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Jennie L. Pilcher Appeals to Court for an Accounting. Suit for an injunction was today filed in the District Supreme Court by Jennie L. Pilcher against Joseph R. Atkinson, a local ri'al estate broker, and Mrs.

Rose S. Paul. Miss Pilcher informs the court that she came here some time ago from Minnesota to complete the study of stenography in preparation for a civil service examination, and brought with her about $800 In cash. She made the acquaintance of Atkinson, she says, and after repeated urglngs, she Invested the money in the purchase of a farm in Virginia, which she says he told her was owned by Mrs. Paul.

She claims not to have, any benefit from the property, and declares that Atkinson collected the rents from the tenants. sold the crops and collected other revenues She asserts that Atkinson promised her that she might withdraw the money when she desired, and that he could sell the property at a profit before the maturity of the notes. Notwithstanding her demand for the money, she says, he not only declined to return the money, but notified her that she would be held responsible for certain notes given for deferred payments of purchase money. The court is asked to enjoin the negotiation or transfer of the notes in controversy, aggregating and to require Atkinson to turn Into court all the papers and agreements between the parties. Attorney H.

Moulton represents the complainant. Many daring rescues were made yesterday afternoon by firemen at a fire in the fivestory building at No. 200 West 125th street. New York city. Although many of the women In the building suffered from shock, and four firemen were overcome by smoke, no one was seriously injured The fire was of unknown origin, and started In the hat store of the Kauffman Company.

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The Food contains Just the kind of material Nature must have to unite with albumen, from which to rebuild the gray matter in the brain and nerve centers throughout the body. Therefore the user can and a definite result from the regular use of Grape-Nuts. "Tfet-re reaMm." ELIZABETH BLAIR LEE AT THE AGE OF NINETEEN. (From portrait Sully.) DEATH CLAIMS MRS. ELIZABETH BLAIR LEE PASSES AWAY IN 89TH YEAR OF HER AGE.

Member of Prominent Maryland Family and Widow of Rear Admiral S. P. Lee? Demise Occurred Yesterday Afternon. Mrs. Elizabeth Blair widow of Rear Admiral S.

P. Lee. passed away at her home at Silver Spring, Md? about 3:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon, In her eightyninth year. Her only son, State Senator Blair Lee of Montgomery county, survives her. Mrs.

Lee was the last to survive of the family of Francis P. Blair, Vvhose close personal and political relationship to President Andrew Jackson and long and active participation In public affairs gave him an important place In history. Mrs. Lee's mother was a Miss Gist, daughter of Nathaniel Gist and the granddaughter of Christopher Gist, the early Kentucky explorer, who Informed Daniel Boone of the great possibilities of that country. On her mother's side.

Mrs. Blair, was descendant from the Howards of Maryland and Careys of Virginia. Funeral services will be held at the Lee home at Silver Spring at o'clock tomorrow morning, after which the cortege will proceed to St. John's Ep'scopal Church, where the funeral sermon will be delivered by Rev. E.

Slater Dunlap. which will be private, will be made in Arlington cemetery, beside the remains of Mrs. Lee's husband, the late Admiral Lee. The pallbearers have not been selected. Mrs.

Lee was a sister of the late Montgomery Bla'r. formerly judge In St. Louis, and afterward Postmaster General In President Lincoln's cabinet. Another brother was James L. Blair, a lieutenant in the United States navy, who resigned his position, went to California and placed the first steamboat on the Sacramento river and laid the foundations of a good fortune, but who died at the age of thirty-five years from the result of exposure occasioned by5" the Wilks antarctic expedition.

Her youngest brother was the late Francis P. Blair, the free soil leader of Missouri, who was also a member of Conftress. general commanding the 17th Corps of Sherman's army and afterward democratic nominee for Vice President on the Seymour ticket Member of St. John's Church. Mrs.

was a life-long member of St. John's Church, when young sing'ng in the choir and working for the "new- organ," which has been supplanted by a second new organ these many years. Frequently In passing from her house opposite the War Department to St. John's Churoh by the Mills statue of Gen. Jackson In Lafayette Park would she comment upon the errors of history and pictures and monuments.

setting forth the viewpoint of the author, painter or sculptor, rather than the event or person sought to be described. Gen. Jackson, she said, was an admlier of a cj 11 let thoroughbred horse, and devested anything like a prancing percheron, upon which tile sculptor Mills has fixed him in bronze. This horse, she thought. Is as far from the real taste in horses of Gen.

Jackson as the personal character the whigs and many subsequent hlstori ins have attributed to him. with fondness for oaths and truculent conceit. Is from the real leader, firm soldier, defender of the republic and lover faithful to one woman and her memory. She maintained that the dignity of his character was the outgrowth and was ever equal to courage and honesty which his political adversaries could never deny. In this connection she often commented on its' being a singular fact that the historians who attacked the reputation of Gen.

Jackson in his executive acts, especially his warfara upon the Bank of the United States, seldom mention the true democratic objects, as they seemed to him and his supporters, which he had in view. She was active in the organization of many local charities, now well established, such as the Children's Hospital and the Columb'a Hospital, but her chief labor and life-long devotion was given to the Washington City Orphan Asylum, founded by Mrs. Madison and Mrs. Van Ness to provide shelter for the orphans of the war of 1812. Of this institution.

