Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1898, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY; APRIL 2, 1898-24 PAGES. 21 PANAMA FROM THE BAY. ON THE EQUATOR Features of Life on the Southern Pacific Ocean. OPENINGS FOR NORTHERN CAPITAL Some of the Wonders of the Re- public of Colombia. GAY SUNDAY IN PANAMA (Copyright, 1898, by Frank G. Carpenter.) Bpecial Correspondence of The K:vening Star. ON THE EQUATOR, March 15, 1898. S$ I BEGIN THIS letter I am on the hottest geographical line on the face of the globe. Iam sit- ting on the deck of th2 steamship Santi- ago, opposite, but out of sight, of the coast of Ecuador and al- most exactly on the equator. We shall cross it within an hour. If it were not for a slight breeze which still fcliows us from the northeast trade winds the air would be stifling, and as it is the very sea seems to steam. At my right there is a vast extent of ocean, which the sun has turned into molten silver. Ter billion diamonds are dancing up and down upor the wavelets, and, although I am under cover, th light of the sun as re- flected from the water dazzles my eyes as mech as the direct rays of a July sun at home. On the oppcsite side of the vessel, in the shadow, the water is of an indigo blue, and as I stand up and look about me I see nozhing but a vast expanse of what; in the hot, hazy air, seems to be a steam- ing sea. To the westward stretches the Pacific, a distance of about 10,000 miles, be- fere it reaches the lower part of Asia, and to the east is the equatorial region of South America, including snow-capped Andes and the mighty Amazon, my ‘present ficld of travel. It is now three days sirce I lefi Panama for Guayaquil, the port of Ecuador, and until this morning we have been sail- ing by the coast of Colombia, but in many Places 150 miles from the shore. In this way we have saved four or five days of travel, and will make Guayaquil in four deys, while the coasting steamers take ten. Somethi: g About Colombia. T am astounded at the extent of these South American countries. The repubiic of Colombia, along which we have been sail- ing. and of which the Isthmus of Panama forms a part, is longer from north to south than the distance between St. Paul and New Orleans and wider in some parts than a beeline from w York to Chicago. It contains more than 500,000 square miles. It is 0} xth the size of the United States without Alaska, and it would make over ri ates the size of New York or ten as big as Ohio or Kentucky. department of Panama has rea almost four times as big a; that of Ssachuseits, and t of Cauca is almost The isthmus or large as Texas. I have met a number of Americans and others who have recent- ly traveled in many parts of Colombia. y tell me the country is an undeveR ope? crepire and that a great part of it is as yet unexplored. There are some Amer- cans engaged in business of one kind anot in Colombia. Some are m extreme north in the Chiriqui lands of the upper isthmus, raising coffee, and oth- ers have buying lands in the Cauca valley is over the mountains, ef the Pacific. It is several hurdred miles long and about twenty or more miles wide, and it is said to have some of the mest fertile lands on the globe. One Americen, named Eder, who has re- cently died, is said to have 1éft ta big for- made out of his coffee plantations. 1 heard it said that his income w: $100,000 a year from them; and another had @ contraet for a railroad, upon which he did so little work that the mbian go ernment firally paid a million dollars to get rid of him. This was in the case of the ecreession for the Cauca Valley railroad, which was to connect this rich region with the port of Buenaventura. I am told that =rglish capitalists have now the concession they will complete the road. It is bout twenty miles long, and the tn- is to build it on to the capital of the city of Cali, which is s from Buenaventura. In on to this road, there are a half doz- en other little railroads in the country comprising altogether about 400 miles of track, more than one-fourth of which has built by Americans. The ciief bank nama, that of Henry Ehrman, is an. The head of the firm came to anama with 25 cents thirty years ago. He is now worth several million dollars and live: Paris. A River of Vinegar. The chief means of getting about through Cclombia is on the rivers and on the mule and donkey paths which cross the moun- tains everywhere. There is no country which has a greater number or more curi- ©us streams. What would you think of a Fiver of vinegar? Colombia has one. «It is the upper part of the Cauca river. The Cauca rises in the southern part of the country near Ecuador and flows 680 miles north and empties into the Magdalena. ‘During the first part of its course it has Waters which contain 11 parts of sulphuric acid and % parts of hydrochloric acid in every thousand. It is so sour within some miles of its source that no fish can live in it, and it goes by the name of the Rio Vin- @gre. which means the Vinegar river. The Magdalena, the chief river of Colombia, jecorresponds with our Mississippi. It is more than 1,000 miles long. It is as