Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1893, Page 18

1s THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1893—TW ON THE LOOK OUT. es Guarding the President From Cranks and Other Unwelcome Visitors. THE WHITE HOUSE WATCH DOGS. (Officers on Guard Both Day and Night. DANGERS ON THE OUTSIDE. HE WHITE HOUSE has never been more carefully guarded than it ts today. Tramps are swarm- ing into Washington from all parts of the United States, and a report was received here the other day that 1,500 were on their way from the south to the capital. ‘The President's mail includes all sorts of ky letters, and the financial distress hich prevails over the United States has eveloped a discontented army, many of the ‘gwoldiers of which think that President (Cleveland can redress their grievances. The gir seems to breed cranks and the demon ff destruction is abroad in the land. A fweek or so ago Washington's “Jack the per” got into the White House and mused himself by carving up the furniture. He cut the curtains in the green room and Yan his knife through the elegant coverings ‘ef the sofas and chairs. Since then the Private rooms of the White House have not = shown to visitors, and the vigilance of the guards has been increased. The Ha- Wallan matter, With the severe editorial Briticisms of the President upon it from frany sources, has not helped his position in | the eyes of the cranks, and the possibility pf a Guiteau or a Prendergast hangs like a Bhadow over the Executive Mansion. The White House Defenses. I have devoted some time this week to nding ust what safeguards are placed Ground the President. He is almost as weil Watche? 43 any monarch of Europe. Po- cemen wre stationed about the White — grounds and the White House itself @s it is now arranged is almost crank | f. An iron fence about five feet} h runs around the grounds. This fence set firmly in a sandstone basement and the bars which compose it are tipped with P points, so that it would be impossi- to clirnb over them without injury, and | ch bar is about an inch in diameter. ere are eight gates to the park of the ecutive Mansion, two on the side next e treasury and two facing the State De- tment. ‘There are also four gates at the ont facing Pennsylvania avenue. The | Gates at the sides ar> for foot passengers only, and they are locked every evening | ks. The front xates are larger. Two of them are r carriages and two for foot passengers. ey are of the strongest of wrought fron nd they are locked every night in the e Way as the cates at the side. The Police on Guare. ‘The police cf the city are constantly on Fd on the streets outside of the grounds. | Frey patrol Pennsylvania avenue in front | pf the White House, and they move up aml | Bown between it and the Treasury and the | ®tate Department. They also keep their @yes on the White Lot, which extends b= fhina the White House Park, and any one ying especial attention to the building at In addition to with great iron chains and padioc! | TY PAGES. a pair of scissors and snipped a piece out of the lace curtain. She was caught in the act and was taken up to President Lin- coln. He gave her a good sermon, but let her go. The man who cut the green room furniture seems to have been actuated by the desire to destroy rather than to have been a relic hunter. Where the President Works. Grover Cleveland does all of his work above stairs. It is on the second floor of the Executive Mansion that the President and his family live, and this is the part of the White Hovse which is most carefully watched. The living rooms of the family’ are at the west end of this floor: The end nearest the treasury is devoted to offices, and it is always filled with clerks and mes- sengers. This is the only part that is ac- cessible to people who have public business. These men after they have passed the guards down stairs are allowed to go up the stair case between the east room and the vestibule. At the top of this there is a guard in citizens’ clothes, and passing across a hall you come into another corri- dor, in the rooms of which at the back are | the offices of the President and Mr. Thur- ber, and also the big parlor in which the cabinet meets. As you step into this cor- Sergeant Loefer. ridor you see seated at a desk one of the most trusted servants and best watchnien any ruler has ever known. This is Sergt. Loeffier, the special messenger of the Pres- ident. He is a wiry, sharp-eyed man, with @ gray mustache. No one knows how old he is, but his muscles are iron. He was fight began, and for the past twenty years he has been one of the confidential employes of the White House. It is he who takes | in the cards that reach the President. le knows all the prominent men of the coun- try and he sometimes detects bad charac- ters who have the men below. Private Secretary Thurber has naturally a@ great reverence for the President. He appreciates the dangers which surround him and one must have indeed good cre- dentials and an honest face to be admitted by him into President Cleveland's office. Just across the hali are the offices of another corps of clerks, including Col. Wm. H. Crook, who has been twenty-eight years connected with the Executive Mansion and who was one of President Lincoln's special body guards when he made his trip to Rich- mont. All of the employes of the White House are connected with the President and the private secretary by electric bells, and the whole army could be called into the President's room by the pressure of a button. Mght in the White House. I have shown that it would be almost impossible for any one to break into the White House at night. I want to tell now how easily the man would be caught if he got in. He would, in the first place, have to pass the men on the city police force, climb over the fence, and get to the White House itself. He would have to do this un- der a