Mrs. Lee has been a manager for tifty-seven years, and the first directress for forty-four years, during which time It has cared for of orphan children from the District Of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, providing during the civil war for many a soldier's child, both north and south. Continuous Interest Manifested. From 1862. when she became first dlrectoress.

until compelled by age and blindness to give up work, about eight years ago. Mrs. Lee labored constantly home. During this period the institution passed from dependence upon irregular contributions to an assured income from accumulation and endowments. When the present home, 14th and streets, was first built they could not afford to furnish or live In it, but the managers succeeded in renting it to Mr.

Seward for the State Department. The rent was good and the ladies were delighted, but the clerks and diplomatic corps, who were compelled to go so far out in the mud of unimproved 14th street, were In a constant state of indignation. Begging from everybody and hold ng fairs, these women fed and clothed their orphans. The lease to the State Department, continued by Mr. Fish, gave great help, and finally gifts of land and money from philanthropic citizens provided a sufficient endowment.

Now there is an average of 160 children, but during the war there were more, for war makes orphans. Air the many applications for help and people to whom children are bound out are heard by the ladles' board and the entire management Is In Its handfe. Mrs. Lee presided during these years with such sympathy for mothers giving up children and insight to protect the institution and its. wards that her associates both loved and admired her as the embodiment of tenderness tact.

Her duties as first directoress have been ably discharged by others, but she has been, though absent, regularly elected for eight years as a tribute to her devotion. She was also prominent in social and historical, orgafiizatiortfi. having been the first and organizing president of the Washington Club and regent of the Mary Washington Chapter of the D. A. R.

Her Marriage in 1844. Lee was married to Lieut. Samuel Phillips Lee of the navy in 1844. and, being her father's only daughter, and her husband a sailor, she spent most of her time with her parents at Silver Spring. About her father, who owned the southern half of the block on Pennsylvania avenue north of the War Department, built Mrs.

Lee a house next to his old house, which he gave to his eldest son. Monlgomery Blair, and thereafter Mr. and Mrs. Blair, spent the winters with their daughter In the town house he gave her, which they continued to do up to the end of their lives in 1X77. Lieut.

Lee. afterward Rear Admiral Lee, retired from th? navy In 1873 and became a farmer at Silver Spring, succeeding Mr. Blair, sr. Mr. and Mrs.

Blair and Admiral and Mrs. Lee all Jived to be eighty-five years of age, and Mrs. Lee exceeded the others by several years, being In her" eighty-ninth year. Among Mrs. Lee's possessions Is the original portrait of Andrew Jackson by Sully, painted when Jackson wad In the United States Senate.

Mrs. Jackson thought this was the best likeness ever made of her husband. Admiral Lee bought It from Sully and presented it to his wife by reason of her affection for General Jackson. A subsequent edition hangs In the Corcoran Art Gallery. George W.

Chllds, when a young reporter, went to Silver Spring and borrowed Mrs. Lee's portrait of Jackson and had it engraved and it thus became known as a standard, as it is certainly the most characteristic picture of him. Her own portrait was painted by Sully when she was nineteen years of age, who, she said, idealized it by making her look like her beautiful mother. She was so pleased with this picture that she would never have another taken, not even a photograph, and In answer to urging, she repeatedly said "Ncbody cares to look at the picture of an old woman, not even the old woman herself." Native of Kentucky. Mrs.

was born at Frankfort, Ky? June 2i), 1818, and came to Washington as a with her father, Jirancis P. Blair, editor of Andrew Jackson's political organ. The Globe. She had much of her father's and mother's talent and sympathy, and eoon became a great favorite of Old Hickory. She was 11, ani Gen.

eral Jackson Jiad her live at the White House one winter and until the cellar of the newly acquired Blair house could be drained This Intimacy with the old general gave her the greatest respect for his character, and above all for his tenderness and deference toward women. She copied many papers for him and always said that the spelling was remarkably bad. but the force ana clearness were all that could have been expected from a man of his vigorous mind and decisive nature. She often quoted her father's opinion that General Jackson's original of the message to Congress on the bank question, withdrawing the deposits, was by far a stronger document than the message which Mr. Livingston, with more polish and literary elegance, constructed from the original.

She was thus "brought up in caucus." as her father put it, and learned to weigh political opinions and to political secrets. Gen. Jackson's Habit. it was a habit of General Ackson to smoke a corncob pipe, and he had a. new one every day, this being one of his fixed ways Just he preferred white horses to all others for carriage horses, because he could easily see that they had been properly cleaned.

To fiil the old general's corncob pipe and sit near during an evening discussion between him and Iter father was one of the privileges of this bright and sympathetic child, and siie has always been emphatic In saying that she never heard an oath or profane word from General Jackson's lips and never heard him use the expression so commonly attributed to Mm, "By the eternal." Gen. Jackson was devoted to thoroughbred horses, and had a numfier of them In Tennessee. Mrs. Lee remembered an incident which took place when the race track was located In that part of Washington now known as Mount Pleasant. An Interesting race tvas to bo run.

and. while Gen. Jackson did not think that he. as President, should go to the races, he could not resist the course of a ride arriving in time to see tills particular race over the fence from thi back of his rld.ng horse. Mrs.

