Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1897, Page 2

2 THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1897-12 PA) sg LATE NEWS BY WIRE|ROLLIN HOOD KILLED W. A. Ward Killed by Jumping From Overland Flyer. Shot Through Head by Accidental Discharge of a Rifle, The Young Man Was Trip With a Friend—Rela tives Notified. man Haunting HAD WIRED FOR A DETECTIVE Chicago Police Mystified by the Man’s Peculiar Actions. Special Dispatch to The Evening Stor. BOYD'S, Md., September 3.—Rollin Hood, sonof Jas. F. Hood, secretary of the Amer- ican Security and Trust Company of Wash- ington, D. C., lost his life while out hunt- ing with Wiliam Teepe. He was accident- ally shot in the forehead with his rifle about 12 o'clock today. Young Hood leaned his rifle on an old log and began to clean some mud out of the muzzle which had accidentally got in. In some way he struck the hammer, which NO EVIDENCE OF INSANITY CHICAGO, September 3.—W. A. Ward of San Francisco, a passenger on the Chicago Northwestern overland and flyer. which | fred the gun off. Tne ball struck him arrived in Chicago today, and who is be- | near the center of his forehead. lieved 1c: hehe man wo: »d last sum-| The cartridge was of 22 caliber. The mer with the wife of Millionaire Bredbury | YOUN& man bled profusely and died at 1:15 o'clock this afternoon. of Los Angeles, leaped from the wmdew |" Young Hocd was employed as a clerk Pullman car while the tra‘n in the office of Luther L. Apple in the Hood rushing through Iowa last night and was | bulldi Saturday night he went to aa raka wipelved crroit m to stay until Monday. Mon- x he returned to the city, but . * ase poe canes long enough to eat his train pulled into Chicago, which ielicretal tei Gctiecs Conte cries Ward's body, clad only in a| to Hoyd’ ngage in shooting there. n found near that sta- | AS soon as Mr. Apple was notified of the aah aa wuials dation sad affair he summoned Mrs. Apple and 7 : the pair immediately proceeded to Boyd's known what hi Ward | and were with the young man when the m the train, as no one saw him. | end came. covered by Conductor | Mr. Hood not in his office in the when the train was between | American ur'ty- and Trust Company's nd Chicago. afternoon, and at 3 o’c'! building thi All of the sv.cide’s elothing and <ffects | had not been informed of the accident. were found ir. the berth he occupied. Young Hood was a bright, manly boy ag aiyaitaca, about fifteen years of age, and a_ great eee’ Se) ee favorite with all who knew him. He had The police of Chicago are mystified over the case. Yesterday afternoon the follow- ing telegram was received at the central station Please send 2 good man to-drawiag room B, car 2, of the east-beund overland Nor:h- western train arriving in Chicago at 7:3 a charming personality and was educated beyond his agi STILL NO TRACE. Messenger “Hawkins Has So Far Cov- ered His Tracks. The telegram was sent from Fremont, So far as the local detectives will say, Neb., yesterday afternoon at % o'clock. It} Thomas Varick Hawkins, the missing mes- bore no signature. Detective Broderick met senger from the collector's office, who is charged with having taken $8,625 from the safe, is no nearer a police cell than he was before he left the city. He has disappeared as completely as if he had been swallowed by the earth. The detectives are still of the opinion that Hawkins has left the city, although several persons reported today that they had seen him in the city yester- day. One woman reported to Inspector Mat- lingly that she had seen him in a store on 7th street. making some purchases, and hen he observed her looking at him, she aid, he drew his slouch hat over his eyes. The detectives, however, think the woman is mistaken in’ the man. A number of supposed clues have been reported to the police, among them one that the fugitive is masquerading in fe- aale attire. He has a smooth face and a the train at the depot, and, on investiga- tion, found that drawing room B was the room that the suicide had occupied. The detective was informed by Conductor Roundy that the telegram the police had received had been sent by Ward, he leav- ing the train at Fremont long enough to send it. What the man’s object in notifying the police to have a detective meet the train is not apparent. All of Ward’s effects, consisting of sev- eral expensive satchels and his railroad ticket, are in the hands of the Pullman Company authorities. The suicide's name and residence was learned from his ticket. His destination was Buffalo. ‘Trainmen Saw No Signs of Insanity ©. F. Goodman, conductor, and C. M. Calloway, porter of the Pullman car oc- evpied by Ward, said that prior to his re- tiring last night at 10:30 he exhibited no signs of insanity. ‘The body will be held at Wheatla until the dead man’s friends can be com municated with. Another report is to the effect that Ward sas brought into the train at Fremort, gentleman who was well dr ared to be a bus’ man of ‘There was nothing unusual and neither he nor his friend tractéd any attention. Just before the trai started from Fremont the other man places Ward ii: the state room, and shutting the deor behind him, leaped from the train. it is not known whether he locked the door from the outside. immediately after leav high-pitched voice, and it is thought by some persons that he could easily pass for a female. ne DISASTROUS ACCIDENT. er Hurt in a Lively Runaway. A disastrous ruraway accident occu his afternoon on the Columbia road,which ume near resulti fatally to several Mr. an C. Sailer of 4 reet northwest, mpanied by ing lady and a small girl, were driving two-seat carrteg and while coming the Cc 1 ewn the hill on Columbia road the horse came unmanageable, it is thought S ‘ough the hing being too long, and ashed down the hill, Just the other side : z erue the carriage col ft : seme barrels and was upset. All the i were thrown out and were more Yrs. ©. Saul id pint at- ed hun, S a the car str: r rushed te a teles and a message to the ¢ questing them to tak harge when the train arriv inclined to believe are y friends. ‘Telegrams