Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1898, Page 2

y THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1898-24 PAGES, “== ~ , FEAR AN ICE FAMINE Natural Ice Said to Be Running Short in This City. ONE SCHOONER GETS *N YESTERDAY Other Vessels Are Anxiously Looked for by Dealers. — SITUA TION — THE week Washington has been n ice famine, and uniess ly with the fourteen versels now en route to the city from M undiy will @rd Washington with- out except the small daily supply tificial ice manu which falls almost short of the normal ty during the hot months. » to supply new customers, ree Cays in the residenc# city many of the ice wagons eir customers that they e to deliver ic? the follow- the ice-laden schooners north reached the city. Some of 3s have raised the price of For the last threatened with Boreas 4 fay ine $ caily the retail ice from 4) to 60 cents per hundred pounds. le and this price promises to hold unless the long-looked-for vessels speedily arriv: According io the calculations of the deal- ers in coagealed moisture, the daily con- sumption of ice in the city during the months of June, Juiy and August will aver- age 1,200 tons daily. Of this 200 tons daily are supplie] by the artificial ice manufac- terles, four in number, and the other 1.000 by the four principal dealers in the Maine net five product. On the aver four or schooners, each carrying about 1.800 tons 2 ice. reach the city each week during the hot months, and the tour natural ice com- 000 tons each panies usually keep about a reserve in their storage cellars during ese months, and this reserve has proc- tically kept the town scpplied with ise dur- ing the past tea days, during which time only one v with ice he th turban town depend upon these com- ly of ice, and for the Pe: r je to secur> past few a few pounds from companie 1 suffered conseqrent gz the vei weather lately. Rockville. Md., was hout ice from Monday until Wednesday. as the dealers could buy beut the town wko had vest last year, and this so filled with sticks and raws 8 ardly fit to use In drink- gs water. Net a Pound to Be Boaght. Thursday evening there was not a pound of ice to be purchased at any of the dis- ting points for ratural ice, and the wagon drivers were told that they might their customers’ supply in half next day. This had been threaten- yaple of days, and some of the mers © cut off altogether. ale custome i the like hav but they of the vessels saloonkeeper: been furnished Iso are likely to oringing ng the badly- of the natural ice com- an-going tug turn the river, dragging in her wake a masted schooner, and icome sight could have of vision. During the hot day they had waited and almost groaning 2 block of s raised from tell storerooms, and the sight of jooner was the cue for a eral of relief from all concerned. The ves- sel was tne Agnes Manson, a three-m: schooner from Gardner, laden with 1,800 tons of Ke have n hing for the ic> vessels for the past week, vessel was immediately taken in 1 brought to Was! under a of steam. Ont y of I was furnished esterday 1 probably be full d today. but tomorrow will find this amount all 0 ess more arrives the ice fam- n be a fact. The Ice Fleet Becalmed. The captain of the Agnes Manson stat- ed to the officers of the ice corapanies that the ice fleet had met with a remarkable calm off the coast and had made no head- way for several days. He said that in hi ire experience as the captain of a coas ing vessel he had not experienced similar weather, and his voyage had simply been a Grift with some slight headway under flawy winds. The schooner Charles Noble Thom- as, he said. was only a short distance in his wake, and it is upon this vessel that the Ace dealers eir hopes of supplying ‘the city with ice during the next few days: ‘The tugs cruising off the capes have orders » bring all ice vessels sighted to the city with the greatest speed, and a good breeze for a day will probably bring several of the fleet of fourteen schooners which have sail- ‘ed from Gardner, Maine, bound for this port within sight of the capes and thus @vert the threatened famine. The dealers in the Kennebec ic ington. four of the largest concerns of the Kind in the city, have a co-operative plan by which all are supplied from the differ- ent vessels arriving during a period of reity of the product. The agreement is t as long as either of the companies has ice it is to be divided pro rata among compentes, and when the Ag- tied up at the 10th street sday evening her cargo was stributed among the diffe The cargoes of other vesse will each be treated in the same until enough arrive to stock the Store houses of all the companies. Appeals to Baltimore by the suburban s for a supply of have met with the reply that that eity is also short and can offer no relief to its sister city. The ef an ice famine during such weath- Washington has experienced during st few days would be dreadful, and lers will do all in their power to such a trying siege. ESS Oe INDORSED BY THE PRESIDENT. in Wash- tha Bny the differ nes Manson wharf T! equa! comy arriving Wanner nies: effe er the th de avert Battle Ship Fund Be School Children. W. Rankin Good and Harry J. Price of Cincinnati, Ohio, the two young men who originated the idea of starting a fund Among school children for the purpose of raising money to build a battle ship to be called “The American Boy,” have had an Interview -with President McKiniey, who fave to them the following letter, indors- ing their idea: “The circular which you have presented to me, ing your plan for raising a fund t ld and present to the govern- ment a battle ship, has greatly interested me. Love of country and devotion to the flag was never more picuous in Ameri- fa than they are today, and I am sure our pore and girls will deem it a privilege to numbered among the contributors to Bis p tic undertaking. very sincerely yours, $ LLIAM McKINLEY, e+ Violating Policy Laws. Robert Strothers, colored, about forty- Be years old, was arested today by Policy eC Watson and locked up on a Yharge of violating the policy law. He had } piece of paper on which policy rows were written pinned to the lining of his vest. This piece of papur, he said, was given sim by a strange iman to take across the jver. Strothers ts held for a kearing. = Want Site Designated. The District Commissioners have re- yuested the board of trustees of the public | ate to advise them by not later than ‘uesday next of the territory in which a desire the