Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 30, 1880, Page 11

FIA DOLOROSA. How the Railroads Carry Immi- grants from New York to Chicago. iS the Cars, Among Irish, Scenes on Danes. Germans, Belgians, and Swedes. ———— Eating, Smoking, Sleeping—What Should Be ‘a Pleasure Made a Journey of Dirt and Horrors. New York Herald, May % ‘That 2 distinct impression exists on.oceaa that emigrants are very different from Biber peopic is more than suspected, but 1t 8 supposed that after the steerage occupants reach the land of the free, where one man is 88 ‘ag wnother,—and a great deal better,—they ‘will be as well treated as any native. But 8 Herald representative, who has been Joxging ‘westward with a trainload of emigrants, has found that here, as well as at sea, the passenger whotravels at the cheapest. rates receives 8 Uitte consideration as the law allows,—perhaps less. Prices below the usual passenger rates, by steamboat or rail, usually imply inferior accommodations or speed, which same sre unavoidable by the _ sellers, but there fs no possible justice in allow- on = trains with the ordinury ‘omplement of attendants such neglect 9s lack Orurinking water by day and of fre 00. cond diya ‘Freight can £0 through from New York ‘to Chicago without change of Cars; and there is ‘good reason why emigrants cannot do like- wiles, instead of "i compelled to mare 1 number of persons carried, particalarly as they jnvolve very slight extra cost; but they seem to peas few as on cars which are not half filled on any trip. Most railroad companies are in con- Juant fear of legislation unfavorable to thelr Snterests; do they realize that all the emigrants they carry in the unnecesserily-uncomfortable manner described in our Chicago letter will soon be voters? Correrpondence New York Herald. Cacaco, May 21.—The task of accompanying aparty of emigrants from Castle Garden to Chi- eagohad no such attractiveness for your cor- respondent asto induce him to invite all his Friends tosee him off- Hather did be go down self cursorily tothe Emigration Bureau on the day bef intended journey and make in- niries, The office wus closed; that day’s party gues West had youe on the Durses: there joryid be no emigrant train until the followin iternoon. A dapper young man told me all atc and more._ There Were, he said, three ways of going to Chicugn,—the Pennsylvania, tho New York Central,and the Erie routes,—all ea ‘and all at the same price, $13. I Sant to the Erle Railroad agency, kept by Con- Muller, and there’ bought one the sum named. I regretted Bee i nad not “a party,” for the man {hat sold me the ticket fatimated that even for dix people he would take off 10per cent. No, there was na necessity, he said, for my loading jay man up With food for the journey. The qraln would stop three Umes 2 day for meuls, ind at each place a solid snes! could be had for Gieents. There wero certainly stopping places enough, but they were not at well-judged GOING ON BOARD. If the Herald correspondent was a little wild about the hair and unshaven about the chin, if his durk clothes looked old and worn, and his soft bat had the appearance of a relic of the late War.all the disguise he sought was obcuined. ly about 6 o'clock tust Friday evening Terossed the ferry to the Erie depot at Jersey Gity and there met # great troop of emigrants —men, women, und children of all nationalities coming off the barge whieh had brouxbt them and their effects from Castle Garden. 3ostly they ‘were full of talk, and wonder, and burrs. Many were well clad.” Others had’ out signals, g0 to speak, that thoy were uot wearing their best clothes, from prudential motives,—the signals being # bit of bright-colored finery in hat, bon- net, or scarf, that inade their rough clotnes look ‘all the rougher. Some wore the rough clothes without any visible apology. Each one carried a bag or a bundle, and some two or three. Huge mountains of trunks and boxes of every fmaginable build and color, all properly checked, were quickly rolled from the barge to gage-cars. Lusked for the Chicago ont there at the very end,” said a and I walked down with my fellow-pas- sengers until I scemed to be half way to Newark. There was tho rain. They stood looking at it sheepishly until some one ied a group up tho steps of one of the cars; they then all went in ‘with u rush, It was Babel.fora quarter of an hour. When things began to quiet down Iasked a truin-hand where I should xo. *"Right in here,” said he, “jump for it! there's ‘a place near the door.” iL was an ordinary railroad-carriage, with padded seats. “The Company hasn’tenoughemigraut-cars,”” headded, “and 80 they run out trst-classers. young fellow, you're in luck.” IN THE the bag- Tlooked joyful, presuming it was the right thing to do, and entered the rear door. A strong Saar of POO arepiniag under Eoele a emigrants still pers] under their late exer- qr e Test down near the window, which I opened. A chattering chorus, with the crying of babies running through it, filled my, exrs. Presently a brakeman came through, leuding a party of three, with the usual number of bun- ules, ‘These he put into the seats remaining Sucant. ‘They were a futher, son, and daughter “from ireland. The son fell to my share. In- dignation and perspiration were on the father’s brow. He was decently with the air of a farmer of some means. Seeing ‘that his daughter, a pleraunt-faced young woman of 18, ‘was comfortable, be remarked: “They put me into that ould coffin in there, God biess us, but I purtested,”” Tgot up and walked through the train, which conilsted of two baggage. three express, and eeven passenger curs, most of the latter bein the low-roofed, smuil-windowed, burd-seated, dim and dirty bores known as ** emiygrunt cars.”" “We have 375 emigrants and 217 pieces of bag- mage.’ said the conductor oracularly. ie depressing scene in the car where my seat ‘was seemed splendor itsolf beside the squalor of those filthy-looking dens, the “emigrant cars,” ‘where, as if by selection, the poorest or humblest had taken their places. “The atmosphere ineach ‘was intolerable to nostrils nut accustomed to the fteerage of an emigraut-ship. There musthave ‘been between sixty and seventy eouls in cach car—the small children and babies who were not paid for not entering probably into the con- ductorsii3. Itwas now.7 o'clock, when, we ‘Were annow to start, so 1 returned to wy seat and waited patiently. The ruvning Une of an ordinary train to Chicago is thirty-six ands half hours, ‘This train {was told would bined from forty-five to forty-six hours. It ex- ceeded the latter figure by one hour and twenty minutes ‘The emigrunts had now settled them Filo somewhat. Pipes were lit and cigars of odor Were puffed and good humor prevailed. rr WESTWARD UO! sohtslast, at twenty mmutes to 8, the bell began, poring nd, with a. premonitors' Jolt, the train was d lowly out and into the tunnel. The day iying.over the reclaimed Jersey swamps, Fone) ein coldness in the wind caused & fiscandle hee ugh the car, dimly lit by Hscandle lamps. | The windows were closed, and Wwe smoke from the pipes and bad cigurs thick- Ened the alr visibly, ‘The conductor came along Pala the tickets,—u process afterwards Rpested ot all hours of the day and niebt, Spuaing. the POOF, People endless ‘rouble and ateeenge. I noticed, too, that this Job was tierwurds given over to brakeinen, the lordly ictors evidently fearing to let these “+slov- wand idsome”* persons ‘come * between the udand their nobility.” “The intelligence and rtesy of the brakeman did not improve mat~ Tough shake, “Here, show yer tickets; ickets!" wus the mildest form of the 's salute to the poor willing souls who too anxious to conferm to the regu- ers. wakeup; ‘Were onh; Jations, whatever they might be. MORE WATER. We talk and writ ite grandiloquently of the com- Hot the one and sinew of civilization to out the nexput though much has been done to make Satoley may arrived immigrant’slot among us less impetable than formerly, much remuins to be ue They are not savory, coming out of bag er's stecrage, but immigrants now be- megios bexer off, cleaniier than for- tee Tbear loud complaints on all sides of vase faroed, dirt of the trip, There was ho iitin the ordinary drinking vessel, and would ently