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In anticipation of the present great advance in prices of shoe leather,
we ordered last summer double-our usual quantity of Fall Shoes. Our
buyer at that time scoured the rountry. and wherever he came across a
good manufacturer with a stock of good-wearing leather on hand he con
tracted for all the Shoes we could use. In consequence, our three big
stores and all our surplus stockrooms are now packed and jammed with
Fall and Winter Shoes that other dealers would gladly pay us a hand
aome profit on. We are, however, selling these Shoes direct to the con
sumers only at our famously-low old prices and by so doing our volume
of sales is almost twice as large as it was during the fall of a year ago.
Advertised prices indicate but very little come tomorrow and see
the great qualities we are offering at the following prices. They are,
without a doubt, the very best Shoe values to be had in America:
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Mannish
Boots at
Those popular mannish Ladies'
Boots, with heavy extension
edge, double soles usually found
only In the highest-priced grades-
can be bad here at 2.
They are well made, of good
quality kid or box calf, and
will prove as comfortable and
durable as any $3 Shoes.
3 EXTRA VALUES FOR MEN.
$2.00
HandSewed Shoes.
Beat quality Casoo
Calf Laced Shoes,
wit genuine oak
tanned double soles,
Uttelon edge, on
two nobby, comfortable
styler-Booes that
can posttlvelr not
be duplicated today
under $2.50 a pair.
For Real $3 Values.
Hand-sewed Double
sole Tan Russia Calf,
Patent Leather,
Black Vicl Kid,
Box, and Wax Calf
Laced and Gaiters
undoubtedly the best
and most stylish
Shoes to be bad this
season for $3 and $3.60.
25c 69c $1.15 $1.19
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Men's and Boys' and Boys' $1.50 Ladies' Vicl
Ladies' All-wool Girls' Vici KiS QHty Kid stylish
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Sac grade t $1 grade Laced Dressy Laced 6 different
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The Field About Washington for
Snleudid Pietnres.
Tlie 1'af.Hins: of Thin Brilliant Style
of Art ItefinlnK the I'nljUc Taste
for Subduct! Harmonic A. Tribute
to Jarvls JleBiitec I,ocaI Pointers
Hard at "Work Mnkinj? SUctehcs.
Yaea the maple tarn to crimson
Amo tie aaau-as to gold.
Taylor.
The woods were never more magnificent
jUBywbere than they were last week in thiB
neighborhood; gorgeous indeed. There
'-were shadowy places in glens along Rock
Greek and the Potomac where one might
noy color carnivals of such rare beauty
'as to recall those low harmonies of smol
dering color in stained glass that so charm
ore's senses in continental cathedrals.
There is a fascination about this aspect
cf near-by autumn foliage that is not to
,be found in wider views, where the color
"Is sometime crude and discordant. In a
lre appreciation of the beauty of nature,
tbore is so much in proportion and re!a
tkn. One color may not be remarkable
?or more beautiful than another, and yet j
T,roay be so lighted, centred and surrounded .
"by other colors as to seem perfect in it
self. I
Ke arrangement of autumn leaves one !
might gather could look otherwise than j
lame on a brilliant up-10-aate riooou
counter. The writer has tried this experi
ment and the result Is interesting. The
.utHumn leaves, though they seem to be
r-wMeiy dftCoring shades of red. crimson,
prpe, ye!lo, orange and green, have
rtiH roturfng through them a warm yellow
-. Dote la the same way that the golden per---rates
a choice Rembrandt and produces
"thai harmony without which no color effect
jl ever entirely satisfactory.
TIic Artists' Complaint.
Artists-complain that the public is too
'font of the spectacular and cheap, and not
.nitbout reason, perhaps, for people are
Indeed too apt to want a sunset that, when
painted faithfully, is as likely to seem the
.representation of a conflagration ; and in
ruckus pictures there must be plenty of
red, and yellow in such quantities, as to
xaeke the gold frame shrink before so much
crpoe color.
