Evening Star Newspaper, September 2, 1897, Page 10

‘ 10 _—- THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1897-12 PGES. THE CAMPHOR TREE Descriptive Circular Issned by De- partment of Agriculture. GREAT IMPORTANCE OF THE PRODUCT Possibilities of Growth of the Ever- green in the United States. IMPORTATIONS OF THE GUM additions to the Department of descriptive of It is referred to as a related to the red One of the most recent literature issued by the Agriculture is a circular the camphor tree. broad-leaf evergreen, bay and sassafras of the United States. In its native habitat it obtains a height of sixty to one hundred feet, with wide- spreading branches and a trunk twenty to forty inches in diameter. It may be well to give this description of how the camphor is grown, it is not generally understood by the public. Some time ago a d ion on the subject arose in a certain household. Some of those present maintained that the ca jor was a mineral substance. Others inciined to the theory that it was a plant, while stil others maintained that it was taken from some animal. The question was definitely settled, ho Tr, by a little girl, who h been listening attentively to the conversa- tien, and said in response to a questio: to where the camphor in the drug store, of cours own in Asia. The tree is native in the coast coun- tries of eastern Asia from Cochin China nearly to the mouth of the Yang-ise- Kiang, and on the adjacent islands, from the southern part of the Japanese empire, including Formosa, under the Ryukyu Islands, to Hainan, off the Cochin China coast. The trees grow wild in the native range and are usually most abundant on the hillsides and in mountain valle: where there is good atmespheric as w as soil drainage. The temperature in the greater part of this region, h is partly within the tropics and partly subtropical, rarely falls below freezing. The trees and evergreen ¢ their leaves gen- erally in April, and therefore the winter temperature is of far more importance than would be the case witn a decid It bears small.greenish white fl from Febri to April, and, tne following Oc- tober, very light ceded fruits about taree-e: < nm inch in diameter. At Cl ummervilie and Augusta the trees have withstood a minimum tem: perature of 15 degrees Fahrenheit, but the have been protected by surrounding tre and buildings. The American The most United Sta Possibilities. northern localities in the so far as known by the de- t. where the camphor tree has been grown out of doors are ‘al. Notwithstand- aratively narrow limits of its mvirornment the camphor tree in cultivation under widely dif- ions. It has become abua- the comp natural grows t naturalized in Madagascar. It flour- at Buenos Ayres. It thrives in in ‘anary Islands, in south- ern Fri and in the nm Joaquin California, the summer: and dry. trees, at least old, are in the temple courts at Tokio, are subject to a winter of nty-five to eighty nights of frost, with an ional mini- mum temperature as low to 16 de- hei mphor tree will grow cn al- soil that is not too wet, it docs best on a well-drained sandy or loamy soil, and it responds remarkably well to the ep. plic: ilizers. Its growth is com- on sterile soils, but under conditions it sometimes grows An instance is recorded of a ior tree in Italy a foot in diameter inety feet high, eight years from the Under ordinary conditions, however, s is not often attained in less than twenty-five years, and such a height is ra ed in a century. Under fa- Yorable conditions an average of thirty feet in height, with trunks six to eight inches in diameter at the base, may be ex- ected in trees ten years from the seed. Commercial Uses. The principal commercial uses cf the camphor tree are for the production of camphor gum and camphor oil. Camphor gum is employed extensively in medicine It enters into the composition of many kinds of liniments for external application. For liniment it is used especially in com- bination with olive ofl. It is taken inter- nally for hysteria, nervousness, nervous diarrhea and diseases affe tary canal. It is a specific cases of typhoid fever and cholera. Cam- phor fumes have been used with success in cases of asthma. It has been used very ex- tensively to keep insects out of furs, woolens, ete. In Japan camphor and cam. phor oil are used in lacquer work. The cil is somewhat similar to turpentine, and 1ld doubtless be used to advantage in varnishes and shellacs. It is now used in the manufacture of toilet soaps. In Japan and China it has been used for illuminating purposes, but it produces a smoky flame, Among the secondary uses of the cam- phor tree the most important is for orna- mental planting. Its bright evergreen leaves, rapid growth and long life make it valuable for this purpose. In Japan and China it has been the principal tree planted in the temple courts for many centuries, and in those countries it takes the the historic oaks of England. It has been extensively introduced into southern Bu- ‘There is no more in spiring sight in the world than the picture Mof the stalwart young farmer and his rosy- cheeked wife start- ing out to fight the battle of life. ‘There is no reason why all such conp- les should not live long, happy, healthy lives. Much depends upon the wife herself. To some extent, she must be a jack of all trades. Her husband must be a little of a blacksmith and a little of a harness mak- er and a little of a veterinary surgeon as well as a farmer. It is the same with the wife. It is a long ways to town, and she must have a handy hand at many things. It is possibly many miles to the first physi- cian, and the farmer’s wife should be able to see that every member of the family is kept in good health. If the young farmer’s wife is wise, when her husband shows that he is out of sorts, when he is suffering from biliousness or torpidity of the liver or indigestion, she ‘will not permit him to neglect these disor- ders, but will have at hand Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. This wonder- ful medicine is not a cure-all, but as most diseases have their inception in a torpid liver or a disordered digestion, it is a cure for a great many of them. It makes the appetite keen, the digestion and assimila- tion perfect, the liver active, the blood pure and the nerves steady. It cures all malar- ial troubles and rheumat‘sm. Medicine dealers sell it, and keep nothing else “just as good.” e farmer’s wife may frequently save the life of her husband or that of one of her children by owning copy of Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser. It tells how to treat all the ordinary ills of life and how to care for serious accident cases while awaiting the arrival of a physician. It con- tains 1008 pages and over 3oo illustrations. It used to cost $1.50 a copy; now it is free. scovered Yor a paper- send 21 one-cent stamps fo cover matit only, to the World’s Medical Association, rs ae Re Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cure consti- pation and Miioesness. they, and thing else as “‘just as good.” rope and South America for ornamental purposes. : The wood, with its close grain, yellow color, and susceptibility to polish, taking a kind of satin-like finish, is exceedingly valuable in cabinet work, especially for making drawers, chests and cupboards proof against insects. The leaves and young branches, although they have but a slight odor of camphor, are packed with clothing or scattered about unused rooms to guard against insects. The tree produces an ahundance of berry- like fruits, which are in Japan and China to make a kind of tallow. The fruits are greedily eaten by chickens and birds, espetially mocking birds, which often select camphor trees for nesting places. Conditions Must Be Favorable. For most of the secondary purposes, the comphor tree may well be cultivated wher- ever it can be made to live; but for the distillation of gum and oil with a com- mercial] view, and for the production of wood for cabinet purposes. it must be frown under the most favorable conditions. ‘The minimum winter temperature should not be below 20 degrees Fahrenheit, and this minimum should be of rare occur- rence. The soil, preferably sandy and well rained, should be irrigated unless there e abundant rains. Fifty inches of water ring the warm growing season is de- irable, and much more may well be used where the air is very dry. Camphor trees may be grown either from seed or from cuttings. They are usually grown from seed, as the trees fruit abun- dantly, and seedlings can be grown more sily than cuttings. The seeds are collect- ed at maturity in October and November, and after drying are packed in sharp white send or some similar material to keep then: fresh until the time of planting in spring. About the last of March they are sown in drills in the sced bed. Camphor of good quality has been pro- duced in Florida from the leaves and twigs of trees less than twenty years old, one pound of crude gum being obtained from seventy-seven founds of leaves and twigs. From Tranks itnd Branches. In the native forests in Formosa, Fukien and Japan camphor is distilled almost ex- clusively from the wood of the trunks, roots and larger branches. The work is performed by hand labor, and the methods employed seem rather crude. Different methods of distillation are employed in different districts, but those in use in the province of Tosa, in Japan, appear to be the most skillful. The camphor trees are felled and the trunk, larger limbs and sometimes the roots are cut into chips by hand labor with a sharp concave adz. The fresh chips are placed in a wooden tub about 40 inches high and 20 inches in diameter at the base, tapering toward the top like at. old-fashioned churn. The per- forated bottom of the tub fits fightly over an iron pan of water on a furnace of masonry. The tub has a tight-fitting cover, which may be removed to put in the chips. It is surrounded by a layer of earth about 6 inches thick to aid in retaining a uniform temperature. A bamboo tube extends from near the top of the tub into the condenser. This consists of two wocden tubs of dif- ferent sizes, the larger one right side up, kept about two-thirds full of water from a continuous stream which runs out of a hole in one side. The smaller one is in- verted with its edges below the water, forming an air-tight chamber. This air chamber is kept cool by the water falling on the top and running down over the sides. Tr T part of the air chamber is sometimes filled with clean rice straw, en which the camphor crystallizes, while the oil drips Gown and collects on the sur- face of the water. In some cases the cam- phor gum and oil are allowed to collect to- gether on the surface of the water and are afterward separated by filtration through rice straw or by pressure About twelve hours «re required for dis- tilling a tubful by this method. Then the chips are removed and dried for use in the furnace, and a new charge is put in. At the same time the camphor and oil are re- moved from the condenser. By this method iwenty to forty pounds of chins are re- quired for one pound of crude camphor gum. Consumption of Camphor. The circular says that the consumption of camphor in this country, as measured by the importations, has been decreasing during the past ten years, while the price has been increasing. In 1887 there were imported to this country of crude camphor, duty free, 2,872,184 pounds, valued at 12 cents per pound, or $352,861. In ISs8 there were imported ) pounds, at 11 certs per pound, valued at $304,460. In 1880 there Were imported 1,974,500 pounds, at 15 cents per pound, valued at $294,031.44. In 1890 there were 2,061,370 pounds, at 20 cents per pound, 00, In 1801 there were 1, . t 28 cents per pound, In 1892 the price had dropped to ats per pound, and there were 1,955,787 pounds, which brought & total amount of $H7,GH4. In 186% there were 1,723,425 pounds, | at cents per pound, making a total of $44 Ay later the price had dropped to 2% cents y pound, and there were 1,323,932 bringing $406,407. In 1895" the _ pric Topped to 19 cents per pound, were 1,0,713 pounds, bringing 1893 the price had advanced to pound, and there were only 943 valued at $328.4: The Fluctuations. For nine months to March 31, 18! latest report cbtainable, the price had dropped to 24 cents per pound, and there : 284 pounds, bringing $207, In 1895 there were imported 271,161 pounds of refined camphor, which is du- tiable, valued at $83,382. In 1806 there were 2 pounds imported, valued at $58,785 Fer nine months ending March 31, 1 there had been imported only 155 pounds, valued at $52,811. ‘The tariff act approved July 27 imposed a duty of 6 cents a pound on refined cam- phor, and leaves crude camphor on the free list. The decrease in importations has been brought about by various causes, with the result that the market has been flooded with cheap substitutes. a GREAT DEMAND. Ex-Representative Huling Notes It as a Sign of Better Times. “I am not in polities now,” said ex-Repre- sentative Huling of West Virginia to a Star reporter. “I