Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1893, Page 6

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Beware of counterfeits. 080 fasfarfacjaciaciasianianinctesiunjariucjenivelveiasfeniassofee fenfeslaefoslurfnsleslasl~s[nslaninel=s[oelnsioslsclenioelaslecl 9 DIGGING GOLD WITH A STEAMER. A red Dollars a Day Being Taken Out of a River in Idaho. From the Helena Independent. Extravagant stories are told about the wealth of gold sprinkled throughout the Snake River country in Idaho. As a gen- eral thing the gold ts very fine, the parti- cles being of so light weight as to be elu- sive. Save when worked on a large scale, it is difficult to make good wages in re- covering the gold. Numerous bars along the river would prove profitable could water be commanded for sluicing or hydraulicing. An adequate supply is hard to obtain, on account of the slight and gradual fall of the stream and the level character of the out- lying lands. To overcome this lack of wa- ter, as well as to insure sufficient dumping ground, a big floating gold-saving dredge has been constructed, and is now at work on the Idaho bai.x of the Snake rive ten miles above Payette, It wheel flatboat, propelled by stantially constructed, sixty-five feet long and twenty-two feet wide, it is equipped with a thirty-five-horse-power marine en- gine and boiler and adapted in every way for navigating Idaho's great waterway. With a slight alteration it could be trans- formed into a steam dredge and used to scoop up sand and gravel from the bottom of the stream. That has never been at- tempted. As in the past, operatidns are now confined to working bars out of the bed or channel of the river. The method pursued is to anchor along- side one of these gravel deposits and by the use of scrapers bring the material to be handled within the reach of the gold- washing machinery with which the craft is rigged. The gravel is scooped up by buckets attached to an endless chain. There are forty-eight of these receptacles on a belt sixty feet in length, and each has @ capacity of about twenty pounds of dirt, which is delivered into a hopper. This is also an agitator, and the process employed may be described as a steam rocker, with the exception that it has an end motion imstead of one sidewise. The gold is caught on copper plates with quicksilver. The tailings are carried off in sluice boxes by a force of a stream of water of 150 mineral inches, supplied by a China pump, run by the engine which drives all the other ma- chinery. The gravel is worked so thor- oughly that no gold escapes in the tailings that are dumped into the river. An aver- age of 100 tons of gravel are daily handled, and for this work three men are employed —an enginter, one to work the scraper and another one who shovels the dirt into a pile so that the buckets can scoop up a full load. The bar now being worked cov- ers an area of ten to fifteen acres. The gold is on top or close to the surface, and will not pay to handle to a greater depth than one foot to eighteen inches. This shows a value of 1%4 to 3 cents a pan. A clean-up Is made every night, and the av- erage of the runs for the first three days was very satisfactory to Thornton Will- jams, the owner of the craft. He says he expects to take out upward of $100 a day as long as he works. ———_-_ +e+—_____ Rearing of Japanese Children. From the Medical Press. Custom and national sentiment would seem to have made the lives of children in Japan delightfully attractive for them. Japan has even been described as the para- dise of childhood. One of the most curious points in this connection {s that the children are always suckled by their mothers; artifi- cial lactation is altogether unknown. The children are suckled until their sixth year, and in language unmistakable may be heard asking for the lactatious fountain. Thus, as no cow’s milk is required, the cow is only used as a pack animal in the cities. In view of the almost universal use of cow's milk in other countries, its exclusion from the diet of the Japanese raises the interest- ing subject of inquiry as to whether or not the race benefits by this custom, and Dr. A. S. Ashmead of New York discusses the question in the current number of The Sei-i- Kwai Medical Journal. In the first place it is assumed that indirectly the absence cf cow's milk fs most beneficial. In conse- quence of no other nourishment being avail- able, the Japanese mother is compelled to suckle her offspring, in doing which she feels the compulsion of looking after her own health and diet. Japanese mothers chiefly live on rice, “fish, shells, seaweed and other products of the sea,” -vhile wine and beer are rigidly excluded. The reward of all this meritorious care of motheraood and childhood is the absolute freedom of the children from rickets. Again, the avthor holds that the transmission of tuberculosis is avoided by the