Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1897, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th &t, by The Evening Star Ne rt Compuny, 8. nH KAUFFMANN 1 Pres’t. New York Office, 49 Potter Building. The Evening Star fs served to subecrivers In the city by carriers, on thelr own acount, at 10 cent nth. arday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with en postage added, $3.C0. Entered at the Post Office 3 mail matter.) TF All mail snbseriptions must be paid in a Rates of advertising made known on app!i tt Washington, D. C., nee. tion. Part2. Che Fy ening Star. Pages 13-24 Advertising is not an expense. It is a business investment. If you want to invest your money profitably you will therefore put your advertisements in such a paper as The Evening Star, that is read regularly and thoroughly by everybody worth reaching. The Star is the recognized houschold and family journal of the National Capital, and has WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1897—-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. no rival as an advertising med- ium. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP The All-Pervading Dullness of the Dog Days is at Hand. FUTURE OUTLOOK 18 PROMISING Inquiries Are Numerous From Per- sons Who Want to Rent. >—_—_— PROSPECTIVEIMPROVEMENTS ‘There has been very little change during the past week in the dullness that pervades the real estate market in Washington. For the next two or three weeks there will be but litle animation in actual dealings. Buyers and sellers alike are absent from Washington, but no doubt is felt that when cooler weather brings them back to the city operations will become active in all The same causes that have led rust which has long affected the men who are in- ted in what is known as the money © removing the doubt and everal years pre- ers in realty from securing of the conditions. The same too, that is being restored to ged in the more active lines of is returning in a very substantial » to those who trade in the slower but solid branches de and the latter part of September and the month of Cetober will, it ed, see a very sub- stantial i tiens. Vented the d a clear view confidence, those tual 4 prospective res! yed agents to look out for se and rental property for them, and a €r two of wealthy people who d sent hold property in the Dist known to be making inqui: y, both improved h for the for personal occupan growing inquiry for houses in + northwest section reported by real es- tate agents who handle rental lists. The de- s for the better class of residences which may be taken by the year, but there inquiries for more modest in eligible localities. ‘The inquiry for rent Mr. G. alty opera- nts have unimproved, purpose of in- property is ani- Swartzell of B. : ay. “We are kept auite ng to interrogatori think well for the owners of houses which have been unoccupie unremunerative for some time pz » architects report a coi preliminary work and erable on It develops in inquiry among them their ral will be found working uj for the same thing. This indic persons who propose building are tet more and more toward the policy ing competiti des Former! i instructed sand speci- "a building or a series of struc- tely there seems to be, as in- a tendency toward giving ral request to architects to com- pete. Some architects decline to enter into any competition of this sort, and one ef them said yesterdiy that such a sys- tem is just about the same as would be a custom of getting lawyers to compete for ing a case. Of course such a view is erroneous, but it is held ni theless, T ter of projections beyond the building line ts still an interesting question among builders, and the request of the War Devartment authorities to have the plats of proposed buildings staked out on the lots before permits are issued is not fa ly regarded in any quarter. Much speculation is being indulged in over the final decisicn regarding the addition to the el Arno, on I street. The request for a four-foot bay window on this street, which Was objected to by Justice Gray of the Supreme Court, who li the corner of 16th and I streets, has not yet been acted upen, and work on the improvement is stopped. The 16th street addition, however. has a projection of the same dimensions. but no objection has been made to this, and work cn it is in progress. Builders are naturally much inte: what the oute There are additions and improve- ments to reside and busines fn progress er about to be made. Many private having such modern rical intro- pretty busy utifying interiors. E building inspector's been fairly active. jotwalls has applied for a permit ix houses at the er of 10th They will be eight- feet in dimensicns and reet ard be numbered They will be eignteen feet by fort: e feet in dimensions and will be th jes with mansard roofs cn the top stories above basements. The feet by forty-n 1 front en 1th s fronts will be of pressed brick, trimmed and will have oval bay They will contain all modern improve- : es and be tastefully finished on the interior. The