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THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1898;42vRAGES —_—_ SPECIAL NOTICES. ANOTHER STYLISH before ye hore? Fit or po pay. RED GATCHEL & CO., Tailors, 604 13th st. *. MUDD. the famous cutter, is now with us. DON'T you WR CONFECTIC E M MANUFACTURERS. Mine Salt, Evaporated Cream, Glucose, Fla- vors, Colorings, Gallon Strawberries with nat- ural flavor and everything else in this line. EF Orders delivered in a burry. B. R_EARNSHAW & BRO., Wholesale 6 1105-9 Tith wt. we (tj 1000-2 M “Solid Gold Frames, $2.25. Zylonite Eye Ginsees, regular price $2.40, our No charge i‘ a TIM. Ez Optician, 4 Ob pw while you walt mometers from 1 Home and re It Going Away on the Ist? Don't put off Feur sborping “until the last minnte.”” Do some of the necessary buying tome »w. COME HERE fer the Box ia and Envelopes, Diartes. ete.. ete. has everything you need for correspond Prices are always lowest Easton & Rupp, 421 lith St Jy27-14a my save you a serions ‘That run-down fecl ng is often the A drink precursor of worse ailments, and iin w=. J . nothing tones yeur sxstem up bet: ter than the jndic’ous use. o' in time ‘Tharp's pore “Berkeley” Kye. $1.0 a full quart. JAS. THARP, Sy2T-lvd 812 F st. nw. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A ME: ing of the stockholders of the CITY AND SU- BURBAN RAILWAY COMPANY OF WASHIN' TON will be held at the company’s office, 13th and D sts. n.e., Washington, D. €., on the 28th day of July, 1808, at 12 o'clock noon, for the arpose of authorizing increase of the capital Bode of ‘the company S. DANA STEVENS, Secretary. Jy20,22,25.27 Don’t Be An Exception. Let your flag fly with the rest of them. We'll furnish ony kind or size pole you want. 8 ft. to 150 ft. 50 cents or $500. THOS. W. SMITH, ist and Ind. aye. ‘Phone 217. 3926-100 “I never disappoint."* Something Artistic. If you're looking for something high clai Something different from the ordinary run of letter heads, bill heads, etc., let us get you up something. Won't cost much, either. S ADAMS, Prompt Printer, 512 11th. Globe Printing Office. Our facilities give us first | rank amongst the printers of Washington. A lazge, converient _shop—Mergenthaler typesetting machines—all the new face types —medern up-to-date presses—and a force of printers picked from the best in town. Hartman & Cadick, 1001 F. We Print and Engrave Anything.” JelG-3m,14 tt wy It’sabout time better. No , : Elliot, one cam & F did some r for oa a 506 10 ea ot 2" Printing for Esti mates given ane you—eh? 14d TAL NOTIC our friends and ly that Mr. Ernest <. yur en ploy since the Ist we gave him a letter o when he left us which we om ot to have given him. and as we bi jo return the said letter and he has refused to do so. we therefore and hereby take this means of with Jou Pia 3y25-at 987 Penra. ave. n.iv. TRON FENCES AND PORCHES. is @ sre Bow prepared to build Iron Fences and c! Best goods, best ‘x and lowest prices. Estimates furnished. Catalogue of Fences Page Page BUSINESS CHANCES. CHIROPODISTS CITY ITEMS. OF DEEDS COUNTRY BOARD... - COUNTRY REAL ESTATE. DEATHS. DENTISTRY... EDUCATIONAL. EXCURSIONS. Rome mee ee neem rahornasal RENT (Houses)...... RENT (Miscellaneous) RENT (Offices). . KENT (Rooms) RENT (Stables) RENT (Stores) SALE (Houses). SALE (Lots) SALE (Miscellaneous) HORSES AND VEHICLES. LADIES’ GOODS LOCAL MENTIC RAILROADS. . 5 SPECIAL NOTICES STORAG : SUBURBAN PROPERTY SUMMER RESCKTS UNDERTAKERS WANTED (Help) YANTED (Mis. ell (Rooms) ANTED (Situation WAREHOUS! Dee hane eee aaenrenee SENATOR DAVIS’ COMMENT. Peace is Desirable if We Do Not Con- cede Too Mach. ST. PAUL, Minn.. July 27.—“Peace 1s very desirable if it can be obtained with- out too great concessions on our part,” says Senator C. K. Davis, chairman of the ate committee on foreign relations, at s home, in this city. As chairman of the committee on for- eign relations of the Senate, do you not ect to be called on for advice in re- gard to the peace negotiations?” The foreign relations committee,” re- ied Senator Davis, “will have nothing to > with the peace treaty until it has been cted upon by the President and cabinet. The treaty will then be submitted to Con- and the Senate may by a two-thirds ratify it.” ge CITIZENS AND ROBBERS FOUGHT. Pitched Battle in Which Three Bandits Were Captured. MUSKOGEE, Ind. Ter., July 27.