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Evening star., 1902-09-15
THE FILTRATION PLANT.
Opening of Bids for It's Establishment
POSTPONED.

Colonel Miller. the engineer officer in
charge of the water supply of the District
has reported to the War Department that
it has been deemed advisable to postpone
for brief period the opening of bids for
the establishment of a filtration plant in
this city lin order to take advantage of
the most recent improvements in the con-
struction and operation of filters and to
avoid the possibility of subsequent modi-
fication Of contracts" On that account
work has been suspended on the construc
tion of the gate house at the site of the
proposed plant. Colonel Miller says that
was done because of possible changes in
the general filtration plans which may
neCesSitate certain changes in the plans for
the gate house. Meanwhile, work is in
progress on new plans and specifications for
the filter plant.
A force of men has been engaged in the
construction of the gate house at the end
Of the circulating conduit. The site OF this
house is in the Washington city reservoir,
about 80 feet from the shore. A fiat-bot-
toned boat, 16 feet by IS feet by 2 feet, has
been constructed for use in conveying ma
cement are on hand, and everything is
ready to begin work A contract has been
made with A. +. JorSS for the erection of
an iron fence around the Washington city
reservoir.
According to Colonel Miller's records the
water supplied to the city of Washington
through the Washington city reservoir was
clear every day in August The consump-
tiCn and waste of water for the twenty
four hours ended at am. August - was
JS,954 O01 gallons.
Extensive repairs are being made to the
rip-rap backing of the dam at Great Falls
and the usual repairs to the Conduit road
are in progress.
Evening star., 1902-09-15
FARMERS TRUST READY.
Proposes to Control Crops in This
Country and Abroad.

y dispatch to the New York Tribune from
Chicago yesterday says: The farmers trust,
designed to control the crops of the entire
country. and when that is accomplished the
crops of South America and Europe, is
ready for business. Offices have been Sc
cured in the Royal Insurance building. and
the officers of the concern announce that
they will receive shipments.
The capital stock of the company, which
was recently Incorporated at Pierre. S D..
as the Farmers Cooperative Association,
is $50, 100000.
The stock is being placed, as far as pos
sible, in the hands of actual farmers, and
it is reported that enough already has been
subscribed to assure the success of the
undertaking.
That the concern was in process of for
nation has been known for some time, but
all details were kept secret. Now that the
organization is finished this secrecy has
been abandoned. The following officers, it
is announced were elected recently at a
meeting in this city: President, Robert
Lindblom: first vice president and general
manager of the grain department, H. H
Carr; second vice president and general
manager of the produce department. George
w. Linn; general financial agent, Hamilton
White.
Mr.. White. for many years a practical
farmer at Red Oak. Iowa. Is the founder OF
the trust. He says that 1t will unite the
farmers as nothing has ever done before
He admits that his plan contemplates con-
troll of the production, but says that it will
certainly bring the farmer higher prices for
his crops. He says
The farmer Will be benefited in two
ways. In the first place, we shall control
the output. The entire crop will not be
thrown on the market at once. We shall
hold it in reserve wherever prices are such
that it cannot be proftably sold 1t will
be distributed along. month by month, so
that the supply will at no time exceed the
demand In the second place. we shall
eliminate the middlemar. AS the farmers
will own the stock and manage the com
panyS affairs themselves, all the profits
will go back to them. Within year We
shall be in control Of. the entire agricultural
output of the United States. There is even
prospect that the enterprise will assume
an International character.'
Mr. White has just returned from a west
crn trip, undertaken TO arrange for d corps
OF agents among the farmers and at inpor-
taat points where the crops will be handled
He says that there will be difficulty in
taking care of shipments to any point as
soon as they are ready. He adds that the
stock is selling rapidly.
Evening star., 1902-09-15
Naval Orders.

