Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1898, Page 2

THE; ‘EVENING: STAR, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1898-10 PAGES. Exercising Uare,in- Selecting, Possible Outcome-of Emperor Nich- olas’ Peace Proposal. PERHAPS THE SOVEREIGNS THEMSELVES Copenhagen Probably the Place for the Conference. — SENATOR DAVIS’ VIEW LONDON, August 30.—The newspapers here continue to devote a large amount of upon and criticism While, naturaily, space to comment note. ezar's ace the aps generally agree that the outcome will be onference of the. pre= miers, if not of the sovereigns themselves, probably at Copenhagen, which will be foi- Jowed by an exy ion of concurrence in the humani sims of the czar and a yeport of the resolutions to their respective governments, when the whole thing will be shelved indefinitely. latest comments from Paris show » is intense irritation there on_the proposal is regarded as .g unfriendly. and inconsistent with the -Russian allian y ugh, in support of this view, < official Hamburg Correspondent publishes 2 telegram from St. Petersburg ronfirming the report that Emperor Wiliam ef Germany and the czar exchanged views In regard to the ¢stablishment of a lasting Blate of which was fully demon- < che identity of monarchs’ The Senator Davis’ Opinion. CHICAGO, 30.—Senator Cushman August Davis of Minnesota, a member of the stopped en in this route to his ris pe commissior city a few hours while home in St. Paul, where main and res in the way nding art still I could b the kind proposed. the reduction of th: 3t world be a step towar goal, and it Its which would be cf good thing in pu s sugse: ndoubt cere in his’ desire to 2 fits to ail the European nation: an imperial family has always n of humanitarianism, and even ntimentall in matters of reform, achievements have i very great » some lines What England Would Gain. “It is, of course, very hard to say what the proposed conference would accomplish. England would gain immensely by disarm- ing, and would undoubtedly work hard for The smalier and weaker nations are ng forced to bankruptcy and ruin by the armies they feel forced to maintain. ‘Th ay have to reduce their forces merely keep it: existence, whether there is ar eral agreement or not. Russia is so pro- tected by its barrier of ice and snow be- hind it and by the character of its people that it could afford to disarm. Certainly it would want to avoid fighting until its greaz i y railroad across Siberia is com- stern question is very serious and any time lead to serious resuits. So many of the elements of it require deli- cate treatment that [ do not see. how the nations interested can afford to disarm un- til they have a good basis for action in this teld. juarantees of good faith will be ; = form if disarmament is to com plis' and how they are to be difficult to see. I do not think tional court of arbitration would heeessarily be involved in the disarmament plan, but the conference may open a way to such a bit of progress.” In other quarters it is alleged that the €2ar’s. pronounce: was directl. Ly Queen Victoria. whose great that her reign may not again be d: Ly war. The queen. cenf. ily, 8 train Emper: tia. ¥ that she used her the czarina to gre secure the czar’s support. ———— SIGNAL CORPS IN PORTO RICO. On Spanish Evacuation Wilt Take the Telegraph Lines. The War Department has reeeived ad- vices from Porto Rico on the work being a by the little. army of signal service | men on the island. There are 300 of these | men now there and they will have to as- | sume the control and operation of the gov- ernment lines of telegraph. The lines now, of course, are operated by the Spaniards, but when the possession of the island is to take charge until the atus of the system is determined. ‘ernment always has been op- a government telegraph system, anal service officials say it is not » that the lines in the new isiand will he eventually soid to private through bids for its. pui ver, hy 3 not yet been taker and gove nment contro! assumed st until the ultimate 1 at all the offices | ¢ ph system of Pe ¥ print ams of the have been forwarded here to the | t { no’ jouth 2 i w the island. | telegraph stations which the : \ have to man, } ¢ ‘Age Rio Piedras, Cayey, . Utuardo, prk- to be done in operating the acquired pos- telegraph sessions, signal officials say th is no difficulty securing enough men. ore ) men now in it is claimed, two companies ithdrawn for other fields without detriment. A number ef the volunteers in the corps have asked . and where their requests they will be complied chief signal service officer * staff, and in charge of ork in Porto Rie from Ponce for the Colonel Allen has been in signal service work in Porto = is in peor health and is coming cuperate. Lieut. Colonel Glass- ford, next m rank, will take command of the signal corps there. Lieut. Johnston ‘The f; ke Not Ordered Away. Sas known at the War Depart- | r devarture of . Johnston and his detachment from the camp of General Gomez do not corres- pond with the reports telegraphed from the diavana and published this morning. When Wanderer sailed frem the B torida coast on her last trip with supplies | for Gomez _and the Cubans she carried orders to Licut. Johnston to remove his Getachment ard return to the United States. The orders were not made public at the time because the war was not over at that time and it was not deemed prudent to allow tne Spaniards to know that a de- tachment of United States soldiers was about to take ship for the United States, and because general secrecy was main- tained regarding expeditions to the Cubans until they were accomplished. It is stated that Lieut. Johnston withdrew from. Go- mez's camp on direct orders from the War Departm:nt, and {t is not likely that he Was ordered away by Gomez. Pe. Snb-Chairmen Associates. full Reports to Be Made Fridag Niagat —Distinctive Badges tor MemDerr to Be Designed. In the selection. of the chairmen of the: various subeommittees: of the committee: of |’ arrangements the same. excellent: judgment. was shown that has characterizad the. movement to provide a proper reeeptiom for the District regiment from its inception. ‘Th> gentlemen named are all experienced in the duties assigned to their charge, and it} is: scarcely necessary to state that theyy wiil: choose their associates because: of similar qualifications on their part. The swbeom- mittees ar> now being, formed, and. will be announced at the meeting to be held. Pric day, night. None of the chairmen seen.by-a Star reporter today had made his. seleetions sufficiently to mak> them public, tat: all were engaged in the important. work. The management of the Ebbttt House has been particularly generous. in. extend- ing courtesies. to the committees, and the hotel wiil be headquarters for the commit= tee on arrangemerts and all subeemmit- tees. Accordingly all _con-municationa: re~ lating to the business before these commit- tees should be addressed to them: at. the Ebbitt House. It has been decided: to adopt @ distinctive badge for other committeemen,, the: dasign of which will be selected by tle: lindze committee, of which Mr. Fred. Harries, trother of Col. George H. Harries; isichair- man. These badges will not. be gratuitously; distributed, but will be sold to the: members of each committee, the name of which: will be aied on the ribbon from. which che ndge is suspended. jor Sylvester, in a letter to. Chief’ Wit- lis T. Moore of the weather bureau, indi- cated the expectation of the prebable. time the regiment would return. He requested Mr. Moore to inform him, if possible, what kind of weather, aj proximately, Washing~ ton was apt to experience between Septem- and 20, the weather, of course, being Major Sylvester a received two sub- seriptic this morning. which. he sent to Cbairmen Edson. Dr. William Tindall, see- retary to the board of District Commi: sioners, hended him $10 and Mr. William D. Rudy, who is recovering from a veryr se- vere attack of illness at Watkins Glen, sent his check for a similar amount by let- ter. A member of the finance committee The Evening Star has received the follow- ing contributions for the reception fund, which have been turned over to Mr. Edson, chairman of the committee: avening » $100.00 Evening - 08.00 - Low 1.0 lorence Dealers of Riggs Market. > 23.00 Reception Contributions. The following additional subscriptions have been received by John Joy, Edson, treasurer, for the reception of the return- ing District volunteers: Previously acknowledged -$860.00 The Washington Times. ~ 100.00 B. H. Warner. «25.00 G. W. F. Swartzell. - 10.09 W. H. Moses. ~ 20.00 Geo. W. Evans. > 10.00 J. H. Small & Soi . . F. O. Beckett....... a Clerks of R. Harris & Co. = A. C. Moses.. ° TROOPS IN CAMP. General Boynton’s Favorable Report on Chickamauga. CHICKAMAUGA-CHATTANOOGA MNaA- TIONAL MILITARY PARK, Tenm., Au- gust 30.—Gen. H. V. Boynton, cHairmam of the Chickamauga-Chatianooga National Park commission, ordered by the War Da- partment to thoroughly investigate. the.con— ditions at Camp Thomas and report there- on, has completed his report and forwarded it to Wa gton. The repert is favorable on nearly every matter investigated: The water is said to be good, the ground well adapted for camping purposes, the hospitals well located and the attention givem the sick as good as could be expected. ‘The indications are that the repert will bring on a warm dispuie, as mmmerous statemepts contained therein ars. contra- cicted bythigh army officials. The full text of the report is expected to be made public by the government officials after they have passed on it. Owing to a alight and: un- expected hitch which has occurred: between the army officials and the. railroads, tho work of moving the Ist corps to. Anniston, Ala., has not yet begun. Two regiments the Ist Mississippi and 3d Tennessee, are expected to go tomorrow. It is the intention of the officials to have the s n artillery batteries away. from. the | perk within forty-eight hours, but Maj. At- Well, who is in command, states thut this be almost impossible. The. haitertes will not be mustered out here, but will be sent to their respective states. The tsvo Georgia batteries will go to Camp Nurth- ern, Griffin, Ga., where they were mustered in The 4th Ohio will probably go into: camp at Columbus, until mustered out, but. it is not yet Known jist where the Indiena lat- tery will go. a SITES FOR SCHOOLS, Proposais Received for ‘Uri Ground to District. Proposals to sell to the District sites. far ree school buildings were opened: tofay: at. the District building. In advertising: for bids for a site for the new manual training ool building it was stated that the: site must be located near the Central. High chool—that is, between M and R stre and 5th and 9th streets northwest. For this ouilding Rosenberg & Co, cffered three sites at $44,700, $18,500 and siij400; ‘urgess & Nash offer lots ranging from per foot; James F. Seaggs. ard ver offer lots in square 47¥ at & Weller offer lots at $48,090 The sites must contain at feast 20,000 square feet. For the school site in the third: division, Charles 765, ranging im value from $9,425 to. $12,166; Scaggs and Hoover, lots in squares 904 and Si7 at > per square foot; Westcott,, Will- Heiston, lot in square 347; at M. I. Weller, five lots ranging in from $14,350 to $20,000; Joseph B. ey, a lot at 50 cents per square: foot. The third division is. in the southeastern scetion of the city. Fer a school site in the northeast: An- drew Wilson and Mary A. McCallum, 55 cents lot, at 65 cents a foot and one at $8,7at; W. H. Barnes & Co., 65 cents a square faot: John Miller, square .1055, 29 cents per Square foot; B. N. Meads, 35 cents square foet; J. B. Bailey, 40 cents a sqnare: foat; B. H. Warner, three lots if Rosedale. at from $4,500 to $7,000, one lot in square 1030, 40 cents a square foot; Thomas W.. Smith, lot in Rosedale, 36,000; H. H. Eliiatt; two. lots, $7,065. and $7,96 + M. LL. Weller, two lets at 271 and 50 cents a square foat: Duneanson, lots at $3,600 and. $4,000 in square 1080 and one in square 1010 at + cents a square foot. —>—— ARMY CHANGES. fer of 2 IMPORTANT Gen. Merritt and Others Who Will Leave Manil it was learned at the War Department this afternoon that several important changes are about to be made im the mil itary service at Manila. Major General Merritt, commanding, {s coming home to attend the peace: confér- ence at Paris. Brig. Gen. Greene of the volunteer army is coming home to be mustered’ out, with new ones and_substituting copper for the old iron wire.