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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-09

Meeting at Norfolk with steamers OF the
Old Dominion Line for New York. and with
Merchants and Miners liners for Boston.
Marshall Hall is a resort where Sunday
may be delightfully."- spent. All kinds OF
harmless amusements and sports may be
INDUCED in. boating. fishing. etc. and Prof.
Schroeder's Band plays sacred concerts that
prove enjoyable. Table d'hote dinner and
meals a la carte are served in the well-ap-
pointed dining hall all day and evening.
The dairy lunch will serve those who only
care for light lunch. AS tomorrow. no
doubt will be another hot Sunday those
who want to escape the heat can spend
the day at Marshall Hall. where 1t is al
ways cool Steamer Charles Manchester
will make three trips tomorrow leaving at
II am. 2:S0 and $50 pm. returning. leave
the hall at 1, and o'clock pm.
To cool off this evening take the sail to
Marshall Hall and Indian Head. AS a spe-
cial attraction Haley's Band will render a
very fine program of concert music on the
lawns at Marshall Hall throughout tho
evening. Indian Head trips are run every
Thursday. Friday and Saturday throughout
$50 pm.
To escape the heat of the city one should
go to River View on the Potomac. There a
cool breeze can always be found, and In the
pleasant shade of it's many trees delight
full day can be passed. Tomorrow the regu-
lar trips of the steamer Samuel ]. Pentz
to the View will be made at IL am. =: 10
and $50 pm, and the return trips at ]. D
and $50 pm. The ferris wheel little river.
chute and all the others attractions VIII be
ready to amuse visitors. and the View or
chestra will be heard In concert. both on
the steamer and on the grounds in the af-
ternoon and evening. For these concerts
special program Of sacred music VIII be
rendered. A special feature of the day Will
be Mile. DE AGO. in her wonderful slide
of 800 feet suspended by the teeth. Two per-
formances will take place at and $50 p. m
The Sunday trip of the steamer I. V.
Arrowsmith offers a splendid opportunity
for day salt water. away from the
heat of the city. and is an excellent way
to take a good days rest. The steamer
leaves here at S:45 tomorrow and after
stopping at Alexandria makes fast trip
to the Beach. arriving there about / 30 p m
in the salty Potomac. or to find amusement
with many new attractions. The steamer
will leave the Beach for home at pm and
will arrive here about II pm.
The regular Saturday night trip OF the
steamer Harry Randall to the Beach VIII
be made as usual this evening.
A delightful place to spend the day Is at
CheSapeake Beach. That the beach mas
grown into popularity was amplifed on the
Fourth of July, when many went TO the
resort that the ticket office window had 10
be closed as the train facilities were entire
lv Inadequate The beach is splendid
place to enjoy n saltwater bath. especially
for the busy set. it requires only about
one hour and forty minutes to make the
trip to the bathing resort from the center
of the city. Besides this paStime sport,
ample amusements are afforded in the way
of fishing. grabbing and boating. Haley 5
band is always on hand to enliven the day
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RUssIA's ECONOMIC STATE.
Why America, Sides With Japan-Her
Trade With the European Power.

