Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1898, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1895-16 Bon Marche, 314 to 318 Seventh. Let This Pay Day Be, A Pleasant Reminder -of some especially good bargain you purchased from the BON MARCH Let your buying be ever so small—from a pound of Candy toa Stylish COAT or handsome SUIT—youw'll find our ues unmatched IN SOLID WORTHFULNESS. We draw your attention to those MISSE. UITS (or for small | ladies) at TEN DOLLARS, stylish in material and trim as can be. and some are worth up to $18.00. Our SILK WAIST of-__ |! fer shouldn't be overlooked! $6.39 For Silk and Satin Waists, worth $10. In plain and latest fai Made new, stylish colorings. silks and satins ust seeured this tot -) | 9 styles worth $10 » in latest tucked styles—in all the n seiling at $10.10. i Choice, $6.39. {i | SAMPLE COATS-- Bargains of more than ordinary interest. weumcs | on’t mi hem. Don’t miss them | a ‘i rvout 100 Sample Jackets. We mean we _ |}i{ 1 off ula You'll get them the SEY, VENETIAN CLOTH, CHEVIOTS—plain $10.00 ty 00. $6.50 to $1 Mostly one of a kind in ure a n Jacket. || $10.00 Jackets, $6.50. $12.50 Jackets, $8.00. i | $15.00 Jackets, $10.00. | }0 Jackets, $12.50. $20.00 Jackets, $14.00. | $25.00 Jackets, $16.50. |i 0 Skirts, $6.75. M fina © jot Silk-lined Skirts, inte re worth $10. Yours for... Last Day Tomorrow—a Most Interesting Bargain-- Hi Pisses’ Suits, $10.00. you a_lin sizes 14, 16, 18 and 20. sitable for misses and 34. 36--In box and fly-front reefer jacket ¥ ne is st azcain ever offered. KK i} Z, | Choice, $10.00. 1 Worth $13.50, $15.00, $1¢ . $18.00, HH HI with Ladies’ Weol Combination Suits, | | | LETTE Fast Black School | secre, seturos aud narrow rihbea h heel and toe, doub } " 39c. Knee—Worth 19e..- ++ : 13¢. l n derwear & Hosiery. Fast Black Ribbed Hose, nl toe Fleece-line Vests, sh and 5 Worth in whit finished Kk hed al jen’s Black, Brown and N. of Half Hos 25¢. ee 19¢.—at $1 Gloves for 89c. | iW || Wednesday w r you a lot of regular — {/ii|/ $1.00 quality 2-clasp| Mocha Gloves, in oxbloods, tans and blacks ‘and choice, S9e. pair, i Tne Bon Marche, ce St oetebeteteteedeteteteetedetetet | Fourteen DOSixteen Eighteen meee “Credit is Free Here.” Credit Will Meet You At The Door, Our bid for your patronage we offer you more inducer Sevaeriortont feet set s based upon the claim that ents in buying and easier terms in Sot paying than any other house in the city. Credit prices here are no higher than cash prices elsewhere. We GIVE you the privilege of paying a little each w notes or interest. Carpets, Heating and Cooking Stoves, Parlor Suites, Lace Curtains and Portieres are among the most pressing needs in a home at this*time of year. You'll find all these— and all other furnishings in our store. We have variety, qual- itv and rock bottom pric Not a penny is added if you want credit. ‘ k or each month, without All Carpets waste lined and faid free Brussels prices be cents, ho charge for the in at SO cents in mate yard and Ingrains at Mammoth Grogan’s Credit House, 817-819-821-823 7th St. N.W. Between H and I Streets. PLL LLL EEEEEELEEEEEEA ISS Great Reduction A SURE in Hair. CURE FOR Switches. $2.50, formerly $5.00. Switches, $6.00, formerly $10.50. Gray Switches. $3.00, formerly £2. Gray Switches, $4.50, formerly $6.50. First-class itteodants in Hairdressing, Sbarapoc'ng, etc, Imperial Hair Regenerator for restoring" gray PILES. ANASOL OINTMENT is th: Bo matter bow aggravated the cass ty tt and get relief trom yoar EF OUR EMULSION is m: Norwegian Cod Liver Of. of the finest Only 50. pint. teir, Never fatle. F , Wholesale an S. HELLER’S, | Evans DrugStore, tii, 720 Seventh St.N.W. “Laugh Till You Burst,” Can't shake se2-20tr thera of. == = = < | Anatomical ¢ : - Eyeglass ° BVERY PERSON WHO SUFFERS FROM HEAD. Noseptece. ‘ache or neuralgia ask your druggist for Waiter © Nickel, Soe. Headache Powders, 3-3-3. 3 powders, 3 doses, 3 Gold-filled, T5c. eurea. 