, $60,000, $40,- 000; construction county roads, $242,000, $40,500; sprinkling, sweeping and cleaning, $200,000, $130,500; removal of snow and ice from cross walks, $5,000, $1,000; parking commission, $51,000, $20,000; improving Dis- trict park in front of Washington Market, 4. 00), lighting, gas or oil, $203 793.64, $135,000; lighting, electric arc, $,- 943.50, $55,000; ‘harbor and river front, $1,- ae $2,600; harbor boat, improvements, $1,- . $1,200; harbor boat, fire and ice, $50,- ——-; public scales, $250, $200; bathing tern $1,000, $1,000; public pumps, $14,000, $7,500. Total, streets, $1,005,907.14, $469,500. Bridges—Bridges, care of, $3,500, $3,500; bridges, construction and repairs of, $20,- 000, $15,000; bridge, P street, widening, £7,000, $7,000; bridge, Rock Creek, construc- th oo 000, Total, bridges, $80,500, $25, Rock, Creek Park, $10,000, Washington Aqueduct—Engineering,main- tenance, etc., $21,000, $20,000; _ telephone lines, $5,000, $5,000; storehouse and stables, $3,000, ; site for storage yards, $10,000, protecting inlet aqueduct at Great Falls, $5,000, Total, Washington aqueduct, $44,000, $25,000. Public Schools. For officers, $10,450, $8,050; for teachers, $766,200, $761,100; for night schools, $8,000, $6,000; contingent expenses, night schools, $700, $500; for janitors and care of bulld- ings, $67,576, $58,996; rent of school build- ings, $13,100, $13,100; repairs and improve- ments to buildings, $50,000, $32,000; tools, for manual training, $12,000, $8,000; fuel, $36,000, $35,000; ‘furnfture of new buildings, 33,850, $3,850; contingent ex- penses, $30,000, $28,500; text books and $38,000; flags, $1,000, work, $2,500; water ilters, $2,000, $2,000; new —buildings and ,. $681,500, $142,000; total; public schools, 38,096. Metropolitan police: 2 For salaries, $686, 5040, miscelian- $747,014, $600,336. Fire departmen For salaries, $214,568 $18,060; crease, fire department, for in- miscellaneous expenses, $48, tal, fire department, $332,968, $2 Telegraph and telephone sdrvice: For salaries, $12,720, $10,400, general sup- plies, $15,000, $11,000;2 éxfension ‘of »fire alarm te! an te $17,500, eggowal ef patrol system, $1. 00, $5,008" ; total, 070, $26,800. Health Department. For salaries, $43,200, $30,900; rent, $120,- removal of rebuilding patrol telegraph and. tele- lines, bustible waste, $15,000; prevention of scar- let fever and diphtheria, $11,000, $5,000; bac- teriological laboratory, $4,000; hospital for minor contagious diseases, $75,000, $110,000. Total, health department, $206,820, $203,020. Courts—For salaries, $19,196, $18,196; mis- celianeous, $37,700, $14,100; defending suits in claims, $2,000, $2,000; writs of lunacy, $2,000. Total, courts, $61,396, $36,206 ‘or interest and sinking fund, $1,213, O7, $1,213,947.97; emergency fund, $8,000, $8,000; municipal bullding, $100,000. Reformatories and prisons—Support of convicts, $51,000, $45,000; court house, Dis- trict of Columbia, $12,960, $12,960; warden of jail, $1,800, $1,800; support of prisoners, $42,000, $40,000; transportation of paupers and prisoners, $3,500, $3,200; Washington Asylum, salaries, $18,548, $16,163; miscel- laneous expenses, $86,200, $50,000; reform school, salaries, $17,172, $16,242; support of inmates, 000, $26,000; buildings and grounds, $13,100. Total, reformatories and prisons, $272,280, $211,365, For support of the insane, $109,273.96, $109,278.96; for instruction of the deaf and dumb, $10,500, $10,500. For Charities. Reltef of the poor, $13,000, $94,700; mu- nicipal lodging house, $4,000; temporary home for ex-Union soldiers and sailors, $2,500; Women’s Christian Association, $4,000; Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $15,000; Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum, $25,000, $20,000; Children’s Hospital, $10,000; National Homeopathic Hospital, $10,000; Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, $55,500," $54,000; reform school for girls, $63,025, $10,725; Washington Hospital for Foundlings, $6,000; Church Orphanage Association, $1,800; German Orphan Asy- lum, $1,800; National Association for Des- titute Colored Women and Children, $10,000; St. Ann’s Infant Asylum, $5,400; Associa- tion for Works of Mercy, $1,800; House of the Good Shepherd, $2,700; St. Rose In- dustrial School, $4,500; St. Joseph's Asy- lum, a Young Women’s Christian Home, $1,000; Industrial Home School, $45,- 000, $39,900; Board of Children’s Guardians, $33,655, $27,400; Hope