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10 MckKnew’s 933 Pennsylvania Avenue. Closed all day July 4th. Underwear Light as Cobwebs. If you want to see the finest, lightest and m “airi-st’” summer underwear ours. It's spun just lke « ask no more than you'd Where for the coarse, inferior kinds. at some of these lines TUESDAY. Ladies’ Fine Swiss Ribbed Lisl ton Vests at Tige., 1244c., 16c., BS and Boe. Extra good values in Ladies’ Swiss Rib- Drawers — knee ankle 25c, 5 “ventilated” Swiss Ribbed , I2Ke., Ie. and Be. Cool Underwear for len. Men's Finest Combed Egyptian Yarn Ralbriggan Shirts and C Drawers, silk finished, at....-- A special value Men's Light Balbriggan Underwear at 35¢.; 3 for $1. Cross-barred Muslin and Jean Drawers, with web bottoms or strings, 50e. pair. Short Bicscle Drawers, with Imported web bottom and banjo reinforcen.ent, 50c. W.H. McKnew, 933 PaAve. Sy2-6od Foot Ease. _ EVANS’ TALCUM POWDER 1s grateful te tender feet ip hot weather. It's cooling and soothing—prevents chafing and exces- - stve perspiration. Best to use on baby's delicate skin. Cures chefing and prickly heat. Plain or perfumed. 10c. can. > Wholesale and Evans’ Drug Store jivin iss rx. Conn. ave. and 8 and 1428 Md. ave. Jy2-16d “Closed All Day July 4th.” Special forTuesday 25 feet of Watering § 4 .4Q0 Hose, with nozzle and LAR eRe eee John B. Espey, ite. 12d = iS! ¥ er what foot discomfor: CoORNS! you efer welll sesure you in- stant and permanent relief. Painless and harmless treatment und book free. Prof. J. J..GEORGES & 11415 Pa. ave. Hours. 8 to 5. iy2. - Foot Speciali: Sundays, 8 to Bathing Suits, $1. A fine line of Jersey Clo Bathing Suits, in pavy and fancy stripes, 2 pieces (men's only), $1.25 kind $1.00. Oth- er kinda as well, Trunks, You know we sell only goods. “quality” TEEL’S, 1329 F St. Sy2-14d__ Open Monday morning. Corns That Ache — Ought to come You don’t want to le ith a corns all summer. Get CORD ‘That removes both soft corps without the least pain. preparation—so you may be sure it’s effective. Ouly 15¢. Stevens’ Pharmacy, DOR. 9TH AND PA. AVE. Sy2-14d McMunn’s ixir of Opium Is a preparation of the Drug by which its injurious effects are removed, while the valuable medicinal Properties are retained. It possexses all the seda- tive, anodyne and anti-spasmodic powers of Oplum, but produces no sickness of the stomach, no vomit- ing, no costiveness, no headache. In acute nervous disorders it is an tm able remedy, and is recom- metded by the best physicians. E. FERRETT, Agent, 372 Pearl St., New York. mylt-whs-ly JAINE'S LLERY }OMPOUND 20 MAKES PEOPLE WELL. Sehlosser’s Summer Garden. Mr. J. B. Schlosser’s summer garden, at Brightwood, D. C., has opened for the sea- son. Hundreds of wheelmen take advan- tage of the almost perfect roads to visit the garden every evening, besides those who avail themselves of the Brightwood avenue electric cars. Prof. Bengnot's Orchestra has been engaged to furnish music every evening. ee ee Regulation to Govern Plumbing. The District Commissioners today direct- ea that hereafter plumbing and gasfitting performed for the District shall be done by registered plumbers and gasfitters, and that vouchers for such work, when present- ed for payment, shall bear a certificate from the District inspector of plumbing that the work has been done in accordance with the regulations. The Commissioners also directed that when the estimated cost of the work is tn excess of $50 the specifica- tions therefor must be approved in ad- vance by the inspector of plumbing, unless exempted by the Engineer Commissioner in urgent cases. oe The Chain and Sprocket Club. At the June meeting of the Chain and Sprocket Club it was decided to appoint a committee to arrange for entertaining the club and its friends once every month. The committee secured the small steamer Bar- theldi and gave a moonlight trip up the river Thursday evening. After making two round trips the party wns landed at the Potomac boat house, where dancing was indulged in until about midnight. Those present were: The Misses Thomas, Eck- hardt, Rice, Ellis, Ward, Jerman, Gibbon: Nourse, Wright, Eccard, Biedler, Souder, Hall, Johnson, Garland, Eynon, Wrenn, Moore and Mrs. Marian and Mrs. Moore as chaperons, and the Messrs. J. Milans, R. Milans, C. Milans, J. Walker, H. Walker, Woodburn, Calley, Hoover, Jerman, Steele, Bain, Royal, Kraak, Krouse, Benjamin, Brown, Marian, Rouzer, Crowell, Bryant and Graff. Frank J. Green, a member of the 65th New York Volunteers at Camp Alger, wag arrested in the city yesterday on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. “It was the first time I had ever drank anything,” said the soldier in Judge Kim- ball’s court this morning, “and I hope you will let me go this time.’ The court fined him $5 and sent word of the affair to the camp authorities, -— A Costly Blaze. An alarm was turned in from box 526 about noon today for fire in the ware- house of B. B. Earnshaw & Bro., corner of Georgia avenue and 10th street souch- east. The warehovse was filled with baled hay, cenned goods and barreis filled with Pickles. It is supposed that spontaneous combustion caused the blaze. Mr. Murray, @ clerk in the store, was on his way to the warehouse when he discovered smoke coming from the building. He at once turned in an alarm and a number of fire extinguishers were put in use. The flames had gained so much headway, however, that the extinguishers were of little use. Members of the fire department were at the burning building soon after the alarm Was sounded, and succeeded in saving part of the structure, as well as some of the stock. The damage is estimated to be about $2,000. —— es Husband Gets the Estate. The will of Mrs. Hattie M. Jennings, Gated June 12, 1898, was filed for probate teday. The tes‘ator names her husband, Watter B. Jeunings, as sole executor, with- out bond, and bequeaths to him all her property. of the New Stamp Act. — COMPANIES MUST PAY TAXES What the Representative of an Ex- press Company Says. IN OTHER C1TIE Business men who are compelled in the transaction of their affairs to use the tele- graph wires freely, and who largely patron- ize the railroad and express companies and the shipment of freight and articles, are united in their cpinion that the course pur- sued by the telegraph and express and rail- rcad companies in compelling them to pay tke internal revenue duties on dispatches and express on freight, bills of lading and manifests is wrong. The declaration 1s openly made by leading merchants here that the companfes in so doing are simply taking advantage of the general ignorance of people with the provisions of the act ap- proved June 13, 1808, known as the war rev- enue act. This measure, it should be known, while directly taxing bankers, brok- ers and others, doing business either as in- dividuals, firms or corporations, did not place a similar direct tax on any other cor- Perations save those engaged in refining petroleum and sugar. Object of the Framers. The framers of the bill. it is declared, sought to make other corporations bear their portions of the burden of war by compelling them to place stamps upon the evidences of their business. Thus, section 18 of the bill provides that after July 1 “no telegraph company or i's egent or employe shall transmit to any person any dispatch or message withort an adhesive stamp, denoting the tax im- posed by this act, being affixed to a copy thereof or having the s2me stamped there- upon, and in default thereof shall incur a penalty of ten dollars.”" In schedule A of the act the paragraph’ relating to express and freight reads ac follows: “It shall be the duty of every railroad or steamboet company, carrier, express com- peny or corperation or person, whose oc- cupation is to act as such, to issue to the shipper cr consignor or the agent, or per- scn from whom any goods are accep*ed for transportation, a bill of lading, manifest or other eviderce of receipt and forward- ing for each shipment received for car- riage and transportation, whether in bulk or in boxes, bales, packages, bundles or not so inclosed or included; and there shall be duly attached and canceled, as in this act included, to each of said bills of 1: ing, manifests or other memorandum, and to each duplicate thereof, a stamp of the value of ore cent.” Test Cases to Be Made. Many of the merchants in Washington are already conferring with each other over the propriety of bringing test cases to de- termine whether they or the corporations so specifically directed in the act to do so shall pay the taxes indicated. It is very probable that within a day or two several dispatches will be presented for transmis- sion at the various telegraph offices, to- gether with the amount of the regular Tates charged heretofore by the companies, and when the senders are notified that the messages will each require 1-cent stamps in addition the senders will decline to affix them. In case the company or its agent refuses to transmit the message suits of damage will be brought, and an immediate legal di ion secured upon the question. ane same course, it is said on excellent au- thority, will be pursued regarding freight bills and telephone messages. The Local Sale of Stamps. ‘Today the employes in’ the office of the deputy collector of internal revenue, on G street near 7th str2et, had a chance, for the first time in the past two days, to get some rest. Of course there were people coming in all the time and asking for stamps, but the office was not crowd2d, 2s was the case the two previous days. It is thought the pub- lic has a supply on hand that will last for some days. For a short period yesterday and this morning the local office was without a sup- ply of one-cent stamps, but this lack was Soon made good and the sales went on. It is stated at the offic that it is impossible to give the figures of the sales of the last two days, for the reason that the state- ments Rave been sent over to the offics in Baltimore and no summary of them was made for lack of time. It is believed the total runs into large figures, as some of the great corporations represented in this city by agents bought their supplies of stamps here. It was not uncommon to have one customer leave an order for half a million of stamps. The new law does not affect the local tel- ephone company, at least as to their local business, as the tax on telephone messages is one cent for every message costing fif- teen cents and over. The charge