Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1898, Page 13

THE EVE PUBLISHED Dat: sepa AT THE STAR £UILDINGS 1101 Pennsylvania Ave., Cor. 1 th St., by The Evening Star N-ws aver ~cmpeny. &. b. KAUFFMANN, rres't Te Evening Star t aity by carriers ted States or Canada—pestage prepaid per month coniarday Qeirtumte Shes star $1 per rear with foreign postage added. $2.08. ‘Entered at the Poet Ome: at Washington DC es sevend-cle. + mati matter.) EF AM mail © a ulti Gf is a boon brain = and all su physical Mi take. 10c., 25 5c. At All Druggist Word Pepsin. Seca aa =revives the jaded fac= quiets the nerves and intensifies the bright side of life. to weary workers, dis= tracted housewives fferers from and mental exhaustion. ing dvose of Bromo=- | Pepsin is exceedingly | grateful to worn-out shoppers. Effervescent | and very pleasant to A re and 50c. It | fresh= } ’ Nee w Fill tre ~e you for all the > Christ. mas Gifts you want. s nis Chairs sell at On Credit. the Third Shipment of : $8 Gold Leat. $5 Gift Istle Bamboo Fire “$1.19 Fy uniqne and beautiful Bamboo 5. | oS $1.75. _P. J. Nee, 7th & H, : ae Credit ne h i The Easy-goi WORK IV 4A oLD MINE. Washington Boy's SAperience in State of Ida work d re what i that wi » each man emplo? been work ng assessment for on every are compelled ation on same of d to remove 160 cuble feet I hepe to be able to send you at f gold dust, for I but cannot ne Winter is a -in fact, one-half inch of snow fell lz tim 1S sieaeiceliani in view, 3 I will explain it to you. $ the me aS any other ‘The is eighteen months, and We take out in that time is ours, and owner gets the benefit of our develop- work. I must tell you, howover, that man takes id of or locates a mine the first thing he has to do Is ‘to get Then he has lots of hard work, ready.” before to the . of wh the nece sity of getting ta lea and bond on a and there are three or four months an take out any ore. In addi- building of our cabin and a long hich I have already spoken, we carned that we will have to build about two miles of wagon road up a creek bottom, then a shaft hou nd last, | but not least, will have to blast out a tun: zh which to take out our ore. “1 will be about feet long, 4 and 6 feet high, and that through >. The company uses water power te lredges. ercek in how long t the fiume ¢ used for the casting: 000 pounds, from Boise, They had t it, and it trip. The histor the company wi ing story.” carrying electricity for their y take the water out of a ditch and flume combined. Just he ditch i 1 do not know, but a flume is a big water trough water around rocky points, where they can't dig a ditch) ts 44,- ~ | Guo feet long and contains 1,000,000 feet of lumber and sixteen tons of nails. One of in the power house weighs 40,- and had to be hauled on trucks about forty-five miles distant. wenty head of horses hooked to took three weeks to make the workings, plant, etc., of id make quite an interest- millinery the girls are wear- nh cheaper than the usual ag- nd feathers that we men 2 War taxes much, if any.— “ Buildings Needed for the Public Ser- vice in This City. een FROM MOTIVES OF ECONOMY Prices of Land in and Out of the Urban Limits. NEW BUILDINGS During the past weck the report of a commission appointed to appraise the vaiue of th? property proposed to be taken by the government for a site for the extension of the government printing office building made a report, giving the result of their investigation as to the compensation that should be paid to th: property owners, The property in question is the corres- ponding part of the square on the south to that which {s occupied by the present building of the printing office on the north. If this section becomes the prop2rty of Uncle Sam he will have the title to the en- tire eastern haif of the square which is bounded by North Capitol and 1st streets northwest, and H and G streets. An Important Establishment. Some idea can be formed of the extent of this important branch of the government service from the fact that the present building covers nearly an acre of ground, and if a structure of similar extent the area covered will make the to a greater degree than it is at the 2xtensive printing es- t worid. of this office, dings above is erected, building, as indicated erred to, can taken ‘ation of the growth of the public busine in this city, it is not surprising that the demand which has be-n heard so ofien in the past should be renewed at this time with greater ear- nhestness, that more adequate provision be made tor the departments. At the present time, to mention only a few of the butid- ings that are deemed e: ntial, Congress is ed to erect a building whe pro: of the government can be pla keeping; aiso one for the Supreme Court of the United States and one for the Depart- ment of Justice