Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1894, Page 17

—————————— THE EVENING STAR Me eadisceteaatinen BLISHED DiiLy EXCEPT SUNDAY. ve AT THE STAR ni txas, M01 Penasy! Avenze, correr 11th St. by Tbe Evening Star Newspaper Company, S. Ho RAUFFMANN, Pres't Now Y-7k Ofice, 68 Potter Building, ————— Fue FYENtxG STAR fs served to snbserihere in the on tuwir own account. at 10 cents _ pe- north. Copies af the counter y meil—anywhers in the United prepaid—30 cents per Sere Rnay Ocrerrere Super Stan 81. foreicn postaa™ aditeds SOO POO Pet FOR: (Entered at the P B second-class mat] $2 A)l mai) subscriptions must he paid in advance. Rates of a!vertisine wade knewn on application. HO! FOR THE POLE ‘How the Wellman Arctic Expedition Will Travel Over Rough Ice, >. — SLEDGES FOR ICE OR WATER et st Office at Washington, D. C., matter. ) An Aluminum Railway for Getting Over Ice Hummocks. ——_>+—__——_. LIGHT WEIGHT, BUT STRONG Written for The Evening Star. Copyright.) N A LITTLE MORE [e= ro months we expect to begin our journey over the ice toward the pole. Bet- ter than any theorles which we may have as to the methods which we shall adopt will be the result of actual efforts in the field, and of these we hope to write for pub- leation in The Star a few months hence. But the reader may be interested in knowing to some extent what our plans are and what the deiails of our c¢quip- ment, that he may the better form his own {dea of the amount of success which we are likely to meet.. At any rate, it will ;@fford an opportunity to contrast our plans with our performances. Just where we shall encounter the southern edge of the ice pack is unknown. Sometimes, in early summer, the pack hangs down upon the land im latitude 80 degrees, some fifteen or twen- ty miles from our headquarters. In other seascns it lies considerably to the north, at 801-2 degrees, 81 degrees: or even higher. On the lith of May, 1806, Scoresby, the famous Scotch whuler, sailed along the edge of the pack to the north of Spitzberger tll he had reached latitude 811-2 degrees$ and at that point the ice was still crending to the northeast. If Scoresby had been after the pole he might have sailed on to latitude & or possibly SS; but he was after whales, and he then turned back. Should we be so fortunate as to have a season like that of 1806 (t will be much in our favor; for in that case our steamer will take us from fifty to one hundred miles on our journey—a tremendous help in a coun- try where every mile of advance costs so ™uch effort. But these favorable seasons do not occur very often, and we expect to be compeiied to leave the steamer and take to the pack at or very near the land, or about the S0th parallel. Seven hundred statute miles of unknown deserts of ice will Me between us and the pole. At the Edge of the Dreadfal Pack. The edge of the ice pack may be as calm asa May morning; it may be furious with the rage of tae surf and turbulent with Yolling and tossing masses of ice. If the weather be fine we shall have little djit- culty in disembarking with our outtit; if it is stormy we must do one of two things — run our steamer within the edge of loose ice till we reach water that is protected from the swell of the ocean by the outer barvier, of await a more propitious moment. Probably the former alternative will be chosen, because the Ragnsvald Jarl is built for just such work as this, and it is nearly always easy to run far enough within the pack to find a harbor behind the ref of ice Which ts left seaward. In storms many a ship has been deliberately ran within the @dge of the pack to find there safe refuge. One of Our Aluminum Sledges. Wherever the southern border of the pack is there our real journey begins. At once We start for the north. The Ragnsvaid Jari is not immediately to leave us, bow- ever. Her orders will be to remain in ice harbor at the edge of the pack or cruising near by for a week or ten days. This pre- is taken in view of the possibility of plan on our part. Often the s its aspect in this re- Where yesterday was solid ice, heaped up in hummocks and irregular Masses, today may be leads or canals of with the detached masses the work sh ome as 's fair grounds, others the or even counties—drifiing or another, but most Ike- nd south toward the great ich sweeps out of an occurrence? as days after the com- y. might make e could press yond the region t upon the main pack, or We could fall back ing steamer and in her, per- ess through the broken ice to the Our course in such an emer- ned by circumstance: one alternative is pri presence near by of our ent of plan desirable. W oon to pa pass b. are very strong that we ack solid and immovable. s out of as nearly as the rn from the Norwegian sins with whom he talk- in pack remains, for . Intact during the month of a stron current to the n. Hunting ships caught first in one direction r Edward Parry's 1 about, to all the ass, for three weeks in in the summer, perhaps, sluggishly to the west, it has neither pro- any considerable vase jon nor A Rough Read to Travel. Our expectation is that we shall find the Pack, when we first enter it, a rough road to travel. All our caiculations are based Upon the worst that is possible, and not the best. Any change whatever will be in r. When this great pack comes » north in the late autumn the land or the shoal, it istibte force were in col- y. The land, i tox told millions of tons, coming wind and the current ugh to cover more behi is wellnigh infinite. what the result ts. the contending powder. The surface ng covered with mbles a stone-yard, hrown up and toss- autumn or early braves. i by the builder. d masses, many of es from the level of > pockets filled with *2 such a road as this is not im- Possible, but it is exceedingly diMleult. If vv than the heav- | res. Che Fyening Sle reso. WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. ‘TO