Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1898, Page 13

. THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, .APRIL 8, 1898—16 PAGES. 13 $4.98 buys the best $6.00 Si $14.50 buys the best $17.50 $17.50 buys the best $20.00 For the Little Girls. {© _Reefers by the hondreds at % $1.98, $2.98, $3.98, $4.98. @ _The best values for the money to be found € n's Dresses in wool or cotton mate- rials at 98c., $1.49, $1.98, $2.49, $2.98 and Up. Stylish, well-made garmonts and big values. | Blooming Plants. . —Lilies, Azalias, Hydrangeas, Fu- lips, Hyacinths, - Ferns, - &c. ~Fine plants at special prices. Easter Sale. of. The Day Before Easter. Money-Savers for Saturday in Our Cloak and Suit Dept. $2.98 buys the best $3.50 Byadere Dress Skirt. $4.90 buys the best $6.00 Scrge Dress Skirt 5 $5.85 buys the best $7.50 Satin Dress Skirt. $3.9@ buys the best $5.00 Satin Waist. ik Waist. $7.77 buys the best $10.00 Serge Suit. Tailor-made Suit. Tailor-made Suit. $4.98 buys the best $6.00 Black Silk Cape. §9.9@ buys the best $12.50 Ladies’ or Misses’ Jacket. For the Infants. As good as made and sold as cheap. Dresses at 29¢., 39c., 49c. and up to $15.00. Cloaks and Reefers at $1.69, $1.98, $2.49 and up to $17.50. Caps at gc., I2c., 15c. and up to $3.50. Sand $1.50 Real | not unfashionable Gloves, bnt the finest quality kid, the latest s'yles and hand- somest shades—2 and 2-clasp Foster hook and 4-batton fine embroidered backs, every pair made from choice selected skins and fully 1 and fitted to the hand. $1.25 A Ribbon Special. 180 pieeos of 4-In.-wide Atl-silk Moire Rib- bens in all the new shad-s. ‘Tomor- 18c. “s price. Easter [illinery. Anticipating cur rush on this our last day be- feré Buster, we have just received 500 pattern Hats, which we place on sale tomorrow at less than the cost of materials used. To see is to purchase. The price will surprise you. $3.48 for a $7.50 Hat. $4.50 for a $10.00 Hat. $7.50 for a $12.50 Hat. $8.50 for a $15.00 Hat. Imported Flowers of every conceivable style, color and combination are displayed in Ladies’ Hosiery. money-saving specials offered before les, full reg- 12i4c. Mace Yarn Faney Embrol- | Dropstiteh Hos’ a and Bicycle Sundries. Everything for the wheel and at the right price. § Goodyear Tire, $1.75. We claim’ and can prove that it contains more rubber, has better valves, will last longer «i give better satisfaction than xny other low-priced Tire. Miller Al’ Lamp, $2.98 dtsomest and best Lamp ever produced. | ately guaranteed to stay Mt under any | and all conditions. 8c. ‘The New Columbia Pneumatic Spring O8e. | £ Lamp—a wonder at. : = @__ The “Owl.” new rigid bracket lamp; 3 jest the thing for a ladies” wheel SPECIALS IN SPORTING limitless profusion and at un- matched prices. ALL WORK GUARANTEED AND PROMPT- LY DELIVERED. AnotherCorset Bargain. Another case of those Corse‘s in long and medium waists, made of Alexander cloth, satteen strips, 3 side steels, bone bust. ATc white, drab and black. Tomorrow. td Osterman Rotary Bel El st E troke Bells -28e, hite, per s feating Oil Chains, figure Chains, He Sa Wood Base Ball Goods. Rocket Ball Youths’ Li Young Amertes King of the F' less. : Catchers’ Mitts, boy! Catchers’ Mitts, men’ Special Saturday Prices on Our Third Floor. Grocery, Granite, Tin, Wooden and Housefurnishing De- partment; also great reductions in China Dinner and Tea Sets; Lamps, Clocks and Emmons §S. Silverware. Smith, 705-7-9 and 11 Penna. Ave. Ne in Men’s; GOODS. | 2-Joint Reed Rods. . ear. ° 3 B Neglige Shirts. 4 Fazey Colored Shirts, in newest spring de- § signs, all colored in phecks, plaids and stripes; cre pair of link ‘cuffs to match with each shirt; cut fpll and well made, all = "TAC. & Mea's Fancy Colored Bosom Shirts, bodies 9 of Wamsutta mustin, beecms of woren madras, s and Gardner's percale, linen protective neck- 3 Vand and wristband, fird-finshed. buttopboles; pen back and f-cnt, with a separate pair of linen euffs. ie 64c. Men’s Hosiery. 2-thread Men's Fine Pgyptian Cotton Hulf Hose, all with double hecls. and toes, in russet, tans and stainless black E 12t4c. One lot of Golf Hose; some plain, ‘some with fancy golf tops, beautiful corduroy rib- led, full regular made. As long ss 23¢. § = a they last.. ’ Men’s Neckwear. Men's fine Neckwi er— dozen Men's Heavy Silk and Satin Sevrfs, all new and choice pat- terns, large fall shape, graduafed Four-in- hands Ubcral Puffs, 3%-inch Ascots, Flowing Ends, Tecks, Broad Imperial all heavy silk ard satin lined, mede from imported neckwear ks of richest design und quality, in thia sesson'’s Mght and dark color- = eee cr 48e, of Puffs, Tecks, Four-in- 7 Hands, Club and Band Bow: 25c. ’ Men’s Handkerchiefs. fe One lot of Men's All Pure Linen Hemstitchea ¥ Extra Size Handkerchicfs—some plain white ard some beautiful colored borders. This is very special Handkerchief. 