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The Washington times., 1894-03-29
THE c.RNEGIE ARMoR PLATES.

At Carnegies Homestead mills there were
two sets Of men. One set began on the Sd
day of November, 1892, to take all the cruiser
armor plates that were selected by the gov
ernment inspectors for tests and secretly, at
night, to retreat, re-anneal, and re-temper
them and plug blow holes, to make them
equal to the test. They carried on this fraud
until the 10th day of September, 1898. The
period is determined by the fact that they
were seen at the business on the first date and
were told to desist by their indignant en-
ployers on the last date.
Many of the plates weigh as little as 55, 900
pounds; SO 1t was an easy thing for the men
to slip them into their vest pockets, treat
them. and return them to their positions dur
ing the night unobserved. The time during
which they were occupied with such labor each
night for year was so insignificant that the
strict supervision and close management that
make the Carnegie mills a magnificent sue
cess never detected the misapplication of
their labor. Even the alert government in
spectors were hoodwinked, and this fact best
illustrates the craftiness OF the men, for there
is not an officer in the navy who cannot see
q coral reef after he has landed his vessel
on it.
These men did all the hard work without
pay, and, to ordinary people, without any
conceivable motive. They may have been
anarchists. seeking to injure the government;
or secret agents of foreign powers striving to
render our modern gunboats worthless by
foisting pasteboard armor plates upon them;
or admirers of Mr.. Carnegie, determined to
swell the store from which Pittsburg draws
charitable bounty.
The other set OF men began work the same
day and kept at it the same length of time.
Their work was simply keeping their eyes
open and their mouths shut, and observing
the unaccountably generous toll of set No.
/. They are said to have had no ami
mostly toward their employers and no patri-
otic impulses toward their country, but to be
simply ION the make" They made S35,OO0
in ten months, which is not bad even for
steel workers.
But since Mr.. Frick twas right and the
government inspectors were right, and the In
formers were right, and the plates were right,
and "all were right as right can be- and Mr.
Carnegie paid s14o, ,4s9 for all this rightness,
there's nothing more to be said, except this,
that the advocates Of socialistic state are
once more confronted by the fact illustrated by
Carnegie's two sets of men, that headwork
and handwork can never be properly re-
duced to q pecuniary level.
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
Fishing on the Potomac.

The District Attorney yesterday returned
to the Commissioners communication from
Mr.. Jesse Middleton, which called attention
to violations of the law in regard to fishing in
the Potomac within the District.
The letter had been referred to Mr.. Thomas
for his advice. In his opinion Mr.. Thomas
said that the only question seemed to be
whether the bay at Four Mile Run is a part
Of the river. since the harbormaster has no
doubt of his jurisdiction to arrest violators of
the law outside of that territory.
His decision was that the bay or sheet Of
water at the mouth of Four Mile Run, east of
the railroad, inside Of straight line meas
ured from the headlands on the north and
south sides, is not under the jurisdiction of
the harbormaster and fishing can proceed
without fear of interruption.
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
Three Little Items

Admiral Walker started from Washington yes
terday afternoon for San Francisco to sail on the
steamer of April for Honolulu
The War Department has been informed Of
the death from heart disease OF Lieut. John II.
Alexander, Ninth Cavalry, one Of the very few
,lege, Ohio.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
did not take action upon the Chinese treaty to-
day. Il was reported to the Senate in executive
session later. A motion to make the treaty pub
lie was objected to and not pressed
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.

Your trail runs to the westward,
And mine to mine own place:
There is water between our lodges,
And have not seen your face.
But since have read your verses
'Tis easy to guess the rest,
Because in the hearts Of the children
There is neither east nor west.
Born to thousand fortunes
OF good or evil hap,
Once they were kings. together,
Throned in another's lap.
Surely they know that secret,
Yellow, and black, and white,
When they meet as kings together
In innocent dreams at night
With a moon they all can play with,
Grubby, and grimmed, and unshod,
Very happy together.
And very near to God.
-Rudyard Kiplinf
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
BIMETALLISM NOW.

