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TO ENCOURAGE MArHrMoNy AMONG VETERANS.

Washington. March SENATOR Ingalls, to-day in
u0duccd bin providing that soldier who has los'
both eyes, and cs may get married
any time he may desire to one 10 take care
OF him. and that at his death his widow shall receive
Sl2 IA month As long she remains single. II the
soldier wife refuses to live with him and for
him he may. after absence of six months procure
II divorce from any county court upon the payment
Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-18
THE CREVASSE UIDENING Ar RALEIGH

REMOVING STOCK From NORTH LOUISIANA
THE WATER NOT RISING AT CAIRO.
New orleans. March IA dispatch to The Times
Democrat from NcksDurg, says: The river here
fell four inches In the last forty eight hours. The
river is falling for a distance Of twenty mile, above
and fifty miles below Raleigh crcvassc, which i
steadily widening. II 900 feet wide this morn
ing The food will submcrgc the faircst portion OF
NOrth louisiana steamers now removing stocn
from Icnsa Parish and In localities reached by rail
removal /, the order of the day. Tile Queen and
Crescent authorities expect their shreveport division
be nOOdc,i at Delta III "A few days
Cairo, H. March 1.-THE river has been at stand
since O'Clock this morning The Mississippi Is SUI
rising above and hold, the Ohio up al Caro- II Is
expected 10 fall again within the next day or two.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-18
THE INFANTRY AND CAVALRY SCHOOL.

WASHINGTON. March 1.-THE public quarters at
Fort Ieavenworth. made vacant by the removal Of
Department Headquarters to st. Louis. will be
utilized the infantry and cavalry school and the
garrison of Fort Leavcn~Orth. The transfer OF the
Department headquarters will be made July /.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-18
The WEATHER REPORT.
FORECAST TIN =

FORECAST TILL r. NJ. TUESDAY.
Washington. March l7.-For New England. Eastern
Newlork Eastern PcnnsyN and New Jersey warmer.
fair weather; southeastcrly winds
For Mary land. Delaware and Virginia. the
For Western NewYork, Western Pennsy ", anna, West
Virginia. Ohio. Indiana and lower Michigan and
iar weather southerly winds.
The OHIO will rise, the lower Mississippi will RISE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-18

FOURTH CLASS POsrMASrERS APPOINTED.
Washington, March I7.-Fourth-c class posrmastsrs
were today appointed follows:
Pcnnsy lNania-C. L. krauser, Glen More. J. Z.
Rogers. ShcshcQun.
New-lorh-J H. GiddnGs. Wcbctuck.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-18

General shall be made according to seniority IN '''c
next lover grade Of that corps. II, after examinations
an officer fail sto pass and is reported unit LOT pro.
motion the officer next below him In rank Sa !" ,bo late
war shall in case Of failure on such eAainha,o"'
be placed on the retired list OF the Army.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-18

Washington. March i7.-Repcscntativc j. ID. Taylor
OF Ohio. has been confined 10 his house under ply
sclan's care, since last Wednesday lie Is suffering
rom severe cold with symptoms OF pneumonia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-18
BONDS OFFERED AND ACCEPTED

Washington. March 17.-Tha bond offers TODAY
aggregated S272. 500, as follows:
Registered 4s-S34 500. 500, at 1o3
Coupon is-S25 OO0 $780, at l23
REGISTERED l,ss-$s00o0 90 800. ~, 400, $4,000.
$50 900. $l50OO0 at lO3 L. '"NN'
Coupon 1852 900 at lO3 10
All the offers were accepted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-18

APPRAISER COOPER ASKING FOR MORE MEN.
Washington, March l7.-Appraser Cooper OF New
YORK. has asked for an increase Of force He says
that while the work of the Appraisers deuartment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-18
PROPOSING A RErALIATORY TARIFF ELL.