10c. A simple and effective cure. oe2)-Tim® —nol4-1m*8 A. KAHN, 985 F st, aw, ‘or abridged in such facilities. BOARD OF TRADE fer esi (Continued from Third Page.) grade crossings by the building of an arched masonry viaduct of the Berlin type, in the use of which there would be no dis- turbance of the grade of streets or street car lines, no damage to property owners from long, ugly approaches to high bridges at certain streets, and there would be con- venient passage way for the public under the elevated structure at numerous points The present terminal conditions of our Jocal roads are injurious and disgraceful to the capital of the American republic. The staticns compared with similar struct- res in Europe are inadequate in si awkwardly arranged and ugly. Beth roa sustain a series of death-trap grade cros: gs at which losses of Jife and injuries to limb periodically occur, and which cause financial loss to the city through the ob- struction to traffic and travel which occurs at them. Both roads have, it is understood, agreed with the District authorities upon the en- gineering features of plans of terminal im- provement, and the necessary legislation will, it is expected, be asked at the next s ion of Congress. The amount of the ribution to be exacted from the Di in connection with the improv trict ment of the Pennsylvania's terminal sy: tem is, it fs understood, the only serious ae between the railroad on the one hand and the Commissioners and the people of the District on the other. The adopted re- port of the committee on bridges to which I have referred enumerates certain offsets to the railroad’s bill against the public, based upon the grant of valuable donations of public property for the use and oceupa- tion of the raitroad, which have been en- Joyed in the past or whose future enjoyment is involved in the acceptance of the ratl- road's proposition of terminal improvemen, In the negotiations upon this point the Com- i and the board of trade will s8 co-operate, to the end that all equities of the District may be pre- served. When the local roads have built here European stations, covering large areas of ground, lofty, imposing and ornamental structures, perhaps with fine modern hotels in the upper storfes, as in London; when they have abolished their local grade cros: and run rapid, noiseless trains over a Berlin viaduct or a girder tunnel in their course through the city, and when both the Potomac to southern connections handsome and substantial bridges, not s, not only will the attractiveness, safe- ind material prosperity of Washington be enhanced, but its suburbs wiil enjoy the rapid transit facilities which have brought such benefits and relief from congestion to Berlin. ‘The railroads, as well as the public, will profit by this improvement of their service and broadening of their functions. Street Railroad Developmen: It is interesting to consider the de elop- eet railroads in this tion. A local newspaper description 2 of the underground electric road in Buda-Pesth, which urged the adoption with ment of the city conne Vashington t is well within the bounds of probabil- that W: on combining in its mu- nicipal policy push and progre: of the new with the solidity and saf ty of the old world, will in th fulure become in the matter of loci transit the model city not only of America, but of the world, to which students from ail parts of the globe will resort for suggestion: concerning the latest and best forms of street rail motor.” This prophecy is being rapidly fulfilled. The capital has long been notable as the only city in the world in which the improved grooved rail ha entirely superseded the projecting, wheel- wrenching rail. The Buda Pesth un- rground electric system, former rered at as commercially impracticabl being extended with the suggested improvements ver the entire city. Following the action of the Metropolitan, this system has dufing the year been installed upon all urban branches of the ( al Traction system. The stockholders of the Columbia road have within the same period resolved to substi- tute it for the cable. The Eckingwon and as: ed roads, forming the City and Sub ity near pid urban system, will v the underground electric upon their city lines, beginning with the Eckington, Even in the case of the Anacostia road there is promise in conne tion with control of i = t change in ownership and equipment in the city with tb Buda Pesth system. The most important improvement remaining to be accomplished in the District street railroads is one which will bind closer by ot line together by absorption or universal transfers or by common us tracks the suburban and urban trunk so that one may travel cheaply, quick- and conveniently wherever in the Dis- trict the network of steel tracks extends. The Underground City The successful fight in Washington against the overhead trolley has formed part of a campaign against overhead wires in general. In 1848 Congress passed a law forbidding the erection