The Attention of Congress, The necessity for the three proposed buildings has been recently called to the attention of th: supreme legislative body of this country by official reports, and in case of the Supreme Court by the late ex- ion which brought to public notice the uacy of the rooms now assigned to ief judicial body of nation. By referenc> to the rep¢ of the heads of the various departments during the past wey some idea of the ing need of © pubite offi for more ad2quate build- ings can be obtained. Incidentaliy it may be material development much affected by the decision which may be reached in the settlement of such ques- tien it seems oniy appropriate that the government should Keep in line with priva’ enterprise in the adornment of the capital city, and that the put which are now called for should not only be erect- ed, but that they should be ¢ ina spirit that is in keeping with the fact that to a certain extent they represent the dig- nity and power of the government. It is thought the modern device of getting the most for the -xpenditure of money observed that the of the city will be which hitecturally by what ar E ers ought not to be adopted as a policy of the gov- ernment. One building of that type has been erected in this city, and is known as the city post office. Although the needs of that office only require a structure of some thre ies and of same size as the building referred to, in this instance a structure has been put up that is nine stories in height. Prices of Land. During the past week quite a large block of land was sold within the city Mmits at what may seem to be the astonishing low price of 21 cents per square foot. land was located about two squar of New York avenue and a few west of 17th street, or the Athletic It was a good-sized pi ing a front- ge of some 132 feet by a depth of 120 feet. here are other instances of land which is 1 at what seems, comparatively speak- low pr ome building lots This south Mares can be bought 15 cents per square foot, but the rt distance ¥ of South Capitol street und quite near the river front. As to the rule, however uture. Asa land values wi the old limits of the city range higher t figures above given, and it is necess: some ¢ the stance into the gion of similar prices suburbs is reach- befor ed. There are, of course, exceptions to this sneral observation, as there is to almost evel other statement. th: an be made, but, generally speaking, it will be found to be true. There are who assert that land values in thi and District are too high, and, while th is nothing very novel in such a view, it has been heard for some years past, Still there has been, no doubt, a change in values here during the past few years that tend rather toward the descend- ing than the ascending scale. Whether the Umit has been reached or whether there to be a reaction toward higher prices is one interesting questions that property and investors would like to have an- Some New Buildings. Three houses are to be erected on Har- vard street between 13th and 14th streets from plans prepared by J. G. Myers, archi- tect. y are to be four stories in height, with fronts of koman brick and stone. There will be bay windows, finished at the ory with balconies. There will be The interior finish will be hard nd the houses will be heated with hot water. ‘A row of three double cottages are to be erected at 101 to 111 Sexton street north- west by J. M. Henderson. hey are to be two stories in heign. and seventeen feet front. Three houses are to be erected by John W. Gregg at 63-67 Quincy street. They are to be two stories in height and 16x32 feet. A one-story store is to be built at 1442 P street northwest by George Howard. —s Overdose of Laudanum,. Charles White, twenty-four years old, of Fredericksburg, Va., was taken to the Emergency Hospital yesterday suffering from an overdose of laudanum. White was a volunteer soldier in an {mmune regiment and yesterday was suffering from earache. After pouring a quantity of the drug in his ear without beneficial result he decided to try a little internally. While in the army at Chickamauga White suffered a sunstroke and was sent to St. Elizabeth’s Asylum, this city. He was discharged recently, a What Can Women Dot The first of a series of free popular lec- tures, given under the auspices of the “Col- ored Women's League,” will be delivered by Mrs. J. Ellen Foster Wednesday, De- cember 14, at 7:30 p.m., at the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, Rev. F. J. Grimke, pastor. Subject: “What Can Wo- men Do?” SATURDAY, ~ DECEM BE REAL ESTATE GOSSIP| THE NATIONAL GUARD|Y Release of Major Ross From Nominal Arrest Ordered, POSSIBILITY OF A MUSTER OUT Supply of Coal Needed for the U.S.S. Fern. ee RESIGNATION OF OFFICERS a National Guard affairs are progressing as