am saying nothing and saw- ing wood.” This is Hterally true. Mr. Huling is now devoting his entire attention to his lumber business. He will be remembered as a prominent member of the House committee on the District of Columbia in the last Congress. “Business is improving very rapidly in West Virginia,” continued Mr. Huling. “I notice it more especially in my own line, of course. We are selling more lumber and are getting better prices for it. This is partly due to the tariff and to the general &rowth of prosperity throughout the coun- try. The improvement in business condi- tions has caused a demand for lumber and a brisker movement in all branches of the trade. “I think the whole country will go :head now upon a steady and healthy growth of business. Men are being put to work, and those who have been to work are getting better wages and fuller time. In the Kana- wha Valley and New River coal fields, in West Virginia, the coal strike ts hampering matters somewhat. About 50 per cent of the mixers are on s{rike and idle. ‘The other 5 per cent are working full time and at increased wages. “In the mines which are at work the operators granted the men the increases de- mended, and they are running full time and getting more for their coal. Strenuous efforts are being made by the idle minors to get the other fellows out on a strike, and they may be successful yet. If is hard work for the agitators, however, beause the men who are at work are confronted by the fact that their first duty is to their families, and as long as they are zetting what they ask it is"pretty hard to make up thelr minds to go out on a sympathy strike.” pounds, nad cents per )> pounds, LUMBER IN Pension Granted. Pensions have been granted as follows. District of Columbia—Elliott W. Menden- hall, Washington; minor of Edward Han- mer, Washington; Mary C. Lucas, Wash- i: gton. . 2 Maryland.— Henry Love, Ellicott City. William Harvey, Salisbury; William Dug- dale, Baltimore. —_—-e-—____. Two Fall Days at the Greatest Seaside resort on earth. An ex opportunity. $2 round trip. To Adami ‘tlantic City via Pennsylvania railroad, Saturday and Sunday. Apply to ticket agents.—Advt. —_———. If you want anything, try an ad. in The Star. If anybody has what you wish, you will get an answer. TROLLEY CAR TYPES Peculiarities of PassengersWhoTravel Out Into the Suburbs. CHARACTERS MET BY A CONDUCTOR The Various Phases Assumed by the Great American Kicker. A REVIEW OF THE GENIUS ge “Yes,” said the trolley car conductor who was dismissed from Harvard for statue painting, “this line of cars was constructed and put into operation chiefly for the ac- commedation of kickers. They patronize it to the exclusion of almost every other means.of urban and suburban transporta- tion. When everything goes all right at beme—baby well, wife gocd natured and economical, cook not particularly overbear- ing—and they've got no chance in life to make a roar, they get lonesome. Then they clap on their hats and take a ride on these cars; and by the time they have finished their cruise peace is cradled in their hearts, for they have a good hour or so to exude kicks, you know, and that’s what they were born for. “Now, I am not responsible for the grades on this line of road, you will un- derstand; when these grades were made I Was just exactly 2,00 geographical miles from Washington. But that fact doesn’t ever any frapped water with the kickers. Trey've got it into their heads that I was the engineer-in-chief who surveyed and built this road, and they're sore on me on account of these grades. They tell me that 1 ought to be ashamed of myself on ac- count of these grades, fe and day by day I myself growing ashamed. Going down, you know, the grades are all right; the kickers beam, open thelr mouths and ac- cumulate great gulps of fragrant woodland wind, and take off their hats to let the breeze toy with and tcusle up their hair. But going up the grades is the thing; the cars crawl along side by side with the girls escorting their wheels up the hills, and the kickers begin to glare at me and try to shrivel me up. Those of them that don’t get mad and tell me that the line is worse than a dummy ore rcad up in the Lake Superior country look so abused over these up grades that I actually feel sorry for them. They gaze at me with reproving eyes, and I cannot help but feel that after all I have made a sorry enough hash of my life. The Matter of Overcrowding. “Then, in the matter of overcrowding the cars. You see, I am not the president and the board of directors of this suburban railroad; if I were perhaps things would be different. Who was that old guy of an in- fidel who said that had he been consulted at the creation of the world he might have spared the Creator some absurdities? Well, anyhow, as I have said, I am not the heap big people running this road; I simply iraw $12 per week for taking up nickels and tickets and getting myself disliked. All the same, the kickers can't see the thing in this light at all. They've got it into their skulls (into which it would be scientifically interesting to cast some X rays) that T let pecple get on to these cars after all the seats are filled for two r sons: First, for the purpose of fattenin, Cividends, of which [ am the chief recipi- ent, and, second, for the devilish amuse- ment I extract in the game of making -hem hostile. They have it figured ovt tnat my existence would be a dismal prolonga- tion of misery if I were not compelled to do a contortionist and acrobatic act in wriggling through and above and below men clutching the handles as they stand on the steps. Their imagination pictures me as being plunged in the profoundest gloom when the cars are only comfortably filled, with five people in a seat and none stand- ing. ‘What the d—1 do you let any more on for, when the seats are all filled?” they ask me, with the veins on their foreheads swelling and their countenances apoplectic looking. Can I smile in their teeth? Well, no. But I can keep my head closed and say nothing. What do I let them on for? It is funny, that question! I suppose that any man who's got a job that will permit him to pay his board and keep out of the rein and sleet has a sneaking sort of de- sire to hold that job, hasn't he? What do I let ‘em on for! Dixxatisfled With the Schedule. “And then, with regard to the waits at the switches. It is one of the misfortunes of my life that I was not given an oppor- tunity to arrange the running schedule of this line of cars. I He awake o’ nights with that grief. But I must