Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1897, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR. gees PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenus, Cor. 11th St, by The Evening Star Rowspeper Ocapany Few York Ofice, 49 Potter Building, ‘The Evening Star ts served to subscribers fn the city by carriers, on their own a-count, at 10 cents per week, o 44 certs per month. Copies at the counter 2 cents each. By mail—anywhere in the United States or Canada—pestage prepaid —50 cents per month. Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with foreign postage added, $3.C0. (Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as secend-cla. s mail matter.) 57 All mail subscriptions must be Rates of advertising pald in advance. made known on appl. on. Part2. Che Fy ening Shae. Pages 11-14. 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- WASHINGTON, D. ©. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1897—FOURTEEN PAGES approachable. Seedeedoatondenteegentetoetnagenty cs The Madrid Mandolin Orchestra Will Render Sweet Music. >L ISHED call ear S E46 | itt ill os of Our EDIT. Seer oteeeeeeeeeenntn ele ete eee een Steet Our Watch-= word Is “Reliable.” eSosentoeetoenteeetentetinfetentetontelenfeg JACOB CASTELBERG, Founder. On November 10, 1846—just 51 years ago—Jacob Castelberg, the founder of the National Jewelry Company, ness at 126 North Gay street, Baltimore, Md. inaugurated the system of selling Jewelry on credit. of the jewelry credit business of the country, established himself in busi- In January, 1872, he He is the pioneer just as the late Motel Cas- telberg of London, England, was the pioneer of the installment business for the entire world. He was the first to extend credit to the rich and poor alike, about 1805. This evening we celebrate our 51st Anniversary in business. We are in the prime of our business life—just at the milestone of half a cen- tury and one. 2 Our: establishments have gone forward in public favor every year. We built our businéss rightly—strongly—set it firmly on the safe founda- tion of “reliability’—with credit as the corner stone—the key that opens the way to every honest man or woman to enjoy the refinements and comforts that come of, having the Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry they need or fancy without feeling the hard hand of “cash” barring their way. CASTELBERG’S NATIONAL JEWELRY COMPA 1103 Pa. Ave., Seeded bate tedeteeeteteteteleteteteteteteteelil teeters ceded tne teeeeelededeteteledeteetncete 2 Next to Star Office Our watchword has at all timesbeen “RELIABLE.” Grand Opening We extend a cordial invitation to our patrons and the citizens of the District of Columbia and surroundings to visit our establishment and help us celebrate tonight. A Chrysanthemum for A Boutonniere for Every Gentleman. Today, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week only we shall make the most stupendous offer ever made by any reliable establish- ment in America. All Purchases [ade Here During These Four Days Will Be Subject to a Special Discount of 15 Per Cent From [iarked Prices. This discount means a saving of really $35 on every $100—thus giv- ing the Combine High-profit Cash Jewelers a knockout blow. We have fought them to a standstill. Their claim that you have to pay for credit has been undermined and honey-combed thoroughly, with the positive at our regular prices we sell at least 20 per cent under their lowest figures. We offer this discount that everybody will be able to get a reliable token of our celebration. Every article in the establish- ment is marked in plain figures. A child can well as a man and with the same safety. Again we say, visit us this evenin proof that even of Diamonds to delight you. charm to the display. Any honest man or woman can buy DIAMONDS, WATCHES and JEWELRY of us without publicity—on the following terms: $10 worth, $1.00 down, 50c. weekly. $15 worth, $1.50 down, 75c. weekly. $25 worth, $2.50 down, 75c. weekly. $50 worth, $5.00 down, $1.60 weekly. $75 worth, $7.50 down, $1.50 weekly. $100 worth, $10.00 down, Goods delivered on first payment. A guarantee accompanies every article s money will be cheerfully refunded. You are privileged to select anything and it will be reserved on pay- ment of a small deposit. Balt. Store Sa 9 The bowers of flowers will add nature’s Seen Sede teteetetetncetementeeteente This Evening. ; Every Lady. purchase as cheaply and as g- "Twill surely repay you. Mines $2.00 weekly. Id that if not satisfactory NY, 103 Norta Eutaw 3:. Results of Interesting Experiments in Arbor- culture. Report of Chict Fernow of the Fer- estry Division of the Agricul- tural Department. Rr. Fernow, chief of the division of forestry, Department of Agriculture, has submitted nis annual report to Secretary al year ending Ju ines of experimentation the report sta have nree—experiments in ains, timber physics and biological e year, E izations. pprepri » for the collection and distribu- tion for the year amounted a economic forest tree, and for the statutory roll of 3 o£ this sum $2,000 was for the former, and a small balance of the latter only remai: Tree ting Experiments. In the tree-planting experiments five sta- tions were authorized in addition to those alre established. These were at College Station, Tex.; Stillwater, Okla: Logan, Utah; Crookston, Minn., and Grand Rapids, Mich. All these statins are located on the experimental farms of. agricultural col- ses. In addition to twenty-cight acres planted to tr conifer nurse! been and a large quantity of nursery been hased for future planting. experimenta! plantings have in the been most ssful. and have a suce: total area now in plantations at all stations is wrt states that a fe ts and en a few hundred te to relia’ mined, on of th ec: material. Late int rented, for the eir quality. with the Pa- will presently stern wood con- rs, when the home supply begins to ignorance leads to wasteful- is the duty of the government, the chief lares, to furnish the reliable informaticn which alone can stop this was These investigations are not only to de- termine the mechanical strength of domes- tie woods, although this has been the first object, but also their other properties which make them serviceable to the wood- maker for the many purposes for which wood is used. A knowledge of the ure of the forest crop, of its quality and appli- spon soil and climate where grown is the object of this line of work. only hope existing, the report states, plies of home-grow in a more conservative use. | At present not only fina The is to lengthen out forest mate! and economi is the logging done wastefully, but the woods 2re misapplied and uneconomically used, on account of the prevalent ignor- ance of their value. Chemistry of Food Crops. There is no other government agency equipped to carry on these investigations, which are as germain to forestry as in- vestigations into chemistry of food crops or the investigation into the physics of soil and into the relation of soil and crop to agriculture, and hence should be carried on by the division of forestry. 4 ief recommends, therefore, that if sent general appropriations for his ion are not deemed sufficient, or are not to be increased, so as to bring these in- vestigatons to a desirable conclusion, that special appropriation for the purpose be asked for, as proposed by the bill presented in the House and Senate of the last Con- gre investigation has heen made into the jevelopment of white pine in the forests of Pennsylvania, Wisconsn and Minnesota, re- sulting in the analysis of nearly 700 in- ¢ividual trees, grown under varying condi- tions, and sixty-acre yield measurements, and a study of white cedar and of cypres: with observations on the forests of Tennes see, made by various members of the di- vision force, and the data thus obtained in the field have been prepared for the press. Investigating Standing Timber. In addition to these studies, .the division co-operated with the Department of the Interior in an investigntion of thé*stand- ing timber of the Red Lake Indian reserva- tion in Minnesota, which resulted in a re- vision and increase of estimates herétofore made by the agents of that department. A study was made of domestic economic spe- cles, at the suggestion of the Secretary»as, regards investigations of the timber trees of the arid regions of other countries, with a view of securing such as may give prom- of succeeding in the.plains, for triad ig this country. A special agent of the department who is now collecting seeds in eastern Europe and Siberia will endeavor to secure prom- ising forest tree species for experiments of this division. The correspondence of the division con- tinues to increase, and covers a wide range, requests for Infermation on ‘all subjects being received daily. Frequent requests from members of state. legislatures and others interested to formulate desirable slation have keen responded to. ing of a forestry gervice In the Department of the Interior for the forest reservations on the public timber lands. ‘The report recommends that the timber expert shculd have the assistance of a trained vegetable anatomist.. The work of cclecting important foreign species, es- pecially such as promise adaptation to the dry regions, should be made exhaustive, and for this purpose a man of peculiar qualifications is suggested. He should not only be a botanist and linguist, but should be familiar with the practical needs of the west. Criminal Neglect. In the opinion of the chief a“future gen- eration will justly charge the present one with criminal neglect of the subject. Pres- cability to the arts and of its dependence | ent forest industries represent an annual product valued at over one billion dollars, yet these “industries find no care in the government beyond the small. pittance of appropriations which mave been made to the division of forestry. The future of lumb« supplies will depend more upon the action taken by govern- ments—siate and federal—than on individ- ual action, since forest production involves such long periods of time that only perma- nent corporations, such as the state, can profitably engage in them. Hence a much more serious consideration should be given to the subject than has been done. The chief is