Lee was In his party, and when the race.was In full course and came past where they were waiting, the horse that Gen. Jackson was interested in was in danger of being beaten. The general was at once "aroused, leaning over the fence, shouted to the Jockey. "Give him the persuaders." meaning whip and with the result that the Jockey, thus admonished, secured the victory. "Little Democrat." "The Little Democrat." as Miss Blair was facetiously described In Washington society, was conscious of this sort of criticism, especially as her family had moved into Washington from Kentucky, and, in addition to being democrats, were subject to the opprobrious epithet of "western" or frontier people.

Her mother, Mrs. Blair was a woman of rare beauty and vigorous mind and one of the wtiig slurs was that she was the head of the family in every sense and wrote all of "old man Blair's" editorials. The social gifts of the Blairs, however, were equal to the occasion, and with real human sympathy In abundance and quickness to take care of themselves in any exchange of wit, they were able to establish their social position in Washington without reference to their Virginia and Maryland ancestry and connections. This was true democratic pluck and the source, no doubt, of the sympathy which Mrs. Lee always felt for newcomers to Washington.

President Buchanan was a friend of Mrs. Lee. He had been a defender of Jackson in the Senate and- his fiancee, who died before they could be married, was a member of a charming Pennsylvania family for whom Mrs. Lee had the most friendly feeling. Visits the Hermitage.

When Gen. Jackson left the White HOuse for home he traveled in his own carriage with his usual white horses. Like all popular heroes, he was not without his crowd attendant of tuft hunters, an amusing illustration occurring as the old general proceeded to his carriage under the north portico. A lady perceiving that he had kissed his young friend, not yet out In society, good-bye, exclaimed to her husband: Oh. Mr.

he has kissed that child good-bye, and we came all tlie way from New York and he hasn't kissed The general heard her, and, lifting his hat with his usual politeness, said: "Madam, I have never kissed another man's wife in all my life," and then shook her cordially by the hand. In saying this Gen. Jackson, doubtless, was not only making his excuses to the lady, but was also taking a shot at his political adversaries, who had criticised his marriage 10 Mrs. Jackson, to whose memory he ever maintained the most tender and romantic fidelity. Having promised him to pay him a visit at the Hermitage, in the last h'? life.

Miss Blair and one of her K1'1 and her brother, Lieut. James L. Blair of the navy, went to Tennessee, where tliey had a delightful visit at the Hermitage, and where Miss Blair, then grown to womanhood, saw the last of her old hero, who said he could not live long and gave her to keep In his memory his wife wedding ring, a piece of jewelry he had a'way? worn on his watch chain from the death of Mrs. Jackson up to that time. Another ring he gave her was one presented by Mrs.

Eliza W. Custis to Gen. Jackson the 22d of February, 18'2o, and which Mrs. Custis sent him by the hand ot Lafayette, with a letter saying: "The birthday of Washington is the tit time for a tribute of respect to him whose glorious achievements place him next to the father of our country. "On this day I present to Gen.

Jackson a ring of the hero's hair, of the color it was when he led our soldiers to was made In this city and of American gold. "Wear It In remembrance of him who was first in the hearts of our country and of her who gives it to you, with her best wishes for your health and happiness. "To Gen. Jackson." To this Gen. Jackson sent a fitting reply: The Van Buren Administration.

During the Van Buren administration the Globe continued to be the organ of the democratic party and Miss Blair enjoyed things social to the fullest extent. The Van Burens were a very bright witty family, Maj. Van Buren, one of. the sons of the President. being especially noted for his brilliant wit and social accomplishments.

She, however, was more attached to Martin Van Buren, than any member of the. family, whose intelligence and pure character not only appealed to ner, but also his state of health, being threatened with consumption, of which he ultimately died, as she herself had never expected to reach maturity, being always delicate. Under the excellent management of her mother she regained her health. President Van Buren was a widower. Miss Blair was always impressed by his close relationship to his children, he being, in spite of his political and official duties, a mother as well as a father to his familyOne of President Van Buren standing jokes was the sale of Roanoke, an old thoroughbred horse, that the Van Buren boys regularly sold to their father whenever In need of funds.

Mrs. Blair never altogether liked President Van Buren, who was called by his political opponents The Red Fox," which opinion she seemed to Chink was more or less well founded but this never led to any estrangement between the families, as is shown by the fact that when President Van Buren Ington he presented Mrs. Blair a painting of himself, saying facetiously. "Madam, you will like it because It has has rather a foxy look." This portrait of Van Buren still hangs In the old house at Silver Springs, and the red side whiskers and the acute expression are sufficiently 1 emphasized In It to show upon what Mr Van Buren's caricaturists based their forts. Long-Deferred Returns.

