Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1897, Page 2

2 LATE NEWS BY WIRE Prominence of the Figure “13” in Luetgert Trial at Chicago, THE PRISONER IS SUPERSTITIOUS Trial of the Celebrated Case to Begin Next Monday. ANOTHER JUROR RELEASED —__+__—_ CHICAGO, August 28.—State’s Attorney Deneen today began preparations for the presentation of the evidence in #he Luetgert murder case to the jury next week. Plans and pictures of the big sausage factory at Armitage avenue and Diversey street were carefully arranged so as to be.ready at the proper time, and the line to be pursued in presenting the case to the jury was dis- cussed. It was decided to present the details of the alleged murder of Mrs. Luetgert in the briefest possible manner consistent with a clear statement of the facts which the presecution gexpects to prove. The de- feng2 will probably reserve its statement unta the case of the prosecution is in. Gossip has it that the number thirteen has shown itself frequently in this trial, and although he will not admit it, Luet- gert is said to fear the alleged uniucky in- fivence. Luetgert, it is said, was born on the 13th day of the month, ‘and origiaally spelied his name “Adolf Luetgert’—thir- teen letters. The most important bit of evidence, the finding of the gold rings, occurred tnirteen deys after the alleged murder took place. The state's attorney, his assistant and three of the prosecution's best witnesses have thirteen letters in their names, and th cabalistie number has bobbed up se- veral other instances. n Reed. one of the veniremen ac- by the prosecution yesterday, was peremptorily by the defense - was objected to on account of . and because he is Scotch, the of Assistant State's Attorney ——_—_— FOR THE CONVENTION. Louis Lebor Organizations Pre- paring for Monday’ Meeting. ST. LOL Mo., August 28.—The resident heads of various labor organizations have perfected arrangements for the big labor convention to be held here beginning next Monday. Such men as Jas. Carson, state president of the United Mine Workers of Illinois; Eugene V. Debs, president of the Social Democracy; C. Ratchford, interna- tional president of the International Mine Workers, and Mr. Lloyd, international sident of the Carpenters and Joiners’ n, are expected to participate in the ARRANGE united gathering of all the zed labor,” said Grant Luce, of the committee on arrange- ‘and its purpose is to further the of the mine workers. We expect t li the heads of the various y afterroon ard to hold big mass meeting in the hall Monday nee wi Have Political Bearing. A, Kan., August ‘The execu- mmittee of the populist state cen- tral committee has decided to delay issu- tdress calling for a national con- of populists, socialists, ete. A meeting will be held next Monday at St. Louis in the interest of the striking min- ers. This mee it is expected, will be sed of people from every state, and issued by that gathering, it is would be more effective than a the populist party of the one state. ee BURGLARS STEAL SECURITIES. Secure Notes for 32,500 From Mr. North at Fairfax Court Honse. Speciak Dispatch to the Evening Star. FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE, Va., August 2 absénce of Mr. J. H. Troth was entered by bur- ad a pocket book containing notes other obligatiens, payable to Mrs. amounting to about $2,500, was ack door was found open, but the not broken. Mrs. Troth ke left the key of the front bsence in a place, as she n only to her household. er, that the key was found by the burglars and used in entering the Ouse. ‘© money or other valuables were missed, and nothing in the house appeared to have been aisturbed except the drawer contain- pocket book. No clue has as yet to the guilty parties. SPAIN TO INCREASE HER NAVY. One Large Ireaciad an: to Be Added. August The Spanish gov- will immediately construct one ironclad and six cruisers of from 7,60 tons, to form the nucleus ron. government is arranging a fresh credit, with the view of strengthening the navy. The navigation tax will be the security for the loan. — CRITICISES CANOVAS’ Six Cruisers MADRID, ernment large 6.060 of 2 POLIcy. Sener Delmaze, Formerly Governor of Havana, Points to Mistakes. PARIS, August 28.—Senor Delmazo, for- merly civil governor of Havana, in an in- terview printed in Figaro this morning is as saying. the Cuban question was badly managed by Senor Canovas. The liberals would not refuse any just claims the United States might make. Gen. Campos, Dominguez, Blanco or Azcarraga are most fitted to ceed Gen. Weyler and bring the latter's unfortunate operations to an end.” UNION PAC ‘ICS FUTURE. It is Thought to Be Only a Quest of Time When the Road Will He Sol It is stated teday on good authority that the conference yesterday between the At- terney General and the reorganizat‘o. com- mittee of the Union Pacific rai'road was not sought by the members of the reor- Banizaticn committee, at the head of which was Chauncey M. Depew, for the purpose of having changes of their owm made in the recent decree for the fore- clesure ef the first and second mortgages of the road. The Attorney General himself has had under consideration for some time the avestion of appealing from the decree or- dered at Omaha. He has come to no de- cision in the matter, simply having it un- der consideration. Being aware of this, anization committee, which is e Satisfied with the decree, came onfer with the Attorney General. tever is aecided on, it is thought to be only a matter of time when a final decree will be entered and the read order- ed sold. Unless there are higher bidders, fic will go to the combina- anteed to the government », which incluies more than $17,000,000 sinking fund in the treas- ury. The guarantee deposited with the goverpment under the. Cleveland admin- istration holds good under this, and tho present administration, it is understood, is | willing to carry out the agreements then entered into. ———_—_—_-.