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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
TO BE SETTLED NEXT WEEK.
All Questions Relating to Construction
of Filtration Plant.

General Gillespie, chief of engineers, said
today that all pending questions relating
to the construction of the District filtration
plant will be finall;- settled early next week
with a view to beginning that important
work without further delay.
There are now two bids for this work I'M
der consideration-that Of the Harmer &
Quinn Construction Company of Philadel-
phia. amounting to 81 ,9S7, 1873, and that OF
the D. ]. Nichol Company. also Of Phila-
delphia, amounting to $780, 10.
The appropriation in the act Of July l.
1902, was 5000 200, with authority to enter
into contracts for the completion of the
plant at cost of $2.76S, 4O5, less the
amounts of 10000 and 500 600 already ap-
propriated. This left 81 ,46S, 4O5 to be ap-
propriated for under the original limitation
of cost.
That amount, however, was less than the
lower one of the no bids submitted for the
work, and Congress at its last session pro-
vided 100000 additional for the work The
total amount now available Will permit OF
the acceptance of one of the bids now under
consideration. The War Department has
therefore concluded that it Is inadvisable.
in view of the necessity for the prompt and
immediate prosecution of the work, to call
for new proposals. Although not settled,
the indications are that the contract will
go to the Harmer & Quinn Construction
Company, at it's bid of 81 ,0S7, 1S3
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
SITUATION ON WABASH
TRAINMEN'S LAWYERS STILL
WORKING ON BRIEFS.
They Cannot Tell When They Will Be
Ready to Go Before
Court.

ST. LOUIS, March Far into the night
the attorneys of the trainmen and flremen
were busy at work last night in the prepa-
ration of the petition on which the motion
for dissolution of the Injunction will be
based. At o'clock this morning with a
corps Of stenographers, they took up the
work again, but with all the energy they
are putting forth they said this morning
that they could not definitely state just
when the answer to the injunction will be
completed. The attorneys have the entire
field now and nothing will be done until
they are ready to file the answer in the
United States district court
The members of the grievance committees
are about the corridors of the different
hotels waiting for the completion Of the
legal instrument.
At the Wabash general offices President
Ramsey and the roads legal advisers are
simply waiting for tho counsel of the grjev-
ance committees to act. The employees are
working along as usual throughout the
system Regarding rumor that the other
roads will join in, should strike be de-
clared, Vice Grand Master Lee of the
Brotherhood of Trainmen said:
Talk of other roads joining US in strike
is foolish. The only way that could arise
would be in a road assisting road on
which a strike is declared by sending men
to fill the strikers places. In that case IT.
is probable the grand masters would notify
the lodges of the assisting road that this
was being done and order a poll for 4
strike. However, we are going to fight this
out with the Wabash only"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
Washington Stock Exchange.

gs call r. osssk
g at s. At e sat- & g e sS 3 = ss ss g
Traction. 70 at 1874. Mergenthaler Linotype, 10
Co., q at q; After can washngton Gas, 200 at
safe Deposit C.. 90 At isss, 10 at issss, 50 at
1osA asked. Metropolitan s., l20 bid, 1s2 asked.
Columbia g. 81 81 ID: IDS asked: Columbia q
Anaeostia and Potomac. 5s. 90 bid: The washing
ton Railway and Electric Co. As, soA asked.
ries A. 100 bid. Washington Gas Co: Is, series B,
1o9 bid U. s. Electric Light Deb. Imp. 6s. tOGA
Did, and eS
bid; 1854 asked Washington Market Co. LIST 6s,
ios1s bid Masonic Hall Association la on, 5s lo4 bid.
Safe Deposit and Trust Stocks-National Safe De-
Posit and Trust isS bid, 40 49,. asked Washington
Security and Trust. ia bid. go asked. washing
ton Safe Deposit. As bid. Union Trust and Storage
To-, log bid: 1oS asked. Washington Savings Bank 1O2
Railroad stocks-CapitaI Traction Co., 1877 bid.
Hallway and Electric Co Com. 10 bid, l2N asked;
bid. $50 asked. Metropolitan. 700 bid. 80 asked.
Central 800 bid. Farmers and Mechanics, 300
bid. Second. 100 bid. Citizens. 19i bid. Column
bia, 1876 bid. Capital. ITO bid. West End. 1873
bid IA asked. Traders, 145 bid. Lincoln, 124
bid 1913 asked. Riggs. 10 bid.
Insurance Stocks.-Firemen's, q bid, 80 asked
Franklin, so bid, 81 asked. Metropolitan, 10 bid.
90 asked. Coreoran. u bid. Potomac. 81 bid 81
asked. Arlington. 80 bid, 50 asked. German. Amer
ican $50 bid, 3O5 asked. National Union. tx bid.
9 asked. Columbia. II bid, IL asked. Riggs, 81.
bid. Peoples, 6k bid. Z asked. Commercial. 8
bid. Colonial. 95 bid, 1O6 asked.
Title Insurance Stocks.-Real Estate Title, o.
bid, 93% asked. Columbia Title, ~ bid, asked.
Washington Attic, "a bid. 2H asked.
Telephone and Graphophone StOcks.-Chesapeake
and Potomac, IS bid, 40 asked. American Graphic
phone CON-, Az bid, asked. American Graphic
phone pfd.. SIS bid, o asked
Gas Stocks.-Washington Gas, S1h bid, 81 asked.
GEORGETOWN Gas, II bid
Type Machine Stocks.-Mergenthaer Linotype.
1s1 bid. 1915 asked. Lanston Monotype, 10 bid,
10iS asked.
Miscellaneous Stocks--Greene Con Copper Com
pany 2GA bid. 26M asked Washington Market,
161a bid, % asked. Norfolk and Washington Steam
boat 21O bid. J. Maury Dove Company. 122 bid.
125 asked. Realty Appraisal and Agency Com
pany, 10A bid, 3 asked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
BRIDGE BUILDERS STRIKE.
President Buchanan's Statement as to
the Cause

