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corners stand the tall buildings Of the three
morning newspapers and the Mutual Bank
Building.
SECOND SHOCK COMES.
Meantime there had been q second and
lighter shock at A o'clock, which had shaken
down some walls already tottering and
taken the heart out Of many Of the people
who had hoped that the one shock would
end it. How many buildings went down
in these two shocks and how many people
were killed will not be known for days,
Only the larger items Of the catastrophe
are known. Probably SCORES Of little houses
went down, burying their four or Ave people
each. These little disasters. and some
Of the greater ones, happened in an area
about two blocks wide south Of Market
street, the main ~thoroughfare running
east to the waterfront. It is a district
of little lodging houses, inhabited mainly
BY sailors. interspersed with business
houses.
There seems to have been another centre
of disturbance in the Mission district, much
further west, and there was some loss OF
life at that place. Further south and about
the Union Iron Works there Is a district
known as the Potrero, housing a large
number Of working families. This is on
made land, and report has IL that the loss
Of life there was heavy, yet 80 great is the
confusion that accurate information was
wanting sven from a district 3 close at
hand before the closing down Of martial
law and the burning Of the telegraph build
ings drove those who would communicate
with the East over to Oakland, across the
bay.
The Kingsley House, q crazy, cheap old
hotel on Seventh street, between Mission
and Howard, collapsed at the first shock.
Se~venty.hve people were buried in the
ruins. The fremen pulled some Of them
out alive, but most Of them must be dead
under the ruins.
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DEWEYs sAUTERNK AND MosELLE
white Dinner Wines OF SupaTtor Quality,
H.. 7. Dewey 3 Soma Co. isS Futon 81, New Tort
Ado.
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The Train Of the Century
d The Twentieth Century Limited. the Is- hour
train between New York and Chicago nv the New
York Central Lines Leave New York A 30 p. Mar
nvc Chlcagos9ne mornilg- IA nig1As ride. ado
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asI.sS TO Los ANGELICA AND RETURN
or san Francisco, via PehnsylvAniA Railroad,
April ~ 70 NAY account ahrtnerE Imperial coun-
ell Consult Ticket ~aRentA-Ad0.
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DeUar's Scotch stands for whisky -purity.
Doctors know this and N.-Adu.
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After all, UGhsE,s thn Scotch
that made the highball famouh-Ass.
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GEN. FUNSTON ORDERS OUT TROOPS.

Mayor schmitz got early to the centre
of the fire. By that time the inhabitants
we're rushing through the streets, hamper
ing the work Of fremen and resouer by
their efforts. Chief Of Police Oman got
out the whole police force, and Gen. Funston,
acting on his own initiative, ordered out
all the available troops In the Preside
military reservation. After a short CON
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corners stand the tall buildings Of the three
morning newspapers and the Mutual Bank
Building.
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to the time of day when the earthquake
occurred.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-25

few calls. pe-haps, and by the time you
come to dinner will be sufficiently bored TO
make even family quarrel seem diverting
A woman doesn't differ much from a man.
She cannot develop unless life has pur-
pose, and in the demoralizing surround
ings OF boarding house she shriyels up
morally and intellectually unless she breaks
out and finds work or mission for her
self Ordinary boarding house life Is abso-
lutte stagnation, and 1t Is one of nature s
inexorable laws that stagnation breeds
rise above adverse conditions wherever
they may be placed, but ! have as yet seen
no reason to count you among them. AZ
any rate. 1t is a serious risk, and earnest
ly hope you will not take 1t.
