Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1890, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR: MAY 10, 1890—-SIXTEEN PAGES AN IMP OF THE SEA. The Torpedo Boat Cushing and Its Wonderful Speed. ert LITTLE BUT FORMIDABLE. A Small David to Meet the Great Go- linh’s of the Waters—Her Swift Move- ments and Destructive Torpedoes— Description of Unique Craft, sea i ELDOM has any vessel arriving at ..« Washington wharf excited so much \ interest as the new torpedo boat Cushing, which is now at the Navy Yard, unless, indeed, she is at this ment darting up and down the river with helt a dozen shuddering, shivering Congress- men on board. She is the most unique craft eld im these waters, and her mar- vellous speed causes river men to shake their cads in wonder, She is by far the fastest ves- | that ever ploughed the Potomac, her speed | rg from 15 knots, which is a slow rate r, to 24, and even 26 knots,an hour. Her | records ever since her first run have been phe- | nomenal, and if she can stand the strain of euch high speeds, which is not doubted, she | will soon be classed as one of the most effective torpedo boats ever constructed. OF NOVEL APPEARANCE. Imappearance she is unlike anything that | years, This is but an exemplification of the truth that the United States uavy has adopted the policy of learning from the experiences of other navies and following in their footsteps in ¢o far as their successes are coucerned, The maneuvers of the great naval powers of Evrope during the summer of 1583 furnished this gov- ernment with much in the way of actual knowl- edge—almost as reliable as that obtained from direct experimentation, and as a result, al- though the Cushing is but the first torpedo boat built for our government, we are quite up to the times on the theories and beliefs as to the efficacy of such vessels, It bas, then, come to be considered as an ac- cepted fact that the torpedo boat is a most valuable adjunct to a fleet of vessels operating inst another or to the ships of a blockaded ‘bor. They are the skirmishers of naval arfare, darting out under cover of fire or darkness to shoot their venomous darts at un- suspecting ships that lie unconscious of their danger. The introduction of the torpedo boat proper, that is, of the small, swift vessels that are to act under tactics of surprise, has wrought many radical changes in the armament and dis- cipline of naval vessels and crews. petition of the long-continued contest betwee! guns and armor, somewhat varied. Here is a new and most dangerous motte of attack. Here also are innumerable devices and designs to revent these new spit-tires from accomplish- ing their purpose, PROTECTION FROM TORPEDOES. Netsand cables are hung out over the sides of a ship, search lights have been devised and in- troduced, not wholly but partly to offer the ship some chance to discover her small antag- | onist, and anew kind of armunent called the secondary battery, made up of rapid-fire and machine guns of all sorts, has been devised and introduced on all modern ships. Formerly | boarding a ship was one of the most common parts of an attack and crews were driiled in the arts of repelling boarders, ‘Today the crew of @ man-of-war is given almost constant drill in THE SAUCY CUSHING. ever floated at a Washington wharf, Whenshe | the more difficult but less personal business of | runs at high speed she looks like a great gray | toothpick on which some lumps of putty have been stuck, darting through the water, which is thrown astern in a bage wave that is larger than that produced by some of the big river | boats. Thespray from her cutwater and bows «shes up im volumes, coming as far aft as the | forward smoke stack aud soaking all who stand ou her forward deck. AT HER WHARF. The illustration presented herewith repre- sents the Cushing as she lies at her wharf. She bas the appearance of sloping off aft, which is produced by a slight dip in her deck lines of a attacking advancing torpedo boats, Lookouts are trained to watch particularly for small | craft that seem to be trying to get in at the ship, and when one is discovered signals are given, regularly organized partes form on the | decks, the small batteries are manned anda galling fire is poured ito the :li-tated little vessel which has hoped to dart in nnobserved and fire her torpedo at a safe range, sinking the great monster and all on board without in- jury to herseif, The success of a torpedo boat against a large ship would probably be very demoralizing to the rest of the fleet. It would mean the total destruction of a vessel that cost a million or few inches. This is done in order to allow aj More, and what is worse, hundreds of human nt rise at the bow to provide for the tor- pedo-discharging apparatus, which has not yet been placed in the vessel. There is but a little of ber bull in sight, not more than two anda half feet of side showing above the water line when she is loaded with her thirty tons of coal. Both her bow and stern go down to the water with a sharp angle, so as to give as much space as possible inside of ber. All her lines are sharp and slim, and she presents the least con- ceivable surface for direct friction. Her two smoke stacks, which are rather flat, with the narrow side forward, rake back at a cousider- able angle. crowpED. Small ventilator shafts and two or three batches combine with the two conning towers, one fore and one aft of the smoke stacks to make the vessel’s deck look somewhat crowded. In fact crowded expresses the ge eral condition of things. Every inch of space is utilized, and below decks the arrangement is simply wonderful. The vessel is feet in length, 15 feet in width and 10 feet trom floor to highest pointof the deck. In the extreme bow is a water-tight compartment to insure z: t sinking im case of collision. Immedi- aftis the torpedo room, where the cylin- ders of destruction will be stored and into which the breaches of the forward tubes will be run. Here the tubes will be charged with their missiles, the firmg to be done from the forward tower, immediately above. The tor- pedo room is also used as the forecastle, the bunks foluimg up against the walls dur- ing the day. Immediately aft is the galiey 1 an extra steam cooker for use in rough weather, | BOILERS AND ENGINE. Then, in the middle or waist boat, of the come the two boiler rooms, with the engine room between them. Each of the Thorny- croft boilers is capable of standing a steam pressure of 260 pounds with safety. The two es are of the quadruple expansion type re models of construction. The space is usly utilized im order to accommo- four cylinders, which use every | ound of power contained in the steam. There are several smaller engines, pumps, &c., that are fitted into the most