Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1890, Page 10

—_—- THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. —— D. C., SATURDAY, P is f VEMBER 1, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES, “COULTER’S HELL.” Satanic Suggestions of the Yellow- stone. ———— THE GREAT CANON. —————_—_ Miles of Rr! ntly Colored Surface— Grand Display of Nature's Paints— What Water Can Do as a Decorator—A River Falls Into the Canon, —_——>——_. No. II, Staff Correspondence of Tue Evavive Star. Maxmorm Hor Sratas, ¥.P. nished nomenclature to Yellowstone Purk have recognized his satanic majesty as a dominant spirit within its borders. r the entrance to the rk stands the Devil le. His kitchen, his Bh frying pan and his we which are met in succes- sion, indicate that he is quite at home here. At Hot Springs the “Dev- i's Thumb” is visible and conspicuous, The site of the largest geyser is called “Hell's Half Acre,” and the whole region is formally turned over to infernal possession by its designation as “Coulter's Heli,” the name first given to the park. In its eulphurous fumes, its diabolic noises, its hissings, boilings and hollow rum- biings, its hoodoo formations, its appearance of desoiation and death and in its pre-eminent claims to be the place where hnmunity is kept in hot water it does possess some infernal char- acteristics, It 1s, however. a land of white- ness instead of blackness, and the devil, if he gives color to his park, is cvidentiy not so black | &s he is painted. | There are some indications that his satanic majesty hes impressed himself not only upon names and the surface of the park. but that his influence is felt in the moral atmosphere. | Atany rate the tourist is apt to be seized, Iam told, on first entering this uneunny region, with an irresistible desire to lic like sixty about wonders that have been visible to him and not to his compa: and to steal all the speci- mens that he can lay hands upon. It is certain, | in spite of posted warnings and threats, the | ful menace of the might of the United States army and the absence of authoritative notice ef any suspension of the ciguth com-| mandment in the park. that female, ing over their piltered treasures with an un- holy joy that is fearful to contemplate. The de- nm thief gets about as much re m the park as the confirmed kodak tiend. In most caves he takes an un- Becessary load upon hisconscience. While the rule against removing specimens is sweeping, practically it is only the breaking of the forma- tion, and especially of such as is beautiful and conspicuous, that is harsh!y consid and early all of the supposed treasures concealed by the specimen seeker are of no consequence in the eyes of the soldier on guard. In spite of the fact that the humiliation of ex- pulsion from the park is the ouly punishment | which the authorities are able to inflict upon the detected specimen thief. there is compara- tively little of the worst sort of vandalism prac- ticed now. The most prominent and of the formations are reasonably well thongh they bear in many places traces © riod of unprotection, when the hammer reely applied to t disastrous effec Great pieces have been chopped as with anaxe from the crater formations of some of the con- spicuous geysers of the upper basin. Where such inroads have been mae by vandals upon this hard deposit the mutilation of the more delicate formations may be i: ined, In leaving the upper geyser basin we aban- doned the richest treasures of specimens and the most vigilant soldier policemen, for we HEADED FOR THE CANON, end its attractions are inaccessible and immov- | able, even for the great American vandal We arrived at the canon in the afternoon and, according to the regular schedule, were to leave the next morning. Those who stay at this point only the scheduled period will save time yy leaving their vehicles where the road ap- roaches nearest to the upper fall of the Yel- | Shores permitting the vehicles to go on with the baggage to the hotel. the upper fall a short walk brings them to the brink of the lower fall. Views of the canon from Inspiration Point and Point Lookout may be had later in the afternoon or early the next morning before the starting of the caravan for Mammoth Hot Springs. The view from the brink of the lower fall is both impressive and disappointing. The spectacle of the river, narrowed to one-third ite width, foaming and thundering over the rocks here to its fall of 3u0 feet. and of the vast crag-lined cleft into which it leaps, quickens one’s breathing and causes one to bold tightly with a feeling of physical insig- Rificance to the overhanging wooden platform upon which he stan ‘ut from this point of view the coloring the canon walls is not so vivid as the imagination has pictured it, From Inspiration Point, however, the expected colors are seen as brilliant as in Moran's paintings, but far more delicate and more beautifully Diended. The trip slong the canon’s edge to Point Lookout and Inspiration Point is made Most conveniently on horseback. unless the visitor is a good walker. From Point Lookout Then after a view of LOWER FALL FROM RED ROCK. end a great red rock down the side of the eanon and under this Point, to which one can with an effort scramble, the best view of the Jower fall is bad. THE SCENE AT INSPIRATION POINT. Inspiration Point is three miles from the hotel. The canon seen from this point shares with Niagara and the Yosemite the merit of surpassing the most gushing descriptions. The scene may be suggested, but not described or pictured. The cauon is here about athou- and feet deep. Looking up it toward the falls the most impressive view 1s secured. ‘Turreted projections from the canon wali ob- Struct the view of the fall. so that oul white band of its eastern edge is visible the remote HOSE WHO have far-! | notto be sohighason the other side. | had ist | just charming. | They aro soft and break off es | and showed the rest of the party another s picture, The east wall of tho canon is of precipitous rock, more subdued in coloring t han the other side. browns and reds are comparatively sober. west wall is easier in its slope. Its groenish yellows, Down its sur- face extend great slides, where undermining springs have issued, and jutting out from itand extending in places from the very brink of | the canon to the water's edge aré pinnacled ridges of rock rising occasionally to the height and appearance of castle ruins, The most brilliant