Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1898, Page 19

| THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, ‘MARCH 26, 1898-24 PAGES. gee LROAD STATION AT PANAMA. BETTER THAN GOLD The Splendid Manganese Mines at Panama. HIGHEST RAILROAD FARES ON EARTH a The Isthmus Line and What May Be Seen From It. QUESTION OF HEALTH (Copyright, 1898, by Frank G. Carpenter.) Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PANAMA, March 10, 1898. Ts BIGGEST EN- terprise on the Isth- mus of Panama, out- side of the canal and the Panama railroad, is the manganese mine which has lately opened up by Baltimore parties on the Atlantic coast about forty miles above Colon. This company is now ship- to ping from 2,000 3,000 tons of man: nese a month, and I am told, over 100,000 tons in are discovering new deposits Tight along. At the present cost of -work- ing their mine, a hundred thousand tons will net them more than a million dolla: and this i have, ht, and It is used in needed in the nd gun forg- 1 tougher and There is a little manganese nia, Georgia and Arkansa M. Hyatt, the z nsumption & 1.000 tons. The buy from Russia and else- © costs, according to 4 to $15 per ton. It lies a great lump or deposit on the top of # mountai is mined much like iron. Mr. Hyatt says it the company only about $ ton to get out the ore and iand it in Baltimore, so that there is a clear profit of £9 or $10 4 . at the present shipments. of from WY to $30,000 a month. Within the past year and a_half th som pi has shipped 24,000 tons, and now only two years since it got’ pos- n of the property. company is capitalize $200,000, and the chief stock- »wen of the Balti- and Ohio railroad, Mr. Woods, the lent of the Maryland i Henry Parr of Baltim. holders are John K. ¢ more d Mr. Hyatt, “by a Spaniard, who showed imens of the ore to a man named Popham, who was a United St inspector of customs at © Popham went to see it. He did not then know m se from stove blacking, | and had no idea whether the stuff was worth anythin however, to } him that if the tes d they sent he property were a company mine and ¢ We now h. ng from ur wh: up works nat the mine was not wo. By Was the reply. “There vulders of manganese lying ground. it I su m were a that t look- e stuf difficult 7" “We and I vity to the st down it into n over- ars at the the loaded buckets mpties as they go in the shape that without smeiting or any other deposits in the same ink there are have bought all the prospectors out * said Mr. Hyatt. “We nd in sight and have the time. We have dis- A Railways Village. covered some new first on a its, but nothing In this deposit we have ae down 14 feet and are not bottom. At the top of the n the be bout 150 feet of ore is 4 it 2s it goes down and t know how thick it is.” I te the superintendent ever th na railroad yesterday. This road prope > world. It has made big fortunes for its ewners in the past and today its receipts are far in excess of its expenditures. What would you think of pay $200 to ride from New York to Bos r $4 for a first-class railroad tick: rom New York to Chicago, $1,000 to go frem the Atlantic to Salt Lake City, or $1, be carried over the fron tracks across nent to San_ Francisco? oucn would be about 50 cents per mile this is just what the Panama Railroad Company received for every pas- senger it carried for more than thirty years of its existence. read is forty-seven miles, and the fare up until 1889 was 325 in gold. All through passengers on the New York steame: who have tickets for Panama are now charged $10 in gold for this railroad trip, and the local fare from Colon to Panama is $4 In gold, but the baggage rates of 3 cents a pound makes this much higher, as only fifteen pounds are allowed free. The Panama railroad is emphatically an American institution, though the majority of the stock is now in the hands of the Panama Canal Company, being, in fact, about the onty valuable asset the compan’ has. The road was built by Americ: and today all of its officials, including the ticket agents, conductors and_ engineers, come from the United States. It is a gold- en monument to American pluck and en- ergy. The concession for it was granted to an American syndicate in 1850. and this included all the rights of way across the The length of the ' canal people are everywhere to be seen. The road runs very smoothly and the track is well kept. It is a five-foot gauge equip- ped with lignum vitae ties and fifty-six- pound rails. These ties are about the only ones, except iron, which will withstand the attack of the wood-eating ants which are found here. They are from trees so small that a tree seldom furnishes more than one tie, and the wood is so hard that spikes cannot be driven into it. Holes have to be bored for every bolt, and this extra work makes the ties expensive. Each one costs about $1.80 in silver. The telegraph poles are of iron. All of the rolling stock comes from the United States. The superintend- ents private observation car, in which we rode, was made in Wilmington and some of the locomotives came from Philadelphia. The first-class cars have wicker seats, like those of some of our smoking cars. The second-class are built