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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
INCREASE IN LICENSE FEE
Liquor Dealers Debate Provisions of
the New Law

The clause of the District appropris tiop
bill, which was passed by Congress lust
prior to its adjournment, providing for an
increase In the liquor license In the Dis
trict from $500 to $500 year was the KEY
note of long discussion at the meeting of
the Retail Liquor Dealers Association held
yesterday afternoon at the Maccabee Tenn
pie, on 9th street. President Hugh l.. Har
vey presided and Mr.. George A. Davidson
officiated as secretary. After all matters
engaging the attention of the associa ton
had been disposed of, and after the submis
sion Of reports by the various committees
the liquor license question was taken I'D.
Considerable feeling was shown by the
members of the association against certain
members of Congress who had agreed to
fight the increase in the license but who
failed to speak against it's passage.
The abolition of free lunch as a means
of decrea sing the expense of maintaining q
saloon was discussed 1t Is said that IT is
the purpose of the members Of the associa-
ton to do away with this most attractive
feature of the business. number Of Illus
trations of what 1t cost to maintain
free lunch" counter were given by various
members, one stating, it is said, that a
number of saloons expend as much as 800
week for that purpose. 1t Is also said
that the association is considering a reduc-
ton in the size of glasses in which drinks
are sold as another means Of reducing ex-
penses At present there are about $40 sa-
looms in this city, offwhich number about
400 are connected with the association
It was stated that sthe association would
soon adopt definite plans for reducing the
expense Of running saloon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN.
oehefal and Personal Items Gathered
West of Rock Creek.

i1ieut' John A. Swindells of the seventh
pieciict police station received word this
,ifo'i Mug 10 The effect that Raymond Will
long the een-year-old lad who ran away
IRON MS parents home near Tenleytown,
iuesod!' mas been arrested in Baltimore
Nna. "A detective from Headquarters will
iiheis DE sent to the monumental city today
to bring the lad home.
Inc electrical storm which passed over
the city last evening wrought considerable
damage along the Tenleytown road The
teiephone connections between the seventh
preclhct police station in Georgetown and
.ie ponce call boxes in Tenleytown were
olo"h down. as We're number of large
trees and some fencing
MIs' Ehzabeth G. CogSwell, a well known
resident of Georgetown. died yesterday
MIS-: George Freeman, 1915 o street. after
a snort illness. The deceased was the
widow of Alfred Cogswel
Mr. Bert Watt of Georgetown. the son of
Mrs A L. Watt, 3044 NJ street. has been
appointed telegraph operator of the Pos
tai Telegraph Company, with station at
frederick. Md. 1t was enormously reported
several days ago that the young man had
disappeared from his home
Mr.. William Harrison, worthy patron of
Mlzpah Chapter. No. s, of the Order of the
eastern Star has extended an invitation to
al! the members of that organization to
take trolley ride to Rockville next Mon
day evening. Mr.. Harrison has engaged a
special car and the party will leave SD and
M streets at 7:15. the evening named
Stepnan1e L. Goffney, colored. resident
OF Harlem, town just west Of Georgetown.
is lying Ill at his home. suffering from in
Juries received while at work in the demoli-
ton of the building at the corner Of Con-
necticut avenue and L streets, few days
ago. Goffney was standing on top of a
wall which gave away under his weight.
In an attempt to save himself he jumped
to the ground, a distance of twenty feet,
and sustained ugly cuts about his head and
face. His arm was broken near the elbow
and his wrist sprained. He was treated at
the Emergency Hospital.
Mr.. P. T. Berry has sold to DR.. Clark.
for the Frederick Wetzell estate. a tract
OF land on the Ridge road near its inter
section with the New Cut road.
+ Georgetown Branches of Star Office.
The Evening Star has branch offices at
O'Donnel's drug stores, 200 god street and
corner SD and o streets, where advertise
ments are received at regular rates. Want
ed Help and Wanted Situations cost / cent
a word. II
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
Attorneys Fees in Equity Causes.

