The Washington Bee Newspaper, April 26, 1902, Page 2

Friendship in man or woman should be nursed with care. Whe t can you expect from th hearted. Defend your friends egainst the as~ saults of your ememies. e evil Itis best always to listen to the ad- vice of friends. Don’t imagine that you are greater than the person who made you. We are often pursuaded by the bad advice ofothers. Your friends can stand some things but not every thing. Don’t worry about the talk af oth- ers. Some people will talk because “you succeed. Weigh every word that falls from the lips of your pretended friends. Don’t allow yourselves to fall into a trap. Be careful how you talk and what you say. It is dangerous to betray your friends. Colored political office holders dare not express an honest opinion. Hon. John P. Green expressed man- ly sentime ts at the Second Baptist Church last Sunday. Be truthful always and be cheerful when you can. Do your duty and think of nothing more. The best man in the world is the honest man. Dr. Rayburn wants suffrage in the District of Columbia: Never deceive your friends itis more or less fatal to you. The duty of every one is to be hon- est. Why not abolish the Juvenile Court. Justice O’ Donnell is doing business at the same old stand- Boss Shepherd’s Return to Wash ington Pleases the People. He Ran the Capital Three Years and Made a City of It—Congress Ousted Him in 1874 and He Went to Mexico. “Boss” Shepherd is coming back to Washington. He has made a great fortune in the silver mines of. Mex- ico, and returns to his native city to spend his remaining days im peace. He is 67 years of age, and enjoys the distinction of being the best loved and best hated man that the capital city ever knew. Alexander H. Shepherd’s name will live in history as the originator of the new Washington. After all is said and done, the work of the ex- perts who have planned the future Washington as a city of delight had the basis of “Boss” Shepherd's work to go upon. That is how he derived his sobriquet of “boss.” For three years he was the absolute ruler of Washington, and in that time spent $40,000,000 in making it what it is to day. Alexander H. Shepherd, says the Philadelphia Press, is a native ot | Washington. He was born in tho “flats” January 13, 1835. His parents were in ordinary circumstances. His ancestors for 150 years had lived in this country; some of them fought in the revolutionary war. Shepherd himself was for a time ‘a soldier in the late war. His father became well-to-do before his death, ‘which enabled the boy to obtain a pretty fair education. He entered Colum- bian univ ty. But the executor of the estate, it is said, stole the money | and young Alexander started to learn a trade to help support the family. Then he became a shoe salesman, and later learned to be a plumber and gas fitter. Within eight years of en- tering his apprenticeship he was a partner. Within the next 12 years he had built more than 400 houses | in Washington His prominence in business led him into politics. He was a member of | AALEXANDER H. SHEPHERD. (Has Just Returned to Washington After Long Exile.) j the board of common council of | Neversmitethe hand that helped] Washington before he was 25. Two you. Ingratitude is stronger than traitors, arms. “A friend in need is a friend in deed” is an aphorism too true. Some people will listen to all that is | told them. Always remember that there are two sides to all questions. Always give the benefit of a doubtto the indicted party. Noble deeds always eminate from noble men. Be certain in all things before you act. Don’t come to conclusions before you reason out the proposition. Postmaster Payne is a politician but not strong enough to win the next fight, Joan ©. New of Indiana will con trol that delega'ion, You cannot subsidize him All that looks fair, is some times cloudy behind glasses. years after, in 1862 he became presi- | dent of the body. he was a member | of the levy court in 1867, and presi- dent of the Citizens’ Reform associa- tion in 1870, Then congress turned | Washington and the District of Co- | lumbia into a territorial government. He was appointed governor of the district, and president of the board of public works. He had always borne the reputation of being a pro- gressive, liberal, yet determined man. Washingzon at this time was a drowsy, half-northern, half-southera city. It had been laid out on liberal lines but had never conformed to} them. It had no adequate building | laws. Its streets were mud holes | in winter and. dust distributors in | summer. Shepherd determined to} alter this. He tad the power and| he proceeded to ‘ee it. One morn- ing the people of the old town wak- | ened to find hundr4 s of men at work | on the streets. It was the advance guurd of “Boss” Shepherd's legions. | Within the next three y s, from June 1, 1871, to Jnua 24, 1874, “Boss” | Shepherd ruled }W’eshington with a rod of iron. Men who began by} praising him ended by cursing him. | As improvements grew taxes in-| creased, ny men were financially | ruined by the burcens imposed upon | Why isthe business High Sehoc]| them. Newspapers in other cities | to be turned into an industrial school. Don’t say a word but watch events. It is not strange to see our ene- mies turn against us. Gorman wi!l be a candidate for the democratic nomination. Think well and do your duty, Be what you are and nothing more. Read Tue Bes if you want a good paper Don’t believe all you hear. Atl questions have two sides to them, Think well before you consen to ae Polities will-b- warm soon, There will be ati investigation of southern frauds. Edvard H, Deis iz making «a manly fight. : Who told Booker T. Washington to. give out the Ly »n’s interview. Is the sou'hern wizzard true to his trust. | were the only avenues for the male- dictions of the citizens; the local papers were bound hand and foot by the influence of the “boss” or si- lenced by a knowledge that he was doing the right thing in improving Washington, although it was