PHILADELPHIA, March 2-President
Buchanan OF the International Association
Of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. who
is in this city. today issued a statement
giving the reason for the general strike
against the American Bridge Company.
The statement. in part, is as follows:
1.-The company started the fight in Buff
falo by subletting the riveting on job at
the Lackawanna steel plant to be done by
non-union men after the union men had
done the difficult part of the work. The
company then attempted to put non-union
men to work fitting and rfveting on
bridge where our members were working
The representatives of No. Buffalo re-
quested the company to comply with the
agreement by allowing members Of the
union to do the work.
The request was disregarded by the
superintendent of the company and strike
occurred there"
The statement sets forth that In Pitts
burg the company put non-unton men to
work on false work, contrary to the
are alleged to have been broken in Phila-
deIphia, New York and Albany.
These grievances. he says. were referred
to the international president for adjust
ment, who was unable to secure a confer
ence with the American Bridge Company.
In conclusion, President Buchanan says:
AFTER consulting the international execu-
tive board l have issued an order for
general strike.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
BY WIRELESS METHOD.
Lecture on Telegraphy Before Y. M.
G.. A. Glasses. ~

". n. OlaSSSS.
A large audience attended the lecture de-
livered in the gymnasium Of the Y. NJ. {.
A, last evening, by Prof. L. D. Bliss. on
the subject of wireless biography, illus
trated by practical tests. He explained the
methods in use in sending messages by the
wireless system, and showed the trans
mitter and the "coherer."
The experiments proved decidedly inter-
esting to those present. The crack of the
sparks in the glass tube at the transmitter
could be distinguished by the onlookers,
while in another part Of the hall the ring
of an electric bell resounded In response to
the force of the current, almost simultan-
eously with the spark
In one of the tests the transmitter was
removed to the floor below and put in OPP
GRAFTON and still the coherer in the upper
room responded, causing the bell to ring
the signals it was thus shown by the
lecturer that the power can be used for
other purposes than telegraphy. 1t may be
used in signalling and in firing charges OF
powder or nitro-glycerine.
"Some people suppose that in wireless
telegraphy from ST. Johns, N. F., to Eng
land" said Prof. Bliss, that the electric
waves must travel in straight line. Con-
sidering the roundness of the earth, this
would carry them through miles of depths
of water. The electrical waves are believed
on the other hand, to Jump in huge leaps
across the surface of the water and of the
land. Salt water, being a better conductor
of electric waves than fresh water, allows
them to pass with comparative ease
He explained that it was almost impos-
sible to make the wireless telegraphy work
across j arid plain or in billy or noun
famous locations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN.
Made for Reception to
Commissioner West.

