Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1897, Page 11

dl THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1897-12 TO ATTRACT CLIENTS Arguing on the Methods Employed by Wedderburn & Co. RESUMPTION OF PROCEEDINGS —>——___ Hearing Before the Assistant Patent Commissioner. SUBMISSION OF BRIEFS ges After an interval of two weeks, proceed- ings in the case of John Weiderburn & Co., required to show cause why they should not be disbarred from practice, were resumed before the assistant commissioner of patents this morning in the form of arguments by counsel on both sides. The commissioner's room was crowded at 10 o'clock. Commissioner Butterworth remained to hear the arguments. There were present Assistant Commissioner Greeley, Messrs. Stauffer and Winter, counsel for the government; Messrs. Doo- little, Fisher and Small; and Judge Wilson and Mr. Ford, counsel for the respondents, and Mr. Bond of Wedderburn & Co. Ex- Commissioner Marble was among the spec- taters. Upon the resumption of the investiga- tion Judge Wilson said he would need one day for his argument, Mr. Ford thought he could get through his argument in half a gay, Mr. Small wanted three hours and Mr. Stauffer said he could review iis brief in half an hour. Chas. C. Stauffer and F. W. Winter, counsel for the government, then pre- sented their brief in support of the order of the commissioner for the respondent to show cause. It covered the case in a most thorough manner, being embodied in a briet of seventy-seven pages. Mr. Stauffer reviewed the arguments contained in his brief. While Mr. Stauffer was reviewing his brief a tall form of a muscular-looking man in a light suit of clothes appeared in the doorwa Prominently displayed on the lapel of the man’s coat was one of the Wedderburn silver medals. He listened to the argument awhile and then came into the room and sat down, the eyes of all being riveted on his medal, while there Was an effort to suppress the amuse- ment that apparent generally. The Government's Charge. A summary of the evidence by counsel for the government follows: “On behalf of the government it is claim- ed that ft has been proved and is admitted that improper searches were frequently made and were made either with deliberate intention, or arose from inexcusable neg- ligence; that misleading and deceptive re- ports of many preliminary searches were sent on to clients; that the respondent pub- lished false and improper advertisements; that in many cases an overcharge of $5 or $10) was made md the money not refunded; that deceptive pamphlets or cir- culars, particularly those entitled New De- parture and Prizes on Patents, were used as aids in spreading the respondents’ busi- ne that false and greatly exaggerated valuations were placed upon apparently worthless inventions by the respondents in order to induce their clients to proceed with the prosecution of domestic or for- ¢ign applications or the attempted sale of inventions: that clients were in many cases induced to take appeals when cases Were finally rejected by a primary exam- iner, to the board of examiners in chief, when the respondents knew, or should hav. known, that the inventions so appealed were totally lacking in patentable novelty; that though the respondents obtained valu- able consideration for prosecuting such ap- s many Cases they failed to prose- them in any proper or professional that while the business was ob- ty John Wedderburn & Co., the ution of cases in the office was done me of John Wedderburn, and that sion of rule 18 of the rules of pr: that in many s after an application for an unpatent invention had been filed and reject. y the office, a second application as filed by John W r the same invention dderburn, whe he should have patentable; that in many es clients been induced to apply mats in foreign count upon in- unpatentable when in their opinion, we musual care; that sub m has proved that most exact! equent inv their opinion although in a n found to exist. A Grave Charge. Iso admitted or proved that the have been guilty of unprofé sional practice in nding applications be- fore th ontrary to.rule wri ‘ants prior to the ex- H alt by them number of ned and sold each week; that juced clients to file many ap- tions for inventions which, though pat- it have so small a margin of Di ¥ 48 not to have warranted them, e h sound p: ional echics,to ised their cl stoapply for such , although the d in fact so advise y sull further deceived ading statement of r of an $1.8) prize, whereas in fact mo such prize was ever offered; and finally , by means of silver medals, which ppears were sent out in all cases in 2 the invention was considered pat- and in many in which it was not ered, sought to mislead and did ignerant clients as to the value heir invention: accor have a cases in whieh testimony was taken reviewed to show fraudul t of the attorneys. It was that respondent had failed to make searches in twenty-five cases, proper searches heing due, it was din the brief, to gress negligence. of Weddervurn & Co. in Ss on inventions was review- rv of the attorneys placing val- inventi« ted, and the ues on “stated in the above letter to $20.0". In none of thing n allowed by the In two cases, that of Slater ted by Bond estimate ef was made. upon inven- lulent and the respon 3 » for ether pur cing inventors to plac hands of the r em money for the pre cution of applications for Smalls Argument. Upon the lesion of Mr. Stauffer's argument, Mr.Wm. Small spoke. He open- by showing inventors as generally lack- ing practical knowledge and needing at- torneys of high abilty and great hohesty to transact their busness. Speaking of the charter of Wedderburn & Co., Mr. Small said there were 100,000 : = se