Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1884, Page 2

THE: EVENING STAR: WA SHINGTON D. C.. SATURDAY, APRIL 5 e i ‘4 . 1884—DOUBLE SHEET I) DISTRICT. OUT-DOOR PASTIMES. Prospective Pleasures on Land and Water—The Oar, the Wheel and the Bat-A Promise ef a Bri Season on the Tarf. AQU ATION that beth the Potomac and Columbia pproved the plan for disposing prize enps at the coming re- seems to be no obstacle in the way sstans. there is little or will be similar te that of the other t verely hoped that in the fnture prs of the different clube lerstandings, , WAS ap- t exceptions funny story at ¢ rerew. wi dueed him t. t of b n everybody ‘The witty « f thinking that aay de. and the still him as a New arsmen will ~ but its * season chance to rsinan can only al rounds ts com- crand stand nearly ready for oc- punds will be rolled, and if the atinues fair games can be played while. ings Mul resident hat the Minneap- wed, therefore, me on Monday with the club. on’s nine in Monday's game with will be Tramball, p.: Hamph- 1b; Hawkes, 2b.: Yewell. $b.; : Barr, et. and Beach: game Hamill will pitch r Holly says he knows what Barr ean do. and he wants to tind out what his other ers can do as Soon as possible. Humphries will captain the Was! i ASOT. tons dur- iTalo League Club have cin Baltimore during the week. 2 the season with the Baltimore ay. rsdo not ite the new rale adopted by ires of the a ¥ say that they will time rather than 2 fine. ne years’ it the Bal- der in for two seasons ech than it will thi of three Intercel- me r which ation will play this se comes from Boston that th i not play with his club. kes up ailof his time. and le can't attend to it and play, too. It is net iinprobable, however. that he will appear ce ally in ne or July, when the Viens play in Boston. Cieveland has twenty-four players under con- tract. but the club has been undeniably weak- by the defection of Dunlap. Pratt's Philadelphia team includes a battery evied “The ¥ankee giants.” They are Flynn and Sullivan, beth poweriul men, over slx feet t the managers of beth the home nm unable to forma iair idea of le merits of their new men. When once tke Eames commence the chaff can be easily picked from the wheat. Hawkes Is the only married man in the Wash- ington (American) team. This is lucky, aa the Test of the team can better stand a loss of salary or a walk home over the mountains about June * veniencing their families — Ci qreirer. Base Ball clnb of the National 2 zed, and expeet on and after composed of Daily. Cloud, ach. at club in “rand Ber- ls of Of Low Wd, TL, during the tour. bber balls hig Those scores, least th mueh th on their new with the The feret made av ecumot be fi are rately until rez Ht a player until he plays a 0 earsman until he rows a race. Bicy y nor ab are busy putitn 1 condition. The arranged for their pur- ment room will be used and the back room fora ma on the fi first floor andsomvely fur- rear will be the reading room. t isome glass se stand a hai et and bain of the club, t room of the b that it will always Mr. J. M. Lee, of New Haven. Conn. r fed on one of the h Rudge. built especially for Mr. A. D. ehusetts and Howard bicy- recently arrived. It is a marvel lighiness, weighing but 22 Mr. Cloftin wit probably use it at the sin Washington. Morgan to 20 mile race, the two to relieve each uiher every five minntes during the race. The tandem te becoming quite a favorite Bide of bieveling in Boston. At the semi-annual election of officers of the Washington Cycle Club tast Monday evening the fi f Jowing officers were elected: F. H. Peiouze, president: W. J. Wine. viee president; T. J. Put. hum, secretary and treasurer; L. H. Schneider, cub chronicler; J. J. Brereton, captain, and T. A Newman, lieutenant. The following will be the route of the great Parade of the league on the 20th of May: From down léth street, New York avenue, to 15th street, to Pennsylvania aveune, to Ist street ands of the to Pennsylvania avenue east. to 1th » East Capitol street, to Capitol build- nthe north gronnds to New Jersey west Capitol, Boeet through the south x usetts . to th street, t. through © avenue to [’ street ead has been informed by , as the | ce has challenved Woodside and | <« Ariington hotel to I, to 15th street, to Ver- mont avenue, to Thomascirele, around the circle slong the avenue to to the right of the eirele, to Connecticut avenue, to K street, to 15th street, to I street. and to the Arlington. Rev. Herman F. Titus, a bleycier from New- ton, Massachusetts, is in the city. Tne Bicycling World, of Boston, says Rex Smith is suon to marry a fair daughter of St. | Loni Jhere were thirty-six District candidates for leazue membership on the first of April. | THE TURE. | The spring meeting of the National Jockey | club, which, since tts organization two years ago, has done much to carry forward and | increase in this part of the country the great | revival of racing, will begin on Tuesday. May Sth. This isthe permanent and regular date for its spring meetings, and the time is well chosen. The prestige of the meetings of the club Ras been well earned, and there ts every reason to believe that it will be ably maintained. It will be the f the racing forces r = umerous strong racing r the localities in t y hot inappropr he debatable land.’ rylandg cl Waldens, © Doswell, of Virginia, a name als of the turf since the ed upon to maintain 1 commonweaith. | e south. the east and resented, and when the will probably be not fty horses stabled at | pham Smith and | the twe y ad ef interest will center on the initial | as at this | at will no doubt | onin the season will | i them ample oppor- | i = provided two stake: of whieh is the Youthful, half a mile, n for on the second day of the meeting. Tt closed with come from lies. the race willno doubt bea good rither has yet appeared in public. the sends to spot picueus ones Savage, by Sensation out of + Telie Doe, by Great Tom out of ner, and Florio, by Virgil oat of Flor- Little Savage will be the first of the Sen- show in publie: and as she will have t of the tine skill and large experience pr, Wyndham Walden, acknowleaged best two-year-old trainer in will no “doubt be liberally well and fit on the » race. Her sire, Sensation, was npon as about the very best two-year-old | that ever appeared on the American turf, and in ail his races he bore to victory the “orange and blue” of Mr. George Lorillard, for whom Mr. , Walden was at the time training. Telie Doe ts in the stable of W.P. Burch, who has many friends here. She isa nice chestnut filly. The Great Toms have shown great precocity as two- -olds, as they mature early, but as a general jot Improve with age. Florio is | t's stable.and both hersire and dam were rattling good race horses when on the turf. Rumor has it that she tsa filly of more than ordinary promise, but what her real capaci- ty is can only be ascertained by subjecting her to the test of the irse. Of the others, Mr. Lorillard’s pair—Perception and Petition—are ir wi if be the highly spoken of, the former being sired by the | celebrated French horse Mortemer, and the lat- tor by Falsetto. Vesta and Joybell are in Gov. Rowie’s stable, and