blaze of lights, for electricity and gas unite to turn night into day, and the lamps in front of the mansion always burn. Sup- pose he got to the front door and picked the lock, he would find himself, on enter- ing the vestibule, in the hands of the three policemen who are always on guard there after dark. He could in no way break into the front of the mansion except through this door or the windows at its sides. If he attempted to enter the basement door facing the treasury, he would be captured by tHe policeman stationed there, and if he eluded him, upon getting into the base- ne White House police t. Decker Handling and it will surprise some to know Sar tt requires the services of thirteen licemen to guard the grounds and the use itself. This is in addition to the essengers and servants of the Executive lansion, and these jicemen their | fecular watches and and day. During the the pen and certain parts of the ' Practically free to visitors, but no one can | @ove through them and be for a moment | gut of the sight of one of these policemen da this lice, though it comes / m the city, is under the charge of | ivate Sec: ary Th . OF more imme- /} tely of € t. Decker, who may be called e chief watch dog of President Cleveland. The Rear ra. A policeman stands at the back steps | ight and day, and the basement and the | frst floor entrances are guarded by him. | Wis position gives him a view of the $rounds in rear of the mansion. and he is fme of the most important guards of the ree. Should he go t p or be removed | te of the main entrances to the White | louse, supposing the crank could pass the | fuards on the outside, | ck steps and would be by the blue room, which are | carefully guarded than the basement. m in this se, however, the burglar) ould have to pick the locks of the doors | ding into the blue room, and he would | have to pass through a number of Wher doors before he could get at the Pres. | Bent’s valuaoles or his person. It was in this way that a well known man broke into the White House jot long ago. He got in through the win- yw of the red room, but it was found that was drunk rather than crazy, and the tter was hushed up. A red-headed crank m_Idaho haunted the grounds back of e White House for some days about the e of the close of the last session of Con- He was crazy on the subject of the ver bill, and probably meditated some Jury to the President. His case was in- tigated by the . and it was found t he had written threatening letters to @ President. He escaped, however, be- re his true character was known. Inside the White House. {The police inside the White House are the t important of the President's watch Supposing the crank to have passed policeman on the grounds, he enters the hite House by the front door. This has b massive lock, and it is never left standing pen. It admits you to the great vestibule @ the Exec: e Mansion. This vesti- le always contains from three to five rds. Some of them are the messengers the White House and others are police- m in uniform. It is within the last ®w months that polic ors have been feed in the White F These policemen heavy- lows. They are the pick of ' ey are men who have good a r and | s into the Whites r their eyes. One the right | tands at £ the door as y he doorkeeper . You find the hall and | re is another you have no ident this man does, to mount the stairs. You co Into the east room and pt permit y Fe pe Yok abo » further. The action of he vandal who t green room cur- Bins and sofas will y prevent the wate rooms of th House being ‘Th: happened | incon. A to carry on in an . @ relic of the White House had taken ment, he would find himself in a wide hall lighted by electricity and patrolled by a stalwart officer armed to the teeth. If he could possibly pass him he might get to the second floor of the house by the stair- way which comes out into the private cor- ridor of the mansion near the conservatory, and thence he could slip up the private Stairs to the second floor and be in the liv- ing rooms and sleeping rooms of the Presi- gent. To do this, however, he would have to break locks, and the slixhtest noise would be heard by the officers in the vesti- bule, so that you see he would have an al- most impossible task. In case he got to the President’s bed room, a touch of the button by Mr. Cleveland would set the electric bell on the lower floor to ringing, and the policemen and the servants would come rushing fn at the sound. A ring at the telephone of the office near by would call the whole police force of the city to the White House In a few minutes, and a connection could be made with the armed forces at the barracks, so that a force of soldiers would surround the man- sion and prevent any possible escape. Dangers Outside the White House. The chief danger lies outside of the White House. So far no attempt has ever been made to attack a President in the Executive Mansion. The risks are too great. The at- tacks upon Lincoin, Jackson and Garfield were all made when they were away ffom the house, and the scheme to abduct Lincoln included the capturing him while he was on his way to the Soldiers’ Home. The guards which are now placed about a President when he is away trom office are better than they have ever been before, and the safety’ of the President is carefully watched when he is at his country home. Eight mounted policemen patrol the roads of this part of the Washington suburbs, and you can hard- ly go into the country now about here with- out meeting a policeman on horseback. The police service of the capital has, in fact, never been so efficient as it is today, and the President is seldom away from the eyes of the police. When he goes to church there is an officer on the street outside, and his afternoon rides seldom go outside the range of the mounted police. The President a Brave Man. IT am told that the President objects