TAN, FRECKLES, AND SUNBURN detract from fine features. The dally use of Wood- bory's Facial Soap. Facial Cream and Facial Pow- ‘taut. “A sample of each of Weodbiry’s Fate tiful. A samy each of W “3 Facial Soap, Facial Cream, Facial Powder and Dental Cream, sufficient for’ three weeks nse, mailed oa receipt of ue. ‘The regular sixe sold everywhere, Fe,, JQHS H WooDBURY, Dermatologist, 127 et Cd si G shares of stock, 90,090 shares being pre- ferred stock and 10,000 shares of common stock. The holders of preferred stock did not participate in the management of the company, while the holders of the common stock had entire control of the company, which, he said, was a reversal of the general plan adopted. He said this 90,000 shares of stock was distributed among 2,500 newspapers in return for advertisements inserted, and Wedderburn & Co., he said, claimed that every one of these news- papers guaranteed their honesty and abil- ity to get patents. Mr. Small read from pamphlets published by Wedderburn & Co. to show their claim that they had the very best facilities for getting patents, while they claimed to ex- ercise every possible care in Icoking after the interests of their clients. “We treat all clients as we would want to be treated,’ said Mr. Small, read- ing from one of the pamphlets. “That is the golden rule,” he said. “Same principle, but a little different form,” remarked the commissioner. Mr. Small spoke of the sending out of silver medals by Wedderburn & Co., say- ing in one of those competitions 500 such medals, worth 20 cents 2ach, had been sent out. The “roll of honor’ of the at- torneys was referred to, as well as the Practice of the firm of having their in- ventors’ biographies published in the Re- corder. “Those,” he said, “are the grappling hooks to haul in the clients.” “Call us an octopus,” suggested Judge Wilson amid laughter. Mr. Small reviewed a number of cases that had been made exhibits in the investi- gation, reading letters that were sent to clients of Wedderburn & Co. Miss Peck’s Letter. When the proceedings were continued at 1 o'clock Mr. Small again took up his argument. He referred to certain adver- tisements of Wedderburn & Co. He spoke especially of the case of Miss Laura A. Peck, whose letter in relation to “swind- ling patent concerns” was read. He said the patent bar owed Miss Peck a debt of gratitude for the work she had done. He said the letter did not refer to Wedderburn & Co., but that company found the cap fitted them and they put it on. They had, he said, acknowledged that they were “the swindling concern” by suing Miss Peck. “You know of the minister who said, ‘If that young lady with the red hair and blue bonnet does not keep quiet, I will point ber out,” remarked the commissioner, amid laughter. Denounced a Confidence Scheme. “Much has been said about trusts and combinations,” said Mr. Small, “which seek to control the necessaries of life, and they are terrible to contemplate. I fear the time will come for an accounting on their part. But here we have a trust or combination which is preying upon ignorant people through fraudulent practice: Their scheme, he said, was a confidence scheme conceived in sin and born in in- iquity. It was for the commissioner to de- termine whether these attorneys were mor- ally culpable. Mr. Small said of course there was a possibility that the respond- ents believed they were guilty of no wrong, but he quoted the world’s great philoso- phers to show that right and wrong are largely matters of education, and that fre- quently right In one age or country be- comes wrong in another age or country, and vice versa. At times vices that are detested today have been regarded as worthy acts in other times and countries. It was possible that Wedderburn & Co., through some kind of argument, thought their acts were right, but that did not change their true character. . Mr. Small said it was to be expected that a great departmert of a popular govern- ment should not be degraded into a “fence” for the receipt cf stolen goods. He spoke of the poor people whose money had been sent to Wedderburn & Co. for applications for patents in inventions that were not patentable and could not see how the chief respondent, a man of handsome appear- ance and cavalier bearing, wearing splen- did apparel, could enjoy money gained as he had gained it. “This,” he said, “was one of the worst ecnfidence games ever conceived. You can’t read one of their letters without seeing in it a purpose of fraud and the working out of a confidence game.” Mr. Small quoted at length Dante’s de- scription of the embodiment of fraud and pictured the respondents as carrying out the spirit of the imps of the lower region. This concluded Mr. Small’s remark: He was followed by Mr. Doolittle, represent- ing the patent law , wn spoke at some length. r. Doolittle referred to the patent office as having been born in the Constitution of the United States, which provided that inventors saould be given exclusive right in their inventions during a_certain term of years. “John Wedderburn never was a pate! attorney in the contemplation of the law, said Mr. Doolittle. “He never did perform the duty of a patent agent.” ‘The patent office, he said, stands between the patent agent and the client. If the authorities of the patent office find that the respondent was guilty of fraud it would be to the fraud if it should continue tions with the agent. It was some- times said that a patent agent must be guilty of embezzlement in order to he held le as an attorney, but he quoted a de- ion of the Department of Justice to show that the authority of the commissioner to prevent fraud went far beyond that. Mr. Doolittle dweit with force on_ the manner of