The Washington Bee Newspaper, September 21, 1895, Page 1

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1895. i SEVERAL BUILDINGS BURN AND TELEGRAPH LINES ARE DOWN. | } | es ol L08S 18 ALREADY $4,000,000 | * iVE STORY WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH BUILDING DAMAGED. ndiana National Bank’s Building and the | Building Occupied by the United States and American Express Companies With | the Carpet House of Eastman, Schleighter & Lee Destroyed With Its Stock Valued at $200,000—Fire is Still Burning but the Western Unton Building May be Saved in Part—About $2,000,000 Said to Have Ibeen in the Vaults ef the Indiana Bank— No Fear That it Has Been Destroyed by the Great Heat—Full Amount of the Loss Not Yet Computed. — “aa polis, via Long Distance Tele- Sept. 18—At six o'clock this a fire broke eut in the five- ing on Washington street, 5 1 Meriden and Pennsylvania, oc- ipled by the firm of Eastman, Sleicher & Lee. It spread immediately to the stone building on the east occupied by the Indiana National Bank, thence to the Pacific and American Ex- press building. The fire then com- | municated to the five-story Western Meriden street. This building is now burning. Eastman, Sleicher & Lee, the In- na National Bank and the Express mpany’s office have been entirely de- yed. The loss is estimated at this at about a million dollars. It is | sible, however, to secure figures. The Western Union building may be i, but has been deserted, as the r floor has been destroyed. The firm of Eastman, Sleicher & | Lee carried a stock of carpets, etc., valued at $200,000. The insurance is not known. It is the greatest fire in the history of the city. All telegraphic communica- tion has been shut off. The banking room of the Indiana Bank had recently been rebuilt at a cost of $60,000. Near the bank building is the four- story brick building occupied by the Pa- cific Express and the United States Ex- t Companies, whose office rooms are above. Next comes the three-story build- ing occupied by George Manfield, cloth- ing merchant, and George Wingerter, to- baceo dealer. These buildings and stocks were badly damaged. To the west, around the corner on Meriden street, is the Blackford building, four gt high, and of brick. This is ocoupied by the West- ern Union Telegraph Company, Ameri- | n Express, Boston Clothing Company d the Big Four railroad offices, and the pencerian Business College. Any damage sustained in the block will c:cents occurred during the fire. The property was well insured. s i SCHOHARIE DEMOCRATS MEET. Delegates Selected to the State and Sena- | torial Conventions. 18—The Democrats y held their convention afternoon and elected the {2 . Brown, Watson Lamoni, | Senatorlal—J. Edward - Dox, Olen A. Snyder, H. Menzo Young, C. W. Vro- Baldwin. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. of tree and vines, but nners buy everything they us barber in Kansas pro- | or of the ton- that he has aving parlor.” iniroduced a special telephones, the object s tg avoid the spread of dis- sed moisture of the A pad of a large number of yer, With a hole in the mi into the mouthpiec and the upper dise is torn off after every conversation. chair in a Douglass | iite IN PES if } LEED Uae a AMAUGUA BEGINS TO-DAY. | Southerners Have Great Curiosity to See Governor Morton Who Will Arrive With @ Special Train To-Morrow Morning— Governors McKinley, Altgeld, Werts, Woodbury and Rich Arrive With Their Staffs This Morning—Secretary Lamont Present—Blue and Gray Meet in Brother- ly Relations Years After the Battle. Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 18.—Nine com- | panies of the Tennessee State Guards | left last night on a special train for Chat- ‘tanooga, to be jolned there by other companies to participate In the National Park dedication. About 1,500 troops of the State, infantry and artillery, will be on hand. Specials have been passing through this city all day and regular trains are crowded to suffocation. Governor Mor- ton, of New York, and staff will reach here to-morrow. Governor Altgeld, staff and party passed through to-day. The dedication of the monuments on the Chickamauga field will occupy the |day. Ohio, with fifty-five monuments, "| Will have the most interesting cere- Seek the sunlight is the advice of | all present-day hygie Patic on the sunny side of the hospiial