Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1898, Page 9

——— WASH. B. WILLIAMS, Furniture, &c., 7th and D Sts. ~ CARPET PRICES At Low-Water Mark! Lerge baxtne of Fall Ciepets from fest hands way in advance of the season en- ables us to GUARANTEE THE LOWEST PRICES now for High-grade Carpets that will be quoted this season. Place vour order now and secure the benefit cf these unheard-of prices: ‘Axminsters, Soc. Brand new fall effects—never shown be- Williams’ stardard price, Sde. New Axminsters, 85c. ‘The most serviceablevgrade of Axminster TEAM HOME AGAIN Captain McGuire Discouraged Ov Poor Results. INDIFFERENCE OF THE PLAYERS A Radical Change of Policy to Be Adopted. CURRENT SPORTING NOTES made. Williams’ standard price, S5e. New Moquettes, 85c All the newest “and swatlest patterns. | The entire Washington outfit of base ball Wiliams’ standard price. S6c. : . aki feate aay pea players returned to this city last nig! New Seataieks Meg Se pignty |@fter a fortnight’s sojourn at Phila- Willinus” Soc. culorings. stendard 1 $1 y New Wilton Velve! Velvets are g the finest Carpets made —and these velvets. Will- New Wilton Velv F Extra heavy .edy—exquisit * patterns. Hams" standard p si lar prices for Brussels, Wash.B. Williams, 7thé D. MICHAEL vs. MORAN Ten-llile Paced Race UNTIL DAY, AUG. 10, 8:30 P.M. yard. ved seat coupons gre good for same seats <a Eelipse store, 14th and H. rices, 50c., 75c. and $1.00 Box Seats, $1.50. Park Bicycle Track. Races August 17 AT 8:30 PLM. LE OF Rac it WILL BE THE W: touch bed-rock Bicycle Sundry prices=-=-No dealer can quote less can, unless they Intend to go out of bus Waldford’s, 9.20477 QUICK ACTION Clean printing. simpl! ty. permanent and accurate | alignment and durability are a few features of the WELLINGTON | TYPEWRITER No. 2 Equal to i any $100 machine on the j market. ! to any responsible party on receipt | refun WLUSTRAT CATALOGUE APPLICATION. THE WILLIAMS MFG. ¢ 3, SENT FREE ON } LTD. tu, thés-1y-26 eben eb nDtORPOOPPEEEIES HOME DYEING A Pleasure at Last. Seazvets sorseeseatoey 28 Letoetete ede o Muss. No Trouble. MAYPOLE SOAP i: WASHES AND DYES? At One Operation seefectoetoege > PS = 2 : + Sreteete 4 The Cleanest, Fastest Dye for $ Soiled or Faded Shirt Waists, $ Blouses, Ribbons, Curtains, Underlinens, etc., whether Silk, Satin, Cotton or Wool. — Sold in All Colors by Grocers and Druggists, or mailed free for 15 cents. Address, THE MAYPOLE SOAP DEPOT, el Street, New York. SoS etereererrrrrenetatectoeteceentet 17. Use and Facial Soap Facial Cream WOODBURY'S Facial Soap, Factal Cream, Fa- etal b Powder, if used daily, will Soften, Whiten, Beautify and Preserve the skin and pre- vent Wrinkles, Freekles or Chapping. For sale ywhere. acy I. Brice today filed answer to > divorce instituted by ner hus- Edward C. Brice. She denies taat has been guilty of adultery, and es her husband witM the offense. She he has an unbearable temper, and she has been unable to live with him on this account. ee eer Costly Boast. lick eny —- —— man in this said a colored man named Peter while standing in a crowd on a Seuth Washington corner last night. A few s-conds later he was in the hands of a po- Kceman. His remark cost him $5 today. can | Messrs. $60. Ss ——— ranteed or money i : delphia and in the west. The club's record has been the most disastrous in its history, and the only excuse offered is that the men are not playing together. The hit and run game and the sacrifice have almost been abandoned and it is a case of go-as-you- please, each player being careful to look out for his individual record. Captain Mc- Guire has become discouraged and tHe gray hairs are beginning to show on Earl Wag- ner. The showing made during the June trip west, when the team won over 50 per cent of their games, led the local fans to hope that the long list of games at home would push the Senators up toward their natural position in the first column. But that hope was blasted almost before the Chicagos got through with our representa- tives, and chilling blasts were blowing over National Park when the Cincinnati and Cleveland clubs concluded with their easy picking. As a matter of course, when the Senators set out for Philadelphia and the trip west little was expected of them, al- though a few clung to the phantom hope that the aggregation might do better away than at home. Game after game was dropped, and the once proud Senators shot to the rear like a horse in the lobster class, many claiming that the players had reach- ed their natural stride. ‘There are a hundred and one excuses, but the fact is the batters do not hit, the field- ers don’t field and the coachers don’t coach, but they all draw their salaries. Captain McGuire has pleaded with them to get in the game in some sort of winning way, but in vain. The slump has come a! arty this season, but it is here, and is not an thing to Washington patrons. It is an in- nual occurrence; the local tans expect it, and they r dis ted. What the 3 more than anything else is the manifest indifference of the players. They are absolutely dead on their feet—no life, no snap, no ginger. Perfect indifference ‘pervades tho enure team, with ‘the possible exception of two or three, and a sort of “only-so-we-get-our- money” style of playing prevails. The qvestion might be asked if the play- ers appreciate the fact that they are draw- ing large salaries and are not earning them. but they know this and will come to the front with smiling faces next spring and many will be the stories told of 20w they will play the game of their life and incidentally make a piay for an inc in sala As the season stards today, from a financial standpoint, the players are getting about all the money that comcs into the gates. Mr. Wagner has