making searches by Wedderburn & Co. He saw that it had been boasted seare s for that firm had made ten or twelve searches a day. When s censidered, he said, that g singie search meant the examination of a couple of hundred or a thousand references it could be seen that so many cases could not be Icoked into thoroughly. No attorney would claim with all their care that their reporis on patentability were conclusive evidence of that fact and the claim that the loose examinations made the respondents were so was a mere Above all he thought the act of derbarn & Co. in advising clients to patents In forcign countries on devices which were rejected by the United States patent office was worse than any of their acts. A difference of opinion might be urged in some cf the cases, but in such cases the application was put in with a full knowledge of the facts, and it was simply stealing the fee from ihe client. Adjourned to Tomorrow. It ‘was 2:30 o'clock when Mr. Doolittle concluded his argument, and Mr. Ford ask- ed that he be allowed to begin his argu- ment tomorrow morning, saying ke thought he could get through by 12 o'clock. Ad- journment was then taken. After Mr. Ford concludes Judge Wilson will be given a day to speak on the charges and evidence. ———e——. ersonal Mention. Dr. G. L. Magruder has just returned from a three weeks’ stay at Wood's Holl, on the Massachusetts coast. Messrs. Edgar Scott and E. R. 8. Em- brey have gone to the home of the latter, near White Sulphur Springs, Va., for a short vacation. Mr. Francis E. Craig and Mr. Thomas A. Renshaw have returned to the city, af- ter a pleasant tour through New England and Canada. Col. Theodore Yates, U. 8. A., retired, is in the city on his way to his home, in Milwaukee. Col. O. M. Wallace of Louisville, Ky., and Mrs. Wallace are stopping at the Vendome, cn their return home after a lengthy stay at Atlantic City. Kev. J. Lewis Hartsock of New York is visiting his parenis, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Hartsock, at their country home, Har- jen Lodge, near Laurel, Md. Clarence E. Dawson, private secretary to Postmaster General Gary, has returned with bis wife and child from Atlantic City, where h» spent a short vacation. He has beea back about a week. Gen. Wilson, chief of engineers, has re- turned from a visit of imspection of the government works et Portland, Me., und along the New England coast. Mr. Edward A. Gay, stenographer of the Secretary of War, has returned from his vacation, part of which was spent at Bluff Point, N. J. ————-e+____ ADMIRAL MILLER’S STAFF. Advices From the Commander of the Pacific Station. The Navy Department has received a re- port from Admiral Miller, at Honolulu, stating that on the 14th instant he relteved Admiral Beardslee of the command of the Pacific station, and hoisted his flag on the Philadelphia. By an order issued on that day he named his staff, as follows: Flag Heutenant, T. S. Rodgers; flag secretary, Phillip Andrews; fleet staff: Medical In-' spector J. C. fleet surgeon; Pay- Coiee Beakine = ‘Ino. Lowe, fleet engineer: no. 5 Capt. O. C. Berryman, marine . SHOOT AT SEA GIRT Washington Riflemen Reach the Bange in Good Shape, — MEET OLD FRIENDS FROM GEORGIA Changes Which Have Been Made in the Distances. STATES IN THE COMPETITIO: —.—____ Spectal From a Staff Correspondent. SEA GIRT, N. J., August 30.—The rifie- men of the District of Columbia National Guard are today engaged in pool shooting. In fact, the prospective competitors from all states that have entered are engaged in the most businesslike preparations for the team competiticns that open tomorrow. Pool shooting is considered the most val- uable form of practice, and the Washing- tonians are taking advantage of every op- portunity in that direction. Some of the in- dividual matches are to be inaugurated late this afternoon. The day is not exactly ideal for shooting, the sky being cloudless and the sun shining brightly. A rather stiff breeze is blowing. Every member of the Washington party is in excellent health, and the indications are that the riflemen from the national capital will give a very good account of themselves during the week. Team Arrives at Sea Girt. After a night end early morning ride that was not at all tedious or attended by any disagreeable features, the Washington party reached Sea Girt early yesterday morning. It required but a few moments to unload baggage boxes of ammunition and bicycles from the train, and then, in accordance with custom, the men in uni- form formed line and marched from the railroad station to camp, a distance of a quarter of a mile. Colonel Luttrell, quar- termaster general of the siaie of New Jersey, was on hand when the train stopped to welcome the riflemen from tne District of Columbia. The, weather was ideal, the rainfall that in the past usually drenched the foiks from the national capi- tal on leaving the train here being prob- ably on a vacation. Captain Harvey of Company C, Engineer Battalion, who has been absent from W: several weeks, arrived at Sea y night, and was also at the depet Saturday morn- = to extend the glad hand to his com- rades. Georgia Heads in View. As the Washingtonians reached the line of tents Sunday, Georgia heads, mostly unkempt, appeared in view and greetings were exchanged. A moment later the cwners of the heads, most airily clad, for- sook their canyas shelter, and hearty handshakes accompanied the renewal of friendships of former years. The baggage Was distributed without delay and tents assigned. Breakfast was then announced, and no one was tardy in reporting for the march to the dining hall. No one, it might be added, was at all bashful in disposing of the heartiest of meals, and then every- body felt