In the case Of Frederick Tschiffely
against the Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany Of this District motion has been on
hearing before Chief Justice Bingham, in
Equity Court No. 1, involving questions as
TO what constituted final hearing in an
equity cause under the provisions of sec
ton S24 of the statute. allowing the docket
Zee OF w TO the successful attorney in an
equity cause upon final hearing
The case on hearing before Chief Justice
bingham was one of several cases. in which
further prosecution was not had because of
the settlement of the principal points in
volved in another litigation, and it was con-
tended that as the court had not been called
upon to decide any material point the costs
should be retaxed by the clerk and the So
hcitors' fees disallowed. Chief Justice Bing-
ham today took this view Of the construc-
tlon OF the statute and signed an order
granting the motion for q retaxing of costs
Attorneys Lambert and Baker appeared in
support of the motion and MIR. Prescott
Gately on the other side.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
PAVING HoLMEAD AVENUE
Commissioners Asked to Make EST
mates for Congress.

A. q. Foster has asked the District Com
missioners to include in the estimates to
Congress for the next fiscal year an item
for paving Holmead avenue. from Whitney
avenue and Lydecker avenue from HoI-
mead avenue o 18th street northwest. The
computing engineer has submitted a report
upon the request, in which he says in the
estimates submitted 10 the last session OF
Congress was one for the paving OF Whit
ney avenue, between 18th street and HoI-
mead avenue, but the item failed OF favora-
bic consideration.
The paving proposed" says Engineer
Hunt. does not connect with any existing
roadway pavement, although had the work
estimated for been done such would have
been the case 1t is contrary to the policy
of this office to lay asphalt pavement ex-
cept as extensions of the existing system of
paved streets, and in the absence of the
provision for the Whitney avenue appro-
priation the work named herein would not
be reported fayorably by this Office
1t is recommended that with these ctr
cumstances in view the application be con-
sdered in connection with the preparation
of estimates for the ensuing fiscal year,
ana that the writer be informed accord
ingly."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
Counting the Stars.

From the Philadelphia North American
Two clerks at the observatory at Green
wich are essaying the extraordinary task
of counting the stars. They are ATTEMPT
ing in all seriousness a feat which has al
ways been used satirically to typify the i'm
possible. So far they have counted oll -o1
stars which. IL astronomical calculations he
correct. Is about one-fifteenth Of the total
number to be found in the armament
the method of the tabulation is a new
evidence OF the far-reaching scientific nos
siplhtles OF photography. The enumerators
90 not sat out In the starlight, and strive TO
count the infintesimal spots of light ou,
lned against the blue background. In
stead they have made great Photographers
chart OF the heavens. This chart consists
OF number OF plates exposed at different
times IN order to get all the planets ana
heavenly bodies. After the entire chart was
complete the two astronomers began the
work OF counting with the aid of micro
scopes 1T Is estimated that before the
TASK Is completed some three years must
elapse. for to insure accuracy the greatest
care must be exercised, and any attempt at
speed is out of question
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
WYOMING AGRICULTURE.
Farms in 1900 Numbered 6,Oe5 and
Were Worth sec, 1865, $50.

A bulletin was issued by the census bu-
reau this morning On the agriculture OF
Wyoming. Its chief items follow:
THE farms Of Wyoming June /, 1900.
numbered 6095 and were valued at &c.
965, $50. OF this amount s.. 331 $50. or 1871
per cent. represents the value of buildings
and $23, 434 ole, or 500 per cent, the value
of land and improvements other than build
ings. On the same date the value of farm
implements and machinery was 81, 1865 600
and that Of live stock $50. 1857. These
values added to that Of farms give $751;
All, 4U7, the total value of farm property
THE total value Of farm products for
1899 was $11 80. AS, Of which amount S.
1852, or 1871 per cent, represents the
value of animal products, and So 133, lib, or
26.3 per cent, the value Of crops, including
forest products cut or produced on farms.
The total value of farm products for 1899
was more than four times as great as that
reported for 1889. but part of this increase
Is doubtless due to more detailed enume-
ration in 1900 than in 1890.
wyoming has a total land area of 81 ,575
square miles, or GO. AS. 900 acres, of which
1874, $50 acres, or Ii per cent, are included
in farms.
''Since 1870 the total value OF farm prop
erty has Increased $67. oil, 7O2, and in the
last decade s37. 1859 or 1928 per cent.
The increase in the value Of live stock
was 500. 797, $40, or 1855 per cent; in that of
land and buildings it was $12.504.G $50, or
S6.5 per cent; and in that of implements
and machinery $S43, $50, or 1916 per cent.
Since 1890 the value Of live stock and i'm
PIGMENTS and machinery have each more
than doubled, while the value Of land. i'm
provements and buildings have increased
S6.5 per cent.
The total number Of acres Of irrigated
crops, as given above, is 435. S62 while the
total number of acres OF land irrigated is
Coz, S7S. The difference, 170.016 acres, rep
resents approximately the area Of pasture
land irrigated and indicates to what large
extent irrigation serves to promote the live
stock industry.
"At a low estimate it's present average
value Is $16.1O per acre or $6,056, S522 r.
rigation has added this large amount to
the farm wealth OF the state.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10