12'4c. each. P $1.40 a dozen. Men’s Gloves. Men's Piqi Gloves—colors, red, tan a rown; excell hit nd cor- SSE oe ee 8c. Men’s Night Shirts —that can’t be bought anywhere else regularly under 79. They are made of fine Homestead cotton. They are cut full and long; bave patent gussets; scams felled throughout and Pearl buttons; collar, sleeves and pocket have one row of imported woven colored trimming; dewn frdnt have 3 rows. These sbirts are shown in several colors and styles of trimmings and {¢ will be a very special feature of Sat- Al ] tiday selling ................. Sees at 3 y Fishing Tackle. B-Joint Caleutta Ba Same Rod with recl band With d giip and reel band...” 49 e AL YEDDO- BAMBOO ROD. Biack scored grip, full nickel. 9 Split Bambo~ Rods, cork grip: Brass Reels... Brass Multipiying i : Nickel Multiplying Reels. Oiled Silk 2 Beet Double fi Bait Bucket Tackle Boxes. Golé Goods. Clark's Seotch Clubs... $1.75 to $2.75 $1.49 Thistle Clabs, all kin Silvertown Balls, per doz. ig g 5 § : : * 5 |e RELICS OF DANIEL WEBSTER. The Statesman's Love for Sport Skown in a Rare Collection. From the Boston Transcript. Among the exhibits at the sportsmen's show, just brought to a close, was the one | known as the Webster reli It appealed alike to th: cuitured and refined tastes of the antiquarian and the historian and to the more rugged, but none the less inspir- ing, relish of the sportsman, for there was searcely an article en view that did not possess associations dear to all of the fol- lowers of these pursuits. Two of ti ticies in the collection the public at large were not permitted to see, because they never pass out of their own- er’s control. One of these is a gold match safe, twenty-two carats fine, containing matches placed in it by Mr. Webster him- self. For years it has been the custom at the annual dinner of the Ancient and rable Artillery Company to light the candies in front of the commander ’ tch from this safe, and from 2 ms the blaze which kindles all the cigars <moked while the speaking is in| The picpriety of thus linking with the past at these meet- military organization in ry was the happy H his beautiful example of the | e other which workmanship. ited to Mr King Louis Philippe of Franc: Its only biade is between four and five | inches in lengih, and is intended for the killing and clearing of fish. There is alse & pecuhar coutrivance for the removing ° nd, what is more remark a contains a tiny spring bal- anc h hing of fish. In the forties. while ent a re- | quest to Mr. or his picture, and the gratiti sman had his portrait painted t of $30) and sent, with his com to his royal frien ‘There were also to be scen in the cabinet in the Pierce lodge two articles because they mark one important epochs in the rela- United States and Great Brit- iver dog whistle carried shburton at the time of the journey of the two commission- the route which now forms the most memorabl ers over boundar between this country and the British possessions, when the fagou: treaty wa greed upon which settle! sc satisfactorily the mooted question of Grea Britain's rights on th's continent. Before the gentlemen parted his lordship present- ed Mr. Webster not only with the whistle, but with a small woocen brandy keg, hoop- ed with wicker bands, and with a mouth- ece which is protected from unlicensed by @ brass lock. Another article in this interesting col- lection is a pocket scale capable of weigh. ing fish or game to the amount of 17¢ pounds. It is believed it has never beer duplicated in this country. Not much smaller, but more genteel in appearance, is a German silver scale for weighing fish, also of equally small proportions and in- genious design. A silver drinking flash and a silver cigar case combined, and two pew- ter plates carried by Mr. Webster on_ hi: numerous fishing and hunting excursions in Plymouth county, are not the least in- teresting of these mementoes of the grea man and his simple and manly tasies. Th« pair of antlers which occupied a conspicu- ous place over the door of the ledge wer j@mce worn by a buck which fell a victim to Mr. Webster's skill as a marksman when hunting in Plymouth woods. The whole collection is one of beauty, and has a velue independent of it: close and intimate association with the hfe of the greatest citizen of Massachu- setts. The articles composing it were the accompaniments of his hours of relaxatio: and