} Fh2 removal of its main { office from the cortter. of 15th and F streets to the Wyatt building, at Mth and F q streets, necessitated a change in the routes ; Sanuali Report: of Digtrict Inspector | Sistea ty abandoning net removing the Allew Submitted Today, two. lines: of poles and wires on 15tInstreet fronfB. street. % Pennsylvania avenue, and one line on 15th street from Pennsylvania } —— avenue. to G street, and by building, a new OF IN RGR line on 14th street from B to G streets and placing the wires in cables. Overhead Wires and Details of MOVING THE TROOPS Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment Or- dered ta Camp Meade. i ORDERS TOOTHER COMMANDS AT ALGER Private Gay Dismissed and Sen- “The work dong under this permit in- volved the removal of approximately> 45%,- 990 feet of overhead wires, the removal of 44 line and 2 guy poles, the erection of 22 line poles and 1 ‘guy pole and the string- ing of 23,558 feet of aerial cable. These A. Shields offers four lots in square | quare foot; William Dicksan, one ! Each System in Operation. EFFECTS OF ELECTROLYSIS Mr. Walter-C. Allen, inspector of electric lighting in the District of Columbia, has Submitted the annual report of his depart- ment to Capt. Lansing H. Beach, the En- gineer Commissioner. .The report is very lengthy, containing many tables showing the length of conduit laid, the length of wires strung and by what companies, as ; well as photographs of the overhead wires at different sections of the city., Mr. Allen says in part: “I have the honor to submit the foliow- ing report of the various branches of elec- trical work under the control of this office. . Since September 1, 1897, conduits have been laid as follows: Under permit dated Sep- tember 30, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephcne Company replaced their old solid asphalt conduit, between 9th and E streets, along E street. to 8th, and up 8th street to the Post. Office Department building, by laying 435 feet of terra cotta and construct- ing two manholes. The company also re- placed: the last of the old solid system con- duit laying 200 feet of terra cotta con- duit and 169 feet of verra cotta pipe and constructing one manhole. This line ex- tends from the northeast corner of Ver- mont avenue and K street along Vermont #venue into the alley in square 217. “The destruction of the cable power house of the Capital Traction Company by fire in November, .1897, resulted in the change of motive power on the line from cable to an underground electric system similar to that employed by the Metropoti- tan Railroad Company. The report. shows that the total amount of duct laid by the Capital Traction Com- Pany was 390,851 feet. It also shows that the United States Electric Lighting Com- pany extended their undergrount lines in Columbia and Washington Heights by ildmg lateral conduits in numerous treets. The total amount of conduit laid Was 8.448 feet, while the total amount ef duct was 3 This was laid in Bancroft place, California avenue, Leroy place, Co- lumbia road, Roanoke street, Yale, Prince- ten, Harvard, Bacon, Binney and Chapin street Refers to a Local Contest. The report next refers to the fight of the Potomac company against the United States company over the right of the latter to lay conduits up 9th street. The fight in this instance, he says, was won by the United States company. The report then recites the injunction proceedings of the Potomac company against the United States company. After a trial the Potomac company was upheld. At the time the work on Yth street was stopped, 5,102 feet of terra coita pipe had been laid, and twelve large and thirteen medium manholes built, leaving the. conduit practically completed as far north as U street. July 1, 1808, the cenduit had not been legalized by act of Congress, nor the decision of the court reversed. It was, therefore, not in use on that date. Mr. Allen shows that the widening of 10th street from D to F street last fall and the relaying of the United States company’s ccnduit, cost the District for the electrical werk $1,164. Telegraph Company's Conduit. “The Postal Telegraph Company was granted a permit to rebuild its conduit on 14th street, from F street to New York avenue. They laid 838 feet of terra cotta conduit, containing 4,352 feet of duct. At the point where this conduit crosses that of the Potomac Electric Power Company, at the northeast corner of th street and New York averue, a manhole was built embracing the latter conduit. At the time of the partial destruction of the plant of the United States Hlectric Lighting Com- pany by fire November 25, 1807, the Postal company was deprived of power to run their motor generators for telegraphic work. To overcome this difficulty cables for carrying current from the Potomac Electric Company's lines were drawn into this conduit from the joint manhole men- tioned above to the office of the telegraph company at Pennsylvania avenue and 1th street. "This use of telegraphic conduits for electric light and power purposes was im- tely made the subject of congression- igation.” 