Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1898, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR,. SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1898-24 PAGES. _ == ADVERTISED LETTERS. SAILOR SOLDIERS | ‘ssi sssue srexenacé'tsie:| SLUMBERING GIANTS va Sin mee ae noone ea se known as “duty struck,” whic! iyn- NNSYLVANIA KAILEOAD. orymic with over-officiousness, and thereby _ : mao HeTsns fen tiet ot adpertioed letters, re- ‘This List Appears Every Saturday. STATION CORNER OF fcolishly lays the foundation of years of urday, rch 26, 1808. > é 7:0 AM. week days. unpopularity for himseif by taking advan- To ‘obtain any of these letters the applicant Parlor ané Dini Lane HOTEL INFORMATION S 10:0 AM. VEN oy . tage of his authority to make it as warm * should call for *‘Advertised 5 Dial Duties of the Marines on Board a| as possible for the biuejackets. Such are-| Monster Magaziner Where Uncle Sam j , 14 not cated tor withinytwo ¢2) ‘weeks they will FREE. Bua Slevping. Diting. Siiokia cruit, however, is quickly called down by e * LADIES" LIST. = For booklets of American, European Hotels, Fall} polis, St. Louis. Clevelan: Man-o’-War. the older men of the marine guard aboard. Keeps His Powder, 2 Harrison, Thos Parlor Car to Hacrisbac As a rule, the marines and bluejackets are 10:50 aM on the most friendiy terms. There are few liberty parties of bluejackets bound for a Abbott, Jno Mrs Ladde. B Miss Alexander, Ida B Mrs Lane, E Mrs Alexander, Mabel Mrs Lane, Maggie Lang. Marguerite Miss tield,' Alfred @ fauselmann, Robt Hawkins, J'P and Winter Resorts, also rates of apartments in iz UNE th Betet Marie Hotels oclow, call or address (send stamp) — Parlor 'c hired Car to Harrisburg. Buffet Parlor Car Harrisburg S 10 Pittsburg. ; es of blu : ra ‘Allen: atte, Miss a Healey, foo). se HOTEL TARIFF BUREAU, |: rt Sircago xp ST. LOUIS EXPRESS, TTP | seod time ashore that are not accompaniec AMMONIT thom, C Mrs ‘Latiner, HC Mre le ‘Andrew Rose, S : = “s as a ARE THE by a favorite sea-goldier or two, invited | THOUSANDS OF TONS OF ON | Areal? Saney'atiee Patines Helchnieyer, B Kum, Geo _] fg naar. New, yore iceping and’: Dining te “St - Amnstrong, Lucy Miss Henderson, & W ve, Regent #., Louis, Nashville (via Cincinnat alcng to help the sailormen get rid of their aehtea Tee “Tiss ioe — Hendricks’ Chas Samuel, J M 248 Rue de Rivoli, Paris. 7:20 P.M. WESTERN EXPiss.—P Slewp- ——* mceney, for out of his $13 a month the un- Bailey, Sallie Mre ee Henry, Ben Say, Alfred HOTEL POCKET GUIDE | te Se t Piteirg, Chicago Ana Harrintog to der-paid marine does not have-a large i Banks, Jennie Miss = Lewin. joumie’ Mine Hensoi, Jas sett Wie TSResient. Dining an ge ” H K H nf ton, a FREE. 3 M. EX PRES ‘uil- As a Rule They Stand Well With | *mpunt for shore hilarity. any peen| Stored Away in a Solitude in New| Bink, © itr arg” Fewis, “Magnte Biss | Hintos, Ker M.D Seward, Theo (LP. means American Pian; EP, European.) | em Biceping Care Washington to Tivisuurg, ad : made against Americen marines of unnee- Baltinore Hier one? Lockler, Carrie Miss | Hoffine, Jno Seadoo) ALBANY, N. Y.........Hotel Keutmore, A.P.. $4] Gayti#buré © St. Louis apd Cincinnati. Vining the Bluejackets. essary severity in dealing with bluejacket Jersey Woods. Battle, Mary Miss ek a Holmes, Sharrids, DS S do.....Stanwix Hall, E.P., $1 up; A-P., $3 ub | 10:40 P.M. PACIFIC EXPRESS —Pallman Sieep- prisoners in the “brig” over whom they Baylor, Mettris Mrs Yuen’ Delia Mra gg | Holt. Chas L Shaw, Jack ASHEVILLE, N.C. Battery Park Hotel, A.P..$4 up| _ 16 Car te Pittsburg. ne have stood guard. Careful investigation = Batis Virginie Lee Mise Settee it C lire Hoot, FL Shea,” Jug ATLANTIC CITY, N.3.Hotel St. Charies,A.P..$4 up | Ri, A-M- fer, Kans. Cana = 8 ean : y prov fone. Mamie z ira, Niag: A ; ae ALWAYS GOOD FIGHTERS| {iF tas necersary” Bome oficers of he | ALT, 18 ACTIVITY NOW Hiskoan HA Mccullongi, MS ase | Bowing, SAE | Shugert, eee ane tere enti rn | ae me phy ba tC. fe Ae ee “| Bigmres, WH Mee Meprommueh A Mrs, | Hosack, deo Sinclair, Ewin BALTIMORE, Md. ..Hotel Remuert, E-P.. $1.50 up| 77a) aly {Qi Willlamepert,. Rochester. Erie. Tut- he abolition of the marine guard, = oalt, Augusta Miss 3 + loward, Skinner, Hon ‘The Carroll: oar 4 2 ing the necessary guard duty aboard men- - Rae OE eee fawn =e do: Hota Altamont. RE. $1 ups-k.P_ $2.00 op | WG EM Oe cote, Comes eke. Wsitten for The Evening Star. ce a on Fp IR aa Written for The Evening Star. sur | Eordets Stille Ming Mandue, Yalta Mins Humpberr, Jas Smith, Ee BOSTON, Mass. Hotel Vendome, A-P.. $5] (Si Warnington to eckoney Seem 2 3 > pts 5 “ » GW & Co - Copley Sq. Htl., E.P.,§1.50up: A.P.,$8-50up R PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND THE HE MAN WHO EM- | bivejackets. But it has often been found eT eee Die we Maat ae Paes Smith, G 2p J FO ADE! \. NE! ploys the phrase, | (in the absence of marine guards on land- here and there in a} Bostan geen verti Amarth. Afi Albert Pai ee Leettitisheenripntieeag omer) [Py Su ae “Tell that to the ma-| ing-party duty ashore) that a bluejacket long, narrow valley | Bradley, Jane Welsh Mrs Mason, Wm F Mrs Allie =e eS BROOKLYN.N.Y. Hotel St.George, E.P..$1; A-P.$3 | 00 EM, “CONGRESSIONAL LIMITED.” ai < put on guard with a cutlass over another which is perched { Briscoe, Lou Mrs Meader, Martha Mrs Suith, Rev Ww D CAMBRIDGE SPRGS..Pa. Hotel Rider.A.P..