of any additional overhead wires within the city limits, and a fight to retain this law and to bury un- derground the overhead wires in place wh the law was enacted has raged ever sinc This contention will conti until a gene luit s been se and ju Ss which will p el un- rground Washington on equal terms of progress with the development of the sur- ace al tablished upon a ty. Committees for Intellectual Moral Development. Another group of committees prosperity by developing the city intel- lectually and morally, and by making it at- tractive as an educational, artistic, literary znd scientific center. The committee on public the partial success indor: promote chools reports of its recommendation, rd at a public meeting of the board of trade, of an appropriation for two r val training school buildings. Congre: propriaied $50,000 for one building, which a site was purchased, and the Com- missioners now ask of C Ss un addi- tional appropriation of $75,000 to complete this buiiding. An urgent appeai is made for an in » of school facilities, so that no child within our borders shall be denied The commit- tee urges an appropriation of $25,000 to put a permanent basis the kindergarten in- struction which was initiated, largely through the efforts of members “of the beard ef trade, by a small appropriation at the last session of Congress. I will add that at the public meeting of the bourd of trade last winter at which public school matters were discussed, ster- eopticon views contrasting the manual training facilities of Washington with those of other cities were presented with excel- jent effect. This experiment was so suc- cessful and the argument by illustration is nowad so attractive and convincing that ether committees of the board may at fu- ture mecti reasonably resort “to the same means of impressing some whoicsome line of thought vividly upon the public mind. Public Library. In March, 1894, the board of trade unani- mously and enthusiastically adopted the report of its recently created committee on public library. This document set forth the important function as an educating and civilizing agency of the tax-sustained cireu- Jating library and reading room, accessible at night, and supplementing for children and workingmen, the public school. It said: “What Carlyle sought for each Eng- lish county town, and what many English and American villages now enjoy, the na- tional capital lacks and seeks to obtain It is fast becoming the republic’s educa- tional center. Universities are founded in rapid successsion within its limits. But the great free™ library university, for those whom Lincoln lovingly called the common people, is yet to be created. According to statistics there are much more than a mil- lion books in the semi-public libraries of Washington—about a twentieth of all in Famous for half a century. douderre Still and sparkling. 5 Sold everywhere. VAGES, | tne republic, and fv these have been apportioned ‘amongtite birisens, after the methods of statistjpiang, it appears that the District workingman has fourteen times as many pubse Ks as the average American. And thé only difficulty is that he cannot possibly make any use of them whatsoever. * * * Theze are fifty-two libraries in the District, each containing over 1,000 volumes jot one of them is a free lending librafy, with a reading room open at night for the benefit of the gen- eral public. Such an institution is the most urgent need of the national capital. Viewing this ocean jpf more than a million books, spread tantalizingly before them, the workingmen, the school chiidren, the government clerks,~the great mass of the citizens of Washifigton, thirsty for the knowledge which cémes rom reading, may well exclaim with theZAncient Mariner: OW Water everywhere, nor any drop to drink!" ae proach ofthe absence of a true public library in the modern sense has in the past year been finally taken from the national capital. The board of trade com- mittee pushed steadily forward in the cam- paign to this end, and on June 3, 1896, cured the passage of a law by Congress tablishing the desired public library as supplement of the public educational sy: tem of the District. But no appropriation was made for the library's maintenance, and a fresh struggle began over the issue, whether the infant institution should be tarved by withholding sustenance or by tendering only the indigestible and ulti- mately fatal food of support exclusive’y at the local taxpayers’ expense, as an exception to the organic act of 1 Finally, June 30 1804, the question of maintenance was tled by an appropriation for library uses on the ordinary municipal basis in accord- ance with the act of 18° The public li- brary sustained by public appropriation, but supplied so far with hook y through private donations, has been hous in comfortable and accessible quarters 1826 New York avenue, and is now organ ized and beginning operations as one of the most useful and beneficent of our municipal institutions. While there is good ground of hearty con- gratulation over what has been accom- plished the board's Jabor of love in connec- tion with the library is not yet ended. First, books must be supplied in adequate num- bers. Between 10,000 and 12,000 volumes have been donated, and nearly $3,000 for the purchase of books. A memo! fund to purchase scientific periodicals has ben subscribed. Public-spitited Washington ail! without doubt contribute. liberally for this noble purpose. : In addition to the effort to enlarge the resoure 2s of the library by private subscrip- tions, “he board will doubtless vigorously sustain the Commissioners and the librar. trustees in an endeavor to secure liber. library appropriations, including one for books, and also 1»: tion seeking to se cure for the library’s use some of the dupli cates, copyrighted or uncopyrighted, on the shelves of the Congressional Library, aad the miscellaneous books not required for official reference in the departmental libri- ries. Another great gain of the yea ington’s intellectual development ha the opening of the Congressional Library at night, a privilege long sought in vain by the people, and specifically urged upon Congress fn the last annual report of th public library committee. On October 1, Iss, the doors of the Congressional Library opened for the first time to public at night, and with this wonde collection for reference uses, and the W ington public library for E peses, Washington may felicitate :tselc upon siting down to a hterary tape well tue with wholesome digestibies, a treat ail more enjoyable because of the contras with the capital's protracted period of lit- erary starvation. The committee on charities and correc ticns reports progress in the campaign for the creation by law of 4 board of charit for the District, and urges that every ef- fort be made to szcure the enactment of the gener:i ful this law at the earliest possible moment. It recommends the passage of the Fill to provide for the compulsory support of chil- dren by parents, legislation redu-ing t maximum age of giris admitted to the re form schoo) from eightgen to fourteen; pub- lic support of the Associitied Charities, and interest in the housing of the poor through the Sanitary Improvement Com- any. The committee congtatulates thi community upon {hs ¢onversion, at the smnissioners’ suggestion, Gf the’ periodic ally appoinied central relief committee into @ permanent incorperation’ known the Ciuzens’ Relief Assookasjon, and it siror ly urges that steps be faken to secure for Washington, in 1960,’ the meeting of the nbauonal conference of Charities and cor- rection. ait This condensation of the committe2's sug- gestionsindicates the whole scope of the field of reformatory opportunities opened b-fore the District, and I venture to émphas the hope that in the ensuing year Congress all of the OMe ecomm:ndations of the commit- board, working diligently on these varied lines through its officers and com- mittees, will contribute to the development of the capital, physically, mentally and morally, and to th> upbuilding of an ideal municipality on the banks of the Potomac. It does not suffice, however, merely to foster the various features of pal attractiveness which are making Washing- ton an object lesson to the city builders of the world in certain lines of development. The facts concerning this municipal ad- vancement must be made known universal- ly. The city’s light is not to be hidden un- cer a bushel. One of the objects of the board of trade is to disseminate informa- tion concerning the attractions of Washing- ton to the end that all the people of the republic may know and appreciate their capital and that the city’s population of progressive and well-to-do Americans may be rapidly enlarged and its material pros- perity thereby promoted. A special com- mittee has been appointed to arrange for the publication of a Washington handbook to be prepared by Secretary