ease, when he had laid aside the cares of office and at his charming and belovec Marshfield followed the brooks and tramp- ed through the forests, calling his dogs with the whistle, drinking from the flask, eating from the plates and kindling hi: campfire with the matches he carried i their golden safe. It is impossible to con- ceive-of anything more symbolic of the simplicity of the grand mind that never lost its touch with nature than these rei- ics of the chase. eee A Kingdom to Be Had Cheap. From the Pall Mall Gazette. Antonius® Aurelius, King of Araucania, the first and the last of his dynasty, had once his day of fame. He was the man who would be king, and for a short time ne was one. Aurelius began life as an ambitious Frenchman, he ended it as a German, under the name of Herr von Ton- neins—dying in great poverty at Marseilles —but for a brief period in the fifties he was king over the Araucanian Indians in South When Von Tonneins founded s monarchy he found it necessary tc have his court, so he traveled over to Europe and created his own orders and titles. Then he reigned till hisgeourt was broken up by the government of Chile, and Aurelius as a roi en exile returned tc Marseilles. And now M. Henri le Baulx, the French explorer, has found the court of Aureli 1 still surviving among the Araucanian In- dians, by whom the European ceremonia is administered with gravity and dignity The orders still “lives chiefly by a primitive agri Vacant thrones are not found every day. Any one desiring a Kingly crown to gair should apply to M. le Baulx—present ad- dress, Patagonia. ——see Walk Up States. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Running up stairways is a very foolisn and dangerous practice end should be shunned as a contagion. The persons who do it surely do not realize how they court disease and death. If they would considér what must @e the effect of such violent ex- ercise they would really be frightened. “In the norma! state the heart beats 76 times a minute. I will assume that. a man approaches a stairway with a regular heart. He ascends the steps as rapidly as possible. When he arrives at the top his heart is beating 120 ttmes a minut. change is 44 pulsations a minute and the strain on the heart ts severe. In the cases of those whose hearts are diseased, 1t may Produce death and it may cause previousy sound hearts to become diseased. It de- ranges the whole constitution and serious- ly shocks the nervous system. “The person who runs By? aa type bode certainly become a physical wreck from t! practice of it if follow2d for any length of time. Disease, with a multitude of painful symptoms, cannot be escay It is the ef- fect after-the cause. Z to ascend a Proper way in which stairway is deliberately and slowly. Avoid all the exertion possible, for the eastest is the best. The object fs to escape the strain on the heart.” = A NATURAL BRIDGE, The Gigantic Archway is Located at Honcy Creek, Wis. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. Few people know that Wisconsin pos- sesses a natural bridge, with nearly if not quite us much attractiveness as the one in Virginia made famous by the visits o: George Washington. The Badger bridge is located in the town of Honey Creek, about twenty miles irom Baraboo, and eight miles east cf Prairie du Sac. The bridge is in fact only a gigantic archway detached from the face of a rocky biufi facing the Wise in river by the action of the elements, but as a natural curiosity has only a local reputation so far. Few visitors except from the immediate vicin- ity have ever taken the trouble to make a trip in this direction, probably because part of Sauk county was, until reeent years, cut off from railroads and not easy of access. Z Upon stepping between the bluff and the arch the immenseness of the task which nature has accomplished is apparent. The under part of the arch is about fifty fee above the fluor in the highest part, anc varies f-om that down to about thirty fect where ic joins the supporting rocks. The span is from ten to twenty-five feet thick and about fifteen feet wide. Tne pathway across the top is a trifle over three feet wide in its narrowest place, and a coo: head is needed to make the passage ovei the span. The person standing upon the top ef the span is probably one hundrec feet above the average level of the sur- rounding country, and the scene epreac before him is one of rural Wisconsin scen- ery upsurpassed. Although the country bas been settled for many years, yet thc ruggedness of the scene seems herdly di. minished by the hand of man in his ef. forts to conquer the soil and