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FUTURE PROGRAMS The congress of mothers, which convened yesterday morning, and will last through tomorrow evening, may be described as one of the most remarkable gatherings that Washington has ever seen. The inter- est and enthusiasm which the meetings have aroused are well-night unprecedented. So great has been the attendance that the provisions originally made for the comfort of the gathering have proved entirely in- adequate, and the prime movers in the af- fair have found themselves overwhelmed by the immensity of the undertaking. When the first arrangements for the con- gress were made it was thought that the banquet hall of the Arlington would an- swer the need, but the mistake in that idea was quickly realized yesterday morn- ing, when only a small fraction of those who wished to attend were able to get in- side the hall. A change was immediately Alice Lee Moque. decided upon, and the sessions since then have been held In the First Baptist Church, at the corner of 16th and O streets. Even that auditorium has failed to accommodate all who sougit admission. This morning there were hundreds who could not get in- side, and it necessary to hold an over- flow meeting in the Sunday school room tn the basement. That was attended by near- y -«”) women, who took part in an informal sion of matters of interest to moth- and also had the pleasure of listening econd reading of the papers after had been presented to the main gath- ering above. The idea of the women who started the Movement was to kave as little organiza- tion as was absolutely necessary, and not enough to hinder or cramp the freedom of the congress in the slightest degree. It is called the First National Congress. While nothing Fas been said on the subject as ¥et. it is a foregone conclusion that a se ond will be held. The interest in the con- gress is by no means confined to Wash- ington or the immediate neighborhood. In fact, a far greater number of delegaics from other cities are here than the most sanguine of the women interested had dared to hope in advance. It was expected that scores might come. In point of fact there are probably more than five hundred women from other cities in attendance upon the congress. ‘The women who had in charge the prep- aration of the program have succeeded in bringing together from all over the coun- try some of the brainiest and most interest- ing talkers who have ever addressed gath- erings of this sort. The subjects assigned are all of the greatest importance, and the manner in which they have been handled has so far been entirely worthy of the im- mense audiences which the speakers have addressed. The proper relationship existing between the mother and the child is a very broad subject to handle, but it has been specialized and divided up among the va- rious speakers in such a way as to cover the ground in a most satisfactory manner. This Morning's Seasion. The program this morning shows as well as anything can the general nature of the congress. Three women. all of whom are well known fcr what they have said in the past and have written on the subject of maternity and childhood, were down for papers. The first was on the subject of “Dietetics;" the second was on “Repro- duction and Natural Law,” and the third on “The Moral Responsibility of Weman in Heredity.” The first was by Mrs. Louise Hogan of Germantown, Pa.; the second y Mrs. Alice Lee Moque of this city, and the third by Mrs. Helen H. Gardener, cne of the brainiest and best known of the Mary Lowe Dickinson. women writers and speakers of Masga- chusetts. Mrs. Jenness Miller of this city was on the program for an address on “Mothers’ Relation to the Sound Physical Development of Her Child,” out sie was unable to be present at the meeting this morning. She will, however, appear on the program before the congrése adjourns. The devotional exercises this morning were conducted by Mrs. Maud BPallington Booth, and her appearance on the platform was greeted with entiusiasiic applause. Even this part of the program was 01 of the ordinary run. Mrs. Booth, who wore the showy and attractive uniform of the American Voiunteers, led the singing of the hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” following it with the reading of a few verses of Scripture. ‘Then she went on and talked