Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1897, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 7, 1897-12 PAGES, ist Church, Sth st. invited. Be. het. Fa ATTENTION. WORKING I labor, alk workingmen note " fro neelior Tr, PRWAY, February RELLY MANGUM, Apps LOsT-IN 10. STOR por person, Fels peket book URAL BALL DE livery before in- collar just $45 fel7-sa VARY 15, 1897. SOS 17TH ST. xD 2 the COMMOD JOHN MILLER & “CO., Ottice, Toth and Faw. and K one fe5-1m Ought To Be Here ie c Easto Your m Is will be gi , added zest fy Your ya THARP'S BE KEL § ry i VHISKY. quart. A ppetite aia JAS. THART. Poor? . f STILL TIME for you avenue merchants to have Sour window fronts en- le so as to rent them out. for t inauge ne could furnish the ghise aud workman- ship as cheap Consuls Chas. E. Hodgkin, 913 7th, Glass, Paint Os, Varnishes. ilders” Hard: fel 7-16 We furnish every bit of Lumber thatentersintothe construction of a house sell our wood Ger Peeded bid. THOS. W. SMITH, Main Office, t<t and Ind. ave. “Phone Mili and Wharves, foot 4th st. “Phone 351, nt “FT never disappe a Lawyer o About Our om a Lanse Lawyers’ oe ation taste of our printing, and I the inducements in the J + world could pull bim Bricts. , St So aim » make our Briefs the epted best. Ww want ery Lewyer aml every P ent At- torrey to give as a We. page fo BYRON S ADAM fel4-16a Garfield Pharmacy. Cut Prices. Beecham’s Pills, 3 days.. trial. Our charge is ‘prowpt prim th st. 13th and I fel2-1w* streets N. W. Death of Mrs. Elen O'Neale Cutt Mrs. Ellen O'Neale Cutts died last even- a little before 5 o'clock at her home in this city. Her death will be mourned by ny as a personal loss. he was of a distinguished Catholic fam- of Maryland, dating from, the time of Archbishop Carroll. Rev. Father Mathew, the first pastor of St. Patrick's Church,was in. By her marriage in 1832 to J. Cutts, of Richard Cutts of Massachusetts and Maine, who represented six Congresses the present district of Speaker Reed, and who married Anna Payne, sister of Mrs. Madison and Lucy Washington, she became connected with ther distinguished families of the north outh, death, er co Madison son in her eighty-seventh year, breaks one of the connecting links In unit- es A Large Gathering of Delegates Called to Order This Morning. ee HRS. BIRNEY'S WELCOMING ADDRESS Importance of the Subject of Child Life to Every Woman. _ LIVERMORE’S MRS. REPLY & the early days of this city with those of the magnificent capital today. She leaves as Hving descendants her only cfildren, Colonel J. Madison Cutts and Mrs. Adele Williams, wife of Gen. Robert S, Whose first husband was Senator euglas of Iifnois. There are nine grand- d five granddaughters. age Steam Engineers. A delegation from the Eccentric Associa- ticn of Steam Engineers, consisting of Wm. Motheread, A. M. Lawson and S. S. Feague, appeared before the Commission- ers this morning and requested the Com- missioners to recommend the amendment section 2 of Senate bill 3648 to prevent smoke in the District of Columbia, so that the person in charge of the plant should be held responsible and be liable to prosecation. They believed the entire re- sporsibility should rest upon the owner of the plant. They also complained that li- cersees of low classes were in charge of high-class plants, and gave a number of instarces. Full of Information. Every business man, as well as every housewife, should possess a copy of The ivening Star Almanac. It contains infor- mation carefully gathered from every source, valuable alike to every one. Twen- ve cents buys it at any news stand or Evening Star office. pace as ED A Probable Appointment. It is said that H. L. Marinden of the coast survey will be appointed to the va- carcy on the Mississippi river commission caused by the death of Mr. H. L. Whiting. ee Trausfers of Real Estate. E st. nw. bet. hb and loth st Norwood to Thos. Norwood, lot Le Droit Park ‘Thos. E tees, to Charles E. Banes, 15; $1,400, D st .mw. bet. 2ist aa 22d sts Albert B. Hines et ux $0. Mary Callaghan, lt 19, =). 83; € st. me. bet. Teh and Sth ets—H. H. Bergmann et al, trustees, to Harry W. Nalley, part lot 3, sq. SOF; $20. B st. 2 bet. 12th and Lith sts.—United Secur- ity Life Insurance aud Trust Co, wo Thos. Withers, lot 14, sq. 14: $10 ith’ and Kenyon sts. n.w.Chapin Brown et js ml Ho Warner, jr. part blk. 36, Columbia Het $3,469.63, Chichester—Franees B. Fraxtsr to Bates Warren, lot_28; $10. to Jax. 1300; $19. East Capirol e. Nellie H. Browning to 3, sq. 967; $5,000. and Tith ste.