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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04


Judging from the amount of building which has
been done during the five months of the pres
ent calendar year, the record of last year is
likely to be surpassed. The figures furnished
by the building inspector show that the ratio is
much greater than for the corresponding
months of last year. There have
been more new buildings erected
than last year, and what is, per-
haps, of more significance, the amount of
money expended has been greater. The pro-
portion of new dwellings erected has been fully
maintained and it is likely that as q result Of
the years work there will be large increase in
the residence accommodations of the city. All
the data obtained for the Office of the building
inspector has reference solely to the improve
ments made by private individuals. 1t does not
include the work that is being done by the Dis
trict government or the general government in
the way of erecting new public buildings or
completing those that have been begun. When
this class of improvements is taken into consid-
alton, it will be seen that the volume Of bust
ness is very large.
The following table will show the number of
new buildings erected during the first five
months of the present year as compared with
the corresponding period Of last year:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04
An Incident Of the Wilderness.

An Incident OF the Wilderness.
From the Union Observer.
'This is the twenty-eighth anniversary of the
third days fight at the Wilderness" said the
veteran the other morning.
"And were you in it2''
'Yes," answered the veteran; "my company
lost its first man today twenty years ago"
"HOw was he killed?''
"He was shot by one Of our own company"
came the unexpected reply. ''The fact is we
were frightened by the movements of the
enemy. He was playing Dixie and the Bon
ME Blue Flag SO near to us that we could dis
tinctly hear him, when suddenly there was an
alarm, and every man in my regiment shot off
his gun. That createda terrible racket, and /
who had never been under tire-supposed that
we were attacked by the whole rebel army. In
the midst of my confusion heard the voice of
the colonel Of my regiment shouting, Cease
firing, men! Then, finally, when the firing
had ceased, I discovered that one poor fellow
was dead. He had been shot through the back
by a rear-rank man, and the duty devolved on
me Of writing to his family and giving the par
ticulars of his death"
Sand did you do it truthfulls?"
"NO," promptly responded the veteran. 81
told them that he had been shot in the battle of
the Wilderness, but gave no particulars 1t
was better 3d."
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Tchigorine and Tarrasch are 70 play match
for the championship Of continental Europe.
The stakes are 5000 a side and the contcss
comes Off at st. Petersburg in the near future.
1arrasch is generally considered to have The
best chance of winning hut the Russian viii
give good account of himself. His match az
perience ought TO prepare him for the contest
more effectually than the Nuremberg doctors
tournament victories will arm him.
Lasker has challenged any PLAYER in America
TO match OF five games up, draws not count
ing. time limit Is moves per hour. five games .
week. Now. here is a good chance for the native
stars. Lasker is willing 20 play for s75 side
and much glory is TO be gotten by defnting
him.
Mr.. Pollock in the Baltimore Sunday Nesns
spends much energy in explaining ShowRlter's
defeat and very carefully reviews the play Of
the two contestants. He considers that the
kentuckian's waterloo is 10 be ascribed 10 two
causes (outside of LipschutZs splendid play).
First. Showalters lack of practice rs compared
with the great facilities enjoyed by the New
Yorker for continuous play with the best Of the
native masters. Second. The fifteen-moves-sn-
hour system. which prevents that due delibera-
ton required in important chess contests and
allows so much trickery.
Progress in the London divan handicap tour
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04

An Ex- District Attorney and Veteran Of Two
Wars Passes Away.