are by Catesby and Dickens respectively. The governor has not been inthe best of luck of late with his young horses, nor indeed with the older ones last season, as it was not until the leaves besan to fall In INS3 that his stable showed anything like form. His youngsters, however, are said to be good-lookers, and should either be fortunate enouzh to catch the Judges’ eye first, the vic- tery will be a popular one, as the sporting ex- ernor has hosts of friends hereabouts. same colts, with a few unimportant ex- are nominated in the Brentwood r ‘0 be Tun on the fourth The winner of the Youth- ibe required to take up a pen- © pounds, whieh, the distance is a er, will have the effect of injecting t of uncertainty. rrive next week are those of and Whitaker & rry, from South Carolina, the first consisting of thirteen horses, and the latter of In Mr. Bureh’s string are such rattling good ones as Mittie B., Decoy Duck, Burch, Jim Nelson, Col. Sprague, &e. e & Co."s horses will arrive ou Munday. Thi e six in number. Ex-Senator Scott's horses, numbering four- teen head, are looked for daily. Joseph MeMahon is also expected from New York, with a string of thirteen, at the lead of which are the long-distance horses Hilarity and | Frankie B. | Everything at the track is in complete order | for the reception of the racers. The stables have been carefully overhauled and made as comfortable as could be wished for. The track is in fine shape, and was not injured a particle by the almost incessant rains of the it three months. From this on, therefore, the gallops will be frequent. TRE DRIVING CLUB | program for its spring meeting has been made | public. The meeting will be held on the 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th of May (Decoration day.) Everything Is being done to render the meeting @ pleasurable one. Judge Draney, the presi- dent of the club, has been corresponding with | Commodore Kittson, the owner of the celebrated pacer Johnson, who has a public record of 2:10. | Johnson will pace here on the first day of the | Meeting to beat his record. The purses offered are liberal, and the attractions are such as to Taret with the approbation of sportsmen every- where. MISCELLANEOUS. Wm. Steele, the champion runner ot America, fand T. €. Herbert. of Cincinnati, the famous English pedestrian, have been matched to run | ten miles for $1,000 and the champlonship of America. The race will take place on the 3d of | May at Brooks’ Ground, Blossburg, Pa. The Post Office Site. ow of THe EVENING Star: of the papers that there ts a. e the new post office in the res- ervation in frout of che Center Market, south of | Pennsyivanis nue. T have, so far. seen no ob- Jection In priut to thts location; but it seems to me }that there are mut ofice shout where It would be the most convent jarwest number of the citizens, and [1 0 doubt Chat three-fourths of the ac~ | Dial residents would object, If they bad a chance | to express their views, to thé post office being lo- gata syuth of the axeutie anywhere, aud expeclally Him front of the market. Itls barely possible tht the office may be located from an economic stand- polni, and the place Indicated would enable persons Bitrket baskels when after their mail, but 1b Would not be pleasant to jostle against greasy baskets. to say nothing of persons It Is not acentral bk Jon, aud in the years to come it. Will be men less se. "The post oMice building 1$ not two be built for a yearor a decade, but for many Years, If uot for ali coming time. It'will be gener- | ally admitted that the population hereafter will go in the western portion ot the city, and when gi the | future we have a population of a half, or, possibly, a | million of people, would t P if located | in tof Center Market, be Tthink not. Again, ther? tsa great deal sald'about | jobs: Whenever the on Of a public Dutiding Is | alkedof [do not see where Jobs come in when | land is wanted for such a purpose. ‘The right of eniinent domain spplies, and inatler—that ts, the value of the land. Seema 10 me as though there was Yune spirit In the location of sites xX Suppose the land to erect lng on cost & he be w | termine tn Id ale and Just ne From L'Evenement. In 1886 Lasker, then in the flower of his youth, and already celebrated as an orator, be- came acquainted with Miss Russack, the niece of one of Bismarck’s warmest friends. Lasker fell in love with her, and his passion was recip rocated. Miss Russack bade her lover to de- | mand her hand of her uncle, who filled for her | the place ot father. The uncle refused point- | blank, saying lg would never consent to give his niece In marriage toa man who was the leader of the opposition to his friend Bismarck— Bismarck, whom he held to be one of the great- est of European statesmen. Franziska—such was the fair virl’s name—then declared to her uncle that she would renounce her whole for- tune in his favor, provided he would allow her to marry Lask But old Ruseack was immovable In his reso- lation. However, returning one day from a visit to his friend Bismarck, he sent for the young lawyer and said to him: “I am willing to gtant you my niece's hand on one condition— namely, that you pledge yourself to abandon politics altogether and confine yourself here- after to your profession of lawyer.” Lasker, after a brief interview with the girl, refused. “We shall wait,” he said, “until your niece shall have attained her majority.” ke did not dare to add “or until your death.” The unele left Berlin, taking with him his niece Franziska, who dled abroad six months’ jater, after having refused the most brilliant offers of marriage approved by her uncle, who even offered to add his own tortune to her own as a dowry. Tuts is why Eduard Lasker never married, jend of the | forgotten whether or not the President of the nt point? | ought to be. andthe smokestack was In the & commission cun de- | RECOLLECTIONS OF A VETERAN ENGINEER, Haifa Century of Service on the Bal- timore and Ohio Road. A STAR REPORTER'S TALK WITH MR. WM. GALLO- WAY—THE DAYS WHEN CARS WERE HACLED BY HORSES—THE FIRST AMERICAN LOcOMO- TIVE—FACTS CONCERNING THE EARLY HISTORY OF RAILROADS IN THIS COUNTRY—A MAN WHO HAS TRAVELED OVER A MILLION AND A HALF MILES. Asa fast passenger train on the B.and Q.road entered the depot in this city the other day, the huge engine, which had made the run from Baltimore here in forty-five minutes, stopped easily and gently at Just the point on the track where the hand which held the throttle designed, and the passengers on the train, without having felt a shock or jolt, left the cars and dispersed in many directions. In the cab of the engine stood a man whose hair Is gray and a little thin on top, but his active step, firm grasp, clear, healthy com- plexion and bright blue eye show no signs of the many years during which he has driven | his mas horse over the Iron trac through winter storm and summer sun- shine, until he can say that he has jhad ‘a longer experience’ on fast tralns than almost any other man (it ind any except Wil ed there be This man is ervice of n) who is now ative. ‘am 1823, and who has ever sinc stant employment of that corporation. “The first