Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1890, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATUR LILLIPUT! The Bantams and Feather Weights Crowding the Big Fellows, PLUCKY LITTLE GIANTS. aera Light Weights—More Scien- tic, Pluckier and Cleverer Than the Heavy Weights—Some Interesting Ex- amples—Maiches Among Little Men. —-+—___ Written for Tws Evewrxe Sran. INCE the Kilrain-Sullivan fight no mt in the prize ring has been re- garded with a livelier interest than the battle for the bantam-weight cham- piouship of the world between George Inxon and Nune Wallace before the Pelican Club im London. That the triumphant tour of John L. Sullivan should have been emulated by a bantam is sufficiently amusing to those who have not been observant of the tendencies of the ring, but to the insiders it is full of sig- Rificance. The muitiplication of boxing schools has brought to the surface acrop of diminutive fighters in almost every large American city, etiefly of the bantam and feather-weight classes. A compact, little man is invariably more active and energetic than a heavy weight, aud these pigmy pugilists make a much more scientific showing in the ring than the bigger men. Among the latter it is uotorious that, with a few exceptions, all the -‘mills” fought in the last few years have either been hippo- dromed or have failed through the want of grit of some one of the combatants. It isn’t so with the 110 and 120 pounders; they are game clear down to the heels. “The little 'uns are good ‘uns every time,” was th istic remark of Sullivan to Ed Mallahan, « . after witnessing 8 go between two bantams in New York. “They haven't got bulk, but they have the heart and they face punishment that would make many a heavy weight throw up the sponge. They're greedy for it.” THE LITTLE "UNS. The Boston boy emphasized what is just now eommon talk ng sporting men. ‘The day ef the “‘little'un” hascome. In numbers and superior science he is crowding the big fel- Jows to the wall. He is chock full of grit and would rather be killed than suffer defeat. His little body sometimes contains the heart of a lion. It is not surprising that the big fellows should hold him in such high esteem, pat him admiringly and wonder at the concentrated lightning style in which he sets to work on an opponent. 5 9 his battle with Nunc Wallace, the Eng- lish bantam champion, Dixon showed the best form of the little fighters. Bantam weight is anywhere up to 115 pounds; feather weight from 115 to 122. The colored lad scaled just right at 114. Pelican Club rules are a moiifi cation of London prize ring rules and Marquis of Queensberry, to adopt either of which would have put one of the fighters at a disad- vantage. Under London ring rules Wallace would have had the best of it as far as the irce use of tactics was concerned, for the London code aliows a man to do almost anything in the ring except to bite or gouge; he ean throw, wrestle or trip his adversary. Wallace is an expert at this style of fighting, while Dixon has been trained to do his finest work at long range. GEORGE DIXON, who is now the undisputed bantam champion ef the world, was underestimated here. It was claimed that he only could hit hard when be knew tuat his adversary had on boxing gloves; that Cal McCarthy could easily have whipped him in twenty-four rounds at their recent fight if skin gloves had been worn in- stead of four-ounce coverings. and that he was more ofa rusher than a scientific pugilist. ‘The truth is that Dixon is one of the few men who are able to fight equaily well on the offen- sive or defensive. There are two classes of scientific fighters. The defensive pugilist is one who fights at long range and calculates every movement of lis opponent and the effect of each of his own blows, The offensive boxer may have his best points in leading, but he rarely has the patience necessary for a good waiting fighter. His eve may be unsteady and he may not be sure of his grit. Besides, his impatience may lead him to attempt to cross- counter when his man is only feinting to draw out, HURRICANE FIGHTERS. It sometimes happens, however, that a clever boxer will change his tactics and fight on the offensive, adopting the plan of men like Jack McAuliffe, aud fighting for fifteen or twenty rounds at mile-runners gait, sending in his biows meanwhile like a hurricane wherever he can find an opening. McAuliffe, Dixon, Ike Weir (‘the Belfast Spider”) and Cal McCarthy are all hurricane fighters, who can go at a nan iu such a fashion that bis seience will avail him but little, unless he carries a remarkabie cool head. They are strong on their legs, too, for men of this class can run twenty wiles In a day without stopping. If they can keep their man running all over the ring at the rate of a mile runner, punishing him at the same time, they are bound to wear him out ultimately. He is most certain to be winded and rattled, and that is the object of the best offensive fighting. But this method is only open to the little man: no middle or heavy weight living could stand the strain. This was the style of battle that was witnessed by the titled members of the Pelican Club when the ‘Boston Cyclone” whipped their favorite. HOW DIXON BECAME A FIGHTER. Dixon is a Nova Scotian and was until three years agoa photographer. He tells how he came to enter the ring in this way: “used to take the portraits of a good many fighters and I rather liked the pose and the ap- pearance of some of them. There were others who didn’t strike me as being of much account, yet I heard that they were great boxers. Onc day I towed wy camera aside and went off to study boxing, and since then I've done pretty well at it. 1 took a notion, that’s all.” ‘The “L tle Cycione’s” grandfather was a aud Dixon has married a handsome white girl, who takes as keen an interest in his battles ashe does himself. He has fought and whipped a dozen men of his class, and has been 4 prime favorite with the rich sporting amateurs of the Hub, who brought him to the front. His biggest fight till now was with Cal MeCarthy, the bantam champion, with whom he fought seventy rounds to a draw. McCarthy sull claims the championship. Dixon once met bis maten in s smaller man than himself—little Tommy Kelly, the “Harlem Spider,” who Weighed in at 105 pounds and fought the @olored lad to a draw, CAL MCARTHY. One of the gamiest of little men ig Cal Mc- Carthy, a New Jersey boy, scaling 114 pounds, who has been a fighter ever since he was fiteen. The best bantams are caught young. Hie fought his way througn the amateur ranks, and three years ago became & professional by whipping Joe Flaherty of Boston in seven prion ny Next, the plucky New Jerseyman de- feated Eugene Hornbacker in twenty-one rounds, and this was followed by