Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1881, Page 5

IST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN THE WASHINGTON CITY POST OFFICE, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1831. Sv To obtain any of these Letters the applicant must Apvxntisep Lerrens,” and give the date of f not called fo i en LADIES’ LIST. A—Awkwand Miss Emma; Alsop Miss Harriet; Alms B_Boore Miss Alice: Buel Mrs Athenias: Bowie Mra ie; Bick: oi rd Mrs BC: Brown Mrx Win: Bailey Mrs <er Mrs Julia, Butter Misa Jennie. ‘ls Mrs Melinda Jane; Box Mra Brown Mrs Melvina. Barbour Mrs M: hel; Botter Mrs lite; Cour- T: Cupid Miss »whitdwe Miss Mary, they Mrs Rebecca; Case Mrs wel H. D—Dasenbere Mins Eliza: Dircs Mrs Evelina; Dorsey ‘Mins F: Danngson Mrs Louiser; Deans Mise Mary; ath F. rs C: Firchun Mica Dora. wn Katy Gray, Miss Maria John; Gray : Matilda; Graham Miss; Good- raham Mrs Martha, Grey Mise Maria Mrx_Chas W; Haywood Horghton' Mra JH; Miss Lizzie; Holmes ‘Miss Mary; Hillman Hourrie Miss N; Hardie ones, Mrs Elizaheth Jobmeon fem Hattie; Johneon Mis Judy: Suckson 1: neon Mies Lucy: Jackson Miss Kached (ool'd), Jackson Miss we Eveline: 1 Leo Miss Mai Mt Mi shell = ulligan Mrs Ellen; More Mrs Frank; fem ‘Mrs Ellen; Mundy Miss Eliza; Miller Misa ie eGrad: Annis joCord s MeBinas ey Miss ie: M Miss Ettie. are tee Co ‘uur via E: Nichols Miss Julia. n Miss Mary. Powers Mrs Elisha H: Pelton Mrs Julius: Polard Pre Lucy: Pratt Mrs Molly; Poulson Mra Mary A; a Mrs Vincinia L; Parsons Mrs W H; Powell Mrs R—Reynolils Miss Ida; Ri hardson Mrs Jane; Roots Mrs Kitty. Rowe Mire Lina: Rixon ‘Mis Madie. Rhine- Bs i ie; Rousseau Mrs Ratcliffe Miss Gertie; H MRawiinis Mrs Sarals. pat ea Abby W Shanken Mrs Stele, Stewart ie ire HL; Shekel Mies Rate. Smal rt Semmons Misa Miss Mary; Mary J; Willians West Miss Susan; rt jaccie: Wilson Miss iiliams Miss Rachel; Brown Alexander; Brebe A N; xy Chan: Broan Chae ls: Brown pn Frank jutler 3 v. Burteis 1. F; Bell MM: A A; Clark D: Cobbert Edw; C 1. Crahen John; Crocker’ G 3, Casarand Jacob: Cassell Mr; Chapman 8 Derby Edw; Donaldson H A; ‘ham John; Dayis John; Dentrey ry George D; Edward J D; Fisher Maj € B; Fuller CH; Flander “lM; Graham Dr; Golden E R; Gor- « er r is John R; Grace John; Green mmo Ma} § Hitt Gs Haser AD: Charles. Ha: E ‘ol: Job. Hunter ers ‘in enry W A B: Kinnon Boverly; Keil Harry, 3; Kearney Gull f Q—Oakies C i Prerkias ar 8; Pitts E F J, 2: Pickel Georse: Parker H; Powers Parker Jerry; Powell NB. ohn A hief Engr. as Henry; Thompson Jno W: Taylor if Robert; Tailintz William. Wheeler A.A; Welch B F; Woods Bell; nk: Weston George M! nce W: Wheeler Jas A! is MI. Wilder Phillip; Williams Rob- s Robt: Washizwton T W; Williams Theo; = Willard W © Hon. OUS.—"* Refi Republican Adyo- chines. Sylvi . schr Geo L Vreeland; hr Ida © Bullard; Burgess Geo G, <3 Geo G, schr Manitan; Corson Levering; ' Ds ae Oy M chr rt Relsey Eitwis Dani MeDonough schr Daniel Morr Randall George W, | re: Smiley 1, sehr ‘Sarah | L, sehr Maxie P Smith. THE GEORGE- ICE, —Capt E A Lyman, Schr J w | hr Mamie, Richard Nicker- | as F Sampson. Charles W Loyd, Steamer | usha Garfield, Schr O D Witheral; Capt | ‘hr U D Witheral, 4. THE EVENING STAR. DOUBLE SHEET. SATURDAY. f - JULY 16, 1881. LETTER FROM RICHFIELD SPRINGS. A GOOD SEASON—WASHINGTOSIANS THERE—WHO ARE COMING—THE NEWPORT STYLE—THE AMUSEMENTS—THE INVALIDS—ETC. (Special Correspondence of Tus EVENING STAR.} RIcHFIELD Sprines, July 15th, 1881. It is quite evident that the watering places are doing a thriving business this season. Leav- ing acrowd at Long Branch, I found this place also fall, and the train on which I travelled hal | scarcely a vacant seat. This resort has long been famous on account of the strong sulphur springs and the baths of hgt sulphur water, which have relieved so many cases of rheuma- tism and gout, as well as other complaints. The usual course has been followed at most summer | resorts, health-seekers leading the way to pop- ularity and fashion and pleasure-seekers folloW- ing. 1 think the latter are decidedly in the ma- jority here now. as they have been for some time pest. Many of the same people regularly spend a portion of each summer here. Every season Washington society is well repre- sented here, as well by some of its residents as by some members of the diplomatic corps and gentlemen of each House of Congress with their families. Quite a number of naval families, well- known in Washington, have been ia the habit of | coming het Admiral Almy will bring his wife hters here before the close of this month, on concluding their visit to Altoona. Ex-Senator Conkling’s wife and daughter, Mrs. Oakman, arenow at the Spring House here, and Miss Conkling, of New York, a niece of the ex-Senator, Is in the party. They are living very quietly, and seem to take little interest in he social amusements. Mrs. Oakman is still as attracti e in face and manner as those who knew her in Washington as Miss Bessie Conk- ling remember her to have been. She still re- sembles her mother, though the likeness is not so remarkably strong as it was before Mrs. Conkling grew stout and her hair turned grey. | Mr. Oakman is engaged in business in New York, but his wife and her mother are muck together. They have always been since Mrs. Oakman’s childhood as loving companions as if they were sisters. WHO ARE EXPECTED. Among those well known in Washington who have been among the visitors here during other Seasons are Vice President Arthur, Mr. Justice Hunt, Mr. Conkling, Mr. Baron Mayn, the for- mer Austrian Minister, and the former Spanish Minister, Mr. Mendez de Vigo, and Mr. de Soto, 1 of the