of the opinion that an ex Penditure of- $300,000 for this knowledg will not be misplaced. He suggests most strongly that the timber investigations should not be abandoned. He recommends, therefore, that an in- crease of the appropriation to $50,000 he submitted to Congress for the purpose of merely expanding adequately the lines of work so far inaugurated. The authorization by Congress for the inauguration of the system of protection and management of the national forest res- ervations naturally suggests the possibility of the transfer of the reservations to the care of the forestry division, and the chiet suggests that such a transfer, brought about by congressional action, would not only bring all the forestry interests of the country under one administrative head, but would tend to maintain the most important Purpose of the reservations, their use as sources of supply for the irrigation of the agricultural lands of the states in which | they are situated. ———___-e~. The Congressional Library. To the Editor of The Evening Star: Some years ago, when it was noised about that the nation was going to have a new library building in Washington, in fact, a structure that would be the finest and a brary that would be the largest in the world, there was then a general uzder- standing that it would be a national con- cern, owned in every sense by the naticn at large. Now that the building is com- pleted, the books transferred and the pub- lic have the use of its fairy hails—both to read and to dream and gaze in wonder- Tsent at all the decorations, ‘tis a pity we are reminded, on entering the rotunda, that this is, after all, only the Congress- icral Library, a literary, palace built for the use of the everchanging legislators and that we enter here by the grace or suffer- ance of the houses of Congress. Certainly the words Congressional Library, ¢raven over the portal, mars the enthusiasm of many a visitor, who naturally expects, in this treasure house of literature and illus- trative art, an impress—in fact and in spirit —“that it is of the nation,” and that every citizen is a shareholder of its grandeur and a@ beneficiary of the glory that deflects from it. Let it, then, be written on its facade in letters of gold, these words: “The United States National Library.” Are we justified to expect that a sacrifice of this nature should be made for our gena- tors and representatives and that they themselves should see to it that the word “congressional” should be changed to “na- ticnal” in the designation of our wonderful Mbrary? FRED. J. BRAENDLE. es Widow the Sole Beneficiary. — By the will of the late L. W. Ledyard, Ledyard, Gated July 16, 1892, Lizzie V. widow of the testator, is named as sole beneficiary, and, with Lizzie M. Ledy: a LIGHTING THE POST OFFICE The Government to Put | Plant. in Its Own Following the Practice Observed in the Larger Cities—The Appa- ratus pepe ee In the sundry civil bill yapproved June 4, 1897, Congress made aa appropriation of $65,000 for the installation of an electric light and power plant in thg new city post effice building. Plans and specifications have been prepared by the TreaBury De- partment for this plant and 'pids fave been advertised for. As scon as the contract has heen awarded the Treasury Department officials propuse to push thg work. ‘There are two hundred an@ sevénty-three buildings throughout the cogntry under the centrol of the Treasury Department, and in the larger cities thej buildings are equipped with electric light plants belong- irg to the government andsdperated by it Ey this plan Uncle Sam sayes money, and combinations of electrie light companies have no terrors for him. ‘the plant in the new post office in this city will comprise four vegtical cross or horizontal tandem compound, _ self-con- tained engines, which must each have a guaranteed duty with 125 pounds initial pressure. Each engine is to be connected directly to a 120-kilo-watt capacity dynamo, the armature of which’is to be attached directly to the shaft of the engine, while the ‘speed of the latter is not permitted to exceed 300 revolutions per minute, and they are required to be capable of a continuous run of seventy-two hours under maximum lcad and not consume mofe than eight horse power each rrictiona} load, running the generators with their brushes off. Their governors ure to he so designed that in case of bre fe or any accident the engine will come to a stamdstjll, and the regulation of the engine is to be so nicely adjusted that the governors will govern within three per cent from full load to no load. As an indication of the nicety of balance now obtainable in the manufacture of high- speed modern engines of this type, it is re- quired that when they afé placed upon their foundation they are tarbe leveled and run without any fastenings, demonstrating their freedom from vibration. ‘The dynamos or generators to be driven by these engines are each tp have a capa- city, as "stated, of 120 kilo-watts each, at 125 volts, and a normal output of 950 am- peres each. The total capaeity of the four machines will be about 8,000:1f@candle pow- er lamps, but the