surprising corners, Aftof the machinery and boilers come the ¥ ters. which are also fitted with in the extreme end is another The coal is carried in le, so arranged as to give engines aud boilers in an en- yare filled through a eeries of used with brass-hinged covers, r ovided with rubber a osed with se: vessel pertectly tight of the conning towers from the sides of the in order to give ventilation, but in ng at bigh speed the spray will enter the rture thus made and then the occupant lepend for his air upon the open door i him. runs around the deck to in- | sure against accident when the vessel rolls, THE NAME OP THE BOAT. The “Cushing” is named after the gallant | who did such remarkable service in Albe- barbor during the war, sinking the formidable rebel ram Albemarle in the face of 1 ¥ impassable barriers and almost cer- He was, in away, the father of | edo fi in this country, and it} red proper that the new torpedo be named for him, | DY THE HERRESCHOFF ComPaNY. | vessel was constructed by the Her- reschoi¥ Manufacturing Company of Bristol, | the name of the company coming from | t of the treasurer, the famous blind in- rhased by the gov- contracted for in | iwas to have been completed s, but through unavoidable de- ractors were ob.iged to ask for an time, which was granted. The ) and besides this the ‘© premiums for extra speed al run, which took place contract required her y penalties, earned premi- might be re- | of ber requirements | tot her ruus since the U many excellent qualit huess im asea way, steadiness at high speed and perfect | It is not outside of the that the runs she is now pers of the congressional result in @ feeling fa- to more torpedo boata vorable HER ARMAMENT. She will probably be given her torpedo tubes as 000 as the naval board that is now investi- xating the Howell torpedo has made its report. ‘This torpedo is regarded as a sure success and will undoubtedly Se placed in the Cushing in case of a favorable report. It is automobile, the power coming from a wheel 14 inches 1m meter in the center of the torpedo that is in motion at an extremely Figh ‘ate of | ed just before the bolt 1s shot from the tube. | Lhe torpedo is ejected from the tube by means of the explosion of about half a pound of gun- | powder, arranged in a series of small tubes in order to prevent sudden jarring of the ebarge end derangement of the mechanism. Two small screws give motion to the torpedo, which i. made to travel mine feet below the surface at the rate of twelve knote an hour. The firing | charge is about 75 pounds of gun cotton, ig- | i by impact, which sets off an electric fuse ead.ug in a stick of fulminate of mercury im- bedded in a small amount of dry gun cotton. ‘Lhe remainder of the gun cotton is wet, TORPEDO BOAT WARFARE. The matter of torpedo buat warfare has been the subject of a vast amount of study ia other sountrics as well as im our owm for several j lives. Ifa fleet of half a dozen or more tor- pedo boats were destroyed in sinking a war Vessel it is estimated that the venture would pay. Service, therefore. on board of one of these vessels in an action is hazardous in the last degree. The chance of losing life is in- creased beyond any accurate computation, and heroism or mere bravado, either wrought to | the highest pitch would be all that could impel | activity on board of such a dangerous water home, UNCOMFORTABLE FOR THE MEN. It has been found by the English naval au- thorities, from the experiences of the maneuv- res, that it is practically impossible to keep men on board of these small tcrpedo vessels for any long periods, for the actual physical discomforts are so great that they would go far beyond the reach of discipline. aud the danger of mutiny would be increased to the limit, This has led to the thought that the first-class boats, which are rated as being over 100 feet in length and which ure additionaily ealied “sea- going torpedo boats.” are not the most desirable class to build. They are too large to be carried on the main ship and must do their own cruising. So another class has come into high favor, a sec- oné class, less than a hundred feet long, which are carried on the decks of the lacge cruisers and battle ships, aud are lowered into the Water ready for active service when au action isathand, It is thought that the small boate can be made quite as effective as the larger ones. England has over a hundred torpedo boats and all of the other European naval powers have similar fleets, while this government has but one, Seasonable Scraps and Hints for Practical House Keepers. Every-Day Pur Carron Ge in the box with the silver to prevent its tarnishing, Ay Expverty Curckes is better than a young one for making croquettes, or for @ fricassee, Wuex Boittxa Couxep Beer remove the fat that accumulates on the surface of the water before putting in the vegetables, Tuickry Cover tHe Exps or rae Stats of all bedsteads that are to be left in the house over the summer with a strong solution of conce! trated lye in water, It is absolutely sate as a precaution. Ir 1s Very Hap ox 4 Broom to sweep stairs with it, nor does it do the work effectually, It is best to have a whisk to brush the carpeted part right and left, then wipe off the ends with a duster, To Ser tae Coror o¥ Crorm in washing use very little soap, no soda and two or three cup- fuls of salt in the water, and dry the goods or article of clothing as quickly as possible, dry Brack Dagsses Have Been Srarvep, boil a handful of fig leaves in a quart of water and reduce ittoa pint. A sponge dipped in this liquid and rubbed upon them is said to entirely remove stains from crapes, bombazines, &c. To Puevenr Pre Jurcy From Russiv@ out in the oven, make a little opening in the upper crust and insert @ little roll of white paper perpendicularly. The steam will escape from it ag from # chimney and all the juice will be retained in the pie. Manion Hantanp Apvises Tuosr who use | any canned goods to always open the cans some hours before cooking the contents and empty | into an open bowl set in acool place. This re- moves the close, airless, smoky taste. Drain the liquor from peas and beans, cover with ' fresh, cold water and let them soak for two {hour, It freshens them wor erfully, Ix Scavpstxo Erraer Froons on Tanzra svhich are neither stained nor painted always follow the grain of the wood, as rubbing across it rubs the dirt in instead of taking it off. Hot suds, a clean piece of woolen cloth and a good scrubbing brush are essential. Sand may be used where the dirt is extreme. Scour with the grain; wash off all soupy water and wipe with acleancloth wrung ag nearly dry as pos- sibie, Stains anp Grease May be Removen from a carpet. A mixture which is excellent for re- | moving grease spots and stains from carpet and clothing is made from two ouncesof am- two ounces of white castle soap, one f glycerine, oue ouuce of ether; cut the soup fine, dissolve in one pint of water over the fire; add two quarts of water in the pro- portion of a tea; other spots in silk are to be rubbed gently with a linen rag dipped in this mixture, ‘Tue Fortowre 1s 4 Crag for bee and other insect stings: Take a pinch in the fingers of common salt, put on the place stung and dis- solve with water, and rub with the finger. If not relieved in one minute wet the place with liquid ammonia. For bites and stings apply instantly with a soft rag, most freely, spirits of hartshorn. A lump of wet salaratus applied to tue spot stung by a wasp will afford iustant relief. The alkaline properties neutralize the Poison, A bruised leaf of common poppy ap- | plied to stings will give immediate relief. MayonNaise.