Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1897, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1897-24 PAGES. BONA-FIDE CIRCULATION. A reference to the statement be-_ low will show that the circulation sworn to is a bona fide one. It is easily possible “for a news- Paper with an elastic conacience to swell its legitimate circulation enor- in order to deceive adver- tisers, by sending out thousands of 2 LATE NEWS BY WIRE Turkish Force at Prevesa Reported Ready to Capitulate. TORKS WILL DEMAND BIG INDEMNITY} = fr.” Turks Post Placards _ Protesting Against Continuing the War. OPPOSED TO MORE BLOODSHED ——— ATHENS, May 15.—A private dispatch from Arta, just received here, says that the Turkish garrison at Prevesa, at the nerthern entrance of the Galf of Arta, which has been besieged by the Greek land nd sea forces almost from the outbreak of the wer, has sent the Greek archbishop and five notabilities of Prevesa to the com- mander of the besieging Greek army with & message saying that the Turkish force is ready to capitulate to the regular forces of Greece. + s Turks Will Demand Indemnity. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 15.—The sum of 16,000,000 pounds (Turkish) is mentioned here as the amount of the indemnity which Turkey will demand from Greece. Placards have been posted in the Stam- boul quarter protesting against the shed- ding of Mussulman blood; ‘on the ground that the sacritices imposed upon Turkey by the war are out of proportion to the advantages she car. gain. Turks Burning Villages. HEADQUARTERS OF THE GREEK ARMY IN THESSALY, DOMOKOS, May 15.—A detachment of Turkish cavalry ap- peared here at daybreak this morning, but retired on seeing the Greek advance posis. The Turks have burned all the villages around Pharsalos. On “Advice of Emperor Will PARIS; May 15.—It fs stated that tie de- lay of the Sultan of Turkey in arranging for a cesssiition of hostilities is due to the direct advice of Emperor William of Ger- many, not to grant an armistice until the Greeks have again retreated. ireeks Bombard Nikopo ATHENS, May 15.—The Greeks have been’ bombarding Nikopolis since early this morning. ——— ~~. P. EDGERTON DEAD. Wee Civil-Service Commissioner Un- der Cleveland’s Administration. FORT WAYNE, Init) May 15.—A. P. Ea- Serton, civil service commissioner under President Cleveland during his first term, died last night at his country home at Hicksville, Oblo, where he has resided for the last several years, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. Hw was at one time a member of the yhio legislature, and also of the Indiana senate, and served in Congress during the ifties. He was quite wealthy, owning arge landed estates in this state and Ohio. ee MORE TOLL GATE OUTRAGES. Kentucky Raiders Continue to De. stroy Property and Terrozize Citizens Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. HARRODSBURG,” Ky., May 15.—Not- withstanding the fact that arc lights had been strung over four toll gates in this ccunty, a strong guard put over them, and. the further fact that the grand jury !s sitting here to investigate the depredations, and fs being assisted.by two Pivkerton de- tectives, raiders last night care tn signt of Wie city and committed their worst devil- ‘try. “They closed arourid the guards, under the glare of an arc light, and compelled them to chop down the, gates, saying they mizht use the wood to-gook breakfast with. At ths Perryville gate Roland Curd, the keeper, was made to apply nts own home, and was mistreated terribly for being slow about complying with their request. He was told that he and every member. of the toll gate directory would ve aéttherately lynched !f another cent of toll was collected. At Mackville the new toll house just com- pleted “was burned. Excitement is hig and people are leaving for other states. ees ORIGIN OF THE PARIS FIRE. Man Named Bellac Confesses That He Accidentally Started the Blaze. PARIS, May 15.—The origin of the fire on May 4 last at the charity bazaar on the Rue Jean Goujon seems to have been es- tablished. A man named Bellac, an em- ploye of the cinematographe booth of the fair, confessed yesterday evening to having aceidentalfy caused the conflagration. Bel- jac explained that, finding the cinemato- graphe lamp burning badly, he tried to fill it with ether. In order to be able to sce the better, he struck @ match, -when the vapors ignited and instantly spread to the hangings around the apparatus. Bellac and his aesistant have been ellow- ed their liberty provisionally. The inquiry into the cause of the disaster is now closed. _——— WILL RETURN MONDAY. Senator Hanna’s Health Pproved— W. J. B: te Speak fm Cleveland. Sperinl Dispatch to The Evening Star. CLEVELAND, @hia,» May 15.