3 the correspondence attached it was run as ap emer- , after consultation with Engineer Commissioner Black, and the streets were not disturbed. It seems also that the cables were not used, as by the time connections were made the United States company had repaired its service. Mr. Aldrich states in his report: ‘These cables, as stated verbally to me by the Potomac Hlectric Power Company, are now in use for private electric lighting. Length of Conduit Service. The following table shows the length of conduit in use in the District of Colum- bia: United States Electric Lighting Com- pany, 229,194 feet of conduit, 825,755 feet oi duct; Potomac Electric Power Company, 56,120 feet of conduct; 598,144 feet of duct; Postal Telegraph Company, 14,663 feet of conduit; 18,44 feet of duct; Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, feet of conduit, 698,216 feet of duct; Metro- politan Railroad. Company, 31,417 feet of conduit, 204,140 feet of duct; Capital Trac- tion Company, 48,218 feet of conduit, 399,- 851 feet of duct; total feet of conduit, 459,- total amount of dyct, 2,745,050 feet. Overhead Wires. With regard to overhead wires Mr. Alien that the situation has improved ccn- siderably during the year, both as regards the appearance of the lines and the num- ber of wires removed. Of the United States | Wiectric Lighting Company's wires 8,990 feet of. maia and 1,846 feet of service wire were removed frem 10th street between D and F, six poles being moved. This com- peny also sad 12,815 feet of wire on the poles of the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany, on 15th street, from Alhaugh's al- }ley to G street. Although the latter com- | pany removed its poles and wires from this | street, those of the latter had to remain, jas the condait capacity was entirely in- adequate to hold. them. This necessitated the retention of three of the old wooden poles and the replacement of nine others with iron ones. In addition to this the company removed 3,415 feet of wire. In the alleys in squares 431 and 432 1,920 feet of‘overhead mains were removed and a ma- jority of the service wire placed under ground. Owing to the removal of the tei egraph poles, 10,150 feet of wires were tuken down from the Western Union pole line from the corner of 9th and C streets across, Pennsylvania avenue to the corner of 7th and C streets. All the overhead wires of the Potomac Electric Power Company inside the city limits have been removed. with the excep- tion of two services 2,20) feet long, run- ning principally over housetops and con- taining 5,230 feet of single wire. Outside of these limits no extensions of their lines have been made, and only three overhead services connected in. The Chesaneake and Potomac Company was allowed to erect poles that enabled them to connect their line on Brightwood avenue.at the Military road to the line run- ning to Tenleytown, by way of Woodley road, and from Tenleytown to the Chain bridge. The report next mentions the stop- ping cf the work of erecting poles on Cha- pin street upon the objection of the cit. izens of Columbia Heights and upon the epinion of the attorney for the District that the Commissioners had no right to From seems that the cable authorize the sume. No additional poles have been erected outside of the city lim- its by: the com} . The report says that rebuilt numerous old rea pons bg oh beg arian Doles. | Many new poles have nm erected in the palleys: of the city: = »,781 | } cables are brought to a large pole at the office building, are carried down the pole on neatly arranged brackets and then pasa under the sidewalk through iron to the terminal board.” - ae The stringing of wires on 14th street was made the subject of a congressional inves- tigation also. It was fully explained, how- ever, by the District Commissioners. The Western Union Company improved its va- rious lines by rebuilding, etc. Hiegal Wiren. “The Mutual District Messenger Com- pany,”” says Mr. Allen's report, “has con- tinued its illegal stringing of ‘wires, al- though only: in one instance. has it been detected and stopped. This was in Wash- ington Heights, where two wires were strung from Wyoming avemie and 18th street to Prospect avenue and Crescent street. It was stopped by the police during the work, but managed, neverthe- less, to complete it: It was not until per- emptorily ordered to do so by the District Commissioners that it removed tha wires. It has declined to give the Commissioners a proper, accurate and in- telligikle description of the routes followed by its wires, for the reason that it prefers not to have known where it has in- stalled the burglar alarm and call box sys- tem. No adjustment nor control of its wires can be had unless thelr location can be as- certained.”* War With Spain. A table shows the length of wire of the } District fire alarm and police telegraph system to be 2,001,620 feet, or 379.09 miles. “Since the declaration of war with Spain it has been necessary to string many wires to provide adequate service for the vari- ous executive departments. «his has been done only by the Western Union Telegraph Company and by the United States government, but, as no permits were issued and the work not supervised by this department, no record has been made of this increase in the overhead con- struction. No new pole lines were con- structed, however, the existing lines being used in ‘every case:? The total number of poles for telegraph telephone use inside the city limits is line poles and 164 guy poles; outside the city Mmi 36 line poles and 112 guy poles, a total in the District of 6,144 line poles’ and guy poles, Report on Electroly Under the head “Hlectrolysis, sa} the report second report un the subject of elec- trolysis submitted in October, 1597, with numerous diagrams and tables show- ing the results of the tests made by this de- partment. This report was printed for the use of the Senate District committee and subsequently embodied in their report on Senate bill 3647, ‘For the protection of sub- surface pipes, cables, wires and other metallic constructions in the District of Columbia from damage frem electrolysis,’ which bill was ‘submitted to the Commis- sioners. Since making the second report re- ferred to above, several instances of de- struction to pipes have occurred and nu- merous tests have been made. These are inserted in the report, so as to furnish a complete account of this subject to date and as a supplement to ‘the printed report.” These tests and instances of electrolytic action have been printed in The Star. A bill prepared by the Commissioners on the subject was passed by the Senate at the last session of Congress, but failed to pass the House of Representativ a NOT YELLOW FEVER. Dr. Senn Predicts: Typhoid Epidemic in a Few Weeks. NEW YORK, August 30.