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SIX ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
To Be Built by the Navy During
the Current Year.
LIKE MAGNIFICENT YACHTS
Both Steam and Sails VIII Be the
PrOpelling Power-Must BE Inde-
pendent of Docking Facilities.
Economical in the Use of Coal-To
Be Lighted by Electricity.

Six magnificent steam yachts, such as
could be owned only by the lucky possessors
OF many millions of dollars, viii be butt
by the navy during the current fiscal year,
and although they are to be finer thansimilar
vessels OF their class they promise 10 be
all around the most useful ships belonging
to the United States government.
BY act Of Congress, approved March 2,
1895, provisionwasmadef efortheconstruction
of six light-draft, composite gunboats, the
individual, constructive limit OF cost being
S230,000 ,exclusiveofthe cost ofarmament
From this authority Chief Constructor
Hichborn and Engineer in Chief Melville
have drawn designs for entirely novel
types OF warships, involving for the first
time in government vessels the principle
OF composite construction, the framing
being OF steel and the hull of wood.
The essential reasons for the constructio
OF vessels of the composite type are that
they are largely independent of docking
facilities and economical in the use of fuel.
The eXfoiation of the copper causes the
baInacles, gross, etc, to be released as
soon as the vessel is put in motion, and the
bottom is made comparatively clean, thus
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ON THE DOWN GRADE.
Gradually Your Tender Nerves
Grow keakcr-At Length You Mill
be Harassed by Nervousness and
Sleeplessness.

When the vital forces are sapped, the
manly vigor spent, and the nervous ener-
gies undermined, life becomes a burden.
The person is handicapped in the race Of
life. Many Of our young men become de-
spondent, have ringing in the ears, palpi-
tation OF the heart, uncertain and ever
shifting pains, spots or specks before the
eyes, headaches, dull and sleepy days
with waking nights. They know there is
something wrong-radicaiIy wrong Still
the family doctor says, run do wn, ""tonic, -
bilious attack" until life becomes bur-
den too great to be borne Then comes
nervous breakdown, prostration, or worse.
These dread consequences could easily be
averted by consulting a skillful specialist.
Many men are sufferers from nervous
debility, impaired memory, low spirits, and
the various arrangements Of body and mind
due TO pernicious habits contracted in youth,
or TO later exceSses, resulting in a loss OF
manly power, wrecked constitutions, and
not infrequcntly in softening OF the brain,
epilepsy, paralysis, and even insanity. To
reach and reclaim these unfortunates is one
OF DR.. Walkers aims, and he has been the
means OF restoring hundreds of them to
health and happiness.
DR.. Walkermay be consultedfre OF charge,
personally or by letter. His well-kno wn
sanitarium is at l411 Pennsylvania avenue,
adjoining Wizards Hotel Office hours
10 a. IN. to . p. m, and Wednesday and
Saturday evenings from to 8. Sunday
hours, 10 to g a. m.
Charges for treatment very low.
In response to many inquiries Dr.. Walker
assures the public that all interviews are
confidential. Names of patients who have
been cured are never published without their
full consent.
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Officers InStn%l