well as might be expected, in view of all the circumstances. Some little time will be required to get things in shape that is de- sired after the inactivi that prevailed during the absence at war of so many of the officers and enlisted men. The special inspections are being continued. They will not cease until every organization of the guard has received a visit from the special inspector. One matter of interest is the possible muster out of Company B, 2d Battalion. The internal affairs of this at one time crack company, so it fs id, are not what they ought to be, and therefore firm m. ures are to be adopted by headquarters. An entire reorganization is certain to oc- cur in the event that muster out is not de- cided on. Released From Arrest. A communication from headquar'! the District of Columbia militia has been addressed to the commanding officer of the Ist Regiment, as follows “A satisfactory explanation of his non- attendance at headquarters Ist Battalion, when those headquarters were inspected by Ts of Capt. J. A. Dapray, 23d United States In- fantry, the night of November 2%, havi been given by Major 15. K. Ross, ist tauion, the commanding general directs you reiease Major Koss from arres restore him to dut: ‘The expianation referred to sets forth in substance that the evening in question Major Koss w so far as he knew, 4n command of the ‘Ist Regiment. The night of November he attended the ordered in- spection of Ist Regiment headquarters, and, aithough Colonel May was present, Major R not having been formally relieved, considered himseif the regimental com. mander. Another officer being temporari- y in command of the Ist Battalion, Major K so be thought under the Cireum- slinces, Was not required to attend th spection of Ist Battalion headquarte Coal tor the Fern. An important question has 1 to the supply of coal ssary heating and for boiler purposes on_ bo: the U. S. 8. Fern, now in use by th battalion. Under the terms of tr er of the ship to the National Guard, it was set rth that the Navy Department should be lieved from any other expense involved in maintaining the ship in proper condition, except the providing of United States se in- risen in re- for 1 naval nec men as ship keepers. Meanwhile, however, there is olute necessity for ‘coal, and General Harries has been making earnest effort to secure a small supply, but thus fat without av It is expected that as soon as Congress shall have made its appropriation for the next fiscal year, money fe al will be available, as that item was included in the estimates for the District militia. But for the time being coal is imperatively needed that the ship may be made habitable dur- ing cold weathe be at any time ing purpe il be is to in the The regular! to its effic Constitutions and By-Law A subject for the early consideration of the commanding general is that of consti- tutions and by-laws of the several organi f eam may flable for fire extinguish- Just what General Harries 10 accomplish in this direction developed, it is hoped favorably, t few days. 1 battalion, by at work, and is « ney. av the way. nstantly 2 zations of the National Guard. Under the authority of the organic act of 188 some of the organizations have adopted rules and regulations subject to the approval of thc commanding general, but there seems to be some doubt as to the exact extent they have been authorized to go in the matter. At any the subject is regarded ot sufficient importance to receive co ra- tion without delay Special Inspections © tinue. It understood that Lieutenant D. B. McLeod, who has immediate charge of the ie band, has been exceedingly ener- her p- of Jate in bringing thi and in conducting band rehearsals. C tain I special inspector, will v the headquarters of the band next Wednes- day evening and inquire into the methods of practice, the system followed in outside en- gagements, drill and management. Capt. Dapray will visit the 4th Battalion next Tuesday evening, with the object of making a special inspection. The 4th Bat- talion had an assembly and drill last Tues- most gratifying in every wa x was large, and the intere was up to the high-water mark. Dapray robably continue his spections by visiting the other battalions in the 2d Regiment. Then he will look into the Ist Separate Battalion as soon as Maj Arthur Brooks returns from a southern trip, which will be about the end of next week, men tog hi Light Battery to Boon The rule adopted in other organizations in the guard is to apply in respect to the Light Battery; that is, all men must attend meetings and drills. Any who may wish to withdraw must do so through the medium of an application for honorable discharge. According to First Lieut. J. H. Griffiths, commanding, the battery: {s to move for- ward with a boom, Lieut. Griffiths has sent