for local Messages is not more than ten cents, and therefore they will escape the tax, as will the local subscribers. On long distance messages there is a tax, of course, but the Tepresentative of the company in this city said today that no extra charge would be made, as the company would pay the tax. What the Express Companies Say. In regard to the stamp of one cent re- quired by the new law to be attached to every bill of lading or receipt of an express company, the representative of one of the companies in this city told a Star reporter today that the companies of the country had decided that the public and not the companies should pay this tax. He said that so far in this city there had been but few protests made to this extra charge. The situation, he added, with the express companies was somewhat different than with the railroad companies with their freight business, as a bill of lading for freight might, and usually did, include a large number of articles, but with the ex- Press companies the bulk of their business was the handling of single packages. Ac- cording to the law, each kage requir- ing, as it does, a separate bill of lading, would have to have a one-cent stamp at- tached. For this reason the express com- panies, he said, had reached the conclusion that it would be undertaking too much to attempt to pay the tax. New York Telephone Company. The New York Telephone Company yes- terday announced that the rate on all city messages how fifteen cents will be ten cents in the future, The revenue tax is one cent on a telephone message for which a charge of fifteen cents or more is made. The New York Telephore Company say they con- templated making this reduction in the fall but determined not to wait. They claim they are net cndeavoring to evade the war tax. WHOSE THE BURDEN? Business’ Men Will Test the Meaning Wild Rash for Stamps. There was a wild rush for war revenue stamps in New. York yesterday. In and around the office of the collecter of internal revenue for the second district, in the second story of the American Tract Society buildirg, bank clerks, brewers’ messengers, call lawyers, brokers enc “hired men" stood in line from 7 o'clock in the morning until 5 in the after- noon, The line extending from the window of the stamp clerk, down the stairwey, in- to Navsau street, down Spruce and across William street. The file moved about forty feet an hcur. Similar scenes were witners- ed elsewhere. By 5 o'clock the second dis- trict alone had sold $117,000 worth of ® Ps The demands of purchasers were cut four-fifths so that everybody could get a temporary supply. Collector Treat sent the following requi- sition to Washington last night: Docu- mentary, 5,000,000 cne cent, 7,000,000 two cent, 1,000,000 three cent, 1,000,000 fcur cent, 1,000,000 five cent, 1,000,000 twenty- five cent. 1,000,000 fifty cent, 250,000 $1; Froprictary, 1,000,600 each of one-eighth, three-cighths, five-eighths cent, and ore, 50 aoe ie Western Union Telegraph.Company ottained yesterday 200,000 one cent dis- patch stamps; the Postal Company, 100,900: the Anglo-American Company, and the Transatlantic Company, 25, More Than Enough Received. When Collxctor Treat footed up the day’s busizess Jest night he found that over | bring *THRICE IS HE ‘ \ ARM’D THAT HATH HIS QUARREL JUST.” $125,900 from the sale of stamps had been received. Chief Deputy Collector Burns in Brooklyn, where mauy New York bankers and brokers were accommodated, stated that the first district 1ecelpts were over $25,000. Adding the uptown district, the tctal in the greater city for the day was nearly $200,000. Three million bank check stamps were soid in the down-town New York office. When the day's business was over about a quarter of a million documen- tary and a third of a million proprietary stamps were left. In the up-town district the demand was greater for proprietary stamps, and the supply of several denom- ir.aticns was exhavsted. Hundreds of thousands of documentary stamps lay on the floor in Collector Eidman’s office in tundles unopened. Baltimore and the Express Companies The Merchants’ Association of Baltimore threatens to enter a legal contest with the express companies to prevent the latter from shifting the burden of the war tax on express packages to the shippers. The merchants of Baltimore will today offer peckages to be expressed and demand that the tax be pald by the companies, and if they decline to do so test cases will be made. ‘The express companses declare they are rot required under the law to pay the tax. On the part of the express companies the statement is made that careful calculations have shown that the tax would amount in the case of the five principal companies to 3 per cent upon their entire combined cap- ital. They claim they could not assume the burden of the tex, and that if they have ta do so their charges will be in- creased. eT AT CAPON SPRINGS. Senson Opened by Christian Educa- tional Conference. Special Correspondence of The Bvening Star. CAPON SPRINGS, W. Va., June 29, 1898. The opening session of the first Capon Springs conference on Christian education in the south was held in the chapel at the springs this evening. Bishop Dudley of Kentucky presided as temporary