whipping half adozen others, including Jobuny Terps of Boston and Harry Walton. McCarthy is a cool, scientific fighter. In one of his battles he in- Ss wrist. Before the fight, Sullivan, who “ loade great hiking forthe little fello 4 Up with sage advice on the subject of how to handle himself. To be petted by the Champion made Cal's heart. swell with pride; etter such adulation defeat would be unbear- Sule. So, when man who stood by the ring- side urged bim to withdraw, since his wrist = be wheeled about at him fiercely, and no quitter! I'll make that fellow kill me before he can win this fight.” He kept his word, for he made it a draw and "Tease witnessed a rather queer once wil a rat illustration of bantem grit. A little sawed-off emong the fraternity as “sedden's FIGHTERS| #3 his might into th without stirling sport hagded over the stake at THE WARLEM SPIDER. Tommy Kelly, who is known to fame as “‘tho Harlem Spider” and who is lighter even than the regulation bantam—scaling at 105—is the strongest and pluckiest of a class of young pro- fessionals of whom there are hundreds throughout the country. Beside his distinctive exploit in figh' Dixon toa draw, he has a long list of vic to his credit, the latest ing won over Benny Murphy, known as “the whom he whipped in nine rounds, Mur- by isan Englishman who has fought several ttles since coming over to this country three yearsago. Both are clever, but the “Spider” is a general and a rusher, fighting best at long range and sending in his swinging right-hand biows and upper cuts like a whirlwind. So clever is he that it has been abit among a certain class of backers, when they arrange: prize fight, to try their man against Tommy in tdvance of patting up their money to match him with another.* The test was gure to give them a pretty good idea of the staying quali- ies, and, unlike the proverbial experience of trying it on a dog,” Tommy rather liked it. He would rather fight than eat any day. AN ANIMATED BATTERING RAM, The bantem, like his slightly heavier mate, the featherweight, is usually a bullet-headed chap, with low eyebrows, pipe-stem legs, an abnormal development of chest and biceps and more concentrated energy than a Mexican burro. Heis an animated battering ram. His chief accomplishments, besides being extra- ordinary quick with his “dukes,” are profavity, slang anda penchant for posing, the latter the resuit of the “swelled head” that comes of fre- quent victorious “mills,” and the praises of his elders in the fistie art. His sole ambition is to be champion of his class some day, and to reach that proud distinction he is willing to risk the loss of anything short of his life. His direst apprehension is lest he should grow too heavy for a bantam, in which event he wouid have the humiliation of being forced to fight his way up from the bottom of the next class— the clipping featherweight, THE BELFAST SPIDER. | One of the oddest figures in the ring is Ike | Weir, the “Belfast Spider,” whose trickery and maneuvering ina fight have made him some- of fives and drove right and left with wincing. bei iy, | what of a terror among the feath Phere are several claimants for c onors in this class. Billy Murphy arkin being among the number; belongs to Weir by common con regarded by many as the cleverest fighter in the country, and the best experts adinit that rweights, »pionship | he stands unrivaled as a boxer. Generalship is | Weir's forte; for, although his wiry little frame | is as tough as nails aud almost as hard, he has | not the force necessary to knock out until he | has fairly tired his antagonist by worrying him ; With tricks and running him a foot r all around the ring. He has no match any where at 120 pounds, Weir was originally a jockey in England, and he brought into the American ring all the tricks and cunning of the track and the paddock. He has not an equal at rapid countering and clever ducking, and even when he is beaten he has contrived to pull off a draw by his general- ship and agility in holding off and tiring out his man. In the ring he looks like a sharp- faced, rather poorly nourished school boy: but soon the perfect mastery of the hands becomes apparent, and the open smile gives place to the cruel, crafty, cunning scowl as he alternately punches and jabs ut his opponent and darte aside to avoid the return blow. Fortunate featherweights and bantams cannot strike heavy enough blow to break bones, and it is seldom that a fighter in either of these classes receives punishment so severe that it cannot be pretty well effaced by a warm bath and a day's rest; but if they could hit as hard as the big fellows, such is their savage nature, as a rule, that almost every fight would end in a knockout. OTHER FEATHERWEIGHTS. Jimmy Larkin and Frank Murphy, who were booked to fight at the California Athletic Club rooms in San Francisco in July for the biggest stakes ever offered in their class, are both very clever featherweights. Larkin is the unde- feated champion at 122 pounds, and has been fighting almost ever since he could toddle, RETIRED AT TWENTY-FOUR, Tommy Warren, another fighter, with the face of a modest school boy, is a retired champion at twenty-four. He began fighting when seventeen with bare knuckles and whipped Johnny Keating in Sacramento, Biily O'Neil in Astoria, Oreg., and Harry Smith at Walla Walla, Wash, finally winning the feather- weight championship of tie Pacific coast by knocking out Dave Condon at Seattle in a nineteen-round mill. He fought his way east, concluding by defeatmg Tommy Barnes, the champion featherweight of America. He for- feited the championship to Ike Weir by de- fault. One of his hardest fights was with Jack Hav in of Boston, then the holder of the belt, who lost it after being terribly punished, FROM AUSTRALIA. Billy Murphy, the present holder of the belt, who disputes the championship with Weir, was the champion featherweight of Australia and New Zealand before coming to this country a Year ago without a dollar. He had to borrow $10 to enter his first fight in California, and since that time has won over 36.000 in stakes, He 1s five feet six and one-half inches in height and weighs just 118 pounds, Yet this diminu- tive pugilist has whipped not only half a hun- dred men of his own class, but beat O’Brien, Guller, Carter, Stewart, Mitchell, Faddes aud other middle weights averaging all the way from 145 to 175 pounds, or fully fifty pounds heavier than himself, So much for the science of little men in the ring. ‘There are hundreds of other little men of the bantam aud featherweight classes pegging their way to glory and dollars, and the pugilistic ku- leidoscope in the course of half a year shows many changes among them. They swarm over the big men as the pigmies swarmed over Gul- liver, and