the following notice to the members of the organization: “Active work will at once be resumed by the battery, The next meeting will be hela at the armory Saturday evening, December 10, at 8 o'clock. It tg desired that all mem- bers who wish io continue with the battery be present at this meeting, or, if unable to be present at this time, to communicate with me by letter. Those who wish to withdraw from the organization should at once apply for diseharge blanks, which I will furnteh.” Officers Who Have Resigned. The resignations of the following officers have been received at headquarters: Major Otto G. Simonson, Sth Battalion; Capt. Charles L. Beatty, Company A, Ist Bat- talion; First Lieutenant Louis G. Freeman, quartermaster, 6th Battalion; First Lieu- tenant Alfred A. Smith, Company .B, 6th Battalton: Capt. Charles De Lano Hine, Battery A, Light Artillery; First Lieuten- ant John ML. Field, Signal Company; Capt. James L. Mock, adjutant, 2d Regiment; Capt. Frank W, Holt, Company B, 6th Battalion; First Lieutenant Duncan Daven- port, Company A, 5th Battalion; Major Henry B. Looker, 6th Battalion; First Lieu- tenant George V. Chandler, Engineer Com- pany. Discharges Granted. Because of removal from the District the following have been honorably discharged: Private Charles H. Miller, Company B, 1st Battalion, and Corpora: Francis D. Bars- tow and Privates J. ~. Eggleston, James R 10, -1898— TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. If you want to buy, se lease preperty or rent rooms, want a si jon or want help, it will pay you to announce the fact in the advertixing colamns of The St They are cloxely studied by more than three times a people a paper. OPEN EVENINGS. FOLLOW THE CROWDS TO CASTELBERG'S. The public is not dull to the Baye advantages we offer. Their fa culties are wide awake No stock in Washington is so complete with little and big gifts of the kind that are { most acceptable. Largest showing of DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE and *cLocKs in Washington. as many rings as any other jeweler dare show. AND WE SAVE YOU $2 ON EVERY $10 —you spend here. sell is guaranteed—absolutely. Furthermore—any honest man or woman CAN OPEN A LEDGER ACCOUNT "with us—paying for LITTLE EACH WEEK OR MONTH, as they desire. CREDIT of the most generous and convenient kind i free here! CASTELBERG, 935 Pa. Ave. an. ee eh ee a ee eee ee a 1 z = a nd Frank C. Field, Battery A.) yyoy soe . = : Light Artillery. a vena - ERR DE eRe IB Private George C. Meigs, Battery A, adinurs te ig oe t Artillery, has been honorably dis- Bra acoury 7 actory 's Asis ual “Chris stmas Reduction & rged on his own application. 4 Sal De x In the interest of the service the follow- | & Sale of Pianos. s ing have been disc e.: Privates F. L. | & = oa - - » Little, Wm. Wm. 23. Durphy | = TONIGHT Free conce:ts on the Gram-o-phone, Come in and hear Sousa’s Band and Fo] and C. J. He B, Ist Battalion, Mase 2 and Cx 2 Queenan, Company | q A, Ist Separate Battalion. S z A See Battalion Order. : 350 Hennin Px rl ht 2 Major Joseph Anderson, commanding the 4 2d Battalion, haus issued the following or- | 3 de} i Re There will be a meeting of the battalion > field and staff officers and non ed officers at these } ning, December 13, 1598, at 8 o'clock. meeting of the company office eis s batts will be held at th 36 Month Paymi rters vening, De ly Payments. at S$ o’e ter e will be discussed ANTA CLAUS will give a good many pianos it is urged that all fr Kus Sas ape irs officers will be present. In case of absence to judg: from factory excuse must be given. i We are selling every battalion will assemble in the drill After all, it’s the very best possitle gift. hv 4 oh purpo pection on could give you—for it’s a gift to the whole PS eae fam eer TS Gish ea Cu mnily. Here's @ chance for old Sunta to get expected to report @ beautiful Upright tonight or Monday for members Companies in not uniformed will appear civilian dress The battalion com- nder is gratified at the prompt and eu st manner in which company dri have been resumed “First Sergeant Willlam Middleton, Com- pany D, is transferred to the non-commis- sioned staff and appointed color with rank from August 20, 189) Noten. Clifford Cox, who w: surgeons of the 1 Infantry, U. ~. V., d the required e: sergeant, one of the District of has success- Dr. 8. assistant Columbia battalion, for three months Charles B. Hu olumbia mili Leave of absence n granted Capt. Distric ave of 2 cutenant Se pany Will Battalion. ond Li E. Db, 6th The brigade board of been Instructed to be particula to asceriain in the future tha is thoroughly proficient in t hefore deciding as to his titne tion. > FRYE AND THE PRENCH BARBER. How He Got His Hair Cut a In Maine. From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal, In a letter