chairman. After prayer and the singing of “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” by the assembly, the address of welcome was made by Rev. Dr. White, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Winchester, Va. Bishop Dudley respond- ed. Dr. Decker, president of Roanoke Col- lege at Salem, Va., made a motion that a committee of three on permanent organiza- ‘tion be formed, and Dr. Dreher, Rev. Dr. Abbott, rector of St. James’ Church, Cam- bridge, Mass., and Rev. Dr. Lawrence, president of the Normal and Collegiate In- stitutes of Asheville, N. C., were appointed. Bishop Dudley gave a brief history of the organization, an account of which has al- ready appeared in The Star. Rev. N. B. Frissell of Hampton Institute followed with an interesting survey of the field this work was intended to cover, and the meeting then adjourned until 1€ o'clock Thumday. The delegates include an unusual.y clever and distinguished body of men and women. During their stay they are entertained-as the guests of Captain Sale. Included among them are Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Hoyt, Rev. ee D. Baker, D. D.; Dr. and Mrs. L. ¥. Graham, the Misses Landall, Phila- delphia; Bishop T. N. Dudley, Louisville, Ky.; J. L. M. Curry, LL,D.; Rev. A. D. Mayo, Miss Mayo, Genl. John Eaton, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Faulkner, Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Gilbert, Dr. John M. Gregory, Washing- ‘ton, D. C.; Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Edward Ab- bott, Cambridge, Mass.; Rev. Dr. and Mrs. H. B. Frissell, Hampton, Va.; Rev. George E. Benedict, Cedartown, Ga.; Rev. and Mrs. A. B. Hunter, Raleigh, N. C.; Rev. Dr. and Mrs. D. J. Satterfelld, Concorn, N. H.; Rev. Julius D. Dreher, Prof. Painter, Roanoke College, V: Dr. and Mrs. John A. Kern, Ashland, V: Rev. W. P. Thirkield, D. D., Atlanta, Ga.; Rev. Dr. and Mrs. W. G. Frost, Berea College, Berea, Ky.; Dr. Chas. F. Meserve, president of Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C.; Mr. W. L. Wilson, Lexing- ton, Va.; Rev. Dr. H. M. White, Rev. Dr. Jas. R. Graham, Miss Kate Conrad, Win- chester, Va; Dr. James Smith, Richmond, Va.; Sister Ella, Chatham, N: C.; Rev. M. McVickar, D. D.; Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Thos. J. Morgan, New York; Miss May Kintzing, Brooklyn, N. Y¥.; Dr. and Mrs. E. . Mitchel, New Orleans; Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Quarles, Lexington, Va.; Capt. and Mrs. C. E. Vanter, Crozet, Va.; Prof. Dinwiddie, Elkins, Va.; Rev. and Mrs. C. O. Pruden, Chatham, ;_Rev. Erastus Blakeslee, Boston, Mass.; Rev. Horace Bumstead, D. D., Atlanta, Ga., and Dr. Ernest 8. Dreher, Columbus, 8. C. i Remains Conveyed to Philadelphia. The remains of John J. Dickson, whos death wes announced yesterday, were es- certed to the Pennsylvania railroad depot yesterday by a large concourse of sorrow- ing relatives and friends. The Rey. Father Bevans of the Immaculate Cone:ption Church recited prayers for the dead. ‘The pallbearers were Messrs. Andrew Gleeson, F. P. May, B. F. Saul, M. B. Johnstcn, E. J. Hannan, F. H. Jones, the i eee bars nage the, Caroe Insti- ui number of appropriate floral de- signs surrounded the coffin. High mass apd religious services were held at the Church of the Ancunciation, Philadel} , this morning, and in‘ermeat was in t cemetery. family lot at the old Cathedral Sees te “Want” ads. in The Star pay because they answers, — THE MEN IN BATTLE. Number of Troops on Both Sides at Santiago. The American forces in yesterday's battle comprised: First Division—First Brigade, Brig. Gen. J. F. Kent, commanding; 6th Regiment, U. S. A., 1,000; 16th Regiment, U. S. A., 1,000; Tist Regiment, N. Y. Vols., 1,000; 24 Bri- gade, Gen. J. C. Bates commanding; Regiment, U. 8. A., 1,000; 10th Regiment, U. S. A., 1,000; 2ist Regiment, U. S. A., 1,000; 8d Brigade, 9th Regiment, U.S. A., 1,000; 18th Regiment, U. S..A., 1,000; 24th Regi- ment, U. 8. A., 1,000, Second Division—First Brigade, Gen. J. J. Van Horn; 8th Regiment, U. S. A., 1,000; 224 Regiment, U.S. As, 1, Massachu- setts Volunteers, 1,000; 2d Brigade, Ist Reg- iment, U. S. A., 1,000; 4th Regiment, U. 8. A., 1,000; 25th Regiment, U. 8. A., 1,000; 3d Brigade, Gen. A. R. Chaffee; 7th Regiment, U. S. A., 1,000; 12th Regiment, U. S. A., 1,000; 17th Regiment, U. 8: A. 000, Third Division—First Brigade, Gen. H. 8. Hawkins commanding; 3d Regiment, U. S. A., 1,000; 20th Regiment, U. S. A., 1,000. Cavalry Diyision—Major Gen, Joseph Wheeler commanding, with Gen. 8S. B. M. Young attached. The force is dismounted. Ist U. 8. Cavalry, 8 troops, 400; 3d U. S. Cavalry, 8 troops, 400; 6th U. S. Cavalry, 8 troops, 400, 8th U. S. Cavalry, 8 troops, 400. Artillary—Batteries E. and K, Ist Light Artillery, U. S. A., 150; Batteries A and F, 2d Light Artillery, U. S. A., 150; Batteries G and H, 4th Heavy Artillery, U. S. A., 150. The Spanish troops were the following: General Linares, commanding; headquar- ters, Santiago de Cuba. Battalion Constitucion, No. 800; Bat- talion Escuadres, Santa Catalina, 800; Bat- talion Toledo, No. 25, 800; Battalion Asia, No. 55, 800; Battalion Cuba, Second, No. 38, . Second Brigade, General Toral—First Bat- talion, Simancas, No. 4, 800; Second