better. Immediately after breakfast Capt. Par- menter, the team quartermaster, ordnance officer and adjutant, issued cots, mattress- es, blankets, overcoats, basins, candie- sticks and, in fact, everything necessary in the way of tent furnishings. The camp of the Washington party in a very few minutes was ship shape in every particu- lar and the guardsmen dispersed. Some carefully inspected the ranges, others in- Gulged in a battle with the ‘surf, while many set out for Asbury Park and. the other near-by summer resorts. The bicy- clists lost no time in gettng better ac- quainted with the really excellent roads that are the rule in this locality. Divine service was held Sunday morning on the lawn adjoining the governor's cot. tage by courtesy of Gov. Griggs, who is at Sea Girt to remain throughout the meet. A sermen was preached by Rev. John Kel- ler, captain and chaplain, 1st Regiment, N. G.N. J., on “The Christian Character of Civil Irstitutions of the United States.” The majority of the Washingtonians at- tended the services. Good Nights for Sleeping. Everybody slept well, the night air be- ing cool and refreshing. At an early hour this morping all were actively astir, pre- paring for the first conflict with Jersey's silhouette targets. ‘ When the Washington party marched into camp. the only inhabitants of the tents were the Georgians and a company of sixty-six n from the 13th United States Infantry, stationed at Governor's Island, N. ¥. The latter occupied the con- ical tents in use in the army. These reg- ulars are the athletes of the army, the soldiers who do the scaling of high walls, as has of late been portrayed in the bio- graph pictures exhibited in Washington. ‘Tie company has been in camp at Sea Girt for the past three weeks, indulging in regular target practice, and will depart for Governor's Island in a day or two. The understanding is that it will have a team in the company match tomorrow. ‘The regulars use the new Springfield or so-called Krag-Jorgenson rifle, and have been making good scores, especially in skirmishing. The Georgians are here in larger number than ever before, Captain George T. Cann, who has recently been commissioned as in- spector general of rifle practice for the state of Georgia, explaining to me that the plan is to break in as many novices as possible in order that they may be in condition to take the places of the experts when the latter retire from active work. The Georgia detachment has been at Sea Girt for twelve days, and ought to be in the very finest condition. Capt. Williamson Mystified. Captain Williamson and his team appear to be very much mystified as to where the silhouette targets are to be placed for skir- mishing. They seem to think that the sil- houettes may be placed in position at the 00-yard butts, in front of the old water battery, or at a point between the 200 and 00-yard ranges. The latter position would require the rifleman to do the firing obliquely from the direction of the main roadway. From all indications it is more than likely that the targets will be placed at the 600-yard butts. The District guardsmen learned on reaching Sea Girt that the only other states that will be represented at the meet are New York, New Jersey and Massachu- setts. The latter team, it is understood, will again use the Winchester rifle, in spite of its declared intention last year to discard that make of firearm. As the troops of the Pennsylvania National Guard are this week engaged in official practice the keystone state wil] not send a team to Sea Girt. : In connection with the New Jersey team an interesting announcement is to the ef- fect that “Tommy” Dolan, who last Sep- tember won the championship of America, and Sergeant Corry are to visit Sea Girt this year as alternates. = Several decided changes have been mude in the arrangement of things at the range. All the tents have been moved back one hundred yards. Heretofore the full range was only 600 yards in length. Under the new order of things it is 700 yards. ‘The 1,000-yard targets have been placed just in the rear of the 600-yard targets. The 1,000-: range is now straight in relation to the other distances, instead of diagonal, as was the case in the past. The old 500 and 600-yard ranges have been abandoned. There are now sixteen targets at the 600-yard range. The 200-yard range is now on the right of the grounds instead of on the left. field, the caltber being about forty. It fs constructed along tHe linés suggested by General Spencer in report last fall as inspector general fle of New Jersey, and publishe@ at fhe time in The Star. ar The company matgh be shot to- morrow, the interstate Wednesday, the Hil- ton trophy Thursday’ and’ the Wimbledon cup Saturday. wen The wéfe and sister-indaw of Captain Tomlinson and Miss, MacLeod, daughter of Lieutenant MacLeod, accompanted the Washington party, rid are stopping at As- bury Park. path See : There is little doubt, that Georgia will win the Hilton trophy match. In this connec- ticn Lieutenant @. Young, in charge of the engineer teat said to me: “From a cursory glance at thé scofe book of Cap- tain Williamson, I be4éve that if the En- gineers were permitted to enter the Hilton mateh they would finishY very near the top of the list.” > CFC. SWINDLEDUNCLE SAM Local P. 0. Official Charged With Fraudulently Issuing Money Orders. SHREWD GAME DISCLOSED BY ACCIDENT The Funds Involved Amount to About $2,000. ACCUSED EVADING ARREST F. 8. Coburn, a clerk jn the bookkeeping division of the office of the auditor for the Post Office Department, and manager of the local substation No. 21, at the south- west corner of New York avenue and 9th street, has swindled the government out of probably two or three thousand