to his family in Lewiston Sex ator Frye relates a little incident of ¢ perience in Paris that takes the form of joke on himself. “Mrs. Frye remarked ‘ me the other day,” writes the senator, “that I needed a hair cut. Twas on way to join anew the company of coun} it~ ary dukes,noble lords and earls,and although I don’t care a rap for all the quarterings on their crests, I don't want my hair to go romping over my coat collar, and tha just what Mrs. Frye said it did do. Now 1 am a bit particular about who shears my poll, I know a man in Lewiston who can suit me. I lie back in his chair while he talks fishing and fox hunting and neighbor- hood news, and he shears it to my taste. I have my favorite barber in Washington, but in Paris I am not on speaking terms with many of the tonsorial profess and us I said, I am particular about how cut. So f took down my book of ‘C sational French in One Hour’ and turned to where a man is instructed how to go to his barber's and get a Lewiston, Maine, rcut. I put in some time on the maite , banishing all thoughts of peace tr Spanish ratiocination and attendant anr ances, I went forth in quest of a hair cu ter, Mrs. Frye telling me not to be gone long. I found my shop and went in. A barber approached me as I took off my top coat, and I turned on him feeling a good deal more embarrassed than J did the first time I ever addressed the House, and that is saying a good deal. He bowed and i bowed, and then I addressed him volumin- ously in conversational French, describing in choice idiom how I wanteg’ it cut and where. He looked puzzled. Again I went over it, and, gaining confidence from the attention that I aroused, I illustrated it by signs that must have convinced him that I wanted my head cut off right above my coat collar. The man hesitated and finally, spreading his hands out in a_deprecatory gesture, said to me in choice English: ‘Ah, I beg your pardon. You are a Dutchman, I see, and speak no French. We dc speak Dutch, but do you happen to spe. English?” We got on very well after that, and I got a very good hair cut. see Return of the Windom. The revenue cutter Windom, which had been on a cruise for some weeks, returned to Washington yesterday. The Rel A clear saving of 20% iable Jeweler Scientific Optician. Baltimore Store, Estabiished 1846. Three times oe Everything we 7O- their purchases a PO ORO ROOK 106 N. Eutaw St. EXTRA! 50 Upright Piano 5152.50 One fine $3 ee AND $375 Rogers oe A » Henging Upright tich case—full octave hing. s—han, stool No int 3 fine Square Pianos cheap just taken in . ery. fine Me of Which must have #400 1 Here's ut Monday Steinway Piano...........$ Chickering Piano.........$ Weber Piano On $5 monthly pas New Be Jon BosensamnMbeeNEBLER io DRIES 5 IE £600 we'll s ments AM Music Boxes reduced x ‘4 a * 3 < Upright Pianos for rent at $4, Sole District Agents for ¢ hoes B sant $5 caoathly. the best talking machines ily sts < F. G. SMITH, Mfr. Bradbury Pianos 3 1225 | Pa. ave. Ordered by © The follow the Di have be« ioners ted in the 24th street nerthwest, from F st ward, at an estimated cosi of able to the current appropriz and pipe sewers. ‘That an alley b: 22d and $55, chargeable to the current tion for main and pipe sewers. n issued inch sewer east s tion for by main in be constructed on the uth side of Q street northwest 3d streets, at an estimated c between t of apprepria- ‘That 180 feet of G-inch water main be laid in Seaton str: at an estimated cost of $126. That cement sidewalk be 1: permit system in front of No. southwest, at That the following Brookland be removed Concord street between streets, On Bunker Hiil rc board Or a (Copyright, 1898, Lite “t, West from Ist st id under 44 B street n estimated cost of $44. sidewau. orth side Pablishing Company.) est, the in of | ty asth | 2 a between z u and O. R. R. and 12th stree ween 12th and 13th’ streets © following board sidewalks be paired: On lth street between I land avenue and Fort street; on ¢ reet between 12th and 13th str Jon 9th street between Lansing a dence ts; all at an estimated c s7 argeable to the appropriation Provider nd other streets in Brook Iss. aon Dover That t ——— Sufferer From Epilepsy. George A. Rudolph suffered an a k of | epilepsy yesterday afternoon at the Wer | Department, where he had gone to Maj, Ureil, in whose battalion he served in the ist District Regiment. Rudolph w nergency Hospital, and. ng much improved, ‘he wa ; moved to his home Missouri | While in camp at Chickamauga the »idier iramped on by mules and quite seriouse jured, but declined to go to hoa} afterward went with the nan later ree venue. Annie (to brother)—“I'm a-goin’ to Jolly de ole bloke about de family's starvin it him to berlleve me if you stay ‘roun’ here wid dose an’ how do you expect me to legs an’ dat fat face o' yourn