Harri letter’ The absence from the city duri Ss service as colonel of the District egiment of Volunteers and his severe ill- since his return have prevented the issuance up to this time of the proposed book. This work is, however, it is under- stood, in an advanced stage of pre| and the appearance of the publication may doubtless be expected during the coming year. Some members of the spe on the Washington handbook ial committee ave planned to exploit the beauties of Washington, rot only through the printed and illustraced pai but through stereopticon views, s1p- plemented by the comments of one or moze lecturers, who are to do missionary work for Washington in various sections cf the country. If discreetly managed, this project should produce excellent results, The Approaching Campaign. Next session's legislative campaign of the board of trade will be as important as any upon which it has ever entered. One new project is of overwhelming local conse- quence. In 1895 the board of trade discussed, at a public meeting, the necessity of a new cod> of laws for the District, and listened to able and convincing addresses on the subject by judges of the local courts and others learned in the law,, Th? appointment of a legal committee to promote codification was authorized by the hoard of trade. The legal committee afterward report:d to the board of directork; recommending that Judge W. 8. Cox invited to prepare a codification of the District law, and that the Bar Association he invited to eombin2 in the invitation to-Judge Cox and to co- operate in bringing!the movement to a: 1w- cessful issue. Judge accepted the joint invitation of the Wpardsof trade and the Bar Association, amd. for thres years he has been engaged 4m titis labor of love, a task for which his" profound and accurate krowledge of the mops practical com- mon-sense knowledge _ m3n and affairs and his cautious,» conservative, temperament admisably:fit him. A few days ago tl president of the board received from Judg@ Cdx th2 following let- ter: 163 0 Theodore W. Noyes; Es@., President of the Board of Trade: # Dear Sir—At the joint request of the board of trade and the Bar Association, I have been occupied for some time past, in the intervals of my official duties, in pre- paring the draft of a code of law for the District. You are aware that we have never had in the District a systematic body of statute law. When the county of Washington was ceded by Maryland to the United States, the law in that county consisted of, first, the common law of England; second, old English statutes in force in the colonies, and third, acts of the assembly of Mary- land, passed from time to time before and after the revolution. To these were added acts of Congress, passed at intervals, dur- ing the present century, not with refer- ence to any general system of legislation, but to meet the supposed exigency of the hour. Many of these were passed without reference to the wishes of the people of judicial Hitorrerese ys é : plenty of goods. teed Sete Lansburgh & Bro. Great Crowds Thronged Our Store From early this morning there wa the prices we've marked on our seasonable merchandise. Bargoins for tomorrow: s one general push. Everybody was ready to take advantage of Come early to avoid the afternoon rush; Jackets. For this week we will offer 150 Children’s chet gridiene toe §2.98 Ladies’ All-wool Kersey satin finished, worth $8. Special Ladies’ Broad-wale Worsted Jackets of eqial value Specs S500 Seeconteetontostortonteesoos Ne one ever dared to give such values as the above. Suits. $12.50 Suit for $10.00. This suit is made in a the leading shades ett a Bedwear. 69c. Blanket, 49c. and and blue, white borders, red ‘sl Blanket, 89c. White Blanket, good welght, fancy Size 11-4. $3.00 Blanket, $1.97. 13 Colored Blankets, slightly sofled. These contain a large percent of wool. ay borders, $4 Blanket, $2.75. t. 6 zain and . blue tid. B Comforts, 75c. of Covert Cloth, guaranteed strictly all wool: | gy suse sant ete te taene Rend : {lined throughout with good quality satin, | TPese are full size and ana FE lacket double-breasted, and guargnteed in every | $1.25 Comfort, 98c. 4 a j These come in a large variety of designs, | and are full size. Well Filled with geod colton pantect | SOc. Crochet Spreads 63¢. xe 6 x | YSe. Marseilles Patterns...... 