current -will not be re- quired fcr ilumination only, as it can be applied to the operation of motors driv- ing canceling machines, ventilating fans, hoisting apparatus and such other purposes as the ingenuity of man may in the future devise for its application. The felons at nse Sp be of ithe roertees lar pattern, having internal armatures of the Gi wound type: ‘Tle commut tors, which must be of copger:of the high- est conductivity, are to insulated with mica, and mvst run tors are to per cent ‘The field ets of be compound wound ‘aa over-compounded. required to carry their full load for at feast twelve hours* continuous run, and also be capable of carrying 25 per cent of an overload for one-half hour without dan- gerous heating in any part. Furnishing the Steam. The steam for the operation of the plant will be furnished by boilers now in the building, though a 10-inch high-pressure Steam main and the piping will be arrang- e@ with individual stop valves, so that each engine and generator can be worked inde- pendently, or they can together discharge their output to the bus-bars of the switch- board provided to receive and distribute the current throughout the building. This switchboard, however, is not a board, but is to be of marble. When electricity began to be applied to industrial purposes switch- beards were made of hard or fancy woods, @nd the term is still retained, though in the light of present practice said to be a misnomer. The mains from the dynamos to the switchbeard are lead-covered cables. The heavy copper wires are surrounded or in- sulated with paper saturated with an in- sulating and” moisture-proof compound, over which is a sheathing of lead tubing, the whole having been passed through a die, which compresses both the paper and tubing solidly upon the internal core of wire. These cables are run from the gen- erators in iron conduits placed in the floor of the engine room, and terminating in Suitable connections at the bus-bars. On the marble switchboard are arranged all the necessary devices for the regulation and distribution of the current, including automatic double-pole magnetic cut-offs for the dynamos, an illuminated dial Wes- ton volt meter, ranging 225 volts, and four illuminated dial Weston ammeters of 1,000 amperes each. There is also provided a ground detector, with illuminated dial, with the necessary connections for each circuit from the board, including the dyna- mo mains. There are also to be mounted on this switchboard four meters, inclosed in Polished brass frames with glass panels, for the purpose of registering the amount of current ‘delivered by each generator. Rheostats of ample capacity for the ac- cepted generators are also to be placed thereon, together with the necessary num- ber of feeder and distribution switches. Switchboara Ornamentation. The switchboard is to be set upon solid iron columns inclosed with hollow cast- iron ornamental Pedestals, and is to be sapped with artistically grilled scroll work, in the center of which is to be set an eight- Cay circular-frame brass-bodied clock of fine movement. . From the switchboard the feeder wires ascend to the distribution tablets located on the various floors. There are to be four of these tabiets on each floor, of highly polished pink or Tennessee marble, having on their face a pair of polished copper bus- bars, and copper double-pole highly Polish- ed lever jaw switches for each tap or branch wire taken from the tablet. These tablets are really points of subdistribution, each being fed from the switchboard in the engine by its indvidual system of feeding. ym these different tablets are distributed the wiring to the combination gas and electric ligat fixtures with which the buildng is to be subsequent rovided. The tablets are to be set im the we at the lous places to be selected, and be pro- led with a glass cover and hinged wiring in the building 1s all to be run in what is known as conduit or fron pipe,ha: an interior non- CO! ive and water-proof conduits are to be ! These generators are ous floors of the building and buried in the cement thereof. The engine room will be tiled and fur- nished with the latest and most approved system cf ventilation and general furnish- ings. It will present a handsome and at- fractive appearance when completed. The plant will represent the latest stand- ard isolated electric lighting P tic and in view of the magnitude of the work there is likely to be very keen competition to secure the contract, the representativ. of the largest electrical construction com- panies in the country having expressed an intention to compete for it. oS Against Water Meters. To the Editor of The Evening Star: The writer, in common with thousands of other citizens interested in the welfare of the national capital, has noted with con- siderable interest the plan for the introduc- tion throughout the District of Columbia of the proposed water meter system, which has received the approval of the Engineer Commissioner. In your issue of Monday evening appeared a letter from Col. A. T. Britton, also indorsing the system. just men- tioned. As opposed to both the present scheme