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The times., 1898-09-08
BIDS FOR ENVELOPES.
Four Competitors for a. Valuable
Government Contract.

Government Contract.
Bids were opened at the Postoffice De-
partment yesterday for supplying the
Government with stamped envelopes and
newspaper wrappers. There were four
bidders, the Purcell Company not appear
ing, and the Plympton- Morgan Company,
as was expected. making the lowest Of
fer. The bids were as follows. upon lots
of 1000:
Plympton- Morgan Company, extra size
envelopes. 73 cents: commercial size, Sc
cents; legal size, S2 cents, and newspaper
wrappers, IS cents.
Charles Cooper. Brooklyn, N. Y. extra
size envelopes, 70 cents: commercial size.
Y cents legal size. 81 cents, and newspa-
per wrappers. 43 cents.
American Envelope Company, of West
Carleton, o.. extra letter size, SO cents;
commercial size. rs cents; legal size, Sc
cents and newspaper wrappers. 45 cents.
Connecticut River Paper Company. of
Holyoke, Mass. extra size, rs 1-2 cents;
commercial. 70 cents; legal size, 50 cents,
and newspaper wrappers. 43 cents.
In March last similar competition was
held at the department and the Purcell
company was then the lowest bidder.
Postmaster General Gary awarded the
contract to that concern, but later claim
was made that the successful bidder was
not competent to carry out the contract
because of want of facilities.
Postmaster General Smith examined
into the matter and after oral argument
by counsel he revoked his predecessor s
action in awarding the contract TO the
Purcell company and ordered a readvertis-
ing o fthe proposals In the meantime the
Purcell company carried the matter into
the courts. first asking a writ of man
damus to compel the Postmaster General
to award it the contract, which was re-
fused. and later entered suit for damages,
which Is still pending.
Surprise being expressed at the failure
of the Purcell Company TO submit a bid
yesterday, an official said 1t had a con-
tract for doing just what the proposals
offered were intended to do. The Plymp-
tom Morgan bid is figured at s4s.357 less
per annum than the Purcell bid, which
Postmaster General Gary accepted or
$193, ,42S less for the term of four years.
| which the contract will cover The fig
ures bid yesterday are, in round num-
| Government is paying under the present
| contract.
| The most important item in the con-
! tract is the extra letter size stamped en-
| velopes, of which IL Is estimated the
! Government will require 355, ,9T5, 600. OF
| the commercial size II is estimated that
! 81, $50, 900 will be used. The Department
| estimates that 1t will require 50, 742, 900 to
| satisfy the demand for legal size enve-
! lopes, and OF ordinary newspaper wrap
! pers there will be required 40, "a, 900.
The times., 1898-09-08
THOMAS c. MADDOX Is DEAD
He Was "A Member of the District
Regiment, COmnnnY IL


Regiment, Company II.
A telegram was received Yesterday by
William Durrett, of los Street north
east. announcing the DEATH at Camp Wi
koff, of his cousin. Thomas c. Maddox,
of Company 3. District of Columbia Vol
unteers
Last Friday Mr.. Durrett went to Mon
tauk and secured a furiough for Mad
dox, but Capt. King advised the young
soldier not to take advantage of it, and
to remain with the regiment until 1t re-
turned to Washington.
Maddox was i'll with fever and dysen-
terry at the time. but when the captain
described the ovation by the citizens
troops. he told his cousin that he would
delay his return until he could come with
his comrades
Mr.. Durrett went to New York to wait
for the troops and Maddox went to the
detention hospital at the camp for treat
ment
ON Tuesday last Durrett communicated
b, telephone with Miss Hawley. a nui Sc
attached to the District regiment, AMI he
was informed by her that Maddox would
he we'll enough to return to Washing ton
today with the rest OF the troops.
Believing that Maddox was out of dan
| ger. Mr.. Durrett returned to this city yes
terday, and soon after he arrived he re-
! ceived the message announcing the death
of his cousin.
The dead soldier leaves an invalid moth
er to mourn him. He was the son of DR.
Maddox, of Virginia, who was killed in a
duel some years ago, and a nephew oi
! James Maddox, the weil-known horse
raiser.
The deceased will be buried at Airing
| ton with military honors. The body will
! be- brought TO Washington today.
The times., 1898-09-08
NEWS FROM GEN. KITCHENER
Terrible Mortality Among the Derv-
ishes In the Soudnn.