Capt. E. II. Gheen, ordered to take charge
branch photographic office. Chicago
Lieut.. Commander ]. H. shipley, from a
course of Instructions Naval War College
To the Franklin.
Lieut.. j. II. Dayton. from the Franklin,
navy ward. Norfolk, Va. to the Hartford
Lieut.. w. II. Chambers from duty IN con-
nection with inspection of engineering ma
terial at Minneapolis. NJ nm, to boston
yard for duty in connection with fitting
out of Newark
Lieut.. J. NJ. Power. from the Kearsarge
to the Naval Academy.
Lieut.. W. Evans. from charge OF naval
recruiting rendezvous and branch HYDRO
graphic office. Chicago, to the Hartford.
MdshiDman X. Henderson, from the
Olympia TO the Indiana.
Midshipman r. Wainwright, from the
Massachusetts, to the Indiana.
Midshpman O. II. Oakley, from the
kearSarge to the Indiana
Medical Director w. G. Farwell. to Phila-
delphia, Pa, for duty in connection with re-
cruiting. in addition to present duties.
Surgeon G. Biddle. from the naval re-
cruiting rendezvous, Philadelphia report at
York. Pa. for duty in connection with re-
Cruiting.
Passed Assistant Surgeon c. D. Brownell.
from the Naval Hospital. Chelsea, Mass,
to the Panther. for duty with marine bat
TALON.
Passed Assistant Surgeon j. B. Dennis.
from the Hartford to the Brooklyn
Assistant Surgeon r. b. Williams. from
treatment at Naval Hospital, Newport to
duty with the Decatur.
Assistant Surgeon J. II. Payne, from the
BROOKLYN to Naval Hospital Newport
Assistant Surgeon F.. NJ Murson, from
duty with torpedo boat fiotilla to Naval
Hospital. this city.
Assistant Surgeon r. f. Hoyt. from the
Naval Hospital. Newport, to the Naval
Academy.
Acting Gunner T. p Clark, from the Mn
neapolis. navy yard. League Island, to the
Maine.
Carpenter G. ]. Shaw. from duty at New
port News. Va. to Norfolk yard.
Sailmaker G. c. Boerum (retired), from
naval recruiting Office, Worcester Mass.
and resume duties at Boston yard
II. l.. Ferguson and j. u. Beuret have
been commissioned naval constructors with
the rank Of lieutenant.
Evening star., 1902-09-15
A Negro Patriot.
From Ieslie's Monthly.


Notable among the colored heroes of the
revolution was brave Austin Dabney of
Georgia. His owner cravenly refused to
shoulder fiintlock. bat the negro offered to
enlist, and after some discussion, the off,
GERS enrolled him. He was one Of the he
roic band who faced the charge of the list
Highland Regiment at Blackstock's farm,
and turned the crack troops Of Europe in
open field. with rife and musket against the
bayonet. and at Kettle creek Dabney was
severely wounded. After the war he was
pensioned by the United States government,
and received grants Of land from Georgia
For gallant service in the field he was freed
by act of the state legislature, and his
value paid from the public funds. Grateful
: to the white family who nursed him when
wounded, he earned money to educate their
eldest son, and wept with joy when the
youth was admitted to the bar. Riding into
Savannah to draw his pension he humbly
fell to the rear of the white men he pore
company. Governor James Jackson, him.
self the owner of many slaves, saw Dab
ney. rushed out. shook his companion In
sstIiIs ny the nard. and had him lodged in
his quarters or row of houses where the
servants lived.
Evening star., 1902-09-15
PROFIT SHARING RAILWAY.
Practical System Adopted by Com,
pany in Vancouver.