ADVERTISERS. ‘Advertisers are urgently re quested to hand in advertisements the day prior to publication, in @rder that ineertion may be as- Sured. Want advertisements will be received up to noon of the day, ©f publication, precedence being given to those first received. we make three or four miles pe> day through such ice we shall be fortunate. | If ice like this extends far to the north we | shall not be able to make much progress in the fifty or sixty days at our disposal. This is one of the chances which we are taking and taking with our eyes open. Where is the Level Ice to Be Found? But in the nature of things, this extreme roughness of the ice cannot extend fa> from land. It is pressure that produces this con- dition, and there can be no considerable pressure without both movement and re- sistance. Movement is present throughout the pack, but resistance, created by the shore or the shoal, is found less and less as we get away from théland. As we go north the surface will be found gradually, almost imperceptibly, less rough, until finally it assumes its normal condition—that of level or gently undulating fields and floes, with their margins only pressed up into hum- mocks by the collision of one with another, The almost infinite pressure near the land breaks the floes and fields themselves into millions of pieces, some standing vertically, others at all angles, many superimposed upon others; but farther from this line of contact between motion and immovability the floes and fields, as a whole, retain their flat form and o-iginal area, only their bor- ders being broken and crushed. How far from the land the flat, normal ice ts to be found is an unknown quantity. If it is hundreds of miles, we shall never reach it, and our expedition will be a fail- ure, so far as the attainment of a high latitude is concerned. If it is only some scores of miles, we shall struggle on until we reach it and the easier travel which it affords. Any Change is for the Better. If we take our chances upon finding the worst, it must also be remembered that we have a chance for the better. Frequently the ice to the north of Spitzbergen is com- paratively level and easy to travel. It has frequently been observed in this condition by whalers and expeditions. The fields of ice which the whalers have encountered to the west of Spitzbergen for two centuries have vsually been of this level character; and this ice was floated out of the unknown regions above, away from the land, showing conclusively that motion alone, unaccom- panied by the resistance which the land affords, does not break up the pack, though, of course, it dees produce hummocks at the margins. The farther north Parry went in 1s27. the larger and smoother he found the fiela® of ice and floes. A month earlier and he could have nearly touched the pole, but he was too late, for just as he reached the region favorable for travel he was com- pelled to turn back because a_ northern wind combined with the sluggish current and drove him to the south as fast as he could travel northward. On two occasions Baron Nordenskiold found the fce to the north of Spitzbergen comparatively level. The third time, when he had hoped to jour- ney over it as we hope to jour- ney, but could not do so because the rein- which he had brought from Lapland fof animal power had all escaped during the previous winter, it was exceedingly rough as far as the eye could see. Carrying Their Own Bridges. Assuming that the ice will this year be found at its roughest, the hardest part cf our journey will be at the outset. There we shall have a chance to ascertain whether we are equal to the emergency or not. There we shall have an opportunity also to test a simple device which we ure taking along for use in just such troubles. It is nothing more nor less than a brilge, or perhaps a ladder. We do not print a Ancient Eskimo Sledge. sketch of it, because the reader can imagine a ladder twenty-four feet long, a little more than two feet wide and with rounds be- tween the two parallels, and he has in his mind’s eye our device. Whether or not it will prove of any use to us remains to be seen, but we hope to send you photographs of it in service. Our ladders—we have a number of them—are very strong, consider- ing that they weigh under 15) pounds each. They will support any one of our boats or sledges and its load. They form a little tramway over which we expect to run our vehicles—first up one side of an obstacle and then down the other. Of course, cur boats and sledges are made to fit this con- struction, to facilitate such an operation. Each ladder being fitted with a strip of canvas over the rounds, men and dogs can walk up and down. Where DeLong and Melville, and Markham and Parr of the English expedition, Payer and Weyprecht, the Austrians, and others who have taken boats and sledges over the pack found it necessary to build bridges, with the use of axes and shovels, we hope to find advan- tage in the possession of bridges ready made and carried with us. Possibly this device will avail us nothing, but it is an experiment worth trying. It will not work ideally, of course—few things do, even in civilization—but if it saves us more energy than is required to carry it, and leaves a balance in our favor, well and good. We shall need it most at the outset, and if it prove valueless beyond the region of broken floes, it will be easy to throw it away. So, also, with some strong steel wire which we shall take upon the ice with us, to use, if the occasion arises, as an aerial tramway over difficulties of an extraordi- rary nature. Some of this we shall want as tow lines and for other purposes, but the most of it may be left by the wayside, when the need for it no longer exists, or it has proved inefficacious. Hard Work in the Rough Ice. At the beginning of our journey our loads will be