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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-27
Gifls' Sc and 81 REFERS. - 9S.

lot of little girls REFERS. trimmed
and finished in the newest style
made Of boucles and rough cloths
which sold at Sc and 81. will be offered
for s2.9S.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-27

A lot OF stair or runner oilcIoth. in
pretty patterns, Will be offered for
4 7sc a yard.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-27

Mems suspenders, &c.
lot of mems good strong suspend
ers. with braided ends and patent cast
off-will go for sc.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-27
39c china silks. 19c.

a lot of 2O-inch all-silk black figured
china silks, in newest patterns-the
most desirable fabric for waists and
costumes-such as sell at 39c regu-
larry, will go at the startling price of
19c yard today.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-27

The choice of our ladies' trimmed
hats, which sold at Sf.9s, for sL4S-and
they are the most stylish trimmed hats
you can find at anywhere near the
price.
The times., 1899-09-24
PROPOSALS ARE WANTING.
No Bids for the Manual Training
School Building Received.

The District Commissioners expected to
receive bids yesterday in response to their
request for proposals for the construction
Of the manual training school building, for
the first eight divisions of the public
school They were disappointed. No con-
tractors responded to the advertisement.
Twice within a month has this occurred,
no bids having been received on the pro-
posed chemical engine house authorized by
the last Congress. The trouble seems TO
be due to the fact that local contractors
are busy and are not desirous of proposing
to do work on local municipal buildings for
the small sums named in the last District
appropriation act. The site for the build
ing for the first eight divisions OF public
schools is large lot recently acquired by
the District at the southeast corner of Sew
enth Street and Rhode Island Avenue. The
current District appropriation act made
500, 900 available for the construction of
the building. The only bidder on the work
was w E. Spier, who offered to erect the
building for $4,000, but even this bid is
informal, no certified check having been
received with it.
The times., 1899-09-24
LkNHhM TALKS OF TREES
The Parking Superihtsndenfs Re-
port for the Last Year.
New Plants Set out-Insect Enemies
of the Elm and Soft Maple Disap-
Best shade Producers - Effect OF
the Summers Favorable Weather

Trueman Lanham, the District Superin-
tendent Of Parking yesterday submitted to
the District Commissioners his annual re-
port. detailing the workings Of the depart
ment during the fiscal year ended June 30.
The department controls the trees in the
parking space of all the streets OF the city,
and is regarded as one OF the very impor-
tant branches OF the District Engineer
service. During the period covered by the
report 1923 trees were planted in the city
snc suburbs. distributed as follows: In the
Northwest, / 266; in the Southwest, 626; in
the Northeast, 347, and in the Southeast, 81.
These consist OF Norway, sugar, and soft
naples, pin oaks and red oaks, elms. lin
dens, Saiisburias, and Oriental planes.
These were all planted in the curb line, at
az average distance OF 81 feet apart, with
the exception Of q few IN the parking TO
take the place Of dead ones.
Owing 10 the exceptionally favorable
weather Of the summer season, the trees
in the streets Ct the city present an un-
usually healthy appearance this year" says
Dir. Lanhsm- This is especially the case
with the elms and soft naples. These two
varieties have been annually attacked by
insects, the former by the elm-leaf beetle
aad the soft maple, OF which there are
about 25. GOO planted in the streets, by a
scale insect. Previous 10 1897 the sof;
naples were being 50 severely attacked
that their extinction was threatened, and
further planting Of them was suspended,
except 10 fill vacant spaces IN streets al
ready planted with them. But for the
existence OF the elm-lesf beetle and the
consequent damage by it, the elm would
be far more extensively planted. as it is
said 10 be one OF the finest trees for plant
Ing avenues and wide streets.
The scale spoken OF on the soft naples
Seems 10 be disappearing, and many oi
the trees arc in good health and condition
that were suffering severely from IT, Some
q the best shaded streets are planted with
this tree; Of the largest, probably those on
Street, west Of Sixteenth Street. are the
best, while the younger trees east OF
Eleventh Street northeast and Twelfth
Street southeast. between Lincoln PARK
ard Pennsylvania Avenue are particularly
coed"
Mr. Lanhan thinks that the pin oaks
end Oriental planes are. next 10 elms
probably beSt adapted 10 wide thorough.
fares. but says that elms should again be
planted now that the beetle seems TO bt
disappearing. p Street southwest, Mis-
souri, Avenue and parts Of New Jersey
Avenue are archcd over by fine elm trees
while New Hampshire Avenue north O,
Pennsylvania Avenue and other places
where the trees are planted, are rapidly
approaching that condition Special at
tenton is invited 10 the red oaks or
The times., 1899-09-24
A New Corporntion,