assessed out $135 in fines since he has control of the Washington club, and the players should appreciate this leniency by putting forward their Lest efforts. Then why are these efforts missing? Mr. Wagner says he is negot ting with a man to act marager who will see to It that the owners of the Washington club w d upen any longer. of known ability are er has scoured the nan jie has select- to take the Washington club in hand, brighter days are predicted for .he stanch supporters of the Senators. An- other pitcher, another infielder and another outfielder will be obtained. ‘The Wagners are far from “quitters.” The season has ween a terrible disappointment to them, but they are in the game to stay, and will do their best to make as good a Showing pos- sib: er the unfavorable circumstances ling. 1 not be imp: very few manager Very available, but Mr. W. country and should the ed agre The people get tired of paying their mone to see a lot of “stiffs meander urely about the grounds, and he Wagners know it and can be de- pended upon to bring about a brace. The men should get in ihe game; demonstrate that they deserve and earn the money they id, and through a little life bring the disgusted patrons who have de- the elub for this season. that ball player: adverse critic'sm, nor even mild sug- ns. They prefer praise and writhe snakes in the grass whenever ca!led down for bare-faced carelessness. They should then give the local enthu: a chance to praise them. The present slump is inexcusable. The players are just a3 strong, just as skillful, just as able now to play good ball as they were in the month of June. Then it was given out that Jack Doyle was the disturber. Jack is gone now, and the question is, Which one is to blamé Every one kno like do not lasts et in the game. Win back your rooters, Win back the applause. Win back the large patronage the Washington club is rightful. ly entitled to. No matter how, but win them. The New Yorks begin a series of three games at National Park tomorrow. These are the games that were postponed early in the season on account of rain. The Joyeeites are playing pennant ball just now, but the Senatorial outfit has the abilify to check their upward course if they would pull themselves together and give exhibi- s of which they are capable—in fact, as professional ball players ought to Toduy’s Schedule and Weather. Boston at Cincinnati—cloudy Baltimore at Pittsburg—cloudy, Record of the Clubs. W. L. P.C.! € Cubs. CLEVELAND WON THE FIRST, In the Second Game Darkness Ended the Play in the Ninth a Tie. Two games for one admission failed to draw the attendence at Broad and Hunt- ingdon streets, Philadelphia, yesterday that the character of the contests would have warranted. Alihough Wash- ingten is next to the last club in the pen- nant race and Cleveland next to the lead- ing team, still the Senators gave the In- dians a good hustle in the first game and a strong fight in the second. Cleveland won the first contest in the third inning on two disastrous fumbles by Wagner. With one out and men on second and first he failed to stop Childs’ sharp grounder, on which a double play would have resulted easily, and one run crossed the plate. Mc- Kean, Wallac: and McAleer Fit for sin- gies, while O'Connor went out ona long fly to Anderson. With the bases full and two men out, he allowed Blake's grounder to roll through his legs and the game was lost. Both Donovan and Cuppy pitched good ball, but the work of the youngster was decidedly the better of the two, eliminating a slight tendency to wildness. Had it not been for Wagner's miserable work in the third inning he would have shut the In- diens out without a run, no mean feat for a league youngster. £ Gettman’s magnificent catch of Blake’s fly back of first in the second inning was the only fielding feature of the contest. The seccnd game was started immediate- ly on the completion of the first, there being no intermission at all, with Weyhing and Young on the rubber. The game de- veloped into a pitchers’ duel between these two veterans from the first inning and re- sulted in a tte, with honors about even as to the number of hits made off each play- er’s delivery. Both were very steady and unhittable when a safe drive meant the run that would win the game. Both were accorded excellent support, not a misplay merring the character of Cleveland’s work, while only one error—a wild throw to sec- ond by Kinslow, which amounted to noth- ing—was made by the Senators. Darkness caused the game to be called. With the exception of a fast double play, in which Childs, McKean and O'Connor participated, there were no brilliant fielding features. The score: Washington. R.H.0.A.B., Cleveland. #.H.0.A.E. Selbach, If. 1 3 © O/Bursett, If. 1 1209 Gettmanrt. © 2 12 © OjChiids, 2h. E91 21 Andersou,cf 2 2.1 0 O|MeKean, es 1 2 3 2 1 McGuire, c. 0 1 7 5 0| Wallace. ot 23 0 0 . 1 8 1 O/O'Connor,th @ 1 FO 0 23 3 Q|McAleor.éf. 1 8 4 0 0 1 3 1 O/Biwke, rf..0 0 20 0 © 0 2 2icrher, c..1 EGO oO oeee 7B OLOLO 0030 al to Washington. R.H.O. Selmteh, If 0 1 2 Gettman.rf. 0 2 2 0 Andersonef 9 2 6 0 Kinslow, ce. 0 0 2 1 Farrell, e142 0K 1i4s20 00200 12400 091110 21027 6 1! ‘Totals....2 T2715 0 Washington 9090101002 Cleveland. oo010001002 an, 1: €levetany, Is and MeKean, 5 bases Heitz, ‘onnor and lake . 