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BUILDING OPERATIONS. How of Twenty-Four Houses on Randolph Street Northwest. J. F. McCormlok and N.

G. Watts are soon to begin the erection of twenty-four jwo-story and cellar dwelling houses on Randolph street between 1st and 2d streets northwest. Theae houses are to be of riKxiern construction, and will contain all he latest Improvements They will each contain six rooms and bath, and will be by steam or hot water. The bath rooms and vestibules will be tiled, and the first floors will be finished in hardwood. All the modern improvements and everything necessary to make up-to-date, attractive and comfortable homes will be installed.

They will have pressed brick baywindow fronts, and two-story porches in the rear. MeOormiek A Watts say thelie buildings will be completed and ready for sale bynext spring. The West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company is erecting a number of new houses At Luke, for the use of employes. i Has Blighted the Life of Major Grebe. FOUGHT DUEL IN 1864 HIS DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE STOOD FOE 33 TEAKS.

Hero of Jonesboro Wants to Be Sturdy and Loyal Soldier. Among the visitors at the House end of the Capitol yesterday was MaJ. William Grebe of Bonner Springs, some time lieutenant In the Prussian Royal Guards, major In the federal forces during the civil war, aide-de-camp to Gen. McPherson, hero of Jonesboro, veteran of a hundred hardfought fields. Mnj.

Grebe is still a tall and stalwart distinguished-looking individual, whose firm step and straight-backed military carriage deny the weight of years his furrowed cheeks and grizzled locks proclaim. A story, simple in Its outlines, pathetic in its perhaps unavoidable Injustice, hangs about this fine old soldier, thia man who, when a young lieutenant in the smartest regiment of the fatherland, left It all behind him to enlist In a foreign legion and to fight for a principle he loved and for a country he had never seen. It seems strange, does this story, to those who do not know the rigorous war-time rules of a nation's armed force, who do not realize that the wheels of legislative machinery. like the mills of the gods, grind slowly as well as exceeding tine. And, consequently, thev may not understand how it was that this simple soldier, this descendant of a warlike race, this disinterested patriot, who won renown for gallantry on a foreign field, was for thirty-three years a discredited man, mowed beneath the burden of a dishonorable discharge from the army he had honored and' the country he had served.

A Valiant Soldier. This part of the story is soon told. Alaj. Grebe served with distinction on many fields. At Jonesboro he killed the confederate standard-bearer and was found on the field, the captured stars and bars in his tight-clenched hand.

For this act he was congratulated on the field by his commanding general and recommended for the congressional medal of honor, the highest mark of distinction a soldier may receive. When he recovered from his wounds was sent to St. l.ouis to take command of the 14th Missouri Cavalry, having previously served in the Cavalry from'that slate. And it was in St. Uouls that the eud-to him it was that-came upon him.

A brother officer made some statement in a public manner that reflected on a lady ot the major's acqun'n ance. Major Grebe promptly thrashed him and secured an apology. Hut the discomfited traducer was no. and sent a challenge to his antag1 To' Major Grebe, trained in the armies of his emperor, the code duello was a thing bred in the bone. He accepted as a matter of course, and as his antagonist was a crack shot, the major proposed the termstwelve paces with revolvers, the flrir.g to continue until one of the two wen duel was arranged, and the men fought, the major severely wounding Ids antagonist.

And then the major and his opponent, their seconds and all others concerned in the affray were court-martialed and dismissed from the of the United States. Hopes and Dreams. That was in 18W4, and from that year, when the major relinquished the coat of blue he hart learned to love, hardly a day has passed but that he has dreamed of a time to come, when by authority of law and the grace of his countrymen he might again draw the uniform of the ignited States over his shoulders. But for vears Congress refused to hear him, and for thirty-three years he bore even the stigma of a dishonorable discharge a stigma that to a man of his military birth and breeding was a constant, never forgotten, rankling hurt. But in 1SU8 Congress d.d him an honorable discharge and nlm congressional medal awarded to h.m more than three decades previously, rrd which all that time had lain in the of the War Department.

But the major not satisfied. He is not Use some of the horde of pension seekers that come to Washington. He would accept a penalon of course and be grateful for It, for his circumstances are not of tiie most ous. but above and beyond all thought, monetarv recompense is the one idea at has heeti with him ever since the sentence of the court rang in his ears, the thought that some day he should agasn be p. i leged to wear the uniform of an officer ot the United States army.