The recent incorporation Of the Hungerford q
Darrell Advertising Agency Of this city directs
attention 10 the prosperous business conducted
by the agency which, up 10 the time of lncor-
porstion, was known the Star Advertising
Agency. The business established in ls92 by
William A. HungeTford, for seven years previous
10 that time the advertising writer for Wood
ward q Lothrop. In other city many
merchants-big and little-represented in the
columns Of the daily press Mr. Hungerford 5
patient persistent work in advocating the use
Of crisply-wTitten, business-like ads, with fire.
euent changes OF copy, had much to do in
bringing about this result
In 1886, Louis +. Darrell, who had, before
that time, conducted advertising business Of
his own, merged his business with Mr. Hunger
ford's and has been valuable assistant in build
ing Up the present business. At the recent in
corporation Frank Roe Batcheider, a trained
newspaper man, formerly with the Worcester
CMsss.) Telegram" and for several years clerk
OF the Committee on Banking and Currency OF
the House Of Representatives, entered the cor
p0ratiOB He is well known for literary work
regularly contributed TO leading magazines and
periodicals. The business Of the Hungerford q
Darrell Advertising Agency is a prosperous one.
II IS capitalized az 500, 600, all the stock being
held by the actual managers Of the business.
The foreign business OF the agency Is steadily
growing. at she same time that the local field is
being thoroughly cultivated The agency already
Baltimore. where II IS rapidly building up local
advertising business, besides getting good things
from the foreign field. The staff of the agency
includes fourteen ad-writers, bookkeepers clerks,
artists, etc, who are kept busy throughout the
Year- Its present quarters are at zoos Pennsyi-
William A. Hungertord, President: Louis r Oar.
Ieil, Vice President; Frank Roe Batcheder
Treasurer; Robert W Cox, Secretary: c. q
Archibald, Assistant Secretary.
The times., 1899-09-24
what one Hears In the Telephone.

(From the New Orleans Times DemocTat)
''It is very hard to realize that the voice one
hears over the telephone is not the voice OF the
person who is talking, said an electrician, chat
ting about the oddities of the business 1T seems
exactly like the real tones drawn out thin and
small and carried from a long distance by some
mechanical means-but it isn't. When one speaks
into the instrument a little diaphragm, like
drum head begins TO vibrate, and each vibration
sends a wave OF electricity over the wire. These
waves set up mimic vibration in another dia-
phragn at the opposite end which jars the air
and produces an imitation Of the original voice.
That's not a very scientific explanation but it's
accurate. The autographteegraph, which makes
a fac-simile Of handwriting. is a fair parallel.
You write your message with pen attached to
a special electrical apparatus, aud a little ink
siphon at the other end of the lire exactly imi-
tates every dot and curve. The result seems like
the real thing but it is merely frst-eaSs coun-
terieit It's the same way exactly with the voice
in The phone"
The times., 1899-09-24
KNOCKED FROM A TRAIN.
Runaway Boy From Richmond
Seriously Injured.

Grover Watkins, fourteen years old,
whose home is with his widowed mother
in Richmond, Va, was knocked from a
south-bound passenger train at the corner
of Sixth Street and Maryland Avenue
southwest about 10 o'clock last night, and
sustained injuries which may prove Of a
serious nature. The boy is now at the
Emergency Hospital, with his body badly
bruised.
The boy will be held at the hospital until
this morning, when, If his condition per-
mits, he win be turned over TO the police,
who viii hold him as a fugitive from his
mother. A companion of the injured boy,
who gave his name as Harold Vaughn
Lloyd, and his age as sixteen years. and
who claims TO be the son of a veterinary
surgeon in Richmond, is now a prisoner al
No. / station. He was arrested by Detec-
tive Hewlett. and win be held pending the
receipt OF information concerning him
Both boys claim TO have arrived in the
city Friday night from Richmond
The times., 1899-09-24
W. |. DU0GLAS $3.50 SHOE.
UNION MADE
My Washington store, 1913 Pa ave NV.
One MANS Scheme for Luneheon.
Vrom the PhiIadelphia Reeord.)


