Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1898, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1898-24 PAGE ‘ HE “En Tout Cas” is one of fashion’s latest fpibles that is eminently practical. It’s a parasol-umbrella suitable for sun or rain. Of waterproof silk, it is practi- cal; of cheerful color and dainty construction ; it is ornamental. The en tout cas is all its name implies and the Palais Royal is headquarters because of greatest stock and best variety. Prices range from $1.98 to $10 each. And every woman needs an “In- verness,” which is a waterproof cape of double texture cloth: the outer surface of ma- terial as in wooi dress goods, the inner surface of bright plaid—between is the rub- ber, invisible, but effectual. $2.98 instead of $3.50, for Monday only. And please re- member the tailor-made maid is incomplete without an “en tout cas” and an “Inver- ness. Art Needlework. ©The private pazlor is now completed, and lessens by a competent teacher are to be only 2he bE Inquire for Mise Meyen- Derg, Art Dept., first feor. Monday’s Program 1898 Bicycles. Ladies’ and Men’: High-grade Wheels, with every 1898 improvement. The price— $31—is suspiciously low. Please defer judgment until you have seen. Tak= ele- vator to fourth floor. Palais Royal, ; A. Lisner, of the : “Trade” Sale. | G and 1 (th. A Time for Dress Goods Buying. ; T’S a Silk season. The makers and importers of wool dress goods afe overloaded. The Palais Royal ‘‘buyer’’ has just secured various lots at greatly reduced prices. It’s the time for Dress Goods buying: Prices are to be less than any time this season, and the variety is to be greater. = 95¢c 85c 65¢ For $1 Fabrics. for $1.50 Fabrics. For $1.25 Fabrics. The well-known 50-inch Covert Superb effects in Silk and Wool | __ Best of 50-inch Tailor Suitings, Crepons, Bengalines and Bayadere | 48-inch Glace Poplins, 48-inch | Cloths, 48-inch English Check Suitings, in lovely shades of pearl, | Silk and Wool Novelties, 40-inch | Suitings, 50-inch Scotch Cheviots, gray, reseda, old blue, mode and) Check Grenadines. 40 cents a] 45-inch Pin Stripe Suitings and 48-inch Silk and Wool Novelties. violet. | yard saved. 35c for 50c Suitings. 8c for 12c Linings. 8c yard for the reliable 124c quality Percalines, Best of All-wool 5oc Dress Goods, in 4o-inch Co- vert Cloths, Check Suitings, Mixed Cheviots, Gran- in fast biack and forty shades. gc for 15¢ Roman Stripe Skirt Lining. 11¢ for 40-inch Lawns for ite Suitings, Silk and Wool Plaids. Not “picked foundations. 12}c yard for 20c Fancy Linings. over” stcck, but new stock in best effects and Scarce Silks Plentiful and Cheap Here. colors. Monday's sale will include the offering of sixty-five new pieces in just the styles and colors now generally scarce. With prices less than heretofore we have a combination that will be gratefully appre- SB O5¢ 65¢ For $1 and $1.25 Silks. For Best 85c Silks. Charming Bayadere Novelties, Satin Stripe Taf- In colors are the popular Fancy Check, Plaid, feta, Ribbon Stripe Fancies, Wanted Checks, Satin Stripe Taffeta and Figured Foulard Silks. In Effect Plaids. Some of the prettiest waist silks of | black are Figured India Silk, Brocaded Satins and the season will be found among these new arrivals. Silks. 65c¢ yard for choice. 10,000 yards Wash Dress Goods. " Gic This season's fabr' UMMER good: s true, and not wanted just now. But two dresses for the price of one and choice of a collection that includes all the most beautiful of designs and colors! Can you resist the tempation? 6jc instead of 12}c yard and a virgin stock containing the lovely designs and colors that will be scarce later. Dress Trimmings, Laces, Ribbons, Findings. RAID Trimmings are much used and therefore here in every style. Busy days in this department have created remnants and bargains for Monday:—5c and 9c yard for the 10c to 30c best Mohair Braids, 1 to 34 inches wide. 25¢ and 45c for Braid and Jet Boleros and Garnitures worth up to Guaranteed 12}¢ quality. Lovely Batiste Lawns. Bewitching New Dimities. sSostoatre Seater tortor ontontoatoe teeter tea tengontontoetontentortinionteetessertontenteatertoete erento sSoeteetoetentetontoetoeteetortesteatentensndteateetectontedgediony sft Ss. Plisse for fronts. |" Bargain Laces. New Dress Shields crinkled, Plaited and Shirred! The remnants coming of this | Selling at the rate of one gross Liberty Silk and Mousselaines are | busy week shall be placed on bar- | a day. High grade and low price the rage just now. gain tables Monday at low. prices. | are reasons why. ‘Ther come ji 1 yard for 2c to , Applique and Ori- | a pair and chole aes ae, —— | We sats Race, stots ths wae | NOC 2st tat eof se, Roa at pega | Erettorneseh ‘he. teeroeacceatie | to 10c.