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The Washington times., 1894-11-07
UNDER SERIOUS CHARGES.

w. F. Basin Accused OF Forgery and OBJ
tanning Money Under False prctcnses.
If the allegations made and sworn to be-
fore Warrant Clerk George NJ. Washburn.
yesterday afternoon. prove to be true, Mr..
W. Finley Basin, the well-known contractor
Of No. 405 P street northwest, is in serious
trouble. At the instance Of Detective Serct.
Perry, who is acting for the parties interested,
a warrant was issued by Clerk Washburn,
charging slr. Basin with forgery, and to this
charge will be added one of obtaining money
under false pretenses.
Its said that several months ago Basin
took the second deed of trust on a house
owned by Mrs. Florence Buell. Grimes in the
northwest section, Of that trust William
Mays and Frank h. Raymond being trustees.
Mrs. Grimes afterwards sold the house. She
received lot OF notes OF S37. 80 each amount
ing 70 total amount OF 81, 800. These notes
We're negotiated 10y Mr.. Basin. Not satisfied
with this, 1t is alleged, he made five addi-
tioDal spurious notes, duplicates Of the orig
inals for $3.50 each, signed Mrs. Crimes
name 10 them, and put them up on June %
last rs collateral security at the Northwest
Bank Of which William W. Wright & Sons
are owners, for loan Of S120.
When the notes came due they were marked
ON. G." and not paid. One OF the five addi-
tional notes being protested, it was found to
be q forgery, and criminal action against Mr..
Basin was decided upon yesterday, when
the warrant was issued.
Mrs. Grimes is in New York city, but she
will be brought to Washington to appear in
the case as government witness.
Owing TO the prominence of the parties
interested The case promises to be one of un-
usual interest in Washington commercial
circles. The preliminary hearing will proba-
bly, be held in Judge Miller's court to-day.
The Washington times., 1894-11-07
THE LAST WILL NOT BE FIRST.
Judge CoX's Decision in the Endowment
Case Reverses Familiar Saying.

Judge CoX's Decision in the Endowment
Case Reverses a Familiar Saying.
Thspolioy- holders OF the Washington Bene-
acial Endowment Association viii henceforth
Look for whatever help may be in store for
them TO Andrew A. Lipscomp and Thomas
N. Field. These gentlemen were yesterday
appointed by Judge Cox as receivers for the
Commercial Insurance Company Of New
York under $40. 600 bond each. Field gave
bond al once.
This action places the stock OF the endow-
ment association. its handsome building at
No. 4l9 Tenth street northwest, valued by
good will, and all other property in the
hands Of Lipscomb and Field. with the obli-
cation to manage II under the direction of
the court for the best interests of the
creditors OF the Commercial Alliance Com
pany.
Judge Cox in deciding the suit OF Robert
Ball and other policy.holders, held that they
have no equitable interest in the property Of
the endowment association and stated that in
such companies the last policy holders, as the
business dwindles away, will always be
losers.
That the policy holders will accept this de-
cision as final is not certain. Robert Ball has
invested 81, 600 in his SIS, 900 policy, and there
are others so deeply interested that further
legal effort will be made.
Lipscomb and Field will probably take
charge OF the Commercial Alliance business
to-day.
The Washington times., 1894-11-07
WORK OF THE MISSION.
Business Transacted at the Monthly Meet
ing Of the Board OF Directors.

Business Transacted al the Monthly Meet
ing Of the Board OF Directors.
There were several matters of moment
transacted at the meetings of the board Of
directors and executive committee Of the
Central Union Mission last evening. Rev. E.
D. Bailey, one of the most indefatigable of
the mission workers, was elected chairman of
the board, and Mr.. a. s. Pratt. of Epiphany
P. E. Church. was added to the boards mem
Dership by an unanimous vote.
1t was formally decided, as noted in The
TINES several days ago. to have Thanks
giving distribution anong the poor, Last
year $1,700 were subscribed and over 500
families reached during the distribution. This
year the number will be much greater. Evan
gelist Smith reported That be visited 100 fami-
Les in Bloodfield and that vicinity during the
past month and found much suffering and
misery among the poor.
Secretary A. L. Swartwont presented his
report. which showed that during the month
l66 meetings bad been held at the main hall
and twelve branch missions. Total attend
ance. Y, 944 persons; seekers tor religion. sS9;
converts, As. The average attendance. he
stated, was increasing each month
Treasurer n. A. Robbins report showed:
Receipts during the past month, S4S9. IS; ex-
penditures. S234.27. The board members
present were Rev. E. D. Bailey, n. A. Rob-
bins. George w. Wheeler ]. B. Brown, P. S.
Foster, and A. L. Swartwont.
The Washington times., 1894-11-07
FIRE ladies OF oLDBN TIMES.
Good Attendance at the Meeting of the
Veteran Firemen's Association