wide. but not so deep, as the Mississippi, but it _cuts the country right in two. Steamers of Vght draft sail weekly from Barranquilla, on the Caribbean sea. up the Magdalena to Hondo, where you take mules and climb up to the great plain of Bogota, on which Bogota, the Colombian capital, is situated. ‘Then there are branches of the Amazon and of other big rivers in Colombia, so that the country is almost as well watered as China. Ten of the little steamers on the Colombia were made at Pittsburg and brought from New York in pieces and here put together. Just a word or so about Bogota. It is a town of 100,000 inhabitants, and it has electric lights and a street railroad, which were put in by Americans. It has a uni- versity ninety-five years cld, a national rtheater, a library of 50.000 ‘volumes, an astronomical observatory and a poor house, The town is on a plain about a half mile higher up in the air than Denver, and its climate fs, I am told, much the same. ‘This is the headquarters of thc ary, and the scene of a revolution now and then. A Land of Fat Concessions. It is at Bogota that the president lives, ,and here the congress meets. It is here jthat the fat concessions are given out. Colombia ts @ land of concessions. I have : told you of the big fortunes which Ameri- cans have made out of the Panama ruil- road, which now pays a quarter of a mil- lion dollars a year to the government. An- other valuable concession is the salt mo- nopoly. No salt can be sold except by the party owning this concession. At present the owner is Mrs. Nunez, the widow cf President Nunez. She hss salt mines and furnishes the 5,000,009 people of Colombia with a very poor article at very hi: prices. Tobacco is another concession, and playing cards ancther. The gambling houses at Panama pay $48,C00 a year for the right to keep cther people out of the bveiness, and as far as I can learn they are glad to do it. There is, of course, nothing like the money afloat now that there was during the old canal days, but every once in a while they catch a sucker, as they did just before I arrived, when a young Irishman lost $5,000 in one night at roulette. Another~concession at Panna is the lottery. This is owned by a stock company, which has a capital of $209,000. The stock pays dividends of 45 per cent a year, and 10,000 tickets at a dollar a piece are sold every week. The prizes range from $3,000 downward. You see the lottery ticket peddlers everywhere. Men, women of. Panama, hanging close to the stem of the tree, away up at the top, often us high as thirty feet above the ground, where the great palm leaves spring out. It is only jately that men have gone into cocoanut raising as a business, and I am told that groves of these trees have recently been planted in Florida. There is a big cocoa- nut plantation owned by an American in partnefship with a Colombian on the Light- house point, just opposite where the steam- ers land at Colon. The American is the Mr. Hyatt of Washington of whom I uave spoken as being connected with the big manganese mine owned by John K. Cowen and others. Mr. Hyatt tells me that the plantation consists of 1,500 acres and that they have already planted 40,000 trees and have aboyt 8,000 in bearing. They are now shipping from fifteen to twenty thousand nuts a month to New York, and within three years from now, when the rest of their trees will be in fruit, they expect the orchard to produce 75,000 nuts a month. Cocoanut trees, you know, bear all the year round, and the blossoms and the ripe nuts are on the tree at the same time. The nuts are not picked, but drop from the tree when they are ripe, and the workmen go daily from tree to tree and pick up the nuts, husk them, and they are then ready for shipment. They bring from $20 to $35 a thousand in New York, and the greater Part of this is clear profit. How Cocoanuts Are Raised. I asked Mr. Hyatt to tell me something of the expense and management of such an orchard. Said ne: “It costs very little to run it. We are now paying out, all told, only about $150 a month, and our receipts are from $300 to $500 a month. You see, the trees need practicaily no cultivation, and after they are once in bearing all we have to do is to gather and ship the nuts. We have one part of the plantation which we call the nursery. Here we raise the young trees. The nuts are placed on the top of the ground a short distance apart. Within a short time each nut sends out a sprout from one of the little eyes or holes which are found in one end of it. The sprout shoots up into the air and a root shoots down into the ground. Within a few months, without any atten- tion whatever, the sprout grows from two to three feet high, and it is then ready for transplanting. This is done by breaking off the root and putting the nut and sprout into a little hole in the ground just a little deeper than the thickness COLOMBIAN VILLAGE, and children, black and white, accost you in the hotels, on the streets and in the railroad trains, and offer you <nances for the next drawing. 