PROPOSING A RETALIATORY TARIFF BILL.
Washington March I'm view OF the Information
which has been communicated to members OF Congress
concerning the disposition of the Ottawa Parliament
or some Of It's members, To restore the duties OH GER
tain articles the free list, the House ways ana
Means Committee has considered proposition 10 pro
vide legislation fitted to meet any emergency when
may arise Repre- sentative Baker, OF Ncwf York, has
introduced for reference TO That committee. bill pro
vdng that all articles Imported into the United states
shall in addition to the import duties now assessed
hy law pay a duty equal in amount TO any export
duty which may be assessed on the shipment OF the
same 10 the United states. 1t also provides that
when any article imported into the United states Is
free OF duty duty shall be levied equal In amount 70
any export duty that may be levied thereon by the
Laws OF the country Of shipment. All articles I'M.
pcrtcd into United states shall pay no less rate OF
uty than cargcahle by the laws Of the country OF
export on like articles imported into such country
fiOm the United states. Ii Is further proposed 10
provide that all ad valorcm duties imposed by tho
United states imported goods shall be assessed on
the actual retail price at which they are SOFA Tor
home consumption IN the country OF export, whenever
inch country assesses I'D valorcm duties on goods I'M
uoried from the United states on the retail price Oh
such goods IN the United states
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-18
THE SECRET SESSION. QUESTION UP.
MIR. IyGAIrs,s DECISION THAT CERTAIN PET1-
TIoNs WERE EXECUTIVE BUSINESS
OvEIRULED by THE SENATE.

OvERRULED by THE SENATE
Washington. March II (spcclaD.-Thc question OF
transactng executive business in open session came
up in practical way this morning in the Senate. and
short step taken toward recognizing the right OF
the public to know what is done by the Senators Dc
hind closed doors. The step might have been longer
If the presiding officer Mr. Ingalls, in his zeal 10
uphold the involablllty Of executive business, nad
not peremptorily denied the right OF appeal from
his decision. The appeal might not have succeeded
II it had been put but nervous were the champions
OF secrecy, apparently, that effort to secure an
open vote on proposition to consider certain spec
fed business in public throttled without com
junction by the Chair. 1t Is generally understood
that, under the rules Of the Senate. an appeal on
disputed ruling must be recognized and much sur
prise was shown that parliamentaran like Senator
ingalls, should have refused let point OF order be
considered which came legitimately before the Sen
ate for decision
The complication arose in this way Senator Cock
ref wanted to present petitions some circumstances
from St. Louis against the ratification OF the Russian
Extradltion treaty The Chair held that such petitions
should be presented In secret session. and breezy de-
bate arose over the disputed point, in the course OF
which Senators Platt and COckrell out strongly
In favor Of presenting petitions openly, whether on
executive business or not.
Senator Cockreu intimatcd incidentally that the
Russian treaty had been withdrawn. and that conse-
qucntly, no treaty was HO" PcilulH6 III
Senate. Mr. Harris, the martinez Of the senate, de-
carcd sententiously that the petitions were "eXecu-
tive business" but, to his surprise, the Senate over
turned both his own and the Chairs decision by a
substantial vote so tho petitions were received.
Presently senator Call asked leave TO submit reSo-
luton for the consideration publicly OF the nomna-
lions for United states District Judge and United
state, District Attorney in of the Florida districts
The Chair again held that such resolution couid come
before the senate only In secret session. MI Caii
lpf
instead Of putting the appeal to the senate when hah
decided similar question few minutes before;
turned Mr. Calls appeal down uncelingy as he had
stranglcd the original resolution \ motion TO go
into executive session was then put, and after the
chamber had been cleared Mr.. Calls resolution was
defeated 1t wcUld probably have had a good deal
OF support IL .hc on IL had been taken openly
but this was just what the presiding oficer and the
other defenders of the secret session wanted to avoid
senator Dolph's select committee TO Investigate
the source Of leaks OF proceedings Of the executive
ons had before il to-day senator Payne. who had
not previously appeared. and +. J. Babc0ck clerk OF
The Committee on Foreign Relations with these wit
uo~,cs the committee apparently closed its active
LLorS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-18

Daniel Lake is about forty five years Ola ana
humber merchant In south Brooklyn. lie represented
the Eighth Ward ia the Board of supervisors "r 'Wo
terms and ~ciN ed upon important committees. TIC
IA. elected Comfy Auditor bt tie Democrats anu wa
r., elected in l~-a'~1. III, term expired on J"l"i''
l. lie wa- "A protection Dcmo, rat IA lr77 anu sup
,.,t,a Nr Harrison. Last fall Dec was the hcpun"
can candidate for supervisor AT Large but Wa H'
f.,;rd Mr. Lake succeed, Charles NJ SiAHpri' VINO
i''' -. 80. .n,. ,hnyt f,ur wears. sir. stafford
"a. appointed by President Cleveland I" s"'''cu
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QtiCura
ReSOlVent

