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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-14
Possibilities OF ALUMINIUM.
Though Present Everywhere 1t is Diff
cult to Extract.

From the Cincinnati Worlds Progress.
A short time ago client of ours was explain
ing the use he was to make of this metal in
constructing his valuable type-setting and dis
tributing machine, whereby he would gain in
strength, durability, completeness of finish and
external beauty more than enough advantages
to compensate for all extra cost He was fairly
enthusiastic over the possible new uses of this
metal in view OF the comparatively low price
OF it. And he was only voicing the same senti-
ments or hopes that the scientific and manu-
featuring public had been entertaining.
1t is well known that aluminium is present in
every clay bank, and it would be difficult to say
more plainly how common it is. The only
question for some time has been how can il be
separated from the clay at cost that will pat
1t In the reach Of the mechanic and manufac-
turer.
There are today as many chemists devoting
their days and nights with view to discover
ing processes by which aluminium may be fur
nished to the public cheaply as there are scien-
fists delvng into the possibilities of electricity
AT first the metal was more precious than gold.
Then 1t fell to IS per pound; now it is 80 per
pound. This fall in cost has been reached by
the discovery Of new affinities which cheaper
its production. When it reaches a cost of
twenty-nv cents per pound it will be generally
used. 1t is about as light as oak wood, four
times as light as iron, and has more resistance
than the very best steel 1t will be used in the
construction of houses. superseding wood and
stone and brick. 1t will take the place of iron
and wood in ship-building, and one can only
guess its value in the matter Of quick ocean
voyages, rapid land transit, and, possibly, in
flying machines
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g. NOTE THE RESULT: -

THE STAR HAS MORE THAN
THREE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR
SUBSCRIBERS and MORE THAN
FIVE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR
READERS AS ANY OTHER DAILY
PAPER In WASHINGTON. IL is de-
livered regularly by careful carriers 40
the HOMES OF THE PEOPLE, AFTER
THE BUsTLE AND WORRY OF THE
CAY ARE OVER, and IL is thus read
leisurely and thoroughly by EVERY
MEMBER OF THE FAMILY.
They know that IL prints all the news,
and has only the interests Of the people
of the District I'm view, with no partisan
measures to advocate, and no private
schemes to forward. They know IL, I'm
short, to be THE PEOPLES PAPER,
and nothing else. As an ADVERTISING
MEDIUM it is, therefore, ABSO-
LUTELY WITHOUT A RIVAL. IL ID
I'm fact worth more as q means Of reach.
ing the public THAN ALL THE
OTHER DAILY PAPERS IN THE
CITY TOGETHER.
Furthermore, In proportion TO the re-
turns IL gives its patrons, ITS ADVER-
Using RATES ARE THE CHEAPEST
IN THE CITY.
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DfEDMoNT AIR LINE.
Schedule in effect luna 40 $50