ire out altugether. Why it dour’ be impossible to build un emigrants’ bathe slong at Castle Garden, or why ut certain polnts pene the great lines of railroad simple lavsto- Faicvuld not be provided for them, with a di- putea for the sexes, Leannot tell. They would some; pee wlad to take adveutage of both, and caret the Weary time spent on sidings and ut i ae the way places might be protitubty spent. mente neither for railway property nor Tans to let dirt accumulate on the persone of lers day after day, us it must now. Third- our tickets said. There is no xec- {84 Sor human Tt was informed. The Si gom them w pay better attention to 16 ne—the missing linkibetween the Amer- ig citizens of Today aud the citizen of the thee between the emigrant of yesterday und faqmigrant of to-day. ‘this piece of Darwin- dang Pused frequently throug! my mind Thes THE NIGHT SCENE. th, people had been early risers from their “ad the setting of the sun was inostly the mage Tiooked along the car and saw Joatling themselves up In every posture ithe le ith every kind of ‘odd-looking wraps. Tratonet on the other side of the car sat an mye good-lovking. woman of about Twith thie children, one at the’ breast and: \ | THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1880—TWENTY PAGES. two beside her. One of the latter kept up a dis- mal wailing which could not be quiet “I'm cowld,” bo would say. “Laye me get down. Boo-hoo, bo0-hoo!” 5 & Have xr eet e man, God help you, sald e farmer bebind me. ss “Thave, buthe’s up there with my. eldest boy,’ sbe answered, resignediy. As the ‘little eLap of about 3 Years and 6 months kept cryivy she uve the infant to her boy of 6 and took up the fellow who was “cowld” and held bin to her bosom, }rmadea touching group. I blamed tho bus- Dand for neglecting her, but I was wrong, as I soon found out. THE SWEDISH FATHER. Loo! further down I conld make out in the duit light tho poor ‘forelyuers” taking the teuderest care of their offspring. One uncouth Henne eausghe my eye. Tle looked hult savago, with 2 mop of bair stapding on end, 2 great Spiky beard and mustache, and the coarse feat eof a Russian moujik. “He was moving wbout ceasclesly. I got out and walked through the car. He bad turned over one of the scxtg and hud built upra sort of bed between them, was lying bis wife with 2 white-faced baby, srbose features seemed pinched with suffering. WeSae her isy a delicute-featured girl of 7, $ho was evidently suffering also, for shé moaned feebiy, and the baby cried constant- Ip. Poor fellow! No trained nurse could be more tender in her attentions than this course- Featured, buriy Swede, who seemed thankful to ine for touching the little girlon her hot brow and feellug her fast beating, feeble pulse. She was better in the morning, and I thought the better of poor emigrant humanity long before, THE MAN FROM TIPPERARY. ‘With the exception of a tall, athletic-looking man of about 42, who was bending over 2 child he was telling to go asleep, all the others hud snuggled themselves more or less into postures for sicep, but meanwhile kept up an unubated chatter. I went back tomy seat. Sleep for me was out of the question, It was long before the journalist's time unyhow; bur if it had not been the growing terrors of smell to which I bud not become accustomed would have kept me awake. Tlit a cigar in self-defense. Presently the tall man from the other end of the car cume down the middle, and went to the woman with the three children. He brought her a drink of wa- ter. Ayoung Irish couple, newly married, on the seat before me offered to take one of the children, the fellow that was “ cowld,” and he soon was asleep between them. “See where I am,” said the tall man, “up there among lot o’ Dutchmen. They're cack~ Lng like geese; just hear them. Pm murdered with thei." He lit his short pipe and went ack, however... Soon he returned. “What d'ye think?” sald he. ‘one of them Dutchmen was putting a womun's dress over my little fel- low. | I have him, stretched out on my sate. ‘That's very kind o' you. sir. says I. Dut he on'y grinned au’ put up bis showlders this way. ‘Thin be pointed for to know where I was going to sit myself, an’ offered to let mo in on his own sute wid his young brother, but, says 1, God bless you, no, sir; that ud be running polite- er toto the ground, a7 Be. put hiss snowlders ju this way, an’ sat down. I could love Dutch for that mac.” e Thus was the entente cordisle begun in that car. May it never grow less. And the tall man from Tipperary with tho red side whiskers walked up and down the live- long night, stopping ut the other end of the car to pat the * Dutchman "—who, by the way, was a Kelgian—on the back every now and then, and inughing, singing, und dancing at our end, where these graces were more to be appreciated, all to muke believe that he was neither tired nor dispirited, but every now andthen he would sigh and gently draw the miserable wrap closer around the form of his wife, who, like other mothers of all nations, wus sleeping on the floor, her baby close to her breast, and her boy of 6 stretched outon the cusbioned seat above. “Ah.” said he to the young couple who had taken charge of the boy that was “cowld,” and whose name was Pat, "if Lhad God's blossin’ an’ began as young as you have! might havo them helpin’ ine now, and not bein’ a bother to everybody.” ‘The bride bung down her hend, but the bride groom laughed, and so did the man behind me, ‘who said after a pause: “God knows what's best; you might have the growu-up children like me, but their mother might be at home in the cowld churchyard, like iy poor girl.” < ‘The muu from Tipperary looked thoughtful for a minute, but he relit his pipe and begun to sing: In the year eighteon hundred and sweot sixty-thres 3p tho,year etehtees hewyalarmess A COLD NIGHT. ‘Then he danced, for fun, be said, Dut I sus- peek because he was cold.’ A cutting wind was lowing without, and, as cold was not in the list of my calculations, I began to shiver niyself, in spite of the seventy human furnaces giving out odorous caloric. All the windows were closed, but the ventilators at the top were open. It seemed to me better to endure tho chill than to. say anything uboutthom. Itwas se cold thatmen who hud gone asleep wakened shivering. 1 sat next the window, and svon felt literally half frozen, haying uo wrap or overcoat. The train had been jogging ulong ut an average of twenty miles an hour. We reached Goshen, fifty-eigh ‘and three-quarter miles from Jersey City, at half-past 10. ‘The young moon was shining clear outside. I tried walking up and down in the car, but one transit was suficient. Legs and heads were sticking out ull along the floor, and besides, decency forbade one to be con- tinually meeting those whom necessity called an that abode of horrors. Our population ‘was iwenty-eight men, eighteen girls and wo- men, and nineteen children, with one closet for all. I need not go further into this matter than to say that tho poor creatures acted as decently as possible with such inhuman accommodations. it is well for railroad companies that people emigrate but once in x lifetime, and that a teel- ing of shame at the degradations endured keeps them silent on such matters. { have no such qualms, and I pronounce the night scene in that cold, crowded car, with its scanty supply of water, and its single dark closet for mon, women, and children, an outrage on humanity. ‘After midnight there was nobody afoot but the tireless man from Tipperary. Bven him f saw lie down on the toor for a fow minutes, but he got up again and said it was warmer stand- ing. A dozen seemed to be coughing at a time. a suppose my teeth chuttered, for as I lay over halt wsily toward the window I felt the youth at my side tucking u rugaroundmy knees that bad made my flesh ercep, earlier in the night, when he first took it out of his bundle. His sister behind now. complained of the cold, and he passed the rug over to her. I didn’t want to use the quilt,” said the youth, * butif I don’t we'll perish.” So be took the article out, and, although I shuddered as he kindly handed’ me ‘one end of it, Ldrew it up thankfully xround me, relieved to ftindit had been newly washed, und smelt fresher than anything that had previously come under my nose in the ear. Would that I could say as much of the hovest Ind bimecif. It was not a moment to be squeamish, and I wasn’t. Old army mon will un- derstand the point. Atabout hulf-pust 12 tho conductor came through, and, hearing the coughing. 