—During warm weather the mixing bowl should be kept as cool as possible. Beat up the yolks of two raw eggs to a smooth consistency, add two saltspoontuls of salt and on white pepper and a tablespoonful of oil. Beat up thorougnly, and by degrees add half = int of oil, When it ‘ins to thicken add a few drops of vinegar. ‘The total amount of Vinegar to be used 1s two tablespoonfuls, and the proper time to stop adding oil and to add drops of vinegar is when the dressing has a glassy look instead of a velvet appearance. ust before trey 2 the mayonnaise sprinkle ® tablespoonful of lemon juice over it, stir a few moments longer, aud keep the sauce ou ice, | | butter incidentally, and then he selected a | | | MEALS FOR NEXT TO NOTHING. How a Cheap Restaurant Feeds an Army at Incredible Prices. ATING houses of the inexpensive variety have become very com- mon institutions in Washington, and the noou scene affords an interesting study. A Stan reporter dropped into one the other day and this is what he saw , and heard: The youth with the skye-terrier bang and lemon-colored necktie had evidently made up his mind to devote his lunch haif hour to the squarest sort of a meal, Finding on the bill of fare two kinds of soup he chose mutton broth With a steaming bowl of which the waiter p ently returned, Also some bread and butter the attendant fetched—four fresh, white slices and a little pat of the dairy article. When the broth was consumed—some oyster crackers broken into it—a meat stew of beef and pota- toes, most appetizing, succeeded. This the customer ate with zest, taking the bread an glassof nulk in preference to either t ; and ordered cherry pie, though he might just as well have had apple or even pudding had he so desired, ‘The generous piece of pie was duly gobbled, with the milk to wash it down, and then the youth, stretching his legs with in- | effable satisfaction under the table, called for his check, It was for 10 cents! After the youth with the lemon-colored neck- tie had gone out, selecting a toothpick from the cashier's desk as he paid his bill with a silver dime, the Stan man, who sat on the op- posite side of the table, introduced himself to the proprietor of the establishment and in- quired how on earth it was possible to serve a meal like that at e profit for so small a price. EVERYTHING BY WHOLESALE. “Tt is all a matter of producing food in great quantities,” replied the restaurant keeper, sitting down, “To begin with, I buy «ll my supplies—enough to provide 10Qf meals a day— at wholesale, I never get less than a barrel or a box of anything; potatoes I purchase by the hundred bushels, and all sorts of canned goods by the quantity,’ For meats I don't buy the whole animals, but special cuts at the rate of 150 pounds a day, Now, take it this w If fed only 300 people I should loxe money. My expenses, you see, ure large, I have to em- ploy 30 help, my rent is big, fuel costs #73 a month and gas $50 more. May be I don’t make a cent on the first 400 customers, but on the next 200 I profit considerably—for they cost me nothing additional for gas, fuel, reut, or cooking. Aud on every extra patrou over and above 600 I make more, so that altogether my business is very profitable, notwithstanding my cheap prices, “For 15 cents I can atford to give a dinner consisting of one bowl of soup, one plate of meat or fish, two vegetables, bread and butter and coffee, tea, or milk. Lhe break- fast I offer every day for 15 cents includes two | Chops, or two eggs, potatoes any way, mutfiins and rolls, and milk, tea or coff “But this lunch seems cheapest of all.” It is so,” answered the proprietor, “and I take great pride in it, You think it remarka- ble that Ishould be abie to give soup, bread and butter, meat stew with potatoes, a piece of pie anda glass of milk for ten cents, and yet, asa matter of fact, my protit on such a lunch is greater than on any otber meal, chiefly because its bill of fare gives me an op- portunity to utilize scraps left over. Let us see what that lunch costs me. To bi the soup costs practic: nothing. The stock is simply boiled up from bones that would otherwise be thrown away, aud I have plenty of tuem. If I want to serve macaroni soup I put some macaroni in, or any other vegetable sinylarly, Fut down one-tenth of a cent a pidte as the cost of the soup, Bread and but- ter will cost one cent and a half. The meat stew is made from what was left over from the previous day’s orders; it costs me only half a cent for potatoes, We make our own pies, and a cent and a quarter will cover the cost of a fourth part of one. Milk Iget by the quan- tity at five cents a quart, so that a glass of it costs only acent and a quarter, Add that up now. You see, all the items together amount only to a trifle over four cents and a half, which leaves me nearly five cents anda half profit on that ten-cent lunch. By this time I faucy that you grasp the idea of the cheap | restaurant and the way in which it makes money ENORMOUS WASTE. “Ibeginto. But tell me, is not the waste in an establishment like this very great?” “Enormous; but there is no heip for it, It would appall a French cook, who always knows how to make use of every scrap, to see all the good stuff that goes out of here as refuse. However, it has got to be so, because the people who come to a restaurant like this are, as aclass, particularly wary of anything that may be suspected of being made up of things second hand, So, for breakfasts and dinners, I never offer an article of food that a suspicion could be entertained about, however unjustly; if I did otherwise my place would soon be re- ferred to as a ‘hash mill’ and by similar ob- jectionable epithets and I should lose custom, Hash I never serve, save for lunch on the day after I have corn beef, and stew is exclusively for the midday meal, Good meat that is left over on the dishes is scraped into a big pan each day and the cook the next morning cuts it up for the stew, Allthe rest goes into the slops, which the slop man takes away daily, keeping the yard clean and removing the ashes as an equivalent, In New York and other cities slops are salable at a good price, but not in Washington. Each day we make two hundred pics of two different kinds, as well as ten great pans of pudding. These are ali manufactured soas to be fresh for dinner, but there will usually be a run on one kind of pie or on the pudding and whatever is left over goes into the next day's lunch, It is all a matter of economical management, you see, and of big quantities,” —$— Saturday Smiles, Mra, Youngwife—"Did you ever try any of my biscuits, judge?” Jud, ‘No, I never did; but I dare say they "— Yonkers Statesman, A Judge's Duties.