Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1898, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1898-10 PAGES. ¥, MOSES ae Repatri and Furniture Moving, Packing A Thorough Clearance of COUCHES. There are entirely too many c es in stock at present, and we've determined to let many of th = at a sacrifice in order to make much needed room. We've put the knife to the price of every one of a large line of sample couche made especially for us, but which we have decided to discontinue carry- ing. A good couch is a welcome ad- junct to the furnishing of any home. Couches such as these are rare values at regular prices, but the new figures m into bargains have converted t of matchless worth. WORTH. NOW. indestrnet- red velour. 11.00 iger velour 1160 Denim Conch 275 F d Velour Conch 9.00 W. BR. MOSES & SONS. Ladies, Do you know we J BS \ Leather < ew Se La Belts ¢ At just D4 IALF & PRICE b excellent Belts—13c. 50c. Belts— 75¢. Belts—38c. 98c. Belts— MEN Can make selections of uny of those ele- | ant = e LEATHER BELTS e At a cut in prices of }$ 25 per cent OFF. : Dollar Bel See EE - Te. & Beautiful styles. ° The lines are broken, but you may find © your fit é TOPHAWM’S, LEATHER GOODS MANT It FO PD IOPD IOOO PH DEDOOPDOOSOMIO LD AOAESO OE OOD oo ALL YOU NEED to buy a pair of our Eyeglasses or Spectacles fitted with finest lenses. S7 Finest Lenses, in gold frames, $5 up. ANI en igns é Opticians, 1311 F St, ASTHMA, Hay Fever and Catarrh, Oppressio Neuralgia, ete., cured by CIGARETTES, OR’ POWDER. + New York, E. FOUGERA QLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. rae Ps ELERY MAKES /MPOUND VEOPLE WELL, BUILDER, 408 8TH ST. © or remodel your house on M¢ PAYMENTS: estimates cheerfully giver 1 Je13-3m* POISON, other disorders nd all taint elfmin: , the greatest purifier. CAMP LIFE IS MORE PLEASANT WITH A BOT- tle of Dr. SIBGERT’S ANGOSTURA BITTER ents ill effects of bad weather, Dysente, AT REST IN LA TEDAD. Funeral Services Over the Remains ef the Mexican Minister's Wife. Last Saturday afternoon Mr. Romero, the Mexican minister, arrived in the City of Mexico with the remains of his wife. The Mexican Herald say A large num- ber cf the friends of the minister were at the station to meet him and assure him of r sympathy and to do fitting honor to ady who was so dear to ev2ry one in who had been fortunate enough ” Among them were Presi- ers Mariscal, Lemantour, z, Mena and Leal, United States Minister Pew2l Clayton and Mrs. Clayton, and qs the relatives of Minister Romero rr were his sister, Mrs. Luz Romero de Garcia, Miss Gualalupe Avindano, his t, and Mr. Jose Romero, a nephew, h Mr. and Mrs. Blanco, all of whom are known in this city. When th: train . depot Minister Romero was y President Diaz, who stood mourners. The casket was cov- the floral off: . and carriages ered with centaining th> rema followed the hearse to the* French ery at La Pie- where the remains laid in state in the 1 = funeral last Monday. ion was m>t at the Y grounds by Fath- . the chaplain, who was her priests. The chapel TO BE REMOVED (Continued from Third Pag2.) opinion of persons prejudicéd by their per- sonal interest, as is the present case with the commission.” In the use of this language you Indirectly rged the commission and the members sof with duplicity, and of being so de- of character and veracity that it would ause its records to show that the commis- n based its action upon certain reasons, en its action was actually taken and upon other and different reasons those given in its order or minute, eby committing an improper and ble act. You, in an interview the commission on August 1 (which taken down by Mr. Swank, a stenog- admitted that in the use of the last quoted you intended to con- ea to the public that the com- ssion had done a dishonorable act, and ‘ou thought so when you uttered the . and you still thought so. You » further stated in that interview with the commission that you, in using the lan- guage bk above quoted, i vey to the public the idea that the reason given in the minute or order reducing you from a clerkship in class 4 to a clerkship in class 3 were false and that the commis- sion acted upon and for different reasons than those it gave in such order or minute. The charges and insinuations made by you and given to the press as aforesaid are known to the commission to be unwarrant- ed, but having been given to the public ugh The Star the commission cannot let your charges and insinuations go unno- ticed without bringing disrepute upon the commission and reproach upon the mem- bers thereof, for whenever an employe in