Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1898, Page 22

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 23; 1898-24 PAGES. 21 A QUITO HOUSE, A LOFTY CAPITAL Curiosities ‘of Tife in the City of Quito. THE INDIAN POPULATION OF ECUADOR -_—_—— Maintain an Active Trade in Human Heads. ————e ROOF OF a THE THE WORLD « Bpeciat ¢ GUA tight, 1898, by Frank G. Carpenter.) erespondence of The Evening Star. AQUILL, Ecuador, March+28, 1898. HOUGH THE equator cuts Ec’ dor, the bulk of its people have as fine a climate as those of any part of the globe. They are sky dwell- ers. Nine-tenths of them live among the clouds. There are dozens of towns here 5 7 which are twice as high as Denv there are ranches in the Andes sllitude of 12,000 feet. On about the a more ate than that of V ington Here at Guayaquil the climate is that repics; in some of the Ande is like an Ohio June all leys it areund, and on many of the s! ver melts nite is the highest capital city on earth. Iti don the roof of the world. It is alf a_mile higher up in the air 1 the City of Mexice than a thousand feet higher than the Mount of St. Bernard, in the Alps, which is the high- est point in Europe where men live all the year arou Quito is, Lam told, going back- ward. das having about % G00 people. tis a qu and it had ago, bef. whether it ha country was dis Then it had sev- d people, who tion, on the e ador have nday. There was town « © site of Quito, according to t dition, a hundred years before Christ was born, and it is known that a city existed e in 1006 A.D. Atahualpa, the Inca nonareh who was conquered and mu: ered by Pizarro, had a palace at Qui t root of which with pure it is said, sid, and of the tr was covered which sures were hidden by the Indians at this time it is believed that vast Guantities were buried in Ecuador. City of Quito. Owing to the rainy season I have not been able to make my way to the Ecua- @vrian capital. The route is flooded and the mails are now fifteen days in coming a distance of less than 300 miles. The city lies over the Andes in a valley between two ranges, and you ride on mules about the precipitous slopes of these great moun- tains to reach it. In good weather the trip may be made in eight days; now the mules must wade through the mud up to their bellies, and in descending some of | clivities they sit down and slide. e here, however, many people who ed in Quito, and my informati ng the cit give you an i ace as is today. Quito is aout are. It would just cover four 16v- farms. The streets are Ixid out at but are very narrow and are at the man who introduced the first carriage into the town had to get a permit te do so. Just back of the city is the tive veicano Mount Pichine! and all a}out it on the sides of the vailey, walling it in it were are some of the highest peaks the Andes. Mount Pichincha is srow-capped and its peak is so near Quito that the ice used for making the ice cream of the city comes from there. Mount Pi- chincha has a crater half a mile deep, and a mile wide at the bottom. It is a’ mile higher up in the air than Mount Aetna, and its fires are such that it has been said that Vesuvius would be a portable ide it. The top of this moun- reached by horses in a five hours’ ride from Quito. Standing on the slope of Mount Pichincha, Quito lies in the vallew below you. It is a city of white adobe two-story houses coverec with red tiles. The houses look low and squatty and you see among them a large number of convents, monasteries and churches. Fully o rth of the town fs taken up with church establishments, and there are as many priests and nuns to the square as you will find in the city of Rome. Quito has always been a gre »porter of Rome, and its contributions to the Catholic Church have been so many that it has been called “The little mother of the pope.” The Government tain ¢ t of Ecuador. Unttt 1 the government of Ecuador Las been largely a union of church and and today the priests have great nee. Ecuador is, you know, nom- inally long to read and a republic, but voters must be- to the church and must be able write. Not more than one- tenth of the people can do the latter, s0 the educated whites pra ly control the elections—I should rather say that ihe Cfficials control them, and that there is no such thing as a fair election in Ecuador. The land is one of revolutions. The pre ent president, Don Alfaro, has been a rev- olutionist all his life and has at last got- ten into power. He has had a number of rarrow escapes, some of which Captain Power, the commander of one of the