and varied colors axe seen in the slides, and the morning sun develops them most vividly, One of the slides on the west side near Inspiration Point is especially rich in coloring. First, pushing down the siope of the wall from the canou’s brink, is the grecn.of the pine trees; then come masses of yellow gray, blue gray, old pink, cream, light terra cotta, delicate golden brown, lemon yellow, old rose, brilliant ercam, white shading into cream yellow, vermillion and patches anc streaks of delicate gray green, sky blue. lavender, moss green and Indian red in an ‘occasional rock, until at the bottom the green and’ white of the foaming river aro reached. The water as it falls, and as it twists and curves between and beats against its rocky walis, now broad- ening, now contracting, sends up to the eara murmur that closer at hand becomes a roar, Looking down the canon from Inspiration Point the walls are less precipitous and seem Pine trees extend in places nearly to the water's edge. so that green is a predominating color, and the river stretches ont for a long distance before the eye like a twisted green and white ribboa, The steam arising from springs and small geysers in the canon walls suggests the cause of the vivid coloring. Hot water from the earth's center with its chemical deposi has painted here on a grand scale the decora- | tions which on the borers of the springs and geyser craters it has painted on a small sca When means of conveniently reaching ti bottom of the canon have been provided, as they surely will very soon, a new springs region will be open to public exploration and enjoy- ment. The tourist can then feel and tread upon the miles of brilliant surface, and ecald himself in the springs and httle geysers that are seen from the canon’s brink steaming far below. Near Inspiration Point there is a great gran- ite boulder, which, with afew others of like mation seattered through this region, indi- that the park, not to lack any natur: wonder, at one time boasted a mighty glacier, | which has joined with water, wind and frost to | | carve the marvelous sculpturing of the canon’s | | and Excelsior geysers, so that he can put the walls, The canon is the last grent show of tho | park, and according to the popular verdict it 13 the greatest, At this point we left the vehicle in which we ted from the springs end it went on | hout us in accordance with ite regular | le. We found it impossible to see even | yar superficially the marvels of th anon in the few hours of daylight which t! stage schedule assigned to this place, so we re- ined an extra day andcame on by next | caravan, | We arrived at the mammoth Hot £prings | | deacons | Hotel late in the afternoon and were compelled and Sunday school teachers, old and young, | to remain there until the next afternoon. KILLING TIME. The principal occupation of the tourists dur- | ing this interval was the swapping of geyser ies (which are several sizes larger than fish stories), objurgating the eccentrici- ties of the transportation —_echedule, and advising the incoming travelera of the strong points of the park. The young lady, e, who missed the eruption of the Giant geyser by frivolously flirting away her time in the vieimty of the spring called “Soli- tary” waxed enthusiastic: beavers at the lower basin and feed a real bear at the upper basin, and you can ride on a pony at the canon that is too cute for anything!” Then and there the returned specimen collector inflamed the desires of the newcomer with secret views of her acqui- sitions and gave advice in roguery: ‘Don't be afraid of the soldiers and drivers, Wh: don’t you know one soldier who caught m with a handkerchief full of pieces of the lov liest colored petrified wood (the colors rubbed off afterward) said that we might have all we wanted of that, only not to break the forma- | tion, anda driver that [had been hiding my specimens from actually pointed out the most | beautiful pink formatioa in a spring and said to me: ‘See those specimens in that spring, mis ly. And anoth burn your And then he turned his back on for full two minutes, anything nicer than t In a corner of the hotel office a little group of male vandals collected and one of the num- ber in husky. mysterious tones broached the great Liberty Cap conspira “You see,” said, “if you are caught stealing specimens, no matter how rare and valuable, all the soidier can de is to take the specimens from you and put you out of the park. oldier, of cours can’t put the broken formation back again, and I know, because I've tried it, that if you go about it in the right way youcan get ‘the | soldiers to let you have these confiscated speci- mens, Now, what's the matter with taking a | hammer and ladder tonight, some of you fe lows, and breaking the peak off of Liberty Cap? If you don't get caught you have a prize, and | {f you do get caught you're all right anyway, for you've been all through the park and are ready to be sent out, and I'll get the specimen from the soldier and divide with you. What dyer say?” A YELLOWSTONE GuOWL. The Yellowstone develops grumblers in as great profusion and variety as it displays in springs and geysers, and they naturally resort for a remedy to the newspapers and to the Secretary of the Interior, the grand mogul of the park, One class, disgusted with invariably bad water, frequently poor meals and occa- sional overcrowding in hotels and stages, sees the Yellowstone itself through spectacles tinted with the sickly, jaundiced yellow of the pre- vailing sulphur, bemg unable to enjoy natural wonders unless seen from an easy car- riage and onafull stomach, Another class sings the praises of the park, but condemns without diserimination everything in human | shape connected with it, finding the Yellow- ue & place “where every prospect pleases nd only man is vile.” ‘The | erally understood that Northern Pacific officials owna controlling interest in both the hotel and the transportation companies. As long as the Northern Facific, as the park association, maintains its hotels at the upper and lower geyser basins i: ape that only a few per- f sons can be lodged there and these few only uncomfortably, it has no business, as a railroa and stage company, to bring to the park and crowd into these rattletraps several times the number of tourists thatcan well be accom- modated. The association should be required as specdily as possible to erect a large and comfortable hotel at the upper basin. Tho