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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
TO IMPROVE OUR WATER
Feasibility of Filtration Will Be Investi-
gated.
Systems in Foreign Cities to BE
the System at Macon, Ga.

General Wilson, chief of engineers, has
made practical arrangements to execute
the will OF Congress in regard to improving
the condition of the water supplied to the
citizens Of the District of Columbia. The
District appropriation bill passed at the
last session in making appropriations for
the care of the Washington Aqueduct and
the water supply Of the District provided
among other things follows:
ITO enable the proper officer of the gov
ernment having charge of the Washing on
aqueduct and the water supply to the city
of Washington to make an investigation
of the feasibility and propriety of filtering
the water supply of Washington and to
submit to Congress a full and detailed re-
port ther. on, and to meet all necessary ex-
penses Of said investigation, 5000. Said
report shall be accompanied by detailed
estimate of the cost of the work required
and in making the investigation, and in
the preparation Of this report the chief of
engineers U. s. A., shall be associated with
the proper officer of the government in
charge of the aqueduct as consulting en-
gineer."
Foreign Filtration Systems.
In execution Of this statute Gen. Wilson
has arranged through the Secretaries of
tory and latest information concerning the
filtration systems adopted by the European
cities of Altoona, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Ber-
lin, Birmingham, Bradford. Bremen, Bres-
lau, Copenhagen, Dublin. Hague Hamburg,
Konigsburg, Leeds, Liverpool, London,
Magdeburg Rotterdam, ST. Petersburg
Stettin, Stuttgart, Warsaw and Zurich.
The Secretary of State has called on the
consuls named to supply all material data
relating to the operation of their systems
of water supply.
In addition to this preliminary work Col.
A. NJ. Miller, the engineer officer who is
directly charged with the completion of the
tunnel aqueduct and the Howard University
reservoir with a view to Increasing the
water supply of this city, has been instruct
ed to proceed to Macon, Ga, and make a
personal inspection of the system of fltra-
ton recently introduced in that city.
To Examine Macon's system.
The system at Macon embodies all the
latest improvements and most modern ideas
on the subject and will afford a good object
lesson to the officer who is called upon to
suggest to Congress the feasibility and
propriety of filtering the water supply of
Washington"
1t is the purpose of Gen Wilson and Col
Miller to make thorough and exhaustive
investigation of the subject and to report
the result to Congress at the earliest possi-
Die date. Gen. Wilson, as native of this
CITY, has always taken great personal in
terest IN all local matters, and 1t is under
stood to be his desire to accomplish a rad
lcal and comprehensive Improvement of the
water system of the District, both as re-
gards quantity and quality, before his re-
tlrement from active service a few years
hence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
TWO ADNIRtI.S COMING.
sampson and schIey Expected to Ar
rive This Evening.

rive This Evening.
1t is expected that Admirals Sampson
and Schley will arrive here this evening
from New York to confer with the Presi-
dent in regard 10 their new duties as mem
bers of the commissions to supervise the
evacuation OF the Spanish armies from
Cuba and Porto Rico. There is much in
terest in their visit. and they will receive
q warm welcome from all classes of So
ciety.
Acting Secretary Allen is authority for
the statement that the new assignments
Of these two officers will not necessitate the
rel!nquishment of their present commands
ahOat- 1t j. believed, however that future
developments may change present plans in
this respect. and that it will be found ad-
visable to place other officers in command
of the fleets of the North Atlantic squad
ron temporarily at least in order to permit
Admirals Sampson and Schley to give their
undivided attention to the important duties
of their shore commissions at Havana and
San Juan de Porto Rico. respectively.
There are several officers available for the
command of The North Atlantic squadron,
including Admira Howell and Commodores
Watson, Reney nd Philip. The best part
OF the squadron is now in home ports,
mainly at New York and Hampton Roads.
and II may be found embarrassing to man
age the multitudinous details connected
with their movements and affairs from
ports in the West Indies. Moreover. the
general impression is that Sampson and
Schley have each earned the right to a
vacation on shore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
DISTRICT TROOPS RETURN.
Will Disembark at Once Unless There
is Contagious Disease on Board.

