Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1897, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1897-16 PAGES. The November CENTURY Begins a new volume and contains all new features, including First Chapters of Mrs. Bur- ton ison’s new novel of New York— “GOOD AMERICANS.” “ Andrée’s Flight into the Unknown.” Impressions and Photographs of an Eye Witness. The Last Days of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. ‘A powerful presentation of a tragic theme. By Anna L. Bicknell. Ilustrated. The Sultan of Turkey on the Armenian ion. An interview with the Sultan, Abdul Hamid, contributed by the Hon. A. W. Terrell, lately U.S. minister at Constantinopie, in which the Sultan gives his side of the Armenian question. Published at the desire of the Sultan, who wishes thus to make known his views to the people. A Story by Stockton. “<The Romance of a Mule-Car.” A Poem by James Whit- comb Riley. “ Rubdiyat of Doc Sifers,” the storyin verse of a quaint and lovable village doctor. Tlus- trated by Relyea. An Imperial Dream. A woman's reminiscences of Mexico during the French Intervention, with glimpses of Ma: liam, his allies and his enemies. By Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson. Illustrated. A Mapin Color of “Greater New York.” Accompanying a bricf paper on “The Growth of Great Cities,” with many_inter- esting and hitherto unpublished statistics. y ‘about horses,— sketches of “the Horse as a Member of So- iety.”" “ The Parish of jomas Equinus.”” “Braybrocke’s Double Event Steeplechase."* “Mozart,” by Edvard Grieg. ‘The famous Scandinavian composer writes most sympathetically of the great ‘who awoke the spirit of music. Strange Creatures of the Past. = Wonderful reconstructions of gigantle sau- aos of the Fetiian age, in iutrations by Charles E. Knight, with’ articles by Henry Fairfield Osborne and William H Ballou. A Stecy by the. Auiive of “The Cat and the Cherub.” “The Cherub Amo - sec he Ch ng the Gods,” by Ches- A Poem ret Harte. “« Lines to a Portrait.” An Open Letter from Mark ‘Twain. A Tribute to James Hammond Trumbull. An Essay by John Bur- “On ths Re-Reading of Books.” The Photographs of Mes. meron. By E. V. Scott O'Connor, with interesting reminiscences of Tennyson, Carlyle and others. Illustrated with reproductions of Mrs. Cam- eron’s work. “ 3 ” The Story of Chitral. The heroic defense for seven weeks by the British garrison of Fort Chitral on the Indian border. By Charles Lowe, War Correspon- dent. Open Letters. Topics of the Time. In Lighter Vein. Price $4.00 a year, 75 cents a number. New subscriptions should begin with this number. Subscribe through dealers or remit to the publishers, THE CENTURY CO., UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK. HUMAN OXEN IN SOUTH AMERICA. Seme of the Hardships of Travel in the Tropics. In an article on “Difficulties of Trans- pertation in the Trepics,” in The Engineer- ing Magazine, August, C. P. Yeatman tells some remarkable stories of the strength and endurance of pack carriers in Colombia. Says Mr. Yeatman: “There are professional pack carriers on some roads who make a specialty of carry- ing burdens which the sturdy and much en- during mule cannot stagger under. On some of the roads you will see at times what appears to be a live box, staggering slowly and painfully down the mountainside ahead of. you; as you draw nearer, you may iiear the box grunt, very much as an old pack mule does at each downward step on a steep road. There is something uncanny about the whole proceeding, if it is your first experience, and you happen suddenly to overtake the box, going down hill, for the moving, swaying and grunting mass has no visible means of support, and no ap- Farent excuse for behaving in such a man- ner. * * * Very likely the road is too narrow for your mule to pass your fellow traveler; so you are obliged to fol- low in its wake But at last you are able to pass ahead, and you find that the organ is in no way to blame for moving, for it has a man under it. and stumpy he may be, but the mi) in him reminds you of the pictures of old Atlas holding the world brawny shoulte: In one S$ a loi stout cane, with which he steadies hims. on the slippery clay, and, when he wishe - backs up the bank on the side settles the lower end of his the higher ound, and props Stick; then he d maguey tiber from under his burden. he next hill perhaps you will over- man pack carrier, her skirts tuck- ed up to her knees, and below the skirts, in prominent view, great knots and masses of corded muscle, which form her not grace- ful, but very useful, underpinning. Ask her how much weight she carries, and you may get the answer, as 3f i load, ‘ecko arroba: were a child's s'—equivalent t 2d C ao Ss and forehead, and } apt to be: ‘You should see ‘my grandmoth- er; she does carry heavy loads; I am not full-grown ye.’ This is sald with so fnjured ar air that you ride on wondering v-hy you had not remembered that a woman has a tight to be touchy about her age, even if she is not dressed in the height of fashion. As to the grandmother, and the probability of her still being able to carry burdens in this world, you are apt to be strongly of the opinion that the pack-mulish old lady has drawn entirely on her imagination; but do not be too sure of that, for the glaring tropical sun brings wrinkles quickly, and, where women are frequently mothers at fcurteen years of age, a great-grandmother y sull_be a very active member of so- & = s this sort’ of freight carrying expen- sive? Rather! A twelve-arroba, 330-pound package, which is generally the maximum for men, as a nine arroba is for women, may cost $150 for one hundred miles, $10.18 paper per ton per mile.” +--+ e2—____ or How to Take Moonlight Photographs. From Scribner's. Moonlight effects in photographs have long been admired by the uninitiated, and fully appreciated by bcth amateur and pro- fessional photographers for their beauty, and many plates, too, have been spviled by snap-shotters who have accepted moon- “ht as the real iliuminator of these views, nd accurdingly focused directly on_ th beautiful orb ef night. Moonlights with t moon herself m evidence are rei | phote | | 2 i Hy sun that is, pictures taken with posure, the camera pointed sun generally in the late after- noon or early morning, and witn clouds bet nm the lens and the direct rays. Many charming so-called night pictures are taken by “making two exposures, a short one in the rapidly diminishing after noon sunlight, to get an impression of buildings and other dark objects, and an other longer one after dark to print in gas and electric lights that line the long street or mark out the roads and winding pathways of a city park. If you want anything, try an ad. in Ths Star. If anybody has what you wish, you will get an answe ROP! | Whilst others were exercising all the skill and ingenuity known to the trade to rid themselves of their original holdings we quietly slipped our cables and sailed away. Our return was as quiet and unannounced as our going. But we brought back the 2d € ROP! Bristling with all that is new, stylish and desirable—and ONLY SUCH. CASH was our lever and hence CONTROL. g58 $10 per s among the fortunate ones! 75 tit you'd be indeed fortunate. row morning and will go out with a rush! For Men’s Suits. STRICTLY ALL WOOL, up to date. in, style and tailored to perfec- tion.- You might search the markets ofthe world and if you found their equal in take, material and style at These Suits go on sale tomor- See that you are numbered Montagnak Overcoats For Men. Never in the history of the clothing trade in this country has such an offer been made. So far as we know no such offer has ever been made to any people of any clime. This may be pronounced a gross exaggeration by a few wiseacres, but a large majority of the people of this community know that we are not given to exaggeration and never to misrepresentation. Tomorrow. These two items are enough for one ad., but we want to tell you that our BIG 4 IN 1 STORE gains in MEN’S AND BOYS’ CAPS AND FURNISHINGS. is bristling with the biggest sort o’ bar- SUITS AND OVERCOATS, HATS, This 2d crop is a boon to this community. WIcTOR E. ADLE TEN-PER-CENT CLOTHING HOUSE, — 923, 925, 927, 929 7th St. N. W., CORNER MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE. ‘only two hundred and twenty pounds.’ As you catch sight of her wrinkled face, you may thoughtlessly remark that it is a heavy load for one of her years; her answer is TO CARRY OUR GRAIN Unique Gathering of Ocean Tramps in American Ports. FROM EVERY QUARTER OF THE GLOBE The Crews Are a Queer Medley of Many Nationalities. SCENES ON SHIPBOARD Never since 1891 certainly, and probably never since transatlantic freightage be- gan, have such large quantities of grain been carried abroad as will sail this fall to feed hungry Europe. Any craft that floats is good enough to carry grain this year. The skippers and supercargoes, who are ever on the scent for business, and range from South Africa to Hong Kong in their wayward courses, are now gathering to the American ports as flies swarm in a candy shop. Twice this fall—once in plain sight of the Coney Island excursion boats—I have seen crews of Lascars eating their queer for- eign-looking meals, squatted flat on the decks of tramp steamers hailing from In- dian ports. The Lascars were sitting in a circle witn a bowl of rice in the center, on