sixth house Will front on I street, No. 1005, and be sep- arated from the row a five-foot ailey. The cost will be about $25,000. The archi- tect is B. S. Simmons. The corner house of the row will have a twelve-foot square bay window on I street. addy B. Wood bas made plans for a tive cottage to be erected by Cleveland Park Company on lots 14, in square 2, No. 3432 Newark t No. ground is 75 by 110 feet deep and the cottage will be 42 feet 4 inches front by 2S feet deep. The front will be of and frame and pebble dash and will very artistic. The house will be two sana basement and will have a hed shingled roof. It will be buflt on ep grade. All the latest equipments be introduced. The cost will be about and John Simpson will build it. W. Baker will improve his residence, i921 16th street northwest, by the ad- dition of a new brick and stone front and general interior repairs. A bay window will run the full three stories. Architect J. F. Denson has made the plans. The cost will be $3,500. J. N. Fluckey will erect for himself a residence at No. 1207 Massachusetts ave- southeast. It will be two stories and . 18 by 50 feet in dimensions, with a press brick front. The interior will be trimmed in oak and pine. Hot water heat and all the modern conveniences will be introduced. The cost will be about $3,500. T_N. Haislip is the architect. | Amelia C. Mautner will’ erect a me residence on Q street between Sth and %th streets northwest. It will be three-story brick, with Hummelstowa Stone trimmirgs. The floor plan will be zixhteen feet by fifty-nine feet, containing arlor, reception hall, dining room and itchen. Th? upper floor, four bed rooms and bath room, with file finish. The plumbing fixtures will be of the most mod- ern design and have all the newest im- provements. The first story will be finish- €d in white pine, stained oak and varnish- ea. The cost will be $4.00u. The architect is Mr. Charles A. Harkness; the builders, Mersrs. Galloway & Sons. Rev. Father McGee of St. Patrick's Chureh will shortly take definite steps re- garding the erection of the new Catholic church at Mount Pleasant. has not yet decided upon the style of architecture, but it may be taken for granted that when his selection is made it will be romething striking and graceful. The magnificent in- both architecturally and on the interior. Real estate men interested in suburban perty and the officials of the Catholic University are anx! some definite decision should be reached by the District authorities regarding the proposed “Fort Drive” that Major Powell, recently En- ioner of the District, con- It has been in- timated on apparently very good authority that the project would be abandoned, but until some definite announcement is made there will be much perplexity on the part of those owning property in the line of the proposed drive. It was quietly déveloped during the week that an attempt had been made by some irresponsible parties to interest northern capitalists in a scheme to build modern tenement houses in Washington. Inquiry on the part of one of the moneyed men, who looked rather favorably upon the pro- ject, discovered that the parties making the suggestion had made use of the plans, Proposed by Surgeon General Sternburg to the National Sanitary Improvement Company and that the ground upon which they proposed to put up the tenements belonged to some one else. —— ALONE WITH A MANIAC. Quick Wit and Self-Possession Saves the Intended Victim’s Life. From the London News. It was cn the fifth day of our voyage, as we were amusing ourselves on deck, that @ message was brought me to say that Mr. A— would like to see me in his cabin. I had no difficulty in finding his room, and was met at the door by Mr. A. himself. He shook hands very cordially,-and invited me to enter and take a chair. No sooner had I done so than he carefully locked the door. Thinking this rather strange, I in- quired as to his illness. He did not reply for some time, and then said: “I am not ill. I sent for you,” laying his hand on a large knife, “to cut your throat.” He was a man I had not before particu- larly noticed, but now, as I looked up, I fully made up my mind that he was a maniac. I am not a coward, yet even now the thought of that moment makes me shud- der. There I was, in a remote part of the ship, alone with a madman of twice my strength, without a chance to escape, or Means to give an alarm, and being un- armed. quite at his mercy! I had heard of other somewhat similar cases, and, though a tyro in the profes- sion, had had some experience among the insane. I knew, therefore, that resistance would -be of the least service to me, and that apparent acquiescence would be best. All this quickly flashed through my mind, and accordingly, feigning the utmost in- difference I could, I said: “Ah, yes, Mr. A—, to be sure. It won't take long, will it?” “Oh, no,” said he, calmly, veying the knife he now held in his hand. “Oh, no; the job is quite a light on Here he poured out a glass of wine and begged me to drink it. As I did so an idea struck me, and I said: “By-the-by, Mr. A—, your knife doesn’t look very sharp; the trachea is tough, you knew. and will want some cutting.” He looked hard at me, as if to read my thoughts, but after a time, convinced that my suggestion was a good one, and exam- ining his knife more cl » he said: “Yes, doctor, I think you are right. A little grinding will do no harm, so, if you don’t mind waiting, I will just run to the “s shop. exactly what I wanted, as, feel- ing sure he would not lock the door after him, I thought my escape would be .