work Lever did connected with a 2 »way to a Star reporter, was in connection with the Northern Central road. At that thne I was teaming for a farmer in the vieinity of Baltimore, and [ broke the ground for the first half mile of that road with my plough when they began to lay the grade. That was at the planting of the corner- stone, and the place is now the eastern rge tunnel of the Baltimore and in Baltimore. I afterwards, on January 23, 1833, entered the employ- ment of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and’ I awe been there ever since. ‘The first three | years I was delivering freight for the company on Howard street, and at that time the entire | road from Baltimore to Frederick was operated | by horses, and the cars used were like the horse | ears of to-day, very light and with only four | wheels. I then became yardmaster at Mount Clare and remained there four years. While I | was there fie Northern Central road got | an English-built locomotive and began to run it in opposition to us, which of course our com: pany did not fancy. Mr. Phillp E. Thomas was lent of the company at that time, and he offered a premium of £5,000 to any American manufacturer who would build a locomotive which would run and do work. There wasa lively competition among the iron workers immedi- ately, and a number of engines were built by Peter Cooper and others. It bas been said that Peter Cooper built THE FIRST AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE Which run In this country, but that isnot so, the first was built by Phineas Davis, at York, Pa, It weighed four tons and was set up ready for running and hauled on a sled from his foundry, over the hills to the yard at Mt. Clare, where it was placed on the track. Cooper's engines would not work, go we never used them, but | the little Davis machine took three loaded cars | and run them from Mt. Clare to Ellicott mills in an hour. There were four drive wheels on it and the pistons worked up and down, similar to the walking beams on a steam boat engine, which made it look like a grasshopper and we therefore called those engines the grasshoppers. yin. Norris, of Philadelphia, bullt an engine | with two d wheels, one on each side which sand which did good work. Ithink there area few of these in existence how. Christmas day, 1840, 1 took my seatin the engine and I have been running ever since. | Shortly after this, Mr. Davia, who had bezun to | | build his engines in Baltimore, started one on | an improved plan and he felt so sure of success that he told his workmen that when the engine was set up and had proved itsworth, he would | ake them and their wives to Washington: and | have a good time of it. Well everything turned out as he anticipated and he brought all the workmen, forty or fifty in number, and their | families over here, and hada banquet at Brown's old hotel, that is body had a good time, but the ead was ma by | Potomac r how the Metropolitan; every- | ad | A SAD ACCIDENT. On the way back fo Baltimore, about fourteen miles this side of there, the engine Jumped the track, and, breaking the coupling, turned end over end. Mr. Davis, who was riding in the cab, was struck on the temple by 4 piece of Iron. and instantly killed. No one else was hurt. Mr. Gillingham, the partner of Mr. Davis, then took in Ross Winans, who was at that time | gaits being pace and canter. draughtsman. and they formed the firm of en- gine builders which has since become known throughout the world. This firm built the camel-back engine—that ts, those engines which have their cabs on top, and which you see hauling freight trains. They are @ good engine for the purpose for which they are built, and are very grick, although they look so awkward. When! first began to run we haa the strap rails, which were something like the peeeont horse car rails. They were fastened lown by iron straps, counter sunk and epiked. They were so light that the ends would curl up like a dandelion stem, and accidents were con- atantly occurring. We then got the T rail, and when the Washington track was laid, which was somewhere about 1835 or 1836. the T rails were used exclusively, and they weighed about 45 pounds to the yard, while the rails used now welgh over a hundred. THE FIRST TRAIN over the Washington track was run on the 4th of July, in 35 or 36, and George Lay was the engineer. The engine was one of the Davis | ‘grasshoppers’ and was called the America. There was a big Jubilee at the time, but I have United States was on the train. The first Pres- ident of the United states whom I know that I carried was James K. Polk. and I have had most all of them since. The tirst grasshoppers burned hard coal, but when the road was pushed through to Cumberland the grates in the en- uines were changed and soft coal was intro- duced. Well, as I told you, I took anengine on Christmas day, i840, and have been running ever since, When I first began the trains were all accommodation trains, that stopped at every little station, yet we made the run from Balti- more here in one hour and forty minutes. The depot in that day at Baltimore was on Pratt | street, near Light, and the one here was at the corner of Pennsylvania ayenue and Ist street. The engine which you saw in to-night makes the ran in forty-five minutes. ACCIDENTS. “Yes,” continued the veteran engineer, “I have had accidents, three, I think, in the course of my years of work. Once I came round a curve and struck a cow when we were going at about forty-flve miles an hour. The couplings broke, and my engine went clean over, so that the drive wheels were in the air where the bell mud. The cars never left the track, and evens in that perilous moment I knew they were going by me allright. There must have been several hundred pieces of loose iron and glass flying around the cab, but neither the fireman nor my- self were scratched, though we were pretty well shaken up. The next time was when the axle | of a rear truck of a smoking carbroke, We were | going at a pretty good jog, and the end tlew up | through the foor ot the car and cracked the shins of an old darkey preacher. The: bell, and I stopped the train without any further damage being done. I can see that dar- key roll his eves around yet, but he was more frightened than hurt. The next time was when Iwas thrown off by a_ misplaced switch, but no damage was done. When the war broke out there were the riots in Baltimore in '61, and the government transferred the troops by boats from Havre De Grace to Annapolis, thence to the Junction and then into the elty. “Everybody Was afraid then, and for a few days there were no trains running from Baltimore to Washing- ton. One evening I was in the depot and Presi- Garrett and several other gentlemen walk. ing up and down ‘the platrorm. They had been trying several times to go through to Washington, but when they would reach Jes- sup’s Cut the courage of the engineers or train rung the men would give out, and they wouldn't go on. I told Mr. Garrett that J — I WOULD TAKE HIM THROUGH if he would let me, and he said, ‘Well, I'll see.” ‘The next day he sent for me and we started. Sure enough, when we reached Jessnp’s Cut some one