little Ecnadorian men-of-war, has described to me. At one time when Power was with Alfaro his boat was captured by the enemy and Alfaro escaped by swimming to the shore on @ barrel, and at another time he lived for weeks in the wilds of Ecuador and Colombia hunted by the stat> troops. President Alfaro has limited some- what the power of the priests, although I am told that he is afraid of them. He is progressive in his views and he ts very de- sirous that foreign capital should come to Ecuastor and develop it. The president lives at Qu He has a salary of 24,000 sucres, or about $12,000 a year, and his term of office is for four years. He has a cabinet, one of the ministers of which represents the church. In additicn to the president the government consists of a congre Ss of courts and of governors provinces, who are appointed by t and may be removed by him. ‘Taxes and the Salt Revenues. Eeuador has a very small national debt and its dirsct taxes are low. Much of the government income is derived from the tar- imports, which covers almost every- ing, and also from the tax on salt. Salt is a government monopoly here. Every city has Its government salt warehouse, re the merchants or private consumers must come to buy, and where they pay several times as much for a very poor article as they would if salt were free. I visited such @ warehouse at the town of Bodegas the other day. There were hundreds of tors of ‘ty salt banked up in large barn-like ms, and I saw some being weigh2d out the pr to purchasers on a pair of American scales. It costs the government, I am told, about 60 cents a hundredweight to make it, and its price at the warehouses is almost 2 cents a pound. The ravenue from this scurce amounts to about $200,000 a year. Ecuador has now a public schoo! system, but only about one-tenth of the people, as I have said, can read ard write. There are in the country in the neighborhood of 1,000 primary schools and also a number of those of higher grades. The children in these schools all study out loud, and the din is as Rteat as that of the schools of China. Quito has a university, largely managed br Jesuits, and there is also a college at the city of Cuenca. H>re at Guayaquil there are two newspapers, both of which get short cable dispatches. The papers are erled by newsboys on the streets. They are printed on oid American pr2sses from type made in the United States, although their Paper and ink come, I am told, from Ger- many. Among the other institutions of Ecuador are a hospital here and a hospital, a lunatic and a leper asylum at Quito. The cem>tery at Quito is on the pigeon-hole system. You rent a box in the wall for your coffin, and it stays there as long as your relatives or friends pay the rent. When the pay stops the authorities pull out the coffin and dump the remains into a great cist>rn adjoining the cemetery. A similar custom prevails in the cemetery of the city of Guanahuato, in Mexico, where the bones of the delinquent dead are shov- eled away into a great vault, where they lle piled up like so much corn in a granary. They Trade in Human Heads. The bulk of the pepulation of Ecuador Is made up of Indians. There are 150,000 In- dians in the republic who have never been subdued, and some of the savages upon the Napo river, which flows through the east- ern part of Ecuader into the Maronon, are known than the people of interior > of these tribes shoot their with peiscned arrows, using blow s made of reeds. They send the arrows force, and a scrateh | $ crosses of the whites and negroes with the Indians. The whites are the ruling class. They are the government, the wealth, the brains, the Ecuador that we know in busi- ness and in trade. The Indians are the working population. They are thriftless and seem to have little spirit or ambition. ‘Their highest idea of pleasure is plenty of liquor, and the “Ecuadorian smile” is as common as the drink of America. They live like dogs and work almost from birth to death. They till the soil, carry the freight on their backs uy and down the mountains, and are, in fact, often treated more like cattle than the animals them- selves. They submit to the whites and are accustomed to being advised by them. Only the fewest of these Indians can read or write, and very few accumulate property. I don't think the native Ecuadorians will ever be a large consuming class. ‘heir wants are few. A suit or two of cotton clothes, a little rice and meat, and a cane hut in the lowlands or ane of adobe brick in the mountains suffice for them. It does not cost much