w recover st. The person who a = on the outlives brother by ten yea where t day. Bask in the sun all you can, anc your d g s and doctor's notes wil Zo to protest. In the fifteen years since he left ccl- Mr. Reid $s not unpopular with the party lead- = ers. It may be that he severely criti- The editor of the New York Tribune, cised some of the party leaders, but | Whitelaw Reid, is one of the best) that did not make him unpopular with WHITELAW REID. = | known editors in this country. It is onti ate arty acatia e Theodore Roosevelt has served | y the entire republican party. Harrison ee terms as an Albany legislator, true that he was at one time the Vice-| and Reid should have been elected, en half a dozen boo! c ranch life and hunting in the far Wesv and been a Civil Service Commission- er, while now he has in prospect a Police Commissicnership and the dig- | nity of Overseer at Harvard, with a United States Senatorship outlining itself in the distance. For a young man of thirty-seven, and a rich young man at that, this is doing pretty well. Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, may be a “poor white” in profession, but he is not so in practice. His father owned a plantation of 12,000 | acres near Edgefield and had seventy slaves, and the son never harmed his hands with work. He had a college education and now lives in comfort and some little style on a handsome estate. Eccentricities run in the Sen- ator’s family. for his brother, a man so well informed that he is styled a | walking cyclopaedia, never wears a necktie or a pair of cuffs. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. A Western paper speaks of a duel between two “jackassperated individ- uals.” Bicyclists must learn to ride before they are allowed to use their wheels in the public streets of Russian cities. The eagle teaches self reliance to its young. When the little eagles are able to fly they are banished from the home nest. Are blacksmiths who muke a living | by forging, or carpenters who do a lit- ue counter-fitting, any worse than | other men who sell iron and steel for a living? The Maine sheriff who compels the tramps he arrests to wash their clothes as well as themselves is hereby ap- pointed an honorary life member of the soap mission. The Atchison Globe learns that the | summer girl will wear shirt waists | again, and her friends will have an- ‘other season of following her around to pin her together in the back. Presidential candidate with Mr. Harri-) and if the party leaders had known son, and it is said had he not been! that such times as these would have | nominated the republican ticket would existed Mr. Cleveland never would have been elected. This is not true.| have been elected President of the President Harrison was unpopular with! United States. The New York Tri- the politicians, and it was evident from} bune, of which Mr. Reid is editor, is |the start, when he removed General | the national organ of the. republican | Clarkson from the chairmanship of the! party, and a paper that is well edited |national committee, that he would be| and influential among the party leaders. SUPPORTING GREGORY, WHEREABOUTS OF PEOPLE. DR. RANKIN OPPOSING THE COLORED| Miss Eva A. Chase has returned from EXECUTIVE cCom-| Louisville, Ky. ELECTS A COLORED TEACH-| Hon. B. K. Bruce has left the city for a few days. The executive committee of the gen-| _Hon. Ne Ross as still out of the eral committee of Howard University | Ct Weeds) ae as = se é met this week and Dr. Rankin recom-| oe Danie’ a ans ooisenit at jeaee : . vs .q|charge of the Freedman’s Hospital, mended the appointment of a colored! 1,5 returned to the city from Chicago, | teacher. Ill. | nes a CL98 end Werks opposed {| Col. Andrew Gleason will visit New the motion, and offered a substitute to \ York shortly on political business. the effect that no action be taken LEO) Miss Victoria Thompson has returned the appointment of teachers until the | to the city from Louisville, Ky. SxceOryy aera settled. he subs-| I Mattie Bowen has returned from titute was defeated. The three white | Richmond, Va., where she has been as members, including Dr. Rankin, voted|a delegate to the True Reformers against the colored trustees. |meeting, and one of the ladies who : Mr. Cook offered a resolution direct- la blind plan. ing Dr. Rankin to call a meeting of the | | board of trustees within twenty days. This motion was defeated. Dr. Rankin is doing all in his power to defeat those trustees who are favor- 5 : Misses Ida and Jennie Brown, daugh- instate: f P n able to the reinstatement of Prof. |ters of Mrs. Bishop J. M. Brown, left |Gregory. Itis reported that the trustee | for Louisville, Ky., last week to visit | board will not meet until the Novem-|their aunt, Mrs. Wm. Gibson, to re- {ber 15. The meeting was postponed, maibiscme Weeks Mase Mamie Brown, ware J ditothe alumni of towel after spending a delightful summer up Boat aS Boots = : jin the mountains of Pennsylvania has ard University, at the suggestion of | returned to the city looking splendidly. | Trustee mee AS is not believed that | Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Cox, and four Mg. Bruce wil.‘%ke any opposition to) boys and their adopted daughter, Miss Mr. William Tignor has returned to the city from Loudon County, Va. Mr. S. W. Edwards, of New York, was in the city this week on business. | voted to give $50,000 to Rey. Brown for | |monies. No other State had so many soldiers in the battle as Ohio, and no | other State has so many monuments. The Ohio dedication exercises will oceur at noon on Snodgrass Hill, a famous | point in the battle. Bishop Joyce, of the | Methodist Episcopal Church, will open |the exercises with prayer; General | Charles H. Grosvenor will give a brief | history of the conception of the park; ex- | Governor Campbell will make an ad- | dress, and John S. Gill, secretary, and | Captain J. C. McElroy, financial agent, | of the Ohio Commission, will make re- | ports detailing the work since it was be- | gun three years ago, when the appro- | priation of $79,000 was made by the State for memorials to her troops. After these reports General Aquila Wiley will make an address and formally turn the monu- ments over to Governor McKinley, the orator of the day. The Governor will de- | liver his oration, and at its close will in | turn formally transfer the monuments to Secretary Lamont as the representa- tive of the National government. Music will be furnished by some of the military bands present. This is to be the general type of pro- gramme adopted for the exercises of each State, the others being Illinois, | Minnesota, indiana, Massachusetts, Wis. consin, Missouri and Michigan. Minne- sota will dedicate her monuments at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon at Snod- grass Hill; Indiana at Lytle Hill; Wis- Ui Aa yo Wi beatrarcan anyther part of they jeld, and'Massa/ ‘sett?! on Orchard Kn, in the suburbs of Chat.anooga, where the monument of the Secend and Thirty-third Massachusetts Infantry stands. The fact that Governor McKinley and | cause a concentration of interest and at- tendance about Snodgrass Hill. Seere- tary Lamont is looked on as the person- |4l representative of President Cleveland, who cannot be here, end who, in fact, was not invited to come. There is much curiosity to see Gov- ernor Morton, of New York. He has never figured much in occasions of this kind and his face is not a familiar one to Western or Southern people. There is easion with his presence. New York jhas no monuments on Chickamauga battle fleld proper, though in and about Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge there are expensive monuments mark- ing the positions of New York regi- ments. General Daniet E. Sickels, Gen- eral Daniel Butterfield, L. G. Steg- man, Colonel Clinton Beckwith, Major Cc. A. Richardson and Colonel J. A. Zabriskie, comprising the New York Commission, came in late Monday night and are quartered on Lookout Moun- tain. They have spent the day riding over the Chickamauga field. The busiest man in Chattanooga is H. Clay Evans, the rightfully elected Re- publican Governor of the State. He is the man most asked for by Northern visitors, because of ‘his magnificent campaign for Governor last fall. He has taken such an active part in the pre- liminaries for the Chicamauga dedica- tion that no little popularity will accrue | from his services. ; The fact that he is entertaining Gov- !ernor McKinley has caused rumors that Secretary Lamont will take part will | | nothing for him to do but grace the oc- | --- ..crmat arma Wil (aK it ON tO San Francisco. The cruisers Bennington and Olympia have gone to La Haina, one of the