5; Cleveland, 6. eyhing, 1. Double of Young, 1. Wild pitch—Weyhing. Time—1.50. ‘Umpires—Lynch and Andrews. Even Break at’ Chicago. The Chicago and Philadelphia clubs broke even in thelr two games played yes- terday in the former city, the first going to the Orphans by 6 to 2, while the second Was captured by the Quakers by 8 to 3. Kilroy’s wildness lost the second game, es- pecially as it was offset by good pitching of young Murphy. t H. BE. Habae mane St. Louis, Jack Taylor was at his best yesterday, and as a result the St. Louis boys defeated the New Yorks in the mound city by 4 to 2. Taylor was also given good support, while the New Yorks played poorly behind Meek- ing’s good twirling. i. EL 8 3 et New York. St. Louis. Base Ball Notes. Mr. Wagner cannot get the manager he speaks of too soon. The club as a whole is @ good one, and a shrew@ manager will quickly demonstrite this fact.” Nearly 36,000 saw four games played by the National Lengue clubs Sunday. Cin- cinnati had the banner crowd, 12,464, while Chicago, with 5,00, had the smallest. While the Cleveland-Washington series now being played in Philadelphia might not have drawn large crowds at National Park, it is almost a certainty that the attendance would have been better than that in the Quaker city. Jake Gettman is in hard lines for a young player just out from the minors. With a captain like Tebeau, Joyce or Ewing to coach him he would be one of the wonders of the league, but he will have to pick up all his knowledge as it floats into him as long as he is a Senator. Fleet as the wind, a sure catch and a good batting eye, thé material is there, and only lacks proper de- velopment. ‘The Washingtons will return home Wed- nesday and a series with the Louisvilles will begin, at onal Park Thursday, The Colonels are playing the game of their lives just now, and as the Senators are about due for a little brace the series should be worth turning out to see. Jack Stivetts is not with the Bostons. Jack has been sent to his home in Ash- land, Pa., by Manager Se! Manager Se- lee Said yesterday that Stivetts was of no more use to the Boston club and that he would be traded to St. Louis if he was will- ing to go there. Stivetts does not like the idea of going to St. Louis. It'1s probable that he will be released outright in a few @ays.—Cineinnati_ Commercial. One of the Smith Center boys writes to his hom er that when the news came to the mauga hospital of the d struction ef Cervera’s fleet one of the nurses commenced to read it out loud. He had got as far as the statement that the Brook- lyn had been hit forty-five times, when a fever patient, a little out of his head, shouted, t 1 Who pitehed ‘for Brooklyn nsas City Journal. Hans Wagner worked a new trick on Michael Angelo Grady during the Giants’ sojourn in Louisville. Ed Roth tells about it so: “Hans was at bat, with Clarke on third and one strike on him. ‘Si’ pitched a ‘slowboy,’ which a ten-year-old amateur could have caught. Wagner stepped for- ward toward the plate and knocked Grady’s glove down with the handle of the. bat Just as Mike was reaching for the ball. It never got into the glove, of course, but rolled to the stand, Clark scoring’ and Decker, who was at first getting to third. Umpire Gaffney refused the claim of in- terference, not having seen just what hap- pened, he explained, although he believed something irregular had occurred, as he admitted afterward.” Straws indicate the current of the stream, A little incident on Friday night serves to show how hard a fighter and loser Captain Tebeau is. Some time during Friday morn- ing. Tebeau had made an engagement with Stanley Robison, secretary and treasurer of the Cleveland club, to accompany him to Willow Grove. After supper Mr. Robi- son looked and inquired all over the Con- tinental Hotel for the Cleveland captain, but he could not be found. The next morn_ ing when he met him at breakfast he asked Tebeau why he failed to keep his appoint- ment, and he replied that the previous day's defeat had robbed him of all pleasure that day, and he could find satisfaction in nothing but an early retiring, and hefac- cordingly went to bed at 9 o’oclock. With a man whose soul and heart is in the game as Tebeau’s is it any wonder that he 1s der if our captain would an engagement because he suffered Philadelphia ‘Times. President Brush played a joke on Presi- dent Robison during yesterday's game which caused the latter several minutes of real worry, The Cleveland-Washington score stood 5 to 1 in favor of Cleveland on the score board. Mr. Robison was a trifle chesty and was calling the attention of Presidents Young and Brush to the fact that his team could win whether they had a home or not. Mr. Robison's boasting was suddenly checked when the score boy marked a large 8 up for Washington In the seventh jnning. Frank De Haas frowned and bit his lip, while the other members of the party gave him the merry ha ha, In the next inning four more runs were put on the board for Washington, and Mr. Rob- ison gave a short dissertation on how eastern crowds rooted for eastern clubs and what a severe handicap it was for his team to play on neutral grounds in the east. While he was bemoaning his team’s fate the score was changed, the 8 and the 4 being substituted by ciphers. Then Mr. Robison did not know whether he was in the right or wrong. It developed later that Mr. Brush had bribed the score boy to fix the score so’ that it would appear that Washington had pulled the game out of the fire.—Cincfnnati Enquirer. L. A. W. MEET. Program of the Cyclists at In- dianapolis. ‘The following is the program of the L. A. W. meet at Indianapolis, which begins today: Tuesday, August ®-Morning, 9 o'clock, opening at headquarters in Tomlinson Hall; registration of visiting wheelmen; issuing of badges and souventrs; assign. ment of Fotels and boarding houses: spe- cial trips cver the cycle paths; evening, § o'clock, reception by Gov. Mount an@ con- cert at the state house. Wednesday, August o'clock, century run to Dublin; 6 o'clock. twenty-mile run to Franklin and teturn? 7 o'clock, run to Broad Ripple and return, ten miles, over the cycle path; 9 o'clock. trial heats for afternoon races; afternoo! 