1 happened to he pass- ing the lottery office on Sunday when the drawing was going on and stepped in. A little boy of about eight years of age had been picked cut of the crowd and put upon a table. In front of him was a revoiving wire basket filled with hollow ivory Lalls, each containing one of the numbers from 1 to 10. The basket was whirled and the boy picked out a ball. The number in it was the thousands of the prize, ar whirl gave the figure for the hundred: third for the tens and a fourtn for the units. The whole thing was fuir e only, as the alcalde, or city judge, in ci told’ me, there was only about one ¢ ° in five hundred of a ticket holder drawing anything. The president of this company is a naturclized Ametican citizen named Duque. He is the owner of the only paper in Panama and his profits from his $80,000 ‘orth of lottery steck are about $35,000 in s‘lver @ year. There is a chanc> for a concession here for waterworks. Panama is now supplied with water by peddlers, who go about through the streets, seated on barrel caris, each of which is pulled by a mule. In the wet season the city relies on the cisterns. There is, I am told, good water in the hills twelve miles away, and it could easily be piped to the city. Panama has about 25,000 pec ple. The Gold Mines of Colombia. The idea prevails in the United States that the greater part of South America is low, moist and unhealthful. This is not so. ‘There are vast areas here which are as salubrious as any part of North America. Mr. Kennedy, an American mining engineer who has prospected in all parts of our con- tinent, as well as in many parts of this, tells me that for every habitable square mile in North America there is an equaliy rich and healthful square mile here, and that south of the equator there are vast developed agricultural territory which have not been touched. He says that this is the Klondike of the future in gold as well as in other things, and predicts that the eyes of the world will soon be turned southward. In Colembia the most of the people live back from the coz where there are plains and valleys of vast extent from 3,000 to sea. Colombia is a land of gold. It is like Alaska in that you cannot wash the soil anywhere along the rivers without find- ing what the miners call color. I saw men washing the sands of the sea in the bay of Panama, and though they said they did not get much, I am told that they have been doing the same work fcr years. It was here that the Spaniards got some of their first gold, and since the conquest an aggre- | gate of $700,000,000 worth of precious metals has been taken out of Colombia. A great deal of mining is now gaing on in the department or state of Antioqua, which is reached by going several hundreds of miles up the Magdalena river. Here small diamonds are sometimes found with the gold. English parties own a number of the best mines in this region, and much capital invested. There are now between 30) and 400 gold mines being worked in Colombia. arly all of the Indian tribes have more or less gold. I have been told of a curious method which the church has of getting the Indians to give up their gold. They | are prone to hoard it, but as they are very erstitious thé priests have in some of churches the images of certain saints who are supposed to cure diseases, but to whom must first be offered in gold a minfa- ture image of the part which Is diseased. If a man has a sore leg he molds a little leg of gold—it may be the size of his little finger, it may be larger—and offers it to the i Panama Milk Man. saint. It is hung up before his blessedness on a string with other similar offerings of golden eyes, teeth, heads and legs for a time and if the sore part gets well the In- dian is convinced the saint and the gold did the work. Mr. Mansfield, an American electrical engineer, who Is in charge of the electric lights and the street railway of Panama, is my authority for this state-- ment. He says he has often tried to buy such relics from the priests in- the interior, but that though they acknowledge that they melt up and use the relics after a time they will not sell them. An American Cocoanut Plantation. Along the lowlands of Colombia there are plenty of cocoanut trees. The cocoanuts, you know, grow on a palm tree. They are to be seen by the bushel along the Isthmus }00 and more feet above the | of the nut. We press the earth around it and the planting is done. We set the trees out about fifteen feet apart. For the first three years we cut out the brush from around the trees, but after this they are left to take care of themselves. They begin to bear at about seven years of age and keep on bearing for many years. A good tree should drop about seventy-five nuts a year, and many of ours do much better than that. Some Queer Institutions in Panama. I found Panama one of the queer towns of the world. It is like a little city of old Spain, and Icoking at it from the harbor it makes you think of Venice. The houses along the sea hang out over the water, end the waves dash in some places against their walls. The streets of Panama wind in and out, up hill and down. The houses are close to the narrow sidewalks, and every house has an overhanging porch