0 tho ventilators closed. Suggested u tire instead. There wus no wood,the brakeman said. We were now almost hermetl- eully seated, breathing our poisonous atmos- phere over ‘and over again. ‘This Insted until balf-past 3, when the welcome day began to send a faiut gray gleam into the sky. ‘The fields with- out lay white with frost, as if snowed on, There ‘was ice on the window-panes—condensed breath. ‘The faces of the eleepers looked haggard in the dawn, and a peinter might huve made a master- piece entitled “Chill 3 ‘isery—Morning in an Anerican Emigrant-Car.” But not the wildest of the impressionists could convey an idea of the smell that pervaded everything. SMELLS, ‘Whew! It was like taking a refreshing bath to go out for a moment into the Diting air; but it only made 2 return one paused to think if that bad been endured without nausea for eight mortal hours, and was to be endured for Heaven only knew how Jong. Just then a brakeman entered with some sticks, ‘andhe started a fire ut the further eud of the car. The warmth was grateful. 1 found a Bel- gian woinan, the wife of @ gluss-blower who had sent for ber from Kent, 0. in great trouble fnbout where and when she was to change cars. Some inquiries I made in the matter made ber ‘profuse in her thanks, and she chatted about her native Charleroi pleasantly, and her hopes in the New World: Well, understand, monsieur, that Ido not fintrer myself over my first night's Journcy in- “Americ.” your free DREAKPAST. At4:25 we reached Susquechanns, where we were informed breakfast could be had. Hot tea and sandwiches were the best procurable, and, although not very. qqood, were relished. ‘Tea éentsa cup, sandwiches the same,—much too dear for either. Silk, at five cents a giuss, was bought by the emigrants for their children. I returned to the train as it moved off and lita Ggur. The air was a little better now. thunks to the doors having been open. The emigrants were at their breakfust. ‘The description of tho ‘Tipperary man of the emigrants other than Trish as Dutchmen was, to suy the least, hasty. There as Puls our car Belghins, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, and Italiaus, ug well as Irish apd Ger- uns. ‘There were, only four of the lat ter, and fifteen from the Green_Sod. 1t was a thoroughly typical crowd. The Danes and Scandinavians hud opencd their stures and were eating black bread, with very ellow butter, and fheit slices of strong-smolling cheese or bits of Suusageuponit. ‘The men were tine, hardy: Jooking fellows, a few of the women were good looking, and uearly all were blondes of the tair- est kind. - They were flaxen, but not Saxon. THE HOME OF THE Pee : ‘Asthe sun went up tho sky the air grew warmer and the hoar-frost upoD the fields be- gan to disappear, unveiling thoir wright, fresb green, Waving woods upon the hills, the clean white villyzes nesuing together against the background of wood und mendow, came into yiew, and exclamutions of pleasure ‘and wonder Went up on every hand, ‘The windows wero opened, heads were thrust out, and information fas ata premium. Jwas besieged with ques, tions, for the fact that I was. ‘American had spread through the car. Most of all they bate ‘dered at the houses being built of wood. not_ oft they warm in winter? Are the: ten pushed? Is there no stone or brick Js that Wheat growing there? Whut place is that? It was all excessively beautiful in thoir weary eves, and it was indeed an enchanting picture, the long sweep through the vulley of the Upper Delaware on that lovely spring morning, with the apple-trees ull blossomed over pale, pine ‘and white, the rich green of the young Wi exit, the river breaking into glistening foam along fis bed, the heaving hills timbered to thelr, tops and showing ev jelicate y tint of green, the -del all the more horrible, and mist wreaths rising on the morning af all.a blue sky with stray white ane ee poulte little lambs,” sald tho gir! behind me. ppztom the frowsiness and confusion within to ¥ is eauty and cain of the scene without was tealy: ‘au inspiting, coutrast, Byery. bright- cued nt tho though that this land was to bo LANDLORD AND TENANT. “No landlord to watch every step yo and rack-rent you if you Improve. your farm said the man from Clare, Ireland, whosat behind me, and he compressed his lips etimly. ad ceas to them,” said a mau from Antrim on the other side of'the cur, “See, here, did you ever bear tell of Antrim? Well. we had an election there, d'ye mind? and we didn’t win, but Wo ev ’em ‘a shake. ‘That's the tulk. Down ith rack-rents. Here's a piece cot up by Wilson and Black agin Macnagbten and Shane; listen Sir, 9 read from “To the olectors of Antrim”: 8 Pan DERE Contd the od, eras speak that your forefathers ‘What a tale they would tell of the years that aro gona; i ‘How they made them Whey mado thom productive, the ils that they ‘While rack-renta went upas improvements went on. aeitib TO HORNELLSVILLE. ra oro’ was reached at 8 a. m. Here another stop of twenty minutes was made for another breakfast if anybody wanted It, but, the chance it offered of a basin of water in a small hote) was its especiul attraction, At El- mira another stop of twenty minutes. At noon we reached Hornellsyille, where we were de- tained twohours. The first pairof emigrants had left the train at Corning to go to Tiogo, Pa. At Hornellsville there was another dispersion, some changing cars to gu by the Great Western, the Belgiun party among, the latter. One party, the Clare farmers. wus for Hornellsville itself. Let me not be accused of a lapse frum duty if I slipped away during that two hours’ wuit, made further ablutions and ate 2 dinner that is out of the way of the tide of emigration. A LONG WAIT.. At2Zo'clock we left for Buffalo, which wo reached without accident nt a quarter tov. An- other long wait of three hours occurred here. I left the dopot for supper and a walk down to the luke front. ‘The train was kept at tho usual psriuh distance, off on a siding. Just as we startod, at half-past §, learned accidently that wo had’ to change cars at Suspension Bridge, about.an hour's run. No trouble hud been tuken to inform the emigrants, and I found the poor people with their bundles untied. their wraps out, and all their arrangements made to pass tbe night. They were incredulous when J told them they would have to change, and all save.a fow went to sleep. A LONGER WAIT. Hence at Suspension Bridge there was much confusion, and a couple of rough railway fel- Jows went through the cars literally dragging: the emigrants out of thoir seats and pushin; them before thom. This brutality and haste attributed to the necessity 07 getting them on board another triin ‘for Detroit. Noth- ing of the kind. ‘The miserable procession of 1i4 souls carrying their bundles was led by a short, stout mun of much self-conceit in manner. He addressed the Scandinavians in German, und was shocked at their mot under- standing him. Ke led tho way to a sort of bur- racks on the other side of tho depot. There were three cold apartments, with wooden seats for about two-thirds of the number, and tho stout little man proceeded to udminister rough justice in the distribution. He got nearly all tho women seated. His plan was to select x young inn who was sitting down, yank bin off " tho collur, and push the woman into the sent, What else could be done for foreigners who re- fused to understand bis choice German? He discovered an old, old mun—a German—stand- ing, end be got him a sent, but the old fellow got up and brought back his dau; r, Who carried Eebeavy baby that was busy with # feeding Dottie.” He made her sit down in his place. No wonder that a man got up and said: “ Here, Grossvater, sit down!” This delay lasted until half-past 1 o'plock, or three and three-quarter hours. THE SECOND NIGHT'S RUN. 