Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1890, Page 12

12 bent ake tlle FROGS AND HOP TOADS How Froggy is Brought to the Wash- ington Market. _ HE LIV AND DIES. eas How Toad—What Toad Stones Are—A Life of Ages. ERY likely there may have been bigger frogs in those times befere the deluge. whew, according to the geological sharps (and they have dug up petrifactions and fossils to prove it), the noble < batrachian grew to be as big as a man. But, as- J ssrediy, none larger is ~ sven in these degenerate @ays than the particular old fellow, close by # bunch of bullrushes. to whom little Jimmy Snyder called the attention of the Sabbath school reporter for Tue Star last Sunday on a marsh near Alexandria. “Sh-h-h! Watch me tackle that buster!” said little Jimmy, unwinding from his fishing rod a short line with a hook and a bait of red flannel on the end of it. The antiquated frog. unsnspicious of designs ‘upon his own comfort or happiness, was sitting on the bank near 4 small stream. apparently thinking hard. Atall events. he was staring earnestly at the sky, with only an occasional blink. possibly reflecting upon the grave re- sponsibilities incumbent on an animal cer- tainly more ancient by many thousands of years than the human race, and modeled. even to its thumb, upon a structural plan of which man’s is only an imitation. CAPTURING A GRANDDADDY FROG. For such considerations of antiquity, how- ever, little Jimmy bad nct « particle of rever- ence. Quietly dropping his hook with its red flannel bait upon the surface of the stream a yard or so above the patriarch he permitted it to ghde slowly down the sluggish current. To look at aged Mr. Frog and observe his thoug! ful and unemotional ex- ression You would not ave imagined that he perceived the lure at all. But, like a flash, he gave a tremendous leap, and ina momen. all was over with him. Hooked securely, he was quickly fete reach and lodged in little Jimmy's covered basket. but poor old froggy had one friend left in the Sabbath school reporter. who ransomed him with a silver 10-cent piece. “Perhaps I will catch him again some other time.” said little Jimmy. throwing his captive back into the stream regretfully he really was a buster!” In response to inquiry Little Jimmy had much to say about frog fishing that was inter- esting. “Why.” said he. “Alexandria, you know I mean the marshes and the Eastern Branch of the Potomac supply most of the Washington demand for frogs. But the best frogging around m this reg on is about Mattawoman creek. I tell you what it is, sir, they just swarm there! The creek, you know, runs into the Potomac from Maryland forty- five miles down the river.” When Little Jimmy was asked if the market supply of frogs tor Washington was secured with red-flanuel bait he snigzered disdainfully and replied: POT HUNTING VERSUS SPORT. ww! Those fellers that catch frogs for market are no sports at all. Did you ever see frogs shot?” 7 ” admitted the Sabbath achool reporter. : rejoined little Jimmy, “shootin’ is sport and fishin’ is sport. You've seen the fishin’: the shootin’ is done wid powder an’ shot, That's sport—that is. In old times frogs used to be killed that way for market, but now they mur- der ‘em.” “How do vou mean?” “With alight,” sad little Jimmy. “The frogs they take to market mow ate captured wid a boat, with a retlectin’ light on the Low of = it like a locomotive head- light. Goi’ along a stream the frogger turns ht thie way and that Ty frog that sees it just comes to a stand and looks, stiff as 4 poker, just like a deer. wonderin’ what } circus is, Then, WAS he’s wonderin’, long comes the frogger and picks up Mr. Frog, without lus knowin’ What it’s all about anyway. Now. isn’t that a regular cheat? 1 tell you what it is, sir—a frog doesn't have his proper show nowadays.” A day or two later the Sunday school reporter chanced to observe an extra-sized frog im the act of being jerked out of # tank inside of a restaurdat window by « man ima white cap and apron. A customer in a very beautiful summer shirt, sash and pantaloons had selected from the tank the animal be wanted, which within a few moments was destined to appear Qs 4 sacrifice on a silver dish. HOW 4 FROG D ‘The cook bad small regard for humanitarian Principles evidently. Having retreated with bis prize to the kitchen he held it by the hind lege and was about to bang its head against a corner of the sink. when a second thought struck bim. and he said to the newspaper umn. who had obtained permission to enter the cu- linary sanctum ~Let me show you how a frog can die!” And, ashe spoke, be slit the poor creature's throat wcross with a stroke carving knife. Thus murdered, the trog tolded its arms tightly across its breast. just as would a man Besignued to death, and caimly extended its duwbs in rigor mortis, “Ordinarily,” said the cook, “I kill ‘em by slappin’ their heads on the edge of a tin pail or that kuocks out their brains and s’em. But it is a funny thing about their legs, that they seem to heep alive after the rest of ‘em is dead as dead cum be. Here is & pair of frog's legs that has been skinned six hours. Now see me drop this bit of salt between em. Look how they in to work, All of asudden, just as if they was alive aaae Let some learned physicist tell Tue Stan's touders why this curious phenomenon occurred, if he can. Some stimulating chemucai of the Berves, uot yet altogether dead, one Baps suppose. Every student of y knows that the discovery of galvauism was due to the accidental contact of a “hive” wire with a pair of frog's legs reserved for Mrs. Galvani s supper. BKINGING ¥KOGS TO WASHINGTON. “Spring is the season when the bustin’ big frogs cowe into market,” said the cook. “Boys fetch # good many about that time, and some of ‘em ‘li weigh ax much as a couple of pounds, with thighs almost ax bis ‘round as your wrist. Did you ever notice w irug’s thig Just see what an immense big mass of muscle itis. No ader he’s a jumper. Ten years ago all the frogs were brought into Wasiington by the wen aud boys who caught them, wud were ped- died about the restaurants. Iu those days very few people ate frogs. But now most every- body eats em, and they have become a regular market article, suid atthe fish stall. Farther ferth, in New York and other cities, the bodies Of the frogs ure not eaten, but only the legs. That's a pity, because the pickings on the bod are just as good as the ment on the legs. But folks have ali sorts of prejudices. A customer here tuld me the other ‘day that 4 big frog sevked whole reminded lim 30 much of @ broiled buby as to take his appetite. 