Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1890, Page 14

al SWEDEN'S GREAT SON. ie Ericsson’s Wonderful Feats Ae An Engineer, FIVE DISTINCT SUCCESSES. Today the naval establishment of the United States is paying a tribute to the memory of a Scandinavian by birth, an American by adop- tion, man of whom it may be truly seid that he left his impress upon every part of the civil- iaed world. ‘The flags are at half-mast and the minute guns have been fired, as the President has ofti- cially announced, “in recognition of the debt We owe to Sweden for the gift of Ericsson, whose genius rendered us the highest service in « moment of grave perii and anxie Although Ericsson successfully revolution- ized the methods of marine warfare at a criti- cal time in the history of his adopted country, it was after he had added materially to the progress of steam navigation in the time of peace. for at Liverpool, twenty-five years be- fore, he had demonstrated to the satis‘action of the English ship builders that the screw pro- peller was practica! and efficient for ocean and inland navigatio: FIVE SUCCESSES. Eriesson’s career a3 an engineer may be said to have been marked by five distinct successes. First. When at the age of twenty-six he de- signed and superintended the construction of the steam locomoti which com- eted with Stephenson's at the Rain- Fin prize contest in 1829 and developed high speed and other lities which many en- gineers believed entitled it to the prize which it fuiled to secure. Second. When at the age of thirty- six he placed the screw astern of the Archimedes, @ steamboat 70 feet long. and demonstrated its ability to tow four loaded on the Thames at a speed of seven miles an hour. and this experiment Was followed in the next five years by the com- pletion of --forty-one commercial vessels run- ning upon the great lakes and along the coast.” experiments which culminated m the intro- ion of the screw propeller in the Umted States navy im 1844. when the Princetoa. de- sigued and constructed by Ericsson, was com- pleted and put under commission. THE FIRST MONTTé that the Stockton was the first iron hull to cross the Atlantic. One of the riveted plates of which the vessel was originally constructed 1s in the collection of the National Museum, together with the drawing of the propeller originally designed by Ericsson for that vessel. and a model of the improved propeller designed by Isaac Dripps and substituted at the direction of the Messrs, Stevens. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP. Feats of Engineering in Building the Rock Creek Railroad WHAT THE ENTERPRISE OF INDIVIDUALS I8 ACCOM- PLISHING IN THE NORTHWESTERN SUBURBS— THE COLONIAL STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE CITY AND IN THE COUNTRY. People who enjoy the picturesque drives going west from Rock creek are beginning to notice the extensive grading operations that are in progress throughout that locality. In driving along the Woodley road and through Woodley Park a gang of men may be seen at work endeavoring to get a continuous level surface through that broken country. The work goes on night and day, and if it was pos- sible to follow out the line that is marked by the felled trees similar work would be seen in progress all the way to the District iine, and then beyond into Montgomery county for a distance of two miles. There are a good mai inquiries made as to what this al and the answer received is that the Rock Creek Electric road is being built. The construction of this road is a part of a comprehensive scheme of improvements which is to be carried out by Mr. Newlands and the gentlemen associated with him in what is known are pushing this enterprise in astyle of princely as the California syndicate. The engineer of the road,Mr. J, Wesley Schoef. who resigned his po- sition as civil engineer in the engineer depart- ment of the District government to enter the service of the new company, hax surveyed the entire route, which, from the Boundary of the city at the head of Connecticut avenue toa point in the farm of Wm. Laird, in Montgomery THE STEVENS AND DRIPPS PROPELLER. Like few other inventors, Ericason was able to look with satisfaction upon what the world called his failures, Although the vessel de- signed to be driven by @ caloric engine, which he completed at great expense about 1955, was regarded asadismal failure, he counted the experience obtained as a net gain. In a letter ne ; imp ietne county, Md.. is seven and one-quarter miles Side” of entins Ga” ‘tiumpnt |long. Owing to tho broken ‘and rugged which the success of the Monitor |character of this country immense fills and cuts must be made, some of them as much as fifty feet in depth; two long and ex- ensive bridges must be built, and from Wood- ey Park, where the new road enters upon the line of Connecticut avenue extended, that line must be followed in spite of topographic ob- stacles all the way out to the District bounds, Mr. Schoef estimates that the cost of building the road and its equipment with an electric plant will reach nearly a half a million of dol- jars, After this expenditure is made, which must be added tothe million anda half al- ready laid out in the purchase of the land bordering on the line of the proposed road, these gentlemen will only have fairly begun the execution of their plans. It is proposed to develop the country all along the line and at the northern terminus a town will be estab- lished which will have a water supply, a sewer system and all tse conveniences of a modern town. brought him, he wrote thus to a friend, who was close to his heart: ‘The satisfaction with which I place my head on the pillow at night, conscions of having through my little caloric engine conferred a great boon on mankind— though the full importance of that boon may not be understood until the lapse of another century—is far greater than any satisfac- tion ‘that the production of an en- gine of war can give. The steam engine uses water. which prevents its employ- ment in millions of cases requiring motors to relieve human drudgery.” Ericsson was possessed of executive ability toa markedextent. When engaged in pushiag work to a conclusion he forgot to use the soft answer which turneth away wrath. On such oceasions he was blunt in speech, impressing every one somuch with his earnestness that each were intluenced to work diligently and in harmony with him. The locomotive Novelty was designed and completed in seven weeks—the Monitor in less than 100 : Ericsson was endowed to a remarkable de- gree with the gift of imagination, which is in- dispensable to asuccessfnl inventor. Of roman- tie temperament, in his earlier years he com- posed verses “to the wonderful ana everlasting midnight light of Norrland. He loved nature, music and painting. He was famous as an athlete, a swimmer and a skate Im- patient of routine, smarting under discipline | with a brain quick to conceive, a hand ready to | EXTENSIVE GRADING CONTRACTS, On the Ist of May, according to the