'To get the people iuto the cars azain was now in order, and for luck of xn official interpreter it was done by pulling 2nd pushing the emigrants along ina way at onee stupid and disgraceful. The curs were very cold; this time they were emigrant cars without exception, and it must have been very trying on the poor little chil- is gof them in and out of warm It_was for me # very un- comfortable night, but I slept a little. Atéu. m. we rexched London, and had twenty minutes for sandwiches and toa. At Chatham. two hours Jater, we stopped twenty minutes, and were told we might breakfast again. At 10 o'clock wo were at Windsor, and the train crossed the river on the ferry-bout to Detroit. ‘Tt was Sunday morning, and the store-clothes look of the citizens impressed tho emigrants with the wealth of this part of tho world. Wo were to huve gone off instantly, but we bad to Change cara again, and there was h delay of about an hour. The cars were all first-class, and it was not so bud. But we did not star: for an bour. An official explained that us there were so many of us he would send out a special train. Otherwise we would have to remuin, as emigrants usually do, until 10 o'clock at night. AN “ ESOGRANT SPECIAL." ‘phis seemed. great relief, but ‘the special” turned out to mean hitching the four curs that carried us on to the tail of a freight train bound west. Boys gelling bread and milk were on hand, und at bulf-past 11 we started. It was a very resome ride, for wo stopped on sidings every little while, sometimes for half an hour at a stretch. ‘Tho water ran out, and the Swedes car- ried off tho ice in cbunks and ute it. The con- ‘ductor was a freight-mun whose iden of taking charge of passengers was to be coarsely familiar with them. When asked where tho next stop. would be for meals, it seemed vo be quite a new idea. Ho hadn't thought of it. He would stop somewhere and get a few buckets of water. He would, be thought, let us try our luck at Mar- shall, We passed Jackson with only a moment's stop, and then at Marshall we found the restau- rant wholly unprepared. HUCKLEBERRY PIE. ‘He had nothing, ho said, but buckleberry ples. ‘Then he confessed he had lager beer, and, when hotly breeds admitted be had milk aud some tea, alsocrackers. There was nothing for itbut tobuy abuckleberry pie and some milk, ‘Thusarmed t gor ‘on bourd, snd bad the satisfaction of prevent- Ing some of the Swedish women trom drinking the Water, which seemed to have been tuken out of astagnunt ditch. I also introduced huckleberry pie vo them. Qur way through the intense #reenness of this part of Michigun was very pleasing to the emigrants, and they sat out Upon the platforms enjoying the scene. the sun- shine, and the wind until the day was done. hen’ they sought their sents and wraps and huddied up or down for tho night. A young Swedish couple slept peacefully in front of me, their arms around cach other. THE ITALIAN FATHER. On the opposit side an Italian mother and her little boy were on one seat, the father and bis grown-up daughter on the other, ber brown eyes closed and her great gold cardrops still in ber ears. Italien men have a peculinr way of lean- ing aguinst u pillar or a wall, standing close up toit and merely touching it with their shoul- ders. The Italian, who did not wish to disturb hig daughter, amused me during the night by standing up and leaning in this way against the aide of thecar. With his soft hat pulled down over his eyes and his arms folded, be looked the Incarnation of a conspirator. After a while he would solemnly light his short pipe, give a few aporntat whilfs, and then relapse into an Stalian reverie. catcaco! All night the train kept stopping and starting, put by daybreak sizns began toaccuinulate that we were nearing the capital of the West, which wo finally reached ats this morniz, having been fifty-seven hours and twenty miputes on & journey which is accomplished by. the ordinary traing in thirty-six hours and thirty minutes. ‘The folowing short table will perhaps show the difference more clearly, both trains taking the same route—namely: Erie, Great Western, and Michigan Central: ‘Ordinary train— —Emigrant tain ime. ime Leave. conaunied. Leave. consumed, H. Mf . DE. P. \ Jersey Clty. 6 . Susqu’h'na.. 6 21 8 45 Horn'lisv’e. Ww 47 6 Buffalo. BB 2 0 Detroit a wb 3 50 Jackson....1 29 00 am A.M. Chicago .... a 87 20 The broad waters of Lake Michian astot ished those who had never scen an Inland Dat the joy of getting to their Journey's end bus ‘to many above everything else. Muny— Tithea the greater number on tho triin—were lending them into a bare-looking, 1 pluce, where they were to walt until 9 o'clock for their train. hotel-man was ulready lead- ing a party to his house hurd vy. [took off my het to the indies, and wished them all—men, women, and children—good luck iu their new home,—the land they bad come to mike greater and greater, and which had treated them so Shabbily in ‘taking them over the threshold, — only the threshold, though nearly a thousand miles across. $$$ A Progressive Oriental Emperors ‘Tokio (Japan) Times, ‘The subjoincd remarks of His Majesty the Emperor of separ addressed to the Governors of the sevoral Provinces, at a recent cntortain- ment in the Imperial residence. atford sufficient evidence of nen ‘with respect to the polit- ical future of the country: ‘ ‘Qn ascending the throne I besought the aid of my illustrious ancestors to restore the former power of my dynasty, to introduce greut ro” forms {n che Empire, and to promote the welfare of my fulthful subjects. “Among tho great movements effected, the establishinent of Fu ‘and Ken and the extinction of the feudal system fre of the first importance. The policy 1 hive adopted proved to be advantaguous, lteforms prudently introduced, eitber in the Gov- ernment or its _udministration, surely toward improvement, and { may soon ve enabled "to my, ple the benefitof a constitutional rul ‘But much needs yet to be done; the peo} turbed by internal disorders, have nud dom the opportunity to enjoy the advantages of peace. The nobility is ‘becoming instructed, but hts membess are mostly poor; and ‘even the wealthy are for the most part, to Fortuny of tug eounery, SU Ieuorane. rata es see this deplorable condition improved, and T hope that my officers will assist me with all their intellect and power to accomplish that difficult task. You, the Governors of the Provinces fire well aware of tho needs and wants of your districts, and I wish that you should apply your- selves to follow my instructions and to carry out my schemes for the benefit of the whole coun- try. 1f there are in your localities some noble- men well instructed but without the means to take advantage of their knowleq; rou will have to ussist them; and, if requ: appoint them to suitable offices, Those who are wanting in knowledge you will persuade to take advan- tage of the various meuns of Instruction at their disposal. If some of mysubjects, not sufiicient- Jy acquainted with the political affairs of the country, should come to criticise the actions of my Government, or express their dissatisfaction with the measures adopted, you will endeavor to correct their ideas and to Impress upon them the necessity of the stepstaken. But avoid all violence; use but the pores of persuasion and be good counsellors to them. Assist me in car- rying out the great schemes I have formed for the sreitara. of my people, to increase the intlu- ence of our country, and to aavance it path of civilization.’ cae HOPS. The Utica (N. ¥.) Region—North Amer- ican Hop-Growers? Assoclation—Let- ter from.the United States Consul at Nuremburg, Buvuria, the Largest Mop-Market in the World, ‘Spectat Corresponitence of The Chicago Tribune, Unica, N. Y., May 24.