Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1892 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL; WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1892.

THE DAILY J OURNAL WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1S02. t - JTll-Z-J-. . y WAMUGTON OFFICE -013 Fourteenth at. 7 Telephone Calls. rju!at OTtoe .CSS Editorial Room 243 t ' - TEIIMS F SUliSCIUITIOX PAtLT BT MAIL. ra'Ty enlr. ere month $ .70 l;tsly only. Urro months 3.no )fti)y n i r. one j ear...-.......... .............. 8.0O l&ciatlaig btimtsy, u jrar...... 10. OO fcuiiunj taly. one year 2.00 njiM rraxisjizn bt agents. Psllr, yer week. by carrier. l....l.r cts fct'.ay, slatls cojy & cts ' l;Uj n.d tuiiilaj, per -week, by earner... 20 cu WXXK1.T. reryear $1.00 Reduced Kates to Clubs. Prescribe 1th any ot or numerous agents, or send rul senpUocs to the JOURNAL NEWSVAPER COMPANY, lMSlAJCAPCUS, IMV Prrwns sending the Journal thronjth the mails la tie Vii it Ml Mate h'uUl j.ut on an et!itpe paper scm-cint jostare trai; on a twelve or MxteenXCf ijr a rRft-CENT posuce sump. Foreign lUfte i osuaHjr loatle LLcse rates. A !l eoinmunieations intended for jmlliealion in (k injwptr in ut in order to reeeire attention, beac tomt-anied ly the name and addrtst of the tcriler. TUB INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can 1 lour.rt st tbe following place: PARIS American Exchange la Taris, 10 BoTdevartl de C?uclJies. li tv ol:K OLsey II on so and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. rTxemUe, 3713 Lancaster arenoe. CHICAGO Pawner IIooso CINCCf ATI-J. R. TJawley & Co., 154 Vine streeL LOTTIRVIIxr C T. Deerlng, rorthwe st corner 'Ihiid and Jcenon streets. BT. IX)UIf Union News Company, Union Depot end foot hem Hotel. WASHINGTON. D. O-IUgcs notise and Ehtltt The supplications which tho betterclement end of the Democratic party is - making to Mr. Cleveland to fight for tho nomination aro as pathetic as the lamentations of orphans. ' The first act of tho home-rnlo Democrats of the New York Legislature is to 80 chango the ward lines of tho Republican city of Rochester as to give tho Democrats tho majority of tho City Council. TnE readers of the St. Louis Republic must be in doubt w ho are tho most desperately wicked, tho Hill-Gorman-Brice combine or tho plutocrats in the' East who are inciting war with Chili in order to get fat contracts. Now that Mr. Holman has introduced r. bill to give every man who served in tho late war $8.23 13 for each month's Bcrvice, some of those soldier-hating papers which applauded his cheese-paring resolutions aro very severe in their criticisms. ' Now that Chairman Springer is believed to bo tho exponent in the House of what tho Cleveland people stigmatize as tho 6hilly-shallying of tho Ilill-Gorman-Brico triumvjrato on tho tariff, that flighty person is . not the leader of the House. ' Even those who criticise the matter of tho President message are compelled to admit that tho case is put by a n:an who is a master both of logic and rhetoric. In other words, Benjamin Harrison is a man of rare intellectual capacity. ' Democratic hostility to Mr. Springer Bho'uld not go ao far 'as to lead Democratic members of tho llouso to get even with him by punishing the world's fair. Mr. Springer is not a national affair; tho world's fair is, and very much of a national aflffur - It was to t? - ejected that tho narrowest, most partisan and unpatriotic expression of any Congressman concerning tho Chilian trouble should come from an Indiana Democrat, and it is in keeping with the fitness of tilings that Mr. Bjnum should bo tho man. The idea that the government of tho United States must permit a nationality, becauso it is small, to murder and maim its citizens, is ono devised by the effemInato Democracy of tho New York "World, and very different from tho vigorous Democracy of ono Androw Jackson when he was President. If some of the countiesin which farmers and others who aro complaining of hard times and high taxes would ceaso electing Democratic mossbacks to manage their county affairs they might, like Hamilton county, reduce the tax levy for county purposes one-half in four years, as ret forth by a correspondent in yesterday's iesue. There is a largo number of IrishAmericans in this district who have been in tho habit of voting for Mr. Bynum. They should tako note of tho fact that ho says tho whole Chilian trouble is largely due to misrepresentations by Minister Egan. Ho hates Mr. Egan because Mr. Egan, an Irishman, is hated by Englishmen. TnE export of corn has suddenly become a leading feature of our foreign trade, the shipment from New York last week reaching 2,600,000 bushels. Tho short crops of Europe are compelling , tho people to try corn bread, and, as Secretary Rusk's experts are teaching them to make tho article, there is reason to believe that its use will bo more general abroad in tho future. TnE report of the wheat market in Chicago, that is, the wheat market in which no real wheat is sold, says that tho market weakened upen private advices from "Washington to tho effect that "tho President would be satisfied with a proposition frpm Chili to arbitrate.'' What- possible effect can the Chilian affair have upon the wheat market, or whether there is war or peaco with Chili, when Enropo is the country which is short of bread! The Ohio LcgfSlature will investigate tho charges of corruption in the election of Hon. John Sherman as United Stites Senator. Tho investigation was demanded by ono of Mr. Sherman's friends, and will be made thorough and searching. Well-informed politicians in Ohio predict that the remit will be a complete refutation of the charges, and that this will be followed by libel suits against somo of those who have been foremost in circulating them. A CL Uious thing about tho American people is that while we pre one of tho most peaceable nations in the world, we fero at tho eamo time ono of tho moat

formidablo in war. In time of peace wo have no standing army worth speaking of, and even our organized militia docs not amount to much compared with European standing armies. We get along very well without a large army, and as long as wo aro devoting ourselves to peaceable pursuits no one wotild suspect the cxistenco of a war spirit. But let an emergency arise or somo event occur that rouses the patriotism of the people, and it shows tremendous power. The uprising of the North when Fort Sumter was fired upon was ono of the grandest spectacles recorded in history. The war spirit now manifested in many ways is only a faint reminder of that great era, and yet it is enough to show what a martial people we are and how ready for war when tho occasion demands it. If there should be war with Chili the government could not utilizo a tenth part of the men that would offer their services. Tho men of 1891 aro as ready to enlist in defense of the national flag and honor as wero those of 18G1.

