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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03
SLOT MACHINES.
Lessons That Reform Municipal Ad-
ministration Teaches.
From the Troy Press.

From the Troy Press.
One or the wholesome effects Of reform
municipal administration was the smashing
OF 200 nickel-in-the-slot machines in Brook
lyn police headquarters the other day. They
were worth, in the aggregate, about S25, 600,
and were destroyed in compliance with the
statute in relation to gambling parapherna-
liza. In Troy and Rensselaer, county the lille
gal and demoralfzing slot machines flourish
under the Black-Howard-Conway regime,
and we hear Of no purpose to enforce the
law in this respect. Occasionally parties
operating them are tipped to move them
upstairs, but it would be an easy matter to
conf1scate all those in use If District Attor-
ney Howard or the Conway police authori-
ties were so inclined The slot machines
are among the vilest of ''skin games
Fools who try to beat them get left. Yet
there are lots Of youths and men of small
caliber or partly intoxicated who are in
duced to squander their money in this man.
ner. They should be protected. But that
there will be anything effectual done to de-
stroy these swindling machines, Brooklyn
FASHION. cannot reasonably be hoped for
upon the initiative of officials while District
Attorney Howard and Mayor Conway re-
tain their present offices.
OF course an aggressive citizens commit
tee, organized for the purpose, could stop
the slot machines and other scandalous tr-
regularitfes very quickly. Corruptfonists
are afraid of few honest men, banded to-
gether to locate, complain of and remedy
evils that are disgracing the city-and gam
bling is not the worst of them. But the
best way is to elect officials of conspicuous
ability and integrity, who would stamp out
gambling. grating, disorderly saloons,
Matchmaking, the shameless assessment OF
county and municipal administration under
machine rule.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03
CAPE TO CAIRO RAILROAD.
It is Being Rapidly Pushed Through
Rhodesia to Zambesi.

From the New York Sun.
Since the Boer war the road builders on
the Cape to Cairo railroad have been push
ing 1t rapidly toward the north The road
has been surveyed as far as Victoria Falls,
the largest falls in the world, on the Fam
best river. The roadbed has been graded
for about a third Of the distance between
Bulawayo and the Zambesi the rails are
being laid and 1t is expected that late next
year trains will be running to Victoria
Falls all the way from Capetown, 1 100
miles. Meanwhile a force of surveyors
is laying out the route far north of the
Zambesi.
The route has been changed from that
originally contemplated by Mr.. Rhodes
His intention was to extend the road to
the northeast of BulawaSo, carrying it
between Lakes Nyassa and Bangweolo to
Lake Tanganyika; but before the survey
was made explorers began to give definite
information about the coal mines which
Livingstone discovered on the banks Of
the Zambesi many years ago. 1t has been
ascertained that the coal strata in this
region carry an enormous amount of the
fuel and it Is proposed to begin mining it
as soon as the railroad reaches Victoria
Falls.
AS the line has thus been DETECTED far to
the west, 1t has been decided not to extend
1t for the present through German East
Africa near Lake Tanganyika, but to Lake
Kasali, 700 miles north of Victoria Falls, in
the Congo Free State. From this point
the tracks will be carried down the Congo
river to Stanley Falls. Here the line of road
projected by King Leopold of Belgium, is
to be built to Albert Nyanza. where the
Nile has its outlet. This stretch Of road,
therefore. between Stanley Falls and Albert
Nyanza. is to be link in the Cape to Cairo
railroad.
The most astonishing things are done
in Africa nowadays, and the world will
not be very much surprised when 1t finds
in a few years more that this long railroad.
extending from the extreme south of Africa
to the mouth of the Nile, is a full-hedged
reality.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03
THE STOVEPIPE HAT.
A Survival in New York Streets of
Today.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
One morning last week man walked en-
one of the crowded ferryboats crossing to
Manhattan, wearing silk hat, and lmme-
diately became a conspicuous OBJECT, re-
parded nv everybody. There was nothing
in the hat to attract such general atten-
t,on. It was of modern, modish shape, well
kent and brushed Nor was there anything
in the mans dress otherwise out of the
common. 1t was simply because he was
the only one on this crowded boat wearing
q silk hat and because a silk hat has be-
come an uncommon variety Of headgear,
esnecially in the morning. 1t goes with
the saving that the man was elderly. A
Young man with a silk hat before clock
in the afternoon is an eccentric.
The round derby hat, wrought revo-
Iution in the matter of, headgear. The pre-
yailing hat quarter of, a century ago-or
was it more years ago-WaS the SILK nat.
Everybody wore one on all occasions ana
at all times. The volunteer IRE depart
ment was in existence at that time, and a
peculiar type, straight up and down and
straight across, was almost the insignia of
the volunteer fremen, as much as the soap
lock that eurled up 99nsI tme orim on oo1a
preserved the type for all times in Nose"
in "a Glance at New York" To the day Of
his death only few years ago ZAP Dorian,
the FISHERMAN Of Futon ION. market; ;, ana an n.
Brooklyn, wore that type of hat: But 1t
was not the volunteer, fireman alone who
wore a silk hat The man who drove the
Broadway omnibus, who took your fares
in the street cars, who cut your steak in
the butchers shop who drove the truck
along the street-all wore a silk hat which
in those DAYS was affectonately termed
"a stovepipe," "a chimney pot" "a tile or
"a cady'-why cady?
Was II because some. halter of the name
of Cady won renown for his hats and made
them the type of elegance to the degree Of
giving his name to the articles as the tail
oring firm Of Benjamin of London did to
overcoats? It is more likely, however
that 1t came from "Cadi," a judge of the
orient, who wore on the tribunal as insignia
of his office covering of similar shape. The
town was fond of oriental plays in those
days and in them a Cadi was an inevitable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03
Mr. W. T. Walker. who has been away for six months O,
ness is back with and glad his fren