neigh- | boring islands, as the captains of the vessels are afraid to remain in port. Resi- | dents of the island positively refuse to | allow passengers or freight from lulu to be lai.ted a ee Azote and Alix to Trot at Springfield. Springfield, Lls., Sept. 18—The Board of Agriculture has just closed a contract for the appearance at the State Fair of the celebrated race horse Azote and Alix. They will be raced against Alix’s world record of 2.08 3-4. Agote will minke the attempt Wednesday afternoon and Alix Friday afternoon. " OHAT WITH GIRLS. — To Talk With Fluency and Ease May be Acquired. Many a girl, intelligent, dducated, as our ideas go, is mortified by her lack of ease in conversation. She finds other girls, inferior in actual abiltty, ever ready in the shifting around game we call small talk, and is forced to the conclu- sion that shallowness is the passpert to social favor. But she is mistaken; she fs simply in the condition of a person over- loaded with large bills when there is need for a little small change. | Perhaps she is self-conscious; perhaps —let me whisper it—she is selfish, like the man in Punch, who said: “Oh, Robin- son is such a bore! He’s always talking about himself and his affairs when I want to talk about myself and my af- fairs.” | There is one great reason for this lack of conversational power—in too many cases the art is never practised inside the home circle. No attempt at pleasant converse is ever made save when visi- tors are present; the various members of the family may gossip a little, or discuss | Purely personal affairs, but they make no attempt at entertaining talk. | In point of fact, the art of conversation | Is like a game of battledore and shuttle- | cock—one needs the quickness and dex- terity of constant practicé. In many busy households the only general gather- ing of the family is at meal time—a time above all others when worry should be banished, if only for the sake of physical comfort. Yet this is the very time when the mother will complain of domestic worry, the father of business cares, and | the daughters of shabby frocks. | All this should be changed. It ought to be a rule in all households that dis- agreeables are to be banished at meal time. If complaints must be made let | them come at a proper time, but do not imperil your digestion by eating while you are in an irritated and discontented | frame of mind. Pleasant talk, relieved | by an occasional laugh, will be more | DeweNelal than pounds of pills. In the | household there should not only be an avoidance of unpleasant topics, but an | attempt to find agreeable ones. Each member of the family should come to the table prepared to say something pleasant. Any bright little story or merry joke, | or any bit of world’s news that will | Ioosen the tongues and cause animated ; talk—how it will increase the brightness | of a working day! There need be n found discussions, no hobby-riding; should be lively touch-and-go talk. the girls talk just a bit about gov chiffons if they w: let the boys athletics, for in this family parliament every one should have a right to be heard. But let the gen nge be of the newspaper order—whai all the world lis doing. Judicial Dignity Outraged. Brown, now of the general -aid La’ tay he ia s so drun own on the ts n the top of h plaintifé on th d Jimmy Brown; ‘doesn't erence what’s his name.’ n shustained,” solemnly Court. do you live?’ say a largely from smoke and water. At | “5 a ly a bins ote i 1 ok the fire on Weshington street | 4 theatrical company tried to amuse |tJe reinstatement of Prof. Gregory | M. A. Robinson, who have been spend -| McKinley is working for the Tennessee under control, but the Western | 499 jynatics in an asylum at Dixmont, | hen every colored trustee on the |iMg some time at Bull Run, have re-| delegation and is willing to offer some n building was still blazing up. The | z = | 2 +, | turned to the city. | support to Evans for second place. There r floors sic used as battery and | Pa, by producing a droll play at (§oard is favorable to his reappoint-| y ie Tae ‘gossip which includes the name ng rooms. ace soe they mere pects ee He (ment. |. Mr. and Mrs, John H. Butcher re-| o¢ Evans with that of Morton on a Presi- ires were burned of commu- (ical scene eli S \ ““Shustained,” said the Justice, looking Solomon. What is your age?’ asked