Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1897, Page 16

THE ‘EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, ‘FEBRUARY 27, 1897-24 PAGES. THE DUTCH CAPTAL AT MONTE CARLO Working Systems and People at the Great Gambling Resort. THE TYPICAL TOUT'S SUCCESS How eueras eae at the Casino. THE PROMED aa cnn CARLO, February 8, 1897. HE OPENING OF the doors of the | famous gambling house takes place at | = 11:30 a.m., an hour | Zw alike to old- | ic joned luxurious | loafers and the new- school English “tub- and morning the former are beginning their morning, while latter are beginning their afternoon. At any rate, there is always a crowd, and the scene is so well worth watching that the Prince of Wales on his last visit cut his luncheoa short one day for the sake of it. It is a mixed crowd waiting in a long string at the doorway gant and pretty, jostle aged, white-hatred dames, and “correct” foreigners shrink from the cont of extremely “rapes” gentlemen of France, Spain and Italy. In this crowd Robert Lou's Stevenson, while a Pa udent of @ runaway pedestrian trip, was refused the entree because of his “rapeness,” and a very well-known lady has just gone through the painful turningdown, as all the world will have learned by cable. There seems to be no standard of gentility perceptible to the un- initiated; year tn, year out. it is an hou-ly making good of the mysterious, gloomy | saying that one shall be taken and the other left. How many a pauv’ diable wishes now that he had been refused admission te the Casino of “The Strangers’ Club” at Monte Carlo! The Roulette Banks. But ft is almost frresistible. They even make a show of carrying in the money of the da: Every one knows that those big boxes, bound and circled with copper, very solid and serviceable, contain, each one, the “bank” (or “roll’’) for its roulette or trente-et-quarante table. “And how are those ‘valeurs’ distributed, and to what do they amount, monsieur?” you may be sure it is some astute old “cadger,” gently wriggling into the confi- dence of—say—one of those clear-eyed, ure-skinned, ruddy, blonde or red-headed, lannel-or-tweed - in - appropriate - delicate- shades-garbed British youth, who, by the way, are not to be had so easily, charm the poor tout never so wisely. “This is how they are distributed, monsieur,” to keep up the connection—he may only wish, let us be just. to pass in on the Englishman's re- spectability, in to the paradise, beyond the f the controle, those fear- of the door, custodians of d the amount of money ‘h roulette, he goes on ~the poor old cadger—to his prospective “angel,” or “oof-bird,” as they say in Lon- don. “Each roulette table is given 70,000 francs; so many 1,000-franc notes, so many 500-franc notes, so many 100-frane notes, 80 many rouleaux of 20-franc gold pieces ‘The Monte Carlo “Uncle.” (rouleaux of 1,000 francs and rouleaux of 600 francs), then great bags full of loose gold pieces, and still greater ones heavy with the humble five-franc pieces, the silver Gollar of America.” the | young women, ele- | respective j “Is it the same for the trente-et-quarante game?” “Yes, monsieur: except that there each ‘bank’ is given for the day 150,000 francs instead of 70,000." “Then if I break the bank?” “You will have won the ‘roll’ or supply of the day of one of the roulettes or trente-et- quarante tables in whatever condition you A Double System. may have found it, a winner or a loser, more or less than 70,000 francs or 150,000 francs, exactly as God pleases.” The Typical Tout. ‘ “I wish you would tell me, since you are so amlable'’—they are speaking French, a formal language—“I wish you would expose to me the exact effect it would have on myself, on the establishment, on the pro- cedure at my table, and on the neighbors, should I break the bank this afternoon.” “If you follow my advice, my dear young milor, I can see you are intelligent and shrewd, so that you will satisfy yourself to the soundness of my discovery before embarking on any serious campaign with me—you will win a handsome profit with | certainty, double your capital risked in a few hours, but you will not break the bank. That by_ gamblers. Gossip like stroke is only accomplished this may, alas! be heard but too often in the Casino and out of it, in railway cars between Marseilles and Nice, between Nice and Monte Carlo, and on the tops of omnibuses and in cafes and “American bars,” in hotel corridors and on piazzes, everywhere and at all hours, out on the silent sea in row boats and in rich,luxurious villas,at the hospitable family dinner taole. The “tout,” high or low, brazen or suttle, titled