—Five men, who attempted to rob the bank at Checotah, I. T., were met just outside the city limits by about fifteen citizens of Choctaw, well armed. A pitched battle took place, in which two of the robbers were wounded. Three were captured, and will be brought to Muskogee to await trial. The other two, Miller and Crosby, the lead- ers of the gang, succeeded in making their escape, but.a posse of deputy marshals is in pursuit. One of the gang had previous- ly notitied the United States officials of the intention of the robbers to break into the —, and the officers were watching for. them. a Steamship Arrivals. Barbarossa, ai New York, from Bremen. Assyrian, at London, from _Montr2al. Grecian, at Glasgow, from Philadelphia. — at Liverpool, from Quebec. a at Queenstown, from Philadel- pia. Roland, at Bremen, from Baltimore. Scotia, at Hamburg, from Philadelphia. CUBANS AS ALLIES Mr. Pepper Gives His Views as to Their Value. THINKS THEY WILL CAUSE NO TROUBLE | New Arrivals Fomented the Diffi- culty Between Shafter and Garcia. EFFECT OF MEDDLERS Mr. Chas. M. Pepper, whose letters to | The Star from Cuba before the outbreak of hostilities gave such a graphic description of the horrors and Larbarities of Spanish rule in that island, and who was with the Arrerican army until after the capitulation of Santiago, has returned to Washington. As he has probably been in closer contact with the Cuban insurgents than any other American, and has as good a knowledge of their struggles and their general character, he was asked to give his views as to the campaign made by Gen. Shafter and also as to the reported difficulty between the American commander and Gen. Garcia, the Cuban leader. Mr. Pepper sai The Army Got There. “There is little to be said about the cam- paign which resulted in the surrender of Santiago, because the full story has al- ready been told. Everything may not have been conducted strictly according to the rules of military tactics, but the army ‘got there’ ia short order, and that was what ecnesrned the American people. After the advonce from the seacoast was: begun there never was an hour when the troops could have been turned. The two days’ hard fighting in which they took the out- posts at Caney ond San Juan settled that peint. These victories were won by the steadiness of the soldiers in the ranks. Gen. Shafter’s tribute to them is a recog- nition of what every one who witnessed the Aghting felt at the time. The gallantry and the determination of the whole army were the irresistible influences. After the out- pests were taken and held the Spanish commanders and the forees under their ccmmand lost confidence in their ability to hold the fortified positions in Santiago itself, and began to think of capitulating. Cervera’s attempt to take his fleet out of the harbor foliowed, and after its destrue- tion the Spanish soldiers in the city had no stomach for resisting further land as: Its. They had ‘earned at Caney and San Juan what it meant to stand out when American troo:'s undertook to storm their intrench- men's. This was what they themselves sald, and it was a powerful motive in caus- ing the surrender. The Cubans as Alies. “There seeems a di: tion the effectiv Cubans allies, and to predict that when the Span- ish forces have evacuated Santiago the next business of the American army of oc- cupation will be to ‘settle’ the insurgents. it might be well to await the full statement of the misunderstanding between General Garcia and Gene: Shafter before drawing conclusions of a permanent split. There have been misunderstandings between the army and the navy, sometimes misun- derstandings between the commanders in the field and the authorities in Wasiington, but these were cleared up without serious consequence: Twenty thousand Ameri n soldiers were engaged in the operations be- fore Santiago. The Cubans numbered 4,000, yet it was assumed by many that they would show up as conspicuous! our own troops. Garcia was blamed for letting Gen- eral Pando get into the city with 5,000 Spanish reinforcements, but when it subse- quently appeared that neither Pando nor the reinforcements were there nothing was said. Silly inventions and idle beastings about Cubans massacreing Spanish prison- ers were commented on without investiga- tion, and when General Shafter, after in- igation, discredited them, nothing more s said. These are not vital matters, but in forming a judgment of the present situa- tion they are worth remembering. The Cu- bans offered as allies to the American army the men who had for three years been j engaged in a bushwhacking, guerritla war- fare. The mass of them presented them- selves at Daiquiri and Siboney barefooted and in their shirt tails, and most of their shirts were ribbons of rags. They were greedy for the rations issued, and in two weeks they did not succeed in satisfying a three years’ hunger. The American sol- diers were also hungry during several days, but they knew nothing of the ‘tomorrow’ habit, and