2 o’cleck, nationai champienghip races: evening, § o'clock, vaudeville. entertain. ment at English’s Opera House, lower ficor reserved for wemen with their es- certs; 8:30 o'clock, smoker at Park Thea- ter. Thursday, it 11—Morning, 7 o'clock, run to Noblesville, twenty miles, and re- turn: 7:30 o'clock, run Cartersburg, twenty miles, and return; 8 o'clock, ten- mile run for women to start- 10— Morning, 5 ing from Propylact for afternoon races: national cham; Pp o’clack, trial. heats ernoon, 2 o'clock. Faces; parks. Friday, —— 12-Morning, century run to Crawfordsvill twenty-mile run; 7. af ten-mile run; 8 o'clock, run for to Country Club, with breakfast at 9; 9 o'clock, trial ts for Saturday afternoon racbs; afternoon, 2 o'clock, ener at Broad Ripple; evening, 8 o'clock, natioi hampiorship races, middle distance saat < Saturday, August 13—Morning, 7 o'clock, fifteen-mile. run; 8 o'clock, ten-mile run: afternoon, 3 o'clock, ps champton- ship races; -eveaing, o'clock, Ptoneers’ banquet; 9 o'clock, entertainment of press. MICHAEL'S RAGE PREVENTED. Downpour Disappointed Several Thousand Persons. ‘Ths ten-mile match race which was to be held iast evening at the track of the Cycle Park Club, on the Conduit road, between Jimmy Michael and A. C. Moran, the local rider, was postponed until tomorrow even- ing on account of the rain. Betwezn 3,500 and 4,000 persons assembled, and wien the yain came down about 8 o'clock there were several hundred at 36th street and Prospect avenue, awaiting transportation. In hope of the rain passing over the peo- ple at the park waited. Dave Shafer, Mi- chael’s trainer, was anxious to have the Michael-Moran race put first on the pro- gram. J.D. Lasley, the president of the Park Bicycle Club, refused to permit the events to be run, as the rain kept steadily falling. Michael left the training quarters before 8:30. Shaf2r followed soon after. Rain checks were given to all present, and they can be used tomorrow night. Those having grand stand seats will be abie to obtain them by keeping their Coupons. The midget and his pacers left this morn- ing for Baltimore, where a fifteen-mile paced match race will be held between the little Welshman and Fred. Titus. GANS DEFEATS ERNST. The Former Showed His Superiority All Through the Contest. Jce Gans of Baltimore defeated Billy Ernst of Williamsburg, Breoklyn, in the eleventh rcund of what was to have been a twenty-five round -fight at the light- weight limit last nightin New York. Gans proved his superiority from the opening of the fight, and outfought and outgeneraled his opponent all through. Ernst at times s very wild and resorted to roughing tactics which were anything but fair. His elbow work breught a mild caution from the referee, although Gans made no com- plaint. Gans simply waited for oppor- cunities and always took advantage of them whe» (hry eame along. The Balti- more pecp.e be: ‘teely on Gans and took up ever: bet in sight, laying odds of 2 to 1. Michael-MeDuffee Race Off. By unforeseen obstacles the twenty-five- mile match ra > which was to have taken place at Manhattan Beach Saturday next between Jimmy Michael, the king wf the middle-distance game, and Eddie McDutf- fee, who is no less a wonder, has been call- ed off. There has been, substituted in place of this contest a match race between Tom Linton and Jimmy Michael. The distance will be thirty-five miles, and an attempt will be made to cover this mileage in one heur, er Typhoid at Camp Alger. To the Editor of The Evening Star: I note with great iftére’t the communica- tion from Dr. Quick in, a,late issue of your paper. May I add a poift or two to what has been said? If Blamé@ is to be put on the water supply of'Cathp Alger and the il there charged with being a hotbed of Ploid it ts well to'Yook around for some facts about the health bf!'this part of Fair- fax county in the"pdst ds well as the rec- ords of adjacent piacés.. AJexandria, six miles pelow Washington onthe Potomac, is said to be noted for the purity of its: water ‘supply, and is, so 1 chink, about as fre¢@fromn noid as any town in the tidewdfer district. Cameron rum supplies Alexandria, with water, the whole. capacity of that streanr being divert- ed into its reservoirs. Now, Cameron run is fed directly and al- most exclusively by the small streams which flow from the watershed about that amp. Get over the next ridge and Acco- tink takes the drainage into the Potomac. But Cameron run depends for its water (and Alexandria depends on Cameron run) clusively on the small streams flowing right from the hilis: of Camp Alger. Now, what I wish to call attention to is that if, as°has been said, the soldiers took the fever from the saturated soil, why should this saturated soil not have poisoned the water supply at Alexandria in the past? The truth is we may not know so muco about typhoid as we think we do. For ex- ample, that country lying between the Rap- pahannock and the James, commonly known as Tidewater Virginia, is singularly exempt from typhoid. It is an old-settled country, one of the oldest in the state, and the water supply is no better than that of Fairfax county, and the people depend on springs, which should by this be contam- inated, and yet, as I say, typhoid is a rare disease. If, as is supposed by some, ma- laria is antagonistic to typhoid, that may account for the absence of the disease. At any rate, any physician will testify to what is said above. I believe that when the ar- mies were in the peninsula there was as much typhoid as is now in Camp Alger. But is not this a proof that the typhoid travels with the edmp? With all this disease at Camp Alger, | there is not a case of typhoid in the village of Falls Church, and this village