A special meeting of the executive COM
mittee Of the Georgetown Citizens Associa-
ton was held yesterday afternoon at 4:30
O. clock in the offices of the First Corpora
tive Building Association, for the purpose
of making the final arrangements for the
proposed reception and buffet luncheon to
be rendered in honor Of Mr.. Henry Litch-
field West, the new Commissioner of the
District 1t was announced that the tssem-
bly, hall of the Lnthicum Institute on o
street had been placed at the disposal of
the committee for the function. The secre-
tary was directed to invite the members Of
the District Committees in the House Of
Representatives and Senate, the Commits
sioners and officials of the District Of Co.
lumbia and the clergy and physicians Of
Georgetown to be present.
Walter Stewart, the painter who was so
seriously injured while at work on build
ing at 32d and N streets yesterday after
noon, was reported at the Georgetown Uni
versty Hospital to be resting comfortably
Stewart was working on a swinging scat
fold. when one Of the ropes broke, precip-
itating him to the ground His left leg was
broken in two places.
The founding of the missionary depart
ment Of Dumbarton Avenue M. E. Church
will be celebrated tomorrow at that church.
Rev. c. c. Gallagher will deliver a sermon
during the morning services, while M. A. E.
Leckie will speak in the evening.
Inc assembly nail or the western High
School. at 35th and T streets northwest,
was the scene of large gathering of young
ladies and gentlemen last evening the occa-
sion being minstrel show by the Vest and
Clark Minstrel troupe, composed of the STU
dents Of that school. The show was we'll
staged and highly enjoyable.
Commissioner Henry L. West will ad-
dress the members OF the Epworth League
of Dumbarton Avenue NJ. E. Church Tues
day evening at that church.
The personal effects of the late Henry
Kengla were sold at public auction yester-
day afternoon at the Kengla homestead.
west of Georgetown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
Indiana Bank Officials Bankrupt.

A dispatch from Greencastle, Ind, yes
terday says: A sensation has developed in
business circles here in connection with the
assignment of the individual properties of
Thomas C. Hammond and Jerome Allen,
who until last month were president and
cashier of the First National Bank, having
held the respective offices forty years each.
The assignments were caused by their in
ability to meet a note for $4,000 held by
Alfred Hirt, the new president Of the bank
mentioned.
Since the assignments there has develop
ed Indebtedness aggregating $14S,OOO, for
which entire amount Hammond is either
principal debtor or security Jointly or sin
gly. The two were in a company of five
men, which last heavily in Indianapolis real
estate thirty years ago, and now all have
been ruined financially. These five men
jointly or siugly owe the First National
Bank $4,000. Banks at Brazil, Terre Haute
and Indianapolis are involved in the losses.
The case was thrown into the federal bank
ruptcy court today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
MEN DROWNED
FERRYBoAT EAPsIzED AT sPIERs
FAILS, N. z.
Halt the List of Sixty Passengers
IT
Thrown a1nto Swift Run
ming River.


GLENS FALLS,cN. z, March by the
capsizing Of faatboat used as ferry at
Spiers Falls today a number of men were
drowned. Howimany lives were lost is not
yet definitely known, but it is reported that
ten persisted. The scene Of the accident Is
remote. and but few details have as yet
reached this place. According to one re-
port sixty men were on the boat. The cur
rent was very swift and a mass of ice and
logs struck the craft, In the confusion the
boat was tipped over throwing the occu-
pants into the river. Search is now being
made for the missing, many of whom were
swept down the swift stream.
The report that there were sixty men in
the boat is confirmed. In the confusion one
man jumped out and In jumping seized the
tackle rope. This caused the boat to tip,
half the men falling into the river and being
carried down by the swift current. The
latest estimates agree that ten men were
drowned. g..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
TO BE REoRGANIZED.
President Of Pharmacy Board Resigns
Others Unable to Serve Longer.

The board of pharmacy, which, under the
direction of the Commissioners of the Dis
trict. administers the pharmacy laws is to
be reorganized. Commissioner Macfar.and
who has immediate supervision Of the
board of pharmacy, has received the resfg-
nation of Robert n. Harper. who has been
member and secretary of the board, and
has also learned that DR.. William p Carr
and G. C. c. Simms, whose terms have ex-
pired, cannot longer give their services to
the District as members of the board.
He will ask the Commissioners to accept
Harper's resignation, which Is rendered
because his private affairs are so eXacting
that he cannot give the necessary time,
and that Mr.. Harper, Dr. Carr and Mr..
Simms be thanked by the Commissioners
for their long and faithful service to the
District, which has been entirely without
salary, or other pecuniary return.
Commissioner Mcfarland will recommend
that DIR. Francis P. Morgan, secretary of
the Medical Society be appointed to sue
coed DR.. Carr, Mr.. Frank c. Henry be APP
pointed to succeed Mr.. Simms. and that
Mr.. F. T. Hafelinger, secretary of the
Registered Drug Clerks Association, be ap-
pointed to succeed Mr.. Robert N. Harper.
The other two members of the board, who
hold over, are DR.. Murray Gait Motter and
Mr. H A. Johnson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
LIEUT.. LOVES oFFENsE.
Used Money That Belonged to the Post
Exchange.


