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Standing Room.

The question of what constitutes an OBJ
struction to the free egress of the occu-
pants of a theater building will be answer
today against two managers of Washing
ton theaters are pressed TO conclusion
In these cases IL appears that persons were
admitted 10 the auditoriums after all seats
had been sold. these persons being permit
ted TO stand behind the seats in the rear
passage ways This is a not uncommon
practice in the local theaters as well as
elsewhere. Seldom are the aisles between
the seats congested by the introduction
of extra chairs. This Is distinctly for
hidden by the police regulation on the sub
ject which reads as follows:
I'm all churches. theaters and other public
places of assembly or amusement in the
District the hall DOORS stairways.
seats and aisies shall be arranged as to
facilitate egreSS In cases of fire or accident;
and TO afford the requisite and proper ac-
commodation for public protection in such
cases. all aisles and passageways in such
buildings shall be kept free from camp
stools. chairs. sofas and other distractions
lecture, performance, concert, ball or other
public assemblage."
Does the standing of spectators behind
obstruction of the passag eways as this reg
ulation contemplates? That is the issue for
the court to determine. If ii answers in
the affirmative. the standing room only
sign must 60 to the woedpile. for then every
theater manager who displays it risks fine
of from $ to 800 in case any patron ac-
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The Appropriation Bill.

An analysis of the new District bill shows
that the capital fares very well indeed in
point Of provision for current needs in view
of the heavy drain upon the local revenues
by the cost of the permanent works now
under way. The House committee on alp
propria tions has evidently reached the
stage of realizing that the federal capital
must be maintained upon a proper basis,
that il is no county seat. which can be run
by a handful of officials at small salaries.
This is big community. comprising prob
ably 10000 people, with certain national
dignity TO support and requirements in the
way of education. sanitation and protec-
ton which cannot safely be ignored The
Commissioners estimates have for years
been based upon that truth and have been
so regularly ignored in the interest of a
false economy that il is the more gratifying
now to see them fairly well conceded in the
framing of the budget.
In the matter OF the police and fire de-
p6rtments and the schools the bill is lib
eral not only in providing In fair measure
for the natural increase of rhe community
but In point of the salaries to be paid to
the workers in those vitality important
branches. One of the most urgent current
needs for many years has been that of a
more equitable salary list. The Districts
teachers. firemen and policemen have been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-25
The Roosevelt Campaign.

1t is reasonably certain that had Mr..
Hanna recovered, and regained something
of his old form, he would have managed
Mr.. Roosevelt's campaign. He had the re-
quest under Amusement when he was
taken down, and the Presidents solicit
tude while he was ill touched him, as we
see by the last note that he penned, very
deeply. Once more on his feet, Mr.. Hanna
would have been more welcome than ever
at the White House, and the busybodies
who have been so Industrious in their eff
forts to make trouble between him and
the President would have become dis
couraged. they worked hard while they
did work, and for time fattered them
selves that they were making Roadway;
but in the light of all that is now known
they had, and would have had if Mr..
Hanna had lived their labor for their
pains.
To whom will the President now turn?
The choice is with him. The candidate al
ways picks the campaign manager, and of
course picks a man in whom he has the
fullest confidence. Mr.. Hanna was Mr.. Nc
Kinley's choice. for the double reason that
he was one of Mr.. McKinley's closest
friends and had managed the campaign
which had resulted in Mr.. McKinleys NOM
ination. He was the one man above all
others for the emergency, and how wise
the choice was. events fully demonstrated.
Nobody is standing in such relation to
Mr.. Roosevelt. His nomination is coming
without a special campaign-coming of its
own accord. But he will need a good man
the best Decentralization the nomination
arrives, and SO the gossips are examining
the list of his chums and advisers, with
the view of helping him to the right one.
1t is a little attention to which public
men, whether they appreciate it or not,
are accustomed.
1t Is agreed that the manager should
know the game, and have record for play
ing it well. He should be very much more
than mere collector of funds. He should
know more politicians than plutocrats. He
should be a good judge of hustlers. and
how to employ and get the best out of them
He should be able himself to work twenty
six out of the twenty-four hours, so as not
to lose minute of valuable time. 1t is a
job that no lazy man should accept or could
fill. Nominations and glowing eulogies are
row in order.
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Tammany dominates Cleveland.