contracts, the cars are to be running and, in order to ac- complish this great work of making a roadway 56 feet wide through seven miies of country, a large portion of which is rugged and wild, the road has been divided into three sec- tions and the grading contracts for each sec- tion have been awarded to three inen or firms, The first part of the road near the city will pass over practically city streets, as it starts at the intersection of Boundary with Connecticut = H | m act, any attempted list would omit many of his | #Yenue, thence along Boundary to 18th, Third. During the years 1515 to 1960 he suc- | Ta portant engineering cone ption, { thence’ along 18th strect, crossing Colum: ceeded in pertecting the caloric stationary Dia road ‘and thenee through —_ the engine. although the caloric ship motor was AN ORIGINAL INVESTIGATOR. subdivision of __Cliffbourne, which not successful. Fourth. When at the ripe age of sixty he de- signed and constructed in one hundred d the first monitor—the cheese box on a raft which met the Merrimac, the most forr able war vessel of its class, im Hampton Roads March, 1462, and demonstrated the superiority of the revolving turret over the broadside iron- ciad to such a degree that he was employed by the government to construct nine other war vessels of « similar typé Fifth. When after completing the allo three score years and ten he made elaboi investigation of the temperature of the sun and moon and the series of experiments which cul- minated in the completion of the solar engine which attracted attention of scientists throughout the world. Ericsson's success in each of these branches ing science is believed by those who st to have been due to “his fac ng the toois of his profession. he 1 do give: am hand said th: It is much work at the time as two ordinary The me knowledge of the principies of gu -Which he obtained during five y service as ensign in the royal Swedish artil- lery before he was twenty-three ye of the greatest val gations relating to Another element of Ericsson's great strength lay in his ability to draw practical deductions from the data collected by utmself or furnished old, was nt investi- While Ericsson believed in technical educa- | tion for others he never regretted that such | privileges had been denied him. Toa friend who asked him if he did not wish that he had a dipioma from a technological school Ericsson | replied: “No, it was very fortunate. Had I| taken a course at such an institution I should have acquired such a belief in authorities that Ishould never have been able to develop originality and make my own way in physics and mechanics.” An employe long in his service thus describes his personal peculiaries: iis manner with strangers was courteous and extremely taking. He invariably made friends and foes alike. With those in imme- diate coutact with him in carrying out his work he was very popular. He had few intimates of his own social level, and with these his man- wer was very hearty, open and frank. To me, from first to last, he was always gentle, kind and considerate. In his habits of life he was frugal, but he never considered money | counted the cost of carrying out his cal conceptions.” ‘The bursting of the gun or the Princeton near in 1844 which killed Secretary Gilman avy and Secretary of State Upshur. caused him much unhappiness and induced | him to turn his attentiou to other channels for a time. lies between Lanier Heights and Washington Heights, to Rock creek. To make the crossing of Rock creek at this point it was found that it would be necessary to construct a bridge 130 feet high and 750 feet long. It will be 75 feet higher than the new Woodley road bridge, which is just to the south, and twice as long. ‘The bridge, including the masonry, will cost 8: This bridge passes over the south end @the Zoological Park. and a hydraulic vle- vator will be built close to the bridge for the convenience of visitors to the park. Another bridge wili be built to carry the road over the Klingle road, which it will do at an elevation of 70 feet. The bridge will be 400 t long, and, including the masonry, will cost 42,000, DIFFICULT ENGINEERING. Mr. Schoef gave a Star man some interest- ing facts in regard to the enginecring features of the construction of the newroad. As is wellknown the region of country through which the new road will be built is what is known to lovers of beautiful scenery as pic- turesque, but to the engineer who ueads flat surfaces in order to be professionally nappy the Rock creck region possesses but few at- tractions, At the very beginning of the line on Connecticut avenue in Woodley Park there is a fill of 30 feet, then in the Evans tract, just before the bridge over the Klin; road is reached, there is acut of 40 feet in depth, LOVE FOR sWrr (oar omar aly ant astoley Arcam Sor Beer pea : _.. | Which is tho deepest cut in the entire line. followed any one, no mater how eminent the | _E¥i¢s#on always spoke of his native Innd with | Beyond on either side of the Iicbmoni aaa te a used models, his draw. | Pride, and although he did not return to it | Park tract there are cuts 35 feet deep board was his gui z after 1833 the friends of his youth who needed | 84 where the Nourse road —_ crosse In 1863 he wrote the Nav the Dictator. with a displa b nullions of pounds, bud a draft of a small frac- tion of au inch jess than he calculated. THE SCREW PROPELLER. Eriesson’s success with Department that nent of about ten the line there is a fill or 35 feet, A. street wi be opened at this point running east and west, which will form the connection for the two pecuniary assistance in his time of prosperity were not forgottel When he met Ole Bull after a separation of here ‘ation of | sections of the Nonrwe road separated by this care it if said that he was received with | #1), Farther along there is another fill of 35 | one ap ; . and at the Pierce Mill roa ore | filled his eyes when in 1867 he heard the | (¢¢t, snd at the Pierce Mill road there is a cut the Archimedes at-| (ens Mitt iarelag Meniunioen of © | of 28 feet. ‘The grade of the Mill road will be | tracted the atten oa of Commodore Robert | 44 whom he opened his purse to the extent of | pss s foophase sleet eR aA eal F. Stockton of the United States navy, then in 20,000 crowns. It was alaw in his household | und the Grant ronds’ there weg eut et oan | England, aud who had large interests in the | that no ome who asked for food should be | After leaving the latter, road thererw “the | Delaware and canal. for whom he_or- | turned away. heavickt Bil'onthe road and that’ ie ashtaet| dered a screw propeller boat constructed in| In his later years, a widower and childle England. When completed the b the Stockton in is honor. formances of this boat ( wiric under date of February Temes made the following statement. Ericsson's Propeller. On ‘Tuesday last, uary 29. the Rt. F. Stockton towed the 4 acket ship Torronto from Blackwall lower point of Woolwich, a dis miles and a quarter, in forty minutes, against the