— les Schroth, part lot —__+—__ — If the size of the gathering can be re- garded as a criterion, the first national congress of mothers, which began in this city this morning, may, be put down as an unqualified success from the start. From all over the country and as far west as San Francisco the delegates have been pouring into Washington for several days past, and for a long time the prime movers in the matter Fave realized that the idea of the congress was mecting with pop- ular favor, but not even the most sanguine had dared hope for any such crowd as was in attendance this morning. ‘The sessions or the congress are held in the banquet hall of the Arlington, but even that apartment, large as it is, was entirely inadequate to <ccommodate all who desired admissi. Lorg before the hour set for the opening session every chair in the hall was occupied, and by 10 o’clock the crowd was so great that hundreds were standing in the hall and in the adjoining parlors. Several hundred ladies were unable to get anywhere near within hearing distance of the speakers. : The platform for the officers and speak- ers was placed at the west end of the hall beneath the balcony and on it were seated a number of prominent ladies, who have actively identified themselves wita the movement which resulted in calling togeth- er this congress of mothers. Noticeable Mrs. John R. Lewis. among these was Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, the first vice president of the congress, to whose generosity much of the success of the congress must necessarily be attribu- ted. Others cn the platform were Mrs. T, the president of the congress; ison, one of the vice presidents: Mary Lowe Dickinson cf New York, John W. Foster, Mrs. Margaret Sangs- ter, Miss Mary Louisa Butler, the corre- sponding secretary of the congress, and Mrs. Ella Richardson of Boston. The corgress is to last three days, coming to a elese at the end of the sessions Friday evening. The program is rich in interesting papers on subjects that are of particular salve to women in their relation to chil- ren. Mrs. Birney'’s Welcoming Address. + The opening of the first session was de- leyed somewhat owing to the inability of one of the speakers to force her way through the crowds which thronged the entrances to the banquet hall. It was about 10:15 o'clock when Mrs. Hearst, the first vice president of the congress, called the meeting to order and introduced the presi dent, Mrs. Theodore W. Birney of this city, who delivered the address of welcome. In the course of her remarks Mrs. Birney said: “In coming before you as the president of the first national congress of mothers it is my pieasure and privilege to extend to each and all ef you a heartfelt welcome and to express the hope that this large and gratifying audience, this more than en- covraging response to our universal call, may prove an earnest of the success des- tined to crown the work to which our best and highest efforts are now consecrated. “Doubt each one present has some idea, more or less definite, as to the gen- eral objects of the congress, but still the stion recurs, ‘How do we expect to accomplish these ends? As to our ob- Jects I may say that the age in which we live is an age of ‘inovemen:s,’ a time specialized work, cf organized, or at crystalized effort. Every conceivable object, from the clothing of the Ho‘tentots to the study of occultism, has been the subject of investi- gation, ‘of inquiry, and often of organiza- tion. It has, therefore, seemed to us good and fitting that that highest and holiest of all questions, that interest’ upon which rests the entire supersiructure of human welfare, that elemeat which may indeed be deignated as the foundation of the entire sociable fabric, should now ciaim our attention and be made the subject of our earnest and reverent inquiry. I refer to what may be called in a word the child question, that broadest and deepest of questions, that theme most worthy in ali its variant ph: cf our study and at- tention, because the fundamental one, that question known in the sp=cial phraseology of the day as child-culture. The Child Question. “This si a time known pre-eminently in the history of the world as woman's era. So much has been said and written in these latter days about the higher education, the extended opportunities of women, that we have failed to hear the still, small voice of childhood, and yet how, I ask, can we divorce the woman question from the child question? Is not one the natural, Icgical corollary of the other? Let us then con- sider for a mom-at some of the needs of childhood. “Now that reform is being effected in do- mestic science by the establishment of schools where servants can be properly trained, and by the lifting of household and kitchen work from the realm of drudgery to that of science, there is a fair prospect of more bodily rest for mothers, more time for study for and with their children, and for outside recreation of a sort helpful to both mind and body. “The higher branches of book learning are weil enough for the girl or woman who Dr. Mary Wood Allen. has the inclination or time for them, but they should be secondary in her education to the knowledge which shall fit her for her motherhood. I grant you she may never marry, but as one of the sex on which the care and education of childhood must rest, she should know its needs and be ready with head and heart and hand to serve the cause of helpless infancy In’ any emergency. “Even the best-intentioned parents. and teachers are often, through ignorance of the nature of children, stumbling blocks in their pathway. How strangely the world THE OFFICIAL WEATHER MAD. _ . Sala lines are iso- ars, or lines of equal air pressure, drawn for each tenth of an inch. Dotted lines are isotherms, or Mxes of