for quite half an hour with a zeal and fervorr that held her audience spellbeund. It was not a sermon, neither waa it a carefully prepared address oa any particu- lar subject before the congress. It was Castoria For Infants and Children. CASTORIA PROMOTES DIGESTION, and over- comes Flatulency, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhboca and Feverishness. Thus the child ie rendered healthy and its sleep NATURAL. CAs. TORIA contains no morphine or other narcotic property. “CASTORIA {# so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me."” H. A. ARCHER, M.D., 111 So. Oxford st., Brooklyn, N. ¥. “For several years I have recommended ‘Casto- tia,’ and shall always continue to do so, ss it has favariably produced beneficial results.”* EDWIN F. PARDEE, M.D. Asbeh ot. and 7th ave., New. Nork elty.' EXPLANATORY NOTE: Observations taken at 8 a.m., 75th meridian time. THE OFFICIAL WEATHER MAP. = il RN, ‘ace: Solid lines are ts0- ars, or lines of equal-air pressure, drawn for each tenth of an inch. Dotted lines are teotherms, or lizes of equal temperature, drawn for each ten degrees. Shaded areas are regions where rain oF snow has fallen during preceding twelve hours. The words ‘areas of high and low barometer. “High” and ‘Low’ show location of Small arrows fy with the wind. CLOUDY AND THREATENING. The Kind of Weather Predicted for Tonight and Tomorrow. Forecast till 8 p.m. Friday—For the Dis- trict of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, generally cloudy and probably threatening weather tonight and Friday; ccoler; winds shifting to northerly. Weather conditions and general fore- cast—The barometer has fallen on the At- lantie and gulf coasts und to the west of the Rocky movntains. It has risen in the central valleys, in the lake regions, and at Rocky mountain stations; it is lowest this mcrning over New England and highest over Colorado. The temperature has fallen decidedly in the Ohio and upper Mississippi valleys and in the, lower lake region, but it is much warmer in the gulf states and from Georgia northward over New England. Generally fair weather coniinues in all districts, but the cloudiness has increased in the central valleys and lower lake re- gion. z The indications are that the cloudiness will increase on the Atlantic coast, vrob- ably with threatening weather from New York southward to Georgie. Lecal showers are likely to occur in the gulf states ani Ohio valley by Friday morning. It will be cooler from New England southward to Georgia, and thence west ward to Indian Territory. Tide Table. Tcoday—Low tide, 1:36 a.m. and 1:44 p.m.; high tide, 7:24 a.m. and p.m. Temorrow—Low tide, a.m. and $:17 P.m.; high tide, 8:54 a.m. and 9:27 p.m. The San and Moon. Stn rises, 6:49; sun sets, 5:40; moon ri: 7:28 p.m. Tomorrow—Stn rises, 6:47. The City Lights. Gas lamps all lighted by 6:49 p.m.; ex- tinguishing begun at 5:55 a.m The light- ing is begun one hour before the time named. Pubiic arc lamps lighted at 6:34 p.m. and extinguished at 6:10 a.m. 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 17—4 p.m., 63; 8 p.m., 53; mid- night, 52. February 184 a.m., 50; 8 a.m., 40; 12 m., 54, and 2 p.m., 51. Maximum, 63, at 4 p.m., February 17; minimum, 40, at 8 a.m., February 18. scmething of both of these. The beauty and sacred character of motherhood was the theme of her talk, and her ideas fol- lowed each other sc rapidly and were ex- pressed in words so well chosen and so well delivered, that the great concourse of women sat in deepest silence and listened with the closest attention. Many were moved to tears as she spoke of the beauty of a mother’s love and the immense in- fluence it has upon the world. She spoke of her own two little children in a way that went straight to the heart of each mother in the hali, and when she came to Mrs. Rebekah Kohut. speak of her wider werk of trying to be a mother to many homcless, motherless boys there was a depth and earnestness in her sentences that could not but appeal to every one. In the course of her address Mrs. Booth took occasion to speak of the recent legis- lation in New York state which has put a stop to work in the jails and peniten- tiaries. She spoke of {t as a most iniqui- tcus law, and one that would be far reaching in its results. In this connection she spoke of the case of the young man who recently