and Help Mission, $1,000; Newsboys and Children’s Aid So- ciety, $1,000; Eastern Dispensary, $17,500; Washington Home for Incurables, $3,000; Women’s Dispensary, $700; TS For the militia, of the District of Columbia, $23,470.00, - $20,525.00. Grand total, exclusive of water de- partment, $8,495,787.38, $5,642,856.93; amount payable from District, revenues, $4,250,- 808.69, $2,837,428.46; amount payable from United States ease yee $4,244,898.69, $2,- 905,428.46. Water di nt: Salaries, ortifigent expenses, $41,998.00, $38,834.00; $8,000,00, $2,500.00; repairs and_ miscel- Janeous expenses, $90,000.00, $90,000.00; interest and sinking: fund, water-stock bonds, $44,610.00, $6,620.13; !Interest_on_ac- count of increased watér gppply, $3,145.75; sinking fund on account of tncreased water supply, 96,075.25; total.warer department, $190,820.00, $137,054.13; grand total, includ- ing v ter department; $9,936,616.38, %5,- 780,811.06. Important Legislative Provisions. One of the most {mportant legislative provisions of the bill 4 an item which,~in addition to appropriating $50,000 for con- structing in part the Tiber*treek and New Jersey avenue high-levet intarcepting sewer, authorizes the Commissjonéis to enter into contract for the sewer. between the foot of New Jersey avenue and the Eapitol grounas at a cost nut to exceed $385, ‘The price to be paid for pubite ‘gas lamps is reduced from $20 to $16 per lamp. ‘The price for electric arc lamps is. reduced from 30 certs to 25 cents per lamp. New school houses are provided as fol- lows: For one cight-room building and site, northeast, third division, $40,000. For one eight-room. puilding and site, northwest, fifth division, $40,000. : BS ge ie Sn eating plant o' Eto Heights, to be immediately ‘available, oe completing Western High School, to immediately avatiable, $50,000. a additional schoo}: teachers ure prov An appropriation of is made to — chase water filters for wre the school houses Aged Women’s Home. $300; total, charities, $340,980, $246,- and $3,000 for furniture for — buildings which were authorized last yea! Four additional cells are. rovided at = fourth police station. The Bre gets an incraase of twenty men for the a companies authorised last . engine house at a cost of $16,200. For purchase of new patrol boxes and station house instruments to take the place of worn cut boxes and instruments in the first, second, third, fourth, seventh and ninth precincts, $5,000. Contagious Disease Hospital. The committee also made provision for a hospital for contagious diseases by appro- priating $110,000 for the purchase of a site. The Commissioners now have $5,000, which the committee thinks will be sufficient to commence the building, taken in connection with the private fund which has been raised by the Daisy Chain Guild. For completion of heating station for the hospital department at Washington Asylum, $4,500, to be immediately available. Provision for Charities, The provision for charities is as follows: “For the relief and care of the poor and destitute, and for such charitable and re- formatory work, and such care and medi- cal and surgical treatment of poor and destitute patients in the District of Colum- bia as have been heretofore usually pro- vided for by direct appropriations to pri- vate institutions, and as the District Com- missioners may deem necessary, the sum of $04,700, to be expended under the direc- tion of said Commissioners, either under contract with responsible and competent persons or institutions or by employing for the eee e the public institutions or agencies of suid District, where practicable: Provided, That no such contract shall ex- tend beyond the 30th day of June, 1898, and that no payment shall be made under any such contract except for service actually rendered, for which compensation shall be provided in said contract; and that said Commissioners shall report to Congress on or before the first Monday of December in each year a detailed statement of their expenditurer theretofore made under this appropriation, and of all contracts made by them hereunder, giving the names of the persons and institutions contracted with, and stating what further expendi- tures will be required thereunder.” A New Alms House. For a new alms house building at the In- dustrial Home School, $30,000 are appro- priated. The application of $104,738.24 for the old aqueduct tunnel wipes out the debt which was fastened upon the water fund of the