more, I am told, to raise a child to maturity among the Ecuadorian Indians than it does on the banks of the Ganges or the Nile. These civilized In-ians are the descendants of those who were here when the Spaniards conquered the country. They were even then the slaves or sub- jects of the Incas, and they seem to be one of those races which, like the fellahih of Egypt, are ever destined to be subject to and work for a stronger race. These In- dians are, with a few exceptions, Catholics. They are ruled by the priests, and a large part of their earnings goes to the church. It was only lately that Protestant mission- aries have been permitted to come into Ecuador, and the few here now are having a hard time. I met here at Guayaquil an earnest young fellow from Denver, who has recently come out to do missionary work. He tells me the field is a great one, but that his reception by the people is far from cordial, and that he has been warned not to go to certain places to preach, or his life would be in danger. Our Trade With Ecuador. T have spent some time in looking up tne chances here for American trade. There are practically no statistics, and it is hard to get at just what the trade of the coun- try amounts to. It probably ranges some- where between ten and fifteen million dol- lars a year, the tmports being less than the exports. The bulk of the imports come from Europe, and tie articles we send here are those which we can make more and of a better quality than the ns. This is especially the case with har¢ware. The American hardware has, I fird, a better standing wherever I have be. than any other. The axes and knives made at Hartford, Conn., are ce! brated here, and the Germans and other Europeans are imitating them almost to the trade-marks. They make a much poorer and cheaper article, and sell chiefly by their fraudulent imitation. The Amer- ican firearms command the highest prices, and they are also imitated. The uine American revolvers, caliber, for i ily while the imita- tion revolvers sell fo $14 The most of the cottons used in uador come from Great Britain. About .000,000 worth of English cottons are con- AN ECUADORIAN SMILE, from one of them is sure death. this same rr that dried heads of hu- man be! » cured for sale. I write sn head, cut off just on the table before me. Whether it is that of a man or a woman I but its hair is as iiky as the hair o e this lette When I hed it a few minutes ago, hold- hand before the camera, the hung down atmost . and’ the hair wa uld hardly it It fs In head is one of the dried hi 2 They have for iz of pickling or ene , and T n told that such a demand rong the foreigners for the he: s that within recent years the 2 been Killing their friends 3 es as well in order to lorian government ha a law making it a crime to buy such heads, and the severest penalties imposed on those who engage in the traffic. Stull, I am offered this head for $100 in gold, and I could buy several more at the me price. [ don’t think I shall take it, It is, however, a wonderful thing. All of | the bones have in some way been taken out of it, and the fiesh, skin and hair of the head only left. In parting the hair at the back I see stitches, and it is evident that the skin was cut open here to get out the skull. The remainder of the skin is as perfect as it s in life, cnly the whole head is so shrunken that it is not much larger than a base ball. Its color is per- fectly black. ‘The eyes are closed, the forehead, over which the dark hair hangs, is low, ard the nose is almost that of a regro in shane. The lips, which were once full, sensuous and voluptuous, are sewed tegether with long cotton strands, which hang down like a macreme fringe, and the chin has a pronounced dimple in it, which, I doubt not, once smiled at its sweetheart and friends. Whether its owner was killed by treachery or in battle no one knows. How the Heads Are Cured. ‘The method of curing the heads is also a tery. It is said that a red-whiskered German came out to Ecuador some years uzo determined to learn the proc He went to Quito and then made his way east- ward to the Indian country. Since then he has never been seen, but it is said that about three months ‘after his disappear- ance a head beautifully cured was brought in for sale. It was of a lighter complexion Traders in Human Heads, than the one on my table and the features were German in cast, while on the chin was a beard of the same brick dust hue as that of the German explorer. From native sources I learn that the Indians cure the heads after they have