like long street cars, with the seats running lengthwise under the windows. I rode for some time second ‘s tosee the people. Half of the passen- were Jamaica negroes, one-third was made up of Chinese and the rest were na- tive Colombians. The Chinese were the best dressed of the lot, and the neatest. As the American conductor came in I asked him as to his health, and was told that he had been traveling over the road for seven years and had not been sick a day. All wages of Americans are paid in gold, and those of the common laborers in silver. Engineers get $157 a month, conductors $148 a month and telegraph operators from $75 to $100. The brakemen are natives, and they receive $1.75 a day in silver. Common laborers get from 35 to 75 cenis a day, and most of those who work on the tracks are Janaica negroes. They put in ten hours a czy beginning at 6 a.m. and working until 1’. Most of them bring their first meal of coffee and bread to the track and eat it chere. At eleven they stop for breakfast, which is usually made up of rice and a bit of dried meat, and at 1 go to work again and work until 6, when they go home for inner. An American Poet. Most cf the Americans here are well- €ducated men, and many of them have traveled ell over North and South Amer- ica. Son-e have literary ability, and I have been much interested in a little volume of THE MIN ING WORKS. - Isthmus of Panama, which is, as I told] poems by an Ame: ned Gilbert you, 400 miles long. No one ‘can make | Here is one which reciated by even a wagon read across the isthmus | any man who ha s compan d of any kin on, ne tempt- permi: has bee ed. As we went over the railroad Colonel Shaler, the superintendent, told me that the natives whom we found walking or riding on the edge of the track were able to do so only by the sufferance of the com- The origi grant gave the com- all the public lands on the line of the ack, and provided that the ports of Pan- ama and Colon were to be free ports. This last is the case today. The original con- cession was for only 49 years, but it hz ince been extended, with some modific: tions, to 99 years, during which the com- pany pays the government $250,000 a year for the privilege. Immense Traflic. It took flve years to build the road. When it was begun the isthmus was a miasmatic wilderness, and the line ran through the swamps and along the valleys of the Cha- gres and Rio Grande rivers, crossing the mouniain range at an elevation of 268 feet. Forty-seven miles of such road could be easily and comparatively cheaply built in the United States. Here it cost, by the time it was completed, $8,000,000. It began to earn money as soon as the first few miles of track were laid, and when the road was opened for traffic, in 1855, it had iready received over $2,000,000 for tran: portation, and within four years its earn- S were more than its original cost, and the owners were walking on velvet. Dur- irg one year it carfied 1,200,000 passen- ors, receiving 0,000 from that source me. It has carried as much as 500,000 s of freight in a year, and within twelve Ss after it was finished $750,000,000 h of specie passed over it on its way At Work on the Panama Road. from San Francisco to New York. It got all the gold passengers of the early "30s who crossed the isthmus, and made them pay heavily for carrying their gold min- ing outfits in addition to the $25 fare. ven at these rates the trip was a cheap cne, for it shortened the danger of the fevers which often caught these gold hun- ters who crossed en foot. The ride by rail is less than four hours. By mule or on foot it took two or more days. The health of the isthmus was then worse than it is now. During the building of the road the company ran a funeral train, and It is said that there were more deaths than there are ties in the entire line. 1 was talking yes- terday with an American who ran the fu- says they put the dead in ow crosswise on the top of that beneath it, until the big hole made for the day’s burial was nearly filled, when earth wes thrown in to fill up. One thou- sand Chinamen imported for the work. Within a month a number of them* had died, and hundreds of the remainder committed suicide, so tha t the station where they worked is now called Mato-chine, which means Kill-Chinaman. We brought pwn a Brooklyn be o has the job of station agent would not I met yesterd: at this place, with us. £ © the place for the isthmus. a graduate of the Boston School ology, who has come here to work on the :allroad. He told me he re- ceived $150 a month, which was better than he could Go in the states, but that he had just gotten up from an attack of malarial 1 fever. Hods met a Baltimore man—a Mr. ‘s—who is eraployed in the general "Ss, who told me he had had a siege cf ww fever last year, and, tn short, I ve found but few Americans who have not been fever-stricken at some time or other during their stay here. Many of them say, however, that the isthmus fs no worse than some of our southern ports, and that if one takes good care of himself there is not much danger. 