Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1898, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR. — PUBLISHED DAILY EXCery SUNDAY AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, J1¢1 Pearszivzaia Avsiay. om it $h The Evening Star Newspaper Company, S. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. Dew York Ofice. 19 Fotter Euilding = s The Evening Star ts eerved to subscribers tn the aity by carriers, op their own acount, at 10 cents Ber week. o 44 cects per mouta. Copies at the counter 2 cents each. By wail—anywhere tn the Coited States or Camada—pextage prepald—5O cente eee month. Saturday"Qcintonie ted, Star, $1 per year, with ©: ce at Wi t mail matter.) Part 2. Che Fpening Siar. Pages 11-14. — The regular permanent family circulation of The Evening Star in Washington is more than double that of any other paper, whether published in the morn- ing or in the afternoon. As a medium for unobjec- tionable advertisements it there- fore stands unequaled and un- WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 1898—FOURTEEN approachabie. PAGES. won 1 PSST ars ahs sta sy eee ic. yd. but lnck favored us, and = 40c. at the cash houses. We will sell {t tomorrew— 20 & Wedne-das—only, ma laid and (se = Mined, and ot credit, 4 # & Brussels Carpets, 69e. Made, laid and lined. ‘H ye CUO EUR EY ERE are the regular sels Carpets—in bi des of Fine Rrus- 1 new fall patterns rings that will Just as a 69c. | t them to you made, laid and P. J The Easy-Going, OR MENTE 6 More Ingrain iCarpet, 29e. yd. Made, Laid and Lined. ‘On Grediit! Never sold for less than 40c. yd. “cash” elsewhere. AD almost given up hope f getting ny more of that splendid In- grain Carpet to sell . Nee, 7th & H Sts.: Straightforward Credit House. $15 Side= board, ‘Q)” On Credit. T= Hand-omely 1 is a L Here tomorrow only, ian - $9.75 “$2.50 Bamboo Corner Chairs, 9 50 ANY of our customers will remembe what a run we had on the 0 M enough to sell anywhere near until now. As it is, we ha them, und we'll make them In y offering them at the unprecedented lew price of price sin but a few of $1.50 VEE EE eS VEE Sxn08 Barber & Ross | & Puritan “Calovit’ Gas ‘ldleaters, 2. eased with ry one w curious-lookin, nd only consum! © can afford to be Covered ash sifters, the Calovit Gas Heaters, for they give excel- them. Built on the same le as but they are wonderful b about 5 cents’ worth of gus a day. hout one. 16-in. Japamned : coalhods, % dium st tan con: only about two quarts of oll $ in eight hours, and will heat a room thoroughly ge $6.50. As : oil heaters. c c Here is an ofl stove we like to sell, for it always cn barrel lvanized Coal Hods for gives satisfaction. The me- Galvanized Valentine's felt ash cans, “big as a La) weather strips, a ft. Have our man call submit estimate for w stripping your house. -50 and ather- | | | TRADE WITH A Line to St. Petersburg Expected to Rus » between the twt ‘nited States Corsul have Steamship ch possesses 2stah a d 2 Unite s will make experimen- between St. Petersburg, Riga and age to the fi of this line. € untries, and bespeaks liberal pa- for it as essential to its contin- lirg to a rece! dor Hitchcock the U Company has been in existe report of Ambas- e some thirty years. has a capital of about $1 and owns over one hundred and twenty steamers, tracing between various Euro- It is estimated, he adds, that © consumes 1,000,000 bales of cottcn annually, of which a comparatively tion comes direct from Ame: roportion could be immensely avoiding the delay an? ex- ipment at Liverpool, Ham- en. The seme is true, he t to the products of Amer- ores, for which there is an increasing demand from Russia. The department has also received a com- munication from Consul General Holloway of St. Petersburg. covering the same in- fcrmation. Mr. Holloway adds that tie United Steamship Company has now a bi- monehly line to Newport News and New Oriea:.s. the success of which has led its managers to consider the establishment of Mrect service to New York. ber & Ross, 1 Ith & | tendent of the railway mail service shows j Service was 285,565,343. Matter so illegi- G Sts LACK OF CARE. Over Thirtcen Million Pieces of Mail Ilegibly Addressed. The annual report of the general superin- that at the close of the y 8,074 clerks closed pouch the grand te ear there were ployed and that, with the nd express pouch service, of miles traveled in the bly addressed as to require special atten- tion before delivery coutd be effected, or which could not be delivered at all, amounted to 13,508,486 pleces for the year, 7,655,585 pieces of which were returned to writers or corrected and forwarded to des. tination, the rest being turned