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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04
WHERE CARS SHALL STOP.
Commissioner Ross Opposed to
Changing the Present Practicr.

Changing the Present Practice
The question OF stopping the street ears
on the near side or far side OF the street
is. perhaps, no nearer solution than when
the proposition emanated, weeks ago, from
the President of the Capital Traction Com
pany.
An amendment has been proposed to
the police regulations of the District re-
curing the cars to stop on the far SIZE
of the street. The proposed amendment
has received the endorsement of two of
the three District Commissions, not TO
mention the Coroner, TO whom the matter
was referred to trace the relation which
might exist between accidents which have
occurred and the present practice.
But now Commissioner Ross comes for
ward with objections to the proposed inno-
walton stated so conyincingly that he seems
likely TO carry the day against the ma
jority opposed 10 him.
1T seems TO me-" says the Commits
sioner. that radical changes in established
regulations which affect the convenience OF
the entire population of great city should
not be made until demand is made therefor
by the people interested. Probably nine
tenths of our people do not care on which
side Of the interpreting streets the cars
are required to stop. But after system
has been inaugurated and the people have
become accustomed to it, it does not seem
advisable to change that system unless it
be absolutely required by consideration OF
public safety and convenience. Accidents
will no doubt occur under any system, but,
in my opinion it will not please the people
of the District to have new system in
augurated with every new Board of Com
missioners"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04
GUARDIANS OF CHILDREN
The Regular onthIy Meeting Of
& friet Board.
Agent John w. Douglas Submits His
Report for the Month of February
more Tam Six Hundred Charges
Now BEING Cared For-Work of the
Organization Steadily Increasing,

The Board of Children's Guardians of
the District of Columbia held its regular
monthly meeting yesterday afternoon at 4
O'Clock in the board room. at Az Louisiana
Avenue Lucy s. Dooiittle, President Of
the Board. was in the chair. The Febru-
airy report of Agent John ". Douglas was
submitted and approved.
This branch of the District charities. in
It's efforts in caring for the waits and chill
dren of illiterate and cruel parents, is
shown to be steadily increasing the num-
Der of its charges. During the month
seventy eight cases, involving the welfare
OF children, were Investigated. Thirty-four
were white children and forty-four were
colored. Fifty-six were regarded as not
MT fer public guardianship Sixteen were
permanently committed-nine because OF
unsuitable homes. two were abandoned by
parents, two were incorrigible. and the
parents or guardians of three were unfit
persons. Four were committed temporar-
lily and two were placed at the Children's
Temporary Home for one day.
The number of children under the care OF
the Board of Children's Guardians is COZ.
One hundred and eighteen are located in
the various charitable institutions in the
city where children are received. ninety
nine are enjoying good homes at the ex-
pense of the city; twelve are in free in
situations. and 345 are in free homes.
The physicians report shows that twenty
children under the Boards supervision are
en- the sick list. Only one death occurred
during the month, a sixteen months old
boy.
Those present at the meeting were: LucyS
Doolttle. President; William J. Miller, Vice
President; B. Pickman Mann, Secretary:
John W. Douglas and S. S. Parkman.
agents; Mrs. J. w. Babson. John F. Cooke,
Mrs. Mary S. D. Mcfarland. DR.. NJ. D.
Peck. Louis Stern, and j. B. T. Upper.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04
NEW WIRES TO TEE SOUTH.
,,, !vI q
TIE Postal C"mp"ny pIosp s's-
tenn in North Cary no

tenn i'm North Cary no -
The Postal Telegraph-G orm Company
has recently extended its eqa e to the
South by the opening of a ~ into North
Carolina and the establishh offices at
Charlotte. Concord, Salisbur ynau seensboro.
and Burlington. mot
The new trunk line, of w'q9Ii .ais Is
section. will extend froi Ashington
through the wes.@sa parts OF North and
South Carolina to-Atlanta, Ca, where it
will connect with the now existing line OF
the company. This will complete a circuit
which will be of immense advantage to the
residents of the section through which il
passes. as well as to those in the region
tributary to the artery Of telegraphic COM
munication and which is tapped by il. In
connection with the new railway construc
ton which is now going on, and which is
in contemplation, it will possess double
value as heralding that coming develop
ment of the whole South which this COM
pany has been prompt to appreciate.
The city OF Charlotte. which the new
system touches, is one of the most thriving
centres of internal commerce in that rich
and growing country. while the smaller
towns at which Offices have been installed
are each the hub of a local prosperity
which demands every facility for its proper
encouragement With the new teiegraphie
accommodation working In conjunction
with the railroads. the most modern aids
to agricultural and manufacturing growth,
that part of the new South is now well
equipped for a competition from which il
has hitherto been barred.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04
THE DAIRY INTERESTS.
The Agricultural Department Issues
Pamphlet About Them