they outgeneral the older school of boxers at every turn and demonstrate to the athletic world that the coming champion is to be not a slow-moving. heavy-bodied giant, but @ compact little man, with the celerity of light- ning, the courage of a lion and thews and mus- cies like steel. oo Ee, Three Roses, Together on a slender spray they hung, Dowered wit equal beauty, pascing fair, And Dlent, as though an unseen censer ‘Their mingled perfume with the morning ai Not theirs the fate to linger till decay Strewed their sweet-scenied petals on the ground, For ere the ciose of that bright summer day, Each sister rose another fate had found. Twined in the meshes of a beauty’s hair One blossom faded slowly, hour by hour, Cntil at parting, some one in despair As & memento craved tue withered flower. One went snoffering to a vain coquette, Who plucked its leaves, and as they fluttering fell, Whispered @ test that had believers yet, He loves me—loves me no+—ue loves ule well, @ A maiden’s form lies ina darkened room, In folded hands, upon a pulseless breast, One touch of color in the deepening gloom, atrest, ‘The last of the three roses © happiest ros. ‘Thy place above the maiden’s pulseless heart, —Chamber's Journai, J. H. syMaa, hunting on the Southwest Miramichi, above Boiestown. In an unlucky and unguarded moment he was rather hastily and heedlessly swinging around his salmon rod preparatory to casting, his large hook caught in the thin part of an ear of T. P., who was one of the captain's men, who, as’ ardent and a better fisherman than his master, was intently watching the salmon wi the captain j its bounding a | cl ae A CITY OF THE PLAINS Notes About Former Washingtonians Who Live in Denver. STREETS AND BUILDINGS. Some Peculiarities of the Town—Every- thing in “Biocks”—Impressions of an Easterner—A Good Place for Hustlers and Capitalivis. LSS Ar ee Special Correspondence of Tom EVENING STAR Desven, July 6. 1890. HEN Ipacked my attenuated grip three months agoand turned my face toward the setting sun my idea of that \g Portion of the west which lay on the other side of Chicago from Washington were as crude as fresh Pennsylvania petroleum. ‘Like many of my easiern brethren whose horizon had been bounded by the narrow eon- fines of conceit, I staried for Denver puffed up \"A fish, and during that drearv, weary Pullman ride of nearly a couple thousand miles I conned over my mental library and coliated a generous as- | sortment of fine, large and symmetrical lies with which to astonish the untutored moun- taineers when expatiating to them how we did things in the east. Tam aware now what a waste of intellectual energy was thereby incurred, As I rolled westward from Chic to flash through mi after league of plow shares wer, forted x after mile and lengue ) farm lands, in which the st beginning to turn, Icou lr with the reflection that pretty zation would be left behind, and the prairie, with its troops of coyotes and jack rabbits, would soon be reached, This tering unctiou-was laid to the soul in vai ever @ field we passed that | did not display the presence of man, and when the train crept into the union depot here and came to @ stop with a final snort of relief, my knowledge of coyotes and jack rabbits ‘wa just what it had been before starting—gleaned from Mir. Phineas T. Barnum’s aggregation of annnals, DENVER AS A GREAT TOWN. I do not wish to “boom” Denver in the ac- cepted meaning of the word—indeed, it needs and the train continued | health and ex- wer after Wash- ir. Roger 8. Bartley, “Bob.” as he was familiarly known in the old days when he and Jesse Grant, Rayne Dent, Cook Flenner, Whit Test of the youngatas used to play topathar? rest oi ye to “ has been here many yeare. Te i with the county clerk and recorder. He is « hustler in business, and but few who see him rushing around attending to business know that he is the nephew of the man who marched to the sea and she was the of har secdenanoiiee pot and unimpassioned Senator from io. Mr. Sidney H. Dent, good-natured, genial, popular “Sid,” sits in company with his Coke nd his Cooley on Taxation in his pleasant offices in a big block, where his name appears on the doors of rooms 42 and 43. His law books are not his nly companions, for Sid has many clients and he happily passed the day when he was but a bricfless barrister. Some real estate investments which he made turned out most fortuitously for him, and he is holding on to them with a tenacity that shows his wisdom. John P. Smart, known all over the District as ‘Jack,” is another Washingtonian who is rapidly climbing the ladder of success and for- tune. He commenced trying his hand as an advertising agent in Omabaa couple or three years ago, and ie now considered the best solicitor west of Chicago. He is with the with superiority like a Potomac river toad- | Denver Rerubliean ata fine salary, and on the Sth of June ho had so many advertisements on his desk that the Kepublican was compelled to publish a forty-four-page paper to accom- modate the demands of its patrons and Jack’ friends, Mrs, Smart and herlitile daughter are here also, Pratt Dixon, whose fund ot stories and anecdotes was the canse of continual risibility when he lived in Washington, occupies one of the most responsible positions in the Denver, ‘as and Forth Worth railroad offices, He is riff clerk of the road and reigns supreme in his particular jurisdiction, His wife and her mother, Mrs, Harbin, are with him and | they have a bijou of a home on Stout street. | | | | | | also bi no assistance that I could render it—but it is one of the most astonishing aud amazing towns | in America without question. Ik left the finest knows who this letter what it’s name is— something of Denver's wonderful growth, and had read’ of its prosperity aud of its re- markable climate, and was willing to be-| lieve what I b ad, but the mental pictu was that of acity hastily thrown together by | the requirements of its rapid increase in popu- lation and commer constructions. hour! citizens a co! That 8 true to the rea tures of some Washington artists aguiticent metrop- the main busin and Larimer—were as much li those on Pennsylvania avenue or Broadway as two peas, and they were more ke the Broad- way throngs, in thi y moved along quicker and seemed to have some defined object in | view. AND THE If any one has structure and beauty of architecture he may gratify it to his heart's content by coming to the Queen City of the Plains. “We have nothing like them in Washington save in height; the Atlantic and the Pacific buildings are not to be mentioned in the same breath ILDINGS, with fifteen or twenty “blocks” here, and the Palais Royal building would look like a cow shed demde several, structures now approaching cople~ tion, while the