or gallery extending out from its second story, so that you are protected from the sun as you walk along the streets. The richer classes live on the upper fioors. The ground floors are given up to the poor and to the stores, Few of the ground-floor rooms have windows, and you can iook in the open door as you pass through the streets and see all sorts of household op- erations going on. Here a woman is cemb- ing her hair, there one is sewing, and a litule further on one is cutting up beef for her by sts The stores have no display windows, and the goods seem to be piled avout without regard to show or or- der. There are no fixed prices, 1 am told, Panama Water Cart. and most of the trading ts a matter of dickering. ‘The Grand Central Hotel,where I stopped, was opposite the Cathedral of Panama, ‘and facing the plaza, about which the soldiers paraded in the morning and in which the band played at night. Sunday in Panama. I happ2ned te be in Panama on Sunday. There was service at ali the places of wor- ship in the morning, and after that the town was run on what Chicago's young mayor calls “the wide open” order. Prompt- ly at 1 o'clock the Panama lottery had its weekly drawing, at 2 a cock fight came off, and at 4 there was a bull fight inside th> ruined walls of one of the great churches of Panama’s past. Five bulls were tortured and one was killed by the bull fighter thrusting a sword into it, and having miss- ed its heari, pounding and stabbing it in the back of in? neck while the audience Lowled with delight. In the evening the whole town turned out and walked up and down the plaza, while the band played. There were many pretty girls among th2 promenaders, but each ‘of the respectable maidens had one or more of her sister her cousins or her aunts of matur2r years with her, and there was neither flirting nor spooning openly seen. I am told that even an engaged couple are not allowed by the bett2r classes of Panamanians to go about alone, and that if one invites his best girl to the theater he is supposed to include all of the ladies of the family in the invitation. One of the Americans now on the isthmus whan he first came here gave a young Pan- ama lady such an invitation and when he arrived at the house found a party of thir- teen old and middle-aged women ready to go along with him and his inamorata. The bills for that night were more than his weekly ealary, and it was only by chance that he happened to have enough money with him to pay them. FRANK G. CARPENTER. ——_.—__ A Paradise for the Poor. From the New York Tribune. London will soon become the ideal home of the poor man. Lord Rowton, the weli- known private secretary of the late Lord Beaconsfield, is extending in every direc- toh: a ee ee ine (OO Dost-othees Bat: Baker, Pauline Mi Baldwin, Lurina E Miss Lawson, Jennie M Mrs iy Miss i Larmain, Lisle Mre Barker, Carrie Miss Baylor, Anne 8 Miss Bee, Annie Miss Bell, Helen Miss Best, Florence Mrs Lawson, W Miss Lawecn, Emma Mrs Lea, Elien L Miss Iecah, Katie Miss Betts, Lilly Mre Leonard, E S Mrs Bibb, Vic A Miss Lincoln,” Agnes Miss les, Geo Brinstead, Annie Miss Longhran, Frances M feCaiter, Archie Black, isabell Jobn- “Mrs McClurg,’A C & Co piten Mise stice oem us Bian MeCorm ‘ek, Vivian isa, Caroline 3 aul rs Fran Boardman, Maty Miss = McClure, Wm Mrs Meare” 5 McKay,’ Harold 8 MeMulitn, P Bole, Sarah J Miss McCunney, Jno Mrs Bolls, Marie Miss jeCunney, McCunney, JH Mrs Spyder, H_D Sotes, TL Bowles, Mary’ Miss McKemm'e, Nannie Mrs Bowle, HD Mrs MeKensey." Mary Miss ‘Bowyer, May Miss McNulty. Ernie Mise Brent, Mary Miss. McWiillams, Ellen Miss Brown, Admonia Miss Mack, Blanch Miss Brown, BE Mrs Marsh, Fiances Miss Brown, Eleanor Miss Marsball, Salla Mra Brown, M Misa Massey, Effie Miss i Brown, Harry Mre Miller, Lena Mrs Mehan, F H Steen,” Lonis Brown, Mary W Mrs ‘Miller, WY Mrs Melton, LD Hon Steidemann, Arthur Brown, N M Mre Miner, Willie Miss Mentzer, WC Stevens. G: Brown, Rebecca Miss = Mockabee. Mary Mra Min, Wm Stewar Bruner, Jepnie Mrs Nellfe Miss (3) | Mill'r, Jos A_ Hon Stone, Brussel, Lizzie Mrs e, Alice Mrs Miler, Wm 8 Straus Bryant,’ Mary Miss Montgomery, Margeret Mills, Geo Stuht, Rudolph L Budd. Mary Mrs Moore, Mary’ Miss Sullivan, P Bundic, Millie Mrs Morgan, S\¥ Mrs aaa Suskin, LB Burowm, Vadie Mrs Maroney. Maggie Monigehelm, Carl ‘Tailor,’ Georgia Burrick, E Mrs Mullin. Katie E Miss Montgomery, Alfred (2) Talbert, TJ Butler, Mary Mrs Murphy, H Mrs Montgumcry, AL ™ Taylor, G C Butterfield, M Mrs Murry © Mrs Moody, EB Taylor, TA Caldwell, Aunie Mrs Myers, Katie Miss ton, Mercer ‘Thomas, 3 Callahan, Nel'fe Miss Nelson, Fannic Miss Walter Themas, Geo W Campbell, JE Mrs ville, Morgan L Mrs ” WD Rev Thomas. Silas Campbell, Katie Miss wman, Loulse Miss $. James 1 Thomas, Will Cammel, Nannle Miss Nichols, “Arthur Mrs in. BF Hon Thompson, Ino Caprianf, Luisa Miss Nichols, Horace Mrs r Thornton, JT. Carnea, Julia C Miss Nicholson, JO Mrs Moree. WD’ Thorthan’ RE Carter, Jenneite Miss Neor, Helen Miss Morel, AL > Tillery, Jno H (2) Carseaden, Nellie Miss Nordstrom, Marie Moulton, Chas Timbers, Desses Case, Eloise M Miss Norlan, CJ Mrs Mueller, Hermann