or declasse and of all na- tionalities—including the American—is walk- ing up and down the littoral and to and fro therein. Whether he has discovered a “system,” whether he is a “cousin of a croupier who will give him the signal,” whether he has discovered a physical de- fect in one of the roulette wheels, or whether he simply wants you to satisfy yourself of tke truth of his assertion—his secret, given you in confidence, because he knows you are a gentleman and will divide your winnings justly with him— howsoever he may bait the hook, his one scheme is not to rob you, but to share your profits shculd you win—with your own money, naturally—and share your sorrow— not your losses—should you fail to profit by his tips. . ‘The Neatest of All. The neatest workman in this line is, perhaps, ‘he young scamp known as Leon the Nephew. Mixed Dago, French, Hebrew, Arab and Egyptian, in looks as smart as untrustworthy and as untrustworthy as seemingly sincere-in-this-one-thing, of a personal vanity approaching to fatuity, and of an amiability and will-weakness which go well toward making understand- able, natural and acceptable the harmo- nious whole of which they form so obvious a part, Leon, together with his pretensions, his environment and his easily-read char- acter—the four elements of the harmonious whole—make a rare combination for the confidence game. He is obviously a bad lot—and one hopes his “uncle” is another. ‘My uncle,” explains Leon, “is that crou- pier at that table in the corner. That is why I am tot allowed to play there. And, irdeed, If you play against my uncle’s rou- lette while he is turning, I must not be seen with you. They would suspect. Be- sides that, I must tell you, my uncle is very, very timid about throwing the ball for me; it’s not only that if he were caught he would lose his place, but for other rea- sons; cur family connection is such that he would have to blow his brains out”—this in the most tragic whisper—“should his honor be attacked!” The Croupier. It is so easy—in the hands of the right Person—in the hands of Leon. Obviously his uncle can, by years of practice, throw that roulette ball into any of the compart- ments he desires; much more, it is the part of every croupler’s two years’ preparat training which his employers hold awe sential, this ability to make the ball obe- dient. For each croupier’s secret duty 1s to make the heaviest tableau lose! Tene croupler is watched, searched, suspected, dogged about in his hours of leisure, be- cause he must be prevented from turning this dexterity to his personal advantage. He dare trust no one, the ordinary croupierg and it ts in this that transcendental finesse, judgment, sang frofd and impressionable temperament are united. It is the easiest thing in the world for the uncle to give the dozen, pT a SE ace ab ape ted ly signal to the nephew to play the first or the zero and its neighbor en plein, or however he may be going to guide the blind chance of the machine. But the nephew Gare not play those tips! Nor dare he trust a native of the principality, because of the certainty of falling into the power of a rapacious and masterful blackmailer, or, at least, a sneaking informer and reward. seeker. But Leon's sympathetic impre: sicnability affords the partnership of uncle and nephew with unfailing premonitions, which result in gainful coalitions with hon- est and unsuspectable foreigners who know a good thing when they see it. “But we must not be hasty, much less greedy. Ev- erything to avoid suspicion!” It is therefore Leon's natural game to rsuade the foreigner to make one large Eee en cheval, between two of the dozens, where he will have two chances of win- ning and only one chance of losing. Then, you may believe it, Leon prays with the volcanic vehemence of a love-crazed sup- Pliant to the blind goddess of Chance,whose eyes are bandaged that she may net wink SWEEPING THE FLUES The Chimney Sweop's Boy of Years Ago. FAMILIAR “WASHINGTON FIGURE The Three Official Sweeps of the Present. to L2on—and who 1s not Leon’s aunt. For} HOW THE WORK IS DONE you have long ago perceived that the ma- ligned clerk—the too-much-praised croupier, who has not half or quarter of the skill Leon ascribes ‘o him, if he have any—is not throwing that ball any more for his pre- tended nephew than for you or me! On the Promennde of Regrets. Let us suppose that one of the wrong dozen wins, in spite of odds. Signaling to him of whom the wisest man prophesied that he and his money might be looked for to be soon parted, they adjourn to that universal arena of recriminations, the Casino terrace, where you look down