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The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17
CHURCHES IN CONFERENCE.
Tho Initial Meeting of the Washington
Organization This Morning.

Organization This Morning.
The Washington conference of Con-
gregational Churches held their initial
meeting this morning at 10 o'clock. At
ter prayer meeting all present joined in
the beautiful rites of the Lords Supper,
after which the conference commenced to
transact business.
The business meeting was presided over
by the moderator, l.. ii. Latham of the
First Congregational Church of Baltimore.
The following pastors and delegates were
present:
First Congregational Church, s. NJ.
Newman, pastor--Delegates, Il. II. Green,
Mrs. G. A. Thompson, Mrs. Il. Whit
tlesy.
Tabernacle Church, James Jones, pas
tor-Delogates, Judge Gray, Deacon
Downes and L. Dcane.
Lincoln Memorial, Il. G. Harris, pastor
Delegates, |. Tolliver and Mrs. @. b.
Bayley.
Plymouth Church, pastor, l.. NJ. Her
shaw-Delegates G. q. Britton and
Thomas l.. Brown.
Fifth Congregational Church, pastor, L..
Chappell-Delegates j. III. Jennings and
Mrs. j. ii. Jennings.
Mt. Pleasant Church, pastor, ]. Small
Delegates, w. L. Brown, b. Chatfield and
Frank Aldrich.
First Congregational Church. Baltimore,
pastor, l.. II. Smith-Delegates Frank S.
Brown and Charles Il. Houghton.
Second Congregational Church, Balti-
more, Md, pastor, Robert j. Thomson
Delegates, y. A. Parr, A. Frank Hiss and
Il. G. Grove.
Falls Church, Congregational, +. Ellis,
pastor-Delegates, G. A. l.. Winfield and
Mrs. A. =. Eastman.
Congregational Church of Herndon,
Va. pastor, Rev. i. w. Pond--Delegates
w. ID. Sweetzer and Mrs. George Howard
After hearing reports from all the
churches the conference adjourned until
$50 this afternoon.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17
ITS ORGANIZATION COMPLETED.
The Press Club Now on the Road to
Success.

The Press Club Now on the Road to
Success.
The organization of the National Capt.
tai Press Club was completed last night,
and the craft is now successfully launched
on the stream of success. The officers
elected last week were duly installed,
President Kaufman occupying the chair.
The finances of the club were reported,
and several communications relating to
business affairs, and one from the secre-
tary of the international League. OF Press
Clubs, were read and referred to the board
of governors. Two hundred copies of the
constitution and bylaws were ordered to
be printed for the use of the members.
After the meeting adjourned the board
Of governors met, and Mr.. II. A. G.. Handy
was elected vice-president, with Mr..
Thomas IL. Kirby as treasurer. a conf
munication from Mr.. f. Perry Powers de-
clining to serve as one of the board of
governors was read. Mr.. Howard N.
Thompson, who received the next highest
vote, was thereupon declared member Of
the board. Ballots were taken upon the
term of Office of each of the members of
the board, which resulted thus: Three
years--Messrs. Goodwin, Merrick and john
son; two years--Messrs. Splain, Fearn and
Wellman; one year-Messrs. Hamilton,
Low and Thompson.
The following committees were ap-
pointed:
House ommittec-Messrs. Hamilton,
Splain, Handy, wilkins, Carson and
Austin.
Auditing Committee-Messrs. Merrlck,
Fearn and Johnson.
Subcommittee on Bylaws, Rules and
observation-disclosures. Handy, Wellman
and Johnson.
A meeting of the board of governors
A. = -
report from the house committee regard
ing Quarters
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17
SHERMAN.
Southern Opinion OF Him.