Smith. “ ‘Object,’ complained Jimmy with an tion cut off. three-story brick on Meridan street he Western Union building, oc- | the Mayer Stencil Company | aloon of George Weiss, was | i with water. The great vault in fana National Bank, which is | in the rear of the building and | on Pearl street, contains nearly | in cash. The flames licked | everything around it, but the | s believed to be safe. | s the alley from the burned quar- 1 Washington street, stands the y Pettis dry goods building, built and brick. The smoke penetrat- s building and the window sills t fire. The water was turned on upper floors were soon flooded. soaked through to the base- the loss will ‘be tremendous. s owns the Bastman, Sleicher ding and is now in Switzer- in the Vestern Union building laced under control about 9:30 a. m. struments in the operating room / estroyed and the battery floor just | v burned away. The entire build- | as water-soaked, and many offices amaged. aw office of A. C. Harris, over the < rooms, contained a brary of 1 worth $15,000, which were oved, as was ever-thing else The Postal Telegraph c was slightly damaged by fire and * $$» —_—___—_—_—_— \E (NEB.) WIPED OUT BY FIRE. | iness Houses Burned and $100,- | 300 Damage Done. pai Sept. 18.—This town has | ts, ‘ped out by fire, Forty) Va iwere burned, with con-| 7 x residences. ‘The! \en, & 4 other towns sent) capparatus, which | iempervice. A fiercs | . work. If a pauper who able to work refuses to do so they put him in a lunafte: “Wonder where these fools |came from.” It is said that the first cost of build- ing 4 fleet of Atlantic liners is a triflgy |compared with the cost of running them. In less than three Pears it ex- ceeds the cost of cMésiruction, so enormous is the consYaiit expenditure in wages, port dues4nd repairs, The Dutch are no{ond of lazy peo- ple, and they have a Vory-qgood way of curing persons who can Won't a cistern, to which a pump is tiach- ed, and turn on a stream of ‘Waiter, This stream flows into the cistern just slow enough to enable the lazy perjon | by lively pumping to keep the waar from getting over his head. As far as is known, swallows’ mi- gratory flights are always carried on by day. The fact that, though war- blers and other migrants, are con- stantly found dead around lighthouses having dashed themselves against the | windows of the lanterns, swallows have never been known to meet their e in this way, furnishes strong pre- tive evidence of this peculiarity oi the swallow tribe. —_——_—_———__——. Pees eae fore Untmamen + On temned. Shangh. the massaere at Ku-Cheng is vroceed- ing to the satisfaction of the American and British Consuls. There have been a number of important convictions. Among those condemned/are some of |.the ringleaders of the riot. Advertise in the Bee. i. Mr. Bruce left town a few days ago, |turned to the city a few days ago. | dential ticket. | While away they visited Boston, New- , Sept. 5.—The inquiry into | iNer will be considered. orth and East. They had a delight- Ifo when he returns the Gregory mat | pom and other points of interest in the j ful time. | N. J., but formerly of Washington is in } | the city accompanied by her two little 3 daughters, and are the guests of her | Elaborate arrangements have been sister Mrs. Bettie Shinn, of South | made by the Alexandria people to ob- | Washington. | serve the National Emancipation Act, | next Monday, the 23d inst. Our Wash-} ington people will be represented in line | | by the famous Cadet Corps, the veteran | AT ALEXANDRIA, VA. the Misses Throckmorton of Vermont avenue is visiting Atlantic City, N. J. This morning witnessed the arrival of many Governors, including Altgeld, of Illinois; Werts, of New Jersey; Wood- bury, of Vermont, and Rich, of Mi-hi- gan, all accompanied by their military | NATIONAL EMANCIPATION DAY) Mrs. Mary Clements, of Jersey City, | stafis im dazzling uniforms. ; There can be no estimate of the crowds which will pour into Chattanooga this week. Besides the Chickamauga exef- cises proper, the presence of so many distinguished men will draw great ex- cursions from far and near. Among these who are here now or will be here Mrs. Anna Downing,, the sister of{are Vice-President Stevenson, Secre- taries Lamont, Herbert and Carlisle, At- orney-General Harmon and Postmaster- |General Wilson, General Schofield and | Butler Infantry, the stately Capitol) Miss Jeannette E. Anderson has ar-| General Miles, Colonel Fred. D. Grant City Guards, the Catholic Knights, | rived in the city from Silcott Springs, | | Knights of Jerusalem” and various; Va.. much improved by her summer other organizations. Invitations have | vacation. : jalso been received by the Colored Dis | Miss Anna Ross, who has been sum |trict Bar Association. Hon. John) mering at Asbury ParkpN. J., has ar- Mercer Langsten will be the orator |rived in the citv and is stopping with he day. His subject “WHat has} ,).