—Senacor Hanna has decided to return to Washing- ton Monday. -Hts*health is much better than it was a week ago. He now feels able “toSegin again those double labors which devolve upen hinras a United States senator and the chairman of the national repudiican committee. The senator spent a couple of hours at his office in the Perry-Payne building, attend- ing to some business matters today. “No, there have been no. political confer- ences,” he remarked in reply to a reporter's inquiry. Senator Hauna went to the Unton Club joining in an impromptu reception ten- dered to Archbishop Ireland. Major Charles Dick is expected to return to Clevelaad hington next week. Mr. Bryan will come here June 2, unler the auspices of the Bryan Association, which has quietly been completing arrange- ments, through its executive committee, for the past ten days. At a meeting of the executive conimilttee yesterday afternoon definite plans were so far perfected that it was deetied to make the anaounc*ment of the évent. —_.—__— BRINGS MAYFLOWER’S LOG. x-Ambassador Bayard Arrives New York om the St. Paal NEW YORK, May 15.—Thomas F.Bayard, ex-ambassador of the United States to Great Britain, arriyed today on board the steamship St. Paul, from Southampton. He has with him the documént Known as the low of the Mayflower, which. was recently intrusted to his keeping by the archhjshop of Centerbury for transmission to thé gov- + of Massachusetts. Larz Anderson of recently secretary of the legation at was also a passenger on board the ——_.+—__ Iusurance Sufts. Three more suits were filed teday by the Julius Lansburgh Furniture and Carpet Company. ayainst insurance companies for failure to pay losses Incurred-by the burn- ing of the rink building on New York ave- nue the 28th of last December. The com- panies sued today were the Reading Fire Insurance Company of Reading, Pa.; the Westchester Fire Insurance Company cf New York, and the Palatine Insurance Company, Limited, of Manchester, Eng- la The amount ofthe policy in the first named company is $1,000; $2,500 each in the others. ‘The plaintiffs are represented by Attor- neys Wm. F. Mattingly and Leon Tobriner. > If you went anything, try an ad. in The Star. If anybody has what you wish, you Will get an answer. Papers to newsstands, which are re- turnable, and which are In fact re- turned, but nevertheless are in- cluded in what purports to be an honest statement of circulation. Intelligent advertisers, however, Judge by results, and bogus circula- tions don’t give them. The family cfrculation of-The Star is many tnousands in .excesa of any other Washington paper. Circulation of The “Evening Star.” SATURDAY, May 8, 1997. MONDAY, May 10, 1997. ‘TUESDAY, May 11, 1997. WEDNESDAY, May 12, 1897. “THURSDAY, May 13, 1897. ING STAR circutated during the six, secular days ending Friday, May 14, 1997—that 1a, the num- ber of coples actually sold, delivered, farnish- ed or mailed, for. valuable copsideration,.to bona fide purchasers-or ‘subscribers, and that none of the copies so counted are returnable to or remain in the office unsold.“ J. F. NEWBOLD, Sup't Circulation Evening Star Newspaper Co. Subscribed and sworn to before me fifteenth day of May, 4: D: 18R~ - « “ESSE W. RAWLINGS, Notary Public, D. C. this ae THE POSTAL CONGRESS. Indications That Committee Reports Will Be Conservative in Chatncter. The only commission-ef the pastal con- gress in session today. was that having under consideration money orders and the Proposition to. rtake- post «ofMfiees. receiving places for subscriptions to newspapers. The commission was still engaged settling the preliminariés of the questions, preparatory to taking them up as a whole. There seems to be no likelihood of an carly reassembling of the congress as a body because neither of the three commis- sions have reached conclusions on any- of the subjects under. discussion of a defi- nite character enough to make a report. It is said that the knowledge of the ex- istence of an antagonistic element of greut power in the congress. will prevent the ma- jorities of the committees from making their recommendations as radical as they would like, and that the reports will be drawn, as far as possible, with a view of meeting approval when presented for final action. Many of the delegates who would oppose to the last moment some of the reports that have been expected have let it become known that conservative action upon the vital propositions affecting the future of the postal union would meet their appro- bation, and it is believed that this course will be taken to prevent trouble, which, it 1s asserted by