All hutOTney anu veteran OF TWO
Wars Passes Away.
The large circle of the friends and acquaint-
ances of Gen. Edward C. Darlington will be
shocked to learn of his death, which occurred
yesterday at the home of his son, Campbell
Darlington, 933 X street. The immediate cause
although he had reached the age of sixty-seven,
was active in his profession and on Tuesday last
appeared in court rs counsel in a case. He had,
however, not been in good health for some
time. Gen. Darlington was well known in this
city, where he has resided for a num-
Der Of years. He was a native of vir-
ginia and when quite a young man
he enlisted a company for the Mexican
war and served with such distinction that upon
his return the city of Richmond presented him
with sword He served several years in the
Virginia legislature, and few years before the
war he removed to this city. He was commits
stoned brigadier general shortly before the war,
but resigned and raised the first company of
District volunteers, company A." In addi-
ton to raising the company, the equipments
were furnished them at his expense The flag
made and presented to that company by his
wife will be wrapped about his casket.
He was appointed district attorney for this
District and filled that Office fer term of ten
years. The funeral will take place Sunday at
O'Clock from the First Presbyter Church,
AZ street. The Charles P. Stone Grand Army
Post will select pallbearers from their numbers
The Charles P. Stone post, the surviving mem
bers of company A, District volunteers, the
Mexican veterans, the Covington Home Guards
and Washington Light Infantry will participate
in the funeral.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04

Holland. He was an engineer under instruc-
tons and but twenty-five years old. When
most of his companions in the engine room took
to the boats and deserted he remained and did
all he could to help save those left in the ship
Just before the ship went down he was helping
fire the signal guns. Dorian called to him to
get into the boat with him, but he refused; and
just as the waters curled over the ships side as
she went down his last gun doomed over the
sea and he sank with the more than 200 others
still on the ship, most Of them to rise no more,
and among whom were all the women and
children.
=. There was something so romantic and heroic
in the seh-sacrifce Of one 30 young as Stewart
Holland that his story caused sensation. He
was Washington boy ind had re one time been
employed in the navy yard here. The people
OF Washington felt proud Of him, acd in re-
Spouse to general demand subscription was
started to erect a monument to his memory, A
Autograph was published depicting him in the
act OF firing his last gun, copies Of which pic
ture are no doubt still in possession Of some of
the older residents of Washington. The monu-
ment enterprise failed because the design was
too elaborate for the funds and interest tagged
from the long delay.
WHY THE MONUMENT WAS NOT ERECTED.
In 1858 those having the matter in charge
were still trying to keep up interest in it. and
some hundreds Of dollars had been collected
but the bank in which the money was deposited
failed and this money was lost A circular is
sued in 1858 states that one of the last official
acts Of President Pierce was to designate the
open space on Pennsylvania avenue between
18th and 14th streets as suitable site for the
proposed monument.
1t il greatly to be regretted that 80 deserving
an enterprise should have been so unsuccessful.
Washington city is full of monuments to ma
tional characters, but in the whole District of
Columbia there is only one monument to local
hero, and that is the monument to Greenup,
the fireman, in Glenwood cemetery.
1t should be cause Of pride to the people of
the District of Columbia that one of their Young
men should have shown such Spartan courage
and should have died so nobly, when all the
scenes he had been witnessing for five hours
were enough to unnerve and brighten older
men. And how sublime the thought that he
knew the last gun he fired could bring no help
for himself, but might bring it for others! As
local poet of the time said:
"He died like man at the post of death, and
to save was his latest thought
His father, Isaac Holland, was doorkeeper of
one of the houses Of Congress, and doubtless
there are gentlemen now in public life who re-
member the genial old man, whose last days
were saddened by the loss Of his manly and
handsome son. RoBT. H. HARNESS.
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woman who has simply to go and order her
clothes. and to the one who has to make her
own apparel June is alike the most important
month Of the twelve. The depletion of SUMMER
raiment in this article, by means of drawings
and text, and that which is TO follow from week
to week. may be depended upon as the freshest
illustrated news in fashions. 1t is one thing to
give the styles as planned by foreign designers,
but which may never come into American wear
at all. and quite another to set forth with pen
and pencil the garments actually made up to
order for the most modish women in New York.
The latter method is the one here adopted, and
so the representations of toilets for June. July
and August are not conjectural, but absolutely
Trustworthy. The first two pictures are of June
women in town and the other three are of
women as they will be at the summer resorts.
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Army Orders.