have been forwarded by the police to Fremont requesting further infor- ident and mation. rtaaote. entangled ns jailer, GEORGIANS WON THE P carriage. He sed her on the next car following, and and the other members ef the party re taken to the drug store at the corner Cc REGIMENTAL. hurt. Mr. J. M. Boyd, a conductor First Team of District Enginers Stood Second. Special Dispatch to The ing Star. SEA GIRT, N. J.. September 3—It w need late this afternoon that gia’s first team wins the regimental mat« with the first team of the District E talon secor.d. were: First Battalion In- a Volunteers, first team, Battalion, District of Co ainecticut avenue and street, where wounds were partly dressed, and they afterward removed to their hom Mrs. Sailer, who is an invalid, is the worst party. Her right arm was roken and she had a rhe other three bruised ard sealp wound. members were badly aken up, but not seriously. > TRYON’S FRIENDS HOPEFUL. Efforts to Secure is Reappointment Jumbia National Guard, first team, : Ast Regular Cavalry, Georgia Volunteers, Heing Kept Up. & Engineer Battahen, District of Cu- Although it is believed to be settled that lumbiz National Guard, second team, St 1 Regiment, District of Columbia Na- tional Guard, S42; Ist Battalion infantry Georgia Volunteers, second team, 734; 4th Regiment, New Jersey ; 2d Regim New Je 2 nt, New Jersey, : h Regiment, New York, first team. . Tth Regiment, the President will appoint Medical Director Bates chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery, with the rank of surgeon general, on the expiration of the term of the in- cumbent, Medical Director Tryon, next Tuesday, the friends of the latter have not yet abandoned their efforts to secure econd team, the winning team made | his reappointment. Surgeon General Try- neers’ first tem, 372; the | on will retire for age in two years, and ry, 288; the Engineers’ his reappointment to his present office team, team, would enable him to retire with the rank and pay of a commodore. Otherwise he will retire as a captain, making his pay $400 a year less than it would be as com- modore. Medical Director Bates is Presi- dent McKinley's family physician, and is now in charge of the naval museum of hygiene in this city. nd the District 2d ment SUSPECTS FOUL PLAY. Trahey Demands In- quiry as to Hix Death. Detective Weedon is making an investi- ®auion of the death af John J. Trahey, a coachman, who died at the Emergency Hospital yesterday afternoon from an at- tack of pneumonia, the result of a bath in the river near the arsenal about four weeks ago. That he was accidentally knocked overboard the detective has no doubt, but the widow of the dead man is not satisfied that it was purely accidental, and on this account the case is being in- vestigated. ‘The day of the acci:ent, Si who lived ir rear of No. northwest, went boating wi REPAIRS TO THE DRY DOCK, Conferring at the Navy Department as to the Course to Pursue. Naval Constructor Eowles of the Brook- lyn navy yard had a long conference with Acting Secretary Roosevelt at the Navy Department teday in regard to the best thod of expediting the completion of the big dry dock at Brooklyn, now undergoing extensive repairs. Constructor Bowles re- cently supervised the docking of the battle ship Indiana at Halifax, and made a ver- bal report to the acting secretary of the complete suc of that work. As a re- sult of the conference, it is expected that orders will be given to hurry up the work on the Brooklyn dry dock, in order that it may be ready to receive several naval v which are report to be in need of cleaning and overnauling. The depart- lay, Trahey, 1746 N_ street n two friends, 16268 Connecti- avenue, and Mr. Ehrmaatrout, who near ‘th and K streets sou-hwest. sailed about the river for a while. y going over to Four Mile Run. While © homewerd journey, and when at a point near the arsenal, the swing? Michael Kenny, who iives cut lives vide he and Trahey was chest and knocked in He was unconscious when rescued ment desires to avoid the necessity of sending any more of the vessels on the ee ees ous home station to foreign dry docks, and will hin of the overdese of wacerana aigred | probably succeed in Its present endeavors him to corsciousness. While his chest was ee ieee painfully bruised, he appearcd well other. | @Y. eel ote wise, and was able to go home. =o =e A few days later he had an attack of the ee ee AEE ar Pigurisy. and his condition became aa was taken to the Emerx Chicago's Colored Candidate for An- umonia fotiowed th napolix Lost His Chance. sterday, as stated, the ; - autopsy One of the two colered men nominated for cadetships ut Annapolis has lost his s s eflect was | chance of appointment. This is J. S. Smith, se lo Ha who was named by Representative Geo. tves a Wife and two | White of Chicago to represent the fifth Arrangements had been made | Hiinols district at the Naval Academy. id the f services this afternoon, | Smith was to be examined some time ago, X Niow Of the’ inves xatlon @ delay | but at his own request the time was ex- > y be caused. ‘on z 21 ire ta nla iookine hae matier. This | tended to September 1, to afford him fur- afternoon the poli authorities were de- | ther opportunity for preparation jn his cidedly of the opinion that there wa studies. He failed to appear at Annapolis Tin or foal wage that Trahey was the vic- | for examination last Wednesday, and the im of foub pl. Navy Department being so informed, the 5 eer person named from the fifth Illinois district GERMANY WANTS NO EXPLANATION. | as un alternate has been directed to appeat — for examination. He is Ernest Schoeter, OMecial Denial of Rumors Connected | also of Chicago, and he has been allowed With the Meline Incident. ten days in which to appear. If he passes LONDON, September 3.