Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1897, Page 17

————— THE EVENING STAR. Foto PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 3102 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. llth 8t, by The ening Soy eerie Soray KAUFFMAN, 1 Kew York Ofice 49 Potter Eulding ‘The Evening Star fs served te subscrihers ta the tiers. of thelr own account, at . o- 44 certs per month. Co cents each. By mail—onywhere in the d States or Canada—postage prepaid—30 cen! Pb. Qcintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, wit tage added. $3.C0. at the Post Odice at Washington, D. C., d-cla. mail matter.) TF Ail mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. Rates of advertising made kuown on application. Part2. Che Foe ii Q The regular permanent family, circulation of The Evening Star is more than double that of any other paper in Washington, whether published in the morn- ing or in the afternoon. As a medium for unobjec- tionable advertisements it there- fore stands unequaled and un- S Tat. Pages 17-26. WASHINGTON, D. ©., SATURDAY, oeT OBER 9, 1897—T WENTY-SIX PAGES. approachable. LR se as a ae ws a te meets its preference. clusiv ported to serve us for you. Perfect making. Jackets and Waists. your money. PERRY’S The verdict is being rendered. It is in our favor. You are expressing your delight with the styles in ready-made gar- ments that we have had made for this season’s choice. The stock is so large and varied They are all styles that have ~ been made especially to our order. AT== that everybody’s taste So most of them are ex- Some of them are copies of models that were im- J All of them represent. the most advanced of this fall and winter's creation Perfect fitting. list of excellences that describe our line of Suits, Skirts, Capes, Novelties. Staples. It is a long Perfect draping. We suggest that at our prices you will get the best for Ladies’ Fall Suits. Special prices reign. You will find they gre really special if you will make a few com- parisons. We don’t suppose we have the largest stock—but it is as large as it can be and be select. A Suit to find a place on our racks must be as nearly per- fect as can be. We have been successful in combining style and worth. You can save a lot of worry with dressmaking by selecting a Swit from this’ assortment. We take the responsibility of seeing that you have a perfect adordorbond stots soasonte store toesndsostesLodaosze short soa seostostontons eeeteetenserandantennessmoecongengcnrconsens roe rteesgeeseegy ey eeegnesensenseasensegegesgeeteeseegeesnegnesnearaseaeesgueguetnaseaseaceegegeeteeteeseege eetsedtonsongee Special price--§$ 10. rt Heegeetondeateefort t=, in Green -€ Cloth, et : skirts with silk: ut ia the ver; lined with per- caline Velvet. Ww ‘Special price--$12. id Blick Cheviot ussian BY with Her lined with pe: Navy e with nied S skirt lined velvet. IK th PPP PCH EPGe PID tan sorte reergontnegrese a sil and wil P Worth ecial price=--$18. choice of =$20. we and mi orth ecial price -$20. ¢ 9 Ladies’ Capes. The “special price” banner is flying over these useiul little wray We have had some very unique effects made up— and we are proud of them. It is well nigh impossible for you to equal the opportunities that we offer. These Capes are cut the onable length, and made nd lined in our proper way. You yell get along without a and why made Capes, strap- he stylish styles of | price=- amt Blick Spec Trown, ia nm, add th 0 ap rm -€ 1 with Melton, and 1 tin rhadame. Worth $15. Special price 1f Capes, with high =$10. Seesodioteoteoteoeetet btantin ot ioteotnota ei ote teenies cote feet leoteotelatanteoteotaet cotati Cointiteplaotintinly ote tod N Jackets. Fashion has made it almost imperative that you buy a new Jacket this fall—that is if you want to be in fashion. The season introduces several new and handsome styles. We can show you the very latest—and the prices will not frighten a es Set Soedetenondetoigente inte dontetontr you. In fact you will be tempted by them—and attract- ed by the unique garments that they preside over. Navy Blue and Bt Jackets, made up In fi glish Kersey stitched seams, ininid velv Mned all through with chs silk. Worth $12. Special price rt Cloth Coats, finished with stitching and lined with satin Worth $13.50. Special price=--$10. Tan and Black Kersey and Melton Sacket intata with strapped or stitched sea:ns, vet or high storm collars; lined bh $15 pecial--$12. Wo Man-tailored Melton Jackets, cut 22 inches long, with strap seems, lalaid ve vet collar’ and ined’ all through with