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National Republican., 1885-12-16

At the Navy Department yesterday q rcquiSl
tion Tor $4,000 upon the new cruiser approprl.
alton was made out in accordance with dc.
cision made on Monday by the second comp.
troller, that funds from that appropriation
could be transferred to the burcauOf ordnance
and used In continuing the work at the Wash.
ingtOu navy yard on the guns for the new
cruisers. This action averts tho threatening
discharge of workmen from the ordnance
shops at the navy yard. The requlStion IN do
ont ut the Navy Department yesterday was
marked special" aud will be pushed through
the Treasury Department as rapidly Us possible.
"iERMANN" Is up to an extraordinary mum.
Der Of tricks with his nimble hands but he
will never take in as much, or as many to the
square inch, ns DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup In its
Lig raid on coughs or colds,
National Republican., 1885-12-16
baltimore Produce Market, Dec. Is.
COTTON dull; middling, 9ISc.

COTTON dull middling, SIC.
FLOUR easy and dull.
WHEAT-Southern quiet and nominal; west
ern lower; southern red, 9!G9jc do. amber,
9Sc@Sl.00 No. . western winter red, spot, $50
hid January, sS(1SSlsc February, 9J5s900JA,
March, 0.55@93lc; May, 96H965Sc,
CORN-Southern easier and fairly active
western ilrmer southern white, 100 pi6c; do
yellow, 4S@iGc western mixed, spot, 4NS
itc: February, 45JS9iG4c; March, i5A 1919;
steamer, 43c.
OATS firm and quiet southern. 900 toe; west
eIn white, Ss@lOci do. mixed, 3593'ci Penn
sylvania, 376oiOc.
RYE steady ut 7l0N73c,
PROVISIONS quiet and steady.
SUGAR-Copper refined firm at l0H0l0lIc
WHISKY steady at Sll9IL20.
Other articles unchanged.
BALTIMORE STOCK MARKET
BALTIMORE, Dec. l5.-Virginia Is, conSll.
dated SO: new l0i0s, 81; new 3s, Gl; North
Carolina 6s, OLD, lis bid 'o.day.
National Republican., 1885-12-16
DIED.

BRODIE.-At b';lO n. M, Dec. 10, 1885 OF dph-
iberia, JonS WARREN BIonlE, only child Of Ellen
&. and the late John Brodic, aged years 10
months and ! days.
The funeral will take place tomorrow at 2 p. m.
from 1880 Seventh street northwest, and will be
private.
sANFORD.-On December l, OF meningitis, at
Chateau de Glngcl0m, Belgium, LEOPOLD CURTIS,
youngest son Of Hon Henry $. and Gertrude Du
Puy Sanford, of Sanford, Fla, aged years aud 4
months. ~
TOWNER.-Suddcnly Of apOpcNy, Miss MoLLrE
NJ, nj the residence Of her brothcr.n.law, George
Wright, l4i6 street northwest, on Tuesday, the
10th instant, nt bl5 p. m.
Funeral notice later.
L0WE.-On Tuesday evening, the 10Th instant,
ut IL O'Clock y. M. CARLTON Lowe, son Of the late
Hon. X. Il. Lowe, In the i7th year of Lis age.
Notice OF funeral hereafter
National Republican., 1885-12-16
Reduction of Prices at Ford's.

The management Of Fords Opera House has
decided to meet the demand OF the day for
cheaper theatrical prices by reducing the rates
of admission TO the house. These will now
range from % TO 90 cents. The latter the best
sCats in the house
National Republican., 1885-12-16

The Children's Christmas Club, second dis
trct, has received contributions amounting to
s9520, which added to the sum of si035, bal.
Gnce from last year. makes q total OF SllL55.
National Republican., 1885-12-16

NFuRALoIA. rheumatism, erysipclas, tum1rs,
swellings, sore throat. toothache, and all other
pains and aches are promptly cured by Saliva
ton Oil. Price % cents, Sold everywhere.
National Republican., 1885-12-16

