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The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
NO MONEY FOR DEMB1TzKY.
The Story of His Wealth In the
Treasury Is Denied.

Treasury Is Denied.
Ellis H. Roberts. Treasurer of the
United States, yesterday denied emphat-
ically that there is fortune held in the
Treasury for a young Pole named Dem
b!tzky, as claimed in certain press de-
spatches.
There is not penny in the Treasury
credited to anybody named Dembitzky,"
said Treasurer Roberts. Il do not know
how such a story originated, for it Is alb
solutely untrue
The statement that fortune of s., 0O0. 900
was awaiting young Polishman of this
name was printed sensationally in two
New York papers yesterday morning. The
man to whom the money was alleged to
belong, according to the newspaper ac-
counts needed only to trace his relation
ship to Baron Ludwig Napoleon Dembitz-
ky to secure the fortune. The heir. &C
cording to this piece Of imaginative writ
ing. is now living in Russia David w.
Rockmore. an attorney. of the Pulitzer
Building. New York. was alleged to be
his representative. He Is alleged to have
stated that in correspondence with Sec
rotary Gage, of the Treasury, he had
been informed that the record of the In
debtedness of the Government to the
original Dembitzky had been found.
Treasurer Roberts, however, states that
Dembitzky the first Is said to have
come to this country from Poland during
the civil war. He had 100000 American
money. This sum he obiigingly depos-
tied with the United States Treasury,
say the New York papers. whereupon he
Immediately enlisted in the Union Army
under the name of Napoleon Dembitzky.
Apparently appreciating the fact that he
would some day be written up" in a
New York paper. Dembitzky then hap
pened to be killed In the battle of the
Wilderness. leaving as his only heir the
father of the present claimant, a nephew.
near the city of Alexandroosk, in Po-
land.
Since that time the original 800. 600 has
Increased fivefold and now amounts to
a goodly sum. According TO the New
York story there has evidently been great
carelessness in the Treasury Department
If, when the rightful heir appears in
search of his heritage, the money IS not
to be found.
Mr.. Dembitzky will probably have an
investigation II his faith in the New
York story remains after Treasurer Rob-
erts' denial of its truth.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
ANOTHER CENSUS BULLETIN.
Statistics of Michigan. Minnesota
and mississippi Given.


4 bulletin giving the population by sex,
general nativity. and color in the States
of Michigan Minnesota. and Mississippi
wasfissued by the Census Office yester-
day. The total population of the three
States is divided, respectively, as follows;
Michigan males. 1885; females. 1.l72.-
or. Minnesota, males. 932. 80; females,
sls.so4 Mississippi, males, ISL, 45l; females,
769. S1s
The males predominated in 1900 In all
of the three States. Minnesota having the
largest proportion. or 53.2 per cent of
males, as compared with 46,S per cent of
females In Michigan and Mississippi, the
percentages for the males are Sic and 5o.i,
respectively
In Minnesota the foreign-born element
in 1909 constituted something more than
one-fourth of the total population. or
2s9 per cent. while in Michigan the same
element constitutes 22.4 per cent of the
total population. The population Is prac-
tically all of native birth. the foreign
element representing only five-tenths of
l per cent
In Mississippi. $50 per cent of the pop
ulation in 1900 was colored, this element
being composed almost wholly of persons
of negro descent. In Michigan and Min
nesota. however the population is practi-
cally all white. the colored element rep
resenting less than ! per cent of the en-
tire population in each of these two
States.
Foreign white persons constitute 2S.S per
cent and native white persons of foreign
parentage i6.1 per cent of the total popu-
lation in Minnesota in 1900. these two ele-
ments combined representing substantial
ly three-fourths Of the population of the
State. while in Michigan the same two
elements combined constitute 56.1 per cent
of the total population.
The white population of Mississippi Is
composed almost wholly of native white
persons of native parentage. this element
constituting 397 per cent of the entire
population of the State in 1860.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
JUDGE MOVES DEFENCE.
An Abstract Given Out by the Attor.
eraI General.