they never thought of putting off the fighting till their stomachs were full. The Cubans, under tne instructions that had been given, were not placed in the vanguard in taking the blockhouses “and and it is unquestionabiy true that they did not share to an appreciable extent in those assaults. It was a method of fighting of which they had no conception, but this was not surprising. The foreign military attaches who watched the two days’ battles were frank in their own ex- pressions of opinion whether trained Eu- ropean soldiers could have begn led or driven against fortified positfon when the artillery had failed, as it did in those in- stances, and the American troops took the intrenchments by common impulse without being either led or driven. As. to whether the Cuban troops failed in anything that Was expected of them or in any duty as- signed to them the American commanders are competent judges. General Lawton, to whose division most of them were attach- ed, and General Shafter in their offictal re- ports can be trusted to do justice to their allies. Will Not Cause Trouble. “However, the part the Cuban troops had in the Santiago campaign is of lesser im- portance now than the part they are to have in the future government of the city. I do not believe that the Cubans, who for three years kept up the fight against the Spanish troops in the bushes and in the mountains at such tremendous sacrifices, will ever be a cause of trouble to the United States. It is because of their en- durance that the flag of Spain is today disappearing from the West Indies. That the superior force of the United States has been necessary to cause its disappearance does not change the conditions. The pres- ent trouble is not due to the Cubans who have been fighting for three years. It seems to be fermented by those who, dur- ing that time, were in the United States. Some of them went back under the wing of the American army, and they were be- coming pretty numerous. Most of them are bad advisers and mischief makers, It is unfortunate that some of therm seem to have ingratiated themselves into General Garcla’s confidence. When before the land- ing of the troops General Shafter went ashore and conferred with Garcia the im- pression made by the Cuban general on the American officers was an excellent one. ‘They all eulogized him as a soldier and praised him for his clear understanding of the situation. At that time the conditions which should prevail when Santiago was taken were under discussion. None of the American commanders had any idea ex- cept that of a military government, and the estimate of two requirements was then made. With this notion so clearly fixed in their own minds it is doubtful whether in “APENTA,” THE BEST NATURAL APERIENT belpbetes aod chleriota. “Hoos < useful aperient.”—Jullus Aidius, DS their conferences with the insurgents they could have left the impression that while Spain and the United States were at war any portion of territory takén by Ameri- can troops would be turned over to the Cubans. The talk about the co-operation of the Cubans nevertheless was specific’ and definite, and they may have taken some things for granted which General Shafter did net suppose they could under- stand. In the conditions which obtained at Santiago it was better that no Cuban troops should enter the city until the Span- ish soldiers had been embarked. This was a temporary conditton, and though General Garcia’s susceptibilities might have been wounded by it, his good sense would prob- ably have prevented complaint if he had been left to himself. The presence with his command of some recent arrivals from New York explains his grievance, though it does not justify his course. On the other hand, the Cubans were entitled in ad- vance to an explanation of what military government meant. General Wood has been emptying the jails and prisons of po- ltical prisoners who were found there, imprisoned under Spanish judicial pro- cesses without trial and without recourse. The Cubans may be pardoned if they failed to understand even the temporary con- tinuance of the Spanish judicial officers who were responsible for their imprison- ment. Their co-operation with such offi- clals could hardly be hearty, and thelr ac- ceptance under implied penalty of future disbarment in civil government if they re- fused would not be valuable. There are problems enough in the future control of Cuba. Their solution will not be aided by dependence on a remnant of Spanish offi- clalism which was part of a rotten system. The Cubans, on their part, in dealing with the United States, cannot afford to let meddlers who have not shared in their struggle for freedom