At Tammany district meeting in New
York last night one of the orators said:
The Panama canal is not an issue in
this campaign. We have too long been
PARTY of obstruction and criticism. The
democratic party has more young men and
first voters in it's ranks than ever before
and We must go forward on new issues.
The platforms at Kansas City and at Chi
cago did not present a single issue that we
were justified in going before the people
on. The party needs now as it never did
before some man to rise up by force of
character to lead it.
THE candidate of the party this year will
not be named by any boss, any chain of
newspapers or any barrel but he is going
to be named by the affections of the demo-
cratic party. The tariff is now live issue.
and we have got with us the only man who
ever led the party to victory since the civil
war, and he did it on that issue and that
was Grover Cieyeland. His character has
been sifted and he comes back to us
stronger than ever before and he will not
be able TO say no to the demand of his
party.
Here are two propositions. First Tam
many declares that Mr.. Hearst will not be
the candidate. He it is who represents
Chain of newspapers and barrel"
and lie is bringing both to bear on the
campaign. Outside of New York he is
making impression. Yesterday. in
Massachusetts, George Fred Williams an
nounced for him, and in Mississippi the
legislature invited him to address it, and
rejected "A resolution of like tenor offered
in behalf of Mr.. Cleveland. But in New
York. the home of Mr.. Hearst. where his
principal newspaper is published and Tam
many receives his assistance when it needs
nm organ, and sends him to Congress when
he offers, the editor candidate is put by
Second. Tammany declares that Mr..
Cleveland should be the candidate. and on
tar..a platform. The tariff, says Tam
many : a live issue. 1t is and we shall
hear a good deal about it in the coming
campaign. But if Mr. Cleveland is to be the
candidate how shalt that issue be ex-
pressed? He has a record on the tariff.
tie was free trader il December 1857.
hut tried to be straddler six months later
lie was a free trader in 1892. but tried to
force the Wilson bill through Congress in
1874. That bill recognized the principle of
protection in hundred CT more items and
was not at all satisfactory to the men who
beginning back In Mr.. Tilden's day, had
made. the issue of tariff reform Ten years
have passed since then. seven of them the
most prosperous the country has ever
known. but during all of them a tariff law
has been in operation drafted on lines an
tasonistic to the whole free trade propa-
gauda.
Taking the tariff, then, as the issue
where does Mr.. Cleveland now stand?
Where he stood some years ago is of no
moment except as showing that nothing but
disaster came to his party and the country
as the result of it. If Mr.. Cleveland's pres
emf brand of tariff reform is the same as
that of ten years ago. the country it is safe
TO say, wants none of it.
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The Public and the Wires.

OF course the young man who was
shocked TO death in Anacostia the other
day by an electric lighting wire had no
right to touch the broken conductor not
being an employee of the company, as the
coroners jury in the case declared. But
the same might have been said of any per-
son who. whether Intentionally or acci-
dentally. handled or touched the wire as 1t
lay broken in the street. That is the way
of overhead electric wires. They do their
greatest damage to those who have 10
right to touch them. who have no knowl-
edge of their eccentricities and dangers.
The employees of the owning company are
equipped with gloves and warned by eX-
perience. But even they sometimes come
10 grief This latest victim of the un-
buried wire was himself warned that the
conductor was dangerous and his reckless
enterprise was the chief contrbutory cause
os his death. But if the wire had not been
strung aloft, to break and fall into the
street: there would have been no occasion
for his venturing into the peril. The same
thing, of course, might have happened 20 =
pedestrian who, in the gathering dusk,
Glanced to walk into the wire and touch its
uninsulated part Then the coroners jury
would. have been compelled to return Il
different verdict.
The process of wire burial has been going
on for some years steadily, but there are
yet far too many dangerous conductors
aloft now. even in the city proper, while
the suburbs are melted with them Balti-
mores fire lesson was not more emphatic
OH any point than on this of the peril OF
the aerial conductor. There is danger
wherever the wires may occur, danger ir
the suburbs as well as the city. The sooner
the makers require that the wire-burial
shall extend to the very limits of the rs
trict the sooner will the community b" safe
from these occasional accidents. which are
convincing arguments even when the VIC
Tins suffer in part through their own folly.
II there are no wires to break there il
be none for reckless people to handle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-25