Spanish legation. Representative and Mrs. Walter A. Wood are here now, and aiso Mr. Stoughton, ex-Minister to Russia, and his wife: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Garrett, of Baltimore, and Judge Frick and his son and daughter, from the same city; ex-Governor Latham and wife, of California; ex-Governor Van Zandt and wife, of Rhode Isiand; Gen. J. L. Donalson, Baltimore Mrs. Hughes and Miss Markoe, of Washington; Mr. Isaac Bell, of New York, and his wife, the sister of Mr. James Gordon Bennett; Mr. G. W. Vanderbilt, the son of Wm. H. Vanderbilt, and Mrs. H. McK. Twomly, the daughter of the lat- ter, with her husband and eh Se- guin, the singer, and Miss Seguin; Judge Henry L. Clinton and wife, of New York; Admiral Cur- | viancs id wife, Baltimore; Gen. Adam E. King | and , of the same ci and Dr. Davidson | and Misses Alice and Edith Davidson, of Wash- ington; Mrs. Hobbie, of Washington, and her unmarried daughter, have been spending some ime here, so as to be near her son, Rev. Mr. Hobbie, who now has charge of an Episcopal church at Cherry Valley; Mrs. J. W. Miller, of Annapolis. is here with her children and Miss Wise, of Washington; Miss Work, of New York, who visited Judge Swayne’s family last winter in Washington, is here with her father, Mr. Frank Work and his fainily. The large number of visitors who" annually spend a greater or less portion of the summer here is indicated by the fact that while the town claims no more than 1,500 permanent inhabitants seven hotels, accommodating each from 150 to 600 guests, flourish here and twice as many boarding-houses, or “cottages,” as they are called since. THE NEWPORT STYLE. Newport swells set the fashion for snubbing | those who board in hotels at that resort, and patronizing their acquaintances who board in so-called cottages. I find wherever I go in | summer in the last few years that the next most “nobby” thing to do if one cannot own or rent a “cottage” is to take lodgings in something which can be by some great effort of the imagi- nation included in the category of buildings which that much-abused word is supposed to describe. THE ENJOYMENTS. The amusements here include a great many | out of doors. The town is so shady and clean that walking is as much in yogue as at Saratoga, for the same reason that ladies can go on the street at any hour of the day in light-colored or thin white dresses, wearing slippers and eschewing bonnets and hats, if so inclined. It makes a vast | difference in the amount of exercise a lady is willing to take, whether she las to make a spe- cial street toilet or can wear that which she uses indoors. Driving is very much appreciated here, as the roads are excellent and the scenery very varied. 3.50 | Lo | Gaboronzh. y Richard 2.00 | Edscar Fawcett. th © Pinty. R. i Grant White. Murphy, D. D., the € Pr tical ++-+--Der 100 feet, $1.25 STOCK BOARDS, 1512, 16 feet. ~ 1.50 VVRGINIA FLOORIN The fashionable drive is to and around Canada- Tago lake, a beautiful sheet of water five miles and fishing are greatly bring their private car- ia pme of them driving all the way from Albany by a good road. The dis- tance is 66 miles. but there are pleasant stop- ping places all along the route, and this return to a primitive style of traveling affords a pleas- ing novelty. People seem to come here intending to spend several weeks, and bring all their children, sew- ing machines, and sometimes pianos. The num- ber of transient visitors is comparatively small. T have rarely seen so large a number of children. | anywhere. ‘Their presence is due to the fact that so many amusements are provided for them and the shaded grounds are so convenient for their gar The first hour of each of the hops is given up to them, and many of them dance very beautifully. An excellent band plays for dancing on_alter- nate evenings in the parlors of the two principal els—the Spring House and American and also a concert once or twice during the day. ‘The attendance at hops and concerts is always yery large indeed. Here I notice, as I did at Long Branch, how mueh more dancing seems to be enjoyed by adults than at Saratoga. I begin to think it is because there 8 less formality about dancing in a parlor, where one is accus- tomed to meet one’s friends for a social chat, than in a ball room reserved for dancing and entered only at stated hours. Singers and musicians have long testified their approbation of Richfield by making it an annual visit. Concerts by the best artists are given here every season. One was successfully given on the evening of the 9th, at the Spring House, by the celebrated violinist, Remenyi, assisted by Mr. H. W. Beale, pianist. THE INVALIDS. The invalids who are here for treatment are in some instances so crippled with gout or rheuma- tism as to be obliged to use crutcnes or wheeled chairs. They go through a regular course of'| just so many baths and so many days drinking sulphur water. Some continue the treatment until a silver coin kept continuously in the pocket turns black, thus showing that the system of the patient has become thoroughly impregnated with sulphur. A SAD REMINISCENCE. The scenery on the Hudson river railroad never appeared more beautiful than in the sun- shine of last Saturday, but as I passed opposite West Point I could not help recalling how on just such a day in June, 1873, that magnificent landseape was saddened by the tragedy which deprived Lieut. Totten, formerly of Washing- ton, of his life. He was struck by the last car of a rapidly moving train, having saved hiinself from the forward cars by s close avainst an embankment, but the rear car “wobbled” a