Toman striped silk. Worth $25. Special price You will wonder where there is any profit for us in these Skirts at our prices. But never mind that—there is sat- isfaction for you—quite the most you will get anywhere. There should be a hang about your skirt that is hard to describe—and harder to drape. Ours have it. Black and Navy Blue Cheviot and Serge Skirts, cut the latest pattern, Ined with “percaline. You will notice they hang with perfect draping. Worth $6. Special price=- $4.50. Black Cheviot Skirts, new shapes, lined through with [lack and Changeable taffeta silk and bound with velvet. Worth $15. Special price--$10. Ladies’ Satin Duc perealine ints, lined with Ivet. Cut on ‘ne v Spec Silk Waists. There are wai quality is all right and the style all wrong. And Waists where the quality is all wrong and the style all right. Here are ours—RIGHT in quality, style and price— therefore satisfactory. Taffeta Slik Shirt Watsts, with ed front id pluited ruffles down one 4 White linen col- Jar S pecial price--$5. d Sik Shirt, Wists, down the front and sleeves and White lines lar. Worth $9. Special price-- $7.50. rt Waists, in all the popular x, made with blouse front and nd yoke back; Bishop sleeves hite linen collar, Worth $12. Special price--$9. Ladies’ Flan- nel Waists. A lot of Flannel Waists that are worth $2 we shall offer on Monday at $1.69. You ought to have at least one of these for change sake. Sul y Ladies’ Navy Blue, Black and Red Flan- nel Waists, inade With full front, with box plait down front; edged with’ plait- ing of same material; e back and White linen collar. Worth $2. Special price== $1.69, PERRY’S, “NINTH AND THE AVENUE.” Soaserdontontendondontrese sdordonderserdontontneseeseacontentenseaseeseosententensnnanesnasenteatoateasbesneseeseegeaseatonseeteeoete seteege Snteet wtetentnttereptetetmteteseterteteinteelellptetetetoeel eo .3 So % |price--$18. Ladies’ Skirts: heetentontonsens ete Sefeatbtes % eter patente set ofente Soates$ aondeeseetendentontens oedeeferte a a a a te eas te eas ss es eee Soetentendententer sete reSessengeodontonten a soodeedecontontoreeeengectoetenfontordoronoedenecteeteetoatontontentenrentente geet A AAAAAARAKRREKRERARRE RRR, veovrrvoren| THEY LACK ENERGY Ladies’ Suits, Wraps, Waists and ; Skirts. Special prices for special qualities Business Men in London Object to Any Innovations, MARVEL AT AMERICAN ENTERPRISE The Commercial Conquest of Great Britain by Yankee Methods IN MANY LINES OF See TRADE Spectal Correspondence of The Evening Star. LONDON, October 1, 1597. One reason why an American in London can never quite feel himself an exile is that wherever he may look up toward the rcof tops he will see almost as many flags of the United States as there are union jacks flapping between his eyes and the hcrizon, On many buildings throughout the wholesale and retail business sections of the city the stars and stripes are daily played, the appearance of some of the flags inspired by the hope that they wil! attract the trade of American tourists, others loyally. flung out by the London tranches of American business housex, these of both classes a flattering tribute to the prowess of the country. A stranger might think that the United States had already accomplished that conquest of England which most Britishers believe is our secret and long-cherished ambition. The fact is that a second conquest of Bri- tain is in progress, but a commercial con- quest, and London business men are awakening to the fact that their territory is being invaded and their profits looted by the keenest competitors they have ever en- countered. Within the past five years certain lines of American-made goods, American bicy- cles, American typewriters, stoves, sewing machines, electric apparatus, and other verieties of machinery have made great strides in the British markets. Their es- tablishments are to be seen on all the im- pcrtant streets, with the familiar exhibits in the windows, always more attractively displayed than the wares of English com- petitors in the same lines, and placards ex- horting the traveler to ride the American wheel, or describing the advantages of the American shoes in some catchy sentence Stare one in the face like familiar friends in every ’bus or underground station. American Enterprise. A great hewl of protest went up from the London newspapers this month when they discovered that the contracts for con- structin and equipping the new under- grou electric belt line, which is to lure all commuters away from the sooty, chok- in, coal-fed engine tunnels, had