Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1898, Page 13

— THE EVENING STAR. ge PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, BS Pennszivaais Avsaux, Gor 11th $3, by he Evening Star Newspaper Compan: 8. H. SAUFFMANN, preven? New York Ofice, 49 Potter Building The Evening Star ts served to subscribers tn the eity by carriers, on their oxn a-count, at 10 cents Ber week. o- 44 cects per monts. Copies at the geunter 2 cents each. By mall—anywhere in the United States or Canada—postage prepald—50 cents per menth. Saturday Qcintunle Sheet Star, $1 per year, with foreign postage added, $3.08. (Entered at the Post Omtice at Washington, D. C., as second-cla.s mall matter.) £7 All mail mbacriptions muat be pail In advance. Rates of advertising made Known on application. —_—_—_—. WASHINGTON, D. ©. SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1898-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. ‘A GROUP OF OFFICERS OF THE DISTRICT REGIMENT. ! SEVENTH ANNUAL BANQUET | Dalvary Baptist Sunday School Entertains | Its Friends at Stated Function. Responses to Tonsis by Selected Speakers—Dr. Hoyt's Address Touches Upon Pending War. The officers and teachers of the Cal Baptist Sunday school. their pastor, th Rev. Dr. Greene, and their frfends lust evening sat down to the seventh annual! | banquet of the school. The tables, prettily were decorated with plants and flower in one of the many commodious rooms of | the church and there were few vacant | chairs A pleasant half hour was spent in ts, and at the banquet, yd things had beeit discu: H. Bristow, the superintende the school, assumed the duties of t master, introducing those selected spond in a very pleasing and h: ner. receiving the gue after the & P a Mr. to to which Mr. W. 8S. Shallenberger res ed. He asserted at the et that coming nation of Americans will hi respect for the teachers and _ preacher! ‘The nation really had its birth about thirty five years ago. when at the close of the civil war the unity of the states was fol ever sealed. Mr. Shallenberger referred to the Washington city of thirty | . remarking that few seeing it | the first time could » the great | anges which have occurred her | then. He spoke of the change | which close of the w only s > the | id the world is not ivancing, but that it is grow- As much will be done in the thirty-five years, he believed, one in the past thirty-five fore that time, he predicte and : | 5 $ will be one of the ver | est naval powers in the world, if n | greatest, with a commerce without an | equal. Reference to the President. Mr. Shallenberger referred to President Kinley as one he has known well for Many years, a man who will leave the | Ww fter one of the most pros- | perous successful administrations in | and with the respect of the “Avenues That Lead to a Bi the next toast, and M ing ignorance as & to the hearts of boys having explained amid at she 1 experi t curiosi ot music. boys. to a boy te But the sweetest, ar fence re the nearest and | arest road to a boy's heart, declared | He is through the love of his Mother. Invoke that and give hi world of sympathy, and use just a little tact, and the quickest road to a boy's heart is taken. Character Shaping. The pastor of the church, Dr. Greene, ri sponded to the next toast, “Charact Shaping and Character Showing.” He a clared that character is the sum of those qualities which distinguish men from one | another. He gave the teachers and o of the school excellent advice, im- pressing upon them that truth and char- acter will do more than all else in their! work. Miss Hetty ers. N. T responde Dr. Hoyt Dise: ~ Dr. asses Stepping Upward. v t of Philadel- caker of the evening, toast, “Stepping Up Dr. Hoyt held t auditors. He referred hering as an unique one, and as putting him ir the position of carrying coals to Neweastle in suggesting to him © might advise the officers and teach- of the vi as to now best to suceed their wo: N school, he declared, holds a exaited position than does that of Cavalry Baptist Church, and it is Eiving, it is thought, a grand ideal of step- ping upward. To step upward, he ex- God bless him, was due to lofty ‘thoughts, Lofty thoughts result in lofty teaching. ‘The marvelous victory of Admiral Dewey. God bless him, was due to leftyathought Just as much 4s the defeat of the Spanish admiral was the result of low thinking. In this connection, Dr. Hoyt referred to the criticisms which are being made upon the conduct of the war. It does not re- quire brains to criticise, he said, but it does require brains to prepare the army and navy for victories, to enable the navy to bottle up Cervera and keep him bottled up, ami it is tne lack of education on the! ts; the an h on of b | two in one Sunday is in } mitral, part of Spain which defeated its fleet at fanila and will defeat that country of ignorance and bigotry as she never been defeated before. Dr. Hoyt re- ferred to the public school system of America, remarking