dollars, it is alleged. He did it by making out money orders in the substation office, which he could do without trouble, and sending them out of town, and then by going to the of- fices upon which the orders were drawn, would get the letters containing. the money orders, present them at the office and in- quire if “the letters of advice,” which he had previously forwarded, had been receiv- ed. As tne whole affair in each case ap- peared to be regular in every particular he would, of course, get the amount the order called’ for. ‘The post office authorities are after Co- burn now, and Postmaster Willett of the city office is having an investigation made of the alleged depredations. It will be hard to determine the exact amount of these, as the money orders which he fled out for himself were taken indiscriminately from the book in which the slips were kept. These slips are num- bered consecutively, and it was evidently the intention of Coburn to make the in- vestigation, if It should ever come, as diffi- cult as possible. Where He Learned the Trick. He was formerly in the money order branch of the auditor's office, and by this means became thoroughly acquainted with the workings of the system, and it is thought evolved the s¢hemhe out of his own mii-d, though such a thing has been worked befcre. > ce Coburn some time ago purchased the drug store at the cobner!where the sub- station is located. Bi vitw of what has happened it is believed went into the purchase with the sole,intention of working the scheme to defraud athe government. it is not believed, howevér, that the latter will suffer, as Coburn was bonded in a Baltimore surety company for $2,000, and Postmaster Willett dges;,not believe the stealings alleged will igo over this The affair was discovered in rather a pe- culiar manner. Deptty Crawford of the auditor's office at thk Post Office Depart- ment unearthed it accidentally as. he investigating somethjng else. It was be- lieved at first that what-he was investi- gating was in some manner comtiected with the Coburn defalcation, put such is. not now belicved to,be the, eases The Coburn business .was brought to light, however, and Deputy Crawford, who was at the time acting as-auditor, sent a letter to the, Sec- retary of the Treasury, suggesting the dis- missal of the guspect. He Took the Hint. Coburn must have discovered the fact that his crooked work had been found out, for he applied for one day's leave of ab- sence August 26, and has not been back since. It is stated, however, that he was seen in Baltimore Friday or Saturday, and that a telegram was received from him by the Secretary of the Treasury from Philadel- phia containing his resignation. The de- partment, under direction of Chief Inspec- for Hamlet, is making every effort to cap- ture him, and it is thought it will be a matter of only a few days before he is apprehended and brought back here. Coburn lived here at 928 K street. He was thirty-two years of age; was ap- pointed from the state of Washington sev- eral ycars ago, and was promoted August 10, 1893, to the position in the bockkeeping division of the auditor's oflice, which paid $1,000 a year. He is described as an ath- letic-looking young man, but is said not to have been very popular with his fellow cierks, as his disposition was not of the best. Name Not Colburn. The accused man is not in any way con- nected with the Dr. Rollinson Colburn who was erroneously mentioned in a morn- ing paper as having been the one who had committed the depredations. The names are spelled differently, and Dr. Colburn is known as one of the most highly esteemed of Washington's citizens. He is indignant that his name should have been used in connection with the matter. —__>___ REVENUE BUREAU DATA. Employes’ Attention Called to Rule 12 of the Department. ‘The internal revenue bureau ts informed that in some instances employes in collec- tors’ offices have supplied for publication data obtainable from the records in the collector's office, particularly the names and addresses of individual tax payers. Acting Commissioner Wilson has sent a letter to all collectors saying that the office regards with disfavor ‘the practice of per- mitting the employes of a collector's office to supply information of any character from the official records and receive com- pensation therefor, A “Record 10,” he says, “is open to public inspection and data may be taken. there- from by persons desiring such information as it contains at anytime when it may be done without interference with public bvsiness. If any other iiformation is fur- nished to persons ndt cornected with the service, it must be doné in’ accordance with the provisions of rue 12,of this depart- ment, and charges thetefere cannot be per- mitted. Collectors will #@vise their em- Ployes of the contents 'of;,this circular and require a strict com, # With its terms.” i PRESIDENTS QUIET SUNDAY. Attends Church tn’the Morning and * Dines Witi 'Friends, President McKinleyiattended divine serv- ice yesterday mot Be gt Epworth Me- morial Methodist Episcopal Church in Cleveland, where he’has"a pew. He was accompanied by James Hi Rhodes, the his- torian, and’ Mrs. Rhéges The church was cgowded to its utmost capacity. The Presiflént entered just as the. voluntary was being played, and in time to hear ja solo gung by Dr. Ion A. Jackson. He gave close attention to the ‘ard. Beecher sermon by -Rev. W: Pickard, congregations] singing. and joined in the At the conclusion of the’ sétvices the per- President shook hands with a few but went to his carriage as quick as possible and was driven to Hanna. ly the home s 8 TO FIGHT FOR Men and Ammunition in Chicago Destined for Ingurgent Army. SPANISH CONSUL ON THE ALERT Will Ask Injunction to Restrain Men From Going. DE LOME WARNS RAILROADS CHICAGO, Avgust 30.