A skin and blood purifier OF incompatible purity ana
curative mower An acknowledged specific OF world.
vide celebrity Entirely vegetable. safe innocent and
naatable Effects daily great cures Of skin. SCALP
and blood humors all other skin and blood remedies
before the public greater than the combined sales
of all other blood and skin remedies
Sold everywhere. Price, 81. POTTER DhC" AND
CHEMICAL CORPORATION. Boston.
u Send for How to Cure Spring Humors"
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II I'm 0RS

has increased ABOUT $50 per cent since $780, the
force of employees has renamed stationary
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-18
SPR|

CsPRING HUMORS whether itching, burning, pieedinss
- scaly crusted pmpy botchy, whether OF the skin
scalp or blood with loss OF hair whether simple scroi.
ulous or hereditary from infancy TO age, are NJ"
speedily permanently and economically curea os 'nsa
greatest Of all known humor cures. the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-18

Tribune ONCE. March 1s. l a. m.-(senerally fair
weather prevailed yesterday. with winds working back
from horthwesteriy to southwestery, and growing
The temperature ranged between % and 40 degrees the
average 1881 being s lower than on the
day last year. and Sc higher than on Sunday
III ana near this city to-day there will probshly -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-18
To Succeed MARSHAL STAFFORD

THE PRESIDENT SENDS 10 THE sENAT THE
NAME OF DANIEL. LAKE OF BROOKLYN.
Washington. March 1.-THE President today sent
~ thc senate the nomination of Daniel Lake 10 be
United states Marshal for the Eastern District OF
NcW York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-18
TRIBUNE LOCAL OBSERVATIONS.

. In the diagram continuous line shows the barometer
avetuatons yesterday observed United States
service station at this city The dashes indicate
temperature noted at Perrys Pharmacy, Sun Building
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29

up the streets, and even paved roadways
could not be found for months afterward.
Elsewhere in this Johnstown anniversary
article is reproduced q photograph of a
birds eye view of this lower section of the
city as it stands to-day, rebuilt and rebuild
ing with large number of frame dwellings.
To get more forcible realization of the
resurrection there, remember, while you are
looking at the picture, that on the morning
after the food the whole territory included
in the picture was as level as your tennis
court or croquet ground, except ragged
fringing of shanties and frame structures
along the bank of Stony creek, which in
some manner had been spared, while solid
brick palaces melted down to doom.
CLINTON STREET sPARs.
Clinton street was built up principally
of stores from Washington to Main. The
upper floors of most of these were occupied
by families. In their midst was the princi-
pal hotel of Johnstown, the Hubert House.
1t was an imposing brick structure, but it
was picked up by the seething torrent and
dashed so completely to atoms that nothing
but piece of the roof remained lying across
the cellar to notify visitors where the nos
telry formerly stood. Fifty-one guests and
attaches perished in the house, it will be re-
membered. The falling and floating ruins
of this immense building sweeping against
others in the neighborhood is known to have
demolished half dozen more structures.
One Of these was McAteer's Hotel. The
loss of these buildings created big gap on
Clinton street, on one side of which other
buildings, not so strong, remained standing.
Thus did some very strange things happen
in the Johnstown flood. Yet, all these
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pieces, and hundreds of cars smashed to
splinters and more than 80 locomotives
ruined. The traffic of the line was delayed
for nearly one month.
All this damage has been repaired. The
bridges between Johnstown and South Fork
station have been constructed entirely of
stone. in design and shape much like the
great stone bridge which withstood the
flood at Johnstown. New roadbeds have
been built, and much of the land, filled in
several feet deep by the sand of the inunda-
ton, has been reclaimed with steam shovels.
The Pennsylvania Railroad in that region
is soldier than it ever was. 1t took nearly
all year, however, to effect this change, and
the tents and huts of the hundreds of labor
ers grew to be familiar sight along the
Conemaugh.
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depots and freight sheds, besides couple Of
small hotels, the Opera House, and Wood,
Morrell q Co. 8 big store. They were all
washed away except the store, and as shown
by illustrations, that was partially de-
stroyed. Not vestige was left on the street
of Turner Hall or the Mansion House.
Three squares Of this street, from Clinton to
Walnut, were densely populated, but its
10 saloons, its many shops, its neat
little restaurants. and all tine dwellings were
swept away, Nothing was LETT of the Pub
lie Library but heap of jumbled bricks.
All the books were destroyed, and the IL
brarian, Mrs. Hirst, was lost. The Western
Union telegraph Office hard by was obliter-
ated, and its heroine, Mrs. Ogle, went dowE
with 1t. The iron bridge to the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad and the wooden bridge behind
tue company store were both snapped asun-
der as though made of paper. From this
place clear down to the Point all was chaotic
level OF wreckage on the morning after the
food.
AT THE PARK.
Locust street presented an odd appearance
on the Saturday morning succeeding the
deluge. It parallels Washington street one
square farther back. A large number of its
own buildings withstood the shock, but the
thoroughfare was literally jammed with the
wrerkage from other streets, and this more
than anything else damaged the houses
along Locust. Yet in Harry Zimmerman's
livery stable here 80 horses perished. Two
or three wooden houses opposite were miss
ing, and large one leaned for many months
at dangerous angle. The group of brick
residences in the rear of the Methodist
church were badly knocked in and scraped.
They nearly all lost bay windows or porches.
Mr. Frohnelzer's home across the street was
demoralized in the 'front.' and several more
gaps and breaks in the line of dwellings
bring the visitor to what was once the city
park. Here stood 35 trees once, the trunks
of which were as large around as big
mans body. Everyone was wrenched out
by the roots. None were left, and the
grassy plot was covered deep with wreck
age. Not building was left standing on
the north side of the park, and from Frank
lin street to Locust is only remembrance
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tween the dam and Johnstown bridge, was
the inconceivably vast aggregate represented
by 2O, 900, 900 tons falling 400 feet