From the Toronto Globe.
The adoption of practical system Of
profit sharing by the street railway COM
pany of Vancouver is an experiment that
will be of interest to all who watch the de-
veiopment of our industrial system. The
Independent. ii weekly published in the in
terests of organized labor in Vancouver. B.
c., gives q report of an address by Man
ager Buntzen of the street railway company
to a mass meeting of workmen. which was
also addressed by President Mahon of the
Street Railway; Mems Unien,s Of America.
The meeting shows the harmonious rela
tonshtp existing between the street railway
company and its employees. The company
has voluntarily decided that the regular
employees shall receive as their share of it's
profits one-third of the amount available
for dividends after the ordinary sharehold-
ers have received per cent. This means,
as estimated. that at the end of the first
year each emploYe will receive about $50, at
the end of the second year the share will
be about $50. and In five years 1t will be
slOo The men will receive the standard
union wages. Manager BuntZen says that,
IN MS opinion, the increased interest in the
companys welfare on the part of the en-
ployes created by the new system will add
$" much to the companys successes that
the shareholders. as well as the men, will
The employees proportion of the profits
VIII he divided equally among them. all be-
ing considered as units in making the COM
panNs business a success. In addition to
TINS voluntary concession the company pays
as nigh wages for every class of work a 8
are paid by other local EMPLOYERS and
generally speakngI higher wages The COM
panS also makes certain concessions in the
way OF uniforms, light and transporta ton,
that employers in other lines of business
are not in a position to grant. 1t is Gus
tomary to look for rocks in the way of all
such industrial experiments. Men do not
work for low wages, nor under unfavora-
BILE conditions voluntarily. but because they
are forced to do so by the conditions of the
labor market. The model employer the
man who voluntarily does more than he is
forced to do. because he sees that there is
something wrong and that the men are en-
titled to more. is worthy of all honor One
OF the difficulties of such a scheme Is that
employment with him acquires an economic
value which the workmen may be forced to
pay middlemsn or Intermediates. But it is
time enoughfo look for such trouble when
1t begins to develop. A good relationship
and a feeling of mutual interest have a
value that cannot be accurately estimated
in dollars, and these~have been secured al
ready by the Vancouver Street Railway
Company. We may learn some day that an
honest desire to do right can cure most of
the industrial evils of modern society.
Evening star., 1902-09-15
Why It Costs More to Live

From the Providence Journal.
Every person who is, at all watchful Of
his expenses knows from his own expert
ence that for some, time past the cost of
living in the ttiiited States has been greater
than it was few Years ago. To some ex-
tent the Increase is, in consequence of the
prosperity Witch the country has been en-
joying. Invariably. when trade Is active
people generally employed and everybody
making money. prices rise, the phenomenon
being in part the cause of prosperity and i'm
part its result Men have more to spend
the volume of-demaad is enlarged by their
greater expenditures, and increased demand
is inevitably a5olfowed by higher prices
Nevertheless it. cannot be denied that the
advance that. has taken place in the cost
of living since the first Of the year is
greater than elm thhs be accounted for. I'm
some cases 1t is greater than the Increased
purchasing payser e55 the consumer Pos
sibly this has been due. in part, to the
operations Of moRdbolizing corporations:
but in the main IT has been caused by the
comparative failure of last years STABLE
crops, especially lseorn. This is why the
condition of this, years crops from week
to week-at present reasonably favorable
is a matter of vital consequence to each
one of us.
Evening star., 1902-09-15
MOVEMENTS OF wARsH1Ps.
Admirals Sumner and Rodgers Gable
Their Whereabouts.

The Navy Department is informed that
the Monterey has left Shanghai for Woo
sung: that the Glacier has arrived at Ca
vite; that the Wilmington has arrived at
Woosung, and that the San Francisco has
arrived at Norfolk from cruise in South
Atlantic and European waters.
The department received a cablegram to-
day from Rear Admiral Sumner, command
ing the South Atlantic station announcing
his departure from Bahia for Montevideo
aboard his flagship, the Iowa. AS the ad-
miral's dispatch made mention of the
recently reported grounding of the battle
ship the officials of the Navy Department
are satisfied that If the accident occurred 1t
was of too little consequence to warrant a
report.
The department has received cablegram
from Rear Admiral Rodgers, who has Just
been detached from the command of the
Asiatic station, announcing his arrival on
the New York at Yuensan today from
Vladiyostock
Evening star., 1902-09-15
PoLITEALAABoR PARTY.
Another New scheme Launched il
" Chicago.