The Dairy Division of the Bureau OF Ami
NAL Industry has issued small tract, con-
tanning much information concerning the
Officials, associations. and educational in
stitutions connected with the dairy inter-
ests OF the United States for the year
1907
This pamphlet was issued chiefly 10 meet
numerous enquiries 10 the Department,
and to show the extent to which the dairy
interests of the United States are organ
lied.
it gives a complete list OF State dairy
officials for 1900.
The tract also contains an explanation of
and list OF the dairy association through
out the United States. They number in
all five national and thirty eight State.
The tract also contains list Of dairy
schools and officers OF the same.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04
CIRCULATION OF MONEY.
A Statement of Amounts Issued by
the Treasury Department

The circulation statement of the Treas
ury Department shows that the general
stock Of money in the United States on
March 1 was composed of gold coin, in
Guiding bullion in the Treasury valued at
81, OBS, s25 ,162; standard silver dollars,
s47s, 305, 30s; subsidiary silver, $50, l01 ISL:
treasury notes of 1890, $S7, 1875. 900; United
States notes, s346 ,6Sl, Ole; national bank
notes, 249,516,22S; total, $2.267, 626, s65, as
against 81, 261, $50 ,59S on February l. 1900.
There are held in the Treasury as assets
of the Government on March /: Gold coin
S2S2,225, 1886; standard silver dollars, So
Col. S2I; subsidiary silver, s., 30S. Sal; treas
ury notes of 1890. 81 .252, 713: United States
notes, l3,069, $50; national bank notes
$S,776.6 47; total, 1924 .695, 074. This amount
does not include deposits of public money
in national bank repositories to the credit
of the Treasurer of the United States.
amounting TO Sill. 193, 547.
The money in circulation on March /,
1900, amounted in value to 81 0O2 93I 7gI.
and was composed Of gold coin, including
bullion in the Treasury, S612 .333. 4S9; gold
certificates, $751;. 266,3 1877; standard silver
dollars, s69, 1884: silver certificates.
$500, 103iS7; subsidiary silver. s74, 1872 $40:
States notes. s31S,3i 800; currency certifi-
Gates, act OF June S, 1872. SIS, go, 900; ma
tional bank notes $40. 7S9, 5Sf.
The estimated population Of the United
States on March !. 1890, according TO the
same statement, amounted to 1926, 900;
money circulation per capita. $3.50.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04
PARKS OF THE CAPITAL
Not Yet Serving as Models for
Other Cities.

The Soldiers Home Grounds Leading
I'm N Role of Grandeur-Prospect
Rural Beauty Within the Munich
pai LimitS-CominS Utflizn>'on of
the Anacostia and Potomac Flats
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04
SHEA HEIRS DISSATISFIED.
The Removal of an Administrators
petitioncd For.

Daniel F. Shea, a brother of Michael
Shea. deceased, yesterday, through his at
torneys Lambert & Lambert, filed pc
tition in the Probate Court asking that
Edward A. Newman be removed as admin
istrator of his brothers estate. Similar
petitions are also filed by Elizabeth Shea
and Julia H. Shehan, sisters OF the de-
ceased.
1t is stated that Michael Shea died on
January IL last at his home Lay lilll
Farm. Mont omery county, Nd. leaving
an estate worth about 100000. The de-
ceased did not leave will and at the
suggestion of his widow letters Of admin
istration were granted to Newman.
The petitioners state that they now be-
lieve Newman to be acting as attorney for
Mrs. Shea, the widow of Michael Shea, and
for this cause are of the opinion that let
tiers of administration were improvidentiy
and prematurely granted to him.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04

the city to extend from the Capitol to the
Potomac River. The eastern end OF Penn
sylvania Avenue is improving IN beauty
every year. 1t already has Lincoln, Gar
field, Folger, Stanton. and Marion Parks,
and the day is probably not far distant
when the Anacostia Flats will be improved
and provision made for additional parks in
that section of the city. The Monument
Grounds are capable of being developed
into grand park and probably will be
within the next few years. Although the
parking system of Washington is in its
infancy the day is not far distant when it
will rival that of any city on the Cont
nent
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04
IN ANDALUSIAN Wales
Views of Mosques and Minarets in
an Ancient Capital.