+_____ Lacked One of Quorum, 5 A meeting of the local executive commit- tee of the National Educational Associa- tion was calledfor this afternoon at the board of trade rooms for the purpose of hearing the report of Mr. Thos. W. Smith, chairman of the finance committee. The gathering lacked one of a quorum, how- ever, and no business-was transacted, the meeting going over until next Saturday. BONA-FIDE CIRCULATION. A reference to the statement be- low wilt.show—that the clreulation j sworn to is a bona fide one It 1s easily possible for = news- paper with an elastic conscienee to swell its legitimate circulation ener- mously, in order to deceive adver- tisers, by sending out thousands of 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 circulation of The Star is many thousands in excess of any other Washington paper. Circulation of The “Evening Star.” SATURDAY, August 31, 1997. 32,472 MONDAY, August 23, 1897.. 26,258 TUESDAY, August 24, 1997... WEDNESDAY, August.25, 1997. THURSDAY, August 26, 1897. FRIDAY, August 27, 1897... 26,277 -26,107 Daily average... I solemnly swear that the above statement rep- resents only the number of copies of THE EVEN- ING STAR circulated during the six secular days ending Friday, August 27, 1897—that 1s, the num- ber of copies actually sold, delivered, furnish- ed or mailed, for vaiuable consideration, to bona fide purchasers or subscribers, and that none of the copies so counted are returnable to or remain in the office unsold. J. WHIT. HERRON, Cashier Evening Star Newspaper Co. Subscribed and sworn to before me this twenty-eighth day of Angust, A. D. 1897. ALBERT E. SHOEMAKER, Notary Public. D. C. Resolutions Adopted at the Executive Ses- sion G. A. R. Yesterday. New Officers Installed—Commander- in-Chief Gobin to Make Three Salaried Appointments. BUFFALO, N. Y., August 28.—Among other business transacted in the executive session of the Grand Army of the Republic encampment -yesterday was the following: A resolution was adopted, urging the government to enforce the law relative to the employment on government work of soltiers who were wounded during the war and recommending all citizens who have oceasion to give employment to dis- criminate, wherever possible, in favor of such veterans. The committee. reported in favor of urg- ing Congress to pass a bill setting apart 640 acres of timber land In Indian Terr!- tory. for-the use of the inmates of the Soldiers’ Home at Oklahoma. The report adopted. The communication from the Lincoln Monument Association of California, rec- ommending that. monuments to Lincoln be erected in every city in the land, was indorsed and the National Mgnument As- sociation will be asked to take favorable action. BUG 5 The committee reported favorably on the request of prominent southern men, in- cluding the governor of “South “Carolina, that the encampment urge the passage of the bill in Congress, appropriating money to build a sanitarium on the site of Castle Pinckney in Charleston harbor, as a me- morial to Major Anderson of Fort Sumter fame. The encampment indorsed the re- port. A resolution was adopted thanking the common council and the Young Men's Business Associaticn of Richmond for the invitation to the encampment to visit that city in 1898, and recommending that the next encampment take favorable action. Resolutions indorsing the acts of the out- going administration, the introduction of military instruction in the public schools and urging the reduction of expenses in the encampment were adopted. An invitation was read from the mayor and con-mon council of Toronto asking the encampment to visit that city. The com- mander-in-chief was instructed to tele- graph the thanks of the encampment, and its regret at finding it impossible to accept the invitation. The new officers were installed by Gen- eral Wagner of Pennsylvania, the oldest surviving ex-commander-in-chief. Commander-in-Chief Gobin has three ap- Pointments to make, quartermaster gen- eral, adjutant general and inspector gen- eral. The first two are salaried offices, the position of quartermaster general paying $1,500 a year. General Gobin will not make these appointments for several days. Before adjourning the encampment ex- pressed its great appreciation of the liber- ality of the municipal authorities and citi- zens of Buffalo in entertaining the mem- bers of the G: A. R. and their friends. = ate NOVEL FIRE EXTINGUISHER. Test of New Method at Capitol Base é Ball Park. A large crowd of interested spectators witnessed a novel exhibition at the old Capitol Base Ball Park last night. It was a test of the Monarch fire extinguisher, made by the Howard Manufacturing Com- pany of Springfield,.Mass. The extinguish- er differs materialiy from other so-called extinguishers in that the material used for quenching the flames is a dry powder. The exhibition took place in the center of the large field. A huge box, about 12 feet high and 8 feet wide, was thoroughly sat- rated with gas tar and gasoline and set afire. One of the representatives of the company advanced, and, throwing some of the powder into ‘the flames, suppressed them. It is claimed for the ‘extinguisher that by its use a gus is produced which Erevents flames. A large representation of the fire department was present, and they expressed themselves as highl: I with the exhibition. Hone Ne —_——__ UNION VETERAN LEGION. Local Delegates Chosen to National