The uncultured are not unlike the street
urohtns who swarm as thick as flies about
the base drum when the Marine Band goes
down the Avenue. One of the unmiak
vfeble evidence of increasing culture on the
part of the public is the growing tendency
of picture buyers to pass the canvas that
is loud in color. If one has never seen a
landscape painter rapt In admiration be
fore some clump of brilliant sumac in a
bramble of weeds and briers which pre
sented a setting of every shade of purple,
russe, at I r"fy to this one touch of brll-
Har:t color Lf cannot understand now au-
-rjjLi dee; y enjoyable are tne quiet-
r.ibdcd aspects of autumn. Jt
.ura hai an onlooker Is sorely
.cc the painter whose
.Us fails to do full jus-
Rmcon-trri'fcd maple whose
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Boots for Women,
We fully believe that all other
Washington dealers together have
not sold nearly as many $3- Shoes
this season as we have sold of this
one line.
The "Wi-mo-dau-sis" Shoes rep
resent the very best workmanship,
best materials, that can possibly be
found in any shoes sold under ?5.
They are made in a variety of the
best styles, suited to the various
tastes of all wives, mothers, daugh
ters, and sisters.
Stylish Ladies' C A
Shoes for v - Vc
Just received several hundred
pairs of the best-looking Laced and
Button Boots, of Vici Kid and
Box Calf we've ever seen sold
for $2. Tnese Shoes will
fit perfectly, and every pair
is backed up by our guarantee
for durability in all kinds of
weather conditions.
TiipIeVear Shoes.
The best-wearing
Tan Shoes we know
of lined with
best vici kid.
A written guarantee
with every pair,
insuring the wearer
to a free half-sole
should the first
soles wear through
in 3 months.
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foliage shade's down through every degree
of brilliant orange to pale yellow. These
features, the painter knows, tear his com
position all to pieces, and therefore the
maple must be tamed down that it may
not interefere with the unity of his pic
ture. Many Different View-Points.
There are so many ways of looking at a
subject; each painter gives his individual
impression, and, upon the artistic sensi
tiveness of each, depends his success with
the motive. One may be impressed with
the brilliancy of color, and his canvas
blazes correspondingly; another may find
his deepest enjoyment in certain subtle
relations and harmonies, which, to prop
erly represent, requires a subduing and
quieting of the bright colors, and so the
room for individual differences of impres
sion is unlimited. Their technique may
be equal and leave nothing to be desired
in that connection, but there must be a
wide difference in the artistic value of the
result. Of this much one may be very
sure: that one of the painters who is
truly a poet, and has a- genius for color
harmonies, must make the finer picture.
Amcrlenn Painters of Autumn.
Among the American painters of au
tumn, the most noted was Jarvls McEntee.
He was the leader, and, more than any
other painter, was a specialist. This ex
cellent painter died a few years ago, leav
ing behind him a series of autumn pictures
that were individual and distinguished.
His mothod was rather ilmid, and charac
teristic of the school of American land
scape painting which immediately preced
ed the present, with Its more vigorous and
virile technique. There is a senseless nar
rowness on the part of present-day paint
ers, with which the writer has no pa
tience. It is so much the custom of the
younger set nowadays to sneer at the con
servative methods of McEntee and the N.
A.'s of his day.
The phrase "Hudson River School" is
used with such sweeping recklessness, onr
would like to devote a column to their
defence, for they deserve it.
While the writer is not lacking in ap
preciation of their shortcomings, he pro
tetts against the indiscriminate condemna
tion of these able and earnest men. No
one has yet ax rived who has shown so wide
a knowledge and so keen an apperciation
of that peculiar aspect of autumn when
all the foliage has turned to red and gold
and the atmosphere is full of light and a
violet, rosy haze.
aL6t week there were some such days
and the writer exclaimed over and over
again, "How true McEntee was to these
perfect autumn days." McEntee's art was
one of the writer's earliest passions and it
is stfll an inspiration. One regrets that
the only example of his work at the Cor
coran Gallery should be so little character
istic of that aspect of nature McEntee loved
most and painted best.
The picture referred to is a dramatic,
spectacular eastern sky at sunset, excel
lent in its way, but a studio experiment
that never should have found a permanent
place in a public gallery, unless It was ac
companied by some fairer example of his
method and taste. There is in one of tne
private collections hero a small example
of McEntee, a bit of New England on a
sunny autumn day, which is perfectly
charming, containing, as it does, to a re
markable degree, all of those qualities of
color, composition, light, and tone for
which McEntee was distinguished.
Today we have no specialists in au
tumn subjects who devote themselves to
this season as McEntee did, and it 13 a
little curious, fr the seasou is not less
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p&lntable than It was in his time. Some
notable canvases of autumn have been
painted by present-day men It. M.