that no function is loftier or nobler than that of the teachers of the public schools of this country. The Public Schools. Our public schvols, he said. are great melting pots, in which the children of the foreign elements are taught true American- ism and made respected citizens of the greatcst and most advanced nation on earth. The public schools teach general intelligence and make intelligent citizens, but, declared Dr. Hoyt, the public schools are being attacked. Yet, he asserted, the American people will see that not one cent is ever spent by the government for sec- tarian schools. as are our public schools, the ools of America, said the speak- least—teach the children one truth e¢ Sunday, instead of attempting to them half a hundred at one time. truth taught the children each Sunday,” said Dr. Hoyt, “is fifty-two truths learned in a year, while the attempt to teach fifty- all probability not one truth learned in a year.” —— TO PROTECT THE MINES. Draft of 2 Bill Sent to Congress by the Secretary of War. The Secretary of War has sent to the Senate a letter transmitting the draft of a bill to protect explosive mings in the wa- ters of the United States. Thg bill provides that “whenever war exists or is imminent by or against the United States, and mines, torpedoes and other like instruments of war shall be placed in the harbors, road- ways or other waters of the United States, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to make and publish regulations for the conduct of vessels and persons on vessels | with regard to the safety of said instru- ments, vessels and persons.” It is made the Secretary’s duty to pub- s regulations in the principal news- and it is made a misdemeanor to them. The penalty for violation is » of not less than $100 nor more than $2,000, and in the case of masters the for- fei of their licens Authority is given to commanders of ves- !s of the government engaged in patrol- ling the waters affected to detain any ves- sel upon suspicion for not more compel submission. It is made the duty of the Secretary of State to give wide pub- licity to the regulations in foreign ports, and a certificate of any United States con- sul that he has furnished a copy of the regulations to the master of a vessel pre- vious to its entering American waters is made admissible as evidence against the vessel in case of a trial for violation of | the regulations. Secretary Alger, in his letter of trans- Say: “The need of affording pro- n to the mines has become highly im- nt in connection with our defensive works, and, being informed by the Attor- ney General that no authority of. law is found under which the department can ade- quaiely regulate the matter, I earnestly recommend and urge the immediate favor- able consideration of the bill herewith pre- sented.” tecti port o—-—___ CERVERA NOT AT SANTIAGO. London Telegraph Correspondent Got His News From Scout Boat. LONDON, May 28.—The Daily Telegraph correspondent with Schley’s fleet tele- graphs from Kingston as follows: ‘Tuesday evening the Cuban insurgents sent a boat with positive information that the Spanish fleet was not in Cienfuegos harbor, and just after sunset Commodore |Schley’s squadron sailed away southeast, bound for Santiago de Cuba. We followed in the Premier, and, despite a heavy gale from the southeast, kept in touch with the squadron until 4 o'clock Wednesday. A se- vere rain squall then hit the vessels and when it cleared we found they had altered their course and disappeared. We stood along toward Santiago, but as the gale in- creased in severity and our supply of coal and water was dangerously low, the Pre- mier was obliged to run to Kingston, where she arrived on Friday at 6 o'clock. “After losing touch of the fleet we sight- ed the United States gunboat Hawk, re- turning to Cienfuegos from Santiago de Cuba, with the news that the Spanish fleet under Cervera was not at Santiago. I am afraid there is little chance of meeting the Spanish fleet. $ he probabilities are that Cervera, after ‘harging ammunition and supplies for Bianco at Santiago, put out again, ran down the Caribbean to Martinique and got out into the Atlantic by the same way he entered. In this way, it appears, the Span- ish ficet has completely outmaneuvered the American commanders and has succeeded in concealing its movements, though the Americans have some seventy war vessels patrolling the West Indian waters. It is reported that severe fighting took ‘between the insurgents and Cienfuegos on Sunday, fards lost 300 killed and Seeretary Day Gees Hame. Secretary Day of the State Department has gone to his home at Canton, Ohio, to spend a few days with his invalid wife. than | twelve hours and to use force and arms to} WITH RARE ELOQUENCE Stirring Address of Mr. McKinley Twelve Years Ago. Decoration Day Exercises at Cuya- hogan lls, Ohio, Recalled by an Old Correspondent. “In the country villages of Ohio Memorial day, or Decoration day, as almost every one calls it, is the biggest day of the year,” said an old newspaper correspondent yes- terday fonths in advance, sometimes a year, promises are exacted from leading speakers, who are usually referred to by the rural folk as ‘big guns.’ “It is not an uncommn thing for the governor of the state to make a Decoration day address in some town of a few hundred inhabitants. The towns that are so for- tunate as to get a senator or a representa- tive to address their people naturally look down with haughty disdain on sister towns that are compelled to put up with a judge, editor, lawyer or the village preacher. “The summer of 1886 found Major Wil- liam McKinley ‘back at his hgme in Ohio from Washington looking after his interests for a return to Congress. To use an ex- Pression now common, and which originated witn the recently retired premier of the present administration, John Sherman, he was ‘fixing up his fences.’ A democratic legislature had redistricted (gerrymandered is the Ohio name for it) the state and Sum- mit county had been added in place of a county which had been set off for another distric “The same summer found me press agent for a tented exhibition. I made it a point to be at least three weeks ahead of the show, and now and then during the.sea- son, when I could gain a day or two, I would take a jump back for a day with the show and a conference with the manager. 1 always looked forward to such visits with great pleasure. But to the point of this story: “Kecalling that the show was bilied for Cuyahoga Falls cn Decoration day, I de- ided to join the show there, and ‘at the ame time pay a brief visit to my home, which was in an adjoining district. Soon after my arrival in Cuyahoga Falls a pro- cession of old soldiers and citizens, head- ed by the village brass band, passed the hotel where f was sitting on ‘the veranda and marched over toward the depot. In a little while back came the proces- sion, and at its head, with a reception ommittee, I recognized the face of Major feKinley. He shook my hand cordially and wanied to know what I was doing 1 should say right here that I had met the major a number of times before in conventions and conferences of re- publicans, particularly during one year when a near relative of mine was chair- man of the reptblican state committee in Ohio and 1 was his private secretary. The reception committee just then engrossed the major’s attention, and he did not catch my answer to his question. “Cuyahoga Falls is the second town of importance in Summit county. Akron, the county seat, a hustling city, is only a’ few miles distant. The major had come over from Canton to meet his constituents and to address them. In order that he might get good train connections home it was arranged that the exercises should be held at 12:30 p.m. This made an early lunch- eon necessary. We sat at the same table and discussed the political situation, he asking many questions regarding sections of the state and other states through which hes recently traveled. “I told the major that I did not w: the show to conflict with the cxerciaearat the cemetery or with his address, and vol- unteered the services of the band to join the procession to the cemetery. This seem- ¢d to please him very much. I also caused the p2rformance to be delayed an hour, und, with the manager of the show, whom I introduced to the major, joined’in the procession. “The line of march, as I remember it, was up a rather sharp incline, and through a large vacant lot to the cemetery. A rough platform had been improvised, and from this Major McKinley made one of the strongest speeches I ever listened to. I had heard him a number of times before and I have heard him many times since, naving reported many of hi& speeches, but never did one of his speeches have more of the true ring of patriotism. “The audience was not one that would tend to inspirit, scarcely a thousand per- sons being present, but it was the beauti- ful ceremony of decking with flowers and firing a volley over the grave of each dead soldier that aroused him to such eloquence and oratory. I have often wished that I had taken his words down. “Well, to make a long story short, the delaying of the performance and the ap- pearance of the show people at the exer- cises was an advertisement, and the can- vas was packed both afternoon ant? even- ing. Several times since, when we have met, Major McKinley has recalled that REAL ESTATE GOSSIP ay Recent Transactions in Business and in Resident Property. SOME INDICATION OF CURRENT PRICES Party Wall Regulation as Appiied Outside the Old Urban Limits. ERECTION OF BUILDINGS During the past week several sales of Property were made or announced which, on account of the price paid or the loca- ticn of the property, were of more than crdinary interest. As an indication of the current valte of real estate these trans- actions are of some imporiance, for while some of the properties were offered at auction, others were disposed of at private sale. , In the business section of the city there were two prceperties so]@;. One was the one-story brick building. 