Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1892, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES. SUCCESSFUL WOMEN. Those Who Have Made Fortunes in Business Pursuits. HOW THEY HAVE —-- DONE IT. Mrs. Hettie Green the Kichest Woman in America and Her Ambition—Miss Mary Garrett's Shrewdness The Only Female President of » National Bank—Other Ex- amples of Success. ——o-———- Special Corresontence of The Fvening Star. w Your, November 2, 1892. HE QUESTION, CAN women earn money? | haa long since been answered in the affirm- e. There is today | largo number of women in different branches of business | who are earning large | salaries or enjoying | generous incomes. and there is « small num- ber whose exceptional success. makes them ‘objects of unusual interest. The richest woman in America, perhaps in the world, is Mrs. Hetty Green of Brooklyn, and the greater part of her immense fortune is the result of her own shrewd- ness and business foresight @ figure in Wall street as Jay Gould or Henry Clews, and im many ways a most remarkable woman. She is now about ifty years of age. | She is plain featured and dresses poorly, but in her younger days she is anid to have been fond of society and sometning of a belle in her way When her father died he left her a fortune o some €9,000,000, invested mainly in #hips and shipping. She sold the the proceeds in good giish_ mortgages. a maiden sunt of hers died a: © more Careful and successful» had increased her fortune to some before the became the wife of E. H. thie eity. latter and invested | interest-paying En-| fter her father's death left her #4,000,- | diations | 20,000,000 | ‘all street and she proved upil that her wealth is said ‘ant to more than #40.000.000. The largest part of this, when she dies, will go to her sov, Edwin H. K. Green. a young man of | twenty-four, who resides in Chicago, where he | looks after his mother's extensive in the west. Mra. Green is very economical in ber ways. Her home in Brooklyn is a modest and unpretentious one and her living expenses do not exceed $5,000% year. A street car is her most costly conveyance in her journeys about the city. and when John Jay Cisco, the banker, who had seen her crossing a crowded street. ‘carrying a leather bag filled with vala- | Able securities, once remonstrated with her for | | MRS. HETTY GREEN. } the risk she had taken, and asked her why she | @ia not hire a cab, she replied, “You may be | table to ride in cabs, Ciseo. but I can't.” When Cisco failed. a short time afterward, it was found that the securities Mre. Green had de- posited with him for safe keeping amounted to | over €25,000,000. | CLIPS HER OWN COUPONS. She now keeps her bonds and securities in the ‘vaults of the Chemical National Bank. and goes there monthly to clip the matured coupons, an operation which, under no circumstances, will she intrust to others. She probably never wore a diamond in her life. and yet she has more hendsome diamonds than many a rich woman who makes of ber jewels. She picks up her diamonds simply as an invest- ment. and is an expert judge of their qualit Bat, despite the stories that are told about her. the impression which credits Mrs. Green with being a miser is a wholly erroneous She fe simply « F, conscien: headed | woman, who bas a hearty contempt for show | and fustian, and is endowed with « warm heart that res ly rrows and mis- | fortunes Organization i delphia that bas 1 ceived gex as gif Feputed to have bat fo make her son the As she bids fair t Bition may vet MIS# MARY GARRETT. | After Mrv. Green, the women most actively Sdentified with large business enterprises is, perhaps, Mary Garrett of Baltimore. She is the daughter of Jc Garrect, founder of fhe Baltimore and 01 of Robert Garrett. thirty-nine years of ag: N at one ne or another re-| from Mre. G: ‘She is ambition, aad that is | st man in America. | yy years this am- FI rie gratified. w about fortune of and her $20,000,000 or more makes her the richest un- Ba: . tied woman in America. wnand more ready Miss Garrett. She was devoted to her father and for years before bis death wax hix private secretary and chief awistant. Today sbe con- No wo n living money than caa trols and directs the Garrett interests in the : Ohio road and were sho not a would long since have been its presi- dent. Had her advice been taken the scheme which brought har brother Robert to. gri Would never have been undertaken and he Snaliy evitenced his recognition of thix fact Dy giving ber the control of all bis interests in the Baitinore and Ohio Company. Later when “he syndicate which had helped the cor- Frration out of the ditficulties into Whe Robert Gurrett had plu it retened. unlew certain concess (Grered to again place it in an embarrs — Garret came quietly vet eff with to the fe that she possseses financial «bility of the Bighest orter. She ix not only acquainted with every detailof the management of the Balti- more and Ohio, but m also well posted on the qondition of wher roadsand what they are doing new claims the largest portion of her time. and Ler shrewd investments have in the last few years preatly augmented the rett fortune. Nevertheless she is a dom tic and bome-loving woman and is most generous and sympa in ber gifts + rity. She is a great traveler, spe ch of her time New York, and every So mmer journeys Tope. Miss Garrett is stout and of m height, dresses quietly but richly, epeech is low Foieed and gentle." She is em tally = womanly woman with nothing that is Gannish im ber makeup. She has an uncon- Querable aversion for fortune hunters and ali Of them have thus far found her proof against Wer blandiebinents. ‘TE ONLY WOMAN OIL SPECTLATOR Mary V. Taylor of Washington, Pa., is the only woman in the world engaged in the ot Dasiness, and her income is calculated by tens ef thousands ennually. Whee the oil fever * broke out in Washington cix years ago she was bookkeeper fora big oil firm. She saw that Pipe was becoming scarce and quietly set @bont buying all she could secure— | come tw car leads. Soon prices ad-| Nanced tremendously and Mrs. Taylor | made a