In those days it was a long time before the news of an election was received, and whether Mr. Van Buren was defeated or not hung In the balance until the returns from some pivotal state could be received. Finally these returns came in and Mr. Blair, Martin Van Buren, and Miss Blair started out from Washington with the sad news for the President of his defeat. He was living at a country home on Woodley Lane of late occupied by Senator Newlands and his family.

When the party reached the gate Mr. Blair and Martin, declaring that they could not bear to take him the news, turned off and Miss Blair was deiegated to Inform him. He happened to be in the yard and helped her from her horse and, judging the result perhaps from her sympathetic eyes, relieved her by saying "My dear, it is unnecessary for you to tell' me I saw those two cowards ride past the gate and I know that if their news had been good they would have-come with you." She always enjoyed this allusion to her father and Martin Van Buren. and cited it as an Instance of Mr. Jackson's quick perception and tact.

I Van Buren's administration ended in 1841 and the democrats, being out of office, in Francis P. Blair purchased his estate at "Silver Spring, in Montgomery county, and built his house there. This old house Is now the home of Mrs. Lee. The place takes its name from the spring, which is a remarkable natural object the water gushing to the surface, throws up the mica sand and gives in the sunshine the appearance of silver.

Witnesses a Dramatic Stene. The most dramatic scene she ever witnessed. and one that greatly lmpicssed her, took place In the library of the Silver Spring house between her father and John C. Breckenrldge. Mr.

Clay was her mother's guardian and family lawyer in Kentucky. Her father, as a young man, had been intimate with him also, and opposed him strongly with Gen. Jackson, but at the tast carried messages of forgiveness between Clay and Jackson. Clay was the great supporter of the Missouri compromise, limiting slavery to a geographical line. Breckenrldge was a cousin of Mr.

Blair, and succeeded Clay as senator from Kentucky. The pending question was the repeal of the Missouri compromise. The old man was appealing to his young kinsman, as Clay's successor, not to vote for the repeal, and reopen the slavery question, which meant civil war. Never, she said, did she see one man so plead with another as her father did with Breckenrldge. It was as though he saw the battlefields, and he exclaimed: "John, If you do it you will live to see this country deluged In bi-ood from one end to the other." He described to Mr.

Breckenrldge how Mr. Clay, traveling with Mr. Blair over the Allegheny mountains, receiving In the night of one of the early attacks upon the famous compromieeabad at once started on toward and storm, and how he, BlairTfoHowing next day. had seen where Clay's sled had come within a few Inches of the edge of a precipiee. risked his life to preserve the Missouri compromise, but Mr.

Blair was unable to get Mr. Breckenrldge to support it. This was long before the Afterward a congressman of the free soil party, of which Mr. Blair was a member, challenged Breckenrldge to a duel. Breckenridge drove at once to Silver Spring for advice and pistol Mr.

being a great shot. Mrs. Lee. in telling this story, said that hardly had his carriage arrived and Breckenridge claimed a kinsman's support when up came the challenger, who wanted her father to coach him for the fight, but the old man said that In a personal matter he must stick to his kinsman. Mr.

Blair was able by his associations with both the parties to bring about a reconciliation and averted the duel-. Her Father's Prediction. Her father's efforts to prevent the repeal were continuous. Among them Mrs. Lee vividly eecalled his concluding words In a conversation with President Pierce, and It was the last time Pierce ever came to Sliver Spring: "Mr.

President," he said, "if you do not cease from this game of leapfrog with DougJas you will plunge the whole nation into the deep waters of tribulation, and if you sign this repeal of the Missouri compromise you will not have the following of a corporal guard in the next convention." They were talking by the spring where afterward some of the wounded in Early's raid were treated, and on the spot where a soldier was killed by a shell from Fort Stevens. The "waters of tribulation" were nearer than President Pierce would believe. Mrs. Lee herself jprevented one duel In those stormy days. General Dunn, challenged by a Virginian, also wen- to Silver Spring to practice shooting.

Asking her father next day liow the general was getting along, the old gentleman said he had hit the bull's-eye at the first shot. Mrs. Lee at once proceeded to make a call at house of a relative, very close to the Virginian who had sent the challenge. While there she mentioned' the duel rather casually and said Dunn at Sifver Spring practicing and that her father said he had hit the center of the bull's-eye at the first shot. Ti Is pr wess brought a calmer state of m.nd to the and a settlement was arrived at.

The God of peace will forglre her for omlttlns to say that General Dunn had not hit- the target again. That first good shot and a quick-witted peacemakei helped a brave man out of trouble. The Prophecy Fulfilled. Mrs. Lee was not only deeply impressed by her father's feeling tn the scene with Breckenridge, but also by the personal way In which the prophecy was fulfilled.

Breckenrldge became a general in the confederate army and saw at Its worst. When one of the last desperate efforts to relieve Richmond was made. Early raid on Washington, he was second In command and coming back to the old Silver Spring house made it his headquarters, the very library where he had been so strongly urged to take a firm stand against the repeal which brought on the war. He repaid the hospitality he received there by placing a guard over the house, which protected it from looters and escaped the burning that destroyed Montgomery Blair's house on the adjacent hill. Through the war her husband.

