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The morning times., 1895-09-13
NEAR THREE-SCORE YEARS
Fifty-ninth Anniversary Celebra-
ton Of the W. L. l. Battalion.
Presentation of Media IL for Long Serv-
ice-CoI Moore Has Nearly Rounded
Out II Quarter of "a Century.

The Washington Light Infantry battalion
took a very pleasant retrospect last evening
on fifty-nine years OF social and militia ry
history. The fifty-ninth anniversary, as
usual, was the occasion for the assemblage
OF the lady friends OF the battalion, and there
were present a large number TO witness
and take pa art in the programme.
The features Of the celebration were
q dress parade and review Of the battalion,
the presentation of honorary medals for
service. music, dance, and refreshments.
The battalion was under command Of
Capt John s. Miller. his staff being
Surgeon {. X. Luce, Adjutant ". III.
Arnold, Lieut.. A. W. Kelly.
The reviewing officer was Col. W. G..
| Moore.
The officers in conme1d of the companies
were
Company A-Henry ]. KeOugh, Second
Lieut.. Thomas W Williams.
Company B-Captain, c. o. shreve; first
lieutenant J. I. Grant; second lieutenant,
]. b. X. Lee.
Company C-Cap;ain, c: H. ourand;
first lieutenant, J. Henry Carl; second lieu
| tenant. C. II. Ketuer.
Company D-FirSt lieutenant. P. ]. Duffy;
second lieutenant. Howard Beall..
Just before the review was closed Col
! Moore presented the gold medals for serv-
ice, as follows:
Six years service-To Sergts. E. l..
Phillips and H. T, Leach, and Privates W.
D. Davidge, jr., W. J. Thoruwgood, A G.
White, NJ L. Smith and ]. + Janezeck.
Nina Won rsc G II Ketffer
Corps. j. T Burdine and R. 7. Scott, Pri-
vate L. T. Busean.
Twelve years-Lieut A. W. Kelley.
Fifteen years-Capt. C. H ourand, and
Sergt G. F. McAvOy-
Twenty-Five years-Coi. WilIiamG. Moore.
As those TO whom the medals were to be
presented were called out of the ranks there
| was applause in every case. the ladies join
ing in the tribute to the soldiers
Col Moore's medal was presented to him
| in a few happily delivered remarks by Capt
John ). Miller, who referred to the circum-
| stances that in one year more Col. Moore
will have rounded out quarter of a century
! of service 10 the W. L. /. and hoped that he
would be preserved to them at least for
quarter of a century more.
Col. Moore responded briefly, his re-
marks and decoration with the medal
being received with great applause.
On the medals are added bars for every
year after the sixth. The older medal
ists' decorations are quite conspicuous
and attractive.
The incidents of the evening were closed
with a dance, in which a great majority
of the soldiers and their lady friends
| took part.
The morning times., 1895-09-13
THE TREND OF THE TINES.

Attention is called to a communi-
cation signed w. D. Rassom, pub
lished In another column, in which the
writer expresses n surprise that The Times
advocates the enactment of law providing
that all wage-earners, skilled and unskilled,
employed in government buildings and i'm
provements, shall belong to organized labor.
1t is because The Times is friend to wage
earners that it supports such a measure, and
the da y it became alaw would dadd thousands
of working people TO the various unions,
and assemblies that make up the army of Or
ganized labor.
The trend of the times is toward organiza-
ton Our large corporations, traffic
carrying and industrial, are combined for
selfish purposes; our social structure is
organized and subdivided into numberless
secret bodies; religious denominations are
organizing to purify and better the morals
of the public, and why should not bread
winners also unite to improve their condition
and protect themselves against their often
times unscrupulous employers? Iforganiza-
ton is good for others II should also be
beneficial to wage-earners, and as it is
intended to improve the mental, moral and
physical condition of those who belong 10
labor organizations, no reasonable objection
can be urged against their so uniting.
Mr. Ransom must not expect other Wash
ington newspapers ito tumble over them
selves" in the cause of labor. Their inter-
est In labor unions extends no further than
a desire TO secure subscriptions. anG their
reports of meetings always exclude mention
of unfair lists and other important news
not in keeping with their peculiar ideas ON
the labor question. From Mr.. Ransom's
reference to the walking delegate, he Is
evidently notfanIilia with modern organized
labor, and If he willlook into its objects and
purposes little more closely, there will be
no difference in his opinion and that of The
Times, for he seems to be a fair-minded man.
The morning times., 1895-09-13
In any case of irregular delivery of The Times
please send Postal Card to this office.
of formulating the teums and conditions

