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McKoew's, 933 Pa. AvenueSUPERB WRAPS, For the social season we have opened a superb line of elegant Yclour and Velvet Jackets and Capes, richly and appropriately to $75. Lovely Viennese and Parisiene Cloth Capes, elegantly trimmed with jet. braid and to $52. High-class Imported Opera Capes and Cloaks, in delicate even- ing shades, richly trimmed with to $36.

flcKmiew's EicliMive Cloak and Suit 933 Pa. Ave. for the holidays, and liquid good cheer finest obtainable and guaranteed right or else your money back. PSurn Puddings Celebrated R. A R.

lb. packages, I lbs 40c Real Made-at-bome Fruit Cake. A Virginia fI lady ine this toothsome edible. 25c. the lb I Think of 3 lbs.

Broken or Stick Candy for Fine quality Ron Rons. 15c." Ex- 7 tra Fine Fruit and Nut Candles. pound box. i $1. Fresh-picked.

Just received NITTS, mixed different kinds), 8 $1. I Splendid Claret. 75c. gallon? old-fashioned Apple Cider, 25c. I gallon.

Extra Fine Ronrbon Whisky. $4 1 gallon and niy Famous Moiiticello Whisky. fit gallon. Very Fine California Catawba. 15c.

gallon. lOUVALUSvj Telephone 10S4. de23 for Eyeglasses and Spectacles fitted with our finest lenses. Eves examined without extra charge. 'Uydsr Opticians, 133 St.

de24 2Sd A de24 lOd li! Room-making clearing ont all Xmas goods. Moans lot to you and to us to rut prices we have done. No consideration stands in the way of closing these goods. They've got to go. That's all.

As an idea: (fTQ A hands Oak Morris wftli Bagdad Cosh- ions All brand new. perfect All Rockers to close at and below cost. The Houghton 12x4 St. "HOT" i ITEflS. i 4 Why should not able to give the value- in Heating Stoves when we are such buyers ana selles? i Heating Stoves.

Si-25. Oil Heating Stoves, $2.75. Coal Grates, $2.00. 4-tube Gas Radiators, From these prkw we go up to the finest and for their prices. 1 Shedd de24-24d If it Is ialieled To-Kalon it is pure.

New Year's Wines, Whv not "treat" to a rtw of 12 which eontains a qt. hot. of Champagne a of Krandy ami ten (IO) aa- Half Day 3 We are naUai a Monday. loefW featare --f such a for Packed in unmarked cases without extra charge Wine 614 14th. Phone qq8.

Ue24 -20d 7 7 Doctors encourage the use of Heaters in a sick persou'a room. They beat at an even temperature, are very easy to operate. noiseless. lent. safe, healthy, ornamental, and coat about one-fifth aa much to operate a cool stove.

Price as low as $1.25. GAS APPLIANCE 1424 X. Y. Ave. If you want to give your friends something that is different from anything to be found In Washington, that will look as if especially made for them, at most reasonable pricta come and look them over at W.

E. Clark 1021 Conn. Avenue. Closed Monday, the WOODWARD LOTHROP Invite attention to their selections and direct tations from Paris, from Lyons, from St. Gall of Evening1 Gown Stuffs for the Debutante, for Receptions, for Weddings, for Dinner Parties, for Theater Parties, for Bails, for all Fashionable Occasions and Social Functions.

Rich Laces, Tulles, Chiffons, ilousselines, Satins and Nets, appiiqued, embroidered, spangled and jeweled; auso Silks, Satins, Wools and a vast variety off other fabrics that are now so generally shown by the leading Paris modistes. Lace Department. Never so rich and beautiful a collection off ported gauzy fabrics, among which are many sive novelties in Spangled and Applique Robes, Application and Chenille ered Nets, Application and Spangled Satins in white and dainty colors, Chenilled Tosca, Beaded, Chenilled and Jewe.ed Brussels, Solid gled Nets in black and steel; also Real Applique and Buchesse Laces, including the new "Circular" shape, so effective in draping the bodices off gowns. First floor. Silk Department, Rich Silks in white, pearl, ivory and all fashionable tints, embracing all the desirable weaves, and including richly elegant novelties that are exclusive.

