Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1892, Page 9

FADS OF GREAT ME How the Solons of the Senate Are Protected From the Dynamite Fiend. “NO PACKAGES ALLOWED.” How Noted Men Enjoy Themselves—Pleas- ures and Kecreations—Official Life Not Wholly Sad—Pastimes of Greely, Powell, Curtis, Langley, Kenna and Peffer. 5 ESTERDAY I started for home with a minute parcel under my arm containing » Sossamer flannel shirt ghat I had just pur- chased wherewith to mitigate the fervors of summer time. Capitol I paused to see what was going on, and as I stepped into the Senate gallery the door- keeper said: “Here! put down that bundle!” “What for?” I asked. “No bundles allowed in here!” he said. T inquired by whose order such trifles as my gauzy environment were prohibited. “‘Sergeant- at-Arms Valentine,” he answered. I went out @f that deor and into the next. “Stop there! Come out of that!” exclaimed the lively doorkeeper, sorting me from a crowd making its way in. “You, too!” he said to a youth who had a small handbag. ‘‘No bags or andles can go inside.” Why not?” I asked. Ee “You might blow up the whole Senate!” he replied, with an expression of alarm on his face. “After that anarchist threw the dyna- mite at Kuseell Sage and old Vanderbilt an order was given that nothing that could hold dynamite should be let in here. You must lay it down in the hall.” I expressed to the old soldier a doubt of the wisdom of such an order. “Why, you see yourself,” he urged, opening the door and waving his hand within, “that a dynamite fiend could fling a handbag or a bundle down there and kill half a dozen Sen- ators. He couldn't fling it scarcely without Lilling a millionaire.” “Bat vou don’t examine skirts or coat pockets,” I suggested, “‘or even cloaks or over- coats; anybody could carry dynamite in there if he wanted to. And how abont pistols?” Then I walked over to the House gallery and went in. “Can I carry in my parcel?” Iasked the door- cert!” he exclaimed in astoniehment. “Why can’t you?” So I took a front seat within ensy reach of at Jeast « hundred members. I could have flung | * my white gossamer band grenade and,struck Economical Holman right on the top ‘of the head with it, and there are some cabinet offi- cers in Washington who would have laughed hysterically at the sanguinary deed. There were | half a dozen millionaires right under my hand, so near that I could have tossed a newspaper and hit them. And I wondered why the House needed protection so much less than the Senate. Are these less valuable than those? I thought of the old woman at the apple stand: “These is two cents apiece, but these ‘ere ‘uns youkin hev fer two fer a cent.” It strikes mg that Mr. Valentine's order, be- sides being utterly futile, is calculated to excite |, Suggest to fools and freaks the possi- bility of crime aud make the Senate ridiculous. A CHANGE OF PLANS. Col. Carroll D. Wright, commissioner of Inbor, rounds up some fun all the while, though he is one of the busiest of the President's lieu- tenants. He is very fond of cards, and when he was able to spend his summer months at his summer home out on Marblehead Neck, above Boston, he loved to beguile the evenings with Presbyterian poker, a sort of sanctified auction pitch. He wanted to go to Vienna to attend the statistical congress, for he was one of the fifty who organized it. But he had to give up both the congress and the Calvinistic cards, for the Senate finance committee slid off upon his shoulders the big job of mar- figures concerning prices and w: ich were ordered by this Congress. So Sticks to his desk and uses much figurative lan- GENES, In his native village in husetts used to be the handsome solo tenor in the choir. Nowadays he is too busy to sing, but wheuever there is a first-rate opera in town he fe always seen in an orchestra chair. THE ARCTIC EXPLONER'S PLEASURES. Gen. Greely has been kept pretty lively pro- dmeing the different kinds of disagreeable weather we have had this spring. He hopes to get At the | chinery of research in geology, ethnology and irrigation, he has just finished a popular volume on the Colorado canyon, and ix preparing an elaborate work of imagination not to be at pree- ent more specifically defined. And every word of all this is dictated to stenographers, so that his fun really comes out of their inkstands in- stead of his own. He is much of the time on horseback, and with the bridle over his head- he manages his horse as well as if he had two bands. In tenpins, too, he excels, and several times this winter his left-handed ‘ball rolling has marked 288, leading the score in the alley for the week. He bas won any number of the prizes offered for beating 275, but, not being a prince royal, he declines tomake money in that He lost bis right arm at Shiloh, gnd Gen, Hooker lost hie left arm at Gettys- burg, but on the other sidegof the discus and since they have become stexdfast friends they furnish each other with gloves—whenever | one buys a pair he sends the useless fellow to his comrade. They are Yrequently seen on back together. ‘THE FUN OF KANSANS. Senator Plumb seldom played any game— even euchre, the only gam@of cards he knew. He was a hard worker. “I wish I could have some fun,” he said to mea year ago. “I'd go to Europe with my wife. Only the; other day she reminded me that we had never yet had our bridal tour. When we married and went to Kansas we were too poor, but I promised her a wedding trip as soon as we could afford it, and she has lived on that promise for thirty years. I mean to fulfill it before long and have # real bang-up good time.” And just a week later he ied. Last evening I met Plumb’s last colleague, Senator Peffer, and asked him what his sources of amusement were “Well,” he said, “negatively—I don’t attend theaters, or base ball, or dog fights, or cock fights, or horse races. I don't play ‘cards. don’t play billiards.” 