been given to Yankee firms. The tunnels them- selves are being bored by American en- gineers and contractors and all the rolling stcck and rails are to be imported from the United States. Reporters were sent to ask the directors of the road why in the name of patrictism they had not expended their money, which will total several mil- in the home market. The reply was he contracts had been advertised to awarded to the lowest bidders, and \ ns in every instance had under- bid the English manufacturers, These business defeats worry English statesmen acut and the newspapers ccrsume many columns in trying to ex- plain the reason of them. An explanation is easy for an American who keeps his eyes open, and it is because the secret of the commercial success of the newer world lies so plainly in sight that the English- man blindly stumbles over it while he is trying to find some cccult complications of political economy to explain it. An Ameri- sightscer who is taking things easily ard starts out from his hotel at 9 clock in the morning notices with surprise that the shopkeepers are just sweeping out their pleces and taking down their shutters. He remembers that storekeepers at home have ady been at work two hours. If he pens to get an early start and wants to buy a hat or have his hair cut, he finds that he ts unable to do so. The whole secret of the superiority of American busi- ness men is in first principles, not in any machinery of political economy—they work harder and more intelligentiy. Hours of work here are shorter, nor do the men at- tend so strictly to business during those heurs. Beer and Bacey. English workingmen get much smaller wages than their American brethren, but if their wages ure reckoned by the day it strikes an outsider that they are paid all they carn. A posse of London day laborers “working,” the word is applied by courtesy to their movements, in a ditch or on a Vuilding, is a sight to bring tears to the eyes of a New York contractor. More than half the men appear to be engaged at any given time in filling their pipes. Most cf the remainder are devoting themselves to beer. Beer seems to be the chief element of a London workingman's existence. If they are not drinking beer it is because they have just sent for more beer or are discussing ways and means of beer. Beor is altogether the mest striking characteris. tic of the lower strata of English life. ‘The “bus driver, when he tells you that some. thing happened to some king on the pare ticular street on which you are navigating the fog, breathes beer, the respectable looky ing matron who sells'you a morning paner at the corner stall exhales beer, even the blind beggar with six starving children ks beer from his pores and shuffles off ith your penny to the nearest. “pub.” In the intervals between beer and tobacco thé Englishman devotes himself to tea, Tea is a stated feast occurring at 5 o'clock, dust as the Mohammedan wherever he may be falls on his knees at noon for pravee the Englander in the palace, the drawing room, the golf links, the cricket field. the office or the shop, when the clock strikes five, drops whatever he mav be doing to drink tea. Work and play are practically paralyzed throughout the British empire for thirty minutes daily beginning at 5 p.m. Bound by Tradition. In addition to his slowness the English- man is hidebound in business by trad!- tions. There is an old servant in the Sav- age Club, who lights a fire in the smoking rcom every morning. He was told to start one when he came to the club half a cen- tury ago, and as no one has ever told him uot to build one, he has made it a part of his daily routine since that first morning. He 1s not paid to think. These traditions are charmingly picturesque, but they earn no dividends. Every evening at sunset @ company of forty soldiers from one of the government barracks marches into the Bank of England, where its men do guard duty until sunrise, when they are marched out again. The lieutenant in command is provided with a luxurious sleeping room in the bank and on his departure every morning is handed one gold sovereign as a gratuity for his services. “The old lady of Threadneedle street” is equipped, of course, with modern fire proof and burglar preof safes and might be accoutered with burglar alarms and all the appliances for. protection le possible by electricity," but—. The “but” is that two or three cen- turies ago, more or less, redcoats were necessary to guard the hoards of money in the bank and so to the end of time a company of soldiers