to the close watch which is kept upon him. He is a brave man, and he does not likes it. He was once attacked by a crank when he was governor of New York, just before he was elected President. He was on his way to the capitol in Albany, when a man sprang out from the corner of the street and tried to strike him in the face. President Cleveland at first acted merely on the defensive, but toward the last of the trouble he gave the man a fairly good lo. pounding. While he was making the as- ault a friend of Mr. Cleveland's came up and seized the man, and Mr. Cleveland thereupon went on to the governor's office. The man was not satisfied with some action | of Cleveland in regard to a pardon, and the trial which ensued showed that he was crazy. There was a story that President Cleveland was attacked during the cam- paign by a crank in New York. About three weeks before the election a man call- ed at Mr. Cleveland’s house on West bith street In New York and asked to see him. He was shown into the parlor, and a mo- ment later Mr. Cleveland entered. As he did so the man raised a revolver and snap- ped it at him. The cap missed fire, ind Mr. Cleveland, throwing his arms around the man, pressed him against the wall and called for help. A few minutes later he was in the hands of the police, and shortly after this he found a place in an insane asylum. Through Dr. Bryant and Superintendent Byrnes the matter w kept out of the apers, and today no one but the President id his most tntimate friends know the ex- ct facis of the case. FRANK G. CARPENTER. i¢ the Indians long before the war »{ tent foes of literature. TO SELL ITS BOOKS. A New System for Distributing Gov- ernment Documents. Tt WILL WORK A GREAT REFORM. A Complete Index of Publications to Be Made. > BOOKS ARE WASTED. HOW Written for The Evening Star, HE BILL FOR RE- forming the system of distributing gov- ernment publications, already approved by the House, will be one of the first meas- ures passed by the Senate at this ses- sion. It transfers to the bureau of docu- ments in the Interior Department absolute control .over the whole business of sending out such public documents as are intended to be given away. When a new government printing office is built the bu- reau will doubtless occupy a part of it, with @ branch post office of its own, from which all mail matter can be shipped direct. One million volumes of gratuitous literature are published annually by Uncie Sam, at an expense of over $1,000,000, Having paid this enormous sum for them, he has hith- erto left them to be distributed in a man- ner utterly regardless of economy or use- fulness. This is one reason why nearly 1,000,000 Volumes of such documents are now stored in the basement of the Capitol. Many of them are very valuable, being worth from $10 to $25 apiece, because they are scarce and would serve to fill out defective sets. For example, if a series of reports in a big public library lacked one book, that insti- tution would gladly pay $10 or $20 for it. The publications coraposing this enormous collection run back for fifty years. They are literally rotting away. Masses of them have been attacked by a sort of dry rot, while moisture has got at some of them, causing the development of a curious fun- gus disease to which books appear to be subject. Rats have gnawed many of them, While book-worms have bred among them to an extraordinary extent, riddling them with holes. These small white larvae, less than half-an-inch long, are the most persis- It is surmised that they ate the papyrus rolis of ancient Egypt, byt they could hardly have tackled with success the burnt-clay volumes of the li- braries of Babyton and Nineveh. * Personal Property of Congressmen, The bill referred to directs that these 1,000,000 volumes shall be divided equally among all the present members of Congress. Each one will thus receive more than 2,000 of them—nominally for distribution among | his constituents, though he may do what he pleases with them. Under ordinary cir- cumstances every Representative get® about 2,300 such books annually, and every Sena- tor about 3,500. It has been decided that | these documents are the personal property | jot the Congressman. That many legisla- | jtors for the nation sell them is beyond | |doubt, but it cannot be forbidden. A weil- know member the other day said to the writer: “I sell all my documents.” In the shop of one second-hand dealer in Washing- | | ton on a recent occasion were seen 330,000 | copies of government reports, a large part | of them in bags, which had never been | opened, containing the unbroken quotas of Congressmen. ‘he waste in this matter has been well- nigh fabulous. According to the statement | of the superintendent of documents in the Department of the Interior, one-half of the publications now issued by the government would be sufficient for all purposes; the | other half does nobody any good. Ai one time and another hundreds of thousands of volumes have been sent to the junk shop: direct from the Capitol, to be sold as waste | Paper, because there was no room avail. able for storing them. Worst of all has been the system of gratuitous distribution. According to the method hitherto adopted copies of a book would be distributed sepa- rately from four sources—by the Senate, by the House, by the department of which it was @ report and by the bureau from which it originally emanated. As was like- ly, it would appear in four distinct editions, In no two cases would the title be the same, and thus it sometimes happened that six. teen copies of the same work would actually be sent to @ single individual. Up to date libraries in various parts of the country have returned to the superintendent of Ppub- lic documents 100,000 such duplicates, During the last Congress a man wrote to aboyt 100 Senators and Re ‘sentatives, | asking for a costly work on “Diseases