removed the* bones by filling them with hot pebbles and pass- ing them from hand to hand, pressing them so carefully inward that in shrinking they do not lose their shape. After this they are baked in the sand and so treated that they will last for ages. The skin of the neck of this head is about one-sixth of an inch tnick. Its pretty ears are about the size of a silver quarter, and as I push back its hair and look at its closed eyes I almost fear that it will open them and glare at me. ‘The Indians of Ecuador. The most of the Indians of Ecuador are semi-civilized. We have, it is estimated, about 260,000 Indians in the United States. Ecuador has 870,000 Indians in a total pop- ulation of 1,250,000, the remainder of the inhabitants being made up of 100,000 whites ed here every year, while we do not Sell $50,000 worth. If our cotton factors weuld study the market and make the g00ds these people want they could easily get this trade, for our cottons are better than the English. There g practically no tron manufactories in Eeuador, and ail iron work and hardware must be imported. here wre 2 few water mills near Quito hich weave cotten, linen and woolen gocds, and ‘oa silk hat faetory, for the Quito swells all wear plug hais and black kid glov Here at Guayaqu there are a number of which grind up the beans and make them into the cho: late of cummerce. As to lumber, I doubt if thore 1s a modern sawmill or planing estab- lishment in the country. Such boards as 1 have seen made have been sawed out by nd from the logs, one man standing on top of the log and pulling the saw, while another below furnishes the force for the downward strokes. The most of the lum- ber used on the coast and on this river is brought here from Oregon and Puget sound, and it often sells as high as 10 cents a foot. Georgia pine is brought around Cape Horn, a distance, T judge, of about 8,000 miles. All imported lumber bays a duty of about a cent for e eight pounds, and, in addition to this, one of 30 r cent ad valorem. Our chief exports to uador are lumber, lard, kerosene, flour and barbed wire for fencing. The great dis- advantage that the United States has in competing with Europe is In the high freight rates, and in the fact that the Americans do not drum up their trade by means of commercial travelers, as the Europeans do. France or England can send goods to the ports of Ecuador for shillings, or about $6.25 a ton. The freight rate from New York around the Horn is 27% cents a cubic foot, or nearly $12 in gold per ton, while the rates by the Isth- mus of Panama are fully one-third more. ‘The exchange on New York is about 5 per cent higher than on London, so that the American exporter labors under decided disadvantages. When an isthmian canal is built this will be all changed in favor o' the United States, and the trade of this western coast of South America will come to us. FRANK G. CARPENTER. ——— OIL FROM THE SEA. It Is Pumped From the Ocean on the Californin Coast. From the Sclentifle American. ‘The early settlers in California were fa- miliar with indications of the existence of oll which were seen at various points aiong the coast, while asphaltum, which oozed up from beds at the bottom of the sea, formed an important factor in the household economy of the aborigines, and in almost evecy Lurial place on the coast esphaltum is found. The natives on the islands obtained their supply from the water, and at the present day the rocks at various places can be seen splasned with asphaltum which has drifted in. This is particularly noticeable after an east wind, showing that there is a large area in the deep Santa Catalina channel trom which asphaltum oozes up. Oll wells were sunk at Santa Paula some years ago, and, later, an oil-producing belt _was discovered at Puente, and again at Summerland, below Santa Barbara, where a singular state of affairs exists. It soon became apparent at the latter locality that the oil-bearing stratum stretched out into the sea, and drill scaf- folding, looking like windmills without sails, began in a short time to extend down the little canyon and to creep up the shore in the direction of Santa Barbara. At first they kept along the sides of the hills whfth breast the sea there; but gradually they turned seaward until one more ad- venturous than the rest rose from the water. Work was started at an extremely tide, and finally the tall scaffolding peared twenty or thirty feet from shore, there are three borings, which even at low tide are in the water, but at flood tide are completely surrounded, the