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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16

city thoroughfares. Except on Pennsyl
vana avenue, pavements We're practically
unknown. The central portion OF Pennsyl-
vania avenue comprising width of some
forty-five feet, was paved with cobb estones,
and a similar pavement extended from the
avenue along 18th street as far north as q
street. A small section of 18th and of 18th
streets was paved with cobblestones from
the canal to south B street, while a similar
pavement was found on 18th street from
Pennsylvania avenue to New York avenue
In 1913 the paving of Pennsylvania avenue
from the Capitol to the Presidents house,
as above described, was completed and
four years later the remainder OF that thor
oughfare as far west as Georgetown, was
similarly improved. Each year the city
fathers provided money to bear the eX-
pense of clearing off the dust and mud
which accumulated on the paved portion of
PENNSYLVANIA avenue. The street crossings
of the avenue were marked by flag pave
ments, while the sidewalks were laid with
brick. At night the rays Cf light from gas
lamps assisted the pedestrians in finding
their way from one place to another. The
Washington Gas Company, which had
been in existence only a few years supplied
the gas which was used in lighting the
Capitol grounds and the Capitol, the Presi-
dents house and the government depart
ments, well the lights on Pennsyl-
vania avenue and in the city hall building.
However, those who wished to go west of
18th street on Pennsylvania avenue were
obliged to be content with the less brilliant
illumination of oil lamps, which were main
| tanned that section of the avenue until
the year 1853 when they were replaced by
| To- al on
other Streets where the corporate authori-
ties in their wisdom saw fit to locate them.
Water was conveyed from springs in the
city, and from the vicinity of the CITY, to
the public buildings and to some of the
| larger hotels, but the average citizen de-
pended on his own wells the corporation
wells and the corporation pumps, which
were maintained throughout the city and
which constituted of the largest items
of municipal expense. There were, of
course, sewers except for the use of the
public buildings, and the outlet of these
was into the Washington canal. When
alarm of fire sounded a response was
made by the volunteer companies, who
rushed through the streets, dragging their
hand engines. At V" ~ious points about the
city square holes, six or seven feet in
depth, were dug and lined with brick, laid
in cement, and then filled with water. From
such reservoirs and from wells the water
was obtained for the use of the hand en-
gines. Omnibuses, running on Pennsyl-
vania avenue from the navy yard to
Georgetown, and down 10Th street, or 7th
street, and over the bridges across the
canal to the steamboat wharves. furnished
the principal mode Of communication. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16

The celebrated Swedish authoress Fred
rika Bremen gives a curious and perhaps
unique impression of Washington of half
century ago. In an account of her visit to
this city, which occurred in the year 1850,
she speaks of going to the White House,
the residence of the President, General Tay-
lor Just out of the city. In contrast with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16
Comparison With Other Cities.

All this sounds primitive to a modern ear
but in many respects the conditions in
Washington We're much the same as in
other municipalities in that day, although
in appearance Washington did not come up
to the standard which a great many Wis
attained by the capital city of such ma
ton as the United States. In point of size
Washington then ranked with such places
as Albany. Buffalo, Newark and Pittsburg
city south of Baltimore. with the exception
of Charleston, S. c., which had about the
same population and New Orleans, which
was very much larger The steam railroad
extended no further west than Cumber-
land, and Pittsburg had not then been con-
nected with the east by railroad. WASH
ington then was feeling the influence OF
the general prosperity throughout the coun-
try, which followed the close of the war
with Mexico and the discovery of gold IN
California. 1t was an era of changes ana
improvements which made the decade fol-
lowing the year 1850 notable in the record
of the material development of the city by
the year 1860 the population had increased
over 10000. and was then almost three
times as large as the census record shows
for the year 1910. Public and private i'm
proyements went on between 1850 ard '>'''
in greater volume than in any previous
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
LOST IN SNOW.
Terrible Hardship Of Passen-
gers on Snowbound Train.
Fight to Keep Women's ard ChiIdren's
Foodfrom Ravenous Men.
Passenger Attempts Suicide and May
Not Survive Wound.