On the other hand, a home is natures
training school for the making of genuine
men and women. III admit that nature
doesn't always turn out first-class job,
but that's the fault of the material. know
some persons who wear trousers who could
not be turned into men by any process.
natural or artificial. l would not be SO I'M
gallant as to apply the same statement to
some persons In petticoats whom | have
met, but / am afraid their transformation
Into women with hearts and minds and
souls, all in active operation. would be a
task too great for any agency. However,
that's diversion. II you want to grow
in every way-mentally. morally spiritually
IF you want to be happy. get you few
rooms that you can call home. 1t doesn't
matter whether 1t Is a three-room fiat or
a $4,000 apartment, just so the rent is in
proper proportion TO your income. 1 don't
mean to say that home makes happiness
any more than -four makes cake. but it's
a mighty necessary ingredient. and it's the
one you have to start with. 1t gives at
once the foundation, the environment and
the atmosphere essential to happiness. /
am very well aware that / am mixing my
metaphors a little. but want to press the
point into you until you holler that home
and happiness begin with the same letter
and start at the same place.
You never were much of . hand to ac-
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cent structures in the business center OF
this city, Is a living reminder OF old WASH
ington. Like the buildings in "Shirt-tail
row." 1t. too, was erected by the hammer
and-saw carpenters of long ago. II has
long figured as pigs footery.'' or cheap
lunch room, and was christened the Dwarf
Cafe by some wag. Its history Is said to
extend back to the stormy days of war in
the sixties.
One OF the most Interesting old structures
in Washington is located on New Jersey
avenue not far from the sixth precinct po-
lice station. In its palmy days II was
known as "Ryder's Castle, and Its several
populations have been varied and cosmo-
politan indeed. OF late years, however, the
building has been Inhabited by respectable
people and has almost lost f.s cognomen OF
''Ryder's Castle" by which It was known
for so many years. Among Its former m
habitants was q now venerable russian,
said to be of noble birth, who was known
to the police and particularly TO the col
ored population as body snatcher.' For
time the lower floor was occupied as a
meeting place for a colored religious con-
gregation. while on the upper doors was
most motley aggregation OF people OF the
other half. The latter held frequent
GROWER parties and INDUCED freely in
strong drink. especially al night.
The colored congregation down stairs
conducted services on the Old plantation
camp meeting order and INDUCED IN loud
singing and strenuous exhortation. The
folks up stairs were equally strenuous when
they were in their cups. The result was
that on frequent occasions the Bacchana-
liam songs and orgies from above mingled
with the religious melodies below. the re-
suit being that the neighbors were treated
to a mixture OF sounds that would put to
Shame the most discordant backyard cat
concert.
The police were compelled to make occa-
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sional raids on the castle and many OF
its former tenants were sent down Tor vari-
Gus ofrenses against the law On one coca
sion after q police raid human skeleton
was found concealed in a dark corner OF
the uncanny basement, and the police IN
vestigated the matter as so-calied veiied
mystery" The decision was finally reached
that the skeleton was either the truit OF
some graveyard raid by ghouls or else that
some former inmates of the place, too l-oor
to pay for a legitimate burial of some mem
Der OF the family. had inferred the remains
in the gloomy basement.
The castle was the resort ut one time
of fortune telIers. soothsayers ma voodoo
doctors 1t was also the meeting pla - OF
society known as "Fhe Ancient and lion
orable Sons OF Moses the main purpose
of which, II Is said, was to promote the an
cient. but not honored, game of crap shoot
ing among its members.
There are several buildings in willow
Tree Alley in South Washington which
have gloomy records. Several years ago
two women who were engaged in religious
work in the slums requested a police re-
porter on one of the Washington news
papers to accompany them through this
noisome byway, as they desired to select
building in which to open a rescue mission
The reporter consented, and as the trio en-
tered the alley three hard-lookfng men who
were lounging at the mouth OF the byway
saluted the reporter, who mad frequently
written up their misdoings for his paper.
who are those men?' asked one of the
Christian women. They look as though
they are badly in need or moral training"
Worse than that" replied the reporter.
IF they get what is coming to them it will
be about ten years each in the pen
What are their names?' persisted the
good woman.
well, that tall, frowsy-headed fellow Is
bnltr IL tS n bu hines
of the alley as Jack the Ripper The foxy
looking little fellow is a sneak thief. and
that slouchy individual with brick-red hair
is a pickpocket and all-around crook They
are three birds, ladies'"
Yes, jail BIRDS remarked one of the
women. taking a tighter grip on her pocket
book But we will try to reclaim them"
A building was found and a rescue mis-
sion located, but the reporter never learned
that either Jack the Ripper" or his pals
were reclaimed.