the public service makes false accusations which tend to impeach the personal honor or official integrity of those under whom he is employed such accusations warrant the employe’s dismissal from such service. Any other course would lead to confusion in the commission and destroy all discipline among its employes and be detrimental to the public servi In this connection the members of the commission each for himself asserts that all changes in positions or assignments touching yourself, during the last year, were made by the commission without thought or regard to your having been a witness before the Senate investigating committee or your having given evidence before any such committee, but, on the contrary, every such change of yourself in position or by assignment to labor under > commission has been made solely for urpose of putting you where you would be the most efficient in work, and in foryarding the business of the commis- fon, ind thereby advancing the interests of ice, and the change made in reducing you from a clerkship in class 4 to a clerkship in class 3 was based solely upon the work you had performed and the ab ty which you had exhibited in the perform- nce of such work and the efficiency of ar service, as compared with the work, ility and efficiency of others in more re- e positions which they occupied, as nown by the efficiency report referred to, and the fact that you had been a witness before the Senate investigating commtttee had nothing to do touching your change of position from a clerkship in class 4 to a lerkship in class 3, and the change would have been made in the same manner and for the same reasons had you never seen a -natorial committee or given evidence be- for such a committee. On account of the improper and disrespect- language used by you in the interview h Mr. Jones, as above given, as well as the commission, the commission feels convinced that the good of the service war- our dismissal from the position ou hold under the commission. but direction of your dismissal the com- on deems it proper and in accordance with the cilvil service rules of the Presi- dent to give you notice that unless the charges herein made are satisfactorily an- swered by you you will be dismissed from rvice under the commission, and you are requested to make such answer ther in writing or verbally to the com- on on the 19th day of August, 1898, at clock p.m. he m: 3 JOHN R. PROCTER, JOHN B. HARLOW, M. 8. BREWER, Commissioners. Mr. Bailey's Reply. WASHINGTON, D. C., August 18, 1898. United States Civil Service Commission: Gentlemen: I have the honor to ac- knowledge the receipt of your letter of August 15, notifying me of your purpose to discharge me on account of remarks made by me in The Evening Star on July 29 in reference to your action when you reduced me from class 4 to class 3 on that date. You request me to answer your charge, either in writing or verbally, at 3 o'clock on August 19. In reply, I hdve the honor to say that I think my Star interview was perfectly jus- Ufiable under the circumstances. I am one of the three oldest employes of the com- mission. In July, 1887, 1 was transferred frem the War Department and assigned to Guty as assistant to the chief examiner, which position I filled for more than .ten years, during parts of four administra- tions, under ten different civil service com- missioners. During that time I received taany assurances of my efficiency and no complaints. When I was summoned to ap- pear before the Senate committee which investigated the civil service commission I was cautioned by the president of the commission against giving testimony which would draw attention to the internal ad- ministration of the affairs of the commis- sion. After my first testimony was given the president of the commission drew from his pocket a typewritten statement which he read before the investigating commit- tee, which was a personal attack ou me, apparently made with a view to discredit- ing my testimony. In subsequent inter- views I was warned that my standing with the commission depended on the cource I should pursue. When my testimony was completed you immediately reduced me from chief clerk to an ordinary clerkship and assigned me to the application divis- ton. Later on, July 29, you reduced me in salary from class 4 to class 3, and gave to a reporter of The Evening Star for publi- cation a copy of the minute adopted by you, In which you declared me to be the lowest in efficiency of the clerks of class 4, and much lower in usefulness than one of the clerks of the next lower class, whom you