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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-22
Washington stock Exchange.

Sales regular call II O'Clock m-Potomac Fire
at W, 70 at s2 Mdrsentbai sGiG Iui7 ~ at Pa
Zo41l 10 at aIS2, 10 at 2O3I2. To at a3Is Auieri-
can Graphohone preferred 10 at 49,
District of Columbia Bonds. -5s 1899 20-ycar
funding, 100 bid. rs, 1901, water stock los hid
Miscellaneous Bonds Metrop5liTan RAILROAD IS
inde6t 4 III asked Metrapotan R siI,ad cr r
indebt., Il, xIl6 asked Columbia Railroad Is ia
bld. rs asked Columbia Railroad I'd mort =
Io'i "a bld "a ne asked city and Suburban Railroad
os 100 bid Washington Gas CO. series A. Gs ltrli1
bld- washington Gas Co series b, Us. loaiS lid
O. & Electric Light cert agP i l oS Is ig ss s
tnteapeaks and Potomac Telephone 5s, lo4 bid
Market Co Isl IS LOS bid washington S Maize
90. imp ns' los bd; Washington Market % extn
American Graphophone deb. 5s. 100 bid.
National Bank Stocks.-Bank of Washington 40
bid, Metropolitan, as bid. Central. 100 bid.
Citizens l6o bid. Columbia, li5 bid, l55 asked.
10 bid; l25 asked. Lincoln. IFS bid. l25 asked
Safe Deposit and Trust Companies -National Safe
DEPOSIT De- T and y Pras Ia asked Washington Loan
and Trust 19S asked. Washington Safe Deposit
Insurance Stocks Firemen's "a bid Franklin.
e bid 60 asked. Metropolitan. 80 bid. Corcoran.
asked; German American. 2lO bid. National Union,
Riggs, s9s bid. Peoples, 90 bid, es, asked Lin
CON, ia bid, J3 asked. Commercial, ~ bid, AZ,
asked. 70
Title Insurance stocks-ReaI Estate Title. ~ hid
no asked Columbia Title, SIS bid, q asked. Dis
triet Title. 2ls bid By asked
Railroad s,ocks.-Captal Traction Co. sIll hid
w asked. Metropolitan, KIDS hid. MrtrnDOlitsn
trust receipts. DDS bid. 30 asked Columbia trust
receipts. las bid l49 asked. City and Suburban 40
bid ~ asked.
Gas and Electric Light Stocks.-washinrton Gas.
Vol bid 5ll4 asked. Georgetown Gas. 65 asked
Z. 5. Electric Light. l32 bid.
Telephone Stocks.-Chesapeake and Potomac, 7TSi
bid 80 asked.
Miscellaneous stocks-MergenthaIer Iinotype.
203A bid, 2o3la asked. Lanston Monotype, 10 lid
20 asked American Graphophone 13A bid Il ssk,
ed American tsrnDhOplgnp Dr.af.r rpd
asked. Pneumatic Gun Carriage. Al hid 49 asked
Washington Market. Is bid. Great Falls lee, ll5
bid, l65 asked Norfolk and Washington Steamboat
105 bid. Lincoln Han, 100 asked.
xEx dividend
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-22
DECLARES DIVIDENDS.
Action of the Directors of Washing
ton Gas Company