''The ordering OF my luncheon used TO be a
great nuisance, said lawyer yesterday. 81
would go into a cafe, perhaps pretty hungry,
but two or three minutes study Of the huge
menu would put me IN an uncertain, irritable
mood, and no matter what I'd order, woudn' I
enjoy 1t on account of the thought that l might
have ordered something different and better II
With 50 many books there it is impossible to sit
down and read one book contentedly, you can
at home But now | have arrangement that
makes my luncheon JOY. | said TO my waiter
one day: What eat here at noon costs me, on
the average, SIPS, and my average tip to you is
20 cents Now, you ought to know what a nice
luncheon is better than do so make YOU this
proposal Serve every day lunch OF my
ual number of courses, and whatever under Sl-25
it costs you keep The waiter jumped at
that. He brings me every day now a better meal
than | would think of ordering myself. and he
makes from 20 to 80 cents by keeping down the
price. II is q splendid scheme, and / wonder
why l never thought OF il before"
The times., 1899-09-24
/ S. KANN, SONS & co, Eighth and Market Spac

Twelfth Street west, between B Street
north and B Street south; to the pin oaks
on Wyoming Avenue between Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Streets, and 10 the Sails
burias on Pierce Place, between Four
teenth and Sixteenth Streets northwest.
For streets and narrow parkings it is said
that Norway, sugar, and soft naples seem
best suited, while plane trees planted suf-
ficiently wide apart serve the purpose, as
they can be pruned TO almost any shape
without apparent injury. During the
spring $500 seedlings were planted out IN
the nursery in rows, room for them being
made by the removal OF honey locusts,
Carolina and Athenian poplars, the plant
ing of which on the streets has been dis
continued. The number of trees in the
city is 7S,474.
The times., 1899-09-24
CarboIic Acid Kills Thomas smith.

Thomas Smith, colored, sixty years old, was
discovered in an unconscious condition at 222
Seaton Street northwest, at an early hour yes
terday morning, by Policeman Murphy, OF the
Sixth precinct from the effects of large dose
of carboiic acid which he drank by mistake.
Smith thought he was drinking gin and did not
S discover ma mistake until he had swallowed 2 ia
taken TO the Emergency Hospital, where he died
at o'eloal.. The body removed to the
morgue, where the coroner viewed il yesterday
afternoon and issued a certificate of accidental
DEATH Smith was veteran of the Civil War
and member of the G. A. r. He drew small
pension and was regarded as an honest indus
tTious man. He leaves a widow and two children
residing in PHILADELPHIA
The times., 1899-09-24
Carr,s ReIease From Jail.

James, alias Pat Carr, who has on
more than one occasion figured prominent
ly in the criminal courts of the District
during the last few years, and who Is serv-
ing a four months sentence in the District
jail, will be released tomorrow. Carr was
indicted, with Thomas Curridan, for house
breaking last spring. When brought to
trial, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to Imprisonment in the District jailt On
account of his good behavior as a pris-
oner, he was given the regular time allow
ance. five days for each month served.
The times., 1899-09-24
Guatemala Thanks Sylvester.

In letter to Major Sylvester, received at
police headquarters, yesterday morning, Minister
Antonio LaZo Arriaga, of Guatemala, extends him
the thanks and appreciation OF the Government
and people OF the Republic of Guatemala Tor the
police system prepared by Major Sylvester for the
City of Guatemala and established by Gustav
Joseph, formerly member OF the police force
in this city. Several months ago the Guatemalan
Minister called upon Major Sylvester and request
ed him to devise a police system for use in the
capital OF the Republic. and also asked that the
major recommend man capable of executing the
plans Major Sylvester complied with both requests
and recommended Gustav Joseph, then a private
the local force, for the position OF chief While
on a recent visit to Guatemala the Minister
noted number of improvements in the condition
OF the city, and his return he was asked to
convey the thanks OF the president and the peo-
pie to Major Sylvester for his services.
The times., 1899-09-24
Must Pay for the Lamp.

Thomas j. Fisher, the District Inspector OF
Electric Lighting, has recommended that the
Commissioners take action to secure a reim-
bursement to the District from the Knox Ex-
press Company for S25 for damage alleged to have
been caused to Coils lamp at the co ner OF Third
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue northwest A
team of the express company ran away last
Saturday, struck the lainppost in question and
destroyed the lantern, which is of an ornamental
pattern, and also broke the post off, The recon-
mendation has been approved.
The times., 1899-09-24
Word to Mothers.

Mothers of children affected with Group
or a severe cold need not hesitate 10 adj
minister ChamberIain's Cough Remedy. 1t
contains no opiate or narcotic in any form
and may be given as confidently to the
babe as to an adult. The great success that
has attended its use in the treatment OF
colds and Group has won for it the approval
and praise ii has received throughout the
United States and in many foreign lands.
For sale by Henry Evans, wholesale and
retail, and all druggists.
The times., 1899-09-24
HONOR TO CAPTAIN CHADWICK.
Citizens of West Virginia to Present
Him With Sword.