Papers and Proofs. So now he is in Washington with his papers and his proofs. More than a thousand documents there are in his collection and all of them relevant to his claim. Gen. Grant personally promised him an appointment as captain in the regular army and later in an autograph indorsement on one of his earlier letters, made this so plain that all the world might see.

Abraham I.lncoln is on record as to what he thought of MaJ Grebe Many whose names rang the country over during those days of the civil war have left a written record of the affection and esteem in which they held this soldier of misfortune, and there are a hundred others, long since gathered to their fathers, who gave him credit for personal gallantry of the greatest. So many and convincing are the proofs that MaJ. Grebe has placed before Congress that Representative Curtis of Kansas, who Is looking after the veteran's interests has told htm not to present any more. "If Congress does not act 011 these. he told MaJ.

Grebe, "they will never act on anything you might present, though it were sent from Heaven." That's where the case stands w. Maj. Grebe wants to be placed on the retired list of the United States army, he wants the right once more to wear the blue, the right to have the insignia, of commissioned rank upon his shoulders, the right to think of himself and to speak of himself as one of those whose name was and Is and always will be on the commissioned muster roll. A Simple Story. A little group of friends surrounded Maj.

Grebe in the corridors of the Capitol yesterday and the major told his story, ills hopes and fears to a very sympathetic audience. a simple story simply was that little narrative from the old veteran, but It was pathetic In Its very simplicity, and It was a strange thing and a good thing to obrerve that although injustice and neglect had left their scars, those scors spoke merely of patience and of gentleness, of thirty years of disappointment, of hope defeired, of longing and of love. Not a word did ti ls flue old soldier saythat spoke of bitterness or pain, not a thought that left his lips or flushed in the fearless gray eyes, that did not speak of loyalty to the flag. The little group about the soldier was strangely silent when his little story had been finished, and throats closed and tears came unashamed. Charged Theft.

William Johnson, colored, thirty-four years old. was arrested last by the police of the first precinct and locked tip to answer a charge of theft. It is alleged that he stole thre? chickens from a 1 er.ch in the Center market. Tomorrow morning lie will be called upon in the Police Court to explain the charge. The I'nited States cruiser Cincinnati and the battleship Oregon are to return from the far east and the cruisers Galveston and Chattanooga have been designated to proceed from the Atlantic station to take their places.

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GEORGETOWN AFFAIRS CAPITAL TRACTION COMPANY BUYS VALUABLE REALTY. Park and Boulevard in of Powder Magazines News. The Capital Traction Company was the central figure In the real estate market in Georgetown during the past week. In addition to the square feet recently acquired by the company from Herbert Bryant of Alexandria. embracing a large frontage on street, p.nd giving the company an outlet to their Inland property, several parcels of land were deeded to tlie company In the past few days thro-jgh pats ties who are either stockholders or directors In the It is unders'ood to be the desire of the company to build a mammoth power plant adjacent to the car barn of the company on street.

With the transfer of the J- W. Clarke property at the corner of Warehouse alley and street northwest and the purchase of the Bougal property adjacent to the car barn, known as 1311, 1313, 1315 and 1317 Grace street, t-he company owns practically the entire block. Formerly it owned most of the property In the interior Of the square, but it had no outlet either on or 3'Jil street. The tenants now occupying the property have been given notice to move within a certain time, and this is taken as an indication that the small structures on all sides of the square will, be demolished and probably a plant to furnish power for the operation of the entire line will be constructed. This, however, has not yet been confirmed by the officials at the railway headquarters.

Park and Boulevard. A beautiful park and boulevard for Georgetown, to be laid out at a cost of approximately $150,000. Is one of the dreams of a large majority of the residents ai'd property owners of the west end, and unless all signs fall the leading citizens of the community expect to see a realization of the project during the present session of Congress. The first step toward securing this park was taken several years ago, but through failure to secure the necessary appropriation the venture went for naught. During the autumn, however, several prominent men and women of the west end held a conference, and through concerted efforts have brought the matter to the attention of the Congress, and a member who Is said to be thoroughly in sympathy with the Idea Introduced a bill In the House during the past week carrying an appropriation of 5150000.

Several senators and representatives, some of whom reside In the west end. have signified their willingness to support the bM. and when It up in committee residents of the community will appear and present arguments for Its passage. A tract of land known as "Montrose" is said to be most available for the park, and no legal entanglements are said to be In the way to prevent its being purchased by the government. The District Commissioners favor the park Idea, and, It is said, will urge Congress to make an appropriation.