4 Then he took in his hand as much of his fus- cous mahogany beard as he could grasp and added, after a minute: “I got the most real fan in playing with children on the street. I never go out walking without finding children at their games, and they let me join in toa certain extent, and there ix an abandon and sincerity about their fun that you never find in the sports | of folks that are old enough to be conscious of their dignity.” WHAT SENATOR BARBOUR LOVED. Senator Barbour was my next-door neigh- | bor—only door yard between our houses. His house was burnt by the British in 1814, after a red coat had been shot from one of the windows. I was sitting on his porch three evenings before the night -of his death and he told me that the chief pleasure of his life was “going down to the farm and staying there as long as possible.” The farm is twelve miles down the river in Maryland, near the Surratt | place, where Wilkes Booth paused in his flight— a great expanse of acres—and it was the stalwart mator’s delight to drive his fine team, down there and personally superintend the planting and stock raising. “It keeps me well,” Povssid; there is nothing better thad such ex- ercixe. Iam dreadfully afraid Senator Kenna is breaking down,” he went on; “I offered him | a case of champagne if he would give up smok- ing, for I know it is hurting him, and we can't spare such men as he is.” And five days later Senator Kenna walked as a pallbearer beside his coffin. SENATOR KENNA'S PLEASURES. But smoking is not Senator Kenna’s chief amusement, by a good deal. All physical sports attract him. He likes to see a brisk game of base ball, and has taken part in it before now. He is one of the most expert hunters and fish- ermen in the Senate, and enjoys nothing s0 keenly as to follow a pack of hounds, trout of West Virginia, it is said, early teach their young to look out for the bad man, John. And Kenna stands near the head of the class in amateur photography. He has made thousands of negatives of West Virginia scenery and groups, and in the fourth story of his resi- dence opposite the Capitol he has fitted up and thoroughly equipped a spacious gallery with a developing closet and facilities which a profes- sional might covet. He has caught his six chil- dren in all sorts of attitudes, beautiful and gro- tesque, and has used the comical expressions of the youngest tot to illustrate Hamlet's soliloquy in a very fanny way. Several humorous photo- hs of these alternate with lithographs of mndseer’s dogs on the walls of the library. Prof. Langley of the Smithsonian is not ex- aetly making « balloon in his leisure moments, but he is solving certain dificulties in the way of the practical aeronaut, and he does not hevi- tate to express the opinion that men will sail around in the air in a very few years in a ma- chine which will be quite controllable. Alread, he has elaborated certain principles concerni the movement of planes through air which were but dimly known before, and which will be in- dispensable to the first man who confidently away in July to join Mra. Greely and the chil- fitful intervals in his villa on the breezy Penitaula of Sorrento, opposite Bar Harbor. ing that terrible winter and summer of "84 in the arctics Greely used to entertain bis un- happy companions by rehearsing as much of geography and history. as he could remember, and they pieced it out with With their own recollections. Sometimes they sang: sometines in the earlier days played carda. Now his chief amusement is visiting with his family and friends, “and,” he says, “it seems to me avif I couldn't get enough of it.” He and his wife are often seen at the theater— tall and very striking looking coaple, indeed. EDITORS IN OFFICIAL HARNESS, No previous administcation bas had so many editors in service. Not to speak of the score who represent the country abroad, there are here Porter, chi-f of the cersts; Palmer, public printer; Meredith, chief of ‘engraving and rinting: Habercom. fifth auditor, and Wm. E. arti, of the bure=u of the ‘American re- ublics. No tamer of a wild Arub steed ever Cede tiveticr time than bas Curtis in breaking his frisky South American broncho. His hands are full. He plays dominoes and cribbage with his wife and at rare intervals pedro and base ball with his boys—these use up his scant leis- ure. His chief amusement at present is making a Yast collection of Columbiana—for Chicago— souvenirs of the great discoverer of America. Up to date he has collected forty-seven portraite of Christopher. all different and none gentine, and 160 pictures in which that gentleman's heroic figure appears incidentally. He bas also secured fac similes of twelve of the twenty- Bine autograph letters of Columbus in exist- ence, and of thy only two left by the great christener of the continent—Americus Vewpu- ius. Orticially, as well as personally, Curtis is ‘8 this time a Chicago man. A CONFIRMED MAGAZINIST. Dr. W. T. Harris amuses himself mainly with Books ‘and art. He has not yet planted here any visible slip of the Concord transcendent- slists, for his duties as chief of the burean of education have not left him time, but I hear that Wm. K. Alger is coming fi reside here, ing with Mrs. Noble, the britl-a tead and the Secretary, will establish here euch a headquarters of literatare and mystic a ax will leave both Concord and St. jis m the shade. Dr. Harris belongs to the Stay-at-home Rangers—that is, be = travels, ~=much =in his studio. where he has some 1,600 photographs of the historic places, representative ruins and architecture and choice pictures and statuary F. W. PALMER, PUBLIC PRINTER, f, on the whole, having a good time. He is doing » third more work and spending a third more spreads his wings without imitating Darius Green. (Did the reader ever sce Heller skim playing cards from the stage of a theater to the far-off upper galleries with the slightest twist of his forefinger?) OTHER LEGISLATORS’ PLEASURES, ETC. Senator Manderson is strong chess player, but he has no time nowadays to play anything except a fortuitous game of euchre. Now that he is President of the Senate he has less time than ever. “Me? Amusement?” he said; “my chief amusement is derived from seeing how an insignificant and frivolous trifle can be dressed up and vitalized and made interesting by a skillful newspaper man.” Thave never asked Senator Mitchell what he layed, but I have seen him at parties when was sitting up solemnly behind five flat pic- torial ma, and in his eyes was a fur- off, pensive look. as if he were dreaming of ver- dant pastures and rustic foliage and running brooks, andahe other people who wut at the same table have confidentially informed me next morning that they thought Mitchell played cards. Cabot Lodge, author of the dead “foree bill,” is strong, alert. firmly built man, and one of the athletes of the House, He can ride any horse in every known way. He loves to chase a fox and will compromise on a bag of aniseseed. In summer he lives at Nahant and joins his boys in all the sports and exposures of the seaxide— swimming, boating, rowing, fishing. He is a devotee of base bail. too, and has played hookey from Cor more. than once to see a good | game on the diamond. 'W. A norma, Sueex Srexps, saddles, sabers. soldiers, sweethearts, spurs, steeplechase veverally sur veyed. Benning, May 30.