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Bands Assigned to Concerts.

Leaders Santeimann of the United States
Marine Band Macleod OF the National
Guard Brigade Band and Haley of Haley's
Washington Band were summoned to head
quarters this afternoon and notified that
the music committee. of which DR.. Frank
7. Howe is chairman. had assigned their
bands to concert duty as follows:
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FLAGS GALORE!

We're extensive Flag makers, and our Flags
are on public buildings all over the United
States We make Awnings. too. and our sue
cess in getting the post Office JOb-bidding be-
low others shows that prices are moder-
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A bookcase THAT grows

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on until the required number is amasstd
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had anticipated
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your lodge a fine send or by letting
- print the tickets and dodgers. Sc
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InN Gas co l. e.
l-r character and number - the responses re-
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SHOW That o., Withholding by the directors from
iAe stockholders. for the benefit q q prospective
Tu-r hJs"r tho dividend earned in the G.arter inst
PISSED and The proposition Tu S.U 10 the l,rns-
Ireti'e purchaser tie stock holdings OF the stock
L"liers az price. paid In miscellaneous lower
than That at which 10 recently Sold in the omen
market Tor cash viii le stublorIIy resisted
ILgsr stockholders who have not yet communi-
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by doing - immediately
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lave a Care, 1 LAWYERS

to- whom you intrust the printing Of your
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favor u lawyers because they appreciate neat
ness and accuracy. Better let have your
. Brief Printing
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ART SDecirnens are our

NTG specimens afS CG1T
CTCII BEATTY and Art you'll MANTElS
A1hnI Ia shOSings Of Maltels
and FirepiareS is too much for the X FlkE-
MIND to grasp from an advertise
IL, ut They we'll worth your Places
tr-Spe-,t lon and scrutiny.
THE TILE SHOP. 80 - 18Th ST. my13-1Od
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20

/ the top to the bottom of the house. and
/ n solid iron staircase desoends through a
thick brick tower, which is built directly
In the centre Of the hotel. with doors
opening into 1t from every floor"
| The ground on which the Windsor
site was said to be the highest ground
IN the centre Of Manhattan island. and
from the upper rooms Of the hotel views
OF the Hudson and East rivers, the bay.
Staten Island and Wsstohester county
could be obtained. The house contained
rather more than 600 rooms.
Not long after the hotel was first opened
bankers and brokers tegan to congreaate
there after the close OF bushes. In the
afternoon and on Sundays. Jay Gould
lived on the corner above, and whom he
wasn't at his Office OF at home he could
usually be found at the Windsor so
could Henry Nj. Flagler. Addison Cam
Keene, VIM. X. Travers, "Unole Billie"
Turnbull. VIM. Il. Vanderbilt, John
Ponder, Rufus Hatch, Samuel U. Cad.
well, II. X. willard, John ID. Prince and
score of Others. The Windsor really
succeeded the Fifth avenue as the resort
of the men of finance. and the old open
Board" which traded in the lobby OF the
Fifth avenue, after Wall street had closed
for the day, continued Its operations at
the Windsor. 1t has been said that on
many an afternoon or evening In the
old days almost as much trading was
done at the Windsor as had been done IN
Wall street But, rs the men of finance
deserted the Fifth avenue. 50 they finally
deserted the Windsor, and for the last
three or four years few of them have been
found there. No other hotel, however,
has fully succeeded to the patronage
which the bankers and brokers gave to
the Windsor.
At various times the Windsor was hon
ored with the patronage Of many distin-
guished person ages from abroad. The
old registers of the hotel showed the
names of the Dukes of Argyll, Newcas-
tie and Sutherland, the Marquis Of STAFF
ford. the Earl OF Airleigh, Lords
Ogilvie and bennington, Sir Stafford
Northcote Gen. Sir Edward johnson,
Don Carlos of Spain, Dom Pedro OF Bra
I'll, King Kalakaua, MIR. Walter of the
London Times, Lord Lonsdale, Baron
Beichroeder, Prince Aiss Gawa OF Japan,
Sir Richard Temple, Herbert Spencer,
Charles Bradlaugh, the Rt. Hon. Lionel
Playfair, Nine. Christine Nilsson, Mime.
Patti, Mime. Ma,erna, the Austrian
singer; Ferdinand de Lesseps Sir Henry
Parkes and Count Won Bulow.
The Windsor was President Mckinley's
hotel, and recently it gained much ad-
vertisment from his patronage when he
visited New York. 1t WAS rumored yes
terday afternoon that some OF Mrs Me-
Kinley's Jewels, which she had left In
New York on her latest visit here, were
locked up in the hotel safe. This, how
ever, could not be verified.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20