From the London Chronicle
Some details throwing light on the pres
ent economic state of Russia have just come
to hand from America. The following facts
will show also why the United States
which till lately looked to both European
and Asiatc Russia as fine field Tor eX-
ploitation by American industries. is now a
hearty supporter of the Japanese cause.
Large numbers of important American COM
panies-notably the Westinghouse and the
Singer Sewing Machine Companies-estab-
lished themselves In Russia. attracted
thither by the policy of boun;ies and sub
sides that was inaugurated in Russia for
the express purpose OF drawing thither
western enterprise and western capital
While M Witte controlled the finances OF
the Russian empire all went we'll with the
American industries. But with the acces-
sion to power of the reactionary party ali
countenance of foreign enterprise has been
withdrawn. Government insists on all fac
tories being manned by Russians, ana
former employees have had TO be dismissed.
The Westinghouse arbrake works in st.
Petersburg We're built on the company OBJ
tanning the monopoly for the supply of ali
the airbrakeS for the state railways. In
the last Russian budget. however, the an
nual appropriation for airbrakes of mil
lion dollars was struck out. The company
is now left with its works filed with Rus
the government that. although prevented by
want of money from paying the usual sub
sidy. the supply of airbrakes VIII be eX-
pected to go on as usual.
When the squeezing policy was begun on
the Singer company it believed it posi-
BILE to placate Russian officialdom by de-
posting all the company's funds in the I'm
perial Bank. At that time the company
was in the first flush of huge success. by
its western energy and good organization
sewing machines We're obtanabIe even to
the confines of Siberia and transcauclsia.
When the gross receipts did figure in the
books of the Imperial Bank official cupidity
at once aroused. The company found
that its well-meant endeavOr to win favor
had only provided the government with
fresh means of bleeding the foreign manu-
facturer. Demands were promptly made for
payment of taxes gross receipts. and
new impOsts Were devised specially aimed
at the companies revenues
So the campaign against all foreign In
duStrieS is going on and the great hopes
entertained by America for vast extern
sion of trade are being utterly lost. That
Russia has the same policy at work in
Manchuria is clear. So America now
sees that Japan is, after ALL the best power
to back, If Brother Jonathans dominion in
eastern seas is to be expanded.
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IN OPEN BOAT TO PANAMA.
Ohio Man Expects to Sail $500 Miles
in a Year.

From the Toledo News Bee.
A Toledo man will undertake a trip of
1850 miles in an open boat. The man of
this quite extraordinary undertaking is A
Stanley Parker, who has had experience in
the past with similar expeditions a
smaller scale
Parker will start from Toledo on a long
and perilous journey by water to Panama.
The trip will be by the lake route to Chi
cago. thence through the Chicago drainage
canal to the Illinois river, to the Missis
sippi. to the gulf. Then the coast of the
gulf of Mexico will be skirted to Panama.
This trip will be made in an open boat
rugged with leg o mutton sail The craft
is a fifteen footer, four feet beam, light
but very Stanch
My object in taking so light boat" said
Mr., Parker, in speaking of his undertaking
lis to have a craft that l can beach myself,
as l will be alone. l expect to sleep ashore
most of the time, and must have boat that
l can pull up on the beach without help.
Il will take along a tarpaulin 50 con-
Structed that l can convert 1t into u tent.
This tent / will pitch anywhere on the
beach or shore wherever l may be. l will
take along a few clothes, cooking utensils
and provisions.
While in American territory l will not
carry much provision, because l can stop
in any city along the route and buy from
time to time what 1 need. At Galveston,
which will be the last American city of inn
portance my route. l expect to put in
supply OF provisions that will last me until
/ get to Panama.
Il won't need much, for along the gulf
coast l can sustain life largely upon fish
and fruit, which are abundant and cheap
there. l expect it will take me at least
year, maybe longer.
MY object is to reach Panama about the
time operations begin on the interoceanc
canal There is no telling exactly when
that will De, but want TO be on the ground
at that time"
Mr. Parker has soldered in the Philip
pines, ''roughed 1t" many times, and once
made a trip in a small boat around the
peninsula of Florida
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Louis fair. which consists of buildings
covering four acres, 100 people camels in
sufficient numbers to make a good
minor size and commercial importance.
Stick to Their Business.
Many of the donkey boys. the dancers,
the jugglers and the swordsmen who do
their turns in the various Streets have
been making their living in this fashion
since the days of the Chicago fair. When
the season closes in America they return
to their respective lands and until pro-
nOter comes after them again live in Opu-
lence off the money made when they We're
on exhibit. Once they get the show fever
they are good for nothing else, and their
little farms along the banks of the Nile or
their reindeer in Lapland, may go hang
for all they care; for If they We're to labor
d lifetime in the way of their fathers they
could not make so much money by half a
they can get together in one good season
in this country.
Large as are these figures. they sink into
insigniticance beside those which represent
'three-ringed' attractions for want of a
better term.
Such an amusement has as many. if not
more. offerings to divide the plea seek
er : attention a big circus. with its rings
and tlapezes and platforms full at one and
the same time. Within its circumference
are twenty thirty separate shows ca oh
taking thousands OF dollars to get in opera
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ton. and employing all the way from a
score 10 three or four hundred persons.
A Colossal Outlay
One of these colossal amusement places
at Coney Island was built at a cost of
S.J00.OC0. This sum Is inclusive of the price
of the ground. and exclusive of the money
necessary to establish a line of three steam
crs running between New York and the
island. sturdy rival has capital of
Sl.Uo,G00 for running expenses, and one of
its leading spectacles IS so mammoth that
siXty-seven elephants take part in 1t. None
OF the farfamed circuSes carry such
large troupe of pachyderms. and the num-
Der of people who find employment some
where about the ten acres of buildings and
night with 10000 electric lights would
make d town of 300 population.
The Chicago midway was hailed as
record breaker in the amusement line yet
all the shows along its seductive length did
not present combined investment of much
more than 100000. That was ten years
ago. Today we have conservative capital
! lists pouring their money by the millions
into single enterprise. and. what Is more
to the point with them, getting 1t all back,
with goodly interest to boot, the first sea-
son. This is a little circumstance which
causes them ruthlessly to tear down what
was good last year and replace 1t with
something the amusement promoters In
| partnership with them declare will surely
| astonish. puzzle, captivate. brighten and
| thrill the public more thoroughly than any
| thing ever before attempted
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EXCURSIONS,

