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3?HE TIMES, WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER
1897.
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(Moitui-a, evexing axi soxdat,)
BY
The Washington Times Company.
SEEIiSON HUTOHIKS, President,
Hrrcmxs Buil,tixg.
Sxn&scmrTmx Kaths.
Monthly, by Carkikb:
Morning, ISvenlng and Sunday, Pifry Cents
Mornittcawl Sunday Thirty-five Cents
Evening aud Sunday Thirty-five Cents
BY ia It
One Year, Mora., Eve. aud Sunday. -55.50
six Mwiths, ". " " ' .. 3.00
TbreeMoBtfcs," " " .. 1.7B
Obo Tear, Morning and Sunday 4.00
Six Mouths, ' A' " 2.25
Three Months, " . " 1.25
One Year, Evening and Sunday...... 4.09
SIxMwitlis, " ' " 2.25
Three Months, " " 1-25
Sunday only, one year. . 1.00
OMans by mail must bo accompanied by
sttbserlption price.
TjsoiH'hoxks : Editorial liooms, 4SC;
Business Office, lfti.
'Circulation Stalomcnt.
Site circuIofiMi of Tjik Tijibk for the
meek ended Saturday, October 90, 3S97, teas
amAw, Oet&erSf. 23,400
JtfMgt, October &....; 30,705
ffea. Oatefcr ..... .&. SQ,9H
Wnimmdav, October 17. -10,019
SSmraiay, October . 48,000
JW October 49,820
SmtKr4v, QeUber0 42,144
Tetat 276,128
Xf) 41,953
StXKDAY. OCTOHEU 81, 1S07.
Vftcllec ior tlesnlts.
Ke joericftu ft-lead of good government,
i Awerican enemy of tlie corruptions and
otfmes of ftJicfcl machine misrule an it
i iTett-sntei in New York by the pergonal
otgniHEattanfr ot Fiatt ami Croker, slsoulfi
have hy doubt concerning die effect which
ti deatfi of Henry George ought to have
wfHMt ttte rewrii of the present struggle in
that Sty. Nor do "e see how it would be
poMttHe for any earnest, self-resiociinK
sdlterctit f the fallen hero Ut hesitate one
Momencttt accepting aitd acting upon what
IM-aeMM-My was the dying loeswapi of the
gijcit Obaaaptoa e? the people, and casting
Ms r-e for the surviving repreMMitative ol
tfte revoli.uoo against the govern inent of
oetmtttfcm and crime represented in the
org&aiutitoae of Croker and Piatt.
"WJtaC ought to be is one thing, and what
may be qtdte amUier. It must be said that
te noanind ooofjrteHce of Richard Croker
nsay not tie without foundation, it in true
ttwt She sr4iis of Kew York opinion
utomc to point to a la mint We toward Seth
Ij9t. Or U. other hand, it should not be
"faSBttet. trait the enormous iwer and
pateetMr- of the Federal Administration,
eoajatasd with chat of the State govern
ment, both fully and freely wielded by
'SSmnHia C Plait, are inactive comUnatlnu
iwfhii be jwrf eel organization of Tammany
3laHnr the jwfipoe- of defeating Low and
throwing Che Mention to Van Wyck. All
conoettfu.eal apear to have teen cast
ade. Federal and State officials are
vwrtateg la i'jbttc harmony with Croker's
wftrd heeler to this ead. They have a
ootttMood natkmal and State power be
Mhtd ttfu. d a ooofeoHdated corruption
mC ttsfitatfU reader the danger great.
The ouioontr- of the battle as yet Is
kBowa only U. the God of battles. One
thiipi6certaR-ir the trinity of Hann-iism,
CndseniMn, and Plattism bhouid chance U
"wia. eWhw through bribery, chicanery or
fma&ofent practice, then it will be the
flcattitne la Otereoenthtstorf of Xew l'ork
VhacaaH uprlstate: of all the honest awl re
ifet exoeUi6 of (poclety in that city
Against qp&iBHkM aud raeoality has been
daraMed-
Angels for Suudny.