London, Sept. THE war office has re-
ceived the following dispatch from Cen
Sir Herbert Kitchener, commander OF the
Anglo-Egyptian expedition In the Soudah'
THE Khalifa is moving with the speed
of the wind Some of his wives were
dropped on the road in his retreat One
hundred camels that had been engaged TO
assist him in his flight have been cap
tured Our officers have counted 1O,SO0
dervishes. The wounded are estimated at
5000 We have between 5000 and 1000
prisoners. A gunboat has been dispatched
up the Blue Nile to tranquilize the dis
tricts along that river. The dervshes are
reported to be looting. Numbers of people
are coming in from the surrounding coun-
try.
Five hundred Arabs with camels are
chasing the Khalifa'
The times., 1898-09-08
sUEz CANAL COMMISSION.
Vice Consul Watts Furnishes Som,
Interesting Data.

Gen. Watts. vice consul of the United
States at Cairo. furnishes the following
facts concerning traffic on the Suez ca
nal:
During the year ended June 80 last.
1872, ,0ZS tons of goods passed through the
Suez canal. borne by 1.792 ships. He shows
that the traffic receipts from this COM
merce were S. $50, 800 AS might be expect
ed, he says, Great Britain is far in ad-
vance of all other nations In the number
of ships passing through the canal. those
under the British flag numbering l.196, out
of a total of 1872 Germany came second
with 178: France had 107; the Netherlands
80. and Austria, 49. Only four American
vessels passed through the canal during
the year our commerce in that quarter
exceeding only three of the commercial ma
tions of the worid-Argentine, China. and
Greece.
The times., 1898-09-08
GERMAN ANTI-STRIKE BILL.
The EmperOr's Significant Remarks
at N BANQUET.

Berlin, Sept. 7--Emperor William.
speaking at a banquet last evening, re-
.ferred to the prosperous agriculture and
industry of Westphalia and touched sig
nificantly upon the labor bill to be sub
mitted 10 the Reichstag during the pres
ent year. He said 1t would provide for
the Imprisonment at hard labor of any
one seeking to prevent workmen who are
willing to work from pursuing their voca-
ton, and would also provide for the pun
ishment of those who even melted them
to strike. His majesty also expressed
the hope that the representatives of the
people would support his effort to protect
national labor.
The times., 1898-09-08
26-NCH GLORIA UMBRELLAS. o.
Worth 75c- For ................... - 81
EISENMANN'S, ;s5, SsS 3sysnth 3ass tbs St, A..
UNLOCKED A SWITCH.
Two Boys Charged With Attempted
Train-Wrecking

Lebanon, Pa, Sept. Harry and John
respectively, were arrested yesterday,
charged with having attempted to wreck
train on the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad near Myerstown. The boys We're
on visit TO their uncle and while walk
ing along the railroad. seeing the switch
unlocked turned il open.
a passenger train coming along ran in
TO it. Before the train could be stopped
the engine and tender were deraiIed. The
boys were seen near the place by a track
walker. At the hearing they confessed
and were held in 500 bail each.
The times., 1898-09-08
ELECTION of Officers.

The Washington Retail Grocers' Asso-
citation held its annual election of officers
at 1905 B Street northwest last night, and
the following board of directors was
chosen: w. II. III. Griffith, F. w. Kah-
lert, c. NJ. Smoot, Fred Kraus, George
Talbert r. E. Smith, I. L. Clements, II.
H Haight and A. II. Pitt,
The affairs of the association are in
good shape, as will be shown by the an
nual report, which will shortly be made.
The times., 1898-09-08
THE PRESIDENT INVITED.
His Presence Desired Mt the Gnad-
enhutten Ohio. Centennial.