the deck. They dip the rice out with their hands, tilt their heads back and throw in—that is, the crude Lascar of commerce does so; though some have learned to eat with spoons by the time they get to New York. Lascars for sailors and Chinamen for stewards is the rule on Indian tramps.. The little celestials are simply perfect cabin servants, and it costs little to feed them; they, too, live mostly upon rice. Upon the same steamer one will see offi- cers eating meat and vegetables with knives and forks, Lascar sa‘lors eating rice pilof with their bare hands, Chinese stew- ards flourishing their chop sticks, and per- haps a few Hindoos in a group apart, who for reasons of caste must dine separately. Strange Medley of Nations. It is a strange mixture of races and re- ligions that gathers on the water front to help feed Europe with Yankee grain. There have been seen this year Hindoo, Moham- medans and Lascars of the same belief prostrating thomselves toward Mecca in the ports of Philadelphia and Baltimore, as well as New York. There are Buddhists and Confucians—if that is the correct word; and a ship's engineer told me one day that the cook of his craft was a Mahdist from the Soudan—a man from what has been the most inaccessible spot on this earth for the last fifteen years. This Mahdist believes that the true be- lievers are invulnerable by Christian bul- lets. “But many of the Mahdi: wounded by the Egyptians,” teasing engineer one day. “True, O Kwageh, but they must have been bad mcn, or the Prophet would not have Ipt them be hurt.” Invaluable is such a faith! At any rate, this zealot of the Soudan is a good sea cook. In his youth he probably never saw rain, for there are whole regions in the Soudan where it never falls, but he has seen water enough since. For the rest, the medley of nations on the wharves is always confusing enough, the Norwegians and Dutch cheerily hob- nobbing with British and Spaniards and “Portygees""—who of all Europeans rank next to Lascars at the bottom of.the scale. Transferring the Grain. The lighters which take the grain from the big elevators are ugly hulks enough, fit only for harbor use. They snuggle up to the big elevators which dip theif tubular probosces deep into the lighters’ budies, and suck away like mosquitoes until all the grain is drawn up. The probosces are’ ¢1- Uptical tubes which are thrust down into the grain, and “eat it up’ with an endless belt of disks of metal shoving it up the tube. The grain goes up,.,008 bushels an hour, to the hopper, and thence travels to the weighing box. Here it is always found lighter than when !t started from the n having dried out on the way. Endles: the squabbles between buyer and seller over this difference. From the weighing box to the hold of the tramp steamer the grain travels on other endiess belts. Shovels and human muscle have little to do with this part of the pro- cess of feeding Europe. Loading the Ships. Pretty nearly all steamships nowadays have their hulks divided into sections; and grain ships must be so divi ‘The grain must be put evenly into the sections, and one must not be too far ahead of another in the loading; otherwise the ship will be “hogged,” or warped out of ner shape. The work of trimming the wheat is very hard, and the men who do it must wear wet sponges over their mouths, or perhaps wet- ted rags laid across their faces. Elven then the dust frequently makes them ill. When all is done the ship sails away with an ever-lurking danger under hatches. ‘the wheat may “heat,” especially if it is at ail damp when loaded, and slowly smoldering set the ship on fire by spontaneous com- bustion. Only one form of cargo is more dangerous, and that is cotton. Transat- lantic steamships that bid for heavy pzs- senger traffic are obliged to carry no cotton if they wish to command high prices for cabins. There are no such restrictions as to wheat; but the captain of every steamer carrying it is ready, day or night, at a mo- ment’s notice, to flood any one of his com- partments to save the rest of the ship. These are some of the dangers run by the queer little dark men of the far east, and the big blonde Scandinavians, and all the rest of the congress of nations who gather at the loading of the motley tramp ficet that is saving Europe from the grip of hunger. have been argued the FOUGHT A PANTHER. Map and Animal Fight to the Death With Nature’s Weapons. From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Probably the only man who ever killed a panther with no other weapon than the strong hands and brawny arms nature gave him is a resident of Memphis. * He is an Australian native, born in Syd- ney, and gives his name as John L. Sulli- van. He stands 