ST. Paul. Mimi, April 2.-Passengers
arriving, today, on Great Northern
train due here, last Friday, tell of be-
ing snowbound for four days and five
nights on the prairies of North Dakota,
in the midst of the worst blizzard the
Northwest has seen in many years.
The train was completely lost to the
world. Late Thursday afternoon, it left
Wi!liston in the hope of reaching Minot,
some l miles to the east, before night.
Almost midway, at a little stopping
place called Ray, where there are only
siding, a water tank and a coal shed,
the train was stalled.
The engineer thought he could run
| the engine back to Williston and get
aid, and taking the conductor with him,
started on the trip. The lone engine
was stuck in a drift in a cut a short
distance out of the town and had to be
| abandoned. This left the train of eight
coaches and about $50 passengers alone
on the siding, with all communication
cut off.
There was an incipient riot on the
| first day. The second-class passengers
insisted that they must have as much
or more food as the others, and as they
were in large numbers and had more
| ravenous appetites it was difficult to
confine them to their quota.
| Many were not willing, as the first
class passengers insisted, that the wo-
men and children should be fed and
taken care of first, but after some ar
gument they were prevailed upon to
subside.
Monday evening. Prof. Colegrove of
the University of Washington, attempt
ed suicide by cutting his throat with a
razor. There was a physician on board
| the train. but he had no facilities for
performing the operation and it was
absolutely necessary to get into COM
munication with one of the neighbor-
ing towns.
In their desperation the passengers
broke open everything in the trains
| chest, and found a telegraph instru-
| ment. young man, an electrician,
faced the blizzard and tapped one of
the wires and attached the instrument.
He notified the operators at both Minot
and Williston of what had occurred.
From each place q snow plow was
started in front of an engine, bearing
surgeon. The one from Minot, after
hard nights work, reached the siding
early the following morning and the
wounded man was removed to st. Paul.
The almost famished passengers who
had suffered from the cold and expo
sure. were given food and warm berths
in the first train pushed through the
drifts.
Prof. Colegrove's jugular vein is par
TALLY severed and it is not believed he
can recover.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
NJ RIDER is CHARGED
Againsts Former Maine Woman for
Killing Husband in Montana.

Ellsworth, Me, April 2.-Particulars
murder of Charles II. Orcutt, formerly
of Holden, of Billings, Mont, March 6.
Mr. Orcutt was shot and instantly kill
cd by his wife, who says the shooting
was in self-defence. The tragedy oc-
were no witnesses.
Mrs. Orcutt's story is that her hus-
band returned home intoxicated and
abusive. They retired, but soon Mr..
Orcutt arose and said he had made up
his mind to kill her. He went to the
kitchen and procured a hatchet. While
he was gone. Mrs. Orcutt ran into an
adjoining room and got revolver, and
when he approached her, she fired
three times, the last bullet penetrat-
ing his heart.
The coroner's jury found that Mr..
Orcutt came to his death from wounds
inflicted by his wife under great
provocation,' but the circumstances
were such that at a hearing held in a
Justices court it was decided to hold
Mrs. Orcutt for trial without bail. The
churge is murder in the first degree.
Mr. Orcutt's first wife was Miss Julia
Lawrence of Dedham, Me-, who left
him n few years ago, returning to her
home in Maine. She procured di-
vorce. and afterward married Mr.. Or
cults brother, Fred l.. Orcutt, and is
now living in Ellsworth.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
ATTEMPTED BURGLARY
At Fairfield, Early This Morning-The
Robbers Escape.

Word reached here by telephone, just
about $50 this morning, that burglary
had been attempted at Fairfield and
that the burglars had boarded the west
bound freight.
The police and others were on the
watch, but the freight went through
this city like a cyclone.
Men were stationed from the bridge
to Winthrop street, but all they saw Of
the burglars was two persons clinging
to a car in the middle of the train.
Word was also telcphoned to Gardiner
and it is hoped that the men may have
been captured there.
No particulars of the attempted
break at Fairfield has been received.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES

