V; 85, No. 21,077. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1894-TEN PAGES. TWO CENTS.

THE EVENING STARrBLI4HE:1) DAILY EXCEPT gtNDAY,

AT THE STAR BUILDINGS,1101 l'esasyiranin Avenue. Cu- title Street. by

The Evening Star Newepyper Company,S. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't.

rem York o%oe, 49 '"etter Bsildine.Tb' E.'ning Star is serrea to ,":scrlhbra in the

City >y carriers, on their cwn u".wtnt, 't 10 centsr,r V rk. or 44 eouti per nrn;ah. Copt.-s at therounter 2 cents each. Py mal. anywher' In Thetni!'ed !tales or 4'an::l-ptstage- prepn!d-50 centsgper oa-n'L.

Lnturday Quintnnle Sh-et st ir. $1 pe: year:a:t! fcreign ;0,k-.+-e r".t 4. $',.O0'iFatered St tl:. Post 'i!ie at W-7ashington, D. C.

as -+e-mnd "ta-e r.:.! ,.Ttrr)(7AIll rn il r!'.!w.: rust t^ paid In n4viane.1tntrs t .1 rtl.t.",r,n i known on 'nwelleittwt

THE SULTAN SAYS NO

Consul Jewett Cannot Go With theArmenian Commission.

TURI1Y FE18 11IS IIIEV IGATIOI

No Apparent Way of EvadingThis Cecision.

NOT ENTIRIELY UNEXPECTED

CONSTANTINOPI.E, December 2-.-Thesultan last evenir.g made a final reply tothe application of Unite"I States MmisterTerrell for permission to have Consul Jew-c.tt make an indeper.de:it ir.qury into theArmenian troubles. The sultan positivelydecllr.ed to allow the consul to accom:panythe cummissluin.

The refusal of the sultan to allow Mr.Jewett to perform the mission with whichhe was charged by Prestdent Clevelandwas not unexpected at the State Depart-ment. For the iast week Minister Terrell,acting under the pressure of the Depart-ment of State, has been urging the porte topermit theu Irvestigation, but his advices tothe diepartin,ent have siown that he feltlittle contidenee in a successful outcome.The reluctarce of the Turkish govern-

ment to accelde to his request is accountedfor by the formidable proportions to whichthe agitation in the t'nited States in favorof intercession on behalf of the Armeniansin Turkey has attained. At tirst the portewas under the impression, probably hav-ing in view the outcome of previous investi-gations into alleged outrages by the Tutksupon their Christian subjects, that theUnited States was so favorably inclined te-ward their side that the result of such an

ir.quiry as was proposed would not i.eharmnful.But the intensity of feeling dinplay"d

in the various mass meetings and churchascemblles in the United Statue have . on-

vinced the porte that it would be placingits interests in dangerous ban.ls, and.when it learned that the pErson ch.sen tomrke the inquiry was a son of an Amerl-can missionary and a native of the verycountry where the outrages were allegedto have occurred, a prompt negative was

r.-turned to Mr. Terrell's requ"?st.It does not appear that there is any way

of going behind this d_,ision, for Mr. Jew-ett being refused permission to investigatein his capacity as officer of the UnitedStates he could not undertake it safely as

an individual. Therefcre it is probable thatthis last action of the Turkish governmentends definitely in the participation of theUnited States in the projected inquiry,w hich will consequently be conducted en-

tirely by Europeans.

O1OLICE CAPTAINS St.M1MONED.

Nine of Them Must Go Before theLexu" Committee.

NEW YORK, D,!-,ember ':.-Nine pol::ecaptains were this mornig subpoenaedto appear tomzrrov' before the Lexow com-

mittee. The subp>inai were sent in a

batch to Superintendent Byrnes at policeheadquarters, and he summo.ed the men

before ln. The captains are Ryan, Wash-btrn. ilhela. W'estervelt,Gallaher,Strausa,durphy. Martens and Delaney. With theexception of Strauss, none of these menhave. so far, tigured in the wjiness chairbefore the Lexow committee.Tfhe superintendent called the men before

him and( told them that to each one a sub-poena had been issued person.ally, andnotifled them to appear before the Lexowcommittee in their rooms tomorrow morn-ALg.

COLOR LINE DRAWN.

Colored Applieaats Excluded From theSons of Veterams.

CINCINNATI. Ohio. December 25.-A spe-cial to the Enquirer from Birmingham,Ala.. says:Commander-in-chief of the Sons of Vet-

erans Col. William Bundy. having heardthe appeal of colored applicants who hadbeen refused charters as Sons of Veteransby southern comnmanderles, has sustainedthe refusal and counseled the colored ap-plica'nts to organize a separate Organi/.ationof their own.

SIX ACRES DURNED OVER.

One of the Fiereest Fires in the His-tory of Buirlithgton, Vt.