% Teenase without the maker's adve tied names stamped on them. of disposing of 75¢ Oc parts te to, 2, Polat de, Parles| Special price to, aa i here. s OS es broken included, so that whole pleces as | ji GER Oi ee yard for remnants of the §#a-yard Slik | Well as short lengths are.here. eteed ane ee SU iiste, with 8 rows of Valenciennes Lace | Sic yard for Ge to Ie Torcion Tacen, 214 | 2 at ertion. 24 inches wid: to 4 Inch de. And they are as honest for 5- ee mere, eee | as preise they vane om the laude intact, | LSC. for Sygrt pieces Velveteen, Suirt Fac. L N ts e @ | Only 4c plece for 8. H. aud M., in color ace INets. Bargain Ribbons. 156 smb mars sors en f | t a 01k Cot- To be very much worn, and the Not renuinits pieces that | isbea, pratonsey gyachine “seting. Sort fin. 3 Palais Royal is and shall be head- = See. | the purpose. wkers the best tor the “Trade” Sale brings you, at s, by vi est va- * SG a ae ooeoe quarters, by virtue of great the maker's loss. 1Z¢ Siier for 20-3ar0 specie of “Roya” riety and least prices. 7c. 3eF4 for 196 to 50 Ribbons, in English ae cae GEG z a — — checks, French plaids, bayadere stripes fo we 4 The, Se, $1. $1.25, $1.48 and gradually | ond all ‘the fashionable styles and colors for | 2OC for 30 Zirt Pleces, of Belting made to $ GBC, Shing to $4 yard for 45-inch Lace Nets | dress’ and millinery poses. “Trade” sale surprbes, LU!* 1 one of our z in Tosea. crockle and square meshes; plain E b id ry ——_— =ehnaey z stripes and figures, mpbproideries. 3c Pine aot Se (Paver for Tayler's English & SOc 22Ft for emnants of this cokes a The new 21 to 27-inch Tuck- | #oe* ani © oven card of Eureka - mulation. In the lot are 22 a a : . * a se Incl. Nets and 44-inch Flounces, worth w» to | ings and All-over with lace inser- | 19¢ fa very spectal price for the new $1.50 yard. Cholee for 30 yard. | tions are here in matchless variety. | provements,, 8 Extenders—with iutest tm- 3 yo Se | ‘d. for remnants of 75e Swiss Ail- —_——_—-——_ yard for remnants of the expensive Nets. 48c Fost inches wide: 12¢ = SU Fosuca ace tavecal: shirt lengiba ot the | nants of the i6e to 20¢ Cambrie abd Swiss Exe. | Pree= X% paents to, War- lowest broideries, 4 to 8 inches wide fes and col lors. $4 a yard Flounces with scalloped border. } Palais Royal,»ussex, G and 1 1th. | I a ss Free, Photogravure of me the world-renowned ‘After the Bath'’ presented to each Pirehaser of hite” Soa cal ces in box, at the : price of... eee Sc: 2. to $3.50; beets, per 100 bunches, $2; cabbage, per 100, $1.50 to $4; new, per bbl. $1 to $1.50; onions, yéllow, per bbi., to $1.75; turnips, per bbl., 50c.; beans, white, New York mediums, $1.20 to $1.25: New York pea, $1.10 to $1.15; marrow, $1.20 to $1.30; Virginia, white, 9uc. to $1; white, mixed. 80c.; colored, 60c.; black-eyed peas, per bush., 90c. to $1. Dried fruits—Evaporated apples, choice, and 10c.; apples, sliced, fancy, 4%c.; 3%e. and 4e.; quarters,bright, -; peaches, choice, 6e. and 7c.; fair to good, Se. and 6c.; halves, unpeeled, 2c. and quarters, unpeeled, 2c. apd 3c.; evap- crated, 8c. and 10c.; evaporated, unpeeled, 6c. and 7c.; cherries, pitted, dry, crop ‘96, Ye. and 10c.; sugured and wet, 6c. and 7c.: 3¥gc.; whortleberries, SALE PRODUCE MARKET. sas ee CHARGES DECEPTION. Change in Prices—General Firmness. There is very Httle change shown in the lecal wholesale produce market by today’s prices. The market is well supplied and the general tone is one of firmness. Butter is still scarce, but eggs are plentiful. No material change in prices in any products are expected. Butter—Creamery, Elgin, extras, 22c. a pound; choice, 2ic.; firsts, 20c.; seconds, 0c.; bakers’ choice stock, 