exclusion of cow's milk from the infant's dietry. Japan is by no means exempt from tuberculosis, but the disease mainly prevails among the upper classes, in whom the systematic custom ob- tains of close intermarriage —— ++» Conditionat. From Truth. The old gentleman—“And you really think you must have-my daughter's hand, my boy?” He (devotedly)—“T do, sir.” The old gentleman—‘Well, remember it includes a sixteen-button glove. Take her; be happy!” HOW THEY INTERVIEW Manner in Which Legislators Yield to Newspaper Men. SOME PERSONAL PECOLIARITIES Senators and Representatives Who Are True Friends to the Reporters. SOME WILL NOT BE QUOTED There is nothing more characteristic of our statesmen than the manner in which they give interviews. The delivery of either a Senator or a Representative in a speech in the presence of his colleagies apd the galleries is necessarily more or less studied and unnatural; but when they whisper into the ears of newspaper men those views and expressions for which they wish to be quoted in the press, their natural disposition appears in their man- ner. There are few better opportunities for the study of a man’s character than when he is being interviewed. Modesty, vanity, imperiousness, humility, caution, rashness, care or carelessness—whatever may be the dominant trait of character— comes out when the statesman talks to the public through the ear of a reporter. Some Conspicuous Peculiarities. Some there are who blurt out whatever is uppermost in their minds and let it £0 at that, frequently making radical and important statements in an off-hand and indifferent way. Others giving utwerance to the most insignificant opinions on the most unimportant of subjects measure their words with the greatest deliberation and care, and repeat over and over again the commonest of platitudes, und finally Tequire that the interview shall be sub- mitted to them in writing before published. Some of the ablest men in Congress are free to talk on any subject they are famil- jar with at any time, and almost to any person, while with others an expression of opinion is allowed to be drawn out oly as they would relinquish their most pre- cious of treasurers. Those who are most ap- preciated—and most avoided-by interview- ers are they who will talk most interest- ingly for an hour and a half or more, and at the close of the conversation announce that it is strictly private and must not be used. Some there are whose views are sought by all men; others seek on all oc- casions to get their names in print. When a message from the President or some other public document of general interest is submitted to Congress there is a ce’tain set of men who always appear ‘a interviews concerning it, and there is hardly a news- paper man at the national capital who could not write these interviews Leforehand with reasonable accuracy. Sumples. If the state paper discussed is one by Mr. Cleveland, half a dozen :nen, for whom McCreary and Springer may stand as the best examples, will say that it is a valuable state paper, in a clear and admirable man- ner presenting the question, ani that it will prove of great value. McCreary may vary from this and put the same Wea in more pompous language, Dut an interview with him or others of the same set published six years ago may be used today, as ep- plied to some message of Mr. —levetand’s, and the author will never discover that it is not his most recent utterance. It will be the same no matter what the subject or how treated. The most amusing speci- men is he who, with an assumption cf great reserve, declines to talk on the sub- ject and afterward runs the less off half the District messenger corps to fini the man who wanted the interview, and then, for the next week, importunes him to know when it is going to appear. As a general thing, those views which are most vaiuable are easily had, if the subject under dis- cussion is one of sufficient Importance oF has received attention from abler men. A Quaint Statesman. One of the most quaint men in Congress, in respect to interviews, is Cannon of Illi- nots. He is not a man who talks indis- criminately on all subjects. He usually has a private opinion on most everything he has heard of, but seldom speaks to the pub- lic unless he has something particular to talk about. His private utterances, though apt and expressive, do not always require the injunction of secrecy to bar their pub- lication. When being interviewed he per- sonifies the public in the interviewer and talks in the most earnest and confidential tones starting in a whisper and growing more eloquent as he proceeds until he reaches the climax in the tones of an ora- tion. It is much more easy to get an in- terviéw from him while he is on his feet than when he is seated. It is his custom to hold the hand of the interviewer in the firm, cordial grasp which he received it at first greeting throughout