K thw Jfc any day of the week upon
4U& the dbwunsien of angels is ap
paqprSatie it is Sunday, wbea the church
hette tare iingtr their -tory of Uie glad
tlMngv of lraUoB; vhen hundreds of
fitturch portals hofcjrttebly stand open, call
lap atoeeis to rpMnioe; and tle spirit
of the d&y shias lfte dew upon the faces
of all good people.
Hat on such an occa4on we must not
forget that Uerc are bad as well as good
aagelh, nor that they are all about us.
tetuptins to evil thought; and deeds and
rifling to destroy the effects of early it
Iltou6 traluiag, and all the influences of
aed moifews. d the prtneipies tiiey have
iuatllkyl wtth lwe, oatecliins and the
tw-r f 1y admonition. The-e bad
agJslK aasall the high and low, the rich
ad tlie pow. The humble cabin of
pvert itt not too JHConMdorable for them
to invade, sod fee flageasff on t4e White
House Jfe no Jightaing rod to catch and
conduct tlwlr shafts harmlessly to the
ground.
At tMnfeorifcinthehouseotprayerand
in I lie Sunday-achool! Even a gobd, good
i. an like Mr. McKinley has not been per
mittei' to irradiate the atmosphere of our
common country unpersecuted by these
bad angdi! On his cheerful and confident
eutranct Into U Executive Mansion he
found one waiting for liim on the threshold.
It UKtk hlra into iU. foul embrace- Its
nanse was ClevelaniUsm! It told him that
gold was letter than hearts; batter to love
; luin the prosperity of the people; and It
withered in his ear, with the sibllaut
niss of the horrid serpent: "Carry out
my Union Pciric steal! The Wll treet
Jo! bets lelped llanna to the tune of
?2.000.000 In 1S9G." Will he listen to
tus reduction of the bad angel of CJeve
laudlsui? On Tupsday we shall know!
Now cm was, and is. a good angel,
cn'itfd AmericaHism, that has lwen wrestling
onits knees withMr. McKinley, andflapping
Its wings at him In the glorious banner on
the root of his home, ever since the fourth
of March Jt has wept and pleaded with
drs. m throw the bad angel, C'eveland
Istu, and Its companion spirit Hanuaibm,
down ttio baok steps. It has begged him
to heed the agonized cries of outraged,
tortmed, butchered women and children In
Cuba, .'.nd ids high duty vo them undei-.
the grand precedents of American i.lioy in
the past, and in view of national honor,
international law aud the common dictates
of hutr.auiry. But, ho far, the bad angels,
with their attendant trains of Spanish
bond-lioldiug and Sus-'ar Trust devil?, have
overcome this good angel.
Ills good angel inclined the President
tj kt-n the promises of his party
and "bi own pledges and to secure
International bimetallism. He started
to do so, but Clevelandism and
HannalPiu combined forces to secure his
influence with the Britlhh government Tor
tlie defeft of international bimetallism
when Uk succe&s was In full sight. What
a copjrautar upon the power of bad
aagciibinl
The good ausjcl. Americanism, urgel him
to tolerate. If not to support, the struggle
of Uic people in ew York for good gov
ernment and emencipation from the cor
rupting, destroying control of the tlilev
Ing fiend, bossism, but the bad angels
or Hr.nnAifm and Plattism sung a siren
song f pcruitiuii to him. They fang if
nis danger from Seth Low as a Presi
dential quantity; of the unanimous dele
gation tuat Plate might give lilmin 1900!
"What was the result? The whole force
of the Admlutbtuiilou was used to pre
vent the nririlnatiott of Seth Low Tor
mayor ty the RcpubUcnu city conventions
and, a.ftT that, to kill ids candidacy,
wldcti is representative pf every decern
element in the Kepubllccti party of the
munh-ipallty by joining lu a trade With
Crok'i, the bobs of Tammany, to throw
the election to Crokex'sman, Y.m Wyck!
On such a day as this It is proper to
remember how much the good angel of
President SIcKinley, Americanism, which
also Is tre j,oad ansol of us all in this
eountrj, has been affronted and kicked
and c-urfed since that dark and cheerless
day In March, 1S93, when Washington
vmnessed the apotheosis of the bad angel
of ieiousncss and devastation, Cleve
landism; and, again, since Its twin genius,
Hannaism, for our sins, began to hover
over America in the fateful daysoC 1S90!