At meeting of the directors of the
Washington Gas Company held today an
extra dividend of 81 per snare was declared
payable on the LIST of June, and also the reg
ular dividend of 30 cents per share The
total dividend will therefore be $50 per
share, which will be payable to stockhold-
ers who were of record at the close of bust
ness Saturday night last. The closing of
the books Saturday not generally
known, and today when it was announced
at the meeting of the local stock exchange
some of the brokers who had sold gas stock
Saturday, unaware that The books were to
be closed on that day and without any res
ervation in regard to the dividend, express
ed themselves as dissatisfied as they had
been led into loss of at least 81 per share.
The dividends will be paid to the stock
holders of record and in case of sale will
be retained by them unless there was some
understanding about the disposition of the
dividend at the time of the sale.
The declaring of gas dividend at this
time is due tc the fact that the regular div
idend due the first of the month was not
declared, owing to the tendency of the
agreement TO purchase the stock of the
company the price offered including the sur
plus in the treasury of the company
Owing, however, to the failure of the
stockholders to offer sufficient amount of
the stock, the proposed deal did not go
through.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-22
Dull and Narrow Market for Stocks
in New York.
BEAR ELEMENT In CONTROL
Considerable Short Interest Now
Out on the Board.
GENERAL MARKET REPORTS
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, May 22.-Today's stock
market was almost wholly professional. the
volume Of business and the tendency OF
prices both indicating a lack Of public In
terest
Commission houses did almost nothing
and under cover of the dullness the room
added something to its risks I'm the short
account The so-called Flower issues were
sold down and the entire local list was
made to appear weak. The sales were fire.
quently very far apart and at times abso-
lutte stagnation prevailed. The hesitation
was not confined to any particular group.
the best issues having to choose between
inaction and lower prices.
While the downward tendency was pro-
nounced. there was little positive argument
in explanation The crop situation. of
course. is the background for much OF the
pessimism, but local conditions are almost
an equal factor in the depression. The out
come Of the extra session of the Legislature
is considered to be doubtful and the cor
porations interested reflect their sensitive
ness through the market course of their
shares. There is no certainty that the new
legislation will be superior to the old. owing
to the possibilities for compromises OF
vague and doubtful operation.
The market is in a condition to accept
rumors for fact, and period of raids and
manipulative rallies is to be expected.
The encouraging development with which
the week starts is the announcement that
the new Carnegie Steel Company is to he
capitalized at $3.50 100000 instead of double
that amount at one time reported. In
addition to the reduced capitalization. the
new shares are likely to stay in present
hands. so that the banking community will
not Immediately be put to the test of how
far it can assist fiotation and maintain easy
money at the same time.
The money market for the present is not
threatened by industrial enterprises. and
upon this fact the strength of the bull
position rests. Liquidation must be forced
on very considerable scale if sales are
level If margined accounts are as strongly
posing them to be. there should be quite
a task ahead of those who rely upon liqui-
dation or their profit.
Prices may go off around the years low
level but since that level is barely week
old accounts should be able to Withstand
such prices. The larger operators against
prices are making every effort to prove
this latter argument false. and the stocks
which sold lowest are the most freely sold
now in the hope of reducing the low level
record
Meanwhile the short interest is assuming
proportions which merit attention. The
extent of the selling may yet furnish the
materials for reaction. and this without
changing the professional character of the
market. Should outside interest be re-
vived the rebound would be more sudden
and more substantial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-22
ALLEGED FALSE pRETENsEs
Dr. Joseph {. Ellis Arraigned ON Conn
plant OF Court.

Or Joseph G. Ellis. mar ager of the Abba
Medical Association, with headquarters at
No 90 r street northwest was arrested
today by Detectives Muller and Raur and
taken TO police headquarters on a charge
Of false preteuses. Miss Alice Cruft. living
al No 6-4 Z street nor beast. swore out
The warrant While the amount alleged in
the warrant is only $40. Miss Cruit claims
that she parted with $3.50 which she
gave him and for which she claims. she
got nothing in return. The SO alleged in
The warrant. it is charged. the doctor OBJ
tanned by falsely repyese utiug that the
American Real Estate Investment Com
pany was a regularly chartered concern
The doctor denies the charge.
Miss Grant l. represented i'm the case BY
Attorney = j Ryan. The latter called on
iae doctor several times and made UnSuc-
crsSful efforts 10 settle the claim that his
client made Failing TO make the settle
inent the case was investigated by Prose
cutting Attorney MUuOwIy who directed
'hy issuance Of the warrant. 1t is claimed
ny Miss Crutt that size Joined the Alpha
Medical Association and after meeting DR.
Ellis III this Way she became interested in
the American Real Estate Investment
Company, which. she claims she was in
formed would pay at least per cent on
Investments Miss Cruit says she paid S5n
on This account and $1U9u on Ar insurance
account Her life was insured in the Hart
ford Insurance Company. and when she
needed $I".!@ Jo pay up the doctor. she
saws. pretended he had advanced the money
end paid up for her This amount. She now
SAYS. she paid him iu amounts ranging
from - 10 $40. and then she learned that
her Insurance policy had lapsed.
Another item Of So. she claims. she adj
vanccd him because Of request on his
part Bond in the sum Of 81" was given
Tor his appearance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-22
PICKING OUT SUPERVISORS.
Harrison Dingman VIII he the One
for Washington city.

