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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20
ARTISTS OF THE NEEDLE.
Dressmakers Discuss the Non-Paying
Customer.

From the New York Tribune.
The artists of the needle assembled in
great numbers yesterday at the convention
of the Dressmakers' Protective Assocla-
tion in 23d street They were an up-to-
date-looking company of women, who were
there strictly for business. They hsteneo
attentively when any one talked business
and when she stopped they all talked at
once Miss White, the president, spoke Oh
"Non-Taying and SlowPaying Customers
You don't need to have any at ALL she
said very positively. When stranger
comes in size her up; gauge her; that's it,
gauge her. Make up your mind II she's
cranky or good-natured; if she knows what
she wants, or doesn't know what she wants.
Then try to find out what she wants, or
what she thinks she. wants, and after she
has given the order tell her your rule is
half price down before the dress is begun.
If she makes fuss, all right, Let her go.
It's better to have the fuss then than after
you've lost your money. Better get rid
of her on the start. There are plenty of
good people. OF course, when 1t is an old
customer whom you know well you don't
need to do anything of that kind"
But sometimes they will pay two or
three times and then won't" said voice.
,"Oh, well, if you are smart and size them
up right you won't get caught" said Miss
White.
But what II your girls get sick and you
have to disappoint your customers, and
then they refuse to pay your bill some
times for six months because they say you
kept them out of their dress?' asked an
anxious voice.
You can't do anything" said Miss White
positively; mot anything at all. If you
disappointed the woman you cannot dun
her"
IT think it Is often our own fault" said
one in the audience. We promise too
carelessiy. I've been In business five years.
and excepting the day my mother died 4
never disappointed anybody. The reason
Is never make a promise that can only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Extension of Massachusetts,
Avenue Well Under Way.
BRIDGE OVER CREEK
PROJECT WILL REQUIRE TWO
YEARS TO COMPLETE.
Building Statistics for Twenty-Three
Cities-Renting Continues Brisk
New Apartment House.

While Washington has viewed with in
creasing interest the development of GER
tain Typographical improvements along the
line of much Travelled road, an extensive
work of construction and depression has
gone on elsewhere, apparently without it's
knowledge. This is the extension of Massa-
chusetts avenue from Belair Heights to
North Georgetown, and the construction of
an enormous fill with a culvert over Rock
creek The magnitude of this undertaking
and the enormity of benefit which will re-
suit from it's completion are difficult to
overestimate.
In its present condition Massachusetts,
avenue is practically untraveled beyond
Belmont road From that point westward,
we'll built as the roadway is, probably not a
dozen vehicles traverse it in the course of
week. 1t IS practically cul-de-sac Fac
ing upon 1t are half dozen blocks of splen-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20
LIFE IN YUCATAN,
Five Years Residence Makes Ameri.
cans Look Like Mexicans.

From the New York Sun.
A residence of five years in Yucatan will
make an American look like a Mexican and
dress like one. That is the impression one
gets in looking at many of the passenge8
who troop down the gangway from T.
steamers arriving from Mexico.
This is true to al greater extent II -
case of women than of men, The q
of Yucatan seems to take the color
their cheeks and to replace it with a veY
light shade of copper. They chatter Span
ish if 1t were their mother tongue but
it is their dress, or, rather, the manner in
which they wear it, that has the real look
of the middle-cass Mexican.
A Mexican woman, If young, has an at
trSctVe air from the top of her head to
her waist. Eclow the waist she looks slop-
Ply. The skirt IL zoo wide and too long and
is so Shapeless as &c be utterly lacking in
style. 1t is of the slr.et-cleautns variety,
and the wearer does not seem to know how
to pick 1t up in way to show i. 81 herself
to advantage.
The American woman who lives long in
the country falls into this habit with a ia
cility that is painful to the American man
who lives at home. But Americans who
live in Yucatan are, generally speaking,
making money, particularly if they are in
terested In hemp. and they find consolation
In this fact.
Since the outbreak of the Spanish war
the manufacture of hemp from sisal has be-
come principal business of Yucatan, and
haciendados who devote themselves to the
growing of the plant and turning 1t into
hemp are making ropes Of money. Merida,
the capital of Yucatan, Is, it is said the
richest city in Mexico, in proportion to its
population which is placed anywhere from
10000 to $4,000.
1t is also the dirtiest city in Mexico,
which is saying something very unpleasant
for there few clean cities in the sister
republic. Merida has neither a water nor
sewerage system, and that 1t is not de-
populated every year speaks we'll for the
constitutions of the inhabitants, and may
also. say something for the beer which is
drunk there and Is made on the spo. by
Americans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20