1 am told that of all the foreigners, Americans stand the e e best, English next, then French, and then Italians. Across the Isthmus, ‘The ride across the isthmus ts a delightfui one The country after you pass the few miles of lowland on the Atlantic side rises into many wooded hills, and the distant views make you think of the forest-cov- ered roiling lands of the United States rather than of the tropics. There are few palm trees, though you now and then pass a banana plantation. You go by villages of thatched huts and the buildings of tho hw \3 spent much time in the trop It describes the might be entit'ed isthmus and nd {he latitud 8 low mer perpetually Mev the thermemeter's t oat ‘There lieth th The following is more glowing by far than the reality. The Chagres ig really a lenutiful stream and not haif so bad as painted. The terrible miasma was at ils worst years ago, when the s dug up for the canal and railroad. lug Toda: the isthmus is comparatively healthy: BEYOND THE CHAGRES.” nd the Chagres river lead to death; To fever's deadly bree: a To malazia’s polsonots Beyond the trople Where the alligator waits, Is the palace of the de . His original estates. breath! lage, Beyond the Chagres river Are paths fore’er unknown, With a spider “neath each pebble, A scorpion ‘neath each stone! ’Tis here the boa constr a His fatal banquet holds, And to his slimy bosom His hapless victim folds. Beyond the Chagres river Lurks the panther in bis lair, And ten hundred thousand dangers Are in the noxious air. Behind the trembling leafle Beneath the fallen ree Are the ever-present perih Of a million different breeds, Beyond the Chagres rive ’Tis said—the story's Are paths that lead mountains Of purest virgin gold; Bat ‘tis my firm conviction, Whate’ they tell, That beyond the Chagres river All paths lead straight to hell! We cro: 1 the Chagres and about a hundred other waterways during the trip and saw women with little or nothing on shing their clothes in the sireams. old. owels at the hotel are frequently ornamented with burs caught from being dried upon the hes and weeds FRANK G. CARPENT. THE CHURCHES 'N A movement has been inaugurated look- ing to holding of triennial instead of annual sessions of the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church. Leading members of that denomination in this city, who have been interviewed on the subject by a Star reporter, expressed the opinion that “an interval of three years between general as- semblies would aggravate many of the difficulties now existing. Suppose an ob- jectionable combination were in power; were this to continue for three years it would break the denomination in two. But the annual elections and assembly meet- ings afford opportunity for speedy change and thus constitute a safety valve. It is much better to have frequent conferences and discussion on live issues.”” The following is a statement of funds collected and paid out during the confer- ence year just ended on the debt of Ep- worth M. E. Church South: Collected from bonds and Ladies’ Aid Society, $1,762.52; from other sources, $184.24; donated by Church Extension Society, $00. Total, $2,846.76; expenditures on mortgage, $1,500; pews, $275; heater, $150; windows, by pas- tor, $125; on piano, by league, $50, and on same by Sunday school, $4.79; on organ, $40; on interest and incidentals, $668.45; total paid out, $2,813.24. Amount on hand. $53.52; total paid out and in hand, $2,846.7¢ current expenses and conferen collec- tions, about $2,400; total raised, $5,246.76. Rev. Dr. L. T. Townsend of this city has accepted an invitation to participate in the reopening of Waverly M. E. Church, Baltimore, tomorrow. Sunday school workers generally are in- terested in the information that the world’s third Sunday school convention will convene in London July 11 and continue until the 15th, inclusive. The delegates will leave Boston on a Cunarder Wednes- day, June 29. The party will include many of the best-known and most successful Sunday school workers in the United States. Senator Allen of Nebraska has accepted an invitation to make ar address at the annual meeting of the Society for the Pro- tection of Children from Cruelty and Im- morality in Baltimore. Rev. Dr. Milburn, chaplain of the United States Senate, has consented to address the anniversary meeting. of the Maryland Sunday School Union at Baltimore April 18. Cardinal Gibbons is expected to preach at high mass tomorrow at St. Augusune’s Catholic Church, and in the afternoon will confirm a large class of candidates. It is expected that forty new members will be admitted into the Young Men’s Catholic Institute at the meeting to be held in Gonzaga College Hall tomorrow evening. A donation party for the benefit of the inmates of St. Ann’s Infant Asylum will take place Easter Monday afternoon. The sisters in charge are in need of groceries and dry goods for their wards. It is understood that Rev. Dr. Frank M. pend! Bristol, late of Evanston, UL, who hag| Speadthrift—“So is debt.’