Francis c. Huebner, representing the
centennial celebration committee, of Gna-
denhutten, O.. called on the President
yesterday TO present an invitation for
him to attend the centennial celebration
29
Gnadenhutten is one of the oldest towns
in Ohio. The Indian settlement was
founded in 1772, and destroyed by the
whites in 1852, when about one hundred
Indians, who professed Christianity, were
massacred. The white settlement was
started in 179S. This latter event is the
one being celebrated. Gnadenhutten has
also the distinction OF being the birth
place of the first white child born in
Ohio
The times., 1898-09-08
TO CONVERT THE HEATHEN.
Mass Meeting to Raise Funds 70
Missionary Work.

A mass meeting was held last evening
in the Second Baptist Church, under the
auspices of the Baptist Foreign Missiona-
ry Society of the United Safes. for the
purpose of raising funds for missionary
work in Africa.
The meeting was presided over by Rev.
W. Bishop Johnson and the principal ad-
dress was delivered by Rev. l.. G. Jor-
don. corresponding secretary of the for
eign mission convention of the United
States. which viii meet in Kansas City
next Wednesday.
The times., 1898-09-08

The fairy godmother who presided over
the cradle of Miss Daisy Letter seems to
have set herself industriously TO work TO
evolve a year of unusually brilliant hap
pen'ngs for her favored charge. Not con-
tent with decreeing that she shall go to
India with the viceroy and Mrs. Curzon,
and after she gets there TO go elephant
riding. with saffron-skinned natives in
queer clothes for grooms. she has ar
ranged it with Gov. Tanner that Miss
Letter is to christen the battleship Illinois,
which viii be- launched al Newport News
on the 4th of next month. The Letter res
idence on Dupont Circle was closed early
in the Summer and the family have spent
the greater portion of the season at their
villa on Geneva Lake.
The times., 1898-09-08

Miss Alice Maud Mather. sister of Mr..
Leonard Mather. the we'll known lawyer
of this city and Mr. Julian Morton were
married yesterday by the Rev. DIR. Stat
ford, of st. PatrIck's Church, at the resi-
dence of the brides bro her. 523 Third
Street northwest.
AS the young bride is English by birth
and has but recently arrived in this coun-
try il was necessary 10 obtain a marriage
license from the English ambassador. who
is located for the Summer at New Lon
don. Sir Julian Pauncefote himself was
too indisposed TO sign the document. but
the secretary of The embassy did 50 for
him and the permit to join two loving
hearts was forwarded TO Washington in
time for the ceremony which occurred
at o'clock in the afternoon. Mr.. ami
Mrs. Morton left later for honeymoon
trip to the North.
The times., 1898-09-08
TRY GRAIh-O! TRY GRiIN-0!

Ask your Grocer today TO show you PACK
age OF GRA!N-0. the new food drink that
takes the place OF coffee. The children may
drink lt wlthoutlnJury a. well as tie adult.
All vs. no try it. like it. GRAIN-O has that
rich seal brown OF Mocha or Java bot 1t ie
cate stomach receives ii without distress
One-ousrter the price OF coffee SO and zoe
Der package Sold by ell croccre- ja21-6
The times., 1898-09-08

There is a story going the rounds that
shows Mrs. Nelson A. Miles In a splendid
light 1t seems that on a recent visit 10
a camp hospital she was confronted with
a situation quite ineNplicable to the fem
mime mind. The sick were languishing
for necessaries and proper food. while The
storerOOms were crowded with boxes 0f
the ncedful contributed by individuals and
which were piled up unopened because no
order permitting their use had c0me frcm
the War Department By the legerde-
main Of womans Wit Mrs. Miles caused
the immediate distribution % those sup
plies and after she got back % Washing
ton applied for the permit 10 do what her
energy and courage had already effected.
The times., 1898-09-08
by it. although the victory was won by

