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l’lRIS Plaid GOSSIP
A PARISIAN POINT OF VIEW
Attitude of Senator Gray and Others of
the AmeriCan Commission. The Spanish
,Bepresentatives leon More Discretion
airy Power. Commissioners Received
. {lily DI. Delcasse.
”Paris, Sept..29.—The United States
Fpeace commission went into session at
ecleven o'clock yesterday.
The Gaulois says: “In spite. of tho
“:vmystery surrounding the matter, we
.are able, from a high source, to give
:an outline of the position of both com—
:missions. While the Americans hth‘
~t-rinstructions which are much more pre-
wcise than those of the Spaniards, there
is a diversity of opinion in regard to
'sthe Philippines. Senator Gray is a
“Very ardent Democrat and, consequent-
.:.‘iy, belongs to the party which repudi-
- ates expansion. He opposes all annex-
; ntion, and his opinion, therefore, total-
131 differs from that of the other four
commissioners, some of whom would
the content with a coaling station at
-~-4l-l : Philippines, possibly Cavite, while
a hers, like Senator Davis, advocate
:1: le annexation of the whole of the
:rnrchipelago.”
.Thepaper, :however, believes that the
leanericans, by mutual concessions, will
come to an agreement, and that they
will all be largely influenced by Ma.
jor General Merritt’s reports on the
(situation.
The instructions to the Spanish com-
"mission, according to the Gaulois, are,
briefly, to hold out and make the best
uterms possible.
iMadrid is well aware, it appears.
‘lthat the conferences, at the best, only
have to please the Spanish people, and
.zrihe only hopes entertained are that the
.‘ Americans will not abuse the situation
7. too much. Popular sentiment in Spain
tithinks [is better to abandon the Phil-
z:3~ippines zthan Ito keep them under con-
1...; ditions irender-ing them ungovernable.
«p-11uringfhe. afternoon the American
"‘c'dmmissioners assisted at their first
formal entertainment in France—their
snowman by the minister of foreign af-
fl’airs,~::M.- Delcasse; At. threeo‘clock
fie"Uiiited ‘St'artes ambassador, General
_..Horace Porter. called at the Continen-
"ac-“raisin for the Americans. He took
1. 'l three-15f 't’hem into his own’ carriage and,
2' --'the remainder, with Secretary Moore.
followed in another carriage through
-. Lilli? Pile de Rivoli, over the Place de la
"Cc-uorde, across the river Seine, to
the ministry of foreign affairs. 1
M. Henri Vignaud, the secretary of
fill-re ”Ini‘ted States embassy, led the
‘ ~uvnyfinio'the building. General Por-,
’10 ter,.“Jude-e Day and the others follow-
».=:sa. “Elie party was received immedi-
‘3135Q‘E’ by M. Delcasse, who cordially
greeted the visitors.
Through M. Vignaud, who acted as
interpreter, M. Delcasse only speaking
lErenCh, the party chatted briefly upon
:genera'llties, and the minister finally
:assured the commissioners of the great
ypleasure experienced by France in the
wart she has taken in effecting a sus-
;: pension of hostitlities between Spain
rand the United States, and expressed
vine lhope of having the pleasure of
umce‘t’ing the American commissioners
“and the Spanish commissioners at
breakfast to-day.
LVL Delcasse added that after having
{thus ’brought the two commission's to-
;getherand offering them the hospitali-
ties of the Salon de Conference, the.
F‘F‘reuch government would efface it-
laself.
Judge Day, as president of the Unit-
ed States commission, responded. He
said that the United States appreci-
ates the cr00d offices of France and af-
fter M. Delcasse had expressed his plea-
sure at such recognition of the disin-
terestdness of France, the interview
ended and the Americans retired.
The minister of foreign affairs, at
12.30 p. m. to-day, will give a break-
fast at the foreign office to the United
States and Spanish commission, thus
rbringing them together for the rst
.-*time.
The session of the United States c0m~
~mission did not result in anything be—
“ting given out for publication.
The Spread of Yellow Jack.
Louisville, Ky., Sept. 29,—Repm‘ts
”from the stricken districts show that
”the yellow fever outbreaks are not yet
xnnder control. Five new cases, all ne-
~groes, are in Jackson, Miss. Other re-
agports are as follows:
At Taylors—Total to date, 82; whites
74, colored 8, critically ill 4. deaths to
zi-date 8. '
Orwood—Two new cases and one
. death. Total to date, 67; white, 57; col-
1- vored, 10; deaths, 3.
