Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-26
SETTLING UP ITS ACCOUNTS.
Chairman Edison and Secretary Dingma
Paying Bills as Presented.

Ninety-nine per cent Of the people who
bowed themselves into the presence Of Chair
man John Joy Edison or Secretary Harrison
Dingman of the citizens executive committee
presented bills and intimated that an early
settlement would oblige.
They were given checks and were bowed out
In this way $4,000 was disbursed this morn
ing. and there is promise of an output of sew
eral thousand more before the offices close.
LOTS OF LUMBER FOR SALE.
The departure of the veterans has left the
committee with large stock Of salsble goods
on hand. There is an especial profusion Of lum-
Der, the total quantity purchased some time ago
being somewhere in the neighborhood Of
100000 feet. The barracks will be sold one
at a time and standing. Much Of the material
is IN hrst-class condition. The boards re-
specuvely II, IA and l6 feetlong. the majority of
them being sixteen. Both boards and joists
are pretty generally uncut ANYBODY who
buys the lumber will have all the nails IN it
without additional cost. The nails we're quite
a feature in the committees bill, but they are
TO be given away freely.
MATTRESSES FOR A QUARTER.
Then there are % 900 mattresses. Folks who
want good soft beds and who appreciate oppor-
tunities will buy mattresses. Fifty
cents would be low figure for
one of those downy combiutious OF
ticking and stuffing but Chairman Edison saws
they viii be disposed of at the way-down
figure Of twenty-five cents. The mat
tresses are now being stored at Lit
uehelds warehouses, at 27th and ID streets
and to that place mattress seekers must go il
they are hunting bargains. Such mattresses
may chance 10 be unsold by the end of next
week Will be emptied. SO that the ticking NAV
be traded of for cash.
OTHER MATERIAL
Ffty-six thousand seven hundred wards of
eight-ounce ducking is also ready to be taken
away. 1t was stretched along the rows of
hunks and appropriately tackled down. 1t is
all there. and, save for the tack holes, unin-
jured.
The striped awning cloth which surrounded
the barracks is of no further use to the COM
mittee, SO that, too, will have to 20. There are
800 yards OF it. Most of the avn
build cots have been notified of the material
that awaits their bids. The committee thinks
it will soon be rid of its load of textiles.
Information bureau stands. gorgeous in their
wealth of red, white and blue pigment are be-
ing sacrificed. They cost S25 each but may
now be bought for S6.2 25.
After awhile. as soon as everything else has
been cleared up and gotten rid OF, there will be
a sale of Office furniture.
GOOD THING FOR WASHINGTON
To STAR reporter Chairman Edison said this
afternoon that it was exceedingly gratifying to
the committee to receive, as il had received. a
great many letters and personal congratulations
on the successful manner in which the enter
tainment of the encampment had been man
aged
This encampment." said Mr.. Edison, ''aside
from any of the considerations which would
make a member of the executive committee
keep silent for modestys sake has been
great thing for Washington Suppose each
stranger who was here when he or she returns
home talks Of the trip TO but ten people-of
course, that's a ludicrously small number
what an immense amount of complimentary
allusion to the national capital will be dis
seminated.
The good name of the city viii be exalted and
Its future prosperity hastened. Folks who
were here know that this is not a city Of greedy
oficeholders and greasy boarding houses: they
have seen he beauty Of which ali well-informed
Americans are proud and have carried away
with them the best impressions Of our hospi-
taiity'