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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-26
THE COURTS.
Equity Court No. 1-Justice

Equity Court No. 1-Justice Cox.
In re NJ. b. Clitz, lunatic; reference 20
auditor ordered. In re Maud Rheam,
Nathan l.. Rosenberg, James Smith, FL
della Herdman, George d. Moore; inquisi-
tons i'm lunacy confirmed. In re VIM. II.
Brown and Cora Dennson; inqusitions or
dered. Copeland agt. Copeland decree
dismissing bill. Breed agt Webb: an
pearance of absent defendant ordered,
Central National Bank agt. Marshall Hall
Steamboat Co.; rule Anheuser- Bush
Brew. Co. discharged. Brown agt. c. and
0. Canal Co.; rule on defendant returnable
November granted. Kolb agt. Kolb; sale
decreed, with ClaughtoI Dolan and To-
briner trustees to sell. Speer agt Nor
gan; decree upon cross bill of Cecil Nor
gan.
Equity Court No. 2-Justice Hagner.
Offutt egt. Offutt; order to paw balance of
alimony and counsel fee on November /
Jones agt. Jones; order for commission to
issue. Waite agt. Larocque; decree sus-
tanning demurrer and dismissing BILL
kintz agt. Dexter; bill dismissed with
costs.
Circuit Court No 1-Justice Cole
Newman agt. Croissant ct al: motion
Tor security for costs granted; $50 in fif-
teen days. Barnes ct al. agt METROPOLITAN
railroad Company ct al; on trial.
Circuit Court No. 27Justice McComas.
Low agt. Boyle; verdict for plaintiff for
$500 Huysman agt. Evening Star News
paper Company; verdict for defendant
Citizens Bank and Trust Company agt
Howard; judgment In default of plea ana
Judgment of condemnation. Brooks agt.
Boland: on trial.
Criminal Court No. 1-Chief Justice Bing-
ham.
United States agt Jno. F. Cody: perjury:
aefendant arraigned; plea, not guilty.
United States agt. Marie Delcomyn; larx
ceny; on trial
Criminal Court No. 2-Justice Bradley.
United States agt. Daniel Williams; em-
bezzlement; on trial
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-26
LAND WITHOUT AN OWNER
Space Between Rock Greek and I and
Streets Northwest.
Originally Under Water, 1t Has Been
Improved by AccretfOns and Re
cInmatiOn-NOw Valuable.

For some time past a quiet inquiry has
been going on as to the ownership of the
land between 2Sth street, Rock creek and
l and X streets.
Several days ago the BOARD of assistant
assessors, while at work upon land assess
ments, came across this tract, and, fine.ing
no owner and no record OF al c:~.er, called
the matter to the attention of the Commits
sioners, with view of having the attorney
for the District investigate and locate the
owner of the property, in order that the
same might be assessed.
President Bates Gives Notice.
AS the property in question is of consid-
cradle value, great Importance was attach
ed to the matter. Chairman Bates of the
board of assistant assessors in his report of
it to the Commissioners said:
1.-The board of assistant assessors has the
honor to submit to you for your inforIna-
ton that the tract of land lying on the
west side of 2Sth street and Rock creek
beginning at X street northwest and run
ming south to l street northwest does not
appear upon the tax books of the District
This board has been advised by the sur
veyor of the District that the west bound
airy of the old city of Washington was 2Sth
street at that point. Hence, originally this
ground must have been within the limits Of
the city of Georgetown, d. G. The prop
erty is now occupied by coal, sand and
stone yards and some small frame dwell
ings.
1--WE respectfully ask that this communi-
cation be referred TO the surveyor of the
District for survey of the land, and that
copy of the survey be furnished this
office. This will enable the board to put a
valuation by the square foot upon the prop
erty, and haYe1t placed upon the tax books.
1t is suggested that when the survey is re-
ceived by the Commissioners the paper he
referred to. the, attorney for the District for
examination as to the ownership of the
property before being returned to this
office"
Attorney Thomas Response.
These Recommendations were carried out.
the surveyor furnishing Il plat of the
ground and the attorney furnishing an
opinion. This latter action was taken to-
day, the opinion of the attorney being as
follows: ,.y
'I have carefully considered the letter Of
the board of assistant assessors request
ing that my opinion be taken as to the
ownership of the land between 2Sth street,
Rock creek and land X streets, which, to-
gether with plat of the survey of. said
land, you referred to me.
'The King plats' of the city made, 1
believe in 1903, show 2Sth street, the west
ern boundary of square I, to be partly COW
cred by the water of Rock creek. The land
in question is the result either of accretion
or reclamation from the creek. In either
case it belongs to the United States, as the
owner Of 18th street. So far as our records
are concerned, there appears to be no
transfer of this land to private indi-
vidualS.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-26
The Illicit whisky Trade.

