Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1893, Page 10

AT LAKE WORTH. THE FLORIDA KING. How Mr. H. M., Flagler Controls the | Eastern Coast of the Peninsula. keepers who sold their land to Flagler_rein- Ind at almost the same This would seem at first Som but they reasoned thus: “Flagle land, and he chail have it: for if he gets what | which wi tracts.’ | body else haa been d OPENING UP THE COUNTRY. ‘The Beauties of Lake Worth—Mr. Flagler Plans for Making It = Perfect Winter Ke- sort—A Big Land Boom—Wonderfal Cli- mate—The Growing Pineapple Industry. | market. The following remark by a native was heard bya visitor from his bed room window thé | other day and gives good idea of the prevail- ing feeling: “Now. Uve only got acow and a chicken, but when I sell my iand I'll be right in it with them fellers from the north.” AS A WINTER RESOET | the charms of the Lake Worth region have | been known to the traveling public only about half a dozen years. a Btad Corresponience of The Evening Star. Laxz Wonra, Fia., March 31, 1893. NA FEW YEARS |. The first man to discover thom, who had there'll be town over there as big as Jack- leisure and money to enjoy them wien found, {was Mr. R. BR. McCormick, a millionaire of Denver. He was descending the indian river | ina sailboat oma fishing trip in the win 1886. This was the season wher an unus | heavy frost caused such devastation in Florida and there were no vege‘ables or fruits @o 5; of to be found where there had always been plenty. It happened that a sailboat inden with ‘deheious vegetables, bananas and socoannia stopped at the | wharf, | and Mr. MeCormick made inquiries as oid yesterday o0 De! lise they comme from. Lake Worth be sat on the porch of one ' was told. and desiring to see the land that of the beautiful Lake | could produce such tender fruits and vege- Worth cottages and tables when it bad been freezing every wher outlined to some friends his plans for extend- ing the “American Riviera.” In view of the fact that present facilities for reaching this gar- den spot are so crude such astatement from any one but a Flagier might seem visionary. But he knows what he's doing and how to do it. He | now has the entire eastern coast of Florida in his gragp and nobody in this section seems to a what Mr. H. M. Flag- ler, the Florida king, who bas made his miil- ions from Standard oil, for Jupiter. They walked part way from Jupiter to Jano and rode in a lumbering wagon the remainder. From that time Lake Worth began to be talked of as a delightful place to spend the winter months. A REMAREADLE CLIMATE. The climate of the section is the moat equa- ' ble probably in the world. It is in the eastern- most part of Florida, and the gulf stream flows er the land than ai mperature rang Even in su grudge hita his power, for wherever be goes h: seems to leave behind a wave of prosperit: progress. from about 65 to 76 mer. it is said by people » Weather is not as warm orth, the ther- 90 degrees. so numerous and ter degrees. ther -by seeing or read- ages he has w: . where his group of ma the admiration of ail travelers. iling winds and invigo: in ily for is the rale. i lo & over to the ocean and Think of it in Januar, 2 stranj it mays and UF GROVES. region is the pro- 5 veesel lov the kk d by large, star ly cocoanut tree i welcome shade from the sun and of tropical luxuriance to the whole his point, there nd ne it is the boats do not the startirg point. | t Juno he is at the head of LAKE WORTH. ‘The lake is about twenty miles in length and averages a mile in width. It lies parallel with | the ocean and is separated from it by a coral reef from a quarter of « mile to three-quarters of emile in width. The lake front of this reef , isa veritable garden spot in winter time, and is where thirty or fortr beantifal cottages | been erected. two stores and two hotels. | land ali around the lake has been taken up | bomesteaders, who hare been holding on to | ts in the firm belief in the fature | The land steadily but in value as wealthy | from the north and west purchased sites ‘winter homes, but now there is « boom—a | healthy F than the site selected by Mr. Flagior. Ho laid oat his grounds in beauiital walks and gardens contain all kinds of rare plants. He improved his grounds tensively before building and will residence this summer. Fich coitager is Mr. Adams of Phila- , who grew wealthy because young would chew gum. and he is largely int i i ii H if at Tif i vat it, giving owner, who homes! about seventeen years ago. Mr. Clarke intends tearing down the building and erecting an ele- gant winter home. But it will be run anothe: | winter ase hotel and its new owner has leased jit for s year. Right here ts a good for a story that shows the Flagler way of business. ywhere else. The win- | vested their money immediately in Lake Worth | ef At foolanty, | NOW owns about a r wants this | the choicest land fronting on the ho wants he will make extensive improvements, | “hat he prophesies will ill enhance the valve of all the other | ‘And sothey bought moreland. Every- | tame thing, 30 | that now there {s really no good land in the | else, he gathered his companions and set sail | ¢ : * 4 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©; SATURDAY, APRM. 