—An: official con- | tse cxamiration. he wilt receive the iap- tradiction was Issued today of the report | Boon Schocter Wen wilie ber peer ot that Germany will deraand an explanation | ‘The other ‘colored nominee, Bundy, is from France on the dispatch sent by new under examination at the academy French premicr, M. Meline, in reply to the | and it is expected that this will consume message of the Torraine Soclet¥ congrat- | Several days. ulating the government upon the Franco- SSS ee Russ! ian alliance. Pigeon Flyieg. In ®e dispatch M. Meline expressed the 1 re bera: pe that Lorraine would be reunited to| Fifty young homers were liberated this “rance. morning by Edward S. Schmid at 712 12th ~ SS street for their home at New Egypt, N. J. Azcarraga Fatls as Harmonizer, | Their course was toward the east and MADRID, September 3.—The newspapers peer rc Se of this city say that the premier, General} 1¢ matters little what it is that you want Azcarraga, has failed in his effor:s to re- | —whether a situation or a servant—ao te the warring sections of the conserva- | “want” ad. in The Star will reach the live party. ° person who can fill your need. NAVY YARD ‘BRIDGE The Old Structure Officially De- clared to Be Unsafe. COMPLICATED PROBLEM PRESENTED See Capital Railway Line Authorized by Congress to Cross It. THE ENGINEER’S REPORT The Navy Yard bridge is unsafe. This is the substance of a report made to the Engineer Commissioner this morning by the computing engineer, and brings the Commissioners face to face with a compli- cated problem. In the act of Congress chartering the Capital Railway Company permission ts given the road to cross the bridge? The Commissioners have decided it must cross by an underground trolley. After consider- able bickering, the road agrees to put in the underground system, and makes appli- cation for a permit. This necessitates, as the next step, an examination of the structure, to determine its strength. As stated above, it has been found that the bridge is in an unsafe con- dition, and in the opinion of the engineers not capable of carrying with safety the loads that would be imposed upon it by the cars. No While the Commissicners have no alterna- tive but to grant the permit, since Con- gress has authorized the occupancy of the bridge, they propose to point out strongly the defects in the structure and throw the entire responsibility upon Congress. The report made hy the computing engi- heer, which was addressed to Capt. Lans- ing H. Beach, assistant engineer commis- sioner of the District, is as follow “Aboyt a month ago 1 was orally in- structed by the Engineer Commissioner te examine into the structural sufficiency ot the Navy Yard bridge over the Eastern branch, with a view to determining its safety under the loads that would come upon it, due to the anticipated operations of the Capital Railway Company. “I have made such an examination, using the best data obtainable, and while the results are not so conclusive as a fuller investigation might develop, they are yet sufficiently definite to permit me to re- port certain circumstances and conditions for your consideration. The structure was built in 1876 by the Phoenix Bridge Com- pany, and consists of twelve spans of Prat! trusses, each 100 feet long and a draw span of plat> girders thirty-two feet long. The 100-foot spans are through trusses di- vided into seven panels, and are detailed in the usual Phoenix style, with closed- section poSts and cast-iron boxes at the panel points. The iron is superficially in fair condition. “In approaching such an investigation as the present, the natural procedure woula be to examine first the probably deficient members of the structure, since the failure to justify these would be a primary result that would subordinate and make unnezes- sary a continuance of the exumination. “I have accordingly considered thy first truss vertical, the floor beam hangers and stirrups, the floor beams themselves, both as to shear and flange strain, the cross girders (6-inch I's) of the draw span and the main girders of the draw span, both as to shear und as to flange strain. “It is proper to state here that the per- missible unit strains for such purposes as this examination are among the dis puted data of engineering. Should the same ‘Strains used in designing a new structure be here applied a further con- ration of this case could be stopped by the statement that the bridge is not safe under the loads I have assumed would come upon it. It is good practice, hi ever, in cases like the present higher unit strain tran the one described—, not that these are originally too low, but that experience shows that when necessary they may be increased to a limited extent 4 without immediate danger. What this limit of strain should be is the cause of much anxious thought to one charged with the responsibility of its determination. “The literature on the subject is limited, an epitome of it, and the best discussion I have seen, is in Trans. Am. Soc. C. E., Vol. . No. 4. This paper, by Mr. Greiner, cn- sineer bridges, B. and O., and discussion by a number of this courtry’s best bridge engineers, seems to practically reduce to the proposition that ordinarily the unit strains used in designing a new struc- ture may be increased 50 per cent when reviewing an old one; before the bridge should be condemned. ‘It is, of course, un- derstood that the purpose of this increase is to possibly justify a structure within supposedly safe limits, in the interests of economy. “How far this motive should control in this case has been another consideration that has caused me some hesitation. The proposed use of heavy motors on this structure never been encouraged by this office, and was orally discouraged to those who suggested it, and the greatest advantage derived from its use accrues to the Capital Railway Company, while the risk, if any, is mainly on the District. Without appearing an alarmist, I believe these last stated considerations justify me in deciding to use not the full 50 per cent increase over designing unit strains, but 25 per cent. “The assumed weight of the loaded motor car is 30,000 pounds on a wheel base of seven feet six inches. The unloaded motor weighs 15,000 pounds, and allowance i made for packing 100 persons on the ca each weighing 15) pounds. Alternative. The statement of results will be under the condition of two such motors passing on the bridge and omitting all calculations. Unit strain. Member. Ac- Permis- tual. sible. Stirrup (shear), main floor beam .. a 4640 6250 Flange (1-6 web added)..... 