influence their course.” ————__- e+ ___ SHOWERS TONIGHT. Cloudy Weather, With Light Winds Tomorrow. Forecast till 8 p.m. Thursday—For the District of Columbia, Delaware and Mary- land, threatening weather, with showers tonight; Thursday cloudy weather; light, varixble or southerly winds. For Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, showers tonight and ‘Thursday; southerly winds. Weather conditions and general forecast —The pressure 1s relatively high on the nerth Pacific coast and on the east gulf and south Atlantic coasts; it is low in all other districts, with a depression central in Minnesota. The barometer has risen on the Rocky mountain plateau and fallen in the lake regions and throughout the cen- trai districts. The temperature is higher in the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys. Showers and thunder storms have occur- red throughout the gulf states, in the At- JanUc states and southern New England, alse in the Missonri valley: Unsettied weather, with showers, is in- ated for the Atlantic and east gulf states tonight and ‘Thursday. The weather will be generaliy fair in the lower lake region, the Ohio valley and the west gulf ates tonight, followed by showers Thurs- in the Ohio valley and lower lake regicn. The weather will continue warm and sultry in the eastern and southern states tonight and Thursday. The following heavy inches) was reported twentysfour hours delphia, 1.1 tanooga, 1.76; ville, Ark. ence, 8. C (dn the past 1.14; Phila- 50; Chat- Havana Weather. HAVANA, July Sa. 30.02; temperature, winds east, miles, weather, partly cloudy. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of w : Great Falls, temperature, 83 n, 1; receiving reservoir, tem: condition at north connection, con- dition at south connection, 36; distributing ir, temperature, 84; condition at in- ate house, 86; effluent gate house, 36. Tide Table. Today—Low tide, 7:33 a.m. and high tide, 1:25 a.m. and 1:35 p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 844 a.m. and 9:03 p.m.; high tide, a.m. and 2:39 p.m, The Sun and Moon. ‘Today—Sun rises, a.m.; sun sets, p.m. Moon sets, 11:40 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun rises, 4:57 a.m. The City Lights. Gas lamps all lighted by 8:24 p.m.; extin- guishing begun at 4:06 a.m. The lighting is begun one hour before the time named. Arc lamps lighted at 8:09 p.m.; extin- guished at 4:21 a.m. Records for Twenty-Four Hours. The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau for the twenty-four hours beginning at 4 p.m. yesterday July 26, 4 p.m., 86; 8 p.m, m.— eight ats8 condi- ture, 4 p.m.; ; midnight, 4a.m., 76; 8 a.m., 78; noon, 86; 2 Maximum, 80, at 2 p.m. July 2’ Minimum, 74, at 6 a.m. July 27. The following were the readings of the barometer at the weather bureau for the past twenty-four hours, beginning at 4 yesterday: 26, 4 p.m., midnight, 29.90. 29.88; 8 p.m., 29.91; 12 29.88; 8 a.m., 29.90; noon, 5. eager Green Goodsman Vail Arrested. NEW YORK, July 27.—Ike Vail, one of the most notorious green goods operators in the country, was arrested here today under an indictment found some time ago for swindling Herbert N. Chute of Chi- cago out of $500. Harry Livingstone, Vail's accomplice in the transaction, is out on bail pending decision on a motion for a new trial, having been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. TRIP TO AGUADORES Colonel Burr’s Effort to Inspect Bridge. : INTERVIEWS A SPANISH OFFICER ‘Sergeant Cafferty's . Carelessness With a White Flag. 2. e+ COMMANDANT’S HOSPITALITY Special From a Staff Correspondent. SIBONEY, July 14, 1898. This afternoon came the glad tidings that Santiago nad capitulated. A great sigh of relief comes in chorus from the breasts of the 2,500 or 3,000 men who are unluckily stationed here at this fever-in- fested point. Anything to get out of here is the sentiment one hears on all sides. We see visions of paved streets and some of the comforts of life in Santiago, even if we do not escape the danger of the fever. . But even fever is preferable in Santiago to fever on the low, bad-smelling sands of Siboney. The terms of the capitulation, it is said, are to be left to a commission, and as this may not be dectded for a few days, some of the rumors flying around here now may pcssess curious interest in the states, even after the exact terms are known. The story which receives most credence is to the effect that the terms of capitulation in- clude all of Santiago province. It is agreed that the United States is to transport the Spaniards to Spain. All else is to be left to the commission. This arrangement meets with the general approval of the officers here, for