some high authorities, might lead to a partial mion. It is a matter of general knowledge that threats have been made by the representa- tives of both England and Belgium during Tecent committee meotings, that their coun- tries would” Withdraw fromthe Postal Union if certain questions, especially those affecting intermediate and maritime ¢rans- portation were settled in 4 way to seri- ously affect their respective interests, and it is consequently believed thaj all subjects will be made wit! securing the favorable the congress. There will be_no session of the commit- tee after the noon recess today. The dei gates will be guests of Mrs. Calvin . Brive at the garden party to be given this after- noon, and a number of them will also visit the Tombola entertainment at Rauscher’s. —— CIVIL RIGHTS. CASE. Cisintegration of the reports on a view of consideration ot Counsel Raise a New Potnt in a Pend- ing Trial. In the case“ of alleged violation of the civil rights act, brought last. week against Henry Brumhaus, the proprietor of an ea ing establishment at 317 6th street, by Thomas L. Jones, colored,. an -attorney-at- law, the plea of not guilty was today with- drawn and a demurrer filéd saying that the information ig bad in law and sub- nce. “While it is expressly decided as regards the states in the Unton, that-what is com- monly called the “civil rights uct’ is void,” says the demurrer; “in’ the ‘saine dectsion it is held that the territories and the Dis- trict of Columbia is sabjsst td ‘the pienary legislation of Congress in rqunicipal -tegtslation, and out such legislation the lative assembly, ‘approved June 26, 16 must be regarded as unconstitutional, legal and void. “While the defendant holds a license from the District of Columbia, signed by the assessor: thereof, of the-ist day of Ni vember, 1806, there Is no provision or refer- ence in it depriving him of the ordinary very branch of herefore with- et of the legis- FRIDAY, May 14, 1997 ‘Total : Dally average... ; I solemnly swear that the above staterient rep- Tesents only the number of coples of THK EVEN- rights and privileges of the property owned by him,or of the use thereof in the said eat- ing house; nor restricting him to the mode in which he shall use: hie property ‘therein, or to any particular control thereof, leuv- ing that entire matter to’ ‘itis ordinary rights of ownershto of property, and no provision restricting him to hts controi of the persons to be admitted to sald eating house or requiring him to receive ind ac- commodate any particular. class pf. persons who may apply for accommodations, nor ean, or does, any euch restriction. legally exist.” ‘The demurrer will be argued. before Judge Kimball in the Police Court Satur- day next. es , No Warlike Mea: Ta It is stated on autharity that tie issue of orders from the Navy Department to the commander. of the New York to put that fine cruiser In condition for immediate service has absolutely no warlike meaning. The same statement applies atio to the order sent today to the New York navy yard to dock and clean the second-class battle ship Maine. Admiral Bunce tele- graphed the department that dock No. 2, which was supposed to be entirely unzerv- iceable owing to leakage, had been ex- amined by a board and found to be ready to receive a ship at any time. The depart- ment had been all along intending to clean the Maine, so it selzed on the opportunity thus unexpectedly held out and ordered her to be put in immediately. paneer eae Are Without Aut fe Some time ago the North Capitol and Eckington Citizens’ Association, fn a let- ter to the Commisstoners, requested that the name of the street running from Flor- ida avenue, between Ist and 3d streets, be changed from Le Droit avenue to 2d street, but the Commissioners have de- cided that they have no jurisdiction to change the name of a recorded street-with- out special act of Congress. ——~.——_ Gen. Bond’s Defense, __ The Commissioners have set aside Mon- ¢@ay, at 11 o'clock, to hear the defense of Sealer of Weights and Measures Bond to the charges filed against him by the Wash- irgton Coal Exchange. At Col. Boud’s re- qvest, the hearing will be private, although the press will be the answer. furnished with a copy of Oareman Strotch Dead. LONDON, May 15.