—No region of coun- try in the United States, perhaps, has been so largely engaged in the culture of hepsas that measured in @ circumference around Utica of which ninety miles may be named as the diameter. The farmers within this radius had an organization which they styled the ‘North American Hop-Growers’ Association”; and at their meetings much that was of importance to themselves, and to outside cultivators, and to dealers generally, was promulgated. Hop-culture for several years previous to 1879 had been a losing business, and yards that once were thrifty and profitable were allowed to become over- run with weeds and grass,'the poles to go to decay, and general dilapidation prevailed. A few, however,—among whom were the more active members of the above Association,— continued steadily to enlarge their fields and improve their methods of cultivation, believ- ing that, witha revival of the general business of the country, this commodity wouhl also inerease in demand. Their wisdom and fore- ht met last fall with remarkable fruition. Farmers who had cultivated and housed their hops in prime condition were abundant- ly rewarded with golden gains, and their faith was more firmly established that, as a specialty, the growing of hops was a protit- able investment. Those thathad become dis- couraged, and allowed their fields to go to waste, atonee saw their mistake, and ro- solved again to embark in an enterprise which, asa rule, is considered vastly more remunerative than the system of miscellane- ous cultivation earried on by the great ma- jority of farmers, Fields have been re- plowed, roots reset, poles vlaced in position, anda more general air of thrift and good cultivation establisned than has at any time prevailed since 1874. The Hop-Growers’ ‘Association, which had somewhat waned in its influence and attendance, was revived, and its oflicers and members set to work to gather anew industrial facts relating to their trade, and to compare wants and resources, experiments and results, till a correct, and scientific basis of culture could be attained. ‘Soon after the harvest of 1879, and the re- markable prices began to rule, a movement was put on foot to gather local statisti formution; and, at a recent official mecting, personal returns were made from 173 grow- ers, principally residents of the southern, portion of Oneida and the northern portions of Utsego and Madison Counties, but embracing @ yery small surface of the hop-growing dis- trict above referred to. From the report itis Jearned that the drought and grub which pre- yailed last season have killed a large quan- tity of roots, while the open weather of last winter on wet soil had frozen out about an equal proportion of hills. ‘The acreage and yield under cultivation by the 173 growers in js7é and 1879 was given as follows: 1873— ‘Acres, .1,250; pounds per Bere wz; total weight, 784,163 pounds. _1879—Acres, 1,165; pounds per’ acre, 60; total weight, 76s.0sb pounds, Acreage for harvest this year, 1,255. In addition to this, new yards are being planted in every direction, from which no returns of any consequence are hoped for until the harvest of 1ssl or 82, when it is confidently expected that the lar; incr onne ever grown 1 be reported. And what true of this limited section, so far as enter- prise, is concerned, is equally true of other localities, It is hardly possible, however, that the prices which: have ruled since September last—ranging from 40 cents for prime down to 30 cents for good hops—will be upheld for the ensuing two years; So that planters, that enlarge their fields must exercise a good deal of faith and-run large risks. "The Association has established cor- respondents at various points in the Unite States and, Canady from whom statistical in- formation is statedly received; and the Hon, James M. Wilson, United States Consul at Nuremburg, Bavaria, has responded to an invitation extended by the Association Di- rectors in a, letter full of interest to erow- ers and dealers. He writes under date of March 18, 1880, but, the letter was not made public until the gathering of the Association jast week, from which your correspondent is permitted to make the following extracts: “ CONSULATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF Amenica, Nurempure, Bavaria, March 18, 1s80.—To ‘Mr. S. Dutcher, General Director of the North-American Hop-Growers’ As- socation, Utica, N. ¥.—Dean Su: Your favors have been received, and read with pleasure, not only by myself, but by the dealers in hops and brewers of Nuremburg. It being so early in the season, of course no calculations or predictions can be made on the ero} for the coming season. The past winter has been long and severe, but not till the vines are uncovered can it be known whether they have sustained any injury. “The extraordinary depression of the hop trade and brewing industry of the last few months still continu: vhich has, of course, influenced the prices considerably, more so than for the last ten years. Choice hops, best qualities, as ‘spalts” which were valued in October and November last as high as 68 cents, are noted at $255 to 46% cents. Prime qualities, at that period worth 469% cents, can now be bought at 34 cents, It must, low- e be remarked that the first pick (selec- tion) is always superior in quality and color. ‘The great decline is the more remarkable as stocks in merchants’ and farmers’ hands are very small; and, should business revive and England have any demand, however sinall, a turn for the better may be expected, “From the debates in your Convention I infer that each hop-grower of your neighbor- hood cures and fully prepares his own prod- uct for shipment, and itis presumed that in many cases the grower’s facilities and _con- yenignees are both limited and primitive. Here it is quite different. A hop-grower as arule has but few acres of land, and they are oft-times leased lands, though held by the same family from generation to generation. ‘The grower has never had the conveniences for curing his hops, nor has he heen obliged to possess the necessary amount of capital and other facilities, since the hop merchants and speculators of this city, from early times, have possessed spacious Warehouses and cur- ing establishments, and have, been accus- tomed to purchase the erop of the grower, who delivers his products just as soon as his hops are sufliclently weather-dried for loose baling, ST Bis being the largest hop-market In the world, it may be well to suppose that the city contains many celebrated firms, with a corre- sponding amount of capital invested in the Dusiness, All of the principal firms have their own storing and curing houses. ‘nese establishments have their.regular customers over the hop-growing districts, and often the crop is purchased and paid for before it is fully grown. ‘Then thereare curing estab- lishimuents which receive and prepare pure hops for small dealers for 8 commission, and which are ready to purchase in any quantity, —just as your dairy and cheese factories pur- chase milk of small farmers, “ Believing a fuil description of one of the model ‘Tiopfen Lagers (hop-buying estab- Jishments) of this city would be of interest to your disting ished Association, it gives me pleasure to hand you herewith an extract from my annual report for. 187%, which was not published in the * Con) inereial Relations’ with the rest of the report, SC BAVARIAN MOP-HOUSES, “¢Nurembure abounds‘in noted _brew- eries, beer-cellars, and stgtehouses. Believ- ing it will be interesting and suitable matter for the ‘Commercial lations,’ I will minutely describe a hop-store and curing- house which is_very complete in its arrange- ments. It has been recently built by Messrs. Gerugros é& ‘Frauenfeld,'of this city. The latter gentleman, “Mr. Moritz Frauenfeld, nt was formerly an_ ent ing citizen and inding they must en i business facilities, urehnged a aa property in the suburbs of the city, eda: very impasite binding for > very imposi nti for their business. he” walls of the building are solid brown sandstone, of three feet six inches throughout. ‘The building is 150 feet Jong and fifty feet deep, four stories high, with two additional lofts in the garret —altogether seven lofts, each containing 5, square feet, or, in the aggregate, neariy 3i,- mare feet,—room suiticient for storing 6,000 bales of hops. The building has three large sliding double-doors broad and high enough to admit loaded wagons, eighty-four large windows, and is covered with a double slate roof. The cellar, where the walls are four feet thick, is used for placing the neces- sary implements for packing and caring. The first floor is destined for packed hops which are finished and made ready for shipping. The second floor is the place where the hops come out of the kilns and are spread in piles and packed away. On this floor there are two round iron pipes and a heavy square iron press the latter is b peverally’ used for such hops as are packed hermetically in tin and Srosden boxes: bes Euird, fourth, and fifth where the hops are stored.