BURLINGTON. Vt., D)ecemiber 25.-A firestarted last night in the lath shed con-nected with a big lumber yard owned byJ. Rt. Booth was not put under control un-

til 4 o'clock this morning, and after it haddone damage estimated at $l5,000.From the lath shed the flames spread to

the surricandinlg lumber, and about six~acres were burned over. All the lumberseeds were completely destroyed, and aheavy wind carried the lire to the millsowned by W. & G. E. Crane, which wereburned. Twenty cars standing on. the Cen-tial Vermont tracks, loaded with lumberand merchandiLe, and the Central Ver-moint engine house were also burned.Almost li00j0,u00 teet of lumber was de-

stroyed.The insurance is estimated at about

$125,000..The fire was one of the fieracest in the

history of tnle city, but, so far aw knowni,no laves were lost.

TACUIlA'S LIGHT AND WATER.

dodge S$allupe Tries to Prevent An)Fuarther Payaacnts.

ThCOMA, Wash., December 25.-John CStaliup. a superior c4 urt judge, has filed amequity suit against the city of TacomaThe plaintiff alleges that C. B. Wright, tiePhiladelphia millionaire, and the TacomaLight and Water Company, controlled b)him, sold the city the light and water plantfor 31,7.".,000 last year. staiup alleges tafor its $1,50uu~ im bonds ali the city golwas sonme r'otten ilumnes valued not to ex.ceed 5500, wt'erefore the plamntiff praysthat he be granted a dleciee against thecity. perpetually enjoining the city fronthe paying of any further or additionainterest upon the bonds, and that the cit:ofticials be 1,onii,ted from levying taxeifor the paymenlt of interest on these bonds

"UUME-RL N" Dt.FFEE DEAD.

He Was a Menmber of the Local 189.Team.

MOBILE, Ala., December 25.-Edwar,D)uffee, the famous base ball player of th,Mt. Louis Lrowns, died last night at Io'clock.

Duffee was a member of the Washiton base ball team collectedJ by .\anageBlarnie in lott and which inished the firsseason. unduer Arthur Irwin's managemen1i seveath place. He came here from thColumbus elab. where he was known a"HLrn1e itun D'ufee."' His hitting fell o1here. anid he was not retainied for the fo]iowing season. He was a go.od L;eider anibase runner and was popuiar.

kiEA.VE DAMAGES AWARD)ED.Vr-at Gai-e. Aai.nst. eU.- Wet.

shot and killed by the Skelton boys atStevenson several months ago, because ofhis alleged seduction of Annie-Skelton, hasleen awarded a verdict of $16,(NN) againstthe Western Union Telegraph Company be-cause of the company's alleged failure todeliver to Ross a message warning himthat the Skelton boys were after him.Judge Boarman set aside the verdict as

being excessive. 'Mrs. Ross sent the tele-gram from Scottsboro' to Stevenson, whith-er Ross had gone by p,rivate conveyance totake the train. The Skelton boys overtookhim at Stevenson and shot him to death.

SI ICIDE ON Cl'RISTMAS EVE.

Chanrls J. Sthall Tnkes PeAson atliut er,1 ow U.

Siweal Di-patchl to The Etenig Star.HAGE STOVN, Md., lDecember 23.-

('has. J. Schail, thirty years of age, whoseresidence is in Washington, but who came

here upon the removal of the Crawfordbicycle works to Hagerstown, committedsuicide last night by taking a deadly poisonof some character. After taking the dosehe went to the garden attached to his1-oarding house and lay down under a tree,where his remains were found this morn-ing. The deceased was a young man ofpleasing address, highly esteemed by thoseu ath whom he was associated and at onetime studied medicine. Disappointment ina love affair is attributed the cause ofSchall's act.

COMING HOME.

The Columbia Will Now Get Her W. L.I. Bell.

The cruiser Columbia, which has been do-ing service in the Caribbean sea for manymonths past, and which is now at Kings-ton. Jamaica, has been ordered home. Thecruiser Atlanta, which has undergone ex-tensive repairs at the Norfolk navy yard.will succeed the Columbia in the WestIndies. She will probably start for thesouth in a week or so. and the Columbiawill sail for home as soon as she arrives.The Columbia rendered good service atBluefields in maintaining the cause of theUnited States in the recent complicationswith the Itritish government. It is seidthat her bottom is very foul with martmegrowth, and that she is otherwise in needof an overhauling In a dry dock. She willbe repaired at the Norfolk navy yard, andwhen ready will probably make a visit toAnnapclis, as the nearest available port toWashington, for the purpose of receivingthe beautiful bell which has been presentedto her by the members of the WashingtonLight Infantry corps, in recognition of thecompliment paid the District in the selec-tion of her name. This presentation hasbeen delayed by the sudden dispatch of thevessel to Bluetields early in the summer.

RAILROAD POOLING.