Mount Vernon Castle, No. ., K G E,
held an interesting session last Thursday
evening, and after instructing a candidate
in the first degree, the following officers
were installed by Grand Officers Charles
Kattlemann, ir, and w Hennessy Smith,
p. c., L. c. i. Rupert; N c., W. II. Smith;
V. c., J. Mont. Beall; c. Of E., Z. L. Walter;
X. Of e, c. E. EngeIs; NJ. Of R., ]. D. Will
son; S. H, +. ]. Sylvester; V. H., A S.
Jones; II. p, r. d. Cromptou; W. b.,
E. g. Decker; first guard H Yenuey;
second guard, ]. II Wilson; w. c., Charles
Kattlemauu, jr.; trustee, Capt. Woolman
Gibson.
American Temple, No. 8, L. G. E, at
the last session of July 8, '95, the folio W
ing officers were installed by Grand Chief
Adams: P. t, Mrs. L. Thompson; N. T.,
Mrs. Ella Scott; V. t, Miss Alice Ward;
prophecies, Mrs. Mary Lavender; priestess,
Mrs Katie Robey; NJ of G., Mrs. Fanny
Donaldson; G. of NJ, Mrs. Katie Frey;
G. of /. P, Miss Matte Mckinney; and
G.. OF o. P, Mrs. Kate Kali; G. of R.,
Miss Florence Tornersley; G. of F., Mrs.
Ober; aud G. OF F, Mrs Ida Kerper; with
trustees, ]. Thompson, F Kerper and Geo.
Zimmerman will hold their offices until
December Z, '95. P T. Mrs L. Thompson
was presented with a handsome spoon
as token of esteem from some members
Of this temple. Mrs. Lavender making the
speech.
The Brott Rapid Transit Company have
elected the following directors to serve
one year: L. A. Grant, n. l.. Jeffries,
]. ]. Hemphill, c. NJ. Shelley, Jos. J..
Reynolds, z. s. Parker, B. Robinson, v
D. stockbridge aud Geo. F Brott The
directors have elected the folio wing Of
ficers: L. A. Brant, president; George F.
Brott, vice president; P. P Little, secretary;
E. s Parker, treasurer.
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about one-quater OF it's designed power,
which is within the limit OF reasonable
economy, and IN the other case the engine is
w orking at only one-eighth its actual
power. AS the power required TO drive
vessel varies as the cube OF the speed the
coal burned per knot wiIlvary ast the square
OF the speed, or in other words with two
engines OF equal economy, one of which
would drive the boat ten knots and the
other eight knots per hour, the first would
burn 100 tons OF coal in going the same
distance a S the other Que would run in
burning sixty -four tons
This illustrates the advantage OF having
engines which are economical at slow
speeds. This was the principal reason
why lOw-poWered machinery was put III
these ships.
These boats will require a t twelve knots,
their maximum speed, 500 indicated horse
power; at ten knots, 450 indicated horse
poweri at eight knots, $50 indicated horse
power. The capacity of the bunkers Will
be about $50 tons.
CONSUMPTION OF COAL.
The coal CONSUMPTION for ali purposes
at fun power will be about twenty-five tons
per day giving steaming radius in smooth
water of $3.50 knots At ten knots the
coal consumption will be about twelve
tons per day I'D the steaming radius WILDE
about 5000 knots. At eight knots speed
the coal consumption would be about
eight and one-half tons per day, and the
Fteaming radius viii be about 5 $50 miles,
making 1t possible torunthem a t that speed
from San Fra ncisco 10 New Zealand.
The steaming radius of small ships is
greatly affected by the wind and weather
The large Atlantic liners plow through all
kinds of weather, and only the hardest
storms affect their speed, and then only to
"a limited extent. These boats, when steam
ing against moderately hard wind and
sea will have their speed decreased two
or three knots.
The single-screw boat will be affected
much more in this respect than the other
one, since her Spars and rigging will catch
more wind. She will also be troughed
more by her engines racing, since her
screw VIII not be so deeply immersed as
that OF her rival.
The great gain in the twin-screw Ship
will be the ease with which she can
steam in and out OF harbors and up mar
row, crooked rivers, owing to the greater
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Gunboats Nos. 10 to 13.

ease and safety with which twin-screw
ships can be steered. But the sailing type
can reel OF seven or eight knots an hour in
definitely on long cruises, at no cost for
fuel. and for months at time in active
service can be totally independent or coal
ing stations.
LIGHTED BY ELECTRICITY.
The single-screw boat will be lighted
by electricity, and provided with steam
steerer and steam windlass; space and
weight are allowed for these features in
the twin-screw boats, but their installa-
tion viii depend entirely upon their pos
sibility within the price limit of $3.50 goo.
The armaments, being identical in both
styles, VIII consist of six four-inCh. four
siX-pounders, and two one-pounder guns
all rapid fire, and win be disposed in this
order: -Four four-inch guns in two bat
teries, port and starboa I'd, on the gun-deck
amidships; the two. .other four-lnch guns
being carried on the main deck, one at the
DOW and one at the stern, each having awide
arc Of fire. The sfx-pounder gun Will
be carried on the gUn-deck two well for
ward, one on either bow, and two amid
ships between the fOUr-inch guns respect
lively, in the port aud -starbodrd batter
les. The one-pounder gun Will be dis
posed where most advantageous on the
hammock berthing
For the four-inch gunstthere Will be 800
rounds OF ammunition.
For the six-pOunder. there will be
2,O02 pounds ofammunition.
For the six-pounder there viii be 1,235
rounds of ammunition.
The character of the service for which
these gUnboats are particularly designed
requires that they be exposed to musketry
fire, and the housing the major parts of
the battery by an unbroken deck, besides
adding materially to the stiffness and
strength of the vessel, gives admirable
protection TO the guns crew in action
This necessarily exposed position of
the bow and the stern guns is justified
only by their arc of fire and possible use
fulness in running action, while for river
service, for which the boats are particu-
larly fitted, the disposition of the gun
deck battery is all that could be desired
MOST COMMODIOUS.
Each of the vessels VIII carry about ten
officers, 125 enlisted men, and a small
guard of marines, numbering, perhaps,
ten men, The vessels are so commodious,
however, that for special duty a very much
larger complement could be accommodated,
or a large number of refugees could be taken
aboard.
Secretary Herbert, who is compelled by
law to have two of these vessels built on
the Pacific coast, two on the Atlantic,
The morning times., 1895-07-13
Washington Grain Market.
Reported by the Grain Exchange.