on the sea. Here every prospect pleases, and only man is violent, for the dupe is very like to be the only man along the gravel walk till Leon comes—such is the delicacy of the world When there is any danger of being summoned as a witness to a suicide. By common consent the unhappily medita- tive individual stroller and the squabbling couples who drift instinctively to one of these walks convenientiy overhanging the known as the Promenade of Re- seem to make way for the new- comer, just as he will make way for the next; so that the stage, though ever occu- pied, is never crowded. Enters Leon, the nephew, to reproach with natural warmth the carelessness of his new, unpracticed partner, who “had no business to mistake his plain signal’ and cover the wrong dozen! If this “takes,” it is only to begin again. If the party has enough, Leon has lost nothing but his time. And as he—and every other who has serse enough, insists on a large stake and the favorable chance of covering two doz- ens—is sure of indicating two winnings to every one losing, to say nothing of the likelihood of several successive winnings before a loss-to-be-explained occurs, his profit-sharing, co-operative industry is most fruitful, and he seldom needs re- course to his real uncle—“uncle” of all gamblers, here under the protection of the state, and prohibited by law from taking more than 7 per cent a year as interest on his loans. ‘There was once a Dutch 1 tain who found an even -of-war cap- er way of win- ning from the Monte Carlo bank. He be- gan by losing all his own money, and then lost the ship's. He retired to his quarter- deck, a martyr to gloom poignant regrets. Dishonor stared him in the face, and his sole refuge must be in suicide. He instructed an intelligent ma- rine to go ashore and tell this to old M Blane, together with his intention to bom- bard the Casino for the b t of human- ity; therefore it would be well to remove players and employes to a safer locality. Within an hour two trusty men from the odings and establishment came, by gs of gold and the most solemn a. nees of discre- tion. “I am deeply ed,’ said the Dutch captain, “no dreamed of such a princely viaticum.” STERLING HEILIG. Seger es To Thwart the Safe Burglar. From the Electrical Review. There does seem possible a pretty good protection, however. The suggestion lies in a recently published invention for con- structing prison doors and window grat- ings. The idea was to make them of ordi- rary steel pipes, all filled with a liquid un- der pressure, and connected by a main pipe with an alarm whlch would operate by reduction of pressure. Attempted sawing lets the liquid escape and rings the bell. If such a scheme were applied to a safe, by traversing it on all sides, either inside the outer plates or outside, and were con- nected with an alarm set on a lamppost prominent on the sidewalk, it ought to ccme near being good protection. The door could be arranged with piston and cylinder inside the safe, so that opening the door would set off the alarm. Then drilling at the lock, driving in the spindle or other successful attack on the Yock would still leave the burglar at the mercy of the alarm when he opens the door. Nitro-glycerine, dynamite or powder would also effect the ringing of the alarm, and the plan would also protect against the electric arc itself, since the network of small pipes would be in the way of any large arc, and become melted. And a small are for mere drilling at the lock would be no better than a drill, since the opening of the door would eventually ring the alarm. The connecting pipes could be left ex- pesed, because tampering with them would ring the alarm. Or, instead of fixing the pipe system to the safe, construct it as a cage to contain the safe, the cage being large enough to make the safe inaccessible to the hands of the burglar. Such a system would be protective, at least, until the burglar, already an expert electrician, had time to become a master plumber and pipefitter, and could invent schemes for beating the alarm. See get ee The New School of Reformers. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Who is that woman with the big hat and the pasty complexion?” “Why, that’s the Countess Caramels—the woman who ran away from her husband and five children with an organ grinder. She’s the author of that charming pam- pane entitled ‘A Warning to American irls.’ “And who ts that red-facéd female in the Iew-necked_ gown?” “That's Lady Shamey. She's been di- vorced three times, and Is now advertising for an American husband with money.” “Why is she here?” Meer ie encw She's the author of fat touching brochure called ‘Keep th: Marriage Tie Sacred.’ ” sa : ———+ + A Poster Character Chat. “Said a Beardsley boy to a Bradi , Whom he met on a pester blues) ‘T haven't an idea who I am, And who the deuce are you? Said the Bradley girl to the Beardsley boy: ‘T'll tell you what I think: I came into being one night last week When a cat tipped over the ink.’ —R. B. PEATTIE. —se<— A Worthy Charity. ng From Life. Alley Kid—“Say, miss, would you please help a fellow buy a valentine for his best gurl? I'ze got most enough to get it with.” “How much do the valentines cost, little boy?” “One cent.” | T HAT WASHING- ton-born man now verging upon the grayness and the corpulence of middle age does not remem- ber the chimney sweep of his boyhood and more particular- ly the chimney sweep’s boy? The chimney sweep him- self of a quarter of a century aga. was a sufficiently interest- ing character of the netghborhood- arousing sort, but, in the eyes of the small lads of that period, he was not half so heroic or mysterious a char- acter as the monkey-like pickaninny boy who invariably accompanied him, cov- ered with soot from head to foot, and wear- ing the tall red dunce headgear affected by his grinning, vast-lunged colored chief. In the vision of all other boys, black and white, the chimney-sweep’s boy was an otject of reverential awe on account of his often-repeated daily performance of allow- ing himself to be engulfed in the inky maws of big chimneys, whence, hauled out by a rope in the hands of his boss on the chimney top, he would emerge after a half hour or so, quite as much ave and as cheerful as when he disappeared into the vertical caverns. The idolatry with which the brass band’s drummer bey of the pres- ent day is regarded by other boys is as nothing compared with the profound ad- miration that the chimney sweep’s boy of a quarter of a century ago used’to excite in the minds of the little chaps of that time. Then and Now. The chimney sweep himself always seemed to have the best end of the job in the old days. While his boy, with a stout rcpe around his waist, would be working away, half-smothered, like a sooty beaver in the depths of the chimney, the sweep himself would take it easy enough, stand- ing on the chimney top, and shouting his quaint refrains, advertising to the people for blocks around that he was in the neigh- borhood. A favorite verse of one of the chimney sweeps of the early ‘70's, was this: “See dat lady, all dressed so fine, She just come in on de B, and:O. line— © get you all's chim-ney clee-e-aned!” This and other doggerel of a similar char- acter he would: shout in a deep, musical basso that would bring heads to’ windows within a radius of many squares, and the owners of many of these heads, thus at- tracted by the sweep's deep diapason, would decide that the chimneys of their houses required cleaning. Thus there was method in the music of, the chimney sweep of other days. Nowadays all, this is changed. The old- time fantastic sweep has totally disap- peared. If often happened a quarter of a century ago‘that when,a householder want- ed to have his ehimneys cleaned he would have to spend days in:the quest of a chim- ney sweep. Today, the householder has simply to mail a postal, addressed to “Chimney Sweep. +—— precinct station house,” and the next day a sweep will present himself for business. The Official Chimney Sweep. Washington was the first city in the Unit- ed States to establigh as part of its govern- ment an official chimney sweep system. Baltimore followed soon after, and at the present day nearly all of the country’s great municipalities have official chimney sweeps. Washington's three official chim- hey sweeps are colored men, who, before their official designation, had carried on the business of sweeping chimneys since their early boyhood. The city is divided into three chimney-sweeping districts. The first includes all of Georgetown, the second all of the city east of Rock creek and west of 7th street, and the third all of th city east of 7th street. None of the official chim- ney sweeps draws any salary from the District government. They derive their revenue from the citizens of Washington whose chimneys they sweep. The District government’s purpose in appointing chim- ney sweeps dubbed “official” was, first, to Secure reports as to the chimneys swept during the year in compliance with the local ordinances, together with reports as to those in need of cleaning for the pre- vention of fires, and second, for the estab- lishment of a uniformity in the charges made by the sweeps for their work. In this latter respect’ the position