6, the north side of G street between 14th And 15th streets, having a frontage of 28 feet 4 inches, with an average depth of 96 féet, and containing 744 square feet. ‘The highest bid obtain- ed for the property, which was offered at auction, and at which it was knocked down, was a trifle over $10 per square foot. The acquisition of a large building site adjoining the property of the Havenner Baking Company, on © street between 4% and 6th streets northwest, in order that the pant may be enlarged, involved a transfer of property in a section, ef the city where transactions have not. béen common of late years. The, price ehich prevailed in this particular instance, will perhaps give some idea of the tendenay of vaiues in that section. A frontage of 160 feet was secured, and the consideration given at Private sale was $35,000, wich was at the rate of about $1.80 per squate foot. Resident Sectidi, Valuen. Quite a good-sized piccefof land on the south side of L street .petween 13th and 1ith streets northwest’, .was,sold at pri- vate sale. It has a fromtage of some 88 feet, and contains 13,508.6quare feet. At the price given, which..was $40,000, the rete per foct was 3. — “A triangular lot at the nertheast cor- rer of Rhode Island avenye and M street was sold during the week’ at private sale. it has a frontage of 108 | on the ave- nue-and ninety-three feet qn Mf street, and contains “1,068 square feet. The price .is stated to be $10,000, which at the rate of-@ Jittle.more than $5 per, square foot. The purchaser was Mr. John R. Dos Pas- ses. An’L Street Imprpvement. Plans are being prepare by Mr. James G. ‘Hill, architect, for’ a: Japge building, which wilt be used as @ hotel or boarding house, and which Mr-Wathintel MeKay in- tends tocerect on the property on the scuth si@e of L stteet, between 18th and 14thi streets. The house wh jow stands there, and which is kgown' a8 the Hosmer House, js to be torm’down, and on the ground, which has a frontige of some 83 feet, a structure is to be erected five sto- ries in. héight. i Party Walls in the Suburbs. An important action was taken recently by the Commissioners’ whén they directed the building inspector to issue permits for buildings outside of the old limits of the city with the right to the party wall priv- ilege. It seems that it has been the cus- tom of the building department, acting, of course, under the prevailing interpretation of the law, to refuse the party wall priv- flege to builders contemplating the erec- tion of structures in what is known, for the want of a better term, the suburbs of the city, meaning, of course, the territory out- side of the old urban Iimits. Recently, haw- ever, in fact,on the 19th day of last March, Judge Cole, sitting in-Circult Court No. 1, rendered a decision in a sult/brought by G. L. Wilkinson against Messrs. Barr and Sanner to compel them to pay him one-half the cost of the east party wall of his house on Howard street, they having used such wall in building on the adjoining lot. ‘The defendants refused to pay Mr. Wilkinson, alleging that the building ‘regulations did not apply to party walls outside the orig- inal city limits, and that they, therefore, had the right to use his’ wall without eon- tributing their share of its cost. Judge Cole's Decision. Judge Cole held in his decision, that the building regulations plainly and positively stated that they were for the District of Columbia, and that the only question was whether the District Commissioners had the authority to regulate party walls with in the District. The regulation of party walls by statutes had peew the rule from almost time immemorial, the judge said, and if the regulation of’ party walls was properly a building regulation, then Con- gress hud authorized the Commissioners to make such a regulation where, by its act of June 14, 1878, it had directed them to make building regulations for the District of Columbia. The judge held that the regutation of party walls was: within the authority of the act of Congress, and, being a reasona- ble regulation, was therefore valid. Mr. Thomas’ Conclusion. It was only recently that an application was made to the building inspector for a permit of this character, and he deciined to grant the application until he had s2cured tegal advice. The question was referred to Mr. S. T. Thomas, the attorney for the Commissioners. In an opinion dated the 1ith instant Mr. Thomas discussed the question of the right of locating party walls in suburban subdivisions. H2 said, in part: “On or ebout June 29, 1791, the original proprietors of the greater part of the lands which now constitute the city of Washing- ton, east of Rock creek, conveyed them in trust, by deeds duly executed, to Comm sioners Thomas Beall of Georgetown and John M. Gantt, for certain purposes and upon certain conditions; among others that