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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-19
OCEAN FREIGHTs.

Cotton-By Steam-Market is nominal
Rates quoted are per 100 pounds: Direct
Bremen, &c; Barcelona, doc; Genoa, 45c
Hamburg, SIC; Reveal, 4Sc; Havre, 3Sc /;
Liverpool, BIC; Liverpool via New
York, 35c; Havre via New York
43c: ReVal via New York, SIC:
Amsterdam via New York, 43c; Antwerp
via New York, 43c; Bremen via New York
4Sc: Genoa via New York, 4Sc; Hamburg
via New York 43c; Bremen via Baltimore
35c; Boston, per bale, Sl.25; New York, per
Baltimore, S1.00.
Lumber-By Sail-Freights are quiet at
ruling rates. Foreign business is more or
less nominal. The rates from this and
nearby Georgia ports are quoted at $4,000
500 for a range including Baltimore and
Portland, Me. Railroad ties, basis "A
feet, 14c. Timber rates b0cM$1.00 higher
than lumber rates. To the West Indies
and Windward, nominal; 70 Rosario, $500
d1.0O; to Rio Janeiro, $14.OO; TO Spanish
and Mediterranean ports, 81. 3O0li50; to
United Kingdom for orders, nominal for
lumber pounds shillings standard.
BY Steam-To New York, 800; to Phil
adelphia, 800; to Boston, $500 to Balti-
more. $500.
Naval Stores BY sail-The market is
very dull, with no demand for either spot
vessels or vessels to arrive. Large, Cork
smal-slzed D 30 and Is. South America
rosin. zoe per barrel Of $50 pounds. Coast
wise steam-to Boston, lie per 100 pounds
on rOsin. SOC on spirits; 10 New York,
rosn. SIC per 100 pounds, spirits. Soc (;
TO Philadelphia. rosin, TIC per 100 pounds
spirits, Soc. TO Baltimore, rosin, TIC per
100 pounds, spirits zoe.
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NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Pilot charts and all photographic infor-
nation will be furnished masters OF YES
sells free of charge in United States Hy-
geographic Office in the custom house.
Captains are requested to call at the of
fee.
ceived for transmission to the navy de-
partment.
For additional shipping news see other
columns.
washington D. c., Oct. 16.-Notice is
hereby given that on or
about oct. 81, 1894, the charac-
teristic of the Billingsport Light, front
for both the Tinicum Island and Fort
Minln Bar Ranges), on the river bank,
New Jersey side of the Delaware river,
about q mile below Billingsport, will be
changed from fixed white to fixed white
during periods of 2 seconds, separated by
ecIipses of seconds duration, thus:
Fixed light, seconds; eclipse, l second;
fixed light, 2 seconds; eclipse, ] second.
The order of the light Will not be
changed.
and Fog Signals, Atlantic and Gulf Coasts
1894, page "A. No. 4Ol. and the List of Bea-
cons and Buoys, Fourth Lighthouse dis
trict 1893 page 81.
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EXPORTS.

Per British steamship Clintonia for Re
val-5 900 bales cotton, weighing 2,528, 128
hounds, valued at $l4l ,997.
Per Norwegian bark Arnfnn for Har-
burg-3.1OO bbis rosin, valued at S12, 0O8-S.
=. Shotter Co.
Per schr John f. Kranz for New York
SSO, 553 feet --Georgia Lumber 60,
observation-disclosures of cotton on British
steamship Laurestina to Bremen were 1850
bales. instead Of $3.50 bales as previously
published. The weight and value was cor
rectly published.
per steamship Chattahoochee for Bos-
ton-25u bales upland cotton, 300 sacks
cotton seed hulls, 429 bales domestios and
yarns * casks clay, 1886 bbls rosin, go bbls
shirts turpentine, g. los feet lumber, l3l
bales hides, % bbls oil, 365 sacks cotton
seed. sos boxes fruit, 100 tons pig iron,
Ia hays phosphate, As bales moss, bbls
hitch, 3 bales wool, 1854 slaves, 2l9 pkgs
f,aag
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COTTON STILL DECLINING.
Another Days Record Of the Lowest
Prices Ever Known.