1 the way I usuaily do, beca yu wouldn't like to hear bim cry. you know, when it’s burt Sties just like a baby though of course it doesn't fenlly teel auy thing when its brains are knocked eat. Lhat's the readiest way to kiil’em. When @trog is killed he always fuids bis arms and Stretches ous bis legs as you saw this one do. Before the frogging seasou opens here in the spring the Washingt: ‘AOL 18 supplied with the legs, ready i, from Canada; after the season is over on the Potomac we get them from New York. All the marsties back of the Potomac, on Doth sides of the river, are full of frogs.” Forty species of frogs are known in the world —We largest of them the gixautic “bellower” of the Lo to four on miallest the tree frog. fae ‘og is astonishingly lke to man in physi tal respects, aud that is the reasou why anato- mists are so continually cutting the unfortu- Qate batrachian up, to show his muscular struc ture and the circulation of bis blood, givin, uw poisous to see bow they affect hin trying to find out how well he can get along without his brains, his intestines or other vital | eke Curiously enough. a frog deprived of is brains will live perfectly weil for au indefi- nite period, eatin; what is put in his mouth and pursuing existence ins sort of automatic manner. x TOADS AND THEIR ‘‘STONES. The frog. like the owl, has been accepted as 8 comic animal, w e the toad. which has been set apart with the bat asa creature of mystery andeven dread. Of all superstitions regard- + the toad the most interesting is that which relates to the “stone” in its head. For contu- ries this stone, which every toad was supposed to carry. was believed universally to be a sure charm agaist poisons and the evil eye, and ladies and gentlemen commonly wore toad stones as amulets. Yo determine a real toad stone from a false one this recipe was given: ‘Hold your stone before a toad so that he may see it well and, if it be a good and true stone. the toad will leap toward it to ich it from you, for he envieth so much that a man should have that stone. Toad stones were costly because of the un- willmgness of the creature to give up its treas- ure, which, even when dying, it would swallow to couceal it. One sure way recommeuded for securing a stone was this: “Take « large and oid he toad, and place him ou a table upon a red cloth, watch him carefully all night. and before morning he will yomit up hiv stone.” There are plenty of these toad stones now in existence; they are of particularly good ivory and are shaped somewhat like an acorn cup. Unfortunately for the superstition, however, science has discovered that they are nothiug more nor less th the teeth of the extinct “hump-toothed shark,” a tish that existed in a remote geological age and left its teeth be- hind it. “To tind one was suficiently rare to render it a curiosity, and, inasmuch as it did not look hke a tooth or anything else in par- ticular, the mysterious object passed very well for a toad stone. LIVING FOR AGES, That toads have been found slive in cavities in rocks, wherein they must have been inclosed hundreds of centuries betore, there is the best scientific evidence for believing. ‘the ouly theory advanced to account for the marvel is that they were shut up while in a torpid state by the forming stone and remained there for thousands upon thousands of years in # condi- tion that implied uo waste to their bodies and, therefore, no need of nutrition, When the tools of the workmen released them they quickly revived and awoke to health and live- tines ter their sleep ot epochs, With what wns of mingled awe and reverence must hemeral man of the nineteenth century, we lite 18 buta bubble on the shores of eternity, gaze upon the hoary toad who, in his soitary crypt, has outlived the ages! THE CAPITOLINE HERCULANEUM. ‘Treasures inthe Crypt and Vaults Under the Capitol Rotunda. N account of the demand for storage space for the congressional library Mr. Clarke, the chief architect in charge of the Capitol building. is now preparing for a general clearing out of the erypt vauits and room space :mmediately under the central dome. This portion of the crypt or sub-basement has been kept locked from the general public on account of the valuable his- torical works of art stored there. A Srak rep- resentative made a tour of this subterrancan museum the other day. The first object of historical interest that eonfronts the visitor is the tomb of Washing- ton, immediately under the center stone of the floor of the rotunda, the exact center of the building. It is a small, square vault-like room, with about two-thirds of its side walls deeply recessed in arched alcoves, or rather more like the recessed reliquary chambers in the tomb of Napoleon. ‘This vault was built up in the masonry of the base walls of the building, designed as a tomb for the ‘imiortai V ington.” but other influences of a more seuti- mental nature defeated the object. In the center of this tomb rests a catafaique covered with black velvet that adds to the sepulchral appearance of the surroundings. Ou occasions when it 14 desired to lay our illnstrious dead “in state” at the Capitol this catafalque is placed im the center of the rotunda for the purpose, It was used for Thaddeus Stevens, dancoln, Sumner, Gartield, Logan and other Statesmen from time to time. GODDESS OF LIBERTY. In an adjoining vaulted room is the plaster castof Crautord’s Goddess of Liberty from which Clark Mills cast the bronze tigure that surmounts the dome of the building. Even in its disjointed parts one is impressed with its colossal proportions, it being 19 ivet 6 inches high, the bust alone being taller than our- selves. Itis being preserved in moderately fair conditien, from which, if it ever becomes necessary, another bronze figure could be re- produced. In another room are the 4 ander Hamilton, Thos. H. Benton and also a sitting figure of Hamilton by the artist Stone, The marble figure was exceuted from the statue model of Hamilton which stands in a niche in the wall on the north corridor of the Senate wing. The sitting figure declined by the joint library committee. © statue model of Benton bas never been executed in murble, as was designed. It is considered by some as w work of great merit, aud it is thought that the people of Missouri, no doubt, would take steps to have it wrought in marble if they know of its whereabouts, These dels belong to the epresentatives and will,in a short while, be removed from their present resting place, Contiguous to these statues are the model bnsts of Stanton, Wayne of Georgia, not ex- ecuted in marble, together with a large collec- tion of models of those that have been put in marble and mow occupying pedestals and niches in various parts of the Capitol building and other public places, among which is that ot Chief Justice Taney, in the council room of the Supreme Court. VICE PRESIDENTS AND SPEAKERS. In accordance with the provision for placing busts and portraits of all the Vice Presidents and Speakers in the gallery of their respective chambers the arc: ct has received in his oitice for the consideration of the committee the model bust of John C. Calhoun, by The- dore Miils; Hannibal Hamlin, by Franklin Sun- mons, and Daniel Lompkius of New York. Mr. Clarke speaks of the Calhoun bust as particularly artistic in all its details, while t! of Franklin and Tompkins are e: ually fine, only lacking the striking