men working on platforms of various heights, picts they successively ascend as the sea rises. ‘The drills are worked in.the water from an engine on the beach, the fuel the oil pumped up. This is probably the only place where ofl is pumped out of the sea, but undoubtedly the entire coast over- les an oil-produci:g stratum. Off what is known as Mores wharf, half @ mile out, oif rises to the surface in sev- eral places. A spring of fresh water also rushes up there with such velocity that it can be taken up and used if the slightly brackish taste is not objected A_simi- lar spring is known to coast. ; 1 low ap- the and about 300,000 people of mixed races or ! rising from the sea. At present’ ADVERTISED LETTERS. sy maining In the Saturday, April 23, To qbtain any ‘Andrews, Bertha Mrs Armon, A M Mrs Armstrong, Bles:.mM. Atkins, Annie Miss Bagley, M Miss Bailey, Florevee Miss Baker, E Mrs Baker, Edward Mrs Banaby, Alice Mise Banks, Alice Miss Banks, Annie Miss Banks, Fannie Miss Barnard, Mat Barbans, Mary V Mrs Barcley, Mary A Mrs Barnes, HL Mra Barret. Alex® Mrs ‘of these shontd.call for" Adventsed | If not called for within two (2) weeks they will be sent to the Dead Letter #itice: ‘Anderson, Sarah J Mice “Jobnse int fig 30 Atkins, Frank H Mrs J t ti st 1 j 1 Barthelow, Eugenia D Mrs Bartlett, Bertha King Miss Raxten. Lacy Mrs Bell, Edna Mise Bell, Grace Miss. Bellmont, Anna Miss Beilows, Charity Miss B nag, Carl Miss Benry, J A Mrs Bersiow, E- Mice Biggs. Nannie F Birdsel, © W Mrs The following is a lt. of mdvertised letters re- on, (D. C.) Post Office Yetters the applicant Denes Pe LADIES" WsT. Abbott, JS Mrs Jobnson, Lizele Mise (2) Ackiss, Susan Mrs |, Jebason. 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SX Vivian Miss Clayton,” Joseph ider, EJ Mrs Collins," EW Mrs Smith, Gertrade Miss Dixon, Henry ‘Tallett, 0 S Mrs French, Shepard Vernon, Maymie Miss Garnier, Lella A Mrs ket, Abbie Jarod, Henry Clay Jobn: Mrs Dr A Mrs Johnson, Grace Miss Langdon, Lettie Mi ADI Williams, Miss Nelline rion i Miss 1° x STATION D. Seott, Esq Thomas CHRISTIAN EN DEAVOR NOTES Tomorrow evering many of the Chris- tian hold th at which the topi “Habits.” The meeting of Endeavor societies of ir monthly the District consecration meeting, ic for discussion will be the Christian Endeavor Society of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church last Sandi ay evening was im the interest of missions, the topic being “The North American Indians.” of a delegation of The attendance Cherekee Indians, who are in the city before the Dawes commis- sion, was secured, Simon Walking-Stu Duncan, an intel the speakers being Mr. ick and Re’ D. W. Cc. igent and educated na- tive preacher. The first named spoke of “What Christianity Has Dene for the In- dian,” and the Christianity Can I Mr. Stanley Finch, latter spoke of Do for the Indian.’ one of the active “What members of the Unton M. E. Christian En- deavor Society, has been granted an ex- horter's licen: The End in vorers the Methodist Church. of Congress Street Methodist Protestant Church hold regular monthly meetings ables. ‘The Christian Endeavor Socie ton Temple Memorial Presbyteri at the Home for Incur- of Gun- n Church has just elected the following officers for a term of six months: President, Lewis Riggles; vice president, Annie J.’ Clark; secretary, Louise Hosier: treasurer, Sallle Wright. The Endeavorers of Falth Chapel Pr2sby- terian Church are funds for repairs to the chapel. have $125 in hand The ladies’ auxil mortal pastor, Rev. which wa’ Endeavor Society had a succe: . M. E. Church rec J. W: a_very enje zealously at work raising They now for fresco work. iary board of Miles Me- ntly gave choir Harris, a_ reception, yable affair. The church has just of th ouvenir entertainment, which was a The next meeting of the executive com- mittee of the Dis on Monday evening, May 2, at tist Church. The I be jheld alvary Bap- nominating committee, rict Union whose duty it is to select nominees for of- ficers of the union for t September 1, will Wharton, D. D., of Baltimore will a the meeting upon t the part pray2r meeting. Each international that music should have be chos he “Prayer Meetin, in the Christian Endeavor convention has some great theme running through all its meetings and services, and Dr. Ciark predicts that the "96 convention at Nashville, Tenn., July 6-11, will “surpass in spiritual life the others that have It is the year of the quiet hour, and held. this will be itual might the transportation trict, are busily at of the official trip