There has been no material change in tho status of the Chilian affair since yesterday morning. The dispatch from Santiago stating that Chili had sent a reply to tho President's ultimatum, agreeing to withdraw the offensivo Matta note and leave to arbitration the matter of tho attack on our sailors, is not confirmed by official announcement. Unofficial Information, however, is to the effect that such a proposition was Bent by the Chilian authorities to Minister Egan, and by him transmitted to Washington, where it was yesterday discussed by the President and Cabinet without reaching n conclusion, differences of opinion, it is said, being developed. THE LOWEST LEVEL OF PARTISANSHIP. Representative Bynum was passed by when the representatives of the Associated Press were getting the opinions of Senators and Representatives regarding the President's message on tho Chilian affair, but, evidently thinking that somo Indiana readers might have a curiosity regarding .the1 Bynum opinion, tho correspondent of the Journal sought that gentleman and obtained the following: Mr, Bynum said the whole trouble had Brown out of misrepresentations by Minister Egan, and the aim of the President was evidently to make political capital oat of the Question. The answer is of the Bynum variety a compound of ignorance, assumption and falsehood. Better than columns which others could write regarding narrow, bitter and unscrupulous partisanship, does this brief response betray the meanness and hatred which make up the Bynum partisanship and the puny quality of the Bynum intellect. There is one other assertion for such remarks cannot bo regarded as opinions which, while it shows less regards for facts, betrays a mean and petty spirit. That person expressed himself as follows: It is ridiculous and a disgrace for this country to go to war on the pretext given in the evidence. The message sounded like a special plea to get tho Irish vote. He thought the President was desirous of getting up a hurrah in order to secure a renomination, if he can get it no other way. The above, it is true, is not so rancorbus as the statement of Mr. Bynum. Indeed, the. whole statement shows that tho person making it, the Hon. Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, has heard enough of tho aflair not to betray gross ignorance, and has sense enough not to tako the Chilian side, as did Mr. Bynum. But he betrays a small and unscrupulous naturo when ho charges the President with personal self-seeking in a matter which involves important consequences, Of a scoro or moro of opinions printed these aro tho only two imputing unworthy motives to tho President and Mr. Egan, those of Bynum and Simpson. Turning to other Democratic opinions the contrast is very great and shows up tho unrelenting partisanship of Bynum in forbidding colors. Senator Jones, of Arkansas, Democrat, said: Tho President's message is temperate, dignified and worthy of all the consideration it is receiving. Representative Holman said: A strong message, and tbe House will stand by the President if tbe conespondence warrants the statements made. Senator Faulkner, of West Virginia, declared: The message is a lawyer's analysis of a great mass of correspondence an analysis inspired by the highest patriotism. There are opinions which criticise tho tone of the message, but thoso of Bynum and Jerry Simpson alone attribute unworthy motives to tho President, and that of Bynum is tho only ono inspired with that Anglomaniac hostility which has made war upon Mr. Egan becauso he has been an Irish patriot. "When a government refuses to recognizo a just claim there is nothing like a display of force to clear np its moral visiou. In 1S32 tho United States government made a claim against the kingdom of Naples for tho payment of $1,731,904 on account of American ships and cargoes seized from 1809 to 1812. Tho claim was well ascertained and clearly just, but the Neapolitan government declined to recognize it until its eyes wero opened by a display of force. The United States minister at Naples was directed to mako a request for payment, and, about tho same time, it was arranged that several American war ships should drop in at tho Bay of Naples at short intervals. When the claim was first presented there was only ono American vessel in port, and the Neapolitan government paid no attention to the matter. In a fewdays a second forty-four-gun frigato cast anchor in the bay, and tho claim was presented again. Still it was refused payment. Four days later a third ship sailed into port Hying tho American flag, and the claim was politely pressed again, only to bo refused. The arrival of a fourth man-of-war 6et tho Neapolitan authorities to thinking, tho appearance of a fifth caused them to give tho claim respectful consideration, and finally, when tho sixth vessel floating the stars and stripes and armed to the teeth came sailing into the bay they admitted tho justice of the claim and agreed to pay it in full, with interest. Thoso wooden forty-four and fifty-gun frigates would sot count much in war now, but they

were very formidable then, and this display of naval force brought about a complete change of. front in tho Neapolitan government. '

TnE expressions of opinion among members of Congress in regard to the Chilian trouble show less sectional feeling than might have been expected under tho circumstances. It is a pleasant surprise to find Southern Senators and Representatives treating the question as a purely national one and in a spirit of genuine patriotism. Almost without exception they show a disposition to support tho administration to the utmost in its policy of vindicating the honor of the fiag, and they are ready to guarantee the support of their constituents. In matters where English interests are involved the free-trader's motto is "Lovo me, love my dog." That is why free-trader Bynum denounces Minister Egan. Mrs. Heecher and the Second Church. The one-sided correspondence which the aggrieved trustees of the Second Presbyterian Church of this city have been conducting with the widow of Henry Ward Beecher has its amusing features to disinterested observers. It is doubtless true, as the trustees ingenuously declare, that the congregation at that early period of its history was noble and generous; but at the same time it may have had ita little faults, as most congregations do, and it must be acknowledged that to no person are those faults likely to be more clearly visible than to the minister's wife. She is in a