by II, although the victory was won oy
English arms.
II believe that an Anglo-German alli-
ance has been concluded, but 1t is not one
at all detrimental to the United States
/ know nothing of an alliance between
Russia and England The commercial
interests of the United States and Great
Britain in the Far East Deing similar,
there is no telling whether they will act
together automatically where ecommon in
terests are concerned. Probably they WILL
| know that ninety-nine Englishmen out
of a hundred wish an alliance with the
United States"
The times., 1898-09-08
THE AGE LIMIT REACHED.
Two Generals and Four AdmiraIs
Are to BE Retired.

Owing to the age limit established by
law, two brigadier generals and four ear
admirals will soon be retired. and this
Will cause promotions all along the line.
The army officers are Gen. William NJ.
Graham, of the Second, and Gen. ]. ].
Coppinger. of the Fourth Army Corps.
When retired they will necessarily be re-
lieved of their respective commands.
The naval officers 10 be retired before
the close of the present year are Admiral
NJ. Sicard, Admiral f. O. Matthews, Ad-
miral Joseph y. Miller. and Admiral f.
y. Bunce.
The times., 1898-09-08
$500 Excursion so the Ses- $500
ahore vim PennsyIvgn min Railroad

For Atlantic City. Cape May. Ocean
City and Sea Isle City. Tickets on sale
for II a m and 12:45 p. m trains Fridays
and SATURDAYS until September 10. 1893
good 20 return until the following Tue.
DAYS. at rate OF s.. including transfer OF
passenger in Philadelphia, commencing
June "a
su.tu.Eiha M. mon. vedktrip.rn. until Sent 10
The times., 1898-09-08
GERMANY UNCoNCERNED.
A Mere Spectator of the Outbreak
In,

Berlin, Sept. THE Cologne Gazette
says that the outbreak in Crete is no
concern of Germany. which is politically
contented to remain mere spectator
The Austrian man-of-war Bergard has
gone to Crete to protect the Germans
and Austrians.
The times., 1898-09-08

Nine. Cambon. mother of the French
ambassador at Washington. and her
daughter-in-law. Nine Jules Cambon,
with her children. are taking the waters
at Plombieres. in the Vosges They will
sail for this country later in the Fall
The times., 1898-09-08

Another matrimonial rumor comes from
Newport in reference to Miss Julia Dent
Grant. This time the wise people who
know everything have selected Mr.. Rob-
ert GOelet Gerry as the gentleman to
whom the young lady is engaged. Wheth-
er the marriage Is to be or not 10 be. there
is no doubt that Mr.. GerTy's attentions
TO Miss Grant have been marked the en-
tire season. and the marriage, it is said,
would be graciously approved of by So
ciety generally and by the families of the
young pair.
The rumor of Miss Grants engagement
to the Prince of Flanders was contra
dicted about a week ago.
The times., 1898-09-08

Everybody calls for Heurich's beers.
After you have indulged in a glass you'll
want more. Phone, Arlington Bottling
Pale, or Lager
The times., 1898-09-08
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Miss Irma Komlosy the Austrian flow
er painter who opened a studio in Wash
ington early last Winter and VINO
brought with her letters of Introduction
from the members of the royal house
hold of Austria. is now guest of castle
of Reichstadt in Bohemia, the Summer
resident of the Archduchess Marie The
rese. Miss Komlosy made many friends
during her stay in Washington and in a
letter received by one OF them a few days
ago she expressed an earnest desire TO
return some day for another visit TO ''ths
most beautiful city in the world
The times., 1898-09-08

Mrs. Felix 4. Reeve has gone on a visl;
TO Montauk Point 10 see her son. Earnest
who is Ill with typhoid fever. Col and
Mrs. Reeve had two boys in ghe Santiago
campaign - Earnest. a sergeant in the
Sixth Cavalry. and Horace. a lieutenant
In the Third Infantry and aide-de-camp
In the stan of Gen. Bases.
The times., 1898-09-08

Lieut.. Howard G. Young. of the Third
Volunteer Infantry. is i'll with malarial
fever at the residence Of his father, Mr.
John Russell Young.
The times., 1898-09-08
Alfred Dietrich.

