Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1898, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1898-24 PAGES. SS A a eee ee pee THE AMERICAN LEGATION. IN LIMA’S BIG MARKET Some of the Queer Dishes Which the Peruvians Enjoy. HOW THE AMERICAN MINISTER LIVES A Country Where Housekeeping is a Real Delight. — CHANCES FOR CAPITAL Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. (Copyrighted, 1898, by Frank G. Carpenter.) LIMA, Peru, May 2, 1898. HE AMERICAN minister and myself spent this morning in the markets of Lima. We met at the mar- ket house at 7 a.m. and ate our diceuno at a little restaurant just off the main aisle. Diceuno is what the Peruvians call their first meal. It is taken on rising and consists of two Uttle pieces of toast and a cup of coffee or tea. The real break- fast 1s not taken until 11 or 12 o'clock, and inner dées not come until 6 or 7 in the evening. The minister and myself are af- flicted with good American appetites and we pieced out the meal with two bunches of white grapes, each of which was as big as your head, the grapes themselves being jarge as damson plums. Our meal was & most democratic one. The table was large, and we had hardly before an Indian woman with a broad- brimmed Panama hat ov coming well down r her bronzed features sat down oppo- and ordered an ice bs was served in a champagne glass. Then a pock-marked Peruvian of the lower cl. took a seat at the table for his chocolate, and just as we were about to leave a f. old negress wearing a black manta or shawl | which covered the e upper part | site us, of her body, and a 1 excepting | her face, slid down into a chair beside me. | While we were eating we were besieged by | Is dlers of vari k red us lottery ti from women whe ets to men who had for sale waxen images of the Virgin Mary | § @ressed in the latest modern styles. Ail about us were the queer rs which | make up the lower classes of the Peruvian capital. There were cooks by the h dreds buying their marketing for the Some were Chinese, some negroes many were Peruvians with the skins which show that they are a product of the native Indians and the Spanish. There were scores ef women dress in black, with only their faces showing out | of their black shawls. There were y | market women in calico dresses w: straw hats, and not a few queer people from the mountains who looked about with eyes of wonder at their first sight of the great city. The crowd numbered thou- sands, and {t was the busiest crowd I have seen in Peru. A Land of Fat Things. Peru {s a land of fat things. There are really so many wonderful products here that I hesitate to describe them for fear I may not be bi ved. What would and you think of string beans as long as your arm. We saw of them at the vegetable ‘They were tied up in bunches and e Saw pe oes as > the papas amartl- ar> a bright yello’ Saw sweet potatoe of f which were as big z yams of America. Then the: quantities of yucca about two f | ps | you may fancy. geod. You will not find in Washington or New York a better meat and fish market than that of Li The me: are largely seld by women, and the women seem to hav2 monopolized the miik, meat and vegetable trade of this city. The Ks and chops are very good, and you buy a little kid or a half dozen a pigs for a trifle. The Peruvians are fond of kié and guinea pigs are a acy not to be sneered at. They taste much like young pigeons or very tender squirrels. They are raised and fattened for eating all about here and nearly every farmer keeps a guinea pig pen. Another queer dish is fish cooked by putting cold lemon juice on it. It fs realy raw fish served with lemon juice, but the lemon has much the same effect the flesh of the fish as boiling, and I have a number of times smacked my lips over what I thought was the most delicious boiied fish I had ever eaten to find that it was fish a la serviche, t is raw fish and lemon. The fish of this coast ure delicious. They are of nearly every kind from the sole to the corbina, which a very large and Sweet fleshed fish not unlike the blue fish of the Atlantic, though of a more delicious flavor. I tried the Peruvian oysters at the National Club today. They were brought in par boiled on the half shell. I did not like them. Potatoes and Pepper. There is no place that I have yet visited which hes so much pepper and potatoes tpon its tables as I find here. It is sald that the Peruvians eat more pepper than alt. They serve it with nearly every dish, and you always find a little dish of aji (pronounced ah-he) a sort of red pepper ste be: » your plate ready for use as Papas con aji is a favor- ite dish made of potatoes and pepper with Our Minister to Peru. a sauce of tomatoes and eggs. as fire, but not bad to eat of potatoes mashe . It is as h Papas riena is and then mixed with olives, onions, eggs and raisins and then fri Papas con arros is potatoes cocked with rice, and there are several other queer combinations of potatoes and other things. One of the chief dishes found on every Peruvian table 1s a soup called nehochow. This is made by ing to- ther nearly every kind of vegetable and goodly portion of meat. The soup Tved clear and the veg: t brought in on a sepa a drained off and tables and the mc € plate to be eaten after the soup. Thi dish form: he chief meal of many of the poorer classes. The rich live here as well as in any city of the world. Meals are usually served in courses, one dish being brought on the table at ‘a time and the plates changed with every course. The Paradise of the Housekeeper. Peru