The Washington times., 1903-09-06
Questions and 4nS1OerS

Questions and AnS7OerS
Is the water fund Of the District kept sepa-
rate from the other revenues Of the munich |
pality? THOMAS.
BY law the revenue from water rents, |
taps. etc, composes the water fund" |
or the money to be used in the main |
tenance. extension. and repairs OF the
water system. The money is turned into !
the United States Treasury as collected |
and credited to the fund. 1t cannot be /
used for any other purpose than that |
named. Congress apprOpriates certain !
sums each year for the Water Depart |
ment, and on acquisitions from the Dis
trict Commissioners the amounts so ap-
prOpriated are disbursed through the
disbursing office. At times money has
been drawn from the general fund to
pay expenses of the Water Department,
notably several hundred thousand dol
lars for the Lydecker tunnel, and for
the Howard University Reservoir. Some
hold that this money was spent without
warrant OF law.
VIII The Times inform one OF its young read
who the war governors were?
PUPIL
They were the governors of several Of
the Northern States who aided President
Lincoln in the raising of troops and sup
plies for the Union Army in the civil
war. as follows; California, Leland Stan
ford; Connecticut, William A Bucking-
ham; Delaware. William Burton; Indiana,
Oliver p Morton: Iowa. Samuel J. Kirk
wood; Kentucky, Beriah Magoffin Maine,
Israel Washburne, jr.; Maryland. Thomas
Hicks; Massachusetts. John A Andrew;
Michigan, Austin Blair; Minnesota, Alex
ander Ramsey; Missouri. Hamilton p.
Gamble; New Hampshire, Nathaniel S.
Berry; New Jersey, Joel Parker; New
York, Edwin d. Morgan; Ohio. David
Todd; Pennsylvania. Andrew G. Curtin,
Rhode Island, William Sprague; YER
mont, Frederick Holbrook; Virginia
CWesD, Francis H. Pierpont; Wiscon-
sin, Alexander w. Randall
What prominent statesman died at summer
resort; and what summer resort was IL.
President Garfield died at Elberon, y.
J., September 10. 1881 He was shot by
Charles ]. Guiteau in the Sixth Street
station on July 2, and taken to the
White House. On September 8 he was
removed in a special car to Elberon.
which was then quite a famous summer
resort.
General Grant died on Mount Nc
Gregor. near Saratoga. n. Y. July p,
1885, after lingering illness. This was
also a summer resort.
see by the papers there is controversy as
to the end Of the Spanish war. Did it not
actually end in 1893? ARTILLERY.
President Mckinley proclaimed an
armistice in Cuba and Porto Rica
August u. 1888, suspending hostilities
in those islands. The fall of Manila oc-
CURED the following day. From these
two circumstances the conflict has been
called the War of 100 Days" 1t mas
been decided, however. by the Depart
ment OF Justice that for purposes of law
it ended with the signing of the treaty
of peace between Spain and the United
States In the Navy Department it is
held that this was when the treatv was
signed, December 10. 1898. The War De-
partment holds that the date was the
actual exchange of the treaties on April
Il, 1899. The last two dates are the
points o. controversy.
Can The Times tell me something about the
author of The Holy City?" MUSICIAN.
The author of THE Holy City" is
Stephen Adams. the composer who
wrote Nancy Lee %. of rollicking mem
ory; The Blue Alsatian Mountains" ." "A
Warrior Bold" and numerous other
popular songs. We are told the first TO
sing the inspiring words: Jerusalem,
Jerusalem. sing. for the night is o'er,"
was Mrs. Florence Maybrick, a sister
in-law of the composer, who is now Ian
gushing in a British prison. Stephen
Adams in real life is Michael Maybrick,
a baritone soloist of some note in Eng
land. Most OF his songs have been com
posed and sung by himself before being
widely published and sung round the
world. The Maybricks were the sons OF
Liverpool manufacturer, and the
younger chose a musical career. which
he has made successful. He is an en-
thusiastic yachtman. and ii Is said COM
posed The Holy City" while on a cruise
with his brother and his American wife,
Mrs. Maybrick, trying il TO the ac-
compartment of the piano in the cabin
OF the yacht. That was in 1888, and the
song did not become popular until sew
/ eral years after, when the first singer
was the object OF pity on two conti-
nents.
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