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THE. EVENING TIMES, WASHINGTON. MONDAY, JULY 4, 1898. THE ARMY SIGNAL CORPS An Important Branch of the Service in War Times. DUTIES OF OFFICERS AND MEN How the Task of Keeping Up Communiention Between the Armies in the Field Is Accomplished-Use of the Telegraph, Hellograph, WigWag and the War Balloon.

Few people realize the importance which the American Signal Corps bears to the Army. Yet it is one of the most important branches of the service, and has already been of invaluable assistance to the Army in the movement against Santiago. The chief duty of the Signal Corps is the transmission and receipt of military messages. Should there be a mistake or a delay in any part of the work thousands of precious lives might be lost. The very fate of the soldiers in the Army depends upon the accuracy and efficiency of the Signal Corps.

The American Signal Corps is superior to any in the world. Not one of the magnificent armies of Continental Europe can boast a signal corps equal to the one which is such a valuable adjunct: to our Army. The excellent facilities afforded the press representatives as well as the generals at Santiago in conveying accounts of the operations to this country are due wholly and entirely to the Signal Corps of the Army. The efficiency of the corps wag such that within two days after the arrival of Gen. Shafter's army the cables, which had been cut, were repaired and communication re-established.

Three days after his arrival Gen. Shafter was provided with cable service by means of which he could communicate with the War Department in this city within fifteen minutes. For all of these conveniences the Signal Corps is directly responsible. It is to be thanked by every American for the part it has taken in assisting the war correspondent in transmitting their elaborate accounts of operations direct from the battlefield to the editorial rooms of their home offices. Many methods are employed in the transmission of messages by the Signal Corps.

The telegraph, the war balloon, the heliograph, the flag, or wig-wag, and the cable are all called into use. The Myer flag, or wig-wag, is the most commonly used system when messages are to be sent short distances. It consists of the waving of a flag according to a prearranged code. The men sending and receiving messages by wig-wag stand upon high ground or eminences so that they may be more easily seen. The wigwag flag is also used from the war balloon.

The heliograph is virtually round mirror or sun-glass mounted on tripod. The rays of the sun are caught upon the glass and reflected in dots and dashes over several miles of country to an army division or brigade or wherever it is desired that the message should be sent. This system has been used for many years by the American Army and the armies of Continental Europe. England has used them to great advantage in the hot and hilly country of India during all the native uprisings since the Sepoy rebellion. Use of the War Balloon.

The war balloon is the latest adjunct to the Signal Corps. The first experiment in real warfare was made by Col. Allen, of the Signal Corps, at Santiago last Friday afternoon. War balloons have been used considerably in Europe, especially by French experts, but not in actual warfare. The credit for dong that belongs to Col.

Allen, who is the righthand man of Gen. Greely, the chief signal officer of the Army. who has really made the American Signal Corps what it is today. Shortly before the outbreak of the war Gen. Greely purchased several very fine balloons from well-known French balloon manufacturers.

They arrived in New York in May, and were shipped to Tampa. Gen. Shafter took them to Santiago with a signal corps detachment, under Col. Allen. Last Friday Col.

Allen decided to give one of the monster balloons a trial, and succeeded admirably. The aerial giant was inflated and Sent up to a distance of 5,000 yards, and excellent views of the Spanish defenses were obtained. The Signal Corps also has supervision of the military censor work at Tampa, New York and elsewhere. Colonel Allen was I military censor at Tampa until the sailing of General Shafter's forces. Every line of telegraphic news which was filed in the telegraph of fice at Tampa had to be read by him Everything that was considered to be inimical to the interests of the army was "held up." and no news of prospective movements allowed to pass over the wire.

He was chosen for the work by, General Greely on account of his special fitness. as the result of long experience in the signal service. He is an Indiana man, and entered West Point as a cadet July 1, 1868. In 1872 he was made a second lieutenant of the Third Cavalry and in 1879 he was given a commission as first lieutenant. He entered the signal corps as a captain December 19, 1890, and has since advanced rapidly until he was promoted to his present rank of lieutenant colonel.