—Life, r been appointed pastor of Metropolitan M. E. Church, this city, will enter upon the discharge of his new duties tomorrow. A reception was given afew evenings ago by the Ladies’ Auxiliary of Adas Is- rael Congregation to jthe qaale members and their friends. = = The series of revival services which have been in progress for séveral weeks at the Ninth Street Christian Church, and which were conducted by the pastor, Rev. E. B. Bagby, and Rev. Peter Ainslie, an evangel- ist of the Christian Church in Baltimore, closed last evening. fuiteé a number of persons have united with the church as the result of th meetings. It is understcod that at the annual meet- ing next month in Balflmore of the Mary- land ccnference of the Methodist Protest- ant Church an effort will be, made to secure the holding of the session of next year at the new North Carolina Avenue Church in this city. This church is hot yet completed, but is expected to be finished by that time. and there have been indications that it 15 the general wish of many members of the conference that the conference of 1899 shall be heid there. During a recent visit to Washington, President Melvin of the con- ference said that the efforts of the mem- bers of the North Carolina Avenue Church to erect the building they have had plan- ned is a matter of pride to the entire mem- bership of the conference, and that he could assure them that it was the intention of the membership generally to assist to the fullest extent in their power in payin off the debt assumed in the construction of the building. It is expected that a new pastor will have charge of this church dur- ing the next conference year, as Rev. Louis Randall, the present pastor, has notified the congregation that he does not wish a reap- pointment. The District officers of the Epworth League will go to Langdon Tuesday even- ing next to install the officers of the local chapter of the M. E. Church there. Tomor- row evening they will go to Dumbarton Avenue Church on an official visit. The local chapter at the new St. Paul's M. E. Church, heretofore known as Fif- teenth Street Chapter, has been consoli ed with the St. Paul's Chapter, under the name of St. Paul's, and new officers elected. Great interest 1s felt throurhout the Di trict among Methodists in the anproach- ing mecting of the Epworth Leagues of the Fourth General Conference M. E. Church, which convenes at Wheeling, Va. It is expected that at the convention dele- be present from the Baltimore, st Virginia, Central Pennsylvania and Philadeiphia conferences, and it is thought that several hundred persons from Wash- ington alone will attend. The annual meeting of the Eckington Presbyterian Church will be held March arly reports will be trustees 31, when the various made and elders, deacons and elected. Rev. Dr. Duncan, the p: begin tomorrow evening a course of seven sermons on Daniel. Rev. Dr. L. G. Wood, assistant rector of the Chureh of the Epiphany, who has been quite ill, has gone to Atlantic City for the benefli of his health. About two hundred persons will 1 tized tomcrrow morninz at Zion Church, Southwest Washington, by pastor, Rey. W. J. Howard. This is proba- bly the greatest number ever baptized on one occasion in Washington. The mission which began at St. Jos Chureh Sunday t will close Wedne Re charge. Father Bi and Miller thus far has re been ackharat of this city, urer of the Luther League of Ameri received information that Mr. Fred Huber of New York, one of the mo: inent members of the league known in this died a few ame in New York. Mr, d with the Li age of its org: ty and was the lent of the loc: for several Until January 21 last, when he , he had been for two years nt of the New York District League. one of the orga: s of the Martin Luther So of New ‘k, and assisted in the er of the Martin Luther monu- ment in Washington, which the socie here on the ceeasion of the 409th the birth of Luther. He ated with Mr. Eckhardt a. a member of the deaconess board of the general synod, and, being greatly interested in the work of Lutheran deacone: much to further the his death, Mr. Eckharc one of the best and most-useful men in the Lutheran church, and said the whole church will feel his loss keenly. A special sermon will be preached to- ™morrow evening by the Rev. J. J. Muir, D.D., pastor of the E Strect Baptist Church, on ‘Miss Frances E. Willard, the heroit.e of the home.” Miss Blanche Wood will sing the “‘Stabat Mater" at the Holy Name Church, 11th and K streets northeast, tomorrow’ at 10:30 o'clock mass. Rev. Dr. Talmage has returned from his western trip after speaking in twelve of the principal cities. He will occupy the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church tomorrow. ee SHAKESPEARE AND POLITICS. «Julius Caesar” the Expression of Crisis and Revolt. From the London Spectator. It is in its unmesking of the mechanism cf a coup d'etat that ‘Julius Caesar” is most memor In this respect it is, as we have suggested, one of the most won of political documents. Cassius asks: “How Shall this our lofty di states unb: He speaks with his s and cnly of the m as irue of the plot of the supreme tregedy. like Brutus ara ( conspire, wherever mer G their own advantage, whcrever civi raises its head, there men will follow pert of the path marked out by Si peare. So elenental, so universal, rendering of the plot that we see in this archetypal conspiracy and murder all con- spiracies and murders before and since. When the nobles who