CHICAGO September ia movement
for enlfstins thew hosts of workingmen
throughout ase United States into semi
political orguniza zion has been launched
in this city,. tsaysothel Post A Platform
said to embrace sshe economical and po-
litical ideas of labor leaders and covering
the whole labor sltuation has been pre-
pared and VIII bee presented first for ap-
proval next before the Chicago Fed
The platform demands the abolition of the
so-called political machine, the establish
ment of government primaries where votes
may be cast for nominees as citizens ana
not as members of a machine and the lnl-
tiative and referendum. 1t favors the right
of recalling representatives who are out or
touch with voters. Relief from the trusts
is suggested in the plan for the passage
OF an amendment to the practice laws OF
every state and the federal government un-
der which litigants may bring up, In any
suit in which a corporation is the plaintiff
or defendant, the question of Its right to Its
franchise. whether it has usurped power
not given it under statute and whether II
has forfeited its powers"
This method, 1t sis urged, would be pro-
ductive of more good than the institution
of suits by federal district attorneys. Figi-
lance committees in every state and large
city are favored to see that the laws are
inpartially administered.
Evening star., 1902-09-15
Washington Stock Exchange.

,sales-Regular call. II o'clock noon-Capital Trac-
1919 1919, 10 at Is4ss. 10 at ls4h, 10 at 1s4ss 10 at
phone Com. SO at ss. Capital Traction, ~ at
Ralroad Bonds. Capital Faction = Is. iGs.. bid
Metropolitan IS, 1Is1i bid 129 asked. Metropolitan
tan Cert indepf IS, B. io7 bid. ios asked. Coi%m
ba i, 6s, 12i bid. 12o asked Columbia IS. los bid
Miscellaneous Bonds Washington Gas Co, 6s. Sc
s s' ssre. a lg B. BID s a asfs ks ssSss Gas C.
Light Deb. imp: ss, loe bid: los asked chesa-
Hall Association 0s, l04 bid. American Graphic
Safe Deposit and Trust stocks-National Safe De.
AND AND ss m Il: S go asked
Safe Deposit. Sc bid Union Trust and Storage,
I06A IGA bid Washington Savings Bank, 100 bid,
Railroad stocks--capitaI Traction Co.. .124a. bid
Co. Pref 81 asked The WASHINGTON RaIwss Ran snd
Electric Co. Com. Is bid.
bid. Metropolitan, 100 bid $50 asked Central i'
2so bid. Farmers and Mechanics, 800 bid Sec
BID Capital $50 bid West T End, is7 biS Tasders
u 1so bid. -. 155 asked; Lincoln. l2o bid, 1875 asked
ErIsnEln. ssH bid. Metropolissn; 8 bid, 90 asked
tlenal Union, * bid. asked. Columbia. ii bid,
Commercial bid.
Title Insurance Stocks-Real Estate Title. S9s
bid. Columbia Title. AZ bid, asked. WASH
ington Title, bid, asked
Telephone and Graphophone Stocks-Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone. l5 bid. 461a asked. AmerI-
can Graphophone Pref, bid. 10 asked.
Gas Stocks-washngton Gas. 1914 bid. 741s ask
ed. Georgetown Gas, 75 bid
Type Machine Stocks-Aiergenthaler Linotype,
slS4k bid, lS4k asked. Lanston Monotype, 12ss
bid. 12h asked.
MISCELLANEOUS Stocks-Greene Con. Copper Co., 27
bid, 2Sh asked. Washington Market 16 bid. Nor
folk and Washington Steamboat. lS5 bid.
Eek dividend
Evening star., 1902-09-15
WIDENING G STREET.
kncroachment Upon Judiciary Square
Necessary.