Good Attendance at the Meeting of the
Veteran Firemen's Association
The attendance at the meeting OF the
Veteran Firemep's Association, held at their
headquarters, corner Nineteenth and H
streets northwest, last evening, was very
good, notwithstanding the election. Presi-
dent Richard presided.
The committee appointed to examine the
books OF the treasurer from April l, 1894. to
September 80, 1894. reported as folIows:
Amount on hand April /. $685. .O5; received
during term, $4,000; total on hand and re-
oeived, $45S.05; expended during term,
S194.50; amount on hand. October /, S262 O5.
Secretary Peabody called the attention OF
the association to the constitution and by
laws of the Veteran Firemens Historical So
ciety OF st. Louis, Mo-, which had been sent
by joseph Joyce. A letter was read from
Mrs. Cammack thanking the association for
the resolution of sympathy passed on the
death OF her husband. A beautifully en-
crossed resolution, an exact copy of the ore
sent Mrs. Cammack, was placed on the walls
OF the meeting-room for the first time last
evening. John L. Su er was chosen treasu-
rer. vice James Dobbyn, resigned. Veteran
j. w. thompson moved that the thanks OF the
asso iation be extended to THE TINES for its
courtesy in having a reporter present at the
meeting. The motion was unanimously car
RED The next meeting will be held on the
nrst tuesday in December
The Washington times., 1894-11-07
TO MAKE GOOD ROADS.
Mr.. Ray Stone, Special Agent OF the
Agricultural Department, Tells How
1t May Be Done.

MF. Ndy SEOHSB SPSS1al agent VI hhS
Agricultural Department. Tells How
1t May Be Done.
The Agricultural Department is about to
issue elaborate information on the subject of
''good roads," which Congress has directed
the department to investigate. The publica-
ton will embrace the entire proceedings Of
the National Road Conference. held at Asbury
Park, N j., July and last, at which con-
ference every shade of opinion on improving
the roads was presented,
Mr. Roy Stone, the special agent and road
engineer of the department, will also include
a number of addresses on the road question.
He makes no report, so thar these addresses
practically constitute a report. Mr. Stone
says among other things:
1.-The main question is how can people
having no surplus capital build good roads?
For an answer we must 20 where they have
doae it successfully and study the methods
adopted. First, we must study all the econo-
mics possible in construction; second, We
must find out all the parties 20 be benefited,
ana see that each bears his proper share OF
the cost, whether or not he belongs to the
immediate locality. or even TO the present
generation o! men; third, We must look into
local questiens of road materials and trans
road implements and machinery.
'But, who is to do all this9 And that
brings as to the first practical step in gen.
eral road improvement; namely, that every
State should have permanent commission,
composed OF citizens of the highest character,
to undertake this investigation and recon-
mend the necessary measures 10 the legisla-
ture, to watch the workings OF these meas
ures when adopted, and 10 secure any pos
sible Improvement in them. The next step is
to make the best possible use Of convict labor
in road-building. My own impression is that
state prison conviets will be best employed in
the preparation of road materials, in quarry
camps, or gravel pits, whore they can be
guarded-and secluded as easily as in prisons,
and that county prisoners and tramps should
do the grading and all other preparatory
work on the reads.
SIN regions where rock is plenty, by using
the best machinery for crushing stone, and
employing the conyicts only ia quarryinS and
handling it, an amount OF material could be
produced sufficient to macadamize al the
roads in the State as last as they could be
prepared, and, in addition.tO furnish ballast
for the railroads as a consideration for their
giving reduced rates on road materials.
''Of their own motion, the railroads are
reasy to contribute largely in this way to-
The Washington times., 1894-11-07
Everybody Should Hear ST. Paul.

