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& THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, MAY > 7, 1900-14 PAGES, McKnew’s. Strictly Reliable Qualities. » Opens at Sam. and C SUITS ses at 6 p.m. REDUCED. We most fast 2 end up our nk of buying am inh $15 Suits = $12-50 $20 Suit $16-00 $25 Suit $2000 $30 Suit $23-50 $65&568-50 Suitss50 $87.50 Suit = $72-50 height of the ons in pink, ally hemstite and SS tty Wash Silk Walsts, In wide rose stripe over white $3.75 ouly Wim.H.McKnew, 933 Pa.Av md On the Bridge It gets in through the pore disselves ever e suffocating strings In the Morning yourself ation, head and nose au . surely. It loosens obstruction— f phlegm. Sou make an effort to rel all thts viseld acum omes everything—¥ iN dee sateatstag drawal of air. The sensation is indescribably delightful. ’ : Mason’s Cream of Olives cures Catarrb—cures ft sj dily. Relies at one Nothing to tnhale— B ing to swalle applied on the outside, it works fh. It gets in and your Catarrh gets out. Stars out Jnst us good In Piles—just as soothinge and healing. 25e. a box—all druggists—or sent for prt Piason’s Health Defenders. MASON’S YELLOW TABLETS cure DYSPEPSIA. < BROWN TALGLETS cure CONSTIPA- RED TABLETS cure COUGHS. WHITE TARLETS cure SORE THROAT 30 1 10c.—all druggists or for price by H. T. MASON CHEMIC 515 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. ent L COMP. HENRY EVANS. 938 F St. NLW. EDWARD STEVENS, 9th and Pa. Ave. MACKALL and H Ste. N Va. Alexandria, & se FINISH DEEP FLOOR titer Chas. E. Hodgkin, ;¢ CANDY CATHARTIC TRADE MARK REGISTERED . Su are THERE LDEST MUS! HOUSE IN THE CITY. iN F. ELLIS & CO., PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. Chickering Pianos, Hallet Davis Pianos. accommodating THE Reasonable prices eral discount for ease call and examine our stock terms. Lib- We ca n to a few very desirable second Square and Upright Pianos. ‘Telepbore 1218. ELLIS MUSIC STORE my ENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. STEINWAY UPRIGHT, $285 HUGO WORCH, 923 F St. my2-156t Pianos moved, $2.00. “KNABE’S oa will And Just what you want fn s GRAND, PRIGHT, SQUARE PIANO, or ORGAN, at sure Prisingly low Sgures and reasonable terms. PIANOS FOR RENT. TUNING AND MOVING. Wm. Knabe & Co., 1209 Pa. Ave. N. W. ‘WASHINGTON, D. ©. JeT-21te The ; Steinway dard of the world. igbtly used uprights and grands, in ali G5-14tf = 925 Pennsylvania Avenue, for Summer Cooking The handiest, cleanest, safest, coolest and most economical summer cook stove ever sold. me Wickless Oil Stove (burns ordinary kerosene) Blue Flame combines the efficiency of the coal range and the con. venience and comfort of the gas range at a fraction of the expense of either. An absolutely safe and clean stove; will not smoke, smell or get greasy; can’t explode. Can be moved anywhere. Sold wherever stoves are sold. If your dealer does not have them, write to i i EDWIN J. GILLIES & CO. Seed STANDARD OIL COMPAN li your | fee © secure good cof problem w in Jav-Mar-Mo. This whole ean, and when ground emits a delight= ful aroma that speaks its worth. cal coffee drinker mothing can equal Jay- Mar-Mo. The price, teo, is a revelation. It appeals to your pocket book, as well as your palate. Next time you order coffee, ask your grocer to send a pound package of Jav-Mar-Mo, make it according to directions, and you will have a drink fit for a king. Grocers, Send Your Order s to send his name and your address and get a free sample. at a fair price is a great h coffee drinkers. ‘eg Roasters, reioeioes I grocer doesn't keep it, it is solved coffee is sold in the For the criti- ete so Sesteose onton ef gongons % Se % Ses seedeetonten Importers & % NEW YORK. Our Representative, Joseph F. Webber, 714 I Street,N.W., Washington, D. C. oie se Sesdondeesersont ’Phone, 917. % % LIQUOR IN THE TROPICS. Capt. Woodruff Advocates Itx Moder- ate Use. E. Woodruff of the medical f the army has contributed a treating of sol- Capt. Chas. department paper to the medical pr: dier life in the tropic The paper is likely to create a sensation because of the bold attacks by the writer upon certain well-es- tablished principles of army hygiene. Es- pecially is this the case touching use of alco! » liquors, relative to which the doctor says he has seen enough in the Phil- to justify an abandonment of the he himself held, and he makes a statement that experience has demon- strated that in a hot climate the moderate use of intoxicating drink is essential to