flood tide, then running from two to two at Was named Speaking of per- n iron hull) . the London eTical to the e of three and a half miles, thus towing her through the | water at the rate of upward of six miles an hour. The Torronto is 630 tons Lurden, she Meusures 32 feet beam and drew at the time Of the trial 16 feet 9 inches of water, thus pre- a sectional are Now, the fa ing been moved ata r. les an hour by a senting of more than 460 ctoft this body hav- of upward of six propeller or piece of mech- anism measuring only 6 fect 4 inches in diaine- deep and it will take abont 30,000 cabie yards of earth to bring this ravine up to. the proper level. From tuis point to the District and Yond into Montzomery county, to the terminus oy the line, the country is comparatively level and but little grading is required, SOME DISEANe ‘The distances on this new line of suburban railway are as follows: From Boundary to ers who claim that he origin more than he | Woodley Park, one and three-quarters of a really did. In this, however, they but} mile; from this latter point straight ont Con- | foliow the example of those who have attempted | nectient avenue extended to the District line to record the lives of Fulton and the Stephen- | three and one-half miles: from the latter point | sons. But it is difficult to write the life o: to the terminus, which will be at the junction great engineer without becoming a hero wor-| with the proposed southern branch of ‘the Bal- stupper. While Eriesson’s success in many | timore and Ohio railroad, two miles, It is pro- | hings extraordinary it should not be for-| posed to build the power house from which | that Trevithick had used the steam | the electricity will be supplied to run th rs blast’ in his high-pressure locomotive | over the entire line at the northern terminus. twenty-five years before the Novelty was con-| This location is selected because the coal can | Ericsson lived the life of a recluse in his home | on Beach street, in New York city. He avoided the society of those who consumed his tume, which he valued more than money —more than fame. INIUDICIONS BIOGRAPHY. If the memory of Ericsson shall suffer at all it will be at the hands of such of his biograph- LONG structed, and John Stevens, who is now gen-| be obtained 9 directly from the railroad. | ter and occupying less than 3 feet in length | erally admitted to have first succeeded ip gear- | Throughout the entire road of over seven | teens wbich, setemtifienliy comtidered. 19 it jing a steam engine to a propeller, drove | miles Mr. Schosl staton that there will be ao teresting in the extreme. and in a practical oF | hix screw boat against the stream in New grade greater than 5 per cent. Connecticut Se ee eee ak ie ty-tive years before the | avenue will be of the same width in this exten- ——_ Tihs Archimedes or | the — Stockton —_ were | sion as the portion within the city limits, and Aswill be seen in the illustration this pro-| built, | while | Timby had _ patented | the roadway proper, Which will be £6 feet wide, peller wheel consisted | the revolving turret long before the first moni- | will have the railroad track in the center and OO reetons Of | tor was constructed, and a royalty was paid to | drives on each side. serew driven in oppo- | him for every device of that kind used by our are Guseray Aaa site directions. as it was | navy. Nevertheless Erieswon justly earned tie peace gasiny chet ere Ericsson's £ that | reputation of being the most prolific inventor | Anew barnis to be built to take the place of the ts con on Was | of his time, and what is more, he successfully | One that was receutly destroyed by fire at the Becessary in order to) put many of his inventions to work to ame-|{conntry place of Gardiner G. Hubbardon the | keep the boat trom ca- | jiorate the con nm of the human ra The | Woodley Lane road. The new. structure will reening when the | loss of his diary ich he had faithtully kept | occupy practically the same site, but will be | fon.” “Cre Putin mo-| for years. and which he ordered destroyed ® | much larger than the old one, The plans have The mecha m em- short time before his death, 1s to be regretted been prepared by by every lover of progress. James G, Hill, architect, Like the house the barn will be colonial in Ployed to bring about this result was ingeni- Vaiet ja el coeasan die” poate ised , lovely surroundings the house is one of the naft. to the extremity of whic , Bieler [erect toag aie cee most attréctive suburban residences in this | meéd through «= loose sleeve which carried locality. ‘The style of architecture gives it an = iaMeG Siete. WAGE: ee saudis Sa coca old-fashioned. air which is especially appropri * ate in that section of the suburbs, where there asses sseampombaag tendo are a number of good specimens of the style of poem yes eee house architecture that prevailed a good many mace be | years ago and 1s now known as the colonial. ‘The aaa aturted to the erento classic features of Grecian architecture form pore the basis of thix style. Mr. Habbard’s hous & few weeks after this trial, was the first screw Propeller boat to do continuous service on the Western hemispher From 1545 to 1560 Ericsson was compell spend large sums of mone: ed to ng suite SEARING OF THE WHEEL. Irritated at the substitution of a single pro- Peller differing in form from the double pro- Peller described above, which Isaac Dripps put in the deadwood of the Stockton at the suggestion of Edwin A. Stevens, attached to improve the steeriug qualities of that boat, a quarrel between Ericsson and the Stevens brothers ensued, which resulted in the estab- lishwent of the claim that John Stevens de- sigued, constructed and successfully operated a screwspropeller steamboat in New York har- bor in 1804. thirty-five years before the Stock- ton, which on believed to be the pioneer boat of its kind. was brought to the country. Writing to the officials of the Patent Museum st South Kensington in the year 1866, in answer to their request that the original engine of the Stockton; which had come into the posses- sion of the Stevens brothers (who had changed the name of the boat to the New Jersey), be deposited in that museum, Ericsson states ‘nothing could induce the Mevers. Stevens, who claim to be the origi- Bators of screw propulsion, to permit the ma- chinery of the real pioneer screw vessel to be Placed = in ur = museum. — Accord- ingly, some time ago. the Robert F. Stockton was hauled out of the water and eut up. each plate being separated from the ether, while the machinery was broken up aud pat into the melting pot.” . Asis interesiing w note, in this connection, has the characteristic color tone of yellow or buff and about the only ornamentation is the delicate ery in imitation of a garland of leaves which relieves the plainness of the ex- terior. Like all houses ot this style it rambles over a good bit of ground and gives a guggestion of roominess and the old-fashioned mode of domestic life, when it was not neces- sary to be