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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-19
BRONZE STATUE OF
WEBSTER UNVEILED.
BRILLIANT AssEMBLAGE OF PUB
Lie MEN WITNESS 1T.
1t Is n Present From StilsOn Hutch
fns to the City of Washington
Secretary Long Accepts the statue
-senator Lodge Delivers Grafton.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1s.-A distinguish
ed gathering of public officials. including
President Mckinley and his entire CAB
met representatives of the senate and
house and the judiciary of the United
States supreme court and other branches
of public llfe participated today in the ex-
ercises attending the unveiling of the CO.
lossal bronze statue Of Daniel Webster, ex-
ecuted by the Italian sculptor Trentanove.
and presented to the United States by
Mr.. Stlson Hutchins, of this city. The
statue occupies a position on Scott circle,
but prior to the actual unveiling the cere-
monies of presentation and acceptance
We're held at the La Fayette opera house.
The president occupied a seat on the stage,
and back of him sat Secretaries Hay, Gage.
Root, Long, Hitchcock, Postmaster Gen
eral Smith, Attorney General Griggs, Sec
retary Wilson and Private Secretary Por-
for
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-19
FREIGHT ELEVATOR GOES DOWN
Two Persons Are Killed and Three
Others Injured.

Others Injured.
NEW YORK, Jan. B.-A freight eleva-
tor in storage warehouse at One Hun
dred and Twenty-fifth street and st.
Nicholas avenue fell today, killing two
persons and injuring three others. The
two persons killed were: Michael Nc
Lean, % years old, and Patrick Leddy.
q years.
The injured were: Bernard Cahill. IS
years old; James Rilet, IS years old and
Richard Burns, 40 years old They were
taken to hospital.
Thomas Parry, manager OF the store
house, was arrested.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-19
INDICATIONS 0F 4
HEAVY Engagement
Trainloads of Wounded Com
ing From the Front.
DETAILS VERY MEAGER.
Butler Has Probably 15, 900 Men
Who Are Across the Tugela.
DETAILS VERY MEAoER.

of Bocr Opposing Army
Are Purely ConJectural-BuI1er
Issues an Address to His Men
which Is Taken ms an Injunction
to Give No Quarter-In the Cross
ing of the Tugela by Dundonnid,
LyttIeton and warren, but slight
Opposition From the Boer Forces
was Encountered Anywhere.
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ductions in enduring bronze OF those te
whom she has said Well done.
Senator LODGES Grafton.

senator Lodges Grafton.
Secretary Longs remarks were warmly
applauded and then amid another out
burst of applause Senator Lodge delivered
the Grafton of the day.
The formal ceremonies concluded with
a benediction by Rev. Mr.. Couden. chaplin
of the house.
The president and most of the other dis
tinguished guests then proceeded to Scott
circle where, at IL o'clock. the statue was
unveiled.
The drawing of the veil was performed
by Jerome Bonaparte. a grandson of Web
ster, assisted by Mrs Hutchins and Miss
Katherine Dering.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-19

BY the appointment of Col. George H.
Randall to command the United States
military forces in Alaska the war de-
partment has taken a step toward the or
ganization of a new department. which.
if constituted along regular lines. will be
known as the department of Alaska.
That Secretary of War Root has for
some time considered the proposition OF
making the military affairs of Alaska a
department separate from the depart
ment of California Is generally believed
by well-posted army officers. In fact, 1t
is entirely possible that laws will be en-
acted by congress at its present session
providing for the creation of the new de-
partment and making the necessary ap-
preparations.
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alaska CITIES UNSUITABLE.

The location of department headquar-
ters at Juneau would place the command
ing officer out OF touch with lines OF
travel to Prince William sound ports. St.
Michael, the lower Yukon and Cape
Nome. During the summer mouths. mail
is sent direct from Seattle to st. Michael
and Yukon river points and to Cape Nome
by steamers These do not touch at Ju-
neau, which is far out of the way of ves-
sells bound for the mouth Of the Yukon.
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Distinguished Men Present.