equal temperature, drawn for each ten degrees. snow has fallen during preceding twelve hours. The words areas of high and low barometer. Small arrows fly with the wind. Shaded areas are regions where rain or “High” and ‘Low’ show location of PARTLY CLOUDY. The Kind of Weather Predicted for Yonight and Tomorrow. Forecast till 8 p.m. Thursday—For the District of Columbia, Maryland and Vir- ginia, partly cloudy weather tonight and Thursday; southwesterly winds and warmer tonight. Weather conditions and general forecast— The barometer has risen on the Atlantic coast and in the extreme northwest; it has fallen in the lake regions, the Ohio valley and in the southwest. The depression, which was central over Dakota Tuesday morning, now covers the lake regions, the barometer being low over Lake Superior. The barometer is relatively high over the central plateau region, but it is highest off the south Atlantic coast. It is much warmer in the central valleys and the lake regions. It is slightly colder on the Atlantic coast and decidedly colder at northern Rocky mountain stations. The weather ts fair this morning, except in the lake regions, and over Minnesota and Colorado, where local snows are re- ported. The indications are that the weather will continue generally fair in the southern states and Ohio valley tonight and Thurs- day. tg Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of water at 8 a.m.: Great Falls, temperature, ;, condi- tion, 2; receiving reservoir, temperature, 7; condition at north connection, 8; con- dition at south connection, 10; distributing reservoir, temperature, 37; condition. at in- fluent gate house, 4; effluent gate house, 3. Tide Table: Today—Low tide, 1:36 a.m. and 1:44 p.m.; high tide, 7:24 a.m. and 7:58 p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 2:17 a.m. and 2:31 P.m.; high tide, 8:09 a.m. and 8:42 p.m, The Sun and Moon. Sun rises, 6:50; sun sets, 5;3P. Moon rises, 6:12 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun rises, 6:49. The City Lights. Gas lamps all lighted by 6:48 p.m,; extin- guishing begun at 5:56 a.m. The lighting is begun one hour before the time named. Public are lamps lighted at 6:33 p.m. and extinguished at 6:11 a.m. g Temperatures for Twenty-Four Hours The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau during the past twenty-four hours, beginning at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon: February 16—4 p.m., 44; 8 p.m., 40; mid- night, 34. February 174 a.m., 33; 8 a.m., 31; 12 m., 50, and 2 p.m., 57. Maximum, 57, at 2 p.m., February 1 minimum, $1, at 8 a.m., February 17. has worked, how at variance with all nat- ural law. For every single kindergarten there are a hundred, nay, a thousand, prisons, jails, reformatories, asylums and hospitals; and yet society cries that there 1s need for more of these. Are we blind, that we fail as nation and state and in- dividuals to recognize the incontrovert- ible fact that such demand will never cease until we cut off the supply. “This is in no sense a sex movement, nor has the appeal to take up thts child’ cul- ture and Kindred topics been made to mothers alone. Men have a thousand im- perative outside interests and pursuits, while nature has set her seal upon wo- man as the caretaker of the child, and it is therefore divinely natural that woman should lead in awaking all mankind to a sense of the responsibilities resting upon the race to provide each new-born soul with an environment which will foster its highest development. “That this congress, which we all feel must mark an epoch in the individual lives of those at least who attend, has heen possible, is due to the noble generosity of a woman whose financial aid and whose intellectual grasp of humanity’s greatest needs have numbered her for many years among America’s truest philanthropists, and especially as the benefactress of child- hood. I refer to our first vice president, Mrs. Phoebe Hearst. ‘Bachelor or maid, father or mother, you are all most welcome. The lovt of childhood is a common tie which snould unite us in holiest purpose, and on this common ground of our beautiful national capital let us devote our best efforts dur- ing these three days to a prayerful con- sideration of our highest objects and go forth determined to bring the work to full fruition. “It has been truly said, ‘to cure was the voice of the past, to prevent, the Divine whisper of today.’ May the whisper grow into a mighty shout throughout the land until all mankind takes it up for the bat- tle cry for the closing years of the cen- tury Let mothers, fathers, nurses, edu- cators, ministers, legislators and, mightiest of all in its swift, far-reaching influence, the press, make the child the watchword and ward of the day and hour; let all else be secondary, and those of us who live to gee the year 1925 will behold a new world Anna M. # mmer. and a new people. Untiring, universal, in- dividual effort, with such organization only as may prove helpful, will build a bridge upon which a struggling humanity may safely cross into a new world, leaving for- ever the old, with its unending reformatory methods, its shattered homes, and the keystone of that bridge will be maternal love, while in that fair domain the splen- did edifice of the new civilization will bear the corner stone of home.” Mrs. Dickinson’s Reply. The response to Mrs. Birney’s address of welcome was made, on behalf of delegates from other cities, by Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson cf New York, the president of the National Council of Women, and one of the best known and most prominent women in the United States. Her address wes quite a long one, and in the course of her speech she said: “The feast to which you have invited us is primarily a feast of recognition. It is a welcome to the same spirit that has in- spired this gathering, whether you find it as the chief impulse in organized move- ments, or as underlying the motive of in- dividual effort. The gracious courtesy that has welcomed to your firesides has offered also that higher hospitality that welcomes our thoughts, our convictions, our fears, and our opinions, while making us equal- ly at home with your own. And in that fact is an assurance of results from this corgress such as could arise from not! ing but frank interchange of thought on the part of lovers of a common cause. “As mothers especially who would fain see better things in the future that is to be the inheritance of our children, we re- Joice in the fact that there never before was a time when at the heart of every movement, large or smal!, lay such consid- eration for the welfare of human beings as today. Never before was so much strength, time and money expended for the education of the illiterate. Never before were there such wise and wonderful pro- Jects for preventing pauperism and disease. Never before was the spirit of Christian- ity so active in human affaira. Never was religion so patient with ignorance, so piti- ful to suffering, so ready to shake off the shackles put upon it by bigotry and to represent by its loving activity the power of the love of Chris: “Notwithstanding all this, we are forced to admit that the whole world groaneth and travaileth in pain, and the problems of education, of labor, of philanthropy, of politics, of religion, beat against the heart of humanity today as they beat against the heart of Christ in that far- away day when they questioned how, in the midst of the world’s misery, could come the Kingdom of God. As we have all recog- mized down through the centuries, there has come no better answer than that which was ‘shown in the face of a little chitd whom ‘Jesus took and set him in the midst.’ Amid the maze of manifold theo-* approved meticods, ries and schemes for human betterment the idea has been growing that the answer to the crowding problems of the race lies in the conditions and possible development of the childhood of the race; every organiza- tion and every institution has begun to give its share of attention to the develop- ment of the child. Yet it has remained for this new society to ‘take the child and set him in the midst,’ making him who is al- ready the center of love the center of strong endeavor, the key to the closed gates of our highest‘ prégress, the heart and soul of our hope, that the world becom- ing as a Httle child may yet enter the Kingdoth of God.” At the conclusion of Mrs. Dickinson's ad- dress, Rev. W. H. Milburn delivered an earnest and eloquent prayer, after which the meeting adjourned to enable the dele- gates to attend a reception at the White House, which was specially tendered to the ladies ‘of the congress by Mrs. Clevelanf. * Future Programs. There will be two more sessions of the congress today, one this afternoon and the other this evening. The program of the two sessions is as follows: Afternoon—1. “Mother and Child of the Primitive World,” Frank Hamilton Cush- ing, Washington. 2. (a) “Mothers of the Submerged World,” (b) “Day Nurseries,” Mrs. Lucy S. Bainbridge, New York city. 3. “What the Kindergarten Means to Mo- thers,” Miss Amalie Hofer, Chicago, Ml. 4. “Parental Reverence as Taught in the Hebrew Home,” Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, New York city, Evening, 8 o’clock—1. “Mothers and Schools,” Mrs. W. F. Crafts, Washing- ton. 2. “The Value of Music in the De- velopment of Character,” Rev. W. A. Bart- lett, Lowell, Mass. Mra. Cleveland's Reception. In point of numbers the reception given by Mrs. Cleveland to the delegates and friends of the national mothers’ congress was nearly as large as any reception that is ever given in the White House. When the congress. adjourned to goto the White House at 11:30, the hour set, a grand rush was made, and the earliest to arrive were herded into the east room, where they were packed to suffocation. Then the last end of the delegation was turned in through the corridor door and through the red room into the blue room, where Mrs. Cleve- land received them. It was a case of the lest shall be first, and it made some of the ladies pretty mad to get left after they had rushed themselves out of breath to get there first. As soon;as the east room guests found out what was going on they began to crowd into the corridor, and the scramble Was fearful. Quite a number of the delegates did