position to see the. worst as well & the best. There is for her none of the intoxicating incense of personal admiration showered ao freely about the popular minister. For her is none of the glamour that affects the vision of the pulpit orator, who, seeing his people moved by his words and speaking his praise, naturally regards them with favorable eyes. The seamy side of ministerial life is unsparingly distinct to the wife who must make tbe small income supply abundant needs, and finds it difficult to make excuses for the partial and irregular payment of that income. Possibly the thousand-dollar salary contracted to be paid by Mr. Beecher'a Indianapolis church was so slow in coming in that Mrs. Beecner remembers it as only $600. Fifty years asco churches were known to be slow at times in paying their preachers. The indignation of the trustees over the statement that the Beechers had been deceived by the assurance that chills and fever did not exist in Indianapolis is even greater than that expressed concerning the salary matter. Their belief that no one influential in securing a minister for that church would venture upon so palpable an untruth speaks well for their owfi moral rectitude, but it is related by old citizens that in early days "fever 'n ager," like tbe "milk sick," was always in the next county, and it is barely possible that tbe custom of the day led the delegation of deacons who "called" Mr. Beecher from Lawrenceburg to make a statement of this character to him. Mrs. Beecher is unfortunate in being unable to remain in the good graces of this church, and vice versa. Many years ago she gave deep offense through the publication of the novel "From Dawn to Daylight, or the Simple Story of a Western Home." In that book a number of characters were painted in colors far from Mattering, and tbe good people of the church pvjsrwhlch the famous Brooklyn preach'er had pre" sided tbousht they recognized each other in the pictures. The book created quite a local sensation in its day, but, having little literary merit, reached but a small circulation, and is probably remembered only by those who suspected that tbey had been "written up." Perhaps the truth of history demands that the inaccuracies of Mrs. Ueecber'g article becorrectd, but it hardly 6eoms worth while to revive the petty misunderstandings of fifty years ago. The New York Sun oilers consolation to the cities which did not get tbe Democratic naticnal convention. It pretends that New York did not want the convention and says Chicago is the next best plaoe, because "there are moro beds in it than in any other convention town but this." As for tbe towns that did not get it the Sun says: Have they not advertised themselves raajrnifleentljt Their most Klucoso-llpped orators have pronounced ornate panegyrics upon the puhllo spirit and the private virtues of the inhabitants of every one of them. Every one of them Is now known to nir.nkind ns bavin? the test hotels, the lincst street-cars, the best y.tem of parks, the most refrigerated summer climate, ami the most hospitable pcojlo in tho world. Every one of theoi is known to have or to he about to have the largest convention hall with the most rclentido and successful gifts of acoustics and ventilation. Every city of them has and enjoys its b:om, and. having failed to cet the convention, 1 ready v lump at the shortest notice for tonicthing equally as good. As they all stand on an equality in this regard and in the additional fact that they did not got the convention, why should they not all bo happy? JV the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal 1. Why did not the United States declare war against Mexico! 2. How have historians received the wronir impression, and why will they not acknowledge that they are wrongl Reader. 1. Tho facts are these: Both Mexico and the United States claimed tbe territory ot Texas. General Taylor was ordered to occupy the disputed country, taking his position on the . border opposite Matamoras. When General Taylor was building Fort Brown the Mexican commander demanded his withdrawal (April 12, 1S4C). He did i ot do this, consequently, the Mexicans, on May 3, opened fire and a large force crossed tbe river to attack tbe fort in tbe rear. On May 8 tho battle of Palo Alto was fought, and on May 9 tho battle of Resaca dela Pal ma. The Mexicans were defeated in both battles and tbe Mexican army in Texas was broken up. May 11, 1840. two days later. Congress declared that "by the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war exists between that government and tho United States." and authorized the President to call for r,0C0 volunteers. May 13 Congress voted 10,000.000 for carrying on the war. 2. The Journal cannot undertace to answer for "historians." To the Editor ot the Intllanaioi!s Journal: lias a physician the legal right to keep, prescribe and use la his practice alcoholic stimulants and take pay for them without license! J. K. O. There is no exception in tbe law in favor of physicians. ABOCT PEOPLE AND THINGS. An equestrian statno of the Emperor Frederick is to be erected on the hills in Alsace on a spot overlooking the field of Worth. The statue is to cost $10.000. Duuino tho rebellion tbe government bad eight hundred ships of war, such as tbey were. One of the cruisers of to-day could have cleaned out the entire lot, with tho exception, perhaps, of the monitors. The spacious old Snramie mansion in Washington, the house over which Kate Chase Sprague once presided so brilliantly, is now tbe home of a Hebrew social club. But a few years ago it held within its walls some of tbe most fashionable gatherings in the history of the national capital, and tbe beauty and accomplishments of its

mistress were a magnet that attracted every man famous in public life to its hospitable rarlors. The original act of the Chilian Congress deposing President Balmaceda has been plaoed in a glass case and so suspended that both aides of the document can be read. Tbe case is hnng in President Montt's study in the Monedo. The Acorn Club, of Philadelphia, sets up tbe claim that it is tbe only woman's club in this country that follows the ideal of comfort and convenience aimed at by the men's clubs. It had a surplus in the treasury at tbe close of last year, too. Ida Pfeiffxk, tbe first woman traveler to win fame aa a traveler, went twice around tbe world in tbe years 1S40-42, and . penetrated to the interior of Borneo, Java and Sumatra. She was a native of Vienna, and was regarded as a natural cariosity by the women of her day. The Czar has ordered that a certain regiment of horse guards stationed at Charkofl must pay the widow of merchant murdered in that city a yearly yension of 5,000 roubles. The merchant met his death at the hands of members of the regiment, and tbe Czar has made the oSicers responsible, saying that they were to blame for the loose discipline that made such a crime fiossible. It is noteworthy as "a good deed n a naughty world" of Russian injustice. Kaiser Wiliielm's new throne will be costly enough and sufficiently elaborate to suit even tbe exacting taste of a Hohenzollern. The frame-work and the decorations are to be fashioued of pure