new eight-room school uilding to be located. An appropriation ras made for the site and building at the Jast session of Congress, to be located in the northeast section of the city. Raised by BONA-FIDE CIRCULATION. A reference to the statement be- low will show that the circulation sworn to is a bona fide one. It is easily possible for a news- paper with an elastic conscience to swell its legitimate circulation enor- mously, in order to deceive adver- tisers, by sending out thousands of papers to newsstands, which are re- turnable, and which are in fact re- turned, but nevertheless are in- cluded in what purports to be an honest statement of circulation. Intelligent advertisers, however, judge by resclts, and bogus circula- tions don’t give them. The family circulation of The Star is many thousands in excess of any other Washington paper. Circulation of The “Evening Star.” SATURDAY, July 30, 1998.. MONDAY, August 1, 1895... TUESDAY, August 2, 1998. WEDNESDAY, August 3, 1895.. THURSDAY, August 4, 1893 FRIDAY, August 5, 189... eee ceeeee e+e 36,274 --187,947 Daily average. --81,324 I solemnly swear that the above statement rep- resents only the number of copies of THE EVEN- ING STAR exreniated during the six secular days ending Friday, August 5, 1s9S—that is, the num. ver of copies actually sold, delivered, furnish- edor mailed, for valuable consideration, to bona fide purchasers or subscribers, and that none of the copies so counted are returnable to or remain in the office unsbld. J. WHIT. HERRON, Cashier Evening Star Newspaper Co. Subscribed and sworn to before me this sixth day of August, A.D. 193. FRED. McKEE, Notary Public, D. C. FEVER UNDER CONTROL. Conditions at Camp Alger Believed to Be Improving. Special Correspondene of ‘The Evening Star. CAMP ALGER, Va., August 6, 1898. Much speculation was heard today about corps and Ist Division headquarters as to the likelihood of any change of quarters for the Ist Division. Gen. Butler's visit to Manassas will, of course, conclude ail dis- cussion of the subject, as the War Depart- uggests. The new camp at Dunn Loring . however, proving so acceptable and sat- isfactory that no one will be much sur- prised if the 1st Division does not join Gen. Davis's command for a fuil month. ‘The regimental surgeons still on duty here report typhoid fever as pretty well under control. Today's record of new cases includes enly sixteen names, os follows B. Bertrand, Company K, ne ; W. S. Kelly, 2 6th Pennsylvania h, Company D, Ist Rhode Is Wilson and Philip Herrinan, ( ¢ Kansas; John Jessup, Comp: higan; Henry Goldman, Company M, 33d Michigan; Corporals Thomas H. Davis, Company K, and AE y, Company H, and Privates E. C. Weyand, Company A Albert Huck, Compa Frederick V. Hack, Company H; J. E. Hurley, Company D; 4. M. Armour, Company K, ana John N. Herrington, Company Goth New York. it 18 well that this lull in the discovery of hew cases has come just at this time, a3 word has been received that Fort Myer has now al the patients it can sare for. An erder has been issued directing that he ter no more'than eight patients be sent - from Camp Alger. paymaster made the hearts of over ing the ist oenecticut and $d Virginia. ‘fomorrow he is to go to the camp of the 13tn Pennsyl- SS L, th Vhe 2,000 men happy today by vi . Davis’ division is now encampel on wong ridge of hills where the confed: gen. Early rested with his army an threw up intrenchments before the first battle of Bull Run. The creck Of that name flows through tne valley at the bottom of the hills, which afferded the men an op- portunity to indulge in a bath at-the close of the day’s work. The eight regiments of the division will finally locate at Chanel pring. about ten miles from their present lecation. “Weeding Out” Process Needed. A Daily Observer writes to The Star as follows: The article in last night's Star in refer- ence to Camp Alger was read by me with a great deal of interest, as my business has required me to live at the camp for the past two months, and I have observed a great many things not apparent to the eye of the casual visitor. In the first place, it was a mistake, or worse, to establish the camp at this place, so remote from running water, and the gentlemen responsible for it should now “rise and explain.” but after once estab- shed it was the duty of the military offi- cials having such matters in charge to see that all the modern appliances known to sanitation were put in use to: preserve the health of the men who so nobly left their peaceful occupations to volunteer for the country. It doesn’t seem to occur to the “scien- tific’ gentlemen who lay all the blame on the water that there are from one thou- sand to fifteen hundred civilians and about as many line and staff officers using this water every day, and still there has not been one case of fever among them. This should dispose of the water question. A little sanitary precaution would render the sinks less dangerous. I have traveled 1 over this camp during the past two months and only in one instance have I seen such a thing as slaked lime used. A thou- sand barrels of slaked lime per week would render these sinks almost harmless, pro- vided, of course, they were properly lo- cated, instead which the officers in of charge of this camp require the soldiers and traders to “properly police” that por- tion of the camp open to the public eye and let other matters run themselves. If the commissary and medical officers could find the time to look into the “food ques- tion" possibly they might find some cause for disease. Fresh meat direct from cold storage, exposed to the heat of an almost tropical sun, and covered by millions of flies, becomes in a very short time unfit for food. Unclean cooking utensils put away with the grease hardened in them, only to be melted by the heat on the next use, and such rotten and putrid grease mixed with the new food, is liable to cause disease, and still this side of the question doesn’t seem to strike the fancy of the “powers that be.” Soldiers within sight of the nation’s capital and guarding head- quarters have been entirely without food of any character whatever for twenty-six hours at a time, and still obliged to see officers, supposed to be paid to look out for their interests, ‘mess’ from the choic- est cuts of commissary beef. These mat- ters have become so flagrant that the whole camp ts in a state bordering on mu- tiny. If the officers who are paid large salaries to perform certain duties