District on account of that tunnel. ee ee NAVAL MANEUVERS, Charleston to Be Blockaded by the North Atlantic Squadron. Admiral Bunce expects to sail with his squadron on the 2d of February from Hampton Roads, bound for Charleston, which port will be blockaded as part of the naval maneuvers of the squadron. ‘The squadron will be largely reinforced before sailing, or very soon after the ships arrive off Charleston. The big monitor Puritan, on her main cruise, will leave New York Saturday next to join the squadron; the Marblehead will follow about the same time, and the Terror will be ready by the 6th instant. Altogether the demonstration, which will last about two weeks, promises to be the most formidable in character un- dertaken by our navy since the war. The naval officers and crews of the Fler- ida coast patrol are getting some valuable practice in blockading tactics while en- gaged in the task of making sure that no Cuban filibusters get away from our shores. A report from the United States ship Newark, just received, shows that on the morning of the 23d instant a little naphiha motor launch was sighted from the ship, acting suspiciously. She had just come out of St. John’s river, and was heading for St. Augustine. When hailed from the Newark the craft ran away. Chase was made, but it was not until a musket was fired ‘with a blank cartridge across her bows that the little boat stopped. 1c cap- tain of the craft said that his name was Jester, but the negro steersman said it was Collins. By the time explanations were made Jester or Collins declared ‘hat the water had fallen on the bar too low to ad- mit him to St. Augustine, and the Newark towed the Undine, which was the name of the craft, back to'St. John’s. The Prcpored Monument to L’Enfant. To th Fditor of ‘The Evening Star: I notice that a bill has been introduced to appropriate $50,000 to build a monument to L’Enfant. This, I presume, fs on ac- count of his connection with the plan of the city I doubt very much whether he is entitled to the sole credit of the magnifi- cent plan on which the national capital was laid out. From the scant records that exist it ap- pears that Jefferson had much to do with this matter, as it is recorded that while in Europe he procured and sent L’Enfant maps of the principal cities of France, Holland and Germany, and said that he preferred the plan of Babylon, which was then In Philadelphia. L'Enfant made the first plat, but owing to differences between him and the com- missioners appointed by Washington, and also with the citizens, he was relieved, and the work was placed in charge of Andrew Ellicott, who completed it. The plan as prepared by L’Enfant was not approved or adopted by the comm's- sioners or by Washington, who, in speak- ing of the incorrect map of the city first published, said: “That many altercations have been made from L’Enfant’s plan by Major Ellicott, with the approbation of the executive is rot denied; that some were essential is avowed, and had it not been for the materials which he happened to possess it is probable that no engraving from L'infant’s drafts would ever have been exhibited to the public; for after the disagreement took place between him and the commissioners his obstinacy threw every difficulty in the way of its accom- plishment.” He may have conceived the idea of the general plan, but there is no certainty of even that. He was selected by Washington to do the work of preparing the plan, but there is every reason to believe that the plan was made upon consultation with Washington and Jefferson, if not upon their suggestion, as it is well known that both of them took special interest in the matter. L’Enfant appears to have been a very dictatorial and obstinate man. This i: shown not only by his refusal to heed the advice of the commissioners and of Wash- ington, but also by his arbitrary conduct ‘mn sending a gang of men to tear down a brick building erected by the Carrolls near the Capitol, because it stood where it would interfere with his plan. For this he was severely censured by Washington, who wrote him from Mount Vernon, reminding him that he, as well as others, were subordinate to the laws of the land. When he was dismissed by the President because of his obstinacy and refusal to heed the advice of his employers there was a balance of $666.66 due him on his salary, and when subsequently Co: appropriated the amount, with interest, amounting in all to $1,349.20, he