heaviest and our road the roughest. Then, if ever, we need these artificial aids. Then, too, we need the greatest number of men, for here our dogs will be of small service. So we add a supporting party of seven men to our main party of the same number. We shall have a total weight of more than 5,000 pounds at the start—three boats, five or six sledges, devices, provis- fons, general equipment. ‘To each man we have a weight of nearly 400 pounds, a little less than the sleiging party of Markham and Parr carried, but still too heavy for rapid progress when we cannot apply our animal power, which Markham and Parr did not have. These weights, however, are being constantly reduced by consumption of food and fuel, and our devices may be of some assistance to us. Struggling for ten, fifteen or twenty days, or as many as’ may be necessary, j through the rough ice, we finally reach the smoother fields. Here we expect to travel more rapidly, with four or five dogs and one man to each sledge, and the same number of dogs and two men to each boat. Our unit of weight is fixed at 60 pounds. No boat or sledge, with load, is to weigh more than that; and if this does not give us a distinct advantage over expeditions which have had 1,500, 3,000 or even 4,000 pounds in a single mass, indivisible with- out great labor and loss of time, we shall be much mistaken. Between Parry's boats of 1,70) pounds, DeLong’s of 2,500 to 3,500 pounds and ours of 400 to 450 pounds there is a striking difference. The Aluminum Sledges. In our type of sledge we have a novelty. It is patterned after the Hudson bay sledge, used for many years in northern America, and a prototype of the pleasure to- boggan. Most arctic travelers use sledges with runners, the McClintock or the St. Michaei. They are best for some condi- tions of travel. Lieut. Peary took flat-bot- tomed sledges on his first journey to Green- land, but now has runner sledges. Doubt- less the latter are best for the hard crust of the snow of the ice-cap over which Peary makes his admirable journeys. There | is less friction with a runner sled than with a Hudson bay. But in rough usage the former breaks down quicker; the runners turn in or are wrenched off: their shoes break. For heavy work, for all kinds of | deep snow, slush, drifts, pockets, the to- | boggan ts doubtless superior. Our sledges, therefore, are made with flat bottoms. They are of aluminum, with rims turned up at the sides to give stiff-+ a ness lengthwise and holes below the rims for lashings to pass through. Our alsini- num sledges weigh only twenty-six pounds each and could carry 1,000 or 1,500 pounds. Payer’s sledge weighed 150 pounds. The lightest sledge used by the English weighed 115 pounds and the heaviest 180. Lieut. Peary’s sledge, with capacity of 1,000 pounds, weighs forty-elght pounds. We do not see how one of our sleds can break Hudson Buay Sledge. down. We do not know of any consistency of snow or slush that it will not pass over. Moreover, our sledges are boats as well as sleds. They may be facetiously but not in- appropriately called a “tank line to the north pole.” Ordinarily loads are lashed upon sledges in skins, tents or tarpaulin coverings. When water {1s reached the loads must go in the boats, for fear of Wetting and spoiling the provisions. This takes time and labor. When the summer is well advanced the pack is full of ice openings or leads of water, and ferriages are frequently necessary. We shall not find it necessary to unpack our sledges for this purpose nor to transfer their loads to the boats. Again, in midsummer the surface of the floes is covered with slush and with beautiful lakes of fresh water, from a few inches to a foot or more in depth. Straight through these lakes Parry marched with his boats, but with his sledges he had to make long detours in order to avoid wet- ting the food with which they were laden. Ready for Ice, sh or Water. Our sledges are boats all the time, and no transformation scene shifting is neces- sary to convert them from one into the other. Our provisions, fuel and general supplies we pack in light but wonderfully strong cases of aluminum, made to fit the sledges and lashed thereto. ‘These cases are water tight and are made large erough to give a displacement sufiicient to float the sledge and In its entire load in water. A loaded sledge will weigh about six hundred pounds at the beginning of our journey; the contents of the cans meas- ure about fifteen cubic feet, equivalent to nearly a thousand pounds of sea water. When fully loaded the sledges will be only two-thirds submerged in water and will be non-sinkable. Our precious stores of food and fuel are, therefore, secure from loss or injury, and we believe we can modestly say our sledges are the best and most perfectly adaptable to the uses for which they are intended that were ever employed in arctic exploration. WALTER WELLMAN. ae HE HAD HIS WAY. A Portuguese Statesman Who Did As He Pleased and W: Happy. From the New York Suu. Antonio Viscount de Soto Major, Portu- guese ambassador to Sweden for more than a generation, died at his post in Stockholm three weeks ago. Like many other suecess- ful diplomatists, he owed his high appoint- ment to his ability to make his colleagues at home uncomfortable. Although of a very old family and of remarkable inteiligence and refinement, he had the reckless dash of a cowboy and was a constant terror to his political friends in Lisbon. Soto Major entered political life in the fifties, after he had squandered great sums of money in Paris and had tried vainly to make a living by editing the Lisbon Tribune. He became known soon as the readiest and most forcible speaker in the chamber of deputies, where he eventually led the oppo- sition parties. One day he denounced the finance minister as a spendthrift. The fi nance minister answered that such a proach did