The Louisiana board of health makes
‘ the following report: Total in the city,
’ ., one new case, one death. In Wilson,
v eight new cases. In Franklin, to date.
129 cases and five deaths.
Cuban Army of Occupation.
”.Wl'ashington, Sept. 29.—Colonel Heck-
«cr is now engaged in preparing a re-
port for Secretary Alger on the ports
5' that are available for use as a point of
« embarkation for the Cuban army of oc-
. cupation. ,
' Six places are under consideration—
" Charleston, Port Royal. Savannah,
Brunswick, Jacksonville and Tampa,
.LFla.
Surgeon General Sternberg says_that
~"Secretary Alger will decide in a day
or two the location of the permanent
dwinter hospital to be established in the
...South for the treatment of sick sole
rdiers. It will be established either at
.':Savannah or Charleston.
Zola’s House to Be Sold.
. “Paris, Sept. 29.—The house and fur-
a;, "niture of Emil Zola are about to be
2;: sold to satisfy a judgment of thirty
“ thousand francs obtained against him
’by three handwriting experts who re-
cently won a libel suit growing out of
zthe Dreyfus case against the author.
Central Park Lions Die.
New York, Sept. 29.—Sunperintend-
' - ent Smith of the Central Park menage-
.rie is perplexed over a peculiar form
of ailment in his animal family in Cen-
\tral park. Two lion cubs recently died
and the Royal Bengal tiger is ill.
c~a"‘ n.- "M.
WAR SECRETARY RETURNS.
flock in Washington from His Tour of
Southern Camps.
Washington, Sept. 29,—Secretary Al-
ger arrived in Washington yesterday
morning from his tour of military
camps in the South. He was accom<
panied by Quartermaster General Lud-
ington and Colonel Frank Hecker of
the quartermaster’s department; Sur-
geon General Sternberg and Major Geo.
H. Hopkins, military aide to the score-
tary.
Secretary Alger had his breakfast at
home and then went to the White
House for abrief visit to the president
on his way to the war department.
The secretary reached his office before
0.30 o’clock and at once became so busy
in consultations with heads of bureaus
of the department that he declined to
receive unofficial visitors. His first
business on reaching the department
was to have a conference lasting more
than an hour with adjutant General
Corbin. Attorney General Griggs was
present during a part of the interview.
Secretary Alger has not announced
whether he will make a formal state-
ment for the public in regard to the
results of his trip, but it is probable
that he will do so.
The quartermaster general and the
surgeon general had nothing to say
about their visit to southern camps,
preferring to leave any public state-
ment to the head of the war depart-
, ment.
The secretary will now take up act-
ively the preparations for the garrison-
ing of Cuba and for the safe and com-
fortable quartering of the reserve
troops left in the United States. Gen-
eral arrangements were made in the
course of his trip for the embarkation
of the garrison forces from Charleston
and Savannah.
Major General Fitzhugh Lee, who has
been summoned from Jacksonville, is
expected to arrive in Washington on
Friday next for a consultation with the
war department officials in regard to
his part in thte Cuban occupation.
Surgeon General Sternberg called on
the president at ten o’clock and made
a brief informal report. of his observa-
tions in southern army camps. '
Linseed Oil Aflhirs
St. Louis, Sept. 29.—The report of the
committee of local stockholders of the
National Linseed Oil Company appoin-
ted to investigate the affairs of the
company,‘ls kept from the public, but
it was freely admitted that the affairs
of the company were found to be in a
much worse»condltion than even the
most bitter opponents of the present
management expected.
George L. Edwards, president of the
local stockholders organization and
chairman of the committee that inves-
tigated the books, said:
“The report of the committee is of
such a nature and the affairs of the
company are in such a condition that
the interests of the stockholders render
it absolutely necessary for me to re-
fuse to make a. statement.”
‘ G. Lacey Crawford and John H.
Maxson. stockholders, admitted that
affairs were worse than had been ex-
pected.
The Oregon Ready for Manila
New York, Sept. 29.—The battleship
Oregon, which, with the Iowa, has
been ordered to Manila, to join Rear
Admiral Dewey's fleet, left the Brook-
lyn navy yard early yestetrday, and at
9.12 anchored off Tompkinsville, S. I.,
where she will wait for her consort.
The latest orders require that the trip
be made in two instead of four months,
as at first intended, and as a result the
big battleship is heavily loaded with
coal and ammunition. Of the former
she has 1,460 tons, and more than 500
tons of powder, it being necessary to
construct temporary magazines for the
reception of the latter.