little and struck him in the forehead, killing him a I have always thought his death a larly sad one, for while no one was responsible for the accident, it seemed a most unnecesseryone He had been attending the meeting of members of his class at West Point, CLEAR SIDING, half inch, No. 1 WHITE PINE SHINGLE: brated Crapo uraud. early clear. Cele- --per thousand $.90 WE FURNISH ESTIMATES OF ENTIRE COST OF BUILDINGS FREE OF CHARGE. WILLET & LIBBEY, ‘Srere Streer axp New Youre AVENUE | Srnaovr Sqvanz. esd | Nonrmens Liners MMarsuz Serane, he being a graduate of the Military Aacademy, and had accepted an Invitation to visit fri across the river. A trif_ing matter deiayed him on his way to the station to take the train for New York and some little girls joined him as he walked down by a short cut. When the cars suddenly dashed out of the tunnel Lient. Totten had just time to push the childrea into a place of safety, but lost his own life as above de- scribed. He would have saved himself had he not so gallantly given his first care to the chil- dren. He was on his way to join his wife and Gea. Hunter's family at Narragansett. In coazection with tragedies I am reminded of the ghastly fate of young Mr. vi on remem! when she visited the:n as Miss Chalfant. She was a belle there as well as at her home in Cin- | of study and worl Sulphur Springs ‘irgini his private Kernen that he is engaged on a heavy work, which wil keep him home, if his health permits, t the summer. He has been suffering mueh He e: great pleasure at the it’s improvement, and horror of the attempted assassination. Cyrus H. McCormick, one of Chicago's wealthy men, is just completing a cottage on a hill top close by here, overlooking this village and com- manding extensive views in several directions. Miss GrunprY. ——_—_—--____— THE SEASON AT ROCK ENON. HOW TO GET TO THE SPRINGS—WHAT ONE FINDS WHEN THERE. {Correspondence of THe EVENING STAR.] Rock Exoy Sprines, Va., July 13th, 1881. Greetings to Washington friends, from this charming mountain house. Rock Enon is sit- uated on the western slope of the great North mountain, 16 miles from Winchester. The morn- | ing train from your city brings you at noon to this “fast growing town” in the mountains, where you find awaiting you comfortable close carriages, barouches, or stage, to carry you over one of the most delightful roads it has ever been my pleasure to meet with. This drive isnot sur- Passed by the ocean road at Newport. Kept always in order, smooth, free from jolts and hills, you arrive at the springs, exhilerated rather than fatigued In time to appease a hearty appetite, at the inviting tea tables. It is the WILDEST, PRETTIEST PLACE you can well imagine, with its enormous rocks that constantly remind one of old castles, not “Castles d’Espagne,” so easily demolished and laid low, but moss-grown castles, covered with flowe shrubs and bushes. Here and there little brooks are gurgling, intermingled with pic- turesque walks, lovers’ retreats, which to the young are so indispensable. The house is large, surrounded by wide balconies; reoms delightful, well ventilated, and cleanliness the order of the | day. The grounds arecharmingly safefor chil- dren, beautiful lawn fountains playing both in front and rear of the house. A new and commo- dious parlor, concert room, dancing hall, and dining room ‘have been buiit within two years, all attractive features. And here let me speak of the corps of dining-room servants, with Ste- venson in command—orderly, respectful, well drilled, attentive, and anxious to dispense the good things of Rock Enon with a lavish id. We have enjoyed exceedingly the Sunday evening services held in the parlor by Rey. Mr. Pratt, of Denver, Col., and Rey. Mr. Woods, of Virginia, who are here ona short vacation. | Telephonic communication with our genial Dr. Smith, who is prompt to answer the call, also with Winchester, enables our sending messages to our loved ones, via all telegraph rou gives us the great privilege ot hearing from those whom we left behind. The ladies are under great obligations to the patient and ever ready Mr Helmer, who is always willing to continue ‘ching for the pected but deferred letters. We are blessed with two daily mails. THE WATER AT ROCK ENON. One of the most important features is the water—copper, iron, alkaline, ete.—and gaining strength by laving in their invigorating baths, one feels thoroughly restored and rejuvinated. The swimming pool is a great enjoyment for both old and young. CosMOroLITE. Se Masked Highwaymen in New York City. ROBBERY IN THE STREETS AT MIDDAY. w York city, in the open streets yester- day,Charles Messersmidt, a clerk in the employ of Jacob Ruppert,brewer, drove in alight wagon from the brewery at 92d street and 3d avenue downto deposit asum of money in the Ger- mania and Nassau banks. With him in the | wagon was Gustave Akerton, an office b They carried $9,300 in bills doneupin a package, and a bag filled with silver dollars. At 47th street the wagon was run into by a vender's | wagon, in which three men were seated. ‘fhe supposed peddlers sprang from their wagon and | fired a shot over the heads of the frightened | employes of the brewery. They were all masked and brandished pistols. One jumped into the wagon and collared Messersmidt, the cleric, holding a pistol _to his head. Another of the | robbers seized the package of bills and sily but dropped the latter, as it was too hea Checks to the amount of 9,400, which Messer- | smidt carried in his pocket, were not touched. | The thieves drove furiously down Lexington avenue, andat 38th street they turned into 3d avenue and