Exploits of Spanish Sovereigns De-
tailed-PriceIess Manuscripts Kept
Of Kings and the Golden Tower.
Cross Mark of Francisco Pizznro.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04

Heurich's beers have risen 10 the highest pin
nacle Of achievement and when it comes 10 as
s,Iminc the credit OF having the purest and most
wholesome beer, Heurich's demonstrate its
purity by analysis made by the chemists OF the
Agricultural Department. Phone tSi, Arlington
Rottling Co. for 4 case, and il will be the means
of convincing you that HcuTich's is pure.
The age-herald., 1900-05-02
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AtAsaMI
viceroy Allen in Porto Rico.

!, ytcerov Allen is truly great. Amid sal gos of artillery he landed, not bedeeked with gilt lace and feathers, but in duck trousers. a blue serge sack coat and straw hat. This simply shows the great ness of the man, and of the king at home who is even still called a president
 It appears that the programme was changed at the last moment, in order to meet the exigencies of the political cam paign The Puertoriquenos were forgotten or ignored, because it had become a polit- teal necessity at home first of all to abolish all pomp and ostentation in the reception of the new chief.
 A straw-hatted boss would, 1t was thought. restore in the minds of the peo- pie at home the feeling of confidence that a disregard of the constitution had driven but It would lead voters to think that after all Porto Rico Is a part of America by virtue of the treaty of paris instead of being an island quite by itself with anomalous political institutions.
 MT Aliens straw hat and white duck trousers may, therefore, go down in his tory: but at present it is scarcely conceiv- able that they have changed or will change the public estimate of the bill that estab- fishes colony when none had existed in the history of the country. Charles Her bert Allen has no doubt been instructed to rule at San Juan, his capital. very mildly and unostentatiously until the November elections are ended, no matter what he may do afterwards.
The age-herald., 1900-05-02
Republicans in the Senate.

Let us see how the senate does stand. There are there at present 51 republicans and 36 opposition, with three vacancies In March next the terms of r republicans and 13 opposition senators expire. The democrats expect to gain seats in Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado. Idaho, Kansas and West Yirginia-seven in all Add to this number two senators from Utah and Delaware now unrepresented in part. and we have clear gain of nine seats. and no losses. This would just about tic the senate, as between the republicans and the joint opposition,
 In March, 1903, thirty senators go out, Is of them republicans, and II of them be- longing to the opposition. The opposition expect to gain seats in Maryland, Ken lucky and North Carolina, but they may lose seats in South Dakota and in Wash ington, and again the senate would be nearly tied, counting all anti-republicans together.
 It is impossible to foresee before the presidential election of 1901 a democratic control of the senate unless a political rev olution occurs in the central west and in New York. If the great central west should break away from Hannaism and tariff rob- bery and trust domination and cononial- ism-if Ohio Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota should desire the restora- ton of the republic with no government by injunction-no Hanna campaign funds contributed by trusts-no privileges for the few at the expense of the many-then in- deed the senate would be changed almost unawares. The colonial policy and plutoc- racy in general are on trial, and no one can see far enough into the grindstone to say what the result will be.
The age-herald., 1900-05-02
Total EclInse of the Sun.