Wherefore, with solemn accord, let us
join our orisons this morning that power
and dcrainlon muy be given to American
isri toovcioonmandsink inthclrlegitimate
al)ole in perdition the persecuting, op
pressing devils of Oievelandism and Han
naism. Though Dend, Yet T.tveth.
"The evil that men do lives after
them. Tne good Is oft interred with their
L bones." Often, but not alwayb! Henry
George was a man of the bort whoso
apostlcship never io fully recognized dur
ing life- His philosophy too much repre
sented complete revolution a'gainst the
spirit of greed and oppression; bur, being
dead, and his intense personality with
drawn, rrora the contest, his works will
speak for him with force and power mul
tiplied bv tt' universal acceptance today
of hip united Iwnesty, love of humanity
and genius.
That Henry George wus a great, a good
and an honest American citizen, all In
the highest sense that those terms can
l.c applied, Is conceded by the men who
opiiowd him, oi opposed the application
of the principles and doctrine he sought
to inculcate, amounts to a nationa 1 bene
diction upon his mission. It docs not
mean thatall hs fellow-countrymen aureed.
or arc willing to agree, with the details
of the sjstem of whidi he was the apostle,
and, perhaps, the prophet. It does mean
that all American recognize his patriotism,
his love for the country, and for the un
derlying principle upon which free govern
ment ever must be founded the greatest
good of the greatest number.
So. we find statesmen, economists, jur
ists, many of them opposed to the plan .',"
the reform as susceptible of adjustment
to present conditions of society, joining
heartily in glorification of the reformer
-whose big heart swelled -Kith grief for
the Ills of the people, and who with high
intelligence, and total Indifference to self,
sought an economic solution which should
make them free and happy.
ft "was hard, but ive shall never cease
to think that it was wise and providential
that his life work should have l,eeu crown
ed with the glory of proto-martyrdom. Is
-was appropriate, almost-natural, that the
Tribune of the People should fall in the
enokc and din of a battle for the cause he
lo"ed. and to which his weak body, bat
his great brain and soul, were devoted.
'The blood of martyrs is the seed of
the church." Dying from the physical
nxh&ustion of his splendid labors, his fear
less denunciations of corruption and crime,
and his Nflf-abnegation in commanding his
followers to seek first the destruction of
the curse ot bOhSlsm, without regard to
his personal candidacy, ought to speak in
thunder tones, through the exercise of an
independent American suf frige, at the
poll in New York next Tuesday.
Well has It been said, that, two hundred
years hence, the struggle of 1897 in Gieater
New York, agalr.M the evils and ihuses
of the Croker-PIatt dictatorship, will be
rcmembpred only for the slme that Henry
George, the patriot, the philosopher and
champion or ihe common people, had In
the fight. With eijual truth, it Is pre
dicted that, fifty years from now, his
name will be honored, and hla memory
univermlly revered by all civilized nations,
as the memory and name ot one ot those
"who have advanced the progress ot hanian
ity. and r,iu divine gospel of the rights
of man.
The Kodak Fiend.
In vIbw of the prevailing craze for
amateur photography, it might be well
to insert a few specimens or sound, solid
-eise among the artistic notions which
"oin to possess some people. The Idea of
the Using generation seems to be that
anyl)dy can take a photograph, and button-pressing
receives as much attention as
sketching did in the days of our grand
mothers, when apart of every youiiglady's
education was instruction in sketching from
nature and funny sketches some of them
were, too. and elaborated with hard labor
and salt tears. Now. It is not true that
anybody can take a photograph, any more
than an untrained person can draw an
acceptable picture. Ninety-nine one hun
dredths of the average amateur photog
rapher's work, to say nothing of the
professional, is mere rubbish, and a tiling
to mak'j angels weep ir the old masters
have succeeded in reaching the regions
aboVf, and pay any attention to the sphere
which they have led. The sun will not
do good wnrk nil by htmseH, any more
than a small boy, and tomelimes lie play3
prankish tricks with the camera, and dis
totts features out ot all recognition. More
often the distortion is not so serious, and
thn proud amateur pets and caresses his
work, and deludes himself into the idea
that he has done something great. But
his work is really not ot so much valuu
as the old-fashioned sampler, decorated
with a beClounccd Woman weeping pear
shaped tears over a tombstone, because
fie person who had finished one ut those
tilings rcnilv did know something about
ner-dlowork.