person individ: uality. The reasons why the collection of the Speakers’ busts cannot be completed are as singular as varied. In relation to securing a portrait of Nathaniel Mason of Georgia, Speaker aster statues of at of the House of the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Congresses. the architect a with parties in North Carolina and Ga. which was named after the ex-Speaker, but could learn nothing relative to a portrait of him. and only recently from one of the faculty of liandolph Macon College, at Ashland, Va., he learned of the singular antipathy that the old statesman had against having his portrait made. So the architect will have to content tumself by having @ tablet instead of a por- trait pluced to bis memory in the Speakers’ gal ery. Tn # general summary of the remaining con- tenteof these vaults are hundreds of unknown busts. medallions and designs relating to the cmbeilishment of the Cupitol, euch as arabesques, rosettes, foliated capitals and beautitully wrought caryatides, wile m the medallions are of exquisite workmanship Among the general coliection are also found the models used in drawing many of the acces- sories in the famous picture ‘Westward Ho,” on the wall at the western gullery stairway of the House wing. PAINTINGS, Iu various portions of the crypt are paintings of large size in boxes waiting for their owners toclaun them. Among them are the “First Nebraska Homestead,” by a lady who desired to present it to the government; “Rescue of Greely,” by Operti, and **Furthest North.” the subject of which is two of Greely’s oficers tak- ing observations. The life-size portrait of Grant was claimed by a donee of the proprietary artist a short time eine It bad quite a history, An artist procured a letter of introduction to Gen. Grant from a western Senator during the war. Upon the faith of a simple letter of in- troduction he proceeded to the general's head- quarters to execute him on capvas in oil, Alter the painting was finished he delivered it at the Capitol with a bill for a good round sum, which was promptly and W poteirrenged ignored. ‘The painting was removed to the crypt in the Fault in which occurred the gas explosion some Yearsago. The artist then claimed #250 for damages to his picture, which upon examina- tion was found to be unscathed and unhurt. Finally patience and perseverance succumbed under repeated failures to secure pay fcr a painting never ordered, and he gave it toa friend, who rescued the derelict. There is a rent deal of quaint history of hopes and disa potntinents connected with a vast deal of this accumulation of works that were once thought to have sprung from the brains of genius, but in aiter years were found to be illusory dreams of either ardent Lopes or pinching necessities, — sos tia Bevery name counts, Make your protest agains manslauyhter at yrade crossings, Sign the peti- tion in today's STAR against the Atkinson bilk, Written for Tre EvEnivo Stax, A TRIP TO MONTANA. Disastrous Career of a Fledgling Gov- ernment Agent. WHAT HE THOUGHT HE WOULD DO AND WHAT HE DID—RIDING A PEXSIVE BRONCHO—AMONG THE JOCULAR COWBOYS—HOW HE WAS BOXED UP. AND SENT HOME. E was a newly appointed agent for the Department of Agriculture. Destina- } tion, Montana, at that time only a ter- \ ritory. He felt his importance in the world and took it for granted that every one could see that he was a public official with &@ commission in his pocket. He had been com- missioned to go out there among the buffaloes and Indians and cowboys and horse thieves to investigate the loco trouble,which was causing the death of so many registered horses and cat- tle, to say nothing of scrubs. He had no intention of skinning horses or of dissecting putrifying cows, nor of experiment- ing with the so-called loco weeds as food for } stock in order to discover which was poisonons | and which was not. He was a Special Agent with acapital Sand A. Others could do that | 4 sort of work if they wished and he would condescend to incorporate the | results of their labore in his report. | He'd ride about on horseback at an easy pace, partake of the good cheer here and there. ask | a few questions, go and look at the dried-up carcass of some old ram that had died of ex- posure and a run-down system the previous winter, and then write up “loco” ina thor- oughly scientific and scholarly manner. Off he started with $200 or Som his pocket. He took the best berth and the best food the trains could give and tipped tho waiters right | and left. Indue course he rexched Montana | and got off ata place in the midst of a good stock region called Eagle Rock. it was a beau- tiful afternoon. nearly sundown. He shaded his eyes with his hand, looked out upon the expansive plain and pack into the shadowed | gulch—not a town or village, nor even a hamlet in sight. Nothing but a few stock pens, beside the track—not even a platform or | freight shed —and back a little way only two | or three log cabins, In front of the largest | cabin tive men, «cated on powder kegs, were | peacefuily smoking. y ull wore sombreros, were booted and spurred, and had revoivers in their belts. Hiteted to a tree near by were +h looked wondcriusly and resentfuily out of their big eyes at this finely dressed man, whose whole appearance was so out of harmony with his picturesque and untamed surroundings, EAGLE ROCK. ‘The special agent lighted a cigar, sauntered over to the house and asked the manu nearest the door where Eagle Rock was, “Right here, partner, ‘This is the hotel; step inside.” He stepped inside and found himself in a combi- | nation of bar rvom, post oflice and general | store. On the lid of x grocery box was in- | seribed in red chalk: “Pose Oflise.” spicuous of all, however two volvers, loaded and hwif-cocked, on the side- | board below the mirror behind — the bar. A few chairs were — ranged along one wall = and) twos card tables occupied what remaining space was not taken up by sacks of and sides of bacon. The four me y came in and the hisky straights” each and hauself man- d to choke down two small swallows of the past. stuff, Then he ealled for sup- per, which consisted chiefly of — rusty bacon and half-cooked beans and salt codfish. He couldn't and wouldn't stand that, he dl, “Weil, sit down to it. for that’s what you'll git here, or nothin’,” he was sharply told. Stunner number one! He had been expecting to teast on roast buffalo, venison pic, stuffed grouse and fried trout. and then to be offered such a bill of fare! He was hunery and had to make the best of it. it” is true that the coffee wus black. muddy, sugariess and creamless, that baking powder biscuits, y with grease, were substitutes tor bread — it’s true they used bacon grease for butter and it's true that the dessert was wormy dried ap- ples stewed with wormy prunes, but after ail shrough the forty holes in his box aud planted rheumatism in forty parts of his orgauism at once. At last, after four nights and five days of this original mode of traveling. Washington—this