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THE UNIFORMS % NOT FIT
Astor's Artillerists Not Pleased
With Their Clothes.
CHOOSE ANOTHER TAILOR
The Men Are Remeasured and a
New Contractor Promises That
the Raim~nt VIII suit-The De-
partare of the Battery Is Delay
ed Until Next Friday.

New York, June 4.-There was much
disappointment at the barracks of the
Astor Mountain Battery, in Broadway,
yesterday, and 1t is feared that the COM
mand will not be ready for service as
soon as was expected. Uniforms suffi-
cient to equip all the enlisted men were
delivered by the contractors on Thursday
evening, but were promptly rejected by
Lieutenant March on examination yester-
day morning.
The uniforms called for in the specifi-
cations were of the ordinary United
States service type-cloth jackets of dark
blue and lighter colored trousers of fan
mel Apparently no attention was paid to
the specifications. for neither the cloth
nor the flannel resembled the samples.
The cutting and fitting were also unsat-
isfactory. The men were remeasured and
a new contractor promised to have all the
uniforms delivered by next Tuesday. This
was the day set for the battery to leave
the city bound for the Philippines by way
of San Francisco. but 1t will hardly be
in condition to march then. II is not ex-
pected that the battery will leave before
next Friday.
Aside from uniforms the equipment of
Pith helmets, patterned after those used
by the British army in hot climates. were
received yesterday. They are covered
with white cloth and bear the battery de-
vice in front The tropical uniforms of
brown light canvas. it is expected, will
be delivered within a few days. Shoes
and brown canvas leggings have been is
sued, besides ponchos. rubber blankets
and blue flannel shirts.
There was much rejoicing yesterday
over the arrival of the first of the six Il
Founders that constitute the battery The
weapon was delivered boxed. AS soon as
the rest of the guns are delivered they
will be assembled and mounted and regu-
lar battery drills will take the place of
the present instruction in infantry tactics.
Men appear daily at drill in the uniform
of the regiment or battery to which they
formerly belonged. but the greater num-
Der report in flannel shirts and trousers.
Numerous applications for admittance
to the battery were received yesterday,
but every vacancy had been filed. with
the exception of>a few places reserved
for special artificers.
II was reported yesterday that all the
battery mules had been purchased in ST.
Louis. where they will be picked up by
the command.
The men have adopted a battery yell:
Who are, who are. who We?
John jacob Astor's crack bstteree,
Much satisfaction was expressed yester-
day by the men of the One Hundred and
Seventy-first Provisional Regiment, which
was mustered in on Tuesday over a re-
port that the regiment would soon be
called out.
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RIGHTS OF PRESS BOATS.
Jamaican Authorities May Hold
They Are Belligerents.

Jamaican Authorities May Hold
They Are BeIligerents.
Kingston. Jamaica, June 4-The gov
ernment here is much exercised over a
Point that has arisen in connection
with the observance of neutrality
1t has been stated that press dis
patch boats touching at the various
ports of the island have been carrying
not only press messages but also Of
ficial communications passing between
the American Government and the
commanders Of the fleets in Cuban
waters.
1t is contepded in some quarters that
in many cases where they carry gov
erEment dispatches the press dispatch
boats should be regarded as tenders
to belligerent, vessels and should only
be permitted to take on enough coal
to last them the nearest port in their
own country. and that they should not
be allowed to enter the same port twice
within three months.
The attorney general declines to give
an opinion On the new point in interna-
tional law herein involved. and a de-
cision by the imperial authorities has
been asked for by cable.
Whatever the answer from the home
government, dispatch boats will be re-
garded as private vessels except In
specific cases. where 1t is proved they
are carrying official dispatches.
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loaflng around indiscriminately but really

