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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-30

I cannot agree with my Hungarian
friend that there are no thin and pale
countenances to be seen among these
women, says "Harper's Magazine" speak
ing of the women of Hungary. I must
in all sincerity draw another picture. I
caught Its outlines. not in one of the
crowded cafes or along the Boulevard or
down the side of@the blue Danube, but
up a bach street In one of the new
quarters of the rapidly growing city.
/ had seen the same sight in Bucharest
the day before, and knew what 1t meant.
Brick and mortar, and the many ways of
lifting them up end down, have always
interested me. + know the slow, measured
tread of big, red-shirted Pat. as he
clumsily climbs the vertical ladder, the
hod on his back, and can still hear from
the brickmakers. above the cry Of Mort"
sitting down etwee the un1oored beams
of the several stories. I know, too, the
moro modern hoist, where a turn Of the
lever sends both brick and mortar flying
skyward to the scaffolding overhead
But d girl OF sixteSn and d g~ray-haired
woman Of sixty were new types Of brick
acknowledgements to me. And not in
one place alone, but wherever a building
is in course of construction.
Narrow platforms instead Of ladders
are made for them, running zigzag up
the outside scaffolding. The mortar (all
mixed by women is dumped into a tub,
q pole is thrust through the handles,
swung over the shoulders Of two women,
and the weary climbing to the top be-
gins. / saw one dark-eyed barefocted
girl-she was pale and thin enough
clothed only in q skirt and chemise, rest
the tub for a moment at the first land
NJ and press her hand to her side as If
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-30


NOTICE TO CREDIT0RS-ESTATE OF
MARIA l.. HAGER. deceased: PhebG
A. Hager, administrative Of Maria L.
Hager, deceased, by order Of the Surro4
gate of Hudson County, dated July 2,
1881, hereby gives notice to the creditors
of said decedent to bring In their debts.
demands and claims against the estate Of
said decedent, under oath or affirmation,
within nine months from the date of said
order, or they will be forever barred Of
any action therefor against said adminis4
tratrix. PHEBE A. HAGER.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-30

NOTICE OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IS
hereby given that the aceoant OF the sub
scriber. gIardianfof Harry M.St.-sJohn and
Joseph M. st. John. minors, VIII be audited
and stated by the Surrogate sak the County of
day, the 18th day ct Septefnber next.
Dated July 7. A. p. 1897.
sAMuELA TRIsTRAM.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16
WASHINGTON AND ANNAPOLIS RY
Bill to Incorporate the Company In
trOduced in the House.


Mr.. Brumm has introduced a bill in the
House to incorporate the Washington and
Annapolis Railway Company. The incor-
porators named are Edgar L. Marston, H.
c. Knox. Elisha K. Camp. John ]. Knox.
o. c. Brothers, jr., Alfred S. Miller J.
Harry James, William G. Morgan, Joseph
Bowes c. H. Syme, w. L. Bryant and
George c. Hazleton.
The proposed route of the road is as fol-
lows: Beginning at point on the District
line near the Forest Lake cemetery, thence
to the Eastern branch over a route to be
approved by the District Commissioners.
thence across the Pennsylvania avenue
bridge, thence along Pennsylvania avenue
to Sth street southeast, thence north on Sth
turning over the same route. The motive
power shall be the overhead trolley outside
Of the city limits and the underground cleo
trio within tho city.
1t is provided that whenever the roadway
of any street occupied by the Washington
and Annapolis Railway Company is wild
ened, one-half of the cost of widening and
the Improvement of such widened part
shall be charged to the railway COM
pany and collected in the same man.
ner the cost Of laying or repair
ing pavements lying between the exterior
rails of the tracks of street railways and
for a distance of two feet from and ex-
terror to such track or tracks on each side
of section = of the act entitled An act
providing a permanent fern of government
for the District of Columbia approved
June II, 1878.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16
GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE.
n Bill Introduced Limiting and De-
hning Local Cases.