pulled the bell. I stopped and went back and told them there was no danger, and that I would go on running slowly and watch carefully if the track had been pees Mr. Garrett sald, ‘go ahead,’ and I did so until about a mile from Annapolis Junction. When I saw a couple of posts set in the ground on eachside of the track and a telegraph pole laid across, I stopped the train and one of the brakemen ran out to remove the obstruction. I erled to him to go back on the cars, for just then I saw the guard up in the bushes. They turned out to be union soldiers, and I told them that we wanted to get around to the junction. An officer came on board and we went on to the junction, where we had to wait until we could fear from Mr. Lincoln. At last a telegram came from him to come on to Washington, and we went through the rest of the distance without disturbance, and I was the first wan te bring a train through from Baltimore after the qutbreak at the begin- ning of the war. FIRED AT! BY GOFRRILLAS. “Twas fired at once by guerrillas during the war, about the time’of Eatiy’s raid, and a bullet or two went through the cab, but no one was touched, though the whistle of the balls made me feel uncomfortable for a few minutes.” “How many miles*haye Tf run? Well, you can figure that out fdr yourself. Let ussee. I have been sick nitjfeteen, days since I went on the road, and have had 4 few weeks’ vacation in the meantime @iso. J think a year would cover all the time I’ have Jost, and when I haves run T have averaged 100 qhiles aday; so there are forty-three years an three months at 100 | miles a day. You say 1,574,500 miles is the total: well, it is a long distance, but I have raversed it, and there iz #o exaggeration about it either.” ® i The reporter, apeaking of the vigor which Mr. Galloway evinced, ascertained that he regards himself in perfect Ith. “I am as well as | when [ was fifty years of age. and I read the Baltimore Sun in the morning and THE EVENING | Star in the evening. without the slightest difti- | culty. and I have never used a pair of gi in| my life. Idon't think [shall give up the road ret a while, for you see Lam at home in an en- zine, and [ am lost if Tam not at work. Habit Is agreat thing, young man, and if you liye to my age you will not be able to throw of your accustomed ways of life with ease.” “Weil, [must go to supper. Good bye; come “and with’a hearty loway walked away and vigor which would fi A Visit to the White House Stables, THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE STABLES—THE PR SADDLE HORSE AND CARRIAGE TEAM LAN ARTHUR'S TROTTERS—MIS INDIAN PONY NOW IN TRAIN DRIVEN BY FORMER PR Just south of the State department, on 17th Street, are the White House stables. The build- | ing is a two-story press brick, forming three sides of a square. It is set back a little way from the street, and the stable yard aud drive way are paved with asphalt clear to the side walk. The building is reached through an iron gate from the street. A private telephone wire runs trem the oflice of the President's secretary to the stables, so that a carriage can be summoned in a very few minntes. | upon a torn newspaper wrapper lying upon one ‘There is nothing remarkable about these stables. | In fact there are scores of private stables In the West End far handsomer, more convenient, and healthier. A deep cellar extends beneath the stable portion, and the moisture soaking through its walls is apt to make it unhealthy tor the horses." The only interest attached to the sta- bles arises from the simple tact that they are the President's stables. Desiring to know some- thing about their contents, and knowing the antipathy of the stable employes to reporters, Tue STAR man sought the kind services of Col. W. H. Crook, the executive clerk, and was ac- companied Dy him the uther morning through the stables. “The central part of the build- ing In which the horses are stabled has stood, as It now ts, for many years, but the wings were extended a couple of years ago to make more carriage room, as_ President Arthur needs more than formér Presidents. The north half of the stable proper is deyoted to THE PRESIDENT’S PRIVATE HORSE: There are three large box stalls on one side, and six stalls on the other. The President's rid- ing horse is the otcupart of one of the box Stalis. He isa sorrel gelding, seven years old, and about sixteen hands high. There is nothing remarkable about this animal. He is simply a good-looking, easy. riding horse, his principal The President frequently takes a ride on summer evenings. Helsa fuir rider, and ts fond of the exercise. He has four carriage horses, two in the box stalls and two in the stalls onthe other side. are all bays, about sixteen hands high. They are very stylish, and are groomed to perfection, and eiti pair hitched to any one of the hand- ages, with Albert on the box, make a very striking turnout. ccasionally they are driven four-in-hand. ‘Two other stalls are oceu- i Allan Arthur's buggy team, one a Ham- in gelding and the other a Black Hawk mare. They are driven a great deal, either single or double, by their owner when ‘he is at home, but while he is at college they receive only the necessary exercise. Allan Arthur is a very daring rider. He not only knows how to ‘vide well but has plenty of nerve, and it takes @ good horse to get the better of him. . MISS NELLIE'S INDIAN PONY. In one of the remaining stalls stands the little Indian pony which the President brought back from his trip to the Yellowstone country last year. He has not yet made his debut, but Is receiving a course of training at the hands of Albert onthe White Lot drive. When by pa- tience and careful training he becomes perfectly docile he will be driven by the President's daughter Nellie to a dog cart. He is a cute lit- tle thing, with roached mane and banged tall. His color is what is termed in the west as “painted” or “calico,” and what the children all “‘circus”—irregularly marked with white and brown In about ene! proportions, He was presented to the ident last summer by Sharpnose, an Arrapahoe chief. The Presidential party held a big pow-wow with the Indians last summer near Fort Washakle, on the Shoshone agency, and presents were exchanged. Although the agency is held by the Shoshone Indlans there is a band of Arrapahoes on it, and Sharpnose Is thelr chief. He gave the pony to the President for his daughter, The pony was taken along with a company of soldiers as far as Cheyenne, and from there shipped to Washing- ton, where he arrived early last fall. The south side of the stable is devoted to the office horses, six in number. The pair of clipped sorrels usually driven in the Secretary's carriage are very good travelers. EXPENSES BORNE BY THE PRESWENT. “§ great many people think,” said Col. Crook, ‘that the expenses of keeping the Presi- dent’s hogges are borne by the government. Such is Mot the case. The government keeps up the office stable, of course, but all those horses In the north side are the President's own property, and their keeping is paid for by him. ‘They are practically two distinct stables. When Albert needs feed he buys it froma private firm, while the feed