loafing around indiscriminately. but really
on still hunt for Spanish warships.
Smoke on the starboard bowl! reused
the men of the st. Paul early on the
morning of May D. Away to the west
ward could be seen the smudge, on the
sky line that tod Of craft steaming east
ward. First two and finally seven ships
were sighted. and the St.TPaul cautiously
advanced. ready at an instant's notice to
execute a hasty strategic movement to
the rear should the strangers prove to be
enemies. But they weren't. A futtering
string of signals told that the commodore
was coming. and an hour later Capt.
Sigsbee was rowed in his gig to the flag
ship
When the vessels moved past the mouth
Of the harbor that afternoon. there was
a surprise in store for them. Two Span
ish war vessels had slipped down the har-
bor and lay one on either side Of the mar
row entrance. They moved back up the
channel a little later. One of them was
recognized from her peculiar riga mill
tary mast between two smoke pipes-as
the Cristobal Colon, but the other could
not be identified.
Commodore Schley relieved Captain
Sissbec of his patrol duty. and on that
day the st. Paul bore away toward Mole
st. Nicholas. to the great disgust of the
crew. They had lain for eight days with
in sight of the enemy, and now were sent
OF on peaceful errand Just when it be-
gan to look like business.
On May 20. at half past o'clock in the
afternoon. she ran into SIMPSONS feet of
Havana. and was ordered to New York
''for coal and orders
The st. Paul carries crew of 524 officers
and men, Every one of them is eager to
get back to the scene of action, though
the cool weather here is gratefully en-
joyed. Drifting before Santiago the ther-
mometer in the sun often stood at lbs de-
grees. and s. degrees in the officers cab
ins.
Heaven only knows what it was in the
stoke holds" said an officer When the
st. Paul was converted her ventilating
apparatus was removed, and the men be-
low suffered terribly. When a ship of
this size. that uses 800 tons of coal day.
is being pushed along at q knots an hour.
it means continual shoveiing of coal. The
stokers' shift was four hours on and eight
of. Frequently three or four of them
would be laid out in one watch"
THE most exciting chase we had" one
of the officers said, was after a cloud.
Yes. sir; after measly cloud. 1t was
mistaken for the smoke of a ship and We
used about seven tons of coal before We
discovered that We were pursuing an at
mospheric phenomenon. Besides. rain has
not been declared contraband of war"
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MaryInnd Appointments.

Annapolis. Nd. June 4-The governor
of Maryland has appointed and commits
stoned the following: John c. Hackett
justice of the peace for the First district
of Queen Anne County; Charles T.
Smith. of the Second district, same coun-
ty. same office: Benjamin T. Hartley.
same for Seventh district of the same
county. vice Amos Lynch failed to quail
ify: James Fl. Massey. same for Thir-
teenth district of Montgomery County.
vice M. Dorian, declined; William F.
Miller. same for Tenth district of Fred
erick County, vice H. Brenneison. failed
to qualify; DR.. Richard F. Gundry, of
Baltimore County. member of the
board of managers of the Second Hos
pital for Insane. vice self, failed to quail
ify.
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Bomhardment of San Juan.

Baltimore, June 4.-Miss Mamie Beeh-
Ter, who lives at No. 1903 West Lexing-
ton Street. has received letter from her
brother, Lieutenant Commander William
II. Beehler. of the U. s. ship Montgom-
ment of San Juan On May L. he says.
Fort Cannelo was attacked. but made no
response. The big hills were enveloped
in smoke. The Detroit found a heavy
battery close to her, and she fired con-
tinuously until the admiral signaled her
to join the Montgomery. The shells from
the battery dropped all around the Mont
gomery. but none of them hit her. On
May 16 Lieutenant Beehler says three
Spanish gunboats were found fleeing up
the river at Puerto Principe, and were
chased into shallow water.
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The Hon. John Sherman. ex-senator
and ex-acting Secretary of State under
Judge Day is on his way to Alaska. He
has only waited for the opening of navi-
CATION to make a rush for the Klondike.
where he is not likely to hear of such
obnoxious things as the annexation of
Hawaii or American retention of the
Philippines. to both of which he is bit
terly opposed. He laughs heartily about
his alleged feeble condition of mind. and
declares himself as intellectually COM
retent as any one-year-old in the coun-
try. There is good deal to be said from
this point of view.
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Who are, who are. who are We?
John jacob Astor's crack batteree,
HARLE SHOT HIMSELF.
Tired of Life. But still Loved Wife
and Baby.