October 10 will be celebrated by the
citizens of Morgantown w. Va, as Chad
wick day, in honor of Capt. F. E. Chad
wick, native of that city, who COM
manded the flagship New York during the
Spanish war. sword, valued at $1,000,
will be presented to him by Governor At
kinson. representing the people of West
Virginia, and Rear Admiral Sampson will
attend as the commander in chief of the
North Atlantic station. In order to per-
nit this part of the programme his orders
to relinquish command of the station to
Rear Admiral Farquhar on October have
been changed to provide that the transfer
will not occur until the 18th Of the same
month
The times., 1899-09-24
A Runaway Roy Caught.

Theodore Ruley, fourteen years DID,, was ar
rested by Detective Herndon yesterday morning as
fugitive from his parents. Young Ruley's home
is in Baltimore, 9nd Tuesday morning he secured
city, where he was at work when the detective
arrested him. The Baltimore authorities were
notified OF the arrest and late yesterday after
noon, ]. n. Ruley, the boys father, came over
from Baltimore and took his home with him.
The times., 1899-09-24
Funeral y frank Roston.

Funeral services over the remains of the late
j. Frank Boston, who died Friday at his home,
1s0s Corcoran Street will be held at 80 o'clock
this afternoon from the Metropolitan A. NJ. E.
Church. The interment viii be in Harmony
Cemetery. The deceased was member of Prince
Hall Lodge, No. H. F. A. A. NJ, and graduate
of Avery College, Pennsylvania. He was well
known locally, and for nineteen years was an en-
ploye in the stationery division Of the Pension
Office.
The times., 1899-09-24
A Narrow Escape From Asphyxiation

By failing to turn off the full flow of gas in
her room, at 100 Second Street northwest, Mrs. J.
R. Wilson almost ended her life Friday night.
She found in unconscious condition by
her son yesterday morning and was hurried TO the
Emergency Hospital, where she was soon re-
vived The room in which she was found is
on the third floor of the building and the gas
jet is just the bed. II is thought that Mrs
Wilson reached up TO turn cut the gas while
lying in bed and did not turn the key all the
way round.
The times., 1899-09-24
conovers Demands n Jury Trial.

Edward Conovers arraigned in the Police
Court yesterday morning, charged with promoting
policy. Conovers arrested Friday morning by
Policy Detective Watson, at the OF Four
teenth Street ana Pennsylvania Avenue. and
number of policy slips found in his pos
session when he searched at the station
house. Watson had followed the man for several
hours before the arrest made and saw him
take money from number of people Conovers
pleaded not guitys and demanded jury trial.
The times., 1899-09-24
The Busy Corner.
A Special Drive i'm Ribbons.

We made purchase of 1000
pieces of high-grade fancy rib
bons in Plaids, Bayadere, and
Stripes. Also an elegant assort-
ment of colors in fancy satin and
plain taffetas. These goods are
from 3 to AZ inches wide, and are
suitable for neckwear, waist iix-
ings, and hat trimmings. Would
sell regularly at 35c and soc
yard, but having purchased such
an immense quantity,
enables us to make the or.
price. ZCS
The times., 1899-09-24
TenIeytown,s New Library Opened.

Mr. f. A. Shoemaker presided at the formal
opening of the Tenleytown Library and
reading room Friday evening, when an excellent
programme was rendered before large audience
Mr.. Shoemaker spoke of the great need OF a
library, and urged the earnest cooperation OF all
present adding that about 700 volumes had been
donated at this time. Prof. w. B. Ireland, Of
the Tenleytown schools; DIR. j. w. Chapel, and
Mr. John j. Dolan, of the Washington bar, made
brief addresses. Recitations and readings were
The times., 1899-09-24

Marriage licenses we're issued yesterday to Harry
P. Stewart and Alice NJ johnson; Anderson Cor
don and Ella Scott; Martin Luther Coyuen and
Cora Lee Ashby, both of Staunton, Va; Jacob
A. Stride and Elizabeth c. Baylor; Thomas
Brown and Josephine. jackson; Robert Zuberano
and Mamie Schultz Sprightley; Henry Kennedy
Pryor and Mamie Brown REYNOLDS James r.
Bailey, jr. and Theresa c. Kennon, both of Law
renee. Mass ,t ..-t..t..s i, -.
The times., 1899-09-24

II will be observed that nearly every man and
woman who drinks beer always call for HeuFich's.
Why this is 90 be accounted Tor because
Heurfefs Is pure and wholesome. DO you call
for Heurfch'sf Phone 6Si, Arlington Bottlng
Co, for case OF Maerzen, Senate, or Lager and
drink the best beer brcwed.
The times., 1899-09-24
That Broken Pane of Glass.