into the dead letter office for disposition. The general superintendent deplores the fact that the number of casualties last year exceeded the record of any previous MAIL FOR SOLDIERS The Postal Service in Santiago Province. REPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT AGENT an Louis Kempner Describes the Work Accomplished IN THREE POST OFFICES ee Louis Kempner, the United States postal agent in Cuba, has presented to the first istant postmaster general his report of the postal service in Santiago province prior to and since the military oezapation of the province. It covers a period from June 23 to date and is an exinaustive decu- ment, Through Miss Clara Barton of the Red Cross Society, Mr. Kempner was able to obtain transportation on the steamer State of Texas. He arrived at Guantanamo June , where he learned that two aays previ- ous Mr. Eben Brewer, who had been sent out by the Post Office Department as agent, had established “Mi.itary postal stat.on No. 1, Cuba,” at Daiquiri. The post ortice was tablished in a neat house, occupied by Spanisn officers until the bompardment commenced. The opening of the post uttice at Daiqu.ri was immeciate.y communicaced to all the regiments, .nd the sale of post- age stamps and ers Mourished at The sole id, had provided selves with before seaving home, but in the and moist- ure were all spoiled by adhesion. He reports an account of agent Bre interview with Admira! Sampson, resulted in an arrangement that all naval vessels going north shou.d report at I quiri and carry mail the sta first mail was dispatched by the U. 8. S. Dolphin June 26. June 20 the first mail from the United States arrived, and con- sisted of 298 pouches and sacks. Through the kindness of Captain McKay, in charge of the laborers who were unloading the transports, the mail was carried to the of- Fully one-ha:f of this mail was ad- ed to the volunteer regiments in the 5th Army Corps, namely, the Rough Rid- ers, the 71 ew York Volunteer Infantry 2d Massachusetts Volunteer In- and the fantry. Agent Brewer's Heroism. Mr. Kempner then refers to the efforts made by Mr. Brewer to obtain transporta- tion to carry this mail to the front. Jacobs, in charge of the quartermaster's department at Daiquirl, ined that the army wagons and the pack muies at his command had all they could do to move the ammunition and c ary stores re- quired at the front the time being military autho! were bie render the post office any a: er bought a hoi owned a pony, pant Dawson and himself’ si front, eighteen miles ay mail they could carr tioned Agent Brewer task he was underta alive tuation, against the ng, but that of imply replied: needed at the front; it con- al documents from Washing- besides family letters that will be ap- preciated. The Post Office Departme must not be charged with failure to deliver mail mattas p y addressed. ent Brewer returned from his first tri y 4. Afterward he assisted i the wounded and killed of battle and assisted the hospitals. Agent Brewer subsequently died from yellow fever. Mr. Kempner, in his report, pays him this tribute: “He was as self-sacrificing on the field of battle and in the discharge cf his duties as postal agent as the brave men he helped during several days’ fierce fighting. He certainly was never t ame man. after his return frem th ip. For four ¢ i to all the dangers and d comforts of war. He acted like a patriotic American in ri nd life for his countrymen, tal agent he need not have done D his life assisting his brave countrymen. Mail Sent to the Front. During Agent Kempner’s absence at the front, Capt. Smith of Gen. Shafter’s staff called at the post offics, and after hav- ing Hs attention called to the large amount of mail matter still on hand, he o| ed one army wagon to carry the mail to the regiments. Only twenty sacks of mail were sent, but it was so arranged that each regiment received a portion of its ny Mail messengers from the various regiments at the front, he says, came to the post office with written ord-rs for the mail, s 100 sacks of surge t office Ss removed to mail which remained wes taken together with 200 additional s just received from the transports. This matter was assorted, and on the night of July 8 all mail matter on hand was SS2n- gers, and rothing re doin the othwe except letters returned from the various regiments as undelivered. July % Agent Brewer hespital. Mr. Kempner clerks who arrived they did. July 11 he charge of a detail of 1S, came into the post office with an order from Maj. La Garde to burn the building on account of {ts infection. Was taken ill and ws sent to the then refers and to the s Capt. Graves, in the good extra work ol