of the official chimney sweep is analogous to that of the cabman. The charges which the chimney Sweep is permitted to make for his work are carefully fixed by a District ordinance, and, since they were thus fixed, they have become pretty well known to the household- ers of Washington. For instance, for cleaning a three-story flue, the official sweep is allowed to charge 60 cents; for a fcur-story flue, 80 cents; for a five-story flue, $1, and so on. Any of the official sweeps who attempts to charge more than these established rates is subject to dis- missal, and, as the three official sweeps of Washington make a pretty good thing of it during the busy season, they are careful to keep within the’ law. The Order Boxes. A good many persons who do not own the houses they live in and who do nat possess much familiarity with District or- dinances for the regulation of the affairs of property owners affecting the cor:fort of the general public have wondered what the iron boxes hung on posts outside all of the city’s markets and labeled “Chimney Sweeps” were for. The man who owns his own house, however, knows that these boxes are thus prominently displayed for the reception of property owners’ orders to have their chimneys swept. Each day the official chimney sweep ofeach district makes a tour of the police stations of his district, aswell as of the markets where these boxes are placed. to collect the or- ders sent, in-the first case, through the mails, and, in the latter, those that have been drepoed in the boxes. He attends to the orders in the order in which they are received—is, “tn fact, reguired to do so by the police regulations.” No discrimination is made as to the time in which the chimney sweeping work is done. If a United States senator or a British ambassador gets in his order to have the chimneys ‘of his mansion swept a day after the receipt of a sim- ilar order from the cwner of a modest lit- tle cottage, the big man has to wait until the latter's chimneys are cleaned before he can expect the appearance of the sweep's gang to begin work upon his flues. From December until April, both months inclusive, the official chimney sweeps’ time hangs pretty heavily upon their hands. This is their dull season, because during the cold weather all of the chimneys are in daily use. The sweeps’ busy time be- gins about the Ist of May, and from that Gate on until the last of Novemter they re- ceive and attend to an average of about thirty orders a day, so that within this period eachs year something like 6,300 houses’ chimneys are swept. The revenue which the official sweeps derive during the busy season is considerable, but a good deal of it is eaten up by wages which they have to pay out to their assistants. A Change of Methods. Householders who had their chimneys cleaned in the old days will recall what a frightful mess the sweeper and his boy used generally to make of it; how carpets and rugs were totally ruined during the progress of the job, and the interiors of domiciles were murky with flying soot for weeks afterward. The old-time chimney sweep mede no preparations whatever for the preservation of cleanliness in the houses whose chimneys he cleaned, and the ow ers of the houses forgot all about it also as often as not. Thus the descent of the sweep’s boy down the chimney would be heralded to the occupants of rooms below by big black masses of soot thudding on the grates and spreading over all the fur- niture in tho apartments. If there were stoves in the rooms instead of grates, one or more of the stoves’ doors would usually be found to have been inadvertently left open, giving the soot a fine outlet for dis- tribution and permeation throughout the house. Owners of houses do not suffer from this sort of thing under the regime of the of- ficial chimney sw2eps, not alone because the regulations require the sweeps to he scrupulously careful not to make any un- necessary dirt, but because the methods of cieaning chimneys have all changed during recent years. The sweep’s boy is altogether out of date, and long ago went glimmering. His usefulness as an institution disap- peared with the general adoption of numer- ous flues within chimneys. Before individ- ual flues for separate fires were used there was room in almost any chimney for the heedless sweep's boy to csawl gradually down and get in his deadly work in the way of creating unspeakable messes of soot. With the common adoption of the $x10 flue, of which there may be as many as a dozen in large chimneys, the sweep's boy’s day ended. There are only five chimneys in Washing- ton that now require the ald of a boy