they fear a stampede from this pest hole if the traops are obliged to stay here much long- er. There has already been an exodus of all who could get away. Our newspaper brethren have flown lke a flock of crows for Key West, where their new state will probably be worse than the old. From all I can learn, there is more scare than there is necessity for, as the fever has proved of a very mild type and as yet there has been no deaths from it. But it is very de- meralizing on troops as well as others to see men being carried out on stretchers to the yellow fever camp on the hills. Aside from the fever, there is another ccnsideration for making very liberal terms with the Spanish in order to get control of the ports and to stop the fight out at the front. The roads from here to the front have become tmpassable for wagon trains or artillery. All the way from here to Gen. Shafter’s headquarters the narrow trail is blocked with stalled wagons, dead mules and poor live animals stuck in the thick, waxy Cuban clay. The rain has brcught about this condition of things, and no human foresight cowld have avert- ed the result. The quartermaster’s depart- ment has done its best and has accom- plished wonders, but wagons are not made to navigate mud seas! and: mules are not at their best as swimmers. Our men at the front/are suffering for the absolute necessaries of camp life in the field, and if this capitulation had not come along when it did no telling how serious results might have followed: I have been trying for the last two days to get back to the front, but all attempts preved futile. Bae On an Inspection Tour With Col. Burr This afternoon I met Col, Edward Burr of the engineers, who, by the way, is well known in Washington, and, he invited me to go cut with him over the railroad which leads to Santiago. He was going up to in- spect the bridge at Aguadores, which had been blown up by the Spanish when our troops came up from Baiquiri. He explain- ed that the expedition would carry us in- side the Spanish lines and permission would have to be obtained under a flag of truce to make the necessary inspection. “We may get a shell as we come up to the bridge,” saidsthe colonel, ‘for they have a battery bearing on the road at that point, but if you are willing to take chances I will be glad to have you along.” We mcunt a gondola freight car, to which a rather rickety looking locomotive is cou- pled behind, and away we start for the front. This little railroad winds along the sea coast, and for one-half the distance is within our lines. Our party consists of Col Burr, Capt. F. H. Lord of the subsistence department, Dr. Turnbull of the 33d Michigan and Lieut. Robt. M. Kerr of the same regi- ment. Capt. Lord is to act as the inter- preter. I forgot to mention one very pic- turesque member of the party who is a decided character in his way. This tall, sunburnt, slightly stoop-shouldered vet- eran, in a blue shirt, open at the neck and sleeves rolled up, is Sergt. Jim Cafferty of the engineers. He is conductor of our train and general factotum to Col, Burr. He has fought Indians on the plains, he has laid mines in half a dozen harbors, has seen and been part of almost every- thing worth seeing or being in the regular service. Cafferty is yoluble and diverting. Cafferty also carries in his right hand a white towel, tacked on to a flat hammock stick—our flag of truce. It sometimes oc- curs to me as we clatter along over the rather rickety road that Cafferty is more careless with that important war ensign than he should be. It occurs to me that if I were carrying it I would be more care- ‘A CHANGE OF TUNE. ful to have its rather narrow expanse s0 exposed to the breeze as to present more surface to the enemy's line of sight. I do not mention this, however, for fear of los- ing favor in the estimation of Cafferty, who is a splendid raconteur, and as we jott along merrily toward the Spanish line he tells me of the “scrap” the 33d Michi- gan had all along this road on July 1. He was in charge of the train on that occa- sion, too, and when the boys debarked and got well into the fight he and Dr. Turn- bull did most of the work for the wound- ed. He points out as we spin along where a shell struck the ‘head of the column of pour troops, killing the first set of fours outright and wounding two or three in the next rank. Here Cafferty interjects a deprecatory aside to the effect that he regards it as very irregular-like to march troops up in columns of fours against a battery supported on all’) {des by am- bushed sharpshooters. This was not the way things were managed wnen Cafferty was fighting Indians on the plains, but to be sure these men