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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-15
SENATOR HALE's INQUIRY
As to the Authority for Overhesd d
Wires Along 1-2 Street

Senator Hale's resolution about the 18th
street transfer station has been POSTPONED
in the Senate from day to day. and today
1t bad to give way before Senator Bailey's
railroad bill ana the prospect of an early
executive session. So it went over until
tomorrow. when it may come I'd for fur
ther discussion. But the Senator kept his
hand In on local legislation by introducing
the Following resolution. to the immediate
consideration of which Senator Hunton
promptly objected:
w here<ls, 1t has been announced i'm the
public press that the board of Commission
efs ol the Dlstrict OF Columbia are about
10 ABANDON certain underground conduits in
use Tor hre alarm, telegraph and police tele-
phone service in certain portions of tha
District, and have ordered in the place of
from the rear of the office OF said telegram
ana telephone service in said District alony
AZ street to Virginia avenue southwest for
thereon;
And whereas, BY the act of congrass
approved July Is. 1885, entitled an act
making appropria tions to provide for The
expenses OF The government of the District
OF OF ooIunpla Tor the fiscal year ending June
oo. lSSs,and for other purposes il Wa provid
ca tlat the commissioners of the District Of
Columbia should not after September n
1888. permit or authorize any additional
telegraph. telephone. electric lighting or
other wires 10 be erected on or maintained
over any OF the streets or avenues of the
city OF Washington;
Be it resolved, That the Commissioners
or the Distric; of Columbia be and they
hereby are directed to report forthwith
whether they had directed or are about TO
direct the abandonment of anN under
ground conduits now I'm use by the District
and the erection or maintenance in place
thereoi OF any telegraph, telephone cleo
tric light, or other wires on or over any of
its streets me slreets or avenues of the city
Of Washington, and # such orders have
been or are about to be given under and by
virtue of what authority of law said action
on their part has been or is about to be
taken"
objection of Mr. Hunton served TO
postpone the resolution until tomorrow,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-15

hearing, at which the railroad engineers
will be present.
Gen. Dudley said that the estimate of
S,oOO.OoO for making the improvement
does not take in the damages to abutting
property. That is to be a serious question,
especially where stone viaduct is 70 be
established.
Mr. Frizzell asked the committee to have
the Commissioners send to the COMMITTEES
the map of the profile which the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company says is now
on file in the Commissioners office He
had not been able to find it.
With the understanding that Mr. Hamil-
ton shall confer with Chairman Heard
as to future hearings, the meeting ad-
journed.
Legal Rights of the Railroad.
At the close of the hearing Chairman
Heard stated to The Star reporter that he
thinks the committee will desire first to
go into the question of the legal status of
the Baltimore and Ohio and the city. The
statement made by the counsel that Con-
gress is limited in its control of the railroad
should be looked into. Before the COM
mittee reports bill requiring the railroad
company to do certain things il must first
be ascertained what power Congress has
to carry out its legislation. Therefore he
thinks that at the next hearing the COM
mittee VIII ask the company to present its
views as to its legal rights and ask the
Citizens Association to present its side of
that question.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-15
TO PRODUCE A QUORUM.
Proposition to Fine Members Who Do
Not Vote.

proposition to Fine Mem bers Who Do
Not Vote.
The democratic leaders of the House have
been considerably exercised of late over the
disposition manifested by the republicans to
rorce them to produce a quorum upon all
important propositions committed to the
House. They believe the republicans under
the leadership of Mr.. Reed, are trying to
compel them to adopt the expedient re-
sorted to In the Fifty-frst Congress Of
counting quorum. Journal Clerk Crutch-
neld, however, has formulate a rule which
will. In his opinion, accomplish the same
end In different way. and the question of
adopting 1t as an amendment to the rules
Is now under consideration. The rule which
he proposes Is follows:
whenever. upon a roll call, a quorum
fails to appear. upon the demand of any
member the clerk shall certify list of the
members not voting on such call to the
sergeant-at-arms. who shall deduct from the
monthly compensation of each member so
railing to vote the amount of his salary for
one DAY; provided, that this deduction shall
not De made in the case of a member who
IS absent by leave of the House" 1t is
pointed out that this rule would simply
carry out the provisions of existing law,
whlch, according to section 40 of the Re-
Vlsed Statutes of the United States require
that Tor every day a member of the House
Is absent, except on account of sickness
tne pay for such day shall be deducted from
MS salary. Heretofore. however the SER
geant-at-arms has had no way of ascertain
ing In an official way who was absent This
rule VIII simply certify the list of absentees
to him, only, however upon occasions when
9Dsenteelsm causes a failure of a quorum
IL Is believed that if the salaries of MEM
bers were deducted when they refused to
vote the practice of abstaining from voting
upon important roll ca llS ba
discontinued.and IL is very probable that the
method OF stopping this abuse devised by
MIR. Crutchheld will very shortly be adopted
as one OF the permanent rules of the House
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-15
M'KANE CONVICTED
The Gravesend Chief Guilty Of Break
ing the Elections Law.
RESULT Of THE BROOKLYN TRIAL
Recommendation for Mercy by the
Jury.
TO BE SENTENCED MONDAY