6 feet 5 inches in his shoes, and weighs 215 pounds, not an ounce of which is surplus flesh. His colossal frame is one sciid mass of bone, sinew and mus- cle, and if fighting were his trade he would be ready to go into the ring at a moment's notice. Had ha been reared a pugilist he would have cut no mean figure in the his- tory of the ring, and in all probability have proved a match for Peter Jackson in his palmiest days. But this modern giant says he never fought a man in all his life. The only fight of pote he ever had was with a Panther, and that laid him up for a year. He will remember that fight to his dying Y- It occurred nine years ago. Sullivan was then ‘ireman of a construction train on the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas rail- road. One day his engine stopped in the wWocds near Shelby, in Bolivar county, Miss., and having an hour’s leisure he got off, intending to snatch an hour's rest on a pile of cane near the right of way. Just siace dip SSSZ eat Tet, Aueraine Bi 8) a 3 . iat “ora, eetach oe Te a rer ve, fore terri! buried themselves in it. Then the battle began in. : ns FOR MEDICINAL USE -" NO FUSEL OIL This is the season of the year when People need to be specially careful, and there is nothing equal to this great discovery for preserving the health and prolonging the life. Your druggist or grocer will furnish it. Send for pamphlet. DUFFY MALT WHISKEY CO., Rochester, N.Y. animal, now roused to fury, reared himself on his hind legs and came on with a rush. Sullivan caught him by both forefeet and held them in a grip like iron. A furious battle followed. It was a hand-to-hand fight between man and beast on equal terms and with life as the stake. Sullivan tried to throw the beast, but the ground was slippery with his own blocd and prevented a firm foothold. At last, inch by inch, he forced the animal toward the root of a big tree and with a mighty effort threw it down and fell on top of its prostrate body, never releasing his hold of those mighty forearms. Then came a struggle that Sulivan long remembered with a Shiver. He knew his only chance lay in keeping his clutch on the brute’s forearms, extending them as wide as he could force them. After a brief breathing spell he crawled up the brute’s body and planted One of his knees firmiy on its chest. All this time the panther was using his hind legs: to great advantage, tearing chunks of flesh from Sullivan's feet. But be never thought of it He had other work before him. How to kill the beast was a question that puzzled him as he kneeled there, panting, half fainting with loss of blood, his nerves almost over- come by the fetid odor of the brute’s car- cass, inhaling its hot breath and almost feeling the fire of its eyes. At last he tnought of a way, and nerving himself to the task he dug his knee deep down into the animal's chest, summoning all his strength to the effort, and feeling its bones crunching under him, Then using the spot on which the knee rested as a fulcrum, he drew the animal's head to- ward hjm_so as to break its neck. ‘The ani- mal divined his motive and resisted with all its strength, but the man prevailed and the neck broke with a snap that might have beea heard a block. When the conductor and engineer came along half an hour afterward they found Sullivan lying unconscious in a: pool of his own blood, almost incthe arms of the beast he had slain: /fhe:‘animal weighéd 06 pounds, and measpred 9 feet 3% inches from tip to tip. pn yy Sullivan is fifty years. of age. His name is probably assumed. ‘He has lived in the United States for twenty years and is em- ployed by the Memphis Street Railway Company as a trackman. A reporter for the Commercial-Appeabosaw him last night and took his measurements. His height is 6 sects Anchen: as arms outstretched measure 6 feet 19 ne es, 6% inches more than those of Rébert . Fitzsimméns;- ithe reach, ef, his right, arm is 313g in re- jaxed’and.45. inches, when tense; -Fifssim- mongt “dicepa are only 12 inches; ‘forearm 13 inthes, an inch. and.a half more’ than Bob's; his, chest. measurement is 39, against Fitzsimmons’ 4i, 7) = SuHlivan used,to.veara No. 12 shoe, but after’ Ris-encounter with the panther his feet, which had heen badly clawed, swelled so that he now has to-squeeze into-a°13.