spots and Futures Dwindling Down to
the Very Lowest Ebb - Savannah
Market one-eighth Cent Lower on All
erades-The Naval Stores Market
Quiet and Dull-speculation in Stocks
at the New York Exchange Limited to
Sugar and Casa Better Tons in the
Grain Market.
savannah, Oct. B-There was very little
Of Importance transpiring in the local
markets to-day. The principal features
u.are the dullness in all of the leading de-
tartments, and a decline in the price OF
cotton. There was some trading in spirits
turpentine at firm prices, but rosin was
very quiet, the prices being too high for
the buyers. Other markets were quiet
and steady.
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Leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing.

The following were the cash quotations
Flour, very little business was trans
acted; prices were steady; No. 2 spring
wheat 54Aq55lac; No; 2 red 51ac; No. 2
barrel, $12.50G12.75; lard, per 100 pounds.
ST. 3O6D7. 40; short rib sides. loose, s66OG6 IS T;
dry sailed shoulders boxed $600d6 1914 /;
short clear sides $6.S7lAd700; whisky. dis
tlllers' finished goods, per gallon, $1.23.
Cincinnati, o., Oct. 1S.-Flour steady;
$2.35. Wheat easy; No. red 501ac. Corn.
No. 2 mixed 521Ac; No. 2 yellow 53c. Oats
steady; No. mixed SIC. Pork firm, de-
mand moderate; Mess $1,000. Lard quiet
and lower; steam leaf, kettle dried SIC.
Bacon quiet and easier; shoulders 6Ac;
short. rib sides 75se; short clear sides Sc.
Whisky steady, $,3.
ST. Louis. Mo, oct. 1s.-Flour firm, I'M
changed. Wheat higher; December 49h@
491zc May 4i4G549sc. Corn higher; De-
cember 453Sc: May 4ShG4S3sc. Oats
higher; October 2s1zci May. 32lac.
Pork. standard mess Sl337h Lard prime
steam S7lz; choice $3.50. Dry sailed
meats shoulders unchanged: longs 66Oc
clear ribs Gao; shorts $500. Bacon, boxed
shoulders &c; longs 7lzc; clear ribs 7ih0
7ssc; shorts 7A077sc. High wines firm,
Baltimore, Md. oct 1s.-Flour dun, I'M
changed. Wheat strong and higher; No. ?
547sd55c May 60hN601ac; steamer No. 2
red Sic milling wheat, by sample sac.
Corn nrmer; mixed spot and October
SAC bid; year 49c bid; southern white ear
5sc; new 5Ga57c; do yellow, old J8J59c
new 55c. Oats quiet but firm No. 2
32d32lkc. Rye steady; No. 5ic. Hay firm
good TO choice timothy sl2.00d1250 Grain
frcights firm; steam to Liverpool Is, Oc-
tober. other articles unchanged.
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receipts were small. and were absorbed
az the market price. At the Board of
Trade, the market opened firm at 251ac for
regulars, with sales of 6l6 casks; il closed
$50 casks.
Rosin-The market was quiet Finer
grades held firm but prices of lower
grades were too high for the BUYERS Very
nttle business was transacted. At the
nrst call at the Board of Trade the mar
ket was bulletined firm for l and above
while the grades below 1 were quiet. The
sales posted were III barrels. At the close
OF the market there was no change in the
quotations and no sales were reported
Inc following were the quotations at the
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RECEIPTS.