From the ChautauIuan.
Unfortunately the blind tiger" as the
illicit whisky trade is called, has at present
a much wider range of territory than would
be supposed, in view of the strenuous vigi-
lance of the Law. Before the liquor law WIS
passed in the state, license could be pro-
cured at nominal cost to distill on a
mans premises all the year round. Fifty
cents was then considered a fair price per
gallon. The liquor found ready market,
iii valley towns principally. But now, by
diminution of quantity, and also by COM
parison of cheap labor. the law has made
the traffic the most lucrative business
known to mountaineers. The average farm
er's time is vortl at the outside seventy
five cents a day, most commonly fifty; a
man may hire himself and mule to a neigh
Dor, in stress of crop making, for ten cents
an hour, which nets him S1.40 from sun-up
30 sunset-the prescribed laborer's day;
whereas, by adopting blind tiger" he
can double and triple his income many
times during the season, If he can success
fully elude the vigilance of the law
Judging from present indica tions the time
IS yet far distant when the backbone of the
blind tiger" Will be broken, for the noun
tain passes and sorges afford ample oppor-
tunity for its effectual concealment.s and
popular taste runs strongly in favor of Its
maintenance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-26
Japanese Students in America.

From the CIautauJuan.
The United States, and particularly Cali
fornia is now educating the younger gen.
Grafton of Japan. Already five bear di-
plonaS from the universities of this state,
three of whom have graduated in civil en-
GIN erug, one in social science and one
in zoology. AT present there are fifteen
students in the universities, three being at
Stanford and twelve at the University of
California. OF these, six are taking the
social science course, fitting themselves to
be teachers in Japan, three are studying
electrical science, two are taking mechan-
les, ard there is one each in the sciences
Of medicine. dentistry, chemistry and po-
litical economy.
After completing their course in the uni
verSity many of the students aspire to take
postgraduate courses in eastern colleges.
Thus there are those now studying at
Johns Hopkins, at Yale, at Cornell. Many
of those now at the University of Califor-
mia, in addition to their accomplishment
through such studies they are now
pursuing. have visions of seeking what
further polish the educational fields Of
Europe can afford, ultimately returning
to Japan, heavy with parchments and hon
ors, blazing with sort of halo of erudi-
ton. ready to illuminate the darkness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-26
:Wn11. iii. MCMmeW,
!. 033 Pa. Ave.
!. 1t
THE DIVISION HOUSES.
Order for Clearing 18th Street to L.
Carried Out.

Carried out.
The petition of Lawyer Campbell Caring
ton in behalf of the occupants of the dis
reputable houses On 18th street has been
referred to Lieut.. Amiss for recommends
ton and report. 1t is understood the Com
missioners will not interfere with the plan
which contemplates the purging of 18th
street by the 18th of November. Just what
action the Commissioners will take upo1
those who fail to move by that time is not
known. The entire matter will be left with
Lieut.. Aniss, who promises to see to it
that the street shall be cleared of the
houses by the middle of next month.
The statement that the attorney of these
women proposes TO fight i'll the courts
against the enforcement of the regulation
is regarded lightly by those in authority.
In the first place the women would have no
standing in court, it is claimed, and 10
good defense could be made against any
rule the Con m;ssioners might make.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-26
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION

THE LARGEST CIRCULATION
is great thing for advertisers
seeking publicity for their an
nOunCementS.
THE BEST CIRCULATION is a
great thing for advertisers want
ing results from their announce
mentS.
WHEN BOTH THESE REOUI-
SITES can be found in a single
medium advertisers are fortu-
nate, indeed
IN THE EVENING STAR they
get them both. Its Circulation
is bota the Largest and the
Best in Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-26
APPRAISERS INSTRUCTED.
Jury In Street Extension Case In
formed of Corrections Needed.