That serious economic
conditions exist no man will
MEMBER OF deny. Values are materi-
CONGRESS ally deprecated and money
is correspondingly difficult
to obtain. The surplus in
the New York banks is enormous. yet there
would be no surplus in those banks one week
from to-day If the bankers could lend it.
Every dollar OF this surplus would be quickly
borrowed and launched into the channels OF
trade if the business men of the country pos
sessed securities upon which the money could
be obtained.
That such is the economic situation will not
be controverted. That all men desire TO see
this unfortunate state of affairs remedied is
doubtless true. We agree that this deplor-
able condition exists, but differ as to the cause
Of fl, and differ still more over the remedy.
Many hold the Wilson bill responsible for
the evils complained of. There is no Wilson
bill in Germany, England or Italy, yet their
people complain bitterly of financial distress
and ruined values. Some say 1t is overpro-
duction. There is no overproduction of real
estate, and most economists will agree that
there can not be an overproduction of any
commodity for a series OF years. The i'm
perial law of supply and demand regulates
production as certainly as the planets regulate
the rise and fall of the tide
The Wilson bill has been factor in bring
ing about existing conditions to this extent
Millions OF dollars worth of property is idle,
and hundreds ofthousands of men and women
are out of employment. The factories and
mines are closed, the spindles are motionless,
the mills are silent. The vast army of men
and women who, until the last presidential
election, carried TO their homes on Saturday
night all of the necessities and many of the
comforts of life, now sit by fireplace with
ont fire. and on Sunday morning open the
larder 10 find it empty.
WA these facts staring US in the face, it is
folly to say that the destruction of demand
has net effected the price of supply in the
United States.
The passage of any kind of tariff bill
would ameiorate the condition of our people,
because :; would give work at some price in |
some industries that are now waiting and |
watching. and would give something to those |
who ncw have nothing with which to buy the |
necessities of life. An assurance that there !
would be no tariff legislation would help still |
more.
But values have been declining for years.
Long before tariff legislation was agitated
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
RENEWING THE MODUS VIVENDI.
Selection Of Our Fleet to Patrol the BsI-ng
Sea This Season.

The agreement relative to the seal fisheries
has not yet been perfected, although it is sup
posed to be near that stageoi Sir Julian
Pauncefote mad an interview wsh Secretary
Gresham yesterday, but the agreement is still
not perfected.
1t is understood that the main point Of
difference arises from the insistence of the
British that warning be served on the Cana
dian sealers who go into the forbidden zone
before the agreement is ratified as prelimi-
nary to seizure. II.
Secretary Gresham has taken the ground
that these vessels have already had sufficient
warning in the publication of the decision of
the arbitrators. This point, however, does
not appear to involve difference so radical
as to threaten an amicable understanding.
Secretary Gresham had an interview with
the President yesterday after Sir Julian's
visit. and an evidence of the expectation of
the administration was afforded by the selec-
ton of the vessels Of the patrol fleet and the
beginning of the preparation of the sailing
orders of the feet.
Senator Morgan, chairman of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations and MEM
Der of the Bering sea commission, expressed
the opinion yesterday that no legislation
would be necessary to revive the modus
vivendi which is understood TO have been
about agreed upon between the United States
and Great Britain. lG sni15s1 l7m
He said that he was not Informed as to
whether the agreement had been perfected,
but he thought any understanding OF the
nature between the executive branches of the
two governments would be self-Operatiye
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
The World of Labor.

1t Is rnmored that ten men were killed at Cen
t-al mine, Keweenaw county, Michigan, last
night by premature blast
Fifty mechanics employed in the steam en-
gineer's department at Mare Island navy yard
were notified last night that their services were
nolonger required.
According to notice, the strike at the Crane
factories at Chicago began yesterday, and the
2,OOO men who did not return TO work are no
longer in the employ of the company.
The conference, committee of the Amalga-
mated association and the Mahoning Valley
manufacturers, at its meeting Tuesday night,
adopted a scale based upon a "a pudding rate,
to take effect April l.
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
THE WASHINGTON TIMES, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1894.

prepared by his own hand in his own parlor,
with Mrs. Waine at his elbow. The midnight
raid on the penitentiary was made to install
band to one of Mrs. Waite's daughters by her
former marriage. The wife Of the governor
is not much over five feet tall. not much over
100 pounds in weight, she dresses plainly anu
does not go into society. She likes Women
Christian Temperance Union business, and
also reformatory work, and Is a devout
adherent Of all the doctrines Of the most
advanced branch of the Popuiist party. Gov
ernor Waite is SO years Of age. and his hair
and beard are silvery white. Mrs. Waite is 4S
and looks much younger. They were born in
the same district in the state OF New York.
Governor Waite near jamestown and Celia
Crane in Oneida
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
More Congressional Filibustering.