not get to see Mrs. Cleve- land, as she hed invited guests for 12, and the doors had to be shut. Mrs. Theodore Birney, president of the congress, stood at Mrs, Cleveland's. left, and introduced each caller by name to Mrs. Cleveland, who had a cordial handshake for all. There was the usual crowding back into the blue room, and it-was all that the ushers could do to keep the ladies from almost mobbing Mrs. Cleveland to get a good look at her. They turned around and backed out in many instances in an awkward attempt to get's last look at her. Mrs. Cleveland looked her-best in a gown of dark red cloth, the waiatfim bolero ef- fect, with black braiding, andja wide girdle of black satin. There we; special. dec- crations, but the greens from the last state reception were many of tHém in place sheut eahs| chauidolicrs; and'théllarge shields ortelles were yet am:the columns by the doors leading into the,corridors. A Model Nubsery. Last night Mr. H. M. Anthony, the young man delegate from Californja, and Miss Francis Newton, the great, kindergartner, were busy till nearly midpight getting the model uursery in shape. They hobnobbel over the pretty papier mathe bath tub, and the utility of granite iron wate to nursery utensils. They smoothed dewm'dolly;s tress- es, and straightened hesiski#ts, and dis- Cuesed the merits of diffenent baby powders in a perfectly informal way, and stood the jokes of the friends gbout them bravely. Model nurseries do not have handsome velvet curtains, nor Wilton carpets, nor grand inirrors, so the guests are invited to shut their eyes to these, and look only at the pretty white iron bed, with its doll occupant under the soft white covers, and to see instead the baby basket, and, the tiny chiffonier, the latest appliances in amine the beautiful ser simply, arronged 2 utiful yet s:! ly a baby clothes that are’on exhibition, ~ In this-nursery, off on ‘one side, is a play room, where little tables, chat boas ‘of tools, an autoharp, a ther dell at a ‘little table, bit of a baby doll in a ‘tiny many. other toys dear to the heart of a mi ‘girl “or 2 mischief of a boy will be found, At some time during the day @-real live baby willbe. produced, “end be. undressed, bathed and dressed again after the most The fcundling hospital will be there In person. with her chief nurse, who will superintend the operation. All the little linen clothes, as = as the baby, will come from the hos- pital: ~~ In a glass case is displayed a lot of med- icines, powders of various kinds, soap, scents and all the paraphernalia for a baby of high degree, and the drugs, linen bandages, ointments, salves, sticking plas- ters and everything in the simple medicine chest to aid in caring for the injured while some slcw-footed messenger is going for the doctor. Tris rocm is visited by almost everybody who enters the Arlington, and men who are not fathers seem to be as in- terested as anybody. They handle the lit- tle flannel garments and paw over the pretty things in the baby basket, dandle the dolls and ask just as many questions as the women. Mrs. C. W. Richardson and Mrs. Daniel Murray aided in fixing up the nursery end play room. ; Some of the Delegates. Among the prominent arrivals yesterday and last night were Mrs. Ellen Richard- son of Boston, Mrs. Charles Noyes of the Mothers and Teachers’ Club of the public schools of Warren, Pa.; Mrs. Warren B. Hooker, Normal and Free Kindergarten, Fredonia, N. Y Cc. T. U., Bellevi Carrol, W. C. T. U. Y.; Mrs. William P. | Lewiston, Me.; Mrs. Amy G. Keencr, Selin’s Grove, Pa.; Mrs. Albert H. Tuttle, Benevolent Society, Charlottesville, V. Miss Mary B. Temple, Woman's Educ tonal and Industrial Union, Knoxville, Tenn.; Miss Sarah Smith, Mothérs’ Club, Medina, Ohio; Miss Amelie Hofer, editor Kindergarten Magazine, Chica; Mrs Emma Platt Guyton, Grand Rapids, Mich. Mr. W. A. Bartlett, Lowell, Mass.; Mrs H. A. Stinson, New York; Mrs. Lucy S. Bainbridge, New York; Miss Helen ¥ bridge, New York; M: R. D. Rowe, Tr ing School for Christian Workers, New York; Miss Hall, Moody Training School, Northfleid, Mass.; Miss Jennie Swezey and Miss Rockwell, City Mission, New York; Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, president King’s Daughters, New York, and Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin, president Federation of Women’s Clubs, Chicago. Organizations from all over the country are sending their delegates. The Mothers’ Round Table Club of Lansdown, Pa., sent a delegation of twenty-two ladies, with its president, Miss Emily Wright. They will be at the Clarendon. The psychological section of the Medio- Legal Society of New York city sends the Countess di Moise, Mrs. Sophia McClelland and Mrs. Taylor. These ladies come to ask the congress, as mothers of America, to appeal to England’s queen for the release of Mrs. Maybrick. Mrs. Mumford of Richmond, Mrs. Hen- nesley of New York city, Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. White of Lansdown, Pa., Mrs. Kearns of Pittsburg, Pa., and Mrs. Kemp of Harrisburg are at the Normandie. Mrs. Emma Guyton of Grand Rapids, Mich., arrived last evening. She represents the Hillsdale College for Girls. Mrs. Henry H. Croper is a_ delegate from the Froebel Kindergarten Club of Little Rock, Ark., and will be at the Arlington during their stay in the city. Mrs. J. C. S. Davis of Riverton, N. J., with her daughter, are at the Arlington. Mrs. Davis is to give a talk on forestry and plant life in the home during the congress. Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. Downs, Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Shober, delegates from the Mothers’ Influence Club of Philadelphia, are at the Arlington, as are also Mrs. Bruen and Mrs. Thorpe of the same cit: Noten of the Congress. Dr. E. H. Dewey and wife of Meadville, Pa., are spending a few days with Dr. S. A. Edson, at 1208 I street. Dr. Dewey has become famous through his originating of the no-breakfast plan for the promo- tiqn of good health. He has timed his visit to: Washington so as to be here during the mothers’ congress, at the invitation of Mrs. Alice Birney, president of the con- gress, whose guest he will be during a part of his stay. The “mothers” broke the rule with im- punity that hats and bonnets should not be worn. The two first speakers of the morning wore becoming flower bonne and when a woman thinks a bonnet is be- coming she is going to wear it. So there! It was a little funny, but the “national mothers” couldn't sing “America,” the na- tional hymn, and had to have the first line repeated to start them off all right. They had the first verse pat, but the second was a little mixed, and the third was a fizzle. There wasn’t any place else to stand, so ;the” mother’s stood on the window sills and round on the radiators. Mrs. Wilson, one of the vice presidents, couldn't get through the jam at all, and many of the other officers stayed on the outside. The mothers evidently didn’t know how ex- tremely popular they were going to be. It was stated this morning that the ses- sions would be held in a a church here- after, as the banquet hall of the Ariing- ton is only about half large enough for the purpose. It was not decided what church would be used, however. Everybody wanted to see ‘Margaret Sangster.” Everybody had in mind a fresh-faced girlish creature who wrote po- etry and who had said so many things to help girls and mothers, and her sex gen- erally. All were much surprised to learn that the placid-faced, white-haired lady in black, with red roses in her bonnet, and feathers, too, was Margaret Sangster. She took great interest in all that was being sald. Very few knew that the great apostle of reform, Anthony Comstock, was one of the audience this morning. He is wide out and florid, with stunning English side whiskers, and looks a good liver. Among the gay head coverings the soft silver gray of many Quaker bonnets shone out conspicuously. It is odd, but the Quakers, who are charged with being slow to make progress, are intensely interested in reforms of all kinds, and particularly in thi Everybody is invited to the congress who can get in. Space is limited, but as long as there is any there the first who comes will be the first served. It is not a good place, however, to take children of tender age. They get restless. It was complained this morning that the women talked too much, and kept those who desired to hear from catching all that was said. There is a continuous buzz of talk in the back of the room, which is an- noying to those who would like to hear. Among the delegates is Mrs. Willis Lord . Rosetta Ottwell, W. w, Ky Miss Frances A. unty, N. Frey, Literary Club, City Moore, president of the State Federation of Woman's Clubs of Kansas. Mrs. Moore is a writer of acknewledged ability, a news- Faper woman, and a regular ‘“‘jiner’” when it comes to clubs. She is practical and en- ergetic, however, and gets through an im- mense amount of work. She was educated in Washington, and is the guest now of her sister, Mrs. Case. Mrs. Agnes Hitt, national president of the Woman's Relief Corps, is attending the congress, and will also be here for the ses- sions of the department convention of Po- tomac W. R. C. She is the guest of Mrs. Annie W. Johnson, department president, on Capitol Hill. Miss Anna Tolman Smith, the well-known writer and editor of the educational depart- ment of the Independent, and Mrs. A. G. Wilkinson, are delegates to the congress am the Woman's Anthropological So- ciety. —___ The Smart Lawyer. From the Boston Post. Many lawyers nowadays utterly disre- ‘gard honor and honesty in the means by which they elicit evidence or invalidate the testimony of those opposed to them, in il- lustration of which we need only adduce the following specimen of cross-question- ing: Lawyer—“Mr. Jenkins, will you have the goodness to answer me, directly or cate- gorically, a few plain questions?” Witness—‘‘Certainly, sir."” Lawyer—‘“Well, Mr. Jenkins, is there a female living with you who is known in the neighborhood as Mrs. Jenkins?” Witness—“There i: is she under your protection?” Lawyer—‘‘Do you support her?” ‘Witness—“I do.” Lawyer—“Have you ever been married to her?” Witness—‘‘I have not.” (Here several ju- rors scowled gloomily on Mr. Jenkins.) Lawyer—“That is all, Mr. Jenkins.” Opposing Counsel—“Stop one moment, Mr. Jenkins. Is the female in question your mother?” Witness—‘‘She is.” +e —____—_ Disgraced. From the Indianapolis Journal. “Is that report true about the cashier of | the Confidence Bank committing suicide?” “It is, poor fellow. He was caught when he had embezzled only $1,200. The dis-- grace was more than he could bear.” ———_+e-___—__- _ From Up-to-Date, = “What's the prisoner charged. with?" said the judge. i “Whisky, your honor." “Then discharge him, officer.” INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. ACCOUNTANTS .. AMUSEMENTS ... ATTORNEYS Page 4 AUCTION SALES. Page 10 Pago 4 Page 12 COMMISSIONERS ¢ Page 5 COUNTRY REAL ES Page 4 OEATHS Page 7 DENTISTRY . Page 5 EDUCATIONAL . Page 5 EXCURSIONS . 