The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-31
SINGLE-TAX CONFERENCE.
PREPARATIONS FOR ITS SESSION
IN NEW YORK.
Navy-Yards as Political Machines-Two
Prominent DemoeratsA-An Insane Inn
m,krant-f.aiiroad News and other
MetrouoIitau Mention.

Aug 30, lsW.t
The Sinele-Tax Enrolment Committee
has prepared the following programme Tor
the sngle-Tax National Conference, which
will be held at Cooper Union on September
LIST. "a, and 81. On Monday Afternoon the
conference will meet in the large hall for
organization. \ public reception will be
given 10 Henry George in the evening.
Business sessions will occupy the forenoon
and afternoon Of Tuesday and Wednesday.
On Tuesday evening there will be a single
tax and frce-trade mass-peetiDg, at which
Henry George, William Lloyd Garrison,
James G.. Mcguire, Louis +. Post, and
many others will speak. On Wednesday
evening the work of the conference VIII De
grounded or by a dinner at The Hotel
Brighton, Brighton Beach,
Henry ,ieofge Is expected home on the
Seryia which is due sunday evening. About
one hundred clubs, from twenty-nine states
and the District of Columbia, represented
by nearly five hundred delegates, VIII AT
tend the conference.
POLITICAL NAVAL LABORERS.
The pressure that is brought to bear on
Secretary Tracy from the various navy
ward localities has bHcn very strong for
large increases in the pay-r0lls before elec-
ton Now that only few days remain be-
fore the date set by the statute after when
no increases can be made until after cleo
ton in the navy-yard, the question must be
auicklv settled. 1t is is believed that General
Tracy is not inclined TO permit the con
version Of the yards into purely political
machines. but so much work must be done
before winter that he wili probably he CONF
PEELED to order increases in Brooklyn, Nor
folk, and Philadelphia at once. The hiitery
ward. adjoining Tom Reeds district, has
already been attended -. As election
day falls this year on Tuesday, No
vember lth, il will be Illegal to en-
plOy men ut the nayy-yard after
September 9th, but the heads OF depart
ments and the political wre-pullers are
alert to this fact, and big rats Of men are
expecting employment from Uncle sam
within few days. There is plenty OF work
10 do at the hayward on the many shlps
that are there. Even if the appropriation
for the building of the Maine has been eX-
creded. the monitors Miantonomah. Puri-
ton. and Terror are yet there 10 stand the
brunt Of every charge not otherwise pro
vided for. as they have been dom. Tor
months past.
TWO PROMINENT DEMOCRATS.
Two men, who are likely to be important
figures in the National Democratic Conyen-
ton. are often seen i'm New York. They are
both governors Of States and have the Presl-
dental itch in its worst form. Leon ALBEIT
is one of them. lie is about medium height.
He wears a full grayish beard. and his hair
is of the same color. His shoulders stOOp a
triile. aad although he looks to be calm. he
is really very nervous. Vie is good pubic
speaker. as well az an excellent story teller.
He is said TO be Germans choice for Presi-
dent.
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, is the other
Presidential possibility who IS often mere.
He is, perhaps one of the handsomest Gov
ernors in the Union. lie has a clear-cut
distingue appearance that never fails To
make people look at him twice. Neatly
six feet in height, well proportional, Away 3
superby dressed in nObby New York style,
polite but not patrOnizing in manners,
when he stands in the corridor OF "A
hstel bystanders are apt TO ask. WHO Is
that yOung-lOOking handsome MANI lie
is yOung-lOOking, although he has an IRON
gray mustache and his dark harris streaked
with gray. The fge elect OF his thlck,
blackish-gray hair Is seen on his temples
when he has his hat on. IL seems to BRING
out more clearly his finely-chiseled face. Ills
eyes are dark and peculiarly bright, as II ne
used belladonna. But nature j. the only
belladonna he uses. He appears to Ice forty
years old, while his ways are breezy, and
his frankness wins him many admirers.
Neither will admit that he Is in the race lOT
the Presidential nomination. They know
how futile are the fleeting shadows.
AN INSANE IMMIGRANT
10 ngf l
immigrant who was held at the Barge
Office on a charge Of insanity, was sent back
to-day TO Hamburg, on the steamer Augusta
Victoria. The effort made to have the girl
remain in this country brought out an in-
teresting legal point
The law touching such cases as this one
is rather conflicting. as il iurblds the land
ing Of insane immigrants in one clause, and
fOrbids the separation of families in an
other. The girls father has been resident
of this city for six years. \ writ of habeas
corpus was issued on his application. and
the case came up in the Inited states
Court. 1t transpired at the hearing that
the girls father had never taken out citizen
ship papers, and there was then no delay In
the issuance of the order 10 return the g'rl
to her home in Germany. On the voyage To
Hamburg the girl will be closely watched.
IRON MARKET.
The iron market continues generally
steady. but buyers are not inclined to fol-
low any advance in price. Inquiries are
plentiful, and better market is looked for
in the near future. There is strong un-
dertone for muck bars and scrap material
and for old iron rails; also GreyiOrge il
weaker on large offerings; billets steady
unchanged prices. sales Of the week ill.,
cude 900 tons GreyfOrge at $l5.2j@ Slj.JO;
1000 Bessemer lake ore at $500; 800 do. at
sl9: 1900 muck bars, September, October.
and November delivery, at $50: 1000 Octo-
Der at $40. 80: 1000 spot at S3O2j; 1000 steel
Bullets at 5000; 1000 do. at S3l; 1000 steel
bloom ends at S22.jO; $40 tons old ~ ralls-
American, at $3.50.
RAILROAD EARNINGS.
Richmond and Danville system: Third
week, August, 1890, S2j7,22j; 1889, S2j6, 81;
increase, 800; three weeks, August, l~O,
$50, 52j; 1889. S72i,67j; increase. S6l,ojO.
There were two sundays in the third week
this year-One last year.
Patients Al THEPAsTEUR INSTITUTE.
Or. Gibier, the manager Of the Pasteur
Institute, is expected to arrive tomorrow
from Europe. lie will find upon his arrival
seven patients undergoing treatment for
dog bites. one of the most recent arrivals
is a man from ADdOyer, Mass, who was
bitten on the leg by a dog that
has since died from hydrophia
THE GRANT MONUMENT.
The meeting of the Grant Monument
Committee has been postponed for "A week.
Members of the Committee are quite conf.
dent they will raise the amount Of money
needed in a short time.
DEsERTIONs FROM THE NAVY.
Since the United States man-Of-war Chi
cagO came into port in the latter part Of
June, there has been almost hundred de-
sertions from her. Marines and seamen
have deserted in patches of five and six.
More are expected follow. The runaways
50 the former companions of the deserters
say, have left the navy in this manner SIM
ply because the officers in general, and
Captain Robson in particular, have treated
them like so much cattle. During the en-
tire cruise of the ''white squadron" the men
say, they were not treated like human BE-
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