Maj. Marcus P. Miller, fifth artillery, will pro-
coed to Boston, Mass, and report to the gov
ernor of Massachusetts for such service as may
be required of him in connection with the several
encampments of the militia of that state during
the present summer.
Post Chaplain Malner G. Blaine, q. 8. army,
is relieved from duty at Fort Custer, Mont,
and will report in person to the commanding
officer, Fort Buford, n. Oak, for duty at that
post.
Second Lieut.. Thos. F. Schley, twenty-third
infantry lis transferred from company to COM
pany f of that regiment.
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The President and the Monetary Conference.
Secretary Foster has given to the President
an account of several conferences held by him
in New York with financiers representing differ
emit shades of the silver question. The Presi-
dent in commenting on these expressions of
opinion, assured the Secretary that he in
tended to take care that the composition of
the commission shall be such as to convince all
fair-minded people that the strongest possible
effort will be made to secure an international
agreement upon an agreed ratio and the open
ing of the mints of the world to the coinage of
silver as freely as is now accorded TO gold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04

HIS Is THE ONE
time of the whole
year more interesting
than all others to
women in the matter
of dress. The spring
styles are just being
put off and the sum-
mer styles are just
about to be put on.
That means a deal Of
anxiety to the wearer
of fashionable gar
ments, no matter
whether she be rich
enough to buy what
ever she fancies or
whether she be poor
enough to have to
count all the cents
she spends. To the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04

The German imperial yacht Hohenzol
lern has been ordered to be held in readi
ness to convey Emperor William on visi
to the car. The London Telegraph's Berlin
correspondent says that the two emperors will
spend the whole Of next Tuesday together ant
that Baron won Marschall, the German foreign
minister, and Count Schouvaloff, the Russian
ambassador at Berlin, will also be present.
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Looking Years for the Man He Owed.

During the war, while both were en-
ployes Of the Cambria iron works at
Johnstown, Pa, Tom Scott loaned John
McGovern &c. They became separated
soon after and the incident was forgotten by
the lender. Scott, who has for twenty-three
years been an employe of the Bethlehem Iron
Company, has just received a letter with els,
principal and interest, inclosed from McGovern,
who now lives at Lincoln University. Pa Nc
eight years been trying to find Scott TO reim-
burse him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04

Don't fancy the summer girl is thing of the
past because you have not heard of her of late.
She is in training that is ALL and she is going
to be more fetching and taking and all-around-
ing than ever. Maybe you think this new fad
OF long skirts with drag behind is going to
interfere with the general fitness of her for the
country. Not n bit of it, She is going to
wear bewildering petticoats, not of silk not
she. but of scarlet, navy blue or striped all
coOrs and then the skirts will have rows of braid
and they will be bit shorter than the dresses
used to be- Meanwhile. her train will be still
longer than the average girls; long enough to
be picked up and slung over her arm. and-a
new bewitchment-long enough to be drawn
through her belt, thereby leaving the arms free
Her dress skirt, you see. won't be fastened
down to a Inning. 1t will hang soft and loose
over this pettieoat. and it will gather into all
sorts of piquant folds when il is drawn UP over
the arm or through the belt. No. she won't be
like a tub: the summer girl never is like tub. no
matter what she does or wears. On her nice.
dear little feet she will wear sensible shoes with
low heels and rubber soles. You see the long
skirt relieves her of the old necessity for high
heelers, and when the skirt is lifted-well, YOU
are so dazzled by the petticoat, OF course
there Is something more catchy about a petit
coat than about a regular dress skirt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04
La Fleche Wins the Cakes,

Yesterday was the last day Of the Ep-
som summer meeting. The principal even,
of the day was the race for the Cakes
stakes, which is the race of the year for FLIES
Baron De Hirsch's great FLY La Fleche, who
started a great favorite for the derby stakes
but who ran second in that race, proved the
victor in today's event. The Smew was second
and Lady Hermit third. Seven horses ran.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP.
Building Activity Greater This Year
Than Last.
MILLIONS IN HOUSES
Months of 1892-The New Assessment Com
pleted-Interest Taken by Congressional
Committees in the Execution Of District
Laws.

