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Made on Down Grade.

I'm other words, the trip from the power
house Was made on a down grade. with the
exception of a hill on New York avenue,
and on the return trip the car had TO be
lifted through the elevation above men
toned. In the sixteen trips made, the
average consumption of free air per mile
On the down grade was 1,151 cubic feet,
and on the UP grade 1.0o1 cubic feet. The
amount of free air used on the down grade
was 1J6 cubic feet more than that used on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-02

Jobbers and retailers profit saved-cigars
by the box National cigar factory, fO11 Pa
Qye.
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CITY ITEMS.
Hotel johnson Cafes,

oysters and other marine products. Select
and standard steamed oysters are fine as
silk. 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-02

While the Weather is So Fine
Let us start papering the rooms. We do
finest work. 81 UP. NOLTE, $40 9th st. 1t
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The Figures Given.

ITO show this, attention is invited to
the following figures: In the tests of Sep
TENDER p, the two trips made-each practi-
cally half way down grade and half way vi
grade. Observation-Disclosures an average air
consumption per mile of 1,134 cubic feet
down grade and 1877 cubic feet per mile
up grade. On this occasion. it will be re-
membered. the air ear pushed or towed 4
trailer car weighing 1000 pounds and
the work devolving upon the motor was
very great. quite beyond the normal
amount, and required large consumption
of air. Here the least consumption is
found to be on the down grade trips, il
should be. In the schedule trips, the air
motor had to move its own weight and a
load of passengers only, the normal load.
The lire run was from the power house
at 4th and I streets northeast, to 18TH and
G streets northwest, the latter point being
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-02

81 90 To Baltimore and Return $1.OO
| vim Penns: I.nnia Railroad.
All trains except the Congressional Limit
| ed next Sunday,-AdVt.
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STATIONS
Question Raised by Commissioner Black in
Matter of Air Motors.
Promises Made by the Eckfngton
Company When Subject of Equip
ment Was Before Congress.

That the air motor las fulfilled all con-
ditions imposed upon it by the Commits
sioners on the matter of tests IS conceded.
But that it has successfully demonstrated
lis ability &c carry out the promises made
by its advocates when Congress acted
upon the subject is seriously questioned.
Representations were made that with one
charging of air the car could make 4 trip
over the line, and no mention was made CT
necessary intermediate charging stations
which would require the building of a pipe
line.
That the air motor is incapable of doing
this is apparent in the outspoken declara-
ton Of the company that necessary recnarg-
ing stations will be required at intervals
along the line.
This subject of free air consumption was
the basis of a special investigation by En-
gineer Commissioner Black who says in
his report:
I'm my report of July IL 1897 atten-
ton was invited to the practically untrieti
nature of the experiment of using COM
pressed air At exceedingly high pres sure.
as a motive power. The reports OF the
tests all tend 10 show that the problem
thus presented has not been solved entire
ly satisfactorily: that the machinery in use
cannot be operated under this high pres
sure. with a normal load, without very
great loss of power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-02

Use "Kenny's Cheon.'' the best SOC. Tea
America Pure American-refned Sugars
cost. c. d. Kenny, seven city stores.
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Always pays Its losses promptly The
Arlington Fire Insurance Co., 1906 Pennsyl-
vania ave. NV, north u. 8. Treasury.-Ad.
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COAI~COALi

Human artificial eyes Hempler's, 9th 4 a,
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B. & o. BULLETIN.

NIAGARA FALLS AND RETURN, So
Personally conducted ten-day tour, Tues
day, October j. Special train leaves Wash
fEgton. $40 am, with coaches and Pullman
cars attached.
Philadelphia and return, 81. Tickets good
going on i:G1 and am. trains tomorrow
valid for return on all regular trains same
day
BALTIMORE AND RETURN, $780, All
trains going and returning tomorrow.
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FOR YOUR Iced TEA

Flower Stands aIorselrs, 11O5 9TH NV.
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GENTS SUITS CLEANED.
"a L. BORNOT. 11O3 G. st
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LACE CURTAINS AND BLANKET
cleaned. A. F. RORNOT 11O3 q CT
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Observation-Disclosures sticks everything l0c
fStf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-31
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