Tolbert. Alfred Chambliss, Annie I, Miss O'Brien, Winifred Mrs | Munger’ Fee Toumey, Francis Cbampicn, Enoch $ Mrs Parker, Annie Mrs (2) Chandler, WT Mrs Parker, CB Mis Chae Mary C Mrs Parker, E W Mrs Chase, Matiida Mies Paxton, R H Mrs Christmann, Pauline Miss Pendicton, Mary Miss Clark, Josephine Mrs Perry, Fannie Stiss Clark, 3 C Miss Peterson, H Epes Miss Clayton, Alice Mrs Peterson, Susie M Miss Clem, Sailie M Mra, Pettit, AC Mrs Cole,’ ME Miss Phil'ips, DS Ars Coleman, Nellie Miss Phillip, J Watson Mrs Colman, Bessie Miss —Pitts, Bessie Mrs Connor, Autiie Mies Pollard, Emma Mrs Cook, Bila Mrs Poindexter. Mrs Craighead, A W Miss —Poutler, Lottie Miss Grane, J Mrs (2) Pratt, Annie Miss Muriy, “Martin Towne, J 1 Myers. A A Rey ‘esbitt, RT Hon ren! Ls O'Denohue, Mi Watson, Davie Oras, Sty” Ne Watson, Wor A Oliver, WH Oyster, K F Pege, Saml W He, CW White, Jno Painier. Thomas rtis, Annie Miss Price, Lollle Miss Dandrige, Lizzie Miss Randall, Daisy Mrs ee Daniels, S A Miss Redd, Isabella Mrs Patrick, Thos F Davenport, M Louise Mra Remington, Harold Mrs | Peacock. Woe Davis, R Ola W Mrs Reynard. TI Mrs Peake, JF Davisin, EF Miss Rice, Louise Mrs ° Perdue, Jno 8 Perry, ‘Starkey Phivher, Geo Dawson, L’zzle Mis Richardson, Ellen M. Dean, Annie Mis ae Riley, Jennie Miss Dean, Henrietta Miss Ripley, Harriet Miss DeRidder, J H Mrs. Riser, Rath Miss. Peas, yur & Mrs Dickerson. Rosa Miss Roberson, Bertie Miss Plateb-o, Will J Woodward, 1 Diviney, Elen Miss Rebinson, Emma Mrs Plummer, Triemp Wren, Edwin F Dixsén,’F.ora Miss Robinson, Mattle L Mrs | Powers, Wm Wyman, aS Dorsey, Jno F Mra Roginsk!. Sophia Mrs Yates, Charles Douginss, Martha Mrs Rollins, Louisa Miss Yerger, Christia Durach, ‘Alena Mis Romaine, A P Mis PH Young. CD Eadie, HW Mrs Ross, Salle Mise Pelliam, Geo Young, EA on, Mrs Samuel, Annie Young, Thos Eberle, Frank H Mrs Sangston, MC Tenkie’ 3B Si t Ebert, Emma E Miss Belle Miss ia Saville, Sero; Edelin, Sadie Miss ns, Jane Mrs SCHOONER LIST. Schr ‘Jennie Lippett” Edmunds, Anna 5 Miss. Bext ett” ‘Tug “Underwriter” Eldridge, Grace Mig Shar a Miss Brig ““Mary Gibbs.”” Elrigile. Mary Mrs Shaw, Alive Miss STATION Fant, Chas. Mfr Shaw, Helen Mrs Station Fisher, R: She:man, Maude Miss Carder, Belle Miss * Sherwood, Kate Mrs > Signal fannie Miss ‘Simpron, HR Mrs > Sinclair, Genie M Mra Slater, “Alice Miss h, SL Mrs Smallwood. Lizzie Miss Fuller. Clara Mrs (2) Smith, Edith Miss Gamble, Cornelia ‘Miss *t Smith; Jernie Miss Gambriil, Blanche Sliss,; Smith) Jannie Miss Gardner, Rebecca Miss | Smith, Jno Mrs (2) Garland, © M Miss Smith! Josephine Mrs German, Lavinia Miss Smith) Lucy Mrs Goodwin, Claire Mra ,,Sm{th; Nannfe © Miss Gordon, “Agnes Miss Smith. Wm Looy Mrs Gorden, EA Mise Smoth-rs. Martha Miss Gorham, Maud Bassell Sparks, Venaie Mrs 8 Surlez, A Mrs Graham, Cora Mray Stafford, Mame Mra Giay. Florence Migs Staulk, Margaret Mrs lish Auney Mg, Stanton. WE Mrs W Mis * Steele, Elizabeth Mrs vill, Kate. Mis®. Steuart, Emily Miss Have, Georgiang, Steuart, JP Mrs fart ewart, Katherine A Martha E Beats 5 rd, tith, Hattie Miss Hall. Theodo Hamilton, 4 Ston Mrs Hammond R Franklin, Wm J Meg French, Inez ‘tise Nine Families 1 From the St. Louls Globe-Democrat. families in Burrton, Kan., have away their stove lids and packed “Sst Hardy, Ma %; Harris, Lettie Sirs Harris, Lizt ing choice land products, nor, Miss . Vinnie Miss Hannah Mrs E Mrs B F Mrs y. Hawk. EL Mrg Tilley, Henderson, M BMrs T. mijlites, “Alte cities. As a consequence of the F Miss pnzaline. AE Mrs Turner, Mabel Miss FC Misa , Gussie Miss ‘anvy Be rah Miss Henderson. Mary Miss zabeth Miss 8 Mrs demand. Hl, EB HOW, Jane HN, beeca L Miss apa In such a condition of affairs the Co-oper- ieaheth € Mls Wad Le ea ative Living Association was organized for iy Mra Wy Mrs the economic and social benefit of its mem- Elien W oOMrs W: Mrs bership. In order to insure a reliable, or- Holm s, El-ora W Mies W: . Annie Miss | thodox r2putation, the association has en- Helme SIeOesCe. rolled among its members bankers, mer- Holland, = chants, druggists and a representative pre- Horner, Grac eB are Miss! ceptor end dominic. n Barton Miss W. Firs . Ida Miss ; Jennie Mrs nehe Miss ss Second, the providing of weil-cooked and vil tra well-served meals, ranging in cost. from Wrens: Sly Ase | 7% cents to 9 cents per meat. a oR viikins, Nelly RY may be well to note that low rents ¢ * Sentero c= itiama. Fannie per month for an eight-room house) and Joe, Sarah Mise Willisms: Mattie Miss | the comparatively low wages paid to ths Johnson, Alice Miss fogtield, Bettie Miss | Cook ($25 per month, with use of house ard Tonra.n, eit Mise ston. Tarey Mrs with board for herself and family of thre "They Mine Wonniste fat sgqg | Children) may not be duplicated in larger aria Mrs oodfolk, owns ary B Mins Yaw OWk Mary: Mrs ‘A purchasing committee of three mem- Yu. Yang Mrs bers buys the provisions — groceries at Young, Agnew Mrs Young. Hattie Miss ong. Mason Mra Young, Nannle Mies Zimmerman, Emma Miss GENTLEMEN'S LIST. Adams, Charlie Douglas, HF large quantities. Darnie M Jones, H Mrs every Monday mornin; ing the Saturday pre ious. Adkinson, RS