will be dragged forth nightly and imposed upon with the dreary drudgery of patrolling the tomblike vaults, which might protected as surely and much less ¢: ively by half a dozen watchmen armed with six-shooters. Another fetter by which the British man. of business makes himself miserable ts— clothes. Every man who goes into the city to an office above and fncluding the rank of clerk, or in the vernacular “clark” must ke attired in a high silk hat and a frock coat. It matters not. how hot the day, nor how wet, whether -the victim can afford these garments or whether he is comforta- ble in them, he must @wear them. That is an unwritten law from which there is no appeal. As a matter of-fact, the medieval armor in the. tower is as comfortable and as well adapted to the encasement of an active man as are frock coat and silk hat, but something unspeakably horrible would happen if a bank “clark” or a bookkeeper were to appear before His employer clad in the comfortable short jacket and straw hat of the American business man. So, his weges being smaller than those of workers of the same class in America, he offends good taste with a rusty black coat and a beaver, whose surface resembles the fur of an angered cat. A most dismal, funereal and depressing spectacle they present, the thousands of young men pouring into the city every day, uniformed like undertakers, countenanced like Uriah Heeps, whereas under the wings of the bird of freedom, except on 5th avenue, which is a depend- ercy of Piccadil: male persons do not ar- ray themselves in such garments for week day use, unless -they have attained an age when their thoughts are tending toward the tomb. The dress reform crusade has a great fleld in England, but not among the women. They stride’ along in enormous boots, taking full breaths into unlaced lungs and swinging ‘their hands in big, stout gloves, sunbrowned, ashamed, if un- able to do their ten-mile before-breakfast constitutional, altogether comfortable and good to look upon. The men are martyrs to clothes. Why? An American tires of asking that questién. “We always have” is the stereotyped answer. “Why do you write with a quill pen?” is another of the ‘whys’ which fhe American pokes at the Englishman whenever he sits down to a desk opposile one. “Every Englishman ‘uses a quill pen” is the explanation to this mystery. “Could you not writé more easily with a steel pen?” “I dare say” (indifferently). Considerations of utility are as dust in the balance against the fact that the quill has been, from time immemorial, in the hard of the English gentleman. Don’t Know a Good Thing. There is not a typewriting machine in a London newspaper office, so far as the ob- servation of the writer can testify. Their use would degrade journalism. It is doubt- ful If the type setters would walve their dignity to read such maehine-made stuff, even if editors would stoop to feed them with it. The London press agencies have all the copy they supply to the newspapers duplicated by writing on pads with a stylus, a slow, long drawn-out agony in the production, an ilegiblé scrawl in the result. Almost every page which gaes to the com- bositors in a modern American newspaper office is typewritten, but to ask an English }- Journalist to operate a machine in the prep- aration of his soporitics would be a distinet affront. No gentleman coutd do that, you know. But since the motto of an English tewapaper ae Piever! togprint today what e deferred until temo: i 59 rien mater rrow it does not e American man of business, wh steps into the field unhampezed by such no. tons, seems to be pushing to the front Nery fast. A London newspaper editorial described a national charaéteristic today, though with entire absence of any intent toward humor, in saying: “Nothin the average British mind so 1 aaGnee Mea rushed upon 1 age Is applies much more. aptl 5 English pusiness maa than to the, ee citizen who desires to buy. If the Amer- iean manufacturer ean cony e the latter, as he usually can when he starts to, thet he can give him @ better article’ at « smaller price, the Englishman, notwith standing much after-dinner prattle about sustaining British industries, will go to the cheapest market. Within the past five years advertisements of: American goods, and perticularly patent medicines, have made hideous ail the streets and walls and tunnels of London, with the result thet home competitcrs ‘have been driven to adopt the American advertising methods to keep in the running. Yankee patent medicines have, however, monopolized the