Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-06-23
SETTLED M ARBITRATION.
The Differences Between the stone
Cutters and their Bosses Adjusted.


ton. committee OF journeymen and
committee OF bosses met this MORN
ing aud finally decided on the arbitration.
Mr.. Joseph Tanning was chosen as arbitrator
on Inc part of the stOnecutters and Mr.. Jacob
Veihmeyer was chosen by the bosses. Tie
names or nve well-known citizens we're placed
In nat aud disinterested person was called
complete the board of arbitration. The name
drawn was that of MIR. John T. Lehman. The
their demands. The board, after consultation,
| adopted: THE master stonecuttes propose
when eight hours will be a days work, from
and after that time eight hours, at the rate OF
40 cents per hour"
"A, MI: Tanning prepared q minority report ask
accepted the decision of the majority. The
decision does not affect In any way the card
noi If ene appreaIce, system which were
matters remain as they were before the lockout
began: Mr.. Lehman. In voting with Mr.. Web
he did SO because other trades were going to
work fof nine hours, and it would make things
unequal to require the master stonecutters to
establish an eight-hour rule. The jOurneymen
stonecutters expressed themselves to-day as
satisfied with the result of the proceedings.
One OF the officers Of the union said that as both
organizations stood on their dignity, arbtra-
ZION appeared to afford the best way Of getting
out Of q hole.
LAST NIGHTS MEETINGS.
The Brickiayers' union last night received
| into membership fourteen candidates who, it
Is said, have been working as non-union men.
At meeting OF the master masons last
evening committee from the hod carriers ap-
peared and made request that -. % per day
OF nine hours be paid them instead OF So, as
now paid. No action was taken.
At q meeting OF the master tinsmiths last
night 1t was stated that many of the Journey
men had resumed work on the bosses terms.
Local Notes.
Among those released from the Ludlow
street jail, New York, under the operations OF a
recent act OF the legislature, is A. K. Mcdonald,
who was well known here in connection with
debt in 1880 and has since been in Jail.
o.. To-day the following persons were admitted
kxsns Jo6n
es W 6ey a TSom Ms'i n Gm af l.
Hubachek and ". 8. Roudebush.
| RANGE OF THE THERMOMETER.-Thef follow
ing were the readings at the signal office to-day:
a. m 65; a. m, 81; IL a.. M, ~; D. M,
n; maximum, II; minimum, 81.
| On October 21st last, Mr.. Lawrence d. Phillips,
| an employe OF the bureau of engraving and
printing, living at 1917 street, reported that
! on the 10Th OF October his gold watch. valued
| at POO, was taken from his vest pocket in The
dressing room. No trace could be found of the
watch or clue to The thief, but yesterday at
| police headquarters on the pawnbrokers' re-
turns the number OF tine watch was found. De-
| tective Matiingly went to the pawnbrokers
ana learned that the man who had pawued it
won 1t at rattle given at the house of colored
woman, and going to the woman learned that
Vincent ]. Battle. a coored man employed at
| the bureau. The latter Was thereupon arrested
by the detective and locked up in the fifth pre-
cincL for hearing.
| NAVAL ORDERs.-Surgeon ]. A. Hawke, or
dered to the Essex. Surgeon Howard Smith,
to the Wabash. Passed Assistant Surgeon Geo.
| Arthur, to the New York navy yard. Chief
Engineer John A. Scott TO duty at Pittsburg.
Pay Inspector +. stewart, to duty in charge Of
the .,h navy pay office at New York. Paymaster
| Pay Director A. II. Gilman, detached from the
| navy pay office, New York, on the 3Oth inst.
| see and placed on sick leave. Paymaster Chas
| F. Guild, from the New York navy yard and
ordered to the Tennessee Passed Assistant Sur
| geon i. A. Lowering, from the New York navy
| yard and ordered TO the Brooklyn.
Ice FOR THE NAVY DEpARrMENr.-The In
dependent Ice company has been awarded the
| contract for supplying the Navy department
and its offices with Kennebec ice, at "a cents
per 100 pounds, subject to appropriations here
! after.
STATIONERY FOR THE NAVAL SERvIcE.-The
| successful bidders for supplying the naval
| service with stationery were Browne & Co.,
VIM. A. Wheeler, jr.,. Agar, Hamblin & Co.,
New York; r. B. Dovell & Son, of Newark, NJ;
Jno. Wauamaker and Detre e. Blackburn OF
philadelphia. There were no Washington
bidders.
The OFFICIAL ENVELOPE BIDs.-When it
was found on the 10th of May that there was
only one bid tor the official envelope contract,
Postmaster General Villas directed a new adver-
| tisement to be made. The bids under this ad-
| vertisement were opened to-day, the following
being the bidders: The Whltcomb Envelope
company, OF Worcester, Mass; Springfield En-.
Nesbtt & Co.. OF New York; the Morgan Enve-
iope company, and the PliInpton Manufacture
| ing company, of Hartford, Conn.,, the Two latter
uniting in their bid, which was the lowest. The
| present con tractor, the Holyoke Envelope COM
pany, and the only bidder at the last letting
| did not put in a bid. All the bids were lower
than last year.