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Evening star., 1902-01-07
DUNCANsoN BROS, AUcTIoNEERs.
TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
PROPERTY AT THE NORTHWEST CORNEH
OF FIRST STREET AND PENNSYLVANIA

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
PROPERTY AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER
OF FIRST STREET AND PENNSYLVANIA
AVENUE NORTHWEST.
By virtue of decree of the Supreme Court OF
the District of Columbia, passed in Equity Cause
numbered 22499. docket 80, will sell, in front Of
the premises. on TUESDAY. THE FOURTEENTH
DAY OF JANUARY, AID. 1902 AT FOUR O'CLOCK
PM, the following described property, situate in
the city of Washington, District OF Columbia, to
wit: Lot numbered i, in square numbered 575,
the having a frontage of about l9. &c feet on
Pennsylvania avenue northwest, by n depth of
about 1880 feet on list street northwest being i'm
proved by a brick restaurant and hotel, known
No. 101 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, together
with all and singular, the rights ways easements,
privileges appurtenances and Improvements to the
said piece parcel of land belonging, in any
wise appertaining.
Termsi One third Of the purchase money shall be
after, one-third in year and one-third in two
years thereafter, with interest the deferred
payment. from the day of sale, the deferred pay
ments be represented by the promissory notes OF
the purchaser or purchasers, secured by deed OF
trust upon the property sold. or all cash, at the
option of the purchaser or purchasers. deposit
Of 500 will be required at time OF sale. Terms of
sale t, be complied with in fifteen days from day
of sale otherwise trustees reserve the right to
sell the property risk and cost OF defaulting pur
chaser or purchasers. after giving five days notice
by advertisement of such sale sales I'm
newspaper published in the city Of Washington.
District Of Columbia.
WILTON J. LAMBERT
4l0 5th st. NV. Trustees.
EDWIN b. HAY,
Evening star., 1902-01-07

Troublesome Tariff Problems - Pre-.
dominance of the Hebrew.

VIM. E. Curtis in Chicago Record Herald.
The financial situation In Germany is
causing much uneasiness, and wise busi-
ness men are trimming their cargoes reef
ing their sails and battening down their
matches, SO to speak, in anticipation Of an
other storm. Business is very dull and the
outlook Is dscouraging. All new enter
prises are suspended or abandoned mer-
chants are replenishing their stocks only
as 1t becomes necessary, no contracts are
being made for future delivery and every
class of merchants is living from hand to
mouth. Most of the mills are working half
time and some have shut down altogether
many thousands of men have been turned
out Of employment, the Industrial centers
Of Germany are full Of idle mechanics and
laborers who already begin to feel the pres
public charity. Relief societies are being
organized, but it will be impossible for them
to prevent suffering In all the cities and
factory towns, especially If the winter is
cold and there Is heavy snowfall
The situation in Germany is very similar
to that which prevailed in the United States
in 1893 after the election Of President
Cleveland and his free trade inaugural ad-
dress and free trade message to Congress.
Business was paralyzed, you will remem-
ber, and industrial activity almost entirely
suspended until the tariff was settled; be-
cause nobody knew what prices would be
ana nODOuy WOulQ spent q OOlidr II he could
help it. The trouble in Germany arises
from the same causes-uncertainty as to
tariff legislation-and is aggravated by the
fact that taxation is very much higher
and wealth very much less than in the
United States. I have heard it asserted by
men who have the best Of facilities for
knowing that not more than ten men in
Berlin are worth 600, and not more
than twenty are worth $5 100000, and near
ly all of these are Jews.
Although the prejudice against the He
brew race Is as violent and unreasonable
in Germany as it ever. was, the Jews are
pushing forward and gathering strength
year by year and gradually assuming con-
troll of the financial enterprises of the en-
pire. The finest residences in Berlin belong
to Jews The same Is the case in every
German city. Notwithstanding the anti
Semitic agitation and legislation they are
not only foremost in all lines Of business,
but continue to occupy the first places in
professional life. They have no social
recognition; they are not admitted to court; !;
the church authorities are bitter in their
hostility, and in some of the universities
Jewish students are not admitted, although
there is no formal regulation against them
Yet some Of the ablest physicians surgeons,
lawyers, scientists, musicians, artists and
literary men are Jews, and although they
number less than per cent of the popuIa-
ton, 40 per cent of the wages paid in Ber-
lin are paid by Jewish employers.
Evening star., 1902-01-07
PRESIDENT POLK'S PAPERS.
VIII the Chicago Historical Society
Now Publish Them.