18, 1893—-SIXTREN PACES to say,” sai Mr. Clarke, “take what you want and do ‘what you please. ‘MB. FLAGLER'S PLANS. Mr. Flagler intends eventually to open up the cast coast of Florida as far as Biscayne bay, and then he will be in « position to connect with Key West, and line to latter body and the water will be pumped over Lake Worth itself is salt, there being an ocean in- let about four miles’ from its upper end. ‘The most dificult problem to solve will be that of sewerage. Several plans have been con- sidered, but the one which meets with the mort favor is to carry the sewage to the ocean and, and one by the Lake Worth people. ‘The store- | bY means of piers, out into deep water off the coral reefs. delig that it is not at all hotel will be built ighifal is the ocean shore aprobable a supplemental re also. Mr. Flagler hundred acres of He intonds to have his hotel in the middle of be the finest tropical garden in the worid. The McCor- mick cottage. which has beaatiful grounds sur- rounding it, is too handsome a structure to be torn down, and arrangemen made to move it some distance. The house ix said to have cost 25,000. It is finished rolid in mahogany, and very handsome mahogany, t00. The logs were washed ashore many yeara ago, nd are thoroughly seasoned. Mr. Flagler be right on the ~ exten- the ground to sive improvements. purchased a cottaze built by a young Englishman in the Indian bungalow style, and its contente, aud # COCOANUT WALK. will take possession in a few days. Oh, they are rushing things here at Lake Worth, ‘There will be lively times this summer. The stoam- boats are delayed at Jupiter several hours longer than usual every irip in unlonding the cargoes of lumber that they are bringing down from up country. This Fiorida magnate turns everything in his direction that will aid him in his plans. He has recently been made president of a big Flor- ida dredging company, which is land poor. It receives a very generous land grant for every a few | leading | river sections | be - Every day about 11 o'clock | miles and then the company will be credited ntire winier the resideuts and | with twenty-two miles of dredging in the entire joy a bath ; length of Lake Worth, withont having to do Feb- | an: y al- | iand from the state. 1 pleasant no | to New river, avout forty miles, a canu! will be ‘od | lined. is invariably filled with a wild desire to No | bunt out the cook in the galley and inilict su:n- pnp i Among the Iand owners are Mr. C. 1 Cragin | of Philadelphia, who made his millions in soap. His land is x couple of miles farther up the | | i | enough for the boats to make a ia! mile of canal dredged, but much of the land which it gained is at present good for nothing. ‘The company was just about barkrupt. Mr. Fingler infused new life into it to the tune of 109,000, enabling it to pay off its debts and continue its work. it has already dredged necessary canals in the Indian as far as Jupiter. A canal will cut through to Lake Worth eight ¥ work at all, and will secure a big tract of From the foot of the lake dag, and then on to Biscayne bay. That m1 uninterrupted navigation along or rather just inside the coast line of Florida, and large tracts of land will be turned over to the company. DOW THE INDIAN RIVER. The trip by boat to the sontheast part of Florida will then be a most enjoyable one, for 1 in no other place | the steamboat servicer will of course be greatly 2. About twenty | improved. As it ix, the boat ride now is pleas- Jed with coconnuts | “8t—between meals. But the traveler. after nd the cargo was | the first meal, no matter how efully in- z¥ punishment upon him, her or it. ‘The true southern hospitality is ail right as to quan- tity, but theless said abdut the cooking and service the better. ‘The river is very wide and very shallow, and the steamboats, whenever re apt to run aground and be atime. Achannel has been iged in the worst places, but fhe bottom is continually changed by the shifting sands. ‘The famous indian River oranges, which are recognized as the best that reach the northern markets, are raised in the vicinity of Rockledge, | but the orange beit is gradually being extended south. Early vegetables succeed oranges as the staple products further south end the boats do quite a freighting business. ‘The river bank on on the west is dotied with settlers’ cabins, and a feature of the river scencry is the wharf, which is built on piles several hundred feet from the shore, in water deep . Some- times these midstream wharves or platforms are reached from shore by # narrow raised waik over the water, but oftener the platform stands alone far from shore and is accessible Er | only by boat. THE PINEAPPLE BOOM. Further south pineapple raising seems to have bad in recent years @ very substantial boom. A handsome and intelligent young | Englishman on the boat with whom Tus Srax | correspondent became acquainted appeared to be well posted on the subject of pineapple cul ture,and in the co of conversation it developed that he was ne of a colony of young Englishmen who had located in the indian river country several years ago and engaged in | the business of raising pineapples, and a ver satisfactory business they have