accept the misfortune calmly. I was not requested to contribute any brain fag whatsoever to the devising of the road's running sched- ule, and, hard as it is, I must accept the slight. The only thing that I can do is to run my train on to a switch when I am ordered to do so, and thereby save a few dozens of human lives. With my blood- thirsty inclinations, I should like to gO right ahead, regardless of these trivial and foolish orders, but I am restrained by fear of the law. It is hard, though, to endure the shafts of bitter, vindictive hatred that gleam from the eyes of the kickers when my train is stalled for a while on a switch, and lately I have thought a good deal of going to the Klon- re or somewhere, to get away from it all. There Are Kickers—and Others. “But it is not the kickers alone who con- trive to cast little rays of sunshine across our dalliant paths. There are others—oh, many, many others. The small boy—and not infrequently the physically, but not mentally, grown man—who detests the craven who waits until the ‘cars stop be- fore getting off, and who finds his health becoming affected unless he attempts to jump off when the train is going down a grade at the rate of twenty miles or so an hour. He is one of them. He thinks, I suppose, that it adds to the security of our jobs to have a few people killed from our trains every day or so, and he wants to help us along. I have learned, however, to instinctively size him up as soon as’ he boards the train, and I watch him on the whole trip so carefully that I sometimes forget to take up fares. At his first move- ment in the direction of the step, I am right there, and he always looks at me as if | were a coward in my soul when I mild- ly request him, for the sake of those at home, to refrain from attempting to do the triple somersault; at least, until he is prepared to die. Elderly Ladies, Too. “Then the elderly ladies who want to get off at Glen Echo, and get themselves car- ried straight through to Cabin John—they infuse their little share of joy into our weary lives. When my train arrives at Glen Echo I employ so much vocal force in announcing that fact that I find of late I am compelled to use troches to relieve my extreme hoarseness. But does all of this lung vociferation of mine serve? Oh, no, no; it does not serve. Very often, after exhibiting almost humiliating frenzy in pointing out with voice and arms that my train has positively stopped at Glen Echo for the accommodation of passengers who wish to alight at that sylvan spot, I ob- serve, after I have signaled the train to start on for Cabin John, several eldérly ladies, singly or in pairs, remaining ih their seats. Although I have a most posi- tive consciousness that at the outset of their journey they were bound for Glen Echo, yet in such cases I say nothing until the end of the lire is reached, and then I shout ‘Cabin John!" in the voice of a sec- ond mate on a lumber schooner. They hear that, all right. Oh, yes; they always hear my announcement that’ we have got to Cabin John. What do they do then? Well, you know I am not particularly proud of my past, but these elderly ladies, thus brutally carried by me past their point of debarkation, certainly do put that past in a bad light. I have never been trying to; for g the thing does on my train. I iow nomenon more ing than the enor- mous growth nowadays by chil- dren of extremely tender ages. On street cars and trolley cars, you understand, this phenomenon acquires the proportions of a miracle. Children over eight years of age are required to ive gheir fare paid; and it is a mournful job of the conductor to de- termine with hi eye on children whose ages ho spiciously near this mark. It is nOt neécessary, either, for us to examine children’s teeth for this purpose, for the elephantine young per- sons which good, motherly ladies often en- deavor to work off on us as being of a sim- ple octavo in age, portray on their exter- icrs their attainment of double those years, notwithstanding their careful obedience to instructions to scroonch down in their seats and conduct themselves like little beauteous, babbling infants until the fares have been collected. “Madam,” we say, ‘that boy of yours is aur Past eight years of age.’ ir! “Past eight years of age, madam, that boy of yours surely ts.’ “Don’t I know how old: my own boy is—’ and so on, and so on.. That's the run of it. But herein, you see, is the one point where We quite decline to be overborne, and the lady pays thé fare of her mastodonic prog- eny Of the glorious age of eight, or be- comes from the time detached from him— which it is only necessary to mildly threaten, when the additional nickel, under, of course, Protest..expressed in a cascade of words, is forthcoming. he Adieux That Cause Anger. “How shall I speak of the beautiful young woman who bids long and tender adieux to all of her Chevy Chase friends, she standing on thewplatform step, while they, clinging to Her hands as if loth in- deed to let her go, listen entrancedly to her long farewells—and all of the train's pas- sengers jeopardizing their eternal salvation by the deep, dark things they are mutter- ing? She is a beautiful young woman ail of us have contended with lo! these many times this waning summer, and she looks at us, with our hands clutching the bell- rope, as if we were at the smaller end of a lorgnette, until, between gnashing teeth, some trute man grinds out ‘All aboard! when her eyes, scanning him, are as the eyes of Faustina, and her organdie-draped frame trembles with wrath. She is a part of the great forever, and she giveth us peace and rest. “And does Erglish afford words for the urspeakable imbecile whose only happiness in riding on a trolley car consists in reach- ing out his hands, one or the other of them, and touching all of the posts, like a little girl on a merry-go-round gathering in rings With a stick? He doesn’t care to touch the posts when the car is dragging aiong on an upgrade. There is no danger about that. He waits until he has a chance to break an arm or two—when the train is whizzing down an incline of forty- five degrees; then his enthusiasm is enor- mous, and he makes bets with himself that he won't miss one on the descent. He is bad enough, and will get run over and kill- ed by an ice wagon in time; but he is an intellectual Colossus to the animate Thing who enjoys poking his head out of the window on the side on which the trolley posts rear their graceful outlines in. sil- houtte against the sapphire skies. This Thing, possessing