Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1898, Page 2

‘ THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1898-12 PAGES. LANDED AT JURAGUA District Soldiers Went Ashore in Small Boats. . SHAPTER INCLINED TO ACCEPT GEN. Reported That He Favored It is Gen. Toral’s Terms. THE TROOPS’ CONDITION (Copyright. 1888, by the Associated Press. JURAGUA, July 10, via the Assoctated Press Dispatch Boat Dandy to Port Anto- . July 11, via Kingston, Jamai- ca, July 11, 9:30 a.m—The District of Co- lumbia infantry, consisting of 915 men, ar- rived her this morning on the Catania and began landing at once. The shores of this little cove were the busiest place in Cuba this afternoon. Five either disembarking thousand m: were from steamers or preparing to take up the march to General Shafter’s headquarters near Santiago. There was as much confusion as If ten circuses were preparing to make camp. he officers were looking for horses and mules, trying to keep their men together, sendi ck men to the hospital and at- tending to rations and baggage. The engineers were building a rough wharf of heavy timbers, to be used in land- ing artillery from the lighters. The Ist illinois Infantry, numbering 1,350 men, which arrived yesterday and began lisembarking last night, were probably the first of General Shafter’s reinforcements to reach him. About 950 recruits for the reg- ular regiments in the field were also well under way to the front. The auxiliary cruiser St. Paul has also arrived here with the Sth Ohio Infantry, ) men. The steamer is at anchor qui a dis e from the shore, which necessl- tates a long pull the boats in order to the men ashor he landing of troops here Is necessarily made in small boats. Landing is Safe. The boats run through a light surf, and the landing {s as safe as at a wharf, though the men often get wet. tt a long time to unload regi- S, horses and mules, whch are hore on lighters. The artillery nded when the wharf fs extended. of light artillery and siege gnanned, will require more many animais. left Juragua it was ex- nole expedition would be soon strung al: the ten miles ‘between the landing place and the front, the int. try going in light order, with three day: rations and rain coat At 5 o'clock a heavy thre: ing to make in terie guns, if fully than 1,000 men When the Da pected that the rain was falling and the road disagreeable antry and very bad for the ar- auxiliaries, with rifle and out in large force, draw- They seem to have recovered state of semi-starvation and ng fat. = of the doctors orders, our sol- ng, bought and ate man- er pulpy fruits. Cocoanuts udant and the soldiers feast- Cuban lan fterncon the hospital ship here, and all the sick who moved were taken from nd placed on beard her. anded men had a de- volunteers. that General Shafter ac surre with the troops wearing their and the American coramander ent a long dispatch to arguments in the Spanish re the offer to of id to have urged the immediate posses- rber and city so as to army free to undertake to a report, ptance ¢ General Shafter General Toral’s offer s of iers and relief of the starv- ly. The advantage neral Shafter is als out, will not be large. 3 response, it is ru as was General occasion. TO BE THE FIRST GARRISON, to said to Pre First New York Regiment Will Stationed at Honotula. It was definitely decided today that the lst Regiment, New York Volunteer Infan- constituta the first garrison of y established at Hon- Be olulu, It was should be inclu ment of California ———__ 2 —____ in a Fight. also ded that the islands in the military depart- Winis and. Charles Chunn of Company A, 4 giment of Missouri, now encamped at Alger, were sligh’ wounded he thuntb and arm, ne C streets fressed ut ally realized that d round by as est un- These regulations, are under the sami zed countries of the fair play for perhaps, ne of wa jctions as a boxing con verry rules. may be removed to a ; and every care must be urches and hospitals, as ble or educational build- octors and nurses are pro- yssible way, and are not to taken prisoners or in any way injured. Any soldier rebbing or mutilating an ene- my is labi shot without trial, and death is the j alty for wounding or kili- ing a disa enemy are to de care- burial, and any arti- fch might to a are to be sent to che proper quarters. Explosive ust not be used, and quarte emy wheth- er be in attack on the » concealment of 2 regiments, Pois stricty f bidde: te- : onsular Evolution. A Wholesome ¢ w of Re e equal the rfotic and will nt to appoint the best We possess already a ow or at some former and coi r posts in could furnish plenty of ganization and satisfac fa region ke the Phil- we are coming to the & polities from these ap- | subsistence ments to foreign service. THEY FAVORED ACCEPTANCE. American Genernis Reported as Thinking Teral’s Terms Fair. {Copyright. 1898, by the Associated Press.] Siboney, Province of Santiago de Cuba, July 10, 3 p.m:, via Playa del Este, by the Associated Press Dispatch Boat Cynthia Il.—There are only seventy-five wounded men in the hospitals here, who are being treated for serious amputations or bone fractures. In the hospitals at the front there are no wounded soldiers. The serious cases and all the rest of the wounded are on board the hospital ship Relief or on the transports bound north. The situation from a sanitary point of view is suscepti- ble of much improvement. The landing of reinforcements ts pro- gressing rapidly. All the men of the Ist Illinois Regiment, six batteries of light ar- tillery and 851 recruits for the regular in- fantry are now ashore, and it is probable the 8th Ohio men from the St. Paul will be landed by noon tomorrow. « A coal laden schooner, the Stevens, drift- ed against the hospital ship Relief and both would have drifted ashore but for the prompt assistance rendered them by the Cynthia II. General Shafter held a conference with the American generals at the front today concerning the offer made by the Spanish commander, General Toral, to surrender Santiago if the