plotted the death of Gustavus of Sweden struck him down the masque, they unconsciously track: Shakespeare. Though E: planned and execuied his treason before Shakespeare wrote, if not before he thought the play, his waverings and his flights of ambition are all there. When Booth and his com- panions conspired to kill Mr. Lincoln, they could not avoid the sophistries, any more than the savageries, of Brutus, Cassius and Casca. Booth, indeed,-may, we had almost said must, have had the very words of the play ringing in his cars. The lines we have just quoted must ave come back to him ere he fired and struck his blow. Can we doubt, too, that when Booth sprang upon the stage, and,holding up his dagger, shout- ed to the audience, “Sic semper tyrannis!” he had in his mind the ery, “Freedom and Liberty!” raised by the conspirators in the play, as they brandished their daggers over Caesar's corpse? Again, has not every don- spirator instantly tried to enlarge the circle of the crime as does Cassius when he calls to Mark Antony— “Your yoice shall be as strong In the disposing of new dignities. That voice was beard again and again in tke revolution—at Thermider, at Vende- misire, and at every stage of Napo- leon’s ascert to empire. It was heard, too, in 1851, when the third Napoleon made the Parisian gutters run with bleod. Who knows but at this moment such a voice is whispering in Paris? Again, when we read the scene at Antcuy’s house—it is one of the very few scenes omitted at Her Maj- esty’s—in which Antony; Octavius and Lep- idus discuss their plans,-how is it possible te forget Kinglake’s description of how “the Brethren of the Elysee” plotted and betrayed? When, too, we read how Brutus is persuaded by his friends,i-there rises up the squalid and unfortunate parody of a great part which was enacted by General Boulanger. Without question, “the essen- tial part of the “works” ‘of every coup d'etat that ever was or will be nmade is to be found, given or suggested, in Shakes- peare’s “Julius Caesar.” over yet unknown dripping bleod, put his words are as like vius turn the turmoil of the state to Antony and any man's SRS ae Bridegroom Nearly 100 Years Old. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Mrs. Harriet Ellen Jefferson, fifty-four years old, was married last night at Indian- apolis to Edward Dorsey, colored, whose age is nearly 100. This is not the first matrimonial venture the groom has made. He now has a record of six. By his other five wives he had more than forty chil- dren. The bride has been married three limes and has eight children. The first etic of each took place in slavery —— 0 Gotrox—“As Micawber ‘3, wealth ts enly the difference between and ex- £ FIRST DAYS OF WAR How the Boys Came to the Front in 61. MEN WHO DEFENDED WASHINGTON Sa The Quick Response to the Cali for Soldiers. PROTECTING THE PRESIDENT Written for The Evening Star. “If this be war may ft never end.” This was the sentiment that was drunk in more than one camp of the troops first called in service during the war. The camps of tie batialions of District three months’ men in July, 1861, were nearly ali along as the banks of the Potom: extending far_as Seneca, and as their term of en! ment was about to close the Fourth of July was celebrated with considerable eclat. Taken from their avocations in the professional, mercantile and mechani branches, the duties of a soldier were novel to them, and so agreeable was the g eral experience of the men that the sent ment above was the common expression. They had not then experienced much of the hardship of war, and few thinking ihe War would ext2nd over many montcs were ready to re-enter the service when two full regiments and several troops of cavalry represented the District. The ation ef the District was noi in i861 in full accord cn the questions of the day, and much con- felt as to the aguration of Ff Lincoln, who, it w y pre- + would not be permi : s President. Indeed, open threats been made that Washington. Milltary formed for the expr the President, and avowed purpese of taking the part of the south, Saw It Coming. It needed no prophetic eye to proach of the conflict, and it wa ent to all that to scat the show of military force and that arms should oyal men. Gene here, but the re 16,000 men, was scattere: over the country, the n: ing Fortress Monroe, Va Henry, Bi n triet Was then ve the ap- appar- President a rest statio’ and Fort r the pler of armed and equipped, were loyal to the + and some of the volunteer for the time being. becam ganizations. Gene Bacon militia conse -d, on March 4, over twe the Washington 4 1 Guard, and Union re attalion, —¢ lered here for the ina of United State . two light batte y and one or two foot b with a handful of ordnance m the army contingent. In were a few hundred marine: yard and barracks. The posed i.bout the city that the inaugu was successfully accomplished. They Were Ready. The signs of the times pointed to war, while many were hopeful for some honor- able solution of all difficulty. N was daily reveived of the seizure of some fort, arsenal or public building in the south and of warlike preparations in that sec. tion. The protection of the capital