Encampment at Columbus. The twelfth national encampment of the Union Veteran Legion will be held at Co- lumbus, Ohio, September 21 to 24. The citizens of Columbus have prepared a very attractive program of entertainment for the coming occasion. x The Society of the Army of the Cum- berland will also hold its annuai meeting at the same place and dates, making Ohio's capital doubly attractive to the veterans. At its regular assembly Thursday even- ing Encantpment No. 23, Union Veteran Legion, of this city elected the following named delegates and alternates: L B. Thatcher, O. D. ‘Thatcher, S. R. Whitney, Ira Brashears and W. H. H. Price, dele- gates, and Cyrus Bussey, H. R. Tappan, T. T. Whitcomb, Jacob Persinger and T. Spencer, alternates. The last colonels who are -perpetual delegates are G. C. Kniffin, F. White, A. | Geddes, J. T. Bredy and B. W. Bonney, the latter the present colonel. The repre- sentation from this encampment num! ten. fea? The P ivania railroad. has made spe- cial rates: one fare for the round trip, and quitg a large attendance from Wash- ington is anticipated, Encampments Nos. 60 and /111 sending each their quota, and —— others expecting to make this rip. 3 ¥ ———__ “Baltimore and return Sunday, Aug. 29, via Penna. R. R, round trip, Annual Report on St. Elizabeth's Asylum. ; : MENACED Only a Small Proportion of Inmates ‘Want to Escape. NEED OF A NEW CHAPEL The Secretary of the Interior has received the forty-second annual report of the board of visitors of the government hospital for the insane, which contains much interest- ing data’relating to the condition and needs of that institution. The unhealthful con- dition cf the hospital site, caused by the Anacostia flats, is presented with great force. and the necessity of getting rid of these malaria-breeding flats is strongly urged. Other needs of the institution are suggested. The report shows that there were 1,735 patients in the hospital June 30, 1896, 1,330 of whom were males and 405 females. There were admitted during the last fiscal year 289 male and 88 female patients; so that curing the year there were under treatment 2,112 patients. During the year patients were discharged as follows: Recovered, 63 males, 16 fe- Taales; improved, 50 males, 44 females; un- improved, 5 males; not insane, 4 males, 1 female There were deaths of males and 32 females. There were in the institu- tion June 30, 1897, 1,367 males and 400 females. After referring to the low death rate, only seven and two-thirds per cent of the whole number vnder treatment, the report says: Fatal Effects of the Flats. “This is a lower rate than has been re- corded here for a number of years, and we can harély hope for its continuance, since there is as yet no appreciable dimi- nution, rather an ircrease, in the num- ber of old and feeble men received,.from the National Home for Disabled Vulun- teer Soldiers, while the Eastern branch of the Potomac as a source of malarial disease remeins unchanged. We are aware that the latter is not a new topic, that this is the fourth successive annual re- port in which the attention of Congress has been called to the necessity for efi- cient work and decisive action for the re- moval of a nuisance that menaces’ the health of a whole community.” After speaking of the Potomac flats im- provement west of the city, the report says: “But what evails all this to the health of Washington, save in some favored locali- ties, when the whole south front and eestern boundary of the city lie naked and epen to all the deadly emanations from the far-reachirg marshes of the Anacos- tia, that with their stagnant pools lie festering in the summer sun? As if to make matters worse, some years since in the progress of the work of reclaiming the Potomac’s shores the mud scows dumped enough of the debris from the channel along the St. Elizabeth shore of the Ana- costia to cut off the current’in the swash channel, so that the tide in its ebb and flow no longer cleanses the stagnant. shai- lows with their lethal burden. A mastefly inactivity has since settled down over ail this government effort to reclaim the Eastern branch. The eternal processes of nature are still at work bringing down and depositing the silt from Bladensburg, looking to the making of a continent; but nature builds up her stratas of inorganic life through the slow lapse of ages, while a whole generation of the spores of a quo- tidian fever mature #n a single summer's day. “At the hospital the different forms of intermittent fever have more than doubled since the pernicious intermeddling of the government in an abortive attempt to make the flats fill themselves. Today the ma- larial germ causes more sickness among our inmates and employes than~all other scurees put together. “Inasmuch as ye did it not unto,one of the least of these’ has been indefinitely postponed.” _ Progress in Other Respects. The report says that in other. respects there has been a material ‘progress at the institution during the year. The separate provision for the epileptic insane has now been in operation long enough to demon- strate its superiority over the former pro- miscuous arrangements. As yet no distinct provision has been made for the colored males, but it is the intention to provide dormitory for them in the extension to the West Lodge, for which an appropriation is asked in the estimates for the coming year. Especial attention ts called to the method now being pursued at St. Elizabeth's of having broad piazzas about hospital build- ings, which allows the infirm to be taken into the open air, much to their benefit. Most Prefer to Remain, Speaking of the practice of restraining patients, the report says: “Perhaps