Baltimore. June flames A. Harle
thirty years of age. of No. 10 West Fay
ette Street, shot himself yesterday short
ly after 3 o'clock in his left breast with a
32-caliber revolver. He was removed to
the Maryland University Hospital in the
Western District patrol wagon. After
probing for the ball for some time the
surgeons were unable to locate it. His
condition is serious, though not necessa-
rily fatal.
Shortly before doing the rash act Mr..
Harle wrote the following note to his
wife. Virgie Harle:
Dear Wife-Although betrayed and de-
serted. in death l love you still. and be-
yond the grave. Good-by. and may God
bless you and the baby.
Your loving husband.
-. A. HARLE.''
II was stated at the hospital late last
night that Mrs. Harle had called there.
and was anxious for a reconciliation with
her husband.
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Regulars I'm Volunteer Service,

A decision by the Paymaster General
Of the Army, just announced, will be
received with surprise and profanity in
the service. and with wonder and indig-
nation by sensible people generally. If
1t is good law, then the law should be
changed instantly; but we are not ready
to believe that it is good or any other
kind of law. While the ukase comes
from the fertile brain and trenchant
pen of first-class paying teller in
shoulder straps with star, it reeks
with the personality of Lyman J. Gage
This may be merely unconscious imita-
ton. If so, We recommend Paymaster
Stanton to take mild purgative
The Solomonic judgment in question
is this: Regular officers assigned to vol
unteer commands, with increased rank,
are only entitled to draw the pay of
their Regular Army rank, except when
actually engaged in operations against
the enemy. Let us see how this will
work. A second lieutenant of cavalry,
We will say, is commissioned colonel of
a mounted regiment by some governor,
and is allowed to take the command.
He has spent years in the study of his
profession, has been graduated from
West Point with honors. and perhaps
has gained laurels on the plains As
likely as not the governors sen OF
nephew is made lieutenant colonel, on
the strength of experience in upsettirg
ink bottles on pine table in a lawyers
Office, or sanding sugar in a country
store. He will enjoy the substantial
salary of relatively high rank, whatever
1t is-three thousand dollars or there
abouts-while his colonel must be con-
tent with the old modest stipend of a
hundred dollars a month.
Nevertheless, the latter, at once, up
on being commissioned as a volunteer
regimental commander, will be compel
led to buy the costly equipment of a
field officer and submit to the unavoid-
able personal expenses incidental to his
rank.
Now. We desire to ask this brigadier
Judge and bursar what he supposes the
country will think of such a condition.
Perhaps he may have warrant of stat
ute for saying that competent, train
Cd soldier, on service as a colonel is
only entitled to the pay of a subaItern,
while perfectly innocent and ignorant
civilian BON Of some millionaire or pol
itdan is welcome to the full remun-
GRAFTON Of his rank In the absence Of
complete proof to the contrary, we
must regard such a conclusion as
tdiotic. As far as we know. precedent
and practice have been all to the con-
tsary. When Second Lieutenant Grant
vas assigned to duty az aide de camp
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We have lost sight of our friend Mar
Gus AlOnzo Hanna for some time. He
has been lost In fog Of patriotic inter-
est from which he emerges once more
as large as life and twice as handsome.
Not to be outdone by young Astor. who
has donated q hundred thousand-dollar
mountain battery to his country. Senator
Hanna has sold his steam yacht Com
anche to the Government at the same
price. Generations yet unborn will hail
this Ohio iron monger as the benefactor
of his kind. On its conversion into an
auxiliary cruiser the name of the Com
anche is to be changed to ''The Slick
Citizen"
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Hold Him Tfuht.

