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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-07-05
CHINA ASKS THAT
4LBG1SIN Be RESTORED
Minister WI COnSuItS the
State Department.
ASKS AID OF GOVERNMENT

The Chinese minister. WI Ting-fang.
called at the state Department this
morning and showed to Secretary Hay
a cablegran he has just received from
Yiceroy Yuan Shih-kai. Of Chill. dated
July ,. 1892. The minister requested
that this Government consult with the
other powers involved in the Chinese
question with a view Of having instruc-
tons sent to the different military Of
doeTs direct ordering them 10 accede to
the suggestion Of the foreign ministers
70 restore 10 the Chinese the city Of
Tientsi1.
Minister Wu's cablegram follows.
Your cablegram Of July . IS received
with much qualification. In the final
protocol signed by tie different powers,
there is 10 stipulation that q supple
mentary convention viii be made in re
gard to the restoration Of TieHfsin.
Military Ofce1s Arbitrary
Put the foreign military officers at
TieItsjn have Arbitrarily given rise to
fresh complications and drawn many
articles limiting 10 300 the number of
Chinese guards 10 be stationed at Tier
tsin within the lIait Of so kilometers.
Since the bTigal65 in the vicinity Z
TienJs!u. or account Of the IootlnE of the
arseEais in 1900. are generally well
armed, 1t would be impossible for such a
small force to suppress and punish bri-
gan age, much less can 1t police the
city AID vicinity and preserve order
generally.
Wish to Delay Restoration
The military officers appear to be
willing TO restore the city. but in reality
they wish 10 delay; there IS reason to
fear that their action is not by any
means for the public good The foreign
ministers al Pekin do not approve their
action. and they have repeatedly re
nonsrrated with them; but the military
officers have not been willing 10 come 70
an agreement.
The ministers and the military officers
each hold to their own opinions. which
greatly impedes the progress Of our at
fairs I request you to ask the Govern
meBt Of the United States TO consult
with other governments. so that instruc-
tons may be sent TO the different mill
tary oGcers direct. ordering them TO
accede to he suggestions Of the foreign
ministers TO the end that the restora-
tloo may not be further delayed
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Carnegie Buys Famous Library.

LONDON, July 5.-The Times says
that Lord Actions famous library has
passed into the possession of Mr.. An
drew Carnegie.
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Leaves sz.5oo,oao to Hospital.

LONDON. July Charles Gassiot, =
member Of a London firm of wine mer-
chants. who died recently, has be-
gueatned over $500. COG 10 St Thomas
HosaItaI.
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feet. ans IS now in a condition Of TEN
porary paralysis, which IS the case in
arsenic poisoning Such q condition,
physicians say, might occur ii a case Of
vegetable poisoning also.
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DIED.

tTFysNDFR-On Saturday. July ;, 1902, az
fT.I5 q. m. JAMES HENRY ALEXANDER, AZ
Ilis residence. 1878 Florida Avenue, aged sixty
years and nine days
Notice % funeral hereafter e.
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Distrie. Government May Act

I think the executive government OF
the District Of Columbia might properly
establish q similar celebration in the
National Capital Surely there ought 10
be some general meeting to which pa
triotic citizens OF the National Capita
might go on independence Day to hear
the Declaration Of Independence read
and appropriate addresses and music
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sioners that We arrange each year for
District celebration OF the Fourth Of
July The Boston government has eel
ebration in Faneuu HaH. the FhlIadeI-
phia government has one in Independ-
eace Hall. They have had them prac-
ticaily ever since the Declaration OF In
denendance-
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MCFARLAND WANTS
FOURTH CELL DRAFTED
Official Program May Be Ar
ranged Next Year.
NO PATRIOTIC OBSERVANCE
Capital City Should Not Be Behind
Other Giles ii Reverence for the Day,
Says District Commissioner-Sho
Read Declaration Of Independence.

Commissioner II. B. F Macfarland re-
grets that the Fourth Of July passed n
Washington without any public celebra-
tion Of the day. This. he thinks, is not
the proper thing for the National Capt.
tai which of all places Ia the country
4 :5ht TO keep alive the sentiment of
patriotism for which such days exist
N speaking of the matter today Mr.
MacfarIand said:
y am very sorry that there was no
general public meeting in celebration OF
Independence Day here. I believe that
such meeting ought TO be held every
year. OF all places the National Capital
ought to celebrate most fully the great
national dav
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-07-05
Only One Public Meeting.