Bat- talion, Simancas, $00; Battalion Principe, No. 5, 800; Battalion Tallavera, Peninsular No. 4, 800; Battalion Leon, No. 38, 800. Attached to division—Battalion Cordoba, No. 10, 800; Battelion Puerto Rico, Pro- visional, No. %, 800; Battalion San Fer- nandino, No. 11, 800; First Squadron Rey, 75; Becond Squadron Rey, 7: Fourth Squadron Rey, 75; Sixth Battery, Fourth Mountain Artillery, 100; First Transport Company, 100; Eighth Transport Company, 100; First Squadron, Guardia Civil, 75; three companies, First Battalion, Third Regiment, sappers and miners, 300; First Section, First Company, Telegraph Bat- talion, 50; Fifth Company, Telegraph Bat- talion, 100. Total, 10,650. Rechabites Elect Officers. Union Tent, No. 87, Independent Order of Rechabites, held a business meeting last Wednesday evening in its hall, 623 Louis- lana avenue, and elected officers for the en- suing term as follows: Chief ruler, Joseph T. Farr; deputy ruler, Mathew Mallory; shepherd, James French; financial secratary, 4. L. Scheckles; recording secretary, John Bunch; levite, C. E. Scheckles; chaplain, John Veihmeyer; treasurer, James H. Loveless. After the regular business was concluded the “good of order’ was taken up, and remarks made by @ number of members and visitors. Next Wednesday evening the installation of officers will take place. ae = Cadet Mannix at Sea. ‘To the Edltor of The Evening Star: A very interesting letter has been re- ceived by me from a junior officer on board the U. 8. 8. Indiana. Naval Cadet D. Pratt Mannix, among other things, writés at sea, June 16: “We are convoying Gen. Shafter's army to Santiago, where a warm time is expect- ed. The heat is awful; We are packed in like sardines, and we have to stand a regu- lar four hours’ watcl evéry night and in the day we have boat duty; that is, we take chorge of any boats.leaving the In- diana for the other ships‘of the squadron. This is quite dangerous ina heavy sea-way, for without careful ement it is very easy to swamp a id go overboard yourself. The sun ii t that we are as black as Spaniards. I’spebt a day in Tam- pa, and had ¥ known thatthe ist Regiment, District of Columbia’ Vgtunteer Infanti were there I would h¢ve talled upon thetK: °° * I am assistant ngvigator, and in action am stationed conning tower with the captain and navigator. The con- ning tower is eight. hes thick. The only way to see. outajde jp through a few narrow slits. Our*flegt i imposing ar- ray. The Indiana is tie Gnest ship in the navy. ** « It will be remembered that D. Pratt Man- nix is the son of the late Capt. Mannix of the Marine Corps. Mr. Mannix in 1893 was appointed @ cadet to the Naval Academy from the Cincinnati and also et, selected as one of the alternates-at-large by | G. R the President. June 30, 1898, BS EES Mr. B. Francis Saul has been elected a director in the Columbia National Bank. ‘Thomas n was today fined $15 by Scanls: Judge Kimball and required to give a real estate bond for $100 to keep the peace, for — areas and t oan to kill John L, jurphy, colored. ie ity grew out ofa ite over the dr : ‘of See Seles Ra Oene bs Murppy day fined $20" 2d | PATRIOTIC SERVICES. Local Churches Arrange to Commem- orate Independence Day. A patriotic service will be held in the E Street Baptist Church tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Rev. Dr. T. 8. Hamlin of the Church of the Covenant and Dr. L. D. Lodge of Columbian University, will deliv- er addresses appropriate to the occasion, and patriotic music will be sung. The Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church has arranged for a patriotic demon- stration at Belmont, 14th and Boundary, on the grounds of A. L. Barber's resi- dence, Monday, July 4, beginning at 5:30 o'clock p.m. There will be music by the young ladies’ chorus of the church, con- ducted by Mr. C. Burlew. Mrs, John A. Logan will preside, and Dr. Frank M. Bristol and Representative Barrows of Boston, Mass., will make orations. The grounds will be appropriately decorated. ——— OFFERS TO TAKE BONDS. Proposals for the Government Loan Aggregate $790,000,000. Inquiries at the Treasury Department elicit the information that the total pro- posals for the new government loan ag- Sregate $790,000,000. Of this amount there have been r2celved and absolutely ac- cepted: Subscriptions for amounts of $500 and less, $40,000,000; subscriptions in amounts over $500, subject to future allot- ment, $250,000,000; a proposal for a round lot at a premium of 1 per cent, $100,000,000; two syndicate propositions for any part or all of the bonds offered, $20,000,000 each, 400,000,000. These syndicate offers and this offer for bonds at a premium are not in the regular form, although they came from entirely re- sponsibia sources, and no allotment will be made in either case. It is expected that subscriptions will increase in number with the beginning of the new month. Savings bank deposits will probably be realized to a considerable amount, as th2 six-month in- terest period is July, and withdrawais can be made by the depositors without sacrific- ing any interest. ———_eo——__ MEMORY OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Bill to Incorporate a Memorial and Historical Association. Mr. Gallinger has introduced