Jarvis Buffers complimentary organ recital
At Congregational Church tonight promises to
be most enjoyable entertainment The fol-
lowing Is the programme:
spnuU y nlnuT','..'''' '''''''''''''hncllloeIHe
(a) In the Woods ....",,"""..,"......ku kullak
~ March Fantastic ic......,.,."",.,...B Bargiel
(C)"CnrllOn dc Louis NlN",",.... Neustedt
ID Polish National Dance ."......SGha
Glnhd fUguc, minor. .iach
AHA nom "PuritunV ......,,,.,".,, Bellini
Mrs, Ida Harris Mealey, of Baltimore.)
Plano, Grand PolOnnise, l. tlat.....,.... Chopin
(Miss Jenny Lind Mueller, Of Ballmorej
"Fncbellnn1' (Torchlight Danee). .Meyerbeer
Faust (GOunod) for piano and organ.
(KCtteTcr-Dur0nd)
Chrom0lic FuntRsic, A Thiele
Aria, "My Redeemer' Golden Legend. Buck
Nlrs. Mealy)
Piano. "klgoleltO LlsSt
kul MHNnuiha ,,''',''''' '''''''' 'CnOpln
% GNottc, minor.... Jarvis Butler
kcl FhnluTc',,,''s',',,.' .,'"''.s'' Lenlnens
(d) "llomc, Sweet Home" transcription
Buck
Concert variations on "Pleyels Hymn" for two
performers on the organ .,,,,,..Thayer
with the assistance Of Miss Mueller,)
National Republican., 1885-12-16

s3 per gallon, rs cents a quart bottle. No.
Rye Whisky, best in the world for the money,
at McGee's, Ninth street, near d.
National Republican., 1885-12-16

To Survey Bahama Waters.
Tho fish commission steamer AbatrOss will
leave cOrly In January for the Bahama group
to conduct photographic surveys
National Republican., 1885-12-16

The following list Of the most active stocks dealt
in on the Washington Stock Exchange Is furnished
by Messrs. Bell & Co., bankers, No. 1437 Pennsyl-
VA nj
National Republican., 1885-12-16

The Secretary of the Navy has at the sug-
Ecston of Auditor Shelly, called on all officers
of the navy pay corps whose bonds were cSocu-
ted over five years ago to renew the same.
About eighty officers are affected by this order.
National Republican., 1885-12-16

q. W. B.-TT is quite true that you can get
bottle of that splendid medical discovery
Star Cough Curc-for twenty-five cents. OureN-
perCncc of IL Is that its powers are magical
and we ice confident that II will cure your
throat trouble.
National Republican., 1885-12-16

Following Is the range OF prices in the Chicago
market, as corrected BY reports received by VIM. Il.
HELEN, Corcurpn building;
National Republican., 1885-12-16

Don't forget We are vt the corner Of 10Th and II.
Ag- Open til op, mi Saturday, IL p, m. Elec-
trlc Light.
National Republican., 1885-12-16

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POTOMAC WATER POLLUTION.
The Foul Surroundings of the Mouth
of the Washington Aqueduct.
MAP OF THE INFECTED DISTRICT.
Location Of the Leaky Waste Weir.
Foul Privies, Henneries, Hog Pens,
Barn-Yards, and Other Disease Breed
ers Empty ing Into the Aqueduct.
A TYPHOID FEVER LAIR.