found it. The; and all their neighbors are making money He and one of his companions landed in this country about four years ago. They came di- rect to Florida and sniled down Indian hanting and fishi looking about for a suitable place to locate without any distinet idea of what they would locate for. ‘The pineapple indusiry was the ini advised to “grow pines,” they continued to knock about for a year or more without settling dow to ansthing. Then realizing that they were losing time they bought some land about six miles from Jupiter and “we have never re- ers dons tbe down here?" “Why don’t they grow oranges down . Tasked. have to be cared for ina decent sort of way. ‘So let me have your hotel.” “Well,” replied Mr. “Twoald do ‘the house is wouldn't be fair to SGCOANTT GROVE HOTS winter b grow pines,” was 8 eix or eight years for eight y li Ped H i B if i ‘ | 1 i F i Es ie f iii, if - F Hl i i g 3 § ‘choles onan Phere z sf rt ii i E i l t Jake. | | ' | | we oan't leave. t_ months he again went to the Ke ‘the doubloon with cash and Drongat back another load of slips, which he paid for out of his first crop. He now has about sixty acres in pines back there,” pointing to the shore, “‘and last he cleared Just" about $20,000 “off his _ crop.”” At Hobe sound, about six miles above Jupiter, my English acquaintance disembarked. ‘Phat’ our home,” he eaid, as he bade me good-bye. It wasa pretty modern house, well shaded and on rather high ground, und seemed admirably adapted for « Florida home. Subsequently I met him down at Lake Worth, as well as others of the English colony. “You see,” he said, ‘-wo don’t have anything We lock the door and come away to mingle with the people and the ‘pines’ keep on growing just the same.” THE LAST OF THE SEMINOLES. | down into the Biscayne Bay country to take | are just as firmly wedded to their tribal customs | as ever and all attempts to civilize them have | proved fuitle. One member of the Lake Worth | izing surroundings a: | side of the lake and all winter long they :kept are_now being | i He same time | there and nm ; infancy, and notwithstanding they were | ee awaiting shipment Until a fow days agoa little band of Semi- nole Indians were encamped on the western the hotels and cottagers well supplied with venison and other game. They have now gone partin acorn dance. The remnant of the tribe does not number more than 250 or 300. They band, however. has ielded to his civil- to array himself ina derby hat with a broad red flannel band, a shirt and an umbrella, ‘They load their squsws down with bead jewel: During a visit to the store to get white man’s supplies one of the squaws consented to remove her beads, They @ put on the scales and weighed just fif- teen pounds, HUNTING AND FISHING. There is still good deer hunting off in the interior and the fishing is first-class. The much prized pompano can be seen at all times leaping from the lake water. Often thoy strike the water three times as they skip along before disappearing. They are caught only with the seine and during the past year fisher- men have taken from a thousand to fifteen hundred pounds of pompano from the lake in aday. The best fishing in the Inke is near the inlet, where blue fish are pientiful. Parties often go tarough the inlet into the ocean and fish in deep water off the coral reef. A boat returned last evening from such a trip containing thirty-six beautiful king fish averag- ing from six to ten pdunds in weight. A ki fish affords great spors. Wnen booked he leaps out of the water six or eight feet und then fights hard. In the fresh water lakes, only couple of miles distant, there is good big-mouth black bass fishing. Take it all in all Lake Worth is a most delightful place to spend the winter. The pub- lie will hear a great deal more of it in the fu than it has in the past, now thet Monte Crist Flagler bas it under his control and promises that next winter the traveler will be able to come through from New York in vestibul trains in forty hours. Its future just now is a very brilliant one, RK ‘Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: H. E. Berrian to E. C. Schaefer, sub 23, sq. 969; @—. E. ©, Schaefer to H. E. Berrian, sub 41, 8q. 838; $3,093.75. T.G. Dorsey to Arabella V. Chase, sub 16, #q. 271; $8,500. C. A. Me- 1 . ‘bs 212 to 214. sq. 155; B. Py "Jordan, pt, Dead. to Uniontown; $2.650. . AL Norment, subs 197 to 202. aq. i Davis et al. to J. Norton, subs 26 to 28, J. W. Foster to T. Brooks, sub Hermon to Josephine M. . lot 4, bik. 24, Columbia Heights; Bh. McGuire to J. H. Blackford, sub 108, sq. 89.68. Louise Graham to Leo misnons, pe. 4, bik. 8, T & B's wab Mt. Ploas- ant; $1,800. C. J. Hanbeck to Bianche Carter, . J.C. Louthan to F. 3, Lanier Heights; 3. '. 5 x to Lucy B. Gibson, lot 7, block 21, Brookland: @-~ 8 'v, sub 200. Unity Presbyterian Church, Bary 6. same property; & Eberly, sub 85, square 611; $3,c00. _F. Gregory to D. Birtwell, lot il, 6, 5 Gossfo Che D. Birtwell to F. I. Gregory, sub 39, sq. 43; @—. W. F. Geyer to E. Fugett, pta. 4 and 5, sq, 534; $3,125. A. Carry to A. J. Clarke, subs 5 to 7, 8q. e. of 1015; $1,826.25. H. Shreve to T. G. Jones, sud 282, aq. 674; $2,400. E. H. Morseli to Irene S. Buchanan, subs 77 $3,600. Annie P. Clarke to Be & lots 9 and 10, 1021; $—. F. 5. Carmody to C. Hosmer, subs 90 ‘and 92. sq. 1023: orge Bancroft to W. Fletcher, sub 148, sq. 445; $—. C.E. Clarke to Georgette A. Cham- 8, 6q. 690; S—. Ira J. Baker to 8. E. Terry, pt. 15, bik. 15, Langdon Park; 8. F. J. Shadd to P. H. je 88 City; 91.500. B. H. lot 27, Garfield; 8100. E. T. M. Kennedy, sub 34, sq. 33: %—. to H. C. Borden, subs 18 to 20 and 1,062: ts | LC. Slater) H. K. Simpson to 8. 