Powder Magazines Demolished. The large powder magazine located on the line of the Great Falls and Old Do-, minion Railroad Company have been demolished. of these magazines was originally built for the Dupont company, and the other for the Hazard company, and are about a quarter of a mile west of Foxhall road. Following the civil war the magazines were Used for the storage of quantities of powder and other combustible substances. On the outskirts of Georgetown there was another magazine of great proportions built years ago.

This magazine was on a lane west of At. Alban's Church. The lane on which It was built was for ma iy years known as Magazine lane. It Is now called Jollet street. The old citizens of the town remember the strlnges't laws which existed ill the ante-bellum providing punlsii ment for any party possessing powder in excess of a certain quantity, If not kept In storage.

No resident was permitted to over two quarter casks, and old records show many offenses agtlnst this regulation were committed, and sentences imp JSid. Recent Deaths. The death of Mrs. Bridget of 1030 30th street, Georgetown, occurred early yesterday morning after a short illness. Mrs.

Magruder had long been a resident of the community. Arrangements for the funeral ara incomplete, but the ceremonies will probably be held tomorrow morning at the family residence. Interment will be in Holy Hood cemetery. After a lingering and severe illness covering many months. Miss Blanche Virginia Wallace, the young daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Michael Wallace of Georgetown, died Friday morning. Miss Wallace was sixteen years of age, and attended the public schools of Georgetown. She would soon have graduated. The funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock from the family residence.

3261 Prospect avenue northwest. The body will be to Potomac, and interred in the family burying ground. Woman Clubs Two Men. Emma Nichols, colored, who told the police of the seventh precinct that she was twenty-four years of age and lived in what Is commonly called "Dead Man's alley," near the water front in Georgetown, created consternation among a crowd of pedestrians at 32d and streets, Georgetown, last night about 10 o'clock by wading Into a couple of colored men and clubbing them unmercifully. One man, who refused to give his name to the police, had his head badly beaten, while the other was struck a telling blow on the arm, slightly fracturing It near the wrist.

The injuries were treated by a physician who was near the scene. The wrath of the woman, who showed signs of Intoxication, was not quieted until Officer Farquhar of the seventh precinct took a hand. He narrowly escaped being hurt by a weapon In the hands of the infuriated woman, but finally placed her in No. 7 patrol and conveyed her to a cell In the seventh precinct station to await trial In Police Court tomorrow. Brief Mention.

F. W. Huidekoper and Opplnger. owners of land on 37tli street extended, have' deeded certain parcels each other the purpose of extending the thoroughfare in question beyond its present terminus. Mr.

Huidekoper Is part owner of the Burleight subdivision, and is an extensive property holder In Georgetown. The extension of the street in question has long been by residents living in the vicinity. The Potomac Savings Bank of Georgetown aj Its annual meeting of stockholders elected the following directors: Joseph G. Waters, Isaac E. Shoemaker, G.

G. Bottler, J. W. Stohlman, George E. Howard, S.

B. F. Baker Weaver, George W. Ray, A. M.

Baer, Bernard T. Janney, Samuel Artz, tl. W. Offutt, Henry W. Offutt, E.

h. Schneider, W. W. Anderson, J. H.

Wilson. Following the meeting the directors elected the following board of officials to serve during the coming year: President. Jo-eph G. waters; vice president, George W. Offutt; treasurer, G.

G. Boteler; secretary, Isaac E. Shoemaker; attorney, Jossa H. Wilson. CLEARING WEATHER.

Stars Peeped Out as Storm Clouds Scudded Away. The clearing weather that Prof. Garriott of the weather bureau predicted in The Evening Star yesterday was manifest last fight In the wake of the subtropical storm of snow and Ice and chilling breezes which had come up from the Gulf of Mexico. Soon after dark stars peeped out liere and there as the storrn clouds scudded by and the overhead conditions became fairly tolerable. The Saturday night crowds downtown, however, found the sidewalks anything but pleasant by reason of their sllpperiness and sluehlness.

Fair weather Is predicted for today, with fairer and warmer for tomorrow. The snowfall proved a boon to many unemployed men and lads, who with and scrapers cleared away the icy coverings from in front of residences and received varying fees for their STUDY OF THE OCCULT INVESTIGATIONS OF WORK OF ADEPT IN THATTMATURGY. Experiments Successfully Conducted, With Mrs. Eva Fay as the Subject Results. During the past week a number of local students of things scientific, not necessarily persons who devote their entire time to such studies, but those who have taken up mysteries of the occult as a relaxation, have had opportunity to pursue their investigations under circumstances not usual, through the presence in Washington of Mrs.