is, it seems to me, the paradise of the housekeeper. There are few. places where it is easier to manage a house than Fere. There are no long stairs to climb. In many cases the whole house is on one floor, and I have visited Lima families who had houses containing twenty large rooms, all on the first floor. The cooks do all the marketing of Lima. A lady seldom goes eut of the house except to shop or visit. The way the marketing is managed is to allow the cook so much a day, according your pocket and style of living, say $2 y or more, and for this he is expected to supply the meals and see that the table is compl furnished with food. In other words, you board with your cook. If you have a geod cook you will be better and more cheaply served than if you tried to man it all y If, and at the same rand tear. Many » Chin - All expect to nake a profit off the marketing in addi- PENITENTIAR ¥ AT LIMA. ground as a base lik ball club. It is not un- the potato, but the flesh {s more trans- parent, waxy and jelly-like. This is one of the chief foods of Peru. We saw roasting ears at nearly every vegetable stand, and in the grain markets handled varieties of corn which I hav Some of the corn was as black 2s ink and another Kind was of a light yellow, with grains almost as big as a Lima bean. These two varieties are so meally that you can make flour of them by peunding them with a stone. They come from the moun- tain farms, and to a great extent form the food of that part of Peru. We saw squashes and melons of all kinds. Many of the veg- never seen at home. €tables I could not understand, and the fruits embraced h are grown in the tropics, as w hes and rever, * peaches we saw were of as a salad or an a salt and pepper, not unlike that of stiff butter white figs, wh! valleys, and different varieties of cranges, lemons. Then they hav= here guavas, pom- granates; tunas, the fruit of the cactus, and olives, which are pickled in such a way that when they come to the table they gre black and soft rather than green and solid, like the olives we cat. Some Queer Peruvian Dishes. Om the whole the living here is very has a flesh the blue and the coast all tion to their wages. Servants are cheap here. I give the usual prices in our money, having reduced them from the silver paid here. Cooks get about $6 a month; house- maids, $5; chief butlers, $10, and the second butlers, about $5. These are the prices paid by foreigners. The native Peruvian ilies pay less, and in the country dis- tricts there are many house servants who do not get much more than their board and clothes. Seamstresses who come to the house to sew receive from 30 to 40 cents a day, and washerwomen 25 cents for wash- ing and about 50 cents for ironing per day. Did Not Understand Champagne. The chief servant of the house is the first butier or chief major-domo, as he is called. He has general supervision, keeps things in order and waits upon the table. Some- times he is good, and sometimes not. I heard last night of a major-domo who cre- ated something of a sensation at a dinnet given to W. R. Grace and James Gordon Bennett some years ago. Messrs. Bennett and Grace were visiting Lima, and Mr. Eyre, the head of the house of Grace here, gave them the dinner. He had, however, a new butler, who was not used to foreign ways, and who when he came to open the champagne was astonished to see the cork fly cut with a crack like a pistol. He had never handled such an article before, and he was so scared that he threw the bottle out of the window and then dropped down upon the floor and howled. I do not know how Mr. Eyre was able to allay his fears so that he could proceed with serving the dinner, but I am told that the man came to his master after breakfast the next morning and begged to bé allowed to leave. Said he: “I like you and the senora ery much, but I cannot remain in a house where they drink such explosive materials.” The Peruvians, however, drink about as strcng liquers as any people. The places where beer is sold in the country towns are marked by red flags, and tn some vfil- lages nearly every other house is a saloon. The “smile” Peruvian is quite as common as the “smile” American, and drunkenness is the great vice of the poor. Our Peruvian Diplomats. But let me tell you how our American minister lives at the Peruvian capital. His house whizh Js one of the best in the city, faces # beautiful garden filled with palm. trees and a rich growth of tropical plants. There are winding walks where you can stroll about under the trees among flowers more gorgeous than any we have at home. ‘The house, like all of the houses of Lima, is built of mud, but it looks as though it were made of pressed brick, and it would be considered a mansion in any American city. Its rooms are large and the ceilings are about fifteen feet high. There is a swim- ming bath in it, and the minister can play the mermaid, or, rather, the merman, as one of his diplomatic diversions. I find our minister very popular here. He 1s, you know, from San Diego, Cal. H2 is an Ohioan by birth, having been born in Ben Wade's town of Jefferson, on the western reserve, about thirty-seven years ago. He is a col- lege-bred man, a lawyer by profession and a diplomat by Instinct and intuition. He has some knowledge of Spanish, and his popularity here is added to by that of his wife, who speaks the language fluently and has thereby made many friends among the native Peruvians. Just next to the legation is the home of the secretary of the legation, Mr. Richard R. Neal of Philadelphia, a