—Adot. eg Regarded as a Slight to the English. The news from America that the author- ities of New York refused to raise the British flag on the queen’s birthday has caused & decided sensation in London, as it is generally considered in England asa reflection not so much upon the queen as the English people, in view of the fact that other foreign flags are said to be freely exhibited in New York on the public buildings. It is said that the con- servatives will make free and effective use of the incident as indicating a distinct unfriendli- ness to the English people wherever the Irish have political control and a» an argument against home rule to Ireland. A VARIETY OF HOUSES. Another Step in the Direction of the Build- ing Up of the Newer Washington—The Al- leys and the Suburbs—Improvements Made or Planned in Various Parts of the City. T SOMETIMES HAP- pens that the event of ‘the week in the real es- ’ tate market is the pass- age of some important measure of District in- terest by Congress. Such was the case dur- h ing the past week, as mF the Honse passed the * Senate bill which pro- vides for the extension of the streets of the city - throughout the sub- urbs. Several changes were made in the bill, which will make it necessary to give it further consideration before it can become a law. There seems to be every probability that this will be done before the close of the present ses- sion. The importance of this measure is fally appreciated. It has been before Congress for past six yeurs, but for one reason or an- other it has never passed into the stage of leg- islative enactment. The necessity for making some provision for the growth of the city along the lines that were laid down with such foresight by Gen. Wash- ington and the first engineers of the fedcral 1) city in the plan of the city itself was recognized by Congress four yeurs ago by the passage of the law which requires all suburban subdivisions within the District to be laid out in accordance with the plan of the city. But this legislation doos not apply to subdivisions made prior to that time. ‘The bill just passed by the House contemplates the extension of the plan of the city over the entire District. By straightening out the crooked streets and running strects and ‘avenues where none now exist a large body of land will thus become available for houses. No doubt additions to the suburban railroad facilities will be made when the lines of leading thoroughfares are determined and a great im- petus will be given to the building up of the newer Washington. Rapid transit and the opening up of new building sites will enable people of moderate means to go further from the center of the city. Congress has already indicated the intention of putting a stop to the erection of houses in alleys less than forty feet in width and the building regulations now pro- hibit the building of such houses. It is asserted that the latest police census shows that a popu- lation of some 30,000 now live in alleys, Naturally this alley population would increase unless some measures were adopted to prevent it. With increased means of rapid communica- tion places now remote could be brought, in point of time, nearer to the center of the city, and the unhealthy alley houses could be 7 changed for homes on broad streets where sanitary regulations could be maintained, IDEAS ABOUT HOUSES. Difference in taste finds illustration in house architecture in as marked degree as in clothes. What seems to one person an attractive and charming house is to another ugly and unat- tractive. Some people prefer the simple, others the ornamented. Fortunately there are architects to suit all tastes, and if a person has the means he can succeed in having a house de- signed to please him. The variety of tastes is fally displayed by the residence architecture of this city, as here, perhaps, more than in any other city residences are built by the rsons who intend to occupy them rather than by some speculator who erects houses for sale in blocks in a uniform and monotonous style. There are, of course, houses of the bey ad — built, but the proportion is not large enough to make them a characteristic feature of the resident portion of the city. This condition of aff indicates that property has not reached such a high fig- ure that it can only be handled in large blocks by people of means. The man of moderate in- come still has his innings in this city, in spite of the fact that values have been increasing and property is becoming more valuable. —Ow- ing to the generous parking’ w! the broad streets allow, and the practically uniform square of good size which give ground in the rear, it is possible to build even a house of te cost with space on two sides. There has recently come in vogue a practice of build- ing houses with little or no back yard, and no doubt these houses meet a want or they would not be built. The tendency in this city bas been and is yet in the other direction. As has been pointed out in Tue Star, a number of the fine houses erected recently have been lo- cated on ground of dimensions ample enough to allow lawns, sometimes on both sides, and at any rate on one side. Taste in the matter of houses is not apt to be determined entirely by the size of the bank account, and if that does not allow a grass plot at the sigle of a house it may be generous enough to give one in the rear. MR. DALZELL’S HOUSE. ‘The residence which Representative Dalzell is building on 18th street just north of Q street will be a good example of brick arc There will be some stone used, but the principle material will be brick in combination with terra cotta. The walls will be only two stories in height, covered with a heavy roof, with deep overhanging eaves. The entrance’ will be on a level with the street. the front steps being in- ¢losed and leading up into a large central hall. The rooms on the first floor will open upon this hall, which will contain a large Platform staircase leading to the upper floor. All the details of the exterior and the interior will be plain and simple, and the house, asa whole, while quiet in effect, will be pleasing and attractive. wide frontage of some forty feet will give an opportunity for the treatment of spaces. which count foro much when well used. The architect is 4. B. Bibb and the builder John 8. Lazcombe. 