of water rents and the contemplated tax, it 1s suggested: First, that provision should be made at the earliest possible moment for a water supply for the District adequate for all the needs of its population for the pres- ent as well as for a number of years to come, either by means of the reservoir to be located near Howard University ang the completion of the tunnel, or in some 8ther wey equally effective. Second, that the ex- penses of the water department should be merged with the various other expenses tor the maintenarce of the government of the District, there being no good reason why a special tax should be levied for the support of this department more than for the sup- port cf tke fire department, the public Schools, the police force, or any other branch of our municipal system. Third, as soon as the foregoing step has been taken, all provisions in the nature of a tax on the use of water should be abolished, to the end that its use may be encouraged and in- creased, rather than diminished, in the in- terest of public cleanliness and health. It is practica!ly conceded on all sides that the free and unrestricted use of water tends toward the better sanitation of the city. This is especially true in the homes of the poor. Under the present system, -however, and more so under the contemplated plan for the introduction of meters, it is the poor who will necessarily suffer to the greatest extent from the diminution of their water supply. Much could be said, of course, in elaboration of the foregoing suggestions, but space in your columns will not be claimed for the purpose at the present mo- ment. The writer of this article has given the subject under consideration consider- able thought for a few years past, and does not remember having seen, in print, the solution cf the problem to which, it is be- Heved, the plan would, it carried ultimately lead. ot 4 FREE WATER. —— ‘Wants the Old Tie Severed. Cecilia Ann Groves has petitioned for di- vorce from John Walter Groves, to whom she was married here March 17, 1861. Through Attorney 8. Herbert Glesey, she charges her husband with being intem- Ferete gud cruel, and with falling MINISTER PREVENTS A LYNCHING. Excitement in West Virginia Over the Muddilety Sh ing. A special to the Baltimore Sua from Wheeling, W. Va., y rday, says the ex- citement in Nicholas county over the out- Tageous work of Sunday at the Metho list Episcopal Church at the little hamle of Muddlety is intense, and only the personal efforts of Rev. Mr. Pi the pastor, averted a wholesale lynching of the des- Peradoes of the Hickman gang yesterday. This may yet be the end of the prisoners, who, four in number, are now confined in the ramshackle jail at Summersvilie. Rev. Mr. Pierce has been there all day making personal appeals to the crowd of enraged citizens, and so far has averted tov pun- ichment. Reports last night of a reliable n: from the scene of the terrible encounter say that the list of casualties includes three dead and seven wounded, and that two of the latter will die. Two of the dead are Milion Hickman, the leader of the des- peradoes, who was killed almost instantly after fighting for between one and two hours, and Deputy United States Marsnal Rader, who died this afterroon. ‘The third name is not given. The fatally wounded are Mrs. Kindsman, who was shot throuzh the neck, and her six-year-old child, who had one arm shot off and who was also wounded in the neck. The other wounded, three of Rader’s deputies being inciuded in the number, will recover. As showing the desperate nature of the conflict and its lon continuance, the church altar is a toad wreck, while there are bullet holes all cver the interior of the church, in the walls, ceiling, pews and floors. Windows and fure niture were broken, and from an inspection of the edifice today about all the ammunie tion in the possession of both sides to tho melee must have been expended, and it is @ wonder the list of killed and wounded is not much larger. Milton Hickman, the leader of the outlaws, is a noted post office rob- ber, and his photograph adorns the rogues’ gallery of many city police departments. He has been a desperate criminal for years and is wanted on a large numer of charges in this and other states. —+e> SHOT TO SAVE HIS FATHER. District Attorney Jones Killed’ by Youth at Carson, Nev. A dispatch from Carson, Nev., yesterday says: United States District Attorney Chas. A. Jones was today shot an@ killea by Julian Guinan, fifteen years of age, on one of the main streets of this city. Jones was a married man, but had long been on familiar terms with Miss Jessie Guinan, sister of the boy. Her father, a physican, had often threatened to shoot the district attorney, and many expected that some time he would do so. Jones met Jessie on the street today and was walking home with her. When they came near the residence her father met them. An altercation began, in the midst of which Jones fell dead, shot through the left temple. setting ta en nie Ber ve up e Ee from the second-story window of bend in his pocket and thought’ be Sub out was hoot his father. ech leaves a young wife and a child.