former officer of the United States navy, who has been here as secretary for years and who thoroughly un- Gers ands tha ways Peruvian. Then there is a young Ohioan, Mr. Harlan. the « c the legation, and over at Callao, within a half hour s ‘rid tre onsul, Col. W. B. Dickey, a Maine man, who hails from New Orleans and who has come out 2 of It could probably be bought for considera- bly less, and is valuableonly on account of its franchise covering. tHe streets of Lima and lasting for a num of ygars. Anoth- er person who has ere igoking up the street railway proposition is Mr. I. K. Pier- son, president of the Pafnesville and Cleve- land Street Railway Company.2- He says the receipts of the present tramway line could be increased $100a day by good management, and that a large amount could be saved by putting in registers f prevent the con- ductors from cheating. In connection with the first company an electric ight comract has been offered by the governn:-2t of $00,- 900, silver, for a certaili number of addi- tonal electric lights, aid a ‘good electric lighting business, it is thought, can be added to that of the cay lines, At present Lima is lighted by gas and electricity, and it is one of the best lighted of the South American cities. The gas lamps are upheld by old-fashioned iron brackess, which ex- tend out from the walls.of the houses and there is a lamp about every hundred feet. Gas costs here about $3, gold, a thousand feet. The city has also: about twenty-five are lights and a number. of incandescent lights. Other cities in Peru whera electricity be introduced are Arequipa, in th of the southern part of the count might interior and in the old city of Cuzco, where the Incas had Arequipa is one of the good OO its their capital. business cities of Peru. It contains people, but is ll lighted by gi au Street cars are little affairs half as long otrs and drawn by horses. Cuzco has 00 people, and relies upon gas lamps. The city of Lima pays $115,000 a year for light. I am told that the government here pro- tects foreign investors, and that even in times of revolution foreign property is ccmparatively safe. All foreign factories and plantations kave signs up over the cors of their houses stating that the prop- erty is English, French cr German, as the case may be. A Visit to the Lima Penitentiary. I will close this letter with a note on the Lima penitentiary. I visited it yesterday, and found it had been modeled after the penitentiary in Philadelphia. Over the door to each workshop were the words, “Silencio, Obediencja, Trabajo,” meaning silence, obedience and work. There were PEON, WITH YUCCA PLANT. here on his wedding tour to uphold Ameri- can interests in Peru. Col. Dickey keeps house in Callao, While lunching with him the other day I happened to remark that the spring chickens which we were eating were very fine. ‘They ought to be fine,” replied the colonel, “for I raised them my- self on my farm here.” After the lunch was over the colonel took me out to show me his farm. It was the roof of his house. We went upstairs and there found two large coops filled with chickens, turkeys and pigeons. On other roofs all about us were other coops, and the cackling cf the hens all around showed that a large part of the eggs eaten in Callao must be laid on the roofs. Where Life is Eaxy. Speaking of the cost of living in Lima, I pay $5, silver, a day for my room and hoard at the hotel. This is only about $2.50 of our money. Part of the time I have paid sitver, a day for my room and coffee and toast In the morning, taking my other mcals at the clubs. There are several good clubs here, the chief of which are the } tional, tre Union and the Phoenix. have good libraric rs All from and card The meals ) cents of our rooms and comfertable parior: cost $1, silver, or about mcney, and for this sum you can get a better dinner here than you get at any American club for from five to ten times the The pecple here take more time to their meals than we do. They take Ife more eesily. Almost all the stores close at nccn for one hour to aliow the proprietors and their clei to go home to breakfast, $ they call it. You will seldom find a busi- ness man in his office between 11 and 1, nd everything begins to shut up for the They Have Good Fish, night at 5 p.m. At 7 the whole of busi- ness Lima is shut up as tight as thé head ofa drum. The stores, as I have said, have no windows. They are more like caves in the walls than stores, for their front doors extend the full width of the store. These docrs are taken away during business and at such times Lima looks like at bazaar. The stores are filled with fine goods, which are piled up in attractive shapes on the counters and on the floors, at walking along the Mercadores or on treets facing the Plaza des Armes is like going through an interesting museum. At night, however, when the fronts of the stores have been closed, the streets are lined with blank walls. There are no dis- y windows, and everything seems her- meucally sealed. Only here and there you h shop, a store selling cooked eat- ables or a drug store which is open. As it grows dark the bird-cage-lke balconies above the stores shut up, and the city in some of its parts seems almost a city of the dead. It is far from dead, however. There is lots of fun going on behind the closed windows, and the people sit up late and delight in social enjoyment. Will the Americans Get It? Some of the best things now offered here in a business way are of the electrical or- der. Lima is a city of 100,000 people, and