82 and 88, #q. 861; &- aria Johnston, lot 8, bl HM. ‘enke, J.8. Hutchins to Kk. 12, T. & B's sub i. Stevens et al to to 87, ag. 748; 8. B. g, subs 20 to 23, blk. T.H. G. T Mt. Pleasant; | her is not killed. ——. ‘Thousands‘of Tons of Coffse Awaiting Cars. About thirty feet of the wharf of the Panama Railroad Company at Panama, Wed- nesday, collapsed under the weight of = quantity of coffee that was piled on it. The damage was slight. The wharves at Colon are in bad condi- ‘There are thousands of tons of coffee tion, H.| cholera. His cattle got lumpy jaw. His horses soeking now territory | and making war on | somebody to acquire it It must be that some of the blood of | Cush still percolates | i f, i it i E i Es 2. ii i i §. ble } Es t if f i te ef if l i gE £ Fy 8 Ff ef BE i H i game. The restaurants and short order houses “boom” with everything ise, and their capacity | is tested three times over. "they ran night and | day. The bill of fareis usually limited. | coffee, potatoes, baked beans and beer, menu reads, anda ‘‘cart wheel” the ‘boom’ cost. The steak might have antedated Adam the veins of the Amer- ican people. In no| other way oan one ac-/ count for the sce. es enacted at the opening of Oklahoma, the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reser-| vations, the Sisseton lands in Dakota and the Present massing of the “boomers” on the edge of the Cherokee strip. Of the opening of Okishoma territory the As- sociated said: “It was 11:57am. But three minutes remained. Men stood one foot almost on the line, with their bodies bent for- ward as a sprinter awaits asignal Twelve | o'clock came. Up «went Col. Barnard’ | hand. ‘The bugle pealed forth the news tl j the new Oklahoma reservation was open to set- tlers by the government. A wild scene fo!- lowed. The long line of human beings crossed | the reservation like a flash. It wasa mad race of man against animal. Through the tong line shot the Indian guides and their charges, | mounted on fleet-footed broncos, _and riding as if for their lives. ' They were soon mere specks on the plain. A young woman dashed by on a bronco and byher side rode Sioux. Whore they came from no one knew. They were late, but _ going at railroad speed. Wagons loaded with house- hold plunder floundered wildly across the rough country and were soon left far in the rear. Wagon loads of provisions got stuck in the ravines, and cutting the traces the crazy drivers mounted the animals and whooping and Yelling went on to join the general ouslaught. | In the mad excitement guns were fired wildls j in the air, men shouted, women eang and the general pandemonium.” | WAITING FOR THE CHEROKEE OUTLET. And now word comes that 7,000 families are | gathered on the border of the Cherokee outict, | waiting for it to be opened, when the grand | rush will be repeated. There are milli millions of acres in Runsas either of the Dakotas, in Minnesotu, Montana softly carpeted with grass, with’ prettier streams of water and more of them, all of it| just as cheap as the land in the Cherokee cut- | let, yet men have passed these by and have| ping for months on the border of the ” subjecting themselves and their fami- | ies to privations of every kind for the sake of being one of the first to enter upon what has | been so long unattainable territory. But | pioneer blood cannot flow freely where honors | areeasy. It needs tho iron of deprivation, contest, combat. Okiahoma had not been open for settlement ix months before the people were importuned to send food and clothing to the starving, freezing settlers of the sterile territory, while thousands left their ‘‘claims” there and went ‘‘on west” or back “‘on earth.” Six months from the time | | the Cherokee strip i opened the philanthropic people will be called upon to do the donation ct again. It a one of the coucomitants of an | “opening.” Just as a collection is of a sermon | or # woman of an Easter bonnet. ‘These invaders of new reservations are desig- nated in general as ‘‘boomers,” and the inci- | dente, humorous and tragic, pict pathetic, which cluster about the ag, | of humanity on the borders would till H as big as the Bibie. The married “boomer” is | a prominent figure in thelandscape. His prairie | schooner, usually a rickety wagon with patched | and torn canvas top, filled with a heterogeneous | collection of household belongings, wife and | half a dozen towsled children, all ‘drawn by sway-back, knock-kneed, sprained horses or | mutes, witha boneyard cow and a shirking cur | or two, comprise the whole of his earthly be- longings. | i THE AVERAGE BOouxn. He has probably raised cotton in “‘Carliny,” corn in ‘Ellinoy” and @ brood of always hun- | gry children in Missouri or Arkansas or Texas, | or maybe all three states, here contributed to the