This is not an attempt to prevent
amateur photographers from snapping their
machines around the landscape. It is
simply an appeal to them to study the
subject with some sort ot scientific ac
curacy, and not tall in love with their
own skill at too early a stage in the game.
To take really artistic photographs they
will huvo to npend as much Um and
enercy as to make a good sketch, and
after they have done that it is a (iues
tiou whether better results, and better
tralnmg, and more satisfaction generally
could not bae been obtained by learning
to sketch, Less troublesome than the ar
tistic pliot grnph, however, is the historic
photograph. Views of buildings may be
taken, views or bits of landscape, which
can be gotteu at easily, and pictures of
rare curios for the use of museums, which
cannot get the real articles. But the
idea that pressing a kodak button makes
one artistic, any more than turning the
crank of a street piano makes one musi
cal, should be discouraged at once and
very much, indeed. Art cannot be made a
veneer or a plaything, and attempts to do
this only debauch the artistic sense of
the country.
An Honest Gentleninii.
An independent Republican gentleman
down in. Virginia has evolved an entirely
new species ot campaign platform, con
structed mostly of brass. He wants to
go to the Virginia legislature, and pro
ceeds to give it a very black eye by
Ms grounds for wanting to get there. He
solicits votes on the ground that he is a
rascal. He says:
People have tried so-called honest men
long enough, and It takes a rascal to catch
a rascal and keep up with his tricks.
This gentleman, 0. J. Terry, declares
that whenever he has been caught making
moonshine whisky he has paid the Govern
ment's claim (and, presumably, gone on
aud made tome more). He says that his
reputation for ways that are dark is well
kuown, and that a rascal will have to sit
up till morning to get ahead of him. His
Idea seems to be that the legislature
of Virginia Is composed of rascal", and
to send a really honest man among them
would be like sending a little, bleating,
woolly lamb with a blue ribbon around its
neck Into a den of ravening wolves. Of
course he might wear wool outside the
State capitol and the natural hide within,
but he seems to think it will boom him
more effectually if he does not.
Undoubtedly, it is good to be frank, but
whether it Is profitable or not depends
upou the subject of one's frankness. Vir
ginia may be disposed to resent the in
sinuation about her legislature. But ut
any rate, Mr. Teny will not be In the
embarrassing difficulty of a voter la New
York who has just been -hauled up In the
police court for registering under an as
sumed name. This voter had to explain
that while he went under an assumed natre
In his lodging-house, he thought It best
when It cam to politics to give his real
cognomen. Mr. Terry will keep the same
name all the way through, and It looks
as if it vouJd be mud.
A Model Dwelling.
It looks very much as It the tenement
house problem had been, if not solved, at
least greatly simplified by two young
women A model tenement is to be
crecced in New York before very long, and
the architects are two young women who
have beenlntheprofesslon. for severnlyears,
who have built several large apartment
nouses, and who prepared themselves for
grappling with the tenement house diffi
culty by living In a tenement themselves
for a year.
The Irouhle with the tenement in New
York has been that the houses used were
not properly designed for tenements. They
were old buildings which had seen better
days, remodeled into apartments by parti
tions, and more or less inadequate water
supply; or they were hastily erected struc
tures, built with the one idea of making
money, and tenanted by a class too
Ignorant and too careless to know what
was the matter or how to remedy it. Now
an old bulldlug is about the worst place
possible for a hive-like collection ot families
who do not know how to live propcrlj
There is no ventilation, the house having
been built originally in open ground, and
with large rooms, which have been divided
up to buit modern exigencies; and what
ventilation there- is, the tenants do not
know how to use. If people will keep
gas burning all night, and huddle together
regardless of health, and be careless about
cleanliness, they must have a house which
will ventilate itself," and in which the
water supply Is so abundant and easily
reached that there will be some encourage
ment to keep clean. Above all, the rent
must not be so high as to put the place
out of reach of the very class it should
benefit.