of | Horse,” which had been newly issued | by the Department of Agriculture way he secured at least forty copies of the | .beok. Doubtless the same thing has often | been done. It ts largely because the pub- | lications of the government have been given away in such a reckless manner that they | are so poorly thought of by the people. The | | mere fact that a volume is a public docu- | | Irent seems to carry with it a conclusion that it is of no practical worth. Yet. ft is not too much to say that no series of works of such high intrinsic value issue from any other publishing house in the world as are | put forth from the government printing office. Hundreds of thousands of dollars | are spent every year and hundreds of scien- | tifie men are constantly engaged in produc. ing these volumes, which relate to. re-| searches and explorations in every field of | knowledge. A New System is Needed. * A check ts needed on the business of ysratuitous distribution. ‘The people are not beggars, and those who have any real use for the government's publications are, as a rule, willing enough to pay for them. Taking this view of the matter, the new bill provides for the sale of all public docu- ments at the mere cost of printing them from stereotype plates. By this means Uncle Sam will encourage the buying of his books. The same plan is followed by the British government. For the sake of ex-| ample, take the work on the “Growth of In- dustrial Art,” of which an edition limited to 10,000 copies was ordered by the last Congress. It is a superb book, most richly illustrated. At any book-seller's shop such a volume would cost $10. When the new bill has become law the work can be pur- chased for $2. It would be safe to say that 100,000 families would be glad to buy it for display in their homes. Hitherto the government printing office has been permitted, by law to furnish any private citizen any number of copies of any publication going through its presses for 10 per cent above actual cost. But it was re- quired that the order shouid be handed in before the edition for Uncle Sam was com- pleted. This restriction will no longer gov- ern, and information will be given to the public from months fo month of the latest dceuments publishél. Lists of them will be sent to ail public libraries, and will be printed in the Congressional’ Record dur- ing sessions. A complete index of all vol- umes produced by the government will be Prepared, thus providing a clue to the many valuable works now buried in a literary labyrinth of clumsy reports. Incidentially, it has been suggested that more attractive bindings would help to in- crease the poularity of public documents. | This c@uld be done with very small extra expense. Whereas private publishers vie with each other in their endeavors to make their publications pleasing to the eye, those of the government are rendered as ugly and forbidding as possible. Very Ikely,the | reports of the several departments will be bound in different colors, so that they may be more readily distinguished on the library shelves. The new bill will reduce the cost of printing, binding and distributing such Gocuments by at least $300,000 per annum. When a single bureau does all the dis- tributing, there will be no more waste in the matter of duplicates, every volume sent out being duly registered with the name of the addressees. At the same time, the | privileges of Congressmen will not be re- | stricted in any way. The documents be- longing to them wili be forwarded to the | addrd&ses they give, each voiume contain- | ing the compliments and autograph of the member, or they will be delivered to him personally if desired. Thus, if he wishes to seil them, he can do so. During sessions a | messenger service between the bureau and In this | j Which take the contracts print the illus- ‘the secretary of that body. In 1819 it was | disposed of them to Ca’ the Capitol will be provided, so that orders can reach the bureau quickly and be promptly executed. How They Accumulate. The great accumulation of documents in the basement of the Capitol has come | largely from the overflow of the Library of Congress, and from publications dispensed with and thrown out from the commitiee rooms. Of each volume issued the House of Representatives receives a certain number, which are divided up among the members. After each one has received his share there is, necessarily, a fraction left over—some- times 200 or 300 bocks—which remain tm the foiding room. During a singie year these fractions have amounted to as many as 45,000 volumes, which go to swell te useless stock on hand. One great source of weste in the public printing has always been the reckless method of scattering doc- uments broadcast where they were not wanted, so that thousands on thousands of them annually have been sold to dealers in waste paper ail over the country without having been taken from their wrappers. They have even been used in barber shops for shaving paper. The illustrations for government publi- cations cost from $100,000 to $00,000 a year. Th. most costly pictures are for the re- ports of the Department of Agriculture and bureau of ethnology, many of them being in colors. Each bureau draws its own pic- tures, but the government printing office has them reproduced by firms in Boston, New York and elsewhere. ‘The printing officé furnishes the paper, and the firms trations and return them to Washington, Teady to be bound with the text. In the days of the Continental Congress the public printing was all done by pub- lishers of newspapers, under direction of determined that the congressional printer should be chosen by ballot of the two Houses. From that time up to 1867 all sorts of abuses prevailed. The office became a political prize, and the holder received it with the understanding that he should de- vote specified sums out of his gains