census. He is generally down on his luck. It was always too cold for his cotton and too wet for his cofn. The weevil and chinch bugs and rast always found hls wheat first. His fruit trees winter killed. His hogs died of got the glanders. Everything fails but his wite’s temper. Everything dies but his ebildren. Swamp fever in the south, chills in fllinois and | misery in his bones in Missouri kept him mov- | ing. Gafortunate but sanguine, ambitious but irretrievably shiftiess, he is always on the alert for a new opening, ever hoping that he will strike it rich at last. But his hopes are never realized. Energetic enough to be in at the start, ho lacks staying quali‘i tanced in the grand stand rush. His wife, poor tired shadow of the creatur called woman, aitends automaticali wants 8f the clamorous children clinging to her skirts, and goes on living because it seems to be less trouble than to die. “It's a wearin’ sort of life,” she sometimes confesses, and one fecls that it is the despair- | ing cry of a sonl worn thin, yet numbed into semi-insensibility by the utter hopeicesness of its environments, “But then I s'poce it might “The childern ain't none | died,” and you know the “why” of her continued’ exietence. Bleak and blank as her are her hopes and ambitions, the mother Bat what place in the econ- omy of nature can the children of such parents take? Exhausted nature brings them into the world tired weaklings. ‘The eritage of home and the natural joys of childhood denied them, the beast of the field and the bird of the air better clothed and fed than they, education a | luxury beyond their grasp, moral training an | unknown quantity, they become drift. Wres Tk with the tides of tate From the wrecks of Se tar scattered e DIFFERENT KINDS OF BOOMERS. transter of this cargo is slow owiny earcity of cars, which bas beon caused by the Inte arrivals of the connecting steamers of the Atlantic system. ‘The cars in which freight is transported to Colon are used there for storage purposes awuiting the arrival of the steamers. This, of course, produces scar famine at this end of the line. ———+e+____ Spring. Clothier and Furnisher. We've put away our heary clothes, And we are feeling bla: We wish wo had not done it now— Acha! Achu! Achu! ——_+e+ -___ At Very Uncertain Intervals. Puck, & All the “boomers” have not families. ‘There ere young men who file and make s payment hoping to speculate and make “big money" before a sccond payment comes due. There are real estate men and town site men whose business is dealing in town sites on paper anti | “boom” literature for gulling eastern “*tender- feet.” Lawyers who reap a fortane in the first months of ‘an opening off of the inevitable litigation that follows. Hotel men are there by the’ score. Gamblers by the hundred and doctors who find amplo employment for surgical knowledge. HE f TI Hie Seri terrified ‘children added their shrieks to the | horses, hurness, farming utene or Colorado just as gently rolling, quite as | W c | fe bas been, stunted and dwarfed as | k and the coffee tastes as though the berry bad gone through on stilts. ‘The baked beans would give a Boston man the fits, while the beer is a reminiscence. THE HUB OF TRE TOWN. The land office is the huh of the town—the center of gravity. In the first rush, when ten Gfteen thousand people squat on the town site, there are a thousand things wanted which nobody knows where to get. The land office becomes a burena of information. Lacking » newspaper, the outer walls of the land office are miado to answer the purpose and the people resort to the primitive method of putting up written notices. Men get lost from their fami- lies, children wander away. Gamblers ‘go broke.” Mules, wagons and‘ housebold truck are stolen. Many people have things to sell and hundreds of others wish to purchase. In long columns these notices, placed under their proper heading as in a newspaper, are tacked on the walls. ‘The “for sale” column tells the ups and downs of “boom” life in ludicrous fashion. Following are soins notices copied verbatim from the walls of land offices in O} homa during the week of opening: “For sail—Too karat dimund stud; cheap; to much stud hoss poker reeson for selling. Call at Murphy's Plase.”” “For sale—Silver-mounted Merican saddle. Can't feed tell Iraise the wind. If you want ce. ‘or sale—corner lot, boss location: has about give out, an die in my tracks. Lo' . There were dozens of “for sales” of cows, pistols, shot guns, rifles, watches, rings, and in the “wanted to buy,” just as many were aeking for ticles, except perhaps the jewelry, that all for sale. ‘The “lost and found” column e on the n. e. qr. sec. 21, rouge 17. red sitting on our trunk to keep ft from being stole. Somebody tell him. Mra. “Lost—My little gi on a blue Kaliker apera, Enquire Hellyrs Be “Too Jim Brown—The baby is dead. Let t im go and we'll go buck to the states. I'm tick of this. Your wil Mary Brown.” “If Tim Murphy sees this’ he wants to cut for the tent on lot 4, block 6. His wife: gota baby and needs bim Dad Johnson. “Found & Kid what answers to the name [Millie Meacham. Anybody provin property ‘00 el havehim, Patrol ‘No. 5. “Mrs. Jones. Bill says he can't find you where Ileft you. You will find mo in the dog tent under the cotton wood on the northeast corner of section twelve across the creek. I've lost three fingers a holding the thing down and Tcan’t leave. Your Husband.” “Notis!!