would do them as well and cheerfully as the common soldier there would be less sickness and more con- tent in camp. The same condition of af- fairs allowed to exist in any camp woud produce the same results as now exist at Camp Alger. Se Sg EE Ameriean Bank at Santiago. NEW YORK, August 6—The North American Trust Company office received a cablegram from 8S. M. Jarvis, its vice pres- ident, now at Santiago, in which it is stated that the company has secured the banking rooms formerly occupied by the Bank of Spain at Santiago, and that the office has been fully equipped. Business will begin Monday morning. ——>—... Mrs. Thos. C. Noyes has renewed her contract with the First Baptist Church and will sing there for another year. There was quite a competition for her services, but she considsred that the church at which she had sung so long had the first claim upon her. ment is almost certain to do as the general | WAR ROMANCE’S SEQUEL. Hieut. Col. Vos’ Wife at Grand Rapids jues Miss Vandersluis. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., August €—Mrs. John Vos, wife of Lievt. Col. Vos of the 32d Michigan Volunteers, now at Fernan- dina, Fla., today began suit against Miss Rose Vandersluls for $10,000 damages for pee alienation of her husband's affec- ons, She had already filed suit against her husband for separate maintenanc>, declar- ing that he had contributed nothing to his femily’s support since his regiment assem- béed in April. ‘ —- > CUMBERLAND NEWS. Death of Mrs. Sarah Hardman and Miss Sirena Street. Syectal Dispatch to The Evening Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., August 6.—Suckers ir Lake Terra Alta are dying by the hun- dseds. It is supposed that it is the epi- d¢mic common among suckers at certain seasons. So far no trout have been found among the dead suckers. The United States fish commission car, which recently passed through Terra Alta, Ieft several thousand fine black bass to be placed in the lake. Mrs. Sarah R. Hardman, widow of Henry Hardman, and last survivor of the pioneer family of Jonathan A. Hendrickson, who died in Cumberland on Wednesday, was buried yesterday. "i Miss Sirena Street died near Flinstone, this county, aged seventy-four years. She was the daughter of Thomas Street and granddaughter of Jonas L. Street, one of the famous old inn keepers on the Balti- more pike and the old Hancock road. Mrs. Annie M. Vincenheller has filed a suit for absolute divorce from William G. Vineenheller of Baltimore, to whom she was married several years ago. Mrs. Vin- cenheller, who was prominent in Baltimore society, lately removed to Cumberland. She alleges cruelty and brutality. She is the mother of Mrs. George V. Hobart of Baltimore, and Mrs. John K. Millholland of Cumberland. She was Mrs. Devries before. she married Mr. Vineenhellem —— MOUNTAIN LAKE CHAUTAUQUA. it Has Begun With 3,000 People in Attendance. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK, Md., August 6.—Th2 sixteenth annual Chautauqua began Thursday with 3,000 people in attendance. It closes on August 26. Dean J. H. Morgan of Dickinson College presided at the open- ing exercises. Ther> is a large number of students in attendance, the classes being the largest in the history of the mountain Chautauqua. Citizens of Oakland have been cailed upon to accommodat? the overflow at the park. Dr. Wilbur L. Davidson of Cuy- ahoga Falls, Ohio, is superintendent of in- striction. The following have charge of the classes: Prof. Hens Froelicher and Mrs. F. M. Froelicher, Ph. D., of the Woman's Col- lege, Baltimore, Germanic languag>s; Prof. J. H. Morgan, Carlisle, Pa., Greek and Lat- in; Ado!ph Rambeau of Jehns Hopkins Uni- versity, Romance languages; Madame Ram- . diplomee of the Friends’ High School, aitimore, classes in French; Dr. Hugh A. Curran of the Pennsylvania State Normal School, natural sciences; Elmer A. Cross, he Carlisle, Pa., High School, and Engi George W. Ph. D., of the Western Maryland College, Westminster, history; Miss Jennie White, New York, painting; Dr. W. H. Pontius, Dubuque, Iowa, music; Miss Julia . Orum, Philadelphia, elocutiot Miss Su- san P, Pollock, Washington, D. C., kinder- garten; Prof. A. A. Line, Carlisle, Pa., pho- tography; Miss E. W. W Baltimore d typewriting; Miss Ida Lafayette, Ind., ph training; Nantte Evans, New York, cooking s Rev. J. E. Turner, Fountain, Ohio, Bible study; Mrs. M. G. Kennedy of Phila- delphia, Sunday normal school. Many leading lecturers and platform. ora- tors have been engaged. Music is furnished by Stephens’ brass band and the Schubert Gize Club of Chicago. ne stenography Smith, M hoc CALLERS ON THE PRESIDWT. Ex-Gov. Pattison and a Philadel hia Delegation. A large Philadetphia delegation, from the national relief commission, accompanied by Postmaster General Smith, called on Presi- dent McKinley yesterd: afternoon . and discussed the conditions of the camp life. of the soldiers. The delegation was. headed by Joshua L. Bailey and included ex-Gov- ernor Pattison, Rev. A. T. Kynet, Francis B. Reeves and Dr. O. S. Shakesphere. The delegation asked that in the selection of any new locations for camps due consider- ation be given the unfortunate experience at Camp Alger and other points. They took occasion to commend the hospital at Fort Monroe, Va., as a model institution and urged that hospital conditions general- ly be improved. They called attention to the sad experience at Santiago. The Presi- dent took part in the discussion and show- ed considerable interest in their preserta- tion of what they called the lessons of the past Representative Robbins of Pennsylvania, in the full uniform of a captain of Penn- yivania volunteers, now in camp at Chick- mauga, called on the President yesterday and will leave for Porto Rico with the other officers and men of Wade's division. + e+ SECOND DIVISION DELAYED. General Davis’ Men Will Not Reach Bristow Before Monday. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. CLIFTON, Va., August 6.