The coming eclipse is not only an Ameri- can institution, but it is to be conducted on strictly sectional lines. The fifty-mile wide strip of totality will enter the United States in southern Louisiana, passing over New Orleans, grazing Mobile, over Mont gomery and Columbus, within twenty-five miles of Atlanta, near Macon, Augusta, Columbia. and Charlotte, and over Raleigh and Norfolk. At the last named point it goes to sea, and about sunset 1t re-appears at Suez, just too late.- to be a further spectacle.
 This will be the ninth total eclipse of the country visible in the United States, and if cloud formations do not prevent it will be photographed, and focused and sazed at as an eclipse never was before. The hours of the eclipse are just after breakfast and about school time, although many schools will not be convened on the morning of May 2s until 10 o'clock.
 The weather bureau advises observers from distance to locate themselves in eastern Alabama or central Georgia be- cause these sections are generally free in the morning from clouds. They have a minimum of cloudiness as rule, whereas the coast distracts at eithed end of the line of totalty have maximum of it. The eclipse lasts, however in Alabama and Georgia but so minutes against 100 minutes in North Carolina
 In this city the eclipse will be nearly total. At least nineteen-t twentieths of the suns bright morning face will be obscured. The chickens may not go to roost, but if they should it is safe to say they will be undisturbed, for the spectacle will appall the consciences of all raiders. All chick ems should be encouraged to add to the pieturesqueness and gossip of the display by going to their respective roosts.
 An expert observer of eclipses says the best way to see it either in the path of totality or out of 1t is "to secure three strips of colored glass, one and half inches wide by Ave inches long-red. green and blue-bnd them over the eye end of a good opera glass; and adjust focus on the sun" As no other total eclipse of the sun will occur in this country until 1918 now is the time to get ready to see one, and Ala bama is in the center of the orchestra.
The age-herald., 1900-05-02

the hour to strike had come, and the blow nearly killed Quay politically
 The question of chief interest now is, will it recoil on the head of Patriot Hanna? It is said that 1t will. It is said the sub sidy grab has been marked, ito be sand bagged" Thus do patriots suffer. While trying to drive out corruption in the form of practical politics. his pet bill is to be slaughtered, and the seas are not to be covered at once by subsidized American sails. The white winged are to depend upon wind only, and Hanna himself must be content with the ease his own noble efforts have brought to his conscience, if he has one. Mr Quay's knife is out. and the noble Hanna has no razor. He knows that it is war. but it is shrewdly suspected that he has contracted with the equally noble Wanamaker for a campaign subscription that will meet and overcome the Quay de- fections. In Pennsylvania it is now Quay against Wanamaker Hanna & Co.,, and the rest of the country is looking on very much as the old woman did in the famous bear fight.
The age-herald., 1900-05-02
American Jockeys Successful

London, May 1.-The opening day of the New Market first spring meeting attracted large crowds. those present including the prince of Wales. The American jockeys were remarkably successful winning the first three out of the seven. J. Rein, Rigby and J. H. Martin each won a race, while Tod Sloan and l.. Re..A were placed five times.
 Richard Croker's Manhattan Boy, rid den by l.. Reif. was third in maiden two-year-old race, and Mir w. Dukes Stamina. with Rigby in the saddle won the two thousand guineas trial plate of 200 sovereigns
The age-herald., 1900-05-02
Hanna a Martyr to Purity.

The vote cast by Marcus Aurelius Hanna against Mir Quay continues to be the sub feet of much comment It appears that MT. Hanna voted to seat Henry w. Corbett of Oregon. The Oregon case involved the identical constitutional points that the Quay case did. The legislature of Oregon would not select a senator, neither would the legislature of Pennsylvania. MT. Cor belt was a republican, and so is MT Quay. MT Hanna voted to seat Corbett, and he voted to keep Quay out of a seat. Thereby hangs a tale.
 The friends and adherents of MT Hanna, one of whom Homer Davenport is not, as- sert that MT. Hanna forgot the Corbett case, forgot the constitutional precedent and ruling that he had tried to establish forgot all else, in desire to work reform in the moral tone and purity of the senate. He sacrificed his personal feelings and his love for tho constitution to his desire to drive out of the senate machine politics. He saw only the corruption and evils of 'pTacticai politics." and he decided that
The age-herald., 1900-05-02
RAG-TIME MUSIC