—Medical officers at Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, deny that there have been deaths at the camp hos- pital from yellow fever. The two men whose deaths there yesterday were said to be attributable to the disease named were, according to the surgeons in charge, vic- tims of pernicious malarial fever, which those unfami with yellow fever fre- quently diagnose as the latter. Dr. Nicho- las Senn, assistant surgeon general, U. S. A., is quoted as saying today at Camp Wi- koff: “In justice to the camp I want to say that almost none of the sickness among the soldiers up to the present time and none of the deaths have been due to the conditions which now prevail here or have in the past. Sickness has been almost en- tirely limited to fevers contracted in the south, and the death rate would have been much more than now had the men re- mained in the south instead of being brought here. £ Defense of the Camp. | “The change of climate lessened the ef- fects of the fevers and improved the con- dition of the men. As a consequence, the only sickness which can be attributed to this camp is dysentery or lesser trouble: which may have been caused by the change of diet or water. “So far none of the fevers has been in- digenous to the camp. But if the men re- main they will certainly be attacked with typhoid fever. This will be due ‘o the germs which they will get in the water. For a time this camp will be a healthy one, but in a few weeks the typhoid fever germs from the sinks and cesspools, now seattered so thickly about, will permeate the earth and contaminate water supply. “To make this place healthy we should have a system of drainage which would carry away all these germs, but to bulld such would cost a large sum, owing to the extent of the camp.” Several hundred cots arrived last nighe and were this morning put up in tne dif- ferent hospitals. There is now enough room to accommodate all the sick. Con- valescents are being discharged daily from the hospital and their places are being taken by the sick from the transports. Mrs. Katharine Tingley, president of the International. Brotherhood, a Theosophist Society, has established a relief tent about three-quarters of a mile from the Montauk Point depot. There are four female and seven male nurses in attendance, arid there are twenty sick imthe tent. It ‘is a. place where a furloughed soldier may stop on his way to the depot and secure something to eat gratis. A Mother's Search, Mrs. M. E. Bell of Chicago is here look- ing for her son, Dieloyne N. Bell of Troop L of the Rough Riders. He was stricken in Cuba with fever and was taken to the hospital at Sibeney- He was to have come north on the Catania, but suffered’ from a relapse, and was left behind. Mrs, Bell re- ceived word that he “had arrived at Boston on the Olivette; and’ she went there, only to find that the infotmation was incorrect. Then she came hére, but as yet has learned nothing as to the whereabouts of her son. ——————_+-0+___ RENEWS THE CONTEST. Potomac. Electric Power Company Asks’ for Injunction, The Potomac Electric Power Company to- day renewed its fight against the United States Electric Lighting Company by filing suit in equity “akainst the company and the District-Commissioners, Messrs. John B. Wight, John W. Ross and Lansing H. Beach, asking that the Commissioners may be enjoined temporarily and perpetually from.granting to the United States. Electric Lighting Company any permits in pursu- ance of its several applications to construct any new, enlarged or additional conduits in the streets mentioned in the applications. ‘The court is further asked to enjoin the from proceeding under the permit issued to it by the Commissioners August 20, .Further injunction is asked to restrain the defendant company from laying con- duits in any street, avenue, road or reser- vation until Congress shall provide for a conduit system, or except as Congress may thorizs by law, and that the bermits for any work of this charac ter or | Justice tenced to Hard Labor. DEATHS AT FORT MYER Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. DUNN LORING, Va., August 30, 1898. The 8th Pennsylvania, Col. Hoffmann commanding, received iastructions from di- vision headquarters to be prepared to move at noon today’ to Camp Meade, Pennsylva- comp steadily contirmes. ‘The 12th Pennsyl- vania left yesterday for Middletown, the Sth Pennsylvania goes today, and the 65th New York is scheduled to leave for Buf- falo tomorrow, where the men will be granted furloughs for thirty days each, and at. the expiration of that time will be mus- tered out of the service. The 13th Pennsylvania will tomorrow leave for Camp Meade, at Middletown, and the remaining regiments will leave in the following order: 1st New Jersey, 7th Ohio and ist Connecticut. The 3d Virginia will not be ordered to the Pennsylvania camp, but to Richmond, where they will probably be mustered out. Strong pressure is being brought to bear on the War Department to have this regiment mustered out, and as the prospects for having it disbanded are very bright, it would be the height of folly, it is declared, to order the regiment from a camp in its own state to one in Pennsyl- vania and then bring it back to be dis- charged from service. : Whether or not the 7th Obio will go to Camp Meade is a question upon which no light can be shed. The regiment is to be mustered out, but how soon no one is able to say. The ist Conneeticut will be on the next list of troops to leave the service, but it will be at least three weeks before any