one man in ten in a hospital wants to run away, and should, for his own: good and that of the community, be- kept by all proper precautions from go. do- ing. But why should his infirmity make close prisoners of all the rest? There aré men and women whom you could hardly drive away from St. Elizabeth. They have lived here for years; they have found in it a shelter cut of the worid’s storm; it has been to their distracted lives, as it should be, a home. Of the fifty men in Atkins Hall, workirg by day, who thinks cf the open window as an avenue -of escape at night? Has he not all the daytime to run away in if he chooses? Accordingly he uses the window at night to let in air, not to let himself out. The contented laborer at Godding Creft, where each can sit un- der vines of his own planting, if not under his own fig tree, is he, so long as he can exercise any reason, going away from this which has come tobe his farm, his dwell- ing, the surroundings of his life, that make at last for that little colony’ their world, where they can truly say ‘it is good for us to be kere?” Estimates for the Next Year. The following estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, are submitted: For current expenses, $379,000; general repairs and improvements, $15,000. Buildings and grounds, viz.: Brick sewer to the river, 5,000; dormitory addition to west lodge, 36, chapel building, $25,000; appropria- tion, $5,000; furniture and heating appar- atus for pavilion, $6,000; new machinery for laundry, including boiler, $3,500; refitting old laundry as a shop and dormitory, 31,250; 200-florsepower tubular steam boiler "for power house, $2,000; increasing water s: ply at Godding Croft, $750. Total, $434,230. ‘The basis of estimate is an annual per cap- ita cost of $220 for an (estimated) average number of 1,725 of the above classes. The sum of $15,000 is needed for the con- struction of a cement and brick sewer of sufficient capacity to carry thes sewerage from the buildings and the hospital plateau to a point on the river at the foot of the grounds below the tide level, the distance being about one-half mile. Need of a Chapel, Of the need of a large chapel for the institution the report says: “It would seem that the time had fully come to ask for a distinct chapel, where both inmates and employes of St. Eliza- beth, together numbering upward of two thousand, can have the opportunity to-at- tend religious services in a place set apart for that purpose. The present situation is this: An assembly room, so called, does @uty by turns as a place of amusement, a concert room and a dance hall, while on Sunday the platform is cleared of the prop- erties of the stage to make room for the sacred desk. The board of visitors have felt for some time that this incongruity should cease, that the sanctity of the re- gious rights of the insane should be re- spected, and, since in the constantly: fi creasing number of the inmates the seat- ing capacity of the assembly .room has been long outgrown, a chapel building de- voted exclusively to purposes of BY ANACOSTIA FLATS] ‘Wednesday morning the oyster seasonyg of 1887-8 will open. During the past few .weeks the boats from down the river have been bringing thou- sands Of'watermelons and Canteloupes from the farms long the Potomac, Coan, Wicomico, Sf. Mary's and Yeocomico rivers, as well as from the numerous creeks betvéen here and Point Lookout. But now that the fruit season is almost over the owners are gétting their boats in, condition for. the oyster season. It is necessary eyery year to make some re- Peirs, even if-a coat-pf paint is: not siven, but the more prosperous oystermen never fail to put on a thick coat of paint. St. George's Island is a favorite place for the boatmen to ‘haul up for repairs, for here they can .get in St? Mary's or St. Georze’s river, where they are well protected from the weather, ‘Then, too, the river steamers all stop there, and tt is an easy matter for the captains to-get supplies of material from the city. Down the river, as well as about “‘fish- town,” every than who runs:on a boat is known as “captain,” no. matter what. post- tion ‘he holds." The fact that he !s a culler or a sculler.. makes. no- difference, so ‘ar as the title ts concerned, and the man who falls t6 address him as sich may expect to pay for hts bivalves a price in advance of the regular market quotation. Summer Oysters, During the summer months, when many oysters are taken from the river, it is stated, In violation of law, they are shipped here on the river steamers instead of being brought in sloops and pungies. This is done for the reason that they must be moved with as little delay as possible in order to get them here in good condition and also for the reason that they are not brought in large quantities. Oysters from the notth are brought to Washington on the steam railroads, and they are sold bythe hundred, while the river and bay oysters are sold by the bushel all the year round. The dealers will soon make their improvements about the oyster wharf in order to be ready to handle the supplies brought here early in the season. The shuckers will also have their knives ready to go to work. There are. scores of men who do nothing in winter except to shuck oysters at the wharf, and the man who is an expert earns money enough to sup- port himself and family, and has some to put aside for “the rainy’ season,” which in his case is the warm weather period. Many of these shuckers live down the river and only come here during the oys- ter season to work. Some of them are already here, anticipating an early open- img of the season, and their appearance, the oystermen say, is indicative