Thomas O'RourkcS aged about 6I
years and an emfiexee Of the Boston
& Maine as night guessing tender at
the yard of the IEilstern division of the
road in Portlana,ga$ accidentally
drowned about 2 A. U- Wednesday, by
falling from the wfsH not far from the
end of Portland bridge.
But slight fears. are entertained at
Biddeford of demand from the opera
tives of the Peppere1f and York mills
for an increase of wages. The strike Of
several years ago broke up all the labor
organizations with the exception OF
that of the loom fixers. Among some
of the loom fiXers there is "a feeling
that they will soon receive an advance
in wages equal to that Of the loom
fiyers in the Lewiston mills.
No arrest has yet been made in the
Cape Elizabeth shooting case, though
the two deputy shcriffs at work on it
feel confident that they will be able To
identify the Portland parties who drove
out over the Shore road that night.
Mrs. Mansfield and the fort soldier have
admitted that she fired two shots In
the house before the intruderS fired.
The officers are half inclined to believe
that the shooting was accIdentai-
Portland Express.
James O'Neill of West Sebois, was
arraigned before Judge Bailey in the
city court at Bangor, at 2 O'Clock
Wednesday afternoon, for killing COW
moose in close time. Game Warden w.
r. Pollard conducted the case for the
State and John Z. Robinson. Esq, act
ed in the defence. Prosecution tried to
prove that ONeill served guests in his
camp with moose meat, and that he,
O'Neill, had stated that he had brought
the meat from the woods that day.
O'Neill and his wife testified that the
meat wasn't that of n moose, and that
O'Neill had never made statements that
he had brought any game from the
woods in close time. O'Neill was dis
charged.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
GREEDY AUSTRALIANS
Rob 10 Beers and Are Tried and Exc.
cuted for the Crime.

London. April 3.-The Morning
Leader publishes the alleged story of
the crimes which led to the courtmar-
tial and execution of two Australian
officers in South Africa, which is Just
now exciting keen indignation in Aus
tralia.
The morning Leader asserts that
several officers of this particular ir-
regular corps shot natives like rabits
and that they are even suspected of
numbering men of their own command
against whom they had grudges. The
incident which led to their courtmartial
was the cold blooded execution bv
those officers of 10 Beers who were
journeying to Petersburg with the OBJ
ject of surrenderng.
1t was supposed that these Beers had
c 10000 with them. Actuated by cupid-
ity the Australians stopped the Beers,
tried them by mock courtmartial and
ordered all to be shot. This was done
by a squadron of the soldiers after
some of the pon- commissioned officers
had refused to carry out the death SEN
tence. The officers then ransacked the
Boer wagons and were disgusted upon
finding that the C 10000 was in Trans
vaal paper money.
Continuing, the Morning Leader says
German missionary few miles dis
tant from the scene of the execution"
heard of the affair. Lieut.. Hancock.
one of the Australians concerned. fear
ing he would divulge his information,
shot the missionary dead. This shoot
ing eventually led to a complaint by
the German consul to Lord Kitchener
who proceeded to courtmartial the
Australians
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
BOWDOlN COLLEGE.
Junior Prize Speakers-Examinati
Will Close, Thursday.

Brunswick, Me-, April 2.-(SpeciaD
Professor w. b. Mitchell of Bowdoin
College. today, announced the list of
men elected for the Junior prize speak
ing by the class of 1903. The follow
ing men will take part: Jesse NJ.
Blanchard. Maynard Mass; Farms
worth G.. Marshall, Portland; Scott G..
w. Simpson, Portland; Seldom o. Mar
tin. Foxcroft; Clement +. Robinson,
Brunswick; George II. Slower, Bruins
wick: Charles c. Shaw, Cumberland
Center; Betram l.. Smith, Patten
Blaine S. Viles, Skowhegan; Leon V.
Walker, oxford; Harrie L. Walker,
Lewiston; Thomas c. White, Lewiston.
The speaking will occur during the
last week of next term.
The term examinations will close.
Thursday morning, and nearly all stu
dents will leave, for their homes on the
afternoon trains.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
A PHYSICIAN HURT.
Helped Himself.

When the doctor himself brings on
| heart disease by the use of coffee it is
time for ordinary people to think care
fully of the effect of that beverage
The testimony of DR.. o. w. Mathew
son, 1884 Penn. Ave, Des Moines, Ia. is
as follows. His letter is rather long
and this extract is necessarily con-
denSed.
Il am a physician of is years prac-
tice. / felt the need of a stimulant and
for the first five or six years of nv
practice used strong coffee. Eight or
ten years ago 1 began to notice symp-
toms of heart disease. This seemed to
be regular organic type and year by
year became aggravated. Dizziness.
faintuess and later, inability to walk,
at times.
physicians, could find no marked
symptoms of disease but thought there
might be of a kind that escaped obser-
walton. Finally I became a confirmed
invalid and gave up practice.
Several years elapsed with the
symptoms growing worse. / was con-
sidered as marked for an early grave.
1t finally became impressed upon me to
give up coffee. This 1 found easier to
do when Postum Food Coffee was used
in its place. ! did this more to satisfy
my friends than with any hope of bene-
fit from such simple change, especial
~ in such an incurable case as mine.
l was debilitated and very weak and
about 30 pounds short of my old weight
From the first week i noticed a
marked change and within three
months | was almost fully restored to
my old strength and health These facts
are known to hundreds of my friends
and acquaintance"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
STEAM PIPE BURST.
Fatal Accident at Paper Mills
= at Rumford Falls.
Horace M. Davis of South Gardiner
ScaIded to Death.
Ono Other Fatally Injured and Third
May Recover.