Per Savannah, Florida and Western rail-
wav. oct. 49,. 2 ,756 bales cotton, l,545 bbls
rosin, 328 bbls spirits turpentine, IL care
cars lumber cars mdse, ] car cattle.
540O boxes fruit, 10 bales WOOL 10 bales
hides. c, H..
Oct 1g-i1g bales cotton, / car iron, cars
lub oil. 2 cars mdse, 4 cars wood.
Per Florida Central and Peninsular rail-
40 hoxes oranges, ] ca livestock.
Per Central railroad, oct. l6-4,gl2 bales
cotton. / car box material, car meat,
bdis hides. 3 bales wool. s cane mills, 70
crates hams. 100 tons pig iron. l@ pkgs
donestics. 100 tons iron ore, LIZA bbls
rosin, $50 bbls spirits turpentine.
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MARITIME MISCELLANY,

Norfolk, Oct. 16-schr John II. Tingue,
Burdge New York for Port Royal, put
In here with some sails lost.
Tho libeIled water logged schr Robert S
Graham was lowed here to-day from Lam
bert's point to the Berkeley fiat There
are two libels against her.
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Mile. Reiane, the French actress who
now has worldwide celebrity is the
daughter Of bourgeois family named
Reiu. living at Valenciennes. She was edu-
Gated to be a Eoverness, but numerous
visits 20 the Theater trancais on free
were her vocation, and an induIgent man
Ager. recognizing her talent, gave her the
opportunity OF debut. She did not make
and lack OF good looks were against her
but Bernhardts quarrel with her, the pat
ronage OF the Baroness de Rothschlld and
finally a conspicuous success In Mile
Sans Gene have made her great.
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carth
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Returning
following
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PASSENGERS.

Per steamship Chattahoochee for Bos-
ton-Miss Lilly Hill, Charles H Robinson,
Thomas II Heston, a Massey, MISS M
X Comfy, Andrew Atkinson, Mary Atkin-
son.
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scientist (at railroad restauranD-Do
YOU know. sir. that rapid eating Is slow
suicideY
Drummer-It may be. but on this road
slow eating rs staryation.-Ncw York
Weekly.
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ARRIVED AT QUARANTINE.
CLEARED YESTERDAY.

Bark Arnfinn CNor). Omland. Harburg-
Chr. Ct. Dahl q Co.
Steamship Gate City, Googins, New York
C. G. Anderson, Agent.
Steamship Clintonia lBr), Bulman, Re
vail. +. Minis & Co.
Schr John +. Kranz. Macdonald, New
York-Georgc Harriss & Co.
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RICE.

The market was steady. Sales of SO bar
rels were reported. The quotations at the
Board of Trade were unchanged as fol-
lows:
Common Observation-Disclosures. So. 64C
Fair Observation-Disclosures. .4G4lLc
GOou "a "a 4&4 c
Prime OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .5d5Lc
Head Observation-Disclosures. 81 acc
Small job lots lsdAc higher.
Rough-50C to S1.25 per bushel.
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NAVAL STORES

Spirits Turpentine-Thc market con-
lnued firm and unchanged. with sales OF
small lots Tor domestic shipment. The
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Naval stores statement
Stock on hand and on ship

bodlu bo-udy OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. o,4UZ lOOO1Z
Stock same day last year. 49,. p, nc l49 ASP
i'5 Sbapis same gay last year. 1Ol5 $gO9
firm at 25c; receipts 80 casks. Rosin. good
strained firm at $1OOq1.O5; receipts 145
Wilmington, n. c., oct. 1S.-Rosin firm;
strained soc; good do CSC. Spirits turpen-
tine firm at Pc: receipts 10S casks. Tar
steady at ST. 10. Crude turpentine quiet;
hard $1.1O; soft $1.5O; virgin $40.
New York Oct. 1S.-Rosin quiet, firm ;
strained common to good S1.30G1. So. Tur-
pentine dun, steady; 28G2S4c
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MEMORANDA.

Steamer Alpha, Daniels, Beaufort and
Port Royal-C. II. Medlock, Agent.
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No II an rln
POPE.
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SAILED YESTERDAY.
DEPARTED YEsTER

Steamship Chattahoochee, Boston.
Steamship Laurestina, Bremen.
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THE TROPICAL TRUNK LINE.

ANOA
Jacksonville
r b General
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RAILROADS
PLANT SYSTEM.


Savannah. Florida G. Western R'y
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No 80 ar Savannah q. o IS pm, No 80. II % al
From Jacksonville and ali points
South Middle and Western Florida and Ne
lar Railroad
The Washington times., 1894-05-30
LOOKING FOR CHEAP LABOR.