Shurtleff and Bolton Jones, perhaps,
having made the most distinguished
and satisfactory pictures of this season.
Bliss Baker, whose untimely death at an
early age of thirty was a great loss to
American art, was very successful with au
tumn wood Interiors. One particular ex
ample of his work was a point of interest
lo students in the American section at tho
Chicago Exposition. This picture was con
spicuous for its fine tree-drawing and its
wonderful realism. There was little color,
A single sapling, a maple In the foreground,
with its pale, bleached, yellow leaves, was
intensely autumnal lii its feeling, and told
of the waning year with great delicacy and
endernoss.
Of the American artists who painted au
tumn pictures to a greater or less extent.
J F. Kensett, William Hart, Sanford R.
Gifford, and J. F. Cropsey may be recalled,
731 Seventh Street
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Largest cans
Tomatoes,
each.
Very Best Burbank Potatoes just
received by the carload from New
York State. This week 65c bu.
Twelve boxes of the large 200
size Blue Hen Matches. This week
15c. ......
Four pounds of Java and Mocha
Coffee (th,e large grain kind), worth
30c lb. this week 4 lbs. for $ 1 .00.
The Eagle Brand-Condensed
Milk, very fresh stock because we
sell it rapidly. This week 15c can.
Best Family
is
sruaranted
Price, $3.90 bbl.
800 packages
Gelatine, the 15c
5c package.
1,800 cakes
trie Star Soap,
This week 23c.
200 packages
Corn Starch, worth
This week 5c each.
800 pounds of Good, New, Large
Grain Plump Rice, worth 10c lb.
This week 7Kc.
Forty bushels of Good Sweet
Potatoes and Yams, worth 80c bu.
This week 50c bu.
S00 pounds of Good, Fresh Beef
for boiling and stewing, worth 9c lb.
This week 5c lb.
i George L. Brown made some reputation
with autumn pictures but they were lather
. of a studio variety and so indifferently true
! to nature that, while they weie immensely
popular in his time and brought oxtrava
! gant prices, they are seldom ueard of now
adays. Brown's reputation In fashionable
circles rested largely on the fact that the
Prince of Wales purchased a big showy
canvas of his, representing American au
tumn. It was a view, of Mount Washing
ton in New Hampshire.
Efforts of T;oc"n, fainter.
The Iocalfcpaintersh4vo been busy at
every a'vluhtblc "opportunity, making
sketches of the charming effects that may
be found and arc so oasfiy reached in this
vicinity. The enthusiast of these artist
Is good to see. They are quite coutentel
and feel very sure that in no remote jilacc,
North or South, Enst 01 west, coum ine
i fare better than they Jo iicre at hme
of Best Standard
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Flour every
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This winter's exhibitions will be full or
pictures of local subjects, and it will b?
a revelation to many a visitor who is not
familiar v. Ith the picturesque places that
abound in and about Washington.
JAMES HENRY MOSER.
OjieratliifC "Willi linens CUt'cUs.
BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 21. Bogus
check operators are at work in Baltimore,
and the police are searching for them.
Arrests may soon follow. A number of
well-known business men have recently
been victimized. The scheme being worked
is to order a small bill of goods to be
delivered at a certain house. The person
sent with the goods is either met on the
street or on the front doorstep by a man
claiming that the goods are for him. He
gives a check, usually for $5, and is given
the change after the amount of the bill
is deducted. The checks so far have all
been worthless. A large number of vic
tims have already complained to the police.
FJERE is a rare opportunity for the men who are looking
A for a "good thing" at a lo;v price.
These shois.we offer. pr $2.50 represent a big manufact
urer's ba'ance of this season's style-!. They were dosed out
to us at a price and we will give them to you at a dollar a
pair ie than they are worth. The styles are in the new
round toe shoas are hand
regular $3.50 qualities now
Winter Russets Russia Calf Black Box
Calf Enamel English Caif.
FRENCH SA?1IS BAMS
Use of the Institutions Widespread
Anions: All Classes.
Consul Covert SulnnltH Statistics
From Recent ItciiortJ Xearly
Seven Million Deposits AverndnK
?IOO Encli - One Saver to Every
Fnmily-Schoolcliiltlreii's Accounts
John C. Covert, the American Consul at
Lyons, has sent to the State Department
the following report on the savings banks
of France and the almost universal prac
tice among the people of depositing in
them:
"A report has just been made to the
Government on the operations of the sav-
I Ings banks of France for the year 1S97.