II is with the greatest sense of re-
lief we learn today that the War Board
has urged Captain and Acting Rear
Admiral Sampson not to do a thing to
Santiago until the advent of the land
troops, which may be expected to occur
almost any minute between now and
Christmas. The admonition came just
in the nick of time. That wild and
fiery youth, Sampson, already had be-
gun to be up to his old tricks again.
Coming down the Windward Passage
and all around by the south coast to
keep Schley from stealing a chance for
action and credit, that unfortunate
sailors inferior-superior officer hardly
appeared upon the scene than he caus-
ed the earth to tremble by sending a
coal boat into the harbor to find out
if it was mined.
The movement was of that brilliant
style of investigation for which we
have been praising the admiral for
weeks. We may consider that the de-
struction of the collier Merrimac prac-
tically finishes the Sampsonian sea
campaign. We are not aware that
there is single vital fact connected
with the situation which he has not
made as clear as day. Through his
roble and self-sacrifcing efforts. we
know that Blanco has constructed su-
perb defense works. mounted high
power Krupp guns on them, and. man.
ned them with genuine imported French
and German artillerists. Much of
Simpsons time has been spent in front
of Havana, watching these operations
with that strict attention to detail
which is ever the mark of a scientific
and bureaucratic mind. We also are
places there are elements of hostility,
while the presence of strong forts and
heavy guns at San Juan is no longer
a matter of mere conjecture.
For all these contributions of mill
tary knowledge We are under obligation
to Sampson, who has been devoting
weary weeks to the task of assuring an
finding the line of least resistance and
then seizing it. He has grappled for it
with much more success than he has
for the cables. most of which are still
working. He found it, in fact, with
out much difficulty. 1t is the line which
extends from up and down and all
around, back to Key West.
With that final Accomplishment. the
President, Congress and the country
ought to be satisfied. We are, and
more. Sampson should be ordered to
follow it and return to the yearning
arms of grateful nation. Whut il
needed now, since the admiral has
cleared up every doubt, is a man in
his place Of less brain and potentiality
in other respects. Perhaps a fighting
admiral like Dewey could be used to
advantage. always presuming that the
War Board would then be locked up in
the Navy Department cellar. Samp-
son is too valuable to be wasted on
mere sea service. He ought to be de-
tailed for meteorological observations
on Pixies Peak, or sent to Germany
to study germs, or, perhaps. better still, |
be ordered to prepare a treatise on
"how to conduct distant war from an |
old ladies' tea party in Washington"
He should be given something to do |
other than what he has been engaged |
In not doing for six weeks.
Whether the fault is altogether his |
or not. the country Is weary Of Samp-
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In his speech sat the AngIo-American
dinner In London last night. Lord Cole
ridge paid this country a high compli-
ment for its motives in engaging in the
present war; and said: I'VE do not ask
public alliance. offensive or defensive.
What We seek Is personal and interna-
tional friendship That is sensible
view to take of the growing rapproche-
ment between the two great English
speaking countries. Mutual understand
ing. good will and honesty Of dealing
with each other. is all the alliance that
the present conditions require. Something
Closer might be necessitated by outside
hostility in the future. But we need not
cross the bridge until We come to 1t.
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The Navy Department is said to have
Information to the effect that the Cadiz
squadron, under Admiral Camara, is real
ly going TO Manila, and fears for the safe
ty of Admiral Dewey begin to loom. He
needs re-enforcements badly enough no
doubt. and they should be rushed for
ward; but why do not we do little Span
ish bluffing too? What is the matter with
a demonstration against the Canary ISL
ands. and such things? We seem too
much inclined to conduct our offensive
operations .defensiveiy!
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s.u.tor Eaclep,. Mill.

La Plata, Nd. June 4--The following
will Of the late Hon. Richard H. Edeien,
of Charles county, was filed In the Or
phan's Court yesterday for probate: II
give and devise and bequeath all my prop
erty of every kind and description, Ynclud-
ing the real estate in the city of WASH
ington to my wife, Mary B. Edelen. and
/ hereby constitute and appoint her and
George E. Hamilton. Of Washington city.
executors of this. my last will and testa-
ment." The date is July IS. 1892.
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EMPLOYED coLoRED HELP.
Alleged That Incompetent Work
Was Done en- F.rti6catiOns.


New Orleans. June 4.-The employment
of colored labor on Forts St. jackson and
st. Philip, twenty miles down the Mis-
sissippi River, promises interesting de-
velopments.
Major Quinn, United States engineer
for this district. is alleged at the dicta-
ton of Henry Demas, the noted colored
politician, to have discharged the white
laborers and sent down $50 negroes.
The first night it was found that the ne
groes were incompetent to carry on the
work Major Quinn reported to Demas
that his men could not do the work In
the meantime there had been strike
among the white mechanics remaining at
the forts.
Yesterday in the Louisiana State Iegis-
iature. Senator st. Paul introduced res
olution that the Louisiana representa-
tives in Washington be urged to secure
the transfer or removal of Major Quinn
from the station in charge of the Missis-
sippi River defense. This resolution has
created a sensation in this city.
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Mr.. Davis. Grave Decorated.

Richmond. Va. June 4.-The grave of
President Jefferson Davis was yesterday
decorated by Mrs. E. c. Pendleton. The
mound in Hollywood. which marks the
last resting place of the President of the
Confederacy, was literally strewn with
flowers. One of these designs was Con-
federate flag. and was beautiful piece of
work. Mrs Pendleton Is the vice regent
of the Mississippi room of the Confeder-
ate Museum and was some days ago as
signed the task Of decorating President
Davis grave.
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The Theosophical Society is about to
move its headquarters from New York to
Cincinnati. We do not know why. but
there are probable advantages involved.
1t will be possible for the material per-
sons of the members to transact philo-
sophical business and extend the propa-
ganda downtown while their actual bod
les are having no end of a good time
"over the Rhine"
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rire AM a v.cant Hou.e.