are only volunteers and too much should not he exnected of them. But the old veteran has nothing but words of praise for the pluck and gallantry of theee new hands. A!! they need is a little more time and experience to be up to Caf- ferty’s ideal. Scenes on the W: Our road takes us through a picturesque jungle, the dense, brilliant foliage some- times reaching out across the track on either side and causing us to “duck” in passing. In places we see great beds of wild honeysuckle and a vine which looks like Virginia creeper. Birds of brilliant plumage fly up as our train goes thunder- ing by, and: along the track in front of us we see myriads of Iand crabs tumbling over each other in their haste to get out of the way. These crabs present the greatest variety and combinations of brilliant colors; indeed, all the colors of the rainbow seemed to be represented in severalty and in com- binations in their coloring. They remind one of the shades of color one sees in the natives here. We pass numerous bands of Cubans on our way to the front, armed with every variety of weapon, from a machete to a Mauser rifle, and clothed in every variety of dress, from a simple breech clout to a full suit of linen crash, with Soudanese hat. They remind one of Falstaff's army, or more, perhaps, of that Parisian mob which Carlyle describes under the caption of in his “French Revolu- They are polite, deferential and hungry. When we stop at one of their urgent signals the leader of a tattered bat- talion tells Capt. Lord they had been with- out food for three days. It appears some- body had sent them out to the front to do outpost duty and then forgotten all about them. We re-embark and are off again for the Spanish outpost. Matters now begin to get interesting. We are at last within the Spanish lines. It is a toss-up that some gt the overzealous guerrillas may take a crack at us just for fun, as they have no very high regard for the white flag when our side is carrying it. Then there is that frowning fort just ahead, and old Cafferty is so careless with his flag of truce that they may fail to see it. It is true that off to our left in the offing rides a squadron of our watchful warships, the New York |: ing closest in shore, and a shot at us would probably bring on a general bombardment. Little use to us, however, if the Spanish shot were as well aimed+as the one at the poor fellows of the 33d Michigan some time back. Refused by the Spanish Commander. Pretty soon we reach the east end of Aguadores bridge. Our train stops and we debark to walk the balance of the way. All around the crest of the hill are the Spanish rifle pits, and over here to our left is the post commandant’s headquarters, from which the Spanish flag floats. Colonel Burr takes the lead for this point, cool, self-pos- sessed and intent on his mission. Soon we see a scurrying around among the Span- iards, among whom we can distinguish the officers by their clean white uniforms. Then a white flag or hankerchief flutters from the trench and we know ours has been seen and recognized. The meeting between the officers is formal—almost cordial. Colonel Burr ex- plains his mission.The commandante hears the news of the capitulation for the first time. He shrugs his shoulders with a suave questioning smile, which may mean well- bred incredulity, or may be a cover for dis- simulation. Quien sabe? He makes a great show of trying to tel- ephone up to Morro, about a mile distant, to find out about this thing. The telephone won't work. How can a well-bred Spanish telephone be expected to exert itself at this unreasonable hour when siestas are the proper thing? Senor el Commandante then explains that being ignorant of the capitulation and be- ing unable to communicate with his su- perior officer he must, with great regret, decline the responsibility of allowing the American gentlemen to make an examina- tion of the bridge. He thinks perhaps by tomorrow, or, with another shrug, the day after tomorrow, or (with a more expressive shrug yet), some tomorrow, he would no doubt be fully advised as to the exact con- dition, when he would be most pleased to give the American gentlemen the informa- tion they desired. Meanwhile would they not do him the honor to partake of a glass of his aguardiente and smoke one of his cigars. The aguardiente is young and thumps around in one’s stomach like it wore brass knuckles; the cigars are fine. While smoking the commandante and his officers talk of the recent bombardment. They compliment the skill of our gunners, but declare they did no execution with their shells. After renewed expressions of distinguish- ed regard and mutual hopes of future good health to each other our party starts back for the train and Siboney, much impressed with Spanish cordiality, Spanish procrasti- nation and Spanish indifference to all things terrestial. Incidentally Colonel Burr took a mental picture of the bridge in com- ing back over it, which would no doubt surprise his erstwhile Spanish comrades if they could see a proof of it. As soon as this bridge is fixed up, the road will be used to move the troops and supplies, now landed here, up to Santiago, where a junction will be formed with our troops now at the front. : D. L MERCIER. ——.