The Washington Bee Newspaper, September 21, 1895, Page 8

aemestagh nic Ot: Daal 5 a Apo Pa DR ee pete SY = THE WASHINGTON BEE. The musical season will be a lively one. Madame Sisseretta Jones will make her appearance here this win- ter. Mrs. Flora Batson Bergan is gaining popularity wherever she goes. The crews excursion of the George Leary was largely attended on Wed- nesday. The Bethel Literary will com- mence next month. Lawyer W. C. Martin is organi- liberal zing a Vy society be s, he will organize a SOC ich he will have dis- cussions on al] questions. Whether they are for or against the negro, for sound mon or agianst it. This society will be conducted in a parlimentar manner and _ strict rules of decorum will be followed. Robart Downing is reeeiving ova- tions wherever h goes. There is anew dramatic company to be organized shortly. Some of Washingtons fairest and lovely la- dies will take part. Mr. R. W. Thompson will intro- duce a new singer this fall. The Commissioners will not al- low any more school concerts. There should be a uniform sys- tem of music in the colored public DELEGATE CONTEST. There seems to be some doubt among the politicians as to who will be the strongest and best man to represent the republican party from this city in the next national convention. The Bex has printed a list of the gentlemen who have been men- tioned as candidates, and as an in- ducement to make this contest in- teresting, the BEE will present a fine gold headed cane to the candi- date who receives the highest num- ber of coupons. The coupons will be received and counted by the con- test editor, and all coupons will be kept and counted in the presence of a committee to consist of one friend from each candidate. Each coupon will count one vote, which must be sent to the contest- editor of the BEE. HE PEOPLE’S CHOICE. WHO WILL THE NEXT DELEGATES BE? VOTE FOR YOUR CHOICE. Zz The coming Republican contest for delegates to the next National Repub- lican Convention will be a hot one. Public meetings have been held throughout the city, and it is still unde- cided who the most popular man is. schools. The Literary Union of the Dis- trict will give its first grand excur- sion to Notley Hall aboard the pal- ace steamer Mary hington, un- der the auspices of the Bethel Lit- erary, Friday September 27. _ Pro- ceeds for the beneft of the Union and to publish Mr. Bassett’s memorial oration on the Hon. Frederick Douglass. | Everybody should go, and thus help a worthy cause, CITY f William Williams was arrested this week by officers Rhodes and Lacey on a charge of robbery. Conover, the policy writer, has again been arrested. Wanted at the Bre office at once one job printer. Send in your names at once for the BEE. Memorial services will be held at the Israel C. M. Church in honor of its late pastor, Rev. S. M. Wallace- at a very early date. Mr. Samuel Milton and Miss Samu- ella Anderson, two pupils of the high school, joined the bonds of wedlock a few weeks ago. The people of Philadelphia have es- tablished a hospital to be known as Frederick Douglass Hospital. RACE GLEANINGS. Mr. J. R. Taylor, of St, Louis, Mo., stood highest in an examination for embalming in a class of 2en under- takers. He was the only colored mem- ber of the class. The colored democrats of Birming- ham, Ala., are in favor of silver 16 to 1. s sent an exhibit in the care urner for the Atlanta Ex position. Atthe Montana Methodist conferen the question was raised as to admitting women on the same footing as men in the general conference. It was decid- edin favor of the women. The Ladies’ “That not long took out a patent y Saturday say: go a negro woman or a self-waiting ta- ble. The food is placed on a central circular tion which can be revolved, thus bri ng opposite the eater any ks." It also says that American women have obtained from the Patent Office 5,200 patents. It failed to state whether or not these American women took the Afro-Amer- ican woman’s patent. Mr. Cleveland pressed the button that started the machinery in the Atlanta Exposition. ForMailaria, Liver Trou- ble, cr Indigestion, use BROWN'S IRON BUTTERS As atest of each man’s strength the BEE will publish the list of the probable candidates, with a coupon attached, which will enable friends of each can- didate to vote for his choice. CANDIDATES. Cor. TRUESDELL... ROBERT H. KEY CoL. M. M. PARKER W. H. BROOKER. ANDREW GLEASO}D CHARLES OTLET ... Cot. P. H. CARSON.. Dr. C. B. PURVIS. DANIEL MURRAY..... AARON BRADSHAW.. ALBERT BERS cen L. M. SAUNDERS....... COUPON. CANDIDATES CONTEST. a ik vote for ---.. 33 Address Editor Contest Department. All coupons must be sent to the Edi- tor of the Contest Department. Each coupon represents one vote. I WANT THE BEE. You can have it by calling at any of the following places of business: Robert R. Brown, Twelfth and Q streets n. w. Cook’s drug store, Eleventh and R streets. Robert H. Key’s grocery store, 213 Third street s. w. J. A. Brown, Porter House, 103 Sixth street n. w, Payne’s barber shop, 120 Four- and-a-half street s. w. J. W. Taylor’s barber shop, 906 Eleventh street. Jackson, 505 D street n. w. Tutt’ Pills a ane torpid liver, sirens te: ens the digestive organs, reg’ tes bowels, and are ‘unequaled 5 an . ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE, In malarial districts their virtues are widely ized, as they possess pec- aliar properties in freeing thesystem from that poison. merely sugar coated. small. Price, 25cts. Sold Everywhere. ‘ Office, 44 Murray St., New York. OND FD HE WILL NOT BE CHAIRMAN OF THE STATE CON- VENTION. =a TT! FISH TO DRAW RESOLUTIONS *LATT MUST HEARKEN TO THE | DEMAND FOR A LARGER | STATE COMMITTEE. ' 4 wae Valk of Fassett for Temporary Chairman and Lexow for Permanent Chairman— Lexow Also Spoken of for Temporary and Warner Miller for Permanent Chair- man—Other Combinations for Officers of Convention Suggested — Headquar- ters Established for the Movement Demanding a Larger Representa- tion on the State Committee —All the Local Republican Clubs Go Up to oot for John Palmer for Secretary of ! Btate—Myer Nussbaum, it is Said, will Make the Speech Placing Him in Nomina- tlon—Some of the Albanians Present— Edward Lauterbach Gives Way to Ham- ilton Fish for Chairman of the Com- mittee on Resolutions. ams. —____ Tee ° Saratoga, Sept. 16.—The advance guard bf delegates to the Republican State Con- rantion is quite as large in point of num- jbers this year as in former years. It in- tludes many of the men high in the coun- ceils of the party. In fact, it might be |said that there are more party leaders on ‘the ground at this early date—a day be- ‘fore the convention meets—than is often {the case except in Presidential years. Last night’s trains brought a big crowd of politicians and the lobbies of the United States Hotel and Congress Hall @re crowded with animated groups of Politicians and statesmen discussing the situation. Lively interest was awakened by the arrival of ex-Senator J. Sloat Fassett, who reached here at 8:15 a. m., and imme- diately proceeded to Congress Hall, where he occupies parlors H and I. Not- withstanding the fact that the Platt men pretended to be indifferent as to when Mr. Fassett arrived, there were a good , Many of them who were Inquiring what he had to say. When Mr. Fassett got off the train he was warmly greeted by a number of friends, who were waiting to receive him. He was smiling and happy looking, as usual. There was a pardonable touch of pride in his bearing, as though the exul- tation which follows victory had not yet been forgotten. Among the other prominent arrivals were Senator John Raines, Judge Suther- land, of Rochester; Senator Higgins, of Olean; Congressman Gillet, of the Twen- ty-ninth Congressional district; Assem- blymen Robbins of Allegany, Friday of Kings, W. Cary Sanger of Oneida. As soon as Mr. Fassett had breakfasted his friends began calling on him. His first caller was Wilber F. Wakeman, sec- retary of the Informal Committee, which is here in the interest of the en- largement of the State Committee. Mr. q2{ Fassett and Mr. Wakeman had an earnest 18 | talk together. Senator Raines strolled in and made himself at home in the par- lor. | After shaking hands with Mr. Fassett, “Sloat, you and I} ought to sit together, side by side, in the | Senator Raines said: convention. We are the two men in the State who have won out on the fight for home rule.” While Mr. Fassett and Senator Raines were chatting pleasantiy together, ex- Senator George B. Sloan dropped in to pay his respects to Mr. Fassett. “This is a pretty picture,” remarked Senator Sloan, as he beamed on the two gentlemen through his gold rimmed glasses, and his thin lips opened in a be- nevolent smile. ‘I declare I am glad to see you two men turn up all right, after having passed through a hot battle, and without a scar.” All hands smiled at the ex-Senator’s pleasantry. Referring to the recent contest in Chemung county, Mr. Fassett said: “I don’t consider that my fight in my county had any flavoring or coloring of State politics or State issues. It was solely and simply a personal and home rule fight for individuel rights and against boss interference. and I did my best to win. The opposition to me be fore the primaries was of the bitterest kind apparently, and I expected to have a much harder fight than I really had. I was surprised and so were all of my friends at the weak showing made by the oppositton. After all the lurid efo- quence wasicd against me, and bitter {nveotives, and the kicking up of a great cloud of dust, my opponents were able to elect but seven delegates out of forty. It came pretty near being a walk-over for me.” In answer to the question whether he intended to be a cariidate for temporary chairman of the convention, Mr. Fassett seid: “What is the use? There would be no practical advantage in that. I don’t think I care to bea candidate for amy office in the conven- tion. I came here as one of the common people. Iam ahappy end contented Republican, ready to do battle for my marty and éts principles. I won my fight at home, and am not looking for empty honors, nor am I here to make a we it for them. I am simply one of the renk and file unalterably opposed to b ses and bossism, and I propose to make a fight on that ground. I am also a firm believer in the necesity for an enlargement of the State Committee as afforuing a means of bringing the party councilors closer to the people. I hope to see the idea adopted.” ee 850,000 Fire at Brockport. Brockport, Sept. 14—An_ incendiary Gre this morning des*-oyed Clark’s su.ky works and Currie & Boyer’s foundry. The fogs will aggregate $50,000. - & NATIONAL RESOURCES. ‘Phe Productive Capacity of the United | States. | In the current number of the North | American Review, Michael G. Mulhall, | the eminent statistician, makes a most | interesting and striking showing of the ' productive power and wealth of our country as