4 AX APARTMENT HOUSE. Plans are being prepared by James G. Hill, architect. for an apartment hoase which will be erected at the northeast corner of 20th and Istreets by Mr. John R. McLean. Like a simi- lar building erected some years ago by Mr. Me- Lean at the corner of New York avenue and 9th street, this structure will be small in size as compared with the usual apartment house. ‘The lot is only 26x90 feet and the building to be erected will be six stories in height and will contain twelve suites. IN THE NORTHEAST SECTION. Building is still a marked feature of the activity in property in the eastern section of the city. Although a good many houses have been built in that locality during the past year or 80, it is stated that the demand still con- tinues. Atany rate houses are being erected and there are entire squares now almost en- tirely built up which a year or two ago did not contain a single house. Some of the it ements now being made are as fol- [owes F, He Duchay {a building eight houses at 7th and G streets northeast and twenty-three houses on G@ street between 12th and 13th streets. On the opposite side of the same block Waters & Thompson are put- ting up three lots on Linden street are being pretty well built up. Mr. Blundon is building eight and some ten or teen bave just been completed on the south side of that street. Eight houses are being erected by Darby & Davis at 8th and G streets and L. 'T. Lewis is putting up five at 12th andG streets, ‘The whole of square 1029 has been recently sub- divided. A number of the lots have been sold a | and improvements are to be made. AN OFPICE BUILDING. ©. A. Didden, architect, has prepared plans and awarded the contract for « large four-story store and office building to be built on G street During the week ending yesterday there were issued from the office of the inspector of build- ings s total of sixty-eight permits for new eee mount oe 5; county, eighteen northeatt, ixteen permits, co east, ten permits, cost permit, cost $200. SOME NEW IMPROVEMENTS. W. R. Coon is building for himself five two- story and basement brick dwellings from 400 to 402 Elm street and 1944to 1948 4th street, Le Droit Park. The erection of four neat two-story and base- ment brick dwellings has been commenced from 218 to 224 Florida avenue northwest. J. R. Brooks is the owner, architect and builder. Ground bas been broken for the erection of a h@hdsome three-story and cellar brick dwelling at611 Florida avenue. C. V. Trott is the owner, architect and builder. + Twelfth street northeast is being improved by the erection of a row of three two-story and basement brick dwellings at Nos. 10, 12 and 14. Wm. Warren is the owner and Warren Bros. the builders, Charles A. Langley has commenced the foun- dation for « handsome dwelling at 1767 Q street northwest. The house will be three storics high, with basement and have a frontage of twenty-four feet. The front will be of press brick relieved by a circular bay window. J. B. Wight is the owner and A. L. Bibb the archi- tect. A row of five three-story and cellar brick dwellings has been started for H. A. Willard, from 913 to 21 S streetnorthwest. Kk. L, Purry is the architect and builder. A. 'T. Sherman has started the building of a Hall for the Langdon Hall Association at Lang- don Park, county. ‘The building will be three stories and fitted up for stores. Mr. J. T. Lovelesx has bought fourteen lots on the corner of 11th and F streets northeast, square 960, from W. H. Campbell, and have the plans made by Dennison& Schneider for fourteen Bne dwell gs with all modern improvements. Ground will be broken on Monday and the work will be pushed forward rapidly. ‘The total cost will be about 242,000, Mr. Loveless will build the houses himself. poae AETER, POLITICS IN NORTH CAROLINA, A Possibility of the Defeat of the Demo- cratic National Ticket Next Fall. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. Ratton, N. C., May 28,—An erroneous im- pression seems to be prevalent among the non- residents of this state “that the people's party of North Carolina will not put an electoral ticket in the field or send delegates to Omah: but will nominate congressional candidates only.” The fact”is the people's party last weok elected eight delegates-at-large to the Omaba convention and adopted resolutions indorsing President of the Nutional Alliance L. L. Polk of this state for the people's party nomination for President. A state committee bas also been organized, with W. R. Lindsay qf Rockingham chairman, and that committee ordered county con- ventions to be held on June 10 and congres- sional conventions on June 16 for the purpose of electing district delegates to Omaha, and for the further purpose of placing congressional candidates in the field “wherever advjsable.” A BOMBSHELL FELL into the democratic camp on Monday last when it was announced in the Progressive Farmer of this city that Capt. Harry Skinner would head the ion to Omaha. Capt. Skinner was placed ion for lieutenant governor at the democratic convention last week, but with- drew his name and made a “ringing” dem- oeratic speech, and the announcement that he had joined the third party came like a clap of thunder from a clear sky. THE ELECTORAL VoTE IN DovBT. +It is not known now what form the opposition to the compromise democratic-alliance state ticket will take. It is thought that the repub- licans may now hold another convention and place astate ticket in the field. But, be that as it may, unless ome unforaseen contingency arises the democratic state ticket will be elected by the usual majority of ‘about 15,000. But with the democratic national ticket it is ifferent. With Col. Polk (a native resident North Carolinian) as the presidential candi- date and Capt. ‘Skinner as one of the electors- at-large the people's party might poll any- where from 25,000 to 75,000 votes in North Car- olina—and it is from the democratic ranks these votes will be mostly drawn, Where the votes to elect the democratic electoral ticket are to come from is the ques- tion which ix now engaging the serious atten- tion of the democrats of this state, and it is one that will probably call for the éxercise of much thonght and judgment on thé part of the national committee. At present there seems to be but one solution of the problem, and that a very dificult and doubtful one at best, There are’ thousands of negro alliance men in the eastern counties of this «tate. If a considerable number of them could be induced to vote for Polk the result might be the election of the third party electoral et or the success of the democratic electors. ‘The former would. of course, be preferred by the democrats to the election of the republican ticket, for if the eleven votes of North Carolina are necessary toa choice in the electoral col- lege, the casting’of them for Polk would simply throw the election into the present democratic House of Kepresentatives, — ss