Admiral Lee, was a fleet commander, at sea or on rivers of the west, and her brother, General Frank P. Blair, was In heavy fighting, commanding finally the 17th Army Corps of Sherman's army. Of him Mrs. Lee often repeated Sherman's saying: "Frank Blair had saved Missouri to the Union before Grant and I buckled on our swords." With husband and brother at the. front and often under tire hers were the night watches and prayers that came to women In those days.

It is a singular fact that the sound of cannonading sometimes travels through the ground and can be heard by listening at a spring or pool of water, when it cannot be heard in the air. It is a sort of telephone'effect. Several times during the war Mrs. Lee heard thus at Silver Spring the guns in battles near the Potomac river, and she said that hearing such dread sounds from the waters of a peaceful shaded spring creates a feeling ot the deepest awe. In the Effort for Peace.

Without doubt, had he not been assassinated, Mr. Lincoln would have prevented the cruelties to the south perpetrated the reconstruction policy. Some time previous to Gen. Lee's surrender Mr. Blair, at President Lincoln's request, went to Richmond and arranged for the peace congress.

Mrs. Lee treasured for years Mr. Lincoln's notes, in the President's hand, beginning "Father Blair," and asking him to come to the White House in the effort for peace. There was difference of opinion between Secretary of War Stanton and the Blairs from the first and Montgomery Blair was ultimately driven from Lincoln's cabinet. Before the war Mr.

Stanton rather assented to secession, Mrs. Lee said, and used the expression "Let the rebellious sisters (states) go in peace," but when war actually came cfh, he changed not only to activity, but to bitterness, and drove his old associates, such as W. W. Corcoran and Bayard Taylor, out of Washington. His frequent arrests of citizens of Montgomery county, who were taking no part in the war, kept the Blairs constantly going to Mr.

Lincoln to get their neighbors and friends out of the old Capitol jail. Mrs. Lee said this was carried that a boy of about fifteen years was arrested near Silver Spring because he whistled "Dixie" on his way to get the cows. Mrs. Lee and the Davlses were friendly before the war, having cottages near each other at Oakland.

Md. In the summer ot 1859, one night Mr. Davis came for Mrs. Lee to help his wife, who, he said, had convulsions, and was threatened with death. Mrs.

Lee went with him at once, and found Mrs. Davis In great danger. There was no apparent way of securing hot water promptly. but Mrs. Lee always had presence of mind in emergency, and the idea occurred to her to use the hot stones in the open fireplace to make warm water.

In this manner a bath was secured that Mr. Davis said saved the life of his wife, and he was very appreciative In his praises of Mrs. Lee's resources and skill as a nurse. Political Attitude of Da Mrs. Lee could never understand the political attitude of the Davises.

She thought they were ambitious of. a limited monarchy in the south. After the assassination of Lincoln, Mrs. Lee, calling at the White House to inquire for Mrs. Lincoln, met the family doctor coming out, who surprised her by saying, "Oh, Mrs.

Lee, you are the very person I want. That poor lady upstairs is practically alone and nearly frantic with grief. You must come tonight and tmrse her." To this Mrs. Lee objected, unless Mrs. Lincoln should request it, and fhe doctor went upstairs to consult her.

He came back and admitted that Mrs. Lincoln first rejected his offer, saying, "I cannot stand that laughing woman near me now." Notwithstanding this unpropitlous opening, the doctor persuaded them both and Mrs Lee was with Mrs. Lincoln every nlgltf for several Mrs. Lincoln left the White House. Mrs.

Lincoln was a woman of temper, to say the least, and had alienated a large element in Lincoln's cabinet. Her devotion to him was intense and her grief proportionate. "Let Us Have Reunion." The grand review of Grant and Sherman's army took place May 23-25, 1865. General Grant said, "Let us have peace," but that was not specific. "Let us have reunion" was Mr.

Blair's program. He gave therefore a "reunion fete to the officers of the armies of Grant and Sherman," as he called a large entertainment at Silver Spring. This was prompt and the old gentleman, pleased with his idea, has marked the date on a stone in the yard. The social work for such affairs was nearly all done toy Mrs. Her love of people was universal and her manners were the same to all.

She took a real Interest in everybody and everybody who knew her took an Interest in her. It was not until the presidential election of 1876 that the effort to restore the south to its place in the Union was successful, and meanwhile Mrs. Lee's brother, General Blair, had run for the vice presidency on the democratic ticket with Mr. Seymour Mrs. Lee's sympathy was strong for every effort to recreate the Union.

She saw three marked social periods in Washington. First, the democrats looked down upon the whigs, who were the social leaders when she came to the city. Second, the republican and free soil party with its small beginning and society undlr i the Buchanan administration, very scorn ful of the new party. Lastly, the long dominance of republican administration since the war, with the Cleveland administration making little social change. Very few women have had so broad a political experience and it is doubtful if any other American woman has been conversant with political leaders and movements for so long a period.

Hers was a long devoted and busy life and she was of the country as well as the city, working in middle life harder to build up Silver Spring parish, Md than she had before for St. John's la Washington. WEATHER FORECAST. fcFair and Cooler Tonight and Saturday; Fresh Northerly Winds. Forecast til! 8 p.m.