committed suicide by throw- ing himself from the upper gallery in the penitentiary at Sing Sing. He had been brocdirg in idleness for days, and his act was necessarily the result of a diseased brain. Back of that there was another cause. It was the young man’s anguish and scrrow at not receiving one single werd of forgivencss or comfort from his mctker. So Mrs. Booth continued to touch upon a number of phates of motherhood, giving to each its beautiful and poetic side. Mra. Hogan's Paper. At the conclusion of this portion of the program Mrs. Hogan was introduced to speak on “Dietetics.” Her paper was brim- ful of good advice to women on the proper feeding of infants and young chil- dren. Prevention instead of cure, she said, should be the watchword of motherhood to- day. The period between birth and the age of twelve years is undoubtedly the most important in forming the lines along which the future life of the individual shall grow. It is also the time when the great- est care and discretion should be employed, not only in the housing and education of tre child, but, r cst fmp»-tant of all, in the matter of the food which shall be given to it. It is a question whether at least one- half of those who die in infancy do not die as a direc: result of a lack of common sense in supplying them with food. The child's diet should be simpler and yet varied, and the greatest need of all in caring for the infant is the need for common sense. Mrs. Hogan cited a case, which had come under her personal observation, where a mvther had sent ten miles for a physician at midnight. When he arrived the child was in a pitiable conditicn and to all ap- pearances very sick. The doctor gave a glas of water to the little one, who then turned over and went sound asleep. There was nothing else the matter with it. His questioning developed the fact that she had never given the child water because he had never directly and in so many words told her to do so. Phis was but a specimen, Mrs. Hogan said, of many cases where wo- men show no sense or discretion in the care of their Uttle ones. Reproduction and Natural L “Reproduction and Natural Law” was the subject that was handled in a masterly manner by Mrs. Alice Lee Moque. In the course of her address Mrs. Moque said: “In the past it has been the generally ac- cepted theory that parents were merely the unconscious instruments of the Divine spirit for the working out of His wil mrs. Lucy Bainbridge. that the mental and moral attributes of their children—their temperament, health, character and sex—were direct decrees of the Infinite, that it was useless for the ao mind to. try. to comprehend or ex- plain. “Today we are wiser and have learned that nature is the great exponent _of ‘sub- lime truth, and natural law the Creator's text book by which he teaches His children the perfection of the Divine plan and lifts them to a higher plane of responsibility. “In nature it 1s law, not chance; eff is the natural sequence of cause. A child, if he puts his hand into the fire, will be burned, not to punish him for having dis- obeyed the warning of nis parents, but to teach him that he has willfully broken an immutable law. “The child profits by the lesson and is saved from future pain, but children of an older growth, adult men and women, still are blind to the plain truth natural law strives to impress upon them, and, while constantly confronted with the just’ fulfill- ment of the omnipotent fiat, ‘Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap,’ con- tinue to walk with closed eyes and speak" of a visitation from God when their prog- eny are unhealthy, malformed and imbe- cile, without a realization that a crime against the child wag committed and by them, ignorantly we will admit, but ignor- ance of the law excusgth na one. “One of the most fruitful causes of the popular indifference ta, this most impor- tant and sublime object, the science of creation, says Mr. Winser, the anthropol- ogist, is the prevailing belief that the ex- cellence or inferiority @f offspring is the result of Divine Providence,, which arbitra- rily decrees that one child shall be approx- imately perfect, while another shall be deaf, dumb, crippled and idiotic. Of course, if this 1s the case, all’ sciehtific effort 1s useless, all investigation futile, all knowl- edge a burden, and we should