promoted to my place. I was first in- formed of this action by an Evening Star reporter. who asked me to comment on it. ‘This I declined to do, and I persisted in de- clining until he drew from his pocket a copy of the minute made by you in my case and read it to me. When I heard the minute read, pronouncing me in very offen- sive terms to be an incompetent clerk, the lowest of my class, and when the reporter informed me that you had given it to him for publication, I was stung to the quick and astonished beyond measure, not at your action in reducing me, but at t! Statements, the publication of which you had authorized. I could scarcely believe that you would so far ignore all precedents in such cases and the common courtesies of official life as to resort to an open attack in the n2wspapers on my standing and reputation. It was then that I dictated to the reporter a few modest sentences in self-defense. This is the off=nse for which you now propose to discharge me from the public service and from an institution which exists for the very purpose of maintaining a merit sys- tem. By the logic of position you in black and piled high with wers, among which was a large from President and Mrs. Diaz, who Were also both present. “"Iy wife had pimples on her face, but she has been taking CASCARETS and they have all disappeared. I had been troubled with constipation for some time. but after tak- ing the first Cascaret I have had no trouble with this ailment. We cannot speak too bigh- ly of Cascarets." FRED WARTMAN, 5708 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. amares CANDY CATHARTIC Ps, Palatable. Potent, Taste Good. Do Never Sicken, Weaken. or Gripe. 1c, 2c. S0c. CURE CONSTIPATION. Bteriing Remedy Company, Chicago, Nontreal, Kew York, 34 HO-T0-BAC Scld and teed Db; 1h a - Biste to CUME Tobacco Habit’ claim the right to attack me in the news- pepers and deny m2 the right of self-de- fense. For my attempt to mitigate in a small degree the severity of your public attack on me I am to be discharged. You evidently exp2cted to defame me in a com- munity where my reputation is as dear to me as yours ‘s to you, and you counted on my suffering in silence through fear of be- ing discharged. When, a few days later, yeu called m2 to personal account for my remarks in The Star, you asked me if I re- garded your action as dishonorable, and I replied, “I most certainly do.” You asked fae if I considered that I had a right to at- tack my superior officers in the newspa- pers, and I replied that “when my superior officers attack my standing and reputation in the newspapers, I consider {ft to be my privilege to defend myself. I did it then, and I should do it again, under the sam? circumstances.” To those sentiments, ut- tered hastily in a personal interview, I now deliberately subscribe after several days of consideration. I do not belizve your high and exalted position entitles you to defame me and requires me to suffer in silence because I am in a helpless position. You have th» power to consummate your designs in discharging me and I have no redress; but every fiber of my being resents the injustice of your course. The justification’ of my Star interview is still further apparent from th> following statement of facts quoted in part from my letter to you of August 2d, protesting against my reduction: in the minute adopted by you on July 29, when you reduced me trom class 4 to class duced my efficiency 3, you refer to “work reports” and “effl- ciency ratings” as disclosing the alleged fact that I am the lowest in efficiency of the clerks of my class. To my personal knowledge, no “work reports” were ever kept which applied to my duties. As to the “efficiency ratings,” it is notorious that there never were any for the class to which I belong until they were made by your- selves within a few weeks last past, with a View to the very action which you have new taken. You commenced preparation for this action by disbanding the promo- tion beard requir2d by the rules, and desig- nating yourseives as such board. You thus created an anomaious situation which has not its counterpart in the entire civil ser- Vice of the United States. In this way you have made yourselves masters of the sit- uation. As a part of the preparation for this ac- tion you degraded me from an executive pesition to an ordinary clerical position, which, under a very peculiar efficiency ‘heme adopted by yourselves, dropped my rating on “character of work performed” from a very high grade to a very low grade. Thus by a mere change of designa- tion you robbed me of the grade to