The number Of lives lost in the Windsor
hotel fire will not be known until the
ruins are thoroughly exploded. That
some of the missing will be found beneath
the debris hardly admits of a doubt; but
probably many will De found to be safe,
not having been in the hotel at the time
the fire broke out. 1t is practically GER
tain that the list of those known to have
lost their lives does not include all who
psrishsd. The rapidity with which the
hotel burned was amazing. But three
quarters of an hour interviewed between
the discovery of the flames and the fall
ing of the Fifth avenue front. Doubtless
the bewildering effect of the smoke pre-
vented many from escaping who might
otherwise have got out. but no one
would have anticipated that fire in a
structure of that kind occurring at mid
day would have run through the building
80 rapidly that there would not have been
ample time for everybody to escape.
Every room was Furnished with the rope
fire escape, but this device useful for q
person cool and self possessed proved
stricken and frenzied inmates. Apparent
ly all the pre- cautions which the law re-
quired had been taken in the hotel, yet
they were of SO little avail that the occu-
pants of the top stories who fingered a
minute after the alarm was given found
themselves cut OF and without any means
of escape which they could make use Of
Doubtless there are hundreds OF hotels in
the country just as infammable as this
one, and without any better means of
escape In case of fire. The fundame atal
fault of the Windsor was in its construe-
ton. Its air shafts and elevator ways
were so many ohimneys furnishing power
ful drafts; while its immense height
made the rescue of the people in the upper
stories from the outside almost impossible
No buildings, or very few are strictly fire
proof. 1t is practically impossible to
make one that is to be used for
hotel purposes fire proof, but 1t is possible
to construct them 90 that II they take
fire they will burn slowly. A:building that
burns as fast as tho Windsor Is shown
ny that very fact to be of faulty con-
struotion and unit for hotel purposes. If
We are ever to have immunity from such
horrors the law must dictate the plan OF
construction of buildings which arc to
b. used to house large numbers of people.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20
FOR MAINE PEOPLE.
The Larger Items fn the Omnibus
Appropriation Bill.

Washington, March Is. - Several Maine
people, interested in claims before Con-
press, are destined to receive windfan
from the government within q few days
The omnibus bill. passed by the House
and Senate, was signed by the President
just befors adjournment. and Auditor
Timme, of tho State and other depart
ments, has the law now before him and
Is prepared as soon as credentials are sub.
mitted, to "fork over the cash" These
are the items of special interest to Maine
people, which are written in the law:
10 the Portland company, of Portland,
Me-, the sum of sixty -four thousand six
hundred and ninety three dollars and
ninety seven cents in excess of contract
price for work done and material fun
nished in the construction of the ma
chinery, engines, and boilers OF the
United States double-ender gunboats
Agawam and Pontoosuc, to the admins
traitor Of the estate of George W. Law
renee. deceased, the sum of thirteen
thousand seven hundred and seventy
seven dollars and twenty-four cents in
excess of contract price, for work done
and material furnished in the oonstruc-
ton of the hulls of the wooden double
ender gunboats Agawam and Pontoosuc
TO W. II. b. Stout Cyrus Hall,
and Isaac S. Bangs, late doing business
under the stlye and firm name of Stout,
Hall and Bangs, and j. NJ. Vale, the
sum of thirty-two thousand eight hun
bred and two dollars and fifty.two cents
in payment of the balance due them on a
contract entered into with them by
the United States of America April TWEEN
ty first, eighteen hundred and eighty
eight, for furnishing stone for the walls
of the cellar, or subbasement of the libra
nv building In the city of Washington, as
found by the Secretary Of the Interior in
his report to Congress under the author
fly conferred upon him by the act of
Congress approved March second. which
sum shall be paid rs follows;
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20