substitute for the one at the lower basin should not be built at that point, where there is noth: ing in the world to see. It is understood that a uew hotel is to be erected near the Foun- tain and Paint Pots, with Excelsior not far away. This is an excellent plan, and it will re- move, possibly next summer, one of the prin- cipal grounds of criticism of the present hotel arrangements, I found the active agents of the fransporta- tion company, the superintendent and his as- — and the drivers, capavle and obliging, us THE SLAVES OF A SCHEDULE, which apparently cannot be altered by them, unless the change is obviously to the advantage of the company and it horses and to the disad- vantage of the sight-seer. Nearly everybody who travels through the park uses a book ticket, which covers transportation and hotel charges for five and a quarter days in accord- ance with a published sachedu the general features of which I have indicated in the course of this brief description of a regulation tour of the Yellowstone, and the geographical route of which may be followed upon the map at the head of this letter. Through the schedule the Northern Pacific, as a railroad and stage com- pany. plays directly intothe hands of the North- ern Pacific as a hotel keeper. The apportion- ment of timo in it to the different pomts of in- terest isabsurd. Strong temptation is offered |to break from the schedule in order | to enjoy properly the real wonders of the | park, each change involving extra ex- pense or increased inconvenience. ‘The |only violations of its provisions which | the drivers are directed or permitted to make are such as further inconvenience the tourist, ONSIDIAN CLIFF. For instance, the stages, in point of fact, leave the canon at 10 o'clock in the morning, instead of 11 o'clock, as advertised, thus shortening by an hour the entirely inadequate time allotted to this place. The effort isa made to break the schedule at the upper basin by bringing tourists back to the lower basin in the after- noon instead of permitting them to remain until the morning of the next day, thus short- ening the enjoyment of the wonders of the great geyser region toa period of four or five hours and causing a second evening to be spent at the uninteresting lower basin, Our carriage load escaped this fate on! ‘& vigorous and obstinate revolt, and all the other tourists who started in our company missed the afternoon and moonlight evening among the geysers. Wo thus obtained a fuil day in this marvelous place, and, by staying an extra day at the canon, also succeeded in getting some idea of what was to be seen there. Of their five nights spent in the park our fellow tourists passed two at Mammoth Hot Springs, two at lower basin and one at the canon, only a few hours of daylight being attached to the night's stop at the point last named. A REVISED AND IMPROVED SCHEDULE. The first day of the schedule is well enough, It gives ample time to “do” Mammoth Hot Springs. The travel of the second day should bring the tourist in the vicinity of Fountain | | late afternoon and evening hours to some u: sightseeing if he desires todo so. ‘The third day should be devoted entirely to the geysers, and the night should be spent at the upper basin, The fourth day should take the tonrist, as at present.to the canon. The fifth day should be spent at the canon, On the sixth day the canon should be left atan early hour and the springs reached in season for dinner. The train should be so run from Cinnabar to con- nect with the night trains from Livingstone, east and west, that the tourist could, if he | wished, leave the park on this, the sixth day. ‘There is no good reason why the hurried vis- itor should be compelled to waste one of precious days in the park at tho springs.on | return trip, when he had exhausted its sights on his first day in the Yellowstone. The five nights in the park would be spent under the revised schedule—one at the springs, one near Excelsior, one at the upper basin and two at the canon—a great improvement upon the ex- perience of our fellow tourists who for four nights out of the five were neither among the geysers nor at the canon. the principal sights which they had come so far to enjoy. SUGGESTIONS TO TOURISTS, Arm yourself for the park tour with heavy clothing, for it is a mountain trip; with an um- brella, for both rain and fierce sun may be ex- pected; with rubbers or extra shoes, for you will wade through hot water that will crack shoe leather; with a bottle of brandy and a de- termination to drink little, if any, of the water in the park (though the brandy 1s to be used as a medicine when the water upsets the tourist and not 4s a substituted beverage); with a pair of colored glasses, for the glare of the sun re- flected trom the limestone formation is blind- ing: with articles of rough pottery, to be coated by the springs as souvenirs; with cold cream, for alkali-cracked lips; with Hayden's geological survey report of 1878, from ‘which to erib information for home letters, diaries or newspaper correspondence, and last, but not 1 with appreciation of the fact that this is toacertain extent « roughing trip and that patient endurance of some inconveniences 1s part of the price of the experience, GPNERAL IMPRESSIONS, The characteristic and unsurpassable features of the park are the geysers, and the brilliant | work of hot water as a decorator, whether dis- played in canon or spring deposits, It has mounta but che grand scenery is coutined to a few portions of the park. It makes a great display of water in cataract as wellas in geyser, in the majesty of falling as well as rising, but its falls age far sur- passed in height by Yosemite and in volume by Niagara, “ CANON FROM THE BRINK. It has a wonderful canon, but it is far from being so deep and precipitous as either the Yosemite, Colorado or Arkansas, There are other lakes more wonderful and beautiful than the Yellowstone. There are more interesting petrified trees than those of the park, as in the chalcedony forests of Arizona, here are ero- sions more fantastic in shape than the Hoodoos in the Garden of the Gods and Mineral Park, Colorado, But in no single region is there so greata variety of attractions. Nowhere else in the world are there great geysers so numerous, 80 ancient and so remarkable in deposits. And nowhere else is there so varied and vivid a dis- play’ of natural colors, whether in connection with the springs and goysers or in the decora- tion