smail fortune from the sale of the stock | had on hand. Oil operators, pleased with the foresight aud shrewdness she had shown, induced ber to continue in the business, and in i * year, unassisted. she sold more than .800 worth of oil well supplies. Her sales, Which ube still personally superintends, now ‘smuount te over a million yearly. m and in her Mrs. restmente | \ | tune cannot be much below $1,000,000. MRS. PRANE LESLIE. The splendid business successes of Mrs. Prank Leslie are a familiar story. For nearly four- teen years she has been the sole owner and manager of Frank Leslie's Publishing Com: pany, and in that time bas not only cleared the concern of a heavy load ot debt amounting to som! .000, but has brought it where it nets her an annual profit of over $100,000. Mra. | tematized | cisn Leslie has ber business thoroughly s: and is the perfect master of its every detail. She is at her office every work day before half- past 9 o'clock, and remains there hard at work until late in the afterncon. Throughont her | whole establishment no important step is taken without her knowledge and consent. When she leaves ber office for the day she leaves all be is as familiar | business cares behind her, and in the evening | the burning of Gauly bridge she, with another hours is the dashing and brilliant woman of society. A portion of each year she spendsabroad, | and is better known in some of the Euro} capitals than in New York. Mra. Leslie is pleasing woman to look at and a pleasant one to talk with, dark-complexioned, brilliant-eyed | and vivacious, with a manner that is at once affable and cordial. No woman living has a better and clearer head for business than the one that graces the shapely neck of Mrs. Leslie. \ \ Ny MRS. FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT. ‘There are many actresses who earn large in- they earn. First among the few stands Miss Lotta Crabtree. Ever since her girlhood she bas been «big money maker, and she has alwass invested ber earnings in a way that in- cteased their value and brought ber generous returns. Today she owns a hotel and theater in Boston, an apartment house in New York and has valuable and profitable real estate i vestments in all parts of the country. Her for- She is the richest actress living, and probably the richest player in the world, Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is not only a popular writer, but a successful business woman as well. She probably earns more money with her pen than any woman now writing for the public, and always drives a sharp bargain in the sale of her wares. The income from her books exceeds ‘12,0000 year, and her dramatic royalties in- crease her annual earnings to fully $20,000. Reference to Mra. Burnett calle to mind’ the bright young woman who acts as the former’ agent in her dealings with publishers, and who has discovered a new and Inerative vocation for clever members of her sex. The name of thi ng woman is Elizabeth Marbury, a comel woman of thirty. who, a few years ago, was a well-known society belle. five years ago made ber her business repre- sentative in her dealings with theatrical managers, and in this position Miss Marbury showed so much cleverness that she has sin become the American representative of Victorien Sardou, Haddon Chambers, Jerome K. Jerome and’ other well-known foreign dramatists. She has an office here in New York and goes each year to Europe to make new contracts, which she carries out on her retarn to America. She works entirely on commis- sion and neta a handsome income yearly. Miss Marbury is honest as well as shrewd, and both authors and managers like to deal with her. MISS HARRIET HOSMER, Art and thnit do not, asa rule, go hand-in- hand, but Harriet Hoamer, the sculptress, com bides the alert woman of affairs with the gifted artist. She has realized a comfortable fortune from her work, and, what is better, has taken excellent care of it. ‘The earnings of artists are, asa rule, known only to themselves, but « fair idea of those of Miss Hosmer can be gained from the statement that she receives $25,000 for the statue of Queen Isabella, which she is now making for the world’s fair. Miss Hosmer's success is the result of her own un- aided efforts. MBS. CLARA MEADOW. ‘Those Ihave named by no means complete the list of exceptionally successful business women. Mrs. Lydia Bradley of Peoria, Ill., a millionaire in her own right, and was for some years the only woman president of a na- tional bank. Out in Billings, Mont., lives Mrs. Ciara MeAdow. who can drive as sharp a bar- gain and conduct a commercial deal with as much skill and finesse as any man. She went to Billings when the Northern Pacific railroad was building, with only afew dollars in her pocket, and was first employed as a clerk by the chief engineer of the road at asmall salary. When she had saved money enough she bought @ town tot in Billings, and within a month sold it for double what she had paid forit. Encour- aged by the results of this transaction she went into the real estate business and made mone! rapidly, She also became a mine operator, an trom one of her first deals received $100,000. She is now worth over s million, and is treasurer and a leading member of ‘the Dill- ings board of trade. Mrs. McAdow is married, but her husband is only a connubial pertner.as she still conducts business in her own name. Mrs. Reid Miller of Creede, Col, hus. in a measure, duplicated the success of Mrs. MeAdow. She had no money when sho opened a restaurant in Creede two or three years ago, but she is now worth $100,000, all of which she has made herself, the ee lucky deals in real estate. Since the re t of Mrs. John Drew Mrs. Louisa Bidwell is the only female theatrical manager in America, Mrs. Bidwell, a brainy and beautiful woman of forty, owns and mai two theaters in New Orleans, both at «splendid profit, Her busi- ness acumen and fair dealing have wou her the respect of the entire theatrieal profession. MRS. JUANA A. NEAL. ‘Mrs, Juana A. Neal, manager of the woman's department for the United States for Jeading life insuravce