Prof. Smaller Mathews, formerly OF
Colby and now of Chicago University,
has in the March number of the Ameri-
can journal of Sociology an interesting
discussion of the relation of the church to
the social movement. In speaking OF the
sanity of the regenerating influences Of
the church. Prof. Mathews says:
The greatest danger that threatens to.
days life is not unemployed laborers, but
unemployed reformers. From all sides
they come. Young women on fire to pre-
vent the abuse of children by cruel and
tyrannical parents college men and
womeE, who long to win the submerged
tenth to sweetness and light and the ap-
probation of art by residence In univer-
sity during three weeks in the winter
after graduation; men with all sorts OF
SO 3ial panaceas, from n new method OF
reading music at sight to tin dinner
pals; temperance reformers who tremble
for the nation if a war vessel is christ ned
with champagne; die, drink, clothes,
house, school, church, Bible, street-clean
ing reformers all promising millennia,
and all taking themselves seriously. Far
be it from anyone 90 dispnrage the
motives of such enthusiasts, but, with
the remem brance of the similar altI nistic
hysteria that preceded the French kevo-
luton of 1889, one cannot help seeing the
danger that lies in unregulated and
visionary amateur philanthropy. Far
more worthy of serious study is The
danger attending the fsnaticism of pro-
fessional reformers. Millennial programs
are easy to print. but as difficult as the
genius of the Arabian Nights to control
If indeed they once miss the broad way
leading to the limbo of impracticability.
What is worse is that the conservative is
not mistaken wheE he sees in their cham
pions not merely earnest men and women
striving for the good of mankind, but
possible social firebrands. Agitators are
Indispensable. but an agitator mad with
altruism Is as dangerous as any other
mailman.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20

The Court of Inquiry still continues to
get strong evidence of the truth Of Gen.
Miles's charge that much OF the beef fur
nished the army was bad. The testimony
at Omaha was the worst yet. Of course
the fact that 1t came from discharged
smploye may tend to discrsdit 1t In the
minds of some people, but though his
story may be exaggerated 1t probably has
a consid. rable basis of truth. That 1t
was lie out of whole cloth is highly i'm
probable.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury

as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole system
when entering 1t through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used except on
~ descriptions from reputable physicians, AS the
damsg e they will do is ten fold to the good you
can pos sibly derive from them. Hairs Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by f. j. Cheney g. Co,
Internally, acting directly upon the blood aud
mucous faces of the system. In buying
Halls Cstarrh Cure he sure you get the gem
uine. II Is taken internally. and made In
Toledo, Ohio. by L. J. Cheney & Co. Testi-
monials free.
Sold by Druggists, price zoe per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20

To William H. b. Strout, sixteen
thousand eight hundred and two dollars
and fifty-two cents.
10 Isaac 5. Bangs, six thousand dol
lars.
To Cyrus ]. Hall. six thousand dollars
To j. Nj. Vale. three thousand dollars.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20
The town Of Liberty has floatin :

The town Of Liberty has a floatin !
island, located within the farm Of Mr..
Rufus Colby This island contains ahaut
one hundred acres. IL does not 1oat
around, for the reason that there Is not
space for it to 90 so, but it rises ten or
twelve feet during the freshets of fall and
spring and falls lack to solid pasture
land during the dIouths of summer.
Spruce trees fifty feet tall grow upon it,
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20

1t appears that Admiral Schley whom
Senator German Is supposed to have
picked out as an eligible candidate for the
Democratic Presidential nomination, is u
Republican. But then Bryan was a
Populist. If the Democrats could shout
for Populist they ought to be able to
get enthusiastic over Republican.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20

An example of the value of air and
scenery is afforded by Islesboro, the island
in Penobscot bay. The summer cottages
have so increased that their valuation Is
double that of the property of the old
residents; and at the present time more
than hundred thousand dollars worth
of new cottages are being constructed,
The tax levy of the town is source OF
perpetual satisfaction to the old settlers
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20

IL threatened to do and did not do than
for the things it did do. or important
legislation 10 has produced little. In
number its acts are less than us nal and
in Importance very much less While 1t
has made fairly good record, 1t could
have made better one IL IL had resisted
popular clamor a little more, and not
been quite so profuse In its appropriat on
of public money. Doubtless all the In.
situations. charitable and educational,
which II voted TO assist are in sense
worthy, but that they were all fit objects
for government subsidy is open to grave
doubt. But then the people seemed to
demand that they be helped, and pc rhaps
IL Is too much to expect that the legis-
lators should resist the people, though
there are times when they would be fully
justified In doing 1t. Perhaps what
distinguished the Legislature as much as
anything was Its inquiring turn of mind.
IL was disposed to find out how
things were being run, and though 1t
sometimes failed to use the knowledge it
acquired to the hest advantage the in
yestigations which 1t set on foot will
have q salutary effect. Exposure Of bad
practices Is sometimes all that is needed
to correct them, For some time to come
the Board of Agriculture will dispense
with lobby, or will pay for 1t them
selves, and the state officers will be
little more careful about their expendi.
lures hereafter. The discussion Of reform
in taxation will almost certainly bear
fruit in ths future; and the shaking up
that the lobby got will make 1t more dis
Greet and soften its diotatorial ways for
some time to come. The session developed
few orators, perhaps because it developed
few questions which called for oratory.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20
Our esteemed contemporary, tine Maine