16 to lic., and other grades from 15c. upward. Cheese—New York state, full cream, large, lic. a pound; flats, llc., and ponies, 2c. Eggs—Nearby fresh, 12c.; western, lc., ard southern, lOc. Poultry—Chickens, undrawn, per Ib., 11 to 18c.; live, per Ib., 12 to 15c.; spring, large, live, per Ib., 25 to 30c.; capons, large, 12 to 13e.; slips, 10 to Ile. Old fowls, undrawn, pee Suit to Recover $400 Alleged to Have Been Withheld. A bill in equity, asking the court to re- view a cuse that was dismissed on the ground of want of jurisdiction, has been filed here by Jackson D. Wissman of Prince George's county, Md., who names Pinkney A. Scaggs as defendant: It is stated by the plaintiff that he owned thirty acres of land and engaged Scaggs to sell the property. Scaggs, it is charged, informed Wissman that he sold the land for $300 and was thereupon paid a commis- sion. Wissman alleges that he has infor- mation to the effect that Scaggs sold the land for $900 instead of $500. Therefore he decided to institute suit. —— PLEA OF ABATEMENT. * blackberries, per 1b., ber ib., Gc.; raspberries, dry, 10c. and lic. Green fruits and nuts—Apples, fancy, ta- ble, bbl., $3 and $4; choice, per bbl., $2.50 end $3; walnuts, per 100 Ibs., 75c. and 85c. oranges, Florida, brights, per box, $2.75 an we: = Ea vee he a ane navels, per_box, an ser > per box, $1.65 and $2.25. ae Live stock—Cattle, extra, per $4.50; butcher, per cwt., $3.50 and of F. 0. Frank Herbert Miles, formerly in the employ of the District government, in- dicted for embezzlement of funds in con- nection with the issyance of tax certifi- cates, was arraigned today before Chief Justice Bingham, in Criminal Court No. 1. Miles declined to enter a plea to the indict- ment, his counsel explaining that it was the intention to file a plea in abatement, on the ee of misnomer. It is under- pooes ret contention will jad made Min, not Frank, as ment. ase — hogs, , $3.50 and $3.75; ordinary, cwt., ret, $3.25 and $3.35; sheep, per ewe. $10; me- dium, $8 and $9; calves, prime, per cwt., $6.50 and $7; common, per cwt., $5 and $6; gross, per cwt., $3 and B50. 5 ; live, large, per Il live, per Ib., 7 aged, Vegetables—. te #4; cucumbers, per box, $3 to $4; cauli- flower, per crate, $3 to #4; kale, per bbli., Be. to S0c.; celery, medium, per doz., 15c. to 2ec.; common, per doz, 10c. to 15e.; beans, per $1.50 to $2; gery per bbl., Se True Bills Returned. The grand jury has reported indictments against the following: Henry Roberts, lar- ceny; Thomas, ulias Peter, Washington, larceny; Edware Davis,'alias Davidson, and 's correct name Frank- it appears in the indict- Bowman, arsault with intent to kill FOR A- NEW MORGUE/MANY DISAPPOINTED Efforts of Commissioners to Secure | Citisens Denied Admission to House an Appropriation, APPEAL 10 THE HOUSE COMMITTEE EFFORT FOR ADMISSION 10 THE FLOOR ers The Condition of the Present Structute Described. See eee A PROTEST FROM CITIZENS As stated in The Star of yesterday, the Commissioners are anxious to have retain- ed in the District appropriation bill the item added by the Senate providing for the equipment of a new morgue. Commission- er Wight addressed a letter to Representa- tive Pitney of the House committee on ap- Propriations, urging that he use his in- fluence to prevent the omission of the item when the bill should come up for final con- sideration. Mr. Wight’s letter is as foi- lows: : “In the appropriation bill making provis- fon for the expenses of the District of Co- lumbia, now pending, the Senate has in- serted on page 12, line 3, a provision for a morgue keeper and assistant and for re- pairs, equipment, etc., etc., of the morgue— in all, $2,190. “I am so very anxious that this item should remain in that I beg to call your Special attention to it, and present to you a few facts, hoping that you may appreciate the necessity of equipping this city with Something that will be adequate and allow for the proper carrying on of this important function of a large city, especially in view of the fact that the number of bodies to be cared for in the morgue is rapidly in- creasing. “I inclose herewith photographs of the present small room which is used as a morgue, but which