- Not long ago, it h local shoe deale: with a placard st; shoes would fit might have them. shce dealer had no idea there was such a feot’ on enrth. Sullivan came aloré’ and soon proved that his title’to them was in- disputable ent an is afraid to fight a man Pér' fear results to the other fellow, A blew from*His, Ueht arm might kill: an ox see SE ee A GRAVITY CLOCK. People Who Think the Problem of Perpetual Motion Solved. From the Utica Press. In appearance the clock suggests.a finely finished model of a machine or hoisting apparatus rather than a timepiece. The dial is secured by an upright brass “A” structure. This latter is surmounted by a round’ aneroid barometer, which suggests the familiar steam: gauge. Around the dial is a large fly wheeb with sprockets, and to the left of the fly wheel is an endless bucket chain lift, constructed upon the principle of a grain elevator, with a thermometer on the post of the lift, suggesting a steam valve. Forty-one little weighted halls, vach about*the size of a large pea, are empioyed to operate the clock; they are drawn up on the bucket chain and dropped at intervals of a minute into a conduit over the fly wheel, from which they roll into the sock- ets of the wheel. The wheel carries twenty- one of the balls at one time, and their weight revolves the wheel. The power thus produced swings the pendulum and goy- erns the hands on. the dial. The wheel carries the balls about-a third of the way around, and then they drop into another conduit, a triple incline, which finally lands them at the foot of the elevator again, where the endless chain gathers them up for another “swing around the circle.” Some fine mathematical work has been requisite for this clock, as everything about it depends upon the most exacting calcula- tion. The balls must he all of exactly the same weight and the momentum of each must be the same; for if any one of them were to lose a fraction of a second in de- scending the triple incline it would miss its proper sprocket on the lift and stop the clock. Each of the little spheres travels two hundred and nine feet and five inches every day, and in the course of.a year makes a journey of over fourteen miles. If they were to travel in relays they would make a record clos® to six hundred miles within a year. : Of course, the’firobiém of perpetual mo- tion has not been solved, so there must be a hidden mechanism. The clock is mounted upon a beautiful Brazillan onyx base, inside of which is: a~regular clock movement, which does not run the clock proper, but merejy operates the elevator. A clock movement is: employed for this part, because of the ecessity for accur- r and also controls escapes with pre- nent. acy; it supplies t! it, so that the cision once every D Large Engli: From the London Telegrapli _Since a well-kngwn.,tea merchant an- nounced that his, eheck for £50,513, repre- senting the duty on Ceylon and Indian tea imported by him, wag ithe largest ever paid to the customs authorities, shoals of gen- tlemen, anxious to, show how grateful the country ought to be to them, have pro- claimed the payment of even larger sums than that mentioned, & whisky merchant tendered more; so did,@ tobacce importer, td claimed to ha’ ioms Payments. refused to send up I} be remembered, that aS nalteni abe 2 that, an: ly. the ees Soeteedeegecs see to - se sons eeetons Seets Seeton ~ se me oahontegee sg A GRAND “OCCASION” AT BAUMS TOMORROW. Easy matter to save from 10 to 25 per cent in shopping here. You’ll be surprised at the bigness and brightness of the new fall and winter stock. Our buyers have just made extraordinary pur- chases from importers and manufacturers, and these will be offered tomorrow in conjunction with one or more extraordinary bargains in each and every department. Sample Coats. By taking the manufacturers’ ‘“‘sample’’ garments, which, by the way, are always better made, we can save you at least a third of the usual prices, and show ‘Two illustrations: This Fine Beaver Black Coat, velvet piping, half lined. be duplicated under $13.50. Will be sold tomorrow at $9.75. Box with Cannot A small lot of about 12 with and without velvet usually Cloth collar, Jacl whic ts, you a greater variety. This Stylish Rough Astrakhan Cloth, just like far in effect, silk Uned throughout and finished with silk frogs. Cannot be du- plicated under $15. Special price tomor- "$9.75. Black Beaver sell at $9, $10 and $12, will be offered $6.25 tomorrow for. Children’s “Sample” Reefers, Took * samples."” garm the usual prices, tt $5 Silk Waists, $3.98. st yesterday—St also Black in the new blouse Arrived Silk Waist 8 for little e manufacturers’ balance and his stylish little at one-third less style. With linen collars. Never Special tomorrow D- DS sold under $5. Hats Trimmed Free. tation as Tomorrow—Saturday—and Felt Hats bought of us will be trimmed free. We are fully maintaining our repu- the leading Millinery House of the South, as is proven by the following extraordinary inducements for tomorrow: Big tableful of nearly a thousand Felt Monday all Hats, in 50 or more different styles, in all the new fall shades and