When concert such as the Choral So
ciety's production of Memberships great
oratorio. "St Paul." at Convention Music
Hall, this evening, can be heard at such
prices as those announced. there is no longer
ground for complaint, which has been well
founded in the pasts that the best concerts
were too expensive for any but persons in af-
fluent circumstances. Mendelssohn's ora
torios have dramatic element usually alb
sent from choral works OF that character.
Mendelssohn considered that the line divid-
ing the platform from the stage was very thin
and shadowY, and he endeavored to impart
such spirit to his oratorios that the per
sonages there represented should be alive
and acting, mot mere musical images, " and
the incidents recited should have music
ally dramatic coloring and tone in keeping
with them. The advance sale of reserved
seats for ''St. Paul. is in progress at Droop &
Sons, No. 925 Pennsylvania avenue, at so and
rs cents and e1.
The Washington times., 1894-11-07
TRIBUTE TO LONGFBLLOW.
The Ivy Leaf Placed by Unknown Hands
Unon His Bust

The Ivy Leaf Placed by Unknown Hands
Upon BIS Bust.
The great love which Americans bear for
the memory Of Henry W. Longfellow is shown
constantly by little acts at his burial place
and at his old home In Poets Corner in
Westminster Abbey is bust of the American
poet
1t is an object of the deepest interest to all
American visitors to the abbey, and every
once in a while the vergers find fastened to
it sheets of paper on which quotations from
the poets best known works are written.
These are renewed regularly and destroyed.
In August last some one left a tribute TO the
poet, which the attendants did not remove,
and which will probably remain where it is.
1t is an ordinary sheet of note paper. to
which is pinned large ivy leaf. Under the
leaf is written in a strong hand. evidently a
woman's, Brought by loving hands many,
many miles across the sea- from spot ne
we'll loved Underneath is written QUOTA
tion from Browning: Goods in his heaven;
all's we'll with the world" The dates July 10
and August follow, signifying, in all proba-
bility, the time of the plucking Of the leaf
and its being placed in the abbey.
Thousands of visiting Americans have read
the little tribute, and the vergers in the abbey
guard the paper and leaf zealously. No one
connected with the abbey remembers having
seen the paper placed where it is. but the at
tendants say that it appeared there On the
afternoon of August 5.
The Washington times., 1894-11-07
POLICEMAN DEVINs SUSPENDED
II Is Alleged That His Absence from Roll
Call Was Due to Whisky.

II Is Alleged That His Absence from Roll
Call Was Due to Whisky.
Policeman Patrick Devine, of the Eighth
precinct, was not on duty last night, and his
baton hung listlessiy on the wall of the squad
room, in company with a number Of DUST
covered, last summers helmets. The reason
Officer Devine was not out on his beat twirl-
ing his locust as of yore, was because the
simple word, suspended, was marked op-
posite his name on the roll.
The cause of Devine's suspension is an
open secret out in the Eighth. The story
goes that he failed to answer the midnight
roll call Monday night, although OH reserve
at the time. He was accordingly marked
up as absent without leave. An hour or go
later, it is said, he was found drunk at Nine
teenth and 7 streets by colored Officer
Stewart, who escorted his dizzy brother COP
TO the station-house and turned him over to
Sergt Harrison.
The latter took Devine's badge and baton
and suspended him from duty pending the
action Of the trial board.
DeYlne was recent appointee on the force.
and he is said to have been indorsed for the
place by prominent member of Congress.
The Washington times., 1894-11-07

Finally Ran Into Jail-Alexander Wyatt, a
slender colored man, is classed in police cir
cles as an al-around runner" Alexander
runs policy slips and drawings to and fro
across the Georgetown bridge as matter of
business. He likewise runs. and runs fast,
when pursued by the cops, Yesterday morn
ing the festive young man ran into the
clutches of Policeman Bradley, and later in
the day he was brought face to face with
Judge Miller on the charge of promoting
policy. The evidence was against him, and
his honor sent the runner" to Jail ier three
months.
The Washington times., 1894-11-07

ward road improvement. In their CORE,
spondsnee with the Department OF Agrt-
culture on the subject many have proposed
to make half rates or baul az bare cost whsn-
eyer a general advance toward road improves
ment shall begin. and the State commissioai
would be In a position 10 make better termai
with them than any private individual Or
local authority, and better than We could do
on behalf Of the general government without
the power to Offer any deasits assistance On
it's part In return"
The Washington times., 1894-11-07
High Army offic,aIs p.+,re

On the sth instant Gen. Howard, the SEQ
ond major general, commanding the Depart
ment Of the East, retires from service under
the siKiy-four-year clause, and two days
later Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, senior off,
Ger OF the Navy, viii relinquish duty because
he has reached the age of sixty-two. Gen
Howard's successor viii be Major Gen. Miles
how on duty at Chicago, and Admiral Che
rsrdis successor will most probably be Com
modore Montgomery 6icard.
The Washington times., 1894-11-07
MeIba Too M to Come

Melba did not sing at Convention Hall last
night as she is i'll The following telegram
was received by Mr.. David Towers. tho man
ager OF Convention Music Hall. from Mr..
John z. Warner, the general manager for
Messrs. Abbey, Schoeffel q Grau, dated
Toronto. Ont, November s:
'MelbR so Ill concert there must be Cancelled.
VIII write you particulars from New York to-
morrow and advise as 10 future appearance. -
The Washington times., 1894-11-07
REPAIRS TO TIE G. P. o.
Plans for the New Building VIII Be Made
at Once.