As preliminary to the session of the House
yesterday tie Committee on Rules met and
prepared rule for the consideration OF the
Joy-O'Neill and the Hilborn-English con-
tested election cases. The rule provided for
two hours consideration to each case. When
it was introduced the Democrats mustered q
bare quorum to enforce the demand for the
previous question and again to adopt the COM
mittee's rule, but melted away again after the
discussion Of the Joy-O'Neill case had been
concluded, before the majority report Of the
ant, O'Neill, entitled to his seat could be
adopted
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
1t Is a Common Mistake.

To say verbal when yOu mean oral;
To use the word nice perpetually, as meaning
almost anything. (Nice means exact accurate
precise, etc);
To call all fires contiagrations; also to take
pains to mention that fires are destructive. (Of
course they are);
To use the word ''and" before (which" when
there is no previous (which" to involve the use
Of the word land" with the second (which"
To separate the parts of the inflnitive form of
the verb, as by Senator Gibson Yesterday who
introduced bill ITO more efectually prevent"
something:
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
A LAMENT.

Ny back is filled with sundry aches,
A bee-hive's in my head;
Rheumatic pains shoot down my spine,
Oh, / would that were deadi
My arm Is in a great big sling,
Ny Joints are stiff and sore;s
/ sneeze from early morn till eve,
At night I-sneeze some morei
Wherefore these briny tears? you ask;
Whence comes the wish to swear?
Alas, alas, too soon changed
My winter underwear!
NAT SrFED
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
Notices the Absence Of Grimes.
r. ,ta E,,;,or of Ttyr,

You say that you are making family paper,
and think so. For that reason you are " Sc TO
keep out long accounts Of vile criminal nts
that are common in most papers. Always
keep them out OF course you must print some
thing about these things, but remember that
paper ought 10 be good enough TO leave lying
around where the children growing up can read
it. MOTHER
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
Wants Births and Deaths.

You ask for suggestions Why don't you print
the births, marriages, and deaths, the three
most important pieces of news in human expert
ence? And you claim to be an advocate Of ad-
vanced social economics, but your friends in ad-
vanced economics do not seem to be ready in
coming forward with their contributions to your
signed editorial department Where are Henry
George, Tom l. johnson, Dr. McGlynn, Pow
derly, Sovereign, and Coxeyl
Alexandria, Va. JOHN ST. JOHN
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
Fell to HE Death

Daniel w. Carpenter, pilot, living at 5o7
Il street southwest. was found dead at the
foot of the stairs in his house yesterday. He
was discovered by his wife when she came
home from market, and he is supposed to
have fallen while intoxicated, rs he had been
in the habit of drinking to excess.
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
1t is a General Newspaper.
To the Editor Of The TIMES:

thought THE TINES was to be merely labor
paper, but / see it is general newspaper, de-
voted to editorial, sports woman S matter, and
miscellany; in fact, good variety. something
for everybody i am a laboring man myself,
but see thar your way is best. s. K E
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
Dr.. Ionestreet,s Lectures.

The single-tax lectures which have been de-
livered by DR.. Longstreet at Harris Hall, at
Seventh and D streets northwest, every even-
ing this week, will be continued this evening
and Friday and Saturday evenings at the
same place.
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
Always Wants the Story.

TO the FultOr OF THE TINES.
The daily story hat you print I always read,
as all the grown-up members of the family do
one after the other You select them we'll They
are sometimes exciting. but l notice they all
teach a good lesson. Don't drop the story.
A WOMEN
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
Portland House Transfer.

A deed which transfers the Portland apart
ment house from John and Mary E. Weston
to the Portland Apartment House Company
was filed yesterday in the Recorders Office.
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
Likes the Editorial Page.
n fha Editor of Tur sI'rurs.

like your editorial page best You are seri-
Gus when it is necessary, and humorous when II
is necessary, and you have gossip of ell kinds.
and like the little poem every day. Ny wife
does also. Don't let the telegraph matter en-
croach too much on the editorial page.
EDITORIAL.
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
Governor Maite,s Wife.