Wills Filed Yesterday. The will of John Whitten was filed yesterday. He leaves $5 to each of his eight children and the balance of his estate to his wife, Catharine Whitten, whom he names as executrix. The will of Sarah Robinson was filed yesterday. She leaves to Mary 8. R. Sipe, house 401 E street and appoints her mother, Mary A. Sipe her guardian, ‘She leaves Mary A. Sipe her niece, lot 18x37 ft..on 4th street, in sq. 507 to Sarah C. Nort ¢, house 403 R street and to Mary 8. K. Sipe, he leaves her_personal property. W. D. Henry and John E. Little are named executors, pai Ee, Real Estate Matters, Abbie M. Chamberlain has purehased of J. —_— for $5,625 lot 5, block 19, Meridian Cornelius Berber has bought of W. A. Gordon for 38,500 sub 16, square 164, 193¢ by 76 feet on 17th between K and L streets northwest. H. B, Wilson has purchased for $5,500 of W. E. Wright sub 56, square 8¢1—16x86 "feet on F between 7th and Sth streets northwest, B. Stanley Simmons has bought of Victor Anderson for 86,414.75 subs 74 to 88, square 1034--each fronting 14'¢ feet on B between 13th and 14th streets northeast. gentasoe emer Tux President's Troop will have their games at Benning’s May 30, rain or shine.—Advt. pica pace More Flag Foolishness, Three petty officers and five men of a brigade of the Montreal garrison artillery stepped into the store of Lorge & Co., hatters of St. Law- rence street, Montreal, on Tuesday and de- manded that the stars and stripes flying out- side be taken down. The clerk in charge Pointed out that French, Belgian, Swiss and ritish flags were also flying as well as the American fing, for decorative purposes only. However, the men insisted on the removal at once of the American flag. To avoid trouble the utars and stripes were taken down at once. ‘The aame lot of soldiers then visited the store of one Poitras, at the corner of St. Lambert Hill and St, James street, and made a similar demand as to the American flag, which, with others, was floating in the breeze, Again, to avoid trouble, the obnoxious benner was pulled down, folded up and taken inside the store. Several stores in the vicinity the owners were compelled American fag from its portion. ‘The has been reported to the brignde major investigation will be made into the A short while after his death a postal card was delivered at his late to begin work forthe writer. McMann ‘was once but lost bis money buildings, | The Barbarous Methods of _MAY MACHINES OF TORTURE ment in Former Times, -|THE FAMOUS IRON MAIDEN. How It Crushed Its Victim in » Terrible Embrace — Various Instruments Used to Punish’ and Torment—Some English Cus- toms Particularly Annoying. ‘Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. ‘Loxpox, May 16, 1892. our centuries ago an in- ventive genius with the brain of a Gatling, but lacking his experience, facilities and opportun- ities, produced a death- dealing® instrument of warfare, 80 constructed as to fire fifteen balls at one time. It was in those days called a“*hell considered #o violent an innovation on the civilization of the time, and as being so much outside the pale of fair war- fare, that its use was forbidden by international agreement. ‘This curious forerunner of the mitrailleuse or Gatling gun is now the property of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, and op- portunity was afforded me of examining it. A few weeks previously I had examined, at the naval exhibition in Liverpool, the very latest “hell machine” built at the Armstrong works and designed for the use of Johnny Bull in any future trouble he may have with his neighbors. It was a steel twenty-pounder of marvelously beautiful workmanship,manipulated by electric- ity, with asearcely pe ptible recoll,and capable of discharging twenty shots a minute. There is no international agreement to prevent the use of this in present-day warfare, and this fact may prove a good text for the mixta and croakers, who mourn for the ci ion of the good old times, and think the world is going to the demnition bow-wows in the closing years of the nineteenth century. Pretty bad and fiendish old times these good old times were—the days of ‘hell machines,” 80 devilish in purpose a3 to almost convince one that they were planned in the regions of his satanic majesty, and beside which the fifteen- ball gun would’ seem as harmless to fifteenth century civilization asa baby’s popgun to the nineteenth. Ihave had an object lesson that I ‘will tell you something about and that will be a text for the optim: ing in the most_ glor 8 period -that was ever experienced. nta day among some hun- dreds of the “hell machines” of past ages, c« prised in the famous historical collection of struments of torture from the royal castle Nuremberg, belonging: to the E: ; bury and Talbot, but temporarily in the session of Mr. 8. Lee Bapty, F. RG. 8. Thi collection is the most complete in existence and is of wonderful educational value as showing the progress which the world has made in the interests of truth, humanity and justi THE CELEDRATED IKON MAID! Its most conspicuous ornament is the cele- brated “iron maiden,” of which all students of history have read. To approach het makes the blood run cold and the imagination teem with horrors as one pictures the many wretches, of noble birth or mean, God-hating or God-loving, murderous or dove-like, guilty or innocent,wno were led up to her smiling face and inclosed in her stomach, in that awful embr: of its most horrible form, This E & very good state of preservation a capable of hugging an indi though her interior arrangemen rusty. She is built of strong w and from her shoulde the manner of the old doors under her chin opened to ad tim and disclosed scores of long ani sharp iron spikes, When the doors were pressed to these prongs forced their way into various parts of the victign’s body. Two entered his eves, others pierced his chest—in fact, he was impaled alive in such = manner that he died in the most agoni: ing torture. TERRIBLE TORTURE OF INCREASING WEIGHT. The iron maiden now blinks through her bat- tered eyes on other instruments of torture as cruel as herself. Near her are to be seen the machinery for carrying out that most terrible torture Known as the “peine forte et dure,” which was peculiar to England. ‘This was the punishment to which was condemned the per- Hon who refused to plead to the offense with which he was charged. He was Inid_ flat on hi back, with his arms and legs drawn as fa asunder a4 possible by ropes. Then ax much weight as he could bear was piled upon him, which was increased day by day until he pleaded or died. He was given the very