—one part of the building being reserved for those which have to be cured, and the other part for those which are naturally dried and. re- main in their original condition. A part of the third floor and the whole of the: upper loft is Intended for the storage of baxs and PAFERNE taro large kil i “The two large kilns are the most inter- esting part of the whole building. They are builtsteietly after the Puscle ‘ammerer” system, ‘The foundation is four and one-half feet thick to the first floor, where the drying by charcoal-fireand sulphuring is done. ‘The outside walls here are three feet thick; in- side of this wall there is a wall of two feet; then another wall of the same thickness sur- round! @ fire-grates. To these grates the alr-draft is admitted by a canal which runs beneath the building into an extensive court. All this is closed hermetically with double iron doors. On the second floor. wires are Inid, where the hops are laid for curing: ‘These hops are emptied from the third floor into the kilns, which are closed in by iron trap-doors. ‘The | extensive chimney built from the ground is thirty metres Aes feet) high. Inside of this chim- ney, and 45 feet high, is a crown of thirteen gas-lights, which are lighted before the sul- phuring commences, and have to burn dur- ig the whole process. These lights con- sume the sulphur before it reaches the top of the chimney, and sulphuring can best be done by this system during the densest atmosphere, and without the least an- noyance. The top of the chimney is covered by asheet-iron cap after Dr. Walpert’s sys- tem. There are further, one double and one single hoist, somewhat like elevators, run- ning through from the ground to the top of the building; lightning-rods; a telegraph, connecing each floor with the office in the front ‘building; over 100 gas-lights, etc., ete. “<The most prominent physicians and naturalists of Germany, who held a Sanitary Congress in Nuremburg last month, visited the establishment, an pronounced the same and the whole system 2s magnificent and eminently practical. The establishment, thus comprising all modern improvements, is interesting even to those not in the hop buSiness.’”” “Twill thank you to present my compli- ments to your Association, and to assure it, if I can Serve it in any way, it will give me great pleasure to do it; and I subscribe my- self as your and their most obedient servant, 4 Jams M. Witson, U.S, Consul.” MESSRS. SPINK & BUNGE. The Libeled Vinegar Manufacturers Vindicatea. There was published in Tne TrmBuxe of Tuesday, May 18, a report of the analyzing chemist of the Board of Health giving the alleged results of examinations made by him of certain samples of vinegar said to have been manufactured by various firms, and to -have been obtained at the stores of different retail dealers. One of these samples was said to have been manufactured by Messrs. Spink & Bunge, of this city, and, according tothe analysis, contained copper, and the prohibition of its sale was recommended. Mention was made a Gay or two ago of the fact that this firm had brought suit against the City of Chicago and Dr. De Wolf. for libel in making statements injurious toits revu- tation. ‘The following certificates, furnished by well-known chemists in this city, clearly quaprove the charges made against Messrs. Spink ‘& Bunge, and satisfactorily prove the x ea eharacite, of the vinegar manufactured yy them: J. D. WILLIAMS. CrcaGo, May 0.—Lo whom it may con- cern: Maving visited Messrs. Spink & Bunge’s Vinegar Works, No. 12 Centre avenue, May 24, 1880, and having obtained iwhile there three samples of vinegar representing the quality of vinegar manufactured by this firm, also asample of low-wines from which the above Vinegars are alleged to, have been. made, I hereby certify to the fact of having made an analysis of the same, the result of the aforesaid analysis being as follows: Sample 1, “60 gr.’” vinegar taken fiom the i a specific gravity; of 1006 (Baume): sample 2, 65 gr.” vinegar taken 1 in stock, and haying a spe- of 1007 (Baume); Sample 3 “6g gr.” Vinegar taken from. & barrel in stock and having a specific gravity of 1007 (Baume) are all, ‘exch. and severally, pure vinegar. These vinegars contain from 4 to 53g per cent of acetic ‘acid, and are absolute- ly free from any form of adulteration. Although it is charged that vinegar manu- factured by this firm (Messrs. Spink & Bunge) has been found to contain copper, neither these samples nor the low wines from which these vinegars are made, contain even a trace of copper, iron, or lead, 4 Further, | have ‘the ‘honor to also report that these vinegars are absolutely free from nitric, swphurie, and muriatic acids; and that glucose does not enter into their compo- sition. T. D. Wittiams, M. D. &. A. MARINER, Cmcaao, May 27, 1880.—This certifies that T have visited tho vinegar-fuctory of Spink & Bunge, have bxamined their apparatus and processes, and hivo taken samples from nll Moir regenerators and recelvers. and from their stack of vinegar in barrels, and have thelr sincre samples for purity, and in every case have found the vinogar to be a strictly pure article of good quality, containing 20 Purces of copper, lead, or contaminations or Ugulterationsof any kind. These samples were fautTrom thirty. regencrators, two receivers, and 500 barrels, said to contain in all 1,270 bar- rels of stock vinegar. Thave also taken and tested with like result five samples, as follows (all said to bave been Ve Sased before the recent action of the City Maith Department): One sample from John Gruschow-No, 8 Oak street, corner of Bremer; GrySampio from Jacob Buchbinder, No. 2460 One Srarenuc, marked No. 1 old: one sample aren sjacob Buchbinder, No. 4469 Archer avenue, from new: one sample from John C. Glantz, No. 494 Blue Island avenuc, white wine; one sample iim John ©. Glantz, No. 40¢ Blue Island ave- nue, elder, UFicof the samples’ were carefully taken by myself from the places and parties mentioned, Bei can therefore confidently recommend the ant gar in question as a pure and excellent ar- ticle. G. A. MARINER, AGniytical Chemist, No. 81 South Clark street, ‘tooms 49, 51, and 55, P. 6. HAYES. GO, May 23.—Messr3. Spink & Bunge— penne On. the 10th of this month I visited your factory in the rear of 12, 14, and 16 Centre avenue, and obtained five specimens of vinegar and one of low-wine. ‘hese samples were taken from barrels and tanks £ designated and in my PROSCNCC, > copper, lead, tin, or any-other dele- terious metal present in any of the samples. All of the sau) pine were found free from any free ineral acid. i oxamined the apparatus employed by you in the manufacture of vinegar, and do not think it possible for copper to enter the vinegar during ihe process of manufacture. “The following is the specific gravity, the per contage. and «tz, vilue of the vinegar expressed in grains of carbonate of potash; Specific Percent Grains gravity. acetic acid. potash. 1,008.3 50 BLA 1,009.0 82 63.0 1,009.5 C7 59.5 1008.5 40 30 123 55 Piyu S. Hares, M.D. Professor Chemistry Woman's ‘Medical Colleze. NO COPPER. Fai ‘cAGO, May 29.