Heretofore the Sons OF the American
ton have held appropriate meetings
here on the Fourth of July. which the.
general public attended. But yesterday
the only meeting was that of the Oldest
Inhabitants Association, which was held
in the country.
7 think Of proposing to the Commits
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toilette was q member Of the House and
Spoo-e- was serving his first term in the
Senate
The Quarrel an Old One.
The circumstances which PROBABLY
contributed most TO the autaEonism be-
tween them was the fact that the late
Senator Sawyer. who had always stood
sponsor for Spooner in Wisconsin poll
Ties, eadeavored TO retain Lafollette as
counsel in what is knoxu as the State
treasury cases.
These were suits brought under 4
Democratic administration to recover in
IeresL OF State funds deposited in banks
either owned by or friendly 20 ~
Sawyer As the eases were tC be ITi- !
before Judge Siebecker. = brother in
law of Lafolletje the latter resented
Sawycr's proposition IS ~ attempt 70
Tribe him.
Neither Sawyer nor SpOoner nor their
friends from tEat dav forward forEave
LatOLletta for the Interpretation which
lie made CT Sawyer's offer It Is entire
IS hopeless TO bridge the chaSm between
Spooner and Lafolle''- and the quarrel
is likely 10 continue for years to come
10 make Wisconsin politics distinctly
warm and Interesting
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President Adds New Rule
10 Civil Service Law.
PROMOTION FOR MERIT ONLY

Recommendation by Outsider Stops Ad-
vance IN Service and Nay Cause Re-
movaI From ofce-CongTessmen said
to Be Pleased With Esw Regulation.
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Mr.. SPOONER MAY
TAKE DENOMINATION

toilette was q member Of the House and
Spoo1e- was serving his first term in the
Senate
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"1NFLUENCE" BARRED
BY EXECUTIVE ORDER