picns.godly,moral city—wasreached. The train id hardly stopped when a crowd of boys and grown-up idlers, attracted by the conspicuous sign “Rock mountain rats,” collected in front of the wonderful box. The train men handed it down to the express men. They all thought there must be a good many rats inside, judg- ing by the weight’ They got it~ out- side to the express wagon and were just lifting it im, when a nail caught in the hand of one of the men, who. thinking he Was being bitten, let go, yelling: «Boys, they've chawed through the tin and are bitin’ like the evil.” At that they all let go and down came the box onto the pavement upside down, They soon righted it up. but the lid had come loose and there it lay, with a doubled-up, dazed, half- crippled, woe-begone-looking man on top of it, turning his piteous eyes toward the spectators. The police came up and dragged the poor, cramped, theumaticky wretch off, the crowd following, yelling: ‘Rats! Rats! Rats!” Ladies got out of the way close to the buildings and held their skirts tight about their ankles, The speaker stopped, looked around for the approval of hiv audience and nodding toward the bar, remarked: ‘Boys, I'm pretty dry.” They winked at each other and joined him. Such was the story I heard the other day de- livered by a prominent western Congressman. It prompted me to advise young men just start- ing out in life not to go under full sail until they have a cargo aboard which they know will keep its equilibrium; for, sure as fate, if they Ket into a heavy sea, with the wind in their teeth while they are in light ballast they are bound to capsize and wreck. A soe Window Echoes, From the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. Open house windows on still summer nights afford good entertainment for those sleepless individuals who spend their time kicking the sheet off and pulling it up. “For heaven's sake, Maria,” peals out a voice as starthng as if from a churchyard, “don’t snore so loud. I've done nothing but invent ways to wake you up ever since I came to bed. The neighbors will certainly think I am strangling you. Can't you put om the soft pedal a ttle? Ease up, anyway, till I get a cent’s worth of nap.” ‘ “Me snoring!” Maria replies, in sleepy dis- regard of grammar, “It's your own echoes you hear, aven't hada wink of sleep, I can't sleep with you coming in at all hours of the night, and turning up the gas full tilt to see if you've dampened your patent leathers. " Me snoring! — Never snored in my life, and you know it, You didn’t know what you were about, any way, when you came in, You said you had been down to Taft's, and there isn’t any ‘Taft's now. Think I'm a fool? You get into one of your mixed-drink snoozes and bear your- self snore, and then yell ‘Maria!’ Go to sleep, will you, and remember there's only one person snores in this family, and that’s you!” And a deadly silence reigns behind those windows, ar-mar. Yes, darling. “1s par-par here?” “Yes, darling?” Is we goin’ away tomorrow?” Yes, du is Is goin” “Yes, darling. “Is you goin?” “Yea, darling. 1s par-par goin'?” Yes, darling.” we goin’ in choo-choos’ es, darling.” 1 goin’ in choo-choos?” “Yes, darling.” you goin’ in choo-choos?” es, darling.” Is par-par goin’ in choo-choos?” you here?” cs, darling.” Is we going to granmar’s?” “Shut that child up, will you, Helen, or I'l come in there.” And silence falls on another happy nocturnal talk, jaud?” he relished the meal pretty weil. | When supper was over they ull went outside to enjoy the air and slap mosquitoes. PECULIARITIES OF THE CAYUSE. In Montana the tw:lights in summer are very delightful. One can see to read quite comfort- ably till 10 p.m. of a summer night without the aid -of artificinl light. So the cowboys, to whom the special agent hud revealed his mis- sion aud expressed his desire to have a good saddle horse to use. suggested that one of their uumber should mount one of the saddle horses already mentioned and the agent the other. ‘The horses were saddied with the regulation Mexican saddles, which have two girths or cinches instead of one. The cowboy who volunteered to accompany the stranger, under the pretext of fixing the saddle “so it can’t turn,” tightened the cinches, especially the hind one, until the horse's belly looked like that of a big bull frog with a string drawn up tight around his middie, Now a cayuse can stand it to live on poplar twigs and grease- wood aud have his feet frozen solid for weeks ata stretch in winter, and he can—albeit he is buta pony—bear to’ carry a hundred and fifty pound man astride of a seventy-pound suddle for 75 miles without stopping, when a quirt Fone wg him that euch a feat is neces- sary, but when it comes to having his abdomen constricted in the middle until his chitterlings scrape acquaintance with his liver he objects on principle. mildly, at first, by trying to take & plece out of the operator's arta of cisewhere; that failing he waits with half-closed eyes and tremulous lower lip, which just then hangs three inches longer than his upper one, until the rider mounts; then he remonstrates with con- siderable vehemence and artistic effect, ‘The cowboy mounted his own horse and the unsuspecting “tenderfoot” sprang nimbly into the saddle on the cinched horse, They started. Suddenly the special agent's horse stopped short, aud had he not clutehed the horn of the saddle over the horse's head he would have gone. ‘Then the horse began to lope just as suddenly as he had stopped; from loping he went to jumping. Very soon he got his head down below his thorax, drew ail four fect to- xether, thus arching his back like an angry cat, and went jumping along —stiff-legged—in other words he “bucked” in the most approved style. Most cayuses are surprisingly proficient in this ele- gant art, but the anirual in question was most 8,” 1n eager shrilinesa, ‘Are you awake?” es; are you?” es. 1 can’t sleep.” “Neither can I.” n't he splendid?” ‘sh! Your brother will hear u.” “Don't care if he does; he acted like a per- fect brute tonight, to drag us home so early.” “Well, Ruth?” “What?” “Don't you think?” “What?” on't you think” (subdued giggie)— ‘Do vell me what I don’t think.” “Don't you think your brother” (snicker) — “Don't be an idiot, Maud; what do you mean?” “4 think your brother is” (sound as of pillow rammed into mouth)— Maud Newbury, if you can't stop bein; fool at midnight, what hope is there for you! “Allright, Ruthie; I'm going away next week, and you can be as wise as you please, only I was going to say something that you might”— “Well, what is it?” “Why I” (ecstacy of snickers)— “Maud!” know it.” Vhat do you know?” “That Iam a fool; but there"— “But what?” _“But your brother is so very” (gyration of giggles )— 0 very what?” “Why so very” (chokes in a spasm of mirth) —a window suddenly bangs, and the sheet- kicker is left in the summer midnight slough of silence again, a A Bachelor’s Criticism on Capes. From the Boston Post, Everybody knows that when I make any criti- cism on