AS soon as Congress convenes and the
names of the supervisors of census are ap-
proved by the Senate the actual work of
taking the twelfth census will begin. The
director of census is now making up a
list of the supervisors for the different
states, and when the list is completed it
will be forwarded to the President. who will
make his recommendations to the Senate.
Harrison DingInan will be the supervisor
for Washington. That is provided the
President takes the recommendation of Di
rector Merriam, who decided today to for
ward his name. Mr.. Dngman is we'll
known business man of Washington and
was heartily indorsed by the republican
national committeeman and host of
prominent citizens He filled a similar
position in the last census and gave eminent
satisfaction, his reports being regarded
among the best and most complete made.
When the time comes for taking the
census of Washington. the city will be di
vided into seventy districts. and each dis
trict will have an enumeratOr assigned.
These positions of enumerator will be
filled by the supervisor. and their conpen-
sation Will depend upon their returns. For
each name reported an allowance of not less
than = cents nor more than 3 cents Will be
made For the returns for a farm not less
than II nor more than ~ cents. The
enumerators will be employed not less than
two weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-22
PROJECTED IMPROVEMENT
An Expenditure of xIoO.O00 on Airing
ton Hotel.

Within q short time great changes are to
be made in the Arlington Hotel in this city,
which will make it equal to the modern
hotels in New York and give Washington
thoroughly up-tO-date hotel Mr.. I. h.
Roesse has just taken another lease on the
property for five years. and one of the con-
ditions is that he shall spend not less than
S1VO 900 in improvements ON the building.
This means that the Old portion of the hotel
is TO be torn to pieces and entirely remodel
ed and redecorated. Stone stairways are to
give place to the old ones now in the house,
while all the partitions now dividing the
Office into so many small rooms, are to be
torn down, and the ground floor will be
made into one grand lobby. The Arlington
has long been the faVOrite resort for poll
tiCians and visiting statesmen from all
over the country, and grand lobby or
salon will he decided attraction to Wash
inGton hotel life.
Mr.. Roessles present lease expires next
May. but before that time he expects to
have all the improvements in the house
completed. and BY the time Congress meets
the renodeled and rcjuvenated Arlington
will be ready for the Washington season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-22
LITTLE GIRL KIDNAPPED
She and Her Nurse Disappear at the Same
Time

NEW YORK, May 22.-What appeared to
was reported to the police today and a
score of detectives were at once sent out in
an endeaver to arrest the offenders. The
missing child is Marion, the eighteen
months-od daughter of Arthur Clark, an
employee of a publishing firm. She was
taken, the police say, by nurse named
Carrie Jones, who was hired last week by
the Clarks through an advertisement. The
whole thing seems to have been cleverly-
laid plot. The child was taken out yester-
day afternoon by the nurse ard the empty
baby carriage was found by the police in
Central Park. Soon afterward Mrs Clark
received this letter:
Mrs. Clark: Do not look for your nurse
and baby. They are safe in our possession,
where they will remain for the present. If
police and newspapers you will get your
baby back safe and sound. If instead YOU
make a big time about and publish 1t all
over we will see to it that you never see
her alive again. We are driven to this by
the fact that we cannot get work and one
of US has a child dying through want of
proper treatment and nourishment Your
baby is safe ana in good hands The nurse
girl is still with her. If everything is quiet
you will hear from US Monday or Tuesday
THREE"
There Is evidence to show that the nurse
girl wrote This letter. Mrs. Clark is in
serious condition and the SUSPENSE NAV
cause her death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-22
baltimore Markets.

BALTIMORE. May 22.-Flour quiet unchanged
receipts, 1887 barrels; exports none; sales 300
barrels Wheat inactive and higher; spot and the
month, 85t4a75h; June 76Aa76i2; July, 77I4a7TIa;
steamer NJ" red. 10aa71; receipts. 81. 307 bush
els; exports $4,000 bushels; stock 416 ~ bushels
sales, 6,oeo bushels southern by sample. 70a7GI1:
DO on grade llal6. Corn firm; spot. the month and
June, 81 lea3iSs July, SSa3Si4: steamer mixed 36a
S6't receipts, 132,34S bushels; exports, 1881
bushels; stock, 9So3l0 bushels; sales, 6.O0o bush
els southern white corn, AZ asked: do. yellow Is
bid Oats dull; No. white 33la asked; No. 2
mixed, 3o1aa3l: receipts $3.50 bushels; exports,
none; stock. 32l,S71 bushels. Rye nominal; No. 2
WESTERN 6212; receipts, 1864 bushels; exports.
none; stock, 2399 bushels. Hay firm; No. tim
othy, $3.50 bid. Grain freights very quiet; steam
to Liverpool per bushel, 2ssd., June; Cork for
ders, per quarter, 3s., May; 3s., June Sugar
strong fine and coarse, graduated, 5.45A. Butter
firm; fancy creamery, 19a20; fancy imitation, I5a
IL; fancy ladle, bali; good ladle, 11a12: store
packed, lIa14; rolls, 12a14. Eggs firm; 13a13b per
dozen Cheese weak; GO large, 1Oi; 81 mideum
10Y; % small loa.- Lettuce steady; 35c. per
bushel box. Whisky firm: 81 .3oaSl 81 per gallon
for finished goods in carloads; S1.31a$l.32 per gal
Ion for jobbing lots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-22
TO TAX FRANCHISES
Gov. Roosevelt Sends a Message to the
Legislature.
Some Plain Talk-DecIares Corpora
tiOns Do Not Pay Their
just share.