simply bow to the inevitable. Butiwe respectfully sub- mit that guch is not the case, and, more- over, that charging such an enormity upon Divine Providence, “who ‘doeth all things well,” is a monstrous error{ a blasphemy against the justice of the Most High, and a cowardly shrinking of the real responsi- bility. “Then if there are known laws govern- ing reproduction, just as divinely ordained and enforced 4s the laws of gravity, space and of motion, every man and woman, rich or poor, high or low, every reasoning creature, has a right to know them, for the truth belongs not to individuals, but to all humanity. “To undertake this responsibility of. be- stowing a life, which may be either a bless- ing or a curse, unless the being on whom it is bestowed will have at least the ordi- tary chances of a desirable existence, is a crime against that being. To bring a child into the world without a prospect of being able to provide food and cluthes for its body, o1 instruction and training for its mind, is not only a crime against the unfcrtunate offspring, out a crime against society itself. “If I were asked the great requisite for marital happiness.1 should unhesitalinaly reply ‘health.’ By a wise and persistent observance of the simple laws relating to Mrs. J. H. McGill. diet, dress, ventilated buildings and other sanitary conditions we may all hope to obtain this priceless blessing from which so many others flow. “The woman with a good constitution, while she may not be either young cr handsome, if she has the: bright the clear inind, the vivacity and huoyamt spir- its that only a physically sound woman can know, has an_attractiveness of her own that will not only. incgease her own comfort and happiness, put ,yill be an. im- Hortant factor in aiding her to fulfill her whole duty as wo:nan, jwifg;and mother.” The Morning Conference. At the Arlington from#9 t6#10 this morn- ing Dr. Ada R. Thomds tad" the first half of the conference on’*“Emhergencies, or What to Do Before thé Déetor Arrives.” Her first point was “kebp cd8f,” as the pa- tient and all in the house m4} depend upon this. “Be ready” was the ne@kt injunction, with hot water at com#dand®"Have always exercise, in the house a thermo#ter,“iustard, aro- matic spirits of ammonf, atgup of tpecac, carbolic oil or vaseline™:absdtbent cotton, flannel, canton flannel ¥id bafidages. Then Dr. Thomas gave he: f tfeatments for wounds, shock, burns! frattures, foreign bodies in the ear, noe: titeat, etc., for poison, fits, croup and®head’4njuries. She also gave a talk on dajiger'#ignals of ap- proaching disease, by watching which a mother can tell that trouble is Impending. Fear and Its Effects. The second part of the conference was given over to a study of “Fear and Its Effects,” being in the hands of women of the Anthropological Society Mrs. Thomas Hampson, teacher of-Latin in the Central High School, spoke of the subject as a mother and teacher, and as one who had given it much thought, The physical ef- fect of fear was to increasé action of the eart, produce faintness, nausea of: the stomach and general disarrangement.of. alt the functions of the body. Many frights had, in ker opinion, led’ to fasting conditions that were extremely bad_ in their general Siducticg trom Misa s¥e"aila: “Tr juotirg from Ma: she said: “Fear its extreme formis's diseaae. “That tt may cavse sudden death is an established fact. It is essentially paralysis of the heart, one weiter maintains. Bringing the subject down to children, she quoted Masso again: “The imagination of children 1s far more vivid and excitable than that of adults. When a child is naturally timid it is better net to leave It in the dark, but keep a night light burning. Children should never be threatened with horrible specters, but wwholescme dread in proportion to nervous organization was not to be despised. Teacker of German in Central High School Frau Nora Hoegelsberger continued the discussion. She said the effect of fear was to quicken the heartbeats three times greater in the adult. Then the effect on innocent children must be terrible To tell children of the bogey man, witches and hobgoblins ts to do them a mental and a physical injury. Physicians say that fear gives rise to phenomena exactly resembling hydrophobia. She said it would take years to wipe out the effects of severe frights. She