Chief Officer Greely. General Greely, of Arctic fame, is the chief signal officer of the Army and is one of the most thoroughly liked men at the War Department. He is chief censor of the Army, and has perfected his system so that little news that would be of value to the enemy passes his men in the great coast telegraph and cable offices. General Greely is a self-made soldier. He entered the Army as a private of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Infantry at the outbreak of the late civil war.

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Willard's Hotel, sixth Infantry March 7, 1867: assigned to the Fifth Cavalry July 14, 1869, and brigadier general and chief signal officer March 3, 1887. Gen. Greely is one of the highest authorities in American on geological subjects and has contributed many able articles in the magazines on sclentific subjects. He is a member of the National Geographic Society of this city and has been honored by many foreign geographic societies. He is a lecturer of no mean ability and has frequently lectured before the Geographical Society here during the Winter season.

The Signal Corps has been greatly augmented by the addition of volunteers by authority from Congress since the opening of the war. Only expert telegraphers, linemen and electricians have been accepted. The most intense patriotism has been exhibIted the telegraphers, many high-salaried operators having given up lucrative positions to join the Signal Corps as privates. Twelve companies of volunteers have been organized and officered as follows: First Company--Elmore A. McKenna.

Idaho. Second Company-Howard A. Giddirgs, of Connecticut. Third Company--Frederick I. Leigh, of Brooklyn, N.

Y. Fourth Company--Charles B. Leigh, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Fifth Company-William H.

Lamar. Sixth Company-Charles S. Connor, of St. Louis, Mo. Seventh Company-Capt.

McConnell, of Chicago, and John B. Inman, of Spring- Eighth Company -G. W. W. Butler.

Company- Edward B. Ives, of New York. a Beaton. Tenth Company--Thomas F. Clack, Eleventh Company--Carl F.

Hartman, of Newark, N. J. Twelfth Company-Capt. Frank Lyman, of Des Moines, Iowa. Capt.

Ives' company goes in a few days to Santiago. Capt. Leigh's company will go to Chickamauga and thence to Santiago. Capt. Lamar Is of the District of Columbla, and is recruiting officer at the Washington barracks.

He is in command of the Signal Corps training camps. Capt. Connor's company was recruited from among the soldiers at Camp Alger Capt. Butler's company was organized in Maine and was recently sent to Tampa. Capt.

Ives' company has been ordered to go on the Yale on her next trip from Norfolk. Capt. Clark's company was organized in Boston and has just arrived here. Officers of the Signal Corps. The roster of the corps is as follows: Brig.

W. Greely, chief signal officer. Cel. Henry H. e.

Dunwoody, assigned to duty at the Washinvton barracks. Lieut. Col. James Allen. Majors--Richard P' Strong.

assigned to the Second Corps; Richard E. Thompson, assigned to the Pacific: George P. Scriver, Department of the Gulf: William A.G'assford. First Army Corps; Joseph E. Maxfield, Fifth Corps; Frank Greene, Fifth Corps; Samuel Reber, Tampa, and Eugene O.

Fechet, office chief signal officer. Captains George 0. Snyder, Department of East: Eugene T. Wilson. Department of California: Jasper E.

Brady, Fourth Corps; Benjamin Brady, on duty with the President: Martin L. Hellings, Key West, Otto A. Nesmith, assistant to Gen. Greely: Daniel J. Carr, on special duty here: Carl F.

Hartmann, at recruiting station, Newark. N. Howard A. Giddings, at recruiting station. Hartford, John W.

McConnell, awaiting orders; William V. Lamar, Washington Barracks: Edward B. Ives Gustave, W. S. Stevens.

Tampa; John B. Inman. George W. Butler. Washington Barracks; Thomas F.

Clark, Boston: Frank Lyman, George R. Gyger, Columbus, Ohio: Frederick L. Martin. Charles B. C.

Clark, Albert D. B. Smead. Hepburn, Elmira; Asbery W. Yancey.

Charles S. Connor, Samuel S. Sample, Robert S. Thompson, Charles T. McIntire, Ambrose Higgins, Henry H.

Canfield. First lieutenants -George E. Lawrence, Philip I. Perkins, William W. Chance, Albert C.

Thompson, Leonard B. Wildman, John J. Ryan, William F. M. Rogers, Richard O.