it has a tramway upon which the cars are drawn by horses. The line of tracks reaches all parts of the city, and the cars, although they are irregularly run and poorly man- aged, are almost always full. I am told that the roads are now paying, although I could see that the conductors are cheating the company right along, and that they: do nothing to increase their custom. If this system could be replaced by an electric line it would probably pay well, and might be as big a bonanza as the Mexico City street railways, which sold for %7,000,000. At present there are two or three American parties who are figuring on the proposition of buying the horse car lines and extend- ing the system from here to Callao and Chorillos, the seaside resort of Lima. Cal- lao has about 25,000 people, and ft Is che port for Lima. There is a flat road between the two cities and a line connecting them could be cheaply built. The power for such roads during the most of the year could be had from the Rivar Rimac, which flows through Lima, and which has, I am told, a fall of thirty feet between that city and these. Among the parties who are investi- gating the matter is the South Amer- ican Power and ‘Traction Company. This company has been formed, I am told, to build the road, and its agent, Mr. Robert 8. Forbes, is now in the north making the arrangements to build. I un- derstand that the president of Peru has given them a certain time to complete their arrangements. The parties interested are said to be Mr. John Searles of New York, the General Electric Csmpany of America and an electric company of Berlin. The Ger- man company has sent an engineer out here to investigate the situation. The price asked for the tramway line, which be- longs to two men, is 65,000 pounds sterling. 300 prisoners, a few in for murder, but most of them for stealing and minor of- fenses. As far as I could see the prison is clean and well kept, but 1 judge some of the punishments are very severe, for the director told me how he had recently had to put a man under the water spout, al- lowing a stream of the thickness of your finger to fall for some time on a certain Spot on the man’s head. This was, I think, che of the punishments of the inquisition. It is done only with watch in hand, as if continued jong enough {t causes insanity or death. 1 watched the prisoners at their meals. They are better fed than the aver- age of their outside the prison, but the way the meais are served is not’ pro- Vocative to appetite. Everything goes by whistles. The guards whistle and the men leave their work. They whistle again and they wash themselves. Another whistle and they are at the table,tand a fourth whistle brings in the bread and soup. Be- fore eating a mass was said, being intro- duced by a whistle, and, indeed, it was the magic whistle that brought forth every- thing. FRANK G. CARPEN mae: BUZZARD STORIES. Some Tales From the Eastern Shore, Where They Flourish, From the Baltimore Sun, { The Cambridge buzzwrd which frightened a team of hors S reported in Saturday's Sun, brings to mind the fact that the vultures have been coming into the town: winter for the last fifteen years; previous to that time they were never known to it the towns. Hunter H. Boyd of Winchester, Va., who spent a couple of months in Easton last winter, was greatly surprised to see buzzards in town, an en- tirely new thing within his observation, al- though he had visited towns in nearly all parts of the country. The number of buz- zards does not seem to have increased, but under the improved conditions of taking care of live stock and poultry during the winter but few die, and hence there is very little buzzard food in the country. In town they actually come into back yards and plunder garbage barrels and boxes for food. In cold Weather they perch on the tallest chimneytops to get warm. The courthouse chimneys are a favorite place of resort. This caused the waggish remark to be made by a democratic politician “that buzzards never sat on the court house untii the republicans got possession of the com- missioners’ office." ‘The two events did happen. to be contemporaneous, but, of course, it was not cause and effect.’ It rather suggests dirty towns and need of other scavengers than the birds of the air. John Mason, siding in Dover street, found that the stove in a fireplace would not draw. It was taken out, overhauled and put back, but still it would not draw. Concluding that there was some obstruc- tion in the chimney, Mr. Mason had it ex- amined, and a d buzzard was found in it. The bird had evidently been overcome by the coal gas while sitting on the chim- ney and tumbled in. A buzzard with a tinkling bell appended to him comes around this section every year or two. This is the true story of the bell- ing of that buzzard. A sheep had die. on Alfred J. Wilson's farm, between Easton and Dover Bridge. Three energetic and mischievous bo; set a steel trap by the carcass, with a spring strong enough to hold, but not to maim, a buzzard. One was caught. The boys tied a sleighbell secure- ly to his leg, and let him loose. He tried to fly away from the tinkling bell, and circled high in the air until the sound of the cell vuld not be heard. The boys who “pro- ted” with this buzzard are now men. One is a young-man of affairs in Easton, one is at work in Venezuela and one in Colorado. None of them are married. It is bad luck to bell a buzzard. William T. H. Lee and Charles A. Caulk Were sitting with loaded rifles on a bench in the yard of the latter's residence, on