came pack the floss trimming had faded
over the entire garment. She took 1t back
10 , IN, the store and demanded her money. Mr..
have known that such a waist could NOT he
washed, and he repeated this statement on
the witness stand. The jury, however. de-
clded that a guarantee from an employe OF
a store should count for something. and
therefore found in favor of the plaintiff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03
Damages for Faded Waist.
From the Chicago Inter-Oceal

Damages for the price of silk waist
guaranteed to stand washing, and which
failed to do so, were awarded by jury in
Judge Clifrord's court yesterday to Mrs.
Dell Edwards, wife Of ]. E. Edwards. NJ.
Phillipsborn, proprietor of a State street
store. was ordered to pay the plaintiff Sc.
but took an appeal. saying he would spend
many times Sc rather than be held up
Mrs Edwards testified that when she
bought the waist from a young woman in
the store she was told that the garment
would stand washing. She wore 1t several
times, until cleansing became necessary.
Then she sent 1t to the laundry. When 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03

character. However. the stovepipe is so in
frequent article of dress now that its
appearance before o'clock in the after
noon over a coat that is not a frock makes
the wearer as conspicuous as if he were
clothed in scarlet. 1t was the little round
derby that dethroned it. Yet even to this
day it gives an air of distinction to the
wearer and matter of fact the crowd
instinctively gives it's respect to the man
who sports one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03
Report of Assistant Counsel.

Mr.. Duvall has forwarded to the Commits
sioners the report of his assistant, Mr..
James l.. Pugh, jr., showing that there
were Il, S57 cases tried on the District side
of the Police Court during the year, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03
Prices, soc. up.
Prices, 12Rc. up.

make the new fire upon what remains.
With a little Judgment, one having a small
supply of anthracite available may run
his furnace through the day and evening
with soft coal, and by adding anthracite
at night have a fire in the morning. But
with no anthra cite at all he can, with
little more trouble than he is accustomed to,
keen his house COM ortabie with soft cal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03
A Waste of Money.