20000 15000 Web (shear)..... + 5680 6250 First truss vertical + 1210011250 Unit strain. Member, Draw Span Ac- Permis. tual. sible. “6 I cross beam flange (by moment of quertia)........ 27000 15000 Main girder. Flange (1-6 web added)...... 16900 15000 Web (shear). - 2400 625) It should be stated in reference to these figures that all flange unit strains are for tension on net- Sections deducting rivet holes, and that owing to thé very shallow tram rail used on the draw no assumption was justifiable that a wheel load would be distributed to more than one of the six- foot cross beams, which are spaced two feet apart. It should also be stated that no other live load than the loade® motor cars was assumed, since, as the members considered were all detail ones limited to one panel’ of load, {t was ‘thought that these two motors, would represent prac- tically the maximum loaded condition of the bridge. In discussing these results it can be said that items 3 and 7 would be helped toward justification by a provision ‘that cars should not pass on the bridge, but such a regulation, besides being a makeshift and doubiful as to its constant observance, would further require the consideration of such other moving loads as would thus possibly pass the remaining motor, and it is known that these are occasionally of very considerable weight. Moreover item 6 would be in noways helped by such pro- vision under any circumstances. “Without going further into the details of the structure, it is conclusive to me that no such loads as I have here assum- et (fairly, I believe, and justifiably 1s such assumptions must be made) should be per- mitted to cross this bridge, “It is no proof to the contrary that they do pass it successfully once or any other number of times; they do not or will not do so safely. I further invite attention to the details of this structure, the panei points, with their cast iron’ boxes; the closed section of the compression members, whose interiors have not been seen for over twenty years, and while I do not impeach their sufficiency, I think | they constitute an added doubt in ccnnection with the results above detailed, A reference to the charter of the Capital railway would seem to show that Congress authorizes them to cross on this bridge. What the duty of those charged with its maintenance may be in this cennection,.1 am unable to say, but I take it that at least a full representation should be made of the actual conditions of the structure, ard that the- responsibility for its should be placed where it belongs, rot left indeterminate. “A more ‘remote consideration than the structural strength of the bridge is the consequences of derailment, not at all a likely occurrence, but by no means impcs- sible; and with a heavy car, at a moderate speed even,.a blow a vertical post fitting loose into ® cast iroW panel box is a condi- tion not" td#be dismigsedas free from Ma- bility to serious resyits: \A flirther proper subject for; consideration is the necessity for protecting the ken water-way of the draw span>during @he passage of water trafic. The history of ‘electric railways is un- fortunately a ler_that such protec- tion is a real necessity, and in this in- stance there are no gonditions that modif; such necessity; ex@apt that the draw is not at present opendd at night time. Still there are fogs, icy*rails, etc. — The old Navy Yard bridge is mentioned in the history of the District’s bridges as being 1,260 feet lorg, with a roadway twenty feet wide and Sidewalks five feet wide on each side. The bridge structure consists of 42 through spans of 100 feet each,and one draw span,on the Bascule prin- ciple, of a thirty-six-foot span. The pres- ent structure was built by the Unit States, under an appropriation of $146,- 000, by an act of Congress approved June 1S74. The contract was executed by tk, Resves & Co. of Pheenixville, Pa. The structure was opened to the public June 17, 1875. In July, 1892, Engineer Hunt, in charge of the department of bridges, called attention to this structure, and sa “Its condition is as satisfactory as i nature will permit, but it is safe only u cer ‘slow travel and the substructure poor.’ The last investigation was much more thorough. Engineer Hunt, now computing engineer, went over the entire bridge in detail, estimating its carrying capacity at different. points, and figuring cut the ten- sile strength of the beam: WILLING TO FIGHT use and Representative Mudd Would Break With Senator Wellington. WILL GIVE WAR IF WAR 18 WANTED An Exciting Chapter for Maryland Républicans., AWAITING THE FIFTEKNTH “If Senator Wellington wants war, he can get it." Thus spoke Representative Mudd, at the Treasury Department, to a Star reporter this afternoon. “I called to see Secretary Gage,” said the representative, “to asceriain if it were true that Senator Wellington nad with- drawn his indorsement of Dr. Luck for col- lector and to notify the Secretary, if this were true, that I wanted all the indorse- ments. “While I have-tried to be a friend to Wellington, and am still willing to be his friend, I am“ready fér war. I have heard it stated that Wellington would indorse some man from my own district for col- lector whose chief claim to Wellington's support is manifestation of hostility to myself. I want to venture the assertion that that man, whoever he is, won't be ap- inted. es i Dr. Tuck was, fully aware at Qrccean City that he inight lose the appointment he bad taken, Dut fre Boldly said he did not care for thats! that We was doing his duty to his party, sand: totshis state. Before I will consent to the appointment of a man indorsed by “Senator, Wellington 1 will transfer my thdorseméuts ‘to Parlett. “I have no: dottht that the policy of the republican pagtyiwilk-he much enhanced iy. the action;ef the:martyi at: Ocean: City, and that the final oyteame. will bere de- cone victory for the ticket