Douglas, Joseph to be met, may be specified —a_ careless Alcrich, '€ Douglass, Geo A cook, high’ rents, unsuitable building, dis- Allen, George M Dow, W M tanc> of home from club hous? and the Edgar, C EB Edgar, Harry Edwards, JH Alsop, Richard D (2) AG beard. To sum up, for 8 cents per mea} and worry of the kite ee Haward F riety is provided with a smaller outlay of Bailey, wv labor and money, and apart from the eco- Raitman, Chas Baldwin, M 3 Hon Baldwin’ & “lark Barnes, James J Barr, LD Rev Bauschard, Edward well as an alleviator to th> nunger. "Thes Fo IR — + oe Benson, Thos > 7 Bidwell, Robt G Boies A A Great Fire Dog. Blake, Robt W Prof Foy, Ben J =. Freeman, James W (2) Fuller, 1 Gable, Henry alen, JL alliker, Ashby Galley, ‘Charlie Gambone, Carmine Gardner, W Geary, Walter Gellott, JG From the London Specta Blakely, Jno Gen Bovee, F Boawan, Edgar Borisean, Preston Restwick, J oughman, LN Col Boyd, G M Bradiey, Powell N Brauscomb, Benj F Brock, Ch Broders, ‘Daste Peirreey ers otherwise have been a disastrous fire, with Brown, J P Sergt Glen,’ Frank considerable danger to the occupiers of the Brown, Beter ay. sgrant MH house. Zulu, who sleeps in the basement rotten. wethar 21. Birees, Davis of a large house in a fashionable quarter of Buckley, Wm Ao. (Green, Jobn one of our largest cities, was early one Bunce, Wm A reene, Wm Sunday morning lately roused by an out- Bureb, Jt © ot Burk, ‘David 5, Burke, Joseph Burton, Mehard Butcher, 18 J iyriey? cu ley, Camie, J R Cannon, James Carpenter, $ A Carroll, James Cartel, Greenfield, Robt (4) iregory, Alive! Chas T yu the room below. He, but was not allowed to sl that she suspected something must wrong. On getting up the dog vered the ceiling burning. ing to know he had done his duty, upstairs to his mistress and teft with the children, evidentl; he had fulfilled his the Lt t CO-OPERATIVE LIVING IN KANSAS. a Club That Gives a Meal for From 7 1-2 to 9 Cents. Nine of the most staid and respectable thrown their disifes on the back kitchen stoves. Whether they hav> imbibed somewhat of the rest- less. “something new” spirit of their me- ternal commonwealth or not, they have shocked the ordinary ideas of economic Propriety, and have formed a co-operative living association, wher2in the food ques- tion is settled upon a co-operative basis. Burrion is a small village, without any immediate prospect of growing larger. Lo- cated in the midst of a fair farming com- munity, it has no opportunity for import- indeed, enough means to procure a city variety. Th? size of the town does not warrant the location of a bakery, and all the wheat stuff must be bought from the neighboring limited population, there is a very small supply of hired help, even smaller than the Hmited The heavy burdens of the house- hold fal upon the Rousewife alone, and very little social intercourse can be >njoyed. ve Mrs Tbe practical advantages of the club may mn, Olle Mine Ww riistt Miss | be noted as follows: , the saving of fuom fifteen to twen- ty-five hours of “kitchen worry” p2r week. wholesale rates, meat by th2 quarter and side, and all provisions in correspondingly Arother member acts as treasurer, and all bills are paid promptly for the wek end- The teal disadvantages, and those likely monotony of living away from the home the heat mare avoided; hired help is largely dispensed with; greater va- nomic value of a month’s living being re- duced to $7.20, there is a social feature that makes meal time a feast of fellowship, as pangs’ of The following story can be vouched for, and, in recognition of the timely action of the dog, the Alliance Assurance Company, with whom the premises were insured, have awarded a silver medal to Zulu, fully real- izing his sagacity in preventing what would break of fire, which had apparently been smoldering for some time between the floor of the dining room and the ceiling of after repeatedly scratching at she bed room door of one of the servants, succeeded in waking her, Thinking the dog must be unwell, she let him into her room, and got into bed again, , as Zulu, sit- ting close by her bedside, t “talking” to her (as she describes it) so vigorously delighted that she followed him out of the room, and on looking into one of the rooms Upon rousing the owner of the house, who immediately had the fire alarm rung (which was fortunately close at hand), Zulu, seem- [ the house gade’s arrival it was found that the had is HOTELS. ‘This List Appears Every Saturday. HOTEL INFORMATION FREE. : For booklets of American, European Hotels, Fall and Winter Resorts, also rates of apartments in Hotels velow, call or address (send stamp) HOTEL TARIFF BUREAU, {s Fifth Ave, New York. 96 Regent et. London. (A.P, meacs American Plan; E.P., European.) ALBANY, N. Y.. .-Hotel Kentmore, AP., $4 do.....Stanwix Hall, E.P., $1 cp; A-P., $3 op ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.Hotel St. Charles, 4.P.,$4 up 40.(J.H. Barton, prop.)Hotel Dennis. A.P..