continually climbing up stairs or going down stairs, COLONIAL STYLES IN CITY HOUSE! This style of architecture, restricted, how- ever, considerably by the size of city lots, is gradually coming into favor in this city. As has been mentioned in Tux Sran, the residence which Mrs. Chandler is building at the north- eust corner of 16th and K streets is a fine illustration of this form of architecture adapted toa city home. Further west on K street near lith street Col. Henry Strong has begun the erection of a residence which will be another notable example of this style. It will be an unusually large house for a city home and will cover the eutire frontege of the lot, which is about 71 feet. It will be built of buff brick and stone of a light shade. he four stories will be finished with a straight cornice sur- mounted by a balustrade. ‘The principal en- trance, which will be on a level with the street, will be marked by a square porch, the roof of which will be supported by columns and sur- mounted bya balustrade. Above the porch in the second story there will be a group of three long windows, the central one being the tallest, and each window finished with a half cirele. EWICSSON’S SUN MOTOR, 1883, The problem which interested him most dur- ing the latter years of his life was some method of re ing the consumption of carbon in the production of power. His contributions to Nature in reference to solar heat and his pro- jects for utilizing it, written during his eignty- first year. and the construction of his solar engine, give evidence of the great powers of his mind when in the prime of life. His biographer says of him: “From that won- derfui race of Vikings. who had no superiors in physical development, he had inherited the strength of two ordinary men.” During all bis years he seldom was known to rest. Was it to be wondered that when in the last hour of his busy life he felt for the first tume that the weignt of years, which had been laid slowly, but surely upon his shoulders, was more than he could bear, that he should have said to his faithful seéretary: ‘This rest is magnificent, more Beautiful than words can tell.” To be lid beside his fathers in the Norrland, the beauties of whose enchanting midnight | i ‘The panes in these windows, as well as those LEE Bo gang in the days of his youth. | in the other windows of the front, will besmall last widhés that he expressed. ‘That his wares. Qn each side of the main entrance will be circular bay windows extending to the third story and fivished with open balconies. ‘The only ornamentation attempted will be the conventional wreath carved in the stone that marks each window head. The effect of this style of architecture is very pleasing, although there is a lack of the excessive adornment and the variety of forms which are the features of the prevailing modes of house architecture, SOMETHINS ABOUT INTERIOR DECORATION. It is a little early in tae season to think about os rerun ~s returned to the — ni piny, © e very port from which the Savannah, the first pre te to cross the Atlantic, sailed on -its return trip seventy years ago, and ma ship of the navy he did #0 much to improve—a steam ship driven by the appliances he had made it possible to use a balf century before his death—is a fit conclu- sion of the last act inthe drama of a life upon the like of which we shall not look again. J. Sursera Warkuve preparing for winter, but still those who have in mind any extensive alterations or refurnish- ing of their homes are beginning to look about. In this city the fall seems to be the time when such chenges made, as the spring so soon merges into the summer that the attention of householders is engrossed with preparations for the warm weather. At this period of the = however, there is another social season to look forward to, and people make plans to pair the ravages made by the last season's wear | and tear, It may be necessary to get a new rug or to replace a worn-out carpet, and per- | haps the upholstered furniture needs attention. | Buta great deal of thought is being given | nowadays to the decorations of the walls. The color of the walls, as a rule, govern not only, the style but the tones of the furniture and the rugs. There are professional decorators who have large establishments where everything can be purchased from a kitchen table toa: white and gold chair. These gentlemen will | relieve the puzzled householder from all the | trouble and vexation of soul in attempting to buy, so that the variety of articles that filla modern room will present a harmony of color that will satisfy the critical eye. Or else the | householder can foliow his own judgment. It used to be that the question ‘of decorating | the walls was settled in the first instance by | directing, as a matter of course, that paper of | some kind would be used, But now walls are | painted either plain or in stipple or in some other elaborate style. Asa rule painted walls cost more than papered walls. Some of the higher grades of paper are, however, more ex- pensive than paint. especially when the latter | as done in solid colors, or, as it is called by the trade, plain painting. “Compared with the | cheaper grades of paper, asa Star man was in- formed by a well-known decorator, plain paint- | ing costs more—in fact the cost is about double, But then, as the decorator remarked, the paint- | ing 18 stylish aud lasts longer than paper and | on this ‘account may be regarded as cheaper | than paper. He said that the use of paint in interior decoration was becoming very general, although it was by no means taking the place of paper. Doth means of decoration were used and elaborate effects were produced. MR. NORMENT'S NEW HOUSES, Mr. James H. Grant, the builder, has just finished for Mr. Samuel Norment seventeen three-story brick dwellings on Florida avenue (formerly Boundarygstreet) and on Seaton street between 17th and I8th streets northwest, The same contractor and builder is erecting four- teen other brick houses for the same yentie- man near the Washington Circle in the north- west, .William S. Jones, carpenter, has also just built for Mr. Norment seven brick houses on 7th street southeast—three very pretty press bricks on the front, in square 895, and four two- story in the rear. ie A WILD CAV ALRY RIDE. An Old Southern Soldier’s Birthday Reminiscence. A SURPRISE AND AN EXCIT! BRIGHT sUMM IAN'S NARRATIVE—HOW STUART'S TROOP RE- PLERISHED ITS STOCK OF HORSES. GROUP of gentlemen were passing an evening quietly together recent!y,when the question of birthdays arose, anda number of interesting reminiscences were recalled. At the aye even of tho youngest present a birthday cannot prove alto- gether a happy recurrence, howeve: pleasantly it may be spent, for it is but the close of one more chapter in the story of life—one | toward the approaching end of the tale. It so happened that with one of the party a birthday had just passed, and the fact recalled an inci- dent that occurred upon his twenty-first birth- day. It was