The Commissioners have decided to widen
tne roadway Of q street between 4th and
ON streets northwest 10 fifty feet, TO bet
ter accommodate the street car tracks and
wagon traffic. which is heavy there To
provide for the widening ii is necessary 10
ercroach four and d half feet upon Judi
cary square and to replace the twelve-foot
walk with a new cement walk. The plans
for the Improvement were prepared in ;he
eTrface division, and were forwarded to the
Commissioners, with plat. by CAPTAIN
Newcomer, assistant to the Engineer Conn
missioner He also informs the Commits
sloners that it will be necessary 10 Obtain
the consent OF the chief OF engineers. l.. S.
A. 10 occupy the four and q half feet
space on the reservation to carry out the
proposed pan. and he requests the Com
missloners TO lay the matter before the
Secretary OF War. with a view To that end
Evening star., 1902-09-15
USE OF SOFT COAL.
Baltimore Boiler Inspectors Views
Regarding It's Substitution.

A Baltimore boiler inspector. speaking Of
the effect of using coft coal in freboxes
intended for anthracite coal is reported as
having said
IL not used properly bituminous coal will
damage boiler greatly. When anthracite
is to be used the CRATE bars are usually set
from eighteen to twenty-four inches from
the boiler. For soft coal this space is made
greater, from thirty to thirty-three inches
This is because the soft coal makes more
names. When soft coal is used In place of
anthracite. therefore, great care must be
taken to prevent the boiler plates from be-
ing overheated and bulging outward under
the steam and water pressure.
Soft coal should not be fired in the same
way as anthracite. The latter when SHOW
eied into the nreboX is spread in a layer
over the fire surface. When this is done
with bituminous flames are liable 20 break
through the layer and act as a bowpipe
on several spots in the boiler plates. lifting
the boiler above these points and over
heating the plate, which, in consequence
bulgeS outward.
In firing with bituminous coal the green
fuel must be stacked ND Just inside the
furnace door. Beyond this heap, extending
to the back of the combustion chamber,
should be a layer of incandescent fuel.
Thus the coal near the furnace door is
choked. the gases which are emitted being
consumed as they pass over the white hot
bed of Goals. With this method of firing
there is no danger of injuring the plates.
For economy, however, users Of soft coal
should have their CRATE bars thirty more
inches below the boiler. This gives the
greater combustion space necessary. Used
in this way, soft coal is much more efficient
and economical than anthracite L expect
TO see 30 per cent of the steam users who
formerly utilized hard coal as fuel let down
their CRATE bars and utilize soft coal ex-
clusively from this time on
In this connection it is stated that an ef-
hat h.a fata
explosion of the Guard Trust Company's s
plant in Philadelphia was the result of
using soft coal in furnace constructed for
the use of anthraci coal.
Evening star., 1902-09-15
Baltimore Markets.

BALTIMORE September 15.-Flour quiet: winter
extra, 81 S0a$3 10; winter clear So 2OaS3. .30 win
ter straight, s3.30ax3Jo; winter patent. s.. 10s
$3s3: spring clear 81. l0a 30: spring straight,
S5aaS3 40; spring patent. So. 15aS4. 40; receipts.
226I4 barrels; exports 10.061 barrels. Wheat
easy; spot and September, 7l.ss12: October IL ssa
72ls; December 12a72L: steamer No 2 red, 69ita
6Sss: receipts 81 2s1 bushels exports none south
ern by sample. G5a72: southern on grade, dgisa12
Corn dull and lower; old. November, Asa
4Sl; year. 44sa44A; January, A asked: receipts,
67a6s; southern yellow corn. 63a70. Oats duh and
easy; No white, 81. nominally: No. mixed.
Rye steady: No. 2. IS: No. 2 western. SO; re-
ssipts Saa bushels; s exports none. Hay steady
S15.00. Gain freghts dull; steam to Liverpool.
per bushel. I'd. September; Cork for ORDERS per
quarter, 2s Sd September. Butter firm and high
er; fancy Imitation, lsaIs; fancy creamery, pa
2s; fancy isdie. l6ais; fancy roll, I4ale: good
changed. Cheese steady, unchanged: large, lossa
10Y; medium. 1GSsal1; small. f0Sa1Ih. Sugar
nrm unchanged; fine and coarse granuiated, 4Tfa.
Evening star., 1902-09-15
The Experiments Not a Success.