con- tinued health and efficiency. * * * Though I am not quite ready to recommend a dail. ration of wine and whisky, such as all th n nations use, it seems reason- Every foreign service finds it ue spirits in the field from The doctor is also an opponent of a spare seins satis © 9 Life’s a Burden If the stomach fs not right. Is there Nausea? Is there net ipation Ix the Tongue Coated? Are you Light-Headed? Do you have Sick Headaches? Avy and all of these denote Stomach and Liver Disorder. Dr. Agnew's Liver Pills act quickly and will cure most stubborn aud chronle ca! 40 In a vial for 10 cents. Sold by F. S. WILLIAMS, 9th and F sts.; EDMONDS & WILLIAMS, 3d Core ave. . diet, and insists that ample food supply is best. He cites the case of a Santlas mand whose surgeou pla short diet, while he himself ate copiously. Out of a dozen men in his mess he was tl only one who escaped The ab- | dominal bandage is denounced as “a wretch- ed survival of the medical absurdities of the days of indiscriminate bleeding.” What the bandage is doing, says the doctor, is “cul- tivating beautiful varteties of ‘bacteria, which only await a chance to kill the wear- er." There are many other startling staie- ments attributed to the doctor, but those above quoted are perhaps the most inter- esting. ——————— Disbursing Army Funds in Alaska. By direction of the Secretary of War, disbursing officers of the War Department stationed in Alaska, being far remote from designated depositories, finding it conven- fent for themselves and the trading com- panies, are authorized to exchange their checks with those companies for cash re- quired in payment of salaries and in liqui- dation of other indebtedness where cash is more desirable to the public creditors than checks on the subtreasury, San Francisco, or other United States depository in which they may have funds. And such disburs- ing officers in Alaska are specially author- ized by the Secretary of War to keep in their personal possession, at thelr own risk, funds thus received which they may be authorized to disburse, and such moneys as may be officially intrusted to them for disbursements MALLORY STEAMSHIP PIER RURNS. Loss of a Million Dollars in Yesterday. A fire that started at the river end of the Mallory Line steamship pler, in New York, yesterday morning, completely destroyed the pier and its valuable contents. The police place the,Joss,at $1,000,000. Several barges which were moored near the pler Were destroyed, and many rescues of their captains and of "the members of the fam- ilies on board were made. Only one life was lost. The nine-months-old daughter of Capt. Charles Lochs of the barge Sher- wood was drowned. The Mallory Line pier was 200 feet lon; and 50 feet wide. The pier shed was filled with valuable freight of a miscellaneous character, but mostly cotton. On the north side of the pier were moored a num- ber of coal and cotton barges, while on the south side was the steamer’ San Marcos and a number of barges, Denth of Mrs. Chatham. Mrs. Sarah T. Chatham, aged twenty- three years, wife of Private GW. Chatham, Battery M, of the 7th Artillery, died Saturday at Columbia Hospital. Mrs’ Chatham was the daughter of a soldier, ag well as the wife of one, her father, Thomas Kirby, being at present attached to Battery A of the 8d Artillery on duty in California. She leaves tWo children, the eldest being two years of age. The funeral will take place from St. Dominic's Church tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock, and the interment will be made in Mount Olivet cemetery, New York THE CHICAGO STRIKE Labor Situation in Windy City Has National Significance, POLITICAL PHASE OF THE SITUATION sl Prediction That a Settlement Will Be Effected Soon. ee THE LOSSES INVOLVED Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. CHICAGO, May 5, 1900, The labor situation in this city is of na- tional interest. It is complex, far-reaching in its effects and involves certain princi- ples over which controversy has raged from the time labor and capital first organized to resist the imposition of one upon the other. There are today in Chicago 40,000 skilled workmen who are idle as a conse- quence of the present difficulty, which is a combination of strike and lockout. In hard- ly an instance is there a question of wages at issue. It is estimated that the average daily wage of these men, were they at work, would be at least $3. Men who are idle are those concerned with the building trades and as a