Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1897, Page 17

a 3 THE EVENI PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THS STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. llth &t., by i Com; New York Office, 49 Potter Building. bes i = Part 2. city by carriers, on their own arcount. at 10 cents Der week, or 44 cents per moath. | Copies at the gounter 2 cents each. By mail—anywhere in the United States or Canada—postage prepald—C0 cents yr month. : PSaturday Quiotuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with foreign postage added, Che Fyening Star. Pages 17-24. Qrinfers’ Inf (the fittle schoo” master of advertising), saps: Jt ts cLaimed for fhe Washington Stor, and proBabfp truf$iulfp cfaim:?, that no offer newspaper in f6e counfre goes info 60 farge @ percentag: of aff f6e Gouses within a radius of ftventp mifes Re: (Entered at the Post Orfice at Washington, D. C., Rates of advertising on application. @ S' B26 6668S BROS. & CO., 937-939 F St. 11 Foubourg Poissonnierre, Paris. A BUYER’S WEEK. The proprietors have given a carte blanche to the manager to do what he would to make this next week a “hummer.” An inch is as good as a mile in anything of that kind. Here's the manager’s way of “booming” things: $1 Kid Gloves, 59 Gents. Started right with the thing that will please most. w. fresh Kid Gloves, that we doubt if you could buy anywhere at $1, go for almost half that price. We won't let but o 6 © & © 6 & 6 & 360 pairs go at that figure, though. The three hundred and sixty-first purchaser will have to pay $1. They are 4- button Fancy Embroidered Kid Glov ors, and all sizes. , in black and col- mbroidery, 5° SO 100 yards of Fine Cambric S-in. All Silk. Embroidery, in the very G and Gros choicest. pat Sold for in black from Ty ‘to le. yand every- pat sokl 121 wh ‘To {htreduce our Bo toe! seeds atte DA, nos”... 5c. =$ 7] 98 €. Arother lot of Embroidery : AallS pat ie worth from 12 100 G) > 9 Ise. yard.” ‘To go at. IC. A let of Ladies English Walking Hats, nicely trimmed in silk ae ribbons. $1.98 all this = oOe. Braid, 10c. Braid, was fi “"10c. | $1.49 Umbrellas, 98c. | “ve just received 15 new styles of regular 5c. i bought ena Rueh- thar which we Chenille arrival here and a very conceit in ladles’ Special at Waists, 2.8 © 1 table of Silk and Cor- duroy Waists, the last a lot that sold this season at $5. To close out at.. i Lodte | Silk Men's Gi nd tm ay oses, 1 0* é & S Velvet Roses 3 buds tn ‘a bune' olors 3 $2.89 Free Exhibition. CHINESE COAT. This kind of Coat is only worn by high officials in China and obviously by only very rich men. Some of these employ as high as 200 needleworkers to make clothing for their respective families, but they are fickle in dress and do not wear the same clothing very long or often. As a point of interest this Coat belonged to one of the high officials connected with Li Hung Chang's court at Tientsin, which is about 80 miles from Pekin. This kind of embroidery is niuch sought after by art collectors, and it often requires considerable diplomacy to obtain it, at least this was the case with this and two or three companion pieces. MAYER BROS. & CO.,' 037-939 EF St, @ HOOOOSH OOS HO GHOOODOHOOHOO GD @ ® @ STREET CAR AIRBRAKE. - the old poems at the top of his voice. He loved lonely hills. He read forever, when he was not wandering alone, and’ he re- membered anything that he read. He was | @ dreamer, a teller ef romances to himself. He delighted in fighting, as did Keats. He A New Invention Intended to Prevent Accidents. From the Pittsbarg Chroniel~Telegraph. street branch of }| a aa oe cae € ae studied every:hing except his books. His the North Side Traction Company ts ex enthusiasm for poetry made @ lady rec- perimenting with a new airbrake, which, | Penize him for a genius at the age of six, pertmentin has proved conclusively | PU bis fath-r thought he would end as naate away with the aw-| Napoleon, again, was sullen, \onely, a t have occurred on ac- | dreamer, and always “spoiling for a fight,” he car getting beyond control Ls a clin. ‘i king of @ brake chain, thus |,,Uuluckily, sulien, dreamy, pugnacious boys are not.at all uncommon. They do motorman utterly helpless in | not become Scotts (not that he was malere The airbrake is the same as | ncr Du Guesclins, nor Napoleons, ror By- ec cduehen rors—fer Byron, too, was a