covers a territory about ‘one dnd one-half by two and one-half miles. The dwellings are most- ly sequestered, as, for example, I live on a six-acre place, and few sites have less than half an acré. Each house has its own well, and as a rule these wells are not deep. Very few are artesian. The sinks » simply outhouses, the dejecta falling on the ground, and in many cases there are evidences of carelessness both as to this matter as well as to slops,* which are thrown carelessly near wells. Yet this fever (typhoid) is not common, In one case within two hundred yards of my dwell- ing the family obtains its water supply from a spring in a depression, and for more than a hundred years that spring has been a famous watering place for the neigh- borhood. Still, I think of the family now residing there, as well as those living there in past generations—and this for certainly fifty years back—none had had typhiod. I am sure should any sanitarian inspect this place of which I write its water supply would be condemned outright. I am much inclined to. think the theory of Dr. Elmer Lee, as’expressed in a moru- ing paper, has reason in it. This gentle- man thinks that it is possible that typhoid may be due simply to the collection in the system of effete mattér which is best wash- ed out via the kidneys by copious drafts of water. This is th®'théory of some close observers as to the &ctidh of the water of many mineral sprin#s—those who ‘go to these places drink qithptities of water and so “‘flush these sewet of, the body.” One fact, I think, #’cofhmonly observed— most robust and vigorous men drink freely of water. I have neyér seen an active, en- ergetic man who was not a frequent drink- er. I suspect that thé drinking may be in some way related to, the good health of these persons, ib TE So far as Camp should be much incli supply. Not that t milk—I doubt this té suspect the milk germs lurk in Twas told only last week that a milkman carried milk to the camp was seen Hex g his empty cans vy Ly gé# is concerned, I ar in a shallow and stream near the camp itself. This sutely ‘fs a source of dan- ger? JAMES B. HODGKIN, Falls Chureh, Va.. eS 8, 1898. Relieved to Be Insane. A colored man ramied Robert Stonestreat was found near 4th and C streets about 245 o'clock this morning by Policemen. Nebb and Hayden. He was somewhat un- der the influence of liquor, and his ravings Indicated that be was insane. Dr- Nevitt Was summoned soon after the man was ar- rested. He cirected that he be held until sober, when a more satisfactory examina- fon. could: be made. It is thought iikeiy that man’s mind 4s affected and that he will have to be sent to the asylum. < aSeisieomssteteete For Playing Ball. Two small colered boys, who-gave thetr names as Charles Johnson and Andrew Me- WORK OF BUILDERS Report of District Inspector for Past Fiscal Year. —_— RECOMMENDATIONS AND ESTIMATES Force of Assistants Inadequate for Business of Department. ADDITIONAL CLERK WANTE! The annual veport of the inspector of buildings, Mr. John B. Brady, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1898, was filed today. From the report it appears that 1,860 build- ing permits were issued during the year, involving an expenditure of $4,203,620.57 for 4,227 buildings, as will be seen from the following detailed statement: Statement of permits issued from June 80, 1897, to July 1, 1898, in the order named: Brick dwellings, 573, $2,020,500; frame dwellings, 126, $180,150; brick repairs, 646, $746,071; frame repairs, 504, $75,748; stores (brick), 25, $111,775; stores (frame), 1, $150; stables (brick), 46, $53,890; stables (frame), 8, $1,415; warehouses, 6, $22,900; churches, 3, $179,000; office buildings, 10, $88,300; work shops, etc., 9, $11,100; flats and apartment houses, 27, $339,200; green houses, etc., 10, $3,510; grand stand, 1, $2,500; power house, 2, $146,200; hospitai, 1, $20,000; ice house, 1, $4,000; museum, 1, $24,000; gas holder. 1, $70,000; wood and coal yard, 1, $750; =heds, 214, $11,495; boilers and engines, 42, $40,505; minor repairs, 1,818, $14,544; awnings, 142, $12,750; elevators and fire escapes, $22,100: vaults, 9, $7 Total, 4,227, $4,203,420.57. Special applications for projections be- yond the building line approved numbered Bun. There was an increase of nineteen new buildings” over the record of 1897, of 229 ia number of repairs, and decrease of thirty- three in number of dwellings constructed. Comparative statement of valuation of building operations shows: 1897, $4,102,- 598 1898, $4,203,620.57; increase, $101,- 1897, umber of permits issued: 1898, 1,869; increase, 247. The following summary shows the distri- bution of improvements in the different sections of the District and the value of same: Building: county southeast, tal, $3,331,640. 1,622; southw county, $48,377 northeast, $47,833; southeast, $44,092; total, $821,819. Receipts of the office for the year: For building permits, $3,127; for vaults or un- derground construction ings, $142; for bi $52; total, $4,688, Received for year 1897, : for year 1898, $4,088.57; decrease, $1,492.20. In addition to the permits above enumer- ated, miscellaneous permits were issued, tor which no fees were obtained, consisting of rebuilding entrance porches end steps, temporary structures for the use of bulld- ers in connection with new constriction, extra occupancy of public space for build— ing materials and excavations for buildings. The Assistant Inspectors, The corps of assistant inspectors have been faithful and painstaking in the dis- charge of the duties assigned them, says Mr. Brady, and he appends the statement of the execution of the miscellaneous char- acter of their assignments. “Sir, I have the honor to submit the fol- lowing as a list of inspections