quiet yen hour convention of spir- Messrs. Smith and Everett, committee for the Dis- work on the prospectus for the Djstrict delega- tion, and it is hoped to have it ready for distribution at an A brief stop ove: early date. r in Washington will be made one of the features of the trip of sev- arai of the northern delegations to the Nashville dele; return conven forenoon. District Christian ning to make the crers in Washington as ple: and arrangements are being made sible, tion. The Conneciicut ation will arrive in Washington on the trip on Saturday, neon, remaining in tke cit Other delegations are planning to make brief stops at W: *n route to or from the convention. July 16, about y until Mond:y hington either ‘he Endeavor Union is plan- stay of visiting Endeav- sant aS pos- which will facilitate the sightseeing of the visitors. A r2cept prebably be arranged. ion to the visitors will ay How to Polish a Pipe. From the New Orleans Times-Democrat. He was a man who knew it all, and he bought him a new pipe yesterday. No sooner had he christened it in fire than he gravely took the bowl and rubbed it against either side of his nose. “Why do you do that?” demanded a witness of the performance. “Why, to polish good flavor. I.rubbed the bowl else about a man’ peculiar property pipe’s quality, besi the pipe and give it a There is more oil just where than there is anywhere 's face, and it has the of greatly enhancing a ides making ft shine like Polished glass,” and the well-posted one continued rubbing. *Arry (whose “Old Dutch” has been ping, and has kept able time)—“Wot standin’ abaat ‘ere *Arriet—“T *Arry!”—Phil him waiting a consider- d’yer mean, keepin’ like a bloomin’ fool 5 4 HOTELS. Tus List Appears Every Saturday. HOTEL INFORMATION FREE. For booklets of American, European Hotels, Spring and Summer Resorts, also rates of apartments in Hotels velow, call or address (send stamp) HOTEL TARIFF BUREAU, { 83 Fifth Ave, New York. 96 4, Regest st., London. (248 Rue de Rivoll, Paris. HOTEL POCKET GUIDE FREE. (AP. means American Pian; E.P., European.) ALBA, Y Hotel Kenmore, A.P., $4 do wix Hall, E.P., $1 up; A-P., $3 up ATLANTIC CITY, NJ. Hotel Redolf, A.P., $4 do.(J.H.Barton, prop.) Hotel Dennis, A.P..$3.50 up BALTIMORE, Ma The Carrollton, A.P.. $3 Up do. .Hotel Altamont, E.P., $1 up; A.P., $2.50 ap BOSTON, Mase. Hotel Vendome, A.P., 5 do. Copley Sq. Ht, ¥.P.,$1.B0up; A.P..$3.500p BOURNEMOUTH, Eng. Royal BathHotel, A.P..84to$3, .¥.Hotel St.George, E.P..$1; A.P.$3 CAMBRIDGE SPRGS..Pa.Hotel Rider, AP.,$2 Soup CAYUG. SE.Sheldrake,N.¥.Opens June 20 SINNATI, O...Grand Hotel, E.P., $1; A.P., $8 . Eng LONDON(Westminster)St-Ermin'sHotel. High class Unexcelled for luxury.comfort,cuistne. E.P.,$1 up MEMPHIS, Tenn. jayoso Hotel, A.P., $2.50 to $4 NEW ORLEANS,La.NewSt.CharlesHotel,4.P.$4 up do. ‘Tbe Cosmopolitan Hotel, E.P., $1.50 op Hotel Grunewald, E.P., $1 up 3 . & Sth st.) Brevoort Hse. $1 up. A.P., $3 up. Homelike hotel. Excellent ta. \.B.Barry) The St. Cloud, E.P.. $1.50 luster, A.P.,$3.50 up; E.P..$1.50 up (Sth av.&15th PLYMOUTH, Eng.Grand Hotel,\.P.,$3; E.P..81.50 RICHMOND, ST.GEORGE, Staten Island. TheC ST.LOUIS, Mo. Planter’sHotel, E. do... .Lindell Hotel, E.P., $1 up; A.P., $2.50 up VIRGINIA BEACH. Princess Anne Hotel,A-P.,84 up WASHINGTON, D. C....Ariington Hotel, A.P., $5 do -Hotel Gordon, E.P., A The Raleigh, E.P., $1.50 up 2ithenstt HOWARD HOUSE, Washington, D. C.; $2 and $2.50 Re day; Ameri. can plan; steam beat; central location; mei ae rooms, $5 per week or $20 per month. whl <== ~ POTOMAC RIVER BOAT: E. 8. RANDALL'S POTOMAC RIVER LIS Steamer HARKY WANDALL will leave Rt View wharf Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 am. lunding at Colonial Beach, Chapel Potut aud all wharves as far down as Lower Machodoc. Returning on Mondays and Wednesdays at 9 p.m, and on Fridays about 3:30 p.m. UNITED STATES MAIL ROUTE WASHINGTON. D. C.. TO GLYMONT, MD., e landings. RANDALL, lis Reinening about“ p.m commudations first-class. Freight be hour of saillns E. 8. RAND jeneral Agent, Washington, ent, Alexandri STEAMER “W FOR POTOMAC Ki Leaves Weshington, D. C ‘Gs, ( ty wharf), Mondays. 7 a.ta.. “for intermediate Landi to Colonial Beach, “Bushwood. Rock Point. Nomini 's, Leonardtown, Stone's, Howard's, oe Colcnial Beach, Busbwood, Leonardtown, Abel's, Nomini St. George’ comico rivers. Saturdays, 7 Colonial Beach, Nomini Creek. (See schedule in effcct September 13, 1897.) 