$3.50 ap do. 33 -Hotel Rudolf, A.P., $4 BALTIMORE, Md...Hotel Rennert, E.P., $1.50 up : ‘The Carrollton, A.P., $3 up lotel Altamont, E.P., $1 up; A.P., $2.59 up -Hotel Vendome, A./ x INNATI, O...Grand Hotel, E.P., §} Exeter, Eng. Royal@arenceHotel KANSAS CITY, Mo. TheMidiand, LAKEWOOD, N. LONDON, Eng LONDON(Westminster)St-Ermin'sHotel. High class Unexeclied for luxurs,comfort,cuisine. E. MEMPHIS, Tenn. .Gayoso Hot NaVL south) Parker NEW OK . harlesHotel, ‘The Cosmopolitan Hotel, -Hotel Grunewald, > ry) The St. Cloud, do. The Westmi: ster, A.P.,$3.5) up; do. (5th av.&15th st.)Hotel Kensington,E. P., do..(Ch-.mbers&W.B' way) Cosmopolitan, E P..$1ap PHILAD! Suup; A.P..$3.50up do. Restaurant alc&tdh, T! PLYMOUTH, Eng.Grand Hot RICHMOND, VaThesetferson, -P.,$5up ST.GEORGE,Staten Island. TheCastleton,4.P.,$4 up ST.LOUS, Mo. Planter’sHotel,E.P.,§2up $2.50 up A BEACH.Princess Anne Hotel,A.P.,$4 up TON, D. C....Arlingten Hotel, A. Hotel Gordon, E.P., A.P., do. -The Raleigh, E.P., $1.50 up my 16,20,23,27thenstl HOWARD HOUSE. — Washington, D. C.; $2 and $2.50 per day; Ameri- can pian; steam beat; central iocation; seals Without rooms, $5 per week or $20 per month. pbi3m "OCEAN TRAVEL. North German Lioyd. FasT EXPRESS SERVICE. PLYMOUTH. LONDON. BREMEN. Apr. 5, 10 aay Trave.Tu. Mavei.T Apr. 12, 10am KW G . Apr. 19, 10 am Lab 4 CHERBOURG. Saale. LONDON. >-Tkars., April Thurs, April 21, noon joa. May 7, 10 am May 14, 10 am ay 21 Friedrich H. OH. Meter . GIBRALTAR. Apr. 16, 10 am ly to. Ja20-1y-22 Holland-America Line FOR ROTTERDAM D> ‘ERDAM, VIA BOULOG Ss MER. Mcderste prices, great cvmfort, superior accom- medations. Apply for handbook and terms to gen. 38 Broadway, New Yor DROOP & SONS, 925 Penna. ave.; G. W 3-088, 921 Penna. ave CRANE, PARRIS & OO., Ebbitt House block, Washington, D. C. jal5-s,t,th,6m,10 INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY. American Line. New York - Southampton ‘Twin. serew U.S. M Sailing every Wedoesd: St. Loule. Apr. G New ay FRENCH LINE. Compagnie Generale Translantique DIRECT [1D TO HAVRE — RIS (FRANCE). Sailing every Saturday at 10 A.M From Pier No, 42. North river, foot La -April 9 La Norman La yril 16 La Bour wil 23, La Touraine. Gen'l Agcy for U.S. and 3 Bow! G. W. MOSS, £21 Pennsylvania a BELL & CO. 1406 G st. POTOMAC RIVER BOAT E. 8. RANDALL'S POTOMAC RIVER L Steamer HARRY YANDALL will leave Eiver par Sundays, 17 and Thursdays at o jal Beach, Chapel Point down as Lower Machodoe. nd Wednesdays at 9 p.m., The new Steaner DALL, datiy except Sunday, 9:30 Returning about 3 p.m, Passenger accommodations first-class. Freight received until the hour of sailing. E. 8. RANDALL. or and Manager. t. General Agent,Wasbington. Agent, Alexandria. ja21-201f Pro GEO. 0. CARPI WM. M. REARDO! STEA MEI FOR POTOMAC Ri Leaves Washington, 1. b st. ferry wharf, Mondays. 7 a.ta., for intermediate landings to Colonial Reach, “Bushwood, Kock Point, Nomini Creek, Abell’s,’ Leonardtown, Stone's, Howard's, Cobrun’s, Colton’ Wednetday,.7 a.m.. for intermediate landings to Colonial Beach, Bushwood. Rock Point. Colton’s. Leonardtown, Abell’ mint Creck, Piney Point, St. George's Island, Smith Creek, Goan and Yeo coimteo rivers. aturdays. 7 a.m.. for Intermediate landings to Colonial ‘Beach, Bushwood, Rock Point. Colin's, Nomini Creek. (See schedule ip effect September 13, 1897.) Af SW. RIDLEY. Genl, Manager. THE WFFMS STEAMBOAT CO. POTOMAC RIVER ROUTE. Winter Schedule, In effect Dec. 25, 1897. STEAMER POTOMAC Leayes Washington every THURSDAY at 4 p.m. for Baltimore and River Landings. Baltimore freight solicited. river freight _must be prepaid, a OM STEPHENSON & BRO... Aste. Office. 910 Pa. ave. ‘Telephone 745. OPIUM, MORPHINE, WHISKEY. If interested in the cure of these babits write for my book on these diseases, mailed free. B. M. WOOLLEY, M.D., Atlanta, Ga. §a22,fe26,ap2,my7 Dr. Leatherman. Expert specialist in the cure of all special dis- eases of men and women. Consultation frve. Hours, 9 to 12, 2 to 5: Tues, Thurs. and Sat. evenings, 7 to §. 602 F n.w. Closed on Sunday. mhi8-Im* DENTISTRY. nag ee ew api-¢4 UNDERTAKERS W. R. Speare, Undertaker & Embalmer, oo ‘Grst-class pa the most rensouable forma ‘eleshone sail 340.” “fatar ALEXANDRIA . VER- pecan <7 ees IN EFFECT BER 14. 1807. : Tosa ex 11:00, 11 BAILRO, PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, STATION CORNER OF SIXTH AND B STREETS. 1:30 AM. week days. PITUSBURG E2.PRESS.— Parlor and Dining Cars acrisburg to Pittsbarg. 10:50 AM. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED. --Dull- man Sleepiog, Dining, Smoking and Observa Care Hai to Chicago, Cinciunati, Indian- polis, St. Louls, Cleveland and Toledo. Buttet Parlor Car to Harrisiw: 10:50AM PAST LINE —Pallman Remtet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Buffet Parlor Car Harrisburg to Pittsburg. sao PMC GO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS, Sip. WESTERN EXPRESS”—Pullinan ing Car to Pittsburg, Chicago aud Harrisburg to Ch Dining Car to Chi De SOUTHWESTERN EXPRESS. —Pull- mau Sleeping Cars Washi Harcisburg 1) St. Louis « Dining Dar. 10:40 P.M. PACIFIC EXPRESS —Pullman Sleep- ing Car te Pitteburg. m to Pitests Cinctunatt. i and 7:0 A.M. for Kano, Canandnicun. Rochester and Niag:ra Falls daily, except Sunday. 