EARLY EIGHT MIL
lions Of dollars were ex-
pended by private in
dividuals in the erection
Of new buildings and in
building improvements
during the last calendar
year. The exact amount
was $3.50, $50, which
is considerably more
than was expended for
similar purposes during
any previous year in the
hsafarr - Al. as&x-
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Suit Against the Texas X

A special from Austin, Tex, says the Metro
politan Trust Co. Of New York, trustee for the
bondholders Of the Houston and Texas Central
railroad, has filed suit against the Texas rail-
road commission and the attorney general,
setting up very much the same plea against
commission rates and the rulings and the COM
mission law as were contained in the suits OF
the Texas and Pacific, Santa Fe and othsr road
died In the Same court last mouth,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04

The parliamentary committee ON the work.
ing hours Of railway servants has made .
report to the British parliament. The report
says That IL b impracticAbls TO az . lee,l
day Tor railway servants, but that tie railwny
companies ought 10 greatly rslucs TIE vorhin1
nours Il recommsnds that powers BE- given %
in1meBe n easu e sxsomiVs go,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04
A FORGOTTEN HERO.
A Tragedy Of the Sea and Its Tale
of Self-Sacrifce.
THE WRECK OF THE ARCTIC.
A Thrilling Story of the Disaster-A WASH
ington Boy Whose Heroism Was COnspic-
uous-How He Perished at His POst-A
Monument Movement That Failed.
Written for The Evening Star.
srSwcrzEuru

morable for the number
of wrecks which took
place during its course
among Atlantic steam
ers. The loss of no less
than five large vessels
had already been chron-
icled, when, on the Sd
day of October, news
reached New York that
the Arctic, of the Collins
line Of Liverpool steam
ere had Oopa doup
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04

BRIEF STORY OF THE BIRTH OF THE GREAT or
DER-rHE RESULT OF MEETING IN A FrRELEss
OFFICE ON COLD WINTER DAY-How THE
oBLIGArIoSswERE FIRST CONFERRED.
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Paralleling q Western, Railway.

A new railroad company, to be known as the
Chicago, Evansville and Southern railroad, and
which is to be built parallel to the Evansville
and Terre Haute, has been formed. with DIR. A.
III. Owne as president. President Porter of
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois is backing the
enterprise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04

The amounts spent in buildings and repairs
during the first five months of this year and the
corresponding period of last year are shown to
be as follows:
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the interiors to be finished in natural woods,
Messrs- benson 4 Schneider are the architects.
A LARGE PUBLIC HALL
The lack Of . good-sized ball in this city il
frequently commented upon and the opinion
seems to be general that place suitable for
large assemblies is much needed. At any rate
a stock company has about completed the con-
struction of q hall over the Northern Liberty
market, which, il is claimed, will exceed in size
all similar buildings in this country, with two ex-
ceptions. The hall will have clear floor space
OF AZ 900 square feet. The floor is constructed
OF iron girders and beams, with concrete arches
and a single thickness Of floor boards resting
directly on the concrete, the whole floor being
supported on heavy wrought iron columns rest
ing on beds Of concrete sunk to solid founda-
tons in the ground. The calculations for
weight have been made double the weight that
could be placed upon the floor if packed with
human beings.
The roof is constructed on arched iron
trusses fifty feet high in the center and coming
down to within ten feet of the floor on the
sides, with nothing combustibe except the
wooden sheathing, which is covered with tin.
The two main stairways at the north end of
the building are each to be fourteen feet wide
and will be built Of brick, concrete and iron.
and inclosed from the ground to the floor Of
the hall within solid brick walls fourteen inches
thick. At the south end Of the building there
will be two iron stairways each ten feet WIDE
The total width of stairway will be forty-eight
feet. In addition to this liberal allowance Of
stairway provision has been made not only for
direct exit upon the street, but also into the
enormous ground floor space of the market
which has fourteen separate exits. These pro-
visions were made not from any necessity for
safety; but for the purpose Of rapidly emptying
the hall.
NEW BUILDINGS.
The warm weather has had a depressing effect
upon building operations. and the week ending
yesterday shows falling off in permits issued
for new buildings. During that period the
building inspector issued 50 permits az
gregating in cost s132, 800. This was divided
among the several sections of the city as fol-
lows: Northwest, 10 permits, $4,000; South
west. l permit, $500; Northeast, 3 permits.
S25,SO0; Southeast, permits, SlS,0 900, and
county, 26 permits. s65, 700.
Arthur Martin is building a neat three-story
and cellar brick dwelling at 1870 r street north
west n. I. Halter is the architect and Geo. f.
Emmons the builder.
LIE Droit Park is to have fine Improvement
In the shape of a row of nine three-story brick
dwellings from 2OOl to 2O17 Linden street.
Cyrus Mantz is the owner and John G. Cooper
the architect and builder
w. ii. Moses is erecting handsome two-story
brlck and frame dwelling on Wyoming avenue,
Washington Heights. The house will have
frontage Of thirty-four feet by a depth OF sixty-
four feet and have an attic and cellar T. F.
Schneider is the architect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04