€a: What was my dismay, then, on his de parture, at finding that it was locked as as before! ed up and down in despair, tore at the door, flung open the porthole window, and shouted with all my might, but all without avail. Time went on, minute by minute, and he could not be long now. In the frenzy of despair I groped about, from corner to corner, In search of some weapon of de- fense; but no, not even the merest stick, not the smallest thing upon which to lay hands. And then I heard footsteps ap- proaching in the distance. I felt my pulse quicken, my brow grow hot. Impulsively I flung off my coat, got to the farthest end of the room, and, stand- ing as defensively as possible, resolved to fight to the last. I remember then the door bursting open, and the entry of A—, not alone, as I thought, but securely pinioned, and at- tended by two of the ship's crew, in charge of the second officer. The relief of the moment was so great that it completely prostrated me, and my nervous system was much shaken for some time, while the intensity and reality of my situation often now makes me feel something akin to what the condemned, about to be hanged must experience. I learned afterward that the peculiar and excited manner of the maniac, the large knife in his possession, and his anxiety to sharpen it, drew suspicion on him, which, with the fact that I had been 1 to see him, induced the officer to secure him and come to his cabin. For the remainder of the voyage he was kept securely confined, and watched day and night, and on arriving at New York was handed over to the proper authorities, who, on investigating the case, found that the man had escaped from a private luna- tic asylum near Liverpool, and had by strategy and cunning eluded the vigilance of his keepers and taken passage in our vessel. He was, I believe, transferred to England again, though, happily, not under my care. es A Chinese Dinner for a Poet. From the New York Tribune. A Chinese dinner in honor of Prof. Chas. G D. Roberts, the Canadian poet, was given by Robert Mitchell Flood of New Jerscy yesterday afternoon at the restaurant of Me Hong Low. The restaurant occupies the second floor of the Joss house at No. 14 Mott street, and this occasion was fittingly celebrated by the embellishment of the room with myriads of Chinese lanterns in all the bril- liancy of ochre and blue, and fantastically arranged all over the room. Bot Sing, the Chinese chef, prepared the delicacies for the feast. Those at the dinner were Prof. Charles G. D. Roberts, the guest of the occasion; John Jerome Rooney, Vincent S. Cook, Duffield Osborne, Robert Wentworth Floyd, William Carman Roberts, Joseph Ryan, Whidden Graham, Stephen B. Stanton, John Find and Patrick O'Mara. These with Robert Mitchell Floyd sat down to a round table in the center of the restaurant. The table was decorated with Chinese vari- colored silk napkins and grotesquely fash- joned chinaware. The dinner reversed the usual order of things by starting off with the sweetmeats and nuts first. There was everything in the twelve courses that Chinamen delight in. It was positively amusing to witness the attempts of the diners to handle the chopsticks. They appeared to be as familiar with them as a tramp is with a knife and fork. John Find, a Chinese merchant, ex- plained all the dishes to the guests, so that they would have no qualms about partak- ing of them. The menu cards were yellow pasteboards, having the bill of fare printed in Chinese characters and in English translation. ——_+o-+____. Wants Some Minting Donec. Information comes from Costa Rica that the government has asked the United States Mint Bureau to coin 600,000 colons, under the former government's new dystem of coinage favorable to gold. It will also seek to Secure gold bars sufficient to coin an additional 400,000 colons. The colon is equivalent to 46 cents. The ratio at which the Costa Rican coinage is made is 82 to 1, as between gold and silver. The Bank of From the Rochester Union.and Advertiser. A man writing from Dawson City, near the Klondike gold diggings, says: “Beer is S80 cents per drink. I have quit drinking.” This is an impressive example of the effi- cacy of the gold cure, THE FIBER PLANTS Descriptive List Prepared by the De- partment of Agriculture. THE WORK OF SPECIAL AGENT DODGE A Comprehensive Publication of Great Commercial Value. THE WORLD'S PRODUCTS “Fiber Investigation,” by Charles Rich- ards Dodge, special agent of the Depart- ment of Agriculture, is one of the most interesting and comprehensive