the property conveyed should be subject to such terms and conditions as snall b> thought reasonable by the president for the time being, for regulating the materials ard menner of building and improvements on the lots, generally in the said city, or in particular str>ets or parts thereof, tor com mon convenience and safety, ete. “Under the above provision and an act of the legislature of Maryland the dent of the United States, Gen. Gco. Washington, on October 17, 1791, established certain rules and regulations for the materials and menner of the buildings and improvements in the city of Washington.” To Create an Easement. The opinion then quotes in full the build- ing regulation providing for party walls, and proceeds: “The courts have held that the effect of tlis regulation, which is the basis of our Present regulation on the subject, was to create an easement running with the land, and ts a condition annexed to the title of every building lot in the city of Washing- ten. have always been of the opinion, and have so advised, that our building reguia- tions in regard to party walls did not ex- tend’ beyond the limits of the city of Washington, -but Mr. Justice Cole of the Supreme Court of the District, in Wilkin- son vs. Barr & Sanner, which was an action to recover compensation for the use of a party wall in the Columbia Heights sub- division, held in an. oral opinion, on a de- murfer that the party wall regulation being a building regulation, and the Com- missioners being authorized by the act of Congress of 1878 to make and enforce building regulations in the District of Co- lumbia, and having adopted the old party wall regulation as one of their building regulations, and extended it to the entire District, that the wall in question was a party wall, and that the plaintéffs were entitled to recover for the use of it by the deferdants. “While the judgment of Judge Cole in the case of Wilkinson vs. Barr & San- ner is only a nisi prius decision, and is not binding as an authority, yet being the de- cision of a learned and careful judge, made after an examination of the subject, it should be followed until it is overruled. My opinion is that the inspector of build- ings should be instructed to locate party walls in suburban subdivisions in the Dis- trict of Columbia.” Addition to the Post Building. An add.cion is to be made to the building of the Washington Post from plans pre- pared by Mr. Appleton P. Clark, archi- tect. The new part will be built on the rear of the agjoining lot én the east. It ‘will provide additional space for the press rcom, the composing room and for the city “Gepartment, while in the basement will be located the electric lighting machinery. The biiilding is to be of fire-proof construc- tion, the walls being of steel pillars filled in with brick. Some New Buildings. A brick and frame house is to be erected by J. H. Carnes on Grant road. It will be two stories in height, and the mansard roof will be covered with shingies. A house is to be built by Louis 8. Shreves at €28 S street northwest. It will be two stories In height, 14 by 32 feet, and ‘the front will be built of pressed brick, and there will be a full bay window. A store and dwelling is to be built by C. BE. Burns at 421 East Capitol street. It will be two stories in height, 18 by 62 feet, and there will be full bay windows and two large show windows. George F. Brown will erect two houses at 645 and 647 R street northwest. They. will be two stories high, 18 by 26 feet, and the fronts will be built of pressed briek, with full bay window ——— To Command in the Philippines. Three of the brigadier generals appointed by the President yesterday have been se- lected for duty with the Philippines ex- pedition, viz.: George A. Garretson of Cleveland, Ohio; Francis V. Greene of New York and Charles King of Wisconsin. Gen. King is the well-known novelist and an ex- officer of the United States army. It is understood that Harrison Gray Otis, editor of the Los Angeles Times, who served with the President in the 23d Ohio during the civil war, and who was yesterday nomi- nated to be brigadier general, will also go to the Philippines. Early next weck an- other list of brigadier generals will be sent to the Senate. The list will contain proba- bly from eight to twelve names. All of the officers nominated for brigadier gen- erals on the list will be from the south- ern states. —_—_—-e+___ Canvas Uniforms for 50,000. ‘The quartermaster’s department has con- tracted for 50,000 canvas suits, designed especially for the use of troops in tropical countries, and“ they are being shipped rap- | described for the flag, except on a ecale of idly to the mobilizing points. PRESIDENTS FLAG Old Glory Supported by Standards of | the Army and Navy. - THE NEW. ARMY DESIGN eg A Description of the Flag and; What the Details Represent. GNIFICANT NUMBER 13 | + ot THE Written for The Evening Star. The large and beautiful working model of the President's standard naving been sub- mitted to the officers who hay> had the rratter in charge, and having beer approv- ed by them, has been reiurned to the party in Philadelphia who received from th> quartermaster gencral co manu- | facture. The navy for some y a known as the “Pre “ nis em- biem an no sense supersedes the na President's Standard. flag, but supplements it the same as the admiral’s and oth2r pennants are flown | when the officer of the rank it symbolizes is on board. It has always been customary when the Fresident goes aboard a Un:ted States ship of war to give him the presidential salute us an act of fermai courtesy. 