—Great Jurist's Wife— “What makes you so tired tonight?” Judge— “Thad to charge a jury in an important caso this afternoon.” “Oh; I suppose it is great strain to recall all the details of a case.” “It isn't that, Itisn't that. It’s being obliged to talk to a jury thirty long minutes without say- ing anything.”—New York Weekly, Mra, D'Arte-—‘‘ ‘The Angelus,’ I see, has gone to Canada.” Grubber—‘Angelus? I guess I never beard of him, What bank was he in?”—Boston Transcript, Cross-examining Counsel—“Isn’t your bus- band a burglur?” Witness—"'Y-o-8,”” Cross-examining Counsel—‘And didn’t you het he was a burglar when you married im?” Witness. Yes; but I was getting a little old, and I had to choose between a burglar and lawyer, #0 what else could I do?”—Figaro, “I wish to elevate the stage,” said the young society woman to the manager, “Here aro some of my new gowns.” “They are very fine,” replied the manager, “but you must bring your divorce decree be- fore lean decide.”"—N. Y. Sun, “And now, professor, what do you think of my voice?” “Well, it all depends. You haven't told me yet. Do you intend becoming an auo- tioneer or a huckster?”—Philadelphia Times, Mrs. Lushley—“And there you were, when the policeman found you at $ o'clock ‘in’ the morning, hugging a'cigar sign. Oh, it's just awful!” Mr. Lushley—“My dear, ble that you are jealous Terre Haule Express, Bobby—'Dou't be scared, Johnnie, Perhaps your father didn’t mean it when he said he would lick you,” Little Johnnie—“Yes, he did. It wasn't as if he had promised to bring me home a new whistle,” —The Epoch, First House Keeper—‘What is your idea of the height of sarcasm’ Second House Keeper—‘Calling servants ‘help.’ "—Somerville Journal First Sweet Girl—‘‘Just think! The Czar of Russia has @ throne that cost more than €10,000." Second Sweet Girl—Reall Why, that is not half as much as papa paid for hig seat in the Seuate."”— Terre Haute Express. ————_+e-_______ “I Vex Me Not With Brooding on the Years.” vex me not with brooding on the years That were ere 1 drew breath; why should I then Distrust the darkness that may fall again WI life is done? Perchance in other it surely is not pos- of & cigar sign,” — jestate and the surrounding YEARS AGO, Some Reminiscent Observations by a Former Washington Correspondent. On the 16th of May, 1869, I became a resi- dent of Washington and for ten years there- after was actively engaged in newspaper work at the national capital. It was an attractive place then, but, with the exception of a few conspicuous landmarks, bore little resem- blance to the beautiful city of today. The Capitol, the White House, the Treasury, Post Office and Interior Departments, of the great public buildings, are alone uuchanged. That Magnificent pile of granite occupied by the State, War and Navy Departments had not been built, and the State Department occupied @ rented building far out 14th street, The Washington Monument was then of lowly grounds were tenanted by geese und frogs, Ot botels, the Arlington was in course of construction; what is now, in part, the Riggs House was an office building oceupied by the government; the Ebbitt House wasa mach smaller and less pre: tentious edifice than at present, and the Kirk- wood. on Pennsylvania avenue and 12th street. has given way toa more modern structure for other uses. “Willard’s, the Metropolitan and the National, on Pennsylvania avenue, have undergone little change. Weicker and Wormley had very modest quarters compared they now occupy, but their cumines: were noted then as today. In front of where stands the brick market building on Penusyl- Vania avenue were dirty and dilapidated wooden sheds used for market purposes, which fortu- nately burned down a few years later. There were very few modern buildings on the south side of the avenue from 15th etreet to the Cap- itol, Beginning at the corner of 15th were three old-fashioned dwel 3, said to date back to the days of President Jackson. In one of them I had a room, Opposite was Ham- mack’s restaurant, for many years the large: and best in the city and much frequented dur- ing the war and 1 by newspaper men. It Was closed about 1870, On the corner above Was @ one-story wooden building. TUE GROUNDS ABOUT THE CAPITOL building were unimproved, but the noble trees on the outside shaded the whole park, their foliage contrasting pleasantly with the marble walls and the white dome above outlined against the blue sky, On the east front was a small and rather barren-looking square, in- closed in an iron fence and containing Greenough’s statue of Washingto: On waste tracts of land in the northern section of the city, now oceupied by closely built streets and costly private residences, goats erupped the scanty herbage and the freedman pastured his cow. The streets were unpaved and mud and dust alternated, both in extreme, as the weather was wet or dry. The Baltimore and Ohio furnished the only railway councction, and passengers for the south had to ride in transter coaches to the ferry boat for Alex- andria, where they took the train. OLD NEWSPAPER ROW. The officers of the Associated Press and Western Union Telegraph Company were moved in the spring of 1869 from near 434 street on Penn- sylvania avenue to the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Lith street; and the correspondents, many of whom had their offices in the Colomiza- tion building, moved also and established on 14th street what soon came to be known as Newspaper Row. On the lower floor of a brick building formerly known as the “Occidental | Restaurant,” and still bearing the name on the fan-light over the entrance, were the oftices of the New York World and New York Tribune. Next door above, in another brick building, was the office of the New York Herald. Then came some one-story wooden buildings, in which vari- ous correspondents had rooms, among them W. Scott Smith of the Evening Press Association. Up a thght of outside wooden steps was the office of the New York Times, and next