6 old. and tbe finest of purple velvet will e made nse of for the coverings and drapery. The throne is to replace the siraEl chairs of state that German royalty as used as a substitute for the old Prussian throne, which was demolished after tbe battle of Jena for the gold there was on it The latest glimpse of Arabi Pasha was obtained by a visitor to Ceylon, who found tbe exile in his bungalow in the Cinnamon gardens, near Colombo, amid a grove of cocoanut trees. Arabi's children Mahomed, aged eight, and Edonard, somewhat younger were playing, barefooted, on the veranda. The exiled chief is described as tall and portly, and of centle manners, bat in bad health. In respect of the situation In Egypt he said: "Why should 1 find fault with tbe British occupation? Tbe English are doing just what 1 intended to do." WAimioR jones's way. "How's Chill spelled?" asked 8mith, "I see That some pedantic people try To make it C-h-M-o And others C-h l-l-i." Then answered Jones, with twinkling eyes, l am not certain, hut I guess If Chill don't apologize, TwiU b ri-n-n-i-s.M New York Press. BUBBLES IN TUB AIIL Nothing There. "Which side of the market were you onr "The bare side, of course." Only. "So yon think you can read faces, do yout What do you find In mlnel" "A bole." ' ' . i mm m n 1 No Go. M Is It yes or nor ho asked. "It is no. ' Gol'J said she In fine scorn. "I did not think you would descend to the use of slang, was ail he said. A 81ight Omission. Honestly, now, Maria, didn't I fool you at first when I came in with my beard shaved off!" "Not for an instant. If you had only changed your brand of whisky I might have becu deceived." ' De-scribed It Exactly. Said ono shopper: "Ob, I saw Just the loveliest, sweetest, prettiest baby a minute ago" . Said the other shopper "What! Do you mean to tell me that stupid nurse has dared to bring my little darling out such a day as this!" lint They Don't. YahsierTIfe ahileht 1 Israelites, I seo, had a law that a man's coat taken for debt must be returned at snnet. ' Mudjco I wish their descendants would observe the came rule with a man's dress suit. Too Eat to Recall Minister Egan. New York Herald. We think it would be nnwise on the part of the Chilian government to request tbe recall of Minister Egan at this juncture. Such a request would have been pefectly proper last summer. or autumn, or even when the present government came i'nto power in December. Our government could not then have objected to it with any show of reason or propriety, since it is the conceded right of nation to ask the withdrawal of a minister who is uot acceptable to it. But to wait until diplomatic negotiations of. tbe highest importance between the governments aro approaching a critical stage and then make such a demand, nnless there is tho best of reasons for it, could, only tend to complicate the controversy. This, we think, would ha a mistake which Chill would hardly make. Clvll-Servlce III ro try. Tho Independent. Referring to President Harrison's civilservice record the Civil-service Chronicle says ho seems "to think be has dono his duty by taking a paltry seven hundred places in tho Indian servico out of the reach of favoritism and loavlng many thousand places to which this incomparable system could be appliea to be distributed as spoil." This is a very grudging acknowledgment of a vry important extension of tho reform. Reformers tire likely to find plenty of occasion for criticism lor years to come. There is all tho more reason, therefore, to recognize kindly and generously every advance made. The Chronicle's remark is worthy of a blinded partisan. ' The Tariff I a Tax. LonlsvlUe Commercial. ' We hav9 published heretofore the remarkable figures about tho eftect of the tariit on the price of wire nails, bringing them down from $10 to f'AW). The McKinley tariff keeps the thing up. The average price of wire nails in factory lot at Chicago, for the year 1600, as given by the Iron Ace. was SJ.51; forcnt steel nails' 2.U For the year ISld the average for wire nails was 2.(.5. for cut steel nails $1.70. Tho average price for wire nails in September. 1891. was?0: In October. l.r.pt in November, 81. So; ia December, SS.80. Tho tariff was $2. If the tariff is a tax how was it paid in this case! . Jostle 1 trad ley's S accessor. phlladelrlila Press. In his judicial appointments President Harrison has maintained from tbe beginning a very high level of excellence. Besides filling a large list of vacancies happening in the circuit and district courts, the selection has fallen to him of nine new circuit judges and the successors to the late Supreme Justices Mathews and Miller. Justices Brewer and Brown are valuable accessions tn the Supreme Bench, and we have no doubt that President Harrison will make an equally judicious selection to fill the present vacancy. Notice to All tho World. Colnmbns llerabbcan. . By his present attitude toward Chili, President Harrison serves notice to all the world that the United States Hag must be honored and American citizenship protected everywhere, andthat tbe statement 1 am an American citizen'' must not bo treated with contempt by any people who may have formed the erroneous opinion that we will uot light becauso our national policy has been oneof conciliation and noninterference. m Tariff Pictures. New York Press. Can yon tell me how it is that, although our population increased only 15 per cent, between 10 and l&ti. our manufactures of woolen goods increased iiS oer cent! Wo can. It is because protection gave more of the Americau market to American producers. m m Evening Up. Brooklyn Esg'e. Chicago brags that it has "a chnrch with the largest membership of an)' in tbe world." This ia only an example of the law of compensation. Chicago has a larger increase of beer saloonsthan any other community in Christendom.