Mrs. Davis Waite, OF Colorado, is the power
behind the governors throne. The famous
speech in which the governor advised his
hearers to 'wade in blood, yea, even blood to
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
Likes the Little Things.

1 am pleased most with all these little things
which you put in of all kinds 1t Is surprising
sometimes to see how much information you get
in them. counted the items in Sundays paper
and found You had 4S2. We want to know every
thing that is going on, but don't want to have to
take two or three hours to find it. BusYBoDY.
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
Contends for Good English.

1-uft7K Vf
Don't let any bad English creep into your
paper. notice it once in a while, though gen.
orally you seem very correct. / suppose great
haste has to be used often times, but have every
thing gracefully written and you will be sur
prised how much easier the paper reads
HIGH SCHOOL.
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
The Local News VIII Come.

To the Editor of THE TINES:
You don't have local news enough You want
more reports of meetings, organizations, clubs,
courts, etc Perhaps you mean to have these.
like your sports best j. W. s.
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
Wants Market Reports.

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
Don't you think strong column Of market re-
ports would improve your papers All tho pro-
vision dealers in Washington have to take Balti-
more papers to get market quotations.
CENTER MARKET
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
THEY CRITICISE THE TINES
Likes the Woman's Page Best.
To the Edifnr of TuF TIMEs.

/ like the matter that you devote to women,
naturally, being a woman myself / know your
household articles and recipes are Of great
benefit to me and now that we have THE TINES
in the family all of US find things in 1t TO interest
us AMELIA L.
The Washington times., 1894-03-29
Yet Some Think Authorship is Fun.
TFliegende Blaofter1

Author (whose new play is being hissed by
the whole audience Heavens! shall have
to hiss, too, or they viii find out that am
the author.
The Washington times., 1894-03-29

Yesterday was wasted day in Senate and
House. The aged and time-worn McGarra-
ham claim took up the attention of the few
Senators that could sit in that body. and the
fllibustering over the contested elections was
continued steadily and pertinaciously by the
Republicans under the too able leadership of
Reed. Such days as yesterday are OF the
kind that make one reject certain marked de-
fects in our legislative system.
Evening journal., 1894-01-26
A ROBBERY AND An ATTEMPT.


Pane of Glass Broken of the Store Of
Charles w. Gregg and sc Worth OF
Mems Wear stolen.
somstime during last night thieves
attempted to enter the grocery store Of
Charles T. Wolhar, at No. I'LL Pennsyl-
vania avenue Holes were bored on the
upper and lower sides Of the lock on the
door Of the entrance, and the door WAS
pried with a jimmy. A hole about Il
inches in diameter was bored just above
the lock. An iron bar across the door
about twelve inches above the lock pre-
vented an entrance being effected
Not succeeding In entering Mr. Wolhars
store. IL is supposed that they went to
the grocery store Of Charles w. Gregg, at
No 100 Pennsylvania avenue. Here one
of the panes of glass In a bulk window
was broken. About Sc worth Of mems
wear. gloves, shirts and other notions,
we're taken Two children's dresses and
an apron were found near this store, and
II is supposed these were dropped by the
thieves.
81 he houses back Of each store are oc-
cupied, but no noise was heard BY the oc
cupants.
Evening journal., 1894-01-26
TWO HIGHRAYMEN CAPTURED.