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some Of them were 10 be believed you could
keep house and get fat on your cigar
money. But their enticing theories won't
work out In practice. A measure of disap-
pointment is the invariable result of the at
tempt, and in the discovery lie the begin
nings OF many unhappy married lives
want you to go into this business with
your eyes open. I would like very much to
see you have a home of your own, for rea-
sons which / shall give you, but l don't
want you TO have any false notions about
its cost II the financial end is your only
consideration. by all means get you re-
spectacle boarding place. where you will
have comfortable room and eatable food
at reasonable rates. II such a combina-
ton exists. You will have the satisfaction
OF knowing just how much you will have
to pay for your meals and lodging and
laundry and there will be few extras AS
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cent dosmatic statements, and l can mag
inc you taking the other side or the queS,
ton just for the sake of argument SO
humor you with some reasons for my De-
lief in the theory, which worked so well IN
practice in my case, as you certainly know.
and in the experience of many or my
friends.
think / have told you something about
the necessity OF intimate acquaintance De-
tween man and wife. You must know one
another and in a boarding house you CAM
possibly get more than a superficial knowi-
edge. You are more or less in public all
the time. and your manners are more OF
less artificial You can't be yourself. Ii
you have any regard for your reputation
you have to wear mask all the time. AZ
home, unless you have a housefui OF
starched and uniformed servants, you are
free to be natural. You show yourself IN
your true eolors. Whatever faults you may
have-and reckon you're pretty well load
ed with them-will stick out. Ii these ran
ings are so pronounced that they induce
you to go to bed with your clothes on you
need the restraints of a boarding house.
Home was never intended FOR SUCH cattle-
l used TO know man down In the town
where I was raised whose habit II was 10
get pleasantly loaded every Saturday night.
About / o'clock of a Sunday morning he
would reach point where Ii became nee
essary for him to lift up his voice In song,
and the only song he knew was Home,
Sweet Home He would warb,e this over
and over until the barkeeper's patience was
exhausted. when he would be gently but
forcibly elected with an urgent request to
seek the pieasurs of that sweet domicile
to which he offered his unmeodious liba-
tions Sam would meander down the
straight and narrow path which led to his
cottage. still singing. and without entering
the house or trying TO enter-he knew bet
ter-wouid go around TO the wood shed,
where. in comfortable corner. he would
sleep. peacefully and happily until sunrise.
Sam however, was an exception. II I
thought you had developed any idiosyn-
crasies of that sort / wouldn't write letters
to you. I'd call on you personally. and I'd
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the jail and the penitenuary, with one or
two candidates, It Is said, for the hang-
mans moose.
At one time. when the destlnies of the
cracker box" were presided ever by
Moonlight Mary" 1.-The fighting sergeant"
made a raid on the habitues of the box"
and found therein twenty-three white and
colored men and women. The prisoners
filed two patrol wagons to overlooking, and
nearly all of them were ''sent down" as
"vags."
Since the strenuous days of the Daley
raids the noisome byway has changed its
name, and is now known as Grays court.
1t has also been somewhat purified and is
now occupied by colony of Italians In
stead of the promiscuous gathering of
blacks and whites that were formerly to be
found there and whose names figure in
many places In the annals of the police de-
partment
Close by 1.-The cracker box" is a row of
crooked frame buildings known to the
fourth precinct police as ''Shirt-tai row.