to par- tisan purposes. In some cases six times a fair rate was paid by the government for work done. The extent to which such frauds were carried 1s illustrated by the fact that in 1852 a master printer con- tracted to do all the printing for the Post Office Department for 7 per cent of the price that had been previously allowed. NE BACHE. oo ———-+: A BEER-BOTTLE CLEARING HOUSE. A Chicago Institution That is Making Trouble for Many a Housewife. From the Chicago Mail. There's a clearing house over at the cor- ner of Market and Michigan streets con- cerning which the public knows practically nothing, yet it fs to the interest of many a | householder to be informed of this place, as he or she will be over ears in hot water one of these days. And it’s all about old cast-off bottles—beer | bettles—greasy, full of dead flies and spid- ers, and nasty, crawling insects. Every- bedy having empty beer bottles in their cellars or pantries should be interested to the extent of knowing that they are now, or shortly will be, under the eye of the paid detectives of un association which was formed expressly for the purpose of bring- ing these bottles to the surface and restor- ing them to their respective owners—the brewers who originally bought and paid for them. Recently the bottlers and manufacturers of malted liquors conceived the plan of or- | | ganizing an association for the purposes of mutual protection and for the better en- forcement of the trade mark law of the state. As a result, the Reer Bottlers’ Pro- tective Association of Cook county came into existence. In plain naked language, the brewers were dropping large rolls of Money ir being compelled to be everlast- ingly forwarding checks to glass factories | for new supplies of bottles, and they be- came heartily sick watching profits slipping | away from them because their customers appropriated them to their own use or else who go through th “Ole raixgs—ole There are plenty of women in town who annually fill these pat®at stoppers with vinegar, the product of the ripe and green tomato, &c., and yet the thought never enters their ependent heads that the are really stealing these botiles from the brewers. These women are quite Mabie any day to be thrown into fidgets by a big, red- faced. husky special officer, loaded with a search warrant, and a breath with more than a slight suspicion of age and strength, who waltzes into the cellar or climbs up among her pantry shelves and dumps all her beer bottles out upon the floor. A re- fusal on her part to permit him to remove them would result disastrously to her, be- cause beer bottles, especially those of the patent sto r variety, with the brewing concern’s name blown upon them are never sold and are liable to seizure at any time. A threat to carry the frugal wife to thé horrid police court has more than once been = cause of the instant surrender of bot- tles. It is said that the association has thus far recovered over 100,000 bottles for its members, and that the good work is con- stantly improving. Brewers say that new bottles are cheap now, and that the aver- age cost ts about $4 a gross. The rubber MAGAZINE PICTURES. Illustrations Do Not Always Make the Text More Intelligible. CHRONOLCGICAL DETAILS OVERLOOKED, >—— Belles During War Times Costumed After Recent Styles. OUT OF JOINT WITH THE TIMES Set ee Written for The Evening Star. LLUSTRATED PUB- lications are a re- markable feature of the literature of our times,” remarks that condenser of knowl- edge, observe: The employ- intelligible and books It has for a fact. It has been carried to that extent in illustrating current litera- ture that the reader gets bewildered at the breach of the unities in grafting fin de siecle ideas on ancient history, while he | Sweetheart's dips into the data that interests him, trust- Ing to his own imagination to draw pictures of the scenes so glowingly depicted in type rather than contemplate the glaring an- achronisms limned by artists inexcusably ignorant or atrociously negligent of chron- ological detail. The solecisms in one article of a current holiday magazine are equal to if not ex- ceeding some of those committed by Albert Durer, who brought the subjects in his pic- tures up to date, with all modern improve- ments, Very curiously, the magazine in which the referred to anachronisms appear had in a spring number a long article on art, in which the following passage occurs: “The exponents of the modern tendency instead of molding all their observations of real things to some preconceived model of what a picture or a sculpture should be hold themselves more in readiness to re- spond sensitively to any phase of nature, animate or inanimate, which may appeal to them as curious, beautiful, interesting or inspiring, and to reproduce it in such man- ner as will give the most of life and truth vividly, .dexterously and harmoniously.” A Case in Point. Not quite 100 pages over in the same num- ber a poem by a popular writer Is “illus- trated.” A man who has been teasingly trifled with by the girl he loves starts to leave the mansion, and the text says: “But she stepped before me shyly in the gloomy vestibule, bfceiaciae as she kissed me slyly, ‘Oh, you dear old April fool.’” The illustration “which renders the text s More intelligible’ shows a grand hall in a says, glare of light, while under the draped cur- i tains in the close background couples are | lace curtains,” and the text is true to life. % goes to show that| Half the economy practiced by the heroic “He” stands in | w, waltzing, and everythin; a reception is in progress. “He’ the glare of light at the foot of the stairs, his high hat set firmly on his manly head The Stairense of the Tuckahoe. and his top coat collar turned up about his ears, while “she,” in a broad light which | bottles, they now pay but 10 cents, and they | esty among them. Bottles without