passionate, power Is supplied | lonely. inorbid kind of boy, with terrible © the Hunt air- | "tS of temper. His early poems were trash, is sem Ken, | _Shelley’s early poems were trash; Scott's 3 is manufactured at New Ken- as almost any cleverish schoolboy can The motor which generates ele> nd there is no promise at all in the the brake is located on one of rysons’ “Poems by Two Brothers.” uid the invention be ——— ae uon can readily be mecisece made under the seats f the appar: et 3 enants. On the front platform is a small lever, | the Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin, en anaes oe and it an cunt In their annual report the commission- eid Being cas (oe of grades. |€FS Of fisheries and game of Massachu- The chain brake is also on the car, to be | etts state that the propagation and dia. used in case of emergency | tr:button of Mongolian pheasants has been Motorman J. Headley and Conductor H. | successfully carried on during the past who handled the car last | season at the state aviari t the brake ts a great suc- |). = ae ‘aries. Something 4 much trouble, a motor. | °VeF two hundred chicks, which had been to stop a car with much | @llowed their freedom in the large inclos- ee and make better time. ‘The | ure, were trapped in October and put in a time for a car coming from the | covered corral twenty-eight by sixty feet etre jon to 6t e street is thirty minutes, and No. | im area. This proved too small for so many . birds, and there was a small 1 inutes, thus gain- i 2 all loss, the ‘on tue round trip. |Stferger birds maltreating the weaker pur vy with the bad | OM€S This will be obviated next year by weatrer, slippery rails and heavy traffic, | ¢5ding the birds out as soon as they are trapped. A few birds were distributed last year to responsible persons with the under- stancing that they were to breed. and turn them out in their respeetive localities. Only three were successful in raising birds, but they are confident that past experience will lead to success In the future, and that thus the ruffed grouse, which are rapidly near- ing extermination, will be replaced. ——_~+-e-___ A “Feather Farm” Idea. From the New York Tribune. Why not have poultry farms for feath- ers, as they do ostrich farms, peacock farms, parequet farias, even birds of Para- dise farms? These latter ere sometimes 80 buried in their beautiful plumage that they look as if they would like to part with some of it, even to adern a hat. This would, in a great measure, stop this wholesale wicked killing of our beautiful song birds and insect-killing birds. Robins, yesterday was considered a good day for a test. A heavily loaded car which was comirg down the Charles street hill at a high rate of speed was stopped within a length and a half of the car when the alr was applied. If the test continues to prove satisfactory and the brakes do not cost too much, the chances are that the North Side Company will supply all of its cars with the new equipment. eae CHILDHOOD OF THE GENIUS. It Shows Itself Commonly Rather in eter Than Performance. Andrew Lang in the North American Review. As far as I have studied the chiidhood of gen: {t commonly shows itself less in performance than in character, and, alas, hot agreeably! The future genius ts often violent, ferocious, fond of solitude, disa- Breeable in society. The great Du Gueselin, the scourge of the Erglish invaders of France, was a most | thrushes, wrens and many others are not odious boy. His parents had to make him | Pretty, on a Heeeabree a *parrow can dine at a table apart. He was rude, fu- | Q'pigeon farm the next aise Thee sane rious, a bully; he beat every boy he could | feathers we could have from the ducks and chickens and turkeys that we have eaten. —_———~--____ Well Named. From the Cincinnat! Tribune. “Why are you going fo call your ice yacht “Goestp,’ old man?” asked Van Wither. “Because,” said Von Miner, “there isn't much to it, but how it dces go!” lay hands on; he ran away from home; he led companies of peasant children against other companies; he was the terror of the neighborhood, ani the ugiiest as he became “the ugifest knight in France.” This was the boyhood of a great military genius; the boyhood ft was of a little sav- “Srott's childhood: wee nolsy. He yelled WASHINGTO vy, D. © SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6 