publications which has ever been issued by the depart- ment. The work is handsomely illustrated and includes the enumeration of 1,018 spe- cies of useful fiber plants, the more impor- tant of which are fully described and treat- ed from the botanical, agricultural and industrial standpoints. They are described or referred to under their scientific, com- mercial, common and native names, as far as the latter could be obtained, and prop- erly verified. The kind of fiber produced, the part of the plant producing it, as well as the position of the species in the vege- table kingdom, ts indicated, and in some instances the names of museum or museums ere stated where specimens of the fiber are preserved. It has taken about twenty years to prepare this work. The object of the publication is to bring together in one volume, arranged for ready reference, a descriptive list of such useful fibers of the world as are known to be, or which have been, employed commercially, or those prepared by the natives in the ccuntries where they abound, or which have been the subject of experiment, and shown at promtent industrial expositions. Naturally, the simple list of commercial species would make an insignificant show- ing; the experimental list would be much larger, the greater number of species there- fore coming into the category of native fibers, of which the Indian hemp, the plant that supplie: several North | American Indian tribes with material for their cord- age, fish lines and nets, is an example. Modern and Ancient. The author states as an interesting fact, though in no wise a remarkable one, that the most valuable commercial fibers of to- cay were the prominent fibers of ancient times, illustrating, in a word, the survival of the fittest. Flax, cotton, hemp, the lilia- ceous fibers, mary of the palms, weeds and s, were known and valued in past on both hemispheres, being imported connection with the common animal nd silk. When or how t came to be used, Mr. Dodge says, will never be known, but it 1s ssible that they were first employed in ng man to secure his focd, as the na- of every country, from ‘the burning tropics to the frigid 1.orth, have drawn largely upon the resources of the vegetable Kingdom for their fish lines and nets. It might be further conjectured, he states, that the rude knotting of the twisted fila rents of fiber in the form of nets may e first suggested the weaving and the ubstitution of vegetable clothing for the skins of animals. Antiquity of Flax. Flax has a greater antiquity than any of the fibers of which there is any knowledge, for its cultivation goes back to the Stone Age in Europe. It ‘s known to have been manufactured by the Swiss lake dwellers, a people contemporaneous with the long extinct mammoth and other great mam- mals of the quaternary epcch, as spect- mens of the straw fiber fabrics and others prepared by them are preserved in the mu_ ums. Egyptian fabrics of linen 4,500 years old are found in the museums, and mong the mummy cloth fabrics, from the rost delicate tissves of linen to sailcloth wrappings, have been also found, and as many as 300 yards were used to wrap one body. The linens are both white and dyed in colo; ed and purple, and they were ha ly_ embroidered. Of the two dozen species of commercial fibers used in the United States, the work Says, twenty figure in the list of imported raw products. Taking into account also the important manufactures from fibrous sub- stances, and some of the rougher manufa tures from fibers or fiber substances pro- duced at home, the complete list of Ameri- can commercial fibers may be swelled to thirty species, many of these being unim- portant. The Bast Fibers, There are six bast fibers, as follows: Flax, China grass, hemp, jute, Sunn hemp and Cuba bast, all excepting the last being spinning fibers, the Cuba bast finding em- ployment in millineries. There are two sur- face fibers, cotton and raffia. The list of structural fibers numbers fifteen, represent- ing agaves, palms and grasses, ‘as follows: Sisal hemp, Manilla hemp, Mauritius and New Zealand flax, cordage fibers, Tampico or Istle, Bahia paissaba, Para’ paissaba, Mexican whisk or broom root, and cab- bage palmetto, brush fibers; Crin vegetal, Spanish moss, saw palmetto, cocoanut fiber, upholstery and matting fibers; Esparto grass, for paper manufacture, and vege- table sponge,as substitute for bath sponges. The two species of palmetto and the Span- ish moss for vegetable hair are wholly pro- duced in this country. As to the sources of supply of these fibers, flax 1s imported chiefly from Belgium, Rus- sia, Holland, Italy, the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and from Canada. China grass or ramie comes from China (in very small quantities). Hemp is derived from Russia, France, Belgium, Ger- many, Austria-Hungary, Italy, the Nether- lands and British East’ Indies (the latter in trifling quantity; jute from India, and Cuba bast from the West Indies. The imports of cotton are chiefly produced in Egypt and Peru, though small quantities may be