Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1898, Page 10

10 THE EVENING -STAR, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1898-16 PAGES. Mcknew’s. 933 Pa. Ave. Another Shipment | Of the Latest Novelties In Coats & Capes is added to our magnificent collection today. . he smart- est and jauntiest Coats and! Capes are al- ways held back by the makers until just be- iore the New; York Hors show yaraimount event of! - great me tropolis. These } are the cr tions we have just added to colossal collection of » stock is now in Its very ry consideration our alre wraps. TI prime—and ev great ° nts in $15, $18.50 and $20- © famous line of 1 ackets at cure 9) t striking values In the mention these very smart Jeckets—full silk lined—strap- und ctherwise ele- $13.50 a very Jacket at $1 popular Mili 1 fancies, with are here tans, reds military and $17, McKnew’s Famous $5.50 Children’s Coats. Another shipment of those Children's Keefers, in garnet : and bovele cheviot—wii nt of self cloth tastefully bral trie med, cals : $5.5 The Ledies” Cape stock now ranges ip Price from $5 te § eelal attention is direc swell and nevel in Gi Street wear at $8 and t olf Capes for evening wear. Underwear Specials. —LADIES— Ladies’ Pi s. in ss 28 and 30, we a. 39c. Vesta, f all pipiaicininsaes 6 (< —MEN— is Is as good kind. Here are the ments, in elastic W.H. McKnew, 933 Pa. Av. as a bun- Under; nd hington The Watch You’ve Wanted 5853°20 14K Case is ex- charge for initials. A small de- how secures your getting It Jated and engraved by Xmas. as a Ma that is for Igin Kel movement sved. No Gol weler, —— 1 Pa. ave. AAA LEP HMO HE Hel 0 OME GS ldsmith’s, LOREM ILE BRPPO MD PLE ished in P ar a DROME AEM FETT OQOTON E198 la. in 1783, Our Glasses correct Astigmatism, and thus cure headache, with which so ny people suffer. No charge for examining eyes and adjusting per glasses. t lenses, as low as $1; in with those achin 1 Get rid of them noe <"8 SCORN CURE takes without the Costs only Ie. “ROSEMARY Keeps the j fen have hi days. aud fece seft and white. 25¢ TEVENS’ y, 9th and Pa. Ave. YODOOOODR PI The Original Allegretti Chocolate ELERY — MAK OMPOUND Creams Can be told by 10 little doves on the box. AGENCY 3% F ST. N.W. The only place in W ington to find the gen- retti is at 1223% F st. nw. id in the city ALLEGRETTI & CO., Agent, W. SIYUFY, 2314 F st. nw. Born Steel Plate Ranges are the best made. The Soft Glow of a Lamp adds warmth of coloring and artistic effect to a room, such as nothing else tm: perts. Our stock of Parlor amps is a pleasure to look at. Artistic fancy displays itself to the fullest. advan tage Ip lamps, where light 2 and form and color combine. Prices as low as $1.00. S. S. Shedd & Bro., 432 Ninth st. ow. eee SoS. ASTHMA, Hay Fever and Catarrh, LD 'BY ALL DRUGGISTS. (01-1531,14 Be Sure To Demand, and See That You Get a BENSON'S, 3 SEAL STAMP ON THE ’t is the best PLASTER Early applied, tt q Colds “and Inflammat jickly conquers Coughs, ms of the Lungs and Chest. No remedy se sure and effective. Price, e. “AM Druggists. rs, Seabury & Johnson, N. ¥., if unobtainable. 1 ARE em em MA aM eMeuoMHNUNR Complete for $10.50. Sonlefontessoate Ry POCA MM A most unusual bargain! Substantial White Enamel Brass- trimmed Bed, with heavy posts, excellent z woven-wire — spring + and good hair mat- = tress. For only $ = $10.50. y “Cash or credit. Ks ¢ Lansburgh z ° ;Furniture Co = z $ Os aoe es i ee Se Do ans ts a as ts a ee se ts ee es se eas ad 3. Sefeedent = co sot sotetetotey ete k No Poor Shoes at Any Price. == es = (Ss) eS) SS = tA rl UR A o Yes, values in every mean- : ing of the word. There’s not ¢ a shoe that leaves the store 3 that doesn’t speak eloquently g of its value and wearing qual- . iti This inauguration of Sat- urday’s sales will be one of the features of shoe selling in this city. It will be a day when prices throughout the store will be taken down a rung. We know you're anxious for tattling good bargains. So we'll delve right into the sub- ject of Prices. All our $3, $3.50 or $4 Ladies’ or Gentlemen’s Shoes for Saturday, only § -69 bright, seasonable p goods. Price..... All of our $1.50 Ladies’ Honest-made Shoes — we would prefer to have you see ’em, § 4] .29 then you'll buy. 1 Brice-.,.2. All of our $1.25 Ladies’ All- leather, excellent €. shoes for the price AL —to go for. All of our $1.25 Children’s School or Dress Shoes. Here’s a chance to shod the youngest c for next to noth- Q4 ing .. All of our Good Children’s School Shoes, as good as the ones that other ce stores sell for 85c. 69 and $1. Price... Heilbrun & Co., Sign: The Old Woman fn Shoe, 402 7th St. N.W. AVE yon visited the magnificent new jew- elry