black. Others’ 98c. quality. Tomorrow 50c. Stylish Velvet Hat«, in six entirely new shapes, Sold for $2.50 else- Sea es $1.49 Tableful of exquisite creations in Trim- med Hats, comprising the latest Gatnes- borough and other large shapes, as well as the medium and small, Trimmed with velvet, ostrich feathers, etc. Were $4, $5 and $6. Tomorrow chelce $3.19 Big lot of Fancy Wings, Feathers, ete. Not a plece worth less than 50c. Tomorrow : 29c. Magnificent Ostrich Plumes, 12 to 18 inches long, broad, glossy, full and with lovel; cl. - Value, Tomorrow. cressstes, DleAS $1.25 Silk Velvet, 71c. Tomorrow we will sell our $1.25 line of Beautiful Colored Silk - vet for... - 71c. 15c. to 25c. Ribbons, 11. In.mense assurtment of 2 to 4-inch All- silk, Satin and Gros Grain Ribbons, in all sha Sell regularly at 15 9 fie. to 25c. Choice tomorrow 2 soc. Corsets, 29¢. Closed out a job of Fine Coutil Corsets, 5 hooks, in gray and white, 18 to 25 inch sizes only. Regular 50c. value. To- morrow 39c. Underwear Sale. Manufacturers’ sample line of Fine Mus- Iin Gowns, Skirts, Corset Covers, Draw- ers and Chemise. Not a garment iu the lot worth less than 50e. seme worth considerably more. Choice of the entire lot tomorrow. 39c. $1 Flannelette Wrappers, 69c. 2 lots of $1 Flannelette Wrappers, braid trimmed, in indigo blue and Wack ground \With white set and all-over fig- ures. Special price tomorrow... 69c. Dollar Gloves, 78c. 200 dozen more of those Elegant Soft Kid Gloves, in ail the newest shades and Dieck, in 4-button and 2 clasps, with self hing. This quality Glove Frwhere, Special FRc price temorrow... toc. and 12c. Handkerchiefs, 4c. Manufacturer asked us to bid on 240 dozen Handkerchiefs. We didn't need Baum ’s, 416 7th St. Se eeuteteteteteteteenenenenenutetntetetetetnteectntel Pay you to visit us tomorrow! them just now, but made a ridiculous of- fer, and to our surprise it was He: mder 1c. Tomorrow here for re to buy your Christmas Handker- chiefs, New Muli Ties with lace ends, and Net Ties with black lace ends, at 25c. Hosiery and Underwear. ‘Only 3 pairs of these to a customer, as we want every one to have a chance at them, : Children’s Fast Black Ribbed Hose, Hermedcrt dye, all sizes, value. Tomorrow, per pair. Women’s White and Ecru Winter-weight Ribbed Vests and Pants, pearl - qualit Tomorrow 25c. Men‘s Wear Bargains. ‘Te! your husband, or buy for him your- self. oe we will sell 25e. Am. Gayot Suspend. rs, cost nearly doable w at 9c. We ask, for. ren Hore tomorrow. for Umbrellas Under Price. Mo rain again seme day. repare for war, in Umbrellas, with steel rads red Arabian sticks, wi In time of and Taffeta Stk mn or rain, in cardinal ors. Cost ier & 6175 Dress Trimmings Bargains. than 25 different patterns of Pack Imps, some sold as high as Se. Will be bunched tomorrow at 19c. Lovely Braided Sets of 4 and 6 pleces, fn blac $1.25 value. 6 Ze. For Infants and Children. Infants’ Crenm Cashmere Long Cloaks, With ribbon and braid trim- mings. $2 vaiue. Tunomw, DL2S Children’s White School Aprons, cross- barred muslin and India linon, with 4 inch ruffes, edged with embroidery. Also Children’s = Gingham — Aprons. Choice of them tomorro 25c. go ponte nlnlentntontnnnlet B £ eededentantones $ Sette sete Sees So Seteteg = Seeege So Sot a Rs te st a ss Topmost In Values, - Bottom-most In Prices. No business can justly maintain the name of “greatest” until it actually leads in all of its respective branches. that ours is Washington’s Greatest Tailor- =-we see proofs of it, because others are copying our exclusive methods and imitating ideas that we created---and no doubt you have seen evidence of it. When we conceived our “New Era” Tailor ing System, we were laughed at and ridi- culed by wiseacre contemporaries. we knew that the public needed just such an establishment as ours---an insurmountable bulwark between clothing-wearers and the enormous high-profit-prices then prevail- ing. That we have met with public favor is found in the fact that our patrons today can be counted by the thousands, and we are growing stronger and increasing more and more every day. with our advancement we do better as a buyer. Instead of:: bigger profits, we are lessening them---thus, giving you better tailoriig¢” cloths and better.workmanship in every way. An imitation is always below par in its actual worth. We lead in making the lowest prices---we lead in handling the greatest quantity of goods---we lead in doing the largest volume of business---we . will alw. tailors. ing Business: ul ai a t ays be Washington’s leading Mertz and Mertz, “New Era” Tailors, "906 F Street N.W. But let us say that ‘ing to make values---better Mertz and Mertz, “New Era” Tailors, We claim But by you