of formulating the teIms and conditions
of new series of races.
Itmust be admitted that fthe three races
only one, the first, has been fairly sailed.
Tuesdays race was spoiled by the foul
ing or the Defender and its result
made unsatisfactory by the decision of
the regatta committee, and the race OF
yesterday was fluke, disappointment, q
Dunrayen sulk And as the Valkyrie de-
liberately crossed the starting line in
order to invest the Defender with waika-
way, IL looks os IL the cup was rewon on
the first race, unless a coaxing device can
be invented to stiffen Lord Dunraven's
nautical backbone.
The races have also demonstrated the
weakness of other backbones besides that OF
Lord Dunraven's. When the Valkyrie
arrived in New York there were thousands
of Anglo Americans who predicted our
defeat. Columns OF the daily press were
used to publish their interviews. and fire.
quent editorials gave the visiting yacht
credit for being a better boat than the De-
fender. Bat now all has changed. II
told you 60" haEihe floor, and the Anglo
American Valkyrie worshiper is wearing
Defender oolors.
The morning times., 1895-09-13
OTHER PEOPLES OPINIONS.
OF an Innniring Turn.


Editor Times: Inotice an editorial article
in your journal of last evening, headed The
Times viii Give Support" with considerable
surprise. II was prompted by the action OF
the Federation OF Labor at meeting OF that
body on Tuesday evening OF this week,
whereat was adopted resolution calling
upon the press of the city and other interests
to aid it i'll an endeavor to induce Cong ress,
at it's approaching session, to provide by
law that none but Union" labor, W neither
skilled or unskilled, snail be employed on
public buildings or improvements within the
District OF Columbia.
I have not noticed that any other city
paper OF any other interest has ''tumbled
over ITSELF in an early endeavor to lndorse
this unrighteous propositions. But The
Times, i'll the article alluded 10, not only
fully sanctions the action OF the Federation,
winch is bad enough, but 1t goes the Fedora
ton one better ana suggests that the resoiu-
ton adopted should be ainended so as 10 reau
that Union labor should be employed on all
government work in the United States"
Inis ouJ-HerodS Herod.
Now the bedrock truth is that only a
small minority OF the bread inning people
of the country are members OF the Union.
The vast majority OF them are Tree and
independent citizens who decline TO sur
render their individual liberty OF action to
the caprice or dctatlon OF u few SELF consti-
tuted leaders whose sole aim seems to be TO
ferInent strife between capital and labor,
and to Eecure for themselves, incidentally,
soft births as Grand Master" walking
Delegate" or other hlSh-soundlng title with
a generous appropriation.
Your article surprises me, because 1 had
supposed The Times to be q friend of the
laboring man per &c; not the 'organiZed'
one, particularly, nor yet the unorg ganized;
not the skilled laborer, merely, nor the un-
skilled; not the W hite laborer, alone, nor the
coloreo; but the friend OF him VINO, according
to the dictates of his Creator, wields his
muscle lid by the weat OF his brow earnshis
bread.
Am 1 mistaken in The Times? Is 1t the
exponent and friend of labor or only of
what is known rs organized labor? VIII
you kindly answer?
The morning times., 1895-09-13
GIVE HIM ANOTHER RACE.