Spring patent flour per barrel, 4.25a4. 80;
spring straight flour, per barrel, 4.0Oa4. 20;
winter patent flour, per barrel, 4.OOa4. o;
winter straight flour, per barrel. 3.75a3 80;
winter extra flour, per barrel, 3.25a3. so;
clipped white oats, per bushel, 36a31; No.
white oats, per bushel, "a -2a35; No.
mixed oats, per bushel, 31a32: No. 2 yellow
corn, per bushel, 54a55; No. 2 white corn,
per bushel, 54a55; No. timothy hay, per
ton, 1T.O0a17 so; No. 2 timothy hay, per
ton, 14.0Oa1 500; No. ] mixed hay, per
ton, 14.50a15. 500; No. 1 clover hay, per
ton, 12.5Oa13 90; No. 1 cut hay, per ton,
17.OOa17 80; bulk bran, per top, 15.OOa
1900: bulk middlings, per ton. 13.O0a
1900; rye straw, per ton, 13.OOa1 400;
wheat straw, per ton, 5.00a5.50. The
above quotations for car lots delivered Oh
track, Washington.
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and two on the Gulf, if possible, has in
vited bids under two heads
Those based upon the plans and speci-
fications of the Navy Department and those
based upon the designs and plans of the
contractors, and not more than two of
the gunboats to be built by one contracting
party.
The framing ofeach ofthe boats according
to the specifications will be of steel from the
keel up to and above the water line; the
upper edge OF the wood plank will lap the
top side plating about three feet. Plank
of Georgia pine will be worked on the frames,
secured thereto by composition bolts in
such manner as to prevent galvanic action
The outside surface Of the plank will be
coppered
No plating will be worked on the under
water body of the vessel except the keel
plates, strip of plating on each side of
the keel plates under the boilers to form
the lower portion of water tank and mar
row strips for the plates under the longi-
tudinals and bilge keels. The entire top
sides will be plated as on steel vessels
Throughout the machinery space, an inner
bottom of plating will be worked, giving
added strength to this part OF the vessel,
enabling the bilges to be kept clean, and
affording additional means of safety should
the outer bottom be ruptured.
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baltimore Markets.

Baltimore, July 12.-Flour quiet, un-
chang ed receipts, SITS barrels; sales,
800 barrels Wheat unsettled and higher
spot and month"; August, 6S 1-4a6s l-2;
September, SO 1-2a69 81; steamer No. 2
stdck?5 1870, ,r96-bTshPls;, salesi6 100000
bushels; Southern wheat by sample, 68a70;
do. Oh grade, 64a69. Corn dUll-spot 80;
month, 40 1-2 bid; August, 40 12 bid;
September, 40 1-2 bid-receipts, 25,3l9
bushels; shipments, 8, 571 bushels; stock,
2O3 ,931 bushels; Southern white corn,
51a52; do yellow 53a53 12. Oats firm =
No. white Western, 80 1-2a33; No. 2
good to choice timothy, 1850. Grain
freghts steady, unchanged. Sugar firm,
51-stock, 5,996 bushels. Hay steady
stock, 92,S36 bushels. Rye dull-No. 2,
changed Cheese firm, unchanged.
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postotfice contracts Awarded.

The Postoffice Department yesterday
awarded the contract for furnishing blanks,
blank books, and printed matter for money
order business to the following firms:
II. c. HallenbacE, OF New York city;
Dunlap Printing Company, of Philadel-
phia: the j. Horace Mcfarland Company,
OF Harrisburg, Pa; the Capital Press
Company, and Byron s. Adams, of this
city. The contract is for four years begin
ming September 8, 1889. II. c. Hallenback
got the contract for the domestic money
order blanks, which will amount to about
$3.50 600 in the four years.
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the several departments should not be per-
mitted, under a statute-at-law, TO receive
or countenance any claim whatever, unless
the same shall be in the form of a judg-
ment rendered Since the service of the
said employe by the government ] know
all fair-mnded people Will approve such
plan say you?
GOV. EMPLoYE..
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Half Rates on Saturdays and Sundays

to Points on Southern HaIIWHy.
The Southern Railway, until further
notice, will continue the sale of tickets
from washington to Orange, strasburg,
Round Hill and intermediate stations
at one fare for the round trip, on Satur-
days and Sundays, tickets good to return
either on Sunday or Monday following.
Tickets good until October 81 are also on
sale from Washington to points on Round
Hill and Strasburg branches.
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Spend Sunday on the Water.