Rickards, Julien P. Wooten, Charles E. Pellew, George H. Tilly, Howard D. Coe.

Charles H. Martin. Patrick W. Crawford, Charles E. Walker, Alvar G.

Thompson, Edward W. Winfield. Henry G. Opdycke, Hugh Haddon, Wilkie Woodward, Edward T. Miller, Williamson S.

Wright, Charles de Forrest Chandler, Samuel M. Butler, Rollo B. Oglesbee. Second lieutenants- William O. Bailey, Francis McKee Dunn McKee, Max Wagner, Gustav Hirsh, Carl Darnell.

Meldrum Gray, Henry C. Baldwin, William T. Davenport, Walter L. Clark, James R. Steele, Basil 0.

Lenoir, James B. McLaughlin, George C. Burnell. Victor Shepherd, William M. Talbott, Thomas R.

J. Campbell, Charles H. Gordon, Charles Rogan, Alson J. Rudd, Henry W. Sprague, William W.

Colt, Waiter S. Volkmar, William E. Davies, Joseph D. Wood, Don A. Palmer, Charles E.

Kilbourne, Albert J. Dillon, Frank P. Tate, William Mitchell. Frederick M. Jones, Henry W.

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for a case. THE ST. PAUL AND TERROR Witnesses Tell of the Fight Off San Juan IT WAS- A -FINE SPECTACLE Captain Lake, of the British Steamwhip Ravensdale, Gives a Spanish Account of the Conflict-He Says the Sheoting of the Americans Wan Wild. New York, July a cargo of sugar and tobacco the British steamship Ravensdale arrived yesterday from San Juan, Porto Rico, and a Spanish sumpathizer's version of the engagement between the auxiliary cruiser St. Paul and the Spanish- torpedo destroyer Terror was learned from Capt.

Lake. His vessel was in the harbor on the day of the fight, June 22, having put in three days before. "I was on a hill and saw the whole affair," the skipper said to the reporters, after he had been repeatedly urged to tell what he knew of the engagement. "It was a fine sight. The dashes from the guns, the puffs of smoke and the bursting of the shells made a grand picture.

"Why, I never saw such a plucky fight as the Terror made, and the firing from the St. Paul was as reckless as any I ever heard about. She threw shots and shells for at least two hours, while the daring little torpedo boat steamed as close as three-quarters of a mile to her antagonist. Her torpedo tubes could not carry the range. Finally, a shot from the St.

Paul struck the Terror on the port side alaft her third It crashed into the engine room, where it exploded. The chief engineer, who was a Spaniard, was hit in the head by a plece of the flying shell as he held the throttle. He was hurled into the machinery and met his death in that manner. The assistant engineer had both his legs cut off by fragments of the shell and died next day on shore. "The killing of the engineer and the disabling of his assistant left no one to work the engines.

But for this the Terror would have made a dash to torpedo the St. Paul, and she would not have been in port today. of the American's shots struck the Terror's deck. The latter had a hole in her side about 2 feet high and 8 inches wide, but I don't believe her machinery was disabled by the American fire. Her exhaust pipe was hit, and that caused her to leak.

When I left San Juan on June 26 repairs to the torpedo boat had nearly been completed, and I guess she is now as good as ever. There were no more than two killed and about four or five wounded on the Terror." Captain Lake's aecount of the fight differs somewhat from the one obtained from the men on the St. Paul when she reached port last Friday. They said the exchange of shots lasted about half an hour, and the shot which pierced the Terror's plates was at a range of more than three miles. It struck her, they declared, as she had turned tail.

From an English schooner and a German steamship which put out from San Juan the day after the fight the men learned that three men had been killed and eleven wounded on the Terror, and that her machinery was disabled. As the Ravensdale steamed out of the harbor of San Juan the St. Paul hove her to by a shot across her bow. A couple of officers boarded her from a small boat and examined her papers. The Yosemite was also in the harbor on blockade duty.

E. Aarons, colored, the ship's cook, declared the captain had ordered his men to give no information to the Yankees about the fight. The cook wrote a message, stating that the Terror, the cruiser Isabel the gunboat Concha, a troopship, and two small dispatch boats were in the harbor of San Juan, and that there were about 3.000 Spanish soldiers in the place. This the cook stuffed in a bottle and threw it through a porthole as the St. Paul's was leaving the merchantman.