This row of structures in the past had a
long and unsavory record, dating back to
the days before the civil war. These
buildings We're constructed on a system of
architecture long since obsolete. They rep
resent type of frame structures that was
in vogue on the commons of old Washing
ton many years ago. II was said at the
period in question there were few architects
in the District of Columbia, and that when
party wanted TO erect one or more houses
OF the "shlrt-tail' variety he simply en-
plOyed what was known as "hatchet and
saw carpenter" and in a general way gave
him the order for so many buildings so
many stories high, with so many windows
and doors. The carpenter thereupon order
ed the necessary lumber, and, without the
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MY DEAR joint infer from
NN your letter Just received. which
sN Is more distinguished by its
i a, brevity than its lucidity, that
you are undecided as to whether
you shall board or keep house You are
evidently trying to argue yourself into the
belief that boarding Is tho ideal life. while
way down in your innards IS longing for
home that you can't get rid Of
There IS something favorable TO be said
Of either proposition. II there were moth
ing TO consider but the question OF cost.
that IS 10 say. the direct expense-the fixed
charges. as the railroad man would put it
l should advise you TO board. 1t used to
BE a popular idea. and may be yet for aught
1 know TO the contrary. that II was cheaper
Tor a young couple to keep house. 1 have
had some personal experience and l know
a great many other people who have ar
rived at years OF discretion after sundry
wrestles with this same immortal conun-
drum. every one OF whom has found, as
have, that 1t costs more to keep up a home.
however modest. than II does to board with
the same relative surroundings.
All this talk about the economy OF home
life Is tommyrot. unless it refers entirely
TO indirect results, and It leads to wrong
conclusions. and many mistakes on the part
OF young married people The youth Is
told that two can live as cheapiy as one
another old and dangerous deluson-and
proceeds to figure that his income viii an
swer very well for two that basis. He
gets married. rents him a fiat or little
house. and settles down 10 save money and
be happy. He can easily do both II he
goes about 1t in the right way. but he soon
learns that two cannot live as cheapiy as
one-unless he was extravagant before mar
rage and desperately economical after
ward-and that keeping house always costs
more than any advance calculations. The
etatisticians OF domestic economy maze
things look mighty pretty on paper. II
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harness and depend upon II alone to draw
you to bliss and you will find that 1t Will
surely bolt at the first fork of the road
and either upset the wagon carry you
farther and farther away from your goal.
1t is much better to hitch it to the rear end
OF the vehicle, where Ii can jog along COM
fortably and docilely and be on hand when
you need 1t. Be sure however. to tie 1t
good and fast, for when you want it you
want 1t bad.
X
Let me get back to where I jumped the
track. The direct cost-mind you, the d.
rect cost-of boarding Is less than the cost
of keeping house, everything being equal,
That is the one thing that can be said in
Its favor when 1t is being considered by two
healthy right-minded young married peo-
pie who have enough money In hand to
buy a little furniture, rent small nat
and lay in a months provisions. the
boarding house may be accepted as tenn
porary expedient. but as permanent abode
1t won't do. Real, true domestic life is Inn
possible within it, You are confined, as
rule, TO a single room, In tho furnishings OF
which you have only material interest.
At the table you are forced TO meet a mis-
cellaneous lot of people, some OF .whom
you wouldn't care to know II you had your
choice, and you must accept the foefd that
Is placed before you and thank heaven 1t Is
no worse. No matter what your indivld-
uRl tastes may be, you cant satisfy your
desires, for If you can induce the ianaiaay
to supply you with special dishes you viii
Incur the Jealousy and III VIA of other less
favored boarders, who will make your ex-
istence as unpleasant as possible IN the
many little ways so well known 10 habituai
boarders
In this delectable atmosphere your wife
win be left alone all day, with nothing to
do She will for while take breakfast
with you, but viii soon find lying IN beu
becomes a more and more pleasant method
of killing time, and you VIII leave the house
without waking her. When the pangs of
hunger compel her she win rise. mince a
little breakfast. do a little fancy work,
read little book, indulge in a little gossip
with the other women boarders, make a
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- RIMINAL colonies were features of
certain localities in Washington
several years ago before the police
~ lines were frightened TO their present
tension by Maj. Richard Sylvester
and his small army OF blue-coated minions of
the law There were certain structures that
were known as veritable breeding places OF
crime and criminals. but these were the ex-
ception and not the rule. However, there
were enough of them to suggest to a wea-
zened little Englishman the compiling OF
work on 'Wickedest Washington" and he
went about through The doubtful localities
OF the city in the candle-light hours and
made copious notes for his proposed chap
tiers on crime at The American capital
Whether the book was ever put INTO type
Is not known. as no copies of IL have been
seen here.