The War Department has been informed
of the result of the proceedings instituted
against First Lieut.. William L. Lowe, 18th
Cavalry, before a court-martial convened
at Fort Meade, s. D. Col. Jacob Kline, 21st
Infantry, was president and Capt. Charles
R. Rowland, 21st Infantry, was judge adj
yocate of the court. Two charges were pre-
ferred against Lieutenant Lowe. The first
was conduct unbecoming an officer and
gentleman" and the specification alleged
that while post exchange officer at Fort
Meade he converted to his own use 5000
belonging to the post exchange. and also
that he gave a false certificate of the
amount of money to the credit of the post
exchange to First Lieut.. William P. Mofet,
18th Cavalry, who relieved him OF his du-
ties as post exchange officer
The second charge, conduct to the preju-
dice Of good order and military discipline"
was based on the same transaction.
The court found Lieutenant Lowe not
guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and
a gentleman under the first charge, but
guilty Of conduct prejudicial to good order
and military discipline according to the sec
ond charge. The sentence was that Lieu
tenant Lowe should be placed at the bottom
of the list Of first ieutenants Of cavalry.
Brig. Gen. w. A. Kobbe commanding the
department Of Dakota. reviewed and acted
upon the case as follows:
'In the foregoing case of First Lieut..
William L. Lowe, 18th Cavalry. the ac-
cused, while in f1duciary capacity. unlaw-
fully appropriated money which had been
intrusted to him In this capacity by the
owner, the post exchange. It is no justi-
fication that the accused fully intended to
restore the money SO unlawfully converted
to his own use,. or even that he had actually
restored it before charges were preferred.
1t Is difficult, in view of the law and the
facts Of the case, to follow the court in its
conclusion that the accused was not guilty
under the 61st article of war as charged.
Subject to these remarks the proceedings
are approved. The sentence is approved"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
Personal Mention,

Ex-RepresentatiEe Frank L. Coombs,
who managed the collection Of the Pacific
railroad debts several years ago, and who
has been in Washington for the past few
days, accompanied by his wife and daugh-
ter, Mrs s. A. Fox of Brooklyn, N. Y, will
leave this evening for Summerville, s. C..
Messrs. G. Theodore Thomas and Harry
Askjns of Pittsburg are on short visit In
this city.
Col. Richard ]. Bright, who has been Ill
with pneumonia, is improving
Mr. Elphonzo Youngs, who was so ser
iously injured about two weeks ago. is still
confined to his room, but expects to be able
to be out early in the coming week.
Col. John McFall of st. Louis is in the
city, a guest of his daughter, Mrs. Richard
Sylvester. The colonel Is well known in this
city He is an active republican and
participant in the political campaigns in
Missouri.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
WOMAN IN DISTRESS.
Appeal in Her Behalf Made by Asso-
ciated Charities.

The officers Of the Associated Charities
have issued a special appeal for funds to
be used in setting up in business a widow
whose husband was recently killed by
railroad train. and who has been left des-
titute, with the support Of three children
dependent upon her. The youngest child
is only fifteen months old: the eldest, six
years. The mother IS not robust. and she
cannot do washing or similar labor for
living. 1t has been found by the Asso-
ciated Charities that she was very success
full a few years ago in building up
prosperous little grocery and notion store
from very small beginning. To enable
her to support herself and little ones now,
it is proposed to establish her in a small
store in locality which has been selected.
For this purpose $50, carefully administer
ed, is Judged to be sufficient. Persons who
are interested in aiding a worthy but
helpless woman TO help herself are in
vited to send contributions for this special
purpose to the Associated Charities, 81
G street northwest. A proper receipt will
be sent to each contributor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
MARINE CORPS PROMOTIONS.
Policy Of the Navy Department Stated
by Acting Secretary Darling.