$2.500p | Mare 'Reguisr tat Toon Aig, fat, Tem rines.”” expresses In-| bicejacket 1s much more severe in. his tanec | RO Se 2 Jotetes, NZ Smith, WH CINCINNATL 0...Grand Hotel, E.P., $1; A.P., $3] 10:00 (Dining Car) and T1200") direct contempt for] treatment of the prisoner than a marine Brown, Av MMi: Jenkins,’ Jas Sommerville, B KANSAS CITY,Mo.TheMidiand.E.i°,$inp;4.P..83up | Wilmington) A.M.. 12:45, 3: the alleged guilibility | ever is. The manner of this having been tain region near Fics) |=prowa; Annie-Miss® ae tr Johnson, Dr J B ptheeee ts LAKEWOOD, Lakewood Hotel, A.P.. $4 up a ihae chee tc eee and guilelessness of | ascertained is that there have been several catiny, N. ¥., seven | Brown) Anna Mrs Minig, Mollie Mrs eee ey He zg Spencer, MW LONDON, En; --+Hotel Cecil, E.P., $2 up 5 4:20" 6:50, 10:00 sea soldiers. The or- | C45¢s in which the guarding bluejacket has great giants are | Brown, Anvle L Miss Minor, Ida Sotmaoet -Wattce mnmel M LONDON(Westminster)$t.Ermin'sHotel. High class ipbia only, Past Express, igin of the term is| !#id the fractious prisoner's head open with sleeping. If they] Brown! Kate Miss ; A Ass rise | Jobus:n, Col WEL Unexcelled for luxury,comfort.cuisine. E. AM eek days, Buren: 1215 1M week srappel in aeetay: | 2 Ce : were roused to fury | Browne, Win Mrs ees Jones, Steran MEMPHIS, Tenn. Gayosu Hotel, A.P., $2 For’ Boston, without change, 7:80 A.M. week bedi oe in eras Prefer the Murine Corps. and all the pent-up Reus, eb eae virginia Lewis sone Beh MOBILE, Ala. Battle H’se,rooms&bat! rene ig LA daily . = sacs > m: 0 firs . Rollie ores . NAPLE: Splendid vie or Baltimore. 6:25. 7200, 7:30, 8:00, 9:00. 10:00, made use of it must{ It {8 a fact that, notwithstanding the villainy within them | Bundy, Jennie Mies see Kelkbrew, J B BALES, lt {Galena view eoath) Moca ttece Goer ae Fae Bae. 8:00. 20:08, a . | Brown) Lucy Miss 3:15 4:00 ed), 6:18, have lived far inland, | ™°re Tigid discipline and the greater hard- let loose—and tho tin- | pirton, Martha Miss The Cosmopolitan Hotel, E. Se tee aoe Pat ver | Ships endured by marines, men who have jest spark would doit} Butler, Alice Mrs Stump, Nasa Gianna a t a or, if he really ever a Stren, . clapped eyes upon | Srved as soldiers on land and sea almost —a goodly portion of | Patler, Jorephine Miss Swain, 1 NEW YORK (N.B.Barry) The St. Clond, fo, 44200 Lia. any marines, he | invariably prefer the marine guard to the | north Jersey would be torn out by the] Butler, Sarah J Miss do.The Westminster, A.P.,$3.59 up; E.P..$1. ; 2 must have been peculiarly deficient in |@'my. After a man has made a ¢ruise as | roots, and scattered in dust and chaotic pee Welter ies oe av.&15th st-)Hotel Kensington, E.P.)$1.50 Creek Line, 9 A.M. and 4:26 P.M. capacity to properly judge them. The | 2 Marine, what the Germans call “wander | fragments to the four winds of heaven. : Grace Miss Lange, W Sar pee a Me, O08, 000 AM, 0:30 ant 500 ce s lust” takes possession of him, and he finds | The yery mountains that girdle the valley . Maggie Mrs Lambert, Wm LADELPHIA. Aldine except Sunday. Sundays, 9:00 A.M. soldier is neither guileless nor gullible. : : t. N Mrs Latern, John do.Restaurant alc&tih, The Lata: a it hard to ehdure the quietudé and monoto- | an a a hein eee n a mee 1 all about would fairly reel in their roc Murray, Bessie Miss 1 be. Rev BH Thompson, Harry D, VaTheJetfers lorida Special,” for act pear-fighting marines who manned the | ny of regular army garrison life. On one 2 es = I Learsy, J J ‘Amb a x of ancient Carthaginian or Phoeni- | of the ships of the Pacific squadron there is | @bbed foundations, and even New ¥ork, Lee. Chas ae Staten Island.‘ ge Te ye te ar galleys may have been blandly |" erect, gray-moustached, une-looking | ‘ifty miles away, would quiver under the ‘ Kee, This Planter'sHotel,F. A.P.s4up | Atlantic Crast bine, 4:30 40M. 3 ‘ i ae fc age b the di marine corporal named Alexander Woods. | terrific jar. Churchman, Adline Miss Lee Rus, John Lindell Hotel, E.P., $1 up; A.P., $2.50 up| Richmond only, CRC TE tn ete the OC ria has “wormiithe: uniform or the United)|” "Rorsthe abo welaloecthead tacven sleepers | Clark, Marzarat Ati = ACH. Princess Anne Hi 4 ward bir. Tise ceptive chiseling of the oarsmen who an-| States for thirty ts, lacking a few | are -filled with thousands upon thousands | (itt Nettie Miss ? PM. week days. % Swerel to the bluejackets of modern times,| months. First he was fifteen years of gunpowder and n cotton which for | Clarke, N I bY 8. or to the profit-seeking wiles of beach bar-]}in the marine guard. He got tired ede eee ee Cow Clarkson, Beau- Eloise J Miss > Saaisa ee sarees hse ES Ga NOL, Serawllags “intos en old bag’— | Years back the United States government mont, Mis Annee Mis Cyne, dailye via St er Eee ena Piel thse mie ocowhce Mina oe ex cuasatoes tors | bas flieen auietly aud wud Ob tesatvaly etScine Clemons, Emile Mre India Mrs Tons, TS act Tens en a otican marine-(nax_ | turing /iiuto his) hammock?) at e-“pipe | away. therelin tha evelitvor diese suddénie Shere ave mee ‘lncns iaice | MeGcy, La Oy Saeed Vor Cape May, 11:00 A.M. week days, arly—for a “good thing,” 1s in for a |down”—and so he decided to try an enl arising some such history-making crisis | Coleman, Martha F Mrs pegeh, Maggie Mrs McGoive's. RF uw Washington, D. ©.; $2 and $2.50 per day. wakening. The typteal American ment of shore soldiering. He went into an | in the nation’s life as is now upon us. Jusc | Coleron, Li'a Misa Pendleton, Mary Re Mrs | McLaughlin, Jas . . D. O.: of the new navy of the Unitec fes can be told few things that he vt already know. One of the things the purveyor of gold bricks of all sorts ‘ht to know is that his wisest course is to sheer off down the street when he es- a modern marine bearing down upon ithout considerably more than average nee no man can enlist in the ma- vard of the American navy. It stands hat such a man, who is likely er. to have been around the world times on men-of-war within the a couple ef enlistments, cannot » regarded as a yokel or a simple- uileless man is not ordinarily pos- § of ng froid. Yet the new apers pf this country are still praising the superb te Anthony's report ng officer's orderly, to Captain mediately after the Maine ex- on—“Sir, I have to report that the ship en blown up and is sinking.” An- Was only one marine, but in the nerve he exhibited at that crucial moment he was a type of the whole American ma- 1ine corps. Are Fine Soldiers. Milit men of all branches know that the marines of the American navy are fine They undergo more rigid dis- ind perform at least twice the duty of the soldiers of the United States army. Five years of service in the marine suard give a certain dignity to the man who, if remained shore, would perhaps ve learned the meaning of the though marines are paid consid- than rated bluejackets, and do l more work (when their broken uty are considered) for their pay, are nevertheless expected to set a example of faithfulness and sobriety men with the bell-bottom trousers. n they fail to ¢ this they are pun- al more severely than are nilar offenses, officer standing at the side with a private marine, being charged with some trivial or of exactly the same sort p. does not get half the dose Tanding officer that the sea ause hot so much straight- is expected of him, despite the the American eagle adge on his watch arm. overed, whenever un- nanded the serv- shore, that tney r up to the top notch. lilroad strike was in pro- ornia. in the summer of 1894, trouble brooded over railroad along the entiré length of the the marine guard stationed Mare Island navy yard wes turned ‘rve alorgside the regular army acramento, Stockton, Truckee tifornia towns. The marines nselves quite the equals of the 5 alertness, activity and and the colonel of . in command of the 4 now Gen, William Grehem, commanding the new of the south—did not fail to spon this fact in his daily reports he War showed army lupe Department from the scenes of the trouble. One of the marines at Truckee be t the stock of his rifle In club- ularly violent rioter, who was nvicted as an accessory in a train and causing the death of idiers. marine was reproved by commander and came near curt-rrartial on the charge of xovernment property. aid the marine company com- ‘aper than rifles." Never Show the Yellow. marines have never yet been got tigh -party < A the ¢ performing land- ign ports. To illus- Ww years ago, when Antonio ‘ral American agitator, was can con- Ttad, on the west coast. It before the populace of La t around the Amer- “ The populace wanied Eze- 8 blood. Word was sent to the nm the outskirts of La Libertad that Ezeta was cornered in the consulate. The American gunboat Bennington—now wn in Horelulu harbor—was then in Liberiad, and the Ben- rd, consisting of twen- under ccmmard of a sergeant, was on rare by the captain at the request of the 4 rican consul, to protect his reside and the refugee within it from the fury of the mob—for Ezeta was a citl- zen of the United States, albelt a profes- sional al American peace-disturber The handful of a marine arrived ashore at the consulate at * Moment that a battalion of ©50 ean S.ers, led by an ornately- got there. The ma- died the consulate and stood rines surre off + warthy, barefooted, extravagantly uniformed Selvadorean outfit for eight hours. Then, by a trick, Ezeta in disguise Was smuzsled to the beach and taken off to t Jennington, which carried him to San Francisco to stand trial in the United States courts for violation of the neutral- ity laws. Ezeta would unquestionably have been torn limb from limb by the sol- eiers and citizens of La Libertad had it pot been for the score of American ma- rires. An officer of one of the motley Sal- an yador, companies was an American free-lance from Cteveland, Ohio, who had served in both the United States army and navy. Tne American raged over the pu- sillanimity of che dark-skinned soldiers he commanJed, and shouted: “I'd undertake to lick the whole damned Salvadorean army if I had half a dozen marines of the United States navy It was fertunate for him that his men idn't understand English. Marines and Sailors. Since the Maine disaster brought the two American military services within the strong light of public attention, there has been a good deal of entirely misleading stuff published with reference to the al- leged cat-and-dog life led by marines and sailors on beard American men-of-war. As a simple matter of fact, the sea soldiers ard biuejackets on a United States war vessel get on exceedingly well together. ‘There is not one-tenth as much bickering between marines and bluejackets as there is among the bluejackets themselves. A marine recruit, just assigned to a ship, infantry regiment, and was sent to Fort Sidney, Neb. There are few military posts, outside of Fort Yuma, Ariz., and one or two Frencti posts in interior algeria, per- haps, quite so lonesome and desolate as t .Sidney. It was doubly