_No game at Wall Eyed Pete's a Sunday. Preachin’ prompt at leven.” In a boom town the gambler reigns supreme and the devices for gambling are innumerable. uck a luck, wheels of fortune, policy, faro. poker, keno, monte, high ball and dozens of thers in tents and rough-board sheds line the one street which Kipling describes as “ending in the illimitable open as though the whol houseless outside earth wereracing through it. FREACHERS I¥ ROOM TOWXS. There are always preachors in boom towns. ether it is for gain or glory nobody ever seems to know. They are apt to find desirable | corner lots in the best quarter-sections of land, but they also pursue their calling with a zeal that seems to place their desire to glorify God bove their love of gold. A boom preacher is usual] character. He has to be to deal with the denizens of boom towns, A boom preach- er’ notice in Guthrie read as follow: HOW TO WIX AT FARO. At Joe's Pince, Sunday Eventine wt 7:30 o'clock. By Rev. Janes ironic, Of the Methodint Charen. He will tell you How o Bar Spi Whipsswed on the Last “1 Strikes Kind Deal Don't to Set Tour Che urn. Y i a0 Not Get 3 ‘trai The boys said the sermon was a “corker.”” Out under a cottonwood tree an old Meth- odist preacher held forth at Guthrie, the first Sunday after the opening of Okiahoma. His sermon was characteristic of the occasion. “am a poor, humble deputy receiver of the land office of heaven, and fam here to start a boom for the new Jerusalem, a city not of tents and dust, but of everlasting mausions and gol- don streets. ‘There will be no elaim jumpers there. ‘The dovil ia weleome to them. ‘There will be no early birds there who slipped by the jada it before 12 o'clock noon of the on. Come up now and file your siatements. Enter your claim” this grasehopper is never seen. If you for a town site everr lot is. corner lot in the ho will be a “boomer?” ingficher notice was posted that a “sky would hoid iorth on Sunday in the Assembly Hali.” the biggest tent sxloon in the Everything ran wide open until Sundar jing. and then the gamblers and ssloon rs shut up shop. Proviion stores and all business houses kept up the buying but those supposed to be the wick- in town Were quick io respond to the for an audience. Everybody who was not awake early was aroused by the bugier. This bugler was o worthless young cavalryman, who got into limbo the second day for “lifting” a shooter. His bugle was already in pawn. Faro Tim redeemed the bngle, then got the owner out on the promise that he would lead the singing tor the services of the sky pilot! AKOUSISG THEM BY BUGLE, The idea was decidedly unique, but Faro Tim didn't know a bugle from a bassoon, and having heard the young fellow play thought he had struck the boss thing in engagi band.” The bugler proved a greater adept at music than seemed possible with so insignifi- cant ea instrument. Brightand early he began his duties by marching uround the tented town sounding reveille. it is musical, but exaspor- ating when people are sleepy. He varied the cail by singing in stentorian tones the words which the soldiers set to the musi¢: I can't get ‘em up, rt wet ean’: et.’ won! = ‘eu up this moraine, ket Up this moral 1» this inorni Fl i i l ‘ i i & F i t f i Fed Hell Fey lt efit ie ne H it ii i E i if I é i i | fl ¢ EF Ls Lf = i fh i i gis i ie ‘il oH | HE il i Fi i nee help a hungry man call at Hank's Soup | ing © “brass | Toa 4 ih ] z i te i isfy “71 will sing you # so ‘The faraway home of His voice was clear and musical, and the soul of a singer seemed to haunt the tones of violin. The | the youth’ . bound. The ber leaned slightly forward as he began the third line. His quick caught the sound of singing over to the left | Where some women sat. On the third word the voice ranged itself beside his. i CACTUS KTT'® CLEAR vorcs. A woman's voice, clear and high and full, | Untutored, but wondrously rich as she sang: pos rt Willethe years of teruny ro Suerine otrand, Easily the preacher dropped to the baritone, for he ‘knew the woman could lead. On the second verse others joined in, but above their discords, above the bugle and above the throb- | bing, wailing tones of the viohm soared the voice of the woman. “Oh, how sweet tt will | sh beceransm an There was a caressing earnestness in the sing- er's tones, and as the preacher looked at her | Kiddily painted face and saw the absorbed ex- Pression in her bloodshot eyes, the tight | clasped hands among the ribbons of her tawd: gown he wondered it dido’t mean what she was ing. He took for bis texi, that beautiful land pain.” | , “Beantifal for situation, the joy of the whole’ earth, is Mount Zion.” | The sermon was short, pointed and fitted to | the occasion. At the end ther eang “Jesus, Lover of My Soul. é The bugler declared afterward that his “‘ma- |ebine” neariy plored iteelf. ‘The youth and hie wonderful violin were in perfect accord, and the gr: more ex- Guisite interpretation. ng and of yearning sweetness Cactus Kit's voice ept pace with the preachers.as they sang to- gether: Then the