>—__. NATIONAL PEACE FESTIVAL. “ Chicago Preparing for One That Will Last a Week or More. CHICAGO, July 27.—The National Busi- ness League is_preparing for a grand na- tional peace festival, to be held in this city soon after the close of the war. The festiv- ities will continue a week or more. ‘The President, his cabinet, the diplomatic corps, eminent army and navy officers, with their commands as far as possible, gov- ernors of states, mayors of cities, states- men and prominent business men of the country are expected to be present and Participate. : To each of the great departments of war and peace a day of festival will be devoted. ‘There will be naval, army, industrial, art and music days; also President, governor and mayor days, the festival closing with a grand international or peace day. The pageantry of the festival, the grand- eur and pomp of ancient festivals will not be imitated, but everything will be typical of the progress of America, from the land- sing of the pilgrim fathers here to the pres- ent time. During the festival the advisory commit- tee of the National Business rep- resenting every state of the Union, will 1 hold its first annual convention. FEVER INCREASING Large Number of Typtioid Cases at Camp Alger. MANY SUFFER FROM OTHER AILMENTS Private in New York Regiment Under Grave Charge. NOTES OF THE CAMP Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. CAMP ALGER, Va., July 27, 1898. Typhoid fever continues to spread among the regiments left at old Camp Alger, not- withstanding the strenuous and unceasing efforts of the medical officers on duty here. Ten new cases were discovered today, mak- ing a total of thirty-six since Sunday. The names of those who were sent to Fort Myer today are Capt. W. G. Sherman, Company K, 22d Kansas, and Privates G. H. Green, Company E; Mike Burns, Com- pany D; C. Radloff and Frank Framing, Company I, all of the ist Rhode Island; Horace Pease, Company D; John Gilbert, Compnay K, and William Bowere, Com- pany L, of the 34 New York; John N. Ran- dale, Company H, 12th Pennsylvania, and Howard Martin, Company G, 12th Pennsyl- vania. In addition to these cases there have been reported a great number of men who suffer from slight attacks of malaria fever, inter- mittent fever and other ailments that may easily develop into typhoid. There are 50 many cases of this latter sort in Company G, 12th Pennsylvania, that the company has been icolated and set off about 300 yards from the other companies in the regiment The sick call in most of the regiments was unusually large this morning. Private Carl . Vandervort, Company F, 8th Ohio, and rivate John Kengall, Company D, 159th Indians, have both been examined by a board of surgeons and pronounced affected with tuberculosis. The former has been in the hocpital some time. Private Siegumend Throen, Company A, 3d Missouri, died at Fort Myer at 10 o’clock last night. He was one of the typhoid pa- tients under treatment there and had been ill only ten days. Interment services were conducted at Arlington this afternoon at 1 o’clock, Throen’s company acting as a fir- ing squad. Efforts to Move Division All 2fforts to move the regiments in the 1st Division do not seem likely to result in the transfer of a single regiment before Saturday. Werk on the wells at Dunn Loring is progressing much less rapidly than was at first expected. The 2d Division s2ems to have met with the same exper- fence in attempting to move several regi- ments about the old camp. Orders were sent to the 159th Indiana and 3d New York yesterday directing them to chang their quarters some time today, but neither regi- ment has been able to make the necessary preparation within th2 time allowed. It would have been easy enough to hav started any two regiments in camp on a road march within two hours, but as a change of quarters involves the taking down of wall tents and setiing up new ones, it is an entirely different and much more difficult undertaking. Must Answer Serious Charge Private Floyd W. Gay, Company F, 65th New York, is now in custody awaiting trial for robbing the mails. He will