for the office horses comes from the quartermaster’s department. This has always been so, and yet Mr. Hayes was criticised for taking bis own pair of horses to Ohio with him.” “He wasn't no good for horses no how,” sald an old colored man who was splashing the water in the trough that stands in the center ot the yard. ‘*He was in for savin’ money while he was leah, and he done it, too.” “General Grant had very fine horses when he was President,” continued Col. Crook, “and it Was very seldom tiat he was passed on theroad. He was a splendid driver. President Hayes had only four horses—a pair of grays. and a pair of bays. President Gartield had very nice turn- outa. He had one pair of bays and a gray and a black. The latter were used mostly for saddle horses, and the boys used to ride them a great deal.” The south wing of the stables is used for the Presiu nt’s carriages, and in the second story live the vatchman and ‘his family. The Presi- dent has three carriages, a landau, a victoria and a brougham. ‘They were all made by Brews- ter, and are very handsomely finished. Presi- dent Arthur's coat-of-arms 1s on the doors with the motto: “Impelle obstantia.” Allan Ar- thur’s Brewster trotting buggy is also in this carriage-house. The opposite wing contains the office carriages—a coupe.and a six-seated car- riage. THE PRESIDENT'S COACHMAN. Albert, the President's well-known driver,has acted in that capacity for Presidents Grant, Hayes and Garfleld. He is a faithful servant and a thorough horseman. He is very fond of horses, but he dislikes reporters." If he thinks ‘® question is asked for newspaper purposes, he shuts up like a clam. He never leaves the stables at night until he is certain that he will not be needed any more. In case an emergency should arise and his services required, the watchman always knows where to find him. He 1s very dark, but a fine looking man, and in his handsome livery looks well on the box. Bey- erely Lomas, a handsome mulatto house ser- Vant, acts as footman to the ident. Presl- dent Arthur’s turnouts always look well and always attract attention. ————_—_+e.____ Signs of Spring. ‘The dude is on the streets again, With toothpick shoes and dandy cane, ‘His mi trimmed tn proper style, And on his face @ mashing smile, He struts the sidewalks up and down, As if he owned one-half the town; And when a lady- He leers through his enchanting eye. At hotel doors pee fine He poses like a cigar sign. He thinks his grin a pl smile, His tdfotic slang the style. ash he often goes ap Varieties and shows, Where otbers of the he meets— ‘Those mashers who Infest the streets. : nt Travelers ‘They | A POET HIGHWAYM™AN. HOW BLACK BARP'S MILD VOICE BECAME FAMILIAR TO TRAVELERS—HE TRIES THE CONSOLATORY POWER OF POETRY-—SOME SPECIMENS OF HIS RAYME—HE FINALLY FALLS INTO THE CLUTCHES OP THE Law. Among the papers that recentiy passed through the hands of the Treasury officials was an account amounting to $200 paid toone Harry Morse, of San Francisco, for services rendered the government in the arrest of “Black Bart, the Po §,” a name as famillarto stage-drivers on the Pacific slope as was that of Claude Duval to those In England In days of old. Attrac- ted by the singularity of the name, an interro- gation point of Tue Star inquired jato the facts ot the case. Four years ago a stage running vetween a mining town in California and a railroad sta- tion was stopped by an individual concealed in the bushes bordering the road. Plainly to be seen amidst the foliage was the muzzle of a| double-barreled shotgun: only this nothing yet upon the sim) {uest pken in a mild voice, the driver th into the road and half a de passengers stood in a line with their hands above their hes while the driver zain accommodated the sottly-spoken s by turning inside out the pockets of the wi fortunate passenge siting their conten upon the mail bags. ie stage Was then lowed to proceed, and it made excellent time the nearest station, where reinforcements were secured, and the party returned to the scene ot the outrage with the laudable intention of | decorating the high branch of the highest tree in the vicinity with the person of the bigh- | waymen. country was scoured for two days, but the only trace left by the gentleman ecompany Was in such urgent request were the following lines, evidently written in a disguised hand, with the exception of the sig- nat THE POETRY OF TUE ROAD. Now T lay me down to steep Not cating for the worrow, Perhaps good Inck, perhaps defeat And jail fare, to ny sorrow. ‘Then come what will, 111 try my Ick, “m sure It can't be worse, For If there’s money tn that pouch, It's money in my purse. Buack Bant, THE Po 8 This unique production was found scrawled ot the rifled mail bags. That was the first time the name of Black Bart was heard, but it was not the last, for one stage line after another in rapid succession paid heavy tribute to him. lis, Fargo & Co. were large losers, and aiter trying guards without avail offered $800 reward for the capture ofthe highwayman. The state officials bestirred themselves, and eventhe U. government awakening to the frequent cori- plaints of losses of valuable malis, put in mo- tion its ponderous machinery and offered a re- ward of 2200 in addition to the #800 offered by Wells, Fargo & Co. The extent to which private enterprise was stimulated thereby may be Judged by tne story of Dan Shealy, a driver of a stage ruaning out of Copperapolis. Said Dan fo one of the detectives: “I got a notion in my head that I'd like to earn that pile, but I didn't quite see my way clear. Black Bart had been heard from about a week back of the day I'm talking about ina neat little affair over to the westward of Cup- peropolis, and that darned mean piece of poetry he hitched onto the mail-bag (like kicking a man when he’s down) kinder made me think he was going over on the Yuba route next. I'd almost fixed ft up to take a week off, go over there and lay for him. Was going to hang on behind the stage, you see, and have a try at him under the wheels if I played in luck. Old Yankee Daniels, at Copperopolis, told me I was a darned fool, and that the Po 8 would be ‘long my way soon enough, but I wasn't discouraged, aud kept thinking it oyer. Next trip I'd gotten | about five miles out of old Cop, when SOMEBODY SUNG OUT "HALT," and I heard two sharp ciicks. Seemed aa if the critters knew what's the proper thing for they stopped as quick asif they'd struck a stable. Then somebody inthe bushes axed me pleasant- like to hold myhat on with both hands for some buck-shot might blow it off, along with some hair and skull, if [ didn’t. I allus was reason- able and I dropped that express chest with $100 of Wells, Fargo’s coin and drove off just like "twas the regular thing. When the posse got back there they found an old axe that he'd used to bust the box, and on the cover he'd {as “Po 8” had perpetrated many other similar crimes not enumerated in his list, because it is an almost invariable trait of criminals to confess only to minor crimes in the effort to divert at- tention from the greater violations of law. The endorsement also reads that althongh the pris- oner has confessed these