gloomy to Woods, who had passed ten years of his naval life on ships jumping around on the Mediterranean station from Naples to ‘fan- gier or from Genoa to Nice. Woods speaks of his five-year “cruise” at Fort Sidney as a horrible nightmare. When it was over he lost no time in getting across the conti- rent to San Francisco, where he once more donned the marine’s uniform, and he has worn it ever since. In a few months he will be retired, and he will end his days in a little Chinese village that he has picked out as his ideal spot on the globe—a queer choice, by the way. Handling the Rifles. It is a peculiar thing, one that wate. and division officers of the navy often wonder over, that bluejackets can never be taught to handle their rifles in soldierly fashion. The sailor men of the United States navy are recruited from the same class of men as the marines, and they get almost as much rifle drill as the marines. Yet a bluejacket, who can do all sorts of things handily, who fs as active as a cat in going aloft and in all manner of deft exercises, aridies his magazine rifle as clumsuy as if it were made of lead. A division of blue- jackets drilling “by the numbers” in the manual of arms often makes a poof show- ing with ten men at a shoulder, ten at a port, and the rest af a present, while on the same deck a company of marines go through the rifle drill with the snap and precision of experts. The guard duty performed by marines on American ships is extremely wearing. At a two-company post of the regular army the soldiers make bitter moan when they &re compellod te go on guard at shorter in- tervals than ten days. The land soldicr’s guard tour is twenty-four hours long, and he walks his post only eight hours in that time—two hours on post and four off. The marine is practically on post all the tims. There are ships in the American navy, usu- ally the smaller gunboats, on which the marine guard soldier is on post for two hours, and then gets only two hours off be- fore buckling on his belt again, month in and rfnth out. This sort of thing involves a breaking up of slzep that tells severcly on marines serving on small shirs, and it {s for this reason that American sea-soldiers are so partial to flagships, and exhaust all the means in their power to be assigned to such large vessels of war. The Mail Orderly. For the privat2 marine there {s one really first-rate billet on a man-o’-war, und that is the mail orderly’s job. The mall orderly 4s the official messenger between the ship and the shore. He attends to all manner of errands for officers and men, and is a general buyer of trinkets for all hands quarantined for misconduct. His commis- sions are good, not to speak of the tips wnich are given to him for performing lit- tle diplomatic tasks ashor? for the men forward, and a great deal of money passes through his hands. A marine mail orderly commonly leaves the service at the expira- tion of one cruise with a snug sum tucked away. A poker sharp enlistad in the United States marine corps a few years ago. When his ship was on the South Atlantic station, quarantined on account of the yellow jack. this crafty marine began to play poker with members of the crew who thought they knaw something about the game of Graw. The marine got $6,000 in gold of money belonging to all hands—for he knew how to shuffle and to dish them in all sorts of ways—and deserted with the wad at Pernambuco. He is still going. ‘The first sergeant of a marine guard on a ship that is not larg» enough to rate one or more marine officers, is a heavy weight and a really dignified man, who has a re- sponsible and exacting place, and is treat- ed with great consideration by the officers. To all intents and purposes he is an officer himself. He may go ashore when he chooses without putting his name down on the liberty list, and when he comes back to the ship from shore leave he is not s2arch- ed for liquor, an immunity which he shares in common only with the ship's chief mas- ter-at-arms. The first sergeant is respon- sible for the conduct of his men, and if they mak: breaks he is reproved much a3 if he were an officer. For the preservation of discipline he is required to hoid himself as much aloof from the members of his guard as possible, and he associates, and som2times messes, with the ship's chief petty officers. It takes a clever man to get the chevrons of a first sergeant, surmount- ed by the diamond. The examinations for the promotion of enlisted men of the marin2 guard of the American navy are sufficiently difficult and technical to keep the ambi- tious men who purpose making a life bu: ness of sea-soldiering at th2ir books. Coaching for His Conversation. From Col. Higginson’s “Cheerful Yesterdays.”” As an overgrown boy—for I was six feet tall at fourteen—I had experienced all the agcnies of bashfulness in the society of the other sex, though greatly attracted to it. I find it difficult to convince my asso- ciates of later years that I then habitually sat mute while others chattered. A word or two of remonstrance from my mother had in a single day corrected this during my senior year, so far as the family table was concerned, and this emboldened me to try the experiment on a wider field. I said to myself, thinking of other young men who made themselves quite agreeable, “These youths are not your superiors— perhaps in the recitation room or the playground hardly your equals. Why not cope with them elsewhere?” Thus