—Arrival at Bristow, the destination of the second di- vision, under command of Gen. Davis, will not take place before Monday, another de- lay being occasioned by the impassable condition of the fords and the exhausting of the five days’ rations allowed for the trip. Supplies have been telegraphed for and the first few cars are now being un- loaded. The whole command is in the best of health and spirits, those answering to sick call this morning not averaging over four to the regiment. Relic-hunting fur- nishes an occupation for the men when off dut Old canteens, bullets and portions of bayonets, mementoes of the battle of Bull Run, have been fcund by a few of the soldiers. Surgeon Almy, in charge of the field hos- pital, at last realizes the uses of ambu- lances. He issued strict orders this morn- ing forbidding officers or any others, in- cluding hospital stewards, from riding in the ambulances. The driver is the only one allowed on the wagon besides the sick. scons tis MILL MOVEMENT WAIL Abandon Attempt to Agree on Gen- eral Curtatiment Posiey. FALL RIVER, Mass., August 6.--The movement which was begun here last month for the purpose of closing twen- ty-five or thirty of the principal cloth mills of this city for four weeks has failed. The Fall River Cotton Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation held a meeting this forenoon and voted to abandon the attempt to agree on a general curtailment policy. Nearly all the mills will continue in op- eration, although several may stop inde- pendently for a time. It 1s asserted by some of the promoters of the general cur- tailment that another attempt is to be made in the fall to stop the machinery here and in other portions of New Eng- land, but much will depend on the market conditions later in the season. About 200,000 pieces of cloth were dis- posed of here this week, thereby consider- ably lessening the surplus on hand. a TWENTY MYSTERIOUS COUPONS. Their Alleged Owner Hi mn Investigation. NEW YORK, August 6.—Twenty coupons of United States bonds of the issue of 1895, each worth $10, are held by the Third Na- tional Bank of Jersey City pending a set- tlement of the question as to their owner- ship. They wére brought to the bank to- day by Wm. Kywaston, who says he is third officer of the ocean liner Britannic, and who asked that the sum they repre- sented be paid to him. Kywaston was not known to the cashier, whose questions so confused the holder of the coupons that, leaving them in the hands of the cashier, he left the bank. He was followed, however, and brought back and subsequently given into the hates d ot = officer. poli dese tm not exple coupons came possession. Thi are from bonds numbered 63480 to 55405, Pending inclusive, and 58519, a ALGER-ROQSEVELT AFFAIR of cae Public Opinion TIpon the Merits of the Un- Sarr hai ‘The Verdict Seems to Be That Roose- velt ea Diseretion and Al erosity. a The Si so Situation. From the*Philadelphia Press. When Col. Boogevelt has had assJong a military experience as he has had-ctvil, and we trust the former will be both as. bril- liant and’ as usefuf as the latter, he will have learned the grave military indiscre- tion of which he is guilty in the publicity he has given to his’ remonstrancé on the health of the troops at Santiago and to the action of the generals. Both went to the-limits of military action, though within those limits; but both were matters of military confidence and should have been treated as such. For a week it has been known that the War Department was preparing to move the army north, and the matter has been fully discussed in all directions. The alternative proposition of moving on the hills was one altogether suitable for discussion, and the War De- partment has promptly accepted the pro- posal to move all the army nortn, although the earlier medical adyice of the medical adviser of the Seeretary of War, the sur- Seon ieneml, inclinedi-to:acretrent to the pills. $ But there is an end: to effective military cperations In the tropics if these subjects are to be publicly discussed. Fever and losses by fever are ineyitable i tropic cam- paigns. They cannot be ayvided. The “pacification of Cuba"? is impossible with- out them.and to this the couniry is com- mitted. The summer expedition which all the country urged meant fever and deaths by fever. Diminished fever and its losses may be by using negro regiments—im- mune” white regiments are worth little against malaria—but it is indispensable that the losses due to climate shall be faced as other losses are, without panic. Tortu- nately, complete success has made retreat possible, and no unnecessary loss is, will be or has Leen permitted. A Private Letter. From the Baltimore American. Until further particulars throw a better light on the correspondence between Col- onel Roosevelt and Secreiary Alger the hon- ors will not be with the Secretary. It is plain that Roosevelt's letter was written with too much impetuosity and with too much extravagance for his own men, but it will be remembered that he led these men in one of the noblest fights of the century; that he saw their heroism, and that he had since then beheld thelr neglect by the de- partment. It was°natural for him to be extravagant in his language, and as the letter was a private one the matter of it was as sacred as a confidential conversa- tion between friends. The fact that he had been assistant seeretary in the Navy De- partment before he resigned and went to the front also counted in his favor and in his rightful claims upon the Secretary of War. But Alger, possibly stung to strange and inexcusable lengths, thought he saw an op- portunity to score, with the public, and so he used a private letter for a public pur- pose in a partigujarly barefaced way. Be- tween Roosevalt's “intemperate zeal for his men and Alwer’s:icold-blooded use of a private letter foya gallery play, the Amer’ can people will,notbesitate to choose. It was a bad mistake for the Secretary. He Wax Not wénero From the BrooklymEagie Incidentally, the Seeretary of War has aiso seen fit toxrebuke the leader of the Rough Riders foc saying that his followers are net only as good as the regulars, but threé times ascot as any of the State troops.” In behalf oftCol. Roosevelt; it is to be said that the;fetter in which-he made this. declaration was, pot_intended for gen- eral circulation." It was written to the man “ho has rebuked him By its publication its author will mrflblvtedly be surprised, but he is man epough ‘to accept the conse- quences witaout,a murmur.. The slur upon the state troops, will-not, improperly be2re- sented, and Roosevelf,, will live long eneuga to regret it. At the same, time, Secretary Alger has madé free use;of that wh was manifestly intended dnly for his own. pe- rusal. He was other than generous. A Confidential Communication, From'the New York Times. iColonel Regsevelt-had written to General Alger a letter which was evidently and on the. fyce of. it not official, but