Among the buildings visited by the Brit
Usher was little structure in what is called
Louise" alley known as 1.-THE cracker box -
and from whose cramped precincts 1t is sad
hundreds of lawbreakers have graduated,
ranging from the rrowsy. whisky-soaked
''vag to the desperate bousebreaker.
There are several versions as 10 how the
little building came by its odd name. One
OF these is to the effect that during the
civil war dishonest commissary officer Of
the army stole large quantities OF military
crackers, otherwise known as "1ardtacl1"
and stored them IN the little structure until
he could dispose OF them. Information as
TO his populations having been received at
the War Department, an Investigation was
started, and the commissary man Is said
10 have made his escape to the lines IF the
enemy.
A captain OF cavalry. who was ore Of The
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THE MAKING OF A SUCCESSFUL HUSBAND

Go inside your little fort, close the doors
and let the world wag as il Will You can't
do that In q boarding house; you have 10
take the world in with you. or course you
have heard the saying that a wagging world
on the outside is better than a wagging
tongue on the inside. and in some cases, /
regret to say. 1t Is true, but the men who
suffer from a woman's tongue generally
themselves to blame. The fair has
been known on occasions to resort to roll
ing pins and fiatirons, but Its natural
weapon Is the tongue. and, the Irishman
would say, 1t is quite effective In capable
hands 1t has no sting, however, where
love rules and where the wife IS shown the
courtesy she is entitled to. At any rate,
whatever differences of opinion may arise
between man and wife they can be more
satisfactorily discussed within the natural
may arise they be better borne and
easier disposed OF at home than Ia a board
ing house.
Now l want to get back for few mo-
nents TO sordid considerations. ! have said
that the direct expense of keeping house Is
greater than that of boarding. bu in he
long the home Is really cheaper. The
lack of occupation and the petty social
rivalry OF the boarding house lead to ex-
travagances In the way of amusement ana
dress that would be unthought of II you
were keeping house. The incentive to thrift
and economy is lacking; that ambition for
better things which Is the peculiar product
of home life will find you at the end Of
the year with more money In your pocket
than II you had spent an aimless twelve
months in a pension.
Co. get thee to a real estate agent, my
boy, and rent castle. even If 1t has but
three rooms and all of them dark You'll
encounter difficulties. but you'll learn to
overcome them; you'll have annoyances.
but thes make FIFE sweeter by contrast;
you'u have troubles. but troubles braveiy
borne will make a better man of you and
a ter woman of her. Your affectionata
slther, JOHN SNEED.
Copyright, 1906. By C. :. Yost
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carry with me a large club studded with
tenpenny nails. But look upon you as an
average man, and home is the only place
In which the average man and the average
woman can become thoroughly and inti-
mately acquainted, the acquaintance which
is essential to the development OF domes-
tic happiness.
In a home each of you has something to
live for. something that is a part OF and
inseparable from each other. There Is
something about the atmosphere that de-
veiops mutual ambition to which the sur
roundings of a boarding house are fatal
You feel your responsibilities, and your
shoulders broaden TO uphold them. Your
mind expands under the same influence
You feel that you are citizen, factor in
the affairs OF the world Nobody else Will
notice 1t, perhaps, but you can afford to
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a purely financial proposition 1t is very SIM
pie. But-and I cant place too much en-
paasis on that but-narriage is not properly
a financial proposition | know very well
that IL is in a great many cases. and the
tendency to make ii seems TO be grow
ing. but 1t isn't right
Money IS an important factor In domes-
tic life. but beyond the necessities of exist
ence il Is not an essential Properly used,
II viii help to make happiness but at Its
best it is a mere auxiliary. Put II in single