will hardly give you an adequate impression of its utter unfitness for such purposes. “On Saturday there were three bodies in the morgue. There is no receptacle for them other than a small box, in which two or three bodies must be placed at a lime. There is no room in which the phy- sician can change his clothing when making un autopsy; there is ‘no provision whatever for holding inquests; there is no provision whatever for keeping a body in an ice chest. The only way for heating the build- ing is with a stove, which makes the heat so unbearable that when the physician engaged in making his autopsy on a badly decomposed body it is absolutely inhuman. Offensive in Summer. “In summer tke offensive odors prevent the policemen from getting their much- needed rest—the morgue being situated jugt back of the police station on New Jer- sey avenue and being a part of it—as well as being very objectionable to the entire neighborhood. “Heretofore, as you know, the Commis- siouers have asked for an’ appropriation with which to build a morgue. The re- cent provision of Congress for the enlarge- ment and equipment of our fire depart- ment has previded in; the central part of the city three new Houses. The old en- gine house on D gtreet is now occupied by the chemical company, which was moved down from 14th and C streets, in order to protect that part of the city, while the engine house on sth) street was being built. This new hOusé' will be completed within a few weeK§, and the chemical com- pany can easily be moved back to Truck € house. This engine house on D street is capable of being made, with the very small appropriation asked for, an ideal morgue, and I vety earnestly beg of you not to strike this {lem out if you can pos- sibly allow it to remain in. “I inclose you mlape herewith petitions signed by persons residing in the neigh- borhood of the little room now used as a morgue, protesting against its further con- tinuance.”” The Present Morgue. The present morgue 1s located in what was once a small brick stable on the lot on which stands the sixth police precinct building. It is hardly a morgue except in name, and has practically none of the modern equipments of such an institution. It stands within a few feet of tke police precinct building, and because of the lack of proper facilities for preserving bodies held for identification or for medical ex- amination, the odor from the bodies, par- ticularly in warm weather, is simply un- bearable to the officers who are recuired to be present at the station, their slecp being Interrupted and their health seri- ously endangered. With his leticr Mr. Wight, as indicatod, transmitted a petition signed not only by the members of the police force connec‘ed with the sixth precinct, but also by the citizens residing in the neighborhood, set- ting forth the really horrible conditions resulting from the use of the old stable building as a morgue. This petition was indorsed by a number of the local news- paper reporters, who declared that the present morgue 18 a disgrace to civiliza- tion. Proposed Changes. The old engine house on D street near 12th, which the Commissioners propose to convert into a modernly equipped morgue, is at present occupied by Chemical Engine Company No. 1 of the District fire depart- ment. Should the appropriation be made, the chemical company would not be re- moved from the D street house until after the house intended for engine company No. 14, on 8th street just above D, is completed and the new engine company put in service. The engine which will be placed on 8th street is the largest in the District fire de- partment, this new company having been provided for by Congress for the better protection of the central portion of the city. The engine is now used by company No. 2, located on D street between 14th and 15th, but when it is sent to No. 14 company No. 2 company will be. supplied with a lighter engine. It will thus be seen that. the removal of the chemical company to the house of truck C will not decrease the protection afforded the central portion of the city, for the Treason that it will be replaced by a steam engine of the largest size in the department. EB Dr. Carr, the coroner, and his assistant, Dr. Glazebrook, as well as Dr. Woodward, the District health officer, strongly indorse the efforts of the Commissioners to give the District a modern morgue. They have repeatedly pointed out the inadequacy of the present morgue, Dr. Glazebrook being particularly active in furthering the propo- sition to provide a new morgue. It devolves upon Dr. Glazebrook: to make the autopsy on every body brought to the institution, where there is any question as to the cause of death, and he is constantly experiencing the greatest difficulty. in properly making the autopsies. 