not come well from a man who had squandered a whole fortune. “That is false!" exclaimed Soto Major. “I squandered three fortunes. But I was squan- dering my own, while the finance minister is squandering other people's money.” ‘The cause for his removal to the other end of Europe was given by the viscount soon afterward. The government deputies inter- rupted repeatedly a speech which he made against the cabinet and the president of the chamber ordered him to leave the speakers’ tribune. Soto Major left the house, but re- turned soon with a pistol case in his hand. He ascended the speakers’ tribune, took two pistols from the case and laid one at his right hand, the other at his left. “This pistol,” he said, laying his hand on one of them, “is for you, Mr. President, if you again call me to order. And this,” he added, patting the other, for the next deputy who interrupts me.” The speech that followed this declaration was delivered to a silent house. A few weeks later, however, Soto Major was gazetted for the Stockholm embassy, and so vivid was the recollection of his last notable appearance in the cham- ber of deputies that there was never any de- mand for his recall to Lisbon. In Stockholm the old viscount favorite. His cleverness, ge lantry to women w in the dip- lomatic corps of the Swedish capital. After the fire of his impulses began to burn low he became a noteworthy figure at all charity festivals. Every child knew the history of the wiry,white-bearded little man in clothes of old-fashioned elegance. His odd jewel: his wonderful store of vats. and habits of mediaeval courtesy rendered him the most attractive ity of Swedish court Ife. To the was the ideal spendthrift. Only months ago a woman with whom he was talking at a ball dropped her cab fare from her glove. was a great ty and gal- his pocket and lighted it so as to help her find the lost W0-ceni piece, oer TORQUATO T Ss LOVE. A Story Which Has Been Kept Secret for More Than Three Centuries. From the Berliner Boersen-Couriet The following communication has been sent to us concerning our notice of “The Dialogue of Love,” the hitherto unpubhshed work of Torquato Tas “The volume has been published by Roux in Tuzin, The manuscript was disec at the sale of one of the largest private Hbraries of old Bologna, and was written, undoubtedly, in Zor It contains a description of Tasso’s love for Lu:zretia, the ss of Urbino, and clears fully the myst metive of his sudden departare er fight from the court of Ferrara. as Well as his equally sud- den return. “The dialogue is carried on by two friends, Valerio and Camille loves a lady of the court, Lucretia, ot reach his goal. He therefore to say what he 411 to obtain wt Du Isabella. Cam‘llo then gives nis experience. Hi ys that a: tirst requests her sa t, threw pira- self at her feet, aad threttened to kill him- self instantly If sne cic n >t him her favor. She yiobleg, at first from fear, leter from love. ‘The dvs din undnaned happiness until [xabella’s mother diseover- ed that the yours maa Was unfaithful to her husband. The the Ivers, but when parting would break he she relented and even encc tual attachment. But was not the only one who kn fair. Isabella’s confessor lexrr he sought to punish the crime which the mother had overlooked, He refused to give Isabella absolution until her lover should ve the court. And Camillo left. With love's longing and love's sin his heart he remained for m far from the court. isat picture was ever before him; Isabeila’s face haunted his dreams; and suddenly he appeared again at ied to part y that the rs heart court. Isabella received him with all her forme> love. ‘For what is tne happiness of heaven?’ asks Camillo, ‘compared with the happiness of love?’ “With this plot is mingled good advice of all sorts for lovers and those who wish to be lovers—advice which will be accepted as thankfully today by the public as it was by Valerio, who, in observing it, eventually reached his goal. “That Torquato Tasso himself was Camil- lo and the Duchess of Urbino is virtually beyond all doubt. evident in the many minute details which mark the plot of this fiery work.” Whatever may be the cause of blanching, the hair may be restored to its original color by. use of that potent remedy, Hall's Vegetable ‘Sic fan Hair Renewer. he Al- The | viscount at once drew a $20 bank note from | BEFORE THE CAMERA How Statesmen, Generals and Judges Are Photographed. THE VANITY OF PUBLIC MEN President Cleveland in the Photo- graph Gallery. TALKS WITH PHOTOGRAPHERS Written for The Evening Star. ANITY OF VANI- ties, all is vanity,” saith the preacher. The prophet of the Bible could not look down from the press galleries of Congress without repeating this sentence. Half of the public men of today are packed full of self-conceit. A ba- ker’s dozen of the Senators do littie more than pose for the galleries. Senator Voorhees keeps his eyes upon them while he is making his spech. Senator Gorman, looking as though he had come out of a band box, perceptibly poses a great part of each session, and Senator Matt Ransom of North Carolina would go into a fit if his cuffs did not go at least an inch below his sleeves. When Senator Ingalls was in Congress he spent much time in arranging the red haniker- chief which always peeped out of his left coat pocket, and old Senator Morrill, though he has written a book on the vanity of statesmen, is proud of his position as the oldest man in the Senate. Senator Wolcott has the distinction of wearing more new clothes than any man in the chamber, and it used to make Vice Prest- den Morton angry to have it insinuated that his wig was not made of natural hair. Our public men of today are very parile- ular as to What the newspapers say about them. The most of them keep scrap books in which they paste all clippings concerning themselves, and the volumes of this kind which