personal. It showed a just pride in the gallant regiment which Colonel Roosevelt commands, and the formation of which is so largely due to him. he enthusiastically says, and “three: times a8 good as any state troops.” He explains that one advantage they have over the state troops is that the latter are “armed with archale weapons.” On the face of it, this is a confidential communication. To treat it as official, and to publish it, together with the cabied an- swer to it, after eleven days, when the an- swer was a public rebuke, was as gross a violation of the decencies of life as can be imagined. On the face of it, it is an act impossible to a gentleman. But the expla- nation is not on the face of It. Sines it was written its author has been talked of as the republican candidate for governor of New York, and it is just about the level of the Algerine imagination to suppose that the publication of it would injur2 the author’s Prospects. Moreover, it gave the Secretary a chance to beslaver with equal and there- fore worthless praise all the men in unt form who had be>n within sight or hearing of the operations at Santiago, Roosevelt’s Grave Error, From the New York Journal. It is most unfortunate that Colonel Theo- dore Roosevelt's irresistible self-assertion and egotism should have broken forth just at this glorious moment in the condyct of the war to obscure his relly admirable ser- vices in the field. Mr. Roosevelt has fought well—more that, he hus fought brilliantly, and mith an entire indifference to personal danger which is characteristic of him. He led a fine lot of men who are not trained soldiers in the disciplinary sense of the word, but who have shown themseives gallant to the point of desperation. Nothing finer than the charge of the Rough Riders at Il Caney, headed by Theo- dore Roosevelt, is yét to be recorded of the work of American soldiers in Cuba. How deplorable it 1s, then, that Mr. Roosevelt's irrepressible spirit’ of bragga, docio and egotism, his inbred incapacity to recognize merit in his rivals, should now put the Rough Riders, through the. action of their colonel, in the position of a mili- tary command which brags of its own achievements and ignores the admirable ac- complishments of its associated companions in arms! * * * The Secretary of War « * rot go one step too far whgn:he telegraphed to Mr. Roosevelt this stinging rebuke: “I suggest that unless you wantito spoil the effect and glory of your victorysyou make no invidi- ous comparisons: The Rough Riders are no bettec than other!¥olunteers,” 19 ee Both Lack Tact nnd Taste. From the Brooklyn Gitiien! “Teddy” Roosgvelt’s letter to Secretary of War Alger injwhich he asserts that the Rough Riders, hig:owa regiment, are “three times as good ag,any,state troops,” shows a shocking lack pf, taet for a man who is looking, for Platts approval as a candidate for governor, in view,@f the question as to the expediency of renominating Black in face of his force bill. Mr. Croker facétiously remarked recently, “A man must bejelther killed or wounded, to have any chance. before the people this fall.” But, then Croker didn’t mean a man who had eitHer killed or wounded him- self; and “Teddy” has probably done both through that letter; fer, the National Guard is a power in the matter of ballots, however little he may think of it as a stopper of bullets. | ‘ Indeed, it is fortunate for Secretary Al- ger that he, too, is not coming before the people for indorsement for some office this fall; for, he been as. indiscreet as vi show Ww! ex- hibit pce ei Sal h Snes are no er than ier eers,' 1e says, alluding, probably, to the fact that there would have left been nothing ot “Teddy's” regiment but for the sudden aid rendered it by the colored men of the regu- lars at San Juan. eke < mbiguous phrase, and ‘seems ‘to. rect ami us phrase, seems: ject upon volunteers and Rough ison, in fact, the in- pret go- cess ae ference being They are “as good as any reguiars,” | mam detien the charge, lars. The Secretary of War ought to have used better judgment in rebuking the too forward “Teddy.” Alger’s Oversight. From the New York World. Roosevelt and Alger have been, not per- haps friends, but certainly acquaintances of the closest personal, official and political intimacy. The first line of Roosevelt's let- ter to Alger—‘My Dear Mr. Secretary”— indicates that the letter was not official, but personal. The subject-matter of the letter makes it one of hundreds of letters asking for favors which any public man gets every day. This letter contained a most indiscreet phrase, a phrase which illustrates anew with peculiar force the proverb that com- parisons are malodorous. It was published by Secretary Alger. This raises two questions—one affecting Roosevelt, the other affecting Alger. The two questions are quite distinct. Whatever in the nature of boiling ofl or melted lead Roosevelt may deserve or may get for praising his own regiment at the expense of the National Guard, it cannot change the nature or the extent of Alger’s reward for publishing a private letter solely to injure a brave man of perilous political possibilities. ‘Alger evidently was so busy studying the effect upon the fortunes of Roosevelt, all unsuspicious of Alger’s enmity, that he en- tirely neglected the effect upon Alger. Military Maladministration at Home. From the Baltimore Sun. In all military history; in all the history of past campaigns, however unfortunate and mismanag<d, of other nations, the Wal- cheren expedition, the Crimean war, the experience of the French in Tonquin, we do not remember to have read of any more stinging rebuke to military maladministra- tion at home than has been administered to Secretary Alger by the commanding of- ficers of divisions and brigades in General Shafter's army. It is simply ridiculous for the Secretary now to take shelter behind forms of military etiquette and to say tnat the action of General Shafter or of Colonel Roosevelt is unmilitary and irregular. Mr. Alger’s whole administration of his depart- ment has been of a Kind to set all forms of etiquette and of military procedure at de- fiance. He has been a most demoralizing influence himself in the army, and for that reason among others peace cannot come too quickly. A Swift Change. New York Correspondence Philadelphia Press. In the twinkling of an eye almost, a change has come in certain -political ten- dencies which will seriously affect, possi- bly destroy, the jolitical opportunities ef