"The number of savings banks in France
on December 31, 1386 (545), bad not
changed during the year, but IS bad estab
lished branches, which increased the num
ber of branch banks to 1.181. In addition
to this, 350 tax collectors bad represented
60 banks in 30 departments. The number
of bank books in use in December, 1S97,
was 6.772.5S2. The sum due depositors was
3,427.096,8SS francs ($651,329,700). The to-
tnl rnpointc rtiirinp- th voar. incllldinic de-
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posits, the interest earned for depositors.
and the arrearages left by them on deposit,
reached 835.016.017 francs ($161,153,091)
The disbursements in money, in the pur
chase of Government bonds, deposits to
account of old-age pension fund, and ly the
reduction of accounts passing the legal
limit of 1.500 francs ($2S9.50), aggregated
799 259.9S9 francs ($154,257,17$). The amount
paid in interest was about 100,000,000
francs ($19,300,000). The sum total of de
posits is nearly one-tenth less than the
disbursements.
"Compared with 1S96. there was an In
crease of about 20,000.000 francs ($3,960.
000) In the deposits of 13S7.
"A law of 1S95 fixed th maximum of de
posits at 1,500 francs ($289.50), interest in
cluded, except for old depe in, for whom
the limit is 2,000 francs (f
"Among depositors, the n exceed the
women in number, the r 'ooting up to
3.540.5S2; the second, 3. A. The num
ber of minors was 95, doys and 92.S00
girls.
"There is one deposltorsfinr every 5 1-2
persons in the country, on ITS for every
1,000 inhabitants.
"Since 1835, when the enumeration of de
positors was begun, the increase has been
constant. At that time the ratio was 4
per 1,000; in 1SG0 it was 31; in 1870, 5S; in
1880, 104; in 1S90, 151.
"The following details are noted among
the depositors:
"Persons at the head of some agricul-
luruj, iutiusu mi, ui tuuiuicivini luicicai
men, 29.2SS; women, 19,833. Farm hands,
all who work for wages on farms men,
31.47G; women, 20.16S. Persons working in
mills, factories, at any employment not
exclusively agricultural, dressmakers,
washerwomen, ironers. milliners, even
those owning small establishments of their
own men, 37.36S; women, 31,907. Hired
servants, valets de chambre, etc. men,
15.641; women. 32.05S. Soldiers and ma
rines, in which class are included not only
men who belong to the army and navy, but
gendarmes. Held guards, gamekeepers, po
licemen, and custom house employes men,
4,754; women, 1.170. Employes in offices,
public administrative offices, conductors,
letter carriers, clerks, and typewriters
men. 15,516; women, 4,847. The liberal pro
fessions men, 4,719: women. 2.663. Per
sons without professions, including married
women who have their own private bank
account meu, 18,244: women. 56,973. School
children boys, 19.795; girls, 16.1S6.
"Since 1SS2. 526.596 new accounts have
en opened by minors, viz Boys, 231,262;
been
girls, 295,334. The excess among the lat
ter is attributed to the larger number ot
girls employed as domestics, living in a
family and not subjected to so many temp
tations for spending their money. It to
very common for French children to have
a bank account, and they will always tell
you, in a somewhat boastful way, how
many francs or hundreds of francs they
have in the bank.
"In the common schools, the children de
posit with their teachers from 1 sou (1 cent)
upward, and a representative of the savings
bank comes around once a month to collect
these little hoards. If a child deposits but
1 sou he receives in return a very small
livret, or bank book. When his deposits
reach the sum of 1 franc (19.3 cents), his
importance entitles him to a 'grand livret.'
Many children, or parents for them, de
posit in an endowment fund, which is to
provide them with a capital of 5,000 or
10,000 francs on reaching their majority.
"Nearly every father and mother en
deavors to make provision for starting their
A manufacturer's balance
of fine Fall Shoss, maile
up to sell for $3.50, to go
at
sewed and
on sale at
Shoes Shined Free.
children in the world, to provide the stria
with a marriage portion or with a good
outfit in the way of clothing and furniture
for an apartment, the boy with an educa
tion, knowledge of a trade, and means mi
earning a livelihood.