10: for Flu except For Williainape: 2 M. for Williamsport, Roches . Bat. Ni.gara Fails caturday with Sleeping Crr Washi 10:49 PM. for die, Cana Bot. » and Niagra Pulls daiiy qt Car Washingt« eater Santi aly = POR PHILADE y YORK AND THT AL Lamers ming Cary, ing Car) and 11:00 « 2:00, 11.00 (EF 12H, 318, 4: For Pofladelpbia ‘& days. HL ane 40 9P without days, atd $20 PM. da Baltimore, 6-25, 250, 8:00, 9:00. 1920 1 11:00 AM. 12215, . 82:SK, 230 3:15, 3:40 (4200 Limited), 4:36, B40, 621 7:20, 10:¢ a 11:50 PM. Ov ‘Sunday. 7+ . 12200 AM, 12-16, Pi 0) Lim ited), 240, 6:15, 6:50, 10:00, 10:40 ana in M. For Pope's Creek Line 26 P.M. daily. except Sunda: 7-00, "9:00 A.M. 4:20 and 8:40 For | Aunapolis, ie sfheent Sunday.” “Sundays, 9:00 A.M. PM dei 20, - daily. Accommodation daily and : SEASHOR For Atlantic City (via . rail route), 15 and 11:50 P.M. daily; Street Wharf, 10:00 and 11 AM., 12:45 week days, apd 11:50 P.M. daily For Cape May, 11:00 A.M. week days, 11:60 Pat. Ticket offices, corner Fifteenth and G streets, yer), “pig Sixth and B streets, where or- can for the checkt baggage destimition fiom hotels and my EG “9 J.B. HUTCHINSON J. R. Woon, General Manager. “General Passenger Agent. ap] CHESAPEAKE AND OH}0 RAIL THROUGH yay. THE GRANDEST SCENERY ALL TRAINS VESTIBUL ELECTRIC LIGHTED, STEAM z ALL MEALS SERVED IN DINING CARS. STATION, SIXTH AND B STRE Schedule in effect March 10, 1808, oF HD, ou 5 for Virgi Cars Cincinnati to Chic: 11:10 P.M. DAILY. FE. V. Limited—Solid train for Cincinnati. Pullman Sleepers Cincinns Lexington and Louisville without change, reception of passengers at 9 p.m. LDullmai partment Ca: to Virginia Hot Springs, m- without change, daily except Sunday. Connection daily. and St. Louis. rdonsvilie, Charlottes: for Richmond datly, except Sleepers, Cincinnat! to, Chica 2:20 PM. DAIL ville. Sunday. Reservation and tickets at Chesapeake and Obio offices. 613 and 1421 Pennsylvania avenne. and at the station. HW. PULL es, mh 10-304) General Passenger Agent. Old Point Comfort WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. 5¥ hoursfrom Washington VIA PENNSYLVANIA, B., F. & P., AND Chesapeake and Ohio Railways. Schedule an sffect February 22, 1808. WASHINGTON AND OLD POINT SPECIAL, 4:15 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdeys ond Saturdays, Solid vestibried, electric-lighted. steum-hented train, with combination conch, parlor car, diving car and observation —throtigh “without ‘cha Arrives Richmond, 7:40 p.m.—Old Point. 9:45 10:57 a.m.—Daily except Sunday.—Parlor car Washington to Richmond. and Richmond to Old Arrive Riebmond, Transfer at Ric! ke~ and reservation at offices Pennsylvania . 15th and G sts. end at station, Pull in- ©. & O. ticket offices. Hi. W. FULLER, General Passenger Agent. mb10-31d UTHERN RAILWAY. in effect January 17, 2888. All treins arrive and leave at Penosylvavia pas- senger station S201 ALM. Da and way station berg, Harris Steunton, day, and at Lynchbarg with tly stern daily. 11:15 A.M.—Dally—THER UNITED PAST MAIL. Carries Po"mar New York and Washington to ing at Salisbu-y with ville and Hot Springs a, Tenn. execpt Norfolk and STATES Ratfet Sleepers, ‘ksonville, nit nM Sleeper for Aste. ; Knoxvile Chat e with Pullen Bullet Ble burg with C. and 0. Natural Bridge daily. New. Orlean Conducted T this train every Wednesday and Saturday to San Francisco witht chang 4:01 P.M.—Local for Front Ioyal, Strasburg and Harrisontmrg, daily, except Sumlay 4:19 P.M.—Daily.—Local for Charlottesville. 6:00 P.M_—Daily (except Sunday). NEW ¥C AND FIA mposed of Pull. man’s latest ompartment, ¢ servation, Library and Dining Cars, for Jack ville and St. Augustine, and Drawing Beom © fo with Hk — WASi SSTIBULED LIMIT Knoxville and Nashville, Chattanooga; . via Chard Columbia, Savannah uniting ile with Pallman Skeper from Richmond Augusta, vin Columbia, with ¢onnection for Aiken, and New York to Memphis. via Birmingham, York to New Orleans, via Atlanta and Montgomery, Vestinled Day Coach ingten to Atlanta, Scathern Railway Dining Car Greensboro’ to omer STRAINS ON WASHINGTON AND O10 DIVI- SION leave Washington 9:01 a.m. daily, 4: dally except and 6:10 p.m. Su for Round Hill p.m. dais, exc and 6:10 pv. daily rrive at Washington |S sy from Re ait, 7 5 jay. from Herndon, 8:34 2 m. dally, ex: « . from, TE. ‘Through trains from thersouth arrive at Waxh- ington, G:42 a.m. and 2:20 p.m. and 9:35 p daily, end 9:45 a.m. daily except Monday . 12:40 and 9:35 p.m. daily, ex a.m. daily from Charlottesst! Sleeping Car reservation and informa. aw. i & kets, tion furnished at offices. 705 I5th st Pennssivania avenue, end at Pennsylvania railroad Passenger stath F. 8. GANNON. 34 Vice Prest J. M. CULP. Traffic Manager. W. A. TURK. Gen. Pass. Agent. L.'S. BROWN. Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. cots acon & Gen. Mgr. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Schedule in effect November 14, 1897. Leave Washington from station corner of New ave, and © st. For Chicago and, Northwest, Vestibuled Limited 203, 1 a.m., 8:05 p.m. For Cine ‘St. Louts and Indianapolis, Ex- Vestibuled Limited, 3:40 p.m. pit 4 59:30, 210 am., x12:05 5-20, 239, pee err it 8 PyPR STOR RTETET Giott