PIanS Tor the New Building VIII Be Made
at Once.
Plans for the new addition to the Govern
ment Printing Office. to be erected between
the southwest and south-center buildings twill
be made at once, and construction is expected
TO begin early in the spring.
Contracts have been made for three fire
escapes, one to be placed on the North Capitol
street front and two on the II street front.
They are to be put in place by December 81.
Reconstruction OF the upper walls OF the
southwest building will begin as soon as suf-
hcient material is on the ground to push the
work forward rapidly,
The Washington times., 1894-11-07
HOW TO GET A LICENSE.
j.: w. HURLEY,
us D STREET,

Is the man to give you some valuable pointers
on this matter. He furnished the bar fixtures
for Walshs new place, and has Iuss received
three other handsome sets Of bar fixtures, which
he offers for sale at a rare bargain
The Washington times., 1894-11-07
WE WANT YOUR WIFE


household GIVING AWAY
s57long isn't
it everybody tive YOU
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
HAD A HOUSE
Commercial Travellers Republican Club
in New Quarters.

The Commercial Travellers Republican
Club gave a "house warming last night.
The event occurred in Room IS, When
Block. the clubs new apartments. Last
night was the first meeting under the new
arrangement and proved to be on the order
of a love feast rather than a regular meet
ing. The club now enjoys a comfortable,
roomy home, tastefully decorated with the
national colors and adorned with the
pictures of leading men of the Republican
party. Above the presidents chair hangs a
handsome framed portrait of General Harri-
son. a present to the club. The portrait was
donated by Dave Woodland and was last
night presented with appropriate remarks.
The Bald-headed Glee Clu was present, and
so successful was the entertainment fur
nished by the gentlemen that they were
speedily initiated as honorary members.
Mayor Denny was present and talked TO the
club on topics of interest to the members.
Captain HaElrick, of Danville, Ind. who
enjoys a membership in the club, made n
rousing speech on the political situation and
was followed by w. A. Ketcham, who in
terested the club for a half hour. Harry
Adams with his ineXhaustible supply of
"reminiscences was a feature of the evening.
The speeches were interspersed with songs
by the glee club and al occasional selec-
ton by a stringed orchestra. Two weeks
from last night the club will entertain the
Republican candidates OF Marion county.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
CITY NEWS NOTES.

Miss Lemon has returned from New York
city.
The Girls Industrial School realized
1924 "a from the food exposition recently
held In Tomlinson Hall.
Philip Rappaport will address the Progress
Club this afternoon upon the subject, POLL
tics and the Labor Movement"
The quartet ana choir of the First Bap-
fist Church is preparing 10 render a Song
service on Easter Sunday evening. March %.
The Curtis Physiological College will
hold its thirteenth minus commencement
exercises at Lorraine Hall tomorrow even
ing.
The Bernhard Ljstemann Concert Com
pany, of Boston. a well-known organization,
will give a concert at Tomlinson Hall,
Tuesday evening, March 20.
Thieves entered the grocery store at No..
1S3 Elizabeth street, owned by Joseph Cal
lis. Friday night, and stole three cases Of
tobacco and $33. Entrance was effected
through a window.
General Harrison has been invited 10 pre-
side over Memorial day exercises i'm Indian
apolis, and ii is hoped that he will consent
to deliver the address. lie has not yet re-
piled TO the invitation.
John Gisler, n fourteen-year-old lad, liv-
ing at No. 81 Prospect street. is missing
from home. He attended High School No. 3
and on last Thursday had a difficulty In
school. Since then he has not been seen.
Harry Branders and Merritt Hates were
arrested on a charge of petit larceny, yes
terday, by patroImen White and Corrigan.
Rranders stole a pair OF shoes from No. 50
gave them TO Hates, who sold them for Is
cents
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
A CYNICAL PARAGRAPH.
What n Man Thinks of WOman's Love
for Clothes.
New York Recorder.

