Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-29

IN THE HOTEL LOBBIEs.

There is the little thing that assisted in
| causing the big street ear strike in Dayton,
Ohio. short time ago" said l.. h. Biscos
| OF that city. at the Shoreham last might
| holding up a small blue disk about the size
| OF nickel. This is what served the
street car companies of Dayton in place Of
| tickets. 1t is made of celluloid and no one
| can explain why that hole was put through
the center. but all of them have the holes.
These things come in different colors one
| company has red. another white. another
blue. another green al libtum The sys-
| TEN was adopted some time ago by the
owners of the various ear lines on account
OF the clumSiness of the ticket system
| Inc cars run there up To a short time ago.
htu no conductors and every passenger was
supposed to deposit his fare in the cash
box when he boarded the car. 1t was
found that the tickets would get damned
| In the slot of the ticket box and il became
necessary to devise some system whereby
| the tickets would fall into the box as soon
as they We're deposited
| Several new cash boxes were tried with
| out avail and finally the president of one
OF the companies invented the disk system
| RMS worked like charm for a long time
| When trolley cars were put on the roads.
| though. 1t became serious problem with
| the motormen to keep tab on the passen-
gers, the cash box and the running gear Of
| the car. Several accidents occurred and
| they were blamed to the inattentiveness OF
the motOrmen. when the latter wer. really
| eHSdSeu III watching the passengers place
/ their tares IN the box, 10 see that no one
| beat the company. The men were being
paid $1.6O per day, and they objected to be-
| ing roasted for inattenton to duty when.
as they claimed. they gave more than value
| received for their services. The result was
a strike for 81 and conductors. The own
ers of the roads did not give in and a COM
| promise effected at $50 and conduc-
tors for every car.
| The disk system is about to be aban-
| doned now that the cars equipped with
nn lIr,.f.l
| tickets, six for quarter, and are inter-
| changeable.'
One of the picturesque figures at the re-
publican national convention last week was
Delegate Clark of Hawaii. Mr.. Clark came
to this city soon the convention ad-
| journed and has been stopping at the
Shoreham. He regards the condition of
the Sandwich Islands as excellent. at pres
| ent and stated that the citizens were very
| glad to have at last secured proper and
| adequate laws for their government.
| Every one was pleased at the appointment
| of former President Dole as governor. he
| said. and the islands promise tn be the
most peaceful and valuable of the Amer-
| can colonies.
There are District men in the Philip
pines who never heard Of J. W. Con-
ard of the War Department told a Star
| porter yesterday. The old cavalry troop
| that used to be connected with the Ma
| tional Guard is represented by no less than
| five men. four of them officers in the vol
unteer army. Any member of the troop
| will tell you hardly had five men to-
| gether on drill nights and this will show
what a strong representation there is in
| the volunteer army. One of the exDis-
trict cavalrymen. James Carol. is the chief
| trumpeter of the 18th Infantry and has
! seen no end of hard service. He was
| verely wounded twice In battles with the
| Filipinos, but at last accounts was on duty
l -itt n hrrfe
| who used to be first lieutenant Of the local
| troop, has given good account Of him
| self in the several engagements in which
| he has participated with his regiment.
| Trooper Jack Lewis. afterward member
| of the National Fencibles and stil later
| adjutant of one of the infantry battalions
of the guard. is a first lieutenant and adj
| jutant of of the volunteer regiments
| and has been mentioned for promotion
| have been told that there are several COM
panies made up entirely of District men.
| and l will venture to state that this little
| place is more largely represented in the
| present war. according to size, than any
| state or territory.
| A party of ST. Louis business men is in
| the city for a few days, stopping at the
| Metropolitan. The party is under the
| charge of Thomas Landa. C. w. Bower
man of London. England, and Joseph II.
Rico of Mazantand, Mexico are also stop
ping at this house.
Mr.. Arthur Camp of Michigan is in the
| city for short stay with his friends Mr..
Camp Is interested in a number of large
lumber concerns. and spent the last win
| ter in the camps with the lumbermen.
Those men lead very active life." he
| told The Star reporter. They get to work
| in the morning almost as soon as .hey can
! see, and cut out their logs until twilight
| In some places they are miles from human
| habitat ton. and have literally amuse-
ments. They mostly Canadians. and
| some of them of French extraction.
1.-The owners of timber tracls are greatly
annoyed by class of thieves known as
| lumber poachers.' often the most vaiu-
| able part of a forest will be destroyed while
| the regular tmbermen are at work in
| other part of the tract. On one occasion
| last winter l was informed that A poacher
had broken into my forest and had cut
| about 500 worth of logs. which he was in
| tending to haul away as soon as possible.
/ hurried to the place with several of my
men to recover the property If l could.
arrived just in time TO see the poacher. u
French-Canadian. load some of the logs
on his wagon ard start away. l walked up
to him. and if he was surprised to
he didn't show it. 1 asked him what he
| meant by taking the wood and in the most
innocent manner imaginable he said:
is dees you lum'er, M'soiu Campo
"The fellows manner was 50 amusing
that 1 couldn't help laughing at him. he
acted though he was surprised to find
he had cut my lumber, yet there not
tree for five miles that did not belong to
else as he had worked at my camp"
Mr. ]. c. Smith of Dundee, Scotland. who
is making a tour of this country has stop
ped in this city for a few days. and is stay
ing at the ST. James. Mr.. Smith is accom-
panied by his son. Mr.. Samuel H. Davies
of York, England, is also at the st. James.
1.-The ice trust fight in New York has
stirred up considerable of a row among the
politicians, and has caused the birth of
many fiy-away schemes for cooling the in
habitants of the swelterng metropolis" Mr..
Elwood Van Vliet of that city told Star
reporter at the Arlington last night. 1.-The
best of the lot is plan to circulate re-
frigerated air on the same plan as gas"
he continued. The promoters Of this
project issue prospectus setting forth the
merits of their scheme and the manner N
which it will reach a successful accom-
plishment. They propose to erect a large
power station in the central part of the
city in which shall be placed all the requi-
sites of modern cold storage plant. They
will then lay pipe lines to all the resi-
dences in the city, through which will be
pumped the cold air after 1t has left the