made by me during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1808: Elevators, 967; elevators inspected and con- demned for repairs, 6$; premises examined to locate steam boiler and engine, 69; prem- ises examined to locate bake ovens, 17; remises examined to locate gas engines, 9; premises examined to locate gasoline engme’, 4; inspections for the United States, 7; miscellaneous inspections, 220; premises examined to locate fire escapes, 8; fire escapes examined and condemned during construction, mises examined to locate electric motor, 3; total, 2,317. Suggested Amendment. “I have the horor to submit herewith the following amendment to the fire escape law: ‘After the word “asylum,” in line 9, section 1, strike cut the words “owning or ng any building fifty feet high or up- ‘ards’ and insert “office building, merca tile building, or any building, at the discre- t.on of the inspector of buildings and chief engineer of the fire department,” the see- tion to read as follows:’ “That it shall be the duty of the owner or owners in fee or for life of every build- ing constracted or used or intended to be used as a hotel, factory, manufactory, th ater, tenement house, apartment house, seminary, college, academy, hospital, asy- lem, hall, place of amusement, office build- ing, mercaatile building or any building, at the discretion of the inspector of buildings and the chief engineer of the fire depart- ment, and the trustee or trustees of every estate, assoziation, society, college, acad- emy, school, hospital, asylum, owning or using any building for any of the purposes herein above mentioned, to provide and cause to be erected and affixed to said buildings iron fire escapes and combined stendpipes and ladders, or either of said appliances, as may be approved and adopt- ec by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.” “E. F. VERMILLION, “Assistant Inspector of Buiidings.” Building Operation: “Sir: We, the undersigned assistant in- spectors, respectfully submit the following statement of the amcunt and character of the work done in connection with the build- ing operations of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898: “Number of inspections of new buildings in the city and county, 6,288: number of in- spections of old frame bulldings and sheds examined for repair, 1.172; number of in- srections of old buildings reported as dan- gerous, 27; number of inspections of old brick buildings examined for repair, 1,689; number of inspections and notices sent to make good defective construction, 105: number of Inspections and notices sent for condemnation of party walls, 18; numbe: of inspections and notices sent for condem- nation of brick buitdings, 22; number of inspections und notices sent for condemna- tion of frame buildirgs, 59; number of in- spections and notices sent’ for condemna- ticn of defective chimneys, 14; notices sent for removal of obstructions from streets, alleys, parkings, etc., 33; notices sent to va- cate dangecons buildings, 9; notices sent correcting numbers on old buildings, 253; orders and notices sent correcting viola— ipgs.and Valuation, the number .of build- ings is nineteen greater than last year, and the valuation $101,021.82. The number of dwellings erected is thirty-three less than the previous year, bat there were twenty-one more apartment houses con- structed than during the last fiscal year. “The,statements of the assistants show that a’more frequent inspection of build- ings was rendered last year, owing to the fact that bicycles were which enabled them to cover more territory than formerly. As the volume of business, that this office is called upon to perform, in- creases cach year, I renew my request that the force of assistant inspectors be increased, and recommend that provision be made for three more men. “I also renew my recommendation of last year, that an additional clerk at $1.20 per anrum be provided for. This employe is an absoiute necessity for the proper ad- ministration of this office, as the great amcunt of work rendered by the clerk tem- porarily employed during the year to assist me has been of great service and should be made permanent. “I again recommend that the salaries of the assistant inspectors be made $1,200 per annum, as I am satisfied that the com- pensation now given is inadequate for the services rendered, and for the same reason the salary of the principal assistant in- spector should be made at least $1,500.” District Buildings. The plans and specifications were pre- pared under the supervision of the inspector of buildings for the several municipal buildings provided for in the appropriation bill, and in the erection of which the ex- penditures made are shown by the follow- ing: Anthony Bowen school—Appropriation, $30,000; expenditure, $29,745.88; balance, $254.12. For lot adjoining Curtis school—Appro- | Brlation, $9,000; exp ond tu_e, $4.17; balanc>, 27. Western High School — Appropriation, $133,000; expenditure, $129,264.72; balance, $3,735.28. School building, Connecticut avenue ex- tended—Appropriation, $16,000; expenditure, $15,837.48; balance, $162. Congress Heights schooi—Appropriation, $12,219.76; expenditure, $11,565.04; balance, $654.72. Note—The above balance will be expended in painting the exterior of the building and placing clocks in tower. Hayes school, 5th and K streets northeast Appropriation, $39,000; expenditure, $38,- 979.08; balance, $20.94. pees nd eae letion of Wallach School— ropriation, $2,000; expeditures, $1,926.05; ea peeaton peditures, $1,926.05; Lovejoy School, modern heating and ven- tilating apparatus—A ppropriation, $5,725. expended, $16; balance, $5,709.24. Industrial Home School, maintenance, in- cluding repairs—Appropriation, $11,000; ex- bended, 