Spanish garrison were al- lowed to march out with the side arms and have twenty miles start without molesta- tion. General Toral agreed that if this was accepted he would not destroy the ships in the harbor, the ammunition in the forts or the buildings in the city. The majority of the generals, General Wheeler leading, were in favor of the acceptance of these terms, on the ground that the Spaniards could march out to the westward anyhow and burn the city and destroy all the ves- sels, guns and ammunition before leaving. Food an. water are very scarce in San- tiago. On biscuit was recently sold for % in gold. The Cub n auxiliaries were put to work this morn‘ng policing the camp at this place. It is earnestly hoped that Dr. Guiteras will order all the buildings here to be burned immediately, and thus reduce the chances of the spread of a serious epidemic. ED TO DUTY. to Officers of Army. Major Edward Martin, surgeon, has been assigned to duty with the 2d Army Corps at Falls Church, Va. Officers of the army have been assigned to duty as follows: Lieutenant R. S. Wells, 34 Volunteer Cavalry, to Chickamauga; Major G. W. Fishback, to Fredericksburg; Lieutenant B. O. Lenoir, signal corps, to Washington Barracks, D. C.; Captains H. E. Mitchell, W. M. Ekin and E. B. Harri- son, assistant quartermasters, to Chicka- mauga; Colonel Dallas Bache of the med- ical department, to Woods Holl, Mass., for the purpose of Inspecting the buildings be- longing to the fish commission with refer- ence to the establishment of a general hos- pital at that point. Lieut. W. E. Davies, Signal Corps, to St. Louis, Mo.; Acting Assistant Surgeon J. the J. Curry, to Fort Myer, Va.; Lieut. R. R. Ramond, Corps of Engineers, to Boston, Mass.; Acting Assistant Surgeon G. R. Plummer, Key West; Major J. M. Carson, jr., quartermaster, to duty as acting chief quartermaster of the 1st Army Corps; Majors W. C. Weiss, Clifford Arrick, M. Carr and W. B. Dwight, additional pay- tasiers, to Atlanta, Ga.; Major J. M. Lee, 9th Infantry, to Tampa, Fla.; Lieut. W. Me Nohnston, 16th Infantry, to Key West, a. Lieut. Col. Chas. L. Withrow, First Lieut. A. R. Joyce, adjutant, and First Lieut. J. C Dysart, assistant surgeon, have been o: dered to proceed from this city to Augus' Ga., where the headquarters of the 10th United States Volunteer Infantry has been transferred. The following named officers have re- signed jeut. Col, H. A. Shenton, 6th Penn- sylvania Volunteers; Capt. D. F. Boyden, Sth Maryland Volunteers; Capt. Chas. Stackhous>, 21st Kansas Volunteers; Lieut. J. H. Doremus, 24 New Jersey Vohintee: Lieut. C. S Hunt, 1st South Dakota Volur teers; Lieut. H. K. Scott, 157th Indiana Vol- untee: and Chaplain F. C. Brunner, 3d Illinois Volunteers. Lieut. W. H. Allaire, 224 Infantry, has been detailed as mustering officer, acting quartermaster and acting commissary of in connection with mustering into the United States service at this city of recruits for the 6th and Sth United States Volunteer Infantry. The following second lieutenants, recent- ly appointed, have been assigned to regi- ments as follows: J. F. Wilkinson to the 2ist Infantry; T. R. Harker to the 15th In- fantry. Officers of the army have been assigned to duty as follows: Captain F. B. Harrison, A. A. G. Chickamauga; Lieut. Col. G. B. Geputy judge advocate general York city; First Lieut. Wm. Jarv , Jr., and Second Lieut. H. C. Baldwin, signal corps, to Washington Barracks; Acting Assistant Surgeon Humphrey Bate, jr., to Chicka- mauga; Acting Assistant Surgeon S. W. Kelley to Tampa; Lieut. E. M. Fullington, to Charleston, 8. C. Acting Assistant Surgeon F. R. Dolson, to Fort St. Philip, La.; Lieut. E. L. Pat- terson, 21st New York Volunteers, to spe- cial duty with Gen. Henry; Capt. C! J. Goff, stant quartermaster, to Santiago; Maj. a. Hammond of the pay department, to Charleston; Lieut. Desha Breckinridge, 3d Regimeut Volunteer Engineers, to Santiago, for duty as aid-de-camp to Maj. Gen. Breckinridge. Lieut. Charles E. Walton, 6th Massa- Inf: atry, has r2signed on account 1 health. Brig. Gen. Joseph K. Hudson has been crdered to Tampa for assignment to com- mand of a brigade of the 4th Army Corps. Lieut. J. L. Sehon, 20th Infantry, has — ordered to examination for promo- tion. Col. David Perry, 9th Cavalry, has been retired on account of disability. —-e- "S TRIAL TRIP. *KASAG Japan's Crulser Will Make It Of New Hampshire This Week. The Japanese protected cruis2r Kasagi sailed from Cramps’ shipyard at daylight Saturday morning for her official trial trip, which will be made off the New Hampshire coast probably tomorrow. The ship is in charge of Captain Redwood W. Sargent and is manned by a crew of ex- pert mechanics, firemen and sailors from Cramps’ shipyards. Superintending Engt neer Edwin S. Cramp represents the build- ers and the party on board includes the Japanese naval officers who have supervis- ed the ship's construction. In addition, there are a few Invited guests. The course over which the speed trial is to be made is laid out at the upper end of the govern- ment trial course and is twenty miles long. The contract calls for a forty-mile run under forced draught, and the speed re- quirement is an average of 22% knots an hour. On her recent builders’ trial the Kasagi raged 23 knots an hour-and it is expected that the result of Tuesday's trial will prove her to be the fastest ship of her class in the world. ———_—-e-—___ ZOLA SENTENCED AGAIN, Must Pay 2,000 Franes Fine for Libel- ing Handwriting Experts, In the libel svit of the three handwrit- Ing experts in the Estarhazy case against M. Emile Zola and M. Per- reux, the editor of the Aurore, growing out of allegations made by the latter against the experts who testified regarding Dreyfus docum2nts, the court has sentenced M. Zola to sixteen days’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of 2,000 francs. The impris- onmen:, hewever, is suspended. In addi- tion, cach of the experts is awarded 3,000 francs damages. — Coal Miners’ Strike Broken. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 11.—The strike of the coal miners in the third pool is practi- cally broken, and most of the men have re- turned to work without obtaining the dis- trict price. a ACTIVITY AT CAMP ee The Great Army is Being Equipped With All Possible Haste. Belief That There Will Be a Heavy Movement of the Troops This Week. CHICKAMAUGA-CHATTANOOGA NA- TIONAL MILITARY PARK, Tenn., July 10.—The great army at Camp Thomas is now being equipped with all possible haste and the supplies are reaching camp by the car load. Heretofore it has been the policy of the department to ship the ordnance and quartermaster'’s stores to Camp Thoma; by freight, but now the equipment is being sent here by express. During the last twenty-four hours Capt. Zalinski, quartermaster, who has in charge the disbursing of all clothing and equip- page supplies at Camp Thomas, received six car loads of supplies by express, while fourteen ear loads by freight have reached camp. This equipment is being issued to the various commands almost upon its ar- rival. One day the two great storehouses under Capt. Zalinski are filled with sup- Plies, while the next the buildings are empty. Today the houses are taxed to their ut- most with all kinds of supplies, which are constantly arriving from Philadelphia, St. Louis, Chicago, Boston and Jeffersonville, Ind.- The amount of underclothing recent- ly received is simply enormous, sufficient to supply an army of 40,000 men. Among the supplies now being issued are 10,000 pairs of shoes, 5,000 blouses, 6,000 blankets and 20,000 trimmings for uniforms, inciud- ing the stripes, ete. The 1st Corps, as well as the 34, is well fitted with shelter tents. It appears that quite a good deal of the clothing at first issued to the men was of an inferior grade and on this account a segorid isssue is be- ing received by many of the soldiers at Camp Thomas. An official who is in a position to know states that the entire Ist Corps was well equipped as far as quarter- master’s supplies are concerned, while the ordnanée department is rapidly fitting out the command. Maj. Nye, commissary of subsistence of the Chattanooga army supply depot, has received an official notification from the commissary general, stating that 360,000 travel rations, enough to last 3,850 men for about 100 days, had been purchased and would be shipped to the local depot at once. The rations will begin to arrive to- morrow and will continue coming in all the week, These travel rations consist for the most part of canned corned beef, can- ned salmon, salt and hardtack, and will be sent out with every body of troops that leaves the park for the front. There is an impression among the offi- cers at Camp Thomas that there will be a heavy movement of troops during the coming week. The 1st Ohio Cavalry leay tomorrow morning, its preparations for de- parture being complete. It is said that the entire Ist Arm) Corps will get away be- fore the end of the week. The 24 Bri- gade, vision, Ist Corps, may get away tomorrew or Wednesday. ‘The de- parture of this brigade depends upon the ability of the officials to get transports to Charleston, S. C. Pursuant to orders from the War De- partment, tivee wagon trains of twenty- sons each and 324 mules are he- loaded for shipment to Charleston, whence ihey go to Santiago. The special train bearing the mules and wagons will get away tenight. The officers of every regiment have their hands full giving attention to privates who slipped the guard lines during the last few days. The guard houses are full, and some disposition must be made of the of- fenders at once. The punishment is gen- erally a heavy fine and police duty, but in sume cases the men are dishonorably discharged. —_—__—_ GIVES RISE TO MUCH TALK. Conference Between the President and the French Ambaxsador. Just how much significance may be at- tached to a conference at the White House late this afternoon is not known. Just be- fore 2:30 o'clock M. Jules Cambon, the French ambassador, and M. Thiebaut, the first secretary of the French legation, went to the White House and were ushered into the blue rocm, where they were Join- ed by President McKinley. . A few minutes later Assistant Secretary Moore of the State Department arrived and “as ushered into the same parlor. A con- ference of ten or fifteen minutes was held. Speculaticn has full swing. Some believe that the French ambassador submitted of- ficial peace propositions. The visit was an rnusual one and gave rise to much gossip. Secretary Day 1s cut of the city, and, it is claimed, if Ambassador Cambon had any- thing important to submit it is likely that he would go direct to the White House. If Secrstary Day had been here he would have gone to the State Department. ———--2e* THE TOTAL NUMBER LOST. Latest Report of Casualties by Gen- eral Shafter. ‘The adjutant general received a dispatch from General Shafter this afternoon as follows: SIBONEY, Cuba, July 11—Reports of casualties in action of July 1, 2 and 3 show: Killed, officers, 208 men; wounded, 80 officers, 1,203 men; missing, 81 men. Grand total, 1,595. Number of missing will be re- duced. Number by mail giving names. CHAIN DID NOT BREAK ae Allegation of Witngds to Capital Rail- SAYS THE CAR WAS. OVERCROWDED Also That Condudtor and Motor- man Both Jumped Off. see ae ‘\ THE CORONER’S INQUIRY The body of the man killed in the accl- dent on the Capital railway last night was removed this afternoon to the undertaking establishment of J. W. Lee, No. 332 Penn- sylvania avenue, where an inquest was held by direction of Coroner Carr. Thers were several witnesses in attendance who had not been summoned, among them a man who was interested in the operation of the brake on the car. The jury was composed of Alfred W. Wilson, Charles W. Dewning, John Garner, Daniel C. Frahey, J. T. Fleishhamer and Edward R. Plant. Deputy Coroner Glazebrook was the first witness examined. He performed the au- topsy. He told of the many bruises he found about the man’s head and body, as well as on his legs, and