of what may be expected. The arrivals of oysters from down the river have averaged a little more than a hundred bushels a' week for the hot weath- er, but as September, the first fall month with an‘‘¥” in ft/ approaches the receipts increase, During the past two weeks the receipts Showed ‘that double the quantity avera in the {bt weather had arrived, more that two Hundred bushels being re- ceived. About thé’ river front, as well as among the deaftrs throughout the city, the opinjbn is exfiressed that this is to be the best season experienced in many years. The oystérs wert in good chhdition all summer, they. say, and even now they are in betteg” condition than they sometimes 4re-much, Jater ip the season. Next month’s trade will"depend-_entirely upon the weath- er conditjgns,. ani thé Fahge of the ther- mometer, will de thé men who do the hardest part of i work. What they want is a cooi,spell early In the month to im- proye thé conditign of the bivalves, and ulso to create a demand for them., Should the weather remain, warm, howeyer,. the opening pf ihe, season will be, backward, and trade will’ net improve, much. before the middlé of the month, the.dealers say. Beginning bt Diedgers’ Season. ‘The dredgers wilf not begin. operations until tho’ ‘middle of October, and after this time trade wi pick:up considerably: The big canneries! will not’‘open up until the dreiger¥ have hauled oysters ehough from the river to give the market a good, big supply. About the restaurants the oyster bars are being put in their places, many of the keepers always desiring to open their raw boxes the first.day of the R month. There are some few restaurants in which oysters are handled twelve months in the year, so that with them the opening of the season brings no changes. “The prospects for a good season are unusually bright this year,”. said Mr. J. H., Hogan, who has been in the oyster business for a number of years. “Northern oysters are already in excellent shape, the Keyports being received filling the shells. Most of the northern stock now being re- ceived is fatter and in better condition than many oystérs are in the winter time. “A few bay oysters are coming in, and, while they are in good condition for this ~season, they are still a little thin. This is generally the case soon after the spawning son. “Blue Points are in fine condition, and the outtook for them was never more prom- ising. Northern oysters generally are bet- ter this season than I have ever before seen, them at this time of the year. “Lynnhaven oysters will not come into the market until the latter part of Sep- tember; they are not taken from the water until then. The Perennial Clam. “Clams and crabs,” he said, “are now to be had twelve months in the year, but this trade does not interfere with the sale of oysters. Soft crabs will be in marXet until about the 1st of October.” _ The prices of oysters this year, Mr. Hogan said, will be about the same as last year, so far as he is able to judge. Reports from the Chesapeake and lower Potomac are all favorable to a good. yield, and at present there is nothing to indicate an in- crease in price. © Mr. Edward Weser, a dealer with years or experience, 1s certain that the coming oyster crop is going to be an. excellent one, unless something develops during the next few weeks to upset all calculations. This, summer, he says, the Potomac oysters have been in fine condition, because of the late spring, the cool weather keeping them fat. Potomac oysters, he said, have been relied upon to a large extent for the summer trade, and there was no reason for com- plaint on the score of condition. At this season of the year, Mr. Weser says, the oysters from northern waters are depended upon, especially for‘the fancy trade, be- cause they, get far so much eartier., During .the su r months the demand for oysters, Is not great, so that the supply is ample apd the Potomac oysters com quantities large epough t> fill most orders. While the,fall seagon begins on the Ist of September? the trade is guided entirely by the wea The. big demand will E first, come with the first spell of cool weather. Then people feel re like eating oysters, and the and also increased for the reason that hundteds of pecple are driven bome. Advices“ -Shippers,.Mr. Weser said, all indicate a p) epee season and plenty of good oysters. ing the first month of the oyster period, ’especially if the weather is warm, the Sales 6f crabs and clams af- fects the 6yster tide, but not to any ex- tent when there is'a change in the weather. a® Major Ell L. Huggins, thee months, with per- lon. to..ge -heyond- sea; Lieut. James Hamilton, a4 Artillery, for ‘ay sctasame® account of. disability; Lieut. Chas: -F.Crain, 19th Infantry. one. month's extension; MORGAN SYNDICATE'S GREAT Importance of a Coming Legal Battle in Baltimore. THE INTERESTS AT STAKE It ts no longer a secret among those who have kept abreast of the movements which have recently taken place in the financial world that a formidable legal battle for the control of the Baltimore and Ohio rail- road is impending, and will in all proba- bility be made manifest in the near future. It is understood that the question at is- sue is not whether Receivers Cowen and Murray shall be continued in the active management of the great property which was placed in their hands about eighteen months ago, by order of the United States court at Baltimore; it is whether those who have invested their money in the bonds and securities of the road are to save anything out of the wreck which has overtaken the Baltimore and Ohio com- pany, or if the holdings of the original owners are to pass into the hands of New York and foreign