1897-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES S\ATTRACTIVE HOMES © © @ @ © ® © © © ® @ ; ® Residences of Newcomers and Old Washingtonians. TWO SCOTT CIRCLE MANSIONS The Lowery House Now Occupied by the Vanderbilts. JOHN W. THOMPSON'S HOME ed Mrs. D. P. Morgan's residence on Scott circle is one of the best adapted for the giving of large-entertainments of any of the modern houses of the West End. It was built and occupied by Senator Cam- eron for a few years, and is one of the oldest of the spacious double houses in its neighborhood. The house has every advantage of situation, facing south and lighted on all sides. The main cntrance is under a porte cochere, and there. is also another entrance on the east side of the lawn. The main hall is lofty and spacious, Mrs. D. P. Morgan's Residence. and the staircase fs correspondingly broad, with square landings. The drawing rooms e 16th street, and the dining room, which is decorated in rich, warm colors and has heavy carved wood finish and furniture, is at the thwest corner. The library faces south at the east corner of the front. The hall is almost as large as the drawing room, and on the second floor is a spacious gallery, upon which all the chambers open. The house is very richly furnished with all that can charm the eye or add to the general air of luxuriousness. The Mcrton house on Scott circle will soon have smoke from its chimneys and other signs of domestic uses. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Sprague, who have taken a long lease of it, are having it arranged for occupancy, although it will scarcely be the scene of any extensive social operations until after the beginning of the next ses- sion of Congress, unless the extra session may be so construed. Representative-elect Sprague comes to Congress for the Mas- sachusetts district now represented by Gen. Draper. The Spragues are presumably very wealthy, and are expected to cut a wider swath in society than any of their predecessors with a Back bay position of equal prominence, or else they would not hav2 needed the largest house in town for a residence. Mr. and Mrs. Sprague spent most of the early winter in a house hunt, but were only interested in the larg- est of those on the market. The Morton house was cccupied only comparatively a short time by its first. two owners. Dur- ing its occupancy by Prof. Alex. Graham Bel! a disastrous fire occurred there, which badly injured the building, but after its thorough repair his family did not care to live in it again. Just after his election Vice President Morton bought the house, and in the interval between that and his inauguration it was prepared for his resi- The Morton House. dence. With a view to his social needs, Mr. Morton built a new dining room and added the old one to the parlor suite. ‘The front part of the dining room addi- tion formed another entrance, and smalk rccms on either side were made into cloak rooms. Tre house and stable occupy’ a triangular piece of ground between Rhéde Island avenue, N and 15th streets: Ar- chitecturally it is an imposing pile, the high roof and towers making it conspic- | uous for a great distance. The main en- trance is on Rhode Island avenue, under @ porte cochere. There is a spacious en- trance hall and the staircase, which is in the main hall, is white, as is all the wood work of this part of this house. On the left of the entrance is an office, the tower corner at the right belng probably asso- ciated In most of Mrs. Morton's friends’ memories with the red coats of the Ma- rine Band, as it was there the musicians were stationed on social occasions. The scuth corner, the largest of the three rocms, is the Mbrary. During the Morton ocecpancy it was regarded as one of the finest rooms in this city. Its wall cover- ing is deep crimson, which the better brought out the fine paintings and por- traits hung then on the walls or arranged on top of the beok shelves. The drawing room adjoining is in dainty tones of blue and the music room next is in green, the colcrs following the naming of the three state epartments of the White House. The dining room is very large. The dark tones of the wood work are relieved by the southern outlook. It has wide and highly ornamental fireplaces. Upon occasions when large crowds are expected the porte cochere entrance can be closed and the adjoining entrance used with the