Fay an adept. In what she terms "thaumaturgy." The opportunities for pursuing a serious Investigation were in a degree limited through the triviality of forms in which many of the tests of Mrs. Fay's power, If It may be called such, were applied. The fact that there was something mysterious about the performance; that a blindfolded woman seated on a plainly lighted stage pretends to answer questions written on slips of paper deposited in inside pockets or concealed in some convenient place about the questioner, drew unusually large crowds to the various performances. In many instances the persons came purely from curiosity and the questions asked were, In some cases, utter nonsense.

There were, however, several opportunities given those who came to scoff to go away in bewilderment. When such concrete matters as reading the numbers of watches, which the owners of fhe.m did not know until the answer was verified; the addresses on envelopes or the names of persons far distant, not written or recorded in any manner that could be made use of by the performer, were made plain in the demonstrations of Mrs. Fay, the situation presented questions for conjecture that could not easily be settled offhand. For a thousand years thinking people have i been endeavoring to understand that which does not seem possible of solution, those tilings which are known to have been without apparent cause for being. The education that lias come with the progress of the world has put in the realm of concrete fact some things which had formeriy been shrouded with mystery, but there still remains some that are Inexplicable.

The necromancers who essayed experiments In second sight, from the old Hebrew prophets to the modern clairvoyant, have always been looked upon with askance until the fulfillment of their prophecies on the one hand or the Interference of the police on 1 the other. But despite the general refusal to attempt a solution, there has always been a problem before people who have taken such matters seriously, and there are many such, they have tried In vain to solve. a rule exponents of these mysterious arts turn out to be the veriest montebanke. and most of them claim infallibility. Mrs.

Fay r.or none of those with whom she is surrounded makes such a claim. 8he does not claiMi to be always right; she does not claim to know just what gives her the power to see what to others haa remained unseen. But she does claim that she Is generally correct, and because of her naive manner of putting herself before the people and her utter failure to set herself up as a prophet whose works are absolute she has attracted some little attention from people who are usually regarded as hardheaded and who deal In nothing but the most practical forms of business and pleasure. Such things as predicting the successful candidate for the presidency at the next election, who will come from Indiana, says Mrs. Fay, and advising people In the conduct of their business, while probably good tests, have not that element of Immediate results that satisfies the students.

But there were experiments witnessed at the various performances of the Fays last week that did furnish food for thought and reflection. A well-known Washington business nun who carries a memento of his silver wedding was informed as to the shape and size and condition of this trinket In so positive manner that he was absolutely bewildered, as were thoee about him. One young woman was informed by rMs. Fay that had passed a civil service examination recently with tki mark. of SO per cent.

a tiling which Mrs. Fay could not possibly have known unless a scandal worse than the cotton crop leakage is brewing in I lie civil service commission, because the examinations have not yet been marked. The results of these tests and a few others have occasioned some little remark among persons unaccustomed to deal in such ma tiers, and as a result the study of the occult will probably he greatly increased In the District durlrg the next few weeks. STORM CAUSES DISTRESS. Loss of Employment Due to Eall of Snow.

The recent fall of snow and other wintry conditions have caused many additional demands to be made upon the Associated Charities for assistance. This information was gained at the rooms of the association on street last evening. Many poor men and boys who gain a livelihood by working out of doors have lost their employment temporarily, and as their earnings at best are scant, they have, in a majority of cases, been unable to lay aside any money for the proverbial rainy, or snowy, day. Hence they find themselves often in sore straits when the severity of the weather closes their avenues of breadwinning. One class in particular that suffers most when the snow flies and covers the ground with its icy crust Is the diggers and delvers on the city's dumps.

These people, largely colored, delve into the refuse heaps and secure therefrom bits of metal, rags and other things and sell the same to the junk dealers. When the heaps are coated with snow their means of earffing a living are cut off and suffering results. The delvers referred to reside In tumbledown shanties or insanitary tenements, as a rule, and at best they eke out only a from-hand-to-mouth existence. CRUSADE FOR REFORM. Federation of Churches Objects to Certain Show Bills.

The Federation of Christian Forces, the membership of which is drawn from twelve of the leading 1'ritestant churches of George, town, are waging warfare on the posting of what are termed "indecent show bills" on the bill boards on principal thoroughfares of the West End. A committee on good citizenship is laboring for the enactment of a law which will prohibit and punish the "lewd and indecent show bills," and will appeal to Congress, backed by the leading citizens of the community, it is said, to secure the enactment of necessary legislation. The principal argument of the movers is that these show bills are especially unfit for children to see and that generally they attract and excite the attention of youths of tender age. A mass meeting composed of the members of all the churches included in the federation will be held the night of January 14, under the direction of Rev. Zed H.