Strong Efort Will Be Made to Passthe Hill.

Senator Butler, chairman of the Senatecommittee on interstate commerce, expectsto call the committee together,immediatelyafter the holidays for the purpose of tak-ing up the pooling bill. There are indicationsthat there will be opposition in committeeto the bill in the form which passed theHouse, and some remonstrances against ithave been received from various parts ofthe country, but the friends of the meas-ure claim that when the voting stage isleached in committee it will have a safemajority. They think the Senate com"u.ittee will accept the plan virtually as 11was adopted by the House. This opinioris based upon the fact that the Senate com-mittee had a subcommittee at work lastsession in conjunction with the House subcommittee, and that the two subcommitteesagreed upon a measure which was notmaterially different from the House billWith the bill reported there will be astrong effort to have it taken up in thtSenate, but the pooling bill was not one o1the measures designated for consideratoorby the democratic caucus, and if it shoulantagonize any of the preferred bills Itschances for securing consideration migh1be impaired.

REVENUE SERVICE.

Bill Providing for Retirement of Agedand Diualed Omcers.

Representative Mallory of Florida, whtis a member of the House committee orinterstate and foreign commerce, haviniin charge the bill for the improvement ofthe revenue service by the retirement ofofficers who have become disabled or in.capacitated by age, says that he has nol

despaired of getting the bill through. Itis very probable that immediately aftei(he holidays an attempt will be made ttpass the bill under suspension of the rulesThe committee on commerce will, perhapsask that recognition be given it to presithe bill to equalize the salaries in thsteamboaL inspection pervice. Mr. Mallor,says that if the committee prefers to talcup the steamboat inspection bill instead athe revenue marine bill that he will try tsecure individual r*.'ognition on a suspenslon day in order to pass the latter billlHe has no doubt but a two-thirds votenecessary to pass the bill under suspenision of the rules, can be secured for th<measure. it is important to get the bi]through Congress soon, as it must be considered by the Senate and become a lasbefore March 4, or pass over to the nexCongress.

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THE PRESIDEN'"S DUCKS.

They Were Eaten at Cabinet DinneriToday.

The President and the members of hicabinet celebrated Christmas in the oldlfashionedl way-making it essentiallyfamily affair. At tha White Hogse it waea genuine children's day, everytliing beinisubordinated to the pleasure of the littiones. There was a Christmas tree sot 11the library, the first that the Clevelandchildren have called their own, and MrsCleveland herself added the finishinitouches to the tree, which, while not cgreat propot tions, was very beautifull:trimmed and decorated with tAny particolored electric lamps, in place of the oldtime vax car.dles. Gifts for the little onewere numercus, and almost all day eipress wagons and messengers came lade>to the White House. As usual, the President remembered all of the employes in thhouse. Every one got a fat turkey. TIhis personal servants the President gavgifts of money. Mrs. Cleveland also hadi,etty lIttle pr~eent for each of the enplcyes4 She herself received very manChristmas presenats, the Presifient's tokebeing very beautiful.The only guest stopping at the Whit

House i.s Mrs. Cleveland's mother, MrsPerrine, andl toriay's dinner was strict]Slimited to the family. PrecedIng it, hioiever, there was a pretty little lunchecSset out for the children of the cabinet whcame to the White House to see the Chrisiinas tree.All the members of the cabinet ate the

Christmas dinners at home in the bo.'omtheir families, and perhaps the largesgathering was at the Carlisle bomne, wheithe Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle entertainaStheir children and grandchildren. Duel)killed by the President in the watersSouth Carolina formed a prominent paof the menu of the cabinet dinner.

Trasedy in a Lumber Camp.SENEY, Mich., December 25.-TImnottI

Kane, camp foreman for the Manist'Lumber Company, was stabbed and killeby Louis Stretcher last night. Stretchewho is an employe of the same comnpan;Squarre!ed with Kane in a saloon, and whi"the latter assaulted him, drew a knife ar

ile him. Stret.her is in jaiL.

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SANTA CLAUS:---THIS IS THE TIE OF YETWO SHlOUID REALLY KNOW EACH OTI'El

THE SEAMY SIDEPauline Pry Gets a Glimpse of a

Life of Sacrifice.

PADRONES RULE IN PURDY'S COURT

A System That Makes Actual Slavesof Women and Girls.

A BURDEN TOO HEAVY

For the past ten days I have been livingIn touch with the Italians in Schott's alleyand Purdy's court.Here I have found an American woman

who is a counterpart of Tolstol. I havealso found that slavery has not been abol-ished In the District of Columbia."First, you must know that Schott's alley

and Purdy's court are practically underthe shadow of the Capitol dome-the for-m:er running between B and C and lst and2d streets northeast; the latter betweenPennsylvania avenue and B and lst and2d streets northwest. The latter Is In therear of the row of boarding houses, mostof them familiar to every person passingat the foot of the Capitol grounds, wherethe 14th street cable turns off the avenue.