We name in part Crepe de Chine, Satin Buchesse, Regence Barre, Peau de Soie, iloire tiques, Armures, Crystals, Taffetas Jardiniere, ffettas Glace, Taffetas Pointelle, Qros de Londres, Satin Brocades, Moire Nouveaute, Peau de Cygne, Poplins, Crepe Broche, Sicilienne, Striped Taffetas, Taffetas Glace, Brocade d'Or, Brocade flatlasss, ffetas Peau de Soie, Ottoman Cords, etc. First floor. Dress Goods Department A very choice gathering off the correct sorts off Dainty Wools and Silk and Wools which are beautiful and effective for evening wear. Among the most popular weaves for the present season are Cashmeres, All-wool Henriettas, Silk and Wool Lansdowne, Silk and Wool are shown in cream and art tints; also Broadcloths in cream, gray and a host of evening tints for opera and visiting wraps and gowns. First floor.

Millinery Department Latest Paris Novelties in Hair terfly Bows in dainty shades off satin and velvet, Spangled Gauze Butterflies, Ostrich Feather pons, Aigrettes and Ostrich Tips in white and delicate tints. Flower and Feather Garnitures in exquisite shades for hair and gown. Beautiful Cut Steel, Pearl and Jet Ornaments for the hair. Second floor. Neckwear Department.

New Paris dainties for the neck in a profusion off exquisite Renaissance and Chiffffon Scarfs, Taffetas Silk and Brussells Net Capes, Jabots, Liberty Silk and Ostrich Feather Boas, etc. Hany off these are off our own direct importation and have no duplicates. First floor. Corset Exclusive Paris Novelties in Corsets for evening wear in models specially adapted to the present mode of costume, including the Parame, the Lily off France, the Empire, the Girdle. Made off elegant satins, silks and embroidered batistes, and garnished with dainty laces, embroideries and ribbons.

Attention is also invited to a complete and choice assortment of women's and men's Dress Requirements for New Year's. Cards Engraved for New Year's. That no delay may be occasioned in their delivery, we urge ail having such work in contemplation to leave their orders at once. Name on Copper Plate and Fifty Cards, 86c. First floor.

i Woodward Lothrop. IN A STEADY STREAM tt 1' Caring for Imnfigrants on Their Arrival in New York. DIVIDED DF DUO THREE CLASSES ft Not a Simple Tgsk to Handle These ErribryO Americans. RECEIVE GOOD TREATMENT Written for The Evening Star. WHAT BECOMES OF the immigrants when the officials get through with them?" je I asked a curious young woman who saw a number of foreigners standing in front of the office of the commissioner of immigration down on the Battery in New York the other day.

"Blessed if I know," replied hef escort; "but I suppose they go to farms or factories or something like that." And they took the South Ferry without giving the matter another thought. It would be an interesting sociological study to follow the fortunes of one immigrant or an immigrant family, to watch their progress, to see them go through the processes that make them American citizens, to note the assimilation of American customs, manners and ideas and to follow, step by step, the evolution from peasant to person. What becomes of the immigrant is a topic for a hundred books. What has become of the immigrant Is the basis of much of our history. The casual inquiry of the curious young woman opens a wide field for critical observation and exhaustive study.

The answer would require years to give. The final disposition does not come in days or weeks, but the immediate handling, distribution and classification is tremendously interesting in itself, even if it furnishes no conclusive answer to the problem. At the Hurice Office. A ship comes in, bringing 100, or 1,200 immigrants, as the case may be. The preliminary inspection, registration and examination have been gone through with at Ellis Island, down the bay.

Word is sent to the barge office on the Battery that the human cargo may be expected at noon, say. Just before noon one of the immigrant steamers that plies between the barge office and Ellis island comes snorting up to the dock of the barge office. The lines are made fast. The blue-uniformed inspectors take their places. The doctors come out.

The interpreters are ready. The money changer is in his cage with piles of American silver and bills on the counter in front of him. The customs officers and baggagemen stand by. The officer in charge harries ashore with the papers, and all is ready lo receive another batch of Italians, maybe, or Greeks, or Hungarians, or Irish, or Germans. The population is about to be increased.

On the boat the immigrants stand in roped spaces, thirty in a bunch. They are placed according to the letter of the ship's manifest sheet, on which their names are recorded. The manifest sheets hold thirty names. When Pietro or Hans or Salvador or Abdullah reaches Ellis Island he is given a slip of paper bearing his name and his number on the manifest sheet. Stamped in one corner of the slip is a large red letter that corresponds to the letter of the manifest sheet on which his name appears.

Thus, to facilitate handling, those with slips lettered are put In one roped space, those with slips labeled in another roped space and so on down through the alphabet until the letter in the manifest sheet is provided for. The immigrants are brought from Ellis Island in parties of two or three hundred. The manifest sheets are taken upstairs in the barge office and given to men who stand at high desks at the end of narrow aisles that extend through the long receiving room and are made by iron railings. Thoroughly Inspected. The immigrants named on manifest sheet come across the gang plank first.