Burning the This was done, the mail being removed during a heavy rain storm. A few days later he says a rumor went the rounds that mail in the post offic> had been burned irection of the military authorities. ys, was absolutely without foun- dation, and he thoroughly investigated the report, but was unable to tind its origi Post Office. dent, as the newspap2rs credited the rumor and gave it wide publicity. ver spread very rapidity y was virtually cut of the world, so to speak, naval ve no longer called for and tran: remained so far out to sea that the post office ofii is were un- able to reach them. In the meantime, he says, a consultation was held between’ Dr. Guiteras, Col. Gresnleaf and Maj. La Garde, and it was decided to resume busi- s. A disinfectant was provided, how- and all mail disinfected. During the off from the re year, though the number of fatalities was not so great. There were 507 casualties, In which seven clerks were killed, thirty. four seriously injured and 146 slightly in- jured. It is urged that some provision be made by Congress for the relief of the families of clerks killed while on duty, and for the creation of a railway mail service relief fund for the benefit of clerks per- manently disabled or Injured tn the line of uty. An innovation is proposed in the way of establishing postal stations in railroad de- pots, and this and other recommendations have been approved by the second assist~ ant postmaster genera). It is estimated that $8,925,118 will be re- quired for salarles of railway postal clerks for the year ending June 30, 1900, and $4,- 204,500 for railway post office cars (ex- clusive of subsidized lines). + e+. ___ All Washington an Audience. ‘The Star's “Wanted Help and Situations” columns are carefully read by thousands Gaily. Fifteen cents pays for fifteen words, time yellow fever w its height no mail wus received or dispatched from July 10 to July 20. Soldiers’ mail for the staiss kept accumulating, and on July 23 the steamer Concha took it to the states. The Suntiago Post Office. Mr. Kempner refers to the death of Agent Brewer and his succession to the position. July 21 h2 reported to Gens. Shafter and Wood, and was formally placed in charge of the Santiago post office. It was agreed, he says, that the director of posts, Senor Cristobal de Latores, and his fourteen clerks should remain at their posis ard co- operate with him in the conduct of th> of- fice. He says he found, upon investigation, that if these clerks were continued in the service at the salaries recelv2d by them, it would make the expense of the service much in excess of its value. He held a conferznce with Gen. Shafter on the sub- ject and went over the matter carefuily. Mr. Kempner says he did not feel justified in recommending that the department as- svme payment af $10.860 par annum for the eadosdoesoesoasoegendenteateeseagecteegendondonte Seatoetoagecteatontontontont A MOG IST SUCH LEADERS ARE WITHOUT PEER! Men’s Satin Calf Winter Shoes, worth $2.50 . - 94C. Good, strong and sturdy satin calf goods, ideal for this -sort of ae se a a a a i tt te ts te a a a a 8 aa * weather. First-class shoes from & tip to heel. Right up to the notch in point of style. They’re in all sorts of shapes—pronounced En- glish toes, opera toes and plain toes. They've all heavy soles and there’s good service in every pair. In with the same lot is an odd as- sortment of pointed toe Tan Shoes of the best quality, but which are too broken in assortment to keep in stock. Not one pair of these shoes is worth under OFC ° a a as te te ne a Seateegees toto Seesendonteatens Men’s $5 Pointed $1] 17 Patent Leathers = 200 pairs or more. The finest stock imported to America. They’re all made of real French patent calf, finished in a most ex- quisite manner. You'll find that some pairs are a little bare where the “patent” hasn’t been applied, but this imperfection is not in a vital part of the shoe where a stain is liable to affect it. Many pairs are undamaged. There are a few pairs of fine “patents” with opera toe, but these are in small sizes— none above 6. These ds are worth and $5. 