above, down a flight of steps, was the Boston Journal, | Ben: Perley Poore occupying a little niche in the basement under the grocery store cor- ner of F and 14th streets, Maj. R. P. Noah of “Brick” Pomeroy'’s Democrat had rooms on the ground floor of a dwelling on F between 14th and 15th streets, while George Alfred Town- send did his newspaper work at his residence, then, I believe, on Capitol Hill, It may sur- prise the correspondent of today to learn that the White House news at this time (up to the 4th of March, 1869,) was _a monopoly in the hands of W. W. Worden, President Johnson's private secretary, while’ W. 1k Shaw. known even then as the ‘Nestor of the Row,” was looked to by the leading papers for news of the committees when Congress was in session, The Associated Press, at the head of which was “Father” (L. A.) Gobright, had one room on the ground floor edjoining the W. U. M. W. Burr attended to the Southern Associated Press, while D. R. McKee and J. G. Holland were Mr. Gobright’s and popular assistants, apable The Baltimore Associated Press had their own congressional report, furnished by F, A. Rich- ardson and O. K, Harris, assisted by “Pop” (A. B.) Talcott, QUIET TIMES. After the inanguration of President Grant, the adjournment of Congress and the stream of oftice-seekers had measurably subsided there were quict times on the “Kow.” In one or the other of the offices the newspaper men would gather and, with feet on the window sill or tables, smoke their cigars, compare notes and tell stories, Sometimes games with ob- long bits of pasteboard were indulged in, and I think Ihave heard the word “pitcy” used in this connection; but, asI did uot “touch,” 1 was not “defiled.” An occasional visitor ‘was Beau Hickman, then in his decadence, Clad in seedy raiment, gouty and rheumatic, he wandered aimlessly about, An introduction to the “beau of other days” no longer cost a dollar, A quarter was gladly received and even a dime was acceptable. “The Associated Press quarters were then a favorite resort for newspaper men, telegraph operators when off duty, and such naturally gifted narrators as Cols, Dick Wintersmith and Tom Ochiltree. Among the best-known operators were “Ham.”” Young, Fred Royce and Marean, Willard’ Hotel, for many years before and after a favor- ite “stamping-ground” of the correspondents, was then conducted by Sykes & Chadwick. Here, during the summer, would be found at breakfast about ll a.m., ata table at the ex- treme end of the long dining room, Gen. F, E. Spinner, the treasurer of the United States, and his daughter, Col, Russell H. Conwell, Maj. R. P. Noah, James R. Young, then chief correspondent of the New York Tribune, and one or two other newspaper men, ‘These were famed pp and the portly forms of the land- lords of those days were evidences of the good fare served at Willard’s, OLD CORRESPONDENTS WHO ARE GONE, In looking over a list of the active cor- respondents in 1869I find that death has re- moved the great majority, while some of those who survive are engaged in other fields, A very few lam unable to trace, The dead in- clude the following: George W. Adams, Miss M. A. Snead, J. B. Stillson, H. J. Kamsdell, Justin L, Colburn, Mary Clemmer, J. W.Knowl- ton, J. McFarland, W. W. Worden and Ben: Perley Poore, and of local newspaper men well known on the “Row,” I’. B, Florence, LN. Bur- ritt, 8. V. Noyes and R. F. Boisseau. Many of these were personal friends as well as business associates, and will ever have @ place in my memory, Messrs. Adams and Ramsdell were among the first of my newspaper acquaintances at the national capital,and regard for them and interest in them did not wane when I left the beautiful city in 1879 to take up my abode on the rockbound coast of Maine. It scems to me worthy of note that on every Saturday be- fore the opening of Congress from 1869 to 1879 Mr. Adams and myself walked to the Capitol to take notes of the preparations, On the Senate side for most, if not all, of that time we were received by Sergeant-at-Arms French, who took great pride in showing us his new carpets, curtains, &o, In those days the carpets were all imported, but now, I be- lieve, the American Congressman treads on American carpets equally handsome and cost- ing much less. Newspaper men are proverbially good-looking, but it would have been difficult to find a handsomer man than Jerome B, Btill- son, Tall, straight as an arrow, with black eyes, black moustache and black curly hair and dressed in the latest style, he was certainly a dashing-looking fellow. ‘There was an idea somewhere that Adams and Ramsdell resem- bled each other. I think that secretly botn resented if dasa mutual friend I cannot say which had the best right to do so. But, perbaps,I had better retrain from personali- ties, ‘THE WASHINGTON DAILIES at this time were the National Inielligencer, National Republican, Chronicle, Eventxo Stan and Evening Express. J. W. Forney was then ablishing fla "two Papers, both *—the Philadelphia Press aid Washington hronicie J. McFarland was the Washington spondent of the Press and did editorial work on e Chronicle, W. C. McBride was the city ed- itor of the latter paper and Col. Frank A. Burr was for a time on the local staff. Snow & Coyle published the National J: , and Col. A. G. Allen, for many years a correspondent of the Baltimore Sun over the signature of “‘Aga,’ tthe ‘olagchoo! jourscliney “Tall, pordyy ol ie ol 1001 jor , with a massive head and noble features, a4 @ man of commanding gy ged kindly and lovable. Mr. D. B, Peck, better known in bis native Maine as Elder Peck, was the editor of the Nutional Republican, Evenine Star, then as now the “star paper’ of the city and read by everybody, was practi- cally in the same hands which control it today. I do not recall the staff of the Evening Express, except that it included Alexander ter Morse, now prominent at the bar. I started out to teil of Washington as it aj peared townewspaper man twenty-one years ago, with mention of some of the journalists of that time, but am conscious that the pic- ture is a teeble and imperfect one. Nor could it well be otherwise without pouring forth a flood of personal reminiscences that would overflow the limits of a newspaper article and in which the reader of today might find little of interest. Cuarves A. Prussuny, ———_-—cee- Written for THe EVENING Svan. CONGRESSIONAL MUSINGS, Kentuckians Who Have Advanced From the Speakership to the Senate. WILL JOHN G, CARLISLE BE PROMOTED?