HORROR OF THURSDAY MIGHT

Coroner Begins His Formal Inquiry Into the Surgical Institute Disaster Stories of Escapes Retold and Sons Information Elicited About the Fire-FicMlng Apparatus ef the Baildin?. Ropes Wero Provided Down Wliicb Helpless Patients Might Climb to Safety. Time of Tcrninc In the Alarm Touched Upon Dr. Wilson's Testimony What Employes Knew of the Fire. The coroner's investigation into the Surgical Institute fire began in a formal way yesterday moraing at tho office of the coroner in the court-bouse. Testimony had been taken the day before, hut it was scant and immaterial. Deputy Coroner Dunn announced tbat tbe inquest would be on the deaths of Irma Payne and Maggie McDonald. Dra. Allen and Wilson, of the institute, were present with .thefr attorney, S. M. Shepaid. The first witness placed upon the stand was John G. Wilson,' eon of Dr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson and a brother have been in charge of the hotel department about three years. Witness testified that he was called to his home on North Delaware street on the night of Jan. 21, but returned to the institute shortly before 11 r. m. He went to the drug room tor somo quinine. This room is back of the room in which circulars, etc., advertising the institute are kept, and on the ground floor. Smelied no smoke and saw no indication of fire. Then returned to his room. No. Co, in the old building, on the third floor. In a few minutes was asleep, but was soon roused by George Finn, watchman, who said thero was a fire in the circular room. Finn ran to send in an alarm from the box, while witness dressed and called the department by telephone. Awakened some of the lady ocoupants and started for the ' circular room with a hand chemical fire-extinguisher. When ho got to tbe cirenlar room found tbe fire too far advanced and useless, to fight tbe flames. Tbe fire was then burning in the shelves of the circular room. Went again to awaken more of the inmates and returned to find the fire had spread to the adjoining room. By this time George Finn had returned from turningin tbe alarm, and almost at the same moment heard the fire department coming around the corner of Georgia street. Propped tho frontdoors wide open, after which Finn awakened the occupants while witness awakened porters and waiters and ordered them to render all assistance possible in gotting patients out of the building. Then saw that tbe Illinois street stairway was opened and tbe rear -ex.it through tho kitchen into the court-yard and alley. Gave attention to those who wero being brought from the building nnd opened uo the entrance to the YYcddell House annex. There were seven tiro escapes or means of escape from the building. The Iron-ladder escapes are located at the ends of halls and at windows of sleeping rooms. Notices giving locations of these were posted in some of the rooms. Did not know how many or where posted. ROPE FlRE-ESCATES FOR CRIPPLES. "There were rope fire-escapes in most of the rooms, nearly all of which were attached to staples at one end. There were hand grenades. Babcock extinguishers and other apparatus on the stairways and landings. Water was laid through the building, with city fire pressure, and hose was attached ready for use. Used the extinguisher on the fire, bnt the flames had reached such a height tbat it was useless. ' '."There were about forty employes in the hotel department. There were thirteen rooms used as lodging-rooms in the building fronting on Georgia street, thr$e being for help. The waiters and porters lodged over No. 83 South Illinois street. Do not know how many were there, as some come m who do not stop there regularly. In the second story of the building, facing on Georgia street, there were three rooms, the office, the parlor and the dining-room. There were thirteen lodging-rooms on the third floor of that building: no lodgingrooms on the second floor. That building was three stories high. There were fiftyfour rooms in the building at the corner of Illinois and Georgia streets. Forty-nine of these were used as lodging-rooms. Can give in writing the number of patients in those rooms. Personally knew everylodger in that house by name, and what room he lodged in. Mr. Dunn How many rooms in that building were used as nurseries, i Witness Four. Mr. Dunn How many rooms wero in the north building fronting on Illinois' street and how many were sleeping-rooms. Witness Eighteen: sixteen of them were used as lodging-rooms. These witn the others before named were all tbe lodging-rooms exeeptthe Wedtlell House annex. Made a list for the Journal and it will be necessary to go over that to make a memorandum of the rooms. Mr. Dunn You spoke of a fixed plan of action in case of fire; detail tbat plan. Witness The niffht watchman was instructed to call whichever one of the hotel managers was in tbe building, then to procure the key and send the alarm to the fire station. He was then to get back to tbe building as expeditiously ns possible, and be there, subject to the orders of either of tho managers of tbe hotel or the chief of the fire department. The remainder of the fdan is best shown in what is stated ns elng ray action on the night of the fire. The plan was adhered to as closelv as circumstances would admit. I called tho employes, and they were to help get tho people out of the house. Mr. Dunn State tbe duties of the two night watchmen. Witness-It was the duty of nicbtwatchmnn Finn to ring the time detector overy half hour during tho night from 10 r. m. to 5:o0a. m., when the, day iorcecameon duty. He registers each one of seven stations located in tbe halls of the different bnildinas. The registry was kept in the secretary's office for examination next morning. The second watchman, or porter, was Ben Wilson. OX THE ORIGIN OF TOE FIRE. The next witness called was O. H. Palmer, secretary of the Surgical Institute. He