compared with the other na- tions of the world. In these days of uni- | versal complaint and dissatisfaction it is | very consoling to read from so eminent ‘an authority a review of the productive | energies of the world in which the United ; States appears not only foremost and greatest, but overwhelmingly so. Taking into account the working power of men, horses and steam engines, Mul- hall declares that the people of the Unit- | ,ed States have at command an energy which represents 1,940 foot-tons per in- habitant per day. A foot-ton is an ex- | pression used to denote a power suffi- | cient to raise one ton a distance of one | foot. Against this, Great Britain, with all her wealth and all her industrial de- velopment, can only boast 1,470 foot-tons per inhabitant; while Germany and France have only about 900 foot-tons each per inhabitant. In other words, zach person in the United States has at his disposal more productive energy than two persons in Germany or in France. The real difference between the United States and the European countries, when We come to figure totals, is still greater on account of the larger population of the United States, so that as a matter of fact the United States possesses almost as much energy within her control as Great Britain, Germany and France combined. These figures mean that if | we only had some equality of distribu- | tion in the United States, each man, wo- | man and child would have at disposal | several times as much of the good things of earth annually produced as the aver- | age man, woman or child in Europe. And | even now, with the inequality of condi- | tions, they mean that the wealth of the | United States, in spite of depression, is piling up at an enormous rate. Mulhall, in another table of figures, shows that an ordinary farm hand in the United States raises as much grain as shree hands in England or four in France, or five in Germany, or six in Austria, and this wonderful superiority of pro- ductiveness he attributes naturally to the mechanical appliances in common use in the United States. Reducing the various farm products of several nations to their equivalents in | grain, Mulhall furnishes the following comparative statement of what one farm hand will produce in an ordinary year in the countries named: Bushels of grain/ per farm hand. United States .. Great Britain .. France .. . Germany {taly .. . Austria .. tee eee . Mulhall makes a similar showing for the United States in the amount of money expended annually for purposes of education. In the United | States it is $2.40 per inhabitant each year, | ‘In Great Britain it is $1.30 and in other European countries the scale runs down i to 25 cents per inhabitant per year in| Italy. | Following the same line, our statisti- | cian shows that the number of letters | per inhabitant carried by the mails year- ly is 110 in the United States, as against | the following: | Switzerland 6 74) Great Britain 65 | sermany {taly . 16 | Coming naturally to the subject of ac- | cumulated wealth, Mulhall figures that the wealth of the United States now amounts to a little more than $1,000 per person, and he maintains that only Great Britain, France and Holland have a higher per capita showing. In the aggre- gate, America’s wealth exceeds that of Great Britain by 35 per cent., although | the ratio per inhabitant is not quite so high; and of this vast total wealth of the country, Mulhall states that 94 per cent. has been created and accumulated by the people of the United States since 1840. It is impossible to read Mulhall’s arti- cle without being impressed with the wonderful productive energy of our coun- try, and even during these years of com- parative depression and seeming retro- gression the calm, clear figures of the student of statistics showing the rapid creation and accumulation of wealth and the superiority of America in pro- ductiveness will go far to make the ; American citizen satisfied that his lot is cast in the new world. Robinson Crusoe. Poor old Robinson Crusoe, who never really existed in the flesh, but is yet one of the most famous persons the world has ever known, is once more to be brought under the broad glare of day. The lonely hut on the Island of Juan Fernandez, just off the Chilian coast, which Alexander Selkirk, or Selcraig, the real Robinson of fact and history, occupied, is to be torn down after hav- ing stood on that rocky isle 184 years. On its site is to be erected a prison sta- tion that will be used as an auxiliary for the Chilian penitentiary.at Santiago. The island of Juan Fernandez is also to be thrown open to settlers, and the evi- dent project of Chili is to make this hitherto desolate region—400 miles from Valparaiso—a busy and bustling bit of its domain. Of recent years the island hae been inhabited to some extent, though this colonizing action on the part of the Chilian Government is altogether a new policy on its part. The domain has, in fact, been rather closely guarded by representatives of the Chillan Govern- ment and settlers have not only not been invited there, but have actually been kept away. Now there are about a hun- dred persons, Germans and Chilians, who reside on Juan Fernandez, all be- ing gathered in a small village of tiny huts called San Juan Beautista. This | town or village is set on the shores of 'a long arm of the sea, the very spot, it is said, where Alexander Selkirk landed. 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