result of their refusing to work less than half a million dollars’ worth of building is now in progress, and that under police protection, while, on the other hand, between fifty and sixty million dol- lars’ worth has been suspended. It is now too late In the season to commence large buildings, so there can be no resumption of operation until next spring, even if an agreement was reached by the interests at war. This means great hardship for many people next winter, and in this question is involved the living of perhaps Broad!y speaking, there are to this controversy, the workmen, the con- tractors, supply men and the citizens. The workmen are represented by the Building Trades Council, the contractors by the Building Contractors’ Council, the supply men by another council and the citizens by individual grievance agal the others. While it is true that some violence has been done during the past eight months of labor trouble, the class of men who are idle ts the very best. The laborer proper is not involved, it is the carpenter, the ma- son, the plumber and the fitter who are waging the war. As a rule these men are intelligent, fairly well educated and full of pluck and resource. They are mostly of American, German or Scandinavian parent- age and do not include the so-~ led dan- &erous or anarchistic element always pre: ent in a big city like Chicago. Casualties in the Labor War. In the past eight months five men have been killed and 110 assaulted on account of labor difficulties. The stories of intimida- tion are largely exaggerated as were shown by the peace which prevailed during the Dewey celebration, despite the sensational stories sent out to the press from Chicago. in which all kinds of trouble was predicted for the occasion of his visit. The war ha been and still is largely a question of en- durance. The workmen in the butlding trades are organized into unions, all of which unions are represented as a body by the Trades Council, and through this coun- cil all action has been taken he princ h has hinged rly strike or have been: First, that the union the right to limit the amou i second, that union should er a@ man from one pal demands of the union, upon ne 5 wh lock-out, should Ive » be done the walking delegates ave the right to tran job to another at will regardless of the wishes of the emplo: demanded the working sin England wherebyya am fitter ut on ain numb of threads day or a plumber joints, no matter how sh may take or how much mot employer in the eight hours 5 lowed to proceed, the » idea hold vod In all the trades. The right to er workmen fram b to fed the pov on to a i fternoon and order 4 man ing on t hb to plek up his te to seme her employer upon wh the delegate desired to put more men demands were ted by th vrs and form the isis of me trouble, , has a grie men who have a sue ue of all building: maty s of Chicag lowed to us of the o'ele 2p) bought outside > kept up above their 1 re sold for use ot of Chicago cheaper than they could be bought for use inside The man who wanted bricks to use in Elgin, Ill, could bay them $1 a thousand cheaper in Chicago than he could if they were to be din the city. The citizen who de » put up a building thus had a grievat against all concerned. Dilemma of the Contractors. The workmen demand high wages, with control of their own time and movements. 7 actor can give no guarantee of satisfaction; the supply trust charges him what it pleases for his material. The result is that it is not only expen: to build, but, in fact, almost impossi owing 10 the continual conflfct between those who do the actual building, The citizen or the cor- poration, therefore, no matter how desirous of improving his property, can do nothing but leave the money In the bank, which would otherwise be expended for iabor and quickly into channels where it ed. Such a condition, if con- ns depression in all ss, idleness and want for thousands of people. and 1s a decided set- back to any community, no matter how large or firmly established, to say nothing of the increase in crime which inevitably results. Political Phase of the Situation. The present labor troubles fn Chicago commenced in the spring of 1899, and since that time there has been more or less poli- cted Into the dispute, as was to be d, The repullican machine of Cook county has more or less taken sides with the contractors and supply men. The dem- ocratic machine has sided, to a certain ex- tent, with the workmen. This latter affilia- Jed to