suit OF an inquiry made into the conditions
OF the department byea special commission
appointed earlFs In May by the Postmaster
General. That body4o consisted of Mr.. H.
II. Rand. conffdentiasscierk to the Postmas-
ter General: ". S. Nicholson of the first
assistant postmaster. generals Office, and
George NJ Smith OF the fourth assistant
postmaster generals Office The congress
s SIC allowance for new building was
s,'Voo per year, with proviso that part of
Inc extra space thus acquired should be
aiottSd to the division of post office supplies.
J. ne 6uscn building was rented for $1,000 a
year and will not only accommodate the
oEislon OF supplies bat an entire other di-
VISION as Well 1t is. the impression among
p t once ofhcials especially qualified to
nloW that the, office to be moved to the
t puscn building will be the division of rural
rostina ster General Payne is so much i'm
ttss@eo WIN the need for permanent quar-
Us anu the futility of paying each year
iisaii3 $S',Vo in rents. that he has instruct
~ tiie commission indicated to continue its
SS.ohs ana report to him soon as prac-
o o,.aole tne probable cost of an annex to be
th ecteo south of the present building and
- SeHefd! chara cter of the structure de-
~ iaalueo. His idea is that the annex shall
os perhaps tWo-thirGs as large as the pres
t, fn pust once building and be of proper
'''tia' e olgnlty and cost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
Installation. Of Officers,

The installation Of the newly elected Of
ficers of the Capital City Circle. No. 315,
Protected Home Circle. took place last
evening in conjunction with a public en-
tertainment at the Northeast Temple, cor
ner Of 18th and H streets northeast The
master Of ceremonies was Mr. Thomas M.
Rogers, deputy supreme president of the
national organization, and past president
of the local society," Considerable excite
ment was caused just after the installation
exercises by the storm which struck the
building with such force as to rattle the
windows considerably. frightening a num-
Der OF ladies.
In addition to brief address by Mr. Rog-
ers the following program was rendered !.
Duet, Mrs Alwilda Rosseau and Miss
Brown: recitation, Miss Ruth Abbott; vocal
solo, Miss Marion Kelly; recitation, Miss
Edna Smith, piano solo, Mrs. Aiwiida Rous-
seau; recitation Miss Della Clancy: piano
solo. Miss Jennie A. Cook; recitation, Miss
Virgie Raymond.
The officers installed last evening were:
John p. Woodend, president: Fred Kircher
vice president; Mrs. Mary Helen Houghton
guardian; Philip Lederer chaplain; Miss
Jennie A. Cook. secretary; Mrs. Emma e.
Denham. accountant: John A. Denharn
treasurer; W. n. Abbott. guide; Mrs. BERTHE
Kircher,. companion;J. "A. Reece, porter:
Mrs. Jennie A Abbott. Waterman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
CHARGE NOT SUSTAINED.
Man and Wife, Latter With Babe in
Arms, Released From Custody.

Mark Warden and his wife Mamie, a
woman about thirty-fve years of age, the
latter carrying a baby three days old in her
arms, were in the dock a the Police Court
today a charge of disorderly conduct
After hearing the facts Judge Scott ruled
that the case against them had not been
made out and discharged them from Gus
tody.
They were arrested in Northeast Wash
ington by Policeman Roper yesterday, and
he informed the court that the couple were
drunk and walking along the streets follow
ed by a large crowd. The couple denied
that they were intoxicated, as stated by
the officer Or that they had done anything
which warranted their arrest. Mrs War
den said that after the birth Of the baby.
Monday, they were compelled to leave the
rooms in which they had resided, because
the party with whom they lived moved
elsewhere. They were corroborated by a
witness in regard to their alleged miscon-
duct yesterday. who said that they had
done absolutely nothing and that the ar
rest was entirely uncalled for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
Railroad Sign Language.