conven- jent cloak rooms, and the annoyances of @ draught avoided. ’ When Mr. John W. Thompson built his present residence on I street houses of its size were not numerous, and that fact alone attracted great attention to it, com- bined with the solidity of its construction and the comfort and luxury of its arrange- ments. Many of these features are repro- duced very frequently, but rarely more suc- cessfully than in this house. The front is of brown stope and the front steps lead up to a vestibr protected by handsome glass doors, ® common ‘enough precaution in New York houses, but not so often seen here. The entrance hall is lofty, and the walls, where not covered by mirrors, “are Sung Pictures. The staircase has @ of the entrance, and the ball room at the back. is abcut the same depth, with nearly twice the width. The general tone of both rooms is light, largely aided by fine mir- rors, but is rich in treatment. The wood- work, not only in these rooms, but through- out the house, is very fine, being highly polished, with light and dark woods in a paneled effect. The front parlor bears oa NN ar’ Mr. J. W. Thompson's Residence. many traces of Mr. Thompson's travels in the east The window curtains are cloth of gold cf Japanese weaving—and most of the furniture is covered with the same rich fabric. In the ball room similar ef- fects are attained, and wonderful speci- mens of Japanese needlework are hung on the walls, ete. The grand piano has a cover beautifully embroidered in chrys: themum blooms. A marvelous piece of Japanese embroidery depicts with the fidelity of a photograph an avenue lined with cherry trees, all in full bloom; a river bank, and a row of bamboo houses. The dining rcom adjoins the ball room at the rear of the house. Perhaps the room which is most admired in the whole house is the library at the right of the entrance. Jis tones are gilt and starlet. The walls are in gilt, the window curtains are a gorgeous combination of color, in a Jap- anese fabric of dark reds and greens, mingled with gilt, and the writing table, which 1s always a striking object in a room, has a cover of crimson and gilt, also of Japanese manufacture. The writing ap- pointments are of malachite and gilt, and, like the beautiful articles which in’ each room challenge admiration and repay care- ful inspection, are souvenirs of their own- er’s extensive journeyings. in many for- eign lands. On the basement floor is the billiard room, The Lowéry House. There have Ueen faces turned toward the Lowery house, corifer of Vermont avenue and K street, for the past week, since the announcement of its ocampancy by Mr. Cor- nelius Vanderbilt, that mevt passed it with- out special notice for -miry years back. The house is very dest, located, and in its day ranked:‘among the finest’ of the West End houses. 1taas built at the period which witnessed-the erection of the Alexander Shepherd h wow Mrs. Mc- Lean's home; the Hallet Kfbourn house, now the residence of Senator Murphy, at 17th and K streets; the Wallack house, at 18th and I streets, and heg features identi- cal with all, double, with feur rooms on the main floor, and a= F¥ench roof. The house is substantially’ and handsomely built. The porte-cocherg over the entrance makes the hallway rather @ark, but the staircase is wide; the swoodwork has the dull polish of many years of service, and the furnishings and hangings, while retain- ing the style of the day, of the height of their fashion, are still quite as elegant, if not more so, in many respects, than later styles of modern household decorative ef- fects. The library is at the southeast cor- ner, and the drawing room adjoins on the south front. The drawing up of the cur- tains and the general air of occupancy which these rooms have assumed the past week have given the property quite another look. The sitting room and dining room are on the north side of the hall, quite close to the adjoining house: The occurrence will ue recalled, a few years back, when Seni tor Palmer of Michi- gan added his carriage nouse and stable on the rear of his lot, back of his house. The stable, so close to his’ dining room, was very objectionable to Mr. Archibald Lowery, and, remonstrance being unavailing, he added several feet more to the high wall separating his garden -from the adjoining property, and thereby cut off from the dining room