refused to Teceive it! So, too, when President Monroe appoint- ed him professor of engineering at West Point, he returned the commission, in. dorsed, ‘Not accepted, but not refused.” I fail to see in his character and conduct anything deserving of commendation, and still less a monument. In the raising of monuments it seems to me that some regard should be had to the character of those whose memory it is designed to perpetuate as an example for future generations. I would a thousand times rather see that amount of money and much more appropriated for a monument here at the national capital to the author of the “Star Spangled Banner.” That, like the Washington monument, would be an inspiration of patriotism for all time to come, and there ig no place so appropriate for it as the national capital. W.C. D. ——— Cc. A, C. Smoker. Saturday night the gymnasium of the Columbia Athletic Club will be crowded. with club members, the occasion being the monthly smoker of the club. The amuse- i1 MIND YOU. There’s good ground at the bottom of every statement made by us---good solid foundation for the truth of every argument. The to- order coat and vest---and trouser sale now in progress at our store does not represent a deal of old styles or what is termed by the dealers “plugs.”? Let us give you asclear an idea as pos- sible as to the object we seek to attain by this “special sale.’ SIMPLY TO EXTEND OUR FRIENDSHIP-=--tiars an. If we sell beyond a certain number coats and vests, we shall have to buy more goods from the importer. We bought this goods to take a much higher price in our stock--= bought it only ten days ag The trouserings we cannot duplicate---as each piece is sold it is taken from the rack and will be made up for the purchaser This sale repre- S€nts===we veteve a= =the “ACME” of tailoring values. Cutaway Coat and Vest........ TSONSCIS ewes wees eos Us imported diagonal worsted. $9.00 Semi-dress Suit. ooscccee SIZ13 Mertz sdail llertz, New “Era” Tailors, 906 F Street. COHEN’S, 617 11th Street N.W. RAWKAUPT SALE Wednesday and Thursday Will Make Short Work of the ‘‘Notion Department.” Sewing Silks. ee Steines Belding’s, 100-yard Silks - = = = = 7c. Spool. Twist, 10-yard Spools = =" = = = = 3 for 5c. Best Seam Binding = = = = = = = 9c. Piece. Marshall’s Linen — = = = = = 6c. Spool. Bone Casing - = = = = = = 8c. Piece. Laces and Trimmings Will go along with the “notions.” We must sell them. buy. A third or more off the price seals the bargain. is cold, but you'll find our-store a cozy place. you laugh at Jack Frost. Remember the Store. COHEN S , 617 1ith a oe Ww. THERE ARE OTHERS. Rights but Theater- Goerst To the Eflitor of The Evening Star: From the prevailing current of journal- istic comment and of proposed legislation, one might conclude that displays of female You want to The weather Low prices will make 4223-1 i ee eee eres = * o Red Hands, ? Ne Chapped Lips} if you use DERMATINE. Windy wea- P the skin if you put Has Everybody “DERMATI’ 0 or vanity and rudeness to other people are before going outs If the aki IS chape confined to the theater and opera; and that bed the in other public assemblies there is no cause soft. as 3 of complaint. But it is a memorable fact clear, Umpid liquid -trazrantly per- that the ill-bred woman with an offensive- i eee : ly high advertisement of her uncivilized T condition is very impartial in her asia. |¢ “* I MOMMpson, 793 tion of affronts to the rest of the com- munity. She is yet found, though in a S. omg PHARMACIST, 15th porirorermarar | diminishing percentage, at every church, exhibition, lecture or display of pictures, In elty or country. As a general rule of behavior, a man is expected to show due regard to the rights, the conventence and the pleasure of every man, woman and child about him, or else be set down as a boor and a swinish fellow, and receive many a bitter rebuke or an occasional knock-down till he learns bet- ter. If a man plants himself square in front of two or three ladies so as to block their view of the pictures on the screen, he is a gawky who deserves to be escorted to the door. But if he has secured a seat which enables him to view what he came to see, and which the mere head of an- other person in front would not obstruct, and finds a so-called lady sitting there, holding up in the air a huge, wide mass of gaudy finery to shut out his view, what is seminee the ference, except in the custom, that - = has hitherto required the