Six weeks or so ago Judge Miller officiallyrecognized the truth of the statement Ihave made-that slavery still exists in theDistrict of Columbia. At that time, on theauthority of the court, the board of chil-dren's guardians took from their parentstwo children-Louis and Theodora Rosetti,the former nine and the latter twelveyears of age-evidence having been intro-duced to show that the girl had been soldby her father for $30 to Marie Papi, anItalian abandoned woman.The complaint against the Rosetti parents

was made by Mrs. S. E. Lucille Saffold,a missionary, who has, at 217 Delawareavenue nortieast, a school for Italian girls.

A Case of Hausan Depravity.0Since the removal of the children from

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permencmery myk bo c a fromthe pity,and glaesrl events and ChItmas tme sep-tpcrofe. Iindave bee intatd in whprtducarye terms thcesu divinetorsh ofban-

doeher and eremns of thlanferfor arer dailye cruifin the saounte ofscriber" saih he utca onteprth h ofpporsts hersl afd or idtherchastwinge. Bresoofher sumedtaherence

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LR WHEN I TAKE THE LIBERTY OF MAKIN(BE'ITEA.

with scraps of mattig that have beenpieced into a covering over part of thestone floor, and pieced to cover a dozenboxes thit serve as additional chairs. Onthe days that she has school she goes with-out dinner herself to give a lunch, of some-times bread and buttes-more often, drybread-to all her chaltes.The Italians flock to Mrs Saffold'shome like sheep to a shlpherd. I havebeen there when they have come for herto get a doctor, when they have come forher to get the doctor's.prebcriptions tilled,when Mrs. Rosetti has come for ven-geance. when the chitdrent have been as-stmbled there, and one day when a four-year-old submissionary came in to securehelp from the supreme souirce."Oh. teacher," said Anielina-they all,en, women and chil4ren, call Mrs. Saf-

fcld teacher-"Oh, taacher; won't youplease pray for Tony? I can't do nothing

' her. She be pretty good till she getdr...k and then she swears, and she swearsjust awful."

A Itather Startling Proof.The next day I waa- the.when Tony-

six years old this dinner i-cane in peni-tent and promised nevg' to get drunk anymore.The same day I saw a less hopeful case

recognize Mrs. Saffold as the fount fromwhich all blessings flow in Schott's alleyand Purdy's court.As if to intensify the shadow's on her

life by contrast, she was named Lily."I want flive cents," she said. "I want It,

and it's nobody's business what I want itfor. Wnen I had money I gave what I hadand asked -no questions, and if you're aChristian, you'll give me a nickel and holdyour tongue.""You want to buy beer," said Mrs. Saf-

fold. "If you're hungry I'll give you some-thing to eat, but I can't give you money toget drunk with.""I don't want anything to eat," replied

Lily. "I want what I want, and I don'twant nothing elce," which was such a terseexposition of human desire, I ouldn't helplaughing, whereupon Lily turned upon me."Ah, you think I'm funny, do you? Well,I'm as good as you are, and I'm betterlooking, if you are a Christian. You can'tcome up 'to these,' " and without warningLily whipped up her petticoats, displayinga pair of bare legs like chiseled marble.I admitted her superiority, and gave her

a nickel to atone for the shortcomings ofwhich she had convicted me."How did you come to work among these

Italians?" I asked Mrs. Saffold.She Wem Their CoaQdencc.

"In reading the daily papers," she an-

swered, "I was impressed with the fre-quency with which Italians were broughtinto the Police Court and fined 25 for a

violation of their licensed privilege to sellfruit on the streets. I looked into the mat-ter and found that these men have what iscalled a 'moving-on' license, for which theypay $25. This insures them,,the privilege ofselling to but two persons at a time. Sup-pose you and another stopped a bananaman on the street to buy fruit of him andbefore you got away 'I came up to buy. Ifhe sold it to me without moving on fromwhere you stood, he would be liableto arrest for violation of his license. Thepoor Ignorant fellows, half of them can'tbe made to understand what is the privil-ege their license gives them. In trying tohelp them iqj this matter, I often found aman with a loaf of bread and a small pieceof meat in his pocket, locked up in jailawaiting trial to take place the nextmorning, and his family at home, waitingfor the food he carried to eat. Thus Ibecame a messenger for them, goingto their homes wit~ these necessariesof life. In that war, I saw the homelife of the women and little children,and saw a work whuih nobody was doing.But the women were like stone before me,and the children, so maany scared wild ani-mals. The Italians are suspicious of allstrangers, and the women have no willbut that of whatever man is their master,"So Mrs. Soffold began with the ma~n.For eight months she went night afternight into Purdy's court afad Schott's alleyand taught these Italian men to speak,some of them to read, English. She satwith them while they played cards anddrank whisky Illicitly vended. She atetheir bad-smelling, nauseating food andfrally, at the end ot eight months had sowon their confidence that she was per-mitted to communicate with their ivesand children.