The new tenements arc constructed with
a view to all these things. The smallest of
the apartments has three rooms, all lighted
from the street or Inner court, so that tho
gas bill Is much less than in those cubby
holes In which two of the rooms must be
lighted artificially day and night. One
of these rooms is the living-room, another
the bedroom, and a third contains two
stationary washtubs, with a partition be
tween, which, when removed, converts
them into a bathtub. Tn the living-room
there Is a built-in range, with a place for
coal an Important "point which seems
never to have been considered by those
architects who build tenements in which
coal must be bought by the bucketful.
There is a large closet in each room. The
rent for three rooms is $8 a month. For a
six-room apartment it is S18. The floor
or the batWoniJs cemented, and the walls
arc finished in such a way that a hose can
be turned on them, thus flushing the room
thoroughly, 'Cdiitrasted with the average
tenement,) evetij the average apartment
house of more pretensions, tills tenement
appears to bo a wonder of beauty and con
venience. There are nearly fifty apart
ments in the building, and it is believed
that the stockholders will get a good per
centage on their money, along with the
comfortable certainty that they are not
making it out of human llesh and blood.
The President's couileous messuge of
Condolence to Queen Victoria, on the
death of her cousin, Princess Mary of
Cambridge. Duchess of Teck, shows Mr
McKinlcv in a pleasant light It is evi
dence that he can honor true, vigorous
patriotism In another country. Princess
Mary ot Cambridge was a notable per
sonage, aside from being a good woman
and a decorous member of the royal family
Yoars ago she was known all over the
empire as "Tho People's Tolly " Why?
Because she was also called "The Queen
of the Jingoes." It was she who headed
the popular outburst against the Russian
occupation ot Constantinople in 1878
It is very satisfactory to observe that
.Mr. MnKlnlcy can 'recognize the merit in
what Is, and generally falsely, demon
slrated "Jingoism,"
"Little Bo-Peep" "Wolcott is on his way
home, having "lost his sheep" because
the shepherd of his flock setup a naught j
little job on him, in collusion with the
still naughtier British government, which
always can be caught with a bait of
arbitration, or any other reasonable fly or
worm. If "Little Bo Peep" "Wolcott had
walked out of the St. Louis conven
tion with the rest of the silver boys, be
might not have the memory of a princely
junket to comfort him', but he would not
now be coming home "with his tail hanging
down behind him." He will have to re
sume his studies in the Republican school
with a cloud over him, and its silver lln
iug will only be worth (measured In gold)
41 cents an ounce.
"Willi the el.iction in Ohio only three
days ahead of us, there is instruction in
observing that Administration organs are
lcmarklng that "Republicans are hope
fid.' At corresponding btages ot former
campaigns jhe Republicans have been in
tho habit or claiming the earth. So, when
we see thuo "hopeful," we know from
experience anl observation that they are
quite the xeverae. All the same, they
may not 1c without a good basis for hope
It that Union" Pacific steal is sure to be
consummated, there may be money enough
in Ohm oiMonday to coin in ce a great
many douhj
ibtful voters v
who do not make
up their minds until the eleventh hour.
The scump in Ohio is a great Institution.
Mr rjanua jswiuotcd as saying that Senator
Foraker moUSJL-1 for 1,mi ai a choice
li&twetu! domgBPlat and "going to jail
With Ills friend,; Kurtz a" a companion '
t.V
The slump jflsoils the physical object
which Mr. -Harma will he "up," in case
any acddci.t should happen next Tuesday
It I3 not pleasant to read the news
brought from the Klondike region by es
caping miners. Early in September It be
came evident in Dawson City that the sup
ply of food in the district would not last
beyond January. Then a wild rubh for
se;v.', canoes, and evca rafts, began, and
all who could get nway did so. There doe
not seem much ground for hoping that the
winter will pass over without the horrors
ot btarvat'on and worse in the upper Yukon
country.