was determined upon. On the night of April 9, 1861, Col. Stone visited the various armories and stated that the President had asked for troops to defend the capi- tal and they would be mustered in the nited States service on the following day. Befure 10 o'clock on the next day several companies appeared on the north front of the department and the work of muster commenced, Col. Stone inspecting the companies, Major McDowell being the tly t Infant as notery public, administering the eath. They were sworn for the defense of t! District of Columbia, and it was explaine that they would not be called beyond it. But, as stated above, when the time came they made jon to service beyond the District lines. Under Col. Stone they anized into battalions and put in ling the pubiie bu and that part of th outh of Annapolis Junction. { Thus, when the troops landed in Annapolis j were repairing the Annapolis and Kikridge railroad, which had been torn up, that j Portion of the Baltimore and Ohio south ef the junction was kept intact, and en- abled the New York 7th Regiment to reach the city on April 25 and ethers to follow. | Some of the friends of the south had about this time planned to. derail the first train | with troop e into the wreck vith an but some one told, and neither broken rails, wire nen interfered with the mov2ment troops from the junction. Reviewing Recruits. One of the companies was actually in service some days before the muster for the President's mounted guard. Services were needed for orderly. duty and recon- nor old can- government then asked for were sworn in before an opportunity was found for their formal entry. The entire force was paraded en masse bat once during their term. This occa- sion was May day, for which General Scott gave them permission. Then they were reviewed by President Lincoln and several members ef his cabinet, General Scott and others, and their appearance and marching were highly complimented, al- though the uniforms were varied, those of the older companies being costly, and all colors appeared in the line. The line was under the command of Gen. Peter F. Bacon with his staff, and the or- ganizations were as follows: President's Mounted Guard, Capt. S. W. Owen (rendezvous E near 15th street). First battalion (rendezvous West Wash- ington)—Maj. J. McH. Hollingsworth, Adjt. Wm. H. Birch; Anderson Rifles, Capt. C. H. Rodier; Potomac Light Guard, Capt. Robt. Boyd; Carrington Home Guard, Capt. James Goddard; Andrew Johnson’ Guard, Capt. J. H. McBtair. Second Battalion (Peznsylvania avenue and 19th _street)—Major J. Gray Jewell, Adjt. T. P. Shallcross; Henderson Guard, Capt. G. J. L. Foxwell; Company A, Union Regiment, Capt. E. C. Carrington; Com- pany-B, Union Regiment, Capt. Jas. Kelly; Company D, Union Regiment, Capt. John McClelland; Company L, Union Regiment, Capt. Jas. Callan. ; Third Battalion (3th and H_streets)— Maj. J. R. Smead, Adjt. W. B. Webb; Na- tional Rifles, Capt. Slemmer Guards, Capt. H. M. Knight; Cameron Rifles, Capt. J. F. Elder. ‘Some Familiar Names. Fourth Battalion (Pennsylvania avenue and 10th street)—Lieut. Col. Lem Towers, Adjt. D. E. Irving; Company A, Washing- ton Light Infantry, Capt. L, Williams; Company E, Washington Light Infaniry (zouaves), Capt. J. T. Powell;.Company D, Washington Light Infantry (howitzers), Capt. S. Cross; Washington Light Guard, Capt. S. A. H. Marks, jr.; District Union Rifles, Capt. Morrison. Be Fifth Baitalion (Armory Square)—Lieut. Col. C. Everett, Adjt. J. D. Hutton; Metro- politan Rifles, Capt. W. H. Nally; Jackson Guards, Capt. John 3; Company A, Putnam Rifles, Capt. G. Thistleton; pany B, Putnam Rifles, Capt. Green- Constitution Guards, Capt. W. H. Degges; Union Rifles, Capt. J. ty com- mustering officer, and Gen. G. C. Thomas, | © of noitering, and nearly all the companies the Company A, tional Guard, Lieut. E. 8. Allen; Company B, National Guard, Capt. T. BE. Lioyd; Company C, National Guard, Capt. 8. A. H. McKim; Company D, Na- tional Guard, Capt. R. Morgan; Company F, National Guard, Capt. W. P. Ferguson. Seventh Battalion (near almshouse)—Maj. P. H. King, Adjt. W. T. Garrett; City Guards, Capt. Robt. Clark; Mechanics’ Union Rifles, Capt. Rutherford; Company C, Union Regiment, Capt. G. W. Miller. Eighth Battalion (near Baltimore and Ohio depot)—Major Balbach, adjutant; Washington Rifles, Capt. A. Loeffler; Com- pany A, Turner Rifles, L. Braun; Company B, Turner Riffes, Capt. Kzyanowski. A Plot on Lincoln. These served till July on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, on the Potomac and in guarding the public property. Two of the men of ihe Sth Battalion, while on picket near the Great Falls, were killed by a sharpshooter from the Virginia side. One of the President's Mounted Guard was be- trayed while visiting friends near Ed- ward's Ferry, captured and spent some months in Libby prison. Possibly the vigilance of some of Col. Towers’ commiad prevented the capture of President Linco} in bridge r Georgetown, was being guarded, the mand being in camp on the north si the early part of June. While th Was fortified, the southern sh yet fully in posses and some ef the far f tion. as not ion of the Union forces, nemy