At Chevy Chase Lake the Marine Band
musicians are always in attendance, and
there is always a concert from S.to 8. with
dancing in the. pavilion from that hour to
II. Both band stand and pavilion are
storm-proof. There is no admission fee
either for entrance at Chevy Chase Lake, or
for the privilege of dancing. Among the
other amusementS are bowling, shooting,
motion pictures, etc. An entire change of
pictures is made at the rustic theater each
week The Marine Band will render the
customary sacred concert tomorrow even
ing.
Old Point Comfort, Virginia Beach and
neighboring resorts are the recreation
places of many Washingtonians over Sun
day resulting from the special Saturday
excursions of the Norfolk and Washington
Steamboat Company. Round trip tickets
are sold at reduced rates and are good to
return until Monday. Steamers of the Nor
folk and Washington Steamboat Company
sail every day in the year at $50 p m, con-
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serves as an equipage for children Quite
naturally. each of these mammals Is
placed in the menagerie's inventory as
being worth $4,000.
This same show has no fewer than oVO
animals It's mimic jungle alone, wherein
by an illusionary panoramic trick mons.
tigers elephants. Camels, deer, Zebras and
what not are shown feeding together in
their wild state. covers two acres. The
entire show takes up ground space or
five acres. and the money invested runs
close to the million mark.
Just as the beasts of the fields are gath
cred the world over to make summer
holiday for Americans SO the peoples OF
the earth are got together for our amuse-
ment at no slight cost For example In
round figures there are 5000 animals
along the Pike and 1000 people three
fourths of whom come from the north
pole country, the jungles of Africa, the
lttle-known wilds of Asia and other
equally outlandiSh places
Talent Comes High.
These people do not agree to juggle.
dance and reveal the customs of their
lands to wondering Americans for song.
Even a donkey boy from the banks of the
Nile demands SO week wages. and
gets it. a dancing girl from Poland or
Egypt or Il SingaleSe stick dancer cannot
be secured FOR less than half again as
much; so the attraction that numbers it's
foreign performers by the hundred has
weekly payroll mounting up into the
thousands. The American Indian sells his
services more cheapiy than the Asian or
Egyptian but notwithstanding this fact
the man who manages a troupe of 600
redskins has to pay his war-whooping
performers a weekly stipend of some
$4,000. This is exclusive of their keep AS
the Indians are hired to appear during
the twenty weeks of warm weather. the
total investment in wages alone aggre-
gates S10.0W.
it's drawing cards the domestic animals
that are associated with its particular
type of strange peoples-camels. Eskimo
dogs. Egyptian donkeys. llamas. and so
on. Everything considered. $4,000 was
spent on a show of this kind at COney
Island. and like sum one at the st.
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Temperance Victory in Oregon.