The Attorney General gave out for pub
location yesterday an abstract from the
reply of Judge Noyes, of Alaska, to the
charges of corruption made against him
The statement gives in a little more de
tail the report already published. One
of the most important allegations made
by Judge Noyes in his own defence is
that there was no prearranged plan for
appointing Alexander Mckenzie receiver
of the Anvil Creek gold claims at Nome
and that, in fact. the place was offered
to another man. who declined it. McKen-
zie was Sentenced to serve Il term in Jail
for Contempt OF court In California in
connection with the Anvil Creek else. but
Judge Noyes defended him stoutly against
the charges of corrupt practices.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10

Capt. irving +. Bennett, assistant sur
geon, L. S. ", is ordered from Philadel-
phia to New York City to take passage
on the transport ingalls, for Manila
where he is to be assigned to duty
Chaplain George g. Stull. recently ap-
pointed. is assigned to the Eleventh Cav
airy and ordered to Fort Keogh, Mon.
for temporary duty.
Capt. Charles Fl. Clark Ordnance De
partment is ordered to Fort Stevens and
Fort Columbia, Ore, and Fort Worden
Fort Flagier. and Fort Casey. Wash, on
business pertaining to the inspection OF
armament and the work of mechanics
thereon
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
FOURTH CAVALRY COMING.
Transport Hancock Bringing Them,
md the Snmoa Also Sfnrts.

The War Department yesterday re
ceived cablegraTn from General Chaffee
announcing that the Samoa sailed from
Manila on August I. with the bodies of
32s soldiers. who died in the Philippines.
on board.
The dispatch also adds that the trans
port Hancock sailed from Manila on Au-
gus; s. having on board twenty officers
and sli enlisted men of the Fourth Cav
airy.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
chine.e PROTOCOL Delayed by Briti-h

The State Department yesterday re-
ceived cable despatch from Commits
soner w. w. Rockhill in Pekin reporting
that the delay in signing the final proto-
col Of agreement between the Powers and
China is due 10 objections raised by
Great Britain against the international
commission for the revision of the tariff
The nature of the British objection is
not stated. 1t also appears that the
British Government asks the reconsider
alton of some clauses as to which no
agreement had been heretofore reached,
owing to the opposition of several of the
Powers.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
THE NAVY AUDITORS REPORT.
Nearly seventy-fve Million Dollars
Allowed in the Year.

W. w. Brown, Auditor for the Navy
Department yesterday submitted to Sec
rotary Gage, of t!se Treasury, his annual
report for the fiscal year ended June 30,
1901. During this period 6.695 accounts and
claims were settled, and 159.6oS vouchers
were examined, as against 147. 1876 the pre-
vious year.
The amounts allowed were s74.6i9, l1622.
as against sol 81, 10 for last year, an
Increase OF more than s per cent in
vouchers examined. and an increase in
allowances over the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1900, of Sl2.6B. ll5.49 Nearly twice
as many prize claims were settled this
year as last. The distributive lists Of
twenty two prizes have been prepared. in
which fifty vessels of the navy particl-
pated.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
Naval Reserve Officers Honorea.

Lieutenants Patton and Davenport of
the New Jersey Naval Reserve. at their
own request, have been assigned to tenn
porary duty with the North Atlantic
Squadron under Admiral Higginson, on
Newport, for the purpose or familiarizing
themselves with the handling of ships
md naval maneUvers. They are each to
remain one week and Will, during that
time. be subject 20 orders the same as
OCULAR officer OF the navy. Lieutenant
Patton has been assigned to the Alabama
and Lieutenant Davenport to the Massa-
rhusetts. This is the first instance where
the naval reserve OF State has been al
lowed these privileges
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
Navy OmcinIs to Attend n Launching

Acting Secretary Hackett, Captain
CowIes. Acting Chief of the Bureau OF
Navigation. and several OF the bureau
chiefs of the Navy Department Will go to
Sparrow Point. Md, next Thursday to wit
ness the launching OF the torpedo boat
destroyers, Truxton. Whipple, and Word
en-. The officials will leave here on a
special train at IL o'clock. The launch
ing will take place at 2 o'clock.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
Bids Opened for n Crematory,

Bids were opened yesterday in the office
of the Supervising Architect of the Treas
ury, for the construction of crematory
at Cape Charles. Quarantine Station,
Fisherman's Island. Va The bids receiv-
ed were as follows: Joseph T. Griffith,
Lewes, Del. 1887. sixty days; L. Morgan.
Newport News. Va. $3.50. eighty days;
William H. Verden, Lewes. Del. $780,
one hundred days.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
Summer Wear
For Little Children.
Second FlOOr.)