which the clerks of class four are entitled and forced me into a position where you might with apparent fairness (but {t is only ap- parent) give me a rating below all others of my glass. Furthermore, in this action you ignored the President’s rule which en- titled me to a notice of your intended ac- tien and the opportunity of a defense. Worst of all, you called on the chief of the division to whieh you had assigned me and where I have worked faithfully for the past six months for a report of my efficienc: and when that report was made you re- duced, or caused to be reduced, the grade which he gave me for quantity and qual- ity of work in order that you might pub- lish to the world that I was the lowest in efficiency of the clerks of my class. You probably did not take the trouble to ascer- tain, as you might have from the records, that in the past six months I have made an aggregate of over fourteen hours, or two full days over time, and that on the only work on which a comparison of quan- tity and quality could fairly be made T did more than any one else engaged on the werk. You discredited the whole merit system by manipulating my grade to ac- cemplish your purposes. You, gentlemen, who are for the time being at the head of the civil service reform movement which proposes to guarantee a merit system @ appointments and promotions in the public ervice, used your high and responsible po- nme, an humble and helt less subordinate. If I were the only suf ferer from such methods it would perhaps be better for me to suffer in silence than to incur your increasingly bitter hostility, but in the interest of fairness and justice I feel it to be my duty to enter my solemn and earnest protest. I think you made a grave mistake when you undertook to in timidate me and prevent me from giving “nest testimony before the Senate inves tUgating committce; I think you made an- other mistake when you attempted to hur miliate me in the office by depriving me of a position which I held long before any of you were honored with the position o civil service commissione! asa you ed a great wrong when you re- Soar aeremel rating: I think you made another very great mistake in at- tempting to still further humiliate and em: barrass me by publishing to the world through the newspapers that T was, the Jowest in rank of my class; and you have still further wronged me in depriving me of $200 a year to which I am as much en- titled as you are to the salaries which you draw. You have now found a pretext for compicting the job by discharging me from rvice. me in hoping that anything which I can say will prevent you from consummating your designs. You have brought the civil Service reform into great disrepute and en- dangered its very existence by the adoption of methods utterly at variance with the fundamental principles underlying the sys- tem. You have furnished the enemies of the cause with ample facts on which to charge insincerity and incompetency and you have deprived the friends of the cause of their best weapons of defense. Much as {have personally at stake, my anxiety for the cause is greater than my concern for my own status. I con ill afford to lose the position and Salary upon which, as a poor man, 1 am entirely dependent, and I have done all which my self-respect would per- mit me to do to avert this disaster; but my manhood and integrity are more to me than salary, and if I have succeeded in pre- serving these I shall not feel that all is lost. With others I have shared the hope that a merit system might be established which would minimize. the favoritisms and Inequalities of official life, and I shall still hope for progress in that direction, but my hopes have received many violent shocks in the past two years and my own personal experience ig not reassuring. I have already protested vigorously, but wholly unavailingly, against your past in- jrstice, and I now enter my solemn and earnest protest against your proposed ac- tion in discharging me for no other fault than the uttzrance of a few words of self- defense when publicly defamed by you. Your action, if taken, will be wholly inde- ensi and unwarranted. ours respect- cies EB. D. BAILEY. Nothing to Say. The commission today being informed that The Star would this afternoon publish its correspondence with Mr. Bailey, to- gether with the latter's reply, declined to ake any statement in regard to the mat- ter, saying it had rot yet considered Mr. Bailey’s letter, and that it would not take the matter up until tomorrow, when Commissioner Brewer would be present. ‘The commission referred to the