names | little Christmas entertainment for poor peo- | had been anxious to prove him as chrono: Eso filmy texture of her dress, buttons with the litle wire eyes, which are INES out the filmy texture o called “patent stoppers” by the trade, are /8tands with hand on his arm. How he hap- also sold at a low figure now.and may be had |Peted to be in that trim at an evening re- reption—for the text sends him rushing from the manufacturer at $1.50 a gross, | ception Seenke . ae Yet, with bottles and stoppers selling cheap. | £P0M her pre mp BAe — Ht ree ly, vers and big bottlers to | door’’—or in what school ot propriety maintain the associatio ers £0 putante sweetheart learned to. give her Of their vagrant property. TNT | tase to be ween of te world the ertiete Byery day one may see the wagons of |intelligent exposition of the text does not various breweries and bottling houses pull. aoe EB ing up in front of the clearing hou: | Chronological Negligence. Market and Michigan streets. Men are em-| In the current number of this magazine ployed there whose business it is to separ-| the def ; chronological negil- they belong. When an association detec. | txt, “Lovemaking went on.” The scene uve locates a quantity bottles in the | {8 supposed to be laid some where in “Or Possession of saloon rs, housekeepers | Ferginy endurin’ de wah,” when young or mene shady dealing second-hand man, he|mars’ went courting just as he has since summons a wagon from the clearing house and pretty soon there is another load to be assorted out and distributed. Boitles find. ing their way into the pos: on of brewers to which they do not belong by them to the clearing house. The work keeps up in that fashion from da day, and the only people who fi with the plan are the glass factor angels made war in heaven, The picture is pretty and artistic; there is color and text- ure, plenty of fine perspeciive and a lot of other things that artists know all about and a great many other people think they do. Abstractly the artist's method of handling his subject is all right; concretely the poetic effect and impressiveness of illustration has {mall bottlers in the association, ithe schem= Mo hee wene rate eee junk men and the women who make it aly corte s Se UE eee Tee ne emet ONIER A: ene: Or-| Une cet ratte OF tenee oe ee RGMe Roe cen Crane ene that 10 | tg ar amar da ben Eee moe ee Che Beer oe emion Of the bottles. “When je facet eee insignia on the collar, as ern Daca caus tor te erapties they Dude lie seona ae ate aerate nee teen be ue ne eames TE ha He, anni he WEEE lewart when calling Goon a lady Gimeoee MBE COSEOR: OFA een ete ental | that Only mw supercitloas scuiinee eneee eee has not locked the | wouta be guilty of. If on duty and Just die, loor and crawled into the pantry or the “the | “peers ove cloeth un eecane thodn dee none |Mounted from the horse that peers over the The organization of the association has been a severe blow to the small-fry bottlers, who now have to pay for their bottles or steal them. Where formerly brewers paid junk men 20 cents a dozen for their bwn only do that to let them know that they are still on earth and to encourage a little hon- or trade marks blown upon them are paid for at the rate of 20 or 25 cents. All of the big Chicago and out-of-town brewers doing business here are represented in the association. An admission fee of $5 is charged the brewer,and afterward annual dues at the rate of $6 for each delivery wagon in use by him. ———~+ e+. An Exacting Role. From Brooklyn Life. His friend—“What part did you find most dificult when you were on the stage?” Footlights—“Trying to live up to the sal- ary I told my friends I was drawing.” — “eee. An Unexpected Encore. From Puck. ce in the background, he should have on big gauntlet gloves, and in any event he ‘would hardly unbuckie the saber and hold it in his hand while making love to a pretty sirl, because a sword is an unwieldy thing and an officer never wears it except when on active duty, and he unsnaps it the min- ute he dismounts and flings it aside, except |in pictures and on the stage. Out of Joint With the Times. The girl is more out of joint with the | period than her lover. Her hat belongs to | the vintage of 1876, a modified Gainsbor- ough, which is just now quite swell again. Her dress, excepting the sleeves, and that may be because there was not enough ma- terial to make new ones, is a modification Suspicious characters (to amateur magi. {% the styles of the summer of °98. Her hatr Haujcwhous setmiiee ieee ziving a |!8 quite modish, indeed. Now if the artist ple, on the East Side).—“We was in de show | logically exact in depicting detail, Miss tonight, boss, an’ we seen yer take a twen- | Sweetheart would have been arrayed some- ty-dollar gold piece out of a feller’s hat an’ | thing after the fashion of a balloon in pettt- @ han’ful o” silver dollars out of a side | coats, because that was a period of infla- Pocket, an’ we want yer to do ft fer us right | tion *in most everything. She wore hats how, an’ be mighty quick about it!” “with broad drooping brims, prim inch-wide the cyclopedia, | and then goes on to! ment of illustrations | or pictorial sketches | not in the least antiquated. Miss Sweet- to render text more | heart probably had wrappers that were | they were as wide-spread as the doors would more attractive has admit, of late years been | graphic pictures in a magazine of January, carried to an extent previously unknown.” | 1 | joo displayed trim ankles in white hose and turndown linen collars, undersleeves as voluminous as her six starched white skirts | small feet demurely gaitered in prunella with small black patent-leather tips. Her Position as she sits beside young mars’ is not ina Picturesque, but it is infinitely truer to fe. ‘The Train is All Wrong. In another place Miss Sweetheart—pre- Sumably—is coming up a stairway