He could not see whether it was picked up. Aarons learned that when an American vessel was seen off San Juan the port authorities ordered the Terror, the Isabel I1. and the Concha to engage her. The latter two did not venture far beyond the fortifications, but the Terror steamed out a couple of miles and began to fire her bow guns. From what he could learn ashore, the St.

Paul was five miles from the Terror when the shell entered her engine room. The torpedo boat, the cook said, had to be towed back, and two pumps were kept busy freeing her from water. She had three holes in her side, two being around the engine room. William Harris, a Welshman, one of the Ravensdale's firemen, said he went ashore with another of the crew to witness the funeral services of the chief engineer of the Terror. Harris declared that before they had been ashore very long Capt.

Lake saw them and caused their arrest. He says they were fined $3 each, which the captain paid and took out of their wages. The Ravensdale brought here as passengers Mrs. Josephine Korber, wife of a German banker, of San Juan, her six children, and her sister, Miss Julia Palmiere, who left her home in Ponce to make the trip with her sister. F.

L. Palmeiri, the brother of the women, met them at the pier at Forty-second Street, South Brooklyn, and took them to the Windsor Hotel. The Ravensdale tried to enter Guantanamo on her outward trip from Philadelphia, was informed of the blockade, and proceeded to Port de Paix, for orders. According to the crew of the forward 5-inch battery on the auxiliary cruiser St. Paul, reports of the recent encounter with the torpedo boar destroyer Terror gave entirely too much credit to the work of the after battery.

The Terror, they say, was hit three times, and the most effective work was done by a 5-inch shell which struck her amidships. Both batteries were engaged, and the guns were served under high pressure. One hit, the crew of the forward battery say, was certainly made by them, and they assert that it is doubtful whether the shell which put the Terror out of action came from Lieut. Poyer's battery or from the guns aft, under charge of Ensing Powelson. There is keen rivalry between the gun crews, and the next Spanish ship unfortunate to come within range may look for a warm recepeion.

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Especial instructions were given to Admiral Sampson not to injure the company's property. The Spanlards, however, succeeded in crippling two engines, burning a roundhouse, and doing other damage. The company would also like to have back the tug Colon, which the Spaniards "borrowed" last April. This tug was twice used to carry a flag of truce from Cervera to Sampson's fleet. The entire seaport, including the iron ore shipping pier, merchandise dock, the machine shops, the railroad--the whole village, in fact-are owned by the Spanish-American stockholders Iron Company.

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New York, July Shaller, who lives on the top floor of the five-story flat, No. 156 East 113th Street, was prostrated last night over the report from Santiago that her son, Frank R. Shaller, who is with Company of the Seventyfirst Regiment, had been wounded in the head by the explosion of a shell. The first news of the young man's injury was conveyed to her late yesterday afternoon. She had nervously read the morning papers for information concerning the safety of her son, and, failing to learn anything definite about him, she sent her daughters out after dinner to see if they could learn anything at the armory.

When she was told that her son had been Injured she began to cry. tell me the truth," she pleaded. "Is he dead? My poor boy! Do not conceal anything from me, I implore you. am prepared to hear the worst. I feel that something terrible has happened to him.

If he were only near New York I could go and nurse him. told me." she added, "that he had been killed or dangerously wounded. I had a dream about him Friday night. I saw him dressed in the State uniform fighting in the ranks of the thick of the fray. There were great hills around, and the ground was covered with thick undergrowth.

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He lay there still and apparently dead for a long time, it seemed to me, while the cannon thundered and the fight waged fierce and furious all around. Then some men came up with a stretcher and laid him on it. His face was pallid, and against the clear. blue sky looked the picture of death. He was not bleeding.

and evidently must have been shot in the back. for I could only see the front of his face and body. They carried him to the rear of the ranks, where some doctors began to examine him. My nerves had been wrought to such a nervous tension by everything that I had seen that I screamed and then woke up. was twenty-one years old the day he went to the war.