woman's dress 1 do so only after many protestations, with hat in hand, us it were, and calling upon heaven to witness that I speak under correction, in a humble spirit, and only from a strong and compelling sense of duty. But how can I refrain from condemning those fantastic, many-membered cloth capes that our women are wearing nowadays! They seem to me wonderfully ungrace- fui and unbecoming. I think, too, that I can demonstrate their artistic deticiencies: certainly a perfect master of it. Now, as a horse can't stand it to be cinched too tightly, neither can the average man bear to be bucked too hard. ‘The special agent soon got tired of being bucked, and yelled to be let off. ‘This loosened his hold, whereupon, like « flash, he went through the air with meteorie curves high over the horse's head, and fell, fortunately for him, on the broad of his back 20 fe an advan The treacherous cowboys roared with delight at this “free circus” exhi- bition. When their laugh was over they good-naturedly picked the agent up, dusted off his clothes, and led him to the house, AT THE END OF HIS KoPE. The cowboys are kind-hearted fellows, after all, and once they had initiated the special agent they treated him well, They took him on hunting and fishing expeditions to the neighboring mountains; took him to the round-up camp aud showed him the processes of catching and branding cattle and told him heaps about “loco;” they also showed him through the silver’ mines of that section, and altogether made him have a really pleasant time of it. But the time came when his money was about gone. He had drawn his salary up to date. One night he stopped ata lonely stage station with his careless comrades and when morning came he was minus ail his money, ex- cepting ten dollars left in his valise at Engle Rock. His trausportation blanks and credentials were also stolen. To add to misery lie was ordered back to his headquarters immediately. He couldn't get any money from his cowboy friends, for they only drew their pay two or three times a year and after each pay day went on aspree so long as their money lasted. Wh: was he todo? He racked bis brain night aud finally hit upon @ brilliant scheme for getting home, which he put into effect the next day with the aid of a cowboy, to whom he gave five of his remaining ten dollars, The other five he invested in crackers, canned meat, a demijobn, which he filled with water, anda flask of whisky, which he put in his pocket. He got # big dry goods box, which had been brought from the nearest wholesale trading place, tilled with groceries. He also got toxether seven or eight five-gallon coal oil cans, cut them open and. nailed them all over the outside of the box, after he had bored ten half-inch holes through the four sides of the box. Then he punched corresponding holes through the tin, ‘This done, he painted on the two longest sides in bold black letters ‘Rocky mountain rats.” In smaller letters he addressed the box to the mammalogist,“U.8, Dept. Agr., Washing- ton, D.C.—Handie carefully and keep in an airy place.” “In he got with his valise and provi- sions. The cowboy nailed down the hd and shipped him by express, C.0.D., that night on the east-bound trai, ON THE ROAD. Long before he reached Washington he wished that he really was rat, so that he might have room to stretch himself. They kept him in an airy place—outside on the roof of the baggage car, The whistled Woolen cloth used for garments does not lend itself to ornamentation and frippery any more than wood used for building can be adapted to Gothic forms. A cloth dress should be pain) and so of acape, At all events, and be this as it may, I cannot, will not, endure these pert, presumptuous, presuming garments. And, be- sides, the wrong women (as is invariably the case in sach matters) get hold of them, women whose role, though they don't know it, is the utmost severity and simplicity of attire. Bea sda as: a eae Making Slow Progress, From the Pittsburg Dispatch, Some time ago a Pittsburg detachment of the Salvation Army wandered down into Man- chester, Alleghony. In front of the Hope fire engine house they began a campaign of prayer and racket, They intended to convert the whole neighborhood. They reckoned firemen among their worst foes, They feared the con- stant intimacy of the firemen with confla- grations had made them less fearful of the fires beyond than they otherwise would have eon, After a season of prayer and war dances the leader approached one of the firemen, saying: “Brother, come with us; we are on the road to heaven.” “How long have you been on the way?” stol- idly inquired the fireman, “Two years,” replied the missionary. wand you've only gotten us far as Pittsburg?” “Yes.” “Well, then, I guess I'll take a shorter route,” said the fireman, as he took a chew of tobacco and wandered back to the house. Expected the ht “see Lightning Stroke. From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal. A strapge incident is told concerning the fatal thunderbolt at Homer N.Chase’s, at Buck- field. Mr. and Mrs. Chase were in Auburn Thursday afternoon and before the shower were in the National Shoe and Leather Bank in Auburn, Mr. Chase was talking with some of the bank officials and was asked if he was not going to stay over in the afternoon and see the races, He said that he thought not. ‘I noticed just as I came in,” he said, “that a black cloud was hanging over the west and it looks Soy a, ee it was right up in our vicinity. ightning has struck there a ood deal. Our house is on a knoll with « ledge and I have an idea that there might be some sort of attraction about the ound." Mr, Chase accordingly left for ome and, as is known, reached there only to find that the lightning had descended upon his home, prostrating his son and killing his hired man. ‘Tas RESULTS OF BOTH CHEMICAL ANALYSIg and hysiological experiments prove that Mellin’ ‘ood, when added to diluted vow’s milk. forms the only perfect substitute for mother’s milk that bas ever been produced; further proof is also found in the health aud good nature of the children who upan fy NEW YORK NOTES. What is Being Talked About in the Great Metropolis. KEMMLER AND THE NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS—SEN- SATIONALISM RAMPANT—WONDERFUL PRODUO- TION OF STOCKINGS—NEW CATHEDRAL CHIMES— BICYCLING BY THE SEA. Special Correspondence of THe EVENING STAR. New York, August 7. If New York had no bad dreams Wednesday night it was not the fault of the Metropolitan press, The bungling execution of Kemmier threw the newspapers into paroxysms quite as violent and as painful to behold as those of the coudemned felon, One of the newspapers treated ite readers to an all-day banquet of horrors in coursee, labelling the dishes, Kemm- Jer extra No. 1, 2 and 3, and so on, till by night- fall it had reached No. 7.