store on F st.? You're always welcome! Victor E. Desio & Co., Successors to Gerome Desio, 1107 F St. N. W., Manufacturing Jewelers and Im- porters of Fine Bric-a-Brac. oc 29-2m-24 ——_ High-Class Shoes at Low Sohontencontententesteogs Sesontontententons Sestengontententon season Set Soot eeseegeegeegeeteete eo eof % Leet Sostoet So Soe Sesfenfeeteegecden sof = So ote ete ot a ee te ee YARDS AND DOCKS Annual Report of Chief Endicott on the Subject. ASKS FOR MILLIONS 10 BE SPENT Importance of Having Docking Fa- cilities Near Key West. LESSONS OF THE WAR a Civil Engineer M. T. Endicott, chief of the bureau of yards and docks, has sub- mitted his first annual report to the Secre- tary of the Navy. He gives a detailed statement of the condition and needs of all the navy yards and stations, and submits estimates for their maintenance and im- provements. The total expenditures for the year were $1,172,155, and the total esti- mates for the next fiscal year are $6,347,421, of which $5,423.59 are for improvements shown to be demanded by experience in the Spanish war. Chief Endicott reports the steps for the construction of the four timber dry docks and the steel floating dock authorized by the last Conger He refers to the pro- posed steel dock at Algiers, La., and the floating dock of the greatest capacity to be established at New Orleans, one hun- dred miles above the mouth of the Missis- sippi river. Key to the Gulf. He pleads for better docking facilities on the gulf coast in the following words: “The experiences of the last war have shown the importance of having docking facilities, not only for small vessels, but for the battle ships, upon waters near Key West, which was then, and may be in the future, an important base of naval opera- tions and adequate docking facilities should be provided somewhere in the vicin- ity of Key West and Dry Tortugas, which points have been pronounced by able strat- egists to be the key to the Gulf of Mexico. The naval establishment upon the gulf coast will be deficient in this most essen- tial particular until the best docking facili- tles are so provided, and it is considered of the highest importance that careful study be given to the subject to determine some point »* which they shall be perma- nently established. “Had the war with Spain continued many months more the absence of docking facili- ties in these waters would have been most seriously felt, and the failure to possess such might, in a more prolonged war, se- iousy affect its fortunes. “The docking facilities of our navy, not- withstanding those recently provided for by Congress, will be only moderate in ex . and with a very extensive coast line it should be the policy to esta at sev- eral of the most important w ample provisions for handling a large fleet for repairs with great expedition. A Liberal Polic “The expenditures for dry docks will be large in the next two years, but the bu- reau cannot fail to ask a continuation of @ liberal policy in this particular until the country is well fitted for handling its fleets in the docks yards without vessels being compelled to perform long sea voyages to reach the docking ports. To effect this will involve the construction of many more dry docks, but there is no alternative in an efficient and strong navy. “The present estimates carry only one new dry dock, that for the Norfolk navy yard, and it is requested that it be appro- priated for, the cost of which will extend over a period of three years and not add arly expenses. works are large in first . but when designed of permanent ma- terials and well built they become lasting provements of the highest value to the service and entail a very moderate percent- age for maintenan ‘The report contains an account of the steps taken for the establishment of coal- ing stations at Dry Tortugas, Fla., at Pago Pago, Samoa, and at San Juan, Porto Rico, and for a plant for housing torpedo boat at the Boston navy yard. Provision will also be made for the housing of torpedo boats at another point yet to be selected. A strong argument is made for additional naval facilities on the Pacific coast. or is but one navy yard and one naval s on this coast from San Diego on the to Puget sound on the north, a distance of 1,250 miles. Country's Growing Interests. “While it may be in the distant future when so large a naval force !s maintained on the Pacific coast as on the Atlantic says Chief Endicott, “ft must be evident that the growing Interests of the country upon the Pacific in Alaska, Hawaii, Samoa and our own territory, and trade and other relations with the Pacific Central and South American countries will be attended with more of a naval establishment