in the state iéctions. “Such “Consolation 3s avarth moyevthan Wellington’ self or Dr. Tuck. p “Inasmuch as. Senator Weilington’ has changed his mind, the ‘repabHcans of his state may, change their minds within fif- teen days. I have asked Secretary Gage to withhold. action until after the 15 the state work.” i oe MAY HAVE TROUBLE friendship for ‘my- sth, when convention ~ will conelude its Troops Wanted to Protect the New Mexico Authorities, The Secretary of the Interior evidently anticipates trouble at Zuni, N. M., during the present month. He has asked the War Department to have four troops of cavalry rendezvous at that place about the 15th instant for the protection of the terri- torial authorities in the arrest and prose- cution of certain Zuni Indians for the tor- ture of an aged Zuni woman. Acting Sec- retary Meiklejohn has referred the matter to the adjutant general for proper action. LIBRARY ARRANGEMENTS, Locating the Music, Newspaper and Periodical Departments. Librarian Young, accompanied by Assist- ant Librarian Spofford and the heads of the different bureaus, went over the new Library building today and selected the location for the music department and e newspaper and periodical departments. ‘The music department will be located on the second floor in the east south curtain. The newspaper department will be on the first floor in the esst south curtain, and the periodicals will be in the middle room next to it. 5 Librarian Young proposes to leave the pavilions located in each corner of the building open for exhibition purposes, and so that visitors may make the entire cir- cuit of the building upon each floor. —__—__+2-_—__ OFFICE WIRED. PENSION It Can Now Be Lighted With Elec- tricity. ‘The pension office is now for the first time wired for electric lighting. Its re- ception of electric light wires is the re- sult of the war being carried on between the two electric light. companies of the District of Columbia, which has caused each company to seek, extensions wherever the law permits them. The United States Electric Light Company has run its wires into the building, put in a few electric fans, made provision for a hundred lights when the government wants,to appropriate for them, and all ‘this hag been done without the expense ofa pénny,jon the part cf the government. —_—_—_+—+ «4______ ‘EW TUR}GIS H MINISTER HERE, point " po! d to Snece Mustabhe rae in Bape CONSTANTINOPLE,, "September 3,—Ri- faat Bey, untfl ‘recently councillor of the Turkish embagsy in London, has been ap- pointed Turkish minisier at Washington, in succession 49 Mustapha Tachsin Bey. ett D's IOFFER REND’S 10} REJECTED. Strikers Reffine to “Accept the Rate Proposea by the Operator. PITTSBURG, Pa. oBeptember 3.—Col. Rerid’s miners‘at MeDbnald, Pa., will not go back at the’ferms offered by rim yester- day. The committee appointed to present his ultimatum: to the men reported today that meetings were held last night and it was decided to accept no rate except 69 cents, and not ¢o wcrk for that price unless all other mines do tld same. 2 The ‘miners and their committee were unanimous in this, and say that all talk of going to ‘onany other basis is Nothing has been recetved here noon from falceeon and. both valine: be great doubt of settleme sixtyenine cent rate and will. go ahead with their nts to start the mines not pay* the men., > Foot SETH LOW ACCEPTS Makes Formal Answer to Action of Citizens’ Onion. PREPARING AN ANNOUNCEMENT Takes the Nomination for Mayor as a High Compliment. NO PATRIOT COULD REFUSE NORTHEAST HARBOR, Me., September 3.—President Seth Low of Columbia Univer- sity today accepted the nomination of the Citizens’ Union for mayor of Greater New York. He was informally notified of his nomination at his cottage, here, by J. C. Clark, a special messenger of the Citizens’ Union. Tne only persons present at the time be- sides President Low and Mr. Clark w: four newspaper men. There was no c mony attending the affair. Mr. Clark s'm- ply said: “Mr. Low: I have the honor, on behalf of the Citizens’ Union to tender you the nomination for mayor of Greaier New York.” He then read the ietter cf notification from the union,-to which Mr. Low listened attentively. When the reading was finished, Pres‘: it Low ‘said to Mr. Clark: “I am leeply moved by the paper you have just read to solemn'ty that is made upon me and my decision has been reached not lightly or thoughtlessiy, By but soberly and in the Way oF lepiy, | have prepared a stat to the public, which will be ‘followed a few days by a formal letter of ace anc fear of God. Will Accept the Nomination. President Low then read the following dccument: “As soon as I can, I shall pre- pare a letter formally accepting thc nom- ination for mayor of New York offered me by the Citizens’ Union, acting on behalf of its own membership of 25,00 citizens, and also on behalf of 102,000 other citizens, who, without regard to party affiliations, have expressed over their own signatures the desire that I should be nominated and elected. “In my view, the nomination has thus been virtually already made by the peopte. No patriot, under such circumsiance: could decline to stand, unless he were pr pared to discourage, even in local matters, all spontaneous movements by the peop! outside of the limitations of party. The seems to be an Importance attaching to the order of nomination at this juncture on the part of those apparently inclined to be con- trolled -by this expression of the popular desire, that, personally, I fail fully to un- derstand. What seems to me vital is that those who nominate me should understan my position in the campaign and the sp in which I shall administer the government of the city in the event of election. On these points my letter to the Citizens’ Un- ion of June 7 supplies most of the inform tion that is necessary. What is lac! shall try to supply in my formal le! cepting this proffered nomination. Campaigns Like Real Battles. “Political campaigns are, in this respect, hke real battles. They are seldom fought out on the plans originally laid down. The situation with which I am called to deal is essentially different from that which 1} contemplated in June. Others also must face the changed conditions. 