disapteared with their plunder, amounting to $10,000 in bank bills. A New Invention for Storing Electricity. From the Cleveland Leader. Aft t viet investigation Brush, the el invention, which ample reward for'his life He has succeeded in per- fecting a method of storing electricity. if Mr. Brush uses for his storage reservoirs metal plates, so arranged that they are ble of re- | cei yery large charge ‘of el ya holding it for an indefinite tim reservoirs vary in size, as desired, may be trans ported from place to place, and used as desired. | They may be put to any use of which electricity | is possible. They cay be taken about in wagons by day, and left at the houses of citizens, like so much ice or kerosene, and used _at nig! Each citizen may then run his own electric lights as he pleases. The plates can be put on street cars, connected with the axles, and made to run the cars without horses. Steam cars may be ultimately run inthe same way. Mr. Brush re- | cently stated that ina given space he was able to store double as mucii electricity as Faure. Mr. Brush has been working at this matter for years, and he is a man who says nothing of his work until he is satisfied with it. His last in- tion is only now acase of economy. For some ‘uses it will be cheaper, for others more expen- sive, than the present methods of obtaining power. The practical character of the invention is settled, and it is simply a matter of expense. The engines can be run and electricity accumu- lated during the day, and then at night two sets of lights can be run, one set by the powerstored up. An indefinite amount of electricity can be stored in this way and used as wanted. The de- tails of the method cannot now be made public, but will be published in a short time. = ee biooes Our INSIGNIFICA Eartu.—It is only when we regard our globe as a member of thé plane- tary system, and that system in turn asa unit among the systems, that we e how infini- tesimal are its concerns and how relatively in- significant it is. We may for practical purposes treat the orbit of Neptune as the circumference of our planetary system, and state the diameter of it therefore as about 5,456,000,000 miles. But if we could suppose ail this vast plane converted into asolid disk, instead of being, as now, for he most part empty space, and if to it were then given, by some means or other, a slightly In- minous surface, it would appear to an observer upon the very nearest fixed star no more por- tentous than a new shilling glittering in the sun- shine would appear to an observer at a distance of somewhat over a hundred yards. In other words, it would want fairly good eres to discern itat all. We may safely say, then, that the an- nual thermal loss of our owalittle sphere, though sufficient to melt 777 cubic miles of ice, would, even though multiplied by centuries of centu- ries, no more atfect the temperature of space than the striking of a march wonld avail to mod- erate the climate of Siberia.— Belgravia. THE CUMBERLAND RaILRoAD Crosstne.—In Cumberland, it is stated, that the Hays street crossing of the Pennsylvania road in Marylaud over the Baltimore and Ohio road wiil be put in by the latter company early next week. The ex- tension of the Georges Creek and Cumberland road to the point where it is to connect with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Polk street has been completed and is ready for the crossing. A DIScRACEFUL # occurred at the cham- ber of the Newport, R. I., board of aldermen yesterday afternoon when ‘Mayor Slocum pub- icly called the writer of an article in the Daily News « villain. Hearing that Mayor Slocum had given the name of the writer, Lucius D. Daffes, editor of the Daily Nevws, said that he was the writer, and the mayor then repeated his original remark, following it up with profane language of the most Insulting character. The board, out of respect for itself and to protect the mayor from further disgrace, adjourned, Davis is one of the most influential citizens of Newport. iB see Mrs. Lincoin Improv! ‘he condition of the health of the widow of Abraham Lincoln is much improved. On tlre 11th of July she tooka carriage ride and has been able to receive callers for several days sea The newsof the attempted assassination of ident Garfield was a great shock to her, and for a day she was almost pros- trated. When the news was announced she ex- claimed: “Oh, can it be that the President of this country is no ‘safe from the assassins: Oh, ag a With eyes . has completed a ne e considers to be did it?” suffused with tears she re] murmured: “Poor Mre. Garfield,” aaloate Sona to her there until the next day. Since her pigeloiens, fiends and {and telegraph operator. (Tu | direct wire of its ownto New York.) These | its kind in the United Stat | entirely new, including twenty-four iron stands A HISTORY oF THIRTY YEARS. HOW THE PAPER IS PRODUCED. 