Representative. Ray of New York TO-DAY
introduced In the House bill defining aud
limiting the cases in which an absolute
divorce may be granted, and providing for
declaring marriages void in certain cases
In the District of Columbia and the terri
tories OF the United States.
Chapter xxx, section "a. of the complied
statutes in force in the District of Column
bla is amended so as to read:
IN the District of Columbia and the ter
fitcries a divorce from the bond of mar
rage may be granted only where one of
.he parties mas committed adultery during
tEe marriage. Provided, That in such case
Tie innocent party only may remarry, and
provided that legal separation, without per
MISSION for remarriage, may be granted
Tor drunkenness, cruelty or desertion. and
PROVIDED that marriage may be declared
Ncld IN the following cases:
First Where such marriage was CON-
tfacted While either of the parties thereto
rad G former wife or husband living. unless
the lorrner marriage had been lawfully
dissoiNed because Of adultery of the other
party 10 the former marriage.
Second. Where such marriage was con-
tracted during the lunacy of either party.
Third. Where either party was matri-
non:ally incapacitated at the time of the
marriage and has continued so.
"Fcurih. Where either of the parties had
not arrived al the age of legal consent TO
the contract of marriage, but in such cases
only at the suit of the party not capable of
consentng.'
This bill has been asked fer in advance
ny such leading citizens of the District of
Colt bia as Bishops Satterlee and Hurst.
President Whitman. General Whittlesey
Chas. Lyman and Drs. Butler and John
stem. also by the Methodist and BAPTIST
Preachers Meetings of Philadelphia and
he y. NJ. c. A Mems Meeting of Reading,
Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16
COMMISSIONED EVANS DENIES.
Never Thought of Reducing Old
Clerks I'm His Office.

1t was stated today that the commits
soner Of pensions had anticipated the Sec
rotary of the Treasury in an order reducing
CID clerks, and that the Grand Army of the
Republic proposed to take the case Of an
old soldier who suffered reduction before
the civil service commission. A reporter OF
The Star called upon Commissioner Evans
this morning and asked him if the report
was true.
Certainly not he said. II have never
thought of suchIta plan. There may have
!, been one or two cases where clerks have
been reduced and retained because of old
age, but as to formulating a system of re-
duction, such aSiyou suggest, l have never
thought of it. Edo believe, however that
some provision shouid be made for the old
clerks who have become worn out in the
service. But Congress should remedy this
by passing AMI appropriation pensioning
them. The government should not be
handicapped bylearrying old and incapaci-
tated clerks upon It's rolls"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16
NATTER OF BONDS.
District Auditor Petty Examining .s
to SurctieA.

BY direction of the Commissioners. Audi
tor Petty is engaged in an examination of
all bonds which have been filed in the var
lous departments OF the District govern
n.ent. Some time ago the conclusion was
reached by the Commissioners that there
had not been, and as not being such care
taken in the acceptance of bonds as there
was necessity for, and Mr. Petty was
directed to examine into the matter. not
only for the purpose OF ascerta!ning wheth-
er all bonds on file are sufficient. but also
for the purpose OF determining whether or
not old bonds, taken years ago, are ST .,
alive.
The examination has. it is understood
Drought to light cases not only where the
financial responsibility of The sureties is
not now surfic.ent, but also cases where
the sureties have long since departed for
another world. In one case, where the
bend was given thirty years ago, The SIRE
Ties nave all died. 1t is likely that here
after parties offering themselves as sure
ties Will be subjected to a much more crit
zeal examination as 10 their financial re-
spoons .blllty than has ever heretofore been
made. and that the same care which the
courts exercise in accepting sureties will
prevail in the District offices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16
AMENDING THE HIGHWAY ACT.
Bills introduced Into Both Houses of
Congress.