A vacant house at 1117 Third Street
southeast. was nearly destroyed by fire
shortly before o'clock this morning.
Policeman Buckley discovered flames
emerging from the basement of the house
and turned in an alarm; from box o.
The engines responded quickly. but the
building was soon enveloped in flames,
and when it was finally extinguished $500
damages had resulted. rfThe building was
owned by Charles King. The cause Of
the fire Is unknown. t ~
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son. and we think that Mr.. Mckinley
owes it to the naval service and the
American people to make change
without more ado about 1t. Why not
give Schley a chance? He has shown a
disposition to fight! Why not muzzie
the precious Board and let him have
try at 1t?
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BUILDERS TRIAL TRIP.
Japanese Cruiser knsngl Left the
Ysrds Yesterday.

Philadelphia, June 4.-The Japanese
cruiser Kasagi, which is to be the fast
est afioat, In charge of Capt Sargent left
Cramps shipyard early this morning for
her builders' trial trip. The cruiser will
be tested tomorrow on a forty-mile
course. from Five Fathom Bank lightship
to the Fenwick island light.
The contract Of speed of the Kasagi is
to be twenty-five and a half knots. but
those in charge Of her are confident that
she will exceed this speed by at least one
knot The Kasagi will fly the Japanese
flag at onca She is to receive her arm
ament in England
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Not Suited to the Crime.

The other day a would-be playwright brought
to Richard Mansfield play for him to read.
The actor found 1t cxecrable and when the author
demanded a verdict Mr.. Mansfield felt it
kindness to point out the mistakes he had made
But the tyro waxed wroth. ''Do you know that
play cost me years hard labor?'' he exclaim-
ed. ''My dear man, you are Fortunate" returned
the unperturbed actor; "a more Just Judge
would have made it ten ycars-he really would"
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LETTER FROM cH1cKAMAueA.
Baltimore Woman Has IDte eresting
News From the Camp.

News From the Camp.
Baltimore. June 4.-Mrs. Augustus F.
Sturgeon. No. 1886 East Lombard Street
received an interesting letter from her
son, George E. Sturgeon. who is MEM
Der of the Fifth Maryland Volunteers
The letter was dated at Chickamauga
Park. Ga, May 30.
Young Sturgeon referred in his letter
to the attempt that was recently made
by Spanish spy to poison the drinking
water of the boys of the Fifth at Chick
amauga- He wrote "A Spanish spy put
poison of some kind in our water, but
no one drank any of it. A guard saw the
man dropping the poison in the water,
and six men shot at him."
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No Acrnpa-stand PIay.v

From the Chicago Chronicle.)
To show that his offer Of services to the coun-
try was no mere grand-stand play William Jen-
nings Bryan has enlisted as private and is
serving in a company of Nebraska volunteers
which will be mustered in as United States SOL
diers under the new call for troops. None Of
Mr. McKinley's special friends who rendered their
services have shown this evidence of sincere pa
triotism.
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"The4 world Do Novel,
(From the Richmond Dispatch.)

IfrUm tne Hdcnm0nu Dispatch.1
The tune Of Dixie has been Incorporated into
the repertoire 81 the Army bands; Lee is at
the head of A'Yankee'' army corps, and now
we hear that the regulars are using ..the rebel
yell'' in the charges that they are making upon
the drill-held against imaginary enemies Truly
the world do move, the teachings Of the sable
philosopher Of Richmond to the contrary not.
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Only the President.s SIGNATURE

Only the Presidents signature was
lacking last night to make COM
plete the fraternity of our COM
mon country. The bill removing the
last vestige of disability from our breth-
rem in the South, Is likely to become a
law today. 1t should be asigned with q
pen made of quill from the wing of
gray eagle. and jeweled with bright blue
sapphire. That pen ought to become a
treasure to our Americas 'posterity. Hur-
rah. for the Blue and the Gray!
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Frankly Stated.
(From the Boston JournaI., ,

IFrom the bOstoh JOurnaI.J
The frankncss Of Texas is one OF its charms.
A Boston merchant received the other day a let
ter from Texan in which he excused himself
for slcwness lin paying up by describing the hard
times in his town He closed thus: Confirming
what have written above. inclose letter from
the president OF the bank in which for several
wears | have kept my overdraft."