Mr. C. A. Dunnington who spoke. ‘Twenty-six years ago on the 23d of July,” he said, -‘the command to which I belong the fourth Virginian of Gen. J. E, B. Stuart's old brigade—was resting after the affuir at Ream’s Station, in the county of Dinwiddie, and of all the miserable camping grounds of the war that hot, dry, dusty camp was the worst I & saw. For weeks we had hid no rain and the pine leaves of the forest im which our blankets were spread—tor tents we had none—were curled into spirals and the finer pieces were resolving into dust. Food was Scaree, more so than usual, corn meal being the staple, and it was musty at that. So w on the evening of July 22 Sergt. Stringfellow, a noted scout, came into camp for volunteers to take a ‘little ride,’ as he called it, into the enemy's lines, I was only too glad to fi evils that were to dangers we knew not of. then Sergt. Stringfellow was regarded as one of the most daring and reliable scouts of Gen, Lee's army—he is now an eminent divine of the Protestant Episcopal Chureb, THE MIDNIGHT MARCH, “When the moon was just sinking behind | the western horizoa and its lingering beams | were disappearin; for the night from among the silent and scraggy pines. about 1 o'clock a| party of twelve r: 1 calvarymen, armed only with pistols and sabers, quietly departe 1 trom the camp. following in single file the lead of the sergeant, who ignored all questions as to | the route or Durpone of the expedition until the journey’s end should have been reached. ark and hot as we silently tra-ele. over smooth fields and through long stretehes of pine woods, stopping only | now and then to listen to the calls of the owls which several times startled the whole party by their nearne It was not until daybre and atter many miles had been placed betwee ourselves and our. sle g comrades, th: we drew rein, and in obedience to a low-spoken command from the sergeant we dismounted | rrow lane neariy as level as ided the squad in two parts Sergeant eliow at last relieved our increasing yas to his intentions, “Some days before while scouting in that nborbood he had noticed that every morn- lng about sunrise a squadron of colored cav- alry passed trom its camp to that of another command some five mises away—tor drill purposes, perhaps—and it occurred to him that here was a tine opportunity to pay off an old score or two with a quid pro quo, ax well as to exchange some very indiffercut horse flesh for first-class oods and to give the sable troopers au Object lesson in the mysteries of war, AN AMBUSCADE, * ve of us were posted up the road a short nd the other seven were stationed in the woods about where the consultation was lan of procedure was for the ain quiet untii the nead of the ex- pected columa reached the farther squad, whe simultaneously both parties were to break into the road and fire aud yell for all we were worth. teen or twenty minutes of anxious ex- pec lapsed, when from between the trees we could see the encmy coming along in a dog trot. some sitting sidewise in their saddles, others with the bridle reims loose pon their horses’ necks and their hands and arms givin expression to amp meeting song they were singing. which filled the air with true and charming negro melo SURPISED. { “At length the front reached the smaller | squad, when the sergeant eried, ‘Charge, boys, | charge!’ and in an instant we dashed into their | midst, firing our pistols and yelling like | demons. Angauded and confused. those who | did not tumble of in trying to right th selves turned only to be coufrouted with their | rear guard rushing up, with our fellows in their | midst, whooping aud shooting right and left, | and then followed a tion in any language. Some of the troopers fell | flat in the roadside and lay there until they could recover their surprise and flee for lite. | Ozhers dashed their horses into the woods, got | stuck, dismounted and fled in dismay—can- | teens, caps and other accoutrements were scat- tered in every direction, The majority, how- | ever, cut out down the roads, sending the sand | up in clouds behind their horses’ tails, For five miles along that narrow, sandy lane wo went together, helter-skelter, pistols cracking, horses falling and our men yelling like mad- men. ‘The woods on either side of the road were fast filling with the terrified, fleeing troopers. a floor, THE END OF THE RACE. “The race was brought to a close by our dis- covering upon a turn in the road of an abatis, through which the foremost pitched headlong, wherenpon we turned back and gathered up the trophies. We reached camp late in the afternoon without the loss of a man, and richer by some eighteen or twenty horses | more than we wanted for our own use and aj white sergeant we picked up for good luck. Five days later the surplus captured steeds were put up at auction and brought from $2,000 A to #3,000 apiece iour money. hese little episodes would happen and we the life of the camps, on both sides, ‘Twenty-six years have passed since that bright summer morning, but the events of that wild ride on my twenty-first birthday are as well in mind as r Shir they happened a week ago.” Heads Not Hea From the Atchison Globe. Many men fall in love and claim to have lost their hearts, whose experience afterward convinces them that they lost their heads in- stead. tas | was a hvel from our weary—and previously nearly tagged | © out--steeds and drew around in @ cirele to hear his plans, ‘The place where we had haited was beside a sandy road, bordered by thick , pine forests, and fora mile or more in either | direction there was au unobstructed vie - | of the Merry Monarch.” scene that beggars descrip” | ¢ THE WEEK IN NEW YORK. QUEER FACTS ABOUT FLIEs. What the People of Gotham are Doing Soma Interesting Observations Upon a and Talking About. THE LABOR TROUBLES OF THE METROPOLIS— HONORS TO ERICSSON AND THE DELAY IN THE GRANT CASE—THE BLAZE OF THE BIG BREW- ERY—A PANIC AT A FIRE AND ITS LESSONS. Correspondence of THE EVENING STAR. New Yoru, August 22—The labor situation changes so rapidiy from day to day that it is difficult to cast its horoscope even two days ahead. But we seem to be on the brink of a great disturbance affecting two of the most necessary elements of social order. The first involves the Vanderbilt system and the other deals with the building trades of the city. The former is wider in its scope, but is scarcely more important or dangerous. If we are to have a summary stoppage of all the building operations in the city we shall be in a sorry light. The daily consumption of brick in ‘ew York city amounts to five millions, and if this supply is cut off under the threatened boy cott and strike of course all other connec! d trades will be paralyzed and the whole fabric of society be shaken, But importance of the questions at issuo will make the struggle short, As yet the pub- lic have not taken much interest 12 the brick strike, though very soon they will do so if the threat becomes afact. But they have studied into the merits of the railroad