Now Publish Them:
From the Chicago Journal.
The Chicago Historical Society has done
a most notable thing in securing possession
of the diary, papers, and private corre-
spondence of President James K. Polk. 1t
is most desirable acquisition, and if the
society will be as enterprising in publish
ing as it has been in acquiring them it will
confer an immense boon on all American
historical students.
In this connection we will remark that
the Chicago Historical Society has not
been at all liberal or generous in publish
ing the valuable papers and documents
it has long possessed concerning Illinois
and the northwest, as well as its other
papers of almost ineStimable historical
value.
Some years ago, through the generosity
of publc-spirited townsman, Marshall
Field, the society purchased a very consid-
/ cradle number of original documents and
papers that once belonged to James Mad
ison, but it seems to have hidden them
away in it's valuts and given the world
no benefit therefrom. 1t has not even en-
couraged historical students to make use
of them. We think it Is time for the So
ciety to wake up-it has been afflicted with
Rip Van Winkleism too long Now that
it has made this lucky purchase of the
Polk papers, it might be well for 1t to let
the American people know something about
President who has always been grossly
underestimated, and who. whatever his
shortcomings, extended the domain of the
United States from the Gulf Of Mexico to
the Pacific.
These papers are not entirely unknown to
American historians and students. George
Bancroft, who had been Secretary Of the
Navy under President Polk. visited Nash
vile in 1876, when Mrs. Polk was still liv-
ing, and was permitted by her to arrange
and copy these papers.
When Bancroft died, in 1891, his manu-
scripts. including these copies, We're offered
for sale to the government, but Congress,
with it's usual niggardliness and want of
foresight in such matters, refused to pay
the price required The Lenox Library of
New York then eagerly took them at
valuation $4,000 greater than had been
asked of Congress. Since then they have
been at the service of scholars and STU
dents in that library.
The particularly valuable portion of the
Polk collection is the journal kept by the
President almost daily from the 25th of
August, 1S45. until the close of his term
March 4. 1S49. This period witnessed the
settlement of our dispute with Great Brit
ain over the Oregon boundary. which
brought the two countries near to blows;
the Mexican war, by which we acquired
the vast territory stretching to the Pacific
and the passage of the so-called Walker
tariff law Of 1876. The inside history of
these great events Is written in this iour-
nal. Besides this, there are estimates and
descriptions of characters of the members
the time with whom the President came in
contact. Such a human document" Is
simply invaluable, and 1t is to be hoped
that the historical society will not bury II
away from human vision in the morpue
where lie the papers of James Madison.
Evening star., 1902-01-07
TO STOP PIGEON SHOOTING.
Movement to Prevent Killing of Birds
at Traps.