which gives to the canon walls their won- derful beauty and distinguishes them from ali other cliffs, . ————-+e0______ Mary Anderson Has Retired, From the Baltimore Sun, Mr. Joseph Anderson, the brother of Mary Anderson, is registered at the Albion Hotel rence Barrett. He said that ina letter which he received from his sister several days ago she health at Tunbrid, Wells, in Kent, England, where 6 witl er husband, F. Antonio an As « park tourist Iam something of a grum- bier myself, but my growl makes an additional distinction by discriminating among men. The agents of those who'are grea ge by the gov- rument to build hotels and provide trans- portation are, so far as my observation goes, the | Bat the com low | deals directl; the green of the distant wooded mountain tops | ation can background of the couutin regard to certein matter, Ip efficient and accommodating, doing the ve: | best possibie with the means at their pent which the goverument panies with ¥ as the principals in the uegoti- reasonably, I think, be called to ac- goon the stage again,” said he, “The strain was too great on her. It is wonderful how she endured it, She always arose about 7 o'clock in the morning to attend church; then came breakfast and rehearsals for three or four hours, and in the afternoon scores of callers; then the evening performance, and bed seldom before 1 o'clock in the morning. Her health was so much impaired that it was im) ble for her with his wife, who is the daughter of Mr. Law- wrote that sho is at present enjoying excellent Navarro, “Ido not think my sister will ever ATTRACTIVE HOMES. How Handsome Household Ornaments May Be Cheaply Made. A NEAT LITTLE BOOK CASE. Brenkfast Hominy Boxes and Coffee Sacks the Principal Materials Used in Xt. Manufacture—A Sketching Stool for a Foot Rest, ———_—_ Written for Tre Evewrno Star. NE of the things that may come under the head of renovation is the furnish- ing of bareau and dressing table draw- ers with sachets to just fit them and make a dainty foundation for what- ever lies above. India silk is very pretty for the purpose and quite generally used, but for rooms in every day use dotted mull over a colored cambric or the attractive silkoline or crepeline muke inexpensive and good ones, easily renewed when the freshness is gono. Florentine violet orris powdor, which is half violet powder and half orris root, is the best for this purpose. These satchets givo a finish that nothing else can to receptacle for holding delicate ribbons and laces and other | litte toilet accessories, and when once a house is fitted up with them they will last a long | time. A lovely present for a baby is a sachot | large enough to fold over the christening robe | and hold it in its folds, ‘ibis may be appro- | priately made more elaborate than one for | more prosaic use, and embroidery work with laco on the edge are quite in keep- ing with the white silk for its covering. A PRETTY LITTLE BOOK CASE. Ihave lately made—or combined would be perhaps a better word—such a pretty little book case that for the benetit of other “‘self- helpers” 1 will describe it, for it is easily achieved. Made ambitions by the wonderful ; Accounts one hears of the successful cabinets | and book cases made of boxes, I determined to try and see how practicable such a scheme might be. I wanted a small, low book case for @ bed room and had to look about a little in order to geta suitable box for the size I wished. By inquiries at_ my grocer’sI found just the thing in a “breakfast hominy” box, which sell for ten cents apiece after the contents aro disposed of, Four of these turned on the side give = me. the book case forty-six inches high, twenty- three wide, ten deep, with the shelves eleven inches apart. he proportions are very good and it is quite commodious. A small nail put through each end of each shelf holds the boxes together and makes it firm, soit can be lifted jand moved anywhere, The outside of the | boxes is finished, so it is quite smooth, while the inside is rougher, but as I did not wish to paint it that made little difference, As matting 16 80 popular just now I decided to try and get that effect if possible, though matting itself I was afraid might prove a littie stiff and unmanage- able for anovice. The grocery again was able to furnish me with what I wished for my cover- ing, in a coffee sack, which I saw as | Iwas peering about for the right kind of boxes, This ‘particular style of sack is very pliable, ecru in tint and of a pretty weave. found On inspection that it is made up double for strength, sewed together over and over | with grass, so it is easily ripped apart, when it stretches out in a long piece about twenty-two inches wide and more than three yards long. The selvage is strong, but if once cut it ravels 80 easily and is so loosely woven it will scarcely be held by nails, Taking one of the loug strips—erstwhile the bag—I laid the book case—now firmly nailed together—on its buck on the floor, and proceeded to tack the matting so it would cover the inside neatly. I began by tacking it quite firmly to the top of the case; then drawing it Ughtly over the edge and nailing it at the inner ! angle; then drawing it down aud tacking again to the back of the first shelf from the top; then over the edge of that shelf and on down to the next, and so on to the bottom, where I drew it under and fastened it well. It draws | very smoothly and will bear much strain if the | side selvages are kept on, They just turned under each side in covering the shelves, and when thero was a raw edge at the ends of the strip I turned it under twice and nailed it closely to have it strong. ‘There is gen- erally somo black lettering on the outside of these bags, but by turning them in- side out alliscieanand fresh, After giving this neat-looking finish to each shelf I took | the other long strip—for I had two bags—and doubled it to cover the outside, To avoid cut- ting I turned the book case over on its side and fastened my double strip on the bottom; then I brought it up on one side und tacked itclosely, bringing the double edge over onto the front, For this I used the flat-headed gimp tacks, put- ting them abont two inches apart. | After tack- ing it up the front edge L drew the selvages over onto the back and tacked them, drawing the matting very tight and wmooth everywhere as I went along. When I reached the top, I set my book case upright again, drew the matting up over the corner and