Take the palatial Newport News for
Ft. Monroe at 8 a. M, which gives
you an all-day sail and two hours
at the fort, returning to city 7
a. m. Monday morning. Fare, round
trip, $500 See ad.
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Not as bad as Renorted

j. L. Ryan, of Richmond, who was run
Sewn by bicycle Thursday evening and had
his knee dislocated, is rapidly recovering
The rupor to the effect that his leg was
broken is not true.
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TO EVERYBODY purchasing from
US on the above named dates. we
will give a Handsomely Chased and
Engraved Solid Gold Watch. stem
winder and setter. You may say,
how can we afford to do this2 Well,
we have taken these watches from
large dealer in exchange for lots at
TUXEDO, and not being In the
jeweiry business, have concluded
his beautiful suburb. Bear In mind,
lots ever offered around Washington
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Single Screw Single Screw
Tyne TYNE

The single screw vessels Nos. 10, II, l.
and 13 have finer lines than the other
two aud carry a spread of 11,0O0 square
feet of canvass Under sail alone they viii
make 10 knots with a stiff wind and a
fairly smooth sea while in the trade winds
for a long voyage they can be relied upon
TO make long cruises at the rate OF or 8
knots
When going under sail alone, the en-
gines of the single screw boat will be
unCoupled, allowing the shafting and screw
to revolve simply by the action of the
passing water; and so slight is the re-
tarding influence Of the screw thus dis
gagged that there is every reason to
expect a sailing speed fully equal to the
possibilities OF the steam power conditions.
DESIGN OF EACH TYPE.
The engines in each type are designed to
develop the same horsepower and to in
duce the same speed, that of twelve knots,
differing only as regards shafting, num-
ber of screws and incidental division OF
motive force.
For the twin-screw gunbOats the engines
will be rights and lefts, each in separate
water-tight compartment, and viii be OF
the usual vertical, direct-acting, triple
expansion type, with high-pressure cylin-
der of twelve, eighteen and quarter, and
twenty-siX inches respectively, having
common stroke of eighteen inches, capable
of developing 800 horsepower with zoo
revolutions per minute.
The engines of the sin gle-screw boats will
The morning times., 1895-07-13
New York stock Exchange Quotations.

Furnished by Sllsby & Co, bankers and
brokers, Metropolitan Bank, Fifteenth street,
opposite Treasury, Washington, d. c.
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permitting the vessel to maintain her
designed speed with q minimum con-
sumption of coal

The docking expenses, whether at home
or abroad, ana the cost offuel are two very
serious outlays that these vessels are
counted upon 10 minimize, while their ac
tivity, range OF action, and general ef-
ficiency are greatly increased.
The six vessels will be Of two radically
differing types; one type carrying fun sail
power aud propelled by a single screw, the
other type having steady sails only and
propelled by twin screws actuated by two
separate engines. Their principal dimen
sious are as follows:
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Storage Warehouse, I14O 18th A.
Families Going Away
should store their siIverware. vaIuabis
bric-a-brac, paintings, &c, in the storage
warehouse Of this mDany at 1I4O 18th 81 n ".
Special FIRE and burglar proof vaults are used
for this purpose, which have Uithstood every
test made by government experts.
We have every facility for packing and
moving goods 70 any point in the world
AMERICAN SECURITY TRUST CO.
Storage Warehouse, II40 18th 81
A. NJ READ, Manager
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Chicago Board of Trade.
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Washington
Loan & Trust CO.
Cor. 9th and F SITS.

Workingmen
and others whose occupations prevent
them from making deposits during
regular banking hours Will fiud it con-
venient 10 visit the
Union Savings Bank. 1922 FSt.H.W.
which is open EVERY SATURDAY
NIGHT between the hOuIsof and6
-four per cent. interest ou savings
accountl
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Editor Times: AS you have so ably reI
oered effeotive service In bringing abou
several important reforms, wish 10 suG
Eest one Of great benefit generally 10 tn
city
As the case now stands, every one @
them is a subject for blackmajl by any uI
prlncipled creditor who may come alonI
and exact more than his due for Inyariabl
instead OF bringing suit &C law the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
BOYS IN BLUE GRIEVED,
They EXOnerate Themselves From
blame in the Redyyins, Affair.