1Ormcd OF COrrecffOns Needed.
The jury of seven appraisers in street ex-
tension case 40. Denison and Leighton's
subdivision of Mount Pleasant and Pleasant
Plains appeared in the District court TODAY
for the purpose of being instructed as to
certain corrections of the verdict which
are required by the provisions of the high
way act of March g. 1893, such as the
charging by them of special benefits in
excess of the compensation for the land
taken. and the dividing in two of half of
the former award.
These corrections will be made TODAY
and the corrected verdict will be filed TO-
morrow, when counsel for the District
VIII move to vacate it on the ground that
the jury in failing to assess as benefits
half of the award, failed to carry ont tba
provisions of the highway act
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-26
OF INTEREST TO WHEELMEN
Proposed Changes in Police Regulations
Governing Use of Bicycles.
Report Made to the Board by Con
Gations of Local l.. A. w.

Every bicyclist in Washington will read
with interest the recommendations of Com
| missioner Wight to the board of Commits
sioners concerning a change in the police
regulations governing the use of bicycles.
Ii will be recalled that this matter was
presented TO the Commissioners some
months ago by a committee from the local
L. A. W., and certain changes, noted at the
time in The Star, We're recommended when
the time arrived for amending the regula-
tons. Since that time Commissioner Wight
has carefully investigated the matter, and
today made recommendation to the Com
missioners on the subject.
Changes Deemed Necessary.
The Commissioner says:
THE following changes in the police reg
ulations. and additions TO them, are rec
commended as a result of a careful consid-
Grafton of the points suggested in the ac-
companying papers, regulating the riding
of bicycles in the District of Columbia:
THAT sections and 30 of article 10 of
the police regulations of the District of CO.
lumbia are hereby amended to read as fol-
lows:
Every vehicle in motion on a public
highway shall keep on the right side
thereof. Pennsylvania avenue shall be con-
sidered two streets, separated by the
car tracks. but the general movement of
vehicles thereon shall be subordinated to
the business of the shops and stores.
Every vehicle when passing another
vehicle facing or moving in the opposite
direction shall pass to the right. but in
passing another vehicle moving in the same
direction shall pass to the left.
when a vehicle is to be turned around
it shall have the right of way If turned
about to the right. If necessary to turn
about to the left the person in charge
thereof shall see that his way is clear be-
fore turning.
Every vehicle turning to the left into
an intersecting street shall move SO to
the left-handed curb to permit the safe pas
sage of another vehicle Every vehicle in
turning corner to the right shall keep to
the right of the center of the street.
Section 80. No bicycle shall be pro-
PEELED across any intersecting streets on
Washington, at a greater rate of speed
than six miles an hour, nor at a greater
rate of speed between intersecting streets
and avenues, or across streets on which
there are no car lines, than twelve miles
an hour, nor at a greater rate of speed on
any public street roadway outside of
said city than fifteen miles per hour
Every bicycle on a public highway shall
at all times be under the control of the
rider.
"Inasmuch as safety in passing with
rapidly moviI vehicles requires that the
drivers or riders approaching each other
shall be able to judge of the probable move
ment of the approaching vehicle, riders of
BICYCLES on public highways must not sit
with their heads or bodies SO bowed down
as to thereby expose themselves or others
to the hazard of injury.
No more than three persons shall wheel
abreast on any public highway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-26
No Need Of q Derrick.

From the New York Journal
Mrs. Sloppeigh-"Your wife Is such
sympathetic woman. Mr.. Trotter. 1t takes
very little TO move her."
MIR Trotter-"Gad, you're right. madam.
Eleven times in four years. ana she's look
ing for new apartments now"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-26
PATENT LAWS OF THE WORLD.

A Government Publication That VIII
he of Value to Inventors.
The Patent Office Gazette will shortly
contain a summary of patent laws Of sew
enteen of the leading nations of the world.
This compilation has been made by the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-26
whereabouts of the war.hip..