r..
L Schedule in effect June 80, 1889.
$3.50 .. m.-Esst Tennessee Mail, daily for Warren
Ton, Oordonsyille, Charlottesville, Lynchburg, aud
stauons between Alexandra and L. nchburg, Roanoke.
uan sleeper Washington TO Memphis.
II "a a. m:-Fast mail daily for warrenton. Char
o.esnylie, stations Chesapeake and Ohio Route.
between Lynchburs and Danyille, Greensboro Rsl-
eigh. Asheville. Charlotte, Columbia. Augusta.
AsinntA BlrminGham. Montsomery, New Orleans,
atlanta, psrlor cars Atlanta 10 Montgomery, Pullman
Sieepers Montgomery to New Orleans. Pullman
Sleeper Greensboro to Columbia and Augusta Pull
Route.
4:I5 p m.-DAily. except Sunday, for Manassas
sraspurg ana intermediate stations.
tanooga. Pullman Festibule Sleepers Washington 10
Memphis, connecting thence for ali Arkansas points;
y: 40 ,. m;-Western Express, daily for Manassas
Cnpeyer Orange, Charlottesville, Staunton, LOUIS,
vile, Cincinnati Pullman vestibuie train ashnstou
II 90 p m,-southern Express daily for Iynchburg.
Danville, Raleigh, Asheville, Charlotte Colurnbia
AugIsta Atlanta, Monteomery, New Orleans. Texas.
New Orleans, via Atlanta and Montgomery Pullman
Sleeper Washington TO Birmingham Ala. via Atlanta
and Georgia Pacific Railway
daily; arrive Round Hill IL 80 O. M and 7:5O o m
returning leave Round Hill :05 daily aud ~ 80
M oay except sunday. arriving Washington $3.50
Through trains from the South via Charlotte Dan.
vile and Lynchburg arrive in Washington @ SO a IN
ana :l3 M via East Tennessee, Bristol and lynch
burg at sos am. aud 10 40 pm: via Chesapeake
ana ONO route snd Charlottesville at :5 pm aud
I;la Pm and 6:53 am. Strasburg local At Els
Tickets sleeping-car reservation and information
iurnisned and baggage checked at ONCE, 1900 Penn
yysnis sSsn9e and At Passenger Station. Pennsyva-
je29 JAS. l. TAYLOR, Gen. Pass Agent
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THE EVENING STAR IL a PAPEH
OF TO-DAY, not OF YESTERDAY nor
Of LAST WEEK. IL prints ALL THE
NEWS, Local, Domestic and Foreign.
LONG IN ADVANCE OF THE MORN
ING PAPERS.
This Is conspicuousiy true OF an classes
Of news, but especially so I'm regard to
Local News and District Affairs.
THE STAR has very much LARGER
and BETTER force Of LOCAL RE.
PORTERS and SPECIAL WRITERS
than any other paper I'm Washington
ever thought OF employing, and ITS
MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT AND
PRINTING FACILITIES ARE MORE
THAN THREE TIMES AS POWER.
Full AND RAPID AS THOSE OF ANY
OTHER WASHINGTON PAPER. Il 10
therefore able to print each day q full
report of every transaction Of public I'm.
terest occurring I'm the District mp 70
the very hour Of going to press.
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Increase of Crime,

The records Of the New York police courts
present some remarkable facts as showing the
increase OF crime in the city during the past
year. An army of $1,000 persons were arrested
during the last twelve months, or an increase in
the number over the preceding year of about 8
per cent. OF that number about 6. 900 were
males and 20, 600 females. Fifty-eight thousand
persons were tried. One hundred men and q
women attempted to kill themselves, most OF
them by pistol shots and razors Nearly !, OOC
men were arrested for grand larceny, while $50
females were held for the same onense. Six
thousand women were arrested for being
drunk. and 1900 males for the same thing.
or this army of criminals France had about 40C
natives, Scotland $50, Italy $780, England /, 800
Germany 6,00O, Ireland $1,000, and America
about q, 900. About S2S, 900 were collected for
fines One hundred and twenty women were
arrested for being suspicious characters,
women for abduction, women for bigamy, and
for perjury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-14
For Copying Drawings.


new method of copying drawings which
may be found Of service in architests' offices is
given in the Deutsches Baungeaoerbes Blaa
Any kind of opaque drawing paper in ordinary
use may be employed for this purpose stretched
in the usual way over the drawing to be copied
or traced. Then, by the aid of a cotton pad,
the paper is soaked with benzine. The pad
causes the benzine to enter the pores of the
paper, rendering the latter more transparent
than the finest tracing paper. The most delicate
lines and tints show through the paper 90
treated, and may be copied with the greatest
ease, for pencil, Indian ink, or water colors
take equally well on the benzinized
surface. The paper is neither creased nor
torn, remaining whole and supple. Indeed,
pencil marks and water color tintings last bet
ter upon paper treated in this wav than on any
other kind of tracing paper, the former being
rather difficult to remove by rubber. When
large drawings are to be dealt with the benzine
treatment is only applied to parts at time,
thus keeping pace with the rapidity Of advance
ment with the work. When the copy is COM
pleted the benzine rapidly evaporates and the
paper resumes its original white and opaque
appearance without betraying the faintest
trace of the benzne. If it is desired to fix
lead pencil marks on ordinary drawing or trac-
ing paper this may be done by wetting it with
milk and drying in the air.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-14
THE LATE GEORGE LEWIS.
His Career in Washington is Well Re.
membered.
From the Boston Advertiser.