BROOKLYN, Feb. l5.-Through the s,eetv
slush and the ineffably dreary atmosphere.
John Y. McKane. in the Official companion
ship of Sheriff Buttling. tramped into the
court house at 9:25 O'Clock this morning.
Despite the sodden air and the ankle-leep
snow there was a crowd of spectators about
the steps Of the marble building to witness
the passing of the multiple official OF Grave
send. The corridors had lines OF bedraggiei
supporters OF McKane. who would have a
glimpse Of their chieftain as he went to his
possible doom or delivery. They saw him
In apparently better form this morning
than yesterday. He had rested-possibly
slept and the delay of verdict upon his case
had given him more of announcement
against the odds that had been piled up
against him by the Prosecution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-15
SCHOONER DECLARED FORFEITED.
Important Ruling Against . Sealing
Vessel nj sitka.

PORT TOWNSEND. Wash. Feb. Ia
The schooner Alexander of San Francisco
was condemned and forfeited 10 the gov
eminent in the district court at sitka.
Alaska, February q. on a charge OF hunt
ing and killing sea otter in Alaska water
between the islands and over banks or
sounding more than three miles from shore.
fur interests for the reason that IL In
wolves a question OF whether the United
States can exercise Jurisdiction more than
three miles from shore to protect fur-bear-
ing animals. The Alexander was owned
by the Pacific Trading Company and was
seized last July by the revenue cutter Rush
ear the Shumagin group.
An appeal will be taken to the supreme
Court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-15
Mckaue's Crime.

The charge against John Y. McKane was
that he counseled. induced. commanded and
procured the inspectors at Gravesend, L. L.,
TO conceal the lists. and aided and abetted
them I'm preventing copies from being
made. Those who attempted to copy the
lists were assaulted despite an order from
the court that their work should not be In
terfered with. This happened last election
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-15
Mr.. Roosevelt VIII Deal Direct.

Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt,
when asked by Star man whether he
wished to say anything in reference to the
interview recently published with Mr.. Cum
mings the promotion clerk Of the treasury,
said: THAT he had no quarrel with any
subordinate of the Treasury Department,
and should he desire TO notice the remarks
credited to Mr.. Cummings, he would deal
directly with the Secretary"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-15

The mail from Honolulu. which arrived
at San Francisco, is due here this evening.
1t undoubtedly brings additional corres-
pondence from Minister Willis and prob
ably includes President Doles letter to Min
lister Willis. showing precisely wherein his
conduct toward the provisional government
is regarded as particularly unfair and un-
friendly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-15

A cable message was received at the Navy
Department today announcing that the
frigate Lancaster sailed today from Hong
Kong for Singapore on her long VOYAGE
through the Suez canal and the AIediter
ranean to New York. where she is to be
transformed into training ship This is
her last cruise as a war ship and she is
destined TO end her career in the peaceful
calling Of q school ship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-15
Early Morning Fire at Philndelpb,.,

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. l5-An early
morning FIRE destroyed the four dwellings
at Nos. 272G. 212s 2730 and 2132 North 9th
street. None OF the household effects were
saved Loss $l2OU4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-15

An index TO advertise.
ments Will be found on
Page 3.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-15
Revenue Vessels Going

Ihree revenue vessels will also be avail
aoie for service in Bering sea in case they
are needed These are the Corwin, Rush
and Bear. all on the Pacific coast. ard the
cutter Grant will Join them in a few weeks.
Eos Grant started from New York and IN
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-06-02
SAVED HIS DIGNITY.