Mr.. Gallinger today introduced a bill in
the Senate for the amendment of the high
way extension act. The bill is on The gen.
eral lines of what is known as the Com
missioners' bill for the same purpose with
certain changes to meet the views of resi-
dents of Washington Heights who lately
considered the question of highway exton-
sion at a meeting held at ex-senator Hen
derson's home the changes in the Com
missioners' bill favored at this meeting
have been published in The Star
Chairman Babcock of the House District
committee introduced the same bill late
this afternoon in the House. Mr.. Babcock
said the bill had been presented TO him by
citizens, who claimed that ii would NEE.
the objections which had BEEN urg "a
against the highway act, and would not
cause the loss of any friends of the act.
He said that the committee would take the
bill UP after the holidays and would ex-
anime its provisions carefully. 1t was the
intention of the committee to give exhaus-
tive attention to the highway act and the
complaints which had been made against II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16

Foraker's Mnn Friday Silent on the
Ohio ScnatOrshiD.

Charles L. Kurtz. Ohio member of the
republican national committee. state oil
inspector under the administration of Gov
ernor Bushnell. former chairman of the re-
publican state committee and long a rep
resentative Of the Foraker forces in the
republican factional quarrel in that state,
slept last night at the Normandie.
He came OVERTHROW New York on a late
train and was met at the Baltimore and
Potomac depot by Benson Foraker, son Of
! the senator. His appearance in Washing
ton caused considera bic speculation on the
part of the Ohio contingent now in the
city. ''
Fine weather you are having in Wash
ington,' was his reply to a Star reporter
who sought his opinion concerning the
senatorial situation In, Ohio this morning.
"Will Senator Hailrfa be returned to the
Senator? the Star reporter persisted.
II DO not know, was his answer.
"a news dispatch from Columbus an
nounccs that more than twenty members of
the legislature will desert MIR. Hanna If he
any truth in that "'-"
Il do not know
TO whom would those votes so in the
event of Mr. Hanna's failure of election on
the first ballot?'
Il do not know anything about it. You
will have to excuse me from discussing the
matter.
rs it true as reported. that the For
aker faction in Ohio politics is opposed to
Mr.. Hdnna's return?"
Il have told you l know nothing about
the matter, and l do not care to be inter-
viewed. l have been to New York on bus
mess, and am now on my way home.
suppose the republicans of Ohio can take
| care of the senatorial question. Ohio is
usually represented in the Senate, isn't it?''
Mr.. KurtZ departed for Columbus over
the Pennsylvania at 1850 am
Benson Foraker told a Star reporter to-
day that his father would arrive in Wash
ington tomorrow noon.
1t is surmsed that the visit Of Mr. Kurtz
to Washington was for the purpose of see
ing John r. Mclean to try to make some
sort of deal by which the democrats in
the Ohio legislature would cooperate with
Mr.. KurtZs anti-Hanna republicans to pre-
vent Mr. HaIEa's reelection to the Senate.
therefore the visit of Mr. Kurtz was not to
consult with him. MIR kurtZ is doing all
he can to bring about Mr.. Hanna's defeat
ara It is intimated that he might go even
as far as to agree to the election of a DEM
Ocrat or silver republican If that is the
only way to get democratic cooperation
and he can control enough anti-Hanna re-
publican votes for such a scheme. 1t is not
believed that the democrats will assist to
elect some other republican in the place OF
Mr.. Hanna, but, Of course, they would be
glad to elect democrat. or, indeed any
man who would belong to the silver aIi:-
ance, whether democrat, silver republican
or ropulist. The idea that KurtZ and the
democrats may make deal to elect a re-
publican pledged to the silver policy of
Organism is regarded a.; not improbable.
| provided kurtZ can get his followers to
| stand by sucn deal Great doubt is ex-
pressed however of his being able to de-
liver the votes # he makes the agreement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16
POLICE COURT SUSTAINED.
Court of Appeals PASSES Upon Aque-
duct Bridge Case.