From the Boston Advertiser
A correspondent from that city lately in
formed me that Geo. Lewis had died in Eng
land. The fame Of Lewis is not great in other
portions Of the country, but in Washington he
will be remembered long after distinguished
senators and high officials have been forgotten.
He was the predecessor Of Napoleon" Ward,
Of Fish, Grant and Ward fame, and inaugu-
rated the same tactics. His Office was on F
St, few doors above the Office Of Belva Lock-
wood. He was, for a time, the idol of the de-
partment clerks and officials. When each
semi-monthly pay day came Levis's Office
was crowded with men and women from
the different departments, the treasury
and post Office departments particu-
larly, eager to deposit their salaries in
per cent a month" OF course the crash finally
came. One Monday morning a rumor spread
over the city that Lewis had decamped. The
afternoon papers confirmed the story, and
hundreds, perhaps thousands of luckless in
vestors awoke to the fact that they had been
swindled out Of the savings OF q life time. 1t
was reported at the time that hundreds Of
thousands of dollars had passed through Lewis
hands. Col. Burnside, the paymaster of the
Post ONCE department, lost about $4,000,
some Of which was government money, and
the shock OF the discovery made him insane.
SOMETHING Ikea CONSCIENCE"
The day before Lewis decamped he sent for q
protege of Senator Hscock's, young depart
ment clerk who had been largely instrumental
in securing investors in the Lewis syndicates,
and insisted on general settling up for the
accounts Of the syndicates in which the young
man was interested By this means the New
Yorker was saved from the financial ruin in
which the other spectators were involved 1t
was queer and rather unaccountable action
on Lewis part and would suggest that he pos
sessed something like conscience.
One would think that after their bitter eX-
perience the victims of such a man would have
done with such schemes forever. On the con-
trary, however, if the willy Lewis could have
compromised with all who had been taken in
and could have re-established an Office near
the departments, he would have been able to
have repeated the performance and gained
another batch of investors. As it is he left
many behind him in his fight, who still be-
heved in his honesty and financial skill. Such
an implicit belief in anybody anything is SO
rare in Washington that it deserves to be COM
mented on.
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NNHE GREAT

l. PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE
81 R ffh EkI TRACK. sEEfS6(P sSESEky
S0ESEk OF sixth AND Bf sTk iT s As FOL
For h,,.Surs ana the West, Chicago Limited EXPIRES.
Line. $50 am; daily to Cincinnati and ST. LOUIS
with Sleeping Cars from Pittsburg to Cincinnati
,Schicsse. with sleeping Car Altoona 70 Cheap
western Eipress at 40 p m. daily, with sleeping
cars washington 10 Chicago and st. Louis. con
meeting daily st Harrisburg with through sleepers
p m daily. for PitisburS md he Nee S,lS
through Sleeper to Fttsburs. aud Pittsburx q
BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD
For kane CanandaiguA, Rochester and Niagara Falls
For Erie Canandaigua and Rochester daily; for Buff
sssps CAR to
For ~illiamsport, Lock Haven and Elmira at BOA
FOX pffis kHnsS. NV YORK AND THE EASE
6 G9 s g;Sg ;, y 4o and u So 40 an Zoo 40
r; 20; 4;i9; 1000 and u 90 pm Li4itsa
sSIsept sunday. and s:i5 pm. daiiy. with Diains
Fas. Express s: 40 a. u, Week days. and 10 .. m.
daily. Express 2;lo y. IN daily. Accom-. p Il
tsr s soe1 without change, so p m every day.
jersey y With boats Of ssSas trans s0nnset a.
a inT drss, transfer 70 Fulton street avoiding
For Ocean UlIS and Points on peissars Division,
For city ssf 800 Say- il 100 and 40 M week
For Baltimore, 6:35, 7:2o $40, 300, $40. so
5l;0O. and II 40 q. m- ~ :05, n. 40, $50
$40; ~, 20. 40, 500, 40, s;lO 10 90,
ma MILL ~ ;20p n; ON SUNDAY 900, s;o5, 300,
$40 10 100, and IL 20 D. N.
For Pope,s Greek Line. 20 am and 40 m. daily
5,9 and 200
an. 4:10p.m-
ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAIL
MAi. AND ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON
IN EFFECT MAY IL, 1859.
For Alexandra, 4:3O, 6:35 7:45. 40 As 10 81
Am, l2:o4 noon, x 90, 4:25, :5o, Sol, GIL
S:US. 1898 aud IL 81 y. m. On Sunday at go.
pm.
Accommodation for Quantieo. :; As al IN. and SO pm
week days A a.. m. SUNDAYS
For kienmond and the south so. 1857 q m daily.
o., and 6:2l p m daily, except Sunday.
Trains leave Alexandria for Washington, Cos, 7Oa
POO, S:1Q, 1918, II :07 q. m I'd, 500, Sid
51O. :05, 500, Y:20, 1882, and ii :O5 %. M
On Sunday at :: 10 and IL :07 g. m; ZOO, > TO-
Z :U5, $780, 500, and 10 :32 y. IN.
Tickets and Information at the office northeast o-
ner of 18Th street and Pennsylvania avenue aud
nj the station. where orders can be left tor the
checking of baggage destination from hotels AMI
residences.
CHAS. L. PUGH, JR wOop
oenerai mauaSef General PASSENGER Agent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-14
A FLORAL PARADE.
A Beautiful Sight at Bar Harbor Wit
messed by the President.