1t is now also an official form to fiy th: President's flag while he remains on board. Until now there has been no President's standard or colors for the army, of which he is also constitutional commander-in- chief, or to be flown over the Executive Mansion, his official residence when at the capital, in addition to the national colors. Not an Innovation. The adoption of a standard cmblematic of the sovereign executive of the nation cannot be regarded as an innovation nor an imitation of a ceremonial display of roy- alty. It was customary during the war of the reb2ilion for the states, particularly Pennsylvania, to supply every regiment of volunteers with the state standard in addi- tion to the national colors. It is customary in the army for each staff branch of the service to have its designating embiems, as tne castle of the engine: the crossed cannon of the ordnance, and so on. These flags are no encroachment upon th> pre-eminence of “the stars and stripes,” which represent the nation in its autono- mous character among ihe nations of the earth and in suprem2 authority at home. General orders No. rch 28, i888, of Maj. Gen. Miies, made the addition of a Paragraph, 212A, to the army reguiations. This describes in official detail the Presi- dent's flag, to be used when the President is present on official visits te fortresses, | military forts or posts, or at reviews or in the field. Description of the President's Flag. The flag is of scarlet bunting, thirteen feet fly and eight feet hoist. In each corner is a five-pointed white star of five-inch radius to the tips. In the center of the scarlet field is a large fifth star, also of five points, two feet nine inches radius to the ups Inside of this star is a parallel star, separated from it by a band of white, three inches wide. The inner star forms a blue field, upon which is the official coat-of-arms of the United States, of the Department of State design. On the scarlet field around the large star are other white stars, one for each state, equally scattered in the re-entering angles, and ail included within the circumfer of a circle three feet three inches radius. In the upper point, over the eagle, is a constellation of thirteen stars, representing the original states of the American con- federation. The President's Colors, The colors for the President are of scarlet silk, six feet six inches fly and four feet on the pike, which shall be ten feet long, in- cluding the ferrule and head, the latter to consist of a globe three inches in diameter, surmounted by an American eagle alert, four inches high. The details of the colors are the same as one-half the size. The design, letters, fig-| | and declared | events, Advertising is not an expense, It is a business investment. If you want to invest your money profitably you will therefore put your advertisements in such a paper as The Evening Star, that is read regularly and thoroughly by everybody worth reaching. The Star is the recognized household and family journal of the National Capital, and has no rival &s an advertising med- ium. ures and stars on the colors are embrotd- ered in silk the same on both sides of the colors. The edges ot the colors are trimmed with knottel fringe of silver and gold three inches wide and one cord (having tassels) eight feet six inches long, made of red, white and blue silk intermixed, The Naval F dent's flag for the navy consists of a blue field with the official arms of the United Stat as determined by the Depart- ment of State, with the legend and a semi- circle of thirteen stars extending above the eagle, three on either side, projecting bee yond the tips of the outspread wings. Designing the Flag. The evolution of the President's standar& has been a work of months of study and dse sign. A number of tentative drawings were The Pres made, giving various combinations of the national colors and emblematical figures, but were rejected for various satisfactory reasons. That which appears in The Star ts the first_and only absclutely correct view of the Pri nt's standard officially approved part of army Which has yet been published The designing has been under the diate direction and ervision of Gen. and Col. Bingham. The draw i Inspection and the dest: finally her with the manu turer’ e m by F Dd. O on heraldic signif Jesign is thus explained regulations