Miles river. There was a bird circling around high in the air. With no thought of hitting it, Mr. Lee sighted his rifle and fired. It was a chance shot. The ball hit the bird in‘the head and killed it instantly. It came tumbling down with great velocity, struck a dormer window on Mr. Caulk’s house and tore it to pigces—ghingles, frame, glass and all. It cost, $25 :to rebuild that dormer window. mike “The funniest buzzazd. story I know is this,’ says a Talbot ggunty, tax collector. “I was riding along the, road,and saw a pig lying down on the grgund and a buzzard walking about in the field. {I did not know whether the pig was dead or asleep; nor did the buzzard, evidently, I stopped to watch proceedings. ., Thay buzzard got closer and closer to the pig, walking slowly and stopping often. Iinatly. he got in po- sition, and got up covrage enough to pick the pig in the eye wil beak. The pig awoke, frightened, atid jumped up with sundry porcine snorts: The buzzard was scared as badly as tha@lg. “He actually fell over on his back, with,his ¢laws in the air, and by the time he retriexed himself the hog was a hundred ards’ away and still running.” ? o ea arg ae What Becomes of Art Students. From the New York Times. An artist solves a problem which Las to a certain extent troubled many people: What becomes of all the art students, and if they are never heard from after they complete their studies what is the good of the ef- and haven't they ‘wasted their time? That was the question, put in a fewer words, that one artist asked of another as the two passed through an art gallery where there was an exhibition of student work. Every one knows that not half of the number of even the art students to be found in New York are ever heard from by the public after they finish their studies. But the second artist answered hopefully: “The greater number of these students are women,”’ he said, “and they help art immensely ty getting married and teaching their husbands.” PROVIDING UNIFORMS |¥ N'VERSiTY NoTES| A Big Undertaking at the Begin- ning of a War. 5 CLOTHES FOR THE ARMY AND NAVY Letting the Contracts and Arrang- ing for Distribution. SERVICE REGULATIONS Wnitten for The Evening Star. Clothing the army and navy is one of the most importaat prcblems presented to the War and Navy Departmen:s for solution. The quartermaster general performs the tesk for the army and the paymaster gen- eral for the nevy. In time of peace the duty involves considerable labor. In time of war, and especially at the be ing of hestilities, when the public are crying for ion men to be enlisted, clothed « put at the front in a minute, the task sumes the proportions of a mountain in a fog. Take the quartermaster general, for in- Stance. It is his duty to see that the big army which the President has called to give battle to the Spanish is clpihed at the very eerliest possible monent. His usual sources of supply are quickly exhausted. Gthers must be found. New clothing must be made. The-first thing the quariern ter general does ‘s to ascertain, as nearly as bessible, the exact number of suits requir- ed, the kind of suits, the number of shoe 2nd urderclothing, also hats. The exac Kind is then specified in detail, and man- ufacturers and jobbers in that line of business are invited to submit bids for the whole or part of the clothing needed. Ac- compar ying: every bid is a check to guaraa- tee that the terms of the contract will be carried out to the letter. These bids are submitted, together with samples of the goods required. The bids aré carefully examined and compared and the lowest bidder (the quality of yoods be- ing satisfactory) gets the contract. The goods contracted fcr must be ready on time and delivered to the government. When they are delivered they are inspected by goverment officials and, if all rizit, ac- cepted. Then they are forwarded to’ the store house of the army at Philadelpnia to await orders. When a regiment is recruited and sworn into the United States service, the captain of each company makes out a requisition for the number of uniforms needed ard forwards the requisition to the quartermas- ter of the regiment. The colonel approves of the requisition, and thcn it is forwarded to the brigade quartermaster, who, ‘:f he kas not the clothes required on’ hand, makes a requisition on the corps quarter- raster. The latter, when uniforms are reeded, makes a requisition on the quarter- master general, who draws the supplies needed from the depot at Philadelpnia. Distributing the Uniforms. Upon the delivery of the clothing to the regimental quartermaster, the captains of the several companies are notified. 'T) captains march thcir men to headquart-rs and there they receive the clothing appor- tioned to them and for which the captain gives a receipt to the regimental quarter- master, who keeps it for nis voucher. The same formula for the issuing of clothing is followed in the na _ ‘The 1 navy uniforms are made in n y large city of the Union, and the cost of those for the privates is about $5, and those for men before the mast is about $$ man. The officers’ uniforms range in price from $50 to $75. A bullet will, however, pierce the one as quickly as the other. The uniform of the general cficers of the army is a double-breasted Mouse of dark blue cloth or serge, with four out patch pockets with flaps, a rolling collar, with two rows of buttons. grouped according to rank, of the sam kind as those worn on the dress coat. For all other officers a single-breasted blouse is wern, of dark blue cloth or serge, with