1D Genl. Manager. a.m., for intermediate landings to Bushwood, Rock Point, Cvlton’s, in effect Dec. STEAMER POTOMAC Leaves Washington every THURSDAY at 4 p.m. for Baltimore and River Landings. Baltimore freight solicited. All river freight must be prepaid, STEPHENSON & BRO... Agte. Ofvce. 910 Pa. ave. Telephone 745. Ge29-11tf . OCEAN TRAVEL TO ALASKA by new EMPIRE LINE 3,500-ton steame Ohio, Peunsylvania, Tlinois, Indiana, Conemaugh. Steam heat, electrié lights and all modern improve: ments. Seattle to St. Michael. Appointed to sail about June 1 29; July 13, 20, connecting with company’s ‘feet of new YT RIVER STEAAL to DAWS insuring prom) CITY and ous through 5 Washington, p1G-sé-mn 12: Holland-America Line FOR ROTTERDAM AND AMSTERDAM, VIA BOULOGNE-SUR-MER. Mederate prices, great cemfort, superior accom- medat ‘Apply for handbook and terms to gen. puss. agenes, 39 Broadway, New York, or to E. F. DROOP & SUNS, G. ¥ OSs, IS & C DER BRITISH OR Bi ery Wednesday at 12 noon, +-Ape. 27 fay 4 Southwark May 11 Westernland American Line. Philadelphia, Liverpool, via Queenstown, SAILING UNDER THE BE) April 30, 4 p.m May 7, 10 a.m. . lny 14, 4:30 p.m. z 6 BOWLING GREEN. INGTON OFFIGE, 1306 F ST. N.W.. or ~ Moss, Agent. 921 Penna. ave. " mizi-iy ~ ANCHOR LINE Sail from New York every Saturday for Glasgow via Londonderry. Rates for Saloon Passage: CITY _OF ROM $00. Other Steamers, $50. Second ©: » $87.50, $42.50. Steerage, $2 , $24.50, $25.50. For Book of Tours and information apply to HENDFRSON BROTHERS, New ‘York, Or GEO. W_ MOSS, 921 Pa. ave. n.w., or E. F. DROOP & SONS, 925 Pa. ave., Washington, ap8-3,15 North German Lloyd. = FAST EXPRESS SERVICE. PLYMOUTH. LONDON. BREMEN. Trave.Tu., = 23 26, 10 am) K. Friedrich May 24 May 3, 10 am Trave.Tu.,May 31, 10 am Labn..Tu.,May 17, 10 am Kais.W.4.G..Tu..June 7 Kaiser Wim. der Grosse. ‘Tues., May 1 CHERBUURG. PARIS. Havel. Tu. Ma: 5 TW SCREW SOUTHAMPTON. pr. Folda.....May 7, 10 am | Werra. OkLRICHS & Co... 2 BOWLING GIEEN, Apply, to E. F. DROOP. 925 Pa. aye.. de tt - Agent for Washington. FRENCH LINE Compagnie Generale Translantique Dir TO HAVRE — PARIS (FRANCK). Sailing every Saturday at 10 4-M.. a8 follows: From Bier Ra 2 North river. foot ‘May Gi La N 30) La La Bourgogne. La Touraine... ‘3 Bowling G. W. MOSS, £21 Pennsylvania BELL & CO. 1406 G st. : No. 1319 F st. nw. ‘Telephone No. 956. CHARLES S. BUNDY, COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, Of all the States and Territories, @el7-tf Fendall bidg.. cor. 4% and D nw. MEDICAL. Dr. Leatherman. Expert specialist in the cure of all special Gis- eg ys and women. ee ee eveninas, Tio & G02 F'n.w. ‘Closed on Sunday. apis-; UNDERTAKERS Undertaker & Embalmer, S40 F Street Northwest. renmoathie termes Woieshoue call 340." BICYCLES. HARFORD, CUASE AND VIM TIRES—FIRST a ‘VIKING 1819 1th st. aw. the most jatte eptime PENNSYLVANIA KAILROAD. COENER OF SIXTH AND B STR : PITTSBURG &: fans Harrintanng + 4 SYLVAMIA LIMITED. i Sleeping, Dining. “Smoking and Observation . i. Cars Harrisburg to Chicago, Ch A is, Se Leute, Chevelaad’ and . Parlor Car to Tishan 10:50 aM PAST LINE.—Pallman Baffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. to Pittsburg. 3:40 P.M. Citicage AD Sleeping Car “Wasl.ing Sleeping “and Dining Cars Harrisbur Louls, Nashville (via Cincinnati). and 1:2) PAM. WESTERN EXPRESS. Pall Tutet Paclor Car Harrisburg fag Car to Pittsburg, C and Harrisbarg to Cleveland. Dining Cer to Chicago. 7:20 PM. SOUTHW RN EXPRESS. —Poll. an Sleeping Cars Washingion to Pittsburg and Harrisburg (> St. Louis and Cincinnadt. Dining Sar. 10:40 P.M. PACIFIC EXPRESS —Pullman Si ing Car te Pittsburg. wet Canandai i. 10:50 A.M. for Elmira Bal a. Rochester and and ‘Kenovs’ dally, except M. For Williameport daily, 3:40 for Williams falo an Nigarn Fels da i Hy. with Sleeping Cer W 10:40 PM. for rie, Cana fale Niagara Pepi Car Washington to Rochester Saturdays only. FOR PHILADELPHIA. KEW YORK AND Tur 400 PM. “CONG ONAL LIMITED,” datly, all Paclor Cars, wits Dining Car from Baltl- more. 7300 (Di ). 8 10:00 (ising Car) 1 Wilmington) AM ining Cer, » Wiltaington) r fom Baltic For Phitade 2 week days. BE: P.M. week days. 2:01 and 5:40 PM Foc Boston, without change, 7:60 A.M. week Be ed 4 =i ae dally ‘or Baltimore. 6:28, 7200, 7:80, 8:00, 9:00. 10:09, 10:50, 11:00 AM... 12:15, 42-450" 12 20. 8: 3:40 (4:00 Limited). . . 7:20, 1 40. 11:15 and 11:30 PM . 8:00. 