tween the dam and Johnstown bridge, was
the inconceivably vast aggregate represented
by 20, 600, 900 tons falling 400 feet.
The Destruction Begins.
With every inch and foot of progress this
terrible force increased. Engineers say that
under this theory the water would have had
velocity of about 100 miles an hour. That,
due to the 160-ieet fall OF Niagara Falls, is
about 70 miles per hour. So that, allowing
for all frictional losses, the man who re-
ceived the direct blow of water had about
the same chances of escaping alive as he
would have had had he received a blow
from Niagara Falls ITSELF
Down the valley of the Conemaugh it
swept. Mineral Point was entirely wiped out
East Conemaugh was almost depopulated
and every building swept away. OF the
300 or 400 houses in Woodvale but one was
left, that being the large Touring mill. The
whole end Of it was wrecked. Over 200
dwellings and two scores of stores in Cone
maugh borough were picked up and dashed
to pieces. Intermingled with all this wreck
age were the fragments of half dozen rail-
road bridges. the iron from several freight
cars, whole sections of passenger coaches,
while the water had actually played "foot-
BALI with 30 locomotives. In and among
all this ruin hundreds of people struggled
for their lives. And every minute marked
a dying gasp of some.
Bearing on its breast this awful mass of
debris and carrying to death these hundreds
of human beings, the food reached Johns
town proper at either o'clock or 4:10. And
IN 10 minutes Johnstown too was a wreck.
Street after street succumbed Block after
block went to pieces. The gloom of night
settled down upon ruined city.
What the dawn Of day on Saturday dis
closed is given in another section of this ar
ticle.
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so far as the original buildings are con-
cerned.
AN AWFUL SPECTACLE.
Main street was an awful spectacle on
Saturday morning, June 1. East of the
park the business buildings on this thor
oughfare remained standing, with the ex-
ception of here and there where weaker
structure had departed, leaving gap to tell
the story. But it seemed as though the
street had become vast and CHASTITY sewer.
Wreckage lay along its whole length, packed
in solidly from sidewalk to sidewalk, walled
tightly against the buildings on either side,
and rising in its ugly mass to the middle Of
the second-story windows, in some instances
being level with the caves of the smaller
houses. In other words. when you walked
over the surface of the debris on Main
street, you walked at such an elevation that
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beautiful, several imposing in design and
symmetry. The First NJ. E. Church, being a
lofty structure entirely OF stone, stood like
a bulwark against the water, and saved the
parsonage, just adjoining, with ten or Is
persons enclosed, including the pastor and
his family.
CHURCHES LITERALLY ANNIHILATED.
The German Lutheran Church, worth $50, :
600. was totally annihilAted. Not even a
shingle of it was left within mile of its
foundations. Rev. J. P. Lichtenburg and
his family of four went down with their
home, and it was months before their bodies
were found. They lived in Johnstown only
q month.
The brick house of David Cover was
driven against the st. Johns Catholic
Church on Locust street. Mrs. NJ. Woolf,
who occupied half of the dwelling, was
baking bread at her stove at the time. The
house took fire, and the church was ignited.
There with the water surging half way up
to the roof the two buildings were actually
consumed by fire. The parechial residence
which adjoined was also destroyed by the
confagration which lasted until midnight.
Some days later the charred walls of the
church had to be blown up with dynamite
to keep the building from falling on people.
The church was elegantly furnished, and
loss of $3.50, 900 was the result. The con-
vent at the corner of Clifton and Locust