—We the undersigned also comity that dte'metal copper is not used either for the purpose of adulte inegar. ingthe TD. Weenais MP 4 Pura 8. Hares, M.D. Manryzr, Analytical Chemist a — ENGLEWOOD DECORATES. | A very impressive. memorial service was held last evening at Tillotson Hall under the the Englewood Union Veteran Seer oid D Parker, an old sol- dier, delivered a very interesting and appro- |, Rev. Walter Forsythe deli ing address, and was followed. by Capt. J: james ered @ very touch- E. White, who gave some ¥ r cences. Mrs. Woods then oe erat oen, dedicated to Col Bee Foster, Presi- a Association iding offi of the evening. bs pes otess: GEORGE MERRICK. A Disappearance which It is Impossible to Explain. Mysterious disappearances are something which the police and the reporter, as a gen- eral rule, regard very lightly. In a large city dozens of cases are reported monthly, and should the practice prevail of tracing out in detail every case reported, the work would beherculean. In almost every case the per- son reported missing is represented as suc- cessful in business, and on the happiest social terms with his family, friends, and relations, Folks are afraid to reveal the skeleton which has caused the disappearance, through fear that the missing person may turn up within afew days, and that by disclosing the afore- said skeleton, a blight would be needless- ly cast over thelr friend’s life. Only a few days ago the police were searching for a New York resident who disappeared in this city. When search had failed, the case was given to the press. Some days later it was ascertained that the person who had caused allthe trouble was in_ business away out south in this city. His family relations were not such as they haa been represented, but were uncomfortable enough to cause him to wish that his family would not be allowed to hear of his whereabouts. A.case which appears to be in great con- trast with this and all other disappearances known to the police of this city. was reported Jast Wednesday night, and thus far NOT A SINGLE TRACE OF THE MAN has been found. George W. Merrick, a wealthy resident of Milwaukee, and a mem- ber of the grain commission firm of Merrick & Lindman, disappeared at3 o’clock Wednes- day afternoon from the office of Spaulding & Merrick, wholesale and manufacturing |to- baeconists at, Nos. 9to 15 River street. Mr. Merrick was contemplating opening a branch house in this city, and had been in town for nine days preceding his disappearance. He in company with nis wife and little girl made his home with his brother, the junior member of the tobacco firin, at the corner of Indiana avenue and Twenty-ninth street, He had rented an office, and was search- ing for a membership ticket to the Board of Trade. His wife was very anxious to return home Thursday forenoon, ‘Wednesday forenoon Mr. Merrick said to her that he thought he would be able to accom~ date her, having no farther business than to purchase a ticket and have thename and ticket posted: at the Chamber of Commerce, as by the Board rules must be done for ten days prior to the membership going into ef fect. He showed a slip bearing the names of seven or eight persons who had tickets for sale. He came to his brother’s office about 1:30 that day, and dawdled away his time until o’clock in such 2 way as to give the impression that time hung heavily on his jnands, and that he was waiting for an hour at which he had some appointment.. It is - known ‘ that he “not then purchased a ticket. He" Moorehouse, of the firm, for $500, with which he wished to buy a ticket, and when he was given acheck payable in Milwaukee he re- jected it, saying it was useless for his pur- pose. A check’ on a Chicago bank was also refused, and as Mr. Merrick said eash would probably be more: aceeptable to_the person from whom he puschased, Mr. Moorehouse sent to the bank tur the cash. Subsequently Mr. Merrick asked for 2 check ona Min- nesota bank, as he wanted to pay some taxes on property there. He wasgivena check for $85, which’ he mailed at once. In return h aid ina $100 bill, and received $15 bat Te is known, ‘therefore, to have had $415 cash, and no one knows how much more. He said nothing when he left the store as to where he was going. It is the strong opinion of all nis friends that he went to some place down- town by, appointment to purchase a ticket. ‘Mr. Merrick. was a man of the most straightforward habits, He was temperate in every respect, and never indulged in drink, gambling, nor like dissipations. In- sanity, which has been hinted at, is consid- ered out of the question. There is no insan- ity in the family, and this particular mem- ber was always level-headed. All his actions in this eity preclude the possibility of mental aberratico. In business Mr. Merrick was well-to-do, wealthy, successful, and happy, and his domestic ‘relations were situated most happily.. Never a complaint was heard to pass his lips concerning his life. All who knew him canpot but think WE WAS BEEN FOULLY DEALT WITH, and his brother has had a curious presenti- ment from the start that George has been decoyed away in his search fora ticket and then murdered for his money. .As-the fi e fam- fly have almost unlimited means at their dis- posal they have spared nothing in searching for the lost one. .A reward of $500 is offered for the body either dead or alive. His part- ner, Mr. Lindman, and Mr. Merrick speut two days and nights with Detectives Londer- gan aud Murnane scouring the city for some clew. Mr. Lindman was compelled to return home last evening, and up to that time not a single additional fact had been ascertained. Pinkerton’s agency was called in, and for two days they have_made a thorough search with no success. | It is iniposslble to ascer- tain the names which Mr. Merrick had, and hence it has been impossible to find any trace of him after having left the store. ‘The de- tectives have, however, hunted down all those known to have tickets for sale, but no person by the name of Merrick called upon any one of: then. Tuesday Mr. Merrick called at the Starand Crescent Mill, but ticket advertised for sale there had already been disposed of. Tt is therefore thought that Mr. Merrick was led astray by some one pretending to have aticket for sale, and that he saw this patty Wednesday forenoon, and had partial completed negotiations. Else why. shoul he have asked for cash and taken so large an amount with bim ? But so little is fact and so much theory. that the investigators are as yet all atsea. Mr. Williams, 2 bosom friend of the missing man, says that if George was drugged for the purpose of robbery, that the drugeing would in all probabity have caused his death, such was the con- dition of his Jungs and internal or- gans. His idea that George was done away with in this manner is at Jeast plausi- ble. The family do not think Mr. Merrick is out of the city; and if he is he was taken out either dead or in a drugged condition. They think he Is id IN SOME OF THE LOFTY DOWN-TOWN BUILD- NGS, either dead ora prisoner. And if dead, itis hardly possible that the body has been done away with. By Monday the country, pe ticularly the Northwest, will be flooded by Pinkerton’s Agency with circulars setting forth the facts, description, and the reward. ‘Mr. A. W. Merrick, who ‘closely resembles his missing. brother, yesterday fixed himself up with a false mustache, and had a photo- graph taken. The resemblance is almost bs ect, and duplicates will be ‘scattered roadeast. The following description is the one adverttsed: ‘Age, 37 years.. Has sandy hair, mustache, and chin whiskers; and {s about five fect five and one-half inches tall. Had on dark suit, and black Derby hat; would weigh about 145 pounds. ‘Mrs. Merrick is still in this city, but is con- fined to her bed. She is completely pros- trated, and suffers terribly. ‘The remainder of the family ave almost distracted, UGHTNING TRAINS, Specias Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune Barrmoxne, Md., May 29.—In the face of the active operations at the headquarters of the competing lines it would be idte to claim that the new time schedule of the Baltimore & Ohio has not made itself felt. Indeed, the running of special trains, as has been, in- augurated by rival roads to meet the fime made by regular trains, isa new feature in railroading; but the road that opened the ball has no notion of quitting the dance this early, and, specials or nO specials, proposes to have the music xept right on to this, and the probabilities are that within the week the Baltimore & Ohio will run two fast- time-makers out of Chicago, the morning train leaving, say, at 9 oclock, reaching aduiterating or for improv-" Washington at noon the next day six to eight hours aliead of, the fast schedules of other jines and arriving a Philadelphia and New York 2s quick as the quickest of them. Of one thing everybody may be certain, and that js that the Baltimore & hio’s fast trains are regular trains, and not put in for any special niTpose. DUEVORC, 5, Mo., May 20.