19 '4 Moderé! Facilities, The D street engihe héuse, Mr. Wight has been informed, caf be tonverted into quite @ modern morgue wit the money sought to be Appropriat The morgue, when completed, will nd¢t only afford the latest improved facilities: fof preserving bodies held for identi n,<but will also afford the coroner com: 8 and comfortable rooms in which inquests. The lo- cation will be as as could well be made, convenient to t! give ‘the physiciah ‘making the autopsy ample room, so that witen desirable he may invite other physitian# to be present. At ly‘room for one physi- making af examination of a . dies held for identifi- stead of being a now necensitated ty the lack of room and preservation facilities. Mr. Wight has in- vited Mr. Pitney to ‘make a personal ex- saree es Scere ame quite hopeful o' the ay tion by the House. _VIN MARIANI Braces Body and Brain. and Senate Galleries, Instance When the Rule of Exclu- sion Was Violated. STANDING REGULATIONS The war scare has attracted thousands of visitors to this city, and probably a large majority of them have been disappointed in not getting into the House or Senate gallery on important occasions. It was a severe disappointinent to many of them, last week, who desired to hear the message of the President read, and who found that even in some of the public galleries ad- mission was to be obtained by card only. Included among the disappointed ones were a number of families of representa- tives on the House side of the Capitol. As published in The Star at the time, an effort was made to admit some of the famMes te the floor, but without success. The rule concerning admissions to the floor of the House reads: The Rule in the Case. “The persons hereinafter named, and none other, shall be admitted to the hall of the. House or rooms leading thereto, viz: The President and the Vice President of the United States and their private sec- retaries, judges of the Supreme Court, members of Congress and members-elect; contestants in election cases during the pendency of their cases in the House, the secretary and sergeant-at-arms of the Sen- ate, heads of departments, foreign minis- ters, governors of states, the architect of the Capitol, the librarian of Congress and his assistant in charge of the law lbrary; such persons as have, by name, received the thanks of Congress, ex-members of the House of Representatives who are not in- terested in any claim, or directly in any Dill pending before Congress, and clerks of committees when business from their com- mittee is under consideration, and it shall not be in order for the Speaker to enter- tain a request for the suspension of this rule, or to present from the chair the re- quest of any member for unanimous con- sent.” ven this rule has been violated in the past,” said a man connected with the House of Representatives to a Star report- er today. “One instance of its violation occurred the day Representative Wilson made his tariff speech. There was a great clamor for admission to the House on that occasion, and when the galleries were filled the families of several members appeared. What to do with them the doorkeepers and others did not know. It was thought use- less to make an effort to have the Speaker suspend the rules, but when the time ar- rived for him to eat his lunch Mr. Hatch ef Missourl was put in the chair. His ac- tion was favorable and families of many of the representatives were soon on the flocr. Admission to the Gallerics. The rules concerning the galleries are as follows: “The Speaker shall set aside a portion of the west gallery for the use of the