An inspector is at every turn, 'lugging their baggage, hauling the children and wildly anxious to be first, the prospective citizens clambr wildly up the stairs. At the top an inspector stands who can speak the language of the party. He forms them in line. He speaks sharply, but handles no one roughly, and forces the men to give way to the women. They all pass rapidly along an aisle that runs at right angles to those down the center of the room.

This is the medical line. A doctor, alert, rapid in his movements and skilled in detecting evidence of disease, receives them one by one. By his side is a matron, who keeps careful watch of the women. The children are lifted up and examined. The men are scrutinized closely.

This is the second medical examination they have pasted. Not many are found that require attention. Past the doctor they clatter. They are silent, but watch everything sharply. The Ellis Island experiences have made them accustomed inspection.

They crowd clong, each looking out for himself and all going on the principle that the other h.ts ro rights he is bound to respect. The inspector who stands Just beyond the doctor turns them into the aisle marked to receive the Wter A manifested ones. They are told to get out their slips of identifying paper. They come down to the high desk where another inspector has the manifest sheet. Here they are asked, rapidly, their names, their destinations, their trades, whether they are married or single, how many children they have, their nationalities.

and, last, how much money they have. What of Them At this money question there Is a great diving into pockets and unwrapping of strings around wallets. The money Is handed to the man at the desk, who counts It rapidly and hands it back. This information secured, each immigrant Is given a card on which is written his name and below that his destination. Right here begins the answer to the question: "What becomes of the immigrants?" At the end of these aisles, the immigrant becomes a member of one of three grand classes.

He gets a distinguishing mark. If he Is going to New York city or vicinity he is marked "New York." If he is going anywhere else iu the country he is marked "Railroad." If he. has not given satisfactory answers to the questions of the inspector he is marked That means he will be the subject of a special investigation as to whether he is a desirable person to admit to the country. The immigrant who has told his family history correctly, who has proved he is not under contract) for labor here, who has no disease, who is mentally capable, who has relatives or friends that will see he will not be a public charge and who is going to New York city or to some place nearby is eseorted to a room Qn the right of the central hail, downstairs. Here he remains until his or relatives call for him or he, can word to them that he has arrived.

Ill room, also, are detained those who are going out of town, but have no railroad tickets. There is always a crowd of people expecting friends on ship days and the lucky ones who intend to live In New York and have a thoughtful friend or relative are not detained long. They soon get out into Battery Park and after that are free to go and come as they will. They get work at their trades. If they have any.

They become laborers. They join husbands and brothers and fathers and mothers. They go to the quarter of the city where colonies of their people live, and no further notice is taken of them. That is what becomes of them. Lean Fortmiate.

The less fortunate huddle in the room to which they are sent. If there is anybody to whom they can telegraph, ample facilities are given them. They are kept there Ave days. If no one has appeared to vouch for them, and if they have no money, they are then deported. It Is in this room that i the missionaries from the various religious and race societies do their excellent and charitable work.

There are regularly organized societies that look after almost every class of immigrants. The Protestant Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal. Roman Catholic, German Catholic, Jewish, German and Greek Catholic churches have missions that put men and women among these detained immigrants, who provide them with creature comforts, who look after them and who take steps to get them out of detention should they prove worthy. In addition to church societies there are two Italian societies, one supported by the Italian government, a Hungarian, a Polish and a Scandinavian society and many individual workers from the Servians, the Armenians, the Turks and the other nationalities that come to these shores. The detained immigrants are kept all day in the barge office, but at night the big ship Narragansett, with sleeping accommodations lor 1,800, steams in and they are taken out into the bay and put to bed.

Those who have railroad tickets are soon provided for. In many cases the steamship companies that bring the immigrants over sell tickets good for passage from Italy, say, to Milwaukee or Buffalo, or wherever the immigrant desires to go. This ticket is taken up on the ship just before Ellis Island is reached and a certificate given that entitles the bearer to railroad transportation. The railroad immigrants, if they are satisfactory in ail other ways, are escorted to a large room on the left-hand side of the central hall. There is a railroad ticket office on one side of the room.

The certificates are exchanged for tickets the stipulated road, and the immigrants pass on to wait until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. At that time the steamship company sends a boat around, picks up the immigrants who have tickets and distribute them to the various railroad stations. Here they take their trains and are carried to their destination, to do as they please. That is what becomes of those immigrants. Speeiully Innpected.

When the unfortunate immigrant whose card is marked is turned back to the detention room his troubles have just begun. A person may be excluded from this country who is insane, who has a loathsome contagious disease, who has been convicted of a crime, who is under contract to work here and who gives evidence that he will become a public charge. A man is taken before a board of inspectors that sits constantly during the hours for receiving immigrants. He is questioned thoroughly, through the interpreters, as to his plans, prospects and intentions. If he gives evidence that he will not become a pauper or shows some good reason for coming to this country he is admitted.