Hard Lot of the WVoma.Up to this time the women and littleones still shunned her. Then she beganhaving the women and Little girls come toher home. At this time Mrs. Saffold hada small house on B street, and as a re-

ward for the little girl who made thegreatest progress, in cleanliness and godli-ness each month sa took this child tolive with her a wok. On certain daysthe women came, *d she. taught themhow to cut and m4ke their clothes andhow to wash the lyes and be clean.Afterward she taugl them of Jesus Christand purity and holim es. The basic princi-ple of Mrs. Saffold' missionary endeavoris that you must cli lise unfortunate crea-tures before you can christianize them,and she counts It her greatest earthlygcry that, by her :efforts, nine familieshave moved out of alleys into streets be-cause Jgheir souls had come to abhor thesocial conditions prevailing about them.She has two other families wanting to goand waiting only to find a house withintheir means."But while some measure of success has

been granted me," says Mrs. Saffold,"there are times when I almost despair.I cannot begin to tell you what misery isthe lot of the Italian woman from thetime she is born. She is deemed flt for butone use, and until she reaches a mar-riageable age, which among these peopleis commonly as early as eight years, sheIs treated with less consideration than a

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little girls rejoicing, looking forward toChristmas, you hear these litle Italiangirls talk about attairing the marryingage. Last week I had a child five yearsold in here, just so heart-broken with dis-couragement to think how long it would bebefore she could escape being beater. andstarved to become the property of someman, that she couldn't sew or play, andinsisted that she would cut the life out ofher throat the first chance she got. Halfwas not told in court of the horrors of thelife of Theodora Rosetti. Besides all thatcannot be decently described. She wasmade, night and morning, to pick up coalalong the railroad, or sift cinders from theCapitol fires, and drag home on her smallback a load for a horse to carry. Therewas another man in the alley whom I be-sought the Humane Society to prosecute.He had two girls-one elevbn, the otherthirteen-and lived in idleness off theearnings of these children. But all the Hu-mane Society could do was to stipulate thesize of the loads the girls should carry ontheir backs. The burden of immorality ontheir pitiful young souls no law could les-sen.

Bad Treataeat of Girls."The oldest brother in the family heat

these poor girls shamefully. This olderbrother cruelty is cmamon amng the Ital-ians. A boy in Schott's alley being en-

iaged with his little sister for not going tothe school he wanted her to attend, kickadher in the ribs, leaving black and bluemarks; then, to prevent her crying, put histhumbs in each corner of her mouth andore the flesh, so that it was over twoweekb healing. When I threatenec theboy with the law he cursed me, naying henas next man to his father In the familyand had a right to treat the girls as hewanted to."Last week the little girl who can e in

and wanted me to pray for her six-year-old sister that swears when she gets drunk,was struck on the head by her father witht soap box, and for three days could notsee to sew for pain. And what do youthink was her offense? She objected tohaving the monkey sl?ep with her. Herfather is an organ grinder, and the mon-

key at night was tied to the foot of AnEe-lina's bed, 'and, oh, teacher,' she said, 'hewould come and scratch my head for bugs,and there wasn't no bugs there."The Italians will not, as do other for-

eigners, take the oath of allegiance to theUnited States. They give as their reasonthat their church forbids them. Yetamong themselves they denounce the au-

thority of their church, saying this is afree country, and they will do as theyplease."But they do not do as they please.

They do to please the n..xt one above tlemwho has more money. There are two liquordealers on Pennsylvania avenue who ex-ercise supreme authority over them. Thesepadrones rent houses to them; they supply'them with the whisky which they illicitlyvend Sundays and week days. and dictateto them in everything. Not long ago someof the women I had taught to sew deter-mined to buy a machine among them, andthey dare not get one only through one ofthese padrones, who charged them $36J fora worn-out thing worth scarcely so manycents."

An Italian Curse."In Schott's alley a thrifty woman has

a store, which by paying for protection andsupport from the padrones, she compelsthe people to patronize. There was a childstarving to death in that alley one time,andI went to The Star begging the paper topublish the need the miother and baby werein. W.hen the first supplies that came Inresponse to the appeal in The Star arrivedthis alley storekeeper diverted all else thatfollowed and prevented the needy womanfrom touching the provisions, telling herthey were p~oion and threatening herwith the padrone. The child starved todeath, and after the funeral the mother,still under threats of this storekeeper, wasobliged to curse me and my child withwhat they count an awful curse. She tooktwo pigeons, tore them apart alive; in oneinclosed a paper on which was written mayname; in the other a paper bearing ituthie'sname; hung both birds on the wall, where,after chanting incantations to bring downvengeance upon me, they were left to rotand drop to pieces."I don't know how many times my life