74; balance, $10,926. Note: Balance of appropriation expended under direction of board of managers of the Industrial Home School. Isolation Hospitals—Appropriation, 1.000; specifications _ partially printed! $3.55; balance, $29,996.45. Note: The plans red for one of these buildings, pended by injunction or restraining order of the court. Washington As ton ylum, central heating s' hospital department—Appropriation, ; expenditures, $8,036.44; balance. Special repairs to market houses, 1897, 1898—Appropriation, _ §! ; _expended— Western, $808.69; Eastern, $384 Georgetown -15; total, $1,336.54; balanc Repairs to market houses. Dypses— Appropriation $600 $50.50; balance, 3544. Repairs to Police Court bullding—Appro- priation, $700; expended, $609. balance, $90.45. Addition to cells and other improvements at Police Court building—Appropriation, $1,200; expended, $36.25; balance, $1,163. Four additional cells at fourth precinct station house—Appropriation, $906; expend- ed, $10; balance, $986. Station and Engine Houses. Repairs to station houses, 1897-1898—Ap- Propriation, $2,000; No. 1, $83.48; No. 3, $49.30; No. 4, $323.45; $51.60; No. 6, $385.00; No. 7, $42.30; $370.13; No. 9, $66.60; total, $1,884. ance, $115.05. Engine house No. i4, Sth street between D and E streets northwest—Appropriation, $35,000; amount transferred from No. 12 engine house, $3,797.59; total, $38, expenditures, $36.09: balance, $1,806.31. Note—Of the above balance the sum of $1,000 was allowed for furniture. Engine house No. 15, Anacostia, D. C.— Appropriation, $16,200; amount transferred from Brightwood engine house, $1,343.41; $163.16. ontingent ex- expended, No. 5; bal- total, $: 53.41; expenditures, $15,304.98; balance, $2,238.4: Note—Chargeable against balance will be material for driveway 55.85; lay- ing drain around building, $119; furniture for building, $S00 the sum of $1,0¢ closing and pa work to building. total, $1,174. leaving 8 to be expended for in- ng grounds and additional ¢ houses, 189 No. 1, propriation, $3,500. 366.25; No. 4, $209 9, $74.80; No. 10, $7: 12, $20.69; No. chemical No. 1, $5. truck A, $249.28; truck B, $4 $101.59; truck D, $111.95. Total, $3,004. Balance, $495.77. May 11, 1898, the Com- missioners transferred the supervisicn of station house, engine house and market house repairs to Mr. L. E. Bond, superin- tendent of school repairs. Outside Aid. “To relieve this office of the labor of pre- paring pians for the municipal buiidings, advantageous terms were made by the Commissicners with four leading architects of this city, and drawings and specifica- tions were obtained for three school houses and one engine house. The latter is cum- pleted and occupied, and it is expected th the school houses will be ready pancy in September next. The arc! tural treatment of the buildings are ver satisfactory, and this method of dispe: of the architectural work under the super- vision of this office will be continued. “In October last the new building regu!s tions went into effect, and their application results in better and mcre su}stuntial method of construction than prevai der the old reguiations. ‘0 exercise that superv eral construction to insure complian: the regulations, the number of ass! spectors shculd be increased. is and has been urgent aad will more and more so; therefore I hope that the recommendations 2p- proved, and the increased axsistance grant- ed. Manifestly the building inspector has but little opportunity to give to his person- al attention this branch of the wor fice work and the supervision of mu buildings engrosses his whole time, an tire reliance for the proper inspection of general construction must be placed in bis assistants. “I reiterate the arguments heretofore used in my former reports, and ask that you present to the law-making power the claims and requirements of this depart- ment for that assistance necessary for the pecier: supervision of general construc- tion.”” tions of building regulations, 66; orders and potices to make repairs to defective down- spouts and gutters, 83; orders to remove horses, etc., from frame sheds converted to stables, 31; rascellaneous inspections not enumerated above, 501; total, 10,320. “Attention is called to the above de- tailed statement of the character and amount of work performed by your assist- ants, it being greatly in excess of any pre- ceding year in the history of this: office. “The increased efficiency is due to the fact that the inspectors have been equipped with bicycles, which enabled them to cover a greater amount of territory than could be covered on foot, and the better organf- zation of the staff which brought better results and made them more efficient in the discharge of their duties. “Attention is particularly called to the large number of visits made other than those that apply to the direct inspection of new work and repairs to old bulldings, and shows the varied character of work the assistant building inspectors are called upen to perform, and which entails upon them a large amount of clerical duty. “In our ophiion the force of the office should be increased, to enable the depart- ment to give the field work the attention it seo receive, and which the public de- man: “We are very often required to work early and late in order that the conditions wiil be fully complied with.” - “This report was signed by R. M. Evans, C. W. Somerville and R. BE. Crump, assist- ant inspectors of buildings. Continuing his report, Mr. Brady says: ——.