rade. ade. During” the ' jubilee one spe- cific, whose middle “Jetters are VR, blazed on every street at night. Loyal eyes were at. first caught by the apparent display ofthe monogram of her most gracicus majesty; then they dis- covered in smaller letters, much smaller, the rest of the word. Their sense of the proprieties was outraged, but they remem- bered the name, and witl carry it In their minds for a long time. How American! In a London newspapdér office on a re- cent night the managing editor gathered his staff about him to ‘listen to a “good one.” He held aloft and read a message from the London correspondent of a New York newspaper. It was: “Can you tell me where I can find a’good shorthand man tonight?” t ‘The manager repeated in a bewildered way, “Tonight,” and all his assistants shouted in amazement, “Tonight,” and the manager murmured, “How extraor- dinary,” and finally, “How American. There is another side fo the picture, how- ever, tkat is the Britisher's point of : To jog along comfortably in the position to which he was born, thaking the most of the small comforts within his reach, in- stead of mingling in a frantic struggle to get to the head of the race, is in his eyes the more sensible scheme of life. ~ A young Englishman starting in a pro- fessional career was complaining of tts hardships. “If I could get a comfortable government sinecure at £00 a year I would ask for nothing more,” he said. “But in a government position would be no chance to was suggested. “I don't want to get to the front,” he explained. “I want to be able to sit down ‘ufter dinner with my dog and my book and smoke my pipe. The American gets to the front, but is he better off there than the Engiishman who sits down with his dog and his book and his pipe? ROBERT M. COLLINS. ——— RUILDING 4 - BONFIRE. there get to the front,” How to Make a “Sut From the London Daily News. It 1s easy to make # bonfire, and when once a good start has been made it is easy to burn almost anything, from tar barrels to Quakers; but it is ‘not s6 easy to bulld and burn a really good beacén fire, as, per- haps, would be supposéd by those who have never tried it. A bonfiré is not a bonfire when it does not blaze wel, and if you want a really effectiveand ftiipressive flare- up it is not sufficient to keep'together large quantities cf materialg.%A short life and @ merry one should be the mOtto for a bon- fire,and the great desideratam is to burn the largest amount ‘of terial in the smallest space of time, . T! is not gener- ally very well understood, and the conse- quence is. that thorgl on previous festal occasions enormous quanti’ of combus- tibles have been corsumed, the, result has been in many cases onty. a great smother of smoke and less than half the flame that there would have been if the business had been better understood. The success of a honfire may be judged by the distance from which it may be seen, and that will not depend at all on the quantity of material:consumed. Of course, it Will greatly nm the height of le the. hilltop on pict fire is located and thing being gata, Spat bone t 5 equal, tyat*bon furthest that may BS made to suck in the most oxygen. A conn b of dons heated under a stream of o: n known- to blaze with a light has been clearly visible at a distance 100 miles, much further then the bea- con Oee Apes vee wae built. ty years ago or on the Malvern hills, and wag believed to have “beer” at a distance_of sixty Se a bonfire: was kindled | aRO WING AWAY MONEY. he more you think about the way Castelberg is underselling the cash jewelers the more convinced you will become that it is a waste of money to buy anywhere else. Tie high-profit old-fossil cash jew- elers arestill crying ‘‘Wolfl’’ and saying we cannot sell on credit lower than they. Notice they admit we seli as low, but nolower. Try them, one and ail. [ake mo exception. Then come to us and let us prove to you that we do save you 20 per cent. es Any honest person can obtain of us on credit without publicity fine Diamonds, the most reliable | Watches, Jewelry, &c., on the following exception- ally liberal terms: $10 worth, $1.00 down, $15 worth, $1.50 down, 75c weekly. $25 worth, $2.50 down, 75c weekly. $50 worth, $5.00 down, $1.00 weekly. $75 worth, $7.50 down, $1.50 weekly. $100 worth, $10.00 down, $2.00 weekly. All transactions STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. A guarantee accompanies every article sold that if not satisfactory money will be cheerfuly re- | funded. s | Castelberg’s Nat’l Jewelry Co., 1103 Pa. Ave.