Squire Bullam and the Disturbance In the
Meeting House. 3d..
One of the chief men in the early his
tory Of Weston, Mass, was Francis Full
lam, commonly known as Squire Full
lam. He was justice Of the peace and
one of the pillars of the church, and on
Sundays always sat with his eyes fixed
upon the minister. Us if conscious of
being worthy example to the rest Of
the congregation.
One Sabbath morning, during Par
son Woodward's sermon, an old colored
woman in the gallery fell asleep and
tumbled off the bench to the floor, max
ing loud noise.
Squire Fullam, who was rather deaf,
knew that something unusual had oc-
Cured, and, feeling the dignity Of his
position as justice of the peace, he rose
to his feet and called out:
stop, reverend STRIP
Mr.. Woodward ceased speaking, and
the old squire said, in stentorian tones:
"lf anyone has discharged gun in
this meeting house, let him be brought
before me tomorrow morning at nine
o'clock"
Some one explained to him the cause
of tho disturbance, and he added:
eff what thought had happened,
what said WAS right Proceed, rev.
erend SIR"
Thereupon Mr. Woodward resumed
his discourse, and the service proceeded
as usual. --Youth's Companion.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-06-02
SOMETHING NEW.

NEW metal named powellite has
been discovered in Idaho.
HOSPITAL ambulances are now fitted
with pneumatic tires.
y VEST pocket telescope has been in
vented.
AUSTRALIANS are beginning to use
horseshoes made of cowhide.
AN elevator up Mount Calvary is in
construction for the benefit of tourists
EARrHEH%AEE sleepers have been
tried at Shinbashi station, Japan, with
satisfactory results.
By the invention of a woman, threads
are now cut on watch screws that are
finer than a human hair.
THE ticker telegraph is now being
introduced into many big apartment
and fiat houses in London by the own
ers for the benefit of the tenants.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-06-02
LATER-DAY PROVERBS.

THERE is many a big drunk in a
taper-off.
THE leader in any movement gener-
ally rides.
THOSE who shirk jury work render
bad vcrdicts.
FooI. leaders will always have a
multitude of followers.
JOIN JACOB AsToR's novel ought to
make rich reading for the poor.
TIE very best that those who COM
promise with wrong can do is to go to
purgatory for the benefit of clergy.
COUNT' ToI.sTOI maintains that Il man
cannot both be Christian and a
patriot. but for all that one George
Washington, who would not bend knee
to Il king. knelt before God.-Chicago
Herald.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-06-02
sUPERSTITIoNs AND LEGENDS

THE first finger is sacred to Jupiter,
and is supposed to indicate the nobler
elements of character.
A PERSIAN legend makes Christ say:
"When l come again, after. one thou
sand years, shall come in the form of
a woman"
AS THERE were just thirteen mar
riages in Henniker, N. H., last year,
the brides are all the objects of super
stitious solicitude.
KANSAS folks are Boosting of the
freedom from superstition of the sum
flower state girl who has married a
man of the name of Triplet.
THE ceusus of ghosts in the old town
of Alexandria, Va, numbers ten souls,
the latest to be enumerated being a
wrath in white clawhammer coat.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-06-02
Victoria Reignod Again.

A few days ago one Of the London
weeklies told how the queen was bus
lily looking over and signing important
state papers, using, as usual, one of
her favorite big quill pens. The
youngsters were in the room, tother-
ing as only youngsters can, and the
ruler on whose dominion the sun never
sets tried in vain to get them to be of.
At last they proposed bargain.
Gran" they said, give US each one of
those lovely feathery pens"
The price was considered low for the
SERVICE and it was quickly paid, and
peace and Victoria roigned together
for the rest of the morning. Boston
Globe.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-06-02
CABINET,