a bill in the Senate to incorporate the Frederick Doug- lass Memorial and Historical Association. Th2 purposes of the bill are set forth as follows: “First, to preserve to posterity the memory of the heroic character and life of the late Frederick Douglass; second, to col- lect and preserve forev2r an historical rec- crd of the inception, progress and culmina- tion of the anti-slavery movement in the United States, and to assemble in the homestead of th2 late Frederick Douglass, commonly called “Cedar Hill,” in Anacos- tia, all other suitable exhibits of records or things that illustrate the anti-slavery movement; third, to promote the American principle of the security of civil liberty and th2 establishment of the absolute soctal, civil and political equality of all men and women in law and in fact.”” The incorpor- ators named by the bill are Helen Doug- lass, Willizm’ H. H. Hart, Francis J. ae, Sarah Blackall and Edward A. larke. ee Going From Fort Myer. Batteries C and M of the 6th Artillery, at Fert Myer, Va., have been assigned’ to duty with the expedition 10 the Philip- p:nes. It is expected that they will start on their transcontinental journey next ye : ——_-e-_____ Personal Mention. Walker E. McBath, who was a member of the class of 1892, Washington High School, graduated recently from the Uni- versity of Tennesse2, having completed a four years’ course. He has returned to his home in this city after a short trip with his camera through the Smoky mountains. Arthur G. Newmyer is visiting relatives in Allegheny, Pa. Mr. James E. Fitch js spending the month of July at Haverford, Pa. Capt. Cutier and wife have returned from Atlantic City, where he went for his health, and he is again on duty at the municipal Icdging house. 3 Baron von Colditz of the German army, on lzave, has received permission to ac- from the Secretary of War. This officer has seen much service in the course of his fifteen years’ duty, and is very enthusi- astic in the present war. ——————-+-______ . Duchess of York Stakes. ~ LONDON, July 2.—At the first day’s rac- DELAY IN TRANSFER] ‘ct: <*7rens 2 se sexern. Agreement to Conference Report om the Brightwood Railway Bill. The Senate this afternoon agreed to the conference report on the Brightwood rail- vay bill, This bill requires the Brightwood company to abandon its overlead trolley on Kenyon strest between 7th and 14th streets, The conference report was agreed to by the House yesterday afterncon. The deficiency appropriation bill was again before th Senate this afternoon, a report of the conferees being received which showed an agreement on every item of the till except that affecting the Pacific rall- roads. The conferees agreed upon the Sen- ate amendment for the payment of awards of condemnation for the extension of Con- necticut avenu> from Florida avenue to Waterside drive, for which $230,000 ts ap- propriated, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. A resolution has been introduced in the Senate and ts now b2fore the committes to audit and control the contingent expenses of the Senate, providing that Joseph Me- Guckian be appointed as a special watch- jan at a salary of $00 per month, to be paid out of the contingent fund of the S2n- ate, and that he be assigned to ald H. H. Lemon in the dome of the Capitol. Mr. Mo- Guckian has for a number of years been employed about the Capitol, but has lately® had nothing to do there. Troops at Camp Alger to Remain Another Week. STATEMENT FROM SECRETARY ALGER Repost of Commission on Fever Conditions in Camp. TRIALS BY COURT-MARTIAL Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. CAMP ALGER, Va., July 2, 1898. Secretary Alger is authority for the state- ment that no additional troops will be sent from Camp Alger to Santiago before the 8th or 9th of the month. The reason for this is that the auxiliary cruisers Yale and Harvard, which were selected for the pur- pose of transporting the troops to Cuba, will not be reddy to start on their next trip for that island before the date men- tioned. This is a change in the original ar- rangement under which it was expected that the Yale would be ready to sail from Newport News by the 8d or 4th with a de- tachment of General Henry's division for the reinforcement of Shafter’s army in Cuba. The Harvard is not expected back 80 soon. The change was necessitated by reason of the fact that instead of returning direct to Newport News it was found expedient to have the Yale go to New York. Although not so stated, there is reason for the be- lief that the charge in the program was made in order to allow the Yale to take a number of sick and wounded soldiers from Santiago for treatment in the hos- pitals of the more northern cities. In view of the delay in the return ot the steamer to Newport News, the author- {ties of the War Department have deemed it best to have the troops of General Henry's division, which have been ordered to Santiago, remain at Camp Alger until the steamer is at Newport News ready to take them to Santiago, and thus subject them to no unnecessary delay at Newport News. General Henry has been in frequent consultation with the officials of the War Department regarding the movement of his division to Santiago, and has reported that