5 Pick any pair at. $2.50. A few may be worth more. Pick.. Ladies’ Shoes, 4 SF" styles,worth $2.50 One line would tip the scale of value at $3. The other are in- dubitably worth $2.50 a_ pair. Splendid shoes—in lace and but- square toe. Half have patent tips, as the shoe itself. We never gave you so much for twice the price. They're shoes © wotth made of fine vici kid. Nothing cheap or shoddy about ’em, in any way. You're lucky women to get ¢ qe. ’em for...... iseedoatncoatrsseateateofoatoeseeteatoeteote aseete aieeteatoatnege soeseate oe sloeatenseote oLeeseatorsedteatoes rotons ton styles—some with coin toe, | some with pointed toe, some with the rest have tips of same leather | STOLL’ tA AERA AEAAAANEA PERSE EARLE ALRE RED AAL SEALANT AREER I Ladies’ $4 Vici Kid Shoes = = = = Now, we can’t promise these shoes to everybody. Women with small feet have the field alone! About 150 pairs in all—sizes run from 2} to 4, and the widths are A and B—none wider. They have silk serge cloth tops and are faced deep on the inside with soft kid. The Shoe is made of a magnificent gtade of vici kid and has a patent leather tip. Were it not for the limited sizes we’d ask you full price—$4 a pair. To clear out these few pairs 1 17 ° here we offer S, “S10” 9 $4] 17 choice tor... Y FURORE IN SHOES Justi as; the clouds gather toward one point on the verge of a storm--just so have we been combining, oyr every effort to insure the success of this great event. From time tojtime we’ve a habit of breaking the bounds of price and disregarding the worth of goods in a manner that has paralyzed the town’s shoe trade. Today and tomorrow will be just such another occasion. You can’t compare it with anything that HAS been done--because the mercantile records of Washington know no such price cutting. The Shoes we offer you are with a single exception our OWN Shoes. They come right down from the shelves, and their prices are lowered for the first time that we’ve had them in stock. -They are Shoes that you’ll want to wear right away--styles abreast with the season--weights on.a parity with the weather. For will be a startleri We can’t spread-eagle the occasion too much. Men’s $2.50 Calf Shoes - § 1 AZ } A new line of the shapes that you can find. A: up to date as any of the stores can show. Made of winter weight Satin Calf. ery sort of toe, in- cluding bull dog, Cornell, coin and opera. All have triple soles and every size and width is in- | cluded in the grand assortment Men’s $4 and $5 $) 68 Sample Shoes = - The finest examples of up-to- | date footgear. They're shoes that | few stores in Washington would | care to handle—so far above the | nobbiest ordinary run of leather and ne § much in advance of usual styles $ that we count on scoring a pro- £ nounced point in the sale of every i that’s offered you. The price of | pair. Some are box calf, some this shoe is $2.50 at any other | are fancy top patent leather, some are vici kid, some winter time. We'll create a wave—not a mere ripple—of russet. Not a 5 pair worth less 9) 68 ° Ladies’ $3.50 excitement by of- Oe than $4, lots Walking Shoes $ fl “O7 fering ’em at. worth $5. Any at. A shoe with style peeping out of its whole makeup—a shoe gwith quality all the way through—a shoe with comfort.. It's made of guaranteed willow calf in choco- late and wine color. It has an in- visible cork sole. The leather is guaranteed to be free from ar- senic. Made with square cut opera tip—the newest shape down to the minute. It’s a walking boot, with stoutness yet grace and beauty. | As fine as any $4.50 down town Ladies’ Ox-Bleod } Vici Shoes, 7 $1 39 worth $3 - Go ’mong the F street shoe shops and you'll pay $4 for every pair you buy. Yesterday we'd have charged you $3 for them. As- | tounding value for the price. | Made of fine vici leather with straight opera tip. Some have fine broadcloth tops and are kid faced about the lace strip. All | sizes and plenty of A, B and C | widths. A few as wide as D—not over a dozen pairs, though. They have good pliable and sturdy soles. Inside they’re deeply faced with soft white kid. About as swell a shoe as ever entered | shoe—our own Washington. Ac- $3.50 grade. The tually reduced 3 greatest leader l 7 from=$35..---5 = \ we ever gave at.. - Seventh Street. 1 force of the Santiago post office. Gen. Shafter,” he says, “immediately approved of the stand hé had taken and would not interfere with my actions.” He authorized him, he says, to organize the ein the best way in his power, adding: “See that the postal department gives te the army and the public good and efficient service, and I will see that your actions are sustained. If the services of the Spanish postmaster and his clerks or any number of them are not required, remove them.” Mr. Kempner says he re- to the post office and removed the director and ten clerks. He retained three clerks at $30 per month each, and em- ployed an, American citizen at a salary of $75 a month to act as general assistant. He found the post office in a filthy condi- tion, and immediately set’ about a general cleaning. He says he received from the i consul the effects of the American 1, and immediately removed from the sh coat-of-arms and re- placed it with the American flag. Delivery of