FOR SALE-BY OWNERS
mo, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. WITT 81 THE HIGH CLASS OF
Ts so EtsHT THAT HADE REEN Built II
AND THROUGHOUT THE CITY,
poSSpss THESE HOUSES
TTg DSI SEEERAL SUBSTANTIAL AND MA
I1a5I, FEATUREs NOT POSSESSED BY ANY
CONSERVATORY,
WITH GLASS ROOF AND ENDS
opening from dining room and reception hail. pre-
sentng the prettiest interior effect ever obtained
upon city lot (pans copyrighted, 1902.
HEART OAK
on on hrst floor and library; oak is seldom used
account of its cost except in fine private work,
the so-called hard woods being substituted.
SO many Washington homes lack.
COMMUNICATING EFFECT
between all bed rooms. permitting perfect ventila-
tion; and particularly desirable where there
BROWNS STONE PORCH,
FRONT
one solid rich color effect dgnifed and refined.
Three stories and cellar dark Roman brick and
heavy brown stone, Of which the hand carving is
feature.
SOLID GRANITE
STONE FOUNDATIONS UNDER ENTIRE HOUSE
EVER TiR FIAT E4 WILLS iSsT kE IT + SHLpEM
DECORATIONS
Our work in this line is exclusive and tasty.
NINE ROOMS.
EVERY CONVENIENCE
and Improvement known to modern construction
to make housekeeping easy; special design man
tells and chandeliers; practical open freplaces;
crossed paneled doors to EVERY ROOM; perfectly
equipped kitchen; steel range with gas attach
ment; porcelain sink; buffers pantry; china closet;
ants closet; back stairs; drop TOILET LIGHTS
In every room large closets; modern bath; electro
floor
TH HESc ARE not TIE Ct, GHEa aP con
ULATIyE HOUSES. But THOR
OUGHLY BUILT HOMES.
Built with conscientious regard for the fact that
home buying is permanent investment, and
should be of such character as to give a lifetime
Of perfect service.
THE PRICE, $3.50,
IN NO WAY MEASURES THE VALUE.
INSPECTION WILL PROVE THESE PROPER
sTRUCTED HOME, AND SUPERIOR TO THE
REAL ESTATE HOUSES SELLING UNDER
OPEN FOR YOUR INSPECTION,
1904 FIRST st. NV.
Facing the leading driveway to beautiful
Soldiers Home and the universities. adjoining the
thirty-ive of ground surrounding the
reservoir, recently purchased by the United States
Government, which Congress has authorized
an expenditure of
81, 100000
for parks and other improvements which by law
must be finished in two and one-half years, and
protected by restrictive covenants that building
under three stories be erected, represent
that this location Will In the next three years
only show phenomenal growth of value, but will
be of the finest residential sections in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
This section is in the condition today that
Columbia Heights was few years ago, with far
natural advantages, and with improvements
under way, both private and public, that will give
1t an advantage not possessed by any other part
of the District.
THESE CLAIMS
ARE NOT BASED on SPECULATION. But SUB
STANTIAL FACTS, WHICH INVESTIGATION
WILL PROVE TO BE TRUE.
MIDDAUGH AND SHANNON OWNERS,
First and Albany
.'No place like home; no homes like ours."
1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20
New Apartment House.

James A. Cahll viii formally open new
apartment house on 18th street southeast,
just south of Lincoln Park, some time be-
fore November /. 1t is to be called the Lin
coin, is the property of Albert Cary and
will contain about twenty housekeeping
apartments.
Comment is heard everywhere on the con-
tinued demand for vacant houses of the
higher grade. The renting business has not
been active in Washington for years. In
the judgment of many agents it has never
been so good as now. The consequence Is
that nearly all the better-class houses have
been taken from the market and the real
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20
A Notable Engineering Task.