upon its shores than we have ever before pos- sessed, and in, the event of complications requiring a demonstration of force the dock yard establishment must be equal to the s “If this nation shall own or control no waterway across the American isthmus, the necessity for the maintenance of a stronger naval force permanently assigned to these waters, to be ready for use at once, rather than depend upon the tardy transit of war vessels around Cape Horn, seems to me to exist. “J recommend that the subject of the es- tabushment of a naval coaling and repair station upon or near the southern Hmit of our Pacific coast, and its definite location, be committed to a board of experienced and able officers, competent to properly weigh all the conditions that affect and enter into so important a problem.” Better Coaling Facilities. In advocacy of additional coaling facili- ties the chief of the bureau says in part: “The assembly of large numbers of the vessels belonging to the navy at vari- ous points before and during the war with Spain emphasized the importance of having large supplies of coal available for quica delivery to them. These stations should be not only ample in the matter of storage capacity needed at various points, but the provisions for handling the coal shouid be of such design and character that it can be effected with the smallest cost and most expedition. “The coaling facilities at the navy yards and stations, as they now exist, are meager in capacity and crude, expensive and siow in the methods of handling. The bureau ha submitted estimates for enlarging fa- cilities at some of the yards and establish- ing practically new ones at others, and it is believed that the appropriations recom- mended should be made at the next session of Congress, in order that the service may at an early day be well supplied with these necessary provisions. “Very much more ample and better coal- ing facilities than now exist upon the Pa- cific coast ought to be established soon, and when a site for the works in San Fran- cisco harbor has been determined upon the department should receive the authority of Congress for constructing a very large plant there, upon the scale recommended by the coal board for those waters, because of the remoteness of this base from the sources of good coal for naval use.” His Recommendations. A recommendation is made that the pres- ent watch force at the navy yards and sta- tions be abolished, and that such polico duty be hereafter devolved on the marine corps. The expenditures for the civil watch force last year were $36,512, and it is esti- mated that the same class of service will cost $51,610 during the next fiscal year. Chief Encicott recommends a reorganiza- tion of the corps of civil engineers, and says he will submit a bill embodying his views on the subject. Im his opinion, the manner of admission to the corps should be established by act of Congress, with the requirement that appointments be made cnly after a competitive examination, if from civil life, or after careful selection if from the Naval Academy. He says that there should be added to the corps the grade of assistant civil engi- neer, in order that young men may_be ap- pointed to the lower grade firet and be pro- moted to the grade of full civil engineer as vacancies occur in the latter, after some examination to test th@r fitness for such promotion. The number fof these assistants should be left to the discretion of the Pres- ident, according to the requirements of the service. The introduction of such a grade, Mr. Endicott says, would be ‘without additional experse to the government, as its cstab- lishment would obyfate the necessity of the employment of an equal number of yourg engineers under the present system of out- side employment. The report contaihs the) following chapter in regard to the Washington navy yard: “The expenditures at this yard by this bureau for all purposes have been about $59,000 during the year. About $16,000 was expended upon tinprovements, including, dredging in front of the yard, new roofs for foundry and quadrangle building, new scele house and new stgrehouse for guns. The general maintenance of the yard has ccst about $17,000. “Storehouse No. 2 was damaged by fire. The cost of restoration was $12,813.69, and was paid frcm appropriation contingent yards and docks. “Under appropriation of national defense an expenditure of about $10,000 was made, almost entirely for extension of the electric light plant, made necessary by the large amount of work carried on at night during the active preparations for war. “The appropriation asked by way of im- provement of the navy yard comprises the following objects: New steel roof and re- pairs to pattern shop, building No. 3, $21, 000; new steel_roof and repairs to copper rolling mill, $17,000; extension to the north gun shop, $15,000; new steel roof and ex- tension of store No. 12, $10,000; extension of storehouse for guns, $35,000; shop and office buildirg for construction and repa $100,000; one officer’s quarters, $7,000; to —___+2.