° The only paper which abstained from breaking the law into very little bits by the full publication of details was the Evening Post, which contented itself with the lawful announcement. Of course to- day it is very much gratified at its own superior Virtue and rebukes its contemporaries severely. The general opinion seems to pe that this the last as well as the first electrical execution, 4 though the harrowing details of yesterday extras are not borne out by. scientific and medical testimony. It seems to be true that Kemmler suffered nothing con- sciously after the current was turned on and that his twitchings were purely muscular. At the same time the scene was more revolting than commonly attends death by hanging, and for that reason it is likely that Gov, Hill will reprieve the other felons who are under sen- tence ot death by electricity till the meeting of the legislature in January in order to avoid similar scenes, unless the lawmaking power in- sists on their execution. There are rumors atioat that the same corporation which fought so hard to prevent the execution took steps to make it a failure, but no substantial reasons exist in favor of such areport. Evidently the scientific part of the execution was bungled, but that was probably due to nervousness and inexperience. It can be said very truthfully that the execution shocked the whole commu- nity. A MILLION OF STOCKINGS A DAY. Iwas told today by one of the prominent hosiery merchants that the production of seam- less hose in this country was about 100,000 dozen pairs daily. This seems incredible, and yet my informant isa man of wide and accurate knowledge of the trade. A daily production of 1,200,000 pairs of stockings would mean 7,000,- 000 pairs each working week or 350,000,000 pairs a year, an average of fi to each man, woman, child, bed-ridden invalid and pickaninny in the land. And this covers only one class of stockings, though probably the most numerous one. Of course, the bulk is of the cheapest qualities, those that sell in the trade for tity cents a dozen and thereabouts, But how are they used, and where do they g0? It is almost as deep a problem as the death and the future life of the pin, ‘These statistics throw a strong light on the gigantic dimensions of the clousing trades. We scarcely put hosie and underwear among the i of dry goods, and yet the transactions are b yond the scope of an ordinary imagination, few weeks ago a company of A ors represent- ing the importing side of the trade alone gath- ea ered to confer on how best to protect their interests before Congr nd a rough compu- tation of the capital represented by the houses that then joined in action gave the stupendous total of 2600,000,000, GOING BACK TO THE MUSICAL CLASstcs. It is evident that a quict but vigorous reac- tion is going on in various church organiza- tions against the secularizing tendencies of church music in this country. Perhaps it should be said that the reaction was not begun yenterday—it may date back five years or so — ut itisonly recently that it has attracted general attention. At St. Patrick's Cathedral and its subsidiary churches in this city during the last two or three days a unique couven- tion has been held—a meeting of Catholic clergy and laymen banded together for the sole purpose of raising the staudard of church music and of purging the services of spurious and inferior musical stuf. The St. Cecilia Society, as it is culled, is composed of earnest and accomplished chureh musici Its de- liberetions have been very interesting and in- structive and very large crowds have attended every session, despite the intense Li The work of the convention promises noteworthy results of the most beneficial nature, ST. PATRICK'S SPLENDID CHIME, The cathedral, by the way, is to have anew chime of bells of American manufacture,which will be by far the finest chime in the city, if noton the whole western continent. The chime will consist of fifteen belis of an aggre~ wate weight of 30,000 pounds, about three times heavier than the ‘Trinity Chime, though there is not much difference in the number of bells. This meaus a vast difference in favor of the cathedral chime as regards sonority, ricii- nese of quglity and compass, The lowest toned bell, to weigh 6,500 pounds, will be a monster, and will certainly produce a grand effect, THE MIDNIGHT AND MARAUDING Cat. With all its multitudinous charities, whose wide-reaching scope seems to include all classes, ranging as it does from the infant hos- pitals to the “Home for Respectable Aged In- digent Females,” there is one field which so far New York has neglected. No association of benevolent spinsters has yet united to found a shelter for the homeless cats, and yet innum- erable swarms of them hauut the city streets, Among the rows of closely shut brown stone dwellings there is scarcely an area without its skulking cat, and after dark one sees their shadowy forms stealthily gliding up and down the high stone stoops in search of con- ponisl society apparently, for there is little ope of substantial refreshment in these arid regions, Where an occasional house is open the marauding cat vaults with the swiftness and precision of a trained acrobat into the ash barrel the moment it is put out and eagerly grubs for any edibles it may contain. The chance evening caller, too, is frequently con- fronted in the dark vestibule with the spectral light of the two groen eyes of the cat lurking in the corner. It is annoying to have a slippery cat creep between your feet as you start down the steps of the elevated. Still more annoying is it “When the youn: Aucugtus Edward Has reli gone bedward,” d, after unlimited attention, has been coaxed to sleep to have his slumvers rudely broken and his young blood frozen by the yawping of the cat on the back fence. But perhaps neither of these experiences is quite as alarming as that of the two maids who, left alone to guard their employer's house in 56th street, heard in the “dead waste and middle of the night” « stealthy and burglarious step slowly approach their door. To their great relief the creeping step went past to the upper stories, when these valorous guardians lost no time in fleeing shricking to the street. Four ponderous police. men, assisted by # few of the neighbors, boldly entered the house and hunted the burglar to his lair in the fourth story. He was « half- starved black cat whose piteous mew told of forgetful owners who had left it to gain by abstemious diet the health they sought at the seashore or the mountains, BICYCLING BY THE BEA. The Brooklyn Bicycle Club has hit upon a happy expedient by which they can stay in town and yet have most of the advantages of being out of town, They have taken a big comfortable house at Bensonhurst-by-the- * with bath houses and a private dock. A tennis court, a billiard room and a gymnasium will be added to the attractions and. private slecping rooms will be arranged. A pleusant spin of ten miles along a good road will get the members there, and they can enjoy a night by the ocean or a Sunday or a day or two off in royal inde- pendence under their own vine and fig tree, or, to be more accurate, under their own tennis net and trapeze. There are after all some ad. vantages about living in Brooklyn with the Ocean so conveniently located. But the new scheme if generally followed would reduce the PAGES. BILLIARDS FOR WOMEN, ~ RAILROADS Slosson Says the Game is Becoming | (\!