Since Lord Dunraven has been at SO
much expense TO build the Valkyrie. and
has awakened such an interest in interna.
tional racing across the waters through his
efforts to capture the Americas cup, he
and conditions, even If Mr. Iselin has TO
equip the crew of the Defender in submarine
armor and beat the v Valkyrie ON the bottom
of the ocean No effort should be spared
to convince the English public that Lord
Dunraven's withdrawal from yesterdays
race was the result of disappointment at
the apparent superiority of the Defender
over the yalkyrie. and the quickest way
TO do it is 10 proffer him the privilege
The morning times., 1895-09-13
ARMoR AND pRoJEcTILEs.

What of the future? is a question that may
well be asked with reference to naval
battles. No sooner is supposedly impene-
trable armor for war vessels invented and
manufactured, than along comes an armor-
piercing projectile of sufficient power to
go through plate, oak backing and all.
1t is pretty certain that there must be
limit to the thickness of armor q vessel can
carry. But there is practically no limit to
the ingenuity of invention which results in
the creation OF projectiles that can pierce
anything and everything, of high-powered
guns and high explosives that can be thrown
upon q hostile vessels deck and blow it to
fragments. In other words, the forces Of
aggression would seem to be multiplying
more rapidly and more effectively than
the powers of resistance.
There is something terrible in the mere
thought of a naval battle with the modern
appliances and resources of naval warfare.
The great fighting machines now put forth
by the different nations contain each many
hundreds of human beings and represent
each many millions of dollars. A battle
on sea, therefore, as wellas battle land,
would o-day involve such fearful loss of
life and prove such strain upon the purse
strings of almost every nation, that the
contemplation Of it staggers statesmen
everywhere.
1t may be that this terribly effective
preparation for fighting great battles
on land and sea may be the stepping stone
to universal peace, for the slaughter of
human beings involved in them may give
those pause whose favorite game is war
for conquest or for glory.
The morning times., 1895-09-13
FLoURIsHED HIS PISTOL.
Passenger on the Newport News
Locked Up for Obstreperousuess.

Passenger on the Newport News
Locked Up for Obstreperousness.
The passengers on the Washington and
Norfolk steamer Newport ews, on the way
from this city to Norfolk, Wednesday
evening, were treated to a sensation, which
nearly resulted in a shooting scrape, and
placed Capt. Geoghegan of the vessel in
very unpleasant predicament for awhile
Mr.. j. ]. Leonard, one of the passengers
from this city, was the ag aggressive party, and
it was his revolver that caused the excite
ment The trouble arose over some misun-
Outstanding in regard TO stateroom, aud
when Capt. Geoghegan was unable 10 ar
range matters to the satisfaction of Mr..
Leonard, that gentleman drew a revolver
and threatened to use it.
A number of passengers and employees or
the boat interfered and after being deprived
of his weapon Mr.. Leonard was kept IN
custody until the boat reached Norfolk,
when he was turned over TO the Norfolk
authorities.
In a preliminary examination yesterday
Leonard was required to furnish balm the
sum of ST 900 for his appearance before the
United States court at its regular term,
when he will be proceeded against by the
company
The morning times., 1895-09-13
Anrasx Way Ont ofIt.

"Well, Inswim, you know I'm going to be
married next week.
$50 hear. Let me congratulate you, old
man."
That's all right. Now, what want is
little advice
what is it?''
'You see, you've been married quite a
while, and want to know what to call my
mother-in-law. .
Don't call her. Just keep right on
bluffing.''
"You know what mean. have to ad-
dress my conversation to her sometimes
and attract her attention. i don't know
her very well and maybe she wouldn't like
to have me call her mother and sort OF
hate to call her Mrs. De PimDco.' How
would you work it?''
'Oh, easy enough. Let me see, the first
year called her say principally, but after
that got along all right Things sort OF
shaped themselves"
'whafdid you call her after that?'
Grandmother. Truth.
The morning times., 1895-09-13