make for himself a home in these romantic sur- roundings. Except for the occasional log house or rarely, {ts frame successor, the plece wopld seem as though in its original condition, so completely hidden from view by tangled underbrush and heavy woods are the tilled lands of the husbandmen. About the base of the archway are signs of human visitations, and the visitor Jearns that here the people of the sur- rounding country com2 to celebrate the Fourth of July, ard the remains of rustic booths, a broken beer glass or two, ané other signs of past pleasures are noted. Underneath the floor of the arch is a huge cavern seven feet high, twenty-five feet deep end from thirty to fifty feet long, created by the action of the water rushing down the face of the hill and under the archway after a heavy rain: This cavern makes a ratural beer cellar, which the in- habitants of the region, nearly all of whom are Gernirs, utilize as a barroom upon the occasion of the celebrations referred to. Se “A Clock’s Queer Action. From the Indianapolis News. Mrs. Catherine Gold of Chesterfield, Ind., Is the possessor cf an old, broken, worn- out clock,’ almost a century old, that has not run for ten years, having stopped at 1:55 p.m. Yesterday afterfoon, while the family were seated about the large fire- the old clock suddenly, without warning, began to tick, and when the hour and minute hand reached two, © struck twice, after which it ran ten minutes and THE FRSF- HOSPITAL pees hen | Be AS, > ROSEN? HAT oe How Congressional Aid Was Ob- oe > « Bedas © wD tee pI ESTABLISHING “POOR HOUSE Written for The Evening Star. The establishment and growth of public charities and reformatory institutions in the District of Columbia-is ably reviewed in the report of the Joliit select committee of Congress appointed, to investigate. such institutions. - In the District of Columbia public chari- tles and reformatory Institutions had late beginnings and slow growth, according to the reports. Indeed, it was not until the war of the rebellion had enlarged, central- ized and: vitalized every municipal ‘function that the capital city put away village things and began to be in reality what it was in name. So muck has been: written by early statesmen and travelers about the un- healthfulness of Washington in bygone days that it would almost seem as if the commissioners charged with laying out the federal city had purposely selected swamps and morasses for the seat of government. Such, however, was net the fact. In 1797 Washington, then a city of 2,000 inhabit- ants, had not one fatal case of fever, nor any contagious or epidemic disorder; nor Was the influenza that traveled from south to north in 1789-90 and returned from the northeast to the south and west in 1807 any more severe in the. District of Colum- bia than it was elsewhere. The bilious dysentery -and yellow fever of 1793 were common to all seacoast cities as far north as Providence, R. I., and when the latter scourge in 1798 carried off over 300 resi- denis of Alexandria iis origin was traced to tenement houses along the wharves, and its ravages were confined to the Vir- ginia portion of the District. The most striking proof, however, of the natural healthfulness of the District of Columbia is cited by Dr. Toner. Speaking at the close of the war of the rebellion, he says: Healthfulness of Washington. “There is scarcely another city in the United States or the world where the same amount of crowding of men and animals within the same compass, including mili- tary camps, hospitals, hotels and slaugh- terhouses, would not have produced some terrible and devastating epidemic, Not even in the numerous hospitals established here, Hable at all times to certain epi- demics, did any disease prevail unfavor- able to the general health.”” Although public instiqytions were want- ing in the early days,.the highest officials were not lacking in p¥blic spirit. One day in the spring of 180) President Jefferson received in his mail from Monticello two specimens* of vaccine: lymph, the gift of Benjamin Waterhouse, ef, Boston. One of these specimens came from Dr. Jenner, the discoverer of its yirtues, the other Dr. Waterhouse had cultiv: Placed in the hands of Dr. Edward Gantt of Geor rEe- town the supply sufficed to vaccinate over 300 persohs connected with the Executive Mansion or in the families of the Presi- dent's neighbors. * Again, in 1833, when ‘the smallpox pre- -Valled in Washington, President Jackson's coachman, Charles, was seized with the disease in its severest form. The other servants of, the Wlfite ‘House were so badly frightened that ..they would