Yesterday President Harrison lunched with
Mr.. W. B. Howard, whose cottage Moosley
hall, stands directly opposite Stanwood, the
residence of Secretary Blaine. Among those
at the lunch table were Mr. and Mrs W. B.
Howard, Mr.. and Mrs. Williams. Secretary and
Mrs. Blaine, Senator and Mrs. Hale, Congress-
man Lodge. Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Mackay. Mrs.
Robert Patterson, Mrs. Charles A. Whelan
Walker Blaine, Mrs. Margaret Blaine and Pri-
yate Secretary Halford.
Then the driving floral parade called for at
tention- The party drove to the Kebo valley
club grounds in order to witness it. President
Harrison and Mrs. Blaine occupied the first
carriage, Secretary Blaine being seated in the
second. As the Presidents well-known fea-
lures were seen in the grounds cheers broke
from the crowd and it was continued when the
party was ushered in the covered promenade
OF the club house. At one end Of the promenade
a section had been decorated with American
Tags and reserved, and from it the President
and Secretary Blaine looked at the beautiful
effects which were produced below Secretary
Tracy looked on from a carriage which had
been drawn up. From one end Of the
promenade to the other, in the band stand,
on the ground in front of the club house and
In the concourse just opposite was a great
gathering OF spectators, while along the race
track went about thirty vehicles Of various
SYKES and decorated In various unusual ways
AL these vehicles contained prominent resi-
dents of Bar Harbor and the neighborhood
ladies being largely in the majority
The golden rod, so long talked Of as available
for national flower, decorated the first buck
board, which was occupied by q dozen young
ladies from the Saint ssuyeur and which was
drawn by four white horses. Each ofthe ladies
held q stalk Of golden rod, and one end of rib
bon Of that color which dangled from a center
piece above. The white dresses as well as the
blackboard, were lavishly trimmed with the
over.
In the four-horse carriages Immediately fol-
lowing the floral decorations of lavender, vel
low and purple had been literally applied and
other carriages were decorated and dressed
Just as thoroughly. Each succeeding minute
brought new surprise. Miss Margaret Blaine
drove pheton whose wheels even were COW
cred with flowers. In reality almost every car
riage with its floral adornment formed a new
surprise, originality in decorating being appar-
ent, and the lady and gentlemen occupants ap-
pearing in character.
The procession went by the President three
times, then IL drove of into town. and upon its
return disbanded- Lunch was served for the
guests and the gathering practically resolved
ITSELF into a lawn party. President Harrison
Secretary Blaine and their party afterward
dined st the house OF Mr.. w. S. Gurnee and a
musicale followed.
Today the President will say goodbye to his
host, and at $50 a. IN. will begin his return to
Washington.
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President Harrison's Dublin Letter.

Postmaster General Raikes was questioned
by Mr.. Sexton in the English house of COM
mons last night with reference to the letter ad-
dressed by President Harrison to the lord
mayor OF Dublin thanking the lord mayor for
the sympathy and aid sent from Dublin to the
Johnstown sufferers, which letter, Mr.. Sexton
charged, had been tempered with by post Office
ofhciais; The postmaster general said that he
believed that the letter had been opened, but
by whom and when he WAS unable to state. Mr..
Sexton having refused to place the envelope in
his hands. Mr.. Sexton thereupon promised to
produce the epyelope
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-14
seThe Newest Game. 81