ob- tained from other countries. Raffia, used as agricultural tie bands, comes’ from Africa. Sisal Gra The sisal hemp fs produced in Yucatan, small quantities being produced in Cuba and the Bahamas. Manilla hemp is the product of the Philippine Island, cebu hemp being a trade variety. Mauritius or aloe fiber comes from Africa, and the source of supply of New Zealand flax is indicated by its name. Tampico, er Istle, is a Mexican product, and the Bahia and Para piassabas or “bass” fibers. are collected from Brazil- fan plains. There are other species of bass derived from African palms, which former- ly never came to the United States, and now, if at |, only in trifling quantities. Broom root is a Mexican product, the root of iu, wiry grass. The two palmetto fibers are produced from uncultivated spe- cles of Florida palms, while the Crin vegetal is derived from an allied palm, growing in Algeria. The vegetable hair from Spanish moss is age D3 in South Carolina and other gulf states, while cocoanut fiber comes from the East Indies. Esparto grass is produced in Algeria, Spain and Portugal, = vegetable sponge comes largely from japan. Other commercial species that might be enumerated are imported in a partially pre- pared state or as manufactures. Such fibrous substances appear in the form of straw plait from Italy, Japan and China, chiefly, the eastern floor mattings and bas- ketry from various substances. In this ac- count, however, only the raw fibers are ‘The American Varieties. The fibers produced in this country in commercial quantity are cotton, hemp, flax, palmetto fiber and vegetable hair from Spanish moss. Hemp end flax production should be largely extended; jute production and the growth of sisal hemp, pincapple and bowstring hemp are possible. Cane fiber can be produced in large quantities. The paper materials other than Esparto are not considered. The mative fibrous sub_ stances that might be employed in lieu of cellulose from forest trees, for paper pulp, would make along list, at the head of which might be placed the waste fiber from a million acres of flax produced only for seed. G The author of the book has this to say on the subject of pulp material: “A day is surely coming when the ques- tion of securing new pulp materials will present itself, and it is to be hoped that frcm the long lst of native species of fibrous plants enumérated in this work something will be found that will si at low ccst a better paper mat . common use than. wood pulp, which has nothing to recommend it but availability of raw material and cheapness.” Of vegetable fibers imported into the United States for the year ending June 30, 1897, sisal gress led the list, the money paid for it amounting to $3,594,901. Manilla hemp followed, amounting to $3,594,901. “Jute cutts” were imported to the value of $1,044,152. Between mineteen and twenty million was the whole amount of vegeta- ble fibers impcrted last year. This does not represent, the author states, the value of the fiber industry to this country. He says: “It should be remembered that considera- bly larger quantities of many of these fibers are manufactured in other countries for export to the United States, and that the total value of our imports of ‘raw and manufactured’ is equal to three or four times the value represented in the table. Our raw and drersed flax imports amount to perhaps $1,750,000, While the imports of flax manufactures haye reached $12,000,000. Even Mexican manufactures from sisal grass, such as hammocks, etc., are sold in the United States, and the imports of cord- age and yarns from Various fibers are con- siderable. Where $20,000,000 worth of filers are now manufactured in this coun- try it might be possible to manufacture $40,000,000 worth, and thus double the home fiber industries; and it might easily be possible to produce home-grown fibers to the extent of half of the supply needed in the manufactures that these industries represent. The Commerctal List. ‘While thirty or forty species of plants supply the world’s demand for commer- cial fibers, hundreds of fibrous plants could readily be enunerated, the simple fiber subgance in many of which to outward appearance is just as good as the fiber of scme of the commercial species widely cul- ted, and fur which they would be the substitutes. This country imports millions of dollars’ worth of jute annually, yet some of the plants recognized as native weeds in the United State# contain stron: er and better fiber. That many of them are capable of produeing a good quality of fiber has been know® for years, yet they are not utilized.” The government fas’ cénducted experi- ments or instituted inquiries in the fiber Interest at various times in the last fifty years, but it is only since 1800 that an of- fice of practical experiment and inquiry has been established by the Agricultural Department that has been continued through a term of years. I: is known as the office of fiber Investigations. The work of thiy branch has péen directed mainly to the development or. introduction of those fibers which are not, weed commercial- ly here, but are capatle Of cultivation. The work has bedn proseegted by, the imporia- tion and distribution of the seeds of fiber plants, and a numberof other ways. —_—-_-— + & Hanged by His Friends. From the Weekly’ Telegraph. At Ballarat a ruined gold miner once committed suicgide.