not nurse him, and no. gompetent nurse was tobe had from thé ‘outside. Now, Jack- soh was much attache® té Charles, who had been his boty servant ‘during ‘hts sogithern.campaigns; sa, he: made an | fed- lafed Ward in the Exeoytive,Mansion‘and. installed himself “as ‘nurse, remaining on duty until his servant was out of danger. Smallpox was prevalent in Washington in 1828, 1833 and 1846. From the first the Medical Society of the District of Colum- bia consulted and ‘labored to arrest the spread of the scourge. Gratuitous vaccl- nations were proffered both by the corpo- ration and by the physicians generally. The cflicial body that appears as the mov’ force In arousing and shaping public senti- ment was the board of health of Washing- ton clty,.erganized by the corporation,“‘by thé act of August 14, 1819, and presided over for fourteen years by Dr. Henry funtt. First Charitable Institation. The first charitable institution in the Dis- trict of Columbia ‘was the poor house, established by a law of the corporation passed October 31, 1806. At that time $2,000 was appropriated to buy a lot and to erect suitable buildings, “the more effect- ually to provide for the poor, disabled and infirm persons.” The euphonious name of Washington Infirmary was the official litle of the institution; but in those days of plain things the place was always known as the poor house. It was located on the Square between M and N and Gth and 7th streets, Where it continued until about +846, when it was merged into the Wash- inglon Asylum, built upon the site, on the banks of the Anacostia, given by the gov- ernment in 1843. Although not a hosyital in the modern sense of the word, for thir- ty-five years the Washington poor house had for its medical officer Dr. Alexander McWilliams, who there used with uniform success the mode of making extension in fractures by the application of strips of adhesive plaster, an application in surgery that he first brought to the notice of the medical profession. bs Proposed Columbia Hospital. The need of a public hospital grew with the growth of the cities of Washington and Georgetown; ard in 1820, Dr. Thomas Ewell, one of the leading .physicians of Washing- ton, proposed, in the National Intelligencer of September 2, that the corporations of the two municipalities establish the Co- lumpia Hospital, to be supported by an- nual appropriaiions dased on their respect- ive populations. The two cities at the time had about 20,000 people. The object of the hospital as set forth by Dr. Ewell throws a strong light on the then existing situa- tion. The indigent sick were placed with the old and infirm, with the usual resulis on both sides of such a blending. The man- agement of tne institution was to consist of all the clergymen and all the members of the corporations of! Washington and Georgetown, the medical department: was to be exclusively under the control of the regularly qualificd physicians of the two cerporations, each irersuecession sharing the duties.and each fhayimg the right to witness the practice of thewthers; all mem- bers of the corporationisand all contribu- tors were to have theoright to send such patients as they acemedi worthy, excepting only that those sendimg:sleves should pay the cost ef their accommodation. With a rare foresight, Dr. Ewell sug- gested that the hospifaligonsist of small buildings of the plaimdst'kind, detached frcm each other to prevent the propaga- tion of infectious disedsés and maniacs from being made.more mad by hearing eaeh others’ cries; each house ‘to contain not mere than six or eightpersons, except a center building for Yesident officers, an apothecary shop andletream fer teaching women the duties thes-phuld perform to each other in childbed; or for ether pur- pceses ef lecturing. Herefin embryo were the contagious ward &fid.the clinic not yet realized, and the traintag choo! for nurses but lately established. {Unfortunately the times were not then ripe for the enter- prise, and nothing came of the plan. eee conyers S nosnl io in Washington, t tem] ry tals: % ny one in Georgetown and ‘one in Alexandria. The medical staffs of these were appointed by the borrd of health on Au- subsidence gust 7, 1832; and afver the of the disease the of. health took the lead in a-series ‘of meetings designed to arouse public sentiment: on ‘the subject ot a hospital. Indeed, matters wen’ so far ‘ef.a commit to select a site for the new institution, and the committee ‘4ts'task' by recom- two sites, a REE rE 3 2 Be Kg fer Easter Candy “East_r” Carés for the grown folks, Sr a 5 ry as cach buyet tomorrow; Baskets of > ~ for the children