has been threatened. One sciss.or-ginder,for no other reason than the natural hatredhis race have for Americans, sw~ore hewould kill me. The poor creature was half-starved and half frozen. So I went to awoman who could well afford it, and gothim two suits of warm woolen underwear.Then I went to his door the samz, night-it was almost midnight. I shall never for-get the terrible look that was on thatman's face, as he opened the door andrecognized me. It was the look of a wildbeast that finds its prey within reach ofits teeth. But before he could catch hisbreath, I thrust the clothing into .dis handand told him I had seen how wretched andunhappy he was, ar.d that I wanted himto know I was his friend, however he mightfeel toward me. He shrunk into theshadow of the door, muttering to himself,then in a moment, grasped my hand, andcrying like a baby, said, 'Oh. if you knowhow I have wanted to kill you.' He ismy enduring friend now.

A Visit to the Alleyn."Another, because of the same hatred ofItalians for Americans, while the small-pox was imminent, vowedI he would throwme down and stamp my life out, because,he said, I was vaccinating the children inthe alleys to put AmerIcan blood in them."I suggested to Mrs. Saffold carryingChristmas among these people, and shesaid, 'Come wIth me, and see for yourselfwhether it is possible."We started in at Schott's alley. Here,

by the way, is a neat violation of the ordi-nance forbidding the erection of dwellinghoses in alleys. After the enactment ofths ..-uaUosn Schott'. aywas= renhett-

:ned Schott's court, and last summer arow of new houses was put up there.This alley, however, is paved with stone

tnd is In excellent condition. I visitedtwo houses here and found them simplybarren and dirty. The alley was perfectly:ulet, not a child to be seen. Mrs. Rosettihas so far progressed since her encounterwith the law as to have whitewashed herfence inside. But as we approached Pur-ly's court I would have been glad of an.ctse to back out. Tha alley leadingrto the court was deep with mud, andn the curt water pipes were being laid, sothat great banks of nasty, slimy clay werepiled in front of the houses. Here chil-Iren swarmed-numerous and lively as an3rmy of ants. Directly the first one espiedMfrs. Saffold they came running toward usFrorr every direction, catching hold of ourskirts, including me in a joyous welcome.from which I inwardly shrank. In oneloor appeared a woman holding a sickbaby in her arms-a baby that would bethe youngest only p few days longer.

A lINial kL Room.Other women poked their heads from

their doors, but we were seized upon by)ne who could scarcely move for the chil-Iren under her feet, and began telling Mrs.Saffold that the doctcr had been there. Tothis Mrs. Saffold replied that she was glad,ind told me that she has seen one of thephysicians to the poor wait in this alleys hile a collection was taken up to raisehim a dollar before he would lift a finger torelieve a child writhing on the ground athis iert in a lit.Genita led us into her house, at least a:ozen children swarming in after us-girls

with but one or two exceptions. If thereIs nothing to eat and no money but enoughto buy a bunch of bananas for the day'strade in an Italian's house in the morning,he leaves the woman and female childrento starve or steal, while he makes.hls sonswith him, feeding them from the stock hebuys, or off the proceeds of his first sale.Genita's husband was upstairs sick with

pneumonia, and to him we went. I can nomore give you an idea of the appearanceof this home than I gould give you a real-istic sense of a dung hill. In the bed roomwhere the man lay sick were two beds anda cradle. When Genita, Mrs. Saffold,and myself were added, we had to turnIn unison or we stuck fast. Yet Mrs.Saffold told me she had been in that roomattending the festivities following a chris-tening when it held ninety-six men andwomen, all dancing.The man in bed did not look sick to me,

though he had drawn three prescriptionsfrom the city physician. His rent was un-paid, but Genita said they had a good"boss." If he came and she told him shehad only $2 or $1, he says: "All right; giveme that. Oh, yes; he is good. Sometimethe boss come, and if there is not all themoney he say 'Get out.' and he throw thethings into the street."For a hovel such as this Genita pays $8

a month.In ('lose Quarters.

When we returned down stairs, amongthe horde of children filling the two roomsbelow, drawn close to the crazy stove, inwhich a fire was burning, was a youngwoman, holding a sick baby. The baby hadbeen hit on the head by its father, and itwas moaning and rolling its eyes and twist-ing Its head with a peculiar movement. Onthe young mother's face-she is only nine-teen-was a stamp of added wretchednesswhich Genita's worried face had outgrown.The girl yas young enough to count happi-ness her due, and miserable she felt her-self, robbed of her own belonging. She wasresentful, sullen, hated charity for themeasure it was of the injustice done her.In the adjoining house, three-year-old

Angeima had been left in charge of a fif-teen-moriths-old baby-her baby, she calledit, as she came hugging it over the bridgeformed by a narrow plank thrown acrossthe deep ditch dug for the water pipes.Tony, the unregenerate six-year-old, hadhackslided, and, though she appeared to beperfectly sober, she swore at Mrs. Saffoldwith all the might of her few years. Inthis house, on two of the three beds fillingthe front room down stairs, macaroni was

spread to dry. Here, in the four smallrooms comprising the whole house, lodgenineteen grown persons, three children anda monkey-six men in the front room down-stairs, eight men in the front room upstairs,the man, his wife, a female lodger and thethree children and the monkey in the rearroom; in the kitchen two men on a cot.Fcr lodging and the privilege of the

stove, these Italians pay $31 a month. Eachman makes his own macaroni, spreadiigit, as I had seen it, on his bed to dry.