windows of the Palmer house the charming view they had afforded of Vermont avenue, ea ay cunt Husbands. y York Herald, By actual count there are 15,000 husbands within the limits of Greater New York now under bonds to support their wives. These recreants have taken vows and as- | sumed responsibilities which they are too lazy, too indifferent, too inhuman to ful- fill. The deserted wives, pinched-with want and often carrying unwelcome tokens of a fleeting passion in thelr arms, besiege our police courts an@ clamog, for. recognition and redress. Twenty_pef cent ‘of these wives ‘are under age;ififty per cent con- tracted matrimony while yet in their teens. In searching for the’pause for such a de- plorable condition of aftgirs we may note that a large percentage ef our population is made up of foreigners yho regard matri- mony as a frivolity; tha€ last year was a leap year, and that haga times have press- ed most heavily upon. the very -humblest households: yet even sith these~explana- tions it is dfMcult to reach any other con- clusion then thatthe is largely to blame for this gréwing‘ain of wife deser- tion. ~. He of Surely, avery ca) ble amount of dis- cretion might he éxerc! by man¥ gentle- ry yerty and. men of the cloth whasd aan patsare willimg: to give'the bene- diction of t! h to gny illjaBsorted or poverty-aticnte eet thee comes before them to be marrie@. A section of the clergy has just reported upon the duties of the press. It may not be amiss to remind our reverend brethren that they, too, have duties of their own, i A Claim to Antiquity. ° From the Pittsburg Qbroaicle Telegraph. “Mother,” said a thoughtful Boston child to his maternal relative. “What is it, Waldo?” “Is Philadelphia olfer then Boston, mother?” “Of course not, my sen, The first set- tlement was made in Charlestown in 1630, while William Penn didsmot site of Philadelphia wi later.” “That was always but how is~it tioned in the Bible, ‘y ee -two years ‘mother, is. men. ve on the | from t§e office of puffication. A BIG- UNDERTAKING] Sete! To Bring the Crowds Here for the Tnauguration. : a $ WHEN THOUSANDS COME AT A TIME 3 Railroad Facilities Then Are Put to : the Test. $ z £ LEAVING IN A HURRY $ VERY FOUR years, from the Ist to the 4th of March, Washington becomes for the time a mod- ern old Rome, in that all roads—railroads— lead hither. More- over, there is a quad- reanial hegira from Washington that would have amazed the ancients. To get the visiting inaugu- ration crowds into the city, and then to get them out of the city, is a problem which the railroad offi- cials hereabouts tackle about three months mdoteededoedeepentntentntetenetnteietatettnt before the presidential installation. They a are working hard at it now. It is a prob- 3 lem full of features of complication and magnitude, a fit task for the vanquish- ment of thet celebrated Philadelphia law- yer who knows it all. Nor is it alone during the inauguration perfod that the railroad officials with head- quarters in Washington have the job of providing mears for the entrance and exit of stupendous crowds of holiday seekers. Year by year, Washington is becoming the assemblins grourd for great national or- ganizations the festival city wherein are held the inter-oceanie congregations of civic, military, religious, professional and fraternal bodies. There are many such as- semblages of moderate proportions here every year, and about once every year there is an assemblage here of colossal dimensions. Such congregations always tax the utmost resources of the railroads that enter Washington, but, when it is considered how comparat vely limited these resources are, and how little they are de- vised for the tremendous strain which is sometimes put upon them, the success with which the crowds who come here, on pleas- ure bent, are handled is sufficiently re- markable. For instance, the greatest body of visit- ors that ever came to this city at one period attended the great Grand Army encampment. There were over 240,000 of them, and they brought along over 50,000 pieces of baggage. Yet there was ex- ceedingly little confusion in getting this vast nun.ber of travelers in and out of the city, and it is a matter of railroad record that only four pleces of baggage were even temporarily lost. The greatest number of visitors that ever attended an inauguration traveled to Washington to