at Traps.
From the New York Tribune.
An effort Is being made by various socie-
ties to stop the sport of pigeon trap shoot
ing. At the last session of the legislature
OF New York there was an organized effort
made and the bill only failed by two votes
from becoming statute. The Audubon So
ciety Of America, the Ornithological Society
Of the United States and the Society for the
Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals are said
to be the sponsors for Assemblyman Ben
nets bill, which he has just introduced into
the assembly at Albany.
The bill repeals the law of 1875 which
permits the shooting Of pigeons by incor-
pOrated shooting associations within the
state limits. This time it is thought that
the bill will pass and become a law The
trap shooting organizations in and about
this city are quiet this year, and the pro-
moters Of the Grand American Handicap
have transferred it to Kansas City.
superintendent Hanknson Of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
said:
I'VE have every chance this year of pass
ing the measure and putting a stop to
so-called sport which is nothing but a gam
BILE pure and simple. This society cannot
stop the pastime, so called, but can only
send Its agents, who are to see that no un-
necessary cruelty is used But the poor,
numbed birds, confined in crates a hun
dred at once, and then thrust into trap Of
steel just barely large enough to hold them
crouched down, have poor chance for life
at the best. We only just failed to put the
bill through last time through the inf1u-
ence of Timothy D. Sullivan. a state sena-
tor whose prestige and power are fast wan
ing In all quarters public indignation is so
aroused that the passage Of the bill seems
assured"
President J. A. H. Dressell Of the Inter
state Trap Shooting Association said:
There is very little cruelty in trap shoot
ing, and the wounded birds rarely live to
suffer, as the sponsors for the Bennett meas
ure would have US believe. The birds are
obtained as wild as possible, and the condi-
uons are made in their favor just as greatly
as possible, so as to insure the utmost skill
on the part of the man at the score to tally
kill. Under these conditions, the sport of
trap shooting is not nearly so brutal as
the killing of domestic game and fowl for
the tables of the very people who propose
to prohibit pastime which has lasted for
many years, despite the strenuous efforts
made to crush it,
Evening star., 1902-01-07

RErEIvEIS' SALE OF vALUABLE STOCK or
WALL PAPERS, HOLDINGS, PERSONAL
PROPERTY ETC. CONTAINED IN STORE
no. col STREET NORTHEAST, AND IN
WAREHOUSE IN ALLEY IN SQUARE $50
By virtue of en- order. passed the 9th day OF
Deceu,ber 1901. in the OF George Y Han.
sell alleged bankrupt being Bankruptcy No 2Ol
we will. on THURSDAY. THE NINTH DAY ON
JANUARY, 1902. AT TEN O'CLOCK AN as
receivers in said cause sell, at public auction 10
the highest BIDDER for cash all the stock Of WaII
Papers Moldipgs, Personal Property, etc. contain
ed in the store and cellar of the building known AZ
number COL II street northeast and also 10 the
2-story warehouse in alley between 9Th ana nm
G and II streets northeast. The receivers reserve
the right to reject all bids In bulk II they deem
same inadequate, and to offer and sell the same
In parcels.
Terms Of sale: Cash. Goods to be removed from
the premises within three 90 days from the day
Of sale.
L. CABELL WILLIAMSON. Receiver.
412 La ave. NV.
de2S-dis Bond building
Evening star., 1902-01-07
RAILROADS..
SEABOARD AIR LINE RY.
CAPITAL CITY ROUTE.

CAPITAL CITY ROUTE. -
LEAVE WASHINGTON. P. R. R. STATION:
:01 AN, SEABOARD DAILY FAST MAIL
Through Pullman Sleeper to Jacksonville con-
meeting at Hamlet with Pullman Sleeper to At
lanta-
I PM, FLA AND METROPOLITAN LIMITED
DAILY-Through Pullman Sleepers to Tampa
and Atlanta. Cafe Dining Car Service. Pullman
Sleeper Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays to
Southern Pines-PiDehurst. These trains offer ex-
cellent schedules to Petersburg, Raleigh South
ern Pines tPinehursD, Camden, Columbia Savan-
nah, Jacksonville and all Florida points; Char
lotte, Athens, Atlanta, New Orleans Chatta-
nooga, Nashville, all points west and southwest
4:30 AN. DAILY, LoCAL-To Petersburg Ra-
leigh, Southern Pines (Pinehurstl, Hamlet and
intermediate points. -
Odice: 1921 Penn. ave.
r. z. L. BUNCH, w Fl DOLL
Gen. Pass. Agt. Gen Az
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Chesapeake 6 Ohio Rv.
Trains leave from PENNSYLVANIA ,