A Youthful Missionary.In another house a beautiful little girl

opened the door, admitting us into a room

in which her gentle influence had createdsome resemblance to a home. When Mrs.Saffold first knew this child, she was a

blood-thirsty small reprobate who, in a

rage, would fly at the enemy, catch holdwith her teeth, and not let go until shehad a piece of the enemy's flesh.Last summer this child went one day to

Mrs. Saffold, saying: "There are some newchildren come into the alley today who arebad as they can be, nd I've been think?ing, teacher, you look so tired and white,I might help you by having a little schoolmyself and teach them all to thread aneedle and comb their heads before theycome up to bother you."So this seven-year-old misslomfry opened

her school under the steps of her alleyhome, and took the four strangers througha preparatory course of civilization.Three or four men were standing about

as we went from hotise to house, that dif-fered one from another only as the sightsand smells of one barn yard differs fromthose in th' next, Colored men workingfrying the water pipes, mingled withItalians, and mangy curs were chasingand yelping about us.At night when the men, busy about town

during the day, return whisky, freely, isbought and sold, and while we have not,certainly as in New York, anything inWashington of the nature of police pro-teetion of crime, it is remarkable how farfrom human ken--all but Mrs. Saffold andthe prying gaze of a woman reporter-thehorrors and crimes of Purdy's court are.

A Burden Too Great.The day following my visit there I sat

with the children while they sewed, sang,prayed and played in Mrs. Saffold's home-the pinched, pitiful home that for want ofsupport has dwindled from a small houseto this single basement room,Every face was clean, bright, radiant

with intelligence and hope. Individuallysurveyed, it is apparent that these girlshave been advanced b2eyond their parents'state through several cycles of evolutionby the unaided efforts of one loving, faith-ful, but. oh: such a heart-broken, littlewoman., Nor did these children go without a('hristmas today, though there was noplace to put it in their home. Mrs. SalToldhas herself provided them with a dinmerin her basement, and last night they hungtheir stockings in a line along her walnot to find them empty of all token ofSanita Claus this morning.But I could not rejoice in their happiness,

reading the price of it written on the faceof the solitary life that assures it. I haveasked myself, and I ask you, Is it right, isit human that one pair of woman's hand.and the tiny hands of a little girl, who lastThursday was taken sick with pneumonia,should have so much to do?

PAULINE PRY.

No Justinecatton.The President has denied the application

for a commiutation of the sentence in thecase of Cha-Nopa-Huath, alias Two Sticks,an Indian, convicted in South Dakota ofmurder and sentenc2d to be hanged D)ecember 28, 1891l. "After a thorough exam

in.ation of this case," says the President,"I car find no grounds to justify my in.terference with the sentence of the court,"

Personal Mention.Mr. Ruloff R. Strattan of the United'

States civil servIce coimmission office andhis brother, George Win. Strattan of theColumbia Athletic Club, left the city orSunday to epend the holidays amongfenda nd relative. in Philadelphia, Pa,

94e proof of tee pubbing isin fee eating, "esterba's

fiar containeb 33 cotumnsof abverfisemenfs mabe upof 548 separate announce:menfs. ;epse aboertisers$ou95f pu8ficiff-not meret

THE GAME WAS A TIEColumbia and Union Battle on Foot

Ball Field.

AN EVEN SCORE RESULTED

Phil King's Splendid Runs NearEnd of Game.

LITTLE ENTHUSIASM

The Christmas foot ball game played to-day at National Park did not prove asgreat an attraction as that played onThanksgiving ' day. There are severalreasors that may possibly have tended tothis erd. It may be that the Washingtonpublic had enough of sport which in thegame played between the Columbia Ath-letic Club and Georgetown College re-sulted so seriously to one player. Or itnay be that Christmas is too much of ahome holiday for people to be attracted toseats on hard benches. Perhaps, also, therather threatening weather and last night'srain had a depressing effect on the attend-ance.Whatever the causes, the crowd that

was gathered at noon at th' park to seethe game between the Columbia Club andUnion College teams was very small, num-bering scarcely a thousand. There wereperhaps twenty-five ladies on the stands.There was little enthusiasm, a few hornsbeing blown at times, but they soundedvery like Christmas horns, rather than thegenuine foot ball instruments.The spectators were mostly strung out

along the rope line on the south side ofthe field. But few wore colors.The Union College players reached the

park first and immediately repaired to thedressing room. Columbia soon showed up,the men complaining loudly because a 'bushad not been sent to carry them to thegrounds. The general impression amongthe spectators was that Union would putup a strong game; first. because the visit-ors were in excellent trim, and, second,because Columbia played a number ofsubstitutes.Shields and one or two other members

of the Thanksgiving day game occupiedreserved seats.