Coreoran building wouldn't be in it at all, and mortar and. brick are but little used in their construction. ‘Ten miles from Denver are the Rockies, and they give up their granite and sandstone and marble to beautify the city that nestles at their fect. The supply isas inexhaustible as it is inestimable, and there is no better building material on’ the face of the eurth. In conversation with & prominent insurance man —_ yester- day he told me that there were i in course of erection or nearly completed at the present time in Denver over 3,500 houses, can well believe it, for I have ridden o 'y portion of the city and its suburbs since y debut on phis stage ind have never got out of sight of piles of mortar or out of hearing of the sound of the trowel and the hammer. ‘There is one ludicrous phase about the build- ings in Denver, however, and that is the uni- e versal custom of calling everything that is | built for business purposes a “block.” If Mr. Smith puts up @ two-story structure with a couple of store rooms on the ground floor he forthwith calls it “fhe Smith Block,” unless he desires a more poctic cognomen. As a con- sequence there are more blocks in Denver than there are houses in Alexandria, ‘There is another thing in which Denver is pre-cminent, and that is in its cable, electric and street car system. Competent judges de- clare that the cable system in use here is the finest in existence. There are 35 miles of cable roads in daily operation, and the question that has been bothering eastern communities for 80 many years—that of rapid transit—has been completely solved here, and in the last two years at that, I remember that when the question of the introduction of the cable system was first agitated in Washington that the chief objections were the numerous curves and steep grades which characterized the existing street rail- woys, and it was seriously asserted that these alleged obstacles could not be overcome. Iam now in a position to appreciate the absurdity of such objections. The cable cars here whirl around corners whose angles are as sharp as { any of those on the Sixth Avenue Elevated road in New York, and # great deal more acute than would be necessary in Washington, and they slide up grades to which that of Capitol Hill would be #s an infant to a full-grown man. ‘The electric lines in operation cover abont seven miles aud have just commenced running, They are 40 popular that the cable companies are seriously considering the wisdom of mak- ing electricity the motiye power on their sys- tems, The horse cars traverse every nook and corner of the city, and, in a word, there is not a portion of Denver or its suburbs that is not accessible by five-cent fare conveyances, MUD OR DUST. With the exception of its streets Denver is well nighail thata city should be, Its thorough- fares are a disgrace to any,community 9 far as the wagon ways are concerned. They are guilt- less of paving, andin wet weather are veritable mud puddles,while in dry times it requires the constant use of scores of street sprinklers to lay the dust and prevent its choking pedestri- ans todeath. But wet weather here is a phe- nomenon, In the last thirty-nine days, including today, there has been but two slight showers, or rather sprinkles, neither of which lasted more than five minutes or sufficed to even wet the earth sufficiently to lay the dust. The street evil will be shortly remedied, however, as the cit; council passed an ordinance last night provid. ing for the P ving of 15th and 16th streets with asphalt, and the other streets will shortly be attended toina similar manner. The adop- tion of asphait on the two streets named was reached only after a very bitter fight, in which citizens and newspapers alike took sides, The iblican took up cudgels in favor of sep) it, claiming that it was best adapted for this climate; that it was noiseless and Tad been practically dem- onstrated to be the most economic ve~ ag! i hora all over the world. The News, the other morning r here, entered the grena a8 the pS sad of Colorado stone, that it would make a far superior pavement, and that all things being even, should “asin! fom and ad as thereby home industry would be foste the ‘ity of the state subst not democrats and = but ‘asphalt’ and “stone” men, ‘The action of the council, however, has wiped out the differences, and this time next ear Denver to be decently respec way of streets, for when the: start to do anythi out here they stand re A upon the order of it, but do it at once and have it over with. That is where that resistless wer known as western energy gets in por gel ‘ite fine and they are all doing well. Mr. Jas,W.Clarke, whose friends in the District are legion, who was in business with his brother-in-law. Wash 1s the desire to see massiveness of | the | | | | Mr. Millard kK. Page, who was asociety favor- ite in Washington for many years, and one of the most prominent members of the Columbia Boat Club, is equally a favorite in Denver. He connected in an important capacity with the ‘Tabor Investment Company, and it is a guaran- tee of fortune for any one to be connected with that corporation, Frank Azpeil is also doing well. He is with McNamara, who owns an immense millinery and ladies’ furnishings establishment, and is one of the credit cle the store, He has also made fortunate investments in real estate. Ham. Cruger is in business and is doing well, and William Bokern, who presides over the creature comforts at the Hotel Brunswick, is ing smiled upon by fortune, A cloud of sadness overspread the Washing- ton colony Thursday morning when the dis- patches annonnced the death of Mrs. Fred G. Moffa' Fred came here only four months ago und took a position in his unele’s bank—the First National, He wes becoming as popular here as he had always been in Georgetown, and his new friends as well as his old ones extend their sympatuy to him. ADVICE TO EASTERNERS, Thave endeavored to give an ideaof what Denver is like, and in conclusion I would like to indulge in a few words of advice to ihe east- erners who contemplate coming out in this wonderful country. It will not fo for any one to cherish the delusive idea that fortunes are flouting around over the emerald face of Colo- rado’s prairies or the brown. bectling steeps ins, waiting tor somebody to come them in, There have been nin the state who have become ely rich because they couldn't help it, anded proprietors here today whose oscssions are worth seven figures, who have be- me what they are merely because they could find no one to purchase their holdings when they tried to dispose of them acouple of de- cades ago. They have become nabobs in weaith in spite of themselves, Bur majority of the rich men in Colorado have reached their high estate of affluence