said that his pelvic bones were crushed. His bladder was rup- tured, and death, he said, resulted from hemorrhage following the infliction of in- juries, Braxton L. Mohler, 511 6th street south- east, testified that he went over to Con- gress Heights last night in company with Mrs. Baldwin. They remained until the pictures were shown and started home about 9:30 o'clock. The car came at a moderate rate of speed for a while. Be- fore the conductor finished loading the car he was told not to take any more passen- gers. A man not on the car scemed to be guiding the movements of the people. Just after the car started the speed, witness thought, was about eight or ten miles an heur. When the last start was made the car was making a more rapid rate. When a down grade was reached the car was £0- ing at about twenty or twenty-five miles an hour, and when the asylum hill was reached witness realized that the car was beyond the motorman’s control. Namber of Passengers. “I should say there were between 140 and 160 people on the car,” said witness. ‘The passengers were packed in and out like sardines.” The witress safd the claim had been made that the chain on the brake broke. “That,” he said, “is false, for the brake worked all down the hill.” Near the top of the hill, he said, the con- ductor “quietly jumped" and near the foot of the hill the motorman got off. “Did you say both the motorman and con- ductor left the car before the collision oc- curred?” asked a juror. “Yes, sh he answered, “and a lady asked me why the conductor had left the car. I told her I thought he had been pushed off, as I’ did not want to alarm her.”” : What Examination Showed. Witness said he understood that an ex- amination 2f the ‘car made after the ac- cident occurred showed that the chain un- der the car had broken. This may be true, he said, but be was pesitive that the brake werked down the hill. Witness said he thought if the motor- man and conductor had remained on the car they could have stopped it at the bot- tom of the hill, and avoided the serious accident. ‘There were seven women on the rear platform, and in witness’ opiaion no one touched the tear brake. inductor Werner was called in, and wit- ness said he was not the man to whom he (witness) had referred, as the conductor of the car. Motorman’s Testimony, Arthur Shelby, motorman, was also. en amined. He testified that when the car was half way down the hili the chain brake broke, and witness gave the con- ductor three bells. As soon as he did so the rear brake was applied. The car, he said, was going slowly when the chain’ broke, but it we i t by the time the rear brake was applied “Did you have a single or double brak “Single brake. Witness said he thought there were about seventy-five passengers on the car last night. He thought the car had a seating capacity of about forty. Witness had not concluded his testimony when The Star's report closed. ee Te Cheap and “Hasty, To the Eaitor of The Evening Star: The accident on the Capital railway at Hillsdale last evening is the culmination of what every thoughtfui person has predicted and feared from the time the road was laid and the dangerous curve put down to get around the turn table of the horse cars. An electric car coming down the heavy grade of the asylum hill, in order to avoid the Anacostia horse cars (frem one to three of which are always at the terminus) must go on a curve that is hard- ly the length of the car. In the case of a runaway car, if it should keep the track at the commencement of this curve it would be sure to leave it at its center, and would then crash into the row of buildings above Douglass Hall. The buildings are erected on piles and are of frail construc- tion, and they and the heavy car would of necessity be precipitated into the hollow below, which is from fifteen to twenty-five feet deep. in the accident last night the car jumped the track before entering “dead-man’s curve,” and crashed into and demolished the only Anacostia horse car that hap- pened to be there. Douglass Hall, with its rumerous tenants, was only saved from utter destruction by the car coming in contact with the iron trolley pole in tront of it, which deflected the car’s course suf- ficiently to keep it below the curb. I suppose there can be no doubt that this SHAFTER, Major General Commanding. 2+ THE COTTON CROP. Average Condition Reported to the Agricultural Department. The cotton returns to the statistician of the Department of Agriculture made up to July 1 indicate an average condition of 91.2, as compared with 89 on June 1, 1898, with 96 on July 1, 1897, and with 92.5 on July 1, 1896. j The averages of the principal states are as follows: North Carolina, 87; South Carolina, Georgia and Lousiana, 99; Ala- tama, 91; Texas, Tennessee and Oklahoma, 92; Arkensas, 88; Mississippi, 94; Indian territory, 89. ——_—_-e+—_____ The Norse King Bought. The negotiations for the purchase of the British freighter Norse King have been concluded by the engineer bureau of the Navy Department. The vessel, which is a large freight steamer, is now at Norfolk being fitted up as a distilling vessel. The sale was negotiated by Henry W. Coffin for the British owvers, and the price paid was about $176,000. a dangerous state of affairs was authorized We the District officiais, and it now becomes their duty to prohibit the running of cars down this hill until the trackage arrange- ments at its foot are changed so as to give the electric cars a clear sweep of straight track on the level. ‘The Capital railway was brought into ex- istence by the urgent work of a few citizens of Anacostia, who believed Mr. Randle when he said capital was forthcoming, and that we would have: a first-class double- track electric railway to take the plaee of the miserable bobrtailycar service, which the Anacostia road officials ‘told us was “‘as good as the patronage.” The charter ob- tained, there has ot Wéen one day of sat- isfactory service since it was built. The underground “contact system” on the city side of