smallest possi- ble amount of food, and the day he ute He was not allowed'to drink. Who can picture without avhudder the terrible agony of the victim— agony which was inflicted in the name of re~ ligion or justice in the “good old times.” MOUTH OPENERS, There are in the collection several specimens from various countries of the pear-shaped screw gag. It was known in Spain as the mouth pear. It is made of iron in sections and. can be squeezed together in the rhape of a pear. It was an especially handy adjunet to the torture of those privately seized, as when forced into the mouth it sprang open and the Vietim could not utterasound. ‘Ihere are about half a dozen month openers, insirumenta with grada- tions to open the mouth to a certain size. They were used when it was found necessary to slit the victims’ tongues or tear them out by the roots, or while boiling oil or molten lead was poured down the throat. If a prisoner, fearing’ amore awful end, tried to starve him-elf to death, there mouth openers were used while he was being forced to eat. Another mouth instra- ment isknown asa tongue tearer. It isin the shape of a pair of tongs with a screw, and by ita stron hold could be taken of a tongue, eo tha’ oul be torp out by the roots, - This wan principally used on blasphemers, An iron implement to be affixed to the enrs before they were eut off was common use for comparatively minor of- fensos. Many a poor devil took a ride to death on the “Spanish donkey,” an instrament formed with a 4 or cone-shaped top, worked to a sar point, The victim was placed straddle-legg on this and heavy weights were hung on each foot, until the sharp point of the donkey's back cut clean through his body or broke him right in halves, Spain is also creditel with the in- vention of boot made of wo strong pieces of heavy wood, fitted inside with protruding iron knobs or buttons and made to screw up so as to completely break the leg and inflict the most agonizing torture. A PRISON FLOOR. A portion of the floaring of prison is inter- esting for ita ingenuity. It is of oak, cut into diamond-shaped points, so as to be as hurtfal to the prisoners as possible, and as i cases it waa very painful to lean, sit, lie or stand. nother ingenious instrument is an iron brarik, in skeleton, but so constructed that i | & i efe rH ie 28, 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES.” T | been added. Sor how Popular in the circles have been the chief my. machines.” In these barbarous enough to of murderers, punishment, and.indeed, an ex ‘stumping this country with that FOR MINOR OFFENSES. Many things these wicked old-time rulers did, however, which some people would not consider amiss if they were in operation today. They took no uncertain measures with scolding women, drunkards, “light-weight” bakers an similar people who'are not blessings to any age, os this collection of the Earl of Shrewsbury and ‘Talbot will show. They had all sorts of devices for the punishment of scolds, such as a “‘hame mask” witha movable tongue tobe worn in public places, wooden collars with holes at- tached to hold the hands as high asthe head and double coliars for ecolding husbands and Wives or for two scolding women, in which they were placed, neck and hands, and forced to stand facing'each other until they were, or pre- tended to be, friends again. A large iron mask, with goggle eves and large open mouth, was worn by Diasphomers of the milder type.’ ‘An iron shame mask with long asses’ ears was put upon drunkards or lazy no'er-do-wells, and a confirmed toper was condemned to stand exposed for perhaps aweek wearing a shame mask with long. straight protruding ears, long snout and overlapping lip (a sign of drunken- ness), two curious round raised and blotehed ornaments under each eye and a deeply fur- rowed forehead. Dishonest children were made to wear a curious wooden devil's head mask with real goat's horns; and a devil's bead was also the shxpe of the mask used for the punish- ment of eavesdroppers and backbiters. A cu- in view. rious yoke was worn by the father and mother of a child born out of wedlock, and thus yoked together they were foreed to carry water up to the top of a hill. The baker who gave short weight was locked up in an oak cage about ix feet high, which was then bung to chains and drawn upand down in the water until the occupant was nearly drowned. The entire collection is most interesting. but the selections I have made will give the reader a general idea of ite char- acter, AGGRAVATING CUSTOMS, any oppressive institutions which ubjects tolerate with the patience of camels, particularly one gigantic fraud which meets you everywhere and which, it seems to me, « heulthy public sentiment, such as rears its head repeatedly in the United. States, could very quickly abolish, It ix the fee abominable scheme of “extras” which makes the advertised price of a thing deception and the advertiser a person trading under false pre- tenses. If you go to a hotel and take a room at & certain price you find you are charged in the bill nearly as much again for attendance which muy have been conspicuous by its absenec, and thus the hotels find even their menials a ‘con- siderable source of profit. Should you venture into a boarding house you may bargain with your landlady for, say, 2 guineas per week, but when you come to pay your bill anywhere from half a'sovereign to another guinea will have You are charged in many places for using the bath room, for gas you did not burn or ‘candles you did not light and you are fined for the man — servant who never within call. Ine the swell restaurants a sum is added to the Qj! for attendance, but you do not mind | that much, for the attendant will very often be really pretty girl. Here, too, yon may have enjoyed the luxury of a napkin. © Napkins seem to be classed as hixuries and not as neces- sities, for even in otherwise excellent hotels and restatirants they do notseemto be atall used. I have found this to be the case in places in the immediate neighborhood of the house of cor If you should di procure a is tacked on reading: “or perhaps more. In an 5 on you will be charged extra for the bread or crackers and for the necessary piece of lemon, IN THE THEATERS, In the theaters so extensive is the fee system that if you make yourself and your lady way comfortable you will find your evening's entertainment costing double ‘the advertixed price of seats. ‘This is true of nearly every theater in the English provinces and in Scot- land and Ireland and of all those in London, ye the Lyceum, the Gaiety, the Savoy, the St. James, the Haymarket and one or two