quoted Ribal, who said that there is a kind of native, instructive fear, anterior to all self-consciousness, which cause a child, for instance, to hold to chairs and other objects for fear of falling before St has ever experienced the sensation of fall- ing. She described the first sensations of fear in very young cats, dogs, turkeys and other creatures. The addresses were replete with fine thought and a plea for closer study of child emotions and a ten- derer regard for that called “fear.” Mrs. Gardener's Address. In her address cn ‘The Mora! Responsi- bility of Woman in Heredity,” Mrs. Gardener said in part: “When we study anthropology and heredity we come to realize the indisput- able facts that her love, her physical hero- ism and her physical bravery, linked with her political and financial subject status, have cast a physical blight,a moral shadow and a mental threat upon the world. We begin to wonder if much of the vice, the crime, the wrong, the insanity, the disease, the incompetence and the woe of the world is not the direct lineal descendent of this very self-debasement of the individual character of woman in maternity. “We wonder whether mothers do not owe a higher duty to their offspring than that of mere nurse. We wonder if she has the moral right to give her children the in- Feritance that accident and subserviency stamp upon body and mind. We wonder how she dares face her child and know that she did not fit herself by self-devel »p- ment and by direct, sincere, firm and thor- ough qualification tor maternity before she dared to assume its responsibilities. “Self-abnegation, subserviency to man-— whether he be father, lover or husband—is the most dangerous theory that can be taught or forced upon her whose character shall mold the next generation. She has no right to transmit a nature and a char- acter that are subservient, subject, ineffie cent, undeveloped—in short, a slavish char- acter which is either blindly obedient or blindly rebellious, and is, therefore, in either case, set as is a time-lock, to prey or be preyed upon by society in the fu- tur This Afternvon and Evening. ‘The program for the afternoon and even- ing sessions is as follow: Afternoon—1, “The Mother's Greatest Needs,” Miss Frances Newton, Chicago, Ill.; 2, “Play Grounds,” Miss Constance Mackenzie, Philadelphia, Pa.; 3, “Som: Practical Results of Child Stady Dr. G. Stanley Hall, Worcester, Mas Evening, 8 o'clock—1, “Reading Courses for Mothers,” Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster, New York city; 2, presentation of resolu- ticns, press committee Women Friends, Bal- timore, Md.; 3, ‘How to Guard Our Youth Against Bad Literature,’ Anthony Com- stock, New York city. Notes. Mary Lowe Dickinson is one of the bright particular stars of the congress of mothers. She is president of the National Council of Women, a federation of twenty asso- ciations, and the biggest and brainiest body of wcemen in the world. Mrs. Dickinson knows parliamentary law as well as Tom Reed does, and is a good deal of a czar herself on ‘occasion. Like a leaf out cf a book of Puritan days it is to talk with Debora C! Leeds a gentle “Friend” of Philadelphia, who is a delegate from that city, representing the state prison work. Mrs. Leeds has visited nearly every county priscn in the state in furthering her great work of prison re- form. Evanston, lL, has’ a_ mothers’ club and has sent Mrs. Louisa Stanwood as a dele- gate, she being chairman of the child's de- partment of that work. Mrs. Harriet McClellan of Atlanta, Ga., is a charming woman to meet, and is par- ticularly well fitted for the care of the literature bureau, of which she has charge. Mrs. Mary Halburt is a W. C. T. U. dele- gate from Maryland. She is one of the state officers and was a delegate to the St. Louis convention. Another Maryland delegate is Miss Liza Ridgely, who is or- ganizer of the United Women of Maryland. Both ladies reside in Baltimore. The Young Woman's Christian Associa- tion of Worcester, Mass., is represented by Mrs. Anna Howe. Mrs. Rebekah Kohut of New York city, a large, handsome woman, with masses of light brown hair wound like a crown about her well-shaped head, is a splendid type of the Hebrew woman, being the daughter of a ribbi and the wife of a rabbi. A mag- nificent bouquet of Golden Gate roses with a fringe of hyacinths