—The Times-Herali says: Two hundred Americans and three car loads of ammunition are supposed to leave Chicago tomorrow night for Jack- sonville, Fla., there to board the steamer Soledad for some point in Cuba. The date of the sailing of the Soledad is, according to Spanish reports, fixed for Saturday. ‘The Americans composing the Chicago Cuban contingent are made up mostly of the unemployed. They have enlisted for twelve months, and are to recelve a salary of $20 a month. In the event of Cuba’s receiving her freedom from Spain each soldier is promised a large tract of land and a sum of money. Lieutenant Colonel Dominez of the New York junta is now in Chicago. He comes as the agent of President Cisneros and Treasurer Benjamin Guerra. He brought several thousand dollars with him, and he has been using it among those who were found willing to join the insurgents. Consul Will-Ask Injanetion. Unless Spanish Consul Fernando Staudy Jiminez, who will ask the federal court for an injunction prohibiting the moving of these men and ammunition, is success- ful, the men will meet today with knap- sacks and rifles ready to join the forces of Gomez in the Pinar del Rio district. By | what line the Cuban soldiers are to travel between this point and Jacksonville is not krown. Railroads Warned by De Lome. The Spanish consul, acting under orders from Minister De Lome, who is now at Lenox, Mass., has sent out a notice to all lines running south to the following effect: “You are hereby warned not to carry ma- terial contraband of war, or any material that may subsequently be used for or by the Cuban insurgents. If such material is shipped, the Spanish govesnment will hold you responsible uncer the rules of the in- ternational law, and by reason of any such p:otection as the lawS of che United Siates give said Spanish government as far as re- lates to the shipping or carrying of goods contraband of war to .on-belligerents.” This warning was sent out after the con- sul had consulted with his government's at- torney in this city. At a late hour last night the consul telegrapned to Minister de Lome, asking if he should apply to United States District Attorney Black for an injunction restraining all railroads from carrying men or ammunition supposed to be bound for Florida points. Gn this ques- tion the consul 13 in doubt, although he says it appears to him that under the law he has the same right to ston the men and ammunition here as he uld were they aboard a ship at Jacksoaville. To Look After Filibusters. Orders were issued tcday for the final inspection of the gunboat Annapolis in Hampton Roads on the 7th tstant. The inspection wili be made by the regular in- spection board, of which Commodore Dewey is president, and will inciude a forty-eight hours’ run at sea to determine her entire fitness for naval service. case of success, of which there is no the vessel will be finally accepted government. Her first service wil! he to look out for Cuban filibusters off the coast of Florida. The vessel is now at New Yerk and will start for Norfolk in a few days. - NO RIGHT TO SUCH RATEs. Against the New England Road Receivers. The interstate commerce commission to- day, in an opinion by Commissioner Knapp, announced its decision in the case of the New York, New Haven gnd Hartford Rail- road Company agt. Thomas C. Platt and Marsden J. Perry, receivers of the New York and New England Railroad Company. The question involved in this proceeding is the right of one carrier to issue a so- called joint tariff of rates between it and its connecting carriers without the consent or concurrence of said carriers. Defendant published a schedule purport- ing to be a joint tariff of rates on coal from a point on its road to a number of destinations reached by the compiaina railroad company, whereby the complain- ant company received its full local charges to said destinations from junction points with defendant's road, and the defendant accepted the remainder, which was in each irstance less than its established local rate from the place of shipment to the point of connection. Complainant, which also car- ried coal to the same destinations by a longer route over its own rails, thereby securing greater compensation than was afforded from coal coming te it by defend- ant’s road, refused to unite in the rates named by defendant in said so-called joint tariff, and protested against the use of such rates by a connecting carrier as un- authorized and unlawful for want of mu- teal consent. It was held that the complaint shouid be sustained and the defendant company be re- quired to cease and desist from publishing or applying through rates to points on com- plainant’s lines which are less than the ‘sums of their respective local charges. ° THE COURTS. Equity Court No. 1—Judge Bradley. Dixon agt. Baker; pro confesso against certain defendants. In re Jas. D. Wise, lunatic; committee ordered to pay. In re Albert Hanrahan, Samuel Matthews, Geo. W. Lincoln, Geo. W. Janifer and Thos. 3. Waters; writs de lunatico inquirendo or- dered to issue. Groome agt. Rosborough; Fro confesso granted. Wallace agt. Ac- cardi; order amending bill. Windsor agt. Parker; bill of revivor allowed to be filed. Circuit Court No. 1—Judge Bradley. Miller agt. Jones; fiat on sci fa. Probate Court—Judge Bradley. Estate of Emma Derrick; will filed with petition for probate. In re Margaret and Eaw. O. Castell, guardian; order of allow- ance. Estate of Wm. J. Ketcham; letters ef administration” granted to Wm. Ketcham; bond, $2,000. ‘ —_<-—__ Keeping the Copyright Accounts. By request of Librarian Young of the Congressional Library, the Treasury