and stands on the first landing with the tail of her esthetic, half-Josephine, half-restora- tion and wholly present day style of tea gown trailing down behind and lost in the dim vista. As there is no reference whatever to this stairway in the article which this picture is supposed to render “more intelligible,” it must be thrown in for the purpose of “making the book more | attractive,” as the cyclopedia says, and the | young lady, who is pretty and spirituelle, | might pass for a real fin de siecle product ex. cept for the figure of the male man who/ glares at her through the archway in ‘the distance. That man belongs distinctly to the past, his long hair, the cut of his clothes, the style of his hat, all Prociaim it | in stentorian tones. So the reader must per- force believe that the lady ranges alongside of him as to time. It is perfectly useless to pretend that the lady in her beleagured cas- Ue was unacquainted with the Styles of the day, or that with her woman's eye she saw thirty years into the future, and so seeing, fashioned her gowns accordingly. Hoops had been growing in rotundity since the Empress Eugenie introduced the fashion in 1858, and fashions did not change then as they do now. A dress that was made in 1860 did very good service in '65, and was le for her before the war, and if so, and sometimes wider. Some very 864, dealt with the problem of the less con- taining the greater, when a woman in full evening “togs” tried to enter her carriage to go to the President's reception. They were pictures which reaily “rendered the text more intelligible.” But to return to Miss “morning gown.” The one il- lustrated is an’ imported affair from the house of A. T. Stewart in New York, and shows in nfodification the correct things in that sort of apparel in 1863. Earlier than that they were even more grotesque, and for five years following they were no better. Trains were not worn at all, and had not been for years, In this robe, which is sup- posed to be of “blue merino with pattern in gay colors graduating from neck to hem,” Miss Sweetheart would not be so ethereal in appearance, but she was just as sweet, and young mars’ could love her just as hard. The Wrong Ball Dress. It is in her ball dress, however, that Miss ‘weetheart comes out strong. The text “ball dresses were fashioned from old ‘omen of the south at that time will never be known. They sacrificed everything that would sell, cr rip, or make over for the use of the “boys in gray,” yet they managed somehow to clothe themselves becomingly, even picturesquely—for the styles of that day. Miss Sweetheart's ball dress, however, instead of looking like a piece of old lace curtain after treatment by the modern il- lustrator, looks as though it was fashioned of satin duchesse or bengaline and turned out by Worth ready for the coming Patri- arch’s ball. The train lies in shining folds upon the floor, while she views with pleased eyes, in a modern hand glass, her modern bangs and coil of hair, and her ‘V-shaped bertha of crepe lisse, with not a hint of old lace curtains, lamp shade lace, or any oth- er kind of lace in her whole get up. A Different Style of Doing the Hair. Miss Swectheart’s hair from back in the fifties, to late in the sixties, was usually a sight to behold. It was patted over “rats” and “mice” and “wheel” rolls, covered with wreaths of impossible flowers, tied with aw- ful bows of ribbon, kept in place by abomi- nations called head dresses, or tucked in nets and bad long, straggling bunches of curls ‘at the rape of the neck. The V-shap- ed or square neck was not yet introduced. Weary Stragglers to Get a Meal. Round neck was the style and in that form of evening dress a woman usually looked as though she was about to slip out of her gown. A dress with a train was not worn from 1858 to about 1870. Nothing had a train. The design from an imported cos- tume at Stewart's, in 1862, has in its sug- gestions enough for a scrap bag dress, and Miss, etheart’s might have been fash- joned after it from odd bits that had been left over, for it is compcsed of silk, lace, ribbon, embroidery and fringe. After the War. When the war was over, Miss Sweetheart appeared again dispensing bread and milk and sweet smiles to the war-worn heroes on their way home, but she didn’t appear in that puffed and ruffled rig then any more than when young Mars courted her with sword in hand. A simple morning dréss with three ruffles, all made of sprigged lawn or muslin, flowing sleeves, filmy un- dersleeves, reat linen collar and bow and sash tied in front, is about the thing, which Stewart displayed in 1865, and the small | maid who appeared at her side in the door- way didn’t wear the pretty innocent frock of silk or challie, with neatly sashed waist, nor did it wear picturesque bangs. } a bit of it. Tts rebellious locks were brushed severely back and twisted in two braids tied in two loops with prim rmbbon bows just back of the ears. It wore flowing sleeves and undersieeves like mamma, and embroidered and tucked white pantalettes, white stockings and prunella gaiters. 1: must be admitted that with the artistic picturesqueness eliminated and these stern realities introduced, the article would have been less attractive in a pictorial point of view, but it would have been infinitely more valuable as a historical document, and have eiven a correct representation of the dress of the day. Summer in Winter Time, During the summer a magazine illustrated a love story. Three sisters were drinking | tea together. Two were calling upon the third. One of the sisters wears what ap- pears to be triple capes of heavy cloth, each edged with fur, and the collar high about her neck. She wears also a velvet hat and carries a summery parasol which is airy enough to be made of crepe lisse. The other sister wears an enormous fur boa, which trails down to the floor. This would seem to indicate winter despite the parasol, but while these sisters sat there intriguing against a flirting father, that father and the object of his warmed over affections are represented as wandering under leafy bowers! It is simply a solecism, but it, grates. During the inauguration a popular Slus- | trated magazine came out with an «rti in which appears a section of stairway, hich is crowded with people on the wey down. Under it is the wording “After aj hand-shake with the Pre nt,” and the accompanying text shows this “hand-shake” refers to the every di “noon-time” "ep: tions of a former administration, whic not held now. These receptions ere a held in the east roo . 