four outside pockets with flaps, falling collar, w five buttons in front of the ame kind as those worn on the dress coat. The skirt of the dress coat extends from one-third to one-half the distance from the hip joint to the knee. Substantial Footwear. Quite as important as the clothes are the shoes. For Cuban service the men will wear dark brown canvas clothes, but the shoes will be the same as worn at home. They are common brogans, these shoes, stout of upper and mighty of sole and heel. In fact, the army shoe is not a thing of beauty, but on the march it is a joy for- ever, as every veteran knows. They are made of cowhide, and, if possible, of the hide of a very tough cow at that. They are exceedingly broad of sole and heel, and are made with the double view of se- curing durability and comfort. At the beginning of the civil war shoes were considered feminine and were but little worn. Boots were the fashion, and they were made to fit like a kid glove. The volunteers for some months after the war began clung to boots, not fancying the un- ccuth shoe; but after a while necessity forced men to accept the shoes (pontoons they were called by the soldiers), and after being worn for a few days they were voted a luxury next to milk in coffee. The ser- vice shoe is made by contract, and aver- ages in cost 75 cents per pair. The regulation sock is made of wool and £0 coarse as to give promise that it will last through this war. Then there is the woolen unders It is a very important part of the soldier's clothing. He is given one of these undershirts, which is made of wool. He must wash it himself, wring it out, and let it dry on his body if he is on the march. This method of cleanliness applies also to the drawers and is possibly accountable for a soldier's walk, suggesting that his thoughts are busy with something else than the much-talked-of romance of war. This wouldn't happen were the so Gier to receive two suits of underclothes. But economy, and a disinclination to in- crease the weight the soldier has to carry on his back when marching, have induced the government to restrict its warriors bold in the ranks to one sult of unde: ciothes amece. The warrior in the ranks may not like it, but it is noticed that when he comes home frcm the war his vocabu- lary is the richer. In the Navy. The sailor men fare better in the mat- ter of clothes than the soldier boys on land. The sailors have one pair of blue and two pairs of white trousers, one white and one blue blouse, one suit of oilskin: two suits of white canvas working clothes, cne blue cap, one white cover for cap, one oilskin sou’wester, two pairs of shoes, and last, but, in the language of a soldier, “not least by a hanged sight,” two suits of un- derclothes. The troops of the country might be clothed more cheaply were the pattern and quality of uniforms worn by the troops of several foreign countries foilowed here. But this government insists that its sol- diers and sailors must look well, and it is a well-known fact that members of the dip- lomatic corps have frequently declared that the United States army is the best-dressed body of soldiery on earth. It falls also to the lot of the quartermas- ter general and paymaster general to sup- ply the servfce with flags. This, likewise, is a big item of expense. The exact amount of expense, or the probable number of flags which will be needed for the new army, cannot be learned at présent; for the de- partments are behind with their records, and, to quote the quartermaster general, it is doubtful if they ‘will catch up during the present war. Most of the flags are made in Philadelyhia, and the bulk of the rest In Boston and Lowell. They are pur- chased by contract awarded to the lowest bidders, and embrace all sizes from the small signal flag te the company, hospital, regimental, . brigade, division and corps flags, winding up with the big display flag of the general's headquarters. 2 Se Award of Medals. At the closing exercises of the University School yesterday the medals were awarded as follows: Scholarship medal, to George Conrad Reid; English medal, to Henry Ives Cobb, jr.; mathematics medal, to Lester Marvin Ston2; attefidance medal, to Mau- rice du Pond Lee; deportment medal, to Frank Hyatt, jr. Preston, entertained The principal, Mr. ‘the pupils 4+ luncheon, Georgetown University. The law school commencement will oc- cur Monday at the National Theater and the evening following the standing of the students in each study will be made known, The senior class stood very high this year in their averages, fifty-six of the seventy six in attendance having made over ninety per cent on the year's work. The class organizations of the law schovl are as follows: Senior ch Haward D. Smith, Ala., president; Chas. M. Doran, first vice president; Arthur G. Bishop, + Second vice president; Goundry W. secretary; Ben treasurer; Andrew E. Fay ayms. Post-graduate class—J. Moerriil Chamber- lin, Va.. president: Mich: J. Keane first vite -esident ‘iltiam W Stewart, D. C. ‘cond vice presid it; cobus S. Jones, Tenn., secretary; Salomon, D. C. ard, Ohi Junior cia: president; V Mass., sergeant nci: D. Merron, Md., an : - T. She Do: vice president; Jo end vice president; v . ecretary; John J. Kirby, tre D. Sullivan, D. C., sergeant-at- The reception committee is ¢ the following: Robert P. Troy, James E. Bullock, Richard C: seph F. Collins. W. Gilmer Dui rick Frere, J. Camden Gail, Le: nett, Raiph Given, Jame rick E. Kilcullen, Aub; ford B. H. Lyon, Lanston, Ruther- James E. McDonell, Lou 