went he woule-lce shat everything st
the Library WIS placed at the disposal
OF she committee.
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neutrality-suspicious. went down In his
boat, S. 26.
In 1898 S. So went down.
In the course of the naval maneuvers of
last year the Germans lost torpedo boat
No. 76, a vessel of $50 tons. Only one man
went down with It. Last July The German
torpedo boat S. AZ was run down and sunk
at the mouth of the Elbe by the British
merchant steamer Firsby. 1t went down at
night. The night was cloudy but clear and
both vessels had their lights burning bright
ly. The torpedo boat sunk about five minu-
ties after the collision, taking down with
it the commanding officer and three of his
crew. What came near being another fatal
disaster for a German torpedo boat took
place last April while the torpedo boat
division of the training feet was proceeding
to the Eastern Baltic. on the island OF
Moen torpedo boat S. 80 came in collision
with the schooner Odin. The schooner sank
at once and the torpedo boat was badly
damaged. 1t was, however, able to keep
aloat until it got to a dockyard.
The waters Of the Baltic and the North
sea are stormy waters most Of the time.
Their intervals of good behavior are not of
long duration and when the winds really
make up their minds to howl and the seas
to roll along their shores they do 1t with a
will.
Before the Kiel canal was built it used
to be a favorite maneuver with the torpedo
boats to go from Wihelmshafen on the
Baltic, around the northern point of Den
mark and so on down to Hamburg or Bre-
men. 1t was almost a foregone conclusion
that before the voyage was completed nasty
weather would be encountered which would
try the seagoing abilities OF the torpedo
boats and the nerve OF their officers and
crews. If a boat was lost-well, 1t simply
proved that 1t was unseaworthy; that was
all, and that its type must be improved
upon the next time one OF that class was
built.
The completion Of the canal connecting
the Baltic and the North seas has removed
the necessity of sending the torpedo boat,
on the perilous voyage around J%utland, anc
they probably will be sent over that rout,
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pedo boat commanders may not inaptly be
called the "automobilists of the sea- be-
cause of the way in which they dash about
with the long, lean vessels and because of
the chances they take.
The loss of the torpedo boat commanded
by Duke Frederick William of Mecklen-
burg-SChwerin, a disaster in which the
duke himself went down with his boat and
entire crew, was a catastrophe that called
the attention of the whole world to the
things which the Germans were attempting
with their torpedo boats. The rank Of the
duke made his loss a matter of such mo-
ment as to rivet attention from all parts
of the globe. Since then the torpedo boat
officers of the German navy have been a
little more careful, though they still take
risks which officers of other navies would
consider as unnecessary and unwarranted.
Competent authorities, however, such, for
instance, as the editors of the semi-oficial
Statesman's Year Book, declare that while
with the German torpedo boats some abb
solutely remarkable evolutions are per-
formed which excite admiration, yet their
value has been questioned" but adds that
1.-The Germans are probably in advance of
all other nations in torpedo work" This
is the testimony of the highest British
naval authority. So it would seem that,
even if Germany has lost more torpedo
boats in proportion than any other nation,
she has at least accomplished something to
be proud of in the drilling and disciplining
of her officers and crews.
The Germans do not name their torpedo
boats as most of the other nations OF the
world do, but give them numbers and let
ters. So in the list of Prince Henry's flo
tilla, instead Of reading such suggestive
names as Viper" Scorpion" ETC., We
find that the fleet Of his royal highness
consists of torpedo boats S. LOG, S. 1902,
S. 1903, 1O4, 1O5, 1O7, S. 90, SO, 80, 100 and
1O1-eleven boats in all of the newes type.
The fact that the Germans give their tor
pedo boats numbers and letters in place of
names somehow seems to make the dash
with which they handle them all the more
remarkable. 1t would seem to the or
binary person that it would be compare
lively easy to show a little dash when In
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command of a torpedo boat named the
Adder" or the Wasp" while to display
the same ability on torpedo boat 1.-TWO and
carry ONE or TX, 10 and a half" would
be next to an impossibility. But the Ger
mans d it.
The torpedo boats which comprise the
fleet of Prince Henry are built on the
proportion of 1873 feet of length to 81
feet of beam. Some are larger and some
are smaller, of course, but that is the gen
eral relation of beam to breadth in the
newer torpedo boats of the German navy.
In the older torpedo boats the relation Of
beam to breadth was in the ratio of 16S
feet of length to Is feet of beam. OF a still
older type was the torpedo boat, which
foundered at the mouth of the Elbe some
years ago.
Her loss was a most dramatic affair and
caused much discussion at the time as to
the possibility of making a torpedo boat
thoroughly seaworthy and still have it OF
proper dimensions for the uses for which
she is intended.
The German feet had been maneuyerinp
in the North sea, and with it was, of course,
a small flotilla of torpedo boats. The
weather became stormy, and the fleet, hav-
ing no especial reason for staying out
longer, put into port. The torpedo boats,
which should have been sent into port as
soon as the weather became unfit for them
TO be out in, were not ordered to leave the
deet, and instead of preceding the war
ships into harbor, they stayed out until the
last in what would seem to have been a