To the Editor of the Globe.
CAMP LAKEVIEW, LAKE CITY,
Mimi, July 1.-THE enlisted men of
the Third United States infantry are
much cast down by the recent unfor-
tunate occurrence at Redwing, express
sions of regret being heard on every
hand, not so much because of the true
condition of things, but rather on ac-
count of the sensational telling of the
story by the public press. In fact, it
has been intimated that the girls were
abducted from the Redwing Institution,
whether by force or strategy is left
to the imagination of the reader. OF
course we deny this, as it is untrue.
Now, MI. Editor, we think that in
your anxiety to give your patrons the
news you have depended too much
On hearsay. Hunt up the true story,
give it to your readers, and the true
character of the regiment and the men
who compose it will have been vindi-
Gated. You have said good words of,
and for us in the past; do so again, and
avoid a break in our gratitude. We
care very much for the opinion of 9TH
ers, and we are much cast down by
this wholesale charge. Wholesale, be-
cause it indistinctly duplicates the
whole regiment. Place the blame upon
the individual and not upon all the
wearerS of the blue. Our colonel eX-
pressed himself just right, like SOL
der and man. There are mitiga ting
circumstances, is his version of the af-
fair. He not only understands the SOL
der but the whole human family as
well. Another officer, high in rank, eX-
pressed himself more completely. He
offers the excuse that 1.-The men of
the regiment are recruited from the
lower walks in life" If the last re-
mark was made under ordinary cir
cu1nstances, we should say it referred
to our never having received salary
of over So or $40 per week, at the most.
But the present case, to our way OF
thinking, places different complexion
upon the remark. 1t would imply that
our bringing up by the hair had madeus
color blind to right and wrong, de-
cency and indecency. We wish to cor
rect the impression, not the remark,
for we have no doubt it was well in
tended. Please convey the information
to your many readers that we are loyal
residents of Minnesota, and as aS0ody
we have only the average percentage
of black sheep to our credit; and, above
all, we are human, and when tempta-
ton is thrust at US with all the seduc-
tive and racy Accomplishments of the
Redwing affair, please Set vivid
erasp upon the situation with your
minds eve before condemning us too
fully. ONE OF THE REGIMENT.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
IT'S JUST a STARTER.

Some of our Republican contempt
raries are wasting lots of satire.
Here is the Milwaukee Sentinel, for
instance, calling the Democratic pa
pers that are pointing to the revival
of business under the new tariff,
1.-The Cuckoo press" because, it says,
they claim the revival 'tas an evil
dence of the wholesome cOnse-
quences OF Democratic tariff" 1t
then proceeds to demonstrate that
the present is not a Democratic but
a protective tariff. Whatever it is,
it is the same tariff OF which the Re
publican press declared, echoing the
lamentations of the protected inter
ests, that it would ruin them; that
it was "a free trade tariff a dose
of English free trade" and that
the only possible salvation for the
country was to put the administra-
ton of its affairs back into the
hands of the Republicans as speedily
as possible.
Our contemporary by the lake is
mistaken in saying that the Dem
ocratic papers call the present a
Democratic tariff or assume that the
revival of business is wholly due to
it. We do not recall a single paper
of unsupported Democratic faith
that is willing to call it a representa-
tive Democratic tariff, or to accept
it as expressive of the policy of the
party. All apologize for it and la
ment that the perfidy and dishonor
Of some few Democrats enabled the
Republicans to retain in it so large
measure of their abhorrent policy
What Democratic papers do is to
point to the utter failure of Republi-
can predictions as to the result of
the new law; to show that business
is reviving instead of being longer
paralyzed, and to point the obvious
moral that a reduction of taxation
is public good. Their logic is this:
Taxation was reduced; business is re-
viving; therefore reduction of taxa
ton is beneficial to business. Their
argument, based on this, is: If the
reduction our party was able to Sc
cure proves to be thus beneficial,
why should not the business inter-
ests of the country enable the party
to proceed with the process of re-
duction until it reaches its objective
of purely and singly revenue tariff ?
! To this extent the Democratic pa
pers, that are Democratic, make use
of the new tariff; but as for adopting
it and praising it as final, they re-
| specially ask to be excused.