New York Recorder.
Once upon a time there lived a woman,
and the woman was lonely, so she cried to
the gods: "Oh, 1 am very lonely. Give me
some one to comfort me-" And the gods
heard and were sorry for the woman. And
they took a beautiful human soul, perfect
in every part, and clothed ii in the gar
ments of a man and brought it to the
woman.
When the woman heard them coming she
was very glad, for she said: Nov / shall
be no longer lonely. Now there will be one
to keep me company" But when she saw
the soul, she gave a great cry and fell
down as one dead. And when she had a
little recovered, she shrieked: "Oh. take it
away. l cannot bear il. 1t wears an old
fashioned coat. and, behold, 1 see a spot of
grease upon it."
Then the gods were wroth with the wom-
an and took the soul away and left her
lonely. So the woman sat and lamented.
Time passed.
"Oh, We gods!' cried the woman once
again, 81 am very. lonely. Give me some
one to comfort me-"
Then the gods had compassion on the
woman, and they took n block of wood and
carved out of it a beautiful human form
and dressed it i'm the latest fashion and
gave it an eyeglass and a flower for its
obuttohole and brought 1T TO the woman. -.
r%-NYhen the woman saw ii she reJoiced
greatly and she opened her arms and took
it and kissed ii and fondled 1t and was
comforted. And the woman called the fig
ure a man and she thought 1t was alive.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
A New story of Horace Greeley.
New York Sur.


The Chicago Newspaper Union publishes
an article containing a considerable va
riety Of miSinformation concerning MIR.
Donald G. Henderson, the experienced ed
itOr of the Allegan Record, a valuable Re
publican journal of Michigan Mr.. Hender-
son has been an editor forty or fifty years,
ind waS for several years employed in the
New York Tribune, where he was the only
man who could approach Mr.. Greeley i'm
the managenen t and understanding OF cleo
ton statistics. Generally the chief was not
too hard on him, but there is one story
which our Chicago contemporary does not
tell.
Mr.. Greeley came in one day in a discon-
tented mind, and, meeting Henderson near
the door, he said 10 him, as he held out an
unsatisfactory column of election figures:
Henderson, you did this?' Yes, sir" an
sweIed the young man mOdestly. wei,
them continued the great Horace, go
away from here. / discharge youl 1 dismiss
you! 1 don't want to see you here any
more! Go away!'
DR.. Ripley, who had come in during this
conversation. supposed, of course. that Hen
derson would obey the order and depart;
but he found him at work the next morning
as tranquil as a summer sky. why, Hender-
son." said he, ARE you here?" Didn't Mr..
Greeley dismiss you Yesterday Yes,
SIR" replied the young man; but 1 didn't
place confidence in what he said" And for
several years afterward he continued to
labor in the editorial department of the
Tribune
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
A Mystery Unexplained.
New York Evening Post.

new 10TH ENtillltS Il .
Mr.. Howells's Letters Of an Altrurian
Traveller are now, IL may be well to inform
the curious who would like TO have q re-
port on their progress every year or two,
giving a guide-book account of New York
CITY. with little chunks of socialism thrown
i'm by the way. The AltrUrian finds our
rapid-transit system extremely bad. but Is
sure that public ownership would make
all right: our architecture is horrible 10 his
soul. but his cure-all is civic control OF
the private architecture the saloons are
bad as can be, but the obvious remedy is
to destroy the private trade in drink"
and to place the poor man lin the control
of the State as to the amount he should
spend and drink in them For every evil
the same panacea is SOlemnly brought
forth with a complacent Q. +. d. But the
thing really in need of demonstration
though We look for IL in vain from Mr..
Howells or any Of the writer's who do not
temper their socialism by so much litera-
allure as he does, is by what juggle private
injustice. and greed. and sottishness. and
folly can, by the mere process OF aEglom-
Grafton. become public justice and unset
fish refinement and wisdom. The wonders
Of the philosophers stone were nothing to
this magic process.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
The Widows Two Husbands.
Northwest Magazine

"WeH. Jinkins he was a fust one,'' said the
widow i'm a reminiscent tone: "he wuz a
ornery hound that used TO get drunk an
thrash me all over the place. Eff he hadn't
been n drinkin' man 1 could a stood the
thrashin'. but l did not like the idea Nv both.
After he died / married Wilson, an he wuZ
a lazy. ornery thing that used to get drunk
an come home. an 1 used TO thrash him all
over the place"
She laughed softly at the memory of II.
''That was rather better than the first"
j said, laughing with her.
"No, it wuzn't,' she promptly replied.
"No? Why?" / asked in surprise.
well. I'd kinder got used to Jinkins's
ways, an when Wilson came / never liked
the idea NV doing a mans work about the
house"
This was a new phase of "a mans work
about the house"