The Iowa, it is expected, will leave
the yard to—day, when the two war-
ships will start on their long voyage.
The delay is understood to be caused
by delay in securing sufficient ammuni-
tion for the Iowa.
Agoncillo Delays His Call.
“"ashington, Sept.
retary and interpreter, Mr. Lopez, took
no steps yesterday toward the execu-
tion of the mission on which they came
to Washington.
Agoncillo said, through his interpre-
government, asking authority to solicit
an interview with the president and
requesting full instructions. He had
received no response thus far and he
said he had nothing to add as to his
personal views, expressed in numer-
ous interviews since he reached this
country.
As to Admiral Dewey’s seizure of a
ship carrying insurgent arms, Agon-
clllo said this was outside of his mis-
sion, and he had no purpose to open ne-
gotiations on it.
Railway Wreck in Nova Scotia
Halifax, N. S., Sept. 29.—A special ex«
cursion train on the way to the Hall-
fax exhibition from Pictou yesterday,
ran into a working train near Steller-
ton.
James .Sproull, engineer; Michael
O’Brien, engineer; W. G. Henderson,
and William Cameron, Scotch Hill,
Pictou county. a passenger, were kil-
led; John McMillan of Pictou, a pas-
senger, was injyred.
A Fistic Encounter.
New York, Sept. 29.—Jim Corbett and
Kid McCoy, the heavyweight pugilists,
came to blows in the Gllsey house yes-
terday afternoon. Neither man scored
a knockout, but the blows were handed
out at a lively rate while the fight las-
ted. The set-to was witnessed by a
good sized crowd, and a. minute after
it was over the corridors .of the hotel
were jammed.
Major-Gen. Merritt at Port Said. '—
Port Said, Egypt, Sept. 29.—Major
General Wesley Merritt, United States
army, his aides-de-camps, Majors Stro-
ther and Hale and Captain Mott How-
ell, the general's secretary, passed here
to-day on board' the steamer Arcadia,
on their way to Marseilles and Paris.
«on. Merritt’s Report in Washington
.Washington, Sept. 29.—General Mer-
mitt’s report of the battlelof Manila
has been received at the war depart-
ment and will be made public in a few
days. ‘
' The New'fiampshiro Senalor Says Bureau
Chiefs Are to Blame.
Washington, Sept. 29.——Senator Chan-
‘dler of New Hampshire, who is in
Washington, for the first time since
the war; in an interview yesterday
spoke of mistakes which hadvbeen
made. He said that every one con-
cerned had tried to do his best and
that everyone praised President Mc-
Kinley for his work in the war.
The blame, he said, 'did not rest with
Secretary Alger, as he had had too lit-
tle power. Nearly every act of his
must be performed through a bureau
chief, appointed for life and over whom
he has little control.
“This,” said Senator Chandler, “is a
most unwise organization of the war
department, but it is the existing sys—
tem, and while it prevails it is abso-
lutely ridiculous to charge a secretary
of war with inefficiency or anything
else but downright corruption, which
is not here asserted. The actual re-
sponsibility for omissionsor neglect is
with the quartermaster general, the
surgeon general, the chief of ordnance
and the other line officials. They must
bear it in full measure in the pending
investigation. .
“The only reason why Secretary Al—
ger is selected for attack instead of
the bureau chiefs," continued Senator
Chandler, “is because the Democrats
think party capital may be made by
attacking him while it cannot be made
by attacking them."
Important Postal Ruling.
Washington, Sept. 29.——-Postmaster
General Emory Smith has modified
previous rulings of the department in
definition of third class mail matter.
Under this latest ruling all impres-
sions obtained upon paper or card—
board by means of printing, engraving.
lithography or any other mechanical
process easy to recognize, except the
typewriter, letter or manifold copy, are
held to be printed matter, if not in the
nature of an actual and personal cor-
respondence.
must be regarded as personal corres—
pondence and unmailable at the third
copies of manuscript or typewriting
obtained by a mechanical process, are
assimilated to printing and may be re-
garded as third class matterfiprovided
they are presented for mailing at the
postofllce windows and in minimum
number of twenty perfectly identical
copies. If mailed elsewhere or in less
number, postage'at first class rate must
be required."
.New York “fool Exchange Closes.
New York, Sept. 29..-—The Wool Ex-
change, that occupies the magnificent
building at Beach street and West
Broadway, has suspended for an in-
definite time. . The following statement
was made yesterday by President Al-
lan Macnaughtan.