{n a dramatic manner. During the time of the gold rush a cer- tain deserted claim was for years held sacred, and the tools strewn about the windlass were left to rust away untouched. A party of ’varsity men, old school fel- lows and of gentle birth, had sunk their shaft there and worked without success until their money was spent. One evening one of them at work at the bottom of the shaft shouted, ‘Haul up, boys, the time is come at last.” They hauled up, and when it came to tie top they found their com- tade’s lifeless body hanging from the chain. He had detached the bucket, tied a noose abcut his reck, fastened the noose to the chain, and was hanged by his dear- est frien liked andr. who would © ected by the other miners, dfly have subscribed 1,00) of gold dust to give them a fresh 8 but ere the dawn of the next y the whole party had disappeared, leaving their claim in the same state as it lay at the time cf the tragedy. —— “se: Pension for a Fire Department H. From the Morning Orexonian. The beard of fire commissioners has de- cided thut the bir bay horse Jerry, which has faithfully served the city in the fire de- partment for seventeen years, and is now twenty-three years of age, shall be given his time for the remainder of his days and be a pensioner on tke ejty. ‘This horse and ‘his mate were purchased by the city in the days of the volunteer fire department, to draw ladder truck No. 1, and for sev- eral years they did this work, which is now considered a pretty heavy job for the three horses attached to the truck. When the paid department was organized, Jerry became a member‘of it, and has discharged his duties faithfully ever since. He is now entitled to be considered “aged,” having served longer than the. usual span of lite allotted to horses, and the commissioners do not feel inclined to sell him for a trifie to some one who will perhaps starve and abuse him, and render the remainder of his life uncomfortable; so they have de- cided that he is to have free hay and oats at the expcnse of the city as long as he lives. ne ———__+ 0+ —____ Watch vn, Locomotive. From the Philadelphia: Recoré. Very few of the millions of people who carry watches realize to what a wonderful extent lubrication is developed ani what an extraordinary number of turns the bal- ance wheel makes wit one oiling. A Chest- nut street watchmakér, | witose knowledge of these wonderful pi of mechanism is not exceeded by any man fm this city, has made up an interes tahlé of comparison to show the .perfec of lubrication in a watch. A watch will run of pné oiling from a year to a year and a if. Every minute the balance wheel tatng.on its “axis 450 times, and 27,000 times imam hour. Accept- ing the year as the time the ordinary watch will run with one oflinty be finds that if the driver of a locomotive was aswell oiled as the balance wheel of @ watch it ought to run sixty miles an hour and night for 648 days, or well on t@ two'years with one oiling. In that time'it woul traverse a dis- tance equal to near; es the circum- ference of the eart { fact thatin reality few In view of the. locomotives will run ene @y without re- tere he maintaing that watchmaker veloped his art ‘to a far greater de- gree than the locométive builder hus yet been able to reach, . Her Object. From the Atlanta Constitution. 4 In Lexington, Ky., a negro git} was ar- rested for carrying a ragor in her hair. “What were you doing with that razor?” asked the ler. P: “I warn't: wid it when dey fer a lady datI didn’t cel”. . THE NATIONAL GUARD Visit of the Rifle Teams to Sea Girt. SECOND REGIMENT IN THE CONTESTS Six Days of Target Practice on the Range. ENGINEERS HOLD THE RECORD All arrangements have practically been completed for the trip of the District rifle teams to Sea Girt for the purpose of par- ticipating In the annual rifle matches of the New Jersey State Rifle Association. As heretofore stated in The Star, the Wash- ington party will travel by way of the Pennsylvania railroad, departing next Sat- urday night, and is scheduled to reach Sea Girt before breakfast the following morn- ing. Sunday will be devoted to rest, the cempetitions opening Monday morning. ‘There will be six days of shooting, and but little doubt exists that a good share of the prizes will be brought to this city. The engineers, particularly, have been hard at work, some of the scores made a few days ago being as follows: Lieut. Gra- ham, 90 out of a possible 100; Lieut. Hut- terly, 90; Corporal Wetherald, 91; Sergt. Scott, 92, and Lieut. Young, 95. The mem- bers of the team are greatly encouraged over the marked imprevement of late in skirmishing. The 2d Regiment means to send a team, which will be selected from the following lis Col. Cecil