influ- enced, I conquered myself in a single even- ing and lost my shyness forever. The pro- cess was unique, so far as I lsnow, and I have often recommended it to shy your men. Being invited to a small party, cersidered beforehand what young ladies weuld probably be there. With each one T hi of course, something in common— kinship, or neighborhood, or favorite pur- suit. This would do, I reasoned, for a starting point. So I put down on a small sheet of paper what I would to each, if I happened to be near her. It worked like a charm. I found myself chatting away the whole evening, and heard the next day that everybody was surprised at the transformation. I have to this the little bit of magic paper, on which afterward underscored, before sleeping, the points actually used. how many thousand tons of concentrated havoc are at this moment stored away in this Piccatiny government powder depot there is no means of knowing. The officers in charge are never very communicative on the subject, and just now they are more than ever silent. All that can be said is that this magazine is the largest in the country, and that the government always has kept there its heaviest reserves of am- munition. There are, in all, seven great powder warehouses—five for the army and two tor the navy. Each storehouse is a building having a floor area of 200 feet in length by 60 in breadth. The height of the room thus formed is 40 feet. Now, powder as it comes from the factory is delivered in boxes that are a shade larger than the ordinary soap box so familiar in the coun- try store, and each box contains 150 pounds of the explosive. It will be understood very readily that a room 200 feet long by 60 feet wide and 40 feet high will hold a great number of the ordinary soap boxes of com- merce, and when it is said that each one of ‘these magazine rooms is piled high up with layer after layer of these 150-pound Soap-box size powder boxes, {t will be seen that the statement that there are hundreds of thousands of tons of powder in storage is well within conservative bounds. And this, too, is exclusive of the tons of gun cotton which are stored away in this re- mote mountain recess. A Reservation of 1,860 Acres, There are 1,860 acres in the tract of land the government owns there, and the bulk of this area is in a long, narrow valley, about three and a quarter miles from end to end, and varying from a quarter of a mile to a mile in width. It is a beautiful spot, distinctly suggestive of West P« nt, with its placid stretch of level ground sur- rounded on all sides by great rugged moun- tains which crowd up to its edges and peer down over each other's shoulders at it from all directions. There is no Hudson, to be sure, but a noisy, fussy little moun- tain stream winds through it and is span- ned at various places by trim white iron bridges. A government road leads from the main highway, about a mile away, to the handsome iron and stone gateway at the entrance. But for the fact that the gate posts are made in the form of upright can- non, and that the iron of the gates them- selves is wrought into martial designs, the first impression would be that some mil- Honaire recluse had made himself a private park away off in the wilderness. Watchful guards are everywhere about as you enter the grounds. There are no re- strictions as to visitors entering, even in these critical times: but you are always conscious that watchful eyes are upon you. Look Quite Harmless. Scattered here and there at wide inter- vals apart, and apparently in no regular erder, are the seven silent sleepers for whose benefit all this wide expanse and Profound solitude have been secured. Very quiet and harness they look—dull, lead- colored brick buildings, with red-tiled roofs end red iron shutters and doors—doors and shutters parilally thrown open in fair dry Weather, that the air may get through the bunidings where the incased explosives are Stored. Water, as well as fire, has to be guarded against in the storage of powder, and dampness is water. One reason the high mountain region was selected was to get away from the moister air of a lower level The navy powder is stored away and apart from that of the army, and the buildings are all painted in dirty muddy 1 yellow, which, for some reason, is tradi- tional with the navy. They are in a set-off tract of 340 acres, and on a mountain side above the valley proper. A branch of the Morris County railway runs into the reser- vation. Cars are backed up to the maga- zines at various points. Two hours after ammunition {s put aboard them it may be in New York, if there is need of so great a rush. They are filling shells now in the navy magazine, and carload after carload of them have been sent away since the war scare began. It is Maj. Buttington, the inventor of the disappearing gun carriage, which has worked such a revolution in coast defenses, who is now in charge of the Piccatiny powder magazine. He has been at the post about a: year. Comparatively few people know there is such an establishment as this removable ammurition depository in existence. Lying right at the very gates of New York, not one New Yorker in thousands knows of its existence. As for the country people who live in the vicinity the fact of the powder magazine's existence has so long béen an old story with them that they had practi- cally lost all interest in it until the recent war excitement came on. But now the humblest