the interview, and to put his face close to that of the reporter and to say what he has to say with increasing rapidity, as he advances from the stage of a confidential whisper to the grand, eloquent closing periods. A Preambulating Sage. Holman is another man who has an original way of giving out his interviews. From his long experience and close obser- vation, Holman has a fund of information and a basis for forming an opinion on most any subject liable to come up in Congress. He is usually free in the expression of his opinions and fond of lapsing into remi- niscences. It is seldom that anything hap- pens that does not suggest to him some- thing that has happend long ago and he finds precedents and examples or prac- tices in contrary, somewhere in his long career, for most anything that can be brought up. He is a rapid talker and not very distinct in his enunciation and ex- tremely restless. Withal he never fails to be interesting. There is probably not a rewspaper man alive who ever sat down with hira and had a quiet talk. He has probably never been interviewed at his desk. No matter where he is, if his views on some subject are requested he will be- gin at once to fidget about. If he happens to be sitting at his desk he will get up at once and before he has uttered three sen- tences he will begin walking up and down and :f he happens to be in some place where there is not sufficient liberty of mo- tion he will take the arm of the interviewer and lead him off to some place where he can have a long range within which to walk up and down. If in the committee room he will invite the reporter to a seat and will walk ull around the room while talking, and the more interested he becomes in his sub- ject the faster he will walk. Favorite Retreat. His favorite place for giving an inter- view is in the lobby back of the Speaker's desk, which is a long corridor extending from one side of the House to the other. Formerly this lobby was closed to news- paper men during the sessions of the House and he has been known to leave the inter- viewer at one door and walked clear through to the other while talking, for- getting that the scribe could not follow him. An accident of this sort is now ob- viated by the admission of the press to this lobby and the judge's favorite custom is to link his arm tightly into that of the interviewer and march him back and forth through this lobby as fast as he can walk, all the time pouring into the ear a perfect stream of quaint and interesting comment. At these times he is entirely free from self-consciousness, but if for an instant he becomes aware that he has been talking for a long time or suspects that he has talked too much he will blush like a school girl who has committed some inadvertence and will cut the interview short in pure bashfulness. Holman seems to feel now that he ts getting old and out of date, but he ts one of the most decidedly interesting men in Congress and as agreeable in his | shares intercourse as one could desire to Severe and Silent. The traditionally silent man in Congress who Is supposed to know everything and to be determined to keep his knowledge to himself, especially from newspaper men, whom he regards as possibly a public ne- cessity, but not at all essential to his well being, is Harris of Tennessee. He rather prides himself upon being difficult of ac- cess and not permitting himself to be in- terviewed. He is extremely impressive in his manner of speech and attaches and ex- pects every one else to attach a great im- portance to what he says. His manner with newspaper men is not materially dif- ferent from that which he assumes with his colleagues on the floor of the Senate— extremely dogmatic. During the heat of the silver fight at the special session, when new situations were arising every half hour, @ correspondent seeking information was forced to seize upon the Senator from Tennessee at a moment when he was the only one to be got at soon enough for the correspondent’s purposes. On being asked what the situation developed at a certain conference was the Senator in his most impressive manner and his voice at high a. replied: “I can’t say anything about It. My experience with newspaper men has convinced me that it is not safe to talk with them.” ‘The reporter excused himself in the most courtly manner he could assume and said: “I regret, Senator, not having met you sooner. Then I might have had an opportunity to convince you that your denunciation of newspaper men is too gen- eral, but I will not attempt to shake a con- viction so firmly fixed.” “Well, well,” replied the Senator, turning about quickly, “the situation is just this,” and he proceeded without further hesitation to give all the information sought. Will Not Be Quoted. One of the best informed men in the House on all current affairs is Culberson of Texas. He is relied on with implicit confidence by