Clay, Lieut. Jacobs, Serat. avenport, Sergt. Broome and Privates Horace Bell, Husted and Bode. These men are all doing satisfactory work in practice. Col. Cecil Clay will be In command of the District detachment, while Capt. H. H. Parmenter, quartermaster of the 2d Regi- ment, will act as quartermaster and ord- nance officer. Quite a number of guards- men will take the trip in order to engage in the individual matches, and all in all the party will consist of about forty persons. It is the intention of Maj. George H. Har- ries, inspector general of rifle practice, to go to Sea Girt during the latter part of ‘the meet in order to participate in the compe- tition for the Wimbledon cup. won by him vera! ime: lista is 1.000 yarde, e distance in this match Rifle Practice Next Week. Outside of the preparations of the rifle- men who are going to Sra Girt, the only mevement noticeable in connection with the District of Columbia National Guard {s in anticipation of the annual outdoor rifte Practice next week at the Ordway range. There will be a stir of activity for six d a Then, it is expected, the summer calm will! be in order until the re:umpti ft Is aries oe ption of drills The schedule for the practice is as fol- lows: Ist Battalion, Monday, August 22; 2d Battalion, Tuesday, August talion, Wednesday, August talion, Thursd. August 26; Ist Separate Battalion, Friday, August 27, and 2d Separ- ate Battalion, Saturday, August 28. The general staff, the general non-com- missioned staff, the field and staff and non- commissioned staffs of regiments, and bat- talion inspectors of rifle practice, Monday, August 30. Government employes will be given cer- tificates for one day of duty performed under the requirements mentioned. Organizations, excepting the general staff and officers and non-commissioned officers required to shcot with it, will be directed to report at the Pennsylvania railroad sta- tion promptly at 8:30 o'clock in the morning on the dates assigned, for their annual Parade, in _urdress uniform, armed and equipped. In case of wet weather, over- coats will be worn. The general staff and those associated with it for rifle practice will be directed to report at the rallroad station on the day assigned for their an- nual parade at 11:40 a.m. The practice will be at 200, 200, 500 and 600 yards. Two scores will be fired by each man, and they will be recorded. Officers or enlisted men not properly uni- formed, or who, being commissioned or en- listed prior to April 1, 1897, have failed to complete the gallery practice described, will not be permitted to participate in the rifle practice. = The range will be open for ‘volunteer practice each Wednesday and _ Saturday throughout the season from 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The use of any ammunition other than officially issued on the range is prohibited. Applications for permission to experiment with ammunition must be made in writing to the inspector general of rifle practice. It will be stipulated that no person other than the range officer, or some one desig- nated by him. shall signal the markers or hold communication with any person in any of the pits. On days set apart for official practice, sighting shots may only be fired on targets set apart for pool shooting. Pool tickets may be purchased at the range office. Engincers Hold the Record. First Lieut. Glendie B. Young, inspecter of rifle practice, Engineer Battalion, wears a smile on his usually pleasant countenance at all times these days. Lieut. Young has been going over his records and finds that every member of the battalion, with the exception of those of Company D who are not required to use the rifle, has qualified up to date in rifle practice by firing the pre- scribed scores in the gallery. This recerd has néver been equaled by any battalion in the National Guard. Of the members of Company D who are not required to shoot, all but six indulged in the practice voluntarily. Lieut. Young Teans to make every endeavor to have all the available men qualify on the range as well. New Manual of Arms. An adaptation of the manual of arms for the service magazine rifle, caliber 30, known as the Krag-Jorgenson, to the Springfield rifle, caliber 45, now in use by the District National Guard, has been pub- shed by the War Department. The adap- tation provides for opening and closing the chamber and for fixing and unfixing the bayonet, issued with the 45-caliber arm. In lying down it is directed that the rear rank man move back inches” instead of load it is stipulated: “At the command ‘load’ each rear ran! man steps off obliquely to the right with the left foot, planting the toe opposite the middle of the interval to his right and in line with the left heel of the front rank half face to th: om the recruits to be at quick time at the right shoulder before ordering the halt.” Notes. Corperal Charles H. Henney has been promoted to sergeant, and Private Edward M. Tansill both in the brigade band. On their own applications Pri M. Sousa, Ambulance Corps; Edzar A. < son, Company A, 2d Battalion; Edward