Detective Jones aud squad Of Police
Omcers Raid n Gang Of Tramps Near
Delaware junction.
Intelligence was received at the City
Hall this morning that two highwaymen
had attacked and robbed Pelgreno Bonco
Of a dinner kettle and contents near the
Delaware junction Of the p, w. q B.
railrord.
Bouco is track lAborer in the employ
Of the railroad company About week
ago. while going TO work before 2 o'clock
in the morning he was attacked by sew
raj tramps aud robbed Of SO 90. This
morning he was going 10 work about the
same time and was attacked by two men
while passing the Delaware junction.
One Of the men was colored Bonco
defended himself but the highwaymen
succeeded in wrestling his dinner pail
from him, They attempted TO search his
pockets but failed Boncos Overcoat and
pants were torn in the struggle.
With Samuel Peo, Blnco reported the
robbery at the police station and Chief
Dolan set out at once TO capture the
/ highwaymen. Serreants Evans and
Shields, Detective Witsil. Officers White,
Lyons and Gum were sent TO the p, w.
& B depot, where Detective Jon had a
special train Of shifter and freight cal
ia readiness to take the officers TO the
Delaware junction.
Arriving there, Alexander Cramer,
colored, Joseph Tompkins. Frank Patter
son, John Turner, oolored, Charles Wal
Ter, John smith, George Kel y, Daniel
Cunningham, Henry McKeon, James
Mitchell. John Hill, Peter Murphy and
John Walsh were captured They were
brought TO this city in the car. and taken
TO Magistrate uonaghams Office. Each
Of them was fined s. for trespassing,
except Walsh.
Cramer and Tompkins were identified
oy BoncO as the men who attacked him
this morning. and each Of them was, 10
addition 20 being hned. held in $500 bail
to answer the charge Of highway robbery
at the upper court.
Evening journal., 1894-01-26
CHASTITY EXECUTION SCENE.

Murderer Painters Rope Broke and His
Limp Body Was Preclpitated to a
stone Pavement Below.
CHICAGO, jan 90 George H. Painter
was hanged here this morning for the
mu rder of Alice Martin.
The jury and spectators at the execu-
tion witnessed the most horrible sight Of
their lives. 1t was bungled hanging
The incident has stirred up the entire
city.
When the sheriff sprung the trap.
Painter, who is a heavy man. shot down
like cannon ball Tue rope broke and
with an awful thud Painters limp and
bleeding body fell in pile on the stone
pavement below.
As rapidly as the hangmen could work
in the midst of such a ghastly sight.
they made another moose and adjusted
it.
Painter was hanged second time but
he had been killed by the frst fall.
Scores of the spectators tainted and fell
to the pavement. They were carried out
in one, two. three order.
Painter made long speech, in which
he protested his innocence on the
scaifOld
Evening journal., 1894-01-26
TRE CANDY is NOT POISONOUS.

Chemist smith Anaiy zed ~ and Found No
luxurious Ingredients -Costalina Had "a
Dealers License.
Nicola Costalina, who was taken ia
custody by the Police Department, a few
days ago on the complaint Of several
dealers that be was manufacturing candy
without a license and that the candy
contained poisonous ingredients, had \
hearing In the city c9art, this morning
DR. Roop A. Smith. a chemist, stated
that he had made an analJ sis of some
candy manufactured by Costalina and
did not discover any injurious ingiedi-
ents In its composure.
Mr. Emmons, counsel for the defend
ant. explained TO the court that Costa
lima manufactured about $500 worth Of
candy In year, aud unless he manufac.
tured 81 600 worth IL was not necessary
TO take out license. Costalina has a
license, as a dealer, TO sell candy on King
street below Third This has been
transferred TO Fifth and King streets.
The court said that If the clerk Of the
peace found that Costalina manufactured
more more than 1000 he could place
the matter In the hands Of the attorney.
general, but as the case stood the
Municipal Court has no jurisdiction and
the case was dismissed.
Evening journal., 1894-01-26
The weather.

In the Middle States and New England to-
day clear, colder weather will prevail, with
fresh northwest to northeast winds and
minimum temperature Of about 10 at Phila-
adelphia, and degrees at Boston: On Satur-
day, in both Of these sections, fair 70 partly
cloudy weather will prevail, with slowly ris-
ing temperature and fresh or light north
easterly TO easterly winds, becoming variable.
and followed by cloudiness in the lake region;
and on Sunday milder, fair and partly
cloudy weather. with southeasterly winds,
followed by fog or thick weather on the At
lantic coast. South-bOund steamers now
leaving New YORK and Philadelphia may
have strong northeasterly winds south of the
Delaware capcs from the depression moving
Enthusiastically along the gulf stream,
New York Herald Weather Forecasts-The
crest Of the "cold wave from the Far North
west will pass over this section to-day, but
there will be but little recovery of tempera-
ture on the Middle At antic seaboard until
Tomorrow forenoon. A depression now of
the South Atlantic coast viii probably move
northwestwardly along the gulf stream. A
new depression. coming in from the Pacific
toward Manitoba. has not yet become a
serious disturbance.