The wireless telegraph experiments which
have recently been conducted by the Navy
Department between Washington and An
napolis have not met with a great measure
of success, much interference in the shape
of intersecting trolley lines and other OBJ
stacies to communication having been en-
countered. The officials having the mat
ter OF wireless telegraphy in charge have
hopes Of greater success in communicative, :,
from the shore stations at Annapolis to the
cruiser Prairie out in Chesapeake bay The
Prairie is now being fitted out for that pur-
pose.
Evening star., 1902-09-15
Reports Robbery.

Spencer Edelin,. who is employed at the
dairy barns at st. Elizabeth's Asylum for
the Insane. was robbed OF s23 20 some time
Saturday The money was taken from
Edelin's coat. which was hanging in one of
the barns. The case was reported TO the
police and is under investigation by Officer
J. w. Mccormack of the Anacostia station
and Special Officer Clark of the asylum
forne
Evening star., 1902-09-15
SUICIDE OF LIEUT.. MORRIS.
Officer on the Olympia Shot Him
Sn1f

The Secretary of the Navy this after
noon received the following telegram from
Rear Admiral Johnson, the commandant
of the Boston navy yard:
Lieut.. John r. Morris. Olympia, COM
mitted suicide by shooting at 1870 this
morning..
Lieut.. Norris was born in Missouri and
appointed from that state. He graduated
from the Naval Academy in 1889 and was
ordered To the Olympia on the 18th of Janu-
AIRY last.
Evening star., 1902-09-15
Will Participate in Campaign

Mr.. S. E. K. Buchanan of the local re-
corded of deeds office has gone to North
Carolina for the purpose Of actively par
ticipating in the campaign there in sup
port of the republican ticket and the in
terests of Senator Pritchard Mr. Buck
anan served as deputy sheriff under George
Pritchard. brother of the senator. and in
lS,o held Office as clerk Of the North Caro-
lima state senate.
Evening star., 1902-09-15
Don't Grumble.

From the Artisan. - 4
Don't be grumo!er Some people con-
trive to get hold Of the prickly side of ev-
,>ything, to run against all the sharp cor
ners and disagreeable things Half the
strength spent in srewling would often Sc,
things right. YOU may as well make up
yvur mind to c,.:.: - th,+ *, So e -
the weld quite 80 ne would like It, but
you are to ;akc ya'ii' part ani bear with
1t bravely. You vii be sure to have bur
dens laid upon yoi tha- ioioag o other p o.
PIE, unless you are sairk yourself. bu'
don't gramrle.
Evening star., 1902-09-15
TO BE INVESTIGATED.
Allegations of Neglect of Duty Made
by the Chinese Legation.

Acting Secretary Adee has received a
telegram from the governor of Oregon stat
ing that he has directed an immediate and
thorough investigation into the allegations
made by the Chinese legation here to the
effect that the local authorities at Baker
City. Ore, had failed to take proper steps
to punish the perpetra tors Of the outrage
committed upon a number of Chinese Au-
gust last Mr.. Adee has forwarded the
governors telegram to the Chinese minis
ter here. ,--.>--
Evening star., 1902-09-15
To Be Lieutenants of Marines

The President has signed commissions as
second lieutenants in the Marine Corps in
the cases OF Cieyborn McCauley, Harry G.
Egan and Thomas c. Turner, three ser
geants. who successfully passed examina-
tions for such advancement short time
ago.
Evening star., 1902-09-15
Building Permits issued.

Building permits were issued today as
follows:
Samuel f Redfern. eight three-story and
cellar brick dwellings. 1908 to 1913 Lamar
place. 5000 and 36Cs Morgan avenue. Ho,-
mead Manor: cost. $36 Geo
Jonn C. Motherhead, brick addition and
repairs to 432 9Th street southwest: cost
81 1200. ~
Evening star., 1902-09-15
FIFTEEN MEN MISSING.
Heavy Explosion in West Virginia
Coal Mine.

BLUEFIELDS, w. Va, September ia
heavy explosion of gas occurred in the AL
gonna coal mines, located on the North Fork
branch at IL o'clock this morning Fifteen
men are reported missing