testified that his hours of duty were from 7:30 a. m. to C l M. He was not at the fire and did no: learn of it until next morning, about 6 o'clock, on the street-cars. He was a little late getting down. Mr. Dunn What was tbe position of your office in relation to what is known as tbe circular roomT Witness My office was the next room to it toward the front of the building, between the hotel office and the circular room, with a door connecting. A door opened into tbe main hall from the circular room. Mr. Dunn What was kept in the circular room? Witness Circulars that we received from day to day from the printer which we stamped and mailed dailr. There were 2.000 or 3.000 catalognes. a L00-page patm hlet, we sent out a dozen or two daily, nnd there were certaiu other small circulars kept in stock and nsed in correspondence. There were letter tiles and the old books of the institute in that room. There was a table on whieh the mailing and directing were done. Thero were shelves upon which tho circulars wero on sides of the roo'n from the floor almost to the ceiling. Mr. Dunn Was there anything in the way of cbemicalttf Witnesa Never that I knew. Labels were pasted on in that room. Express shipments were made lrom that room. The

room was heated by steam. No radiator in tho room. MfiHT WATCHMAN'6 ST0BT. George Finn, night watchman at the institute, a colored man, was the next witness. He said he discovered tbe first signs of tbe fire at from twenty to twenty-five minutes of 12 o'clock. Witness Had been np stairs to wind my alarm bell; came to tbe second floor and went to tbe ice-box; got a bucket of crushed ice; took it up to the nurssry to fill ice-bags. Came down to the landlord's office and got no on the book-keeper's stool. Had been there a minute or a minnto and a half, and heard something like a stick had broken. Sat there a little longer and heard, the same thing again. Went into 'Mr. Palmer's room and discovered the circular room on fire. Had not noticed any odor of smoke before that. The tiro seemed to be blazing up four or live feet high in tbe west part of the circular room. It seemed to be burning from tbe floor to tho shelving. The fire was burning beside the door. The door was closed. Ran upstairs and gave Mr. Wilson tho alarm. Went to his bed and said the circular room was on fire. He said: "For God's sake! is that soT Run down, get the fire-alarm key and turn in the alarm." I ran to the box on the corner of Georgia and Meridian streets. When I got back I met Mr. Wilson in the main hall. I said: "How is Mr. Wilsont" He said: "In bad shape. Let's go through the house and give the alarm." 1 went ud into what is known as the "A B C hall," on the third floor of tho building next to Perry's wholesale grocery. When I got there I heard some one in the h&IL. 1 rapped on the doors as I went by. I hallootnl lire, and people began to come out hallooing and screaming, and very badly frightened. Then I went to the "roost" and Mruck two or three doors. Got to the top of the stairs loaded with aliUl child and a Mrs. Clayton. There were screams nil over the halL Somo wero running to tbe windows, some opening and again shutting their doors. I took Mrs. Clayton a part of tho way on thr stairway. Mrs. Stokes called to me and asked, "What shall we do!" The hall waa getting pretty full of smoke, Mrs. Clayton said, "What must we do?' 1 said, "Go across to .tbe other house." Mr. Dunn Was there smoke in the baa when you and Mr. Wilson went up! Witness 1 didn't discover any smoke until 1 got the third floor, and I gave the alarm in the upper hall before the smoke gashed outMr. Dunn How did the smoke get up tbereT Witness Through the chute for the skylight, 1 think: the skylight is a little south ot tbe circular room. As soon as I made tbe call tbe patients came out promptly into tbe hall. Many came and opened their dooia and then went back into their rooms again. Mr. Dunn How long after tbe discovery of the fire before you got up thero to alarm the patients? Witness 1 don't suppose it could have been more than two and ono-balf or three minutes. Mr. Dunn-Iu going to No. 05 (Mr. Wilson's room) how many flights of stairs did you go up and through how many stairways? Witness I crossed the downstairs hall on tbe first floor it could nut have been more than a ruinnte to gt to Mr. Wilson's room. Wrbeu I came back 1 met Mr. Wilson in the ItalL He spoke of alarming the people at once. Mr. Dunn Did you have hand grenades, Babcock and other extinguishers? THEIR FIRE APPARATUS. Witness We had hose on each hall, I think, attacbed to tbe hydrant pipes, and we had extinguishers five or six on the second-floor hall, on a shelf, and had them in the kitchen. We had some hand-grenades, too, in racks that set about the hall. There were cans with salt-water, with rubber hose, in the kitchen. Mr. Dunn Was there any, apparatus in tbe rooms for tire-escapes? Witness There were ropes. They were inakindiof coil. They were attached in tbe ceiling to a staple or a ring. Mr. Dunn During tbe evening, after you came on duty, had there been anybody in tbe circular-room? Witness Yea, sir; three or four boys, patients in the house; don't know who tbey were. Think they were wrapping circulars. Didn't see them when they came outIt must have been about fifteen or twenty minutes alter 10 tbat tbey were in there. Ono of them was Clarence Curfiss and another was William iinmstack. Never lie down or go to sleep between tbe half hours when I ring the stations. Have sn assistant np to half past 10 or 11 o'clock. He stays at the door most of the time. His name is Ben Wilson, a colored man. Have often had instructions from Dr. Allen and the two Wilsons, landlords, about fire, to notify the landlord at once if Anything occurred in tbe building. No effort was made to extinguish the fire before the alarm was turned in. Mrs. Hannah C. Overman.' housekeeper, who has been