fastened it as I bad on the side, then put the book caso down on the fin- ished side and covered the second side, bring- ing the matting well under at the bottom and fastening. The matting was long enough to go over the two sides and top without any seams and was as smooth asif glued on, The only unfinished-looking thing was on the front, where I brought the matting over and tacked it, and au cern furniture gimp put on with tacks soon made that as neat as the rest. A littio brass curtain rod was put across the top and then it was ready for the ornamental part—tie curtains, Iwas undecided whether to have one drawn off each side, of India silk, with tassel fringe down the front edges, or to have one wider curtain drawn at one side of heavier material. For the room where I wanted it I decided the latter treatment would be best and, as olive and pink were tie best toncs, I made a curtain of green- ish olive plush, with a frieze band turned over of pink velours embroidered with gold thread and finished below with a short tufted silk fringe of pink and olive mixed. This looks very pretty in this particular room, though, in a goneral way, I should prefer the silk cu . When the case was filled with books, a pretty growing fern ina pink jar set on top, witha double photograph frame covered with pink silk beside it, 1 felt that the result more than repaid me for my work in getting itup. I am going to see if I cannot have a brass | rail put around the top, such as is on writing | desks, for it would add much to its looks. The | soft neutral tint of the matting with the greater | color effect of the curtaining is very pivasii tothe eye, The expense isa mere trille and the work, though rather troublesome. is not dificult, I did not attempt to do it ali at once, but did the inside one day and the ontside the next, thus dividing the unaccustomed labor of carpenter's work. The curtains, of course, are only pleasant work, whichever style might be chosen, Ithink this matting is susceptible of Deing used in various decorative ways, though as yet I have only experimented with it in this one, where it quite comes up to my expecta- { tions. { i i | UTILIZING A SKETCHING STOOL, All kinds of ottomans and foot stools being so much used now novelties in that line are in order, and an attractive little seat might be made out of the ordinary canvas-topped fold- ing stool which artists use for sketching ex- peditions, ‘The wood work should first be inted white, then over the canvas put a slight padding and over that stretch a cover of any material in suitable coloring for the room for which it is intended. Furniture corduroy in old pink, velours in soft reed green or the charming brocades in stripes or bouquet de- signs would all be pretty for such astool, If one wished the cover could be of satin sheeting with some good pattern of embroidery, a scroll or other conventional forms being best, but I should prefer the mate- rial, whatever might be chosen, without hand work of any kind. I remember in a fashion- able drawing room, years ago, of seeing a simi- jar stool gilded, with elaborate Berlin wool worked top, so this would be like so many other things, only a revival, after all. If one likes them, ribbons may be tied in big bows the corners of this foot rest—for that is what it would probably be mostly used for—but to me that wouid suggest the fussiness of the milking stool or fancy basket. ‘The ripbons, however, are so particularly lovely in cvlor and quality this autumn, and so very cheap in price, that one cannot resist buying them, and they must be made useful in some way, 80 email pieces of furniture will probably be more bedecked than ever in this way, THE STYLE OF A ROOM. Any room almost can be made to have a style of its own if only tones of one color are used or two harmonizing colors, Such a furnishing ¢atches the eye at once and pleases without distracting the attention, as a collection of dif- ferent-colored articles in the same room must ever do. In pins. ‘this general effect of har- mony it would be well to remember whatI | Seemed as though the hoodoo , ured ont | neously with the dispatch, had been the i re- to and sh to | gult: “Noth: trifling to be Mr. Anderson ‘will join Both nnd Barsette | nothing i tos sinate te nenteabete: te tee company on its arrival in Baltimore, fect of the whole, It is the attention to the saw written of an artist's home, where taste the fheful re- | small things which goés far to make a success- ful house decorator, professicnal or amaten: Brown and buff, with the shades rangiug be- $ween, make a very satisfactory coloring for bed room, sitting room or library and one that is not easily tired of. These shades tone with oak or pine wood work, or if painted the wood can bea perfect match to any of the lighter colors. It seems as if the very pretti wall papers this senson are buff, or buff and golden brown. In the large designs especially many beautiful patterns are shown, Brown for the dining room with oak and brown ther chairs will be always liked, and plain walls of a medium tone will be am excellent background for pictures or porcelain, If one likes contrasts, blue china combines well with this coloring and can be most effectually ar- ranged. TABLE DECORATIONR, Bowls of roses are still one of the popular arrangements for the center of tho dinner table,silver or cut glass the preferred styles for the bowls, The roses are generaliy distributed to the ladies, and to press thom is becoming quite the thing. Roses that press well are in demand, and a single one of this variety is given to each guest on leaving, to be pressed as 8 souvenir, while other roses may be in bunches beside each cover. > aunt 7 Sees See A MEMORABLE TRIP, How the Distinguished Guests From Here Reach d Annapolis. A HOODOO ON BOARD THE TRAIN CAUSES TRE ENGINE'S LUNGS TO GIVE OUT AND A LONG WAIT AT ODENTQN—A RELIEF ENGINE FINALLY SECURED AND TREIR JOURNEY ACCOMPLISHED, It was a remarkable journey, that of the ‘distinguished guests” from Washington to NEWS FROM NEW YORK. Happenings Talked About in the Busy Metropolis. THE MARCH OF IMPROVEMENTS HAS Destnorep THE FORMER COUNTRY HOUSES OF MANBATTAN- ITES—A CHESS KING'S MENTAL FEAT—NEW YoRK CENSUS COUNT—THE OUTLOOK NEXT TURSDaT. Correspondence of Tax EvENIxe Stan. New Yors, Oct, 30. Among the thriving nowness of the wastes of commonplace red brick and brown-stone of Upper New York it is an oad and interesting sight to see scattered here and there a