From Mo atlanta Constitution.
We do not believe that the civil war de-
veloped on the Union side more unique
and picturesque figure than this great
soldier. Grant was superior TO him in
many ways, but for bold, original and
fierce warfare Sherman was without an
equal His raid through Mississippi and
his famous march to the sea will forever
rank with the most brilliant and effective
military operations, and there can be no
doubt that his terrible crusade with the
sword and the torch through the very
heart OF the South prccipitatcd the col
lapse of the Confederacy.
sherman has been more bitterly hated
than any other Northern general. The
ruined homes and the general devastation
he left behind him naturally made his
victims unwilling TO forgive or forget.
And yet II Is a notable fact that the Cen
eral since the war visited our city on two
or three public occasions, and was received
rs an honorcd guest. Our people, leaving
the enmities and preiudices OF the past
behind them, have endeavored to do jus
tice to their old foeman, and they have
tried TO measure Sherman by his own pc
culiar standard of soldiership.
In order to understand this stern war
rior one should read the letters and or
ders written and issued by him in the
field. When General Hood protested
agaist shelling Atlanta, city full of
ants. sherman replied, justifying his ac-
ton in these remarkable words: "War is
the science of barbarism." This single
sentence is the keynote to his military
methods. From his standpoint he was q
machine 10 obey orders, and believing
that the quickest way to end the war and
smash the Confederacy was to slay men
III battle, and lay waste the country, he
proceeded with fire and sword to carry
out his idea of effective warfare.
From Tennessee to Tybee he left n trail
of ashes behind him forty miles wide. He
burned Atlanta and Columbia, and other
towns, and stripped the people of all they
had. He predicted that such methods
would end the war, and he was right. He
left Georgia and the Carolinas on the
verge of starvation, utterly unable to
raise an army or to feed it. He had his
faults, very serious ones, but he also had
many shining virtues. He always, in his
heart, really liked Southerners, and had
many personal friends among them.
The rebuilding and subsequent prosperity
| Of Atlanta gratified him very much, and
| he was a firm believer in the future great
ness of this region.
When all is said that can be said, the
| fact looms up that this man was one OF
| the greatest soldiers of the age. Perhaps
he was so essentially soldier that we run
The risk of misjudging him. He knew
ard cared nothing about politics and
| diplomacy. His way of settling diff
Guilty was to cut the Gordian knot with
| his sword He was a hard fighter, and
never grew sentimental in the presence OF
| bloodshed and death. But when the
business of war was over-when he had
accomplished his mission-he showed O
softer side, and men and women, even
| among his former foes, found him very
loyablc man,
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17
TO COST A FORTUNE.
The Astor-willing wedding.

FfCm he NelO York Continent Of he 16M.
The floral decorations for the Astor-
Willing wedding, next Tuesday, will ex-
ceed in beauty, cost and elaboration any
flower display ever seen at n similar cere-
mony. The Willing mansion in Philadel-
phia is not especially spacious, but it is
very sumptuolis and very lovely. In every
available spot there will be flowers-and
flowers the rarest and choicest. Abso-
lutte carte blanche has been given to the
florist. and exquisite effects are expected
to be the result.
The central scheme Of the whole deco
ration will be lilies of the valley, which
will be used in the most prodigal profu-
sion. They will encircle the doors, frame
the windows arch the mantels and even
be latticed in white clusters of fragrance
upon the ceiling. When You remember
that tiny boutonniere of lilies of the
valley, just half dozen tiny stalks, costs
80 cents, you can arrive Mt some idea of
what will be the expense Of practically
building q house of them. Nearly 50,0O0
of these slender, white-bel little wands
will be used and the cost will be enor-
nous.
The bouquets for the bridal cortege will
be something marvellous both in beauty
and costliness. The bridesmaids win
carry unusually large punches of the
rarest pink orchids. They will be Of the
most exquisite shade, and worth much
more than their weight in gold.
The bride will carry bouquet of the
smartest English fashion. 1t will be sim
ply enormous, and will consist of six
separate bouquets each quite distinct
from the other, yet forming for the cere-
mony one complete and perfect whole.
This superb bouquet will be made of
white orchids and natural orange bios
SONS. The orchids will be absolutely
without flaw-soft and velvety.
At the conclusion of the ceremony Mrs.
John Jacob Astor will divide her bridal
bouquet into its six sections, giving one to
each bridemaid as a memento of this
truly happy occasion. After the wedding
reception all of the flowers will be sent to
the Children's Hospital and other charities
in which Miss Willing is interested
heartily.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17
A Visit of Light Infantry.

For several days past Captain William
A. Gill of Worcester, Mass, has been in
the Gty arranging for the coming visit of
the Veteran Corps of the Worcester Light
Infantry to Washington and Baltimore.
The Light Infantry was one company OF
the Sixth Massachusetts, Regiment, and it
is the intention of the veterans to observe
in Baltimore the thirtieth anniversary of
their visit to that city on April 10, 1881.
They will be in Baltimore April 10, 20 and
81, and will doubtless be entertained by
the local militia. They will then spend
April % and % here in Washington, where
they will be entertained by the Washing
ton Light Infantry Captain Gill has
asked Senator Hoar to offer n resolution
in Congress permitting the company to
take possession for an hour of the Senate
Chamber, as it was in that room that they
We're quartcred when they arrived here,
thirty years ago. There will be about Fifty
veterans, and they will be accompanied
by about us many more of the present
active members OF the company.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17
RIrLED THE MAIL.
An Empioye of the Postomco Arrested
Last Night.