ALBANY. n. Y, May Ex-Governor
Roosevelt's message to the state legisla-
ture, which meets in extraordinary session
this evening, gives views upon improve
ments to the Ford franchise taxation bill
and suggests lines of Improvement. Con-
corning the equity of the proposal to tax
corporations, the governor will say:
AT the present the farmers. the market
gardeners and the mechanics and trades
men having small holdings are paying an
improper and excessive portion of the gen.
eral taxes. while at the same time many
OF the efforts to remedy this state of aft
fans, notably in the direction of taxing Sc
curities. are not only unwise. but INSULT
cient. and often serve merely to put a
Pl emium upon dishonesty.
Corporations Taxed Too Slightly.
There IS evident injustice in the light
taxation of corporations. | have not the
slightest athy with the outcry against
Corporations as such. or against prosperous
men of business. TO drive out of a COM
munity the men of means and the men who
take the lead in business enterprises would
probably entail. one of its first results.
the starvation of considerable portion of
the remainder of the population.
But while l freely admit all this. it yet
remains true that corporation which de-
iINto lis power from the state SnOul1 pay
to the state tax percentage of its earn
lngS as return for the privileges it enjoys.
rms should be especially true for the fran
chlSeS bestowed upon gas companies, street
railroads and the like
Relative to the proposition to place the
determination of tax In the hands OF the
state board, the governor says:
State Authorities to Levy Taxes.
Il deem 1t wise that the power of laying
and assessing the tax on franc seS should
be left with the state authorities, not the
local authorities. this being, in my view,
desirable, both for the sake of providing
against dishonest fayoritism of discrim-
ination against corporations by the local
authorities, and also for the sake of work
ing equity as between the franchises in Diff
ferent localities"
The governor believes that he can count
upon the help of the corporations in seeing
the bill put into proper form. instead of,
some among them to any and every scheme
for making them pay their just share of
taxation.
The message as drafted calls for the en-
actment of the law to take effect the first
day of October. 1899. but ii is understood
that when the governor returns to Albany
tonight he will change it to read January
l. 1900. in conformity with the latest bill
drawn.
Changes In the Bill.
1t is learned on good authority that the
Ford bill incorporated in the proposed new
bill is to be changed so that the bill will
read that special franchises shall be taxed
as well as local. the governor believing
corporations might technically escape the
tax.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-22
CARE OF THE INSANE
Topic of Discussion at Convention
of Charities and Corrections.
PAPER BY DR.. MOREL READ
Supt florence Discusses Relation
of the Cigarette to Crime.
SOME STARTLING FIGURES

CINCINNATI. Ohio. May 1.-THE con-
ventIun Of charities and corrections. which
began Fere last Wednesday. will close to-
morrow night. Dr Il. c. Rutter, superin-
t-ndruj If the Ohio Asylum for Epileptics
at GallipoliS. Op.u ned tho general session to-
day with an address on Expert Testimony
i'll Insanity Trials"
l. F. Mack, editor Of the. Stndusky Reg
lister. and trustee of Ohio Institutions. de
HvereJ an address on What Shall We Do
With the Insane \ general discussion on
insanity followed
In tn section on organization of charity
the disc ussIOn on loan agencies, chattel
mortgages. pawnshops, ins;ailnent buying,
etc. was opened by Miss Mary l.. BirtWrll
of Cambridge, Mass; Professor w r. Pat
tersOn of Iowa City, and Alfred o. Crozier
Of Grand Rapids.
Finances and Charitable Agencies was
discussed by Frank Tucker Of New York,
John Vi. Glenn of Baltimore, Robert ".
Hubbard Of Albany. and others
The selections on county and municipal
charities and insanity in joint session heard
a paper from +. 3. Sanburn Of Concord,
Mass. read by Chairman J. z. Byers, on
The relation of local and county authori-
ties Of the state in regard to tn custody
and care Of the insane. \ general discus
sion followed. The section on organization
Of charity discussed a paper from Dr. jules
MOrel of Belgium. on The After Care of
The Insane. DR.. MOrei IS an honorary
member Of the American association. He
was unable to attend the conference this
year. and sent his paper.
The section on refoTmstories and indus
trial schools was addressed by George Tor
renee of Pontiac, Ill, superintendent of the
Illinois state refOrmatuTy. on The Relation
of the Cigarette 10 Crime After reciting
his experience with boys coming To- his in
stttuttOn, Mr.. Torrance said. Il am sure
cigarettes are destroying and making crimi-
mails Of more Of them than the saloons" In
his refOrmat0ry now there are Us boys.
III 63 averaging twelve years of age IS
We're cigarette smokers. of 1:S}, ayeTa ging
fourteen years Of age. 70 were cigarette
smokers. OF -, averaging fifteen years, ~
were cigarette smokers This demon
StrateS that ~ per cent of the whole num-
Der were cigarette nends at the time of
committing crimes for which they wcre
committed TO the raformatory."
The general discussion developed a SINH
lar experience with others connected with
r-fOrmatOCies for boys
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-22
TRIAL TRIP MADE.
Car Run Over Portion of City and
Suburban Line.