Some years ago, when the monopolization
of coal mines was just beginning to be fine
art, the industrious American miner was
pressed from one reduction in wages to an
other, and, as now. forced to strike to bolster
up falling market and enable the operators
to work off a surplus stock at high rates.
When the American miner at that time got
inconveniently importunate in "asking for
more" he was sent adrift and the thrifty
Hun and economical Italian were imported.
These Huns and Italians have recently be-
come Americanized enough to Task for
more" also, and have not the wholesome re-
spect for American law to keep within legal
bounds in making their demands.
And now comes the operator, as We learn
in the dispatches, and "swears by the great
horn spoon" that he will not accede to any
demands of the miners, but will get some
more foreigners, who will work cheap. Years
ago the coal barons were warned as to what
would be the result of this traffic in cheap
foreign labor, but they cared not. Dollars
are what he wants, though the eagle scream
and the old flag is torn to tatters. Who is
the anarchist in these coal troubles? Surely
the constituencies operator. But in one way
he is doing good work. 1t will not be long
under the present warfare ere the great
mines of coal will be nationalized, as they
should be, and then we will hear no more of
coal riots In the mining districts.
The Washington times., 1894-05-30
OTHER PEOPLES HITS.

"Willie'' Breckinridge will probably object
to burlesques written about his trial. He con-
siders it a tragedy, not an extravaganza
Chicago Times.
While the politicians are hungry, too many
clerks ut Washington. whose only excuse is
that they know their business. are drawing
their breaths and their 81, 200 year. No
wonder the hungry want the civil service law
abolished. Journal.
Down at Lexington. KY. a speaker whose
sentiments did not agree with those Of his
audience was pelted the other day with over
ripe eggs and effete vegetables. 1t is only
necessary to add that the speaker wasn't
BrecEirridgc.- Chicago Tribune.
The fact that a four-wingad flying machine
has been invented is not half SO startling as
the fact that the inventor is a Philadelphian.
Chicago Times.
Saying the tariff bill will not be passed be-
fore July implies that while they're taxing
their time in the Senate they're not taking it
by the forelock.
The Chicago girl dops her bloomers and
rides her bicycle aud she looks Il thousand
times more pleasing. graceful, and proper
than the hunped-up masculine who rides
along as her escort Chicago Tribune.
John Bull and Brother Jonathan are just
now shaking hands across the sea, and it's
great shakes-Boston Herald.
One OF the unmis.akabie evidences of hard
times is that the house of an occasional editor
in this and other states are being burglarized.-
Detroit Free Press.
Prendergast, the murderer of Carter Har-
rison. must die. But the belief is every day
growing stronger that he will die of old age.
Boston Globe.
Up to the hour of going to press Attorney
General Oney never has betrayed a trust
Chicago Dispatch.
The Washington times., 1894-05-30
A MENACE FROM NILL1oNs1REs.

1t Is the sign OF an industrial awakening
when the powerful daily journals feel it
necessary to apologize for the millionaires
and to descant upon the amount Of good
which a good one can do if he tries 1t is
quite in keeping with the character OF these
apoiogists that they should try to put the
growing hostility to millionaires upon a false
basis. No objection can be made against
man accommodating every dollar which he has
created by his energy and intelligence. How
many millicnaires would the world ever have
known if each one had relied upon his own
exertions entirely? Men grow immensely
rich only by levying toll upon the industry of
hundreds of their feliow-men. Even when
wealth thus obtained is spent in doing good.
who shall say it would not be better spent by
those who were its creators?
Under the present industrial system mil
lion dollars in one mans hands may become
menace to the community. Through it he
becomes an arbiter of the prosperity Of thou
sands, and at his beck they go unclad and
hungry. A hundred miliionares can and do
control the destiny of a state. and few
hundreds hold in their tight grasp the well
fare of our nation.
Some one has wittily said thar nothing is so
cowardly as a million dollars unless it be two
millions. Nothing is so graspins or so tyranni-
cally selfish. Possessors of vast wealth are
too selfish by nature to be patriotic. History
is full of wrecked civilizations that perished
only because the wealth of the people was in
the hands of few. A living proof OF this is
seen in the late civil war. in the different bar
gains secured by those who offered their lives
and those who offered their money to their
country.
There is an undoubted prejudice against
the millionaires among the common people.
But it does not take the form of hatred OF in
dividuals-it is against the system of false
economics which furnishes them a breeding
place. And to curb the power of money over
men seems the task set before the iberty-lov-
ing legislator of the near future. There is a
grave menace in many millions.
The Washington times., 1894-05-30
THE JUSTICE OF IT.