see the first installation of President Cleveland. They numbered close to 175,000. On account of the hard times prevailing over a large section of the coun- try, the railroad officials of Washington, who are pretty competent judges, are of the opinion that there will be nothing like as large a crowd here for the inauguration of Mr. McKinley. “At the outside,” said one of these officials to a Star reporter, “I don’t think there will be more than 125,000 strangers in Washington on the 4th of March next.” Bringing the Crowds. The Grand Army crowd came to Wash- ington in 700 trains from all sections of the country, and as each train was composed of ten cars on the average, the railroad men estimate that at least 7,000 coaches were hauled into Washington on that occa- sion. About one-tenth of these were Pull- man cars, the remainder having been the ordinary day coaches. Nearly all of these coaches were kept in or near Washington until after the celebration was over, in order that they might be immediately available for the transportation of the vis- itors out of the city. The same system of keeping the cars that bring the visitors here handy for the beginning of the hegira is followed during the inauguration Periods, and it is on this account alone that there is some congestion in railroad traffis in this vicinity when these great national fetes are on. “If Washington were a city of the size of Philadelphia or New York,” said a railroad official, “with vast facilities for the stow- ing, side-tracking and shunting of trains, aaa ae as te eS i for id business wouid work with perfect smoothness. But railroad sys- tems can't be operated with a view tu per- fect smoothness only on certain occasio: that require about twenty times the ordi- nary facilities, and it is for this reason up In other words, the railroads that enter Washington simply have not the “plants” for the successful management of both pas- senger and freight business at one and the same. time, when tens of thousands of vis- itors/ Struggling to get in and out of} theititys: herefore the freight business is Wolished for about a week during i and outgoing of the hordes of The only freight that con- trives to get into Washington during an inauguration period is that of a perishable nature, Iike fruit, for instance, and from the 25th of February to the 7th or 8th of March the railroads only accept perishable freight at the consignees’ risk, for it is quite likely to be hung up for days at Bi timore, or some other a path can be Washington. and néarby city, before cleared for its entry into | {he Dead Train: This is solely because there is no room on the tracks in the vicinity of Washington for freight cars when the passenger sys- senger coaches that are kept here for the deportation of the visitors, and, even when every {cot of this track room is taken up, the train masters are sorely put to it to find. Space for the “dead” trains that are con- stantly piling in on them: During an in- al ration Peston Washington is nearly half-circled by double, triple, id sometimes even quintuple lines of “dead” coaches, kept<in waiting for the calls of organizations and parties that want to get away from the city to their homes. _ The. trains that come over the Pennsylvania system are anchored by the hundred out around Benning after they have discharged their rs. The trains that come here over the Baltimore and Ohio lines are for the most “killed,” to await demand, at the big Rew the the greatest ‘coolness and nerve on the part of the big gangs ‘of switchmen and .assist- ant trainmasters who are sent here from the other large cities on these occasions. Stowing them, however, is an’ easy job compared with the .task: of getting them made up into-trains Seteeetestestesecetectectececeteateeeettetecteeteteettt z Established 1840. ‘Telephone 995. distant, and not belonging to the systems that regularly enter Washington, must be gotten back to their own lines at the ear- Hest possible time. The train masters and yard superintendents tackle such problems with a familiarity born of long experience, and the switching and the shunting that goes on in the Washington railroad yards when the city is jammed with strauze. patient to get back to their homes and business is something worth Nine-teaths of the peopie wio v ington for an inauguration get h evening of M. on the 4th