—E. H. Stroteh, who rowed in the Oxford crew tn. the races with Cambridge in 1894, 1805 and 1898, died yes- terday of CONDUCTORS THE VICTIMS A Strange Woman Pays Her Fare With Spurious Coin. Police Offecrs and Trainmen Go in Pursuit of the Swindler, but She Makes Her Escape. The woman who succeeded in\ passing a number of counterfeit twenty-five cent sil- ver pieces on the Metropolitan and Capital Traction railroads, left here on the 4:30 train yesterday afternoon for Baltimore. Efforts were made to have her taken into custody, both at the Baltimore and Ohio and Baltimore and Potomac depots, but the police on duty at these places refused to arrest her without a warrant. Just how much money she succeeded in getting rid of is not known, but the police think she Passed at least two hundred pieces. The woman came here about a week ago, and has been stopping at a honse on Pennsylvania avenue between 3d and 4% streets. Thursday and yesterday she operated on the two car lines. The scheme was to get on @ car and ride a short distance, in- variably giving a shining piece of what appeared to be genuine silver money in payment of her fare, always asking for change. She would get off a car after “working” it, and board another going in the opposite direction. Yesterday afternoon one of the conduc- tors who identified her compelled her to remain cn his car and go to the 4% street power house, but Superintendent Baden- drier declined to have her arrested. When she left the ofice she went north on one of the company’s cars, and Conductor Etcber, who was one of her victims, fol- lowed her to the depot and asked the offi- cers on duty to arrest her, which they re- fused to do on the plea that there was no warrant. She soon afterward left for Bal- timore. Detectives Boyd and Helan made an in- vestigation of the case, and gave the secrat service cfficers the benefit of what they learned. The treasury officials now have the woman’s name, and they also know where she lives, and it is thought she will be apprehended. So far as is known the police have not ascertained where the money was made or with whom the woman was associated here. But they are reasonably certain that ehe had a confederate who supplied her with the “queer” each time she boarded a car in order that in the event of her arrest she would not have any of the spurious coins on her. j The woman is described as being about thirty years old and neatly dressed in black. A peculiar formation of two fingers on one of her hands, the conductors say, will make her identification an easy matter. The refusal on the part of the policemen at the depots to arrest the woman has caused some comment in police circles, and {s Seing condemned by the railroad men who were her victims. Inspector Hollinberger said this morning that Policeman Harlow, at the Baltimore and Onto depot, had no excuse for not de- taining the woman until he could have telephoned to headquarters for instruc- tions, but the policeman at the Baltimore and Potomac, whom he understood was Policeman Lamb, was not so much at fauit. Inspector Hollinberger thinks that the conductor who took the woman to the power house and had Superintendent Bib- endrier question her deserves credit. ‘The woman wanted to get off the car long be- fore the power house was reached, bui the conductor refused to stop, telling the fair passenger that she was on a through train. Had the superintendent called in the police wher he had the woman in his office, the Officers say the subsequent game of hide and seek, in which the woman proved to have superior skill, would have been avo‘d- ed. When questioned in the office the woman gave what is thought to be an assumed name, and said her room was at 324 Penn- sylvania avente. When the police visited the number given by the woman they found that she had not stopped there. Subsequently it was ascertained that she had-a.room at No.. 315 Pennsylvania. ave- nue. This room was searched, but no coun- terfeit money was discovered. Offices Bark- ev of the secret service is’ working on the cuse here today, and the case ts also being investigated in Baltimore. es c Relates to General Taxen, The water department is congratulating | itself upon a recent opinion of the attor- ney for the District, by which it will be saved several thousand dollars. The act of March 2, 1897, remitting pen- alties cn arrears of taxes due and payable on or before the first day of July, 1895, pro- vided that such taxes may be paid with ag cent interest, if paid before July 1, 7 There were under the water department & number of property owners who were in default for failure to pay water-main taxes and other water assessments. It was thought at first that the law above referred to contemplated the relief of these, but pon an investigation of the matter At- torney Thomas decides that the law re- lates to general taxes only, and property owners in arrears for water-main taxes Will have to pay up Jn full, penalties and all. —_—_ Natural Coke. From the Salt Lake Heraid. In works of mineralogy it is learned that there 4s such a product as natural