had been seen not on the day in ques- on the Preside; ar his son making tr" called the driver checked the Shee? out and i he wished to drive over bridge a short d sir youl have to turn bi wered th cot at = asked the lency; the he nt remarked Towers’ riage. ; and, explaining the 4 ng his person in that section of + the President acknowledged the of be ug Colonet wers cn men, drove ginia high a. ¥ Stes tt »ciated with th er the memerial se cry of the late Frances Willa mem- d and Neal Ladies’ Improvement Club 1 in Minor Hall last Monday for the benett of st even) enti G a date and consiruct at least two { courts om the tract by the industrial | 1 and the present ue of the ap f inio for the discussion of p will addre: lagozy Monday. - Methods in Math The is to use Rosenkranz’s ophy of Education as the text book during the spring term. National. Prof. Henry E. Davis gave his first lec tire on second and third Greenleaf Wed- nesday evening to the post graduates. ‘The foliowing gentlemen h been appoinied to serve upon the joint executive commit- tee for the commencement exercises: Messrs. Reisinger, chairman; Allen, Bailey, Balderston, Boyie, Clements, Fowler, Hill, Reiter, Ellis, Bowen, Underwood, Ciark, Hamlin, Williams, Allen, Ames Dalton. A meeting of the full comm was heid Wednesd ning and the sub- in “Concret committee appointed. ‘The subject r the debate this evening is: “Resolved, That the Army Navy of the United States Should rma- nently Increased,” and for Satur April 2, 1898, “Resolved, That the United States ould Adopt as'a Financial Policy the Free Coinage of Gold and Silver at the Ratio of 16 to 1 ‘The Debating of its public April 16. Prof. Carusi has comzrerced his lectures on cquity to the senior class. Prof. Siddons will commence his lectures to the junior class on tor! event The following is announced as the subje for th ‘ociety will hold the last debates Saturday evening, t 2dward Thomp: d and Wit According the and in the Light of Modern ays must be handed in to er than May 1, 180s. Columbian University. Columbian Corcoran Society will meet this evening and a special “program has been prepared for the occasion. AU who can come are invited to be present. A series of lectures on “Art” have been commenced by Mr. William Ordway Part- ridge, the first having been delivered Wed- nesday on “Art and Patriotism.” The Law School Debating Society will meet next Saturday evening to hear a de- bate on the question, “Resolved, That the Supreme Court of the United States should be increased to fifteen members,” between Philip Tindall and W. Vorhees, affirmative, and Messrs. Adams and F. P. Evans, nega- tive. Mr. Quin of Harlan will deliver a lecture on Friday next under the auspices of the class of "98, college, on “Before the Mast.” One hundred views illustrating the subject will be displayed. The Women’s Anthropological Society held a meeting at 3 o'clock this evening, at which the following program was rendered: “Significance of the Scalplock Among the Omahas,” Miss Alice Fletcher; ““Koreshani- ly, a New Communistic Sect,” Miss Anita Newcombe McGee. The senior class of the college held a meeting last Tuesday at noon. “Is Jesus the Christ?” was the theme of Rev. Randoiph H. McKim's lecture last Sunday afternoon at the university. To- morrow the third of the course wili be de- livered by Dr. Lee Davis Lodge of the fac- ulty on “Forward and Not Backward.” Next week Senator Perkins of California will speak on a subject to be announced later. The excavating at the site of the new law school and office building is-about com- pleted. $ Georgetown University. The preparatory” department presented a drama, entitled “Major John Andre,” ‘Thursday evening in Gaston Hall. The gold medal offered as a prize to the student who best acquitted himself in the part as- signed was won by James A. Cowardin of Richmond, Va., impersonating Sir Henry Clinton. Mr. Charles sioran, as Benedict Arnold, did admirably, but being of an- other department did not enter in competi- tion for the prize. Between the acts the audience were entertained by the George- town Mandolin Quartet, Master Hall Lusk The kiah Smith (@ tory), A. Georg» Starr; page to Sir Henry Chnton, J. R. Clarke. A meeting will be id this evening to elect officers for the Law School Debating Society to serve for the rest of the presen? term. It is the custom to hold elections of officers three times each year; the post graduate, senior and junior class filling all the positions from their ranks su , y, and this being the third term, are all from the junior rs Ralph and Sullivan are the st peo ities for pre and ther ure a number of candida’ the other Position Mr. Perry, lecturer on domestic relations iaw school, is deliv ectures, one each on general Ting # series of ck, to the junior nciples of the law on to matters t book nd Satu aw school ting last evening peaker discus: Resoived, That the United § t, operate and class, connning his pr instruc! tained in ‘Thurs: ur the on t which the the queszion, ates shou atrol the proposed Taguan canal; Messrs. Townsend and affirmative, and Messrs. Holland- er and Berger, negative. — SOME MUSICAL NOTES Miss Clara Ascherfeld, the brilliant