De- partment has detailed two bookkeepers to formulate a scheme of bookkeeping and counting for the copyright department of the library. Mr.. Young desires to comply with the rules of the treasury as to de- positing copyright fees. After the book- keepers finish thelr work the copyrigat official will have charge of the matter. Decision 0 Champion Fred Schade Returns. Fred Schade of Georgetown University, the crack bicyclist, returned this morning from South Carolina, where he has been successfully racing in the amateur con- tests. Schade competed in Petersburg, Va., August 21, and Greenwood, S. = cause: dollars, m Grin and bear it. That's what you'll have to do, if your housework tires you out and you won't take aw: Pearline. had to do for lo, these thousands of years, Pearline has done, and is doing, 11 ay the hardest part of it with That's what women have ore to lighten and_ brighten woman's work than any other one thing, her money, her health and strength, in hundreds of ways. It saves her time, Do every bit of'your washing and cleaning with Pearline. ss MONS" “PCAC Examining the Contents of Uncle Sam’s Strong Box. BEEN AT WORK FOR TWO MONTHS’ A Task That Would Take an Ex- pert Fifty Years. RECKONING BY WEIGHT Down in the dimly lighted interior of the treasury building four of the Secretary's subordinates are counting the contents of | Uncle Sam's treasure vaults, amounting to $767,782,216 This Is always done when a change occurs in the office of treasurer of the United States. The gentlemen now er in charge are Messrs. . Daskam, chairman; A. T. Hunting- don, M. R. Vance and Howard Elliott. The | latter represents the new treasurer, Ellis | H. Roberts, while the others act on the part of the government, pecially the re tiring treasurer, D. N. Morgan, who on tie con pletion of the count takes a receipt for the funds. So correctly kept are the books of this immense financial institution that the least shortage is ly discove and must be traced. Notwithstanding absolate certainty of discovery, the tem tation to steal is too great to be re by some of the employers, and only a few days age one of the negro laborers assist- ing the commfttee helped himse!f to a few depreciated stiver dollars, was found out, confessed, ard is now in the District jail awaiting trial. An occasional theft like this is the exception that proves the rule of_hones The committee began its labors July 4, and will probably complete the count the Jatter part of this month, or early in Oc- tober. The following are the present con- tents of the vaults in the United States treasurer’ Vault t—, standard silver dollars Valut 2—Amount, $45,017,000; standard silver dollars. Vault $3,300,000; descrip: Amount, office: description, ~ silver, $522, cr coin, $87,000. Vault 3—Amount, ); description, national bank notes received for redemption. Vault 4—-Amount, $1,000,000; description, mixed moneys received daily for redemption. Vault 6—Amount, ¢ pription, mixed moneys Amount, $270, held as security for N. - Vault S—Amount, $30,000,000; description, held as reserve to replace worn and muti- for 16 lated tes unfit for circulation. Total, $76 2,216. The silver vault is the largest in the world, being eighty-nine feet long, fifty- one wide and twelve feet high. The latter section of the ueasure bers is the most. interesting and is op the general public, who view its interior from a @ungeon-like corridor when 2 ‘ough the bar: eel door, where a Cerebus- rn eyes with ‘sus. picion all vis The silver is packed in s: holi- ing $1,000 each, and -nine four ces. It is counted by | weight. and the least defic! y or defect | in the bag is suffi Such a sack go¢ where it is counted 9 pert, placed on the scales, returned vault and again weighe picked According to Lieut. James A. Moss, who commanded a detachment of the 25th In- fantry on a bicycle trip from Fort Missoula, Mont., to St. Lous, a distance of more than nineteen hundred miles, the bicycle is a valuable adjvnct to the military se His account of the trip has just been re- celved at the War Department. In it he Says that it tock thirty-four days of actual travel, at an average rate of 6.3 miles an hour, to cover the distance between the two points. “We were delayed,” he says, “four hours and seven minutes repairing tires, thirteen hours repairing bicyc 372 hours 28 minutes for luncheon ether purposes. a and os Except while in the sand hills of Nebraska, the health of the com- mand was exceedingly gvod, and none of the soldiers was in any way di r made sore from ricin trip through the sand hills, how was extremely tiresome and trying, and tested our powers of endu * to the utmost. About thr fourths corps were sick from the ef- water. The w akota was al occasions betwe impossi quently we were “n our relic in rain storms whe On one occasion we s on cup of weak eof burnt bread da number of bri rode » me mud, water, rain, bad is, fording streams, &c., me living on the gulation "I ration, cooked in im The trip has be very satisfactory to me, and has, I fully demonstrated the practic bicycle a means of transportation BEGIN F. To The North Atlantic squadron, consisting of the flagship New York, the Indiana, Massachusetts, Iowa, Maine, Texas and Brooklyn, sailed today from Bar Harbor, Me., for the south to begin the fall evolu- tiors. The present cri will last: until September 10. About the 3d the squadron will be reinforced by the big monitor Purl- tan, which arrived at Portland to Sup tember 7 Assistant Secretary Roosevelt join the ships at Doiphin as the re ‘ort Monroe, using wing ship and gu- ing to sea for several days with the squad- ron to observe the proficiency attained in target practice and feet evolution: reiary Long arrived on the at Belfast, 