7 {4s forced to yi — ad o— nd, and that wn in simply to make the tractive.” It is also deceptive as stairway to as picture was th article “ai to facts. Another Case. Another summer number printed a story in which was a picture of a girl. The text said that the girl, who was of the Puritan type, stood on the terrace with snow drifts piled about her, her fair hair blown stream- ing in the wind, with no shaw! on, and the bare branches of a tree Slapped her face as she called. All this in December. The pic- ture has a girl in a picturesque elbow-sleev- ed and necked dress, her shawl streami out on the wind, her hair in a French twist with bangs, standing ankle deep in meadow grass and not a tree in the lan. Noth- irg to suggest that there ever was @ tree, or that it ever got cold enough to snow. Another picture in the same article shows two women with fin de siecle cofffures and bangs. A glaring anachronism. Bangs were not worn in 1704, more especially by the Puritans These are but a few examples of the man- ner in which artists slur their own profes- sion. If a newspaper illustrator were to make a break such as the “war” artist has been guilty of, the whole tribe of etchers, painters and aquareliists would guy him unmercifully, but if the decadence of maga- Zine illustration goes on antl the historical eld to the artistic (7) the time is coming when newspaper illustrations will be the only ones that can be depended Upon fifty years hence for actual represen- tation of the form and styles of the period. ISABEL WORRELL BALL. ———+2e+—____ DANGERS OF FOOT BALL. Walter Camp Suggests a Meeting of Conchers to Consider the Problem. to think most seriously of is to be done to remedy the evil be- im love kept as free has been to 1803. is blinded 0 that it in study these to con- ‘the over- fair to ine men, fellows get force and against one, able to get un- and who are the Bev id tediy soon wit ere, ani wi ie een ee can barring some unusual chance Diss, the tendency to such plays means that they must be practiced for weeks, and that the team must meet as well as make them, it resolves itself into a question of on more and more of the nature of a running mass of men sent against a special point in the enemy’s line. Remedy for the Evil. “The above brief history of the growth of interference suggests a remedy—that is, an immediate return to the old rule that no man when off side could interfere with, interrupt or obstruct his opponents. This would be a most radical change, and while it would surely kill the evil would also eliminate many of the present brilliant features of the play. “Another remedy is that of reducing the at present too great value of possession of the ball. A side can, and often does, carry the bail from the center of the field to @ touch-down without the opponents having ® chance to show anything but their defen- sive play. Every captain fears the loss of the ball, and the games of this season have not diminshed that fear in the least, but rather increased it. For this reason the punting and drop kicking, which ought to be a great feature of every game, have but a tenth part of the importance they de- serve. A rule, therefore, which made the ball change hands more freely would un- doubtedly result in a far more open style of play. “This could be accomplished by increas- ing the distance necessary to be gained in three downs for the continued possession of the ball, making it, say, ten yards in- stead of five. Then with this might be in- cluded another incentive to longer passes in allowing the possession of the ball if passed twenty or more yards across the field. Such passes, when forced, would be expensive in the way of losing ground, be- cause upon such a long pass and when expected by the opponents, it would be necessary to send it pretty well back to insure its not being caught by the opposing forwards, “There are, without question, other meth- ods of legislating which would be equally effective, and a general conference of those most interested in the sport would bring them out. Such men as Mr. Stewart and Mr. Deland, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Moffatt, Mr. Woodruff, and others who have taken an active part this season in the coaching, have probably all thought much about the Problem and could suggest many ways of Properly restricting the mass play. A meet- ing of such men would be productive of a world of good results, particulariy if it took Place very soon, while all the lessons of this year are fresh in their minds. Foot ball is too good a sport to be allowed to retrograde, but press and public are right in demanding that « game that draws into it the very pick of our school and college M not be allowed to become un- necessarily dangerous. “Accidents will happen. English foot ball has gone on and so has our American game, gathering strength, favor and popu- larity, in spite of the occasional accident But we all of us want to see these accidents reduced rather than increased, and good legislation among the foot ball enthusiasts can insure this.” From Life. je nese has to go avver “And I'm very ciad of tt. ‘There's every- think agin * They ain't sociable. They hey won't cet drunk, new?”