"The amount owned by the savings banks
in 1897 was 11S.500.8O0 francs (?22.870,r.Q),
which was invested in Government bonds,
real estate, and mortgage."
THE HAItTFORD COMPLETED.
First
Tvcln Screw Steamer
Ever
Built in Baltimore.
BAL.TIMORB. Oct. SL Tomorrow there
will leave the Cotambiaw Iron Works tfee
first twin-screw merchant steamer evc
built in Baltimore. She is the steamer
Hartford, built 4Jtere for the Hartford &nd
New York TransporUtkMi Company. Te
Hartford is a steel vessel of 1,488 tans
gross register, 253 feet long, 38 1-J feet
oeam. and 9 feet depth of hold. She was
contracted for last January to be com
pleted in nine months, and was accepted
on the expiration of the contract time.
She has bees delayed by the fitting out of
the interior, most of which was furnished
by contract with Straw bridge ft Clothier,
of Philadelphia.
The Hartford is a sister ship of the Mtd
dletowo. owned by the New York aad
Hartford Transportasioa Company, and
run on the same route upon whieh the new
craft will pry when ready for the ocean.
The vessel under construction, will make
the night trip between New York and
Hartford, and in addition to the sixty or
more staterooms, capable of accommodat
ing twice as many passengers, she will
carry a large freight. The Hartford has
t , saloon and hurricane decks. Tn
captain's and officers quarters and the
chart room are abaft of the pilot aosse,
and. accommodations for the crew are
forward.
Twin screws, driven by independent
compound engines, with cylinders 29 inches
and 40 inches diameter, with 28 inches
stroke of piston, furnish the motive power.
The four boilers. 10 feet 3 inches in diam
eter and 13 feet long, will give speed for
15 knots an hour. The screw are $1-3
feet in diameter and of the outward throat
type. She has two smokestacks, to this
respect differing from the Middletown.
On the Hartford are all the latest Im
provements. She is supplied with electric
lights and search lights, improved metallic
lifeboats and the stockless anchors and
Hyde windlass and capstans.
The saloon is finished in cherry, white,
and gold. Ail the appointments of a flrst
class night steamer have been Incorporated
, in the Hartford, and she is expected to he
come a great favorite between New York
, and Hartford. She will make her first trip
j from New York on Tuesday or Ttaraaday
i night next.
t Capt. Thomas B. Lewis will pilot the
j ship to New York, and engineers from the
. Columbian Iron Works will work her aaa-
ehinery. A crew is on board, who were
i sent from Hartford. Xr. Eugene Williams,
who has superintended the steamer, will
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GE2FEP.AI, GRBELY KKFUIEWS.
The Chief Signal OHlcer Talfcn of HI
Vinit to Germany.
Gen. A. W. Greely. Chief of the United
States Signal Corps, returned to Washing
ton yesterday after several weeks in Eu
rope, where be was a delegate to the sev
enth International Geographical Congress,
at Berlin. General Greely had a Ions talk
with Prince Hohentobe. the German Caan
chellor. and was a guest at a dinner given
by the prince, to eighteen delegates of the
Congress. The prince referred to the in
surrection in the Philippines, and assured
General Greely that Germany was not un
friendly to the United 3tate3. General
Greely said yesterday to a Times reporter:
' Prince Hohenlohe expressed the utmost
confidence that the efforts of the United
States to bring about conditions in the
Philippines satisfactory to the world would
( be successful. He remarked: 'Undoubted-
ly it will be well done, as Americana al
ways do things.' "
General Greely said yesterday that he was
surprised at the assurances of German
friendship for the United States, la no
quarter v. as there a suggestion of un
friendly feeling. He frequently heard the
statement made by offieia's that the only
rivalries between Germany and tho United
States would be along industrial snt eco
nomic lines. Among the delegate from
the United States to the Gjog.apalal Con
gress in addition to General Greely were
Ambassador Andrew D. Wh.te. Stare us
Baker, of the Venezuelan Commission, and
Major Allen, the Military Attache to I he
American Embassy In Berlin.
"The city of Berlin gave us a banquet of
1.200 plates in the Zoological Garden." sukl
General Greely. "and there I met Baton
Thielman, former Ambassador to the
United Suites, and Count Gertxen. In
Hamburg, another dinner of 1J9 plates
was given the congress In a building avert
ed especially for the occasion."
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