from the Boston traveller
The newest game takes the form of an in.
formation party, and is begun by passing to
each gentleman q card and to the ladies small
pieces Of paper, which should be numbered.
Those who discover the same number on their
card and paper are partners for the game.
Each couple must think Of Q question. sensible
or ridiculous, historical or in regard 10 the
weather, to be written on the cards, after
which the cards are TO be gathered together,
and the leader reads each in turn, giving q fe "
moments for the partners to consider the SUBJ
ject and write the answer, which should be read
aloud In turn. This is where the fun of the
game begins, as many Of the answers are ex-
ceedingly queer. Those having q correct an
swer mark their card 10, q wrong answer 0, and
il the answer In anywhere near right it ID
counted 5. When all are added prizes may be
distributed as in progressive games for the beat
and the poorest record. The instructive Fart
Of the game ID the discussion which follows the
questions. The height Of Bunker Hill monu.
ment is what everybody living near it ought to
know, and yet at an information party held :
few evenings ago only one person in Q company
Of twenty was sure Of the exact number of feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-14
HUMBLING AN AUTOCRAT.
Thrilling Experience of Forty Deter
mined Undergraduates oupists.

From the Detroit Free Press.
The autocrat of the seaside resort is not the
man with his millions, but the hotel cook. The
clerk in the Office may imagine that he owns
most OF the earth, and the head waiter may feel
that he has warranty deed of the remainder
but when you come right down to facts the
boss of the kitchen is the boss of the ranch. He
is the unseen power behind the throne to which
all bow. At our hotel the soup had invariably
been seasoned SO high with cayenne pepper
that not one out of ten could more than taste
it. The same was true of the deviled clans
One day made kick and in five minutes ]
had half dozen guests with me. We inter.
viewed the landlord and his reply was:
81 have nothing to say about It. You must
go to the chief cook"
We sought an interview with that magnate
He was a colored man with the dignity of q
Roman senator. We made our complaint and
he replied:
II season dat soup an dem clans to suit my
taste.''
"But it doesn't suit ours"
"Can't help dat, sah."
I'VE want less pepper"
"Can't help dat"
"Do you refuse to make changer"
II sartinly do, sab. lows nobody to tel
me what to do"
We returned to the veranda and went into
convention. Every minute added to our
numerical! strength, and in quarter of an hour
we numbered forty men. Then it was unani-
mously
Resolved, That if the cook refuses to use
less pepper we seek some other hotel"
Delegates were appointed to wait on the land.
lord, and he replied:
Gentlemen, am sorry, but dare not inter-
fere."
Forty rooms were vacated forty trunks
packed and then mine host wilted. He
called in the cook, and though that individual
attempted to stand on his dignity he had to
wilt. By this time the excitement was intense
and had the forty gone they would have been
followed by hundred more. LESS pepper
was the watchword all over the house. and il
meant great deal to that landlord. We
kicked, we saw, we conquered, and the next
soup and CLANS exactly suited the popular
taste. The cook is still the unseen power be.
hind the throne, but he has skipped cog and
no one is afraid of him any longer.
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AUCTION SALES.
THIS AFTERNOON
THIS AFTERNOON.
DuNcANsoS BIOS. Auenonser.
TRUSTEES SALE OF BRICK HOUSE, NUMBER
1912 NINTH sTAIET NoRTHwEsT. NEAR

lSIS NINTH sTR sTu NORTHWEST. NEAR
No 1917 folio 459 ct Sea- one Of the Land Records
the District Of Columbia we viii eel q public auction
DAY OF AUGUST, AID. 1850. AT HALF-PAsT FIVE
O'CLOCK p M the following descIioed real estate,
bia to-wit All thst certain piece or parcel Of land
and premises known and distinguished q. and
being part Of lot numbered fifteen Q5) In
square three hundred aud sixty (364 beginning
for the at the southeast Of said lot heen
one hundred and thirty eight feet nine inches SO II
inches) to the line of alley, thence north ten feet
and onehah inches 90 fl. az inches). thence
to the west line Of Ninth street northwest thence
south the place Of beginning. The same being
known as premises numbered 1912 Ninth street
Terms: One third cash. balance in one and two
for which the notes OF the purchaser secured by
deed trust the property sold bearing
from day Of sale at the rate of per cent per Annum
chaser deposit of 90 will be required at time Of
sale. All conyeyancing. &c. at purchasers cost.
Terms of sale to be complied with in ten daya from
the day of the trustees the right
to resell the property at the risk and cost Of the de-
faulting purchaser after i've days public notice Of
ton DC.
CHAs. G. DUNCANsoN.t r-,....
jy25-d&ds CHAS. W. DARN. Trustees.
az THE PURCHASER AT THE FORMER SALE
having failed to comply the above property will he
FoukTEENTH DAY Of AUGUST, x.D. 1859, a
HALF-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK PM
CHAS. e: pUNCANsON,l rrrs,s..