considerable criticism of r Carter Harrison, who has been ac- ed of encouraging the political labor leaders and of overlooking a laxity in the police protection given to those who found it necessary to stil carry on building opera- tions. Fearing the effect of some disturb- durmg the Dewey parade, Mayor Hur- ssued a proclamation calling for a pectful treatment of the visitor, and it was given out to the police that more en- ergy must be expended in maintaining order. Coincident with this, he removed Edward Carroll, president of the Building Trades Council, from the office of chairman of the civil service commission. Carroil is looked upon as the leader of the workmen in this strike, and this action by the mayor is taken by some to mean that he has parted company, to a certain degree, with one element in his political support. By others, however, this is taken to mean that the predicted disintegration of the Trades Council has commenced, and that with Carroll and cthers discredited as lead- ers, the different branches of the building trade will withdraw from the council, or cease to heed its commands and treat with the contractors for arbitration and a com- promise settlement of the trouble. There Is no question but that many of the workmen are dissatisfied with the present condition of affairs, and are willing to acknowledge they are asking more than can be given them. A realization of what the present strike has cost the people of Chicago, and the conditions sure to prevail in ccense- quence next winter is becoming more gen- eral, and has given rise to more openly ex- pressed anxiety to put an end to the diffi- culty. Predictions as to Settlement. It {s freely predicted that the strike in its main features will be ended within thirty days, but the conditions of the bullding trade In Chicago when readjustment finally comes will be vastly different from that of eight months ago, greatly to the advan- tages of the large investor, but to the ruin of many contractors. The latter are divided into three classes. Those with unlimited means and credit, those who are fairly well P cont to do, and those who require the invest- ors to furnish money as a bullding pro- gresses. The first class, known as the big general contractors, does not comprise more than a dozen firms. The major part of the building is done by the second class, and the third class takes in all the smaller Jobs the others do not care to handie The result of the present strike when brought to an end will be the death of the material and supply@rusts, the wiping out of nearly all of the sma!l contractors. the failure of many of the middle class and the Sreat prosperity of the big general con- tractors. The present scale of wages will be continued, the unic right to regulate the amount of work done in a day and the right to transfer men from one job to another at will. It 1s freely predicted that within a year the Greater part of all building operations in Chicago of any magnitude will be in the hands of a half dozen firms with large financial resources. The reason for this is that capital will not undertake a great building and run any risk itself. It will require the contractor to finance the entire investment until the structure is ready to be turned over to the owners. This will shut out from competition all except those who can furnish the millions necessary to carry on such a business. The downfall of the material trust will come through this condition also, for these general contractors buy at will in any part of the country, and are not dependent upon any local supply. Loan to the Building Trades. In the meantime Chicago has lost a se son which promised to be one of great prosperity. Times are good in all other lines of business and money is plentiful and ready for investment. Plans were made this spring for six great skyscrapers, and among the other buildings upon which wo us been suspended are the $3,000,000 post office and a half dozen large city chool buildings. None of these can be built this year, and few will be commenced until another spring. The_ scale of wages paid in Chicago Speaks for itself, so far as it concerns this controversy. It is as high or higher than in any other city, and will prevail when the strike ends as it did before. Common labor receives day and skilled labor from $2.50 to $6 for eight hours’ work. The workmen of Chicago ve lost in the pre ent trouble ovgr $20,000,000 in wages, owing to the demarids of their Trades Council, and