it Is ready to start on its journey at an hour's notice. Complete arrangements had been made for the departure of the troops from Camp A‘ger today, and there was considerable disappointment among them when it be- came known that there would be a delay of several days. Y The first result of the typhoid fever = vestigation in Camp Alger was manifest this morning in the form of a report on the sanitary condition around the New York cavalry. As the number of cases increased steadily until there were eight troopers af- fected by_typhoid fever at one time, Col. A. C. Girard appointed a commission to in- quire into the causes of this epidemic. It is this commission that has submitted a re- port. The full text of the report is as fol- lows: “The board, after investigating and look- ing into the source of the water supply of the cavalry camp, find that of the eight cases of typhoid fever developed in the command since its reaching here four were contracted before leaving home, as they de- veloped in a few days after coming here. The four cases contracted while in camp are the direct result, without doubt, of carelessness in drinking water while on practice marches or doing orderly duty about the camp. The board is prompted to this finding because the water used by the cavalry command while in camp is either boiled or is water that has been shipped from New York and certified to as being pure.” Attached to the report are the signatures of Surgeon Majors Cook, Phillips and Aimy. This seems to dispose of the fear of fur- ther cases of typhoid among the New York cavalrymen. Doubt Still Exists. Notwithstanding the document quoted above the impression still prevails among surgeons all over the camp that something ought to be done to prevent further spread of typhoid contagion. They insist that to delay the inauguration of proper preven- tive measures {is to invite a calamity that will cripple the entire corps. Accordingly Majors Parke and Divine have gone on with an independent investigation. Even professional courtesy, as it exists in the army, they conclude, would not out- weigh the sense of responsibility felt by every regimental surgeon on the ground, and this sense of responsibility will not be satisfied until these regimental surgeons have done all in their power to avert the disease. Eight additional cases were dis- covered today. Work of Court-Martial. For its first day's work the new court- martial of the 1st Division disposed of two eases. The accused men were Private Max Freedman of the ist Division Hospital Corps, and James Miller, Company K of the 7th Ohio. Freedman is a regular nurse and has been honorably discharged twice during the period of his service. The charge against him is sleeping while on guard. He pleaded not guilty and submit- ted a lengthy statement in his own behalf. The only witnesses introduced were Pri- vates George Allison and A. C. Kipple, also of the Hospital Corps. In the course of his statement Freedman explained that he had stood guard without reli2f for 168 hours, or through the long round of seven complete days. Hiseimme- diate superior is Acting Sergt. E. C. Fitz- gerald, and it was by his order that so long a term of guard duty was exacted. Fitzgerald is a drug clerk from New York city. Private Miller was charged with assault- ing an officer, but it was developed that the assault was at the worst only a techrilcal offense. It seems that the fault lay with those who had instructed Miller of his du- ties as a sentinel. Maj. Irwin of the 2d Battalion, 7th Ohio, appeared-in Miller's defensz. Orders came to Troops A and C, Ist, New York Cavalry, this morning, from the War Department, directing them to prepare to leave at any minute. This command has been ready ever since its arrival in camp, lacking only the khaki uniforms, which Ought to be here by next Monday. No Drills in Heat of Day. Drill hzs been suspended in nearly every regiment in camp during tho heat of each day. This action is quite voluntary on the part of the colonels commanding. Among the first to seve such orders was Col. John T. Barnett of the 159th Indiana. Others who have adopted the same course are Col. 8. M. Welch, jr., of the 65th New York; Col. E. M. Hoffman of the 34 New York; Col. D. Jack Foster of the 6th Illi- nois, Col. C. V. Hard of the 8th Ohto, Col. Wocdward of the 10th Massachusetts, and Col. H. N. Coursen of the 13th Pennsyl- vania. Col. Marcus Kavanaugh of the 7th Tilinois has had a spece cleared in the woods, where the men may drill in the shade. Hearts Made Glad. A LIVELY CHASE, Deputy Sherif Pursues a Suspect Other News. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md4., July 2, 1898. Deputy Sheriff Charles W. Barr of this, village had an exciting chase after an al- leged horse thief yesterday afternoon. He received a telephone message about 1 o'clock from the Maryland egricultural experiment station at College Park says ing that a suspicious-looking character had been attempting all the morning to sell a fine horse, which he was riding, and that Prof. E. M. Brinkley of the experiment sta- tion was then attempting to detain the man until an cfficer arrived. Before the constable reached College Park the man, whose suspicions were evidently aroused, hurriedty departed in the direction of Lake- land. Constable Barr secured a @escription of the man and went in pursuit. When passing through a woods near Lakeland fe caught a glimpse of the man, about two hundred yards ahead of him, end a hot chase began. For over a mile i: was kept up, until the man came to the steep bank of the river, where, not being able to rido across, he abandoned the horse and took to his heels through the woods. The con- stable secured the horse and returned to Hyattsville. The owner of the animal has not yet been discovered. The regular monthly meeting of the board of town commissioners wiil be held next Tuesday evening. The woodcock season is at its height in this section of the country. Yesterday Mr. Ellery Coffin, son of ex-Congressman Chas. E. Coffin, bagged seventeen. It is again positively stated by those in charge of the Columbia and Maryland rail- road that the road will be completed be- tween the District line and Berwyn Heights within a short time. ee ELECTRIC WIRE CONDUITS. The Subject to Be Investigated Dur- ing the Recess. The subject of electric lighting and a gen- eral conduit system for the District of Co- lumbla will be taken up by the Senate com- mittee on the District of Columbia and thoroughly investigated during the coming summer and next winter. In the Senate today Mr. Gallinger, for ‘ Mr. McMillan, introduced two bills bearing on these subjects. The one to provide @ conduit system for the District of Colum- bia comprises the Pitney amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill. The other comprises the Senate committee amend@- ment on electric lighting. The conferees failed to come to an agreement on these amendments and they were both thrown out of the bill by the action of the Senate in receding from its amendment to the House provision under the head of electric lighting. The purpose in introducing these bills at this time is merely to get the whole ques- tion of electric lighting and a conduit tem before the Senate committee on the District of Columbia, so that it may be dis- posed of on some satisfactory and perma- nent basis. The bills have been referred to this committee and will promptly be for- warded to the Commissioners for a report on the plans suggested in the bills. It is expected that at the meeting of Congress next December the committee will have the report of the Commissioners and will be able to take up these questions with a view to securing some satisfactory legislation. Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses hav: been issued as fol- lows: White—Charles W. Brooks an@ Katherine M. Costello. George Edward King, Mont- gomery county, Md. and Mary Estella Hitchcock, Alexandria, Va. James E. Mc- Kinney and Lulu L. Bixby, Meadville, Pa. Henry W. Saul and Ella Parley. Clarence C. Hollidge and Nettie Beulah Gudgin. Colored—Walter Jackson end Charlotte Lewis. Chas. H. Walker and Sarah Scott. James Toliver and Sarah Brown. Frank Scott and Amanda 8. Butler. > CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS. They Have Strange Politeness an From the St. Louls Republic. The spirit of economy in the Chinese race transcends all that can be imagined, ‘The smallest particle of matter is utilized. The old cast-off account book of the merchant is cut into pieces and oiled to serve, instead of glass, in windows or lan- terms. A coolie who has a six hours’ march with a heavy burden will return to his peint of departure without having broken bis fast, in order to save the two cents his breakfast would have cost away from bome. Nothing is more curious than to see them eat, although, with their famous chopsticks, they do not perform all the wonderful feats generally ~supposed, Everything is served them in bowls, or saucers, and with the chopsticks they ra‘se the pieces of meat or fish to the mouth, with sufficient grace. Hach one has a bowl of rice, which he holds near his lips, and, with the eld of the chopsticks, he pushes the contents into his mouth. It is curious te see them pick up with their chopsticks the grains of rice that fall on the ground. ‘the children are taught this art from their earliest years; nothing must be lort, not even the smallest grain. What remains of the repast is put carefully away, served at another meal. Their dogs and cats are not overfed, as the scraps from the table are rare. Europeans politeness as an ex-, pression of those qualities of the heart which render the person who to he polite agreeable to those with whom he is thrown. The Chinese“ look upon matter from an entirely different stand- Vee The same sentiment which accords portance to the preservation of } regulates his actions as er gan polite- — their polite- jeas of Economy, Gratitude. g would be on hand to pay them off “Accordingly each regimental adjutant set to work and had“the lists of his battalion ready before 8 o'clock last night. Th> 6th the contemptible condition in you Set ae Se Pons benorab}e presnace, To determine your luct. when @ Chinese offers you a present, is the most difficult thing in the world. Certain things re not offered to be accepted, and others may not be refused peremptorily. In @ a oe gre og argh) understanding

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