report of the Senate committee on civil service and retrenchment, in regard to Mr. Bailey's testimony last winter, which was concurred in by Senators Lodge, Wolcott, Harris, Chilton and Kenney, and is as follows: ‘Much of this testimony is trifling, re- jates only to individual grievances and throws no light upon the general work of the civil service. A smaller portion is of real value and deserves to be read in its entirety by all who are interested in the civil service of the government, and who desire to understand the present system of selection and appointment, as well as the work of the commission, which has been faithful and honest, and which is described at length in the testimony of Mr, Procter. + e+ —_____— HAVE MURDERERS, ALSO. % List of Those Wanted by Memph' Police. Major Sylvester, superintendent of police, has received a descriptive circular giving information concerning fugitive murderers wanted in Memphis, Tenn. They are want- ed for crimes committed during the pres- ent year. Their names and descriptions are given as follows: Peter Garry, colored, about eighteen years, five feet 7 inches, 140 pounds, dark brown skin, smooth face; is a river rousta- bout and rounder. John Venable, a yellow negro, five fect nine or ten inches,’ about 150 pounds, me- dium build, round, smooth face; is a com- mon laborer, but generally dresses neatly. Louis Taylor, a yellow-skinned negro, 35 years, five feet eleven inches, about 160 pounds, black moustache, loose, curly hair. Emanuel Bailey, a very black negro, about five feet eleven inches, 160 pounds, large flat nose, small moustache, a large wen on back of ‘head, little finger on right hand crooked, a scar on right side of neck and long scar on forehead. Bud Vineyard, a coffee-colored negro, twenty-four or twenty-six years old, five feet seven inches, a very small moustache; is very much buck-kneed. Jack Sweet, a white man, about thirty- one years, but looks younger; five feet eight inches, 130 pounds, very slender build, smooth, thin face; has an impediment in his speech; an engineer or second mate on steamboats or small craft. A. C. Walden, alias “Agey,” a small mu- iatto, about five feet six inches, about 145 pounds, round, smooth face; generally dressed in dark’ clothes and a black cap. Allen Woods, a brown-skinned negro, about thirty-eight years, five feet ten inches, 165 pounds, large mouth, thick lips; a com- mon laborer. T. J. Bonner, a negro, forty-five years, five feet six or seven inches, 145 pounds, straight black hair mixed with gray; when last seen had small moustache and short chin whisker; resembles an Indian; a painter by occupation; generally a neat dresser. ——+--— All carpets and furniture included in Hoeke’s cearing sale.—Advt. ee The French Ambassador Invited. Acting Secretary Allen has extended to the French ambassador, M. Cambon, the courtesy of going on the flagship New York during the review tomorrow. The armbas- sador had already arranged, however, to witness the review from the tug of the French Transatlantic line, N a ee SX A ~ — We've been overwhelmed with con- gratulstions upon our purchase of the Smith stock and requirement of the lease of hit building. We fully gunreciate- the Soblic interest in the der and shalf strive to merit all the ‘complimentary things that bave been said of us and, to us. x We extend a cordial invitation to all Knights of Pythias and their friends attending the encampment next week. to v'sit our store in In- @iannpolis. Make yourselves known and use it as your headquarters while there. You'll be sure of a typfcal Saks welcome. The Lots Are them here this seasen, with two deep ruffles and tneki for $2.50. We can sell this S 1 50 small lot at. GRASS LINEN .UNDER- SKIRTS, these with the small fx with five rows rts sell at $1. when they are sold close. We Sl eay tomerro 20 NEARSILK PETTI- COATS, in silky colors, made with two dust ruffles, that are $1.75—fer.. LADIES’ TWO-PIECE HOUSE DRESSES, made of fine qual- ity cambrie, prettily patterned and attractively ‘feshioned; braid trimmed in quite an elabcrate manne:. When. we offered some nearly Ike them earl- fer in the season for $2.50 you thought them remarkable, and so bei’ $1.59 SLOPPRLEPLEEEPEEESPESPEPYSEEDSSSSEIIVEPEYDSEEOSEYPVVVPEPVP IESE VOUIT > LADIES DUCK SUIS, se made in sailor fashion, with on jac’ = ets and trimmed with braid. In the lot are some in the same style made of linen. There arc atl sizes, 3 worth $2.50, for........- 5 $1.56 = } KS SUMMER SILK BS y stripes of splendid & 8; made in the la z We closed out the maker's ine when we took thi sors They are worth $2.75. $ Giiee Be ENTS Ba 5 ~ LADIES’ MILITARY | + LTS, and Fancy Leather Belts, too: ¥ ‘orated with the emblems of the Oo ervice."