From the Richmond Times.
 It is said that a reformer has started a movement in New York to call conven- ton of singers on the vaudeville stage for the purpose of taking some organized ac- ton against rag time music, so-called.
 We hope that the reformer will be suc- cessful in his commendable efforts. Rag time is musical slang and is as demoraliz- ing in its field as slang phrases to lang uage. Not only so, but the phraseology of these rag time songs is coarse and some times borders on the obscene. It Is a good thing for the people to sing, and we have nothing to say against good popular music, but rag time music is to be discouraged. It cannot have a refining influence It cannot make the people better. It cannot lift the people up. but it's tendency is to corrupt and demoralize.
 But we are afraid that the New York reformer will not be successful in his un- dertaking. There is. unfortunately, pop ular demand for this class of music, and the people rule in the musical world as well as in every other department of life So long as there is a demand, there will
 
 rag time music and retire it is to cultivate the popular taste.
 The Wednesday club of Richmond and other musical organizations of that high | character, are working in the right direc- | ton. They give the people a high class of music and eventually will give them l taste for it. The members of the club who study music soon learn to love the classics, and so the club as an organization and through each individual member, is for ever exerting a wholesome and power- full influence throughout the community. Our Wednesday club is our musical train ing school, and the progress of it's work is seen at each recurring festival Let this organization and organizations like it have 1 their way and have their sway, and rag l time music will soon become thing of | the past "a
The age-herald., 1900-05-02
A MODEL. VILLAGE

From Ainsee's Magazine.
 Just outside the entrance lodge to the Biltmore estate is the village of Biltmore, in which is the office of the estate, the railway station and postoffice, and also the church and rectory. The village does not amount to much yet, but plans have been laid out, sewers have been put in, and the pavements are without doubt su- perior to any in North Carolina. The pro- prietor does not sell any of the houses, but rents them, and he has the intention of making it a model home village, where comfort shall be general and virtue gets it's abundant reward.
 Model villages have not been remarkably successful in this country, where the best of us have a yearning to plant, on soil of our own, the vine and fruit tree under which we live That disposition has hither- to interfered with the model village just as 1t will hinder the growth of the single succeed in Biltmore, the houses of which now supplied with modern conven- fences of the most recent and improved sort They not only have their houses lighted with electricity in Biltmore vil- lage, but the cooking is also done by it. The title to the church is not burdensome to Biltmore villagers, as MT Vanderbilt pays all the charges, including the rector's salary
The age-herald., 1900-05-02
GENERAL LoNGsrRENT's PENSION

Wash. Cor. in Atlanta Constitution.
 The bill of Senator Gallinger. of New Hampshire, to increase the Mexican war pension of General Longstreet of Georgia from SIP a month, which he is now receivi ing, to $50 a month, finds strong support among members of congress. The pension is of course granted for service in the Mexican war and has no bearing what ever upon the generals brilliant service in the Confederate army. His career in the army in Mexico was such as to give prom ise of the splendid records he made in the southern army, for he distinguished him. self In every battle in the Mexican war with the single exception of that of Beuna Vista, In which he was not engaged. He went into the Mexican war as a lieutenant fresh from West Point and at Cherubusco received the wound from which he still suf- fers. Major General Scott, who was in his official account of the battle in seven words, but they are seven words which speak volumes. His report said: Long street shot down advancing colors in hand" Those who are pressing the claim for an increase in pension take the position that if the general is to be given any pen sion at all it should be in some degree com mensurate with his brilliant achievements and record, and they regard the proposed increase to $50 a month certainly not too large.
The age-herald., 1900-05-02
BEcApsE IT IS THE sPRINGrIME

By Louise Chandler Moulton. E Shall be glad because the year is young: The shy, swift-coming green is on the
 trees, The jonquirs passion to tho wind is flung; I catch the May flowers hreath upon the
 breeze. Shall be glad because the year is young? Nay; you yourself were young that other
 year; Though sad and low the tender songs you
 sung,
 My fond heart heard them and stood still
 to hear. Can forget the day you said goodbye And robbed the world and me for alien
 spheres? Do not know, when wild winds sob and
 die,
 Your voice is on them, sadder than my
 tears? You come to tell me heaven itself is cold The world was warm from which you
 fled away And moon and stars and sun are very old And you?-oh, you were young Tn last
 years May! Now you, who were the ycry heart of
 spring, Are old and share tho sccretss of the
 skies But I lack something that no Ncar wiu
 bring,
 Since May no longer gree.s me with your k eyes