The New. York Sun pays the following
deserved compliment.
THE fact remains that no man in the
United States Senate or elsewhere ever
fought more courageously tenaciously and
vociferously losing fight than the Hon.
John T. Morgan of Alabama.
His are the honors of his qualities. Van
quished. he has won lasting fame.
No gutter her,
All admirers of good fighter will indorse
these sentiments. Mr. Morgan stood for
years the foremost champion in America of
an isthTnian canal. He never permitted the
subject to drop out of the public mind. He
never addressed himself to 1t without illu-
minating it and adding to popular interest
in it. He would not. to the regret of many
OF his admirers, accept the changed situa-
ton when the formation of the new govern
ment at Panama put Nicaragua out Of the
question, but he forfeited none of the credit
of his previous performances in favor of d
canal by his refusal to do so. His name
will be illustrious among those to whom the
world will pay tribute for forwarding the
greatest of modern enterprises.
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conspicuously underpaid. Annual tabular
statements comparing these local workers
with those corresponding in other cities
have shown copclusively that despite the
high standards of excellence and capacity
here maintained the District servitors in
those most exacting and sacrificing lines
have been meagerly paid. The teachers
have labored faithfully, the policemen have
done their full duty bravely and the fire.
men have faced death for the city's sake
all at rates of pay which suggested the
most thankless state of public mind. Now
the House committee has adopted in large
measure tie recommendations of the Com
missioners and has raised the pay scale In
some respects and otherwise shown spirit
which promises better results in the future.
With this guarantee the teachers. police
men and fremen who now are tempted to
leave the Districts service for those of
other cities or for business enterprises may
be more content to remain at their posts.
In the miscellaneous provisions for the
current maintenance there is displayed an
unmistakable spirit of liberality. There re-
n aims, of course, much to be fought for be-
fore the Senate committee and probably
much to be sought next year and the year
to come before the right scale is at last
IedCHed but the aufdUCeS are eiCOuidS
Ing. Here an additional official helper.
there two. here: a larger contingent fund.
there a more adequate provision for public
works. here compromise between esti-
n ates and current law which grants sub
stantial net gain, there the elimination of
an estimate for work that can be post
pcned in order to leave a margin for
more urgent item-this is the story of the
bill as 1t is examined in detail. OF course
there are many disappointments. The Pub
lie Library Is denied the additional assist
ants which are absolutely essential to give
it an adequate working force. The funds
allotted for the improvement of streets
and avenues might have been larger. The
cut in tie estimate for construction of
county roads was disappointingly heavy.
So, too, the elimination of one or two sewer
items, that for bikes. and the cutting of
the items for the sewage disposal station.
But when 1t is considered that the total of
the House committee bill has heretofore in
yariably been lower than that of the then
current law, this BILL with its initial in
crease over the present appropriations, as
expressed in both large and small details,
is eminently gratifying.
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cepts the hint and buys an admission ticket
after all seats are sold. The point for The
court to decide evidently Is whether per-
sons standing In the rear passageway come
under the category of distinctions like
chairs. which are placed in the aisles to ac-
commodate more sitters.
The determination of this point will be
of Importance not only to the managers
but to the patrons of the local theaters as
we'll. For under the scale OF prices which
obtain whenever highly attractive shows
come to town the standing crowd is often
very large, as by this means only can
many persons hope to enjoy the show. This
is the case even when the seats are not all
filled. If the standing-room privilege is to
be taken away will the prices for seats go
up In order to recoup for losses entailed
in the new order, or will they go down to
tempt former "standees' to buy seats?
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China DEPARTING mt.