company, is snother striking examyle of the success and position a comes, but few have the gift of saving what | Mrs. Burnett some | woman can command in business. Mrs. Neal never contemplated entering business until two years ago, whent she was ap by the coast manager of the Equitable to take out jore insurance. She was then ca $50,000, and showed great interest in the insurance of women by giving him letters indorsing it to many of her sex. He asked the question: “Why will you not advise one of your sons to | take insurance for a profession?” The answer quietly came: “I fancy I should make a good agent myself.” Quick in thought, the manager asped the idea of how immense a field could ‘opened by the establishment of n buresn | which would give women opportunity of know- | ing the same protection and investment was m to them as to men: also what field of em- | ployment this would give to women. A propo- | sition was made at once for the establishment A few days after the Mutual nd later the New York Life. She refused for six months each overture. At the end of that time she accepted the offer of the New York Life as ma: for the Pacific coast and Hawaiian Islands for women’s department, with headquarters in San Francisco, Four months later, when President McCurdy and Vice President Granness of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York were on the coast, they madea very flattering offer to Mrs. Neal to establish a coast agency for them, which offer she accepted and held at San Francisco thirteen months, at the end of which time the three giant companies again competed for her services for a department for the United States. After mature deliberstion she cast her fortunes with the New York Life, She was born in Dayton, Ohio. Her father was | a banker and one of its’ most prominent citi- zens. Her mother was a woman of remarkable capacity. Her husband was a prominent physi- and had been a surgeon in the army dur- | ing the civil war. Mra. Neal accompanied him | to his post hospitals through western Virginia, and when afelon disabled him from writing | acted as bis secrotary, making the hospital re- | ports to the surgeon general, ordering hospital supplies and making out hospital pay rolls, thus | laying a first foundation of business tact. At | | | surgeon's wife, went up the river with eighty | wounded men, washing wounds, feeding the wounded and doing everything to allevinte the suffering. Before the war was ended her bus- | band resigned on account of ill-health, and un- tila year after his death, six years ago, she re- ided in Dayton, Ohio. Mrs. Neal was very do- mestic, had seven children,#ix of whom arenow living—four sons and two daughters. With these cares and an invalid mother busin was farthest from her thoughts, but she had always time for her large circle of friend: and was fond of society. After her husband’ death the delicate health of a son took the family to Los Angeles, Cal., where she bought largely in renl estate, one piece being the famous “Old Long Street Place,” which she ftetward sold toa syndicate at a large ad- vance. She built a business house and the Los Angeles Theater building, a fine Sespic stone structure, and made other real estate improve- ments in the space of two vears, showing great | energy and interest in buriness affairs, and \identifying herself thoroughly with’ Los | Angeles. She is now doing pioneer work in in- | surance for women. | , Castroville, Cul.,has in Mis Louise E.Francis @ business woman of which that town 1s justly | proud. Miss Francis, who is only twenty: | is the editor of the C nterprise, is making @ great success of her paper, which | she started without a dollar and with ‘an oid debt upon her shoulders, something over @ | year ago. Sho bas paid all her expenses from | the profits of her business, is now out of debt and in many ways has shown that she possesses | both enterprise and determination. Miss Fran is thoroughly competent in all. departments of newspaper work from the duties of roller boy, through the various grades of reporter, advertis- ing canvasser,type setting, making up a “form,” writing ringing editorials and the more diffi- cult task of collecting the accounts of de- linquent subscribers. The early pathway of the Enterprise was not strewn with roses, but pluck and persistence helped the editor to con- quer in each fresh difficulty. When only a | MISS LOUISE E. FRANCIS. three months infant the paper discarded patent outsides: four months later patents and matter were entirely dispensed with, and it is now an eight-page, all-at-home print. It is now one of the best of country weeklies, and Miss Francis, speaking from her own experi- ence, believes that country journalism presents a wost inviting and profitable field for women. SUCCESSFUL CATTLE RAISERS. Many of the most successful cattle raisers and dealers of the west are women, The largest cattle ranch in the world is owned by a woman, Mrs. Richard King of San Antonio, Tex., who personally superintends the details and management of her vast busmess, Another Texan cattle queen is Mrs. Sallie Huffman of Port Worth, who is actively interested in @ dozen important enterprises, and also owns and keeps a careful eye on the management of th leading paper of Fort Worth. Mrs, Huffman is several times a millionaire, and the latger part of her immente fortune has come to her as the result of her own acumen and aptitude for affairs. The wife of BishopWarren of Colorado trebled in the cattle trade the fortune left her by her first husband. Mrs. Barber of White Oaks, N. M., is manager of a ranch on which | are 8,000 head of cattle, and each year makes a | small fortune for herself and the’ two eastegn | men who are associated with her in the ownler- | ship of the ranch. She is also half owner of a valuable silver mine, which she operates her- self, and yet finds time to entertain delight- | fully, to paint and to play upon the piano and guitar. A woman who can do all these things surely possesses genius. Another wo- tn cattle dealer is Mrs. Charles Rogers of Corpus Christi, Texas, whose ranch