1 and all who are concerned must make the choice in the presence of conditions as they are, not as they may wish they were. | am not so vain as to believe that the unprecedented .expression of popular eonfidence on which my candidacy is based, and for which 1! ‘am more-grateful than I am able’ to say, is in any overwhelming sense a political ribute only. I think it rather means that the people of the city, as they contemplate all that is at stake, are deeply moved by the cesire that when the great city begins its new career it shall do so with a man- date from the-voters to the officials of the icity the welfare of the city, not of any party, is to be their first concern. Stands for the Principle. “For that principle I am known to stand, for it I shall contend i the coming cam- paign with ‘such allies as time may bring, but for it I shall stand, be my friends few or many. Because the Citizens’ Union stands for this principie, and because 1 am in sympathy with its general purposes, I-shall gladly accept its nomination, and t shall welcome all support from any quar- ter that recognizes the position that I oc- cup: ‘At the close of the reading President Low announced that he wouid prepare and make pubtic his letter of acceptance by the middle of next week, Messenger Clark left for New York this afternoon. sd ACCIDENT TO WEDDING PARTY. Ensign and Mrs, Smith Have to Walk to the Train. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 3.—The story has just leaked out that Ensign and Mrs. Smith had to walk part of the way to the staticn et Fremont Wednesday night after their wedding. Mrs. Smith is the daughter of the late President Hayes. On their way to the train the carriaze conveying the bridal party, in an attemet to leave the street car tracks on which the vehicle had been traveling, wrenched a wheel from its axle, throwing the occu- pants to the ground and scattering their band baggage in the street. They hurriedly made their exit from the carriage unhurt and walked the remainder of the way to the depoi, four blocks away. The horses became frightened and attempted to run. The driver ciung to the reins and was dragged a shcrt distance before the team was stopped. He was slightly bruised, but otherwis2 uninjured. The affair was kept very quiet and but few of the friends at the depot who went thither to give the usual wedding serd-off knew of the occur- rence. x —>_—__ ATTORNEYS MORE CAREFUL, Effect of the Investigation in the Wedderburn Case. Since the beginning of proceedings for the disbarment of John Wedderburn & Co. from practice before the United States pr tent office information has been received by officials of that bureau to the effect that ‘a number of patent agents are scanning their circulars, advertisements and forms of letters, revising them in many instances and burning up the old steck of printed matter, in order to be free from any danger of charges of misconduct in the manner of running their business. In this way it is believed that much has been accomplished in the improvement of methods used by at- torneys generally who practice before the patent office. The Wedderburn investiga- tion has called up a discussion of methods used by attorneys in a way that was never before known. ‘The commissioner’s decision in this mat- ter is looked forward to with the greatest interest by patent attorneys, as it will be regarded as a declaration of the duties of an attorney toward the client in many re- spects and wiil form an important prece- cent in patent office matters relating iv disbarment proceedings. The commission- er’s decision will not be made before the middle of next week. 5 It is the almost unanimous opinion of those who have followed the case carefully that tne commissioner will disbar both John Wedderburn and Wedderburn & Co. ———_~-- ___ 3 Examination for Customs Service. The United States civil service commis sion has ordered that an examinetion be held by its local board in this city Satur- day, October 2, commencing at 9 o'clock a.m., for the grade ef deputy collector and_ inspector in the customs service. Only citizens of the United States can be exam- ined. No application will be-accented for ‘Thompson, secretary board of examiners a examiners, custom house, Georgetow: Blank, before’ the hour of closing Dieters WORK OF THE PATENT OFFICE Annual Report of Commissioner Butter- worth. There Were Fited 49,880 Applicati: and There Were Granted 25,819 Patents and Trade M rks. Commissioner of Patents Butterworth has made a report to the Se-retary of the In- terior of the business of the United States patent office for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897. He shows that -luring the past year there were filed 49,884 applications for patents, while the patents, trademarks, &c., granted number 25,819. The receipts of the office were $1.2 44, and the expenditures $1,02# . leaving a surplus of $31 is $100,000 more than last ir. The total re- ceipts of the patent office over expenditures to date are $5,09%,614.23. Of the work of the office the commissiouer says: “On the 30th of June, 18 pxaminers had their work within one mor seven of ihe n of date, sixteen were between one and tw: months and the other ten were betwee two and three months from date. At the cS of the fiscal year there were 12.241 applications awaiting action on the part of the office. Increase in Business. I desire to call especial attention to the in the business of this o ay that if the work is not to fall in arrears, an increase in the force must be provided during the ensuing fiseal year. “Such be included in the es- timates which 1 shall I also lay particular emphasis upon imperative necessity that means be p: vided for the improvement of our facilii for transacting the vast amount of busin which is daily expanding in every branch and division of the office. I shail inclide in the estimates a recommendation that Congress provide a contingent fund of not less chan $40,000, to