others, You are charged from a penny to a shilling, according to your seats, for a program, generally a poorly printed and ‘clumsy affair, with few inches of space given up to the pro. gram proper, the rest being oecuysed by badly displayed, ugly-faced advertisements, Manag- ersare not always to blame for this, as was shown in the case of the pretty and ‘popular Avenue Theater, where Mr. Henry Arthur Jones attempted to give his patrons free and well-printed programs, A ‘stanch Church of England clergyman, Rey. Wray Hunt, viear of Wilnecote, does not altogether believe in Puritanical observance of the Sabbath. He is « lover of the manly sports | and declares that while he should like to see ore men at church on Sunday mornings he | believes they might do much worse than play | cricket in the afternoon. He wants to see the y when men will participate in both, for he sees in the game of cricket not only a means of physical development. but a great moral force, No he told his friends at the annual dinner of the Wilnecote Cricket Club, and added that perhaps many of those tt did not know that over 200 years ago the clergy were bound after Sunday benny service ie tell their con- regations to join in sports on the village greens, Frereket, why not base ball? The fashionable part of London, like that of other cities in the united kingdom, is adorned with beautiful squares, which the plebeian may look at, but mustnot touch. None but the elect may enter them. How such a system of reser- vations would delight the society leaders of Washington who were so arfxious to have « flower market where the privilege of purchasing would be coincident with high social. position. Here isa sign, for example, which confronts the stranger at the gates of Russell Square: By the Iussell Square act # is enacted that the Dute of Beiforl, its eit and ass ie Strangers and non-residents applying at the gates are not fo be ad. arden with keys improperly Cricket, trap lull, archery or any other game which ‘the grounds on may hurt persons walking or injure no aseonnt ad.uitted. ‘porsnot adult = = Saaure keeper to. rey names of any per- sons orchildcen ‘who shall tehave Tudely: oe tapers the walks, seats, shrubs or flowers. ‘The gates on no account to be Left open. + Francis J. O'Nere A rely Harry Park Files His Answer. In the divorce suit of Minnie Agnes Park (nee Norcum) against Harry Park, in which she seeks adivorce on the ground of bad treatment and adultery, and states that the marriage in June, 1890, was the result of a joke while bicycle rid- ing, the defendant has, by Mr. Ford Combs, filed answer. After narrating thecircumstances of their marriage he denies certain but admits having slapy her with his 0 fon two occasions, “He admits the charge adultery, but says she connived at it and pro- cured itand that she condoned the act. other such acts he denies. He asserts that she is of violent temper, but he has endeavored to make her comfortable and ab ‘Tar. most enjoyable outdoor event ron will be the athletic contests of dent's Troop&it Benning Decoration: emcee ato ‘The Same Old Game Played. A. H. Holland, « wealthy California DODGING BOMBSHELLS A Soldier's Experience in the Trenches in Charleston Harbor. HALF AN INCH FROM DEATH. How Life was Spent Behind the Sand Bags— A Story That Had a Ghastly Endin ‘Watching for Shells From the Confederate Y GOD, F Howe's killed.” That was the first sound that greeted my | ears as 1 woke from «| heavy slumber the morning after the for- tieth Massachusetts regiment had reached Morris Island in Char- leston harbor. After we bad chased Lee down through Virginia ti with the Army of the | Potomac, immediately following the battle of Gettysburg, my regiment was detached at War- renton junction and sent south. At first we did not know where wo were going, but we finally learned that we were to Join the forces of Gen. Gillmore, who was in a of the siege of Charleston. We reached Morris Island on the evening of the 12th of September, 1863, if I remem- ber rightly, and divembarked on the low, sandy beach, glad to get upon dry land once more after having been crowded rather uncom- fortably in the transports. The scene was not particularly inviting, expecially as a dull drizzling rain had commenced to fall, and as we marched up the beach our first impres- ‘ions of Morris Island were not very agreeable. When we had reached a spot nearly opposite to what was known as. the Beacon “House we were ordered to halt and directed to bivouac for the night. AN UNCOMFORTABLE VISITOR, We had been used tolymg on the ground without any shelter over us, so we didn't care much for the heavy mist that was falling, and soon all the command, excepting the «entries, were fast asleep. Another man and myself bad laid a rubber blanket first down on the ground, on which we stretched ourselves, putting our guns between us, and then with another rubber blanket over us we were soon dreaming of home and without any thought of the discomforts of army life. We were tired and slept soundly, or at least I know I did, and when I opened my eves on hearing the expression I have quoted above I found it was morning and sun was shining brightly. multaneously with the remark that I was led I felt an uncomfortable sensation along my left leg and_ the impression conveyed to my mind was that the man who was lying beside me had got upand drawn his bayonet acrose my limb. As I opened my eyes, however, I discovered that the feeling had been caused by the wind from a piece of shell, which buried it- self in the sand just between’ my feet. In re- sponse to the remark, which had been uttered by my friend and tentinate, who was lying a files distant from me, I replied: “Not by a large majority,” and then I pro- ed to get If on end and dig out the piece of shell, which I found to be an ugly looking bit of iron weighing, I should judge, about nine pounds. A half an inch variation in the fall of that piece of shell and the remark as to my death would have been a truth, and I would prob- ably have been left to enrich the soil of that almost barren sand bar in Charleston harbor. Of course all this happened in a far briefer per iod than it takes to tell thestory, but I men- ion it as one of the remarkable escapes from death during my personal experience and as the only time in which I think a missile was sent by the rebels which was labeled with my name. The incident caused quite alittle commotion in the regiment, as we had been a A XEW coLoxen, Shortly afterward we were ordered over te Folly Island, where we went into wi ters. Our regiment had been without a colonel, having resigned and th been filled. After we ba: camped on Fi. that a new wonld eoon tak: was said to h ar for ras always looking out for the That he was a ward the regimen Army of the Potomac, un participated in the famous batt. last year of the rebellion. Every « and man in the regi- mentewore by their colone i the name af Guy V. Henry is enshrined ir tof every vet of the fortieth Mas Col, Henry's subseqe he natural develoy which be mani cer. His he * mg dinns have be h recent promotion te regular army was but « o > Army Orden. Capt. Lewis Smith, th pair at once to Griffin, ¢ campment of t that purpore of inspecting. the trooj the encampm Capt. Oxk subaisten him at \. 