mountaineer to be found within a radiva of ten miles visibly swells with patriotic pride at the mere mention of the eat government depot. They obviously feel that the great temple of Janus Is right at their d5ors, and that they have a sort of personal responsibility for the safe- keeping of the keys. Suspicious of Spanish Spies. It is a matter of conviction among them, just at the present moment, that the weeds are filled with Spanish miscreants loaded with explosive designs on the maga- zines. The stranger is glared at with the eye of suspicion, and to ask the road to the government reservation is to open the dcor to a rigid crose-examination. “I won't tell you no road to no reserva- tion nor nowhere else,” was the greeting a photographer, a mild, pale-faced dim lit- the man, got from a native out In a moun- tein road the other day. “I won't tell you ucthin’; I believe you're a gol-darned Span- ish spy. If you are yol'll never git out of these diggins alive. You can bet your yal- ler hide on that!” To be sure, this was an uncommonly bellicose citizen, but the general atmos- phere of the country fs impregnated with the same sentiment, and any hapless way- farer who comes at all near the Piccatiny mountaineer’s ideal of the Spanish type would certainly run the risk of disagree- able attention. On the reservation itself, while there is, of course, no relaxation of eant solemnity about it. It means so much. It is s0 it not to rouse those hushed and seven Coles, Virginia Mrs Pon lton. Mary Miss Collins, Anna Mrs Person, Tila Miss Collins, ‘Susie rd, Metila Mrs Conner, Susan M Mrs ‘Avnie Mrs Gook, Etiz: Cooper, Ann Course, Lizzie Coping, Meare He, Bnuna Mrs Miss (2) Ponser, 8 H Mrs Potter. Beagle F Miss Powell, B Mrs Ragland, Ida Miss Randolph, Sarah Mise Creag, Maria Mra Marguerite Gatrein, Louisa © Miss sc a arenertt Croffort, Cartie Miss G B Mrs Crofut, Myrtle Mrs onde Katherine @ Crown, Bertie Miss x Ready, Thos Mrs Rhedes, C: Emily A'S Mrs son, May F Miss neon, Anna F Miss inson, Maggie Miss rs, A Mrs Annie Miss De Knight, E M Mrs De Lake, Lula De Vaughn, Mamie Miss jt" Dickerson, ‘Carrie Miss pagers. 4 Mr Dillard, isViola Miss Tiger Mary E Miss Dodg Ha Miss Rogs, Rosie Misa Dorsdt, Frank Mrs Res‘in, Matila Mrs tide Miss Mike Mrs Saks, dnan 3 Sanders, Martha Miss ‘nade.’ Nettie Miss Schmidt, K M and C H Misses, Scott Shaw, erwood, Dueke, 8 Dunham. Duntz, Veuy i Edwards, Mary Miss, Hazel Kate B Mrs minons, Rosa Miss Sinmis. Sarah Mrs Erwin, F B Mrs Farden, Annie ford “Mrs Mary FE Miss Rose Miss nnie Brooke Miss Winnie Miss. Ruthe Shepard. Chas T Mrs Ship . Martha Miss Clara Blanton Miss nek, WHT Mrs Slater. Alice Miss Slarghter. Mary Miss Smith, Abbie H Mrs. Smith, AH Mrs Smith) Alice O Mrs Smith, Mrs Smith, Geo E Mrs Swith, India Mrs Smith, Isabel Miss Smith, Jos Mrs Fowler, Anno 3 Fowle, Virginia SA atte Aig? © Smith, Maggie Mine Gilm: Willie Mrs see J Mrs Given, Bertie Mrs Smith rs (2) Goddard, Fannie P Miss Smith, W Hamilton Mrs Golden, “Lizzie Mise Smsthe, Fannte Miss Gorden, Beesie G Mes Spann. Geo Mra Grady, Subriden Misy” Stanton, Florence Mrs Stanton, Sophie Miss Starr, Cora M Mrs Stevens, Harriett T Miss Stewart, Emily Miss Stewart, Melissa Stone, Lilian Garrett Miss = Stuard, Melissa Mrs Stuart, Sallie Miss Sweeney, Kate Mrs Sykes, A O Mrs Taliaferro, Lily Miss Taylor, Alvista Miss Louise Taylor, Jane Mrs L Mrs. ) Mattie Mrs Thomas, Rachel Thompson, Mury Mrs ‘Thornton, Tena Miss Tills, F Miss Todd. Albert Mrs Graut, Chas Mrs Greely, H Herzog Mrs Green,’ Georgie Miss Gerty Mrs Goode, MIE Biss ay, Maggie Miss Hall, Ada Miss Hall, Ann Mrs Hall, Ellen Miss Hall, Mary Mra Halsey, Mary E Mrs Harper, Nellie EK Miss Harris, Martba Miss Harrison, Mary Mrs Harrison, Sarah Mrs th, Edna Mrs ault, Nellie O Miss rson, Lena Miss a quae: Miss Troutt, Laura Mra |, Rut Turner, Ella Miss Hinds, Asher © Mrs Turner, Jas Mrs Hirely, Lillie Miss ‘Turner, Nanie Mrs Hogue, Mary C Mra Updyke, Anna Miss Holiday. Hattle Miss Virginia, Isadra Miss Holly, Nancy Mrs :2) Vincent. Jus Mra Holton, Addie Miss Vade, Mary © Mrs Hossark, Minnie Miss Wile, Mary © Mfrs Anna Miss — Emile Miss Wallace, Irene Mrs Walsh, Florence Mrs Hostile, Loutsa Mri Hengh, Ida M Mrs Hughes, Zore Miss House, “Amy J Mrs + Warder, Virginia Miss Hilo Pes a Washington, Clara Miss pe las Washington, Ida Miss Jackson, Mamie Miss BLArgaAree Mary Miss M He Mrs ; Marie Miss Washington, Rachel Mrs Jarvas, ‘Mary L Miss Wi : Jean, Lina EB Miss get ine teat cece inson, Amanda Mrs Anna Waters, Lala Miss Watson, Katherine Miss Watson, Rosa Mrs Webster, Mabel Miss West, Miss West, Kate Mrs White, Marie Miss son, Mary Annan Miss White 1 Mrs J Geo Mra Laura Miss ; Mary Miss (2) , : White, Mary Mrs Tohnson, Rebocea Miss Whitney.’ Victoria: Conk- Johnson, KM Mrs qe te Willar, Lucy Mrs Wiliams, Jk Mra Williams, Nellie Miss Jones, Agnes Mis Jones, Anvie Mis Jones, Edith Pierpont ms, Sarah Miss Miss oth, MOT Mes ‘s, Helen B Miss on, A Miss M Beth Mies fison, Emma Mra y Kane, Lizzle Miss ‘ood, I ‘Thernton Mrs Kean, Nellie Miss Kemper,Mildred Miss (3) Kenza, EL Mra Young, ‘Hester Mrs King, ‘Kattie Miss Yo Koiner, Julia Mrs Ze GENTLEMEN’ : Adams, Geo Christmas, J M Adams, J H Clove, Lewis Ainsworth, F_H (2) Clark, AM Clark, James pert, Joo J Albright. G Clark, WH Albright, G W. Aldrich, Chas H Claytin, RS ‘Alexander, © H Clendenon, JC Alexander, P cum, # Din Alger, Hon H P © tes, HE Alsibbs, Warner Siena, Win Anderséa, Carl Gomer Samuel Andtrson’ Frank" Sonnet, Hon Selden Armstrong, W J (2) Conway, W H Amold, A’ C eh: Milo « Arnold, JP in, N A Atherton, M A xutch, Henry Atkins, $ Corven, William Bain, Geo W Colt ace, Wm Baidwin, W B 2 Balls, JW. Dallod; Comm F Barber, iH Repatiore, Richard Barker, Chas R ao eet Barkbardt, Peter paneaey 2 Barton, Hoa Albert Batcheler, Geo Bales, Albert I Bedford, Geo Bernhelm, EC Berton, J 'T Brerer, B B H i ite Sea] Gordon, Jas vy: < aa ‘Garson,’ W: ° Green, Arthur Carter, ari u Green, Wa Ghamberlsi: Hon WC Gireere'0' Cuppa; Heng Grille zm Poindexter, Martha Mrs MeMurran, JR Hon 0 Mack, T Mandew, Jno Manficld, JR Dd. Morrow, CR Dan’ Marshall, Hon J R 5 Mathews, Wm Ht . CB (2) Mellers ant, J ‘Thos Dr EL Ps Dc Whitesell, D Whitford, 3B itman,. W nit Rev IT O10 an] hitterore, Silas A eke, Ho Wn iam, ¢ iiams, C: Hiams, T! Bennie . Hon Rob Neazer John H tL (2) | Jno H Oppenheimer, Joe Perr, JB Wright, Clarence Wright, RW Wyatt, Elijah STATION A LADIES" LIST. Diggs, Mrs Anna Vincent, Mrs Maria STATION B. LADIES’ LIST. ¥. Miss Lillie LIsT. Metrary, F E STATION D. Sanders, Mrs Emimer Marshall, Mrs \TLEM Dant, Miss Alice Fichelberger,Mrs AnnieM SIBERIA’S GOLD. Richest Miners Are Political Exiles Who Are Still Convicts. From the New York Herald. “Keep your eyes on Siberi That is what a scientific writer on the old problem wrote only six months ago, and those who have visited that supposed- ly bleak, cold and dismal country may fairly echo his words. Siberia has been misunderstood. For forty years now mines have been opened all over the countgy. In Tomsk a minister of mines is #ermanently resident, as well as at Irkutsk, while the number of people employed in the mining industry is considerably in excess of 100,000. Yet in spite of the marvelous richness of the country, which has been described by more than one writer as likely to become a second California, little or no attempt has been made by foreigners to enter and to take up the industry of gold mining. Yet the government is most anxious that such should be the case, and in order to facili- tate the importation of foreign energy and brain to the great Siberian gold fields, spe- cial concessions are held out to foreigners which the natiye does not enjoy. Russian law is pe jar, complicated and a little awe-inspiring, and this may have a great effect upon the capitalist, backed up as it is by the extraordinary prejudice which still exists in civilized Europe against everything Russian. In many respects Siberia resembles the Klondike district. Many of the mines are situated in places equally as inaccessible in winter, and which have the same character- istics in summer. The alluvial deposits are free and in some cases rich. Quartz there is, but with the exception of one or two places this has never yet been tapped, and in the whole of Siberia at the present time there is not a single efficient battery fe quartz crushing—this statement on the au- thority of Mr. Shostok, the minister of mines for Siberia. Nor is there any ma- chinery for the proper washing of alluvial gold, and yet millionaire gold miners, free men or exiles, may be found by the dozen in Tomsk, Irkutsk and Krasnoairsk. The practiced miner, fresh from the fields of western Australia, British Columbia or California, would doubtless laugh hugely at the primitive arrangements in use in Siber' The foreigner desiring to become a mine owner in Siberia must tirst have a letter of recommendation from his ambassador or consul, aad then he can either rent or buy existing mines or prospect for himself. He is not allowed more than five versts, or three and a quarter miles, of land in any one particular spot, but he can have as many mines as he likes, provided they are not on one run. All the gold he obtains he hands over to the government,‘which as- says and smelts it for him, crediting him with its value, less 3 or 6 per cent, accord. ing to the district, which is tax money. Once in pessession of the concession, the miner may go to any part of Siberia, and if he knows his business and is careful there is every prospect of him becoming a rich man, for, if anything, the protective laws of Russia are more severe than in any other country. Such a thing as claim jumping is unknown, robbery or murder al- most unheard of and food is astonishingly cheap, as also is labor. The, government provides each mine owner with Cossacks to guard the precious metal, and, in short; when one thoroughly understands the con- ditions, there can be no better way of pur- suing the fascinating hunt for gold than under the Siberian regime. One of the mostsastonishing features of Siberian gold mining is that many of the richest miners -are exiles sent to Siberia years ago for some political or criminal offense, and, although they have wealth in abundance, they cannot leave that land of snow, of steppes and mountains until the "great white czar shculd be pleased to grant his gracious pardon. Now that the great Siberian railway is slowly but surely forging its way through the heart of Asia, it is hoped that in its wake will follow a steady tide of wéstern civilization. It goes without saying that wherever the railway engine snorts its way civilization must follow. Already the line ered — eer of tsk, the capital o7 iberia_ The large cost and the great discomfort of a journey to central Siberia have pro- hibited foreign enterprise up till now, but the future will be different. Dispatch and comfort will be the order of the new rail- way, and when this has been completed then may Siberia be the new Klondike, but with many less disadvantages. —____+«+____ Stopping an Electric Car. can plan; steam heat; central location; meals without rooms, $5 per Week or $20 per mouth, n-bi-3m BOR RENT—FURNISHED ROO tel Majestic, 14th and Yale n.w.; single and en suite: perfect in all appointments. The cuisine is a special feature of the house. Ja6-tf R. J_ MARSHALL, Manager. TRAV, INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY. American Line. New York - Southampton (London - Paris). Twin. serew U. Mail - Steamships, AT THE HO- Sailing every Wednesday at 10 a.m. St. Paul. Mar. 30)St. Louis, St. Louis VApr. 6 Paris. Apr. 15 St. St. Paul: -Apr. 20 St Louis... NEW YORK TO ANTWERP. 