be disbursed under the direct supervision of the commissioner of patents. “The commissioner is, or, if at all com- petent, should be, qualified to pass upen the needs of the bureau, and yet it is of frequent occurrence that his requisitions are either lly disapproved or radically trimmed by members of the clerical force, through whose hands they pass, and who are presumabiy less familiar with the needs of this burcau than its official head. — It occurs that the mere custodian of supplies in this department sometimes constitutes himself a judge as te whether or not this effice needs a new typewriter, or another desk, or case of portfolios, and he taxes this action after tne commissioner and his chief clerk, upon actual knowledge, cer- tify to the necessit “It is submitted, with all respect, that both of these officers in reau are Donded and are in a large degree respon- sible for the million and more dollars an- nually received, and are chosen because of their supposed competency to honestly and prudently disburse the appropriation pro- vided by Congress for the maintenance and conduct of the patent office. The Record for Applications. “A greater number of applications for patents were filed during the year 18% tnan in any previous year in the history f the patent office, and yet the number ed during the t six ‘months of Ii y more than 7 per cent the r received in the first half of is From January 1, 1897, to June 30, 18! there were filed applications. During the same period the total receipts of th office were $722,897.47, a gain of $102, ever the six months’ immediately irg. A comparison of the same period shows an increase of about 6 per cent in the number of patents granted, and a like increase is shown in the number of assign- nents recorded and certificat issued. During the same period in 1896 there were sold 3 1 printed copies of patents, while in 1897 there were sold 679,483 copies, or an increase of neariy 103 per cent during the first six months of the present year. The increase in the number of copies not, however, resulted in the duction in the space occupie records,, which was price of the copies was reducc “While it was reported that on June 1896, there were 8,43 applications ! the office awaiting its action, during some weeks prior thereto, during all of October and November of that year, and at other periods, the number exceeded ten thousand; but beginning with February, 187, and continuing to the close of June, 18%, a steady increase was maintained until the applications pending for action on the part of the office reached the number of 12,241, reported in the above table. By constant and diligent effort by the examining corps the number has since June 30 been brought down to about the number in arrears in the fall of 1896. Danger of Lack of Thoroughnenn. “In crowding the work, however, it oc- curs that the examinations may not be 2s therough as they ought to be, and inas- much as inventors have provided a iund ample to employ a force sufficient to in- sure efficiency and promptness in the -lis- patch of business, it is submitted that the appropriation of the fund so provided stould be adequate to the just require- ments of the bureau. It is not prohapie that the number of applications on hand could be brought or kept below 10,000 with the present force of the office, even under the rushing precess, if there were no crease over 1896 in the receipts of applica- tit-ns. ‘The field of search, especially among foreign patents now accessible to this office, has greatly increased during the last few years, and the character of the work is such that it is impossible for the examining corps, in which there has, been no increase since 1891, already pressed to its utmost capacity, to reduce the volume of work and do the work properly. With the indicated increase of applicaiions the work must continue to fall further behind unless relief is afforded. “I call your attention to these facts at this time because they present the situation with which I have to deal, and make clear the necessity for increased facilities. In the estimates ot appropriations to be hereafter submitted I shall include only such in. creases as are essential to enable the of- fice to bring-the work up and, with earnest effort, keep it in such state as a proper administration of the office demands. In the annual report to Congress I shall dis- cuss the subject generally at greater length.” submit in a few da these the by expected when Grain and Cotton Marketa. Furnished by W. B- Hibbs & Co., bankers and brokers, 1427 F st. members New York stock exchange, correspondents Messrs. Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., New York. Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE, September 3.—Flour quiet, changed—receipts, 8,053 barrels; exports, rels; sales, S_barreis.. Wheat weak— mouth, 99a994: “October, 98'.a%%; Decem: 0\; Steamer No. 2 red, ¥5ail5'4—receipt bushels; exports, 162,03 bushels; si 280,077 1,658,400 bushels; sales, 49,000 bushels—southern’ wheat by sample, 954100; do. on grad: Me. Comm easy—spot and mouth, 35%035%; October, 36036%; November or ver, new or old, ‘ Steamer mixed, 3423414 receipts, 121,659 exports, 297,547 bushes; stock, 1,554,399 hel sales, 56,0004 bushels—southera’ white and yellow corn, 38." Oats steady—Ng. 2 white, 24 sales; No. 2 mixed, 21a22—receipts, 27.575 bushels: exports, none; stock, 328,290 bushels. Rye firm—No. 3 nearby, 51%; No. 2 western, 52 bid —recelpis, 2.228 bushels; ~ ‘i exports, nove; stocs, 100,148 bushels. Hay Timothy, $13.0da$15-50. Grain freights firmer—steam to Liverpool per bushel, 2; + Cork for orders FINANCE AND TRADE pe oe St. Paul Stock Took a Boom on Wall Street Today. ITENSIVE BUYING SENT PRICE 70 99 All Granger Shares Received Mark- ed Attention From Big Buyers. ed lig = GENERAL MARKET REPORTS es ae Special Dispatch co The Evening NE W YORK, this mor mber retle Sep ing varying from 1-4 to 11-4 per later trading made substantial to these figures in numerous instances The voiume of commission busir was more than equal to countera of heavy realizing