beiong to President Cleveland would make a library. A curious evidence of the vanity of great men is found in their pho- tographs. The most extensively photo- graphed man today is the Emperor of Germany. He has his pictures taken every “K, and you could paper a room with his likenesses which the camera has taken from his boyhood up to the present time, Next to him, perhaps, comes Bismarck, and after Bismarck, Gladstone. As to American statesmen, nearly every member of Congress has his photograph on sale at one or another of the galleries here. He reaps no profits through the sales, but they are usually sold with his consent. Congressmen buy a great many photo- graphs, Representative Kilgore, They are much like a set of college students and they exchange with one an- The result is that Washington is of photographers. We have some the of tists in the United States here, a M. Bell, who died a short time took as many photographs of men of toda the United » road to tl x years he has pho- men of the coun- r. Mr. Dodge, still sides over the gal He is 2 bright young of forty, who is much noted for his artistic ability as a poser. His long, slender fingers have grasped the heads of the prettiest of our society women and the most famous of our statesmen for the last fifteen | years, and his stories as to how these great people look and act before the camera are very interesting. I chatted rday. Said he: with him for an hour ye “The biggest men nited States are nin front of the y plain, practical, me into the and leave, he 1, for their pic gallery, pose fi and we have much more trouble with the n with them. I land a number of t If everybody acted as well as he does we could always take good pictures. He has no suge jons to make, Jeaves him- self almost entirely in the hands cf the cp- little five-cent have posed I erator and is what we call a very good subject. Some of the pictures which have been sold of him throughout ihe United States have been taken here. His pictures have hed a great sale and there is a good demand for them still.” a Mrs. Cleveland at the Photographer: “What other Presidents have you taken “Quite a number,” was the reply. have made a number of pictures of Presi- dent Hayes. He was a pleasant man to meet and common in his ways. He never notified us that he was coming, but would walk into the gallery and say, ‘I want my photograph taken.’ He was aS clay in the hands of the potter and allowed us to pose him as we wished. President Hayes had a face with a full beard, and this kind of a face always gives a good likeness. He or- dered many pictures and both his and Mrs. Hayes’ pictures sold well. Mrs. Hayes was, next to Mrs. Cleveland, the best selling subject we have ever had.” * “Tell me something about Mrs, Cleve- jand as a poser.” “It is not dificult to take Mrs. Cleve- land's photograph. She submits herself to the photographer, and allows him to choose her poses. 1 remember the first time she came here was with Mrs. Vilas. It was one| that Gen. Grant once stood in his gallery afternoon about 2 o'clock. She came right| when a into the gallery like any ordinary person, and she and Mrs. Vilas went into the dressing room, and a moment later she appeared ready to have her picture taker. I took thirty odd negatives of her that day. She wore a number of different costumes, and we got many good pictures. A number of plates were destroyed at her request, and some were reserved for her own pri- vate use. Some of the best pictures of Mrs. Cleveland have never been sold, and I don’t think any one but herself and family have copies of one or two of our negatives. Shortly after she came back from her wed- ding tour I took a picture of her in the conservatory of the White House. One of these was a standing picture, and I think Harper’s Weekly published it. Another w a three-fourths view, which was sent a! over the country. Mrs. Hayes was as easy to take as Mrs. Cleveland. She had a very fine face, and she allowed us to choose her poses. She had a great many pictures taken, but the one in which she looked best was a full dress figure with the hair comb- ed down over the ears. You may have seen it. Mrs. Hayes stands with her elbow lean- ing on a chair.” Arthur and Garfield. “How about President Arthur?” “I took President Arthur's picture one af- ternoon. I remember that it was Sunday,and Secret&iry Folger came here with him, and I made a number of sittings. I took the last picture that was ever made of President Garfield, It was just two days before he was inaugurated. He came in because they wanted a tintype of him for the bureau of engraving and printing, in order that his face might be engraved for the bank notes. I had no arrangements for taking tintypes, ard I had to send out for material. While we were waiting I took a number of pho- tographs, and these were the last that were made of him. Mrs. Garfield was with him at the time, and I asked her to sit, She replied that she was not dressed suit- ably, but that she would come in again, She never came.” Peffer and Simpson, In speaking of the many Congressmen whom he has posed Mr. Dodge says: “I took photographs of Senator Peffer and Jerry Simpson the other day. Senator Pef- fer looks like a quiet man, and he is. His long whiskers Jd a sort of picturesqueness to his face. Jerry Simpson is a jovial, whole-souled fellow before the camera. He cracked jokes all the time I was taking his picture. His face is angular and ex- pressive, and you have to catch it at just the right time. Tom Watson is the oppo- site of Simpson in his manner. He is rather reserved and talks but little. John Allen of Mississippi is a daisy. He is as plain as an old chip and takes a picture as though he enjoyed it. He and Fellows of New York came in together to have their pic- tures taken the other day. They spent the whole of the time in joking each other and telling