___ CAPT. CATCHINGS BURIED. Respect Paid Him by His Comrades at Jacksonville. ‘The funeral of Capt. T. C. Catchings, son of Representative Catchings, and chief com- missary on the staff of Brig. Gen, Burt of the ist Brigade, occyrred at Vicksburg, Miss., his former home, yesterday, the re- mains having been sent there from Pablo Beach, Fla. The death of Capt. Catchings was felt very severely by Gen. Burt and the officers of his staff, as well as by others who had come to know and esteem the young officer. The ceremonies at Jacksonville, Fla., prior to the transportation of the remains to Vicksburg, Miss., included a procession headed by the musicians of Company C, 2d IHinois Regiment. Following the musicians strong, then the hearse containing the body st of the dead soldier. Following this were eight officers of the 2d Mississippi Regi- ment, detailed as honorary rers. Representative were t in line, followed the on Gen. Burt's staff ‘anda detail 2@ Dinos, ist North .Carelina Sues Beghnenis, comprises. : pallbearers. Catehings and Gen. Burt officers from 2d New Ist Brig- i | Enameled Substantial Iron Beds, Heavy posts, 14 inches Iron Beds, $ 1 95. Sold for double our coated pith the best of thick. All sizes. How- De teintriinttntninininis tote ‘The Great Providers.” price everywhere else. white enamel, burnt in. ever little you study prices you must recog- nize at nce that this is a most and one never to found elsewhere. unusual value, be “Cash or Credit.” Mayer & Pettit, yenth St. 415-417 § BISMARCK, N. D., BURVE: Best Portion of the City Quickly De- stroyed by Fire. Fire destroyed the best portion of the city of Bismarck, N. D., last itck- ing up hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of property. The flames originated in the agent's office of the Northern Pacific depot. The origin of the fire is unknown, as no one was in the freight when it started. The following butldings were destroyed completel: tionery Morris hardware, Tribune Penwardrn's contec- shoe store, Hare's Publishing Ce store, the pany. Braithwaite’s shoe stor tional Bank, Beardsley’s drug sic ner’s grocery, J. C. Kuntz’s cigar Gorsuch baker; Wen Smalls restaurant, Wilcox’ Phelps’ stationery r y, the post office, Kunizs rant, Slatter groc Massen’s pa'nt shop, the Review offi Kupiz's @ Mericle’s pool room, t's Morhaus’ mationer; store clothing store. Mrs Dunn's inmetz’s harne: p. Jus off Dohl's clothing store, the United States land office, the surveyer gencral’s office, Best's dry goods store, the Northern acific offices, bageage and express offices nd freight warehouse, Wi!) seed store, Melion’s Bank buil lawyers off t H. Register, Poucher & Phillbrick, te’s Attorney Allen, Cow Ort. C. D. Edick, Alex T. Patterson and several drug store in the city the groceries but two newspaper offices and the busim portion of tne eral blocks of 1 ces. Ma homeless. The Sherici 1 House row escape, but was 1 fire extended Yrom the Norady tracks to Thay tn 4th to 3d stree and we surance may cover loss. TRANSPORTS AVE SANTIAGO. Troops Coming North as Can Be Carried. The transports Miami, Matteawan Vigilancia, ed with United troops, sailed for the United St Santiago morning and States ates from terday Today the transport Grand Duchess wiil leave with 742 men and officers of the 13th Infantry aad six ew York, aggregating 458 men and off Gen. Shafter and the Spanish Gen. Toral held a consultation at the palace y la afternoon with rd to atl of the Spanish prisoners of war As a result of the Spanish sick board Alicante sent in as soon as 1,000 of the ordered on morning, to be the essel is prop- Lis proj it as 1 after arrival at S The Merritt & Chapman wrecking steam- er F mac has @ ved at the sce of the battle of July 2 and has visited th bal Colon. The wreckers report her in a very bad situation, and they is impossible to save her 10, Cristo- to be it fear > auxiliary gunboat Vixen has return antanamo bay from Santiago. Other- e has been no movement of .the mposing the American ficet. The are ready to sail at twelve hours’ ———__ +o + NO GLADSTONE STATUE THERE. Dublin Remembers That He L: Heavy Hand on the Nationalists. The municipal council of Dublin has re- fused to comply with a request of the Glad- stone Memorial Society for its co-operation in erecting in Dublin a statue commemo- rative of the life and services of Mr. Glad- stone, similar to those which the society will erect in London and Edinburgh Mr. rlock, a member of th moved the following resoiution n the request: Resolved, That the corporation of Dubiin is strongly of opinion that no statues shoul be erected in Dublin in honor of any lishman until the Irish people have a fitting one in memory of Charles Stewar Parnell. After several speeches, among them on¢ by Councilman Thornton, who said it coulé not be forgott2n that heavy hand upon the nationalists souncil, ativing olution was adopted unanimously, cheering. ESS oo Gy oraERr a Capt. Sigsbee Assigned to the Texus, Goodrich to the Newark. It was announced at the Navy part- ment last evening that Cay aries D. Sigsbee, who commanded the battle chip Maine when destroyed in the harbor of Havana, and who has been in comn.s of the auxiliary cruiser St. Paul sinc war began, has been ordered to ret Capt. John W. Philip of command of the battle ship Texas, now undergoing revairs in New York. It {S understood that Capt. Philip will be assigned to shore duty, prob- ably the command of Mare Island navy yard at San Francisco. Secretary Long announced also that Capt. Caspar F. Goodrich of the auxitiary cruiser St. Lewis had been ordered t> the command of the Newark, Commo: Watson's new flagship, to Succeed Car Albert 8. Barker, who has been transte: red to the battle ship Oregon on acco’ of the i!inees of Capt. Charles E. Clark. ON THE WAY HOME. Three Transports Sailed From San- tage With Treops. The following was posted at the War De. partmént last night: SANTIAGO, August 8, 1898, 3:11 p.m. Gen. H. C. Corbin, Adjutant General, U. 8. A., Washington.