two distinguished republicans. By a curi- ous whim of fate, it so happens that the unexpected events similarly affect two men, who, it has been presumed, would become rivals for the nomination of governor of this state—the present governor, Frank S. Black, and Col. Theodore Roosevelt. Yes- terday Col. Roosevelt seemed likely to be named the republican candidate for gover- ror of the state, even before the state con- vention met. Popular feeling was rapidly erystajlizing in favor of that act. The one objection which Roosevelt's friends have raised that he would not be willing to quit active service, even to be- come governor of New York, seemed to have been removed by the probability of the early establishment of peace. The re- publican leaders and the mass of the party have been feeling for some time that tie campaign in this state must be chielly car- ried on upon the great national issues which the war has brought forth. To do that it was deemed essential that a soldier, some «ne who had actively fought, should be named as the candidate for governor, and Reosevelt seemed to meet the opportu- nity better then any other soldier who went forth from New York state. Only yesterday afternoon a republican of much influence in the central part of the state, one who has served as senator, and has been the leader of the organization in cne of the central counties, was in confer- ence with Senator Platt and Congressm: Odell. He told them that in the we and central part of the state the party was for makirg the campaign upon national is- sues, and upon the support of the adminis- tration, and thet it was thought the part of expediency to nominate Roosevelt for govern Senator Platt seemed to be of that opinion. This morning that republican made haste to withdraw that opinion. He did it regret- fully, but he did it because he felt certain that. after the publication of Col. Roo: velt's letter to the Secretary of War was impossible for the republican pariy to name him as its candidate for governor. Of course, the views expressed by Col. Roosevelt in that letter have created se indignation on the part of the Na- tional Guard of this state, and of all their friends. LATE ARMY ORDERS. | captain A. M. Fuller, 24 Cavalry, has been ordered to Montauk Point, L. L, for duty, pending the arrival of his troop. Major John P. Dodge, brigade surgeon, Xas been ordered to report to Major Gen- eral Wade at Washington for assignment to duty on his staff. The following named officers have re- signed: First Lieutenant Mike Slater, Ist Kentucky Volunteer Infantry; First Lieu- tenant O. C. W. Fleming, 2d Missouri Vol- unteer Infantry; Major W. D. Macdonald, brigade surgeon, U. 8. V. Major General Young, U. S. V., now in this city, has been ordered to Montauk Point to assume charge of the preparation of the camps for the 5th Army Corps. = Captain Robert J. C. Irvine, 11th Infan- try, has been ordered to Newport News to report to the commanding general at that place for transportation to Perto Rie Captain Walter Allen, assistant cuarcer- master, U.S. V., has been orlered to New York city for assignment to duty on board the steamer Obdam. Captain Allen will as- sume charge of the steamer and perform all duties pertaining to the quartertaasier's and subsistence departments on board. Second Lieutenant S. B. Elkins, jr., signal orps, has been ordered to report to Briga- Wier General Grant at Newport Nows tor assignment to duty. Acting assistant surgeons have been as- signed to duty as follows: J. T. H. Slay- ter, to San Francisco, Cal. to Montauk Point; C. E. V. Kennon, Camp George H. Thomas, Ga., and J. Leahy, to Falls Chureh, V. ee AN APPOINTMEN T. G. Holmes, to GIVEN Commander-in-Chief of U. V. Commissioned a Captain. President McKinley has authorized the appointment of Gen. Harlow L. Street, commander-in-chief of the Union Veterans’ Unton, to be commissary of subsistence, with the rank of captain, in the war with Spain. His commission will be handed him by R. G. Dyrenforth, colonel and chief of staff, U. V. U.., at an opportune stage in the proceedings of the national encamp- ment of the order, which is to be heid in Rock Island, Ill, beginning the 9th in- stant. The appointment was made at the solici- tation of Col. Dyrenforth a recognition of those who wore the blue in the civil war, and as a tribute to the organization of the Union Veterans’ Union, to which the President belongs. The appointee served in the volunteer ranks during the civil war from 1861 to 1865, and was then given a commission as captain of Troop A, Ist United States Cavalry. He was mustered out when the regular army was reduced :n number, quit- ting the service in 1871. A party of delegates to the encampment, forty in number and including the com- mander-in-chief, will leave over the Bal- timore and Ohio railroad this evening at 8:05 o'clock for Rock Island. The en- campment will be in session four days. ——— Gives Valuable Information. Johnny Butts, who was arrested for hav- ing been associated with the burglar, “Bill Mason,” when he lived here as Cook, was taken before District Attor- ney Davis and Inspector Mattingly this af- ternoon. He gave these officials some val- uable information, which it is thought may lead to the recovery of some more of the stolen property. The prisoner told the offi- cers that he had disposed of some of the property to a man living on H street. The man whose name he mentioned was after- ward seen by thi and he denied the statements le ey Butts. ——_—_ : Another Arrest. Louis Kaufm@n, living at €20 H street northwest, was arrested late this afternoon He is the man to whom Butts said he sold sore of the stolen property. Mr. Kauf- vu NO CHANGES COMTEMPLATED, Composition of the Eastern Squadron Remains Unaitered. If the Navy Department contemplates any further change in the composition of the eastern squadron, which was destined for a cruise in Spanish waters, the matter has not taken form. This statement applies to the commanders of the ships of this squad- ron as well as to the ships themselves, and the talk of sending Sampson in charge of this eastern squadron is consequently rath- er speculative at this time. Of course, it 4s well understood that in the event that peace is restored there must be a complete reorganization and redistribution of the United States naval forces, and this will involve undoubtedly the separation of the four naval commanders of high rank now on duty in connection with the north At- lantic ‘fleet, namely, Admiral Sampson, Commodore Watson, Commodore Schley and Commodore Howell. The north Atlan- tic fleet comprises about a hundred vessels, the most numerous and powerful force ever commanded by an American admiral, Such a gigantic force would not be maintained on one station in time of peace. Many of the auxiliary vessels and the monitors, which are unfit for general cruising, will be re- tired from commission and laid up in the navy yard or, in the case of the former, sold. A sufficient force of the remaining vessels will be retained on the north At- lantic station to maintain it as the most important naval command. The others are to be distributed between the various other Stations, Pacific, Asiatic and south Atlan- tic. The European station, which was va- cated completely just prior to the declara- tion of wer, will be rehabilitated, and for the sake of the moral effect likely to result will receive some of the most powerful and modern ships in the American navy. It vill also be possible with the ships at the Navy Department's disposal to carry out a long-cherished project for the creation of a new station in the south Pacific, with a base probably at Valparaiso or Callao. Unider this plan of reorganization there will e ings for several officers of fi ni and thus it is expected that there wilt mE Mmeeeiction than heretofore between these But with the exception of the eastern squadron the north Atlantic fleet is mot to be diminished as long as the war continues. iansever it is now perceived & right arm of the country, and the naval officials are congratulating themselves that they were able to resist the pressure that was brought to bear at one time upon them to expose this tre mendous force to dissipation by profitles: attacks upon fortified ports. A distinguls ed naval officer calls attention to the fac that the most serious results might hav followed the disclosure of the demoralizel condition of our army at Santiago had not the navy been at hand to protect it. N. withstanding the best efforts of censorship over telegraph and mails, it is believed that the Spanish government had acquired knowledge of the situation at Santiago. But it was powerless to profit by it for the reason that thy navy blocked the way and prevented the dispatch of reinforcements and supplies te the Spanish army in Cuba the lack of which obliged Gen. Toral to Surrender. Ané thus it happens that. the navy has again, though this time in a ner- ative way, been of the greatest service to the country an‘ justified the wisdom of the officers who refused to ¢ Ses <= less destruction. ee ———_ —+ 0+ RED CROSS AT WORK. Report of Field Agent on Daty at Camp Alger. Capt. George C. Lewis, Red Cross field agent at Camp Alger, is removing his head- quarters from its old site to the camp at Manassas. He has submitted th> following report as an outline of the supplies furnish- ed to the Ist and 2d Division hospitals and to the hospital at Fort Myer, Va., during his stay at Camp Alger. June 10, 188, Miss Barton furnished a complete complement of necessary articl>s for the establishment of hospitals, as de- sired by surgeons. In the line of medical supplies Captain Lewis has furnished a sreat amount, such as quantiti2s of lauda- num, digitalis, calomel and soda, 1,000 mi- graine tabl>ts, 2 pounds sugar of lead, 4 pounds boracic acid, 3 dozen clinical ther- mometers, 10 pounds calomel, 10,000 lime water tablets, 1,000 cedine pills, 2 quarts elixir pepsin, 3 quarts white pine compound, *® pounds flaxseed meal, %) pounds prune: 40 sheets, 15) mattresses, 70 pillow casi mosquito nets, 10 towels, 140 handker- chiefs, 250 rolls bandages, 5) pounds absorb- ent cotton, 4 dozen bottles vaseline, 6 pounds sulphur, 4 boxes camphor ice, half dozen Japanese stoves, todoform, iodine, paper pillows, beef extracts, malted milk, 42 dozen gauze shirts, 10) sets pajamas: also all manner of cereal foods, farina, cornstarch, cocoa, blackberry cordials, grape juice, wines and many delicacies and necessaries. The ladies of the Red Cross visited Point Sheridan hospitals yesterday and found the patients all improving. The treatment of tae fever patients has been suce>ssful in preventing an epidemic of typhoid fever similar to that which has visited Camp Al- ger. The new hospital will be ready for use Monday, and with th cots, mattresses and general hospital supplies furnished by the Red Cross, will be able to take excel- tent eare of the sick. The ladies went down yest2rday with deli- cacies for the sick and thirty pajamas, and many other articles useful in hospitals. Among the visitors were Mrs. John A. T. Hull, wife of Representative Hull; Mrs. Frank B. King, Dr. B. P. Haines of Minne sota, Mrs. Haus? and Mrs. EHen S. Mussey. They report the special neads at Sheridan to be pillows and more ice. Dona- tions may be sent to Red Cross headquar- ters, 1310 G street northwest. Mr. B. H. Werner of th> Red Cross has ordered ice to be furnished to all transports and vessels coming into and leaving for Hampton Roads with sick and wounded sol- diers aboard. The funds for this work come from the ice plant auxiliary of the Red Cross, Miss Leverich, scretary. Se The People and Roosevelt. To the Editor of The Evening Starz Allow me to state that the consensus of public opinion as far as I have heard it is in line with your report of yesterday on the Alger-Roosevelt imbroglio. Secretary Alger is very severely condemned for selz- ing an opportunity to try to reflect on Col- onel Roosevelt. It is considered a breach of confidence, as the letter was evidently of that character. Roosevelt is looked upon as one of the heroes of the war, if not the hero. What Dewey and Schiey and Hobson and Clark and others have done was done in the line of their professional duty, but Roosevelt, with the foresight and genius of Clive, saw from the hour of the destruction of the Maine that war was inevitable, and hav- ing left the navy in first-class fighting order, resigned his honorable position as assistant secretary, organized a band of the most galiant men that ever faced an enemy, and bore the heat of the day at Santiag There is not one man in a mil- lion that would have done it, and the Amer- ican people will remember, the efforts of Secretary Alger to the contrary not- withstanding. The attempt to construe Roosevelt's letter into a slur on the other volunteers is con- temptible. What he said was that the Rough Riders were worth more than twice in number the other volunteers who were armed with archaic weapons and inferior powder. There was no contrast as between the bravery of the men. It is pertinent to ask why the victorious troops by sea and land were not sent to Porto Rico after the fall of Santiago. Was it that there is a fear in certain quarters that some leader might gain overmuch honor? The people are watching the game, though loth to say much at the present crisis. But when the war is over, if it is found that there was any loss of life owing to gross negli- gence or incapacity, or by reason of fene- ing for some political advantage, or to curb rising genius, or belittle earnest pa- triotism, there will be a day of reckoning as well as of reward. FAIR PLAY. August. 