victim to sit soft- NEW HOSPITAL. ly swearing to himself and endure the out- am Sete Te eeces eee ereeseeeeees A great deal has been said of the unlucky speech of a railroad owner, who expressed his disregard of public ethics in the words, “The public be d—d.” And unfortunate! the way in which the American girl has been humored has made her feel the same supreme pleasure in being rude to her neighbors. The fair ones demand and ob- tain our seats in the street cars; they are angry if we do not jerk off our hats when- ever they meet us out in the weather: and then they make us despise them for their persistent and carefully contrived _im- politeness, in every church and lecture hall, in obtruding their ghastly millinery to cause discomfort to the audience. Fortu- nately, a goodly proportion have now adopted better manners. CIVIL RIGHTS. es Meeting of the Recently Elected Many devices are invented from time to Board of Gove time to render the churches attractive to e e1 - men, especially to the young: but they are| At ® meeting of the recently elected Loard of governors of the proposed Episco- pal eye, ear and throat hospital, held yes- terday afternoon at St. John’s Parish Hall, a set of by-laws, which were prepared by a special committee appointed for that pur- pose, were accepted for the government of the corporation. Gen. T. H. Looker was chosen a member of the board to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. 8. E, Wheatley. The election of officers re- sulted in the choice of the following: Pres- ident, Bishop Satterlee; first vice president, William D. Baldwin; second vice president, Rev. Dr. John H. Elliott; secretary, Dr. E. O. Belt; treasurer, William A. De Caindry, Committees were appointed as follows Finance—Mr. Robert Chew, Mr. W. W. Burdette and Gen. T. H. Looker. Executive—Mr. William A. De Caindry, Mr. William M. Poindexter, Mr. William D. Baldwin, Mr, William A. Gordon, Mr. Leroy Tuttle, Dr. T. M. Murray, Dr. J. H. Bryan, Dr. E. O. Belt, Dr. Frank Hyatt, Dr. W. H. Wilmer, Dr. W. H. Fox and Rev. J. A. Aspinwall. The following were announced as the consulting physicians of the hospital: Dr. W. W. Johnston, Dr. J. Taber Johnson, Dr. J. W. Bayne, Dr. J. Ford Thompson, Dr. 8. C. Busey and Dr. N. 8. Lincoln. The Fey gr teen were sa as ay ©. Beit, Dr. Frank Hyatt br WH. Wil: mer and Dr. W. H. Fox. pi Naegee eS IMMIGRATION BILL, often neutralized by the exasperation a man feels at sitting in a broad level ex- panse of seats, with towering black piumes and stick-up ribbons on every side, shut- ting him out from every view except that of the ceiling ornaments. He hears a voice and supposes it is that of the pulpit orator he came to hear; but he is not allowed to see, unless he is of giant size or finds # conspicuous seat. AS a means of anti- grace—as a fertile and most justifiable ex- cuse for avoiding such an assemblage, there is nothing now more effectual than the gay young female Christian, displaying her millinery and raising it on high as a Sabbath tribute to her goddess, Fashion. When a man of medium stature finds one of these beings eclipsing his view of a dis- tinguished speaker, he cannot always keep his attention on the words of the 4iscourse. His mind is apt to be spellbound by the Hottentot fixings that flare out about two feet before his face; and all manner of strange conceits and rebellious though spring up unbidden, in spite of all his ef forts to cultivate devout feelings, and a sweet and forgiving spirit. ‘Is this Chris- tlanity that I see here displayed? Is this the boasted advance.in refinement? I won- der how much that thing cost anyway? I wonder if any man ever really wanted his wife or his daughter to make such a guy of herself in public? My eee right beside me, has one about as bad. 1 begged her not to get it, but she would are it; not to please me, nor anybody el ‘uh I can imagine, unless the devil, = be. Ha, ha! There's a man sitting just behind her. I hope he can’t see any more than I can. And there are two or three big hats just in front of my wife. I'm glad of that. It serves her mght; but then, these women think them a necessary evil, ike death or port Hi Been Adopted by the House. ——— = eke cae coelene —— ‘The House yesterday afternoon, after a clip these plumes all around ‘me. hearse- I'd drop them all into the plate when it comes round, and they might be sold for a hundred pence, to benefit the poor. How absurd these women are! They don’t wear