all who can secure his advice or gain from him information, yet it is very rare for him to consent to an interview in which he is to be quoted. He talks freely with those who know him, and possessing a fund of information concerning everything that is going on, he gives freely that which there is no impropriety in his disclosing, but is never willing to receive the credit of quota- tion for what he imparts. Reed is one of the most scary men of an interview in Congress, if you exclude those who merely make an affectation of reserve. Many bright things are published and cred- ited to Reed, but these are things which come second or third hand and get into print without his intending it. If one-half the things he says in conversation were published, his reputation for wit and sharp retort would be immensely greater, great as it now is. Three of a K: 1. The three men in the Senate who are most alive to all current affairs, quick to perceive and ready to comprehend every political move, are Faulkner, Aldrich and Dubois. They are perfectly free from the affectation of exclusiveness and reserve and have a similar way of talking in a nervous, ener- getic manner about those things which it is proper for them to discuss. They are as free as sun light with information in which they alone are concerned or about which there is no obligation of secrecy, but the newspaper man who knows them wouRl as soon think of trying to probe through @ flint rock with a wheat straw as to draw out of them that which there would be any im- propriety in their revealing. Morgan is a man with whom a brief in- terview or an interview on a trifling sub- ject is seldom had, but there is none better than he from whom to get an exhaustive and thorough discussion of an important question. This same is true of John Sher- man, who is one of the most amiable men in the Senate, and most accommoda‘ interview on a matter worthy of his atien- tion and on which he is prepared to speak. ee LONDON’S NEW BRIDGE. The Big Span is Moved by Hydraulic Pressure When Needed. From the New York Evening Post. The great new bridge across the Thames, opposite the Tower of London,is now nearly finished. It has been built upon the Bascule principle, in three spans, with two great masonry piers rising from the bed of the river. At this point the Thames is 940 feet broad and the depth of the water In mid- channel varies, according to the tides, from thirty feet to thirty-five feet six inches. At distance of 270 feet from either bank these great piers—204 feet in length and 100 feet broad—are built, rising from foundations 27 feet below the river bed, excavated in eaissons through the London clay. They cost, including staging, £110,122. , The masonry is of finely jointed Cornish granite, lined internally with brickwork. Each pier contains a chamber in which works the heavily weighted balance of the lower roadway leaf,each of these two leaves weighing little short of 1,000 tons. When the two leaves, each 100 feet long, are closed the lower roadway of the bridge ts practicable for all kinds of traffic, pedestrian and wheeled, but the space of thirty feet only between roadway and high water is insuffi- cient to allow of masted vessels passing. It is to allow tall ships to pass that the draw- bridge principle comes into play. The powerful hydraulic machinery placed at the Surrey side of the bridge is capable of rais- ing the 2,000 tons of iron and steel compos- ing this movable roadway in two minutes, and it is confidently declared that the open- ing of the roadway, the passage of a ship and the closing again will take only five minutes. Wheeled traffic will be delayed for that space of time,while the foot passengers will ascend by staircases or elevators, which will carry thirty persons at a time, to two parallel bridges that cross the center span at a height of 135 feet above high-water mark, ———~+e+______ THE ANTS WERE TOO BIG. Even Pliny Could Draw the Long Bow a la Ananias, From the Chicago Times. Pliny, that rare old gossiper, tells, among nis other extraordinary stories, that of the Bactrian method of obtaining gold. The sandy deserts of Bactria in the days of that nistorian were, so the old man says, literally swarming with ants “slightly bigger than foxes.” These gigantic representatives of the genus homenoptera burrowed deeply into the sandy wastes, their tunnels and galler- ies often being hundreds of feet in extent. ‘The earth removed from these burrows was always carried outside and thrown up in hills (remember Pliny says this) “of a big- ness exceeding that of a palace.” This de- bris—sand, earth, &c.