stori We have a bust of P. T. Barnum whi was made by Clark Mills. Fellows looks for all the world like Bar- num, and John Allen pointed this bust out to his friends as that of Fellows. Buck Kilgore, though he kicked the door of the House down when Reed was Speaker, is a very quiet man. I have taken his picture several times, and he is a very good sub- ject. He ts six feet high, and I photograph- ed him with is hat on. He makes a very striking likeness, and a great many strane- ers ask to see his picture. I have also tak- en Roger Q. Milis with his hat on. He wears a slouch, and is over six feet tall. I have Senator Mahone under his sombrero. He makes, also, a very striking picture.” The Cabinet and the Camera. “I suppose you have taken a number of the cabinet officers?” “Yes, but it is hard to get a cabinet min- ister. The cabinet are public characters and as their pictures are sold they like to appear as well as possible. We have got a number of them by sending for them just as they were about to go out to en- tertainments, and I suppose we have in reality taken the cabinets of nearly all the Presidents within the last decade. We had a very good picture of Cleveland’s first cabinet taken in the White House. We would have had one of President Ar- thur’s cabinet, but Attorney General Brews- ter objected and the sitting fell through. Brewster was very sensitive about having his picture taken. You remember that he fell into the fire when a baby and burned his face out of shape. His features were horrible, and he did not like to have them photographed. He came to us, however, just before he left Washington, and we got a splendid negative of him. Secretary Car- isle has pictures taken now an@ then. He is as plain as an old shoe in his manners, and though he has no beard always takes a good picture. He has a fine face, and his blue eyes shine out at you as you look at it through the camera. I took Postmaster General Bissell about two months ago. He is a bigger man than Cleveland, and must weigh nearly 300 pounds. He had a dozen different sittings, and the results were very fair. It is the same with Hoke Smith. He came over from the department, and while waiting walked around the rooms and look- ed at our photographs of famous men from the south. He stopped for quite a time be- fore Ben Hill's picture, and talked about him. As to Secretary Lamont, we took him while he was private secretary to Cleveland, but have made no pictures of him since then. He is a little stouter now than when we made his picture, I understand. Gen, Sherman. “One of the hardest pictures we ever got,” the photographer went on, “was that of Gen, Sherman. We asked him again and again to have a photograph taken. He promised to come in, but said that he want- ed his picture made while his uniform was on, and he hated to wear his uniform when he could help it. He was a great man, you know, to go to weddings. They say he liked to kiss the brides. Well, one day, just before going to a wedding, he came down and gave us a sitting. He talked most in- terestingly about his battles during the sitting, His face lighted up as he described some of his wonderful war experiences, and we got a good picture. He was then at the head of the army and had an office in the War Department. I took a number of pictures of Phil Sheridan. He never said a word during the sitting and was as sober as a judge. Gen. Rosecrans acts more like a boy than an old general when he is hav- ing his picture taken. He laughed and chatted with me and seemed to enjoy the taking of the photograph. I took Gen. Logan shortly before his death. He was as Plain a citizen as any one could ask for. His face was iron, and photographing him was like taking a picture of a statue. His face was very dark and I always gave him more than the usual time in taking it. Sheridan never moved a muscle during one of his sittings, and I took the picture from which the artist worked who made the Arlington monument. I was surprised at the simplicity of these generals. None of them put on airs, and it was the same with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, the noted confed- erate general. He came in and had a sitting one day and I did not know who it was until he left and he said, ‘My name is Joseph E. Johnston.’ ” Some of Brady’s Photographs. Speaking of the simplicity of these great generals recalls some talks I have had with M. B. Brady, the noted war pho- tographer. He has a gallery at Washing- ton, and although he is nearly eighty years old still takes pictures. He once told me SSS plate of glass heavy enough to have killed a horse fell out of the skylight and was shattered in pieces at his feet. Grant did not move a muscle, but Edwin M. Stanton, who come down with Grant to see the picture taken, grew as white as a sheet, He grabbed Brady by the arm and said: “Don’t say a word about this or the newspapers will say that it was a plan to assassinate Grant.” Brady took the last picture of Gen. Jackson. It was at the Hermtage. He has taken pictures of Albert Gallatin, and just before John Cc. Calhoun died he was photographed by Brady. Brady told me that he called upon Calhoun in his rooms near the Capitol, He was surprised to find that Calhoun knew quite as much about the science of pho- tography as he did. He took President Lincoln just before he was elected to the presidency. Lincoln’s collar was large, and his long neck looked scraggy. Brady went up to him and pulled up his 1 collar, and Abraham Lincoln said I see! You want to shorten my neck.” Mr. Brady says that when Edgar Allen Poe had his picture taken by him he doubt~- ed whether Poe had on a shirt. His coat was buttoned up tightly about his high stock cravat, and he looked seedy and sad. There was no sign of a collar, and the necktie in the picture is a mass of wrin- kles. When Poe was asked to give a sit- ting