The transport Hudson, carrying a detach-
ment of the LIST District of Columbia Vol
unteer Infantry, is expected TO arrive at
Montauk Point Wednesday evening. In
that event they will disembark the next
morning-that is, unless there is contagious
disease on board, which is most unlocked
for contingency
1t is said at the War Department that
there is no foundation for the report that
troops from Cuba are detained on the trans
ports at Montauk Point on account of in
sufficient hospital accommodations.
Adjutant General Corbln says that It Is
not SO. and that If transports are detained
1t is simply to permit OF their medical in
spection, a necessary precaution in the
case of vessels coming from a fever-in-
fected country AS to the District troops,
he says they will be landed without any
delay. except such is necessary to see
that they are not likely to introduce yellow
fever or any other contagion. The sick will
he taken to the hospitals at Camp Wikof
and the well will remain in that camp until
the remainder of the regiment, when. after
g. short stay at Montauk Point, 1t will be
ordered TO Washington and disbanded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
CONVENTION AT ST. LOUIS.
Arrival of the Advance Guard of Re-
pubIicans.

Arrival of the Advance Guard of Re-
pubIicans.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, August 22-A majority
of the members of the state committee and
many of the 1000 delegates and Iesions
of visitors expected to be present at the
republican state convention TO be held here
tomorrow, have arrived and more are ex-
pected before night.
The principal business of the convention
will be the selection of candidates for
judges of the supreme court, long and short
terms; state commissioner of railroads
and state superintendent of public in
struction, and the adoption of a platform
Already some of the candidates have ar
rived and established their respective head
quarters in different hotels. Thomas Ait
kins of Springfield is here with big dele
cation, which is booming him for the chair
manship of the state committee, in place
of Chauncey Ives Filley. Wallace Love of
Kansas City is also a contestant for the
state craftsmanship. There will be a strong
fight between the Filley and Kerens fac
tions to control the committee.
Judge Gardner Lathrop of st. Louis is
being talked of for the short term on the
supreme bench. Edw. H. Higbee of Lam
caster is a prominent candidate for one of
the supreme court terms, and shows con-
siderable strength.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22

All Regiments Soon TO Be Conveyed
to Their State Capitals.


to Their State Capitals.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ma
TIONAL MILITARY PARK, Tenn. August
22.-JudginC from present indications, Camp
Thomas, the largest military camp of the
Spanish-American war, will soon be thing
of the past A number Of regimapts have
already been ordered home. a number of
others have been ordered to Knoxville
Tenn, and Lexington, KY, and now comes
an order to Colonel Wheeler, acting chief
Quartermaster, to secure bids from rail-
roads to convey all regiments remaining at
the camp to their respective state capitals
The idea seems to be to get the regiments
to places where they can be mustered out
close to home, the necessity for keeping the
army intact being no longer in evidence.
The 1st Georgia and 3lst Michigan left at
midnight for Knoxville, where they will so
into camp. The 18th Minnesota and the 9TH
Pennsylvania will leave at an early hour
tomorrow for Lexington, and others of the
ID and Sd Divisions of the 1st Corps will
follow in short order. The ambulance COM
pany of the Sd Division goes TO Knoxville
tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
ABANDONs THE PLAN.
Mr.. A. o. Bliss VIII Not Erect an
Apartment House.


Mr.. A. o. Bliss has abandoned the plan
of erecting an apartment house on 10th
street just north of K street. Some months
ago he purchased wide frontage on that
street and made an application for a per-
NIT to erect an apartment house Ito feet
high. The District Commissioners declin-
ed to give permission for the erection of q
building in that locality of more than
ninety feet In height. This decision was IN
accordance with the building regulations.
and that particular part of the regulations
had just been sustained by the court in an
appeal taken from similar action of the
Commissioners in refusing a permit for an
apartment house at the northwest corner
of 18th and H streets, or Farragut square.
Mr.. Bliss has concluded that he will nor
attempt to erect the kind or structure that
he had in mind as long as he cannot ex-
tend to a greater height than the regular
tions allow, and as he has no other use for
the property he mas placed it on the mar
ket for sale.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
THRONGING TO THE FLEET
sishfseers Capture the Vessels Under
Admiral SAMPSON