parties, who have only become interested in the B. and O. during the last few years, and this mainly as a matter for speculation. So far as Receivers Cowen and Murray are concerned, no one who knows what the road and its equipments were when they took complete charge, early in 1893, can find other than words of praise. Mr. Murray, who has had the immediate con- trol of the physical operations of the road and the extension of its business, it is c ceded on all sides, has accomplished won- ders. Less than fifteen months ago he had on his hands thousands of broken-down cars and hundreds of engines, with which these previously in control had insisted the carrying traffic must be conducted, and with which it was impossible to handle even the limited amount of business then seeking an outlet through its channels. At that time it was also commoniy accept- ed among railroad men that the only good piece of road owned by the Baltimore and Ohio was that portion of its system be- tween Washington and Philadeiphia. The Changes in View. But this has all been changed, and before the expiration of another month almost the entire line between this city and the Ohio river will have been relaid with heavy steel rails of the latest and most improved patterns. Other great improvements have also been made; new and powerful engines and the hest models of passenger cars have been put into service; new stations have been built and extensions made in every direc- tion, so that for all practical purposes the Baltimore and Ohio railroad is a_transcon- tirental line, extending from New York, through the Reading and Jersey Central, to the Pacific coast, and from Lakes Michigan and Erie on the north to the pr:ncipal ports on the south Atlantic coast and on the Gulf of Mexico, reaching those cities via the Southern railway and lines over which the Southern Railway Company, it is generally understood, wields a most powerful influ- ence. While Mr. Murray has been able to ac- complish so much of benefit to the B. and ©., it should not be forgotten that Mr. Cowen has not been idle. To him has fall- en the almost herculean task of looking after the finances of the road and its nu- merous legal complications, and if he has not been able in every instance to keep the company from defaulting on its interest obligations, he has, it is well known, done all fn his power to bring about a different result. 1. portance of the Road. ‘The Baltimore and Ohio railroad is the che great property needed by the house of J. P. Morgan & Co. to give that powerful concern the practical control of the rail- way transportation of the United States. It is not likely that there will ever be an actual consolidation, at least so far as the public will be permitted to know, of the Southern, B. and O., Reading,. Jersey Central, Lehigh Valley and numerous other companies, all now, with the exception of the B. and O., in the hands of Mr. Morgan; but when it is considered that the Morgan syndicate is also largely interested, either as a bondholder or the representative of other interests, in the New York Central, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, West Shore, Northern Pacific, Wisconsin Central and almost every other important line in the country, with the possible exception of the Pennsylvania, it can be readily seen that his wishes in regard to rates to be charged for transportation between all points other than those on the opposition lne would be taken as law, while they would meet with much respect from even those who are competitors in the same line of business. The impending battle, as above indicated, is one between giants in the banking world. On the one side is the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., backed by unlimited capital, all of which, it is said, can be brought into use, if necessary, and allted with them are the Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company, Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Balti- more, also the Johns Hopkins University and many private holders of B. and O. stock, which in the aggregate amounts to many millions of dollars. It is also un- derstood that Major Alexander Shaw cf Baltimore, who at the time the roa§ went under the receivership, and for several years before, was chairman of the finance committee, has met with much success since he went to London a few months ago on that errand of convincing numerous for- eign bondholders that their interests will be better cared for if placed in the hands of Mr. Morgan than if a different course should be adopted by them. The Other Side. Opposed to Mr. Morgan and those allied with him are the members of what is known as the New York reorganization committee of the Baltimore and Ohio Rall- road Company, whose most prominent rep- resentatives are Gen. Louis Fitzgerald, president of the Mercantile Trust Com- pany of New York; Speyer & Co. and sev- eral other large banking houses in the big metropolis, and it is the New York com- Mittee which has directed the financial operations of the B. and O. since the ap- pointment of the receivers. For some time after the New Yorkers last mentioneé secured control of the read they paid promptly all interest as it came due, but during the past six months there has been a manifestation of “weariness” in this particular, and default has been made on a number of the bonds of the road which for years had been regarded as gilt- edged securities. The reason given for the default was that the lines upon which the bonds had been issued had not earned their fixed charges. The result of the two suits, one of which will be heard at Baltimore next month, is expected to determine the fate of