streets, which was an adjunct to this church,
was almost wholly demolished. The escape
of the Sisters of Charity from this structure
Continusd on Tpelth Page,
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iron mill, pointing to the plack Oampria
smokestacks as he caught glimpse OF them
from the gap at Sang Hollow, where the
train comes out of the mountain.
A Gateway to Pitrsburg.
Descending the Alleghenies, the traveller
from the East watched the tortuous wind
ings Of the Little Conemaugh as it dashed
and foamed westward down the great noun
ain slope. Nothing can be wilder than the
valley below where South Fork creek enters
the river, and there. within few miles OF
Johnstown, the travellers first thoughts
were about fishing and hunting. He least
expected to find there bustling, prosperous
city, and presently. when, from the gap at
Mineral Point, he saw church steeples-a
score of them-large business blocks and
monster manufacturing establishments, as
tonishment was his only expression. 10
create and rear a metropolis there In that
wild, and, from its geographical environ
ments, almost impenetrable region. has
struck many man as a triumph.
why, thought the first iron mills we
would see were at Pittsburg." an English
tourist was once heard to say as the train
stopped at Johnstown, "and here they are
planted down among these mountains
AYE" was the reply, "but Johnstown is
the gateway to Pittsburg."
How IL Had Grown.
On Friday morning, May 81, 1889, Johns
town was the center of population of about
10000. The town was incorporated in 1881,
and started out with less than 700 residents.
From Its very inception it was an important
place in the affairs of Pennsylvania. The
eligible passes of the mountains which sur
rounded it made it the basis of operations
in building the old State canal and the cele-
brated Allegheny Portage Railroad. When
these joint enterprises began running they
brought much of the through travel of the
United States through Johnstown. The
town was where the Portage railroad ended
and the western division Of the canal COM
menced. 1t thus became the depot of traffic
and travel. Nor was this condition of things
changed much after the Pennsylvania Rail-
road was built and the canal abandoned.
The projectors of the new railroad enterprise
believed they would lose nothing by leaving
Hollidaysburg to the south and Ebensburg
to the north of their main line, but they
could not afford to slight Johnstown in this
manner. That town had too much business
and had become too powerful to be passed
by.
An Impetus to Industry.
From the building of the Cambria Iron
Works in 1858 dates the genuine progress Of
Johnstown. The surrounding mountains
were rich in coal, ore and limestone, and the
beginning of the work of constructing the
Pennsylvania Railroad gave an immense
impetus to this industry. 1t was evidently
foreseen what the influence of railroads on
the iron business would be, and Johnstown
proposed to be ready for the iron age. In
deed, as far back as 1909 the ores of the
mountains in that neighborhood had been
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Law close to the watershed, and into it
poured all the surplus of the weeks rain.
The lake, although discharging its best
through a contracted spill-way, gradually
arose at the rate of loot an hour for several
hours before the break. The water at its
normal level lay seven or eight feet below
the crest of the dam, SO that by 2:3O on
Friday afternoon the stream was level with
the crest of the dam and began to flow over
the top of it. Calamity then seemed certain.
1t was apparent that no earth dam was
capable of sustaining such vast body of
water, or OF long remaining solid with
streamlets running over it.
The Giant Unchanged.
The great dam gave way at 8 o'clock.
Eve witnesses say that it burst with loud
report like thunder.
A year has passed. and the grass is now