was presented to her from the Jewish Council of Washing- ton as she took her seat after her masterly address lest night. Dr. Mary Walker is conspicuous in the congress. One of the most interesting talks yester- day was that by Mrs. Lucy Bainbridge of New York city on ‘Mothers of the Sub- merged World.” Mrs. Bainbridge is a re- former of the gentlest yet firmest type, intensely womanly, fair of face and so deadly in earnest. She nearly carried even cold-blooded women off their feet by her pathetic stories of “life in the basements” of the big cities. "The mothers are very appreherisive that if the interest in their congress continues Convention Hall will have to be hired, and the meetings held in sections. They are so proud of the splendid record they are mak- ing that their hearts have swelled till they nearly burst their bodices. Wednesday afternoon and evening two- thirds of the audience doffed its headgear. Then you could see the well-shaped heads of the women who are making such a lot of history that is worth recording just now. ‘The audience is more sympathetic and re- sponsive than women audiences usually are, and this has been remarked by many. The “fathers” are invited. but thus far they seem to think that this is not their “tive minutes.” Those who do wander in, however, seem to enjoy it all hugely. All the place there was for the reporters yesterday afternoon was in the baptismal fount. The change was so hurriedly made that Mrs. Finley, chairman of the press committee, had no time to arrange for the comfort of the reporters, and the fount was the only bare bit of space left in the church when the reporters arrived for busi- ness. “‘Just sit right here,” she said, “and hang your legs over.” And they did. “Isn’t this true?” asked a mother yes- terday, and she read the sentence from her program to a group about her. “There is more danger of a parent’s hindering a child than of a child’s hindering a parent. And the hindering that a parent can do is a thousand times more harmful than a: hindering that can be done by the child.” And with one voice they all responded, “That's so.” One of the hardest worked of the women who have made the arrangemenis for the entertainment of the “mothers” is Mrs. James H. McGill, who is chairman of the committee on entertainment. Mrs. McGill is insistant and earnest, and never rests a moment till her duties are completed. She has rather more on her hands than she bargained for, just now, as have all the ladies. There is constant surprise at the immense hold the congress has taken on the public. IN THE BAPTIST CHURCH. Two Sessions of Grent Interest of the = Mothers’ Congress. At the afternoon session yesterday a move was made from the Arlington Hotel to the First Baptist Church, for, owing to the immense size of the gathering, the ban- quet hall at the hotel could not accommo- date more than a small fraction of those who sought admission. Even the big church was not large enough, and many were unable to obtain seats, while others went away, owing to the Impossibility of even getting inside of the building. | ©The first speaker of the afternoon was Mr. Frank Hamilton Cushing of this city, ; Whose life and researches among the In- dians, especially the Zunis, has made him an authority on aboriginal iffe in this coun- try. He spoke on the subject “Mother and Child of the“Primitive World,” devoting Lae (Continued on Eleventh Page.) INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. ACCOUNTANTS. AMUSEMENTS ATTORNEYS COMMISSIONERS OF D) COUNTRY REAL ESTATE ORATHS . DENTISTRY . EDUC. EXCURSIONS FINANCIAL - FOk EXCHAN Ce ee Pe en a ee ar ry RENT (OtBices). RENT (Stores) ALE (Houses). FOR FOR FOR hors Losr ay MANICURE . MEDICAL . age MONBY Wa’ Page OCEAN TRAVEL. -Page PERSONAL = -Page TIANOS AND ORGANS. Page POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. -Page RAILROADS SEASHOR: “Page SPECIAL NOTICES. Page STORAGE ...... SUBURBAN PROPERTY . THE INAUGURATIO: -Paxge UNDERTAKERS -Page WANTED (Help)... -Page WANTED (Houses) WANTED Ofiscellaneous). WANTED (Rooms). WANTED (Situations) WINTE® RESORTS. CONDENSED LOCALS A. Wolf, living at No. 5 Essex court. was found dead in bed in the Kitc of hi: home about ) o'clock this morning b: his wife. Death is supposed to have re- sulted from natural causes, but Coroner Hammett was notified. Robert Page, a boy