But the task of building this avenue of
communication is enormous. 1t involved
first the reduction of considerable grade
between the circle at 23d street and the
creek; second the construction of a culvert
sufficient for the free passage of Rock
creek swollen to its greatest size; third,
the filling in of a space over three hun
dred feet long, at one place sixty feet deep
and at the base of this fill one hundred and
fifty feet wide; fourth, cut through rock
and clay twelve and fourteen feet deep in
places, to carry the avenue through to 36th
street. When this has been accomplished
another undertaking of less notable proper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20

the bridge to Oak Hill and the aristocratic
residences ~ Jorge town Heights, gives the
scene . -. # surprise and incon-
gruity " marked few engineering
undertak asa Washington since the day
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20

To build up trade, reach the
family. To reach the family,
advertise in The Evening Star.
1t goes into 1900 houses in the
city where no other Washington
daily paper is taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20
Massachusetts Avenue Bridge Owe
Rock Creek.

did building property, but with Massachu-
sets avenue in it's present condition, they
form in the arm of Rock creek an area so
difficult of access that they have been
practically unused.
When Massachusetts avenue is extended 1t
will connect this territory with all that
part of Georgetown now reached by mar
row driveway known sentimentally as
Lovers lane and the whole district con-
tiguous to the naval observatory grounds.
This tract, on the other side of the stream,
is completely isolated for business pur-
The effect of this extension, then, will be
to connect and at the same time afford
transport facilities to, two large and val
liable property holdings. Both are excep-
tionally we'll situated. That on the east
side of the stream provides a logical ex-
pansion for the most fashionable section of
the northwest. That on the west side
offers the home builder the quiet and pri-
vacy of the country almost in the very
heart of the CITY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20

Neutrality-suspicious. one left
No. 2121 LIST ct. n.w.-Open Sunday
handsome S-story and concrete cellar Pom
pelian brick and brown-stone house. Parlor,
reception hall, dining ROOM pantry AID
kitchen on LIST floor; 6 large. beautifully
papered bed rooms and tiled bath on upper
floors; plate glass doors cabinet mantels:
tiled vestibule porcelain tub stationary
washstand and open plumbing; high ceilings
Will he sold on easy monthly inStalments
Open for inspection. Come out O. ~
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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-31
eleventh WEEK.
Opens With the Status of the Coal
Strike Unchanged.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, July 2S.-The be-
ginning of the eleventh week of the an
tharicte miners strike finds apparently
no change in the situation, although
the rumor has been revived that an
effort will be made some day this week
upon the part OF one of the large COM
panies to start their collieries.
The companies have sufficient num-
Der of coal and iron policemen enlisted
now to prevent troubles, should it arise,
and all that would be necessary to get a
mine in operation would be sufficient
number of miners and laborers to blast
the coal and load it on the cars. No
doubt plenty of ordinary laborers could
be secured, but it is question whether
a sufficient number of miners could be
persuaded to 90 into the workings.
AT strike headquarters the belief is
as strong as ever that the operators can
not resume, and that it lie idle talk to
even suggest such thing.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-31
schwab Better.

Atlanta City, N. j., July 2S.-Chas.
NJ. Schwab. president of the United
States Steel Corporation, who is spend
ing few days with his family at his
cottage here, is annoyed by stories to
the effect that he was seized with SER
ious illness. After Mr.. Schwab arrived
from New York he became suddenly i'll,
and the physician who has been attend
ing his family was called. The patient
remained in bed until about noon, when
he arose, and sat for awhile on the porch
of his cottage.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-31
SIMPLY KILLED.
Jury in the Latimer Case Blames
No One.

nv OnCs
Brooklyn, N. Y. July "a. - The
coroner's jury investigating the case OF
Walter Latimer, the wealthy man who
was murdered in his bed on the morn
ing of July 2, returned verdict finding
that the deceased came. to his death by
the hands of an unknown person.
Sensational evidence was given by a
private detective, who testified that he
had Swallowed VIM. Tuthill, with whom
Mrs. Latimer was supposed to be infat-
uated, and frequently saw him enter
the Latimer house in furitive manner
when Latimer was away. He said that
Tuthill sometimes had pass key. ana
on other occasions the door was opened
at a signal.
Latimer's will, disposing of property
valued at $4,000, was filed and at
tracted attention by codicil written
by him while at the point of death IN
the hospital to which he was removed
after shooting. 1t was apparently the
dying mans intention to cut his wife
out of the property entirely as the codl-
Gil. although incomplete, reads: God
icil, desire all of my among my child
rem only"
By the original will the widow would
have entered into possession of property
valued at $40, 900 and life income.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-31
MAY QUIT WORN.
BUT MUST NOT INDUCE orHpn.
TO CEASE LABOR. =
Such, in Brief, Is the Impo.,.
Ruling by Judge jackson in ),
Mother Jones" Contempt Cas.s
in Defining the Rights of Lab
ers in Strikes.