“Owing to the depressed condition of
the wool market,.and it appearing that
improvement in that direction is not
likely to‘occur for some time, it has
been deemed advisable for the best in-
terests of the corporation and its stock-
holders to discontinue ail further op-
erations in wool until a, better outlook
presents itself and until further no-
tice.
“The corporation, however, will (ls--
vote its energies to the advancerm—ur.
of its other more profitable business
interests. The corporation is in era-ea-
lent financial condition, having no lion-
ting debts of any kind.
Bishop Poi ter l’icsideu.
pine delegate, Agoncillo, and his sec- -
ter, that he had cabled to the home '
fireman; John R. McKenzie, firemanfi
New York, Sept. 23.——The Protestant
Episcopal convention of the diocese of
New York, presided over by Bishop
Potter, began its 115th annual session
at 10 o’clock yesterday morning in
Grace church chapel, in East Fourt-
eenth street, near First avenue.
This convention, which will continua-
for two days with an equal number of
sittings each day, is said to be impor-
Itant from the fact that it convenes
vent-ion, which is scheduled to open on
October 5, in the Church of the Epiph-
any.
ijust one week before the general con--
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I Washington, Sept. 29.—The treasury
department has decided to anticipate
interest on United States bonds due
November 1.
On the five per cents about $1,250,000
will be paid, on the four per cents $1,-
623,500 and on the new three per cents
something less than $1,500,000, making
in all about $4,250,000.
The coupons will. be paid on Octo-
ber 10, the fours and fives on the 20th,
and the threes as soon thereafter as
possible.
Colored Republicans for Roosevet.
Saratoga, Sept. 29,—The colored Re-
publican state convention was held here
yesterday and was presided over by
Samuel Moran of New York city.
[ Resolutions were adopted indorsing
' the action of the Republican state con-
yve_ntion held here Tuesday, and prom-
‘ ising the undivided support of the col-
écred organization to the entire Repub-
- lican state ticket, headed by Theo--
dore Roosevelt. .
China’s New Ruler.
% London, Sept. 29.—-A dispatch from
Shanghai says:
It is reported that Great Britain, the
United States and Japan are disposed
to question the constitution of the gov-
ernment as open to usurpation.
The family of Li Hung Chang, fear-
ing the populace, have gone to Port
Arthur to be under the protection of
the Russians.
Colorado Forest Fires.
Denver, Sept. 29.—Great fires are de-
vastating timber on the main range.
Serious damage is reported, and min-
ing camps and ranches are threatened.
Among the fire centers are Routt
county, Egoria. Park, along the Roar-
ing Fork river and in the San Juan
river region.
Queensland’s Premier Dvad
Brisbane. Queensland, Sept. 29.—'l‘he
Hon. Joseph i-xyrnes, premier of
Queensland, is dead. Heywas born in
1860 and was formerly attorney general
and solicitor general of Queensland.
Japanese Cabinet Minister Resigns.
Yok0hama, Sept. 29.—Minister of jus—
tice Ohigashi has - resigned from the
cabinet.
Matter prepared by the typewriter .
class rate of postage, but the fac simile '
- Blouse \Vnists "for Girls.
Although girls of twelve and four-
teen wear the regulation shirt waist
with standing collar and jaunty tie
now, the stores devoted to garments
for children’s wear make a specialty
of fancy waists and bIOuses, which are
much more becoming and youthful
looking.
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A pretty model is the full blouse of
lawn or dimity, gathered in at the
"waist, and trimmed with ruffles of the
material. These blouses are either
made with the large sailor collar or
sniall turned-down affair, with cuffs to
match. A narrow ruffle also adorns
the hand down the centre of the front.
Heir Cloth. for Outdodr ' Costumes.
- The newest vicuna cloths for trav-
elling, yachting, and cycling are wide
diagonals of very fine, soft wool,
roughly woven, in a single color such
as gray, blue, or fawn, and notably in
navy blue, or else in two shades of a
color. More- novel than these are the
pretty diagonals in contrasting colors,
green with brown or violet. gray with
rose or silver, blue with white or al-
mond. Raised silk cords form stripes
in black or dark brown on sheer light-
weight wools of delicate summer co-
loring.
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Stove Gasoline is used
to-day for every cooking
purpose by over 2,000,000
housekeepers, who find it
cleaner, cheaper, more con-
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and Stove Gasoline, write to the Standard
Oil Company, New York City.
WATGH mun WEIGHT.
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you may soon be in a precarious con-
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