=--Next Star Office. Balto. Store, 108N. Eutaw St. _ Established 1846 50c weekly. Goods delivered on first payment. hills, which was, perhaps, the most ambi- tious experiment of the kind that had been made up to that date, that the use of the two tons of coal proved a mistake, but that probably was only because the laying of the fire was badly managed. The thing to be looked to as essential to success is a free play of air right into the heart of the stack. Everybody knows that if a grate gets clogged with ashes so as to feet square. There were used in building this pile four hundred and fifty fagots, twelve poplar trees, two tons of coal, five cords cf wood, four loads of hoop poles, two loads of furze, two barrels of tar, twelve empty tar barrels and a barrel of naphtha. This mass of inflammable mate- rial was piled on a hilltop 1,000 feet high, and it ought to have been a brilliant suc- ces’. But it s to have been considered Games of Sa’ From Warper's Round Table. Most people are well aware that the pop- ular Canadian game of lacrosse originated, goodness knows how, many centuries aga amongst the North American Indians. When you come to look into it, it is quite astonishing how many games were orig- * 4 lly invented and are today practiced by something of a failure. In such a heap of | prevent the passage of air up into the fire | inal material stacked closely together there | from beneath, the fire burns dead and dull. a SS ay aa would have been a large compact mass in! The same thing occurs if a large mess of | Savages. rfid eric cd ao the center practically shut in from the | combustible materia! 1s stacked flat upon | oe Wet day, he thought to amuse hia reach of the surrounding air. Unless par- ticuler care were taken in the building of the pile, the air, rushing in upon the blaze from all points of the compass, would be caught by the external flame and be di- verted upward, leaving the whole central Dyak boys by showing them cat's-cradie, But he found that they not only knew It, but Knew more intricate figures than he. ‘The Meoris of w Zealand actually have a sort of pictorial history in cat’s-cradie figures of twisted fiber. The Sandwich Is- the ground. Care should be taken to leave abundant air passage into the center, and, | indeed, free access to the whole base of the pile is best if it can be managed. A few strong ircn hurdles laid on big stones er stuck up in the ground for the combustible ss anders play a kind of draughts; the South mass practically untouched by {t, or nearly | material to rest upon, so as to admit the | landers j 1 : fo. The eurface of the pile would thus be | air right underneath the whole blaze, will | Sea peoples nearly all are adepts at kite affare, while the heart of it was merely a | add immensely to its brilliancy’ and | flying. Polo come regener et hed dead and smoldering mass, contributing | strength. played magnif — 1 tril =| little but smoke, and merely prolonging the a from Northern “or eackeammon any process of burning without in any way con- parchisi are both comnrn & mes, flat tam- tributing to the eplendor of effect. It was | “Want” ads. in The Star pay because | arind seeds being used as “lots” in the lat- said at the time of the fire on the Malvern | they bring answers. ter. Would Have Become Blind! E have recently had three cases where a little longer delay in having their eyes treated and proper glasses fitted would have resulted in blindness. Why will people wait? Why will they take such terrible chances with such an all-important : Yet it your eyes tested and fitted at all chan to have them tested and fitted by delicate piece of organism? is better never to have an incompetent optician or oculist. We took no chances ourselves, for-we searched New York until we had secured the services of an oculist highly eminent in his profes- sion and thoroughly experienced in both hospital and private practice. Dr. F. Proctor Donahay is of the new school of oculists, employs new methods and has all -the latést improved facilities for correctly diagnosing all eye troubles and in improving the vision; also strength- ens the optic nerves with a view of curing the trouble altogether if possible. : No charge whatever is made for the doctor’s services, and only one- half other opticians’ charges, are made for’ the glasses. Examinations, whether you buy or not, are absolutely free. Have your eyesight tested. Glasses on credit—weekly or monthly payments. Castelberg’s Nat'l ~ Jewelry Co., 1103 Pa. Ave.--Next Star Office. Baltimore Store, 108 N. Eutaw St. Established 1846.