the road requires a force to keep it in repair, both day and right. Horses still pull the hea across the bridge notwithstanding the fatt that Congress a month ago authorized the use of the over- head trolley. Two cars, from twenty to thirty minuies apart, are considered sutti- cient for the travel inthe day time, and an extra car is put on at nightfall to ac- commodate thousands of passengers who seck the cool air of the heights, It is not the exception, but the rule, for these cars to be overcrowded both day and night, and the lack of sufficient cars and consequent overcrowding was the prime cause of last night’s accident at thée!death trap at the foot of Asylum hill. “Cheap and nasty” Bryan's Regiment Ordered South, William Jennings Bryan's regiment of Nebraska infantry today were ordered to join General Fitzhugh Lee’s corps at Jack- sonville. a —____+-- e+ Artillery Departs. Battery C, commanded by Capt. H. R. Lemly, and Battery M, Capt. M. M. Mc- Comb, 7th Artillery, stationed at Fort Myer, Va., left here on a special train this afternoon for Tampa, Fla., to await fur- ther orders. They are expected to proceed to Cuba. Each command has 173 men, six guns, 100 horses‘and full equipment of smokeless powder. The men are the first to start from a home station for the front provided with khaki or brown canvas uni- forms. Gescribes the Capital raijway. . B. DARLING. Anacostia, July 11, 1898. Orders to District Mei Privates George Shultz, Company N, and W. H. Stark, Company D, Ist District of Columbia Volunteers, now in Cuba, have been discharged from the service of the United States. Private Paul E. Chamberlin, Company G, 1st District of Columbia Volunteer Infan- try, has been ordered to join his company near Santiago, Cuba. + Kansas City Politician Dend. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 11.—City Andi- tor Thomas C. Belle, thirty-nine years old, is deal of typhoid fever after a two nonths’ illness. Before entering politics Mr. Belle was a member of the Journal Teportorial staff. ONE HUNDRED YEARS The Age of the United States Marine Corps. The Organization Then and Now— How It Was Formed and When, ._ Today the United States Marine Corps, a: a corps, is 100 years old. On American werships in oppcsite quarters of the globe the centennial arniversary will be toasted, avd wherever the stars and stripes float from a nayat station the corps will be rep- resented. | ‘The past hundred years have been crowd- ed with brilvant exploits of this arm of the military service of the United States. The history of the Marine Corps is replete with gallant acticns. Wherever the Amor- ican navy Aas figured, in war or in peace, the Marine Corps has been represented, and with distincticn. The first suthentic record of marines in America, according to Collum’s history of the corps, bears the date of 1740. Barly In that vear three additional regiments were raised when the royal standard was dis played at New Yerk as a port to which any volunteer mazine was to repair. November 10, 1775, after-the Continental Congress had the resolved that the compact between crown and che people of Massachuset! was dissolved, the Congress provic the raising of two battalions of marines. From the hour of their earliest organiza- tion the marines made a noble record for themselves and for their country. In the early naval fights they played a most im- pertant part, amply proving their devotion to the cause in which they were enlisted and furnishing conclusive evidence of the wisdom of the Icgislation which called the corps into existence. April 30, 1798, a regular Navy Depart- ment was formaliy created, and in June Benjamin Stoddart of Georgetown, D.C was made the first Secretary. July 11, 1793, an act was epproved for the establishinent and the organization of the Marine Corp: Tis was to consist of a number of officers and 720 privates. The first major-com- mandant was William W. Burrows, and there were four captains—Daniel Carmick. Lemuel Clark, George Meminger ani Franklin Wharton. There were sixte first lieutenants and nine second iieuten- ants. Today the corps consist of 4,720 men. Col. Charles Heywood is the colonel-com. zeneral mandant, with five officers of the staff, one colonel, two lieutenant colonels, four’ majors, twenty captains, thirty first Heutenants, nine second lieutenants and twenty-four second lieutenants for tae war. ee ees NEXT MEETING. The Place Being Considered This Af- ternoon, A merry war is going on over the loca- tion of the next city for the N. E. A. Three western cities are competing for the honor, though there has been some talk that Boston would like to entertain the big congress of educators. Portland, Ore., has strong backing. Sait Lake City, Utah, is pulling every wire, as- sisted by her senators and representatives, while California, as she always does, comes fortified by tons of literature and photo- graphs of her picturesque spots. Representative Eliis of Oregon met with the executive committee this afternoon to urge the claims of Portland. Dr. Millspaugh of Salt Lake City set forth the desirability of accepting Utah's hospitality, and Los Angeles had Mr, Mc- Donald. Each city had quite a list of rail- road men to back the of low rates and up with promi. excursions to all the prominent points within hundred of miles. In talking with the delegates at the state headquarters Los Angeles seemed to be he choice, The matter was being considered by the executive as this report closed, with the probability that it would be re- ferred to the council for se PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS. settlement. Some Selections That Failed to Be Confirmed by the Senate. The following appointments, the Senate having failed to confirm the same nomina- tions, bave been made by the President: Treasury—Robert J. Hendricks of Oregon to be appraiser of merchandise in the dis- trict of Williamette, Oreg. Richard O. Jeardeau, to be general inspector of furni- ture and other furnishings, Treasury De- partment. Justice—Frank Simmons of