79¢. S Sea ae in $1.20 Pillows, all feathers, good 1 QQ Se lined througticnt, fea Sie Se SE slving suit ever put on the marker. | fy $1.00 Re | t correspondingly low prices Notice. Hits strictly ali wool, d. ca our equa’ No |; without ay tit Ny with forse Hank ich will attract and wap Robes Wrappers. Wrappers. Every desirable color and style can be found here at prices that will appeal to the $1.25 Wrapper for 94c. full front, rutile and braid trimming, full len and width. Sizes 3 to 46. Infants’ Wear. Bustest Raby Departn you think of but what w In city, ve. Nothing b $2.50 Coat, $1.75. Long Coats of zood quality Redford, bretelle of embroidery over shou! lars and cuffs finished with satin ribbon, is a wonder. 75c. Cap, 50c. Cap to match above coat, made Sty corded silk, finished arwand fac of swamdown, extra wide strings This of good qual with bi Sundries. Underskirts. Generously made—no quality or labo . skimptrg of material, eesoasoes S ° es S00 ved , in all sizes. a new supply of Gilt eto oe Sorgen Songongoes ssoesesontees of PEPER: Dae Wonder what Mertz will say today? cheviots, and fourteen styles of pay you well. EEEEELEEEELE EEE EE RE ehh bobble bebo pejrbedebobedpobehebepeeforperboegergs | feeds PPPEER EERE to one-half less than other tailors can make them. Our $8.88 Special Suit Sale Proves this. This really fine suit is cut from fresh invoices of newest woolens, in black and blue | $1.25 Skirt, 98c. | Underskirt made of excellent quality ‘¢ Hned throughout, makin; full cireslar style, with OWS Of heavy cordin © will not last long. Many other items of equal values to interest you. LANSBURGH & BRO., 420, 422, 424, 426 7th St. 10c. Wool Soap, for washing flannels 15 and 2c. Hard Rubber Combs 10c. 2c. Bay Rum, with giycorine...... 4c. 20e. Violet Almond Meal......... I2c. Boc. Violet Water.” 22.2.0... 36c. Soc. Calgate’s Lavender, for the hatr O9Ce 69c. art Hot Water Rottles Wa A call is all we ask. ated to wear. Note that. choice fancy mixtures. District, but to carry out the theoret- idea of members of Congress, and were ambiguous and ill-conceived as to cause much uncertainty and controversy. In 1874 these acts of Congress were collected to- gether under the title of “Revised St utes Relative to the District,” but the were noc improved and derived no virtue from that circumstance. Our laws, as a whole, may be said to be half a century behind ‘those of the states in their adaptation to modern business and social conditions. ‘We need, in the first place, a very thor- ough reform in judicial proceedings, where- by needless delays and circuitous methods may be avoided and prompt and_expedi- tious remedies administered. We need more effective relief for creditors, especial- ly against fraudulent debtors. Our system of conveyancing should be simplified, and the law of estates and titles divested of a mass of technicalities, the reasons of which long ceased to exist. The law of marriage and divorce needs improvement and the rights of married women need to be bet- ter defined. The law of corporations and es- pecially the law as to foreign corporations doing business in the District can be much improved. The law as to the rights of landlord and tenant and the hens of me- chanics and others needs restatement. ‘The law of crimes and punishments needs over- hauling, as well as our criminal procedure. ‘The law of embezzlement should be ex- tended and all fiduciaries who betray their trusts should be held to criminal responsi- bility, There are numerous technicalities in criminal practice which constantly cause a denial of justice, and which have long since been abolished in the states. These changes are the objects which I have aimed at in preparing a code. I have taken existing laws as a starting voint and have endeavored to clear up obscurl- ties in them and have added new feature! borrowed from other codes. 1 have had be- fore me the codes of Maryland, Virginia, the i Headache speedily cured by the use of Horsford's Acid Phosphate Take no Substitute. New York and Ohio, and have found many improvements common tc them all, which ought long since to have been introduced here. I have. also added original matter ) suggested by my own experience. Having done this work without assist- ance and at odd moments, I can not flat- ter myself that it is fre from errors and defects, but I think that, as a whole, it will be an improvement upe the existing condition of things, and it would be desir- able to have it enacted into la even if it shall need to be amended afterwards. The only possible way of having this done, as it seems to me, is to present it to