Pres- ident of the United States, the members of his cabinet, justices of the Supreme Court, foreign ministers and suites and the mem- bers of their respective families, and shall also set aside another portion of the same gallery for the accommodation of persons to be admitted on the card of members. The southerly half of the east gallery shall be assigned exclusively for the use of the families of members of Congress, in which the Speaker shall control one bench, and on request of a member the Speaker shall issue a card of admission to his family, which shall include their visitors, and no other) person shall be admitted to this sec- ticn.” “This rule,’? said The Star's informant, “is by no means an ironclad one. There have been times when the diplomatic gal- lery was almost filled with families of rep- resentatives, and when the members of the legations arrived it was necessary to put them in the President's gallery.” ae ene THE CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE. FOR QVERWORKED MEN, DELICATE WOE SICKLY CHIEN Vin Mariani is indorsed by the medical faculty all over the world. Itis specially recommended for Ker- vous Troubles, Throat and Lung Diseases, Dyspepsia, Consumption, General Debility. MALARIA, WASTING DISEASES AND LA GRIPPE. SOLD AT ALL DRUGGISTS. REFUSE SUBSTITUTIONS. VIN MARIANI GIVES STRENGTH. SPECIAL OFFER---To all who write mentioning The Washington Star, we send a book containing portraits and indorsements of EMPERORS, EM- PRESS, PRINCES, CARDINALS, ARCHBISHOPS and other distinguished personages. MARIANI & CO., 52 WEST 15TH STREET, NEW YORK. Paris—41 Boulevard Haussmann; Addresses by Leading Members—Pro- ceedings Last Evening. There was a small attendance at the ses- sion of the Christian and Missionary Alli- ance convention at the First Baptist Church this morning. After a prayer ser- vice, led by Rev. C. C. Cook, and singing several persons arose and asked that friends and relatives be prayed for, which was den>. Rev. M. S. Anderson of Syracuse, N. Y., trade an address on “Lessons from the Life of Jacob,” treating on regeneration, sancti- fication and the filling of the Spirit. Rev. Henry Wilson, D. D., of New York deliv- er2d an address on “God's Searchlight. The afternoon service, which bagan at 0 o'clock, was levoted to the subject of divine healing. There were addresses by Rev. Dr. Wilson, R2v. Mr. Anderson, Miss Mattie Perry. the ingelist, and Dean A. C. Peck of Denver, Col. The evening service will be held in the Gunton-Templ3 Church, 14th and R streets northwest, beginning 7:30 o'clock. Rev. A. C. Mitchell, the missionary, will give an account of his life in the Soudan, Africa, where he has labored for five years, and to which field he will soon return. His talk will be iHustrat2d by a large map of the country. Tomorrow morning one of the ministers attending the convention will preach at the Gunton-Temple Church, and at night in the same church there will be a talk by Dz2an Peck, field secretary of the alliance. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon there will be an alliance meeting in the People’s Tab- ernacle. . Last night at the Gunton-Temple Church there wer> addresses on the topics, “Sanc- tification,” ‘‘World-wide Missions” and “The Lord's Coming. —— THE COURTS. Equity Court No. 1—Justice Cox. Dawson agt. Piffling; complainant's coun- sel allowed to withdraw order to employ new counsel. Sehrot agt. Schrot et al.; re- straining order, returnable April 21, grant- ed. In re Louis Dodson, Anthony Stewart, Nathaniel D. Clark, Montgomery B. Keys, Kate Skinner and Arthur Minor; writs de lunatico inquirendo ordered to issue. Mad- den agt. Brent; auditor's report finally ratified. Circuit Court No. 1—Justice Cole. Plumb agt. Thomas; jury respited until Monday. . Circuit Court No. 2—Justice McComas. London—83 Mortimes Street; Montreal—28-30 Hospital Street, THE SPIRIT OF °76. A SEADOW OF WAR. District Young America Wants to Build 2 Warship. Commissioner Wight was waited upon yesterday afterncon at his residence by three young boys, cne of them a son of Senator Fairbanks, and all of them pupils of the Force public school, the boys re- avesting him to lay before the board of