*S4PEAKE AND OHIO RAlLWar. Popular Among Them. From the New York Journal. There seems to be something fascinating to women in the delicacy of the game of billiards. The sharp click of the ivory balls exhilarates their intellect, and the bright colors of the table ana balis appeal to their seuse of the | artistic, “Mme. Patti,” said Slosson, the other day, often been quoted as playing an excellent Same of billiards, Thisisa mistake. I visited her at her castie in Wales, and the papers anid my object was to teach the diva the game of billiards, but it was a foolish story. I went solely in the capacity of a guest, Schedule in Effect May 18. Trains leave Union Depot. 6th Aw, for Newport summer resort hotels to an even more hope- lessly man-less condition than ever. Hesax R. Exxior, —_-_—_ The Morning Nap. From Good Housekeeping. Early rising is # matter of both training and temperament. The nervous person is apt to rest lightly during the first three hours after retiring and to fall into the most refreshing slumber after midnight. In that case his morning nap ought not to be abridged. Nature will gently titilate his eyelids when they need to unclose. Long limbed persons of the motive temperament, those who require much exercise, can maintain equilibrium upon much less sleep than the nervous, cold-blooded, thin- slinaed xing Suetecesee waken early, filled with vitality and vigor and desire to talk and laugh at once. They have full command of their powers upon regaining consciousness. @ person of nervous temperament He retraces his foot- steps lingeringly from the land of dreams and only dually: ee the full ue of mind and body, All such idiosyncrasies ought to be re- spected if one would feel at his best, sarladeancent edt Lewis Ledger of New York, on a wager, re- cently ate thirty: hard-boiled eggs in fifteen minutes. If he'll let us select the eggs we'll wager that he "t eat fifteen of them in af- toon weeks.— Burlington Hawkeye, W, FULLER, “I played a few times there,” he went on, General Puscenger = Patti never played billiards herself, She <> aoe a oes, however, play English pool occasionally, Schedule m effect June 26 INDO, and is as graceful and charming in this occu- | *¥¢ Washins we a gurRee of New Jormay pation as in everything else she does. English ver Pm on \estibaled Limited em Pool differs from our game, you kuow, consid | "Fr “Cin sinaty St Lt und Indiuapelia, eapeens j erab 90 and 11 a0 53 re aud Cleveland, express daily Mr. Slosson bas taught several ladies to play pan ee! os billiards, and in each case bis pupils have proved apt and quick to learn. Their touch is more delicate than the average man’s, but they seem to lack the far-sightedness necessary to obtain and hold the balisan position. | There is one, the eldest daughter of a certain | banker residing on Madison avenue, to whom the billiardist devotes two hours a week, and of whom he has made an excellent player. The banker plays very well himself, and it is the daughter's delight to give her father 10 in ations tetwoon Was 50 and beat him, 5.8 30 am, 1210, 325, ood Mrs. George L. Atherton of Madison avenue a Sie aie = and 73d street is another uccomplished player, oe Washing who has been a devotee of the game for some 20, 800. 8 years, She plays the French game entirely, 4nd a run of 25 caroms is nothing extraordinary for her. “I find it very hard to make a woman acquire the correct position for making a stroke,” said Slosson, “They all want to lean far over the table, almost le down on it, in fact, instead of standing erectly, with the arm well back for the stroke, Miss Gertrude Masson of 34 Waverley place is another expert young woman with the cue and can discount her younger brother with ease. She is now devoting her attention to cushion caroms and is becoming quite adept m that difficult game. ‘There is another dainty, fair-haired girl, who lives in North Wasbington Square, aud she can ; eo often t ing with ber big collie dog | aut St Louie daily 8:30 on one of the benches of that lovely park. She | — webu 7:10am. 650 is Miss a Wister, and probably the W ORK AND PIILADELPMIA DIVISION cleverest “billiardiste” in the city. New hork, Ireuton, News 1d Elizabeth, She is only twenty-five years old and scorns | 32-,,"# 0 - wy Society im order to practice her favorite amuse- | gay’ trans. pet ‘ ment. Miss Van Wister is an orphan and her | 94.00 y.00 . first act upon attaining fortune and majority | ../ oF! 2uisdelyhin, 74205; 18 00. *10-00, *12-00 noon, was to order a large billiard table of the most | yor Nats, no amd Chester, 8.0 expensive pattern, She became inordinately | $00) xu. FoR eri Been | fond of the game and practiced constantly. un soy oF dificult masses in a manner that would make | Wai ' eek wis asain, Oe many u gilded youth blush with shame, Pade te ya oak for, Wenhington, oo “Billiards,” ‘continued Slosson, iw a great | Ligit, “Ms “20% "820, %900 yan and a aliy for women, It develops the | {rainy leave Phulsdelptia for Washington, %4 - and lends additional grace to an aictnly » “so eu, 11, 8:3, Sok ui woman, It teaches clearheudedness sith Pullman Buffet Seep. and foresight too, and gives a certain amount bt Mostou without of independence of action that no other rapt apn se sanding: gussengese tm Gi can produce. adhe Atlantic City, <a = Uudiays, 4:05 aun Took Her for an Astronomer. : aon Paris Dispatch to the Londom Daily Telegraph. ny 2 St Astronomers in petticonts are so rarely met | qlee as | 30pm. Sun with that it is not surprising if they collect | © thxcept > iy. SSuuday only. crowds around them when they are supposed | od = oes ae to be studying the stars in a public place. This ih Sve. and at deput, was the case with Mile.Laprevote, aigood-look- suucmier ~ 3 ing cook, who, being abandoned by her lover, | Fae cus as — first?threw vitriol at him, and some time after- | "!=°!