I'm my judgment, this constitutes a repre-
hensble waste of public money. In more
than 30 per cent of the cases the lunacy
of the parties proceeded against is palpabe
and there is no necessity for medical expert
testimony, certainly not for the testimony
of two medical experts. The proceeding
now in force displaced a simple and mex
pensive procedure authorized by provision
contained in the appropriation bill for 1892
whereby the marshal impaneled jury in
attendance upon one of the criminal courts
and the verdict of the jury was confirmed
by the court. The expense of that proceed
Ing consisted of clerks fees and the ordi-
nary witness fees, If Congress is unwilling
to reinstate the former procedure 1t should
at least amend the present law respecting
the allowance for two physicians in each
caS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03
Review of Street Extensions.

A large part of the report is given over to
a review of the street extension cases,
dealt with during the year. There We're 1886
lunacy proceedings instituted by or on be
half of the Commissioners, an increase of
nearly 20 per cent in the number over the
last fiscal year. Commenting on these cases
Mr.. Duvall says:
Some effective remedy should be provid-
ed to relieve the municipality of the enor-
nous expense incurred in connection with the
commitment and care OF lunatics An in
creasing percentage of these unfortunates
consists of persons from the adjoining
states, who are brought within the District
for the purpose of commitment to the Gov
eminent Hospital for the Insane, and there
is no justification whatever in making them
charge, either temporary or permanent
upon the people of this District. l have
heretofore called attention to the law un-
der which INDECENT insane persons and in
sane persons of homicidal tendencies are
committed to the Government Hospital for
the Insane. These proceedings are con-
Quoted under the provisions of the act of
Congress approved June 8, 1899, which in
terms denies to the alleged lunatic the right
of trial by jury and commits the question
OF his sanity to the determination of one
of the justices of the Supreme Court of
the District of Columbia. The present law
requires the payment by the District in
each case of per diem compensation of
SO to at least two physicians. During the
year this compensation for physicians fees
In lunacy cases amounted to more than
81 ono
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03
Property on River Front.

With regard to the District control of
property along the river front the report
says:
Under the act of Congress approved
March 3, 1899, relative to the control of
wharf property. &c, the Commissioners
were given exclusive charge and control of
all wharf property belonging to the United
States the District of Columbia Except
the water front of the arsenal grounds and
part of the shore line in the flushing reser-
voir at the foot of 18th street, with author
ity to lease for a period not exceeding ten
years and to make and enforce rules and
regulations In regard to buildings and re-
pairing wharves, the rental thereof &c:
all amounts collected were to be covered
into the treasury of the United States one
half to be placed to the credit of the United
States and one-half to the credit of the Dis
trict
Congress passed the act In the expecta-
ton that the United States at an early dav
would be placed in possession of the Po-
tomac river front under the proceedings in
the case instituted by it under the act of
Congress of August s. 1886, To provide
for protecting the interests of the United
States in the Potomac river flats but the
taking of testimony in said case as to the
value of the structures has not yet been
concluded, and in the meantime the pos
session of the wharf structures by the
claimants has continued.
Opinion of Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has held in the case that the United States
is the owner of the land constituting the
river front, and in view of this adjudica-
ton some of the occupants, after having
made proof of the values of the structures
claimed by them, offered to surrender pos
session and to attorn to the Commissioners
This offer has been accepted, and leases
nave been entered into with the Norfolk and
! Washington Steamboat Company Limited
and with Forsberg & Murray. Among the
provisions in each of said leases was the
condition that the term should cease
whenever Congress shall so declare
The code of law for the District enacted
by Congress March g. 1901. went into ef-
feet and operation January l, 1902; impor-
posed with the desire that they should he
Incorporated therein by the time it went
into operation. but Congress withheld ac-
ton until June 30. 1902. In the nature of
things, a new code of law will occasion
some jarring and necesstate some read
justment; and such has been our expert
ence, but this lessons as we become famil-
lar with its provisions, and II is confidently
/ expected that we will now receive the
! much anticipated benefit from this revision
of our complicated laws"
Report of Assistant Counsel.
Mr.. Duvall has forwarded to the Commits
| sioners the report of his assistant, Mr.
James l.. Pugh, jr., showing that there
| were 1887 cases tried on the District side
of the Police Court during the year, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03
DISTRICT LAW BUREAU
Review of It's Operations the
Past Year.
ROUTINE BUSIN ESS
EXTENDED REVIEW OF STREET
EXTENSION PROCEEDINGS.
Commitment and Care Of Lunatics-
The River Front Property
Assistants Report.
ROUTINE BUSIN ESS