Copp, president of the federation. The objects of the meeting Is to crystallize the sentiment of the community upon the need for a better observance of Sunday, a reduction of the number of saloons, the necessity for a curfew law, and other reforms for the building up of good morals and good citizenship. A committee consisting of Rev. H. Howden rector of St.

John's Episcopal Church, and P. Heiston of Dumbarton Avenue Church has been appointed to nrrange for the mass meeting and to perlect the program. SUPERANNUATED EMPLOYES. Addresses by Representative Theodore E. Burton and Others.

The TTnited States Civil Service Retirement Association announces an open meetin? to be held at the Nat'onal Rifles Armory next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Representative Burton of Ohio and others will address the meeting on the subject of superannuation in the government service and the remedy therefor. In addition to the ag there will be an enjoyable musical imijiia GARRISON OFFICERS CHOSEN. Local Organization of Ex-Soldiers Under New Leaders. Admiral David D.

Porter Garrison. Xo. Army and Navy Union. U. 8.

held a 1 meeting last night in the large audit orium in McCauley's building. 209 Pennsylvania enue southeast. National Commander Gen. J. Edwin Browne and staff In uniform were present, through inyltation.

After the regular business of the garrison had been concluded, winding up the affairs of the organization for the year of th? garrison went into the election of officers for the ensuing year, which resulted as follows: Hugh II. Henry, formerly national commander, was elected commander; MaJ. S. J. Block, senior vice commander; John Ash, junior vice commander; Charles F.

Clagett, adjutant; Wm. H. Coulter, quartermaster and paymaster; Lieut. J. C.

Daley, chaplain; John Stillweil, officer of the day; John Bonapart, officer of the guard; Christian Olsen, officer of the watch, with Capt. James Campbell. Dr. Thaclcer E. Lee and M.

V. Wilson as executive council. The garrison unanimously voted to meet hereafter at the new national headquarters of the Army ayd Navy Union, 01 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, and to meet first and third Fridays of each month. Capt. James Campbell, in rellnqu shlng I the position of commander of Porter Garrison, which he lias faithfully filied for the 1 past eight years, said: "Under the new regime of the Army and Navy Union of the.

United States I see a bright future in store for old Porter Harrison, and with our past national commander at the helm, backed up by sucn loyal comrades as are in this garrison, 1 that we will eventually recruit our ranks to as large number as is carried by any garrison in our order. As a lay member I shall work as hard for the welfare of this garrison as I have during the long years I have as its ch'ef officer. Resolutions were unanimously aJopteit setting forth that "the quartermaster general of the United States army has re, ommended that the law regulating national cemeteries be so changed as to permit distinguished" cltisens, who had not served in the army, navy or Marine Corps, to be burled In Arlington cemetery, and a bill having this object in view has been Introduced in the Congress of the United States. The members of this garrison disapprove of such change, believing that the sacre'l grounds of the Arlington National cemetery should forever remain a soldier's burying ground." The national commander was respectfully requested to oppose this change In any manner he shall deem most effl 'lent. Resolutions of condolence were adopted on the decease of Capt.

David E. Porter, son of the admiral for whom the garrison is named. Among those present who gave reminiscences of campaigning In the army and navy and Marine Corps were Gen. J. Edwin Browne, former National Commander Hugh H.

Henry, Sergt. C. A. Carlsson of the tenth police precinct, C. F.

Clagett. William H. Coulter. John Ash, 8crgt. John J.

Strain, Capt. Adolph Van Reuth, John Bonapart, Christian Oisen, Maj. S. J. Block, James Campbell, William A.

Hlckey, M. V. Wilson, Harry L. Jones, John Stillweil, Davis Valentine Harry L. Burnes and Parrls W.

Burnham. Public Installation of the new officers of D. D. Porter Garrison will take place Friday, January 5. 100(1.

The members of the garrison will pay their respects to President Roosevelt NewYear day and will join in with the other local garrisons which will march to tho executive mans'on In a body, headed by National Commander Browne and his stair. The Evening Star was commended for its publication of the garrison news during the past year. Death of Miss Sarah P. Harbin. The death of Miss Sarah P.

Harbin occurred at noon yesterday at the residence of her brother, 223 8th street (southeast. Miss Harbin had been Identified with charitable work unremittingly throughout the past forty years. Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at St. Peter's Church, 2d and streets southeast. The deceased is survived by a brother, George F.

Harbin. sister, Mrs. J. Howall..