THE TIMES knows that a great burden OF
taxation is imposed on the small home
owner, and that an immense amount Of taxes
is shifted to the tenant through the taxation
OF improvements, and these are the classes
we desire to see relieved.
We desire to say to the correspondent who
signs himself "Small Home Owner" that
the owner of the 1900 house and lot he
cites is not specimen Of the "poor" about
whom our indignation is ever aroused. We
think that poor" man is able to take care of
himself, and have no doubt he does 1t.
Further, the cases he cites are exceptional.
not the rule.
An increase Of taxation on land will increase
the burden on vacant lots, and the people who
own vacant lots are not poor, as rule. Even
If a poor man does own a lot or two, 1t would
be benefit to him to have its selling value re-
duced when as sequence his wages would be
increased. We have as little regard for poor
man who desires to perpetuate monopoly as
we have for a rich one.
Again, we have no desire to punish man,
even if he is rich, by imposing great burden
of taxation on him because he puts S44, 600
house on $1,000 lot. By doing so he helps
to adorn and beautify the city, and his e1-
penditure is great benefit. He should go
unpunished for that.
THE TIMES asks for nothing but Justice, and
for justice it will always fight. Wherever it
sees bad law that promotes injustice, it will
demand its repeal; wherever it sees the need
of new law to establish justice, it will insist
on its enactment.
The Washington times., 1894-05-30
COURT RECORD.

EQUITY COURT, No. /. Justice Cox-NcDlair
vs.. Wiggaman; reference 10 auditor ordered.
Peoples Fire Insurance Company VS.. Hall: ap-
Fearance of absent defendants ordered
original and cross bills CLARK vs.. kaufman,
Clark Va ClaPp; pro colfesso against certain de-
fendants ordered. Clark vs. Clapp: Douglas s.
MackaiiR and F. II. MacSey appointed guardians
ad li;em. Clark VS.. kaufman; +. ii. Mackey
appointed guardian ad Item Cook vs. Cook;
taken Council VS.. WolErd: decree correcting
deed. Willett Brown: Z. II. Allen made
party complainant Assignment unchanged
EQUITY COURT. No. :. Justice Haener-Scher-
ger ys- GoeiEinger ct al; George j. Be5sler al
lowed to intervene. Bastienelie vs. Johnston ct
al: rule to show cause returIab!e Jure = 1884
CIRCUIT COURT. No. l. Justice Brndlcy-August
Free VS.. District of Columbia; Warthen Brothers
vs. Hammond: verdict for plaintiff for Sl6.T9
E. ]. Riggs ct NJ 3 I Rice et al: E. T. Riggs
eft al VS.. j. II. Smyth ct al: Bell & Co VS.. r. H.
VIII tt; Judgment by default Krouse vs.. Brent;
default
CIRCUIT COURT No 2, Chief Justice Bingham
Court convened and adjourned till 10 a. IN. to-
morrow.
CRIMINAL COURT, No. !, Justice Cole-American
Car Company ys. Washington and Georgetown
Railroad Company; jury respited United States
vs.. John II. Henderson, false pretense5: sem
fenced to Albany with la5or one year and one
day 10 take effect after expiration of sentence
in case No. 1874; warrant of removal issued.
true bill" as follows: John Donnelly, Bernard
Donnelly. and Walter Donnelly, violation Of
policy law Alfred J. May and H. s. Rogers,
violation of section $40 Revised Statues, United
States.
CRIMINAL COURT No. 2. Justice McComas-
slaughter of Murray Casseen; jury sworn and
respited-
The Washington times., 1894-05-30
AN ANCIENT SCANDAL.