Cambria Slips and Shirts and
Waists and Null Caps, and all sorts
of comfortables for baby. Nainsock
and Cambria Dresses and every ar
ticle of apparel for the little tots,
suitable for home, country or sea-
shore wear. The cost is very lit
tie.
Infants Cambria Long Slips rufae on neck and
sleeves.
Each 25c.
sleeves, and low neck and short sleeves
Each o5c.
Children's Cambria Waists. plain and gathered
sizes g months to II years
Each 25c.
Infants White Null Caps. close-ftting. trim
med with tucks and lace.
Each 2sc.
Children Nainsook and Cambria Dresses, sons
with tueks and machine henstitching.
Each SOC.
Children's Nansook Dresses. trimmed with
broidery and inSertioE-a variety of patterns
Each 75c. ~-t-er-r
Infants Hand-crocheted worsted Sacques, with
pink and blue trimmings
Each 25c.
Second floor Us. -.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
Navy Orders.

Lieut.. II. F. Bryan, to Academy, Sep
TENDER /.
Lieutenant Commander w. n. Little, re-
port New York Yard, September /; mem
Der Board of Inspection.
Acting Boatswain Heinrich Seedorff
detached Glacier: to AIya.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10

Our September BoOklet-"Ths
Student"-now in press, will be OF
great assistance to parents in pre-
pairing their sons and daughters
for school or college. If of inters
est to you, leave or send US your
address, and we will mail you a
copy.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
Third Floor.)

Dainty and cool Chambray and
Linen Dresses for town, country
and seashOre wear. Light woods
for travelling and cool days. Wrap
pers for summer negligee. All
sorts of comfortable wear things.
Attention is called to complete
and very choice assortment Of
summer waists for girls.
Girls Percale Waists in neat
patterns and most desirable
shades; just the waist for general
wear; sizes 10, II, and Ia.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10

White Lawn Waists, all-over
tucked; plain sleeves with tucked
cuffs; soft cOllar-a sheer, cool
waist for these hot summer even
ings; sizes 10, II, and IA.
SI.00 Each.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
vanderIip Confer, with Gage.

Frank A VANDERBILT. formerly Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury was at the
Treasury Department yesterday, where
he was closeted for some time with Sec
rotary Gage. He declined to state the
nature OF his business with the Secretary,
saying that it was of no public import
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10

A lot of Washable Russian
Blouse Suits, neat striped effects,
with plain white sailor collar, en-
brOidered shield and bloOmeR
pants-belted; sizes q to 6.
Sl.95 Each. We're $500.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
Special Sale of
Boys Summer Suits.
(Light- Wool.

ELight-We!ght Wool.
Excellent for dress purposes at
mountain or seashore, and the
proper weight for early fall wear.
Pretty mixed effects and plain blue
serges and cheviots. Nearly half
original prices.
A lot of fine Suits, strictly ale
wool, best make and best materials
navy blue and fancy cheviots
and cassimeres; single-breasted
and double-breasted; two-piece
and three-piece styles; sizes s to-
IH
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
Soc Each.

A special lot of plain Chambray
Waists, il the new blue and OK
blood shades; detachable collars;
soft cuffs-pleated back and
front; sizes 10, IL, and IA.
75c Each. Value, Csc.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
Marine hand CONCERT.

The programme for the concert by the
band Of the United States Marine Corps
at the White House this afternoon, at 5:3:
o'clock. is as follows:
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
SI.00 Each

A choice collection of Fancy
Summer Waists, in linens and
lawns.
A particularly attractive little
Waist is of white lawn, with large
hemstitched sailor collar, trim
med with lace, having front Of
fine tucks finished with sailor
knot.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10

During the summer store closes
at 5 o'cleek; Saturdays at J
O'Clock.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
$500 Each.
We're S6.75 and $3.50.

A lot Of Sailor B ouse Suits in
fine all-wool navy blue serges and
cheviots: we'll made; prettily TRIM
med aud braided; sizes 4 toI2.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10

Chills and fever l. bottle of Groves rasteess
Chill Tonic IL is simply iron and quinine in l
tasteless form, No cure-no pay. Price oOc
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
SOS Each.
Were $3.75 to $500.