17, will reli misaary of subs quartermast: Leave of al Col, John ¢ The following m duty at the New York at Peekskill, N 1892: First 1 just tr Fuanx 9. Confirmations. The Senate in euti the following nomiz« th tobe chief of office of the War De son, U; Earhart, Ui trict of gate, fire b ion has oo f W. B. Feito 8. T. askop, Loneland; Hilinois, Adeline M. Bunker, Geneva; Indian Terri- P. C. Hubbard, Muscogee: lowa, Jom - W. Davis, A. H. Mayo, Eldred; A Court-Martial for Commander McCarley. Information has been received at the Navy Department that Rear Admiral Harmony, oom- manding the Asintic station, has decided to try Commander Felix McCurley, commanding the Alliance, by court-martial, on charge grow- ing out of the grounding of that venel in the harbor of Yokohama abont two months ago. Commander McCormick will dent of the court and Commanders halted ata place which was supposed to be out of range from the rebel fire, and it was the only piece of shell thatcame in our direction while we were there. I was regarded with consider- ablecurioxity and considered something of a hero, although as a matter of fact I was simply @ passive agent, had no knowledge of my danger and couldn't have run away if Thad wanted to, because I was fast asleep. DOING SIEGE DUTY. ‘That was our fir##imtroduction’ to siege duty on Morris Island, which afterward became quite monotonous and wearisome. It was anything but agreeable to lie in the trenches, or rather under splinter proofs, for three or five days time, as the case might be, and simply wait un- til we were relieved and sent back to our camp farther nie gener where =. had of rest a1 e routine camp duty only to go back in the trenches again when our turn came. There was comparatively little danger while in the trenches, although the rebels were constantly shelling us from Forts Johnson, Sumter and the batteries on Sullivan's Island, excepting occasionally where a shell would go thi one of the iter proofs and play havoc with the men in its immediate vicinity. Our army was constantly mak- ing ‘new parallels and steadily —ap- proaching the works which surrounded Fort G and Battery Wagner, which were on the northern end of the island, which the enemy had held with determined persistency. We knew that the capture of these works by the Union forces or their evacuation by the enemy was simply a question of time, and as each new par- allel was dug by Gen. Gillmore’s men and occu- pied by his troops the settlement of that ques- tion came nearer a conclusion. As is well known, both forts were abandoned by the enemy and the Union forces took possession of the entire island. The night before toe evacuation my company was assigned to picket duty, and from ter aa until nearly dawn I stood with three other men on a post on the beach. All night the rebels were firing shells with unaccustomed activity, endeavoring to conceal their prepara- tions for evacuation. We would watch 1 shells as they went up in the air, leaving a tail of fire behind them, and then note the of their fall. You could All | allel. HOW THE STORY ENDED. About 11 o'clock I went nearly to the end of the parallel and there a group of us, consisting of the orderly sergeant, the second lieutenant of company G and Lieut. Webb of company F, began to kill the time in telling stories. Webb had got piece of board, which he had put pgulost tho ound burrioeds end agua sikce he leaned. A told and we were all heard call sbell burst Dat one of the pieces struck op of hs heed ight off wattoring his Dood of % seit beatae over terest ‘cf unas So tumbled back on was killed i and Dickens have been ordered to China for duty as members of the court. The accident to the Alliance has already been ime vestigated by a court of inquiry, and itison the recommendation of that court that Com mander MeCurley i# court-martialed. pasa iseribee nate The Grand Prize to the Agricultural Depart ment. In its report just announced the jury of awards of the international exposition at Parts, 1889, has awarded the grand prize to the United. States Department of Agriculture for “or ganization methods and material for agricultural instruction.” In the award Profs. Atwater and ‘Tarlor are particularly distinguished, Prof. Atwater for his exhibit af maps and photographs on agricultural colleges, and Dr. vr, collection. of photographs and drawings of the microscopie analysis of food adulterations, expecially butter. Each of these geutiemen is awarded esilver medal, area esiivssianoeeeaie The Nevada Democrats. The democratic state convention of Nevada yesterday declared ita unalterable devotion to bimetalism and the free and unlimited coinage of silver. The state delegates to Chicago were instracted to vote for no man for President or Vice President who is not in favor of the free o: vention declares its: gation to support t democratic party unle . in favor the free coinage of silver and stand on a free silver platform, G, W. Cassidy was nominated for Congress. of silver wed fi The « nnge ERE THE courts. Yerterday summons, &e der for ss letters of ndm bond, $1,000. Estate of Domit and continuation of business, p Dey eld; lew i W. Longan; willadmitt 1 issued to Nation it, 8. and T. Co, rs of ndminin- Extate of Malearig L bond, €200, Extate of Wash answer filed. Estate of F for ore tment as guardian fi Cyrus K. Foss; will proven and letters testa- mentery issued to B. F. Leighton and L. M. Foss; bond, $30,000. james W, St, Clair; do. to Z. 5. Th or; bond, $1.00. Ee Michel: di , $1,000, W. Smith; do. to Rebeces bond of £100. Estate of Sarah filed. Estate of F. L. Purdy: powgr of attorney and exemplification of record. filed. John Whitten; will filed with petition. of qloveph E. Johnston; supplemental report of txecutor filed. Estate of Antonio Souss; will filed. . pbinson: will 2017 I street northwest, and has for ite object the consideration of a scheme for aiding «uch graduates of the Washington High School as may wish to pursue a course of study at Har