~— | 2mancipation Brought Us.”” The Na-| Miss Medora F. Barker, of George- tional Military Brass Ban‘, Prof, (Ease |mail has been landed from the steamer | Thomas Washington will head the| Miss Jennie Jones spent a delightful | parade. | vacation at the White Sulphur Springs, | The Editor Magnus L. Robirf0n, the | Virginia. ) superb organizer will bein charte ofthe celebration. We can but awaitthe day |lottesville, Va., is in the city. By the| | 5 { "4 y aurel of suc- | Zs 2 | crown him with another laurel o! | way, he is booked for a speech in AL | cess. a e a sp | The Washington guests willleave on | exandria at the emancipation celebra: | the 10:30 ferry boat next Monddy a. m. | "02. 2 - 2 | | At night a big entertainmentWwill be j Se ssioner J. W. Ross will return} given in Odd Fellows Hall. ‘ | to the city to-day. : . Rev. Alexander Truatt, of Char-| : | Judge Miller will resume his position | Death from cholera in Clina and }on the bench in the police court Mon-; | 5 5 iis | day morning. | {Japan is fearful. The labstyre-! M t cate ‘ a a |} = Mr. F. T. Hyman and Miss Maggie | |port is as many as 17,35f peopic,, Robinson were quietly married fast| |have died up to August : This heck : =f | } Twelve young ladies will receive the W: 3 arm weather is the cay of EO! 2 oss of the Daughters of the King at ;much sickness, | S¥. Luke’s Church to-morrow morning: greatest generals. a HONOLULU CHOLERA-SCOURGED. Forty-six Deaths Have Occurred and Bust- ness is Suspended for a Week. San Francisco, Sept.18.—The Hawatian io Janeiro, bringing the following: Honolulu, Sept. 13.—There have been fifty-nine cases of cholera up to date, with forty-six deaths since the scourge broke out. Two white people were at- tacked yesterday and have since died. C. L. Doge, business manager of the Ha- waiian Star and formerly of San Diego, Cal., was one of the victims. Mr. Car- roll, a nurse, was the other. The city is in a state of alarm and busi- ness will be suspended for one week, while a house-to-house inspection will be made, Radical measures will be adopted to stamp out the disease. In nearly every case, the cause of death has been traced to poisonous fish. ‘The scourge is not believed to be Asf- atic cholera. No Chinese or Japanese have been attacked, although there are thougands in Honolulu. The steamship ava #4beifo Was Oranipites fra mianq== and P. T. Sherman, sons of the nation’s | injured air. “The wise old man allowed the objec- fon. “At this Smith, springing *~ 3is feet, called the Sduire a drunke 4.) ,© 41, and adde* other complimers;,,..2¢m it was }the Squire’s turn ft... set mhd. ‘Where's Fry?’ he bellowed. Fry, the constable, |emerged from the crowd with a broad | grin on his face. This grin enraged the | Squire beyond endurance, and address- | Ing himself to the constable, he roared: |‘Stand up there. I fine you $6 fer lettin’ | George Smith inshult me on the bench. Court’s adjourned.’ Then walking out | with great unsteadiness and equal dig- nity he banged the door behind hm.”— \ Chicago Inter-Ocean,. He Agreed With Her. A witty and popular New York cirgy- man, whom everybody knows by mputa- \tion, had a laughable and at the same /time unpleasant experience recenly. One Sunday not long ago he wa going {up the steps of his Fifth avenu¢hurch |when he was asked by an old la¥ (who, |of course, did not know him) t@elp her jup the steps. With his usuf courtly grace he complied with her retest. On reaching the top steps she hal breath- jlessly and asked him who w 8oing to preach that day. “The Rev. Mr. Blank,” h¢ePlied, giv- ing his own name. “Oh, Lord!” exclaimed /¢ old lady- “help me down again. Tfather lsieu to a man sharpening 4 Please help me down again. atc) ‘won't go in.” lied jad gently as- tay again, remark- sidewalk: “I = $1 wasn’t paid for {