™T, wwcvi vata ROUTE ward bought a long telescope, sat ona chair nm Sekt, West AND SOUTHWEST, outside her deceiver’s place of business, and AILS wack ICED BOC EWe, began to watch his movements through her lu eftect Mey 11,180 powerful glass. For a considerable tim ait Wal ARUSG TON, FROM STATION, smnall boys and idlers of the loca iP GUM AND SUERTE. AB FOLLOWS: moiselle was devoting herself to as- | tronomical pursuits; but at last her attitude and actions were observed not only by former admirer, but by his commerci: partner, and by many of his important “ . customers, As the owner of the telescope re- (ed 9 fused to give it up and go away, she was sum- sikin, Clitcuges ata, moned by her ex-lover and has appeared before + Pope a magistrate, to whom she unfolded a p tale, “She s that abe known the pis for 8 rs. He resided with his £ in a flat of the house wherein she acted as ® fg Se | cook, buthe had a private room near the a ‘ roof, Where servants usually have their quar- niente | ters, He once went into her sixth floor rege boudoir for needle and cotton, and the ac- r daily for Bute quaintance between the two then commenced, rr tag ny vom tte soon ripened into absolute triendship, he hay- aud Eluiwe, at 10.50q, ing, as she said, hypuotized her onse ocea- sions. “How did he hypnotize your” asked . the inquisitive magistrate. “By the power of his eyes.” was the reply of the defendant, who, undaunted by the tittering around her, went on with a clear and chronological statement of yt Sunday. For New everything that had passed between the plain- se with Damme Card 00m tiff und herself. She flung vitriol at her 1over LPIA ONLY because he had given her up, but he did not 1. Wook days anc 4-00 pam. @atly, have her arrested. Mile. Laprevote was sent | aon, dae to prison fora mouth and her telescope was h traius compect o8 confiscated, Brookiyu Amber afford —_————-ee0—_____ ~ e ptm ding 3 us mutrest, SvetminsaouD $100,000 for a Pretty Chambermaid. Wiautic Cit5, 12-40am, week Maye, 22:20pm, From the Chicago Inter-Ocean, ry * ‘The snug little fortune of $100,000 in cash is waiting in St, Paul to be turned over to a little German girl who five years ago was a cham- bermaid at the Palmer House. As there is now no one in the housekeeper’s department : a5 of that hotel who was there five years ugo, and cceae Bele ee em as the girl's friends know nothing of her where- ww ae abouts since that time, the St. Paul cousin who SEES DETERS BAtUrer, was anxiously mquiring for Anua Holte at the } ror Palmer yesterday afternoon obtained but little |” 1 satisfaction, Some yeurs before ber appearance at the 2 Palmer the girl ran away from a comfortable . am. home in Bavaria to follow her lover to this coun- ak Se th BO te, | try, the match having been forbidden by her So pain, week daye, parents, The lover, however, was not to be found on her arrival at New York, und after a year's unhappy residence with distant conuec- tions in Minnesota she started out to earn her living, and, in spite of her§pretty face which might have led her in her poverty to another lite, became a chambermaid at the | bzew te gets ecnt cont Palmer. There all track of her is lost, but the | General Mauecer. fy 12) Geweral Passctiwer Agent, Minnesota people are now quite anxious to _—_ = claim her as a dear relative, for an old aunt Ta tat. 8D CO with a “von” attached to ber name has just ® Mail, “daily for ‘Warsem, died in Munich, and through some technicality . Lyuchburg. end that $100,000 goes to Anna Holte. penn Ty > nad oven am—Fast Mail daily for Culpeper, Char- le, Stations Chesapeake aud. Bio” Route, Mrs. C. Charlotte Emerson Brown, daugh- | fre; 1) cubunt uns Deivtn Gremtunt heen ter of Prof. Ralph Emerson and wife of the | Aslevilin, Rev. Dr. Wm. D. Brown, lives at Orange, N. J. She inherits from her father wonder- ful linguistic genius, speaking seven lan- ‘ guages with such perfect fluency as to be except Sunday, for Manassa, uble to pass for # native in Italy, Spain, Ger- Sip nchburs, Bristol and Chate many or sranoe, Her father directed her | tatoos = Washington 28 studies, When she began Latin she trans- | Memphis, conmectiny lated and read one book a day, completing | o/2j10, P14 Western Express daily tor Manassa Virgif in ten days, Aside from educational | Pul a to Cimciuuaty work, Mrs, Brown is a capital business | ith? woman, She studied commercial arith- | pagy sive. ja metic and bookkeeping in the Chicago | Augusta, Atinuta, Business College, and for a while had charge | ¥ of her brother's sftice work. On the subject 3 in Aa yim Alain of clerical work she says: “1 advise every _Pacitic Katiway, and “Pull Woman to learn bookkeeping, that she may | Mashinesou (o yAswovie and He sprue <_ attend properly to her household accounts, | yd charlotte. My husband and I are partuers, He invests | | irains on Wasbingion and Ohio division leave Wash our capital and [ take care of the books and Cane. ‘ably ; anes mud dell 1130 eae correspondence.” Mrs. Brown is an enthu- | 4-5 p.m. and 7:0 jum. petgriiue leave ound Mill siastic club woman. While president of the | 6:00 a1. mn aly aud 12 20 pan. dail . Woman's Club of Orange she said in one of ber | 3%! riod a —_ addresses: ‘Our club has exerted a remark- | ~ Through trams trom the south via Charlo Daa- able influence in teaching the women of | Villeand Lyuchbury arrive is Washington 6:53 8m, " rs and 7:10 p.m; via Last Tennessee, Bastulsnd Orange who may differ in opinion to appre- hg raging, ae ciate what is good and lovely in each other. Sharlottesville at 2:45 pam. and 70 Club life tends to do away with distinctions hau. Stranburs decal at 10 47 created by man-made creeds.” At the time Ser a a sie the executive board of the ciub included Quak- = Abd et pasreuger statu, Pennaylvant® ors, Swodenborgians, Congregeienaliste and | PESTS. Oem eet carton, Gn. fee. age, Episcopalians, — csecnt ate ee ee =_—X—X—X—X—XX—X—X—a! Is Mr. Garrett’s Painting an Antiquity? .BAN STE 5 A painting for which Mr. Robert Garrett paid OCEAN STEAMERS. £3,000 reached Baltimore on Tuesday by the | QuoRT ROUTE To | LORDON, ns Alan line steomer Carthagenian and is now | 5 SOMDULUTCHER LL 9.9 00 held in the United States bonded ware house To Southampton Louden, Havre), Bremen. “sy Locus > eles pe the pay. Alle: Wea, 6,10 em. a wr AY at ust ‘oint waiting » he m.; Werra, fe at of te cuts tm ‘Tho Alig. 20, 9 atu, ame, Bate ‘ painting, says the Baltimore Sun, was 4 table, shipped from London and Matthew Robson, i sain BOO a Sons & Co., who are the brokers having charge >” of the matter in the custom house, said yester- ——- day that they bad been informed by the United JUNAKD LINE—STATE ROOMS CAN RE- States consul at Liverpool that the picture werved at the W anh agency; Drvt-clews be admitted duty free, as it had been ted prior to 1800 and could there- fore classified -a8 an antiquity. The customs officials, however, contend that the painting was made since 1800, and as there is no proof to show that it was executed by an American artist, it is subject to uty. and will be held until the amount is paid. The customs CORSON & SIACARTNEY, 1 laws admit antiquities as well as works of GLOVER BUILDING, 1419 F 8S. NW, ‘ art by American artists free of duty. Mr. Bankers and dealers in Government Bouds, : Roth, the agent for —— ore says tagger there is no intention of resisting the customs Deposits. | F: fT eeritie het dues if the picture is subject to duty, but | , Rallrusd Stocks “ae bide al ee that it will be taken out of Lond as soon as the | Sid jialtimure bought. _—__ NA Recessaty amount for this purpose is received BS C4 from Mr. Garrett or his representatives, The EJ duty on the picture will be about $4,500. ‘AuworicaL Bell Teleybone Stock bought and sold gy1§ to Cineinns iugton and Louisviile. ati at Vd Point at 22 B stroste, 10-6 o10pm, Pullman Care are open Teceive passengers at B pom Office. 513 Peuusy ivania avenue