NEW YORK. August 22.-The fleet of
Admiral Sampson continued to attract
much attention today 1t was a busy morn
Ing on the vessels. for the crews were
washing down deck and cleaning the ships
from bow to stern
The thousands of visitors to the warships
yesterday left much dirt behind them. and
this ali disappeared before the water used
by the jackies. Fresh supplies were being
loaded on the vessels again TODAY.
Dozens of boating parties We're about the
vessels, but visitors We're not allowed
aboard while ''house cleaning" was IN nro
gress.
The battle ships Oregon and Iowa left
Tompkinsville this morning and went To
the navy yard, Brooklyn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
TUG AFIRE RACED FOR SHORE.
Ran Five Miles Against Death and
Won in the End.

"oh the
CHICAGO, August 22.-Wfth a fire under
the deck, Capt Crawford ran his tug, the
Ira Smith, five miles under a full head Of
steam toward the mouth of the river.
For time the seven men on board were
In danger of being burnsd to death or
drowned. AS it was, five of them were
severely burned. They are Capt, James
Crawford, Walter Paxton, engineer; Karl
Knudson. John Krogman and G. H. Sager,
contractor.
While the tug was mile off Lincoln
Park a fierce blaze was discovered In the
hold Of the little craft that threatened to
destroy her.
Battling with the flames, holding the
steam at highest pressure and sounding
signals of distress on the whistle. the crew
worked with feverish energy. Thousands
of pleasure seekers on the lake shore drive
and the edge of the lake watched the race
against death. When the river was reach
ed the flames were under control. In the
river the flames again broke out, but were
socn extinguished by the fireboat Yosemite
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
THANKS FROM THE PRESIDENT.
His Gratitude for Kind Treatment of
Soldiers at Bellevue Hospital.

NEW YORK, August 22.-President Nc
Kinley has sent letter to Charities Com
missioner John w. Keller, thanking him
for his kind treatment of the soldiers left
at Bellevue Hospital to recuperate. The
letter states that the treatment accorded
the sick and wounded men has been the
very best they could have had
Surgeon General Sternberg also has writ
ten to the commissioner to thank him for
his treatment of the wounded and sick
Five more of the sick men left the fospi-
tai today. They were sent back to the
service at Fort Hamilton They are
Charles Henry, Company C, 9th Infantry;
Louis Jacobsen, Company d, 7th Infantry:
Nelson Johnson, Company c, 4th Infantry:
NJ. Lorwey, Company A, 7th Infantry
There are sixty man left at the hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
ST. PAUL LEAVING SERVICE.
At Philadelphia, Where She VIII De
Restored to Original Owners.

PHILADELPHIA, August 22.-The auxil-
larry cruiser St. Paul, which anchored at the
Brown, in Delaware Bay, last night, weigh
ed anchor this morning and proceeded up
the bay to this city. She will arrive at
Cramps ship yard late this afternoon. The
ST. Paul will be returned to the Interna-
tional Navigation Company by the govern
ment as soon as she is put in the same con-
dition as when the grsat liner was procured
for naval service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
SPANISH FoREBoDlNGs OF EVIL.
Minfstry's Organ Suggests Trouble to
Come Over War Questions.

MADRID, August %, a.m.-El Correo
the organ of the ministry, says: THE Gu
ban question may yet be the occasion Of
serious incidents, as may also be the ques-
ton of internal policy, which may raise in
cidents that 1t is difficult to foresee"
The Madrid press generally, and notably
Ell Heraldo, advises the government to seek
to save the economic situat on by means ex-
clusively Spanish, instead of appealing to
foreign capital. which Ell Heraldo says
will doubtless be offered, but on such
terms that the loans would be most burden
some"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
DIR. John F. Morse Dead.

SAN FRANCISCO. August 22.-Dr John
Frederick Morse, a member of the San
Francisco board of health and the state
board of health, prominent Mason, Odd
Fellow and Elk, died at his home in this
city yesterday of hemorrhage Of the brain,
induced by overwork.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
THE STAR BY MAIL.