the delusion that he has brains enough to spare scme of them in an in pact with one of the posts, is only pitia- ble, and must be watched. But it is worth double wages to watch him, for there is one of hir on every cruise. The Worst of All. “Then there igrthe sleek, oleaginous man with the property ftve-dollar bill. He is the dismallest fixkir in this land of woe, and yet what isto be done with him? He hands you the bill, himself looking off at the remote horizon, $0 that he cannot per- ceive your gingerlysreception of it, and when you hand bim ‘back the bill with the statement that “vou®tannot change it, he bridles like a Cgckrley breathing defiance with ‘Rule Briggnnig’ and says, ‘That's your fault, not mine,’ stuffing the property bill into his vest pocket. No, he has no other change, and he's going ‘to ride, too, end he wants you to understand that! Put him off? He'd Ifke to see the corporation minion in the world that could put him of? @ public conveyance after he had extended his fare, and so on. He's an unbelievably meen cad; and ‘yet there's a lot of him working the dodge ,sticcessfully every day. Huh! Get oft here? "Teenth street!” And the car of the trolley conductor who Was dismissed from Harvard for statue painting receded in the vista. No Change of Cars. Through trains to Atlantic City via the only all-rail route, Pennsylvania raflroad. $2 round trip Saturday and Sunday next. Advertisement. ———— CAREER OF THE PORTLAN: Notable History of the Steamer Just Back From Alaska, The permission granted by the Navy De- partment for the docking of the Alaskan steamer Portland in the government dock at Seattle brings to the minds of treasury officials a story of much interest. The Portland fs now one of the most famous vessels in the world, having been one of the first to bring down millions of dollars in nuggets from the Klondike country snd many happy miners. The news which she first brought in had a great deal to do with the excitement which has since become universal, In 1893 the Portland was as well known as she is today, but then it was in another direction. She then became notorious as a smuggler of opium into Portland. Her his- tory is worth reading. The Portland was built at Bath, Me., in 1885, for use during a Haytien revolt. She 1s of 1,089 tons gross. The Haytiens didn't pay for her. She had, however, been chris- tened the Haytien Republic, and went un- der this name for years. She was finally bought by a packing company in San Fran- cisco for running to and from the com- pany’s canneries in Alaska. The next thing heard of her she was sold to the Mer- chants’ Transportation Company of Port- land, and it was supposed that she was still engaged in legitimate traffic. In a short time the government officials ascer- tained that an immense amount of opium was belng smuggled into Portland. It was not known how this was being done, but shrewd special agents were put to work, and they began to suspect the Haytien Re- public. The result of their suspicions were wholesale arrests of prominent people, over forty being indicted. Among these were the owners of the steamer, the collectcr of customs and an ex-treasury agent. The conspiracy was found to be wholesale, and the arrests created profound sensations on the Pacific coast. It was ascertained before the trials of the offenders had been concluded that the op- erations of the Haytien Republic had Jost the government over $300,000 in duties on opium. ‘The Haytien Republic was fitted up with secret compartments and the opium was smuggled in these. The owners of the vessel at the time of the discovery owed $10,000 on her. They had bought her for $42,000, and had paid $32,000. The vessel was Jibeled by the government and sold at a m@rshal's sale. She was bid in for $16,000 by, her present owners, who have since kept her /At legitimate work in Alaskan trade. ~ The owners kidw that the reputation of the vessel would; be prejudicial to her, and they made appligation to the Treasury De- partment to be allowed to change: her name. They stated in their apptication, which is on filesat the treasury, that the illegal acts of the vessel had placed her in such bad repute that.she would be looked upon with suspicion, at every port. This suspicion, they ‘said,’ would cause annoy- ance in searches and delay and expense. The treasury fully ¢onsented to a change of name, and the Haytien Republic was christened the Portland. She was repaired, refitted and re-engaged in business in Alas- kan waters. + 2 ——ie— os Baltimore and'retlirn, $1.00. All trains Pennsylvania railroad Sunday, Sept. 5.— Advertisement. ——__ Certificates for Military Telegraphe: ‘The judge advocate general of the army has rendered an opinion that under the law passed granting: certificates of honor to persons connected with the military tele- graph during the war, the certificates are to be granted to all who were employed in maintaining and operating the lines, in- cluding operators’ and The question as to linemen and those engaged in building the telegraph lines has not been Tomerrow ne Aes 4 to Rockville fair; $1. : cluding admission.—, 00 -Advt. patiesian eat “Want” ads. in The Star pay because they bring answers, ame to say that via B. and O. R. round trip, in- TRIED ON THE PATUXENT. An Accident Interfered With the Speed Test of the Rodgers. The members of the naval trial board have returned to Washington from Balti- more, where they made the first trial of the torpedo boat Rodgers Tuesday. ‘The members of the board, so far from being discouraged with the failure of the boat to make the full required speed, are con- fident that she is an excellent craft, and, barring such an accident as occurred Tues- day, will certainly make the contract speed. As it was, the Rodgers was mak- ing twenty-five knots an hour when the crack appeared in the exhaust pipe ef the circulating pump, and slowed down the speed. Then, after being disabled, with the circulating pump cut off, anc using oni such water as could be scooped in for cool- ing the condensers, the boat made 23% knots per hour. The break in the exhaust pipe is ascribed by the board to the excessive vibrations of the light hull under the enormous power of the engines. Another break can be guarded against by putting a-loop in the pipe, and this will be done in time for a second trial tomorrow. Se $19 oak wardrobes are $14.65 at Moses’ sale, F and Eleventh.