12 SINANCIAL . 3 MAY age 4 FOREIGN POSTA Page 5 FOR RENT (Fiata). 4 FOR RENT (Houses). Page 4 FOR RENT Qooms) Page 4 FOR RENT (Miscellaneoas). 4 FOR RENT (Offices). FOR RENT (toes: FOR SALE (Iouses). LOCAL MENTION Lost AND FOUND. MANICURE MEDIC. Ce ec eo STORAGE SUBURBA: THE INAU UNDERTAKERS WANTED (Help) WANTED (Rooms)... WANTED (Situations). WINTER RESORTS CONDENSED — The President has recommissioned Will P. Boteler a notary public for the District of Columbia. Cc. C. Mothersead, receiving clerk of che Western Union Telegraph Company, who sustained a sever fracture of the ankle from a fall on the tce several weeks ago, has greatly improved, and expects to re- sume his duties in a few days. Maria Baile colored. living at 624 € alley, was treated at Freedman’s Ho: last night for an overdose of creosote. For veral days she has been suffering from a toothache, and it thought it was taken for relief. John Moi a cigar maker, is a resi- dent of Alexandria, and yesterday he siart- ed to walk to this city. While near one of the brick yerds on the other side of the Long bridge he was attacked by a large dog, whicn inflicted a painful wound of! one cf his legs. Morrisey drove the doz off witn a brick. He then made his way to Washington, afier which he went to Providence Hospital for treatment. Police Lieut. Teeple reports a dangerous hole in the pavement in front of 1003 Ist street. The side’ at the cor ks in front of 703 7th street, of 6th and I streets, and in pr frent of 1330 4%, street are all in need of repair. Ida Bro’ colored, was found sick at Ist and H streets last night. She was re- mecved to her home, 30%, Virginia avenue _____ FINANCIAL. _..... - Anever-failing yearly income for life “Non- taxable--unaffected by any possible financial condition of the times --payable in any coun- try of the worid, . are a few of the adv we with. assets thirty-six and a record lars ing business for thé years! - An ideal investment for the father, hus- band, guardian or the widow. Issued to chil- dren as young as three and from that age up toeighty. Further in- formation for the ask- ing. THOMAS P. MORGAN, *Phone 1126. 1333 F St. N.W. fe10-3m,56 “There Is inoney on the right side of stocks Buy at the Bottom; at the Top! jow mow, After the HM goup. Buy 928 FSt.? Washington Loan & Trust Co OFFIC PAID-UP ©. Loans in estate COR. STH AND F STS. PITAL, ONE MILLION, amount’ made collateral, on approved at reasonable or pon deposits check nets as al executor, adminis registrar and in all oth: Boxes for rent vaults for safe deposi uable packages. and storage of val- JOHN JOHN H. S. JOHN 2 ANDREW PARKER. fea-th,s,w Uf -Treaxnvr Sccretary T. J. Hodgen & Co., Members Philadelphia Petroleum and Stock i change, RAIN AND* PROVISIONS. News of the Street, STOCKS, COTTO! Gossip Ticker. Nets 20 ” cs Rooms 10 and 11, Jorcoran bidg., cor. 15th and southwest, in the patrol wagon. F ste, and 005 7th st. nw. fod 2-A6at Cherles Harris, colored, fifteen years of Ce a sooah age, residing at 1236 Nolan's court south- SON & PNEY west, was stabbed in the hip by an un- CORSON & MAC ART NEY, known boy vesterday afternoon while pick- ing rags on the dump at the foot of Sth street southeast. He was removed to Prov- iderce Hospital in No. 5 patrol wagon. Twenty-nine policemen are on the sick list and fifteen are on leave. There were only two people who applied at the station houses for lodging last night. ‘ons were arrested by e pel the police yesterday. RELEASED. cepted as a Bondsman at the Marshal's Office. Lewis McK. Turner is a free man. He was released on bond late yesterday after- noon by Judge Bradley. Commiss' Mil: ner , who had the papers in his possession, sent them to the office of the marshal yes- terday, not having been offered a satisfac- tory bondsman for the accused man. After the papers were sent to the marshal's of- fice Attorney Andrew Lipscomb succeeded in having Turner released on bond. The bondsman secured is John H. Murphy, a contractor of Anacostia, who was on the bond of Howgate. Commissioner Mills had Murphy suggested to him yesterday morn- ing as a bondsman, but declined to accept him. Mr. Turner went directly to his home after his ase. ‘The secret servi e department of the gov- ernment has recovered something like 350 copies of valuabie papers, lett ete., di posed of in New York, and which, it Philip McElhone has made application to Commissioner Mills to substitute an- other bondsman in