Saturday: For the District of Columbia and Maryland, fair and cooler tonight and Saturday; fresh northerly winds. For irginia, fair and cooler tonight. Saturday fair, cooler in southeast portion; fresh north to northeast winds. Maxirmim temperature past twenty-four hours, 87; a year ago. 83.

Weather conditions and general forecast: 1 ne storm center Thursday morning over northern Lake Huron has moved rapidly eastward and is now central over the Gui-f of St. Lawrence. Closely following this disturbance Is an area of high pressure and having overspread the tower lake region and ttie ht Lawrence valley. A second barometric depression of large extent is central in Colorado, although pressure Is low over the whole of the Rocky mountain and Plateau regions. Shores have fallen quite generally In the lower lake region, the middle Atlantic and New England states, and in the Pacific coast states, except southern California Scattered showers have fallen in the and central Rocky mountain regions.

Fair and cooler weather is Indicated for this forecast district, except In the south, where showers are probable Saturday, with but little change In temperature. The winds along the middle and south Atlantic coasts will be fresh north to northeast; on the east gulf coast light and variable, and on the lower fresh northerly, becoming variable. Storm warnings are displayed on the Washington coast from Port Crescent westward and at the mouth of the Columbia river. The following heavy precipitation (In Inches) has been reported during the past twenty-four hours: Father Point, Steamers departing today for European ports wM have fresh west to northwest winds and Xafr weather to the Grand Banks. Records for Twenty-Four Hours.

The following were the readings of the thermometer and barometer at the weather the twenty-four hours beginning at 2 p.m. yesterday: 13. 4 p.m.. 85; 8 p.m., 80; 12 midnight. 74.

September 13. 4 a.m., 73; 8 a.m., 72; 12 noon, 78; 2 p.m.. To. Maximum, 87, at 3 p.m.. September 13; minimum, 72, at 7 a.m., September 14.

13. 4 p.m.. 2983; 8 p.m., 29.86; 12 midnight. 29.85. September 14, 4 a.m..

29.80; 8 a.m., 29.98; noon, 30.0;*; 2 p.m., 30.03. Tide Table. tide, 11:13 a.m. and 11:28 p.m.; high tide, 4:12 a.m. and 4:48 p.m.

tide, 12 a.m. midnight; high tide, 5:10 a.m. and 5:41 p.m. The Sim and Moon. rose 5:40 a.m.; sun sets 611 p.m.

rises 5:41 a.m. Moon rises 2:27 a.m. tomorrow. 9 The City Lights. The city lights and naphtha lamps aH lighted by thirty minutes after sunset; extinguishing begun one hour befoie sunrise.

All arc and incandescent lamps lighted fifteen minutes after sunset and extinguished forty-five minutes before sunrise. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of water at 8 a.m.: Dalecarlla reservoir, temperature, 79; condition at north connection, 15; condition at south connection. 17. Georgetown distributing reservoir, temperature, 77; condition at Influent gatehouse.

12; condition at effluent gatehouse, 12. JVashington city reservoir, temperature, 74; condition at Influent, 11; condition at effluent, 9t Up-River Waters. 8peclal Dispatch to The Star. HARPER'S FERRY, W. September rivers clear.

Downtown Temperature. Temperatures recorded today by H. D. Feast standard thermometer were as follows: 9 a.m.. 76; 12 82; 2 p.m., 83.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. MERIDIAN A. Massie et trustees, to Frances E. Burns, lot 40, block $100. WEST Capital City Improvement Company to Harry L.

Good, lot 51, square $10. WOOt)LEY -B. Parker et vir, Convis, to George A. Gray, part block $10. THIRD AND STREETS NORTHEASTGeorge A.

Gray et ux. to Thomas H. Melton, lots 84 to 39, square 768; $10. F. Benjamin, surviving trustee, to John Scrivener, part lots 280 to 285; $2,850.

H. Guiles et ux. to Margaret J. Sherratt, lot 43 square 12; $10. ROSEDALE AND P.

Smith et ux. to George H. and Helen Dierkoph, lots 53, 55 and part original lots 2 and 3, block 22; $10. EAST T. Rawlings et ux.

to Thomas Eaglln, lots 18 and 19. block 16; $10. NORTH COLUMBIA Crutcher. trustee, to John S. Buckley and Joseph N.

Hornboker. lot 6. block $489.38. Samuel K. Trimmer et al.

to same, lots 18 and 19, block $1,102.80. BARRY FARM-William W. Wright et ux. to Levi G. Brown, lot 31.

section $1 WEST H. Bailey et al. to Joshua B. Stoops and Jane Stoops, lot 78. square $10.

STREET NORTHWEST between 4th and 5th Watkins et al to Mary Durtn, part original lot 11. square 517; $10. Cutter to Marion Chester, all property owned by first party, $1. STREET NORTHWEST between 4th and 5th D. Cutter to Marion C.

Chester, part lot 22. square 513; Jo. NO. 416 FRANKLIN STREET J. Minuhan et ux.

to Upton B. Mackall, lot 70, square 510; $10. RHODE ISLAND AVENUE NORTHWEST between 11th. and 12th Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Company, trustee, to Charles E. Banes, lot 14, square 311; S1.K04.9O.