crimes, he has put ly tailed to supply certain links in the chain of | testimony, so that it Is not probable that be could be convicted of them In court. aithough there can be no moral doubt of his guilt. —— ee NOT A MAUSOLEUM, What the Nation: brary Should Be. A pamphiet has been issued (by Brentano) ve recently, under the title “A National Library Not a Mausoleum,” in which the author set forth afresh and forcibly the necessity for the | better accommodation of the National Library. He has evidently made an exhaustive study of his subject, from the standpoint of an entire familiarity with and comprehension of it, and ntation of its merits in this pamp| ive and timely. The ss TOWS, pi f dusty boc ye of the obsery quently : not only which would t and woud secur dezree o! bility. out the fatlac pstimate the valu ss” only to such as al ols and the printing press a al forces, or are too T opportunities. nse that in its p crowded. library is t it must touch the public at all poi give equally full und trustworthy information ‘onal poss bu: cal, 5 1, theo- legal, logical and military science, on literature, on | art. on mathematics. A Limited collection of parllamentary literature not all that the trained and intellizent legislator needs. He | ought to have easy and constant access to ail | manner of books, for facts, for comparisons and quotations. The proposal to split up this great library. re- | taining at the Capitol only the comparatively small portion directly connected with lezisia- tive matters, and scattering the bulk of the col- lection to the four winds of heaven. is worthy of | an Alaric in the whitest heat of his yandalisin. Congress has, in the first place, no real right to do such a thing. The Mbrary belongs to the | people, and not to Congress. The people are proud of the library, and desire it to be retained in its integrity. To disintegrate it would prop- erly expose us to the scorn of all Christendom, and would seriously cripple and discourage our nr‘ional literary growth. As the pamphlet | “It is not merely a storehouse of iuforma- amagazine,an armory * * * All this is well, but it is ‘only Incidental to the function ofa great national library. That function is to foster and conserve the literary growth of the | country, to preserve copies and records of | American books, and to guard the rights of | literary property in the United States.” The scholars of the country are learning to look to this noble collection of books as to an unfailing | resource; the students of the country are flock- j ing to It in ever-tuereasing numbers for inval- | uable information which they cannot obtain in any,other way on this side of the ocean. The National Library, then, is unsatisfactory only as regards its present environment. It is plain as day that it ought to be dominciled at once In a special and appropriate building. And where? Not in a swamp, not alongside a railway, not amid the dia of traffic, not at an | inconvenient distance from the center of the city. It certainly ought not to oyertax the wis- dom of Congrese to provide a suitable site, | which should be free trom these objections, and | at the sametime should be obtainable at a not | unreasonable figure. Aguin, the new building | should be constructed with a wise and generous | forethought for future as well as for preseut | needs. During the past tour years, more than 00 new publications have been added by copyrixht to the library. The entrees comprise | (besides books, which constitute not quite | three-fifths of the whvle number), pamphlets, | periodicals, musical and dramutle compositions, | etuck this yer: Once J tolled for gold in ditches Now with ease I amass riches, Dafiel; now I'm. on this lay, Tl come again another day. Well, sir, that riled me. There I'd been lay- ing off to catch my man and he'd carried me into camp like a lamb, and now he'd the cheek to tell me he's going to come it over me again. J put a month’s wages ina gun, filled her full ofslugs and got ready for a fracas. Old Yank offered to buy my lite tnsurance policy; the old cuss. I'd taken to carrying my arsenal ‘cross my knees when I struck the lonesome places. ent along like that tor ‘bout two weeks. There's a pretty steep hill about two miles out of town and the critters are bout winded when they strike the level above. One Friday I'd a heavy load, mall,express and passengers, in- cluding three gala, and I let the cattle crawl up the hill. I'd allus been e'picious of that place and I'd dropped the lines onto the foot-board and taken up my shooting iron half ‘specting Myman. Pilgrim, he was right there. Just as we struck the creat something flew out’en the bush like a catamount, lit under the neck of the nigh leader, and ’fore I could say Jack Robinson I was looking into a couple o° holes in a chunk of iron. Stop? Yas; I stopped. He'd the drop on me agin. Couldn't blaze away “thout killing the lead horse, and wouldn't have fazed the cuss, for I couldn't see nothing ‘sides one eye. He was drexsed in a long linen duster and had a flour bag over his head. Sed he'd taken a fancy to my gun that trip, and {let him have it. But darned If he didn’t shove a fifty onto the box to pay me when he'd gotten through the matinee. He never would bother the women folks, but was mighty polite to them. The boys got onto that racket, and I've known a single poor Irish lass going over my route to carry the nuggets of halfa dozen miners. Yes; I remember the poetry he left that time. It was like th! Dantel, tt grieves me to say It, Next time you attempt to play It, Buy an overcoat of pine, And I'll send the corpse in time. T quit the line after that; didn’t think it was healthy.” HE ELUDES CAPTURE. The records show that the government put forth every effort, through its trained in- pectors, to capture the audacious mail depre- dator. Wells, Fargo & Co., through their agents, kept the local authorities up to their work, while the standing rewards incited indi- vidual enterprise. But the robberies continued, and the tantalizing rhymes left ut the scene of each new exploit showed that the “Po 8” was aware of the efforts that had been made to secure his capture. Nobody had ever seen his face, and the inspectors’ reports stated that all evidence was to the effect that he never slept over night within fifteen or twenty miles of the scene of his adventure. Finally Detective Morse took up the trail. and through inductive reasoning he placed the man he sought in San Francisco. “What does Black Bart do with the proceeds of his robberies,” mentally inquired Morse, and the answer was that he spent it, and spent it in San Francisco, too. So the detective resigned to others the task of following Black Bart all over the state, while he sought him in the slums ot San Francisco. He searched for weeks with- out anccess, until oneday when his attention was attracted by a peculiar ruby in the window of a Jewelry store. It exactly fitted the description ‘of a jewel taken by Black Bast from a wealthy drover some months before. The gentleman who left the ruby, said the jeweler, had often sold to him other jewels. ‘i CAUGHT AT Last. Following up this clue, the detective shadowed