—PRES- IDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES IN THE SENATE AND HOCSE—CONGRESSMEN WHO HAVE BEEN UN- SEATED BY POLITICAL MAJORITIES, If John Griffin Carlisle succeeds to the va- cant Kentucky seat in the United States Sen- ate he willnot be the first Kentuckian who has advanced from the Speakership to the Senate. Heury Clay was a Senator both be- fore and after he was Speaker. He entered the Senate in 1806. being then twenty-nine years old, The next year he was made speaker of the state house. He was again in the Senate from 1809 to 1811. He became Speaker the day he entered the House in 1811, being the youngest Speaker elected, He was five times re-elected. In 1831 he returned to the Senate, to which he had first been ap- pointed twenty-five years before, aud re- mained almost continuously in that body until his death in 1852, The Speakers who had been or who became Senators were several in number. Mr. Blaine is a well-remembered illustration of a Speaker who pussed to the Senate and became a leader there at once, Schuyler Colfax crossed to the Senate, but as Vice President. Galusha A. Grow has been very anxious always for # Sen- ate seat, but has so far fallen short in his as- irations, Ex-Speaker Robert C, Winthrop Racine Senator as the successor of Daniel Webster, “Speaker John Bell became a Senator a half dozen years after he wielded the gavel. SPEAKERS AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, The ex-Speaker and prospective Senator is one of the few men now remaining in Congress who have been conspicuously mentioned for the Presidency, and since the death of Samuel J. Randall he is the only democratic member of either house who enjoys that distinction, Mr. Randall was a prominent candidate in the con- vention that nominated Grover Cleveland in 1884, and had been mentioned in connection with the position in previous years, Mr, Carlisle's name was also formally proposed in the convention of 1884, but the tide in favor of the governor of New York was too strong to be stemmed by either of the distinguished House members. Gen. N. P. Banks was nominated for Presi- dent thirty-four years ago, He was at that time Speaker of the House, a native American by election, a whig by antecedents and a re- publican by affiliation. The regular American convention met at Philadelphia February 22, 1856. ‘The convention nominated Fillmore and Donelson, Some northern delegates bolted the convention on account of the language of the tatere on the slavery question and called a North American convention at New York, June 12. There was a sharp contest in the conven- tion between those who wanted to indorse Fremont and those who wished to go it alone, After ten ballots Gen. Banks was nominated for President, As he had been a delegate to the republican national convention that nomi- nated Fremont he telegraphed a declination, ‘The convention then indorsed Fremont, This particular political party was never again heard of. Many years afterward, i 1873, Gen. Banks received tle vote of one Greeley elector tor President. _ Wm. McKinley stood on the threshold of greatness through all the long balloting at Chicago in 1888 and it is generally believed that if he had not immolated himself for Sher- man he might have been nominated. But when he reflects on the fate of Foraker the major is probably glad he remained loyal, Banks, Carlisle and McKinley are the only House members whose names have been con- spicuously associated with the Presidency, but tl ere are several members of the Senate who have been * is} vorably mentioned” for many SENATORIAL PROBABILITIES, The most distinguished of the senatortal pos- sibilities is Senator Sherman, who was a for- midable candidate in 1876, 1850, 1884 and 1888, and who is by no means out of the race for 1892. Senator Allison was a promineat figure in the convention of 1888 and ran a neck-and- neck race with Gen. Russell A, Alger for third place on most of the baliots, At the first prohibition national convention, held at Columbus in 1872, Senator A. H. Col- quitt was nominated for Vice President on the ticket with Judge James Black of Pennsylvania, He afterward declined the nomination and Rev. John Russell of Michigan was substituted. Colquitt was a good democrat at this time, and nota party prohibitionist, When the electoral college met in 1872 he received the votes of five of its democratic members for Vice Presi- dent. CONGRESSMEN WHO HAVE BEEN UNSRATED. There are several members of this Congress who know what it is to be thrown out of the House by an adverse majority and who know how to keenly sympathize with the late Con- gressmen Jackson, Pendleton, Cate and Comp- ton and the soon-to-be ejected George D. Wise. ‘The leader of the republican side, Mr. McKin- ley, has himself been there. He was thrown out of the Forty-eighth Congress at its first ses- sion and his seat was given to ex-Congressman Jonathan H. Wallace, and only a skillful redis- tribution of districts saved Mr. McKinley's seat in the Forty-ninth Congress, Henry L. Morey of Ohio has also had un- pleasant experience. He was returned as elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, but the House gave the seat to his cousin and com- oo the present governor of Ohio, after -. Morey bad sat for a few months, On the democratic side there are several gen- tlemen who have been there and know just how it feels to be ejected from the House. Mr. Tillman of South Carolina lost his seat in the Forty-seventh Congress before he had got it aren f warm. Dibble, of the same state, was elected to fill a vacancy caused by the death of M. P. Conner in the Forty-seventh Congress, and lost his seat because the House decided that O'Connor had not been elected. Gen. Joe Wheeler had a somewhat different experience. He was returned as elected to the same Con- gress, but was unseated in favor of William ML Lowe. Lowe died and Gen, Wheeler was elected to fill the vacancy, Col. Chas, T. O'Ferrall, who is now an elo- quent protester against ‘outrages of the ma- eee in election cases, was himself seated by fs own party in the Forty-eighth Congress in ah chair occupied for @ brief period by John "a ———+o7r-—_____ SAVED BY ANOTHER’S BLOOD. A Young Woman Affected by Ilumin- ating Gas Finally Restored. Lizzie Cunningham, a young shop girl, was found unconscious in bed at her home, 206 8th avenue, New York, the morning of January 6. Beside her lay her friend, Mary Fallon, a seam- stress, dead. Tho unlighted gas jot was wide open and the room filled with gas, Miss Cun- ningham was taken in a comatose condition to the New York Hospital, She failed to rally after receiving the usual treatment, so on Jan- uary 7 ber physician decided to try the trans- fusion of blood. In two operations forty ounces of blood poisoned by the inhaled gas had been drawn from her. Amos A. Lincoln, a big, healthy telegraph lineman, under treatment for @ muscular affection of the arms, volunteered to give tne blood needed to fill her yeins. About twenty-five ounces of his blood were forced into the artery in