Show I Captain Howgates Profligacy The Washington Post of Sunday after speaking of an ineffectual attempt at-tempt made the day before to give bail for Captain Howgate the signal 4 sig-nal serVjice officer under arrest for embezzling from the government goes on to say The developments of Friday in the Howgate investigation showed that the original amount of 40000 would be ultimately increased to 100000 The speculations are found not to have been confined to false telegraph bills but extended to nearly every branch of the expenditure ex-penditure of the 500000 annual appropriation ap-propriation for the signal service The book in which the accounts of the steam yacht Storm Signal were kept is being examined by experts This vessel formerly the Modjeska was sold by Howgate to the government govern-ment for it is said 20000 Its ostensible destination was to lay cables but the practical men in the office did not have to wait until the costly and luxurious appoinments were furnished to see that the boat was not intended for any service of the kind The most expensive rugs carpets and furniture to be found in the warehouse of W B Moses supplied at his prices were obtained The table was also covered with the very best silver and crockery ware and linen that could he bought Then a firstTate caterer and assistants having been engaged the true purpose of purchase of the boat was disclosed j In conjunction with tIle fnnous TippityWitchity Club gay parties were given on the river and excursions ex-cursions made to theisland owned by I the club at the mouth of the St Marfs river Hero the same splendid splen-did repasts were served as on the boat but in a frame house This house was once upon a time a fixture fix-ture in the ear of the signal office I i It was later taken down by a messenger mes-senger named Washington under orders from Captain Howgate and removed to the island Here it was found to be in need of a fresh coat of paint This was givenirby a painter since dead pained Chamberlain Cham-berlain and charged to the signal office fund The medical stores for he signal service men are all furnished through the regular regu-lar army sources yet a bill appears in Captain Howgates accounts for medical appliances bought of a city druggist amounting to about 5iiO < This it is said was for medical medi-cal stores for the Qulnare A bill for boiler repairs on the Storm Signal Sig-nal is also said to have been for work done en the boilers of the JllZnare Among the matters which have not been fully investigated are the bills for stationery This was all furnished by a brotherinlaw of Howgate named Rogers living in New York The goods supplied are said to have been of such inferior quality that much had to be thrown away and the bills were high in inverse in-verse proportion The defense of the accused is said to be that the checks given were either forged or raised by others Against this will be urged his weekly bank statement furnished treasury of which he retained a duplicate |