1oo-piece Daintily Decorated Haviland China
Dinner Set, two pieces missing. Reduced from
S25 90 to Sl975
12pieee Toilet Set, yellow tinted and gold
stippled. Reduced from $3.50 TO $3.50
ID Decorated EnglIsa Hercelain Covered Dishes.
Reduced from 81 % and 81 so 20 SOC. each.
80 Blue Decorated Covered German Ware Stems.
Reduced from 35c. to 2Jc. each.
l Richly Decorated German Ware Stein. Re
duced from So. 90 to SI.95.
Decorated Limoges China Salad Bowls. Re
;duced from S1.58 TO S1.00 each.
White German China Soup Tureen, Reduced
from 81. so 10 S5e..
13-piece Decorated Limoges China Fish Set.
Reduced from $6:tt0 to- $500.
u Decorated Austrian China Cracker Jars. Re
dueed FROM Soc. TO 3-c. each
Large Decorated English Porcelain Meat
Dishes. Reduced from 81. 90 TO 81 90 each.
dozen Decorated Austrian China Tea Plates.
Reduced from 81 % to 81 as dozen.
dozen Decorated Austrian China Dinner Plates.
Reduced from 81 90 to 81 so dozen.
1 dozen Decorated Hayiland China Soup Plates.
Reduced from 81. 90 to $3.50.
Richly Decorated Minton Ware Jardinieres.
Reduced from $1,000 TO 81 SO each.
l Richly Decorated MiHton Ware Jardniere and
Stand Reduced from $3.50 TO Sl1.so
Fifth floor. q st.
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Furniture Department.

CHARTERED Oak Morris Chair. nine spiral springs
seat hair-flled cushions. Reduced from $500 to
$795
banded, hand-carved, French legs. Reduced from
$3.50 to $11.00.
CHARTERED Oak Pedestal Table. prettily cross
handed, for parlor hall. Reduced from $1,000 TO
Sic. 90.
l Mahogany Rocker, inlaid back, neat design.
Reduced frcm $1,000 to $500.
/ Women's Weathered Oak Rocker bow back.
Reduced from $50 to 1895.
1 Artistic Gilt Chair. Reduced frcm $1200 to
800.
Handsome Music Cabinet, with drawer at bot
tom: neat inaid door. Reduced from 5000 to
$500
l Genuine Horsehide Leather Couch, diamond
$500
/ CHARTERED Oak Chiffonier cabinet ends oval
French plate mirror. Reduced from $1,000 to
$500
1 Mahogany Arm Chair, inlaid back; graceful
shape. Reduced from $500 to 5000.
Sixth floor, G st.
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Infants Department.

10 Infants Long and Short Hand made Dresses,
of SOFT naisook; bishop STYLE trimmed with hand
made tucks, shirng and lace-t dyed ruf1es Re-
duced from $3.50 to 81. rs each.
Infants White Bedford Cord Short Coat. large
collar. trimmed with ribbon Reduced from $3.50
to rs.
4 Chdren's India Iinon Dresses. long waist Of
tucks, skirt trimmed with embroidery, ruf1e Of
embroidery neck and sleeves. Reduced from
$3.50 to $500 each.
Children's Tan Silk Bonnet lined with pink
silk and chiffon. Reduced from rs to s.. rs.
Clldren's White Panne Velvet Bonnet trim
med with ribbon. Redrp'ed from Sc 70 to $3.50.
Children's Light Blue SILK Bonnet, trimmed
with ribbon and chiffon. Reduced from $1,000 to
$3.50.
Third door Eleventh st.
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The Giles-Alabama Case.
From the New York Tribune.