* They will aera o> yeu more than ever because 5 they are reduced fom Boe te DDC. ‘3 o< WOOL BICYCLE oe they sre a stylieh lot, tallor- z made. and ave, been sell: 3 nz At $3.50. These few % wind them up... ie $2.25 . ES FANCY BALBRIG- x N UNDERWEAR. that Jace pat- ¥% terned brand; beth Shirts and Draw- sd cra in the lot. and some of it oy Is wort) rie pte. DSC. is worth 65¢ % MEN'S HALF HOSE, either $ wipes orn aa po fare ce i $ fora. “early nts grage—tor- LSC, % MEN’S COLORED BOSOM SHIRTS. with pair of enffs to match— good dollar Shirt; pnt the sizes lett oe + are 16, 1614 and 17 only 3 —that's why we rédace them + GUYOT-LIKE, SUSPEND- ERS—in principle, like the sennine, 15c. S FANCY SILK SCARFS, equal to our reglar Sie, grade. and made ‘yp in Tecks and Hoar io-Mandas. sok abeort- 7) 2 Cc. and In make thoroughly reti- able. Worth 25¢., for....... M = = 3, $ 3 the Bargains Are Bigger for tomorrow than before this season. Bigger bargains mean bet- ter qualities at lower prices. The smaller quantities call for greater haste in attendance. REAL LINEN UNDER- MEN’S LEATHER BELTS, SKIRTS, you've seen some just like in a variety of the fashionable coloi Smaller--But sSoeCondontoateetestedtnetertestertenteotodgontestortore the correct widths and mounted with the popular buckle | eff Ies a Belts fore... stares DOCe BOYS’ BROWNIE SUITS, Gray Chee plaid effect Soeteeteetenseateeseete med with braid and bright buei BS the knee; 4 PANTS SUIT: in this lot are heateasententeasesseote most all sty double Breasted, Reefer, Brownie, ete., in a big variety of plain and fancy effects; all woal ¢ and all well made; sizes’ 3 to 16. Worth up to $3. Small lots of own regular sto: Serra healt cleansers $1 vB) BOYS BLUE SERGE SUITS, to sizes 7, 8.9 and 10 years, with Double-breasted Jackets; fast ae eee eels we Se that. regular $4.50. value, and there are dot them only, $2.08 z BOYS’ CRASH SUITS, with + Donble-breasted jackets and knee pants, the same grade of crasb that 4 ant been aetna — along nt a 2.50; sizes 7, 9, 10 and 4 11—for. 3 $1.38 eo BLACK STOCK ribbed and strong — thi h 8c. a pair, and we going to sell them tomorrow going to se jem tomorrow 13c. MEN’S STRAW HATS— any one you find cn the center table: in the Hat Department — no mat what it is worth—$1.25, $1 $2—whether St is a rough & smooth Straw, soft or stiff ieee or Ieee ya ke CHILDREN’S STRAW SAILORS, some of those extra fine qualities ‘that we got bold of so that we conld sell them at $1.50—plain and combinations: plain and faneily trim. med, | Cholce of any Hat in 4g : Co the lot for. LADIES’ AND ‘ORDS—now here TAN VICI KID ¢ are small lots for you to pick over. BLACK ‘The styles are superb. and the valnes $3. in 8H, and $5. Chotes of any pair among th ie eencemnarn At!) MISSES’ BLACK AND TAN BUTTON AND LACE SHOES. some of onr regular stock in broken sizes—$1.75 and $2 values, abont 133 pairs of poth kinds. pair Cote & 30 MEN’S GOLF HOSE, the very latest patterns, and the erades that sell everywhere at 50c. and 75e. Choice for. 23c. ALOT OF BICYCLE SUN- DRIES. offered tomorrow at prices that are lower than our usual LOWEST. PRIC Solar Gas Lamps, §: Racing Toe Clips, 25e.; Shinon, ents spokes rnsiing, pint ddles, $1.95; Fancy Embossed Nickel and Gold Bi- cycle Bells, worth . for.. 30, pre- cans for So 7 4g rs Saks and ef S So eer eis ‘Saks’ Corner.” Company, eehoateeteateateeensneseetoareeseafoazeatonseetenzeatenseaseazonsesesaeegedgea sed eaioesonfotioaosaresease ‘The Greatest August SHOE-SELLING Ever Known in Washington i ia i During ; Hahn’s Great re Rebuilding Sale. He) ite 5 = i perienced. This is not at Re i first-class, warranted Shoes. months’ Shoe supplies at the building will be opened. For tomorrow we shall FD OPS FS Fe GL eV GENE but try and come early: Ladies’ Hand-sewed Patent tip One Strap Kid Sandals and Splendid Viel Kid Patent tip Oxford Ties, Regular i 67¢. Shoes. pair $1.50, $1.75 $ 1 17 a4) 1 Tomorrow. An nd some of the $2.00 Black and Chocolate Vici Kid Tipped Oxford Ties. Tomorrow ofily..... All of cur $3.00 and $4.00 Finest Tan Evtrbright Kid Band-sewed Welt or Turn le, Laced, Button’ér Oxfords. Tomorrow’ only.... a8 Children 30, Soll sole, button, $1.75 Tan i Everbright Kid Laced, :. With kid or brown patent Cc leather tips and stays. ° Sizes 5 to 7 a ly. Tomorrow only. Tomorrows come to find out how remarkably low we're selling i ing full well that prices must go up when our new cial Prices on Shoes of which we have nearly