by hard work, persevered in with unrelaxing vigor ahd relentless energy. A young man of vim and determination, who is willing to put his shoulder to the wheel of endeavor and keep it turning no matter how hard the struggle may be, hasa field before him in this country which cannot fail to yield him fruitful results, but the dilly-dallying individ- ual who does not believe in the dignity of labor and who, like amiable Mr. Micawber, is always waiting for something to turn up, will not find a hole small enough to fit him in this neighbor- hood. Such a person will do well in the effete east selling collar buttons, and he will ap- preciate that fact if he comes west. This coun- try wants muscle and brawn, with brains to back them. Such a combination will win in the race for success out here, but it will be a long race with no quarter-mile dash about it, Even the individuals who possess the qualifi- cations I have indicated must not expect to find plain sailing if they arrive here as strangers, I would advise no young man to start for the western country who has not something tangible in view in the shape of a position, or who has not some profession to fail back’ on and means to support him- self while he is awaiting clients, paticnts or other visitors whose calls mean contri- butions to his exchequer, All those stories about men reaching the west with a single shirt and empty pockets and then re- the east in a year or two in Pullman car and clad, like Dives, in purple and fine linen are all the veriest bosh, Such things might have occurred in the days of the Genesis of the west, but in these days of Revelations they are as extinct as the megatherium. The army of the unem- ployed does not confine its operations to the seaboard. There is a great division of it right here battling with adversity and desperately struggling to scale the ramparts of — success, which in their case means something to do. In a word, if a mau can’t get along in the east he might as well give up all idea of succeeding in the west. ‘The fact is, though, that energy, determined application and a willingness to identify one's self with one’s work will make one successful anywhere, and that’s all there is to it, TO THE CAPITALIST, however, Colorado's capital presents a most inviting field of operations, While there is an immense amount of money here the demand visiting a for it is still greater. Ready money cannot be secured here even on extra Al gilt-edged security, even in amounts of $50,000 and upwards, for less than 6 per cent, and only at this figure for large amounts and on property in the business por- tion of the city at that. In smaller amounts, and where loss is absolutely impos- sible on the part of the capitalist who advances the money, 8 per cent and even 10 per cent is willingly paid, and in every case the expenses of the transaction are borne by the borrower. Denver is undoubtedly the place for the cap- italist, and as soon as I accumulate the sum of $17 all at once I propose becoming one myself, — Different Kinds of Lightning. From Longman’s Magazine. 1 As to the term “forked lightning,” the rep- resentations of it given by artists, which re- semble the so-called thunderbolts placed in the hand of Jupiter, are quite absurd. The flash, when photographed, exhibits itself as a line which is continually changing ite course, and is described as “intensely crooked” by a very careful observer, it never proceeds for a time in a straight line, and then, turn-| ing atasharp angle, going on further in an equally straight line, as is represented in pic- tures. The forking of it is very marked and this occurs by side flashes passing off from the main track and eventually losing themselves, ~ bee Sea of tree Finggeraiprv oop al pears point frown which several flashes diverge in different directions, earth the light produced by it illuminates the sky in the ighborhioo and the more intense the flash the more it and extensive the illumination. At times sheet lightning has been proved to emanate from an ge Bead storm, distant more than s hundred miles from the point of observation. It is, however, tained, and lffinine — as what is ‘summer i E F $ . i sccounte of this mantloptation electrical discharge, but the onset tare Visit to a Qu@fht Old Tow of Cen- tral Bolivia. HOW THE INHABITANTS LIVE The Youthful Cure of Chulumani—a Strange Character = Peculiar Sure roundingy—Forgetten Wealth in An- cient Sanctuarice—in Rural Districts. __ ‘Special Correspondence of Tre EvExtxa Stan. Cavuivmant, Borrvia, June 10, 1890. ISITING the capital and one or two mining regions and making tour of observation into any interior valley is equivalent to seeng every rod of Bo- livia; for throughout its vast extent there are few variations, except those caused by altitude, in changes of climate and different industries pursued by the people. So very cold isthe atmosphere of La Paz at an eleva- tion of over 13,000 feet that the traveler finds it difficult to believe himself really within the semi-tropics and to realize that were it not for these mountain ranges topped with eternal snow the whole country would be like the Yan- gas valloy, filled with sunshine and luxuriant vegetation. Chalumani, capital of the province of Yun- gas, is a typical town of interior Bolivia, With & population of only about 2,500,it covers nearly as much space as the city of Chicago. Having been built hap-hazard up and down the hill- sides, a bird's-eye view makes its roofs of an- cient and clumsy tiles, which were long since turned by time from dull red to mossy green and gray, appear to be piled directly on top of one another. As in all Spanish America the building material is stone, adobe and plaster, but little wood being used, even the floors be- ing generaliy of tiles, bricks or cement. Ex- cept the huts of the Indians all are enormous structures, sometimes rambling around two or three inner courts, and though many of them contain several shops and shelter a number of families one finds nowhere those neat little houses, which can be furnished without much cost and easily kept in order, so much in d6- mand at the north, NO COZY HOMES. . Here the newly married pair must take a casa large enough for a garrison, or live in rooms above some shop or remain with the old folk, according to their taste and means. Per- haps that accounts for the fact that most of the great houses are scuntily furnished, their long and lofty apartments looking as bare and cheerless as so many town halls, without a trace of that cosy home look which American and English housewives delight to produce. Though the Spanish is said to be the richest of all languages it has no such word as “home,” nor anything nearer it than hogas which really signifies nothing in ‘ion, since iu all South