Acting Secretary Darling has written
letter to General Haywood, commandant of
the marine corps, stating the policy of the
department regarding appointments in that
corps as follows:
1.-THE department has again given careful
consideration to the question OF the APP
plica bility of section 1919 of the Revised
Statutes to the cases Of certain officers OF
the marine corps, under its decision of Au-
gust 20, 1902.
whether or not the provisions of the law
cited, which Is a codification of the act of
March 2, 1867, entitled An act declaring
and fixing the rights Of volunteers as part
of the army is applicable to the cases OF
the marine officers appointed under the pro-
visions of the personnel act approved
March 8, 1899, the latter named provision
Of law prescribes explicitly the qualifica-
ton Of such appointees and is regarded as
materially modifying, If not supplanting,
the former act
Section 20 Of the personnel act requires,
with the exception immaterial in this con-
nection, that mo person shall be appointed
a commissioned officer in said (marine) corps
until he shall have passed such eXamina-
ton as may be prescribed by the President
of the United States and in accordance
Herewith an examination, compet itive
among the candidates who were examined
at the same time and given as result
thereof the same grade and date of appoint
ment and commission, was prescribed by
the Secretary of the Navy, acting for the
President. The regulations so prescribed
as governing such examinations have the
force Of law.
Upon this examination other elements
entered into the case Of these officers winch
were taken into consideration in fixing rela-
tive rank. One qualification taken into
account and given great weight by the
board in determining relative rank was ,ap-
titude and probable efficiency In deter
mining this the appointees' prior service
was taken into account.
This record" of service was deemed OF
such Importance that some, having such.
received commissions who otherwise would
not The board having then taken such
prior service into consideration, for the de-
partment to again adjust and fix the rela-
tive rank of the officers arbitrarily accord
ing to section 1919 would in effect be TAX
ing such prior service twice into account.
"The question of service having thus been
considered by the board before making It's
recommends tons to the Secretary of the
Navy, if the appointees were aggrieyed
they should have brought the matter 10 the
attention of the department at the time
when their rank was fixed, rather than at
this time after conflicting rights have in
tervened.
I'm view of the foregoing considerations.
the Department. decision Of August 20,
1902, in the case of Second Lieut.. Arthur j.
O'Leary Is reversed, and no Encouragement
will be made of the officers heretofore APP
pointed to the marine corps from civil
life"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
NAVAL PROMOTIONS.
Nominations That Will Be Made in a
Few DAYS.

The bureau of navigation has figured out
the promotions in the navy incident upon
the provisions of the naval personnel law
and nominations of the officers affected will
be made in few days. Following is the
list OF the nominations which will be sent
in:
The following lieutenants to be lieuten-
ant commanders from March A.: Hugh Rod
man. J. A. Hoogewerff. E. X. Capehart, H.
B. Wilson, Gustav Kaemmerling, Kenneth
McAlpine and c. II. Mathews.
The following-named lieutenants Junior
grade, to be lieutenants from March 4. vice
the above-named officers. respectively: T.
T. Craven. C. L. Poor. d. w. Wurtsburgh,
Ralph Earle. G. s. Lincoln, E. T. Fitz-
gerald, /. G. Wettfngill.
The following-named lieutenants. junior
grade to be Neutenants from March 4: G.
NJ. TOzer w. T. Cluverius. d. M. Wood, L.
C. Palmer, A. W. Marshall, T. A. Kearney.
A. Macarthur. jr.. C. e. Gilpin, Frank E.
Ridgeiey. D. w. Knox. c. P. Burt. n. ..
Ellis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
THE STRIKE OVER.
Places Of Express Drivers Filled by
New Men,


The strike instituted several days ago
against the local branch Of the Adams
Express Company by Washington Division,
No. GA. Brotherhood of Railway Freight
and Baggage Handlers of America, has,
from a labor viewpoint, resulted disas-
trously for the striking members. since the
trouble is over and their places have been
filled by new men. Local labor leaders
are inclined to think the strikers acted
somewhat hastily, when it is taken into
consideration that their union was only
recently organized and had not been ad-
mitted to the Central Labor Union.
It was learned today that the division
does not intend to carry on the strike and
that those who quit work would seek en-
ployment in new fields. It could not b
learned, however, whether or not the union
had received from the international body
a reply to the request that general SYM
pathetic strike be called in every office Of
the express company throughout the coun-
try,