In order that the readers of THE STAR NAV
get an intelligent idea of the points at issue in
the water pollution question, we present the
above diagram, showing the foul surroundings
of the mouth of the Washington Aqueduct at
the Great Falls dam. This map is from actual
measurement, except in few dimensions not
material to the discussion. A very hasty exam
ination will show that the publication in that
vicinity can not be too strenuously insisted
upon. While the map, in great measure ex-
clearer.
AT the lock near the Great Falls hotel two
mile level of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal
begins. This lock is situated about 100 feet
below the dam at the mouth of the conduit
which supplies Washington with drinking
water. The level of the water in the canal is
16 feet above the top of the dam.
THE WASTE DAM
shown near the lock is a cut stone structure 90
feet in length, and amply sufficient, with the
waste way, or hume, on the opposite side of
the lock, to discharge the surplus water when
the lock is full The water passing through
these wastes enters the Potomac below the
DAM and SO does not reach the conduit.
The tenement houses vary from twenty-five
to forty-four and fifty feet in length, and from
one story to two and a half stories in height.
Some OF them appear to accommodate several
families. The surroundings of all are exceed
ingly unclean, and the refuse and wash from all
Is thrown or drains into the canal The street
In front of them is filthy. The lower part of it
next the semi-circular basin is hog-wallow, and
the basin itself is what might be expected from
such surroundings. All the refuse from the
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how terrible is the responsibility resting upon
them for the appearance of the epidemic. The
owner of this house absolutely refused to re-
move the contents of the privy pit until COM
PEELED to do SO by the superintendent of the
water company.
That the appearance of the epidemic was not
due to the use of river water is clearly proved
by the fact that in forty or fifty families which
use habitually river water supplied by the Hud-
son Canal and Coal company, not single case
has occurred. This is further proved by the
tact that three persons who were visiting In the
town after the reservoir water was turned on,
and before April I'd, contracted the disease, and
in several families which did not move into the
town until April LIST, one or more cases of ty-
phoid fever have occurred.
That the epidemic is purely one Of typhoid
fever, is shown by the cause, nature and course
of the epidemic. The clinical symptoms in the
individual cases, and finally, by several autop-
sizes made by DR.. Shakespeare, of Philadelphia,
in which the characteristic LESSONS OF the disease
were found.
The conclusion is scarcely avoidable that this
epidemic was due to the contamination of the
water in the reservoir by the stools of a single
patient with typhoid fever whose case occurred
on the stream supplying the reservoir several
miles distant from the town. The magnitude
of the epidemic and the clearly defined rea-
tons existing between the first and succeeding
cases, continue to make this one of the most in
structive, well as one of the most terrible in
stances which ignorance and negligence have
contributed to the record of disease.
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could not then be conveniently drawn Off
through the lock gate could easily be con-
structed in the waste-dam.
This latter is 80 feet long, and so gives abun-
dant room. The construction of this gate is the
only item of cost worth considering. The
wooden gateway above has answered every
purpose for years. and the cost of a wooden gate
at the lower waste would be Insignificant
Let the stable between the canal and the
river be removed and the filth scraped off.
The canal company would doubtless consent
to running wire fence along the tow-path for
thousand feet above the dam, and from the
end of this limit across to the river. As a mat
ter of fact, the canal company long ago gave
permission to those in charge of the aqueduct
to do whatever was necessary TO protect the
mouth of the conduit.
NO EXCUSE FOR OFFICIAL NEGLIGENCE.
It will be noticed that the residence which
the government built for the EN- ployes of the
aqueduct stands on a hill which commands a
near and unrestricted view of all the varied
and disgusting elements of pollution. And in
order that they may be able to make prompt
reports of everything, the government has
kindly built a telegraph and telephone line
which gives them instant communication with
the engineers and the District Commissioners.
TYPHOID FEVER LAIR.
A resident at Great Falls, in conversation
Will d SIAh TepOrteT, lDdu the level
was the "dirtieSt along the canal" He said tn
canal boatmen in going up usually wait until
they got clear OF the city to clean their boats,
and it was customary with them to do the
cleaning after the boats entered that level. So
that in addition to all the filth which enters the
canal from the surroundings, the accommodations
of several days in the canal boats are frequently
thrown into that level, and is thence carried
into the conduit. Another fact that is of no
slight significance in connection with this SUBJ
ject of pure water is that several severe cases OF
typhoid fever have occurred at Great Falls and
its immediate vicinity during the spring.
Among some of the residents there the BELIEF
prevails that these cases were produced by the
foul condition of the surroundings. When it
Is remembered that the terrible epidemic at
Plymouth, Pa, is traced directly to the slight
pollution of the water supply through the
sweepings and excrement seepage from the
yard of a house occupied by some typhoid pa
tients last winter, some distance above the
village, draining into the stream supplying
the reservoir, it is made plain why the District
authorities should, with out a moments delay
shut off all possibility of like infection of our
aqueduct water from the typhoid cases at
Great Falls.
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The Uninviting Vatican.