Others on the stage were Gov. Crane, OF
Massachusetts, accompanied by his adju-
tant general and aides; Chief Justice Full
ler; Justices Harlan, White and Gray;
Senators Hoar, Lodge, Chandler. Allison,
Bacon, Fairbanks, Proctor, Tillman; Rep
resentatives Lowering, Cousins, Clarke and
other identified with the exercises and
with the states which share the honors
clustering about the illustrious Webster.
Maj Gen. Miles and other representatives
of the army of the navy and of the Dip
lomatic corps added to an assemblage Of
unusual distinction.
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There are very good reasons, in the
opinion of members of the Chamber of
Commerce, and of distinguished army Of
ficers who have visited Seattle during the
past year, for making one department of
Washington and Alaska, with Seattle as
headquarters. Since Gen. Merriam left
Vancouver, headquarters for the depart
ment of the Columbia, the business of the
department has been handled entirely by
Gen. Shafter, commanding the depart
ment of California, with headquarters at
San Francisco.
Naturally this arrangement has not
proven advantageous because Gen. Shaf-
ter is remote from the scene of active
operations. He has never yet visited this
section of the territory over which he ex-
ercises jurisdiction.
At the same time, in the opinion of men
familiar with the situation, ii is only a
question of a short time when the war
department at Washington will take the
department of the Columbia off of Gen.
Skaters hands and place an officer in
command at Vancouver, unless new de-
ington and Alaska.
The claims of Seattle as headquarters
for the department of Alaska are to be
presented before congress and the wal
department within short time. 1t will
be urged that even If no change is made
in the affairs of the departments of Cali
fornia and the Columbia, Seattle should
be made the headquarters for the depart
ment of Alaska for the greatest good of
the service. al
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THE CHAMBER INTERESTED.

An effort is to be made by the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce and by the,<riends
of this city at the national capital to
have Seattle designated as the headquar-
ters for the department of Alaska. The
movement has already taken tangible
form and those who are prominent in it
believe that now is the time to press Sc
attle's claims.
At meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce held Wednesday afternoon last the
matter was presented by President Graves
The committee on state and national af-
fairs was instructed to draw up suitable
resolutions and memorial to be presented
to the secretary of war. These were FORM
ulated yesterday and sent to Washington
by Secretary Prosch.
The opinion is strong with persons who
have canvassed the matter and who
have made inquiry at Washington con-
cerning the status of the affairs of the
departments of California and the CO.
lumbia, that the war department will
consider, together with the proposition
of organizing a new department for
Alaska, the question of the rehabilitation
of the department of the Columbia, which
has been without commander at the
department headquarters for the past
eighteen months.
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Hutchins. Presentation Letter.

Hutchins' Presentation Letter.
The marine band occupied the orchestra.
AS the president and cabinet came upon
the stage the entire audience rose while
the band played Hail to the Chief After
an eloquent prayer by the blind chaplain
of the senate, Rev. DIR. Miiburn, Senator
Chandler, on behalf of the two branches
of congress, read Mr.. Hutchins' presenta-
ton letter, and added a brief but glowing
tribute to the craftsmanship, the oratory
and the patriotism of Webster.
Secretary Longs Acceptance.
Secretary Long then accepted the statue
in behalf of the United States. He said:
"To George Washington and his asso-
ciates, who in 1887 framed the Federal con-
stitution, We owe that great paper. 1t
bound the thirteen Independent colopies
into a union and created the United States
of America. In it they gave US the ample
letter and frame of government.
ITO the overwhelming arguments, nearly
half century later, of Daniel Webster in
the senate and to the luminous sentiments
of John Marshall on the bench we owe
it's development, Interpretation and con-
structon into the great charter OF powers
which now constitute the national authori-
ty. They illuminated its letter with the
national spirit. Ihey preatned into It's
frame the life of national sovereignty. In
the momentous debate in which at that
time they participated over the measure OF
It's grant of power--a debate of giants
the issue was between a limitation on the
one hand which would have narrowed the
growth of the young republic and endan-
gered the Union, and on the other an ex-
pansion the insured the indestructibility of
the Union and left free the republic to its
largest developments
''As they prevailed, so they made the
republic indissoluble by internal convul-
sion, and equal to the emergencies of the
future which confronted them or which
confronted us. The statue OF one of them.
the great jurist in the serene dignity of
his high office. already adorns the capitol.
Today, on Massachusetts avenue, a name.
as dear to him and his. with his face to
the capitol and to the chief justice. we
dedicate the statue of the other, the great
expounder OF the constitution and defender
of the Union and the foremost lawyer. ora
tor and statesman, whose words, inibedded
in the common political literature Of his
countrymen, come TO the tongue Ike pas
sages from the poets or the psalms.
II am deputed by the president to speak
his acceptance Of the man it commemor-
| ates and q gift thus added tor the ye2ro-
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our ewes ache, something is the
ry or it may be a permanent
scientifically examine your
most perfect instruments
YOU. the best glasses that can
Gle. Optictan4 72Q First Ava
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THIS cIrY's MANY ADVANTAGES