coke, but so far as known there has but one de- posit of this commodity been found in the United States, and this was in the vicinity of Rickmond, Va. Although the deposits of coal in Utah are immense in their proportions, it was never dreamed that among its commodities of trade and commerce the state could boast of beds of this natural coke, but such is the cave, however, and the Herald is in- formed that a short time ago a vein om this coke had been discovered in a section ef the country about 140 miles south of this city and within 15 miles of a rail- This deposit crops out on the surface for some distance, and a twenty-five to thirty- foot tunnel has disclosed a of coke that Is all of five feet in width, and there is every reason to believe that with depth the size of this deposit will increase. In quality the coke fs all that could be de-! sired. and at the assay offices at which tt has been tested the statement is made that it is @ pure article, and that it is even superior to the manufactured coke, as. it is entirely free from sulphur, bitumen, and that it gives out no smoke when burned and makes less ash than the manufactured article. The new find, which is considered as be- ing among the most valuable that has. been made in the state, is owned and controlied by ex-Mayor R. N. Baskin and several aoe nae Lake Eentlemen, who have ‘lo- cal 40 acres in tl mediate vicinit; of the discovery. ” cus im China. From Lippizcott's Magazine. The hotels are usually grouped within a square or two of one another. Euch one seeks to attract guests by high-sounding tities. For example, in Canton are hotels which flaunt the signs of “The Fortunate Star,” “The Golden Profits” (an unusually frank confession for a landlord to make), “The Rank-Conferring” and “The Happi- ness.” The food ts not so bad, but the trav- eler who goes to one of these nouses to sleep will wish that he had gone to an- other. The bed rooms are small, thin- walled boxes in which you may hear the breathing of your next neighbor or be kept awake half the night by the conversation of people at the other end of the hail, or, worse still, be almost stifled by the smok from an opium pipe which is being in- dulged in by the man across the passage- way. The tea saloons furnish employment to singers and ventriloguists, or elocuttoni PA ecalta? Jaws Giitornia @elphia—The Surrender of Mr. Chapman, It is hard probable that the trial of Havemeyer of the American Sugar Refining Company will President Henry- 0. commence Monday. _ With Mr. Nathaniel Wilson of this city, counsel for Mr. the Pennsylvania bar. Mr. Johnson is at present engaged in the trial of a case which will occupy the greater part of next week. When District Attorney Davis calls up the Havemeyer-cage before Judge Bradley, in Criminal Court, No, 2, Monday morning, Mr. Wlison will esk fer a postponement of the trial, based on the inability of his asso- clate, Mr. Johnson, to be present for sev- eral days. It is understood that Mr. Wil- son will suggest that the case go over for 4 week, and there is little doubt that Judge Bradley will so order. P Mr. Davis will, jt is sald, not obje>t to @ postponement of the trial for three or four days, but will, it 1s believed, oppose @ continuance for a week. But as Mr. Havemeyer’s local attorney will assure the court that his client does not intend to unnecessarily delay the trial, and will be ready to go on Monday week, there is Httle doubt that: the trial will be contin- ued until the 24th inatant. . ‘The postponement of the Havemeyer trial will not, of course, interfere with the sur- render of Mr. Elverton R. Chapman, the convicted witness, at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, and he. will enter upon his term of imprisonment at that time. Although Attorney General McKenna has received no formal application cr petition for the pardon of Broker Chapman, he h received letters from friends and enemie: of that gentleman, the former favoring ani the latter opposing the exercise of. execu- tive clemency in his case. pe eee CAPTURED THE CAPITAL. Little Soldiers From Greater New York Make Successful Assault. “Washington is In possession of an armed force of soldiers who, despite their diminu- tive preportions:in a» physical scnse; are taking captive all who come in contact with them. The visiters are-a;small army of small boys,, who have made a descent upon the capital of the nation, ‘proud of the uniforms they wear, and the little guns they carty, and, like all Gothamites, prouder still of the greater New York that they hall from, And they are accompanied by a number of their fathers, mothers, and their sisters and their cousins and their aunts, who