Sec ty. oflState- ......... Walter @. Gresham,
Sec'ty. of the Treasury John G. Carlisle,
Sec'ty. of War;. Daniel 8. Lamont, N. \
Sec'ty. of the Navy. Hilary A. Herbert, Ala
Postmaster General. Wilson g. Bissell, N z
Sec'ty. of the Interior. .Hoke Smith, Ga
Attorney General. Richard Olney, Mas.
Sec'ty. of Agricultural. Sterling Morton ,Neh
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-06-02
OFFICIAL D]RECTOt
U.S. GOVERNMENT

President. GROVER CLEvELAND,i
Vice-President...ADLAI E. sTEVENsOS'
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-30

scheme than that. The system OF sig.
hailng between moving trains is in &C.
tive use on one of our railroads. Now
l propose to do it between ships at sea,
and even when they are thirty miles
apart it could be accomplished. One
ship might take a message far out to
sea, then transmit 1t to another vessel
thirty miles distant. The last in its
turn would signal every vessel within
thirty miles of it, and so on. So mes
sage could be sent after a vessel and
the latter be brought back to land.
The ocean in storm and calm would be
under absolute control and the fate Of
many mariner could be known by
this system of transmission, whereas
now his vessel may sink and her crew
never be heard from again"
Mr. Edison drew picture Of the
ocean as it might appear under this
new system. Escaping criminals would
have small chance of evading detection
by skipping OF to countries where the
extradition laws might give them safe
harbor. A vessel bound into q port
where epidemics might rage could be
warned TO keep away before 1t got near
enough to suffer Derelicss could be
avoided and storms could be countere6,
because mariners would be able to tell
each other the condition OF the ocean
over the length and breadth of its
surface.
The inventor was asked what he
thought of the possibility of drawing a
new food from the earth by electricity.
He said he saw no reason why it should
not be done.
Only few reactions are necessary
be replied. Il think that inorganic
Elements may be made to furnish sus.
tenance. The carbohydrates such as
sugar and starch, would probably be
the cheaper" Mr.. Edison did not say.
however, how it could be done. Per
maps he contemplates trying IL And
when Mr. Edison contemplates doing
anything he generally waits until he
does ii before he says anything 4 bout il.
He Is not believer in the lately
heralded method Of using high-tension
currents for producing light This is
the current of which Nikola Tesla is
the strongest advocate. We must ex-
pect. 50 they say, q wonderful revoiu-
Ion n the Egasins or our houses
turing the next decade. II will cone
rom invisible sources and the rooms
viii be IN glow OF Eght-an essen
tally modern condition. Mr.. Edison
does not think il practical from the
FAC. that he does not believe people
would use IL.
Il DO not think people would use IT
he says, because IL does away with
some very essential qualities which a
good h should possess The human
ere is adapted by nature TO encounter
red and yellow rays in the light with
which II comes In contact We have il
In the sun, IN gas. IN the incandesceDt
light IN the candle, and 50 forth. When
We reduce the amount % energy per
"a indie power we lose these red and
ultra yellow RAYS and we gradually
Ascend the scale We might start
with gas and 20 on through the va
rious degree. till re got 30 the
arc light. sni 80 SIN further till
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-30
HASH FOUNDRY JARGON.
FERNS That Are Expressive If somesha.
IneII~Sant-

InelIegant-
The following is a very good inter
probation of how the walters call for
dishes at our down town hash foun-
deries." A gentleman called at a
restaurant recently. and called for an
oyster stew. The waiter irnmed. lately
sang out: Two in bowl"
Hold on" said the customer. "I guess
I'll have cOrn-beef hash instead"
Blockade tina, two in a bowl. +"
shouted the waiter, Make it brown
stone front"
Waiter" said i, when it was nv
turn, get me two fish balls with a
dropped egg perched on top Of each
one"
Two solGiers on horseback riding
BY, be bawled at the top Of his voice,
and hurried away.
I presumed that he knew his busi-
ness and would serve me properly. and
he did The fsh-balls and eggs were
Is good as ever ate anywhere.
We never say dropped eggs on Ssh
balls. - he explained; soldiers on borse-
back riding by j. shorter and palmer.
Would you called dropped eggs
alone soldiers
oh no. that's sleeye-bst:ons' Beet
STEAK j. -paten; leather nation chops
Is vhlsxers, % course. and ;nere'f lots
more Ike u "-EOcky Noun AN Her
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-30