covers sev- etal thousand acres and pastures half a million head of cattle. The Wilkins ranch is one of the largest horse ranches of Idaho. ‘The sales from it in the eastern markets amount to many thousands of dollars every year, but they are | ‘ull conducted by Miss Kittie Wilkins, the dangh- ter of the owner of the ranch, and a pretty girl of two and twenty. Mins Kittie visite all of the eastern markets two or threc times every ye is an expert judye of horses, and is seldom ever caught napping when a sharp bargain is to driven. Mrs. Emma Perry, who lives near | Marena, Kan., is one of the ‘most successtul “ranehers” in the west. She ia still under | thirty and was left a widow five years ago with | only a debt-burdened ranch and plenty of pluck | aud determination as her stock in trade. Since 1887 she has cleared her property of debt, and in addition has amassed a comfortable compe- tence. Mrs. Perry personally directa the rounding up and sale of her cattle, is an unfailing judge of all classes of stock, ‘and in addition to her business capabilities is a skillful painter, her animal studies finding a ready sale in the east. But not all the successful women cattle raisers are confined to the west. Mrs. Phebe Willetts of Roslyn, L.L, is profitabl; engaged in the breeding of blooded horses an‘ | cattle, and in a few years has built up a busi- ness that is worth fully a quarter of a million dollars. Aside from the fondness for fine horses and cattle which she has cherished from childhood, Mrs. Willetm is essentially femmine | Inanciering. Mrs. Dow, beside knowing how to run 4 street. railroad, id housewife and © famous cook. ‘She is an oatend-out woman suffragist, and believes that women should be granted all the rights and privileges that are now vouchsafed to men. The story of Mrs. Martha J. Coston of Waali- ington shows ‘what can be achieved ina busi- ness way bya brainy and woman, EUS Pe able obstacles. She was merried at sixteen to Benjamin Franklin Coston, an officer of the marines and #/ gifted inventor, and st wont she was left a widow, without means and wil three children to support. Her husband at his death left uncompleted a system of signal lights for use at sea. With infinite patience, at the cost of years of labor, the widow completed the husband's unfinished task, and finally succeeded in having what are now known the world over as the ‘Coston signals” adopted by the United States government. Duting the war these sig- nals proved of the value, and in more recent years their use by the life-saving service has been the means of saving thousands of lives and millions of dollars’ worth of property. Following her American successes Mrs. Coston visted Europe, where she remained for ten years, being everywhere recetved with great honor and securing the adoption of her signals by the French, Itatisn, and Austrian governments. "Mrs. Coston’s invention long since made her a wealthy woman, and never was success more honestly won or more fully deserved. B. Witsow. coe THE CHESS WORLD, Problems—Games—Solutions aud Solvers— Correspondence. The following problem embodies » theme well known to experienced solvers, but it will doubtless prove a source of some vexation to novices, offset, however, by a very pleasant sense of gratification when worked out sucess faliy. There is « charm of simplicity about it, but coupled with some perplexing tries that will puzzle the amateur: PROBLEM No. 154. (From Brentano's Chess Monthly.) Author Not Known. Black—Two pieces, White—Siz pieces. ‘White to play and mate in three (3) moves. There is but one star in the American chess | firmament at the present time: it isa six-rayed luminary, and its name is Lasker. Probably no event in the chess circles of this country since the sixth American Chess Congress has created as much interest to the votarie: Caissa as the exhibition game: Club, New York, which have been in progress for several weeks past. Mr. Lasker has shown iy lis dead tins ba fore rising master in the modern school of chess. His masterly end-game play, position judgment, and quick perception of the wenk points in his adversary’s games stamp himasa player of the highest order. Up tothe present time he has lost but two games during his engagement at the Manhattan Club, and those were lost through a feeling of over confidence rather than by superior play on the part of his opponents. He made a clean sweep in his eight games of the second round, disposing in quick time of Hanham, Simonson, Delmar, Isaacaon and J. W. Baird. The total number of moves by Las- ker were 185 during the week, and his total time was scarcely five hours by the stop-clocks. Arrangements are being made for Mr. Lasker to visit different chess centers in this country before his return to England, where he has es tablished a chess periodic: le will propabl play a series of games at Philadelphia, and if satisfactory arrangements are completed may come as far south as Baltimore. Md. He will also go to Montreal, Canada. It is much to be regretted that there is little prospact of his vis- ing Washington, D.C. ‘The following is Mr. Lasker's record in tour- naments and matches previous to bis coming to America: TOURNAMENTS. Won. Drawn. Amsterdam. 1889, international. a ae Berlin, 190, national 1-3 Gratz, ‘1800, intern sth 1 3 Lonton, 1892, national Re ie Yondon; 1892; quadransiiiar. |...) o 63 MATCHES. Bardoleten, 1889. Berlin. 7 cd iH, Lei o ts 2 3 o 2 1800, Vienna o 3 Lee, 1801, Lon‘ton: 9 1 Blackburne, 1H01, o 4 Bird, 1801, Newcastle, o 0 Total TF ‘The seventh, eighth and ninth games of the series at the Manhattan were as follows: SEVENTH GAME—KING'S FIANCHETTO, 1.8, E. Lasker.; J. 8 Ryan. E. Lasker. Wi Black. White Black. 1 KxB z RRS 3 ERS 4 BRE i be, Lh, bm. wo ee 2a uinutes Een Ww R-KtS 12 R-Byeh iB Ha) i fs r Rey. 1% 1h, 55m. ‘si minute's EB BQ Rewcn K. -KRS 32 BUR Be 23 Rep BARG-b 24 Px % 27 Be RK 34 R-R2h) 2h Om 39 Q-Kden Rxkt 30 BK BaP Lb, St. Rts aoe CRS ae the 33 PBS 1b. 57m, NOTES BY LAskER, wij) At unasualopening, frst introduced by Wins ») Important, altboush & loss of time. ©) Hawtlly played, Kt-O4 ie. preferable, (a) Ahi ‘eiid,A,hiehly” Interesting position, ‘which leads te TWO KNIGHTS DEFENSE. 