M. de Giers. councillor to the Russian
embassy in Paris, will replace Count
Ouroussof as Russian minister to Bel.
GUM.
A marble bust of Mr.. Gladstone, the
gift of several old Etonians in both houses
of Parliament. has been placed in the
upper school at Elton.
The Roman Catholic cathedral now be-
ing erected in London will be 800 feet
long, 1856 wide, and will have an area of
50, 600 square feet. Its nave will have an
area of ID, 600 square feet.
Twenty five years ago Francis Conway
Mason, the newly elected Speaker of the
Parliament of Victoria, was as unknown
sohoolmaster on board the ship Nelson,
in the harbor of Melbourne.
The Rochester Post Express hears that
the name most prominent now in conneo-
ton with the presidency of Rochester
University is that of DR.. William Corey
Moroy Watson, Professor of History and
Political Science there.
Mr.. Bragge, the meteorologist, who es-
tablished and worked the first observatory
on Ben Aevis, and who is now meteoro.
logical observer of Queensland, recently
vieited the summit OF Mount Kosclusko,
the highest mountain in Australia, for
the purpose of establishing an observa
tory there.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-31

Mrs. Evans, the owner Of Lofty Down
Rise, above Ventnor, one spot of which
is the highest point of land in the Isle
of Wight, has made known her intention
to present the downs to the town for the
use and recreation of the public forever.
The downs comprise several hundred
acres, and the summit commands wide
range of view over the whole island and
parts of Hants and Sussex.
The alarming reports as to Munkacsy' s
health that have recently been circulated
are denied by German paper. The Hun
garian artists condition has remained
practically unchanged since he entered
the insane asylum at Endenich, near
Bonn where Robert Schumann passed
the last sad years of his life. He takes
walks in good weather and talks ration
ally in German to the people about him.
That his condition is hopeless Is declared
II ntrY1a
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-31

ohuria to Port Arthur, and when that is
completed Russia can easily transport
troops to this point and hold it against
all corners. The seizure of Kiao Chou
bay by Germany ON pretence Of COM
polling an indemnity for indignities to
German missionaries happened about the
time that Russia seized Port Arthur,
and in all probability was in accordance
with prearranged programme between
tho two nations. Indeed there is album
dant evidence which goes to show that
Russia and Germany have thorough I'M
outstanding and that operations in
Chinese waters are in accordance with it.
What the ultimate object aimed at,
whether the partition of China among
the powers, or whether they are to be
content with possessing themselves of
naval stations, can only be guessed at
now but Russia's operations in Corea
point apparently to something more than
the mere establishment of a naval station.
The indications are that England,
which has large interests inathe East, was
entirely unprepared for the Russian and
German movements. Evidently she had
not been let into the secret. But Of
course she will not stand by and see
China carved up unless she is assured of
q fair share of the spoils. Her supremacy
on the sea will stand her in good stead in
quarrel over China because the fight
ing, if fighting there is to be, must be
chiefly on the sea. The only route by
which Russia can transport troops
to Manchuria at present, is over the
sea, and England has the pow
or to close that completely. When
the Trans-Siberian railway is completed,
it will be different, but that is still far
off. England, therefore, especially. If as
seems to be the case, Japan is disposed to
act in concert with her, has the power to
compel Russia and Germany to suspend
operations. until she is let in to the game
on equal terms. That she will exercise
that power. hardly admits of doubt.
Indeed in Corea, If the dispatches be
true, she has already begun to exercise
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-31
WILD GEESE LATETHIs YEAR.
Weeks Behind the Usual Southwark
Flight.
(From the Hartford lines. }