Eumford Falls, Me, April 2.-One
man is dead and two fatally injured
as the result of an explosion in the
mills Of the International Paper Co.
ing. The night crew had just COM
mcnced their duties in one Of the sui
phita digester rooms, where the paper
stock is cooked, when a steam pipe III
one of the digesters exploded.
The dead man is Horace NJ. Davis,
aged 81 years. A widow and three small
children at South Gardiner, Me-, sur
vive him.
The injured were Barney Mcdonald
and Alfred Christian, who were SO bad
ly burned that there are slight hopes
for their recovery, though Mcdonald
may possibly recover.
The night crew was composed of five
men, namely: Horace Davis, who died
instantly. Barney Mcdonald, and Jos.
fred Christians a SWede, who was ia
tally scalded. Geo. Bowling and Jos.
Hewlett, who escaped from the room.
1t is one of the first duties of the
night crew to dump the stock which
has been cooked and prepared for the
pulp machines, from the digester into
the blow pit as it is called.
They We're attending TO this duty
when the steam pipe connecting the di-
gester and blow pit burst and large
part of the contents of the receptacle
were blown into the air, nearly cover
ing the three men.
The room was also filled with the
sulphuric gas and the three men We're
quickly overcome.
powlings and Hewlett We're not Sc
near the apparatus as their fellow
workmen and they managed to escape
from the room, receiving no injuries.
Mcdonald and Christian were young
men and have resided here since they
have been employed in the paper mill
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
.Paine's Celery
Compound
Saves a Form er Member of
the Indiana Legislature.
This is the Season to Use the Great
Medicine If You Would Danish
the Seeds Of Disease from
the System.

On every hand we~see men and wo-
men who at this season should be ac-
tive, hale and strong, losing flesh and
weight, looking pale and languid. We
hear them complain of weakness, pain
in the chest. backache, and sideache
Their friends note with ALARM the pale
checks and sunken eyes; the color of
the skin gives evidence of blood i'm
purities.
All. reader, these are indications that
the deadly dr+gs of grippe have per-
meated the whole system, distributing
poisons and impurities in blood and It's
sues.
Act at once with wisdom and de-
cisicn; you cannot afford to lose pre-
cious time experimenting with medi-
cines that have no reputation, that
have no positive victories to their
credit
Heaven help you to use the life saver
that rescued and saved Mr.. Stephenson.
While in perilous condition of health,
Providence truly directed Mr.. Stephen
son to make use of Paine's Celery Com
pound. The first bottle produced a
marvellous and happy effect; his life
blood was being freshcred and en-
riched; his appetite was improved
strength was taking the place of weak
ness; and the ruddy tinge of health
was apparent in the once pale face. Mr..
d. T. Stephenson, of Pilot Knob, Ind,
writes the following
Some years ago while serving as n
member of the Indiana Legislature.
contracted a severe case of grippe. and
was run down and completely out-of-
sorts, and found but little relief from
any remedy until l tried Paines Celery
Compound. The first bottle did me
wonderful and marked good, and its
continued use for a short time, restored
me to my usual vigor and freshness.
Your Paines Celery Compound has
been used by my family since then for
general prostration of the system, with
the most gratifying results. Paines
Celery Compound is a great quieter
and restorer of the nerves to their nor
NAL condition; indeed, it's action on the
nerves and nerve centres has been
most gratifying in my case"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03

William l.. DennisOn of Mercer has
arrived from the klondike region. Mr.
Dcnnison went West in the spring of
1898, and after exploring while above
Cooks inlet went to Great Slave lake,
where he remained until last Novem-
ber Mr.. Dennison worked claims in
several places with other miners, but
failed to find deposits than any more
than paid expenses, and living, while
on almost every hand other miners
came upon rich finds. Mr.. Dennison
says that mine workers paid by the
day make more money than the claim
owners, unless it be those who have
great wealth to put into the claims. for
Mr.. Dennison says: THAT there is a
heap of gold in the Klondike there is
no question. but it requires a good
sized fortune now to get it out.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
NOT A CANDIDATE.
Rev. w. F. Berry Will Not Run for
Gubernatorial Nomination.