____—_ CIVILIZING AFRICA years of experience, aa after a further A New Scheme for Abolishing Slavery in the Dark Continent. Establishing Self-Supporting Villages With Industrious Native Inhabitants. Heli Chatelain in the American Magazine. On July 19 last I started for the interior of Africa, where, on the high table-lands, 500 miles from the coast, I am building model villages. Here, in the heart of the dark continent, I am introducing to the natives the first stages of civilized life, and by systematic effort starting the civilizing of this part of the country. The villages are being built on what is now wild wastes of land. No expedition, however large, will ever be able to stamp out slavery in Africa by force, for the very reasonable fact that it is extremely unlikely that any expedition will ever be sent here of large enough pro- portion to successfully cope with the 250,- 000,000 natives who believe in this ancient and baneful custom. The plan I am working upon for the civi- lizing of this great continent, or at least a part of it, is different from’ anything fore tried. In substance, it is the acqui ment of fertile lands by cession from Eu) pean governments and by purchase from native chiefs. Upon these lands we are building model villiges and towns, com- posed of free native settlers and liberated slav Quality rather than quantity is aimed at. Establishing Villages. Such villages when completed will at once radiate good influence, and will be object lessons to all the dark regions around. As scon as the natives see for themselves how much easier and more profitable life under civilized methods of living, than under their savage customs, they quickly move to the villages and become a part of them. In joining the village they have to renounce slave hunting, polygamy, witch- craft and rum. This, I think, from’ my ex- perience with them, many ‘thousands of them will very readily do, when they see tor themselves how Well the, villages get along without any of these evil influenc to which they have been accustomed. The natives, although barbarous, quick to learn and are great imi is When once shown how to do a certain thing, they remember it, and make good workmen. They are strong and ablebodied and capable of accomplishing great resul! when started on the right track. The first of these villages is being es hed be- tween Bengvella and Lake Nyassa, in the southwestern part of the continent. High tablelands exist in this region, and he 000 feet above the sea level, the town Is being laid out. The climate is healthful and the soil 1s particularly good. Self-Support As quickly as possible cach village wi be made self-supporting. The natives are being taught house building, farming and Verlous industries and trades, All the members of my expedition fare much the same as the natives—eating the same food and living in houses built of native mate- rials. But soon we shall teach tho natives improved methods of agriculture and the cultivation of all the new products neces- sary for the maintenance and development of the village. The abli ne. native settlers wiil also soon be taught carpentering, blacksmithing’ and other lines “of work and industry, and gradually there will spring up a self-made end self-supporting town, constructed on modern lines. When once thoroughly estab- lished, it will probably grow rapidly, as every native that joins will be an incentive to others to follow suit; and having once demonstrated that by joining us they can improve their condition, we shall have no difficulty in getting recruits. As soon as this first village is thoroughly established we will start a second one cn the same lines, some distance further inland. In like manner, a third and a fourth will be added, and so on until all this section of the country is dotted with them. The natives are not being pressed to join any of these villages. Work is being pushed with the express purpose of creat- ing an object lesson for them, and of their own free will they make application to come in and be granted thefr assignment of Jand on which to build thelr house and help develop the resources of the country. Hach village will be conducted on e1vilized and modern principles, and everybody will work for the advancement of the district. in this way Africa will