3. Minor, James W. Murphy, J. Lawrenc O'Brien, William “A. O'Nelil, Henry T. Pritcha Rogers, Herman R. Schade, Ferdinand T. Schneider, Lloyd M Tillman, nd, jr., Gerald van Casteel, Har Iters. Degrees will be conferred by Rev. Fr. Jerome Dougherty upon the foilowing: Bachelor of laws—George Williams Allison, Georgia; Edmund J. Bach, A.M., Wiscon- sin; Gound#y W. Bingham, Alabama: Ar- thur Garnett Bishop, District of Columbia: James Daniel Bivins, North Carolina; John A. Boyd, A.M., Maryland; Waters E. Brown, District of Columbia; William H. J Brown, Maryland; John K.'I. Cody, New Jersey; Martin T. Conboy, New ‘Yo: Charles F. Conlon, Connecticut; Dennis J. Cennelly, New York; James Joseph Coon Pennsylvania; James C. Crawford, I Jana; William G. Crawford, Louisian: David, South Carolina; John De: York; Theodore H. Des: lumbia: Charles M. Doran, Virginia; Charles Hugh Duffy, District of Columbia: Paul Warrington Evans, A.B., District af Co- lumbia; Andrew Edwin’ Fay, Massachu- setts: Robert Gordon Finney, District of Columbia; Harry Brightwell Fowler: Mary- land; Joseph H. Freeman, B.S., Michigan: Edmund R. French, District of Columbia: Frederick P. Gibson, A.B., Alabama: Frank Green, District of Columbia: Raphael District of Columbia; Joseph 1 Harlowe, A.B. . A.B., Acabama; District of Columbia Jackson, Florida; Richard Alabama: Anderson B. Lacey, e Adolphus an, Missouri: n, . New ez, District of Co- Emanv: Luby, Michigan; Mercer H. Magruder, A.B., Maryland; Leonard H. Mattingly, District of Columbia; Edgar Bryant Meritt, Arkansa: : Martin W. Mon- aghan, A.B.. Michigan: Mulvihill, Temple | graduates were out in full forc Whitman and others made The baccalaureate sermon occ rred Sunday evening at Calvary Baptist Chur and was largely attended, both by the stu- | dents and the public in general. | _At the final public @ f the Law |School Debating Soc Saturday Walter C. Smith, Edward E. Denison and | Charles E. Phelps, af and At |E. Snow, Alvah W. and Melv Adams, negative » the speakers | the questi That a federal i j come | Examinat ‘orcor | School were concluded inst Satu The summer schoo! commen ks from M. y run unt FS The last issue of the Call appeared Tucs- | day of. Emil H. Meyer, rin | eran Scientific School rme a | sketch class for out tttons | Cath Latversicy. | The comme We ment exerc gradua there, most The Christ ing exercise number of 4 | bers of the e Alpha et last gradu: Phi 1 Saturda held a M iety ng at | adail. | All the departm: ave h menceme now the students jeaving rapidly xer their homes Ae RET RIES MUMMIES OF BRITISH MUSEUM. we and Interesting Collection the Exyptian Rooms. London Times. The visitor to the exhibition galleries on the upper floor of the British Museum dur- ing the last few weeks cannot have failed to notice that a comprehensive arrangement of the mummies and co‘fins in the first and second Egyptian rooms was in progress, for confusion and disorder were visible every- here in these parts of the northern gal- lery, which seemed to have been abandoned to a@ littie army of workmen of all kinds. The old cases which lined the walls we being repainted and polished, new cases to stand 0a each side of the gangway were be- ing constructed, and the floor was literally wn with the mummified bodies of Egyp- sis and officials of every kind and coffins In which they were buried nd their com- s are The L in. the Fro But the disorder has become order by de- xrees, and little by Mttle the dead occu- of the wail and standard cases have nm restored to their allotted places, and we are now able to get an idea of the ex- tent am importance of the fine collection of mummies and coffins which now fill the sreater part of two large rooms. The first fact which strikes the observer who has known the Egyptian collection of the British M rseum for about twenty ears 8 that the sepulchre section of it has just about trebled itself since 1878, in which year it was possible to put the whole of it, without much crowding, In the room which is now called th inst room. About - tu 1880 the late Dr. Birch was able to expand a eD Re rc Che einia: | it somewhat, and the mummies and coffins Ty, Pennsyivanioe Wee Searles B- | wers removed to the room now known as Seyret ania: WV inter Owens: Wit=| fen siarn ee ypllah soem: m Mite Saker melee iis; olin sane wainter, Aa dowe: Den tec gin eee nee ee eee ue Poteet. Dinter of Colutabia: Boaaoh | aU eos. aman ue the tome een oe > Connecticut; David B. Perry, | °! A ion of the room now called North Carolina; Frederick Es Phillips, mi- | 4,Tesult @ gopher hteriiced deere re yg Aram ede rence. AB. Alabama: ang and funeral furniture, After the ) BS. Massachusetts: Wil: | moval of the natural history collections to Rae anes Dakota: | South Kensington, Dr. Birch had more Ee Missou: e pace allotted to h < > large, hand- District of Calimbia, |£Pace allotted to him, and the large, hand Frederick Virginia: Edwin H. Sharp, lowa: Edgar Beverly Sherrill, North Carolina; Antonio J. Smith, A.M., Virginia: vard D. Smith, A.B., Alabama; Frank Smith, B.P., Rhode Island; George M Stackhouse, South Carolina: James Ray mond Stafford, District of Columbi Clay Stier, jr., District of Columbia: Fred- erick S. Stitt, A.B., District of Columbia: ‘lement S. Ucker, Ohio; Lemuel R. Via. Virginia: J. B. FuNer Walker, M.D. York; Patrick Joseph Walshe, District Columbia; George A. Ward, Kansas; Ralph S. Warfield, Connecticut; Reuben Benjamin Watts, Alabama; Ben Temple Webst New Yor! herles R. Yeatman, District of Columbia. Master of laws—J. R: District of Columbia; William R. Andrews, , District of Columbia; Ril T. Bake .B., Ohio; Rudelph B. Behrend, LL} District of Columbia A.B.,LL.B., Mi nan, jr., LL.E Henry k: John B. ania; Justin Mo: Ben, vania; J les F Patrick J. Donegan, .. Mary lund; Clarence F. Donohoe, L District of Columbia: trict of Columbia LLB., Dis- Farrell, LL. B., Connecticut; Job Fogle, LL.B., West Virginia; Anton H. Heitmuller, LL. B., District of Columbia; Frank S. Holli ger, LL.M., Missouri; C? Clinton James. LL.B,, District of Columbia; LL.B., Tenn Michae! George sachusett District of Edward Columbia; Lowe, A.B. B., Alabama; LL.B., Ken- e Percy MeGlue, LL.B., Di: of Columbia; Peter J.’ McLoughlin, James Hen ; Denny Montgomer e; William H. Nelms, Il ponan, A.B.,LL.B., Mar Harry M. Packard, LL.B. Ohi ph W. Pearson, LL.B., District of C ; Solomon C. Pool, LL.B., North Henry F. Reilly, A.M.,LL.E Wisconsin, Charles E. Roach, A.B.,LL.L. ‘orth Dakoia; Hugh B. Rowland, LL. trict of Columbia: Joseph Salomon, L Louis T. } , LL.B., Seale; Stage, Tennessee; Robert Preston, L.B. Ma nd; John Alfred B., Louisiana; William Walter Stewart, D.D.S.,LL.B., District of Colum- bi. ilton Strasburger, LL.B., District of Columbia; Reeves T. Strickland, LL.B New York; George Edward Tralles, LL.i District of Col Josevh D. Wrigh A.B.,LL.E Alabama. The college commencement occurring the 23d instant will take place in Gaston hall. » valedictorian, Mr. W 1 Diamond will fi > bachelor’s oration and Mr. John K. Kirby the master's. The prize debate of the Philonomosian Society which was to have taken place Thursday night has been postponed. A benefit entertainment for the new hos- pital was given by Gonzaga College Wed- nesday evening The studcnts enjoyed a holiday Thursday which was "2 return of the base ball northern tour. team from its Columbian University. The Alumni Association held its annual banquet at the Ebbitt House Tuesday and the event was a success in every sense of the word. Special notices had been sent out to the alumni and the response on their part was generous, and in addition, the me room now known as the fourth yp- tian room was almost filled by the old and more recently acquired collecti Some years later, urder the rule of Sir Ecward Maunde Thompson, K. C. B., it was di cided to rearrar the whole of the Egyp- tan colle and two rooms were 5 xpart fd exhibition of the growing ction of it ich included mummies and oth more space was urge! t ob- jects were to be fitting ion of the public, which is yt ested in mummified hu and the trustees, therefore . the last few years, cut skyligh’ rooms and bricked up the windows in_them on the north wall of the museum Thiz having been done, new, handsome mahogany and plate-glass cases were built slong the whole space gained on the north wall, and the eccommocdation avatiable for che ‘sepulchral section was thereby more han doubled. The advantage of a top light ior the examination of rummies and other ts which are exhibited in a horizontal tion fs evident, and now in the y cases th> tops are mas stead of wood, the visitor advantage of the sky’ exceptions, the 0 lon-shaped case which stood 02 ea: of the gangway nave been superseded by light but angular cases, and, owing to the rbje full a few large of the squares of glass used and the t fron standards which support the ex- bited specimens, the visitor can examine hem with ease on every side. We may notice, too, that the coffin h were ormerly placed at the bac the wall sases, have been brought forward close to the glass, and the painted scenes and in- riptions, with which most of them are profusely’ decorated, may be easily and horoughly examined. The general view of both rooms is distinctly fine, and it 1s to hed that other collections of mum- es and coffins, both in Europe and in ypt, Were as well housed An examination of the contents of the of the first and s yptian rooms as now exhibited that the British Museam possesses about forty-four mummies and about eighty coffins, not in- cluding covers of coffins and various f: ments. Taken together, these represent @ period of about 4,000 years. The oldest mummified human remains in the museum are those of Mycerinus (case A), th of the pyramid of Gizeh, about B. ne builder 3640; d the most modern those of a lady whose me is unknown, who, together with her hree children, was murrmified about A. D. 400 (case The cover of the coffin of Mycer which is exhibited below fragments of his mummy, is ribed with a text that In his already some thousands nd ft isn of F period the king cr” by the words t the ed in ife ism in the earliest times, be! rection and in a future 20s c » Capt. Willard. A special dispatch from Richme to a Baltimore paper has the referenc> to Capt. Joseph E. imen Va., following in Willard of . perhaps, no captain tn camp tae welfare of his men so much at heart as Capt. Joseph E. Willard of Com- pany I, 3d Regiment. Although worth mil- liens of dollars, he docs not hesitate for = moment to share th? duties of camp life with his men. He spends his nights at his tent, wh number of other commissiene? | officers continue to sleep in the city. Ir order to assist a sick man in his company he even went so far as to sleep on the floor | and turned over his cot to the patient. Fror Punch. Agent (going round farm with grumbiing tenant). tal field of wheat there—and that’s worth money nowadays.” Smithers—“Yes, "cause I've none to sell. feighting afore that’s ready for market. The we farmers!” ‘ome, Smithers, you've a capt- You may be sartain sure they'll stop "Merricans allers was the ruination of