Mail. Every branch of the service at Santiago, he says, was soon in good working order, and whatever complaints have been en- tered for the failure of, receipt of mail matter by the army and the public must be charged to its non-arrival at this office. The system of delivery of mail upon its re- ceipt was so complete that although the mail coming from the United States while the 5th Army Corps was in Cuba rarely censisted of less than 150, bags, frequently more, it was invariably ready for delivery in less than three hours after its receipt at the post office. Empty pouches and saks, which accumulated very fast, were placed in sacks and piled up in the office, and were often mistaken for mail matter, from which many complaints of inability to handle may have originated. He says these pouches might have been returned, but fearing their infection, he kept them. Irregularity of Mails. Mr. Kempner refers to the irregularity of the arrival of mail from the states. He had always attributed this delay to the War and Navy Departments, for naval ves- sels took the mail on at Key West and would not carry the mail any further than Guantanamobay. This eccurred curiae ase yellow fever epidemic, and later when the post ‘office was» established at Santiago. Naval vessels brought mail direct to ihe post office only on two occasions after July 6. Mr. Kempner refers to the change of the 5th Army Corps to Montauk, and the change of base of dispatching transports from the states. Thjs naturally resulted 1 the holding up of large quantities of m matter. Not until the arrival of the Seneca on September 16 with 132 pouches of mail } was the accumulated mall from Tampa an Key West received. This mail was dated from August 15 to September 4. Further difficulties, hé says, arose from the fact that the transports leaving New York were coming to Santiago by way of Porto Rico. ‘This caused irregular arrivals, and much dissatisfaction’ among the mili- tary officials and business men. He says merchants have complained on account of the irregular sailing of trangports. This irregularity was repeatedly called to the attention of the military, authorities, but as the sailing of transports depended upon conditions over which eyen the general in ccmmand had no contro}, trangportation of mail arse ers to schedule could not be maintained with any. age Agent Kempner says” a etfhoron h in- vestigation of all complaints of irregularity in receiving mails reveals as the cause the irregular service of the mail by transpor: All of the complaints referito delay and d tention, none to actual logs, ‘To offset the irregular service of steamers from the United States, the post office was receiv- ing mail matter for the merchants and resi- dents quite regularly from Havana, Cien- fuegos, Manzanillo, Guantanamo, Santo Do- mingo, Caracas, Haiti and Jamaica. The mails were also dispatched to these places at regular intervals. Use of Money Orders. Mr. Kempner says the system of issuing and paying money orders will prove to be an excellent medium of exchange, and busi- ness men soon recognize it. During the month of August there were issued 1,028 money orders, mostly to soldiers. In Sep- tember 1,103 money orders were issued, 400 of which were purchased by merchants. The figures for October will show a still larger percentage of orders sold to mer- chants. The sale of stamps during Sep- tember amounted to $1,129.75, but, though this is small, when it is taken into con- sideration that not one sale amounted to $2, it is a very simple matter to figure out the number of transactions necessary to sell this amount. Mr. Kempner says he has tried to compare our business with the business done under Spanish rule, but without success, for the reason that un- der the Spanish system the post office does not control the revenues of the postal ser- vice; in otner words, postage stamps were not sold at the post offices, but by store- keepers who obtained them from the treas- ury department, and for the sale of which they received a profit of one per cent on all sales. Upon careful investigation, he says, he finds thé postal system as administered by Spain in Cuba lacking in many important details. There is no free delivery. Let- ter carriers are employed in the large cities, and receive their pay by collecting from 8 to 5 cents fer each piece of mail deliv- ered. In Santiago this system was at once stopped, and the United States free de- livery inaugurated. Two Letter Carriers. At the present time there are but two letter carriers (natives of Santiago), who make four deliveries daily in the business district. It is his purpose to extend the service to the residents as