youn Pianiste of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, Md., will give her first recital in this city at the Bradbury piano rcoms, 1225 Pennsylvania aveaue, Satur- day, April 2, at 3:30 p.m. She will be as sisted by her brother, Mr. L. H. Ascher- itone, and the following well- ashington artists: Miss Virginia Powell Goodwin, soprano; Mr. Jos. Finckel, violinist, and Miss Agnes Eloise Alden, ac- compunist. Miss Ascherfeld has held the Peabody Alumni scholarship for three suc- cessive years, and is probably the most talented piano student ever connected with that famous institution, Her remarkable ability and the popularity of the other art- ists who will parti in the program should assure a big audience of musical people. nplimentary cards of admission un be secured upon request at the Brad- ano room: Ider pup of the Lawrence School rend: program Thursday evening for th ¢ the Masonic fair fund. The recital hall was crowd to its number was well 'S were demanded, Music Club met s, No. US C street st, on Saturday evening, and auline Isemann’s on Sunday n- h nights being devoted (o the study ot the music played by the Boston Orch tra at its Tu neert, the com tions being the Kienzi overture, the ture to Tannhau i tof “Lohengr 3° the Is. Licbstod and the Be noven ymphony. Twelve of th members a delighttul hour with Mr. conductor of the orches during sianv pupils of the Columbia Con- sery of Mu will give April ssisted by Misses Von N alist given by the last evenin Each ani e 2 Was well nr Miss: een y 8 difficult waltzes and ease. A d » credit for the Peach Miss Mars tr a The first rehearsal of the choru: opening ceremonies at the Mas was held at Shetdon’s Hall Tue ing last under Leod. The ood, and th direction of e Was exc y the chorus dispo: the work in band was an agreeable surpri even to the director. The chorus is ¥ largely composed of members of the w: krown Chor: ciety, as a general invite tion was extended to them to assist the Masonic brethren in their undertaking, which invitation has in most instances been accepted. The coming lecture rehearsal of the Choral Society, at which Mr. H. E, Kreh- Biel will favor the ective and sustaining members with a lecture on the coming ren- dition of Dvorak’s “Specter Bride,” is icoked forward to with great interest. It will be held at the Universalist. Church, corner 13ta and L streets, on Thursday, April 7. Haster Sundcy at St. Margaret's Church, Connecticut avenue, solos will both at the morning and vices by Mr. John R. Bentley of Phila- delpbia. The title of the afternoon solo is Resurrection Morn,” by Schneck- er. The other will be announced later. Mr. Bentley is said to havea rich, high bari- tone voice, carefully cuitivated, and of very sympath be sung afternoon ser- BUSINESS WOMEN. They Know the Trials of the Busy Ma: From the Anaconda Stondard. It has frequently been sald that women mployments do not make as as thelr sisters who have y domestic Hives, but a recent ob- er takes a wholly different view of the He holds that the effect of the wo- s is not so much to the ad- vantage of the woman as to the business man. Such a woman has more respect for him, more regard, more sympathy. She is altogether less Lkely voluntarily to im- pose upon him or involuntarily to harass and worry him. She has been there, she knows how it fs herself, and this personal experience and knowledge make her more lenient and considera: Every woman wage-earner worthy of the name learns first, last and all che time that is attained by close attention and single-mindedness. The woman who real- izes this must also realize that the same rule holds good of the business man. In a present capacity of daughter and sister, or in a future capacity as wifg, siie is ceriain to show such a keen consideration for the busine members of the household as is undreamed of in the philosophy of the ether kind of woman, There is no danger of her husband being besought to just stop on his way down town and attend some specialiy seductive “special saie,” or to leave his office an hour or £0 earlier in order that he may bring her home a lot of “samples.” She las had practical and personal proof that it is through this sort of thing that busi- ness iuterescs are made to suffer, and she does not propose to let this knowledge play her false. A woman's appreciation of business and business ways and means thus insures domestic comfort; If con- ditions warrant it, it be.efits the business man even more than it benefits the business woman herself. 108+ Convicts Building Their Prison. Frem Tit-Bits. ‘The most interesting fact about the build- ing of Wormwood’ Scrubbs prison is that the plans for its construction were drawn by a convict in his cell, while undergoing the probationary nine months to a long term of imprisonment. The man was orig- inally an architect, and among the fore- most in his profession. He was 2 gentle- man both by birth and education, but in early life began to abuse his natural gifts, and at the time was undergoing his sec- ond term of imprisonment for forgery. The completion ef the work occupied him for for instance, he had to pin his paper to the wall of his cell, moving it around with