—Advt. a FAIRFAX PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Proceedings of the Ceunty Scheol Bonrd Yesterday. Special Correspondence of ‘The Evening Star. * FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE, Va.. August 31, 1897. The county school board, composed of the boards of trustees of the several schoo! districts in the county of Fairfax, as- sembled in the court house here today with County Superintendent M. D. Hall presid- ning and J. Owen Berry, secretary. The reports of the several clerks of the dis- trict boards were submitted, which in- cluded important statistics of public edu- cation in the county. The total number of schools in the county were shown to be 71 white and 24 colored; total. 9. The average length of the term during the past year was seven months. The committee appointed to examine the accounts of the courty treasurer, with the school funds, reported all balances correct. It was decided to open the schools for the next term Septembe closing for Christmas, December 23, and opening again January 3. Thanksgiving day and Washington's birttday were made school holidays. ———— AUCTION SALES OF REAL ESTATE, &c. Waiter B. Williams & Co,, Aucts.—Trustees’ sale of stores and dwellings 2200 and 2202 7th st. u.w., in front of the premises, ou Friday, Septem- ber 3, at 5 o'clock p.m. & Co, Aucts., 612 E st. now. * sale of valuable tract of ten ac Joining Brightwood, iu front of the premises, at 5 o'clock p.m., on Friday, September 3. AUCTION SALES. AUCTION SALES. AUCTION SALES. TOMORROW. FUTURE DaYs. WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., AUCTIONEERS. ‘TRUSTEES’ SALB GF STORES AND DWELLINGS, NOS, 2300 AND 2202 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST xe September 10 Tes, ‘and duly recorded in date 3 Liber No. 2055, at ‘felio 100 et seq., of the land records of the District of Columbia, and at the request of the party secured thereby, we will sell, ee = EES FS ¥, THE THIRD DAY OF SEVTEMRER, 1897, AT FIVE O'CLOCK PM., the following de: Washington, Distelet of ‘Colamiiar and Sewignated Washington, District of Columbia, u as part of lot numbered fifty-eight (5s), in Jesse B. Haw's subdivision of “Mount Pleasant,” de- sctibed as follows: Beginning for the same on the west line of Seventh (ith) street extended be- tween Grant avenue and Florida avenue, or Boundary street, at the northerst comer ot ‘said lot, having a frontage on said ‘h) street of forty and 42-100 (40 4: a depth Westward of one hundred and iweaty-scven and 17-100 (127 17-100) feet to a fourteen and 50-100 (14 5-100) feet wide alley, and being now desig- hated as houses Nos. 2200 and Tth street porthwest. Sold subject to prior Incumbrane-s aggregating $5,000 and accrued interest, further purticulars of Which will be announced at sale. Terms: All over cud above the $5,000 incambrance albwve men- tioned to be paid in cash. A deym't of $200 re. quired at time of sule. Conveyancing at cust of purcha: Terms te be complied with within ten ys, otherwise the trustees reserve the right to resell at risk and cost of “ purchaser. PHILIP AL DaARNICILLE, CHARLES T. SPARO, an20-d&ds _Trustees THOMAS DOWLING & ©0., Aucts., 612 E st. a. TRUSTEES SALE OF A VALUABLE TRACT OF ABOUT TEN ACRES ADJOINING BRIGHT- WOOD DRIVING PARK AND TRAVERSED THE WHOLE “LENGTH “BY © SIXTEENTH STREET EXTENDED. By virtue of a deed of trust to us, recorded among the iand records of the District of Columbia, in Lil . 1830, folio 391, and at the risk and cost of the defaultinz pui er, under a sale of the hereinafter described property, August 3, 1897, under the provisions of the said deed of trust, MN eel, in front of the premises, PTEMBER, A.D. e 5 : Beginning at the northeast ‘corner of part of said tract, conveved to Samuel D. Finckel by deed dated May 16, and ‘eccrded among the land records of the Di tact of Columwia, in Liber J. ALS. 77, folio 241, being on the south side of road "A" and running thence along said road “A” north 60 degrees, west 28.88 perches to the northeast corner of part con- veyed to Keese by deed recorded among said land records in Liber 1 ; thence with the ind kouth 32% degrees th line of ‘road “B,” witl said road “B™ south 60 degrees, east 28.88 percher to the southeast corner of whole tract syed to Finckel, being also the southwest cor- rer of land conveyed to Reilly by deed recorded amorg said iand records in Liber J. A. S. 73, folio 39, thenee with cvest line of said tended to road “A” north 3: perches to the beginning, wi oa, cons'sting of fram» building to’ prior deed of trust sald land records ir Liber No. upon which there is now due the ith interest from October 24, 189 Terms of sale: One-third of purchase money in cash, of which a deposit of $500 must be made at time of sale and the balance tn two equal install ments at one and two years, for which will be taken a note of the purchaser bearing interest at six per cent per annum, ble 6 mi-annually, from day of sile, and secured by deed of trust on the property sold, or all cash, at parchaser’s option If te-us of sale rre not complied with In tifteen days we reserve the right to resell the sald prop- arty at risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. Conveyancing and recording LOUIS F JOUN D_ SHOEMAKER, COUGHLAN, 24-dids ‘Trustees. FUTURE DAYS. FUTURE DAYS. ©. G. SLOAN & ©0., AU BALANCE OF FURNITURE OF THE VENE- ZUELAN BOUNDARY COM- 1407 G ST. MISSION AT PUBLIC AUC TION. QR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER FOURTH, 1807 within oar sales” room for the above commis: 1407 G street, we w sion, ELEGANT OAK DOUBLE FLAT-TOP DESK. OAK TYPEWRITER DESK, Book _€. HALL RACK, OFFICE CHAIRS AN! BLES, PITCHER AND SALVER, Terms cash, dts ©. G. SLUAN & CO,, AUCTIONE ALL THE (TURE IN TH WESIDENCE NO. 123 MAS SEXES AVENUE, NEAR 1: S1 NORTHWEST, A'T On MONDAY TEN O'CLOC tion, at reside: northweser ELBGA} FOLDING BED TRESSE iB, RAME EIS, LACI SINTH, 1 cll, at pnblie 1233 Massachusetts ave . OAK AND CHERRY CABINET , WITH FINE HAL Mat FINE MOQUETTE AND BRU CARY HO RDROBES, CHAMI IN SUITES AND ODD PI MIRROR, RU INGS AND Poi PILLOV PAINT CROCKERY Lt, > WARE, &e. If you are furnishing, ‘this sale presents/a pood opportunity to secure what you want at low prices. c. GSI SALE OF FOUR VALUABLE LOTS N & €O., Aucts. TRUSTEES’ ORTHWEST € OF 10TH AND NORTHW! IPROVED ALLE) TWO KAME STORES AND By virtue of a deed of trust, duly recorded in Liber 2125, folio 457 et seq., of the land rec- ords of the District of Columbia, and at the req of the party thereby secured, W: lie auction, in front of the premis SEPTEMBER THIRTEENTH, 1897, O'CLOCK P.M,, the following ‘described re y District of ¢ heirs of John Davidson sub- division “Of square 340, as per plat recorded in Liber N. K., folios 94 and 95 of the re the st of said Distric frontin feet, and said lot 1 being a Y stores fronting on M street, and being also improved by a store and three-story frame dwelling on 10th street. ‘This property will be sold subject to trust of May 28, 1895, securing $15,000, three years uf te, With interest at 5 per cent, payable sei annually, principal and interest being payable in gold coin or its equivalent. ‘Terms: One-third cash, of which a deposit of $100 must be made on each lot at the time of sale, and the balance in three equal installm two and three years from day of sale notes of the of sale (payal of trust on the property sold, will be taken, or cash, at the option of the purchuser. All conve ancitg and recording at purchaser's cost. If terms are not complied with in twelve days from rale uustecs reserve the right to resell the prop- t the risk and cost of the defaulting hasers, after ¢ for which rchaser, beariug tuterest from day bie quarteris), and sccured by deed se2-(&ds THE OFFICE] ‘™ ©. G. SLOAN & ©0., SIDE DININ' ABL MIRRORS, PICTU OLD CHIN COLORS, BLE GOO! LOT N TEN FOURTH, 1 Au Horses, Vehicles, icy Terms cosh. AUCTION SALE GF A HANDSOME TWO-STORY DOUBLE CoTTaGE AT COLONIAL cH AND A BUILDING LOT, THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE JNO. T. GIVEN. By direction of the owners, we will offer for sale, in front of the premises, on Y, TH. NTH DAY OF SECTEM- AD. 18 HALF-PAST THREE O'CLOCK” P.M., “ot 9, in block cording to the map of Colonial Beach made by B. H. Benton, said Property being situated in Wertmoreland county, iu the state of Virginia, and improved by a two-story double frame cottage, the residence of the late Jobu T. Giv nine tvoms, the property being fn excelient condition. Aud immediately after the sale of said property We will offer for sale lot 18, in block 104, according to Benton's mip cf said ¢ Beavh. This lot fs destrably located azd is an exce'lent luilding si By ‘On the purchase price in cash $106 on each parcel must be pald at the time of sale, and toe balance in one aud two with interest at the rate of rix per ceut per num. The property will be sold free of ‘all eumbrauces. Title good or no sale. If the are not complied with in tairty days, th reserved to resell ut the risk and cost faulting purchaser. Si r Jane Mossley day of sale. M. J. COLBERT, Attorney for Owners. RATCLIFFE, SUPTO: 920 P. TRUSTEE’S SALE OF A VALUABLE LOT, IM- PROVED BY A FRAME DW NO. 408 LTH STREET SOUTHEAS! By virtue of a deed of trust, duly recorded in Liber No. 2086, follo 108 et seq., one of the land records of the District of Columb quest of the holder of the note secured there Will offer for sale in front of the premises, ‘on THURSDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, A. D. 1897, AT FIVE O'CLOCK P.M., that piece of Parcel of land situate in ‘the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and known ag lot aumbered twenty-one (21) of itond & Branahalk trustees’, subdivision of original lot nine (9), in square uum: bered nine hundred and ninety-twe has a front on 11th st. cast of and a depth of 76 feet, and is imp: dwelling house. Terms of sale: One-half of the purchase money in cash, and the balance in two equal installments in one ‘and two years, respectively, from the day of sale, with interest’ at 6 per cent per annum, payable semf-annualts, to be represented by the hotes of the purchaser and secured by a first deed of trust on the property sold, or all the purchase money may be paid in cash. “Terms of sale to be complied with within ten days from the day of sale. A deposit of $100 will be required at the time of sale. All conveyancing and recording at the cost of the purchaser. If terms of sale are not complied with within said time, the trustee re- serves the right. to resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser after five days* advertisement. WILLIAM W. BOARMAN, Trustee, au28-d&ds 4 inches ed by a fraine CATALOGUE SALE OF USUAL A} *~ ABLE ARTICLES, AS MAG! MASSIVE 'CLOISSONNE JAR AND H COVER, BEAUTIFUL GLASS FRONT PARLOR CABINET, HANDSOME CIRCULAR PAgLOR TABLE, ' OAK INA CLOSET, LERGE BRONZE JARDINERE, WITH PE! “AL, COREAN FANS, FINE CLOISSONNE VASES, DECORATED ART — GLASSWARE, COREAN + EMBROIDERED PANELS ON SILK, WATER COLO! ELEGANT CORE: SCREENS, JAPANESE AND CORE. a CURIOUS OFFICIAL, MILITARY, CIVIL AND MOURNING HATS. GARMENTS AND ROBES GN SILK), AS WORN IN COREA, FINE FURS, SKINS, COREAN HATS, CAPS ‘AND SHOES, CURIOS, | SILK DRESS "GOODS IN PIECES, AMERICAN GRAPHOPHONE, PIES, SILK TABLE CLOTHS, ANTIQUES, CHINESE, JAP- ANESE AND COREAN VASES AND ORNA- MENTS, BEAUTIFUL TEAKWOOD STANDS, OFFICIAL AND MILITARY AMBER AND JADE BUTTONS, ORNAMENTS, &., &., Mostly Collected in Corea, AND BEING THE PERSONAL EFFECTS OF Mr. BONG SUN PAK, FIRST SECRETARY OF THE COREAN LEGA- TION, WHO IS RETIRING FROM HOUSE- KEEPING. The whole to be sold at pub- lic auction, within our rooms, 1407 G Street, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1897, AT 11 A.M. ON PUBLIC EXHIBITION MONDAY AND TUES- DAY, SEPTEMBER 6 AND 7, 1897. QATALOGUES MAILED TO ANY ‘ADDHESS. se2-dta within the sales reoun room 1407 G street northwest, 1887, 4 it Hy F A He Fu d af it i Hy ce 2 rH ‘ af i i bie H E 501 D st. nw. DUNCANSON B AUCTIONEERS. OF SEPTEMBER, 1897, at ST FOUR O'CLOCK P aud in front sell at public HALF of the premises, the undersigned auction, and as trustees under a certain decd trust of “August 19, 1885, recorded. in. Lilver "No. 2040, folio 307 et seq., District of C Lami Fecerds,allof Jot ‘numbered twenty-four (24), in George Watts’ subdivision of square numbered five hundred and seventy G70), as per plat recorded in Liber No. 20, folio 115, District surveyor's office records, ‘with the Improvements, belng three-story brick residence . 