If this is done, as now seems entirely
probable, Seattle will be urged as head
quarters for the department of the CO.
lumbia and Alaska. 1t Is apparent that
the affairs of Alaska including the hand
ling of troops and the transportation of
supplies, can best be directed from this
city, where all lines of travel to Alaska
points. both in the interior and on the
coast, have their beginning.
AS matter of fact, the main business
of the department of the Columbia dur
ing the past two years, aside from the
shipments of troops, animals and sup
plies to the Philippines, has been in con-
nection with the installation and main
tenance of the various military posts of
Alaska, and the handling of supplies for
the fortifications located on Puget sound.
The Portland daily press., 1900-04-10

Z New ideas in Gentlsmen's Link Gun
Buttons for Easter At Willis A. Gates.
JsWsler.
The Portland daily press., 1900-04-10
PERSONAL.

Melville Marston, who has had charge
of the dynamite room at Cushing's L.
land, IL seriously Ill at his home on
Hampshire street.
Rev. S. Il. Davis, of AL Souls church.
Dsering. will be the speaker at the clos
ing Lenten service at the Church Of the
Messiah this evening.
Mr.. franklin @. Payson Is favorably
mentioned as one OF the delegates from
this district to the National Republican
convention at Philadelphia.
Miss Harriett Crockett and Miss Louise
Lowell ara spending few days in Bos-
ton.
Miss Alice Twitchell entertained the
Social circle at her home on Deerlng
street. yesterday afternoon.
Miss Sable Hall of BEunswiok, Is tn
guest Of Mrs. S. D. Kelsey.
Mr.. j. W. Dyer has returned from
Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Thomss j. Loring is spending a
week in Lewiston.
Miss Island Is home from Boston, and
again established In her pleasant room at
the Columbia.
Mrs. George Knight and daughters are
at st. Augustine staying at the Ponce
de Lson. They are expected TO arrive
home this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John 4. Eustis Of State
street, who have been spending month
with friends In Georgia, are now enjoy
ing . visit In the historic cid city OF
SAINTS Fe, N. NJ. where their son, Rev.
Edward l.. Eustis, is settled as rector OF
the Episcopal church OF the Holy Faith.
The many friends of Mr.. John L. Pal
meE will be glad to know the sudden
attack of illness was less serious than
was at first supposed and that he is now
resting comfortably. The attendlngLphy'
stefan locke for continued improvement
In his condition.
Mrs. II. L. Storer is home from visit
to Boston.
MIR. Samuel Hoover Of Baltimore, who
accompanied his wife to the obssquiss al
Mr.. McClOskey, returned home yesterday.
The Portland daily press., 1900-04-10
BRIEF JOTTlNGS.

There will he supper and entertain
ment at the Congress st. NJ. K. church,
Wednesday evening, April 1lth. Music
and recitations by Charles tHoney) john
son and other talent.
Passion week services will be held In
the vestry of Congress Square church
this evening at quarter Of eight O'Clock.
The church choir win assist. On
Thursday evening, at same hour, in the
church, the communion will be admin
istsred, and there will be service Of
uniting with the churcb.
The executive COMMITTEES of the Glorious
club has invited all the clergymen OF
Portland and vicinity to preach on 1.-The
Better Observance of Sunday" on Sun.
day, April 29sh. 1t Is expected tina. the
invitation viii be generally aooeptsd.
Mrs. Allen MoKepnon will hare charge
Of the women's meeting Wednesday at
so D. M, at the Gospel Mission chapel,
corner Of Pearl and Lancaster streets.
There will be union services also Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday and Friday
evenings at $50. AL interested in Rescue
work have an opportunity to assist.
AL OF the crews on the line OF the
Nashua division Of the Boston s. Maine
raiIroad-ths old Portland & Rochester
now make the through run from Port
land to Worcester. The change from not
going further than Rochester seemed
strange ct first, but the men have now
become ussd to 10.
The Portland daily press., 1900-04-10
DEATH OF AN IMMIGRANT.
An Old Woman Died Very Suddenly at
the Grand Trunk Depot.