all sizes, Wim. Hahn & Co.’s Shoe Houses, 930-932 7th St. 1914-1916 Pa. Ave. 233 Pa. Ave.S.E. See ai From present indica- tions, August will go down into our business history as one of the greatest months in vol- ume of sales we ever ex- all surprising when you Many are laying in 6 Present low prices, know- quote the following Spe- b Men’s White Linen Duck Laced Outing Shoes, with corrugated rubber cuter soles. Regularly $1.00. Tomorrow...... $1.50 grade Cycle Shces, made of heavy canvas, gray or brown, with flexible leather soles. Tomorrow....... A5c. Hand-sewed, Welt Scle, Best Chocolate Vici Kid and Crash Linen Laced and Oxford Tics. O3C. Regular $3.50 grades. $9D-37 | Tomorrow........: 2 ’s Shoes. 67c. Girls’ und Boys’ Solid, $ 1 17 Sharely, Tan and Black Laccd and Button Shoes. Tomorrow....... S00 pairs Youths’ $1.50 Spring Heel Fall-weight Black and Tan Vici Kid Shoes. Tomorrow......... Reliable aaa paodrssosneoteosacogend Congratulations From England. The Stat2 Department has received an- other international congratulation on the restoration of peace, this one coming from the British ambessador, Sir Julian Paunce- tote, who is now at. New London, Conn. ‘The ambassador communicated the expres- sion of profound gratification with which her majesty’s government learned of the signature of the preliminaries of peace be- tween the United States and Spain and the sincere congratulations fo the President and the goverament of the United States upon the termination of the war, Daily Death Roll of the Troops. General Shafter at Santiago has sent the following telegram to the War Department: “Sanitary report for August 17: Total number sick, 1,639; total number new cases, 101; total number fever cases, 1,246; total number fever cases returned to duty, 202. “Deaths—August 17: Private N. Dine, Troop E, 9th Cavalry, meningitis; Private Arthur Malehan, Company I, 334 Michigan, dysentery; Private W. Harland Young, vate Dugetie A. MeLaighlin, Compaay, a, in, . Oth Massachussits, typhoid fever. =) 924, 926, 928 7th, running through to 704-706 K st. “The Dependable Store.” 924, 926, 928 7th, running through to 704-706 Kk st. $1 to $1.50 “Anchor”? | of | 49 cents. which we have been doing. If y that the opportunity is yours. Fortune comes in chunks! 140 samples of taffeta si || fashion and the silk is the finest. We shall put on sale tomorrow the second lot of that purchase Anchor” brand shirts for men at 49 cents. Every single shirt | in the house will go now for that price without restrictio: | take out those which are in the window and put them with the rest. || You know there are some very choice styles on show. which have been selling at 59c. will also be included in this lot, |} and you now get the choice of dozens of patterns in fine madras, | Cheviot, &c.—the best $1, $1.25 and $1.50 shirts on the market, for If you were here this week you have some idea of the selling C you getting just what you wanted you will have anot morrow. The city of Washington has never known of “Anchor” brand neglige shirts selling for so little so early in the seas and you may thank the cleverness of our men’s furnishings buyer |} 140 silk waist samples, $3°* store ever having been so exceedingly lucky in securing big lots || of high-grade merchandise under price? Ik waists, which were made to be sold for $6 to $&, at a price which will enable us to offer them for $3.08. You have the choice of such colors as cardinal, white, cerise, in striped and plaid patterns, which y are from the maker of the very best shirt waists in the world, and they fit you as perfectly and are made as faultlessly as any modiste in the land can fit and make them, and they taffeta silk wasn’t the very best quality, if the style was last sea- | || they wouldn't be such a bargain, but they’re perfect—up to date in brand shirts, 49c.' We shall All those [| not to- |} were disappointed in chance 1 Have you ever known of any We have now secured oul agree are beautiful. They | are but $3.98. If the is as good as ever. || like them this first time. | get them for 39c. Tomorrow morning we put on sale a lot o linon waists in all sizes up to 40, which w ‘This is a new lot just arrived from the ma 1,000 pairs ladies’ oxford ties, slippers, J H ular ‘and most stylish footwear left from t welts, &c.