| ing the music lovers OF both cont.
nents- OF course. regular theater
would be needed, but art, which is
long, would become longer, and life,
! which is tieeting, might have differ
| ent connection than what the poet gave
it. The scenes in such theater would
be colored, of course, but after the
fact, for the inventor has not yet ex-
perimented on colored photographs
and has no intention, so far, of doing
SO. ''Can such and such a thing be
| done, Mr.. Edison?" you may ask him.
II never say that anything cannot be
DONE" he viii reply; when a man
says that, he simply means that he can
not do it. We are not infallible"
He is unaffected by the theories
which have come from France regard
ing New York states system of "Elec-
trocution." D'Arsenval, the French
scientist, thinks, or intimates, that men
are not killed By high currents such as
are used at Sing Sing. Edison, the
American scientist, thinks they are
killed. D'Arsenval speaks of men who
have been resuscitated after being
heavily shocked by the current. Edi-
son points to the list of men who have
been killed by it through accident The
list is long now and the precedent es-
tabiished is strong. However, he saws
that the way for the Frenchmen to
prove their theories is for them to take
the man who is first shocked TO a hos
pltal and make test Of reviving him.
If he RECEIVERS they viii prove their
point As 10 the statement that the
''electrocuted' men may really have
been killed by the post norton knife
and not by the current, he thinks it
iosurd- Ihis ought to comfort those
physicians who have performed autop-
sizes on the electrocuted men
There are enough young doctors
hanging around the hospitals 20 make
6 thorough test of IL" said he. Near
y all the men who have been killed By
electricity have received the current
through their hands All the marks
on them after the current have been a
little white spot on each hand. When
the first men were electrocuted / ad-
vised them 20 PIT electrodes on the
hands and feet. They had all the ex-
perience they needed from the acct
dents that had occurred BIZ; no. they
must put them on the back Of the neck
because cluster OF nerves conferred IN
That region They burnt the men and
now / see they have come down TO
adopting the suggestion made Prac-
teal experience Is better than theory
every time.
"ly'frs, invention. ne replied. when
asked about II was vote recorder.
/ had witnessed the frauds that wen.
on al political meetings and thought
Il ! could do away with some Of Il I
would De doing mankind favor I
went - work and invented system
BY means Of which each member II q
BODY could, by moving .
switch on lis desk 70 right Or le.-,
regis.e- MS rs ne on sheet % paper
underline ayes 81 'uars Tie paper
in the machine yroald Il eou->e De 90;
e. resch. bit II sun view Of me audi
ence- tso.S IL to q coEsS< utsor and 20 i
somc s--=i..s- nell ioeS xo.sG
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-30
The aatiha Daily Eagle Tnesday ornug october So 81

binary line as It runs up and down, but
| it is crossed and recrossed by other
lines coming from earth currents and
the thousand and one sources from
which stray current gets in and 1t is
simply impossible for me to pick out
the real message. Yet those fellows
do 1t every time and with conparativ
ease
Cable operators ought to feel compli-
mented by what Mr.. Edison has to say
Of their skill in cabling. One would
think he who was accredited to be one
OF the most skillful telegraphers Of his
time might at least claim some pro-
fciency in the other branch Of the
service. Yet he acknowledges the So
periority of men whose work is seldom
noticed beside the more theatrical feats
Il the ordinary land-wire operators.
How about the attempts to see by
wire? Do you think this is coming
adjunct Of the telephone?" was the
next question.
Much has been said about 1t In the
dailies," he replied. They tell how 1t
Is to be accomplished by seleniur,, bat
do not see how It is practical. l do
not think the selenium process viii
solve it. Il is a surprise to me, how
ever, that the transmission Of pictures
by wire Is not more used. It is very
easy Of accomplishment, and news
papers could get accurate pictures of
distant events In this manner. l have
transmitted pictures this way, and 1
would guarantee to send one ten inches
square distance of five hundred miles
every ten minutes. And every picture
would be as good as the average news
paper cut at that.
Il notice, also, that communication
without connecting wire is agitated
They propose to use it in harbors, so
that ships coming in may better deter
mine their position. l had a brcsder