408 Second street nw, Terms: One-third cash (of which $100 must be deposited with the trustees at time of sale), bal- ance Jn one and two years from day of sale. with Interest at six per centum per anmum, secured on the ‘property ofall cash, ‘at purchaser's option. veyanicing at purchaser's cost. cschasrt PMALILON ASHFORD, GEORGE E. FLEMIXG, au2s-cod&ds ‘Trustees. © G. SLOAN & GO., AUCTIONEERS, 1407 G ST. USTEE'S SALE OF A COMIORTABLE FRAME TR WELLING AND ABOUT “AN ACRE | OF GROUND ON THE GEORGETOWN AND FAIR- FAX TURNPIKE, NEAR FORT MYER, VA. By virtue of a certain deed of trust, dated the fifteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and duly recorded in Liber T, No. 4, folio 24, one of the land records of Alexandria county, in the state of Virginia, and at the request Suction in frost of the pretaises, on THURSDAY: on 4 SEPTEAMISN PIE | AT HALF-PasT at ip ; i . i Fe i i is ii § ? i g # f ‘ é 8) i # Re UH i hH | RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & OO. AUCTION Trustees’ Sale of Valuable Subur- ban Real Estate. By virtue of a deed of trust to us, steeng the land records of the District of bia, in Liber No. 1967, follo 310, and at guest of the holder of the votes secured there we will offer for sale, at auction. ines, on WEDNESDAY, the EIGHTH ©.) ot SERTEMBER, AD. 1897, at FIVE clock P.M., th reels of land in the Distri-t rae lumbia known as lots numbered 1, 3 and 26 and and & 110 + beth lots numberd 1 in Meck nimbered 3; lots nny oth ineusive, to 13, b ular lot lette ded, south street, ‘all Brown's sat, b inclusive, in dA, lying t Park's said lots being alled “Ing! corded in survey in County Book 8, described and, in aid ing part of saia ant,” “Pleasam Pi Known as “Ingleside, of pr e to acid “Ingh distant 13.36 perches north sald subdiv District o oot pag stone No. 5. in the original curves of “Peasant Pieins."" end rum.ing thence with the Hne of sald road gout ty degrees West 29 perch north A3% degrees west 3X48 north Gli degrees west 17.80 perches, Tale degrees west 14.52 perches, t degrees wert 8.06 perches, thence grees West 25.60. perches, them Knees Wont perches, thence KEES West 18.40 perches, therce ne west 14.60 perches, porches, north BT%y north BO a b north SO degrees e ne toa red oak ¢ Htlis;"* division), being ail the of which the late Hi and being the sme land conveyed by) Charl Reuwan to Chapin Brown and Jos deed recorded among suid land 1700, follo 108, 80 much thereof Chapin Brown and above inentioned nN wutMlivided by ded in his recorded in hat part of maid described land conv United States for Rock Creek Park. All reid Lots, blocks and land) will be sold as an entirety « re parts, ax will be known at f said land subdivided into the above mentioned lots and blocks will be sold subject to a prior deed of trust, the sald land records in Liber No, 144, » 201; the anount then due thereander will be wade known ms of sale: hird of moacy cash and nce in eq one and two 5. ith inte at all mm) of Trust on property be required at time com Cou SA“ OF VALUABL ONT HAND D THE'CITY OF WaASHIN S NORTHEAST, IN POX, D.C By virtue of a decres of th the District of Columbia, m Cause No. 18506, the ed trustes Will oer for - at public in frout of the pretm'ses, described, on _W SEPTE) 1 AT HA LOCK P.M. ibed FOUR 0 first of the it Avision. lot forty-nine, dr d and seventy-si brick dwelling. Tmméat lot twenty-one, In squs seventy-six, improved by a one-st ing on the front and a two-story rear: and at the hour of FIVE said day, substi lot th soath of suuare num! improved by a tw Terms of ‘sf third cash, ome-thin tw> year: from the day of sul mets t» bear interest from 4: sevured te the parties, accond: interests. by a good and sw tic of trust upon the resp premises, at ihe option of the pi ror pi desosit of two undred dollars on each proerty required at the time of sale. terms of sale are not complied with within ten @zs3 from tle acy ot sale the trastess reserve the right to resell the at the risk and cost of oF purchasers after five ory brick dwelling rescrived in said d year d_pay- F of sale and iE to th it THOMAS DOWLIN¢ 6) PEREMPTORY SALE © LUABLE IMPROVED PROVERTY WEST SIDE OF VALLEY STi WN, D.C By virtue’ of a power given me by the will of William Jobuson, ‘of record in the oitice the register of wills of the District of Columbla, the undersigned will sell, in Trout of the premises, PEMKER AK r M., all of pd-and piretaises, EIGHTH, iso7, AT § that certain lot or parcel of situate, lying and being on the west side of Valle street.’ of which the stid William Johuson dic seized and possessed, and whieh is more par'l ly descrited in a ‘deed from said Will phnson, 4: and. recorded trict of Col 276 and 277. property y street of about ae feet, and is improved by a six-roo dwelling, being No. 1648 Valley street, . D.C Terms of sale: Cash. The purchaser quired tu muke ~ deposit of $100 at t and will be requived to us of sale within nm ds otherwise the right is will be re. time of yly fully with the from the day of served to resell the aut7 d&ds C. G. SLOAN IRABLE IMPROVED IMPROVED PROPERTY ON AND TWELETH 228 v ON TWELFTH STREET, WASHT By virtue of a deed cf trust, cated © 1894, and recorded in Liber 1262, folio 489 et seq.. one of the land records of the District of Colum- bia, and at the request of the party secure by, the undersigned trustees will sell, auction, in front of the premises, on THE Q EMBER, FIVE 0 wing deseril and. pre ity of Washi Distriet of G All of original lot numbered 4, feet front on 11th street by full lot numbered nine (9), bundred and twenty-tiv lots numbered two (2) and three @), in said sy three hundred and twenty-tive horse rte follows: Beginning at the northwest corner of said lot three (3) and running thence south on Twelfta street 10 feet 6 Suches; thence east 100 feet 6 fuchis; thence north 10 feet 6 inches; thence west 100 feet 6 inches to the place of be; Terms of sale: Purchaser to assum existing ance of $4,000, with Interest to dus of sale, paid one-half cash awd the re: maitder in notes, secured by deed of trust un whe property sold, in equal installments, payable in tix, twelve and eighteen me with interest at six’ per cent per annum, pa. semi-annually, from day of sale, or all cash above said trust, at the option of purchase. All com ing and notarial tees at purchaser posit of $100 on each parcel will be re the purchaser at the time of sale, Ter vf sale to be complied with within ten days from day of sale, otherwise the trustees reserve the right to resell the property at the risk and cost of defaalt- rbaser. —_ BENJAMIN S. MINOR. Trastee, No. 416 Sth st. nw. LOUIS FAHNEST@CK, Trustee, au27-d&ds 1750 8 st. n.w., Washington, D.C. DUNCANSON BROS., AUCTIUNEERS. TRUSTERS’ SALE OF REAL ESTATE, BEING PREMISES NOS. 643, 645, G47, 6i9 “AND GOL ACKER STREET NORTHEAST, WASHING. By virtue of a certain deed of trust to the under- bearing date July 1, 1895, and recorded in ‘2031, at follo 196, of ‘the land records of the District of Columbia, and at the request of the party secured thereby, we will sell at public aue- Mion, in front of the premiers. to the 1 ty-mine (170), ope hundred one hundred and elghty-one (181). (182), and ‘one hundred HE § HH i 5 fg F i i i i at i i i 4 | i i ; 4 I i i