Berlin, Sept ALFRED Dietrich. chief
constructor of the German navy. died
yesterday.
The times., 1898-09-08

Mr.. Justice Harlan has returned TO
Washington. accompanied BY his son, Mr..
John Maynard Harlan. of Chicago.
The times., 1898-09-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert F. Franklin are
home from a months camping experience
on the shore of Saranac Lake.
The times., 1898-09-08

Your credit is coed at Lansburgh's Fur
niture House, 18th and SITS. oc3-tf
The times., 1898-09-08

DR.. and Mrs. Edwin R Lewis have re-
turned to their home. No. 123 n Street.
The times., 1898-09-08

Miss Lulu Robert. who has been spend
ing the past months in New York, Wis
iting her sister, Mrs. Thomas NJ Fields,
is again In the city.
The times., 1898-09-08

Ausburn Towner and family are among
the Washingtonians at Rehoboth Beach
The times., 1898-09-08

The marriage of Miss Isabel Arth and
DR.. John w. Jennings, formerly of Vir-
ginia. but now of Washington was sol
emnized Tuesday by Rev. John NJ. r. Nc
Kee. The ceremony was witnessed by inn
mediate relatives only.
The times., 1898-09-08

The Misses Margaretta and RoSalie Nc
Cormick. the daughters of Hon. Marshall
Mccormick. of Berryville. Va, gave
very artistic tea last Friday evening at
their home, Rose Hill. Among the Wash
ingtonians present were Miss Virgie Nor
ris, Miss Callye Littlepage Kerr. Hiss
Eleanor Washington, and Mr. +. V. TIL
ford.
The times., 1898-09-08

Senator Gray and family have taken a
cottage at Atlantic City for the next two
months.
The times., 1898-09-08

The Bar Harbor season is over. The
only activity that will be witnessed aft
er this week will be on the KebO Valley
golf links. v here many cottsgers will con-
tinue TO find pleasure and outdoor exer-
else throughout September The Summer
visitors have started TO leave, and ere
long the hotels, where so much gayety has
been going on. will be closed. and the
Malvern and Kebo dinner dances are all
over.
The times., 1898-09-08

Mrs. Stephen 3. Elkins. who is now vis-
iting in New York, will return TO her
country home in West Virginia before
coming back 10 Washington for the Win
ter.
The times., 1898-09-08

Hint to the Autocrat.

What would ! consider a good initia-
tory move on the part of the Car to show
his good faith? Why, an immediate re-
duction of his standing army and the ces-
sation of an aggressive policy. That
would give the plan of a universal peace
hrst-rate impetus OF course England
must so on increasing Its navy until ii is
as strong as those of the two greatest
European nations, and then we should
have a sea force that would even UP the
present superior land forces of France
and Russia Just when the balance should
be even would be a fine proposition in
mathematics" And Mr.. Chamberlain ad-
justed his monocle and smiled signifi-
cantly.
Mr.. Chamberlain and his wife and
daughter went TO the Albemarle Hotel.
They had at first intended to go to Bos-
ton tonight, but their plans were
changed. 1t is expected that they will
80 to Boston tomorrow.
While waiting for his luggage on the
pier, Mr.. Chamberlain talked briefly with
the newspaper men, Concerning affairs
in Egypt, he said:
Gordon's Death Avenged.
The times., 1898-09-08
Gordon's Death Avenged.

'Gordon's death has been avenged by
the recapture of Khartoum. The Soudan
viii be opened UP for commerce, and all
nations, as well as England. will benefit
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-02
A Really Wonderful Pie.