Trains leave from Pennsylvania Station
800 PM. DAILY-Cincinnati and st. Louis Spe-
cial-Solid train for Cincinnati. Pullman Sleepers
TO Cincinnati, Lexington. Louisville Indiana polls
and st. Louis without change. Connection for Viz
ginia Hot Springs Dining Car. rail9r Cars Gin
einnau TO Chicago
I1:l0 PM. DAILY-F. F. V. Limited-Solid train
for Cincinnati. Pullman Sleepers to Cincinnati
Lexington and Louisville without change COM
partment Sleeper TO Virginia Hot Springs Tuesdays
and Saturdays. Dining Car Sleepers Cincinnati to
Chicago and ST. Louis.
Reservation and tickets at Chesapeake ard Ohio
ONCE. BIB Pennsylvania avenue: 500 Fourteenth
street +, and at the station. Telephone call,
Main 1441. for Pennsylvania Railroad Cab service.
H. W. FULLER
Evening star., 1902-01-07
empowering the railroad commission of
that state to fix rates. The suits were in

empowering the railroad commission OF
that state to fix rates. The suits were in
the nature of an injunction and were in
stituted by the railroads of the state to
prohibit the commission from proceeding
under the law. The United States Su-
preme Court In its opinion today did not go
into the merits of the law, but simply re-
versed the previous decision on the ground
that the Injunction proceedings were pre-
mature. The cases>were all sent back to
the lower court to be dismissed in accord
ance with this decision.
Other Cases.
writ of certiorari was granted in the
case of the city of New York against Pine.
The suit was instituted to prevent the con-
struction of dam across the west branch
OF the Byram river by the city of New
York.
The court affirmed the opinion of the su-
preme court of Hawaii refusing to allow
an appeal to the circuit court of appeals
for the ninth circuit in the case of the
Wilders Steamship Company. The circum-
stances under which the case arose oc-
CURED before Hawaii became a part of the
ninth circuit
The court affirmed the Judgment of the
superior court of Bibb county Georgia, in
the case of 1sidor Minder under sentence of
death on the charge of murder. He COM
planned that justice had been denied him
IN that ne was refused permission to send
outside of the state for witnesses, and
dSkeu reversal OF the verdict on that
ground. The petition was refused by both
courts
Must BE Restored to Russia.
Justice Brown delivered the opinion of
the court in the case of Leo Alexandrof
the Russian subject who is under appre-
hension in Philadelphia on the charge of
being deserter from the Russian cruiser
Variag, holding that Alexandrof should be
restored to the Russian government.
Alaska Mining Dispute.
The court rendered an opinion in the case.
OF the Mckinley Creek Mining Company
against the Alaskan Mining Company, in
volving the title to certain mining claims
In the territory of Alaska. The contention
was made in the case that the Alaska
company had no right to protection under,
the mining laws of the United States, not
being citizen Of the United States. The
court did not sustain this contention and
affirmed the verdict Of the district court of
Alaska.
Evening star., 1902-01-07
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GEOGRAPHY AS SHE is WROTE.
Made Now and Then b!
Writers Who Don't Know.