An Employe of the POstOnico Arrested
Last Night.
Last evening about o o'clock Robert f.
Allen, an old and trusted employe of the
City Postofiicc, was arrested when leaving
that building ON the charge Of embezzling
letters from the mail. The arrest was
made by PostofIice Inspectors Smith and
Troy, who have been watching Allen for
some time. He was taken into Postmaster
Sherwood's private office, where he was
searched, and two letters addressed to the
Commissioner of Patents were found on
his person. Ono of the letters contained
n check on a Pennsylvania bank for 81.
Allen admitted that he took the letters,
but said that IL was his first offense. This
morning he was taken into the custody of
warrant issued by Commissioner Mills.
He appeared before the Commissioner
and, upon waving examination, was held
in 81 600 bail.
Allen has been in the City Postoilice
since 1865 and of late has been employed
on the official case. About two months
ago the officials of the Patent Office com.
planned that number Of letters addressed
to the bureaus Of the Office were found to
be missing
The inspectors Immediately began to
watch the various employees of the Post
Office through whose hands the mail
passed, and about February last located
Allen as the man who was taking tho let
ters.
Allen is 40 years old and is married, but
has no children. He is well known in
this city and has many influential friends
and relatives. He was taken into the
Marshal's custody this morning, and
while waiting for bail was held in the
bailiff's room at the CITY Hall. He de-
clned, however to make any statement
regarding the charge against him.
Allen was released OH 1000 bail at
moon To-day.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17
A LITERARY SOLUTION.


We stood In the book store together,
She chatting Of this and that;
My heart kept time with the feather
That cling 10 her Galnsborough hat.
On Stevenson, Stockton and Kiplng,
And poets galore she enthnsod;
But how to propose 10 her, rlppllag
with music and laughter, musod
on this one and that one she tGrred
TO label their place on the shelf:
"This How 10 ho Happy Though Married.
Absurdln and ! thought so myself.
"But those who have tried II may surely
BE trusted to know replied.
~ tell you," she said, "it II purely
The lone OF tho age to deride.n
"1he iaal. for aolntiou,n ventnred,
''ls hos TO be married thongh pOog,'
| know that ought to be celsurad,
She looking 70 sweet and demure.
Her voice was 70 low, twas the border
or thought whore II breaks into word.
1--WE might she said, "solye this, In osder
TO prove that the book IL absurd.n
ChGrlts KAosples Bolton IN ne Literary World.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17
What Women Are Buying in New York

What Women Are Buying in New York
From DTv Goods and Fashions.
Black brocades in ball effects.
White fur rugs for bed rooms.
Travelling cloaks of Irish freize.
Silk warp fabrics for evening wear.
Tourquose, blue, quill and feather fans.
Derby satin curtains for handsome
rooms.
A few opera capes of ostrich. feather
cloth.
Double-faced black satin ribbon formil-
linery.
Sets of Angora and Thibct fleece for the
little ones.
Yellowish cream Suede kid gloves for
evening wear.
Crayats of bright cardinal polka dotted
with black.
Louis XIV writing desks having an oval
mirror.
Odd bits of furniture of quartered oak
or cherry,
Canoe,shaped china and silver recep-
tacles for flowers.
Lamp shades chiefly in yellow or pink
satin and lace.
Desk pads of Russia leather having sill
yer corners, at $50.
Card eases Of elephant hide mounted
with silver corners,
Ball gowns Of yellow chiffon with gar
niture of purple and gold pansies.
Combination chiffon, ostrich feather
bands and Henrietta house gowns.
l.eaf'shaped chair backs OF embrol-
dered satin oi brocade and cord edgng.
Many knit skirts in the ordinary style
as well as the newer divided skirt.
Small figured colored brocades for the
yoke and sleeves Of line wooden gowns.
Coats Of brocado, with trains of white
satin, are used for afternoon receptions.
Reception gowns Of light tints of broad.
cloth trimmed with passementerle and
fur.
Brooches of moonstone heart set with
diamonds in n knifeedging of silver.
Silyer-dottcd tulle for ball gowns, with
silver brocaded satin for the low-pointed
bodice.
A few wedding gowns Of opal or cream
white cloth trimmed with ostrich-feather
garDiture.
passementeries of shaded lavender silk
cord intertwined with gilt and studded
with jewels.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17
woMAN's SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.
The Annual Meeting VIII Commence
Naxt NUnatr