the little miss has q skirt gathered on the waist
and ornamented with passementerie and mar
row velvet ribbon. The waist hooks at the back
and is ornamented with ribbon braces and there
is a velvet belt tied as Indicated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04
FOR THE SUMNER GIRL
The Fashions That Will Make Her
Bewitching This Season.
THE LONG SKIRT FAD.

Dresses WinNot Be Curtailed, but the Pet
ticoats VIII Be Bewildering-Hats and
Gowns for the Heated Term-Outdoor Co.'S
tumes-Style in Bangs.
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The little village Of Abbach, Bavaria, has
been completely DESTROYED by fire.
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Washington, Dc,
School Of Cookery

VOUask me whichofthe
L various baking pow
ders you shall use. I say,
without hesitation, use the
Royal 1t is in every re-
spect perfectly satisfactory.
-" My business, you know,
calls for the use of large
quantities.of baking powder,
and I have samples of all
sorts sent to me. After an
honest trial, l have always
returned to the old reliable,
the Royal; none suih
me as this one does,
cREBEccA A. BAKERA
~ ~ss~A '.ess>5
swsAi.sss sshsd 4 csshuuIr
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White to play and mate in three CD moves.
GAME No. az. ZuKERToRTs OPENING.
new German brilliant played recently in Berlin.

fasting was FAR better at this stare ~ the
lbl THIS was not advisable and lead 10 difculty
Co The winning coup.
The suhiotned odd position In q game In the
Dhnh ttandicap and - good example OF a direct WIN
oN,.rlooked ty master loman having 90 play moved
h-B3 AMI eventually won after the game had h-sn
proonEed 20 upward Of nfty moves hut he could have
logged q mate right on by B-KKt5. followed W
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THE CHESS WORLD.
Lssker Lesds-Ancthcr Cable Match
European Championship.


Lasker Lesds-Aaothcr Cable Mssch-rhs
European Championship.
Wilhelm Steinitz Of New York, champion of
the world. has been challenged by Michael
Tchigorine 10 a match by cable for sI.ooo
side. The other conditions viii be similar to
the famous contest . last year. should steinitE
accept the challenge the two games will b
opened as follows:
GAME l. EVANS GAMBTr.
White-rchisorfne. Raok-steinitx
J s s.. EEEssssns sBB .!I'.. s1s
GAME II. TWO KNIGHTS DEFENSE
Mhite-steinitH .Black-Tchigurine
E3t,s 81, Fee $s:;ra. E e.,
In che Second s.einits may play either Ke Or
b-hB Of his eighth move.
In the Blackburne-Lasker match the Berlin
master is leading:
las1e ir..................... l I a
biHchpurne ..-.-........... "a
The first game was a forty-eight-move Ruv
Lopez and was Witnessed by a large crowd Of
English chess players.
PROBLEM No To- Pv p COOfry
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Five psrnons concerned IN IL recent ROT 4
Iods, fsland, bass hsa baaiihsd = GibesiA
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Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, June 8, 1892.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04

Inc only Survivor Of the Original Four Now
q Resident of This City.