On the Dominion, one Of the steam
ships of the Dominic n line. there arrived
yesterday a large number Of stee rage pas
sengers bound for new homes in the
West. Among these was q woman eighty
nine years old who had come here With
her sons and their families to begin life
all over again IN a new land. She was a
Norwegian and her name was Grets Ole
son. After leaving the ship the immi-
grants gathered at the Grand Trunk de
pot TO wait for the night train for the
west which leaves at eight O'Clock. The
old woman was apparently in cod
health when she landed, but about four
O'Clock she was taken suddenly III and
before help could be summoned she was
dead. Old age was given as the cause OF
the death. Coroner Perry was summoned
but deemed an inquest unnecessary. The
grief OF the SONS Of the old woman
seemed to be very keen, but they insisted
on taking the body Of their mother with
them to Msrrillon, Wis.,. where they were
bound and this was accordingly arranged
for. Greta Olsson had reached the new
land only to find In it her grave.
The Portland daily press., 1900-04-10

Mr.. John L. Hyde, the veteran com.
msrcial traveller. returned yesterday from
q trip of five months spent in the eastern
part of the state. He was a very busy
man in addition to his regular business
and during this TINA bought ana traded
Is horses. Mr.. Hyde is one Of the best
judges of horse flesh in the state, haT ing
began the business of swapping horses
when he was only IA years of age.
The Cliff cottage hotel at Ottawa park
is being enlarged and fine cafe is being
built by Armstrong, opposite the Casino.
Petitions in bankruptcy have been Tile d
In the United States District Court by
AlvAh j. Marble Of Rumford and bIaDk
.. Walker of Bradford.
A case OF scarlet fever, the first for q
long time, was reported to the board of
health yesterday. at 81 Winter street.
Rev. Leroy II, Bean, recently pastor
of the West Congregational ohur oh in
this city. has accepted O call to tn pas
torate of the Saco First Parish church.
The Corse Psyson company will pl ay
In Biddeford all next week.
The Portland daily press., 1900-04-10

Farmer" Mclaughlin, who has been
ti,k at bis North Scarboro home for
several weeks. WAS In the city yesterday.
He thinks that the proper time for the
holding of Old Home week should be the
last OF August or the first of September
when the farmers would be bsst able to
accommodate their old friends.
All of the streets In the city have been
pretty dusty during the last few days
and there is general demand that the
watering carts be brought out.
Within a short time o nesting Of the
Republican county committee will be
held to decide upon the cate for the coun-
ty convention, There Is n lively contest
In progress for several of the nomina.
lions.
The adjourned meeting Of the Dsmo-
cratic oIty committee at which q chair
man will be elected, is due to take. place
this evening. This meeting has been ad-
journsd several times for the lack Of q
quorum, but the requisite number OF
the faithful is expected to be on hand at
tonight's oonelave.
There is a report that another road
house Is to be built at the Capes Shore.
on the site of the Copeland house, which
was burned more than a year ago.
The clerks in the different offices Of the
ocean steamship lines are preparing to
leave for their summer bstths at IA ont
real. The staff OF the Thomson limo win,
however, remain In this oity during the
summer as that line will, as has been
announced, continue Its service at this
port during the entire year.
The Office OF the Maine Mile Track as
First National bank building and new
quarters are being sought. The officials
say that there will surely Re several race
meets at Rigby during the summer sea-
son and that parties are now negotiating
for dates.
Clerk White of the Falmouth hotel 10
recovering from an Illness Of several days
which has confined him to his room.
Manager Cooling OF the Casco Bay
Steamboat line, IL busily engaged in
making arrangements for the summer
season at the Gem theatre on Peaks isl.
and. Contracts are to be soon made with
the members of the company. Some Of
the company of last year. will probably
he engaged.
The bioyolistl have teen out In force
the last ten days and the indications ara
that Portland viii have about the larg-
est number of wheelmen that 1t has
known this summon.
1t is somewhat Of a curious fact that
none of the gentlemen connected with
the tlckeJ OH ce Of the Jefferson theatre
ufe tobacco in any form. Several visit
ing theatrical men have made considera-
BILE comment on this fact. saying that
this il the ons theatre office In the 90 un-
try which is notable or this condition.
The season of Lent concludes this week.
While 1t has been in progress the services
at the Catholic and Episcopal churches
have been well attended.
The steamer Frank Jones will begin
to run on the Bar Harbor and MachiAs
route April Goth, leaving Portland Tues
days and Fridays at II p. m. Return
ing leave Machiasport Mondays and
Tbs--sANA ct q. m.
The Portland daily press., 1900-04-10