—black, tan and brown—tipped o for fall wea very pair of fine selected st some 61 re slightly broken of sizes, bu $1.50, 5, $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00—to go f, 1,000 pairs misses’ and children’s dress shoes, made of best quality leather— strictly solid oak leather soles, leatls tips, spring heels—shoes for which others ask §1.25—speclal prices—sizes 11% ¢ to 2 only.. : 79C- Boys’summoer suitscut $4.00 and $5.00 all-wool 95 serge and cassimere double. sults to G5 go for. ° $2.98 $2.98 all-wool 4 ||| vestie and blouse Special prices for boys’ waists and pants. Outing flannel, cheviot and Merrl- mac shirting shirt waists 9c. Light-weight cheviot mixed union cassimere pants. 39C- Toilet articles under usual prices. / | Genuine Cutfcura soap, 17¢. cake. knee Se. size petroleum jelly+same as vase- line—2e. bottle. Oakley’s Violet of Parma soap—sold at Je. cake—here 3 cakes for le. son's, if there was anything in the world the matter with them, | / | | Noend to the 39° shirt waists, Despite the enormous selling of this week, the assortment is || vet excellent; the sizes are not yet broken, in fact, the choice now |} And you are not getting 39c. shirt waists by || any means, but waists which were made to scll, and thousands season sold, for 75c., $1 and $1.25. lot will be taken out of the stock room and put on sale for the |} In the lot there are black sateens, fine sheer lawns, best || French percales, in striped, plaid and figured patterns. They have the proper yokes, the proper size sleeve and the correct blouse |} front. They are the high-grade w: Lot of $1.98 white India linon waists, $1.19. |$1.50, $2, $2.50 & $3 oxfords & slippers, $]-17] An immense || aists made this season and you f fine embroidery-trimmed plain white India ere made to be sold for $1.98, for $1.19, ker, and they are fresh and clean, uliets, &e., representing almost ell our pop- he season's selling — ed turns, r plain toes—light or heavy Suita’ ock, nicely made, kid Mned. flexible sewed t sll sizes to several lines—which sold at ‘or $1.17. i Ladies’ French patent leather shoes, neat shapes, tipped or i —hand made—some have fan tops. others fine soft kid that sold all season at $3.50. go for..... stew eeeeeereee 200 $1.50 duck skirts, | 89c. Two hw ladies’ navy ue duck | skirts — trimmed with strips of white || duck, which earlier in the rexson sold for — |] $1.50—go on gale tomorrow at Sc. These — || are fresh, ol Gesirable skirte—well ff made and not “cheap” skirts ty avy |] means. Because it is nearing the end of || the season and because the maker wanted — || to end up right he sacrificed his profit | vesting — |} the kind |] ws. $2.15 and part of the cost to Jet us have 200 |} to sell for Sic. Specials in ribbons. 3%-inch fine French taffeta and high-_ || moire taffeta ribbon—usualiy 2, | ard—to K oo 2ginch French taffeta ribbon— . H sold at i7c. yard usually—to go at. LIC. } Ladies’ fine sik and pigne pul yoo scarfs—best Z5e. grade—to go tor.. 17 gosssesesecers ‘Credit is Free.” When we tell you the credix is free we mean that you can come here and buy without the ready money at prices that are just as low as can be found in the cash stores. : not say this and then reap an additional profit by charging interest, or anything of that kind. We don’t even ask you to > sign a note. Tell us what you week or each month—and we'll furnish your house from top to bottom. Our credit system has been the means of giving thousands of young couples a comfortable start in life. been their bank, and their accounts have grown faster than they realized. We make the same offer to all—you're wel- come to all the help we can give you. There is no charge here for the making, lining or laying of carpets, or for the waste in matching figures. are tacked down free. GROGAN’S Fiammoth Credit House, 817-819-821=823 7th St. N. W. Between H auls-754 ee ee ee ee We do are able to pay—a little each It has All mattings and I Sts. Our Bon Bons and Chocolates, 25, 40& 60 cts., 35sec eerie ta ie in every respect, packed in handsome metai boxes on request. "We call your special attention to our Preserved Ginger in 41b. metal boxes, 25 cts. ° . and Gill’'s, {223'Pa: Ave. ‘Try our Famous Chocolate Mints. aul2-8t* Baby Won’t Feel ‘The heat so much if you have EVANS’ TAL- CUM POWDER tandy: It keeps the skin cool—cures chaflug—prickly heat—and red, itching ekiey Plain-or perfumed. Only 10c. ean. é E> Good for tender feet. Evans’ Drug Store mrt re. Goon. ave, ard 8 st. and 1428 Md. ere, uii 108 Go to Siccardi’s FOR BARGAINS IN HUMAN Man Hair Switches at Great Bargains. Sivan cases: $8.00 Switches redoced to Eo Gray and White Mair reduced in same proportion, Mme. Siccardi, het lith yf = to ulais Royal. Teoma Urdressing, shan wistates Next importation of Burchell’s Spring Leaf Tea will pay duty of 10c. a pound; buy it now while you can get it for scc. a ponrd.