The Lancaster has sailed from st. Lucia
for Hampton Roads, and the Essex from
Gibraltar for Funchal. 1t is reported from
San Francisco that the cruiser Baltimore
will be ready to sail for Honolulu in three
or four days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-26
Government Receipts,

Government receipts from internal reve-
nue.. 1888 ,722; customs, $325 ,286; miscel-
laneous, $19,O7s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-26
Stamps.

You must think of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-26

Sn OK for the Tea Sets of sc peces-the
W well krown S275 SETS and con-
side:ed bargain at that price.
Basement.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-15
w. w. DIMOND.

Spring exhibitions OF art
are held the world over
why not silver, glassware or
crOckerV? The advantage in
most presents IS in the fact
that they answer for any
season in the year. A Christ
mas present of cut glass
would do as well for birth
day in July. Our goods are
SeaSOnable.
Dorflinger's cut glass, the
best in the world, because
the cuttings are perfect and
the designs unique. Best
for the purchaser because the
price is low. Best for the
home because it is useful
and decorative.
Our SilverWare is the same
sort you buy of exclusive
dealers in silverWare. The
weight is the same, the de-
signs are the most modern
and elegant, and the price is
the same as you pay to the
dealer in San Francisco,
Ours is made by the Whit
ing Manufacturing Company,
and has no superior. The
pieces include everything
to be found in a silver
smiths.
Incrockery thisis the help
fullest of stores. Make the
most of it. Its every day
selling is a series of agree
able surprises to China low
ers. Genuine French China
Royal Worcester, Crown
Derby and Coal Port 60 tC
you for what they are worth
nothing better for wedding
presents.
Our stock of lamps IS the
largest and the aSsortmen'
the best in Honolulu-SOmf
for oil and others for cleo
tricity.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-15
ANOTHER INDUSTRY.
Metropolitan Meat Co., viii
Smoke Hams.

The Metropolitan Meat Company
has recently erected a brick addition
TO their establishment, and will, here
after, smoke hams and make sausages,
press corned beef and other delicacies.
One room with cement floor contains
large fireplace, which will be used
for boiling hams, corned beef, etc, a
large electric power meat chopper and
suffer as big as a Calling gun. Ad-
joining this room is a smokehouse,
with a capacity of $50 hams at one
smoking.
This new branch of the business is
in the hands of a competent man from
Chicago. He understands the manufac-
ture of all kinds of sausage and pressed
corned beef When the company be-
gins making the latter article, custom
ers will be able to buy it fresh in any
quantity. Hams smoked here will be
sold uncovered, and customers can get
them full weight and fresh.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-15

1 desire to attest TO the merits of
Chamberiain's Cough Remedy as one
of the most valuable and efficient prep
arations on the market. 1t broke an
exceedingly dangerous cough for me
in "a hours, and in gratitude therefor.
I desire TO inform you that l will me-
be without it and you should feel proud
Of the high esteem in which your
Remedies are held by people in gen
eral. 1t is the one remedy among ten
thousand Success to ito. r. Dow
ney, Editor Democrat, Albion, Ind. For
sale by all Druggists and Dealers
Benson, Smith & Co., Wholesale Agents
for Hawaiian Islands.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-15
BAD PLAYING.
Done by PunahOu in Game with
Kamehameha SATURDAY..

There was snowstorm for the
members of the Punahou Baseball
Team Saturday afternoon, when they
played against the Kamehamehas on
the Makiki baseball grounds. The
thermometer was at zero for the Puma
hous throughout the game
The playing on the part of most of
the members of the latter team was a
failure, and if they expect to show up
we'll in the next game with the Rams,
it will be necessary for them to brush
up a little. Cunha stood out promi-
nently as doing good work for the Pu-
nahou men, but Horner, as pitcher, did
not keep pace with him. The Kams
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-15

King Oscar of Sweden, who has pub
lished several volumes of poetry over
the pseudonym 20. Frederick is said
10 have a written novel based on the
life OF his grandmother, Queen Desiree,
who was Tilted by Napoleon, and sub
sequently became the wife of Berna-
dotte, afterward King of Sweden. A
Romance of the Times of Napoleon and
Bernadotte" is the title under which it
may be looked for.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-15

played concertedly and well. Follow
ing was the score:
Innings 12345 67S9
Punahou 100 O o o 0 o o O. o
Kamehaneha 20 3 0 > 0 0 *-15
The next game between Punahou
and Kamehameha will be on Saturday
at $50 D. ~.
New-York tribune., 1897-08-29