NO. 1522 STREET NORTHWEST AND NOS. 1714 AND 1716 14TH STREET D. Cutter et al. to National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Company, trustee, half Interest in lot 57, square 199, and lots 80 and 81, square 207; $1.

FOURTEENTH STREET SOUTHEAS between I and Harris Franklin to Robert E. and Pearl E. Hood, lot 18, square 1046; $10. STREET NORTHWEST between 21st and 22d K. Fox el ux.

to J. Clarence Welch, lots 153 and 154. square 70; $100. SIXTH STREET SOUTHWEST letween and E. Cox t.o Thomas W.

and Emma F. Reed, lot 40, square 501; $10. Marine Corps Orders. Lieutenant Colonel Charles A. Doyen and Captain Percy F.

Archer have been ordered upon their arrival at Seattle, to proceed to this city. First Lieutenant Walter E. Noa, from the Colorado to the marine barracks, Narragansett bay, R. I. Second Lieutenant Howard W.

Stone, from marine barracks, navy yard. League Island, and Second Lieutenant Ralph L. Shepard, from the marine barracks navy yVd, New York. N. and continue present duties on the Dixie.

Captain'Frederick H. Delano, from duty in charge of the recruiting office. Cincinnati Ohio, and continue duties on the Dixie Second Lieutenant Jeter R. Horton from the marine barracks, naval training station San Francisco, to marine barracks' Mare Island, Cal. Captain Arthur Marlx, from duty as observer at the army maneuvers at Camp Tacoma, Murray, and resume command of the marine barracks, naval training station.

San Francisco. Cal; Captain Charles H. from headquarters, Marine Corpe, to the marine barracks and school of application, Annapolis, Md. First Lieutenant Eugene P. Fortson, to marine barracks, navy yard, Norfolk, Va.

First Lieutenant John A. Hughes, from the U. S. S. Minneapolis to the marine barracks.

League Island, Pa. Captain Frank E. Evans, retired, to proceed, in command of Marine rifle team, from Sea Girt, N. to the marine barracks, navy yard, Norfolk, Va. THE COURT RECORD.

i District Supreme Court. EQUITY COURT No. Gould. Maguire apt. Dlgglns, sale ratified nlsll complainant's solicitor.

Tobrlnor; defendant's solicitors. Bendhelm Rothschild and Thomas. Carter agt. HiAs, time for filing replication extended. Ellis agt.

Ruebsam; condemnation of credits In hands of garnishee; complainant's solicitor. W. W. Edwards, defendant's solicitor. J.

A Maedel. Roche agt. Dowd; auditor's report confirmed and receiver discharged; complainant's solicitor. John J. Brosnan; defendant's solicitors.

J. A. Toomey and T. Percy Myers. Bardroff agt.

Bardroff; reference to Alex. H. Gait, commissioner; complainant's solicitor. W. C.

Prentiss; defendant's solicitors, M. D. Campbell and A. A. Blrney.

Gardner agt. Gardner; commission ordered to Issue; complainant's solicitor, S. C. Peelle; defendant's solicitors, C. Carrlngton and B.

D. Boteler. Otis Evelator Company agt. Meyers; answer of Louis H. Meyers stricken out; complainant's solicitors, W.

G. Gardiner, Brandenburg Brandenburg, and D. W. O'Donoghue; defendant's solicitors, W. C.

Prentiss and Ralston Siddons. Johnston agt. Johnston; guardian ad litem appointed; complainant's solicitors. Berry Minor and H. B.

Rowland; defendant's solicitors, F. W. McReynolds and W. A. McKenney.

Orand Lodge of Masons agt. Grimshaw; hearing on rule postponed until October 6, lHOtt; complainant's solicitors, A. A. Lipecomb and W. M.

Ellison. Griffith agt. 8tewart; security for costs ordered. Complainant's solicitors, C. H.

Merlllat and G. R. Galtber. Pllcher agt. Atkinson; rule as to injunction returnable September 21.

Complainant's solicitor, H. B. Moulton Rambj' agt. Hahn; rule discharged. Complainant's solicitors, Kulton A Cox.

Defendant's solicitors, A. Peter and D. P. Blackwood. Hood agt.

Cammack; appearance of absent defendants ordered. Complainant's solicitor, W. K. Qulnter. Nixon agt.

Browning; leave to file In forma pauperis. Complainant's solicitor, M. T. Cllnkscales. PROBATE Gould.

Estate of Joseph Harbour; letters of administration granted to Eugene G. Harbour; bond. $300; attorney. Burton Macafee. Estate of George F.

D. So per; will admitted to probate and letters testamentary granted to Mary I. Garden; bond, $100; attorney. C. F.

Dlggs. Estate of Franz Kroell; will admitted to probate and letters of administration c.t.a. granted to Elsie Kroell; bond, attorney, J. Theo. Rupli.

Estate of Fannie Bryan; will admitted to probate and letters testamentary granted to American Security and Trust Company; attorney, W. A. MrKinney. Estate of Sophia Oehmann; will admitted to probate and letters testimentary granted to AnSrew Oehmann; bond, $100; attorney, Lemuel Fugitt. In re Harry Crampton; petition to pay attorhey's fee; attorney.

