Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-28
Great Secrecy Maintained as to Miss
Clark's Marriage.
CUBAN STAMPS SOLD IN CHICAGO
Cotton Manufactures Seeking to
Improve Outside Markets.
FATE OF PNEUMATIC TUBES
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence OF Inc Evening STAR.
NEW YORK, May q, 1900.
The wedding of Senator Clark's daugh-
ter. which occurs next Monday and which
will rival that of Consuelo Vanderbilt will
not be for the newspapers If 1t can be pre-
vented. Six detectives have been engaged
to keep the reporters from witnessing the
ceremony and the florists and Delmonico,
who will arrange the feast. have received
strict orders from the family that not one
word shall be given to the newspapers con-
corning the affair. If they transgress they
have been notified that the orders placed
with them will be instantly cancelled.
There has never been a social function in
New York about which so much secrecy
was enforced. There Is not wedding on
record the details~of which were guarded
by half a dozen detectives.
Anent the Cuban Scandals.
Local stamp dealers are not surprised by
the development regarding frauds in the
Havana postal service. 1t has been COM
mon talk in the trade for months that
there was a "screw loose somewhere" for
certain men In the business were able to
sell the surcharged Cuban postage stamps
at suspiciously lew figures. The demand
for these stamps from collectors has been
large, opening a way, 1t is pointed out by
which those concerned in the frauds could
find a market for the destroyed" stamps
in this country, in addition to sales in Ha-
vana. One New York dealer Is known to
have made trip to Havana in company
with dealer from Chicago, with the re-
suit that soon after their return about $50
UD worth of the stamps appeared in Chica-
go. These men, it Is said, were also al
lowed to pick over the stock in Havana,
and to destroy many of the plate numbers
imprinted on the sheet margins for the
purpose of making certain numbers rare,
and consequently high-priced. There are
many who collect strips of stamps bearing
the sheet number, the object being to ac-
cumulate complete set of the various
imprints. Naturally, with access to all the
sheets of certain numbers, 1t was possible
to so mutilate the margins. without de-
stroying any stamps, as to make the work
profitable. Few of the large dealers in
New York have bought any of the stamps
obtained by these two men, most preferring
to get their stock direct and in the regular
way. thus avoiding any possible complica-
tons. but the opinion is general that
large quantity of the stock supposed to
have been destroyed really found its way
to the United States.
The Cotton Export Trade.
The most important matter which the
cotton goods manufacturers of the United
States and particularly those of the south,
will have to consider in the future is the
export business. During the past year new
magic in every cotton-producng state If
these mills are to prosper 1t will be neces-
sary for this country to build up q great
foreign trade In cotton piece goods, and
every southern manufacturer understands
this. At the convention of southern cotton
spinners' associations, at Charlotte, N. c.,
recently, Theodore c. Search, president of
the National Manufacturers Association
advocated the elimination of the commits
sion man and suggested that the mills send
their agents abroad and seek to do their
own selling. This has aroused storm of
opposition. The commission men here in
sst that there has never been any friction
between them and the mills, and that they
are an Indispensable part of the export
business. They say Mr. Search did not I'M
derstand the matter at ALL
Fate of the Pneumatic Tubes.
Postmaster Van Colt says that it Is i'm
possible to tell whether the action Of the
Senate in tabling the pneumatic tube sys-
tenn appropriation will rob the city Of its
present service. The postmaster still has
hopes that the appropriation will get
through, and that if the present contrac-
tors are willing to take their chances on
getting the money from the government I'LL
timately, they may continue the tube SER
vice after June 30, when the present APP
preparation runs out, and to June, 1901,
when the contract expires. If the contrac-
tors decide to remove their tubes, which
they have a right to do If the government
furnishes no money. the mail will have to
be carried by wagon and elevated train
once more. The government has contracts
with both the wagon and the railroad PEG.
pie, but the increased use of this means OF
carrying would cost more.
London After American Servant Girls.
New York and other American centers
OF population to furnish servant girls
for London and other foreign cities. Nor
man E. Lees, representative of the Ma
tional Domestic Association Of London, has
arrived in this city. He Is commissioned to
engage an unlimited number of house ser
wants, who will be guaranteed good posi-
tons in the best families abroad, whose
passage will be paid by the association.
"Household help is almost unobtainabie
in London" says Mr.. Lees. Ladies' maids
there receive as high as $3.50 a year. Moth
ing has occurred in generations to so draw
upon the ranks of female servants as the
Boer war. Many servants are married to
soldiers. These women are cared for out
of the Mansion House fund and as they
draw shilling a day each for themselves
and fourpence for each child, they are bet
ter off that if they were working out