Judging froin reports ot the evidence
given at the" court of inquiry into the
alleged maltreatment of an enlisted man
at Fort Sheridan, in Illinois, who lefused
to appear before a summary court-martial,
the officers and commander of the ijobt
seem to consider it agreeable to the ethics
of military discipline that hu should hava
been tied by the. feet, dragged downstairs,
across a cobblestone roodway, and stabbed
and kicked severely by his captain while
In that condition Perhaps it was, but
If the American Army expects to attract
recruits fiom any respectable class of
citizens, the practice should be discon
tinued, ivsn at the risk of a regrettable
violation ot martial law.
They aie methodical folks in Germany.
They have an idea over there that drug
stores need to be restricted in their
operation, and their laws require that no
more than one drug store to every 1,000
people can be established; and the drug
stores which aro happy enough to get
inside this ropo arc heavily licensed
Then the druggists take their expenses
out of the customers, of course. One of
the restrictions' w hlch is Imposed upon
druggists in that land of steady habits
and sauerkraut is a remarkably sensible
one. Ali medicines to be used internally
must be put up, in round bottles, and il!
other medicincgtl-and chemicals must be
sold in hexagonal "bottles. This prevents
any person swallowing liniment or strych
nine und'jr the" impression that it is a
remedy for dyspepsia. Even if one comes
upon the bottle in tho dark, it cannot a
mistaken, under' tjiis system of things. rt
is beautiful. There is no sort of doubt
thpt we Americans ought to be more
careful about tnany things than we ;.ie.
Of course, such a' regulation as this one
about tvtties niijjlft result, in this countrv.
in a bottle trust, or something of that kind,
Which would destroy competition, and
it would also hurt the business of the
doctors considerably, but it might, ne-er-tneless,
lie a very good thing.
The Optimist.
The sun Is losing itsheat, they say;
The oceans are running dry,
And the marks of death and of decay
Are on everything under the sky.
The earth is xated to whirl In space,
Ag dry as the moon is now,
With nothing alive upon its face
They know, butjl don't know how,
And I do not bother, nor do I care,
For when this comes about
Heat and water and light and air
Will be things -I can do without,
Cleveland Leader.
Winter
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The Ladies
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!3
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AN INTERESTING REPORT.
llendercd by Chief of the Record
and Pension Office.
The annual report ot the chief of the
Record and Pension Office was submitted
yesicrday to the Secretary of War. Among
the interesting statements in the repoit are
the following:
It has frequently been urged upon
tne department that persous employed by
the States should be permitted to have
access to tlie records and to extract from
them such information as may be desired;
aud the extension of this privilege to his
torians, biographers, aud other persons en
gaged in literary pursuits, or their agents,
and even to claimants and attorneys for
persons navlng claims against the Gov
ernrnent, has been persistently demanded.
There seems to be an Impression abroad,
espeeiallyaiiiougattjrneysandclalmagents,
tliat the official records are public property,
to -which general and indiscriminate access
should be permitted, and it has been found
difficult or impossible lu many instances to
convince Interested persons that they havo
not the right to inspect the records at will
and to make -such extracts and transcripts
as may suit their Interests or caprice.
To all such applications, those of State
officials as well as those of persons ot no
official station, the department has been
compelled to apply the weU-estabUohedrule
thataccess to th& records must be denied to
NG
of the
Overcoat
Thirty times in thirty years we have made this announcement.
But it never meant what it does this season. It heralds perfection
in ready-to-wear garments puts them out of the class of ready
made as you have known it up to now ranks them with the
cleverest work turned out by the best custom tailors in the land.
They are the product of persistent plodding of improved
facilities of liberal ideas broad-guage methods experienced
judgmentexpert talent. They are the fruits of personal attention
to details. We personally selected the fabrics and trimmings.
Brought them to our own workrooms and stage by stage and
stitch by stitch they were pushed to completion under the watch
ful eye of the head of our house.
PRONOUNCED BY THE TRADE TO BE THE
FINEST GARMENTS THAT HAVE EVER
BEEN TURNED OUT.