—was soon found to be wonderfully rich in small nuggets of gold. The danger from the ants was greater, however, than that from the Indians in the early days of gold digging in the western United States, and many stories are told of men who were literally devoured in a few moments by the fierce owners of some dis- turbed burrow. Some observing old hunter at last discovered that the giant ants slept during the hottest hours of the day. After that the seekers after the yellow metal only made their incursions at the proper time, and even then they only stayed long enough in the deserts to fill their sacks with the golden sand, which they took home to sift at leisure. With all this precaution the ants often “swiftly pursued the fieetest horses, and it was only by using various stratagems that the invaders managed to escape alive.” Took Her Nap Standing Up. From the Lewiston Journal. Janitor Eastman of the new school house in Perryville, Auburn, says that while the pupils were at play in the yard the other day he looked out of the window and saw a number of them gathered around a little girl. Their actions indicated alarm and he went out to see what the trouble was. He found the child to be sound asleep, while yet standing upon her feet. Janitor East- man took the girl in his arms and carried her into one of the teachers’ private rooms and fixed up a bed and pillow for her out of shawls and various kinds of wraps, Here she remained for over an hour, sleep- ing as soundly and as peacefully as though in her more comfortable bed at home. After her nap she earee refreshed and in. was eager for play —_—_—_—+. oo ——_—_— She Died With the Cat. From the Lewiston Evening Journal. Mrs. Allie Spencer of Stillwater was found dead in her house there Saturday. It was at first supposed to be a case of suicide, but later developments showed that it was the result of a strange accident. Mrs, Spencer had said she intended to chloro- form an old house cat. The cat was found lying dead in a box, which also held a large sponge. The strong odor of chloro- form in the room told the rest of the sad story. Mrs. Spencer, while chloroforming the cat, must have been overcome by the fumes of the volatile drug, and, having a chronic heart trouble, had expired there alone. ——___+ e+ —____ A Fortunate Lo: Brom the New York Herald. “Il beg your pardon, old fellow,” said a gentleman to a friend recently, “for speak- ing to you as I did when I last saw you. ‘The truth is, I lost my temper entirely, and I'm sorry for it.” “Sorry for it? Oh, don’t be,” replied the other. Allow me to congratulate you, and let me hope you may never find it again, for it was the worst temper I ever knew.” — ses — There is a Difference. From the Indianapolis Journal. Tommy—‘Paw, is a rent and a tear all the same?” @r. Figg—‘‘Well, not exactly. I have kpown many a man who could not raise his rent because he had been on a tear.” IN LOCAL GYMNASIUMS Considerable Activity Among the Athletes Just Now. Plans of the Different Clubs for the Winter —In Favor of a Potomac Navy. The gymnasiums of the city are full of life every night, and more or less so dur- ing the day, now that the time of outdoor sports is over. All are busy practicing trick feats or building up their physique with dumb bells and Indian clubs, on the parallel and horizontal bars, or jumping, vaulting and tumbling, as suits their fancy and their needs. The classes at the Young Men’s Christian Association, especially among the boys, are unusually large this winter, while the varied forms of amusement and exer- cise at the Columbian Athletic Club con- tinue to draw persons from all sides within their walls as ever. All the clubs are doing well and probably there is no season of the year when attendance at the gymnasiums is wider than about Christmas time. One of the most important steps in the Progress of the Young Men's Catholic Club that has been made during the past year was the introduction of the literary and dramatic features. The Dramatic Club made its debut on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings of this week, when its long-looked-for appearance was greeted with applause and its production unani- mously voted a success. The play which the club brought out, “My Geraldine,” was @ romantic Ir'-) drama, full of humor and pathos and ennanced by lavish stage set- tings and scenery. The cast of characters was as follows: Squire Arden, John 8. Mo- ran; Phil. Carroll, M. F. Halloran; Maurice Arden, Guida C. Callan; Cregan, J. J. Mc- Carthy; Teddy Cregan, Joseph F. Hill; Lar- ry Lowl, Joseph C. Stack; McS! e, Thom- Keady; Hallo- Mary Carroll, Mrs, M. F. Halloran; Mrs. Beebe, Miss Mary Dempsey; Norah, Miss Kate Lackey; Little Geraldine, Miss Louise Daly. The Dramatic Club was coach- ed for this play by Miss Mary Cote, and the remainder of the proceeds, after all ex- penses are paid, will be donated to the new club house. The Young Men’s Catholic Club will hold their annual election of offi, | cers on January 2, and an athletic and mu- sical smoker will be given soon after. Among the Other Clubs. ‘The Trinidad Athletic Club of Northeast Washington will be allowed to remain in a to| quiescent