are Prouder of the’ youngsters than the latter are of themselves. The military contingent composes the first battalion of the..American Guard, the military organization composed of the pub- He school scholars of the country, which was suggested #t thé Grand Army encamp- ment of 183). angicompr-ses pupiis of gram- mar schools: 60 @nd Si of New York city. They arrived,jy Washington last hight over the Baltimore and Ohio road on a Royal Blue “trath and attracted a great deal of atrehtion! ‘The main body, af the boys were quartered at the Oxford, agd the way they attacked the commissari a hawed that they were every one soldiéf§. The band and a large number of -tadiés‘accom.panyiug the party went to the! Hdtel.Regent and another group to the ere. President ley wiil be received by the laddies tonight an his return from the Washington jmotiment exercise$ fn Phila delphia. The talion will form at the Oxtord Hotel’ at’ o'ciock and proceed to the depot, where it will escort the chief executive to the White House. They will leave. for, hoje Hfnorrow, afternoon. at 3b ahaa’ 3 mal 39 Soy off; Enemies, Out Wenty, ..:: From tlie Pallucelptile, Tahea: fete ted pay+ ment of a bounty for coyote scalps., The coyote ts a tpoublesome beast’ and plays havoe with domestic’ animals. Though it is to the interest of the graqger to anni- Lilate the prowling yarmints, and the state has for several years expended about $200,- 00 per year for- scalps, coyotes are more numerous now’ thah ever. At first ‘thé bounty was $1 pér scaip for slain coyotes, but the politicians. finally got the figure Taised to %5. At ance the erang2r3 saw that raising infant coyotes was to. become @ profitable industry, and set about en- couraging their: propagation. Recent. in- vestigations show. that regular coyote farms. were estabiished, and “honest gran- gers” did such..a thriving business that their other crops, languished.- In the course of # legislative, investigation recently it was shown that in ene county. where 4.00) scalps had bean furned in during the year more than three-teurths cf them were frau, dulent, it betngsproyed that four or five scalps were made-§9om each coyote skin; also, that some of the scaips were those of foxes and wolves. The-town. officials never having seen either of: these animais, the eeacraon was an easy matter, for the coy- ote bears.a strong resemblanc: s these soimals. Par lance to .both le ® combination animal, with the bark of a dog; the stealthiness of a wolf and the cunning of a fox. He. will eat poultry, hogs and human beings, but will not attack a pcrson unless he has then at @ disadvantage.” They have an instinct which tells them when they’ mey safely at- lack. 1A pack oftwenty will hesitate to at- miners, but will surround the camp and how! and bark ail niga. When the campers turn in they approach stealthtly "and attack the sleeping men. Tne discharge of one gun will, however, set a all mf “ « . great i the abuse in the mai bounties become that. the law. will tn all probability be Sepealed. and farmers will hereafter have to’ kill the coyote without any hope of reward. Sins, Wiljara fo Betare to Evanston, Mies Frances E. Willard, péesident of the National Woman's ‘Christian Temperance Union, and Mics Anna Gordon will return to Evanston, lilyin May to take up their residence at Rest Cottage. Since the death of her moftier in1802 Miss Willard has not lived at Rest Cottag making only occa- sional visits-there. Speke ent Mr. -Kimbali, ‘cousin ‘of’ Mary B. Wil- of Rest lerd, who les thé south side Cottage; spect, to take His family abroad i: months, Teaves” thé apt its at ‘Miss ait ae disposal. * enry, Somerset will ar- rive “here ‘in’ And be. Miss Wilard'’s Suest for the sifanier. Lady rset will remain with Willard until after'the world's "Won 5 Unton convention in hg national convention ‘in Buffalo, t Goer and Noveniber, re- spectively. ee as Miss Willard is again settléd ivanston important busi- meet will be held, at which Mrs. Frances E Deanctaste of Lexington, Ky.; Mrs. Clara C. Hoftm: of Kansas CitmoMe. and possibly Mrs. L M. N. Rtore Portland, Me., will be present, er officers res@ling here. son leave Castile, N. ¥., where. she has?