many millions more must be added for the loss incident to the passing of an entire building s When the trouble is over unionism will not have met defeat, for the individual unions will be as strong as ever. Capital and labor are both strongly orgar ized, each jealous of its rights and neither will yield to unjust demand. This is the lesson of the strike and it is paid for, as usual, by labor, which can least afford to foot the bills. The unorganized citizen of Chicago will extract his crumb of comfort from the situation in the downfall of the material trust. J. D. WHELPLEY, ———___ FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. Mr. Pearre Tries to Have Appropria- tion Increased. Im the House Saturday afternoon Pearre of Maryland made an effort to e passed an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill, increasing the appropria- tion for the office of attorney of the United States for the District of Columbia, by 36,700. “This is a great public necessity,” said Mr. Pearre. “I am informed by Gen. An- derson, the United States district attorney, a prominent and distinguished lawyer from the state of Ohio, that he is entirely with- out the necessary legal assistance properly Mr. to conduct the office of the United States district attorne This deficiency in legal assistance ar from the fact that the "s office in the riet_ of Col s of the = done cuits in Ut “The dist Slates. et attorney has asked for t an increase of $6, resent appropriation or over the on for t ar. It will in to the es annual . and even with this incre: . of $6,700 ther, = in favor of t amounting to fift rop: observed rnment ¢ gov . balan government 1 do} a surpl arising from the o orne rand a wary and the = . sir, this office » office of the ¢ southern of office of the dis do $10.00) the di iet of Columbia. The thern dis of New Yor s allowed $00) for clerks, against $6.00 has an allowance of $3444W), while of Colun is but $2 to me, Mr. Chairman, ufficient to induce the gentleman from Tline point of o (Mr. Cannon) to withdraw another view to take of the vari er of which is performed by attorney's office in the Distric charge all crimi: ion of the gen: criminal the laws United ng to the of Columb against the Is of the United ict of Columbla when sued indiv matters growing out of their offi n (th include injunction, s ons broug proceedings) ated in the in the This office nd any other ad St as I have stated, 2 nll that is done in all the of the United States. I urge upon the gen- teman from Tlinois, on account of the ity of the mat that he withdraw point of order and permit this appro . which is absolutely ublic service.” insisted upon the point of ary for the Cannon Mr. order and the amendment was ruled out. ‘The House then passed the sundry ci vil. It carries a little over $61 about $10,000,000 more than any previous sundry civil bill, The general deficiency and military academy appropriation bill are now the only general supply bills unact- ed upon by the House. PROTECTION OF SONG BIRDS, 1 Consul General Dubois Describes the Swiss Methods, Consul Generat Dubois at St. Gall has made a report to the State Department in regard to the methods pursued in Switzer- land for the protection of song birds, in which he says: “Switzerland has not many feathered songsters, but those that do exist are care- fully protected, not only by law, but by the fostering care of the people, particular- ly the German-speaking people of Switzer- land. In 1875 a law was enacted prohibit- ing the trapping or killing of song birds or the robbing or molesting of their nests in any part of the Alpine republic. But in northern Italy bird murder is epidemic, and this spirit has spread over the Swiss Italian canton of Tessin, where the willow wren, hedge sparrow, black cap, swallow, nightingale and little singers of all kinds are victims of the trap, the net and the gun. “As the seasons come and go the Swiss birds make their pilgrimage south, and in going and returning across the land of northern Italy and the Swiss canton of Tessin they are mercilessly pursued by hunters of all eges and all classes. On the Jake of Maggorie it is estimated that at least 60,000 of the feathered songsters are trapped or killed every year, and in the region round about Bergamo, Verona, Chi- avena and Brescia many millions are indis- criminately slaughtered to satisfy the de- mand of the tables and of the millinery establishments of the world. “One of the schemes is to cover the limbs of trees