crowd took up the refrain and the song rose and swelled out and up toward he and siole away off to the horizon till the whole nse of space seemed filled with the sa- cred melody. To the ond the woman's voice led and her ecarified soul seemed fairly lifted f her as she sang. passed a poker cards aks ‘An hour later the preacher Kit studied her table, and as Cactus hummed under her breath, jesus, lover of my soul. Isancr Woneens Barz. Pes antic THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. | Its Alunnl Hold the Annual Banquet at the University Club. A notable company sat down to dinner Thurs- day night at the University Club upon the occa- jon of the annual banquet of the Alumni Asso- ciation of the University of Virginia. These | famous old college who are pursuing their pro- fessional and business pursuits in Washington and are usually attended by some members of 3 faculty, who bring welcome news of the alma mater. This was the case last night, and the gathering was pronounced one of the most enjoyable and successful which the association ever held. A short business meeting was beld before dinner at which the following officers were elected: Prof. W. D. Cabell, president; Henry W. Garnett, Hilary A. Herbert and Col. Mar- shall McDonald, vice presidents; E. L. McClel- land, secreiary: E. J. Renick, treasurer; exeen- tive committee, C. G. Lee, chairman; W. A. Earle, Col. B, L. Blackford, Dr. L. W. Giase- brook and Dr. G. B. Harrison. PROF. THORNTON'S REMARKS. After dinner Mr. Henry Wise Garnett, who acted as toastmasier, introduced Prof. Thorn- ton, chairman of the faculty of the university, and called upon him to tell the company eome- thing of the alma mater. The report of Prof. Thornton was interrupted by frequent cheers and rounds of applause, evidencing the delight of the alumni at the progress being made by { | students at the university, a attendance | than the echool has ever enjoyed. Last year | fifteon bachelors were graduated and at the next commencement thirty men will probably | take the bachelor's degree. Prof. Thornto: paid a tribute to the memory of the late Lin- Kent of this city and referred to the chair which has since been endowed in his name. Referring to the character of the university Prof. Thornton said that she was Gr@ to promulgate and first to the idea that a coliege must be independent of theological control. Religious tolerance stuck ite dee) Foot in Virginia and ite top root. is the University of inia. The Catholic University of this city and its great neighbor in Chicago must fall into line with Jefferson idea of religious tolerance or die of intellectual athrophy. The university has steadfastly iteelf in opposition to every form of ednca- tional It has never given an honorary | degree and has made its dij evidences of sound training and hard work. SECRETARY UEREXET ON JEFFERSON. The Secretary of the Navy, himself a graduate of the university, was one of the guests, and Mr. Garnett calied upon him to respond to the toast of “Thomas Jefferson.” Secretary Her- bert aid he had, been a life-long follower of ‘Thomas Jefferson, and—here the speaker paused a moment, looked around the table, and aid: “See here, boys, da great deai rather talk about old times at the university than make a formal speech about Thozuas Jefferson.” This appeared to suit the company aud Mr. Herbert, ¥ho graduated in 1856, amused them with flow of reminiscences of early days at the col- Prof. Perkineon, » member of the faculty, gare an account o? the progress the universil is making in athletic sports and related some of the recent victorios of the college teams. JUSTICE BROWN O% TALE. | Justice Brown of the Supreme Court arose | to the toast of Yale University and suggested to Prof. Perkinson that if his students aspire to excel in athletics they bad better send for afew Yale men to come down and give them points, They would enjoy the experience and could robably sympathize with the bor who was icked by the mule and whose father said to him, “My son, you will not be as pretty as you were before, but you will be a wiser man.” were McKim, Mr. Leigh Lobinson, son, Mr. Gaines of Kentucky }. B. Barri. and Mr. W. D. Leiters of regret were read from Mr. Charles Marshall, Gen. Gordon McCabe, Co: W. L. Wilson, Prof. A. P. Montague, Mr. Henry T. Kent, and a telegram of congratulation from the Thomas Jefferson Ciub in banquet assem- bled at New Orleans. = wipway yearly affairs bring together the sons of this | the old school. He said there are now 545/ PLAISANCE. sews An Interesting and Remarkable Feas ture of the World's Fair. - PHASES OF FOREIGN LIFE. eee | Representatives From the Orient Will Live Here and Display Their Remarkable Pro- ficiency in Various Directions—A Trained Menageric—German Villages—Completing the Work. —-_—_. Special Correspondence of The Fventne Star, | HERE I8 OXE feature of the world’s fair that is making ray progress toward com- pletion, and thet will probably be more re- sorted to than any other portion of the grounds, This is the midway Plaisance. It is a strip of land about eeven- eighths of & mile long and 609 fect wide, ee contains eighty acres. It is not, strictly peaking, in Jackson Park, but it coz | Parks, two adjoining ‘ | occupied by various concessions, and there will | De all the foreign magicians, lion tamers and | the curious representations of foreign life | which people now go thousands of miles to see. | For one thing there will be dancing of almost | every description. The Egyptian dancing girls bave already arrived, and so have some of the savage dancers from the South American Indian tribes. In the latter part of last woek Chica was invaded by bands of Arabs, Bedouin danese, Bolivian Indian work ‘has brought se band of Persians, The lati are twenty-two in number, the advance guard of seveuty mora, MAGIC TRICKS OF THE ©: The most impértant character of the group | is Hadji Agn, amagician from Teheran. Thisadds j Another to alittie company of eastern dealers in magic, who already number at least » dozen. Their tricks will.include the usual legerdemain which Kellar and Herrmann have made familiar to American anctiences and other mysterious procggdings such as are peculiar to the magi- | cians’ of « net. Of course they all «wallow swords, but they promise, also, to present some of those disappearances and suspensions in mid air without any visible means of support which western magicians have failed thus far to learn | the true workings of. As for the dancing girls, 'if they reproduce some of the jof their “native land they will be doing something very remarkable for these native dances, it must be remem- dered, have in many cases been sup; by the native governments themselves. Not all the skirt dancing that Washington has ever seca nora thousand Black Crooks can equal the effect produced by those native dancers, if the travelers who have witnessed them ean be bel ad Washingtom REAT BAND OF TRAINED WELD BEASTS. There will also be exhibited in the plaisance the great band of trained wild beasts which bas been brought over by the famous Prof. Hagen- buck of Hamburg, Germany. ‘The story of his success has been brought home by travelers of recent years, He brings mineteen animals into the ring at the same time. 1 tigers bound ‘the training. The whole band does the master's idding a» quietly as if it were a troopof poodles, Thus far Prof. buck has es- caped injury from his pets, He promises to gives wonderful performances here as were ever seen in Europe. He also carries tm hie train elephants and other beasts which are less dangerous to handle. CHAMMING THE DEADLY COBRA. ‘The Egyptians have with them « lergqcam sortment of serpents, both small and large, which are to undergo enchantment or charm ing sfter May 1. The most formidable. reptiles is a hooded cobra, six feet long. hood, it may be remarked, has two it which look ~ = which together by a cur serpent is enraged this ‘back of the head, ie expanded ‘and |and a cobra is thus a object. His sting is alm | | the labor of being charmed two day for the benefit of the visitors great bore. It is to be devout will not permit his temper to 4 MAMMOTH WHEEL. Another attraction of this part of will be the Ferris wheel, which te | good stato of progress and promises to be ready for use when the formal The diameter of this queer toy is feet, and it is swung on an axle upon two towers pyle high. different points of which hold a dozen or more | these cars reste the ‘the fair now wheel ple have the great the completo "circuit Of course the machinery is 80, that there is no danger of @ car mot its perpendicular position; but of argument, a car should of German houses, showing how they live in Germany at tho t day, and there will alko is safe to say that the thousands of of German origin who will visit the sure to take it in. If it turns out what isos to be it will soem like « bit = scenery saccessfully transp’ = other villages in the piaisance ure Austrian, representing the street in old Vienma known as Der Graben, ands native Dahomey to the usage among nations it would be im cumbent upon President Cleveland to reply to the Dahomey king as a “Great and Friena single portion of the world’s great show. . We , Dr. T. BR. Stone, hw Baber, De. ¥- 8 Sash, De. Dr. E L. Tompkins, Dr. Geo. 7. Nougin, Dr. ju | Groen, Dr, Prank Hyatt. Mr. W. H. obertson, | Mr. R Dalany Mis. Wm. E, Earle, Mr. | Bese kee F Ee ——————— ‘Trial of Clark st Lafayette, Ind. In the caso of Peter J. Clark, indicted for attempt to murder George Boudolph at the opers house riot on January 6, = jury was coment Sammatag of Ketagetin, Bot, ‘A motion for = change of yenue was disallowed. No! mombers of the Catholic Church or America | Protective Association were allowed on the Jury. ——EEEEE ‘UNEXCELLED as a lintment, Salvation Oil, 30. work has been so rapid that there were Fussonsble hopes tat everything would bein ‘opening now that vod thet yy, a8 not stage, and wore lost \y morn back in «day their going oud is can hardiy mot seen it. What — yt cover week begi . finished im some por- tions: a bes been the desired anda on the strssts and foreign mosqace ‘They ite in a for inspection, to say the legst. | —ta— Counting the Controller's Money. A committee composed of W: F. Lants, Will- iam Utts and J. A Hebrew, all clerks in the ‘Treasury Department. has been appointed by ‘the Secretary of the ‘Ireasury to count the ‘money in Se mate Sn centritinr ot So ver tothe new contcolcr, 3. :