ber wrist and on January 9° she revived enough to speak a httle, but soon sank ito _unconsciousn: i vived during the 6 on! ally and wit great difficulty. On 13th she began to show symptoms of oleate] although her body was weal Pores zed an: ber mind was inactive an d. The aralysis continued uutil February 1, when Kriss Cunningham began sitting ‘up in bed iP and occasi: leaving it, @ continued to ear valaiee alent wad Tuesday was sent home with only a slight halt in her eneral stiffness of her movements Dr. Robert F, Weir, atten: said yesterday ihat, despite the unsen length and gaitanda to tell of narrow escaj d strenuousness of her ‘le for life, ‘ves Just abou as sound as ever in mind body. Judge Edward F. Head of the of San Mateo county, Cal. died in Redwood E Judge Head held the though totally blind, Jnfam Ulrich cod his wife missed their THE WEEK IN NEW YORK. Ways of Me and Women in the | Metropolis. THE ASCENDENCY OF MUSCLE IN SOCIETY—A GREAT SHOW OF EQUIPAGES IN CENTRAL PARK— SOME REFLECTIONS ABOUT THE GUION CASE— THE EXPERIMENT MADE BY THE CLAPLINS, {Correspondence of Tur FvExtxe Stan.) New Yorx, May 9 Hyde Park itse!f. with all its glories of horse flesh and toilette on a spring afternoon in the London season, can hardly rival the brilliance of the spectacle in Central Park on one of these sunny May afternoons, The display is about at its height now, for very soon those who con- tribute most to its splendor will begin to scatter and it will be no longer good form to be seen in the park, But every pleasant day now the east drive entrance at Fifth avenue is a solid mass of glittering equipages, four or five abreast, low, heavy-rolling carriages with shin- ing horses, jangling chains and coachmen and footmen of resplendent costume and an absolutely wooden stolidity of demeanor for which no salary could be too high. The carriages are generally open ones and pre- sent glittering panorama of dazzling spring toilettes with flowery bonnets and airy para- sols, for the women predominate as largely they do at church and at summer resorts, very few of the solid citizens caring to spend an afternoon in the expensive equipages they pay for. When the men do care for driving it is usually to do it themselves, and @ good many solid elderly fellows may be seen with dust coats and spectacles and heavy driving gloves holding the lines in @ business-like fashion as their teams of fast trotters speed through the park up to the broad, smooth boulevard of Seventh avenue, where @ faster gait is per- mitted, THE EQUESTRIANS, The bridle path, too, is crowded with riders, Young men and maidens, old men and hittle children, and the frequent accidents that have occurred there recently have made the authori- ties talk seriously of widening the path and have also made the sensible among the eques- trians a little more careful about fast riding. Last Saturday the right of way in the principal drives was given up tothe riders, for it was the day of the annual parade of the ridin; clubs. Under the leadership of Mr. Howar Carroll as marshal 13) good riders, well- mounted and equipped, formed in procession. The day was 4 ‘dazzling one, the grass and young foliage was of a most vivid “green and great masses of flowers were blooming in spring splendor, Crowds of spectators on foot, ou horseback and in carriages were assembled along the drives to see the horsemen go by. The horses | were shining and glossy as satin and were set off by their saddle cloths, each club having a different color bearing its monogram im goid. Most of the riders were well-built young tel- lows in trig uniforms and high riding boots and each club had adopted a flower for bouton- nieres. They went up the east drive to 110th street and down the west drive to 72d, where they crossed over to the boulevard and termi- nated their ride at the Claremont Hotel. MUSCULAR SOCIETY MEN, The last of the Claremont teas, which have been so popular among society people, took place Thursday. They have been a graceful innovation on the conventional and somewhat monotonous drawing-room tea, Every Thurs- day afternoon for the last month a gay crowd of mondaines with their accompanying cava: liers in carriages or on horseback have gone out the Riverside road as far as the Claremont Hotel, where they have had afternoon tea on the piazza and lawn, making a pleasant re- union and an objective point for the daily drive or ride, Society seems to get more and more 4n appreciation of the pleasures of out of doors, and the rich youth of the day 1s much more apt to bea trained athlete than an effeminate dude, It is even said that numbers of those who go in for polo and other athietic sports are to be seen vigorously exercising themselves and their horses in the parks between 5 and7in the morning, but of this cannot speak as an eye- witness, DULL TIMES FOR BASE BALL Whatever the reason is it would seem that the base ball fever has reached and passed its crisis and that its violence is beginning to abate, ‘The public may not unnaturally have become somewhat weafied of the contentions between the two associations and the serious and elaborate discussions which have spun along as intermipably as if they concerned a continent's welfare, At any rate, the attend- ance at the games here so far has dwindled | nothing, and both ciubs are playing ata great joss, Business may improve as summer comes on, but it really jooks as it the capricious public had tired of squabbles and of abstruse records under cabalistic initials as mystifying to the uninitiated as cuneiform inscriptions. Then, too, both the New York clubs are playmg very badly, and, perhaps because of the slim audiences, appear almost as indifferent as the audience itself. ME, GUION’S CASE, When a man goes back on the record of an honorable fe the most natural thing in the world is to try to find some excuse tor him. His friends say that Mr. Guion, whose delib- erate abstraction vf $30,000 in bonds entrusted to hum has startled everyone, was oid and irre. sponsible, but if a of @ little over 60 is not responsible for bis actions it woud shake oue’s coutidence im a large portion of the busi- ness community. The most surprising thing about the theft is that any man would sell for #o suall a sum a respected and honorable name, The Guion steamship line, though not so Prominent now, held at one time the position now occupied by the Inman, that is, while nominally English it was in reality the Amen- can line, and with the White Stars they were the pioneers in the ocean greyhound business, It was the White Stars who begun lowering records with the Britannic and the Germanic, but the Guions brought out the Alaska and the Arizona, which in their day attracted even more attention than the Majestic aud the Paris do now, THE