Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-09-22

Ale kvenins STAR bas a regular. permanent
bana hae daiIv Giro station more thar treOse
that os any other daiiv puBiished In
assingtOn. md eonni te tbnf o. ali tho
etnrr daily p. pers here aided rsee,her.
While enterprfsIng American ship uiliers are
talking Of making ships which Will cross the
ocean ferry In five lays, the British builders
lowering their record slowly but surrey and are
themselves now beginning to talk OF cutt! ng the
time Oh transit down to ffve days Much WIS
pected OF the City OF Rone. but, while fast ship,
She has been disappointm' as re -ards speed.
III to-day'5 Geographic rapport ON Lon Ion Il cor
rect, however, the new GuOn line ste lmsiiip Ore
gon will be able to bring down the record very
materially. On her trial trip yesterday this vessel
Is said 10 have attained speed OF twenty knots,
Dr. about twenty-five miles, an hour. or course,
n trial OF this sort the conditions favorable
or the best speed Of which the ship Is capable,
md still the record Is refnarkabl. The Alaska
and Arizona, built by the same builder, Mr.. John
Elder. are now the fastest Ship the ocean, ana
make trips from shore 20 shore ayerag NJ fifteen AMI
nxt en- knots an hour. If speed OF twenty knots
soul1 be maintained the run from Queenstown to
Ne" York could be made in less than six days.
The raid on the Willard stocks is now said TO be
aue 20 n determination on the part or Gould and
Huntington to get control OF them, so as TO keep
;heir monopoly Of the inter-ocean tuiiness- The
Eeaiy fall OF these stocks, in the face OF the
"boom" over the completion OF the Northern Pa
elnc road, has puzzled many people, and 1t has
Deem generally supposed that the bear movement
vas due less TO lack or conf lence In the 70 id
than to the secret manipulation Of traders. The
story goes that Willard Was Obliged to sell large
docks OF Oregon TranScontlnenttl stock 10 pay
Northern Pacific Indebtedness, and that these
stocks have been quietly bought u By the Gould
interest. The directors OF thp .nIral and South
ern Pacific would doubt be glad TO get hold of
their most formidable rival, and, mo- cover. Gould,
II Is said, has private grulge TO pay off, as VIII
lard once caught him mapping on Pacific stocks.
secretary Folger raises quest on Of some I'M
portance In interpreting the civil service law.
That law reafflrmS the tstute giving honOrably
discharged soldiers AMI sailors tie preference over
others for civil appointments under the govern
meDt Under the rules four names OF persons who
have pass d successful examinations are submit
ted Tor each vacancy, that the appointing officer
may make a selection out OF that nu nber. Secre-
tary Fulger wants the commission to determine
whether or not the appointing power has any dis
cretion, even IN selecting from names sub
mitted, if one Of the four Is an honorably dis
Charged soldier or sailor. The law giving to tie
veteran priority of right is Imperative
As the season comes TO q heal, base ball excite
meat reaches pass where the the police have to
ue H. Iue crow IS In Phil iueiphil yeSIer-
day were so dense about the bulletins which told
the progress OF the match brtween the St Louis
and Athletic clubs that the polite I'd TO preserve
order, while In Boston, the npire after the
match between the Boston and Buffalo clubs had
TO have police escort on leaving the grounds, so
1ncensed were the crowd with some OF his de-
cisiOnS.
The Philadelphia Press says of the Malone de-
Nance of the civil service law: rs snator VI ,hOnp
has been fragrant OF 'nder In the matter OF as
seSSme3tS in times past, and II h, Is disposed to
continue the practice either directly irectIy
IN the face OF the law. he cannot too soon be
brought up with round turn throu III the In ,tru-
mentality OF the Criminal courts" Tine Press Is a
republican paper.
typhoid fever prevails TO such an extent In New
York city that the board OF health has been
moved 10 issue an ailreSS advising the deStruc-
ton or publication OF all clothing that has been
In contact with the disease. This would 1uply
tnat The type OF fever afrting the city Is IT.
garded as contagious 10 some extent at least
The enforcement of proper sanitary regulations is
recognzad as the best means OF preventing the
spread or typhoid fever.
TIE naval ship Pinta has been tut through an.
other course OF expensive repairing, bur her sea-
worth ness sin rem ans question OF doubt She
mas been ordered out on a trial trip To see tf she
really IS ut for anything at all. Up TO the present
the Pnta has been useful only to Malone and the
Norfolk navy yard.
The baggage smasliers should be minded that
revolutions never go backwards. At the itional
convention OF baggage agents held at Chicago
yesterday, the syst m OF che, K n, baggage at
houses. hotels, etc, was condemned, but any
departure from this very convenient usage will be
condemned by the people,
The greenblckers OF Maine will not fuse with
either OF the Old parties. They propose to play
lone and lonely hand