Parkesburg, w. Va, july 25.-J,d..
Jackson, rendering his decision in tke
Mother JONES' contempt cases bals
that all the defendants had violated Nv
injunction and were guilty of contemn ~.
of court. The opinion supported tis
rights OF courts to use injunction .ns
the right of laborers to work when thu
wished to do 30, without interference
from organized labor or any otbaS
source. Judge Jackson in his decis;on
said:
"What is an injunction? Is il tbo
exercise of an arbitrary power by tbe
courts of the country, or is it nowe,
that is recognized from very early
date as one of the branches of admins.
trative justice? answer this Question
by affirming that the ordinary use Of
the writ of injunction is to prevent
wrongs and injuries to persons, to their
property. or to reinstate the rights oi
persons to their property when thew
have been deprived of it. 1t is the
most efficient, if not the only remedy
to stay irreparable injury and to punish
those who disobey the order of a court
granting the writ.
81 do not question the right of en-
ployes of this company to quit work at
any time they desire to do so, unless
there is contract relation between
them and the employer, which should
control their right to quit. At the
same time, do not recognize the right
of an employer to coerce the employees
to continue their work when they de.
sire to quit.
while | recognize the right of all
laborers to combine for the purpose of
protecting all their lawful rights, do
not recognize the right of laborers to
conspire together to compel employees
who are not dissatisfied with their work
in the mines to lay down their picks
and to quit their work, without just
or proper reason therefor, merely to
crafty a professional set of 'agitators,
organizers and walking delegates who
roam all over the country as agents for
some combination, who are vampires
that live and fatten on the honest labor
of the coal miners OF the country, and
who are bus.vbodies, creating dissatis-
faction among class of people who are
quiet, well-disposed, and who do not
want to be disturbed by the unceasing
agitation of this class of people.
1.-The strong arm of the court Of
equity is invoked in this case. not to
suppress the right of free speech. but to
restrain and inhibit these defendants,
whose only purpose is to bring about
strikes by trying to coerce people who
are not dissatisfied with the terms Of
their employment, which results in in
fiicting injury and damage to their en-
ployers, as well az to the employees.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-31
STRANGE STORY.
American Lieutenant Tells OF W hite
Race in Philippines.

San Francisco, July 2S.-Lieut. l.. A.
Declairmont, U. S. A., late of the
Phil 'ppine scouts. who has returned
from Manila. tells of the existence IN
the interior of MindorO Island OF per-
fectlv white race, semi-civilized, partly
Christianized, but cruelty hostile IN
their disbursement OF communication
with the outside world. The favored
few that have been permitted to pene-
trate the Businesses of these exclusive
Caucasions tell of a country rich IN veg
etable and mineral wealth and OF a peo-
pie skilled in the various domestic
crafts, orderly. gentle and hospitabie,
but well enough satisfied with their
little world to resent the Intrusion OF
the strenuous civilization OF the outside.
Lieut.. Declairmont was stationed at
Pagbilao, Taiiabas province, Mindoro
Island, and the story of the white reo-
ple told to him by one Manuel Castro.
native of high standing, was corrobor-
ated by the local priest and by the
presidente of the province.
"Here in Mindoro." he said, eve
have one race that is perfectly white.
They are located in the interior. having
as their headquarters capital city OF
more than 10000 inhabitants. There
are as many more of them scattered
throughout the country surrounding
their capital"
According to Castro the existence of
these white folk was discovered % years
ago by Spanish surgeon, who took two
of the white children to Europe. One
of them he adopted and educated as
LAWYER. This one returned to the
islands and is now the coming sultan
of this strange race.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-31
PECULIAR CASE.
Attorney General Fears Verdict OF
AcQuittal.