the Bal- timore and Ohio financially, and on this point a high authority on Baltimore and Ohio affairs today said to a Star reporter: “The‘suit t» be heard before Judges Goff ; FINANCE AND: TRADE Stock Market Conditions Show an Improvement Over Last Week. ——e—__—. OMAHA THE FEATURE TODAY are be equally as confident that the nota gg eee with the pro! be reached, which is not —_— considering the immense amount “The holders of the B. and O. 5's of 1925 sul contest and suit. The worable ‘oreign Sentiment - of oo Paik ee bonds, and _ . > << as are jent upon contracts of t B. and O. company, in the shape of rentals, flected by London Cables. leases, etc.. and the unfortunate preferred and common share holders, have also a deen concern in the outcome of this suit. “The other suit referred to is one in which the trustees of the Chicago division mort- gage, Messrs. Coster and Brown, petitioned the court for permission to sue in the courts of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio for separate receivers for the Chicago division. The petitioners are Messrs. Charles H. Coster of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. of New — ps J. Willcox Brown of Baltimore, “two of the trustees under the mortgage. This mortgage is for about $8,000,000, duc June 1, 1927, and upon which payment in interest was defaulted June 1. ‘Trastces Under Mortgage. “The loan is secured by the first mort- gage bonds of the Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago Railway Company. These bonds are held by Mr. Coster of New York and Messrs. Brown and Bond of Baltimore, who were appointed trustees of the mortgage in June, 1896, in the place of E. T. Fabbri, Geceased, and Messrs. Robert Garrett and William F. Burns, who had relinquished the trust. “Judges Goff and Morris granted the pe- "tition of the trustees of this mortgage a euthorized them to bring suit in the wes! ern courts for separate receivers, but with the understanding that the present receiv ers of the Baltimore and Ohio company w: not be made parties to any of said suits, and that any separate receivers, if appoint. ed, shall not attempt to take possession of the property until after application shall have been made to the United States court at Baltimore. So far as known, the trustees have not as yet entered suit in any of the Western courts, and it is presumed they Will not do so for the present.” TURNED OVER TO The Three Famous Plates for Co terfeiting $1,000 “Seven Thirties.” The three plates from which the famous $1,000 7-30 counterfeit bonds were made GENERAL MARKET REPORTS + Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, August 28.—Stock market conditions continue to inspire confidence in further improvement. There is no pressure to sell and commisston house activity is al- most solely in the interest of higher prices. Reports from all sections of the country and from nearly all of the larger industries reflect steady improvement in the business world. Wheat prices again harmonize with re- liable crop estimates, and freight tonnage is certain to exceed record proportions. The Burlington system has already made records for freight delivered during the week, which have never been equaled in the mstory of the road. This fact ts sig- nificant, and foreshadows frequent duplica- tion in the néar ftiture ‘througtieut the en- tire grain-growing territory, The foture prospects ef these shares are already in process of being discounted. By comparison with the final figures one week ago the granger roads reflect advances varying from 2 to’ per cent. Rock i has led in this improvement as the result of able market management, increased @ividend prospects and the un- Warranted discrepancy between its selling price and that of its neighbors. St. Paul has been given excellent support during the week. but enthusiasm has been lers conspicuous than in either Burlington or Rock Island. All three issues, however, sold this morning at the best prices re- corded in the present market movement At the new level the buying had increased rather than decreased in confidence. The feature of the day n advance of more than 3 per cent in Omaha. This stock has, until recently, been neglected, but its improving merit has been almost general conceded. While the adoption of tne read as a member of the Vanderailt group has never been publicly acknowledged, its in- timate relatiens with Northwest make the repeated denials of its asscciation ridic- vious. The road bas merit of its own, however, and will undoubtealy so acquit itself in the future as to fully justify Van- derbi!t indorsement of its managem: The road is properly a granger, and w reflect the crop movements to a consider- able degree. The Reading issues and the so-called Morgan properties are being forced solely to the front. The preferred stocks of re- cently reorganized roads are being bought from time to time for purposes of igsignifi- cant marke: demorstration about the time the crop movement is at its height. As a condition precedent to this action, foreign interests have been made parties to CHIEF HAZEN. of plates, rolls, etc., of the bureau of graving and printing to the office of the se- cret service of the treasury. It has never been understood why these plates, cap- tured in 1881, were sent to the bureau. They have the word “counterfeit” stamped on them in such a way that they can never be used again. lt is customary for such articles to go to the secret service, and there has never been an instance of counterfeit plates being kept at the bureau. There is a tradition that government officials always had some doubt as to whether the plates were gen- uine or counterfeit. These, as stated