America, among rich and poor, in the highlands and the lowlands, there 1s not @ hearth to sit by, nora stove, grate or other contrivance in which a fire may be built for warmth and cheerfulness. Though the capital of an important province, Chulumani contyins neither hotel nor tambo; therefore ail travelers must depend upon pri vate hospitality. The worst of it is that one’s generous entertainers would feel grievously in- sulted if offered money in return for their hos- pitality. Gifts are received, however, under the guise of regalos or souvenirs of friendship, and one needs to carry about the country a regular Yankee peddler’s stock of “notions” to distribute in payment for his board, A QUAINT OLD TowN. Outside of our own party there was not an English-speaking person in the whole depart- ment of Yungas. In Chulumani there is noth- ing of greater interest to be seen than the quaint old town itself. The only manufactory, if so it may be called, is an establishment where cocoa leaves are pressed into bales, each weighing 25 pounds, by a primitive machine in the hands of four Indians. There is but one sign board in the city and that where it is least needed—on the “‘institute” or Catholic college; a blue Famge} strip, whose golden letters are in the form of books, with an ink stand stuck full of pens fora period. The girls occupy the lower floor, the boys the upper, and precisely at 7 o'clock on every day in the week but Sunday school begins and holds till 5 in the afternoon, The institute being across the narrow street directly opposite our bed room window we were awakened ovary: mornii by childish voices piping a Catholic hymn, an all day long we had the benefit of the lessons, as, according to universal custom in these countries, the children study aloud—this one gee, hea his arithmetic, that one his gram- mar and a third his spelling lesson. The scholars are of all classes, from the well- dressed sons of the Jefe Politico to bare-footed Indian children, Some of the boys are designed for the priesthood and all are sedulously trained in the Catholic route to heaven, That the pee was somewhat thorny was evidenved by the frequent sound of blows and the howl- ings of some poor little urchin, THE MARKET. Then there is # market plaza always crowded with Indians and Cholos, where all the mer- chandise that reaches this secluded spot is ex- posed for sale in open booths or on the ground, from Indian peters to Parisian fabrics, meat, fruit and vegetables, Fronting one side of this plaza is the village church, and as Sun- day 1s the great gala and business day of the week we were compelled to force a path through the crowd, stepping over little heaps of vegetables, cheese and other commodities on our way to the sanctuary, To kneel among a throng of Indians on a floor whose bricks have been worn thin by the kuees of centuries of worshipers, while mass is chanted and incense burned, is not an uncom- mon experience; but few church-goers in any land were treated to finer music on that bright Sunday morning than we in this far country. One of our party, a type of the best class of Spanish Americans, is a musical composer of unusual genius; and having beer invited by the cure, he ascended the rickety organ loft and made the long-silent and decrepit old in- strument speak as never in the palmiest days of a _ I am afraid that the music, mostly improvised, now solemn, now joyor was hardly in accord with the mass; at tit reached the dullest heart was shown by the tears that fell from many eyes, The poor In- dian, the bare-footed Cholo girl, with her baby of unknown parent slung on her back, and the lady of higher degree wept without know- ing why that the music expressed, as words could not, the pain ind ion and disappoint- ment of human life, its brief snatches of pleas- ure, and the inevitable end of all in darkness and mystery. THE CURE OF CHULUMANI isacharacter not tobe passed without men- tion, Barely twenty-four years of age, remark- ably handsome in a dark, sharp-featured way, educated far bie oo the ken of his associates ni ae Ngnong Ngepeeen little wor! outlook upon life is certainly not a somber one, After mass his youthful excel- lency called upon us in long black gown and silky wide-brimmed hat, tied up at the sides, shovel fashion, with black cords and tassels, and in course of conversation informed us that a kind of musical reunion was | which hit & E FFs “Well, we went, tho fc ell, we went having been nearly nitty of scared Sy Dede that reached us in the plano, scoblact argek, gations Pi a organ, other musical instruments, American genius rendered some lections, the house servants w Rive us a specimen of native call was concluded with the most ns on all sides, It came wever, that we did not see real entertainment of the HE af ERY & | i HE iB Fes? i i if TERE. £ ile i 4 i d in ! i i i i i : i if | i it crusading ancestor. There were sofape of won: derful on the wails, and pic- sures, floor was bare and the oot the Ca nanetne s tomes in Greek and were ¥ DAY. JULY 12, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES. CITIES AND HAMLETS | mens of modern literature in other vulsed with feeling and streaming with tears. inclading Eugene Sue, Ouds and | MZola's | To be sure, they were all more or less und. latest and nastiest. the influence of mative sicohol and probabiy Row ont of place the handsome cure must | had beeu for twenty-four hours or more, but amid such surroundings and whet an ex- | that is the regular faperal custom «mong the ample he affords of the effect of education, of | aichuas and their way of showing respect te having eaten of “the fruit of the tree of good | b Sy dead. and evil,” or perhaps of the phrase, *“A little ATING THE DEVIL. learning is a ous thing!” His mother, It is also their custom when @ person is be- whom we naturally mistook for a servant, in & | »: dirty biack dress aad manta, with e meus her | Heved to be dying to tie cord tightiy around on her head, did not ak duringour stay, | Bis Beck, with astick im it, and then to twist but ent on a rade bench aveorbed as cigar- | the latter, a la garrotte, until the Inst breath is ote. forced out of the body. The explanation is that the devil stands by, ready to grab the do- ing soul and carry it down to purgatory, ut by this choking process the soul is kept ia for a while and bis satanic majesty outwitted. That mistakes sometimes occur and # man is made to die who otherwise wouldn't seems probable. CHIRCA is the most picturesque village I have yet seen, Perched on an outstretched arm of the Andes, with lofty heights on every hand. The roof- tiles of ite houses are green with moss, and on many of them grass and bushes are growing. For some unknown reason the village is nearly The mother of the deceased, an old