4 today, and the be sent to Hampton Roads in season to Jein the squadron. The Raleigh has arrived at Messina, Italy. ae Sik Riding Rronchon 2,500 Miles. From th: max City Tribune At 9 o'clock this morning Jim Gabriel and Kit Gabriel rode east on 4th st and attracted considerable —_attentio be singled out anywhere as They and s whick they 000 miles in the past two and half Th s for Chicago and ex; a months. left this en ar prove the that the to Wiise ex cho is and that hited the this ani ir anim that during nothing In the vaults iron latticework parti divide the space into several cc ments. Around the outer edge and « the iron frame the silver boxes, and the ce ber is then filled with the Each of these apartments by | key locks, on open by two different } keys k er and the | clerk, w -proof metal doors | protect these combination time locks are Some interesting ftigur: by one of the employe: inclined to make compe foot contains 4.684 standard lars: packed in sacks of are required to fill the sam : Gepartment a million of these dollers estimated a: thirty tons, and the co} of ali the vaults, if represented by putting the amount at would weigh 23,010 tons. Thi ordinary freight cars with arrying | pacity of twenty tons, would require for | transportation a train’ of 1,150 cars, that | weuld stretch along for a distance of a little more than seven mil The experts in the issue division are Ia dies, whose daily task in handling notes } means the actual counting of eight pack- | ages of 4,000 bills cach, the close scrutiny of the seal, the careful’ watch of the serial numbers, and, in the case of old money, th instant detection of counterfeit notes. Their | hours of labor are from % o'clock until with an intermission of half an hour for | luncheon. When hurried, some of these experts can count 40,000 notes in a day. An expert counting at the rate of 40,000 every working day would be engaged for more than fifty-two years and six months counting ‘the above sum in dollar ‘bills. Notes in the fssue division, after passing through the hands of the counters, are packed in bundles of 1,000 each, and weigh eleven pounds. When enveloped in a ma- nilla paper wrapper they measure 71% inch- es by 7 inches by 6% inches. The seven hundred and sixty-seven mil- | licns, if in one-dollar notes, would weigh | 4,218% tons. A one-inch cube of gold is worth $210; a | cubic foot, $362,380, and a cubic yard is valued at $2,797,762. $2 —____ POINTS ABOUT ALASKA. silver Many Applications for Information | of the Gold Fields. The Department of the Interior is in con- stant receipt of requests for information regarding Alaska and the Klondike re- gicns. Most of those asking information want to know the best routes of travel, the conditions with which they will meet on the journey, the character of provision they should make for the trip and the kind of life they will find in the gold regions. The departrent has no publication giv- ing this information, and can only send to the applicants for information cepies of the Jast annual report of the governor of Alaska, and these have now been ex- hausted. The bureau of labor has an agent in the Klondike region now, and it is ex- | plete succe os in good form and a ted cho ever looks. Dr. Barnette will inspe animals w ch Chicago port to th rider with ries weighs certain thai no other class of horses could i the hard travel wh been subjected vo dur cor rable Asserti, rk Times. tor Mr. Dunn, the official of weather for this ¥ ty, Geelared without any ifs or ands that the ng thirty-six hours would b - ther he nor his superiors at Wa had # word to say about storms or = of any ki it began to rain soon after n, kept it up ali night and culminated y ¥ morning in a downpour severe enough to do a lot of damage and to int fere seriovsly with travel and trade. Now everybody “makes mistak: and we wouldn't have a word to say about this particular failure if only we were not 2ske: tc believe that the prediction was a com- . Most aggravating cf ail ion that this storm, lasting some eighteen hours and reaching ove gocd part of three states, was a local An Unend New turbance “not worthy of especial ment.” This is really unendurable. SET = Negroes in the Trades. From the Atlanta Chrouicie. Negroes in the south are rapidly filling the trades. As carpenters, bricklaye: plasterer blacksmiths and wi wer they are growirg more and more num¢ ous, and making it difficult fer white men to prosper in these fields of labor, A glance at the white schools and the negro schools of the south will show that the n-- gro schools are teaching their pupils more of the practical reeds of life, and fitting them to earn a livelihocd better than the | white schools are. For e y white technco- logical school the negroes have half a dozen with technological and industrial features. Every year young men are be- ing turred out of the negro schools ‘n the scuth who have been taught carpen- try, shoemaking, printing, the gencral use of tools and scientific farming, in addition to the usual academic courses, and young women who are taught cooking, washing, sewing, dressmaking, nursing and house keeping. When a young negro man or wo- man leaves any one of more than a dozen schools in the south he or she is equipped for earning a livelihood and for advancing the standard of the race. Our people need arousing to the importance of technological and industrial education. We want edu- cated hands as well as educated heads. From the New York World. Seth Horton, an ice dealer of Greenport, L. L, is not going to the Flondike. Re has a gold mine in his stock in trade. While engaged in distributing ice to hia ctstomers along Main street a day or twa ago he noticed a glittering yellow substance