probably ap- pear Before the division court-martial about Saturday. When the regiment first reache camp Private Gay asked for a detail as clerk to the chaplain, supporting his re- quest with the statement that his father had at one time been postmaster of War- saw, N. Y., and that nis training in the post office with his father would enable him to relieve Chaplain Fisher of much routine work. Soon after the establishment of ihe regimental post offices men in tha 65th New York began to complain that their mail was not being delivered. Investiga- tion by the post office authorities lead to the discovery of much carel2ssness on the part of the post offic? Gfficials in Falls Church. This was soon remedied. The trouble about the mail of the 65th New York continued, however, as before the in- vestigation was made. Gay chanced to go into Wasl.ington about ten days ago and paid a woman there a check for $10. When this check was sent to Buffalo the bank refused it, explaining that payment on the check had been stop- ped by telegraph. The woman then re- ported the matter to Col. Welch, and asked his assistance in identifying the man. It Was agreed between them that they would walk down the company files during th in- spection Saturday morning. When the two reached the flank of company F Gay broke and ran for the woods pursued by three non-commissioned officers and the woman to whom he gave the check. Alleged Confession. One of the officers of the 65th New York was at one time chief of police, and he was deputied to search Gay’s clothing and equipments Bills and checks were found in his hat, in his clothing and packed away in his knapsack. The ex-policeman, it is said, soon extorted a confession and Gay was locked up and formal charges were prepared. In the statement of the ease sent to Ist Division headquarters, Gay's offense is ex- pressed in two counts, grand larcency, while in the military service of the United States, and conduct prejudicial to good discipline. The specification in the second charge is that Gay forged indorsements on three checks, one of which was drawn on Chaplain Harvey S. Fisher, for $0. Under the rules governing such offenses it is possible to prosecute the culprit in both the military and civil courts, but the custom is generally that but one action shall be urged, and that always in the court to which the case is first taken. If the post office authorities desire, however, the officers of the Ist Division court-mar- tial are very willing tha: Gay should be delivered over to the civ! authorities for trial. According to gencral opinion this is uot likely to occur, and Gay will be brought before the court-martial as soon as the other cuses now on the docket are concluded. The Eating Stands. A board of surgeons was convened re- cently by Brig. Gen. Davis, commanding the 2d Division, to investigate the question of eating stands within the camp iimits. The board consisted of Surgeons L. B. Almy, J. K. Weaver, T. C. Stunkard and C. DB. Wilson. As a good many merchants in Washington are awaiting the decixion of this board, the repcrt is given in full as follows: “Headquarters 24 Division, 24 Army Corps, “CAMP ALGER, Va., July 25, 189s. “In pursuance of general orders is, we have the honor to repcrt: “1. We consider injvdicious the use of pies ard oter pastry, sandwiches (unless fresh and made of geod material), cucum- bers, bananas. Unripe or overripe fruit of any kind fs deleterious to the health of the command, and should be prohibited. “2. Green corn shculd not be allowed to be sold, as it is impcssible to get it in suf- ficient quantity and in good condition. “3. We would advise that no soda water or soda pop, cider or unfermented grape juice should be allowed to be sold. Lemon- ade should be allowed to be sold when made by the gless in the presence of the censumer, and of fresh lemons. ‘4. All stands considered in- the order should be conducted by permission of and under the absolute control of regimental commanders ani be regularly inspected by the regimeatal surgeon, and the highest degree of cleaaliress should be maintained to insure as perfect sanitary conditions as Possible. “5. All farmers and dairymen must first ottain permission of regimental command- ers to sell in their respective regiments, and should be under the inspection of regimen- tal surgeons.” This report, with an additional para- graph directing that only one stand will be permitted in each regiment, have been em- in a general order issued this morn- ing by Brig. Gen. Davis. Notes of the Camp. * Lieut. J. J. Deyle, company M, 7th Iili- nois, has applied for transfer to Gen. 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