state during the winter. The club had a very good base ball nine during the summer and it was the intention of the members to secure a building and fit it up as @ gymnasium for winter work. It has been found impossible, however, to find any Toom high enough for that purpose in the Jocality, and as the club does not feel able to build, it will probabfy stay out of things until next spring. Members of the club, however, are still scouring the vicinity for eultable quarters and the club has neither disbanded nor fallen through. It is the firm intention of all to go at it again next spring. Ine interest of the Orient Athletic Club on Capitol Hill centers chiefly in boxing, which has always been rather a specialty of tne club. ‘The annual election of officers, to take place in January, is a live topic among the members just now. The board of governors of the Potomac Boat Ciub held a meeting last Tuesday night at the home of the club's captain, John H. Doyle. After the report of the treasurer, which showed the club's finan- clal condition to be sound, a resolution was passed favoring a Potomac river navy. The idea is strongiy favored by the club, and it was decided to confer with the Columbia Athietic and the Analostan Boat Club in regard to the matter. A pleasinr and novel entertainment is to be given tonight at the Columbia Athletic Club known as a “Night with Santa Claus.” ts originator and mainstay, Hub. Smith, with be there. Foot bail will wind up in Washington on Christmas day with a game at Capitol Park between the Columbia Athletic Club and the All Washingtons, organized by Charlies H. Mills. ‘The interest in the sport has since Thanksgiving, but will unquestionably revive sufficiently in view of the interest- amg game for Christmas, to close the sea- son with a big crowd and in a blaze of glory. Phil King of Princeton and Butter- worth of Yale will play, as well as many other well-known collegians here for the holidays. a MAY NOT FIGHT. Florida’s Governor ‘s He Wi e Corbett-Mitchell Mill. The Duval Athletic Club of Jacksonville, Fia., has received a set-back in its efforts to pull off the Corbett-Mitchell fight. The at- torneys for the club appeared before Gov. Mitchell at Tallahassee and made an appll- cation for a charter. This the governor flatly refused, stating, under cover of the charter, the club proposed to violate the laws of Florida. Of course, this proved a bomb to the sports, and their consternation was further increased by the knowledge that a strong letter against the fight had been written by the governor to J. R. Tyson, a prominent gentleman of Jacksonville. The letter is as follows: Dear Sir: 1 am directed by the governor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 18th and to express to you his apprecia- tion of the indorsement of the course he had from the first announced of an at- tempt to procure this prize fight to be held at Jacksonville, resolved upon. He will use all lawful means, should it be necessary, to prevent the fight and to bring to punishment every citizen of the state who aids and abets any such dis- graceful breach of the laws. A proclamation to all the sheriffs of the state calling upon them to use all lawful means to prevent the fight arid promising them the aid of the entire civil and military forces of the state in the proper execution of his order has been issued, and he relies upon you and all good, law-abiding citizens to aid him and the sheriffs in thus enforc- ing the laws of our state. Yours respectfully, D. J. LANG, Private Secretary. When the above letter was shown to J. E. G. Bowden of the athletic club he said: “Had I not been assured by our lawyers that there was no legislation against such a contest, had I not known by a personal canvass of the city that we had public sen- timent with us, had not Gov. Mitchell's si- lence given me reason to suppose that he would interpose no objection, I would never have gone into the matter. But, as I am into it, I must remain in it to the end. “This question,” continued Mr. Bowden, “does not involve a fight, the governor and the remonstrants to the contrary notwith- standing. It has never been advertised, never been contracted for, as a fight, but as a scientific glove contest for points. We fully realize that Gov. Mitchell is sincere in his attitude on the contest, but we do not believe that when our courts shall have decided this matter, which will be very soon, he will arrogate to himself any authority in the premises or interpose his interference. “I am one of those most largely interest- ed, but should the decision be against us— should it be shown that any law exists against a glove contest—the matter will be at an end, so far as I am concerned. In that case there would be no contest, and I should abide by the decision of the courts.”” —_-e+—____ Too Willing. 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