the shop and soon had the gentleman under arrest. It was none other than Black Bart, as it afterwards appeared, although he stoutly denied his identity. He was a man of about fifty years of age, neafly dressed, and with a soft, pleasant voice, which was rarely hi . He was a native of New York, hailed from Calaveras county, and had been an unsuccessful miner. His habits were ; he did not swear, nor did he use to- bl teatd bacco or drink liquor. During his trial he main- tained an air of injured Innocence that so im- preased the court that it was only through her- culean efforts that the prosecution was able to have him Laiepened to Ha She wet in atates prison for robbing pperapolis stage. It was the only stage robbery with which he could be connected, because in the other cases his identity had been completely concealed by his disguises. His victims, however, the pas- sengers in the stage coaches, seldom got more than a glimpse of him, as he usually required the driver to collect his tolls while he remained concealed by the roadside. Atter his conviction the “Po 8” talked more freely,” and from a confession made to an in- spector of the Post Office department {t ap that he had committed twenty-nine highway robberies within two years. In ting @ copy of the confession the ins; rin his en- dorsement says that it is fair to assume that the photographs, prints, engravings, chromios, maps | and charts. Many of the painphiets deposited there are of great consequence, while the period- icals are sought for reference by the general reader perhaps even more eagerly than books. A very brief computation and reflection will suf- fice to give one some idea of the rapid rate at which the library is growing in size. All plans for a new structure should make ample pro- vision for this increase for many years to come. The danger from fire In the present condition of affairs in the Capitol library has been so often and go fully discussed that it 1s only necessary in this connection to make a passing allusion to it. But the inconvenience and inadequateness of the present arrangements are so galling and so imperfectly understood by many that they cannot be too frequently brought to the atten- tion of the public. A casual visitor at the Capi- tol, strolling into the library, is struck by its large proportions, and is prone to f that surely there must be room enough there for all the books In the world. This is nothing but an architectural delusion. All the Ibrary rooms at the Capitgt cover a space of only 11.600 square feet, whil@ the space covered by the Paris Biblio- théque Nationale is 70.200 square feet, and that of the ish Museum library, tor books alone, is 110,000 square feet, besides half as much more for its other collections. These are but a few of the more sallent points of this important sub- ject. The librarian, whose fidelity and efficiency are everywhere known and appreciated, has no- where exhibited more clearly his fitness for the | trust relegated to him than in his terse official appeals to Congress for action in the premises; | and it is most earnestly to be hoped that now at last Congress will do the public the shamefully tardy service which is demanded in their behalf by all concelvatie considerations of propriety, prudence, enterprise and common sense. ———\~e. East Washington Objects, Also. To the Editor of Tur Evento Stan: The runnjng of steam railroads through the streets of our city has been so long under dis- | cussion, and without any good results, that the subject is becoming threadbare; yet it may not be out of placeto venture some remarks thereon to show that silence on the part of the people of | East Washington directly affected by the opera- | tion of the B. & P. R. R. does not mean consent | to the existing condition of things. The railroad took possession of K street in direct oppusition to property owners and resl- dents of that and adjoining streets, and the i feeling against its continuance grows stronger year by year. If there appeared any possible way to rid ourselves of this nuisance, there would be no delay in its adoption. The permanent occupation of K street, from 2d to 7th streets southeast, is, without doubt, foregone conclusion; and, having no “influence’ with the “powers that be,” we feel as though further appeals on our part would be waste of time. The frequent protests against the B. and P. road never contain a sympatyetic word for East Washington. Residents of other sections who have escaped the wreck of property, and who | are fortunate enough to escape the torments of noise, smoke, and yas, manifest not the least concern for us; while others in similar situa- tion to ourselves are striving to rid themselves of the nuisance by advocating the removal of tracks to other streets, using as an argument | that property interests would be less affected, because—it is supposed—that property is less valuable on the proposed routes. A more selfish proposition could hardly emanate from people living in the same community; they pray relief from their burdens at the expense of neighbors less able to bear them. Is right, is justice. to be measured by value of property alone? — Are per- sonal comforts und feelings of no consideration? If this is neighborly, Lord, save us from our neighbors! Mr. Scott stated, a few days ago, before the Senate District committee (as reported in THE Stan), that nobody ever asked the removal of the B. & P. he is in error can be shown from the columns of Tue Star for the past ten years,through communications, reports of meetings, and the action of committees ap pointed therefrom, all having in view the re- moval of the tracks from certain avenues. Had Success attended their efforts to cut off commu- nication. from the depot, It is plain that, as a de- Pot, it would have been useless, The writer, several y ese ago, presented, in to the District Commissioners, a petition signed by alarge number of residents of East ‘ashington, protesting against the occupation of iX street by the railroad Pe well and Praying the removal of the B. & P. depot east of 11 street southeast. The petition was never heard of afterwards. East WasuIneron. ee A singular case of fatal ning from a veil has occurred in Kansas. The wife of Judge A. H. Foote, of Lawrence Kau., had a on her face when she started out for her afternoon walk. She wore a dark green veil to conceal the abrasion. The blood absorbed some of the green coloring matter of the veil, and blood poisoning set in, She died in three days. | i | ALONG THE ASIATIC COAST, A Veternn Missionary Homeward Bound—His Voyage trom Foochow, india, The Rev. Nathan Sites, a missionary in China for the last twenty-toree years, ts en route to this country, expecting to join bis family now temporarily residing in this city. He comes as a delegate from the Foochow annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church to the gen- eral conference, which 1s to meet in Philadel- phiain May next. Hts friends here have re- ceived a letter from him dated Calcutta, Jan- uary Ist, ISS4. in which he writes as follows of his trip that fur: From Foochow we sailed five hand down the coast of China te Hong Kon upon and