The Annual Meeting VIII Commence
Next Week.
The twenty-third annual convention of
the Woman's Suffrage Association will be
held at Albaugh's Opera House, COM
mencing February 20, and continuing
four days. Two sessions will be held
daily, at 1880 u. m. and 7:i5 p. m, and
the Sunday service ON March will be at
3 p. m.
ranged and includes addresses by we'll
known leaders in the woman's suffrage
movement.
On Saturday next Mrs. Jane II. Spof-
ford will tender reception TO the officers
of tire National Council of Women and
visiting delegates at the Riggs House
from to II O'clock.
The first meeting of the executive COM
mittee will be held at 1406 G street, on
February 25 at 2.30 p. M.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17
A WORD 70 OUR MERCHANTS.


II is not altogether surprising that the
baltimore papers should now advise
Washington merchants TO advert SO in
their columns. These merchants have
for some years past given practically all
their patronage TO two Washington
rapcrs, building them up into opulcnt
and powerful concerns, and this unwise
and unjust favoritism has been requited,
ns folly Is usually rcquitcd, by acts OF
iagrant ingratitudc. Within the past
month these two papers which have
grown rich on the improyident monopoly
established for them by Washington
merchants have filed their pages with
flaming publications advising Washing
ton buyers to go to Baltimore to make
purchases. They have allowed IL to be
said in their columns that people could
save money by leaving Washington and
going forty miles away to trade. And the
local advertisers who have enriched them
by their patronage think, very naturally
IL seems to us, that they have not been
fairly dealt with in the premises.
We do not wonder, therefore, that the
Baltimore Sga, realizing the situation
here, should take occasion to advise Wash
ington merchants to put their advertise
mcnts in that paper. The sm refers toits
wide circulation, and, though il does not
promise to advise Baltimore buyers to
come here to trade-a thing the San could
not be paid to dot docs claim that Wash.
ington buyers will be reached through the
medium Of the SWi and the business of
the Washington merchants thereby pro-
moted. OF course this is n humiliating
commentary that Baltmorepapers should
feel itself warranted in calling upon
Washington merchants TO neglect their
home papers in this way; but it cannot be
said to have been without some justica-
tion in the course pursued by the WASH
ington papers themselves. II is clear to
the .Siat that the two papers which have
been favored with lavish and unwise
monopoly of the advertising patronage Of
Washington have ill-roquited this impru-
dence, and it seems to the S1, that the
present is n good time to make hay in the
warmth of Il righteous Indignation.
THE CRITIC has just one word to say in
this connection. We do not think that
Washington merchants can benefit them
selves by advertising i'll the Baltimore
papers, any more than wethink that Wash
ineton people can profit by going TO Balti-
more to make their purchases. Let both
the merchants and the people keep their
money at home. The Washington papers
cover the field great deal better than the
Baltimore papers possibly can, and our
local merchants are not excelled in enter.
4. 4 A 1 g., d. 4
Let them only remember, for the future,
that there are more than two papers in
Washington, and reflect that they will be
wise to distribute their patronage little
more proyidently hereafter. Competition
is good and healthy in all the branches OF
human industry. The only possible fruit
Of monopoly is arrogance and Tyranny
and greed.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17

getting into the papers. If this revolution
in St. Louis goes on, we may look to see II
destroy the great aim in life of the natives
Of the polished and cultured West, that
hot-bed of aristocracy, the feudal system
and patrician perogatives. Asa revenge,
81. Loms could not invent more cruel
crusade to sap the fountains of Chicagos
likelihood
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17

WE HOPE TINT THE authorities will go
to the full extent of their discretion in
pmisbing the fast and reckless drivers
with whom Washington is so sorely
afflicted. There is hardly an hour of the
day in which some citizen does not mar
rowly escape death or mutilation from
this cause, and very few hours in which
one or more persons arc not actually hurt
to a greater or less extent. The evil is
growing each day. Cabs, delivery
wagons, express vehicles, private carriages,
every variety of structure on wheels, dash
along the streets at breakneck pace or
whirl around corners with lightningspeed.
Instead of moderating the nuisance grows
worse. Encouraged by the immunity that
usually attends their rowdy performances,
these drivers have grown bolder with each
successful escapade. The outrage should
be checked with a stern hand. Since we
have not policemen enough TO watch
all parts OF the city the authorities
should supplement this deficiency by in-
ficting exemplary punishment whenever
the opportunity arises. The community
should not be left entirely at the mercy
of set of hoodlums who respect neither
the life nor the limb of the citizen.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17
MORE RECKLESS DRIVING.
A Gentleman and His Wife Knocke
Down and Injured.