Alabama, to be marshal of the United States for the southern district of Alabams Intericr—Frederick E. McK Mexico, to be receiver of public moneys a Guthrie, O. T.; David L. Geyer of Ohio, to be receiver of public moneys at Roswell, ps ee” 8 To be agents for Indians—Charles S. MeNichols of I[ilinoi. for Colorado river agency, in Arizona; Charles D. Keyes of Texas, for the Fort Apache agency, in Ari- zona; Frederick B. Spriggs of New York, for the Navada agency in Nevada. Mr. Jeerdeau, who secures a good place in the treasury, is from Wisconsin. The position was created by Congress, and is a new one. Mr. Jeerdeau will have general charge of the inspection of furniture, coal, etc. ——___---_______ AFRAID OF THE GLASS EYE. Japanese Coolies Would Not Serve the Unfortunate Owner of It. From the Yorkville (8. ©.) Yeoman, A year or two ago an artist from San Francisco who wore a glass eye came to Yokohama and established himself in a lit- tle bungalow on the outskirts of the city. The weath:r was extremely warm, and before the stranger had become settled he was besieged by a number of coolies who wanted to get the job of fanning him at night. Tha artist looked over the appli- cants and finally selected an old man who brought excellent recommendations from his last employer. When it was time to retire the artist took out his glass eye, laid it on a stand at his bedside and went to bed. The old man picked up his fan and the San Francisco man was soon asleep. He slept peacefully for an hour or two, when he was ,wakened by a chorus of buzzing insects about his head. He looked about him and found that the man whom h3 had hired to fan him Was gone. ‘The next morning when he went in search of another coolie he was amazed to discover that no one would work for kim. He was looked upon as a wizard and worker of miracles, with whom it was unsafe to b> alone. The old man had gone among his friends and told how the Californian had taken out his eye at night and laid it on a stand in order that he might watch his servant at night and see that he kept his fan in motion. The old coolie’s story cr3- ated such excitement that the San Fran- cisco man was never able to get another Japanese to fan him after that. Sleeping on Post. From the Army and Navy Journal. Some of our volunteer troops do not ap- pear to understand that sleeping on post is one of the most serious offenses a sol- dier can be guilty of; so grave in fact that a court can condemn a guilty man to death for the offense. In some emergencies this may yet be done. In the beginning of ac- tive service before the troops are in front of the enemy light sentences are perhaps justified, as the volunteers on guard are not used to a broken rest during the twenty- fcur hours of their detail to guard duty. The system is a most tiresome and wear- ing one, and men used to a steady sleep of some eight hours find it hard at first to become used to the routine; in fact, old- timers usually come off guard completely broken up. As wien have now had time to become broken into the routine of the ser- vice, and may“ now any day be called upon to perform duty where sleeping on post might result in great disaster to our troops, severe measures will of necessity be taken against those failing to perform their duty. ——_o+-—__—_—_ Cruiser Harvard Not Yet in Port. PORTSMOUTH, WN. H., July 11.—Up to 10 o'clock today the fnited States auxiliary cruiser Harvard had not arrived here. The report that she came in last night proves to be erroneous, THE PEOPLE GAVE THANKS President's Proclamation Was Observed All Over the Country Yesterday, Archibishop Ireland's Words at St. * Paul, Minn.—Senator Proctor’s Speech at Rutland, Vt. Throughout the land the President's proc- lamation for thanksgiving and prayer for peace was observed yesterday in all the chrrches without regard to @enomination. Archbishop Ireland, in his cathedral at St. Paul, Minn., said: “Wondrously great is the result of our victories. A new America has risen up. A new era has dawned in our history. Amer- ica,'as never before, is conscious of her power; the nations of the earth, as never before, understand her power. The child of a century is a giantess whose arms reach beyond her own vast continent across dis- tant oceans. God, indeed, has blessed her. The ideals of America are in God's designs, the ideals of all humani And America triumphs that popular liberty may triumph and a new order of things springs up for all humanity. “But war is always terrible. If it oe God's will, may war cease. The chieftain of America prays for peace and bids the people pray for peace. Magnanimous Mc- Kinley, worthy chieftain of a great peo- ple. He courted peace before war; he did all he could to avert war, to secure by peace all the beneficent results which war could bring. War coming, as the loyal servant of the republic, he waged it with vigor, with skill. When its purposes are served his heart speaks out its first love— peace. This is noble, generous, magnani- nous. May God, then, we pray, do dis- pose minds and hearts in Spain and in rica that no more of our brother men, Spaniards or Americans, be slain; that no more hearts of mothers and wives be wrtng in anguish. Father of men, grant us peace.” in New York city services at Old Trinity Church were very impressive. At the con- clusion of the sermon Rey. Dr. J. Nevitt Steele, vicar of Trinity, requested the con- gregatton, while thanking God for the suc- cess of the American arms, to pray for peace. At the cathedral a prayer of thanks from the Roman Missal was offered at all masses and De Profundis were said for the repose of those who have fallen in battle. The sermons in Atlanta were all in a pa- triotic vein, and several ministers empha- sized the growing tendency toward an An- glo-Saxon alliance. Special musical pro- grams, interspersed with patriotic airs were given in all the churches. Special prayers of thanksgiving were said in all the churches of Philadelphia for the success that has thus far attended the arms of the nation. Archbishop