ErOm Tue ChrIStlan InteIIlgencer
Oregon has won a great temperance VIC
tory At a recent popular election the local
option bill was voted by 5000 majority The
bill applies to precincts. wards and coun-
ties; that is if a majority of the voters OF
a precinct. ward or county are against the
liquor traffic. it puts the saloon out of bust
ness in that locality. What the temperance
people IF that state have done the temper
ance people of other states can do if they
only go about 1t in the right way,
with a determined spirit They became
thoroughly alive to the question. and
formed themselves into an Anti-Saloon
League. with never-give-up fighting man
at the head who finally led the temper
ance forces to victory.
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sea. there are hundreds of square yards of
scenery, painted at an expenditure OF 5000
to say the least. and the machinery TO pro-
duce the desired optical effects. also rep
resenting an Investment of thousands. The
initial cost OF producing the Illusion of the
worlds creation, exclusive of the great
dOmed structure in which II is shown. VAS
close on to S35.tOD. while that amount. less
eight thousand. was spent on the Illusion
which takes the worlds fair visitor under
the ocean in "A submarine boat to Paris. up
the E.iffcl tower and back again to st. Louis
In an airship that runs into violet storms,
and altogether. gives the passenge- a real
istic journey through space.
Illusions are popular this year. AT one
big resort there are no fewer than baker 5
dozen of such attractions. the aggregate
initial cost of which all but reaches the
thrce-quarter million mark.
But this is by no means the most eXpen-
sive form of amusement. although II Is well
up 10 the top. The show made up of queer
peoples can trutEtully claim an investment
OF 5000 TO every one put in an illusion,
and as for the trained menag erie. the inter
est alone on the money tied up in hundreds
OF animals would make a comfort able for
tune for the man whose aspiration Is to
get enough money together he can live
In comfort of its income in a third-rate
American city
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Leaf Tobacco for Export in Future.

From the Louisville Courier Journal
mo more strips will be shipped to Eng
land said T. B. Auchterlonie of Liverpool,
who is an official of the American tobacco
trust and represents that concern In Eng
land. The export Of tobacco strips Is prac-
tically at end. The exporters cannot
afford to ship the stripped leaf when the
unstemmed leaf can be entered at English
ports cents lower. Leaf tobacco will be
the thing for exports after this. And the
north Atlantic ports will not lose the bust
ness either. The rate in that direction is
10 cents hundred higher. l will admit. but
10 cents a hundred pounds on tobacco is
nothing in comparison with the more rapid
time which can be made by the north At
lantic ports"
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TO CATCH THE DIMES
Millions of Dollars Expended
That the Silver May Return.
MODERN ADJUSTMENTS
PEOPLE FROM THE ENDS OF THE
EARTH BROUGHT TOGETHER.
Colossal Sums Put in, but the Seasons
End Shows Big
Profits.
MODERN ADJUSTMENTS

Copyright 1904. by T C. McClure)
written for The Evening Star by Arnold NJ. Gard
ct must haye cost a pile of money is the
universal comment of the crowds that issue
forth many times a day from the portals of
the average summer amusement place. 1T
must have cost at least several thousands
of dollars"
Multiply the thousands by ten and you
will be much nearer the cost of the average
production lining the beaches at such
places as Coney Island and Atlantic City,
and those drawing the quarters from your
pockets as you stroll along the Pike at st.
Louis. But If you want to have some idea
of the money poured into the premier at
fractions then reckon in hundreds of thou
sands up to the million point and beyond.
TsIe day has passed when the public can
be wheedled into the belief that 1t Is hav
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A $25, 900 Quartet.