FROM the Philadelphia Record.
1t is not deaf mutes alone who employ
the sign language. Railroaders have a
tongue of this sort that slice railroading
began, has been growing until now any
thing that needs to be said in it can be ex-
pressed as perfectly as in words. The signals
of railroaders are made with the hands and
arms in the daytime. and with a lantern in
the dark. the lantern signals by the way,
being comprehensive at far greater dis
lance than the daytime ones. The latter
are made with one arm or with BOTH at the
brakeman's option. To go ahead to stop
and to back are the leading ones The
arms moved horizontally and vertically
make the two first signals: the back turned
and the arms pushd out makes the last
one. The main lantern signals are an up
and-down. crosswise and circular move
nent. There are. OF course, a hundred
other minor signals. and these vary slightly
in different parts of the country. But the
main ones are a. common and as Ineligible
everywhere among American railroaders as
the English language ITSELF i
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
Ordered by Commissioners.

Official orders were issued by the District
Commissioners today follows:
That E. H. Brown is appointed chairman
in the engineer department at $3.50 per an
mum, vice E. S. Altemus. recently promoted,
to take effect this date.
That the subgrsde Of North Capitol street
from T to v street be prepared for the re-
ception of macadam. and the stone spread
and rolled by day labor: estimated cost,
500, chargeable to the appropriation for
said street, 1903.
west OF Rock Greek between Cathedral
avenue and Randolph street be macadam-
lied by day labor: estimated cost, $500.
chargeable to the appropriation for Con-
necticut avenue extended, 1903.
That sewer be constructed along the
north side OF Harvard street from Sherman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
WALKS SIX MILES
To Get a Certain Kind of
Dressing for His
Beans.

We often read Of the proverbinl Weary Willie
walking six miles, and Frequently many more. to
Set meal. bat to walk six miles for a table
sauce seems almost incredible. yet grocer In
TaverhiH Mass. tells story OF eccentric old
Yankee. living SIX miles out Of town who walks
III every Saturday and buys a bottle Of Alpha
Salad Cream for his Saturday night meal Of beans.
''rnat old chap" said the grocer to a travelling
salesman recently, has been coming here regu-
Larry each week for nearly year for Alpha Salad
Cream He buys bottle u week-will take
Nothing else-and ! dent believe he has skipped
week since be started Alpha Salad Cream
gets strong hold upoa a person when once
tasted 1t Is the only Salad dressing that is made
without oil. In true New England style. 1t can
be eaten In inEumerable ways and In large guam
titles without disturbing the digestion. After ALL
when Is familiar with its flavor. It's not to
be wondered at that people go a long way for IT,
Try one bottle and see. At all grocers The H.
J. Blodgett Co.. Boston. makers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
Water Pipe Must Be Reiaid.

c. B. Hunt, the computing engineer, has
reported to the District Commissioners that
the water service pipe belonging to Mrs
Mary E. White, Brightwood avenue, south
Of Genesse street. was not properly laid as
to the depth below the surface. and that
it must be lowered to conform with the reg
ulations. The engineer says this case is
similar to others. where action has been
taken, and he recommends that notice be
sent to the property owner through the
water registrar. to lower the pipe grade.
The recommendation has been approved by
the acting Engineer Commissioner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
PalaiS Royal, 1Hs5 Ct & 18th SITS.

avenue to 11th street; estimated cost, 1925.
chargeable to the appropriation for subur-
ban sewers.
That catch basin be constructed at the
northwest corner of 18th street and Sher-
man avenue. at an estimated cost of 500
charseable to the appropriation for main
and pipe sewers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
Robbed of SGT in Cash

Detectives Harttgan and Flather are in
vestigating burglary committed about 9
O'clock this morning at the house of Fran
cisco Bell. near Frankfort and lsth streets
Brookland. The house was entered during
the absence of Bell. who is a lampiighter
and robbed of SCI in cash
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10

Harry Williams. sixty-fiye years old.
was taken Ill about noon today near 18th
sensible condition and the police Of the
seventh precinct removed him to the
Georgetown University Hospital. Soon af-
ter reaching the hospital he was restored
to consciousness,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
The Postmaster Generals Statement.