The Times presents to-day cartoon OF
the international yacht races drawn BY
Master John C. Fitzpatrick, OF this city.
II is q striking picture and shows in con-
ception and design originality and force
which stamps its author as rising young
artist As the production of one of our
home people The Times takes pride In re-
producing II as showing what our talented
young washington artist can do. As VIII
be seen at glance 1t is eminently American
and patriotic. Master Fitz was born on
Capitol Hill, eighteen years ago. and was
graduated from the Eastern High School,
Glass Of "a He has never had any teacher
10 assist him in this line of work and The
Times predicts for him brilliant future.
The morning times., 1895-09-13

Subscribers to "The Tines. will
confer favor by promptly reporting
any discourtesy of collectors, OF neg
Iect of duty ON the part of carriers.
Complaints either by mail or In per
son Will receive prompt attention.
The Morning Edition should be de.
iivered to all parts of the city by $3.50
o'clock II. M, including Sunday. The
Evening Edition should be In the
hands of subscribers not later than
$50 ID. IN.
The morning times., 1895-09-13
Michael Mns Done In.

Michael Dunn was the name of q CORY
Individual who was taken to the Emer-
gency Hospital in the Sixth precinct
patrol wagon yesteriay evening to have
several lacerations of the scalp sewed
up, and OILS. Florence, guide was ar
rested and locked up the Sixth precinct
as his assailant. Dunn was sitting in
front of a store on Pennsylvania avenue
near Third street, when Florence stopped
there and the two engaged in conveFsa-
ton. Dunn, it is alleged, alluded pro-
fanely to the rebel tendencies of the other
man, whereat Florence smote him with
a cane several times. Both men will be
in the police court this morning.
The morning times., 1895-09-13
HARD BAIT FOR SEA SERPENT.

Walks Away With an Anchor, After
Towing n Fis herman About.
An experience that seldom comes to 4 man
befel Harry T. Howard, wealthy citizen
of New Orleans, Saturday. Mr.. Howard
and his servant were fishing in small
boat off Ship Island, declares New Or
leans correspondent of the Boston Journal
Spanish mackerel, silver fish and pompano
were biting freely. Suddenly a moving
mass appeared, making toward the small
craft. 1t proved to be huge devil fish,
which almost Immediately fastened its ten
acles on the submerged part of the rope hold
ing the small anchor. The monster dragged
the boat through the water with lightning
speed. \ dull pocket knife was the only
thing availabl to cut the rope, and with this
Mr. Howard went to work with will.
Finally, after much labor, the last strand
was severed and the great fish made off
with the anchor and the balance of the rope.
a short time ago fishing smack was at
tackled by devil fish near the same spot
and badly battered.
The morning times., 1895-09-13
GAVE HIS LIFE FOR SISTERS.
Little George Adams Faced Death
without FlinChing.

Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 12.-George Adams,
aged eleven, was run over and instantly
killed on the Rhodes street trestle this
afternoon by wild car. His little sister
Nora Kate, aged nine, sad her right leg
arly severed from her body at the same
time, and but for her brothers heroisrn
would undoubtedly have been killed.
The children were half way across the
trestle, when they heard the car con;ing
behind them. The boy turned, and seeing
no hone of escape, tried to save his sister.
He seized her aud attempted TO swing her
to one side.
He was too late, and was caught and
dragged benca tn thecar. The wheels pa Ssed
over his head, cutting ii almost from his
body The little girl was thrown down,
and her right leg nearly severed from her
body. But for the boys effort to save
her, she would undoubtedly have been killed
The morning times., 1895-09-13
YESTERDAYS CIRCULATION.