Ryan had ued to the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church a request that a special Te Deum be chanted in ail churches of that faith. In some churches comment was made in ser- mons on the achievements of the army and na’ At thanksgiving services at Rutland, Vt., Senator Proctor made a speech, in which he said: “We are in the midst of war, but there are things worse than war. There are wrongs which cannot be righted in any way yet devised except by force. The American people decided that the long continued tryanny of Spain in Cuba must stop. The only way to make that sure was that her flag must leave that island, and this war is the result of that decision. There were many in high places, many of intelligence and wealth, and busi- and political standing who asked al- most in the words of Cain: ‘Am I my broth- er's keeper? and the people answered, not hastily, but after hearing and considering the facts with patience and long suffering, ‘Yes, are.” A universal petition to the Almighty went cut from the Chicago pulpits for the con- tinuance of the splendid victories of Amer- {can arms on land and sea, and giving thanks for the great work already accom- plished in the name of freedom and humau ity, Many of the churches were decorat with the national colors and the congrega- tions began and ended services with the singing of “America.” in practically every church in Pittsburg directly or indirectly, reference was with thanksgiving to the divine signally vouchsafed to our army and na and devout hearts implored its continuance Without respect to religious belief the re sponse to the proclamation was more gen- eral and arty than had ever been known in_the hi the city. rvices were held in s City churches. While the re- pect of the war was emphasized a spirit of patriotism breathed in every ut- terance. ‘The churches were in most in- stances beautifully decorated and special musical programs were rendered Nearly ev church in Loui Me observ- ed in some way the proclamation of Presi- dent MeKinle At a majority of the places of worship the proclamation was read, fol- lowed by de onal exercises in which the pastor gave thanks in prayer. Patriotic songs were sung by the congregations. THE SAD SIDE OF WAR. Dead Capt. Fornance’s Child Awaits His Home-Coming. NEW YORK, July 11.—There Is a Jittle girl who sits and plays with her dolis and toys under the trees on Governor's Island inno- cent of a blight that has come into her young life. She has saved the firecrackers that were given to her for the Fourth, and says: “I will not firs them off till papa comes home. Her father was Capt. James Fornance of Company K, 13th Infantry, who was killed in the taking of the fortifications of San Juan at Santiago. The little girl's mother died a few years ago, and after that Capt. Fornance was never the sam> man. The little girl is six years old, and was passionately devoted to her father. She is looking forward to i coming home, and no one has cou: enough to tell her that she is now an or- phan. es Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORP, Md., July 11.—Flour dull—western $3.13; do. extra, $3.25a$: $4.00034.45; winter wheat patent, spring do.. $4.75a$5.00; spring wheat straight. $4.50a$4.75—receipt ‘3 barrels; ex- ports, 83 barrels; sul eass—spot, mont! September Wheat August, . 2 "red. T9G—receipts, 32.608 bushel perts, Mone; stock, 141.948 bush: els; sales, 35.600 bushels—southern wheat by sant- ple, 7Sa86: do. on giade, S0iat5%. Corn quiet— apot and month, 3434235; August, 35\a35 " steamer mised, | 394 —r exports, nope; Stock, 1,430 ,000 bushels—southern white corn, 37; do. yeliow, 40. Oats steady—No. 2 white, 29ig030\4; No. 2 mixed, 26%02714—receipts, $,18i bushels: 4 200,340 bustels. Rye firmer No. 2 western, 514 exports, none; stock, 77, . Hay steady —No. 1 ‘Timothy, $11.50a$12.00. Grain freights guiet—steam to Liverpool, per bashel. 2d... Jul ‘ork, fcr orders, per quarter, 8s, Jnly: a8. 3d. August. Sugar strong. Granulated, ‘$5.4514. | But- ter steady—fancy ereamety, 17a18; do. Imitation, 16; do, ladle, 12a14; good ladie, 12; store packed, y0a11.” firm—fresh, 12.’ Cheese steady fancy New York, 60, large, 8i4u8'%: do., dium, 828%; do., 23, small. S&a9_ $1.10a81.25 per basket.” Whisky. § gallon for finished goods in car Isa per gallon for jobbing lot 3 —_— Grain, Provisions and Cotton Market Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., bankers and brokers, 1427 F st., members New York stock exchange, -correspondents Messrs. Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., New York. GRAT Close. 8288; S23 385° eeage aand Personal Mention. Lucius E. Gridley of the Treasury De- partment, left yesterday for Eric, Pu., via New York, to attend the funeral of Lis brother, Capt. C. V. Gridley, U. & N., ‘Weiilnesday, the 13th, at sunset. Gen. Clay and“ Dr. Henderson left tho city this morning for a two wecks’ vaca- tion at trout fishing in the Cheat river country. 4 FINANCE AND TRADE The Street Continues to Favor the High-Priced Securities. VOLUME OF BUSINESS NOT LARGE ——— Buying of Burlington and Omaha the Feature of Early Trading. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to The Evewpg Star. NEW YORK, July 11.