SINGER FIRE. The town of Elizabeth and the Singer sewing machine works, with their 3,750 employes and pay-roll of between $40,000 and €50,000, are practically synonymous terms, If the families these employes represent and the tradesmen supported by their custom were subtracted from the $5,000 inhabitants of Elizabeth the effect would be much the same as it all the government employes were wiped out of Washington, so all Elizabeth heid its breath while the big fire raged Wed- nesday morning through the largest sewing machine factory in the world finding in the wooden cases and benches, shel of pamphlets, boxes of thread and great cans of oil a breakfast much to its taste. The engines, even, when they got there through the mud and darkness of the country roads could accom- plish little, Bust the firemen tought mantully and, thanks to achange in the wind, success- fully to keep the flames from spreading over the whole vast series of buildings. Ihe com- y not only manufactured machines, but Built mush of the machinery and made many of the tools used in their manufacture. Every- thing was worked up from the crudest form in these vast hives covering thirty-twoacres of ground, and though the loss is pot far from 1,000,000 to the company it is fortunate that the bread of the thousands of ope- ratives will not be swept away, as most of them will be employed in clearing up debris and rebuilding or in the continued work of the uninjured portious of the factory. THE CLAFLIN CORPORATION, ‘Who wants money? If you do you can get a safe fall provided you swap good enough security; just there, very often, the fiscal shoe pinches, But to show how plenty money is and how ‘anxious it is to be employed I learn that the offer Of $3,000,000 stock by C! & Co. in the new the; pose to make out of the old firm bro if ay tenders of $20,700,000, or seven times amount ‘The conse- leaving for a likely investment, The aed the Claflins is universally re- as ashrewd stroke of business, The ference in the subscrip- them alone more than garded es have the i g E E ib see F. PROPOSALS. prorosat s ‘ ite FOR BUILDING Sealed Proposals for Rockville, Monts —= COURT HOUSE, tng a pew Court Honse at jounig, Mare cr ot FE. Davin corver of Charice aud. Pay istiores Md, et any tine afer Weduesdayy iS Io be received for Heating, Venti- * didtressed to F. Mt. Gritty mmissionens, Kockville, d_by a certified check for $500, rot the Butiding Com- to bona after the bid ie the Treas! ualty for taure him'ttee reserves the right t By order, &e ALLAN FA nO Seoretary Build: LMSONIAN INST m, Washineton. Ap Feeeived until NTH, 1800, to SMI ITC TION. U TWELVE AL, to the Smith \ a furninh Cae use: sapplee senile, rm Kieuk forme, Tipforue: 1 be furnished om at the ANGLEY, secrvtary DPARINEST oF THE TN re ton, DG, Ar .ISVO —sealed proposals will be receiv. MAY DHIRIEDNTM, Iso, Sup) dios for Ut Depart year ending June 30 on the Department structions, Depa — __ FINANCIAL. = —— oJ OH DBULIEMAN & ox Forme this citys, INVESTMENT BANKERS ‘Bau Diego, Cal SFVEN AND FIGHT PER CENT INTEREST, WITH THE VERY BEST OF REAL PSTATE SECUR- ITY, PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST TO BE PAIDIN WASHINGTON OB NEW YORK, AS DESIRED. San Diego ts one of the ost promiaing cities of the Pacific coast. Correspondence suieited. ur oJ 8% W. ComDON. SNOW. MACARTNES, Member N.1. Stock Ex, CORSON & MACARTNEY, GLOVER BUILDING, 1419 F ST. Xow, Bankers aud dealers in Goverument Bonde Collections, nas, atid all secur tated on the | xchanwes York, Pisladeip lua, Bustou and Baltimore Lous woud. A specialty made iment securities, District nid all 4, Gas, Insurance aud Lel- tock dealt andsold jy18 BICYCLES. T ANEW IDEA AFTER ALLL ing the innovation that ser s to have de by inte du: et & apr AME RIC iy @ novelty AN KAMBLE & ely a Lew i i + between, thear dri Sing Wheels and fraue, All of whe Tae SaiFiawes have thelr oocupauts insusated by eunturt- able spruce, Anugui icles do not have the mo ments wh re the KAMBL de. T Lee] from a clow. Prices trou U0 to = 100. 120 14th wt now, £8 FOR LADY On” tr HICKORY SAPLGI B; 42 pe rr < oat Leactkes, UN's and Purchasere ee aud te, aw, NDEs, Al Compiete Taugh: Free, apzeteyyd Bice EXCHANGE AND PALME th st. now, exchange whe tux LADIES RS, JANE JONER M PAS Tre CUL AND NEATLY BI Residence—445 Uth et. # A SoORDION WLALi tect in every m6-1w* ING.—OUK WORK 18 Pen. t. Kuite Plaitiug vc. per yard and up; Fiuiting ofall kinda. G. W-LUGaS, bos? pee stiow. Puke. i pi t-owe QRUNTS! FRONT PRON Dollt Always tu order by plain combing at MLLE. M. J. PRANDT, 1329 F st. now, (Mrs. Harrison's), Lnporter of Fine Freuch Mair Goods, Fairdressing. nl9-tu* shampooing. MATERIALS FO s. Paper Flowers, Thuan, dcrap Book nese Goods, Pana, us, Caudien, &e. tL Seitaue ADIES WISHING THEIK FINE LACES DONE up an Freuch styl o CUrtaLEs & epec Pac DYEIN ING LSTADL less Ladies, Flush, \« aud bve ANTON ND CAKOLINE LEKOM, torwerly with A. Pischer d Muison Yriese, Paris por NION FISCHERS DRY CLEANING ESTAR. 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YF Tay eT ee SOME I DON'T KNOW, KNOW that | au selling the cheapest Gak Suite tm er és mh3t Yo. y eit the cheapest Parior Buite ta ‘Nobby Hall-room: Suits, Wash Stand troLy Laie wud Bed, MAID WOOD, KNOW I have Mattings as low as you can buy i them. Sc, 2 yard up. 1 KNOW that we auake # dollar stretch one hundred conte, bo matter What you want, 1 KNOW T have a ciean NEW STOCK. no old ahop- worn wtiyles to ruu of duriuig special sulcs, &c NOW you will have the best attention, even if you are “ouking arouud,” and no iuatier what you Waub for the house, coaue und see TDURTL KNOW wis the jade who borrowed my umbrella does uot return it. I dou't care #0. witcl about the Umbrella, but I lose « ath i. L DON'T KNOW why people w GAD gur sdvertieed price. Bix Orwial Tunibiery Se. Idou's kuow why people doubt our betore they try us ‘Sprinuee, T dunt know at I have Dut to tell Wood Views Cl ang otber way te let_you now si o@ Cane-seat Chairs. 6 mt abana don"t know any better . a way do Vusiuen than THE KiGHt WAL I aout know any peopie more pleasant ty wait on than who visit iy double stores. 1 kuow I buy the Goods Migut and seil them cheap for cash. I dou't know why People wil fool themselves aud buy on Paying 85 to 86 for Wire Bed Springs, the same as Sep auise abour ies = = Tknow you dou't catch the Dirnest Seb in degpeas Tee Atom claim to carry the largest stock, butt claim to cut the best prices you can get apd ra suiuetiiug sll sons, and those wag doubt lougest muck. 4B wie: Lie Deis and place, : GKASTY, The Pusher, Furniture, China, Glass, &c., Cheap for Cash, _2829-6m 1610-12 7 stow Ger Ta Bus. THE CONCORD HARNESS LUTZ & BKO, 497 Penn. ave., adjoining Nations! Hotel ‘Trunks aud Satchels of best make at low prices,