If he cannot give a of himself he is held. Those ly violate the law are marked immediate deportation. They are exeludckd from the country and are put in the "Excluded" room. But, so lenient is this country with the immigrants, if any person marked "excluded" can furnish any additional reason why he should be admitted after the verdict of the first board has been rendered, there is another board, a sort of a court of last resort, to which every immigrant can appeal. Cases where there is a doubt are always given a rehearing.

The second verdict is final. The steamship companies are required by law to feed and provide for all immigrants held for special inspection and to return to the port from whence they came, free of charge, those who are excluded. And that is what becomes of those immigrants. The boarding house abuses, that were so flagrant in the old Castle Garden days, have been suppressed. No sharpers line the street to fleecS the unwary immigrant as they formerly did.

The man or woman who lands here is safeguarded in every possible way. Whatever may be thought of the plan of allowing practically unrestricted immigration, there can be no gainsaying the fact that the government does well by the prospective citizen, if he proves himself worthy, until he is in the street and beyond the jurisdiction of the immigration officials. STEERING A IIALLUOX. An Eniclixli of An(Iret'N Arctic Apparatus. From the London Chronicle.

For some time Jlr. Percival Spencer, tlie most celebrated of aeronauts, has had it in contemplation to test the sail and trail rope gear used by Andree in his attempt to effect the aerial conquest of the north pole. The conjoint system of trail rope and sail has never yet been practically tested to any extent, and the idea of it is this: In a free balloon you are always in a perpetual calm, for you are traveling at the same rate as the wind. A sail would, therefore, be as little use for directing purposes as a rudder in a boat drifting in a current without oars or any means of propulsion. To use your sail you must have a trail rope, so that immediately you descend and get a certain proportion of your trail rope with its weight on the ground, your balloon is retarded.

You are not then traveling at the same rate as the you are not in a perfect calm, and your sail can act. By a proper manipulation ballast you arrange that a certain portion of your trail rope shall be earth-borne, and the course of the balloon correspondingly retarded. You have, however, no guiding power in the trail rope, and for this the sail is use'). The retaliation of the -balloon given by the drag of the trail rope creates a breeze, anl this acts on the sail, which, by a manipulation of the trail rope, causes the balloon to be slanted to the right or left of the wind course, according to the direction in which it is desired to diverge. The trail rope we used was ordinary three-inch must be remembered that rope is measured by its was 500 feet in length.

The tests, therefore, required that the balloon should be at a height of less than 500 feet. The sail we carried was rigged, as in Andree's balloon, on si spar made fast across the equator of the ling that supports the ear, and, stretching upward, it was made fast to the netting of the balloon. It was of a sort of duck, or very light canvas, in fa'ct, an ordinary square sail of twelve feet weighing ten pounds. The trail rope was attached to the CCI. of the ring.

At each side of the spar her; i-t crossed the ring pulley blocks were f.xc through which guy ropes were passed tud fixed, by what appeared to a "roiling hitch" knot, to the trull rope some below the car. To bring the gear into operation, as soon as part of the trail rope is earth-borne, you haul on one of the ropes either to right or left, and so bring your sail surface to the wind, according to the direction in which you wish to guide your course. At 1:55 we came down and began our trail rope experiments, being then over Cranham Hall. Almost immediately we had got some hundred feet or so of our rope earth-borne, we found that It would come straight across a field, and over four plows, each with its plowman and pair of horses. A hail to the men warned them to take their teams forward: our rope trailed safely past the handles of the plows just behind a shout from the men gave us our location.

One of the prettiest sights of the trip occurred in a field a little further on. Four young horses were there grazing, and their amazement at the great, weird snake was swiftly crossing the field was delicious to behold. A wild start and then they trotted up and sniffed at it deliberately. A shout sent them off in a headlong gallop, only, however, to trot back again and wonderingly watch the rope, but this time at a discreet distance. At 2:10 we had rather an exciting controtemps.

We suddenly saw that our trail rope was bound to pass over the roof of a large house which was hid in thick treis. First resting on the trees at one side, the rope, as we crossed, dropped straight across the roof. To our delight, however, the chimney pots over which it trailed appeared to suffer no damage, and in a second the rope was again borne on the tree tops at the other srde of the house. This, perhaps, may explain an incident that happened a few minutes later, for suddenly glaneiog down we saw a burly policeman running for all he was worth across a field trail rope. He never reached it.

however, though he made a long run of it. and the last we saw of him he was gazing wrathfully up at us from the center of a huge plowed field, evidently too "pumped" to shout. And now a word as to the resuit of the trail rope experiments. Our experiments were made at a height of from 300 feet to 400 feet, thus Jeavirgr from 100 feet to 200 feet of trail rope oc the ground. We found that with this leverage we could work our sail and the balloon to whioh it was fixed so that we eoulJ diverge a point and a quarter to Eight or left of the wind course.