Persons leaving the city for any
period can have The Star mailed to
them TO any address in the United
States or Canada, by ordering Il at
this office. in person or by letter.
Terms: 13 cents per week: 25 cents
for two weeks, or so cents per
month. Invariably in advance. SUBJ
scribers changing their address from
one Post-offiee to another should
give the last address as well as the
new one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
AMBASSADOR CAMRoN,s TRIP
He Left Yesterday 90 BE Gone Three
Weeks.

II. CambOn, the French ambassador. and
his son left Washington yesterday morning
for a pleasure trip through the north.
They will visit Niagara Falls, Montreal
and New London. ard be gone about three
weeks. During the ambassadors absence
II. Thiebaut the first secretary, will have
charge of the embassy and Will attend to
any business the Spanish government NAV
have with this government in Connection
with the treaty of peace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
ARSENAL FORCE REDUCTION.
About 700 Persons Will Stop Work at
FrankfOrd September L.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, August 22.-No-
tees have been posted at the Frankford
arsenal to the effect that the services of
all the extra men who were put to work
since the outbreak of the war will be dis
peEsed with on September !. About 700
persons are affected by the order. The re-
duction in force will reduce the daily. out
put from 100000 to 10000 cartridges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
PhiIanthropi-t Blair es Years OLD

NEW YORK, August 22.-John l. Blair.
the banker and philanthropist. is today cell
ebrating his ninety-sixth birthday at his
home in Blairstown. n. j. He founded the
town and nearly all the residents in it de-
started.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
ANOTHER KLoNDIkE STAMPEDE.
1t Sends 500 Idle Men in Hurry Out
of Dawson.

SEATTLE, Wash, August 22.-The lat
est stampede from Dawson City is the
north fork of the Forty Mile creek, on
American soil. This news has been brought
here by parties arriving from Dawson.
They report that on August 2 word of a
rich find on Forty Mile reached Dawson,
and in twenty-four hours about 500 people
had started for the scene of the reported
discovery. They were mostly idle men.
The miners did not take much stock in
the report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
ANOTHER POWDER EXPLOSION.
Killed Two and Perhaps Six Others
VIII Die.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, August pa
Tremendous explosion at the plant of the
Chattanooga Powder Company at Oolte-
wah station eighteen miles from the CITY
killed two white men, Lucius B. Eakin
and Harton Mortchke, and wounded seri-
ously, IL not fatally, six others After the
explosion the plant was destroyed by fire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
oregon mt BrookIyn Yard.

NEW YORK, August 22.-The battle ship
Oregon left her anchorage off Tompkins-
Vile. S. l., this forenoon and went to the
Brooklyn navy yard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
COMING TO WASHINGTON.
Spanish Prisoners En- Route From
Fort NcPherson.

Fort Mcpherson.
Fourteen Spanish prisoners, who have
been held at Fort Mcpherson, Ga, will
reach Washington at lilo tonight over
the Atlantic Coast Line under charge OF
Lieutenant Burlington and a guard of thir-
ty-five recruits of the Sd Infantry, who are
bound for Montauk Point. Five lieuten-
ants of the 18th Infantry also accompany
the party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
Local Pensions.

Pensions were granted today to the fol-
lowing residents Of the District of Column
Tia: Matthew Dopohue, 50; Anita H. Nc
Kee, $25.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
EIGHTY SOLDIERS DROWNED.

Fears That All Perished Through
Collapse of Pontoon bridge.
LONDON, August ga dispatch from
Buda Pesth to London news agency says
that yesterday while a regiment was cross
Ing pontoon bridge over the river Maros,
near Hoad. the bridge collapsed. Three
hundred men were immersed and 1t lis
feared that eighty were drowned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
Leave for Lieut.. Weaver.