H. H. Hollander. Estate of Mary Louise Langhorne; exemplified copy of will admitted to probate; attorney, D. W.

O'Donoghue. Estate of Robert Jackson; letters of administration granted to James J. Waters; bond, attorney. J. J.

Waters. Estate of Ellen Murphy; will dated February 20. 1003, Estate of Otis B. Bullard; order of allowance; attorney. Nelson Wilson.

Estate of Mary L. Grimstead; order to withdraw will from files; attorneys, W. F. Mattingly Son. Estate of Elizabeth C.

Galloway; will dated June 13. 11104, filed with petition for probate; attorneys, W. J. Lambert and J. S.

Easby-Smlth. Estate of Arthur P. Gorman; exemplified copy of will admitted to probate; attorney, W. J. Lambert.

CIRCUIT COURT NO. Gould. Mansbachv vs. Hornstein Company; order vacating order for writ of mandamus; plaintiff's attorney. J.

I. Peyser; defendant's attorney, Leon Tobrlner. Army Orders. First Lieut. George A.

Wlecsorek. 17th Infantry, has been detailed as professor of military science and tactics at the Montana Agricultural College, Bozeman, and is ordered to proceed to Bozeman and report to the president of the college for duty accordingly. Second Lieut. Hugo D. Schults, 2lst Infantry, has been ordered to Fort Logan, and ordered to report to the commanding officer thereof for assignment to duty pending the arrival of his regiment at that station.

Lieut. Col. John P. Wlsser, Artillery Corps, has been ordered to this city and to report to the chief of staff for Instructions in connection with his assignment to special duty abroad. Second Lieut.

Charles H. Jennings, 13th Cavalry, has been ordered to report to Lieut. Col. James Parker, 13th Cavalry, president of the army retiring board at, Riley, for examination by the board. Leaves of absence have been granted as follows; Capt.

John ConkHn, Artillery Corps, for two months: Second Lieut. Geo. M. Shelton, Philippine Scouts, extension fit leave of two months, and Capt. Samuel B.

Bootes, commissary, extension (A one month. Capt. Frederick M. Hartsock, assistant surgeon, has been detailed as a member of the examining board to meet In New York city, vice Capt. William H.

Wilson, assistant surgeon, who Is relieved. Capt. Charles Keller, Corps of Engineers, has been ordered to report to Col. Amos Stickney, Corps of Engineers, president of the examining board in New York city, for examination to determine his fitness for promotion. Conract Surgeon Charles W.

Thorpe, United States army, has been relieved from duty at Fort Ethan Allen, and ordered to his home at Marcellus. upon his arrival there to report by letter to the surgeon general of the army for annulment of contract. First Lieut. Frank H. Enrlgbt, 6th Infantry.

National Guard of Pennsylvania, has been authorized by the President to attend and pursue a regular course of instruction at the garrison school at Fort Jay, New York city. Col. John E. Greer, ordnance department, has been ordered to Fort Delaware and Fort Du Pont. Fort Mott, N.

Fort Armlstead, Fort Carroll. Fort Howard and Fort Smallwood, and Fort Monroe and Fort Wool, on business pertaining to the Inspection seacoast armament and the work of mechanics engaged thereon. Ordnance Sergeant Robert Moore, upon his own application, has been placed on the retired list of the army. Lieut. Col.

Cunliffe H. Murray, 11th Cavalry, has been detailed for service and to fill a vacancy In the Inspector general's department First Lieut. John S. Fair, 9th Cavalry, after his relief from duty at the camp of Instruction at Mount Gretna, has been ordered to Join his troop. Capt.

Warren W. Whitside. 15th Cavalry, has been granted leave of absence for four months, with permission to go beyond the sea. Lieut. Col.

Henry M. Andrews, Artillery Corps, has been granted leave of absence for fifteen days. Second Lieut. William F. West, 25th Infantry, has been Assigned to the 13th Cavalry.

Naval Orders. Commander W. P. White, from special duty in the bureau of navigation. Navy Department.

to Cleveland. Ohio, for duty in charge of a navy recruiting station to be established In that city. Lieutenant Commander H. H. Christy, from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis.

to the United States Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, for treatment. Lieut. W. Bert hoi f. from the Preble to the navy yard.

Mare Island. for duty in connection with the torpedo boats and destroyers in reserve at that yard. Lieut. J. T.

Bowers, from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, to the Rhode Island. Lieut. W. P. Cronan.

from the navy yard. New York. N. to the Connecticut, when commissioned. Ensign H.

E. Klmmel. from the Vjrglnla to the bureau of ordnance. Navy Department, this city, for a special course In ordnance under that bureau. Ensign D.

E. Le Breton, from the Rhode Island to the bureau of ordnance. Navy Department, this city, for a special course in ordnance under that bureau. Paymaster C. Conard.

from the Franklin, navy yard, Norfolk, and sett.e accounts and await orders. Passed Assistant Paymaster I. T. Hagner, to this city for for promotion and thence to the Franklin, navy yard, Norfolk, Va..