strife. The struggle begins with public parently against the strikers. At the same time the episode is an cmbarrassing one for # man who is as fond of popularity as President Depew. ‘Thus far he has managed to keep out the very |of the rumpus. but if it assumes the larger | Proportions which it.now threatens to do he will have to return to the seat of war from his European jaunt, and even if he does not his silence will give consent toa policy that must bring him into odium among large classes of voters all over the country. His dilemma points the moral with which we are already familiar, that a man cannot serve two such exacting masters as Demos and Plutus, HONORS TO THE GREAT DEAD. The ceremonies attending the removal of the remains of Ericsson Saturday will furnish New York with a unique pageant. ‘To the credit of the city itcan be said that Ericsson did not have to die to be appreciated by his neighbors and associates in this city. Pehaps this wa: due as much to the originality of is habits as to the splendor of his genius and services, At any rate the old inventor had a warm place in New York's heart and the city will pay him the last rites of reverence with siucere homage. It would not be inappropriate if the great fects of modern commerce that are centered here should observe the day with special cere- monies, sharing the respect of the government for the inventor of the propeller. ‘These impressive painful relief New York's neglect of one who fills a still greater page in history. Of course I | refer to its notorious plect and there is an uneasy feelin we have sim of Gen. irant, of grace and that retribution The recent attitude assumed by congress has alarmed those who are not hopelessiy indifferent in the matter, and stimulated the committee to a spasm of energy. ‘The committee. though they jain ostensibly to take part in what they term the unseemly discussion as to a change in the locae tion of the grave, ll seem to have been stirred up by this unseemly discussion to a re- alization of their own tardy patriotism, At their meeting held on Tuesday they decided that the slow growth of the fund arose from the uncertainty as to the design of the monu- ment. They therefore plan to choose one of the five desi ich are to be submitted on he Ist of 8 r, and, like Mr. Snodgrass, et ready to begin,” in the hope that. this spirited action "will stimulate sub- scriptions to add to the “nearly 30,000," which = they have alread; ne cominittee, composed of such men Mayor Gr: ex- who counts his millions, will then strain every nerve to collect $250,000, and with this amount they will crect a building that will contain the sarcophagus and present the appearance of a completed edifice, leaving to the future the work of carrying out a monu- mental design in all its details. What grounds they ha ‘or expecting any such action on the partof the future they neglect to state, but with a sanguine cl predict that the resuit will be *‘a_ credit to the sentiment of a grateful people and a patriotic lesson to pos terit One cannot help fearing that pos- 's education in patriotism will be sadly deficient if it depends on this committee or on the cily of New York for its lessous, A BIG BREWERY DLAZE. Not since the big grain elevators on the North river front burned down has New York seen so sensational a blaze as that of last Tuesday night. uptown as the great brewery is, be- ginning at 107th street, the light of the flames was pla at the Battery. eight miles Fortunately the fire occurred early in the night, making therefore less of a panic among the tenement houses and flats near the brewery. But the ¢ ind which was blow- ing at the time made things look rather omi- nous for all the neighborhood, and also made it seem almost a miracie thet the fire could be | contined to the immense stables with their in- flammable contents and not spread to the ad- joining brewery. As it was it was a pretty ex- citing time, Thousands of people had assel bled to watch the splendid fireworks, aud there scatter‘ng when the hurriedly loosed horses—muassive and powerfal Percherons— charged into the crowd, among which | were many frightened women trom the ighboring flats, in the rather sketchy und al attire of awarm summer night. A lar; number of the private houses, of which there are many within a few blocks of the brewery closed for the sun But those resi dents who were at home were either hurried! preparing to move out or on their roofs, re less of flying showers of sparks as they anx iously cale ated the force very momcut the} the wind aud expected to see the brewe were divided between hopes and tears at that prospect, Connected with this brewery is the Lion Park, one of the worst resorts in the city. Frequent petitions against the renewal of its license have beeu signed by the neighboring property holders, but as its proprietor was him. selt an alderman, in fact one of the distin- guished ‘boodie” aldermen, he had no ditti- culty in granting himself a license whenever reqitired, and secins sti!l to retain that influenc though he has rather lost prestige latel place almost adjoins the site of the great opal Cathedral and ts a blot on the whole locality. It seemed for a time ning flashed and the flames roared as if the elemeyts were going to settle the question, but when the rain poured down the petitioners sadly came to the conclusion that the alderman still had the upper hand. A VERY MERKY MONARCH, The town has been on a broad grin this week with its old favorite, Mr. Fi Wilson, who has been disporting himse anew role, that The little opera 1s of course merely a frame work for Wilson's ex uerant fun, opinion ap- | now abroad that | | premonies throw ont in | ¢ 0 up ina blaze, and most of them | as the ligit- | nd the house laughs tumult- | uously from the moment he makes his entree | till he cuts his tinal caper, formance, how the grand entree. hour of the usual silly sentiment and explan. at the ‘approach of the king. A splendid and glittering procession precedes him, Knights in shining armor and waving plumes, soldiers with helmets and arms, picturesque pages of inky blackness and gorgeous costume, and maids of honor—with which it seems kings are provided no less than queens in convenient kingdom known only on the ¢—with rainbow-hued costumes sparkling with jewels and tinsel, It is a beautifui spectacle and its climax is the splendid pal, in borne by twelve staiwart men, in which is seated Mr, Wilsou,carrying himself with kingly haughtiness and smiling a ~condescending smile. A flight of carpeted steps is placed for him to descend, but as he begins the dese with royal dignity he trips on his robe of state and tumbles ignominiously down the whole tight, landing among the embarrassed courtiers on his royal nose, If they are disconcerted he is not in the least so, but picks himself up with kingly ease of manner, as if it were his cus. tomary way to descend stairs, It is not given to one man to be as funny twice in a lifetime as Wilson is in ‘‘Erminie,” but King Anso