Visitors Arrive.The Union College team trotted onto the

gridiron a few minutes before noon, andwas greeted with but faint applause. Half

a minute later Columbia made its appear-ar.ce. A few tin horns were sounded andagain silence reigned. The players werenot at all energetic in their practice.The Union boys are a fne-looking, ath-

letic set of young men, and they created a

very favorable impression as they scientin-cally dropped en the pigskin.The first yell of the day was heard when

Union College made a touch-down a fewminutes after the game started. Then fardown the field rang out-

Rah, rah, rah!U-n-i-o-n.Hiki, hiki, hiki.

That Union had sympathizers among thespectators was evidenced as goal was kick-ed, for shouts of "You're not playing withGeorgetown today" were heard behind theropes.A feature of the play of the Union men

was1 the enthusiasm they put Into theirwork, and the hearty manner in which thesignals were given.The crowd we.s an orderly one, no effort

being made to get inside the ropes. Thepolicemen stood about the grounds at In-tervals, looking extremely lonesome.Owftng to the fact that the Columbia

players are very much out of condition, itwas decided to have the halves of buttwenty-live minutes' duration.Between halves not a spectator crossed

the gridiron. A number of horn solos wererendered, but the peace of the patients inFreedmen's Hospital was not otherwise dis-turbed. Absence of local Interest in thecontest was perhaps the most noticeablefeature at the grounds. One Columbia en-thusiast carried a huge kazoo horn repre-senting a rooster's head, which was madeto crow triumphantly when things lookedfavorable for Columbia.The familiar yell of Columbia *as given

its Initial rendition of the day when theball approached dangerously near Union'sgoal, a few minutes after the opening pthe second half. A touchdown fellowel;Clark kicked goal, and then the first realenthusiasm of the day was displayed.The crowd warmed up when Phil King

made two long runs in succession threeminutes before the close of the game."What's the matter with King?" "He's

all right," was shouted, and several bunch-es of firecrackers were exploded."That ball Is a pretty good thing-push

it along," yelled the Columbia rooterswhen the oval reached the vicinity ofUnion's goal.

The Lime Up.The teams lined up as follows:

Union College Positions. C. .A. C.Pollock.........Left end..........CarterPalmer.........Left tackle...aundersBlodgett..........Left guard.........RanierTerry.............Ceter..........,..GapesSwectiand...ight guard..DickinsonPeters........Right tackle..Capt. WellsMallery..........tight end.........eftonC'apt. Brown..Quarter back..Phil KingBaker.........Left half back...BarardMyers........Right half back..8. JohrsouRichards....Full back...........ClarkSubstitutes for Union--Gordenl, Cowe and

Case. Umpire-Dr. James R. Church. Ref-eree-Frank Butterwor'th. Linesman--Harry King.

Commeaelug Play.Union won the toss and took the kick-

off. The ball went down to the Columbia2-yard line. A Columbia man fumbledard the pigskin went foul. On the third'down Myers pushed through the, line tothe l0-yard line and another down sent theball to within three yards of'Coiumbia'sgoal. A slight gain was made in the nextscrimmage by the locals, but this wh atorce regained by Union, and again the ballwas right In front of the goal. An errush and the ball was pushed over the finebetween the posts In just seven minutei.Goal was kicked easily, and in les thanten minutes the score stood. Union, 6;Columbia, 41.

Sharper Play.Columbia made a good kick-off, and stop-

ped Richards in abcut ten yards. A gooddeal l.etter play was put up by the localmen, and King t<gan to get better ac-quaintd with the Columbia tactics. Theball was kept in about the middle of thefield for several minutes, and several roughpazn:s occurred.Clark got the eall at the right end, but

lost ground. After a slort gain for Co-lumbia the ball was5 pr.ssed back to Clarkfor a kick, and sent dounn to Union's twen-ty-five-yard line. Sefton n.ude a goodtackle and clinched the gain thus made.Myers made a gain of twenty yards for

Union, being well ts.ckl<d by Befton just intime t.- keep him from a clear field. U'nionsoor. made another gain, and then another,by mcans of hard center rushes, in whichthe great strength of the college men toldhenvily.Richards was slightly hurt and a briefdelay followed. Myers made a gain ofabout twelve yards for Union, and Cass#nllnwad with two more. MYers made an