178 NEW PRINTING MACHINE. Ancnoceal sabia Mecen, eats sens ete! Tue Eventne Srar is now settled in its new home. It broughfwith it from its old office on the opposite side of the street, which it had occupied for a quarter of a century, nothing but its books and papers. The present establish- ment, therefore, is as complete in its outfit as if it had been arranged forthe publication of a new newspaper. No expense has been spared to make it the model evening newspaper office of the country. The change of location has cost about seventy thousand dollars. The building which it now occupies has*been entirely remod- eled and increased in size by the purchase of adjacent property on 11th street with a depth of fifty-five feet and an additional frontage of twenty-three feet. This enables the busi- ness office to oecupy all of the first floor. with a counting-room sixty feet in depth. It is the most spacious of any one in the country, with, possibly, a single exception. It is finished in hard wood, ash forming the base and cherry the ornamentation in the rails and balustrade. It is handsomely frescoed, with a beautiful stairwa in the rear leading to the editorial, news and te egraph departments. The floor is laid in varie- gated marble. In the rear of the counti the private business office is located. Bey this is the private stairway leading to the com- posing-room on the fourth floor, and beyond that are the paper, press and stereotype rooms. The latter are even arranged with bath and water- closet for the pressinan, stereotyper and their assistants. On the second floor there are five rooms for the editorial and reportorial force Star has a rooms connect with each other and are supplied with speaking tubes, dumb waiters, electric bells and all other appliances conducive to accu- Tacy and rapidity in the publication of a live evening paper. the: third floor the rooms are mostly devoted to a library and to private use, while those in the “IL” are used for the | storage of paper, advertising “copy,” duplicate | files of the paper, ete. The fourth floor, which | is ocenpied as a composing-room, is 120 feet in | depth and 40 feet wide in the “L” part. The | ceiling is 16 feet high, thus making it, without doubt, the best lighted and yentilated room of es. Its furniture is made by R. Hoe & Co., of New York, on which the cases of the compositorsrest and from which the new fonts of type are set for the paper. It is also supplied with closets, tanks and racks, and, in fact, with every convenience known to a moiera newspaper office. From this floor a | Bates elevator descends to the floor of the press room, which takes down the forms of type tothe | stereotyper. The basement is assigned to the | newsboys and is used for nearly the whole length of the bullding. The papers are shot down to it from the press room through a shute, where they are distributed by the counters. So rapidly does this work that three thousand three hundred papers are counted out and on the street in eleven minutes. The work of remodeling the building «vas done by Messrs. Deering & Johnson, contractors and builders; the plumbing by Hayward & Hutchinson; the fresco painting by J. Rakeman; the general painting by W. E. Spalding; the gas | fixtures by Edward Cayerly & Co. and E. F. Brooks; the cabinet work by A. Grasse; the carpets, etc., were furnished by Singleton & Hoeke and Hooe, Bro. & Co.; the electric bells by C.G. Schneider; the granite work by A. Bradley & Co.; the engine by Sinclair & Ashen- pach, (of fifteen horse power); the boiler by Pettit & Dripps, (of twenty horse power); the shafting by Thos. C. Basshor & Co.; the win- dow shades by Richard Henderson; the furni- ture by H. 0. Towles; the paper hanging by John Markriter; the signs by Chas. Macnichol; the awnings, flags, etc., by S. J. Haislett; the brick work by Tom. Lewis, all of Washington. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE STAR. Tue Star has nearly completed its thirtieth year. It wasfirst issued as aspecimennumberon December 4, 1852, and began its regular daily issue on December 16th following, and, except on Sundays, has continued ever since. Its origi- nal size was but a little in excess of a good sized letter sheet, and Mr. Leyes, one of the compos- itors now in THe Srar office. well remembers when its edition was only eight hundred, and was worked on a hand press! What a contrast be- tween that and the Scott machine, which has already printed at half speed one thousand Stars in two and one-half minutes! The paper ‘was first issued by Capt. J. B. Tate, at the cor- ner of 8th ond D streets, and was removed the next year to 6th street and Pennsylvania avenue, where the printing office of Buell & Blanchard then stood. The counting room was on Penn, sylvania avenue, near 6th street. In May of the same year it was removed to the second story of a blacksmith shop en D street, near 12th street northwest, on the site of the present Franklin engine-house. W. D. Wallach and W. H. Hope purchased the paper of Mr. Tate soon after, and in a short time Mr. WaHach bought out his partner. In 1854 the office was removed to the Bigntce Corner of Pennsylyania avenue and 1ith'Street, which have Just been vacated. In 1855 C. 8. Noyes, the. present editor, became connected with Tux Star. Mr. Wallach retained his ownership till 1867, when, desiring to retire, Z| ING Star is the exponent and representative of the interests of the city In which it is published. This has been its character from the beginning, and to this distinctive feature is largely due its Present wide circulation and its high character a8 an advertising medium.” THE SIZE OF THE STAR. can be furnished for the price at which it is pro- vided, unless there should be some such revolu- tion in the manufacture as well as in the sub- stances entering into the article of paper as will materially reduce its price. While this may be cannot be hoped for, for the present at least. And in this respect, as the observing reader will see, THe Sta@stands with the largest and best of the cheap and popular class of journals in the country. THE OLD MACHINE—A QUARTO HOF ROTARY. For over eighteen years THE STAR has been printed on a quarto cylinder Hoe rotary press by which the printing was done direct from the types placed in forms or “turtles"—so called from their shape—which were locked into a revolving