spirit of bravado, though the excuse given
and 1t was a plausible one-was that the
officer desired to test thoroughly the sea
going qualities OF the boats in heavy
weather.
AS the torpedo boats approached the
mouth of the Elbe the sea became more and
more disturbed. One of the two boats which
tried to make the port got through. The
other turned turtle" just as she had
nearly reached the harbor's mouth, and
plunged beneath the waves.
In 1895 the Germans lost the torpedo boat
S. Al of Jutland. and it was in September
of 1897 that Duke Frederick William Of
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less frequently than before, though in ma
neuvering they are at any time liable to
be ordered to make the voyage.
The experience gained by the officers and
men of the German torpedo boat hotilla
and the points which have been revealed
to naval constructors by the passage OF
torpedo boats from the Baltic to the North
Sea by way Of the northern point OF Den
mark have done as much as anything else,
IL not more than any other one thing, to
develop the German torpedo boat service
SO that 1t stands today in the position 1t
does. 1t is seldom that a German officer
will take chances on running his torpedo
boat ashore, but he will take all sorts
of chances in keeping her out to sea when
the officers of other nations, with boats
of similar build, would seek a harbor.
When the German torpedo boats are ma
neuvering with a feet Of warships Of larger
growth, a ~favorite performance Is for the
entire notilla to make a sudden dash and
try to get inside the line OF the men-of-
war. This is done in all navies when the
torpedo boats go out to play at war with a
fleet; but in other navies, as a rule, 1t
is the sneaking up OF single boats to try
and torpedo a battleship before she is
discovered which is the favorite game. But
a whole ~hotilla, making n dash for a lot
of men-of-war in line Of battle, has some
thing desperate about 1t which seems to
appeal to the Germans who command the
little singing midgets OF the sea. In the
last two years the British have piled up a
list Of torpedo boat disasters which makes
the German record seem tame, but IL must
be remembered that England has a much
larger torpedo boat fotilla than Germany
with which to invite disaster. Last year
and this year the British have lost three
torpedo boats, the Cobra, Viper and No.
81, and have had no less than sixteen other
torpedo boat accidents, some Of them seri-
Gus ones. In the same time France has
lost one torpedo boat and had two serious
torpedo boat accidents. Italy has had one
accident to her torpedo boats, and that not
a very serious one. She does not indulge
in torpedo boat maneuvering as much as
England and Germany. Russia had one &C
cident, not serious, in her torpedo fleet.
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VAlNCE IlIIANlN VI L Soiu - 49,
time guest, has been put this year
- in m of the first torpedo
Ek1f9M boat fotilla of the German navy,
~ putting it through those dashing
maneuyers which are peculiar to this branch
of the German naval service. These Ger
man torpedo boat maneuvers, while their
practical utility has been questioned, and
while they have become notorious for the
disasters which they have caused, are,
nevertheless the admiration OF the naval
world for the dash and "elan" displayed by
the commanding officers of the boats and
the freedom from fear or, as their critics
say, even proper caution, which they show
in handling their little vessels.
Some remarkable photographs which have
just been received in America illustrate this
tendency very well. They were taken dur
ing the maneuvers of Prince Henry's fleet
and show the arrow-like vessels steaming
in line at full speed with such slight in
tervals between the boats that the most
trihing accident to one of them would re-
suit in the almost inevitable destruction Of
the boats astern; for 1t is a matter Of frac-
tions of a second between safety and de-
structfon when torpedo boats steam so
closely together at such speed as these are
making.
Germany still believes in torpedo boats Of
the very highest speed that can be pro-
duced, but England would seem to be mod
Grating its ideas in that respect. Hereto
fore the British have set thirty knots as
the standard speed for a torpedo boat, but
the group of four new boats recently COM
pleted at Chiswick have a speed Of only
twenty-five knots. By requiring less speed
it is thought that so much will not have to
be sacrificed for lightness Of construction
and the boats therefore will be stronger
and more seaworthy.
With her torpedo boats Germany has
displayed a disposition to take long chances
which has resulted in her losing more YES
sells Of this class in proportion to her feet
than any other nation. The German naval
officers went into torpedo-boat work with
all the enthusiasm and restlessness that
marks the automobilist with a new high
speed machine. In fact, the German tor
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them that there is little or nothing to be
obtained without work, adding:
There was an old negro, professionally
pious, who wanted a luxurious Christmas
day dinner, and who night after night
prayed to the Lord to send a turkey. The
days passed. Christmas approached and
the old fellow undertook to compromise by
asking the Lord to send him to a turkey. He
got one that very night"
An elderly and dignlfed man appeared
one morning recently in the office Of a
railway passenger agent in the city Of
Boston. The official he wanted to see was
out.
Perhaps" suggested the visitor to the
lordly office boy, you can direct me"
mo-" replied the magnate thus addressed.
Il kin do nothin'. No one here gives passes
'cept the boss. You'll have to wait until
he comes in"
At this j%uncture one of the clerks recog-
nized the caller as Senator Hoar and offered