G. Gilbert, Company D, 4th Battalion; James M. Collins and Edward Nichols, Compan: B, 4th Battalicn, and William S. McKean, ir., Company C, 4th Battalion, have been honorably discharged. Private Harry B. Dawson, Company C, 5th Battalion, has been discharged with honor, because of re- moval from the District. At the request of Major E. R. Campbell, Sergeant Major William E. Colladay, 4th Battalion, in addition to his duties as such, will, until further orders, discharge the duties of inspector of rifle practice for the 4th Battalion, and has been appointed act- Ing inspector of rifle practice. Because of illness the leave of absence granted Major Frederick C. Revells, Ist Separate Battalion, has been extended to September 19. Major Burton R. Koss, Ist Battalion, has been granted leave of ab- sence for four weeks from August 23. Dur- ing the absence of Major Ross, Captain John S. Miller, Company D, will be in com- mand of the battalion. The Ambulance Corps is indulging in a much-needed rest, so far as active work Is ecncerned. An assembly of the cerps is held every Monday evening, however, when a call of the roll is made and the names of absentees recorded. The cycle club, consist- ing of members of the corps and their lady friends, has proved immensely popular, and frequent club rides are the rul Considerable criticism has been heard from guardsmen to the effect that the new figure target, used at the Ordway last Saturday, does not the correct position of “parade ri pointed out that while the soldier himself is in the proper posture, the very much out of pesition, In reply to this criti- cism the designers of the target state that no attempt as made to reproduce the posi- tion of “parade rest.” A figure only was desired, and the rifle is placed as it is In order to close the open space between the lower limbs of the figure. ies ARMY NOTES. Leaves, Transfers and Other Orders of Interest. Army orders recently issued are as fol- lows: . The leave of absence granted Captain George F. Cooke, 15th Infantry, Depart- ment of the Colorado, is extended one month, Private John T. Clarke, Troop K, 5th Cavalry, now at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, is transferred to Light Battery K, Ist Ar- ullery, stationed at the same post. Corporal James Dee Tilley, Troop K, 10th Cavalry, now at Fert Custer, Montana, will be discharged from the service. Private Harrison O. Fletcher, Hospital Corps, now at Vancouver barracks, Wash- ington, is transferred to Troop E, 4th Cav- airy, stationed at the same post. Private Leroy V. Gammons, Battery G, 2d Artillery, now at Fort Adams, Khode Island, will be discharged without honor from the service. Private William Mielitz, Tr D, ith Cavalry, now at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, will be discharged from the service. The acting secretary of war has detailed First Lieutenant George RK. Burnett for service as professor of military tactics at Fairfield Seminary and Military Acad- emy, Fairfield, N. Y. The leave of absence granted Colonel Dallas Bache, assistant surgeon general, Department of the Platte, is extended one menth. Leave of absence for two months and fifteen days, to take effect on or about September 1, is granted Second Lieutenant Harry La T. Cavanaugh, ¥th Cavalry. The following transfers are made in the 2d Cavalry: First Lieutenant Guy Carleton, from Troop L to Troop G; First Lieutenant Robert B. Wallace, from Troop G to Troop L; Second Lieutenant Mathew C. Smith, from Troop E to Troop L; Second Lieu- tenant William Kelly, jr., from Troop L to Troop E. Leave of absence for twe months is granted Second Lieutenant Frank D. Ely, 13th Infantry. Leave of absence for three months is granted Major Henry Jackson, Cavatry. The following named oificers, now un- dergoing instruction in torpedo service at Willets Point, N. Y., will be relieved from duty at that post October 1, 18¥7, and will join their respective stations within thirty days over and above the time nece: y to reach them in the ordinary course: Second Lieutenant William T. Johnston, 10th C. alry; Second Lieutenant Frank A. Wilcox, 1st Infantry; Second Lieutenant William A. Raibourn, 4th Infantry; Second Licu- tenant William C. Rogers, 7th Infantry; Second Lieutenant Frank B. McKenna, 15th Infantry. The travel enjoined is nec- essary for the public service. The following transfers are made in the 16th Infantry: Captain Wiliam V. Rich- ards, from Company G to Company 1; Captain William Lassiter, from Company’ I to Company G. The following transfers are made in the 5th Infantry: First Liewtenant Samuel W. Miller, from Company C to Company K: First Lieutenant Joseph M. T. Partello, from Company I to Company G; First Lieutenant William F. Martin, from Com- pany G to Company I, First Lieutenant Stephen M. Hackney, from Company K to has been appointed corporal, | ©00000000000000000) AIAIKT Anes More and 6000006 ‘i greater reductions from our Surplus Stock Sale. Such snappy bargsins as thes « want Kk a p of those 89c. 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