be civilized by peaceful methods, which I believe is the only way it will ever ba done. Under our plan the natives are really civilizing them- selves. a A Corner in Boston, From the Boston Herald. Nothing byt sheer. modesty prevents Trinity court from being one of the show places of Boston. “It is’as far from the usual commonplace, habitat as this side of the Atlantic knows anything about, and the wonder is its construction is not imi- tated in other cities where “apartment” houses abound, for,it is both quaint and convenient. One must énjoy the pictur- esque corners in European cities to appre- ciate this little corrt, surrounded by halls that might have stepped’ over from some Tudor mansion, so,,English is their archi- tecture, but which, be it said, is adapted to ease-loving American fdeas. The Tudors would simply be thé wonders if they could see what comforts we mederns demand for our every-day living. But there is nothing like combining the past, with the present styles. It makes 4 charming association of ideas. In th@®afte¥noon, when the western sun is shiningunder that arch and the early English iron ormaments and gate- way are silhouetted against the light, it must be a very indifferent observer who does not admire the effect, or have it recall some foreign neighborhood 3,000 miles at least from Dartmouth street. ‘And it should be added that Trinity court has the ad- vantage in point of cleanliness to any place, however historic or picturesque, abroad! It is so swept and garnished, and the little tron balconies with their gardening vines and potted plants are so like story book decorations, that there can be no mistake that this is really typical American order. ‘The clocks vis-a-vis on the towers are pure- ly Bostonese. It is fancied they think them- selves the Gog’ and Magog of this city, and while they are voiceless they keep up a devil of a thinking about what goes on around them. ‘The flight of time is a seri- ous matter with these two big dials, but watch them ds you may, one never’ gets ahead of the other. They are twins with but a single thought and hands that beat as one. CAMP WIKOFF AMODEL Gen. Young Tells of Conditions at Montauk Point. UNFAIR CRITICISMS WERE MADE Queer Methods of a Yellow Journal of New York. : TRICKS OF THE SOLDIERS ee The war investigating commission heard all the testimony of Major General 8. B. N. Young yesterday afternoon before adjourn- ment. At 11 o'clock last night members of the commission, with the exception of Colo- nel Denby, left for New York city to begin the taking of testimony at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel there at 10 o'clock this morning. General Young continuing his testimony said he told General Wheeler he was con- fident he could proceed and take El Caney with his brigade. He said he would notify General Shafter, as he (General Wheeler) had been told not to advance without or- ders from him. “That was the last I heard of it,” said General Young, “until I came back to this country.” On the-24th General Young said he had a fever that gave him a temperature of 101 and 102 degrees, but he remained on duty until his temperature got up to 105 degrees. He left the front on July 1. General Young—“I_ was not responsible for myself on the night of the 3d. I wa in a raging fever, and by order of Gene’ Shafter I was carried back.” General Beaver—“Then the La Quasina fight was the only one in which you took active part except to make a sketch and plan for the next campaign? Treated Like Babies. General Young—“Yes, that is it.” He was brought home on the Cherokee July 5, arriving at Tampa on the 9th or 0th. He was given two months’ sick leave, but, getting better, he reported for duty, and August 5 he was at Montauk, L. I, and took charge of the establishment of the camp there. He was ready for the reception of the soldiers as they came back from Cuba with but one camp at first, not with two camps, which were later required, one a detention and the other a permanent camp. General Beaver—“Did you have tents and floors for the men as they arrived?” General Young—When the rush came I turned over tools and lumber to the men and told them to act like soldiers and make themselves comfortable. I thought they had been treated too much like babie id the soil a fine one for a nd he did not consider that floors ary for the tents. He said h would prefer the grass to the board floo: “Rations were there,” he said, “and a majority were supplied. In many officers sat down and supposed that one of my staff officers should » rations and deal them out to i “I thin! s for Montauk than for La Quasina. id, “I deserve more credit Iam satisfied more could not