his services.
81 wish to ascertain" said the senator,
to whom l owe the price Of a meal for
which / forgot to pay yesterday when I
left the dining car at Worcester. Someone
had to pay for what l ate and l want to
reimburse him"
"Oh, that's all right, Mr.. Hoar," re-
turned the clerk, 81 guess we need not
bother about the matter"
mo, 1t isn't all right and we will bother
about it," replied the senator. And he
made the clerk search the office records
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circle" and his trim athletic figure shows
to advantage in his policeman's uniform. A
few days ago, according to Carr, DAILY. at
tired in full uniform. was standing on Ninth
street when an elderly lady stepped up and.
after looking him carefully over, naively
inquired: Are you a policeman" When
Jack recovered his breath he s%olemnly said:
Honest | am, lady. If you don't believe
me, I'll show you my badge"
Among other well meaning northern men
who bothered Lincoln in GA with impTac-
ticable plans for ending the war was a
kindly, bland and bald old fellow whose
flow OF conversation was simply madden
ing to the good-natured, but busy presi-
dent. BY hook or crook the old fellow
managed to get by the sentinels, and Lin
coin was too soft hearted to give him per-
Cmptory orders to remain away. One after
business for nearly an hour, the president
suddenly rose, hurried to a cupboard and
drew forth a large bottle.
Ibid you ever use this remedy for bald
ness?" the unwelcome caller was asked.
Never" he replied, examining the label.
We'll" said Lincoln, with an air OF
one comforting an especial favor, 'you
may have It. Here-take the bottle. go
home, rub 1t we. into the head and CONS
back-say in three morths-and let me
know II 1t did you good"
And he hustled the hairless old chap
through the door and bowed him of.
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Y1UMBERLESS are the stories which
Il go to show that an Englishman
- finds 1t almost impossible to see
IE8 an American joke. George Fl.
- Daniels, general passenger agent
OF the New York Central, is responsible for
a late specimen. 1t is Of an American who
told an Englishman that he dreamed he
was dead, but the heat woke him up, Jaw,
baw love-" said John Bull, you must have
tremendously hot weather in your country
if it wakes a tellah out of his sleep"
At a musical where Rev. Thomas p. Nc
Loughlin, known as the Singing priest Of
Chinatown" was a guest, relates the New
York Times, a young woman, with a robust
soprano voice did most of the entertaining.
She was very proud of her accomplish
ments and her musical education. She
sang songs in German, Italian, French and
English. When she appeared to have eX-
hausted her repertoire and the company
present were wishing for a change in the
program Father Mclaughlin paid her some
compliments and added:
why, Miss Jones, l think you could sing
ad infnitum."
81 really don't know it," responded the
obliging young woman, but II the music is
here, I'll try it,"
81 had business in a small town out
west" said a Boston man, quoted by the
Baltimore Herald, land l left the address al
home, so that some important letters could
be forwarded to me. l figured out about
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A rather good story is told at the expense
OF Jack" DAILY by Special Oficer Carr Of
the Eleventh and Race streets police sta
tion, relates the Philadelphia Telegraph.
DAILY, before becoming a member Of the
force" was one OF the best known light
weights who ever stepped in the Squared
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when they ought to arrive and went down
to the postofice to inquire for them.
No letters here for you said the post
master, who was also a justice OF the
peace.
Couldn't have got here yesterday, as
old Brown, who carries the mail, was drunk
and didn't go over to Iosco after it,
land how about today?'
"'Well, he's sober enough today, but
his old woman has cut her foot
But there will be a mail tomorrow l
queried.
"'skassly, sir. We don't have no mail
on Thursdays
Then how about next day?'
Fridays is sort of off days with the
Iosco postmaster and he generally goes
fishing. II he DOM he sends the boy over.
/ never count on 1t, however,
"'You seen to have a slipshod way of
running postal affairs out in this country
/ said as l turned away.
""Waal, l dunno but we have he ad-
mitted as he looked at me over the top
OF his spectacles, but as long as nobody
but Uncle Bill Simpson ever gets any mail,
and that's only a circular about how to
kill cockroaches, we kinder take things
easy and let the United States run along
without Dustin her biler.'"
Booker T. Washington, talking what he
calls hard sense" to a gathering OF his
100 mo- 8nuHA- q .aHH1afn tho. hnAan n
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with the result that the name of the waiter
responsible for the collection Of the check
was duly ascertained. Then with as much
evident satisfaction as though he had sue
ceeded in getting an important bill through
congress the senator paid the clerk $3.50,
to be credited to the waiter.
us Mr., Depew in?' said a life insurance
agent, handing his card to the office at
tendant.
"Ill see, sir" replied the minion, going
into the Senator's sanctum, reports the New
York Times.
Mr.. Depew glanced at the card and shook
his head in the negative. Although the up
per part of his body was hidden from public
view by his desk, the senator's legs were
plainly visible as he sat with his side
toward the desk.
"Mr, Depew is out, said the attendant.
We'll" said the insurance solicitor,
glancing through the half-open door, 81
wish you'd tell him when he comes in that
| think my company would positively re-
fuse to accept him as a first class risk un-
less he will agree to always take his legs
with him when he goes out"