he shook his wild, loose locks and re- fused.. Brady then told him that there would be no charge, and finally prevailed upon him to have his picture taken. Poe had a fine face, and Brady tells me that his large, round, black eyes had an almost insane look in them. Another one of Brady's literary "subjects was Fenimore Cooper. He was a great friend of Cooper's, and Cooper told him that he intended to make him one of the characters in a future novel, but he died before he carried out his idea. Cooper was at this time in the midst of his libel suit with the newspapers, and one sitting was spoiled by this subject coming up during it. Cooper got angry at a remark made by a visitor, and left the gallery. Brady has also taken pictures of Bryant and Wash- ington Irving, and he had John Quincy Adams sit for his daguerreotype. He pho- tographed Mrs. Alexander Hamilton when she was ninety-three, and at about this time Dolly Madison gave him a sitting. He has without doubt the finest collection of photographs of prominent men and women in the United States, and his gal- lery is one of the most interesting of places in Washington to visit. He is the most remarkable photographer this country has ever seen, and now, when he has long passed his three score and ten, he 1s one of the most charming conversa- tionalists among men. He has also pho- tographed nearly all of the leading uctors and actresses in the country, as well as the leading singers. He will tell you stories about Jenny Lind, John Wilkes Booth, Harriet Lane and hundreds of others of the famous people of the past, and he can illustrate his remarks by showing you the pictures he has taken of them. Speaking of photographs, one of the best photographers in Washington was the late Senator Kenna. His memoria! has just Ween published, and the picture which forms the frontispiece is made from a pho- tograph taken by his camera. He took pictures of many of the Congressmen, and had a great deal of pleasure in so doing. All of the pictures he has taken are as finely finished as any one could wish for, and he showed a decided talent in this di- rection. He took thousands of pictures, and had negatives of a great many of his Senator friends, and I published not Jong ago a picture of Senator Beck and his large dog which was taken by Kenna. He kept his negatives in good order, and they are now a cherished possession of his family. FRANK G. CARPENTER. cee HIS PISTOL PLAY FELL FLAT. An Election Day Episode in the New Town of Valentine, From the New York Sun. “When I was stationed at old Fort Kear- ney,” said the coloa#l, “I became ac- quainted with two Englishmen in Kearney. Both were cockneys, and had great times mixing up their h’s. One was a real estate agent, the other a livery stable keeper. The real estate man added a sort of banking business to his other work, and gave him- self the airs and swing of a gentieman-I mean in the English sense. The liveryman was a big-listed brawler and a bully. He was always getting into fights, and almost always he got the best of his antagonist. In some indetiuable way the impression got around Valentine that the banker was a coward. No one had ever seen him put to the touch, and he was a peaceable men, who was never in any of the numerous rows which made quiet almost unknown in Valentine. “Both these Englishmen went into the politics of the county with great viger. Both were republicans, und usually both worked very hard for the success of the ticket. But it happened that one fall they The liveryman was for the reguiar cet, but the banker bolted. Each pulled y wire he knew aow to pull, and the fight was hot. Things got so liv that the talk dmfted from the chances of the candidates to the prosvects of a personal encounter between the two Englishmen. The liveryman boasted that if he caught the banker he'd “ammer’ ‘ell nout of ’im.’ Perhaps it suited the bank=r's purpose to avoid the big-fisted liverymaa, who was certainly more than his ejual’ physically; perhaps it was just «ccideat; but at sny rate they did not meet unul the morning of election da: The voting was briek, and the polling place was crowded. The liveryman and the banker were hustling for votes as hard as they could, but it was not 9 about 10 o'clock that they met fuce to ace. “The instant that ther met a hush fell over the room. It was as if every man was holding his breath. Only a few could see what was going on. The others seemed to act from sympathy. As the Englishmen faced each other, without a word the liveryman drew from his pocket a bright nickled revolver and leveled it at the banker. The muzzle was so close to the banker’s nose that it would have made him cross-eyed to look at it. The banker's gaze was directly into the eyes of the liveryman. Every bit of cclor had left his face. It was as still as death in the room. The men who were standing hearest the Englishmen seemed ; Not one lifted a hand to grab th. For an instant it was a tableas. 7 , in a clear, distinct voice, with the cockney accent more than ever pronounced, the banker said: “*You damned miserable coward, you daren’t shoot.” “It was the cutting of the string that held the puppets. In a fraction of a sec- ond, before the liveryman could move a muscle, before he could fairly realize what the banker had said to him, a dozen men had grabbed for his revolver. lt w snatched out of his hand and he was hustled out of the room mighty quick. The banker took one of his frienis by the arm and went out for a drink, while the men who stayed in the polling place revised their opinion of his nerve. ——_ +02 ____ A Bad Break. revolver. From Truth. “How did you lose your fiance?” “Oh, I saw papa on the street and J said: “There goes poor papa.’ “What should you have said?” ‘I suppose I ought to have said: ‘There goes rich papa.’ IN CASE OF FIRE Chief Parris Makes Some Suggestions ef! Taterest to the Public. How to Send in an Alarm—What te! Do When One Wakes Up in @ Burning House. “Hold on, there; what are you going todo with that box?” It was Chief Parris of the fire depart- ment talking, and he was “Why, chief,” said the man, in an ex- cited manner, “my house is on fire, and I Want to send in an alarm.” “Well, you can’t do it without a sald the chief, at the same time getting of his buggy and opening the box. nocent little hook projected from the door of the instrument, and pulling down sirmly with one hand, he let it t quickly sprang back int taneously the fre alarm bell fmm arin ring. The little hook had done its nobly, the message had been sent to partment was needed, and before the sound Fah el of the bell had died aw: engines came .-y 9 up. peda y he fire proved a small om con- fined to a back shed, and wae © ex- tinguished. Had the 4 it, however, not been directly notified, the flames muight have spread and done untold damage. “This fire Mllustrates one thing,” said the chief, addressing The Star man. “Every one should know how to turn in an alarm of fire, but you would be astonished what litde knowledge there is upon that subject. Take the present case, for instance. Here Was a man’s house on fire and he was <q ing to open the alarm box with one of lie pee yee Daren keys. Every man, woman when they move i eighbor- hood should learn the tocntion rz which opens the fire alarm boxes, as the location of the nearest box. can usually be found at a store in borhood of the alarm box: Every man is provided with a key, so seen, and it will save time, it is best him send in the alarm. Many a could be prevented by the use of a Ii mon sense and discretion. © o persons find their house on fire they diately sect about to extinguish it them- selves. This is losing valuable time. If the fire be a small one and easily extinguished it is far better to run to the nearest tele- phone, call up number 259, which is police headquarters, and tell them to send an engine to such and such a house. “This will not Rp erode int if is assuming alarming proportions or is danger to adjoining property it to send in an alarm. It ts plest thing in the world to do it. Y. ly open the box and catch hold of which is inside, pull it down oni go. It is what may be said to of you push the button and we rest. But people should bear in the hook is to be pulled but let alone. This hook engages the inside which operates t eibrtte § 8 #8 iE she ‘on he and sends in the alarm. But is all there is to do. A person should be at the box to inform the firemen when arrive of the location of the fire, Rules to Be Followed. “I have often wondered,” continued the chief, “why some enterprising person has not written a book of instruction for use at fires. There are some sterling rules, however, that should always be remember- ed. If, for instance, a fire occurs at night) th as possible. “This insures fresh afr,for it is well known that heat and smoke ascend. Now the win- dows should be lowered from the top to allow a free egress of smoke, and moist handkerchiefs held over the mouth and nose to act as a respirator. No time should be lost in dressing. Simply wrap yourself up in the first thing you come to and get out in the air. You should try and remem- ber that open doors create drafts, and drafts make fires spread, so it is a good thing to keep the doors shut. If all means of escape are cut off by the flames and you find yourself a prisoner, retain your pres- ence of mind. More deaths have been caus- ed by people losing their heads and jump- ing when there was really no danger then any one has any idea of. I know when @ person is placed in a perilous position, sec- onds seem minutes and minutes drag on to hours, but the fire department will be on hand within a very short time and there are few places in the city where our lad- ders will not reach. Fires are caused prin- cipally by careless servants or bad work- manship in the construction of buildings, such as foul chimneys, defective flues and badly located furnaces. I think if the read- ers of The Star will follow the simple rales I have given you we will not have any ser fous calamities in the future.” ——_ —- +e. ____ An 0 Cure for Fainting. From the London Globe. In the current number of the Law some interesting stories are told of late Baron Parke, afterward Lord Wens- leydale. His love of the law is‘ilustrated by the anecdote of his epologizing to a hostess for his late errival at a party, on the ground that he could not tear himself away from a “beautiful demurrer.” His passion for fresh air was such that on buy- ing a handsomely furnished house his first order, it is said, was that all the bed posts | should be sawed down, and the next that | all the bed curtains should be burned. At! Exeter he insisted on ventilation in @ wholesale way, which wrought havee with counsel and juries. The best story of Baron Parke is per- haps that which tells how once, when sume moned to advise the lords, he was seized with a fainting fit in the middle of his ar- gument. Various remedies were applied Without avail. At last a happy thought occurred to one of his brethren, who well knew his peculiar temperament. He rushed into the library, seized a large musty volume of old statutes, rushed back and held it to the nostrils of the patient. The effect was marvelous. He at once opened his eyes, gave them @ rub, and ip a few seconds was as well as ever. se the Past by the Present. Judgini From Puck. Mrs. Frills Gooking at old poreratt ote lady).—"‘Oh, isn't it funny wonder on what occasions they used such a hat as that?” Mr. Frills. “When they went to the theay ter, I suppose. —-—— +e< —__ Too Inconspicuous. From the Chicago Record, Cholly—"I'd go west out on a wanche if I wasn’t afwald those savages would bwain pao . Miss Smartly—“Oh, I don’t believe those — braves would do so small a thing as