steps toward disbanding it are taken. The diviston officers are still without spe- cific instructions relative to mustering out of the troops, with the exception of the 65th New York, and in that case they were only ordered to send the regiment to Buffa- lo, N. Y. ‘Transporting the Sick. The government hespital train secured for the convenience of one hundred and eight sick soldiers of the 65th New York, which was scheduled to leave camp at 4 o'clock for Buffalo, did not succeed in getting away until 6:30. Major Cook, the chief surgeon of’ the division, and Major Parke, the sur- geon in charge of the Ist Division hospital, personally superintended the removal of the sick soldier lads from the hospital to the train. The train consisted of six Pullman coaches, one baggage car and one com- bination car. The care of the patients on the train was entrusted to Dr. Herman Mynter of Buffalo, assisted by Drs. Wilson, Menteline, Frank’ and Hinizel, together with Misses Smith, Hunt, Swang, McPer- son and Kennedy as trained nurses. Two more soldiers, patients in the post hospital at Fort Myer, have succumbed to typhoid fever. They are Privates John A. Boyd, Company §, 9th Massachusetts, and George Neil, Company A, 6th Pennsylvania. Private Gay's Sentence. The findings of the general court-martial in the case of Floyd W. Gay, Company F, Goth New York Regiment, charged with robbing the mails at Camp Alger, were pub- lished this morning. He has been dtshon- orably discharged the service of the United States, forfeiting all pay and allowances, and sentenced to serve three years at har: labor in the military prison at Fort Leaven- worth, Kansas. = PRIVATE BALDMAN’S DEATH. Two Other District Volunteers Sick Near Baldman’s Late Home. The death of Private Adolphus J. Bald- man of Company B, Ist District Regiment, which occurred while the troops were en route from Santiago to Montauk, was an- nounced to his father, Mr. Henry Bald- men of 202 Maryland avenue northeast, in a teegram from Cerporal Leonard Bald- man, also of Company B, and a brother of the dead man. Private Baldman was twenty-six years old and unmarried. He had resided here all his life, where he was widely known and highly thought of. His mother received a letter from him August 12, dated July 22 at Santiago, in which he he was in good health. Only a few doors away from the Bald- man residence on Maryland avenue north- east, at No. 220, two other District volun- teers are suffering from the dire exects of the Cuban campaign. They are brothers, Sergeant Claude I. Dawson and Musician Noble Dawson. Sergeant Dawson went to Cuba as a postal clerk with Mr. Eben Brewer, but was taken ill shortly. before ‘Mr. Brewer died, and was sent home. He suffered a relapse a week ago, but is now improving. Musician Dawson, who is but sixteen years old, was taken ill aboard the trans- port on the way to Porto Rico, where he was ordered after the fall of Santiago. He has been very ill of typhoid fever, but is slowly improving. -_ —s+ MERRITT FOR PARIS, General and Staff Left Manila on the China Teday. MANILA, Philippine Islands, August 30. —The United States transport China left here today, aaving on board Major General Merritt and his staff. The general is bound for Paris, where he will take part in the Spanish-American peace conference. Major General Otis is acting governor of Manila. Generals Greene and Babcock, with their staffs, are bound for Washington. Opacible, the insurgent leader, is going to Hong Kong, in order to confer with the insurgent junta there. He will receive Aguinaldo’s final instructions by cable. Agonillo, another of the insurgent lead- ers, is going to Washington. It is considered probable that the insur- gent junta of Hong Kong will send a dele- gate, to the Paris peace conference. Insurgents Visit” Manila. Aguinaldo remains at Bakor. Hundreds of unarmed insurgents visit- ed Manila yesterday. Rear Admiral Dewey has declined to permit the coastwise- steamers to resume running, pending a set- tlement of the Philippine question. Gen. Rios, the Spanish governor of the Visayas Islands, is reported to have pro- claimed himself governor-gencral of the Spanish dominions in the Philippine Is- lands, and to have invited the adherents of Spain to rally at Lloilo. The remains of E. H. Rawson-Walker, the former British consul here, which had been temporarily lodged in the Catholic cemetery, were interred today in the Prot- estant cemetery. ———_ Naval Orders. Chief Engineer J. L. D. Borthwick, re- tired, has been relieved from duty at the Chicago recruiting rendezvous and ordered home. Chaplain F. C. Brown has been detached from the Columbia and ordered home. Lieutenant H. H. G. Bullard, from the Columbia to the Naval Academy. nia. The movement of the troop from this | PLEASED WITH CONDITIONS FINANCE AND TRADE Result of Visits to Oamps Alger and Thomas, Representative Grosvenor a Sena- tor Allen Say Soldiers Complain Mont of Detention. Representative Grosvenor of Ohio called at the War Department today in company with ex-Representative Thompson to re- port to Secretary Alger the results of their visit of inspection of the camp at Dunn- Loring and particularly of the stat> of af- fairs in the case of the 7th Ohio Volunteer Regiment. Gen. Grosvenor was emphatic in his approval of what he saw. He said: “I never saw a body of soldiers better fea, better clothed and better sheltered than ig the 7th Ohio Regiment at present. So much for the general condition. Now as to particulars: There were 1,300 men in the regiment. Except from suicide there have been but two deaths among them since the organization, four and a half months ago. Including the men who were curloughed to go home and recuperate, ind those in the hospitals, there were but forty-one men not able to report for duty yesterday morn- ing. A finer, abler set of men I never saw in my life.” Continuing, Gen. Grosvenor said that the dissatisfaction among the soldiers was all traceable to the fact that they had not been able to get to the