—Today's stock market was agsin in an expectant state, Lut developed no indications of alarm as to the character of the news awaited. The velume of business was not large, but the undertone was unmistakably strong at all parts of the list. The buying of Burlington and Omala was the feature of the early trading and had a good effect on all parts of the mar- ket. Renewed inquities for bonds heipea to sustain prices in the security markets generally; and served to emphasize the prevailing confidence in the future of prices, The buying of Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf securities was especially pronounced at times, and was connected, by the room, with the visit of the receiver of that road, Atchison secur'ties came prominently for- ward during the morning; aiso sales of lerge blocks of the preferred stock, attract- ing especial notice owing to the constant advance in the prices paid. The strect is uniformly optimistic, but continues to discriminate in favor of the high-priced dividend-paying securities and the low-priced speculative issues, The market is full of attractive issues of the latter class and a campaign in them is rea~ sSonably certain to foltow the recefpt of en- couraging war advices. It will be remembered that last summer's final movement was made in stocks seiling under 60 per cent ef their par-value. The outbreak of yellow fever on an alarming scale put an end ‘to that undertaking. ‘nis year the impulse to advance the low-priced issues comes at a time when the yeuow fever outbreak is reported to be no longer @ menace to the value of southern railway shares. ‘There is a growing tendency to look with increasing favor upon the shares of the Western roads. The returning mining traffic from the northwest end an exten- sion of commercial relations with Pacific coast ports are being pressed forward with considerable emphasis at this juncture and with some speculative success. While the market is more than ever dl- vided up into groups, there is not a single group positively expected to decline for want cf opposite incentive. The coal shares are suspected of inside complica- tions and cut-rate porsibilities, but they are not likely to do more than lag while the general market is strong. The public is not in the market and is scarcely likely to come in for a few « As is usual, with the advent of the outside legitimate demand, the professional ele- ment fs likely to take profits at the ex- pense of the newcomers. Patient holding, however, is almost certain of subsequent Profitable results. > FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The following are the opening, the high- est and the lowest and the closing prices of the New York stock market today re- ported by Corson & Macartn: members New York stock exchange. Correspondents, Messrs. Van Emburgh & Atterbury, No. Wail st. Open. High. Low. Close. American Spirits... 13% BBG BK ist, IBY lay late 122%, 120% Bly Atchison 4 aS Atchison, ptd 2% 84 Baltimore 40m |. , Brookiyn K. Transit. Canada Soathern . Can.da Pacifie, Unicago, B. & q.. enicagoay Cricago Gar... © Mae St. Pauly t. P., M. Chicago, Ih. & Chig. & G Western. Consolidated Gas De! Lack a W Delaware & Rudson ... Den. & Hiv «ranae, pre Ene General dectrie Ulmois Centrai. Lake Snore. a Louisville x Nasnvuie. Metropolitan ‘Traction, Manhattan Zievated dichigan Cencrat Missonri Pacitic National i New Jersey Central. . New York Centra: Norvhern raciac...." 1) Northern Pacitte, pfa.!> Oni. & Western. Pace Mau. Phila. & keacing. isy is 181 Southern ity. pia EY) BI, BI By Texas Pacis ‘ Wy 18 ie ky Tens. Coa: & iron. Big Wy By Bh Cmen Pacine Yi A Union Pacific, pra...... 61 6145 60% «GL Westerm Umou tei... 935 983% 93 WBE Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—regular call—12 o'clock m.—West Bnd Na- tional Bark,’s at 93. Washington ¢ rr 14 at 47%. Meigenthaler Linotype, 10 at 181, 10 at_ Isl. District of Columbia Bonde.—Funding currency 3.05x, 114 bid. Miscellaneous Bonds.—M. oltan Railroad 5s, 119 bid. Metropolitan Railroad cony. Gs, 109 bid. Metropolitan Rallroal certitieate of indebtedness, A, 110 bid. Metropoiltan certifieate of indebted. ness, B, 107 bid, 108 asked. Columbia Kialroad 6s, 118 bid. Belt Railroad 5x, 40 bid. Eckiagton Railroad @s, 88 bid. Washington Gas Company, ser. A, 68, 112 bid. Washington Gas Company, ser. B, Gs, 112 bid. United Stetes Electric Light debenture imp., 100 bid, 105 asked. Ches#peake « ‘Telephone’ 5s, 168 bid. American F. and A., 160 bid. Amert- y and Trust 5s, A, “and 0., 100 bid. Market Company’ Ist 6s, 110 bid. Washington Market Company imp. 6s, 310 bid. Washington Market Company exten. 68, 110 bid. lasonic Hxll Association 5s, 106% bid. National Bank Stocks.—Bank of Washington, bid. Metropolitan, 300 bid. Central, 143 bid, ‘echantes’, 1X0" bid. cond, Citizens’, 140 bid. Columbia, 130 bid. 118 bid. "West End, 90 bid, ‘95 asked. Traders’, 90 bid, 103 asked. Lincoln, 112 bid, 118 asked. Safe Deposit and ‘Trust Companies.—National Safe Deposit and Trust, 113% bid. Washingt™m Lean and Trust, 328 bid. 130 asked. American Seenrity and Trust, 148 bid. Insurance Stocks. —Firemen’ 37% bid. Metropolitan. 67 bid. “Corcoran, 50 bid: Potomac, 50 bid. Arlington, "115 bid. ‘German- American, 185 bid. National Union, Sig bid. G immbia, 10 bid. Riggs, 744 bid, 8 azked, People’ 5 bid. 6 asked. Lincoln, 9% bid, 9% usked. Com: mercial. 4 bid. Title ‘Insurance Stocks.—Real state Title, 71 bid: Columbia Title, 4% Did, 6% asked. Wash- ington Title, 2 bid. District Title, 2 bid, 2 axked. Railroad Stocks.—Capital Traction Compans, 78 id, 73'4 asked. Metropolitan, 121 bid, 123 did. Columbia, 75 bid, 47" aked. Georgetown Gi United Sintes Electric Light, 99 bid. 101 asked. Telephone Stocks.—Che= bid, 60 asked. Pennsyly 27 bid. Franklin, Miscellancous Stocks. 181 bid, 181%, asked. Lanston Monotype, 14% bid, 15% usked. American Graphophone, ‘I2% bid, 18% a American Graphephone, pfd., 12% bid. 14 asked. Pneumatle Gun Carriage, .27 bid. <31 asked. Washington Market, 10. bid.” Great Falls Tee, 110 bid, 125 asked. Norfolk and Wasb- ington Steamboat, 1% asked. xEx. div. Government Bondn, Quorations reported by Corson & Macart- ney, bankers. 2 per cents, registered... 4 per conts, coupon of 1807. 4 per cents, registered of 1907. 4 per cents, coupon of 1925. . 4 per cents, registered of 1925. 53 per cents, coupon ef 1904... 5 per cents, registered of 1004. yO per ceuts of 1599. Ke ecatioe ras sat Uraguayans Will Re Enlightened, From the Savannah News. It is reported that a small party of Uru- guayans have. left for Cuba to help the Spaniards fight the United States. Prob. ably their presence in the ranks of the eremy will prove ¢ good ihing. Should they come out of the scrap alive, they would go back homie and tell their peopl that Uncle Sam is real and ¢ harder fighter than they he was.