We are not yet prepared to believe that
the Supreme Court is helpless to enforce
the supreme law of the land and protect
citizens of the United States from invasion
of their rights by the states. or that the
judges. in spirit of acquiescence in con-
ditions that cannot be conveniently
changed. are prepared to abdicate their
functions as expounders. of the Constitu-
ton as 1t exists. However sound may be
the argument of expediency with reference
to new political action on this difficult quas-
ton. the duty of the courts is plain and
the rights of negro, when his case is
properly presented, should be upheld az
vigorously as they would have been In ISL,
when national sentiment was strong in
favor of the most vigorous enforcement %
the new constitutional amendments. II
they really want to establish their right to
vote. the DISTINGUISHED blacks should pro-
coed to lay the foundat tons for their suits
under able legal advice. and go to the Su-
preme Court with case which cannot be
dismissed on technicalities.
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Housefurnisning Dept.

2 B. & II. OH Heaters. Reduced from $500 to
SS9s each.
Gas Heaters Reduced from $500 to $500
each.
i 2-burper Gas Stove Reduced from $500 to
s1.5O.
Leather Door Mat. Reduced from s1s5 to
Willow Nursery Chair, slightly damaged. Re
duced from 81 % 10 I5c.-
White Enamelel Chair Cemmcde. sh' pworn
Reduced fiom $i2.eo 900
Gift. Step Ladd II. damaged. Reduced from o3e.
to 45c.
Sewing Cabinet. slightly damaged. Reduced
from S3.25 to $2-23.
Medicine tabret reduced from 81 .35 to 15c.;
2, reduced from Soc. TO soc. tach-
l Large Kitchen Table. Reduced from S2.Io TO
50 o.
Drip Coffee Pots Reduced from soc 40e.
J., Enameied c. flee Boilers Reduced from zoe. to
A0c. each
3 Enameled Dish Pans Reduced from soc. to
35c. each.
Enameied Pudding Pans. Reduced frem zoe.
TO lie. each
Enameled Wash Basins. Reduced from 2Oc- 10
Toe. each.
6 Enameled Sance Pans Reduced frcm s5c- to
25c. each.
Nickel plated Cuspidors. dented. Reduced from
/ I5-lb Sugar Can Reduced from 75e. to soc.
] 100-lb. Flour Can, denied Reduced from 81
to s5c.
1 Copper-bottom Wash Boiler damaged Reduced
from $40 to soc.
/ Fancy Wood Basket, damaged. Reduced from
$500 to $3.50.
8 Fancy Sweet Grass Work Baskets Reduced
from 35c. to Use. each.
8 Fancy Scrap Baskets, sciied. Reduced from
$1.I5 10 S1.0o each.
2 Splnt Laundry Baskets. slightly damaged he
duced from Soc. TO 25c- each.
Small Clothes Hampers. Reduced from $l.ib
to 81 % each.
/ Dog Basket. slightly damaged Reduced from
81 % TO 15c.
Fifth hcor. Eleventh ST
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Picture Department.

10 Sepia Photographs, excellent subjects, in
brown and brown and gold frames. Reduced from
$500, $500 and $500 to $1-0e each.
1 Hand-colored Photograph, 'The Lovers, IN
rosewood frame. Reduced from $500 TO Loo.
2 Coiored OiloRraphs. "Cupids.' in dark brown
and black frames. Reduced from $500 to 500
each.
1 Hand-celored Photograph, THE Bohemian
GIRL in fancy red and green frame to match.
Reduced from $1,000 to $3.50
Hand-colored Photograph, Girl In Garden Of
Flowers" in rosewood and gilt frame. Reduced
Sepia Photograph, Head of Girl in ma
hogany and gold oval frame. Reduced from $3.50
to S2.5O
1 Sepia Photograph. HOLLAND Wind Mill'' and
.sMarine View" in green Dutch effect frame. Re-
duced from $500 to $2.00.
i Sepia Photograph, ..St. Anthony In brown
frame to match. Reduced from $500 to 81 90.
/ Hand colored Photograph. Head Of Child" in
Large Pastel, Landscape Scene in heavy
gold frame. Reduced from $1,000 to $3.50.
Fou1t h floor Tenth st.
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Donlestics.
Toy Department.