cylinder on to which sheets double the size of the paper were fed by four men or “feeders.” The heavy wear to which the types were subjected in printing a paper of the circu- lation of Tux Stan required frequent renewals. — = les this, in all presses printing from types it is necessary to feed sheets throu: twice in order to print both sides, and if folded still fed into another machine. The does this all at one operation, feeds ints both sides at one papers at the same time—it is, in short, an Automatic Machine. At the thse of its pur- chase the old ine Ww press, and, even at this fairly close record ina “blaze of glory” in printing nearly dd papers on the da it is not equal to a paper of large circulation which must be printed and distributed ina short time, and yet include up to the latest moment all of the news of the day. THE SCOTT PRINTING AND FOLDING MACHINE. It had become evident for some time after revolving printing presses had been in use, that the only correct plan of constructing a faster and automatic as possible—that is, 1 print, and fold the The it could it could deliver them. from per were failures because of th ling the type on small cylinders a step in the right The first practical web press was m A. Bullock in 1862, and made is now in use in the ‘This machine cut and ion eylinder the second one e Government printing office. sheets from the web before printing them transferred them from one impre to another by means of grippers during the pro- cess of printing. pr on w printed, i machine, two of which are in use in the United States, cut the web of paper into sheets after being printed, which was quite an improvement. But these machines, when first made, did not fold; and since their introduction many attempt have been made to construct a machine which would fold the sheets as fast as they are delivered by the press and work automatically in combina- tion with it. In 1872 Walter Scott, of Chicago, Invented hts web-printing and folding machine, to work in combination with web perfecting pre: Although delayed for some time. yet he was the first to produce a machine with one set of folding devices throughout, which would automaticaliy fold the sheets as they came from the printing press without reducing its speed. Since then he has made many improvements, which are included in the press before us. The marvelous success attending this machine i: owing principally to its rotary motion, the folds being made by revolving creasers. Mr. Scott also introduced the pasting and cut- ting arrangement, he haying been the first to combine a printing, cutting, pasting and folding machine, so that, froma roll of paper, perfect copies of a newspaper are produced automati- cally, with the leaves cut and pasted in book form. Several makers have constructed combined printing and folding machines, but none of them seem to have the same success as Scott's machine, probably owing to the fact that they employ the old method of tapes and rollers with vibrating creasers. Some haye even found it necessary to employ two or three sets of folding devices to each press so as to get up a fair rate of speed. The aceompanying cut represents the new Scott machine on which Tue Star is now printed. It In 1868 the well- hh the known Walter London Times is now York, under the personal supervision of Mr. latest improvements in that class of machine. to form some idea of how Tur Star is produced: THE COMPOSING ROOM. composing room they are assorted into laid upon handsome tables covered with brass, which now supersede the old imposing stones, and the type is made fast by steel side-sticks, presenting successive surfaces of inclined planes, having been sent down by the elevator to the STEREOTYPING DEPARTMENT, he sold out to Messrs. ¢. S. Noyes, 8. H. Kanff- man, Alex. R. Shep! Clarence Baker and Geo. W. Adams for $110,000. In 1868 these gen- tlemen were incorporated into ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company” by special act of Congress. Some years ago Messrs. Baker and Shepherd sold out theirinterest. With the sin- gle exception of The National Intelligencer, no paper has lived so long in Washington as THE EVENING Stak, In 8 work published by Geo. during the Centennial exhi- to illustrate the “great news- during the preseat century, them ‘ogether to the thickness of cardboard. ‘The face of the type is slightly oiled witha brush ‘The form with the “matrix” into which the papier mache has now been manipulated is slid ontoasteam drying table, at whose end is a “platen” shaped like a letter copying press; the form is pushed under the platen, thescrew turned down closely and the “matrix” is dried ready for casting. From the platen the matrix,’ Possible, it is not likely, and that contingencyg back of the plate, to render the and folds the y | of the at- | early machines which were inyented to feed ported into this country. This | was built by Messrs. C. Potter, jr., & Co., New Walter Scott, the inventor, and embodies all the The following description will enable the reader As the types for each edition are set up in the Each page is placed in a steel frame or “chase,” type, is taken to the “casting box,” a semi- | cylinder, whose interior circumference exactly represents one of the paper. This is pro- vided with and a universal joint, which permits its receiving two motions, lateral and vertical. The matrix is deftly fitted in, work. men dip out of the melting pot near by A HUGE LADLE POLI. of motten type metal, pour it into the casting As tothe matter of size, it may be said that | box,wait halfa second, thenopen the mould and | Of Water from a TE Star is