ond attractive Hahn's 3 Stores " Al Aglow! With Elegant Easter Shoes At Special Cut Prices. of course! superb Shoe stock th about was contracted | The result is. we ca: | High-grade Shoes foi sures you your exact size Infants’ & Children’s. 4 : £ > t als, Reguiar $1.50 quality. ‘Yomor- és ee 95c: Infants’ Elegant Mard-sewed © Shoes, Mack ard tans, button ~~ and laced, with kid or with f silk “vesting tops.” Very deinty. Regu. © > lar $1 quelity. To- ar) aioe " 69c. +p a Misses’ 2nd Children’s Lovely f Kid Sandals, in black, tan end > white; also Elrgant Patent Lea- i ther Hand-rewed “turned” San- 2 Boys’ and Girls’ Dresey Dura- Ble Spring Shoes, In a great va- riety of styles, .n black and =s- rets, in lace ond button Regvlar Sees ly ag Miss" and Youths Elegant ny: Mand - mede Patent Leather ¥ “Dress” Shces, none finer else- > where at avy price, Reg- ular $2.50 quality. < morrow shoe dealers at wholesale today! Tomorrow will .wind up the biggest week’s business of our career. Nearly a half hundred expert shoe fitters to wait on you, thus insuring you prompt attentién, and our immense stock in any style you have in mind. Women’s. Every item is marked far below its real value. Women's Oxford Ties, made and dressy, in and ig black kid, plain, cominon sense and rovnd toe, tipped. Regular $1.25 quality. Tomorrow. 95c. | Choice of 20 different styles of Women’s Hend and Machine sewed Nobby Oxford ‘Ties, in Diack and russets; and slso Women's Laced and Button High Shoes, in black and russets. Reg- ular $2 quality. 8 or S145 Large variety of the finest and prettiest Oxfcrds to be found anywhere at any price. Made of fine kid apd patent leathers, with plain kid or silk vesting tops. Regular $3.50 qualities. Teme row .. $2.50 Here is where we surpass our- selves. No other shoe store ries as rne Boots as these ex- quisite Patent Leathers, choco- | late and black kid, hand-sewed_ welts and turned soles; also su- perb Dress and Walking Boots None better at $5 a pair, Temorrow....... + Nf manufacturers were hungry for orders and will- ing to make Shoes at any price Why shouldn't we be? This at all Washington is talking for early last winter when to keep going. nm now afford to sell these r less than they cost other > ° <P> in- <> <> Men’s . > ; > More men are daily finding ont FP. how much better and cheaper our s+ well Shoes are than those offered down <> town. Look et these for Satur- i, hapels, comfortable and and Black Viel Kid ss and Walk ular Tomorro Ross Shoes—-qual ers’ $4 shores. to represent duetions. Kid and Wil Patent Leathers — stylish, rable and fit faultlessly 930 & 932 7th St. Pa. 1914 & 1916 233 Pa. Ave. ‘S.E. Av. NR AFM Aecfssfct ccnscientiously fulfilled its duty of me- morializing Congress. Congressional Aid Asked. Bn ‘he arguments of the memorial of the beard of health and the medical aes were embodied in a report made to a Senate by Mr. Williams on January 12, 4838. It appears that even in those days aged and infirm soldiers and sailors from every part of tne United States were ac eustomed to visit Washington to prosecute their pension and other claims, and too oftcn became a charge upon the pul 3 and also that great suffering and loss of life were the consequences—as during the cholera cpldemle or. Gebt_of the city, of lar hospital oi of Washington being then $25,000, and the rate of interest 6 per cent per annum, 10 tax of more than 75 cents upon every, $00 of property Hable to taxation was — = a burden as to preclude the supporting 3 hospital by general taxation. Morcover, a large portion of the property in the city belonged to the government, and paid noth, ing toward the necessary expenditures of the city; otierwise, there would be no reed for such a call on Congress. The pill vas reported with an amendment lmiting to. $75,000 the entire expenditure for hospital to accommodate between 3) and 40 insane and about 100 indigent sick. |The bill, however, fatles., and after, six years fealing to dea : Sr aith desisted for a time, only to renew the attack later, and with success. an ‘After struggling along for nearly half a century without any public hospital facili- tics, Washington obtained its first hos pital through one of those blunders of im- pulse to which legislative bodies are ject. ‘The Washington Infirmary. ; ‘The act of August 29, 1842, appropriated $10,000 to be spent in fitting up the old jail on Judiciary Square for use as an insane asylum. The repairs having been complet- ed, it was found expedtent to eentine to ‘ » insane patients to hospitals in send sories and to confine others in jails Qnd almshouses. There being no use for