front. | Yet those who had gone from among the Ohio troops had suffered very much more in men lost and sick than those whose condition at Dunn-Loring had Been reported to be so bad. On the whole, the general was satis- fied that the men Were very much better off than were the soldiers in the civil war. This last view was sharei by Senator Allen of Nebraska, who called at the War Department to get some news of the whereabouts of the 2d Nebraska Regiment, which he was told was on its way from Chickamauga for Omaha. He said the main complaint among the men was of their enforced detention at the camps in- stead of being at the front. but that so far as their physical condition was concerned, while the men had suffered a good deal at Camp Thomas, so far as he could judge from his own experience in the civil war, they were certainty nu worse off than the soldiers then engaged. MONTGOMERY COUNTY FAIR Forty-Fifth Annual Exhibition Opens With Good Prospects of Success. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., August 30.—The forty- fifth annualyexhibition of the Agricultural Soci2ty of Montgomery County opened here this morning under favorable auspices. As is usual, the crowd today is made up to a large extent of exhibitors. The arrange- ment of articles in the exhibition hall and the providing of stalls and pens for cattle, sheep and hogs occupied the entire morning hours, and kept all hands connected with the society on the rush. The large number of refreshment booths, side shows, fakir stands, all gaily decorated with the national colors, gave a pleasing aspect to the grounds. Among those who made entries in the ex- hibition hall were the following: Mrs. E. Schooley, Thomas Baily, Purdum, Arthur Bouic, Mrs. Nelly, Sallie Harrison and Harry Myers, vege- tables: Mrs. Wells, Mrs. Schooley, Mr: Baggerly and Miss Maggie Harrison, Mre. Mrs. Prices Offered Down During the Ini- BURLINGTON WAS ATTACKED AGAIN Present Tendency Not Downward Despite Daily Fluctuations. seopeioah beeing GENERAL. MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star, NEW YORK, August 30.—The magnified evils of the monetary condition, as reflected in Saturday’s bank statement, lost their in- fluence toward the close of the first hour this morning. During the initial trading the profession- al element offered prices down and suc- ceeded in establishing the lowest level of the day. Burlington, which closed higher yester- day in spite of attacks, was sold off today urder pressure, and forced a sympathetic weakness in the neighboring granger shares. The Pacific issues were negiected for a time also, and lost a few fractions under persistent selling for both occounts. The theory of the street is that a bro! recently active in the buying had be locking for a market on which to realt and the room took the initiative. The char- acter of the selling was not so good as the buying at the decline, end the market gave further evidences of broadening at the re- duced quotations. London and the continent continue to in- auire for American issues, and confi¢ence in them has reached the point where the burden of inviting buying rests entirely upon New York. Should the local market continue to advance the foreign demand may be relied upon The banks advance rates for ci Money about % of 1 per cent and 3% to 4 per cent was offered for time accommoda- tions, and these advances are considered te be about eqval to the changed condi- tions, When it is remembered that an adva of 1 or 2 per cent in interest races is a d advantage to the broker rather than to client, the matter could b> easily adju by increasing the pe age of margi Brokers carr; ~ stocks e to the nar- ket are naturally fearful of Une effects of advances in interzst rates. en and twenty point discrepancies be- an the lower value and the market value re sufficient composure to view condi- tions without forcing a speculative panic There is an abundance of money at 4 per cent in quarters not represented in the bank statement, an hould money be considered sufficiently dear to force decline in the stock mark it will be because the leaders of the movement have sold out and anxious to buy back at a lower level. The conditions on which the mark vanced have not chan but it is just well that a period rvatism should prevail for a time. Profit-taking in one part of the list is frequently but a condition precedent to n activity at another point. The present tendency is not downwart, no matter what the daily fluctuations may There js gold to be had for the asking and new enterprises are springing up on all sides. Real prosperity does not culminate in a single season, and to iraugurate depression row would mean that the ablest financiers in the country have ade a mistake in analyzing conditions. No one seriously 2 lieves this, and consequently the selling is limited to holders who have the smallest resources. Covering was in progress in Manhattan during the day, but this de- mand is not to be mistaken for increasing merit. fruits; Mrs. Henry Copp, rubber plant, af- ghan sofa cushion, cotton quilt and piano cover: Miss Bessie Peter, worsted work, catsup and soap; Mrs. E. Peters, embro ery; Mrs. Skymaker, patched gar- ment; Miss Marion Boyle of Washington, canned fruits, jellies, embroidery, crochet work; Mrs. S. B. Haney, jellies and potted plants; Miss Adamson, catsup, jellies and cake; Mrs. C. W. Baggerly, embroidery, antique lace, chenille and K2nsington work; Miss Julia Anderson, hemstitching, érawn work and panel sewing; Miss Mary Granger, embroidery, painting and lemon tree, in fruit; Mrs. Geo. Lamar, panel sew- ing; Miss Maggie Harrison, butter and hams; Miss Sallie Harrison, preserves and canned fruit; Mrs. John Gassaway, cake and bread; Mrs. H. Bogley, silk embroid- ery; Mr. Lee Offutt, century plant; Mrs. T. Groomes, growing ‘plants; Mrs. Gertrude Ricketts, oil painting; Forrest Ricketts, Cisplay of apples; W. W. Welsh, soap vegetables; Walter Bogley, peaches, etables, pears; J. J .Higgins, grapes ©. Dowden, embroidery; Adelaide Dawson. embroidery; Nannie and Jutia Darh. broidery; Prof. A. S. Dalby, display ber Mr. John Dawson, vegetables; Mr. Darby, vegetables, melons; Mrs. Clinton Allnutt, quilt, rug, hand-made hanfiker- chief, drawn work; Miss Bessie Fie map drawing, Mary Story, candy; Mrs. D. H, Warfield, cut flowers, pickles Also these entries: Bessie Sage, crabap- ples, bread; Dr. Charles Abert, rubber plant, pineapple plant; Mrs. Waters, cray- on; Mrs. L. P. Watson, Virginia, drawn work; Miss Minnie Owens, jellies, broad; Mrs. J. F. Defandorf, oil crayon, pencil drawings; Mrs. H. Talbott, ferns; Miss An- nie Duvail, crocheting; Mrs. G. E. Cooke, preserves and butter; Mrs. Nanni2 Vinson, biscuit; Mildred Offutt, vegetables; M Ros2 M. Holland, flowers; M: M. Linthicum, embroidery, Mrs. F. J. Prettyman, Staunton, Va. cotton darning; Miss Gertrude Cissel, point lace; Jos2ph Nicholson, vegetable: Maynard Penn, butter, vegetables; Mrs. Themas Davson, okra; Mrs. T. W. Waters, cctton sewing, darning; Mrs. John Byrd, ectton quilt; Mrs. Robert Ainutt, embroid ery, silk quilt; Somerville Dawson, sweet corn; Susie Darby, quilt; Nellie Allnutt, drawnwork; Grace Darby, embroidery, knitting; Mrs. Charles Oursler, jellies; Mrs. George Bennett, vegetables;' Miss ‘Annie Farquhar, cake and caramels; Mrs. E. 3. Miller, knitting; J. J. Hutton, crochet quilt; Mentgomery Harriss, lima beans; George T. Beaver, peaches; Charles A.’ Clagett, vinegar; Miss Maud Heagy, cake; B. O. 5x monston, fruit, melons, Vegetables; Mis Lizzie Harney, cake; Basil Bean, fruit, veg- etables; Mrs. E. V. Magruder, knitting in cotton; Mr3. J. W. Emrich, canned fruit; . O, pincushion; Mrs. George Dawson, oil painting; Miss Acdie Foster, water colors. Ss Two Wills Filed for Probate. The will of James J. Flanagan, dated June 19, 1893, was filed today for probate. Al of his estate is bequeathed to his daugh- ter, Mary Eliza Flanagan, who is also nam- ed_as executrix. The will of George O. Glavis, dated May 28, 1896, with codicil, was also filed. The Ameriean Security and Trust Company is named. as executor and the estate divided among children and near relatives. SAIS Col. John O'Byrne Dead. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., August 30.—Col John O'Byrne is dead at his home in this city, after a short illness. He was born in Dublin in 1825, and at the age of twenty- three entered the army. in Ireland. Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE, August 30.—Flour dull, inchanged —recelpts, 20,824 barrels; = 10.782 barrel: To net atagee lall—spot and mont! ToaT094; September, G¥5ja0vK; October, - OH 0%; December, 6714a67%; steamer No. 2 red, Gia receipts, C84 6 i: 3 exports, none; stock, 717,200 bushels; sales, 28,000 bushels—south- xn wheat by sample, G5ai1; ‘do. on grade, 66a 70%, firmer—spot and month, 34423414; September, 34i4a34%; Octeber, 341a34%; steamer mixed, 33\4a834%—receipts, 217,776 bushels: anti HAIR Hi ———__. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. New York Stock Market. Open. High. Low. American Spirits... 183% 13% «13g American Spirits, pfd... 39% 394 B9y BON American Sugar...) 142%, M4 141K 148% American Sugar, pfd..) 0) " American Tobacco. 43145 14d daa Atchison .. Atcmison, pfa .... Balnmore « Vavw Brooklyn R. Transit. Canada Southern Cansda Pacific... esapeake & Oni ; & St. Loms. BY. |! Unicago&.Non Gawestern Chicago Gas... © M.&St Paul, Chicago, K.1, & Pacific. Consolidated ‘Gas. Del. Lack a W . 4 Dbeaware & luuson ... Den « itv «ranue, pre Ene 3 1B ilmois Centra . Lake suore. sin Louisvilie & Nasnvuie. Metropolitan Traction, Mannattan@ievated. Michigan Cencrai. Missouri Pacitic. Nationa! Lead Jersey Ven New York Cen Northern Pacifle, pfa. Ont. & Western Pacite Mau. Wheeling & Lake Erie Wheeling & L. E., pid. Westera Union rei. Enion Pacite, pra Am. Steel and Wire Rubber. Kubber pf. 104 05 Washington Steck Exchange. Sales—regular call—12 o'clock _m tivna: aphophove, Pneumatic Gun Carriage, District of € 104 bid. 30: Metropolitan conv. Ga, 12. trepolit road certifies’ 114 bid. aitan Reilrond 5s, 48. bid, . 105 a 6s, '113 bid. 113% bid. 102 bid. Eckington Railroad Gs, ton G any, wer. A, Washington Chesapeake American Security bid. Washington Market ( Masonic Hall Association Light Lafantry Ist 6s, National Bank Stocks. Bank of Washington bid. Metropolitan, 305 bid. Central, 1401 Farmers and Mechanics’, 180 bid. Second, 140 bid. Citizens’, 140 bid. Columbia, 130 bid. ” Capital, 120 bid.” West End, 80 bid, 85 asked. Lincoln; 115 bid, 121 asked. Safe Deposit and Trust Companies —National Safe Deposit and Trust, 113 bid, 116 asked, Wash- ington Laan and Trost, 126 bid: American Secur- ity and Trost, 150 bid: Insrrance Stocks.—Firemen’s, 25 bid. Franklin, 37%, bid. Metropoliten, 70 bid. Corcoran, 50 bid: Potomac, 58% bid. Arlington, 122 bid. “German American, 185 bid. National Union, 10 bid. Co- lumbia, 10 bid. Riggs, Ti, bid, 8 asked. People’s, 5 bid.” Lincoln, 9% bid, 10 asked. Commercial, 4 bid. Title Insurance Stocks.—Real Estate Title, bid. Columbia Title, 4% bid, 544 asked. ; Railroad Stocks.—Capital Traction Company, 73% bi asked. Metropolitan, 122 tid. Gas and Electric Light Stocks.— Washington Gar, 48 bid, 49 asked. G: das, 45 bid. United States’ Electric Light § « ‘Telephone Stocks.—Chesapeake and Tetomac, 43 bid. Miscellaneons Stocks. — Mergenthaler Linotype, 184 % bid, 185% asked. Lanston Monotype, 1414 bid, “16 asked. “ Americna Graphopbone, 13 bid, 13%4 asked. American Graphophone, pfd.. 13% bid. Pneumatic Gun Carriage, 25 bid, .26 asked. Great Falls Ice, 110 bid, 122 asked. —_—_ Grain, Provisions and Cotton Markets. Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., bankera and brokers, 1427 F st., members New York stock ¢: correspondents Messrs, Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., New York. GRAIN. : ta High. Low. 61% ay Boy 30 20. 19) 1% x eae” EveEae ‘Clone. OO Gay Bois 20 19%, PROVISO’ Open. Chore. 5 ‘8.85 £6 9.02, 5.15 5.17 5.25 5.30 Le Baz San 5.00 ay! Close, = cx ig