Leave of absence for one month on &c
count of sickness is granted First Lieut..
Clarence A. Weaver, assistant surgeon, 1st
District of Columbia Volunteer Infantry
The resignation of Second Lieut. Alfred
B. Maclay, United States Infantry (5th
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-04
ANTICosTI,

Montreal, Nov. 3.-Joseph Chamber lain. secretary of state for the colonies, has telegsaphed to the Dominion gov ernment asking for full particulars re- earding the sale of the island of Anti costi to M. Menier, the French chocolate manufacturer The authorities at Ot- tawa have ordered the attorney general of the province of Quebec to make a full report of the sale and also of the subsequent action of M. Menier regard ing the eviction of settlers, and the re- port will be cabled at once to the Brit ish authorities It is feared here that 1t is the intention of the present pro- prietor to make the island French colony. with the idea of it's being subse- ouentIy ceded to France and used as a base of supplies in case of an outbreak of hostilities between France and Great Britain. It is believed that the British government will order the cancellation of the sale.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-04
YALE GRADUATE DEPARTMENT.

Slight Increase in the Enrollment-Un-
 iversities and College Represented.
 The catalogue of the Graduate school is now in press and will appear in a few days. It shows an increase of six in this department of the university, the enrolment this year being 276. One hundred and sixty-seven of these were students here last year and the remain der entered this fall. There are thirty two women students this year, com pared with thirty-fve last year.
 One hundred and forty-nine of the students have come directly from Yale, Eleven have received degrees from both Yale and some other university. The other students represent the following universities and colleges: Smith col lege, s; Wellesley college, $; the Dashi- sha, Japan, 6: Vassar college, ,; Har- ward, 4; Wesleyan university, f; Am herst, 1; University of Nebraska, 3; Colby, 3; Bethany college, 3; Indiana university, 3; Cornell, 3; scattering, 45.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-04
NEW BOOK ON YALE.

MT Walter Camp, 80, and Mr. Lewis S. Welch. 'S9, will shortly publish a book on "Old Yale: Her Triumphs and Traditions" The book will be pub lished by the firm of L. c. Page & Go. of Boston, and will come out about the middle of November. It will contain about six hundred pages and will have large number of illustrations. The athletic section is written by MT. Camp and the rest of the book by MT. Welch. In the portion of the book devoted to educational study of the university MT. Welch has been assisted by large number of professors, who have either themselves written or else edited the chapters devoted to their special branches.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-04
WALLINGFoRD EVENrS.

There seems to be surplus of can didates for the positions for representa- tives on the democratic ticket in Wall ingford, Better send some of them up to Meriden where 1t is hard to find a candidate to stand for nomination.
 I. w. Bull Is building a tall tower over the spring south of Hall avenue in which pump will be worked by a windmill to pump water into the tank to furnish the new houses that are go- ing up on Bull avenue.
 The voting list as it now stands con- tains 2,O37 names, including the 24S in the second Yalesville voting district
 F. c. Allen has sold to M. O'Connell 20xa00 Seet of land on Ward street.
 Tonight will occur the masquerade of Wallace Hose company in the ar morx and the affair is sure to be a suc- cess.
 For the month of October there were thirteen marriages and ten deaths in !, town that have been returned to the town clerk. The returns from one physician shows thirteen births, with several other doctors to hear from.
 The Branford High school football team will play here tomorrow with the High school eleven on the associa- tion grounds near Meadow street
 The Yale law school eleven will play the Wallingford football team here next Tuesday.
 The polls will be open here on elec- tion day from 8 to 5 and not from to as the types made it read yesterday morning. The polls should open at 6 o'clock in the morning, as it would prove a great convenience to many who would like to vote before going to the factory.
 The ladies of the Baptist church will have a squash and pumpkin pie sale at the church parlors this evening.
 Prof. w. E. Rogers will this evening give complimentary german to the pupils in Masonic hall
 Rev. l.. F. Perry of Yalesville will conduct the services at the Masonic home on Sunday
 The Whittlesey avenue school will be closed to-day as the teachers visit oth- CT schools.
 Robert Allen, now located at Hal flax river in Florida, writes that there is great sport there fishing and bass are very plentiful and vary in weight from sixteen to thirty-two pounds in weight. Ninety-two recently caught weighed over 1.600 pounds.