few Spacious and roomy old manor houses, relics of & bygone day, whose broad and generous di- mensions with the pilared portico colonial architecture afford a pleasing contrast to the shot-tower type of flat by which they are very generally surrounded, The glory of their white paint and green blind’ has usually de- parted, but their strong and simple lines, the generous breadth of their doors and windows and their air of hospitable leisure and repose ake them restful to the eye jaded with \van- sard roofs, Norman round towergand so-called Queen Anne gables and quirks generally. These Were the remote country residences to which the prosperous New Yorker of a very few gen- erations ago rumbied out in his slow and pon- derous family carriage even as he now shoots outto Tuxedo in his draw: room car or skims up the river in his steam yacht to his country seat on the Hudson. Some of the old mansions have had an eventfal history and of late years ha dramatic tranaformations, Nota few of them have sunk from their patri- archal hoxpitglity and state to the more sordid hospitality of beer gare and Hans and the unveiling of the Jeannette mon-| Gretchen, with nomy an ument at. Annapolis Thursday, It was | ‘anced on the floors wher ‘ P y- slippers clicked and silken trains swept im colo- & journey long to be remembered, | nial days, to be photographed on the mind of each one present, to be told to posterity. In the first place it w: jort of historical repetition, that brought back to mind the picture of the ill- fated Jeanuctie stranded powerless in the ice. There wero four cars on tho train, two vestibuled parlor cars and two of the ordinary sort, drawn by a locomotive. It was not one of these brass bound, well-polished engines that make the fast time and run into things, but one of the somber-huod, oily, dirty affairs that has by long training formed the habit of going too slow to run into anything and of sneaking on to sidings and switches until everything else had passed by. A JOLLY PARTY ON BOARD. There were about seventy-tive people on board,a jolly party of officers, civilians and news- Paper men, and the start from the 6th street station was made under the most favorable of auspic: ‘bere was no thought of dan, ahead, no breath of accident and the memo- rial committee, holding up bravely under huge badges of blue and goid, smiled the triple smile of duty almost performed. Tho train had hardly crossed the tern brauch bridge before a superstitious naval officer. with « pale face and a disordered necktie, rushed through one of the parlor cars, and announced in horror-stricken tones that something dread- ful had been discovered, When be could be calmed sufticiently to tell his tale it was learned that in the rear car was a Jonah, a veritable hoodoo, who would be sure to cause disaster beforo the day was over. It was embodied in the person of Uncle William Moran, the venerable registrar of the Navy Departinent, who was then on board of a railroad train for the first time in twenty-one years, The last trip he made was when he traveled down to Annapolis to gee the class of *69 graduate. When this fact became known there was A GENERAL CONSTERNATION. Dire were the presages of evil, many were the accident policies taken out of hiding places and examined, while Lieut. Lucien Young ran from car to car in a frantic effort to locate the “pipe line.” He tound it and there was peace ag: Batforafew miles all went well, and it had been quenched, Then the train began to go slower, and slower, aud siower yet, until it came to a Standsuil, At first no one imagined that any- as the popular theory was d mercly been sidetracked in nother one to pass, But the : and nothing happened, and a brakeman went rushing throuzh the arined with one of those pretty red- painted axes that are used as wall decorations ap railway care, am A SIGNAL FOR ALARM. This was the signal for alarm and the heads that were poked from the windows beheid the wondrous spectacle of a man bearing the uni- form of a great and glorious corporation chop- peg down a rail fence that the engine might ave fuel, Many were the guesses as to the cause of the trouble, but from the wild mass of rumots that were bronght back from the en- gine it soon became piain that the wine had gone to sleep. se showed less than five pounds press: bars hung wearily down out of the fire box into the ash pan, and her crew, a beard- less pair of wipers from the round house, were doin, their best to convert rails from the fence into a motive power. ‘Then somo one in the rear car grow sarcastic- ally facctious and posted this notice upon one of the mirrors: *Lost—One hundred pounds of steam, somewhere between Washington and Annapolis, Finder will please return to the | Pensyivania railroad and receive thanks.” When men began to ask, with tearful eyes, where they were, it was learned that the train had stranded about a mile from Odenton and | that there were 25 pounds of steam in the boilers. Uncle William Moran smiled and crept away into one of the smoking compartments near the ‘pipe line.” HELP FROM ANOTHER TRAIN. At last a shout was heard, A sail—no, the smoke of acoming train, had been sighted. The conductor ran down the track to meet it, and after some minutes of bargaining induced | the engiaeer to push the excursionists into | the junction and out of danger. The mile was | a long one and the wait only gave place to an- other and tedious one. The steam gauge could | not do better than thirty-five pounds, and that ! even only on spurts. More rails were chopped, | wood piles were to the ground, and the | naval enginecrs on the train gathered around the engine and discussed the situation among themselves. i Another half hour of waiting, another train in sight! This, too, was a freight, but pride | had long been lost, and at last the engineer | swung his two or three box cars upon a switch | nd pulled the excursionists rround so as to et ahead of them. ‘Ihe panting, shuffling Monster that had lost its breath was side- tracked, ‘all aboarf” was shouted. and the run for Annapolis against time was started, THEY FINALLY GoT THERE. A telegram, however, had been sent ahead from Odenton for the ceremonies to go on, without waiting for the party, but such was | the extraordinary speed of the reliet engine that the train of Washington excurmonists ar- | rived at the cemetery two hours late, simulta- ‘The messenger boy was nowhere to be found, The trip home was without mishap. Uncle! Moran, a had exhauged his hoodooie quali- | ties in the carriage ride from the station to the | cemetery by being run into by another coach, | was guarded all the way, a man standing on either side of him, armed with a bottle and a tumbler. He was subdued. a Mere Thoughtlessness. From Puck, “He drank too much beer today.” “Why, I've heard him say he could drink beer all day and think nothing oft.” “Well, he isn’t thiukiv anything of it.” plies ladbceecoet~ Dov. 2.008 lh In the familiar song, “Pall for the Shore,” thereis a line, “Cling to seif ro more,” which as sung by the colored children in one of the schools, sounded strangely, and on having it said slowly it was discovered that they were singing: “Clean youself no more.”