A. B. Duvall, the corporation counsel has
rendered to the Commissioners report of
the operations of the law department during
the past year. For the first six months of
the last fiscal year the corporation counsel
was known as the attorney for the District
of Columbia, and during the latter six
months he was designated city solicitor
The amendment to the code adopted July J.,
1902, changed the title to corporation coun-
sci.
During the year there were 374 written
opinions by the attorney and city solicitor
at the request of the Commissioners, and
ia written communications to interested
parties relative to pending municipal mat
tiers and suits. A great variety of subjects
relating to municipal affairs were covered
and discussed in these opinions, including
taxation and assessment, street extensions
and occupation of public space, pending leg
islation, proposed regulations and the con-
struction of acts of Congress.
Oral opinions were rendered in numerous
cases submitted by various District officials
concerning matters of current business aris-
ing in the administration of their respec-
tive departments. The organization of new
municipal departments, such as the insur-
ance department, added materially to the
steadily increasing volume of the work of
the office. The numerous municipal con-
tracts and leases and bonds to secure per-
Torrance of the contracts have been exam
ined and certified to sufficiency of form
and over one hundred tax deeds have been
prpared.
Mr.. Duvall details the various actions
brought against the District, the cases dis
posed of and those pending. He says the
code of law for the District of Columbia
was enacted by Congress March 3, 1901 and
prior thereto numerous violations of purely
municipal law were prosecuted in the name
of the United States and by the United
States attorney for the District of Columbia.
Among this class were violations of the act
of Congress. approved February 21 1899,
for the prevention of smoke in the Dis
trict of Columbia, etc. All violations of the
smoke law" since the code took effect,
January l. 1902. are prosecuted in the name
of the District of Columbia by its corpora
ton counsel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03
Hats for the Bows.

There Boys Hats here soc, and there Hats
S. and price beweenbut don't believe there's
that isn't priced less than you'll think reasonable
OF people have the idea that they buy lower New York
than they can herebut we've many duplicates of
Boys Hats priced nearly 500 higher there Washington
good town to buy in.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-10-27
EAST PROVIDENCE,

At the United Congregatirlal church
Yesterday II was decided to render Rev
A. b. Gordon call for one year. Mr.
Gordon has been pastor OF a Congrega-
tional church In Lynn. VT. for II years
and ls a man who is praised ln his work
hv all who have heard him. Mrs John
McCausland and Mrs. Mabel Y. Thomp-
son were elected delegates 90 attend the
conference Of congregational churches OF
Rhode Island 90 be ncld tomorrow with
the Union Congregational church at New
mort Mr. James =. Moore. Deacon
Sprague and Deacon Budlong were ap-
pointed 60 report az a board Of officers
at the next Sunday meeting.
The steam heating appartus which was
to have been in the United Congregational
church many days previous 60 the p-cs-
ent date will be IN operation next sunday
This evening the school committee Will
hold a meeting I'm the town hall.
Many marriages have been recorded I'm
the town clerks off.c recently. Follow
ing are the latest: Joe Rose. aged 26 a
laborer. and Mlss Marie Silva. AGED l6;
Daniel Adams Morrel. age 80. coachman.
and Miss Hannah Matilda Anderson. a2.
Charles Radolph Frost. q. tool maKer.
and Miss Annette Pinkham Cady ~.
Robert Elisha Latte. .. carpenter, and
Miss Emily Francis Burkett, ~.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-10-27