1t is unusual to see the southwark mi
grafton of the wild geese SO late in the
year. Ordinarily these big birds come
flying over Connecticut from their far
homes around Hudson Bay, and hundreds
Of miles beyond that rugged shore, from
the middle of November. Most of them
seem to have gone by as early as the first
week In November or earlier. Their two
long wedge-shaped lines, oonverging to a
point at the head in the person of an ex-
perienced old gander, are familiar OBJ
jects to country dweliers in fall and
spring. When they are seen going north
in the spring 1t is considered one of the
welcome signssthat the winter is practi-
cally gone. and in the late autumn, when
their southwark fight is seen in the last
October days and early in November,
these feathered migrants, sweeping by at
height which mostly browns their CUR
Cling cries, and sometimes makes the
birds themselves but dimly visible in the
gray clouded sky, are supposed to be hee-
ing from the early but fast extending
Northern winter. This year the bulk
of their migration southwark seems to
have been delayed till December. Large
focks have been seen flying over this part
of Connecticut for the last week almost,
If not quite, every day up to today.
Some of the latest focks were the largest.
just what such belated southwark
migration may mean as to the character
of the season upon which we have now en-
tered does not appear to be wholly clear
The obvious first thought is that the win
ter has been very laggard this year in
shutting down" on the shores of the
Greenland seas. But whether it may also
indicate an "open winter" for this lati-
tude is by no means so clear. Ordinari
ly, the semi annual migrations of the
wild geese are pretty good season indica.
tors, but not, perhaps, beyond the fact of
the beginning or ending of the winter
They 90 south to the shores OF the Gulf
of Mexico-but their home Is in the far
north There, in ATTITUDES as high as
man has reached, they have their breed
ing places on the cold and desolate shores
of the icy seas. They fly fast-after they
do start on their long journeys-and
achieve vast distances between the pauses
for rest and feeding. These belated De-
cember geese, for example, could perhaps,
IL endowed with human attributes, give
us the latest news of Andree's balloon ex
petition to the pole-and it would be apt
to be very recent indeed. They probably
know the secret Of the pole--whether it
is mild open sea there or not.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-31
A DANGEROUS rKEoEDBNT.

There is now pending before the CITY
government an ordinance providing for a
pension to policemen, which If passed
will be very likely to fasten upon the city
a system which in the end will be ex-
tremely burdensome. 1t looks very limo
cent now; but there is just as much pro-
priety in pensioning fremen and school
teachers, besides other city officials who
remain long in Office, as policemen, and
If this ordinance passes it will open the
door for further legislation in this direc-
ton, and we shall in the end have q PEN
sion list IS long in proportion as the one
which now 80 Expresses the national gov
eminent.
Already friends of the fremen and
school teachers are canvassing the propri-
ETY. of making similar application, as it
is considered favorable time there being
but one or two cases which would come
within the scope of such an ordinance.
This is the special argument now offered
in behalf of policemen, but once Law
and cases will multiply rapidly.
1t is much wiser to pass an ordinance
providing for the employment of men
who have passed the age of regular SER
vice as special officers. Their experience
often makes them excellent men for
special officers, and they could be SO en-
ployed and placed in easy places without
detriment to the interests Of the city.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-31

Secretary Cages reply to Mr.. Gompers
did not change the opinions of the latter
in regard to the gola standard. Nobody
expected it would. One of the cardinal
financial principles of MIR Gompers and his
Federation-indeedt the only one of import.
auee-is to find out where the bankers
and the moDeyed men are and then get
as far away as possible. We
have not the slightest doubt that il the
bankers should be converted to free silver
and demand that policy Mr.. Gompers and
his organization would Immediately go
pver to the other side and shout for the
singlelgold standard as loudly as they
are now shouting for free silver. The
position of such organizations as Mr..
Gompers represent are dictated by preju-
dice-prejudice against capitalists-and
not by reason. If there is any one thing
that has been fully demonstrated by ex.
perience oftimes repeated 1t is that the
workingman is always sufferer and
the worst sufferer from cheap money, and
yet is strange fact, e1plicable on no
other theory than that they are controlled
by their prejudices, that whenever an agi-
tation springs up in favor of oheapenlng
the currency the great mass of wage
earnerslalways rush 1.-The support of the
cheap money advocates.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-31

The Wool and Cotton Reporter says
that last week was one of the heaviest
Christmas weeks on record. The sales
were 100000 pounds, as compared with
1873. 600 for the same period last year,
while the sales since January I, 1887,
amount to 1856, o2s, 100 pounds, against
14S, $50, 300 pounds last year at this time.
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$500 Reward, StOO.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all it
stages and that Is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure known TO the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being constitu-
tional disease requires a constitutional treat
ment. Hairs Catar-h Cure is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving the pa
tient strength by building up the consti' tuition
and assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its curative
powers. that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure. Send 1or list
# testimonials.
Address, +. j. CHENEY & co Toledo, 0.
NE-Sold by druggists, 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-31