Rome Letter in Cincinnati Enquirer
The most disappointing thing, perhaps, to
visitors is the Vatican Palace Without design
characterization or finish, it would, If detached
from st. Peters, be taken for factory building,
of three stories in height in parts and four in
others, with neither a tall chimney nor q
shutter to a window to relieve the fat, yellow
uncovered walls. The extensions made to
1t from time to time changed the running
course Of the structure. SO that it is zig-zag In
line and has every appearance Of 9 collection
OF badly constructed, rambling buildings that
would be decidedly improved BY Coat Of paint
The gardens adjoining are very beautiful, q
portion being laid out in park and the re-
health, that the pope drives every day. Prior
to the hour appointed for this recreation, sight
seers are made to come down from the over
looking dome Of st. Peters; The buildings
within which only are allowed the pope and
his attendants and the servants whose cot
tages clustered together resemble o small
village. The latter comprise in their number
artisans, mechanics, labOrers and farmers with
workshops and acres Of ground, on which are
raised the needed vegetable supply, making
the Vatican entirely Independent or outside
sources for its food. It is a city within city.
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police, and cannot forget ourselves long enough
to breathe freely. But they, the medinyals.
the unencumbered, they were free! Strong,
A DR.. Samuel Johnson would have been an
1mpOssibility among these open-air men of
deeds deeds, but could he have been he must have
MISS CLEvELAND's LIFE.
A few words chosen from the enconiums of q
personal friend will give the public some idea
of the personal qualities of the lady who will
preside over the White House: miss Cleve-
land" says her friend, sis a woman of sweet
disposition, and of breadth and strength of
character. After her mothers death she deter
mined to stay at her old home in Holland Pat
ent and to live in her own way. There she stu
died and wrote. But after the election, and
from tine moment she knew her brothers wishes
and saw her duty plain before her, she laid aside
ner pen work and lectures. She is in the White
House just what she was at Holland Patent-a
woman of sensibility and refinement Instinct
lHeiy KIM and thoughtful of Others, she is a
iaVorlte with strangers. A lady who happened
in at the White House one morning RECENTLY
found her at her desk with her books about her.
STUDYING and writing about an epoch in history
which more than others interests her. She had
many letters before her, and the maid carried
on a hanoIni OF replies which she had just pre-
pared; but the books were nearest to her and She
nad been having quiet hourwith them Dressed
ina white hannel gown, with fieecy tulle scarf
ABOUT her throat, and no other ornament than
pink rose care.essly fastened at her throat
she looked as simple and unpretentious as a
scnooi elri, ana, with her short brown hair fall
ing in natural waves about her brow as oirl
lsh Her nervous hands played with a paper
weight as she talked of the work and the pleas
ures OF her place and the mistaken vie ws enter
tanned regarding it. The substance of her re-
marks was that the duties performed by one in
her place were such as could never he
understood save by those who had known
them, and the publicity attaching to the place
was It's greatest drawback. She talked Of the
Whlte House, OF its beauty, of the flowers
which were about her in profusion, and of the
long line OF good and useful women who had
fills.
"Miss Cleveland comes of generations of
rresoy terrain ministers. All the traditions OF
the parsonage center about her past Her cid.
est brother is minister and her eldest sister
Is a missionary in Ceylon. Her brOther.in-law
is minister, and her near knsmen in several
instances are preachers. She is an orthodox
Christian, knowing all religions and all scien.
tlnc schools antagodistic to them, yet believing
received at her mothers knees"
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government stable near this basin washes into
the brook and thence reaches the basin. About
two hundred and thirty feet up this latter
stream, which runs steadily and with consider
able volume there is stable for two horses and
four cow sheds in use, and the brook actually
runs through the accommodations of manure at this
point.
All the hOg-pens are either partly in the
water or arranged that their contents drain
directly into the canal. AH the priuies project
Deer the canal.
THE LEAKY wAsTE-wEIR.
Passing up the tOw-path from the lower waste
dam. the first point where this disgusting canal
water runs into the river is waste-weir shown
in the map. This is twelve feet wide at the top,
and the water which runs over it, and which
leaks at the sides and under it, forms a brook
which Is twelve feet wide and foot deep, and
runs rapidly with this volume a minimum.
At times when the canal is high there is much
more than this. AT point halfway to the
river this stream, or more properly this sewer,
is twenty-siX feet wide and from four to nine
inches deep, with evidences of its often running
over foot deep at this point.
1t is easily seen from the map that the suck
through this weir will continually act to draw
the fifth from the other bank into it, but, as u
matter of fact, in spite of the overflow into the
river below the dam, and of the current
towards the flume in the lock when boat
passes out of the latter into the upper level it
sweeps the whole current after it towards the
waste weir and the broader waste way above.
Below the bank of the tow-path and on the
border of the stream from the waste weir and
DRAINING DIRECTLY INTO 1T,
is a stable fifty feet long, arranged with nine
stalls, which, Notwithstanding the statement OF
the Commissioners that it is not in use, is con.
stantly in use for hogs, cows and mules. Half
the building on Saturday last was over a foot
deep in manure, and the large yard surround.
ing the stable was thickly strewn with it. This
further pollutes the sewer water from the canal
The whole then enters the river by two chan.
nels as shown, one 227 feet above the mouth of
the Washington aqueduct, and the other about
80 feet further away. All of this water is car.
ried by the current Of the river
DIRECTLY TO THE MOUTH OF THE CONDUIT
The channel which feeds the conduit is from
so to 20 feet wide and at this point is separa-
ted as shown in the map, from the main Mary.
land channel by long and narrow island.
With brook flowing into the basin opposite
| this wasteway, setting the current toward the
latter, and with the almost stagnant water in
the canal when the lock is closed, the chances
for the filth of the opposite bank to be drawn
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over to the waste-weir and sucked through it
into the river quite as favorable as any citi-
zen is likely To desire