New York, July 2S.-The state au-
thorities are puzzled as to a satisfactory
disposition of the case of Nina Dam
forth, the deformed girl. who killed A.
J. Emery, and is now in the Cambridge
house of correction awaiting trial, says
Boston special to the Press.
Attorney General Parker feels that
because of the pitiable circumstances OF
the case jury would acquit her. Yet,
by her own admission and by the testi-
mony of eye witnesses, she killed En-
cry as he stood in the doorway of his
home in South Framingham. 1t is the
fear of having verdict of not guilty
which causes the attorney general so
much trouble. He is afraid the tradi-
tions of the Massachusetts, courts will
be violated by the return of verdict in
direct opposition TO the evidence.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-31
NEWS OF THE DAY
Interesting Items from Various Parts Of the
world-Resume OF the Less important
happeninss of the Past Week in Coz
fensed Form.

The anti-friar demonstration in Ma
Mia was checked by the police before il
gained any Roadway.
Or. Eugene Grissom, well known in
various parts of the United States, com
mitted suicide at Washington.
Louis A. Dunkle superintendent of
the lie Roi mine at Rossland, b. c.,
was instantly killed by cavein.
The committee appointed by the anti
imperialists have written lengthy
open letter on army conditions, and
methods and motives of the army officers
in the Philippines. 1t claims the army
is demoralized. /
An attack is expected on Puerto Ca
hello Venezuela.
President Roosevelt was given a
hearty reception at Seagirt, n. j.
Three Oregon young men have been
placed under arrest at Salem for steal
ing SO, 500 in gold.
Two men were killed at Albany, N.
Y, in the worst fire that city has ex-
perienced in years. 5
King George of Saxony is suffering
from pneumonia.
1t is claimed incendaries tried to de-
stroy Fort Stevens, in Oregon.
The gunboat Scorpion went aground
in the upper harbor at Newport.
A Chinese steamer capsized in the
West river and 200 persons were
drowned
Ocean freight rates between Portland
and Europe are responsible for the
liveliest salt war ever seen on the Pacific
coast.
Fire at Camden, S. c., destroyed
500, 900 worth of property.
May Yohe has withdrawn the charge
of grand larceny against Captain Strong.
General Butler has demanded of War
Secretary Brodrick that he be allowed
to state his version of the Ladysmith
squabble.
Another earthquake on the Island of
st. Vincent greatly alarmed the inhabi-
tants and partially demolished several
buildings.
Cardinal Ledochowski, perfect of the
congregation of the Propaganda of the
Roman church, is dead after long i'll
ness at Rome. 3
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-31
MANY FIRES.
Seattle Suburbs Experience an Elk
citing Day.

Seattle, July 26.-Friday was a day
of fires in the Seattle northern suburbs.
Two single mills, the buildings dry as
finder from the intense heat of the past
week, burned like powder, and the fire
spread so quickly that the men employ
ed in the mills had to drop everything
and run for their lives. The fire at
the Bryant lumber and shingle mill
at Fremont threatened for time to
wipe Fremont off the map. The six
buildings of the mill were burning at
one time, and as the pump house was
one of the first to go, the men fighting
the fire were greatly handicapped.
The Seattle fire department made a
record run, covering the distance be-
tween headquarters at Seventh avenue
and Columbia street and Fremont in
about Is minutes. Only the presence
of Chief Cook and his experienced fire
fighters saved the town of Fremont from
destruction
Just before o'clock last night the
single mill of the West Coast Manu-
featuring Il Investment Company, at
Ballard was destroyed. In 20 minutes
from the time the fire was discovered
the mill was total loss. So fercely
did the fire burn that many of the men
had narrow escapes from being cremat-
ed. While this fire was at its heigth
Fremont got another taste of fire fight
ing when the paint store of J. R. Swift
was found to be on fire. The blaze was
soon extinguished with small loss.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-31
SUBSIDIZe VESSELS.
Canada and Great Britain Will
Both Pay Bonuses.

London, July 2S.-The Times an
nounces that the subsidy OF the Cana
dian Pacific service will depend upon
the speed of the passenger steamers.
If they are 20-knot vessels. Canada will
give subsidy of us, 200 pounds and
Great Britain will probably supplement
this by subsidy half as great making
a total of 100000 pounds. There is
every prospect, says the paper. that the
matter will be arranged before the
Canadian ministers leave London.
According 10 the Times. the Canadian
Paclfc railway is prepared TO fight the
Atlantic combine. Passenger boats.
says the Times. will be built to be
available as armed cruisers or as troop
ships, with large Storage aceommoda-
tions.