AS postmaster General Payne expressed it
this morning: The Post Office Department
is seriously embarrassed for want of office
room. We have secured some relief by
renting the Busch building. But we can't
go on renting outside buildings year after
year. The only busineSslike thing to do is
to provide further regular accommodations
for the department. 1t seems to me this
can best be done by condemning this prop
erty just behind the post Office building the
square bounded by 18th, 18th, B and c.
streets northwesD, and erecting on it a
suitable annex to the present post Office
building. OF course, that could not be done
in year, and in the meanwhile the depart
ment must do the best it can with rented
quarters. But 1t must be done and done
soon"
Mr.. Robert S. Wynne, in whose province
as first assistant postmaster general the
question of department quarters lies ex-
pressed himself quite as vigorously as his
chief The post Office people must have
been asleep he said, when they per
mitted about half the space in the Post
Office Department building to be appor-
toned to the Treasury Department and the
city post office. The sixth auditors office
the city post office ought to have a build
ing OF its own. In connection with the
erection of the new municipal building I
have written the District Commissioners
that quarters ought to be provided in that
structure for the city post Office / sus-
pect there may not be room. But the agt-
tation will serve to call attention to-the
need for another building and enlist the CO.
operation Of all the officials concerned in
the Washington post Office.
THE Busch building will help to a de-
gree. Yet it presents problems Of its own.
l first suggested moving the dead letter
Office there and was informed its cases
and safes were built in its present offices
and the removal could not be made without
practically rebuilding the Busch building.
Then l proposed that the money order d.
vision should be the one to go. The an
swer to that was that the money order
office and the office Of the auditor could not
be separated. When l suggested that the
division of rural free delivery should be
moved was told-on good ground, no doubt
that such change would separate the
first assistant and the chief of that i'm
portant division, that members of Congress
would be forever asking after rural free
delivery routes at the main building and
that the records OF the division would then
be divided and its work seriously fampered
Some alterations are now being made in
the Busch building and we shall not take
possession until that work Is done. Rut
when that time comes, probably I'm August
or September. shall decide which division
| Is to go and 1t will go without any delay"
Lease Of the Busch Building.
| The lease Of tae Busch Building is the re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
e. W. Grove.

This name Dust appear o. ever Aox ~ ~.
esuuine Laxative omo-ouinnc Tsbiets m.
remedy that cures q cold In one day = cs~s..
uyz2-th, s&tu-52t ~ .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
Conditions Have Grown Worse.

Since that time the conditions have grown
steadily worse. The hygienic law is that
each regular occupant of every office room
must have 100 cubic feet of breathing space.
Today several divisions of the post office
building have less than twenty-five cubic
feet for each clerk. The division of rural
free delivery has been added to the depart
ment. The offices of the auditor, the money
order division, that section OF the rural free
delivery stationed in the main building and
sections of other Offices have overfown into
the corridors. The division of post office
supplies has outgrown the rink. In nearly
every division of the department the work
of the postal system is seriously hampered
for want of room.
Some relief has been obtained by renting
further outside Office room. Part of the
rural free delivery division is quartered in
The Star building, where 1,5S2 square feet
of floor space is rented at an annual cost
of 81 800 Additional storage space of 10 800
feet has been rented in the new Merchants
Transfer and Storage building, at an annual
cost of $1,000. The last step taken was the
recent presumption of the Busch building
near the corner Of Sth and E streets
northwest, whereby the department will OBJ
tain about 10000 square feet Of floor space
..f on l1y,tla oil ,yt Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
THE PALAIS ROYAL,
SHOP FRIDAY.

The Saturday hall holiday the dry goods business
to Washington by the Pala Royal in the 1888 repeat
make Friday principal shopping
the halt holiday in this city with unses
that and those who have encouraged
shopping ON FRIDAY Make this rule you pave way
for general half holiday Saturday gain gratitude the
thousands OF and working
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
Embrofderies, SSc.

All-over Embroideries. - inches wide
Some are lace and embroidery combined.
All an beautiful. soc TO dc values. al only
3lc yard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10

Swiss and Camhric Emhn,idprips from
{" is inches wide Some worth soc
Choice for &c yard. Hurry for first choice