Several friends of his joined the regiment and urged him to join. I might have been able to stop him, but, as he seemed determined to go, I thought it best to consent. I received three letters from him Saturday night." HONOR SATISFIED. The London Times Advises tion of Hostilities. London, July Times this morning.

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C. Hours, 2 to 5 p. m. jy2-3t A HEAD-ON COLLISION. Fatal Wreck at Garrison's Creek Trestle, Yesterday.

Paducah, July Garrison's Creek trestle, nine miles from here, on the Illinois Central line, a fatal wreck occurred Sunday. The dead and injured are: Jake B. Thompson, engineer, of Paducah, aged twenty-five, instantly killed. Jim Scott, aged thirty, of Madisonville, stealing a ride, crushed; will probably recover. R.

L. Moore, of Central City, fireman, seriously wounded. Henry Reeves, fireman, badly hurt. John Bryant, brakeman, badly hurt. Harry Wilstach, conductor, bruised and cut.

A. J. Fraley, engineer, bruised and cut. It was a head-on collision. A regular freight, coming East, with coal cars, loaded, and an extra westbound, with a long string of empty cars, dashed down into the hollow from opposite directions, and met on the trestle, many feet above the little stream below.

Twenty-nine empties and five cars piled up in the creek. ADDICKS STILL IN THE FIELD. His Ambition to Be an American Senator Unabated. Wilmington, July ted. may be the outcome of the harmony deal between the rival factions of Delaware Republicans, it does not include the retirement of J.

Edward Addicks from State politics. All the Republicans have been hoping that Mr. Addicks would keep quiet, and the impression gained ground last week that he had ceased to nave aspirations for a seat in the Senate. Mr. Addicks has personally disposed of these reports.

Saturday night he said: "I am still a candidate for United States senator from Delaware and propose to remain in the field. I never surrender or back down." When Mr. Addicks was asked in reference to rumors that he would be summoned as a witness to appear in the trial of United States Senator Kenney for complicity in the First National Bank of Dover embezzlement he said: "I have not heard of these rumors and neither have I been summoned, but if the court wants me. I will be on hand. I don't know why I should be summoned.

as I do not know any of the facts in the case. What a terrible affair this whole business is! I feel very corry for the families of the men implicated, but if any are guilty, they should be punished. It is true that I bought some stock in the Dover Bank when it was in trouble and its stock has Reserves Fight Fire. Boston, July one-story storage shed of the Atlas stores, a free storage company, with an 85-foot frontage in Congress Street, South Boston, and extending down the water front for 630 feet, was partly burned rate Saturday night, fully three-quarters of the building. with its contents, being practically ruined.

Stored in it were 1,700 bales of wool, besides a large quantity of cotton, rags, furniture, owned by a large number of consignees. Fire caught in the west end of the building near the bridges and the inflammable contents made such excellent fuel that the flames shot through the structure rapidly. American ship Minnesota, the naval reserve ship, was moored about 150 feet down the wharf, and for a time it was thought that she would fall a prey to the flames. To add to the fears of her safety it was known early in the afternoon that more than twenty tons of powder and a large amount of ammunition had been put aboard. But fortunately the fire was kept from the magazine, although the side of the vessel was badly burned.

There were about 225 men on board the Minnesota, who did herole work in fighting the flames, but several of them succumbed to the heat and smoke or were injured by flying debris. As far as known no one was seriously hurt. One or two firemen were slightly hurt. Most of the reserves on the Minnesota are Connecticut men. There were about forty Massachusetts men among them on board.

The Lynn Battalion was on shore when the fire started. Parry Company Concert. An unusually large crowd attended the two performances given yesterday at Glen Echo and a constant call for encores proved with what appreciation the excellent entertainments given were received. The program was not long, but was so well arranged and so varied that, like a relish, it gave a taste for more. Each of the performers was not only competent to please, but far above an ordinary standard and the entire affair was one of unugual merit.

Among those who appeared were Tom Daly, balladist; J. G. Gibson, tenor; Harry Martel, elocutionist: Viola D'Armon, contralto; Charles Hawley, basso; Jay C. Taylor, tenor; Allene Crater, who rendered "The Pumpkin Colored Coon," and Tom Springer, barytone. The chorus and orchestra rendered efficient aid, while Harry Carter, in reading the announcements, contributed no end of humor.