$ven: several months, and engagements at Roches- wie old, brought back from its ive ye nishment, ” the whut kin be put in ‘a cup of coffiee an’ it'll MAY BE POSTPONED in ‘Trial of Have- wel Lugaged in Phils- vemeyef, and the indict- ed secrctary of the American Sugar Re- fining Company, John E. Searles, is asso- clated Mr. John G, Johnson of Philadel- phia, generally. regirded as the leader of executive’s right hand. confidant. a position with so much attached to it, a man with a cool head, gentle disposition and other kind of a man would not fill the bill. Above all the other qualifications executive ability is also required. delinquent pieces became -quite..spirited, and in many instances’ thé ‘District received an exoess over the amount due. The question was raised at the time as to when this surplus became due. took the position that the money would not be payable until the property should be turned over. to them. The collector of taxes forwarded the matter to the Com- missioners, and they have decided, it is un- derstood, should be paid before the close of the sale. PRESIDENTS RIGHT HAND is a Man of Many Secretary Porter : Duties, Not Least Among Them is the Recep- tion of Callers Who Seek Favors —His Busy Day. The hardest worked man under the new administration, unless it be the President himself, is Secretary Porter. There is liitle realization of the e.ormous amount of work he does, of the physical-and mental strain under which he labors. He is holding up under it well, but his friends continually warn him that he will not be long able to keep up at the present rate. He smiles and says he is doing all right. His solicitude is for the President, for whose relief from the pressure of work he is cortinually planning. The President oftens accepts the advice of his secretary, and if he did so more frequently would probably feel much better when Congress gets through witha the tariff bill and most of the appointments are out of the wa: To attempt to narrate in detall a day's work of the secretary would be difficul:; in fact, almost impossible. His day's labors begin at 9 and end anywhere from 11 p.m. until the next morning at 1 o'clock. He is at the White House practically all that time, the only relaxation and escape from Pursuit of office seekers or official business of some kind being at the dinner hour. After the rush of office seekers, politicians and callers in the day, and previous to the beginning of that rush, the secretary is busy going over mail, dictating letters, making appointments, and a hundred other things. It is his handling of office seekers durimg the busy hours of the day that shows his selection by the President for the position to have been a remarkable hap- py one. A Star reporter spent two busy hours in the secretary’s room during a recent record-breaking day at the White House. A fair estimate is that during the hours from 10 to 12 o'clock there were 400 visitors in the rooms of the President and secretary, which adjoin. They all go through the secretary’s room and more than half have business with him. Meeting Many Men. During the two hours mentioned Mr. Por- ter was ip constant consultation with men of every description, from United States senators down to the man who wants to be consul at Patagonia. There were during that time, by actual. count, elghty-seven requests of tke secretary. These were of many kinds. ’ The most easily attended to are those which aim at an appointment with the President. It is easy to answer the request at the time being, but after that the sec- retary must think of a suitable hour and of a suitable answer to make by letter. Scme of the appointments are verbally made, but the majority are by ietter after the person has gone. Frequently the secre- tary has to consult the President before making an appointment, or he has to refer to his book to see if there are appoint- ments ahead for the hcur he may have Picked out. This gives a faint idea of the duties of the secretary in one line. Another line of requests is from those who want to know how their applications stand, whether their cases have been taken up, and what the prospects are. The secre- tary has to give answers to all these re- quests. He has to keep in a good humor while he is doing so. He has to show some knowledge of everything. He has to be tactful and to adapt himself to Many situ- ations. When Delegat Can. Frequentiy, while some man has him in a corner asking him something, and a dozen others are standing around awaltirg their chance, a delegation of prominent men is ushered in. The probability is that they are notables from some large city in a hurry to get through and catch a train to return. They mray*be business men with little time to spare. These facts are hur- riedly communicated to the secretary by some of the attendants or by some member of the delegation. If Mr. Porter considers the” matter. worth Interrupting the con- ferences .of the: President. he- hai ‘This 4s. done: while: a: crawd-is st the President awaiting their turn “at the bat.” in base ball language. Secretary Por- ter often has to do this. He returns to his room to be poenced upon by many of those in