II was not noticed during the hot DAYS Of
summer. Now that the cool weather is fast ap-
preaching IL is about time 10 repair the window
at once. Don't have any draughts or the house
cold II is dangerous. An ounce OF prevention
is worth pound of cure. p. S. Warren Co., SIS
Ninth Street, supply two-thirds OF the homes
with glass. Prices always right. Send them your
orders 1t
The times., 1899-09-24
The Mortality Record.

Deaths were recorded at the Health Office yes
terday as follows: Joseph Duffy, 7S years; Mary
Mason Washington Evans, II years; Mary Jane
Fletcher. 20 years; Joseph Francis Boston, 40
years; William p. TAYLOR, q years; Martha Hig-
don, l year; Alphonse suliyo, months; Joseph
John Fowler, months; Name Gertrude May,
months: Henry Simmons q davs.
The times., 1899-09-24
Postal Convention DELEGATES.

The postal convention. which meets in st.
Louis September 26 to 20, viii have as its rep
resentatives from Washington Messrs. John w.
Holiday, James Monroe Britt, A. L. yickery, and
j. w. johnson. The delegates win establish
headquarters at the Southern Hotel.
The times., 1899-09-24
THE SIN AND NOON

Highest temperature yesterday, 2 p. m.....s0
Lowest temperature yesterday, a. m....... SO
The times., 1899-09-24
personuI Mentiou

Justice Bradley, OF the Supreme Court of the
District, who spent his vacation at
East Hampton, L. l., has returned to the city
and was at the court house yesterday.
The times., 1899-09-24

Sun rose. .5:51 AN. Sun SETS 5:54 P M
Moon rises. ...9:17 IN. Moon sets. ..............
The times., 1899-09-24
STREET. LICHTIN(

| Low tide de...........5:43 :43 AN and 5:57 P NJ
High tide. :27 AN. and 11:51 P NJ
The times., 1899-09-24
Marriage Licenses issued.

rendered by the Misses Mann, Grant, Young, and
Gibson, closing the meeting in enjoyable man
ner.
The times., 1899-09-24
Sale Of Sample
HandkerchiefS.

There is a firm in New York that
represents dozen Irish linen houses.
They are the largest importers Of
Handkerchiefs perhaps IN America
Just now thoughts OF the coming spring
season are keeping them on the jump
wholesalers figure six months ahead
always), so a fortnight ago they coli
leeted all the odds and ends Of their
stock. and all the samples their drum
mers have used, and made a general
lot Of them, and offered them TO the
different houses throughout the coun-
try at about half what they were worth
We bought 500 dozen Of Ladies' and
Mems Pure Linen Handkerchiefs,
which ordinarily would retail for 25
cents apiece Wonderfully fine goods.
They'll be on one Of the aisle tables
in the morning and choice of any win
be
%0L
The times., 1899-09-24
Oh, - ui,,,ts
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER "a. 1890.
The weather Prediction.
TEMPERATI1RF

Fair Sunday and Monday; fresh southerly
winds.
The times., 1899-09-24
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

Lamps lit today. ........................7 ..7:6l p
Lamps out tomorrow. w.................5:00 5: 100 A.
The times., 1899-09-24
TIDE TABLE.

New. ew................ 18th Full. lot
First quarter. 18th Last Quarter.... .26tl
The times., 1899-09-24

Heurieh's beers are always good.
The times., 1899-09-24

" Shadow
Silk" F"
Shadow silk is a lining just
like silk. It is made of hard
woven strands OF cotton that
have been subjected to the
same process which raw silk
threads receive when they are
prepared for weaving into
taffeta- 1t CLEANS, 1t rustles,
and 1t erackIes, and has all
the beautiful tonings Of the
expensive fabric. 1t wears
full better. Every
yard is a yard wide AnC
There are % shades Ql
ready for tomorrow. III
so pieces of moirts 2c
finish fast black per- nj
caline for one day....O4
22-ineh French shrunk hair
cloth. We guarantee every
yard OF French hair n4c.
cloth not to shrink. XIII
Special for one day....Of
One lot Of brocaded and
striped Innings in
new colors and ef- Tic
fects. Value, II LIE III
yard.
so pieces Of moire silk I'm
ish leather percaline-
This quality is worth a ac
zoe yard. Special for N
one day..