about eleven years old, died very suddenly No.1 E street northwest, about o'clock this morning. Coroner Hammett was notified. The reports of the police lieutenants this morning show that there are twenty-eight policemen detained at home because of ill- ness and sixteen are on leave. The police made forty-eight arrests dur- ing yesterday and last night. Six lodgers were accommodat+ 4 station last night, and one at No. Lieut. McCathran reports dangerous hcles in front of 1104 and 1116 New Jersey avenne, 1257 and 1261 3d street, #30 3d street, and at the corner of 3d and K streets southeast. ‘The pump at the corner of sth and B Streets is in need of repair. Police Lieutenant Kelly reports the side- walk at corner of Ist a eels as be- ing in a bad condition. at No. The pavements on the following streets, all in South Washington, are in repair: H_ street between 6th and 42 and N streets, and in front ot street. The will of the late Gilman Marston Fague was filed yesterday. His widow is jieft everything and is named exceutrix. At a meeting of colored citizens of East Washington held at No. 7 M street south- east, Robert Dorsey, chairman; Harry Comptom, secretary, a rerolution was pass- ed indorsing the nomination of S. B. BP. Sands for District Commissioner. The young ladies of the Recior’s Aid Society of St. Andrew's Church, lth and Corcoran streets, will give a dramatic en- tertainment for the benefit of the churen this evening at 8 o'clock in the parish nall. ——— Hotel Arrivals. Raleigh—T. S. Peck and R. W. Adams, New York; Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Kalby, Wor- cester, Mass.; W. Chapman, Pittsburg, P- 0. C. Whitney, Jersey City, N. J.; P. Cc. Sinclair, Marion, 8. C.; 4 Paul, 8. H. C. 8. Baxter, Boston Woodbridge and Mass.; T. M. Woodlane, Newark, N. J.; W. W. Lockwood, Springfield, Mass.; A. L. Thomas, Salt Lake City, Ut Wellington—T. S. Smith, Cincinnati, Ohio; C. J. Richards and wife, St. Louis, Mo.; J. F. Fitzgerald and J. J. Storruw, Boston, Mass.; J. V. Jennings and wife, Philadel- phia, Pa.; Dr. E. B. Foote and Dr. E. B. Fcote, jr., New York; E. M. Conley, Chi- cago, Ill. Willard’s—T. M. mira, N. Y.: J. E. B. F. Pritchard, Cleveland, Barrett, Indianapolis, i eley, Ottawa, IL; 8. H. Dickson, New York. Oxford—J. McCabe, Council Blu‘ts, Iowa; H. Hammett, jr., and J. J. Horrick, New York; D. Metcalf and wife, Adriun, Mich. Hamilton—H. Briggs, Buffalo, Cochran—J. H. Torrance aa. wif wich, Conn.; Mr. and Mrs. E. E. H. Fairbanks, Philadelphia, and Mrs. G._O. Robinson, Detroit, » G. Parsons, New York. Normandie—P. Bonnett, Minder El E. and wife, Keelyn, Chicago, I Ohio; C. jizabeth, S.J. Mr. and Mrs. B. Hallowell, jr., Lansdowne, Pittsbu Pa.; Mrs. E. Rodgers, Arlington—H. F. L I.; S. B. Chase, Fal ass : Brown and C. O. Peters, w York: T. L. Clark and C. Sweeney, Spokane, Wash. W. H. Chamberlin, Chicago, Ii; Dr. 01 Kollme and wife, St. Louis, Mo. Shoreham—Dr, and Mrs. ¢ Atwood, J. Powell and T. G. Ayeregg, New York; Dr. Cc. Cross and Dr. W. H. Hodge, Niaga- ra Falls, N. Y.; S. Bailey, § Pittsburg, Pa.; P. Thompson, Kansas City, Mo.; P. J. O'Donrell, Boston, Mass. Riggs—H. P. Ayer and F. Wenz, Boston, 5, H. Purdy, Pittsburg, Pa.; D. W. May, London, England; J. P. Van Hook and F. S. Pleasanton, Philadelphia, P: Ebbitt—T. Evans and J. R. Robinson, New York; C. H. Haddock and H. Had- dock, Lynn, Mass.; C. D. Armstrong, Pitts Morgan and wife, Brook- os Clarke, Omaha, Neb.; J. C. Philadelphia, Pa. Babcock, Metropolitan—J. F. Rawlins, S. J. Wells and A. Goldsmith, New York; L. A. Can- ter and H. Franz and wife, Philadelphia, Pa.; H. L. Wilson, G. D. Wise, Richmond, Va. Jefferson—R. M. Mitchell and C. P. No- bles, Boston, Mas: W. J. Cousins, York, Va.; 8S. S. Alfreind, New York. St. James—J. Richardson, Boston, Mass.; A. B. Choate, Minneapolis, Minn.; J. R. Baines and C. B, Gray, New York; H. D. Sieles, Dayton, Ohio. Johnson—M. Nathans, New York; J. B. Morgan, De: Col. —_———_—_ Newspaper Publishers’- Convention. The eleventh annual convention of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Associa- tien opened at New York yesterday. The attendance was unusually large, publishers from all parts of the country being pres- ent. The first question considered was that of incorporating the association. The rest of the program was largely technical, and dealt mainly with