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FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS, Leaves Washington, D. C. (7th ‘st. ferry wharf, Monday: for intermediate landings té Bushwood, Rock Potut, Nomint Leonardtown, Stone's, Howard's, a... Colonial Beach, Creek, 4 7 a.m.. for intermediate landings to vod, Rock Point, Colto Leonardtown, Abel's, Nomin! Creek, Piney Point, St. George's Island, Smith Creek, Goan und Yeo" comico rivers. Saturdays, 7 a.m.. for intermediate landings to Colonial Beach, Bushwood, Rock Point, Colton’s, Nomini Creek. (See schedule in effect September 13, 1897.) se7-tt C. W. RIDLEY. Genl. Manager. THE WEEMS STEAMBOAT CO. POTOMAC RIVER ROUTE. Winter Schedule. in effect Dec. 28, 1897. STEAMER POTOMAC Leaves Washington every THURSDAY at 4 p.m. for Baltimore and River Landi Baltimore freight wolicited. All river freight must be prepatd. STEPHENSON & BRO., Apts. Office, 910 Pa. ave. Telephone 745. DENTISTRY. A Any and every branch of Me- Dentistry Arcee oop Beate Hygienic _plates—only remedy for “rubler. sore mouth.” Dr. F. P. 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BUNDY, cae @el7-tf Fendall bldg.. cor. 4% and D n.w. 6:30, 7 7:35 ex., 11:00, 11: ex., comer Fifteenth ant G jon, Sixth and B st ft for the checkin om hotels and residences. 3 General Passe HUTCHINSON THROUGH THE for Cincinnati Lexington and Lo sville without change, daily except Sleeps rs Cincinnati te and for Richmond datly, Reservation and tickets at Chesapeake and Ohio offices. 513 and 1421 Pennsylvania a senger Agent. Old Point Comfort WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. 514 hoursfrom Washington SSYLVANIA, R., F. & P., AND Chesapeake and Ohio Railways. Schedule tn Affect February 22, 1898, D OLD POINT SP! ‘Thursdays and WASHINGTON p.m. Tuesday train, with com car and observation Washington to Rt and Richmond t 6:30 p.m. Transfer at Richmond. Ticke. and reservation at offices Pennsylvania R. R., 1th end G sts. formation at C. & O. ticket offices. H. W. FULLER, General Passenger Agent. end at station. SOUTHERN RAILWA Schedule in effect January 17 % All trains arrive and leave at Pennsylvania pas Daily.—Local for Danville, € it Manassas for Stras- rrison>urg and " nd at Lynchburg with the Norfolk and Datly.—THE Carries Pullman Buffet Sleepers, Y ion to Jacksonville, New York and Wai ing at Salisbu-y wit Uiman Sleeper for’ Ashe- ville and Hot Springs, N. C.; Knoxville and Chat tanooga, Tena.. and ‘at Charlotte with New York to New Orleans, connecting at Atluita and Memphis. Counects at Lyn -h burg with C. and O. Railway for Lexingt Natural Bridge daily. New Orleans without change. Sunset Cenducted Tourist Excursion Through Sleeper om this train every Wednesday and Saturday to Sam "Front Mtoyal, Strasburg and Solid train Wasl Francisco with. 4:01 P.M. Local at ars rrisonbu: jaily, except Sunday. Me for Charlottesville. -NEW YORK aly (except Sum D. man’s latest Library and Di Augustine, ai with connection for Aik: ERN VESTIBULED LIMIT n Vestibuled Sleepers, I Pullman Sleepers ‘New York tc ; xin Asheville, jew York to Tampa, via Cha g Cars, for Jackson. posed of Pullu Chattanooga; Savannah and Jacksonville, Danville with Pallman Sleeper from Richmond te via Columbia, with connection for Aiken, ia Birmingham, York to Memphts Orleans, via estibuled Day Coach . Scuthern Railway Dining Car Greensboro’ TRAINS ON WASHINGTON SION leave Washi dally exeept Sum for Round Hill; for Leesburg, ton 9:01 a.m. dails and 6:10 p.m. p.m. daily. 0 Pam. daily. except Sunday, from Herndon, 8:34 a.m. daily, ex: cept Sunday, from Leesburg. Through trains from the south arrive at Wash ington, 6:42 am. an] 2:20 p.m. dally, ‘and 9:45 a.m. daily except Monday. ‘ 1 9:35 pm. daily, exce 30 a.m. daily from C eta Sleeping Car reservation and. informa tion furnished at offices, 705 15th st. nw. S11 Pennsylvania avenue, end at Pennsylvania railroad ‘ON. 84 Vice Prest. & Gen. Mgr. MA TURK, Gen, Puss. Agent W._A. TURK, Gen. Pass. % L.'S. BROWN. Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. and 9:35 p.m. passenger statl MORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Pachedale in effect November 141807.) Leave Washington from station corner of New orth Vestibuled Limited a.m., 8:05 p.m. -Laats and India tibuled Limited, 8:40 p.m. Pittsburg and Cleveland, Express daily, “Toledo and Detroit, 11:55 p.m. For Winchester and way statlons, 78:00 a.1m., 240 and 45:30 p.m. yee ‘New. Orleans, Memphis, tancogn, Knoxville, Bristol p.m. daily; Sleeping Cars through. For Bultithore, week days, 6, s7:30, "28.00. 8:30, 30:90, 210. a.m press, 11:55 p.m. 11:05 aan. and For Columbus, Birmingha: and Roanoke, 80, 27:05, x7 21 205