in cleaning them. The ‘Treasury Department has four of these, and the other one ts the chimney which carries off the smoke from the grate fire ia the office of the Secretary ef the Interior. A boy is needed to de- scend these chimneys on account of the fact that half way down each of them there is a break in the shape of a wide platform, and, as these platforms are generally more thickly covered with soot than the sides of the chimneys, a temporarily employed sweep’s boy—not one of the old genuine sort—has to be let down to scrape them. How It is Done. The most important part of the oflicial Sweep’s present day methods Is to look cut for the perfect cleanliness of the house on which he is working, and his preparations to this end take up a good deal more of his time than the cleaning of the chimneys. The sweep has always two assistants. These men, working from the bottom of a house up, carefully stuff the outlet of each flue with thick woolen cloths before the work of sweeping the chimneys is begun. As an additional precaution, they spread wide sheets of canvas around stoves and s or within fireplaces. As they fin- preparations at the outlet of each announce the fact to the sweep of the chimney by burning a bit aper. The arising smoke tells the that all is in readiness for him to go to work on that separate flue. The only tool now used by the sweep is a heavy bar of iron, about half a yard in length, at the end of which is fastened a brush of fine steel wire, which may be ad- justed to the size of any flue. This the sweep simply drops into the chimney flue a few times, and the job is done. The deposit of soot in the flue is forced to its bottom outlet, and rests upon the cloths that have been stuffed there for its reception. After giving the soot in each flue plenty of time to settle, the assistant Sweeps gently haul out these cloths and quickly stuff them into gunny sacks. They then repair to an alley and dump the soot into ash barrels. Their scheme of work is nowadays so perfect and careful that they very rarely leave behind them a grain of soot in the rooms of the houses whose chimneys they clean. Annual Cleaning. Chimney Sweep Nelson, the colored man: who does all of the work in his line in the second district, gives the chimneys of near- ly all of the government departmental buildings an annual scouring. He said to a Star reporter the other day that the chim- neys on these buildings, especially the older ones, could easily stand a semi-annual sweeping to lessen the danger of fire in the flues, particularly the flues which convey the smoke from open grates in which green wood is burned. The soot formed from the smoke of green wood is much more com- bustible than that from any other sort cf fuel, and the chimney sweep considers it rather miraculous that frequent serious fires don’t occur from the rapid clogging up of the gaseous soot in these flues. Sweep Nelson says that of all the promi- nent men whose house chimneys he has swept during the past twenty years Sena- tor Sherman takes the greatest interest in the Business. The Ohio statesman makes a day of it at home when the sweeps are working on the chimneys of his residence, and supervises the job from beginning to end. Nelson thinks that a fine chimney sweep was wasted in the man who ts to be Secretary of State. of A New Responsibility. From the Philadelphia North American, With Christmas o'er, Ye man his brain must rake, And cut down the cost of life, So that he may buy his wife A wheel of this year’s make. ——-e-+___ No Need for Hurry. From Tid Bits. There was a young lady of Crewe, Who wanted to catch the 2:2. Said the porter, “Don’t hurry, Or scurry, or flurry; It’s a minute or 2 2 2:21” -——see. On the Field of Battle. From Life. First Spanish Soldier—“The have attacked the rear. The Other—“Caramba! Let us hasten to the front!’ —EE Still Eligible. From the Chicago Times-Herald. “I have made up my mind,” she said firmly, ‘‘and nothing can change my opin- ion. I would not marry the best man on earth.” “Good!” he exclaimed eagerly. “‘Knowi myséif as thoroughly as I do, I am fully ecnvinced that your praiseworthy deter- mination has nothing whatever to do with my case.” ——__+e-+—___ His Great Graft. From the Cleveland Leader. “Pilkington has finally struck it rich.” “That so? What’s he doing?” “Running a hotel in. the Dakota divorce colony. He writes me that two beds in a rcom and cots in the hall are the regular thing now ee A Polite Official. insurgents From Puck. Bill the Burglar—“De warden 'f dis peni- tentiary ain’t got a bit 'f feelin’. I told him dis mornin’ dat dis wuz de tenth anniver- sary of de day I came in here.” Petey the Pickpocket—“Wot did he say?” Bill the Burglar—“He wished me many happy returns 'f de day.” ——-——eee______ Beauty and the Beasts. 