connected with tbe institute for twenty-one years, was the first witness called in the afternoon. She testified that she and Mrs. Forsyth had been out to a lecture that night (Max O'Rell's). and came in about 10:30. Her room was on tbe third floor, and she had been in bed about five minutes, when some one screamed, calling out her name. After waking patients she ran and broke open a door which led to one of the stairways, leading to the court in tbe rear of the building and then assisted in rescuing patients. The halls were well lighted at night. When she came out of her room there was not much smoke in the hall and it did not seem to accumulate rapidly. The greatest number of persons in a room on the fourth floor, exclusive of wards and tho nursery, was four two ladies, each with a child. On tbe third floor the greatest number in one room was two ladies and one child. Two patients in a room was tbe rule. There was a person whose duty it was to receive patients who came late at night. His name was LafeJetlerson. Had never known tbe night watchman to goto trains to receive a patient or to take u patient to the train. There were forty children in the nursery, all of whom were saved. Mrs. Ida Forsythe's testimony was. in the mam, like tbat of tbe preceding witness. She is recording secretary of the institute and in chargo of the premium department. Her work does not bring her in contact with the patients in the house, except those with whom she has an acquaintance. 'Mrs. Overman, recalled, said tbat all tho patients were familiar with tbe fire-escapes; that tbeso were shown and explained whenever a new patient came in. Dlt. WILSON OS THE STAND. William A. Wilson, one of the landlords, was then called. He said he was thirtyfive years old. Was not in the building on tbe night of Jan. 21 nntil after the fire alarm had been sounded. Got there about half past 12. He and his brother, week about, slept at bis father's, on North Delaware street, The eastern building was in flames and nearly gone, and tbo whole top story of the corner building. itness (continuing) I went up tbrougn tbe Illinois-street entrance to tbe nursery on the third floor. Found a great many of the employes on the way. Asked if anybody hart been removed. They said so far as they knew everybody was out: that they bad been through the npner stories and aroused everybody. I went out under the impression that everybody bad escaped and felt very much relieved. Went over to the Weddell itoupe to arrange for them to slerp. The only book we saved giving rames of occupants was our ledger, and that is in pieces. By going through that we could tell exactly who were in tbe different rooms. We had ordered a new safe a Month ago. The old safe was too little to bold tbe books and many had to he left out. The new safe had not come. We had an electric clock and our night watchman made tbe rounds of the house constantly. Dr. Allen talked both to me and to him about the danger of fire. 1 told him what we should do in cast of fire. Wt had hand grenades on all the floors. J told him repeatedly he was tocall me at the first intimation of lire and then go with the key and turn in the alarm. We had hoe but there wait no time in this instance to ue it. We had a chemical engine about three feet high, of tbo kind one straps on the shoulder, and about three dozen tiu extinguishers that would hold about two gallons each, boside about four dozen of the? glass botilrs you commonly see m hotel corridors, 'here wero two tin ones and two glats ones in my room where I could get them readily. Tbe night watchman had only two duties. Ono was to ring the electric clock, and the other waa to fill the i'o

bags of the patients whollrequired ice through the night. He had to fill them every three hours. The ire was brought nn to the second floor hall by other Dorters about one thousand pounds every afternoon, and that would Ian until the next afternoon. Ice was used for various purposes. There was a man who answered the door-bell and a hall porter who carried water and answered calls at night. It waa this one who went to tbe trains. Mr. Dunn Was there any printed notices about fire-escapes put into the rooms and halls? Tiirnn whre no notices. Witness No. sir. Tbe patients were frequently notified of the location of the fireescapes by Dr. Allen when he talked oti subjects of health. Batteries to run tbe electric bells were in the secretary's room. I don't think tbe battery liquid is inflammable. That can be ascertained from the District Telegraph Company, who keep it tip. We never manipulate it ourselves. The wires do not run into tbe circular room. My room was No, 5. immediately" adjoining the passage way that connected the building on the east. The room was on tbe cornerof Georgiastreet and the alley, on tbe third floor. Tho fire came throngh by the door of mv room. Mr. Dunn You speak of Dr. Allen talk-

Witness He assembles them three times a week in the art room, as it is called. It is on the first floor ot tbe east building, across the hall from tho circular room. The doctor talks to them on every subject you can imagine that is for lheir good. Immediately after these talks he alwaya examines the patients to see If they need anything. When new patients came in I would show them the ditlerent means of escape, nnd the diflerent exits. 