Mistakes Made Now and Then by
Writers Who Don't Know.
From the New York Sun.
The Berlin correspondent of the London
Times informs his newspaper that ''the
Cape to Cairo line of the African Trans
continental Telegraph Company has been
constructed as far as Bismarckburg, To-
goland. This may read all right to any
one who knows nothing about the geog-
raphy of Africa, but if he should try to
illumine the statement by using good
map he would begin to suspect that some
thing was wrong. The news is about as
ineligible though 1t read, THE tele-
graph line between Chicago and st. Louis
has been extended as far as Portland,
Ore The route of the Cape to Cairo
telegraph line passes through central At
rica, while Togoland is a German posses
sion on the west coast, Bismarckburg be-
ing a settlement in the interior of the
colony.
Such blunders are quite excusable as
long as Africa is comparatively little
known, but some people continue to perpe-
trate them when they should know better.
A school geography used in Switzerland
contained this statement a while ago, and
perhaps it does yet:
1.-The inhabitants of the six New England
states are Yankees"
Perhaps some American school teachers
who visit, the Alps have put flea in the
ear of that writer of Biographies.
Treaties between various nations relat-
ing to boundaries will probably never again
contain so many blunders has been the
case within the past twenty years, while
the world has been clearing up nearly all
the geograp phica1 mysteries At least
dozen ludicrous blunders were perpetrated
by European governments in their African
treaties. The British and Portuguese, for
example, fixed upon the west side of the
Manica plateau as their common frontier
in Mashona Land, finding later that there
is no such plateau. and that some other
definition for the boundary line must be
made, or they would be badly mixed up
as we have been with Canada in the Alas
kan boundary muddle. Then the British
and Germans fixed upon the Rio del Rey
from its source to the sea- as the bound
ary between their possessions, fronting on
the Blight of Biafra. They Were slightly
up a tree when they discovered that the
Rio del Rey is not a river at all. but is
merely an inlet of the sea and not much
of one at that
Evening star., 1902-01-07
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TRUSTEES SALE OF NEARLY NEW RESIDENCE,
No 1927 HARVARD STREET, COLUMBIA

TRUSTEES SALE OF NEARLY NEW RESIDENCE,
No 1927 HARVARD STREET, COLUMBIA
HEIGHTS.
By virtue Of certain deed Of trust to u.s. re-
corded in Iber 2426. folio 331 ct seq, among the
land records of the District of Columbia. We Will
sell at public auction. in front OF the premises on
TUESDAY, THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF JANU-
AIRY 1902 AT HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK L. M.
the following described property. situate In the
county Of Washington, District Of Columbia, and
known lot forty three t43 Of Lester A. Barr and
Franklin T. Sanner's subdivision of part Of block
twenty-thrae t23l. Columbia Heights" per plat
recorded in Liber County No. II, folio ia, Of the
records of the surveyors Office Of the District OF
Columbia, together with improvements thereon,
consisting of a three-story and cellar, nearly new
brick residence, heated by steam.
Terms of sale: $500 cash more, purchaser TO
assume existing deed Of trust Of $500, and bal
ance IL ar payable $500 per month, at @ per
cent inte-cst and 10 be secured by second deed of
trust on property sold. Deposit Of 5000 required at
time of sale, and all conyeyancing and recording
ar nurchaser's cost. Terms Of sale to be complied
with within fifteen days. trustees reserve the
right 10 resell risk and cost of defaulting pur-
chaser after least five days notice OF such re-
sale in some newspaper published In Washington,
d. c. CnAS W. fAlhfAk. Trustee.
ta2-d&ds WM. A HILL, Trustee.
Evening star., 1902-01-07
May Women Propose.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
If woman is to attain her complete in
dependence in this century we see no rea-
son why she should adhere to the old-time
practice of waiting for matrimonial propo-
sitions from the opposite sex. II woman
finds what she is disposed to regard as a
nuptial bargain why shouldn't she make an
offer for It? After nineteen centuries of
progress why should she be subject to
mans sentimental spasms and caprices?
Evening star., 1902-01-07
A Possible Reelection.
From Puck.

Mamma-.Well. Mrs. Brown may not have
meant anything. but 1 don't just like the
way she referred to baby"
Papa--"What did she say?"
Mamma-sWhy, she asked me how the
little one was!'
Evening star., 1902-01-07

ARLINGToN-MYER-FAL CHURCH.
STATION, AQUEDUCT BRIDGE
To Falls Church = 1918. 1850, x7:20, 1880
1880, 8. 1870, 9, x8:s0.+7. xs. 1880 XII r12
Sat and Sunday night, hourly after 8 Pm. Hourly
10 West End on Sunday. xTo West End
To Myer and Arl-f6:15. II, "a 80, fs:1b 9:i5
te:45. IL :45 M. fs:l5. 10 As fi0:z5 hi To-
Evening star., 1902-01-07
SOUTHERN RAIL WAY.