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Limited—Sotid train for Cinciunatl. Pull sleepers to Cineiunt Lexington and Loulsvile without change. Ope for reception of passengers at % p.m, Pullman con partivent car to Virginia Hot Springs. wi change, Tursdays, Thursdays avd Saturdays. 1 connection for the Springs. Sleepers. Cin to Uhieage and St. Louis 2:20 P.M. DAILY For Gordonsville, Charlottes- sille, Stauuton and for Richmond, daily, except Sonda; Reservations and tickets at Chesapeake and Ohte offices, 513 and 1421 Pennsylvania avenue, 1110 F Street northwest, and at the station. H. W. FULLER, General Passenger Agent. “Old Point Comfort WITHOUT CHANGE or Cans. 5% Hours from Washington Penna.. R. F. & P., and Chesapeake ‘and Ohio Rys. Schedule in effect February 9, 1897 WASHINGTON AND OLD POINT’ SPECIAL, 4:21 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays, aod Saturdaya, Solid ‘vestibuled, electric-lighted, steam-beated in, with combination conch, parlor ear, dining car, ‘land observation car thi without ‘change. Arrives Richmond, 7:49. p.m. Old Point, 8:50 pm, 10:57 a.m.—daily except Sunday —'P to Richmond, and Richmond Point. “Arrive Richmond, 2:45 p.m.; Old Point, 6:20 pm. Transfer at Itichmond tx and reservations at offices lvants, R. R.. 15th and G and at station, Full tm formation at C. & ¢ et offices. fell-2m H. W. FULLER, General Passenger Agt. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Schedule in effect February 21, 1807. Leave Washington from station corner of New Jersey avenue and C street For Chicago and Northwest, Vestihuled Limited treins, 10:00, 11:45 a.m., 8:05 p. For Cincinnati, St. Louis and Indianapolis, Ex- Wess, 11:45 a.m. Vestiluled Limited 3:40 p.m. Express 11:25 p.m. For Pittsburg and Cleveland, express daily 10:00 am. and 8:50 p.m. r Toledo and Detroit, ot Winchester and way 30 p.m, p.m. ations, 10:00 a.m, © Orleans, tanooga, Knoxville, daily; sleeping ex Rtrmingham, 2), x4 30, x5 :10, , 6.20, x5:00, 8:1 11:15, x11:80 pan. “and ‘12:01 nigh! E 0, 8:30, x¥:00 am., xl 8:20, 4:35, x5-05, 25.10, 0, 11:15, 11°50 p.in., 12:01 night 10 and 8:30 a.m., ard ¥ points, week da: . 7:05 p.m. Sundays, 1:1 daithersburg and way ‘points, . 9:00 a.m, 13:50, 8:15, 4:80, 4:33, 11:40 p.m. “Sundays, 9:00 ‘a.m.,” 1:15, pan. AWaani on Junction and way , 4:30, 5:30 p.m., week days. dzys. ROYAL BLUE LINE FOR NEI PHILADELPHIA. All trains illuminated with Pintsch lUgbt. For Philadel New York, Boston and the East week days, 5: 00 am. Dining Car), 12 2:40 Dining ¢ 00 5:05 Dining Car), (12-01 night; Sleeping Car open at 10:00 o'clock). days,” (9:00 a.m. Dining Car), (12:40 Dining 3:00'(5:05 Dining Car), 12:01 night, open at 10:00 o'clock. “Additional trains for Phiia. delphia, week days, 7:05 a.m., dally, 8:00 p.m. Buffet Parlor Cars on all day trains, For Atlantic City, 10:00 a.m., 12300 noon, and 12:40 p.m. week days. 12:40 p.m. Sundays, For Cape May, 12 noo “Daily, $Sunday only. Except Sunday. XExpress trains, Baggage called for and checked from hotels and residences by Union ‘Transfer Co. on orders left at ticket offices, 619 Pennsylvania avenue n.w. New York avenue and 15th street, and at @epo S CHAS. 0. SCULL, Gen. Pass. Agt yotn 1:15 p, YORK AND r), ‘ary ping «¢ MT. VERNON SEMINARY, CORNER M AND ELEVENTH STREETS. English and French Boarding and Day School for Girls. mS after the Christmas vacation January sixth. Mrs. ELIZABETH J. SOMERS, Principal. Mra, ADELIA GATES HENSLEY, Associate Pri. scl6-tf Wood’s Commercial College {NCORPORATED), 311 EAST CAPITOL ST. The best system of bookkeeping ever taught— easy to learn—fascinating. Try our full commer- elai course, and your money Will be refunded if you are bot sattsted. del0-tt Berlitz School of Languages 723 14TH ST. N.W. Spaulah apd Itallem, taught only by mative: ton ir tal native teac as also Latin and ‘Greek. lessons. Classes forming Bee ay free. ea ————— America European cities. ply Wat. 