9:08, 10:50, Sundays, 9:00 A.M. Express for rida find pont: on Atl Coast’ Line, 430 0M ga Po daily; Ri mond only, 10:37 aM. w han pecias, via Richmond and Seaboard Air Line, PM. daily mmoedation for Quantico, S AM. daily and 4:25 PM. week day SEASHORE CONNECTIONS. For Atlantic City (via De » 8:15 and 1 t, Street Whi .. Week days, ‘an For Cape May, 11:00 i Ticket offices, vure River Bridge, all- » PM. daily; via Mar- , 10200 and 11:00 AM. 12:45 11st M. daily. M. week days, 11:50 P.M. corner Fifteenth and G street and at the station, Sixth and B streets, where o can be Icft for the checking of baggage to destiniticn fiom hotels and residences, 4. B. HUTCHINSON, 3. R. WOOD, General Manager. "General Passenger Agent. —_ CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY, THROUGH THE GRANDEST SCENEKY OF AMERICA. ALL “TRAINS VESTIBULED, ELECTRIC = LigitT? STEAM HEATED ALL MEALS SERV In CALS. STATION, SIXTH AN, STL in effect April 1 NING S. 2:20 PM. DAILY—Cineinnatt ¢ial—Solid’ train for Cincinnatt, to Ciucinnat!, Lexington, Louise and St. Louls without change. at 4 ington, Va.. for Virginia Hot Springs daily. Parlor ‘Cars inst to Chicago DAILY-F. Y. V. Limttea—Solid trata ti Pallan Sleepers. to Cincinnati, Lexington and Louisville without pen for reception of passengers et & p.m. Palinan Com partment Ca: to Vicginia Hot change, daily except Sunday. Sleepers cinnati to Chicago s 22 P. DAILY—Por Gordonsville, € Sille. Staunton, and for itichmond dally, Sundag. 10:57 A.M.—Datly ington to. Richn Arrive Rich ) pan. Transfer at Rictinend Reservation and tickets at Chesapeake and Ohio offices. B13 and 1421 Pennsylvania the \. HW. ay WASHINGTON, AT NOX FROM STATIO IN El RAILWAY. SIRERT AND PA. AVE. 2:05, 2:40 8:20, 4:15, 5:20, @ 6, Arlington and | Aqueduct Brides. 8:45. 11:18 A.M. 5 12:00 30, , 4:80, 5:15, 6:00, 6: 8:15 FM. sea cels apis SOUTHERN KAiLWaY. Schedule in effect April 10, T8BS. All treins arrive and leave at Pepasylvania pas- senger station. 8:01 A.M.—Dafly.—Lecal for Danville, Charlotte and way stations. Connects at Manassas for stras- ture, iso Staunton, daily execpt Sunday, rg with the Norfolk and Western dni 11215 A.M—Dafly.—THR UNITED STATY FAST MAIL. Carries Pullman Buffet Sleepe: New York and Washington to Jacksonvili ing at Leeper for J ville and F i Knoxville au tanooga, Tenn., and at tte with Patinan Sleeper” for Augusta iffet Sleeper New York to Ne ing wt Atl ects at Ly Lexington « this tain every W. Francisco without chang 201 P.M. —Local for 1 Harrisonburg, daily, except Sunday. 9 PM. —Daily. Local for M. Dalis VESTIBUL Strasburg and AND com: LED LIMITED, iman Vestibuled Sleepers, Dining Cars posed of and Daj N oaches. pers New York te Te: Ki K He and per frown Ric via Columbia, with connection for Atkes York to Memphis. via Birmingham, Ne » New Orl via Atl and § Vestibuled Das ch Washington to Atlant Scuthern Raliway Dining Car Greensboro’ to Mo gomery. TRAINS ON WASHINGTON AND OHIO DIVI- SION leave Washington 9:01 a.m. daily, 4:43 pn. Gaily except Sunday, 2nd 6:10 p.m. Sundays only for Round Hill; 4:32 p.m. dafly, except Sanday, for Leesburg, and pm. daily for Herndon. Returning, arrive at Washington 8.26 am. nnd 8:00 p.m. dally from Hill, 7:66 a.m. daily except Sunday, don, 8:34 a.m. dally, ©: cept Sunday, fro rough train ington, 6:42 Tickets, Sleeping Car reservation and informa- tion furnished at offices, 705 15th st. n.w., S11 Pennsylvania avenue, end at Pennsylvania railroad ssenger stat ES. GANNON, 24 Vice Prest. & Gen, 3. M. CULP, Trafic Manager. W. A. TURK. Gen. Pass. Agent. L. S. BROWN. Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Schedule in t November 14, 1897. Leave Washi Mgr. ton from station corner of New jersey ave, and C st For Chicago and Norttwest, Vestibuled Limited trains, 11:05, 11:25 a.m., 8:05 p.m. For ‘Cincinnatl, St. Touts an@ Indianapolis, Ex- 11:25 a.m. Vestiboled Limited, $:40 p.m. Expres, 11:55 pin. Tor Pittsburg. aod Cleveland, Express daily, 11:05 aan. und 8:50 p.m. For Columbus, Toledo and Detroft, 11:55 p.m. For Win-hester and way stations, *$:00 a.1a., 42:40 and 15:30 p.m. For New Orleans, Memphis, Birminglam, Chat Roanoke, > Bn Harr eyabyyt zee Junction and way points, gghingt untion and ay points sive LINE FOR NEW YORK pepe oy RADE : Poe Philadelphia, New York, Boston and the East, week days, 77 1 2.m., 12:05, 1:15" (all Dining’ Cars), (5:05 Dining Cary 12:01 night (Sleeping C: pen at 10 o'clo 5 "7:05, 9:00 a.m. ( Dining Car), 8:00 ays Car), 12:01 night, car 0 — ‘Additional train for Phila 300 oo ea * Farley Sary onal 487,270 0 os noon eat faye. and'3.00 pm, week days. D a'm. Sundays: | > BB Fy & For Cape May, 12:95 noov. tExcept Sunday. xEx] trains. Baggage called for and from botels and residences by Union Transfer Co. on orders left at ticket offices, 619 Pennsylvania ave. n.w., New York ave. aud 15th st., omg 0 .