Court of Appeals PASSES Upon Aque-
duet Bridge Case.
The Court of appeals late this afternoon
handed down an opinion in the appeal
case CT Charles Smith agains. the District
of Columbia, affirming the decision of the
Police Court, with costs. This is the case
involving the attempt of the W., A. and f.
C. Railway Company to lay tracks across
the Auueduct bridge.
Smith was foreman of a gang of laborers
employed by the railway company, who the
night of September last tore up portion
of the footwaik across the Aqueduct bridge.
He was arrested and after a hearing in the
Police Court was fined $40 or sixty days
in Jail in default. The case was then APP
pealed to the Court of Appeals.
In the opinion, written by Mr.. Justice
Shepard, it is stated that it was not neccs-
sary to show the act was done without the
consent of the Commissioners to make tho
offense complete. Such Licenses had
been given by the Secretary of War, the
opinion sets forth, had relation only TO the
grounds of Arlington and Fort Myer, and
were limited to the approach to the bridge.
There was no shadow of foundation, the
Court of Appeals holds, for the claim Of
right to enter upon the bridge and occupy
1t with a railway track. In entering upon
the bridge for that purpose and removing
parts of the floor, the Court of Appeals
ILlos, the defendant was guilty of Il plain
and deliberate violation of the law.
The orders of the managing officers of
the corporation, the Court of Appeals con-
cludes would have justified their inclusion
in the prosecution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16
STREET PARkINGS.
OmmissiOncrs Believe They Should
Re Under District Control.

commissioners Ihcy
Re Under District Control.
The Court of Appeals some time ago de-
c;ded, in the case Of the District against
Frank Libbcy and others, that the street
Iarkings of the city are under the control
of the Secretary of the Interior and the
chief of engineers OF the army. To-Day the
Commissioners submitted to the chairmen
of each District committee in Congress d
draft of a bill to vest in the Commissioners
such control of the street parkngs as will
transfer to the municipal authorities of
the District Jurisdiction over the parkinss.
In their communication the Commission
ers state that they believe that such
spaces should be placed under municipal
control inasmuch as all the rest of the
street surface is subject to such super
vision, and the present division of author
ity in TIE premises is prejudicial to the
public interests and productive of much
embarrassment.
The bill, as drafted by the Commission
ers, after making the desired transfer
authorizes them to make such reasonable
regulations as may. in their Judgment,
be necessary for the use, occupation and
protection of the street parkings, and to
attach to the regulations such penalties
as will secure their enforcement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16
DIPHTHERlA DECREASING
Statement From the Health Office Giving
Statistical Information.
Reasons for Closing Tenleytown
SchoOl-Disease in That Locality
Originated in Maryland.

Speaking today to a Star reporter of
the prevalence Of dphtheria in the Dis
trict. Health Officer Woodward stated that
he was glad to say that the daily reports
made to his Office show that the number
of cases is steadily decreasing. On the
4th instant there were fifty-seven cases in
fifty-two houses while on the 14th in
slant there were but forty-eight cases in
forty-six houses. Diphtheria, explained
the health officer, is most severe during
the months of October. November and De-
cember. There has been at no time, he
said, any cause for alarm, although all
the public schools were, as a mater of
caution, disinfected during the Thanksgiv-
ing holidays. But in such instances there
Is always weak point, because of the
almost impracticability of thoroughly dis
injecting the clothing and persons of the
children attending the schools.
Covered n Wide Territory.
The public school at Tenleytown, said
DIR. Woodward, was closed on the 7th and
sth of this month. because of a number
of cases Of diphthera discovered in that
district. which covers a very wide terri
tory, and the school building was thor
oushly fumgated. Since then there has
been but three cases reported from that
section, and in but one of them was the
patient e pupil of the school. The dis
ease. explained the health officer seems
to have been prevalent in Maryland or
on the border line, and it would appear
that 1t originated among the children
from Maryland attending the school, al
though that has not been definitely de-
termncd. because of the difficulty in secur-
ing accurate records from Maryland in the
matter.
Notice to Superintendent Powell.
In this connection DR.. Woodward ad-
dressed letter to Superintendent Powell
CT the District public schools the 9Th of
this month. The letter was as follows:
This department has been advised that
there are certain cases of diphtheria in
Maryland, In the vicinity of Tenleytown
AS such cases are, however. beyond the
Jurisdiction of this Office 1t has no record
CT them. The matter is, therefore, brought
to your attention for such action as may
be possible to secure the exclusion from the
pubic schools OF the District of pupils Hy-
ing In the infected houses in Maryland"
Ihe health officer says he has received no
reply from Superintendent Powell, and he
Is therefore, unable to say what has been
done, If anything, by the public school au-
thorltles There appears to be not more
than ten cases in the Tenleytown district at
present, and DR.. Woodward, in view of the
decline in the number. feels that there Is
no reason for alarm there or elsewhere in
the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16
NO ADDITIONAL EXAMINERS.
Appropriations Committee Wines Ont
the Patent Office Estimates