The circulation OF The Times yesterday
was larger than that OF the Star by at
least Ten Thousand copies. The Times
sold to bona tide purchasers and readers
Thrty-cight Thousand Two Hundred news
papers, which was uncuestionably the
largest bona fide daily regular circulation
ever published by a Washington news
The morning times., 1895-09-13
DEATH OF REV. DIR. HALL.
Was at One Time Rector of fEphiphany.
of This Civ.

wasat One Time Rector of Ephiphany.
of This City.
Brooklyn, n. Y, Sept. 12.-The Rev. DR..
Charles H. Hall, pastor of the p E. Church
of the Holy Trinity, this city, died tonight.
DR.. Hall was born at Augusta, Ga, Novem-
ber Z, 1922. He graduated from Yale in
the class of 1S42.
From West Point N. T., where he
was chaplain of the Military Academy,
he went to the Church of the Epiphany,
at Washington, d. c. on March 1,
1859, he became the pastor of Holy Trinity,
where he remained until bis death.
He was warm friend of the late Henry
Ward Beecher. and delivered the GRAFTON
at his funeral, and also at the unveiling of
Mr.. Beecher's statue in front of the city
hail.
The morning times., 1895-09-13

President Cleveland will have had three
terms when the present one is ended.
The first was two years of popular admin
istratIon, then two years of anxious
waiting, and finally this financial striped,
mugwump- specked era of dark blue
disappointment.
The morning times., 1895-09-13

Forty-eight years ago to-day Gen. Scott
captured the City OF Mexico. Day before
yesterday The Times compelled the trolley
trust to surrender and promise to take down
its poles through a suit at law, and
yesterday the Star tried to usurp that
honor.
The morning times., 1895-09-13
Ran Away With a FIy Rail.

Willie Purner, sixteen years of age,
left 500 at No. 8 station last night as
bond for his appearance in the police
court to-day on the charge of stealing a
fly ball during the League game last
evening The baseball went over the
fence and Purner grabbed it and ran off.
Policeman wnii nGham chased the boy
several squares before lie could arrest
him and recover the ball.
The morning times., 1895-09-13

The Times Is not responsible for
the preservation of manuscripts sent
TO or left at this office. When ac-
compa MED by stamps such manu-
j.. scripts will be returned, although
any obligation to do so is especially
disavowed.
The morning times., 1895-09-13
Mrs Martha Hennessey,s win.

The will of the late Martha Hennessey was
filed for probate yesterday. The will was
dated August 20, 1895, and names Maurice
Fitzgerald as executor. Helen B. Smith,
daughter, is given the house at No. 100 Four
aud-a a-halfsJreetsouthwest. Tbeneighboring
house and lot, designated as M. 1O9 1-2,
are given to the executor to hold in trust for
the use of a son, r Ricbard ]. Smith, until he
reaches the age of thirty three years, when
it shall be diyested OF all trust. The residue
of the estate is tn be shared by the SON and
dauC htar named
The morning times., 1895-09-13
One Day of Grace Gone.

One of the ten days of grace asked by
the trolley company, within which to take
down it's poles expired yesterday. The
public, no doubt, are keeping tab on the
promise of this corporation. A daily ref
erence to the poles may be, perhaps, just
as interesting as to the number of men at
work on the postoffice.
The morning times., 1895-09-13
Invited to Atlanta

Chicago, Sept, ia party of dis
tinguished Georgians reached here This
this morning yandeytended ahearty yinvitatio
to the people uf Chicago to attend the Cotton
States and International Exposition. A
large delegation of representative Chicago
men met the visitors at Glenwoud, twenty
five miles distant In special train and ten
dered them the freedom Of the city.
The morning times., 1895-09-13
EXCURSIONS.
h Norfolk and
\ Washington
Steamboat Co