Now that Col. Breckinridge has failed to get
In his bill Of exceptions and the suit is sup
posed to be ended, we might hope to have
rest from that malodorous case but for the
threatened forthcoming book of Miss Pol
lard.
When sancho Panza, the faithful squire OF
Don Quixote, was made governor Of the
island of Barataria, the first case brought
Le.ore his tribunal was very similar to the
Drecainridge-Pollarda affair. Honest Sancho's
administration of justice was worthy of a
Solomon or Daniel. Its details are far more
amusing than those of the modern scandal.
Gnd the moral aspects of the case are very
clearly defined.
Human nature has not altered a particle
since Cervantes penned his immortal satire.
Those seeking the true inwardness" of the
matter should peruse the closing chapters of
Don Quixote.
The Washington times., 1894-05-30
GIVE THEM CAR TICKETS.

Could there not be some modification OF the
rules governing the employment of laborers
on the water works? These men receive
s1.5O per day for eight hours work, but they
are obliged to go long distance to reach
this work and pay their own transportation.
Much of the work is in the neighborhood Of
Fort Reno, requiring two car fares, and If a
workman is a few minutes late he is docked
a quarter Of day. He must also make the
trip in his own time.
1t would hardly be considered extrava-
gance on the part Of the District government
to furnish transportation to these men when
detailed to points far out in the county or in
Maryland.
The Washington times., 1894-05-30
HITS-OR MISSES.

If this drain on the Treasury continues Mr..
Carlisle will be standing his barber of pretty
soon or raising beard. A hundred million
won't last long at this rate.
The Sioux Indians quite frequently lately
commit suicide Which IS so much better than
killing white men.
A society for child study has been formed
at Champaign, Ill. 1t is not thought any
light will be thrown ON the question whist ma
terial to use in the seat Of the youngsters
knickerbockers.
The Princess Josephine, Of Flanders, has
married Prince Charles, Of Hohenzolern-Sig-
maringen. When they first knew each other
she must have had a hard time saying Mr..
acknowledgements every time she
made remark about the weather or wanted
him to get her drink of ice water.
Life is q column OF hits or misses, some
times only half or quarter column. They
seem to us when We do them all hits. and we
wish to put them in double-leaded minion,
but the next morning they are somehow after
all only misses. Then We are sorry they were
not printed in solid nonpareil.
Washington's boys won a game Of ball
yesterday, and Washington is taking day OIL.
Thank heaven in these United States we
don't have NJ. Dupuys trouble in forming our
cabinets.
Lillian says herself she's had enough matri-
mony. She'll get over this dependency,
though, and begin to primp again in day
or so.
Judge Bradley says he can't really stand
any more Breckinridge.
The Washington times., 1894-05-30
TERRIFIC GAS EXPLOSION.
Waterman Patrick Dowd Lights a Mat.
and the Gas Does the Rest.

Watehman Patrick Dowd Lights Match
and the Gas Docs the Rest.
A smell Of gas pervaded the atmosphere
near the drinking fountain In Franklin Park
yesterday morning, and Patrick Dowd, one
Of the watehmen, proceeded to investigate at
about ~ o'clock.
He climbed up ladder to the gas lamp in
the center of the fountain and touched a
match to the burner. A terrific explosion
followed. which completely demolished the
fountain and threw Dowd to the ground
several feet away.
Dowd's position above the fountain Is all
that kept him from serious injury. Luckily
only one other person was near. and he was
not seriously injured. Willie Berkely, q
colored newsboy, was hit on the leg by q
piece Of flying iron.
Dowd was hurt on the back by the fall,
and was taken to his home, at No. 2034
Twelfth street northwest The newsboy had
his wound treated at the Emergency hospital.
The gas had evidently been escaping for
several hours through a leak underneath the
fountain, and the explosion sounded like a
cannon shot. The buildings In the neighbor-
hood were shaken 10 their foundations, and
several windows In the houses on street
were shattered.