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Situations for graduates. nol7-tf POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. E. S. RANDALL'S POTOMAC RIVER LINE Steamer HARRY RANDALL will leave River View wharf Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 a.m., Ionding at all wharves as far down as Nawini Creek. Returning, on Mondays and aoe hesdays at 9 p.m. and on Fridays about 3:80 p.m. Passenger accommodations fizt-class. Freight received until the hour of sailing. E 8 RANDALL, Proprietor and Manager. GEO. O. CARPINTER, General Agent, Washington. fe5-14,tf WM. M. REARDON, Agent, Alexandria. STEAMER WAKEFIELD, FOR POTOMAC RIVEE LANDINGS, hington, D. C., foot of 7th st., Mon- days, 7 a.m., for intermediate landings to Colonial Beach, Bushwood, Rock Point, Nomin! Creek, St. Clement and Breton Bay landings. Wednesdays, 7 a.m., for intermediate to Yeousedtown, Abel's, Nowilal Greek, Pi Point, town, 's, Nom! iney St. George's ‘Smith's Creek, ‘Coan and Yeo: Saturdays, for intermediate landings to turdays, 7 a.m., for Colonial Beach, Bushwood, Rock Polnt, Nowmini Creek, Coltou’s (See schedules.) fe2-tt C. W. RIDLEY, General Manager. The Weems Steamboat Co. WINTER SCHEDULE. In effect December 31, 1596. ‘Steamer Potomac leaves 7th st.wharf every Tburs- @ay at 4 p.m. for river lnndings and Baltimore, r accommodation strictly first-class. Eloc- Leaves tric a All rb it must be sepciped rmuchoat Ai sias gi mon STEPHENSON & BRO., Agents, _ Ge2s-12tt Office 910 ‘Pa. ave. ‘Telephone 745. ACCOUNTANT. re —tey Auditor, Room 37, W: Loan and Trust fel-tt Cor. Sth and F sts. ‘bunaing, RAILROADS. WASHINGTON, ALEXANDRIA AND MT. VEEXON RaILWay. From Station, it. and. Penna. in” eect “July a. FOR 29:00, © Ott MOUNT ‘VERNON, RIVERSIDE AND WAY Y' IN, AN STATION —°6:40, 10:05, 11:00, 12:05, 2:05, er eret Beat 3 tb '6.08, 16:00 clams Tickets at states Biggie 2 ores ¢. E, ABBOTT, PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. STATION CORNER OF SIXTH AND B STREETS. 7:80 AM. week days.—PITTSBURG EXPRESS— ‘Parlor and Dining Harrisburg to Pittsburg. 2050 A.M. VESNSYLVANIA LUMITED. Pulliam Sleeping, Dining, Sin and Obsersation Cars Horrisburg to Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolla, St. Louis, Cleveland and Toledo. " Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. 10.50 AM. FAST LINE.—Pullman Buffet Parlor Gar to Harrisburg. “Buffet Parlor Car Harrisburg to Pittsburg. 3:40 F-M. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS. Pullman Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Sleep- ing and Dining Cars Harrisburg to St. Louis, Cla- cinnati and Chic 70 PM. WESTERN EXPRESS Pullman, Sloop. r to Pittsburg. Chicago, and Harridburg to Cleveland." Dining Car to Chicago. 7:10 P.M. ‘SOUTH VESTERN EXPRESS. ip-~ Sleeping Cars Washington to Pittsburg and Har- risbu:g to St. Louis and Louisville (via Cincia- nati). Dining Car. 10:40 P.M. PACIFIC EXPRESS.—Pullman Sleep- ing Car to Pittsburg. £0 A-SI. for Kane. Canandaigua, Rochester and Sagara ily, except 10:60 A.M. for Elmira and Renovo @aily, ex Sunday. " For Lock Haven week days and Wil- Mamsport Sundays, 3:40 P.M. 7:10 P. for Williamsport, Rochester, Buffalo an@ ‘Niagara Falls daily, except Saturday, with ing Gar W to Suspension’ Bridge vi uftalo, 10:40 P.M. for Erle, Canandaigua, Rochester, But- falo and Niagara Falls daily, Sleeping Car Wash- ington to Elmira. FOR PHILADELPHIA. NEW YORK AND THR EAST. 4:00 P.M. “CONGRESSIONAL LIMITED,” daily; all Parlor Cars with Dining Car from Baltimore. ular At 7:00 (ining Car), 8:00, 9:00, 10:09 ining Car), and 11 ining Car from Wil- mington) A.M., 12:45, . 4:20, 6:50, 10:00 and 11:35 PM.” Gn Sanday, 7:00 (Dining Car), 8:00, 9:00, 11:00 (ining Car’ from Wilmington) "A.M. 12:15, 3:15, 4:20, 6:50, 10:00 and 11:35 P.M week dave, Exprees) 12:15 P-M week day, 201 we § 215 P.M. we ; apd 5:40 PM. daily. For. Boston. without days, and 3:15 P.M. change, 7:50 A.M. week ily. daily. For Atlantic City (via Delaware river bridge, all- rail route), 3:15 P.M. daily, For Baltimore, 6:25, 7:00, 7:50, 10:50, 11:00 ‘and 11:50 A.M. "12:11 3B:15, 3:40 (4:00 Limited), 4:20, 4:36, 5:40, 10, 10:00, 10:40, 11:15 and 11:35 P. 8:00, 9:00, 9:05, 10:80, 11:00 PM. For Pope's Creek Line, 7:50 A.M. and 4:36 P.M. except Sunday. For Annapolis, 7:00, 9:00 AM, 12:15 and 4:20 P.M. dally, except . Sundays, 9:00 AM. and 4:20 P.M. Atlantic Const ‘Line.—“‘Florida Special” for Jack- sonville and St. Augustine, 10:48 P.M. ‘week days. Express for Florida and points on Atlantic Goast Line, 4:90 A.M. 3:46 P.M. dally: Bich lon. .—THE UNITED STATES FAST Buffet Sleepers, New York fan Sieeper for ‘Ashevilte abd Tet ry Knoxville and Chat ‘Tena., and at Char'oite vith Pasiaane Storper Sor Pulimon Buffet Sleeper New York to New Onicann, connecting at Atlanta for mand Meu- Solid train Ws to New Orleans with- Pat change. ‘Sunset Perscaaliy, Conducted: Tonrist Excursion Through Sleeper on this train every Sat- gan, Francisco without chauge. Cars, Cars, “Observation and Com- partment Cars New York ‘te Jacksonville and St. Augurtine. Also Pullman New York to Augusta, with conpection for Alken. 10:43 P.M.—Dally —WASHINGTON AN!