A tableful of DOuble-breasted
Wool Suits, lightweight mater
ials, in neat, stylish effects; wen
made and well fitting; pants
double in seats and knees; sizes
8 to 16.
$3.50 Each. We're $500.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
$3.50 Each.

Other fancy waists are $1.25,
$3.50, and $3.50.
Third floor.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10
Woodward
and
LOthrOp,

New NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-03

ers, but by "the aggregate tiny pushes of every
honest worker Whatever and this faith he ex-
emplified in his daily life as in his writings
The letters in this delightful volume date
from his Oxford days to short time before his
death. They are unaffected. thoughtful. play
full often picturesque, full of testimony to his
ardent interest in the human side of things
Some of those written from France and Italy
are vivifed by his joy in lands which stirred
him as much by their historical associations as
by their beauty. In illustration of his intense
interest in the history of towns, Mr.. Bryce tells
how he reached Troyes early one morning with
his friends. He explored it, darting hither
and thither through the streets like dog fol-
lowing SCENT In two hours the work was
done In the afternoon the party started for
Bale, reached it late and went to bed Green
brought down to breakfast next morning an ar
ticle upon Troyes, describing its characteristics
and tracing it's connection with the Counts of
New-York tribune., 1901-11-03

lows The unconscious revelations of these let
ters cannot but move the reader to reverence for
a man whose intellectual integrity was as marked
as was the beauty of his character, the warmth
of his heart. Il know what men will say of
me-" he once said They Will say, He died
learning." A long time friend adds that they
Will also say. He died loving.
Green's early record clergyman among
the London poor shows forth the brotherly sym
pathy and understanding no less than the prac
tical wisdom with which he dealt with difficult
human problems The same breadth of nature
made itself apparent in the historian, who strove
to put facts a philosophical basis and TO
make events the outcome of social and religious
thought" He has told us his conviction that
the English ideal of history will in the long run
be what Gibbon made it in his day. the first in
the world, because it can alone combine the
love of accuracy and external facts with the
sense that government and outer facts are but
the outcome of individual men, and men what
body. mind and spirit make them Throughout
his too short life he followed his own advice to
his friend. Boyd Dawkns: Whatever comes to
you, never let go your ideal. L think it is a
great thing and one that lifts up forever
to have labored with singIeness of mind for
knowledge" And in his private diary there is
touching reference to what it had been his great
est joy TO see that did not hesitate to aban-
don long cherished theories before the call Of
less interesting and attractive fact" Truth and
sympathy marked all the phases of his literary
work His criticism unflinchingly frank
yet he says in his diary, quoted in this
volume:
| fear / should be too kindly for critic. AS
work out my criticisms / discover beauties and
forget the faults. In fact, the dulleSt i'm
prove under the culture of the pen. The effort
of composition is "a net that drags up much
md raj N VI
There is not a mind in the world that has not
something worth extraction in it.
He believed that the world moved along, not
merely by the gigantic shoves Of it's hero work
New-York tribune., 1901-11-03

Champagne during some centuries He then
walked with his friends through Bale, and
Green, the spur of the moment gave them
an equally vivid history of the town, though he
was seeing both places for the first time and
had made special preparation. He could
apparently have done the same for any other
town in France the Rhneland.'" His charm
ing notes art, architecture, history and
nature in his beloved Italy mingled with
glimpses of the men and women he found there.
He writes of Garbad at Siena:
II is ever hideous to see him with group OF
fawning fools about him. but all the horrors of
the group about him fading out of my MEM
DRY, and leaving nothing but the bare, brick
hoored room. the camp bed the worn homely
face so grand in its utter simplicity; the simple
chatty address. all softened with the weariness
of pain: the quiet, kindly look of the small.
bright eyes. into which a lght-suCh light
stole once as he recalled kind act of you Eng
lish who have always been good to me-" 1
came away so hushed and stilled 0he rest were
infinitely amusedD from the presence of that
greatness. that goodness, Heroem yidi-
He quotes concerning Garibaldi the saying of
a humble Italian Il felt he hero, be-
cause he was the cool head and quiet voice
among us" OF another italian, Mazzini, Green
tells this anecdote: What would you have
taught in school, asked a friend of mine. One
thing at any rate in ALL, replied MazZini, and
that is some knowledge of astronomy. man
learns nothing if he hasn't learnt to wonder,
and astronomy, better than any science, teaches
him something of the mystery and grandeur of
the universe. Now, man who feels this will
soon feel something of his own greatness and
mystery and then for the first time he is a
man. l wonder whether Manchester would ad-
mlre that L admire IT." One of Green's Con-
tinentaI friends was Gabriel Monod and from
this good man. then on his way with the French
Protestant ambulance from Sedan to the lines
before Paris, he got this sight of the eve of
Sedan:
The ambulance was at Rancourt the next viii
Iage to Beaumont, when the French soldiers
New-York tribune., 1901-11-03