3.W Baird. E in her tastes and a cultivated and agreeable woman of the world. bishop checks at K Kt 6, fol- Tid) be more attackinc, the nicht es phere by PE Kt 4, and Waite can, SAMSON OF ENGINEERS Idea. A PECULIAR CHARACTER. His Hatr for = Pillow—The Scheme for s National Park on the Flats Which Fills His NY ONE OF THE night workers of this | city whose route carries him often through the Capitol grounds lote at night, or early in the morning, is pretty sure to be startled sooner or later by an apparition of a hurrying figure, crouching and skipping through the alternate light and shade of al} tree-hung paths an shadowy arches of the great marble building. The figure is that of aman rather below the medium height, clad in «long tattered cloak that reaches nearly to its feet,and its long arms clutching at a bundle closely hugged to its breast. Bat the most distinctive and the strangest feature of the figure is an immense globular ap- dage that either sits atop of its head or les over one shoulder, bobbisg about like shalf-inflated balloon aa ite owner pursues his rapid way. A Stak reporter who has often noted the mysterious personage and wondered curiously enough who and what he could be met him late the other night downon theavenue and stopped end questioned him. .For an instant the stranger shot a fierce glance at his interlocutor from Beneath his shaggy eyebrows and then said in broken English: “Ze gentieman dosire to k wiz me? Tres bien, dat is jood. He shall haf ze opportunity. Follow me, nd so saying he led the way into a little bake shop near by, where he seemed to be at home. Passing to the farther end he banded his visitor a chair and seating himself in another nodded his head as though ready to answer any questions, HIB MISSION, He is a Frenchman and his name is Francois Emile. He camo to America, he said, to seo the centennial of ‘76 and never returned to his own country. After the centennial was over he came to Washington and this visit decided his faturo life and gave him a mission to fulfill, Becoming inspired with the ides of trans- forming the Potomac flats into a vast national park, the idea has grown on him each day til it Become the one interest of his existence and indeed the one fixed idea that occupies his mind day and night. “Would not monsieur take ze pleasure to see my plan?” he asked suddenly. “Ab! oui, I haf zem in r'adiness,” and hardly waiting for an answer he hurriedly took from his bosom a torn and dirty roll of paper and spread it on the table before him. This is the bundle that he carries always with him and guards so jeal- ously. After spreading it out carefully he pro- ceeded to trace out his lines on it with a very dirty forefinger. explaining bis plans mean- while in the most delighted and excited man- ner. HIS ELABORATE PLAX, = * The map itself is one of the sort farnished by the engineer office of the District each yea but he has covered a greater part of it with ni own drawings in colored inks. .ud has marked the n-mes of his different improvements in big black letters. On that portion of the map which represents | the locality of the flats he has inserted the out- lines of North and South America, and it is his scheme to make a park there in’ that shape, portraying faithfully the coast indentures, with small streams of water to show the principal rivers, Across the isthmus which divides the two Americas he proposes to cut a ditch to rep- resent the Panama canal, so that the American continent will be presented in miniature, with all of its principal features. This, he said, will be called the great National Park, and will serve to commemorate to the American people the fullest knowledge of their great country as regards its topography. that if this mn should ever be carried into effect the cthec irk out in the classic and hotly contested valley of Rock creek will stand ‘no show whatever in comparison. Besides this park Emile bas draughted plans for an immense memorial hall and a tower that* will dwarf anything of the present age and make s close finish of it with the famous one of biblical histor; THE INTERNATIONAL MALL. ‘The memorial hall is to represent the na- tional flag in shape and colors, and is farther nation. When finished it is to be dedicated by an “internationale conferance” composed of the greatest statesmen of every country of the | globe, met for the purpose of quickening the | time when the lamb and the lion may meet to- gether without the color line being too closely drawn. This building is to be located somewhere in the monument grounds—h~ has the place defi- nitely fixed upon his map—and is to be con- ructed ent rely of steel and glass, which lnt- x is to compose the roof. These pancs of | bird's-eye views of the earth’s surface taken by an army of photographers in balioons, and will be an object lesson in geography to the thou- sands who throng tke hall. 1,492 feet high, in commeMoration of the year of Columbus’ great discovery. ‘This part of the plan, he urges, shonld be placed beforo. the | resident immediatelv,go that it can be finished this year, before the 400th anniversary is past. Aladdin has also drafted plans for the sewerage of the city and for other vast improvements, | which. should they be carried into effect, would | eternally solve the problem of how to dispose of the surplus in the treasury. KNOWLEDGE OF ENGINEERING. and expressions that lead one to believe that he has a knowledge of enginecring and architec- ture. But his excitementon obtaining a listener causes him at last to drift into an unintelligible Jargon that makes one think perhaps that he was present at the Tower of Babel and was ono of the original projectors of that monument of ill- directed energy. Of himself Emile was fain to say as little as | ible, and when urged to tell something of imselt that it might makes biography of him when he grew famous,” replied: “'Zat eut no | whatevair. Iexpec’ no reward in zis worl’. All I want is for ze President approve my pian,” and