now about as large as any paper | take out a stereotype plate, requiring but a few Just stafth having been removed from the surface of the previous to printing, (for all paper must be motstened before itis printed), is also new, amd invented by Mr, Scott. It will be observed that the paper is wound around a core. A spindleds run through this core and placed in bearings. & full roll of paper, as it comes from the mill, ie placed opposite it, bung alse in bearings; the free end of the paper ned to the empty core, the power turned on, and as the paper be gins to pass from the roll to the core a fine spmay overhead dampens the sheet T the purpose of printing. The touches to fit it for the press, | spools whien the paper is wound are very, | THE SHAVING MACHINE. | itgennonsly cont by friction, so that the | After being taken from the mould the plate is | TUS are made perfectiy trae andeven. The | placed in the shaving and trimming machine, | P* rapidtand very puet j Where a revolving knife shaves the inside or whole plate of | | uniform thickness, and at the p time cuts off | theend of the plate the proper length, leaving its edges bevelled, so that the clamps in the | printing cylinder will hold it thereto. The Wate is then placed on a cylindrical dressing stand where the deft-handed workman with his Sharp chisel gouges out the larger portions of the plate, which represent the blank space on | | the page, in order that they may not receive the | ink from the rollers and thus produce an un- | sightly blotch on the printed page. The pla is now ready for the pressman. It has been but six minutes from the time the matrix had | reached the caster’s hands till it is ready for the | press, and it takes less than a minute to place it on the printing cylinder of the Scott press and | SCOTT’S ROTARY PRINTING AND FOLDING MACHINE | have it ready to turn off the printed sheets | faster than the eye can follow them. | The process of stereotyping is rendered im- | Peratively necessary by the necessities of mod- | ern journalism, | the flat shape of the “form” as it lies on th “make-up” of the composing room shall be | changed to the cylindrical form of the press, and it is as imperatively aecessary in the inter- ests of eoonomy. MILES OF STARS. A roll of paper, weighing 600 or 800 pounds, | and from three to four miles in length, is placed | at the receiving end of the mi: and slides | into position easily, without requiring to be | | raised up. When the edge of the web sheet thus placed is fed into the press, it passgs through the whole machine without any handling, the | devices for controling the web being very con- | | venient and complete. ‘The paper receives its first impression before the main impression cyl- | inder, provided with a set-off sheet, is reached. | After receiving a first impression it passes un- | derneath the first impression cylinder and over the second, thus presenting the clean side of the web of paper to the second plate or type | inder, from which it receives the second and mal impression. As the mechanical observer views the Scott machine carefully he will notice that the inks contained in a fountain, in which a “fountain roller” works, giving ink to a * doctor” roller, which transmits it to the first distributing cylinder, the vibrators and the other parts, unnecessary to detail at length, which work together to place upon the surface of the stereotype plates just a sufficient quantity of | ink at each revolution to print twe pages of the paper. The process of cutting and folding now com- | mences. A knife placed in a longitudinal slot in | the face of a cutting cylinder CUTS THE PAPER TRAYS ah the leading end of the cut web passi he cylinder by the pressure of the atmosphere— ‘and in this movement the Scott press realizes a It is absolutely necessary that | TAE STEREOTYPE MACHINES. Another great stri has been made t minutes’ time an plates comp aken to make the stereotype ly after the form ts received from the posing room. By the use of this improved machinery the operation ean usually be per formed in ten minutes. The shaving and trim- ming machine yy ntioned does its work on each plate in t pds, These machines with all the accompanying mi tachments are well designed, substantially com- structed and highly finished, and reflect grea’ credit on the builders, Messrs. C. Potter, jr., & Co., as well as to the inventor and designer, Mr. Walter Scott. WALTER SCOTT, the inventor of this beautiful piece of madhinerg, is still a young man, having first seen Ught tm 184. He isa of the vicinity of Ayr tm Scotland, where for two or three generations before him his ancestors had been miliwrights and were of mechanical talent. Young Scott spent a year at a school of mechanical science, after which he served a full apprenticeship at j the machinist trade. When twenty-five he came to America and settled in Chicago. One of his first jobs was ranningan engine and doing machine work in one of the larger job offices of the city. Thence he gravitated to the press room of the Daily Post, where a Bullock press was just being set up, and where he began to study the subject of web printing press. Them in 1873 he undertook the charge of the presses of the Inter-Ocvan, and here he perfected his rotary folder, which he attached to the presses in use in that office. His first patent was taken out in 1875, since which he has received no less than 15 for different appliances in printing and folding, and applications for several others are still pending. The drawings for his combined press and folder, such as this paper is now printed on, were completed in 1878. The