well. Seaport towns have been enjoying the advantages of the postal service, but the towns in the interior have had comparatively no ser- vice whatever. Carriers on horseback were employed at several points to deliver mail in the interior, but they collected such ex- orbitant prices from the people for the delivery that they are but little employed. The merchants, when they desire to com- municate with persons in the interior, in- variably send a special messenger. Mr. Kempner calls attention to the allowance made for post office employes, and points out that the military authorities class them with civillans and will not permit them to enjoy the cost price of useful and import- ant commodities sold by the war depart- ment to the officers and men connected with the army. He urges that a first- class set of clerks be sent to Cuba, all to be well paid for their services, and induce them to remain as long as the United States maintains military control of the island, Various Post Offices in Cuba. Considerable space is given to a descrip- tion of the various post offices visited in Cuba. Concerning the one at Havana, he says he believes the services of about two- thirds of the present force of employes can be dispensed with when the United States takes possession of the office. About twenty clerks from the United States will be re- quired in order to properly equip the of- PARR ER ERE POR RAR RAE) DOO orn orn oor REDBIRDS ( Trousers x ? s To-order, x $3.98. Wonder what Mertz will say today. ROR PELL Tuesday, November 1, 1898. This is the second day of our special trousers sale. We are satisfied that our friends appreciate the goodness of these stylish worsted weaves—the modesty of the price. The number of orders left yesterday proves the men of this city believe in the Mertz ) method of tailoring. No wonder-—these are pure worsted trouser- ings—very fiber wool—the styles that good dressers wear—and we're making them to-order from your personal measure for = Ordinarily you pay seven dollars for this kind. Leave your measure while there is time, Wednesday the sale closes. Our guar- antee goes with every pair—they fit o. k. or we keep ‘em. Mertz and Mertz, 906 F Street N.W. 2 RAZ SPER fice, In this connection he recommends | SHOULD TAKE PLENTY OF MONEY that the department at once detail a num- ber of men to the Santiago post office to famillarize themselves with the work as performed in Cuba. In the meantime these men can become acclimated and familiar with the ways and customs of the natives, ard when the United States is ready to open these large offices the department can assign men from the Santiago office. He recommends that the names of post offices in Cuba be permitted to remain as they are under the Spanish administration with- out the addition of military station num- Advice to Young Men Going to Porto Rico. Consul Hanna, in Porto Rico, has made a report to th: State Department in which he says: “I am convinced that young men secking work or positions of any kind should not come to Porto Rico. Such persons as clerks, carpenters, mechanics and laborers of all grades should stay away from Porto bers. If it 1s necessary to make any dis- | Rico. No American should come to Porto tinction, the words “United States Post | Rico expecting to strike it rich, and no Office” might be prefixed to the present | Persons should come here without plenty name of the office. He thinks it would be advisable to take measures as soon as practicable to conduct the postal service in Cuba direct with the department at Wash- ington. At the present time Cuba is a sub-station of the New York post office. ———_+0+____ Gen. Lawton to Command 2d Corps. Maj. Gen. Henry W. Lawton, recently in command at Santiago, has been ordered to command the 24 Army Corps, relieving Gen. Graham, retired. Cheap Publicity. For fifteen cents you can let every one in Washington know by a Star want ad. that you want a situation or went @ cook. of money to pay board bills and have enough to take them back to their homes in the United States. This is a small island, has a population of about a million people and is the most densely populated country in the world. There are several hundred thousand working Porto ready to fill the vacant jobs and at a low price. There may come a time after the laws of the United States are applied by Con- gress to this isiand that this will be a good place for American capital and for Ameri- cans to do business, but even then a man should have plenty of money who expects to make a business success in Porto Rico. I deem it important that the departmen: cause this suggestion to be made pi through the newspapers of the country,’