the newly fitted asylum, Congress gracious- ly passed the act of June 15, 1844, whereby the commissioner of public buildings was “dirscted to allow the medical faculty cf Columbian College to occupy the insane hospital, with the adjoining grounds, situ- ated In Judiciary Square, in Washington, for the purpose of an infirmary, for medical instruction. and for scientific purposes, on condition that they shall give satisfactory security to keep the said building in repair and return it, with the grounds, to the gov- ernment in as good condition as they are Low in, whenever required to do so. On Friday, June 20, 1844, Drs. Thomas Sewall, Harvey Lindsly, Thomas Miller, John M. Thomas, William P. Johnston and Charles G. Page—they being the medical faculty of the college at the time—met Commissioner of Public Buildings William Noland and jointly signed the lease and a bond of $10,000 conditioned on the faithful observance of the terms of the act of Con- gress. ‘These gentlemen,” says Dr. Toner, “deserve the lasting gratitude of the com- munity and the highest respect and admi- ration of their, professional brethren for the tact, energy and enterprise displayed in es- tablishing the Washington Infirmary.” ‘The faculty, at their-own expense, pro- ceeded to furnish the building and to make those improvements’ and alterations that were necessary to adapt it to hospital uses, and about the middle of July opened the first general hospital in Washington. Pa- tients from the city ee ee otal upon ing to the steward a sma! oa for fore the medical attendance of the faculty being furnished gratuitously. Clinical lectures were given daily, and th» poor of Washington received advice and medicine? without charge during an hour ‘From the beginning the institution found favor with the public, and in 1848 Congress, faculty and by promi- District, tea i z H i i | i % F A | 5 3 ; : i 2 P £ § when, on February 17. 1853, Representative Edward Stanley of North Carolina moved in committee of the whole an amendment to the general appropriation bill giving $20,000 to aid the directors of the Washington In- firmary to enlarge their accommodations for the benefit of sick transient paupers, the House agreed to the motion, and four cays later confirmed its action by a vote of 105 to 75. Thus the capacity of the hospital was more than doubled, and also the fa@ul- ty_gained a commodious lecture room. The enlarged building permitted, and the growth of the population demanded, in- creased appropriations. In 1854 and 1835 $8,000 was appropriated for the care of eighteen transient paupers, medical and surgical patients in Washington Infirmary, and a like amourt was appropriated during cack of the two succeeding years, the num- ber of petients rot being specitied. From 1858 to 1861 the sum of $6,000 a year was granted, to cover the cost of the care of forty patients. “fhe internal and domestic arrangement of the infirmary,” says Dr. Toner, “was, after a short time, put under ihe direction of those excellent and humane nurses, the Sisters of Mercy. The institution was con- ducted with liberzlity to the poor, enlight- ened judgment and professional ability, and was of incatculable usefulness in the rehef of suffering, by the accommodation it afforded to strangers and others com- pelled to resort to such an establishment. its central position and large, airy rooms, with the assiauous attention given to pa. tients by physicians and nurses, made it popular with the public and the profes- sion.” Opposition to the Management. While there could be no question as to the usefuiness to the community of the Washington Infirmary, there was deci#ied ‘difference of opinion as to the advisabiiit of the possession and occupation of a gov- ernment Lutiding and the management of a hospital deriving a considerabie portion of its support from the general governments in the exclusive interest of a medical schoul. No plfysician or student of med- icine outside Columbian College could gain officiai access ‘to the nospital, and oniy a menvber of the colleze facuity could <a there a private patient and still retain Ue management of the case. In 134 Dr. Nobie Young endeavored to organize the oppos'- tion, with a view to the separation of school and hosplital, and later he tried to start a movement for a putsuc general hos- pital. ‘fhe first attempt tailed because vf . of the colie warmness of Congres: do..ment of Laese projects “the controversy ceased, and schools, Waether agreed or not, lived t gether in mutual but peaceful discontent. Owing to the establishment of the Was! ington Inirmary, it happened that w! the war of