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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1904
Page
33
A Friday sale presents a varied assortment of remnants and short-length fabrics. Voiles in tans and greens, 42 to 48 inches wide, priced at 2 cents a yard to clear today. Cotton dress goods and fancy printed fabrics marked down to low rates. ginghams, organ dies, lawns, and lace stripe Madras offered at bargain prices. Lisle thread hose overstock discounted, with sets of three pairs for $1.00.
Friday Bargain in Men’s Two-piece Suits offers high grade, well tailored summer suits at clearance prices. Gray mix cheviots in sizes 38 to 46 drop from $8 and $10 to $5, and $12 suits to $8. Also remnants include 6 cotton Terry bath robes, 58 white Lisle shirts and drawers, and 16 Madras shirts with deep discounts on each item.
Ladies wear white lawn sacques with pink borders and bhp tone. Very pretty and unusually valued at 50 cents to 1 dollar. Third floor Eleventh street.
White Goods sale on Eleventh Street offers Hauni drawn and embroidered linen shirtwaist patterns at 3.45 each, once 4.50. Linen stripe dimity and 300 yards striped India dimity priced down from 18c to 7c. Striped Madras at 9c per yard. many items formerly higher. Styles teased as fine and handsome and imported.
Bargains on lace curtains in multiple pairs with deep discounts. White Ivory Irish Point Marc Antoinette Renaissance and Colored Cathedral options offered. prices cut from $6 to $25 per pair, plus upholstery and bed sets and a small selection of kidskin oxfords and infant sandals. Includes Linen and Damask cloth reductions in the Eleventh Street store.
Two three quarter length white pique coats priced at 1.73 each, belt optional. Four white pique coats at 4.50 each, with insertion trim. Two linen coats in natural and blue, platted arching trim, 5.00 each. Sale notes reduced prices from higher originals.
Parasol Department offers 2 Brown Silk Parasols with tucked bars reduced from 3.25 to 2.90 each. White and Black Silk Parasols reduced from 3.00 to 2.00 each. Misses' Fancy Silk Parasols reduced from 1.35 to 0.75 each. Main floor Tenth St.
The third floor on F Street and G Street offers extensive markdowns across the men’s hat and suit departments. Men’s straw hats priced at 50 cents, several shirt waist and linen items on sale, plus numerous suits and robes with significant reductions from 25 to 40 dollars, including Eton, voile, mohair, and Irish linen styles in various sizes.
Misses department lists price reductions on several garments including a green famine suit with white blouse trim, a mohair suit in black and white, and six white Persian lawn dresses in grumpe style. Also offers linen Buster Brown dresses for girls and Russian style linen dresses with embroidery, all marked down from higher prices. Third floor G Street.
A sale of millinery items lists four women’s trimmed hats marked down to 390 each from 600 and 800. Five hats reduced to 500 each from 10.00 and 312.00. A small lot of flowers lightly damaged sold as a bunch. Second floor on Tenth Street.
Ten boys wash suits in Sailor and Russian ap ee styles, sizes 3 to 10, reduced from 1.95 2.25 and 2.95 to 1 each. Fine Russian blouse suits in blue tan pink and rose sizes 2 1/2 to 6, reduced to 1.50 each. White piqué sailor suits trimmed with embroidery sizes 3 to 30 except 7, reduced from 3.95 to 1.95. Third floor Tenth St.
Third floor sale offers boys straw hats in sailor and stiff brim styles at 15 cents each, 30 hats reduced from 1.00 to 25 cents, 18 boss straw sailors in white and black reduced to 39 cents, and blouses with blue and laundry neckbands in sizes 5 to 15 reduced from 60 cents to 3 cents each.
The Umbrella Department lists 24 inch emerald green sun umbrellas with club sticks reduced from 41.00 to 2.00 each. 24 inch silk sun umbrellas in green and white checked pattern with dark green selvage and large gun metal handles reduced from 5.00 to 2.00 each. 11 25 inch colored silk umbrellas with fancy borders reduced from 3.00 to 2.00 each.
Furniture Department showcases a rattan desk chair rocker and box couch with marked price drops from historical figures to low sale prices. China department on sixth floor offers 100-piece blue decorated set and other porcelain pieces with steep reductions.
Miss Mabel McGill wed Oliver James Le Beau at St Patrick's Church in a quiet ceremony attended by family. The couple will honeymoon to Niagara Falls Thousand Islands and New York before returning to Washington. The story also notes other weddings and social events including Mrs Morton’s sailing trip and various society notices.
Secretary Morton issues a special navy order praising the late Rear Admiral Henry C. Taylor for his reforms in personnel management, mobility in squadrons, initiative of officers, and enlistment spirit. It notes his Santiago battle role and his tenure as chief of the Bureau of Navigation, and proclaims half mast flags and thirteen guns as memorial honors.
The union iron works may forfeit 18200 to the US government for not meeting the battleship Ohio speed requirements. The ship will be accepted as a chargefighting machine, with speed shortfall deducted from the 2899600 contract price. West Virginia tests show the gun turrets not yet aboard but engines pass dock trials and officials expect higher-than-required speed. Cols Steever and Augur report to War Department on Manassas maneuvers with Col Wagner presiding as chief umpire.
New Secretary expects offhand information from bureau heads, but finds Washington differs from Santa Fe. Morton, ex-VP of Santa Fe, urges direct knowledge without endless written reports, presses for armor plate stock, and compares naval needs to railroad practices while Navy officers adapt to new business methods. A South Atlantic Squadron arrival is announced and repairs on Albany are approved at Bremerton costing 180000.
The Navy authorized surveys and contracts totaling 96,000 for shipyard and port work. An $80,000 survey covers the Nashville at Boston, $10,000 survey for the Sterling at Norfolk, and $6,000 survey for the Isla de Luzon at the Pensacola navy yard.
The Missouri attorney general seeks federal action to break a rail and bridge monopoly in St Louis, arguing terminal company status shields them from railroad merger laws. Judge Advocate General Davis attended Missouri court. Secretary Taft to decide on federal proceedings. A large rail and steamboat delegation urged reconsideration of a Pittsburgh bridge ruling, with Taft to rule soon aided by Gen Mackenzie and JAG Davis.
Maj J F Case city engineer presents Manila water and sewerage scheme to the Secretary of War and Col Edwards. The gravity system uses a 16 mile intake from Mariquina Valley, cost estimated at $2,000,000 with bonds authorized for funding. Manila municipal board approves. contracts likely after War Dept action.
Government officials select the Connecticut governor to christen the battleship Connecticut to be launched at the New York navy yard on September 29. Cardinal Satalli and party visited Brooklyn Navy Yard and Governors Island then met Gen. Corbin and Mrs. Corbin. Gen. Davis returns to U.S. for his wife's illness. Gen. Chaffee inspects Fort Douglas with Patterson and Devol, then departs for Washington. Samuel Carter, first class machinist, dies by drowning in Shanghai aboard the Chauncey. his mother lives in Everett, Massachusetts.
A bulk of notices assigns Lieut. Commander F H Bailey to Brookyn for home orders, Higging to Brooklyn as South Atlantic steam engineer, and several leaves of absence for officers. Retirement of Maj. Edwin F Gardner announced, and extended medical leaves for Cathro. Details include encampment duties in New Mexico and Roentgen Society meeting in September, with multiple regimental promotions in the Cavalry and First, Third, and Tenth Cavalry units.
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