Schedule corrected to November "a. 1901
Trains leUve from Pennsylvania Station
sol am. Daily. Local for Harrsonburg, War
renton IdE; Charlotte and way stations.
Florida Limited. Firstclsss coach and drawing
room sleeper to Jacksonvills. Dining car service
Firstciass coaches and drawing room sieeper NAL ,s
New Orleans Dining car service.
l:5' An Daily. Local for Warrenton and Char
4ol pm. Week Days. Local for Harrisonburg
and way stations on Manassas branch
4:3o pm Daily Local for Warrenton and Char
$3.50 pm. Daily. Washington and Chattanoora
Limited (via Lynchburg). First-class coach and
sleeping car TO Roanoke, Knoxville, Chattanooga
service --s 'af
ESQ pm. Daily. New York and Atlantic F,.
press. First-class coach and sleeper to Atlanta: I:
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. sunset Route
Tourist sleeper Washington TO San Francisco, Pull
man buffet service
s:o5 p. ~ Daily. New York and Florida Express
fllst,eass coach and sleeper to Savannah. JACK
Charleston. Augusta and connection for Aikan
Dining car service.
1913 pm. Daily. Washington and Southwestern
Limited All Pullman train club and Observation
cars 10 Atanta and Macon; sleepers to Nashville
han'P II i P;nsb"Ts Maecn NeWphis New ORLEANS Triweek
Fridays Dining car service.
TRAINS on BLUEMoNr BRANCH
Leave Washington 9:O1 am daily. 100 pm
So pm in snd 4;is I'm: week days and 6:25 D. m
days anu u 20 pm, theater train, Mondays, Wed.
Through trains from the South arrive Washing
ton 6;42 an, 6:52 am, I:35 a.m 200 n m
600 pm. aud $50 pm. daily. Local trains from
HarrisOnburg 1857 am. week days and 40 n m
daily. From Charlottesville, s:2S am and B: 40
pm Gaiy
Tickets, sleeping reservations and detailed
Information can be had at ticket offices T05 Isth
St, ell Pennsylvania and Pennsylysnia Ma
ton Baggage checked through from hotels and
residences. ~ U
Phone Main 1451. P. R. r. Cab Service
FRANK ) CANNON. Sd v p and Cen Mo-.
H. HARDNlCk, General Pass'r Agent
l. s. BROWN. General Agent
Evening star., 1902-01-07

Iass aTH sAIE OF BRICK DWELLING. NO.


1249 9Th STREET NORTHWEST
By virtue OF a deed of trust to u.s. duly recorded
among the land records for the District of Column
bia In l-fber No 237e, at folio 122 ct seq and
dated January IS, 1899, we will sell at Iublic
auction. in front of the premises, on wEIiNEs-
DAY. THE EIGHTH DAY OF JANUARY 1902
AT HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK PM. the fol.
lowing described property, situate in the city OF
Washington District OF Columbia and described
and being all Of lot forty Zone in Peter NJ Du-
bants subdivision of lots in square four hundred
l40ol, as per plat recorded in Iiber W b. NJ
folio PSI, Of the records of the office OF the sur
veyor for the District OF Columbia
Terms Of sale: One-third cash and the balance
In one two and three years. with interest thereon
at the rate OF per cent per annum payable
semi annually, the deferred payments 20 be rep
resented by notes Of the purchaser. secured by
deed OF trust upon the property sold OF all cash,
at the option Of the purchaser. deposit Of $3.50
TO be required at the time Of sale, and all con-
veyancing. recording and revenue stamps 10 he at
the cost of the purchaser. Terms of sale 10 be
complied with within ten days from day Of sale
otherwise the trustees the right to resell
said property, at the risk and cost Of the default
ing purchaser, after at least five days notice of
such resale In some newspaper published in the
city Of Washington, ID. c.
ALBERT A. WILSON,
JOHN B. LARNER,
de21-d&ds Trustees. 1885 + ST. NV.