crowds Thief Cadeaux pretty ‘close. He: ea hs Revival of the Whaling From the Providence Journal. An interesting and gratifying disclosure of the census is that of the revival of the old whalitg towns. The whale fishery centers, where once the coming and going of busy ships gave a lively air of industry to the wharves and streets, felt the decadence ot this fishery as an almost fatal blow, and in the decades immediately succeeding the fifties remained sorrowful monuments to a great industry's decay. Now, however, they seem to be recovering their old-time energy, and it is not unlikely that an inheritance of the same enterprise which characterized them in the past will once more push them steadily for New Bedford, formerly the whaling port on the whole coast, now a population of 41,044, a gain of more than 50 per cent ince 1880, and New London, the second port in importance, has gained some 30 per er, is quite so ridiculous as Towns. eat or more in the same time. Nothing in the per- | -y twaddle the blare of trumpets announces | that | nt | After a rather dreary half | | case with all inace | one of the things im his fav | etiqnet Common Domestic Enemy. HE popular notion that house flies walk on the ceiling by the help of the suckers on their feet isa mistaken one.” said a an of science toa Stan reporter. “Not- withstanding the testimony on this point of many old and respected authors the fact is that the fly has no suckers on its feet at all, but each of those six members ends in a pair of little cushions and a pair of hooks. The cush- ions are covered with ever so many knobbed hairs, which are kept moist by an exuding fluid, Thusa fly is able to walk ona smooth wall or ceiling or window pa: apparently defy the law of gravitation, by the adhering power of the moist hairy pads, You will un- | derstand the theory of it if you will touch the moistened end of your foretinger to the win- dow glass or any smooth surtace and observe the perceptible adhesion walking on rough suriaces the ushions no use; but the insect is provided with the twelve strong hooks mentioned to do its rough travel with, clinging by them to any such surface as a whitewashed wall or cloth. HOW A FLY 18 BORE, “Another prevalent fallacy is that the smaller flies seen in houses are young oues. As ia the . the fly"s growth is accom- plished in the larva state; it ends with the issu- ing trom the pupa and pansion of the wings. Individual flies differ m size atm ity, just as is the case with man and other animals, Every house fly that you see was once a crawling maggot. The eggs laid by the female fly are usually deposited in warm manure or in decomposing vegetation, Each stable in sum- mer that is not kept remarkably clean is a hatching and propagating place for Within twenty-tour hours after the eggs are laid they are hatched out into footiess maggots, Which inhabit the filth they are born in for a week and then contract to littie brown objects known as puparia, Within this hardened skin the maggot is transformed into the pertect fly. which crawis out of the puparium five days later, already grown to full si way to share your luncheon A fly lives about When the cold weather cu: nearly all die; but a few vigor: remain torpid in nooks and us surviving the winter and continuin species the following sumzmer. The three woeks. the fli y has several parasites, the most common of which | 18.4 little red mite, which attaches itself near the base of the tly’s wings, and a fungus plant that often fastens it to a window paue, THE EARTH WORM, “Another very interesting creature, suffi- ciently common, but ve Jo known about, is the earth worm, which led the nal tiller of the soil, inasmuch as it has ted. by passing vegetable matter through all of the fruitful mold and loam esent covers the surface of the earth, By the process mentioned carth worms have been known to raise a field thirteen mehes in | eighty years. ling to Darwin the farmer only imitates the earth worm in a clumsy way, without being abie to bury the pebbles or sift the fine from the coarse soil, as the earth worm is doing all the A well-known scedsman of Marblehead, carefully collected the castings of earth worms for one season over a given area, and they measured nearly a quart to the square foot, or enough to the sur- | face of the land half an inch. ie also, by ex- periment, showed that an acre of land might contain six_tonsof worms, Von Hensen esti- muted 5: worms to the acre, and that they would make 37 pounds of mold every twenty- four houra, Darwin said that earth worms had undoubtedly helped very in:portautly to bury ancient buildings. The earth worm has no sex. If youexamine its body with a leas you will discover that each of the numerous rings or jomts into which it is divided is turnished with tour pairs of minute hooks, which take the place of legs, and by means of which its move- ments are ai Seana i HANGED FOR ARSON, A Legal Execution Growing Out of the Last Virginia Campaign. George Early and Byrd Woods, colored, were hanged at Rocky Mount, Franklia county. Va., yesterday for arson committed in October last. During the gubernatorial campaign Gen. Ma- hone spoke at Rocky Mount, The party man- agers endeavored to procure a large tobacco ware house for him to speak tothem. The owners refused to have the house used for that purpose. A week Ister Lieut. Gov. Massey spoke in the ware house and that night it was burned. The flames spread to other houses and the business part of the town was stroyed. It was shown that George Early, rd Woods, William Lrown and Nannie Woods, all colored, set fire to the house because of their mdiguation at the refusal of the owa- t the republican mecting therein. . 2 convicted and sentenced be hanged—Early aud Woods yesterday and Brown and the woman September 19. Both Early and Woods made short speeches on the seaffol. neither made a coi ion. Woods own race had lied on nim ani brought bi the gallows, but he was nt, he lied on the trial, but had been forgiven. The execution was private. Neither man's neck was broken, see — The Heir of the Astor Millions. Newport Letter to Philadelphia lr J. 3d is not a student or lover of pictures, like his father and cousins, but, on the con- trary, prefers outdoor amusements, dancing and social g: He isa graduat> of vard and came through that great of learning hundreds men, by the skin of teeth, His enemies say that it was his name and not his brains that got him through, At any rate, he got through all right and it m because he is able to cut such a wide etie! ins of tu o like r his social ailairs that the other young men about town do not like him. Like all the jeunesse doree, he isa member of haif a dozen clu but he is not a club man im any eense, sensibly preferring his own luxuriant ho’ He has not many friends amoug men and has never been heard of ima bar-room brawl. This as He is a shining e to be invited light in society, and is always to every affair that is going He spends a good portion of the summer at port, and goes to Europe three