have been done. Every one worked until 12, 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning in order to get the men from the transports. He spoke of a regiment of regulars t s brought ashore early in the days of Camp Wikoff, and who came to the wharf in small boats in the rain, were thoroughly drenched and were finally got up to their camp at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning. Regulars and Heroes. “We never heard anything about that in the newspaper: aid Gen. Young. “They were regulars, so nothing was said about it. They weren't the heroe: Gen. Young said that ne thought a good deal more had been done in pr g the camp at Montauk Point than should have been done. He said, in addition to the regular army ration, there was a pound of plen nges t vegetables daily for each man: of milk for them t eat. “As I have sai wasted to suppl Gen. Young s he left Camp Wikoff, b Meade, which, he said, was ing camp. Mr. Woodbury—‘Are you of the opinion that there any ground for finding fault with the government for what it did for the soldiers in the past war?” Gen. Y “That there were mistakes and i . comparing this we 1861 to 1865 this was a model with re to supplies furnished and the treatment of sick and wounded. ; Gen. Sexton—"Did the men complain Gen. Young—"At Camp Wikoff my atten- tion was called to letters printed in a New y ing ordered to Camp a very charm- York paper, which were purported io have been written by soldiers. re no truth in them. They were ¢: to my at- tention by members of my staff, and I had them investigated. We found these letters were manufactured, and half of the time the names were not given. When nam were given we found they were not true. Orders to Roast the Camp. Gen. Young said that a correspondent told him that his paper ordered him to roast the whole camp without regard to facts, but this correspondent replied that they had made a mistake in their man and had better send another correspondent there. “What paper was that?” General Young was asked. He hesitated, but when pressed for a re- ply said it was the World. General Young, when asked what papers misrepresented facts at Camp Wikoff, said that for two or three weeks he did not have time to read them, he was so busy. His at- tention was called to these letters by a staff officer, and that was why he inquired about them. General Dodge—“‘How do you account for so much complaint about Camp Wikoff having been made by people visiting the camp there?” General Young—‘‘A great deal of this complaint came from women and some men who had never seen the back door cf a camp in their lives. They have never seen men sleeping in tents. Then some soldiers pretended to be sick and claimed that they couldn't get things to eat in or- der to work on the feelings of sympathetic people to get money or anything eise they wanted. The regulars did that, I know. It was reported to me that men in one of my own regiments were working thet game.” This concluded General Young's testi- mony. ————_+ + —. A SINGING WELL. Gives Forth Weird Noise and Can- not Be Filled Up. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. About three miles west of Cedar Bayou, Harris county, Tex., is a remarkable well. When it was dug no one can tell, but it has been in existence for more than sixty years. The well is known as the “Singing Well.” In calm, fine weather a sound like that of an aeolian harp comes upward between the tangla3 of vines below. At times the scund seems nearer and clearer; then again it recedes, as if far away, and reaches the ear very faintly. These changes take place every few minutes, and with great regu- larity. With an east wind blowing the water in the well gets very low and the mysterious musical souné very faint. A strong west wind causes the water to rise and the ound to increase In volume and clearness. But it is just before a great norther that the old well plays its wildest pranks. Then, for several hours, the water rises to within a few feet of the top of the well and emits the weirdest, wildest noises that ever reached human ears. At such times even the water drawn out with buckets moans and wails a» if in anguish. The well is about sixty feet deep. A few years ago the land on which it is located was bought by a Mr. Watkins, who, not liking the sounds that came from the well, employed two men to fill it up. They shov- eled dirt Mmto the well two weeks, but it did not affect the depth of water percepti- bly, and they threw up the contract. From WATCHES GIVEN FREE In addition to the special prices quoted fer tomorrow--a guaranteed Watch will be given free to every cash purchaser of $10 or mere. A —— inducement todo your