One of these trained menageries boasts
OF four trick elephants that $4,000 could
not buy. Another has Il small school of
porpoises. each OF which can be driven to
bit and bride, and whose broad back
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ing a fine old half-dly's outing in some
cheap contraption Of a building watching
the antics of a second-rate soubrette or lis
leading burnt-Cork artist" That could be
done fairly successfully even five years ago;
in England the chief form Of recreation still
centcrs around Punch and Judy. But then
the English are conservative while the
pleasure-Seoking American of today de-
mands that the whole world contribute to
his outing. and that these attractions from
the uttermust ends of the earth be shown
him in buildings which, both 10y day and
night. are feats for the eye and continued
cause for wonIerment. Hence the outpour-
ing of millions of money by the capitalists
back of the promoters; and neither party
has cause to complain about the returns on
their investment of capital and brains since
they inaugurAted the new order of things.
replacing the cheap and tawdry with the
artistically striking and the enormously
costly.
Money Spent Like Water.
Take the representative show Of today,
itennize its cost. and you will find that
money has been spent like water all along
the line The building alone. designed by
a capable architect TO be an attraction in
itself costs all the way from eight to ten
thousand dollars. a sum of money that Il
few years ago covered the entire cost of
leading amusement. If the show is an iIiu-
sion, as. for example. the creation of the
world or a trip in an airship or under the
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SPEND SUNDAY AT

Regular GUNNER Schedule Begins Tuesday. July ~.
COLONIAL BEACH HOTEL NOW OPEN.
IVA 6t-35
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Columbia Lodge, No. 10. I: O. o. =, held
its first meeting of the new term Thursday
evening. Acting Grand Master J. G. Durfey
installed the following off1cers-elect: S. e.
Taylor, N. G.; George 2. COLLISION, v. G.; f.
G. Grumley. recording secretary: Robert K
Williams, financial secretary: Thomas w.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-14

tertained her class of little ones Sat-
urday afternoon from 2 till 4:3O. About
eighteen of the little ones were pres
ent and outdoor games Were played,
and popcorn and taffy We're served.
Henry Criswell, who recently secured
the appointment of a mail run on the
G., B. & @. from Chicago to Council
Bluffs. is preparing to move his family
to Abba.
Wesley Foster, north of town, while
in town Sunday afternoon had. a $12
lap robe stolen from his buggy. The
police authorities We're notified and it
is reported that the robe was located
in the hay NOV of a barn nearby.
Fred A. Palmer has been at Ames
taking a short course in the Iowa
agricultural college.
Mrs. Jacob Free. who has been quite
sick, was much worse on Monday
night.
DR.. R. f. Shahan, who has been with
DR.. e. l.. Bay for about three weeks
past, having spent the holidays here,
returned Sunday to Iowa City to COM
plete his course of medicine at the uni
versity.
Miss Gertie McNees. who has. been
here the past week or two called by
the severe illness of her mother Mrs
N. b. McNees, returned to Des Moines
Tuesday night.
Frank Oldham had about ten acres
of pasture land burned off east OF
town Friday, caused by catching fire
from an engine on the G. & N. w.
railway. John Denning also lost two
hay stacks by the same fire.
Mrs. Martha Beamer and little
granddaughter Verna Beamer, have
both been on the sick list.
David Hudson returned Sunday
morning from Knox county, Missouri
| where he had been for ten days pre-
| vious. Mr.. Hudson has leased 120-
acre farm there and will move his
| family March /.
DR.. Eppie s. McCrea, after spend.
| ing the past three weeks with her hus-
band, DR.. F. M. McCrea. departed Mon
day night for st. Louis to re-entel
Barnes Medical college, having but a
few months till her course will be com
| pleted.
Mrs. Roy Lafferty went to ottumwa
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competine.

Competine, Jan. 13.-Mrs. Elmer
Bootz of Eddyville is visiting relatives
here this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newt Parker of Ottum-
wa are spending few days here with
friends.
Marion Foster of Kellerton is visit.
ing at the home of Mrs. H. G. Jennings.
H. H. Dickins and C. A. Dickey
went to Kansas City Monday on bust.
ness.
Misses Katherine Dickins and Kate
Thompson attended musical enter
tainment at Hedrick Monday evening
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Tracy OF
Brookville visited at e. d. Davis Sat
urday.
Miss Daisy Herman was in Ottumws
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Fischer of Hedricl
were here Saturday.