then hereturned to his ump with sles ees = was much aggrieved that “ze ae aaa not satity wi zeir swine market, zey will steal ze Capitol itself | some day—you see,” he said mournfully, and | then added, “but I hopes I live not to see such gr-r-r-rnde sscr-r-r-ilege!” HIS LIFE IN EUROPE. By deftly leading up to the subject Tax Stax man managed to extract from the enthusiast some fete concerning himself and his former | But he does not like to talk of him- wever, ho said that he had served with | in atid later in the Paestresndear | nabit of receiving a monthly Itis needless to state | own. bim wherever he Inid down to rest, as he had | no fixed abiding place that he could call his As the clang of the cable cars had long since ceased, and the getting few and | wrerdad on the avenue were between, Tar Stam man at- to take his however, ti Emile hat exissutel’n previa reat him to do all in his plans was ho allowed to to further the memorial go in peace. The last that was seen of the mysterious being was his ill-clad black tion of the Capitol grounds, BIS LONG MAIR. re flitting along under the sha fows of the electric light in the direct The other afternoon Emile was arrested on suspicion of arson, & suspicion which, however, was happily unfounded, and taken to the sta- | tion house. When one of the officers took off | his queer topknot to search for concealed weap- ons, as they said, his matted locks drop; clear to hiv waist. He said that he w. his brain power and made him ould rather | die than have them cut off, as they increased physically stronger, which latter may be the ease, as be is said to be very powerful, though of life and having endured much and privation. HIS LoDorxan, From Where this wanderer of the night makes his home no one knows, and the only light that he the prime exposure 11 WRITTEN FOR THE EVERING STAR BY ALICE EWING LEWIS. » ruled over by the # there was once a cloud castle—such a one as | the horizon just before a storm. there ot whom wi brother and sister loved each other had ts company | rain | al ae 7 — | and who twin | two who arly which they were about to take to the | lower world nothing should be allowed to sep- | arate them, but that together ther wor the long road to the sea. Poor rai will shed on the subject is that he sleeps ‘wiz a | tle did they realze that their boss “mool’ badly that he could hastily move for many days; so from this it is supposed that he occ: jes a stable, wi fellows. its four-footed inmates for 4 a mool.” Not-long ago he says the | built directly above the source rolled over on him, hurting him so | great Streams, the Mississippi and Red River of the North, and that it was quite ible for twodrops falling wide by side rom this one cloud mpon reaching | become as widely separated as sre th The person who knows more about Emile | Waters of these rivers. than sny one is the little old lady who keeps little cook shop where he took the writer, and | the cloud and started earthward they from her was learned some interesting facts first dazed with wonder. eu about him. IN A BARRICADED CELLAR. When she bought the property she now oecu- pies, some eleven years ago, she found the er- ratic Frenchman slesping inscellar on the other, finally settled on hersc floor, without astiek of furniture, and there she allowed him to remain at the fermer landlord’ Tequest. The cellar door was covered inside and out with numerous bolts and bars. When asked od | As they, with their companions, burst from eat Here, too, then, the as in the sky country! .” whispered the little sister, “you are bright as a diamond—and +0 are the | othere—and so am I!" exclaimed she, delight- edly. as her glance, wandering from one to an- if She paused waif listening. The air seemed filled with a murmuring as of man jearer and nearer it approached until finally, ind apparently by no will of their own, she and why this was so he replied that those on the bare | her brother, too, took up this chant inside were to prevent any one from getting in | and those on the other side were him from getting ont,so that it to prevent ‘was double protection. He seemed always fearful that as- sassins would kill him at night, and their imagined designs he procured slept in it. so that if they managed to frastrate ‘8 coffin and to bréak in they would see the coffin, suppese that it con- tained a dead body and go away. When the great flood of 1889 drove him from the cellar he was given a bed to sleep on ina little upstairs room, but he did not seem to fancy his new quarters and finally begamstaying | out at night, but where it could never be | learned. During his stay in the house, says the old lady, he used to make friends with t 0 rate, and from the blood spattered on the wall near bis ate them. having made reference | bed and other indications she believes that he at different times to that practice during the siege of Paris, 18 DUTY ON GOOD FRIDA’ x. One of the most remarkable incidents re- lated of him by the old lady is tl hat on one Good Friday morning he suddenly disappeared, saying that he had some duty that he must per- form. gry, and with his back all bloody. That night he returned tired and hun- It was after- ward legrned that he had gone to # lumber ard, procured two pieces of lum! them over twenty feet long, from wi made across, and this he had carri ond the Jail and planted it up commons. When remonstrate count of this crazy freak be said ber, ote of hich be bad ed away be- right on the with on that he oniy hoped that his work would not be molested. PI APS OF NOBLE BIRTH. The old Indy further told the Sra reporter that she has good reason for believing that Ewile is the natural son of a French nobleman, and asserts that until recently he France, but that now the money was in the stipend from has stopped coming, and he supports himeclf as best he is able. is knot She also declares that he nev wn out of his own scanty er begs. but eans to have | several times aided persons in distress. A win ter or #0 ago one of the gentlemen tol who knew him took pity on his clothes and a pair of shoes, but E at the Capi. ragged