imme- Adit e of the The thirteen-foot fly corresponds with the number of the states. The thir- teen stars in constellation grouped as br through clouds, represent na- tional emergence from war into the pro- gress of peace. There are thirteen growths (olive branch) of green leaves; — thirte fruits in the eagle's left and thirteen a rows in eagle's right talon The forty white stars (one for ¢ state) surrounding and protecting the tral (executive) star indicates might, right, j union, and together form a new stellation in the firmament of nati color searlet indi valor sand h; white, purity and principle: b or the inspire inciples of gov- ernment in which the Constitution was framed and under which administration has been conducted. It is a singular coincidence that the offi- cial legend of the seal of the United States, “E pluribus unum,” contains thirteen let- ters, and that general order of the army iving the standard its official status is numbered 13. It ntight be added that the superstitious with reference to the evil omen of 13, in the light of past national can find no cause for foreboding over ‘this distinctively historical lucky number of the United States of America. RANDOLPH KEIM. ——__+ —— PENSION BILLS. on Sergeant-at-Arms Engaged im Bringing in Members. The House was inactive for more than an hour yesterday afternoon, while a roll cail was taken and the sergeant-at-arms was engaged in bringing in absent members to make a quorum, the absence of which was disclosed by the roll call. The suspension was caused by a wrangle growing out of Mr. Tongue’s (Ore.) attempt to deliver a general pension speech, when the House was considering a private pension measure, Mr. Daizell of Pennsylvania in the chair. Mr. Richardgon (Tenn.) made the point of order that the speech of Mr. Tongue was not_germane to the pending pill, Mr. Can- non (HL) took issue with the Tennessee member. The Speaker sustained the point of order, and Cannon appealed from the decision. Upon the motion of Mr. Richardson to table the appeal vighty-sev- en voted in the affirmative and eleven in the negative. Mr. Cannon made the point of no quorum, and a call of the House fol- lowed. It was more than an hour before the requisite quorum appeared. The appeal was then laid upon the table—yeas, 134; nays, ®—and consideration of private bills proceeded. At the night session the House passed 28 pension bills and in committee of the whole considered a large number of re- lef and private pension measures. Among the bills passed was one granting pension of $25 per month to General Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky, and another giving pension of $30 to the widow of Brigadier General Daniel Macauley. Colored Troops Eligible. A question arose today as to whether colored officers as well as colored troops wouid be taken as part of the organizations offered under the call for 75,000 volunteers. Gen. Alger at once decided that if a col- ored company had efficient colored officers they were as much entitled to recognition and acct>tance in the military service as were ihe troops themselves. He made this The known in a dispatch to the governor of Indiana, who had asked for information, and he stated the same thing to Re] tative Hall of Iowa, who has an o} tion of colored men with colored officers in his district. In this connection it de- veloped that colored men are being con- sidered for some of the staff appointments, and the surgeon general of the army has accepted a colored man as surgeon, with the rank of captain. The colored surgeon will be sned to a colored regiment, and colored troops and colored officers wili be kept together as far as possi! — 9 Mr. Pettigrew’s Amendments. Senator Pettigrew gave notice yesterday of two amendments he will offer to the war revenue bill. One of them provides for the abrogation of the Hawaiian reci- procity treaty and the other for a tax of 5 per cent upon all articles manufactured by trusts. ganiza- Pheer “UNIDIEIRS EILLING.” Bebop ebepabe stelberg’s new Address is 935 Pa. Ave. That always has been our watchword, and selling sterling silver at 85 CENTS AN OUNCE—engraving free—is ample proof that the asser- tion that we undersell every jeweler in Washington by 20% is well car- ried out, mot only on sterling silver things, but on DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE AND CLOCKS as well. We want to call especial attention to our OPTICAL DEPARTMENT, second to none in the United States, thoroughly equipped with all the new- est and most improved appliances, including the Electric Ophthalmometer, and in charge of our eminent specialist, Dr. F. Prcctor Donahey. Un- excelled service is guaranteed. We’re in our new store and CREDIT, at 20 per cent less than cash prices, is going to make it a landmark of Washington. Credit is free to ae honest man and woman. Payments, a little down, a little each week. EEEEEEEREREEEEEEEEEEEEPEPERTT The Bargain Giver, Balt. Store, 108 N. Eutaw St.