The I turned aside to call our Canton friends there provide: F which occurred a f were plun and of sl Poof the mi English » congrat America! burned on the During the riot and t when ail was quiet the work, swise as serpen ° Iwas 1 nin Hone Kong, that whatever and ay water flow p couttS western der that [looked u wl house, and Q and best’ ect he to not we as the Sing arogn. Five days’ pleasant sailing down the sea brought us to this city, another “scho for southern Asia. Here, at the extr seer Chinese, Arabs, and Afri- nd toiling together, with the Christian English Singapore is n. lat. 1 nearly on the equator, we fou ant Weather, and greatly ¢ the warden of the Chinese m: as the more beautiful put city. Earnest missionary lal ved us with fraternal Christian sympathy, and assured us cf increased hope in the triumph of the ke- deemer's kingdom. ‘This port, like Hong Kong, was once thehabi- tation of a few miserable fishermen, and the re- sort of pirates. It was purchased by Great Bri- tain in 1819, with @ population In 1875 it had Increased to 58,000. The « not only outnumber all others, but, next to Europeans, they take the lead in trade. There were 2.200 ns of the vessels entered in the port of Singapore in the year 1 and the imports amounted to twenty- one millions, the exports to twenty millions of dollars. Mark the contrast in vulation and Tesources between J819 and 18 What it was before the British rule was estab ished and what it is under that rule, PENANG. Northwest, tour hundred miles by steamer up the Malacca coast, we find this beautitul island. Penang, sometimes called “Prince of Wales Island,” and justly termed the “Eden of the East," is fourteen miles tong and nme wide. one imm Its northern pai Fruit and vex ense splee garden. s tern delicai tting its supply of ent water. The climate is hot but heaithy. Its beautiful mountains, tweuty » totwen- ty-seven hundred feet high, its plains of various cocoa and other palia trees, the fresliness and transparency of its atmosphere. all combine to makeus marvelhow nature in has contrived to crowd euch w of delizht. This lovel. sland native place of our Foochow vant friend, Mr. Kaw Hong Take, who was at home a ve us car- a Gar Chinese pas- pursing infants, all (nm th riage drives in royal style. sengers, men, women and left us at Singapore and P sage to Calcutta, 1,300 mille: fewer numbers but more rsity —J Christians, Mohammedans and Hindus. in their various oriental costumes, and all shades of complexion, from the Caucasian white to the African jet black. What a iningling of the nations! A hundred chirping Java sparrows, Screaming cockatoos, scores of parrots ol brilliant plumage, three great growling tigera and one pet lamb. Such was our company on the rolling wave approaching Calcutta on New Year's eve. ——__—_+e.______ The Brick Question Aga To the Editor of Tae Evenino Star: The statement made against the committee of the Federation of Labor on bricks is not reliable. In the first place, the Brickmakers’ Assembly ts not @ part of the Federation, as stated. The Federation of Labor is not a small organization. We bave many inventions of machinery among our branches—it is the machinery of the law we oppose, and not the machinery for making bricks, as stated. The committee on bricks called on the inspector of ouild- ings, and were not shown any of those bricks which Tae EVENING Stak stated were the qualified size to answer the purnose at the present time. The committee carried samples rom different yards to the Commissioners, who measured them, apd found a very large differ- ence. Those les were left in thy nna sioners’ office, and when the committee called for them they were told that th e milslald or lost, but if any one 1s intere nough in the size of bricks he can cal! at No. 430 6th street northwest, to the chairman of the committee, and see for himself the diference, and it not to the mentioned place, in passing the new pension building, just take afew bricksand meas if permitted by the superintendent of the ing. Another thing, as tar as the stat regard to the shrinkage of clay ts conce & man isa professional and a mechanic at the branch of his business, he can make his material to suit any size he wants. We do not want to advance the price in brick, as stated, but the brick merchant has raised seventy-five cents per thousand in the fast mouth, bat they have made no increase in the price of labor, We also inform the public that invest their money in building, of the large profit which the brick mer- chants makes. In the yard where bricks are made without machines, the brick merchants make a net profit of €25.36 perday, and in the yard where the bricks are made by machines the net profit is $78.42 per day. The Washington ma- chine company make 80,000 bricks per day, and since the raise of seveuty-tive cents on the | thousand it increases thelr profit to €60 profit per day extra to the above amount, and we think, as workmen and citizens of the District, that the brick merchants ought to be the last ones to cry pera ts Ree te To the Editor of Ti: Evesrxe Stan: I would respectfully call your attention to the prospective improvements of the harbor of Washington city and Georgetown. A bill was introduced in the House a few days since by the Hon. John S. Barbour (and referred to the river and harbor committee) to build a b or near Cockpit point, on the about thirty miles south or also a movement being ma class ice boat, tor the purpc acanal through the ice during the iceembargzo; totow all vessels that seek protection in the break- water, and take them up to the city and back to open navigation. By this means there will be no stoppage of the trade, and an immense saving of time and moncy to the merchants and vessel owners and citizens generally, as well a8 to the U. 5. government, by having an open harbor all the year round, which will prevent the speculators from imposing upon the neces- sities of our people during the winter months by their high prices. The building of this break- water is a necessity that has long been felt. It ought to have been built Jong ago,- asa large amount of valuable property has been lost, as weil as many valuable lives, for want of it, as there is “a ae harbor or anchorage from the capes of Virginia to the city of Washington, where a vessel can remain in safety durinz the period when those immense flelds of ice break and come down the river, backed by that tre- mendous force of water from the Blue Ridge mountains and forcing its way to the ocean. As the United States navy as well as thecommercial marine interest of the north and east is yearly increasing, and the harbor of ae reaps b igen $ in importance, it becomes the duty of the government to a safe and commodious shelter on the | cones river, where the government, as well as private vessels, waeel seek ea pc pera ng it the Secretary of the Navy won! ive his attention and isterviow the Anche | pilots of the U. 8. navy, I feel assured that he would without hesitation recommend the con- struction of the breakwater atorce as a tion to goverament vessels passing from the seat vous N, Harres, is iid a flret- of government to the Atlantic ocean.