the Patent Office Estimates.
The officials of the patent office are n,uc;,
concerned over the report of the appropria
tons committee upon the items estimated
Tor the support CT the department during
the coming fiscal year. To use the express
sion of one or the officials Congress SIM
ply wiped us off the face of the EARTH
1t is well-known fact that the business
OF the patent office is between two and six
months behind. In other words the filing
Oh an applcat ton for patent today would
receive no official action for some time be-
tween two and six months, as the condi-
ton Of the branch to which it was referred
warranted. This means great pecuniary
loss in some instances to inventors who
clamor for quick action, and blame the de-
partment severely for its apparent dilatory
tactics. TO remedy this condition, the COM
missioner Of patents, in his estimates ask
ed for forty additional examiners The
Secretary of the Interior cut this estimat e
In half and estimated for twenty additicna,
examiners. The appropriations committee
has simply wiped out the whole number
Acting Commissioner Greeley said to a
reporter of The Star today that with the
increasing business Of the department, and
no increase in the number of clerks, he
could not see what was to be done. Last
year there were in round numbers 44,Uo0
applications for patents filed. This year
the total would be increased 1890 and
with no increase in the number of clerks
the work of the department would go still
farther behind. The present force of ex-
| aminers numbered but 1919, and experience
had demonstrated the inability of such a
force to handle the applications.
The patent office had also asked for thir-
ty-seven additional clerks. The Secretary
OF the Interior had reduced this number to
twenty-three, and the appropriations COM
mittee he'd simply stricken out all refer
ence to it.
Another important feature which the
committee had disregarded and upon which
much depended was the scientific library.
Last year Congress appropriated $1,000 for
this branch, but it was found inadequate,
and this year $1,000 had been asked. The
committee had reduced it to 5000, a sum
so low as to be ridiculous 1t is in this
library that the examiners of the patent
office nave an opportunity to keep abreast
the times with the arts and sciences. This
department also keeps for ready reference
copies of all foreign patents issued 1t is
here an inventor may satisfy himself of the
validity of his invention as far as foreign
countries are concerned, and to cut off its
usefulness by scaling the appropriations
for it's support is to destroy it. The Off
Gals propose to make a hard fight before
the subcommittee when the time comes.
They believe the time has arrived when a
substantial increase should be made in the
working force of the department, which
has grown so much within the past few
wears and which has had no substantial
increase since 1885.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16
MANY MINISTER'S CALLED.
Diplomatic Day at the Stnte DEPART
mcnt.

Diplomatic Day at the State DEPART
mcnt.
Diplomatic day at the State Department
called forth q larger number of visitors to-
day than has been in attendance for many
weeks past. There was the japanese min
lister, the Spanish minister, the Belgian
minister, the German ambassador, the Ha-
waiian minister and a number of other dip
lomatic callers on the list.
The japanese minister's audience with
Secretary Sherman was very short and was
nothing more than visit of courtesy, with
out design to discuss business. This Is the
first call he has made at the State De-
partment since his return from Japan
Mr.. Hatch was accompanied by the new
secretary of the Hawaiian legation, Mr..
Castle, and their call was mainly for the
purpose of introducing the latter to the
officials of the State Department.
The Spanish minister Senior Dupuy de
LONE. had some advices from Cuba that
were encouraging to the officials who are
looking for a solution of the troubles of
Cuba through a well-arranged home rule
scheme