A car was run over the east and west
line of the City and Suburban street rail-
road yesterday. the first since the installa-
ton OF the underground electric system.
The result proved 10 be satisfactory, al
though some Instructions were encountered
which are being removed today. 1t is prob
able that some cars will be in use tomor-
row. and by Thursday. Mr. Schoepf. the
vice president of the road and general man
ager, hopes that regular schedule can be
followed. a car was also run over the sec
ton OF the company's lines which extend
from lexington to Hyattsville. But ii is
not probable that the cars will be run reg
ularly over this line until the LIST of June
The current used on the suburban portion
of the line was obtained from the power
house of the City and Suburban Company
at lexington. while that for the line be-
w cen 18th and G streets northwest to 18th
and ID streets northeast is furnished from
the power house of the Potomac Company
in Georgetown. The plan now is to get the
current for operating the entire system
controlled by the City and Suburban Com
pany from the Potomac plant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-22
GOING TO ALASKA.
Scientists Who viii Investigate Ag-
riculturaI Conditions

party Of government scientists left here
today for Alaska to investigate the agrl-
cultural field in that territory, under the
auspices Of a New York capitalist The
party comprises DR.. c. Hart Merriam. chief
Of the biological division. and Drs Fisher
and Stacks. assistants. to be followed to-
morrow by DIT. Frederick CayilIe. chief %
ne division 81 botany. Other welI-kuoun
scientists outside the government service
Will Join the expedition before il sails from
Portland the latter part Of next week DR.
l. E. Ternow. formerly the chief forestry
expert Of the Department of Agriculture.
and now head of the College of Forestry at
Cornell. Will be one of the party
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-22
FIRED INTO THE MOB,
Probably Fatal Result of Shooting
scrape In Chicago.

CHICAGO. May ITO save his younger
brother from the attack of a crowd of foot
ball players. VIM. G. PaSsmore emptied the
chambers of a revolver into d mob of sew
erdI hundred men and boys. One of the
bullets struck Michael Woods in the thigh
and inflicted a wound that NAV cause
serious consequences. The friends of the
injured man renewed their assault upon
fassmore and his brother and father, the
latter having come to the assistance of his
sons, and when the trio sought refuge in
their home the place was IJmbarded with
stones until the arrival of the police. who
dl'Ne the mob to shelter. William Pass
NOR vs. arrested The trouble was caus-
Ell by Horace Passmore kicking the hall as
II rolled close to him when ne was crossing
The field. --9
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-22
CLOSING THE DEPARTMENTS.
Employees May Participate in the
Jubilee Celebration.

Although not settled, it is more than
probable that nearly all the executive de-
partments will close at noon tomorrow. IN
order to permit the employees to participate
in the peace jubilee. Secretary Gage has
ordered the Treasury Department closed at
O'Clock. Secretary Alger has already is
sued an order to that effect, and it is be-
Heved that the heads of the other depart
ments will take similar action. 1t is ex-
pected that the matter of closing the de-
par,ments Wednesday and Thursday will
be settled this afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-22

Treasurer Roberts had received about
s270 for the Dewey home fund up to noon
today, making the total to date $3,291 54
President Mckinley has announced his in
tention of making a contribution but the
amount of this will not be announced
Heavy subscriptions are expected toward
the last of the week.
Among the Washington people who have
made contributions since Saturday are the
following: j. Vinson Virgins. 81; Bryant
Bancroft Capehart. 50; B. H. Collins. 81:
Katie Collins. 81; w. Hayden Collins. 81:
Thomas F. Walsh, SiO0