first one was completed and set upin the office ef the Ch » Telegraph in the spring of 1879. The following papers have this press in uses Tue Washincron EVENING Stag The Toronto Madl—3. The Detroit News. The Chicago Inter-Ocvan—$. The Toronto Telegram, The Louisville Courier-Journal. The Baltimore Herald. The Detroit Post and Trina. The Montreal Sfar—2. The Brooklyn Times. The Chicago Ners. The Chicago Herald. ‘The Kansas City Journal. The Chicago Telegraph. aw INGTON INVENTION. To use in the proof galleys the nposing room: | problem which has long puzzled the ablest | mechanicians. When the cylinders have made | haifa revolution, the central margin of the | printed comes opposite the “creaser,” | which forces it into a groove in an opposite cyl- | inder, where it is held by grippers which were | previously opened by a.cam to receive it. The | doubie edze of the sheet thus formed is then | carried around until a secondgreaser transfers it to grippers in a third cylinder, which thus effects the second fowl, when it passes to a delivery | frame, where a circular knife with a serrated edge, revolving with SCEIVABLE RAPIDITY, | cuts the papers in two, and a flyer deposits them | on the delivery table in perfect order. It has taken quite a deal of space to describe | the operation of the machine. The process, in a | word, when the editions of Tue Star at Z| worked off, is repeated 30,000 times per hour, or | 500 times per minute. | One marked feature in this machine is its sim- | | plicity, doing away with tapes and belts, pulleys, | flying cams, switches, and aa endiess train of | fine gearing and small wearing parts, which re- | quire constant watching and oiling. The sheets are printed out and folded without the use of tapes or belts. Ali the principal moyements are | rotary and consequently can be run at a high speed without derangement. THE FOLDING | is done by rotating creasers, as the knife re- volves and cuts oif the sheets, so the creaser re- | volyes and folds them. The fotdi devices can be changed to fold different sized sheets and a different number of folds. All the parts are easiiy got at, either to adjust or repair. It has a superior distribution of ink, all the inking rollers being on the top of the machine, in view of the pressman whea standing on the floor, no steps being required, and when the press is standing they can all be raised, and the impres- | sion put off at one time, thus preventing their getting fiat-sided. ‘A set of plates can be put on without moving | the press, There is ample provision made for set-off. The whole press, including the roll and which are driven into their places by the applica- | the delivery table is only thirteen feet long, and tion of the screw and wrench. The “forms,” | stands four feet high; and weighs, with its at- tachments, the dampening and stereotype ma- sixteen tons. It has aheavy iron bed in the machinery room, are taken in hand by | plate built on a stone foundation. ll the the stereotyper, who has previously made ready | shafts are of steel and forced into their cylinders a.couple of sheets of papier mache by pasting | with a pressure of twenty-five tons, besides be- ing keyed. ‘WHat If DOES. fewer parts in the Seott machine than in any other, yet it performs more maneuvers and com- plicated functions; and it seems destined to supercede all the great fast printing machines ‘THE DAMPING MACHINE. ’ ‘The machine used for dampening the paper | neat and durable | in the ne has, from the inventor, James 8. Topham, of this city, twenty-four of his pat: quoins, which have been used exclus: purpose the past nine years. Thi so much time in locking and unlocking that no paper could well do without t They securely lock and unlock with a single motion of the hands. 2+ —____ A Rat Plague, A NEW PHASE OF TH ROORAN SQUARE CONTRO- VeRSY. A new phase has been put on the Corcoran market square controverty, The residents of the vicinity and the dealers criticise the District i they required ite onthe Ist instant, on the plea that the ground was needed for school pur- s, yet the vacated sheds still remain. The myriad of market rats which hy bad their homes in the sheds, b ft thelr usual means of subsistencs to migrate to othe zhberhe ze fur whers of the market Te- t are how quite indignant that the sheds are allowed to remain, and are anxions that the aut sheds down. So sava: i : that it is almost ~ them with- out be in daylight. Tux Usto: The Union with them on Gibson, Col. and Mrs, Mrs. Jas. M. Edgar, Mr, and Mrs. W. H. My Jcut. rison, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Sith, Mr; and Mw W. H. Myers, Liew Mrs. Uhn_ O'Connell, Mr. and Mrs. Rob’t. Nelson, Dr. and Mrs. Pen- rod, Third Assistant P.M. G_. Hazen, Col. Barrie son Dingman, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ebert and daughter, Col. and Mrs. Theodore Lamb and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. A. Plyan, Mr. and Mra, A. N. Dewey, Col. and Mrs. A. T. Mf daughter, Mr. ar fr. Mrs. J. F. Carnell, and daughter, Col. D. , . Frank Brownell, Major G. J.P. W, hin ¥. Casey, Mrs. Col. Turner, Mr. and Mrs. A. 3 Dewey, Mrs. K. Spangler, Mr. and Mrs. W. a Dorsey, Mrs. ‘Thomas H. Walsh, Mrs. Eaton,’ Mrs. . Dadiey, Mrs. Gunthaon, Paul Daniels, T. J. Irwin and the Misses f . Mrs. M.S. Davis, Mrs. Ben Engel, Misees C, Gaylord, Kate Stevens, Marian Kaiser, , Cora Spangler, Eva C. Angel, Ji Cooney, Emma Platz, Bertie Sciunidt, Minnie Selhausen, Lizzie Kichardson, Lellie Jennie Baker, Mary Musterson, and . Saniiagpaaae Tue PoromacTeuna Corrs Company.—¥: @ay in the Equity Court. the case of E. C.D against the Potomac Cotta