crone rted. In the center of its grassy plaza is |in short dress of blas fiannel, bare feet and ‘® Grecian-temple sort of structure of plastered gray hair braided down her back, was the adobe, now empty, which Probably once served | ob; of universal condolence, together asamarket house, Just above the town on with the brothers and sisters. One after the slope of the mountain is an ancient wall | another would rush up and embrace ther with quaint arched gate: outlining the | and relate some anecdote or incident in the Bie‘scone ric, promenade, which used tobe | lite of him they mourned, whereupon the © scene of Sunday gaicty in Chirea’s flourish- | gobs and wails would ing days. The beautiful old church, inclosed Suddenly it seemed to dawn upon them that within wall as high as itself, with a huge | two white women, with compassionate looks, wooden gate facing the plaza, is surrounded were sunting among them. For a moment by * luxuriant garden of roses and orange | they appeare IX AN OLD CHURCH, Being obliged to stop some days in this vil- lage your correspondent spent most of her time in theold church. Its inner walls are biack- ened by time and leakage. The square bricks that once floored it are mostly worn away and the roof, of bamboo woven together, is ropped and stayed overhead by rfect byrinth of cross-pieces formed of I trees merely stripped of their bark. The two high, square apertures that serve for windows show the enormous thickness of the walls and were once furnishrd with iron bare,which long since rusted away. Along each side rans an adobe bench, much too high and damp for comfort, but quite good enough for its purpose, as here the men sitat ease while their mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts kneel on the dirty floor praying for their ungrateful lords, as women vOppeclis tea its round yulplt, ‘which posite the li round pulpit, which is aston by a flight of adobe stairs, and hung with rich hand-wrought lace, now tattered and yellow, ina large shrine painted blue and orange hangs the biceding figure on the cross in a short but gorgeous skirt of Japa- nese embroidery on purple satin, Below stands the Mother of Sorrows with seven silver- handled daggers sticking in her heart, and by her side is St. Joseph, looking the youngest of the party, in a splendid dressing gown in- wrought with gold. In grotesque incongruity with the massive richness of the silver altar are the tawdry images upon it. Among them with tiny wings, embroidered pantalettes reaching the tops of their white shoes, dresses of white muslin and ribbon sashes in Bolivar’s national colors (red, yellow and green) bound across their breasts. Among | remarkable images, + Pacmmerae ‘se MaMa ® receive most attention is a figure of of oon B it having b about four feet high, the name of the sun god's wife, whom th ATTIRED IN 4 WHITE “SfOTHER BU! ancestors adored. What ideas with one foot protruding, the great too of | through their darkened minds I do not ku which has actually been nearly worn off by the | P&t the sight was too pitiful, aud being wnal kisses of worshipers, Another i ponds to say a word their consolation we scattered ene pase Fepre- | among them every piece of coin we posscased sents caw roe three feet high, attired in «| and beat a hasty retreat. | Magnificent cloth-of-gold gown with long train, 7 and on the head a mass of real hair (yellow) ee falling below the knees, The pride of the| AB bour later I returned to the church yard town as in an upper hall of the same building, | #0 see how our dusky friends were getting on @ little back of the church proper and reached | with their funeral, They had left the grave and by an outside stairway, in which worship is | seated themselves under the shades of the conducted on all feita days. | When the aplen- | Po. buch, ery . did curtain of cloth-of-gold that hides ite altar | Tot.y whe wrtynd nseon io fount. inte is rolled away several life-size figures are dis- | Poiled potatoes bat me ne ne ete closed, all most richly dressed. ‘he virgin is | Dolled potatoes, b wer ton particularly gorgeous, having jewels wrought be prey wey emg Sy Glee Allover her tobe, on her head's tall golive | 2mcthing he or she had kuown of the dead crown, and encircling all a kind of half | 0m 2i% life, | after the yy EE cart wheel, the spokes turned outward (sup- | prefers or ehowat semone . Posed to represent rays of glory), all of pure | worn or’ implement of Gold. Ass county Bolivia is very poor and | Shils the tears and subs went om anal ba the majority of her people enjoy fow of the | Sn4 the bottle of alcohol circulated tre Somrorss of life; yetthe tumble-dowm sanc-| Of course they would get gloriously inter. cold cigs deserted village contains enough | cated, mother and all, and renain oo while the sold and silver in its altar facings, lamps, | Suppiy tested. It was mo time or occasion fo crucifixes, vestments, de..to restore the for-| Esicnary work, evel hed ous bane ak, tunes of Chirca, build school houses and ren- ; 4 “4 der all its inhabitants fortable for lif to speak their language; but I gave them m habitants comfortable for life. immediat d substantial comfort by berrow- TO THE NEXT TOWN. ing all the small coin our party possessed aud From Chirca to the next town, called Chupe | distributing it among them; devoutiy hoping (pronounced Chew-pay), the road is simply | they would invest every cont of it in alcobol horrible—e narrow trail on the brink of | $< remain inmonsible ss long as possible te stupendous precipices, winding up and down se oe and round and round as only pAndesn passes — - can, several miles of the way being a regular [MERS’ UNION. series of ‘stairs cut in the rock, down which a Vee, our m picked their way step by step, Co. os Daneel . When one learns toride with complacency over | ‘Operative Society That Comprises that road he is prepared for any saddle exploit the Whole City of Bresiau. on record or off. — Foliowing the course of the Chupe river,| Consul Dunlap in a report to the State De- winding far below—teeling ourselves filled to | partment on the Breslau Consumers’ Union _ Sears ors es dish called “chupe.” | says: This is an association founded upon the aving ittle else tc eat for a fortnight—we | ~~ arrived at the village of Chupe an hour after | C-Perative plan, and has been in operation nightfall, and learned to our distress that the | # the city of Breslau, Germany, for twenty- let contained no tambo nor a spare room | four years. It first started with only forty in any of ‘the oor, cams, the only piece of | members, who, being convinced that the true refuge being the empty sc! ouse, where ; we 1 the few travelers who come this way are per-| W#Y to make money eed ani a» Sones Ene mitted to lodge. So set up on edge 1 