or four times a year, — SNGLAND AND THE VATIC Warm Reception of an F nglish Repre- sentative by the Pope. de Sir Lintorn nmons, the legate of the British government who was dited to range the settlement of the church questions of Malta, was treated with great cordiality _ AUCTION SALES. ST. CLAIR FECBNER, AUCTIONFER, 611 PEN Sopivauts ave, under Metropol: Th rT jot nbroker’s Unredeen, Piedees, ord aud tilver Watchen, Geuuine Diemer} Works of Ai we nimiana avenue, Opp. City Post Oftioe, LARGE STOCK OF NOTIONS, FANCY GOODS, @) AT AUCTION WITHIN OUR SALES ROOMS MONDAY. AUGUST 25, AT 10 O'CLOCK. FINE ASSORTMENT OF GOODS, PARTLY 3 FOLLOWS, FROM #4 STRERT STORE: GENTS’ AND WOMEN'S HOSIERY, CLARK'S O.N.T AND OTHER SPOOL COTTONS, GLOVES OF EVERY DESCKIPTION, CORSETS, BRAIDS, BUTTONS, SPOOL BILE, LACES, EDGINGS, TABLE OIL CLOTHS, CORSETS WORSTED, GENTS AND LADIES UNDERWEAR, SPOOL SILKS, PEARL BUTTONS, JEWELRY, CORSE S, LINEN AND SILK HANDEERCHIESS, HAIR BRUSHES, CUTLERY, Aue LARGE LOT OF Goops TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION u RAtcU FFE, Dake & 00, auctonecra ENTIRE STOCK OF FE MILLINERY Goops, CONTAINE x suite ae $7 F SKEET NORTHWEST, CONSISTING IN PAKT OF TRIMMED AND GNs CKIMMED “WATS, TRIMMINGS, INFANTS" MEAG INFANTS LONG AND SHOT COATR, CAPS” AND BONNETS, AND MISSES UNDEAWEAL, MISS COALS. FOR FALL. AND RUCHING, CLIFPE, at Recs FE, DARK & CO, Auctionoers STRABLE TWO-STORY 1s TRUSTERS' SALE OF AD BAY WIS kK HULSE Ne, EAST i ta of the premises ou WE UNESDAL, r OF SEPTEMBER. A.D. 1800, at RIVE O'CLOCK, Teul estate (42) 10 Ballantyne and Wille halt of aquare numbered elit (ORB ast Subdivinic: booke of 100 cash; Balance in on ed by deed nd two years, Ttrust on property sold, 3 tbe Purchases A depeeat at the time of sale. If the with in ufteen dare Teecrve therigt yu) edverusrmeut 0 proper such resale im suas ton. D.C. All convey pu er AN) eu? l-dxas JUDSON T. CULL.S }OMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. " CONT OF A PRIVATE BOARDING HOUSE AT AUCTION, CONSISTING OF WALNUT "MT. CHAMBER BUT: ASH AND PAINTED COTIAGE SUITES, ODD DOUBLE AND SINGLE BED- STEADS, . D WASHSTANDS, MALL FIFTEEN WAKD- OLS OL BLE, MANIEL BEDS," EXi THER TABLES, 4.C DIVAN AND OTHLR PAd t ma) ZURT, CARPETS AND MATIINGS, WINDOW HANGINGS, LARGE PICTURES, CHINA KLICHEN REQUISIT! 8, Lod TOMET Wan AND GLASSWARE, . ke. SINGLE eeu kk COTS: Lvl OF NEW W. G. TRENTON CHINA, &c, &e., & iMURSDA FIGHTH, at bouse® ene « ot WLING, Auctionoer, WALTER B WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioncers. E'S SALE OF A LARGE AND WPLL As. D STOCK OF HALDWARKE, COUNTER ON SAFE (COMBINATION LOK), i UUN TERS, SHOW CASES, terplataig turuist 20 1 ST_ TWENTY-FIFTH, com- KA: M.. and coutinuy p stock it oxed of sue kof hardware » CABINET. GHOCERS, BUTCHERS! UPPLIES, FINE ASSORTMENT OP LEKY. wht of fooas usually found im BUILDE AND BELL-H MECHANICS’ Lt. AND POCKt ore, YCLOCK FIRST DAY, Store Fixtures,” Plated POSITIVE, tt being by ior the benefit of the credite the trade and private buyers ig WALTER S. LAMON, Assicnee, WALTER B WILLIASIS & OO., Aucta HOMAS DOWLING, WALNUT MIRROR-FRONT HALL RACK, FRE PLATE PIER OUEROR WITH SLAB A BoACKEt, sTLINW) | Iron Sate, « aud other slow « virtue of au a ors. The atte called wo t ot AMENIS, BAUSSBLS is, HAIK AND id Sia BEDDING, “TOILED WAKE, LASSWAKE. KITCHEN KEQUI- LACE CURTAINS. GOUD Ad NLM; HANGINGS,“ POKILKI o, LAKGE INEN, SHEETS, &C., 2 X, AUGUST TWENTY -FIFTH, 1890, at TEN U'CLOCK A.M. ¢, No. B13 Vermont door horth 0 . and directly on Hotel, 1 will sell for cash the abow * THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. _MEDICAL, &e, LADIES SHO REQUIRE THE SERVICES OF & 4 Lons-estabiished ‘aud Keliabie 1 1 ay jcouwult Mrs and 2duw. Consultation with 1 ROPESSIONAL MASSA\ with b ith at. n. k. LEON, Tbe Uidest Established and Physician in can bo consulted daily, #64 Cw ats. 1. w Cons! Separate rooms for Ladies. e always open. Prompt treatment tial jon strictly cont: wrs-awt G-ES 1 ABLISHED 3 sade ‘st. a. with Ladies only EAD AND BE W S.W., appeared Adiet dnt 10N m I atin that be Lapert bpeciaist iy Uisert, UFe Ib Wd) Cases of privatedi during his visit to the vatican, and this has | caused a good deal of comment. When the British envoy was first presented, his holiness | the pope rose from his chair of state, came forward to meet him and shook him warml, the hand. In accordance with the usual rules of t the court of Kome the pope re- ceives all persons, even monarchs, seated, 60 that a very unusual fionor was showa to the representative of England. SUICIDE OF A 1iLADELPHIAN. After Being Fleeced by Confidence Men He Shoots Himself. Yesterday Frederick A. Hunter, a Philadel- phian, committed suicide in Minneapolis, Minn,, by shooting himself, He left Phila- delphia a few wee ks ago with about $500 in his possession and was joing to Seattle. He stop- ped off at Chicago, where he fell |into the hands of a gang of confi- dence men, who ficeced him of all the money he had. With no prospect of making his destination or his home he went to a whart at the foot of 18th xvenue, where he sent a builet crashing through his brain. A tal card found in his coat pocket read: “My health is gone, I cannot wo On a picce of " Was written “Mary E. Sherrard, 3318 Dickinson street, Philadelphia” coe! RUBINSTEIN AND BERNHARDT, Mr. Abbey May Bring the Musician and the Tragedienne to America. Henry E. Abbey has offered to Anton Rubin- stein, the composer tnd pianist, $100,000 for a tour through America during the coming sea- son. Rubinstein is undecided whether to ac- cept or not, ashe is afraid of the fatigue of the long journeys. He is about to resign the post as director of the Imperial Conservatoire at St. Petersburg. by | | 1inen aba um medicine, OF Lo cbarKe , cousult tron apd saved ive 61 ang hour of theday. Sut tcribed and sworm to before me by BRoTeha rr. FANUEL c. Milde Suury Puullcan engtory sstrict of Coiumbia this Jd day of July, 158, tas? 2HAS NEVER BEEN CONTRADICTED THA Dr. BROTHEKS is the oldest-established adverts t 2 AD this city. Ladiem, Fou ce it Dr, BOTBEKS, W08 Be. ay tion juid to all distases peculiar & married oF sinxie. Forty years’ experience. 9- dan ANHOOD RESTORED BY USING A BOTTL ortwoot Dr. BROTBELS' Invworsting Corda Cure aby case of Nervous Debility and lows ¢ pervepower. It imparts Vigor W the whole systey, iakeor Foie. YOU atm we. _aa- Lin” ik. LOBB, ORTH 15TH ST. PHILADE hia, 20 xperie Hours, 10 am. wil 16 LU evendune, Send for book cua full paruculars for Home Cure, FRE ay AND ORGANS. — gos TUT Bo gem pre per Ss; Fo fee i r SoS 7 ll fee F > Prize Modal Parte Exposition, | 200 first promiume indurecd by over 100 music schools abd colleves Garatality. (Old Fisnos taken inexchange. ‘The eal: Upright that can take the place of 302 jy3-3m_ PFEFFER & CONLIFF, 616 i2th ot Lisavixe Assrecauunrs, DECKER BRos, WEBER FISCHER PIANOS ESTEY ee Old instraments taken in’ part payment ‘Tuming and Kepairing. ‘We ciosu st b o'clock durine July ana ose jone al yur Y SATAN SANDERS & STA no EISSN i Wat 17