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HADDAWAY DOUGLAS. 516 Fourteenth Street northwest. apl7-tf DIED. SULLIVAN- July 4, 1898, at 8:30 MARY AGNES, infant daughter of Patrick and Rose Sullivan, nee McCauley, aged seven mouths. Funeral from her parents' residence.

117 st. Wednesday, July 6, 1808, at 2 p. m. Friends and relatives invited to attend. -Suddenly, on July 3, 1898, at o'clock p.

ELL.A, beloved wife of John Cullinane. Funeral will take place from her late residence, 3015 st. at 8:30 a. on Tuesday, July 5. 1898; thence to Holy Trinity Church, where solemn mass will be celebrated for the repose of her soul, at 9 o'clock.

Friends and relatives respeetfully invited to attend. ROSS. -Sacred to the memory of GERTRUDR EMELIA ROSS. the beloved daughter of Aaron and Emma Ross, who departed this life, Saturday, July 2, 1898, at 11:15 a. m.

Sleep in Jesus, blessed sleep. From which none ever wakes to weep. Funeral Tuesday, July 5, 1508, at 3. p. from Lovely Zion Baptist Church, 10th and sts.

nw. Friends and relatives invited. 1t-em GREEN on Sunday, July 3, 1608, at 5:20 p. JAMES EDWARD GREEN. Funeral from his daughter's residence, 1208 57th st.

Tuesday, July 5, 1808, at 11 a. m. Philadelphia papers please copy. 1t-em NOWLIN-Entered into rest July 3, 1899, LOUIS.A N. WATKINS, wife of Judge A.

W. C. Nowlin. Funeral services will be held at Oak Hill Chapel Tuesday, July 5, at 10:30 a. In.

Interment private. Richmond papers please copy. 1t-en JENKINS-After an illness of one THOMAS J. JENKINS, beloved husband of Martha A. Jenkins, departed this life Sunday, July 3, 1909, at 7:30 p.

at the age of seventy years, seven months and twenty-four days, at his residence, Deanwood, D. C. Funeral from Jones M. E. Church, Benning, D.

on Tuesday, July 5, at 3 p. m. 1t-em -Suddenly, on Saturday, July 2, 1898. at 10:30 o'clockk, ALBERT J. BEHRENS.

Funeral from late residence, No. 707 1 Street northwest. 10 a. m. July 4.

Immediate friends only. It tention the death of one of their sisters, MRS. ILLER -The Legion of Loyal Women call at. MARY M. MILLER.

The Legion will assist at the funeral services at the church. Thirly-first and Streets northwest, at 10 a. Monday, July 4. Members will meet at the church at 9:45 a. m.

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First-class Service. 'Phone. 1553 SOLDIERS ARRESTED. A Squad Tries to Leave the City Without Permission. Over a dozen soldiers from the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment determined to go to Philadelphia yesterday without leave, but their plans were upset by the Washington police, who captured them at the Baltimore Ohio depot.

Sergt. Falvey, of No. 8 police station, was informed by telephone from police headquarters and arrested nine of the volunteers when they appeared at the station. Later Sergt. Lombardy secured another squad and the men were held at the station until secured by a provost marshal's guard.

Plant Destroyed by Fire. Louisville, July plant of the Globe Refining Company was destroyed by fire last evening. The loss is estimated at $200,000, with $150.000 insurance. The cause of the fire is unknown. Seven cottages ad.

joining the factory were also burned. Tide Table. Today-Low tide at 1:54 a. m. and 2:37 p.

high tide, 8 a. m. and 8:28 p. m. of the Water.

Temperaturg, and condition of the water Falls Temperature 89; condition, 36. Receiving Reservoir-Temperature, 88; condition at north connection, 36; condition at south connection. 36. Distributing Reservoir--Temperature, 86; condition at influent gatehouse, 36; effluent gatehouse, 36. City Lights.

Gas lamps are lighted at 8:37 p. extinguishing begun at 3:49 a. m. The lighting is begun one hour before the hour named. Are lamps are lighted at 8:22 p.

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