Saturday shopping ere. End of the $10 Sale. Tomorrow will be the last day of the $10 sale. Just about 500 Suits and Overcoats of that special lot left--and tomorrow’s selling will leave the counters as bare as the trees will soon be. They are $15 and $16.50 qualities =-all fresh styles--and at $10 they are the grandest values ever distributed in Washing- ton. The Suits are single and double-breasted sacks and a few cutaways--the Overcoats are the ‘“Broadway box’’ and English styles. Not a garment worth less than $15--some worth $16.50--and choice of all tomorrow for $10. $3.95 for $5 Child’s Suits. Too many $5 Children’s Suits on hand—so take any of them tomorrow for $3.95. Just forthe one day — Monday $5 again. Choice of all styles—military, vestie, blouse, reefer, double-breast- ed and vest suits. The prices are marked in plain figures—and tomorrow $3.95 buys any knee parts suit in the house, without re- 3 serve. All ages from 3 to 16. $ + * A $1 Hat Festival. Q Twenty-three dozen left—they’ll go in a “jiffy” tomorrow. All Q of our $3, $2.50 and $2 broken iines of Men’s Derbies and Fedoras > at $1.00. Every fashionable shape and color represented—not all { ; : $ ) Q : $ é Q sizes in every kind—but every size in all kinds. $1.00 for choice— “first come, first served.” SEMAN GOR.7 ann E SOOO VEOH HCHO | $93 434040490404+ se SEE iene pose ee pe Ne llth and G Sts. THE Wonderful Calovit vas furnaces —radiate more hot air In half an hour than most other stoves would give off in a dey. It is the most economical and at the same time the most efficient gas heating stove in the world, It con. yi ° sumes only 5 worth gas per day—but it is seldom Coal Hods, 15c. ERE EI Ix, VENEER y to keep it going more than half the time to room thoroughly. It is the best heater that an buy—yet the price is only money 6-foot Step Ladders, 75c. for hard usage and pl Special : = cad Puritan Oil Heaters. t heat with st oll. Consume S 4 ek ne ee, eee: a8 vanized Ash Cans, $1.50. Furnace Scoops, 50c. sich Jos gach a Seal sd Siena A strong, well-made scooj with long or } 2 L eg ernggecpmiren onion E Wilsons tether geel eke will fill a hod. te keep out the chilli Covered Ash Sifters —will fit any bs postal Barber& Ross, l ith &G IIE SIE IE LN LISI III IIE only 50e. ae eledepcntedetetecetet » RAND Seelesdeteciestonty Loeb & Co., ? Clothi 621 Pa. ave. $ = Recognizing the Ist D. C. V.’s. We are recognizing the valor of the Ist District Volunteers by giving them a special Aiscount_of 10%. “Kndless Chain” Seeeedaotsoeconpeasoe eens ° ° ° e Selling of Clothing and Furnishings. E are doing a good, wholesome, steady, “Endless Chain” business here, strictly on our merits. We make a friend of every man who buys, so as to induce him to send his friends, widening our circle to his friends’ friends. We are doing business rightly and giving the best suits and overcoats for the ¢ money obtainable anywhere in America. tomorrow: $7.50 SUITS | Neckwear, 19c. Usual $10 & $12.50 grades. The 25, 35 & soc. kinds. These special prices for Your choice of Black and Navy Blue Chey- A fair size lot, including 25e., 5c. and jots and Neat Fancy Worsteds, Cassimeres, SOc. kinds, in Tecks, Puffs and ete., in single and double-breasted styles, Four-in-hands. Oc that will cost you $10 and ‘Tomorrow Ses-beshrre ° $12.50 elsewhere. Saturday .. . $7.50 Overcoats, $6.85. Choice of all styles of Good Overcoats, com- prising black and blue kerseys, heavy ‘covert cloths and English whipcords, ete., with and velvet collar, satin sleeve lining, seams, short, medium and long lengths, re are cheap at $10 and $6.85 Trousers, $2.68. Tomorrow ... Fine Worsted ‘Trousers, in neat stripes, checks and small overplaids, tom finish; worth up to $4. cl Vests, $2.95. $1 Shirts, 79c. Fine linen bosom and bands, stout, heavy orga ack regular sea 79¢. Hats, $1.95. Choice of Derbys and Fedoras, in black tee S105 Underwear, 39c. ingle Double-breasted Men's Der Ribbed Merino and Fleece- sole of Sie Vests; worth Uned Winter Shirts and Drawers, Bp. to $4. QS | intent colors. Bargain at 50 390¢ ‘Saturday =: ‘Tomorrow . . °, LOEB & CO., Modest Clothiers, 621 Pa. Ave. the measurements of the excavations they had made it hae been calculated that the well should have been filled up a little more than twice. The water is very clear, with a bluish tint, and is fairly palatable. No other wells in the neighboriood show such pranks as are played by the “Singing Well.’ Frank Alexander, a young man living in Winchester, Va., burst a blood vessel while skylarking in front of the Taylor Hotel in that city and died instantly. ————_+ o> Thousands of situations have been ab- | tained through the want columns of The Star.