the rebellion broke put the go ernment had at its command at the capital one huspital equipped for immediate work. The act of August 5, 1861, appropriated $5,000 “for removing the stables ard other vpstructions around the Washingion In- firmary, used as an army hospital, and grading said grounds. to secure proper drainage of the same.” What public senti- ment was not strong enough to do war in- stantly accomplished. Retaken by the Government. In April, 1861, Columbian College, on de- mand, immediately relinquished the in- firmary to the government, and it was oc- cupied as an army hospital until the night of November 3, 1861, when the building was totally destroyed by fire. That the ‘District patients were not turned out, how- ever, ts proved by ihe report of the com- missioner of public buildings, who says that:at the time of the fire he had in the of the Sisters of Charity and female ser- vants employed in the Washington Infirm- of its conflagration, on the night of the 3d of November, 1861." The sum of $528 was found to be sufficient to cover the loss. “* 4 GPERE PICTURESQUE GIBRALTAR, The Eng bh Are Fond of Showing Their Ownership. From the Chicago Record. It would s7em the one object of those who control Gibraltar is not to let any one forget that the place is a military post and the English are the stars of the plece. There is a constant display of military splendor on the streets and squads of sol- eiers are marched back and forth, as if a siege was to be declared tnat afternoon. Officers on horseback ride up and down through the town, returning with monote- nous regularity the salutes of the so'inrs who stride briskly along the walks. Young English officers in riding suits, others in pink hunting coats and others cantering in from the polo grounds give a social tone to the conglomerate throng of the stree:, end young English girls on slender and spirited-looking horses er in dogearts add a really festive air to the spectacle. You can tell one of the English giris a mile oft. They are blond and homely, with the in- evitable mass of hair called the “bun” jutting far out under the lee of a little straw hat and with the fresh glow of bealth in their faces that comes from lots of outdoor exercise. They walk with a swinging stride and their shoes are gs heavy as a man’s. They all seemed to be wearing a bluish-gray sort of dress, which must be the proper thing now with young English women; a little straw, and, as a general thing, they were accompanied, when walking, by fox terriers. One giri, who looked like the kind of young woman Du Maurier used to draw in the back of Harper's Magazine, carried a stick, and pobody seemed to show any alarming amount of wonder at it. Old officers, gorgeous in lace, in white helmets, or else in simple tunic with flap- ping ribbons across their breasts, and mill- box caps, ride briskly through the town, jostling the little donkeys and rubbing against the yellow one-horse hacks that rattle over the clean cobblestones. Moors in flowing and voluminous gary and in var- fous conditions of cleanliness and respec -bility stragele along in bare-legged di, nisy, causing wonder among the touris iresh from the west. Sailors from the dif- ferent men-of-war in the harbor, having a day's liberty on shore, lurch along with the approved swing of a sad seadog, in their best bive clothes and with the names of strange ships worked in their caps. Pre ty Spanish girls look down from under th green shutters that swing out from windows, and these damsels eenerally a So attractive that one is in reat dan of running into somebody or eise being run over by a donkey cart or a yell Tourists with Norfolk jackets o books and ficld glasses hung ov shoulders huddle around the tourist ag reading letters from home or waiting for other members ef their party who at that moment are buying photographs at th. zaar up the street or watching solaicrs drilling down on the parade grounds. 22+ Disappearing ¢ From Collier's Weekly. The disappearing carriages are built in accordance with any one of a number of mechanical p-inciples: but, whatever sys- tem be employed, the practical operation is the same. In front of the gun is an immense shield of sand and concrete pr: senting no projection or angles which would reveal its locaticn, Behind this th: gun lies hid. It is loaded, given the proper elevatior and Girection, rises, discharges Carriages. slope of a hill and in this pit a wooden model of a large gun was mounted upon a disappearing carriage. It was ai io appear for half a minute at interval: $i three minutes, emit & pull of smoke end HF as if i ut i § i He i i rf