6, 1898. = —_+— Proposals Received. "The following proposals for erecting the additional story to the second precinct po- lice station were received by the District Commissioners today: 630.80; Andrew Gleason, $5, Biomas & Co., $4,700, and J. M. Dunn, > Cervera Agesin at Annapolis. FINANCE AND TRADE Upward Tendency Shows Approach of Prosperity. HIGHER PRICES ARE INEVITABLE Northern Pacific Preferred De- serves Special Attention. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, August 6.—The upward ten- dency of prices and the broadening of the market during the past week demonstrate to a certainty that the era of prosperity, which has had so many false starts, has finally gotten under way. During the past two monzhs prices have remained fixed, but inactive, but to an observer of the market it was evident that there was no desire or the part of investors to dispose of their holdings. The London market for American stock: closed firm, with a slightly better tone. Spanish 4's closed strong at 42%. The absorption of securities for invest- ment, together with absence of liquidation. renders a higher range of prices inevitable under present conditions. The Pacifics, with their improved prospects, should cer- tainly move upward. Northern Pacific preferred deserves special attention. Crops along its line are an accomplished fact The wheat harvest in Northern Dakote will exceed all records. If Burlingten, with corn crops uncertain, is worth 113, St. Paul. with its princtpal crops assured, ought to be worth more than 103%. It is reported that the same inter- ests which have advanced Burlington save been buying St. Paul, with the expectation that it will advance later. It may be thought good management to delay any special movement in St. Paul until the earnings begin to show weekly increases, or, at least, only rominal decreases. There has been a good deai of idle talk within a few days that interests which have for a long time regarded with special favor the industrial properties by rea: their exceptional capa as money v €rs, and their immunity from those grave |@angers of crop failu foreign agricul- j tural competition and disastrous rate-cut tirg which so often menace the railroads, have abandoned them. Any one who stud- jes the earnings of industrials for the past five years and will compare them with the reports which have becn furnished by the |tallroads will have the best answer that | could be made to such a statement. After several attacks on the rubber stocks in the past two days, good support apparently forthcoming and the price lied to 42 on the common and 993-4 on this being an advance on the It is reasonably certain that the com- stock will be put on a regular divi- some time this fall or winter, and the chances are that it will be kept there, particularly if the deal with the Bos- ton Rubber Shoe Company is successfully completed, and it is understood that this deal has been practically accomplished— the terms of the sale being the only ques- tion in ue, The rumor on the board that Spain had accepted the terms of peace submitted by our government gave increased strength to the market during the last hour. Bank statement—Reserve, , increased, $1 ); legals, di increased, $! $118, 160. SEEPS AL AND COMMERCIAL, 500; deposit lation, decreased, FINANC! New York Stock Market. Open. High. Low. Close. | american Spirits. Wy“ dO American Spirits, pid... 39° 89% 39° 39 American Sugar. . WSK 18H; 138K American Sugar, Po . pta. American Toba Atchison Atcnison, pfa | Balumore a ; Brooklyn R. Canada -ansit. outhern . t. P.. M. & O cago, Kut. & Pacific, Chig. &'G Western. nsolidated Gas Del. Lack & W Lelaware & Au Den, & tuo wranae, pra General dlectnie. Ulmois Centrai Lake Snore. . Lousvilie & Nasnwuie, Metropolitan ‘Tract Manaatian Kievateu. Machigan Cencrat Missouri Pacific. Nauiona) Lead Co. New Jersey Centrai New York Cenirai. Northern Yacitc...- Northern Facifie, pfd.- Ont. & Western Pacitie Mau... Phila. & keauing. © southern ity. pia Texas Pacific...... Jena. Coa a iroa. Am. Steel and Wire... Am. Steel and Wire pia. Rubver... ‘Rubber pf.. Governme Bonds. Bid. Asked © ©. per “cents, per cents, per cents, per cents, per cents, per cents, per cents, registered... registered of 1908-1918. coupon of 1908-1918 registered of 1907... i 1 1124 104 104 coupon of IY per cents, registered of 1904.. per cents, coupon of 1904 Currency 6 per cents of 1899 oe Grain, Prov: and Cotton Markets. Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., bankers and brokers, 1427 F st., members . Sree stock exchange, correspondents Messrs, Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., New York. GR. N. Low. Close. High. . 10 84 10 8 5.37 5.32 545 5.42 5.27 5.20 525 5.25 High. Low. 5.94 5.92 597 5.85 5.98 5.98 6.04 6.02 Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE. August 6.—Flour dull. unchanged <receipts, 7,900 barrels; exports, 6,058 barrels Wheat strong and higher—spot, 77ai7%; mouth 76a76%; September, 75: steamer No, 2 ted, 75'4 75\—receipts, 54.604 bushels; exports, 79,960 bush els; stock, 306,318 bushels; sales, 20,000 bushels - southem Wheat by sample, 70a78; do. on gra ie, T5igaTs%. Corn steady—spot, month and Septem= ber, 374837%; steamer mixed, 36%136%—receipts, . exports, 25.714 bushels; stock, 108 bushels—southern white corn, 39n40; do. y low, 39 asked. Oats quiet—No. 2 white western, 82a33: No. 2 mixed, 30a31—recelpts, 15.529 bush. ¢ls; exports, 34,815 bushels; stock, 60,663 busbels Rye firmer No.2 nearby, 48; % receipts, bushels; ‘exports, 30,000 bushels; Stock, 24,753 bushels. “Hay steady—No. 1 timothy. $12.00agl2.50._ Grate slow #and easy Steam to per L. . August for orders per quarter, 25.34.n2s.61. Ai isa "enhanced “Eig So, octane, Set 40a50e. per box. Capt. Alger im the City.