unpop- | ular at the time. j Nothing halted his determination. The city became a hive of municipal | industry. All streets of any impor- | tance underwent transformation. | They were graded, sewered and/ paved, and it is now admitted that the work was well end admirably | done. Some idea of the improve- ments that Shepherd made in Wash- ington may be gleartd from these interesting figures. He planted | | more than 10,000 trees, und payed 118 miles of streets, besides laying 207 miles of sidewelss. His army of! men dug and carted away 0,000 cubie yards of earth. He had con-| structed 317,196 feet of pipe sewers | of 12 to 15 inches in diameter; four| miles of sewers from 10 to 30 feet in diamet ind over five miles of sew- , ers from 3 to 7 feet in diameter. He} luid 30 miles of water pipe and near- | ly 60 miles of gas pipe. In addition | to this he constructed 39 miles of | feads in the suburbs of the city. gE WASHINGTON SEE. es 5 HIS SINS FORGIVEN. YOUR CRED'!T IS GOOD At 4 S ognized, Joseph Lewis, better knowa A as “Huagry Joe,” was carried to his grave not long ago. After suffering from Bright's disease for four or five | The Only C omplete House furnishing EstaLlishment Washington. GREAT IN HIS LINE. “‘Hungry Joe” Was for Years King of Confidence Men. Selected Distinguished Victims and “Conned” Gen, Logan Into Writ- ing a Cheek, After He Has Been Given a Warning. Bearing a name on his coffin plate under which he would never be ree- weeks the natorious confidence man died in an apartment house in New York city. 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Hams, Bacon, Lard, Beef and Beef Tongues. “Deve Erend” Bemsa {pecalty 451, 452 and 453 Center Market. 401 302 Northern Liberty Market. WILBUR F. NA8B | *500 CENTRE MARKET, Hams, Bacon, Lard, DRIED AND CHIPPED BEEF, BRANCHES: i68 Centre Market, 91495 O St. Market, » Rexidence, 122 M St_a.w |COOKED HAMS, TONGUES | was known wherever the English language was spoken, but could take care of himself in the French or Ger- man capitals quite as easily, He was a man of wonderful polish, easily made friends of his victims and ap- parently succeeded for many years in duping even the police. When former Capt. Alexander Wil- liams was in command of the Tender- loin he ordered his men to keep “Hungry Joe” and other conspicuous “bunko steere out of the district. He also told “Joe” to stay away from the district or he would have him locked up every time he was seen. ; Joe smiled, but the next day he was met by Williams sunning himself in front of a Broadway theater. When asked what he meant, he said: “Well, every gentleman must take his constitutional, and no gentleman would walk elsewhere than on Broad- way.” Nothing has ever been learned of Hungry Joe's birthplace or early life, JOE'S LAST ESCAPADE. but it was back in the "60s that he first began to make himself conspicu- ous in criminal life in New York. His | schemes to get money were adroit and well executed, and but few whom he marked as victims ever escaped. Probably Hungry Joe’s most nota- ble victim was Gen, John A. Logan ‘The old soldier was staying at the | Fifth Avenue hotel when a sleek and | oily-tongued young stranger ingra- tiated himself into his favor. He was learnedly discussing questions of international importance when the hotel detective stepped up and]| warned the general that he was talk- ing to the most remarkable confi- | dence operator in the world, Hungry Joe. Gen. Logan was visibly annoyed at the interruption, and in his brusque manner told the detective to attend to his own business, as the man with | whom he was conversing was the son | of one of his oldest friends. A few minutes later * Hungry Joe cashed Gen. Logan’s order on the cashier of | the hotel for $500 and walked away smiling. : BROWER WAS INNocey, Man from Philadelphia Sala cause He Believed in y Avie « Things Harmonia, “The first time I , west,” said the “they got me on a It was a case of sho results, and there my mind that the d¢ guilty. A man named ridden up to the « named O'D4ll and ca shot him down, and t witnesses to the fact. 7; cupied three days, and I gy ery juryman had made “ALLOWAN( as I had. Whe however, I fo voting guil at me for man bl “*Allowance “*Allowance that blamed his gun out of coming to t pumped a jx Brower inside here not to but to find not in ecting we'd | er be mous about it “I didn't we interrupt the said tt “and so we sion,” the foreman of concl a acquitted wi character.” HUBBY’S MEAN TRICK Stole His Wife's Artificial Leg wine vent Her from Lodging Com plaint Against Him ang nt brown bonnet desk at the Ct tion at Ch Desk Se band had “My hust oh, it is without it | arrested rant to rec Desk Se The late Judge Noah Davis was also one of his early victims, and Charle Francis Adams fell into his net. An- other conspicuous victim was Oscar Wilde. Oscar paid for his acquaint- ance with Hungry Joe the sum of $1,000 in cash and $1,500 in notes Later he went to Capt. Williams and told his tale of woe, and said that | while he probably could not regain his money he would like to get the notes. Williams sent for Joe and told him he would have to give up, and with good grace the confidence man did so. ever squealed on me,” said Joe. The downfall of Hungr¥ Joe oc- curred in 1885. He was’ arrested, charged with snatching a roll of bills | from the hands of a victim. Rams-, den, the victim, testified that he was led to the retreat of the “bunko steerer,” and that he had taken out | his money, when Joe snatched it from his hand and fled. Joe was con- ‘ years in state prison. When he was re- leased he went to Baltimore, but his luck had turned and he was soon ar- to where he rected again and was sentenced the Maryland nenitentiary, remained until 1898. An Old-Time Document, An extraordinary relie is POssessed by Axel T. Lindholm, of Stillwater Wis. It eanie from Norway, and is ts ; verdict rendered by a jury of 12 in : June, 1553, at Oslo courthouse, where | Christian now ands. 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