Anxious that this collection should be distin-
ruished from those of less celebrity. ne waited
upon the Earl Of Chesterfield. to whom he had
the honor OF being known 1t happened that the
Earl had seen many OF the pictures in question
during his travels Mr. Christie tod his lord
ship how anxious he was that these pictures
should excite the attention which they deserved
and he requested that his lordship would con-
descend to visit them. His lordship PROMISED 10
attend the public view. and gave Mr. Christie
leave to announce his intention among his
friends, or wherever he thought proper. and in
order to give eclat to the occasion. he PROMISED
to come in state. On the day appointed. there
fore. the room was crowded in the expectation
of seeing this venerable and celebrated noble
man. who arrived in n coach and SIX. with hu-
rncrous attendants The company gave way and
afforded convenient space for his lordship. lie
was attended by Mr.. Christie. who took the
liberty of directing lis lordships attention to
some pictures. and requested to be favored with
his opinion of the chief productions in the room.
The auditors pressed as near as respect
for his lordship would permit them. in order to
hear and circulate his opinions Thus the
annals Of an auctioneer become a contributor
to the history of manners, and we see how the
pated by him Of the last.
As for the connoisseurs of those days. Mr
Pobertss volumes confirm the impression that
they were sometimes gifted as in the case Of
Beckford or in that If Ralph Bernal and gifted
beyond the measure of even the most distin-
ruishcd collectors Of to-day. But it is also evi-
dent that for one competent judge of pictures
and bric-a-brac there were shoals OF merely
rich and fashionable amateurs. How otherwise
shall we account for the vogue OF the Carracc
whom even Sir JOshuas patronage could not
permanently place among the great artists, or
for the fact that one nobleman could offer an
otner thousands of pounds for a picture by Carlo
Dolci? Taste was as yet undsciplined and
erratic The very fact that Ralph Bernal could
amass for comparatively little money collection
which would to-day be worth fabulous sums
shows that competition was, on the whole. unin-
t,pigcnt 1t is said that Christie / gath
cred around him certain Fraternity Of God
fathers and that these artists and connoisseurs
New-York tribune., 1897-08-29

used to chrisen the doubtful pictures III 'he
Great Rooms" turning them into DomehichihoS
or Sebastian del Piombes or Leonardo da Vinc's
while Christie waited. This could never nave
occurred in the midst OF an educated public Inc
records compiled by Mr.. Roberts are in nothins
more interesting than in their tacit revelation oi
the spread OF art education among the wealthy
fashionabes of England. Here we see no"
prices can become useful history, for the oo-
vious inference. as the chronological memorahda
unfold their story Of larger and larger hgures,
is that collectors were growing in wisdom anu
fighting one another with more sagaciousiy
directed energy. 1t Is a far cry and very eio-
aucnt transition from the modest figures OF the
Stowe sale Of 1S4S with its really low prices. 10
the Price sale of 1895. at which Gainsborough's
New-York tribune., 1897-08-29

to act as a dummy bidder for him. Taylor tells
how upon one occasion his bid went beyond that
of a bona hde purchaser and the estate under
the hammer was knocked down 10 him. In
stead Of being enraged at his dummy's stupidity
Christie had him to dinner that night But let
Taylor himself describe his friends position in
the London OF the last century: AS a proof
Of the estimation in which Mr. Christie's char
acter was held. particularly by the great Earl
Of Chesterfield a nobleman distinguished for
his intellectual powers and knowledge of man.
kind. as well as for the polish Of his manners.
relate tie following fact. which was told to me
by my late esteemed friend Sir Francis Bour-
geois MIR. Christie had a particularly valuable
collection OF pictures 10 dispose OF. most OF
which were Of very high reputation abroad.
New-York tribune., 1897-08-29

among whom stood the gorodovoy (policeman)
aforementioned. had collected to watch the sem
sational episode. On the arrival Of the travel
Ter. however, the minion of the law delivered
himself Of the following: How dare you cross
the river while the ice is moving? idiot. Don't
you know It is forbidden to do so? have no
authority to allow you to land here while the ice
Is In motion: go back and come round by the