—Americun Alissionary. | of the Interior has clearly the be REMINISCENCES OF DEPARTED GLORY. Tho quaint old mistress of one of these quaint old mansions was telling me the other night with uncons of the former fivries of her do: forts that had been lo to preserve it, She told how from their windows they saw two of the forts of th of 1512, ove of which is now the old block house on @ knoll at the northern end of Central i ,and onthe site of the o! ris the terraced height of Morningside Park. There west they saw the nob ad away to the easithe wif sails on river. But the city grew up to them, and through their broad acres city streets were opened and the fields became building lots and the acres feet, Through the broad center hall of the old house went the line of Sth avenue, but the aged owners, notuing daunted, resol’ to move the house. “They went to ho: ing init when they were married, fity Years before, at the bride’s home in the fash- ionable residence quarter on broadway, just below Cortiandt, and it wae no trifling question of avenues and dats and elevated railroads that Was going to make them move out. So they stayed in their high-ceidinged old square rooms while the ponderous n e aweep of perat Making the d beams through the substantial foundation and eighteen-inch brick was Like storming the Bastile, but th scicnce can cope even with ancient and without a perceptible jar except gentle vibration of the prisms on labra the task was accom- 9 n honse is built for less 4 the Moving cost ($8,000), but its owners take great satisfaction in the result, In the four rs since it was done the town has built up closely all around the old house and the elevated clatters past its long, old-fa i garden with prim box-bordered walk: the hydrangeas, holiyhocks and lilie rows of beans end lettuce, which no doubt cost much more than those at the neigh- boring green grocers’, but taste far sweeter. THE ROCKY SOIL OF LETTERS, A flood of lizht is thrown upon. the periodi- cal industry of this country by a little manual which has just appeared, or rather reapy for it is enlarged aud revi 7 cals that Contributors, ‘This will doubt- less be a vade mecum to tho ug young author, and nobody but the magazine editors know how many tiiere is of him, however, is not calcul; sk ig, greased stone work m s als suw no good piritor desire to levd a heiping and to the climber on fame’s ladder. Nin tenths coldly announce “No pay for poo What encouragement is there for A ica’s mute inglorious —Miltons the iterary murket does not Worid, the Street Reihcay Journal and other | purely practical publications state emphatic- | ally that they hi nO use for poetry, though one ean hard ine acontributor sending in any unless it might be some classic, like | “The Charge of the Light Brigade” or “Pun | Brothers, Punch.” The amazing thing about jitisthe immense number of periodicals ot which even a newspaper man has neve heard, though they ving business, as they are overcrowded with manuscript. The Jour- nal st grimly announces that it “desires news of publishe it “does not want poems about love . HOT stories about the widow who was starving until she wrote a magazine article, which placed her in Juxi which at once cuts off two copious sources of supply, A CHESS KING'S MENTAL FEAT. We are soon to have another great chess con- test between Steinitz and Gunsberg. The last contest was memorable in the annals of chess here, and the ane t teresting. The games are to begin on De ber 1, No one who has not watched the re “a ut s been carric Recently Mr. S\ ave one of the most marvelous exhibitio: y and of se! ‘© ever known. He was twenty-six games simultaneously, when his opponent in one, well along in the game, disputed a move he made on the ground that it was pot his turn, re you not keeping a record of the game?” asked the great player, with a view to settling the dispute. On his ad- versary replying in the negative Steinitz began | with the first move of the game und gave the | whole game to where the meu were placed, in | order to show that the move was bis, When we remember that he had taken no special pains to keep track of the game and was play- ing twenty-live other games at the same time this feat is almost incredible, 4 COUNT NEW YORK THINKS NO AccouNT. New York is feeling very sore over the re- fusal by Secretary Noble of @ second census. At the same time there is a general feeling that Mayor Grant bungled the correspondence, Viewed simply as a legal battle, the Secretary bi by initz of | greater attention by the government, Brook- Iyn is now about to make a recount and 1 see that Philadelphia also wanted to try its hand. It 1s idle to pretend that there does not exist a widespread disgatisfaction with the returns, and we have only beguu to hear the reverbera- tions. The matter will certainly be veutilated next winter in Congress and made a party is- sue. Onecurious effect of the controv bas been to give Mayor Grant’s candidacy a sudden boom at the most opportune time, although, as T have said, it is gencrally thought that he let his temper get the better of his shrewdness in conducting the correspondence, on which ac- count he is widely blamed. Nevertheless, the feeling that the census has been unfair to the city, and that he has done his best to procure a proper enumeration, gives him a certain uding as the champion of the city’s interests, and this fact linked with the notorious hostility—or, not to use so strong a word, the indifference—of Boss Platt to the interests of New York in regard to the world’s fair; whereas Mavor Grant in this mat- ter also did his best to obtain the fair for the city and stands as its champion here as well. These two considerations will have a far they would be entitled to from the standpoint of pure logic. Both appeal to local pride, which is a far more powerful element in heated campaign than calm ratiocination, THE OUTLOOK FOR THE ELECTION, In spite of this good luck, bowever, it looks very squally for Tammany. There are only one pers in the city that are giving Grant support, and in standing ueutral or in coauing a tase atsuae See eter Papers consult feeling among their constituencies. cisive whatever machine mr on to be Now that the machine is Tam- Harr Rates to Pavan: via Rovat | registration has beeu larger than ever before Brive Lrvz.