Commissioners the proposition that the children of the public schools of the Dis- trict be allowed to 1 a d with which te buy or build for the navy a small tor- pedo beat or some Loat of that character. The youngsters stated to Mr. Wight that the school children of other cities are pro- posing to do the same thing, and they do not believe that boys and girls cf the Dis- trict desired to be a bit behind in following so patriotic an exemple. They desired the Commissioners to communicate with ‘he Secretary of the Nav \d ascertain for them what the Secretary would advise in the matter, as well as the probable cost of such a vessel. They said they desired che sanction of the Commissicners in the mat ter, and if the schcol children of the Dis- trict could not contribute enough to build a boat what they did secure could be used as the Secretary thought best for the pro- tection of the country. Mr. Wight commended the boys for their patriotism, and premised to do all he could for them. Today he referred the matter to Commissioner Ross, who has immediaie charge of the public schools, who in tu referred it to the board of trustees, they, under the law, have the care and management of the public schools of the District. It is needless to say that Mr. Ross highly appreciated the patriotic mo- tive of the youngsters, and, like his coi- leagues, will assist them in every way pos- sible. Experience Related by an Official of a Fi ion. “The best indication in my experience as @ business men of what seems to be the appreach of war occurred today,” remark- ed an official of one of the large finan- cial institutions of the city’to a Star re- porter. “An officer who is a customer of ours came in to see me this morning for the purpos? of introducing his wife. He said he had just been ordered away from the city, and he wanted to arrange his affairs so that his wife could get money when she needed it. “It seems to be a trifling matter,” he ecntinued, “but tomehow it brought home to me the ecriousness of war and all that it means.” — MR. WANAMAKER'’S OFFER. Would Raise a Regiment of Penn- sylvanians. Among those thousand and one com- munications received by Secretary Alger in regard to the settlement of the Cuban situ- ation is one from Mr. John Wanamaker of Philadelphia, ex-Postmaster General, saying, “though opposed to war, unless honorably unavoidable, in the event of 1 coming I will, under your insiructions, raise a regiment of Pennsylvania for mili- tary duty and go with it into service.” In addition to this patriotic offer, Mr. Wanamaker has also notified the “1,% employes of his Philadelphia establish- ment that the salaries of all men who enter the military service of the government will be paid their families during the period of their absence, and that their places will be held open for them until they return. He also informed them that an insurance of $1,000 will be made in the case of each employe, payeble to his family, if his life is lost while engaged in military duty. Secretary Alger has ackno' Mr. Wanamaker's letter, with a statement that in case troops are called for his offer will be gladly accepted. —_—-o-—_——_—_———— National Conservatory of Music. The inaugural concert of the National Conservatory of Music will take place at ————_ Suit to Dissolve a, Firm. A bill in equity, asking the appointment of a receiver and an injunction, was today filed ‘by Joseph Schrot against Herman Schrot, Charles Schrot and the National Bank of Washington. The plaintiff seeks to have the court dis- solve the firm of Schrot Bros., of which he is a member, to appoint a receiver to wind up the iness of the firm, and to the Ban! Washington from pay- ing out any of the funds in its to the credit of Schrot Bros. —_——.—__. motion for new trial filed. Probate Court—Justice r. Estate of Jno. A. Ruppert; petition for f : ! house! New Jersey state oe = Roberts, larceny; defendant arraigned, not guilty. United States agt. Thos. Wash- Edward - 3 United States j if Fs 3 seni for four years. g i Ei B. Wright, United heusebreaking: sentence, G i" : j New Jer- “ie Fr prison james if i , the establishment for. which is due to energy and persever-| ance of Miss Myrtelle Dexter, 3