place of Samuel Corst, one of the original bondsmen. missioner denied the application. Mr. Corst, it is stated, has been prevented from getting a loan on his property by reason of the bond. The com- EYE, EAR AND THROAT HOSPITAL. Appeal to the Public for Help in Its Behalf. The committee, consisting of Mr. William [ A. Gordon, Mr. Robert S. Chew and Dr. E. Oliver Belt, appointed at a joint meeting of the executive and finance committees of the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hos- pital, held last week to consider ways and means for raising additional funds needed for the erection of the hospital, issued yes- terday, in co-operation with Mr. William D. Baldwin, vice president of the board of directors, and Dr. W. W. Johnston, presi- dent of the medical board, and Mrs. Horace Gray, president of the board. of lady man- agers, an appeal to the public in behalf of the institution. The committee state that, after careful examination, they estimate it will require at least $3,600 to meet the actual expenses of rent, attendance, food, fuel and light for the first year, and that the cost of furnishing and equipping the hospital and dispensary will amount-to about $750 addi- tional. Up to the present time the annual subscriptions and pledges received amount to about $1,500, leaving the sum of $2,450 still uriprovided for. The necessity for the hospital, they say, is evident without demonstration. The com- mittee ask the citizens of Washington to help the hospital in any of the following ways: 1. By becoming a sustaining member, by pledging an annual subscription of $ or more to the institution. 2. By donations of money, or of furni- ture, linen, bedding, china, etc., for im- mediate use in establishing the hospital. 3. And, after the hospital is established, by contributions of food, medicine, ete. Remittances of money should be made to the treasurer, Mr. William A. De Caindry, Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C. Notice of intended gifts of furniture and other house- hold articles should be sent to Mrs. Horace Gray, the president of the board of lady managers, No. 1601 I street northwest, who will cause the donor to be informed when and where to deliver the articles. Contributions of any amounts, from $1 upward, may be sent to the treasurer or handed to any one of the lady managers. DSESSPHHTE SSIS NSOSOS OS OSS OED The edal Fledicine Is the Model Medicine. ‘The only medal awarded to sarsaparilia at the World’s Fair, 1803, at Chicago, was awarded to Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. FESVOSEES scsbdbauooesaest! ww Sell ~C. T. HAVENNER, ¢ ai- leged, were stolen from the Congressionai Library by Turner and McElhone. Members of the New 1419 F st. nge, Glover building. Correspondents of Messrs. Moore & Schley, 80 Brroadwa: Bankers and Dealers in Government Bonds, Deposits. Loans. Railroad Stocks and Bonds and all securities listed on the exchanges of New York, Philadelphia, Boston und Baltimore bought A specicity trict bonds and Teleptone America Je31-160 and sold, tment securities. Dis- ilroad, Gas, Insurance ade of inves Bell The National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Company, Of the District of Columbia, CORNER 15TH ST. AND N YORK AVE, Chartered by special act of Congress, Jen., 1867, and acts of Oct., 180, and Feb., 1893. Capital: One Plillion Dollars SAFE DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT. Rents safes insi $5 per avnum upward. Securities, jewelry, silverware and valuables of all kinds in owner's package, trank or case taken on deposit at moderate cost. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT. Deposits received from TEN CENTS up and interest allowed on $5 and ‘abov Loans money on real estate and ocliateral security. Sells first-class real estate aud other securities in sums of $500 and ‘upward. TRUST DEPARTMENT. This company is a legal depository for court end trust funds, and acts as a executor, receiver, assignee and es trusts of all kinds. Wills prepared by @ competent attorney in daily attendance. OFFICERS: BENJAMIN P. SNYDER... E. FRANCIS RIGGS. W. RILEY DEEBLE. THOMAS R. JONES... ALBERT L. STURTEVANT. burglar-proof vaults at inistra ox President First Vice President ceond Vice President ‘Third Vice President GEORGE HOWARD. + Treasurer CHARLES E, NYMAN -Assistant Secretary WOODBURY BLAMR................-Trust Oficer Ja2i W. B. Hibbs & Co., BANKERS & BROKERS, Members New York Stock Exchange, 1427 F Street. Correspondents of LADENBURG, THALMANN & ©O., de6-164 New York. Silsby & Company, ima nceenassee Office, 613 15th st. National Metropolitan Bank Building. Telephcre 505. mble Union Savings Bank 3218-100 Offers to workingmen and small depositors every ad- a ‘opening maintaining, bank account. 1222 F ST. Knights of Pythias. Capital Lodge, No. 24,-K. of P., held its regular session Tuesday night and was largely attended by its members and visit- Dr. Charles M. Emmons gave future work of the good mittee of Capital Lodge and stated that L. D. Bliss, president of the Bliss Representative Sherman of New York to- day introduced a bill providing ‘that the Secretary of the ey ae ae: meas-