New York parties have recently been
in this city negotiating with Manager
Rounds regarding ths sale of the Port
land theatre. Manager Round says that
thess negotiations have not been sue
ceestul, although he states that he viii
sell II offered his price.
The Supreme Court with Judge Strout
presiding, comes In this morning. IL
is expected that this win be an extreme
are on th1 docket which involve great
Interests and which will probably be
strongly contested.
The latest popular Lenten diver
sion Is the Tuesday morning lecture
course under the auspices Of the Port
land School of Gymnastics for Women.
These lectures will be given In she Y.
Nj. O. A. pariors at IL O'Clock for the
next five weeks, beginning today. Mem
bers of the class and all women interest
ed In "the house We live In" sometimes
called "a tenement Of clay" are eligible.
Several new pictures have recently been
added to the decorations of the Casoo
street school.
The fraternity club was entertained at
the Sherwood last evening by Wilford
g. Chapman, Esq. Paper by Herbert
j. Brown, Esq.
There was q battalion drill at the
Armory last evening for Companies b
and Il, under the command of Major
Col Inns.
Tuesday evening, Capt. ]. b. o'Neii.
assistant surgeon OF the First Regiment,
will examine recruits for the naval re-
serve and for other branches.
The members Of the local companies
are making arrangements for the usual
summer rifle praotice at the Stroudw water
range. A great deal OF interest Is being
manifested this spring and It Is desired
BILE. There IL need of some repairs at
the range and a meeting viii soon be
held which 1t is hoped will put the rifle
practice into motion NJ once.
The Brotherhood Of Railroad Train men
will celebrate It's anniversary April %
with q banquet at Harrington block. A
general invitation has been extended to
AAlOAAboAh 0AA a. - "a HIStc0 hheAe
sentatives from many different lodges
will be present.
Mr.. Frank B. Clark OF this city, finding
that 1t is impossible for him to meet his
maturing liabilities for the purpose of
protecting the Interests Of all his credi-
tors and saving all unnecessary costs. has
made an assignment to w. j. Knowlton,
Esq, for the benefit Of all creditors.
During the present week there Will be
services in st. Stephens every day at
p. m. excepting Friday, when 1880
will be the hour. All interested In the
services appropriate to Passion week, are
cordially invited.
Mrs. Joshua Davis has sold her cottage
ut Peaks island to Mr.. q. W. 7. Cooling.
st. Alban Commandery, No. s, K. T.,
will attend special services at st. Paul's
church. Easter Sunday at 4 p. m.
Ihers viii be meeting of the Portland
Veterans Firemen Association Engine
company next Thursday evening TO ar
range for trial OF the engine on Fast
day.
The Portland daily press., 1900-04-10
INJuRIEs PROVED FATAL.

Jerome B. Chapman, the Western
Union lineman who fell from the top OF
a wall near the old transfer station at the
foot of DanfoIth street, died yesterday
~ morning at eleven O'Clock without hRv-
ing recovered consciousness.
The deceased was faithful empioye Of
the Western Union company for twelve
years and was known by his fellow work
men as a most genial, kindheartsd man.
He was about forty-fivs years of age
and resided at 80 Durham street.
Mr. Chapman Ia survived by wife and
three small children, who have the syn-
patty OF many In this hour of affilotlon.
The Portland daily press., 1900-04-10
EASTER MUSIC

is always very pleasing but there Is nc
one but enjoys lot of college men sing
ing college songs as only college men
can.
Thu University Of Maine Glse club
makes its initial bow to u Portland audi
encs next Saturday evening. The boys
have given over twenty concerts this year
and have won great applause wherever
they have sung. There will be no "dead
numbers" and the college snap starts IN
with the first note and runs the entire
evening without a let up. There are
thIrty-aYs In the instrumental, mandolin
and glse clubs Tickets are on sale today
and a good house lie assured. See ad.
The Portland daily press., 1900-04-10
ARTEsIAN WE'LL AT PEAKS.

Another artesian well has been sunk
ct Peaks. Manager q. W. 4. Cooling
had one drilled near the Gem theatre TO
supply water for the theatre and his
electric light plant, The we'll was sunk
1853 feet when a flow Of water of q bucket
a minute was obtained at the surface.