Russia really began operations in China
Immediately after the close of the war
between China and Japan; when with
Germany's aid she compelled the latter to
modify thestreaty of peace and surrender
many of the advantages which she would
have derived from it in its original form.
AS originally adopted Japan was allowed
to occupy Port Arthur, but to this Russia
strenuously objected and Japan consented
to waive this feature. By this move Rus
STA ingratiated herself with China and
later on by negotiating loan for the
payment of the Chinese indemnity got
her nose into the tent still further
Russia has for long time looked with
longing eyes on Port Arthur for naval
station. Vladivostok is of little use for
that purpose because its harbor is
frozen solid for a considerable part Of the
year. But Port Arthur is open the year
round. Before its seizure the Gear had
obtained from China the right to extend
She Trans Siberian railway through Man
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-31

Stockholders in the Panama Canal say
1t is going to be completed shortly. 1t
has been suggested that perhaps they are
only talking through their Panama hats.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-31
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 81.

England is said to have ordered thir-
teen warships for trip Chinaward. In
the end it may mean bad luck for some
body.
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CURRENT COMMENT.
THE HOUSE RULES.
philadelphia North American


Under the businesslike leadership of
Speaker Reed, the House is now enabled
to transact business in business man
ner. 1t is now proposed to alter the rules
so as to permit members who have public
Improvements to forward to offer amend
ments to the appropriation bills in the
interest of the enterprises they champion.
1t is not. thought that the committee on
rules will open the gates to such con-
oerted attack upon the Treasury. The
committee should refuse to relax any of
the rules it has adopted in the interest of
a prompt transaction of business. The
appropriations should be kept down to
the economical point. Some of them
cannot be reduced at all, some must per-
haps be increased, but more can be held
off until the expenditures can be brought
within tho revenues. There are costly
constructions that can wait for full
treasury, and they should be made to
wait. 1t is to be regretted that our ma
val establishment cannot be perfected
more rapidly, as we'll as that our coast
wise detences must wait. But the con-
diticn of the Treasury is not such as to
warrant any but the most economical ex-
penditures. Once open the gates to unre-
stricted amendments of appropriation
bills, and the House will not be able to
make any progress at all. Besides, to let
down the bars will induce logrclling after
the old fashion. Some members think
they are in Congress to perpetuate them
selves by mending their fences in vari-
ETY. of ways. The country is not inter-
estcd in individual success or failure.
The men w..o employ their time in shap-
ing things SO that they may be their own
successors mistake the temper of the
people. The man who simply does his
duty to the country comlnends himself to
the people.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-31

News comes from Buenos Ayres that
The Argentine wheat crop, contrary to ex-
pectations, will develop surplus which
win admit of the export of 1, 100000 tens
of wheat during the new crop year. This
is equivaI~-it to 40, 900 bushels of
wheat, and Is said to be a larger amount
than has been sent abroad since 1895,
and the lar est amount exported except
in 1894. The crop will be harvested in
a short time. With this large amount of
wheat available within a comparatively
short time it will be interesting to see
how long the structure set up by Mr..
Letter and others in Chicago will last,
and how long before a break in prices
comes, which of course is only matter
Of time.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-31
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W. z. Curtis thinks it would be quite
a coincidence if a Wellington and Bon
aparte should sit side by side in the Sen
ate of the United States, but stranger
things have happened. Wellington is
there already, and Charles Jerome Bona
parte, grandson of Napoleon's brother,
is trying to get there from Maryland.
The prevailing opinion seems to be, how
ever, that Gov. Lowndes will be elected.
He is one of the most popular men in the
State, has not antagonized any of the
other candidates, and has good deal OF
influential patronage at his disposal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-31
Ncrvons Prosrratlon Cured.

1t is with genuine gratitude to Dr. Chase,
Cumberland, street that we say he has cured
our daughter, without medicine, OF a very se-
rous stomach trouble from which she had suf-
fered intensely for years and which finally pro-
duced nervous exhaus lion. other physicians
failed to give her relief, and we had almost
despaired of her ever being well when she COM
menced treatment with DR.. Chase. To us it
seems no hing short of miracle
MIR. and MRS. j. C. PRESTON.
decl5MWFtf 4S9 Cumberland street.
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