—The B. and 0. RR will sell | outside of a meoes at is expected excursion tickets from Washington to Philadel- | that there will and grea: excite- ‘at rate of one fare for the round for | ment. There is much curiosity to see how the all trains Oct, 31 and Nov. 1, 2 and for | new election law will work, and some fear is ifteen days from date of sale, Simi tickets | ©: ‘that it will lead to trouble, especially will also be sold to other points in thestate of | im the more ignorant aud partivan districts, Pennsylvania, ° Haxar kk of | romises to be equally in- | development of the gume has the least idea of | the precision to which it the modern experts, ® were no parks around them then, but on the | the Hudson, | he E Tee Boox Is Ox. Richt ow, Just as the frost begins to make our eare and noses aud fingers and toes tingle, when im the not far distance we Lear the sivigh bells single. and there ts Seeneral stripping off of everything summeriah im the way of wearing apparel, anda mighty wetting into of euch carments as are suited to fall and winter—rieht Row, wien the demand is @restest, we put the guillo- Une to work with the following results Lots 3084 and 3UNS—Camjbeil's Kersey Overvosta, Terular retad price, $15; ©0at 10.75 apiece for tis poles Dine Chinchilla Overcoats, rewular retail go at $8.25 for this week only. ng Jucketsani Vests, Dark Blue “Warambo" clulla, warranted strictly all wool and test color— te and Vesix, double-breasted, p tous, heary rp. all-woretad serge red to perfection. ecular retail @ Coat and Vest for this week taware, $10.73, " retail price, $15 Lot 3. 90—Sk wad Wool Su.ta meat stripe, rerular Fetail price 818; ine price, 12.26. Lot ¥8it—Derk str Suits, regular retail price, $10.75; guillc 73. Lot 4640 —Dark ¢ “wits, heavy, regular me tail price, #10; cuilictine price, $7.00. Lot 1087—Beaver-weagit suits, Indigo Jar retail price, $13. ¢ ce, eas Roe hort Pauls Suits, sizes 410 14 years, @1.06 oye’ Suits, Coat, Vest and Long Panta, cise 18 80 ) upward, 18 yours, @4. Boy upwand, se. a few words about Gentle- i, Lot AA—White shorts, ue sizes 14 to 1 Bizes 14 to 1 gussets, Land- Jets ore en bosoius and w. x stays and long, patent ever Rist H licayy th yd Tu i st wool, free he book, | ice | when | shame | to be so cailous and unsympathetic?, One west- | ern humorist remarks that he wiil insert for 25 cents a line, love stories for Ine and jokes with oetry | appear to do| announce that they | * methods that are unfair or dis- | ¥ the paper having somewhat the char- | acter of a policeman to protect writers, but | Wil adds with a satire, born, no doubt, of bitter | 4% 44, aud viher supurities, suk stitebed aud VICTOR E. ADLIR'S Ten Per Ceut € « House, 7 and 029 1.W., cor, Massgetusetts eve, Hats, Cays and Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods, STRICTLY ONE DICE. Open Saturday until 11 p.m oT For the acec Public we will four enstomersand the re open all night in change Allcock's Porous Pies! German Porcus Plast Ayers Sarsapar:i Wyeth's Beet, Leaunfier of the eom- te tw the Ladiew woth andeolt, and Lyery lady suould . QUE \ chaywaux, ttle, Zoc. yrerain Cap TALL C-peuien 100 gras Quiuiue, FS) Don't mistaks THE TEMPLE mua STOKE, unter Masonic Temple, th and Foe, OlW-tu ie FS. WILLIAMS & CO, Proprietoa, Da Lcrrmm Greater effect on the vote next Tuesday than | ‘Has resumed bis practice and removed bis effice & bis residence, 4411 K ST. Nw. EARLY MANIFESTATIONS OF CONSUMPTION. If a person bas an obstinate cough, which com- Inenced without any obvious cause, a couch wiueh 16 et iret dry and bucking, and sutsequentiy attended for 4 tne with frodiy or wucilagiLous-looking expec toration, secompamied by wandering pains about the cheat and loss of flest:, even to s#light extent, be is im i, besides, there be Loanoptysie or spitting of blood, even to the amount ofa drachim, the probability 18 increased to alimoste certaiuty. If, im addition to these symptoms, the breathing becomes harsh, burried aud deep inspire tious evoke a few clicks of a dry aud cracking sound, OF if the Voice becolnes permanently weak aud hoarse, there can be Little doubt that the person is eudleriug from cousumpticn. 1f@ person, irce from dysentery, and who bas not re- Sided in tiopical climates, sullers from obstinate dian Thea, which woes on mouth atter mouth, wich elit Temission oF intermission, even though there be no cough, be is most likely consumptive Should this diarrhea be followed by chest symptoms of the sliht- est amount, the exusience of consumption is an ab- solute certaimty. If a young adult, not addicted to enervating habits and not leading 2 dissolute life, without clear cause steadily loses weight, be is, im all probability, ccnsumplive, though wo chest aymp- toms should have appeared. When such, however, manifest themselves additionally the establikmeng ‘of consumption is almost s fixed fact. in ail case where any Of the mauitestations described make their ajpearapce We should advise an iuumediate examine of the chest aud 4 prompt resort to apppropriate treatment. Ata carly stage of consumption 2 radical cure cap Defrequently effected, and bealth placed upon « Sra tnd }ermenent tooting, while with every step in ad ‘vance which thedisease is allowed to take the chances fora perfect recovery diusiuish correspondingly. Ow ienders met Lear in mind that the most skilful anc ef cent treatment can do by wor than tomakesoun sud useful asmuch of the lungs as is present at th: ‘Une when the progress of cousumption becomes sus perded. No aweanson earth can replace the lune tis fue which bas Lecn Gestroyed by the ulcerated pro cess. ‘Lhe ceriier, theretore, cousuption is attende tu, the Letier are Uke cuunces lor setisiuclury resull DA LIGHTEILL, For thirty years specialist for the caret CATARRH, DEAFNESS, ASTHMA ‘and @inenses of the Office Bours from 8 aa until 12, and irom 3105 ase }