—Another fast train to New York and other: Eastern points will pe started from _here Monday, this time by the Vandalia, Pan-Handle & Pennsylvania Line. The train will leave here at 3 a. m., and reach Pittsburg at4 the next morn- ing, Baltimore at 7:50 p. mn., Philadelphia at p.m, and New Yorkat 6 p. m. Kun- ning time -three hours, deducting one es for. hitorence in time ad the terminal points. This shortens the present time four hours. WHITTAKER. ‘he Court of Inquiry Finds Him Gullty of Self-Laceration and Perjury, and He Is Placed Under Arrest by Order of Gen. Schofield. Wesr Pornt, N. Y¥., May 29.—The Court of Inquiry in the case of Cadet Whittaker met in secret session to-day aud agreed upon 2 final report, which was signed by all the members of the Court. The conclusions are as follows: 1. The Court is unable to believe that such slight wounds as Cadet Whittaker received. could have been inflicted by persons in the manner and under the .circumstances de scribed by him, 2. It does not see why a man with his sur- roundings and in his condition and frame of mind, as shown by his own evidence, should have submitted to an assault such as is al- Jeged without summoning assistance during the assault or immediately thereafter. 8. Itbelievesa person tied as he was and Jeft as he claims to have been could readily have released himself had he exerted him- nelt $e) do 50 teat . From the testimony of the Post Snrgeon and others the Court is compelled to believe Cadet Whittaker was neither asleep nor in- geasble: wren ho wns couniines ont Smiore ig of April 6, , but that he was fel 19 5, The Court is not able to ‘discover. a motive that any person, other than Cadet ‘Whittaker, could have had in making such assault, and there is no evidence whatever that any other person did it, 6. [t believes that the hair-clipping, flesh- cutting, and binding could all have been ac- complished by Cadet Whittaker himself, 7, The theory that the note of warning is an imitation of Cadet Whittaker’s handwriting is, in the opinion of the Court, untenable. ‘The severe tests to which experts in hand- writing were subjected, and their positive testimony, place it beyond a doubt that Cadet Whittaker himself, wrote the note of warning, and therefore that he is not ignorant of the person or persons en- gaged in the atfair. ‘This latter conclusion ia strengthened by the fact that one-half of the sheet of paper on which this note is writ- ee was found in Cadet. Whittaker’s posses jon. ‘The opinion of the Court is as follows: “From the strong array of circumstantial evidence, from testimony of experts in hand- writing, and from the conflicting statements ot Cadet Whittaker and lack of veracity evinced by him in certain cases during the investigation, as shown by the evidence, the Court is of the opinion that the imputation upon the character of Cadet Whittaker, re ferred to in the order convening the Court and contained in_the official reports of the Commandant of Cadets and Post-Sargeon, is fully sustained.” eee ae ‘When the report was sent to Gen, Schofield and read by him, he caused a letter to be at dressed to Col. Lazelle, Comniandant of the Corps of Cadets, directing the arrest of Whit- taker, and placing him in confinemepy in hia room. ‘The order was promptly carfled out, and Whittaker will remain under arrest on- til the case is disposed of, and a guard will keep him under surveillance. ‘An officer in high rank being asked what disposition would be made of him if the findings of the Court are approved by the ‘War Department, replied, “If he was noo- commissioned officer he would be tried by court-martial, but itis probable if the Pres- ident approves, he will be dismissed the peademy: or turned over to the civil author? je S.' ‘Whittaker still protests his innocence. Tha findings of the Court will be forwarded wo the War Department to-night, $< THE INDIANS. Marauding Utes in the North Park, Lanasne Crry, Wyo., May 29.—Fred B. King, the courier who arrived on Thursday with intelligence that the Utes were in North Park, started back yesterday. Getting to Cummins City, thirty miles sonthwest, he met three men just from the Park with letters and dispatches. Taking a fresh horse he returned here at 10 o’clock Jast night. Next day after Burlingame wag driven into Walden’s by the Indians, Walden and O’Brien started out with Burlingame ta verify his story. ‘Near Illinois Creek they saw 400 or 500 ponies and a Jarge band of Indians, thought to be Utes. ‘The Indians were separating their best ponies from the herd, as thorgh preparing for some expedition. ‘The three men then returned, and the en- tire party of men, Women, and children at Walden’s Camp, numbering about thirty-five, 3, in packed up and retreated to Pinkham the north end of the park, whe! they até now fortifie 3 _- The mail-carrier_ from this city to Tyner, inthe North. Park, reports seeing several bands of Indians at a distance on his last trip in. ‘Nothing has been seen or heard of Carr or Dow, and they have undoubtedly been killed. King brought dispatches from Walden and others to Gov. Pitkin, asking for help. Gen. Flint, of Fort Sanders, has tele- graphed to Fort Steel for pack-horses, to be sent by special train, and two companies will be sent to the rescue to-morrow. ‘The party now at Pinkham’s is poorly armed, and great fears are entertained for their safety. ., ‘There are about 700 miners and prospectors in the North Park, and the Indians will prob- ably kill a great many before they can get to- gether in sufficient numbers to oppose them. The North Park is some distance from the reservation,'and the only way into it from the north is via Laramie City. ‘No one feared the Indians, and conse quently those who have gone ‘in have but few aris. Gen. Pope telegraphs he will send a large number of troops in as soon as possible to protect those who leave from here, ——_>—__ ARMY ORDERS. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Srocx Crry, Ia., May 29.—Two steamers left Yankton. for Fort Randall last uisht, to brig down the First Regiment to Yankton. ‘This regiment will go to Texas, and its place be filled by the Twenty-fifth, now on the Rio Grande. The Sixth Regiment, now on the. Upper Missouri, will be collected at Fort Berthold, and be'sent to Omaha. from which post it will be distributed at different points in the southwest. ——_>_—— KEARNEY ON THE WAR-PATH. San Franpisco; Cal., May 29.—Lasi night the workingmen, headed by a brass band, es- corted Kearney from his house to the sand- lots, where a very large crowd had gathered. Kearney addressed theem in his usual style, announcing his intention of taking up the agitation where he left it, and making it more bitter than e . ————_—_— EVANSTON. ‘The Robert Raikes centennial anniversary will be appropriately observed Ini the auditoriur of the Mcthodist Church this afternoon a’ 2:0 o'clock. The program has been urrango by the Superintendents of the various schools ‘and the celebration will be a uniod one. The auditorium will be decorated with flowers. The music will be by the Presbyterian octet and Mr 0. H. Merwin's choir. ‘The Adelphic Friday evening oratorical contest took, place The following. H, Swift, J. Schneider, “ Livingston"; ter, “One Hundred Yeurs of Repub- licanism "; W, H. Chamberlain, “English Kule in Ireland"; W.H. Jordan, “Gambetta” The prize of &% wus given by the judges to Mr. Swift. ‘Mr. and Mrs. John Hamline have returned and taken up their residence at Dr. Hamline’s. ‘During the week Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Har- bert will cotertain ut her residence Mrs. Kelva A. Lockwood, of Washington, D. C.; Helen M. Con- ger, of Lafayette, Ind.;and Mrs. James Spottord, of Washington, D.C., allot, whom are West at- tending the Womuan's_ Suffrage Convention, which will be in session Juue 3 in Chicago. Del- egutes will be present from eighteen States, and Airs. Barbet is one of the moving spirits of the ing. ‘The Rey. R. M. Hatfield, D. D., is expected to occupy the Methodist pulpit this mornin. ‘The Rev. Geo! C. Noyes, D. D., will preach ae, morning and evening in the Presbyterian ure! : “fhe Rev. A. J. Scott will preach this morning and evening in the Congregational Church. ‘The Rev. George R. Pierce’ will’ prevch this morning {n the Baptist Church, Usuul service this evening. - . Feeble digestion, faintness cured by Mult Bitters. = —_——_———__— PG Ee, Read of, procure, and use Hop Bittersand you will bo strong, beulthy, and happy- oe ic headache, dizziness, and