Con- gress in a complete form, with the indorse- ment of the board of trade and the Bar Association, the best rep tatives of the intelligent sentiment of the people of the District. Yours very respectfully WALTER 8S. COX. October 20, 1898. This letter notes the completion of Judge Cox’s formidable task. Arrangements have been made by the board of trade and the Bar Association jointly to print the pro- posed code in order that it may be exam- ined and considered prior to its adoption by the board and Bar Association, and the urgent request for its enactment into law by Congress. Importance of Codification. No other legislation to be brought before Congress at its approaching session is so important to the District’s welfare as this, Other bills propose alterations of or aa- ditions to particular statutes upon par- Phd EIGHT EIGHTY-EIGHT WILL WELCOME YOU ALL THIS WEEK. Just as all roads lead to Rome, so it seems that all manufacturers’ agents and till representatives strike a bee line” for us or send for our buyers. And the advantage is threefold: It pays the mills, for we buy heavy lots; it pays us, for we get good concessions; and it pays the men-public, for we cut these concessions out of regular prices, and make to-personal-measure suits at figures from one-third It is tailored in perfect taste, and abounds in “those dainty touches” and numerous conveniences, and has about it “that indescribable something” that marks the personal-measured suit as made by the Mertz method of Merchant Tailoring. guarantee is—the suit must fit 0. k. or we keep it. Call in; it costs nothing to Jook—and a look may 906 F Street Northwest, Near Ninth. Value-giving Merchant Tailors, MERTZ AND MERTZ. ELLE PEELED TALL EEE EEE TE TEE EEE EE j the District law w: “cular points, but this codification goer, over the entire body of local law, lopping off what is obsolete or obsolescent, putting in statute form court-made law, and im- proving and strengthening generally the laws by which we are goverened. The old English statutes bequeathed to Maryland were in turn handed down to the District, and Ccngress, our exclusive legis- lature under the Constitution, hag not kept our laws up to the mark of modern pro- gressive legislation. Its enactments affect- ing the District have been often slipshed, and always unsystematic. Complaiat of congressional inaction as our local Jezisla- ture was made at an early date. Mr. J. Eliot in his “Historical Sketches of the Ten Miles Square,” published in 1830, says that no essential changes had been made in the gereral laws or in their administration since the cession of the District by Mary- land and Virginia, and that the citizens were governed by laws as they existed bd. LEEPE PEELED he Our eee ee Le eet Tcl oS ees esse eet tres tress sees sterner eee thirty years previously, which had accumu- lated for generati any of them bar- parous, long si y abrogated by the states in which they fled, but sul in ferce in the I ict. The author adds some specimens of these curious antiquated laws. Justice Cole z other judges at the beard mee*ing of tiauiti Arlingt @angled in our fac meeting of the board afterward 8 Some statutory Juvian monstrosity at that date still liv- ing and flovrishing in the District, and pledged himself, at the proper time, lo a: st vigorously in relieving the District these fossil statutes. The first distinct step toward secu consistent system of local law was taken en by authority of Congress a compila- tion of the existing statutes was made. This compilation co-operates with the la- bors of successive revisers or Would-be cod- ifiers of our statutes from the time of Cranch in exposing to our legislature the defects, absurdities and barbarities of our statutes. Surely now 1s the accepted time to act The fate which has overtaken previons attempts at codification, the legislative in- action which has so often wasted the re- sults of years of intelligent labor, make me especially solicitous that through no fault of our own shall similar raisfortune befall the present effort. Let us stand to- gether in a campaign for the speedy pass- age of this code. If in order to do so any of us temporarily surrender individual opin- fon concerning some debatable point of legislation, the sacrifice should be cheer- fully made in the general interest, and re- ward will be found through participation (Continued on Fiftzenth Page.) Bo Ami Cleans and Polishes WINDOWS AND RORS WITHOUT any BUST OR DRIPPING OF ANY ante