ere mainly from the outlying small towas—“local traffic.” fore the day of the ‘nauguration the rail- roads with Washington terminals send out orders to their officials in large cities like Baltimore and Philadelphia that all Wash- orders, so as to give clear yards here for trains. Very inauguration period. to leave New York for Washington at 6 o'clock on the evening of March 3 may be composed of as many as ten different sec- tions, each train a separate, distinct train, vals, nine of the trains being considered auxiliaries to the regular schedule train, vhich leaves first. Tons are not scheduled, and it is for this reason that so many Washington folks, who go to the depots to meet inauguration visitors, leave the stations with disappoint- ment written on their countenances when their friends do not arrive on the scheduled train, which in all Mkelihood has half a dozen or more sections strewn at intervals behind it. 5 Inauguration visitors begin to depart by the tens of thousands immediately after not even wait until the parade ts over, but, having seen the initis ce, halnare of tracks around Washington is at fits liveliest during the whole of the night has been some exaggeration in the es to the difficulty which organizations are said to experience in getting away from other day that the only large pore enon that ever has any sort of difficulty in getting out of Washington promptly is the Pennsylvania National Gvard, which he said was due to the fact that ao man; here from monies. These civilians, traveling sin- ay, are enabled to seize the first trains that leave here for their homes, while the at times com] go, until the railroads have a suffi- cient nuraber of cars at their disposal io who want to return to Chicago at a Certain hour on March § have only to make Spring Trimmings for Spring Gowns-- =-AT== PERRY’S As soon as the Dress Goods are bought—select the Trim- mings. Ours were chosen to be in harmony with the weaves that will be most popular. And you will find them quite as exclusive. You can buy cheap trimmings cheap—and spoil the cos- tume. Or you can come here—pick out rich quality and rich effect at the same time—that will be cheaper to buy than the others—even if ours should cost a trifle more. We compete with nobody's prices—but we make ours as low as possible — that must be the lowest. We have a big variety of Trimming Novelties this season. Gives you plenty of chance to design and shape artistically— originally—cleverly. Applique Passemerterie, in Light and Hand-crochet Passementerics- 1 Dark Green, Light and Dark Mixed 4 Inches w Se. SSe. to $4 Brown. Old Blue and Nayy Blue—1 inch a wide—Z5c. a yd. White P lt 2 arrow Colored Bead Passementerte Inches wide to $a —all the latest shades—% and 1 inch wid 15e a Ge. a ya. Cut Jet Bolero Fronts—$3 ro $5 Black Silk Boleros Fronts—$1. 8. Gold 1 Navy Blue, Red, e Passem . 1 and V%4 Inches wide—$1.25, $1.50 aml $2 * aya. Gold Tinsel Bands, studded with Colored Silk Cords—Te. and iSe. a amethyst and emerald. 2 inches. wi yard. 2.25 a yd. Black Silk Frogs—25c., 35e. and ¥ and 1-Inch Jet Gimps—1Se., each, and a yd. Plain Black Hercules Braids 6 Cat Jet Passewenteries—in band: Be 10c., 12¢., 14c., 16c., 18 patterms-2 to 6 i wid 2c. and 28e. a yard Ge., Te. to $7.50 a Black Braid, open-work pattern Narrow 4 and 1- 10c., 124, Le., 2e and inch wide to 35 Black Sik Purle Eage Braid a yard. Se., 10¢., 12¢., We. and 2 Black Silk Parsementerie Bands and Black Mchair Soutache Patterrs—114 to 4 inches wide Wc. piece of 24 yards. to $3. a yard. Black Mohair Soutache—3e. and 4c and I-ineh Dull Jet Gimps— a yard. 30c, and $0c. for the piece of und ra. inch Dull Jet Gimps-50c. to Black Ostrich Boas — $9, $1.65 a yard. Fancy St es 1 Small Risinestone Buttons inches wide— to $l 50 a dozen, inch Plain Gold Braid 5 40c. a yard. 1% to 2-inch Fancy Gold Braid ull Fancy Buttons that new spring sh Small Cat Jet an cut Braid—Se. rl Buttons — large and to 25e. a yard. Sliver Soutache—Se. yard—Sc. for 12 rl Buttons—2 and <-hole— yards, | all sizes 12%. a dozen. PERRY’S, “NINTH AND THE AVENUE.” the coaches of lines of railroad far | cars they have traveled in. Scores of such cars are conveniently anchored very close to the depots, and the passengers sleep in | their berths while the trains are “dead.” | When the festivities are over, these occu- | Pted Pullman coaches are