con- | dition, and outfitted him with a new suit of ‘mile in turn gave it to some one he thought needed it more than himself, and returned to his old rags. Indeed, y regards some of bis characteristics, he is of an exceedingly tender nature. AT THE CAPITOL. While Congress is session Emile haunts the Capitol and can be seen almost on any afternoon in the galler pearance. He also does a little lob! if of his own projects. All the older mem- bers know him and treat kindi good naturedly listen occasionally bow plans for improvements and of the House or Senate, where he | attracts considerable attention by his queer ap- dying in be- lly, and even to his rain- moonshine schemes for hastening the millenium. Free to ream about at will, Emile is a poor, harmiess creature, sane on most subjects bu! the ones dearest Yo some deep secret connected with hii teresting history, almost certain wise that it will In this city of cranks of all kinds | Francois Emile, the “Samson of is pretty certain, his heart. That he has im, some in: and it is never be re- intended to be a public parterre for the whole | vealed, at least not by his own confession. \ and classes engineers,” easily ranks as chief among the entire collec- tion. LAWLESS: ‘SS AT HOMESTEAD. Two Colored Non-Union Men Have a Nar- oceurred row Excape From Death, in a week at Homestead, | during yesterday afternoon. | lass will be photographic trausparencies of | Peyton Long and Washington Gibbs, two of | the southern negroes brought from Virginia, | have been boarding at a non-union colored boarding house. They went to supper as usual ‘The memorial tower is to be erected some- | Aud started to return. Several children began | where near the Aqueduct bridge, and is to be | to taunt the men, calling them “‘nigger scab» We are the drozs tat form the rainbow ‘This, you see, accounts for our brightness,” said the brother when the refrain had died away. “The sun does not usually shine in the lower world while rain is falling, and to be one | of the drops thus giorified.and w | quence help form the rainbow, ix | Nery lucky circumstance. All such are s | meet again should they become separated must make many of our friends very continued he. closely we might be readily taken for one la than two small drops. For many a long was to be the last tita: would hear her brother's. v they fell to the ground on that 'y of the earth's surface which dir that flow into the Missixxipp: fror are tributary to the One awful bewildered secon strove to retain their ho! then—he rolled to th a pathetic tinkli one of the littl that forms the source of the. great waters, She was not al drops from the from those t unknown some branchle the 3 point mourned, too. there were drops jubilan each other after their | who sang merrily in th were those. too, who bore in mind had helped to form the rainbow | bering its promise, their m hope. You have heard of i | mingled sorrow, bope and gladne: marings of every brook: yes, and in the on-rushing river and the peal for in these lust it is th by a myriad-voic shallows, and in artienlar waters that h he North. . in which they h other, ar sh \ that remem. those ultation of the individual The grief of the in permit her to recoliect th longed to a rainbow as on t | she was swept swiftly south she would see happy childrer and would sorrowfully reftc more will I see my brothe=. She did not note the b wooded bluffs and w ped in her own miser; jothing now can make me ‘too great to t she had even be- ° wide wrap cried, Foolish raindrop! Even now a new trouble was about to come upon her. Asshe was kpeeding on one day with ever- increasing rapidity into warmer aire a torr of liquid mud seemed to hurl it river channel. It was th | where it joins the clear sippi. In horror the little dror shrunk to the opposite b long mile did they k thus, like » clad maiden who hold» her white ga scornfully aloof from some besmircl mate, till finally, ¢ and eddics of th the foul and the Missouri nd her compani and fe “Even my brother wou! he now to mect me face this should come palace pure us There tec as they drif mist rising vapor was comp who were thus be king, the «an “1 will ask bi “Ob, king!” she upat that high-ridine Talso may go back to the «ky Tam sure, mast be there or cloud &c., and throwing dirt at them, until Gibbs | have found me, me whom he always promised to turned and threatened the children. ance. fences and colored me: 2, oe 0 fled in terror. A deputy sheriff appeared and called on the | | ‘The boys’ mother standing by took up the | | quarrel with a scream that brought a dozen i j men and twice as many women to her assist- In addition to these memorials this modern Ts nieces obunee Aciober oaians teem | ‘missiles were flying efter the crowd to disperse, but he was laughed at, and the mob pressed on after the fleeing negroes. Fear, however. was swifter than anger, and in a | Daring the advancement of his theories and | minute Washington Gibbs and Peyton Long the explanation of his ideas Emile uses terms | were safe from any hurting stone, with but a few bruises as a reminder. ———_+2+—_____ MEKCIER ACQUITTED. Greeted With Cheers. The Verdict in the Case of the Ex-Premier In the ease of ex-Premier Mercier, on trial at Quebec for embezzlement, the jury retired at 5:45 p.m. On their return the spokesman said, ‘Not guilty.” Immediately his friends pressed around, showering their congratulations upon him. Onteide in the corridors hurrahs for the ex-premier rent the air. Four burly fellows hoisted the ex-premier on their shoulders and the crowd forming in procession along St. Louis street and stop; Lemeux's residence, which The noise kept his appearance at window. his hat. and, bowing to the said: “I thank you, gentlemen. infinitely for this friendship. I thank yoo, saved me from my} tore cuters. The’ H | proceeded entered. . however, until Mercier made He then doffed multitude, thank you spontaneous ee moreover, ‘and would be xe : te | | i et | Hi care for. But the sun’s hot yellow eve guzed down un- aneweringly, and the sad ci and on, xearcely even noticing when the impisk drops