Printing Presses Reduced from $500 to 81 90
each.
l Stable. Reduced from $500 to $780,
l Ok Reduced from 5000 81 so.
Sand MIL Reduced from $1o.o0 to SIS 90
Roly -Peiys. Reduced from 81 so to soc. each.
l Organ. Reduced from $1,000 to $500.
Childrens Revolving Chair. Reduced from
81 IS to SI.06.
games Hopscotch. Reduced from 25e. to l0c
each
l Shoohy. Reduced from 81 90 TO Soc.
games Wicket. Reduced from 81 90 to 81 so
each
Mineral Frames. Reduced from 75c. to 35c.
each
l Doll .Go-Cart. Reduced from So 30 TO S1.Oo.
Childrcns Mission Bed Reduced from $500
to $500.
Fourth floor, 6 st.
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Rug Department.
Orlentals.

OT1entdIS.
Fine Shiryan Rugs. in rich shades Of dark blue
ana RED Reduced from Sl7.5o to Si2 80 each
tine Ghendje Rug, dark blue and red. Re-
duced from SIS 90 TO SIP 80
karabaugh Rug. Reduced from Sc 80 TO IS. co.
9xi2ft Turkish Herman Rug, orange and
green medallion pattern. Reduced from Sis. 90 to
500. 90.
Auatoifan Mats Reduced from $500 to 50 90
.ch.
Domestics. "
9x12-ft Wool Smyrna Rug. Reduced from
$1,000 to $500.
Il2xlo1a-ft. Smyrna Rug Reduced from $1,000
to ST So
3 9xl2-ft. Wool Kalga Rugs Reduced from sI2 50
to So. 90 each.
3 11exeft Wool kalga Rugs. Reduced from
1 9x12ft. Smiths Administer Rug. Reduced from
SIS. 90 to x1s-75.
Second floor. & ST.
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Bows Department.

Is Boys Two-piece Suits; sizes 4, 5. 6. Z S, Ii.
a. 10 and JIG. Reduced from So IS to 81 25 eaeh.
Z, 8. 10, IL, IA, Is and H. Reduced from So 90
to So. rs each
Boys Navy Blue Cheviot Long Pants Suits
tcoat, pants and vestl; sizes 16 and 10. Reduced
from $12 so to Sc. 25 each
Boys Fine Kersey Overeoats. fancy styles;
sizes 4, and 6. Reduced from $1,000 to 50 rs
each.
Boys Fine Atwood lack Tar, Refers, red
flannel lined brass buttons, chevron sleeve sizes
to Z. Reduced from $50 and SIS so to $751;
each.
80 pairs Boys Separate Pants, in navy blue and
fancy cheviot; sizes to 16. Reduced from 75c.
to 59e pair.
Third floor. Tenth St.
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An Admission

Moth Wind. Moth Wind!
Please, sir. go away,
De woods is all impatient
Fob de blossoms an de May.
De trees is gittin' lonesome
Fob to play a different tune
An de vi'lets is a-pinin'
Fob a sunny aftuhnoon.
Moth Wind Moth Wind!
When you hollers ''who-o-ow
l wisht l was rabbit
Sos to run away from you.
l knows jes' who you's wantin'.
is brave as I kin be,
But | goes right under cover
When you comes a-huntin' me.