Our esteemed Contemporary, the Maine
Farmer, will search in vain the Public
Laws passed by the legislature for any
evidence of that great uprising against
the Australian ballot law which it used
to be predicting last fall. Evidently the
Farmer didn't know so much about the
sentiment of the farmers as it thought
Neither was it SO well acquainted with
the Hon. Joseph II. Manley as it sup
Dosed,
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20

The people of Washington county see
no use in having new railroad if il can
not be made convenient. The other day
woman stopped u train to inquire OF
the conductor If he had brought a laundry
bundle for her from Calais. The conduc.
tor promised TO bring the bundle on the
next day, and the train proceeded
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20
THE LEGIsLATURE.

If the value of Legislature assia pro,
portion 10 Its success in resisting tempta-
tion to legislate-and q strong argu-
msnt can be made in support of the accu-
raoy Of such tsst--the one that has just
adjourned is entitled to high rank. In
deed It may be said with truth that it is
,uush more distinguished for the things
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20
THE PRESS.
MONDAY. MARCH 90.

II 10 said that third Of the Democratic
members of the Pennsylvania Legislature
would vote for Quay in preference to any
other Republican. Perhaps that is be-
cause he would dis credit the Republican
party more than any other Republican.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20
PORTLAND DAILY PRIaS
- AND
MAINE STATE PRESS.

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Subscription Rates.
DAILY On advance) se per year "a - ~ ~
months; o.. so quarter; % cents Hmontsr
The DAILY 10 delivered every morninl BY
carrier anywhere within tho city limits ans ut
woodfords without extra charge.
DAILY (not In advance). Invariably at he
rate Of "a . year.
MArsE STATE PRESS. CweeklO published
every Thursday, 41oo1 er year; 20 cents for 9
months; Is cents TOR months.
Persons wishing to leave town for long or
short periods may have the addresses Of their
papers changed Is often as desired.
Advertising Rates.
ISD DAILY PRESS $3.50 per square. for me
week, 400 for one month. Three insertions
or less, 90 per square. Every other day ad-
vsrtisemsnts, one third less than these rates.
Halt square Advertisements S1.o0 fos one
week or $3.50 for one month.
"a square" 10 q space OF the width OF cor
umn and one inch long.
speosat Notices. on FIRST page, ons-third add
tonsl.
,x,r,aesaexts and Auction Sales, $500 per
square each week. Three insertions or less
$3.50 per square.
Reading Notices In nonpsreil type and classed
with other paid notices. 15 cents per limo each
insertion.
P,ys Reading Notices in reading matter type.
IS csnts per line each insertion.
Wa,as. To Let, For Sale and similar adver-
tlsements, 25 cents per week in advance, for
40 words or less. no display. Displayed adver-
tissmsnts under these headlines, and all adve.-
tisevents not paid IN advance, will be charged
ut regular rates.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20
$4,000
First Mortgage 5 Per Cent Gold Bonds
- OF THE
Council Bluffs Gas & Electric Co..
OF COUNCIL BLUFF, Iowa.

These bonds are secured by first mortgage
upon both the Gas and Electric Light proper.
ties. Under the terms OF the mortgage sink
ing fund of not less Than S5,GlO shall be set
aside each year for The purchase OF said bonds,
or Tor their redemption at los.
The statement of the Company shows net
earnings sufficient to pay dividend OF IL per
cent. on its capital stock, besides providing
5000 for the sinking tund. $4,000 OF these
bonds have been taken IN England for invest
ment and a like amount IN his country by
various institutions. Council Buns IS well
known, substantially built city of about $4,000
population and Is one of the important railway
centres west OF Chicago.
Price and further particulars on application.
.-... FOR SALE BY ........
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20

just take yourself over in corner
and think about it,
Is there any reason why clothing
store should not sell as good hats as
STORE that sells nothing but hats?
There's no corner in felt or silk trim
mings; no corner in men with knowl-
edge of hats or ability to buy and sell
them. Style and shape is an open secret
long before the season opens.
Our Derbys from 30 cts. 10 $500
can't be bettered.
If our hats are SO good, certainly our
clothing is. Spring Overcoats SO to
$50. Spring Suitings and Spring Fur
nishings are ready.
The Portland daily press., 1899-03-20


OIL COLONY HON. RICHARD oLNEy
perfected Field warpdrawng machine
subscribed eight cent, preferred ae
pan share, redeeuiabe per
share
the office the Boston
Monday, March
which latter Company
subscriptions.
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