forming the Arkansas and the of the South Inid their soiled red ha her. Her raiment was already marre mattered a little more, she mournfully She was prerently aroused from ber duli hopelessness by a bitterness that was growing | in her heart, striking even to its very core. s if it were not enough,” «he moaned, ‘that I be bereftand my silver dress tarnished by rude touches, but that this bitter heart agony should, too, come upon me! Poor little ‘drop! She bad entered the salt waters of the gulf. Its warm currents cleansed her of her stains, but such troubles were trivial- ities when compared with this mortal pain. On the blue tides of the gulf stream, laden with iteferny freight of gulf weed wrested from the sea depths, she floated out to the infinite ‘ocean that was not wider than ber own despair. | ‘And how, in the meantime, had it fared with her brother? sister had slipped rebounded, for, unlike her, he con- stantly that they were rainbow drops and he | believed in the prophee: days thereafter he expected momentarily to | catch sight of her, thinking that she might have er sped on | THE TWO Ralvprors. | | deepened as it approached its | Lake Wim N THE PEACTIFUL | marked a drop "ho had tallen from the «ame cb is | Clond ncty country, which @ | 8k Are of the fact that the oeean has more drops Fou may see builded on | You will ever g | where in ch | proaching and that In this castle | fir ywod | freezing again and again that during the unknown jour- | Place | raint steeper bed would yet bring her to him, but as the days and weeks clapsed and she never finshed on bis vision and the great Red River of the North which bore bim broadened and <b im cold peg, he began to lowe faith in this thought hope, though. never left him, “In the great ocean, if nowhere else, we will meet,” said he. “Yes, that is very likely,” sarcastically re with them. “Yon do not seem tobe than von could th nk entire life in thinks ceedingly unreas should you «pend your and moreover, it i ex- rable in Fou to suppose that there Ul froene up some- 0 arctic regions that weare ap- Hl be the any traveling ts concerned. at TH melt again, won't 1?” engerty in among | quired the brother drop. You may and you may not,” replied bie companion “quite likely not. Why, there ie ive in the bondreds xtreme f years 1h north that bas been there Yor my part I do not mina my wife with me and one 1% axgoodas another if one bas one's friends aght to have done,” chimed im have clung to your sister. I wonder at Isn't thi letting her go!” film already forming over the husband, gazing at thy bail find m whe ® nig wih minone, the Voor whe take her way ting love? be banished. He must ergy in useless repining, iustead on efforts te passing through the Nelsen river, which carries the of Lake Winni- peg to iindson ving that it was the topmost froze, de the salt but ever by honght of reunion with rting meseag. the wall ed the great anes t beck on came to ice from the ay's shore. the snow-decked m, who from ira, toa, sine tren since hae der tar to him. ht the droy promise. ammemo: sung of sunny skie epar full of joy an pproaching the strait which at ocean, The im oat the aneaxily imes fof ice, On the Uroas waves the ite his protesting. the ke that it was he wave had f upon me!" he irae, deserted ¢ The b he was an inf movil dy uthward,” thought r re ern the least ray of into the | ers of tbe Missis- | je mor warers liberate we my search, raindrop, happy in n of the truth, be the honre prisonment by faneving that be was rain floating ima bi ky: for indeed the ierberg’s fantastic. shapes, which rthe limit of vision, seed storm clouds that ¢ sky of April. i into weeks, and as the ross an a drops melted and ram n, O very . T, too, will be set free!” 1 the raindre ay, just after they had trated the wall of vapor which marks the y of the guif stream, a tiny sound came was that patheti » his little «ister hed from his loving clasp. In all id of waters he had beard no such note, * he called, . Lam here’ came back the plaintive wail, cannot see you!” Just then she w: dancing wave, an tomsed aloft on the foam of ax che fell along the ice- felt herself caught im hich she had so vainly mer che crept in that more than countless miy frezea to her that alittle later when be was d she fell at one silence which mean till she brother's heart st at sunset a bit of rosy seen floating akyward It was the little brother purged from all cold and heart re beg called back by the king bitterness w to cloudiand. ss - 1 Wave at Son, Met a Tid | From the St, Louis Globe-Demonrat. “I bad s strange experience at sea in the Jenmmer of 1584 1 Capt. R. C. Macauley, years mmander of « Cunard After the first dreadful moment when his Bortbeast with « dull, rushing sound from his clasp, his hopes | isg4ra. . Formany hours and , Fre + at that time in command of between Liverpool and from Liver- a sea that was bie. There was not a weather was terribly ud offeer called Iv & sun appe son itend it resembled g north and 4 > 4 ” -d if itis, replied ly; “it's water. od saw that he was pale as hit my gla to bear on The bank appeared the sun be a, end I. “Pil ¢ officer emphatic nnenon. the upper edg being able ab a reddisia to a dark gr it is wat It is @ tidal #0 it we It came rolling toward us ate ter- Tific rate of sy I put the prow of the shi equarely to it had the hatches batten down, I did not think it possible that we could ride over it, My only hope wasto plough through it. Iwas about to signal the engineer to put on all steam, when the second officer begged me to back ship. I yielded. The en- gines were reversed and by the time the wave reached us we were moving slowly backward. The wave was not so perpendicular as [ at first supposed, The ship was in ballast and rode over it like a feather. It looked to me at least fifty feet high, and went rolling away to the to ve The to it. Not Susceptible. the Chicago Inter-Ocean. “Will your daughter take Latin this roar?” Mother—“No, there is no danger of it; we fallen in some underground stream whose had her vaccinated before she left home.’ owe, ot BABY’S GRIP. ees, comin