sales racter of the buying has no’ led last the was in 1 augur: which improven spire contidence ae is based continue to rity too la at in prosp, odin London estim metion of accura first i raarket came Rumors of an the that xira divide had extensively cireulat # lecal market after the close of yesterday's busi- und later became factors ir lings. The price of the ter was ccnsequently 1 per cent sher than the local closing. The local for these share resumption stall Was ex f ration hed at 9% ited, trading 3-4 per 1 ‘8 final bid. - price was higher tha 1 of hesitancy, buyin le set in, forci ig the by making a new high ading Burlington, whi the moment, had dropy-d back arow isappointing earnings. The extra dividend ru noes, while credited to one or two individual dirsctors, are sut- ficiently rliabie to warraat the be the full board will be in favor of action. The company >an easily increase from earnings, and ulira-conservatism on the part « agement will postpone such action. The so-called Standard Oil interests nd J. P. Morgan & Co. were credited with the bulk of the buying today The following reports of earnings especial interest now that the roads seem to be on the eve of res on an mak: nothing but pan- the the leadership in the market. Rock Island for August increased S75.810. St. Paul for same period increased $256,247, and Bur- lington for the month of July increased $289,708, It ts only fair to note that the latter Property reports for a period thirty day: earlier in the grain movement than ‘ts neighbors, and that at present it is ship- ring corn in volume never equaled in its history. The total car lots over t line are running over 1.200 per day, ané future earnings of the present fiscal year will be equal to some thing more than 8 per cent on the stock. Western Union was taken up during the afterncen and advauced to an entirely new level. ‘The earnings of this company bh been ‘mproving steadily of late, and t one-time doubt concerning its divide rate is no longer a consideration. The low-priced shares, particularly those ng an international market, were given client support. Heavy realizing was in progress through- out the day in American Sugar. During the first hour a new hign point was established for the p of f ating the marketing of long There was some ancy noticeable throughout the industrial department. All things us ed the day was ‘ance in the s Big interests have taken hold whi lar interests have left off, and the re seems likely to continue to be successful, ———— FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, The following are the opening, the high- est awd the lowest and the closing prices of > of un- the New York stock market today, as re- rorted by Corson & Macartney, members New York steck exchange. ndents, Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 80 Broadway. Open. High. Low. Close. American Spirits... lag dy 14g American Spirits, pfd 237, By American Sugar... 7 15OSG 1Ddyy BAIS American Sugar, pfd 18% us American Tobacco. 965, rs American Cotton Oil. 26 2m 15% Atchison Sc Baltimore & Omo. fay State Gas. Canada Sou! FARO, Chicago, St. Paul, M.£0 Consolidated Gas. Del, Lack. & W Delaware & Hudson... Den. & Kio Grande, pfd Eni Gene 111 .ois Central 1a@k> Shore. Lousville & N -. Metropolitan ‘Traction. Manhattan Elevated...) Michigan Central Missouri Pacific National Lead Co. National veauUo.. pid.. New Jersey Central... New Lork Centra... Northern Pacitic. Northern Pacific, pfd Unt. & Western Facitic Maul Phila. & keading. | Pulunan P. ©. Co. Southern Ky., pfd. Phila. Traction . Yexas Pacith Tenn. Com & Union Pacite. U.S. Leather, pi Wabash, pfd.. Western Union tei. Si.ver.. Washington Stock Exchange. Sales regular call—12 o'clock m.—Americam Se- curity and Trust 5s, $500 at 102; 8500 at 101%, American Security und Trost, 5 at 14 at 145; 145; 2 at 145. Mergenthaler 1 t 122%. Lanstou Monotype, 100 at 16%. District of Columbia Bonds.—20 year fund 5s, 1014 bid. 36-year fund 6s, gold. 1135, bid. Water stock 7s, 1901, currency, 114 bid. Water stock 1903, currency, 114% bid. 3.658, fuud'ng, curren 111 bid, 115 asked.” 3tys, registered 2-108, 100 bi Miscellaneous Bonds.—-Metropolitan Railroad 5s, 115% bid. Metropolitan Railroad conv. b 120), asked. Metropolitan Railroad certificates of indebtedn-ss, A, m2 Railroad certiticates ‘ofitideltedness, B, 11 bid, 111 asked. Kelt Railroad 5s, 9) asked. Eckington Railroad 6x, SY bid, 100 asked. Columbia Railroad 6s, 118 bid. Washington Gas Company 6s, series A,’ 111 bid! Washington Gas Company 6s, series B, 112 bid. U. 5. Elec Light debenti 104% bid. Chesapeake and Potomac Tel. 4 bid. American Security and Trust 5x, F. and A., 100 bid. ¥ and Trust 5s, A. and ©.. 100 bid. Vasiington Market Company" isi " Washington Market Company Washinzion Market y Gs, Masonic Hall Association 5 Nativnal Bank Stocks.—Bank of Washington, 275 Metropolitan, 285 bid, 310 ask Farmers’ and Mechanics’, 17 & Citizens’, 132 bid. . Capital, 120 bid. "West Ena, 10 Lincoln, "104 bid, 108 asked, Onio, Safe Deposit and Trust Companics.—National Safe Deposit and Trust, 115% bid, 120 asked. Washin- ton Loan and Trust, 118 bid, 122 asked. American Security and Trust, 143 bid, 146 asked, Railroad Stocks.—Capital Traction, asked. Metropolitan, 115 bid. 235 bid. 56 bia, Insurance Stocks.—Firemen's, 20 bid. Frankiin, tan, GS bid. Corcoran, bid. Potomac, 65 bid. Arlington, 138 bid. "German. American, 200 bid. National Uyion, 20 bid, Tf eked. Colambie, 11 bid. Miers, Tie bid. Peo- Pie's, Lincoin, ; Title Insurance Stocks.—Real Estate Title, 105 Mid. Columbia Title, 5 vid, 7 asked. District Ti tle. 10 asked. ‘Avanla, 40 bid. 50 asked. 38 bid. Met Telephone Ntocks.—P. ie earaane i he ant can : merican Granbophone. pre 10 bid. Preumatic Gun asked. Mi Stocks. — Mergenthaler Linotrp>, 122% bid, 123 Lansten Monotype, 1 tid, 17 acked. Wi Market, 10 nid. Great’ Falls Ice, 115 bid, 125 asked. Naval Orders. Lieut. D. Peacock has been detached from the Wheeling and ordered to treatment at Mare Island Hospital; Lieut. B. T. Walling, from the New York navy yard the to _ Pn os a to Sey