waiting. This is one of the days when the President and Secretary anxiously Watch the big clock in the President's room to see when it gets to the hour for shutting off further visitors. The siege which Mr. Porter goes through in his room is not much worse than that which he uadergoes if he ever puts -his héad “out of his room into the hallway, where the visitors congregate before they enter the President’s and secretary’s rooms. A number of these visitors patiently watch fer every creak of the door to see if the Secretary is coming out. ‘Then they pounce upon him for information and for the granting of a request. The secretary often has business in the rooms of Secretary Pruden, actosa the hallway from his own. If he starts over there he is sure to have his way blocked by several anxious citi- zens. When-he goes to his lunch they wait for his return. Some of them post them- selves at the front door of the White House, feeling certain that he has no other means of entrance and cannot escape them. The habit of lying in wait in the hallway became so extensive that to transact im- portant business and avoid the waiting throng the secretary had to resort to sev- eral innocent schemes. Calls for a Level Head. At all times during these busy hours the secretary is subject to the call of the Presi- dent for a conference or to look up papers relating to an appointment. It is needless to say that the secretary must know where these papers are and be abie to find ex- actly what the President wants. Secretary Porter tries to see everybody who calls and wants a word with him. It is seldom that the doorkeeper announces that the secretary is too busy to see callers. When this arnotrcement is made it is is doing at the time will have to be of the utmost importance to prevent him from seeing callers. The foregoing imperfectly deseribes the busy hours of the man who is ams ae ‘o physical strength is required. Any re Surplus Must Be Paid Now. During the recent sale of property- for taxea, bidding upon certain Several of the purchasers that whatever surplus is due —— Government Bonds. Pat tacific Maul. Southern K; Taction ‘abash, pid. literally correct, and whatever Mr. Porter 110 bid. FINANCE AND TRADE Wow York Bock Market Bul Iaffa- enoed by Politics. CUBAN QUESTION NOW A BIG FACTOR The Industrials and Granger Shares Objects of Attack. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, May 15.—A proper regard for the possibilities of next week's Cuban debate in the Senate induced a general re- duction of speculative risks this morning. Traders were in. undieputed control of prices and made every effort to force a more geneial recognition of the significance of Impending events. Rumors that the administration would take a somewhat advanced attitude on the subject of the Cuban insurrection were freely circulated, but lacked confirmation. Sentiment was mainly opposed to improve- mert in the general list, but, except in one or two instances, the volume of business precluded important net charges. The international and granger shares were freely sold by the room, in the belief that they would be erpecially sensitive to legislative action. Should executtve action be postponed the street ts assured that res- clutions of some sort equai to the require- ments of a traders’ turn will be passed py ai least one branch of Congress. In conservative circles the belief in ma- terially lower prices does not exist. The market has frequently during the present weed demonstrated its stubborn resistance, and the beltef prevails that if left to the influence of ratural causes, higher prices would result. It does not follow, how- ever, that Imniedigte activity is essential to future profit. The-coming week may eliminate the evils of patriotic demonstrations in the interest of Cuba, but once this evil is removed the tariff bill will. take its place. The dis- cussion of this measure will, if history is to be repected, produce a general disin- clination to make new contracts. Chicago Gas is especially under the in- fluencé ofthe proposed ‘consolidation bill. Its defeat.is generaRy’ construed to mean a substantial reduction in the price of the company’s certificates: -The. weakness dis- played today is taken to indicate a grow- ing skepticism as to the chances of suc- cess. For many weeks these shares have been accorded support superior to that displayed at anyother point. Today's trading re- flected almost .a total lack of sustaining power. The real facts should come to the surface during the coming week. American Sugar is another specialty subject to par- —— attacks not having general applica- bility. 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