over to the waste-Weir and sucked through it
into the river are quite as favorable any citi-
zen is likely to desire.
THE WASTEwAY ABOVE.
Following the towpath a short distance above
the stable come to a wasteway $50 feet in
length. This is simply low place in the tow
path and the water is allowed to run over. 1t
is thick with stable refuse from one end to the
other. At times the water runs over through
out the V hole length. The channel marks on
the gullies and stones below show that at times
the volume is great. This water empties into
the river at various points from so to $50 feet
above the head of the small island. The cur
rent turns it directly along shore and into the
channel leading to the conduit.
The area%elow this upper wasteway is foul
swamp. This has been created a swamp by the
among the bushes, and holding the water back.
If the overfiows from the canal were stopped
the whole area would become dry and clean
Above this waste, within distance of 500
feet, there are ten places apparently in con-
slant use as feeding places for mules. Each OF
these is as thckly strewn with manure as a
barnyard, and the wash from all of them is
carried into the river.
1.-THE FILTHIEST LEVEL ON THE CANAL"
This two-mile level is represented by boatmen
to be the filthiest on the canal, for the reason
that its proximity to the hotel, and its length
between locks give a good resting place for the
men, a feeding place for the mules and time
enough to clean out the stables ON the boats.
In this cleaning all refuse is thro,0n ouerbo0rd.
The water of this long level has been entirely
drawn off once, and partially twice since March,
of this year. 1t was drawn off twice in NOvem-
Der last, when the water in the river was below
the top of the dam. In December, 1884 it was
drawn off twice. and finally for that season about
January 4th. If the gates at the e-house
We're closed on these occasions the citizens about
the lock did not know it. Even if they were
closed, that portion of the aqueduct from the
river mouth to the gate-house, which is about
26O feet long, would always be filled with
canal water on such occasions, and when the
gates were raised this volume, which would be
over 10000 cubic feet. would Immediately
start for Washington.
THE REMEDY
is apparent at glance. Let the tow-path be
filled solid at the wasteweir and the upper waste
way. No water from the canal would then enter
the river near the conduit. It is doubtful
whether this would cost a hundred dollars, and
1t could easily be done in a day. All the ordin-
airy waste would then run over beloeU the dam
and through the waste at the lock. If the level
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DRY GOODS.
TuFrED Scorer ZEpHYRs

TuFrED Scorer ZEpHYRs
SEATON PERRY.
SUCCESSOR To PERRY & BRorHFR,,
HAS JUST RECEIVED A COMPLETE ASSORT.
MFNT OF
--LATEST EUROPEAN NOVELTY" IN WASH
THESE GOODS MEASURE 80 INCHES WIDE
AND THE PRICE Il soc PER YARD
EMBROIDERED SWISS MUSLINS AT 45c. AND
100 PfkcTs CONFINED STYLES" IN AMBER
TEENS IN GREAf VARIETY
90 PIECES CHOICE DESIGNS" IN PRINTED
PTRE EINEN Jaw LAWNS At 2Se, 2sS ASD s7aas,
BRITISH WHITE GOODS, VIZ:
INDIA LINENS FROM l2iac. TO Soc
PERSIAN LAWNS,
PRINCESS LAWNS.
FRENCH MANSIONS,
INDIA MULIS.
WELT PIQUES FROM 12lsc TO .5c A YARD
q AND IA WHITE PURE LINEN LAWNS
FROM 25c, TO 81 PER YARD.
S4 FRENCH ORGANIZES FROM SOC. TO 81.
ELEGANT LINE OF WHITE AND COLORED
EMBROIDERED ROBES
EMBROIDERED INDIA PONGEE AND PRINT
ED CHINA SILK ROBES.
GENUINE CALCUTTA SEERSUCKERS.
'SPECIAL"-NEW BLACK BEADED SILK
GRENADINES FOR DRESS FRONTS AND GAR
NITURE RANGING FROM $40 TO SIS PER YD.
agCHOICE GOODS. PLAIN FIGURES AND
CORRECT PRICES
SEATON PERRY,
Perry Building
Pennsylvania ave-. cor 9th st.
Established 1910. my23
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AMERICANS IMPRISONED IN MExrCo.-In
the case Of the American engineer, Eddings, on
trial at Monclova, Mexico, for running over
Pridgen, acting under instructions nom the
State department, has entered protest against
kins, the American engineer, who was incar.
cerated eleven months without trial in the
Mexican prison at San Juan del Rio, arrived in
San Antonio, Texas, Saturday, on his way to
Washington to lay the facts OF his imprison-
ment before the State department. Early last
June an engine run by Jenkins ran over and
Cruz and the City of Mexico. Jenkins relates Q
tale of inhuman treatment at the hands OF his
jatlers and neglect Of the American consul. He
says the authorities tried to XIII him on two oc-
casiOns. He finally escaped through the as
distance OF humane physician.