some time ago in The Star, were the finest plates ever turned out by counterfeiters. The bills made from them were so nearly perfect as to deceive all officials, and the spuriousness of the notes were detected purely by accident. The counterfeiters. succeeded in realizing $87,000, the loss of which fell on the bank- ers ‘who took them up. This was decided after long contests in the court. The notes} jn Ymderteking, « sg Sgn gn ogre Were detected in the treasury after they | Kt 4 had passed through the hands of sub- : Foreign sentiment has changed London cables for the ‘better during the week and the short account abroad will be made an object of concerted attatk uniess its liqul- dation is hurried. Prices at the close of today’s business flect the generally expressed confide in large increases in earnings during t coming week. The weekly bank statement shows a crease of $234.350 in -reserve holdin. bringing the total surplus down to $39,517 700. Lawful money holdings are practically unchanged, and from this fact it is in- ferred that money is going into the interior on account of the crop movement. The volume of funds required for this purpose should increase from. now on until ‘late in the fall. An increase of 6.200 in treasurers and the main treasurer. The courts décided that the government did not lese unless the notes had gone through the full machinery of the treasury before being detected. : —-e-—_____ HENDERSON'S LEG AMPUTATED. Distinguished Representative From Iowa Withstands Successful Operation Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. DUBUQUE, Iowa, August 28.—Col. David B. Henderson, representative in Congress from this district, had his left leg ampu- tated at the knee at 11 o'clock this morn- ing in this city. ‘The operation was successful in every way, and his surgeon says that Col. Hen-| loans reflects the Joans made for stock derson will recover in a short time. If it operations, as previously noted,“and a heals, Col: Henderson will obtain complete | growing commercial demand. relief from the trouble resulting from his PETES old army wound. FINANCIAL A} ——— MILES MEETS EMPEROR WILLIAM. 'D COMMERCIAL, The following are the opening, the high- est and the lowest and the closing prices of the New York stock market today, as re- ported by Corson & Macartney, members New York stock exchange. Correspondents, Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 80 Broadway. . Low. Close The American General Witnesses the Parade at Tempelhof. BERLIN, August 28.—There was a par- ade of the Berlin garrison on the Tempel- hof field today before Emperor William. There was a host of notables present, among them being Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. 8. A., who arrived here from Russia yesterday. Gen. Miles was presented to his majesty during today’s parade, and the emperor ne @ few polite words to the American officer. American Spirits... American Spirits, pd. American Sugar. American Sugar, pfd. American Tobacco, American Cotton Oil Atchison ......... Baltimore & Omo. Hay State Gas. . Canada Southern ——.___ For Shooting Reed Birds. Dr. Edward Barsboro, who gave the name of Thos. Brown, was in the Police Court today charged with shooting reed birds out of season. Officers Sandford, Muller and Burrows ard Harbor Master Sutton were witnesses, and stated that they found a dozen reed birds in a can right where the defendant had been shooting a few min- utes before, on the marsh back of the jail early this morning. “I had orly killed seven of the birds,” said %>r. Barstow, “and I don’t want to pay for v-hat the other man killed.” The five remaining birds, he told :he of- ficers, were killed by Sam Stansbury, who could be found at No. 654 Massachusetts avenue northeast. Stansbury, he said, had given him five of the birds to put in what he called a “joint pot.” An information charging “Thomas Brown” with having the twelve birds in his possession was filed, and the case went cver until Thursday. It is the intention cf the police to swear out a warrant for Stansbury and have both cases tried at the same time. Den. & Rio Grande, pia Erie... Generai Biectrre. linois Centra! Michigan Central. Missouri Pacitic. —— Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE, Md., August 28.—Flour dull, un- changed—receipts, 8,364 barrels exports, none; 300 barrels. Wheat_weak. Hs Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—regular call—I2 o'clock m. Linotype, 35 at 122, seller 10, call—Lanston Monotype, 100 at At 16%, 100 at 16%. District of Columbia Bonds.—20-year Fund, 5a, Joli bid. 30-year Pand. guld Gs, 113% bid. Water curreacy 7s, 1901, 113% bid; do., 1907, 113% Fand. currency, 3:ts, 111 bid, 114 ‘asked. 100 tember, 3414034 Baia; steamer mized 31%a32—reecipts, 202,503, bushels; exports, $4,637 bushels; stock, 1,417,402 bushels; sales, 21,000 bushel thern white and yellow ‘corn, 38," Oats quiet and steady—No. 2 white western, 24a25; No. 2 mixed do., 21a32re- ceipts, 7,279 bushels: none; stock, 162,011 bushels. “Rye easler—No. 2 nearby, S232: No. 2 Pronth, 4% 10 at 1: 16, 100 western, 53, sales—receipts, 7, none: stock, 68,953 bushels. Hay ter grades—choice timothy, $13.50a814. Grain | "MieSiizients po Pe hy rer : : do. imitat Adal; do. ladle, Wat2; goed ladle, “Tall: store Wer ie! sae Side iad Gy ‘New "Yor ; do., 37, medium, Toxalt; do. 2, salt, T1seeTSS Whisky Government Bonds, Eve, ae Fel ed ? i fl Ey E - Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., bankers pa gp “wana gonad members New York correspondents Messrs. Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., New York. oak en GRAIN. I } i et tu #5 ey jt B Pere a i F i ; } i i wl £ os E i I ' ‘ if seal