and the rocks, and even the tele- graph wires, along the line of the bird Migrations with a certain paste of such adhesive qualities that whenever the birds stop in their flight for rest or food they are held helpless captives; hundreds are often captured in a very small space by this simple means. “During the past year the border police of Tessin captured and destroyed 13,000 bird traps set to imprison these weary lit- tle flyers, Authorities are being urged to take the most rigorous measures to sup- iS Will be refused the | Li ee ee ee ee eh ee a ee ae ae eee Senne ee ee ae a a ae ae $7.50 Serge Suits => =) xR 2 @ 3 Despite the big advance in woolens, we are again able to offer our celebrated “Colonial” blue serge suits at $7.50. The cloth absolutely all wool and fast color—and that we made them at our own fac- tory is sufficient evidence of their correctness in all other ways. We are sure that no better suit can he found for $10—and if we hadn't placed our order for the goods very carly, we couldn't sell them for less than that ourselves. We sold several thousand this season through. BROS ————— ———— } suits last season—we're afraid COR .7E ann & it we won't have enough to last Bs ae ac a Serfovtonlnlenfostestostostoets aa an aie EEE gies SEE Ce za Zi ase aS ios” 6 8 — Ss zVU Over 100 different stsles. Can ft any shape. To wear them is to learn how they ft. No Corset in the world contains better valu Price, Fe. to $5.0 per pair. Ask your dealer, or write I. NEWMAN & SONS, 441 Bway, N.Y. Catalogues free on application. mbi4-w,f.m.20lee24m. wf 260 aa a a ea t Forced ¢ oo : Retiring = = : Sale. = Moving our Business to New York. b 9 3 Mann’s i Entire stock of Ladies’ : Wearing Apparel to be closed $ out at ridiculou = figures, pre- paratory to removing to New York city. Everything must be sold— $ nothing reserved. Imported = and Domestic Suits, Coats, £ Skirts, Waists. eckwear, Collars, ete. An unusual op- portunity to purchase new % goods at half price. This = sale will close within one ¢ wee! = $75.00 Costumes and Wraps for $37.50 ntetnntethetentndeied 3 $50.00 ones for $25.00. $35.00 ones for $17.50. “4 $30.00 ones for $15.00. . : $20.00 ones for $10.00. ‘ $15.00 ones for $7.50. = MANN’S, 1111 F St. 3 - 1 Sak =; $ z es 4 'Hoeke’s.. Get the baby out all you can these pleasant day The lines of Baby Carriages and Go-Carts we carry are the very best made —and anybody’s purse can find its measure among the great assortment we are showing. The standard styles and the latest, most elabor- ate novelties. Another great need now in housebolds Is a Refrigerator. If you buy one of our Wisconsin Pex you'll get the most satisfaction t had at any price. HOEKE, 3 Home's Fittings. Pa. Ave. and Sth St. vir mont PSOUCPES PEPER OTHE GO GD GIPO HD GED UGH ODGIOHD| PORIEGHS PO CCE TSC ISH HIS FAHD FBO © Soresrs TOO FOSS: te = = —s press the evil. The criminal courts aré having many more bird- si than formerly, and bird-catching-and-kill- ing crim: which in former years were either overlooked or punished only slightly, are new dealt with seriously. The excel lent laws are being enforced, and the sont birds of Switzerland may yet survive thé attempt to exterminate them.” + 0+ - Protection of Public Health. The Senate committee on public healt! and national quarantine held a protract session Saturday, having under considera- tion Senator Vest’s bill amending the act granting additional powers to the maring hospital service. Deeming it undesirable to act on the measure without expert testis mony upon the subject, the committee de= cided to extend invitations to appear before it next Friday to Surgeon General Wymay and the health officers of the ports of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, Mobile, Charleston, 8. C., and Jacksonville, Fla. —————— The Mexican Boundary Negotiations, Another extension has been made of thé time allowed by treaty for the delimitation of the water boundary between the United States and Mexico. Secretary Hay and Senor Aspiroz Saturday signed a treaty of a single article extending the time limit one year from December 20 last. The work of marking the boundary is progressing’ rapidly, but owing to questions encountered relative to sovereignty over lands whic! have been transferred from one bank of the erratic Rio Grande to the other, it has not been possible to complete the work as soon as Was expected when the origina} treaty was drawn. w-violai

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