for her marriage with Alfonso XII is
evident. This fact also proves the worth
lessness Of the fantastic story published
I'm said paper.
'As all the other statements are equally
groundless. IL is unnecessary for me TO
refute them. They could be proved to be
az untrue as the rest OF the story thus
launched upon the world.
II am surprised TO see such stupendous
inventions published by the New YORK
Journal / am, yours sincerely,
LUIS DE FIGUEROLA FERRETTI'
One must acknowledge that Colonel Fer
rettis Indignation Is justified, though he
vents II upon paper. Instead OF upon the
real culprits, namely. the correspondents
who deliberately send broadcast such
fakes. For some time past European SOW
ereigns have been regarded as fair game
by penny-a Liners who are a disgrace TO
the journalistic profession.
The young King of Spain and the Span
ish royal family have been made special
traget for these venomous "fakirs -
mendaciou and scandalous attacks. Per-
haps such a straightforward exposure OF
these gentry as that contained I'm the pre-
ceding letter from Colonel Ferretu Will
lessen their activity by calling the atten-
ton OF the proprietors OF the papers they
supply with so-called correspondence 10
their absolute untrustworthiness; for IL
lis certain that IL. for example, the pro-
prietor OF the New York Journal or Of
the New York World knew the disreputa-
Bile character OF the men who send out
this alleged correspondence not word OF
IL would ever be published.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-10-27
HOTELS.
CALVARY BAPTIST INSTITUTE

The FIRST OF the series OF entertainments
Of the Calvary Baptist Institute at Cai-
vary Baptist church, Broad and Stanwood
streets. takes place on Wednesday even
ing OF this week The evenings enter
tainment will be afforded by Daring $
Swedish Ladies quintet. assisted by MIR.
Curtis @ Morse. humorist, and much In
terest Is being manifested I'm the pro-
gram. as the quintet comes most highly
recommended. and has for the past ten
year been considered by the best critics
as being as near perfection az can be
obtained.
They were trained by Edward During
n noted muse Of Stockholm and their
renditions and wells studied ensemble
have called forth the warmest praise from
those who have had the opportunity "a
hear them Seats are now on sale al
thu -Ha4let-eeI eeIRPaRs7-eesn oi
Weybosset and Eddy streets
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-10-27
EXPOSURE Of TAKE ON
THE QUEEN OF SPAIN.
Kings Chamberlain Makes an En-
phatic Denial OF Her Alleged Sc
Cret Marriage to SenOrESCOSura

Paris. Oct. 27.-The press has been re-
auested 10 publish the following denial
from Lieutenant Colonel Luis de Figuer-
ola Ferretti chamberlain OF the King OF
Spain. OF a rumor OF a secret marriage OF
Queen Maria Christina:
Dear Sir-I am glad my post in the
service OF the royal family empowers me
TO refute. from no personal consideration.
but from a sincere desire to serve their
Majesties. according TO my sense OF pa
triotism. the false reports OF a secret
marriage OF Queen Maria Christina, pub
lished I'm the New York Journal. on Sep
tember 29
such reports justify my stating in my
History OF the Regency published in
May last. that no unauthorized reports
of this period are worthy OF credit.
"I can but say that the statements
made In the American journal just quot
ed are utterly false.
"Senor Escosura. Master OF the Horse.
20 whom Her Majesty Is reported to
have been secretly married would en-
phatically and categorically give the lie
TO the whole story did not his remunera-
ted position at the Spanish court preclude
him from the independence necessary TO
the act.
But when / say that Senior Oscosura
left Austria as a child the falsity OF the
story OF his betrothal 10 Her Majesty In
that country before she came TO Spain