DUWH UIItI IIJWTCVs
This morning, about Ii o'clock, John
Hawkins, the driver of coupe for Kel-
leher, the livery man, on Eighth street,
turned the corner of Pennsylvania ave-
run down Mr.. and Mrs. II. B. Thompson,
who were crossing Sixth street. They
both received quite serious injuries, beng
badly bruised. Officer Jordan rendered
assistance and sent Mr.. and Mrs. Thomp-
son to their home, No. 2l3 Eighth street
northeast, in carriage. The driver will
be arrested.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17

HAVING MADE CLEVELAND and Hull shake
hands, pigeon-holcd HILL in tho Senate
and switched him off on lonely side
track in the prairie of politics. HENRY
WATTERsoN can now devote himself to
practising LTszr's "Rhapsode Hongroise,"
of which he has allowed the technique to
get n little rusty,
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17


AND why. PRAY, should not Mrs. KATE
SMITH OF the Census Office be an acting
Chief of Diysion2 Why indeed, should
she not be fall chief with no prefix or
other subterfuge whatsoever? Why should
not ability, intelligence and application be
rewarded in q woman as well rs in man?
For some time past we have observed
various newspaper comments on Mrs.
KATE SMITH, on her rapid promotion, on
her alleged influence in the Census Office.
These comments have not always been
complimentary or kind. They have, too
often, contained insinuations-too often
been touched by an unmanly and ungal-
liant purpose. Why is this? Why are there
men who can find it in their hearts to
offer embarrassment or indignity to this
lady? Mrs. SMITH has done the best, the
most exact, the most expeditions and the
most complicated work that has been
done in Mr., PoRTEEs office. In every
sudden emergency where tremendous
and complex achievement became neces-
sary, ii has been Mrs. SMITH whom they
called upon and Mrs. SMITH who re-
spcnded with success. She has shown
herself to he an extraordinary mathema-
tician, am expert with the counting ma
chimes, easily first in all sorts Of intricate
work where the incest accuracy was re-
quired, and, in addition, most com
retent organizer of large undertakings
where numbers of subordinates were to be
employed,
Why, then, II Mrs. SMITH can do these
things better than any one else; ii she be
expert, accurate, intelligent and reliable
why, we ask, should not Mrs. SMITH have
the position and the emolument to which
she is entitled by reason Of her ability and
her worth? II seems TO us that men could
lie better employed than in discouraging
and disparaging woman who is trying
10 earn her living by honorable and
mentorious work. From all the evidence
within our reach we gather that Mrs.
Smith has abundantly earned her pro-
motion, and is yielding TO the Govern
mCnt q much more satisfactory return
than il usually receives for the money ex-
pended on Chiefs of Division. Mrs.
Smith is an ornament and credit to the
public service. In the spectacle OF hel
present cminence, achieved under every
form Of encouragement and against every
obstacle that custom and stupidity could
intcrposc, we read most useful and
timely lesson. II is borne in upon us that
men may be mistaken in supposing thai
they monopolize all the capacity for larg'
and complex achievement and that, per
haIs the high officials in the Department.
may render the country valuable service
by opening ways for the discovery ant
promotion of few more Mrs. Smith
from among the women who are working
under them patiently, faithfully, but, 81
far, hopclessly.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17

Now, AS TO THAT National Handicap in
1892, Anti-Free Coinage CLEVELAND isn't
in it, Didn't 't-Receive-the-Lette HILL isn't
in it; but mark you, GoRNAN "a in it and
HENRY WArTERsoN is crawling in under
the CanVasl
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-17

STEAMER REED is waiting for the YER
diet in the form of a resolution of thanks
for the irreproachable, immaculate and
divine way in which he has discharged
The duties Of his position. Is he already
doomed to Il perfunctory wooden skeleton
of a resolution which won't mean thing,
or will the old leaven of policy and an
appropriation crystallize into q gem of
a certificate of character?