Every day in the year for Fortress Mon
roe Norfolk. Portsmouth, and all points
South and Southwest by The powerful new
ironpalacesteamers,' ''NewportNe ws, Nor
folk" and washington, leaving daily
on the following schedule:
Southbound Northbound-
Iy. washvon 700 pm Lv PoTtsmo'h $50 pm
Ly.Alex'd'ia T:3o pm Lv.Norfolk d. 6:10 pm
Ar FL Monr'e6:S0 am Lv. Ft Monroe 7:20 pm
Al. Norfolk 7:3O ain Ar.Alex'dria 500 am
Ar.Portsrl'b 500 am ar Wash 'gton6:3G am
VISITORS TO THE ATLANTA E3-
POSITION and the resorts az Fortress
Monroe, Virginia Beach and Florida will
find this q very attractive route, as it
breaks the nionOtony of an all-rail ride
Tickets Oh sale at 513, 619, 14z1
Pennsylvania avenue, r. & o. ticket
office. corner Fifteenth street and New
York avenue, and on board steamers,'
where timetable, map, etc, can also
be had.
Any other information desired will
be furnished on application to the under
signed, at the company's wharf. foot
OF Seventh street, Washington. d. O.
JNO. CALLAHAN, GEN. MANAGER
PHONE 75o
The morning times., 1895-09-13

II seems strange how rapidly difficulties
multiply on a losing boat. The Defender
was compelled to sail under precisely the
same conditions that caused Lord Dunraven
10 withdraw, and she managed to wriggle
through them very neatly.
The morning times., 1895-09-13
Cnf I'm the Face.

During an alteration between Clarence
Jett and Patrick Garvin, at Twenty sixth
and l streets northwest, yesterday, Jett
was cut in the face by Garvin and had to
be taken to the Emergency Hospital in No.
patrol, after which both men were
locked up on the charge of affray.
The morning times., 1895-09-13
They TotI Not.

Lille Stewart, coiored, sixteen years
of age, was .'vagged' by Policeman Sui
livan, of the First precinct yesterday. When
picked by the bluccoat Lilliee said: Il
ain tho mo vag dam Mrs vanderbilt. andshe
che don't wuk Needer does l."
The morning times., 1895-09-13

Senator Peffer and Bloody Brides Waite
will confer a great favor on this country
If they will postpone the bloody revo-
luton they predict until after we enjoy
little of the prosperity now in sight.
The morning times., 1895-09-13

VIII somebody on the inside of Virginia
politics kindly inform the public in what
n eek o. woods the o'Ferrall boom has
taken refuge?
The morning times., 1895-09-13
His Housekeper in Forgiving Mood.

His Housekeper in Forgiving Mood.
George Smith, a cooper, was found by
Policeman Gilman wandering along the
canal path drunk, with blood bespattered
clothes and hands. He was taken to his
home Oh NJ street, above Thirtieth, where
it was found his housekeeper, Miss Jackson,
had been severely cut in the side of the head.
She refused to prosecute Smith, and instead
tried to take him way from the policeman,
creatingquite scene. Smith was lockcdup.
The morning times., 1895-09-13

ItisDot SO much the act ofputting her foot
through the leg of bloomer that puzzles
the new woman. 1t is the art of standing
on one foot that causes the trouble. -
The morning times., 1895-09-13
ren From n Grin Car.

Simon Goldberg, OF No. 900 street
northwest, fell from grip car No. 10, on
Seventh street, near Rhode Island avenue
northwest, about O'Clock last night,
but was only slightly bruised.
The morning times., 1895-09-13
IT wasa Free Eight

Policemen Auldridge and Evans, of the
Second precinct, last night arrested Emma
Wilson, Alice Ennis, Henry jenkins, Rosa
jenkins, and Martha Moore, all coiored,
for engag ging in afreefight on Seventh street
The morning times., 1895-09-13

Since Attorney Thomas has given an
opinion on both sides of the Baltimore and
Ohio crossing case he can flatter himself
as being right.
The morning times., 1895-09-13

Thecruelty ypracticedb Observation-Disclosures
in turning the public pie counter over to the
civil service commission will never be
forgotten by starving politicians.
The morning times., 1895-09-13

If it were not so late in the season the
Defenders yellow dog mascot would be
in great demand by baseball enthusiasts
The morning times., 1895-09-13

1t looks as If a goat has no business as
mascot.
The morning times., 1895-09-13

Nine more days to pull down the trolley
poles on New York avenue and the worknot
yet begun.