We want you to come in and see them tomorrow if you
will. Don't feel that you've got to buy look in meas
ure the variety and the values and the prices. You won't doubt
it's five times the largest stock and as surpassing in worths as it is
in numbers. Then when you are ready to buy you'll know where
to buy.
.50
and Company
"Saks' Corner."
- , . ...,
si l tor Laaies' l op ioais worm
X J S20, in Tan Kersey, made with
raw edge, stitched and rai:ed
seams; flaps on pockets, and all lined with
heavy changeable taffetn bilk.
10
for Ladies' Top Coats worth
SI 5; made either shield or fly
front, in Black and Blue Kersey,
Tan, Irish Frieze; welt teams, flaps on
pockets and lined all through with black
or colored satin of extra good quality.
13
.50 for Rich Astrakhan Cloth
Capes, worth 18; made with 148
inch sweep and 30 inches long;
lined all through with heaw twilled satin;
front and collar trimmed with Black fur.
$T.50 for Wool Cashmere Tea
j Gowns, worth SS; made with
"Watteau back, Eton front, with
lappels over s-houluers, stiff curfs, and
elaborately trimmed with lace. A lato
season production, and the choice is
offered of Red, Green, Cadet and Light Blue.
;3
.99 for Brocaded Silk Skirts
worth 5G; choice of big variety ot
large patterns: lined with perca
line. iuterlmea and bound with velvet.
All lengths, from 39 to 40.
and Company
"Saks' Corner."
all persons not offlCally connected with
the department and legally under its
control.
Upon the recommendation ot the chief
ot the ofrice a rettuction ot 25 was made
in tho clerical force in the appropriation
for the present year, making a total re
duction of 375 clerks since the organi
zation of the Itecord and Pension Office,
representing a permanent annual saving
ot $-125,000 in salaries alone.
In all ot the reductions that have been
made in the clerical force of the ortice
the selections for discbarge were based
strictly upon the efficiency records of
the clerks, a liberal allowance leing made
in the ratings on account of honorable
military or naval service. No ex-lnion
soldier or sailor has ever been reduced
in grade or discharged in this office
except for serious misconduct on Ids part,
or because ho was so inefficient that he
could not be retained without great detri
ment to the public service, or, lu cae ot a
reduction ot the clerical force, without
unjustly dihargiug a much more, efficient
and deherviug clerk.
In 1893 30 per cent of the total force
of the office was composed of veterans;
but on July t , 1 S97, after all the reductions
i (if erred to above had been made, 36 per
cent, or considerably more than oncthird
of the total force of the office, was com
posed of veterans, beluga liiglierperccntage
thautbatlnalltbeothcrbureauaandof flees
of the department combined. Of thehigher-
mm
SB
i
-K
tock..
to$
,sM
f A tW "StV
CJ ,lli
grade clerkships, at $1,600 and $1,500,
allowed to the orrice by existintclaw, 31
per cent of the former and 65 per cent ot
the latter are filled with veterans. In the
lo'ver ,:rdes, at $1.-100, 31,200 and $1,
OOO, the pen-ontHKts of veterans ar, re
spectively. 40, 20 and 54. It is natural
that the percentage of veterans should be
smaller in the lower grades than in the
higher, because of the large num- t of
young men who havecomelntothefficein
re cnt years under civil-service laws, and
through certification by the Civil Servlc
Commission.
NEW JEHSEY'S FlNAXGliS.
Comptroller Huucoek Tenders. Cm
jiiutulntluiiM to Guv. t J r lysis.
Trenton, N. J.. Oct-30.-The-ftwsul year
of the State closed at neon today. This
afternoon State Comptroller William S.
Hancock sent the following statement of
the financial condition of the State to Gov.
Griggs:
Tody closes the fiscal year. The bal
ance in the treasury is $Q45.34a39. an in
creabe over 1893 of $221,307.77- During
tills intervening period there has Seen paid
$414,000 ot the State's debt, and expended
on bpw buildings and extension of Stat
Institutions, $1,040.337410, and Tor the
past two years distributed to the counties
Tor schoul purposes $200,000, where for
rrerly only ?100.000 waspaid-a showing
on whioa I desire to congratulate you.'
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