Portland, Me-, April AT a meet
ing of the State Prohibition commit
tee here, today, it was voted to hold
1t had been understood for some time
that Rev. w. F. Berry of Waterville,
would be in the field for Gubernatoriai
honors, this year, but it was announc-
ed, today, that Mr. Berry will not al
low his name to go before the con-
yentiOn
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
FROSTS IN SOUTH.
About All the States Visited but Little
Damage Reported.

Atlanta. Ga. April 2.-Frosts were
general. last night. in Tennessee, por-
tions OF Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
and North and South Carolina. The
frost was heavy at Nashville, Char
iottc and Wilmington, and severe at
Knoxville. Reports from Macon, Sa-
vannah, Augusta, Charleston, Memphis
and Meridian are to the effect that the
frost was light. The damage to the
fruit crop in Georgia, if any. was slight.
as strong wind prevailed throughout
the night
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
Maine N. {. o. p. Elects Officers.

Bangor, Me-, April 2.-At the annual
meeting of the Grand Lodge of Maine,
New England Order of Protection, held
in this city, tonight, the following of
HcerS were elected Frank A. Kendall,
Auburn, grand warden; Harry Manser,
Auburn, grand vice warden; w. l..
Quimby, Bangor, grand secretary; w.
Scott Howes, Portland, grand treasurer.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
rnon& &th1y1p
EXCEPTIONS OVERRULED.
Boston's Ward Fl Caucus Fraud De
PENDANTS Must Suffer Penalty.

Boston. April The. fun bench OF
the supreme court, today oys.rruied the
exceptions of the defendants liz the
Ward 21 caucusa fraud cases Tie de
PENDANTS are John Rogers, Temple a
winslow, Alfred Newmarch and Wm
w. Lord. who were convicted of con-
spiracy in aiding and abettiug in pro
curing people not qualified ito vote to
cast ballots at the Repubiican caucus
at the Dudley Street Opera house, Sept
25 1901 EeS1Ns4
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
erea. Northern Blockade Lifted.

st. Paul, Minn., April 2.-The Great
Northern lifted it's blockade, early to-
day, bringing in its overland train from
the Pacific coast in three sections. The
Northern Pacific blockade from the
floods was nearly as long as it's recent
snow blockade which lasted one week.
The interruption Of traffic was the
longest the system has ever sustained.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03

Elections in many Colorado towns OF
the minor class were held, Tuesday.
The registration in most places was
small. and the vote very light. The
old parties cut very little figure in the
nominations and canvass ard in many
places but one ticket was in the field.
The weather was fine and no trouble
was reported from any point.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03

Best varieties of fresh flower seeds.
including fine selections of Sweet Peas
and Nasturtium seeds in bulk can
now be had at Partridges old reliable
drug store, Opera House block, oppo-
site postofficc. Flowering plants too,
will soon be on hand.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
Kitchener Reports Another Skirmish

London, April 2.-Lord Kitchener in
a dispatch from Pretoria, made public,
this evening. announced that the I'd
Dragon Guards fought a sharp rear
guard action near Boschman's Kop,
during the evening of March 81. Four
officers are known to have been wound
ed. No further details of the casual
ties have been received
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03

Chicago, April Am advance of half
a cent a pound on dressed beef went
into effect at the stock yards. today,
when all the packers responded to the
repeated advances that have taken
place in the last week on cattle on the
hoof. Today's top price for cattle,
$3.50 per 100 pounds, is the highest
April price since 1882. Hogs sold at
record prices, for the year, s7.05.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03

The three missing tourists Of the
party of four who recently attempted
to ascend the Alps in Lower Austria,
have been discovered, half frozen, but
alive. The fourth member of the ex-
petition, as already cabled, was found
dead.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
FAIR WEATHER.

Washington, April 2.-Forecast for
Thursday and Friday: New England,
fair, Thursday and probably, Friday;
fresh west winds.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03
Boston Forecast.

Boston. April Local forecast:
Fair, Thursday and Friday; slight
changes in temperature; brisk west to
northwest winds.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-03

The difficulties between the diamond
workers and their employers at Am
sterdam have been settled and work
was resumed, Wednesday.