In fact, it gave us a range of two and a half points wilhin which we could alter the course of tbs balloon. With the wind blowing west ly south, our course was naturally esmt by north. Compass bearings taken showed it as about half way between east by noi ih Our Off Salle Starts Tomorrow, am? A Ail This Week I i I I shall devote a general "rounding up" of the stock in our different departments. Christinas selling has left us many broken lots and hundreds of odd pieces. These we shall try to close out with the old year and PRICE is going to be the great mover.

We shall come pretty near letting you name the as we let you Make Your Own Terms paying them. Anything in this store is yours CREDIT. Select what you want, get the tell us how you can pay the bill. A little money once a week or month is all we ask. There are no notes or interest.

All Carpets are made, lined and laid charge for waste in matching figures. cm tvd Mammoth do Credit House, 7th St. N.W. Between and I Streets. i Monday, December 26.

Our employes and we are taking Christmas today. We will be ready tomorrow for business. We won't burden you ith prices today, but you can always rely on the M. and M. prices.

Street. Mertz ar.d Mertz. east Bv using the rore reeved through one pulley and hauling on that cna of the sail the balloon swung at once, ar.d the curve of the trail rope could be distinct.y noticed. By compass bearings we found that we had brought hor round io course about a point and a quarter oft the direct course the wind. Similarly, in the other direction, we were able by" using the other rope slew her round to a course of east by siutn.

Mr. Knight, who was one of our party, is one of the ablest boat sailors in England. and carefully took our compass bearings for us. We could also tell well by the line of rail, for our wind-course lay straight parallel with it. and by the use of our sail we were able to diverge consi Horn it Vgaln, bv its use we were ''na to pass to the left of a farm yard and haystacks.

over which without its use would have passed direct. On the cross-channel trip. Mr. Spencer proposes to undertake immediately the wind is favorable, Mr. Knight and myself are to accompany him, and he then intends to test a trail rope fitted with appliances for use over water.

This rope will be so arranged as to extra drag on the rope and increase the resistance which ihe water offers to a plain rope. The experiments then made shoul 1 be i great interest. Our trail rope experiments were carried on over a. dist iuce of seven miles. OXLY MAX WHO 81ITED.

At l.Kkt tbe Srnlplor of Blioiarrk'a Htatir Has Koand the ttiflit Model. From I.oadon Lender. tile sculptor entrusted wiLn Blfmarck's monument, has been having sad trouble. A few weeks before Bismarck's death he modeled his subject's head and went away from Frledrichsruhe with huge stuffed with uniforms, breastplates, JaAboots and helmets. The difficulty was that after laborious search through the tallest regiments of the German army he could find no man to wear them If one had the height he was too lean, if he had the massive breadth he whs too short, or if he had both he was wanting ln "set up," and Herr Begas was beginning to brood that the dead chancellor's body was unique as his Intellect when "salvation" came to him by accident.

One day a discharged soldier named Walter Hoffman of the Mmperor Nicholas' cuirassiers, presented himself at the sculptor's door, and the very footman shrieked with rapture at the sight. The height, the expansive shoulders, the vigorous, com manding were there, and John Thomas ran upstairs to his master, shouting, "We have him now!" As Begas said. Bismarck's uniforms seemed to have been made for him, and ln less than an hour he was posing on the model's turntable, where the sculptor has been working at liim daily for three months. Hoffman has been posed in all postures and at all distances. The dead chancellor will finally appear as a cuirassier, with his helmet ln the left hand and ln the right a scroll, from which depends a large seal indicating his high office.

Telephones are to be placed ln the wards of one of the Paris hospitals within reach of the bed-ridden patients, eo as to enalHn them to communicate with their friends outside. There will also be an arrangement hereby the telephones may be switched onto a wire connected with a concert hall, so that the performance may be enjoyed by the Invalids. THERE IS OF PEOPLE Who are Injured by the use of coffee. Recently there lias been placed tn all tbe grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIK-O. made of pore Sains, that tckes the place of coffse Tbe moat llcste stjmscb receives It without distress, and but few can tell It from coffee.

It docs cost over ts much. Children may drink It with great benefit. and 2ftc. per Try it (JUAIN-O.