the relations be- tween newspaper publishers and advertis- ers. Not a little interest centers in the election of officers. Among those in the lead for the presidency are: Charles H. Taylor, jr., and Stephen O'Meara of Bos- ten, and J. Ambrose Butler of Buffalo. William Cullen Bryant of Brooklyn will be re-elected secretary, if he desires it, and the various committees will be changed scmewhat in their personnel, The Best Machines for Keeping Time that it is possible to make are American Waltham Watches. Get either the . “RIVERSIDE” or “ROYAL” movement. | FOR SALE BY ALL RETAIL JEWELEUS. _____ FINANCIAL. Anever-failing yearly income for lifel Non- taxable--unaffected by any possible financial condition of the time. ==payable in any coun- try of the world Tm, rea few of ad of the Th yenrs’ 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. _fel0-3m,56 < Buy at the Bottom; Sell at the Top! C. T. HAVENNER, _ Adantic bulldin 928 FSt.% fels-2id Washington Loan & Trust Co., OFFICE, ‘OR. YTH AND F STS. AID-UP CAPIT. ONE MILLAN Loans in any approved real estate or sonable Interest paid ances subject and in all other tduc ary cap: *. Boxes for t in burglar sud flreproet vaults for safe deposit and stormge of val- uable packages. JoY pou deposits on daily jal- JOuN JOHN H. S.Ct JOHN Rt. ANDREW PARKER. fed-th,s,w, tf T. J. Hodgen & Co., Members Philadelphia Petroleum and Stok Exchange, GRAIN AND Pr News of the St Corcoran bldg., + and 605 Tth st. now, CORSON & MACARTNEY, STOCKS, COTTON, Gossip Ticker. Rooms 10 and 1 Fw Members of the New York s 1419 F st. Gorresponden' iding of Messrs. Moore & Bankers and Deal Deposits. Railroad Stocks Bonds and all securities listed on t of New York, Philadelyhia, Boston bought and weld. A speciclty made of investment securities, Dis trict bonds local Ratiroad, Gas, Tostranee phone Stock dealt in. American Bell T lephone Stock bought and sold. The National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust CORNER 15TH ST. AND NEW ¥. Chartered by special act of Congress, Jen., 1867, and acts of Oct., 1890, and Feb., 1593. Capital: One [liilion Dollars SAFE DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT. Rents safes inside burglar-proof vaults at $5 per annum upward. Securities, Jewelry, silverware and valuables of all kinds in owner's uckage, trunk oF case taken on deposit at mode SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT. Deposits received trom TEN CENTS upwa and interest allowel on $5 and above. Loans money on real estate and collateral security. Sells first-class reat te aud other securities 1u sums of $509 aud upward. TRUST DEPARTMENT. This company is » legal depository for « and trust funds, and acts as ad: executor, recel) assignee and ac trusts of all kinds. Wills prepared by competent attorvey in daily atterdauce. OFFICERS: BENJAMIN P. SNYDER E. FRANCIS RIGG W. RILEY DEEBLE. THOMAS R. JONES. ALBERT L. STURTEVANT GEORGE HOWARD... CHARLES E. NY. WOODBURY BLAIR. . Ja21 = W. B. Hibbs & Co., 1427 F Street. Correspondents of LADENBURG, THALMANN & CO., Ge6-164 New York. cost. iol a Fist Vice 1 Second Vice Presi Third Vice I re -Treasacer Assistapt Secretary -Trust Ofwer ilsby & Co Silsby mpany, INCORPORATED, BANKERS AND BROKERS, Office, G13 15th st. o.w. National Metropolitan Bank Batlding. Telephore 505. mhlo Union Savings Bank small depositors ev $e1S8-10a* and y ad. towas! Yartage in reason opening and maint account. 1222 F Transfers of Real Estate. Nineteenth stwet mw. bet. L and M » Henry A. Linger et ux. to Frederick C. part original lot 10, #q. 140; $10. Nonesuch—Frederick C. Linger to Henry A Linger. part lot 11; $10. Dumbarton street bet. Bist amd 224 street B. Lockhart et ux. to W. Taylor Birch, east Lali lot 86, oq. 1232; $10. Tennessee averue ne. bet. Band © streets Jno, Walter, jr., et al., trustees, to James A. Cabill, lots 39, 40 and rt lot 41, 1011; $2,000. Barry Farm—Walter 4. Johnston, trustee, Joseph Schiffman, part lot 3, sec. 9; $1,000, Barry Farm—Same to Salvadore 8. Kicbard, part lot_13, sec. 8; $900. ‘ashington Helghts—Oliver Mc Wm. H. Gottlieb, lot 119; $10. ‘Connecticut Avenue Heights Wm. A. Kimmel et ux. to Roscoe E. Redway, lot 42; bn ‘Stony Hill, Conclusion abd Bayley’ ase Roscoe E. Redway et ux. to Wm. A. Kimmel, part; $10. —____ Fa it formation. 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