this Netle | 8 Agreement to purchase all their supplies for town by reason of its sharp hills that though | family use, so far as possible, at one place, the front door of this finy temple of learning | which should virtuaily be under their control nara cagd nt npogd _ _ a its | and the profits, if any, inure to themselves, A joor is in air, with a lower story 4 “ below it. This convenient ground floor, which small room was rented, a man employed to is sometimes used for stabling mules and other | take charge, and the uniou at once entered useful purposes, now served as a dormitory for | upon a successful career. This organization the gentlemen, while the ladies of the party | took place in 1866, and without capital stock, established themselves above. Imagine a low, | except that each member paid as member. narrow room, With earth floor and no windo dul Gon Si yoyo 3 arow of benches extending all around the | Sip fee the sum of 50 pfennigs (12 cents) and walls, with desks before them, and you have | 4 further sum of 40 pfennigs (10 cents) to pay the Chupe school house. the cost of his pass book, and which latter sum ANOTHER INTERESTING VILLAGE , ae to him in case he desires to with- in the Yungas department is named Yanacachi. | “From this small beginning the number of Its queer little casas are all two-storied, and | stores has increased to forty-three, in different nearly everybody lives above, reaching his | parts of the city, and it hag —— of the door by outside adobe stairs, not running | ™#24gement to increase this number so soon straight up, but erosewise of the house front, | “7, hommes, or ce ene demands tt The oddest charch Lover sav, though by mo | noard of forty-three directors, clooted by the means the oldest, is hare. It was built by the | Sobers, ond these lather choos om enscw@tine Graniards soon after the conquest, in these | Comsistes of Give members, whe have eeeteek Sesh times when gold and sliver wrested from | Creuse actanl business, ‘Sie> former to aetna {he natives were more ploatifal than wood in | the board of direction and the latter the berna troctens sootions Ser building purposes. The} of’ mosegemant During tho pear BEND Gee entire front of the high eltar is faced with | So.Ser beard bold twelve mectionn tee bots massive plates of silver—square yards of jt— pupae nud tone ” f curiously wrought with faces and figures and | °M° csc quaint inscriptions, All this still remains,after WEAt TER UNION Doms, more than three centuries, though India: The business of the union cousists in furnish- Cholos, who have Bo idea of its real beauty ud} ing, at the usual market price, all kinds of value, are now the oply communicants. des "= e " P . the altar front there are hundreds of dollars’ ar te sara oy ge cage va worth of pure silver in bars and railings, | “T Uy be said) beer and wine also, which are lamps and crucifixes—whiie most of the haif.| here included among the necessaries of life, naked wretches who kueel before them never | The goods sold are all of good qua’ knew in their lives what itis to have hunger | being purchased in large quantities completely satisfied. times sold lower than the same are sold b The churchyard,with its thickets of red roses, | other merchants, though this is sought to be is surrounded ‘by a high wall of uneven | avoided in order not to create an antagons stones, jutting up here and there a curious lit- | or rather not to extend that already exis tle sugar-loaf tower. The bell tower. over- | No goods are sold to perso: frown from top to bottom with ferns and | members are not bound t 7 rushes, stands some distance from the main | of the union, though when they do they must edifice. Climbing the adobe staircase that | invariably pay cash, It ts to this fact that winds inside to a somewhat dangerous perch | much of the success of the union may be ai- among the bells and acolony of doves one | tributed. may enjoy a beautiful view of the surrounding | During the year 1888 the sales of the union country. amounted to $1,499. 84; in 1889 to €1,763,- 920.08, the profit on which, after paying ail ex- penser, amounted to $158,247.76. In 1888 there was a membership of 25,059; in 1889 of 30,598, This ina city of 312,000 inhabitants would in- dicate that a very large majority of the heads of families patronized the co-operative store. A coal depot is located at a central point in the city and orders may be left for coal at any one of the stores, but no dividend is given the pur- chaser of coal. The union owns and operat one of the largest, if not the largest, steam bakery in the German empire, it having a daily capacity of 60,000 pounds of bread, —— s now to be “increased to 74,000 pounds daily, Ordinarily noone in Germany bakes bread; hence the demand for that article which, in the case of this union, is made of rye, baked in round loaves of 4 pounds each, having the im- print of the union on each loaf, and is sold for the uniform price of 48 pfennigs (11.4 cents), This bakery gives employment to 1 superiu- tendent, 1 chief baker, 30 bakers, 2 machiue heaters, 36 drivers and statle mon, 5 female workers, 1 watchman and 22 horses, Whennot engaged in delivering bread the drivers and teams haul supplies to the bakery and to the stores. ‘The other operating force of the union con- sists of 12 superintendents (who are also pur- chasing agents), 2 treasurers, 41 chief male salesmen or directors of the stores, 3 women chief saleswomen, 22 male clerks and 95 female clerks. ‘The wives of the chief salesmen assist at the store whenover it is necessary. PRICES AND PROFITS. The prices and profits for the year 1889 both | show a decline, the latter being two-thirds of 1 percent, less than in 1888; but at the same time the cost of maintenance shows the same decline, and customers have had the advantage of de- cline in prices on goods. ‘The expense of com donkey, dressed as a Spanish cavalier—som- | ducting the business during the year 1589 was brero, boots, rapiers and ail—about to $2,588.79, permanent investment and interest make his entry into Jerusalem. On Palm Sun-! on purchases, 10,307.62; pay of directors and day this image is in through | managers, €5,879.52; dividend: checks, €173,- therstreet of the town and the people cast their | 359.7%, The profit during the year was 15.47 palms before it, in full belief of some mysteri- | per cent.; expenses, 4.68 per cent.; net profit, ous 10.79 per cent. The average amount bought by XO DANGER OF THEFT. each member was $62.40. Notwithstanding its store of solid silver, of which everybody appears to have forgetten the value, the church yard gate stands open night and day and has no lock at all. ian slouches in the and E | iff | PI 5: i uh Fe itt ; i iE.] Ht | i F : E j i f : | i : £ E 8 i i : f i i i ie ap ~-