1 do nos supposo there was a patient that was noa ns familiar with these thincs as myself. Those of the patients wno could set up and down stairs most rapidly were put on the upper floors. At the time ot this fire there was tint one helpless patient on the upper floor, but he got out. That was Mr. Van Vorhis. I never went to bea a night that I did not go over tbat house and examine every place where there was danger of any fire. There were steam-pipes running through the circular room to tbo rooms above. There is a stove in the massage-room. The buildings were heated by steam, tbo boilers being under tbe cour tyard on tbe Georgia-street side. Dr. Wilson here explained that the stove spoken of was a smallaffairin themassaceroom to host water. The pipe ran north to a chimney at the north end of the building. The stove was covered with a wire netting. "It is." said tbe Doctor, "fifteen or twenty feet north ot the circular-room, and is standing thero yet, with the timbers around it, as solid as ever." OTHER EMPLOYES TEST! FT. Adam Reid, carpenter, who lives at No. 17 Lexington avenue, was the next witness. He testified that he did caroentering and repairing at the institute and had made racks and shelves for tho fire extinguishing apparatus and hose. Haryy Wilson, colored, aged twentyseven, houseman at tbe institute, testified, lie is on duty during tho day. Lodges at the Weddell annex. Saw the fire from there and ran to tbe Illinois-street entrance. Did uot go to the Georgia-street entrance because the building was all in flames. Ran up stairs, grabbed up a child and came on down. Ben F. Wilson, twenty-six years old, colored, testified. Witness said he was houseman and worked in the daytime, except when he worked in place of the door man. He described the progress of tbe fire much as other witnesses had done. He rang tho bells the night of the fire before he quit. He went through the balls to do this while the watchman stayed at tbe door. Mrs. Dr. Bntman told me she smelied something burning. 1 smelied it myself around in tho red hall (in the Illinois-street building). Didn't smell it anywhere else. Didn't find any one who had been burning paper. Went off duty tbat night at 11 o'clock. George Finn made search in tbe ABC hall.. and said it was a lady burning a piece of rag. Mr. Dunn What was the first knowledge you had of this fire? Witness The first knowledge was from the screams of the girls iu tbe annex. I came down and went in at tbe mam entrance on Georgia street. 1 started for the ABC hall. Could not get np; tbe fire was too strong. Went and opened the door that1 r lets out on Illinois street. Saw Miss Fannie . Dillon. Mrs. Forsyth and Mrs. Overman ini the hall. The smoke was not heavy in that hall. Went up in the nursery hall. Was Tine mnnh amnlra tliara ltilrk t Vi a 111itw!AJWV U.W.. KJAUWnW WV.- A'.WBW V U V .....V street door open. It was locked, rvnt it was not very strong. The i r opened out. I was on the fourth rTrtr also, and went into every room I could. Burst down a door at 104. . and got out a lady and a little child. It was almost suffocating on the top floor at that time. 1 got somebody down lrom the third floor before I went to the fourth floor. There was no one in the hall, lit was Mrs. Declow and baby tbat witness brought down.l Afterward made another search on third floor, but by that time they were all out, 1 Chester Fran, colored, aged twenty-nine; works in the treatment-room. There we s nothing new in his testimony. The examination will be resumed at 9 o'clock this morning. . Statement fro in Patients. A copy of the following statement was brought to the Journal office last night by one of tbe patients, who said that the list of signatures includes nearly every adult patient remaining at the institute, and ia a spontaneous expression of the feeling existing among them: We, the patients of the National Furglcal Institute, feeling that Drs. Allen and Wilton ami the management of the Institute are being criticised hr the pre?s. nulrJt nnd public, both un justly and with unnecessary severity, and believing that we, who were inmates of the lnstltute. are in as good a position to judge of their culpability a nay one. take this method of expressing our disapproval of the sail criticism, and to extend to lrs. Allen and Wilon this exfresion of our sympathy and our ooiitidenco u them, both as physicians and as men. To this are attached seventynames. Another to tbe same e fleet has thxve names. Was ot Looting the Italns. Russell Troy, the young man charged with taking jewelry from a room in the Surgical Instituto the morning of the fire, was released in Police Court Tuesday morning. He was acting in good faith when he picked up the jewelry and was on his way to turn it over to Captain Quigley when arrested. He was dismissed without examination. NEW IDEA OF CRACKS2IEX. W. II. Uarcus'i Safe Carried to the Cellar and Smashed to Pieces. Night before last, at the Tag emporium of W. H. Marcus, lt-6 South Pennsylvania street, there was a pice of gopher work with several novel wrinkles. The eafe was of a Buffalo make, three feet high and weighing 1,800 pounds. Cracksmen, who had obtained entrance from the rear, took the safo from its position at tbe front of tbe store, near a window, and rolled it between tbe bales of rags about one hundred feet, to a hoist in tbe rear, upon which ther filaced it, and started to let it into the celar. Judging from tbe position of the safe when lound yesterday morning, it must have rolled off tho hoist when about half way down. It lay on its side, tipped over. In this position the door had been blown open. The burglars had then taken a hammer and pounded on tbe inner door of wrought irt-n until they broke it in two. They found tbe safo empty, and then in their rage and disappointment took tbe hammer and smashed the inside woodwork to pieces. Charles Gorsuch. tho eafe expert, was railed in and made an examination. He pronounced it tbe worst broken up safe be had ever seen. The iol;ce were notified yesterday morning, but have not, as yet, obtained any clew to the cximinals. Thought It Was Cougrelonal Ilutiness. For two or three hours last night President IlawKins. of the Board of Publio Safety, and Clerk Steeg, were bard at work in the office at the court-house. When a Journal reporter glided in through the locked door Mr. Hawkins threw up his hands and cried for mercy. "Wo are simply working en some publicsafety business," sid he.