hesitate to rebuke his bluff correspondent K
do wish, my dear Freeman, he writes,
you would leave off poking at Kingsley and
his Dietrich. Have you ever counted up the
number of your references to that said blunder?
And ought there not to be some proportion be
tween sin and punishment? 'Blunders' was
very good; but there are blun6ers of taste as
we'll as plumbers of fact, you known With Free
man he was continually exchanging comments
on the literary work of both; and these COM
ments and questions often merry
serious. "How's Ruddy Bill. the real old Eng
lish gentleman. you want TO hold him.
getting on?' he asks his friend, who has been
asserting that William Rufus is my ideal gem
teman." II he gibed at Freeman or scolded
him. he was gently amenable to every admoni-
tion from that good comrade. One of the most
New-York tribune., 1901-11-03
Gbe Nem'Dork gribnaae.
ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT-
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1901

Holiday books falling from the presses
Ike leaves from the trees; in such numbers
that even the most practised commentators
thereon may we'll feel appalled, at the task or
dissection and appraisal lying before them. Yet
there is encouragement in one fact which lies
upon the surface, the manifest improvement IN
the character of publications intended specli-
t.ally for the "ChristmaS trade OF recent years
the quality of such publications has steadily
improved until now seem to have reached
Il level on which good work is done as Il mat
ter of course. The huge and cumbrous book
tit only for the malign purpose of that 1ndi-
yidual who wishes to get even with some
body by sending him. under the gllise of an
affcctionate remembrance 4 block of stumbling,
a carn of unreadableness, Il monStrous piece
of ''literary' furniture, which will cause him
10 rage and imagine a vain thing as he con-
>tantly barks his ShinS upon it's now almost
unknown The stupid books are disappearing.
The books that pretty TO look at and
otherwise Of no earthly to intelligent be-
ings The Christmas book nowadays is either
Il handsome reprint of a classic or it IS 4
seriously written and illustrated work on a
rational subject
New-York tribune., 1901-11-03

Local color and the style Of the period"
all very well, but il seems too bad that they
cannot be kept in their proper places and con
oidcrcd by pres Sdmtbly thoughtful persons in
Il correct perspective. Here is wise man
complaining because the pcrSonagcS i'll Mr..
IieWlcttS New Canterbury Tales" do not talk
in the style of their period" Well. suppose
they don't: Is the book any the for
that: Who. i'll the presence of IL good story.
worries over the degree of accuracy with which
the author has made his perSonages the
style of their period: The spirit of the time
he must catch or he is lost. But if he catches
that il hardly matters whether he has achieved
a style for his speakers that would satisfy
the pcdagogueS. He is not writing for peda-
gogucS. He is writing for human beings and
he appeals 10 them human grounds 'Es-
mOnd' has been praised tour de force
though Thackcray, with all the tricks of
an historical novelist. had got up a period
and put its style" on paper. ''ESmond" is
immortal because it has the magic of genius
in it, because it has human nature in it. Mr..
Hewlett must stand fall by the flesh and
blood the living elements in his work
New-York tribune., 1901-11-03
J. r GREEN'S LETTERS.
CHARMING GLIMPSES OF THE AUTHOR
OF THE SHORT HISTORY OF THE
ENGLISH PEOPLE,"

LETTERS OF JOHN RICHARD GREEN. Edited
by Leslie Stephen SvO pp 512 The Macmillan
Company.
Il pray Cod in Whose name and to Whose
glory 1 undertake this work. to grant in
it, above all, the earnest love and patient toll
after historical truth" 1t was in this spirit at
humble and lofty. that John Richard Green
began to write his history of England. In this
spirit, indeed. he encountered life itself, work
ing through painful invalidism and narrow
fortunes with indomitable patience, with cheer
full serenity with a passionate clinging to the
highest ideals of truth and of service to his fe-