1t seems an error to speak of Christ.
mas things at Easter time. Since, how
ever, people eat at both seasons, it will
not be particularly out of place to
speak of a wonderful pie which James,
earl of Lonsdale, sent to King George
III for his Christmas dinner. The pie
weighed SIG pounds, and well it might,
as 1t contained nine geese, two ducks,
four fowls (the kind not stated in the
records), six pigeons, six wild ducks,
three teal, two ~starlings, twelve par
tridges, fifteen w~oodcocks, two guinea
fowls, three snipe, six plover, three
water hens, n wild goose, one cur
lew, forty yellow hammers, fifteen
sparrows, fifteen c~haffinches, two larks,
four thrushes, twelve fieldfares, six
blackbirds, twenty rabbits, one leg Of
veal, one ham, three bushels Of flour,
and twenty-eight pounds of butter.-
New York Herald.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-02

ship of the correspondents press com
mittee at the capital. For more thai
a quarter Of a century the general was
Washington correspondent for Cincin-
natl newspapers. and for years he was
known as the dean of the correspond
ents' corps. Few correspondents at
Washington have had a wider reputa-
ton than the president of the park COM
mission. For twenty-six years he rep
resented the Commercial Gazette Of
Cincinnati, a post he ~relinquished in
1891. Four years later he returned to
the service of the big Cincinnati paper.
He got his journalistic genius from his
father, who was an editorial contribut-
or to the Commercial Gazette and
through whose influence the son obtain
ed a place in the local department.
General Boynton has done capable
work as president of the Chickamauga
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-02
Experiment. with Broad Tires.

In order fully to test the relative
merits Of broad and narrow tires, an
agricultural college In Missouri has been
making some experiments with the
two. 1t has been demonstrated that on
reasonably good roads broad tires have
an advantage Of from 16 to 48 per cent
over narrow tires. In nc case except
where the mud was soft and very deep
did the narrow tires prove more salts
factory. According to these tests, the
narrow tire is desirable only when
roads are in a state almost impossible,
a condition of things which is fast dis
appearing from thickly settled and
well-managed districts The expert
ments were made with the same wagon,
the wheels being exchanged by merely
slipping them from the spindles. The
widths Of the tires were respectively
n and g half and six inches. The
loaded wagon weighed $50 pounds
more with the wide tires than with the
narrow ones, making the weight OF the
vehicle when equipped with the wide
tires 1850 pounds. On a clean. smooth
o OF macadam the wide tires re-
CURED from 16 to 35 per cent less pow
er than the narrow ones. On gravel
roads the broad tires had 46 per cent
advantage; on loose gravel and dirt
roads, as we'll as on roads entirely of
compacted soil. the gain was something
like q per cent. On a piece OF road
where there was a solid foundation. but
very deep, thick mud above, the board
tires were at a disadvantage, ma,aly
because they cut in and picked I'D a
tremendous weight of mud with every
revolution. On a road that was drying
up and had a somewhat firm surface
the broad tires showed 90 per cent ad-
vantage over the narrow ones The
latter cut into the mud In some places
from six to sever inches, but the wide
tires rolled safely over without making
deep grooves. merely packing the half
dry mud as they passed over it. The
entire experiment goes to show that
narrow tires have really no points of
advantage. save at exceptional times
and under exceptional conditions. On
what would be considered a road In a
tolerable condition tho broad tires had
every point in their favor, and demon
strated their superiority 80 clearly that
no room vas left for doubt or cues
ton.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-02
The Perfect POmpadour.

1t is wrong to attempt to roll your
front hair over a rat" for wear with
a hat, when you are to be safe under
a veil and the pompadour cannot slip.
The only satisfactory pompadour is the
result of combing down over the face
locks long enough to come at least
as low as the chin. Brush thoroughly.
Get the hair fluffy by whipping it out
with the brush. When it is SO, turn it
back with the comb. Let the roll stand
as high as is becoming, then tuck in
under it the ends. They serve to sup
port the roll, and the edge of the hair,
where it thus turns under, may be
caught by the side comb and held per-
fectly. This turning under should take
place far enough back to conceal the
parting. Such a pompadour will new
er slip.