the first cars to | be got out of the wa: to make room for | the meneuvering on the tracks of the day coaches, —_>—___ Dwindling Population in Fr: London Cor. New York Sun, ce. ing. Taking Them Awa Frenchmen, or a large section of them, are beginning to manifest serious concern over the revelation of the last census that France is the only great nation which is no longer obeying the divine command to in- | crease and multiply. The subject has been | taken vigorously in hand by public men and others, and various Plans have already | been suggested for making Frenchmen ich 3. Those who arrive here A week » ington-bound freight except that of 3 PESyri ers fatherhood. It has 5 fs to be held in its | Veen pointed out that by reason of her eerirereern ines cities until further | S20Ftcomings in this respect, France loses | every year a battle of Sedan. The Natio | Alliance for the Increase of t ios : i he passenger trains. By we i Population we wouldn't feel the inauguration influx at | Re Teception of the passenger tratne By of France has this week presented a peti- au ann aes ae passenger and freight | track space around Washington is taken | tion to the prime minister, setting forth ends of! ie rallroas i: | certain drastic measures which the nger | x eae | ernment ts urged to adopt. | inventor of the system of me: the temporarily ‘dead’ by few of these trains, Eov- Dr. Bertillon, the ae aoe to ve cone ae ue j inals, is the head of the nce orige dare than schedule time. The % \ ty, ordinarily make special schedules for the | Pa includes some interesting features, It proposes that government schol Instead, the regular hips in that during inauguration and % rrive | Schools, lycees and academies be given only Honal periods the freight business has’ to | Tins from all points of the compass arrive Tine aA graying (at least three children e practi y se ik e ° ve government, such time “tically susperded hereabouts for a| train that on the daily schedule is booked tobacccnists’ licenses, concessions ‘hee. in col- onies, etc., to be given to such families: when the claims of government officials for promotion are decided, their number of children to be taken into account: allow- ances and traveling expenses to officials, as well as the salaries of subalterns, to be regulated according to the number of chil- dren; the posts under the government, ex- ane requiring special qualifications, ven only to fathers havin, than three children. ee Already something has been courage large families. For ins! each following the other at short inter- Trains known as “sec- done to en- ‘tance, every results are apparent. Another effect of the national concern over the non-growth of the population ii the extraordinary popular interest that is taken just now in the establishment on the Boulevard Poissonniere, where delicate in- fants of diminutive weight and dimensions are reared by charitable hands. In the the place are always a dozen Many thousards do parade 1s over. features of the per- for the Gepots. The scramble rch , when the making-up of trains | or more incubators, each ith | - tems are taxed to the last degree. All the Hoes to the exodus of the 5th is in| mate on exhibition. The pemeeeey the track room has to be utilized for the pas- | progress. institution boast that they have saved 1,200 children who otherwise would hav since the charity was established” U°™* German and Austrian rivals have un- kindly selzed this moment of French dis- comfiture to send out stories of extraordi. nary prolificness. Thus.a Vienna woman in her fortieth year the other day presented her husband with her thirty-second child. A Sure Thing. ‘A railroad man tol a Star re- city. thousands of civilians come ennsylvania to inauguration First Burglar—“Say, do ye know where dey keeps der swag, Frogsey?” Second Burglar (complacently)—“Nit! But ef we don’t find it, de mornin’ papers "Hi teil where it was an’ how we jus’ missed it, an’ we kin come round tomorrer night an’ swipe de whole caboodle!” ganization, have been Jed to walt over here for = ship them to their homes. Smaller o1 pata me es xg Rn York avenue yard. The system loyed ther civic or military, rarely re of stowing these cars is of a complieeted zatlons, either civic or military, rarely More Than He Expected. sort that demands the closest attention and they choose. For instance, a body of